In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we celebrate Irish horror with the comedy slasher “Stitches” — as selected by our listeners.
Welcome to Guilty Pleasures, a show where we take a gander at a modern-day horror film with a wee bit o’ silly and, hopefully, a whole lot of slay. This month, we’re celebrating the luck of the Irish with our St. Patrick’s Day special episode.
We asked our adoring fans to choose our Irish horror film, between 2007’s psychedelic slasher SHROOMS or 2012’s killer clown comedy STITCHES starring Irish comedian Ross Noble. In a fecking landslide, you all told us you craved the clown.
Join us as we dive into the gory details, dissect all the highlights and lowlights, debate the likability of accents and the enduring appeal of 80’s music, and ask, “Is this really a Guilty Pleasure?”
THIS MONTH’S THEMED SPIRIT: GREEN DUBLIN COCKTAIL
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add 4 ounces of Irish whiskey, 4 ounces of white cranberry juice (you can also use regular cranberry juice, but you’ll need to add a couple of drops of green food coloring if you want the right color), and 2 ounces of Sour Apple Schnapps. Shake for 30 seconds. Serve in a martini glass and garnish with mint and sliced green apple if desired.
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Be sure to join us next month when we’ll be serving up revenge horror. You decide, is it PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) or PHANTOM OF THE MALL (1989)?
ABOUT THE HOSTS:
KELLY MINTZER
Kelly loves all the cheese but not the ones you’d expect. A Cronenberg apologist until her dying breath, this Final Philly Girl likes her cats fat, her drinks blue, and would love it if you read her nonsense, both fictional and non.
JACK WELLS
Visionary. Award-Winner. Philanthropist. Social-Media Phenomenon. None of these terms pertain to Jack Wells, a burgeoning author located in northern Utah, and as a raging introvert with an abundance of shyness…he is totally ok with that! Refusing to stick with one genre, Jack writes whatever pops into his head, from historical thrillers to ethereal horror. Guilty Pleasures marks his first foray into podcast hosting. When not putting pen to paper or mouth to the microphone, Jack spends time with his sweet but quirky family, taking late-night road trips, enjoying a cigar, and sipping whiskey by his fire pit (because, as everyone knows, all work and no play…).
STEPHANIE MALONE
Morbidly Beautiful editor. Writer. Brooding Artist. Emo poet. A24 obsessessed arthouse apologist. President of the Nic Cage Fan Club. Rotten-Tomatoes film critic. The better half of the Cheer and Loathing podcast. She’s passionate about movies, good grammar, graphic design, and cats. This fiery redhead hails from Texas, but don’t hold that against her. Professional hustler by day, Love Witch by night. A rabid fan of both five-dollar and four-letter words.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Each month, your hosts, Kelly, Jack, and Stephanie, take a deep dive into a 21st Century “Guilty Pleasure” horror movie as chosen by you, the listener, in an online poll (based on a particular theme). Join us for thematic cocktails, laughter, and a shared love of deliciously cheesy horror served up hot and tasty. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/guilty-pleasures-film/support
Guilty Pleasures: The Babysitter – Killer Queen (2020)
Welcome to Guilty Pleasures, the show where we put your prepubescent ass to bed so we can make out with our boyfriend and watch bad horror movies.
This month, it was Stephanie's turn to pick the theme, and she decided to honor a staple of the genre and celebrate National Babysitter's Day (May 13).
In honor of the occasion, we asked our adoring fans to choose a film for us to stay up late and drink lush lemonades with. You had to choose between the 2013 anthology horror film that first introduced Terrifier’s Art the Clown, ALL HALLOWS’ EVE…or the polarizing 2020 Netflix teen horror comedy THE BABYSITTER: KILLER QUEEN, the McG sequel to 2017’s THE BABYSITTER.
So put on your PJs, get tucked in tight, and let us tell you a bedtime story full of camp, carnage, and a killer scream queen. Does ”The Babysitter: Killer Queen” deserve to be crowned a winner? Or is it more like a royal mess? And is it really a Guilty Pleasure? Let's find out together!
THIS MONTH'S THEMED SPIRIT: LUSH LEMONADE
Pour 2 oz of Captain Morgan's original spiced rum (or spiced rum) over 2-3 ice cubes. Add one bottle of Mike's Hard Lemonade (or non-alcoholic lemonade equivalent). Stir gently and serve.
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Special thanks to the wildly talented Morgan Quaid for our theme show music. Morgan is a multi-talented author of books and graphic novels, a popular podcaster, and a badass musician. Please support this lovely human by subscribing to his channel on YouTube at youtube.com/@MorgantheQuaid.
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