Top Tens of 2024

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James Jay Edwards (00:25):
Welcome to Eye On Horror, the official
podcast of iHorror.com this isepisode 140 otherwise known as
season seven, Episode 21 I amyour host, James Jay Edwards,
and with me, as always, is yourother host, Jacob Davison, How
you doing? Jacob? Doing

Jacob Davidson (00:40):
fine. Survived the holidays. Yeah,

survive.
That's a good way to put it.
Also with us, as always, is yourother other host, Jon Correia,
how you doing Correia?

Jonathan Correia (00:51):
Doing great.
I'm wearing my poncho. And as weall know, it's scientifically
impossible to be unhappy in aponcho. So, you know, feeling
great, ate some food, got somecaffeine. I'm gonna be a little
bit more awake today. It's gonnabe great. And it's our finale,
right? There was

a new when I was at Costco, there was a new
variety pack of Alani energydrink. So I'm trying a flavor
cherry twist that I've never hadbefore. So you got here, let me,
let me sample it while we'rehere. Yeah, it's cherry and it's
twisty.

Gotta get that product placement. But I thought
you were gonna say they had anew variety pack of ponchos. And
I just like was about ready tocancel this recording and go get
some

that'd be amazing. It is our last episode
of the season, even though it'sthe first episode of 2025 which
means top 10 lists. So let'sdive right in, because these are
always, they always run longbecause, you know, we we talk
too much. Let's see where theorder we're going to go in I'm

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deciding are, how you guys are,how we are showing at the top of
my Zoom workplace, which is me,Correia, Then Jacob. So I'm
going to go first with my number10. My number 10 is Heretic,
which, I mean, I just loved thefact that we could have a

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religious movie that is notabout possession. Nothing
against the movies aboutpossession that have come out
this year, but I just love thephilosophical religion horror of
basically someone challengingsomeone else's religious
beliefs, and that being thescariest part. And Hugh Grant
won the best performances of theyear, I doubt he'll get

(02:38):
nominated for an Oscar, butagain, just another thing for us
to complain about horror notbeing taken seriously by the
Oscars. So, yep, Heretic, number10. I mean,

it was definitely the number one and
best Jar Jar Binks impressionsof the year.

This is true. He gave an Oscar wherever he jar,
Jar Binks impression.

All right.
Correia, what do you got first?
Number

Unknown (02:58):
10? Number 10, I have M Night. Shyamalan's Trap at
number ten, which I can alreadysee people being like, Trap.
Listen, that was the most fun Ihad at the cinemas this year.
Was Trap. I genuinely love thatmovie. I had so much fun with
it. And, yeah, it was just in agreat experience seeing it with

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the crowd that was really intoit. And, you know, I think it
deserves a high, high praise forjust being fun as fuck. You
know,

I it's not on my list, but I loved Trap. I'm a
Shyamalan fan boy, I re watchedTrap again maybe three weeks
ago, and it really makes me itbums me out that Bruce Willis is
not in a condition to makemovies anymore, because this
movie would fit so well intothat Unbreakable/Split universe.

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You know, the butcher would besuch a great villain for that.
So bum me out. Also,

I do love, uh, Josh Hartnett's performance was
genuinely incredible, and he wasable to kind of play that up,
because, you know, going from,you know, loving father to the
butcher, and just kind of theway that the the perspective
follows him as he's kind ofnavigating the stadium and
figuring out a way to escape thetrap. Plus, like,

you know, I know a lot of people complain
about the multiple endings,which wasn't as bad as Old Old
had, like, 20 goddamn endings.
But like, if we didn't have themultiple endings, we wouldn't
have a shirtless Hartnett. So,like, you know, worth it.

That's why people call them. Josh Hotness,
yeah.

And finally, it was, you know, I didn't
notice it the first time I sawit, but the second time I
totally did. Correia, you'reright. It's absolutely a Lady
Raven concert movie with asubplot, because there is so
much of the music. And, youknow, hey, I know I said that
I'm Team Sky Riley when it comesto these, but hey, I would, I
would go to that tour with bothof them, because lady Raven,

(04:57):
Lady ravens, got her shittogether

too. Yeah.
Lady Raven Sky Riley tour, when?
Come on, yeah. All right. Jacob,number

10. All right, my number 10 is V/H/S/Beyond
Nice. Yeah, no, I'm a big fan offound footage, and the V/H/S/
franchise has been really thegift that keeps on giving since
the beginning. Like I've been abeen a fan, and it's just such a
fun stomping ground fordirectors to just go hog wild

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with the sub genre. And Ithought there were some
particularly fun entries in thisone, like the stork one, which
was directed by Jordan Downey,which was basically like the
best Resident Evil movie. Thatwas an actually Resident Evil

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plus Justin Long and Christianlong did a bat shit crazy like
science animal found footage.
Thing with the fur babiessegment, that one's my favorite.
I love that I feel like that washim processing being in Tusk,
yeah,

and Barbarian, true and and,

of course, Kate Siegel's film debut with a story
with her, with her husband, MikeFlanagan, which was so
horrifying and heartbreaking.
And also I just love that theydecided to do kind of a
particular shtick with thisentry, in that it's all sci fi
horror with this, be it madscience or aliens and all kinds
of crazy stuff. So yeah, Ithought it was a fun time, and I

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was fortunate enough to see ittheatrically at Beyond Fest, and
the crowd went wild with everyentry. So, yeah, no, I I've I
really like this one, and I'malways looking forward to,
forward to more VHS and morefound footage. Yeah,

I still need to watch it. I just need to
remind the viewers that our top10s are based on what we've seen
and our just our personalopinions, so we can't see
everything. So my apologies toV/H/S/Beyond. I will be watching
you soon. I

think I forgot that a VHS movie came out
this year. That's how good thisyear has actually been pretty
plentiful and and the quality ofthe movies have been great. Has
been has been really good. I'vebeen I had a tough time making
my list. Yeah. Speaking of mylist, it's my turn again, my
number nine is MaXXXine. And I,we discussed how we all have

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different favorite movies in thethe X trilogy. MaXXXine, I
think, is my favorite. Andactually, it says a lot about
this year that it's my numbernine when, like, X and Pearl
were higher up on my lists inthose years. I just think that
Ty West totally nailed thelanding. And for what he was
trying to do, which is make oneof those 80s sleazy

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exploitational crime dramas, Ithink he just totally nailed it.
I mean, Maxine minx is anamazing she has an amazing arc
between X and MaXXXine. And Ijust think that I just love
Maxine. I wouldn't be adverse tothere being a fourth movie.
Honestly,

yeah, I really, I really dug MaXXXine, too. And
I do love how it's a franchisewhere, like, every movie is so
completely different from thelast you know. It just because,
yeah, like the first one's likea throwback 70s slasher. The
second one is kind of apsychological thriller, and the
third one is an 80s sleazebloitation.

Korea, number nine. Number nine. I actually, I
had a day the other day wheretwo movies snuck into my top 10,
and this was the first one,Oddity. Yes, I loved oddity.
It's a It's atmospheric as fuck.
And I really appreciated justkind of like being in this
really dark world where ghostsare real, and it's not just

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about one ghost, it's not justabout one thing. And I thought
it was a great, greatperformances by Carolyn Bracken
in there. And, yeah, I love veryatmospheric spooky ghost
stories. So this one, this onedid it for me. Yeah, it's a lot
of fun. And the wood, I don'tknow. It's not a wood creature

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thing, doll. I don't know he wascreepy as fuck.

It reminded me of the thing from Fear,

yeah, yeah, the wood guy, yeah. I just,
yeah. I thought it was, it wasvery just atmospheric. And I'm a
sucker for atmospheric ghoststories. So yeah, Oddity snuck
its way in there the last minutefor me. Cool.

I saw Oddity.
I saw the trailer accidentallyat some, some other, maybe In A
Violent Nature, some, some moviethat I had to go see in
theaters, you know, with like apaying crowd. And I remember the
trailer has kind of that openingscene, and then I couldn't
remember the name of the movie.
And I was like, What the Sowhen. And it finally hit

(10:00):
Shudder. I was like, oh yes,this is that movie, awesome. All
right, Jacob, number nine. Allright,

Coming at number nine, very fine. Is Lisa
Frankenstein by Zelda Williamsfrom a script by Diablo Cody.
Yeah. No, I had a real soft spotfor this one, because I just
thought it was such ainteresting and unique take on
the Frankenstein story with thekind of pop 80s filter, and
also, we're all fans ofCatherine Newton here. We all

(10:27):
love her, yeah,

so did you put it at number nine just so
you could bust that sweet rhyme?

No, it was just pure serendipity. But yeah, no,
I really dug Lisa Frankenstein,and it really seemed to resonate
with a lot of horror romancefans. And yeah, I mean, it is,
you know, kind of post moderngothic romance, also killer
soundtrack. Hell yeah.

Cool. On to number eight. My number eight,
and I have a feeling thatsometimes I feel like this is
too low, but it just a testamentto how great the year has been.
My number eight is TheSubstance. And yeah, because I
have a feeling this is higher onyour guys's lists, but we'll
see. The Substance is just oneof those. You know, it starts

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off sensible, and then just goesabsolutely crazy. And again.
Demi Moore, if it wasn't afreaking schlocky body horror
movie. She she should be in theawards conversation, and I think
she has a better chance of beingin it than Hugh Grant does for
Heretic, but we'll see. Butanyway, I have a feeling we're
going to be talking aboutTheSubstance a little more later,

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but that's my number eight to be

more and Margaret qualey Just, oh yeah,
giving it all, laying it all outthere, fearless performances.
All

right, Correia, number eight,

Unknown (11:46):
number eight. I had to, I had to include this in my top
10, Sasquatch Sunset. Yeah, alot of my top 10s is going to
be. How much fun did I have atthe cinemas this year? And let
me tell you, Sasquatch Sunsetwas an experience. And seeing
that on the big screen, hearingpeople having, like, physical

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reactions to what happens on thescreen. I know I just said, I'm
probably gonna say fearlessperformances a bunch with these
but truly fear

these ones really are, yeah,

yeah. Like, this is over the line. Talk about
actors taking

Unknown (12:26):
risks, yeah, Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg and
everyone else, just like, fullywent for it. The cinematography
is gorgeous. It really does feellike a super high shot, like
documentary about thesecreatures, and it also featured
probably the most anxietyinducing scenes of the year for

(12:48):
me. I The the scene by the riverhad me like gripping my chair,
just being like, somethinghappened already. God did just,
let me. Just release me. Releaseme. So, yeah, Sasquatch Sunset,
you know, I It's Sasquatches andbodily fluids. What? What more
could you want?

It also was one of the most dramatic movies this
year, especially because, Imean, it was basically a family
drama with no dialog with thisgroup of Sasquatches, but also
incredibly funny, like, one ofthe funniest scenes I even saw
this year or last year intheaters, was that bit where the
one Sasquatch gets been by aturtle, and it can't get the

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turtle off, so they all have topull the turtle off. Then the
patriarchs Sasquatch holds theturtle up to his ear like a cell
phone, yells into it, and thenchucks it into the woods like
that. Made me lose my shit.
That's

so good. It's good. Cool.

Jacob, number eight,

Okay, number eight, and feeling great is
Robert Eggers Nosferatu, which,yeah, I mean, I'm, yeah, it was
kind of on the fence. You knowwhere to place it exactly. But I
knew it was going to be on mytop 10 because it was probably
the best vampire movie thisyear, and there were a few, I

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think. But, yeah, no, I really,I really liked Eggers's remake,
just in, you know, like, dowell, you know, like following,
you know, the original Murnauclassic and Herzog's gritty 70s
German version. It wasinteresting to kind of see his
own take on it, and bringing hisown signature style and just,

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you know, darkness, darkness,darkness. It was very
foreboding. And of course,having such a incredible
ensemble cast, particularly Iliked Willem Dafoe as the the
professor. Like I still can'tstop thinking about that line.
I've seen things that would makeIsaac Newton go back into the
womb. It's

such a great line. Oh yes.

And, and also, I just really love what he did
with the vampire because betweenBill Skarsgards performance and
just how imposing is, just howhe made the vampire this force
of supernatural darkness, likehe's like a living corruption,
like everywhere he goes, like hedrives everyone mad, or brings
disease and plague and horroraround him, with just the rats

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follow him and his shadowstretches all over the city. So
I really do like how theybrought that back. Because, you
know, it's like beyond, youknow, like being a guy with fans
who drinks blood like vampiresare supposed to be that, you
know, mind warping, or it's likethey're just so unnatural that
everything around them iscorrupted and and Dan. It was

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last to see on 35 millimeter atthe New BEV. I really had great
time with that. Yeah,

I saw it. I saw it again for a second time
last night, because there wassomething I was like, I need to
watch it one more time before Ifinalize this top 10 list. And
as spoilers, it's not on mine. Iabsolutely loved Nosferatu, and
I love that take on Orlok. Butwhat in re, re watching, because
I watched the original againbefore going to see it. What

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made me realize, what was thething that was like keeping it
for my top 10 is I love thatweirdo. I love Max Shriek's
weird Orlock. There's so manyscenes where you see his
loneliness come out and just inhow he interacts the whole
dinner scene where he's sittingthere with Thomas, and he's just
kind of like staring over he'sjust a weird, lonely guy, um,

(16:32):
yep, and he embodies evil,whereas Eggers, uh, Orlok is the
embodiment of evil. So therewasn't which is scary and great
in its own sense. But I just, Ilean more towards, you know,
feeling for that, for thatweirdo who's carrying his own
Casket or through town, which isboth really ridiculous and sad

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but also powerful. It's becauseat first you're like, oh shit,
he's carrying a whole casketfull of dirt by himself, but
then also, like, that's so sad.
He has to carry it himself. Idon't know, like, I was just
missing that from that and butthat's like, my only it's not
even a critique. It's just, youknow, it's I miss. I like the
weirdo guy a bit more. That'sall

fair enough.
Cool. All right. Moving on tonumber seven. My number seven is
probably my favorite movie wesaw from Scream Fest few months
back In the Name of God, youknow, like I touched on with
Heretic in a year that saw a lotof religious horror, this one
just stuck out for me because itwasn't just a possession movie.

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This one wasn't evenphilosophical. This was
literally sacrifices causingmiracles and and it I wasn't,
you know, truth be told, Iwasn't expecting a ton from any
of those Scream Fest titles,just because I know how festival
movies that you've never heardof Go. But this one just blew me
away as I was watching it. Iloved this movie. I'm not sure

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if it has an American releaseoutside of festivals. But you
know, that didn't stop me. It'smy number seven In the Name of
God. I also loved the familiarfaces from Misommar that were in
it too, which which were a lotof fun for me. But anyway, In
the Name of God, it's my numberseven. Korea, number seven.

Number seven.
All Dogs Go To Heaven. I'mtrying to my number seven this
year was Sting. Who? Yeah, ISting was such a fun horror
comedy. I grew up onArachnophobia. I think that's
one of the greatest creaturefeatures ever. And this one

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Sting was just like, in thatsame vein, which is really
funny, was really out there,really went for it and had some
genuinely tense moments. I alsoreally appreciate movies that
have a child as, like theprotagonist of the child is well
written and doesn't come off ofannoying,

you know, and well acted in this case,

yeah, because it's so easy to for an adult
writing a child, to not writethem well. And I just thought it
was all around. Just awesome.
That whole, the whole openingjoke bit with the with the old
lady, and then coming back to itis so good. Yeah, if, if you
haven't seen Sting, it's spidersin an apartment building, and

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it's, it's such a fun ride.
Sting is

another one of those movies that I think I
forgot. It came out this year,because it was way back in, like
February, and it was a lot offun, too. And I don't know if it
would have made my list, butwhen I was making my list, I
didn't think, oh, I should thinkabout Sting. You know, I don't
know. I think that it's justbeen so long, but, yeah, Sting,
Stings a ton of fun.

Unknown (19:50):
About halfway through the year, I just, I made, like,
a private letter box list ofjust like horror movies I liked
that came out this year, becauseI knew I was like, oh, December,
I'm gonna be going through mydiary and I'm. Gonna hate
everything, trying to pickfucking titles. So just, just
add everything to this. I hadlike, 40 my by the end of the
year, yeah, I was throwingeverything in there. Yeah. All

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right.

Jacob, number seven. All

right. Look at number seven is friend of the
podcast, Steven Kostanski'sFrankie Freako did either? Do
you guys see that? I didn't. No,not yet. No, no, well, you're
missing out, because it is theultimate tiny little monster,
weird guy throwback, and it'sbasically Connor Sweeney plays

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this uptight milk toast dude in,I think it's like the late 80s,
early 90s, and he calls, like,one of those old 900 numbers for
like, party animals. And heinvokes Frankie Freako and his
friends who are just like littleparty animal goblin guys. And
shenanigans ensue. And it hasKostanski's, you know, you know,

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sense of humor with a lot of thehomage stuff and little
creatures. And specifically,it's a big throwback on
Ghoulies. And I thinkparticularly Ghoulies Go to
College, which is probably oneof the best ghoulies hands

down. It's ghoulies three, ghoulies two,
ghoulies, and I haven't seen thefourth one.

But yeah, pretty much yes. But yeah, no, it's, it
was just so much fun. And again,glad I got to see it
theatrically. I saw it at theAlamo. And, yeah, no, just the
world needs movies about weirdlittle guys, you know, as I

was just saying for Nosferatu, you know,
I love, I love the weird, weirdguys. So, yeah, I It's on my
list, I just need to

find it. Yeah, like, I was even saying that it
would make a great doublefeature with Hundreds of
Beavers, because both of themfeel like live action cartoons
because, like, there's even abit with, like, I figured anvils
almost dropped on somebody'shead in Frankie Freako.

So alright, on to number six, I can't think
of a rhyme for six. So anyway,my six is Longlegs, nice. This
is a bit polarizing. I know thatthere are a lot of people who
absolutely hated this movie. Iloved it. It's sort of like, I
feel like it is kind of the theB movie version of Silence of

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the Lambs, because, because it'ssort of a police procedural. But
you then you throw in the thepsychic element and the occult
element, and then by the you getto the end, I don't want to
spoil anything, but by the timeyou get to the end, there is
another element that shows upthat is just even crazier. And
you get Nick Cage singing T Rexto your, you know, rocking out

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to T Rex. So, yep, Longlegs ismy number six, and loved it. It
was awesome.

I just love that all around LA, there's for
your consideration posters forLonglegs. And it's Yeah, Cage
Nick cages face, is it

getting a push? That's

yeah. They have a cool they have a massive
poster or billboard for it rightoutside, right across the street
from Amoeba and the PantagesTheater on Hollywood Boulevard,
so that they're trying, they'regoing for it because

it was in the Neon pack that came to the
critics groups I'm in. But otherthan that, they didn't give it a
push. And, you know, I couldn'tget any traction with it for in
my groups, mainly because Anorawas also in the neon pack, and
everybody focused on that, Imean, and justifiably so, Anora
is great. But, yeah, you knowwhat? I'm pretty stoked. And

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this is kind of going off topic.
I don't want to do it for toolong, because we're running
long, but what I'm stoked withthe awards push that's got
gotten with critics groups isHundreds of Beavers. Yes, that's
another one. I couldn't get anytraction with people in my
group, and I don't know if theytook it seriously as a movie.
I'm like, Oh, dude, seriously.
Watch it and you'll love it. Butanyway, number six Correia,

(23:57):
what's your six?

Unknown (23:58):
Number six, pick up sticks. There it is, and take
your picks. It's number six Ihave. This was my absolute last
second sneak inThe Vourdalak,which is a French Slavic vampire

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horror fairy tale.

You said Nosferatu wasn't on your list.
Well,

The Vourdalak is very different from from,
from Nosferatu, in that,basically, if you want your
Slavic, did you see Nosferatu?
And you were like, this movieisn't cunty enough for me. The
Vourdalak checks that box hard.
It's if you don't know the storyof The Vourdalak it's a Slavic
creature tale where it'sbasically a vampire, but the but

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it comes back to haunt and eatand infect its loved ones. So
it's very specific. Mario Bavadid an adaptation of it in one
of the segments for BlackSabbath with Boris Karloff, and
it is such, so beautifully shot.
It's, it's slow, it you soyou're really in it. It's, it's
beautiful looking everyoneagain, apologies for the

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language, but everyone's cuntyis fucking it the main
protagonist,

are you apologizing for cunty or for
Fuck,

I will never apologize for cunty. The main
protagonist is this Frencharistocrat, pansy, and it
reminded me a lot of like theDisney adaptation of Sleepy
Hollow with Ichabod and Mr.
Toad, where he's just like thispansy in tights, who's way over
his head in a supernaturalsituation. The The Vourdalak
himself is all puppetry, andit's gorgeous. It's beautiful.

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Oh, it's it's also very funny attimes. It's very haunting. It
just checked so many boxes, andI wasn't expecting it. I highly,
Oscilloscope released it, and Ihighly recommend it. It's
currently on Kanopy. So if youhave a library card which is
free to get, you can sign up forKanopy and watch The Vourdalak,

(26:08):
as well as 1000s of otheramazing titles.

It depends on if your library has The
Vourdalak, because the titlesare are different for which
library card you use. But haveeither you guys been watching
another side quest? Have youguys been watching that Dexter
prequel series on Showtime? No,this. It just made me think of
you because, at one point,because, because there's a child

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Deb, who every other word out ofher mouth is fuck, and at one
point, another character says,um, pardon my French. And Deb's
like Your French is fine,

uh, all right.
Jacob, number six, all right,yeah, Jonathan, I was gonna keep
up the mighty Bush references bygoing 666, pick up sticks. I
remember from Nanageddon

Yeah, of course, Nana get in. I love it,
yeah.

But anyway, so number six, Fe day Alvarez is

Alien (27:06):
Romulus. Oh, nice, nice.
Which, you know, kind offollowing what Jonathan was
saying, just that. You know, alot of these were based off just
my experience seeing them,largely at the movies, at the at
the theaters this year, and

seeing Alien (27:22):
Romulus in a double feature with the original
Alien at the Egyptian theaterwith a sold out crowd of Alien
fans, was incredible, like itwas the perfect environment for
it. And I do really love themovie. I thought it was, well,
definitely, was one of the bestsequels in years, and it was

(27:44):
just so interesting and that itkind of hybridized a lot of
elements from every entry in thefranchise, because there's a
little bit because, I mean, it'slargely based in the original
Alien, but there's also a littlebit of Aliens in there, Alien
Resurrection, even Prometheus.
And, yeah, no, I thought it'ssolid cast. And I do love
Alvarez's directing and a sensefor production value, just how
claustrophobic it was and howgenuinely terrifying the aliens

(28:08):
were in this movie, completewith largely practical effects
alien suits, which just reallymade it in line with the rest of
the franchise. Yeah, no. So Ireally dug that. And, yeah, a
little fan service heavy atcertain points, but I felt it
was negligible compared to howgood the overall project was.

And how can you not be fan service to be
with an with an Alien movie? Imean, you, you kind of expect
it, yeah,

unless you're completely rebooting everything
you gotta have to. It's such arich and complex mythology
that's been spread out throughall the movies like you gotta,
you know, put the little bitsin, you know.

But even Prometheus and Covenant were
kind of fanservice, so, youknow? Okay, cool. We're halfway
through, and not a singleduplicate, am I right? You have,

I don't think there have been any No, no movie
has been called twice.

Yeah, this is, this is exciting, all right,
number five to stay alive. See,I'm getting into it. My number
five is Civil War. And I have tosay, at the risk of being called
a liberal left grifter, thismovie is a lot more prescient
today than it was when it cameout in April. But I just think

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Civil War is such an even keeledportrait of what a civil war
would actually be like. I mean,it doesn't really take sides.
It's just reporting the facts.
So it's more a combination ofthe war itself than either side,
although they drop little hintsas to what side might be, you
know might be which. But again,Alex Garland is English, so he

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doesn't really have a dog in therace, you know, he just wanted
to make a good movie, and hedid. I love Civil War.

I still love that Florida was rogue and doing
its own thing.

I still I like how they how they combined
Texas and California thatactually made it clear that they
weren't picking a side, youknow, because in a real American
Civil War, that they would beagainst each other, but yeah.
Anyhow, Correia number five,

number five, beehive. So for my number five,
I have the The First Omen,which, again I Omen is one of my
absolute favorite franchises,nothing but bangers with that
trilogy. And I say it's aquadrology, nothing but bangers

(30:48):
with that trilogy. But Iabsolutely it was the it was the
series I grew up with. I watchedconstantly. And, you know, I was
excited for a new Omen film, butI was like, how the hell are you
going to do a prequel thatworks? Well, I mean, Roe v Wade,
that's that's what caused it,that's how, that's why we have
The First Omen and Immaculate,let's be honest. And as a body

(31:11):
horror, it works tremendously innot just I was afraid it was
just going to basically repeatthe original. Wrote omen and it
didn't. And the cinematographywas gorgeous. It looks like it
could transition easily into thefirst Omen, with its style and
with such amazing performances.
Yeah, The First Omen, I feellike is a little overlooked

(31:34):
right now, but, you know, Iloved it so

much. All right, Jacob, number five.

All right.
Number Coming at number five isDestroy All Neighbors did,
either, did any of you guys seethat one?

No, I'm, you're, you're beefing up my
watch list right now. Yeah, allright.

Well, yeah, no, you gotta, you gotta get in on
it, because it was, it wasdefinitely one of my favorites
this year. Again, greattheatrical screening. There was
a premiere at my theater, theAero and they and again, it's a
very practical effects heavymovie with a lot of monsters and
ghouls and Alex winter as somekind of Eastern European goblin

(32:13):
man named Vlad. Yeah. No, it's,it's a lot of fun. It's
basically about Jonah Ray asthis, like want to be a prog
rocker who's very neurotic andjust kind of up in his head when
he gets this new neighbor namedVlad who's, like, very imposing

(32:34):
and annoying, and heaccidentally kills him, but he
comes back As a ghoul and aseries of Cohen brothers as
accidents happen and hisneighbors start dying one by one
while he's trying to get hislife on track and finish his
Prague rock album. And yeah, no,it's just such a fun mix of
styles. And yeah, it's just sofun to see Alex winter in full

(32:59):
body makeup again, like Freakedand, ya know is, it's a good
time, and has a surprisinglyuplifting message about
believing in yourself and, youknow, pursuing an art. So, yeah,
no, I highly recommend it, andit was definitely one of my
favorites

this year.
All right, number four in thedoor. I don't know. I'm not as
good at this as you guys. Mynumber four is Love Lies
Bleeding, which, you know,punishably Horror. But I'm the
fringe guy, and I just I havebeen waiting with bated breath
to see what rose glass doesafter Saint Maud and it, I
wasn't disappointed. Love LiesBleeding. I mean it, it showed

(33:43):
us that one, Kristen Stewart isstill one of the premier actors
of her generation, postTwilight, she can do no wrong.
And also, Katie O'Brien can domore than just stunts and
action, because she can act aswell, but yeah, Love Lies
Bleeding again, questionablyhorror. It's almost more just

(34:06):
like Grindhouse, but I loved it.
It's number four, all right.
What's your four? Correia coming

in at number four across the floor is I Saw
the TV Glow. Oh yeah. Iabsolutely love this movie. This
one is, it's again, cinematicexperience. Just the bodily
reaction of to that film was,was really intense. Yeah, it had

(34:38):
like, I sorry, Sydney Sweeney,but I Saw the TV Glow. Had the
best guttural scream of theyear, like felt that in my chest
Justice Smith, just all around,absolutely fantastic. It's hard
to put into words on like, howgreat that film is, but I Yeah.

(34:59):
Let's put. It this way. I wentto a signing where Amber Benson
was there, and instead ofgetting anything Buffy signed, I
brought my copy of I Saw the TVGlow. I loved it. I love it that
much. Yeah, so it's Yeah. Ican't wait to see where Jane
Schoebrun goes from here,because they're an incredible

(35:20):
filmmaker and have such a uniqueand amazing eye, I'm just so
excited for them

and such a unique thumbprint. I mean, you
can tell Yeah, a Jane movie whenyou see it, yeah, it's, it's,
and you don't see that oftenwith today's filmmakers. So, I
mean, I think you see it withRobert Eggers as well, but yeah,
but Schoebruns is even moredistinct. So yeah, it's a and I
Saw the TV Glow has a bangersoundtrack too. Oh yeah,

(35:47):
true, Yep, yeah, IJacob number four.

Well, yeah, number four and mine was also I
Saw the TV Glow. Yeah, firstduplicate, we matched. But yeah,
no, I saw the TV globe justreally resonated with me, and
was genuinely probably one ofthe most haunting movies I saw
this year, because, you know,largely being a, you know, trans

(36:13):
allegory, I also kind of saw itas an ode to depressed
Millennials everywhere

I missed the trans allegory in it. I saw that
the depressed millennials, butalso I thought it was more an
allegory for for being stuck in,like a little town kind of a
thing, I don't know, but, but, Imean, yeah, there's lots

of way to interpret it, but there was
definitely a trans allegory inthere with, you know, because
Justice Smith's character Owensees themselves as, I think it
was the character Tara in I sawthe TV glow, and I think it's
like the horror. Somebody evensaid that it's a horror movie
about the horrors of bodydysmorphia. But also, yeah, I

(36:53):
mean, this is just, that's thething, you know, just so many
different people can get so muchout of this movie, because
there's so many different waysto interpret and analyze it
while also having just yeah,like Jon was saying it these
incredible scenes, like thescream, it just is still stuck
with me. And I love the pinkopaque for the show up in the

(37:14):
show which genuinely feels likekind of a like it could be a
lost 90s teen show that that'sjust out there somewhere, and
with all the practical effects.
And yeah, no, again, it'ssomething. It just something
about it is just very haunting.
It just really, it really stuckwith me long after I saw it. But

(37:39):
yeah, no, I it, and it had suchgreat nightmare imagery, like
with Mr. Melancholy, the moonguy and that horrible ice cream
man monster. So, yeah, no, thisis definitely horror. Also has
one of one of the best FredDurst appearances this year,
outside of another movie, just

interesting to say, one of the best. Yeah, as
if, as in, there's multiple FredDurst appearances cinematically
this year.

Like I said, Hey, anything that keeps him
from making music, I'll supportyou. Number three. My number
three is ISS, which I remember Isaid back in January, that is it
too early to declare my myfavorite movie of the year. And
yes, it was because ISS has beenbumped down to number three, but
I still love this movie it. It'sjust such a treat. I mean, we

(38:27):
haven't had this good of atreatise on paranoia, probably
since The Thing just youknow, torefresh you guys, it's about six
Well, three astronauts and threecosmonauts, three Americans,
three Russians, on theInternational Space Station, and
World War Three breaks out downon Earth. So they are up in the

(38:49):
space station. Each of them getsa message from their respective
country, take control the spacestation by any means, means
necessary. So they're up there,and their family up there, but
all of a sudden, you know, theircountry is like, do whatever you
need to do. So then they'relike, hmm. And then there are
interpersonal relationshipsbetween the between the people

(39:10):
on the space station that arelike, Okay, I think I can trust
this person more than I cantrust my country. I don't know.
It's just, it's just crazy, butit's, uh, yeah. ISS my number
three. And

it has the amazing Ariana DeBose, who is
just, who was just so good inWest Side Story. And, oh yeah,
just, what are those performersthat I will watch, almost
anything they're in, which meansI have to watch Argylle at some
point.
All right, Correia, numberthree. Number three.
I've number three for me. No,that was a rhyme. Fuck off.

(39:44):
Number three for me wasLonglegs.

Oh, nice.
Another

dupe. Yeah, we're starting to dupe here.
Longlegs hit that special notein my heart. Uh. Like growing up
on 90s thrillers that in myparents VHS collection, Along
Came A Spider, Se7en, Silence ofthe Lambs. All those movies were
on constant rotation withIndependence Day all the time in

(40:14):
my household, and it fits sowell in that world, and then it
just brings in the occult,brings in the Satanic Panic,
which is also near and dear tomy heart, and it's just
genuinely atmospheric, but notin like a ghosty haunted house,
like I was talking about withOddity earlier, but just in like

(40:34):
an unsettling like you feel eyeson you the whole time and you
but you don't know where they'recoming from, and it's so good
with such great performances.
And surprisingly, like, I justlove how they handle like,
because you can go so ridiculouswith the with the with the FBI
agent, with a psychic powers.

(40:54):
It's such a silly thing that'snot treated silly at all. It's
just like, Yeah, this is just athing, and then you move on and
you accept it. And I love that.
So yeah, Longlegs was fantastic.
And, yeah, I hope, I hope NickCage does get nominated for
several awards, because what waydid he go for it? And his makeup
and costume department went hamacross the board. Oh, yeah,

(41:17):
he is definitely, like we weresaying, taking risks. He's
definitely not afraid to takerisks, either.

No. And I hope if he gets nominated, he shows
up to the Oscars or whatever,dressed as Longlegs.

Yeah. And let's not forget, Maika Monroe
is also incredible in it, butalso Alicia Witt was, oh yeah,
Alicia, yeah. Holy shit. Thatperformance as as as the mother,
was just insane. I knoweveryone's gonna be talking
about Nick Cage, but Alicia Wittalso needs some high praise. And

let's not forget Kieran Shipka, who in the
one scene she's in, um, yeah,that was, that was weird. I
think she's kind of OsgoodPerkins muse, because, you know,
he likes to use her, but yeah,that was a that, yeah, right on.
There's our repeat, um, numberthree, Jacob

Coming at number three for me, from the dark
recesses of Canada, is ChrisNash's In a Violent Nature. Oh,
nice. Is that Canadian? Yeah, itwas, it was Canadian. It's, I
think it's even set aroundOntario.

Oh, it looked, it looked to me like,
uh, like it was the PacificNorthwest, but yeah, I guess,
hey, any forested area will dotrue.

But anyway, yeah, no, it's, it was one I was
anticipating this year becauseit did incredible at Sundance,
and it just sounded sointeresting. It was described as
Friday the 13th. It was directedby Terence Malik, and it's
basically about like this, JasonVoorhees type undead killer who
rises from the grave after hisgrave is disturbed and somebody

(42:50):
steals like his prized locketand the switch on it is, is that
it's a slasher movie from thekiller's perspective, and even
though he doesn't talk or reallyhave much interaction, it's just
the cameras following him thewhole time, instead of like the
teenagers or anybody elsearound. So you're seeing him set
up the kills. You're seeing himjust kind of figuring out his

(43:11):
surroundings and assembling hiscostume and weapons, which is
the other thing too, the killerJohnny, I love the design for
him, because he Don's this oldschool like timber fireman
costume with like this as bestdose helmet with big glass eyes,
and he grabs these timber hooksthat he uses to brutally kill

(43:31):
people. And what really soldthis is that, you know, just is
so brutal in its kills, which,again, had effects done by
friend of the show, StephenKostanski. And during one
particular kill involving awoman doing yoga like a guy
sitting near me actuallyscreamed, oh, God, please stop.

(43:53):
It

never ends.
It was like the bear scene inThe Revenant. You're like, oh,
okay, she's dead. Yeah,

yeah, no, it just kept going. And you know
that is that, although that is aparticular highlight that really
elevated it for me. And, yeah,no, I just really dug it. I was
such fascinating storytelling.
And apparently, like most goodsslasher see slasher franchises,
there's a sequel on the way, soI'm very excited for Johnny to
come back.

Unknown (44:21):
Yeah, I really appreciated what they did with
the kills. Because usually killswith slashers, it's quick, it's
done. And, you know, it's a bangflash event where you go, wow,
that was awesome. But this madeyou sit in it for so long. It
made you sit there and go, Ohfuck this is a human this is
happening too. And you feltdirty, yeah,

no, especially like that automatic timber
cutter scene Jesus Christ,

yeah, all right. Number two, my number
two. And you know what to do,Nosferatu built in. That's not
why I did Nosferatu at numbertwo, though that was just
serendipity as well. I. Um, Ilove Nosferatu so much. It's
just like we're talking aboutRobert Eggers. Talk about Robert

(45:08):
Eggers, auteurness and just hisattention to detail. Every frame
of this movie is, is just a itsown little cinematic
masterpiece, just impeccablyshot and and, like you said,
Willem Defoe, just aping it upin in a movie that is otherwise
serious, it's almost like he isthe one who it's not that he's

(45:31):
not taking it serious, but he'sthe, he's the wild card, you
know, he's the, he's the guy whocut the brakes on the van. But,
yeah, I loved Nosferatu. It wasclassic period piece, but still
felt modern to me, which isanother thing that I feel like
Robert Eggers is one of the fewpeople who can do that, yeah,
Nosferatu, number two. So,another repeat, Correia, what's

(45:56):
your number two? Yeah,

my number two is The Substance. Sweet. Oh,
fuck. I forgot to do a rhyme.
Boo Boo, boo boo. Here's numbertwo.

I was gonna say I stopped rhyming like five
entries ago. I don't know whyyou guys are still doing it.
Someone's

gotta pick up the slack.

Hey, Boo Boo.
Here's my number two. It's TheSubstance. No substance. I mean,
it's duking it out with TheVourdalak for cuntiest movie of
the year. Just fearlessperformances across the board.
It's insane to me that DennisQuaid had that and Reagan out
the same because he was justagain in a film that, like,

(46:37):
really dive like divulges intoYuzna produced body horror over
the topness it, it still themost like visceral, bodily
reaction I had is Dennis Quaidchewing shrimp. Few things
grosser than that, but yeah,amazing, amazing performances

(46:58):
across the board. It was givingface, it was giving body. It was
giving Society, you know, likejust all around, just an amazing
film that felt like it came outof nowhere. It felt like all we
were getting were trailers forthat one James McAvoy movie that
no one talks about now, eventhough it was advertised for

(47:21):
eight, nine months every day,and then all sudden, this
trailer came out for TheSubstance, and it just kind of
like took over everything, andit deserves it, and it was, it's
such a phenomenal film. Andyeah, Demi Moore needs to get
fucking nominated across theboard. Oh yeah.

All right.
Number two, Jacob,

all right. Now we're going into more repeats,
because my number two was OsgoodPerkins Longlegs. Yes, yeah,

the first Eye On Horror approved movie of the
day. Yeah,

triple triple agreement, top 10. So it gets
the Eye On Horror seal ofapproval. But yeah, no, I was at
the Beyond Fest premiere whereOzgood Perkins and Nicolas Cage
both showed up. And, yeah, no,it's just the first time I saw
it, especially with a crowd in asold out theater, is just, you
could feel just the dread washover the audience as the movie

(48:15):
unfolded. Because, like, nobodyreally knew what to expect it,
because speaking on advertising.
Like Longlegs had some of thebest marketing of any movie this
year, like the cryptic teasers,and like you never really saw
Nicholas Cage in the trailers oranything, and the right the
weird, like little symbolwritings, like nobody knew what
was going on or what the dealwith this was. So you know that

(48:36):
thing, it hooks you in. And youknow, as the story unfolds, and
you see what's going on it,it's, it's a real nightmare,
logic type of movie, which is socreepy. And, yeah, like, Nicolas
Cage was very unsettling asLonglegs. And just like he's

(48:57):
goofy and camp. And he has thewhole, like, glam metal thing
about him, but, you know, it's,like, the whole thing where he's
driving

the car and saying, mommy,

daddy. Like, yeah, you just exactly, it's
funny, but it's also reallyfreaky. And like, I'm still, and
like, some parts of it, I still,you know, kind of scratch my
head over because, again, youknow the nightmare logic with
the dolls, and you know whatexactly it was, and also, like

(49:28):
the fact that there's, like,several, or I think, 13,
different hidden devils in inthe movie, like in the
background, like in certainscenes, you can see The Devil
like haunting people. But, yeah,no, it. And also what Jon was
saying, it just perfectlyrecaptures that energy of 90s
thrillers, especially thesupernatural, satanic tinged

(49:50):
ones, yeah.

All right, cool. All right, on to our
number ones I'm going to do,let's do our honorable mentions
before we hit number one. Justabout to ask. Yes, let's do a
few honorable mentions mine thatjust missed. Oddity just missed
for me, not really horror, butHundreds of Beavers. I Saw the
TV Glow just missed. In aViolent Nature, which Jacob

(50:15):
already talked about, that justmissed for me, and also,
literally, two days ago, almostmade me bump Heretic off, Humane
Caitlyn Cronenberg's movie, thatwas another one, but those were
the just missed. Let's go to thenumber one. For me, my number
one, no surprise to anyone wholistens to podcast, is Strange
Darling. I absolutely lovedStrange Darling. It almost feels

(50:40):
like it could take place in thesame universe as In a Violent
Nature. Maybe that's why Ithought in a violent nature is
Pacific Northwest, becauseStrange Darling is but, um,
strange darling is just one ofthose movies just don't, don't
research anything if you haven'tseen it, go in completely cold,
because things change at thedrop of a dime in it. It's

(51:01):
beautifully shot by GiovanniRibisi. Yes, that Giovanni
Ribisi. He's a producer on it,but he's also the
cinematographer. And also themusic. The score is just
completely chaotic. But thenthere's this. It's juxtaposed
with the soundtrack songs thatare just like beautifully folk
kind of songs. So anyway,Strange Darling is the whole

(51:25):
package for me, and it is mynumber one Korea, which is,
well, let's get some honorablementions first.

Yeah. So for honorable mentions, I gotta get
I gotta mention Rebel Ridge isjust like an amazing at tense
action thriller. Cuckoo was alsophenomenal. Hunter Stevenson was
just fantastic. Schaefer, sorry,Hunter Schaefer was just
incredible in it. And my boy,Dan Stevens gave his least

(51:51):
sexiest role in this year. Also,actually, yeah, let's list off
the Dan Stevens movies, Abigailand Godzilla X Kong: The New
Empire, both absolutely fun tosee in the cinemas. A Quiet

Place (52:04):
Day One was just great. I think it was probably the most
fun I had with A Quiet Placemovie. Furiosa was an incredible
prequel. My favorite movie ofthe year technically doesn't
come out till next month, andthat's Companion. So that's why
it's not on my list this year,it will be next year, The Front
Room again. I know I keeptalking, but Kathryn Hunter is

(52:28):
just absolutely incredible inthat it's on Max later this
week, if you haven't seen it,and Street Trash also shout out
to Ryan Kruger and Co. Was justan amazing legacy sequel that
was just absolutely fun. Thiswas a year of goopiness and
horniness coming back to thecinema, and I couldn't be
happier, which I think leadsdirectly into my number one film

(52:52):
of the year, beating Jay out asthe Fringe guy, Love Lies
Bleeding. Woo hoo. I just lovedthat movie so much. It was such
a great it was grind housey. Itwas a thriller. I highly debated
with myself whether to includeit or not on the list, and then
when I saw I was on Jay's, I waslike, well, it's got to be on my

(53:13):
list because there's only onespot for it, and it's number
one. It was sweaty, it washorny, it was sexy, it was
thrilling, and it just hadeverything for me again, I
including

the bat shit ending,

yeah, I love, oh yeah. Oh no. It was awesome.
Yeah, it was, it was great.

Ice becoming one of Rose Glass's trademarks,
I think the bat shit can't waitto see what she I stan

Rose Glass till the day I die. Between
Saint Maud and Love LiesBleeding. She has a fan for life
in me. And yeah, I it was, I, italmost felt like it was a 4DX
movie, because you could feelthe sweat coming off the screen.
At least we were, we were in thefront row, so it was Katie
O'Brien and CO were sweating onus. But yeah, Love Lies

(53:58):
Bleeding. Best movie of the yearfor me. Nice,

cool. All right, Jacob, honorable mentions
and then number one,

all right, there's still plenty of great
movies didn't quite make thecut. I just saw this one a few
days ago. Bloody Axe Wound withBilly Burke. Great meta slasher.
Would highly recommend it comesto shudder soon. Watch Them Come
Blood. Great grind housethrowback that's come that's
gonna be coming out soon, StreetTrash, like what Jon was saying.

(54:27):
Had a lot of fun with that. And,oh yeah, just so much good
stuff. Mr. Crockett, dug thatone. Scared Shitless. Great
time. Also really liked Rumors.
And my other favorite, FredDurst appearance and horror Y2K
but, you know, there can only beone number one, and I had to
hand it to Tillman singers,Cuckoo starring Hunter Schaefer

(54:52):
and Dan Stevens. Yeah, no, justthat, yeah, this one. Just, just
really. Appealed to me. It wassuch a great horror movie with,
again, you know, kind of thenightmare logic and Hunter
Schaefer. It was one of the besthorror leads of this year. And
it just had such a greatemotional core to it, dealing

(55:12):
with grief, but also this weird,you know, Cuckoo and, like the
the weird lady in the woods. AndI have to say, Jon, I feel like
this was one of Dan Stevens bestthis year, and his most
ridiculous accent, which I thinkone ties to the other, but just
him playing a mad scientist isjust like he was, he was meant

(55:35):
to do that, and because, whichis the thing, like he kind of
goes The Guest at the end, likehe takes a military rifle and
and starts cleaning house. But,yeah, no, just I really loved
Hunter Schaefer's performanceand the monster in this one. It
was just so weird. But I alsolove that there was very little

(55:59):
exposition on what exec wasgoing on. And it's, I think it
definitely my opinion, wasrouted on like I saw it at the
Beyond Fest premiere, or No, Isaw this at the VISTA premiere
on film, and I saw it as adouble feature with one of my
other favorite movies of alltime, Dario argentos C, both
said in the Swiss Alps, like,there's exist, just crazy shit

(56:20):
happens in the Alps, I guess,also has a phenomenal soundtrack
that I've been listening to alot. But yeah, no, cuckoo just
really did for me, because it'sthe kind of horror movie I love,
where it's weird, it's bloody,it's out there. It thrives on
its own logic, like it is justsuch a great film, and I cannot

(56:41):
recommend it enough, absolutely.

And I need to clarify something. It is not Dan
Stevens's least sexiest rolethat that goes to Abigail
because he plays a cop, true.
It's just because he's not assexy as he is in Godzilla X Kong
I mean, you can't beat kaijuveterinarian. Come on. That's
just hot with the

ace. Ventura fit, yeah, who listens

to lover boy while he exactly come

on up. Boys, no, but like, it's an amazing
performance. And all around is,yeah, Cuckoo was so much fun.
Yep,

Cuckoo. And again, you can't say it enough.
Hunter Schaefer's performance isamazing in Cuckoo,

yeah. Oh yeah, no. Just, I love when the
monsters approaching her, andthe first thing she does is,
like, just rip a plank out andready to fight it and and like,
they actually show the damage toher throughout the movie. Like
she's got wounds, she's got castlike she's going through the
ringer in this but she is notgoing down.

Nope, yep.
All right. There you go. Top10s. Surprisingly, they're only
a couple of dupes and only onetriple threat, yeah, on all of
our lists, which, again, thattells you what kind of year it's
been, um there, and especiallythe fact that so that we all had
so many that almost made thecut. I mean, it horror is alive.
I mean, it was. And there areprobably others that I forgot

(58:07):
came out this year that I'm notthinking of, you know, because
there, there are ones that I wasreminded of.

Yeah, I could have sworn one of you was going
to include Late, Late Night withthe Devil.

Very surprised that was so hard to prune it
down. It really

was a tough year to prune it down. Yeah, it
really was. But I love it whenwe don't have matching lists.

Yep, it speaks to our own tastes and just how
many great releases there werethis year.

Yeah, yep. So hit us up and let us know what
your top 10 is, and what did weget wrong, although, can you
really say that any of us arewrong? But you know, hey, that
that's the beauty of of moviesin general. You know,
everybody's got an opinion, andnone of them are wrong. So
let's, let's get out of here. Wewill see you next season, which

(58:56):
is actually going to be soonerthan later. And let's, call this
one an episode. Our theme songis by Restless Spirits, so go
check them out. And our artworkis by Chris Fisher, so go check
him out. You can find us on mostof the socials as Eye On Horror.
I think we dropped one, butyeah, check us out, or go to

(59:17):
ihorror.com which is the site weall call home and we will see
you in a couple of weeks withthe season eight premiere. So
for me, James, Jay Edwards,

I'm Jacob Davison

and I'm Jonathan Correia.

Keep your Eye On Horror.

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