212 - Cujo (1983) & Gerald's Game (2017) →

CW: Rape, Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Suicide

It’s Movies-based-on-Stephen-King-novels-about-women-stuck-in-a-single-location-and-harassed-by-dogs,-both-of-which-star-primary-actors-from-E.T. Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey really need to come up with a safeword.

Read our afterthoughts for this episode here!

The Classic Film: Cujo (1983)
"Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town” (IMDb.com). Cujo is a thrilling story that manages to wring a lot of pathos out of a little premise, but will never be as good as the first time you saw it.

The Modern Film: Gerald's Game (2017)
"When a harmless game between a married couple in a remote retreat suddenly becomes a harrowing fight for survival, wife Jessie must confront long-buried demons within her own mind - and possibly lurking in the shadows of her seemingly empty house” (Intrepid Pictures). Like Mike Flanagan is wont to do, Gerald's Game is heavy on trauma and emotion at the expense of the scares. It's still a great movie, but maybe not a great *horror* movie.

Audio Sources:
"Cujo" produced by Sunn Classic Pictures & TAFT Entertainment Pictures
"Gerald's Game" produced by Intrepid Pictures
"The Impression That I Get" written by Dicky Barrett & Joe Gittleman and performed by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"The Shining" (1997 TV Mini-series) produced by Lakeside Productions & Warner Bros. Television

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