Kynan curates a month of animated horror and discovers the throughline by accident: in animation, the artist is always the raw material. Perfect Blue, Mad God, and Stopmotion turn pop stardom, creation, and grief into bodies fed straight into the machine.

What if the threat is already inside? Tommy curates a triple feature about invaders that don’t need to knock — they’re already in the town, in the body, in the mind. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation (2018), Dan O’Bannon’s Return of the Living Dead (1985), and Tarsem’s The Cell (2000) — three films, three decades, three very different ideas about what gets in, and what it costs to get it out.

Chelsea Stardust leads Pete, Kynan, and Tommy in an exploration of three horror films made for almost nothing — and built to last. The Battery, Starry Eyes, and Hellbender prove that a great script and a fearless performance can outrun any budget, especially when transformation is the whole point.