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Reviews of THE PLATFORM and THE ROOM

This week, the Grue-Crew review a pair of films in which searching for reality in the horrors that surround yield tragic results. The first film this week, THE ROOM from director Marcel Walz, follows a pair of podcast hosts searching for The Wooden Devil. The second film, THE PLATFORM from director Malgorzata Szumowska, follows a young woman born into a cult society searching for the true meaning behind the Shepherd.

Doc Rotten from Horror News Radio. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era. And Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s share their thoughts about this week’s awesome collection of streaming horror films. Joining the crew this week is Horror News Radio co-host, Dave Dreher!

Gruesome Magazine Podcast – Episode 108
THE PLATFORM – THE ROOM

THE ROOM

Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But, since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they miss the most is a child.

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  • Director: Christian Volckman
  • Cast: Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens, Joshua Wilson

Release: Currently available on SHUDDER

THE PLATFORM

Inside a vertical prison system, inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, The Platform is a twisted social allegory about mankind at its darkest and hungriest.

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  • Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
  • Cast: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan

Release: Currently available on NETFLIX

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Doc Rotten
Doc Rotten is the founder of Gruesome Magazine. He is also a film critic for Gruesome Magazine and the podcast host & producer for Horror News Radio, Monster Movie Podcast, Decades of Horror: 1970s, The American Horror Story Fan Podcast and Hannibal Fan Podcast. He is also co-host of the Dracula podcast on TV TALK and is a contributing reviewer for HorrorNews.Net and Widescreen Warrior. Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
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