Cole's 31 Days of Halloween Movies 2026 – Week 1 – E188

I watch a lot.

So what have you been doing?

I watched on recommendation.

I met with this guy in development at Sony trying to talk about jobs.

I told him about a movie that I've written years ago and what I want to transfer it into.

And he's like, oh, you need to check out Strange Harvest, which I've never seen before.

Have you seen this? I don't think so, but I will look it up.

It's quite niche.

It's like a mockumentary style.

That's my jam.

A fake doc.

At first, you just think it's like a real documentary about these ritualized murders in San Bernardino or it must be Inland Empire.

So just east of LA out there.

And they use police footage and all kinds of disemboweled heads and like markings and cuts and blood and pentagrams and such and whatever else.

Anyways, it takes a turn.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

But it was great.

I was like, oh, for it being low budget is fantastic.

And at the end, I had to watch the credits because I was like, how do they do this? And I was like, we think the San Bernardino Police Department, the Van Nuys Police Department, and they list all these police departments and local news channels that submitted false news for them, false little clips.

And so it feels so real that you're like, That's connections making a good, fun horror movie.

And when like when Wolf Blitzer

or Anderson Cooper shows up in an MCU movie, it honestly takes me out like I don't want that kind of realism.

But if like just some local actual news broadcast from the Inland Empire, you know, Channel 13 or whatever it is, is submitting their footage.

That's cool.

That's kind of fun.