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December 2025 Movie Preview

November 25, 2025·1 hr 18 min·5 clips

Brennan opens the show and welcomes Cameron and Brian back to the table. He jokes that the podcast is still trying to find good movies one bad movie at a time. Cameron checks in from Southern California, where rain is finally making the weather feel a little more seasonal after a long run of unusually warm days. Brian answers from Michigan, where some early cold days gave way to a warmer spell, enough to make the house feel like a place you heat out of habit. The small talk is easy and slightly smug in the best possible way. It sets the tone before the movie talk begins. The episode then turns toward *Silent Night, Deadly Night*. Brian is excited for Rowan Campbell, who played Corey Cunningham in the latest *Halloween* movie, to get another horror role and show what he can do outside those franchise expectations. Cameron says he is not really a horror person, which gives the conversation a useful split right away. That split keeps the episode from feeling too neat. Brian brings up the director's earlier *Friday the 13th* short, *Sweet Revenge*. He says it was one of the worst things he has ever seen. That memory makes him cautious about the new movie even while he is still interested in watching it. Still, he thinks this version looks more faithful than the previous remake of *Silent Night, Deadly Night*. The panel lands somewhere between skepticism and interest. Near the end, the discussion broadens out to the show's Patreon. They point listeners toward a vote for a 2025 horror movie for Tim to watch. The options include *Weapons*, *28 Years Later*, *Final Destination Bloodlines*, *Good Boy*, and *K-pop Demon Hunters*. Brian jokes that *Final Destination* should win, and he also says he would not mind seeing *K-pop Demon Hunters* take it. The episode closes with a tease that a James Cameron episode may be coming soon, potentially even next. The whole thing feels like movie people talking before they have polished anything into a quote. That is the point.

As heard by us

A breezy movie chat with enough skepticism to keep it from going soft.

Weather, coziness, and a shared seasonal mood set the table before the conversation turns to Silent Night, Deadly Night. Brennan keeps it moving, Cameron brings the non-horror pushback, and Brian adds franchise memory that makes the talk feel lived in rather than assembled.

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Press play if you want a horror-preview conversation that veers straight into Silent Night, Deadly Night.

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