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SCREAMING AT CHRISTMAS HORROR FILMS!

16 Dec 2016 4 Comments

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: 3, 4, 5, animated, black christmas, blood beat, bloody night, cartoon, cowboy, deadly night, Deadwest, demonic toys, elves, facebook, gremlins, horror, host, jack frost, klaws, krampus, monster, movie, puppet master, rare exports, review, santa, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 3, silent night, skeleton, slay, soup, toy maker, twitter, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Christmas is closing in on us once again, but it’s okay, because everyone’s been preparing for it since September! And while there’s those snuggled in their eyesore homes, eagerly waiting for their annual holiday viewing of the Grinch or Elf, we know you’re spikin’ that ‘nog and poppin’ in something a little scarier. From killer Santas to mutant snowmen, plenty of Christmas lores have been twisted into some form of sick horror entertainment, and we’ve seen our fair share of it!

In the spirit of a Christmas to dismember, we decided to share with you a small list of Christmas horror movies we think are worth your time as you count down the nights ’til you can rip those gifts out from under that tree. They have strong Christmas themes in them from the killers to the music and settings, just enough to keep you in the spirit of the season . . .

JACK FROST (1996)

Not the young’ns’ version with Michael Keaton resurrected as a friendly snowman, but the adult version with a fugitive serial killer transformed into living snow like a comic book villain. Known for its scene with him raping Shannon Elizabeth in the shower with his carrot nose! 4/5!

ELVES (1989)

TV’s Grizzly Adams plays a mall Santa fighting Nazis and their elaborate plans for world domination with a killer rubber elf. 3/5!

SANTA’S SLAY (2005)

Wrestling’s Goldberg gives his greatest performance as a Krampus-like Santa who tears through a small town in search of the angel who cursed him to deliver gifts to good youngn’s for a millennia. Nothing but sick Christmas fun here with great characters, hell deer, strip clubs, stop-motion flashbacks, and over the top kills with one of the best opening scenes you’ll ever see! 5/5!

KRAMPUS (2015)

The best Krampus movie by-far, this hits all the right notes from the humor to the fear, giving off a very Spielberg vibe. Great story, loveable cast, awesome monsters, disturbing scenes . . . we think Krampus looks too much like a deformed wizard but eh – can’t have everything we guess! 5/5!

BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006)

The original Black Christmas was creepier with its unexplained killer, but we enjoy this remake because it treats the killer like a Batman villain with his discolored skin, fucked up origin story, and escape from an insane asylum. Doesn’t hurt there’s plenty of eye candy as well, like Katie Cassidy and Michelle Trachtenberg. 4/5!

SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT 5: THE TOY MAKER (1991)

This film only made our list because of how unexpected it is at times, searing bizarre images in our brain we’ll never forget. A toy maker and his son are terrorizing families with killer toys, and one particular family becomes their target because they’re living in their old house they lost due to hard times. Most memorable scene is when one particular toy tries bangin’ the mom toward the end. 3/5!

GREMLINS (1984)

Do I really need to explain this one? A son gets a magic critter for Christmas that accidentally spawns nastier critters that run amok, ruining everyone’s Christmas in a small town. 5/5!

SILENT NIGHT (2012)

A reboot for the Silent Night Deadly Night series, this version focuses on a hot cop looking for a killer Santa in a festival of St. Nicks. Good actors, slick cinematography, and Malcolm McDowell spits lines worthy of t-shirts and fridge magnets. 4/5!

PUPPET MASTER VS DEMONIC TOYS (2004)

In a moment of weakness, Full Moon let the Sci-fi Channel play with their toys and this guilty pleasure happened. It’s a suck-ass Puppet Master sequel but a fun Demonic Toys story with them trying to take over the world Christmas Day unless the puppets can stop them with new robot upgrades. 3/5!

SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT (1984)

Our favorite Christmas horror film, we watch this every Christmas Eve before hitting the dirt! It’s ’80s, it’s vicious, it tells the story from the killer’s point of view, and you get Scream Queen Linnea Quigley killed topless! Win win! 5/5!

And there you have it. Our favorite holiday horrors to roast your chestnuts over. While they’re not at the very top of our favorites list, we will mention other Christmas horror films worth watching for your sick pleasure like Don’t Open ’til Christmas, Black Christmas (1974), Santa Clause Conquers the Martians, All Through the House, Scrooged, Christmas Horror Story, Santa Klaws, Maniac Cop 2, and Rare Exports. And if you’re really digging deep for more yuletide punishment, I’ll give you fair warning to avoid flops like Silent Night Deadly Night 3-4, Blood Beat, Silent Night Bloody Night, and Krampus 1-2 (2013 & 2016).

Other than that, be sure to watch our epic Season 3 finale with our review of the Basket Case trilogy while having our final showdown with Buzzkill, catch up on all past Screaming Soup! Seasons, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT SEASON 4 UPDATES!

09 Dec 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, cartoon, CHARLES BAND, cowboy, Deadwest, facebook, FULL MOON, halloween, horror, host, monster, movie, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 3, skeleton, soup, twitter, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Been awhile since our last blog, but when you come down with a bad case of booger lips, it’s best to lay yourself to rest and do nothin’ for awhile. But we’re fully rested now with a few more horror movie reviews under our belt and jumpin’ back in the saddle to prepare the way for Screaming Soup! Season 4.

If you haven’t forgotten, we wrapped up season 3 with a pretty big promise to bring you the battle horror/sci-fi fans have wanted for decades – Troma vs Full Moon! We’ll be reviewing over 30 of your favorite mutant meltdown movies against your top alien flicks, bring back a lot of familiar faces with the magic of animation, and will even feature the involvement of the wizard from the west, Charles Band! Yessir, we reached out to the Full Moon legend himself for an official blessing over this endeavor of ours, and he was very excited by what he saw in the demo we showed him. With everything starting to come together, this will no doubt be our biggest season yet!

If you wanna get a jumpstart on everything there is to know about Troma or Full Moon before then, I’d suggest watching most of Troma’s films on their Youtube channel, and you can get full access to Full Moon’s catalog of work from their movies to their Videozone clips at Full Moon Streaming.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT BIG FANDOM GREENVILLE!

18 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, big fandom greenville, cartoon, cowboy, Deadwest, facebook, horror, host, monster, movie, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 3, skeleton, soup, twitter, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! The weekend is here and Screaming Soup! is making its first convention appearance at the grand opening of Big Fandom Greenville, a 3 day event in the Carolinas celebrating any and all genres of entertainment. We unfortunately haven’t been able to pull together the resources yet for building the set up we want for a Screaming Soup! booth, so we won’t be a regular on the con floor, but still excited to be included in a number of scary panels we helped set-up for horror fans at the con.

Tonight, we’re hosting a panel of talented horror filmmakers from the Carolinas from 8-9, and return to host a different panel tomorrow night from 7-8, spotlighting Graphic Headstone alum, horror comic artists Mitch Rogers and Gregbo Watson! Both panels are going to be very exciting with a plethora of monstrous movie clips, artwork, and in-depth questions regarding the challenges working in such popular forms of entertainment.

But most importantly, we’re giving a special Screaming Soup! presentation from 8-9 following the horror comic panel, sharing the origin story of how our show was conceived. We’ll share our creator’s background, the show’s influences, our favorite clips from past seasons, reasons behind the creative decisions made throughout the series, and be joined by some of the voices behind the characters! If you can make it, great, if not, then we’ll tell you how it went in next week’s blog.

For more info on the con, please visit Big Fandom Greenville.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT SEASON 4!

10 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, cartoon, cowboy, Deadwest, facebook, horror, host, monster, movie, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 3, skeleton, soup, twitter, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Right out of Halloween and more holidays are rearin’ to smack us square in the face ’round the corner! Elections, Veterans, Thanksgiving, and then it’ll too late when you finally remember ol’ Krampus is coming to town. Works in our favor, though, because it gives us some extra time to tackle more of this upcoming season that’s the most ambitious thing the show’s ever taken on. If you saw the ending to season 3, then you know what we’re talking about . . . Troma vs Full Moon!

Yessir, we’re long time fans of both companies and have seen horror lovers try to arrange entertaining battles between the 2 independent goliaths for years, but never with a lot of success. With our imagination being our only limitation, we couldn’t think of any reason why we shouldn’t jump all over this idea and give ourselves and fans something we’ve dreamed of seeing for a long time. We’re talking everything from the Toxic Crusaders to Toulon’s puppets just beating the dog shit out of each other and our favorite gang of animated horror hosts stuck in the middle as refs trying to protect the Howl-Inn Grub & Spirits in the crossfire. It’s definitely a lot of work animating 2 armies going to war, and may even require us to put the secondary vids like Graphic Violence and Reanimated Reviews on the backburner, but it’ll be worth it.

Even more exciting, we’re currently talking with Full Moon and Troma to get them officially involved in the war, and things look promising. More to be announced as things become more concrete with that arrangement!

Another reminder, we’ll be making our first convention appearance as panelist at Big Fandom Greenville. We’ll be hosting panel discussions with some horror filmmakers and independent comic creators in the Carolinas and then talk for an hour about Screaming Soup! Nov.19 at 8pm. We wish it could be our first official booth appearance, but that dream is still in the works until we raise the finances needed to make it everything we envision.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT HALLOWEEN ’16!

31 Oct 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, Billy, cartoon, Deadwest, facebook, halloween, horror, host, monster, movie, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 3, skeleton, soup, twitter, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Halloween is finally here, but it feels late to its own party after a party filled weekend of bobbing for grenades, black cat tosses, and mummy rap offs. The most exciting thing we saw was a drunk penguin threatening to kill party guests for a complimentary t-shirt. Long story short . . . he got one! Following such a crazy few days, maybe the best way to close out the holiday is simply opening a cold one, throw back some hard earned candy, tune in to a tried and true horror favorite with friends and loved ones, and watch the final flicker of the remaining jack’o lanterns die out.

Or you can pull on a different costume, hit up the same houses for more candy, crash a party, and keep your fangs crosses one of them slutty cat girls will spend one of their nine lives with ya. If that’s the case, be safe, don’t blow your nose in the wind, check under the bed, and for Craven’s sake, make sure that’s who you think it is under that mask!

Other than that, be sure to watch our epic Season 3 finale with our review of the Basket Case trilogy while having our final showdown with Buzzkill, shoot someone one of our Halloween Eeeh!-Cards, catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-3, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks! Be safe and Happy Halloween!

SCREAMING AT THE HALLOWEEN WEEKEND!

28 Oct 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, cowboy, Deadwest, facebook, halloween, horror, monster, movie, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 3, skeleton, soup, twitter, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! While we already had our Halloween blow-out with the duel of the afterlife, your spooky weekend is just beginning and sure to be full of mischievous fun guaranteed to haunt you the rest of your days. Cavity candies, slutty costumes, party prizes, ghoulish games . . . evil clowns. We’re sure you’ll have fun!

In the meantime, we’re gearing up for the weekend ourselves and moving fast to prep for Screaming Soup! Season 4 (premiering 1/20/17). We’re animating ’til our bones break and still in talks with key individuals for making sure Troma vs Full Moon is as epic as we can make it! But more about that later. For now, we’re poppin’ candy, double fistin’ a couple of cold ones, and chillin’ out to our favorite horror flicks and tunes while strategizing the best parties to go to the next few days.

We’re also happy to announce we’ll be attending our first convention next month, Big Fandom Greenville. We don’t have our dream booth built yet, so don’t get too excited, but we will be attending multiple panels, hosting discussions about various horror topics which include Screaming Soup! Looking forward to that and wrangling in several of the fine folk who make our show a success.

Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-3 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks! Be safe and happy early Halloween!

SCREAMING AT THE BASKET CASE TRILOGY!

20 Oct 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, basket case, basket case 2, basket case 3, basketcase, belial, Billy, brian barnes, cartoon, cowboy, Deadwest, facebook, frank henenlotter, halloween, horror, host, monster, movie, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 3, skeleton, soup, trilogy, twitter, your final answer, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks, and a happy early Halloween to ya as we bring our larger than afterlife season to its epic conclusion with a 36 minute finale! As you know, Buzzkill’s makin’ the Howl-Inn Grub and Spirits ground zero for his trap of a Halloween party meant to enslave the Crosslands, and it’s up to your favorite horror host gang to stop him. Everyone returns for one last appearance as the slime hits the fan and all walks of creature witness an unholy horror host feud end in a big top showdown.

To compliment such a celebration, we picked an equally monstrous film series to review, the Basket Case trilogy! We were fortunate enough to find these movies years ago on VHS when a video store was closing, and boy were we entertained by what has to be one of the most underrated monsters next to Maniac Cop! If you haven’t seen them, the movies follow these conjoined twins who were separated against their wishes, and now the normal looking brother carries his human meatball freak of a sibling in a wicker basket, struggling to find their place in the world while attacking haters. It’s absolutely one to check out, and even more fun to review so watch it below!

As for the sneak preview of next season you see in this review, we’ll come back to that later . . .

Be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-3 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT LINNEA QUIGLEY!

14 Oct 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, Billy, bruce campbell, cartoon, cowboy, Deadwest, facebook, halloween, horror, host, linnea quigley, monster, movie, return of the living dead, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 2, season 3, skeleton, sorority babes in the slime bowl o rama, soup, tribute, twitter, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Hope your Halloween season’s off to a great start, and we can’t wait for you to join us for our epic Halloween finale next week, 10/20/16! Fun reviews, favorite characters return, and we reveal our plans for next season’s storyline that’s sure to get a lot of you falling out of your seat with excitement!

But focusing on the now, it’s time for another Tribute video and given we did a big one on Bruce “King of the B” Campbell last Halloween, we thought we’d turn to our favorite Queen of Scream this time, Linnea Quigley! Apocalyptic soldier, cemetery dancing punk, fitness instructor, nerd turned succubus, demonic cutie, chainsaw prancing hero, she’s played it all and continues to entertain us today with an ever growing list of credits. While most will always remember her for her iconic role as a naked zombie in Return of the Living Dead, our favorite Linnea role is still Spider from Sorority Babes at the Slime Bowl-O-Rama. She didn’t show any skin in that flick, but we always felt that was her coolest character who was tough, fun, and endearing. Anyway, check the video we put together below and bask in her talents!

Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT OCTOBER EVE AND MANDY’S BIRTHDAY!

30 Sep 2016 Leave a comment

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Today is one bonanza indeed! Not only are we on the edge of diving into the official Halloween season, but today is also the birthday of our favorite ghostly gal, Mandy! If you didn’t know that already, it’s probably because she and Scooby-Doo share the same birthday, so one tends to eclipse the other. (happy birthday, scoob.)

Yessir, today’s gonna be full of wicked wines, candle meltin’ cakes, and all manner of horrific surprises as we shower Mandy with loads of ghastly gifts. We learned our lesson last year when we upset her with nothin’ but a heap of kitchen do-dads for whippin’ us up some chow and stuck with only the fun stuff this birthday. She’ll hopefully be happier receiving R. L. Stine books and slasher movies this time around!

In other news, we’re looking forward to a lot of our favorite TV shows coming back next week like Supernatural, been loving the new Comet Channel we came across which is reminiscent of the Sci-fi Channel’s early days, and counting down to our season finale 10/20/16 which will be a 40-45 min super show with a review of a fantastic trilogy everyone should see!

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT PINATA SURVIVAL ISLAND!

20 Sep 2016 Leave a comment

by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: 2002, animated, Billy, brian barnes, cartoon, comic, cowboy, Deadwest, demon, facebook, horror, host, jaime pressly, michael gordon, monster, movie, nicholas brendon, pinata, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 2, season 3, skeleton, soup, survival pinata island, tiki z, tiki zombie, twitter, your final answer, youtube

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! We see that silly rigor mortis grin spreading across your face and bet that’s because we got an all NEW Screaming Soup! episode for you today! Yessir, today we’re reviewing a horror film we only fell asleep 3 times during . . . Pinata Survival Island. Boozin’ college students, demonic piñatas, and the most lackluster romance to save the day!

In this review, we’re once again visited by the Grim Reaper from Your Final Answer (that guy’s really been hangin’ around) and have a very special cameo by Tiki Z from the indy published Tiki Zombie comics created by Michael Gordon. We’re incredibly grateful for Michael allowing us to animate Tiki Z who we became instant fans of after finding his comics at our local comic shop and insist you Scream Freaks hit him up for copies of his comics and Tiki Zombie soundtrack at tikizombie.net. You won’t regret it!

And real quick to follow up last week’s blog, Blair Witch sucked. It was well made, shot, and acted, but the story sucked because it’s more or less the first movie all over again just with more people, cameras, and effects. So, if you haven’t dropped any deniro for that walletbuster yet, DON’T! Still see it sometime, but wait for Netflix or Redbox. To see what else we thought about it, check out our review on the R-Rated Reviews page.

As a reminder, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.

We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks!