Not Quite Dead

The girls wanted to wish their listeners a very Merry Christmas with this special episode that explores the horrors of the holiday season. There will be merriment, shared fears, and of course, spoilers. 

Check out the movies we cover in this episode:

Dec 1 - Love Actually

Dec 2 - Gremlins

Dec 3 - Friday After Next

Dec 4 - The Santa Clause

Dec 5 - A Charlie Brown Christmas

Dec 6 - Bad Santa

Dec 7 - Falling for Christmas

Dec 8 - A Merry Friggin’ Christmas

Dec 9 - Home Alone

Dec 10 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Dec 11 - Miracle on 34th Street

Dec 12 - Santa’s Slay

Dec 13 - Ernest Saves Christmas

Dec 14 - Batman Returns

Dec 15 - Christmas, Again

Dec 16 - Spirited

Dec 17 - Christmas Vacation

Dec 18 - A Muppet Christmas Carol

Dec 19 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Dec 20 - It’s a Wonderful Life

Dec 21 - Die Hard

Dec 22 - Elf

Dec 23 - Jingle All the Way

Dec 24 - Nightmare Before Christmas

Dec 25 - A Christmas Story

Thank you for joining us for Season 9: Kids Horror! In this finale, we keep it short and sweet for all you busy parents - we rank the movies in age-appropriateness, and share a finger painting craft!

They're creepy and they're kooky / Mysterious and spooky / They're all together ooky - that's right, we're covering The Addams Family! Featuring everyone's favorite macabre characters, the 1991 movie introduced a new audience to the bizarre aristocratic family.

Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer. Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Ostensibly a real movie and not just a vehicle for Universal Studios to sell merchandise, The Monster Squad is a late 80s kids' classic horror movie. Featuring iconic characters like Dracula and the Wolfman, the plot of the movie is loosely draped around a group of kids trying to prevent the monsters from taking over the world.

This episode is a classic debate of nostalgia versus quality - tell us what you think!

Not Quite Dead covers the 2015 movie Goosebumps, a film jam packed with references to the classic kids horror book series. The film takes a meta approach to author R.L. Stine and his creations, for better and worse!

Controversially, Megan believes this to be the worst movie we have ever covered on the podcast. Come unpack that with us in this episode!

The final installment of the Fear Street trilogy takes us all the way back to 1666 - and then forward to 1994 - then back again - then back again. Sheesh! Should this series have been four movies instead of three? Were all of the plot lines resolved in the final chapter? Tune in and find out!

If you were an 80s or 90s baby, you may be entitled to financial compensation for emotional trauma from the illustrations featured in the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series.

This movie pastiches some of the more famous stories from the children's books into a plot involving a historic local woman accused of witchcraft, the haunted house she lived in, and the high school kids compelled to stop the murders in their town.

Fear Street 1978 pays homage to the campground slashers of the era, with all the blood, sex, and pot you'd expect. "Wait!" you're thinking, "Isn't this a kids' movie?" Well, listen to this minisode and hear what the NQD gals have to say about that.

The Roald Dahl classic children's book gets the movie treatment in the 1990 flick The Witches!

This movie is notably creepy with its Jim Henson puppetry and intense witch makeup on Anjelica Huston. The Not Quite Dead gals debate the film's ending - markedly different from the book - and discuss the legacy of Roald Dahl's books.

Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer. Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Netflix's three-part Fear Street series is getting the Not Quite Dead minisode treatment this season! Come listen to discussion on the surprisingly (to some) mature content and debate with us when you can introduce kids to their first slasher movie.

Episode edited by Cate Smith. Music by Zach Pfeifer.