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

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

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