Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972), Deathdream (1974), Black Christmas (1974)

Director Bob Clark will probably always be remembered for his now classic holiday film, A Christmas Story (1983), released the same year as his previous film, Porky’s, which is one of the raunchiest sex comedies of that era! But he started off making horror films, 3 of them in particular, before he moved on to making films in just about every other sub-genre. But it is these 3 horror films that we are going to discuss on this episode. One of these set many of the standards of what would be known as a slasher film, while the others have two very different take on zombies. All made low to moderate budgets, but still are still so well made, it’s a shame that Clark didn’t continue on in the horror genre. Maybe that’s why he’s not remembered as much as names like Carpenter, Cronenberg, or Craven. And that’s why we’re discussing it now!

Films mentioned in this episode:

Baby Geniuses (1999), Black Christmas (1974), Black Christmas (2006), Black Christmas (2019), Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1973), Born on the 4^th of July (1989), The Brood (1979), Cat People (1982), Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972), A Christmas Story (1983), Death Dream (1974), Deranged (1974), Duel (1971), Halloween (1978), Hereditary (2018), Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964), Jaws (1975), Last House on the Left (1972), Murder by Decree (1979), Popcorn (1991), Porky’s (1981), Porky’s II: The Next Day (1983), Prom Night (1980), Return of the Living Dead (1985)