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Today I start off by taking a look at two of the movies released on streaming this past Tuesday. I also have a good amount of news for you, and, of course, some daily trivia.
Movies of the Day
Lookout (2025)
Star Rating: 2 out of 5
Melissa takes a job as a fire lookout posted at a watchtower deep in the wilderness. She’s either running from something or chasing something, and during her first few days at the tower we slowly begin to get a sense of why she’s there. During that time, something mysterious falls from the sky and lands nearby. When Melissa tries to investigate, she is confronted with an otherworldly horror.
Lookout started out pretty well. We watch as Melissa gains confidence in the wilderness while maintaining a mysterious aura about her reasons for being there. The trouble is, this segment of the movie lasts way too long. It takes about an hour for anything to really start happening, and the movie is only about 80 minutes long. When the action finally begins, it’s a big departure from what’s come before. There’s action and horror, but it lacks sufficient context, and the action is presented in a way that doesn’t match the quality of what came before. Also, the plotting of the final act is odd and borders on nonsensical at times. It felt like a different movie invaded the one I was watching, but not in a good way like Sinners or From Dusk Till Dawn. If the feeling of the final twenty minutes had been sprinkled throughout the first sixty minutes, the movie would be a lot better. Lookout is streaming as a digital rental on Prime Video.
Hippo’s Revenge (2025)
Star Rating: 1 out of 5
I knew what I was getting into this, but I was still disappointed. Hippo’s Revenge either needed to be much funnier, or it needed to have a lot more death by hippo. Instead, the movie is basically a slow-moving crime thriller with a theme of family drama. A bunch of criminals are trying to steal a mother hippo and its baby from a safari park. The owner of the park and his daughter have a strained relationship, though the danger of having criminals and an angry killer hippo on the loose might finally bring them together.
Most of the hippo stuff happens at night when it’s too dark to see much (which helps hide some of the goofiness of the CGI), but most of the movie is hippo-free. There’s a lot of talking, and a lot of dealing with various situations, but the action is sparse. The story isn’t interesting enough to make up for the lack of action, so the whole thing becomes tedious. It’s neither good enough nor bad enough to be amusing, but if you want to watch it I’d suggest waiting for Tubi. Right now it’s only available as a rental on sites like Prime Video.
In the News
- The trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was released yesterday. The movie is scheduled for release on January 16, 2026.
- Jeon Somi (formerly of the K-Pop group I.O.I) will appear in the upcoming horror film Perfect Girl along with Arden Cho (KPop Demon Hunters) and Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Netflix’s 2022 Resident Evil series). The movie sounds like a slasher, and it’s reportedly about women competing for limited spots in a new K-Pop group who are “hunted and attacked one by one.” (Deadline)
- Stonecutter Media will release the pregnancy-horror film The Fetus, starring Lauren LaVera and Bill Moseley, digitally in North America on September 9th. (Deadline)
- Deadline has an exclusive first look at the upcoming film The Swallow.
- Sam Raimi will produce a remake of the 1978 psychological horror film Magic. Roy Lee (Weapons) will also produce. The film will be written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, the writers of Freddy vs. Jason (2003) and Friday the 13th (2009). (Hollywood Reporter)
- Ron Perlman, Ted Levine, and Margarita Levieva have joined the cast of the upcoming Cape Fear series for Apple. (Deadline)
- Entertainment Weekly has a first look at Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead.
- Jordan Peele’s untitled next film as a director has been pulled from its tentative October 2026 release date. There’s no word on a new release date, but Variety indicates that the movie is in pre-production.
Birthdays
Michael Berryman was born on September 4th, 1948. Michael is an iconic figure in horror cinema, with a sizable portion of his many acting credits taking place in the genre. His first horror film was as Pluto in The Hills Have Eyes (1977), but he did appear in a couple of movies prior to that, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975. Since those early years, Michael has returned to horror numerous times in movies like Deadly Blessing (1981), Cut and Run (1984), Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies (1992), The Devil’s Rejects (2005), The Lords of Salem (2012), Death House (2017), and the upcoming Spawn of the Living Dead.
Hilary Mason, who played the blind psychic Heather in 1973’s Don’t Look Now, was born on September 4th, 1917. Hilary’s acting career lasted nearly fifty years and consisted mostly of roles in television. However, in addition to Don’t Look Now, Hilary appeared in horror movies including Sharon’s Baby (1975), Dolls (1986), Afraid of the Dark (1991), and Haunted (1995).
More birthdays on September 4th:
- Stefania Casini (1948) – Sara in Suspiria (1977)
- Richard Speight Jr. (1970) – Demonic Toys (1992), Open Water 2: Adrift (2006), Death House (2017), and a Gabriel in Supernatural (2007-2018)
- Talitha Eliana Bateman (2001) – Annabelle: Creation (2017), Countdown (2019)
Events on This Day
The sci-fi zombie comedy Undead was released in its home country of Australia on September 4th, 2003. The film is a fairly standard zombie-apocalypse film, but with the addition of a strong science fiction element and aliens. You can stream Undead right now on Tubi.
