Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1191101921525940224 It’s Manufactured Assassin Week on Pod Sematary! Chris gets pedantic about robot terminology (what else is new?) and Kelsey sings Burnin' in the Third Degree! Thanks to listener Harry for the recommendation! The Classic Film: The Terminator (1984) "A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead h...
Nov 05, 2019•3 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1188231833567272961 CW: Suicide It’s Halloween again on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey do... well, basically what they do all year anyway! But this is the time of year that they cover the Halloween franchise and that means it's Silver Shamrock Time! The Classic Film: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) "An apparent murder-suicide in a hospital emergency room leads to an investigatio...
Oct 29, 2019•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1185625529208188928 It’s a Sequel Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey check out two follow-ups to films we've enjoyed on the show already! The Classic Film: House II: The Second Story (1987) "The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers” (IMDb.com). The first House movie was an unexpected treat...
Oct 22, 2019•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1181763562881994752 CW: Suicide, Rape It’s Satanic Thriller Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey make a deal with the devil (Kelsey got a new puppy in exchange for Chris’ soul). Thanks for recommending The Ascent, Peter! The Classic Film: The Ninth Gate (1999) "A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overt...
Oct 15, 2019•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1179130908894318593 CW: Depression, Suicide It’s a change of pace on this episode of Pod Sematary with Horrifying Family Animation Week! Chris & Kelsey talk about two animated masterpieces that, while not explicitly horror films, still manage to unsettle or terrify children and adults alike. Please accept the thin pretense for a nice feel-good break from the norm. Thanks to listener Jef...
Oct 08, 2019•3 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1178074557611003904 CW: Suicide It’s Condensation Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey discover something in the fog and probably confuse Carpenter and King classics! Thanks to listener Anthony for the recommendation! The Classic Film: The Fog (1980) "An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters” (IMDb.com). Following up...
Oct 01, 2019•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1174456405132079104 CW: Child Abuse, Rape It’s Child Cult Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey blaspheme against He Who Walks Behind the Rows this week, probably because they’re well past the age of favor. The "Original": Children of the Corn (1984) "A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believe everyone over the age of 18 must be killed...
Sep 24, 2019•2 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Rape, Child Abuse, Suicide Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1171632981816922112 It’s "Give Kelsey Nightmares Week" on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey get trashed so Chucky doesn't ruin Kelsey's nerves forever! The Original: Child’s Play (1988) "A single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer” (IMDb.com). The beginning of a fr...
Sep 17, 2019•2 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Racism, Sexual Assault, Suicide It’s Our Birthday Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey celebrate the anniversaries of their births by watching two more birthday-themed horror flicks. Well, at least one of them is a horror movie… by the end. The Classic Film: Sweet Sixteen (1983) "Teenager Melissa moves into a small town filled with racial prejudice and bullying, and each time she meets up with one of the boys in town, they end up murdered - but who is the killer?” (IMDb.com). Sweet Sixteen h...
Sep 10, 2019•2 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're playing the new horror game, Man of Medan, right now and will be sharing the video as soon as we can! Keep an eye out! CW: Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Spousal Abuse, Filicide, Suicide It’s our 100th episode on Pod Sematary! And a Double Feature! Chris & Kelsey watch one of the greatest horror movies of all time based on one of the greatest books written by one of the greatest horror authors of all time! And then we see the 4 1/2 hour miniseries adaptation that the King likes better! The "Orig...
Sep 03, 2019•4 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide It’s Sexy Vampire(ish) Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey watch a lot of beautiful people do really violent things! Thanks to listener The Chickapedia for the recommendations! The Classic Film: The Hunger (1983) "A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist” (IMDb.com). We know that description sounds odd, but it’s a strangely accurate description of what amounts to one big montage of a film. The twis...
Aug 27, 2019•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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,...
Aug 19, 2019•3 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Brief mentions of rape, child abuse, and filicide It’s Zed-Word Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey tackle two comedy zombie flicks (combies? zomedies?) with varying results! The Classic Film: The Return of the Living Dead (1985) “When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies” (IMDb.com). If you ever thought Chris and Kelsey were broken on the inside, their opinions on this cult cl...
Aug 13, 2019•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Suicide, Filicide, Distressing Sequences involving Animals (Horses) It’s a Double Feature Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey only have seven days left since they watched two films with ticking death clocks! Thanks for the recommendation, Lou! The Original: Ringu (1998) “A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it” (IMDb.com). With much more subtle storytelling than it's famous gaijin remake (if you discount a...
Aug 06, 2019•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Rape, Sexual Assault, Mental Disorders, Suicide It’s Homicidal Delusions Week on Pod Sematary! Chris begins to suspect that Kelsey may just be in his head as they watch two films about men who are a little confused about reality and make the women in their lives suffer for it. The Classic Film: Vampire's Kiss (1988) “After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire" (IMDb.com). Nicolas Cage is at his cagiest in this flick that stumbles in t...
Jul 30, 2019•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s a Double Feature Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey decide whether or not to check the children in this urban-legend-turned-feature-film combo recommended by listener Alex! The Original: When a Stranger Calls (1979) “A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again" (IMDb.com). It’s everyone’s favorite UL: The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs! Plus, we talk way too much about gender dynamics and dating. The Remake: When a Stranger Calls (200...
Jul 23, 2019•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Rape, Child Abuse, Eating Disorders It’s Cannibal Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey check out two films about familial cannibalism, including one from listener James! Thanks, James! The Classic Film: Title (Year) "A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers" (IMDb.com). This quirky gem scared the bejeezus out of Kelsey when she was probably too young to be watching it. Will it live up to her childhood memory? The Modern Film: Title (Year) "An inno...
Jul 15, 2019•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Homophobia, Ableism, PTSD It’s Listener Recommendation Week on Pod Sematary! This week, listener tron1686 recommended two films about disastrous visitors that take nutso turns! Thanks, tron! The Classic Film: The Gate (1987) “Kids, left home alone, accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard” (IMDb.com). Stephen Dorff is a beacon of love and light in this "kids' horror" flick from the 80s. So why hadn't we seen it yet!? The Modern Film:...
Jul 09, 2019•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s Shark Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey celebrate their nation’s Independence Day by trekking to the beach to become shark food instead of doing the sensible thing and staying indoors at all times! But it’s okay: they’re fighters! The Classic Film: Jaws (1975) "When a [great white] shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to the local [police chief], a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.” (IMDb.com). I mean… it’s Jaws. This is one of Chris’ favorite m...
Jul 02, 2019•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s Summer Vacation Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey party in the sun and make mistakes that will literally haunt them a year from now! The Classic Film: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) “Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town” (IMDb.com). Acting as a sort of bridge between Scream and the generation of teen slashers that followed, I Know What You Did Last Summer is an incr...
Jun 25, 2019•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 he...
Jun 18, 2019•2 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Rape, Domestic Abuse It's Father's Day on Pod Sematary... AND it's a Double Feature! Chris & Kelsey discuss a creepy classic about an overly strict stepfather along with its teen-thriller remake. Listen along with YOUR stepfather! The Classic Film: The Stepfather (1987) "After murdering his entire family, a man remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again" (IMDb.com). This cult classic turned out to be much better than we were expecting. Plus...
Jun 11, 2019•2 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Suicide, Torture, Graphic Discussion of Rape and Murder It’s the end of another school year on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey are getting intellectual with two horror movies about school that you have to read! The Classic Film: Thesis [Tesis] (1996) "While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured [to] death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her [college]" (IMDb.com). This 90s foreign classic comes to us from Spain and asks the i...
Jun 04, 2019•2 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Suicide, Mass Violence at a School It's that time of year where you see teenagers dressed in formal wear in the middle of the afternoon, so it's Prom Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey are discussing two horror films where death comes with a corsage! The Classic Film: Night of the Creeps (1986) "In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proce...
May 27, 2019•2 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Suicide, Mental Illness It’s Man vs. Demon Week on Pod Sematary as Chris and Kelsey discuss two films about regular ol’ human dudes taking on the un-killable spawn of hell! But be sure not to underestimate the ladies in these stories, as they may be more powerful than they’re given credit for! The Classic Film: Rawhead Rex (1986) "Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer” (IMDb.com). Clive Bar...
May 21, 2019•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Rape, Suicide, Homophobia, Sleep Paralysis It's Nightmare Week on Pod Sematary! Kelsey & Chris dip back into the Freddy Krueger well with the second film in the classic series along with a Netflix documentary about the most nightmarish scenario anyone could dream up! The Classic Film: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Freddy's Revenge (1985) "A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the...
May 14, 2019•2 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a Mother's Day Double Feature on Pod Sematary as Chris and Kelsey watch one of the greatest horror films of all time! ...and it's entirely superfluous remake... The Classic Film: Psycho (1960) "A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother" (IMDb.com). Alfred Hitchcock's horror masterpiece not only helped define his legacy but also the legacy of horror fil...
May 07, 2019•3 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Sexual Assault, Rape, Drug Addiction/Overdose It's Re-Animator Week on Pod Sematary as Chris and Kelsey watch the first and THIRD(!?) installments in the cult series! Shout out to listener Anthony for the recommendation! The Classic Film: Re-Animator (1985) "After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue" (IMDb.com). This cult favorite based on a tale by celebrate...
Apr 30, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide, Ableism It's Kevin Bacon wee--I mean It's another Haunted House week on Pod Sematary! This time, Chris and Kelsey are talking about two movies where a man is driven to madness by the spirits in his home, including a recommendation from listener Aaron! The Classic Film: House (1985) "A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt" (IMDb.com). Would you have guessed by this description that the movie was a comedy? We certainly didn't. Th...
Apr 23, 2019•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast CW: Animal Cruelty It's Easter on Pod Sematary and that means Chris & Kelsey are talkin' all about killer bunnies! (Oh, and the Pet Sematary remake...) The Classic Film: Night of the Lepus (1972) "Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west" (IMDb.com). Thrill as regular-sized bunnies hop around miniature sets and old people act tired! The Modern Film: Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell! (2014) "A giant bloodthirsty Easter bunny starts viciously killing the local townsfolk. When the Mayo...
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