Episode Details

Supernatural Season 2, Episode 18, Hollywood Babylon recap 🎥 The boys go undercover on the Hollywood set of a cheesy horror movie, Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning, where the set really might be haunted, in Supernatural's first full-on meta episode, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. After all the sad episodes this season, we NEEDED this one.

On the studio lot, Sam and Dean hop off a studio tour to investigate a crew member's death. The exec (Gary Cole of Office Space) assumes Dean's a production assistant and sends him for smoothies, and Dean leans ALL the way into it: headset, tool belt, craft services, and yelling cut after the director does. But as people keep dying on set, the boys realize the ghosts have been invited in.

Episode Highlights:

• All the meta jokes (Gilmore Girls, real movies, cameos, we lost track)
• Sam calling the LA weather almost Canadian (if you know where they filmed, you get it)
• Dean nerding out about Creepshow on the studio tour
• Dean as the world's most enthusiastic PA, eating ALL the craft services
• A Supernatural Then and Now fun fact about Jensen and set food
• The lead actress (Elizabeth Whitmere) Dean fangirls over, and her very interesting hobby
• A producer played by Don Stark (Donna's dad on That '70s Show!)
• Our sixth blood splooge of the series, and the chunkiest by far (thanks, giant fan)
• The tiniest moped we've ever seen

In the lore segment, we dig into Hollywood's most cursed movie sets: Atuk, whose would-be stars included John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley, and Phil Hartman; Poltergeist, its real human skeletons, and a clown puppet Steven Spielberg had to pry off a child actor; The Exorcist and the fire that mysteriously spared Regan's room; The Conjuring franchise, from Annabelle to The Nun; and the buzz-building tricks of The Blair Witch Project.

"Maybe the spirits are trying to shut down the movie because they think it sucks." – Sam Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Would YOU work on a cursed movie set? And who wants Dean as their PA? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it's how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Hollywood_Babylon
• https://atomtickets.com/movie-news/cursed-movie-sets/

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