Nerd Horror Newscast for March 19, 2025
Banshees, Blood Books, and Forbidden Fruits”
March 19, 2025
Gore-glorifying gremlins, unite. Episode 3 of the Nerd Horror Newscast is here—and it’s gnarlier than a cursed VHS in a haunted Blockbuster.
This week, your host Justine Norton-Kertson—scream historian, Necronomicon hoarder, and cryptid-level caffeine consumer—dives fang-first into another week of unholy horror headlines.
We’re talking Darren Aronofsky adapting Cujo for Netflix (because why not make killer dogs existential?), a new wave of blood-soaked Irish horror, and Tom Sullivan auctioning off the OG Necronomicon—yeah, the one from The Evil Dead. It gets weirder from there.
In this episode:
Control Freak is quietly ruining lives with the most disturbing horror scene of the year (and we mean that as a compliment).
Irish horror is howling louder than a banshee in heat—with six terrifying new films blending folklore and trauma.
The Evil Dead props are up for auction, so prepare your soul (and your credit limit).
Starve Acre and other folk horrors want to emotionally crush you with trees and grief.
A24’s Opus bombs harder than a cursed monologue at a demon poetry slam.
Saw XI may be dead… for real this time.
The Ugly Stepsister gets her gory fairytale revenge.
Hell of a Summer hits the road with slasher comedy mayhem.
Big Freakin’ Rat is coming for your trash, your teens, and your heart.
Forbidden Fruits, Diablo Cody’s new psycho-erotic horror film, is juiced and ready to rot your brain.
Kryptic serves fog, folklore, and forest monsters.
Sugar Mill proves Indonesian horror is on an absolute rampage.
Plus in this episode’s bonus segments:
Guts & Gaming
Phase Zero is a glorious PS1-era panic attack.
Vessels of Decay drops you into frozen, post-apocalyptic Scandinavian hell.
Scream 7 is still happening... somehow. Please send help.
TV Terrors
Dexter: Resurrection adds The Sopranos’ Steve Schirripa and Late Night with the Devil’s David Dastmalchian to its increasingly unhinged cast.
Literary Bloodletting
Amazon drops a bombshell anthology of horror short stories from Joe Hill, Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, Catriona Ward, and Owen King. It’s basically the horror author Avengers.
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