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A person’s YouTube subscription lineup is as unique as their fingerprints. So in the vein of the theme song from Diff’rent Strokes, “What might be right for you, may not be right for some…” I’m going to give you my favorites at the moment.

These YouTube vloggers have interested me because of their fascination with horror and the macabre. They record whatever it is their doing, whether it’s seeking out a famous movie location, visiting a weird roadside museum or standing on the gravesite of a Hollywood legend.

So get ready to take virtual trips with these awesome hosts who will take you to creepy places you’ll probably never visit.

Grimmlifecollective

The Florida based couple who host Grimmlifecollective channel must be going stir crazy being at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Jessica and Michael are always on the move visiting theme parks and other fun places. But lucky for us, they also love horror movies and often take the time to visit locations from some iconic films.

As of this writing, their recent adventure led them to the original Poltergeist house. If that weren’t enough, they went the extra mile and gave us a look at the Freeling’s house from Poltergeist II.

What’s fun about this couple is that sometimes they try to re-enact famous scenes frame-by-frame from the places they visit.

The Carpetbagger

This is becoming one of my favorite channels on YouTube. The Carpetbagger, Jacob, has such an extensive catalog of videos you couldn’t possibly get through them all unless you were bedridden.

His specialty is roadside attractions, “freak shows,” or odd museums that most people would rather pass than pay money to visit.

In some of The Carpetbagger’s earlier works, he visits abandoned houses and buildings with the enthusiasm of an intrepid investigative reporter. He likes taxidermied animals, Ripley’s Believe it or Not showcases and, of all things, the dried-up remains of a good Fiji Mermaid.

Of all the vloggers here, The Carpetbagger must be going insane right now. You can tell exploration is in his blood and that makes him a great YouTuber in this category.

His visit to the Rock-Afire warehouse where Showbiz Pizza character creator Aaron Fetcher gave him a backstage tour is one of the weirdest episodes on YouTube.

Additionally, you shouldn’t miss his visit to the Meow Wolf Museum. Incredible.

Adam the Woo: The Daily Woo

As you would expect a lot of YouTube vloggers who enjoy the same types of content crossover into each other’s channels. There is an original, and that person is Adam the Woo.

If you ask the vloggers above who inspired them to do what they do, Adam the Woo’s name would come up repeatedly.

Adam’s channel first caught my attention because he has an affinity for theme parks. I saw him touring Disneyland and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal.

As I dug deeper into his catalog of videos, it became apparent that he gathered no moss. In fact, at one point in his life, he sold everything he had, bought an RV and traveled the states making pit stops of interest along the eerie Route 66 and beyond.

Justin Scarred: Randomland

The bandwidth contained in a single cell of Justin Scarred’s brain could power an entire cellular network. As with the previous channels I’ve mentioned, Justin has a penchant for exploration with a taste for the macabre.

His videos range from touring Disney Parks all over the world to staying at the infamous Clown Motel. He takes viewers from Disney’s Mainstreet to haunted roadside relics in the middle of nowhere.

Justin also seems to have a great eye for film editing and most of his videos are cut and scored with an appreciation for the craft. Although his quick cuts seem to be extensions of his hyper style, they never disappoint.

Hollywood Graveyard

Sometimes I just want to focus on a particular forte and Hollywood Graveyard fits that bill. Arthur Dark is your narrator as he takes you, and his camera, into some of the country’s most famous final resting places.

Do you want to know where your idol is laid to rest? Arthur has you covered. From the world’s greatest celebrities to the notorious, Hollywood Graveyard is like a Hollywood star map of the afterlife.

Nukes Top 5

Although he is not a horror travel vlogger, Nuke features videos of other explorers with a paranormal twist. This anthology of “ghosts caught on camera” is probably the best out there building on this type of framework.

When he can, he provides a backstory to the clips he features after speaking with the person who submitted them. If the video is in another language he gets people to translate.

It’s this extra attention to detail that makes his channel the gold label of ghost clip anthologies. He also leaves it up to the viewer to decide on the validity of the pieces. Refreshingly this is non-partisan paranormal.

So there you have it, my six favorite YouTube obsessions at the moment. Whether they fit your taste or your queue is up to you, but they have entertained me in this age of coronavirus.

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

Evil Dead Rise

“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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The Gemini Project

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s in ‘Presumed Innocent’

Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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