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James Jay Edwards (00:25):
Welcome to eye on horror, the official
podcast of eyehorror.com this isepisode 135 otherwise known as
season seven. Episode 16, with aquestion mark. I am your host,
James Jay Edwards, and with me,as always, is your other host,
Jacob Davison, how you doing?
Jacob,

Jacob Davidson (00:43):
exhausted. I've been I've been just at
screenings almost every day thismonth, and been trying to
Halloween it up constantly. So Ihave just been going 110% this
October.

Well, that's the best time to do it. I guess
also with us, as always, is yourother other host, Jon Correia,
how you doing? Correia,

Jonathan Correia (01:08):
oh, doing great. Super, great. This is
definitely not the busiest timeof the year at all for lots of
things to be popping off. Inaddition, fantastic. So you
know, just Yeah, I have a lot ofenergy drinks, and I'll be
consuming all of them.

You know what hasn't been, uh, busy this year.
Where's our Halloween movie thisyear? There's the closest we've
got, Terrifier 3. Yeah,terrifier Three. Did either you
guys see terrifier Three?

Oh, yeah, I saw three.

Ah. How is it? As if we need to ask, I
mean, those terrifying movies,just one out, I

will say it lived up to the hype. Although,
what does it say about me that Iate an entire buffalo chicken
pizza while watching it?

Oh, not just a not just a big slice, but like a
whole ass pizza. Yes, nice.

I mean, it was Alamo, so it was like, you know,
like a mini pizza. But yeah, soI ate and ate a pizza while
watching Terrifier 3.

That's fine. I was eating the entire time
during The Substance. The onlytime I paused was Dennis Quaid
eating shrimp.

Yeah, that was, that was gross. But yeah,

Terrifier 3 my biggest question, oh, I have
two. Does it continue having aplot? Because that was one of
the things I really enjoyedabout the second one was that
there was lore building, and itwasn't just kill after kill, and
it doesn't, you don't have toget into spoilery with it. But
does Art kill someone that isn'ta woman? Yeah,

no, he kills a lot of dudes in this one. Okay,
cool, because that listen to thegreatest criticism. That's one
of the

things I really appreciate about what
Damien and the team are doing,is it does feel like every
movie, they are not onlybuilding upon what's already
been established, but like,there's you see improvements,
you see it building. So even iflike the first one wasn't really
my cup of tea, I did enjoy thesecond one a lot. So I do want
to see the third one.

Yep, I just haven't gotten around to it yet,
but I will, because I, I mean,believe it or not, I enjoyed the
terrifier movies.

Well, I do feel like they keep getting better
because I did not like the firstone. And I, yeah, I did not like
the first one, but I do feellike they progressively get
better and better, like I liketo a bit more and then, yeah,
third might be my favorite sofar.

All right, do you guys get to Smile 2? Yeah,

I saw smile too.

What'd you think? Um,

you know, I thought the first one was okay.
And again, you know, it'sanother instance of a horror
sequel improving on the firstone. Because I do think that
this one stood out a lot moreand was more interesting than
the first

one. I thought that this was pretty
much a rehash of the first one.
I really, really liked the firstone. And Smile two, I think, is,
I mean, it's a well made movie.
It, it really kind of raises thebar Gore wise, even though there
isn't a there's nothing astraumatizing as the cat scene

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from the first one. And ifyou've seen it, you know what I
mean. But you know, it justseemed like, kind of like a
rehash, just, it's a differentcharacter in a different
profession, but all the samethings happen. I did like the
scene. Basically what it is.
It's the same as Smile one,except the main character,
instead of being a psychologist,is a teen pop star, and maybe
not teen, early 20 she's like,this is Smile Taylor's version.

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Like, if Trap was AmericanPsycho Taylor version. And
there's one scene where all ofher backup dancers come after
her with, like the smile. And Ireally liked that scene a lot.
But the pop scenes,

because that's the thing that I mainly want
from Smile 2. Did they? Did theybop? Were they great? I. Yeah.
What

do you mean the music scenes?

Yeah, that,

Oh yeah, yeah. Actually,

I did have a pretty good soundtrack.

The music is way better than Trap. I thought,
yeah, Sky

Riley is better than Lady Raven. You say, yeah,
yes,

I'm a Yeah, I'm Team Sky Riley.

Oh, that's gonna get us some controversial
comments,

hey. But you know what? I I love Shyamalan as
a filmmaker, though. So justbecause, you know, I think that
Sky's music is better than LadyRavens. You know, I don't know,
although I do, here's my take onit. I want Parker Finn to make a
movie that's not a Smile movie,because I don't know that the

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concept can support as big of afranchise as they want to make
this. But I think he's anamazing director. He the dude
knows how to make a movie, whichhe's proven with the two Smile
movies. So, yeah, yeah. Give ussomething else.

No, I agree, like a lot of it was kind of
rehashing, and the premiseitself is kind of confining. So,
yeah, I mean, they're definitelygoing to do another one,
because, you know, just with howthese movies go and how
successful it was, so we'llprobably get a Smile three,
which probably be like smile,but the E and Smile is a three

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I'm calling that now. Look markthis.

Oh, absolutely. Smile in space. In
space, no one can hear youSmile.

There you go.

Smile goes to college.

Yeah, that is the traditional part threes.

You got it?
Have you guys seen Rebel Ridge?

Oh, I did. I was at the big theatricals, and I
think like only theatricalscreening at the Egyptian back
in September, that's

the new Jeremy Saulnier, right? Yes, it
is. Yep.

I hate you so much for seeing that on the big
screen, Jacob, because I knew Iwas gonna like the movie.
Because, I mean, he it's thesame director who did green room
and Blue Ruin as well as MurderParty, which is finally getting
a Blu ray release. Yes, I canlooking forward to that blu ray,
but Rebel Ridge was so fuckinggood. It was the basic the basic

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premise is its First Blood. It'smodern First Blood. It's this
former Marine confronts corruptSheriff Department led by Don
Johnson. The main character isplayed by Aaron Pierre, and holy
shit is he, not only reallygood, but that is a very

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attractive man. That is a veryhe's gonna play Jon Stewart in
the Green Lanterns teen TV show.
And those eyes man piercing. Buthis whole thing was that he was
a he trained the Marines inclose combat, and so the
parallels to First Blood areamazing, because the body count

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is similar to first blood, ie,he just takes people down, and
it leads to some of the mostintense butt clenching suspense,
because you don't know howothers are gonna react and how
he's gonna get out of thesituation. And it just in the
build ups are always there. AndDon Johnson, my God, I love it
when that man plays a villain,because he he just chews it all

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up. And really, really, justlike, makes a morsel of the of
the moment. And, yeah, I can'tstress how good Rebel Ridge is.
It is absolutely phenomenal.
What do you think, Jacob?

I think it's going to radicalize a swaff of
audiences who didn't know aboutcivil asset forfeiture before.

That is the big thing in the movie, it's
Yeah, because these corruptsheriffs are basically, they're
like, Oh, we're not gettingfunded because we got we got
sued. And so they try to make uptheir budgets for police
brutality. Yeah, they Yeah, theygot sued for police brutality.
So they create a system wherethey're just collecting the shit
out of civil forfeiture, andthey cover their tracks by only

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by, like, giving insanesentences and then having them
dropped at the 90 day mark,basically, so that the dash cam
footage and everything getserased before their their thing,
it's, it's so, Like, the wholemovie is basically like trying
to get that dash cam footage,and it's, it's, there's so many

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great one liners. I won't spoilthe scene too much, but there is
one bit where the main characterhe he just has a line where he
goes. But then I was like, nah.
And when I. Said in the trailer,oh yeah, they use it in the
trailer, but in the movie, whenyou see the scene play out,
especially when it does by thatpoint, it is, I bruised the

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palms of my hands. I wasclapping so fucking hard because
I was just like,

yeah, that's why I should have played
theatrically. When I saw it intheaters, like everybody lost
their goddamn shit. How

could you not?
He's got the best one liners.
And that one was just like, itwasn't just a great one liner,
the timing, the editing with itwas just Oh, chef's kiss. Where

can you see it? Is it somewhere other than
theaters? Yes,

it is available on Netflix. Is

it on Netflix? Okay, cool. Yeah, I
will. I will get to see it thatway. Then

it is a Netflix Original. Now,

the big release this week, which will be
out by the time this airs, isVenom: The Last Dance.
They don't play that song. Whatthey do, but they do play you
can dance that Abba song. Yousee dancing queen, yeah. Dancing

(11:10):
Queen, yeah. Their worst song. Iknow least they could have
thrown Waterloo in there. Youguys know I

love Abba. I'm a big Abba fan, and I fucking
hate that song with such apassion.

It's, well, if it makes you feel better,
it's the eighteens, not the Abbaversion. But anyway, oh, okay,

Unknown (11:31):
I can Jon. It's,

it's basically, it's a Venom movie. I
mean, it was exactly what Iexpected it to be. It's like a
Buddy Monster flick with, youknow, there is about 20 minutes
of story, and, you know, an hourand a half of Tom Hardy arguing
with venom or not arguing. But,you know, discussing. There's
one funny scene where, um, theymeet this hippie family that,

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um, the whole thing is, is, uh,they're gonna decommission area
51 but area 55 is still going,and it's underground and and
Venom is, is he's he's there onthe run from the law because
they got framed for the for themurder of that detective. So
they meet up with this hippiefamily who they who is driving

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them somewhere, and they'redoing, the hippie family, of
course, has a guitar, andthey're doing the ground
control, the Major Tom Bowiesong, and the whole family is
singing. And Tom Hart, the EddieBrock, is having none of it, but
venom is inside his head singingalong. He's like, this is ground
control. To me, the venom is,it's really funny. But anyway,

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yeah, it's a venom movie. I feellike I would have appreciated it
more if I knew more about venom,because it gets to a point kind
of like in let there be carnagewhere, you know, there's a red
venom, well, there are othersymbiotes, and there's like a
purple one and a green one and ablue one. And I feel like I if I

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had known who the I felt like Ishould have known who these
other symbiotes were and whothey were morphing with, yeah,
um, to create these othercharacters, and I didn't. So
that might have, that might beon me, but basically, it's a
venom movie, and it has like, a15 minute credit sequence. I
mean, like, like, literally, allthree Venom movies have had,

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like, you know, they should makea super cut of the venom
credits, and it would be, like,an hour long, and it would just
be credits.

Yeah, I was, I was not surprised, but I am
curious on how audiences aregonna react to Knull, the king
of the symbiotes or whatever.
Because, like, that is somelike, if you haven't been
following Venom lore for like,the last 20 years or so, you
it'll be like, Wait, who's No,what's this it? Who

I I saw the movie, and I don't know who it
is. Is that? Like, the main Kingmonster guy, Yep,

yeah. He's king of the symbiotes.

He doesn't actually seem like a symbiote in
this. He seems like a monsterthat, um is hunting the
symbiotes, almost.

That's what I mean. It's like, it's like,

there's a lot of lore, mythos about all that
business.

It's actually kind of cool in this. Because I
don't know if this is how it isin the comics or anything, but
he'll when, when the monster,the big baddie, eats people.
He's, it's like a wood chipper.
He eats them, and then, and thentheir guts spit out the back of
his head. It's actually kind ofa cool it's kind of a cool way
for to kill people off.

Here's my biggest question, because the
main reason why, because I, youknow, the Phenom movies are fun.
You know, I'm not gonna they'renot said it's okay, but I have
fun with them because I go, it'sa big budget Venom movie. Just
have fun with it. Ride with it.
And so I do appreciate them, butthe thing that I'm super hyped
on is the Dan Deacon score.

You know what? Yeah, it's, well, not just
the Dan Deacon score. The DanDeacon score is awesome, okay,
but also the the other musicthat they put into it, um, the
the needle drops are all kind ofnote perfect. They're like,
they're and, you know, I won'tspoil what songs they use, but I
really, really, really want TomMorello to do a film score. But

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anyway, yeah, the music is good.
You won't be disappointed withwith Deacon score,

awesome. Can't wait to It'll be weird because
it'll be the only, becauseusually I get, like, all of a
franchises score. So it'll beweird to just have venom

three you don't care about the others. I
collect

all of Dan deacons music on vinyl, so it's,
it's gonna be added when it'sreleased.

Let's see. And did either you guys see that new
movie? Rumours?

No, I've heard wispers about it. Yeah,

no, it's the new guy Madden movie. And it was
very interesting, because it'sbasically about, you know, the
g7 where the heads of the topseven democracies and other
leaders like meet up andwherever to discuss world
issues. And it's just reallyfunny how they went about with
this one, because they got likeCate Blanchett as the prime

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minister of Germany, but alsoprominently Charles Dance as the
President of the United States,and the British accent is never
acknowledged. And

wait, he's president of the United States,
but he still has his Britishaccent. Yes. Love it.

It's kind of like Donald Pleasants an escape
from New York.

You know, no notes, no, no.

Just nobody acknowledges that the President
has a British accent. You know,it's, it is what it is, but
it's, it's a very, it's veryweird and wild movie. And it was
a very interesting so kind ofsocial satire, because it's
like, they go to this gazebo inGermany to, like, talk the
issues. It's like, the heads of,yeah, United States, Germany,

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France, Italy, so on and that.
And, you know, when they sitdown, when the night falls, like
everybody else in the compoundhas disappeared, and they're all
alone, and all this weird stuffstarts happening, like these bog
people start crawling out of thegraves, like, you know, the
European peat bog people were,like, mummified, and there's
Yeah, and, and this is featuredin the trailer, and like the

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poster, there's a giant brain inthe forest for some reason. And,
yeah, there's just this othercrazy stuff. And it's but it's
just funny, because, like, allthis weird horror stuff happens,
and the survivor group are theheads of the free world, and
just kind of getting into theirown issues and neuroses, like
the Prime Minister of Canada hada fling with Cate blanchett's

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Prime Minister Germany, and thatkeeps on coming up. And, yeah,
no, it's, it's just very wildand out there, I'm not as
familiar with Guy man's work,but it seems to be fairly
surrealist, and it shows, but itit was an interesting premise,
and as wild movie. Hell

yeah, is that available in theaters or
somewhere?

Destroy Yeah, it's at Alamo Drafthouse right
now. I may be playing at acouple other theaters, but
probably coming digital VODsoon. I don't know exactly one.

Hell yeah. I'm not even gonna ask the question,
because I know you guys haven'tseen it, but have you heard
about the new street trashmovie?

Yes, it. I did.
I wanted to see it. It wasplaying that new 35 millimeter
print at the new Bev, but I wasunavailable that night, although
I do want to see it.

Yeah, that Thursday screening, they they
marked it as the LA premiere,but it was actually the world
premiere of Street Trash. Andlet me tell you, it is a blast.
Street Trash is the new StreetTrash is direct, written and
directed by Ryan Kruger, who didFried Berry, and it was produced

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by good friend of the podcast,Justin Martell, and it you guys
have seen the original StreetTrash, right? Yeah. So if, if
you pictured the original StreetTrash, how goopy that movie is
and how outrageous that movieis, this new literation keeps
all of that, all the good stuffof street because that original

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Street Trash is fun, but itdoesn't say anything. It always
felt like it was about to makesome commentary on a social
issue, and then instead, wentwith, like, a fart joke or
something, you know, kind ofthat, kind of like pull back.
But Ryan Kruger's Street Trashis phenomenal. It not only keeps
the goopiness, keeps theoutrageousness, it dials it to

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11 while doing social commentaryon like how governments treat
the homeless like the the mainplot of this new one is the
government, the South Africangovernment, because it takes
place in Cape Town, is using. Umtakes the liquor that turned
that melts people in the firstmovie and turns it into a vapor

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so that they can eradicate andmelt the homeless in Cape Town
using drones. And so this ragtagteam of hobos led by Sean Sean
Cameron fight back, and it is alot of fun. Before anyone gets

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super concerned. There is penisdecapitations in the movie,
within like the first fiveminutes, setting the tone high.
There's what the actor fromFried Berry, who I found out
from Ryan, is not an actor. Hejust acts in Ryan's movies. He

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has this, what you think is animaginary friend named sucko,
who's this little like bluecreature, who his dialog, I
can't say on the podcast, and Iget away with a lot here, but
his name is sucko so you canimagine the type of humor this
little blue fucker has. Butyeah, street trash is absolutely

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phenomenal. I The characters areactually, like, really charming,
and so you really feel for them.
There's genuine, like emotionalbeats. I never thought I would
cry or not get teary eyed over asomeone trying to resuscitate a
headless body. But, you know,street trash did it and it did
it well. So yeah, street trashis doing a because it's, it's,

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it's presented by Screenbox andVinegar Syndrome. So vinegar
syndrome made sure that it wasshot on 35 so it looks great.
They're doing a limited city runshowing it on 35 you know, as in
as many places as possible. Andthen it's going to come to a
Screenbox later this year. So Ihighly recommend going to one of

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the theater screenings, becausethe audience reactions to the
goopy bits are amazing. It wasgreat seeing people's faces.

Here's my only question about it, knowing
Justin and his globe trottingways, did they shoot it in Cape
Town?

Oh, fuck yeah, they shot it in Cape Town.
That's Cape Town as shit, yeah,no, oh yeah. It was great.
Because, like, you know,because, like, Sean Mike. Sean
Sean Cameron is from Cape Townand lives in South Africa, even
though he's in a lot of youknow, bigger, big projects, big,
dramatic product projects outhere as well. Ryan's out there.

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So yeah, they shot it there.
They shot it on 35 and it's,it's just a hell of a good time.
You know,

have have either you guys seen afAId? That
John Cho movie afraid, but it'sAI in the middle. Are

you trying to?
Are you trying to pronounce itlike how people pronounce
Fan4tastic? Yeah.

Or AmbuLAnce or M3gan. A fray eyed is the new
one? Have you guys seen it?

No. Also ironic, because did you hear that news
that, like Jason Blum was sayingthat now Blumhouse wants to
experiment with AI for theirmovies?

Yeah, I did hear that. Well, the thing is,
AfrAId is, and it's a Blumhousemovie, so you think that they're
kind of warning against that.
It's, you know, what it remindedme of is that movie from a few
years ago, Margaux. I think it'scalled, though, the one about
the smart house that kind ofgoes crazy. This one's a little
more grounded in reality. Itit's a This one feels a little

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more real. Basically, they get,like, this, Amazon Echo, kind of
a thing that it basicallyinvades their life. But it can
do things like, you know, itcan, like, pay their bills. It
researches this, this issue withtheir medical insurance for
them, like, all this stuff. Andat one point, the daughter's

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boyfriend makes this deep fakevideo of her. And the thing's
name is Aya, which is, you know,AI with a at the end, Aya, it
basically, basically proves herinnocence. It, it makes a video
where, where? It shows the pornmovie that he got this from and

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how. And then it shows, like thecuts around the edges, where the
deep fake is flawed and stuff.
So he it basically gets her herreputation back, and then it
uses deep fake technology to getrevenge on the boyfriend. And,
you know, that's just one of thesubplots, but it, it's, it's

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pretty crazy. I mean, it's not agreat movie. It's not, you know,
it's as far, especially as faras Blumhouse stuff goes, you
know, it's not super good, butit is. It does kind of warn you
at how, how? Out of control. AIcan get when you give it too
much access to I mean, if AIgets too powerful, I can see

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this being like a warning. Soit's kind of curious that
Blumhouse wants to experimentwith what this is doing.

Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, exploit, exploitthe dangers of it for
entertainment, but exploit thedangers as well for business,
you know,

yeah, well, yeah. Well, it's funny because
the opening scene shows one ofthe kids watching an AI
generated video, and the facesare all fucked up like they are,
yes. So it does. It also kind ofmakes fun of AI a little bit,
but it's, it's, you know, it'sentertaining, and it's short.

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It's like 84 minutes, 83minutes, so it's good like that.
But, yeah, it, it was, I mean,it's worth watching, but it's
not, you know, it's not going tomake any top 10 lists, or at
least not mine. Who knows ifit'll make anyone elses Well,

it wasn't a horror movie, but Correia went
to his first Gwar show thisweek. Oh, hell

yeah. Oh, man, Gwar. It was some of the best
concerts I ever been to. How'dyou enjoy it?

Oh, I loved it. I was ready. I spent the
week watching GWAR videos. So Iwatched, you know, Phallus in
Wonderland. Yeah, This is Gwar.
And I got a little bit into,like, some of their other
videos. Love, love theespecially the stuff they were
putting out in the 90s. Just theGonzoness of it. But, yeah, Gwar
was great. The opening bandswere awesome. But because we're

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still masking these days, Iended up, because we ended up
somewhere. We were, like, threepeople back from the front, and
I got slammed in the face withso much blood. And yes, whatever
else they were shooting thesplash zone.

That's what I was gonna say. That close, how
soaked in blood did you get? Oh,I

was the splash zone. I was off to the right, so
I actually wasn't getting hitthe most, but like, they hit me
directly in the face, so muchthat I had to take my mask off
because I couldn't breathe. Itjust got I was basically
waterboarded by Gwar.
Well, there's a review. Yeah, itwas, it was fantastic.
And the plot for the show, thisis why I bring it up, is they,

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they're pissed off about theelection because, of course,
they're Gwar. They hate all thepoliticians. So they're like,
let's we have a time machine.
Let's go back and find a greatAmerican president to lead. And
so it basically became Gwar'sHall of Presidents. And of
course, because it's Gwar, theydecapitate and tear apart every
president. So to Lincoln. Theydid it to W they did it to Biden

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Kamala Trump. Like no one wassafe from guars carnage. And it
was, yeah, it was a bloody goodtime. I still need to wash out a
lot of the blood out of mybattle armor, as well as my
ears. I'm still every time I Qtip like it's just starting to
thin out, but there's stillblood in my ears.

Tell me that the president they settled on
for being the best was JimmyCarter.

The president they settled on being the best
was Gwar Yeah.

That makes sense. Yeah. I vote for Gwar.

There was one point where they, I think they,
they like, tried to go back tothe founding fathers, and they
ended up fucking up and triedand pulled too many at once, and
so they all combined into onegiant president. And so GWAR had
to send out their own T Rex tofight it. So there was, like, a

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kaiju battle happening on thestage while they were playing.
Yeah, I Jay, I'll send you the Igot a really good clip of them
playing, Sick of You. And then,like, right at the end of the
clip, you see them shoot myphone directly with I'd like

to see that footage as well. And, yeah, no,
oh, man, I'll never forget whenI saw them at Rock and shock
horror con 2012 in Worcester,Massachusetts. And yeah, they
tore apart Justin Bieber onstage, and they also killed a
bunch of horror guest starsbecause it was the horror

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convention like they killed Adamgreen, Joe Lynch, Tony Todd,
Bill Mosley, Danny Trejo. So itwas, it was a fun time, and they
were actually there, like, well,not not just in Bieber, that
was, that was a stand in dummy,but the actual, but the horror,
actors and directors offilmmakers were actually guests

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on stage, and they wereslaughtered. And although I made
sure to stand outside the moshpit so I wasn't doused in the
hosings of blood, although theywere nice enough, they were nice
enough to give out free white tshirts so that you didn't
actually get your actual clothesmessed up if you went into the
blood zone. See,

we brought our own white t shirts. I made my
own Gwar shirt, and I spraypainted Gwar on it and made it,
made sure it was the whitestshirt we could find at Michaels.
And that's dedication.
Well, because you got it, ifyou go to a Gwar show, you got
to wear a white shirt. Well, now

let's get into the the meat of the episode
here we all check out theScreamfest Film Festival titles.
Correia. Can you tell us alittle bit about Screamfest
before we get into the the themovies we saw?

Absolutely yes, we were cordially invited
to Screamfest 2024 which is anannual film festival in the
heart of Hollywood that happensin October, where great premiers
and great retro watches happen.
This year, they were was it wasa big one. There's a lot of

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really good titles. So I'mreally stoked we were able to
get access this year. And theman of the hour of this year's
festival, receiving a LifetimeAchievement Award from the
Screamfest festival, was DeanCundy, who, in this household at
least, is the man of every hour,having been the cinematographer
for all the classics, all thegreat thing. Back to the Future

(31:20):
Jurassic Park. John Carpenter'sThe Thing. John Carpenter's
Halloween. Back to the FuturePart Three. I mean, come Who
Framed Roger Rabbit like the theinstant sanity. Actually just
saw the the thing last night atthe Egyptian for the Stranger
Things, thing. And God damn it,that movie still looks so

(31:41):
fucking good. It just does notstop, like perfection. But yes,
but yeah. So scream fest, thejob the genre festival. There's
like three or four around thistime of year, so it's really
cool to be able to experienceScreamfest. Finally, for me, at
least, because I usually am onlyable to attend one festival this

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time of year, but yeah, lot ofgreat stuff premiered and were
shown there, outside of DeanCundy's work, including a couple
of the Huluween titles that areNow Playing on who on Hulu? I
don't know who else got to seeit, but I went and saw Carved.

Oh, yeah, I watched carve too. I really dug
it. Yeah,

Carved was a lot of fun. It was. It's about
this small town in 1990 it takesplace in 1993 and the small town
had a train accident that ledto, like, some chemical
spillage, and it leads to amutated pumpkin attacking this
small like New England

Pioneer Village, Pioneer

Village. There we go. We don't have those out
here in LA, so I always forgetthose. But yeah, it was a lot of
fun. It's a, it's a mutatedmonsters thing. It kind of, it
felt like, it felt like good,like transitional horror for
kids, right? Like, if you're ifyour kids are really young, you
watch Hocus Pocus when theystart to get a little older, you

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can get into Carved because it'sfun. It's goopy, but it's not
overtly violent. I'd say, Whatdo you think? No,

I think carved was pretty violent. I mean,
there was a lot of gore,

yeah, transitional. So, like, when you
know, when you're transitioningfrom Hocus Pocus to John
Carpenter's The Thing you know,carved?

Yeah? I mean, I guess that makes sense, just in
that it's, yeah. I mean, it'svery much a horror comedy in
camp, because it's, it's a movieabout a killer pumpkin, so you
can't really take it all thatseriously,

but it's a lot of fun. That pumpkin looks
great. DJ Quails is in and it'salways great seeing and

the great Chris Elliot of everyone's favorite
movie, cabin boy.

You love cabin boy. Yes, I

do. And more people should.

I need to. I need to watch that one. That
one's been on the list.

Yeah? Do it. I

almost didn't recognize him because his voice
was so different, yeah. And

also, he was dressed up like old timey
farmer, yeah?

But it, it's, it's great. There's, there's
good creative kills. Again, thecreature design is a lot of fun,
and he's seeking revenge againstthose that participated. Or she,
sorry,

she's a mama, mama pumpkin.

It's a mama pumpkin. She is seeking revenge
against those who participatedin the pumpkin carving contest.

Yeah? Who who carved up her fellow pumpkins?
Yeah. And then the other Hulu.
We actually before, before wemove on, though, I think it's
fun that a lot of thesehalloween titles were originally
short films, like carved wasoriginally a short film made by
the same director JustinHarding, back in 2018 and they
were made into features. Ah, I

didn't know that. That's awesome. Yeah, I'm
gonna have to seek out thoseoriginals. I. Love seeing the
original shorts that featuresare based on. I did that with
street trash the other day, andit was cool seeing, like the
entirety of the original Streettrash movie just done in 15
minutes. The other Huluweentitle was Mr. Crockett. Yes,
love that one, which is also alot of fun, you know what? I

(35:19):
would also say that's a nicetransitional one. You know, you
want to get your kids into somelike, kind of goopy stuff. You
want to get your kids into like,scary stuff. Mr. Crockett was
genuinely pretty fucking creepy.
It was like, well, Jacob, do youwant to tell us what the film
was about? Okay,

this is another 90s period set movie about a VHS
tape of this children's showcalled Mr. Crockett, then hosted
by a kind of Pee Wee Herman, Mr.
Rogers type guy named Mr.
Crockett, played brilliantly byElvis Nolasco. And basically the

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kids watch the tapes, andwhenever their parents are
abusive or neglectful or justmean to their kids, Mister
Crockett actually shows up andkills their parents and kidnaps
the kids to take them to hismagical like TV show world. And,

(36:22):
oh, man, I love this onebecause, well, for one thing, it
was jam packed with monstersmade and designed by the very
talented artist Alex party withif he didn't recognize the
style. And, yeah, no, it just,is just a solid kind of
supernatural slasher movie. It'slike if Freddy Krueger was Mr.

(36:43):
Rogers.

Yeah, the entire movie was its prime time
bitch as a, as, like a as as aplot. But he was genuinely
creepy. It was, I don'tunderstand, like, how those
kids, because the kids would gethyper, hypnotized by the VHS
tape and what was going on. Buteven before the killing, I don't
know how they got into it,because he was creepy before it

(37:07):
even started.

Uh, yeah, kind of building up all night. I
guess

it's also fun, because Elvis Nolasco was also
in Carved, so it was like adouble feature of him. He played
the reporter that meets hisdemise early in the film.

Well, well, it was kind of a time jump thing,
because, yeah, he he dies in themovie, but then you see him in
the regular timeline for therest of the movie. But either
way, uh, yeah, no, I really dugMr. Crockett, and it does feel
like the kind of slasher moviecharacter that should be getting
several direct to video sequels.
So we should eventually get Mr.

(37:48):
Crockett three, Mr. Crockettgoes to college and Mr. Crockett
X, Mr. Crockett in space.

Well, I mean, his his reach is going to get
much smaller because it's alltransported on a VHS tape. So
he's going to have to upgrade toa DVD or Blu Ray at some point.
Oh, if he goes to streaming,

yeah, it's all I should do, like Mr. Crockett
takes over Hulu or something.

Oh, there you go. There you go. But yeah,
Marved in uh Mr. Crockett areboth available on Hulu Now, if
you're interested at all andwatching, yeah,

Mr. Crockett also was originally a short for,
let's see, as the Hulu bitesized horror, you know,
Halloween stuff that they did acouple years back. Yeah, and it
is funny because, yeah, it wasbasically just a scene from that
that was upgraded and used inMr. Crocket proper. Because,
like when the TV knocks over,Mr. Crockett crawls out with his

(38:40):
face full of glass. Ah, so good.
So yeah, no song.

One of the scream fest titles that I saw
that I'm actually really excitedabout it, it's probably going to
make my top 10. It's a Swedishmovie that the translation of
the title is In the Name of God.
And, you know, I'm not evengoing to try to pronounce the
Swedish title, but um, itactually stars a couple of the
people from Midsommar. The guywho plays Pele is in it, um, as

(39:07):
well as the girl that, the girlthat, the that the cult forces
Christian to have sex with,she's in it as well. And what
it's basically about, it has, ithas big killing of a sacred deer
vibes. It's about this, thispriest who he's kind of losing
his congregation, and his hiswife gets sick and and she's

(39:32):
like about to die, and his oldpriest mentor basically tells
him, you have to do thissacrifice and and he doesn't
believe him, so his mentor doesthe sacrifice for him, and he
kills this guy who is he's, Idon't know what the sentencing
laws are like in Sweden, buthe's this serial rapist who gets

(39:53):
released from prison. And sothat, you know, they're
basically ridden the world ofthese bad. People, but his
mentor kills the guy and hiswife. The guy's wife gets
better, and his congregationsees this is a miracle, so they
start bringing their sick peopleand people who are, you know,

(40:14):
gonna die, to him to see if hecan perform this miracle again.
And of course, to perform thismiracle again, he needs more
sacrifices. So it kind of turnsinto to one of those kind of
movies. But it's really, really,just really, really well done.
It's just nutso. I loved it somuch.

It's like Little Shop of horror meets, but
instead of a mess. Yeah,

exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's,
it's pretty religion based,because there's a lot of
philosophy in the, you know. Andthe the people that they're
going after for these sacrificesare people who, you know,
they're, they're pedophiles thatsomehow got out of jail, kind of
a thing. And you're, you know?
And that's what makes mequestion I'm all you know,
because I know Canada is kind ofyou hear about that, that guy

(41:04):
who cut off the the fellow buspassengers head on the bus in
Canada? Yeah, well, that dudesout of jail already. You know?
It's like the sentencing laws inother countries for things like
that are not as strict asAmerica. And forget about the
death penalty, you know.

Well, I mean, that's a whole other
conversation. Yeah,

yeah, but, um, but it's just weird because,
you know, because these guysare, they're basically ridding
the world of filth. And say, youknow, it's getting these
miracles performed at the sametime. But of course, you know,
it takes some turns into a fewplaces. Another thing, I don't
know if you got to it, Correia,but I'm positive Jacob did

(41:50):
Scared Shitless.

Yes, I was going to bring

Unknown (41:53):
that up. Did you see it? Korea?

Did you get shared? Skillless

show up? No, scared. Scared shitless. That's

hard to say, scared skills.

The tagline is even, don't forget to flush.

No, I missed it, but now I'm super,
incredibly missing it.

Yeah. No, it was, it was good.

I knew as soon as the opening credits were
going, I knew that Jacob wasgoing to be all over it, because
the visual effects were done byour buddy, Steve kostanski and
ski, yeah, it

was directed by Vivieno Caldinelli, who I looked
it up. And, you know, I didn'teven realize this connection. He
did that short film, Portal toHell with Rodney Piper, like
back in 2015 and I feel like it,it wasn't entirely based off of

(42:47):
it, but I do see somesimilarities, because, like in
portal to hell, it's about RoddyPiper is a janitor who walks in
on like a cult, raising like atentacle kafu monster, and this
movie is about Stephen Ogg andDaniel Doheny is a father son
plumbing team who have to fighta genetically modified tentacle
evil monster thing going for thepipes of the building. Yeah,

it is. It's exactly what you'd expect from a
Canadian movie with kystan skidoing visual effects. I mean,
it's like, it's goopy. It is.
It's downright gross in places,especially because it is in the
plumbing. So there's some,there's some grossness that
happens there. But yeah, it's,it's a lot of fun.

There's some poo involved. I'm assuming

there's as much as you'd think. Yeah, no,
no, it's, it's, it's mostly likeblood and slime and stuff. But
yeah,

guts. Yeah.
Also, I have to point out that Iwas also pleasantly surprised to
see kids in the halls. MarkMcKinney in the movie as the mad
scientist who made the monster,and is very awkward and goofy.
And, yeah, he plays Dr Robert.
And you know, he has some funscenes where he he's, he's,

(44:03):
like, this is very pathetic guyliving, living an apartment, but
made this horrible monstrosity,and he keeps attacking him, but
he he's, I guess he's abrilliant geneticist, but he's
dumb and common sense because hekeeps trying to, you know, like,
deal with it, until it, like,tries to bite his Face Off.

Man, we are getting real goopy this episode,
aren't we? With Oh yeah,

maximum goopage,

speaking of goop, another, another movie
that I saw from Scream fest is,let me get this title right,
Anthropophagus Legacy.

Oh, wow.

Do you guys see that one?

Well, no, but I have seen the original
anthropophagus. And for somereason I've seen anthropophagus
2000 the German remake.

And then there's an anthropophagus too,
as well. I think. I thinkthere's, yeah,

I think so

I'm not sure if this is related to those, or
if it's just Correia and I werehaving this discussion, and I'm
not sure if this is related tothose, or if anthropophagus,
basically, it means cannibal,yeah, which, honestly, I mean,
you guys know, I don't reallywatch trailers, I just like, go
in blind everything. And that'sa little bit of a spoiler,

(45:24):
because this anthropophaguslegacy, it starts out about this
woman whose husband is murderedwhile sleeping in the bed next
to her and and she's pregnant,and she basically goes on the
land because she's accused ofthis murder. But she, you know,
she doesn't remember anything.
So she, you know, there's,there's this mystery, like,

(45:46):
Well, did she do it? You know?
Because she goes in the lamb andshe goes and visits her cousin
in in another part of thecountry, and he's a cannibal. Is
basically what, you know. That'swhere the anthropophagus comes
into it. There's, you know,people eating and goopage and
stuff like that. And it goesinto, like, his history of how

(46:09):
he became a cannibal, which is,I believe, he was in Belgium and
and basically him, him and his,his little group of friends.
They, they basically juststarted. They were really poor
and hungry, and they started,it's they started killing, like
soldiers and eating them, andthen they just started killing

(46:31):
anybody, anything. But, yeah,that so it is, I mean, if you
know what anthropopics, the wordmeans, you know, it's obvious
that it's a cannibal movie, butI didn't at first. I only looked
it up when Korea and I weretalking about it,

Bones and All, all over again. You had no idea
that was a cannibal movieeither?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Another goopage
movie is The Witch. Revenge.
This is like, God, this movie isI Spit on Your Grave, set during
the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

(47:11):
Because basically, there'sanother it's another married
couple and and they'reUkrainian, and they're trying to
escape, you know, the theoccupied section of of Ukraine,
and they get stopped at aroadblock by these Russian
soldiers who are just totaldicks. You know, they're, you

(47:32):
know, they're just, basically,they end up killing her, her
husband and, or might be afiance, I don't know if they're
married yet, but, um, they endup killing him, and she gets
away. But what they don't knowis that she is, she's a witch
that actually, kind of, youknow, set aside her witch ways
to marry this, this normal dude,and now that he's gone, she goes

(47:58):
back to her, her witch ways anddoes these curses and stuff. And
this movie is, I mean, it isjust, there's just buckets and
buckets of blood and guts andgore. And it's just, you know,
these Russian soldiers, youknow, one by one with these,
like, um, with this curse thatshe puts on them. And they

(48:19):
slowly go crazy and they justgo, you know, doing like, you
know, crazy stuff, to kill eachother and themselves. It's a,
it's basically a revenge moviein the

title, yeah, and you and you liked it, yeah,

I did. I mean, yeah, I, I did like it.
There wasn't really anything Isaw at Screamfest that that I
didn't like, you know, in someway, there's different levels of
like, I mean, like I loved inthe name of God, you know, but
anthropophagus and the witch,those ones, those ones were
pretty good. There's anothermovie called The Complex Forms.

(49:00):
Did you guys get to that? I didnot that one is that one's kind
of weird. It's about this. Atthe beginning, there's this guy
who's making this deal to getpaid to spend some time. They
say he'll be possessed for thisamount of time. But he goes into
this little villa, and every sooften in this villa they hear

(49:21):
thunder, and you know whathappens is these monsters come,
and then he starts figuring outwhat being possessed actually
means. And you know, the moretime you spend in this villa,
the more time, the more chanceyou have of getting taken by one
of these monsters, is what is soit's basically a monster movie,

(49:42):
and it, it's, it's pretty it'spretty crazy. The monsters kind
of remind me of what we weretalking about earlier, the the
symbiote King from venom. Themonsters kind of, kind of remind
me of him. But, yeah, that wasanother. Sure that was another
good one? Hell yeah. And thenthere's one that I don't know.

(50:04):
And again, I'm not sure if I'mgoing to say the the title
correctly. It translates toHeresy, but it is Witte Wieven.
Am I saying that right? Correia,I feel like, you know, you act
like

I'm much better with other languages,
like I struggle with my English.

Well, the in full disclosure, you actually
know the director, Didiertonings, yeah,

yeah. That's my buddy, Didier. So I recused
myself from reviewing it so thatI could be impartial, which

the thing is, you really need to see it,
because this is very much yourjam, ideally.

So he's, I sorry, he's a buddy, but I love
everything he does. So I amreally stoked to see it. But
this

is like folk horror, and it's about this
woman who, who she's havingtrouble getting pregnant, but
then she goes off into thisforest and she gets pregnant. So
of course, everybody's like, Oh,you're a witch, you know? And
the actress, the lead actress.
Her name is Annika Sluders. I'mprobably saying that wrong
because, you know, languages,but she was incredible. She, you

(51:08):
know, she deserved to win BestActress at this thing, you know,
at least out of the movies thatI saw. Because, yeah, it was,
she's really good. And, IA,Korea, yeah, this is definitely
your jam. You need to, you needto check this out.

Oh, you know, I love folk horrot. I I'm, I'm
trying to watch all of my fullcore box set before Volume Two
comes in, which, any day now,any day.

I'm very tempted on that box set. And I mean,
just like I have the first one,I still feel like I haven't
quite explored everything, justbecause it was so expansive

I it, Oh, dude, especially once you start
getting into this, into theshorts and other things that are
on that box, and you can, youcan waste many days in there,
glory, gloriously, if youhaven't watched it yet. Jacob,
sorry for divulging or ADHD, butTilbury, you gotta watch
Tilbury, that one that's astrange one. I

can't remember if I've seen Tilbury, and

it's only an hour. Uh, that's the one where
it's like, the creature thatruns off and then, like, brings
back milk and regurgitates itfor the woman with thing and she
and she feeds it with the vianipple on the on the inner
thigh, I'd say, Yeah,

I don't think I've seen that.

Speaking of that, that's the, the really
good thing about, um, aboutheresy, yeah, it is, it's, it's
61 minutes. Um, so perfect runtime. There's always time to
watch Heresy. So yeah, Korea,you definitely need to check

(52:46):
that one out.

That needs to be normalized again, because
they used to know I, like, Iwatch a lot of, like, Mai West
movies, and they were just alittle over an hour, and it's
like, hell, yeah, my ADHD braincan handle this. And

then also, you go back to, like, some of
those older universal, you know,the ones that were meant to be
half of a double feature, youknow, Isle of the Dead, or, you
know, the Black Cat, you know,things like that. It's like,
yeah, an hour this. I mean, youcould watch three of those and
still go to lunch in the time ittakes for you to watch killers
the flower moon, you know,

but hey, that one didn't feel like three hours
for the most part. I did

to be that's what I always tell people. They
asked me about I'm all the firsttwo and a half hours was really
good. The last hour drag, thelast thing I saw for Screamfest.
And this is probably, you know,I'm, I'm I'm kind of saving the
least for last, because this isprobably my least favorite. I
still didn't hate it, but itjust wasn't the most engaging.

(53:48):
It's called BA, B, A good andit's basically about a guy who
he becomes death. He and hisdaughter are, they're down in
their luck, and they're, they'rethey need money, so they come
up, there's this situation, hebasically finds a bunch of
money. And the caveat is that hebecomes death when he takes his

(54:09):
money, and he has to take soulsand then turn in this token. And
once his debts paid, he stopsbeing death. But he can't touch
anybody like he cannot touch hisdaughter anymore, or she'll die.
Anything he touches dies and,and he has to, like, wear, like,
kind of, like he wearssunglasses and a face mask, or

(54:31):
people will see that he's death,you know. And he gets
assignments so he knows who totake, but he but anybody he
touches will die. And, you know,and it's, I mean, it's an
interesting concept. I don'tknow that they pulled it off as
well as they could have, but itwas, you know, it was, it was
interesting. It was, it'sinteresting that you can, you

(54:52):
know, buy your way into becomingdeath, or death can buy its, its
way into becoming you, I guessis what, what? It's meant for.
But what if someone

touched? This is one of those stupid things,
when something establishesrules, and then I start going,
but what about this? What ifsomeone touches you? Is it just
when you touch people? Or, youknow,

I think that anytime anybody touches him,
because people would comecontact, yeah, people would come
close to him, and he'd like,back off. That's like one of
those questions, like, if avampire bites a zombie, does the
zombie become a vampire?

If a gremlin switches time zones, can it eat
at a certain midnight, or is ita specific time zone midnight?

Questions that were asked in Gremlins 2,
because it's that amazing of amovie.

These are the kind of questions people come up
with when they get stoned and,you know, but

I'm gonna squash the zombie vampire thing.
They're they're both alreadydead, so it doesn't matter.
Well,

yeah,

they're already dead.

Okay, so you can't have zombie vampires.

Well, also, how can there be a definite
answer? Because they don'tfucking exist. So it doesn't
matter. You can create whateverfucking rules you want, isn't
it? Isn't that what Jon Landissaid he's like, how do you kill
a vampire? No, you kill howeveryou fucking want. They don't
exist.

Yeah, no. I mean, there you go.

What was the one where they blew up a
vampire? I'm trying to rememberwhat movie that was. Ah, well,
they

blew up a wolf man in Monster Squad, and that
didn't work. That's

what it was. I got it confused, yeah, but
Dracula blew up the tree housewith a stick of dynamite, which
I still say is the most bad assthing ever. And that's why he's
the most terrifying Dracula,because dude straight up threw a
fucking stick of dynamite in atree house, hoping there was
children in there. Come on,Monster

Squad. Dracula is petty, and Man he hated those
kids.

That's that's come and see level evil. I don't
know if you guys have gotten toCome and See yet, but alright,
well, that was our ourScreamfest experiences. Yeah,
the big takeaway from me is gosee in the name of God, Swedish
movie. It was amazing, and it'sprobably going to be on my top
10. And go see scared shitless,because, you know, oh yes,

(57:09):
support Canadian goop and Stevecostansky and

and all the movies we talked about. They're
all good. Yeah,

yeah, yeah.
Search. Search them all. I'vegot go see heresy as well,
because, you know, hey, 61minutes and you'll see an
amazing performance from fromthe lead actress.

Thank you for having us Screamfest. We'll
definitely be back next year,absolutely.

Yeah. Thank you for introducing me in the
name of God. I'm really high andin the name of God, in case you
can't tell, it's awesome. Yeah.
So yeah, we'll, we'll call thisone an episode. Then let's stick
a fork in this. We have somepretty cool episodes coming up,
though, so make sure you'relistening in the next the next
few episodes, we got some goodstuff, but I don't want to tip
my hand too early on it, because

I'm still working on it.

Yeah, things might go wrong, and then I look
like it like when I said, wepromise. We'll be back in a
topic for two weeks a coupleepisodes ago. Yeah, right. So
let's get out of here this time,and we'll see you in a couple of
weeks. Our theme song is byrestless spirits, so go give
them a listen. And our artworkis by Chris Fisher, so go give

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him a like. You can find us onany of the socials under Eye on
Horror or at ihorror.com whichis the site we all call home.
And yeah, stay tuned eye onhorror for some really cool
episodes coming up, some coolinterviews. And until next time,
I'm James Jay Edwards. I'm

Jacob Davison

and I'm Jonathan Correia.

Keep your eye on horror.

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