Mike takes on a listener suggested segment and ranks the Top 10 Scariest Horror Movie Masks. A good mask can make a horror movie traumatizing so which of these masked killers would you be the most frightening if they showed up at your doorstep? In the movie review, Mike gives his honest thoughts about Scream 6. Mike answers the questions: is the the best in the franchise?, is it TOO meta?, does the New York City setting make a difference? And does it deliver as being and is this really a Ghost Face unlike we’ve ever seen before?? In the Trailer Park, the kid in Mike is really excited about the new animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but is questioning seeing movies meant for kids as an adult.
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Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, have a fun one for
you today, a listener suggested topic. I will be sharing
my top ten scariest horror movie masks of all time
in honor of Scream six coming out this week. I'll
give you my spoiler free review of that and if
it lived up to the expectations of it being a
darker and grittier Ghostface unlike we've ever seen before. That's
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what they kept claiming. And you know what I thought.
I thought there was no way he was going to
be any different than what we saw in Scream five.
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listener suggest the topic. I got an email which you
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This is from Marcus Miller, who said, movie Mike, what's up? Bro?
Love the podcast? Hey, I had an idea for an
episode that I think would be fun to listen to.
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You should take ten horror movie characters and rank their
masks by least scariest to scariest. Let me know what
you think. Thanks for all you do. Take care, Marcus Miller.
I love this topic, so thank you Marcus for suggesting it.
I love horror movies and I love horror movie masks.
So I've compiled a list of mass killers that I
would rank as the least frightening to the most frightening.
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And I'm basing this on if I was home alone
and I saw this mass figure outside of my door,
which one would give me the biggest feeling of terror?
Which one do I not want to encounter at night?
Do I not want to have to run from? Which
one would invade my nightmares and stay there forever. So
we'll have some old we'll have some new we'll have
some fun going through this list, so let's kick it
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off now with number ten. At number ten, I went
with Hannibal from Silence of the Lambs, and it's almost
that it is an absence of a mask, and the
small mask that we do get in Hannibal is just
this little sliver covering its mouth. So even more so
than the mask itself, it's what the mask represents and
how iconic it became because the reason Hannibal Lecter has
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this mask is to cover his mouth because he is
a cannibal. And Hannibal Lecter has cannibalized his victims and
tries to bite the people around him, So that is
creepy all on its own. But the mask itself is
so simple and one that I think doesn't get the
recognition it deserves when it comes to horror movie masks.
And Anthony Hopkins gave one of the best performances in
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the nineties as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.
The crazy thing about that movie and the crazy thing
about his role he was only on screen for sixteen minutes.
A mere sixteen minutes not only got him nominated, but
he won for Best Actor in nineteen ninety two. That
is unheard of to win an OSCAR with that little
amount of screen time, and Anthony Hopkins is just an
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og an amazing actor. He went on to win this
award again in twenty twenty one for his incredible performance
in The Father. So he's an actor who can do
it all, from drama to horror. And not only is
he winning Academy Awards, but he's also ending up on
my list at number ten. Hannibal elector in Silence of
the Lambs at number nine. I have the Animal Mask
from Your Next which came out in twenty eleven, a
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movie I thought was just going to be a generic
horror movie that I would watched one time and never
think about again. But I was completely wrong. There's a
fox mask, a tiger mask, and a lamb mask. It's
about these characters wearing these animal masks who are actually hitmen,
hired to kill their family in order to collect some
insurance money. I love the plot in this movie. Lots
of twists and turns and some pretty brutal violence. So
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there was a lot of creativity in this movie that
set it apart from just being another home invasion slasher
horror movie, and it all goes back to these masks,
because out of context, somebody wearing an animal mask wouldn't
be that scary, but you put a crossbow in their hand,
you show them killing somebody, and the blood splatter on
the animal mask just adds a very eerie element. So
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the animal mask combined with how violent this movie gets,
it's beautiful in a dark, twisted way at least. So
at number nine, I have the animal masks from Your Next.
At number eight the pig mask from Saw, which you
probably associate the entire Saw franchise with its mascot jig Saw.
But there was something about seeing this pig mask and
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it come out of nowhere in these movies that was
completely terrifying. And we were just talking about how almost
adorable the animal mask are in Your Next. But it's
a complete one eighty when it comes to this pig
mask in Saw, because it looks gruesome, it looks bloody,
even though it's not really that bloody in the movie,
and there's just something creepy about a pig, and nonetheless
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a pig with this dark black wig over it, in
a black hoodie and these really gloopy, dark black eyes
and you have no idea who was behind this mask.
So even if you took this mask outside of this movie,
which the entire Soft franchise, at least the first three
movies are really creepy, and they had a pretty good
grip on us early on, when the idea of a
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Saw movie was pretty novel, and it was this filthy
swine that I just couldn't get out of my brain.
So at number eight, I have the pig mask from Saw.
At number seven I went with the horrifying grinning faces
and the polite leader mask in The Purge. The Purge
is the movie that's about the twelve hours of legalized mayhem,
where there are no rules. Anything goes, including murder. The
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Purge has one of the best premises for a horror
movie in the last ten years. It came out in
twenty thirteen, which is bizarre to me that movies that
came out in twenty thirteen are now ten years old.
In my mind, everything from the twenty tens is still
just a couple years old. But now the fact that
the Purge movie has been out a decade, the idea
that kids now are growing up in the twenty twenties
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and everything from the twenty ten seems like so long
ago to them. That gives me a weird feeling, especially
when it comes to The Purge, which still feels like
a new franchise to me, but it's been around for
ten years. And what's so creepy about these masks, it's
how they are used in the film. Of course, whenever
they're looking through their peet poles, they see these people
outside their door and they have this big, exaggerated expression
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on their face that's almost dolllike, almost this translucent human face,
which the Masks and the Purge are actually based on
a horror movie from nineteen seventy six called Alice, Sweet Alice,
so it's a bit of an homage to that movie.
But it's an image that I would not want to
pull up. When I bring up my doorbell cam and
see this dolllike face with black eyes, it looks like
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it's had too many procedures of botox wielding a machetti
pointing it at me. And maybe it's also the fact
that this could probably happen in real life. That's what
makes this movie creepy. That's what makes these masks creepy.
So at number seven are the Masks from the Purge
at number six is a newer entry a movie that
came out last year called The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawk,
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where he played a character called The Grabber, And I
think if this movie would have had more of an
impact last year. It was a movie I enjoyed, but
I wanted to completely love it if it would have
really resonated with audience been a bigger hit at the
box office, which it also came out during the summer,
so there were a lot of things going on. But
I feel like the look of this mask. Ethan Hawk's
performance in this movie had everything in the recipe to
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be an iconic, memorable horror movie character. There was just
something about this movie that didn't completely hit for me.
But even though I didn't completely love the way the
story played out, I was in love with the look
of this mask. So the Grabber is this sad, sadistic
serial killer and also a part time magician. And he
has three different really creepy looking devil mask that all
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resent these different emotions that he has. Because this character
is unlike any other horror movie character, he is ashamed
of all the things he is doing throughout this movie,
abducting children, locking them in his basement, torturing them, messing
with their mind, ignoring all the sounds that come from
the black phone, and trying to carry on with his
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normal life and hide it from everybody else that he
is actually the one that the police are looking for
in connection with all of these missing kids in this neighborhood.
And the way they use this mask in this movie
is unlike any other horror movie character. While yes, he's
trying to conceal his identity from the public, but he's
also trying to conceal his identity from himself. At least
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when he is doing all these horrific actions. He doesn't
want to look at himself. He's not proud of himself.
He is ashamed of the actions he is doing, so
when he looks in the mirror, he doesn't want to
see his real face. He wants to hide it behind
the sick devil mask, which is probably how he really
feels on the inside. He uses these three different masks
to portray his different emotions that he feels throughout this movie.
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Sometimes it's joy because in a sick way, he does
get pleasure out of doing this. It is despair because
sometimes he does feel bad for all the things he
is putting these kids through. And then there's one mask
that has his mouth completely just gone, kind of like shut,
melted looking, and that is to represent the nothingness he feels,
no remorse. And when you put all these things together,
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and just the design of this mask, how it looks
like perfectly sculpted porcelain. And if there was one mask
out of this entire list that I could just own
and have in the background at my home studio which
I'm rebuilding right now, this one would look amazing up
on the wall. And it's so creepy looking and use
so well in this movie. My favorite thing about the
Black Phone, aside from Ethan Hawk, So at number six,
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I went with the Grabbers mask in The Black Phone,
portrayed by Ethan Hawk. Hopping into the top five at
number five. Is one of the most recognizable masks. You
can find it in any store around Halloween, and it
is Jason Vorhees mask. The Friday of the Thirteenth franchise
has an unusual start because you don't even see this
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mask until Part three, which came out in nineteen eighty two.
Jason isn't even the killer in the first Friday the
Thirteenth movie. In part two, he doesn't have this mask.
He just has this brown burr lap looking sack over
his face. That's the first time you see him, and
it's not until part three of Friday the Thirteenth where
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you see his hockey mask for the first time. I
feel like when these movies came out, they were trying
hard to not look and mimic exactly what was working
with the Halloween movies and Michael Myers, so they were
trying to be a little bit different. So for me personally,
the movies didn't really work until Jason had the hockey
mask on. Whenever I see the baghead version of Jason,
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I find it incredibly cheesy. But I think what makes
this mask so terrifying is the fact that it's so simple.
It's just a hockey mask with a little bit of
red on it, but nonetheless it works. It's iconic. Though
at number five it is Jason at number six mentioned
it a bit earlier. It is Halloween, Michael Myers famous
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Captain Kirk mask from the first movie, and there have
been so many iterations of the mask over the entire franchise,
but it all goes back to that first mask and
the story behind it. The production crew went out to
just buy a mask that fit the character, that fit
the budget, and also one that they didn't have to
get the rights for. So Michael Myers also could have
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been wearing a clown mask, but luckily, the one they
ended up settling with was a William Shatner mask that
they stripped off the sideburns, they painted white, they messied
up the hair, and what they ended up creating was
this mask that looked lifeless, that had an absence of emotion,
and that had these dark eyes and a blank stare.
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And that is how they brought Michael Myers to life.
And I think that's what makes the Michael Myers mask
so scary is the absence of emotion. You have this
ghostlike face on this incredible shape of a very muscular,
strong individual that can take you out with his bare hands.
But it all goes back to that mask. It's cold,
it's soull less, and so easily recognizable. So at number four,
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I have Michael Myers mask from Halloween getting into the
top three. At number three, I have the masks of
the Strangers in the Strangers. The reason I find them
so terrifying, more so than Michael Myers, more so than
Jason is because they can be anybody. The Strangers is
a movie very much set in reality. There's no supernatural
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element to it. The killers don't have this incredible strength
or the ability to bounce back from an attack. They
are just normal people wearing these sinister looking masks, two
that resemble baby dolls, and one that is a burlap
mask with the cutouts for the eyes, like a demented
looking scarecrow. And it's the story behind The Strangers, which
is a story a young couple who get trapped inside
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this home, tormented by these three people wearing these masks.
There's nothing bizarre to that plot. That literally is my
worst nightmare when checking into an Airbnb is what neighborhood
am I in? And are there people watching me? So
this is a worst case scenario played out in a movie.
And I would freak out if I ever woke up
in the middle of the night to something crashing at
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a front door and then saw somebody wearing this doll
mask or this burlap sack mask. And what makes these
masks even scarier is there is some real life truth
behind them. This entire movie was inspired by something that
happened to the director Brian Burtinho as a kid. He
based it on a childhood experience when a stranger came
knocking to his door in the middle of the night
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asking for someone who didn't live there. That would stay
with me forever. This movie has stuck with me forever
since I saw it in two thousand and eight. Still
freaks me out of an adult. Sometimes I still have
nightmares that these people are chasing me around my own house.
So at number three are the masks of the Home
Invaders from The Strangers. At number two is ghost Face
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mask from Scream. This is just a great looking mask.
It's the only mask I've ever owned. I had to
own it as a kid. I wanted to dress up
like ghost Face, and my parents would never pay for
me to have a cool Halloween costume. But luckily I
was able to get a screen mask after it went
on sale after Halloween at the grocery store. It was
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marked down seventy percent. So then next year, once Halloween
came around, I had my screen mask, although I'd already
been wearing it for a year at that point and
it didn't really look that good. I also didn't really
have the rest of the costume, but man I loved
that mask and kept up with it for years. But
even though this mask is so simple, there's something that
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sets it apart from every other blank white horror movie mask,
aside from Jason, aside from Michael Myers. It just has
these black blobs for its eyes and it's really long
looking mouth. But it's almost like those bobs give this
mask an expression like the mask is screaming, which it's
actually loosely based on that famous painting the Scream wherever
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the guy has its hands on its mouth screaming, kind
of like Kevin and Home Alone. And the original ghost
Face mask was actually created by a company called fun
World as a Halloween costume before Wes Craven even used
it in Scream. The word iconic gets thrown around a lot,
especially on this podcast, but just in life, but this
mask is truly iconic. If you saw this Scream mask
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as a small little icon on your desktop, you would
know exactly what it is. The sagging eyes, the elongated mouth.
That is ghost Face that even if you haven't seen
a screen movie, you know exactly what it is. So
at number two, I have ghost Face from Scream. Before
we get to number one, I do have some honorable mentions.
I watched a horror movie earlier this year called Infinity Pool,
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and I really love the bizarre looking masks in that movie.
They had this really cool metallic finish to them, and
some of them have two faces split on one mask.
I really like the look of every single mask in
that movie and thought they were going to be used
more throughout the movie. But nonetheless those are pretty terrifying too.
I also like a mask used in Happy Death Day
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and the fact that we are still trying to create
some mask in these new movies coming out, I can
respect that. I decided not to include faces on this list.
So if you're wondering why characters like Freddy Krueger, it
Chucky even aren't the clown from the Terrifier movies didn't
make this list, is because that's just their faces. So
even though you can go to the store and buy
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their faces on a mask, the characters themselves aren't actually
wearing masks, so that's an entirely different episode. But now
at number one, the mask made from human skin is
Leatherface and his mask in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What
else do you need to say? He is a demented
individual wearing a mask made out of human skin, one
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of the most grotesque concepts for a mask. It looks
truly horrific to see this skin piece together with the
jankety so job. I love the imagery in this movie
when you see him making the mask and then the
first time you see him with the skin over his face.
That is something only a true sick individual can do.
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And like some of the other masks on this list,
the director took inspiration from a real life serial killer
named Edgin who wore masks made out of human skin.
So this is not just some idea somebody came up
with and thought this wouldn't make a great horror movie.
Somebody actually did this. Out of all the movies in
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this has always been something essential
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to each one. Leatherface making a mask at a human skin.
It's sick, it's creepy, it's disgusting. It is my number
one scariest horror movie mask of all time. If there's
one you think should have made the list, or you
think my ranking was a little bit off, let me know.
Hit me up on Socials at Mike Distro. Thanks again
to listener Marcus for suggesting this week's topic. If you
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have a topic you want to share with me, a
movie you want me to talk about, a genre you
think I should feature more on the podcast, let me
know what it is. Send me an email Movie Mike
d at gmail dot com, or you can copy and
paste it from the episode notes on this podcast. Let's
get into a spoiler free movie review now. I want
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to talk about Scream six. And for some reason I
set really high expectations going into this movie. I don't
know why. I bought into the hype of the trailer.
I bought into the hype of ghost space, having this
warn looking mask, kind of getting that bad taste out
of my mouth that Scream five had, and thought maybe
it would be a little bit more of an elevated
horror movie, have a little bit of a different approach,
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and not just be another slasher movie. The idea of
it being set in New York City was exciting to me,
them getting out of Woodsborough, having the four survivors go
on to college. And what I said back when I
had it in the trailer park is would it be
able to maintain that same level that it did in
the trailer throughout an entire two hour movie. But before
we get into this review, here's just a little bit
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of the Scream six trailer. This isn't like any other
ghost face. What is this place a shrine? We've got
to laure him, then we execute him. Hello, let's play
a game. You know, you're like the tenth guy to
try this, right. It never works out for the dipperish
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from the mask maybe, but there's never been one like me, Gale.
I'm something different. That's why I'm going to shoot you
in the head. So what we have in Scream six
we are continuing our requel here, So if you're not
familiar with the requel, it is a movie that is
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both a remake and a sequel, but it contains new
materials and tries to keep that same storyline alive, keeps
that same continuity. So, in essence, Scream five was the
requal of the original Scream and Scream six is a
requal of Scream two. So this movie continues the theme
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of it being very meta, very self aware, and I
think to the point in Scream six where I feel
like this franchise is hurt by its own legacy. Holding
onto those old characters. You still have Courtney Cox as
Gale Weathers in this you have the references to Nev
Campbell's character, the references to David ar KITT's character. I
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think we need to move on from that. Drop all
the old nostalgia, and much like I in my thirties
need to move on from the nineties, the Scream franchise
needs to move on from the nineties. If I have
to hear what's your favorite scary movie one more time,
I'm gonna lose it. It's not even that great of
a line. It's a memorable line, but you don't need
to say it in every Scream movie. And the thing is,
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I actually like the characters in Scream five and Screen six.
You have two really great leads. They're really great actors.
You have Jenna Ortega, who when this first one came
out Scream five, that is I bet most people would
have trouble identifying what her name is. But after her
having such a big year in twenty twenty two, she's
not one of the biggest names in horror movies, so
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I almost feel like she is now attached to this franchise,
even though I don't think she'll be continuing to do
these movies because her stardom is going to get even
far beyond the Scream movies. But you see throughout this
entire movie that she's a really great actress does horror
really well, so I think if she wanted to continue
in the horror genre, it just fits in so perfectly
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like a glove. And then you also have Melissa Berrera,
who I just love the representation in between her and
Jena Ortega of having Mexican actresses in a leading, big
Hollywood movie. So that's inspiring for me to see to
see how you can change throughout the entire franchise, because
the storyline in Scream six is really like a soap opera.
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But even with the cheesiness in the storyline, I can
still see the talent in both of these leads. And
then you also have Mason Gooding, who I think is
a really great new actor. I really liked him in
Book Smart. And then you have Hayden Pintier back because
she was in Scream four. So what this entire movie
is about is all the four surviving members from Scream
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five are back in Scream six. They have left Woodsboro
and are now living in New York City takes place
about a year after the first woman. They're trying to
live out their lives. Jenna Ortega's character is trying to
completely forget about what happened in Woodsboro and not really
make it a part of her identity whatsoever, just trying
to be a normal college kid. Her sister, on the
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other hand, whose dad is Billy Lupas from the very
original screen movie, is still struggling with all these thoughts
in her head. She's trying to go to therapy to
make sense of all the emotions she felt after she
killed the guy in the movie before this, and is
having a much more difficult time moving on. What disrupts everything?
You have another killing again, and they want to get
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immediately out of New York City. But then of course
they run into ghost space pretty quickly, and their first
encounter is actually what you see in the trailer. They're
in a blodega, and the rules kind of go out
the window, because usually ghost space attacks people one on one,
doesn't do it in broad daylight. And I felt like
this first attack was them trying to be a little
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bit different, it trying to be a ghost space like
you hadn't seen before. He attacks them right in public
going down the street, and that first little standoff in
De Blodega was actually pretty good. As the movie progressed
from the first and second act, the kill scenes were
pretty captivating. They weren't anything entirely different, but they had
a little bit more of an edge to him. They
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moved along a little faster, and the movie got pretty
bloody pretty quick, almost like an old school b horror
movie from back in the day. So I felt like,
for a little bit, Ghost Space did have a little
bit of an edge to him, but I still wasn't
buying into the fact that he is a ghost face
like we hadn't seen before, because that about wears off
within the forty five hour mark of this I think
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where this movie really lost me was with it being
a little bit overly meta. Again, I think it's just
hurt by its own legacy. It just feels like every
screen movie has this exact same formula, and now at
part six, I'm a little bit over it. The screen
movies to me are almost starting to feel like to
Fast and the Furious movies. You kind of know exactly
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where you're gonna get going into it, and even though
you have this expectation of it being completely different. It's
really just a lot more of the same. Case In point,
Hayden Pantier's character coming back, she was in screen four.
Her character Kirby is now in the FBI and trying
to figure out how all of these killings are connected
and how the killer in this movie is leaving behind
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different ghost face mask from throughout the years. So I
guess that's on me of expecting this movie to be
a little bit scarier. The scariest part of Scream six
for me actually took place the lobby, having to see
all those teenagers, and I could just feel gen Z
judging me, pointing out all my insecurities. Look at this
thirty one year old dude with adult braces, sideways crying,
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laughing emoji, using skinny jean, wearing weather forecast fanatic, looking
like he loves a trip to Costco and I do.
So that was the scariest part of this entire movie
for me. But I do enjoy that a Scream movie
does give me those nostalgic vibes of a nineties slasher movie,
that feeling of going to a movie on a Friday night,
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a pack theater with a bunch of people there just
looking to have a good time, laugh at the ridiculous parts,
Scream during the jump scares, and then talking about the
movie as you exit the theater. What was your favorite
part this movie? He did, in that way encompass what
I love about going to the movies and what made
it so memorable going as a teenager. So even though
I felt those gen Z kids judging me, I knew
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they had the right to do it. They would look
back on a night like this of remember the good
old times of Scream six. But I just found that
throughout the entire two hours, it had a really hard
time keeping my attention and hands down the cheesiest screen
movie I have ever seen. I honestly think they need
to honor Wes Craven by letting go of everything we
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know from the screen franchise. It seems like they are
trying to keep all those things alive in order to
keep the legacy of these movies, in order to keep
people interested. Let go of all the characters. No more
references to gayale Weather, Sidney Prescott, Officer Dewey. Let's let
it all go, and let's let these new actors really
shine in a new story. Let's reinvent the screen franchise,
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throw it all out the window. So with that being said,
as much as I love a good slasher movie, as
much as I love the character ghost Space, this movie
just didn't do it for me. I found myself waiting
for it to be over. So I would give Scream
six two point five out of five stab wounds. It's
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time to head down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul.
I have been waiting for the first look at this
movie for three years now because Seth Rogan first announced
this project to make a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
movie back in twenty twenty, and the inner kid and
me went wild. I love every single Ninja Turtles movie
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ever made. It doesn't matter how cheesy they get, how
far away they get from what made the original movies great.
I just love that. Throughout my entire life there has
always been some iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Why I think I love these characters so much growing up,
this was one franchise that my brother and I bonded
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with so much over our years of watching movies together.
And my brother grew up in the eighties much like
Seth Rogan did so. I think the fact that he
is behind this movie, producing it, making sure it is
representative of those fans of the original series, from the
original comic book, the original cartoon, and those original movies.
I think he is trying to incorporate what made those
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Ninja Turtles movies great, but also having a modern, fresh
approach and realizing that, yes, these movies are meant for kids.
There are so many movies now that we all love
and we've been watching forever, from Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles,
Star Wars, Spider Man. They were so impactful because we
discovered them as kids. But we grow up and we
keep wanting to see these characters and somehow still hold
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them to those feelings they gave us as kids and
want them to live up to those standards. There's no
way they're ever gonna make us feel like that. They shouldn't.
They should be inspiring the next generation of kids to
be fans of all these franchises, and that is what
is exciting to me about this movie. It's called Teenage Mutant,
Ninja Turtles, Mutant Mayhem. It's coming out in theaters on
August fourth. Before I get into all the things I
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love about the look of this movie. Here's just a
little bit of the Mutant Mayhem trailer. What the heck
are those things look like little shreks to me, who
We've prepared our whole life for that you cannot Oh
my god, what happened? Is so you were baby turtles
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make contact with mystery woll We prefer the term us
but yeah, it's like more like it's just it rolls
off the tongue better. Yeah, it's so. This movie is
about our four iconic heroes in a half show, Donna Tello,
Michelangelo Leonardo, and Raphael and they look to have the
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most childlike nature to them than any other Ninja Turtles movie.
All of the four main characters are voiced by real
life teenagers, so I'm really glad they did that. It's
a Nickelodeon film, so it only makes sense to have
these characters voiced by real life teenagers. And the movie
will follow the story that we're pretty familiar with. These
four turtles that stumble into some ooze along with their
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rat mentor splinter, and then they turn into the teenage
mutant Ninja Turtles, only lurking in the shadows wearing these masks,
even though doesn't really hide their identity as being teenage
mutant ninja Turtles. They operate in the shadows in New
York City and try to be recognized for their heroic
actions that they do saving the city from crime. And
then you also have April O'Neill helping them along the way.
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So let's look at this cast. When it comes to
the four main characters, you have Brady Noon as Raphael
Mica Abbey as Donna, Tello, Shimone Brown Junior as Michelangelo,
and Nicholas Cantu as Leonardo. And then you have some
big names throughout the rest of the cast with Jackie
Chan as Splinter, producer, Seth Rogan as Bebop, John Cena
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as rock Steady, Hannibal Burris as Genesis Frog, Rose Burn
as Leatherhead, Ice Cube as Superfly, Post Malone as Ray Falet,
Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko, and Maya Rudolph as Cynthia Utrum.
I love the animation style they decided to go with
on this movie. I think it really adds to that
childlike nature of the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. It kind
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of has the style of a kid's book you would
get at the school book fair, almost like this watercolor
comic book style. It kind of resembles the style of
Into the Spider Verse, not as detailed, not as intricate.
I don't think they have as many artists working on
this movie than they did with that piece of art,
but I think that's the style they're kind of trying
to emulate because it works so well for that animated
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Spider Man franchise, and maybe they're trying to create something
of their own here in that same vein and to
pair with the animation style in this trailer. I really
love the look and design of the logo. It has
this style to it that it kind of looks like
an actual teenager came up with this logo. It reminds
me of when I would doodle in my notebooks while
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I was taking notes in class. That's the kind of
style it has. So in a way, it looks modern,
but it also kind of feels nostalgic. It's the most
nineties looking teenage mutant Ninja Turtles movie that we've had
since well, the original nineteen nineties Ninja Turtles movies, So
in a way it reminds me not so much of
the first three Ninja Turtles movies, but since it's animated,
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it reminds me of the original TMNT cartoon and video
game and how fun that was to discover as a kid.
So I don't expect it to be as good as
the OG trilogy from nineteen ninety, ninety one and ninety three,
but I feel like it has the ability to outrank
the other movies. I did like the two thousand and
seven animated version. I remember my brother and I going
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to see that in theaters and it being a cool
thing to experience, even seventeen years after the original movie.
The Michael Bay live action ones, which I watched again
recently because I just loved the Ninja Turtles that much.
They're all right. I was excited to see Bebop and
rock Steady as live action characters, but there was just
something about the Turtles being cgi and being really big
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and bulky and kind of taking the childlike nature away
from them instead just making them superheroes. In this Michael
Bay explosion type movie, it just felt like they were
Transformers instead of Ninja Turtles. So I didn't think those
movies were terrible when they first came out, But looking
back on them, I could have done without those movies,
and the fact that they had Johnny Knoxville as Leonardo's
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voice in the first movie and then fired them when
they made the second one. Bad move, Bad move. So again,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem is coming out this
summer on August fourth. So now the only thing I
have to get over is being okay with being a
man in my thirties going to see a kids movie
alone this links edition of movie, and that's gonna do it.
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For another episode here of the podcast. If you are
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to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, have a fun one for
you today, a listener suggested topic. I will be sharing
my top ten scariest horror movie masks of all time
in honor of Scream six coming out this week. I'll
give you my spoiler free review of that and if
it lived up to the expectations of it being a
darker and grittier Ghostface unlike we've ever seen before. That's
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what they kept claiming. And you know what I thought.
I thought there was no way he was going to
be any different than what we saw in Scream five.
Prove me wrong. Scream prove me wrong. And in the
trailer park, my inner kid is about to explode because
there is a new animated teenage mutant ninja turtles coming
out called Mutant Mayhem. So thank you for being here,
Thanks for being subscribed. Shout out to the movie crew.
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Hen Now, let's talk movies. In a world where everyone
and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to
infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a
movie podcast. A man with so much movie now, he's
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Nashville podcast Networks Movie Movie Podcast. Today's episode is a
listener suggest the topic. I got an email which you
can always email me, movie Mike d at gmail dot com.
This is from Marcus Miller, who said, movie Mike, what's up? Bro?
Love the podcast? Hey, I had an idea for an
episode that I think would be fun to listen to.
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You should take ten horror movie characters and rank their
masks by least scariest to scariest. Let me know what
you think. Thanks for all you do. Take care, Marcus Miller.
I love this topic, so thank you Marcus for suggesting it.
I love horror movies and I love horror movie masks.
So I've compiled a list of mass killers that I
would rank as the least frightening to the most frightening.
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And I'm basing this on if I was home alone
and I saw this mass figure outside of my door,
which one would give me the biggest feeling of terror?
Which one do I not want to encounter at night?
Do I not want to have to run from? Which
one would invade my nightmares and stay there forever. So
we'll have some old we'll have some new we'll have
some fun going through this list, so let's kick it
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off now with number ten. At number ten, I went
with Hannibal from Silence of the Lambs, and it's almost
that it is an absence of a mask, and the
small mask that we do get in Hannibal is just
this little sliver covering its mouth. So even more so
than the mask itself, it's what the mask represents and
how iconic it became because the reason Hannibal Lecter has
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this mask is to cover his mouth because he is
a cannibal. And Hannibal Lecter has cannibalized his victims and
tries to bite the people around him, So that is
creepy all on its own. But the mask itself is
so simple and one that I think doesn't get the
recognition it deserves when it comes to horror movie masks.
And Anthony Hopkins gave one of the best performances in
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the nineties as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.
The crazy thing about that movie and the crazy thing
about his role he was only on screen for sixteen minutes.
A mere sixteen minutes not only got him nominated, but
he won for Best Actor in nineteen ninety two. That
is unheard of to win an OSCAR with that little
amount of screen time, and Anthony Hopkins is just an
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og an amazing actor. He went on to win this
award again in twenty twenty one for his incredible performance
in The Father. So he's an actor who can do
it all, from drama to horror. And not only is
he winning Academy Awards, but he's also ending up on
my list at number ten. Hannibal elector in Silence of
the Lambs at number nine. I have the Animal Mask
from Your Next which came out in twenty eleven, a
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movie I thought was just going to be a generic
horror movie that I would watched one time and never
think about again. But I was completely wrong. There's a
fox mask, a tiger mask, and a lamb mask. It's
about these characters wearing these animal masks who are actually hitmen,
hired to kill their family in order to collect some
insurance money. I love the plot in this movie. Lots
of twists and turns and some pretty brutal violence. So
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there was a lot of creativity in this movie that
set it apart from just being another home invasion slasher
horror movie, and it all goes back to these masks,
because out of context, somebody wearing an animal mask wouldn't
be that scary, but you put a crossbow in their hand,
you show them killing somebody, and the blood splatter on
the animal mask just adds a very eerie element. So
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the animal mask combined with how violent this movie gets,
it's beautiful in a dark, twisted way at least. So
at number nine, I have the animal masks from Your Next.
At number eight the pig mask from Saw, which you
probably associate the entire Saw franchise with its mascot jig Saw.
But there was something about seeing this pig mask and
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it come out of nowhere in these movies that was
completely terrifying. And we were just talking about how almost
adorable the animal mask are in Your Next. But it's
a complete one eighty when it comes to this pig
mask in Saw, because it looks gruesome, it looks bloody,
even though it's not really that bloody in the movie,
and there's just something creepy about a pig, and nonetheless
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a pig with this dark black wig over it, in
a black hoodie and these really gloopy, dark black eyes
and you have no idea who was behind this mask.
So even if you took this mask outside of this movie,
which the entire Soft franchise, at least the first three
movies are really creepy, and they had a pretty good
grip on us early on, when the idea of a
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Saw movie was pretty novel, and it was this filthy
swine that I just couldn't get out of my brain.
So at number eight, I have the pig mask from Saw.
At number seven I went with the horrifying grinning faces
and the polite leader mask in The Purge. The Purge
is the movie that's about the twelve hours of legalized mayhem,
where there are no rules. Anything goes, including murder. The
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Purge has one of the best premises for a horror
movie in the last ten years. It came out in
twenty thirteen, which is bizarre to me that movies that
came out in twenty thirteen are now ten years old.
In my mind, everything from the twenty tens is still
just a couple years old. But now the fact that
the Purge movie has been out a decade, the idea
that kids now are growing up in the twenty twenties
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and everything from the twenty ten seems like so long
ago to them. That gives me a weird feeling, especially
when it comes to The Purge, which still feels like
a new franchise to me, but it's been around for
ten years. And what's so creepy about these masks, it's
how they are used in the film. Of course, whenever
they're looking through their peet poles, they see these people
outside their door and they have this big, exaggerated expression
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on their face that's almost dolllike, almost this translucent human face,
which the Masks and the Purge are actually based on
a horror movie from nineteen seventy six called Alice, Sweet Alice,
so it's a bit of an homage to that movie.
But it's an image that I would not want to
pull up. When I bring up my doorbell cam and
see this dolllike face with black eyes, it looks like
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it's had too many procedures of botox wielding a machetti
pointing it at me. And maybe it's also the fact
that this could probably happen in real life. That's what
makes this movie creepy. That's what makes these masks creepy.
So at number seven are the Masks from the Purge
at number six is a newer entry a movie that
came out last year called The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawk,
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where he played a character called The Grabber, And I
think if this movie would have had more of an
impact last year. It was a movie I enjoyed, but
I wanted to completely love it if it would have
really resonated with audience been a bigger hit at the
box office, which it also came out during the summer,
so there were a lot of things going on. But
I feel like the look of this mask. Ethan Hawk's
performance in this movie had everything in the recipe to
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be an iconic, memorable horror movie character. There was just
something about this movie that didn't completely hit for me.
But even though I didn't completely love the way the
story played out, I was in love with the look
of this mask. So the Grabber is this sad, sadistic
serial killer and also a part time magician. And he
has three different really creepy looking devil mask that all
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resent these different emotions that he has. Because this character
is unlike any other horror movie character, he is ashamed
of all the things he is doing throughout this movie,
abducting children, locking them in his basement, torturing them, messing
with their mind, ignoring all the sounds that come from
the black phone, and trying to carry on with his
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normal life and hide it from everybody else that he
is actually the one that the police are looking for
in connection with all of these missing kids in this neighborhood.
And the way they use this mask in this movie
is unlike any other horror movie character. While yes, he's
trying to conceal his identity from the public, but he's
also trying to conceal his identity from himself. At least
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when he is doing all these horrific actions. He doesn't
want to look at himself. He's not proud of himself.
He is ashamed of the actions he is doing, so
when he looks in the mirror, he doesn't want to
see his real face. He wants to hide it behind
the sick devil mask, which is probably how he really
feels on the inside. He uses these three different masks
to portray his different emotions that he feels throughout this movie.
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Sometimes it's joy because in a sick way, he does
get pleasure out of doing this. It is despair because
sometimes he does feel bad for all the things he
is putting these kids through. And then there's one mask
that has his mouth completely just gone, kind of like shut,
melted looking, and that is to represent the nothingness he feels,
no remorse. And when you put all these things together,
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and just the design of this mask, how it looks
like perfectly sculpted porcelain. And if there was one mask
out of this entire list that I could just own
and have in the background at my home studio which
I'm rebuilding right now, this one would look amazing up
on the wall. And it's so creepy looking and use
so well in this movie. My favorite thing about the
Black Phone, aside from Ethan Hawk, So at number six,
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I went with the Grabbers mask in The Black Phone,
portrayed by Ethan Hawk. Hopping into the top five at
number five. Is one of the most recognizable masks. You
can find it in any store around Halloween, and it
is Jason Vorhees mask. The Friday of the Thirteenth franchise
has an unusual start because you don't even see this
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mask until Part three, which came out in nineteen eighty two.
Jason isn't even the killer in the first Friday the
Thirteenth movie. In part two, he doesn't have this mask.
He just has this brown burr lap looking sack over
his face. That's the first time you see him, and
it's not until part three of Friday the Thirteenth where
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you see his hockey mask for the first time. I
feel like when these movies came out, they were trying
hard to not look and mimic exactly what was working
with the Halloween movies and Michael Myers, so they were
trying to be a little bit different. So for me personally,
the movies didn't really work until Jason had the hockey
mask on. Whenever I see the baghead version of Jason,
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I find it incredibly cheesy. But I think what makes
this mask so terrifying is the fact that it's so simple.
It's just a hockey mask with a little bit of
red on it, but nonetheless it works. It's iconic. Though
at number five it is Jason at number six mentioned
it a bit earlier. It is Halloween, Michael Myers famous
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Captain Kirk mask from the first movie, and there have
been so many iterations of the mask over the entire franchise,
but it all goes back to that first mask and
the story behind it. The production crew went out to
just buy a mask that fit the character, that fit
the budget, and also one that they didn't have to
get the rights for. So Michael Myers also could have
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been wearing a clown mask, but luckily, the one they
ended up settling with was a William Shatner mask that
they stripped off the sideburns, they painted white, they messied
up the hair, and what they ended up creating was
this mask that looked lifeless, that had an absence of emotion,
and that had these dark eyes and a blank stare.
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And that is how they brought Michael Myers to life.
And I think that's what makes the Michael Myers mask
so scary is the absence of emotion. You have this
ghostlike face on this incredible shape of a very muscular,
strong individual that can take you out with his bare hands.
But it all goes back to that mask. It's cold,
it's soull less, and so easily recognizable. So at number four,
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I have Michael Myers mask from Halloween getting into the
top three. At number three, I have the masks of
the Strangers in the Strangers. The reason I find them
so terrifying, more so than Michael Myers, more so than
Jason is because they can be anybody. The Strangers is
a movie very much set in reality. There's no supernatural
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element to it. The killers don't have this incredible strength
or the ability to bounce back from an attack. They
are just normal people wearing these sinister looking masks, two
that resemble baby dolls, and one that is a burlap
mask with the cutouts for the eyes, like a demented
looking scarecrow. And it's the story behind The Strangers, which
is a story a young couple who get trapped inside
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this home, tormented by these three people wearing these masks.
There's nothing bizarre to that plot. That literally is my
worst nightmare when checking into an Airbnb is what neighborhood
am I in? And are there people watching me? So
this is a worst case scenario played out in a movie.
And I would freak out if I ever woke up
in the middle of the night to something crashing at
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a front door and then saw somebody wearing this doll
mask or this burlap sack mask. And what makes these
masks even scarier is there is some real life truth
behind them. This entire movie was inspired by something that
happened to the director Brian Burtinho as a kid. He
based it on a childhood experience when a stranger came
knocking to his door in the middle of the night
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asking for someone who didn't live there. That would stay
with me forever. This movie has stuck with me forever
since I saw it in two thousand and eight. Still
freaks me out of an adult. Sometimes I still have
nightmares that these people are chasing me around my own house.
So at number three are the masks of the Home
Invaders from The Strangers. At number two is ghost Face
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mask from Scream. This is just a great looking mask.
It's the only mask I've ever owned. I had to
own it as a kid. I wanted to dress up
like ghost Face, and my parents would never pay for
me to have a cool Halloween costume. But luckily I
was able to get a screen mask after it went
on sale after Halloween at the grocery store. It was
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marked down seventy percent. So then next year, once Halloween
came around, I had my screen mask, although I'd already
been wearing it for a year at that point and
it didn't really look that good. I also didn't really
have the rest of the costume, but man I loved
that mask and kept up with it for years. But
even though this mask is so simple, there's something that
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sets it apart from every other blank white horror movie mask,
aside from Jason, aside from Michael Myers. It just has
these black blobs for its eyes and it's really long
looking mouth. But it's almost like those bobs give this
mask an expression like the mask is screaming, which it's
actually loosely based on that famous painting the Scream wherever
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the guy has its hands on its mouth screaming, kind
of like Kevin and Home Alone. And the original ghost
Face mask was actually created by a company called fun
World as a Halloween costume before Wes Craven even used
it in Scream. The word iconic gets thrown around a lot,
especially on this podcast, but just in life, but this
mask is truly iconic. If you saw this Scream mask
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as a small little icon on your desktop, you would
know exactly what it is. The sagging eyes, the elongated mouth.
That is ghost Face that even if you haven't seen
a screen movie, you know exactly what it is. So
at number two, I have ghost Face from Scream. Before
we get to number one, I do have some honorable mentions.
I watched a horror movie earlier this year called Infinity Pool,
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and I really love the bizarre looking masks in that movie.
They had this really cool metallic finish to them, and
some of them have two faces split on one mask.
I really like the look of every single mask in
that movie and thought they were going to be used
more throughout the movie. But nonetheless those are pretty terrifying too.
I also like a mask used in Happy Death Day
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and the fact that we are still trying to create
some mask in these new movies coming out, I can
respect that. I decided not to include faces on this list.
So if you're wondering why characters like Freddy Krueger, it
Chucky even aren't the clown from the Terrifier movies didn't
make this list, is because that's just their faces. So
even though you can go to the store and buy
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their faces on a mask, the characters themselves aren't actually
wearing masks, so that's an entirely different episode. But now
at number one, the mask made from human skin is
Leatherface and his mask in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What
else do you need to say? He is a demented
individual wearing a mask made out of human skin, one
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of the most grotesque concepts for a mask. It looks
truly horrific to see this skin piece together with the
jankety so job. I love the imagery in this movie
when you see him making the mask and then the
first time you see him with the skin over his face.
That is something only a true sick individual can do.
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And like some of the other masks on this list,
the director took inspiration from a real life serial killer
named Edgin who wore masks made out of human skin.
So this is not just some idea somebody came up
with and thought this wouldn't make a great horror movie.
Somebody actually did this. Out of all the movies in
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this has always been something essential
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to each one. Leatherface making a mask at a human skin.
It's sick, it's creepy, it's disgusting. It is my number
one scariest horror movie mask of all time. If there's
one you think should have made the list, or you
think my ranking was a little bit off, let me know.
Hit me up on Socials at Mike Distro. Thanks again
to listener Marcus for suggesting this week's topic. If you
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have a topic you want to share with me, a
movie you want me to talk about, a genre you
think I should feature more on the podcast, let me
know what it is. Send me an email Movie Mike
d at gmail dot com, or you can copy and
paste it from the episode notes on this podcast. Let's
get into a spoiler free movie review now. I want
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to talk about Scream six. And for some reason I
set really high expectations going into this movie. I don't
know why. I bought into the hype of the trailer.
I bought into the hype of ghost space, having this
warn looking mask, kind of getting that bad taste out
of my mouth that Scream five had, and thought maybe
it would be a little bit more of an elevated
horror movie, have a little bit of a different approach,
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and not just be another slasher movie. The idea of
it being set in New York City was exciting to me,
them getting out of Woodsborough, having the four survivors go
on to college. And what I said back when I
had it in the trailer park is would it be
able to maintain that same level that it did in
the trailer throughout an entire two hour movie. But before
we get into this review, here's just a little bit
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of the Scream six trailer. This isn't like any other
ghost face. What is this place a shrine? We've got
to laure him, then we execute him. Hello, let's play
a game. You know, you're like the tenth guy to
try this, right. It never works out for the dipperish
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from the mask maybe, but there's never been one like me, Gale.
I'm something different. That's why I'm going to shoot you
in the head. So what we have in Scream six
we are continuing our requel here, So if you're not
familiar with the requel, it is a movie that is
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both a remake and a sequel, but it contains new
materials and tries to keep that same storyline alive, keeps
that same continuity. So, in essence, Scream five was the
requal of the original Scream and Scream six is a
requal of Scream two. So this movie continues the theme
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of it being very meta, very self aware, and I
think to the point in Scream six where I feel
like this franchise is hurt by its own legacy. Holding
onto those old characters. You still have Courtney Cox as
Gale Weathers in this you have the references to Nev
Campbell's character, the references to David ar KITT's character. I
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think we need to move on from that. Drop all
the old nostalgia, and much like I in my thirties
need to move on from the nineties, the Scream franchise
needs to move on from the nineties. If I have
to hear what's your favorite scary movie one more time,
I'm gonna lose it. It's not even that great of
a line. It's a memorable line, but you don't need
to say it in every Scream movie. And the thing is,
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I actually like the characters in Scream five and Screen six.
You have two really great leads. They're really great actors.
You have Jenna Ortega, who when this first one came
out Scream five, that is I bet most people would
have trouble identifying what her name is. But after her
having such a big year in twenty twenty two, she's
not one of the biggest names in horror movies, so
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I almost feel like she is now attached to this franchise,
even though I don't think she'll be continuing to do
these movies because her stardom is going to get even
far beyond the Scream movies. But you see throughout this
entire movie that she's a really great actress does horror
really well, so I think if she wanted to continue
in the horror genre, it just fits in so perfectly
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like a glove. And then you also have Melissa Berrera,
who I just love the representation in between her and
Jena Ortega of having Mexican actresses in a leading, big
Hollywood movie. So that's inspiring for me to see to
see how you can change throughout the entire franchise, because
the storyline in Scream six is really like a soap opera.
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But even with the cheesiness in the storyline, I can
still see the talent in both of these leads. And
then you also have Mason Gooding, who I think is
a really great new actor. I really liked him in
Book Smart. And then you have Hayden Pintier back because
she was in Scream four. So what this entire movie
is about is all the four surviving members from Scream
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five are back in Scream six. They have left Woodsboro
and are now living in New York City takes place
about a year after the first woman. They're trying to
live out their lives. Jenna Ortega's character is trying to
completely forget about what happened in Woodsboro and not really
make it a part of her identity whatsoever, just trying
to be a normal college kid. Her sister, on the
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other hand, whose dad is Billy Lupas from the very
original screen movie, is still struggling with all these thoughts
in her head. She's trying to go to therapy to
make sense of all the emotions she felt after she
killed the guy in the movie before this, and is
having a much more difficult time moving on. What disrupts everything?
You have another killing again, and they want to get
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immediately out of New York City. But then of course
they run into ghost space pretty quickly, and their first
encounter is actually what you see in the trailer. They're
in a blodega, and the rules kind of go out
the window, because usually ghost space attacks people one on one,
doesn't do it in broad daylight. And I felt like
this first attack was them trying to be a little
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bit different, it trying to be a ghost space like
you hadn't seen before. He attacks them right in public
going down the street, and that first little standoff in
De Blodega was actually pretty good. As the movie progressed
from the first and second act, the kill scenes were
pretty captivating. They weren't anything entirely different, but they had
a little bit more of an edge to him. They
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moved along a little faster, and the movie got pretty
bloody pretty quick, almost like an old school b horror
movie from back in the day. So I felt like,
for a little bit, Ghost Space did have a little
bit of an edge to him, but I still wasn't
buying into the fact that he is a ghost face
like we hadn't seen before, because that about wears off
within the forty five hour mark of this I think
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where this movie really lost me was with it being
a little bit overly meta. Again, I think it's just
hurt by its own legacy. It just feels like every
screen movie has this exact same formula, and now at
part six, I'm a little bit over it. The screen
movies to me are almost starting to feel like to
Fast and the Furious movies. You kind of know exactly
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where you're gonna get going into it, and even though
you have this expectation of it being completely different. It's
really just a lot more of the same. Case In point,
Hayden Pantier's character coming back, she was in screen four.
Her character Kirby is now in the FBI and trying
to figure out how all of these killings are connected
and how the killer in this movie is leaving behind
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different ghost face mask from throughout the years. So I
guess that's on me of expecting this movie to be
a little bit scarier. The scariest part of Scream six
for me actually took place the lobby, having to see
all those teenagers, and I could just feel gen Z
judging me, pointing out all my insecurities. Look at this
thirty one year old dude with adult braces, sideways crying,
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laughing emoji, using skinny jean, wearing weather forecast fanatic, looking
like he loves a trip to Costco and I do.
So that was the scariest part of this entire movie
for me. But I do enjoy that a Scream movie
does give me those nostalgic vibes of a nineties slasher movie,
that feeling of going to a movie on a Friday night,
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a pack theater with a bunch of people there just
looking to have a good time, laugh at the ridiculous parts,
Scream during the jump scares, and then talking about the
movie as you exit the theater. What was your favorite
part this movie? He did, in that way encompass what
I love about going to the movies and what made
it so memorable going as a teenager. So even though
I felt those gen Z kids judging me, I knew
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they had the right to do it. They would look
back on a night like this of remember the good
old times of Scream six. But I just found that
throughout the entire two hours, it had a really hard
time keeping my attention and hands down the cheesiest screen
movie I have ever seen. I honestly think they need
to honor Wes Craven by letting go of everything we
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know from the screen franchise. It seems like they are
trying to keep all those things alive in order to
keep the legacy of these movies, in order to keep
people interested. Let go of all the characters. No more
references to gayale Weather, Sidney Prescott, Officer Dewey. Let's let
it all go, and let's let these new actors really
shine in a new story. Let's reinvent the screen franchise,
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throw it all out the window. So with that being said,
as much as I love a good slasher movie, as
much as I love the character ghost Space, this movie
just didn't do it for me. I found myself waiting
for it to be over. So I would give Scream
six two point five out of five stab wounds. It's
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time to head down to movie Mike Trey Lar Paul.
I have been waiting for the first look at this
movie for three years now because Seth Rogan first announced
this project to make a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
movie back in twenty twenty, and the inner kid and
me went wild. I love every single Ninja Turtles movie
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ever made. It doesn't matter how cheesy they get, how
far away they get from what made the original movies great.
I just love that. Throughout my entire life there has
always been some iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Why I think I love these characters so much growing up,
this was one franchise that my brother and I bonded
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with so much over our years of watching movies together.
And my brother grew up in the eighties much like
Seth Rogan did so. I think the fact that he
is behind this movie, producing it, making sure it is
representative of those fans of the original series, from the
original comic book, the original cartoon, and those original movies.
I think he is trying to incorporate what made those
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Ninja Turtles movies great, but also having a modern, fresh
approach and realizing that, yes, these movies are meant for kids.
There are so many movies now that we all love
and we've been watching forever, from Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles,
Star Wars, Spider Man. They were so impactful because we
discovered them as kids. But we grow up and we
keep wanting to see these characters and somehow still hold
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them to those feelings they gave us as kids and
want them to live up to those standards. There's no
way they're ever gonna make us feel like that. They shouldn't.
They should be inspiring the next generation of kids to
be fans of all these franchises, and that is what
is exciting to me about this movie. It's called Teenage Mutant,
Ninja Turtles, Mutant Mayhem. It's coming out in theaters on
August fourth. Before I get into all the things I
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love about the look of this movie. Here's just a
little bit of the Mutant Mayhem trailer. What the heck
are those things look like little shreks to me, who
We've prepared our whole life for that you cannot Oh
my god, what happened? Is so you were baby turtles
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make contact with mystery woll We prefer the term us
but yeah, it's like more like it's just it rolls
off the tongue better. Yeah, it's so. This movie is
about our four iconic heroes in a half show, Donna Tello,
Michelangelo Leonardo, and Raphael and they look to have the
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most childlike nature to them than any other Ninja Turtles movie.
All of the four main characters are voiced by real
life teenagers, so I'm really glad they did that. It's
a Nickelodeon film, so it only makes sense to have
these characters voiced by real life teenagers. And the movie
will follow the story that we're pretty familiar with. These
four turtles that stumble into some ooze along with their
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rat mentor splinter, and then they turn into the teenage
mutant Ninja Turtles, only lurking in the shadows wearing these masks,
even though doesn't really hide their identity as being teenage
mutant ninja Turtles. They operate in the shadows in New
York City and try to be recognized for their heroic
actions that they do saving the city from crime. And
then you also have April O'Neill helping them along the way.
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So let's look at this cast. When it comes to
the four main characters, you have Brady Noon as Raphael
Mica Abbey as Donna, Tello, Shimone Brown Junior as Michelangelo,
and Nicholas Cantu as Leonardo. And then you have some
big names throughout the rest of the cast with Jackie
Chan as Splinter, producer, Seth Rogan as Bebop, John Cena
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as rock Steady, Hannibal Burris as Genesis Frog, Rose Burn
as Leatherhead, Ice Cube as Superfly, Post Malone as Ray Falet,
Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko, and Maya Rudolph as Cynthia Utrum.
I love the animation style they decided to go with
on this movie. I think it really adds to that
childlike nature of the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. It kind
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of has the style of a kid's book you would
get at the school book fair, almost like this watercolor
comic book style. It kind of resembles the style of
Into the Spider Verse, not as detailed, not as intricate.
I don't think they have as many artists working on
this movie than they did with that piece of art,
but I think that's the style they're kind of trying
to emulate because it works so well for that animated
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Spider Man franchise, and maybe they're trying to create something
of their own here in that same vein and to
pair with the animation style in this trailer. I really
love the look and design of the logo. It has
this style to it that it kind of looks like
an actual teenager came up with this logo. It reminds
me of when I would doodle in my notebooks while
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I was taking notes in class. That's the kind of
style it has. So in a way, it looks modern,
but it also kind of feels nostalgic. It's the most
nineties looking teenage mutant Ninja Turtles movie that we've had
since well, the original nineteen nineties Ninja Turtles movies, So
in a way it reminds me not so much of
the first three Ninja Turtles movies, but since it's animated,
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it reminds me of the original TMNT cartoon and video
game and how fun that was to discover as a kid.
So I don't expect it to be as good as
the OG trilogy from nineteen ninety, ninety one and ninety three,
but I feel like it has the ability to outrank
the other movies. I did like the two thousand and
seven animated version. I remember my brother and I going
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to see that in theaters and it being a cool
thing to experience, even seventeen years after the original movie.
The Michael Bay live action ones, which I watched again
recently because I just loved the Ninja Turtles that much.
They're all right. I was excited to see Bebop and
rock Steady as live action characters, but there was just
something about the Turtles being cgi and being really big
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and bulky and kind of taking the childlike nature away
from them instead just making them superheroes. In this Michael
Bay explosion type movie, it just felt like they were
Transformers instead of Ninja Turtles. So I didn't think those
movies were terrible when they first came out, But looking
back on them, I could have done without those movies,
and the fact that they had Johnny Knoxville as Leonardo's
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voice in the first movie and then fired them when
they made the second one. Bad move, Bad move. So again,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem is coming out this
summer on August fourth. So now the only thing I
have to get over is being okay with being a
man in my thirties going to see a kids movie
alone this links edition of movie, and that's gonna do it.
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For another episode here of the podcast. If you are
listening on release day, which is Monday, the Oscars just
happened last night, so look for a special bonus episode
where I will go over all the winners and losers,
the upsets, the outrage. I'll have that up for you
as soon as I can do that recap episode. But
before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out,
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which I do every single week. All you have to
do is send me a DM on Instagram, tweet me
at Mike dstro or send me an email movie Mike
d at gmail dot com. This week's listeners Shout Out
and Listener of the Week is Brandon Scott, who sent
me this DM on Instagram and said, Hey, Mike, just
listen to this week's episode and love the topic. If
you want to dive a little deeper into movie score composition,
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I highly recommend Disney's for Score podcast. Appreciate you and
the entertainment you give each week. Hope you are doing well.
Thank you, Brandon. I hope you are doing well too,
and thanks for listening to last week's episode. If you
missed that, it was my top ten most iconic theme
songs from movies of all time. That was one of
my favorite episodes to do. So if you love movie scores,
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if you love playing games and want to see how
many of those you can name and you missed that episode,
go back one in the feed and check that one out.
And thank you Brandon. You are this week's listener of
the week. Thank you for being part of the movie crew,
Thanks for being subscribed and telling a friend who also
loves movies to check out the podcast. Hope you have
a great rest of your week, and until next time,
go out and watch good movies and I will talk
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to you later.
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