Horror Nerds at Church

Happy Epiphany! Our #AdventMasPhany calendar comes to an end with today's prompt, Magic. Emile chose GENIE and Pace chose SUSPIRIA. What are you watching?

For today, the theme is film about feasting and Emily went with HANUKKAH ON RYE and Pace with THE MENU. What are you watching?

Happy Twelfth Day of Christmas! For #AdventMasPhany yesterday, the theme was title that's a pun and Emily went with queer romcom SINGLE ALL THE WAY and Pace went with 80s horror standard HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY.

It's the tenth day of Christmas and the #AdventMasPhany prompt is chosen family. Emily picked the holiday comedy THE NIGHT BEFORE and Pace picked the queer horror flick QUEENS OF THE DEAD. What are you watching?

It's the 9th day of Christmas and for #AdventMasPhany the prompt is remake. Emily chose the Jim Carrey led HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS and Pace went with the 2006 BLACK XMAS. What are you watching?

Happy New Year! For #AdventMasPhany, the prompt today is fairy tale. Emily chose the cute and fun GODMOTHERED whereas Pace stayed on brand with the recent horror retelling of Cinderella, THE UGLY STEPSISTER. What are you watching?

Movie poster collage: Bone Lake The Brooklyn Butcher Drop Dust Bunny Hag The Hands that Rocks the Cradle I Don't Understand You The Other The Parenting Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare Queens of the Dead R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead Shelby Oaks The Surrender Takeout There's A Zombie Outside

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Happy New Year's Eve! For #AdventMasPhany today, the theme is unsurprisingly New Year's Eve. Emily picked CAROL and Pace picked NEW YEAR'S EVIL. What are you watching?

It's the sixth day of Christmas and the #AdventMasPHany prompt is 1990s. Emily is watching the animated THE NUTCRACKER PRINCE and Pace is watching THE BONE YARD, which isn't necessarily holiday but still a fun 90s horror flick. What are you watching?

It's the fifth day of Christmas and the #AdventMasPhany prompt is documentary. Emily picked the documentary on the infamous holiday whamageddon phenomenon and the band behind it, WHAM! whereas Pace picked the documentary chronicling queer horror QUEER FOR FEAR. What are you watching?

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It's the fourth day of Christmas and the #AdventMasPhany prompt is tragedy to tie in with the holy innocents. Emily chose SPOILER ALERT and Pace chose DEAD END. What did you pick?

On the third day of Christmas, the #AdventMasPhany prompt is a film that came out this year. Emily picked MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG and Pace picked the SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT remake. What are you watching?

It’s the second day of Christmas and the #AdventMasPhany calendar prompt is Kwanzaa. Emily chose the documentary THE BLACK CANDLE and since there are not any Kwanzaa horror movies that Pace is aware of, they went with the RomCom A KWANZAA FAMILY VACATION. What are you watching?

Merry Christmas! For the first day of Christmas on #AdventMasPhany, the prompt is a Christmas classic. Emily chose the beloved A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS whereas Pace went with the 1984 slasher hit SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT. What are you watching?

It's Christmas Eve and for our #AdventMasPhany prompt we're suggesting you watch a movie about the first Christmas. Emily picked THE STAR, xmas story told from the donkey's perspective, and Pace THE CARPENTER'S SON, (very loosely) based off of the infancy narrative of Thomas. What are you watching?

For 1980s, Emily went with the beloved GREMLINS and Pace went with a Gremlons knock-off, ELVES. What are you watching?

#AdventMasPhany for Dec 22 and 23rd! For Based on a Book, Emily went with a recent animated adaptation of the Dickens classic SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL whereas Pace chose Kubrick’s legendary adaptation of THE SHINING.

And finally, all caught up for #AdventMasPhany, we land on today's prompt, space! On this winter solstice, Emily chose mind-bending INTERSTELLAR and Pace chose the Christmas alien movie PROMETHEUS. What are you watching?

#AdventMasPhany catch up, Dec. 20th edition. The theme was musical. Emily went with the adorable and classic A MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL whereas Pace went for the zombie Christmas musical ANNA'S APOCALYPSE. What did you watch?

#AdventMasPhany catch up, for Dec. 19th, now for a movie set in the North Pole.. Emily picked the fun Santa caper RED ONE whereas Pace picked the not great but still fun anthology A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY. What did you watch?

Catching up on #AdventMasPhany, now to Dec. 18th. The theme was the true meaning of Christmas 9however you interpret that). Emily picked the animated ANGELA'S CHRISTMAS WISH. Pace went for the Phoebe Cate's monologue about Christmas horror in GREMLINS. What are you watching?

So today is a lot of catch-up for #AdventMasPhany! We left off on December 17th, with the theme of Holiday Horror. Emily picked IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE to copy Pace's early pick :-P whereas Pace picked the French horror flick ADVENT CALENDAR (LE CALENDRIER). What did you watch?

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#AdventMasPhany December 16th! Today's theme is the 1970s, so Emily picked the Rankin-Bass stop motion SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN whereas Pace went for the Christmas slasher classic BLACK CHRISTMAS. What are you watching?

It's December 15th which means our #AdventMasPhany calendar prompt is Hanukkah! Emily picked the rom-com MISTLETOE & MENORAHS whereas Pace of course went horror with the slasher flick HANUKKAH. Chag Sameach! What are you watching?

It's the third Sunday of Advent and our #AdventMasPhany prompt is films with joy in the title. Emily picked the holiday concert recording CHRISTMAS AT LUTHER: JOY TO THE WORLD and Pace picked the early 2000s horror-thriller JOY RIDE. What are you watching?

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New episode! We had such a blast covering PET SEMATARY with returning guest and friend of the pod, Brandon Grafius! We talk zombies, religious allegory, and Jud's fantastic accent. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/HNACPod