CW: Queerphobia, Sexual Assault, Rape The Birthday Extravaganza continues on Pod Sematary! To celebrate Kelsey's birthday this week, the birthday-themed movies just keep coming! First up is the forgotten 1981 classic, Bloody Birthday. Three kids are born during an eclipse by an eclipse (it makes sense, I promise) and shit goes downhill from there. This movie is simply balls-to-the-walls, unabashed murder-by-kid. Where were you people on this one? How have we never heard of this?! Then, unfortuna...
Sep 10, 2018•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Discussions of rape and rape culture It's a Two-Week Birthday Extravaganza on Pod Sematary! For Chris' birthday, we're starting off with an underrated and underrepresented 1981 could-be-classic, Happy Birthday to Me! It's a bit cluttered, plot items are forgotten, and the ending is slightly cheaty, but the twists and inventive kills keep coming! Why isn't anyone talking about this movie? Then it's on to the 2017 might've-been-classic, Happy Death Day - basically the Groundhog Day Slasher. It...
Sep 04, 2018•2 hr 59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Content Warning: Suicide It's all pseudonymous folderol this week on Pod Sematary! Both movies are Stephen King adaptations about writers who are so tormented by their demons that... well, it's Stephen King, ya know? Don't get us wrong -- we love Stephen King, but is he just using us as his therapy at this point? First up is 1993's The Dark Half starring Timothy Hutton and Timothy Hutton. Thad Beaumont buries his alter ego to avoid controversy, but George Stark just doesn't want to stay buried. ...
Aug 27, 2018•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a House on Haunted Hill Double Feature this week on Pod Sematary! Chris and Kelsey start off with the 1959 Vincent Price classic, House on Haunted Hill (with EMERGO Technology)! Guests are invited to stay the night in this haunted abode in exchange for $10,000! Are the ghosts (and scary, floating maids) coming for you next? Then it's on to the remake from 40 years later, *1999's* House on Haunted Hill! As loyal listeners will know, this movie disturbed Kelsey something fierce when she was a...
Aug 20, 2018•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Child Molestation, Sexual Assault This week on Pod Sematary, Chris & Kelsey are excited to discuss their favorite slasher villain! The Quipping Killer! The Dream Demon! The Springwood Slasher! The Bastard Son of One Hundred Maniacs! The Orangutan Goblin himself: Freddy Krueger! It's a Double Feature of A Nightmare on Elm Street! First up is the 1984 classic! It has the best cop-out of all time because everything happens in dreams. They can do anything! This low-budget flick almost didn't hap...
Aug 13, 2018•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a Thing Double Feature this week on Pod Sematary and it's not at all confusing! First up, Chris & Kelsey tackle that amazing original-- no, wait... remake? Does The Thing From Another World count as the original? No, screw it. Chris & Kelsey tackle THE ORIGINAL John Carpenter classic from 1982: The Thing! Sure, it's a classic now, but it wasn't always so beloved; have we just been watching with rose-tinted glasses? Then it's on to the sequel-- no, wait... remake? No, wait... prequel. Then i...
Aug 06, 2018•2 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's Material Possessions Week on Pod Sematary and we have our first guest ever! It's Howdy Price from Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and the voice of Full Moon Features' Gingerdead Man: Bob Ramos! First up is a personal favorite of Chris & Kelsey: the haunted car movie of all haunted car movies, John Carpenter and Stephen King's Christine from 1983! We absolutely love this movie and you will, too. It's over 20 years old so it's officially an antique! Then it's on to the criminally underr...
Jul 30, 2018•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Sexual Assault, Rape It's Fair Week on Pod Sematary! Kelsey is a big fan of fairs, but will she still be by the end of this episode? (Hint: Yes.) First is 1962's Carnival of Souls, a classic psychological horror that may have influenced more in the genre than you think. But just because it did some things first, does that mean it did them well? Oh, but the real star of this episode is 2010's Closed for the Season, which prompted Chris to shout, "Kelsey, what did you DO!?" The "And Then" nigh...
Jul 23, 2018•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Rape, Suicide, Miscarriage It's all haunted dolls on this week of Pod Sematary! First up is the 1989 Full Moon classic, Puppetmaster! Or is it Puppet Master? THE Puppetmaster? Oh, don't worry, we solve this one definitively. This movie is a poorly-paced and edited mess, but we love it. Let us tell you why. Then on to the SEO Nightmare itself: 2016's The Boy. It's a movie full of great ideas that don't taste great together, plus fake jump scares and a failing visual motif about being watched....
Jul 16, 2018•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Sexual Assault, Rape It's another Double Feature! This week, Chris & Kelsey get groovy with the indie-horror classic from 1981, The Evil Dead! Does Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's baby still hold up? Are we all really just remembering the other two films in the series? Or did it spawn a cult franchise for a very good reason? Hail to the king, baby! Then we skip the sequels and go right to the remake (because that's how Double Features usually work!) with 2013's Evil Dead! It was directed by F...
Jul 09, 2018•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Pod Sematary, Chris and Kelsey explore the further reaches of experience! First up is the 1987 Clive Barker classic, Hellraiser! See the introductions of Pinhead, Chatterer, Butterball, and... uh... Female Cenobite? Also, hear how the movie traumatized a young Kelsey by opening her mind to an experience beyond limits, of pain and pleasure, indivisible. Then it's on to the universally praised (for some reason) We Are Still Here from 2015. The hippies are great, but does the res...
Jul 02, 2018•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Attempted sexual assault of a minor; Potentially inflammatory horror trope involving an ostensibly trans person (Sleepaway Camp) It's Summer Camp Week at Pod Sematary - that time when parents send their kids away so they can finally get some peace and quiet. First up, Chris & Kelsey get very excited for Sleepaway Camp from 1983, a cult classic with a shocking and controversial twist ending. Go for a canoe ride and see the water snakes! Interact with the local wildlife! See if you can get a b...
Jun 25, 2018•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Violent Sexual Assault Please feel free to skip ahead to 1:21:58 ("And we see Alex is there...") when prompted It's Father's Day on Pod Sematary and we're talking all about crazy fathers! First up is the 1960 French classic, Eyes Without a Face! What won't a father do to take care of his daughter? Find out with us and witness one of the most vivid horror scenes in black and white. Then it's 2016's Don't Breathe about a blind father who loses his daughter in a tragic accident. When thieves co...
Jun 18, 2018•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast We wrap up Prom/Graduation season on Pod Sematary with two bad horror movies - but only one of them is GOOD bad. First up is the Troma classic (?), Graduation Day, from 1981. It's a story with no protagonist but lots of potential villains. The murders only last 30 seconds but Gangster Rock goes for over 7 minutes! Then it's the wildly disappointing Dance of the Dead from 2008. It's a comedy zombie flick that isn't that funny and takes forever to get to the zombies. But are there any redeeming fe...
Jun 11, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Prom season continues on Pod Sematary: Chris is sick! Kelsey's getting sick! And on the most important day of our lives!? First up in the Prom Night Double Feature is the "way underrated" 1980 classic starring Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis. It's the movie that asks, "What if Carrie but Halloween? Plus Saturday Night Fever?" Remember kids: Be a Kim - Not a Wendy. Then Chris gets very angry about prescription medication and then just angry in general when discussing the "fucking paint-by-numbers b...
Jun 04, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's prom season on Pod Sematary, folks, and Chris & Kelsey are chatting about Stephen King's Carrie! It's a double feature! First up, of course, is the Brian DePalma classic from 1976! What happens when an isolated and terrorized young woman discovers she has power over her life after all? What happens when she's pushed too hard? Then, as spring turns to summer, so must we also discuss the "woefully unnecessary" 2013 remake, which has us asking, "Why aren't we watching Cabin in the Woods instea...
May 28, 2018•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's Serial Killer Week on Pod Sematary! Entirely by chance, it's also David Fincher Week, which has Chris excited because Fincher is one of his all-time favorite directors. First up is 1995's se7en, where you can hear Chris express his love for Brad Pitt (who is as an angel). Then it's on to 2007's based-on-a-true-story Zodiac, where Kelsey admits she might just die if she were in the same situation. We've got some absolute bangers this week, folks! Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterth...
May 21, 2018•3 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pod Sematary celebrates Mother's Day this week by talking about some of the scariest. First up, Chris and Kelsey watch 1964's Strait-Jacket, which is just an hour and a half of heads getting chopped off and Joan Crawford running out of rooms. Then it's on to the 2013 sorta-del Toro flick, Mama, about the worst mother in the world: Jessica Chastain. Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/994070270284587008 Audio Sources: "Car...
May 14, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Mental Disorder, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Potential Self Harm Dissociative Identity Disorder is the order of the day on this week’s Pod Sematary. Chris & Kelsey talk for way too long about these surprisingly fascinating movies. 1992’s Dance Macabre asks, “What if the phantom was Freddy Kruger and the opera was a Russian ballet school?” This would be interesting enough, but then it adds, "Oh, and go ahead and throw in multiple personalities while you’re at it.” It’s an angle that adds somet...
May 08, 2018•3 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris & Kelsey go to the birds this week on Pod Sematary with Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic, The Birds, and the Syfy Original, Flu Birds, from 2008. Featuring: --Hitchcock loves independent women but does he think as highly of their intelligence? --Chris shares his love for the Halloween bin. --Is Flu Birds bad on purpose or just plain ol' bad? Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/990398715620876289 Sources: "Birds, The"...
Apr 30, 2018•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on Pod Sematary, Chris & Kelsey Wrap up what will probably be our last Hannibal Lecter film with 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Does it live up to the hype? Of course it does (count how many times Chris says "iconic")! Then we head overseas for 2017's Memoir of a Murderer from Korea. A serial killer has Alzheimer's and gives up the trade, but can he use his skills and fight his affliction in order stop a new killer in town and save his daughter? Man, that's still a great concept. Cre...
Apr 23, 2018•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Apr 16, 2018•2 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's all about witches... again! This week on Pod Sematary, we go back to the silent film era for what some call the first ever documentary: 1922's Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages! While we're on the subject of witches, we might as well turn to Tim Burton's only true horror movie: 1999's Sleepy Hollow! Is this the last great Burton film or the first stumble in his downfall? Why not listen and find out?
Apr 09, 2018•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Abortion Happy Easter, everyone! This week, Chris and Kelsey do absolutely nothing for Easter and instead focus on April Fool's Day! There are a handful of horror movies themed around this "holiday" and we picked the best and the absolute worst for this episode. First up is the classic from the 80s era that tried to cash in on the Halloween and Friday the 13th holiday horror craze, 1986's April Fool's Day! Find out which characters f**k on the first date! Then it's on to the absolutely abysm...
Apr 02, 2018•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Oh, man, it's a big 'un. This week on Pod Sematary, Chris and Kelsey get down with the sickness in a zombie double feature: Dawn of the Dead! First is George Romero's 1978 follow-up to the seminal Night of the Living Dead. Is the sequel better than the original? Are you Alien or Aliens? Godfather or Godfather Part II? Then it's on to the surprisingly okay debut of cinema pariah Zack Snyder in the 2004 remake. It certainly isn't awful and is only a little more than an hour and a half long, so the...
Mar 27, 2018•2 hr•Transcript available on Metacast The St. Patrick's Day Holiday Fortnight continues on Pod Sematary with some lepreCARNAGE! First up is the kid's horror movie-cum-adult schlockfest, Leprechaun (1993), starring Jennifer Aniston and Francis from Pee-wee's Big Adventure! Then... oh, then... it's the Sci-Fi (SyFy?) Original™, Red Clover (2012), starring Cool Dude™ Billy Zane and his heart-wrenching story of Black Friday tragedy! We lose our damn minds over this one, folks, and we don't even mention the fact that the "leprechaun" kil...
Mar 19, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode sees the beginning of Pod Sematary's St. Patrick's Day... Holiday... Fortnight? Chris and Kelsey cover St. Patrick's Day and Irish themed horror movies for the next two weeks! First up is the lesser-known horror classic, Maniac Cop from 1988. Bruce Campbell goes chin to chin with Robert Z'Dar! Then it's on to the small Irish isle of Erin Island where the locals have found a unique way to stave off an alien invasion in 2012's Grabbers. And don't forget to come back next week for more...
Mar 12, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Kelsey and Chris go back to where it all "began" with 1920's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Is this the movie that might get the Never-Silent crowd on board? And then, we spend quite a while gushing over Australia's the Babadook from 2014. We dig deep into this one and what it means to us. Don't forget to rate, comment, and subscribe! (That's what I'm supposed to say, right?)
Mar 05, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's episode was suggested by listener Brian S. He recommended we do a double feature on Fright Night and we were happy to oblige since the 1985 original is one of our favorites! But is the 2011 3D remake too much like Twilight? Listen and find out! Write us at podsematary@gmail.com if you'd like to suggest a movie, too!
Feb 26, 2018•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on Pod Sematary, we get so close to a good horror movie remake! Kelsey and Chris check out an unsung horror classic in 1981's My Bloody Valentine. The small mining town of Valentine Bluffs is rocked by a murderous past. When the town moves on and restarts the tradition of a Valentine's Day dance, are they risking the wrath of Harry Warden? Then, it's on to the 2009 3D remake that tries some very interesting things, but ends of undercutting itself at seemingly every turn.
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