167 - End of Days (1999) & Midnighters (2017) →

CW: Rape, Suicide, Addiction

Worst of 2020 - #4 (tied) Midnighters

It’s New Year's Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey shoot the devil with a grenade launcher and also make some very bad decisions.

Read our afterthoughts for this episode here!

The Classic Film: End of Days (1999)
"At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him” (IMDb.com). Arnold Schwarzenegger stars (for some reason) in one of many turn-of-the-millennium religious thrillers, and you know what that means... shooting Satan with a ton of bullets!

The Modern Film: Midnighters (2017)
"Midnight, New Year's Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life - except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness” (IMDb.com). Wow, that plot summary is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Midnighters is dim, contrived, and not very inspired. It's beyond us why this film is as highly rated as it is.

Audio Sources:
"Adventures in Babysitting" produced by Touchstone Pictures & Silver Screen Partners III
"Chicago" (2002) produced by Miramax, et al.
"End of Days" produced by Beacon Pictures & Lucifilms
"Midnighters" produced by Graystone Pictures
"Moral of the Story" written by Ashlyn Rae Willson, Casey Smith, & Noah Conrad and performed by Ashe
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"Usual Suspects" produced by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, et al.

098 - The Craft (1996) & The Witch (2015) →

CW: Rape, Suicide, Cutting, Racism, Mental Illness

It’s Witchy Woman Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey join the weirdos and live deliciously in an episode that's worth selling your soul!

The Classic Film: The Craft (1996)
“A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.” (IMDb.com). The Craft was pretty iconic back when our hosts were in school, but how has this goth classic aged over the years?

The Modern Film: The Witch (2015)
“A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession” (IMDb.com). Is this critical-darling-cum-popular-dud more than just "what if The Crucible but spoopy?"

Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1162863020357275648

Audio Sources:
"Batman Forever" produced by Warner Bros. & PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
"Carrie" produced by Red Bank Films
"The Craft" produced by Columbia Pictures & Red Wagon Entertainment
"How Soon is Now" written by Johnny Marr and Morrissey & performed by Love Spit Love
"Office Space" produced by Twentieth Century Fox, et al.
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"Tomorrow Never Knows" written by Lennon–McCartney and performed by Our Lady Peace
"The Witch" produced by Parts and Labor, et al.
"Witchy Woman" written by Bernie Leadon & Don Henley and performed by The Eagles