Scary Spirits Podcast

In celebration of Jonathan Scott-Taylor’s 61st birthday on March 6th, Greg has chosen the 1978 film “Damien: Omen II” for our enjoyment this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy a shot (or two) of “Satan’s Spawn“. The recipe that Greg found on cocktailbuilder.com is below.

Satan’s Spawn Recipe

• 1 oz Firewater cinnamon schnapps (or cinnamon schnapps)
• 3-4 dash of Tabasco sauce

Instructions:

1. Add the Tabasco first, then the Firewater.

A Brief Synopsis: Richard and Ann Thorn have taken their 13-year-old nephew, Damien, into their Chicago home following the death of Richard’s brother seven years earlier. The Thorns love the child, whom they are sending to military school, but not everyone is so sanguine about his presence. Soon after Great Aunt Marion expresses concerns about the boy, she dies suddenly and unexpectedly. And she is certainly not the last.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Karen teaches us what a “Tel” is.
• Karen gives us lots of information about “The Whore of Babylon”.
• Greg describes the differences between a trumpet and a bugle.
• Greg works in both a “Star Wars” and Iron Maiden reference.
• What is “Yigael’s Wall”? Is it a real thing?
• Karen, being very observant, noticed that the color red seems to predict a character’s death.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was OK. It took us 3 cocktails to get through it.

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Celebrating what would have been Lionel Atwill’s 138th birthday on March 1, 2023, Karen has chosen the 1933 film “Mystery of the Wax Museum” starring Mr. Atwill and Fay Wray for our viewing enjoyment this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while enjoying a “Galaxy Magic Mule“ cocktail. Karen found the recipe below on gastronomblog.com.

Galaxy Magic Mule Cocktail

Magic Blue Ice:

• 8 flowers of Butterfly Pea Flower Tea
• 2 cups hot water

Galaxy Magic Moscow Mule:

• 2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz freshly squeezed lime juice
• 4-6 oz ginger beer
• crushed ice
• crushed “Magic Blue Ice”

Magic Blue Ice Instructions:

1. Add hot water to the Butterfly Pea Flowers.
2. Allow to steep for 3-4 minutes.
3. Strain out flowers.
4. Pour into ice cube trays and freeze.
5. Crush ice and use in cocktail.

Galaxy Magic Mule Instructions:

1. Partially fill the mug with crushed clear ice.
2. Top with crushed Magic Blue Ice.
3. Add lime juice.
4. Add vodka.
5. Add ginger beer.
6. Top with additional Magic Blue Ice.

A Brief Synopsis: Ivan Igor is the sculptor at a famous wax museum in London. When his partner, Joe Worth, burns down the museum for the insurance money, Igor is trapped inside. Years later he re-emerges in New York as the curator of a new wax museum, which boasts incredibly lifelike statues. When model Joan Gale goes missing, however, reporter Florence Dempsey follows the clues to Igor’s museum, where she discovers a terrible secret.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• What is so special about the Butterfly Pea Flower?
• Who was Pygmalion?
• We learn a little bit about Laudanum.
• Karen makes a Def Leppard reference.
• Karen teaches a little about pH.
• How much is £15,000 in 1933 money worth today?
• Karen tells us about death masks.
• Greg makes a Batman reference.
• Once again we have a reference to Star Wars.
• Greg tells us the value of a 1932 Auburn 12-160 Roadster.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was pretty good. It only took us 2 cocktails to get through it.

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In honor of Dwight Frye’s 124th birthday on February 22, Greg has chosen the 1935 film “The Crime of Dr. Crespi” for our enjoyment this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy a “Catatonic Cocktail“. The recipe that Greg found on the Ruffino Restaurant YouTube page is below.

Catatonic Cocktail Recipe

• 1/2 oz tonic water
• 1 oz vodka
• 1 oz Grand Marnier
• ginger ale
• orange slices

Instructions:

1. Muddle 2 orange slices in a Collins glass with 1/2 oz tonic water.
2. Fill glass with ice.
3. Add 1 oz vodka.
4. Add 1 oz Grand Marnier.
5. Top with Ginger Ale.
6. Mix.
7. Garnish with orange slices and serve.

A Brief Synopsis: Dr. Andre Crespi hates Dr. Stephen Ross, who married Crespi’s girlfriend, Estelle. During surgery, Ross appears to die. Crespi has given Ross a drug that induces a state of apparent death, while Ross retains all of his senses. Dr. John Arnold is then asked to exhume Ross by the suspicious Dr. Thomas. They exhume the body and return to the hospital to prove he was poisoned. Ross awakens from the drug while on the autopsy table.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Where does the phrase “Saved by the bell” come from?
• Greg gives us some facts about the Ford Model A automobile.
• Karen teaches us all about what the length of a Doctor’s white lab coat means.
• Just how rare are Quintuplets?
• What is $1 in 1844 money worth today?
• We learn a little about the political career of William Howard Taft.
• We learn what Greg’s favorite flower is.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was OK. It took us 3 cocktails to get through it.

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Celebrating Valentine’s Day, Karen has chosen the 1981 film “My Bloody Valentine” for our enjoyment this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy “The Bloody Valentine Cocktail“. The recipe that Karen found on thedailymeal.com is below.

The Bloody Valentine Cocktail Recipe

• 3 oz orange juice
• 2 oz tequila
• 1/2 oz grenadine
• 1/2 oz blood orange syrup
• blood orange slice for garnish

Instructions:

1. Pour the tequila, orange juice and blood orange syrup into a rocks glass with ice.
2. Stir.
3. Slowly pour the grenadine around the inside edge of the glass, it will sink and slowly rise to mix with the other ingredients naturally.
4. Spear a blood orange slice with a toothpick and lay across the top of the glass.

A Brief Synopsis: Friends defy the rules of a legendary murderer and discover he is real when they start celebrating Valentine’s Day.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• What exactly is a “limerick”?
• How did Valentine’s Day become a holiday?
• Karen teaches us about rock dust used in mines to combat methane explosions.
• Greg reminisces about his days in college when he experimented with Canadian beers.
• Karen makes a Star Wars reference.
• We learn that Karen collects shot glasses.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was OK. It took us 3 cocktails to get through it.

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Celebrating the 28th anniversary of it’s release on February 3, 1995, Greg has chosen the John Carpenter film “In the Mouth of Madness” starring Sam Neill for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while enjoying a “Hobb’s End Highball Cocktail“. Greg found the recipe below on 2geekswhoeat.com.

Hobb’s End Highball Cocktail

• 2 oz dry gin
• 1 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 3/4 oz lemon juice
• club soda

Instructions:

1. Combine all ingredients (except club soda) in a bar mixing glass with ice.
2. Stir.
3. Strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice.
4. Top with club soda.
5. Serve.

A Brief Synopsis: When horror novelist Sutter Cane goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent scrutinizes the claim made by his publisher, Jackson Harglow, and endeavors to retrieve a yet-to-be-released manuscript and ascertain the writer’s whereabouts. Accompanied by the novelist’s editor, Linda Styles, and disturbed by nightmares from reading Cane’s other novels, Trent makes an eerie nighttime trek to a supernatural town in New Hampshire.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Greg makes a reference to comedian Heywood Banks.
• Greg quotes the Beatles song “Revolution 9”.
• Karen teaches us all about Dobermann Pinschers.
• Karen also tells us all about the history of the typewriter.
• Greg makes several references to H. P. Lovecraft.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was pretty good. It only took us 2 cocktails to get through it.

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Celebrating the 43rd anniversary of it’s release today, February 1st, Karen has chosen the 1980 John Carpenter film, “The Fog” for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy a “Dark Fog Cocktail“. The recipe that Karen found on inthekitchen.net is below.

Dark Fog Cocktail Recipe

• 1 can Guinness dark beer
• 1-2 splashes raspberry liqueur

Instructions:

1. Slowly pour the dark beer into a tilted glass.
2. Add a splash or two of raspberry liqueur.
3. Lightly swirl to mix and serve!

A Brief Synopsis: Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Why is it so foggy in northern California? Karen fills us in.
• Why are boats and other vehicles referred to using feminine names and pronouns?
• Karen tells us about the boat referred to as “trollers”.
• Greg makes yet another Iron Maiden reference.
• Just how much is a “dash” anyway?
• We have a reference to Walpurgisnacht.
• When is the “Witching Hour”?

Our rating of the film:

This movie was OK. It took us 3 cocktails to get through it.

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Celebrating the 59th anniversary of it’s release on January 22, 1964, Greg has chosen the horror-comedy “The Comedy of Terrors” starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy an “Undertaker” cocktail. The recipe that Greg found on mixthatdrink.com is below.

Undertaker Cocktail Recipe

• 3 oz vanilla vodka
• 1 oz Kahlua
• 1 oz creme de cacao
• 1 oz chilled espresso

Instructions:

1. Fill a martini shaker with ice.
2. Pour in the first three ingredients.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain the mixture into a chilled martini glass.
5. Add the chilled espresso and stir well.

A Brief Synopsis: Waldo Trumbull is an amoral undertaker in 19th-century New England who takes to murdering people to have enough cash to support his drinking habit. Desperate for money after a widow stiffs him for a burial, Trumbull and his assistant, Gillie, decide to kill the wealthy Mr. Black, their landlord, to whom they’re indebted. But murdering Black proves to be quite a challenge, as he seems to keep recovering from death every time they do him in.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Where does the custom of mourners throwing dirt on a coffin come from?
• Karen makes a reference to Boots Randolph.
• Did you know that 80% of all orange cats are male?
• What exactly is catalepsy?
• There are a lot of Shakespeare references in this film.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was so bad that it took us 4 cocktails to get through it.

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Celebrating what would have been Edgar Allen Poe’s 214th birthday on January 19th, Karen has chosen the 1961 film “The Pit and the Pendulum” starring Vincent Price, for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while enjoying an “Absolut Fear Cocktail“. Karen found the recipe below on cocktailbuilder.com.

Absolut Fear Cocktail

• 1 1/2 oz Absolut Raspberri vodka
• 1 1/2 oz SoBe No Fear energy drink (or other energy drink)

Instructions:

1. Put 1 shot of Absolut Raspberri Vodka into a highball glass.
2. Then fill the rest of the glass with SoBe No Fear energy drink.

A Brief Synopsis: Elizabeth Barnard Medina has died in the prime of life, and her brother, Francis, wants to know why. Elizabeth’s husband, Nicholas, and her doctor offer differing explanations, but when Francis learns that Nicholas’ mother may have been buried alive, he begins to wonder if his sister met the same fate. And when he comes to believe that Elizabeth’s spirit wanders about Nicholas’ castle, Francis investigates — and is stunned by what he finds.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Greg finds similarities between this Richard Matheson screenplay and his novel “Hell House”.
• Karen teaches us all about the Elizabethan Ruff. Apparently size does matter.
• We also learn a little bit from Karen about the Spanish Inquisition.
• Greg tells us all about the differences between harpsichords and pianos.
• Greg makes “Wayne’s World” and “Bill & Ted” references.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was pretty good. It only took us 2 cocktails to get through it.

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Welcome to the ninth episode of The Scary Spirits Podcast Presents: Wicked Ramblings, an entertainment podcast that strives to answer the twisted questions currently burning a bright hole in your dark soul. This episode our hosts are without a special guest, but they have some good discussions about various superstitions. Which of our hosts do you think is the most superstitious?

Some of the topics and questions covered this episode include:

• Would you ever place your shoes on a table or the bed?
• If you found a penny, would you pick it up?
• Have you ever made, or participated in a toast while drinking water?
• Might you suffer from Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia?
• Have you ever broken a mirror?
• Would you ever walk underneath a ladder?
• Have you ever noticed that quite a few porches in the south have their ceilings painted blue?
• Have you ever opened an umbrella while inside?
• Why do we say “Bless you” when someone sneezes?
• Do you ever “Knock on wood” for good luck? Why?

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Celebrating the 57th anniversary of it’s release in The United States on January 12, Greg has chosen the 1966 Hammer film, “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy a “Vampire’s Dream Cocktail“. The recipe that Greg found on drinksmixer.com is below.

Vampire’s Dream Cocktail Recipe

• 2 oz rum
• 7 oz cranberry juice
• 5 oz pineapple juice
• 1 oz Grenadine

Instructions:

1. Combine ingredients in a mixer and either shake or stir.
2. Mix well.
3. Serve over chipped ice in a highball glass.

A Brief Synopsis: Four English travellers arrive at a tiny hamlet in the Carpathian Mountains and ignore warnings from the locals not to travel to Carlsbad, the domain of Count Dracula. A dark, driverless carriage arrives to take them to the sinister castle, but they discover too late that they have been lured there to provide the blood which will allow Dracula to rise from the grave once more.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Karen references the Michael Keaton film “Beetlejuice”.
• Greg mentions the Black+Decker Dustbuster several times.
• Karen teaches us all about Hammer blood, also known as “Kensington Gore”.
• We learn the definition of the word: exsanguinate.

Our rating of the film:

This movie was OK. It took us 3 cocktails to get through it.

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