Summer Slash 7: The Creeping Flesh Meltdown, Saw 7 Chaos & Smile 3 (Sort Of)
Welcome to Summer Slash 7, where we celebrate horror movie Part Sevens, cult classics, and bizarre genre gems all summer long. This week? We went full scream.
We watched The Creeping Flesh (1973), revisited the trap-happy madness of Saw 7 aka Saw 3D, checked out the prankster goblin weirdness of Frankie Freako, and speculated wildly about what Smile 3 could be—if it ever happens.
Let’s break it all down...
🧬 The Creeping Flesh: Monster Blood and Madness
You’d be forgiven for thinking this is a Hammer Horror movie. It stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It has gloomy labs, brain experiments, and gothic dread. But The Creeping Flesh is its own strange beast.
Peter Cushing plays a scientist who discovers a prehistoric skeleton that regenerates flesh when wet. Naturally, he injects his mentally unstable daughter with a serum derived from this creepy fossil. What could go wrong? Everything.
There are two timelines, unreliable narration, pub dance scenes, and a twist ending that might make you yell, “What?!”
TL;DR:
Peter Cushing loses a finger.
Christopher Lee is abusing patients at an asylum.
The monster is barely in the movie.
Still worth a watch… maybe. (Binge Never?)
🪚 Saw 7 aka Saw 3D aka The Final Chapter (Not Really)
We had to include Saw 7 for Summer Slash 7—it’s in the name. This 3D bloodbath tries to tie up every loose end, but mostly adds new ones.
Jigsaw is dead, but his legacy lives on through apprentices, revenge plots, fake survivors, and absurdly convoluted traps. Also, the acting? Woof.
If you’ve stuck with the series this far, Part 7 won’t scare you—but it might confuse you. Or just make you nostalgic for Saw II.
👺 Frankie Freako: Garbage Pail Goblin Mayhem
Frankie Freako is like Garbage Pail Kids and Gremlins got into a car crash with Home Alone and Manborg. It’s chaotic, crude, and kind of brilliant.
A workaholic yuppie calls a mysterious party hotline hosted by a dancing goblin and unlocks mayhem. There’s dimension-hopping, slime, surreal comedy, and violent goblin pranks. It’s a cult classic in the making.
If you like:
The Void
Psycho Goreman
VHS slimecore horror …you’ll love Frankie Freako.
😱 Smile 3: Frown Turn? (Speculation Zone)
No official Smile 3… yet. But we couldn’t help ourselves. What if Smile 3 leaned full parody? What if it featured podcasters who know too much? What if someone smiled so hard they broke reality?
Okay, maybe we’re just pitching Smile 3: Frown Turn because we want to be in it. But still… you know it’s coming eventually.
🧠 Indie Spotlight: Tow
We also want to highlight Tow, about a woman whose car—her home—is stolen and impounded. She battles the system to get her life back.
🔥 Final Thoughts
This episode of Summer Slash was messy, weird, nostalgic, and surprisingly fun—even when we were screaming “Binge NEVER!” at the screen.
Watch/listen to the full episode now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
And stay tuned—next up, we’re watching I Like Bats and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. You won’t want to miss it.
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Frankie Freako – Available on Digital July 14th. Get freaky.
