Snake Plissken is coming back — and Zack Snyder is the man holding the eye patch. The news that Snyder is attached to reimagine John Carpenter's 1981 dystopian action classic has the horror and genre film community asking the big question: does the director of Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Army of the Dead have the sensibility to do this right, or is this the kind of Hollywood reboot that should never have left the drawing board?

Todd and Aaron break down what we know about the Escape from New York reimagining, what Snyder's track record tells us, and whether the DNA of Carpenter's original can survive in a modern blockbuster landscape. We dig into what made the original untouchable — Kurt Russell, the grimy New York aesthetic, Carpenter's score, and a punk-rock spirit that studios have been trying to bottle ever since — and we ask whether any filmmaker working today is truly equipped to carry that torch.

This is the conversation horror and action fans need to have before the hype machine kicks into overdrive.

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Aaron, Todd, Alpha Romero, and special guest Grandes Graveyard go page by page through Rue Morgue #230 (May/June 2026). The main event is OBSESSION — filmmaker Curry Barker's breakout feature has the horror community buzzing, but does it actually deliver? The panel digs into the film's spiral of love, possession, and bloodshed and comes away with very different takes. Plus how Barker's found-footage shocker MILK & SERIAL went viral on a micro-budget. Also on the docket: Black Zombie confronts Hollywood's century-long distortion of the zombie myth, Interview with the Vampire Season 3 takes Lestat full glam rock, horror gaming's obsession with repeating spaces, and all the departments including Cinemacabre, Reissued & Re-Animated, and Bowen's Basement.

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The horror community has a new obsession and it's called OBSESSION. The 2026 supernatural horror film just hit 97% on Rotten Tomatoes making it the highest rated wide release movie of the year across ANY genre. But is this the real deal or is this another case of critics drinking the Kool-Aid?Todd and Aaron break down Obsession (2026), where it lands in the 2026 horror landscape, and ask the bigger question: are we in the greatest era of horror ever made or are we just really good at marketing scary movies now?

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