March 7, 2025 • 18 mins
There are shark movies and there are shark movies. Ninja vs Shark (Japan, 2023) is definitely the former - a bonkers Power Rangers-y shark flick that gets derailed by tone deaf plotlines and an irredeemable protagonist. Also, two folk horror flicks drop this week: the somber Starve Acre (United Kingdom, 2024) on Shudder and the part-Japanese, part-found footage Bloat (France, United States & Japan, 2025) on VOD and limited theaters.
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(00:00):
What is a skeleton'sFavorite snack?
Spare ribs. Get it, get it,
get it.
(00:33):
Hello and welcome to Imported Horror.
This is the podcast that bringsyou the very best of creepy ninjas,
killer sharks and childrenacting super weird
from beyond the shining seas. I'm Marcus.
I am flying solo this weekand as you can probably tell,
I have a monster cold. I'mfinally getting over it.
(00:54):
You should have heard me on Monday.
That's what happenswhen you have a toddler.
She brings home all sorts of funnew viruses every couple of weeks.
Melissa is feeling a little underthe weather. Hope she feels better.
Brady's got some stuff going on and hewas feeling under the weather earlier
this week,
and so was everyone you knowis sick and I cannot wait for
(01:16):
spring and that's good becausespring break is finally here.
Mercifully finally here,
and I figured sinceI'm flying solo anyway,
I begin all my lectures forclass, my online podcast,
lectures for class with dadjokes, so what the hell,
I tried here too. We don't havea lot to talk about this week,
(01:38):
so let's get to it
coming soon
for the coming Soons for this week,
we've only got two new ororiginal foreign horrors that are
dropping and there's definitely a theme,
(02:00):
but there's also a difference intone and style that I think make a
really interesting comparison.Both are dropping on March 7th,
which is the Friday that thiscomes out. First is on shutter.
This is starve acre.
I think we talked about this acouple of weeks ago when it hit VOD.
(02:20):
Maybe I'm losing my mind.
An idyllic rural family life of acouple is thrown into turmoil when their
son starts acting out of character.
Bravo IMDB. Once again,
really understating thefull core vibes and just how
(02:41):
out in the middle of nowhere this feels.I don't think it's technically a more,
but it's deep English countrysidedefinitely looks spooky.
It has that full horrorvibe really going for it.
The slow music. I might be crazy.
The I'm in the middle of nowhere,
(03:02):
the why are you digging holes everywhere.
Matt Smith and horror fans mayknow him from last night in Soho
and his house. I think he's anunderrated scream king, frankly,
but he's also in House of the Dragon.
He was one of the doctors and Dr. Who,
which is one of those things that by allrights I probably should be interested
(03:24):
in and I'm just not, for whateverreason, nothing against it.
I just that and Twin Peaks,I should be into it. I'm not.
It's also got, and I'm so sorry, I'mprobably going to mispronounce this,
but morphed Clark, M-O-R-F-Y-D-D, Morphy.
I should have looked itup. I didn't, I apologize.
(03:45):
But she was maed in SaintMaude, which I haven't seen,
but Melissa tells me very good things.I know it was very highly acclaimed.
People talked about it a lot inthe same breath as sensor and
sensor I have seen andsensor I absolutely loved,
and I think it was more that they cameout at around the same time than anything
(04:06):
else, but there's some definite parallelsthere. And I want to see St. Maude,
I just haven't yet.
So serious horror credentials for thisand Shutter is a great place for that.
Slow, dreary, full corekid is acting strange.
I'm thinking maybe Changeling,maybe something else.
The trailer doesn't give it away.
The digging makes me think maybeit's going in another direction,
(04:30):
but you never know. You never know.
The other one also on March 7thalso has a kid acting out of
character, and this is on VODand I think limited theaters,
but I never know how limited,
limited theaters are.I feel like if it only is in LA
and New York, that's notlimited, that's absent. Frankly.
(04:53):
If it comes to Houston, evenjust a couple of theaters,
then maybe we can saylimited, but I don't know.
But Bloat follows a mother and two sons
vacationing in Japan, their youngerson almost drowns in a lake,
and soon after the accident,
the parents realized thatsomething is wrong with their boy.
(05:15):
Now this has much more ofa mainstream feel to it.
It's from IMDB says France,
the United States and Japan.
But it definitely feels moretypical horror movie Hollywood
mainstream,
which is fine and it definitelyhas a different vibe than the super
(05:38):
dark British folk horror star of acrethat we were just talking about, but
I don't want to say upbeat, butit's a little bit faster paced.
What it leaves out is that thedad isn't actually there with them
in Japan.He is in uniform.
He's behind a NATO desksomewhere and he can't get away.
(06:01):
So he's seeing all of this through phonescreens and computer screens and he's
trying to figure outwhat's going on remotely,
which would be horrifying.I could completely see that.
Most of the time when your family'straveling and there's an emergency,
you get up and go, but youcan't necessarily do that if you're in the military.
And that's a fun angle,
(06:23):
and I can't think of a lot of moviesthat have explored that very much.
Don't watch the trailer becauseit does go into, I think,
too much detail about thething that it could be,
and I smell a twist,
but even so the thing will befamiliar to listeners of this podcast
and Japanese horror in generaland also River Monsters,
(06:45):
which I maintain is full horror.
I haven't quite sold Melissaand Grady on that yet,
but I'm still working on it. But if youhave seen all of river monsters like I
have with or without a youngchild sleeping on your chest,
which is how I watched most of itwhen Roz was itty bitty, bitty.
But you will smile, you willrecognize it and you go, damn,
(07:06):
I wish I hadn't watched the trailer.I wish I didn't know what it was.
So maybe skip the trailer.
What I haven't mentioned yet is thatthe dad in this is Ben McKinsey,
and if you're thinking I know thatname, why do I know that name?
If you're of a certain age,
the OC is why you know that name.
And now that song California withthe piano that's stuck in your head,
(07:30):
you're welcome. He's alsobeen, I think he was in Gotham.
He's been in a lot both inTV and maybe less in film,
but he's had a long career fun fact.He's also a really high
profile cryptocurrency skeptic.
Not what you'd expect me to say.
Whatever you thought I was goingto say there when I said fun fact,
(07:51):
that probably wasn't it. But NewYork Times has written about this,
I think other media outlets have.
He's written a book basicallycalling crypto a scam.
And I'm not a crypto guy.
I have a hard enough time keepingup with the George Washingtons,
let alone the Benjamins. I don'tneed fancy crypto rug poles.
(08:14):
I don't need any of that in mylife, but really interesting,
not something you'd expect,which is most artsy guys.
You wrote a book about cryptocurrencyand finance. That's really cool.
All right, so anyway, the
(08:37):
other reason I'm not so hot on Fulcoright now has nothing to do with Fulco
and just has to do with chasing a toddleraround all day and having a demanding
job. And my brain is just deepfried more often than not,
and I don't have the bandwidth to sitdown and watch a serious movie if I fall
asleep. I feel like I've let the moviedown, and if I can't keep up with it,
(09:00):
I feel like I've let myselfdown and the movie in a way.
But if it's just a garbagemonster movie on Tubi,
there's no expectation. It'sa whole lot easier. Pause it,
come back to it later or not a big deal.
And I love monster moviesand I love Tuby Garbage.
And so that's sort of just whereI've been stuck for most of 2025,
(09:23):
and I'm for the mostpart comfortable with it.
But I tried to break out lastweekend and I was sitting
there and I had some popcornand I had a beer and I
thought, all right, I'm going tofind a movie, like an actual movie,
not like Chupa Cabra, notWater Monster, not the Tank,
(09:44):
like an actual movie that I'm going toactually expend a couple of brain cells
thinking about and watching.And I scrolled through Shutter,
couldn't find anything,nothing spoke to me,
and I kept scrolling and I kept going,
and they have a monster category intheir movie catalog. And I thought, okay,
well sure there's got to be aserious monster movie in here.
(10:07):
And I didn't find one,
partly because I was distractedby a film called Ninja versus
Shark, and I thought, okay,no, come on. No, not this week.
Save it. I added it to my list and Isaid, I'll come back to this later.
And so I went and scrolled through to,
and then I went to Hulu and then I
(10:29):
went to Netflix,
and then I went back to Huluand I tried to talk myself into,
I think it's Lords of Miss Rule becauseRalph Anderson's voice just lives
rent free in my head and Ireally want to see that movie,
but I just didn't have the bandwidthand that I started to go to Screen
(10:50):
Box and I thought, alright, no,who am I kidding? Just screw it.
Go back to Ninja versusShark. This is from Japan,
and I suppose you could have an Americanmovie called Ninja versus Shark just as
easily, but this one is filmedin Japan, shot in Japanese,
maybe not actual ninjas, but closerthan what the American version would be,
(11:12):
ninja versus Shark 2023 in the IDO
period at the remote village of tsu,
the evil cult leader Ro uses Ninjitsu to
Inso, enor encor,
Wikipedia,
(11:32):
E-N-S-O-R-C-E-L-I,
sure to enor sharks andforces them to attack local
pearl divers so the cult can stealthe pearls from their mangled corpses.
So right there, okay, yeah, I'm onboard. Don't know what that word means.
(11:53):
Learn something new already,right? Desperate for help,
the village chief hires
Zaki a guard at a nearby temple,
but Guro soon finds his pathblocked by a lady Ninja Kuma and
a gigantic shark. That doesn't seemlike something from this world.
So already we've got ninjabattles, we've got Shark.
(12:16):
The IMDB description doesn't sayanything about magical powers
or face swapping or zombies
or beheaded corpses
speaking,
but it underscores the zany Power Rangers
(12:37):
vibes of the whole film. But honestly,
if you give me a shark with a ninja andweird Power Rangers stuff like, sure,
what the hell? It's a Friday night, let'sdo it. I already popped the popcorn,
right? I am on board for all of that,
and it was wild and it was weirdand it was zany and I expected,
I don't know what I expected,
but I wasn't expecting magicalspells that wasn't on my bingo card,
(13:02):
but I couldn't enjoy it.I couldn't get into it.
And this wasn't on me this time.
This was on the moviebecause that protagonist,
there's a Samurai movie tropeand it's a western trope and it's
a well worn trope for a reason,
(13:22):
but the protagonist has a pastand it's kind of a slime ball
and he's not somebody you feel like youshould root for. And then he has the
redemption arc and you can do that well,
and they sort of imply that there arecharacters that are really concerned about
money and means that sort of thing. Andyou can certainly play around with that.
(13:43):
Shane, the Western comes to mind,
which you can look up the finalscene in that movie on YouTube,
and even if you don't want to watch thewhole thing that is cinema history right
there and the Samurai blood splatter,
I'm all for because just likethe old school westerns, bam,
I shot you fall over dead. Likeno, there's more to it than that.
(14:05):
And ditto with samurai swords andthat sort of thing always here for
blood splatter. What I'm not here for is
weird rape and sexual assaultbecause instead of having the
unsympathetic protagonist robpeople to set up that he's a bad
(14:30):
dude, which would makemore sense with the plot,
instead he's guarding the temple andthey don't pay him. So he gets mad and
he rapes the temple owner,
I guess the temple owner's wife,
and she gets upset and hegets, I mean understandably,
(14:50):
and he gets upset. And sothe Samurai or the Guard,
the dude with the sword killsthe husband and two of his
bodyguards and it setsit up as a revenge plot
from the woman who's going to get becomea ferocious warrior and come back for
revenge. And I'm definitely here for that.
(15:12):
But then she dies about 10 minuteslater and becomes a zombie because
of the other ninja and ittonally, it didn't fit.
If you're going to have awacky plot with swords and
magical spells and a killershark, don't make it.
(15:32):
You can't do that.
The weird sexual assault stuffwas tone deaf and really took me
out of it. You can have,if that's your focus,
revenge hops into my head,
great rape revenge movie that took alot of the tropes from the old seventies
movies and updated them and really ranwith them in some really satisfying
(15:56):
and graphic ways. We talked about thaton the podcast. It's been a while now,
now that I think about it. Butgreat movie, you can still find it.
And that sexual assaultscene was much more graphic.
We didn't actually see anything in Ninjaversus Shark. It was just all spoken.
It was after the fact, butit still gave me the ick.
And I don't want the ick when I'mwatching a shark movie. There are
(16:20):
so many terrible sharkmovies out there. Let's know,
hard pass. So yeah,
I award you no points and mayGod have mercy on your soul.
A letterbox review for Ninjaversus Shark Half a star,
which is the lowest Icould give it. Literally,
(16:41):
it won't let you give it no stars.
And I did not give it the little heartsaying I liked it because I didn't.
The real title is Rapist Ninjaversus Shark, unfortunately,
which ruins the vibe of an otherwiseentertaining WTF Power Rangers blood
splatter, a cult possession zombieninja, giant killer shark flick.
(17:01):
You had one job, one job,
WTF Power Rangers, blood splatteroccult possession, zombie ninja,
giant killer shark flick. Giveme that. You did give me that.
You just also gave me the ick andyou didn't need to give me the ick.
So as my almost two and a halfyear old daughter would say,
(17:29):
anyway,
I am going to give myself a pep talk nowthat it's spring break and I am going
to do whatever I need to do,
clear my brain so that I canwatch an actual movie this week.
I think I'm going to start with Lordsof Miss Rule. I think it's Lords,
maybe it's something else, but Misrulefrom the UK with Ralph Venison.
(17:49):
Then go from there. Maybeexplore, maybe look around.
Spring Break is badlyneeded, badly, badly needed.
Y'all take care. Follow us onthreads, follow us on letterbox.
Give us a shout out over email.Tell your friends about us.
If you two are on springbreak, stay safe, but relax.
(18:12):
I'm way past. I was never the agethat I was going to party hard.
I was always a go home and watcha movie kind of guy. But yeah,
if you are of that persuasion,
please be safe and hopefully all threeof us will talk to you next week.
What is a skeleton'sFavorite snack?
Spare ribs. Get it, get it,
get it.
(00:33):
Hello and welcome to Imported Horror.
This is the podcast that bringsyou the very best of creepy ninjas,
killer sharks and childrenacting super weird
from beyond the shining seas. I'm Marcus.
I am flying solo this weekand as you can probably tell,
I have a monster cold. I'mfinally getting over it.
(00:54):
You should have heard me on Monday.
That's what happenswhen you have a toddler.
She brings home all sorts of funnew viruses every couple of weeks.
Melissa is feeling a little underthe weather. Hope she feels better.
Brady's got some stuff going on and hewas feeling under the weather earlier
this week,
and so was everyone you knowis sick and I cannot wait for
(01:16):
spring and that's good becausespring break is finally here.
Mercifully finally here,
and I figured sinceI'm flying solo anyway,
I begin all my lectures forclass, my online podcast,
lectures for class with dadjokes, so what the hell,
I tried here too. We don't havea lot to talk about this week,
(01:38):
so let's get to it
coming soon
for the coming Soons for this week,
we've only got two new ororiginal foreign horrors that are
dropping and there's definitely a theme,
(02:00):
but there's also a difference intone and style that I think make a
really interesting comparison.Both are dropping on March 7th,
which is the Friday that thiscomes out. First is on shutter.
This is starve acre.
I think we talked about this acouple of weeks ago when it hit VOD.
(02:20):
Maybe I'm losing my mind.
An idyllic rural family life of acouple is thrown into turmoil when their
son starts acting out of character.
Bravo IMDB. Once again,
really understating thefull core vibes and just how
(02:41):
out in the middle of nowhere this feels.I don't think it's technically a more,
but it's deep English countrysidedefinitely looks spooky.
It has that full horrorvibe really going for it.
The slow music. I might be crazy.
The I'm in the middle of nowhere,
(03:02):
the why are you digging holes everywhere.
Matt Smith and horror fans mayknow him from last night in Soho
and his house. I think he's anunderrated scream king, frankly,
but he's also in House of the Dragon.
He was one of the doctors and Dr. Who,
which is one of those things that by allrights I probably should be interested
(03:24):
in and I'm just not, for whateverreason, nothing against it.
I just that and Twin Peaks,I should be into it. I'm not.
It's also got, and I'm so sorry, I'mprobably going to mispronounce this,
but morphed Clark, M-O-R-F-Y-D-D, Morphy.
I should have looked itup. I didn't, I apologize.
(03:45):
But she was maed in SaintMaude, which I haven't seen,
but Melissa tells me very good things.I know it was very highly acclaimed.
People talked about it a lot inthe same breath as sensor and
sensor I have seen andsensor I absolutely loved,
and I think it was more that they cameout at around the same time than anything
(04:06):
else, but there's some definite parallelsthere. And I want to see St. Maude,
I just haven't yet.
So serious horror credentials for thisand Shutter is a great place for that.
Slow, dreary, full corekid is acting strange.
I'm thinking maybe Changeling,maybe something else.
The trailer doesn't give it away.
The digging makes me think maybeit's going in another direction,
(04:30):
but you never know. You never know.
The other one also on March 7thalso has a kid acting out of
character, and this is on VODand I think limited theaters,
but I never know how limited,
limited theaters are.I feel like if it only is in LA
and New York, that's notlimited, that's absent. Frankly.
(04:53):
If it comes to Houston, evenjust a couple of theaters,
then maybe we can saylimited, but I don't know.
But Bloat follows a mother and two sons
vacationing in Japan, their youngerson almost drowns in a lake,
and soon after the accident,
the parents realized thatsomething is wrong with their boy.
(05:15):
Now this has much more ofa mainstream feel to it.
It's from IMDB says France,
the United States and Japan.
But it definitely feels moretypical horror movie Hollywood
mainstream,
which is fine and it definitelyhas a different vibe than the super
(05:38):
dark British folk horror star of acrethat we were just talking about, but
I don't want to say upbeat, butit's a little bit faster paced.
What it leaves out is that thedad isn't actually there with them
in Japan.He is in uniform.
He's behind a NATO desksomewhere and he can't get away.
(06:01):
So he's seeing all of this through phonescreens and computer screens and he's
trying to figure outwhat's going on remotely,
which would be horrifying.I could completely see that.
Most of the time when your family'straveling and there's an emergency,
you get up and go, but youcan't necessarily do that if you're in the military.
And that's a fun angle,
(06:23):
and I can't think of a lot of moviesthat have explored that very much.
Don't watch the trailer becauseit does go into, I think,
too much detail about thething that it could be,
and I smell a twist,
but even so the thing will befamiliar to listeners of this podcast
and Japanese horror in generaland also River Monsters,
(06:45):
which I maintain is full horror.
I haven't quite sold Melissaand Grady on that yet,
but I'm still working on it. But if youhave seen all of river monsters like I
have with or without a youngchild sleeping on your chest,
which is how I watched most of itwhen Roz was itty bitty, bitty.
But you will smile, you willrecognize it and you go, damn,
(07:06):
I wish I hadn't watched the trailer.I wish I didn't know what it was.
So maybe skip the trailer.
What I haven't mentioned yet is thatthe dad in this is Ben McKinsey,
and if you're thinking I know thatname, why do I know that name?
If you're of a certain age,
the OC is why you know that name.
And now that song California withthe piano that's stuck in your head,
(07:30):
you're welcome. He's alsobeen, I think he was in Gotham.
He's been in a lot both inTV and maybe less in film,
but he's had a long career fun fact.He's also a really high
profile cryptocurrency skeptic.
Not what you'd expect me to say.
Whatever you thought I was goingto say there when I said fun fact,
(07:51):
that probably wasn't it. But NewYork Times has written about this,
I think other media outlets have.
He's written a book basicallycalling crypto a scam.
And I'm not a crypto guy.
I have a hard enough time keepingup with the George Washingtons,
let alone the Benjamins. I don'tneed fancy crypto rug poles.
(08:14):
I don't need any of that in mylife, but really interesting,
not something you'd expect,which is most artsy guys.
You wrote a book about cryptocurrencyand finance. That's really cool.
All right, so anyway, the
(08:37):
other reason I'm not so hot on Fulcoright now has nothing to do with Fulco
and just has to do with chasing a toddleraround all day and having a demanding
job. And my brain is just deepfried more often than not,
and I don't have the bandwidth to sitdown and watch a serious movie if I fall
asleep. I feel like I've let the moviedown, and if I can't keep up with it,
(09:00):
I feel like I've let myselfdown and the movie in a way.
But if it's just a garbagemonster movie on Tubi,
there's no expectation. It'sa whole lot easier. Pause it,
come back to it later or not a big deal.
And I love monster moviesand I love Tuby Garbage.
And so that's sort of just whereI've been stuck for most of 2025,
(09:23):
and I'm for the mostpart comfortable with it.
But I tried to break out lastweekend and I was sitting
there and I had some popcornand I had a beer and I
thought, all right, I'm going tofind a movie, like an actual movie,
not like Chupa Cabra, notWater Monster, not the Tank,
(09:44):
like an actual movie that I'm going toactually expend a couple of brain cells
thinking about and watching.And I scrolled through Shutter,
couldn't find anything,nothing spoke to me,
and I kept scrolling and I kept going,
and they have a monster category intheir movie catalog. And I thought, okay,
well sure there's got to be aserious monster movie in here.
(10:07):
And I didn't find one,
partly because I was distractedby a film called Ninja versus
Shark, and I thought, okay,no, come on. No, not this week.
Save it. I added it to my list and Isaid, I'll come back to this later.
And so I went and scrolled through to,
and then I went to Hulu and then I
(10:29):
went to Netflix,
and then I went back to Huluand I tried to talk myself into,
I think it's Lords of Miss Rule becauseRalph Anderson's voice just lives
rent free in my head and Ireally want to see that movie,
but I just didn't have the bandwidthand that I started to go to Screen
(10:50):
Box and I thought, alright, no,who am I kidding? Just screw it.
Go back to Ninja versusShark. This is from Japan,
and I suppose you could have an Americanmovie called Ninja versus Shark just as
easily, but this one is filmedin Japan, shot in Japanese,
maybe not actual ninjas, but closerthan what the American version would be,
(11:12):
ninja versus Shark 2023 in the IDO
period at the remote village of tsu,
the evil cult leader Ro uses Ninjitsu to
Inso, enor encor,
Wikipedia,
(11:32):
E-N-S-O-R-C-E-L-I,
sure to enor sharks andforces them to attack local
pearl divers so the cult can stealthe pearls from their mangled corpses.
So right there, okay, yeah, I'm onboard. Don't know what that word means.
(11:53):
Learn something new already,right? Desperate for help,
the village chief hires
Zaki a guard at a nearby temple,
but Guro soon finds his pathblocked by a lady Ninja Kuma and
a gigantic shark. That doesn't seemlike something from this world.
So already we've got ninjabattles, we've got Shark.
(12:16):
The IMDB description doesn't sayanything about magical powers
or face swapping or zombies
or beheaded corpses
speaking,
but it underscores the zany Power Rangers
(12:37):
vibes of the whole film. But honestly,
if you give me a shark with a ninja andweird Power Rangers stuff like, sure,
what the hell? It's a Friday night, let'sdo it. I already popped the popcorn,
right? I am on board for all of that,
and it was wild and it was weirdand it was zany and I expected,
I don't know what I expected,
but I wasn't expecting magicalspells that wasn't on my bingo card,
(13:02):
but I couldn't enjoy it.I couldn't get into it.
And this wasn't on me this time.
This was on the moviebecause that protagonist,
there's a Samurai movie tropeand it's a western trope and it's
a well worn trope for a reason,
(13:22):
but the protagonist has a pastand it's kind of a slime ball
and he's not somebody you feel like youshould root for. And then he has the
redemption arc and you can do that well,
and they sort of imply that there arecharacters that are really concerned about
money and means that sort of thing. Andyou can certainly play around with that.
(13:43):
Shane, the Western comes to mind,
which you can look up the finalscene in that movie on YouTube,
and even if you don't want to watch thewhole thing that is cinema history right
there and the Samurai blood splatter,
I'm all for because just likethe old school westerns, bam,
I shot you fall over dead. Likeno, there's more to it than that.
(14:05):
And ditto with samurai swords andthat sort of thing always here for
blood splatter. What I'm not here for is
weird rape and sexual assaultbecause instead of having the
unsympathetic protagonist robpeople to set up that he's a bad
(14:30):
dude, which would makemore sense with the plot,
instead he's guarding the temple andthey don't pay him. So he gets mad and
he rapes the temple owner,
I guess the temple owner's wife,
and she gets upset and hegets, I mean understandably,
(14:50):
and he gets upset. And sothe Samurai or the Guard,
the dude with the sword killsthe husband and two of his
bodyguards and it setsit up as a revenge plot
from the woman who's going to get becomea ferocious warrior and come back for
revenge. And I'm definitely here for that.
(15:12):
But then she dies about 10 minuteslater and becomes a zombie because
of the other ninja and ittonally, it didn't fit.
If you're going to have awacky plot with swords and
magical spells and a killershark, don't make it.
(15:32):
You can't do that.
The weird sexual assault stuffwas tone deaf and really took me
out of it. You can have,if that's your focus,
revenge hops into my head,
great rape revenge movie that took alot of the tropes from the old seventies
movies and updated them and really ranwith them in some really satisfying
(15:56):
and graphic ways. We talked about thaton the podcast. It's been a while now,
now that I think about it. Butgreat movie, you can still find it.
And that sexual assaultscene was much more graphic.
We didn't actually see anything in Ninjaversus Shark. It was just all spoken.
It was after the fact, butit still gave me the ick.
And I don't want the ick when I'mwatching a shark movie. There are
(16:20):
so many terrible sharkmovies out there. Let's know,
hard pass. So yeah,
I award you no points and mayGod have mercy on your soul.
A letterbox review for Ninjaversus Shark Half a star,
which is the lowest Icould give it. Literally,
(16:41):
it won't let you give it no stars.
And I did not give it the little heartsaying I liked it because I didn't.
The real title is Rapist Ninjaversus Shark, unfortunately,
which ruins the vibe of an otherwiseentertaining WTF Power Rangers blood
splatter, a cult possession zombieninja, giant killer shark flick.
(17:01):
You had one job, one job,
WTF Power Rangers, blood splatteroccult possession, zombie ninja,
giant killer shark flick. Giveme that. You did give me that.
You just also gave me the ick andyou didn't need to give me the ick.
So as my almost two and a halfyear old daughter would say,
(17:29):
anyway,
I am going to give myself a pep talk nowthat it's spring break and I am going
to do whatever I need to do,
clear my brain so that I canwatch an actual movie this week.
I think I'm going to start with Lordsof Miss Rule. I think it's Lords,
maybe it's something else, but Misrulefrom the UK with Ralph Venison.
(17:49):
Then go from there. Maybeexplore, maybe look around.
Spring Break is badlyneeded, badly, badly needed.
Y'all take care. Follow us onthreads, follow us on letterbox.
Give us a shout out over email.Tell your friends about us.
If you two are on springbreak, stay safe, but relax.
(18:12):
I'm way past. I was never the agethat I was going to party hard.
I was always a go home and watcha movie kind of guy. But yeah,
if you are of that persuasion,
please be safe and hopefully all threeof us will talk to you next week.
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