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V/H/S/Halloween: A Haunting Entry (2025) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · 3d

New review for @casualhorrorpod.com on the new V/H/S! I liked this one a lot

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V/H/S/Halloween: A Haunting Entry | 4/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 10/8/2025 A new year comes, the seasons change, and V/H/S has released the newest entry in their yearly October offerings. Featurin...

The Long Walk (2025) — Casual Obsession

Casual Obsession @casualhorrorpod.com · 15d

We're happy to share our first guest contributor, @thecodywagner.bsky.social, has written a review for the newest Stephen King adaptation, The Long Walk

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The Long Walk | 4.5/5 Written by Cody Wagner : 9/27/2025 The Long Walk is not only a novel by famed writer Stephen King. It was also the first novel he completed around his freshman year in colle...

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · 25d

Wrote this for @casualhorrorpod.com for the new Conjuring. Not a fan, but here we are.

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“Pennsylvania… God only knows why he was out there.”

Church Of The Mountain Of Flesh — Casual Obsession

Casual Obsession @casualhorrorpod.com · Sep 6

Happy birthday, Church Of The Mountain Of Flesh! Kyle Wakefield's horror novel turned 1 today, and @ninawolverina.bsky.social had a lot of things to say about it.

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Written by Carolina Cruz : 2/4/2025 The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield is a body horror story about a tentacle god that grows underneath a medieval Italian village. It’s a religi...

Gretel & Hansel (2020) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Aug 30

What's up people, this week I wrote about Gretel & Hansel for @casualhorrorpod.com

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"What if this children's story was actually dark" is the cry of every boring forum chat, but Oz managed to tactfully navigate this pitfall.

Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Aug 21

It brings me no joy to say that I didn't like the new Hell House LLC movie. Review live on @casualhorrorpod.com now.

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I feel that Hell House LLC is a borderline masterwork of a found footage film, and it’s devastating to be forced to realize Cognetti seems to have run out of compelling ideas with Lineage.

Weapons: Comedians Get Horror — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Aug 16

New review for @casualhorrorpod.com on Weapons, check out out!

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The first thing you should know going into Weapons is… Whatever expectations you had set by Barbarian are probably correct.

Together | Long Live Body Horror (2025) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Aug 2

New review for @casualhorrorpod.com live, getting back in the groove

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The 2020s have been a wonderful revival for body horror, and Together is the most recent step in this direction.

Longlegs (2024) — Casual Obsession

Casual Obsession @casualhorrorpod.com · Jul 20

Read! The review with a poster that got flagged for "graphic media" (it's just the Longlegs poster)

Sorry for the late share here

It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Jul 12

Taking a minute to get back into the swing of weekly writing, but here's something I did for @casualhorrorpod.com

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It's been a year since the premier of Longlegs in 2024, how does the film hold up after the hype has died down?

The Arbors (2020) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Jul 19

Chipping away at my Letterboxd watchlist, wrote about one of them for @casualhorrorpod.com

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The Arbors | 1.5/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 7/19/2025 I’ve been trying to get through my Letterboxd Watchlist recently. There’s some really great films on there (a review coming next week about one ...

28 Years Later (2025) — Casual Obsession

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Casual Obsession @casualhorrorpod.com · Jun 28

A new review by @bubbadabad.bsky.social is live on the website

www.casualhorrorpod.com/film-reviews/28-years-later-2025

After nearly two decades 28 Years Later brings us back to the world of the films, removed but connected in the important ways.

Punisher: War Zone (2008) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hey all, took a long as break by accident cause I went on vacation then have been exclusively watching movies I'm not allowed to talk about yet, lmao.

Anyway, here's Punisher: War Zone for @casualhorrorpod.com

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Let me take you back to the distant past of 2008. Iron Man had just come out, we were three Blade movies deep, and we were a mere year after Spider-Man 3 had tanked. Comic book movies hadn’t come to d...

28 Days Later (2002) | Don’t Wake Up — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Jun 4

Hey hey, was in Texas for a wedding and forgot to share this on Saturday, so here we go! Got to see 28 Days Later in a theater leading up to the new one, and I still really like it @casualhorrorpod.com

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It can hard to watch 28 Days Later without drawing a certain level of comparison to other popular zombie media. Thankfully, unlike some originators of common tropes, the story doesn’t feel excessively...

Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) | A Bloody Good Time — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · May 24

Hey hey, I watched the new Final Destination last week and wrote something for @casualhorrorpod.com about it

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Final Destination Bloodlines keeps up the remembered energy of the original run, and manages to pick up in a better place than the franchise left off.

One Missed Call (2003) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · May 17

Hello hello, I'm slowly chipping into Takashi Miike's incredibly daunting filmography and I wrote about this one for @casualhorrorpod.com

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One Missed Call: Not One To Miss | 3.5/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 5/17/2025 Takashi Miike is a guy I’ve been circling for years. Since watching Audition in early 2020 as my first dip into his work...

Clown In A Cornfield (2025) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · May 10

Had a blast this weekend with the hot new film adaptation of Adam Cesare's book, Clown in a Cornfield. Please enjoy my quick write up for @casualhorrorpod.com

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Clown in a Cornfield: A Little Drop of Baypen | 3.5/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 5/10/2025 A couple years ago Casual Obsession decided to cover Adam Cesare's novel "Clown in a Cornfield" for our April...

Shadow Of God (2025) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · May 3

A movie review for @casualhorrorpod.com on something a little more relevant on a recent release front, I watched Shadow Of God the other day

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Shadow of God: Unfortunately, Little More | 2.5/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 5/3/2025 Over the last couple years while watching movies with my partner, we’ve made the choice to watch all the trailers ...

The Nun II (2023) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Apr 30

Oh! It's the last of the Conjuring movies I'm reviewing for @casualhorrorpod.com! Forgot this came out today.

Yeah, there's a lot of good elements here, but the ending scene pissed me off so much that it ruined the rest of what could have been, haha

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The Nun II: Fanfic Without Knowledge | 2/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 4/30/2025 We’ve done it, we’ve reached the end of our journey with The Conjuring films. I hope you had as much fun as I did; ideal...

113 Between Two Fires (2012) by Casual Obsession

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Nina! @ninawolverina.bsky.social · Apr 26

I'm SO excited about this episode! If you wanna listen to me yap about Between Two Fires (something I could do for an eternity) give this episode a go!

Casual Obsession @casualhorrorpod.com · Apr 26

New episode time! Our once yearly book has been read, and it was Between Two Fires! @ninawolverina.bsky.social read this last year and loved it enough to bring it to the table, but you'll have to listen to hear how the other hosts feel about it

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This week is our annual Casual Obsession book episode! Between Two Fires is a religious horror novel set in Europe during the black death. We spoil the plot heavily here, so if you haven’t read it alr...

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Apr 26

Saturday! You know what that means (we're almost done with the Conjuring reviews and can start on the next short run)

Anyway, here's the new one for @casualhorrorpod.com

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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) — Casual Obsession

The Conjuring 3: Legally, He Didn’t | 2/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 4/26/2025 Not to be dramatic, but I truly hate this one. A comedy of errors where we continue to make choice after choice that make...

113 Between Two Fires (2012) by Casual Obsession

Casual Obsession @casualhorrorpod.com · Apr 26

New episode time! Our once yearly book has been read, and it was Between Two Fires! @ninawolverina.bsky.social read this last year and loved it enough to bring it to the table, but you'll have to listen to hear how the other hosts feel about it

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This week is our annual Casual Obsession book episode! Between Two Fires is a religious horror novel set in Europe during the black death. We spoil the plot heavily here, so if you haven’t read it alr...

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Apr 23

Additionally, I have this one for Annabelle Comes Home, which is a Disney Channel original version of a Conjuring movie

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Annabelle Comes Home (2019) — Casual Obsession

Annabelle Comes Home: Time For Bed, Annabelle | 3/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 4/23/2025 We love seeing the same opening scene for a 3rd time, don’t we, folks? Finally, if God is real and cares about...

The Curse Of La Llorona (2019) — Casual Obsession

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It's Noah @bubbadabad.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ah! I forgot to share this on Saturday (double reveal here I guess) but I am still writing about The Conjuring for @casualhorrorpod.com!

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The Curse Of La Llorona: [Speaking Spanish] | 2/5 Written by Noah Dietz : 4/19/2025 Welcome to the bonus Conjuring universe review! Well, mostly a bonus. Officially this isn’t connected to the main...