Faculty of Horror · Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

Episode 147. The Fackening: 2025 Year in Review

January 27, 2026·1 hr 12 min·6 clips

Alex calls 'Weapons' a perfect horror film that pushes the envelope, while Andrea prefers 'Bring Her Back' for making her feel bad.

Dante interrupts right away. Alex and Andrea try to begin the year in a festive mood, but the world outside makes even basic resolutions feel faintly ridiculous. Somehow, steam cleaning becomes part of the argument. That small domestic thrill sets the mood for the episode: funny, personal, a little bleak, and very aware that real horror keeps walking into everyday life. Then the rankings sharpen. Bring Her Back pulls ahead because it gives the host the exact bad feeling she wants from horror. Weapons lands nearly as hard. Both films come up as proof that the genre can still feel strange, urgent, and hard to smooth out. Sinners stays close in the conversation. The point is bigger than a favorites list. These movies did not stay tucked inside horror spaces. They moved into regular talk. The host says horror is not niche, and the pleasure comes from hearing workplace colleagues bring these films up like shared weather. Toronto gives them the perfect example. A group of teenagers on a residential street suddenly break into the Weapons run, turning one movie image into public behavior. That story sticks because it shows how the hosts think about success: taste matters, but so does whether a film escapes the screen and becomes social language. Then come the Facebook normies. The joke is warm and exasperated: people discover Weapons and hurry to tell Andrea, as if she somehow missed the horror event. The list stays a little loose, with pens, show notes, agreement loops, and small arguments over what mattered most. Gratitude closes things out as the hosts thank listeners for showing up, then tumble into a chaotic improvised rhyme before office hours end.

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A year-end horror recap that treats breakout films as a real cultural moment.

The episode finds Faculty of Horror in its element: blunt, funny, and steady in the way two hosts can make a year-in-review feel alive. It moves through standout titles like Weapons, Bring Her Back, and Sinners while staying focused on the larger question of how original horror…

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If you want a year-in-review horror debrief with attitude, this is your wrap-up.

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