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This Week in Horror History | The Blair Witch Goes Viral (July 13–19)
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Summary
Mid-July horror gets mutated, vengeful, infectious, and lost in the woods in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of July 13 through July 19. This time, we’re digging into mad-scientist island nightmares, supernatural revenge literature, one extremely angry killer whale, a science-fiction body-horror classic, biological vampires, and the tiny independent movie that changed horror marketing forever. Inside this episode: July 13, 1977 — The Island of Dr. Moreau opens in U.S. theaters Burt Lancaster brings H.G. Wells’ nightmare of science without conscience to the screen in a sweaty, pulpy story filled with animal-human mutations, unchecked authority, and a scientist convinced that nature would be better if he personally rearranged it. July 14, 2020 — The Only Good Indians is published Stephen Graham Jones delivers one of modern horror literature’s sharpest supernatural reckonings as four Blackfeet men discover that something from their past has memory, purpose, and antlers waiting in the dark. July 15, 1977 — Orca opens in New York The post-Jaws creature-feature wave gets stranger, angrier, and surprisingly tragic when a killer whale driven by grief, intelligence, and patience begins pursuing the human responsible for an unforgivable act. July 16, 1958 — The Fly releases in the United States A scientist, a teleportation machine, and one tiny insect create one of science-fiction horror’s most unforgettable transformations, turning a dream of human progress into a cruel nightmare of mixed bodies and irreversible mistakes. Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Strain Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan drag vampires out of the velvet cape and into the quarantine zone as a passenger plane lands at JFK filled with the dead. What follows treats vampirism like a bio…