This Week in Dead Meat | May 18th

Buffy's Found The New Slayer, Our 2026 Daily Calendar, and Osgood Perkins Doubles Down with Neon

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Ben Bellevue
May 18, 2025

  1. ‘Buffy’ Reboot at Hulu Casts Ryan Kiera Armstrong: Sarah Michelle Gellar and crew have found their Slayer in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’s Ryan Kiera Armstrong.

  2. Alex Winter and Tom Stern's Cult Classic Creature Feature 'Freaked' Re-Emerges With 4K Restoration From Drafthouse Films: Cult (and Zoran) favorite movie Freaked is finally coming to digital platforms AND 4K physical media.

  3. ‘Longlegs’ Director Osgood Perkins Launches Production Banner, Signs First-Look Deal With Neon: With three Osgood Perkins horror movies already produced in partnership with Neon, the director has officially cemented their working relationship with a first look deal.

Trailers

  • Soul Reaper: This Indonesian horror film seems like a less comedic take on Nightmare on Elm Street’s core premise - telling the story of a teenager who enters dreams coming face to face with a creature who kills through dreams.

Announcements

Announced Videos

  • 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.

New Merch

As you may know by now, Dead Meat Video is back, but that’s not all!

The first ever Dead Meat Daily Calendar is also available! This has been in the works for a long time and we really hope we’ve created something you’ll enjoy. Each day features a Golden Chainsaw, Dull Machete, or Numbers Breakdown from a past Kill Count, with a lot of days specifically chosen based on movie anniversaries, holiday theming, and Dead Meat team birthdays!

The calendar is currently up for preorder and if you’re interested in it, hopping on that pre-order would be a great way to guarantee yourself a copy AND to tell stores that there’s interest in the calendar so potentially these can pop up in physical stores like Barnes and Noble? Which would be so cool and a little insane.

DMV Fanny Pack

$29.99

2026 Calendar

$17.99

DMV Popcorn Bucket

$9.99

Latest Videos

It’s time to puppet up because Puppet Master has returned to the Kill Count.

This week on the Dead Meat Podcast we have our Horror Awards Live Post-Mortem, where James, Chelsea, Zoran and Horror Awards panelists Chauncey K Robinson and Rebekah Mckendry discuss what went into their votes for the 2025 awards and take questions from the livestream audience.

James and Chelsea sat down with the cast and crew of Final Destination: Bloodlines to discuss creating the movie’s kills, honoring the franchise, and how our Final Destination trailer breakdown got shared amongst the cast/crew.

Plus, over on Patreon, Zoran began his first full week of Game Streams with 3 streams in total (and now there’s a camera on him!)