April 10, 2025 • 56 mins
317 MONSTER ATOMIC!
We're remote again for this one, and we're talking 1950's atomic monsters!
Also discussed:BoneBat Comedy of Horrors Film Festival, The Studio, Presence.
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It's like you have to find those things around you
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that you can look at and feelpositive.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break yourconcentration
somewhere between science andsuperstition. You we have such
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sights to show you.
Strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons. Radio that is Eric over
there, hello, and that isVanessa over there. Hello, and I
am Kelly gang. We are doing aremote episode because Vanessa,
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what is going on with your kid?
Just teething, getting older,growing pains? Oh, I
thought the teething was reallast time, and I was so wrong.
It is so bad. It was like fourdays of, like, crying, constant
pain. She wouldn't even let metouch the side of her cheeks.
And then she spiked 102 feverfor several days that I had to,
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like, manage. Yikes, so, andthen I felt unwell. So I just,
you know, sometimes, every oncein a while, every other week,
make us record from ourbeautiful remote stations. Well,
it got so bad that I know wewere going to record yesterday,
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which is when we would normallyrecord in person. Then that got
pushed to a remote, and thenthat remote got just pushed. And
then, Eric, you had some stuffgoing on too. I was like, boy,
yesterday was, you know what Idid yesterday? I drank two
bottles of wine by myself. Thatseems like a better option. Way
better option. Way more pleasantway to spend the day. I would
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have traded you in a heartbeat.
Well,it's, it's called a disease. You
guys,I some, I've seen some stuff.
I am, I am in a, in a mood. Youguys, I am going to move through
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it. I am going through it. Letme see. Okay, got that all
right? I started watching a showthat you would think was tailor
made for me, and I've made ittwo episodes, and I don't think
I will continue. And it iscalled the studio on Apple, plus
bizarrely negative things about,oh, have you okay? Yeah, it
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does not looked like crap to me,but I don't think I don't
nothing's funny, so it's not forme. It
started out the first episode, Iwas like, Oh, this is kind of
cute, and they're shortepisodes, and Seth Rogen, who
has, who has been promoted tokind of like the head of this
small studio, and he loves filmmore than anything in his life,
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and wants to make amazing, bigbudget art house films, but he's
not going to be allowed to dothat. The thing that he has been
put on is, they have gotten theIP for Kool Aid, and he has been
put on the Kool Aid movie.
Oh, you're, you're selling.
It's, it's kind of funny. Butthen the second episode, and the
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thing is, this is a series ofjust wonders, I mean, long shots
where they're following peoplethrough, and I'm, I'm like, wow,
this is pretty amazing. But thesecond episode is called the
wonder, and it is all one shot,and it's Wow, it's impressive.
And it's all about him visitingthe set of a movie where they're
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trying to get this one, or atthe golden hour, just as the sun
is going to set, and all of thisstuff. But he is so neurotic and
out of touch with himself, thathe keeps fucking up the shot
just by being there. And it wasreally amping up my own anxiety,
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because I was just like, Hey,dude, fucking leave. I mean, I
get it. You're the guy runningthe entire thing, and you really
want to be here and everything,but the director is is, you
know, furious with him, andeverybody around is just like,
Oh Christ, this guy. And I guessI think that if I was getting
any of that energy anywhere, I'dbe like, Hey you guys, good
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luck. I'll see you tomorrow, orsomething like that. And the
fact that he's so clueless juststarted to really wear on me. I
thinkit's worse, because you know
what a set is like and howstressful and how important it
is to get those shots whenyou're on that time constraint.
So I feel like that, likedoubles up your anxiety because
you're aware the common vieweris not going to understand that.
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I don't.
I think the common viewer is alot
more savvy. Than they used to beas far as movie production
movies go. Otherwise theywouldn't keep making these kind
of shows. But I don't know soyou guys no interest in it, or
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nothingI did originally, but your
comments followed witheverything else I've read about
it. It seems kind of like souredme out and gone around maybe
sometime, but, butit's on Apple. It's on
Apple. And, man, talk about astacked cast, because everybody,
yeah, is showing up asthemselves. So, you know, you've
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got all these big actors anddirectors and everything. He'll
just do a cameo and have alittle scene, and then they'll
move on. And I'm just like, wow,that is really impressive. So I
was, I just thought I wouldabsolutely love this show, but I
don't know, I'm dragging myheels on watching the third
episode, but it is called thestudio, and it is on Apple.
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Wow. Well, you had a film thatyou talked about before that. I
finally checked out heart eyes.
Yeah, I love this movie. So muchgood. Oh, my god. It's so cute.
You're like, I don't know, likethe way they advertised it, it
looked like it was just gonna bea kind of crummy slasher, and
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instead, it's just a meet cutethat happens to have like a
serial killer in the background.
And it just, I, I was so charmedby it. I just absolutely
enjoyed, wow, every moment ofit. I thought, yeah, it's like
a, it's like a Hallmark movie,yes, some serious gore. Of fact,
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yeah, every time somebody wentinto a confined space, I was
like, Don't, don't, don't dothat. Why are you in there? Now,
okay,I guess so. I'm gonna close my
eyes in a second here,slowly back away. Is
that, is that streaming for freenow? Or no,
I paid, I paid a rental for it,but it wasn't, I don't think it
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was full price. So, yeah,definitely, definitely worth
checking out. I've, I've triedto spread the word amongst
people already and just say no,no, no, no, you don't
understand. It's really cute,like, it's really sweet. It's
really lovely. It has a greatplot. It's funny.
Takes place in Seattle. Oh,yes, I've never seen so many
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palm trees in my like, when theywent to the rooftop bar, I was
like, That's the funniest shitI've ever seen in my life, right
there you think Seattle wouldhave a rooftop bar
downtown, but I thoughtat them five days out of the
year, and the rest of the time,they have to haul out those
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fucking like, heaters andumbrellas, and you're listening,
you're like, trying not to getwet, and you're listening to the
wind whip through the umbrellas.
You're like, cool, I'm glad I'mhaving this experience with this
expensive alcohol. It'sso weird that you've lived in
Seattle as long as you have, andthat's still your impression
city, yes, well,certainly in February it would
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be like the rooftop bar. Ithought more more telling was
the the massive drive in theaterwith the Space Needle in the
background.
Yeah, that was, that was so coolin theory, and yet,
yeah, hell of a location.
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Great. I would love to be there,though. And that was a really
good scene as well. Like, Ireally love kind of what they
did in there. So that's me,yeah, in
my heart, that's what Seattlecan be, sure palm trees and all
malignant Adam, they've gotthem, you know, keep them
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coming.
Well, yesterday, as we'rerecording this, yesterday, was
one of my favorite film festivalevents of the year. Excuse me,
the bone back comedy of horrorsFilm Festival. There was it 14th
year, and pretty usually at afun musical guest, the Phantom
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ad, who's kind of a rockabillysort of like 60s, sort of horror
host as a band leader. Prettygood, very good band fun to
listen to at least two shorts. Ithink Vanessa will need to
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avoid, oh God, make me a pizzaand pizza panic party make me a
pizza is borderline fetish of ifof a spin off of the classic
delivery guy delivering to awoman with a pizza. The porn. It
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goes places that are like, ohshit. It's very, very weird. So
I would that one comes acrosshere. You might want to just
skip that. The panic pizza partyis a little more fun, but, but
yeah, it was pretty usual,really good, a great short about
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a giant mosquito guy andNightmare Freddy gums, which is
more accurate than it you mightinitially think. And what he
does really well with thefestival is it's a comedy,
comedy horror Festival, and alot of people don't necessarily
realize that. That means heshows some flat horror stuff
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too, and they get so much moreintense because you've been
watching this comedy, comedycomedy, and then this one starts
to go, am I supposed to belaughing at? Oh god no, not this
one. The Dark Ones were so darkand so uncomfortable, but some
really, really good stuff. And,man, I wish we'd been in this
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year, because they're at theCinerama. I was just
gonna say, weren't they at theCinerama this year? Yeah, big,
giant theater.
It looked fantastic,although the poor folks running
around trying to deliver thethey do a drawing every year and
give away a lot of stuff, 3040,items or more. So they people
are running around all over theplace, bringing it to people's
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chairs and stuff. So there's alot of movement for some few
people there. But I tell you, itwas, as always, really good,
nice, highly recommended ifyou're in the Seattle area to
come by for the bone back comedyof horror.
Cinerama is a big place thatthey have a big audience. The
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problem with the Cinerama, theyhad a very good, big audience. I
think they said they sold moretickets than they ever had. The
problem is, as you know, fromlike doing myth, we had a 400
seat theater for one of ourfestivals that like 40 people
showed up for. But the layout ofthe room made it look like there
was a lot of people there. Yeah,the layout of the Cinerama is
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huge, with these giant aislesall over the place. So you get
three or 400 people in there,and it looks kind of light, but
they had a great, great turnout.
There was a plenty of peoplethere, and had great time. Lot
of a lot of goodlike good shorts. And, you know,
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it's like, it seems like halfthe people that go to cryptocon
Come to this so much old friendscan't, yeah, can't everybody we
know. And so it was fun. Well,that's very cool. Well, good.
Uh, everybody mark yourcalendars. Bone bat next year
around this time. That's right.
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Let's see. I will start with, Iguess I will continue with a
another TV show that I waslooking forward to that was
horribly disappointing,the bondsman with Kevin Bacon.
Oh, I haven't heard anythingabout this. It looks okay. Yeah,
it is, do you remember boy,probably 10 or 15 years ago now,
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a fox show called Brimstoneis about a guy who
it was about a guy who was inhell, and he was like a police
detective, and he was sent toget these demons that had
escaped from hell. Well, that'sthis exact same story, and only
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they're trying to throw in kindof a, kind of a white trash
humor element to it, becauseKevin Bacon is kind of a white
trash dude. He's not exactlyyour, your stand up kind of guy
who committed murder orsomething like that, is, it's a
bunch of little things that hasended him in hell. And I don't
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know, I really, really want tolike it. It's not shot very
well, and it's not quite funnyenough, and the effects are not
quite good enough. So everythingin it, I was like, I don't know.
I love me some getting bacon,but, yeah, but not here. Sounds
too bad. That is called thebondsman that's on prime, and
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all the episodes are out. Wow,oh, that's a bummer. Well, on
the opposite side of thatspectrum, I checked out
presents, which, that's theSteven Soderbergh ghost movie,
oh, where the whole thing's fromthe ghost POV. And, like, I
didn't end up seeing it intheaters because I'd started
hearing mixed things about it,where it's like. Like, not the
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kind of movie you think it'sgoing to be. And like it, you
know, some something awkwardhappens in it, and the ghost
doesn't do anything. And so Ijust kind of avoided it. And I
have to say, it was, I reallyliked it. I thought it was a
really good little ghost movie.
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It's mostly with a sort offisheye lens, handheld POV from
the ghost perspective. A newfamily moves into a house, and
the family has all kinds ofdifficult dynamics going on. The
daughter, her friend, hadrecently died, and she's going
through a lot of depression. TheSon is under a lot of pressure
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to like, do well in swim team.
And his mom basically moved themto this house so he could get
into this one school to do,like, the best swim team he can
the marriages have has sometensions in there, and you're
kind of like, lifted in and outof these scenes. And then you
can kind of tell when the ghostis like, uninterested. It kind
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of like pieces out or it's like,it's, I don't know, there's a
lot of personality that's comingout just through the camera
work. And the ending may or maynot end up being obvious, but I
just like the ride a lot. Ithought that I felt like, I
don't know, I thought about itfor a long time afterwards, so I
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recommend checking it out. Itwas a rental, but it wasn't as
expensive as normal. So I thinkI got it for like 10 bucks on
Primewas so was the ghost character,
or just kind of a point of view.
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Both, it starts off mostly as apoint of view, and then you
start to unravel this mysterybehind, like, Who is this ghost?
Why are they there? And thatbecomes like a pivotal point of
the plot. So the ghost actuallydoes have some interactions.
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It's not completely like a pointof view, and nothing else like
it does slowly weave itself intothe plot pretty heavily.
Huh? Interesting. Yeah, I heardabout this, and I was, was
mildly interested. But wasn't hethe one that did the the movie
on his cell phone last Eric,that I hated so much. I
don't know if that was lastfilm, but he did that a while
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ago, like the asylum orsomething like that. Yeah, Lady
in an asylum or treatment centeror something, yeah,
it was all, I guess it was likeborderline horror, yeah, because
I can't remember what it was, ifshe was being haunted or
something like that, but, or ifthey were making her out to be
insane and she wasn't. Oh, but Iremember just really, really
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disliking thatit had a similar curve to it. It
sounds like you're describing,that really made it hard for me
to watch, because I just don'tlike that look.
Yeah, yeah. I think he's beentrying a lot of stuff because,
like, I saw Kimmy, and then Imight talk about another time
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black bag as well. Those aremore of his recent things. And I
think he's really dipping intoall kinds of different things.
But, I mean, he also didcontagion, oceans, 11. He's
actually one of my favoritedirectors, and has done some
stuff I really love, but he'salso, well, he's experimental
enough, which I respect, butdoesn't mean I always like, what
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is experimental?
Yeah, yeah.
I love a lot of the stuff he'sdone, though.
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's calledpresence. Oh,
Kelly, you want to take theheadphones off?
I'll just leave the room. Irecently
completed this book you mighthave heard of, called thorns,
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written by this KL young guy,he sounds and
third in his ongoing series ofwriting outside of scripts, and
it's pretty fantastic. Thehardest thing I think right for
a writer to do is to create aphysical kind of response in you
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make you laugh out loud or cry.
Or what happened to me whilereading this book where there's
this scene where two of thepeople are just having this fun,
great little night, getting toknow each other and getting
drunk and high, and then oneline is set, and it changed the
tone of the entire thing. And Iphysically felt that as I'm
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reading it going, and she saidthat line, and everything in me
just went, oh shit. And it waswild, because that, you know,
that just doesn't happen inbooks very often. You. Is a
messed up book in the best ways.
If you like uncomfortable stuff,you're going to get some of it,
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which is a compliment. That is agood thing and but I found it
thoroughly interesting andwildly readable. I had a very
strange habit when I was ayounger kid and starting to
discover Stephen King, where ifI really, really liked the book,
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I would slow read it. I wouldhit to a point where the tension
really got high, and I'd stopreading, come back to it again,
like I read every night, so Icome back again next night and
start reading it again. Andthat's what I did with this
book. It took me way longer thanit should have to read it or
read this book, but that'sbecause I kept doing that as I
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go, come back later. SoI I think it's, I think it's the
best thing you've written, andit's, it's cool to see that
you're progressing in thewriting. And it's fun to you
know knowing you well enough toget all the little messages like
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the the rotting corpse line andstuff like that. So that adds a
little something that otherpeople, not some other people
are definitely going to know.
But yeah, just wanted to say,really good. Marth, has it set
aside? Oh no, he's going to,he's taking a trip. He's going
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to read it on the plane. So I'mvery curious what he's going to
think.
Oh no,it's a few seeds every going,
Oh, they should be interested tosee what Mark
thinks. It has been getting nicereviews, but one of the reviews
was from a woman was like, Ireally enjoyed this book, but
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there were a couple of times Iput it down and I was like, that
was fucked up. There is somefucked up stuff in it, yeah?
Well, I'm really, I'm reallyglad that you liked it. Yeah,
thanks, man, I appreciate thathorns,
and it's available. Extra funthough, to pick it up go to your
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Barnes and Noble or whatever,and local thing and order it
from a bookstore and pick it upat a bookstore, because that's
pretty cool.
Yeah, it's available whereveryou can order your books. So if
you don't like the evilcorporation of Amazon, whatever
evil corporation you do like, itis available through them as
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well. So Thanks, Eric. That wasreally kind of you. Okay, well,
let me go and wash my brain ofall of this stuff, and then when
we come back, we're going to betalking about atomic monsters.
Youhere's the GI Joe adventure team
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line with new Mike power, atomicman. Here's the commander.
Trouble is in our business.
Mission to rescue a secretmessage. Atomic man's eye starts
flashing. With your help, atomicman lowers Joe. No time to lose.
You help Joe grab the messagewith his kung fu grip you put on
atomic man's propeller. He's gotthe message, and he's off to
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headquarters.
New mice power, atomic man.
We have returned, guys. This wasmy sub genre pick, and I wanted
to do atomic monsters, so somekind of creature feature that
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that was a result of, you know,atomic radiation. I don't know
about you guys, I figured thatmost of these movies probably
would come from the 50s, andmine Sure did.
From 1958 oh, hang on. A second,five minutes, five minutes
almost forgot,from 1958 I chose fiend without
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a face. Oh, thebrain, it's gone. That's not
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all. The entire spinal cord ismissing.
It's incredible. It's as if somemental vampire at work. Does it
come from another country oranother world? This terrifying
menace that g2 must destroybefore it's too late. Image is
fading, sir. There it goesagain. Same trouble. How can
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they stop this invisible force?
Boss whose only warning is aweird, blood chilling sound.
Only two people still alive canhelp this agent find the
answers, the girl who could be aspy and the scientist who could
be the destroyer of the entirehuman race.
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We're facing a new form of lifethat nobody understands. I
believe it feeds on theradiation from your atomic
blood, and that it's evil.
You'vegot to stop them. There's only
one way shut down your atomicplant. If I can get through I
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can blow up the control room.
You directed by Arthur Crabtree,who has 22 credits, including
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horrors of the black museumdeath over my shoulder and The
Adventures of Robin Hood,written by Herbert J leader, who
has eight credits, including itand Doomsday machine and the
frozen dead. And this was basedon an original story by Amelia
Reynolds, long starring MarshallThompson, 118 credits, including
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mcbang lure of the swamp andeast of Kilimanjaro, also
starring Kim Parker, who has 13credits, including fire maidens
of outer space, undercover girland the man without a body. And
in here is also kiness andReeves, who has 154 credits,
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tons and tons of television,including or not that, but also
including shadow the cat go toblazes. And here's my favorite.
If there weren't any blacks,you'd have to invent them.
Wozer. There's alot of subjects that could
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be loser. You guys familiar withfiend without a face. No, yeah,
well, this will probably turnyou off everyone to see it,
fantastic, fair, what you guysthis movie is something else. It
is ostensibly an atomic monster,Creature Feature. However, the
monsters are fucking invisible.
It starts with a local farmerbeing discovered in the woods on
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the outskirts of a US Air ForceBase in Manitoba, up in Canada,
his face is frozen in anexpression of pure horror. Back
at the base, the higher ups arediscussing the death, and even
though it's not really theirjurisdiction, major Jeff
Cummings decides he wants to bepersonally involved in the
investigation. Cummings thinksthe man might have been up to
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something nefarious, and he endsup talking to the man's sister,
Barbara Grisel, who is quitelovely. She assures him that the
notes her brother was taking onthe flights in and out of the
base were because his herd ofcow's milk production was being
disrupted by the Air Force'sjets Cummings in Brazil seem to
have a little connection goingon here, even though she is way
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out of his Lake. But chicks diga man in uniform, right?
Vanessa, yeah, yes, oh, yes.
Okay, sure. Later, we learnedthat the base is actually
performing tests at the welearned that the base is
performing tests on experimentalradar so that they can increase
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their spying in Soviet airspace.
But the test goes wrong. Theyseem to get enough power from a
small atomic reactor they hadbuilt, but each time they use
it, the atomic power is beingdrained by something else.
Meanwhile, at another farm inthe area, a woman is attacked by
an invisible monster and killed,and when her husband tries to
defend himself with a pitchfork,he is also killed, and it looks
like something is grabbing themand strangling them, although we
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do not get to see what it iswell. So the town is getting
upset, and they think it hassomething to do with the atomic
power being used at the base.
And when an autopsy is finallyperformed, it is discovered that
each of the dead people ismissing their brains and spinal
cords. Ah, so Cummings andGrisel are on the case, which
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leads them to a strangescientist who may have the
answers they are searching for.
You guys, this movie is only 74minutes long, and an hour of
that is invisible monsters andbad acting by everyone except
Grisel. But if you hang on, youare rewarded in the last 14
minutes when the creatures arerevealed to be crawling brains
that use spinal cords to movelike inchworms, and they are
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done in glorious stop motion.
Oh, that's good. Yeah, there's anice. Siege at the end, with all
these creatures and a smallcabin, and the officers are
shooting brains left and right,and they hit the brains, and
they're all kind of bubble. It'spretty good. I got some trivia
on this, although I might runout of time. In an interview,
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Star Marshall Thompson recalledthat director Arthur Crabtree
didn't really want to direct thefilm. He thought sci fi was
beneath him. Crabtree turned upon set on the first day of
filming, took one look at thescript and informed the cast and
crew that he refused to do thefilm. He walked off set, and the
producers needed several days toconvince him to return, citing
contractual obligations.
Thompson says that during thosedays, Thompson directed the film
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himself. The British productionwas based on the thought monster
by Amelia Reynolds long whichwas published, published in the
classic American pulp magazineweird tales in 1930 the story
was originally submitted byForrest J Ackerman in the late
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50s to American Internationalpictures, which turned it down.
I thought this was interesting.
AIP producer Alex Gordon thoughtthat his brother, producer
Richard Gordon might beinterested in it, and Richard
Gordon took it, and his companyamalgamated productions,
eventually produced it inEngland. And then finally, this
one is impossible to believe.
The film created a public uproarafter its premiere at the Ritz
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Theater in lachester Square. TheBritish Board of Film sensors
had already demanded a number ofcuts before granting it the X
certificate. There's nothing inhere that would be scary or,
quite honestly, eveninteresting.
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I'm just like, wow. Okay, thisfilm,
making it up, I would say thatyou guys could probably pass on
fiend without a face.
Good to know. Good to know.
Watch the last 14 minutes.
The Stop Motion brings they movelike inch worms. So the spinal
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cord is doing this thing and thebrain is at the beginning. I was
like, Okay, this is fun. This isa lot of fun. Nice.
Vanessa, you want to go next?
Sure another. All right?
Five minutes. All right. I wentwith H man.
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I don't touch it.
You from the gaze in spots of agreat city for the last
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desperate refuge of millionsunderground the incredible,
monstrous H man strikes terrorto every heart, disintegrates
everyone it touches,it kills, but can't be killed.
The most incredible man younever saw, deadly byproduct of
the H bomb blasts, doomingmankind to oblivion. We are
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facinga situation which cannot be
minimized, complete externation.
Did you start yet? Yes, Masadawent into the sur where? Right
there.
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See a great city fight backCOVID operations to stop the
deadliest killer the world hasyet encountered you.
A 1958 on Tubi available,directed by Ishiro Honda, 78
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credits, including Godzilla,Mothra, gyrora, etc, starring
Yumi shirekawa, who was in Rodanthe mysterians and the princess
badger Palace, Kenji Sahara, whois in space amoeba, which I've
talked about before, and ultra Qand A she Ikki Aki Hoko, sorry,
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rata, who had the recurringGodzilla role of Dr Shinzo na.
Fauci This story begins on arainy day. A man is hiding from
the cops, sitting in his carwaiting for a passenger in
nisaki, a drug smuggler emergesfrom a sewer grate to the
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getaway car, and as he opens thetruck, he is hit with a wave of
pain, and all that is leftbehind are his clothes. The rest
of him is goo, and it goes downinto a sewer. His bag is full of
drugs and, of course, leftbehind. And the police show up
immediately. They start toquestion various sketchy people
around town to try and find outwhere this Misaki went to
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because they don't think he'sgoo. They just think he left his
clothes, and they check in withhis incredibly beautiful
girlfriend, Arya Chikako. Shehas not seen him for several
days, and she is a popularsinger at a cabaret. While
performing, a mysterious manpasses her a note saying he
wants to talk about Misaki. Andit turns out he is, of course, a
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university professor studyingradiation effects, and want to
know if Misaki was out at sea ortraveling anytime recently. Oh,
the scientist, the mafia aresuper mad at Misaki and go to
Chicago's apartment to threatenher, only to be attacked by a
goo monster that turns them intoempty clothing. From then on,
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we've got Chicago being botheredby the police, the mob and the
scientists, only for thisscientist to ultimately believe
that she saw this goo man.
Situation, the goo strikesagain, this time at a club, and
many, many people are murdered,including a dancer. The secret
is out, and the city isterrified of the H man. We learn
from the scientists that therewas an empty ship discovered
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with only clothing left behindfrom many of its onboard people.
It was boarded by another shipwho saw the goo creature and
took several of their own peopleand killed them. So will Misaki
ever re materialize into his ownself, or will he be left as a
goo creature for all of time?
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Will Chicago have to spend aninordinate amount of time in her
underwear, in the sewer, heldhostage by a monster? Will the
creature finally meet its demisein the form of fire, without any
explanation or reasoning in ascene so confusing I rewound it
several times trying to figureout what I'd missed. Find out by
watching H man. This is a weirdmovie. It is sad. It does not
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know its genre. It is a mix ofhorror, monster movie, gangster,
noir and occasional 1960spsychedelic dance numbers, very,
very boring, an incrediblyboring film. The gangster and
cop stuff is so dull, but themonster effects are amazing. I
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love the goo turning into likeit like turns into this green
ghost, and then it turns intolike jello mold people, although
it's never really clear if it'sjust Misaki or if it's like
everybody who got turned intothe goo. So that's a little
confusing to me. So yeah, andthe scene where they go to the
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fishing boat is genuinelycreepy, and it reminds me a lot
of the fog, like, there's justsomething really eerie and weird
about them being on this fishingboat and trying to see, like all
these empty clothing. It is veryunsettling. A little bit about
it. Tagline, all h breaks loosein all caps, nice. Like the
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original gajira 1954 story. Itwas based on the fate of the
lucky dragon number five, aJapanese fishing boat that
sailed into an atomic test areainstead of confronting a giant
creature. The story has the crewtransformed by radiation into a
race of liquid creatures thatsubsist on humans. The
dissolving effect was created bydeflating life sized inflatable
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human figures, filming them infast motion and then running the
film at normal speed. And on thelobby floor in some theaters,
there were H man coming. Was acoming attraction, and a melted
victim was on display. Itconsisted of a pair of shoes
with a shirt, consisted of apair of shoes with a shirt and
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pants and a toupee piled on top.
Um, yeah, this is really castle.
Yes. They really went full andthey had, like, little h man,
like figures they passed out tosome people, but I don't know
what that would have lookedlike. It's, it's crazy, but
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yeah, is the is the H forhydrogen? Or why is the H man?
It's, yeah, I was trying tofigure this out too. Like I
googled it a couple times. Ithink it's for God. I. Man, I
don't have a good explanation onhere. I think because, like,
yes, yes. H, everything,hydrogen, humanoid, helium,
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everything, all the H words.
Man, the way you were describingthis, as I've never seen this,
and I have to see this and thenyou were, like, boring.
You might like it more than Idid. I mean, I don't think I
have as much patience for this,this genre, so just just because
it wasn't something that I wasreally exposed to until, like,
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the last three years or fouryears while being on the show,
yeah, it's only I never watchedany of this stuff until I was
here. And it's interesting tome, but it's also, I mean, the
blob, the original blob, Ifucking hate I'm like, I had to
spend an entire scene watching aman tie his shoes, tie his
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goddamn shoes. He gets out ofbed, ties his shoes, then climbs
out a window. So many minutespass, so I it's probably down to
me. I think you guys would get alot more out of this than I did.
And I also don't like noir thatmuch, and I don't like mobster
stuff that much. So there's alot of things working against
it, but the effects were really,really fun. So meanwhile,
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the blobs over here, going, thefuck I do is great. That
is pretty good remake, yeah,okay. H man, Eric, you want to
go?
Alrighty, let's see here. So Iwent with also into the 50s.
Thank you. 1957 the blackscorpion.
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Most terrifying news of all atnightfall, monstrous animals
crawl out of crater of volcano.
Great herds of cattle stampedebefore this living Inferno, vast
area devastated by appalling newhorror, a creature named the
black scorpion. By panicstricken people of San Lorenzo,
entire population prays fordeliverance. For miles
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around cowboys came upon onedead steer after another. One of
them had heard the tale of thedemon Bull of the Maricopa,
having lost family or friendssomething absolutely unknown. It
could be in another world,nation's
leaders confer as news receiveda possible threat to capital.
This is a city of 4 millionpeople, if word of these leaks
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out, the panic of the populationcould be worse than The
Scorpions.
The black Scorpion destroyscommunications. Hundreds
annihilated.
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The produced on a scale neverachieved before by any science
fiction picture 1000s in thecast. You Oh,
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which almost sounds like a comeout of a Hong Kong film, but it
is not. It's available to rentseveral places. It's on Pluto
TV, directed by Edward Ludwig,who's did 50 episodes of the
restless gun a bunch of SwissFamily Robinson the gun hawk.
He's got 107 directing creditsspanning a career from 1920 to
(44:10):
1966 Wow. Dude directed a longtime, written by David Duncan,
best known for a few sci fithings like the time machine,
1960 Fantastic Voyage and outerlimits, also written by Robert
blees, who's got an interesting,but maybe not quite as
prestigious, writing history,frogs, screaming, maybe Dr
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fives, rides again. And finally,Paul yawitz, who is best known
for unmasked and maids day from1938 Donna, starring Richard
Denny, 7774 episodes of Hawaii,five, oh, it's also in Grand
Jury secrets. 113 credits, lotsof work. Mara Corday, who's on
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the gauntlet. So. Sudden Impact,and like two or three other
Clint Eastwood movies andtarantula and Carlos Rivas, who
was in Duck Savage, the man ofbronze, and so many TV episodes
from the 50s into the 90s, soanother guy, just a lot of lot
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of work for the people thatworked on this movie starts as a
reel about not an atomiccreature. Another time of year,
I might have picked the newmovie and got it for a full one
the black scorpions come from anactive volcano. Oh, so you know
that's as much as a 10 megatonbomb.
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I like your reasoning here.
There's this takes place inMexico, and, of course, the lead
investigators and white dude,but his partner is actually a
German, Mexican actor, and he'sthe guy that's in every TV show
you've ever seen. They travel tothe the storyline is they're
going to the volcano to find outwhat the impact has been on the
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area around it, to see why it'sgone off and how the people that
are close to it are able to dealwith it, and so they can send in
aid and help it get better. Asthey're traveling up there, they
come across a strangely crushedcar with an abandoned baby in it
and a man that seems to havebeen scared to death travel a
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little bit more. Finally arriveat their destination. Start the
investigation. There. Theydiscovered a woman riding a
horse. Of course, the men golook. It's a woman riding a
horse.
She falls off the horse,thereby having to be rescued,
sort of she's actually anincredibly strong female
character for a 1950s film. Theyrescue her and then bring her
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back to a ranch, or somethingthat her husband used to run,
who has died, where she thenchastises all the men there for
not having the guts to come backto the ranch and do their work.
And they discover a big chunk ofobsidian with a live Scorpion
inside. This is just a littleScorpion, though.
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And then the giant scorpionsstart to appear.
Stop Motion. Oh, nice. Reallyfun, although they've got
extensive close ups of theScorpion face, which is very
weird looking and constantlydrooling, I think this is very
Scorpion ask, but when it's thefull creature running around,
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it's a lot of fun. And they dowonderfully 50s things like they
Well, we need to show you,there's a lot of scorpions. So
they just repeat the film runand run and run and run into
like 50 scorpions instead of theprobably two. They had nice
shots of Mexico City with artexhibits and great hotels and
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stuff, although, like, I thinkthat was just the area. They did
not shoot Mexico. Let's see. Thecreator of the stop motion was
wells O'Brien, whose originalrole was stop motion for King
Kong. Oh, there is a spider inthe movie that is rumored to
have been the spider that was inthe original King Kong, and he
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used it in here as well. And healso worked with Pete Peterson,
who is the stop motion guy forMighty Joe Young and giant
behemoth. So the stop motion isreally good. It is a lot of fun.
There's great scenes with ascorpion and train and all this
kind of stuff used. AndWhat else was there
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came out with mixed reviews,praised for special effects, and
I would say, rightfully includedin a arrow release of Mystery
Science Theater 3000 because itis, it is not a great film, but
it is a lot of fun to watch. Andthe the people are so ridiculous
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at times, so much fun. And theHero Guy is so hero, and it's
just, it was pretty damn goodfor, you know what it is.
What did you watch this on?
This was, I think, rental, okay,but Pluto TV as well. It's like
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a $3 rental or something. Youknow, it's not a big one, and
it's on a lot of differentplaces. Could probably find it
on YouTube,depending on how long ago that
arrow release came out.
But, yeah, this would be a goodfun. It is. I mean, you know,
not an atomic movie, but it feltlike one. It could have been
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them very easily, just scorpionsinstead of. Spider. Or, I think
I lookedat this movie and I think that
there is a tie to the volcano iserupting because of some atomic
testing in the area.
That could be. They did an introat the beginning that was sort
of convoluted, and it's on listsof atomic movies. So that's,
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that's what I found, is there'satomic era movies, monster
movies. So I had to weed out alot because I was like, Oh, this
felt, Oh, wait, that's notactually atomic it's just of the
era. So that makes sense. Yeah,cool. I
suppose I could have made thiseasier on everybody by just
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saying atomic era monsters. Butyou know, what's funny?
Mentioned that my movie was a,is part of the Criterion
Collection? Oh, really, yes,it's got a criterion number and
everything. I was just like, howthe fuck this movie is bad.
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I think sometimes criterion waslike, low hanging fruit, easy
rights, like, we will get thisone and it will represent this
rainbow of movies,yeah, criterions got a lot of
represent movies, kind of like,you know, who would think
criterion to put off a giant boxset of Godzilla films, yeah, but
what Godzilla represents in filmis pretty important, even if the
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movies are hit or miss,being very kind. And you know
howEric, I think that you have the
pick for our next sub genre. Ido,
I will go nice and wide, becauseI have things I'm doing this
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month.
How about we talk about a moviethat's got animals in it? Whoa,
you know, it could be somebodywho's got a pet dog, or it could
be somebody, something whereanimals are running wild. You
could do frogs, from the writerof black Scorpion
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here, but it isif you want to do that to
yourself.
As a fan of sports movies, Ihave not seen those. And dogs. I
like dogs too.
I love this idea. Okay, so we'retalking about movies with
animals in them. Talk about someof the things you got going on
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this month, Eric, because we aremere weeks away from Yes,
the first, the first weekend inMay is cryptic. Con Seattle film
cryptocon Seattle withcryptocurrency Film Festival,
yeah. And just announced the daywe record, we got Maria servino,
that's going to be a guest. It'slike, Oh, wow.
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Mira Cervino, yeah, I was kindof blown away by the Oscar
winning actor,yep, but a lot of lot of fun
guests, you know, Doug Bradleyand Eugene Clark and a bunch of
people, panels, film festivals,all kinds of stuff going on.
Yeah, if you're in the area,check it out.
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Yeah, definitely. So we're allgoing to be there for that.
We'll do like we usually do alive show and and then we'll be
bouncing around. Vanessa, you'regonna hang out with us
afterwards. I'mgonna try. I I've been put onto
a panel immediately after hours,so if you want to hang out after
after, then, yes,we do. We'll be there. Okay? I
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figured, yeah, we'll sit in theaudience. No no, no, just go
drinksomething, and I'll come find
you. We can do both. Okay,that's true. Only come to my
panel if you are activelydrinking challenge. Except,
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No, but I know what you'retalking about. We should? We
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We should talk about that? Yeah,that'd be good.
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Vanessa, very glad to hearyou're feeling a little better.
Yeah, thank you. Eric, veryhappy to hear that everything is
going okay over there,yeah. And you know you, you keep
keeping on. I'mbinging. No, I'm purging. After
45 years of binging, I ampurging. So I've bought boxes
and I'm I'm packing shit up.
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another 45 years.
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that was so cool in theory.
It's like you have to find those things around you
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that you can look at and feelpositive.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break yourconcentration
somewhere between science andsuperstition. You we have such
(00:24):
sights to show you.
Strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons. Radio that is Eric over
there, hello, and that isVanessa over there. Hello, and I
am Kelly gang. We are doing aremote episode because Vanessa,
(00:49):
what is going on with your kid?
Just teething, getting older,growing pains? Oh, I
thought the teething was reallast time, and I was so wrong.
It is so bad. It was like fourdays of, like, crying, constant
pain. She wouldn't even let metouch the side of her cheeks.
And then she spiked 102 feverfor several days that I had to,
(01:13):
like, manage. Yikes, so, andthen I felt unwell. So I just,
you know, sometimes, every oncein a while, every other week,
make us record from ourbeautiful remote stations. Well,
it got so bad that I know wewere going to record yesterday,
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which is when we would normallyrecord in person. Then that got
pushed to a remote, and thenthat remote got just pushed. And
then, Eric, you had some stuffgoing on too. I was like, boy,
yesterday was, you know what Idid yesterday? I drank two
bottles of wine by myself. Thatseems like a better option. Way
better option. Way more pleasantway to spend the day. I would
(01:55):
have traded you in a heartbeat.
Well,it's, it's called a disease. You
guys,I some, I've seen some stuff.
I am, I am in a, in a mood. Youguys, I am going to move through
(02:16):
it. I am going through it. Letme see. Okay, got that all
right? I started watching a showthat you would think was tailor
made for me, and I've made ittwo episodes, and I don't think
I will continue. And it iscalled the studio on Apple, plus
bizarrely negative things about,oh, have you okay? Yeah, it
(02:38):
does not looked like crap to me,but I don't think I don't
nothing's funny, so it's not forme. It
started out the first episode, Iwas like, Oh, this is kind of
cute, and they're shortepisodes, and Seth Rogen, who
has, who has been promoted tokind of like the head of this
small studio, and he loves filmmore than anything in his life,
(03:00):
and wants to make amazing, bigbudget art house films, but he's
not going to be allowed to dothat. The thing that he has been
put on is, they have gotten theIP for Kool Aid, and he has been
put on the Kool Aid movie.
Oh, you're, you're selling.
It's, it's kind of funny. Butthen the second episode, and the
(03:24):
thing is, this is a series ofjust wonders, I mean, long shots
where they're following peoplethrough, and I'm, I'm like, wow,
this is pretty amazing. But thesecond episode is called the
wonder, and it is all one shot,and it's Wow, it's impressive.
And it's all about him visitingthe set of a movie where they're
(03:48):
trying to get this one, or atthe golden hour, just as the sun
is going to set, and all of thisstuff. But he is so neurotic and
out of touch with himself, thathe keeps fucking up the shot
just by being there. And it wasreally amping up my own anxiety,
(04:10):
because I was just like, Hey,dude, fucking leave. I mean, I
get it. You're the guy runningthe entire thing, and you really
want to be here and everything,but the director is is, you
know, furious with him, andeverybody around is just like,
Oh Christ, this guy. And I guessI think that if I was getting
any of that energy anywhere, I'dbe like, Hey you guys, good
(04:31):
luck. I'll see you tomorrow, orsomething like that. And the
fact that he's so clueless juststarted to really wear on me. I
thinkit's worse, because you know
what a set is like and howstressful and how important it
is to get those shots whenyou're on that time constraint.
So I feel like that, likedoubles up your anxiety because
you're aware the common vieweris not going to understand that.
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I don't.
I think the common viewer is alot
more savvy. Than they used to beas far as movie production
movies go. Otherwise theywouldn't keep making these kind
of shows. But I don't know soyou guys no interest in it, or
(05:13):
nothingI did originally, but your
comments followed witheverything else I've read about
it. It seems kind of like souredme out and gone around maybe
sometime, but, butit's on Apple. It's on
Apple. And, man, talk about astacked cast, because everybody,
yeah, is showing up asthemselves. So, you know, you've
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got all these big actors anddirectors and everything. He'll
just do a cameo and have alittle scene, and then they'll
move on. And I'm just like, wow,that is really impressive. So I
was, I just thought I wouldabsolutely love this show, but I
don't know, I'm dragging myheels on watching the third
episode, but it is called thestudio, and it is on Apple.
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Wow. Well, you had a film thatyou talked about before that. I
finally checked out heart eyes.
Yeah, I love this movie. So muchgood. Oh, my god. It's so cute.
You're like, I don't know, likethe way they advertised it, it
looked like it was just gonna bea kind of crummy slasher, and
(06:21):
instead, it's just a meet cutethat happens to have like a
serial killer in the background.
And it just, I, I was so charmedby it. I just absolutely
enjoyed, wow, every moment ofit. I thought, yeah, it's like
a, it's like a Hallmark movie,yes, some serious gore. Of fact,
(06:47):
yeah, every time somebody wentinto a confined space, I was
like, Don't, don't, don't dothat. Why are you in there? Now,
okay,I guess so. I'm gonna close my
eyes in a second here,slowly back away. Is
that, is that streaming for freenow? Or no,
I paid, I paid a rental for it,but it wasn't, I don't think it
(07:08):
was full price. So, yeah,definitely, definitely worth
checking out. I've, I've triedto spread the word amongst
people already and just say no,no, no, no, you don't
understand. It's really cute,like, it's really sweet. It's
really lovely. It has a greatplot. It's funny.
Takes place in Seattle. Oh,yes, I've never seen so many
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palm trees in my like, when theywent to the rooftop bar, I was
like, That's the funniest shitI've ever seen in my life, right
there you think Seattle wouldhave a rooftop bar
downtown, but I thoughtat them five days out of the
year, and the rest of the time,they have to haul out those
(07:51):
fucking like, heaters andumbrellas, and you're listening,
you're like, trying not to getwet, and you're listening to the
wind whip through the umbrellas.
You're like, cool, I'm glad I'mhaving this experience with this
expensive alcohol. It'sso weird that you've lived in
Seattle as long as you have, andthat's still your impression
city, yes, well,certainly in February it would
(08:12):
be like the rooftop bar. Ithought more more telling was
the the massive drive in theaterwith the Space Needle in the
background.
Yeah, that was, that was so coolin theory, and yet,
yeah, hell of a location.
(08:32):
Great. I would love to be there,though. And that was a really
good scene as well. Like, Ireally love kind of what they
did in there. So that's me,yeah, in
my heart, that's what Seattlecan be, sure palm trees and all
malignant Adam, they've gotthem, you know, keep them
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coming.
Well, yesterday, as we'rerecording this, yesterday, was
one of my favorite film festivalevents of the year. Excuse me,
the bone back comedy of horrorsFilm Festival. There was it 14th
year, and pretty usually at afun musical guest, the Phantom
(09:16):
ad, who's kind of a rockabillysort of like 60s, sort of horror
host as a band leader. Prettygood, very good band fun to
listen to at least two shorts. Ithink Vanessa will need to
(09:36):
avoid, oh God, make me a pizzaand pizza panic party make me a
pizza is borderline fetish of ifof a spin off of the classic
delivery guy delivering to awoman with a pizza. The porn. It
(10:01):
goes places that are like, ohshit. It's very, very weird. So
I would that one comes acrosshere. You might want to just
skip that. The panic pizza partyis a little more fun, but, but
yeah, it was pretty usual,really good, a great short about
(10:22):
a giant mosquito guy andNightmare Freddy gums, which is
more accurate than it you mightinitially think. And what he
does really well with thefestival is it's a comedy,
comedy horror Festival, and alot of people don't necessarily
realize that. That means heshows some flat horror stuff
(10:44):
too, and they get so much moreintense because you've been
watching this comedy, comedycomedy, and then this one starts
to go, am I supposed to belaughing at? Oh god no, not this
one. The Dark Ones were so darkand so uncomfortable, but some
really, really good stuff. And,man, I wish we'd been in this
(11:07):
year, because they're at theCinerama. I was just
gonna say, weren't they at theCinerama this year? Yeah, big,
giant theater.
It looked fantastic,although the poor folks running
around trying to deliver thethey do a drawing every year and
give away a lot of stuff, 3040,items or more. So they people
are running around all over theplace, bringing it to people's
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chairs and stuff. So there's alot of movement for some few
people there. But I tell you, itwas, as always, really good,
nice, highly recommended ifyou're in the Seattle area to
come by for the bone back comedyof horror.
Cinerama is a big place thatthey have a big audience. The
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problem with the Cinerama, theyhad a very good, big audience. I
think they said they sold moretickets than they ever had. The
problem is, as you know, fromlike doing myth, we had a 400
seat theater for one of ourfestivals that like 40 people
showed up for. But the layout ofthe room made it look like there
was a lot of people there. Yeah,the layout of the Cinerama is
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huge, with these giant aislesall over the place. So you get
three or 400 people in there,and it looks kind of light, but
they had a great, great turnout.
There was a plenty of peoplethere, and had great time. Lot
of a lot of goodlike good shorts. And, you know,
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it's like, it seems like halfthe people that go to cryptocon
Come to this so much old friendscan't, yeah, can't everybody we
know. And so it was fun. Well,that's very cool. Well, good.
Uh, everybody mark yourcalendars. Bone bat next year
around this time. That's right.
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Let's see. I will start with, Iguess I will continue with a
another TV show that I waslooking forward to that was
horribly disappointing,the bondsman with Kevin Bacon.
Oh, I haven't heard anythingabout this. It looks okay. Yeah,
it is, do you remember boy,probably 10 or 15 years ago now,
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a fox show called Brimstoneis about a guy who
it was about a guy who was inhell, and he was like a police
detective, and he was sent toget these demons that had
escaped from hell. Well, that'sthis exact same story, and only
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they're trying to throw in kindof a, kind of a white trash
humor element to it, becauseKevin Bacon is kind of a white
trash dude. He's not exactlyyour, your stand up kind of guy
who committed murder orsomething like that, is, it's a
bunch of little things that hasended him in hell. And I don't
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know, I really, really want tolike it. It's not shot very
well, and it's not quite funnyenough, and the effects are not
quite good enough. So everythingin it, I was like, I don't know.
I love me some getting bacon,but, yeah, but not here. Sounds
too bad. That is called thebondsman that's on prime, and
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all the episodes are out. Wow,oh, that's a bummer. Well, on
the opposite side of thatspectrum, I checked out
presents, which, that's theSteven Soderbergh ghost movie,
oh, where the whole thing's fromthe ghost POV. And, like, I
didn't end up seeing it intheaters because I'd started
hearing mixed things about it,where it's like. Like, not the
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kind of movie you think it'sgoing to be. And like it, you
know, some something awkwardhappens in it, and the ghost
doesn't do anything. And so Ijust kind of avoided it. And I
have to say, it was, I reallyliked it. I thought it was a
really good little ghost movie.
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It's mostly with a sort offisheye lens, handheld POV from
the ghost perspective. A newfamily moves into a house, and
the family has all kinds ofdifficult dynamics going on. The
daughter, her friend, hadrecently died, and she's going
through a lot of depression. TheSon is under a lot of pressure
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to like, do well in swim team.
And his mom basically moved themto this house so he could get
into this one school to do,like, the best swim team he can
the marriages have has sometensions in there, and you're
kind of like, lifted in and outof these scenes. And then you
can kind of tell when the ghostis like, uninterested. It kind
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of like pieces out or it's like,it's, I don't know, there's a
lot of personality that's comingout just through the camera
work. And the ending may or maynot end up being obvious, but I
just like the ride a lot. Ithought that I felt like, I
don't know, I thought about itfor a long time afterwards, so I
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recommend checking it out. Itwas a rental, but it wasn't as
expensive as normal. So I thinkI got it for like 10 bucks on
Primewas so was the ghost character,
or just kind of a point of view.
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Both, it starts off mostly as apoint of view, and then you
start to unravel this mysterybehind, like, Who is this ghost?
Why are they there? And thatbecomes like a pivotal point of
the plot. So the ghost actuallydoes have some interactions.
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It's not completely like a pointof view, and nothing else like
it does slowly weave itself intothe plot pretty heavily.
Huh? Interesting. Yeah, I heardabout this, and I was, was
mildly interested. But wasn't hethe one that did the the movie
on his cell phone last Eric,that I hated so much. I
don't know if that was lastfilm, but he did that a while
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ago, like the asylum orsomething like that. Yeah, Lady
in an asylum or treatment centeror something, yeah,
it was all, I guess it was likeborderline horror, yeah, because
I can't remember what it was, ifshe was being haunted or
something like that, but, or ifthey were making her out to be
insane and she wasn't. Oh, but Iremember just really, really
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disliking thatit had a similar curve to it. It
sounds like you're describing,that really made it hard for me
to watch, because I just don'tlike that look.
Yeah, yeah. I think he's beentrying a lot of stuff because,
like, I saw Kimmy, and then Imight talk about another time
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black bag as well. Those aremore of his recent things. And I
think he's really dipping intoall kinds of different things.
But, I mean, he also didcontagion, oceans, 11. He's
actually one of my favoritedirectors, and has done some
stuff I really love, but he'salso, well, he's experimental
enough, which I respect, butdoesn't mean I always like, what
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is experimental?
Yeah, yeah.
I love a lot of the stuff he'sdone, though.
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's calledpresence. Oh,
Kelly, you want to take theheadphones off?
I'll just leave the room. Irecently
completed this book you mighthave heard of, called thorns,
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written by this KL young guy,he sounds and
third in his ongoing series ofwriting outside of scripts, and
it's pretty fantastic. Thehardest thing I think right for
a writer to do is to create aphysical kind of response in you
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make you laugh out loud or cry.
Or what happened to me whilereading this book where there's
this scene where two of thepeople are just having this fun,
great little night, getting toknow each other and getting
drunk and high, and then oneline is set, and it changed the
tone of the entire thing. And Iphysically felt that as I'm
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reading it going, and she saidthat line, and everything in me
just went, oh shit. And it waswild, because that, you know,
that just doesn't happen inbooks very often. You. Is a
messed up book in the best ways.
If you like uncomfortable stuff,you're going to get some of it,
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which is a compliment. That is agood thing and but I found it
thoroughly interesting andwildly readable. I had a very
strange habit when I was ayounger kid and starting to
discover Stephen King, where ifI really, really liked the book,
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I would slow read it. I wouldhit to a point where the tension
really got high, and I'd stopreading, come back to it again,
like I read every night, so Icome back again next night and
start reading it again. Andthat's what I did with this
book. It took me way longer thanit should have to read it or
read this book, but that'sbecause I kept doing that as I
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go, come back later. SoI I think it's, I think it's the
best thing you've written, andit's, it's cool to see that
you're progressing in thewriting. And it's fun to you
know knowing you well enough toget all the little messages like
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the the rotting corpse line andstuff like that. So that adds a
little something that otherpeople, not some other people
are definitely going to know.
But yeah, just wanted to say,really good. Marth, has it set
aside? Oh no, he's going to,he's taking a trip. He's going
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to read it on the plane. So I'mvery curious what he's going to
think.
Oh no,it's a few seeds every going,
Oh, they should be interested tosee what Mark
thinks. It has been getting nicereviews, but one of the reviews
was from a woman was like, Ireally enjoyed this book, but
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there were a couple of times Iput it down and I was like, that
was fucked up. There is somefucked up stuff in it, yeah?
Well, I'm really, I'm reallyglad that you liked it. Yeah,
thanks, man, I appreciate thathorns,
and it's available. Extra funthough, to pick it up go to your
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Barnes and Noble or whatever,and local thing and order it
from a bookstore and pick it upat a bookstore, because that's
pretty cool.
Yeah, it's available whereveryou can order your books. So if
you don't like the evilcorporation of Amazon, whatever
evil corporation you do like, itis available through them as
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well. So Thanks, Eric. That wasreally kind of you. Okay, well,
let me go and wash my brain ofall of this stuff, and then when
we come back, we're going to betalking about atomic monsters.
Youhere's the GI Joe adventure team
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line with new Mike power, atomicman. Here's the commander.
Trouble is in our business.
Mission to rescue a secretmessage. Atomic man's eye starts
flashing. With your help, atomicman lowers Joe. No time to lose.
You help Joe grab the messagewith his kung fu grip you put on
atomic man's propeller. He's gotthe message, and he's off to
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headquarters.
New mice power, atomic man.
We have returned, guys. This wasmy sub genre pick, and I wanted
to do atomic monsters, so somekind of creature feature that
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that was a result of, you know,atomic radiation. I don't know
about you guys, I figured thatmost of these movies probably
would come from the 50s, andmine Sure did.
From 1958 oh, hang on. A second,five minutes, five minutes
almost forgot,from 1958 I chose fiend without
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a face. Oh, thebrain, it's gone. That's not
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all. The entire spinal cord ismissing.
It's incredible. It's as if somemental vampire at work. Does it
come from another country oranother world? This terrifying
menace that g2 must destroybefore it's too late. Image is
fading, sir. There it goesagain. Same trouble. How can
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they stop this invisible force?
Boss whose only warning is aweird, blood chilling sound.
Only two people still alive canhelp this agent find the
answers, the girl who could be aspy and the scientist who could
be the destroyer of the entirehuman race.
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We're facing a new form of lifethat nobody understands. I
believe it feeds on theradiation from your atomic
blood, and that it's evil.
You'vegot to stop them. There's only
one way shut down your atomicplant. If I can get through I
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can blow up the control room.
You directed by Arthur Crabtree,who has 22 credits, including
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horrors of the black museumdeath over my shoulder and The
Adventures of Robin Hood,written by Herbert J leader, who
has eight credits, including itand Doomsday machine and the
frozen dead. And this was basedon an original story by Amelia
Reynolds, long starring MarshallThompson, 118 credits, including
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mcbang lure of the swamp andeast of Kilimanjaro, also
starring Kim Parker, who has 13credits, including fire maidens
of outer space, undercover girland the man without a body. And
in here is also kiness andReeves, who has 154 credits,
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tons and tons of television,including or not that, but also
including shadow the cat go toblazes. And here's my favorite.
If there weren't any blacks,you'd have to invent them.
Wozer. There's alot of subjects that could
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be loser. You guys familiar withfiend without a face. No, yeah,
well, this will probably turnyou off everyone to see it,
fantastic, fair, what you guysthis movie is something else. It
is ostensibly an atomic monster,Creature Feature. However, the
monsters are fucking invisible.
It starts with a local farmerbeing discovered in the woods on
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the outskirts of a US Air ForceBase in Manitoba, up in Canada,
his face is frozen in anexpression of pure horror. Back
at the base, the higher ups arediscussing the death, and even
though it's not really theirjurisdiction, major Jeff
Cummings decides he wants to bepersonally involved in the
investigation. Cummings thinksthe man might have been up to
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something nefarious, and he endsup talking to the man's sister,
Barbara Grisel, who is quitelovely. She assures him that the
notes her brother was taking onthe flights in and out of the
base were because his herd ofcow's milk production was being
disrupted by the Air Force'sjets Cummings in Brazil seem to
have a little connection goingon here, even though she is way
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out of his Lake. But chicks diga man in uniform, right?
Vanessa, yeah, yes, oh, yes.
Okay, sure. Later, we learnedthat the base is actually
performing tests at the welearned that the base is
performing tests on experimentalradar so that they can increase
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their spying in Soviet airspace.
But the test goes wrong. Theyseem to get enough power from a
small atomic reactor they hadbuilt, but each time they use
it, the atomic power is beingdrained by something else.
Meanwhile, at another farm inthe area, a woman is attacked by
an invisible monster and killed,and when her husband tries to
defend himself with a pitchfork,he is also killed, and it looks
like something is grabbing themand strangling them, although we
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do not get to see what it iswell. So the town is getting
upset, and they think it hassomething to do with the atomic
power being used at the base.
And when an autopsy is finallyperformed, it is discovered that
each of the dead people ismissing their brains and spinal
cords. Ah, so Cummings andGrisel are on the case, which
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leads them to a strangescientist who may have the
answers they are searching for.
You guys, this movie is only 74minutes long, and an hour of
that is invisible monsters andbad acting by everyone except
Grisel. But if you hang on, youare rewarded in the last 14
minutes when the creatures arerevealed to be crawling brains
that use spinal cords to movelike inchworms, and they are
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done in glorious stop motion.
Oh, that's good. Yeah, there's anice. Siege at the end, with all
these creatures and a smallcabin, and the officers are
shooting brains left and right,and they hit the brains, and
they're all kind of bubble. It'spretty good. I got some trivia
on this, although I might runout of time. In an interview,
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Star Marshall Thompson recalledthat director Arthur Crabtree
didn't really want to direct thefilm. He thought sci fi was
beneath him. Crabtree turned upon set on the first day of
filming, took one look at thescript and informed the cast and
crew that he refused to do thefilm. He walked off set, and the
producers needed several days toconvince him to return, citing
contractual obligations.
Thompson says that during thosedays, Thompson directed the film
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himself. The British productionwas based on the thought monster
by Amelia Reynolds long whichwas published, published in the
classic American pulp magazineweird tales in 1930 the story
was originally submitted byForrest J Ackerman in the late
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50s to American Internationalpictures, which turned it down.
I thought this was interesting.
AIP producer Alex Gordon thoughtthat his brother, producer
Richard Gordon might beinterested in it, and Richard
Gordon took it, and his companyamalgamated productions,
eventually produced it inEngland. And then finally, this
one is impossible to believe.
The film created a public uproarafter its premiere at the Ritz
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Theater in lachester Square. TheBritish Board of Film sensors
had already demanded a number ofcuts before granting it the X
certificate. There's nothing inhere that would be scary or,
quite honestly, eveninteresting.
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I'm just like, wow. Okay, thisfilm,
making it up, I would say thatyou guys could probably pass on
fiend without a face.
Good to know. Good to know.
Watch the last 14 minutes.
The Stop Motion brings they movelike inch worms. So the spinal
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cord is doing this thing and thebrain is at the beginning. I was
like, Okay, this is fun. This isa lot of fun. Nice.
Vanessa, you want to go next?
Sure another. All right?
Five minutes. All right. I wentwith H man.
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I don't touch it.
You from the gaze in spots of agreat city for the last
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desperate refuge of millionsunderground the incredible,
monstrous H man strikes terrorto every heart, disintegrates
everyone it touches,it kills, but can't be killed.
The most incredible man younever saw, deadly byproduct of
the H bomb blasts, doomingmankind to oblivion. We are
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facinga situation which cannot be
minimized, complete externation.
Did you start yet? Yes, Masadawent into the sur where? Right
there.
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See a great city fight backCOVID operations to stop the
deadliest killer the world hasyet encountered you.
A 1958 on Tubi available,directed by Ishiro Honda, 78
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credits, including Godzilla,Mothra, gyrora, etc, starring
Yumi shirekawa, who was in Rodanthe mysterians and the princess
badger Palace, Kenji Sahara, whois in space amoeba, which I've
talked about before, and ultra Qand A she Ikki Aki Hoko, sorry,
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rata, who had the recurringGodzilla role of Dr Shinzo na.
Fauci This story begins on arainy day. A man is hiding from
the cops, sitting in his carwaiting for a passenger in
nisaki, a drug smuggler emergesfrom a sewer grate to the
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getaway car, and as he opens thetruck, he is hit with a wave of
pain, and all that is leftbehind are his clothes. The rest
of him is goo, and it goes downinto a sewer. His bag is full of
drugs and, of course, leftbehind. And the police show up
immediately. They start toquestion various sketchy people
around town to try and find outwhere this Misaki went to
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because they don't think he'sgoo. They just think he left his
clothes, and they check in withhis incredibly beautiful
girlfriend, Arya Chikako. Shehas not seen him for several
days, and she is a popularsinger at a cabaret. While
performing, a mysterious manpasses her a note saying he
wants to talk about Misaki. Andit turns out he is, of course, a
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university professor studyingradiation effects, and want to
know if Misaki was out at sea ortraveling anytime recently. Oh,
the scientist, the mafia aresuper mad at Misaki and go to
Chicago's apartment to threatenher, only to be attacked by a
goo monster that turns them intoempty clothing. From then on,
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we've got Chicago being botheredby the police, the mob and the
scientists, only for thisscientist to ultimately believe
that she saw this goo man.
Situation, the goo strikesagain, this time at a club, and
many, many people are murdered,including a dancer. The secret
is out, and the city isterrified of the H man. We learn
from the scientists that therewas an empty ship discovered
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with only clothing left behindfrom many of its onboard people.
It was boarded by another shipwho saw the goo creature and
took several of their own peopleand killed them. So will Misaki
ever re materialize into his ownself, or will he be left as a
goo creature for all of time?
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Will Chicago have to spend aninordinate amount of time in her
underwear, in the sewer, heldhostage by a monster? Will the
creature finally meet its demisein the form of fire, without any
explanation or reasoning in ascene so confusing I rewound it
several times trying to figureout what I'd missed. Find out by
watching H man. This is a weirdmovie. It is sad. It does not
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know its genre. It is a mix ofhorror, monster movie, gangster,
noir and occasional 1960spsychedelic dance numbers, very,
very boring, an incrediblyboring film. The gangster and
cop stuff is so dull, but themonster effects are amazing. I
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love the goo turning into likeit like turns into this green
ghost, and then it turns intolike jello mold people, although
it's never really clear if it'sjust Misaki or if it's like
everybody who got turned intothe goo. So that's a little
confusing to me. So yeah, andthe scene where they go to the
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fishing boat is genuinelycreepy, and it reminds me a lot
of the fog, like, there's justsomething really eerie and weird
about them being on this fishingboat and trying to see, like all
these empty clothing. It is veryunsettling. A little bit about
it. Tagline, all h breaks loosein all caps, nice. Like the
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original gajira 1954 story. Itwas based on the fate of the
lucky dragon number five, aJapanese fishing boat that
sailed into an atomic test areainstead of confronting a giant
creature. The story has the crewtransformed by radiation into a
race of liquid creatures thatsubsist on humans. The
dissolving effect was created bydeflating life sized inflatable
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human figures, filming them infast motion and then running the
film at normal speed. And on thelobby floor in some theaters,
there were H man coming. Was acoming attraction, and a melted
victim was on display. Itconsisted of a pair of shoes
with a shirt, consisted of apair of shoes with a shirt and
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pants and a toupee piled on top.
Um, yeah, this is really castle.
Yes. They really went full andthey had, like, little h man,
like figures they passed out tosome people, but I don't know
what that would have lookedlike. It's, it's crazy, but
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yeah, is the is the H forhydrogen? Or why is the H man?
It's, yeah, I was trying tofigure this out too. Like I
googled it a couple times. Ithink it's for God. I. Man, I
don't have a good explanation onhere. I think because, like,
yes, yes. H, everything,hydrogen, humanoid, helium,
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everything, all the H words.
Man, the way you were describingthis, as I've never seen this,
and I have to see this and thenyou were, like, boring.
You might like it more than Idid. I mean, I don't think I
have as much patience for this,this genre, so just just because
it wasn't something that I wasreally exposed to until, like,
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the last three years or fouryears while being on the show,
yeah, it's only I never watchedany of this stuff until I was
here. And it's interesting tome, but it's also, I mean, the
blob, the original blob, Ifucking hate I'm like, I had to
spend an entire scene watching aman tie his shoes, tie his
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goddamn shoes. He gets out ofbed, ties his shoes, then climbs
out a window. So many minutespass, so I it's probably down to
me. I think you guys would get alot more out of this than I did.
And I also don't like noir thatmuch, and I don't like mobster
stuff that much. So there's alot of things working against
it, but the effects were really,really fun. So meanwhile,
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the blobs over here, going, thefuck I do is great. That
is pretty good remake, yeah,okay. H man, Eric, you want to
go?
Alrighty, let's see here. So Iwent with also into the 50s.
Thank you. 1957 the blackscorpion.
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Most terrifying news of all atnightfall, monstrous animals
crawl out of crater of volcano.
Great herds of cattle stampedebefore this living Inferno, vast
area devastated by appalling newhorror, a creature named the
black scorpion. By panicstricken people of San Lorenzo,
entire population prays fordeliverance. For miles
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around cowboys came upon onedead steer after another. One of
them had heard the tale of thedemon Bull of the Maricopa,
having lost family or friendssomething absolutely unknown. It
could be in another world,nation's
leaders confer as news receiveda possible threat to capital.
This is a city of 4 millionpeople, if word of these leaks
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out, the panic of the populationcould be worse than The
Scorpions.
The black Scorpion destroyscommunications. Hundreds
annihilated.
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The produced on a scale neverachieved before by any science
fiction picture 1000s in thecast. You Oh,
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which almost sounds like a comeout of a Hong Kong film, but it
is not. It's available to rentseveral places. It's on Pluto
TV, directed by Edward Ludwig,who's did 50 episodes of the
restless gun a bunch of SwissFamily Robinson the gun hawk.
He's got 107 directing creditsspanning a career from 1920 to
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1966 Wow. Dude directed a longtime, written by David Duncan,
best known for a few sci fithings like the time machine,
1960 Fantastic Voyage and outerlimits, also written by Robert
blees, who's got an interesting,but maybe not quite as
prestigious, writing history,frogs, screaming, maybe Dr
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fives, rides again. And finally,Paul yawitz, who is best known
for unmasked and maids day from1938 Donna, starring Richard
Denny, 7774 episodes of Hawaii,five, oh, it's also in Grand
Jury secrets. 113 credits, lotsof work. Mara Corday, who's on
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the gauntlet. So. Sudden Impact,and like two or three other
Clint Eastwood movies andtarantula and Carlos Rivas, who
was in Duck Savage, the man ofbronze, and so many TV episodes
from the 50s into the 90s, soanother guy, just a lot of lot
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of work for the people thatworked on this movie starts as a
reel about not an atomiccreature. Another time of year,
I might have picked the newmovie and got it for a full one
the black scorpions come from anactive volcano. Oh, so you know
that's as much as a 10 megatonbomb.
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I like your reasoning here.
There's this takes place inMexico, and, of course, the lead
investigators and white dude,but his partner is actually a
German, Mexican actor, and he'sthe guy that's in every TV show
you've ever seen. They travel tothe the storyline is they're
going to the volcano to find outwhat the impact has been on the
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area around it, to see why it'sgone off and how the people that
are close to it are able to dealwith it, and so they can send in
aid and help it get better. Asthey're traveling up there, they
come across a strangely crushedcar with an abandoned baby in it
and a man that seems to havebeen scared to death travel a
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little bit more. Finally arriveat their destination. Start the
investigation. There. Theydiscovered a woman riding a
horse. Of course, the men golook. It's a woman riding a
horse.
She falls off the horse,thereby having to be rescued,
sort of she's actually anincredibly strong female
character for a 1950s film. Theyrescue her and then bring her
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back to a ranch, or somethingthat her husband used to run,
who has died, where she thenchastises all the men there for
not having the guts to come backto the ranch and do their work.
And they discover a big chunk ofobsidian with a live Scorpion
inside. This is just a littleScorpion, though.
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And then the giant scorpionsstart to appear.
Stop Motion. Oh, nice. Reallyfun, although they've got
extensive close ups of theScorpion face, which is very
weird looking and constantlydrooling, I think this is very
Scorpion ask, but when it's thefull creature running around,
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it's a lot of fun. And they dowonderfully 50s things like they
Well, we need to show you,there's a lot of scorpions. So
they just repeat the film runand run and run and run into
like 50 scorpions instead of theprobably two. They had nice
shots of Mexico City with artexhibits and great hotels and
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stuff, although, like, I thinkthat was just the area. They did
not shoot Mexico. Let's see. Thecreator of the stop motion was
wells O'Brien, whose originalrole was stop motion for King
Kong. Oh, there is a spider inthe movie that is rumored to
have been the spider that was inthe original King Kong, and he
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used it in here as well. And healso worked with Pete Peterson,
who is the stop motion guy forMighty Joe Young and giant
behemoth. So the stop motion isreally good. It is a lot of fun.
There's great scenes with ascorpion and train and all this
kind of stuff used. AndWhat else was there
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came out with mixed reviews,praised for special effects, and
I would say, rightfully includedin a arrow release of Mystery
Science Theater 3000 because itis, it is not a great film, but
it is a lot of fun to watch. Andthe the people are so ridiculous
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at times, so much fun. And theHero Guy is so hero, and it's
just, it was pretty damn goodfor, you know what it is.
What did you watch this on?
This was, I think, rental, okay,but Pluto TV as well. It's like
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a $3 rental or something. Youknow, it's not a big one, and
it's on a lot of differentplaces. Could probably find it
on YouTube,depending on how long ago that
arrow release came out.
But, yeah, this would be a goodfun. It is. I mean, you know,
not an atomic movie, but it feltlike one. It could have been
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them very easily, just scorpionsinstead of. Spider. Or, I think
I lookedat this movie and I think that
there is a tie to the volcano iserupting because of some atomic
testing in the area.
That could be. They did an introat the beginning that was sort
of convoluted, and it's on listsof atomic movies. So that's,
(50:21):
that's what I found, is there'satomic era movies, monster
movies. So I had to weed out alot because I was like, Oh, this
felt, Oh, wait, that's notactually atomic it's just of the
era. So that makes sense. Yeah,cool. I
suppose I could have made thiseasier on everybody by just
(50:41):
saying atomic era monsters. Butyou know, what's funny?
Mentioned that my movie was a,is part of the Criterion
Collection? Oh, really, yes,it's got a criterion number and
everything. I was just like, howthe fuck this movie is bad.
(51:02):
I think sometimes criterion waslike, low hanging fruit, easy
rights, like, we will get thisone and it will represent this
rainbow of movies,yeah, criterions got a lot of
represent movies, kind of like,you know, who would think
criterion to put off a giant boxset of Godzilla films, yeah, but
what Godzilla represents in filmis pretty important, even if the
(51:24):
movies are hit or miss,being very kind. And you know
howEric, I think that you have the
pick for our next sub genre. Ido,
I will go nice and wide, becauseI have things I'm doing this
(51:47):
month.
How about we talk about a moviethat's got animals in it? Whoa,
you know, it could be somebodywho's got a pet dog, or it could
be somebody, something whereanimals are running wild. You
could do frogs, from the writerof black Scorpion
(52:08):
here, but it isif you want to do that to
yourself.
As a fan of sports movies, Ihave not seen those. And dogs. I
like dogs too.
I love this idea. Okay, so we'retalking about movies with
animals in them. Talk about someof the things you got going on
(52:30):
this month, Eric, because we aremere weeks away from Yes,
the first, the first weekend inMay is cryptic. Con Seattle film
cryptocon Seattle withcryptocurrency Film Festival,
yeah. And just announced the daywe record, we got Maria servino,
that's going to be a guest. It'slike, Oh, wow.
(52:51):
Mira Cervino, yeah, I was kindof blown away by the Oscar
winning actor,yep, but a lot of lot of fun
guests, you know, Doug Bradleyand Eugene Clark and a bunch of
people, panels, film festivals,all kinds of stuff going on.
Yeah, if you're in the area,check it out.
(53:12):
Yeah, definitely. So we're allgoing to be there for that.
We'll do like we usually do alive show and and then we'll be
bouncing around. Vanessa, you'regonna hang out with us
afterwards. I'mgonna try. I I've been put onto
a panel immediately after hours,so if you want to hang out after
after, then, yes,we do. We'll be there. Okay? I
(53:34):
figured, yeah, we'll sit in theaudience. No no, no, just go
drinksomething, and I'll come find
you. We can do both. Okay,that's true. Only come to my
panel if you are activelydrinking challenge. Except,
(53:54):
All right, guys, this is thepart where we thank everybody
for liking, sharing posts onFacebook, making comments on the
YouTube channel, all of thatkind of stuff. It's called value
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with actual cash, like our buddyMicah did this last time. And to
(54:16):
do that, there's a number ofways they can do that, right?
Eric,yep, pay palace. You can buy us
a coffee or buy us pizzas withas we call it, and feel free,
or, you know, and recommendmovies. Send us a little
donation and say, watch thesemovies. We'll probably even go
that far, depending on you knowwhat's going on.
(54:40):
I am just I am just now remindedthat I think that Jamie sent
money in and wanted us to dosomething. And do we ever get to
that?
No, but I know what you'retalking about. We should? We
should?
We should talk about that? Yeah,that'd be good.
You can also reach out to us onthe strange eons radio hotline,
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Drunk, text us sad. Fridaynight, love it.
Yes. Brighten our lives. Please.
Give us something to talk about.
All right, guys, I am exhaustedand I am ready for bed. So
(55:28):
Vanessa, very glad to hearyou're feeling a little better.
Yeah, thank you. Eric, veryhappy to hear that everything is
going okay over there,yeah. And you know you, you keep
keeping on. I'mbinging. No, I'm purging. After
45 years of binging, I ampurging. So I've bought boxes
and I'm I'm packing shit up.
(55:55):
Cool man, that's gonna take youthe whole night,
another 45 years.
All right, guys, I love you all.
Can't wait to see you in personnext week, and we will see all
the rest of you next Thursday.
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