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Most people spend this week wrapping gifts and planning travel.
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We're spending it remembering the night the calls came from
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inside the house, the day a ghost came back to
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collect on a fifty year debt, and the moment an
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entire genre smirked and said, yes, this is a horror
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movie and we know it. From snowy New England mansions
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to dingy video stores and cursed YouTube uploads, this week
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in horror History is loaded with cranky slashers, cozy ghost yarns,
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and at least one Christmas tree that tells you to
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commit murder. Now, pour something warm, double check the phone line,
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and let's unwrap what's going down. You're listening to this
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week in horror history On the weekly Spooky Feed, I'm
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Enrique Cuto, your guide through the icy corridors of genres past.
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This time we're digging into the week of December fifteenth
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through twenty first, a stretch that gave us horror comedy royalty,
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a foundational Christmas slasher, and one of the coziest ghost
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movies ever filmed. Coming up, a mad scientist and his
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monster prove horror and jokes can share the same laboratory.
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A sorority house is terrorized by obscene calls and attic
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shadows years before the slasher boom. A vengeful spirit stalks
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old men through snow drifts and memory. Plus a loaf
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bi Christmas massacre you can play, and an analog horror
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sleep tape that wants into your dreams. Let's get to it.
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On December fifteenth, nineteen seventy four, mel Brooks released Young Frankenstein,
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his black and white love letter to the universal monster cycle,
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with Gene Wilder as the twitchy Doctor Frankenstein and Peter
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Boyle as the most lovable corpse in cinema. Shot in
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a very classic kind of gothic style with lab gear
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borrowed from the original Frankenstein films, It's packed with gags
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horror fans still quote to this day. In fact, I
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think I mentioned this a few weeks back when I
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went to find It's Alive from the original Frankenstein movie.
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The first five or six results for the sound were
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from Young Friend Winkenstein. It's a film that's really left
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a mark in horror history, even if it is a
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parody and a comedy. Another thing I think is truly
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hilarious about Young Frankenstein is It was put out in
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the seventies in black and white, and at that time
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black and white was extremely old fashioned and really just
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relegated to super low budget movies and student films things
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like that. Mel Brooks had to fight with the studio
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to keep the film in black and white because he
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felt like that was so necessary and I would have
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to agree. So he sticks this little nugget into the trailer,
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and it always always makes me laugh. Don't miss Young
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Frankenstein personally directed by mel Blazing Saddles Brooks in Black
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and White Elephants twentieth Century. Fock sincerely believed that the
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film could be bombed simply by being in black and white.
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An audience is not understanding that it's a parody and
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not some old film being re released. Well, as is
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often the case with studios, they were absolutely positively wrong
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and basically every way. On a budget of around two
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point eight million dollars, it earned roughly eighty six million worldwide.
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I don't even think I have to do the in
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today's money calculations for you to understand what a massive
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boon that is, an absolute hit that showed horror fans
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would be happy to attend an affectionate parody. Now, this
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is something that as far as revisiting Young Frankenstein, it's
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not currently on any major streaming service, not for rent,
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not to watch free with ads, nothing, not a zip zilch.
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So you're mostly looking at grabbing yourself a DVD or
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Blu ray. And I do recommend you get it because
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it's absolutely worth a revisit. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and
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you'll learn to pronounce his damn name. Right now, here's
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some horror perspective for you. Just five days later, on
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December twentieth, nineteen seventy four, Bob Clark's Black Christmas hits theaters.
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A sorority house is menaced by obscene phone calls while
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a killer hides in the attic, watching from the shadows.
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This film is a classic. If you haven't seen it,
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you need to watch it. Yes, it's a little bit
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of a slow burn. What do you expect. It's nineteen
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seventy four. Man, It's directed by Bob Clark, who went
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on to direct another classic Christmas film that people have
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revisited for decades. But believe it or not, that one
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is a Christmas story. Yeah. So first we had obscene
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phone callers. Then we had Old Ralphie and all he
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had to worry about was shooting his eye out. With
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Olivia Hussey, Margo Kidder, and the man himself, John Saxon.
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The film pioneered the concept of killer point of view shots,
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although not including the many jallos made in Italy, but
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that's a story for another day. It was also a
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trendsetter for holiday horror, and of course, making the infamous
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the call is coming from inside the House twist go
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beyond being an urban legend whispered around to a concept
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heard in theaters and talked about at water coolers and
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slumber parties. This was also years before Halloween and Friday
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the Thirteenth, both famous slasher movies that focus on a
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day on the calendar. In many ways, Black Christmas is
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the first slasher movie, though that's a very long debate
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to get into and we're not going to do that today.
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Made for roughly six hundred and eighty six thousand dollars,
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it earned about four million dollars worldwide. It slowly snowballed
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from a modest success to an absolute cult classic. And
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I have the four k uhd by the way, that
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came out from I believe it was screen Factory. The
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movies never looked better, and it played in theaters last
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year I got to see it on the big screen. Really,
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it really sticks with you. And I'm going to resist
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the urge to play segments from the obscene phone caller
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in the film on this show, because oddly enough, this
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show is kind of family friendly. But boy howdy, the
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film is available, and I mean very available for you
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to revisit this holiday season, so you have no excuse.
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It's streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, AMC Plus, Shutter, the
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Criterion Channel, and more, and you can also watch it
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for free entirely with ads on the Roku channel, Pluto TV,
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shout Factory, and several others. You can even find it
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over on two B TV for free, as well as
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the two thousand and six remake Black Christmas, or as
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a lot of people like to call it, Black Xmas,
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which in my opinion, has aged like fine wine. It's
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an early two thousand slasher full of thrills, chills, and
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the desire to toss your Christmas cookies because it is
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a nasty one. They're both available to watch at twob
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Get to work on those, because if you don't watch those,
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I don't see how your Christmas will be holly and
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or jolly. Let's go for something a little different. On
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December seventeenth, twenty one, indie game developer Puppet Combo released
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Christmas Massacre on PC. It's a PS one style slasher
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where you play Larry, a disturbed man who's Christmas tree
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whispers that he should make things right and we don't
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know what that means. Tank controls, VHS style filters, and
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mean spirited grindhouse kills make it a nasty little cult favorite.
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It's short, brutal, and drenched in cheap holiday decor, basically
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playing like a lost nineteen eighties video nasty if it
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were fed through a PlayStation. I've not played the game myself,
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but I've watched several YouTubers play it and it is
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a lot of fun. It's very cheery. I'm not a
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huge gamer. I don't have a PC or anything to
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play it on, but this one is right up my
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alley and if you want to check out Christmas Massacre.
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It is available on p via Steam and other PC storefronts,
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with console ports on platforms like Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and
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Xbox PlayStation. I wonder if you'll work on my PlayStation five.
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It's just the kind of thing you need to make
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your Yule Tide extra grim and to wrap things up.
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On December nineteenth, twenty eighteen, analog horror channel Local fifty
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eight dropped Real Sleep, a fake late night infomercial for
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an experimental sleep program. This one is a lot of fun,
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a lot of creepy fun, with a lot to dig
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your way into. It starts out like a grainy, low
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rent advertisement or infomercial with very public access production values,
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then glitches into unsettling diagrams and corrupted instruction to quote
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reject false shapes implying dreams are some kind of cosmic intrusion.
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The short quickly became one of Local fifty eight's most
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talked about uploads and a cornerstone of the analog horror boom.
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I really do recommend you check this one out and
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really just go to Local fifty eight on YouTube and
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watch a lot of the stuff they have, But Real
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Sleep that is the money, all right, and it's a
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perfect after midnight viewing if you'd like to just absolutely
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ruin naps for a minimum of a week, So put
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it on late with the lights off, and then I
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dare you to go straight to bed. This week's episode
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New England town where four old men discover that burying
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a secret doesn't mean it won't knock on your door
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fifty years later. Welcome back to this week in horror history.
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Let's settle in for our deep cut spotlight. A wintry
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ghost story that deserves a spot in your December rotation.
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Released in the United States on December eighteenth, nineteen eighty one,
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Ghost Story adapts Peter Straub's novel into a chilly tale
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about the whimsically named Chowder Society, four elderly friends haunted
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by what they did to a young woman a half
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a century ago. Directed by John Irving and starring Fred Astaire,
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Melvin Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, John Houseman, and Alice Kreeg,
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the film trades jump scares for atmosphere snow packed streets,
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creaking mansions, and firelit storytelling sessions that feel like the
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world's bleakest Christmas gathering. On a reported budget of thirteen
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point five million dollars, it earned twenty three point four
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million Domestically respectable but not a huge hit and not
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a cable marathon staple. Over time, though, it became a
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cult favorite among fans of slow literary style ghost stories,
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which is many of you spookies who tune in. So
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what makes it worth pulling off the shelf this week, Well,
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there's plenty, so I'll just give you a few. Alice
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Kreeg is quietly terrifying as the wronged woman who may
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or may not have ever truly left the structure of
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old men. Telling overlapping tales allows the film to between
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haunted houses and guilt, and even a touch of body horror,
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and most terrifying of all, at its core, it's a
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film about regret, the idea that something you did in
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your twenties can haunt you straight into your seventies. It's
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a film that has such a thick atmosphere you will
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not regret sitting down on a cold winter night and
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watching it unless you're doing so alone. And even then,
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if you're listening to this show, you'll probably enjoy that feeling.
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As far as where to watch it, it's available to
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stream on Amazon Prime Video, including free with ads, and
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you can rent or buy it digitally on Amazon, Apple TV,
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and Fandango at Home, and there are also several options
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on DVD and a very very nice blu ray from
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Shout Factory. So take it from me, your old uncle
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Henny put it on. Let the imaginary snow pile up
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at the windows and just see if you don't start
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checking the glass for a pale face outside. Now, let's
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raise a blood spattered glass of eggnog for a few
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folks celebrating birthdays this week. First up, born on December sixteenth,
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nineteen sixty seven, Miranda Otto from What Lies Beneath to
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Annabelle Creation and Azzy Possession hit Talk to Me, which
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I did enjoy quite a bit. She's quietly become modern
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horror Royalty, and it's very very well deserved. So Happy Birthday, Miranda.
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Born on December seventeenth, nineteen seventy seven is Catherine Winnick.
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Before she start on vikings, she log time in video
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store staples like Satan's Little Helper Amusement and Hell Raiser
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Hell World, which, by the way, Satan's Little Helper is
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one of my all time favorite Halloween picks. You don't
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want to miss that one if you get a chance
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to give it a watch. Happy birthday, Catherine. This next
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one is a household name, but he has some very
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strong ties to horror. Born on December eighteenth, nineteen sixty
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three is Brad Pitt. His genre resume includes interview with
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the Vampire, the serial killer Classic seven and the zombie
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blockbuster World war Z. But I'll forever remember him for
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starring in the Freddy's Nightmares episode Black Tickets. Yeah, he
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was on the Freddy Krueger TV series from eighty nine
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to ninety, which, if you want to learn a little
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more about you can listen to an entire podcast myself
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and my buddy Dave did running down every episode of
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the often forgotten maligned series. Just search Welcome to prime
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time on your favorite podcasting app. Happy Birthday, Brad Pitt.
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And finally, another big name that owes a lot of
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his stardom to genre films, born on December nineteenth, nineteen
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eighty Jake Jillenhall. From Donnie Darko to the unnerving and
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underrated Nightcrawler, He's brought an off kilter intensity that fits
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right into horror's extended family. So Happy birthday, Jake Jillenhall.
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And if any of those films are on your shelf,
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this is the week to put them on in celebration
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fur Aur then and now. On December twentieth, nineteen ninety six,
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Wes Craven's Scream hit theaters and quietly rewired the Slasher
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and I want to mention Wes Craven is one of
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the few people to inarguably reinvent the horror genre twice
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in one career and just over a day decade apart.
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Nightmare on Elm Street was released in nineteen eighty four,
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and since then all horror films that followed were different. Well, Similarly,
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when Scream came to theaters, the horror market was never
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quite the same. Wes has done something many filmmakers could
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only dream of doing. He's one of my favorites, and
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I think he's horribly underrated. On a budget of around
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fourteen to fifteen million, it carved out roughly one hundred
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and seventy three million dollars worldwide, reviving both Craven's career
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and the idea that slashers could be bloody, smart, and
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meta all at the same time. Ghostface's mask became a
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Halloween staple. In fact, I was ghost faced three different
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times during my young years and teenage years for Halloween.
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The Drew Barrymore fake out opening became instantly iconic, and
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suddenly the slasher wasn't dead, it just self aware. Give
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it a rewatch. I assure you it's as good as
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you remember it, and you can catch it for free
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with ads on Pluto TV or rented on the usual
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suspects like Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Apple TV, or
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Fandango at Home Today. The franchise is a full on
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legacy machine. Scream seven, directed by writer Kevin Williamson with
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Nev Campbell's Sydney Back at the Center, is slated for
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an early twenty twenty six release, proving this series has
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a lot of phone calls left to make. Don't miss
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that one in the theater. Now for our pick of
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the week, Well, it's the aforementioned Black Christmas from nineteen
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seventy four. It fits the calendar perfectly. December twentieth release,
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Sorority House lights, snow outside the windows, and it feels
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nasty and even a modern The obscene phone calls the
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unseen killer in the attic and that bleak unresolved ending
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that still gives me goosebumps to this day. They all
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play just as hard now as they did in nineteen
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seventy four. Historically, it is a key proto slasher. You
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can trace a straight line from its killer point of view,
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shots and holiday vibe all the way to Halloween Silent
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Night deadly night and a whole wave of Christmas carnage.
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But it's also just a great, mean, little winter chiller
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with messy, believable characters and a killer whose motives stay
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unsettingly opaque. As I mentioned earlier, you can watch it
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on Prime Video, Peacock, AMC Plus, Criterion Channel, Shutter, as
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well as many places free with ads like the Roku channel,
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Pluto TV, Shop, Factory TV, and tuob with its remake
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from the early two thousands. If you watch one home
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for the holiday's horror movie this week, make it the
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one that quietly taught us just how afraid to answer
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the phone we should be. That's it for this week
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in horror history for December fifteenth through twenty first, a
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week of vengeful ghosts, cranky sorority killers, cursed cartridges, and
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analog nightmares beamed straight into your sleeping brain. If you
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want more spooky goodness, on the weekly Spooky Feed Tomorrow
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we have a brand new holiday themed horror for you,
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with the unsettling and misleading name of a Christmas Romance.
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On Thursday, we come out with a brand new free
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novella for you to listen to, called an Angel of Death. Christmas,
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and on Friday, I'll be carving up the mind bending
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holiday horror film dead End with Rachel on cutting deep
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into horror. And on Saturday we'll have a big fat
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compilation of holiday horror stories to help you wrap your
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gifts while you hope the good Santa comes down your chimney.
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And if you notice that this show is dropping a
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little later, it's because there's so much weekly spooky fun,
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we just have to stack it up on the days,
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so sometimes this show might drop around noon or one
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o'clock to make way for a scary story. Until next time,
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Keep the lights low, keep the volume high, and remember
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our days are numbered, because that's how we tell them apart.
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See you next time.
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