Episode 160: Mercy Christmas

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Joseph

We bid farewell to barbecue season as Home for the Horrordays continues! This week we’re looking at Mercy Christmas, a horror/comedy about a family whose Christmas tradition is to kidnap unsuspecting victims and have them for Christmas dinner. As in eat them. Because they’re cannibals. Ha ha ha!

Join us as we tell the tale of Michael Briskett (yes), the poor guy tied up in Christmas lights on the poster below, as he wishes for the traditional family Christmas, and gets more than he bargained for.

Bradford gets angry at the family’s poor cooking practices, Joe gets angry at the mountain of missed opportunities, and Johnny-5 was just angry right outta the box. Also we somehow wind up talking about Legos. Like ya do.

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Episode 159: Icetastrophe

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Joseph

After a long summer off, we’re back to ring in the most wonderful time of the year: Home for the Horrordays!

On this episode we discuss the SyFy Channel original movie Icetastrophe, AKA Christmas Icetastrophe, AKA A Christmas Tale. No matter what you call it, this is a silly Day After Tomorrow knockoff in which a meteor crash lands in a small Washington town and flash freezes everything in sight. It’s up to scientist Alex and townie Charlie Ratchet to save the town, while entrepreneur Crooge struggles to stay alive long enough to save his kids. Ratchet? Crooge? Yeah… It’s one of those. The Christmas Carol connection is tenuous at best.

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Episode 158: Jaws

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Joseph

It’s the 4th of July on this podcast, which means we’re roughly halfway to Christmas! So what better way to celebrate than with the most 4th of July movie of them all: Jaws!

You know Jaws. It’s the granddaddy of all killer shark movies. It’s Steven Spielberg’s first breakout hit. It’s the movie that made summer the season of blockbuster movies. And more than just being historically important, Jaws is just an all-around damn good movie.

Crack open a cold Narragansett and join us as we break down everything that makes this movie tick, why it’s still revered as a classic, and why it’s the ultimate summer movie!

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Episode 157: Ronin

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Joseph

Summer is upon us once again, and that means it’s time for a whole bunch of action movies! And in our case, that means action movies that may or may not actually have something to do with Christmas.

On this episode we’re looking at the 1998 Euro-heist flick Ronin! Robert De Niro and Jean Reno speed across France in pursuit of a stolen briefcase, whose contents may or may not be a danger to world peace. Also, it’s Christmas! You didn’t think we’d just watch Ronin for no reason, did you?

Also in this episode: Bradford discusses his recent vacation to Paris, Jonathan brings up Rugrats in Paris for some reason, and we stumble backwards into the best pitch for an Austin Powers movie ever!

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Episode 156: El Camino Christmas

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Joseph

Happy May, friends! This week’s episode comes to us via listener request. Life is full of twists and turns that you never expect. For instance, we never expected to be talking about the 2017 Netflix film El Camino Christmas this week, but that’s exactly what we’re gonna do!

El Camino Christmas finds a handful of ne’er-do-well drunks, shady cops and innocent bystanders all holed up in a liquor store on Christmas Eve. Life lessons are learned, secrets unearthed, all that good stuff. Perennial Christmas favorite Tim Allen is here to force everyone to sing Christmas carols at gunpoint, which means this is the one Christmas film that accurately captures the way this podcast feels 90% of the time…

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Episode 155: An All Dogs Christmas Carol

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Joseph

On this episode we’re talking about An All Dogs Christmas Carol! It’s the series finale of the All Dogs Go To Heaven animated series, itself a sequel series to Don Bluth’s original All Dogs Go To Heaven. This thing went on a whole lot longer than we would have guessed!

Now guardian angel dogs living in San Francisco, Charlie and Itchy take it upon themselves to pull a “Christmas Carol” on their nemesis, Carface (voiced by Ernest Borgnine!), to show him the error of his ways. There’s also something about a demon dog hatching a plan to steal Christmas presents, but it’s not important.

What IS important is that Joe gets hoodwinked into playing the donation game himself this week, and he does… well, the important thing is he does it.

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Episode 154: Daddy’s Home 2

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Joseph

It’s that time again! The gang’s all here as we take a listener request and dedicate this week’s episode to Daddy’s Home 2! Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are all hunky dory as co-step-dads after the original Daddy’s Home, so what better way to test that bond than by bringing in their own dads to help celebrate the holidays?

In this episode, we talk about all manner of weird garbage, the weird logistics of Airbnb, the complicated legacy of “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, wiener hats, the phenomenon of going to the movies on Christmas Day, and a whole lot more!

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Episode 153: The Naughty Nine

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Joseph

And we’re back! On this episode, Nikki returns to help Joe and Bradford break down Disney’s most recent holiday offering: The Naughty Nine!

On Christmas morning, Andy discovers Santa did not bring him the video game console he asked for. Realizing he’s been put on the naughty list, Andy enlists the help of seven kids with expert skills (and one adult who’s definitely not Chris Pratt) to fly to the North Pole and steal back the Christmas gifts they rightly deserve. So it’s Ocean’s Eleven but with kids. Cool. Great.

Also in this episode, Joe pitches his own idea for a Christmas kids movie, Bradford explains the distinction between a horse-cop and a cop-horse, and Nikki regrets ever returning to this stupid podcast.

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Episode 152: Video Games of 2023 (Part 2)

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Joseph

It’s been a few weeks, but we’re finally wrapping up our video game extravaganza! If you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, we highly recommend you give that a listen before diving into part 2. (Link’s in the show notes!)

In this episode, we each discuss our top two games of the year, plus some honorable mentions, and a handful of comments from our very own listeners! See? If you listened to Christmas Creeps, we might put you on the show too. Anywho, now that we’ve finally gotten Video Game Chat out of our systems, we can get back to the business of talking about terrible Christmas movies. Stay tuned for your regularly scheduled Christmas Creeps!

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Episode 151: Video Games of 2023 (Part 1)

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Joseph

Happy New Year, Creepazoids! 2024 marks our 10th year of Christmas Creeps, and to celebrate we’re kicking off the year with the show we’ve been wanting to do for a long time: Video Game Chat!

This week we’re taking a break from discussing Christmas to talk about the best video games we’ve played in 2023. They don’t have to be new games, just games we played in the last year.

We realize this episode may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but rest assured our regular programming will resume in February. For now though, please enjoy this ridiculous episode in which we all talk so much about video games that we had to break it up into two parts! (Part 2 coming next week!)

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