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What happens when The Texas Chain Saw Massacre meets Les Misérables in Estonia? Apparently, you get Chainsaws Were Singing, a gloriously deranged horror-comedy musical featuring singing serial killers, exploding vehicles, questionable family relationships, and enough bodily fluids to qualify as a plumbing emergency. 🎵 Musical November has arrived on Found on Shelf! Dustin and Patrick kick off their annual celebration of cinematic song and dance with this bizarre Estonian independent horror film

What do you get when you combine an alcoholic firefighter, a mysterious serial killer, ancient demonic creatures, and cannibal gerbils? Apparently, you get In the Woods (1999). 🎃 This Halloween, Found on Shelf ventures back into the forest for another obscure horror movie that probably should have stayed buried. Dustin and Patrick tackle this forgotten '90s supernatural horror oddity about a troubled firefighter who accidentally unleashes an ancient monster while on a hunting trip. Soon, sever

This Halloween, Found on Shelf ventures into the woods with returning guest Bitter Karella, author of Moonflow and the new queer folk horror novel Quaint Folk, to tackle the cult horror-comedy There's Nothing Out There (1991)! Before Scream made self-aware horror cool, director Rolf Kanefsky unleashed a low-budget creature feature about horny teenagers, a murderous alien frog, and one insufferable horror nerd who knows every scary movie cliché but somehow remains completely useless. What follo

Got Resident Evil fever? Take a wrong turn into Silent Hill. This week on Found on Shelf, guest host Casey joins the crew for “Hobo-MurderMaxxing,” a spoiler-filled Return to Silent Hill review featuring an intervention for Gimcrack, an exorcism that backfires, and some deeply questionable attempts to help a friend. With Zach Cregger’s new Resident Evil movie feeding our appetite for survival horror, we’re digging into another video game adaptation—and asking how Christophe Gans’ return measure

The Jackalope is back—and apparently therapy has taught them absolutely nothing. This week on Found on Shelf, Specc joins us for Dragonheart: Vengeance, the fifth movie in the Dragonheart franchise and the 2020 direct-to-video fantasy sequel nobody realized they were missing. A young man sets out to avenge his murdered family with the help of a mysterious sellsword and Siveth, an ice-breathing dragon voiced by Helena Bonham Carter. Sounds straightforward. Unfortunately, Siveth is also a vegeta

Somehow, Dustin made it nearly 20 years without watching Twilight. Kalynn has come to correct that mistake. This week on Found on Shelf, we revisit the 2008 vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and ask the important questions: Is Edward Cullen romantic or just an extremely sparkly stalker? Why do immortal vampires keep going back to high school? Where is the actual downside to being a Twilight vampire? And exactly how cold is Edward’s pee pee? Kalynn brings years of T