Christmas Creeps

This week, special guest Drew Meyer returns to chat about the mid-90s Comedy Central staple Trapped in Paradise. If a movie has no fans, can it truly have fan theories? How many George Baileys does one town need? What is going on with Nicolas Cage in this movie, and how much of it is his fault? Join us as we attempt to answer these questions and more!   Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

We love all holidays equally here at Christmas Creeps, which is why this week we're discussing Holidays, a brand new horror anthology film featuring tales from eight of the biggest holidays on the calendar. Did we love it? Far from it. Give it a listen to find out how deep this awful well goes! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

The 2016 presidential race is heating up, and that means it's time to remind you of all the movies in which our two candidates have appeared. Like Home Alone 2: Lost in New York! In this episode we discuss Harry and Marv's surprising resilience, the McCallister's endlessly deep pockets, and the legacy of Tim Curry. Grab your TalkBoys and bricks and let's soak a rope in kerosene! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

With Paul Feig's Ghostbusters in theaters now, we take a look back at Feig's 2006 holiday film Unaccompanied Minors, featuring the return of Bad Santa's Thurman Murman! Okay, so he's not actually the same character, but we like to think he is. It's more fun that way. Disclaimer: It's so hot out right now that our computer melted down halfway through recording. We still get in plenty of goofy tangents about Star Wars and junk, but we just wanna be upfront with you fine folks! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Sound FX courtesy of SoundBible.com

You can tell when a movie really sets us all on edge, because we wind up swearing a whole lot more than usual. That's the effect of A Christmas Story 2, a decades-later sequel solely designed to cash in on a holiday favorite. Does Ralphie's mission to get a new car for Christmas have anything on his Red Ryder carbine action range model air rifle? How weird is it to cast Marv from Home Alone as the Old Man? Does Randy live in his own personal time vortex? The answers to these questions and more on this episode of Christmas Creeps! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

This week we're celebrating Johnny-5's birthday with another trip through a Die Hard movie! Only problem is it's Die Hard 2, and if you've seen Die Hard 2, you know what a rough, boring, gunfight-filled ride we're in for. What makes a Die Hard movie? Does setting a movie at Christmas automatically count it as a Christmas movie? Is this the movie that drove Renny Harlin off the deep end? Tune in for the answers to these questions and more! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Outro: Die Hard (Guyz Nite)

It's another Redboxing Day, everybody! This week's movie asks the question, "What if Santa was actually the devil?" So head on down to your local Redbox, check out Krampus and come on back for our discussion of the movie's comedy/horror dynamic. This may be our most contentious episode yet, as our three co-hosts' reactions to this film run the gamut from bitter contempt to utter delight. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

This week we dive into Lethal Weapon, the first of several holiday-themed films from screenwriter Shane Black. Will holiday depression get the best of Mel Gibson's Martin Riggs? (There are three sequels, so no.) How many cheesy buddy cop movie tropes can one movie possibly start? Does Lethal Weapon have anything at all to do with The Karate Kid? Tune in to find out! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Last episode we called our shot and said we'd discuss The Night Before, and this week we finally make good on our promise. Three best friends find themselves growing older and growing apart while embarking on one last holiday bar crawl. Secrets are revealed, grievances are aired, and allllllll the drugs are taken. Believe it or not, though, this one wound up hitting us all right in the feels. That's how the kids say it, right? The feels? Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

This week we decided to celebrate St. Patrick's Day by watching the greenest thing we could find: From 1994, it's "We Wish You a Turtle Christmas", a live-action direct-to-video Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Christmas special! And because we'd rather be talking about literally anything else, we also discuss the existential crisis of Master Splinter, nitpick the differences between the various Ghostbusters movie trailers, and Karyn pitches a movie about Joe going back to school as an undercover teenager. Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro: Deck The Halls (Tish Rabe/Richard Berg)Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

This week on the podcast, we discuss the family Christmas movie Love The Coopers. Through the ridiculous power of marketing, Redbox tried to convince us this was a Valentine's Day movie. We may be a bunch of dummies, but we're not that dumb. I mean... We rented, watched, and did an episode about it, but we're not thaaaat dumb. Happy belated-Valentine's Day and also Leap Day, everyone! Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Happy February, gang! This week we popped our heads out of our podcast bunker and didn’t see our shadow, which as you know means go back four spaces and do Halloween all over again. In 1996, Universal scraped together a little bit of cash, rewrote A Charlie Brown Christmas and crapped out The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas for broadcast television. In this episode, not only do we improbably land on one of the ultimate truths of Christmas, but also discover how to solve global warming the Final Fantasy way! Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Last week the world lost one of holiday cinema's greatest villains in Alan Rickman. So since we covered Die Hard six months ago, this week we discuss Rickman's other modern holiday classic: Love Actually. Join us and returning guest Drew Meyer as we talk about intersecting narratives, Billy Bob Thornton's secret fear, post-9/11 airports, and a whole lot more! (Seriously, this episode's a long one.) Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Merry Christmas, friends! This week we're taking a break from watching and yelling about holiday movies so that we can kick up our feet, have a few drinks, and play some holiday games. What holiday games, you might ask? Well, let's just say we surprised ol' Bradford with a game some might consider a crime against humanity... Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro: A Holly Jolly Christmas (Burl Ives)Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

It's December, which means it's time to take a break from Christmas movies. Instead, we're celebrating July at Christmas, and what better expression of July than Roland Emmerich's 1996 action epic Independence Day! Also, fun fact: We recorded this episode literally the day before the trailer for the sequel dropped. Fortuitous timing, but that means we couldn't break it down in all sorts of stupid ways. C'est la vie.  Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro: Independence Day Suite (David Arnold / City of Prague Philharmonic)Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Joe and Jon take a moment to give thanks that all movies aren't as inexplicably terrible as the 1989 Nazi-horror movie Elves.  Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Just because Halloween is over doesn't mean the Horrordays can't continue! This week we're taking one last dip into the spooks and scares of the season with Jack Frost. No, not the one where Michael Keaton comes back to life as a snowman who hugs kids. The one where a serial killer comes back to life as a snowman who kills kids. And adults. This snowman does not discriminate. Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

It's Home for the Horrordays here on Christmas Creeps, and we're celebrating all the holiday spooks and scares with a musical about the most popular guy in town and the job that he hates! It's Henry Selick's Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas! Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

October is the season for all things spooky and monstrous, and for us that can only mean one thing: GREMLINS! Join us on a ridiculous 70-minute ride through Joe Dante's 1984 classic about little green maniacs tearing up Ronald Reagan's America. Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

This week, the Creeps race across the country with college freshman/sociopath Jonathan Taylor Thomas in the 1998 Disney romp I'll Be Home For Christmas, another holiday road trip where nobody learns anything! Questions/Comments?Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.comTweet us @ChristmasCreepsVisit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com! Intro/Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! (Simon Panrucker) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0