154: Hot Damn, its a Black Christmas

Published: Dec. 24, 2011, 1:17 p.m.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 154

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We are back, and the holiday party continues, as we cover a few geek activities, and \u201cvery special\u201c installment of the ever popular Marlena Moment. Then we watch the beloved holiday classic that is \u201cBlack Christmas\u201c. As the Sofa Theater discussion kicks in we discuss, \u2018The Bob Clark Thing\u2019 - about a massively influential director that left his mark on cinema history. As well as Olivia Hussy, Margot Kidder, a creepy-looking Christmas tree, a fabulous fur coat and an awesome One From The Vaults memory from the movie\u2019s star John Saxon!

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All that plus the festive holiday fun that is\u2026 soulless, dead-eyed, robot carolers, It\u2019s a Bodies Alive Christmas!, Firefly, The Muppets, I want punishment, party line, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Insidious, it looked like Cher and Mickey Avalon had a baby, goldfish swimming in your hot chocolate, super slo-mo camera, How I Met Barney, yellow bastard in the attic, Battlestar Galactica, Lizzy Caplan, Psycho-influences, I\u2019ve gotta go take a shower\u2026 everyone\u2019s dead, American Horror Story, my teeth feel like sandpaper, calling back in time, a real world scene from a John Waters movies, it wasn\u2019t that piano\u2019s fault he sucked, Limitless, a Veronica Mars reunion, Gilda Radner, that is back when toys shot rockets, you drink too many damned sofa drinks, The Hot Damn Hobo, Jason Segel, Brian Posehn, which cocaine Abe?, being sober makes you afraid of pain, it\u2019s weird how many gay guys I\u2019ve loved in my day, a pig with no back legs, choking on Aphrodite A\u2019s missiles, hot damn hobo ghost, Jackass 3, Party Down, is Margo Kidder living in my alley? - and our own special take on Scott Weiland's new Christmas album!

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Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers revealed, so go watch the original 1974 \u201cBlack Christmas\u201d.

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\u201cHe\u2019s just got that creepy, not human\u2026but sort of used to be human look to it\u2026it\u2019s pain, but it\u2019s also like - I\u2019m already dead. I\u2019m already dead! And I\u2019m just doing this because they reanimated my body just enough to sing and dance!\u201d