# This Week in Horror History | Splatter Films & Supernatural Folklore

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Published: 2026-07-07T09:00:19+00:00
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## Resource

Summer horror gets bloody, claustrophobic, cursed, and undead in this episode of This Week in Horror History , covering the week of July 6 through July 12 . This time, we’re digging into splatter-film history, cursed-camera video games, one of the scariest cave movies ever made, Netflix’s summer-camp slasher revival, Italian zombie cult madness, and the return of the Tall Man. Inside this episode: July 6, 1963 — Blood Feast reportedly plays Peoria, Illinois Herschell Gordon Lewis changes horror forever with a cheap, outrageous, blood-soaked shocker often credited as a key turning point in splatter cinema and grindhouse gore. July 8, 2022 — MADiSON releases A haunted-house horror game turns an instant camera into a cursed object, making every photo feel like an invitation for the nightmare to come closer. July 8, 2005 — The Descent opens theatrically in the UK and Ireland Neil Marshall sends a group of friends into an unmapped cave system where grief, betrayal, darkness, and something much worse are waiting below. July 9, 2021 — Fear Street Part Two: 1978 releases on Netflix The Fear Street trilogy heads to Camp Nightwing for a brutal summer-camp slasher packed with cursed-town mythology, teen terror, and R.L. Stine nostalgia with real bite. Deep-Cut Spotlight — Burial Ground Andrea Bianchi’s Italian zombie cult favorite unleashes ancient Etruscan dead, a cursed country estate, crumbling corpses, and some of the strangest undead chaos of the early 1980s. Horror Birthdays This Week: Shelley Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Anjelica Huston, and Fred Gwynne all enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to The Shining , Friday the 13th , Tremors , The Witches , The Addams Family , The Munsters , and Pet Sematary . Weekly Recommendation — Phantasm II Angus Scrimm’s Tall Man returns…

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