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2024 is (a). almost over and (b). has officially entered its spooky season. So by now, we can pinpoint some horror trends. What is scaring us this year?

Both "Immaculate" and "The First Omen" are about young women forced by religious fanatics to bear unwanted and monstrous pregnancies. Due to the movies' overlapping subject matter and tight release window, they were named the harbingers of a pro-choice horror wave. America did recently strip people's rights to abortion by judicial fiat, after all. Even Coralie Fargeat's "The Substance," a body horror film about how beauty standards devalue aging women, is a cousin to these films. (Fargeat's film has got the most disgusting "birth" scene that doesn't star a chestburster.)

However, one should not forget the religious settings of "Immaculate" and "The First Omen," for this is where the two 2024 horror trends intersect.

When Nicholas Alexander Chavez began researching his role as Lyle Menendez for Monsters, he paid special attention to the “mask” that Lyle’s dad Jose forced him to use when he began losing his hair.

That “mask” is how Chavez refers to Lyle’s infamous toupée, which former Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne once described as a “state-of-the-art hairpiece, or toupée, or wig, or hair replacement, as his very expensive rug was variously called” that went on to become “a constant prop in the trial, almost as important as the two missing Mossberg 12-gauge shotguns the brothers used to blow away their parents.”

“I really saw this wig as mask of sorts,” reflects Chavez to Deadline. “It’s not one that he imposes on himself. It’s imposed by his father and the perfectionist standard that Lyle has to live up to. It’s a mask that hides a deeply,...

Now that we've learned the reason Erik and Lyle killed their parents in Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the fourth episode gives us flashbacks of confrontations and fights between the family members. Erik's attorney Leslie gets Lyle's side of the story, while we see more of the events that led up to José and Kitty's deaths. The fourth episode is titled "Kill or Be Killed," which seems to represent Erik and Lyle's mindset at the time of the killings.

Major spoilers for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story episode 4 are below.

Trigger Warning: This episode explicitly references child sexual abuse.

At the start of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story episode 4, we get a glimpse of Erik and Lyle's run-in with the law over their past burglary. We don't know who they're stealing from or why, but we'll find out.

Leslie goes to speak...

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Get ready for the horrifying true story behind the sensational Menendez brothers case in Season 2 of the biographical true-crime drama series Monster. Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the Netflix series will follow the Menendez brothers just like in the previous season we saw the complete story of Jeffrey Dahmer.

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In Season 2 of Monster, we will follow the infamous murder case of José and Kitty Menéndez, who were killed by their sons Lyle and Erik Menendez. While it was a highly publicized case you might not know all the details of the Menendez brothers’ story and this series dives deep into their motives for killing their parents.

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