On this week’s bonus episode of What’s in the Basket, we’re revisiting our slasher movie origins with a research-free look at the Christmas horrors of Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) and its sequel Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987). We discuss the series’ unexpected connections to Evangelicalism and The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, question the reasoning behind its elaborate soundtrack, and seriously consider launching an investigative podcast into a particularly compelling hot-dog related business venture of the 1980s.
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