Ho, Ho HORROR! A Celebration of Creepy Christmas Cinema Classics
From Home Alone to Night of the Comet to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a fond look back at the Yuletide favorites that inspire just as much terror and dread as they do mirth and merriment
By: James Swift
@UNJournalism
Kit-Kat Kristen and Jazzy James return for yet another vodcast, this time taking a look at a slate of seasonal favorites with a pronounced horror vibe — even if you can’t really call some of these movies “horror films” in the strictest, traditional sense of the term.
As part of the Ho, Ho HORROR festivities, join us for a nearly hour-long video special in which we shoot the breeze and discuss such long-argued cinematic questions as whether or not Die Hard truly IS a Christmas movie, if Linnea Quigley’s deer-antler impalement in Silent Night, Deadly Night is the scream queen’s finest onscreen movie death and seriously — what, supposedly, is wrong with that one doll on the Island of Misfit Toys?
Along the way, our co-hosts also touch upon such holly, jolly digressions and Yuletide tangents as ...
— Whether or not The Wizard of Oz is truly a cursed film (or, failing that, an abstruse metaphor for late 1800s monetary policy?)
— James’ deep, dark secret involving a certain 1997 straight-to-video cult classic (hint: it includes the old cassette tape switcheroo with a certain movie starring Michael Keaton as a CGI snowman.)
— Which holidays should’ve served as the anchor points for a never-realized Nightmare Before Christmas sequel (no, one of them isn’t Columbus Day, in case you were wondering.)
— Now that we’ve had three decades to consider the matter, what is the best song on the Night of the Comet soundtrack?
— What cult classic slasher movie — unironically — contains James’ all-time favorite Christmas song?
— Where does the 2009 version of A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey excel where previous adaptations of the Dickens’ classic faltered?
— How exactly does the infamous “no feeding after midnight” proviso from Gremlins work as an applied biomechanical principle?
— What iconic Christmas movie creature does Kit-Kat compare to — of all things — the primary antagonist of the Tobe Hooper horror flick The Funhouse?
— And, perhaps most importantly, when you look at them objectively, is there really that much of a difference between the central plot points of Home Alone and Halloween?
Make sure you have plenty of eggnog on hand for this one, folks — and, as always, feel free to download the podcast in audio-only form via the link below. Hey, it beats listening to “Last Christmas” for the four-millionth-and-seventeenth time, doesn’t it?
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