“Addams Household Values” Is a Excellent Thanksgiving Horror Movie [The Lady Killers Podcast]

“I don’t wanna harm anyone. I don’t get pleasure from hurting anyone. I don’t like weapons, or bombs, or electrical chairs. However typically individuals simply received’t hear. And so, I’ve to make use of persuasion. And slides.”

Because the climate cools and the vacations method, we get the urge to curve up with family members round a crackling hearth to observe old school household film. A movie the place a loveable clan tries to beat their issues by leaning on love and respect for each other. Typically we chuckle, typically we cry, however we hopefully emerge from this loving cocoon reaffirmed in our personal sense of household values. For horror followers, just one family suits the invoice. Barry Sonnenfeld’s Addams Household Values options one of many style’s most beloved broods, a lineage of morbid misfits who dwell by their very own guidelines and like to benefit from the spooky and macabre. This completely forged and executed movie not solely contains a flawless depiction of familial love, however a cultured girl killer we simply can’t appear to hate. 

Debbie Jellinsky (Joan Cusack) is on the lookout for love. This perky and effusive nanny takes a job caring for the latest member of the Addams household, however finds herself smitten with the child’s reclusive Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd). After a whirlwind courtship, the 2 marry and sprint off for a tropical honeymoon. However the second Fester says “I do,” Debbie’s affection evaporates. It appears she is a infamous Black Widow with a string of useless husbands in her wake. Maybe she hasn’t fallen head over heels for the bald Addams brother, however plans to make him her subsequent sufferer. 

Within the latest episode of Bloody FM’s The Woman Killers Podcast, co-hosts Jenn Adams, Sammie Kuykendall, Rocco Thompson, and Mae Shults stroll down the aisle with one in all their favourite feminine murderers whereas chatting about blond villains, unbearable camp counselors, and a musical quantity we will’t cease singing. How does Morticia (Anjelica Huston) look so glamorous whereas giving beginning? Is Debbie destined to turn out to be an Addams? What different horrors lurk within the Concord Hut and why would a Summer time Camp mount a Thanksgiving musical? They’ll reply all these questions and extra whereas sharing their love for this kooky household traditional.

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