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You're listening to Unbound and Rebound.
Hello everyone, and welcome backto the first episode of season
11 of the Unbound and Rewound Horror Podcast, where we dive
deeper into every horror book and movie for a closer look at
their bone chilling anatomy period.
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It's fall, y'all. Hey, hey, hey, I'm so, so
excited to welcome another fall into the season, into the year
with you all as a podcast host. And well, I believe this year is
my first year being able to say that I am an event host question
mark. I am AI think, I think the term
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is a culture critic. I believe the term might be
journalist. I, if you don't, can't be
serious with that, if you don't follow me on social media, but
particularly Instagram, perhaps you might want to just because,
you know, I'm making moves. And not even in silence either.
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Like I'm very much moving loud. And so I have been interviewing
people, interviewing things, talking to people, talking to
things. I've just been racking up all of
Hollywood's finest. And when I say Hollywood's
finest, I mean the wonderful, wonderful minds behind a lot of
this year's Indies projects. But that is Hollywood's finest.
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The rest of the summer was great.
We had so many great releases, which is what we are here to
talk about today, this week. But of course, before we get
into that, what are we streaming?
What are we reading? What are we watching?
So many things have come out. So many books came out this
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summer that were just absolutelyphenomenal.
We have a new Chuck Tingle, we have a new Joe Hill, which is
coming out I think in October actually, but still something to
look forward to throughout the summer as we get to fall.
Great blockbusters, great shows,and of course, the Emmys just
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happened. But if you're like me or
Michaela from the Film Gal podcast, you would know that
Interview with the Vampire lost the Emmys again and this cannot
keep happening. Like I refuse.
I feel like the Vampire Lestat is going to do great, but
unfortunately I fear that if that happens it's because the
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lead is a white man, a white blonde haired blue eyed man.
And that is the reality of Hollywood.
So yeah, great things to look forward to.
The Vampire Lestat. We just keep getting content on
content from our lovely Canadians who wait outside and
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stalk the camera crews like y'all are actually God's
strongest soldiers. So thank you for your service.
And trying to think of anything else that was like super
immediate. I also don't remember I was, I
really wasn't paying much attention to the Emmys because,
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well, I had other things going on that night.
But that is all I cared about. Of course is Interview with the
Vampire. So I don't know what all the
horror wins were. Probably not a lot if any, which
is super unfortunate, but just like every year we push past, we
move forward and we look forwardto the next award season.
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This upcoming October is the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, which
if you are not familiar with that Fangoria Chainsaw Awards is
hosted by the largest horror publication.
I would say, at least in my world, they have been publishing
horror genre specific magazines,articles, news, opinion columns.
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What you have it, what have you?Yeah, what have you since like
the 80s. And so every year they started
the Chainsaw Awards in like 92 or 93 and now we are on the 30
something, probably the 30th or 30 something annual Fangoria
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Chainsaw Awards. It's super fun.
If you're in New York City, makesure to stay on the lookout for
my Instagram because usually there are watch parties.
We'll see if that happens this year.
Fingers crossed. There are.
But either way, it's something that you definitely want to stay
tuned for. If you were unable to vote that
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is unfortunate, but that just means you have to stay alert for
next year. Yeah I what have I been?
Literally what the hell have I been doing y'all?
I've been on a lesbian 70s vampire kick recently.
And when I say kick I mean I have watched 2 movies with a lot
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more on my list. I just have not like sat down
and watched one in like a week. But I have a lot on my list to
get through and I'm really vibing with it.
I the 1st 2:00 that I watched, very different tones.
I was expecting camp for both ofthem.
And while that was true, it's just like on a scale of camp,
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you have two. On a spectrum of camp, you have
two sides. And they were very strongly on
opposite sides of that spectrum.So we move forward, push past in
our journey of 70s lesbian, Oh my God of 70s lesbian vampire
movies. I have been reading a whole
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time. I there's so much on my reading
list y'all. I'm overwhelmed, but it's OK.
I actually kind of have like stopped taking books recently.
Like no more sorry y'all. I need to get through the ones
that I have purchased and that Ihave been given for review that
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I have not reviewed yet. So if you're interested and
keeping up to date with what I got going on in the book world,
I'm on Story Graph. I'm no longer on Goodreads
because Goodreads is backed by Amazon and Jeff Bezos and the
whole thing. So I just went to Story Graph
because I also like that interface better.
Hopefully you get on Story Graphtoo.
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But if anything, of course, follow my TikTok, follow my
Instagram. We talk about books sometimes.
But recently I did read Craftingfor Sinners by Jenny Kiefer.
I have an interview with her coming out soon.
I read This is My Body by Lindsey King Miller.
Both of these names, if you've been listening for at least a
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year, should sound familiar to you because I have interviewed
them on the podcast before and well, what an impression I made
because they they wanted to do it again.
They said can we get around too and happily so.
It was great to talk to them again and catch up after a year.
And I also interviewed Rebecca Kennedy, who was recently in the
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independent film Traumatica. She plays the main girl,
Abigail. That was a super fun interview.
And then of course, I've had events.
I'm doing Terror Tuesdays, whichare two Tuesdays between
September and October, and it's like a happy hour, except
obviously it lasts longer than an hour because we're watching a
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movie. But it is sort of like my first
time specifically targeting the queer community in New York for
events. So I'm very, very excited
because, well, that is my community and I'm so glad to
finally be able to offer that tomy people.
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Hello, so yeah, those have been going great and I can't wait to
update you all on Sub Stack because at the end of each
month, obviously with the newsletter, I will be giving you
updates with pictures and everything.
So if you're not already on my Sub Stack, what are you doing?
Hello, you can find me on Sub Stack at your horror podcast
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like every other social media that I have, whether that is
well, actually, no, it's not like X anymore because I changed
it. So you can find me on Instagram
at your horror podcast, but on TikTok and X it's Avery's crypt.
I just listen. I just lollygag on on the
Internet these days because why not?
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You know, there are fires everywhere.
Sometimes things are stressful. Why not make social media a fun
safe space again? Hello.
But also obviously speak up on the things that matter, right?
Yeah, I, you know, I know that the past couple of months, I
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mean, really the past year, we really want to start counting
the past couple of years, but more specifically, the past
month or so, it's been very, very difficult to be engaged
with anything that is not fictional because of just the
state of our world and our society and the United States
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specifically. And so please, just while I
think it's important to stay up to date and to be tuned in and
to know about the things that are going on around you and be
educated on these things, pleasealso engage with the media that
makes you feel comfortable and safe and happy and brings
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relief. Engage with those types of
creators and content on social media that just give you even a
moment, a breath of fresh air, because it's all about those
those tiny moments in the grand scheme of things, right?
What else? What else we got going on?
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I have slowly been starting to watch from the TV series again.
I'm on season 3. I'm on like episode 6 or
something. I am kind of struggling to keep
up and I don't know if that is auser error or if it's a writing
error. So we'll see once I get to the
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end. But I'm I do, and I have been
having a great time learning some more lore about the place
and about the people there because things are definitely
getting a little bit more intriguing.
I started re watching the Screamseries, which crazy, I didn't
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know it went as far as it did. Truthfully, I actually have
realized in re watching it that I'm pretty sure I don't have
good memory of that entire year that first season came out.
So that is something I'm workingthrough.
Besides that, the Alien Earth series on Hulu is crazy.
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Oh my God. I'm slowly watching it because
I'm watching it with other people and well, you know how
those things go. But like, I just wow.
I know how I say all the time, like, oh, I wish that they would
stop making this type of movie. I wish that they would give this
franchise a rest, but like I feel like it's all about
recognizing the franchises that have so much to build onto or so
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much to dig into because like Final Destination, for example,
I personally believe you can keep producing those movies as
long as the writing is good because there is so much to
explore. Like, and we learned that from
the 6th one in my opinion. Like there are so many people
who are all attached to this family because of the
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matriarch's decision and choice.Now all of these families are
sort of LinkedIn history and in fate, some might say another one
that I feel that way about. I was just talking about this,
oh, The Conjuring, because I watched The Conjuring.
What a disappointment. I know that some people liked
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it, and I love that you liked it.
I by no means want to take that away from you.
I just wish that The Conjuring franchise perhaps went a
different direction earlier on. Like, you know, The Nun was
great for the first movie, for the first Nun movie.
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Annabelle was great for the first two Annabelle movies.
And then we got into La Arona and then we got into whatever,
whatever else came out after that.
I'm sure there's something else in there, but it's just like you
have all those artifacts in thatroom and we want to focus on
these right now. Like, I don't know, we could
keep it going. We could keep it pushing if we
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just, if we just diverted away from the story of Ed and
Lorraine and like stopped bringing them into this shit and
just just watch the hauntings happen.
You know, we don't have to see them take the artifacts away
from the haunted house. We just have to see the artifact
in its natural habitat doing what it naturally does.
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You know what I'm saying? Anyways, The Conjuring Last
Rites was was fun. There were some cool moments,
but overall, I'm glad that I payfor Regal Unlimited because if I
had paid $20.00 for that ticket,I would have been upset.
So I guess with all of that, that'll just segue into our
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conversation of the top summer releases.
This is like, consider this to be a recap, but like really it's
just a chance to talk about the movies that came out this summer
that that really hit either in the wrong way or in the best way
possible. So I want to start with worst
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summer releases, but this is subjective because really what I
mean by worst is just disappointing.
Both of these movies that I'm going to say either I was really
looking forward to or I heard really good things about and or
both. So the first one is together
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that came out in July, July 30thto be exact.
If you haven't seen it off the top of my head, it is about a
couple, Alison Brie and Dave Franco.
They are in this weird state where Alison Brie's character
gets a new job, upstate New York, I think.
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And then Dave Franco is a struggling musician.
And so it's, you know, the playing field feels imbalanced,
especially with Dave Franco because, you know, men have to
be the the breadwinner and whatever, whatever.
They're also a millennial couple.
So it's like they're at an awkward stage of do we want to
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build a family? Do we want to have a home?
Whatever. Well, now they have a home.
And now they are building that home in the middle of this
Newtown where, you know, people are a little off putting and
this young couple is put to the test for their relationship and
sort of like, you know, what they're willing to sacrifice for
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their relationship. There is this weird Eldritchian
Lovecraftian aspect to it where this water sort of fuses the
couple together. And so it like that's where the
body horror comes in. And so the movie is essentially
asking, you know, like it's it'sasking about codependency, but
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it's also asking about like, what does it take to to merge 2
lives together? What does it look like to blend
your lives together for love? And I think like it.
It sparked some interesting conversations online, especially
because you have some people like me who think that the
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ending is so much more of a likeMidsummer.
Like, is it a happy ending really?
But then you also have other people who think it's a happy
ending, who think like they, they finally realize that they
want to be together and they want to merge their lives
together. And I'm sure most of those
people are straight. That's OK.
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That's just a very straight way of living.
Or lesbian, You know, I'm not opposed to either.
So yeah, that is in a nutshell, what it's about.
My expectations are that I have a feeling it would thematically
involve the topic of codependency.
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I was excited to see these characters portrayed by a real
life couple live, Dave Franco and Alison Brie.
I was aware of the plagiarism claims.
Every time that I have, like, talked about together, someone
has asked me, did you hear aboutthe plagiarism?
Did you hear about that? And I don't think it ever really
landed anywhere. Like the last I heard is that
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Michael Shanks, who directed it and I think maybe wrote it, and
the rest of the production had more substantial evidence of
their artistic incorrect integrity.
But that's not to say that the claims are false or true.
It's just like, I think a lot ofthat conversation happened
behind closed doors after it wasbrought up originally.
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And it seemed that there just wasn't enough evidence of the
initial, like, concept finished film from the other people who
were making the claim. I don't know.
I don't know. I looked into it.
I couldn't find enough information.
And so I saw the movie, and the thing that really drew me to
wanting to see it was also the promotion of the movie.
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Neon always does really great promotions, really great
marketing tactics. I mean, we've seen the long legs
of it all. So I was, Needless to say,
hyped. The reality is that it was
underwhelming. I am not the type of person who
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I'm not the type of person who will shit on a movie because it
wasn't gory enough. Like I'm very much, I accept a
movie The way that it is marketed to me, the way that you
know, like it's, it's coming to me in the theater, right.
But that brings into question, how was this movie marketed?
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Well, they really pushed that scene of the handsaw a lot.
And when that scene came, it wasnothing.
It was crickets. They actually cut away before
like we could see the real action.
And I'm like I said, I'm not a gore head.
Like I don't need that. But it's just like, if you're
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going to tease this so much, there should be more.
There should be an added layer or level, but what you're
teasing should not be the scene in totality.
There also was an offbeat tone that I normally am not opposed
to. Like, I love a little whimsy.
I love a little absurdism. But it was like the comedy in
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like that absurdism did not enter the picture until a little
too late for me. And then by the end, it sort of
altered the way that I perceivedthe ending.
And overall, I also thought thatlike, it had interesting myth,
mythos, mythos. You know, like, in terms of the
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eldritch aspect of this water that fuses people together and
this, you know, this, like, weird group in the town, what
have you. But I just didn't think it was
fleshed out properly enough. Like, I wanted to see more of
it. And just as we were learning
about it, the movie ended. So what now?
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That's what happens when you center your life around a
straight couple who might who might look a little bisexual,
who actually is a little bisexual.
Alison Brie is indeed bisexual. Another aspect of the movie that
I found interesting and that also got me my second most viral
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TikTok is the trans lens in which you can watch this movie
from. And if you haven't already
figured it out, this entire episode is going to have
spoilers for the movies that we're talking about.
So hopefully you're OK with thatif you've gotten this far.
But the ending of the movie, yousee Alison Brie and Dave
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Franco's character finally sort of morphing together and
becoming one person. And for the other person in this
story that has experienced this,it's worked out very well.
And they're they're presented asa man.
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And I think it was like 2 gay men who are in a relationship.
And so then morphed together is one man.
And then when you have Alison Brie and Dave Franco, when they
morphed together, it's like thisandrogynous lesbian, which I
love and I live. When I saw this movie, I was
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like, Oh my God, yes, trans rub,non binary rub.
I think I had a great time. I was like, wow, I loved that
ending. But then as someone else brought
it to my attention, I was like, oh, I can see how this could
also be read as transphobic. Not intentionally, though.
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And I think that when we talk about stuff like this, people
automatically assume that this sort of cultural critique of a
movie is an attempt to cancel it, or an attempt to ice it out
of conversation and discredit it.
But really, I oops, really the reason for my podcast, the
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reason why I talk about horror the way that I do is because you
have multiple ways in which a piece of media can exist in
culture. It can exist in the way that the
author, IE the auteur, intended for it to exist, and then you
have a plethora of many other ways in which it can exist
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because of people's lenses and experiences being applied to the
narrative at hand. And so for this, as a CIS
straight person, assist by person whatever you may have it.
So all of that is to say, essentially that when it comes
to interacting with media like this, where you have gendered
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themes, and then you bring that all into context with the way in
which the tone of the movie is presenting these gendered
themes. Maybe for a moment sit back and
think about the ways in which someone else might perceive this
movie. Another movie on this list is
Dangerous Animals that came out June 6th.
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It's about this shark excursion man who's played by Dry
Courtney, who I've never seen before, but he is fairly notable
actor and he is a serial killer that uses sharks to get rid of
his victims. And so this girl gets stuck on
his boat. She's the final girl.
She's so pretty. She's a guy's girl.
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She's all of that. My overall expectations, I mean,
I was interested in the premise of a serial killer using sharks
as his method of murder. That's how it was sold to me at
least. And signing of release was
perfect for summer. So naturally, I really wanted it
to be the surprise hitter of thesummer because why not?
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It's a shark horror movie. People were leaving the advanced
screenings talking about John Courtney's performance and, you
know, like, just like praising him.
And of course, I'd never seen him in anything, so I wasn't
super familiar. But it was also a Shutter
original, which of course I always support and I hold to a
certain regard. The reality was that people were
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right about John Courtney. His performance was fun to
watch. It was unserious.
I love, I love a a whimsy littleman who dances whatever.
I I didn't like Zephyr's character though.
Like the female, the female protagonist in the most feminist
way possible. She's played by Hassie Harrison
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and and this has nothing to do with her performance and
everything to do with the way that the character was written.
It was so obvious that she was written by a man, but she's
supposed to be a strong female character in the same way that
like Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott was supposed to be a
strong female character. But it just she just gives like
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pick me in a way that makes it really difficult to watch and
more. I just every time she talks, I'm
like, Oh my God. There's this one particular
scene where where some guy is listening to her to like a band
that she likes and she's like, oh, cool band.
I saw them live. Like it's just it's very much in
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a like oh, you like them name 5 songs type of way.
That was really off putting. And I was like Oh my God damn.
I can't root for anyone in this movie.
But those are the two that like really disappointed me this
summer. The top five summer releases I
like. There were some that were
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surprises to me, I will say so starting with the biggest
surprise would be Abrahams Boys which came out July 11th.
If you haven't seen it, it is one of Joe Hills short stories
from his collection 20th CenturyGhosts and it follows Van
Helsing, Abraham then Van Helsing after he has killed
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Count Dracula, they moved to California.
It's during like the gold rush or whatever that time in
California was and he has two boys that he is raising.
But he has convinced his family of like monsters and vampires
and he's like we have to get these vampires.
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However, it turned into a situation of questioning whether
Van Helsing has always been of sound mind and hearing.
Makes you wonder, hmm, are the vampires in the room with us?
My expectations were low to nonebecause I went in with a free
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ticket from work. You'll know I love a vampire
movie though. So when I got the offer, I was
like hell yeah, I will, but I don't know what I'm getting into
because I had no expectations. The reality was that I was
pleasantly surprised and entertained.
It's not a traditional vampire story.
It's like you have a traditionallooking vampire in a Nosferatu
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type of way. But you never really see the
vampires in question. Like you never see multiple
types of vampires, anything likethat.
You only ever see just one. It's very American Gothic and
visually in tune with the story.And the actor who played
Abraham, whose name is Titus Welover, was in attendance, and
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you cannot recognize him on screen from who he is in person.
Like, it was kind of crazy. He was in Bosch suits and Sons
of Anarchy, but I've never seen him before in those.
So literally, he just looked like another white man on that
stage. But wow, I still think about it
to this day. Thank you, Shutter, because once
again, shutter original. Not original, but whatever.
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Coming in fourth, yeah. Yeah.
Coming in fourth is Final Destination 6, which came out
May 16th. If you haven't seen it, why
haven't you? It's on HBO Max now.
It is Final Destination Bloodlines, following the
origins of the curse of death, essentially.
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And where all of this 8 has comefrom, I guess within this line
of people that we followed through the entire franchise
leading up to the one we just got.
And there's Tony, Todd was in there, everything.
Yeah, that pretty self-explanatory.
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I mean my expectations were highbut I knew I wouldn't be
disappointed nonetheless with Tony Todd being back and the
lore is being expanded. Like Final Destination is just
one of those franchises that doesn't feel redundant in
continuation. Like I was saying before, you
have those installments that aren't good sure, but in my
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opinion there's something redeemable about them all
nonetheless. I personally think 3 is the best
and I think 4 is the worst of them, but none of them are bad
in terms of the genre films. And that's all I will say
because also the next episode ofthis month, we'll be diving into
that a little bit further. The reality was the kills were
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good. I liked the mythos because it
connected the franchise better in terms of learning who death
is, how he interacts, just how tangible he is.
And now they're coming out with the 7th and I, I'm still trying
to figure out how I feel about that because I'm like, are you
just doing it because of the success of 6 or are you doing it
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because you genuinely want to see this franchise revived?
We'll see. The third one on my list is I
know what you did last summer. It came out July 18th.
If you haven't seen it, it is following.
It's not a complete, it's a requel, but like not in its
entirety. It's completely starting over.
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So it's not like Screen 5 where the people who are being
targeted are people linked to the people in the past films.
This one, it is a completely different set up, but it's like
once again, the town is the perpetrator in a sense.
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If you don't know what I'm talking about, I talk about it a
little bit in my previous I knowWhat You Did last summer episode
where I talk about the themes. So if you want, check it out.
But overall it had Chase Suey wonders, Tyreek Withers,
Madeline Klein, Freddie Prince Junior, Jennifer Love Hewitt and
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a few other surprises. My overall expectations, I was
on the fence because you know, Ido have my stance on remakes,
requels and and revivals. But I saw it in four DX which
probably definitely enhanced theexperience for me.
With Freddie Prince Junior and Jennifer Love Hewitt in it.
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I was excited in the same way that Scream 5 excited me.
Well before it came out, people were comparing this requel to
it, and honestly, the requels have gotten tiring.
But this is a franchise that I just didn't feel had the same
longevity as Scream because it'ssort of came in the wake of
Scream already. I enjoyed it.
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I loved the angle of Nostalgia is Dead because of its
comparisons to Scream. And with the way that Scream 7
is going, it's like, yeah, very much like time to move on.
I loved how fun and unserious itwas.
Tyreke Withers performance, Madeline Klein's and
performances. Like they just all really sort
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of made that movie for me because I think the cast
chemistry was really good. I would have loved to see Lola
Tongue just because I haven't seen her.
I don't watch The Summer I Turn Pretty.
That's not my cup of tea, but like I feel like she could
really serve in a movie like this.
Unfortunately, there are just, there are some of those
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actresses and actors who have tofall into the the daytime soap
opera side of TV series before they or or Netflix movies before
they can really prosper. What people are saying about the
kills, it's true. Like they weren't super crazy,
but I also felt like they didn'tfeel rushed.
People complain about the lack of chase scenes, but I don't
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know, I felt like everything, even though like there weren't a
lot of chase scenes and the kills weren't super crazy, there
was still something that was a lot more grounded about this
movie that made it feel so much more realistic.
Coming in at second is 28 years later that came out June 20th.
If you haven't seen it as Aaron Taylor Johnson, Jody Comer,
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Ralph Fiennes, sure and my favorite Jack O'Connell.
Yes, this is about I've never been super familiar with this
franchise too, so I'm sorry if I'm messing this up.
But this comes 28 years after the original outbreak happened.
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And so now we're seeing how people have built up society
after that and how things are sort of like segmented and
secured for for quarantines. I mostly went into watching this
excited for the production and the technical element.
For me, the best kind of marketing is an insider scoop.
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Like I just love to see the way that scenes are filmed and the
ways that production crews sort of like find new and inventive
ways of filming stuff that they want to execute, which is
similar to what happened with this.
There were some scenes that werefilmed on 20 iPhones at once
just due to the setting that they filmed in and Aaron Taylor
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Johnson, same with Jody Comer isan actor that I like to follow
closely because I I love their performances.
I was interested to see the whole cast though and with it
being a multi part release, I want to experience both in
theaters. I want to be there when lives
are changed. The reality.
I, I was a fan of the ending. OK, I am one of those people and
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I will proudly say it. I do wonder if people know that
it's going to have a Part 2 and that's why they didn't like the
ending. And I actually, after talking to
a few people most recently, I think that is the case.
I just don't think people know there's a Part 2 and that's why
I ended the way it did. I liked the unexpected tone from
start to finish because Danny Boyle's films always just have
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this like punk rock energy aboutthem that makes it so fun and
rambunctious. It's just like a fun viewing
experience all together that sort of goes into the editing,
which I felt was good and immersive.
And like I said earlier, I was never really loyal to the
franchise. I only recently started watching
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them to prepare for 28 years later.
But I've been on a zombie kick this summer because I think that
summertime is zombie time. So it was a great summer
blockbuster to me. And last but not least on this
list coming in at #1 is weapons like, and I actually will say I
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think that this list is like thetop releases for the summer are
sandwiched between 2:00. That I did not think would come
out to be some of my favorite releases this summer because I
was really disappointed in Megan2 point O, but I chose not to
talk about that because, well, didn't want to waste my time on
that one. But with weapons, if you haven't
seen it, it's about a singular classroom in a school in a small
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town where all the kids, except for one walk out of their house
in the middle of the night at 2:17 AM, and no one knows where
they're at. And you follow the lives of
various characters throughout the story and seeing how their
pieces of the puzzle sort of link together.
It has Julia Garner, It has JoshBrolin, It has Austin Abrams.
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I'm trying to think of other people.
Oh my, as Justin Long as Sarah Paxton.
Like, yeah, I saw this movie at 10:00 AM the day it came out.
I wanted to have an early screening.
And while that was an odd choicebecause it is the type of movie
I would have preferred to experience in a theater full of
people, I still, I've probably seen it 3 or 4 Times Now.
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I just love every layer of it. I love the tone, I love the
performances. I love just like the themes of
it and being able to look at it differently every time you watch
it. Like it is one of those movies.
It is. It reminds me of when I watched
like Hereditary or Midsummer forthe first time.
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And it's like I it's one of those movies that I'm a ride
for. I'm going to ride or die for it.
Yeah. I I truly like, I wish I could
say more on weapons, but I just can't because I still like, I
don't think I'm going to be ableto talk about that movie for a
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while. Like, yeah, but those are the my
top releases, at least my top five and my bottom two of the
worst movies that came out this summer.
If you relate to any of what I'msaying, please let me know if
you two thought that one of these movies were really good if
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you happen to see Abraham's boys.
So I don't think it's on Shudderyet.
Maybe it is. But if you saw it and you also
really liked it, whatever the case is, like, drop a comment
below or reach out to me, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter,
wherever, and let me know what you think about this episode,
what you think about this list. Next episode, which coming out
literally next week, is with twofriends of mine who we have been
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locked into this podcast journeyalmost synchronously.
Synchronously. Yeah, sure they are.
Christy and AJ with in love withHorror, very excited.
I brought them on to rank and talk about the Final Destination
franchise. So make sure you tune in next
week to hear about our opinions on the franchise, the newest
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installment, what's to be expected for the next one.
And also just like tidbits on onour favorite pieces of the
franchise, lore that you may notknow about, behind the scenes
stuff that you may have never heard.
Yeah. And I think that's it.
Yeah. Thank you so much for tuning in
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and I hope to catch you next episode.
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Listen, I read my Entertainment Weekly, OK?
I know my shit.
You're listening to Unbound and Rebound.
Hello everyone, and welcome backto the first episode of season
11 of the Unbound and Rewound Horror Podcast, where we dive
deeper into every horror book and movie for a closer look at
their bone chilling anatomy period.
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It's fall, y'all. Hey, hey, hey, I'm so, so
excited to welcome another fall into the season, into the year
with you all as a podcast host. And well, I believe this year is
my first year being able to say that I am an event host question
mark. I am AI think, I think the term
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is a culture critic. I believe the term might be
journalist. I, if you don't, can't be
serious with that, if you don't follow me on social media, but
particularly Instagram, perhaps you might want to just because,
you know, I'm making moves. And not even in silence either.
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Like I'm very much moving loud. And so I have been interviewing
people, interviewing things, talking to people, talking to
things. I've just been racking up all of
Hollywood's finest. And when I say Hollywood's
finest, I mean the wonderful, wonderful minds behind a lot of
this year's Indies projects. But that is Hollywood's finest.
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The rest of the summer was great.
We had so many great releases, which is what we are here to
talk about today, this week. But of course, before we get
into that, what are we streaming?
What are we reading? What are we watching?
So many things have come out. So many books came out this
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summer that were just absolutelyphenomenal.
We have a new Chuck Tingle, we have a new Joe Hill, which is
coming out I think in October actually, but still something to
look forward to throughout the summer as we get to fall.
Great blockbusters, great shows,and of course, the Emmys just
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happened. But if you're like me or
Michaela from the Film Gal podcast, you would know that
Interview with the Vampire lost the Emmys again and this cannot
keep happening. Like I refuse.
I feel like the Vampire Lestat is going to do great, but
unfortunately I fear that if that happens it's because the
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lead is a white man, a white blonde haired blue eyed man.
And that is the reality of Hollywood.
So yeah, great things to look forward to.
The Vampire Lestat. We just keep getting content on
content from our lovely Canadians who wait outside and
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stalk the camera crews like y'all are actually God's
strongest soldiers. So thank you for your service.
And trying to think of anything else that was like super
immediate. I also don't remember I was, I
really wasn't paying much attention to the Emmys because,
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well, I had other things going on that night.
But that is all I cared about. Of course is Interview with the
Vampire. So I don't know what all the
horror wins were. Probably not a lot if any, which
is super unfortunate, but just like every year we push past, we
move forward and we look forwardto the next award season.
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This upcoming October is the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, which
if you are not familiar with that Fangoria Chainsaw Awards is
hosted by the largest horror publication.
I would say, at least in my world, they have been publishing
horror genre specific magazines,articles, news, opinion columns.
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What you have it, what have you?Yeah, what have you since like
the 80s. And so every year they started
the Chainsaw Awards in like 92 or 93 and now we are on the 30
something, probably the 30th or 30 something annual Fangoria
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Chainsaw Awards. It's super fun.
If you're in New York City, makesure to stay on the lookout for
my Instagram because usually there are watch parties.
We'll see if that happens this year.
Fingers crossed. There are.
But either way, it's something that you definitely want to stay
tuned for. If you were unable to vote that
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is unfortunate, but that just means you have to stay alert for
next year. Yeah I what have I been?
Literally what the hell have I been doing y'all?
I've been on a lesbian 70s vampire kick recently.
And when I say kick I mean I have watched 2 movies with a lot
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more on my list. I just have not like sat down
and watched one in like a week. But I have a lot on my list to
get through and I'm really vibing with it.
I the 1st 2:00 that I watched, very different tones.
I was expecting camp for both ofthem.
And while that was true, it's just like on a scale of camp,
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you have two. On a spectrum of camp, you have
two sides. And they were very strongly on
opposite sides of that spectrum.So we move forward, push past in
our journey of 70s lesbian, Oh my God of 70s lesbian vampire
movies. I have been reading a whole
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time. I there's so much on my reading
list y'all. I'm overwhelmed, but it's OK.
I actually kind of have like stopped taking books recently.
Like no more sorry y'all. I need to get through the ones
that I have purchased and that Ihave been given for review that
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I have not reviewed yet. So if you're interested and
keeping up to date with what I got going on in the book world,
I'm on Story Graph. I'm no longer on Goodreads
because Goodreads is backed by Amazon and Jeff Bezos and the
whole thing. So I just went to Story Graph
because I also like that interface better.
Hopefully you get on Story Graphtoo.
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But if anything, of course, follow my TikTok, follow my
Instagram. We talk about books sometimes.
But recently I did read Craftingfor Sinners by Jenny Kiefer.
I have an interview with her coming out soon.
I read This is My Body by Lindsey King Miller.
Both of these names, if you've been listening for at least a
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year, should sound familiar to you because I have interviewed
them on the podcast before and well, what an impression I made
because they they wanted to do it again.
They said can we get around too and happily so.
It was great to talk to them again and catch up after a year.
And I also interviewed Rebecca Kennedy, who was recently in the
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independent film Traumatica. She plays the main girl,
Abigail. That was a super fun interview.
And then of course, I've had events.
I'm doing Terror Tuesdays, whichare two Tuesdays between
September and October, and it's like a happy hour, except
obviously it lasts longer than an hour because we're watching a
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movie. But it is sort of like my first
time specifically targeting the queer community in New York for
events. So I'm very, very excited
because, well, that is my community and I'm so glad to
finally be able to offer that tomy people.
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Hello, so yeah, those have been going great and I can't wait to
update you all on Sub Stack because at the end of each
month, obviously with the newsletter, I will be giving you
updates with pictures and everything.
So if you're not already on my Sub Stack, what are you doing?
Hello, you can find me on Sub Stack at your horror podcast
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like every other social media that I have, whether that is
well, actually, no, it's not like X anymore because I changed
it. So you can find me on Instagram
at your horror podcast, but on TikTok and X it's Avery's crypt.
I just listen. I just lollygag on on the
Internet these days because why not?
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You know, there are fires everywhere.
Sometimes things are stressful. Why not make social media a fun
safe space again? Hello.
But also obviously speak up on the things that matter, right?
Yeah, I, you know, I know that the past couple of months, I
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mean, really the past year, we really want to start counting
the past couple of years, but more specifically, the past
month or so, it's been very, very difficult to be engaged
with anything that is not fictional because of just the
state of our world and our society and the United States
(09:55):
specifically. And so please, just while I
think it's important to stay up to date and to be tuned in and
to know about the things that are going on around you and be
educated on these things, pleasealso engage with the media that
makes you feel comfortable and safe and happy and brings
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relief. Engage with those types of
creators and content on social media that just give you even a
moment, a breath of fresh air, because it's all about those
those tiny moments in the grand scheme of things, right?
What else? What else we got going on?
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I have slowly been starting to watch from the TV series again.
I'm on season 3. I'm on like episode 6 or
something. I am kind of struggling to keep
up and I don't know if that is auser error or if it's a writing
error. So we'll see once I get to the
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end. But I'm I do, and I have been
having a great time learning some more lore about the place
and about the people there because things are definitely
getting a little bit more intriguing.
I started re watching the Screamseries, which crazy, I didn't
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know it went as far as it did. Truthfully, I actually have
realized in re watching it that I'm pretty sure I don't have
good memory of that entire year that first season came out.
So that is something I'm workingthrough.
Besides that, the Alien Earth series on Hulu is crazy.
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Oh my God. I'm slowly watching it because
I'm watching it with other people and well, you know how
those things go. But like, I just wow.
I know how I say all the time, like, oh, I wish that they would
stop making this type of movie. I wish that they would give this
franchise a rest, but like I feel like it's all about
recognizing the franchises that have so much to build onto or so
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much to dig into because like Final Destination, for example,
I personally believe you can keep producing those movies as
long as the writing is good because there is so much to
explore. Like, and we learned that from
the 6th one in my opinion. Like there are so many people
who are all attached to this family because of the
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matriarch's decision and choice.Now all of these families are
sort of LinkedIn history and in fate, some might say another one
that I feel that way about. I was just talking about this,
oh, The Conjuring, because I watched The Conjuring.
What a disappointment. I know that some people liked
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it, and I love that you liked it.
I by no means want to take that away from you.
I just wish that The Conjuring franchise perhaps went a
different direction earlier on. Like, you know, The Nun was
great for the first movie, for the first Nun movie.
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Annabelle was great for the first two Annabelle movies.
And then we got into La Arona and then we got into whatever,
whatever else came out after that.
I'm sure there's something else in there, but it's just like you
have all those artifacts in thatroom and we want to focus on
these right now. Like, I don't know, we could
keep it going. We could keep it pushing if we
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just, if we just diverted away from the story of Ed and
Lorraine and like stopped bringing them into this shit and
just just watch the hauntings happen.
You know, we don't have to see them take the artifacts away
from the haunted house. We just have to see the artifact
in its natural habitat doing what it naturally does.
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You know what I'm saying? Anyways, The Conjuring Last
Rites was was fun. There were some cool moments,
but overall, I'm glad that I payfor Regal Unlimited because if I
had paid $20.00 for that ticket,I would have been upset.
So I guess with all of that, that'll just segue into our
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conversation of the top summer releases.
This is like, consider this to be a recap, but like really it's
just a chance to talk about the movies that came out this summer
that that really hit either in the wrong way or in the best way
possible. So I want to start with worst
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summer releases, but this is subjective because really what I
mean by worst is just disappointing.
Both of these movies that I'm going to say either I was really
looking forward to or I heard really good things about and or
both. So the first one is together
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that came out in July, July 30thto be exact.
If you haven't seen it off the top of my head, it is about a
couple, Alison Brie and Dave Franco.
They are in this weird state where Alison Brie's character
gets a new job, upstate New York, I think.
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And then Dave Franco is a struggling musician.
And so it's, you know, the playing field feels imbalanced,
especially with Dave Franco because, you know, men have to
be the the breadwinner and whatever, whatever.
They're also a millennial couple.
So it's like they're at an awkward stage of do we want to
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build a family? Do we want to have a home?
Whatever. Well, now they have a home.
And now they are building that home in the middle of this
Newtown where, you know, people are a little off putting and
this young couple is put to the test for their relationship and
sort of like, you know, what they're willing to sacrifice for
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their relationship. There is this weird Eldritchian
Lovecraftian aspect to it where this water sort of fuses the
couple together. And so it like that's where the
body horror comes in. And so the movie is essentially
asking, you know, like it's it'sasking about codependency, but
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it's also asking about like, what does it take to to merge 2
lives together? What does it look like to blend
your lives together for love? And I think like it.
It sparked some interesting conversations online, especially
because you have some people like me who think that the
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ending is so much more of a likeMidsummer.
Like, is it a happy ending really?
But then you also have other people who think it's a happy
ending, who think like they, they finally realize that they
want to be together and they want to merge their lives
together. And I'm sure most of those
people are straight. That's OK.
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That's just a very straight way of living.
Or lesbian, You know, I'm not opposed to either.
So yeah, that is in a nutshell, what it's about.
My expectations are that I have a feeling it would thematically
involve the topic of codependency.
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I was excited to see these characters portrayed by a real
life couple live, Dave Franco and Alison Brie.
I was aware of the plagiarism claims.
Every time that I have, like, talked about together, someone
has asked me, did you hear aboutthe plagiarism?
Did you hear about that? And I don't think it ever really
landed anywhere. Like the last I heard is that
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Michael Shanks, who directed it and I think maybe wrote it, and
the rest of the production had more substantial evidence of
their artistic incorrect integrity.
But that's not to say that the claims are false or true.
It's just like, I think a lot ofthat conversation happened
behind closed doors after it wasbrought up originally.
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And it seemed that there just wasn't enough evidence of the
initial, like, concept finished film from the other people who
were making the claim. I don't know.
I don't know. I looked into it.
I couldn't find enough information.
And so I saw the movie, and the thing that really drew me to
wanting to see it was also the promotion of the movie.
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Neon always does really great promotions, really great
marketing tactics. I mean, we've seen the long legs
of it all. So I was, Needless to say,
hyped. The reality is that it was
underwhelming. I am not the type of person who
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I'm not the type of person who will shit on a movie because it
wasn't gory enough. Like I'm very much, I accept a
movie The way that it is marketed to me, the way that you
know, like it's, it's coming to me in the theater, right.
But that brings into question, how was this movie marketed?
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Well, they really pushed that scene of the handsaw a lot.
And when that scene came, it wasnothing.
It was crickets. They actually cut away before
like we could see the real action.
And I'm like I said, I'm not a gore head.
Like I don't need that. But it's just like, if you're
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going to tease this so much, there should be more.
There should be an added layer or level, but what you're
teasing should not be the scene in totality.
There also was an offbeat tone that I normally am not opposed
to. Like, I love a little whimsy.
I love a little absurdism. But it was like the comedy in
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like that absurdism did not enter the picture until a little
too late for me. And then by the end, it sort of
altered the way that I perceivedthe ending.
And overall, I also thought thatlike, it had interesting myth,
mythos, mythos. You know, like, in terms of the
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eldritch aspect of this water that fuses people together and
this, you know, this, like, weird group in the town, what
have you. But I just didn't think it was
fleshed out properly enough. Like, I wanted to see more of
it. And just as we were learning
about it, the movie ended. So what now?
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That's what happens when you center your life around a
straight couple who might who might look a little bisexual,
who actually is a little bisexual.
Alison Brie is indeed bisexual. Another aspect of the movie that
I found interesting and that also got me my second most viral
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TikTok is the trans lens in which you can watch this movie
from. And if you haven't already
figured it out, this entire episode is going to have
spoilers for the movies that we're talking about.
So hopefully you're OK with thatif you've gotten this far.
But the ending of the movie, yousee Alison Brie and Dave
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Franco's character finally sort of morphing together and
becoming one person. And for the other person in this
story that has experienced this,it's worked out very well.
And they're they're presented asa man.
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And I think it was like 2 gay men who are in a relationship.
And so then morphed together is one man.
And then when you have Alison Brie and Dave Franco, when they
morphed together, it's like thisandrogynous lesbian, which I
love and I live. When I saw this movie, I was
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like, Oh my God, yes, trans rub,non binary rub.
I think I had a great time. I was like, wow, I loved that
ending. But then as someone else brought
it to my attention, I was like, oh, I can see how this could
also be read as transphobic. Not intentionally, though.
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And I think that when we talk about stuff like this, people
automatically assume that this sort of cultural critique of a
movie is an attempt to cancel it, or an attempt to ice it out
of conversation and discredit it.
But really, I oops, really the reason for my podcast, the
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reason why I talk about horror the way that I do is because you
have multiple ways in which a piece of media can exist in
culture. It can exist in the way that the
author, IE the auteur, intended for it to exist, and then you
have a plethora of many other ways in which it can exist
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because of people's lenses and experiences being applied to the
narrative at hand. And so for this, as a CIS
straight person, assist by person whatever you may have it.
So all of that is to say, essentially that when it comes
to interacting with media like this, where you have gendered
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themes, and then you bring that all into context with the way in
which the tone of the movie is presenting these gendered
themes. Maybe for a moment sit back and
think about the ways in which someone else might perceive this
movie. Another movie on this list is
Dangerous Animals that came out June 6th.
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It's about this shark excursion man who's played by Dry
Courtney, who I've never seen before, but he is fairly notable
actor and he is a serial killer that uses sharks to get rid of
his victims. And so this girl gets stuck on
his boat. She's the final girl.
She's so pretty. She's a guy's girl.
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She's all of that. My overall expectations, I mean,
I was interested in the premise of a serial killer using sharks
as his method of murder. That's how it was sold to me at
least. And signing of release was
perfect for summer. So naturally, I really wanted it
to be the surprise hitter of thesummer because why not?
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It's a shark horror movie. People were leaving the advanced
screenings talking about John Courtney's performance and, you
know, like, just like praising him.
And of course, I'd never seen him in anything, so I wasn't
super familiar. But it was also a Shutter
original, which of course I always support and I hold to a
certain regard. The reality was that people were
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right about John Courtney. His performance was fun to
watch. It was unserious.
I love, I love a a whimsy littleman who dances whatever.
I I didn't like Zephyr's character though.
Like the female, the female protagonist in the most feminist
way possible. She's played by Hassie Harrison
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and and this has nothing to do with her performance and
everything to do with the way that the character was written.
It was so obvious that she was written by a man, but she's
supposed to be a strong female character in the same way that
like Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott was supposed to be a
strong female character. But it just she just gives like
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pick me in a way that makes it really difficult to watch and
more. I just every time she talks, I'm
like, Oh my God. There's this one particular
scene where where some guy is listening to her to like a band
that she likes and she's like, oh, cool band.
I saw them live. Like it's just it's very much in
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a like oh, you like them name 5 songs type of way.
That was really off putting. And I was like Oh my God damn.
I can't root for anyone in this movie.
But those are the two that like really disappointed me this
summer. The top five summer releases I
like. There were some that were
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surprises to me, I will say so starting with the biggest
surprise would be Abrahams Boys which came out July 11th.
If you haven't seen it, it is one of Joe Hills short stories
from his collection 20th CenturyGhosts and it follows Van
Helsing, Abraham then Van Helsing after he has killed
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Count Dracula, they moved to California.
It's during like the gold rush or whatever that time in
California was and he has two boys that he is raising.
But he has convinced his family of like monsters and vampires
and he's like we have to get these vampires.
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However, it turned into a situation of questioning whether
Van Helsing has always been of sound mind and hearing.
Makes you wonder, hmm, are the vampires in the room with us?
My expectations were low to nonebecause I went in with a free
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ticket from work. You'll know I love a vampire
movie though. So when I got the offer, I was
like hell yeah, I will, but I don't know what I'm getting into
because I had no expectations. The reality was that I was
pleasantly surprised and entertained.
It's not a traditional vampire story.
It's like you have a traditionallooking vampire in a Nosferatu
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type of way. But you never really see the
vampires in question. Like you never see multiple
types of vampires, anything likethat.
You only ever see just one. It's very American Gothic and
visually in tune with the story.And the actor who played
Abraham, whose name is Titus Welover, was in attendance, and
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you cannot recognize him on screen from who he is in person.
Like, it was kind of crazy. He was in Bosch suits and Sons
of Anarchy, but I've never seen him before in those.
So literally, he just looked like another white man on that
stage. But wow, I still think about it
to this day. Thank you, Shutter, because once
again, shutter original. Not original, but whatever.
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Coming in fourth, yeah. Yeah.
Coming in fourth is Final Destination 6, which came out
May 16th. If you haven't seen it, why
haven't you? It's on HBO Max now.
It is Final Destination Bloodlines, following the
origins of the curse of death, essentially.
(29:15):
And where all of this 8 has comefrom, I guess within this line
of people that we followed through the entire franchise
leading up to the one we just got.
And there's Tony, Todd was in there, everything.
Yeah, that pretty self-explanatory.
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I mean my expectations were highbut I knew I wouldn't be
disappointed nonetheless with Tony Todd being back and the
lore is being expanded. Like Final Destination is just
one of those franchises that doesn't feel redundant in
continuation. Like I was saying before, you
have those installments that aren't good sure, but in my
(29:56):
opinion there's something redeemable about them all
nonetheless. I personally think 3 is the best
and I think 4 is the worst of them, but none of them are bad
in terms of the genre films. And that's all I will say
because also the next episode ofthis month, we'll be diving into
that a little bit further. The reality was the kills were
(30:19):
good. I liked the mythos because it
connected the franchise better in terms of learning who death
is, how he interacts, just how tangible he is.
And now they're coming out with the 7th and I, I'm still trying
to figure out how I feel about that because I'm like, are you
just doing it because of the success of 6 or are you doing it
(30:40):
because you genuinely want to see this franchise revived?
We'll see. The third one on my list is I
know what you did last summer. It came out July 18th.
If you haven't seen it, it is following.
It's not a complete, it's a requel, but like not in its
entirety. It's completely starting over.
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So it's not like Screen 5 where the people who are being
targeted are people linked to the people in the past films.
This one, it is a completely different set up, but it's like
once again, the town is the perpetrator in a sense.
(31:22):
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I talk about it a
little bit in my previous I knowWhat You Did last summer episode
where I talk about the themes. So if you want, check it out.
But overall it had Chase Suey wonders, Tyreek Withers,
Madeline Klein, Freddie Prince Junior, Jennifer Love Hewitt and
(31:44):
a few other surprises. My overall expectations, I was
on the fence because you know, Ido have my stance on remakes,
requels and and revivals. But I saw it in four DX which
probably definitely enhanced theexperience for me.
With Freddie Prince Junior and Jennifer Love Hewitt in it.
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I was excited in the same way that Scream 5 excited me.
Well before it came out, people were comparing this requel to
it, and honestly, the requels have gotten tiring.
But this is a franchise that I just didn't feel had the same
longevity as Scream because it'ssort of came in the wake of
Scream already. I enjoyed it.
(32:25):
I loved the angle of Nostalgia is Dead because of its
comparisons to Scream. And with the way that Scream 7
is going, it's like, yeah, very much like time to move on.
I loved how fun and unserious itwas.
Tyreke Withers performance, Madeline Klein's and
performances. Like they just all really sort
(32:47):
of made that movie for me because I think the cast
chemistry was really good. I would have loved to see Lola
Tongue just because I haven't seen her.
I don't watch The Summer I Turn Pretty.
That's not my cup of tea, but like I feel like she could
really serve in a movie like this.
Unfortunately, there are just, there are some of those
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actresses and actors who have tofall into the the daytime soap
opera side of TV series before they or or Netflix movies before
they can really prosper. What people are saying about the
kills, it's true. Like they weren't super crazy,
but I also felt like they didn'tfeel rushed.
People complain about the lack of chase scenes, but I don't
(33:31):
know, I felt like everything, even though like there weren't a
lot of chase scenes and the kills weren't super crazy, there
was still something that was a lot more grounded about this
movie that made it feel so much more realistic.
Coming in at second is 28 years later that came out June 20th.
If you haven't seen it as Aaron Taylor Johnson, Jody Comer,
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Ralph Fiennes, sure and my favorite Jack O'Connell.
Yes, this is about I've never been super familiar with this
franchise too, so I'm sorry if I'm messing this up.
But this comes 28 years after the original outbreak happened.
(34:21):
And so now we're seeing how people have built up society
after that and how things are sort of like segmented and
secured for for quarantines. I mostly went into watching this
excited for the production and the technical element.
For me, the best kind of marketing is an insider scoop.
(34:44):
Like I just love to see the way that scenes are filmed and the
ways that production crews sort of like find new and inventive
ways of filming stuff that they want to execute, which is
similar to what happened with this.
There were some scenes that werefilmed on 20 iPhones at once
just due to the setting that they filmed in and Aaron Taylor
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Johnson, same with Jody Comer isan actor that I like to follow
closely because I I love their performances.
I was interested to see the whole cast though and with it
being a multi part release, I want to experience both in
theaters. I want to be there when lives
are changed. The reality.
I, I was a fan of the ending. OK, I am one of those people and
(35:27):
I will proudly say it. I do wonder if people know that
it's going to have a Part 2 and that's why they didn't like the
ending. And I actually, after talking to
a few people most recently, I think that is the case.
I just don't think people know there's a Part 2 and that's why
I ended the way it did. I liked the unexpected tone from
start to finish because Danny Boyle's films always just have
(35:50):
this like punk rock energy aboutthem that makes it so fun and
rambunctious. It's just like a fun viewing
experience all together that sort of goes into the editing,
which I felt was good and immersive.
And like I said earlier, I was never really loyal to the
franchise. I only recently started watching
(36:11):
them to prepare for 28 years later.
But I've been on a zombie kick this summer because I think that
summertime is zombie time. So it was a great summer
blockbuster to me. And last but not least on this
list coming in at #1 is weapons like, and I actually will say I
(36:33):
think that this list is like thetop releases for the summer are
sandwiched between 2:00. That I did not think would come
out to be some of my favorite releases this summer because I
was really disappointed in Megan2 point O, but I chose not to
talk about that because, well, didn't want to waste my time on
that one. But with weapons, if you haven't
seen it, it's about a singular classroom in a school in a small
(36:57):
town where all the kids, except for one walk out of their house
in the middle of the night at 2:17 AM, and no one knows where
they're at. And you follow the lives of
various characters throughout the story and seeing how their
pieces of the puzzle sort of link together.
It has Julia Garner, It has JoshBrolin, It has Austin Abrams.
(37:22):
I'm trying to think of other people.
Oh my, as Justin Long as Sarah Paxton.
Like, yeah, I saw this movie at 10:00 AM the day it came out.
I wanted to have an early screening.
And while that was an odd choicebecause it is the type of movie
I would have preferred to experience in a theater full of
people, I still, I've probably seen it 3 or 4 Times Now.
(37:46):
I just love every layer of it. I love the tone, I love the
performances. I love just like the themes of
it and being able to look at it differently every time you watch
it. Like it is one of those movies.
It is. It reminds me of when I watched
like Hereditary or Midsummer forthe first time.
(38:09):
And it's like I it's one of those movies that I'm a ride
for. I'm going to ride or die for it.
Yeah. I I truly like, I wish I could
say more on weapons, but I just can't because I still like, I
don't think I'm going to be ableto talk about that movie for a
(38:29):
while. Like, yeah, but those are the my
top releases, at least my top five and my bottom two of the
worst movies that came out this summer.
If you relate to any of what I'msaying, please let me know if
you two thought that one of these movies were really good if
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you happen to see Abraham's boys.
So I don't think it's on Shudderyet.
Maybe it is. But if you saw it and you also
really liked it, whatever the case is, like, drop a comment
below or reach out to me, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter,
wherever, and let me know what you think about this episode,
what you think about this list. Next episode, which coming out
literally next week, is with twofriends of mine who we have been
(39:16):
locked into this podcast journeyalmost synchronously.
Synchronously. Yeah, sure they are.
Christy and AJ with in love withHorror, very excited.
I brought them on to rank and talk about the Final Destination
franchise. So make sure you tune in next
week to hear about our opinions on the franchise, the newest
(39:40):
installment, what's to be expected for the next one.
And also just like tidbits on onour favorite pieces of the
franchise, lore that you may notknow about, behind the scenes
stuff that you may have never heard.
Yeah. And I think that's it.
Yeah. Thank you so much for tuning in
(40:02):
and I hope to catch you next episode.
Bye, Oh wait. Vote for me, vote for me, Oh my
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