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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys because we’re talking 1995’s Haunted School and 2009’s Occult.

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We start by talking about what we’ve done involving horror recently. Liam talks about There’s Something In The Barn, Divinity, and Civil Dead, as well as the comic Mortal Terror. Justin talks about the recent Netflix original Society Of The Snow and the series Blue Eye Samurai, as well as watching the premiere of True Detective: Night Country.

Up first is Haunted School. We give a brief plot summary and history of the film spawning a franchise. We talk about the concept of the yokai, as well as the Japanese tradition of having media about children solving some sort of paranormal/extraordinary threat. We discuss the concept of how even though some of the apparitions in the film are superficially silly they become legitimate frightening when taken in the proper context.

We talk about how despite being a kid’s movie it still feels like there was a legit danger to the children, and touch upon how the film resembles a Spielberg film in that it at times becomes genuinely frightening. We again talk about the h