Make It Weird Wednesday: Horror Movie News & History

Davey takes you to a Blair Witch Project screening and Q&A with co-director Eduardo Sánchez, then to the Burkittsville cemetery, where the new Blair Witch movie was filming. Then it’s a tribute to Alien’s Tom Skerritt and the new Alien movie, a game of Would You Check In with horror’s most haunted hotels, from 1408 and Hell House LLC to the Bates Motel, The Innkeepers and The Shining’s Stanley Hotel, where Davey has stayed himself. Plus Danielle Harris and a Halloween 4 hot take, Carrie season 2, Werwulf, Hellbreak, and a Halloween weekend watch list with Breeder and The Cycle.

From Make It Weird:

• Eduardo Sánchez Brought The Blair Witch Project Home to Frederick County
• New Blair Witch May Have Found Its Cast
• The Blair Witch Project: Filming Locations
• The Real Blair Witch House, Resident Evil’s Giant Puppet and Eggers’ Werwulf
• Tom Skerritt, Alien’s Dallas, Dies
• New Alien Movie Is In The Works
• Poltergeist III (1988): Filming Locations
• 1408 Follow-Up Reportedly In The Works
• 1408 (2007): Filming Locations
• Hell House LLC Locks Shudder Deal
• Hell House LLC (2015): Filming Locations
• Psycho (1960): Filming Locations
• The House of the Devil (2009): Filming Locations
• Where The Shining Miniseries Was Filmed
• The Shining (1980): Filming Locations in Montana
• Danielle Harris Gets A Documentary
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989): Filming Locations
• Halloween (2007): Filming Locations
• Carrie Renewed For Season 2
• Parker Posey Quits Blumhouse Sleepover
• Werwulf 35mm Tickets Go On Sale
• Crawl 2 Adds Five To Cast
• Hellbreak Card Game Adds Paramount Monsters
• Uncle Fred’s Monster Problem Gets Trailer
• Dawn of the Dead (1978): Filming Locations
• Grimmfest 2026 Names Its Winners
• Breeder Drops Two Dinner Clips
• Review: The Cycle (2026)

Outside sources:

• Bloody Disgusting: Tom Skerritt has passed away
• Wikipedia: Alien (1979)
• Wikipedia: 1408 and its four endings
• Dread Central: Hell House LLC in theaters this Halloween
• Wikipedia: Danielle Harris

Peacock’s Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake has some fans calling it nonsense, so Davey takes a fond look back at a franchise where Jason went to hell, went to space in Jason X, and fought Freddy Krueger. Then it’s Clayface and the old Jewish legend of the golem, how Jennifer’s Body went from 2009 box office flop to cult classic ahead of its sequel, and why haunted house attractions keep showing up in horror movies, from The Funhouse to A24’s Slayground. Plus a tribute to Richard Riehle, Whalefall’s box office, John Carpenter’s Luminary Award, and this weekend’s horror picks.

Sources:

From Make It Weird:

• Crystal Lake Drops All Episodes Today
• Crystal Lake Teases Pamela’s Dark Turn
• Crystal Lake Boss Addresses Nudity Cuts
• Crystal Lake Actor Reveals Jason Mixup
• Friday the 13th Part 2: Filming Locations
• Friday the 13th Part III (1982): Filming Locations
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985): Filming Locations
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives: Filming Locations
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993): Filming Locations
• Before Clayface, There Was the Golem
• Clayface Gets New Posters
• Diablo Cody Teases Jennifer’s Body 2
• Slayground Gets Its First Real Footage
• A24’s Slayground Teaser Drops
• Remembering Richard Riehle
• 4 New Horrors To Watch This Weekend
• Halloween (1978): Filming Locations
• In A Violent Nature 2 Dated

Outside sources:

• Dread Central: Crystal Lake showrunner on Season 2
• SlashFilm: Tommy Jarvis and Crystal Lake Season 2
• Dark Horizons: Crystal Lake reviews
• Dread Central: Jennifer’s Body 2 and the original’s release
• Gold Derby: Whalefall opening weekend
• Bloody Disgusting: John Carpenter’s Luminary Award
• Bloody Disgusting: The Cycle and October releases
• Creepy Catalog: The Bride! on Prime Video

Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist: Martyrs dropped its first trailer, so Davey digs into the movie that inspired it, The Exorcist III, a slow, creepy detective story that the studio forced an exorcism into. Then it's Hammer Films buying up Susan Hill's ghost stories, Ti West's horror film for the Apple Vision Pro, and William Castle's flying skeletons and buzzing theater seats.

Plus Other Mommy's big but bumpy opening weekend, the new Lake Mungo documentary on Shudder, a sad week of Scream news, the great creepy clown panic of 2016, and three picks for this weekend: Whalefall, Hallowarrior and Crawlers.

Grab a drink and get comfy. New episodes every Wednesday.

Sources

• In defense of Flanagan's Carrie
• Exorcist: Martyrs trailer finally drops
• The Exorcist III filming locations
• The Exorcist filming locations
• Doctor Sleep filming locations
• Hammer Films buys all Susan Hill's work
• Other Mommy reactions are mostly negative
• Other Mommy has about 50 jump scares
• Hereditary filming locations
• Lake Mungo Revisited now streaming on Shudder
• The Blair Witch Project filming locations
• Scream's C.W. Morgan has died
• Skeet Ulrich rules out Scream return
• Barrera lays out her Scream terms
• Scream (1996) filming locations
• Scream 4 filming locations
• Clown Panic clip revisits 2016 scare
• In a Violent Nature 2 dated
• Godzilla Minus Zero gets final trailer
• 28 Years Later 3 stalls again
• Bradley rebuilt Pinhead's voice from memory
• Shudder's Hallowarrior gets first trailer
• Flanagan's Exorcist movie gets its title (Bloody Disgusting)
• Flanagan on Carrie and The Dark Tower (Gizmodo)
• Ti West's Remnants for Apple Vision Pro (Bloody Disgusting)
• Other Mommy box office and CinemaScore (iHorror)
• Marco Beltrami on Scream 4 (Dread Central)
• Next Paranormal Activity dated for 2027 (Dread Central)
• Brian Duffield's Siren Head update (Bloody Disgusting)
• Whalefall, Crawlers and October's new horror (Bloody Disgusting)

Fifty years after Sissy Spacek's prom night, Mike Flanagan's Carrie series lands on Prime Video. Davey digs into the real girls who inspired Stephen King's first novel, the pages Tabitha King pulled out of the trash, and why so many horror fans who were bullied as kids still feel like Carrie belongs to them.

Then it's George Romero's final zombie movie finally getting made, the woman behind Friday the 13th's real first killer, Trick 'r Treat's Sam turning 30, and the weirdest headlines of the week, from killer sheep to a man stuck in a toilet.

Grab a drink and get comfy. New episodes every Wednesday.

Sources

• Mike Flanagan's Carrie arrives on Prime Video
• Flanagan's Carrie gets first trailer
• New poster teases Carrie's powers
• Chloë Grace Moretz stars in Found Alive
• Kate Beckinsale leads Romero's final zombie film
• Night of the Living Dead filming locations
• Dawn of the Dead filming locations
• Crystal Lake shares opening scene
• First look: Cardellini in Voorhees sweater
• Friday the 13th filming locations
• Michael Dougherty is bringing Sam back
• Flush trailer traps man in toilet
• Killer sheep sequel Black Sheeps premieres at Sitges
• Ghostbusters horror-holiday mashup in works
• Tyra Banks' Halloween beef
• Below drops new images before premiere
• Other Mommy has about 50 jump scares
• The real girls who inspired Carrie (Looper)
• Facts and trivia from Carrie (1976) (Creepy Catalog)
• Carrie first reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score (ComicBookMovie)
• Carrie series review (Gizmodo)

Davey kicks things off with a Blair Witch story close to home: the real Rustin Parr house from the movie's ending stood in his own neighborhood. He looks at how a new horror movie is borrowing that famous marketing playbook, then gets into the 2,000-pound puppet behind Resident Evil, the real medieval wolf hunt behind Robert Eggers' Werwulf, horror sequels going back to their original creators, and the story of the most hated horror sequel ever made.

Grab a drink and get comfy. New episodes every Wednesday. More horror every day at https://makeitweirdhorror.com

Sources

• #VYMARA's ARG marketing and AMC release (Dread Central)
• The Blair Witch Project filming locations
• Resident Evil nears $200 million
• Zach Cregger on Resident Evil's practical effects (Bloody Disgusting)
• Obsession almost went straight to Netflix
• Eggers reveals first Werwulf trailer
• Mike Nelson lands next Saw film
• Don't Breathe 3 has a script
• It Follows sequel adds James Jordan
• Barrera lays out her Scream terms
• Boorman and the Devil and this week's new releases (Bloody Disgusting)
• New poster teases Carrie's powers
• Liminal spaces were always haunted, Hollywood just caught up
• Shudder's October lineup (Bloody Disgusting)
• Stephen King praises The Cycle

On the very first Make It Weird Wednesday, Davey goes through the week’s horror and paranormal news. Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil breaks the franchise’s opening-weekend record, and Netflix’s Monster takes on Lizzie Borden. AMC is bringing five horror classics back to theaters this October.

On the strange side, the Pentagon’s newest UFO files include a secret program that studied warp drives and invisibility cloaks. There’s also a million-dollar bounty on Bigfoot and a Missouri town that wants you to go ghost hunting.
Grab a drink and get comfy. New episodes every Wednesday.

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SOURCES

• Resident Evil opening weekend (AV Club)
• Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story viewership (TheWrap)
• AMC Welcome to Horrorwood lineup (Bloody Disgusting)
• Everything new in horror, Sept 14 to 20 (iHorror)
• Horror book news, week ending Sept 18 (This Is Horror)
• Pentagon sixth UFO file release (CBS News)
• 1952 Tremonton film and other files (LiveNOW from FOX)
• Hard Mountain Dew Bigfoot bounty (GlobeNewswire)
• Capturing Bigfoot trailer and release date (ComingSoon)
• Independence Paranormal Pursuit Passport (KCTV5)
• Episode length data (WhichPodcast)
• Episode length by format (Podcast Studio Glasgow)