# This Week in Horror History | Haunted Hotels & Body Horror Satire — June 8–14

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Published: 2026-06-09T09:00:20+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1450

## Resource

Horror history gets weird, reflective, and dangerously snackable this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 8–14 with mischievous monsters, haunted hotels, supernatural comedy, demonic hauntings, creepy mirrors, and one killer dessert that may be eating America alive. This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror sequels, supernatural blockbusters, 1980s horror, haunted-house horror, and strange consumer-satire body horror, including the release of Gremlins, the same-day arrival of Ghostbusters, the wider theatrical expansion of The Shining, the hit sequel The Conjuring 2, and the mirror-filled nightmare of Poltergeist III. Inside this episode: • Gremlins turns one cute little mogwai into small-town monster chaos and helps push Hollywood toward the PG-13 rating. • Ghostbusters brings haunted libraries, demonic possession, rooftop apocalypse, and paranormal exterminators into one of the biggest supernatural comedy franchises ever. • The Shining expands wider in U.S. theaters, pulling more audiences into Stanley Kubrick’s cold, hypnotic nightmare inside the Overlook Hotel. • The Conjuring 2 sends Ed and Lorraine Warren to the Enfield haunting and introduces one of modern horror’s most memorable demonic figures. • The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Poltergeist III, the strange 1988 sequel that traps Carol Anne inside a haunted Chicago high-rise full of mirrors, elevators, cold hallways, and unfinished supernatural business. Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Jurgen Prochnow, and Adrienne Barbeau, a creepy look at how horror sneaks into family homes, hotels, corporate towers, grocery aisles, and blockbuster comedy, and a weekly recommendation for Larry Cohen’s weird, gross, and sharply satirical…

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