And a merry Christmas to you, Mr. Scrooge. Come back. Everything is ready, my darling. Do not be afraid. Soon we'll be together again. This sandwich tastes as dry and hail. Hello, and welcome to hello, this is the Doomed Show. I am Richard. My name is Brad. Folks, we thought it would be fun as a little holiday treat to drop some favorite, absolute favorite Christmas horror gems on you because we heard people like lists of movies. It's true. I've heard that.
So we're gonna. We're gonna do a top 10. And we're gonna do things not wildly differently, but, you know, this is not a competition between the movies. These movies aren't in a battle royale. To the death or to the spoiled eggnog. Each movie, as it ascends up, this list is more and more Christmasy. Like it wouldn't be Christmas if I didn't watch an insert film here. Degrees of that. That's how I'm thinking of it. I like it. Yeah, I think that's the way we should move forward. Perfect.
The main thing I want to stress is thank you so much to all the listeners of hello, this is the Doom Show. Oh, it sounds like I got choked up there. Okay. Choking me up a little bit. Richard Klempt, thank you guys for being there for me. No, for real, I. Thank you guys. I don't know why my voice cracked, but it's just that seasonal emotions. Oh my gosh. What if we're the podcast version of Late Night with the Devil and I'm the tubby sidekick? Hey, can't I be the tubby sidekick? No, you're.
You're the lead guy. Oh, okay. Well, I'm glad I get the face worse Fate. Worse than death. Well, I did go to the Ed McMahon school of sidekicking. Haha. Yes, I went to the Johnny Carson school. So I. Well, that's weird. Wild stuff. Weird and wild stuff. And then you just, you, you. You knock the ball into the hole with your imaginary driver. Yes. That was me doing an impersonation of Dana Carvey doing an impersonation of Johnny Carson. Spot on, if you ask me. Oh,
thank you. I loved it. I guess I can't take credit for Dana Carvey's performance. Well, first question I have for you is, why the hell isn't there a Christmas sequel of Halloween? That's a great question. I've often thought that my quote for this episode was going to be black Christmas is the Halloween of Christmas. But that's awesome. I love that. That's great. Yeah. Supposedly. Supposedly Carpenter called Clark and asked him if he could make a sequel to Black Christmas. I. I've never believed
it. I don't know. That. That. Yeah. Veracity of that. Of that tale. But obviously there are some similarities as far as. Well, everybody, everybody, everybody here seen Halloween and Black Christmas. Let's be honest. Be weird. If they hadn't, it would be. All right. So, Brad, would you please tell me your number 10 Christmas horror
favorite? My number 10 Christmas horror favorite would be an episode of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas, and that is Lost Hearts by Mr. James, the master of the ghost story. Man. Folks, I hope all of you out there have seen at least a few, if not all, of the BBC ghost stories for Christmas. Oh, my God. Lost Hearts is absolutely a banger in that series. It really is. It's Elizabeth's favorite. It's probably. And this is just the 70s versions.
It is Elizabeth's favorite. It's probably my second favorite. Nice. But we. I mean, you can't open gifts on Christmas morning, like you said about this list, without us having seen Lost Hearts. You know, I do the. We watch them on the day after Christmas because we often find ourselves way behind schedule on watching our Christmas horror.
And so the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas and related titles, because there's a few that aren't official ones that we also include, and we fire those up, like, right on the day after Christmas and just keep them going, especially at night. It's perfect. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, I wish it would all last forever. What's your number 10? My number 10. I'm just gonna make a guess that this is gonna be way, way higher on your list. Just a guess. The Legend of Hell House. Mm. Not way,
way, way higher, but. Yes. Okay. Okay. Yes. Legend of Hell House, 1973. It has been in my life since I was young. I remember renting it when I was, like, 12 or 13 or maybe seeing it on TBS or something on a Saturday, and just scared and intrigued. And it gets scarier as I get to adulthood. It's just so enveloping and just a wonderful movie. And I enjoyed the book as well, which you gave me a copy. Ah. I did not realize I'd done that. But I'm
glad I did because it's an excellent book. It's all real. I'll say more when it comes up in my list. Alrighty. Well, then, that case, what is your number nine? My number nine is a newer. I think it's. This is the newest on my 10 list. And that would be the BBC's recent adaptation of Mr. James is the mezzotint. Mezzotent. Yeah. I find it to be extremely effective. There are some changes made from the book, but they're not, they don't really address the. The story is the same essentially.
It's got Greg Kinnear as the lead. I love Greg Kinnear from Count Arthur Strong and from Bond. But he does an excellent job in the lead and I do find it legitimately hair raising. I think there are a handful of the new ones that in my opinion match, that are, that are, that are of quality that you could stack up against the 70s versions. Nice. The Metzaten is definitely
one of them. Well, I'm going to add it to my playlist this year because I, I'm struggling to remember if I saw it because I watched a bunch of the newer ones at the same time last year or the year before and I hate to say it, they're, they're, you know, getting melded in my mind. I will make sure to pay attention to this one this year. Yeah, I don't think you'll be disappointed or anyone else. I think it's an excellent adaptation. Mark Gaddis,
of course. Yes. I think you'll. I think everyone will enjoy the Mets attempt. Nice, nice. Yeah, I'm curious to see. I know I watched, I might have. Yeah, that's, that's the one I watched. I watched that one. And maybe Count Magnus. God, I love Count Magnus. Yeah, that's. It's probably my favorite Mr. James story is Count Magnus. Nice. And I've definitely seen. It's very high. I've definitely seen the new version of Whistling. I'll come to you.
Yes. Yeah, I do not, I do not care for that one myself. It's different. Very different. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they tried something different for me. It didn't work. But there's those mid range ones. There's the Whislaw come remake. There's the ash tree number 13. Oh yeah. The ones out of those that I like the most are. Oh, there's a. With a pair of curse binoculars. Dank of it. Anyway, I don't think those are as high quality as the 70s. And then what came with Mark Gaddis. Right. Mark really knows
what makes, makes the ghost story tick. Of course a few of his I think have been misfires, but it's been a very high ratio of quality in the new ones. Nice, nice. What is your number nine? My number nine is Night of the Comet, 1984. A movie from my youth that I remember Loving as a kid. Only ever watched it the one time had no idea had Christmas in it. Because it's in Los Angeles. Yeah. Until a couple years
ago, maybe. I don't know if it was the year before last or last year that, like, I just felt like I rediscovered Night of the Comet. And it's got tons of Christmas in it. It's just one of those movies that gets better every time. I love it. Absolutely. It does. It is not on my list, I will say. But I'll also say Nashville has the Belcourt Theater, which is where we went and saw x. Maxine rather 35 millimeter. So she sent me what they were playing for the holidays.
And it was a lot of stuff, a lot of good stuff, a lot of holiday stuff. But the only thing that I was remotely interested in, they were playing Night of the common in 35. But it ended up being on a night we were having something to do or that we couldn't go. But that was the only thing that really did interest me because I do. I do dig Night of the comment. It's not one that I saw as a kid at all. Picked up the Blu Ray when it came out, really. And we really enjoy it.
It's just. It just didn't make my top, you know. Yeah, it's hot stuff, but it's. No, it's really good. It's got the Chakotay from Star Trek. Voyager, and he is in rare form in that he is absolutely, absolutely gorgeous. Gorgeous man. All right, Mr. Brad, what is your number eight? My number eight is an episode of an HBO series some folks might remember, called Tales from the Crypt. And it is their adaptation of an EC comic titled and
all through the House. Nice. Nice. The team of people involved in this episode is unbelievable. You've got Dean Cundy of Halloween fame, John Carpenter Films. Sorry, Mabel just launched herself off my private parts. But it's. It's the. It's the story about the killer Santa Claus. It is absolutely on a par with the story itself. And from another adaptation, it's not Christmas. And see, this is one that we watch on Christmas Eve. As I probably said on the show before, Christmas Eve
is my favorite day of the year. It outshines my birthday or anything else, because Elizabeth and I are at home watching Christmas horror films and episodes all day long. We culminate in a certain film, probably, even if you don't know me, you probably guess what that is. But. But, yeah, but we, we just. We have a wonderful time. So I always love it when we get it in because it is. It is an excellent adaptation of that story.
Cool. Yeah. Yeah. I'm familiar with the film from the 70s, early 70s, that adapted it. Which one is that? Test and the Crypt. Thank you. Speaking of genres, I mix up horror anthologies from that era. Be the Amicus or not, I always get everything mixed up. So, yes, I'm familiar with that one. Definitely haven't seen the Tales from the Crypt that I recall. You haven't? Really? I don't think so. First season. First season. And it's one of the first couple of episodes.
I have to look now. I'm sorry. No, it's all right. No, I. I've. I've just seen like, definitely one of the mid seasons. I was home enough in my youth to catch it, but I never got to backtrack. I've still never backtracked with that show, even though I shamefully bought all of them used in my early days of collecting horror. And then I never watched them so bad. You should. It is the second episode of the show. Oh, wow. Aired June 10, 1989. Robert Zemex.
Robert Zemeckis directed it. There's no. There's no weird Polar Express going on. Fred Decker of Night of the Creeps fame wrote it. Damn. Mary Ellen Trainor. It stars as the wife. You've got Dean Cundy. As I mentioned on cinematography, it's a very good adaptation. If you've not seen it, I highly. I highly recommend you. You seek that out. I will. I absolutely will. And please let me know what you think because I just absolutely love it. Can do. All right.
My number eight is a little movie called Black Christmas. The 2006 version. Well, well, well. Yep, yep. So I know it was funny. It took a lot of people a long time to come around to this one, but some of us loved the Black Christmas remake from the jump from when it came out. Yep. It's just fantastic. If you're gonna do a remake and you're not just doing in title alone, then you must do something crazy. And they went completely batshit crazy for the 2006 one they did. Oh, my God.
They swaying. They swung for the fences and they hit a home run. Oh, my God. Oh, that's so wonderful. I mean, I don't know what the deal is with the eyeballs, the eye violence, but it's not established, really. It just keeps happening. It's wonderful and it's. The tone is so cozy. Absolutely. It is. You can really feel the cold outside, I think, in that film. Yes, yes. Oh, man. What, pray tell, is your number seven? My number seven is the Legend of Hell House. Yay. Which.
Which, outside of the Ghost Story for Christmas, is the least Christmassy of any of these films? Yeah, same. That's right, we'll talk about that. Starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowell, Clive Revel and David Hemings. His wife, Gail Honeycutt, of course, based on Richard Matheson's story. The very disturbing and effective music is by Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the BBC. What do they call it? Radiophonic Experimental. I can't remember.
Yeah, man. But she. She was a pioneer in electronic music and it really is. She. She did an arrangement of the Doctor who theme that used. She's influenced Apex Twin, Blah, blah, blah. Sure, sure. People of that stature. It's a wonderful film. Absolutely. It is literally filled with atmosphere from start to finish. I mean, John Hoff did a great, great, great job, which he ended up going on to make.
Well, he'd made Twins of Evil already and he directed the film that you and I both enjoy quite a bit from 1980 called the Witcher. The Witcher. The Watcher in the Woods. Yes. So good. So. No, absolutely. Love it. Love Pamela Franklin. Love Roddy McDowell in anything. Roddy was just amazing. Same. He. He looks really cool. It's 1973 and he's got big, big glasses on and. God, he must have neck. And he. He must have been blind wearing those glasses. Oh, my God. Heck,
they. They magnify his eyes like he was a freaking anime character. It's great. Yeah. Absolutely wonderful film. It's not Christmas if we don't see it. Yep, yep. And that's the thing. Like, it. It ends on Christmas Eve. The. The events in the movie take place right up till Christmas Eve. And I just. Oh, my God. It's just. What a way to start the season. It's one of the first things we watch every year. It's so good. Yes. Yes. All right. My number seven is your number. Oh,
it's. It's the OG Black Christmas. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, just for the fellatio joke alone. That's the only scene I watch. No, speaking of movies where you can feel the cold. Black Christmas. Just great. Yes. I don't. I don't know what else to say about it. It and Legend of Hell House, I will say at this point, are the classy movies on my list. So anything classy for me is now over. I have a lot of great. We'll say it's trash, but written in cursive trash for the rest of this list
and I have. I suspect you might have more to say about the movie later. I will, absolutely. I will. You're right. What can you say about it at this point? Yeah, but. Yeah, all right. I would like to know your number six. My number six is another ghost story for Christmas. But this one is not by Mr. James. This one is by Charles Dickens. And this is the Signalman. Yes. Starring Denholm Elliott, which most people will know from the Indiana Jones series, but just a great British actor.
This one's haunting. It is directed superbly. You know, they made, they made so much with so little and they're all very even. This one is even much like Mr. James's stories is to where it just kind of sneaks up behind you and then clunks you over the head. Yeah. But it's just an excellent, excellent character piece. Charles Dickens had been in a train wreck and it did haunt him late in life and that is when he, from what I remember reading is when he wrote this excellent
story. If you've not, if you've not read or seen the Signalman, I highly recommend it. Yeah, every, every frame is a painting in that one. It is so beautiful. Just. My God. Yeah, the. Yeah, I, I just, I'm in awe of that one. It's very good. Yeah. What is your number? Are we five or six? We're on six. So news on sixes. I can do it. Silent night, deadly night four. Initiation from 1990. This is a. A very special film that, you know, made for cable slash VHS market and really, really slimy.
Gory and demented in the best way possible, but also really stupid. I love it. It's witchcraft and slime and little creatures and some of those wonderful mind bending effects by good old screaming Mad George. It's like. I normally don't even focus on like who the effects artists are, but you know, out of all the. The Tom Savinis and Rick Bakers of the world, you know, and Stan Winston's of course screaming at George. His name should,
you know, stay in the conversation as well. He's, you know, he was wonderful and a character to boot. This is the first on the list that I have not seen. Oh baby, you're in for a very strange treat. That sounds like it. It sounds like it. Oh boy. What is, what is your number five? Number five is a little film called Black Christmas 2006. Yes. It's got Katie Cassidy in it, which is one of my favorite actresses. She actually held a tiny paper representation of myself flat.
Brad. I have a picture if anyone wants to DM me, I'll send it to them. Nice. No, it's got all kinds of actresses from that period that I enjoy. It's got dawn from Buffy, Michelle Trachtenberg. It's got the girl from Party of Five. It's got Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Yes, she's in it. Yes. Goldie Hawn's less famous son is in it. What's his name? Sure, sure, brother. Oliver Hudson. I think that's his name. He's in it. But it is. It's a great. I remember.
Seems like it was fairly early on, listening to Nashie cast. I can't remember if he brought it up or if I brought it up, but Rod agreed that this was an excellent little film. And I thought, okay, I can trust Rod. Yeah. Yeah. This is. Was a shibboleth of some. Of some kind. Dude, that's a great. That's a great way to put it. Nice. Yeah. Because it's a. It's an excellent film. It builds on the original while being very faithful to it. It's beautiful. It's just a beautiful,
beautiful film. And it's got some gore in it, if you're lucky, like I am. You own the DVD with the extended with the other alternate ending, merely because it's not been on Blu Ray in America yet, which I don't understand, but whatever. And it's Glenn Wong and what's the other dude's name? They were. No, James Wong and Glenn Morgan. They worked on the X Files together. So I thought it was gonna be good. And it was totally. So it's not Christmas. We watch it every day. Every Christmas Eve.
This is one of the ones we watch. Yeah, the. The only thing. The only thing that I would say is a criticism is it pushes the unlikable characters not over the top for me, but close to it, where it's like, is there something wrong with this house? Like, is the plumbing backed up? Is the laundry room broken? Are people stealing each other's food during the. During the week? Because everyone's already at each other's throats, like, they need this Christmas break so desperately.
But it's. It's not like, you know, some modern horror movie. People making slashers nowadays confuse the idea that slasher movie victims have to be unlikable. Right. They're not going that far. It's just riding that line because, you know what modern filmmakers should remember is that characters in old slasher movies from the 80s usually are lovable. Even the shitheads are kind of lovable.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I kind of think that follows along with the original film because the original film is not filled with love for people. That is true. That is true. You've got the. The final girl. She is not overly friendly. And then of course, you've got. You've got Margaret Kidder. She's just. She's like Katharine Hepburn just for the 70s. She's a. She's a mess. Yeah, she's a mess. But she's like a body drinking gal abroad, you know? I love it. So my number five is actually
a part five. And well, that is Silent Night, Deadly Night Five. The Toy Maker from 1991. The Toy Maker. Oh, my God. Infamous one with a famous star. Yep. This is Mickey Rooney. Wow. This movie is a. It's a sequel to Part four, but it's a spiritual sequel in that it has very little to do with the number four. There's just little nods to the. To the part, to part four in it. It's very silly. It has too much stuff packed into it. It is like. It would be like a fruitcake with a Christmas
goose on top of it inside of a candy cane. Like it's so much. But yeah, it is. It's crazy. And I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't seen five. Not gonna say anything more. You need to see it. It's wild. I don't know if you should. Even if you just watch it by itself without seeing the other four movies before it, you'd be fine because it's just. It's just so weird. So I have not seen it. Oh, boy. You're in for another treat. Very different treat from part four.
And that's what's great about this series is they're all so different from each other. Except for two, which is just one again with some funny scenes in it. But you know. Wow. Yeah. Brad, tell me your 50 number five. I'm ready for four, I think. Oh, I'm sorry. Your number four, please. My number four is a film that was on television in 1972. It is. It was written by Joseph Stefano, the screenwriter of Psycho. It was directed by John Llewellyn Moxie,
who directed the City of the Dead or. Or Horror Hotel as well as a lot of TV stuff. Stars Sally Field, Jessica Walter, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jill Hayworth, Walter Brennan was produced by Aaron Spelling and Paul Junger Witt. This film is home for the holidays. It is a made for television slasher film from 1972 and it predates a lot of things. There is a lot here There is a lot here that is straight slasher
film. It has not had an official release other than on an echo bridge set, which, as we all know, is not a real release of anything. Sure. But it is a fantastic slasher film that takes place at Christmas just everywhere you turn is quality. Yeah. You know, ABC produced it along with Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, Paul Drunker Witt, who of course produced Partridge Family, the Golden Girls soap, Benson. It's a living emptiness
and blossom. So, I mean, there's a lot of talent and it's such a fun movie. And it is over in 74 minutes. You can find it on YouTube. It's the first one we watch every Christmas Eve morning. Gets us in the spirit of things. Somebody is killing these sisters. They are dressed in a yellow rain slicker and there is a pitchfork involved. I've always found it very interesting that they're apocryphal or not. There's talk that Sally Field could have been Alice
in Friday the 13th. Wow. I think that's always. I've always thought that was crazy because she was already very famous. Smokey and the Bandit, this, that and the other. Yeah. But she had already starred as a final girl in a slasher film, so I think this one's pretty cool. I love it. Yeah, That's a great one. You know what's funny is I always forget about it every Christmas because I think it's on Thanksgiving. And I don't know why I don't remember it as a Christmas thing.
I have no idea why it'd be. Cool if it was Thanksgiving because we don't have enough Thanksgiving horror films. Well, I'm gonna make sure I watch freaking Home for the Holidays this year because I was gonna skip it. So thank you. You're welcome. But you know what's funny? Aaron Spelling, the. The man who touched everything, became gold. Like King Minus. King Minus. That's his name. Huh. The Christmas episode of TJ Hooker I watched today was his exec executive produced by Aaron Spelling, and it
was garbage. So we need him to be the producer. We need his producers touch, not his executive producers touch. That's right. That is right. Oh, boy. It was the movie of the week. ABC movie of the week. Was the slasher film awesome. Is it so cool? Just. Just that. It's just crazy. It's just crazy. Yeah, they were. They were like, just seeing what works, and I think that's beautiful. What is your number four? My number four is a number three.
And that is Silent Night, Deadly Night. Are you sensing a pattern? Here, part three, I am better watch out from 1989. Unlike the rest of this franchise, I absolutely love this movie for putting me in the Christmas spirit. It is. I don't blame anyone for not liking it. It's very slow. It moves at a. They call it a glacial pace, which is. It's. It's. It just doesn't go fast. But all of the dialogue is crazy. The situations are just stupid and bizarre. You've got two people from Twin Peaks in it.
You've got. Speaking of unlikable characters, the main. The final girl in this is such a dick. It's hilarious. She has this disaffected scream that she does, and it's horrid. She screams the same way every time with the same bored kind of scream that she could have recorded it at the beginning of the movie and then they just could have played that same audio clip over and over again because she does the same scream over and over. It's so funny. But she. It's. It's just. She's just.
Part of what makes it so great is her being such an unlikable character. I can't remember if it was last year or the year before, but Amazon had a stellar deal on Silent Night, Deadly Night two and three together. Oh, wow. I bought it. And I want to say we watched three, but right now I'm having trouble recalling it. Yeah, we didn't watch two because I know two is mostly one. Ugh. Yeah. I love the parts of two that are new, but it's. I never watch it. That clip shows pisses me off.
Yeah. Is the boogeyman too? It's. It's kind of. Yeah, it's brutal. I think. I think. I feel like those two films compete for using the most clips from the original. It's shameless. Yeah. I've never seen a Boogeyman 2, but I remember you saying that it has. Some fun stuff in it. It's. Honestly, I. I'm glad I've seen both of those sequels because the stuff that's new in them is wonderful, but it's just so frustrating. What could have been had they actually made a film instead of just making,
you know, two thirds of a film or less. I recommend that Vestron set, the Vestron Blu Ray triple feature of 3, 4 and 5. Highly recommend that. I should. Should. It's good stuff. All right, man. I want to. I want to hear your number three. My number three is the all through the house segment of Tales from the Crypt from Amicus from 1972. Sweet. Starring Joan Collins as the wife. Every year I pause it on the really nice stereo they have in their house and we Google to see if
we could find one to buy. Oh, wow, no luck so far. It's perfect in every way. It's your classic demented, demented serial killer loose from an insane Salem wearing a Santa Claus costume. It's just really good. I highly recommend it to anyone. I place it so high because I've just. That was an early part of our Christmas horror. Sure. Because I knew that it was a Christmas horror. I'm like, ah, Tales. And the Crips got that really good segment.
I used to watch it on cable at my grandmother's house when I was a kid. That's the first place I saw it. But, yeah, all through the house. Tales from the Crypt. Sadly, the rest of the movie, Tales from the Crypt, does not get watched like it should because we watched the Christmas segment and then pull it out and then, honestly, at Halloween, what we ought to do is just do the reverse and just skip the Christmas segment. That's a part. Great idea. That's a great idea.
Yeah. But. Yeah, that's my. That is my number three. Well, you know how I feel about good old Joan Collins, man. I love her. Oh, yes. I knew who she was from popular culture, but I didn't know she'd done horror movies. So when I was getting into horror movies, I was richly rewarded with I Don't Want To Be Born, AKA the Devil Within Her. Absolutely loved her in her double feature of the Stud and the Bitch. Two of the tackiest films you'll ever watch. Oh, my God. They're not horror,
by the way. They're horrifying. They're very horrifying, but in a different way. All right, my number three. Here is a little movie from 1980 called Christmas Evil. Well, and I'm telling you now, I know I said these movies aren't fighting, but when we get to my number two, I just want people to know this was the hardest. I almost switched these so many times, but I just left it. I gave up. But yes, Christmas Evil. I show this to an
audience who doesn't watch a lot of horror. If you have friends that don't watch a lot of horror movies, I strongly recommend you dropping this on there with no preamble. I did this by accident one year, just threw it on. It was my first time seeing it, I think, showing it to a group of friends and we were cheering, cheering. This movie. Love it. Just. It just captures the madness of. It's like maniac light or something, you know, or like, like ho ho ho. It's the taxi Driver but
without the grimy. Without the grimy New York. It's like the grimy Canadian or something. Uhhuh. Y Yeah. I. I can't recommend Christmas Evil enough. I Hopefully everyone's already knows how magical it is, literally and figuratively. That is fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. I want to know your number. Ooh. Number two is Solid Night Bloody Night, a 1972 slasher film that features POV of the killer and calls coming from inside the house.
Long before. Not long before, but before Black Christmas, Before Halloween. It is. It stars Mary Warrenov and Luigi Pistilli's ugly American cousin, James Patterson. Yep. This movie is amazing. There's sepia tone, is giallo aspects. Black love killer. There's a guy that was in Star Trek. It was produced in part by Lloyd Kaufman, in part by Canon productions. Yes, the Canon Film Group. Dude. I'm telling you. Directed by Theodore Gersheny but also among the cast.
You get a lot of the Warhol factory gang. John Carradine agreed to play a part as long as he didn't have any dialogue. They granted his wish. It is a slasher film. It is a proto slasher. It is a Giallo inspired film. It is never been released on any kind of good. Really, really good transfer because it is in the public domain. It fell into the public domain. So I don't know why somebody doesn't just clean it up and put it out. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Blu Ray.
We typically. There's. You could find it in Mill Creek packs. It was one of the. It's one of the real gems of like the entire Mill Creek catalog. Yeah, yeah. This movie that you could tell was beautiful underneath all the scratches. I can remember having someone over at Christmas time to watch it and all of us just really enjoying it. This is our penultimate viewing of Christmas, typically Christmas Eve. Nice. Kind of all towards. Builds up towards this. Highly recommended. Highly recommended.
83 minutes. It's a good time. It's. It's kind of been accused of being meandery. No, but yeah, no, I agree. And folks, if you can find it, find that download. So the version on Prime, Amazon prime is dog. Somebody has shared the widescreen print of it on YouTube. Grab that one and save it. Download whatever you need to do. I want to say it was Vinegar syndrome that put it out for like a hot minute. They're like, hey, we can't release this movie for reasons. But here's A nice download.
We didn't restore it. We just found a print, ripped it and released it. That's the copy you. That's what you hooked me up with. Because I didn't get it in time. And so it is. Every year. It needs to be in widescreen, people. I am a big fan of. It really does. It's masterful. I will say real quickly that this was Lloyd Kaufman's first production credit. Nice. And James Patterson died the same year. He's the guy always call the Luigi Pistilli's ugly American cousin.
So I feel bad about it. But now is that it's all in love. It's all in love. He's. He's a great. It's a great performance. It's very sad that he was not well at the time and didn't make it. It really is. But he lives forever now on Christmas Day, so. That's right. That's right. But yes, that is my number two Christmas horror film. Well, my number two is the movie that somehow beat out number three. I don't know how. It just happened.
Don't open till Christmas, 1984. The British Christmas slasher that flips the script. And instead of a killer Santa, you got someone killing Santas. That's right. This is tacky and stupid and that awful British. Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Elbowing you in the ribs kind of movie. All the characters kind of suck in it. It's. But in a good way. It's just. I've never seen anything like it. Good old Edmund Purdom was supposed to be the director. He's going to direct and star.
And he was so bad at directing that they quickly hired someone to actually direct it. Well, I think that really he wanted to focus more on his acting. Yes. Which. Yes, it happens. It's. It's a good. I mean, he didn't focus on his acting for this film, but. It'S a confusing mess and it's all wonderful. It's. This was also almost my number one. I think this one's just a scrappy little movie. Wants to fight everybody see. And let me. Let me share with you.
This is what's missing from my list that I made. Aha. Aha. So there was something. There was something. This movie, okay? So you just find a guy that says he's a screenwriter and you say, I need you to write the opening scene of a slasher film where somebody mysteriously kills someone dressed as Santa. And they write that scene. Then you go to another person, you're like, hey, I need you to write this next scene about a slasher film. We're going to meet the. Meet the main characters a little
bit and so kind of do some of that. And then you go to the third guy or girl and you're like, okay, I need to write you a scene in a slasher film where somebody's murdering someone dressed as Santa. That's the way the film feels. It feels like. It's like every scene like they filmed seven films and then took those seven films, disassembled them, and then made one film out of different parts. Yep. And it's a. It's a glorious. It's magical. It's. It's. Edmund. Heard him.
It's the girl there at the end that I really. I really, really, really like her. She's very likable. Totally. Totally. Her mom owns the strip club or whatever. He's like. He's like, maybe you can come with me and we can spend some time together. She's like, oh, I can't. My mom owns this place. Place. She's making me take my cop off already. What's great, it's got two final girls. She's the likable, likable one. Yes. The other one looks like somebody farted. She always. She's just offended.
Thank you. That's so good. She's. She's definitely smelling something bad. Yeah. And her boyfriend's. He does suck. I mean, looks. But this movie is held together by. It's held together by whatever, the British. A cellophane tape. I guess maybe that's. They call it cellophane. But yeah, this is the one that I sadly, I wrote. I'll tell the audience, our friends here, that I wrote the list earlier and then came home without it. And then I had to quickly reassemble from memory my list.
This. This one gets played on Christmas Eve. It's just. It's just so much fun and it's. It's stupid. It. It's crazy. It's just a lot of fun. And like that ending, that last scene, you just. You're just like, wow. Oh, my God. Yes. So before we get to our number one, before we share the topity, top of the most of the most, Brad and I are going to do a quick, rapid fire. Freaking runners up. Brad, why don't you read off your runners up? I want to hear what
didn't make the cut. Even though they're totally wonderful. So I've got two that are ghost stories for Christmas. They're two newer ones, Count Magnus, which I think is excellent. And the one that kicked off the new Ghost Story for Christmas with Mark Gaddis if I'm not mistaken. And that's the track tape met off. That's an excellent episode as well. Oh yeah, you could find those. You could find the tractate made off on YouTube for sure. I'm not sure about
Cat Madness. My other honorable mention is a very entertaining film. One that I know my. Our friend Ted is a fan of and that's whoever Slew Auntie Rue. Oh yes, I forgot. Which is an awesome. It probably fits in the. The. The psycho bitty genre that started with Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. But it is. It's a very entertaining movie. It's got a great, great cast, it's got a great set. And you really don't quite know what. What's actually
happened until the very end. Curtis Harrington directed it. 1972. Of course it's. It's psycho bitty. In particular is Shelley Winters. I should have said that already. But all right. Excellent, excellent film. I highly recommend anybody. It takes place over Christmas. I really wanted to find a way to make it into my top 10, but it just. It got crowded out and then I also crowded out Devin open till Christmas because I forgot about it. But. But yeah, no, those are my honorable
missions. Nice. Daisy from the actress who played Daisy in Keeping up Appearances. Very, very young and very cute in that movie. She's great. It was only like 100% 20 odd years before Daisy. Oh my God. So fun. Yeah, absolutely. No, she's in it. She's cute as a button. Nice. Well, I have got a ton of freaking. A Santa ton. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry runners. Let me throw in one more. Oh please. Sorry. No. Go, go, go. Casting the runes from 79. Yeah. Oh, which. Which.
Yes, it started. Hold on, let me pull that stars the lady that starred the same year as Lucy in Dracula with Frank Langella. Oh, that's right. I've got a thing. Jan Francis. Yeah, Jan Francis. So she's in a 1979. Which means it's updated. It is the. The only one of these Mr. James stories that are set in present day. But it is an extremely good episode. It's a great adaptation. It's on YouTube. That's where I watch it every year. Sorry. And I. I cut you off there.
I just. Sure that I got. And now I'm. I'm done now. Okay. Well I. I brought way too many. So here's. Here's my. My. My Santa's. Santa's sack full of freaking runners. Up. We have the brain. All right, let me start my runner. I have to start my runners up. All over. I it up. Did I mention I'm totally exhausted? I took okay allergy pill last night and I am still recovering from it. Oh, I'm still tired. So anyway. No, it's fine. It's fine. I'm. I'm having a good time.
So. I forgot one of my rewind already again too. So. Yes, so rewind all this. So I have too many runners up. I'm gonna run through them real quick, which is a lie since I've had to start over already. The Brain from 1988. It's about a killer brain and it takes place in Canada and there's lots of Christmas in it. It's really funny. Do they. They have Christmas in Canada? No, I mean now they do. They do. It was. This movie was so popular, they decided to
start doing. Okay, I. Madman is from 1989 is absolutely essential viewing. You need to see that, folks at home. Yeah, it's good stuff. You. You'll blink. If you blink, you'll miss the Christmas in it. But I swear it's there. I promise it's in there. There. Next up is P2 from 2007. It's P2. A new level of terror. If you want to be specific. The subtitle there just. Just really, really good. Two or three characters. Intense and scary. I think it's a scary one. See, I haven't seen it.
Oh, you're in for a treat, man. Yeah, and. And you're not the only one. Ted. I think Ted was watching the other day. And I'm like, yep, Richard likes that. And I need to see it. You'll like it. You'll like it. I bet I will. From. From 2003, we have dead End. Good old Ray Wise and Lin Shea. Next up is elves from 1989. Which vinegar syndrome. What are you doing? Can you please Massacre video? Anybody? Somebody rescue. Everyone has the same copy of Elves. Everyone has
the same download that has the same tracking problems. And it looks like shit. I've seen it once. It's a staple in this house. It's offensive and awful and wonderful. Cannot Recommend elves from 1989. Great stuff. Yep. Next up is a little movie. I know. Brad, you were. You want to see this when you haven't seen it yet? It's called deep red from 1975. Bloody hell, man. How did that not make my list? Of course it's Christmas. We even talked about
watching it, me and Elizabeth. I'm so stupid. Why am I on a show? How did you allow me on a show? Like, I don't know what our. No, I feel really stupid. Don't cut any of this out. Brad's an idiot. No way. All I know is that the pivotal flashback has the Christmas in it, so we. We tend to start the season with that one, too. So we'll watch that. The greatest giallo ever made. Yeah. You knew. You knew you were forgetting something. But it wasn't. Don't open till Christmas.
No, it didn't make any of my lists. Oh, it's my favorite. And the best yellow ever, in my opinion. There you go. I can't. It's got freaking Christmas in it. You're not stupid. Next up is the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. I just want to give it a shout out for being so original. And nobody saw it come in. Even though, you know, Christmas Evil beat it by four years. The marketing, like the juggernaut of marketing hasn't even has a funny effect on my number one,
which we'll get back to in a moment. Just love it. Interesting. The Silent Night remake that they put out in. That's. Yeah. So 2012. Yeah, I like that. A lot like that. Speaking of doing a sequel. Yeah. Speaking of doing a sequel. Different. Doing something different with it. Wonderful movie. Yeah, they did. And my last two. I'm gonna say you have to watch these back to back, because we did, and it's wonderful.
I'm talking about The Oracle from 1985 and Prime Prime Evil from 1988, both directed by Roberta Findlay. Nice. A. One of the most important figures in the grindhouse circuit. She's, you know, she, like, helped shape what the roughy became. She made a lot of porn. Her and her husband made a lot of porn. And then she found that horror movie was. Horror movies were lucrative. So she made like five horror movies back to back almost. And they're all
really silly. But the Oracle is very Christmassy and Primeval is also almost as Christmassy. But, yeah, recommend both of those. What's the film that I've seen of hers? There's Lurkers and then there's. She. Do I just. I dis. I dismember Mama? No, that's. I don't know who did. I just remember Mama. Actually, she also did one called Blood Sisters. Are you thinking of a night. Are you thinking of a night to. Dismember a knight to dismember? Yeah, that's. What is her name?
That's a different direct dress. Doris Wishman. Yes. I have still never seen that. That's what I've seen. I've seen an I dismember. That movie apparently is completely wild. I guess it's. I guess it's excusable to confuse Doris Wishman with Roberta Finlay and the light in the 80s 80s slasher horror. I think honestly they had similar careers. Doris Wishman might be more artsy, I think. I'm not sure. I have to explore that. But yeah, Roberta Finlay
is. She's just a joy. She's so fun. Those are all my runners up. I. I apologize, I had like 20 of them. No, I'm glad, I'm glad you did. Hey there folks, it's Richard. I'm just cutting in real quick because you know, despite our long lists, we forgot stuff. Brad wanted me to mention one of his other favorite things to watch every year is the stone tape from 1972. I have two. One belongs in my honorable mentions and that is Trancers from 1984.
I love Trancers, but the one that annoys me the most is I forgot to mention frickin to all. A Good Night from 1980. I love this film, it would have been in my top 10, but duh, I forgot it. So there you go. Shout out to Simon who's a big fan of that film as well. Okay, that's it. I go back to being jolly by. All right Brad, we're down, we're down to the wire here. I need to know your number one Christmas horror movie
or show. No surprise here, It's Black Christmas 1974, one of Bob Clark's two Christmas masterpieces along with the Christmas Story. It's amazing that this man did two such disparate films so well. I can't say anything about Black Christmas that I haven't already. Many years ago I had a blog. I don't know if folks remember what those were, but I interviewed some people and one of the people peoples that I interviewed was, hello, this is the Dune show co host Jeffrey.
And one of my stock questions was Halloween or Black Christmas? And Jeffrey went Black Christmas. And so I messaged him to see if I could to see a. Ascertain if that was still true, which I assumed it was, but I wanted to check it too. If I. If he didn't mind if I mentioned it, of course he said yes. He said I absolutely still rate Black Christmas over Halloween. Much love for both, of course, but Black Christmas has the intangible vibe for me that Halloween lacks. It's the apple of my slasher.
Quote me on that. And so therefore I have. Nice. Then that. That was what I was thinking about way back when, when I said, black Christmas is the Halloween of Christmas. Because it is. Also, I asked Ted, I'm like, what's your favorite Christmas horror film? And he's like, well, it's Black Christmas, isn't it? And I'm like, yeah. I mean, if you're leaving it up to me, of course. So. So, yeah, those are my quotes. I wanted to quote Jeffrey.
It was good to hear from him. I hadn't heard from him in a while, and we just don't talk a lot. Yeah, he. He. He has built a John Dixon car collection that makes mine a mere pittance, which is fine. I'm so glad he says I'm not. You think I'd be jealous? Hate his guts, but I don't. I'm so. I'm thankful because he's. He's living the dream. I don't know where he puts these books. I asked him. I was like, are you opening a bookstore? He's like, no, these are mine. Hey, more power. I mean, we got way
too many books ourselves. Same big thing. Not saying he's got too many. I'm just saying. But he has built a beautiful collection of cars. And it was. And he likes him. Yeah, that was so. Because I think I introduced him to Takar. I have a lot of people. Nice, Nice. But yeah, I wanted to quote him on that. Gosh. That. My blog is like a decade ago or somewhere around there. Oh, man. I don't even. I don't even have the password to get in. It's just. It's just. It's. It's where it is
on the Internet. And that's where it'll be until they wipe it off there. When they need some room. Yep. When they need to clear that server space. That's right. It's gone. So Yellow Razor. Yep. Yep. Yellow Razor blog spot. Love it. Yeah. Because Yellow Gallo Razor murder. I mean, I think you're getting what I'm laying down here. God have mercy. What's your number one? God have mercy. My number one is Silent Night, Bloody Night, as we talked about 1972. Oh, dang. Oh, yeah.
Yes. I really didn't know what it was going to be because I'm stupid. We established that earlier. No way. I'm just. I'm just zigging and zagging over here. No, the thing with this movie that I wanted to mention is its title. Its original title was Death House. That's what is filmed under. And then what happened was in 1984, when Silent Night Deadly Night became such a huge hit, the producers of Silent Night Bloody Night said, hey, wait a minute. We did
this first. We did this before Christmas. Evil. We did this before Silent Night Deadly Night. So they re released it as Silent Night Bloody Night. Now it says on IMDb original title, but I don't believe that for a second. Unless. Unless I'm mixing it up. And Silent Night Bloody Night didn't strike a fire because they didn't have the. The legendary marketing team that made Silent Night Deadly Night such a freaking hilarious force to be reckoned with. I mean, has a pic, has a picture,
sold a movie. More ever than just the rooftop Santa coming out of the chimney or getting in the chimney. Yes. Or the freaking. Yeah, that him just holding that freaking 9 millimeter pistol. Oh my God. Scary. Love it. But this one, I have the promotional poster from 1980 on yet another re release
that was under the Death House title. I actually have a Death House magazine ad that I bought off somebody or like a trade ad or something like that that tells you like a little bit about the movie to see if any distributors want to pick it up. And I don't think it even mentions Christmas at all in it. So they really didn't know. Wow. What they had. But yeah, it's friends that's in the will. Yeah, Right. Yes, exactly. Yep. It's gonna be part of my estate. It's coming to me. It's all yours,
baby. So yeah. The coziness of that movie that, the. The weird pacing. We watched it for Movie Party Crew recently. When I asked Scott about it, Scott was like, isn't that one gonna put everybody asleep? And I'm like, nah, dude, everyone's gonna have a blast. And yeah. You know, as far as like the most successful, like, you know, Internet watch parties of movies go, I think our numbers speak for themselves with three to four people may sometimes just me and Scott.
But no, you know, it's just the testament of that movie is. Yes, it's slowly paced, but it just is so much interesting shit happening. And then the sepia tone is. It's not just in sepia tone, it's in sepia tone plus some creepy filter that makes things look like it makes it look like you're in like this weird yellow hell. Like the. The contrast is too high. Very strange. Very strange movie. Oh, and of course, Mary Warrenov. Oh my God. Speaking of Night of the Comet. Oh, man.
Yeah. Would you have ever imagined Mary Warrenov would have been a doubleheader in the Christmas horror classic section. No, never. Never in a billion years. And this movie, solid Night Bloody Night is the best, I think probably the best of what I call the late night Saturday night horror films. Yeah. My dream starts at 10:00. Oh yes. Or 11, you know. Yeah. My dream would be to that Radiance just says
it. Let's do it. If Radiance films I wish did Silent Night Bloody Night, that would be a Christmas present for everybody. Oh my God. I just want more information. Like that's the other thing is. I mean you can look up all this stuff about it. But I mean, while you know, Mary Warrenov still around, they should really just. Just be like, do you remember making this? Right. That'd be the first question. Because I
mean she's so good in it. I mean that's. That's the thing. It's like there's this nihilism between both like between that and Night of the Comet with her character. Like her character is like these extremes and they're totally different characters. But it's just there's something about them. And I find it funny that she ended up in this. My list twice as you did. Yes. And I'm looking at a poster with her
name on it. And actually we're broadcasting from the living room for the first time ever because the library is filled with boxes for Christmas. Nice. Elizabeth's currently gone to eat Indian food. And so Jack is here beside me. Hey, pal. And I don't know where Mabel went, but anyway, House of the Devil. She's in it. And I've got this giant poster. That's right. I see her name all the time. My brain was reeling, trying to remember what it would be.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. You're eating Raul poster. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Actually there's one directly to my left. I've got two hanging. That's how much. Right. The house, the devil. I've got two pictures hanging in the living room. If only it was a Christmas movie. I'm telling you, Elizabeth, when we moved in here, she's like now I'm not going to allow you to put all your. Our movie posters up in the living room. And I said, okay, we'll do whatever you want.
She's like, we need. She's like, we need to put some horror film posters up in the living room. And I'm like, what you want? I'm here for you. I'm here to make you happy. That's right. I am a good husband and merely doing what what you're laying down. That's right. Lietta gave me the horror hallway. So I put all, I put all the horror movie posters in one hallway.
Yeah, I've got, I took pictures of everything in those hallways and now it plays the slideshow and it's very disorienting, but I like to watch it. That's awesome. I'm haunting you. Uh huh. Yeah. Lots of. I. Hey, you should charge people just to come through there. People would enjoy it. Richard's got a lot of nice stuff. He's got a lot of nice posters and press kits and stuff. I'll make it a dark ride. You make it a dark ride. Then where they're done, they have
to pay extra to go through with the lights on. That's right. You enjoy that. How would you like to see them now? We're in Florida theme park, right? Dude, I'm telling you, that's what it brought you guys here. You guys got to ride our ride of our house. Yeah, that's right. We went to Tampa's premiere horror hallway of seventies horror films. That's right. Some eighties. You were, you were here pre Cheese. Pre Cheese. Yep. We hate it. We miss Cheese. But we missed the
other two as well because they hid the entire time. Yeah, I don't think that's gonna change. But she. Next time you're not, next time you're here, Cheese will absolutely come and hang out because Cheese loves, she loves hanging with people. Yeah, she's the. I call her the emissary of the cats. The cats emissary. Yep. Yep. Yeah, we didn't know they were there. We really didn't. I know. It was very funny how traumatized our cats were by
house guests. We had. They'd never experienced house guests that spend the night before, so it was totally insane. Yeah. We certainly did not mean to be threatening. It's their fault. It's their problem. They missed out on all those pets. That's their fucking problem. Well, they missed out on love. They missed out on pure hog love. Yeah, they did. We have cats of our own. We know how to love a cat. That's right. Well man,
we did it. We taught Christmas. We did. Oh hey, everybody should go to YouTube and put it throw in there. W.F. harvey the clock. It is like a 12, 13 minute ghost story. It's from the classic era. Very unassuming and also terrifying. If you're needing a ghost story for Christmas, throw that in there. I think bite sized audio classics is your best bet. I really like him and the way he reads. Practically Anything British guy, you know, they could read the phone book. But yeah, W.F. harvey Le
Clock. It's a great little ghost story out of nowhere. Nice. Very cool. And folks, thanks so much for listening 2024. Thank you. This was a big year for the show. You know, we. We took 2023 off and we tried to come back with a vengeance. And I hope you guys have enjoyed the. The comeback of the show. Hope. I hope we brought it. Heck yeah. I hope your 2024 was better than mine. It sucked. Yeah. January. No. No, it wasn't. No. This. This yet sucked here too. Yeah. Don't cry for me, Argento.
I don't know what I'm doing anymore. I. I hope so. Few, few. It's like I get nervous. Like it's 2011. Yeah. You know, you. You want that first time feeling. I love it. You do. You know what I hear? And that's what you get. My favorite thing about the old episodes, as far as I go, is my voice was like almost an octave higher. Did my balls drop from podcasting? I don't know why my voice is so much deeper now. Maybe I hurt myself talking so many years. I don't know. We can't confirm.
Yeah, well, you can if you want. I still sound like a slight jawed yokel, but I don't mind. Your jaw's pretty tight now. You're. I think your jaw's gotten tighter. Well, I appreciate it. I've been doing all those exercises constantly. You're a tight jawed yodel. Yes. That's it. Yes. That's what you were gonna say. Ugly who? You're like, hey, won't we do a Christmas horror? I'm like, yeah, let's do it. And we did it. It's happened, like, within a relatively short amount of time.
Yep. It's exciting. I'm glad you suggested it. I've enjoyed it. I said ho, ho, ho when you said bro, bro, bro. Let's do it. I did. Bro, bro, bro. Yo, yo, yo. Oh, no. Bye, folks. Have the good holiday seasoning. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Bye, folks. Thanks so much for listening to this episode. If you'd like to write into the show, send an email to DoomedMoviethOnmail or hit us up doommedmoviethon on Instagram, orommedmoviethon on Twitter or oommedmoviethon@discord
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