October 11, 2021 • 29 mins
It’s October, who is ready for some horror movies? In this episode, Mike talks about what the best horror / scary movies are just happen to be rated PG-13. Great for if you’re not super into violent movies or are looking for something scary that will also be okay to watch with your kids. Plus a spoiler-free review of “The Guilty” on Netflix with Jake Gyllenhaal and Joaquin Phoenix talked about the possibility of a Joker sequel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, your
go to source for all things movies, and I'm your host,
movie Mike, and over the next few weeks leading up
to Halloween, I'm diving into a bunch of horror and
scary movie topics. So today breaking down the best PG
thirteen rated horror movies for Halloween. Some of these are
a little more scary than others, but we'll get into that.
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Plus a movie review of a new Netflix movie called
The Guilty with Jake Jillen Hall. And in movie news,
i'll get into Joaquim Phoenix talking for the very first
time at a possible Joker sequel. So much to talk
about on this week's episode. Appreciate you being here being
subscribed to the podcast. Without any further ado, let's get started.
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
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one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast, A man with so
much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking on mtvt
with classes from the Nashville Podcast Network. Movie Movie So,
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I love Halloween, I love horror movies. I love the
feeling of being scared while watching a movie. And I
honestly think the horror genre is really the one that
kind of cemented my love for watching and reviewing movies,
because as a kid, there were always just something about
them that made a more cinematic, that made me want
to watch them to maybe sometimes want to go behind
my parents back to watch them. And originally, like when
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I kind of wanted to be a director or a
writer as a kid for movies, I was always writing
horror movies. And as a kid, I remember the hardest
thing was being able to watch our rated horror movies.
Every movie that I wanted to watch that was a
horror movie was rated R. I would see the trailer
come on TV and be so let down at the
very end when the big movie voice comes on and
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says rated are now admitted without a parent. That always
kind of like, oh man, I can't go watch that movie.
And then I remember in my small town of Watsing Hatchie,
the thing to do on Friday night was to go
to our movie theater, and the coolest thing was the
who would sneak into our rated movies and then come
back on Monday and tell us about them. And I
never got to see an R rated movie in theaters
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until I was actually like seventeen years old. So that's
why I wanted to talk about the best PG thirteen
rated horror movies. That movies that are still scary and
you can watch maybe with your kids, or if you're
not really super into horror movies. It's kind of that
fine line in between. I think this is the question
I get probably the most right now, is Hey, I'm
trying to watch some movies with my kids. I want
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something that's appropriate for them, but also that's genuinely a
scary movie and something we can both watch and enjoy.
So I think there's a very fine line when it
comes to PG thirteen and rated are basically what would
make a movie PG thirteen is there's a little bit
less just straight on blood and gore. Violence also has
to do with language. I think you're allowed maybe an
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one F word in a PG thirteen rated movie and
a handful of S words, and of course the sexual content.
There is no nudity in a PG thirteen rated movie, obviously,
and the interesting thing about PG thirteen is it wasn't
even invented until n that's kind of when they adapted,
all right, we need a different system, and before then
it was either PG or rated R. There was no
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one between. It was either you're gonna watch it with
the entire family it's okay for kids to watch, or
no kids can watch it, it's only for adults. And
it's actually credited to a couple of movies. Indiana Jones
and The Temple of Doom came out in four back
in May of that year, and even Steven Spielberg said,
you know, there's some parts of this movie that I
wouldn't really want kids to see. And then the following month,
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in June, Gremlins came out and that proved to not
be as kid friendly as the PG rating would say.
So then they finally came to the decision to make
a PG thirteen rating, and Red Dawn was the very
first PG thirteen rated movie to ever come out on
July one, four and since then we've been able to decide,
all right, is this okay for teenagers to watch? You
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got the PG thirteen rated movie, and I feel like
sometimes you think, oh, it's PG thirteen, couldn't really be
that scary. So I decided to pick some movies that, yes,
they do in fact end up being that scary. They
don't need the violence, they don't need the language to
have that message come across. So I have five that
I picked that I think everybody would enjoy and they're
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great to watch right now in October, right around Halloween. Also,
just have a bunch of honorable mentions because I think
there's a bunch that can make this list. So let's
start it off with number five, The Exorcism of Emily
Rose from two thousand and five. And there's something about
exorcism movies that just get me. Maybe it's because sometimes
they're based on true stories. Sometimes just the things and
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images depicted are just so scary. And I remember this
movie in particular. I had nightmares after watching this movie.
And it's a PG thirteen rated movie. But the movie
is about a lawyer investigating a priest exorcism that ended
in a girl's death. That's not a spoiler, that's what
the entire movie is about. And overall there's just a
bunch of just kind of frightening, very intense scenes, very
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mild swearing, So that keeps that PG thirteen rating. But
I would say the rising action is just really great
in this movie, and once it gets to that climax,
it's a very intense scene. It's a very intense moment that,
of all the horror movies I've seen in the last
twenty years, still stays with me to this day. There's
a specific phrase that Emily Rose says while she's being
possessed that'll stick in your head. You won't be able
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to count to six after this movie, I'll tell you that.
So I'll put that one at number five. At number
four is a movie from called Devil and m Night.
Shamalan wrote the story for this movie. He didn't direct it,
but it's about five people who are trapped in the
elevator and one of them is the Devil. I think
that's the greatest elevator pitch for all the movies on
this list, probably because elevator is in the description to
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that but played and symbol. That's what this movie is about.
They're trying to figure out who in the elevator is
the Devil. I think out of all the ones on
this list, this one probably plays with the line of PG.
Thirteen two our rating the most mainly because of the
violence in this It is pretty blood but apparently not
bloody enough to get an R rating, so all the
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scenes and all the movie basically takes place entirely in
one location, so it's a good mix of horror and
also suspense and mystery. If you're into that, I think
you will enjoy this one. So I put that one
at number four. At number three. Is one of my
favorite horror movies, not even it just makes this list,
but out of all the horror movies in the last
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fifteen years or so, I really loved Insidious came out
back in It's about this couple moves into a brand
new house, discovers that it's haunted, and then it appears
that their son is possessed by whatever is living in
this house. And I think this is a really great
example of how you don't really need a whole lot
of violence, you don't really need a whole lot of
blood to make something scary. There's just such great suspense
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in this movie, and it does what I love when
it comes to horror movies is not revealing the monsters,
not revealing the demons too early, so you're not just
saturated with like, oh, there's these scary creatures throughout the
entire movie. They're very kind of particular way, and they
do show the demons and I think that just has
such a bigger weight to it. When you actually get
to see them, actually experienced that moment for the first
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time on the screen, you're genuinely scared. There's one scene
in particular that the image kind of stays in my mind.
It reminds me of when I first saw Signs in theaters,
which I don't really consider a horror movie, but there's
a moment where the alien walks across for the very
first time you see them, and even now to this day,
I remember the feeling that I had while watching that
in a theater and how scary that was. I think
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Insidious was the next movie to kind of do that
to me. So this one has some mild gore, not
a whole lot of blood, moderate profanity, but overall, what
I think gives it the rating of a PG three
teen movie is it just pretty intense and just kind
of disturbing because it is dealing with demons. So I'd
say it feels more like a kind of a classic
R rated movie without the gore. At Number two is
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a more recent movie from that. I feel like a
lot of people have probably watched, and some people kind
of debate whether or not this is a horror movie
or not. I'd it has a little bit less of
a horror movie feel, more just of a monster movie feel,
But when it comes to the amount of suspense that
it's able to create through the tension, through the acting,
and through the basically no other sound than just movements
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and gestures in this movie, I myself do consider this
a horror movie. I think it's a modern day classic.
And the movie I'm talking about is A Quiet Place
from if you haven't seen it, it's a movie about
these creatures who are hunting humans and they pray by sound,
so this family is forced to live their entire life
in silence, and out of all the movies on this list,
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it's the only one without any sex scenes, no nudity
or no swearing. Just straight up big monsters, big action,
intense scenes. That's what you get out of this movie.
Just kind of a classic monster movie feel, but done
in a way that I felt hasn't been done before,
and was able to make a pretty good formula out
of a movie. So much so that A Quiet Place
to basically took what A Quiet Place One was and
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kind of did it again. So I didn't love that
one as much. But if you end up watching A
Quiet Place that you haven't seen it yet, I think
you could go on to watch a Quiet Place too
and get a lot of the same, a little bit
more ramped up action, in a little bit more violence,
I would say, But it's basically takes place right after
the first one, goes into the second one, and kind
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of followed the same plot. So that's not a bad
thing because you're already taking a great movie and kind
of doing it again. Even though I didn't love it
as much, it's still a much better movie than a
lot of other horror movies right now, and definitely a
movie you would not feel awkward watching it with your
entire family, which is always hard for horror movies. I
think that's mainly the reason I wanted to do this
list is because as a kid, I remember watching like
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sometimes my parents would let me watch an R rated
movie because I had an older brother, older sister. They
were teenagers and already watching them no matter what, and
for me I would the youngest. So I kind of
got lucky to be able to do that. But when
you watch to horror movie with your entire family, you're
always waiting for that new scene, that sex scene, you're like,
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oh my gosh, it's gonna be self hawker. This is
gonna be so weird. So the great thing about a
quiet place, you won't have to worry about that at all.
Before I get to number one, I do have a
bunch of honorable mentions. My first one is The Others,
which was pretty close to making this list with Nicole Kidman.
It's her living in basically this remote mansion with their
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two children. They suffer from this rare disease and they
soon kind of discovered these others that are with them
as well. Mild profanity, no gore, and an implied sex scene.
But I think when I was talking earlier about movie trailers,
there's a scene where Nicole Kidman goes up to what's
supposed to be your daughter. She thinks it's not her daughter.
The daughter applies, but I am your daughter. That moment
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still freaks me out. And if a movie trailer is
able to give you that feeling, it's probably gonna be
a pretty good scary movie. So that one's back for
out from two thousand and one. You also have The
Six Cents, from which I think is a classic child
psychologist aid by none other than Bruce Willis trying to
treat this eight year old boy. That one's PG thirteen
basically because of some violence and occasional profanity. And then
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you also have some other classics, and like I was
talking about earlier, that PG thirteen came to be in
four and before that, Jaws has a PG rating, which
is kind of crazy to see, but that's a classic.
And along those same lines, Poulter Guys has a PG rating,
another Halloween horror classic. Watch the original, though don't watch
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the remake. And then Grimlin's also rated PG, and even
though it is set around Christmas, I still feel like
it has that horror movie Halloween vibe. I'd rather watch
that one around Halloween that I would Christmas. You also
have the original Tremors from nine, which is rated PG thirteen.
And there's a movie on Netflix called a Lie which
came out last year, and it's a zombie movie from
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South Korea. And even though on Netflix it doesn't have
a rating, I feel like that one. It's no more
intense violence that you would find on like The Walking Dead,
even less severe than Game of Thrones. Basically, if you
think you can handle zombie violence and zombies eating humans
and people getting torn apart. I think you would be
fine with that one, and I really enjoyed that one.
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So those are the honorable mentions, and at number one.
I feel like this was the scariest movie that came
out when I was a kid, from two thousand Into
the Ring. Several reasons why I put this movie at
number one. I think the first reason is because when
this movie came out, it had such a pop culture
impact where everybody knew the plot of this movie. And
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a thing that's great about horror movies is when you're
able to pull apart elements from a horror movie and
just be scared by it. And the thing in this
movie is you watch a tape and then you get
a phone call that you have seven days to live.
And I think everybody remembers that part of it. And
after you watch this movie, your heart probably sank every
single time your phone ring, especially people like right after
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you're watching the movie or during you were watching the
MOVI movie. I think we all kind of remember that
from this movie. The second reason is because it's just
a great mystery movie, and it's one of the movies
while you're watching it, while you're watching the main character
in this try to figure out, you know, the mysterious
reason behind the tape. It's a movie that while you
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watch it, you're yelling at the screen. You're like, why
are you doing that? Like why are you trying to
do this? Get out of their stop? And I think
that's the other great element of this movie is when
you feel involved with it invokes an emotion while you're
watching it, especially if you're able to see this in
the theater, which I wasn't, but I think that's totally
captured this period of time. And the third reason is
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I just think it has a very iconic and memorable
moment that was not only parodied later in Scary Movie,
but I think the scene that we all remember is
when the girl from the film actually walks out of
that TV screen, and it's just a great intense moment,
great visual effects, and with a PG thirteen ray eating,
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it was able to scare so many people without the
need of all the violence. It's mainly just terror that
it invokes in you, the fear of this could actually
happen in real life. And I think we all kind
of questioned after we watched this movie, like what you
would do if you watch that tape. And this movie
is also going on twenty years old, so I think
maybe it's a movie that some people forget about. We
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all kind of remember it, but maybe haven't seen it
in a while. So I think it's a movie I'm
going to revisit now that it's Halloween time, and it's
a movie that I think if your kids are wanting
to watch something scary, like really be scared, I think
this is a great one. So I put that one
at number one, the scariest PG thirteen rated movie. There
you go. Time now for a spoiler free movie review.
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This has been the number one movie on Netflix for
a while, maybe falling out of the top spot now,
but a movie I've been wanting to talk about, and
I think last week with kind of the overshadow of
Squid Game on Netflix, I think now is the time
to check out this movie if you haven't seen it yet.
It's called The Guilty with Jake Jillen Home. He plays
a police detective who has been demoted to working in
the operating center because of its troubled past. That's the
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overall plot of this movie. I'll get into my feelings
about it very unique concept for a movie. It is
a remake, so don't be fooled by that. Before I
get into the review, here's just a little bit of
the trailer with you. Is the person would know you
called us? What do they think you called? Job? Does
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the person who with have a weapon? Yes? I need
the color of the car? Okay? When I say the
right one, say it's fine? Right? White? Is it a car? No? Man? No?
Just yes or no? Just yes or no? Answers. I'm sorry,
I have a woman who's been abducted. What are we
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looking for? A white van? That's not enough? Come on.
So Jake Jillenhall plays this character that you're learning about
why you watch the movie, And I really like when
movies do this, when they don't put everything up front
at the start of the movie, like, oh, here's why
he's in this situation. You learn it as it goes alone.
You learn the backstory and the most captivating thing about
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this movie that you want to know before going into it,
and the reason it is so different is that this
movie takes place entirely in one location. It's what's known
as a bottle movie. Sometimes you hear this reference on
TV episodes where it's called a bottle episode where they
try to keep all the main characters into one location.
And this type of episode is usually done to save money.
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It's at a point of the season where they can't
really stretch out with the budget. They don't have all
the expenses to be put towards a bunch of different
sets and location, so they're like, all right, let's write
a plot where everything can take place in this one
single room. And you've seen other movies like this before,
maybe something like Phone Booth or even earlier I was
talking about Devil. It's all in one location. And why
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that is important to know is that it's basically just
Jake Jillen Hall's face throughout the entire movie. It's him
at a computer with a headset on taking calls. So
I think what I really kind of took away from
this movie is that Jake Jillen Hall can really act.
I feel like he's a very underrated actor, and this
movie really puts on display just how good his acting
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abilities are. Because when you're just one actor on the
screen the entire time, really have no interactions with any
other characters. There's a few like side basically extras in
the room around him that have maybe a few lines,
but everybody he interacts with his voice acting, they're all
phone calls that come in. You don't see them at all.
You only see Jake Jillen Hall and hear their voice.
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So for it to be so captivating and entertaining, there
was a lot of things is going into this. It
just had a really great story, which it is a
remake of eighteen Danish film with the same name, So
they took that great story and just made basically an
American version of it. I'm okay with that. I feel
like some people have problems with that of why will
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we take a movie that was successful in another country,
in another language and just americanize it, Like, go watch
that version. But I think in this version it really works.
And if you ended up watching this one and you
really like it, go back and watch the original. I
think that's the kind of attention that should bring. I
think when something is so good and you want to
buy the rights to it and make your own version
of it, why not. I would rather see this than just,
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you know, an American movie getting remade twenty years later.
I have no problem with that concept. And the other
thing I loved about this that I was talking about
just a moment ago, is that you learned the backstory
of his character and kind of the dark past that
keeps coming up again and again, and you are really
kind of put in the center of the action, being
there and you're seeing all the things go down and
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hearing it. It was just such a unique perspective as
a viewer to enjoy and I like when movies do this.
I think, when done right, it's a really powerful way
to make a movie. It's also a very cheap way
to make a movie. Netflix one who paid thirty million
dollars for the rights of this movie to put it
on their streaming service. And the other great thing about
this one it was made during the pandemic back in
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with such a small cast, such a small need for production.
It really lent itself to being made during that time.
And I think I even read that the director was
exposed to somebody with COVID before going into film this movie,
so the director was in a van outside of the location,
looking at screens and directing from a van. So so
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many cool things about this movie, how it was made,
and I just love when a movie with such a
low budget is able to make something so much bigger
because of the concept, and I think that's exactly what
this movie does, and that's greatly due to the story
already being gray. But really the Jake Jillen Hall too
be able to be fully on display interacting with these calls,
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which I bet was a pretty hard task to do
as an actor. You're not seeing anybody face to face,
you're not interacting with anybody. He's only being fed these
lines of dialogue that he needs to react to, and
that's what acting is, it's reacting. So I think all
the voice acting for that reason was very important, and
you'll hear some other famous voices to Ethan Hawk, Bill Burr,
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Paul Dano, Peter scars Guard all played characters on the
other lines of these conversations, some pretty intense moments, and
you really just see Jake Jillen Hall get rattled and
get more and more intense. So if you're looking for
a great crime drama thriller movie, I think it's the
perfect thing to watch on Netflix right now. I give
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it four out of five calls. Watch it, let me
know what you think. It is. Rated are no crazy
violence in it. It's mainly due because of language and
the beautiful thing about it. It's only an hour and
a half ninety minutes, greatly due to the reason that
it takes place in one location and the plot really
doesn't lend itself to be able to be explored into
anything more than ninety minutes. This is the second movie
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I've seen in the last two weeks that have been
at that ninety minute mark, and I'm really kind of
loving it right now. I think when you're able to
trim all the fat, take out all those unnecessary extra scenes,
take out any unnecessary backstory, and get straight into it,
the movie itself has more power to it. And I
think that's what this one did. So that's what I
think about The Guilty on Netflix all right, about to
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get him do some movie news. I was just thinking
listening to that Jake Jillenhall trailer though, for the movie
that Guilty is. I really like it in trailers when
they use that big, like drone sound effect to make
it seem more cinematic, you know that that sound. I
feel like if I could have that in real life
to make things seem more intense, just the normal things
in life, if I could just hit that, It's like, well,
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I was thinking of going to the grocery store, but
I can't find my keys. I don't know. I just
feel like sound effects and movie trailers can be a
little bit misleading. I feel like that I don't know
something about when I watch a movie trailer, I don't
love when it keeps that same exact formula when it has,
you know, the big stages to make everything seem just
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more dramatic. But also this whole trend of like taking
a popular like nineties pop song or nineties alternative song,
or just a random pop song and doing a dramatic,
slowed down version of it. Some reason, all movie trailers
do that a couple of reasons. I know why. One
because it's cheaper to get the rights to a cover
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than it is to the original song. But I think
it just became this kind of fat and this kind
of trend of like, okay, to make our movies seem
better than it is, we get a song everybody knows,
but it's sung really low. It's like a little bit
of Monica in my life, a little bit of you
makes me, oh man Like, for some reason, all movie
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trailers to do that when they're big cinematic, blockbuster movies,
so let's get away from that trend. Anyway. I was
getting into movie news when I got distracted by that.
But first up in movie news is what Keen Phoenix
talked about a possible Joker sequel, And this is really
the first time I've ever heard him talk about it
to where he was actually interested in the idea. He
was doing an interview, and he didn't say like that
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they're working on one, or any clues as to win
it would happen. He said, quote, there are some things
we could do with this guy and could explore further.
But as to whether we actually will, I don't know.
I really think he does want to do another Joker movie.
I think one because he want to freak an Oscar
for it, But too I think he genuinely thinks there
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was more story there to dive into. There's more parts
of the Joker's brain. I think he's willing to explore.
For me, as a fan of the first one, I
think it's a perfect movie, and I almost wouldn't want
to diminish that value of having such a perfect movie
for me loving that one so much. But I do
think if they had Todd Phillips back directing it, what
Keen Phoenix back, and they really just take place right
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after the first one ends and get right into it.
I think a joke or two could be very successful.
I always worry about sequels, though, because sometimes they just
take away from a movie that you love and you'd
rather it, you know, just not be done than it
kind of diminished that, or just not do any justice
to the first one. But I think creating such a
great world that the Joker movie lives in, to see
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that go even further, you get even more intense. You
don't need any backstory on them anymore. You just get
right into the action. I actually think would be amazing
and I would love to see it next. Up in
movie dues, if you have Disney Plus and you haven't noticed,
Black Widow is on there now. The movie Black Widow
is available now on Disney Plus. You don't need to
pay the thirty bucks for it, is just up there
for free if you want to watch it. Because when
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it first hit theaters and Disney Plus back in July,
it was that hybrid release of you either had to
go see it in theaters or pay thirty bucks at home.
Now it's available for free, which I really liked. Black Widow.
I felt like it was worth the weight where it
rings up on my favorite Marvel movies. I don't think
it's one of my favorite of all time, but I
think it was the last good little piece kind of
closing out that chapter of Marvel in a way. So
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if you haven't seen that one yet, it's available for
free now on Disney Plus. Also in Marvel News, Michael B.
Jordan's is back as kill Monger in Black Panther Too.
And how is that happening exactly? Well, they don't really know.
They think it will either be a rebirth of the
character or some kind of flashbacks or maybe something else.
But I'm excited to see how they pull that one off.
And then, finally, in movie news, Netflix dropped a trailer
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for a new lin Manuel Miranda movie, making his directorial
debut in a movie called Tick Take Boom. It stars
Andrew Garfield and he's playing the Rent creator Jonathan Larson.
Here's a little bit of that trailer that I have
spent the last eight years of my life. He's getting out,
You're going to be rich and famous and rewriting and rewriting.
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Can I hear it any day? Now? Eight years and
the time keeps taking you need to ask are you
letting yourself be led by fear or by love? Fear fear?
So that movie comes out in theaters and on Netflix
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on November nineteen. I think if you're a fan of Rent,
if you're a fan of musicals, you'll probably love this movie.
The trailer alone doesn't really get me interested in wanting
to watch that one. I have trouble with musicals, and
I really loved the film adaptation of Hamilton's, which is
basically just taking the play and putting it into kind
of a movie format. I still consider that one to
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be a movie. I like Lynn Manuel Mirando when it
comes to him making music for movies. I really like Mowanna.
I didn't really get a whole lot into In the
Heights when it came out earlier this year. For me,
when it comes to just like big Broadway style musicals,
there's something about it. It just takes me a little
bit out of it because I'm not really able to
get into the plot as much when it's all being
sung to me just me personally. But I think if
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you're into those kind of movies, I am interested to
see how Andrew Garfield kind of plays into that, because
he's a really great actor, and I think he's the
main thing that would make me want to watch this movie.
And the fact that it's also coming out in theaters
and on Netflix. I think they're probably chasing some kind
of Oscar here for either Andrew Garfield or just for
the movie to be nominated, because to be nominated for
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an Oscar you do have to have at least a
limited theater run. So there you go. That's your movie news.
And before I hop out of here, every single week
I give a shout out to one of you guys
who sends me a d M on Instagram, tweets me
at Mike Destro, comments over on my Facebook page, which
is just Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro. But this
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movie Mike d at gmail dot com. And it was
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actually one of the inspirations behind this entire top. Like
this week PG thirteen Rated horror movies, I got an
email from someone who signs it clueless and p A said, Mike,
I recently just started listening to your movie podcast and
I love it. Hoping you can help me. My eleven
year old daughter is interested in watching horror movies. Neither
my husband nor I like those type of movies. I
don't want to discourage her, but I'm not sure what
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I should let her watch or not let her watch.
She said she had watch Hush with her cousin and
she loved it. Please help me navigate this movie world
with my daughter. Sincerely, clueless in p A, so coolest
in p A. I think you have five solid picks
to pick from to watch with your daughter again. They
are rated PG thirteen. I feel like those lines are
kind of more based on your discretion, based on how
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I described those movies, what you think would be appropriate
for your kids. But if she already watched the movie Hush,
which is rated R, I felt like those probably won't
be much of a stretch from that. Hush It is
actually a really great horror movie. It's about this deaf
writer who lives out in the woods and then this
mass killer dude appears at her window. I think why
that movie is so scary is it because it's something
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we all kind of worry about of being home alone
and somebody coming to mess with us or invade our house.
Kind of along the same lines of the Strangers. So
it's a movie you probably don't want to watch alone
at night and then go to sleep, because that one
will probably make you turn every light on in the
house and question every single movement going on at night.
But if you're eleven year old daughter watched that movie
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was able to sleep at night, I think you should
have no problem with all the other movies on the
list this week. So appreciate that email. Appreciate everybody for listening.
I love all the messages that you guys send me
throughout the week, especially if you listen on Monday, which
is released or the podcast that's the Monday Movie Crew.
Love all you guys. I hope you have a great
rest of your week and until next week will continue
the horror theme. I will talk to you all later
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, your
go to source for all things movies, and I'm your host,
movie Mike, and over the next few weeks leading up
to Halloween, I'm diving into a bunch of horror and
scary movie topics. So today breaking down the best PG
thirteen rated horror movies for Halloween. Some of these are
a little more scary than others, but we'll get into that.
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Plus a movie review of a new Netflix movie called
The Guilty with Jake Jillen Hall. And in movie news,
i'll get into Joaquim Phoenix talking for the very first
time at a possible Joker sequel. So much to talk
about on this week's episode. Appreciate you being here being
subscribed to the podcast. Without any further ado, let's get started.
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
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with classes from the Nashville Podcast Network. Movie Movie So,
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I love Halloween, I love horror movies. I love the
feeling of being scared while watching a movie. And I
honestly think the horror genre is really the one that
kind of cemented my love for watching and reviewing movies,
because as a kid, there were always just something about
them that made a more cinematic, that made me want
to watch them to maybe sometimes want to go behind
my parents back to watch them. And originally, like when
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I kind of wanted to be a director or a
writer as a kid for movies, I was always writing
horror movies. And as a kid, I remember the hardest
thing was being able to watch our rated horror movies.
Every movie that I wanted to watch that was a
horror movie was rated R. I would see the trailer
come on TV and be so let down at the
very end when the big movie voice comes on and
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says rated are now admitted without a parent. That always
kind of like, oh man, I can't go watch that movie.
And then I remember in my small town of Watsing Hatchie,
the thing to do on Friday night was to go
to our movie theater, and the coolest thing was the
who would sneak into our rated movies and then come
back on Monday and tell us about them. And I
never got to see an R rated movie in theaters
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until I was actually like seventeen years old. So that's
why I wanted to talk about the best PG thirteen
rated horror movies. That movies that are still scary and
you can watch maybe with your kids, or if you're
not really super into horror movies. It's kind of that
fine line in between. I think this is the question
I get probably the most right now, is Hey, I'm
trying to watch some movies with my kids. I want
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something that's appropriate for them, but also that's genuinely a
scary movie and something we can both watch and enjoy.
So I think there's a very fine line when it
comes to PG thirteen and rated are basically what would
make a movie PG thirteen is there's a little bit
less just straight on blood and gore. Violence also has
to do with language. I think you're allowed maybe an
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one F word in a PG thirteen rated movie and
a handful of S words, and of course the sexual content.
There is no nudity in a PG thirteen rated movie, obviously,
and the interesting thing about PG thirteen is it wasn't
even invented until n that's kind of when they adapted,
all right, we need a different system, and before then
it was either PG or rated R. There was no
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one between. It was either you're gonna watch it with
the entire family it's okay for kids to watch, or
no kids can watch it, it's only for adults. And
it's actually credited to a couple of movies. Indiana Jones
and The Temple of Doom came out in four back
in May of that year, and even Steven Spielberg said,
you know, there's some parts of this movie that I
wouldn't really want kids to see. And then the following month,
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in June, Gremlins came out and that proved to not
be as kid friendly as the PG rating would say.
So then they finally came to the decision to make
a PG thirteen rating, and Red Dawn was the very
first PG thirteen rated movie to ever come out on
July one, four and since then we've been able to decide,
all right, is this okay for teenagers to watch? You
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got the PG thirteen rated movie, and I feel like
sometimes you think, oh, it's PG thirteen, couldn't really be
that scary. So I decided to pick some movies that, yes,
they do in fact end up being that scary. They
don't need the violence, they don't need the language to
have that message come across. So I have five that
I picked that I think everybody would enjoy and they're
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great to watch right now in October, right around Halloween. Also,
just have a bunch of honorable mentions because I think
there's a bunch that can make this list. So let's
start it off with number five, The Exorcism of Emily
Rose from two thousand and five. And there's something about
exorcism movies that just get me. Maybe it's because sometimes
they're based on true stories. Sometimes just the things and
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images depicted are just so scary. And I remember this
movie in particular. I had nightmares after watching this movie.
And it's a PG thirteen rated movie. But the movie
is about a lawyer investigating a priest exorcism that ended
in a girl's death. That's not a spoiler, that's what
the entire movie is about. And overall there's just a
bunch of just kind of frightening, very intense scenes, very
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mild swearing, So that keeps that PG thirteen rating. But
I would say the rising action is just really great
in this movie, and once it gets to that climax,
it's a very intense scene. It's a very intense moment that,
of all the horror movies I've seen in the last
twenty years, still stays with me to this day. There's
a specific phrase that Emily Rose says while she's being
possessed that'll stick in your head. You won't be able
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to count to six after this movie, I'll tell you that.
So I'll put that one at number five. At number
four is a movie from called Devil and m Night.
Shamalan wrote the story for this movie. He didn't direct it,
but it's about five people who are trapped in the
elevator and one of them is the Devil. I think
that's the greatest elevator pitch for all the movies on
this list, probably because elevator is in the description to
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that but played and symbol. That's what this movie is about.
They're trying to figure out who in the elevator is
the Devil. I think out of all the ones on
this list, this one probably plays with the line of PG.
Thirteen two our rating the most mainly because of the
violence in this It is pretty blood but apparently not
bloody enough to get an R rating, so all the
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scenes and all the movie basically takes place entirely in
one location, so it's a good mix of horror and
also suspense and mystery. If you're into that, I think
you will enjoy this one. So I put that one
at number four. At number three. Is one of my
favorite horror movies, not even it just makes this list,
but out of all the horror movies in the last
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fifteen years or so, I really loved Insidious came out
back in It's about this couple moves into a brand
new house, discovers that it's haunted, and then it appears
that their son is possessed by whatever is living in
this house. And I think this is a really great
example of how you don't really need a whole lot
of violence, you don't really need a whole lot of
blood to make something scary. There's just such great suspense
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in this movie, and it does what I love when
it comes to horror movies is not revealing the monsters,
not revealing the demons too early, so you're not just
saturated with like, oh, there's these scary creatures throughout the
entire movie. They're very kind of particular way, and they
do show the demons and I think that just has
such a bigger weight to it. When you actually get
to see them, actually experienced that moment for the first
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time on the screen, you're genuinely scared. There's one scene
in particular that the image kind of stays in my mind.
It reminds me of when I first saw Signs in theaters,
which I don't really consider a horror movie, but there's
a moment where the alien walks across for the very
first time you see them, and even now to this day,
I remember the feeling that I had while watching that
in a theater and how scary that was. I think
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Insidious was the next movie to kind of do that
to me. So this one has some mild gore, not
a whole lot of blood, moderate profanity, but overall, what
I think gives it the rating of a PG three
teen movie is it just pretty intense and just kind
of disturbing because it is dealing with demons. So I'd
say it feels more like a kind of a classic
R rated movie without the gore. At Number two is
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a more recent movie from that. I feel like a
lot of people have probably watched, and some people kind
of debate whether or not this is a horror movie
or not. I'd it has a little bit less of
a horror movie feel, more just of a monster movie feel,
But when it comes to the amount of suspense that
it's able to create through the tension, through the acting,
and through the basically no other sound than just movements
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and gestures in this movie, I myself do consider this
a horror movie. I think it's a modern day classic.
And the movie I'm talking about is A Quiet Place
from if you haven't seen it, it's a movie about
these creatures who are hunting humans and they pray by sound,
so this family is forced to live their entire life
in silence, and out of all the movies on this list,
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it's the only one without any sex scenes, no nudity
or no swearing. Just straight up big monsters, big action,
intense scenes. That's what you get out of this movie.
Just kind of a classic monster movie feel, but done
in a way that I felt hasn't been done before,
and was able to make a pretty good formula out
of a movie. So much so that A Quiet Place
to basically took what A Quiet Place One was and
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kind of did it again. So I didn't love that
one as much. But if you end up watching A
Quiet Place that you haven't seen it yet, I think
you could go on to watch a Quiet Place too
and get a lot of the same, a little bit
more ramped up action, in a little bit more violence,
I would say, But it's basically takes place right after
the first one, goes into the second one, and kind
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of followed the same plot. So that's not a bad
thing because you're already taking a great movie and kind
of doing it again. Even though I didn't love it
as much, it's still a much better movie than a
lot of other horror movies right now, and definitely a
movie you would not feel awkward watching it with your
entire family, which is always hard for horror movies. I
think that's mainly the reason I wanted to do this
list is because as a kid, I remember watching like
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sometimes my parents would let me watch an R rated
movie because I had an older brother, older sister. They
were teenagers and already watching them no matter what, and
for me I would the youngest. So I kind of
got lucky to be able to do that. But when
you watch to horror movie with your entire family, you're
always waiting for that new scene, that sex scene, you're like,
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oh my gosh, it's gonna be self hawker. This is
gonna be so weird. So the great thing about a
quiet place, you won't have to worry about that at all.
Before I get to number one, I do have a
bunch of honorable mentions. My first one is The Others,
which was pretty close to making this list with Nicole Kidman.
It's her living in basically this remote mansion with their
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two children. They suffer from this rare disease and they
soon kind of discovered these others that are with them
as well. Mild profanity, no gore, and an implied sex scene.
But I think when I was talking earlier about movie trailers,
there's a scene where Nicole Kidman goes up to what's
supposed to be your daughter. She thinks it's not her daughter.
The daughter applies, but I am your daughter. That moment
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still freaks me out. And if a movie trailer is
able to give you that feeling, it's probably gonna be
a pretty good scary movie. So that one's back for
out from two thousand and one. You also have The
Six Cents, from which I think is a classic child
psychologist aid by none other than Bruce Willis trying to
treat this eight year old boy. That one's PG thirteen
basically because of some violence and occasional profanity. And then
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you also have some other classics, and like I was
talking about earlier, that PG thirteen came to be in
four and before that, Jaws has a PG rating, which
is kind of crazy to see, but that's a classic.
And along those same lines, Poulter Guys has a PG rating,
another Halloween horror classic. Watch the original, though don't watch
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the remake. And then Grimlin's also rated PG, and even
though it is set around Christmas, I still feel like
it has that horror movie Halloween vibe. I'd rather watch
that one around Halloween that I would Christmas. You also
have the original Tremors from nine, which is rated PG thirteen.
And there's a movie on Netflix called a Lie which
came out last year, and it's a zombie movie from
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South Korea. And even though on Netflix it doesn't have
a rating, I feel like that one. It's no more
intense violence that you would find on like The Walking Dead,
even less severe than Game of Thrones. Basically, if you
think you can handle zombie violence and zombies eating humans
and people getting torn apart. I think you would be
fine with that one, and I really enjoyed that one.
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So those are the honorable mentions, and at number one.
I feel like this was the scariest movie that came
out when I was a kid, from two thousand Into
the Ring. Several reasons why I put this movie at
number one. I think the first reason is because when
this movie came out, it had such a pop culture
impact where everybody knew the plot of this movie. And
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a thing that's great about horror movies is when you're
able to pull apart elements from a horror movie and
just be scared by it. And the thing in this
movie is you watch a tape and then you get
a phone call that you have seven days to live.
And I think everybody remembers that part of it. And
after you watch this movie, your heart probably sank every
single time your phone ring, especially people like right after
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you're watching the movie or during you were watching the
MOVI movie. I think we all kind of remember that
from this movie. The second reason is because it's just
a great mystery movie, and it's one of the movies
while you're watching it, while you're watching the main character
in this try to figure out, you know, the mysterious
reason behind the tape. It's a movie that while you
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watch it, you're yelling at the screen. You're like, why
are you doing that? Like why are you trying to
do this? Get out of their stop? And I think
that's the other great element of this movie is when
you feel involved with it invokes an emotion while you're
watching it, especially if you're able to see this in
the theater, which I wasn't, but I think that's totally
captured this period of time. And the third reason is
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I just think it has a very iconic and memorable
moment that was not only parodied later in Scary Movie,
but I think the scene that we all remember is
when the girl from the film actually walks out of
that TV screen, and it's just a great intense moment,
great visual effects, and with a PG thirteen ray eating,
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it was able to scare so many people without the
need of all the violence. It's mainly just terror that
it invokes in you, the fear of this could actually
happen in real life. And I think we all kind
of questioned after we watched this movie, like what you
would do if you watch that tape. And this movie
is also going on twenty years old, so I think
maybe it's a movie that some people forget about. We
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all kind of remember it, but maybe haven't seen it
in a while. So I think it's a movie I'm
going to revisit now that it's Halloween time, and it's
a movie that I think if your kids are wanting
to watch something scary, like really be scared, I think
this is a great one. So I put that one
at number one, the scariest PG thirteen rated movie. There
you go. Time now for a spoiler free movie review.
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This has been the number one movie on Netflix for
a while, maybe falling out of the top spot now,
but a movie I've been wanting to talk about, and
I think last week with kind of the overshadow of
Squid Game on Netflix, I think now is the time
to check out this movie if you haven't seen it yet.
It's called The Guilty with Jake Jillen Home. He plays
a police detective who has been demoted to working in
the operating center because of its troubled past. That's the
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overall plot of this movie. I'll get into my feelings
about it very unique concept for a movie. It is
a remake, so don't be fooled by that. Before I
get into the review, here's just a little bit of
the trailer with you. Is the person would know you
called us? What do they think you called? Job? Does
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the person who with have a weapon? Yes? I need
the color of the car? Okay? When I say the
right one, say it's fine? Right? White? Is it a car? No? Man? No?
Just yes or no? Just yes or no? Answers. I'm sorry,
I have a woman who's been abducted. What are we
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looking for? A white van? That's not enough? Come on.
So Jake Jillenhall plays this character that you're learning about
why you watch the movie, And I really like when
movies do this, when they don't put everything up front
at the start of the movie, like, oh, here's why
he's in this situation. You learn it as it goes alone.
You learn the backstory and the most captivating thing about
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this movie that you want to know before going into it,
and the reason it is so different is that this
movie takes place entirely in one location. It's what's known
as a bottle movie. Sometimes you hear this reference on
TV episodes where it's called a bottle episode where they
try to keep all the main characters into one location.
And this type of episode is usually done to save money.
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It's at a point of the season where they can't
really stretch out with the budget. They don't have all
the expenses to be put towards a bunch of different
sets and location, so they're like, all right, let's write
a plot where everything can take place in this one
single room. And you've seen other movies like this before,
maybe something like Phone Booth or even earlier I was
talking about Devil. It's all in one location. And why
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that is important to know is that it's basically just
Jake Jillen Hall's face throughout the entire movie. It's him
at a computer with a headset on taking calls. So
I think what I really kind of took away from
this movie is that Jake Jillen Hall can really act.
I feel like he's a very underrated actor, and this
movie really puts on display just how good his acting
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abilities are. Because when you're just one actor on the
screen the entire time, really have no interactions with any
other characters. There's a few like side basically extras in
the room around him that have maybe a few lines,
but everybody he interacts with his voice acting, they're all
phone calls that come in. You don't see them at all.
You only see Jake Jillen Hall and hear their voice.
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So for it to be so captivating and entertaining, there
was a lot of things is going into this. It
just had a really great story, which it is a
remake of eighteen Danish film with the same name, So
they took that great story and just made basically an
American version of it. I'm okay with that. I feel
like some people have problems with that of why will
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we take a movie that was successful in another country,
in another language and just americanize it, Like, go watch
that version. But I think in this version it really works.
And if you ended up watching this one and you
really like it, go back and watch the original. I
think that's the kind of attention that should bring. I
think when something is so good and you want to
buy the rights to it and make your own version
of it, why not. I would rather see this than just,
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you know, an American movie getting remade twenty years later.
I have no problem with that concept. And the other
thing I loved about this that I was talking about
just a moment ago, is that you learned the backstory
of his character and kind of the dark past that
keeps coming up again and again, and you are really
kind of put in the center of the action, being
there and you're seeing all the things go down and
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hearing it. It was just such a unique perspective as
a viewer to enjoy and I like when movies do this.
I think, when done right, it's a really powerful way
to make a movie. It's also a very cheap way
to make a movie. Netflix one who paid thirty million
dollars for the rights of this movie to put it
on their streaming service. And the other great thing about
this one it was made during the pandemic back in
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with such a small cast, such a small need for production.
It really lent itself to being made during that time.
And I think I even read that the director was
exposed to somebody with COVID before going into film this movie,
so the director was in a van outside of the location,
looking at screens and directing from a van. So so
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many cool things about this movie, how it was made,
and I just love when a movie with such a
low budget is able to make something so much bigger
because of the concept, and I think that's exactly what
this movie does, and that's greatly due to the story
already being gray. But really the Jake Jillen Hall too
be able to be fully on display interacting with these calls,
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which I bet was a pretty hard task to do
as an actor. You're not seeing anybody face to face,
you're not interacting with anybody. He's only being fed these
lines of dialogue that he needs to react to, and
that's what acting is, it's reacting. So I think all
the voice acting for that reason was very important, and
you'll hear some other famous voices to Ethan Hawk, Bill Burr,
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Paul Dano, Peter scars Guard all played characters on the
other lines of these conversations, some pretty intense moments, and
you really just see Jake Jillen Hall get rattled and
get more and more intense. So if you're looking for
a great crime drama thriller movie, I think it's the
perfect thing to watch on Netflix right now. I give
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it four out of five calls. Watch it, let me
know what you think. It is. Rated are no crazy
violence in it. It's mainly due because of language and
the beautiful thing about it. It's only an hour and
a half ninety minutes, greatly due to the reason that
it takes place in one location and the plot really
doesn't lend itself to be able to be explored into
anything more than ninety minutes. This is the second movie
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I've seen in the last two weeks that have been
at that ninety minute mark, and I'm really kind of
loving it right now. I think when you're able to
trim all the fat, take out all those unnecessary extra scenes,
take out any unnecessary backstory, and get straight into it,
the movie itself has more power to it. And I
think that's what this one did. So that's what I
think about The Guilty on Netflix all right, about to
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get him do some movie news. I was just thinking
listening to that Jake Jillenhall trailer though, for the movie
that Guilty is. I really like it in trailers when
they use that big, like drone sound effect to make
it seem more cinematic, you know that that sound. I
feel like if I could have that in real life
to make things seem more intense, just the normal things
in life, if I could just hit that, It's like, well,
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I was thinking of going to the grocery store, but
I can't find my keys. I don't know. I just
feel like sound effects and movie trailers can be a
little bit misleading. I feel like that I don't know
something about when I watch a movie trailer, I don't
love when it keeps that same exact formula when it has,
you know, the big stages to make everything seem just
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more dramatic. But also this whole trend of like taking
a popular like nineties pop song or nineties alternative song,
or just a random pop song and doing a dramatic,
slowed down version of it. Some reason, all movie trailers
do that a couple of reasons. I know why. One
because it's cheaper to get the rights to a cover
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than it is to the original song. But I think
it just became this kind of fat and this kind
of trend of like, okay, to make our movies seem
better than it is, we get a song everybody knows,
but it's sung really low. It's like a little bit
of Monica in my life, a little bit of you
makes me, oh man Like, for some reason, all movie
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trailers to do that when they're big cinematic, blockbuster movies,
so let's get away from that trend. Anyway. I was
getting into movie news when I got distracted by that.
But first up in movie news is what Keen Phoenix
talked about a possible Joker sequel, And this is really
the first time I've ever heard him talk about it
to where he was actually interested in the idea. He
was doing an interview, and he didn't say like that
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they're working on one, or any clues as to win
it would happen. He said, quote, there are some things
we could do with this guy and could explore further.
But as to whether we actually will, I don't know.
I really think he does want to do another Joker movie.
I think one because he want to freak an Oscar
for it, But too I think he genuinely thinks there
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was more story there to dive into. There's more parts
of the Joker's brain. I think he's willing to explore.
For me, as a fan of the first one, I
think it's a perfect movie, and I almost wouldn't want
to diminish that value of having such a perfect movie
for me loving that one so much. But I do
think if they had Todd Phillips back directing it, what
Keen Phoenix back, and they really just take place right
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after the first one ends and get right into it.
I think a joke or two could be very successful.
I always worry about sequels, though, because sometimes they just
take away from a movie that you love and you'd
rather it, you know, just not be done than it
kind of diminished that, or just not do any justice
to the first one. But I think creating such a
great world that the Joker movie lives in, to see
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that go even further, you get even more intense. You
don't need any backstory on them anymore. You just get
right into the action. I actually think would be amazing
and I would love to see it next. Up in
movie dues, if you have Disney Plus and you haven't noticed,
Black Widow is on there now. The movie Black Widow
is available now on Disney Plus. You don't need to
pay the thirty bucks for it, is just up there
for free if you want to watch it. Because when
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it first hit theaters and Disney Plus back in July,
it was that hybrid release of you either had to
go see it in theaters or pay thirty bucks at home.
Now it's available for free, which I really liked. Black Widow.
I felt like it was worth the weight where it
rings up on my favorite Marvel movies. I don't think
it's one of my favorite of all time, but I
think it was the last good little piece kind of
closing out that chapter of Marvel in a way. So
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if you haven't seen that one yet, it's available for
free now on Disney Plus. Also in Marvel News, Michael B.
Jordan's is back as kill Monger in Black Panther Too.
And how is that happening exactly? Well, they don't really know.
They think it will either be a rebirth of the
character or some kind of flashbacks or maybe something else.
But I'm excited to see how they pull that one off.
And then, finally, in movie news, Netflix dropped a trailer
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for a new lin Manuel Miranda movie, making his directorial
debut in a movie called Tick Take Boom. It stars
Andrew Garfield and he's playing the Rent creator Jonathan Larson.
Here's a little bit of that trailer that I have
spent the last eight years of my life. He's getting out,
You're going to be rich and famous and rewriting and rewriting.
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Can I hear it any day? Now? Eight years and
the time keeps taking you need to ask are you
letting yourself be led by fear or by love? Fear fear?
So that movie comes out in theaters and on Netflix
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on November nineteen. I think if you're a fan of Rent,
if you're a fan of musicals, you'll probably love this movie.
The trailer alone doesn't really get me interested in wanting
to watch that one. I have trouble with musicals, and
I really loved the film adaptation of Hamilton's, which is
basically just taking the play and putting it into kind
of a movie format. I still consider that one to
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be a movie. I like Lynn Manuel Mirando when it
comes to him making music for movies. I really like Mowanna.
I didn't really get a whole lot into In the
Heights when it came out earlier this year. For me,
when it comes to just like big Broadway style musicals,
there's something about it. It just takes me a little
bit out of it because I'm not really able to
get into the plot as much when it's all being
sung to me just me personally. But I think if
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you're into those kind of movies, I am interested to
see how Andrew Garfield kind of plays into that, because
he's a really great actor, and I think he's the
main thing that would make me want to watch this movie.
And the fact that it's also coming out in theaters
and on Netflix. I think they're probably chasing some kind
of Oscar here for either Andrew Garfield or just for
the movie to be nominated, because to be nominated for
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an Oscar you do have to have at least a
limited theater run. So there you go. That's your movie news.
And before I hop out of here, every single week
I give a shout out to one of you guys
who sends me a d M on Instagram, tweets me
at Mike Destro, comments over on my Facebook page, which
is just Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro. But this
one this week is coming to me for my emails
movie Mike d at gmail dot com. And it was
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actually one of the inspirations behind this entire top. Like
this week PG thirteen Rated horror movies, I got an
email from someone who signs it clueless and p A said, Mike,
I recently just started listening to your movie podcast and
I love it. Hoping you can help me. My eleven
year old daughter is interested in watching horror movies. Neither
my husband nor I like those type of movies. I
don't want to discourage her, but I'm not sure what
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I should let her watch or not let her watch.
She said she had watch Hush with her cousin and
she loved it. Please help me navigate this movie world
with my daughter. Sincerely, clueless in p A, so coolest
in p A. I think you have five solid picks
to pick from to watch with your daughter again. They
are rated PG thirteen. I feel like those lines are
kind of more based on your discretion, based on how
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I described those movies, what you think would be appropriate
for your kids. But if she already watched the movie Hush,
which is rated R, I felt like those probably won't
be much of a stretch from that. Hush It is
actually a really great horror movie. It's about this deaf
writer who lives out in the woods and then this
mass killer dude appears at her window. I think why
that movie is so scary is it because it's something
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we all kind of worry about of being home alone
and somebody coming to mess with us or invade our house.
Kind of along the same lines of the Strangers. So
it's a movie you probably don't want to watch alone
at night and then go to sleep, because that one
will probably make you turn every light on in the
house and question every single movement going on at night.
But if you're eleven year old daughter watched that movie
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was able to sleep at night, I think you should
have no problem with all the other movies on the
list this week. So appreciate that email. Appreciate everybody for listening.
I love all the messages that you guys send me
throughout the week, especially if you listen on Monday, which
is released or the podcast that's the Monday Movie Crew.
Love all you guys. I hope you have a great
rest of your week and until next week will continue
the horror theme. I will talk to you all later
Host
Mike D
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