203 - Black Sunday (1960) & Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021) →

CW: Homophobia, Rape

It’s another Witchy Woman Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey are back on that bullshit, this time with two movies about witchy women that put curses on entire bloodlines and where multiple people need a good eye stabbin'.

Read our afterthoughts for this episode here!

The Classic Film: Black Sunday [La maschera del demonio] (1960)
"A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, with only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way” (IMDb.com). Mario Bava's official directorial debut may be beautifully designed and shot, but the story itself is a jumbled mess and just incredibly boring. Sorry.

The Modern Film: Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
"The origins of Sarah Fier's curse are finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever" (Netflix). We finally wrap up the Fear Street Trilogy and warm up to this last installment despite a less interesting second half.

Audio Sources:
"Black Sunday" produced by Galatea Film & Jolly Film
"Come Out and Play" written by Dexter Holland and performed by the Offspring
"Fear Street: Part Three - 1666" produced by Chernin Entertainment
"Gigantic" written by Kim Deal & Frank Black and performed by the Pixies
"Live Forever" written by Noel Gallagher and performed by Oasis
"Mo' Murda" written by Tony C, et al., and performed by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
"Mr. Grieves" written by Frank Black and performed by the Pixies
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"Start Wearing Purple" written by Eugene Hütz and performed by Gogol Bordello

200 - Madman (1981) & Fear Street: Part 2 - 1974 (2021) →

CW: Suicide, Self Harm, Child Abduction, Rape

It’s our 200th episode AND Kelsey's birthday! So we're having a Campground Slasher Week to celebrate for some reason! Chris & Kelsey go to summer camp and enjoy the spin cycle!

Read our afterthoughts for this episode here!

The Classic Film: Madman (1981)
"A legendary psychopathic murderer stalks a summer camp” (IMDb.com). In a movie that probably thinks it's more serious than it is, this killer—functionally a combination of Jason and Candyman—probably could have been replaced by Bigfoot and been more interesting.

The Modern Film: Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)
"Shadyside, 1978. School's out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival” (Netflix). The Fear Street trilogy just gets better as it takes us to 1978 and we learn a bit more about how the curse works and things get a bit more personal.

Audio Sources:
"Andy Samberg/St. Vincent" ("Camp Wicawabe," Saturday Night Live S39E21) produced by Broadway Video & SNL Studios
"Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" written and performed by Neil Diamond
"Carry On Wayward Son" written by Kerry Livgren and performed by Kansas
"Cherry Bomb" written by Joan Jett & Kim Fowley and performed by The Runaways
"Don't Leave Me This Way" written by Kenneth Gamble, et al., and performed by Thelma Houston
"Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" written by Pete Shelley and performed by The Buzzcocks
"Fear Street: Part One - 1994" produced by Chernin Entertainment
"Fear Street: Part Two - 1978" produced by Chernin Entertainment
"The First Cut Is The Deepest" written and performed by Cat Stevens
"Love Will Keep Us Together" written by Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield and performed by The Captain & Tennille
"Madman" produced by The Legend Lives Company
"The Man Who Sold the World" written and performed by David Bowie
"The Man Who Sold the World" written by David Bowie and performed by Nirvana
"Moonage Daydream" written and performed by David Bowie
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" written by Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and performed by Blue Öyster Cult
"Slow Ride" written by Dave Peverett and performed by Foghat
"Sweet Jane" written by Lou Reed and performed by The Velvet Underground

197 - Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) & Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021) →

CW: Suicide, Overdose, Homophobia

It’s Friday the 13th on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey shave their heads, apply a very stylish smoky eye, and just go ham with a machete on a corpse. And all with a kickass 90s soundtrack.

Read our afterthoughts for this episode here!

The Classic Film: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
"After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake” (IMDb.com). Well, this is it. He finally bites it. While it absolutely isn't the last we'll see of Jason, The Final Chapter is the end of the Friday the 13th franchise as we know it. It's pretty much all downhill from here.

The Modern Film: Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021)
"A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside” (IMDb.com). Part One of Netflix's and R.L. Stine's Fear Street Trilogy sets things off with a bang in a teen horror that was better than we thought it was going to be, despite its perhaps overly effusive celebration of the 90s—a decade that, we must stress, we love very much.

Audio Sources:
"Back in Black" written by Brian Johnson, et al., and performed by AC/DC
"Closer" written by Trent Reznor and performed by Nine Inch Nails
"Creep" written by Radiohead, et al., and performed by Radiohead
"Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th" produced by 1428 Films, et al.
"Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" written and performed by Sophie B. Hawkins
"The Day I Tried To Live" written by Chris Cornell and performed by Soundgarden
"Fear Street: Part One - 1994" produced by Chernin Entertainment
"Firestarter" written by Liam Howlett, et al., and performed by the Prodigy
"The Fox and the Hound" produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios & Walt Disney Productions
"Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" produced by Paramount Pictures, et al.
"Gz and Hustlas" written by Calvin Broadus, Jr., et al., and performed by Snoop Dogg featuring Nancy Fletcher
"Hey" written by Frank Black and performed by the Pixies
"Insane in the Brain" written by Louis Freese, et al., and performed by Cypress Hill
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" written by Charles Fox (composer) & Norman Gimbel (lyrics) and performed by Roberta Flack
"Love is a Lie (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Version)" written by Cal Swan and performed by Lion
"Machinehead" written by Gavin Rossdale and performed by Bush
"More Human than Human" written by Rob Zombie, et al., and performed by White Zombie
"Only Happy When It Rains" written and performed by Garbage
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"Sweet Jane" written by Lou Reed and performed by the Cowboy Junkies
"Your Woman" written by Jyoti Mishra, et al., and performed by White Town