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250 - The Skulls (2000) & Initiation (2020) →

August 22, 2022 by Pod Sematary

CW: Suicide, Rape, Rape Culture

It’s Back-to-School Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey pledge school societies where they live by the melodrama and die by the melodrama.

Read our afterthoughts for this episode HERE!

The Classic Film: The Skulls (2000)
"For Luke McNamara, an invitation to join the prestigious secret college organization, The Skulls, is a dream come true, until murder befalls another student” (Mill Creek Entertainment). The Skulls is not a horror movie, sorry. Instead, it's Baby's First Thriller, like a novel adapted into a children's picture book. But if you stick it out, the extreme goofiness might be enough to have you thinking it's so bad that it's good.

The Modern Film: Initiation (2020)
"Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point” (IMDb.com). Initiation is a strikingly shot and acted drama going through a pretty paint-by-numbers horror plot that becomes a mishmash of incredible, mediocre, and even inept moments, making it difficult to recommend despite being... kinda good, I guess?

Audio Sources:
"12 Angry Men" (1997 TV Movie) produced by MGM Television
"Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, et al.
"Black Christmas" (1974) produced by Film Funding Ltd. of Canada, et al.
"The Faculty" (1998) produced by Dimension Films & Los Hooligans Productions
"The Fast and the Furious" (2001) produced by Universal Pictures, et al.
"Initiation" produced by Shatterproof Films
"The NeverEnding Story" produced by Constantin Film, et al.
"Not Another Teen Movie" produced by Columbia Pictures, et al.
"Showdown" written by Jeff Lynne and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra
"The Skulls" (2000) produced by Universal Pictures, et al.

August 22, 2022 /Pod Sematary
School, Skulls, Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald, Steve Harris, William Peterson, Craig T. Nelson, Initation, Lindsay LaVanchy, Lochlyn Munro
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028 - Double Feature - Manhunter (1986) & Red Dragon (2002) →

April 16, 2018 by Pod Sematary

It's another Double Feature! This week on Pod Sematary, Chris and Kelsey watch the 1986* neon-noir masterpiece, Manhunter, and its amazing (but boring?) 2002 remake, Red Dragon. Come hear Chris be probably the meanest he's ever been to someone on the show (the awful Brett Ratner) and Kelsey get incredibly harsh about someone's face (strangely, it's Willem Dafoe, who isn't in either of these movies).

*Listen to Chris repeatedly misattribute 1986's Manhunter as being from 1988.

 

April 16, 2018 /Pod Sematary
Manhunter, Michael Mann, William Peterson, Red Dragon, Brett Ratner, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hannibal Lecter, Hannibal, Cannibal, Lecktor, Silence of the Lambs
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