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October 4, 2022 49 mins

Today we share our opinions on Elevated Horror with special guest Matthew Kirshenblatt. We ask questions about its purpose in todays modern setting and if it maybe being replaced with a new relevant genre?

As well we continue on with the new segment, "Critically Masochistic", where Janko or Mac are subjected to watch a random horror film plucked from Magi's very special list of terrible films.

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