This Week in Dead Meat | May 11th

What’s Going On In The World

1. Cassandra Naud Reteams With Filmmaker Kurtis David Harder On Shudder Thriller Sequel ‘Influencers’: 2023’s underrated Influencer is not only getting a sequel, it’s already been filmed, with the fantastic Cassandra Naud returning to star. If you haven’t checked out the first movie, you should!

2. ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Is Officially UNRATED for Ultra Violence, Mutant Nudity and More!: The Toxic Avenger remake is staying true to its Troma core, with the movie receiving a more extreme rating than its predecessors.

3. New Movie ‘Evil Dead Burn’ Will Be Unleashed in Theaters in July 2026!: Fans looking forward to the next Evil Dead movie following Rise’s success won’t have much longer to wait, with the movie slated to release in a little over a year.

Trailers

• The Long Walk: After decades of development hell, the Stephen King classic has finally been adapted, with the Hunger Games franchise director Francis Lawrence at the helm.

• The Conjuring: Last Rites: The Conjuring closes out it’s “phase one” with Last Rites, which sees the Warren’s taking on what is seemingly their last case.

• The Ritual: Another year, another exorcism movie, but now we have Dan Stevens and Al Pacino leading the charge in this film based on the true story that inspired the exorcist.

Announcements

Over on our Patreon, we made some upgrades to the $5 tier!

1. Zoran will begin streaming games for potential Kill Counts exclusively for Patrons, already kicking it off with Alien: Isolation! If he ends up Kill Counting the game down the line, the stream playthrough will be the canon gameplay we use.

2. Early Kill Count releases are getting earlier! Patrons can get access to a direct Patreon upload of the week's Kill Count four days early whenever possible (which should be usually). If they’re wanting the early release as a Youtube or Vimeo link, that will still be coming one day before the main release, like it has been.

All other rewards already offered to $5 Patrons are staying exactly as they are!

Announced Videos

• May 14th: Dead Meat Horror Awards Post-Mortem Podcast

• May 16th: Puppet Master II (1990) KILL COUNT

• May 30th: Mr. Crocket (2024) KILL COUNT

Live Events

Want to see James Chelsea, Zoran, and more of the Dead Meat Team? Good news, they’ll be places! Here are some of the live events they’ll be attending this year.

• Texas Frightmare - Dallas, Texas on May 23rd-25th

  • Attend the Dead Meat Podcast LIVE on Sunday May 25th

• Vidcon - Anaheim, California on June 19th-21st.

• Flashback Weekend - Chicago, Illinois on August 1st-3rd

• For The Love of Horror - Manchester, United Kingdom on October 18th-19th

New Merch

Hey, be good people, it’s Dead Meat Video!

Dead Meat Video is back with new merch, available exclusively for preorder for a limited time! Check out the full selection here!

Latest Videos

Kill Count Games Season 1 came to a close this Friday with the team diving into Until Dawn! Make sure you watch it or there may just be a butterfly effect.

James and Chelsea sat down to discuss their favorite movie of the Overlook Film Festival, The Ugly Stepsister, with the film’s writer and director!

And that’s just on the main channels! Over on our Patreon Zoran started his Playthrough of Alien: Isolation, which will be our canon run should this be turned into a Kill Count!