March 10, 2025 • 41 mins
In this episode of the 30 Screams or Less podcast we review 'Laid to Rest', written and directed by Robert Hall, starring Bobbi Sue Luther (Princess), Kevin Gage (Tucker), and Sean Whalen (Steven). Plot of the movie is a young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
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Welcome everyone to 30 Screams or Less, a horror movie podcast where we review horror movies in 30 minutes or less.
Today's movie we're going to be talking about is called Laid to Rest.
It's written and directed by Robert Hall, starring Bobby Sue Luther as Princess.
I think we're just going to go with Princess because that's what they called her for most of the film.
Yeah, she's not even credited as the Princess. She's the girl.
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Yeah, I know. I don't know. They probably should have said Princess in IMDb, but I don't know. Whatever. Maybe it needs to be updated.
I don't know if we could do that. But Kevin Gage as Trucker, like a trucker.
No, it's Tucker.
Did you catch his name? It's Tucker? I copied Trucker.
I don't know where you got that because it's Tucker.
Oh, yeah. Look at that. It is Tucker. Well, he was a trucker.
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Tucker the trucker.
Tucker the trucker. Yeah, brother. Yeah.
Okay, Kevin Gage is Tucker as opposed to trucker and Sean Whalen is Steven.
The plot of the movie is a young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity.
She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
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I think this was a lot of fun for a slasher film, which you and I both love.
It was actually pretty original, I thought. Yeah, we watched slasher films for original kills and gore.
And there wasn't a lack of either of those in this movie. Although I will say Chrome Skull,
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which is the name of the villain, is fucking stupid, but he was a pretty interesting character all around.
I wish they'd remake this movie with Derek Mears as Chrome Skull.
See, that would be cool. Derek Mears is a big dude. Derek Mears or Batista.
Or Batista, yeah. Batista decides to stop doing A-list films and come down and do Laid to Rest.
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Sure, why not? It's possible. Blumhouse can do it.
Oh, there you go. Okay. If Blumhouse is all up in it. Blumhouse, yeah. Blumhouse is all up in it.
Batista would be like, I'll do it. Yeah, but he's... I don't know, he's so skinny now.
He's still a tall guy. He's like 6'3", or something like that, but he's skinny as anything now.
Well, Derek Mears is skinny as shit too. He's just very tall. But he's jacked fat.
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He's jacked fat.
He's not going... We met him in a Mexican restaurant last year and he's not at all. He's just a very tall, massive man.
Yeah, I mean, when we talked to him at Silver Screen, he was just a big dude.
Obviously towering over me. I mean, I'm 5'8". And I don't think I'm exactly that short.
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But looking at him, I'm looking up and I'm like, fuck man, this is a big guy.
Nice as anything though. I would love to get him on the podcast.
I honestly never even thought of that, so maybe I can put that on my list.
Yeah, put that on your list. That's a cool guy to talk to.
Because we had a good talk with him. He may even remember us. Who knows?
Yeah, I will... I'll find a way to reach out to him.
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Oh yeah, just send him up on social media or something like that.
But, Chrome Skull was an interesting character.
I liked his approach where he was basically filming everything, but I was trying to understand what the purpose was.
You know, I would think if you're filming all this stuff, you're probably maybe wanting to stream it online.
So I'm almost thinking like, is this stream before stream? Maybe that type of deal.
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But he just like filming his kills and storing them.
And every once in a while, you throw it to the fucking police, I guess, to mess with them a little bit.
See, I thought that was a pretty cool side thing that he was doing was filming the kills of murdering women.
And then he would send them to the police. That's pretty fucked up.
Yeah, and that's why I kind of said this was original in a way, because the kills...
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I mean, I thought all the kills were really cool, but I've never seen a slasher film his kills like this and send it to the police to basically taunt them, you know?
Kind of reminded me of like the whole get up, the costume, everything was a very Predator-like.
Oh yeah, it was. Okay. Yeah.
It's kind of like the Predator shoulder missile launcher thing, except he built something that he would put a camcorder on.
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Yeah, and this is before GoPros.
Yep. And imagine now... He had a whole ass camcorder on his shoulder.
A whole ass camcorder.
It kind of reminded me of Zodiac a bit, because Zodiac would taunt the police and everything with his letters.
And no one can fucking figure out who the hell he was.
And I don't know, we've talked about this before, there's people out there claiming that they're related to Zodiac, but we take it with a grain of salt.
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But this killer kind of did that in a sense where he would film these girls, he would film himself killing them, and then send it to the police.
So I think his overall motive, probably just to kill, I want to say sex workers.
Typically serial killers will go after sex workers because they're like the easiest prey.
They think of them as people that no one will miss, that type thing, right?
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So he went after this girl, and I won't say just yet about her because it all unveils at the end type deal.
But a lot of serial killers do that. You know what, Corey, forget it.
I'm just going to go for it. I'm just going to talk about it.
Because yes, later on in the film, we find out that she's a sex worker.
But were all those other girls sex workers or prostitutes, whatever?
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It could have been. Wasn't there a movie that we watched that the killer was targeting sex workers?
If that's the case, it's not as original as I was thinking originally.
Because I feel like it's been done before because this killer is trying to almost rehabilitate these women, you know?
Right. Oh, fuck. What is that movie?
Okay, so I didn't make it up.
No, I don't think you made it up. What was that movie we watched where people had to hurt each other and fill up this tube to get out?
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Oh, fuck. They kind of did that, too.
They kind of got like misfit toys of people and fucking threw them in that house.
I'm going through very it was very Saw style. Oh, my God. What was it?
I'm going through our archive right now. Yeah, just go back.
It was brutal, though. I remember that being pretty brutal because they all had to hurt each other on purpose.
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So you'll find it. But he was kind of killing all sorts of people.
Really didn't even matter, even though his whole barn of dead people in coffins were definitely women.
I didn't see any guys in there. That was insane.
Like you said, he had a whole ass barn full of coffins. Yeah.
And I'm thinking to myself, too, these coffins, man, must be expensive to rent or buy, I should say,
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because you have to buy some of those coffins if you're going to be putting blood all over it,
unless they buy them, they put blood all over it, and then maybe they sell them back for half the price.
They're like, we'd like to return this. And funeral director fucking sells it to someone else. I don't know.
But that place was fucking full of caskets and people in them.
And I especially love this one scene because it was so fucking ridiculous.
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And there were a lot of ridiculous scenes in this.
I had a hard time trying to get past a lot of the technology aspect because technology changes so fast, man.
You and I know this for sure.
And it's hard for me to watch some of these movies because they feel very dated.
And it's one of the reasons why I haven't gone back and watch Strangeland because technology is so different now.
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Like back in Strangeland, you know, D Snider's Strangeland, it was chat rooms.
And he would do a video and send it to like the cop.
But it was so fucking grainy and pixelated and everything.
Like, oh, this is like back in the AOL days and everything.
And this was back in the days where the cell phones, you're still using the QWERTY for texting.
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It's not fucking smartphones, nothing like that.
And there's still some tech, though. So it seemed like the killer was a little advanced in that aspect.
I mean, he had the GPS in his fucking car and he was still using tapes, though, for these cameras.
So quite dated. And one of the Opoils, you've seen it's always sunny.
I know. Yeah, I thought that's who it was.
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Like the first time I saw him and I'm like, that's one of the McPoyles.
Yep. McPoyles. Sorry, McPoyles. Not Opoils, McPoyles.
Yeah, that's one of the McPoyles. I see it and I'm like, yeah, I know right away. Knew it right away.
So one of the McPoyles, he's on the Internet.
He's like, I don't have a traditional phone. I just go on the Internet.
And they're trying to get help from the police.
He's like, I can email them. I'm like, good luck with that.
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I wrote a note. Since when can you email 911?
Like I saw that and I was like, that isn't even a thing now.
No, God forbid that you send them an email and it goes to the spam. Forget it.
Yeah, you're fucking dead. If you're calling with an emergency, you're dead.
Yeah, you're fucking toast. Forget it. They ain't getting that shit.
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It's such a fucking ridiculous concept that you're just emailing them.
Speaking of this 911 thing, I read something funny in the IMDB.
There was a goof, which I don't know if this was a thing back then.
Right now it would be with smartphones.
But did you notice that when he tried to unlock that phone that belonged to the killer, he tries to call 911,
but he can't because the phone's locked and password protected.
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Yeah. So if you try to do that now on a smartphone, you can certainly make an emergency call while it's locked.
Do you think they thought of that back then? I don't think so.
I don't know. It doesn't make sense that they would lock the phone to call an emergency unless the killer was like,
I don't need 911. I stitched myself up, which he does.
This dude was unstoppable, man. He got shot a few times and he's just like, I'm going to pop the bullets out.
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Oh, yeah. And that was another thing I'm thinking, is this dude some sort of supernatural thing going on with him?
Similar to the big slashers, Jason and Michael and stuff. They just keep coming back.
But yeah, the chrome skull character was it was just a human or we're we know him as a human.
And I know there's a sequel and there's apparently a third movie and we haven't seen either one of them.
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So maybe that gets explained in one of them. But maybe I finished watching it and I'm like,
I had this stuff that I probably would have liked to known, but I didn't get any answers.
And then I saw there was a sequel. I'm like, you got to be shitting me.
They made a sequel to this. And you just told me right before we started this podcast, there's a third film.
So this is a trilogy. Yeah, I had no idea whatsoever.
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And the Power Rangers in the second one. No way. Which one?
Brian Austin Green. Wasn't he a Power Ranger? Oh, no, he was from 90210.
Yeah. Beverly Hills 90210. Edit that part out.
No. Yeah. So 90210. But he plays a character in the second movie.
OK, that's interesting. So this guy was basically unstoppable. Speaking of goofs, I noticed this goof at the beginning.
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So this girl, she's on the phone with 911 and she doesn't know where the hell she is because she got knocked stupid.
She woke up in the casket with a head injury. She doesn't know where she is or who she is or anything like that.
She knows that she's around a bunch of dead people. So she calls 911. She's talking to them and she goes to the door.
She sees the funeral director. Right. I think that's what they call him. Mortician maybe.
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Yeah, the guy that's embalming the body. Yeah, him. So I think it's mortician. No, it is funeral director.
I think you're right. I think they do. I think. Yeah, I think funeral directors probably the way to go for that.
So funeral director comes to the door and he's like, what are you doing in there? Are you OK?
I'll get you out, even though he fucking ran away from her earlier because he saw the coffin shaking.
But chrome skull comes up from behind him and stabs him with that long piece of metal.
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It sticks in the door. And one thing I thought was weird was the way the door swung.
So the killer went down and she opened the door and this piece of metal went into his eye,
which would make sense if the door swung the correct way.
He gets his eyes punctured multiple times in this movie, too. Yeah. So many eye things, man, especially the opening credits.
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And someone's getting thumbs to the eyeballs. Yep.
I'm like, oh, God, here we go. Thirty seconds in. We got fucking eye damage happening. Yep.
Steve's favorite thing. Love it.
So she's on the other side of the door and this is one of the doors where it opens towards her, not out.
So he's on the outside, but she opened the door. He got stabbed in the eye.
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You would think that the only way this is going to happen is if the door swings out, hits him in the eye and she runs out.
How do you get stabbed in the eye if the door swinging towards her? I don't know.
Movie magic? I didn't think that too far into it. I was like, that's not right.
No. Something's wrong here. So I think you're the only one in the history of humankind that has seen that, that has had that thought about this movie.
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Leave it to me to be like nitpicking how a door swings. Yep. No one else has ever done that.
I'll throw it up on IMDB. You lost me. Who knows? I lost you? Yeah. All right. Fair enough.
I'll lose a bunch of people on IMDB, too. They'll be like, what are you talking about?
This man is talking about door swinging. You just ruined our ratings. Now it's a two out of a instead of a three. Whoops.
You have dropped your rating. What? Drop your rating. Drop my rating. I'll drop my rating for that.
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No, because the rating was saved because of one aspect and daughters. They played daughters in this fucking movie.
Did you notice that? No, I fucking lost it. I was like, this is daughters spelled backwards. This song is fucking great.
This album is great. Daughters. I think it's Hell Songs. I get them both mixed up. I get Hell Songs and Canada songs mixed up all the time.
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Both banger albums. Yes, both banger albums regardless. Oh, I'm sorry. It's not daughters spelled backwards. It's daughters spelled wrong.
So the song is called Daughters Spelled Wrong and they played it. I'm like, no fucking way. This is sick because I love that album.
It's like one of my favorite albums. It's just fun to listen to. If you like noise music with Cooner type singing, it's great.
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With what type singing? Cooner like your Frank Sinatra type sound. Lapping called a sinner. Wrong doer, evil doer.
Okay. Yeah. You get it now? Yep. Okay. Makes sense. That's what I mean by your Cooners, your Richie Cheeses. What?
Cooner. Cooners. Not Cooners? No. Cooners just sound bad. Yeah. Okay. That does sound bad.
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A Cooner is a singer who performs in a smooth, intimate style often singing love songs. Okay. What is a Cooner?
All right. I'm wrong there. Cooner. Cooner. So yeah, it's like noise Cooner music. The Cooning style originated in the 1920s.
Yeah. I fucking love it. It's music that you just want to drink a scotch and smoke a cigar to. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And that's like daughters.
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You just want to drink a scotch and smoke a cigar to and then throw it against the wall and light shit on fire.
Were you with me when I saw them at, I think it was Brighton Music Hall. Brighton Music Hall. Maybe. When they were gone for a long time and then they did like a reunion tour.
Great Scott? Was it Great Scott? I saw them at Great Scott. I'm pretty sure you saw them there too.
I've played Great Scott. It holds a soaking wet like 150 people. Holy shit. Yeah. The last time was, oh my God, that was 2016.
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Woof. Damn. That was that long ago? Eight years? No, longer because it's 2025 now. Nine years. Nine years. Fuck. I had no idea.
Yeah. I just looked it up. There's a video on YouTube. 1024 2016. Wow. Wow. Yeah. That was an awesome show though. I fucking love that.
I'm trying to remember who else was on that show because it was a pretty stacked lineup. Oh, it wasn't Dillinger Daughters?
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Daughters. Let's see. Boston. I remember buying a daughter shirt and it was like basically black on black and my dumb ass bought a medium because I was fitting in the medium at the time.
But these broad shoulders, man, they just fucking can't contain medium shirts. I'm jack fat.
Daughters. Yeah. October 24th, 2016. They played that song Daughters spelled wrong, but now I don't I don't know who else was on the bill.
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Doesn't say on set list. Interesting. We'll figure it out. I'm sure. Daughters. I bet if I look up my fucking ticket book, I'll find it in there.
If they had tickets. Daughters. I feel like Great Scott's is kind of a place where it's like you buy a ticket online and you just tell them you're there.
You know, places do that. So maybe that's what happened. I don't know. I'll go through my ticket book. I have a ticket book that fucking spans years, man.
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Next time you come over, you'll have to see it because it's fucking it's something to check out. I'm sad that I wasn't smart enough to do that when I was younger, but I'm trying to go back and like update my set list FM with things that I've never put on there before.
Yeah, they were just by themselves that night. Really? Yeah. Daughters October 24th. Good for them. Okay. I would have loved to play that show, but we're not that style. That sucks because they just didn't play that night or they didn't have any openers that night.
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But the rest of the tour, the body opened and I love the body. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's a fucking weird band to place a banjo, right? No, it's two members. There's like a there's like synth and guitars and then someone just screaming in a high pitched voice.
Oh, I'm thinking show me the body, which is also funny because apparently they played the Paradise Rock Club with show me the body in 2019. Oh, daughters did. Yep. Or is it the body and show me the body? No, it was daughters health and show me the body. Okay.
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Can you imagine if there was a bodies show and show me the bodies at the same time? Like they're both just opening for each other. Drowning pool open to. Yeah, and just let the bodies hit the floor and they both just fall to the floor every single date. They just fucking make it a schtick. Fine. Fuck. Yeah. Let's get back into the movie. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah, we've been sitting here talking about fucking music instead. So this is a I mean, it's 30 Screams or Less. They're all screaming at some point or another in those bands. Yeah, there's more than 30. Yeah, we're on brand. I guess.
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So where was I? Other than talking about daughters? Oh, yeah, we're talking about points talking daughters about daughters. Yeah, I actually enjoyed the soundtrack. There was some pretty cool bands on it. Suicidal tendencies was on the soundtrack. So I had this like pet peeve about movies that play just play songs to play songs and they're just placed very oddly and movies. Yeah. And I feel like like to rest it not a lot. They just made the hits of that year. Ah, is it kind of like a
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Freddy vs. Jason where they do that, even though that's a pretty banger soundtrack to same idea, same idea, exact idea. Yeah. Okay. I get what you're saying. It was like the hot song at the time. They just threw it in there just to have it in there. Even though it really doesn't add anything to the story and nothing. That's how I just say, okay, yeah, I can see that was another movie that kind of did that. We won't talk about the crow. The crow did it, but it was done so tastefully. So yeah, well, like movies with actual soundtracks Queen of the Damned. Yeah, classic soundtrack. But yeah,
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it had all original music done by real bands, right? That was all original music, right? Um, it was Jonathan Davis who we're going into corn again. We're talking corn again. So Jonathan Davis wrote three songs for the album and and I think just kind of did the score for it. Didn't you say this?
Or any of your songs? What's that? I was just saying, didn't you say there's a version of the soundtrack out there with just Jonathan Davis doing everything? Yeah, there is. Okay. It's out there, but Sony will not let it go. They're being dicks. Yeah. Just release the fucking tracks, man. Just throw it up as singles on Spotify, whatever you make your money. He'll make his money. The world is a better place. I'm gonna have to listen to that soundtrack tomorrow. I listen to it. It's so good. It is really good. Okay, so it had it had deaf tones on it. Okay, so that's a
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Dead Cell, Papa Roach. Yeah. Oh, man. Do you remember dry cell? Yeah, I do remember dry cell. Body Kills, Body Crumbles. Yep. Good song, though. I like that song. The 90s, man. 90s and early 2000s. Movie soundtracks were fucking great. I loved them back then. They made it like a fucking mission. Do you know which one I burnt out speaking of movie soundtracks? Like, I'm pretty sure I fucked the CD up like permanent when I had it back in the day. I remember buying it at Circuit City. Circuit City.
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Wow. It's got a song on it by one of your favorite bands. Oh, God, we tried to get tickets for him recently. Don't lost highway. Yes, I fucking knew it. So I knew it. Drug. Oh, man. Yeah, that song. I would fucking kill to see that live. So back to the story soundtrack. I get it. They kind of throwing that shit in there. At least when I heard daughters, I was like, that's fucking cool. So the acting in this movie. Fine. What did you think about the acting? It was it was fine.
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I mean, Lena Headey was in it, but only very briefly. I was excited to see her and then she was gone. Lena Headey. Yeah, she's Cersei in Game of Thrones. She's in the very beginning of this movie. Oh, I didn't even know that. Yeah, I've never watched Game of Thrones. Oh, OK. Yeah. So she was a major character in Game of Thrones. And obviously, this is 2009. So she was in that, too. She just looked much different. She was the brunette in the beginning of the movie, Cindy. Oh, OK. Yeah. So the wife was it the wife? Yes. Yeah.
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Yes. OK. All right. I also found that kind of funny because, oh, she was the wife in 300, too, wasn't she? Yeah. Oh, OK. I didn't dive down that rabbit hole. She's a great actress. Yeah. She played Queen Gorgon in 300. OK.
She was in a good remake. Yeah, she's in a pretty big career. Good for her. Yeah. I didn't even put two together. I had no idea. So must have been like an earlier role of hers. Obviously, she had a small role. She died pretty quick.
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She played the wife. She had a few scenes. And then the husband went off with the other girl that was like kind of the main interest of the killer, the one that he wanted to kill the most.
So I found it interesting that Tucker slash trucker was driving his truck home and picks this girl up in the side road, decides to bring her home to his wife.
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I'm thinking myself, like, how well would that fly with most wives?
True. So also, side note, you mentioned the truck part. Was I the only one that thought at that scene that Tucker was going to end up being the killer because he was pretty much built the same way?
Oh, God. Yeah, I was expecting some sort of weird twist about how Tucker is one of the killers.
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Or something. Yeah, they were going to do something ghost face ish.
Yeah, I was kind of thinking that because he's helping out with the bodies, bringing them in from the car. And he's like, he's so nonchalant about it. That's where the scene I was like, I am fully expecting this guy to be the killer.
It didn't make sense, though, that he was the killer, because we saw scenes with the killer actually chasing him and trying to attack him.
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You're right.
So I was like, he's not the main killer. If anything, he could maybe be a secondary killer, like Scream. And I was thinking that solely because he's helping Stephen bring his mother's corpse in the funeral home.
And I find it funny that they went back there anyways. Whatever. Good for them. So he's there. He's very nonchalant, very cool about all these dead bodies around.
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And that's why I was thinking that maybe he is a part of killer, maybe some fucker is happening there. But no, that wasn't the case. He actually ended up being one of the good guys.
Eventually does get stabbed by one of the coolest knives I've ever seen in a movie.
The giant Rambo knife.
Yeah, the giant Rambo knife serrated on both sides.
Yeah, which he used to hack somebody's head off. He literally like a saw.
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Oh, yeah. Speaking of that. So in that barn we were talking about earlier where all the caskets and bodies were in those caskets.
There was one girl that was tied up and she's basically nude, has underwear on, but she's just laying there tied up on top of another dead body.
And Princess is trying to help her get out.
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And the killer is just fucking hanging out in the background, just watching this lunacy happening.
Like, all right, what the fuck are you doing here? This is ridiculous.
She gets up, throws a knife at him and completely misses.
Yeah, I laughed out loud when that happened.
I thought it was the dumbest plan for her and Steven to go outside and try to lure the killer in this barn where they're basically cut off.
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They're cornered at this point. What is she going to do?
She's going to take this knife and try to stab this guy.
He's a certified serial killer.
I'm fairly certain she stands no chance whatsoever.
Zero.
Zero chance. So she takes the knife, throws it at him, completely misses.
Says to the girl, don't worry, I'll be back with help. Runs off.
She doesn't have enough.
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Yeah, killer goes over like, OK, I guess I'll just cut this girl's head off.
And he does. And she's still in there watching as it's happening.
She basically just lied to this poor girl or just for some reason thought maybe the killer would chase her and let the girl fucking hang out there and be dead.
I don't know, man. I thought it was funny, though. I got a good kick out of that fucking scene.
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Do you think it was meant to be funny, though, or is it just corny bad filming?
I want to say that was corny bad.
But who knows? Maybe the director was doing something funny like I'm going to do something ridiculous here and everyone's going to get a laugh out of it.
Maybe.
Maybe. Sometimes they do that.
If that's the case, then well done.
I did get a good laugh out of that.
So I think we could just wrap forward to the point where we run into like these two kids.
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They're driving in this car and they almost run down Tucker and Stephen on the side of the road who are asking for help.
And they're listening to this fucking song, man, that is completely absurd.
I wrote the lyrics down because it was too good to not fucking remember.
I remember. I remember hearing it, but I didn't make any notes about it.
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Something bitches.
Sexy bitches are my favorite kind of bitch.
Yes. Yes. Sexy bitches are my favorite bitch.
And it's just looping.
Yep. I'm like, oh man, that was stuck in my head for the rest of the night.
Now you're going to have it stuck in your head for the rest of the night.
I'm sitting there doing dishes.
I'm like, sexy bitches are my favorite bitch.
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We're going to be playing Fortnite after this and you're just going to be singing it.
Sexy bitches are my favorite bitches.
It's so stupid.
I guess they were on their way to Atlanta to go to a rave.
So things just so happened that enter this store and they're trying to buy beers.
Princess comes in.
At this point, the killer managed to kind of track her down in his car,
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who he had full access to.
Like he had all the electronics and everything fucking squared away.
And that thing locked her in, found her, told her she needs to go inside and get him a new tape.
So, okay.
The fucking battery light was on like the whole movie too.
I noticed that.
I made a comment.
I was like, this dude needs to charge his camcorder.
Yeah. He must be using really bad batteries because it is just blinking red the whole entire time.
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Even on the recording that is going to die.
Batteries never died.
But he ran out of tape.
I know. Go figure.
Runs out of tape, batteries never die.
All right then.
So she's at the store.
These kids are trying to buy beers.
And then you have this fucking young looking clerk at the place.
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And he sees some fuckery happening.
He sees this guy, this killer, chrome head.
What is it? Chrome face?
Chrome head.
He said chrome head, chrome face.
Not chrome skull.
Chrome skull.
Chrome skull.
Imagine chrome head and chrome face.
I don't even know if those would be any better.
As a tag team?
Oh, well as a tag team maybe.
Chrome head.
Chrome don'ts.
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Chrome skull.
The chrome brothers.
Sounds like a Vince McMahon name if I heard anything.
Well, that's going to end up in a W now.
Yeah, you're going to be the chrome brothers.
You'll be chrome skull and you'll be chrome face.
I love it.
And you'll be banished by chrome head.
Call yourselves the chrome crew.
The chrome crew.
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Chrome crew.
Yeah.
NW Chrome.
NW Chrome.
That would have been the NWO.
And everyone just dresses up chrome or whatever.
It'd be NWC, right?
Everybody dresses up like chrome Mega Mans.
Yeah, exactly.
NWC for life.
New world, new world chrome.
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Oh, man.
Okay, so this fucking kid goes outside with a shotgun and he's threatening the killer.
And of course, the killer turns the gun on him and just blows this kid's brains to smithereens.
The funniest part about this and I add this another scene I laughed out loud.
Yeah, kid grabs a shotgun and he points it at chrome skull and he goes, I will shoot you in the head.
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And then chrome skull takes the gun and shoots him in the head.
Yep, just pushes it back boom.
Blows his face off.
Just brains him all over the ceiling.
Yep, just brains everywhere.
And you know what?
I wanted to talk about this too because earlier in the movie and we're talking people that were in this film that have gone on to do bigger things.
And one of the people from that thing you do, Jonathan Sheesh.
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Okay.
I can't pronounce that for the slightest bit.
Oh, yeah.
He spells his name weird.
It looks like his name is Johnathon.
Look, it's spelled J-O-H-N-A-T-H-O-N.
Isn't that how it's normally spelled?
No, it's J-O-N-A-T-H-O-N.
I mean, it can go either way.
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I mean, yeah.
So you're being picky again.
I am being very picky, but I can't pronounce his last name the slightest bit.
It's S-C-H-A-E-C-H. Sheesh?
Maybe.
And I feel like there's other guy, Richard Lynch has been in a lot of shit too.
He was in a lot of the Rob Zombie stuff.
Yeah.
And a lot of like old, old, old shows, actually.
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He looks familiar.
Very familiar.
He's been in Lords of Salem.
Yeah, he was in Lords of Salem.
He was in the first Rob Zombie movie.
The only good one. Decent anyway.
It's not good.
Halloween?
Halloween, yeah.
Yeah, that was actually pretty decent.
I liked it.
So people were like, no, I don't like it because you hear Michael Myers talk as a child.
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Who gives a shit?
Yeah, but he just like the coolest opening scene with him like killing his stepdad.
Oh, yeah.
And then like, obviously, we don't like animal abuse,
but that's what he did before he started killing people.
I'm pretty sure his dad was the first person he killed in that universe.
Yeah, dude.
All serial killers.
Well, actually, I don't want to say all serial killers.
Most serial killers start off by killing animals.
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Yeah, because like Dexter did.
Yeah, they all do it.
I don't know what it is,
but it's just kind of in their DNA to start small and then big.
And I think it's just that's their way of working up to killing people.
That's it.
So brains everywhere in this kid.
Oh, yeah.
Well, the reason why I brought up Jonathan is because his kill was so absurd.
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The knife through the face or the cheeks.
Oh, yeah.
Right through each cheek.
Yep.
And sliding the knife up like his face falls off.
Yeah.
He just more with that that serrated knife he was using.
He went back and forth with it and like cut him down the middle.
Like, yeah, you just started to hack in a little bit and then like freaking just
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slides up and his face fell off like butter.
Yeah. Cooked, cooked, just absolutely cooked.
That's what I'm saying.
Like the practical effects in this movie are great.
I thought all the kills looked awesome.
Yeah, I will say that the kills did look great.
Whatever there was for practical effects was great.
I don't think they used a lot of CGI.
Maybe on the head getting blown off scene.
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Maybe that probably the only thing.
Yeah, I think that's maybe the only aspect.
Otherwise, everything else looked great.
I don't think they were actually like CGI heavy though back in 2009.
Like was CGI really even a thing yet?
It was.
I mean, when did fucking Jurassic Park come out?
96.
I don't know.
Jurassic Park.
Let's see.
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93.
Nice.
God, even earlier.
Yeah.
Okay.
That was also Steven Spielberg.
Yeah.
And also there was Terminator 2, which was also in the 90s.
So they were really starting to dive into CGI.
Terminator 2?
91.
Damn.
Yeah, those still hold up to this day.
It's wild to see like the T1000, how they did him and looking back at it almost what?
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40 years later.
Oh, not 40 years.
Like 30 something years later at this point.
You're just like, this still looks great.
So great effects.
Terminator 2 had a budget of 100 million.
Which is fucking pennies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger earned 15 million as his role for his role as T800 in Terminator 2.
Yeah.
Right.
So Terminator 2 had a budget of around 100 million.
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So Schwarzenegger's paycheck was about 1% of the total cost.
Schwarzenegger's pay was based on a per word rate of around 21,429,
which is considered one of the most notable in history.
So anyways, we're in the store.
Kid gets his head blown off.
They're trying to fight this killer.
They bring up this one recall scene where, do you remember earlier in the movie,
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Steven was talking about having like some sort of weird brake fluid stuff,
like the tire fluid.
And he's like, I don't know, I could spray it in his ear.
And the killer.
And he saw a head blow up.
Yeah, the killer makes his head blow up via that same exact stuff he wanted to spray in the killer's ear.
I thought it was...
It came full circle.
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It came full circle.
So I like that they tied that up.
Not that it was like anything...
Not that it even fucking mattered.
So pretty much the majority of these people are dead at this point.
Tucker's dead, gets stabbed in the stomach.
One of the friends gets his head basically lopped.
Well, he actually gets his head fully lopped off.
Steven's dead, his head exploded.
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So it's really just Princess in the killer at this point.
Princess is hanging out in the fucking refrigerator,
trying to get away from the killer.
The killer shows her who she is,
because he filmed her before he fucking whacked her head with a baseball bat.
And we find out that she's a sex worker.
So he paid her for a blow job and just ended up whacking her in the head with a baseball bat instead.
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So yeah, he hits her with a baseball bat,
and that's pretty much where the footage ends.
So she's realizing now like, oh my God, I'm a prostitute.
And the killer, like she knocked the killer's mask off his face.
And what I didn't bring up is,
Steven somehow manages to get a hold of the killer's briefcase.
And inside that briefcase is glue.
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So I don't know how Steven became this scientist,
but he's like mixing these chemicals and he puts it inside the glue.
I don't know if it's a thing he knows because he's a funeral director, my profession.
No, Steven wasn't the funeral director, was he?
He was like just a guy that hung out at home on the computer.
Yeah, no, it was a different guy.
Yeah, okay.
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So yeah, Steven, the one who got his head blown up by tire fluid stuff,
he somehow manages to be like, I know this glue, it's super glue.
And he's pouring stuff inside it.
I don't know, making some sort of acid or whatever.
And the killer has later on has this mask knocked off by Princess.
He puts the mask on and it starts melting his face.
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And Corey, I shit you not, here's what I'm thinking.
I'm thinking we're getting another headless situation.
You know where he just rips his face off and it's just bones?
Uh-huh.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
He was just going to rip his face off and we're just going to see a bone face
instead of the mask.
So Chromeface, Chromehead, Chromeskull, whatever you want to call him.
Chromeface?
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Skull.
Chromeskull.
Chromeskull is trying to take the mask off because his face is fucking melting.
He pulls it off.
You see just nothing but fucking his face is just a heaping mess and hits the ground.
And this is where Princess decides to come out and hit him with a baseball bat
to the face a few times, not end scene fade to black yet.
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She goes into Tucker's pocket and she gets like the piece of paper showing who she is.
She gets the whole rundown like that she's been arrested multiple times for
prostitution and all this stuff.
And so now she knows that she's got a bit of a past.
She leaves a note behind with her shit on it saying to the cops,
we waited for you all night.
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They finally show up after her and the guy take off to Atlanta and end scene fade
to black. And that was it. That's a wrap.
So with that said, I think we can go into our reviews here.
Corey, what do you give Laid to Rest?
So this is just a three out of five for me.
It was OK.
The killer was super menacing and the kills were great.
The only thing keeping me back from giving this a higher score is the acting
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performances were pretty cringe and the music choices were so unbelievably laughable.
We get so funny because we kind of differ there.
Yeah.
Overall, a pretty decent slasher film that I feel went under the radar.
OK, that's fair.
So I'm kind of conflicted on this one bit of a roller coaster between two and four.
So I think I'm just going to even it out, though, and go with three out of five.
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The practical effects in this movie were well done, but I wouldn't say this movie
holds up to the technology aspect, which we talked about earlier.
Probably one of the main reasons why I haven't gone back and watch Strangeland
because the technology just doesn't hold up.
And this came out 16 years ago.
So technology was way different 16 years ago.
We've made leaps and bounds since.
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It's all about fucking AI these days.
So the soundtrack was good.
I almost lost my shit hearing Daughters spelled wrong in it.
Never in a million years did I think I'd hear Daughters in a fucking horror film.
So that was a nice thing to hear.
And the story was fine, but had a nice little twist of the funeral director
basically being the killer's landlord, which we didn't talk about.
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So I thought I'd leave it for the movie or leave it for them to watch.
Yeah, well, leave it for them to watch.
I think what kind of killed it for me as well was the acting.
It was overall subpar.
The story itself was good, but something felt missing to me.
I couldn't place it, though, but something was just not there story wise.
I don't know what exactly was missing.
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Maybe I would have liked to have heard something more about the FBI's findings.
But my guess is they held it back to unveil Princess as a sex worker.
I think maybe that was kind of the whole reason for that unveiling,
to not give out too much information.
But it also doesn't explain anything about his backstory.
That too.
So I don't know if they wanted to risk giving out too much of the backstory,
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saying like he targets sex workers.
So if he targets sex workers, then we would have known Princess was a sex worker.
And they unveiled that later in the movie because no one knew anything about Princess
because she got fucking knocked stupid and couldn't remember who she was,
where she was, anything like that.
So I'm thinking maybe they held back that aspect to unveil that part of Princess's story.
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Even though I don't think it would have mattered.
I think they could have given it away.
But whatever.
He's a serial killer, does whatever the fucking wants, kills whoever he wants.
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Today's movie we're going to be talking about is called Laid to Rest.
It's written and directed by Robert Hall, starring Bobby Sue Luther as Princess.
I think we're just going to go with Princess because that's what they called her for most of the film.
Yeah, she's not even credited as the Princess. She's the girl.
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Yeah, I know. I don't know. They probably should have said Princess in IMDb, but I don't know. Whatever. Maybe it needs to be updated.
I don't know if we could do that. But Kevin Gage as Trucker, like a trucker.
No, it's Tucker.
Did you catch his name? It's Tucker? I copied Trucker.
I don't know where you got that because it's Tucker.
Oh, yeah. Look at that. It is Tucker. Well, he was a trucker.
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Tucker the trucker.
Tucker the trucker. Yeah, brother. Yeah.
Okay, Kevin Gage is Tucker as opposed to trucker and Sean Whalen is Steven.
The plot of the movie is a young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity.
She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
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Yeah, we have. 30 Screams or Less stars now. Corey, what did you think of Laid to Rest?
I think this was a lot of fun for a slasher film, which you and I both love.
It was actually pretty original, I thought. Yeah, we watched slasher films for original kills and gore.
And there wasn't a lack of either of those in this movie. Although I will say Chrome Skull,
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which is the name of the villain, is fucking stupid, but he was a pretty interesting character all around.
I wish they'd remake this movie with Derek Mears as Chrome Skull.
See, that would be cool. Derek Mears is a big dude. Derek Mears or Batista.
Or Batista, yeah. Batista decides to stop doing A-list films and come down and do Laid to Rest.
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Sure, why not? It's possible. Blumhouse can do it.
Oh, there you go. Okay. If Blumhouse is all up in it. Blumhouse, yeah. Blumhouse is all up in it.
Batista would be like, I'll do it. Yeah, but he's... I don't know, he's so skinny now.
He's still a tall guy. He's like 6'3", or something like that, but he's skinny as anything now.
Well, Derek Mears is skinny as shit too. He's just very tall. But he's jacked fat.
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He's jacked fat.
He's not going... We met him in a Mexican restaurant last year and he's not at all. He's just a very tall, massive man.
Yeah, I mean, when we talked to him at Silver Screen, he was just a big dude.
Obviously towering over me. I mean, I'm 5'8". And I don't think I'm exactly that short.
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But looking at him, I'm looking up and I'm like, fuck man, this is a big guy.
Nice as anything though. I would love to get him on the podcast.
I honestly never even thought of that, so maybe I can put that on my list.
Yeah, put that on your list. That's a cool guy to talk to.
Because we had a good talk with him. He may even remember us. Who knows?
Yeah, I will... I'll find a way to reach out to him.
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Oh yeah, just send him up on social media or something like that.
But, Chrome Skull was an interesting character.
I liked his approach where he was basically filming everything, but I was trying to understand what the purpose was.
You know, I would think if you're filming all this stuff, you're probably maybe wanting to stream it online.
So I'm almost thinking like, is this stream before stream? Maybe that type of deal.
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But he just like filming his kills and storing them.
And every once in a while, you throw it to the fucking police, I guess, to mess with them a little bit.
See, I thought that was a pretty cool side thing that he was doing was filming the kills of murdering women.
And then he would send them to the police. That's pretty fucked up.
Yeah, and that's why I kind of said this was original in a way, because the kills...
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I mean, I thought all the kills were really cool, but I've never seen a slasher film his kills like this and send it to the police to basically taunt them, you know?
Kind of reminded me of like the whole get up, the costume, everything was a very Predator-like.
Oh yeah, it was. Okay. Yeah.
It's kind of like the Predator shoulder missile launcher thing, except he built something that he would put a camcorder on.
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Yeah, and this is before GoPros.
Yep. And imagine now... He had a whole ass camcorder on his shoulder.
A whole ass camcorder.
It kind of reminded me of Zodiac a bit, because Zodiac would taunt the police and everything with his letters.
And no one can fucking figure out who the hell he was.
And I don't know, we've talked about this before, there's people out there claiming that they're related to Zodiac, but we take it with a grain of salt.
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But this killer kind of did that in a sense where he would film these girls, he would film himself killing them, and then send it to the police.
So I think his overall motive, probably just to kill, I want to say sex workers.
Typically serial killers will go after sex workers because they're like the easiest prey.
They think of them as people that no one will miss, that type thing, right?
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So he went after this girl, and I won't say just yet about her because it all unveils at the end type deal.
But a lot of serial killers do that. You know what, Corey, forget it.
I'm just going to go for it. I'm just going to talk about it.
Because yes, later on in the film, we find out that she's a sex worker.
But were all those other girls sex workers or prostitutes, whatever?
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It could have been. Wasn't there a movie that we watched that the killer was targeting sex workers?
If that's the case, it's not as original as I was thinking originally.
Because I feel like it's been done before because this killer is trying to almost rehabilitate these women, you know?
Right. Oh, fuck. What is that movie?
Okay, so I didn't make it up.
No, I don't think you made it up. What was that movie we watched where people had to hurt each other and fill up this tube to get out?
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Oh, fuck. They kind of did that, too.
They kind of got like misfit toys of people and fucking threw them in that house.
I'm going through very it was very Saw style. Oh, my God. What was it?
I'm going through our archive right now. Yeah, just go back.
It was brutal, though. I remember that being pretty brutal because they all had to hurt each other on purpose.
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So you'll find it. But he was kind of killing all sorts of people.
Really didn't even matter, even though his whole barn of dead people in coffins were definitely women.
I didn't see any guys in there. That was insane.
Like you said, he had a whole ass barn full of coffins. Yeah.
And I'm thinking to myself, too, these coffins, man, must be expensive to rent or buy, I should say,
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because you have to buy some of those coffins if you're going to be putting blood all over it,
unless they buy them, they put blood all over it, and then maybe they sell them back for half the price.
They're like, we'd like to return this. And funeral director fucking sells it to someone else. I don't know.
But that place was fucking full of caskets and people in them.
And I especially love this one scene because it was so fucking ridiculous.
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And there were a lot of ridiculous scenes in this.
I had a hard time trying to get past a lot of the technology aspect because technology changes so fast, man.
You and I know this for sure.
And it's hard for me to watch some of these movies because they feel very dated.
And it's one of the reasons why I haven't gone back and watch Strangeland because technology is so different now.
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Like back in Strangeland, you know, D Snider's Strangeland, it was chat rooms.
And he would do a video and send it to like the cop.
But it was so fucking grainy and pixelated and everything.
Like, oh, this is like back in the AOL days and everything.
And this was back in the days where the cell phones, you're still using the QWERTY for texting.
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It's not fucking smartphones, nothing like that.
And there's still some tech, though. So it seemed like the killer was a little advanced in that aspect.
I mean, he had the GPS in his fucking car and he was still using tapes, though, for these cameras.
So quite dated. And one of the Opoils, you've seen it's always sunny.
I know. Yeah, I thought that's who it was.
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Like the first time I saw him and I'm like, that's one of the McPoyles.
Yep. McPoyles. Sorry, McPoyles. Not Opoils, McPoyles.
Yeah, that's one of the McPoyles. I see it and I'm like, yeah, I know right away. Knew it right away.
So one of the McPoyles, he's on the Internet.
He's like, I don't have a traditional phone. I just go on the Internet.
And they're trying to get help from the police.
He's like, I can email them. I'm like, good luck with that.
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I wrote a note. Since when can you email 911?
Like I saw that and I was like, that isn't even a thing now.
No, God forbid that you send them an email and it goes to the spam. Forget it.
Yeah, you're fucking dead. If you're calling with an emergency, you're dead.
Yeah, you're fucking toast. Forget it. They ain't getting that shit.
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It's such a fucking ridiculous concept that you're just emailing them.
Speaking of this 911 thing, I read something funny in the IMDB.
There was a goof, which I don't know if this was a thing back then.
Right now it would be with smartphones.
But did you notice that when he tried to unlock that phone that belonged to the killer, he tries to call 911,
but he can't because the phone's locked and password protected.
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Yeah. So if you try to do that now on a smartphone, you can certainly make an emergency call while it's locked.
Do you think they thought of that back then? I don't think so.
I don't know. It doesn't make sense that they would lock the phone to call an emergency unless the killer was like,
I don't need 911. I stitched myself up, which he does.
This dude was unstoppable, man. He got shot a few times and he's just like, I'm going to pop the bullets out.
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Oh, yeah. And that was another thing I'm thinking, is this dude some sort of supernatural thing going on with him?
Similar to the big slashers, Jason and Michael and stuff. They just keep coming back.
But yeah, the chrome skull character was it was just a human or we're we know him as a human.
And I know there's a sequel and there's apparently a third movie and we haven't seen either one of them.
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So maybe that gets explained in one of them. But maybe I finished watching it and I'm like,
I had this stuff that I probably would have liked to known, but I didn't get any answers.
And then I saw there was a sequel. I'm like, you got to be shitting me.
They made a sequel to this. And you just told me right before we started this podcast, there's a third film.
So this is a trilogy. Yeah, I had no idea whatsoever.
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And the Power Rangers in the second one. No way. Which one?
Brian Austin Green. Wasn't he a Power Ranger? Oh, no, he was from 90210.
Yeah. Beverly Hills 90210. Edit that part out.
No. Yeah. So 90210. But he plays a character in the second movie.
OK, that's interesting. So this guy was basically unstoppable. Speaking of goofs, I noticed this goof at the beginning.
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So this girl, she's on the phone with 911 and she doesn't know where the hell she is because she got knocked stupid.
She woke up in the casket with a head injury. She doesn't know where she is or who she is or anything like that.
She knows that she's around a bunch of dead people. So she calls 911. She's talking to them and she goes to the door.
She sees the funeral director. Right. I think that's what they call him. Mortician maybe.
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Yeah, the guy that's embalming the body. Yeah, him. So I think it's mortician. No, it is funeral director.
I think you're right. I think they do. I think. Yeah, I think funeral directors probably the way to go for that.
So funeral director comes to the door and he's like, what are you doing in there? Are you OK?
I'll get you out, even though he fucking ran away from her earlier because he saw the coffin shaking.
But chrome skull comes up from behind him and stabs him with that long piece of metal.
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It sticks in the door. And one thing I thought was weird was the way the door swung.
So the killer went down and she opened the door and this piece of metal went into his eye,
which would make sense if the door swung the correct way.
He gets his eyes punctured multiple times in this movie, too. Yeah. So many eye things, man, especially the opening credits.
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And someone's getting thumbs to the eyeballs. Yep.
I'm like, oh, God, here we go. Thirty seconds in. We got fucking eye damage happening. Yep.
Steve's favorite thing. Love it.
So she's on the other side of the door and this is one of the doors where it opens towards her, not out.
So he's on the outside, but she opened the door. He got stabbed in the eye.
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You would think that the only way this is going to happen is if the door swings out, hits him in the eye and she runs out.
How do you get stabbed in the eye if the door swinging towards her? I don't know.
Movie magic? I didn't think that too far into it. I was like, that's not right.
No. Something's wrong here. So I think you're the only one in the history of humankind that has seen that, that has had that thought about this movie.
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Leave it to me to be like nitpicking how a door swings. Yep. No one else has ever done that.
I'll throw it up on IMDB. You lost me. Who knows? I lost you? Yeah. All right. Fair enough.
I'll lose a bunch of people on IMDB, too. They'll be like, what are you talking about?
This man is talking about door swinging. You just ruined our ratings. Now it's a two out of a instead of a three. Whoops.
You have dropped your rating. What? Drop your rating. Drop my rating. I'll drop my rating for that.
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No, because the rating was saved because of one aspect and daughters. They played daughters in this fucking movie.
Did you notice that? No, I fucking lost it. I was like, this is daughters spelled backwards. This song is fucking great.
This album is great. Daughters. I think it's Hell Songs. I get them both mixed up. I get Hell Songs and Canada songs mixed up all the time.
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Both banger albums. Yes, both banger albums regardless. Oh, I'm sorry. It's not daughters spelled backwards. It's daughters spelled wrong.
So the song is called Daughters Spelled Wrong and they played it. I'm like, no fucking way. This is sick because I love that album.
It's like one of my favorite albums. It's just fun to listen to. If you like noise music with Cooner type singing, it's great.
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With what type singing? Cooner like your Frank Sinatra type sound. Lapping called a sinner. Wrong doer, evil doer.
Okay. Yeah. You get it now? Yep. Okay. Makes sense. That's what I mean by your Cooners, your Richie Cheeses. What?
Cooner. Cooners. Not Cooners? No. Cooners just sound bad. Yeah. Okay. That does sound bad.
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A Cooner is a singer who performs in a smooth, intimate style often singing love songs. Okay. What is a Cooner?
All right. I'm wrong there. Cooner. Cooner. So yeah, it's like noise Cooner music. The Cooning style originated in the 1920s.
Yeah. I fucking love it. It's music that you just want to drink a scotch and smoke a cigar to. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And that's like daughters.
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You just want to drink a scotch and smoke a cigar to and then throw it against the wall and light shit on fire.
Were you with me when I saw them at, I think it was Brighton Music Hall. Brighton Music Hall. Maybe. When they were gone for a long time and then they did like a reunion tour.
Great Scott? Was it Great Scott? I saw them at Great Scott. I'm pretty sure you saw them there too.
I've played Great Scott. It holds a soaking wet like 150 people. Holy shit. Yeah. The last time was, oh my God, that was 2016.
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Woof. Damn. That was that long ago? Eight years? No, longer because it's 2025 now. Nine years. Nine years. Fuck. I had no idea.
Yeah. I just looked it up. There's a video on YouTube. 1024 2016. Wow. Wow. Yeah. That was an awesome show though. I fucking love that.
I'm trying to remember who else was on that show because it was a pretty stacked lineup. Oh, it wasn't Dillinger Daughters?
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Daughters. Let's see. Boston. I remember buying a daughter shirt and it was like basically black on black and my dumb ass bought a medium because I was fitting in the medium at the time.
But these broad shoulders, man, they just fucking can't contain medium shirts. I'm jack fat.
Daughters. Yeah. October 24th, 2016. They played that song Daughters spelled wrong, but now I don't I don't know who else was on the bill.
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Doesn't say on set list. Interesting. We'll figure it out. I'm sure. Daughters. I bet if I look up my fucking ticket book, I'll find it in there.
If they had tickets. Daughters. I feel like Great Scott's is kind of a place where it's like you buy a ticket online and you just tell them you're there.
You know, places do that. So maybe that's what happened. I don't know. I'll go through my ticket book. I have a ticket book that fucking spans years, man.
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Next time you come over, you'll have to see it because it's fucking it's something to check out. I'm sad that I wasn't smart enough to do that when I was younger, but I'm trying to go back and like update my set list FM with things that I've never put on there before.
Yeah, they were just by themselves that night. Really? Yeah. Daughters October 24th. Good for them. Okay. I would have loved to play that show, but we're not that style. That sucks because they just didn't play that night or they didn't have any openers that night.
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But the rest of the tour, the body opened and I love the body. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's a fucking weird band to place a banjo, right? No, it's two members. There's like a there's like synth and guitars and then someone just screaming in a high pitched voice.
Oh, I'm thinking show me the body, which is also funny because apparently they played the Paradise Rock Club with show me the body in 2019. Oh, daughters did. Yep. Or is it the body and show me the body? No, it was daughters health and show me the body. Okay.
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Can you imagine if there was a bodies show and show me the bodies at the same time? Like they're both just opening for each other. Drowning pool open to. Yeah, and just let the bodies hit the floor and they both just fall to the floor every single date. They just fucking make it a schtick. Fine. Fuck. Yeah. Let's get back into the movie. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah, we've been sitting here talking about fucking music instead. So this is a I mean, it's 30 Screams or Less. They're all screaming at some point or another in those bands. Yeah, there's more than 30. Yeah, we're on brand. I guess.
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So where was I? Other than talking about daughters? Oh, yeah, we're talking about points talking daughters about daughters. Yeah, I actually enjoyed the soundtrack. There was some pretty cool bands on it. Suicidal tendencies was on the soundtrack. So I had this like pet peeve about movies that play just play songs to play songs and they're just placed very oddly and movies. Yeah. And I feel like like to rest it not a lot. They just made the hits of that year. Ah, is it kind of like a
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Freddy vs. Jason where they do that, even though that's a pretty banger soundtrack to same idea, same idea, exact idea. Yeah. Okay. I get what you're saying. It was like the hot song at the time. They just threw it in there just to have it in there. Even though it really doesn't add anything to the story and nothing. That's how I just say, okay, yeah, I can see that was another movie that kind of did that. We won't talk about the crow. The crow did it, but it was done so tastefully. So yeah, well, like movies with actual soundtracks Queen of the Damned. Yeah, classic soundtrack. But yeah,
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it had all original music done by real bands, right? That was all original music, right? Um, it was Jonathan Davis who we're going into corn again. We're talking corn again. So Jonathan Davis wrote three songs for the album and and I think just kind of did the score for it. Didn't you say this?
Or any of your songs? What's that? I was just saying, didn't you say there's a version of the soundtrack out there with just Jonathan Davis doing everything? Yeah, there is. Okay. It's out there, but Sony will not let it go. They're being dicks. Yeah. Just release the fucking tracks, man. Just throw it up as singles on Spotify, whatever you make your money. He'll make his money. The world is a better place. I'm gonna have to listen to that soundtrack tomorrow. I listen to it. It's so good. It is really good. Okay, so it had it had deaf tones on it. Okay, so that's a
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Dead Cell, Papa Roach. Yeah. Oh, man. Do you remember dry cell? Yeah, I do remember dry cell. Body Kills, Body Crumbles. Yep. Good song, though. I like that song. The 90s, man. 90s and early 2000s. Movie soundtracks were fucking great. I loved them back then. They made it like a fucking mission. Do you know which one I burnt out speaking of movie soundtracks? Like, I'm pretty sure I fucked the CD up like permanent when I had it back in the day. I remember buying it at Circuit City. Circuit City.
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Wow. It's got a song on it by one of your favorite bands. Oh, God, we tried to get tickets for him recently. Don't lost highway. Yes, I fucking knew it. So I knew it. Drug. Oh, man. Yeah, that song. I would fucking kill to see that live. So back to the story soundtrack. I get it. They kind of throwing that shit in there. At least when I heard daughters, I was like, that's fucking cool. So the acting in this movie. Fine. What did you think about the acting? It was it was fine.
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I mean, Lena Headey was in it, but only very briefly. I was excited to see her and then she was gone. Lena Headey. Yeah, she's Cersei in Game of Thrones. She's in the very beginning of this movie. Oh, I didn't even know that. Yeah, I've never watched Game of Thrones. Oh, OK. Yeah. So she was a major character in Game of Thrones. And obviously, this is 2009. So she was in that, too. She just looked much different. She was the brunette in the beginning of the movie, Cindy. Oh, OK. Yeah. So the wife was it the wife? Yes. Yeah.
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Yes. OK. All right. I also found that kind of funny because, oh, she was the wife in 300, too, wasn't she? Yeah. Oh, OK. I didn't dive down that rabbit hole. She's a great actress. Yeah. She played Queen Gorgon in 300. OK.
She was in a good remake. Yeah, she's in a pretty big career. Good for her. Yeah. I didn't even put two together. I had no idea. So must have been like an earlier role of hers. Obviously, she had a small role. She died pretty quick.
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She played the wife. She had a few scenes. And then the husband went off with the other girl that was like kind of the main interest of the killer, the one that he wanted to kill the most.
So I found it interesting that Tucker slash trucker was driving his truck home and picks this girl up in the side road, decides to bring her home to his wife.
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I'm thinking myself, like, how well would that fly with most wives?
True. So also, side note, you mentioned the truck part. Was I the only one that thought at that scene that Tucker was going to end up being the killer because he was pretty much built the same way?
Oh, God. Yeah, I was expecting some sort of weird twist about how Tucker is one of the killers.
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Or something. Yeah, they were going to do something ghost face ish.
Yeah, I was kind of thinking that because he's helping out with the bodies, bringing them in from the car. And he's like, he's so nonchalant about it. That's where the scene I was like, I am fully expecting this guy to be the killer.
It didn't make sense, though, that he was the killer, because we saw scenes with the killer actually chasing him and trying to attack him.
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You're right.
So I was like, he's not the main killer. If anything, he could maybe be a secondary killer, like Scream. And I was thinking that solely because he's helping Stephen bring his mother's corpse in the funeral home.
And I find it funny that they went back there anyways. Whatever. Good for them. So he's there. He's very nonchalant, very cool about all these dead bodies around.
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And that's why I was thinking that maybe he is a part of killer, maybe some fucker is happening there. But no, that wasn't the case. He actually ended up being one of the good guys.
Eventually does get stabbed by one of the coolest knives I've ever seen in a movie.
The giant Rambo knife.
Yeah, the giant Rambo knife serrated on both sides.
Yeah, which he used to hack somebody's head off. He literally like a saw.
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Oh, yeah. Speaking of that. So in that barn we were talking about earlier where all the caskets and bodies were in those caskets.
There was one girl that was tied up and she's basically nude, has underwear on, but she's just laying there tied up on top of another dead body.
And Princess is trying to help her get out.
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And the killer is just fucking hanging out in the background, just watching this lunacy happening.
Like, all right, what the fuck are you doing here? This is ridiculous.
She gets up, throws a knife at him and completely misses.
Yeah, I laughed out loud when that happened.
I thought it was the dumbest plan for her and Steven to go outside and try to lure the killer in this barn where they're basically cut off.
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They're cornered at this point. What is she going to do?
She's going to take this knife and try to stab this guy.
He's a certified serial killer.
I'm fairly certain she stands no chance whatsoever.
Zero.
Zero chance. So she takes the knife, throws it at him, completely misses.
Says to the girl, don't worry, I'll be back with help. Runs off.
She doesn't have enough.
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Yeah, killer goes over like, OK, I guess I'll just cut this girl's head off.
And he does. And she's still in there watching as it's happening.
She basically just lied to this poor girl or just for some reason thought maybe the killer would chase her and let the girl fucking hang out there and be dead.
I don't know, man. I thought it was funny, though. I got a good kick out of that fucking scene.
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Do you think it was meant to be funny, though, or is it just corny bad filming?
I want to say that was corny bad.
But who knows? Maybe the director was doing something funny like I'm going to do something ridiculous here and everyone's going to get a laugh out of it.
Maybe.
Maybe. Sometimes they do that.
If that's the case, then well done.
I did get a good laugh out of that.
So I think we could just wrap forward to the point where we run into like these two kids.
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They're driving in this car and they almost run down Tucker and Stephen on the side of the road who are asking for help.
And they're listening to this fucking song, man, that is completely absurd.
I wrote the lyrics down because it was too good to not fucking remember.
I remember. I remember hearing it, but I didn't make any notes about it.
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Something bitches.
Sexy bitches are my favorite kind of bitch.
Yes. Yes. Sexy bitches are my favorite bitch.
And it's just looping.
Yep. I'm like, oh man, that was stuck in my head for the rest of the night.
Now you're going to have it stuck in your head for the rest of the night.
I'm sitting there doing dishes.
I'm like, sexy bitches are my favorite bitch.
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We're going to be playing Fortnite after this and you're just going to be singing it.
Sexy bitches are my favorite bitches.
It's so stupid.
I guess they were on their way to Atlanta to go to a rave.
So things just so happened that enter this store and they're trying to buy beers.
Princess comes in.
At this point, the killer managed to kind of track her down in his car,
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who he had full access to.
Like he had all the electronics and everything fucking squared away.
And that thing locked her in, found her, told her she needs to go inside and get him a new tape.
So, okay.
The fucking battery light was on like the whole movie too.
I noticed that.
I made a comment.
I was like, this dude needs to charge his camcorder.
Yeah. He must be using really bad batteries because it is just blinking red the whole entire time.
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Even on the recording that is going to die.
Batteries never died.
But he ran out of tape.
I know. Go figure.
Runs out of tape, batteries never die.
All right then.
So she's at the store.
These kids are trying to buy beers.
And then you have this fucking young looking clerk at the place.
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And he sees some fuckery happening.
He sees this guy, this killer, chrome head.
What is it? Chrome face?
Chrome head.
He said chrome head, chrome face.
Not chrome skull.
Chrome skull.
Chrome skull.
Imagine chrome head and chrome face.
I don't even know if those would be any better.
As a tag team?
Oh, well as a tag team maybe.
Chrome head.
Chrome don'ts.
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Chrome skull.
The chrome brothers.
Sounds like a Vince McMahon name if I heard anything.
Well, that's going to end up in a W now.
Yeah, you're going to be the chrome brothers.
You'll be chrome skull and you'll be chrome face.
I love it.
And you'll be banished by chrome head.
Call yourselves the chrome crew.
The chrome crew.
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Chrome crew.
Yeah.
NW Chrome.
NW Chrome.
That would have been the NWO.
And everyone just dresses up chrome or whatever.
It'd be NWC, right?
Everybody dresses up like chrome Mega Mans.
Yeah, exactly.
NWC for life.
New world, new world chrome.
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Oh, man.
Okay, so this fucking kid goes outside with a shotgun and he's threatening the killer.
And of course, the killer turns the gun on him and just blows this kid's brains to smithereens.
The funniest part about this and I add this another scene I laughed out loud.
Yeah, kid grabs a shotgun and he points it at chrome skull and he goes, I will shoot you in the head.
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And then chrome skull takes the gun and shoots him in the head.
Yep, just pushes it back boom.
Blows his face off.
Just brains him all over the ceiling.
Yep, just brains everywhere.
And you know what?
I wanted to talk about this too because earlier in the movie and we're talking people that were in this film that have gone on to do bigger things.
And one of the people from that thing you do, Jonathan Sheesh.
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Okay.
I can't pronounce that for the slightest bit.
Oh, yeah.
He spells his name weird.
It looks like his name is Johnathon.
Look, it's spelled J-O-H-N-A-T-H-O-N.
Isn't that how it's normally spelled?
No, it's J-O-N-A-T-H-O-N.
I mean, it can go either way.
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I mean, yeah.
So you're being picky again.
I am being very picky, but I can't pronounce his last name the slightest bit.
It's S-C-H-A-E-C-H. Sheesh?
Maybe.
And I feel like there's other guy, Richard Lynch has been in a lot of shit too.
He was in a lot of the Rob Zombie stuff.
Yeah.
And a lot of like old, old, old shows, actually.
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He looks familiar.
Very familiar.
He's been in Lords of Salem.
Yeah, he was in Lords of Salem.
He was in the first Rob Zombie movie.
The only good one. Decent anyway.
It's not good.
Halloween?
Halloween, yeah.
Yeah, that was actually pretty decent.
I liked it.
So people were like, no, I don't like it because you hear Michael Myers talk as a child.
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Who gives a shit?
Yeah, but he just like the coolest opening scene with him like killing his stepdad.
Oh, yeah.
And then like, obviously, we don't like animal abuse,
but that's what he did before he started killing people.
I'm pretty sure his dad was the first person he killed in that universe.
Yeah, dude.
All serial killers.
Well, actually, I don't want to say all serial killers.
Most serial killers start off by killing animals.
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Yeah, because like Dexter did.
Yeah, they all do it.
I don't know what it is,
but it's just kind of in their DNA to start small and then big.
And I think it's just that's their way of working up to killing people.
That's it.
So brains everywhere in this kid.
Oh, yeah.
Well, the reason why I brought up Jonathan is because his kill was so absurd.
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The knife through the face or the cheeks.
Oh, yeah.
Right through each cheek.
Yep.
And sliding the knife up like his face falls off.
Yeah.
He just more with that that serrated knife he was using.
He went back and forth with it and like cut him down the middle.
Like, yeah, you just started to hack in a little bit and then like freaking just
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slides up and his face fell off like butter.
Yeah. Cooked, cooked, just absolutely cooked.
That's what I'm saying.
Like the practical effects in this movie are great.
I thought all the kills looked awesome.
Yeah, I will say that the kills did look great.
Whatever there was for practical effects was great.
I don't think they used a lot of CGI.
Maybe on the head getting blown off scene.
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Maybe that probably the only thing.
Yeah, I think that's maybe the only aspect.
Otherwise, everything else looked great.
I don't think they were actually like CGI heavy though back in 2009.
Like was CGI really even a thing yet?
It was.
I mean, when did fucking Jurassic Park come out?
96.
I don't know.
Jurassic Park.
Let's see.
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93.
Nice.
God, even earlier.
Yeah.
Okay.
That was also Steven Spielberg.
Yeah.
And also there was Terminator 2, which was also in the 90s.
So they were really starting to dive into CGI.
Terminator 2?
91.
Damn.
Yeah, those still hold up to this day.
It's wild to see like the T1000, how they did him and looking back at it almost what?
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40 years later.
Oh, not 40 years.
Like 30 something years later at this point.
You're just like, this still looks great.
So great effects.
Terminator 2 had a budget of 100 million.
Which is fucking pennies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger earned 15 million as his role for his role as T800 in Terminator 2.
Yeah.
Right.
So Terminator 2 had a budget of around 100 million.
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So Schwarzenegger's paycheck was about 1% of the total cost.
Schwarzenegger's pay was based on a per word rate of around 21,429,
which is considered one of the most notable in history.
So anyways, we're in the store.
Kid gets his head blown off.
They're trying to fight this killer.
They bring up this one recall scene where, do you remember earlier in the movie,
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Steven was talking about having like some sort of weird brake fluid stuff,
like the tire fluid.
And he's like, I don't know, I could spray it in his ear.
And the killer.
And he saw a head blow up.
Yeah, the killer makes his head blow up via that same exact stuff he wanted to spray in the killer's ear.
I thought it was...
It came full circle.
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It came full circle.
So I like that they tied that up.
Not that it was like anything...
Not that it even fucking mattered.
So pretty much the majority of these people are dead at this point.
Tucker's dead, gets stabbed in the stomach.
One of the friends gets his head basically lopped.
Well, he actually gets his head fully lopped off.
Steven's dead, his head exploded.
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So it's really just Princess in the killer at this point.
Princess is hanging out in the fucking refrigerator,
trying to get away from the killer.
The killer shows her who she is,
because he filmed her before he fucking whacked her head with a baseball bat.
And we find out that she's a sex worker.
So he paid her for a blow job and just ended up whacking her in the head with a baseball bat instead.
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So yeah, he hits her with a baseball bat,
and that's pretty much where the footage ends.
So she's realizing now like, oh my God, I'm a prostitute.
And the killer, like she knocked the killer's mask off his face.
And what I didn't bring up is,
Steven somehow manages to get a hold of the killer's briefcase.
And inside that briefcase is glue.
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So I don't know how Steven became this scientist,
but he's like mixing these chemicals and he puts it inside the glue.
I don't know if it's a thing he knows because he's a funeral director, my profession.
No, Steven wasn't the funeral director, was he?
He was like just a guy that hung out at home on the computer.
Yeah, no, it was a different guy.
Yeah, okay.
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So yeah, Steven, the one who got his head blown up by tire fluid stuff,
he somehow manages to be like, I know this glue, it's super glue.
And he's pouring stuff inside it.
I don't know, making some sort of acid or whatever.
And the killer has later on has this mask knocked off by Princess.
He puts the mask on and it starts melting his face.
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And Corey, I shit you not, here's what I'm thinking.
I'm thinking we're getting another headless situation.
You know where he just rips his face off and it's just bones?
Uh-huh.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
He was just going to rip his face off and we're just going to see a bone face
instead of the mask.
So Chromeface, Chromehead, Chromeskull, whatever you want to call him.
Chromeface?
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Skull.
Chromeskull.
Chromeskull is trying to take the mask off because his face is fucking melting.
He pulls it off.
You see just nothing but fucking his face is just a heaping mess and hits the ground.
And this is where Princess decides to come out and hit him with a baseball bat
to the face a few times, not end scene fade to black yet.
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She goes into Tucker's pocket and she gets like the piece of paper showing who she is.
She gets the whole rundown like that she's been arrested multiple times for
prostitution and all this stuff.
And so now she knows that she's got a bit of a past.
She leaves a note behind with her shit on it saying to the cops,
we waited for you all night.
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They finally show up after her and the guy take off to Atlanta and end scene fade
to black. And that was it. That's a wrap.
So with that said, I think we can go into our reviews here.
Corey, what do you give Laid to Rest?
So this is just a three out of five for me.
It was OK.
The killer was super menacing and the kills were great.
The only thing keeping me back from giving this a higher score is the acting
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performances were pretty cringe and the music choices were so unbelievably laughable.
We get so funny because we kind of differ there.
Yeah.
Overall, a pretty decent slasher film that I feel went under the radar.
OK, that's fair.
So I'm kind of conflicted on this one bit of a roller coaster between two and four.
So I think I'm just going to even it out, though, and go with three out of five.
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The practical effects in this movie were well done, but I wouldn't say this movie
holds up to the technology aspect, which we talked about earlier.
Probably one of the main reasons why I haven't gone back and watch Strangeland
because the technology just doesn't hold up.
And this came out 16 years ago.
So technology was way different 16 years ago.
We've made leaps and bounds since.
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It's all about fucking AI these days.
So the soundtrack was good.
I almost lost my shit hearing Daughters spelled wrong in it.
Never in a million years did I think I'd hear Daughters in a fucking horror film.
So that was a nice thing to hear.
And the story was fine, but had a nice little twist of the funeral director
basically being the killer's landlord, which we didn't talk about.
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So I thought I'd leave it for the movie or leave it for them to watch.
Yeah, well, leave it for them to watch.
I think what kind of killed it for me as well was the acting.
It was overall subpar.
The story itself was good, but something felt missing to me.
I couldn't place it, though, but something was just not there story wise.
I don't know what exactly was missing.
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Maybe I would have liked to have heard something more about the FBI's findings.
But my guess is they held it back to unveil Princess as a sex worker.
I think maybe that was kind of the whole reason for that unveiling,
to not give out too much information.
But it also doesn't explain anything about his backstory.
That too.
So I don't know if they wanted to risk giving out too much of the backstory,
(39:50):
saying like he targets sex workers.
So if he targets sex workers, then we would have known Princess was a sex worker.
And they unveiled that later in the movie because no one knew anything about Princess
because she got fucking knocked stupid and couldn't remember who she was,
where she was, anything like that.
So I'm thinking maybe they held back that aspect to unveil that part of Princess's story.
(40:15):
Even though I don't think it would have mattered.
I think they could have given it away.
But whatever.
He's a serial killer, does whatever the fucking wants, kills whoever he wants.
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