Rotting Flesh Radio’s Morbidly Merry Christmas Winter Watchings

by: RFR Casket Crew Jigsaw Jim

Greetings Film Fiends,
In honor of Rotting Flesh Radio’s 5th Annual Morbidly Merry Christmas, I will review some Christmas/Winter themed horror movies and shows just for you to bring some Holiday Jeer to your Movie Viewing.

First up is a little known story called Seasons of Belief from the 1980′s series Tales from the Darkside. This 3rd season episode from the Horror Master George A. Romero series, stared EG Marshall and tells the tale of 2 misbehaving kids who demand a different kind of cool yule tale (not involving Santa) on Christmas eve. The parents sadistically oblige by telling them the story of the Grither, a monster who inhabits the wastes of the far north and punishes those who say his name. This is a fun little short with a surprise ending.

Next up is the 1977 made for TV movie Snowbeast starring Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux and Clint Walker. This movie tells the story of skiers being terrorized by a man eating bigfoot at a ski resort in the Rockies. Besides the obviously dated ski equipment, 70s style romance between Svenson and Mimieux and its relatively formulaic plot, it is a must see before heading out this season to go skiing and/or snowboarding. The film was directed by Herb Wallerstein, who many from television past will know, was part of such legacies as I Dream of Jeannie, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch, and The Six Million Dollar Man. The film currently is in the Public Domain.

Finally, to stay with this weeks TV theme, I give you How the Grinch Stole Christmas! This Dr. Seuss classic from 1966 stars non other then Boris Karloff as the narrator and the Grinch. If anyone out there hasn’t seen this you’ve either been living in a cave (like the Grinch) or been in front of the computer for far too long! This doesn’t qualify as true horror although the psychedelic and alien nature of the Who’s and the voice over by Karloff requires that this be included in my morbid list.

Next week I’ll shift to movies and I’ll do these reviews until Saturnalia….ah….the Winter Solstice..ah Mithras…I mean Christmas.

Until then, Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away to Rotting Flesh Radio and this is Jim signing off and I am outta here…