166 - Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987) & Black Christmas (2019) →

CW: Sexual Assault, Rape, Suicide, Abortion, Gaslighting

It’s our second week of Christmas horror on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey smash the dark-magic patriarchy but spend most of their time talking about last Christmas.

Read our afterthoughts for this episode here!

The Classic Film: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
"The now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother, Billy, died, which leads back to Mother Superior” (IMDb.com). The purposeful camp in this Christmas horror flick works sometimes, but they should have waited until they actually had a whole movie to film.

The Modern Film: Black Christmas (2019)
"Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation's young women aren't willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish” (IMDb.com). The road to bad cinema is paved with good intentions and probably the best thing we can say about this second Black Christmas remake is that it had good intentions.

Audio Sources:
"Black Christmas" (2019) produced by Blumhouse Productions, et al.
"Carrie" (1976) produced by Red Bank Films
"Inglorious Basterds" (2009) produced by A Band Apart, et al.
"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" produced by Warner Bros., et al.
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"Silent Night, Deadly Night" produced by TriStar Pictures & Slayride
"Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2" produced by Silent Night Releasing Corporation

094 - Double Feature - When a Stranger Calls (1979 & 2006) →

Worst of 2019 - #6 When a Stranger Calls (2006)

It’s a Double Feature Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey decide whether or not to check the children in this urban-legend-turned-feature-film combo recommended by listener Alex!

The Original: When a Stranger Calls (1979)
“A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again" (IMDb.com). It’s everyone’s favorite UL: The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs! Plus, we talk way too much about gender dynamics and dating.

The Remake: When a Stranger Calls (2006)
“During a babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller" (IMDb.com). In 1979, Fred Walton added about 70 or so minutes of content to a 20-minute concept to make a pretty awesome film; in 2006, Simon West tried to get about the same length without adding ANYTHING. It goes about as well as you could expect.

Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1153434017313640448

Audio Sources:
"Black Christmas" (1974) produced by Film Funding Ltd. of Canada, et al.
"Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer" written by Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe, & Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed by Michael Crawford, Mary Millar, Steve Barton, and the Original London Cast
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" produced by Universal Pictures & Apatow Productions
“Grandma’s Boy” produced by Happy Madison Productions, et al.
"New in Town" written and performed by John Mulaney
"Old Town Road" written and performed by Lil Nas X
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"The Princess Bride" produced by The Princess Bride Ltd., et al.
"S&M Present" (Robot Chicken S01E09) produced by Stoopid Monkey, et al.
"Scrooged" produced by Paramount Pictures & Mirage Productions
"Split" produced by Universal Pictures, et al.
“The Three Caballeros” produced by Walt Disney Pictures & Walt Disney Productions
"Urban Legend" produced by Phoenix Pictures, et al.
"Weird Satanist Guy" via BowserVids @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=YErFwJX0HKE
"When a Stranger Calls" (1979) produced by Melvin Simon Productions
"When a Stranger Calls" (2006) produced by Screen Gems & Davis Entertainment
"zendaya is meechee" via Gabriel Gundacker @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5YqFKjTCY

089 - Wait Until Dark (1967) & Hush (2016)

CW: Ableism, Sexual Assault

It’s another Home Invasion Week on Pod Sematary! This time both films Chris & Kelsey are watching star “champion" heroines with disabilities!

The Classic Film: Wait Until Dark (1967)
"A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment" (IMDb.com). Audrey Hepburn cranks up the melodrama opposite a very creepy, young Alan Arkin in this influential classic, and what seems like a simple heist drama quickly turns to horror when a convoluted plan gets out of hand.

The Modern Film: Hush (2016)
"A deaf and mute writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window" (Netflix). Horror super-couple Mike Flanagan (writer/director) and Kate Siegel (writer/actress) are at it again with a pretty fantastic bottle-movie that manages to reinvigorate what has lately been a tired subgenre.

Plus!
—The first trailer for Doctor Sleep, a movie that somehow manages to be a sequel to both the Shining film AND book!?
—A re-remake of Black Christmas announced via poster?

Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1140485220052791296

Audio Sources
"Argo" produced by Warner Bros, et al.
"Club Dread" produced by Broken Lizard Industries, et al.
"Edward Scissorhands" produced by Twentieth Century Fox
"Homie the Clown" (The Simpsons S06E15) produced by Gracie Films & 20th Century Fox Television
"Hush" (film) produced by Intrepid Pictures & Blumhouse Productions
"Hush" (song) written by Joe South and performed by Deep Purple
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" produced by Mandalay Entertainment & Summer Knowledge LLC
"Knock Three Times" written by L. Russell Brown & Irwin Levine and performed by Dawn
"Neverending Story" produced by Constantin Film, et al.
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"Rush Rush" written by Peter Lord and performed by Paul Abdul
"Wait Until Dark" produced by Warner Bros.
"The Yada Yada" (Seinfeld S08E19) produced by Shapiro/West Productions & Castle Rock Entertainment

009 - Double Feature - Black Christmas (1974 & 2006) →

Worst of 2017/18 - #7 Black Christmas (2006)

It's that time of year again: chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, and just a metric ton of awful things happening to eyeballs. This week's Double Feature has us re-watching one of our all-time seasonal horror favorites and its simply god-awful remake. It's Black Christmas time!