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9: Better Watch Out (2016)
The cultural expectations of Christmas cheer has long provided fertile soil for satirists and subversive artists. It’s been over 50 years (at the time of this recording, it’s not impossible that by the time you’re reading this it has been many more) since the cartoon version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas was released back in 1966, a story featuring narration by none other than Golden Age Horror legend Boris Karloff. Far from the first, I’m certain, but perhaps one that is as near culturally Universal as I might be able to cite.
It should be no surprise then, that as horror movie fans, we have many options to explore within our profane catalog. The earliest that comes to mind is the proto-slasher Black Christmas (1974). The slasher-slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) is a favorite. Oh, and if you don’t like Gremlins (1984)...if only because it spawned the brilliant Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1992), I don’t even know what you’re doing here. Matt probably hasn’t seen any of these, but I also know he hadn’t seen Better Watch Out (2016), and I wanted to take on the challenge of trying to convince him that this too, is a Christmas tradition quality film. I think I was making some headway, although I may have gone too far when I pressed the idea of a sequel, knowing full well how resistant that bugger is to sequels as a general rule.
I’m also hoping I might be turning some other people on to a newer film that may not penetrated the zeitgeist as much as some of it’s older relatives, or the recent spate of Krampus centered films that seem to get a bit of a higher profile due to the fact that an evil Santa demon with goat legs that either fights not-demon Santa, eats children, or delivers spankings to women on the street (hey man, I didn’t write the story, I’m just relaying the research) is admittedly bad ass. Consider joining us at the Talk Horror To Me Facebook group, or at one of the links below, and letting us know what you think about it, and whether or not you had seen the movie before.
Thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate you so very much. Have a safe and happy holiday, have fun, and don’t...fall in the hole.
-Shonny Constant
12. 21. 2018.
@Talk_horror
@ShonnyConstant
@TalkHorrorShow
@HobbyKnockout
@Shonny.Constant
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By talkhorrorshowThe cultural expectations of Christmas cheer has long provided fertile soil for satirists and subversive artists. It’s been over 50 years (at the time of this recording, it’s not impossible that by the time you’re reading this it has been many more) since the cartoon version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas was released back in 1966, a story featuring narration by none other than Golden Age Horror legend Boris Karloff. Far from the first, I’m certain, but perhaps one that is as near culturally Universal as I might be able to cite.
It should be no surprise then, that as horror movie fans, we have many options to explore within our profane catalog. The earliest that comes to mind is the proto-slasher Black Christmas (1974). The slasher-slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) is a favorite. Oh, and if you don’t like Gremlins (1984)...if only because it spawned the brilliant Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1992), I don’t even know what you’re doing here. Matt probably hasn’t seen any of these, but I also know he hadn’t seen Better Watch Out (2016), and I wanted to take on the challenge of trying to convince him that this too, is a Christmas tradition quality film. I think I was making some headway, although I may have gone too far when I pressed the idea of a sequel, knowing full well how resistant that bugger is to sequels as a general rule.
I’m also hoping I might be turning some other people on to a newer film that may not penetrated the zeitgeist as much as some of it’s older relatives, or the recent spate of Krampus centered films that seem to get a bit of a higher profile due to the fact that an evil Santa demon with goat legs that either fights not-demon Santa, eats children, or delivers spankings to women on the street (hey man, I didn’t write the story, I’m just relaying the research) is admittedly bad ass. Consider joining us at the Talk Horror To Me Facebook group, or at one of the links below, and letting us know what you think about it, and whether or not you had seen the movie before.
Thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate you so very much. Have a safe and happy holiday, have fun, and don’t...fall in the hole.
-Shonny Constant
12. 21. 2018.
@Talk_horror
@ShonnyConstant
@TalkHorrorShow
@HobbyKnockout
@Shonny.Constant