Blood and Black Rum Podcast - A Cult Film / Horror Podcast

Welcome to 2024. For our first episode of the new year, we're taking on familial dysfunction and wrestling in A24's The Iron Claw, based on the lives of the Von Erich brothers. We talk about the film's historical accuracy, the depiction of wrestling, Ric Flair woos, and a whole lot more. We're also drinking Athletic Brewing Company's Wit's End belgian-style wit - the first non-alcoholic brew on the show!

Approximate timeline

0:00-17:00 Intro

17:00-30:00 Beer talk

30:00-end The Iron Claw

Sorry for the late episode due to the holidays, but we're finishing our Chaberting Gifts series for this holiday season with a look at the generically winter-themed Winter in Vail starring Lacey Chabert as... an event planner again. Yes, we've covered similar movies in the Hallmark output this season, and we discuss all of the great things that make this movie tick including the lack of touching, the Strudelfest shenanigans, and a whole lot more. We're also drinking Beer Tree Brewing's Pils by a Billion Pilsner to celebrate the Buffalo Bills and football Sunday.

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0:00-12:00 Intro

12:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Winter in Vail

We'll be back throughout 2024 with new episodes and going back to a biweekly schedule for the time being. Possibly up next: The Iron Claw?

For our last episode before Christmas, we're taking on the unicorn of Lacey Chabert Christmas Hallmark movies: one that has a child's talent show, romance, and MARIAH CAREY! That's right - in 2015 the Queen of Christmas herself directed and "starred" in this Hallmark movie about a little girl writing the song "Oh Santa!" for her talent show performance. It's about as hilarious as you'd expect, and we talk about Mariah's acting, the limited Christmas hijinks, and of course the Folgers Coffee shining performance. We're also drinking Founders' Porter!

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0:00-10:00 Intro

10:00-17:00 Beer talk

17:00-end A Christmas Melody

Next up: we end Chaberting Gifts for this holiday season with a winter-themed movie.

We continue our Lacey Chabert Christmas Hallmark movie journey with Christmas at Castle Hart, which this time transports us to Ireland for a meet-cute between Lacey's event planner character and an earl of Ireland! We talk about the CGI decorations, the lack of romance yet again, the foibles and conflict that Lacey faces, and a whole lot more. We're also drinking Lone Pine Brewing's Holy Donut! Dark Chocolate Peppermint stout.

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0:00-12:00 Intro

12:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Christmas at Castle Hart

Next up, our Chaberting Gifts finale!

On our second episode of Chaberting Gifts, we take a look at 2022's Haul Out the Holly, a shameless rip of Christmas with the Kranks that sees Lacey Chabert heading home for the holidays only to butt heads with her parents' HOA. This is a bizarre Christmas tale that is extremely light on romance, while at the same time offering a weird theme that maybe, just maybe you'll start to like your overbearing HOA if you just get used to it. We talk about all of this and more on this special Christmas episode. We're also drinking Ommegang's OMG Series Everything Naughty white chocolate blonde stout!

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0:00-10:00 Intro

10:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Haul Out the Holly

More Chabert Hallmark movies coming next!

Our Christmas season is going to be a little different this year; that's because we're bringing you a holiday full of Lacey Chabert in Hallmark Christmas movies. We start off by visiting Roma in Christmas in Rome, a yuletide tale of a travel agent meet-cuting with a property mogul hoping to land a big acquisition in Rome. We assess the romance, the sightseeing, the Christmas festivities, and the presence of Franco Nero (!?). We're also drinking Druthers Brewing's Toys for Toga Winter Ale!

Approximate timeline

0:00-12:00 Intro

12:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Christmas in Rome

Chaberting Gifts continues all Christmas season!

Happy Thanksgiving! As a special release on Thanksgiving Day, we're bringing you an episode on Eli Roth's new film Thanksgiving, influenced by his own trailer for the Grindhouse films in 2007. We talk about making a feature-length film out of short schlock, the gory details, whether these characters are even relatable, and a whole lot more in this special Turkey Day feast. Enjoy, and turn it on for the family at the dinner table! We're also drinking Genesee Brewing's Citrus Pils.

Approximate timeline

0:00-12:00 Intro

12:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Thanksgiving

Next up: we start our Lacey Chabert Christmas.

It's serendipitous that as we decided to finally do our episode on Mean Girls, Walmart released a Black Friday ad getting (most of) the gang back together, as well as an announcement for a new movie based on the musical in 2024. While we're just one year early from the film's 20th anniversary, we decided the time is nigh - we have a lot of fun covering this deeply nostalgic movie for millenials, talking about how it holds up in terms of school representation, true bullying, and a whole lot more. Also, we've got KCBC's Mean Squirrels DDH Hazy IPA to complete the tie-ins!

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0:00-10:00 Intro

10:00-21:00 Beer talk

21:00-end Mean Girls

We'll be back in a couple weeks with Eli Roth's Thanksgiving!

We're ending our Halloween season with a look at the nostalgia-driven Goosebumps movie from 2015, which finds R.L. Stine's classic monsters coming to life thanks to his magical writing. We talk about the use of more juvenile humor, the interesting monster choices, the generic Hallmark-esque writing of teen characters, and a whole lot more. We're also drinking Sloop Brewing's Liquid Sorcery NEIPA.

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0:00-12:00 Intro

12:00-23:00 Beer talk

23:00-end Goosebumps

The Halloween season comes to a close, but we'll be back in 2 weeks with a lead-in to the holiday season with Mean Girls!

While The Exorcist: Believer is not technically a Halloween film, it is an annual tradition to eviscerate a David Gordon Green film, so it's certainly appropriate for the season. Here we talk about the extremely mediocre requel to The Exorcist, which manages to have double the amount of possessed kids and half the scares and fun. We talk about the movie's excruciating pacing, the lack of any suspense, the omnipresence of nurses, and a lot more on this raucous episode. We're also drinking Leinenkugel's Red Lager!

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0:00-15:00 Intro

15:00-25:00 Beer talk

25:00-end The Exorcist: Believer

Next and last episode of Halloweenies II: a secret.