December 30, 2024 • 36 mins
"Merry Christmas, you green b*tch!"
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Come, one and all to the following segment of Enjoyment
and an Escape from Reality. But beware the show you
are about to bear witness to will not hold back
when it comes to spoilers, language, and things not.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Appropriate for work or children. If you continue on, we hope.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
That you laugh at the banter, that you are thrilled
by the topic of discussion, and marvel at the host's
dedication to their craft, because you can only get that
type of treatment here at Monster Madness.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You have been warned.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Maybe it's because his head isn't screwed on quite right.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Maybe it's because his shoes are too tight. Maybe his
heart is two size is too small.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Men gonna believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I found I started looking for all those wallets and nineties.
Just look at this, Look that backpack shoes. There's your
hiking boot here. Check this out. Do you have so
many hiking paths? This one?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So they're all hikers, every single one of them. Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
So I went on Facebook, so I did photos, and
look at this.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
He's here, here, and here. All these people went missing
between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He hates Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
These are all the last photos any of these people
posted he's liking to the last thing any of them
ever saw.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Mean one, sure, but why come here to hike?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So I go with hiking in Newville and I found this.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
This website's telling people the hike New Mountains, but they're
walking their IP address.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So I kept digging and digging, and guess what I found.
This website is run by Mary McBean.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
She's been luring these people to their death. Hi, Hello,
and welcome to this week's episode of a Monster Madness,
a podcast dedicated to all sorts of preachers, features and beyond.
I'm Erica, and joined with me is a man who
I'm hoping, by the end of this episode feels his
heart gro three sizes too big.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I have enough beer to feel Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Fucking right, you do. That's Matt. I'm Erica, and thank
you for joining us on our final episode of season five,
Humor Horror, which was Matt's season give yourself a random applause, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It took a lot to get to this point. I'm
not gonna lie. When we first discussed this idea and
I won by a landslide in the Instagram polls, I
did not ever expect that all of twenty twenty four
would be dedicated to humor horror. It's been real, but
I am very much looking forward to getting back to
the normalized fucking horror movies.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Shit getting ripped to shreds uh. You can find Monster
Manus on all your favorite podcasting platforms, social media sites,
and things of that nature. Matt does stream video games
and drum sessions from time to time, so you could
check that out on our Twitch channel. You'd be like,
support this show. You could do so in a many
different ways, such as Patreon, buying merch or donating to
the show. We're just simply leaving a review on your
(03:34):
favorite podcasting provider. Those five stars go a long way,
and if you decide to write something, we will read
it on the show. All the links for the aforementioned
things will be posted in our show notes. So I
have a couple fuckable things. Well, I have one major
fuckable thing that I'm trying to get you on board with,
but I have yet to succeed. I don't know. I
(03:55):
think so my fuckable item is actually a fuckable show.
Oh that I did not think that I would get
sucked into. But here I am bingjin the shit out
of it in my free time. That show is Love
is Blind on Netflix. What an unhinged set and motley
crue of fucking weird, desperate ass people.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
So where what's the best season to start with?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Literally? Season one? Okay, it's fucking bananas. How I'm all
for social experiments. I'm a psychology major. I love that shit.
I love to fucking people watch and all this other shit.
You basically have people dating a bunch of other people
without physically seeing them in these isolation pods, and then like,
(04:46):
the women live with the women, the men live with
the men because it's all hetero stuff, because you can't
really do a gay version of Love is Blind unfortunately,
because I was like, is there a queer one?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You could now more than you could before, It would
just be a little more.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't think you could because here's the scenario. The
women live with the women and the men live with
the men. Nobody knows what the they look like, So like,
if you have a woman trying to find a woman like,
they could arguably do it. But who's to say that
the one of the women in the one group or
doing another group doesn't want to fuck another dude in
their group? Everybody would have to be isolated. It would
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be very complicated. So I get it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, that's just called The Circle.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Which Brooke loves The Circle.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We haven't we haven't watched the current season, but I'm
up to this point.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
When I tell her that you watch The Circle, she's
gonna scream her proverbial balls off. I mean, she's good,
she's gonna know by the time that this comes out,
but she's gonna be like fucking jazzed because I can't
stand The Circle.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The last season, Like it's getting a little ridiculous, but
we still watch it. We wait till so there are
a handful of shows where we wait for the entire
season to be able to even start. In The Circles
one of them.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The downside to this now, which is why I'm downloading
the first season above, is blind is Alessa has a
shit ton of like travel coming up, Like so she's
terminating her timeline. She's gone Saturday Sunday and then November
sixth through the fourteenth, which is really only like eight days,
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but still so it's like, I need shit to watch
because I'm not gonna sit and watch football all day
Sunday or college football on Saturdays and shit when she's gone.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So that's and what's ideal about this show is that
they're only like maybe an hour long, and there's only
about nine episodes of season or fourteen. Okay, I was close.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, there's eleven sorry ten the reunion, three
after the Altars, and I will not watch the fucking
unions because I just don't give a shit.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Put a pin in that I haven't gotten through the
first season yet, so I don't know if everybody's made
it to the Altar yet because they literally came back
out of this shit at the fucking Altar. It's so
it's hinge. I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
There's a couple of things I would like to touch
base on here. One the fact that the after there's
three after the author episodes, none of them give anything away. Two,
you're trying to get me to watch a fucking TV
show that you haven't even finished the first season of.
To quote front of the show Seth, every TV show
gets one season before you figure out if it's good.
You haven't even finished the first season.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's how invested I am.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Which is okay, But also, have you ever seen Married
at First Sight?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No, that's next. I just showed Brook that today and
she was jazzed.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I feel like that might be done or it got
way too ridiculous that we gave up on it, which
is saying a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's insane. I like the premise. I love a good
session of trash TV. I feel like you're gonna love
it too. I Brooke has never watched ninety Day Fiance either,
so I was like, we can start that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh my god. The problem with ninety Day Fiance if
you're starting it now is the fucking hill you have
to climb to like get caught up because all the spinoffs,
all the shit, like, and you really have to start
at the beginning because they keep bringing people back. We
just watched the newest episode of the Other Way before
(08:11):
we came in here, and it's like, God, damn, do
these people I don't. I simultaneously don't understand why these
people think that any of this is a great idea,
but to thank them for their service to give me
fucking something to do on a Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So, like, I have a pretty strict regiment with myself.
I'm like when I work, when I binge stuff and
all that stuff, and I'm trying to catch up because
Brooke is waiting for me to get to season seven
of Love is Blind so she can finish it. So
I was like, okay, I will watch some of it
while I'll watch some of it while I'm working today
(08:49):
because like, today was a busy day for me, which
fun announcement. I am not an eemak anymore, my iron
I'm not an emic anymore. My infusions worked. I went
to the doctors today efficiently ironed up. So that's a
positive for you to end the year on because you
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guys came along that journey with me. But anyway, yeah,
so I was like, today is gonna be kind of
like a lax day because I have to do a
longer shift because I took an extended break to go
with the doctors. Blah blah blah. And I was like,
I'll just watch some Love is Blind. Literally just rapid
fire texting her this whole time, like I can't believe
this fucking slut. Oh my god, what a fucking bitch.
(09:30):
Blah blah blah. He's so stupid. Yeah, like just it's
I can't wait for you to watch it, and I
hope you live text me during it, but that's mine
do you have anything that fucks this holiday season?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Shrimped dip?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What the hell did you just say shrimped it? I
still didn't get it. Shrim deep Okay, I thought you
said cryp dip and I was like, that sounds.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sometimes when I crip walk. I don't know how to
crip walk. But it's a dip no, so hands down,
and it's something I could legitimately make any time of year.
It does not require this season. It is something I
love so much that I have a shrimp dip tattoo.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Do you really?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
The only difference is that it's right on my shint.
I'll send you a picture right now.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And it kind of started as a joke. So my
tattoo artists and are actually very good friends. We share
shrimp dip pictures every fucking year. Love it the only difference,
So okay, so let me let me send this picture.
We'll circle back.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You really are my favorite person with these fucking weird
ass tattoos. Thanks, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So traditionally, shrimp tip is generally eaten with ritz crackers.
I prefer it with wheat thins. That's just a me thing,
but uh, it kind of evolved. So I remember when
I was a kid, it was a cream cheese based
cocktail sauce and shrimp and a fucking story. My tattoo
artist Pete and I. I think it's tattoos by Pete
on Instagram. Look them up. So we kind of talked
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about it in every year, we kind of like help
each other make the shrimp dip better. So now it's
what I do, is I it is the only time
I ever use a shallet. I finally dice a challet
cream cheese Roy's sister Scheeri sauce mix that motherfucker up
PLoP around a plate. I make my own cocktail sauce.
I don't use jar shit because I'm an adult. I
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use Heintz, jalapeno ketchup and fresh horseradish. Get real fucking
whippy with it. And then when I make my shrimp,
I get the colossal shrimp and when I boil them,
I put Cajun spice or old bait in the water
and then dice them up and toss some motherfuckers on
top and then wheat thins. I generally make one large
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plate a year, because like I said, I can make
it any time. But It's something about this time of
year just reminds me of it, and if I eat it,
I'm gonna fucking die. My heart's gonna stop pumping. So yeah,
that would.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Be worth the EpiPen in my thigh.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
But you think about it as like fore you you
could just take the shrimp off of it, and you're
having just as good of a time. I don't play
me one bit shrimp or incredible. I have on my
weekend without a wife meal plan shrimp and steak on
the grill.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh you fuck?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Because I found that I can go to Costco and
get eighty seven pounds of top round sirglot steak, which
is okay for I'm fine with eating it for like
twenty dollars. So I just get a big fucking steak
and then chop it up and then just eat it
for a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hey you fucking do.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, he fucking dude, dirty boy.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, that's exactly how I said it to a little
drool coming out of my mouth. I don't know if
I've ever given you the recipe.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I might have.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I feel like this was discussed before, but Mikey's broccoli
cast role that comes out this time of year, Thanksgiving,
and Christmas. He's not allowed to walk into my house
without a broccoli cast role.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I know of the tales of Mikey's broccoli cast role.
You've sent me pictures. I don't know if you've sent
me a recipe. If you did, it was either a
ton of work or it was just like, I'm gonna
have a heart attack if I eat this by myself.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh no, you won't have a heart attack. Because the
man is like he wants to be the staple of health.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
What you would?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I know? Yeah, he's if any time I make anything,
he's like, how much cheese did you put in this?
It's like said yeah, because he's like, I don't want
get fat. I don't want to clog my orderies. Yeah,
he's like he's a super healthy dude, even though he's
not really that healthy. I don't think I love.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You, my he But come on, buddy, there's never too
much cheese.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's what I say. You had one thousand percent put
at least seven more pounds of cheese in your broccoli
cast role than he would.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's not a grocery pickup if I don't have at
least two pounds of cheese. On it, and that's just
like maintenance cheese.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
The people at like, fucking where do you do your
grocery pickup? Walmart?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Walmart?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, the people at Walmart are like the Stein Order
doesn't have cheese on us?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
He should?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, my guys, we gotta call the cops. God, we
all have much to end the year on unfuckable items.
I think we kind of like blew our load little
last episode. That's okay because this holiday season we're actually
ending on a great note. We are going to be
talking tonight today whenever you whatever time of day you
choose to listen. Twenty twenty Two's The Mean One?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Ow ow, doc, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I came to worrying about that boyfriend of yours boyfriend
who burk it's not my boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Who said he's my boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Did he say.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Whoever he is? He went into the mountain? What? Why
were he doing that? Why do you think doof?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's so sweet?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yeah, let's just see if he's still sweet tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
What? What?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
What? Hello? The hell?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Sorry? The Mean One is rated sixteen plus not a
not a normal rating, probably probably Canada. It has a
runtime of one hour in thirty three minutes right in
matt sweet spot. It was released in the United States
on December eighth, twenty twenty two. It was a limited
release in Canada. It was a Blu Ray release on
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October third, twenty twenty three. It was directed by Stephen Lamorte,
Stephen Ledeth, Stephen the Death Actually, what a fucking metal
ass name, Stephen Lamorte. It was written by Flip Cobbler
and Finn Cobbler, also by Stephen Lamote and Doctor Seuss.
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Based on those characters. We got one familiar name on
this cast list, David Howard Thornton, who infamously plays Art
the Clown in the Terrifier trilogy, which as of right now,
as of recording this, Matt and I have not seen
Terrifier three yet. It may have just come out in theaters,
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but it seems to be doing very well, which horrifies me.
I'm very nervous.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I had a lot of people ask me about it.
We had a wrestling event and one of the guys
was like, he has his youngest daughter isn't quite twenty
one yet, and he made some comment about his daughter
really wants to go see Terrifier three tonight, and I
laughed and I said, do you have have you seen
one and two? He's like, no, not at all. She
just said she wanted to see it. I said, maybe
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you don't go see Terrifier three. And then I had
to have like the unfortunate conversation of being like, look
like one is pretty gnarly, two is super over the top,
and they say three is worse. So they ended up
not going to that to for probably for the best,
but I am pretty I think Alyssa and I are
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going to watch it tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Uh so nice rite cracking on?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, some eggs in Christmas Horror.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
There it is for you right there, because technically it
is a Christmas movie, so happy holidays. Yeah. I had
one scene spoiled for me. It was actually leaked online
about how one dude gets murdered, and I think, I
think you're gonna appreciate it. I'm not gonna spoil it
for you, but you'll know I'm gonna get a text
tomorrow morning. You'll be like I saw the scene, yep,
be happy for you or sad. Just let me know
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if I'm going to gag, because one made me very squeamish.
Two I had to look Yeah, I don't the thing
that the was.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It the bisection of the female clam that made you scream?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, actually it was when Art shit in the bathroom
and the guy was cleaning it up. I don't like that.
When we watched Cooties, I was fine with all of
that until what's his tits fucking was playing in Elijah
Wood Shit, I was like, I can't handle that part
of it. Snott and shit and vomit. Don't like the
because the fake stuff looks horrendous, blood and guts. I'm
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pretty okay with movies like this. Because Terror for Our
two was fucking rough. H There was a scene where
I had to look away when he scalped the girl.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I was like, who it just yeah, I get it.
It just looks so fucking fake that.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'm hoping that the third one looks so over the
top fake that I'm unfazed. Now, Brooke has not seen
any of them, and are you gonna.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
At least watch one and two before making her unch?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah? Yeah, because that's why I told her. I was like, oh,
I was able to acquire Terrifier three and she was like, okay,
that means we have to watch the first two. I
was like you hate Gore, so this is gonna be rough,
and she's like fucking great. Like we were watching a
Harry Potter movie with the girls tonight and she jumped
at something, so she's in for a ride.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I had to have a at length discussion with Dylan's
fourteen year old son about Terrifier the series because he
said he wanted to watch them. Man. I was just
kind of like, look, man, like, I'm not your parent,
I'm your super super older friend that's also friends with
your dad. That's not really creepy. I'm sorry, but like
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I can't tell him what to do as not his parent.
But also I was kind of like, this is some
fucking super perverse shit.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Maybe maybe you don't want to do this.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
And what I know he watched the I think he
texted me after you watched the first one, Chacker. I
was drinking and playing video games and he was texting me.
So I don't really remember the conversation, but I should
probably check on him. But Dylan hasn't yelled at me yet.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh good.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm not here to parent. They just they have access
to all of my movies.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So but here's the thing too, you warned him not
to do it. So you really did do the job.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
True, But it wasn't like you can't wlash that you're
you're not old enough. I was just like, hey, man,
like it's fucking dark.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, be either which way. David Howard Wharton Thornton plays
the mean one. We have Crystal Martin, Chase Mullins, John Bigham,
Eric Baker, Flip Cobbler, Amy Schumacher, Tina van Burke, and
Victoria Ippolito. It was produced by Amy Rose Productions, Collie Pictures,
and Sleight of Hand Productions. It was distributed by A
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two Films, not to be confused with A twenty four
and at List distribution company. The only tagline for this
one is slashing through the snow. I didn't hate that.
That gets actually an A from me, slashing through the snow.
Not bad, good job, mean one, good job, Matthew. What
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was the budget?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Six hundred and twelve two hundred No, never mind, that's
the budget.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Sorry, yeah, no, that's what we want.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
That's the box office.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh here it is.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
There's no budget, don't I don't see? Well?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Had time?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Let mean hold on, hold on? Oh god, okay, because
I feel like I saw a budget somewhere. Maybe there
is a budget. Yeah, just see I see box office
numbers which did very well. I mean worldwide, it made
over a million, which for a movie that was like
filmed and then came out multiple years later, because I
feel like we first heard about this like twenty twenty
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something like that. Yeah, yeah, I don't see any budget,
but yeah, a million dollars not too shabby.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Not too shabby at all. All right, Matt, can you
bring us in on the plot of the mean one.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeses movie about stuff and things? During Christmas Eve? Fuck you?
During Christmas even the town of Neuville, a green humanoid
creature dressed in a Santa Claus suit attempts to rop
the Christmas decorations from the home of a young Cindy
you know who. She stumbles upon the creature and gives
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him a necklace until her mother attempts to fight him.
In this struggle, the creature accidentally pushes Cindy's mother against
a nail that pierces her neck, killing her. Before the
creature escapes, Cindy calls him a monster, angering the creature.
Twenty years later, Cindy returns to Newville for closure and
to spend Christmas with her father, Lou. She bonds with
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the police officer Burke Goldman and reunites with Newville's sheriff
Peter Hooper, who continues to dismiss Cindy's claims of her
mother's murderer being a monster due to lack of evidence.
He reveals that Newville stopped selling or putting up Christmas
decorations after the incident. Incident that night, Lou finds old
Christmas decorations and puts them up with Cindy. While she's
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taking out the trash, the creature locks her out and
kills Lou before stealing their decorations. Cindy wakes up in
the hospital, where she meets Newville's mayor, Margie McBean, who
is uncomfortable with Cindy's claims of the creature, believing it
will cause panic. After her father's funeral, Cindy finds a
rare flower in her home and traces it to a
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mountain via a website. Cindy finds a wallet of a
missing person and sees the creature killing a couple before retreating.
Shortly after, Hooper tells Cindy he cannot investigate as the
mountain is in a Federal Territory, although Burke agrees to help. Meanwhile,
the creature slaughters a group of Santakas players in a
local bar. As the creature attempts to break into Cindy's home,
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he is scared off by a man known as doctor Zeus,
who believes Sidney's story since his wife was murdered by
the creature years ago. Burke goes to the mountain and
finds the creature's height out with several wallets of missing people.
Cindy trains and prepares to kill the creature, who rampages
through New Villa and kills several residents. Burke discourages Cindy
from facing the creature and finds the wallets all belong
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to tourists who are allured to the mountain by the
same website Cindy Saw, which is owned by Mayor McBean.
He confronts Hooper, who confirms the creature's existence and explains
that after Cindy's mother's death, the creature returned every Christmas
to slaughter more people, and later his hedout was found.
Hooper and Mayor McBean collaborated to make the website and
send unsuspecting tourists as sacrifices in order to stop creatures
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killing spree. In addition to removing all Christmas decorations from town.
Mayor McBean attempts. Mayor McBean attempts to leave the town,
but the creature kills her on the way. Burke heads
to the mountain to kill the creature, but becomes injured.
Injured and is rescued by Cindy, Hooper and Doc. Hooper
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goes after the creature, but is killed. Cindy retreats to
her decorated home and waits for the creature. When the
creature arrives, she ambushes and engages him in a fight.
Cindy finally incapacitates the creature, but before she can kill him,
Cindy sees that he is still wearing the necklace she
gave him twenty years ago. Cindy realizes that the creature
never wanted to hurt anyone, and his murderous behavior sparked
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when she called him a monster, so she forgives him
kisses the creature on the cheek. This act of kindness
causes the creature's hard to grow three sizes, which ends
up exploding and kills him. Some time after, Neuville reverts
to displaying Christmas ornaments. The creature is deemed an urban
legend and causes the town to become a popular tourist destination.
Cindy and Burke start a romantic relationship, and the error
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hints that the creature may return next year as his
grovel is hurt. So I didn't want to stop him
and all that because uh, yeah, boy's been drinking. But
so there there was there was like a plethora of
like really great fucking things that made this movie really
funny outside of all the horror shit. And it's the
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the constant jabs at the fact that this is the Grinch,
but they can't call it the Grinch. So like there's
a scene in a bar where they're about to call
the Grinch shamers, like, well, shut the fuck up, it's
the mean one. And it's the same with like the
the you know Cindy you know who was instead of
Cindy lou who and and shit like that. So it's
like there was just a lot of really thing There's
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a lot of really like minute details that made this
movie really fucking fun. And I told you a lot
of this when I watched it the first time, when
it first came out, but yeah, that's the mean one.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It was real good.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
That's fucking such a it's such a good movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I would say, like the first half I was a
little bit underwhelmed, and then the second half of that
movie it really got me. I was cracking up. I
love Doc. He was great. Doc Zeus, Yeah, fucking great.
Come on. It was definitely very silly, So it will
get a yay from me. If you want a good
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Christmas horror is one extreme or the other. To me,
it's either super over the top and bad and corny
and aggies hord like those fuck what are like the
Jack Frost movies where you have a fucking giant snowman
raping a chick with a fucking carrot his carrot nose.
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Alla like ThanksKilling esque type movies, or those uh those
Santa Claus movies that I can't remember what they're called,
but it's basically fucking Santa with a shotgun just going
in people's houses and killing them.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Santa Slay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Think that's it, Santa Sleigh something like that. Or it's
something completely macabre and horrifying like Black Christmas that terrifies
the absolute shit out of me where you have to
see an eyeball like reflecting in a fucking red Christmas
ball because there's a guy hiding in the giant ass
tree in a sorority house. Like it's one extreme in
the other. I found that this definitely was kitchy and fun,
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but it it was more like in the middle of
those two. For me, it wasn't super over the top
where I was like, Okay, this is bad. This was
super enjoyable. I loved it. It gets a ya for me.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, no, it absolutely gets a ya for me too.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I mean, I oh, Silent Night, Deadly Night, those Oh okay, okay,
Santa coming down your chimney with an axe, but yeah no,
it gets a ya. Uh. It makes me want to
watch a bunch of like crazy Christmas horror movies for sure.
And who doesn't love the Grinch?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I love every I love every iteration of the Grinch.
The one from the sixties with Boris fucking Carlof like,
you can't I can't hate on that did Jim carry One's? Okay?
But then the one where the newer animated one with
Benedict Kumbobatch playing the Grinch's voice. They're all stellar. And
this one falls right in line with them.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
So no, yeah, it's an absolute yea. I'm very vocal
about not really being a huge Christmas fan. Yes, in
terms of Christmas horror, this is up there. I mean
it's it's I would probably recommend it before I would
tell someone to watch like Crampis, which I also think
is a really good movie. Yeah, it's a fucking solid movie.
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It like for everything, it hits every note that it's
supposed to in terms of horror, humor and all that shit.
And plus David Howard Thorn's becoming such a monster in
terms of horror actors at this point, as like I
don't know offhand when Terrifier one came out twenty seventeen,
twenty eighteen, but like, dude was a fucking nobody because
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I met him shortly after that movie came out, and
no one knew who he was. And now he's just
he's absolutely everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, everybody knows who he is now. It's great and
good for him. He deserves it. He's a great character
actor for sure. He can definitely put on the creep
really well, and he's actually vying to play a live
action joker in some form like that's his dream is
to play like a joker of some sort. And he's
done like reels and posted them on YouTube before he
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even did any type of like actual acting work to
kind of you know, portfolio himself. And he does. He
does a pretty solid job.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Did you see the ship he did at I don't
know if it was a spirit Halloween or whatever, but
dressed up his art the clown and like fuck the people,
Yeah I did. Yeah, so incredible, he probably said to me, Yeah,
I've said it before. He's a sweetheart of a human being.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, so yay, David Howard Thornton, This this episode is
dedicated to you, so real quick, we're going to do
some monster minutes and then we're going to talk to
you guys really quickly about what's in store for the
show in the upcoming season. Since this is our last
episode of this season, we usually take a quick break.
But before we get into that some monster minuses, there
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are multiple references to doctor Seuss and some of his work.
A restaurant is named Hortens Horton hears who a character
being called doctor Zeus, which rhymes with Seuss, and a
character drinks to a bottle named Jizell's Doctor Seuss's real
name is Theodore Seuss. Giselle x y Z Films announced
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October second, twenty two to two that they picked up
The Mean One for December twenty twenty two release. This
is loosely based on the iconic nineteen fifty seven children's
book How the gridg Stal Christmas by Doctor Seuss, about
a cranky Christmas hating creature that ruins the holiday for
a small town. The title The Mean One is taken
from an original song used in the nineteen sixty six
animated TV special in the book, the special and the
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following appearances. Though the Grinch does not kill anyone, the
film thought was thought to have fallen into obscurity until
July twenty twenty three, where it was announced that it
would be released on digital DVD and Blu Ray on
October third that year. So that's why not a lot
of people saw this movie when it originally released, because
it was such a limited release, And then it got
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its pick up when it came out in July twenty
twenty three on physical and digital media. And last, but
certainly not least, this is the third Doctor Seuss production
to not be produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal
Pictures after Horton, Hears Who and Green Eggs and Ham.
It is also the first one that's not for children.
Not a lot of Minucius for you, but enough to
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satiate satiate that palette. But yeah, that's gonna do it
for the movie. So before we end the episode, Matt
and I want to issh you a happy holidays and
a happy New Year first and foremost, at least I do.
And what's coming up next for us is is we
always typically take January off to kind of recoup from
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the holidays to kind of bank some episodes for you
guys next season, which I've mentioned numerous times, but I
will remention it is a when Animals Attack season. So
all of these horror movies and thrillers are going to
be animal attack films. This is going to range from
obscure films like maybe something called Frogs to really well
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known films like Jaws. We're going to try and touch
on multiple different animal attack films and not just hit
you with constant you know, snakes, bears, shark movies. There's
quite a few obs obscure ones, and I actually added
one today to close out the season that I'm really
hoping is not as horrible as it seems. But yes,
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so be on the lookout for announcements. Follow our social
media all over the place, join our discord to get updates,
because with new season that means new artwork, new music,
new listener advisory, new everything for the most part. And yeah,
but the only thing that shall remain is me and
Matt's beautiful banter as we trek through an entire new
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season in twenty twenty five. I just want to personally
say thank you so much for listening to this season.
It was a blast for me. I loved it with
my whole, whole heart, and I got to do it
with my best buddy, So there is no complaints here.
Even with the shittiest movies in the world, I would
watch them with you any day, Matthew, and I'm grateful
for you, and I want the Internet to know that
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I love you.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Buddy. Eric is actually super abusive. I don't know why
she's trying to act like she's actually a good human beings.
She treats me like shit all the time, tells me
that I'm a fuck up and a waste of space.
It's actually incredibly abusive here at monster manness, and at
no point should any of you ever condone the way
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that she treats me. She tells me that I have
to like Christmas, even though it's not really something that
I've ever been into. I've told her why, and she says,
fuck you, it's for the show, your piece of shit.
If you want to see tomorrow and you want to
get your paycheck, you'll fucking love Christmas. She actually whipped
me with a sack of orange is one time, and
she said it gets the point across and it doesn't
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leave a bruisy piece of shit. It's actually I'm really
hoping that someone hears my christ for help and reaches
out and helps me get past this, because it's it's
actually pretty pretty abusive here. Well.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
A good thing that we don't have an HR department yet, so.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Aren't you HR. I am see the problem here, guys,
not legitimately though, like I know that I'm what some
aide consider a grane or a groundle. I don't like.
I don't not like Christmas. It's just not my shit,
But it means a lot that you guys have stuck
around five seasons as well. To think that we're almost
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up on episode one hundred. A lot of shit has
changed when you think about how the show started and
how the show is going and everything. But yeah, thanks
for listening to my drunken booze randlings and Erica's fucking
nonsensical bullshit.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
My digressing.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You said it on me.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
But yes, thank you guys so much for listening. And
we will see you in a couple of weeks, in
about a month or so, with a couple of weeks,
a couple two trees. Yeah, we will be back and
we will be better than ever. Love you, Happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Enjoy some veenis Schnitzel on New Year's Eve with your
families and the later hosen in Sibias, and then make
sure that you have the sour crowds and and then
never forget that Germany is the number one.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
You sound like that guy from what We.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Do in the Shadows and or is that a bad thing?
And is great?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I know you? That was great.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Bye, The Hunter proclaimed we Christmas
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You green bitch.
Come, one and all to the following segment of Enjoyment
and an Escape from Reality. But beware the show you
are about to bear witness to will not hold back
when it comes to spoilers, language, and things not.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Appropriate for work or children. If you continue on, we hope.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
That you laugh at the banter, that you are thrilled
by the topic of discussion, and marvel at the host's
dedication to their craft, because you can only get that
type of treatment here at Monster Madness.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You have been warned.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Maybe it's because his head isn't screwed on quite right.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Maybe it's because his shoes are too tight. Maybe his
heart is two size is too small.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Men gonna believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I found I started looking for all those wallets and nineties.
Just look at this, Look that backpack shoes. There's your
hiking boot here. Check this out. Do you have so
many hiking paths? This one?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So they're all hikers, every single one of them. Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
So I went on Facebook, so I did photos, and
look at this.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
He's here, here, and here. All these people went missing
between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He hates Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
These are all the last photos any of these people
posted he's liking to the last thing any of them
ever saw.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Mean one, sure, but why come here to hike?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So I go with hiking in Newville and I found this.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
This website's telling people the hike New Mountains, but they're
walking their IP address.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So I kept digging and digging, and guess what I found.
This website is run by Mary McBean.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
She's been luring these people to their death. Hi, Hello,
and welcome to this week's episode of a Monster Madness,
a podcast dedicated to all sorts of preachers, features and beyond.
I'm Erica, and joined with me is a man who
I'm hoping, by the end of this episode feels his
heart gro three sizes too big.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I have enough beer to feel Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Fucking right, you do. That's Matt. I'm Erica, and thank
you for joining us on our final episode of season five,
Humor Horror, which was Matt's season give yourself a random applause, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It took a lot to get to this point. I'm
not gonna lie. When we first discussed this idea and
I won by a landslide in the Instagram polls, I
did not ever expect that all of twenty twenty four
would be dedicated to humor horror. It's been real, but
I am very much looking forward to getting back to
the normalized fucking horror movies.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Shit getting ripped to shreds uh. You can find Monster
Manus on all your favorite podcasting platforms, social media sites,
and things of that nature. Matt does stream video games
and drum sessions from time to time, so you could
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(03:34):
favorite podcasting provider. Those five stars go a long way,
and if you decide to write something, we will read
it on the show. All the links for the aforementioned
things will be posted in our show notes. So I
have a couple fuckable things. Well, I have one major
fuckable thing that I'm trying to get you on board with,
but I have yet to succeed. I don't know. I
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think so my fuckable item is actually a fuckable show.
Oh that I did not think that I would get
sucked into. But here I am bingjin the shit out
of it in my free time. That show is Love
is Blind on Netflix. What an unhinged set and motley
crue of fucking weird, desperate ass people.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
So where what's the best season to start with?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Literally? Season one? Okay, it's fucking bananas. How I'm all
for social experiments. I'm a psychology major. I love that shit.
I love to fucking people watch and all this other shit.
You basically have people dating a bunch of other people
without physically seeing them in these isolation pods, and then like,
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the women live with the women, the men live with
the men because it's all hetero stuff, because you can't
really do a gay version of Love is Blind unfortunately,
because I was like, is there a queer one?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You could now more than you could before, It would
just be a little more.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't think you could because here's the scenario. The
women live with the women and the men live with
the men. Nobody knows what the they look like, So like,
if you have a woman trying to find a woman like,
they could arguably do it. But who's to say that
the one of the women in the one group or
doing another group doesn't want to fuck another dude in
their group? Everybody would have to be isolated. It would
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be very complicated. So I get it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, that's just called The Circle.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Which Brooke loves The Circle.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We haven't we haven't watched the current season, but I'm
up to this point.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
When I tell her that you watch The Circle, she's
gonna scream her proverbial balls off. I mean, she's good,
she's gonna know by the time that this comes out,
but she's gonna be like fucking jazzed because I can't
stand The Circle.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The last season, Like it's getting a little ridiculous, but
we still watch it. We wait till so there are
a handful of shows where we wait for the entire
season to be able to even start. In The Circles
one of them.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The downside to this now, which is why I'm downloading
the first season above, is blind is Alessa has a
shit ton of like travel coming up, Like so she's
terminating her timeline. She's gone Saturday Sunday and then November
sixth through the fourteenth, which is really only like eight days,
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but still so it's like, I need shit to watch
because I'm not gonna sit and watch football all day
Sunday or college football on Saturdays and shit when she's gone.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So that's and what's ideal about this show is that
they're only like maybe an hour long, and there's only
about nine episodes of season or fourteen. Okay, I was close.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, there's eleven sorry ten the reunion, three
after the Altars, and I will not watch the fucking
unions because I just don't give a shit.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Put a pin in that I haven't gotten through the
first season yet, so I don't know if everybody's made
it to the Altar yet because they literally came back
out of this shit at the fucking Altar. It's so
it's hinge. I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
There's a couple of things I would like to touch
base on here. One the fact that the after there's
three after the author episodes, none of them give anything away. Two,
you're trying to get me to watch a fucking TV
show that you haven't even finished the first season of.
To quote front of the show Seth, every TV show
gets one season before you figure out if it's good.
You haven't even finished the first season.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's how invested I am.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Which is okay, But also, have you ever seen Married
at First Sight?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No, that's next. I just showed Brook that today and
she was jazzed.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I feel like that might be done or it got
way too ridiculous that we gave up on it, which
is saying a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's insane. I like the premise. I love a good
session of trash TV. I feel like you're gonna love
it too. I Brooke has never watched ninety Day Fiance either,
so I was like, we can start that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh my god. The problem with ninety Day Fiance if
you're starting it now is the fucking hill you have
to climb to like get caught up because all the spinoffs,
all the shit, like, and you really have to start
at the beginning because they keep bringing people back. We
just watched the newest episode of the Other Way before
(08:11):
we came in here, and it's like, God, damn, do
these people I don't. I simultaneously don't understand why these
people think that any of this is a great idea,
but to thank them for their service to give me
fucking something to do on a Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So, like, I have a pretty strict regiment with myself.
I'm like when I work, when I binge stuff and
all that stuff, and I'm trying to catch up because
Brooke is waiting for me to get to season seven
of Love is Blind so she can finish it. So
I was like, okay, I will watch some of it
while I'll watch some of it while I'm working today
(08:49):
because like, today was a busy day for me, which
fun announcement. I am not an eemak anymore, my iron
I'm not an emic anymore. My infusions worked. I went
to the doctors today efficiently ironed up. So that's a
positive for you to end the year on because you
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guys came along that journey with me. But anyway, yeah,
so I was like, today is gonna be kind of
like a lax day because I have to do a
longer shift because I took an extended break to go
with the doctors. Blah blah blah. And I was like,
I'll just watch some Love is Blind. Literally just rapid
fire texting her this whole time, like I can't believe
this fucking slut. Oh my god, what a fucking bitch.
(09:30):
Blah blah blah. He's so stupid. Yeah, like just it's
I can't wait for you to watch it, and I
hope you live text me during it, but that's mine
do you have anything that fucks this holiday season?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Shrimped dip?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What the hell did you just say shrimped it? I
still didn't get it. Shrim deep Okay, I thought you
said cryp dip and I was like, that sounds.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sometimes when I crip walk. I don't know how to
crip walk. But it's a dip no, so hands down,
and it's something I could legitimately make any time of year.
It does not require this season. It is something I
love so much that I have a shrimp dip tattoo.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Do you really?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
The only difference is that it's right on my shint.
I'll send you a picture right now.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And it kind of started as a joke. So my
tattoo artists and are actually very good friends. We share
shrimp dip pictures every fucking year. Love it the only difference,
So okay, so let me let me send this picture.
We'll circle back.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You really are my favorite person with these fucking weird
ass tattoos. Thanks, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So traditionally, shrimp tip is generally eaten with ritz crackers.
I prefer it with wheat thins. That's just a me thing,
but uh, it kind of evolved. So I remember when
I was a kid, it was a cream cheese based
cocktail sauce and shrimp and a fucking story. My tattoo
artist Pete and I. I think it's tattoos by Pete
on Instagram. Look them up. So we kind of talked
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about it in every year, we kind of like help
each other make the shrimp dip better. So now it's
what I do, is I it is the only time
I ever use a shallet. I finally dice a challet
cream cheese Roy's sister Scheeri sauce mix that motherfucker up
PLoP around a plate. I make my own cocktail sauce.
I don't use jar shit because I'm an adult. I
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use Heintz, jalapeno ketchup and fresh horseradish. Get real fucking
whippy with it. And then when I make my shrimp,
I get the colossal shrimp and when I boil them,
I put Cajun spice or old bait in the water
and then dice them up and toss some motherfuckers on
top and then wheat thins. I generally make one large
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plate a year, because like I said, I can make
it any time. But It's something about this time of
year just reminds me of it, and if I eat it,
I'm gonna fucking die. My heart's gonna stop pumping. So yeah,
that would.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Be worth the EpiPen in my thigh.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
But you think about it as like fore you you
could just take the shrimp off of it, and you're
having just as good of a time. I don't play
me one bit shrimp or incredible. I have on my
weekend without a wife meal plan shrimp and steak on
the grill.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh you fuck?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Because I found that I can go to Costco and
get eighty seven pounds of top round sirglot steak, which
is okay for I'm fine with eating it for like
twenty dollars. So I just get a big fucking steak
and then chop it up and then just eat it
for a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hey you fucking do.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, he fucking dude, dirty boy.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, that's exactly how I said it to a little
drool coming out of my mouth. I don't know if
I've ever given you the recipe.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I might have.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I feel like this was discussed before, but Mikey's broccoli
cast role that comes out this time of year, Thanksgiving,
and Christmas. He's not allowed to walk into my house
without a broccoli cast role.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I know of the tales of Mikey's broccoli cast role.
You've sent me pictures. I don't know if you've sent
me a recipe. If you did, it was either a
ton of work or it was just like, I'm gonna
have a heart attack if I eat this by myself.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh no, you won't have a heart attack. Because the
man is like he wants to be the staple of health.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
What you would?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I know? Yeah, he's if any time I make anything,
he's like, how much cheese did you put in this?
It's like said yeah, because he's like, I don't want
get fat. I don't want to clog my orderies. Yeah,
he's like he's a super healthy dude, even though he's
not really that healthy. I don't think I love.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You, my he But come on, buddy, there's never too
much cheese.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's what I say. You had one thousand percent put
at least seven more pounds of cheese in your broccoli
cast role than he would.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's not a grocery pickup if I don't have at
least two pounds of cheese. On it, and that's just
like maintenance cheese.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
The people at like, fucking where do you do your
grocery pickup? Walmart?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Walmart?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, the people at Walmart are like the Stein Order
doesn't have cheese on us?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
He should?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, my guys, we gotta call the cops. God, we
all have much to end the year on unfuckable items.
I think we kind of like blew our load little
last episode. That's okay because this holiday season we're actually
ending on a great note. We are going to be
talking tonight today whenever you whatever time of day you
choose to listen. Twenty twenty Two's The Mean One?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Ow ow, doc, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I came to worrying about that boyfriend of yours boyfriend
who burk it's not my boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Who said he's my boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Did he say.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Whoever he is? He went into the mountain? What? Why
were he doing that? Why do you think doof?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's so sweet?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yeah, let's just see if he's still sweet tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
What? What?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
What? Hello? The hell?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Sorry? The Mean One is rated sixteen plus not a
not a normal rating, probably probably Canada. It has a
runtime of one hour in thirty three minutes right in
matt sweet spot. It was released in the United States
on December eighth, twenty twenty two. It was a limited
release in Canada. It was a Blu Ray release on
(15:11):
October third, twenty twenty three. It was directed by Stephen Lamorte,
Stephen Ledeth, Stephen the Death Actually, what a fucking metal
ass name, Stephen Lamorte. It was written by Flip Cobbler
and Finn Cobbler, also by Stephen Lamote and Doctor Seuss.
(15:31):
Based on those characters. We got one familiar name on
this cast list, David Howard Thornton, who infamously plays Art
the Clown in the Terrifier trilogy, which as of right now,
as of recording this, Matt and I have not seen
Terrifier three yet. It may have just come out in theaters,
(15:54):
but it seems to be doing very well, which horrifies me.
I'm very nervous.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I had a lot of people ask me about it.
We had a wrestling event and one of the guys
was like, he has his youngest daughter isn't quite twenty
one yet, and he made some comment about his daughter
really wants to go see Terrifier three tonight, and I
laughed and I said, do you have have you seen
one and two? He's like, no, not at all. She
just said she wanted to see it. I said, maybe
(16:22):
you don't go see Terrifier three. And then I had
to have like the unfortunate conversation of being like, look
like one is pretty gnarly, two is super over the top,
and they say three is worse. So they ended up
not going to that to for probably for the best,
but I am pretty I think Alyssa and I are
(16:42):
going to watch it tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Uh so nice rite cracking on?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, some eggs in Christmas Horror.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
There it is for you right there, because technically it
is a Christmas movie, so happy holidays. Yeah. I had
one scene spoiled for me. It was actually leaked online
about how one dude gets murdered, and I think, I
think you're gonna appreciate it. I'm not gonna spoil it
for you, but you'll know I'm gonna get a text
tomorrow morning. You'll be like I saw the scene, yep,
be happy for you or sad. Just let me know
(17:11):
if I'm going to gag, because one made me very squeamish.
Two I had to look Yeah, I don't the thing
that the was.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It the bisection of the female clam that made you scream?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, actually it was when Art shit in the bathroom
and the guy was cleaning it up. I don't like that.
When we watched Cooties, I was fine with all of
that until what's his tits fucking was playing in Elijah
Wood Shit, I was like, I can't handle that part
of it. Snott and shit and vomit. Don't like the
because the fake stuff looks horrendous, blood and guts. I'm
(17:51):
pretty okay with movies like this. Because Terror for Our
two was fucking rough. H There was a scene where
I had to look away when he scalped the girl.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I was like, who it just yeah, I get it.
It just looks so fucking fake that.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'm hoping that the third one looks so over the
top fake that I'm unfazed. Now, Brooke has not seen
any of them, and are you gonna.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
At least watch one and two before making her unch?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah? Yeah, because that's why I told her. I was like, oh,
I was able to acquire Terrifier three and she was like, okay,
that means we have to watch the first two. I
was like you hate Gore, so this is gonna be rough,
and she's like fucking great. Like we were watching a
Harry Potter movie with the girls tonight and she jumped
at something, so she's in for a ride.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I had to have a at length discussion with Dylan's
fourteen year old son about Terrifier the series because he
said he wanted to watch them. Man. I was just
kind of like, look, man, like, I'm not your parent,
I'm your super super older friend that's also friends with
your dad. That's not really creepy. I'm sorry, but like
(19:02):
I can't tell him what to do as not his parent.
But also I was kind of like, this is some
fucking super perverse shit.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Maybe maybe you don't want to do this.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
And what I know he watched the I think he
texted me after you watched the first one, Chacker. I
was drinking and playing video games and he was texting me.
So I don't really remember the conversation, but I should
probably check on him. But Dylan hasn't yelled at me yet.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh good.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm not here to parent. They just they have access
to all of my movies.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So but here's the thing too, you warned him not
to do it. So you really did do the job.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
True, But it wasn't like you can't wlash that you're
you're not old enough. I was just like, hey, man,
like it's fucking dark.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, be either which way. David Howard Wharton Thornton plays
the mean one. We have Crystal Martin, Chase Mullins, John Bigham,
Eric Baker, Flip Cobbler, Amy Schumacher, Tina van Burke, and
Victoria Ippolito. It was produced by Amy Rose Productions, Collie Pictures,
and Sleight of Hand Productions. It was distributed by A
(20:07):
two Films, not to be confused with A twenty four
and at List distribution company. The only tagline for this
one is slashing through the snow. I didn't hate that.
That gets actually an A from me, slashing through the snow.
Not bad, good job, mean one, good job, Matthew. What
(20:31):
was the budget?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Six hundred and twelve two hundred No, never mind, that's
the budget.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Sorry, yeah, no, that's what we want.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
That's the box office.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh here it is.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
There's no budget, don't I don't see? Well?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Had time?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Let mean hold on, hold on? Oh god, okay, because
I feel like I saw a budget somewhere. Maybe there
is a budget. Yeah, just see I see box office
numbers which did very well. I mean worldwide, it made
over a million, which for a movie that was like
filmed and then came out multiple years later, because I
feel like we first heard about this like twenty twenty
(21:07):
something like that. Yeah, yeah, I don't see any budget,
but yeah, a million dollars not too shabby.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Not too shabby at all. All right, Matt, can you
bring us in on the plot of the mean one.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeses movie about stuff and things? During Christmas Eve? Fuck you?
During Christmas even the town of Neuville, a green humanoid
creature dressed in a Santa Claus suit attempts to rop
the Christmas decorations from the home of a young Cindy
you know who. She stumbles upon the creature and gives
(21:40):
him a necklace until her mother attempts to fight him.
In this struggle, the creature accidentally pushes Cindy's mother against
a nail that pierces her neck, killing her. Before the
creature escapes, Cindy calls him a monster, angering the creature.
Twenty years later, Cindy returns to Newville for closure and
to spend Christmas with her father, Lou. She bonds with
(22:00):
the police officer Burke Goldman and reunites with Newville's sheriff
Peter Hooper, who continues to dismiss Cindy's claims of her
mother's murderer being a monster due to lack of evidence.
He reveals that Newville stopped selling or putting up Christmas
decorations after the incident. Incident that night, Lou finds old
Christmas decorations and puts them up with Cindy. While she's
(22:21):
taking out the trash, the creature locks her out and
kills Lou before stealing their decorations. Cindy wakes up in
the hospital, where she meets Newville's mayor, Margie McBean, who
is uncomfortable with Cindy's claims of the creature, believing it
will cause panic. After her father's funeral, Cindy finds a
rare flower in her home and traces it to a
(22:41):
mountain via a website. Cindy finds a wallet of a
missing person and sees the creature killing a couple before retreating.
Shortly after, Hooper tells Cindy he cannot investigate as the
mountain is in a Federal Territory, although Burke agrees to help. Meanwhile,
the creature slaughters a group of Santakas players in a
local bar. As the creature attempts to break into Cindy's home,
(23:02):
he is scared off by a man known as doctor Zeus,
who believes Sidney's story since his wife was murdered by
the creature years ago. Burke goes to the mountain and
finds the creature's height out with several wallets of missing people.
Cindy trains and prepares to kill the creature, who rampages
through New Villa and kills several residents. Burke discourages Cindy
from facing the creature and finds the wallets all belong
(23:24):
to tourists who are allured to the mountain by the
same website Cindy Saw, which is owned by Mayor McBean.
He confronts Hooper, who confirms the creature's existence and explains
that after Cindy's mother's death, the creature returned every Christmas
to slaughter more people, and later his hedout was found.
Hooper and Mayor McBean collaborated to make the website and
send unsuspecting tourists as sacrifices in order to stop creatures
(23:46):
killing spree. In addition to removing all Christmas decorations from town.
Mayor McBean attempts. Mayor McBean attempts to leave the town,
but the creature kills her on the way. Burke heads
to the mountain to kill the creature, but becomes injured.
Injured and is rescued by Cindy, Hooper and Doc. Hooper
(24:08):
goes after the creature, but is killed. Cindy retreats to
her decorated home and waits for the creature. When the
creature arrives, she ambushes and engages him in a fight.
Cindy finally incapacitates the creature, but before she can kill him,
Cindy sees that he is still wearing the necklace she
gave him twenty years ago. Cindy realizes that the creature
never wanted to hurt anyone, and his murderous behavior sparked
(24:29):
when she called him a monster, so she forgives him
kisses the creature on the cheek. This act of kindness
causes the creature's hard to grow three sizes, which ends
up exploding and kills him. Some time after, Neuville reverts
to displaying Christmas ornaments. The creature is deemed an urban
legend and causes the town to become a popular tourist destination.
Cindy and Burke start a romantic relationship, and the error
(24:51):
hints that the creature may return next year as his
grovel is hurt. So I didn't want to stop him
and all that because uh, yeah, boy's been drinking. But
so there there was there was like a plethora of
like really great fucking things that made this movie really
funny outside of all the horror shit. And it's the
(25:11):
the constant jabs at the fact that this is the Grinch,
but they can't call it the Grinch. So like there's
a scene in a bar where they're about to call
the Grinch shamers, like, well, shut the fuck up, it's
the mean one. And it's the same with like the
the you know Cindy you know who was instead of
Cindy lou who and and shit like that. So it's
like there was just a lot of really thing There's
(25:33):
a lot of really like minute details that made this
movie really fucking fun. And I told you a lot
of this when I watched it the first time, when
it first came out, but yeah, that's the mean one.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It was real good.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
That's fucking such a it's such a good movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I would say, like the first half I was a
little bit underwhelmed, and then the second half of that
movie it really got me. I was cracking up. I
love Doc. He was great. Doc Zeus, Yeah, fucking great.
Come on. It was definitely very silly, So it will
get a yay from me. If you want a good
(26:10):
Christmas horror is one extreme or the other. To me,
it's either super over the top and bad and corny
and aggies hord like those fuck what are like the
Jack Frost movies where you have a fucking giant snowman
raping a chick with a fucking carrot his carrot nose.
(26:33):
Alla like ThanksKilling esque type movies, or those uh those
Santa Claus movies that I can't remember what they're called,
but it's basically fucking Santa with a shotgun just going
in people's houses and killing them.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Santa Slay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Think that's it, Santa Sleigh something like that. Or it's
something completely macabre and horrifying like Black Christmas that terrifies
the absolute shit out of me where you have to
see an eyeball like reflecting in a fucking red Christmas
ball because there's a guy hiding in the giant ass
tree in a sorority house. Like it's one extreme in
the other. I found that this definitely was kitchy and fun,
(27:13):
but it it was more like in the middle of
those two. For me, it wasn't super over the top
where I was like, Okay, this is bad. This was
super enjoyable. I loved it. It gets a ya for me.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, no, it absolutely gets a ya for me too.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I mean, I oh, Silent Night, Deadly Night, those Oh okay, okay,
Santa coming down your chimney with an axe, but yeah no,
it gets a ya. Uh. It makes me want to
watch a bunch of like crazy Christmas horror movies for sure.
And who doesn't love the Grinch?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I love every I love every iteration of the Grinch.
The one from the sixties with Boris fucking Carlof like,
you can't I can't hate on that did Jim carry One's? Okay?
But then the one where the newer animated one with
Benedict Kumbobatch playing the Grinch's voice. They're all stellar. And
this one falls right in line with them.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
So no, yeah, it's an absolute yea. I'm very vocal
about not really being a huge Christmas fan. Yes, in
terms of Christmas horror, this is up there. I mean
it's it's I would probably recommend it before I would
tell someone to watch like Crampis, which I also think
is a really good movie. Yeah, it's a fucking solid movie.
(28:30):
It like for everything, it hits every note that it's
supposed to in terms of horror, humor and all that shit.
And plus David Howard Thorn's becoming such a monster in
terms of horror actors at this point, as like I
don't know offhand when Terrifier one came out twenty seventeen,
twenty eighteen, but like, dude was a fucking nobody because
(28:52):
I met him shortly after that movie came out, and
no one knew who he was. And now he's just
he's absolutely everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, everybody knows who he is now. It's great and
good for him. He deserves it. He's a great character
actor for sure. He can definitely put on the creep
really well, and he's actually vying to play a live
action joker in some form like that's his dream is
to play like a joker of some sort. And he's
done like reels and posted them on YouTube before he
(29:21):
even did any type of like actual acting work to
kind of you know, portfolio himself. And he does. He
does a pretty solid job.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Did you see the ship he did at I don't
know if it was a spirit Halloween or whatever, but
dressed up his art the clown and like fuck the people,
Yeah I did. Yeah, so incredible, he probably said to me, Yeah,
I've said it before. He's a sweetheart of a human being.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, so yay, David Howard Thornton, This this episode is
dedicated to you, so real quick, we're going to do
some monster minutes and then we're going to talk to
you guys really quickly about what's in store for the
show in the upcoming season. Since this is our last
episode of this season, we usually take a quick break.
But before we get into that some monster minuses, there
(30:03):
are multiple references to doctor Seuss and some of his work.
A restaurant is named Hortens Horton hears who a character
being called doctor Zeus, which rhymes with Seuss, and a
character drinks to a bottle named Jizell's Doctor Seuss's real
name is Theodore Seuss. Giselle x y Z Films announced
(30:24):
October second, twenty two to two that they picked up
The Mean One for December twenty twenty two release. This
is loosely based on the iconic nineteen fifty seven children's
book How the gridg Stal Christmas by Doctor Seuss, about
a cranky Christmas hating creature that ruins the holiday for
a small town. The title The Mean One is taken
from an original song used in the nineteen sixty six
animated TV special in the book, the special and the
(30:46):
following appearances. Though the Grinch does not kill anyone, the
film thought was thought to have fallen into obscurity until
July twenty twenty three, where it was announced that it
would be released on digital DVD and Blu Ray on
October third that year. So that's why not a lot
of people saw this movie when it originally released, because
it was such a limited release, And then it got
(31:06):
its pick up when it came out in July twenty
twenty three on physical and digital media. And last, but
certainly not least, this is the third Doctor Seuss production
to not be produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal
Pictures after Horton, Hears Who and Green Eggs and Ham.
It is also the first one that's not for children.
Not a lot of Minucius for you, but enough to
(31:27):
satiate satiate that palette. But yeah, that's gonna do it
for the movie. So before we end the episode, Matt
and I want to issh you a happy holidays and
a happy New Year first and foremost, at least I do.
And what's coming up next for us is is we
always typically take January off to kind of recoup from
(31:49):
the holidays to kind of bank some episodes for you
guys next season, which I've mentioned numerous times, but I
will remention it is a when Animals Attack season. So
all of these horror movies and thrillers are going to
be animal attack films. This is going to range from
obscure films like maybe something called Frogs to really well
(32:12):
known films like Jaws. We're going to try and touch
on multiple different animal attack films and not just hit
you with constant you know, snakes, bears, shark movies. There's
quite a few obs obscure ones, and I actually added
one today to close out the season that I'm really
hoping is not as horrible as it seems. But yes,
(32:34):
so be on the lookout for announcements. Follow our social
media all over the place, join our discord to get updates,
because with new season that means new artwork, new music,
new listener advisory, new everything for the most part. And yeah,
but the only thing that shall remain is me and
Matt's beautiful banter as we trek through an entire new
(32:57):
season in twenty twenty five. I just want to personally
say thank you so much for listening to this season.
It was a blast for me. I loved it with
my whole, whole heart, and I got to do it
with my best buddy, So there is no complaints here.
Even with the shittiest movies in the world, I would
watch them with you any day, Matthew, and I'm grateful
for you, and I want the Internet to know that
(33:19):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Buddy. Eric is actually super abusive. I don't know why
she's trying to act like she's actually a good human beings.
She treats me like shit all the time, tells me
that I'm a fuck up and a waste of space.
It's actually incredibly abusive here at monster manness, and at
no point should any of you ever condone the way
(33:41):
that she treats me. She tells me that I have
to like Christmas, even though it's not really something that
I've ever been into. I've told her why, and she says,
fuck you, it's for the show, your piece of shit.
If you want to see tomorrow and you want to
get your paycheck, you'll fucking love Christmas. She actually whipped
me with a sack of orange is one time, and
she said it gets the point across and it doesn't
(34:01):
leave a bruisy piece of shit. It's actually I'm really
hoping that someone hears my christ for help and reaches
out and helps me get past this, because it's it's
actually pretty pretty abusive here. Well.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
A good thing that we don't have an HR department yet, so.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Aren't you HR. I am see the problem here, guys,
not legitimately though, like I know that I'm what some
aide consider a grane or a groundle. I don't like.
I don't not like Christmas. It's just not my shit,
But it means a lot that you guys have stuck
around five seasons as well. To think that we're almost
(34:37):
up on episode one hundred. A lot of shit has
changed when you think about how the show started and
how the show is going and everything. But yeah, thanks
for listening to my drunken booze randlings and Erica's fucking
nonsensical bullshit.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
My digressing.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You said it on me.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
But yes, thank you guys so much for listening. And
we will see you in a couple of weeks, in
about a month or so, with a couple of weeks,
a couple two trees. Yeah, we will be back and
we will be better than ever. Love you, Happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Enjoy some veenis Schnitzel on New Year's Eve with your
families and the later hosen in Sibias, and then make
sure that you have the sour crowds and and then
never forget that Germany is the number one.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
You sound like that guy from what We.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Do in the Shadows and or is that a bad thing?
And is great?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I know you? That was great.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Bye, The Hunter proclaimed we Christmas
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You green bitch.
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