Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1508220345366372352 CW: Sexual Assault It’s April Fools' Day on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey commit a prank that—believe it or not—goes wrong! The Classic Film: The Burning (1981) "A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement” (IMDb.com). If you're exp...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1505308331241582596 CW: Sexual Assault, Animal Cruelty It’s Purge Night on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey are executing righteous justice that vindicates their bloodlust. Have a safe night! The Classic Film: The New Kids (1985) "A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang” (IMDb.com)...
Mar 22, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1503916860626006016 CW: Sexual Assault, Transmisogyny, Suicide It’s St. Patrick's Day on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey are in space now for some reason, investigating the source of the Dracula mythos. The Classic Film: Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996) "Our deadly leprechaun is in space to woo a beautiful princess who is impressed with his gold and desires to separate him from it” (IMDb.com)...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1500935014724292619 CW: Suicide, Sexual Assault, Rape It’s Meat Cute Week on Pod Sematary! Chris and Kelsey (and Amanda!) find true love in post-apocalyptic, old-timey, future France and do a little choreographed dance for the camera. The Classic Film: Delicatessen (1991) "Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a de...
Mar 09, 2022•3 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1497748354796687369 CW: Drug Use, Sexual Assault It’s Nosferatu Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey celebrate 100 years since the premiere of Nosferatu by traveling far away to the land of robbers and ghosts. The Classic Film: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) "Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife” (IMDb.com). Nosferatu, whi...
Mar 01, 2022•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1495864290250661888 CW: Suicide, Molestation It’s Presidents' Day on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey can see the future and the future is fighting a mummy with JFK! The Classic Film: The Dead Zone (1983) "A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability” (IMDb.com). Cronenberg, King, and Walken sound like a can't-miss combination, and—for the most part—it is. Strangely, espec...
Feb 22, 2022•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1493129598921428993 CW: Emotionally and physically abusive relationships, Manipulation, Gaslighting, Suicide, Rape It’s Valentine's Day and that means it's Toxic Relationships Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey play couples-therapists to murderous dolls and a love triangle! Plus, Kelsey is very pleased with herself for coming up with so many relevant break-up songs! The Classic Film: ...
Feb 14, 2022•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1490810936692666371 It’s Vampire Week on Pod Sematary! Chris, Kelsey, and special guest Bob fill some squirt guns with holy water and take in a Tim Cappello concert on the beach. The Classic Film: The Lost Boys (1987) "After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires” (IMDb.com). We absolutely adore this movie and for good reason. It just so perfec...
Feb 09, 2022•3 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1487529498874724359 CW: Sexual Assault, Addiction It’s Ghostbusters Week again on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey wrap up the franchise (for now) and get into serious conversations about the function of the proton pack. The Classic Film: Ghostbusters II (1989) "The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the...
Feb 01, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1485773811412705283 CW: Suicide It’s a Creature Feature Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey finally find out why he's called Pumpkinhead when his head isn't shaped like a pumpkin! The Classic Film: Pumpkinhead (1988) "After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers” (IMDb.com). Famed creature creator ...
Jan 26, 2022•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1482969576170090498 CW: Suicide, Hate Crimes, Police Brutality It’s Candyman Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey dip their toes into the race discussion before immediately admitting that they don't have the expertise required to discuss it with any authority. It's fun! The Classic Film: Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999) "The Candyman is back, trying to convince his descendent, an artist...
Jan 19, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2021 was yet another dumpster fire and Chris and Kelsey are looking on the bright side by paying tribute to the best movies they watched last year! Plus, our personal Top 10 lists and the 10 movies on which we disagreed with the critics the most! To listen to these episodes and check out their individual source credits, click the links below: 10: https://bit.ly/3rcYm0O 9: https://bit.ly/3zRZ9If 7 (Tied): https://bit.ly/3HS1HsB 7 (Tied): https://bit.ly/3fdDrou 6: https://bit.ly/3tg8VCz 5: https:/...
Jan 11, 2022•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2021 was yet another dumpster fire and Chris and Kelsey are saying goodbye by paying tribute to the worst movies they watched last year! Plus, our personal Bottom 10 lists and the 10 movies that divided us the most! To listen to these episodes and check out their individual source credits, click the links below: 10: https://bit.ly/3FVKFcs 9: https://bit.ly/3JBNFNB 8: https://bit.ly/3qPybgt 7: https://bit.ly/3zppPQA 6: https://bit.ly/3sVpPpV 5: https://bit.ly/3JBNFNB 4: https://bit.ly/3JycSbL 3: ...
Jan 04, 2022•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/1475600062050971658 CW: Sexual Assault, Rape, Incest It’s New Year's Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey spend the last show of the year looking for someone to kiss at midnight. The Classic Film: Angel Heart (1987) "A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber t...
Dec 28, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1472667488622055431 It’s Actually Christmas Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey make this holiday season musical! The Classic Film: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) "Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion” (IMDb.com). This is one of the Christmas movies that we watch every year, and we're...
Dec 22, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1470235584107094025 CW: Rape It’s our first Christmas Horror Week of 2021 here on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey sorta just meander from kill to kill with no real focus or driving force. The Classic Film: To All a Goodnight (1980) "A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume” (IMDb.com). Despite the fact that this movie came ...
Dec 14, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1467992229373526030 CW: Rape, incest It’s Amityville Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey botch an exorcism and inherit a theater! The Classic Film: Amityville II: The Possession (1982) "A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son” (IMDb.com). The Amityville series hasn't quite gone bonkers yet, but ...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1465075447973113859 CW: Rape, Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Suicide It’s Movies-based-on-Stephen-King-novels-about-women-stuck-in-a-single-location-and-harassed-by-dogs,-both-of-which-star-primary-actors-from-E.T. Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey really need to come up with a safeword. The Classic Film: Cujo (1983) "Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and c...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1462558898255122437 CW: Suicide, Drunk Driving It’s Thanksgiving on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey are thankful for two more movies that are only tangentially related to the holiday. The Classic Film: Blood Rage (1987), aka Slasher, aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods "A boy kills a man and accuses his twin brother of the murder, and the innocent brother ends up institutionalized while his psyc...
Nov 23, 2021•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1460049282979926017 CW: Suicide, Sexual Harassment It’s a Ghostbusters Double Feature on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey find out what it is to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar this day, I can tell you! The Original: Ghostbusters (1984) "Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened ...
Nov 16, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1457498454486364162 CW: Harm to Children and Animals It’s a Frankenstein Double Feature on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey drop out of medical school and 3D-print a human man to find out who the REAL monster is. The "Original": Frankenstein (1931) "Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts” (IMDb.com). While not a faithful a...
Nov 09, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1455308361709154304 CW: Death of a child It’s Haunted Doll Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey dive back into their two "favorite" franchises with one possessed doll that lost its edge and another that still isn't possessed at all. The Classic Film: Child's Play 3 (1991) "Chucky returns for revenge against Andy, the young boy who defeated him and now a teenager living in a military aca...
Nov 03, 2021•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1452380469702508544 CW: Suicide It’s Halloween on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey continue with the most retconned horror franchise in history with Halloween 5, the last okay entry in the original Halloween series, before moving on and all the good will from 2018's Halloween is sucked out of them watching its follow-up, the brand new and superbly awful Halloween Kills. The Classic Film: Ha...
Oct 26, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1450244090117832708 It’s a Recommendation Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey have their croc-killing cake and eat it too and then they summon a demon for a conference call. Thanks to David for the recommendations! The Classic Film: Lake Placid (1999) "Three people attempt to stop a gigantic crocodile, who is terrorizing residents in Black Lake, Maine” (IMDb.com). Lake Placid is just a...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1447388359081463812 CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide It’s Musical Horror Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey sign contracts in blood and get much-needed organ makeovers! The Classic Film: Phantom of the Paradise (1974) "A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his r...
Oct 12, 2021•3 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1444799752009252869 CW: Harm to Children It’s Wholesome Horror Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey ride the carousel backward and enjoy absolutely terrific horror movies made for kids to kick off October! This time, both movies are about evil entities posing as things kids tend to love in order to feed on their souls. The Classic Film: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) "In a small...
Oct 05, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1442615970464370695 CW: Homophobia, Rape It’s another Witchy Woman Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey are back on that bullshit, this time with two movies about witchy women that put curses on entire bloodlines and where multiple people need a good eye stabbin'. The Classic Film: Black Sunday [La maschera del demonio] (1960) "A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the g...
Sep 28, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1439749737243021314 CW: Suicide, Rape It’s a Witchy Woman Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey start their own covens of warlocks and witches (respectively) and determine whether women were an accident or were inflicted upon the world intentionally. The Classic Film: The Witches of Eastwick (1987) "Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted, at a cost, when a ...
Sep 21, 2021•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1437164682599493632 CW: Rape, Abortion, Alcoholism It’s Back to School Week on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey join the other teenage archetypes for Saturday School and must escape a for-real, not-at-all-fake ghost! The Classic Film: Return to Horror High (1987) "In the early 1980s, a series of gruesome murders occurred at Crippen High School. A few years later, a film crew uses the now-ab...
Sep 14, 2021•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get more at podsematary.com! Read our afterthoughts for this episode at https://twitter.com/PodSematary/status/1433591495261450241 CW: Suicide, Self Harm, Child Abduction, Rape It’s our 200th episode AND Kelsey's birthday! So we're having a Campground Slasher Week to celebrate for some reason! Chris & Kelsey go to summer camp and enjoy the spin cycle! The Classic Film: Madman (1981) "A legendary psychopathic murderer stalks a summer camp” (IMDb.com). In a movie that probably thinks it's more ser...
Sep 07, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
