Continuing on her Christmas theme, Karen has chosen the 1980 cult classic “Christmas Evil” for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss the film while they enjoy a “Santa” cocktail. The recipe that Karen found on mariasmixingbowl.com is below.

Santa Cocktail Recipe (makes 2 cocktails)

• 4 oz grenadine
• 4 oz vodka
• 8 oz cranberry juice
• 16 oz Sprite
• corn syrup
• granulated sugar
• maraschino cherries

Instructions:

1. Start by rimming your glass. Coat the rim in the corn syrup then coat with the granulated sugar.
   
2. Time to assemble the cocktail by grabbing a cocktail shaker and adding ice.
   
3. Pour in the grenadine, your favorite vodka, juice and sprite.
   
4. Shake lightly.
   
5. Strain into the rimmed glass.
   
6. Add a cherry to garnish.
   
7. Serve and enjoy.
   

A Brief Synopsis: Comical festive frights. A toy-maker who revels in the Christmas spirit suffers a mental break when his work is met with hypocrisy and cynicism and goes on a yuletide killing spree.

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

• Karen gives us some history about Thanksgiving Day Parades. Do you know where the oldest parade in the United States is held?
  
• The winner in the big book giveaway is announced!
  
• Karen makes a reference to “The Brady Bunch”.
  
• Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Greg can!
  
• Greg references the 90’s Tim Allen sitcom “Home Improvement”.
  
• Karen makes a reference to the classic Laurel & Hardy film, “Babes in Toyland”, later released as “March of the Wooden Soldiers”.
  
• Greg reminisces about his white 1979 Chevy G10 van.
  
• If we were rating this film as a drama and not a horror film, we would have given it a better cocktail rating.
  

Our rating of the film:

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

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