213.Black Christmas – Christmas 2020 (- # 75)

Moderated by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and this week with special guests Doctor Bernice Murphy and Joey Keogh. The 250 is a weekly journey through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes will be released on Saturdays at 6 p.m. GMT.

So this week Sophia Takals Black Christmas.

As Christmas begins at Hawthorne College, something more uncomfortable is in the air. A string of attacks on female students suggests a killer is free on campus, but the young members of the Mu Kappa Epsilon sorority are beginning to suspect that something far more venomous is at work.

At the time of recording, it was ranked 75th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded on December 16, 2020.
• Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect that in the future many of our consequences will take place until the crisis is resolved.
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