It's Top Ten Time!!

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James Jay Edwards (00:25):
Welcome to eye on horror, the official
podcast of iHorror.com. This isepisode 157 otherwise known as
season eight, Episode 17,otherwise known as our season
finale, season eight, whichmeans it's top 10 List time. I
am your host, James Jay Edwards,and with me, as always, is your

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other host, Jacob Davison, howyou doing? Jacob? Doing well,
just

Jacob Davidson (00:50):
embracing post Christmas, I had a great time
yesterday, got some ramen, metup with a friend to see the Marx
Brothers, and I was still at thenew Bev. Just kind of kept
things casual cool.

I actually have a almost a week with no
events for the day job, so it'salmost like vacation. It's
awesome. Also with us, asalways, is your other other
host, Jon Correia, hey, how youdoing?

Jonathan Correia (01:15):
Correia? Doing good. I started a part time job
at a major movie chain. Youknow, something to do in the
evenings and weekends, becausewe live in a capitalist society.
So if you're not spending everywaking moment making someone
else money, you're notcontributing. But it's been fun.
I saw I worked Christmas, evenChristmas Day, and I got to say,

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the vibes of people who go seemovies on Christmas Day are
fine, like they're fine, butthey're messy. You're a bunch of
messy persons also. Yeah, one ofthe things I've learned people
who go see Angel studio movies,I've I've run the numbers, I've
run the statistics. Not a lot ofyou, but you all give off

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homeschool energy, actually, no,before we get into top 10s, I
have a mystery I need to solve.
I have a mystery to solve. Who'seating mayonnaise in a movie
theater? What are you puttingthat on? Oh my gosh. What are
you putting I guess, maybe thehot dogs, but like, and the
chicken tenders. But like,shouldn't be going through that
much mayonnaise.

Yeah. Like, do you are you selling mayonnaise?
No, it's just in the condimentthing.

It just, I refilled a lot of mayonnaise.
And it's like, why? What are youputting mayonnaise on popcorn?

Nasty. People are stealing it. Good, bringing
it. They're bringing it home fortheir turkey sandwiches or
whatever. Oh, wait, that'sThanksgiving anyway. Let's,
let's move on to our top 10s,because this is always a, this
is always a fun and lengthy

one, yeah,

always an epic. Let's go, Okay, I'm gonna
rig it so that I go first. Let'sgo reverse alphabetical order by
last name. I always just pullthese out of my butt.

Yeah, let's do it. But before we do get into
it, let's remind everyone wehaven't seen every movie. This
is our own personal opinions.
Yeah, this is just the 10 filmsthat we are most excited about.
We want to shout to the world wehaven't seen every movie life
gets in the way. Some of us getlost in watching a show about
gay hockey players for the lastmonth, you know.

And even if we have seen every movie, these
lists are subjective. Yeah, youknow. I mean, there are movies
that I like that you guys hate,I'm sure, but you know. And one
thing before we get started, Ijust want to say this is, I do a
top 10 list for for my writtenoutlet every year too. This is
the first year I can rememberthat the horror one is the same

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as the other one, and that justpart of it is because nothing
non horror is really excited. Imean, it's, you know, stuff like
Marty Supreme, Jay Kelly, youknow, those were fine, but
nothing that really excited me.
But also, there's just been somuch good horror this year, so
much good horror. So, yeah,we're there's going to be stuff
not on our lists that people aregoing to be upset about, and

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that's fine because they're onyour list with that. Let's get
started number 10. My number 10is presence, and I really, I
like Presence because I thoughtit was just such a fresh take on
on the haunted house, you know,the haunted house genre, you
know, I mean being from thepoint of view of the ghost, and

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it's questionably horror,because it's not super scary,
but it's just such a creepy.
It's more of an atmosphere thingthan an actual boo scary. I feel
like Steven Soderbergh does it.
He did two movies this year.
Black Bag paid the bills. I feellike presence was his. He. His

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passion project. You know thatthat's the movie that he wanted
to that he wanted to make, youknow, his experimental one. But,
um, and that ending, the endingof presence when you find out
who the presence is. Yikes, yep.
So presence by number 10. Whatabout you?

Jacob, all right, coming in at number 10 is
Heart Eyes by Josh Rubin, yeah,no, I had a real fun time with
this one. And it is nice to seekind of a more traditional,
straight up slasher get amainstream release like that,
especially a holiday one,because, you know, it's a whole

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Valentine's Day killer thing,kind of in the line of My Bloody
Valentine, but I love that JoshRubin pitched it literally as
Sleepless in Seattle meetsFriday the 13th part six. Jason
Lives those specifically, and itshows like as soon as I saw it,
I knew that opening kill minorspoilers involving the wine

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press was going to be making itinto the Fangoria best of list
by next year, so I've still gotto bet on that. And yeah, it's
just a really fun and goryslasher movie with a shtick, and
had a great time seeing it atthe cinema tech and yeah, those
solid slasher horror rom com,

cool, Correia, number 10, my number 10, and
this will be the, I guess, thefirst time we agree on something
ever, not ever, is StevenSoderbergh, Presence. Cool. I
really love that film. First andforemost, I loved that house,
and just wanted to explore thathouse as much as possible. Ah,

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that's just, it's it. That's themillennial in me wanting real
estate and never being able tobut no, I thought it was, it was
really gorgeous. It was reallywell done. The it like a classic
ghost story. It's not about theghost. The ghost is just kind of
like the thing that brings theaudience in, and kind of moves,
moves things forward, and it's,it was more about this family

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falling apart. And I really,really dug it. And I loved how
it was voyeuristic, but not, notsleazy. And the performances
were amazing. Lucy Liu wasphenomenal in that so I really
loved presents. And, yeah, Ijust, I just want more

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atmospheric ghost stories thatare about family drama. I'm all
about

that shit.
Yeah, that's the thing. Aboutpresence, it's more it's just
more atmosphere than actual, youknow, Boo scares. But, yeah, I
loved it. So we already have adupe that's awesome. I feel like
I have a few Oh, absolutelypositive, yeah, number nine, my
number nine is Oz PerkinsKeeper. Yeah, this is, there

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were two oz Perkins movies thisyear. And you know, we may be
hearing about the monkey later,but keeper, for me was just, it
was the more subtle. And we andwe talked at length with the
composer about this. It's, it'sjust so subtle and downplayed,
but when it gets to the payoff,man, does it get to the payoff?

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You know? But yeah, I keep it'sanother one of those that's
almost more about atmospherethan actual, you know, in your
face scares. And that's also oneof those movies where the whole
time you're going, what thehell's going on? This, better
stick the landing. This, betterstick the landing. And in my
opinion, it stuck the landing. Ilike keeper Jacob, number nine.

Okay, coming in at number nine is Final
Destination Bloodlines. Nice.
Again, this is horror that'sbeing fun, and oddly, I think
this might have been one of themore accessible Final
Destination films, you know,again, because it's starting
fresh and having its own angle.

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I did like the whole thing with,you know, the bloodlines and
that it's like death workingthrough the entire lineage of
these people who survived. Ed,take a step back. The sky.
Needle, non copyright massacreis one of, definitely one of the

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best disaster sequences for theentire franchise. And I think
there is a cool angle to havingthat sort of period section set
in the 60s. But yeah, there's awhole thing with the penny and
the piano pancaking. That kidjust is pure gold.

That kid, of all the final destination
deaths, that kid is probably theone that the whole figure, the
whole

theater was like, yeah, yeah, no, that got
some cheers for my audience too.
That little piece of shit had itcoming. But, yeah, no, just it.
It. Is a solid Final Destinationsetup and also very emotional
being the final appearance byTony Todd, who gave that
incredible monolog about, youknow, not taking life for

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granted and making use of thetime you have, which is kind of
the core message of the finaldestination movies like, you can
be enjoying life one day, andthen you could get dumped into a
garbage truck and squished topieces or accidentally fall into
a lawn mower, who's to say. ButI got to give Final Destination
Bloodlines a kudos, because italso made number two when Jon

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waters top 10 Best Of The Yearas well.

Oh, he loves that franchise so much. Oh,
yeah, when I remember he did aprogram at a at a theater once,
and it was movies I wish Idirected and and he had final
destination on there, and hebasically said, like he would
love to make a final destinationmovie, and that's all I fucking
want in this world.

Jon waters, final destination, yeah. Why

hasn't this happened? Why hasn't this
happened yet? He's already in

like he come up with just the sleaziest and most
bizarre deaths possible. Doesthem go to town?

Let me just say this. If I win the lottery,
I won't say anything, but you'llknow,

you'll get producer credit in Jon waters.
Final Destination.

That film will be greenlit tomorrow. I get the
check green lit. All right,Correia, what's your? Number
nine? Number nine and fuck you.
Anyone who argues with me,that's right, I'm getting
defensive right now. We havecontroversy. If there is I'm
fighting, I'll take the shirtoff and meet you behind the
Denny's. My number nine is theday the earth blew up a Looney

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Tunes movie.

Oh, nice, yeah, baby.

Not only was this just chock full of classic
Looney Tunes escapades humor.
What have you the modern humorslapped really hard. I don't
think I can think of a thingthat I laughed at harder than
Father Jim in recent time. Justany moment he showed up was just
the funniest thing ever. It wasvery classic. It was in that

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mold of like 1950 sci fi films,like The Day the Earth Stood
Still, and other alien invasionmovies. And you know what? We
haven't had a good alieninvasion movie that's like that
in quite some time. So on somany levels. It works really
well. It's funny. It's very scifi. There's some horrific

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imagery in there. And, yeah, I'mjust glad the gang is back. I
want more Looney Tunes. Wherethe fuck is coyote versus Acme?

They, that keeps coming and going, like
with lawsuit. They, oh, it'sgonna be released. Nope, never
released. Gonna be released.
Never released. So I don't know.
I would love to see it too.

I think catch UPS releasing it next year,
because they did, uh, they didgood with this one.

Yeah, no, it's definitely coming out next year.
I'm just, oh, it's August ofnext year. August.

Okay. I just hope they, they give it a the
full distribution that itabsolutely deserves, because
they also released, uh, Hellboy,the Crooked Man, which went
straight to voodoo in the statespretty much.

So, all right, number eight, my number
eight is Vicious, which kind ofsnuck up on me. It was
technically a scream fest title,but it just kind of popped up on
Paramount plus. And I'm a bigfan of Brian Bertino, and I
didn't know that this was comingout, but, and I'm also a big fan

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of Dakota Fanning so it was kindof like a one two punch for me.
And this is just such a dirtymean this movie. I mean, like a
lot of burkina's movies, it'sjust it. It's just this mean
spirited, ugly one of thosemovies you watch through your
fingers and you're cringing thewhole time. You're like, no, no,

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you did that. You know that kindof thing. So, yep, it's pretty
vicious. Vic. It's vicious. Itearns its name. Yeah, number
eight, for me, is vicious.
It's like that one tweet wheresomeone says, about to watch Jon
Carpenter's thing, and by theend of it, I will have a better
name for whatever that thing is.
Yeah, they go, couldn't come upwith anything better. That is,
that is the thing. Yeah, that'sthe thing. That's what this

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title, or hider in the house.
I'm gonna come up with a bettertitle for this. Nope, it's,
it's, that's, that's the title.

He's a hider.
He's in the house. What more doyou need? The

alternate title is Gary Busey in the
walls. That's it. That's all Icould come up with. Yeah. I
mean,

that's that has a hook too. Yeah, that's the
tagline.

Unknown (14:47):
Jacob number eight.
Speaking of

vicious coming in at number eight is August
Perkins adaptation of StephenKing's the monkey. Nice and
yeah, no, I was kind of neck andneck between the monkey. Monkey
and final destination in termsof bizarre, you know, like rube
goldbergian or disaster type ofdeaths, but the monkey just kind

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of edged out final destinationfor me, because I think it was a
little funnier and had a lot ofgood kill sequences to it, like
the shotgun blast closet thinglike that just got the audience
going. Oh, and also, the ladyjumping into the electrified
pool and just straight upexploding, yeah. Just every,

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every one of those were a bangerwith the audience. And also, I
just like that little monkeywith the drum, you know, he's,
he's a funky little monkey,yeah, and no, I mean, it was a
lot of fun. And again, it haskind of a similar message that,
you know, just kind of pointingout the absurdity of life and
death, you know, just thatanything crazy can, you know,

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just take us out at any moment.
And also, it has the immortalline that that little monkey
that's been killing our familyis back from Theo James.

It's such a great line.

The monkey, to me, the whole movie, the
monkey can be summed up in thatbee death.

Oh, yeah, the bees, yeah, just, it's

just the whole thing is just so over the
top, and that bee deathsummarizes it

to me. Oh yeah, Correia, number eight,
listen, I already said had oneLooney Tunes, ass wacky movie on
my top 10 list. Let's doublelet's double it up. My number
eight is also the monkey. Nice.
It's, it's, again, the the tone,the humor, it's so over the top.
It's so looney tune the death, Imean, the exploding woman,

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everything about it. But at itscore, it's nihilistic as fuck.
But there was still, like, somelike, really great character
dynamics about family and it'sit was just juggling a lot, and
I thought it balanced it reallywell. Shout out to Tatiana
masalani for, like, reallyanchoring the fuck out of that

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movie and really keeping it inwith such a wacky world that
they created her character andher performance really kind of
kept it in a grounded reality sothat we could still relate. But,
yeah, I mean, it beat you overthe head with everything, with a
with a rubber hammer, to thepoint where at the end, there's

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just a school bus going by onfire full of cheerleaders and it
and Theo James just shuddershudders just all right. And
he's like, yeah, that sums itup. That's, if anything, I
think, yeah, it's great. I lovedit.

Yeah, all right. Well, speaking of Stephen
King, my number seven is thelong walk. Ooh, and The Long
Walk, to me, was another one.
It's, I love that it was writtenby Jay t mulner, because you
could tell from Strange Darlingthat this guy has a way of
writing dialog. That is, I mean,he does it like Aaron Sorkin

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style. I mean, like, you can'tnot listen to his dialog, and so
much of The Long Walk is themwalking and talking. So the
conversations, what really makesthe movie, of course, what makes
it a horror movie is, you know,every five minutes, someone dies
violently, but it's the inbetween the violent deaths,

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where you get to know thesecharacters, that really makes
the movie stand out to me. Andmolner script, along with David
Johnson and Cooper Hoffman,they, they're the heart of the
movie. And it I, I just thinklong walk was a terrific
adaptation of of a StephenKing's movie that, you know,

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let's face it, did we ever thinkit was going to be made into a
movie?

No. I mean, this one's on my honorable
mention. So I do want to saythat, like, it's one of those
ones where, like this, this,this could be really bad very
quickly. This could have beendone very poorly. And I thought
they bounced it between thedialog and who they casted,
because, again, that castCooper, Hoffman, David Jon, but

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also, like Garrett Waring, wegot Charlie Plummer play, who we
know is amazing, but like,what's going against type, Ben
Wang, Mark Hamill as the major Imean, but like that, young men,
I genuinely say that this movie,in 10 years, people are going to
be like, Hey, do you did youknow that all these big, big,

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like, award winning actors werein the Stephen King adaptation
10 years ago, and it's like,yeah,

it's, it's, it's, yeah, this is their Stand
By Me, yeah,

yeah, it's, it was really well done. It got
edged out. At least on my list.
But yeah, I just wanted to pointout, like that's an incredible
cast, very harrowing. And yeah,Charlie Plummer, again, played a
very complicated villain inthat. And I loved every moment.

Cool. All right. Number seven, Jacob,

all right.
Coming in at number seven for meis Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later.
Nice, yeah, no. I mean, Iremember seeing the original 28
days later, you know, way backin the 2000s and for one thing,
I never would have expected agun the first sequel, 28 weeks
later. But 28 years later is sounique, especially for a long

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distance sequel. That has beenkind of the case with a lot of
these sort of legacy sequels asof late, but it does it right,
and that it just goes completelydifferent with it, in that it's
more of a dark, post apocalypticComing of Age movie, since it's
about this boy who's growing upin this encampment, surviving

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village that has their own rulesand sort of lifestyle to keep
everyone safe, and he gets hisfirst taste of the outside
world, of the horrors within,with All the infected on the
mainland from their islandgetaway, and it just kind of and
he is trying to save his mother,who's ill, but he they don't

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have the resources to help her.
So he decides to see this doctorplayed by Ralph fine, who has,
you know, with the other sequelcover, he has the bone temple,
you know, just like the wish,you know, just the imagery is so

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striking, too, in this with,like, the piles of constructed
bones and the wreckage of thepre apocalypse, so it, yeah, no,
it just really got to me andthat, you know, that, like the
horror is definitely in the rageinfected, but it was just such a
great emotional core to themovie that it was just so

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striking.

You guys did notice? I'm sure that the asylum
made 28 months later. That's it.
You know, leave it to them. Theactual franchise missed it, but
the asylums like, Oh, I'll

take that.
Yeah, wait to watch that.
Correia, what's your numberseven? So my number seven is
Freaky Tales. Nice. This waswhat I heard a lot about. Never
really got to and then just oneevening was like, looking for
something to watch, and then Ifound it. And then I remembered,
oh yeah, freaky Tales is athing. I should watch that. And

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I love moments like that. Whenit's a movie where it's like,
okay, I'll watch this, and thenI just obsess over it. It's got
everything for me. It takesplace in 80s. La, you got Nazis
fighting punks and the punkswinning. You got a heist.
There's a bit of, like, 70sexploitation in there. A lot of

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altogether, it was very 80s. LA.
And what I appreciated about itis it didn't just focus on one
subset of culture, because assomeone who, like, grew up more
punk, but like, also was reallyinto hip hop, and is very into
the history of hip hop. It wasgreat seeing like, these two
sects kind of come together andmeld, especially uniting under
the banner of beating the shitout of Nazis. So, like, that's

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always great. Plus, you know,baby girl, Pedro Pascal is in
it, which is always good. So,yeah, no, I mean Freaky tales.
It's just a hell of a fun time.

Number six.
My number six is Bugonia. Thisis a Yorgos Lanthimos being
Yorgos Lanthimos, and it'squestionably horror, but I think
the horror in begonia comes fromwhat Jesse Plemons and Aiden
delvis think is happening,because it's more science
fiction than than horror,because they think that there's
this alien invasion happening,but the lengths they go to to

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help, I guess, prevent it, getsa little horrific, and that's
where Emma Stone comes in. But,yeah, Giorgos. I mean, this
isn't quite as horror as, say,Poor things, or killing of a
sacred deer, but it's Yorgos.
And everything Yorgos makes is alittle horror, I guess, because

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he's just one of those. Youknow, whether you like him or
hate him, you have to admit thatwhat he does is interesting. So
even if you don't like Jurgis,lanthanus, you're still going to
hate watch his movies, justbecause, you know, you're not
going to see anything quite likeit, you know. So anyway, my
number six, begonia, Jacob,number six,

Coming at number six on my list is The Long Walk,
hey, yeah, yeah, no, I had toput it in there again. You know,
I've been talking aboutemotional core. Wars of horror.
And I feel that this, this one,just really nailed the balance
of the tension with thecompanionship. And I totally

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agree that Cooper Hoffman andDavid Johnson's friendship
through the film is thecornerstone that makes it work,
along with the interactions withthe rest of the boys. And, you
know, I read some postssomewhere just that, like the
that this is the type of moviethat's relatable to a lot of

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kids these days, because it, youknow, just with the state of the
world, it does feel like they'rejust trying to move forward with
a gun to their back. And MarkHamill, yeah, just really stood
out as the bad guy the major andhe's been on a real good run for
King adaptations lately, betweenthis and life of Chuck very

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differing roles, though, andalso got to give a big shout out
to Judy Greer as Miss Garrity,who, again, you know, just kind
of lays on The tension andemotional strain of the long
walk. So, yeah, no, it just, itreally got to me. And, you know,

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just you've, you know, like youfeel sometimes that you're
getting numb to violence, evenfictional violence. But you
know, anytime there was agunshot in this movie, I jumped
like it. Just really knew how tojust keep you on the edge of
your seat.

Ah, when they when, when Judy Greer pops up
later in the movie, fuck it. Ilike, and you knew it was, it's
just start welling up. It'slike, no, no, no. It was like
the reality of their situationwas reset, when, when Cooper
Hoffman's characters saw heragain. Because it was like, this
whole time, it was like, Yeah,I'm on this thing. But then

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once, like, reality came backin, it was, it was like, No,

brutal, all right. Correia, number six,

number 666, my number six was 28, years later.
I thought it was phenomenal. Oneof the things that I really
appreciated about that movie,because it's been while since
Danny Boyle has made 28 dayslater, and since then, we've
seen him go through so manydifferent eras of like

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experimenting with editing andcamera working like what you can
be doing. And I love that he didnot go, oh, well, I have to keep
this more in line with like, thefranchise or whatever. He still
did his experimenting. He stillwent out there those night
shots, on the on the like, like,where they're running, from the
beat, from the thing on thewater, was incredible. I don't

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know how they pulled that off,but it looked insane. And so,
yeah, I just, I reallyappreciated that a there was,
there seemed to be, like, anatural progression on what was
happening. Was happening withthe rage virus, seeing what
happened. I love that postapocalypse society move
exploration on, like what itwould look like if we were in

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this type of situation. Butagain, also just the fact that
they were experimenting a lotwith what they were doing with
the camera work and the editingwas just phenomenal. My only
complaint was not enough. JodyCorreia, but that's my complaint
with most anything cool.

We're halfway through and it's so far. It's
exactly what I expected, lots ofgood stuff. My number well. And
the funny thing is, is, like alot of the stuff that you guys
are saying is, are my honorablementions. That just tells you
how good of a year been. Youknow, start fighting soon.

This is when the gloves come off.

My number five is bring her back. And, you
know, it was no secret thattalked to me was one of my
favorite movies of that year.
And bring her back is just morethis and again, kind of like
vicious this is just such a meanand dirty movie. And Sally
Hawkins just brings it home asshe's basically this woman who

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gets foster kids in, you know,brings foster kids into her
home, and her whole intent isto, I don't want to spoil
anything, but she has intentionswith these kids, and it is the
latest foster kids that came in.
One of them is a visuallyimpaired girl, and then her her

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brother, who they're alreadyadopted siblings, so their bond
is more than just, like birth.
It's like, you know, they're,they're growing up together. So,
you know, they have each other'sbacks. And this movie, it just,
I mean, the the bond between themain, the main teenage boy, and
the little girl. You're like,Okay, everybody. He just needs a

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sibling like this. Yeah. It is,you know, grapefruit.

It is. It's the total opposite of the other.
Sally Hawkins taking in a fosterkid movie. Paddington, yeah,

Sally Hawkins can do it all. I'm a big fan.
But anyway,

absolutely can dude like the stuff that she did
in that and take her back withher body and her face. I just
Who gave you permission? Girl,that was too much. I loved it.

Yep, all right, number five is bring her
back for me, Jacob, what's your

number five? Uh, for me, I went with VHS
Halloween at number five,featuring the directorial
talents of Brian M, Ferguson,Caspar Kelly, Michelle Pitt,
Norman, RH Norman, Alex Ross,Perry, Paco Plaza and Anna

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zlocovic. And, you know, I'm abig fan of found footage and
anthology. So of course, I'vebeen a real Ride or Die for the
VHS films, and I've been lovingthe themes they've been going
for lately. You know, previouslywith the years, more recently
with the genres. Because lastyear we had VHS beyond, which
was the Sci Fi horror foundfootage compilation. And this

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year, you know, an all Halloweentheme VHS is brilliant. You
know, just so many of thesegments were, were unique and
fun spins on them, you know,like, I like the coochie coo one
that, that one was really outthere and weird. And, you know,
just the exclamation point ofthe film was home haunt, which

(31:37):
basically just took the theconcept of a Halloween home
hunt, and what if all thedecorations of monsters came to
life and it was a good time? So,yeah, no, just it. It just
really resonated with me. Andyou know, just each segment
really stood out from oneanother. Casper Kelly's fun

(31:59):
size, of course, was reallybizarre and nightmarish. So, you
know, just nailed that one onthe head. So, yeah, no, I just
really love how they have thisone came together, and I'm very
excited for whatever VHS comesnext year, although at the Q and
A at beyond fest, they did talkabout possibly doing a VHS

(32:23):
Florida. So just all Floridasegments of a VHS movie,

love, which will probably be the most
horrifying one.

Yeah, they said it'd be a Documentary.
Documentary.

I Correia, number five, we're gonna start
fighting, I swear, the placementof this movie just shows how
strong this year was.

Oh, my top four are all like that. Actually
my top five because bring herback. But okay, what do you got?

My number five is Zach Kriegers, weapons.
Listen, listen.

I this would be number one in any other year,

number one other year and but I had, yeah,
that top five was, like, flippedaround a lot this morning,
except for number one. Numberone was had its place. But yeah,
I mean weapons just what a whata refreshingly twisted
beautiful, like almost fairytale, like fantasy set within,

(33:28):
like a true crime lens, justweird all around. Loved it, and
of course, can't, can't praiseAmy Madigan's performance
enough. Always been a fan ofher, especially since playing
McCoy on Streets of Fire. Butunrecognizable. Yeah, again, oh
yeah. I have a framed photo ofmy desk from Streets of Fire,

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and it still took, like, atleast 10 minutes of her
performance. She did, like, onefacial thing, and I just went,
McCoy, McCoy.

No, until the closing credits. I'm like, that
was Amy

Madigan. But, yeah, it blew me away.

Yeah, the tone of shifting, the perspective
shifting, the fact that, like,it was dealing with such
fantastical things, such aswitches and whatnot, but, like,
kept it grounded just the end,the performance is phenomenal. I
mean, yeah, no, I It's, it's,it's one that like, want to keep
going back to and re watchingand just catching all the little
things again, you know, yeah, Iloved weapons and again, any

(34:29):
other year would have beennumber one. And I'm gonna be
saying that for every single oneof these ones coming up, any
other year would have beennumber one, but number one took
its spot. All right.

Well, on to number four and number four, any
other year, would be number one,but my number four is weapons.
Hey, everything Correia said,ditto, weapons. I actually
watched weapons again the othernight, just to kind of try to
solidify my top four. Because,like you said, they. They were

(35:00):
kind of flip flopping and andyou're right, when you go back
and re watch it, knowing what'sgoing on, you see things and it,
yeah, it is. And again, AmyMadigan, if she does not get an
not just a nomination, but sheneeds to win Best Supporting
because, yeah, chameleonic, sheShe's incredible.

She's definitely one in impersonations
over at hamburger, Mary's andall those other drag spots at
that in town. And we HO

and there was, there was somebody at horror
trivia who did and Gladys andwon Best singular costume this
year.

Nice, cool.
My So my number four weapons,Jacob, what's your number four?

All right, well, here's where things begin to
twist, because Coming at numberfour for me is Harvest Brood by
Joe Meredith. Some of you mayrecall that I talked about this
film back in October. JoeMeredith is a kind of regional
filmmaker who posts pretty muchall this stuff on YouTube,

(36:07):
online. And you know, this isone of those movies that
genuinely unsettled me, like itactually scared the shit out of
me. And it's basically aboutthis October, 2006 in Alabama,
where a bunch of people arestarting to disappear and there

(36:29):
are murders being committed asthey get closer to Halloween.
And like a former detectivesinvestigating is kind of shot in
a mockumentary style mixed withfound footage, and it seems like
a fairly typical slasher.
There's this dude with a baghead, kind of like Jason and
Friday 30 part two, but then itstarts to go to this very dark

(36:50):
underbelly of what happened inthis former company town, and it
just kind of goes deeper anddeeper to the dark side of this
community, and what? Why? How itconnects to Halloween? And,
yeah, no, it just has this realgrit to it, that very

(37:10):
unsettling, and like all thesevery well done practical effects
in terms of gore and slime andgoo, that makes it so visceral?
Yeah, no. And I do appreciatethe these shot and video and
regional efforts, especially intrying to capture the kind of
period style, especially, youknow, when you go in for found

(37:34):
footage like that. So if youhaven't seen it yet, check out
harvest brood on YouTube, andyou'll see why it made number
four. It's on YouTube. It's onYouTube, and it's only 53
minutes.

There's always time for that. You just
sold us. Yeah, that's host link.

Yeah, I'm telling you. It'll scare the
crap out of you. Let's go

to Correia, number four.

Number four again, this one was a tough one
because I had to include one,but I couldn't include both, and
I had to include this onebecause the theatrical
experience was incredible.
Predators. Killer of killers isnot only the best Predator movie
of this year. Badlands is great.

(38:24):
Killer of killers is perfect,and killer of killers really is
and feels like the ultimatepredator movie. You get multiple
eras of predators fightinghumans fighting against
different warriors, differentsects. You get to see different
different kinds of predatorsfinding them too. And I was very

(38:46):
worried about when, when thetrailer release of seeing, like
the dog fight. I'm like, I'msure that's gonna be cool, but
we're gonna get decimated. Andthe fact that they made it all
work. The animation is gorgeous.
The mythology and lore buildingis incredible. I mean, again,
killer of killers, I think, isjust the ultimate predator
movie. Is it the best Predatormovie that's up for debate, but
I do think it is, like theperfect like this is purely just

(39:08):
predator stuff going on. And Iloved it that that film, just
thinking about it, gives me anenergy boost

when I was stumping for that in the San
Diego Film Critics Societyawards, I was stumping for that
for best animated and K PopDemon Hunters took the awards,
so I was cool with that. Butwhen I was trying to convince
people killer killers, becauseit did get nominated, one of my
colleagues called it, anyone cankill a predator, which is kind

(39:42):
of funny franchise. Dude, thepredators lose so often. They're
not. They're supposed to be theultimate hunters. I know the
predators hunt Xenomorphs, whichare indestructible. I know.

Well, it's, it's Star Trek, right? It's
like. Star Trek, when all thesealiens are far more advanced,
far more logic, far moresmarter, and yet humans are at
the center of it, and people arelike, why is that? It's like,
well, clearly you never watchedenterprise, you fucking Mook.
But anyway, this isn't about aStar Trek podcast. Correia, God,
all

right, moving on. My number three. And again,
it pains me to put this atnumber three, because I loved it
so much. Any other year, anyother year, is it tough? Year
three is Good Boy? Oh, Iabsolutely getting back to like
what we were saying withpresence, the haunted house
movie from the spiritsperspective. Good boy is from

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the dog's perspective. And Itell you, Indy the dog. This dog
needs not just an animalperformance award. This dog
needs Best Actor nominations.
This dog is incredible. Andalso, I mean, I know that a lot
probably ended up on the cuttingroom floor, and it took them a
year and a half to shoot themovie. The director Ben Lee and

(40:57):
Berg, he deserves a lot of thecredit, because Indy is his dog
and and what he was able to gethis dog to do. I mean, as as an
owner of three freaking gooberdogs, yeah, I Hats off to him,
because I couldn't get that kindof performance out of any of my
dogs, or all three of them puttogether. So, yeah, good boy. I

(41:18):
mean, it's no surprise that it'sthis high on my list, since I'm
such a dog lover, but it is abit of a surprise that it is
such a good movie, honestly,because it could have been just
a gimmick.

I knew it was, because it's a dog movie and
it's got a decent run time. Iwas like, this is going to be
Jacob three.

I love my 73 minute movies. Yep, I love
those. I love those short ones.

I finally watched it the other day, and I
got to say I was, I was I wasbeing real tough throughout the
whole movie. And then the endgot me. I willed up a bit. I was
like, Oh no, he's such a goodboy.

Just a clever name. He's the good right,
Jacob, what's

your number three? All right, coming in at
number three is again, verytough year, just because there's
so many to choose from is ZacCregger's Weapons! Nice? Yeah,
it had to make the list. Like,you know, just, I base a lot of
this on what my experiences waslike seeing the movie,
especially theatrically, andseeing weapons with a full house

(42:23):
at the AMC, Boston com and IMAXjust made it for a hell of an
experience. And just that, youknow, the scares were on point.
Like even a door opening gotpeople screaming and jumping in
their seats, like everybody isso on edge. And yeah, no, just
is such an interesting story,especially because, you know,

(42:46):
like it, he even pitched it asMagnolia as a horror movie, and
it just nails that to a tee,with, like, all the different
chapters and interconnectingstories. And again, yeah, big
shout out to Amy Madigan as onGladys, who probably is one of
the bigger horror icons to debutthis year. And, yeah, no, just
everybody involved in LA JuliaGarner and Josh Brolin and

(43:09):
Benedict Wong, you know, justlike it all really came
together, and such aninteresting spin on kind of the
stranger danger and like, takethe children, kind of sub genres
in horror. And I did, and I dolove hearing a lot about the
making the movie from ZachCraig, because he was talking

(43:29):
about, you know, like doingmeditations, kind of like, or
from our transcendentalmeditations, like David Lynch
and, you know, adding stuff likethe assault weapon above the
house, which he says, you know,like he doesn't have an
explanation for it. He just putit in. So I, you know, and it

(43:50):
does help, kind of convey thenightmare quality of the movie
right down to the scene whereBenedict Wong's character and
his husband are eating seven hotdogs together, you know, just
there's so many quirks to thismovie. It just keeps on making
you think more about it.

Yeah, seven hot dogs, the perfect
Thanksgiving breakfast.

I Correia, number three. Number

three. I'm gonna keep saying it any other
year, any other year. And youguys know I was shouting praises
about this movie last year, andit's a little sad that it's not
number one because any otheryear, but it's Companion. Ah,

(44:34):
yes, yes. Drew Hancock'scompanion again, Jacob and I saw
it at an advanced screening withbeyond fist back in 2024 Yeah,
and this was back when theystill only had, like, the teaser
that was like from the studiothat brought you barbarian and
the notebook. And it's it justthe crowd reaction of nobody

(44:57):
knowing anything about thismovie to everything. And it was
stellar, great performances. Iapplaud any movie that
essentially only has like fourto six people in it and can keep
you engaged and have surpriseyou as much. And this film would
above and beyond that, justeveryone was on top to your god

(45:17):
mode, not to mention the citiesof angels reference with Jack
quaids characters and the GooGoo Dolls was just in bad chef's
kiss. I don't even know. I thinkJack even said, like, I don't
even know if Drew understoodthat. Like, that's my mom was in
that movie, so, but, yeah, it'sjust a fantastic film. I wish

(45:38):
the trailers and stuff hadn'tspoiled so much of it. But yeah,
loved companion. What a greatstatement about where we're
heading with the male lonelinessepidemic.

Oh yeah, all

right, on onto number two and number two,
my number two is companion. Hey,pretty much everything Correia
just said again, ditto and forme, number one and number two
kept flip flopping all like justin the last 24 hours, they flip
flop probably three or fourtimes. And the reason I finally

(46:12):
put companion at two instead ofwhat is ultimately my number one
is a lot of companion, I think,was the experience I had,
because I didn't get to see itin the theater, you know, months
before, like you guys, but I didget to see it. I got a screener
before it was released. And if Ihad known anything about that

(46:33):
movie, and you guys had evenwarned me about it before I saw
it, yourself going completelyblind, which was the best advice
ever, if I had known anything,if I had even looked at a
poster, I don't think it wouldhave been as enjoyable of a
movie, because the whole Irissleep moment my jaw dropped. I'm
like, right? That's the kind ofwe're watching now. So, um, so

(46:54):
that is ultimately what put thisdown to number two. And again,
any other year it would benumber one. But ultimately, the
it because I think some of myenjoyment was from the
experience, and not the movie. Imean, it's an amazing movie, but
the experience of not knowinganything going into it, which, I
mean, I I say that about anymovie, but in this one, it
actually seriously if, if youare lucky, if you don't know

(47:18):
anything about companion rightnow and stop listening right now
and go watch it without hearinganything else. In fact, I've
already said too much by sayingIris sleep. But anyway, yeah.
Companions, my number two,

I said too much reference in Google doll,
sorry.

Companion, number two, Jacob, what's your
number two?

Yeah, kind of taking a step back. I do wish I
had re watched companion sincethen, because I think I put it
on my list last year while beingvague about it. So, you know,
it's always so confusing when itkind of jumps in between gears
like that. But I do lovecompanion. So big shout out to
that. But at number two for me,this year, I put in Guillermo

(47:59):
del Toro's Frankenstein, which,sorry,

I had a little meltdown because I was like,
pouring over my list thismorning. I was like, feel like
I'm forgetting something. I feellike I'm forgetting so god damn
it.

No continues.
Too many, too many movies.

Can we restart this? Such an amazing
year?

Yeah, exactly.
Our cup runneth over with greathorror films this year, oh man.
And you know, and you know,Guillermo del Toro is
Frankenstein is such anincredible modern adaptation of
Mary Shelley's classic, which Iwould expect nothing less from
Del Toro, considering hiscontinued love and admiration
for Shelley's novel and theensuing adaptations in the

(48:42):
centuries since, um, and, Imean, he just got such an
amazing cast, with Oscar Isaacas one of the best Victor
Frankenstein, since PeterCushing, Jacob Lordy, giving
such a powerful and emotionalperformance as the monster. And
then he got Christoph Waltz andMia Goff, you know, just, it's
just, it just again, cup runoffover. And I love, and, yeah, no,

(49:05):
just, I do love how it's told ina very traditional manner from
the novel, and that we getVictor's side of story, we get
the creature side of story. Andit's so emotional. And this is
undoubtedly a horror movie, likeI'd heard some debate, but yeah,
no, this. It's Frankenstein. Ofcourse, it's a horror movie.

(49:27):
It's about somebody conqueringdeath and realizing their
mistake and the existentialhorrors they're in. It is horror
it's

more of a horror movie than the novel. Is
a horror novel. You know, thenovel is almost more sci fi, but
Guillermo del Toro, and this isprobably the most faithful
Frankenstein we've gotten. But,oh yeah, it is definitely more
of a horror movie than the thanthe source material is a horror
novel, in my opinion.

This is true. I mean, of course, Del Toro. Takes
his own creative takes on thisversion, but it does stick to
the core concept and skeleton ofShelley's original novel. But
yeah, no, as horrifying as itis, it has such a great
emotional core, like the scenewith the creature and the blind

(50:21):
man, played by David Bradley, Iactually cried like, you know,
just talking about friendshipand life and death, it is a
great rumination on, you know,like, what's worse to die or to
live forever? And you know, whatto do with our lives and the
time we have, which I'mnoticing, has been kind of

(50:42):
consistent through lunch,through a bunch of horror movies
this year. But yeah, no, justthis was Del Toro, the dream
project, and it shows, and youcan tell he put as much effort
into it as one director can. Soit just really struck me, and I
loved it, and I do really needto re watch it soon. I'm so

(51:05):
happy I was able to see ittheatrically and on film at the
Egyptian theater.

Cool Correia, number two,

none of this matters anymore. I forgot
Frankenstein like that myself sofucking because, like, I have
been thinking about that movieso much, and I don't know why. I
think it was just because I wasbasing it off a list I made and
forgot to add it to my genrelist. But like, it is a horror
film. I will. I hate Wheneversomeone's like this, films

(51:31):
really well made. It's not ahorror film. Fuck you. It's
Frankenstein. It's a horrorfilm. And again, horror is just
genre that's classification forputting shit on a cell on a
shelf. So go fuck yourselves. Mynumber two to continue on
Frankenstein would have been onmy list, and it would have been
high up if I had been more awakeputting this together. But my

(51:51):
number two was one that I love,surprise hits for me, at least
things that I wasn'tanticipating, things that come
out of nowhere. I especiallyappreciate films that make me
nauseous, that make me her, thatmake me almost hurl. I love
films know where you're going,that fuck with me on a physical

(52:14):
level. And the only film to dothat this year was The Ugly
Stepsister. Ugly Stepsister wasfor me this year's The Vourdalak
film. I knew very little ofpopped it on, and just like have
been obsessing with it eversince everything because we've

(52:36):
seen the dark tale or the darkside, dark take on a classic
fairy tale. And this film isbasically like, no, the original
was fucked, because this is howit plays out. And I love the
perspective. I love that there'sno real, clear, defined villain.
Everyone kind of sucks in theirown way. And, yeah, the horrors

(52:59):
are horrifying, and their basisin reality make them even worse.
And, yeah, the tapeworm.

Yeah, I know I just

ate, so I don't want to talk about the
tapeworm too much, but goddamn.
But yeah, between that and whatwas it?

The Eye scene, yeah, oh yeah,

okay, in the eye. So, yeah, no, I mean Ugly
Stepsister, everything about it,from like, the costumes, the
acting, the gore, justphenomenal. That was a real
sleeper for me, and Iappreciated the fuck out of it.
Do we

all have the same number one? I think we do.
I'm pretty sure we do, since Ithink we but we all have the
same number one. Let's do ourhonorable mentions, like in,
like a round robin here,because, you know, like before
we get to number one,

because, do we? Because apparently I forgot
Frankenstein came out, so whoknows, maybe I forgot number
one.

Let's do our honorable mentions, my honorable
mentions. It's pretty mucheverything that you guys have
mentioned. Like, you know, HeartEyes could be on there 28 Years
Later. Final Destination. A fewthat we have not mentioned yet,
their honorable mention speedBone Lake, which is another one
of those that I kind of wroteoff by the by the name. And then
when I watched it, I was like,yeah, no, don't write this off,

(54:21):
a death of a unicorn, which youknow, was the Jurassic Park
movie. I didn't know I needed.
Every year that there's been anairy Astor movie, it's been on
my top 10. This just shows howstrong horror is. This year that
Eddington is an honorablemention, not really horror, and
I like it more than Beau isAfraid and Beau is Afraid made
my top 10. So that again, showsyou how strong of a year it is.

(54:42):
And also a couple of foreignmovies that got their US release
in this year, Red Rooms and TheCoffee Table, both of those are
honorable mentions for me. Butyeah, lots too much good stuff
this year. Here. What about you,Jacob, what's, what are your
shout outs?

Oh, yeah, no, there was, again. It was just so
many horror movies, impossiblestick them on one list again.
Companion was kind of flippedbecause, you know, I saw it last
year, so I just kind of takenout of that. But it was a
brilliant film, and withJonathan that, I'm glad we were
able to go into it as blind aspossible for the more spoilery
commercials and marketing cameout. I think,

I think Brett Bachman didn't he say that you
guys were at the the onlyscreening that was going to be
completely fresh, you know.
Like, I believe so, yeah. Like,I mean, you guys were so lucky
to be there. I wish I could.

Oh, yes, no. I mean, it was a delight, and they
should have stuck with theambiguity, ambiguity of the film
for the marketing, but yeah, alot of good stuff. I also want
to give a big shout out to trickor treat with Reed Richmond,
which, I mean, is kind of ahorror movie, but is another
spin off in Chris la MartinezWNUF universe. And I really love

(55:59):
it because it so beautifullycaptures that air of Sci Fi
Channel specials and commercialsand stuff. So it it's something
I've re watched a few times thisyear. It makes great background
noise, also, in terms of stuffthat we haven't, haven't come up
yet. Elric Haines, The DeadThing was a really solid horror

(56:20):
movie. I'm really glad I got tosee the film print, screening of
it at the new Bev and dealingwith the dangers of trying to
find love and obsession. Andlet's see what else. Oh yeah, I
love the Silent Night, deadlynight remake. I just saw that
this week for Christmas Eve. Andyou know, horror remix can be a

(56:43):
mixed bag, but I really thinkthat this version captured the
spirit and style of the originalwhile, doing a fun twist on
itself. And big shout out toRoan Campbell, who makes an
incredible Billy and kills ashitload of Nazis. So, you know,

(57:03):
you gotta love that stuff. AndRuby Modine is really good as
Pamela, one of the other leads.
So yeah, if you haven't seen theSilent Night, Deadly Night
remake yet, I tell you, got togive it a shot and couple other
quick things. Big Baby by SpiderOne, glad I got to see that
scream fest. I hope it gets abig release soon. Night of The
Reaper really like that,Dangerous Animals, solid shark

(57:27):
slash slasher movie with JaiCourtney at his most Australian,
They Call Her Death, which iskind of a spaghetti western
throwback, but with horrorelements. And, of course, The
Ugly Sister, which I'm withJonathan and dad. Oh, that one
made me queasy. Yeah?

So basically, everything you've seen this year
is an honorable mention.

Oh, believe me, there's a ton more stuff I've
seen that I have not mentioned.
But also, big shout out to GoodBoy,

yeah, all right, Correia, what are your
honorable mentions?

Well, apparently, Frankenstein is an
honorable fucking Mention I'm somad at myself right now, but I'm
also like looking, where wouldyou put it? That's the thing is,
it throws my whole list off. Itthrows my whole list off. I
can't say it because theequations are out the window.
Listen, we've just spent thelast hour listing off our thing
so it the list is solidified,but it would have, it would have

(58:20):
thrown it off. It off. It wouldhave thrown it off hard. So,
yes, would

it have been like, number two, number three?
Would it have supplanted numberone?

No, okay, it would have supplanted a lot. It
would have shifted a lot ofthings around. It would have had
me rethinking, like, there wouldhave been a few titles knocked
off because of it, and just forthe rearranging. So, yeah, no, I
mean, shout out to Frankenstein.
The most perfect Frankensteinadaptation there is out there.
Guillermo del Toro, you are aGod amongst men. Thank you. I
want to give a special honorablemention. I haven't seen it yet,

(58:55):
but to Silent Night Deadly Nightremake. Mike P Nelson, just for
the fact that you have, like,what was it? A 10 Minute
sequence of Santa Claus killingeight minutes. Eight minutes.
Bravo. I have seen that they putthat online for a little bit. I
watched it a couple times. It'sbeautiful. Yeah, I'm always down
for the cinematic killing ofNazis because we don't advocate
real life violence. But, youknow, I'm also fuck those that

(59:17):
actually no, fuck that. Fuck theNazis. Go punch a Nazi. It's
Christmas.

My most disappointing thing about sisu
road to revenge was that it wascommies and not Nazis that he
was going this time. Yeah,they're like, they're Yeah, not
as satisfying.

No, no, is it?
Yeah? It's the same issue thathappened with Crystal Skull. So
some other honorable mentions.
Hard eyes was such an amazingtime. A lot of my honorable
mentions were on your guys'slist. So I'm gonna try to pick a
few that weren't on any list.
Predators. The How To Catch APredator, or To Catch A Predator
documentary is great, and assomeone who has been watching a

(59:58):
lot. Of true crimedocumentaries, it's great to see
one that actually does a goodjob with the editing. Is it
melodramatic with it? Everyone'strying to be Errol Morris
without any fucking skill thesedays, and it's bothering the
shit out of me, don't you know.
And they're not researchingtheir shit. But this film asks a
lot of questions and leaves itvery doesn't give like a

(01:00:22):
definite answer. It just asksthese hard questions, presents
on a few different sides, butthen I was also leaving it to
the audience to kind of navigatewhere this gray area of the
questioning is. And I reallyappreciate that sodden other
film, Black Bag was an amazinglittle thriller. I loved it so
much. It was sexy, it hadaction, just phenomenal. Woman

(01:00:45):
in the yard was very surprisingone for me. I went in thinking
was going to be candy man, andit wasn't. And I was very
excited with the result life ofChuck, not really horror, but
God Damn, that was the mostFlanagan movie ever. I
appreciated the shit out of it,just all around stellar. Really,

(01:01:05):
you hear things where it's likeyou walk out of the theater
loving life, or get lifeaffirming movie. And I always
like, kind of not scoff, but Igo, Oh, yeah, sure. But
genuinely, I felt a zest forlife after seeing that Him might
not have been the best movieever, but I had so much fun with

(01:01:27):
it, and it was so visuallydelicious, like, come on,

James Jay Edwards (01:01:30):
and you got to shout out Naomi Grossman for
that, for Yeah, speaking ofchameleonic

Jonathan Correia (01:01:36):
Chameleon, she was phenomenal in that. Just
everything about and Julia Foxcoming in and just saying the
most absurd shit, it goes upyour ass. It goes up your ass.
Yeah, yeah, that's, that'siconic. It's, Oh, speaking of
iconic wordage or verbiage linesverbiage, I got to give a shout

(01:01:57):
out to Tina Romero's Queens ofthe Dead Tina Romero, being
George A Romero's daughter madea really fun, really campy
zombie film that really doesfeel like the New York club kid
scene of the dead, and also hasJack haven from I saw the TV
glow and Bill and Ted three inan ultra FEM role. And there's

(01:02:20):
one point where she gets an axin her leg and she goes, I have
an ax wound. And one of theother characters goes, Oh, stop
bragging. So that was a hell ofa fun time. But again, I also
want to praise my last honorablemention, the God man, the 10
minute short film that's onYouTube. It's again, it's 10

(01:02:41):
minutes. It's on YouTube. Theanimation is phenomenal, and the
amount of existential, cosmicdread that I felt watching that
was beautiful. So absolute.
Shout out to Andrew Forrester,who created, wrote, directed,
and also I believe it does someof the Yeah, he voices Jonah,

(01:03:02):
and it just phenomenal work.

All right, let's get to it. All right,
let's move on to our number one.
We all have the same number one,War of the Worlds, right? Oh,
yeah.

Did we actually talk about No, we
didn't. No, no, you made mewatch. You made me watch War of
the Worlds, and I hate you forthat.

If I was gonna make a worst of list,
which I don't do because it'spunching down, but I'm gonna
punch down for a second. War ofthe Worlds is terrible. But
anyway,

the amount, the amount of ads I saw during
War of the Worlds for man wipes,just lets you know how bad that
movie.

Yeah, okay, let's let's go to number one.
Let's do it all at the sametime, since I'm pretty sure we
have the same one. So let's on3123, Sinners.

Is this the first

Jacob Davidson (01:03:54):
time I believe it is time. Does this happen?

This is the first time that we've all had
the same number one and welldeserved Sinners, is it's
amazing. This movie, yeah, youknow it? I mean, everything
about it. The music is amazing.
Michael B Jordan playing twins,both his roles are amazing. The
support cast, it's not even asupport cast, it's an ensemble

(01:04:16):
is amazing, just the directionis solid and not quite Nazis,
but you get to see a lot of KKKguys die.

Oh, still satisfying. Still satisfying.

It I would say one A, 1b with Nazis and KKK
guys dying. Yeah, go out andpunch some

cleans man.
And what more

can we say about Sinners? Because
everyone's probably seen it atthis point. But yeah, I believe
Jordan killed it. I hope sinnerscleans up at the Oscars. I had a
dream when it was a little newerof a movie, that it took the top
five Oscar you know, the bigfive. And I really hope it does.

I got a sneaking suspicion that it's going to
win. Think this

year, I hope so. Yeah, it's, it is a once in
a generation, I think type ofjust, I haven't met a single
person who was overly wasnegative about it, you know, it,
it just all. It's soauthentically itself that it, it

(01:05:21):
it takes no apologies aboutanything. I don't even see
because we talk about often. Ourvery first episode is about
this, that what a movie, ahorror movie, is good. People
try to say, oh, it's not ahorror film. No one's doing that
with this because they'rebecause you can't it's fucking
vampires.

This is a horror movie. Yeah, it's a
horror movie. You can't silenceof the lambs your way out of
this

vampires, man, but they are, but it's not just
a vampire movie. There's so manylayers. Everything is so
intentional, yeah, so there, andI know we're all praising
Michael G B Jordans performance,which is incredible, but what
they did technically to pullthat off like that, just that
opening shot of the twins andthen passing the cigarette,
pulling that off with an IMAXcamera on your shoulder, in-sane

(01:06:09):
the camera work, the lighting,the costuming. Everything is
intentional. Everything has apurpose, historically accurate
with so much of it from likehaving the two shops owned by
the Chinese family on bothsides, serving different things,
just everything about it. Andthen, not only that, but we get
a buddy, a Buddy Guy performanceat the end. Fuck off, dude.

(01:06:31):
Like, this is, yeah, it's, it's,again, for a lot of these
movies, any other year, but thiswas Sinners' year,

yeah, yeah, exactly that's and, and, like I
said, I was flip floppingCompanion and Sinners. But
ultimately I was like on, on apurely movie level, not
experience seeing it. Movielevel. It there's I got it. I
had to go Sinners. I saw

it three times.
I saw sinners three times inIMAX, and it just keeps getting
better. It's undoubtedly one ofthe best and most rewatchable
movies of the year. And yeah,that that soundtrack is so
amazing. I've got the score andthe soundtrack on vinyl, and
also a big shout out to JackO'Connell as Remick He who is

(01:07:18):
one of the most entertainingvampire or villains since Chris
Sarandon as Jerry Dandridge,like I could, I could just see
him be like a freaky littlevampire guy for hours. And also
he does such a great dance toRocky Road to Dublin. And, yeah,

(01:07:38):
no, just is such a solid castbetween, you know, like Michael
B Jordan and Delroy, lindo HaleyStanfield, just, it just really
hooks you in. And it's such ainteresting genre mashup because
it has some musical elements.

(01:07:59):
It's horror, it's action, it'speriod drama and dealing with a
lot of actual horrors of JimCrow era South Yeah, I know
Coogler just constructed anamazing movie. That is no
surprise. It's our triple numberone.

It would have been so easy for them to make
the the white boys vampire, youknow, their music be just like,
really bad compared to the, theawesome joint music. But when
you listen to the white boyIrish folk that they do, you're
like, now they did that, right,too. You know, like, every,
everybody in this movie istalented, you know, even the

(01:08:41):
vampires,

it's and it's that understanding of knowing
that, especially back then,like, you know, I the Irish
weren't, weren't treated toodifferent. You know, they were,
they were, they still are inunder occupation from England
and things of that nature. Sothere is a kindred spirit there.
There is a kindred spirit in thein between the music of the
cultures. And I like that. Itwasn't even even like looking at

(01:09:08):
Jack O'Connell's character ofRemick like he's a villain, but
he's, he's probably the mostsympathetic villain we've seen
in some time, because he's notthere to destroy he's there to
get back to family and to buildthat family, and he's creating
it. And because, like, onceyou're part of the vampire gang,
they were having fun, you know,stack definitely was having fun

(01:09:30):
in there. But super shout out toJamie Lawson as pearleen,
because her her musicalperformance. I don't see enough
people talking about she, Ohyeah, absolutely served on that
stage

and Miles gate. And I guess, learned how
to play guitar for the movie. Sodid he? Yeah, you got it. You
got to give give a shout out tohim too.

Would have never known that. I know. Yeah,
phenomenal work. And yeah,Delroy Lindo deserves Best
Supporting

and so. Right on. So Sinners, a triple threat,
triple play. Yeah, right on.
Before we sign off, we have tohave a moment of silence for
deputy so and so James ransom,these kind of things for me,
especially like suicides, alwayskind of hit hard because my own

(01:10:19):
struggles with my own mentalhealth and, you know, anxiety
and depression, so it reallymakes me sad. But yeah, if
you're struggling, reach out toanybody. Reach out to us. Hit
hit us up on our socials, andthere's always someone to talk
to. And yeah, rest easy, Deputyso and so, because this

is a sad one.
All right,

these are our top 10s. What are yours? Is
sinners at the top of yours.
This is as we were going on thisand sinners didn't pop up on
either yours. I was like, I

think we all have the same I knew this was
gonna happen. I knew it. I knewit. I knew I kind of

thought it was too when as as we got for
them, then yeah, once we gotinto that top five, I was like,
okay, yeah, we're all sayingsinners, which it's justified
because it's the best movie. Wealso sometimes

share our list with each other beforehand, and
I did, and then I quicklywithdrew, and was like, wait,
wait, no, I want to surprise,especially changing.

I like being surprised. Yeah, no, it's more
fun that way. Yeah, one yeardidn't, Jacob, didn't you flip
your one and two, like, while wewere recording one year, I

feel, I think I did. I don't remember what that
was.

I don't remember either, but I remember
you, you had flipped it.

I did it too, yeah, all year. But I also
remember knocking down Nosferatupretty fucking hard at the last
second. That was just like, No.
The Vourdalak. The Vourdalak,baby.

Let's, let's get out of here, because we've
run insanely over, but it'sjustified because it's the top
10s. And, you know, hey, we hadto talk about sinners a lot. So,
yeah, let us know your top 10s.
Let us know if you agree withus. If you don't agree with us
on sinners, you're wrong,because sinners is the best
movie the year. Our theme songis by restless spirits, and go

(01:12:12):
check them out. And our artworkis by Chris Fisher, so go check
him out. You can check us out onall the socials under eye on
horror, or@ihorror.com and we'reprobably gonna take a little
break here. This is the end ofseason eight, so we'll be back
next year with season nine withI think we might have some
really cool interview, but Idon't want to jinx it, so I'm

(01:12:32):
just gonna say we'll see younext year and hope you had a
happy Christmas, happy Hanukkah,joyous, Kwanzaa, whatever you
celebrate. And have a Happy NewYear, and we will see you in
2026 for season nine. So for me,James Jay Edwards,

I'm Jacob Davison

And I'm Jonathan Correia.

Keep your eye on horror.

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