We Own The Dark

Episode 18: Strange Harvest/Resurrection

We're back after a brief hiatus and diving right back into the darkness with Jerry's choice, Strange Harvest (2024) from director Stuart Oritz. A "mock-doc" with fantasti

Episode 17: The Witch Who Came From The Sea/Gerald's Game

Join us this month for generational trauma and wildly unhinged hallucinations! We Own the Dark dives headfirst into two films that are heartbreaking and brutal but defini

Episode 16: A Desert/White Of The Eye

We Own the Dark is back with two hot, sweaty, bloody good films! Jerry chose the criminally underrated A Desert, the 2024 feature debut of Joshua Erkman, and Jason follow

Episode 15: Deep In The Heart with Erica Shultz

We Own the Dark rings in the new year with Deep in the Heart (1983), a captivating and timely rape-revenge film that examines America's obsession with guns. Topical, we k

Episode 14: Bloody Oranges/The Day Of The Locust

We Own the Dark is back with a bloody new episode! This time we're engaging in a rousing discussion about political satire and Hollywood criticism. Jerry's choice of the

Episode 13: Messiah Of Evil/Rose: A Love Story

For lucky number 13 of We Own the Dark, Jason and Jerry enjoy a seemingly random but no less gorgeously dark double feature pairing. Jason introduces us to the breathtaki

Episode 12: New Horrors for 2025

We're back baby!! On this episode of We Own the Dark, Jason and Jerry chat about four new horror films to keep up with the times. We share our spoilerific thoughts on Dan

Episode 11: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum/Evil Dead Trap

Join We Own the Dark as we delve into South Korean found footage and insane Japanese grotesquerie!!! Jerry felt true fear for the first time in a looong time with her cho

Episode 10: Deadline/A Little More Flesh

We Own the Dark hits Episode 10!!! This time we get real fuckin' meta with it, watching two films that dig deep into the delicious despair of screenwriting, filmmaking, a

Episode 09: Red Rooms/Der Fan

It's a new year and We Own the Dark is covering a new pair of films that are about as dark and bleak as January has felt!! Come with Jason and Jerry as they tackle two fi

Episode 08: Severin Films Dark Double

We Own the Dark is thrilled to partner with Severin Films to cover Douglas Buck's thought-provoking and heart wrenching Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America and the sur

Episode 07: The Sentinel/The House That Jack Built

Join We Own the Dark as we abandon all hope and journey through the circles of hell with Episode 07! Jason possessed us with his choice of The Sentinel (1977), Michael Wi

Episode 06: Koko-di Koko-da/Hour Of The Wolf

We Own the Dark Episode 06 finds the horror in the surreal!! Jerry's choice for this month's discussion is Johnannes Nyholm's 2019 Swedish-Danish time and mind-bending Ko

Episode 05: New Horrors

We Own the Dark Episode 05 takes on 2024!! With all the great new releases in theatrical horror, we couldn't pass up a chance to change it up a bit and talk about this ye

Episode 04: Eye Of God/Bully

We Own the Dark Episode 04 goes dark…very dark. With Jason's choice, Tim Blake Nelson's criminally underseen and utterly soul-crushing masterpiece Eye of God (1997), we d

Episode 03: Honeydew/Aswang

We Own the Dark Episode 03 explores sleazy, grimy, family debauchery as we delve into two completely different yet surprisingly complementary films. Jerry chooses Devereu

Episode 02: Nightmares In A Damaged Brain/The Innocents

In Episode 02 We Own the Dark explores childhood horrors and nightmares come to life! Jason chose Romano Scavolini's Nightmares In A Damaged Brain (1981), a first and abs

Episode 01: Megalomaniac/Don't Go In The House

Jerry chooses the first film for Episode 01, opting for the 2022 extreme stunner from Karim Oulhaj, Megalomaniac. After a nail-biting first-time watch, Jason chose to pa

Let Us Introduce Ourselves!

In We Own the Dark's inaugural episode, co-hosts Jason Von Godi and Jerry J Sampson introduce their crafts as screenwriters and filmmakers, their first introductions to