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Bright Light Bright Light’s “Down To One” Music Video Fuses Giallo Style with Synth-Pop [WATCH]

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Everybody is loaded with movies, books, and television for the Halloween season. But if you’re looking for a new song to get you in the mood, look no further: Bright Light Bright Light has you covered with a brand-new music video for their single “Down to One”. And it premieres today, October 13th, Friday the 13th. What an auspicious, not murderous day!

Bright Light Bright Light Brings Horror Fans A Giallo Delight for Halloween

The music video for “Down to One”, a bubbly synthpop song with dance music strains, features an unexpected story: a countryside dinner party between fashionable old friends where things go horribly wrong, twisting and turning in the vein of a slasher film. And by the end, it’ll make you wonder: were things supposed to go wrong all along? It has class, sleaze, mystery, and a soundtrack with its very own body count; eat your heart out, Argento!

I say Argento because the video is pretty explicitly inspired by Giallo films Blood and Black Lace & Death Walks On High Heels; it also contains some references to mystery comedy Clue, and the out-there horror classic April Fool’s Day. (Oh, and if you need any more proof of the dedication and horror cred Bright Light Bright Light deserves, they remixed the song INTO a Giallo theme as an alternative special remix EP. Makes you want to put some black gloves on real bad, so be sure to check that as well!)

April Fool’s Day, in particular, is a favorite of Bright Light Bright Light singer Rod Thomas: “We specifically chose to pay homage to April Fool’s Day as it’s really just one of the best horror comedy films ever made. The entire cast is magnificent, and some of the costume designs are exquisite. Super underrated film. It does exactly what I want horror comedies to do, which is be reverent of the genre while also having a tongue-in-cheek, playful approach.”

A Team of Familiar Horror Talents Return

The video is stacked with some familiar faces for anybody who has been keeping track of the Monster Makeup crew we’ve covered previously here on Horror Press, including the likes of Brandon Perras (with candleholder!) and Wayne Gonsalves (with a spiffy suit!); this isn’t even mentioning the presence of actress Angelica Christina, best known for her work on Netflix’s Pose.

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“Down To One” is another collaboration between production company Typical Films and Bright Light Bright Light, serving as the first official video for the forthcoming studio album. If Typical Films sounds familiar, you might recognize them for their work on music videos like Chvrches “Now is Not the Time”, and Bright Light Bright Light’s other lovingly crafted music videos like “This Was My House” and “Cry at Films”. Be sure to check those out here.

Happy listening, my Fulci fans and Bava babes!

Enjoy Bright Light Bright Light’s “Down to One” and keep an eye out here for more on the latest horror movies, music, and news here at Horror Press!

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Luis Pomales-Diaz is a freelance writer and lover of fantasy, sci-fi, and of course, horror. When he isn't working on a new article or short story, he can usually be found watching schlocky movies and forgotten television shows.

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FANGORIA Releases 2025 Chainsaw Award Nominees

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Get ready to take the substance, party at Pearline’s, and invite in Orlok, because FANGORIA has released their list of nominees for the 2025 Chainsaw Awards. Alongside the Dead Meat Horror Awards, the Chainsaw Awards are the most anticipated and prestigious Horror Film and TV accolades out there. The most exciting part is that, unlike most popular awards shows, the Chainsaw Awards will continue to allow fans to help choose the winners.

According to FANGORIA, the competition will continue its tradition of having films from the second half of 2024, and this first half of 2025. FANGORIA Editor-in-Chief Nobile Jr. said in their nomination release, that this should cause voting to be “vicious and voluminous.” He describes the award show as, “Like the Grammy’s, but gorier.” It should be a bloodbath of a competition, because this year’s nominees are absolutely killer.

The Substance and Sinners, two of the most talked about films of the past year, seem to sweep the nominations. Both blockbusters land in the categories for Best Screenplay, Director, and Best Wide Release. Nosferatu and Longlegs, both 2024 releases, are also in almost every category they qualify for, and the recently released Bring Her Back made a handful of nominations. The Monkey, Heart Eyes, and Presence did not make this year’s list of nominations.

Horror fans can cast their votes for FANGORIA’S Chainsaw Awards HERE.

SOURCE: Our friends over at FANGORIA

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The ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Franchise, Ranked

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The I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise is a peculiar beast. Think about it. First of all, it never really got started. I consider the foundation of a horror franchise to be the movies that got released at a relatively steady clip (generally one or two years apart) before the series went on hiatus, then took a sharp turn into legacy sequels, direct-to-video sequels, reboots, and the like. For Friday the 13th, that foundation is eight movies. A Nightmare on Elm Street had five. Scream and Child’s Play were founded on solid trilogies. The Conjuring Universe is at eight and counting (and that’s if you skip Curse of La Llorona, which I am loath to do). And what did I Know What You Did Last Summer get? A measly two.

Not only did it fail to get started, it also kind of failed to get going. After the original two movies (the first of which is based on a 1973 young adult novel by Lois Duncan), which were directly in continuity with one another, it had a direct-to-video sequel eight years later and a short-lived television reboot 15 years after that. And yet, like any good horror villain, it refuses to die. With a 2025 legacy sequel coming our way, I thought it was high time to take a look at this misbegotten but indefatigable multimedia series and see just what we can make of it, by ranking its efforts from worst to best.

#4 I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)

It makes sense that the world was not kind to this one-season Prime Video reboot. When the last entry in a franchise that anyone remotely cared about was more than 20 years earlier, and then you pull a big swing like this, more or less completely removing everything about the characters and premise that was compelling, it’s not going to go well. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that this is an ugly and incompetently-made series, with an outright disdain for the 180-degree line that makes the mere act of watching it feel like aesthetic water torture if you care about film craft even a little bit.

Really, the only thing that it had going for it was the fact that it was set and shot in Hawai’i. In addition to giving it a really grounded sense of place, it also evoked the specificity of the fact that the original movie was set in North Carolina.

#3 I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)

I honestly admire the extravagantly goofy choice to have original killer Ben Willis (Muse Watson in the original movies, Don Shanks in this one) return as a ghost who has become some sort of cross-country specter of previous-summer-themed vengeance. However, this direct-to-video sequel that is otherwise unrelated to anything else in the franchise is bland as all get out and boasts the weakest acting of the franchise. This is somewhat forgivable, given the fact that the original director was fired and the new director had to scramble to get everything together in just two weeks. And that original director was Joe Chappelle, who might have the actual worst filmography of any horror director (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Phantoms, parts of Hellraiser: Bloodline), so we probably dodged a bullet. This could have been even lower!

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#2 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is immensely, deliriously, outrageously stupid. Mileage will vary on this movie, but if you read my paean to the stupidity of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer from two years ago, you know my mileage is fully “Rascal Flatts in a Prius.” I’m getting that hybrid car highway mileage, baby, and I’m riding it all night long.

That said, it’s obviously not the best entry in the series. As charismatic as Brandy is, the new characters around Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) don’t hold a candle to the duo’s original friends in terms of complexity or entertainment value. And the choice (probably made by necessity) to keep the two surviving characters apart for basically the entire span of the story results in the movie completely deflating every time it has to cut back to whatever boring shit Ray is up to.

#1 I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

I know, I know, it’s boring when the obvious choice is up top. But sometimes the original is simply the best, and you just have to deal with it. As I’ve already mentioned, the specificity of its setting in a North Carolina fishing town is unique and interesting for a slick, post-Scream slasher. And while the script doesn’t boast the Kevin Williamson-esque touches of his other work from the 1990s (it was written before Scream, and it shows), it’s a solid meat-and-potatoes slasher movie with a fun killer M.O. (hook-wielding murderers are so popular in urban legends for a reason) and a group of friends that includes Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar at the heights of their powers.

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