May 19, 2025 • 54 mins
This week's freshly popped horror movie review covers Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025), which dropped in theaters this weekend. 💀
Stefani has recurring nightmares of a tower collapse in the 1960s. She discovers that these nightmares are a premonition she inherited from her grandmother. The grandmother predicted the collapse of the building and saved a group of people from death. Decades later, the granddaughter begins to have visions of her family members dying. She realizes that there is a sequence and must fight to prevent Death from reclaiming her family's bloodline.
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In an overgrowded graveyard, thescream will rise.
Pool mates Entertainment presents Not Another Spooky
Podcast Welcome back to Not Another Spooky Podcast, where we
serve freshly popped horror reviews filled with blood, guts
and spoilers every Monday. I'm Mandy Spooks.
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And I'm Rabbit loves horror, andwe're here to remind you,
theaters are not dead one bloodypopcorn bucket at a time.
Whether you love going to every single horror release or you
want to hear all the reviews andspoilers before spending your
money, we've got you covered. The front half of the show never
has any spoilers and will warn you when it's time.
Today, we're grave digging into Final Destination Bloodlines.
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If you ever want to know what we're covering next, you can
check the show notes to see whatyou should watch that weekend.
To set the vibe for this episode, we'll start with a
round of bone marry slash. I feel like this is the first
movie we've seen where there's relatively good eye candy to do
all around, so I wanted to lean into that going with three of
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the characters from the movie. So first we have Paul Campbell,
which is like the boyfriend of Iris from the previews, the the
young throwback couple, and thenwe have the two brothers, which
are Bobby Campbell and Eric Campbell.
And make sure you don't give anyspoilers in this round when you
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go. I'll show you not to, OK?
No, I thought this was genius. I was like thinking like, OK, we
can do Bone Marie slash kill or whatever with death or
something. And then I think I was just
thinking way too much and you kind of just like, you know
what, let's just do this. I love this idea.
OK, So try not to get into any spoilers, but I did love the two
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brothers characters. I really like them.
So I'm going to have to slash Paul Campbell, OK, because I
love the other two characters a little too much.
I guess I'll bone Bobby, he was so cute.
And then I guess I'll marry, marry Eric 'cause I don't know.
I just liked his vibe. He seems pretty cool.
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Oh, no, we have our first standoff.
I will fight you for Eric. Oh.
My God. So what do you think?
Yeah. So obviously I would marry Eric
Kind. He was a little like, come on,
man, you know, throughout the movie.
But also, I don't know, he was just my vibe and he reminded me
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a lot of a character I like. Like visually he looks a lot
like Cappy from Greek. I don't know if you've ever seen
it. So I was vibing with him.
I would slash Bobby though, likehe was cute and I was like, oh,
the whole time over him, but notmy cup of tea.
And then bone Paul Campbell. Yeah, I mean, I do see the bone
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for Paul Campbell in this picture that you pulled because
he looks completely different from the movie.
Like he has, I don't know, like a new like dye job or something.
He looks really cute in this picture that you got from IMDb.
So I guess if anybody wants to know the picture that we're
looking at IMDb and look at the final Final Destination
Bloodlines picture looks really.Cute.
Yeah, for sure. All right, let's get into some.
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Haunted. Housekeeping All right,
Ghosters, we have our first break, which is freaking crazy.
Over a month. We have our first break from a
new horror movie coming out in theaters this weekend.
So that means we finally get to do our first stream and Scream
episode. So on off weeks of new releases,
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which seem very rare this year, which is very exciting but has
been very tiring at the same time, we'll be covering horror
movies that are streaming. So next week we'll be grave
digging into 28 Days Later to get you guys prepped for 28
Years Later. And Rabbit, do you want to share
a little bit about how 28 Weeks is not part of it?
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Yeah. So yes, I'm also kind of excited
that we don't have to go to the theatre this coming.
I don't think I've ever gone to the theatre this much, like
consistently. So it'll be nice to kind of like
mix up the week and not have to go to the theater.
But yes, I saw something on either Tiktok or Reddit maybe
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where they were saying that 28 Years Later is going to be a
continuation of 28 Days Later and they're kind of doing like a
different timeline. I don't know.
But it's just not connected to 28 Weeks Later, so we're just
not going to Bruce and pretend that doesn't exist.
So we're gonna rewatch 28 Days Later and then go into 28 Weeks
Later. So I'm excited for that.
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Yeah, for sure. That's cool.
And if anyones listening with enough time, 28 Days Later is
going to be showing at AMC on May 21st, so you can go catch it
in theaters if you would like. I think I, I am very, very
grateful for the break, but not because of the movies.
Like I love going to the movies.It's just like the recording on
Sundays. That has been a lot for me.
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So I'm looking forward to a little weekend break.
It landed nicely with Memorial Day too.
All right. Yeah, for sure.
All right, I also wanted to share with you guys that I have
launched A Patreon. As you all know, I have been
working on my final draft of my first original horror short film
and we're starting pre production very soon.
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So funds from Patreon will help us feed our cast and crew,
conjure up some killer practicaleffects, and keep our many
different content efforts going,including this podcast.
But there is something in it foryou.
I have extra goodies available for different tiers, but the
most exciting one right now is the $5 tier called Fangirl Film
Club does get monthly watch parties and the first one coming
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up is this Sunday, May 25th. And we're watching the original
1980 Slasher Prom Night with Jamie Lee Curtis.
And I'm actually hosting an entire week of spooky prom
activities across all my platforms.
So be sure to check out my YouTube and Instagram at Mandy
Spooks. And I'm also offering a free
trial for this Patreon tier going live on Wednesday, May
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21st. So you'll be able to access the
watch party. You can join me and Rabbit.
Actually, I haven't confirmed ifhe's going, but we'll be there
or potentially we'll both be there.
I'll be there and you can hang out with us Spooky Goals, watch
the movie, chat about it, and then also get to see what other
bonus content I post to see if it's something that you'd like
to commit to. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I will be
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there. I the date doesn't look like
something I have to or have to do something.
So it looks like I'll be able togo, which I'm excited for
because I've also never seen Prom Night, so that should be
fun. I'm really behind on like older
horror movies, like from the 80sand 70s, but yeah, so it'd be
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exciting to kind of scratch thatoff my movie list.
Yeah, for sure. I haven't seen it either.
I've always wanted to. I've saw the remake when it came
out in theaters, but I don't even remember it anymore because
it was so long ago. All right, Ghosters, it's time
for our favorite chat of the week, Keeping the spook alive.
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It's alive. It's.
Alive. All right, Rabbit, how are you
keeping the spook alive? Alrighty so for this week we
actually watched a movie at home, classic Paranormal
Activity. It was really fun.
That movie still holds up. Like I don't know it still
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scared me. I know I had said in a previous
episode where I don't really getas scared easily at night with
horror movies anymore, but that was had me kind of like want to
make sure the covers are covering my feet so I don't get
dragged. That's the scariest part.
Yeah, I see. I going to sleep was the
scariest part for that night, but it was still really good.
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I forgot how good that movie is.And we're actually going to be
probably watching Paranormal Activity 2 today.
So I'm really excited to kind ofjust like watch all of them
because I really enjoy that series and I really love found
footage horror movie, so I'm excited.
But something else happened whenwe were leaving the theater.
We were walking out and then on either side of the theater
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there's like a row of trees and then a row of like super tall
palm trees. So we're kind of just like
walking out of the theater. And then I hear something fall
into a Bush. So we look to the left and it's
like a piece of palm tree, like a palm tree leaf or fan kind of
thing. Like fell all the way from the
top into the palm tree or into the tree at the bottom.
And there was like a little girlsitting maybe two or three feet
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away. So I was like, Oh my God, Final
destination. Death is coming for us, but
nothing happens. It just fell into the tree and
just, like hit the floor. But I don't know.
I'm assuming if that hit her head, I think she probably would
have got like a cut or something.
She wouldn't have died, but she would have got like a cut or
something. But yeah, that was kind of
spooky, just leaving the theaterand something random like that
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happening. He was like.
It definitely lingered on me, too, especially because, like,
like the wind. And then the next day I was like
driving and I was in a rush and I was on the highway.
And then I pulled up to this truck that had like those like
metal poles that hold like stop signs.
They were like stacked on the truck.
And I was like Nope, changing ways and slowing down.
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I know how this ends up. I'm moving.
Yeah. But yeah, that that was that was
my week. How about your week?
What did you do today or this week?
That's good. I'm glad you're watching the
movies. I was surprisingly when I
rewatched Paranormal Activity during Blumfest.
I was very proud and shocked that I didn't find it as scary
anymore. But I would have been scared if
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I came home alone, if that makessense.
Yeah, for sure. I am definitely.
It's really weird. I'm in my spook like actual
spooky era and I've hit my limit.
I So first of all, I met a new friend.
I'm very excited. I met a girl on Instagram that
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is also a Halloween creator and we met up for coffee this
weekend. She's in town.
She's a Twitch streamer, spooky gamer.
Well, she's not. She doesn't stream spooky stuff,
but she loves Halloween. Her name is Say, Lis, and we had
so much fun, but it was not on my bingo card that we were going
to spend like nearly our entire time together talking about
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ghosts. And also we talked a lot about
Annabelle, which I'll get into. So that combined with all of my
research for the Haunted Line series and then watching scary
movies, I think it has like really just added up already for
me. And I actually sorry to
disappoint you guys. I told Rabbit we need to cut the
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ritual. I need a break from all this
religious ghost story stuff. So we won't be covering the
ritual. We'll be covering either.
What were the other two? Oh no, I don't understand you, I
think. Right.
I don't understand you. It's like a comedy horror movie,
which is good. We can fix it up so it's not
always super, super scary. Yeah, so we'll see how I feel
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after bring her back because I'm.
I'm a little nervous about that one, especially how I'm feeling
now. So after that one, we'll decide
if we're going to tackle the ritual.
Yeah. I am.
I was, I'm nervous for you to watch that movie.
When we were walking into the theater this last time, they had
like posters up and we're passedby, bring her back.
And I look at it, I'm like, I'm worried for Edmund to watch this
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movie. I hope she's OK when she watches
this. Yeah, a few weeks ago I was
like, this is great. It's pushing me to watch movies
that I wouldn't normally watch. And then after after this
weekend. Yeah.
I was so on it yesterday. So Rudy was editing the Haunted
Mine episode of the El Paso HighHigh.
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Oh, my gosh. El Paso high school ghost that
came out yesterday. And he knew I was on inch.
And so he went to the kitchen and I was cooking.
But he like stood in the corner of like my, I don't know how to
explain it, but basically to like where I couldn't see him,
but I could feel him. And I like literally screamed
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when I saw him. And I was like, stop it.
Like I'm genuinely scared right now.
And then he was like, I'm sorry.And he's like, I just wanted to
let you know that the video's rendering and I'm going to the
restroom. So if it starts to play, it's
not because it's haunted or it'sa ghost.
Like it's automatically going toplay when it's done rendering.
So I was like, OK. And then he needed to go get ice
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and I was like, I kind of don't want you to get ice.
Like just just we'll drink stuffwithout ice.
Yeah. I, I don't know why.
It's just been OK. Well, I know why.
So I was talking to Liz about Annabelle.
And I just want to state for safety then I am not talking
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about her to like ignite her spirit.
Nothing like this is truly just to talk about she is not
welcome. But that's what we were talking
about was I sent you the Tik toks to about how they have
Annabelle touring right now, allegedly the real 1.
And I saw another creator sayinghow she doesn't think it's the
real one, that it's just like a replica, and they're saying it's
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real. And I was just like, well, that
makes sense to me. But also the whole just in case.
And then I had asked Rudy, like,would you want to go see her and
take pictures if she stops in Denver?
And he was like, yeah. And I was like, what?
I was so shocked because he always airs on the.
Yeah, he always airs on the justin case side, even though he
doesn't believe in anything. And I was just like, I don't
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know if I would like, that's even if I don't touch her, Like,
I don't know that I want to be around her.
And I asked Liz too, because she's spookier than me.
Like she loves talking about obviously the ghost stories and
stuff. And she was like, hell no, no, I
would not go. So now I wanna know, would you
go? Yes.
You would go Oh my gosh, she's spooky, boy.
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I went to Zach Bagans Haunted museum and that that is creepy.
I like how you just did earlier.Like I don't claim any attention
from NFL like I I never do that.Like I watch a lot of videos and
I see the comments of people saying I claim no bad energy
from this video and I don't know.
I don't think that does anythingfor me.
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But after I went to the haunted museum and I left, I had to say
something, like, out loud, like,if there's anything following
us, please do not follow us because it was terrifying.
Yeah. But yeah, he had a couple.
He had two haunted dolls. I don't remember the names of
the haunted dolls, but yeah, they're like locked up in
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separate rooms in glass cages and then have, like, carvings
around them to, like, secure thedemon inside.
I guess you can say. Yeah, super creepy.
But I I would go see Annabelle. Why not?
She created a whole franchise. That's pretty cool.
But I did see, I don't know if you were the one that sent me
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the video of them transporting her.
And there's a guy like in the the van, I'm assuming it is, and
he's like throwing holy wire on it.
I don't know. I think that's kind of funny.
I was going to ask why you laughed at it because you put in
a laughing emoji and I was like I need to save it for the show.
Like it is funny seeing it but at the same time I'm like if
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they're serious like that also makes it scarier at the same
time. True, true.
Yeah. I don't know.
I I don't know. It's I want to say I'm a
believer, but then like, I don'tknow.
I just don't know. I don't fully believe just just
yet. But I'm not saying it doesn't
exist, but I'm just like, I don't know.
This is kind of silly, especially when you look at the
doll and it's just a raggedy andall it's it's.
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I know it's scary, yeah. Sorry, I'm talking all those bad
things about Annabelle. You're like stop talking bad
about her. I'm like she's gonna go for you,
not me. I respect and reject all
negative energy. But yeah, so it's been, I don't
know, it just, it's just funny how everything kind of just like
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trickled up like I guess snowballed into like really
scaring me because like I was like really on edge yesterday
and like Rudy was playing with me at first and then he was
like, are you really that scared?
I'm like yes, like I'm telling you, I am scared.
And I need a break from all of this for a little bit.
But it's also because like we tried to get ahead on the
haunted line. So we're not like doing it
weekly and stuff. So I researched like 3 stories
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in one week and I go hard. Like I, I thought I was not
going to put a ton of time into the research I do for those, but
you just naturally start to likerabbit hole down those topics.
And so yeah, three stories, all the spooky talk, the world tour
of Annabelle, all of that reallyjust added up.
So we will see. For sure.
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Yeah. Like I said before, I don't
really get scared that much in horror movies, but I do get
scared with people telling scarystories or like ghost stories.
And that really, that really freaks me out because I'm like,
I don't think they would lie about this unless, I don't know,
they're going to get like something out of you.
But yeah, when you hear personalstories or stories like of a
friend or like of an old house they used to live in, that's
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what really scares me. I'm like, OK, I'm scared now.
I don't want to go home below. That's exactly what we talked
about all day. So that's why I was just like.
Yeah, that is scary. So I I did it.
Yeah, but yeah, good times. So we shall see.
All right. What popped into theaters this
week? Grab it.
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Already. So this week Final Destination
Bloodlines popped into the theaters and at the time of
researching this episode, RottenTomatoes has it as a Certified
Fresh Movie and has an audience rating of 90%, which is really
high. I don't know, that's crazy.
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Especially if you're being a sequel and being this high.
I don't know, I thought it was crazy.
Maybe it's just because it's been so long since we have had a
Final Destination movie and everybody is just excited to go
see a new one. So yeah, it's a really high
rating for a horror movie if youask me.
Yeah, I also wonder if maybe there's a lot of like younger
generations too that just hadn'tseen the first ones.
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So this was like a surprise. This is a very anxiety and to
see. Welcome to the trauma.
Yeah. OK, not to get into the movie
summary, so this is a synopsis from Horror Brains on IMDb.
So Stephanie has recurring nightmares of a tower collapsing
in the 1960s. She discovers that these
nightmares are a premonition sheinherited from her grandmother.
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The grandmother predicted the collapse of a building and saved
a group of people from death. Decades later, the granddaughter
begins to have visions of her family members dying.
She realizes that this is a sequence and must fight to
prevent death from reclaiming her family's bloodline.
And then to kind of extend on that.
For those of you who haven't seen the movie but still want to
hear it with spoilers, Stephanieends up going.
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My bad. Not to cut you off, rabbit.
I realized that I don't know what happened in our outline
that I lost the part of warning you guys about spoilers.
So this is your last chance to get out now.
Ohh, yes, major spoilers coming up.
OK yeah, so to go further, I'm going to spoil the movie with
this next statement. So Stephanie goes home from
college to figure out why she's she's actually having these
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nightmares. She finds out her grandmother is
hiding out at a safe house, estranged from all of her family
after visiting death is able to kill her grandmother and
actually start going after the rest of her bloodline.
So she was kind of like the anchor as.
Preventing everybody from dying,Stephanie tries her best to save
all her family members, but unfortunately they all die in
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brutal ways. She and her brother think they
have cheated death and it seems like it's a happy ending until a
train gets derailed and a stack of logs come crashing down on
them. Very reminiscent of the 1st or
the 2nd movie. So yeah, that was a crazy scene,
but we'll talk about it later. Next is the cast that was
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directed by Zach Liposki and Adam B Stein, which seems to be
a duo. When I was researching this,
they were always like on the working on the same movies, like
Co directing. And they did a few Disney
projects together. They even did like a luchador
Disney TV show where it's like kids have like powers and they
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become like a luchador. I don't know.
It looks really interesting and I've never heard of it.
So that that was pretty cool. And then we have Tony Todd,
obviously as JB. And then the two main characters
is Caitlin Santa Juan, which is Stephanie, the main character.
And then Teo Briones plays Charlie, her her brother.
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So yeah, first initial reactionsfor me.
I did like this movie. I don't think it brought
anything new really to the FinalDestination franchise, but it
was so fun. It had some really cool
callbacks, definitely spiked my anxiety.
The kills were intense, the camera never cut away from these
death scenes, and the best way to sum up how it looked in the
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movie was the emoji with the covered eyes.
And you can only see like one eye.
Like I was like that the whole time.
Like I didn't want to fully see it, but I still wanted to see it
so only one eye would see those dust scenes.
How about you? Yeah, no, I totally get it.
If I could some of this movie, it's would be me saying that.
You know that quote from Lethal?Evan, I'm too old for this shit.
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That's how I felt to read this movie.
I it's the first time that I've ever done this.
I don't know, Recently I've beenin this mood of like where I
actually put my hoodie on for comfort sometimes and I
literally like put my hoodie on halfway through and like started
biting like the the like stringsfrom the hoodie because I was
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just like so like nervous. I don't know.
It was my first time watching a Final Destination movie in the
theaters too, so I don't know iflike that added to it.
But yeah, that movie was too much like and I enjoyed it.
It was a fun ride. The whole like Mandy Spooks
check marks were there, but I don't know that I would like
want to see it again. Honestly.
(22:44):
Like it was just a lot. Yeah, I agree.
I don't think I will rewatch this movie just because the
death scenes were so brutal. But I definitely see people are
are like loving this movie and there's I was watching a TikTok
and it's like I can't wait to gowatch it again.
I'm like, why would you want to watch it again?
That was so brutal. Yeah, for sure.
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So I guess to get into the next section is the tone and
atmosphere. Like I said, it was just a crazy
movie. I don't even know what tone or
atmosphere these movies fall under because it's like
suspenseful, but it's also a thriller, but it's also a
mystery. So I feel like they throw like
all these different genres and put it into a blender and mix it
up and whatever comes out comes out, and that's the tone for
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this movie. Yeah, for sure.
And I would even add like super light comedy to it too.
Yeah, sometimes. But it's just, yeah, I don't
know how to explain it either. I was like, really stuck on
trying to figure that out. All right.
And then did you have any thoughts on direction and
cinematography? Because I honestly like, didn't
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really have anything. I was like, I mean, it was good.
Yeah, I guess we're, I'm not sure what this falls into, if it
falls into direction or cinematography or writing, but I
do like this, do like that. This movie was a little bit
different from the others where it didn't cut away from the
actual death scenes. Like we saw everything, Like we
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saw what happens to the body when something happens which is
crazy. Like we saw people like falling
from the skyline and smashing into the ground or falling into
poles. And then the piano scene like 2
times the piano, it took out thewoman at the top, like smashed
her into the glass and then it Oh yeah.
Then it fell on the kid, which was shocking because they never
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kill kids in movies really. Like like usually kill him off
screen though. We literally saw the piano fall
on top of him and that was just crazy.
I don't, I don't know what what they were drinking when they
made this call. It's crazy.
I I loved that part. That was probably one of my
favorite parts in the whole movie because it was like, this
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goes away. Back to the Gold Mates podcast,
the Deagle rule. So if you guys have seen
Gremlins, when the old lady getskilled, like going up the stairs
and stuff, it's called like we call it the deep.
Well, it's a thing. Mr. Spooks and I made-up the
Deagle rule of like, did the movie actually make like give
the person what they deserved? That kid deserved it.
He was a little shit. I hate it.
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I was like, hell yeah. I mean, I still felt bad because
it was so shocking to me, but I'm like, yeah, you kind of
deserved it. Yeah.
And it was great that it was like perfect timing too.
Like he's like made it. Nope.
Uh huh. He was a little brat.
Yeah, I hated him. OK, I guess.
(25:39):
Sorry, I digressed. Yeah, we're just happy that that
kid died. That's so funny.
Yeah. But yes, we can get into writing
and pacing. My bad.
Yeah. So my notes for this is whoever
comes up with these deaths or whoever writes out these scenes
must be so creative. And I'm just wondering if
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they're OK, as in, like, do theygo through life like thinking
about these things are like, arethey, yeah, afraid or like
coming up with all these situations in their head?
Or do they like sit down and like, OK, this can happen, this
can happen, this can happen. So I don't know what that person
goes through in their life. But I guess thank you for coming
up with all these crazy things you think.
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But the pacing was also really good.
I never actually felt bored. Yeah, for sure.
I would agree. The pacing, I thought the pacing
was almost like too much. Like from start to finish it is
non-stop. I did feel like the opening
sequence was like a little too long.
It felt longer than they normally are in the movies in
the previous movies and it also threw me for a spin cuz I was
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anticipating the whole like she wakes up and stops it.
Like you always see it like playthrough and then it chases
everyone. But since it was different, they
kind of like switched up the formula, which was interesting
for me. But major kudos, honestly, to
the screenwriter or whoever cameup with the idea of like, how to
tie all the movies together thistime, because I definitely don't
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think it was planned like some franchises like Marvel
everything, you know, like, OK, it was planned from the
beginning that this is how all the movies would play out.
I don't think they planned this one.
Whoever figured out like, oh, wecould just tie them all
together. That was a genius idea.
So I really enjoyed that aspect of it.
And just to like give you a little bit of insight, I can't
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say for other screenwriters, butmy experience with writing has
been I'm not actively, I personally don't actively think
about like how would these scenes play out in real life?
I know Rudy does think a lot like his brains always in
filmmaking. So when I sit down and write
like my horror scenes, I literally like just picture like
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the scenario. And then I'm like, OK, if I was
this person, like what would I grab in this scenario?
Like what would this be? So it would be that would be
such an interesting like webinarfor them to have like the
writers of Final Destination andlike talk about their process
because it's good enough. Like the scenes are so good like
that. When we left the theater, we
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started imagining like, where isthis death is working, you know,
So it's just like really cool. I it would be I would pay for us
a webinar from them to just likehear their process.
For sure, yeah. I'm pretty sure there has to be
kind of like a behind the scenesfootage in one of like the DVDs
that came out for the past five movies.
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So I'm very curious to see if maybe they had like a little
commentary or something on one of the movies or kind of like a
sit down interview asking how they come up with all these
deaths. Because I'm sure that's a
question that they always get. Like how do you come up with all
this crazy stuff? Yeah.
So yeah, maybe we should do somemore research on that because
that that is very interesting tome too.
Yeah. Do you remember?
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I have horrible memory. Do you know if in the other
movies they talked about the signs being there the way that
Iris does in this movie? That's a good question.
I don't remember. I don't.
Yeah, I can't remember either. I don't think they do though.
Yeah, from what I remember, I think they just get into weird
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situations and they figure out like, oh, I'm going to die here.
I don't know if they they actually get visions of certain
things. I know in the first movie,
because when I was making the recap video, the main person, so
the main guy in the first one gets hints on who's dying next.
Like like the first time, the first person to die in the final
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destination one is his best friend and his name's Todd.
So he's the one that dies in thebathroom.
But then the main character's athome and something happens at
home and he gets like a piece ofnewspaper clippings and it says
Todd on there. So he, I guess in a way they've
all gotten like a hint of like, who's dying next?
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And I guess it was just a different play on that.
But yeah, I don't remember if that's the thing in the rest of
the movies. Yeah, yeah, I think they figure
it out as like as it's happening, like you're saying.
But yeah, I thought that that part of it was kind of cool too,
of them explaining like the signs and messing with it or
not. I don't know.
I just thought it was a clever not reboot 'cause it wasn't,
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It's still a sequel. So I thought it was a nice twist
on it to not make it the same aseverything else.
Yeah, agreed. All right.
And then I think this might be, oh, sorry, did you have
something else? No, I was about to move on.
To this topic, yeah, I was gonnasay I think this might be the
the topic we have the most to say about so we could get into
casting. Yeah, so I thought the casting
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was great. I think it had a really diverse
cast and I really kind of like them all.
Like, I don't think I disliked any of the cast.
They were all actually really good actors.
I didn't feel like 1 had like a bad line or anything like that,
but my favorite characters were the brothers Eric and Bobby.
I think they complemented each other route really well and it
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was fun to see them banter back and forth because they were like
complete opposites. But they still have like that
love for each other. Kind of reminded me of me and my
brother because we're complete opposites but we still try to
like protect each other. So I was rooting for them to
live. Like, I was really hoping that
they'd figure it out a way to cheat death when they when the
older brother Eric came up with the idea to poison him or give
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him peanut butter for his allergies and they can't bring
him back. I was like, oh, that's a really
good idea actually. So I was like, OK, they're going
to figure it out when it's goingto skip them and then go on to
the next people. And I thought the MRI machine
turning on was going to be just like a red herring, like, oh, he
was almost going to get you, buthe didn't.
But then they ended up both times and I hated it.
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I hated that scene. It's too much.
I know I loved. Yeah, for sure.
I loved them too. Even like, like I kind of hinted
this at the beginning. Eric.
I was like, he's like the total character you want to like hate
on because it's just like, stop being dumb about this.
Take it serious. But he was just too likable.
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Like he was really good. That's funny.
Yeah. I really, really liked the lead
character. And I loved how they added more
diversity by making like the dadAsian.
And then I did research and so Stephanie and her brother are
Well, actually I didn't confirm about her brother, but Stephanie
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is half Filipino and half Spanish.
I couldn't confirm like where from And then the there was half
Filipino too and I couldn't get over how pretty she was.
Honestly it was really nice seeing like a lead character or
a lead female, like kind of final girl but not really be a
person of color. And she also reminded me a lot
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of like Vanessa Hudgens. So I really enjoyed that.
I also felt like Iris or like old Iris gave like major Laurie
Strode vibes with the whole likesecluded and being paranoid and
no one believes her. So it reminded me a lot of
Halloween 2018. And then I also loved the
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brothers. Bobby just gave me that whole
like, I just wanted to hug him and take care of him because he
was so scared. I know I felt so bad with him.
He would always wear the cutest T-shirts, like he had like a
little Bunny on one. Then like the next thing he had
like cute little characters on his T-shirt.
I don't know. He was just so sweet, wanted to
protect. Him.
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It's so funny you brought up youand your brother though, because
I really like, I legit realized,see it now, Like you guys are
totally Eric and Bobby. That's really cute.
And then of course we have to talk about Tony Todd.
I that was freaking creepy. Like not creepy in a bad way.
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Like it was chilling. Like I teared up on the final
scene of his like what he said and then him passing away
shortly after like that was suchweird timing.
I know it's, it's a little creepy, but I actually did see
the twist coming because in the beginning when Iris, I believe
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that's her name in the beginning, she saves everybody.
She saves the little black boy. I'm like, oh, that has to be
Tony Todd. That's the connection here.
That has to. Be Oh, that's good on.
You and then it ended up being him, which was, I don't know, I
really appreciated it. I love Candyman.
I think Candyman is probably like one of my top five movies,
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like the the original Candyman. So I love, I love that movie.
It's so good. But yeah, seeing Tony Todd and
what ended up being his final film, I was like, oh, and then
talking about death, it was just, it was just weird and odd.
But it was nice to kind of memorialize him in that way,
give him like that one last role, reprising one of his roles
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that he's kind of known for in away.
So yeah, I did appreciate that. Yeah, for sure.
It was very chilling and emotional at the same time.
I don't remember what happens, but I feel like something
happens. Oh, the whole like brothers
scene is what happens right after.
So they kind of like, it was like really well timed as far as
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like letting you feel it and then like immediately kind of
like letting you recover from itso that it didn't take away from
like, it's a Final Destination movie, right?
Because I felt too real at the same time.
So yeah, I really wanted to talkabout that part.
All right, I guess now we can get into like the main event,
which is actually talking in depth about the kills and
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scares. Do you want to go first?
Sure. I think I've already hinted
before how I felt about the kills, but again, they were just
so brutal. I was cringing in my seat the
whole time. I was super uncomfortable.
Especially when Iris dies in thebeginning and you see her fall
into the pole like head 1st. And they kept showing it like,
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like popping it up on screen. I'm like, please stop.
Like, I get it, I know how she dies.
Leave me alone. But yeah, they just.
Yeah, she kept showing us all these crazy scenes, but the main
one that really sticks out to mefor some reason, and I don't
know why, Maybe it's just if you're getting crushed, but that
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one thing when the sister falls into the recycling bin or the
trash bin and then she goes intothe truck and she gets starts
getting crushed by the compactorand you see her face and jaw
just like I'm like, Oh my God, they didn't cut.
Like they showed the whole thingjust like her getting smashed.
And that was that was insane. But I don't the opening scene
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was crazy, but I don't think it was as impactful as other
openings only because I would never put myself in that
situation. I would never go eat at a
restaurant that is that high being held up by such a skinny
little platform, I guess you cancall it.
And then and then dancing and jumping on a glass floor where
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you can see the ground like feetaway.
Like I would just never do that because that's just no, like I,
I have seen Final Destination before to know that this is
dangerous. Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, so I feel like the other movies left a more impactful
feeling only because you can't avoid really getting.
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I mean, you guess you can, but it's, I don't know, harder to
avoid getting on a plane and also driving on a highway.
Like those are just two things that you cannot avoid that you
will eventually be doing at one point in your life.
So you can't avoid that. So I feel like those two movies
have scarred me for the rest of my life, even to this day,
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because I can't even drive on the freeway without coming up
with different scenarios of waysthat I can get in a car crash
and die. So thank you, House Nation 2,
for doing that to me. I hate you.
That's funny. Yeah.
I don't know why. One of my favorite kills from
the franchise is the car wash one.
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And that one has stayed with me too, because I've always felt
like car washes are scary in a way.
Like they're dark and loud and you're out of like you can't
control what's going to happen. So yeah, I get what you mean.
That's a really good point though, about how it and then
now saying that I'm like most ofthe kills do feel very like
unlikely or not unlikely, but just like not everyday things
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that you're going to be put intothose situations with.
Right. Yeah.
So I really, really liked the MRI scene just because it was
like so creative about the whole, like the metal stuff, I
guess. Yeah, the magnet.
But I was like, shocked with Eric having like, so many
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piercings. Like I was just like, Oh my God,
like how many piercings does oneperson need?
And it was like really surprising too, because like I
did not like I had thought, OK, well, his piercing, but then
when he brought the wheelchair in, they kind of tricked me
because I was like, oh, so the Bobby's going to be sitting on
it and then it's going to suck him in with the wheelchair.
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So they definitely like shocked me.
I was not anticipating that to happen to Eric and yet alone
like how insane that scene was going to be.
I and I honestly, as we're talking about this, I feel like
the actual gore bothered you more than it did me.
Like I was OK with seeing the things, it's just like the
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anticipation of it that I did not enjoy at all.
Which was kind of a nice surprise for me because when
it's like movies like Saw, I don't enjoy that.
But then this kind I did. So it's kind of like interesting
maybe because it's so like unrealistic versus like scenes
and Saw like you can literally see someone like doing that, you
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know? So yeah.
And then I really loved how theytricked us with Eric in general
of, like, us thinking that he was gonna get killed.
And like, the whole, like, they did such a good job of, like,
playing that out and tricking usmultiple times because I was so
sure he was gonna die trying to save his sister.
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So yeah, that was a really cool twist.
And then I'm trying to think what else I did kind of is now
now a good time to talk about the ending?
I feel, I don't know, I kind of felt like I liked that they
ended it because I thought they were going to drag it out into
like a second part, like a new movie.
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But at the same time, I think I felt the way you felt with
Rosario on this. I just didn't like the ending.
It felt forced and just out of nowhere.
I did like the tribute to the whole like logs thing too, but
it just felt like it didn't needto happen.
Yeah, I was hoping it didn't endwith a happy ending.
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Like I was hoping that they didn't survive because that's
the point of Final Destination, is that everybody ends up dying
for the most part. I think there's only like maybe
two people were that they mentioned that lived or was able
to cheat death. But the lesson is that everybody
dies. Like, that's just life.
You know, you live and you die. So I was hoping that they did
die. But I kind of agree that it was
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kind of just like thrown in there, like, oh, yeah, and they
die by this, by the penny again.So yeah, it just felt really
random. But it was still a cool scene,
like how the train kind of like backed up and smashed into all
the houses. And it was kind of like a call
back to the second movie with the logs coming in and and
smashing them. Yeah, yeah, I did feel out of
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place. In a word, I would just like, Oh
yeah, this happened and OK, go back.
Yeah, it felt like we need to find a way to kill them.
OK, let's just do this. Yeah, it didn't flow perfectly.
Yeah, so I think that was probably, I enjoyed the
callback, but it was kind of like my least favorite scene
just cuz like I also just couldn't picture someone like
running out, running a train that way at for I don't know, it
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just felt really strange. All of the other kills felt
seamless and like you felt your way through them.
Like even with Eric's, like how long did it take for him to die?
That scene, like, would never end when he was getting crushed,
you know, or like pulled in. And that one was just like,
boom, this happened. And so it's just like, all
right, I don't know. It was just a crazy ending.
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I guess it's fitting for the movie because the whole movie
was just a really crazy experience.
Yeah, maybe that's what they were going for, meant something
to just like, like, punch you inthe gut one last time to like,
oh, and this happened, like, boom, take it.
Yeah. So maybe that was their
intention of making it so a jarring and so out of place to
freak you out. What last time?
Yeah, true. That's a good point.
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And then I shoot, I just, oh, there was 1 jump scare that I
wanted to mention and it's when Stephanie goes to see Iris the
first time and then she dies andlike but the blood splatters all
over her. First of all, that scene was
crazy because I was not anticipating that would be the
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way that she was going to die. Like I knew she was going to
die, but then when they like cutto it again, when she touches
the blood, I literally like I think I screamed a little and I
never scream at the theaters like ever.
It's just like this. I was not thinking this would be
like a jump scare movie. So they did that.
And then I'll I was just like, fuck, they're going to keep
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doing this the whole movie wherethey like randomly insert clips
to like scare you. Thankfully, I don't think they
did continue that, did they? I felt like it was constant,
like they would they would like,somebody would die, but then
they would have like, a throat go back.
Oh, yeah, this. Remember this.
And I was like, OK, I get it. She died in a brutal way.
Leave me alone. But yeah, that scene was crazy.
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I want to just throw the book out, like, here, take this.
I'm about to die soon. But it was just crazy how like,
it kind of like lured her out. Like, come on, you know, you
want to come back here. And Dothel's, like, preparing
for her just to walk outside. But yeah.
And then when it just like, wentthrough her head, I was like,
Oh, my God. And the blood was just so thick
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on her face. It was crazy.
But yeah, I was, I think I was like verbalizing things as I was
watching this movie. I was like, oh, my God.
Like I would actually say things.
Things would happen because it was so shocking.
So yeah, I, I, I see that we were just like screaming a
little bit in the theatre because I was doing the same
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thing. Yeah, for sure.
I was surprised I didn't hear more people like gasping or like
reacting during the movie cuz I'm like this is the time to do
it. It's like opening weekend,
everyone's here. But yeah, everyone was maybe
everyone was just too like shocked to express anything.
I don't know. Yeah, crazy movie.
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And then we can get into practice crap.
Oh my gosh. Practical effects versus CGI in
this. I know I had I don't know if it
was the last week episode but I had recently said that like CGI
never bothers me and I don't even like notice it.
This was clearly all CGI it. Was.
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Pretty sure, yeah. And like, I understand why
obviously it needed to be CGI, but it just like sometimes I
don't know if it's also just like you were saying, like no
cutting and like seeing it the whole way through just made it
like really obvious it was. But yeah, it's the first time
that it like, really stuck out to me.
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For sure yeah I don't even know if they used any practical
effects in this movie. That would be interesting to see
like what they did and didn't dowith practical effects cuz yeah,
everything seemed CGI and kind of like what you said, maybe it
had to be CGI because they couldn't cut.
And usually, I'm assuming I've never made a film, but with
practical effects you have to cut because it's not like a real
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body part. So you have to like cut and then
make it seem like it's part of that person's body.
But yeah, I was just insane. So yeah, a lot of CGI and it
didn't actually bother me that much because I'm, I guess it's
what I expect from this. Movie, yeah, like it's just, I
wasn't like the kind of movie. Exactly.
So it's what I expected, so it didn't really bother me that
much. Yeah, I think it like still
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doesn't bother me. I guess it's the very first time
I've ever realized like, OK, CGIjust doesn't feel real.
But also at the same time, it's like, does it not feel real?
Because like, you have never seen those kind of images in
real life, right? Thankfully, knock on wood.
All right, well, let's get into the themes and symbolism.
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And I feel like you probably have a much better way of
wrapping it up, so I'll leave itto.
You. So yeah, I think Tony Todd or JB
kind of really summed up the theme of this movie is he was
pretty much saying you can't escape death, so you might as
well enjoy the time you have on earth instead of worrying about
the what ifs. And I thought that was a really
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strong, but I mean, it's a themefrom all the movies.
It's pretty much telling you youcan't escape death, like you're
gonna die. So just enjoy the time you have
and stop worrying about dying. So yeah, it was just nice to
have Tony Todd say it. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I have like no, no follow up on that other than I agree 100%.
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All right. Do you have any additional notes
or commentary before we move on to our final rating?
I guess my final notes is I'm pretty sure we'll have sequels
just 'cause this movie is getting so many good ratings,
Like a 90%. That is crazy.
I still can't get over that. And when and when horror movies
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do really well, they try to likemilk every penny and no pun
intended, they make sequel aftersequel after sequel until people
are tired of it and then it juststops being people stop going to
the movies. So I'm assuming there will be
sequels. Like you said, it's not really a
reboot because it's a sequel. But I don't know, maybe they'll
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come up with something else, butI don't know.
Usually they kind of fumble it and get lost in the storytelling
when they try to make a sequel out of something that wasn't
planned as a sequel. Yeah, I feel like it's funny
because seeing the trailer for this, I was like, oh, I bet you
they're going to like use the whole Iris story.
And then the next one's going tobe like Bloodlines too, and
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they're going to show like another one where that kind of
happened. But then it was crazy because
they literally just tied them all together in this one.
So then once we saw Stephanie and her brother die, I was like,
all right, here comes Final Destination Resurgence, because
it's going to be maybe like death comes again and it like
starts all over because he's never going to stop.
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Like death keeps killing, you know?
So I feel like that's what it's going to be is like either like
Resurgence or they're going to start over with like Final
Destination by itself. The way they're doing it with I
know what you did last summer. I hate that they're not changing
the name. I'm like, that's so confusing.
It's the same cast, same name, so yeah, I'm curious to see what
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they call it. Just remember I called dibs on
research. Calling it now, but yeah, they
can either just do a whole new situation where it's just like
fresh, like not family tree, butlike death tree, I guess you can
say. Or they could be like, oh, we
forgot about this family and it's like another red line that
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can go off on its own. So I don't know.
Who knows what they'll do? Yeah, true.
All right, Goal stars, it's timefor it's freaking bats.
All right, Rabbit, on a scale ofone to five, how many bats would
you rate this film? So I like this movie, but I
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think I'm going to give it a 3.5bats out of five bats.
Like I said before, I don't think it brought anything new to
the table. It's kind of, I mean, what is
this, the sixth film? So I guess they're going to do
so much and like twists and turns, which it kind of did have
a little twist here and there, but it wasn't anything ground
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breaking for me. So I'm going to go with 3 1/2.
What about you? I think I'm going to go with
three. I feel the same way as you.
I didn't feel like there was anything ground breaking about
the film. I enjoyed it.
I also go with the whole would Iwatch it again?
Probably not. I don't need to go through that
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again. It was really fun.
But yeah, I don't have any like,major positive or negative notes
about it other than like, had a good time.
I'm glad I got to experience that in theaters because I
hadn't had that kind of experience before.
But yeah, I you kind of not to, like, make you feel bad.
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You kind of like ruined the movie for me by saying they
didn't do anything like realistic that like scares
people because thinking about like new generations, they're
not going to be like, cursed forlife, thinking about like the
highway and stuff, you know? So that alone is like they
totally missed the mark on what their franchise is known for, of
like creating anxieties. Sure.
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Well, hopefully this movie will inspire the younger generation
to go back and start from the beginning and watch the.
And then, Yeah. And then they'll get traumatized
just like us. So we'll see that, yeah.
I didn't mean for that to sound negative.
I was just saying like, yeah, you kind of like ruined it when
you said that, but it was a really good perspective, so I
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don't mean it in a negative way.All right, it's OK All right,
before we part ways for the week, let's have a little moment
of Be Kind rewind. We're all about the vibes here.
So if this film hit just right, here are a few spooky pics you
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can rewind to to match the mood,the madness or the mayhem.
What's your pic Rabbit? OK so I don't have a movie that
will match the vibes of this franchise because I don't think
there's anything out there that kind of does this.
And if there is I'm sorry but I can't think of any other movie
that does crazy things like this.
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So I will either say go back andwatch re watch all the other
ones if you're younger I've never seen them because you will
get dramatized. Or if you love Tony Todd, just
go watch Candyman again and that's a really good horror
movie. That's a good wreck.
Yeah, that's a nice one. I endorse it.
What about you? All right, I kind of hinted at
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this, but like you're right, no,nothing compares to these vibes.
If anything, I was like OK, well, like the until dawn until
Dawn effects. I don't want to give it away if
you guys haven't seen it or heard our review had that like
craziness to it in one part, like one specific thing on the
movie. But the only other thing like
storyline wise was I kind of really felt like it was
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Halloween 2018. Like the whole like older lady
traumatized, the family doesn't believe her and then they
finally realized she's not lyingand then they're trying to
figure out like how to stop death or AKA Michael Myers.
So it really felt a lot like thenew trilogy for me.
Yeah, I did get the same vibes. Like when she showed up to the
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cabin I was like, oh, this is very Glory, Strode coded.
Yeah, for sure. And it's like very similar with
like the mom and the daughter and all of that.
So yeah, for sure. All right, Ghosters, we hope you
had a bloody good time hanging out with us today.
We're streaming and screaming to28 Days Later this weekend, so
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If you ever want to know what we're covering next, you can
check the show notes to see whatyou should watch that weekend.
To set the vibe for this episode, we'll start with a
round of bone marry slash. I feel like this is the first
movie we've seen where there's relatively good eye candy to do
all around, so I wanted to lean into that going with three of
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the characters from the movie. So first we have Paul Campbell,
which is like the boyfriend of Iris from the previews, the the
young throwback couple, and thenwe have the two brothers, which
are Bobby Campbell and Eric Campbell.
And make sure you don't give anyspoilers in this round when you
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go. I'll show you not to, OK?
No, I thought this was genius. I was like thinking like, OK, we
can do Bone Marie slash kill or whatever with death or
something. And then I think I was just
thinking way too much and you kind of just like, you know
what, let's just do this. I love this idea.
OK, So try not to get into any spoilers, but I did love the two
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brothers characters. I really like them.
So I'm going to have to slash Paul Campbell, OK, because I
love the other two characters a little too much.
I guess I'll bone Bobby, he was so cute.
And then I guess I'll marry, marry Eric 'cause I don't know.
I just liked his vibe. He seems pretty cool.
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Oh, no, we have our first standoff.
I will fight you for Eric. Oh.
My God. So what do you think?
Yeah. So obviously I would marry Eric
Kind. He was a little like, come on,
man, you know, throughout the movie.
But also, I don't know, he was just my vibe and he reminded me
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a lot of a character I like. Like visually he looks a lot
like Cappy from Greek. I don't know if you've ever seen
it. So I was vibing with him.
I would slash Bobby though, likehe was cute and I was like, oh,
the whole time over him, but notmy cup of tea.
And then bone Paul Campbell. Yeah, I mean, I do see the bone
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for Paul Campbell in this picture that you pulled because
he looks completely different from the movie.
Like he has, I don't know, like a new like dye job or something.
He looks really cute in this picture that you got from IMDb.
So I guess if anybody wants to know the picture that we're
looking at IMDb and look at the final Final Destination
Bloodlines picture looks really.Cute.
Yeah, for sure. All right, let's get into some.
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Haunted. Housekeeping All right,
Ghosters, we have our first break, which is freaking crazy.
Over a month. We have our first break from a
new horror movie coming out in theaters this weekend.
So that means we finally get to do our first stream and Scream
episode. So on off weeks of new releases,
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which seem very rare this year, which is very exciting but has
been very tiring at the same time, we'll be covering horror
movies that are streaming. So next week we'll be grave
digging into 28 Days Later to get you guys prepped for 28
Years Later. And Rabbit, do you want to share
a little bit about how 28 Weeks is not part of it?
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Yeah. So yes, I'm also kind of excited
that we don't have to go to the theatre this coming.
I don't think I've ever gone to the theatre this much, like
consistently. So it'll be nice to kind of like
mix up the week and not have to go to the theater.
But yes, I saw something on either Tiktok or Reddit maybe
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where they were saying that 28 Years Later is going to be a
continuation of 28 Days Later and they're kind of doing like a
different timeline. I don't know.
But it's just not connected to 28 Weeks Later, so we're just
not going to Bruce and pretend that doesn't exist.
So we're gonna rewatch 28 Days Later and then go into 28 Weeks
Later. So I'm excited for that.
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Yeah, for sure. That's cool.
And if anyones listening with enough time, 28 Days Later is
going to be showing at AMC on May 21st, so you can go catch it
in theaters if you would like. I think I, I am very, very
grateful for the break, but not because of the movies.
Like I love going to the movies.It's just like the recording on
Sundays. That has been a lot for me.
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So I'm looking forward to a little weekend break.
It landed nicely with Memorial Day too.
All right. Yeah, for sure.
All right, I also wanted to share with you guys that I have
launched A Patreon. As you all know, I have been
working on my final draft of my first original horror short film
and we're starting pre production very soon.
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So funds from Patreon will help us feed our cast and crew,
conjure up some killer practicaleffects, and keep our many
different content efforts going,including this podcast.
But there is something in it foryou.
I have extra goodies available for different tiers, but the
most exciting one right now is the $5 tier called Fangirl Film
Club does get monthly watch parties and the first one coming
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up is this Sunday, May 25th. And we're watching the original
1980 Slasher Prom Night with Jamie Lee Curtis.
And I'm actually hosting an entire week of spooky prom
activities across all my platforms.
So be sure to check out my YouTube and Instagram at Mandy
Spooks. And I'm also offering a free
trial for this Patreon tier going live on Wednesday, May
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21st. So you'll be able to access the
watch party. You can join me and Rabbit.
Actually, I haven't confirmed ifhe's going, but we'll be there
or potentially we'll both be there.
I'll be there and you can hang out with us Spooky Goals, watch
the movie, chat about it, and then also get to see what other
bonus content I post to see if it's something that you'd like
to commit to. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I will be
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there. I the date doesn't look like
something I have to or have to do something.
So it looks like I'll be able togo, which I'm excited for
because I've also never seen Prom Night, so that should be
fun. I'm really behind on like older
horror movies, like from the 80sand 70s, but yeah, so it'd be
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exciting to kind of scratch thatoff my movie list.
Yeah, for sure. I haven't seen it either.
I've always wanted to. I've saw the remake when it came
out in theaters, but I don't even remember it anymore because
it was so long ago. All right, Ghosters, it's time
for our favorite chat of the week, Keeping the spook alive.
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It's alive. It's.
Alive. All right, Rabbit, how are you
keeping the spook alive? Alrighty so for this week we
actually watched a movie at home, classic Paranormal
Activity. It was really fun.
That movie still holds up. Like I don't know it still
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scared me. I know I had said in a previous
episode where I don't really getas scared easily at night with
horror movies anymore, but that was had me kind of like want to
make sure the covers are covering my feet so I don't get
dragged. That's the scariest part.
Yeah, I see. I going to sleep was the
scariest part for that night, but it was still really good.
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I forgot how good that movie is.And we're actually going to be
probably watching Paranormal Activity 2 today.
So I'm really excited to kind ofjust like watch all of them
because I really enjoy that series and I really love found
footage horror movie, so I'm excited.
But something else happened whenwe were leaving the theater.
We were walking out and then on either side of the theater
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there's like a row of trees and then a row of like super tall
palm trees. So we're kind of just like
walking out of the theater. And then I hear something fall
into a Bush. So we look to the left and it's
like a piece of palm tree, like a palm tree leaf or fan kind of
thing. Like fell all the way from the
top into the palm tree or into the tree at the bottom.
And there was like a little girlsitting maybe two or three feet
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away. So I was like, Oh my God, Final
destination. Death is coming for us, but
nothing happens. It just fell into the tree and
just, like hit the floor. But I don't know.
I'm assuming if that hit her head, I think she probably would
have got like a cut or something.
She wouldn't have died, but she would have got like a cut or
something. But yeah, that was kind of
spooky, just leaving the theaterand something random like that
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happening. He was like.
It definitely lingered on me, too, especially because, like,
like the wind. And then the next day I was like
driving and I was in a rush and I was on the highway.
And then I pulled up to this truck that had like those like
metal poles that hold like stop signs.
They were like stacked on the truck.
And I was like Nope, changing ways and slowing down.
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I know how this ends up. I'm moving.
Yeah. But yeah, that that was that was
my week. How about your week?
What did you do today or this week?
That's good. I'm glad you're watching the
movies. I was surprisingly when I
rewatched Paranormal Activity during Blumfest.
I was very proud and shocked that I didn't find it as scary
anymore. But I would have been scared if
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I came home alone, if that makessense.
Yeah, for sure. I am definitely.
It's really weird. I'm in my spook like actual
spooky era and I've hit my limit.
I So first of all, I met a new friend.
I'm very excited. I met a girl on Instagram that
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is also a Halloween creator and we met up for coffee this
weekend. She's in town.
She's a Twitch streamer, spooky gamer.
Well, she's not. She doesn't stream spooky stuff,
but she loves Halloween. Her name is Say, Lis, and we had
so much fun, but it was not on my bingo card that we were going
to spend like nearly our entire time together talking about
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ghosts. And also we talked a lot about
Annabelle, which I'll get into. So that combined with all of my
research for the Haunted Line series and then watching scary
movies, I think it has like really just added up already for
me. And I actually sorry to
disappoint you guys. I told Rabbit we need to cut the
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ritual. I need a break from all this
religious ghost story stuff. So we won't be covering the
ritual. We'll be covering either.
What were the other two? Oh no, I don't understand you, I
think. Right.
I don't understand you. It's like a comedy horror movie,
which is good. We can fix it up so it's not
always super, super scary. Yeah, so we'll see how I feel
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after bring her back because I'm.
I'm a little nervous about that one, especially how I'm feeling
now. So after that one, we'll decide
if we're going to tackle the ritual.
Yeah. I am.
I was, I'm nervous for you to watch that movie.
When we were walking into the theater this last time, they had
like posters up and we're passedby, bring her back.
And I look at it, I'm like, I'm worried for Edmund to watch this
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movie. I hope she's OK when she watches
this. Yeah, a few weeks ago I was
like, this is great. It's pushing me to watch movies
that I wouldn't normally watch. And then after after this
weekend. Yeah.
I was so on it yesterday. So Rudy was editing the Haunted
Mine episode of the El Paso HighHigh.
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Oh, my gosh. El Paso high school ghost that
came out yesterday. And he knew I was on inch.
And so he went to the kitchen and I was cooking.
But he like stood in the corner of like my, I don't know how to
explain it, but basically to like where I couldn't see him,
but I could feel him. And I like literally screamed
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when I saw him. And I was like, stop it.
Like I'm genuinely scared right now.
And then he was like, I'm sorry.And he's like, I just wanted to
let you know that the video's rendering and I'm going to the
restroom. So if it starts to play, it's
not because it's haunted or it'sa ghost.
Like it's automatically going toplay when it's done rendering.
So I was like, OK. And then he needed to go get ice
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and I was like, I kind of don't want you to get ice.
Like just just we'll drink stuffwithout ice.
Yeah. I, I don't know why.
It's just been OK. Well, I know why.
So I was talking to Liz about Annabelle.
And I just want to state for safety then I am not talking
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about her to like ignite her spirit.
Nothing like this is truly just to talk about she is not
welcome. But that's what we were talking
about was I sent you the Tik toks to about how they have
Annabelle touring right now, allegedly the real 1.
And I saw another creator sayinghow she doesn't think it's the
real one, that it's just like a replica, and they're saying it's
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real. And I was just like, well, that
makes sense to me. But also the whole just in case.
And then I had asked Rudy, like,would you want to go see her and
take pictures if she stops in Denver?
And he was like, yeah. And I was like, what?
I was so shocked because he always airs on the.
Yeah, he always airs on the justin case side, even though he
doesn't believe in anything. And I was just like, I don't
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know if I would like, that's even if I don't touch her, Like,
I don't know that I want to be around her.
And I asked Liz too, because she's spookier than me.
Like she loves talking about obviously the ghost stories and
stuff. And she was like, hell no, no, I
would not go. So now I wanna know, would you
go? Yes.
You would go Oh my gosh, she's spooky, boy.
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I went to Zach Bagans Haunted museum and that that is creepy.
I like how you just did earlier.Like I don't claim any attention
from NFL like I I never do that.Like I watch a lot of videos and
I see the comments of people saying I claim no bad energy
from this video and I don't know.
I don't think that does anythingfor me.
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But after I went to the haunted museum and I left, I had to say
something, like, out loud, like,if there's anything following
us, please do not follow us because it was terrifying.
Yeah. But yeah, he had a couple.
He had two haunted dolls. I don't remember the names of
the haunted dolls, but yeah, they're like locked up in
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separate rooms in glass cages and then have, like, carvings
around them to, like, secure thedemon inside.
I guess you can say. Yeah, super creepy.
But I I would go see Annabelle. Why not?
She created a whole franchise. That's pretty cool.
But I did see, I don't know if you were the one that sent me
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the video of them transporting her.
And there's a guy like in the the van, I'm assuming it is, and
he's like throwing holy wire on it.
I don't know. I think that's kind of funny.
I was going to ask why you laughed at it because you put in
a laughing emoji and I was like I need to save it for the show.
Like it is funny seeing it but at the same time I'm like if
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they're serious like that also makes it scarier at the same
time. True, true.
Yeah. I don't know.
I I don't know. It's I want to say I'm a
believer, but then like, I don'tknow.
I just don't know. I don't fully believe just just
yet. But I'm not saying it doesn't
exist, but I'm just like, I don't know.
This is kind of silly, especially when you look at the
doll and it's just a raggedy andall it's it's.
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I know it's scary, yeah. Sorry, I'm talking all those bad
things about Annabelle. You're like stop talking bad
about her. I'm like she's gonna go for you,
not me. I respect and reject all
negative energy. But yeah, so it's been, I don't
know, it just, it's just funny how everything kind of just like
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trickled up like I guess snowballed into like really
scaring me because like I was like really on edge yesterday
and like Rudy was playing with me at first and then he was
like, are you really that scared?
I'm like yes, like I'm telling you, I am scared.
And I need a break from all of this for a little bit.
But it's also because like we tried to get ahead on the
haunted line. So we're not like doing it
weekly and stuff. So I researched like 3 stories
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in one week and I go hard. Like I, I thought I was not
going to put a ton of time into the research I do for those, but
you just naturally start to likerabbit hole down those topics.
And so yeah, three stories, all the spooky talk, the world tour
of Annabelle, all of that reallyjust added up.
So we will see. For sure.
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Yeah. Like I said before, I don't
really get scared that much in horror movies, but I do get
scared with people telling scarystories or like ghost stories.
And that really, that really freaks me out because I'm like,
I don't think they would lie about this unless, I don't know,
they're going to get like something out of you.
But yeah, when you hear personalstories or stories like of a
friend or like of an old house they used to live in, that's
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what really scares me. I'm like, OK, I'm scared now.
I don't want to go home below. That's exactly what we talked
about all day. So that's why I was just like.
Yeah, that is scary. So I I did it.
Yeah, but yeah, good times. So we shall see.
All right. What popped into theaters this
week? Grab it.
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Already. So this week Final Destination
Bloodlines popped into the theaters and at the time of
researching this episode, RottenTomatoes has it as a Certified
Fresh Movie and has an audience rating of 90%, which is really
high. I don't know, that's crazy.
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Especially if you're being a sequel and being this high.
I don't know, I thought it was crazy.
Maybe it's just because it's been so long since we have had a
Final Destination movie and everybody is just excited to go
see a new one. So yeah, it's a really high
rating for a horror movie if youask me.
Yeah, I also wonder if maybe there's a lot of like younger
generations too that just hadn'tseen the first ones.
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So this was like a surprise. This is a very anxiety and to
see. Welcome to the trauma.
Yeah. OK, not to get into the movie
summary, so this is a synopsis from Horror Brains on IMDb.
So Stephanie has recurring nightmares of a tower collapsing
in the 1960s. She discovers that these
nightmares are a premonition sheinherited from her grandmother.
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The grandmother predicted the collapse of a building and saved
a group of people from death. Decades later, the granddaughter
begins to have visions of her family members dying.
She realizes that this is a sequence and must fight to
prevent death from reclaiming her family's bloodline.
And then to kind of extend on that.
For those of you who haven't seen the movie but still want to
hear it with spoilers, Stephanieends up going.
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My bad. Not to cut you off, rabbit.
I realized that I don't know what happened in our outline
that I lost the part of warning you guys about spoilers.
So this is your last chance to get out now.
Ohh, yes, major spoilers coming up.
OK yeah, so to go further, I'm going to spoil the movie with
this next statement. So Stephanie goes home from
college to figure out why she's she's actually having these
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nightmares. She finds out her grandmother is
hiding out at a safe house, estranged from all of her family
after visiting death is able to kill her grandmother and
actually start going after the rest of her bloodline.
So she was kind of like the anchor as.
Preventing everybody from dying,Stephanie tries her best to save
all her family members, but unfortunately they all die in
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brutal ways. She and her brother think they
have cheated death and it seems like it's a happy ending until a
train gets derailed and a stack of logs come crashing down on
them. Very reminiscent of the 1st or
the 2nd movie. So yeah, that was a crazy scene,
but we'll talk about it later. Next is the cast that was
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directed by Zach Liposki and Adam B Stein, which seems to be
a duo. When I was researching this,
they were always like on the working on the same movies, like
Co directing. And they did a few Disney
projects together. They even did like a luchador
Disney TV show where it's like kids have like powers and they
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become like a luchador. I don't know.
It looks really interesting and I've never heard of it.
So that that was pretty cool. And then we have Tony Todd,
obviously as JB. And then the two main characters
is Caitlin Santa Juan, which is Stephanie, the main character.
And then Teo Briones plays Charlie, her her brother.
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So yeah, first initial reactionsfor me.
I did like this movie. I don't think it brought
anything new really to the FinalDestination franchise, but it
was so fun. It had some really cool
callbacks, definitely spiked my anxiety.
The kills were intense, the camera never cut away from these
death scenes, and the best way to sum up how it looked in the
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movie was the emoji with the covered eyes.
And you can only see like one eye.
Like I was like that the whole time.
Like I didn't want to fully see it, but I still wanted to see it
so only one eye would see those dust scenes.
How about you? Yeah, no, I totally get it.
If I could some of this movie, it's would be me saying that.
You know that quote from Lethal?Evan, I'm too old for this shit.
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That's how I felt to read this movie.
I it's the first time that I've ever done this.
I don't know, Recently I've beenin this mood of like where I
actually put my hoodie on for comfort sometimes and I
literally like put my hoodie on halfway through and like started
biting like the the like stringsfrom the hoodie because I was
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just like so like nervous. I don't know.
It was my first time watching a Final Destination movie in the
theaters too, so I don't know iflike that added to it.
But yeah, that movie was too much like and I enjoyed it.
It was a fun ride. The whole like Mandy Spooks
check marks were there, but I don't know that I would like
want to see it again. Honestly.
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Like it was just a lot. Yeah, I agree.
I don't think I will rewatch this movie just because the
death scenes were so brutal. But I definitely see people are
are like loving this movie and there's I was watching a TikTok
and it's like I can't wait to gowatch it again.
I'm like, why would you want to watch it again?
That was so brutal. Yeah, for sure.
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So I guess to get into the next section is the tone and
atmosphere. Like I said, it was just a crazy
movie. I don't even know what tone or
atmosphere these movies fall under because it's like
suspenseful, but it's also a thriller, but it's also a
mystery. So I feel like they throw like
all these different genres and put it into a blender and mix it
up and whatever comes out comes out, and that's the tone for
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this movie. Yeah, for sure.
And I would even add like super light comedy to it too.
Yeah, sometimes. But it's just, yeah, I don't
know how to explain it either. I was like, really stuck on
trying to figure that out. All right.
And then did you have any thoughts on direction and
cinematography? Because I honestly like, didn't
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really have anything. I was like, I mean, it was good.
Yeah, I guess we're, I'm not sure what this falls into, if it
falls into direction or cinematography or writing, but I
do like this, do like that. This movie was a little bit
different from the others where it didn't cut away from the
actual death scenes. Like we saw everything, Like we
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saw what happens to the body when something happens which is
crazy. Like we saw people like falling
from the skyline and smashing into the ground or falling into
poles. And then the piano scene like 2
times the piano, it took out thewoman at the top, like smashed
her into the glass and then it Oh yeah.
Then it fell on the kid, which was shocking because they never
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kill kids in movies really. Like like usually kill him off
screen though. We literally saw the piano fall
on top of him and that was just crazy.
I don't, I don't know what what they were drinking when they
made this call. It's crazy.
I I loved that part. That was probably one of my
favorite parts in the whole movie because it was like, this
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goes away. Back to the Gold Mates podcast,
the Deagle rule. So if you guys have seen
Gremlins, when the old lady getskilled, like going up the stairs
and stuff, it's called like we call it the deep.
Well, it's a thing. Mr. Spooks and I made-up the
Deagle rule of like, did the movie actually make like give
the person what they deserved? That kid deserved it.
He was a little shit. I hate it.
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I was like, hell yeah. I mean, I still felt bad because
it was so shocking to me, but I'm like, yeah, you kind of
deserved it. Yeah.
And it was great that it was like perfect timing too.
Like he's like made it. Nope.
Uh huh. He was a little brat.
Yeah, I hated him. OK, I guess.
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Sorry, I digressed. Yeah, we're just happy that that
kid died. That's so funny.
Yeah. But yes, we can get into writing
and pacing. My bad.
Yeah. So my notes for this is whoever
comes up with these deaths or whoever writes out these scenes
must be so creative. And I'm just wondering if
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they're OK, as in, like, do theygo through life like thinking
about these things are like, arethey, yeah, afraid or like
coming up with all these situations in their head?
Or do they like sit down and like, OK, this can happen, this
can happen, this can happen. So I don't know what that person
goes through in their life. But I guess thank you for coming
up with all these crazy things you think.
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But the pacing was also really good.
I never actually felt bored. Yeah, for sure.
I would agree. The pacing, I thought the pacing
was almost like too much. Like from start to finish it is
non-stop. I did feel like the opening
sequence was like a little too long.
It felt longer than they normally are in the movies in
the previous movies and it also threw me for a spin cuz I was
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anticipating the whole like she wakes up and stops it.
Like you always see it like playthrough and then it chases
everyone. But since it was different, they
kind of like switched up the formula, which was interesting
for me. But major kudos, honestly, to
the screenwriter or whoever cameup with the idea of like, how to
tie all the movies together thistime, because I definitely don't
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think it was planned like some franchises like Marvel
everything, you know, like, OK, it was planned from the
beginning that this is how all the movies would play out.
I don't think they planned this one.
Whoever figured out like, oh, wecould just tie them all
together. That was a genius idea.
So I really enjoyed that aspect of it.
And just to like give you a little bit of insight, I can't
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say for other screenwriters, butmy experience with writing has
been I'm not actively, I personally don't actively think
about like how would these scenes play out in real life?
I know Rudy does think a lot like his brains always in
filmmaking. So when I sit down and write
like my horror scenes, I literally like just picture like
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the scenario. And then I'm like, OK, if I was
this person, like what would I grab in this scenario?
Like what would this be? So it would be that would be
such an interesting like webinarfor them to have like the
writers of Final Destination andlike talk about their process
because it's good enough. Like the scenes are so good like
that. When we left the theater, we
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started imagining like, where isthis death is working, you know,
So it's just like really cool. I it would be I would pay for us
a webinar from them to just likehear their process.
For sure, yeah. I'm pretty sure there has to be
kind of like a behind the scenesfootage in one of like the DVDs
that came out for the past five movies.
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So I'm very curious to see if maybe they had like a little
commentary or something on one of the movies or kind of like a
sit down interview asking how they come up with all these
deaths. Because I'm sure that's a
question that they always get. Like how do you come up with all
this crazy stuff? Yeah.
So yeah, maybe we should do somemore research on that because
that that is very interesting tome too.
Yeah. Do you remember?
(28:59):
I have horrible memory. Do you know if in the other
movies they talked about the signs being there the way that
Iris does in this movie? That's a good question.
I don't remember. I don't.
Yeah, I can't remember either. I don't think they do though.
Yeah, from what I remember, I think they just get into weird
(29:20):
situations and they figure out like, oh, I'm going to die here.
I don't know if they they actually get visions of certain
things. I know in the first movie,
because when I was making the recap video, the main person, so
the main guy in the first one gets hints on who's dying next.
Like like the first time, the first person to die in the final
(29:45):
destination one is his best friend and his name's Todd.
So he's the one that dies in thebathroom.
But then the main character's athome and something happens at
home and he gets like a piece ofnewspaper clippings and it says
Todd on there. So he, I guess in a way they've
all gotten like a hint of like, who's dying next?
(30:07):
And I guess it was just a different play on that.
But yeah, I don't remember if that's the thing in the rest of
the movies. Yeah, yeah, I think they figure
it out as like as it's happening, like you're saying.
But yeah, I thought that that part of it was kind of cool too,
of them explaining like the signs and messing with it or
not. I don't know.
I just thought it was a clever not reboot 'cause it wasn't,
(30:32):
It's still a sequel. So I thought it was a nice twist
on it to not make it the same aseverything else.
Yeah, agreed. All right.
And then I think this might be, oh, sorry, did you have
something else? No, I was about to move on.
To this topic, yeah, I was gonnasay I think this might be the
the topic we have the most to say about so we could get into
casting. Yeah, so I thought the casting
(30:55):
was great. I think it had a really diverse
cast and I really kind of like them all.
Like, I don't think I disliked any of the cast.
They were all actually really good actors.
I didn't feel like 1 had like a bad line or anything like that,
but my favorite characters were the brothers Eric and Bobby.
I think they complemented each other route really well and it
(31:17):
was fun to see them banter back and forth because they were like
complete opposites. But they still have like that
love for each other. Kind of reminded me of me and my
brother because we're complete opposites but we still try to
like protect each other. So I was rooting for them to
live. Like, I was really hoping that
they'd figure it out a way to cheat death when they when the
older brother Eric came up with the idea to poison him or give
(31:39):
him peanut butter for his allergies and they can't bring
him back. I was like, oh, that's a really
good idea actually. So I was like, OK, they're going
to figure it out when it's goingto skip them and then go on to
the next people. And I thought the MRI machine
turning on was going to be just like a red herring, like, oh, he
was almost going to get you, buthe didn't.
But then they ended up both times and I hated it.
(31:59):
I hated that scene. It's too much.
I know I loved. Yeah, for sure.
I loved them too. Even like, like I kind of hinted
this at the beginning. Eric.
I was like, he's like the total character you want to like hate
on because it's just like, stop being dumb about this.
Take it serious. But he was just too likable.
(32:20):
Like he was really good. That's funny.
Yeah. I really, really liked the lead
character. And I loved how they added more
diversity by making like the dadAsian.
And then I did research and so Stephanie and her brother are
Well, actually I didn't confirm about her brother, but Stephanie
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is half Filipino and half Spanish.
I couldn't confirm like where from And then the there was half
Filipino too and I couldn't get over how pretty she was.
Honestly it was really nice seeing like a lead character or
a lead female, like kind of final girl but not really be a
person of color. And she also reminded me a lot
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of like Vanessa Hudgens. So I really enjoyed that.
I also felt like Iris or like old Iris gave like major Laurie
Strode vibes with the whole likesecluded and being paranoid and
no one believes her. So it reminded me a lot of
Halloween 2018. And then I also loved the
(33:23):
brothers. Bobby just gave me that whole
like, I just wanted to hug him and take care of him because he
was so scared. I know I felt so bad with him.
He would always wear the cutest T-shirts, like he had like a
little Bunny on one. Then like the next thing he had
like cute little characters on his T-shirt.
I don't know. He was just so sweet, wanted to
protect. Him.
(33:43):
It's so funny you brought up youand your brother though, because
I really like, I legit realized,see it now, Like you guys are
totally Eric and Bobby. That's really cute.
And then of course we have to talk about Tony Todd.
I that was freaking creepy. Like not creepy in a bad way.
(34:04):
Like it was chilling. Like I teared up on the final
scene of his like what he said and then him passing away
shortly after like that was suchweird timing.
I know it's, it's a little creepy, but I actually did see
the twist coming because in the beginning when Iris, I believe
(34:24):
that's her name in the beginning, she saves everybody.
She saves the little black boy. I'm like, oh, that has to be
Tony Todd. That's the connection here.
That has to. Be Oh, that's good on.
You and then it ended up being him, which was, I don't know, I
really appreciated it. I love Candyman.
I think Candyman is probably like one of my top five movies,
(34:47):
like the the original Candyman. So I love, I love that movie.
It's so good. But yeah, seeing Tony Todd and
what ended up being his final film, I was like, oh, and then
talking about death, it was just, it was just weird and odd.
But it was nice to kind of memorialize him in that way,
give him like that one last role, reprising one of his roles
(35:10):
that he's kind of known for in away.
So yeah, I did appreciate that. Yeah, for sure.
It was very chilling and emotional at the same time.
I don't remember what happens, but I feel like something
happens. Oh, the whole like brothers
scene is what happens right after.
So they kind of like, it was like really well timed as far as
(35:30):
like letting you feel it and then like immediately kind of
like letting you recover from itso that it didn't take away from
like, it's a Final Destination movie, right?
Because I felt too real at the same time.
So yeah, I really wanted to talkabout that part.
All right, I guess now we can get into like the main event,
which is actually talking in depth about the kills and
(35:52):
scares. Do you want to go first?
Sure. I think I've already hinted
before how I felt about the kills, but again, they were just
so brutal. I was cringing in my seat the
whole time. I was super uncomfortable.
Especially when Iris dies in thebeginning and you see her fall
into the pole like head 1st. And they kept showing it like,
(36:15):
like popping it up on screen. I'm like, please stop.
Like, I get it, I know how she dies.
Leave me alone. But yeah, they just.
Yeah, she kept showing us all these crazy scenes, but the main
one that really sticks out to mefor some reason, and I don't
know why, Maybe it's just if you're getting crushed, but that
(36:37):
one thing when the sister falls into the recycling bin or the
trash bin and then she goes intothe truck and she gets starts
getting crushed by the compactorand you see her face and jaw
just like I'm like, Oh my God, they didn't cut.
Like they showed the whole thingjust like her getting smashed.
And that was that was insane. But I don't the opening scene
(37:01):
was crazy, but I don't think it was as impactful as other
openings only because I would never put myself in that
situation. I would never go eat at a
restaurant that is that high being held up by such a skinny
little platform, I guess you cancall it.
And then and then dancing and jumping on a glass floor where
(37:23):
you can see the ground like feetaway.
Like I would just never do that because that's just no, like I,
I have seen Final Destination before to know that this is
dangerous. Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, so I feel like the other movies left a more impactful
feeling only because you can't avoid really getting.
(37:45):
I mean, you guess you can, but it's, I don't know, harder to
avoid getting on a plane and also driving on a highway.
Like those are just two things that you cannot avoid that you
will eventually be doing at one point in your life.
So you can't avoid that. So I feel like those two movies
have scarred me for the rest of my life, even to this day,
(38:07):
because I can't even drive on the freeway without coming up
with different scenarios of waysthat I can get in a car crash
and die. So thank you, House Nation 2,
for doing that to me. I hate you.
That's funny. Yeah.
I don't know why. One of my favorite kills from
the franchise is the car wash one.
(38:28):
And that one has stayed with me too, because I've always felt
like car washes are scary in a way.
Like they're dark and loud and you're out of like you can't
control what's going to happen. So yeah, I get what you mean.
That's a really good point though, about how it and then
now saying that I'm like most ofthe kills do feel very like
unlikely or not unlikely, but just like not everyday things
(38:50):
that you're going to be put intothose situations with.
Right. Yeah.
So I really, really liked the MRI scene just because it was
like so creative about the whole, like the metal stuff, I
guess. Yeah, the magnet.
But I was like, shocked with Eric having like, so many
(39:11):
piercings. Like I was just like, Oh my God,
like how many piercings does oneperson need?
And it was like really surprising too, because like I
did not like I had thought, OK, well, his piercing, but then
when he brought the wheelchair in, they kind of tricked me
because I was like, oh, so the Bobby's going to be sitting on
it and then it's going to suck him in with the wheelchair.
(39:33):
So they definitely like shocked me.
I was not anticipating that to happen to Eric and yet alone
like how insane that scene was going to be.
I and I honestly, as we're talking about this, I feel like
the actual gore bothered you more than it did me.
Like I was OK with seeing the things, it's just like the
(39:56):
anticipation of it that I did not enjoy at all.
Which was kind of a nice surprise for me because when
it's like movies like Saw, I don't enjoy that.
But then this kind I did. So it's kind of like interesting
maybe because it's so like unrealistic versus like scenes
and Saw like you can literally see someone like doing that, you
(40:17):
know? So yeah.
And then I really loved how theytricked us with Eric in general
of, like, us thinking that he was gonna get killed.
And like, the whole, like, they did such a good job of, like,
playing that out and tricking usmultiple times because I was so
sure he was gonna die trying to save his sister.
(40:39):
So yeah, that was a really cool twist.
And then I'm trying to think what else I did kind of is now
now a good time to talk about the ending?
I feel, I don't know, I kind of felt like I liked that they
ended it because I thought they were going to drag it out into
like a second part, like a new movie.
(41:01):
But at the same time, I think I felt the way you felt with
Rosario on this. I just didn't like the ending.
It felt forced and just out of nowhere.
I did like the tribute to the whole like logs thing too, but
it just felt like it didn't needto happen.
Yeah, I was hoping it didn't endwith a happy ending.
(41:26):
Like I was hoping that they didn't survive because that's
the point of Final Destination, is that everybody ends up dying
for the most part. I think there's only like maybe
two people were that they mentioned that lived or was able
to cheat death. But the lesson is that everybody
dies. Like, that's just life.
You know, you live and you die. So I was hoping that they did
die. But I kind of agree that it was
(41:46):
kind of just like thrown in there, like, oh, yeah, and they
die by this, by the penny again.So yeah, it just felt really
random. But it was still a cool scene,
like how the train kind of like backed up and smashed into all
the houses. And it was kind of like a call
back to the second movie with the logs coming in and and
smashing them. Yeah, yeah, I did feel out of
(42:08):
place. In a word, I would just like, Oh
yeah, this happened and OK, go back.
Yeah, it felt like we need to find a way to kill them.
OK, let's just do this. Yeah, it didn't flow perfectly.
Yeah, so I think that was probably, I enjoyed the
callback, but it was kind of like my least favorite scene
just cuz like I also just couldn't picture someone like
running out, running a train that way at for I don't know, it
(42:30):
just felt really strange. All of the other kills felt
seamless and like you felt your way through them.
Like even with Eric's, like how long did it take for him to die?
That scene, like, would never end when he was getting crushed,
you know, or like pulled in. And that one was just like,
boom, this happened. And so it's just like, all
right, I don't know. It was just a crazy ending.
(42:52):
I guess it's fitting for the movie because the whole movie
was just a really crazy experience.
Yeah, maybe that's what they were going for, meant something
to just like, like, punch you inthe gut one last time to like,
oh, and this happened, like, boom, take it.
Yeah. So maybe that was their
intention of making it so a jarring and so out of place to
freak you out. What last time?
Yeah, true. That's a good point.
(43:14):
And then I shoot, I just, oh, there was 1 jump scare that I
wanted to mention and it's when Stephanie goes to see Iris the
first time and then she dies andlike but the blood splatters all
over her. First of all, that scene was
crazy because I was not anticipating that would be the
(43:34):
way that she was going to die. Like I knew she was going to
die, but then when they like cutto it again, when she touches
the blood, I literally like I think I screamed a little and I
never scream at the theaters like ever.
It's just like this. I was not thinking this would be
like a jump scare movie. So they did that.
And then I'll I was just like, fuck, they're going to keep
(43:55):
doing this the whole movie wherethey like randomly insert clips
to like scare you. Thankfully, I don't think they
did continue that, did they? I felt like it was constant,
like they would they would like,somebody would die, but then
they would have like, a throat go back.
Oh, yeah, this. Remember this.
And I was like, OK, I get it. She died in a brutal way.
Leave me alone. But yeah, that scene was crazy.
(44:15):
I want to just throw the book out, like, here, take this.
I'm about to die soon. But it was just crazy how like,
it kind of like lured her out. Like, come on, you know, you
want to come back here. And Dothel's, like, preparing
for her just to walk outside. But yeah.
And then when it just like, wentthrough her head, I was like,
Oh, my God. And the blood was just so thick
(44:38):
on her face. It was crazy.
But yeah, I was, I think I was like verbalizing things as I was
watching this movie. I was like, oh, my God.
Like I would actually say things.
Things would happen because it was so shocking.
So yeah, I, I, I see that we were just like screaming a
little bit in the theatre because I was doing the same
(44:59):
thing. Yeah, for sure.
I was surprised I didn't hear more people like gasping or like
reacting during the movie cuz I'm like this is the time to do
it. It's like opening weekend,
everyone's here. But yeah, everyone was maybe
everyone was just too like shocked to express anything.
I don't know. Yeah, crazy movie.
(45:20):
And then we can get into practice crap.
Oh my gosh. Practical effects versus CGI in
this. I know I had I don't know if it
was the last week episode but I had recently said that like CGI
never bothers me and I don't even like notice it.
This was clearly all CGI it. Was.
(45:40):
Pretty sure, yeah. And like, I understand why
obviously it needed to be CGI, but it just like sometimes I
don't know if it's also just like you were saying, like no
cutting and like seeing it the whole way through just made it
like really obvious it was. But yeah, it's the first time
that it like, really stuck out to me.
(46:00):
For sure yeah I don't even know if they used any practical
effects in this movie. That would be interesting to see
like what they did and didn't dowith practical effects cuz yeah,
everything seemed CGI and kind of like what you said, maybe it
had to be CGI because they couldn't cut.
And usually, I'm assuming I've never made a film, but with
practical effects you have to cut because it's not like a real
(46:21):
body part. So you have to like cut and then
make it seem like it's part of that person's body.
But yeah, I was just insane. So yeah, a lot of CGI and it
didn't actually bother me that much because I'm, I guess it's
what I expect from this. Movie, yeah, like it's just, I
wasn't like the kind of movie. Exactly.
So it's what I expected, so it didn't really bother me that
much. Yeah, I think it like still
(46:44):
doesn't bother me. I guess it's the very first time
I've ever realized like, OK, CGIjust doesn't feel real.
But also at the same time, it's like, does it not feel real?
Because like, you have never seen those kind of images in
real life, right? Thankfully, knock on wood.
All right, well, let's get into the themes and symbolism.
(47:07):
And I feel like you probably have a much better way of
wrapping it up, so I'll leave itto.
You. So yeah, I think Tony Todd or JB
kind of really summed up the theme of this movie is he was
pretty much saying you can't escape death, so you might as
well enjoy the time you have on earth instead of worrying about
the what ifs. And I thought that was a really
(47:28):
strong, but I mean, it's a themefrom all the movies.
It's pretty much telling you youcan't escape death, like you're
gonna die. So just enjoy the time you have
and stop worrying about dying. So yeah, it was just nice to
have Tony Todd say it. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I have like no, no follow up on that other than I agree 100%.
(47:51):
All right. Do you have any additional notes
or commentary before we move on to our final rating?
I guess my final notes is I'm pretty sure we'll have sequels
just 'cause this movie is getting so many good ratings,
Like a 90%. That is crazy.
I still can't get over that. And when and when horror movies
(48:13):
do really well, they try to likemilk every penny and no pun
intended, they make sequel aftersequel after sequel until people
are tired of it and then it juststops being people stop going to
the movies. So I'm assuming there will be
sequels. Like you said, it's not really a
reboot because it's a sequel. But I don't know, maybe they'll
(48:33):
come up with something else, butI don't know.
Usually they kind of fumble it and get lost in the storytelling
when they try to make a sequel out of something that wasn't
planned as a sequel. Yeah, I feel like it's funny
because seeing the trailer for this, I was like, oh, I bet you
they're going to like use the whole Iris story.
And then the next one's going tobe like Bloodlines too, and
(48:54):
they're going to show like another one where that kind of
happened. But then it was crazy because
they literally just tied them all together in this one.
So then once we saw Stephanie and her brother die, I was like,
all right, here comes Final Destination Resurgence, because
it's going to be maybe like death comes again and it like
starts all over because he's never going to stop.
(49:15):
Like death keeps killing, you know?
So I feel like that's what it's going to be is like either like
Resurgence or they're going to start over with like Final
Destination by itself. The way they're doing it with I
know what you did last summer. I hate that they're not changing
the name. I'm like, that's so confusing.
It's the same cast, same name, so yeah, I'm curious to see what
(49:37):
they call it. Just remember I called dibs on
research. Calling it now, but yeah, they
can either just do a whole new situation where it's just like
fresh, like not family tree, butlike death tree, I guess you can
say. Or they could be like, oh, we
forgot about this family and it's like another red line that
(49:59):
can go off on its own. So I don't know.
Who knows what they'll do? Yeah, true.
All right, Goal stars, it's timefor it's freaking bats.
All right, Rabbit, on a scale ofone to five, how many bats would
you rate this film? So I like this movie, but I
(50:22):
think I'm going to give it a 3.5bats out of five bats.
Like I said before, I don't think it brought anything new to
the table. It's kind of, I mean, what is
this, the sixth film? So I guess they're going to do
so much and like twists and turns, which it kind of did have
a little twist here and there, but it wasn't anything ground
(50:44):
breaking for me. So I'm going to go with 3 1/2.
What about you? I think I'm going to go with
three. I feel the same way as you.
I didn't feel like there was anything ground breaking about
the film. I enjoyed it.
I also go with the whole would Iwatch it again?
Probably not. I don't need to go through that
(51:06):
again. It was really fun.
But yeah, I don't have any like,major positive or negative notes
about it other than like, had a good time.
I'm glad I got to experience that in theaters because I
hadn't had that kind of experience before.
But yeah, I you kind of not to, like, make you feel bad.
(51:27):
You kind of like ruined the movie for me by saying they
didn't do anything like realistic that like scares
people because thinking about like new generations, they're
not going to be like, cursed forlife, thinking about like the
highway and stuff, you know? So that alone is like they
totally missed the mark on what their franchise is known for, of
like creating anxieties. Sure.
(51:48):
Well, hopefully this movie will inspire the younger generation
to go back and start from the beginning and watch the.
And then, Yeah. And then they'll get traumatized
just like us. So we'll see that, yeah.
I didn't mean for that to sound negative.
I was just saying like, yeah, you kind of like ruined it when
you said that, but it was a really good perspective, so I
(52:11):
don't mean it in a negative way.All right, it's OK All right,
before we part ways for the week, let's have a little moment
of Be Kind rewind. We're all about the vibes here.
So if this film hit just right, here are a few spooky pics you
(52:31):
can rewind to to match the mood,the madness or the mayhem.
What's your pic Rabbit? OK so I don't have a movie that
will match the vibes of this franchise because I don't think
there's anything out there that kind of does this.
And if there is I'm sorry but I can't think of any other movie
that does crazy things like this.
(52:53):
So I will either say go back andwatch re watch all the other
ones if you're younger I've never seen them because you will
get dramatized. Or if you love Tony Todd, just
go watch Candyman again and that's a really good horror
movie. That's a good wreck.
Yeah, that's a nice one. I endorse it.
What about you? All right, I kind of hinted at
(53:14):
this, but like you're right, no,nothing compares to these vibes.
If anything, I was like OK, well, like the until dawn until
Dawn effects. I don't want to give it away if
you guys haven't seen it or heard our review had that like
craziness to it in one part, like one specific thing on the
movie. But the only other thing like
storyline wise was I kind of really felt like it was
(53:38):
Halloween 2018. Like the whole like older lady
traumatized, the family doesn't believe her and then they
finally realized she's not lyingand then they're trying to
figure out like how to stop death or AKA Michael Myers.
So it really felt a lot like thenew trilogy for me.
Yeah, I did get the same vibes. Like when she showed up to the
(54:00):
cabin I was like, oh, this is very Glory, Strode coded.
Yeah, for sure. And it's like very similar with
like the mom and the daughter and all of that.
So yeah, for sure. All right, Ghosters, we hope you
had a bloody good time hanging out with us today.
We're streaming and screaming to28 Days Later this weekend, so
(54:22):
we'll see you here next Monday with our freshly popped horror
review. And remember, keep cinematic
horror alive and stream something spooky this weekend.
Until next time, sending you goals and kisses, bye.
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