Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

Creep (2014) is one of the most unsettling found footage horror movies of the 2010s, and in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into why Patrick Brice’s microbudget nightmare still works so well. This episode centers on Creep, the 2014 psychological horror film directed by Patrick Brice and built around the deeply unnerving chemistry between Mark Duplass and Brice himself. The uploaded episode notes describe the discussion as a deep dive into trust, manipulation, ethical boundaries, filmmaking, and emotional vulnerability, with the hosts also teasing One Cut of the Dead for next week. 
Inside this episode
Why Creep feels so real and why its awkward, intimate style makes the horror hit harder
Josef as a manipulator, using warmth, humor, and vulnerability as weapons
Found footage tension and how the film turns normal social discomfort into dread
Filmmaking ethics and performance, including how the movie comments on directors, subjects, and emotional exploitation
Henrique and Rachael’s own filmmaking stories, including videography and client-boundary experiences that echo the film’s anxieties
The final act and ending, and why the movie lingers long after it is overThese themes line up closely with the episode chapters and summary embedded in the uploaded transcript file, including sections on wedding videography struggles, first impressions, the shift in atmosphere, the Peachfuzz reveal, manipulation, and filmmaking truths.   

About the film​Creep premiered at SXSW on March 8, 2014. It was directed by Patrick Brice, with story credit shared by Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, and it has gone on to become a modern cult favorite in found-footage and psychological horror circles.

It stars Mark Duplass as Josef and Patrick Brice as Aaron. 

Where to watch (U.S., this week)
Current U.S. availability appears to include Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, Amazon Prime Video, and Amazon Prime Video with Ads for streaming, with Amazon Video and Fandango At Home showing rental and/or purchase options. I’m only listing options that were corroborated across multiple sources. 

Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi go beyond a surface-level review and really get into why Creep feels so disturbing, how Josef weaponizes performance, and why the movie doubles as a nasty little commentary on storytelling itself.

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What if the scariest thing in your home wasn’t a ghost… but a painting you created yourself? In tonight’s Weekly Spooky episode, a casual girls’ night turns into a chilling supernatural nightmare when a woman discovers that her strange new artwork seems to know too much about her house, her life, and what is about to happen next. Haunted paintings, witches, cursed art, ghosts, and home invasion horror collide in one eerie tale that keeps getting darker every time you look closer.

If you love scary stories, witch horror, haunted house tales, paranormal fiction, and stories where everyday life suddenly slips into something impossible and terrifying, this one is for you. “I Painted a Witch” blends domestic unease, occult mystery, creepy imagery, and supernatural dread into a nightmare about art that doesn’t just reflect reality… it changes it. Lock the doors, leave the lights on, and look away before the painting looks back.

I Painted a Witch — by Bruce Haney

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This Week in Horror History for April 13–19 dives into a killer stretch of horror release dates, anniversaries, cult favorites, horror gaming, and one of the most divisive occult fever dreams of the 2010s. We’re talking American Psycho, The Amityville Horror, Jakob’s Wife, Sker Ritual, and a Deep-Cut Spotlight on The Lords of Salem—plus horror birthdays, a Then & Now bite, and a weekly recommendation with Green Room. 

Inside this episode
• April 14, 2000 — American Psycho
Mary Harron’s razor-sharp satire and one of modern horror’s great monsters.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Prime Video with Ads; rentable on Apple TV and Fandango at Home
• April 15, 2005 — The Amityville Horror
The Ryan Reynolds remake that hit big during the 2000s horror remake wave.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Prime Video with Ads, The Roku Channel
• April 16, 2021 — Jakob’s Wife
Barbara Crampton brings vampire horror, marriage rot, and bloody liberation together in one of the era’s most underrated genre titles.Where to watch (U.S., this week): AMC+, Shudder, Philo
• April 18, 2024 — Sker Ritual
A round-based co-op survival horror shooter with eerie Welsh folklore DNA and old-school wave-based chaos.Where to play (U.S., this week): Steam, Xbox, PlayStation

Deep-Cut Spotlight — April 19, 2013: The Lords of Salem
Rob Zombie’s hazy, dreamlike Salem nightmare traded mainstream scares for dread, repetition, static, and witchcraft—and grew into a true cult conversation piece.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Fandango at Home Free; rentable on Apple TV

Birthday Roll
Ron Perlman, Jonathan Brandis, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Abigail Breslin

Weekly Recommendation — Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier’s brutal punk-survival nightmare, released in its April 15, 2016 window, remains one of the nastiest and most effective modern horror thrillers.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Netflix; rentable on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home 

If you love horror movie anniversaries, cult horror films, horror release dates, where-to-watch picks, and the strange history hiding inside the calendar, this is your weekly stop. Follow the Weekly Spooky feed for more horror every week—new fiction on Wednesday, Cutting Deep into Horror on Friday, and the eerie mystery of Unknown Broadcast on Sunday. 

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The Lead Masks Case is one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in true crime history: two Brazilian electronics technicians, found dead on a hillside in Niterói, Brazil, wearing homemade lead eye masks, with a cryptic note instructing them to take capsules, await a signal, and use the mask afterward. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we dig into the eerie facts, the failed investigation, the missing cause of death, and the theories that have kept this bizarre case alive for decades—from UFO encounters and occult experiments to poison, fraud, and murder. 

This is the kind of case that feels too strange to be real: raincoats in the brush, missing money, removed watches, a note that reads like a ritual checklist, and no clear answer for what killed Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets. If you love unsolved mysteries, paranormal true crime, UFO cases, bizarre deaths, Brazilian mysteries, and strange historical cases, this episode is built to pull you all the way in. 

Inside this episode:
The 1966 deaths of two technicians on Morro do Vintém
The infamous lead masks and the chilling note
Capsules, signals, and “protect metals”
Witness claims, missing money, and possible companions
The autopsy delay that doomed the case
Why the official cause of death remains unknown
Theories involving UFOs, spiritualism, poison, and homicide

If you’ve ever been fascinated by cases where the evidence seems to point everywhere and nowhere at once, The Lead Masks Case is an all-timer. It is eerie, unresolved, deeply atmospheric, and still haunting more than half a century later.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, ghostly encounters, occult dread, and fatal justice. This week’s transmission moves from a war-haunted tavern to strange magic, from death-shadowed streets to a whispered tale of punishment waiting in the dark.

🔫 The Bullet — A weary veteran tries to leave the war behind, only to find that memory, guilt, and death may still be waiting for him at the end of the bar. A grim radio suspense tale of trauma, fate, and the one thing that never truly misses.
🪘 Pollack and the Porroh Man — Skepticism walks into older, darker forces as reason collides with ritual and unseen power. The air turns uncanny, and what begins as doubt drifts toward occult horror and a reckoning with forces that do not care whether you believe in them.
🕯️ A Passage to Benares — Mystery, death, and the afterlife intertwine in a tale that feels dreamlike and fatal all at once. This one carries that rich classic radio horror mood where every revelation only makes the darkness deeper.
⚖️ Justice — The night belongs to The Whistler, and judgment arrives with a smile that sounds almost merciful. Greed, suspicion, and consequence tighten like a noose in a story where justice may come late, but never empty-handed.

If you love Unknown Broadcast, classic OTR horror stories, old-time radio suspense, vintage mystery podcasts, ghost stories, and eerie audio drama from the shadows of broadcasting history, this episode is waiting for you.

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