This week, the Grue-Crew queue up a pair of NETFLIX creature features with prehistoric bats and imaginary killer friends. The first film this week is MERCY BLACK from director Owen Egerton where three young teens conjure up a nightmare that haunts them for years to come. The second film is THE SILENCE from director John R. Leonetti which explores the apocalypse in a world overrun by hungry, vicious flying monsters. Doc Rotten and Vanessa Thompson from Horror News Radio. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era. and Crystal Cleveland, the Living Dead Girl, share their thoughts about this week’s awesome collection of streaming horror films.
Gruesome Magazine Podcast – Episode 064
THE SILENCE – MERCY BLACK
MERCY BLACK
Fifteen years after stabbing a classmate to conjure an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, Marina Hess is coming home. She’s being released from psychiatric care to live with her sister and young nephew. But in the years since her crime, the myth of Mercy Black has gone viral inspiring internet rumors, stories, and even copycat crimes. Marina is haunted by what she has done and the phantom she imagined. Though she would rather leave the past buried, her nephew becomes increasingly obsessed with Mercy Black. To save him, Marina must face her past and uncover the truth behind Mercy Black. What she discovers is a very real and very deadly horror that will stop at nothing to claim her and her nephew.
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Director: Owen Egerton
Cast: Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont
Release: Currently Available on NETFLIX
THE SILENCE
When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka), who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek refuge in a remote haven.
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Director: John R. Leonetti
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto
Release: Currently Available on NETFLIX
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
