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

Merry Christmas Eve! We close out our Festivus Series for 2021 with one of the most iconic holiday films, 1990's Home Alone! This John Hughes-written classic has always been one of Ryne's favorites, and we basically just discuss our favorite moments from the movie in one long dialogue about its greatness! You'll hear our favorite lines, traps, and more, and we hope you enjoy our breakdown of why the police officer in this movie has poor priorities. Also, we're drinking Drekker Brewing Company's BRAAAAAAAAINS Blueberry+Lemon double smoothie sour.

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Thanks for listening to our Festivus Series this year. We'll back soon with episodes on Spider-Man: No Way Home, Scream, and more in the new year, along with our 200th episode!

We continue our Festivus Series in 2021 with Christmas Evil, a film that Martin really didn't like. But that's okay, because Ryne really digs it, so we get a good discussion going about what works, what doesn't work, and why some people hate it and some people really love it. Christmas Evil is a weird movie, and it takes some appreciation to get past some of the rawer editing and absurdities. However, we see it from both sides, making for a good dialogue about the film. We hope you feel the same!

We're drinking District 96's Sleeveless Flannel Winter Ale!

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Check back all holiday season for new weekly Christmas episodes!

This week we're tackling Better Watch Out (not to be confused with our episode on Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 3: Better Watch Out!) for Festivus! This one's a lot of fun - it takes one part Scream, one part Home Alone, and a bunch of small elements from other horror movies (I'm calling out Black Christmas too) and throws them together for a humorous but also brutal romp that has moments of greatness. Listen in to see what we thought of this holiday horror! Also, we're drinking Southern Tier's Frosted Sugar Cookie Imperial Ale!

On this episode, we have the pleasure of premiering a promo for The Cult Film Companion. It's another movie podcast like us, but with an even greater emphasis on covering cult films! You can catch the promo at around 11:30 in the show, and do us a favor and head to their podcast page and join their Facebook group!

Podcast page: https://shows.acast.com/the-cult-film-companion-podcast

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/566867227341241/

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Check back all holiday season for new episodes. Next up: Christmas Evil!

Festivus Series 2021 starts now! We're returning to the lore of Billy and Agnes in our look at Black Christmas (sometimes stylized Black Xmas) from 2006, a remake of the original film that throws in quite a few odes and tries to give a LOT more backstory. That's not entirely successful, and we talk about why. But we also discuss the holiday festivities, the themes, the cookie-cutter protagonists, and a whole lot more... and we come to a conclusion why we don't return to this movie each year.

Also, we're drinking Ommegang's Everything Nice strong blonde ale, perfect for the festive season.

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Check back all month long as we cover some holiday classics (and some not-so-classics)!

We finally take on one of the most famous horror Thanksgiving movies: Blood Rage! We both agree that this is like a lower-budget, Thanksgiving version of Silent Night, Deadly Night, just way less effective. We talk about the randomness of the movie, the feeling that a lot of this was ad libbed, the gory violence, the interminable length, and a whole lot more.

We're also drinking Ommegang/Firestone Walker's Neon Giants NEIPA collaboration!

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Our final episode for 2021's Halloween season is a cheat with the John Carpenter thing; he didn't direct Halloween Kills, but he did contribute the characters and film score. But of course we had to cover this sequel to the 2018's requel, and we take a lot of time to channel our frustrations at this follow-up. We enjoyed 2018's Halloween quite a bit, and while we did have fun with Halloween Kills, we spend most of this episode discussing the many areas it goes wrong - and then try to cover a few places we really liked. Hope you enjoyed our series, check back with us in a couple of weeks for some holiday podcasting!

Oh yeah, we're drinking Guinness' Nitro Cold Brew Coffee beer.

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Our final (?) episode in our So Creepy It's Carpenter series is on Carpenter's last (?) directorial film The Ward! Ryne thought he had seen this before but he was mistaken; so we both experience this psychological thriller for the first time and discuss how middle of the road it truly is. In fact, it's so difficult to talk about because of how aggressively mediocre it is. However, we give it a shot!

Also, we're drinking Genesee's Cranberry-Orange Kellerbier.

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We have one more Carpenter-related surprise for you next week, so tune in for our Halloween finale!

We're nearing the end of our Carpenter series, but that doesn't mean we won't go out with a bang! In Village of the Damned, we take a look at the creepy kid flick based off a prior movie that was based off a novel. While we note that this doesn't exactly feel like a Carpenter film, it does a good enough job of getting the eerie and the moralism across. We talk about Christopher Reeve, empathy, and Kirstie Alley being here, plus we get in a couple nods to Mark Hamill. Sorry about the clicks and keyboard clacks at the beginning - couldn't edit that out as we were doing research!

Also, we're drinking Beer Tree's Trippy Tree Mango, Pineapple, and Coconut fruited sour.

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Continue to tune in as we cover more Carpenter hits and misses!

We're over halfway through our So Creepy It's Carpenter series and we're tackling another surprisingly great Carpenter film with Body Bags. Shot for Showtime and meant to lead into an anthology TV series, Carpenter provides three very different stories in this 90 minute film, bookended by a great framing story starring Carpenter himself. Carpenter directs two out of the three, with Tobe Hooper providing the last short, and we discuss all three in their entirety.

Oh, and we're drinking Ommegang's Hopstate New York IPA!

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Subscribe to us to keep up with our Carpenter shenanigans all Halloween season!

This is one of Ryne's favorite Carpenter movies, and we give Prince of Darkness some good treatment on the show by covering the score, the creepy factor, the overwhelming foreboding elements, and a whole lot more. Is it so good, so bad, or so creepy? Listen to the episode to find out! We're also drinking Captain Lawrence/Snyder's of Hanover's Snyder Bier Pretzel Marzen!

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Tune in all Halloween season for more Carpenter creepy coverage!