Horror Gives Back 2023

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Prepare yourself for the terror the prisonof madness. We have a few inter
and Nonritter. Welcome to Unsung Horruswith LUNs and Denica. Leave all your

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sanity behind. It can't help younow. Welcome back to another episode of
Unsung Horrors. This is our annualHorror Gives Back recap episode. Yes,
lady got something special there. Isee that might have blown out some listeners

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here. Sorry, I have apair two. I will be measuring myself
better. Yea, my sound's busted. I think you're like doing it.
Well. You gave me the nonbroken whistling vampire teeth. Yeah, so
they're not I know, we talkedabout it. Was it ghost ice.
We're talking about this with the whistlingvents. These are like some weird little

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I don't know what these are called, but I mean they are whistling vampire
teeth. They're just not the onesthat we talked about in the show.
Right. The ones in the showlooked almost like they were like, you
know, hillbilly vampire teeth. Theyhad like a gap in between. Not
to sound terrible, that does soundpeople that you're forgiven, But yeah,
I got I found these when wewere going through they were still sealed up,

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So yours is clean. I didn'tsuck all over you anymore. I
just put my mouth on it.I had to share it. You know.
We just wrapped up October. We'res wrapped up Horror Gifts Back.
We're going to be talking hours andhours about it. I thought we could
just do this every every time oneof us was falling asleep. No,
it'll be exciting. It will bebecause I've got, you know, eighty

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six movies to talk about, andI'm kidding thirty six. I'm gonna I'm
going to go and lay on thebed with Piper over there. Oh,
she's fine. Before we get intoour picks, though, we do want
to shout out all of the peoplewho not only participated and Horror Gives Back
sharing their picks and our discord,but those of you who went above and

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beyond and made a donation, whetherit was five dollars or one hundred dollars
or more. Thank you so muchto everyone who donated. Yeah, I
was watching the Horror Gives Back donationpage on Halloween Day, just checking it
periodically, and I'm in awe ofthe listeners and those who participated and donated.

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Yeah, because we demolished our goal. Yeah, we have the best
listeners in the world. We area small but mighty podcast and that's thanks
to our listeners. And I wantto list Let's go and list the people
that donated to this that raise.We already say that the amount. Did
you already say that? I didnot say it yet. No. So
we had a goal of one thousanddollars because last year was such a success,

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I mean it was, it wasamazing. We were blown away by
it. But this year two thousand, five hundred and eleven dollars. Yes,
I mean, I'm I'm shocked,Like I mean, I get it
because we do have the best listenersand you know, you know those who
donated, maybe they don't listen,but donated. Just the best people in
the world. But that amount isreally is really awesome. It is.

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Okay, so I'm going to readoff some of these names. Everybody that
donated. Adam H, Jeremy W, Micah L, Ryan V. Dustin
D. He's a Ryan. Thissounds like a rap song. Brendan T,
Jacob s Irvin, H J.G. Francisco O, Adam R.

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Nathan S Terry E, John C. Sam P. Bob M,
John P. Matthew K, MattC. David H. Robert P.
Matthew S, Craig D. BlakeM, Austin G. Henry D,

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Lisa C. Christopher s Ian C, Kelly K, Mark S. Colton
W. Two anonymous donations and wedid have one last minute donor who messaged
us after we recorded this episode,so did want to give him a quick
shout out, and that is MurrayRoss. Thanks Murray. And then we

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had a listener from Norway Ardrath donatedto our Horgazback charity and that is amazing
to see. Yeah, well theydonated to a different charity, but they
still let us know. So itwas the Norwegian People's Aid. So if
we count that in there, weyou know, even more than twenty five

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twenty five eleven. So thank youeveryone who donated. Your sport means so
much, and more so, itmeans a lot to the animals who are
going to be saved with that money. Yeah for sure, I mean I
can't wait to do it next year. Yes, looking forward to it.
I've already started my list. Well, we might change up the categories,
I know, Okay, we keepsome that are like mainstays so and you

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know, it's just potentials that youknow, go in a hit and letterbox
list run like that might be goodfor where it gets back. I can
squeeze it in somewhere, so i'dbe a good way to come up with
new categories too. Yes, cool, Okay, all right, do you
want to start? We can Yeah, we can jump right in. So
it's time. We're going to gothrough all thirty one categories of our picks.
I'll probably talk about more movies becauseI usually do, and then we'll

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at the end we're going to getinto some of our favorites from the month,
but we'll also share what some ofour listeners told us we're their favorite
watches of the month. So kickingit off day one is Boris Karloff.
He actually watched a lot of BorisKarloff this month. He ended up pushing
his way into my top three mostwatch actors so far this year, and

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I changed my pick for him multipletimes. So it started with Corridors of
Blood, which I did like,but I did ultimately end up picking The
Strange Door from nineteen fifty one.This is on a Karloff five film DVD
that I got from half priced books, and so the main reason I picked
it is not actually for Boris Karloff, and he's fine in this, But

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Charles Lawton is in this, andI love him in everything he is in
He is just so like blase andsnooty and perfect in everything that I just
I love him so in this heplays a rich nobleman, perfect role for
him. He's devised this elaborate schemewhich involves his torture dungeon, his niece

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whom he plans to marry to ascoundrel, and a mysterious prisoner in his
dungeon. It's mostly drama up untilthe last twenty minutes or so when the
torture device actually comes into play,and Karloff for the most part is just
kind of bumbling around as like theinnocent servant. But Lawden is always so

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much fun to watch, especially whenhe's playing an evil character like this,
and he makes this totally worth it. I would give this like three three
and a half stars and definitely wouldrecommend it. Nice What about you?
For Karlov? So I went withThe Haunted Strangler from nineteen fifty eight,
also known as Grip of the Strangler. This was directed by Robert Day,

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who did Corridors of Blood okay,which I loved, but this this got
the Criterion treatment, which is thetransfer currently on YouTube that I've watched.
Beautiful restoration about a man known asthe Haymarket Strangler who earlier in the film
is put to death by hanging ineighteen sixty for the murder of five women,
has an awesome opening of him beinghanged, and he's like screaming that

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he's innocent, and everybody in thislike square or just kind of this crowd
cheering and acting repulsive, like justloving to see this man die. And
then you cut to twenty two yearslater and a reporter slash writer played by
Boris Karloff has a theory that thisman, the Haymarket Strangler, was actually
innocent and would have been proven innocentif he had been able to afford legal

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counsel. So he starts investigating thecase and the involved murder murders, and
he lands on a doctor who didall the autopsies on the victims, who
ended up going and saying the daythis man was hanged, hung hanged.
So it turns into this jeckal andHide type of story as Karloff becomes seemingly

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possessed when he retrieves the killer's murderweapon, which was a scalpel. When
he digs up the body of thisHaymarket strangler. It's an awesome cemetery scene,
by the way, very October vibes. But yeah, he contorts his
face in such a way that itlooks like a If you look at the
poster, you'll see what I'm talkingabout. But Karloff contorts his face that

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it almost looks like prosthetic makeup,like he has a mask, but it's
just him changing his face because yousee him doing it, and it's a
very physical role. And I lookedup because I wanted to know how old
Karloff was at this point, andhe was already seventy years old at this
time, and he's running and jumpingthrough graveyards and running up still like he

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looks great at that age. AndI think this might be one of the
earliest films where I heard of womanbe called a bitch. So I don't
you know, I don't pay attention. I have a bad memory, but
you know, this is nineteen fiftyeight, and you know, as a
like a name calling this man callsthis woman a bitch. Yeah, I'm
like, well, it really caughtme off guard. But a lot of
interesting twists and turns. They don'tshow a great deal of the murders,

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but they are surprising and gruesome whenthey do show the bodies. Some of
the characters are like, you know, you're comfortable with the characters, and
they're shockingly murdered and killed, soyou're very surprised at how they handle some
of the surprise murders. See alot of what's coming, but I'm not
going to spoil the indie but hasa great downbeat ending. Yay, it's
awesome. I do highly recommend thisone. I do like Robert Day's Corridors

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of Blood. I like this onejust as much The Haunted Strangler nineteen fifty
eight and then I'll jump today too. Yep. Sequels Children of the Corn
six sixty six, Isaac's Return.What did you watch? Let's just say
that this is the only half starrating I've given out in twenty twenty three.

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Yeah, so earned, and youknow I will point out it's written.
It stars John Franklin, who playedIsaac in the original Children of the
Corn. You know, he wasthe creepy kid. But he was twenty
five years old when Children of theCorn was so he's yeah, he's kind
of Peter Barkish. But he wrotethis movie. He wrote the sequel to

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Isaac's return. Yeah, he wantedhe wanted to reprise his role. And
yeah, it's the only movie he'sever written. And it makes a lot
of sense that this is the onlyscript he's ever written, and none after
this or before it. It's it'snot a good movie. No, it's
not. Everyone should watch either Childrenin the Corn two or three? Yeah,
or four or four or five?Stop it. No, four or

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five is not that bad, mygod. One of them is like completely
orange, completely orange. The wholetint of the movie. It's orange.
Oh yeah, I think that's five. I don't know. One with Fred
Williamson. What's the one with theguy with like the really bad soul patch.
That's the orange one? Are youtalking about Arquette the RCAT kid?

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Maybe? I think if that's partfour, I think that's the one.
You're I don't know. They're justmoving on. No more, yeah,
no more, No more Children thanthe Corn Folks. Yeah, what was
your sequel? My sequel was EvilDead Trap two. I have the Blu
ray for this that John got forme. So I love, love,
love Evil Dead Trap the original.Yeah, they watched it for Jean's pplitation.

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Yeah, And you know, itpulls from so many different genres.
It feels like an homage to somany different things that I love, but
still is very Japanese in its ownway. Evil Dead Trap two has a
different director, and I feel like, sometimes you go into sequels with a
certain expectation, and I know thatI kind of had that, but I

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also was like, where do yougo from Evil Dead Trap? You know,
so I didn't know what to expect. This wasn't what I you know,
even not having expectations, this waspretty far off of what I would
have if I had to guess hadexpected. It's a very abstract narrative.

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It still involves Hideki, but itis not connected to the original. It
has a very brief, what thefuck ending, just like it does have
in the original Evil Dead Trap,with you know, some stuff emerging from
a body. I don't want tospoil it. It's not quite as unhinged
first, I think because of thesort of abstract narrative. Sometimes those take

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me a while to catch up withthem and understand like, is this a
poorly made film that's not telling that'snot telling a coherent story, or is
it much more thoughtful, abstract narrative. And it took me a while to
figure out that it was the latter, So I want to This is one

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where I gave it. I thinkI gave it like three stars, but
I think I will definitely like itmore on a rewatch now that I know
what it is. It is gory, it is. I think it's really
interesting, but I think I justI use it. I either was not
in like the right mood for itat the time that I watched it,
or just because it was so faroff from what anything I would have guessed

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to expect from it. So thisis a definite rewatch. I put it
right back on the shelf and Iwas like pointed directly at it and said,
I will rewatch you someday, andI don't normally do that, right,
And then moving on to day threeis Mexico. I watched Mark Them
The dead Man from nineteen sixty one. I did have to download this legal

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adjacent because it wasn't streaming anywhere.You know, we talked a lot about
Mexican war. In the episode withAbraham, we talked a lot about the
composer of a lot of the filmsthat we watched, Gustavo sis Our carry
on. This is the exact samescore as Black Pit. It's that Dunn
dun't duh, And it's reworked alittle bit, but I recognized it right

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away. It has very heavy hammervibes. It's a very loose HP Lovecraft
adaptation about a man who needs bloodof the young to rejuvenate himself. So
it's not quite a vampire story.It's more of like a mad scientist needing
blood to keep himself young. Youknow, it's good, but not great.

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I think this would still be worthyof, you know, an Indicator
release if they do another Goo boxset. I think this would fit great
in there with it, and Idefinitely recommend it. It's not as strong
as something like Black Pit, orwhich is Mirror, or anything like that,
but it's still pretty good. Whatabout you from my Mexico pick,

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I watched Blacker than the Night fromnineteen seventy five. I'd never seen it.
It's called Darker than Night on twoB. It's about a young woman
who in haerits an old house leftby her aunt, and the aunt had
no children, no close relatives,and the young woman who inherits the house
didn't even really know her. Butthe aunt had a cat, black cat,
black cat, blacker than the night, and she wants her niece to

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also take care of this cat alongwith her house that she inherits, and
weird things kind of start happening,especially when the cat is killed. But
Becker, the cat dominates the screenfor sure, like those are my favorite
scenes. There's a cast of gorgeousladies, so it's very fun to watch,
but it's really just an hour ofthem complaining about the cat and the

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maid that's in the house, thatthat's lived in the house forever, as
the kind of lounge around this inheritedmansion. For me, it was very
uneventful. It seems like most ofthe movies spent on like this super slow
setup that could have been handled inhalf the time. I feel like it
needed more melodrama, Like I wantedthem to focus like more on the on
the ladies outside relationships outside you know, outside of the house. Yeah,

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instead of them just kind of complainingabout of a bunch of stuff within the
house. Yeah. Yeah, theydo have some scenes, you know,
like one of the girls works worksat a library, so there's some like
It's not like a single location.But I liked the parts best, not
just the black Cat, but theparts that were outside of the house a
lot. So I thought it wasa bit boring, but I did want

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to know how it ended up,and I was intrigued. It looks great,
it's beautiful to watch. There's anawesome final shot of the of one
of the final victims. So yeah, I mean, I recommend it.
I think I gave it three stars. A lot of people seem to like
this one a lot more than Idid. Again, like you pointed out,
it might have just been like themood I was in when I watched
it, because I love Poison forthe Fairies, even the one is frayed

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the director's other films. Yeah,but this was my least favorite of his,
but still a great, beautiful filmto watch. Yeah, this one's
on that Chabawata set with Poison forthe Fairies, and I think Rapina is
the other one I was. Iwas kind of surprised that even The Wind
Is Afraid wasn't on there, ButI mean Hopefully that's going to get a
release too, because I really dolike that one. Yeah, that one's

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great. Day four series episode Iwatched The House That Bled to Death,
one of the hammer House of Horrorepisodes. I watched this later in the
month, but this wasn't my pick. So such a badass title. Yes,
it's so good. Directed by TomClegg, who directed another House of
Horror episode about a wherewof called Childrenof the Full Moon that I'll probably check
out at some point. This one, this one would work as a hunted

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house pick as well. That's anothercategory later in the month, but about
a married couple buying a rundown housewhere a murder or occurred and the murder
is the opening of the film,and it's so much fun to watch.
It's basically just an old man tiredof his sickly wife. I mean,
it's it's it's amazing the opening,but this house is essentially just kind of

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fucking with this family. Very politeBritish horror and British banter, which I
always love watching. Puts me ina comfortable mood. There's this little girl,
Sophie, who has a birthday partyand that's when all hell breaks loose
within the house. You do getthe title. It starts bleeding, not

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necessarily to death, but it isbleeding. There is another dead cat,
just like in Blacker. The Nightgreat James Bernard score. I guarantee you
know, listeners, every your favoritehorror film is probably composed and scored by
James Bernard. I love it,fantastic ending. It's a bit slow moving
all around, kind of like youknow, an Amityville horror type thing,

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kind of possessing those who live thereway, But you can't go wrong with
like these fifty minute episodes. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah,
you can't go wrong. Because Ialso did a Hammerhouse of Horror episode
for mine, and it's the onethat you watched. I believe Jeansploitation,

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the Silent Scream. I think Adamwatched this one as well. Yeah,
I mean we talked about this onequite a bit when when Lance had this
picked earlier for a previous episode.But it's got Peter Cushing running a pet
shop and Brian Cox gets out ofprison Cox and he ends up, you

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know, trapped by Peter Cushing.I'm not gonna I'm not going to spoil
anything. My main question with thisis where does everyone poop? I bet,
because you know, this isn't reallyspoiling what there is, like this
mechanical automated feeding system they have.Yeah, he still puts out the food
for them though. Yeah there's thatdoor. I mean maybe maybe there's a

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there's like a little port of likebowl that pops in and out. I
don't know. Okay, all right, they should have they should have put
that in the episode answer. Imean, I know, like that happens
in a lot of movies where it'slike they've been a hostage for however long,
and it's like but where they righteat it? Mechanism? So yeah,

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I have the box set from Imprintfor this. I can't wait to
watch more of these. These arethese are great and I'll probably I you
know, I enjoyed having this category. It was a nice break from having
a full movie. Yeah. Ieven found myself watching a bunch of tales
from the Crypt episodes and some Treehouseof Horror and you know some other like
what was the It wasn't necessarily aHalloween episode, but the Colombo episode with

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Vincent Price. You know, it'slike, yeah, I think this is
one that we should keep for nextyear. I think we shall. That
was that was Erica's. That wasyour pick, that was your idea.
Thank it's a good one. Imean you have the Well, you've got
some ones in here that are mainstaystoo, so we'll get to those.
Next category is Castle, William oractual. I went with William Castle and

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I watched Homicidal or Homicidal rather fromnineteen sixty one. I have the Indicator
volume one set. Then I watchedthis from and this is Castle's Psycho basically,
but I didn't know that. Ifor whatever reason, like this has
always been on my radar without knowingwhat it was about, without knowing that

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it was Castle's riff on Psycho,not riff really, because he does his
own thing with it. But Ididn't read any reviews about it. I
love this. This. This isone of my favorites of the month.
It starts with a woman she's checkinginto a hotel and she offers a bell
boy two thousand dollars to marry her, and it turns out that she needed
him so that she could murder thejustice of the peace, and then the
film slowly unravels to reveal why,along with more dead bodies, and there's

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also Castle always does these like weirdlittle little things with his films, and
there's a break in it. It'slike, oh, are you gonna stick
around to the end to find out? You can leave now if you want,
And yeah, I just I reallyenjoyed this one a lot. Homicidal
nineteen sixty one from William Castle,Yeah, that was my original Castle pick,

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but I just kind of a changedcourse completely and I did an actual
castle. I went with The Devil'sPlaything from nineteen seventy three. It's also
known as Vampire Ecstasy, which isa much better fitting title. Yeah,
so it immediately pants, Oh,yeah, I mean this is this is
a horny film, and immediately Iknew I had the right pick. Is

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the very first shot. It opensup on a beautiful castle, Castle Voga.
Not much to say about it though. It's very little dialogue, which
I always appreciate the English dialogue that'sspoken by German actors. It requires subtitles
because it's very heavy German accents,which might bother some people. But I

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was immediately enamored with watching everybody soundinglike Yudokir. And they say Vampire is
quite a bit but a lot ofnaked bodies. There's a lot of lesbian
sex women rubbing themselves, castle corridors, candlelight. It's pretty much an hour
forty five minutes of this. SoI was into it. I liked it

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a lot. It is It's JosephSarnos, so it's soft core points.
Okay, I was gonna there.I was like, I had a list
of people who I was going toguess. Yeah, that was on the
list. He's doing what he doesbest in this. The story is a
bit confusing, something about descendants andan inheritance and ancestors who are vampires.
Maybe, but yeah, it takesplace at this castle Volga and the baroness

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who passed away. The spirit islooking for a living host, I think
is what the story was. Andthere's this castle caretakers or priestesses who are
all very horny and they're indi ritualsand vampirism and a lot of long scenes
too long, honestly, but Iwas into it of them just dancing around
naked around the fire with like thistribal drumming happening, and they have like

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body pain all over them. Butwhen they do these rituals, the visiting
occupants, like these ancestors that arethere, they start masturbating in their rooms.
Okay, so there's some incest betweena brother and a sister that's always
thought. Yeah, great scenes ofthe castle at dusk. It's all,
like I said, very dreamy Sarto. I think films are really well,

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even though it's very disjointed. Thereis one actress named Nadia Hinkawa, if
I'm saying that right, Hankoa.She plays froulin Wanda Krag, the head
priestess, and she rules in thisin a terrible acting kind of way.
I just I was totally enamored withher. I get the hate for this
movie that you'll see if you checkit on letterbox, though, but I
settled in. I settled into thevibe it was forcing on me. Yeah,

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and I watched this Halloway Halloween morning, Halloween Day morning. Oh wow.
Okay, so you know, horroralways kind of tastes better those on
that day. There is an amazingfake bats scene that I want to point
out, where you just the scenesare the fake bats, well they're not
even fake bats. You just hearbats. But there's a final scene where

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there's fake bats flying around and theyphysically tear off this woman's clothes. Oh
yeah, all of them completely naked. But yeah, like I said,
the dialogue, I just want topoint out the dialogue sounds just like udok
here. It's very odd. Itsounds a little like Magenta from Rocky Horror
too, like oh, one personsays, I believe you are in great

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danger, and the other character replies, I I would pair this with Paul
Morrissey's Blood for Dracula for a LAMPIa double speech, okay, and the
next is it me which is thiswas another last minute change for me.
I watched Wicked Stepmother from nineteen eightynine, written and directed by Larry Cohen.

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Oh, okay, this is BettyDavis's last role. Okay. So
fifteen minutes into this, I waslike, oh my god, is there
really an hour fifteen minutes left ofthis movie. I don't know if I
can get through this. It's it'sbad. It's very, very bad,
like worse than you can imagine.It's like a kid's a kid's film made
by Nickelodeon in the eighties, likewhere it's trying to be funny and there

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are they're good Nickelodeon movies out there. But it's trying to be funny,
but it's just it's not making anybodylaugh. It's it's bad. It didn't
even make you laugh. Well,yeah it did it. I mean it's
it. I started settling in aboutan hour into the movie, and I'm
like, Okay, maybe I'm understandingwhat Larry Cohen's going for. But what

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makes this movie so interesting and entertainingis the disastrous production history, how the
movie fell apart and completely changed.No, it's it's got over a thousand,
but this would be good. Norules, I'll stop it. But
Betty Davis plays a witch who woosthese rich men into marrying her and then
immediately takes all their money. Theyend up dead, and she does it

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to an old man played by LionelStandard, and then his daughter and her
husband come to visit and they realizesomething's off. They're like, who is
this lady? And Davis is init for the first forty or so minutes
of the movie, and then poof, she just disappears. She's gone,
right, and she really disappeared.She never returned a set while they were

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filming. Oh, she hated theway Apparently she was photographed. Larry Cohen
said it was due to health issues, but you know, I mean it's
probably a good thing because her partswere very sad to watch. She kind
of limped her way through her scene. She was weighing probably eighty pounds.
I mean, I hate to sayit. She did not look well at
all. She looked terrible. Sohow does Larry Cohen replace her after she

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filmed this? He turns her intoa black cat, Like, let's just
turn her into a black cat.Got you gotta theme going this mind?
I know. And and so herwitch daughter, Betty Davis's witch daughter randomly
shows up halfway in the movie,which makes little sense, like she just
pops up. And I'm gonna spoilit because nobody's gonna watch this, But
Betty Davis is actually the daughter likeher soul and her bodies and her now

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it did. I mean, ithas some funny moments. There's there's a
picture of the daughter's real mom inthe house and it's a picture of Joan
Crawford. That's kind of funny.And like I said, I started to
settle into the humor about an hour. And Betty Davis was a chain smoker.
So they have this puppeteer cat,this cat who's smoking and scenes.
There's even some stop motion claymation atthe end. Richard mal I watched this

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before he passed away, so thisisn't an in memorial. This is my
witch's pick. But he plays aprivate eye named mister Pringle, and he's
not funny at all, and it'sjust and the end credits. I'm talking
way too long on this movie,but the end credits is literally some guy
who's narrating and saying, may weintroduce the cast of characters. It's like

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Colleen Camp and it's showing pictures ofhim, like you know, Tom Boseley,
who plays the private detective. Likeit's such a weird movie. Larry
Cohen was. I love how hestayed with it, stuck with it even
though, like I read a lotabout the production history and it's B and
D Movies has a really good riteup on it. But yes, Wicked

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stet Weather, I think I watchedthis on two B. Okay, what's
your witch's pick? I watched TheWitches Mountain from nineteen seventy three. This
was on to B. But italso has a Mondo micabre Blu ray.
It's about a couple who travels tothe mountains and they end up staying at
the center of a witch's coven.There's a kid death at the very beginning.

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There's some cute goats and this prettydecent eerie chanting, especially at the
end. But this was really toughfor me to like get on board.
It's vibe train, like I justit's just it's very slow and moody,

(30:15):
and maybe it was just like theday that I watched it, just it
wasn't hitting me, because normally Ican get down with that, but yeah,
this one, it just it neverhit for me. It just felt
like everyone's just kind of wandering aroundfor the whole movie and not much happens.
You know. Obviously I was onboard right away when the kid died

(30:37):
and I was like, Okay,here we go. And it was just
pretty talky and forgettable. I've alreadyforgotten most of the movie just because it
is very repetitive in that sense.There is a dark room scene in it,
though, lands for you, soyou may want to watch it.
The two B copy is terrible.It's not the Mondo Micabre restoration, so
folks think that it's it's not it'sa very terrible copy of it actually,

(30:59):
so you know, if you're interested, you can pick it up from them
or maybe wait to see if theyend up streaming it somewhere. But not
one of my favorites of the month. I know there are some people who
did get down with it, butI was not one of them. It's
okay, yeah, Then nineteen fifties. I watched another Carloff movie, The
Black Castle from nineteen fifty two.This was on YouTube. So there's this

(31:25):
man named Ronald Burton who goes tothe castle of a count under a different
name because he believes that the Counthas something to do with the disappearance or
potentially the death of his two friendsthat were last seen going to this castle.
So this Burton guy, he doesn'twant the count to know who he
is. It looks and feels likea great gothic horror movie. Univers will

(31:47):
put this out and both Karloff andcheneyj you and your have supporting roles in
it. But there's a lot ofhunting, like animal hunting, and not
much actual horror other than the setting. So it's more of a mystery with
a little bit of a twist ending. It still worked for October though,
just not something I'm likely to revisitor have on standby for a spooky season.

(32:10):
I mean, I'd still recommend it, but not if you're looking for
Carlo horror movie. Really gotcha?I like the poster. It almost looks
like a Disney animated movie or Iknow, looks it's Yeah, that's what
drew me in. Actually, whatabout you? From nineteen fifties? This
might have been the first one Ifirst movie I watched in October. I
didn't watch these in order. Unclewas a Vampire nineteen fifty nine, also

(32:36):
known as Hard Times for Vampires.It's starring Renado Rasquell, who co wrote
the screenplay and he contributed all theoriginal songs. He was a composer and
an Italian singer and actor during thattype apparently very very popular during that period
in Italy. This is Christopher Lee'sfirst Italian film, which was interesting to
watch. What really fascinated me is, obviously Christopher Lee plays the vampire,

(33:01):
the Uncle Vampire. But this wasreleased right between his first Dracula film and
Brides of Dracula, so he filmedThe Hammer Dracula, then did this weird
thing, and then you know,did all the badass Dracula sequels afterwards,
directed by Stefano Vanzena, who justwent by Steno, who directed a ton

(33:22):
of Bud Spencer comedies. And it'sit's this type of you know, slapstick
humor. This is it's about.It's about a man who has to sell
his ancestral castle to handle debt,and he's immediately hired by the buyers to
stay on as a bellboy, andhis mysterious uncle kind of shows up,

(33:42):
and he thinks his uncle has alot of money and he might be able
to get his castle back, andhis uncle happens to be a vampire.
So it's it's just it's it's waytoo long. It's an hour forty.
I was in a trance watching it. I watched it real late. I
was into it, kind of enamoredby it. Stupid, not even funny,
slastic humor, like just like youknow, I'm kind of frozen watching

(34:07):
this, like yelling in my head, stop it, stop it. But
very very dated, you know,very nineteen fifties humor. It is fun
to watch Christopher ly in it,but don't watch this for Christopher Lee.
Combine all his screen time he mighthave like fifteen twenty minutes. He just
kind of pops up here and there. He looks great though he's in his

(34:28):
late thirties, towering over all ofthese Italian French actors, just like you
know, commanding the screen, likehis role, his role, you know,
demands. There is one funny scenethat really stood out. It's just
me being inappropriate forty year old whereRenado, the main guy who's the bell
boy, he's pleading with the rooster. There's a rooster there and he's pleading

(34:52):
with this rooster to crow before thesun rises, so he could like fool
this vampire into thinking it's you know, sunrise, it's done. And he's
yelling because the vampire has this womanthat he's fallen in love with and he's
yelling, cock cock, the cockwill save her. And I just was
like, there it is. That'swhat I stayed for very goof. You'll

(35:15):
land for some but this was oneof the many movies I watched in October
that I just didn't rate. It'san hour forty minutes, like it's just
a long yeah, okay. Germany'sDay eight Yes, Dead Eyes of London
from nineteen sixty one is my pickbased on the detective novel of the same

(35:37):
name. This is director Alfred Voyer'sfirst Edgar Wallace adaptation, and he would
do like another two dozen. Basicallyhis whole career became These German Crimes.
But it's about these rich, elderlymen in London. It's funny that this
is my German pick, but ittakes place in London. But these men

(35:58):
in London, they're traveling a oddfrom their respective home countries and they're being
murdered in the streets of London onthese late foggy nights and they're each found
dead in the water, and allthe autopsies are saying and revealing that drowning
is the cause of death due tothe heavy fog, you know, like
they're tourists and they're falling into theThames River at night because they don't know

(36:20):
where they are. And one inspectorthinks it's the Blind Killers of London,
a gang of these blind peddlers whocommit crimes in the dead of knight,
and he runs into these great characternames from the game like Flea Bite,
Fred and blind Jack. It's allvery Sherlock, Holmes and Watson feeling because
you have these this detective with hispartner figuring out this mystery as it continues

(36:45):
to bring in more clues to confusethe viewer. I was into it.
I liked it. I love SherlockHolmes, especially the early Basil Rathbone and
Nigel Bruce ones. But this hasa very young klaus Kinski in a big
role. You know, he's verysinister, where sinister very well. He
wears these aviator glasses. Oh hellyeah, you know, he just looks

(37:07):
great. And it's klas Kinski.It's in black and white. It's shot
very well. Karl Lob is acinematographer who he pretty much worked on all
of the Edgar Wallace films together withVoyeur, and he does some amazing shots
and lighting. There's this great scene, it's very random of a man brushing
his teeth and the camera is inhis mouth. It almost looks like a

(37:29):
Peebe's playhouse type thing where these faketeeth are around the camera and you see
is and that's like, it's justweird that they throw that in there.
And there's people like I said that, like talking very seriously in the camera.
Work is filming like klaus Kinski,and you can see the reflection of
the person he's talking to in hisglasses in the sunglasses just looks great,
really fun to really fun to watch. A lot of cool techniques you don't

(37:51):
see in a lot of sixties films, but a lot of twist and turns.
It's this German actor that looks alot like Tor Johnson. I thought
he looked like a shaved Hoder fromGame of Throne. Oh okay, he
has this fake hair all over hishands and his arms. It's very disturbing
looking. But the thing that withme is it starts off very horror,
very dark. You know, allthese murders are taking place in these foggy

(38:13):
streets, and then it gradually getssillier and sillier till it finally just commits
to the full humor and it endson a very comedic tone. Like it
ends as a full comedy. Iwasn't disappointed by that because it really worked
with the film and the characters thatare in there. So yeah, definitely
recommended. I want to check outmore of his of his crimy films.
Yeah, there's there's one I actuallyhave on the list for next year.

(38:37):
Episode. Yeah, we haven't wehaven't delved into Edgar Wallace or specifically like
the Crimy and like the one.The few that I've watched, I haven't
watched very many. I do havea specific guest I do want to get
for that, but you know,they've been ignoring my emails so far.
But well, klas Kinski's dead.Just kidding, I know, I know
you have to room god damn,but yeah, I do. I have

(39:05):
one that I think has twins andlike is a crimey and and it has
that same tone. So I thinkit would be a lot of fun.
Yeah, but for Germany, ofcourse. I also did an Edgar Wallace
chrimey. Mine was from the SevernChristopher Lee collection two. This is also
on two B. It's a Secretof the Red Orchid from nineteen sixty two.
This one's directed by Helmet Ashley.This also has klaus Kinski in addition

(39:30):
to Christopher Lee, because it's inthat set there's these warring gangs, and
this is another one set in London. These warring gangs are extorting rich people
in London. Even though everyone isspeaking German. It's always fun to watch
Christopher Lee actually speaking German. Hespeaks like two, three, four or
five languages. I think and like, he's so interesting and I love him

(39:52):
and whenever you actually get to hearhim speaking another language and not being dubbed,
it's wonderful. And we need todo a Christopher early episode. My
uncle was a vampire. Yeah,it's been settled. Fuck Lee is he's
an American FBI agent in this andhe's visiting to help with the case.

(40:13):
It's campy, it's you know,it's a fun little mystery. The plot
a little bit convoluted and over complicated. But Laird has a review about Lee's
experience making this, which I thoughtwas really funny. Let me pull that
up. Okay, So Laird's reviewsaid a zine I bought about Eduar Wallace

(40:36):
movie adaptation Adaptations has quotes from Leeabout his participation. Quote, the thing
I remember most about the film wasa director, Helmet Ashley, apparently a
well known cameraman in Germany. Hewas excessively unpleasant, rude, and unhelpful.
He constantly criticized my German accent,which as a matter of fact,

(40:57):
is very good. It came tothe point one day where I had a
bit of a blow up on theset and I said, now I can
understand how it was that Hitler wasan Austrian. That went down, of
course terribly well. Ashley was alsofrom Austria, which I already knew.
Wow, it's like yee yikes,but yeah, I mean I had fun

(41:21):
with this, it's I didn't likeit as much as the other one that
I was just talking about. Thatis a potential pick for next year,
but I'd still recommend it. Andyou know, there's only been I think
one movie in that. I haven'twatched all of the movies in both of
the Severn Christopher Lee sets yet there'sonly one in there that I was just
not vibing with. But although itdid have a googly eyed spider that was

(41:44):
adorable, which one it was,but so Germany Secret of the Red Ork
in nineteen sixty two too, bor Severn box set still me Unsung horrors
rule. Yes, this is Yeah, this is one of the categories that
you came up with a while ago, and I think it should be a
mainstay. I think it has beenfor a couple of years. Actually now

(42:06):
I think so yet. Okay,so this is one that is another potential
for next year pick because this isone of my favorites of the month and
but I have to find because Idid have to get this from legal adjacent
where I'm gonna have to find away to get it with subs and get
it out there for we're willing itout in the universe now talking about I
know so well. There is onemy Jallo January pick I had to put

(42:29):
on YouTube myself because the White Slavesof Chinatown YouTube channel had it and then
their channel got shut down, soI had to find it and upload it
myself. So I might have todo that with this one. This is
a Demon is on the Island fromnineteen eighty three. It's a French movie.
It's about a new doctor who arrivesto a remote, sparsely populated island

(42:55):
and she's faced with a series ofreally bizarre deaths which are all linked to
electrical devices that are purchased at alocal store. So it's like appliance has
gone wild. But it's not justappliances. It's an oven, it's a
toy monkey, you know, likethe clapping one of those like drum playing
monkeys. What else, There's likea gas canister like so all these things

(43:19):
that are coming from this one storeare somehow killing people on the Island,
and I'm like, okay, Igot this movie figured out. I know
where this is going. Oh no, no, no, no, somebody
that I'm not going to spoil it, but like it because so I was
like, okay, I know whatthis is and then it's completely something else

(43:42):
and I would never ever want tospoil it for anybody because it is so
weird, and so like, well, of course it's that, because this
movie is already so fucking weird.What else would it be. But it
does get, it does get alittle bit kind of there is it's like
a little bit of a heart init at the end where it's kind of
sad, where it's like the causeof all this and like the source of

(44:06):
it. It's like, oh that'sthat's kind of sad, and you'd be
surprised what I would think this wassad, you know. So again,
not going to spoil it. Thisis a potential episode for next year,
barring me getting it on YouTube ora lovely listener finding a way to get
it on you know, YouTube orrare film or wherever would be an easy

(44:27):
place. Daily Motion. I don'tknow how that stuff works. Yeah,
Demon is on the Island, Yes, yes, about you and so I
mean I kind of cheated and Ipicked something from our Raidness Steckler episode that
we did last month, The thrillKillers nineteen sixty four. Yeah, I
mentioned in that episode it was myfavorite stuff under one thousand still. Yeah

(44:50):
it is, Oh okay, Yeah, that was That's why I was kind
of like, just pick this one, Erica, No, I mean incredibly
strange Creatures amazing. Only I pickedthat movie so I could make that title
for the episode. Yeah, that'sthe whole reason. That was genius work.
By the way, I think whatI love so much about The thrill

(45:12):
Killers, Like I mentioned in theepisode, this was my first true Steckler.
I had watched one that he helpedout with did some co directing I
guess with Ted v. Michaels,which wasn't very good. And I think
I love this because I had anidea of what steckler films were, you
know, I knew his his filmography, and this just wasn't it. It
was surprising. It was. It'svery well made. It's a linear narrative,

(45:37):
which is unlike his other a lotof his movies. It just really
surprised me. Gorgeous black and whiteSteckler plays the killer mad Dog. That's
a great dummy drop. Yeah,go listen to the episode, Go listen
to Credibly Strange Creatures? Was thatCarlson? I recommend it though highly The
Thrill Killers Same Day ten is carlLa Mancini. Okay. I have to

(46:00):
ask this because I asked this whenthis day came up in our discord,
and I said, Folks, hasanyone actually spotted Carla Mancini in their movie?
Nobody? Did you see Carla Manciniin your movie? Well, what's
weird is so my pick was sevenblood Stained or Kids from nineteen seventy two.

(46:22):
Okay, right, I'm Berta Lindsay'sand she's credited as Anna's maid.
But I Anna didn't have a maidthat I could find in this. I
think she had like a nurse,and I think that was Carla Mancini.
Okay, but no, like CarlaMancini, she's still she's this enigma.
She's I see pictures of her andI'm like, I've never seen that woman

(46:42):
in my life. Same and evenon letterbox, there used to be this
one picture, the picture that Ithink I used in the calendar of her.
Yes, that's changed. On letterboxdifferent now, it's like it's a
younger version of her and it doesn'tlook like the other picture. She's very
strange. I wonder if because itupdates recently, like after Carla Mancini Day,
and I wonder if because all thesepeople were watching Carla Mancini movies,

(47:07):
that something sparks something somewhere that itchanged her picture. I didn't see her
in my mind either. Yeah,I've she's already in my like top actors
of the year, Yeah, topof all time, I think on min
Yeah, but like I didn't seeher in mine. Yeah, No,
I think I saw her. Butagain, this is just me hoping that's

(47:28):
her. You know, it's becomelike a Ware's waldo. When you watch
a movie with Carlo Mancini, thereshe is. No, that's her,
but yeah, seven blood Stained Orchids. It was great at three murders in
the first ten minutes of the movie. Oh yeah, there's even a fourth
murder attempt like five minutes later.And that fourth murder attempt is a fiance

(47:49):
of a fashion designer who's played byAntonio Sabato, who's I know you love
him. Yeah. He works withhis fiance and his cops to fake her
death in an effort to try andkill this killer who's called the half moon
maniac because he leaves these little halfmoon trinkets on the bodies of his victims.
And I like Sabato's character a lotbecause he works with the cops even
though he thinks they're completely worthless andjust useless. So it's funny to see

(48:14):
him kind of trash the cops inall these scenes. But the whole movie
is basically him finding clues dead ends. But ultimately the killers reveal very slow,
very talky. It's a lot ofhim and his fiance trying to figure
out why would anybody want me dead? You know. It's just you know,
walking around trying to ask people questionslike have you seen this man?

(48:37):
It's pretty slow, but it CarlaMancini movie. Everybody should watch it,
right, Yeah, yeah, Imean I'm not going to spoil anything.
Obviously, there's a lot of twists. The killing is brutal. The killer
also is a terrible person because theykill three cats. I don't know how
many dead cats I have during October, and these movies are at least five

(49:00):
I've counted. But the killer poisonsthree cats before they killed the victim.
It's like they want the victim tosee the dead cats first, and then
they decide. I'm like, that'sterrible. Why are there so many dead
cats in my picks? But overallI thought it was fine. Nothing really
stand out compared to other jolly genres. But Rizzordlani does the score and he

(49:22):
kicks it up a notch fantastic.Everybody should watch it. It's pulled from
an inspiration from a novel called Rendezvousin Black by Cornell Woolrich, who he
wrote one of the one of myfavorite. He wrote the original story of
Rear Window, one of my favoritemovies of all time. And Edgar Wallace
is also created as a co cowriter on this. So I think they

(49:45):
pulled a lot of inspirations. Lindsay, you know, and that is my
Carla Mancini, what's your pick?Mine was Knight of the Damned from nineteen
seventy one. Watch this on YouTube? Where'd you watch? I think on
two b okay, so nine ofthe damn seventy one. Definitely don't read
the letterbox synopsis because it spoils thewhole movie, even if it is obvious,

(50:08):
like you start watching it and you'relike, Okay, I know this
is going but it just it literallyspoils the whole thing. So Jean Dupree
and his wife Danielle are these famousjournalists and they have a special interest in
unsolved mysteries. They receive a requestto help an old friend of Jean the

(50:29):
husband named gim Da Saint Lambert.So they go to visit him, and
he lives in this ancient castle withhis wife Rita, but he dies soon
after they arrive under these really mysteriouscircumstances. So Jane and his wife start
to uncover the mystery. Meanwhile,like there's a series of other related murders
to women with their boobies getting clawed, and so there's like is there a

(50:53):
monster killing them? What's happening?So yeah, I mean I gave it
three stars, so I mean that'senough to recommend it. I suppose I
did not see Carlo Mancini, butshe's in there somewhere. I guess what
is she credited as in mine?She's not credited. She doesn't even have
like nurse or maid or anything onthere. She probably was a nurser maid,

(51:16):
probably yeah, like a sermon something. Who knows she was probably a
bar patron, because I think there'sa few scenes in bar Okay. Next
category Day eleven is ghosts and Ifinally, finally, finally watched The Encounter
of the Spooky Ky in nineteen eightystarring sam Oohung. This is a Eureka
blu ray that I watched it on. So Samuel's character is framed for the

(51:39):
murder of his adulterous wife, allwhile having to deal with ghosts, slash
hopping vampires nearly everywhere he turns.He gets the help of a junior dallist
monk who's to catch the person whoframed him, and then the final battle
is super fun. It's like thesetows and like you know, shooting spells

(52:02):
and fire and shit back and forth. The very end, like the final
before it freeze frames shot is goingto make some people cringe, namely those
who have a problem with the movieoverboard, but I laughed out loud,
like because it's just so like whatthe fuck. I don't want to spoil

(52:25):
it for anyone, because like,I didn't know that was coming at all.
I need, yeah there, It'sit's kind of like the ending of
how much not not what actually happens. But the ending of Yes, Madam
just completely took me off guard.You know, same thing. I think
listeners know me well enough to knowwhy I think this is funny. But

(52:49):
I think you know, if somerandom Overboard needs to be canceled person came
in and watched that, they wouldbe horrified. I just leave it at
that. Yeah, Overboard will neverbe canceled. No, you can't cancel
any Kurt Russell movie. That's actuallya law. I looked it up.
All right, what about you forGhosts? Okay, ghost I picked,

(53:12):
I mean twenty twelve movie, alittle bit of new horror. I'm going
to preface it by saying you wouldhate this movie, but you lost me
at twenty twelve. Yeah, goto and check out right now, listeners.
I watched the Last Will and Testamentof Rosalind Lee, So I started
this one after midnight one night.I was like, I was tired,
but I was like, I'm behindon Horror Gives Back. I need to

(53:35):
catch up on my catch up onmy list. Sarah was asleep. I
put in my AirPods. I figuredI'd probably just doze off putting this on,
but it sucked me in immediately andI just watched the whole thing,
and I think a setting like that, to where your your brain's not fully
functioning, you know, you're kindof just on auto drive and you put

(53:55):
this on. I think that's probablythe perfect setting for this movie. It's
about a man who inherits this childhoodhome. I feel like I watched a
lot of dead cats in a lotof inherited houses so far. Yeah,
but he, you know, fromhis estranged mother who just who passed away,
and he finds all these clues throughoutthe house, and it's the movie
is basically him by himself throughout thishouse. So it's very one of those,

(54:17):
like I've said, like a ResidentEvil type game where you're you're a
lead character finding clues to figure outwhat's going on. But he finds these
clues that shows that she was involvedin some satanic cult some like all these
rituals, and her spirit is stillin the house haunting him. That's where
the ghost comes in effect. Thefirst hour I thought was really great,

(54:38):
very atmospheric. Again, I thinkyou'd absolutely hate this movie. I'm already
what are we talking about. We'retalking about my uncle. Uncle was a
vampire. But yeah, the lasttwenty five minutes or so thirty minutes,
it really unravels. So the believabilityof it all kind of just completely gets

(54:59):
lost, which I really like thefact, like, Okay, this is
not like too far fetch, youknow, that's it's working for me.
But the supernatural elements that were kindof presented start turning into like this coincidence
that just kind of interferes with thewhole setting and the tone of the movie.
In particular, there's this one scenewhere the guy calls a surveillance company

(55:22):
for them to play back a securitycamera that's set outside, and he's like,
play it back. There's something outthere and it's completely unnecessary. It
has you see something. But I'mlike, first off, what does old
mom have this surveillance security camera installedoutside? It's very, very totally took
me out in the movie that onescene. It has some pretty shoddy CGI

(55:42):
towards the end, it doesn't havereally any rewatchability factory because it is kind
of like this build up for onebig mystery, one and done. But
I liked it more than I hatedit. So even though if the Indian
didn't completely land for me, thelast Will and Testament of Rosalind Lee is
what I just talked to about Erica. Okay, And next is Japan.

(56:04):
I watched Wicked City from nineteen eightyseven. This is a Japanese horror anime
directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, who dida Vampire Hunter d Bloodlust, which is
a fantastic one. I've seen that. Okay, So you get cartoon nudity,
you get a blowjob, I'm in. You get sex scene with numerous

(56:24):
different positions in the first five minutesof this movie, okay, okay,
and then this girl turns into thisdemon spider and her her private parts turns
into this monster mouth with huge fangs. You know we can all do that,
right, Well, I had neverseen one until this. I've always

(56:45):
seen a cartoon one, but thatthis is when we learned the plot of
the movie, which is really great. There's this peace treaty that has signed
every few hundred years between mankind andDemons's called the Black World. So it's
Earth signing this treaty with the BlackWorld, and the current treaty set to

(57:07):
expire. But demons are prematurely infiltratingEarth and fucking with humans like this spider
woman. So a cop from Earthteems up from a cop from the Black
World to guard a diplomat who willsecure the treaty whom the demons are after.
While these higher ups you know,are are working on a treaty good

(57:28):
for the next five hundred years.Basically they're trying to protect this guy from
the demons. I love the animationin this visually, it's very dark,
gives it almost a Blade Runner lookand feel, with like this futuristic city
scapes and stuff, great body horrorthroughout from the demons. The story is
told from the Earth CoP's perspective,so it does a lot of narrating,

(57:50):
which works to kind of catch theviewer up because this is based apparently on
like a book or a graphic novelwhich I've never read. A manga,
Yeah, maybe a manga. Idon't know. It might be a book,
but I don't know, like itmight actually be like it just I'm
sure it's Dustin from John rexposure nose. Yeah, he can chime in,
we can see. Let me know. It is dated. It's very It's
problematic when it comes to how thewomen are treated. A lot of reviews

(58:13):
on Letterbox point this out. Theratings are low because of it. It
seems like there's a rape scene ofthe Black World cop that's very uncomfortable even
for a cartoon. Like it justgoes on and on. You're like,
holy shit, this is still goingon, arguably unnecessary, but it really
drives home how evil these demons are. Like, So, it is a
product of its time in nineteen eightyseven, and it has some really gross

(58:36):
shit happening on screen. But Iwould I recommend it. I mean,
I don't watch I'm not familiar withanime at all. I've seen, you
know, I've watched some of it, like Vampire Hunter D. But you
know, stuff like this makes mewant to like dive in. I just
wish maybe somebody can curate a listfor me based off my enjoyment of this
dustin. Please, What was yourjapan pick? Mine was a House of

(59:00):
Terrors aka Ghost of the Hunchback fromnineteen sixty five. This is another Mando
Micambero. Blu Ray bought this wheneverit came out and saved it, put
it on the shelf for October specifically, and I'm glad I did. This
is another of my favorites of themonth. It's about so this man Shinichi
dies while under the care of amental hospital, and then his lawyer informs

(59:25):
his wife that he had purchased ina state not long before his death,
like this remote mansion. So shegoes there along with her I think it's
her niece and her father in law, and there's this old hunchback who resides
there as a caretaker. And itsoon becomes clear that the mansion is haunted
and that the hunchback is somehow connectedwith all of these hauntings are goings on.

(59:51):
So really good toy Haunted House moviehas all the tropes and then some
great atmosphere. Co Nishi Mura asthe hunchback and Slash other role which I
don't want to spoil I get.I mean, I guess she's said no,
but like he's the hunchback in thebeginning, but he's also somebody else.
I don't want to spoil that.I guess he's fantastic. He's been

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in a handful of Corrossawa films.He just he brings as much as he
would to a Chorissawa film as hedoes to a role like this. Just
some like some low budget I don'tknow how low budget it is, but
it's, you know, a toeyhorror movie. It can't have nearly as
much, but one of my favoritesof the month. Highly recommend. If
you don't have the Blu Ray,this is definitely what I would pick up

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Nice and the nineteen sixties. Iwatched Jess Franco's The Awful Doctor Orloff from
nineteen sixty two. Oh, thisDVD's been sitting on my shelf for I
don't know how long, and youknow, I'm button. It took me
so long to watch it because thisis Franco going goth. It's his eyes

(01:00:59):
without a face riff. It's gotHoward Vernon in it, and he plays
doctor Orloff. And then he's gotthis henchman Morpho who's killing women. So
Orloff is basically brings Morpho along withhim and he's like, kill that woman.
And so Orloff has a daughter whohad a really has a really bad

(01:01:19):
accident and her face is all fuckedup, and so he's getting women so
he can graft their skin to fixhis daughter. So very eyes without a
face. Yeah, it's it's notthe type of like atmosphere I usually get
from a lot of Franco films andI haven't seen tons, but I've seen
enough to have a certain expectation goingin and this was very different from that,

(01:01:40):
and I really enjoyed it. It'sa brisk pace, it's eighty two
minutes. I think I gave thisone three stars, so I'd recommend it
awful. Doctor Orloff sixty two Nice. My sixties pick nineteen sixty six Island
of Terror. This is Terrence Fisher, Oh okay, starring Peter Kushing and

(01:02:00):
Edward Judd, who looks an actslike a British Gene Hackman, especially in
this And perhaps it's not due tome not having watched cushion performance in a
while this year, but I wasin total bliss while watching this, and
obviously mainly a big reason is becausePeter Cushing's in there. Spoiler alert,

(01:02:21):
he gets his hand cut off.Did he get to wash it first?
No, he washed it after itwas cut off. But it's very sci
fi or about a man on thissmall island off of Ireland who's found with
his bones completely removed from his body, and the practical effects for this sixties

(01:02:42):
movie is amazing, like better thana lot of the I mean, it's
like it they lifted practical effects fromlike nineteen eighties, the blob or something
and put it in here. It'sso effective, and I'm like, I'm
blown away by this. But theyfind this body with no bones in it.
There's no blaceration and no cuts.So the local doctor reaches out to
some doctors throughout the island and theyget to Peter Cushing, who plays like

(01:03:07):
this professor slash doctor of bone.I don't know what they're called. And
they head to the island to checkout the body and investigate, and they
find out that they're on an islandwas a doctor they all knew named doctor
Phillips, who was working on cancerresearch and a cure, and he apparently
created this living organism during his tests. And these organisms they multiply every six

(01:03:30):
hours, so there are quite afew of them by the time the doctors
realize what's happening, and there areobviously the cause of what's sucking the bones
out of these bodies. And likeI said, these boneless bodies like disgusting.
The strange creatures were kind of terrifyingwhen they divided and started multiplying.

(01:03:51):
I've read some reviews where people thoughtthey hated the movie because the way of
these creatures looked, which are notreally creatures. They're basically these almost like
slimy giant lily pads with these youknow, weird tentacles coming out. Well,
that's not fair to hate the moviefor that. I know. I
think they also sounds awesome. Iknow, I loved like, you don't
see that anywhere else. Yeah,you might get what do they want like

(01:04:11):
lizard creature running around like whatever?But yeah it I loved it. The
ending was seconds away, just secondsaway from being such a banger, Like
I'm talking like a Frank araboce themissed movie ending. Ah. I was
like, oh my god, isthis gonna happen. I understand why they
didn't go that route, but theytotally set it up, and I was
just like, I loved this movie. I would I would really, I

(01:04:33):
would recommend it immediately. I don'tseem to be in the minority because everyone
I follow is like two to twoand a half. Well not everyone.
Yeah, no, I noticed thattoo. I forgot what did I get?
You gave it three and a halfthree and a half. I mean,
now that I'm talking about and thinkingabout it, I might even go
up before this is one I'll definitelyrewatch. I know it's like everyone more
recent give it two and a half, but I'm looking at it now and

(01:04:55):
it's like three three and a half. Okay, so yeah, this is
already on my watch list. Soyeah, yeah, totally worth watching.
Island of Terror. Okay, thenwe're going to we're diving into our physical
media. Yeah yeah, either offyour shelf or go rent it from a
local video store library. I pulledmine off the shelf from the House of
Psychotic Women box set, the Severnbox set Footprints or Footprints on the Moon

(01:05:18):
directed by Luigi Bezzoni, who didthe fifth chord. A great introduction by
Kayla Denise in it, which wasfun to watch. I've had this set
for a while and I haven't eventhis is my first movie i've watched from
it, so starring Florinda Bulkan Flaviawho we love. So the whole story

(01:05:39):
is kind of her. She's atranslator who wakes up and finds that she's
lost three days of her life,and the whole movie is were trying to
unravel this mystery where she was.It's very odd. You're just kind of
immediately thrown in this weird, unexplainablesituation. I was very eager to find
out what happened because the setup isperfectly hand old. You learned that she

(01:06:00):
was at this hotel using a differentname, changing her appearance, so I
started thinking, oh shit, we'regetting like doppelgangers here, which isn't really
the case. But it's such aslow It's just an effective, slow moving
mystery that it kind of allows youto come up with like your own possibilities,
which is a lot of fun fora viewing experience for me at least.
Yeah, and it just keeps deliveringthese surprises where you're like, oh

(01:06:23):
shit, I didn't think of that. But it has the creepy redheaded girl
from Deep Red Little Girls in it. A young klaus Kinski has a very
small role playing an actor from likea sci fi movie that Florinda Bulkan's character
is haunted by. Okay, justa really great mystery. I loved the
fifth chord, so I was reallylooking forward to finally watching this and it

(01:06:45):
didn't disappoint one of my favorites ofthe month, What did You Pull Off
your shelf? So this was justlike blind Spot for me, like I'd
never gotten around to watching it,and there's still a handful of Hitchcock's movies
that I do still need to seethat I have it. So I watched
Frenzy from nineteen seventy two. Johnhas the Universal Blu ray box set.

(01:07:06):
So it takes place in London.There's a serial killer who strangles several women
with a necktie Scotland Yards suspect RichardBlaney due to a series of unfortunate circumstances
that point to him. You know, it's Hitchcock, so you know it's
just going to meet a minimum standardof quality. I just, you know,
like I said, I really justwanted to fill some gaps this October,

(01:07:29):
like this. Encounters with the SpookyKind was another that I just took
around really long time. Finally tooka really long time to finally get around
to. I'm glad I finally watchedthis. It's not one of my favorite
watches of the month, but eventhough it is Hitchcock, and I think
I gave it probably four stars orthree and a half, but I definitely
still recommended who anyone who hasn't seenit yet. I don't really think you

(01:07:49):
can go wrong with a lot ofHitchcock, but Yeah, I enjoyed Frenzy.
I watched it a few years agofor the first time. Yeah,
I think it's great. All right, So then next category is in memoriam.
So this has been a tough yearand not even just a tough year.
I think the hardest part about thiscategory is that all, and I

(01:08:15):
mean literally all of my favorite actorsare from the sixties, seventies, and
eighties because those are when my favoritemovies were made. So like the last
ten years or so has just beenhaving to deal with all of them passing
because we're just at that point wherethey're that age, you know, and
sometimes one after the other where it'slike a whole week and it's like this

(01:08:38):
person and then this person, thisperson, like recently we had Richard Rowntree
and then Richard Mole and that it'sjust it didn't stop. And normal people
who aren't listening to this don't haveto deal with this, you know,
at least not right now. Allthose people who are like, oh,
Jennifer Lawrence, you know, orwhatever they like, they don't have to
worry about who's gonna be next.And it sucks, but you know,

(01:09:00):
at least we have their wonderful moviesto remember them. It's also another reason
that physical media is so important,because there are never any guarantees with streaming,
you know, and if you wantedto watch, you know, Shaft
to remember Richard Roundtree or on saylike Disney Plus, they could very well
cut out certain language from that film. Yeah, at their you know,

(01:09:23):
if they wanted to. If youwanted to watch the French Connection to honor
William Friedkin, well guess what Imean. It's Disney Plus has Shaft,
they don't. I just think badexample. But I'm just saying, like,
but yeah, there was, therewas. Unfortunately, that's it sounds

(01:09:43):
weird to say. A lot tochoose from this year. For in Memoriam,
I wanted to watch a lot ofshark movies this month. I only
got about three of them. Sothe one that I chose was for Treat
Williams Night of the Sharks nineteen eightyeight. This was on YouTube. Not
a great choice in hindsight. Iprobably could have changed it last minute.
But you know, it's been areally busy month. But I'm glad I
finally watched it. It's been onmy watch list for a while. John

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Steiner's in it. He was myin Memoriam pick last year. So so
Treat Williams. I don't remember hischaracter's name. His brother mails him some
evidence of some criminals doing criminal stuff. I do, I don't fucking know.
Treat Williams lives in Mexico. Ithink he's like a charter boat guy
or a fisherman or something. He'sgot this beef with a shark called Cyclops,

(01:10:30):
and the shark is the best partof the movie because he kills all
these people, including Treat's annoying nextwife. It's not really a horror movie
at all, but it has thetag on letterbox. It's fine, it's
passable. It's got a lot oflike a lot more shark footage than you
actually get, and it has likewhen it's showing the attacks, like obviously
they're not real, but there's alot of blood involved. So oh,

(01:10:51):
the shark roars in this, Sothat gave it an extra half star,
Like I will always give a roaringshark, maybe an extra half star because
it is so ludicrous. I loveit. Se Yeah, I's the Sharks
nineteen eighty eight. Take it orleave it? What about you? So
yeah, mine was a kind ofa random pick. Like you said,
there's so many to choose from.Sadly, even like Richard mal passing away

(01:11:13):
after I watched one of his movies. It's it's been a shitty a couple
of years, like you almost losetrack of Like when people like you just
said treat Williams, I was like, oh my god, that was this
year. Yeah, I chose MichaelLerner, though I love Michael Lerner.
I watched Tale of the Mummy nineteenninety eight from the director of Highlander,
Hey Russell mccauchey mulkaye. But there'swhat really surprised me, So I picked

(01:11:41):
it specifically for Michael Lerner. Ididn't even really look at the cast.
I was like, oh, Iwant to watch a Mummy movie in Halloween
it's I think it's the worst universalmonster character. I think they're the I
think the movie. I think it'sthe toughest character to nail because the character's
kind of boring in some regard tome. Yeah, this is just personal,
only a personal opinion. But Iwatched it for Michael Lerner and Christopher

(01:12:02):
Lee's in it, Shelley Duval.They kind of pop up in these surprise
roles where I'm like, okay,I'll take it. Gerard Butler's in it.
Oh okay. Butler was using hisreal his true Scottish accent. It
was very difficult to understand what hesaid. So I was very happy when
he died right away. Sorry spoileralert. It happens very early, but

(01:12:23):
it's a basic mummy tale. ChristopherLee starts off in the beginning leading an
expedition in the nineteen forties which opensup a tomb. You get a pharaoh
named Talus unleash, seeing a cursekilling them, you know, throughout their
lives. Cut to fifty years later, another expedition team finds the same tomb
and opens it, and Lee's granddaughteris part of the team. There's this

(01:12:45):
weird hanging sarcophagus, which is reallycool to look at. It's a cool
idea. It's almost like a hangingcocoon where that's where the mummy is when
he's revealed. Michael Lerner plays aprofessor with this funny accent and terrible fake
facial hair, Like god why.It has some decent practical effects, but

(01:13:08):
it's totally overshadowed, shadowed by theterrible cgi of that time. Nineteen ninety
eight. You're in the prime ofbad CGI. Mainly the kills because the
in the very beginning, the mummy, the wraps of the Mummy, the
bandages, they're all CGI flipping throughthe air and they come through like floorboards
and drag people into the floorboards andthe floorboards cracking or CGI. It Actually

(01:13:31):
it's had a rap. It goesto a rave and it comes out of
the it drags a raver into atoilet. It's just really bad. Wow,
sounds amazing though it's all about it, but yeah, it becomes like
it's really bad. I don't think. I don't think I rated it because
it's just bad. Like it's toothe one cool idea, like I like

(01:13:56):
the hanging starcophagus. The mummy iskilling his victims in the order, so
yeah, he starts killing his victimsand taking the organs in the order that
his organs were killed and taken fromhis body, like his eyes, the
liver, the jaw, bone,the heart. But like I said,
the kills are really dumb. There'sa terrible love story. It's just it's
boring. It's bad. It doeshave like that nineteen nineties Lord of Illusions

(01:14:21):
kind of look which you know mewith nineties, it's comforting to me.
Yeah, but it's just too boring. Yeah. Once it takes the mummy
about an hour to actually take fullform, and he looks kind of cool.
He's very beefy and big and kindof monstrous, but he can change
forms, like you can turn intoa dog. The mummies don't do that.

(01:14:44):
This mummy can. Oh my god. Yeah, it's it has a
downer of an ending, which I'malways you know, embracing, but it's
this is when I will never watchagain and wouldn't recommend unless like you're a
Christopher Lee completionist or something, orMichael Lerner. Okay is it me?
Yeah? Undead the Undead. Iwatched Doctor Blood's Coffin from nineteen sixty one,

(01:15:09):
directed by Sidney J. Fury,who did The Leather Boys, which
was one of my favorite june'sploitations,Superman four, The Entity, Rodney Dangerfield's
The Lady Bugs. This guy hasquite the film. I thought this would
be in black and white from theposters and me just kind of selecting it,
but it's like filmed in vibrant Eastmancolor, which was surprising and very

(01:15:30):
welcome because it's English landscapes, whichI always love watching, like the Green
Hills and stuff. Cinematography was byStephen Dade, who he assisted on shooting
a lot of early Hitchcock films,but he was assisted for shooting Doctor Blood's
Coffin by Nicholas Rogue, who obviouslydirected Don't Look Now, the manifeld to

(01:15:51):
earth all the good stuff, soit looks great. So okay, it's
called Doctor Blood's Coffin. You immediatelyknow who the killer is because the main
character's name is doctor Peter Blood,so there's no real mystery, all right,
and finding the only real mystery isfinding out why he's taking these bodies,
killing these people. He's taking theminto these mind tunnels to experiment on.

(01:16:15):
He kills some of them, buthe leaves some of them alive,
drugged. He takes out their organswhile they're awake, so it's pretty cool
seminarly scenes for early sixties. Wequickly find out that it's essentially kind of
a Frankenstein story where doctor Blood wantsto reanimate the dead. It also has
a jucklin Hyde vibe because Peter Blood, he's very two faced. He's fallen

(01:16:39):
in love with this girl, butwhen he's in doctor mode, he's his
fucking maniac. Very slow, verytalky. But overall I disliked the look
and the vibe. I was suckedin. It's really short run time.
I was into watching these characters tryingto figure out, mainly who the killer
was. When you know who is, so it's fun like, no,

(01:17:00):
you're wrong, that's not it,you know. I'm just kind of like
that, just kind of making funof the character's decisions. I did like
it because I hadn't. I lookedat the run time and it was five
minutes left and I still had noidea how it was going to wrap up,
how it was going to end,which was great. So the early
sixties original score it was very hammerhorror feeling, so I was into that.
Even though there's no goth element,it just worked for this setting and

(01:17:23):
the time period. There is areanimated corpse at the end. It has
a shocking a shocking moment spoiler alert, and the makeup looks great, so
I think he might be on thepost or I don't know, but I
recommend it. I watched it ontwo B Shot Factory released it on Blue
a few years ago, but Iwould recommend it all right, undud for

(01:17:45):
me. I watched Frankenstein eighty fromnineteen seventy two. This is on to
be Cauldron has a blu ray thatthey put out this year. I'm going
to just preface this by saying thatI love the physics of horm because,
and especially in this one, becausea woman gets beaten so badly with a
bloody animal bone that her shirt unbuttons. That's some good physics there. Yeah.

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So Gordon Mitchell is in this.He plays doctor Otto Frankenstein. He
is stealing body parts in a formulathat was intended to be used in a
transplant surgery so that he can keephis creature named Mosaic alive. There's this
reporter named Carl Shine I think hisname is. He's allowed to investigate the

(01:18:34):
theft along with the police investigating themurders, which leads him to Frankenstein.
I felt like it was running alongfine until the police caught up with Frankenstein,
which felt like it should be closeto the end, but it wasn't.
It was like near the middle ofthe movie almost, and I was
like, shouldn't this be towards theend? So like the last second half

(01:18:56):
of it just felt just kind oflike the movie itself was puttering around.
But I still enjoyed it. Youknow, it's I gave it two and
a half. That was probably alittle bit harsh. But how is the
quality on twov Did you watch iton two? I know I watched the
Blu ray, but I know it'son there, so I just notched the
gun. Yeah. I think Itried watching it one time and it was
just two poor quality. Oh okaydark. Yeah. I mean you can

(01:19:18):
borrow the Blu ray from maybe youwant to watch it for that, but
yeah, it's I'd be interesting.I'd probably rewatch it someday. It's back
on my shelf. I didn't pointat it, though, but I did
put it back all right. Dayseventeen creepy Twins. Yay the Lance category
and also Lance's birthday, Yes Octoberseventeenth for those who want to remember,

(01:19:42):
Yes, for next year, besome gifts in the form of donations next
year. There you go, allright? So I watched The Black Room
from nineteen thirty five. This wason archive dot Org. Another carl Off.
Another carl Off. Don't read theletterbox synopsis. It gives away two
thirds of the movie does there's alot of letter box summary sarch. I

(01:20:03):
think, yeah, you people outthere who are doing that, putting you
on notice. So yeah, Carlofis playing twins, one evil Gregor and
one good Anton. There's this familylegend that started with twins, like that
the younger killed the older one andthat the family legacy will end the same

(01:20:26):
way. So they grow up thinkingthat one twin will murder the other.
Anton moves away for a while tojust kind of like remove himself. He's
like, well, if I don'tlive here, then I can't kill my
brother. So Gregor sort of growsup and he's like in charge of the
town. The townspeople all hate him, and they start blaming him for a
series of women disappearing. Anton returnslater at his brother's behest, but not

(01:20:50):
for the reasons that Anton thinks.I'm not gonna spoil it by saying much
more. I really enjoyed this.It's got a good Gothic setting. It's
more of a thriller like The BlackCastle was. It's got a dog who's
the best boy tour. It hasa dummy drop. I think I put
that in the discord for Matt.Yeah, I enjoyed This Black Room nineteen
thirty five. It's on archive doneorg if anyone wants to watch Nice About

(01:21:14):
You Creepy Twins. Yeah, soI'm gonna go ahead and say that I
will not be picking creepy creepy twinsfor next year's Poor Gives Back. Doesn't
doesn't work. No, I don'tknow. I mean I I had a
list, I came up with thelist. I ended up watching Mark of
Cain also known as Identity Crisis onYouTube, which and then like, looking
at the list I had, Iwas like, none of these sound too

(01:21:38):
good, Like I don't know anyways, probably not have creepy twins etre.
But this Mark of Cain. It'sdirected by Bruce Pittman, who did Hello
Mary Lou, which you know Ienjoy. It's a sequel, so I
was kind of excited. But thisthing very budgetary restriction, like limited there's
so it's a funny premise. Ilove the premise. A couple live in

(01:22:00):
a remote house and the husband's insanetwin brother escapes from an insane asylum and
heads to his brother's home, andthe cops haul off the wrong twin,
so the wife has to live withthis insane killer, but it's just it's
frustrating. I was into it becausethey're twins. I could recommend it to
twins. I'm like, okay,let's watch it. But the lead was

(01:22:23):
played by Robin Ward, and he'snot captivating at all as an actor.
And when you have an actor havingdual roles, you need them. You
need them like command the screen.So it makes for this uneventful viewing experience.
Yeah, I don't know it.There was a scene where it spends
a good two to three minutes withthe good twin arguing with the doctor that

(01:22:47):
he's not the bad twin, andit's literally like three minutes long. It's
not, you know, the badtwins at home with my wife. It's
not no, I'm not I'm thegood guy. Like just back and forth
and back and forth. Very DIYshot kind of a shot on video aesthetic,
which is something I typically enjoy.But all the murders happen off screen.
So that's why I was really takenout. Like I said, there's

(01:23:08):
it's limited on budget, so Ican't really recommend this. I'll recommend it
to twins, okay, but it'sjust not very good. Watch Hello Mary,
Lou from Bruce Pittman instead Day eighteenthough Bleeding Skull. Yes, I
watched olof it'sen box itembox How doyou say it? Olof It in boxed

(01:23:30):
German horror Permutos The Fallen Angel Perfectionnineteen ninety seven, two hours. I've
been saying, Dilly Gore Bliss likejust Mayhem. Yeah, I've had this
one in my watch list for along time, especially when we had the
episode and everybody praised it. Yeah. But Ittenbach plays the lead character.
He's this wimpy kid who was postersof Arnold Schwarzenegger and vine Van dam up

(01:23:55):
in his room, yells at hismom when his shorts aren't ready are dry
for soccer game. He falls offhis bike when he sees it a pretty
girl. Yeah. The story isit's tough to it's I think this is
the epitome of an epic. Yeah. Yeah, it's long. It's like
a two hour movie. Amazing techniques, seeing transitions, practical effects. But

(01:24:18):
yeah, I feel like it's epic. It's the backstory set up and the
centuries it covers. I mean,we have soldiers being blown apart in World
War Two. We have which isbeing burned alive in the thirteenth century,
people getting limbs cut off left andright as we as we watch Olos's character,
the young kid who apparently is thechosen one. He's kind of the

(01:24:39):
son of Permuto's to be born topave the way for the dark Angel's return
to rule the world. Yeah,I mean Permutos. All he wants is
to return to Earth to rule theworld and his wimpy kid descendant he's supposed
he's supposed to get to help bringback this fallen angel, which ultimately happens
by accident when he gets potion,when he gets potion poured on his dick

(01:25:02):
that his dad found buried in thebackyard. Like, I'm not and it
doesn't make sense what I'm saying.No, it makes sense when you watch
it though, right. And there'sa lot of crotch violence in this which
you have to love. This thing, I think is genius. All the
random situations and scenes that are throatthrown at you, they actually end up
serving a purpose. Like almost everyscene. There's this wild out of the

(01:25:24):
blue scene of a man on abicycle stealing a drunk man's liquor bottle as
he drives. You know, ashe rides by him, and then the
cyclist is immediately hit by a drunkdriver and it's killed. But that scene
serves a purpose because later on inthe movie it introduces the drunk who no
longer has his bottle, but youknow he's drunk. So it's like,
it's just genius work, comedy horrordone right. You can tell in Bach

(01:25:47):
had like a bunch of friends helpingout because there are flashes of them just
not fully committing the scenes, alot of smiling and laughing during serious battles
and stuff. But I love thisbecause mainly, you know, there's so
much to love about it, butnothing feels dated for this movie. The
dialogue, the way the young adultsand the characters all react, it's very

(01:26:08):
authentic, relatable. It's like atimeless horror comedy. And no, lie,
I think it's the best head explosionsI've seen on film, with this
quick editing technique where it looks liketheir heads are actually being blown off.
Yeah, I think all of uscan't recommend this enough. Yeah, one
hundred and thirty nine body count atthe end watch it. Yeah, I

(01:26:31):
think Unearthed film sends a blu rayof this, so yeah, did you
or did you watch it online?I think it was. I think it
was to be to be it waseither twov or YouTube. I'm pretty sure
it is on TV. Yeah,pretty it? Okay, nice. Most
of my picks actually came from tobe honestly, this year, I tried

(01:26:54):
to do mostly physical media this year, so that actually applies to my Bleeding
Skull pick as well, which wasMoonstalker from nineteen eighty nine. This is
in the Vinegar Syndrome Homegrown Horrors Volumetwo box set, and this is a
fantastic title and a very average slasher. It's set in the snowy mountains.

(01:27:16):
There's a camping family and then thiswilderness certificate training program or something. I
don't know. I didn't know anyone'sname when the movie was over. They're
mostly offscreen desks, but what thekiller does with the bodies when he's done
with them is pretty cool, soi'll give it that. I don't know.

(01:27:38):
I'm I'd given a very soft recommendation. If you have the set,
obviously you're gonna watch it. I'msure otherwise you're wasted. While are you
buying physical media if you're not watchingit? But I mean it wasn't terrible,
but it was just it was,like I said, it's very average
slasher deserved like a movie with thattitle deserves a better movie though. Yeah,

(01:28:00):
Stockers, it's a good one.Yeah. So next category Day nineteen
is George buck Flower And this wasanother one that has been on my list
forever. This is another my favoritesof the month and I'm glad I finally
got around to watching it. Andthat's The Witch who Came from the Sea.

(01:28:20):
Oh yeah. My only issue withthis movie is George buck Flower is
a cop in this, and I'mlike, wait, that's not that.
That isn't track. George buck Floweris always supposed to be like a bum.
Yeah, he's supposed to be adirty old man. Yeah, he
plays a young cop in this.So this is one that, like I

(01:28:44):
think the poster is iconic and fantastic, but also sets you up for a
movie that this is not because Iwas expecting something else and instead it's this
like unscripted fever dream. It's thisnonlinear narrative about the adulthood effects of a

(01:29:08):
woman who was abused as a child. There's a lot of focus on like
the male crotch, Like there's alot of not male gaze, but female
gaze. Really, there's definitely somesock stuffers in this movie, especially in
the beginning with the men on thebeach, like I see you men,
that is, those things are notreally happening. Yeah, it's just it's

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one of those movies where, likeyou know, you've seen or I saw
like the poster or the key art, and I thought it was some kind
of like sea hag siren killing men, And I mean it has that element
if you really think about it,but not literally, and that's what I
thought it was. And I loved, love, love this movie. Definitely

(01:29:49):
one of my favorites of the month. Definitely would recommend it to anyone who
hasn't seen it yet. It's onto me that quality is not great.
I think COO put this out,Arrow, I think put this one out.
But yeah, I love this one. Yeah. Millie Perkins is amazing
in it. Yeah, okay meGeorge buck Flower, Yes, so I

(01:30:10):
watched Blood Games nineteen ninety directed byTanya Rosenberg. I've been wanting to watch
this because you picked it for adouble feature for night Game. Yes,
and I feel like this could workas a double feature for midnight ride after
I watched it for an All MenAre Assholes double feature, Yeah, because
every man in this is a fuckingasshole, even George bug Flower, who

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Yeah, he pops up within likeyou know, in the first three minutes,
he's wearn't a trucker cap that saysthe check is in the mail.
And he's kind of a creeper namedVern who watches the girl's baseball team shower
and change it was. The funnyfunny scene is when they find him peeping.
He has a funny line. Onegirl grabs him and he's like,
oh shit, that's my bad arm, and she puts him like in a

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headlock. He's, oh shit,that's my bad neck. Good stuff.
So yeah, it's an all womenbaseball team called Babe and the Ball Girls,
and they beat the shit out ofthis team of all asshole men.
And the women's coach, who isthe father of one of the girl baseball
players, goes to collect one thousanddollars bet that he made on the game

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with the dad of one of theasshole men players, and he kicks a
mask, gets his money, butthen he's stabbed by the asshole son.
The girls and the coach get ona bus, they ram the asshole son,
killing him. So this asshole fathersends asshole country boys after the girls
and they start this fucking war andthey take the fight into the woods.

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It's a lot of fun, likegoing back to Midnight Ride. There are
some decent stunt work in here,with guys hanging on moving vehicles being thrown
off and stuff. And you know, me, give me more horror with
baseball. Of course, it's notlike a very prominent thing in this,
but the whole setup is baseball teamsand there's baseball bats and stuff. But

(01:31:55):
yeah, I mean asshole men.Like I think on my review this was
my review, I said, drinkevery time an ass whole man says bitch,
and you'll be wasted within fifteen minutes, and drunk you'll be dead by
the time the movie ends, becausethat's all They just you know, rape
and just say terrible things to thesewomen who are badasses. Yeah, and
I love this is from nineteen ninety. I love films released in nineteen ninety

(01:32:18):
because they usually feel more eighties becausethey're probably filmed in the late eighties,
but with some of the nineties atmospherethat so many seem to hate that you
know. I love this. One'sweird though, because it almost has like
a seventies aesthetic. And I don'tknow the production history of this, but
it was a really odd film tome that I just I gave it three

(01:32:39):
stars. I enjoyed it overall.More Baseball please. Day twenty is nineteen
eighties. I watched Skullduggery from nineteeneighty three, directed by Oda Richter.
I was going I initially had thisas a witch's pick, and then I
started watching it and it's more warlocks. And while I was watching it,

(01:33:03):
I was like, there's no wayI'm going to watch this. It's terrible.
And I just kept watching. Itwas hypnotizing. I don't know what
it is. It's horror, butthen it turns into straight up comedy about
halfway through. It makes no sense. So I decided to pull the summaries
from both IMDb and Letterbox. SoIMBD says an eighties classic where a game

(01:33:29):
of dungeons and dragons is the centerpieceof a mystery. Adam is a man
who happens to come from a longline of men cursed. He succumbs to
the curse and goes on a killingspree. So I was like, okay,
and on letterbox it says it startedas a game until death started playing.
Adam is cursed. One of hisancestors played a game and fell victim

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to a sorcerer or possibly satan.The curse manifests through Adam and the game,
making him attend strange amateur theater whereimmense talentless people trying to do farce
and a janitor who wanders around witha game of Tic tac toe on his
back. And I was like,I didn't watch either of those movies,

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but what the fuck is this movie? Apparently it was written and made to
deter people from getting into Dungeons andDragons. Okay, you know the tabletop
or the role playing game right whichI played as a kid heard but the
message was like ultimately that this gameleads to satanism and murder and you know,

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corrupting the young minds. And thatwas apparently the filmmaker's true intent,
which I was reading on who knowseverything about this movie just doesn't make sense
all a lie, terrible music,but I love the There's I think what
made me stick with us was hopingto hear the opening credits original song again
at the end, which is,you know, called skullduggery, but they

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emphasize skull doug urry school doug.Like the emphasis on the pronunciation is so
odd. Skulldugery nineteen eighty yikes,what was your eighties pick? I watched
Witchery from nineteen eighty eight. Thisis on a screen factory double with Ghost
House also known as Lacasa for directedby Fabrizio Laurenti. We've got the Hoff

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and Linda Blair. So there's thiscouple Hoff and I don't remember her name.
She was the most boring woman ever. So they're on an island near
Boston, staying at an abandoned estateslash hotel doing research about witches. A
wealthy couple visits with their family anda real estate agent an architect in order

(01:35:49):
to evaluate the property decide if theywant to buy it as an investment property.
Linda Blair is in that family.She's like the daughter or something like
that. But there's this old witchlady slash classic Hollywood actress that still lives
there and folks start dying off oneby one. The lead actress got she

(01:36:09):
got cast for her tits. Like, I'm just gonna say that she is
so fucking boring in this. Shelooks bored, like with every line delivery.
There's some good kills and some gore. There's a really fucking gnarly nightmare
rape scene in this, like shewakes up and she like touches herself between
her legs and it's bloody. It'slike this horrific like demon rate, it's

(01:36:30):
like Dreamstalker. Yeah, but worklike bloody, like just anyway, it's
narley. I think when you havethese sort of lower tier Italian late eighties
movies, when you have recognizable facesin them, it's distracting. Like,
give me these with like nobody Iknow, except maybe like Gordon Mitchell.

(01:36:50):
Yeah, you know, having Blairand Hoffman in this is kind of distracting
in a way. You know,having hoff in almost anything, it's distracting.
Yeah, but like in this especially. Yeah, I think this would
have been like if you had themnot in this movie, added some fog
and then you had some dubbing fromlike all those familiar voices were used to

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hearing in all the Italian movies.Yeah, throw that in there and I
would give this three stars. Butthis has it also has a stupid ass
fucking ending. I hate. Loveconquers all endings, and that's what this
has. So I'm sorry I'm spoiling. It's sort of I'm not telling you
exactly what the ending is, butI mean I gave it two and a
half and I still gave it aheart because it has enough of that Italian

(01:37:35):
essence that I love. But Ireally like I can tell this movie how
to be a three three and ahalf star movie. Yeah, and this
is such an Italian thing to do. There's an alternative alternative title for it,
evil Dead four. Yeah, it'sLaCosta four. It's Evil Dead four,
It's Witchery, It's It's all theThings. Yeah, it's yeah,

(01:37:58):
I mean it's I mean, it'sline whatever. It's If you have the
Screen Factory double feature, you canwatch it's on TV two. Yeah,
all right, then Made for TVmovie. I watched Shark Kill from nineteen
seventy six on YouTube. This isan extremely boring Jaws cashion. It's about
a shark killing people around an oilrig. I know, the copy I

(01:38:21):
watched on YouTube is really shitty,and that's about all I remember. And
I feel bad because I wasted mymade for TV movie category. You got
another Sharks. I did get anotherShark movie out, but I mean I
shouldn't have wasted it on a madefor TV. I should have just watched
this on my own time. Yeah. Ever, I went with you know,

(01:38:43):
kind of somebody who never fails.A Dan Curtis production. Dracula nineteen
seventy four. Oh the the JackPalance Palettes Palance, I say, plans
and I love you. You'd haveto do your impression you one number one.
I loved his Jeckel and Hide DanCurtis's jackal and Hyde with Jack Plantz,

(01:39:04):
you know, playing the title character, which I watched when we did
Heckel and Hype. So I tooknote of this Dracula and I fitted into
Horror Gives Back. This one looksso much better than that nineteen sixty eight
production due to the cinematographer. Iwas Wald Morris, who did Lolita,

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Jim Henson's Dark Crystal Best Picture winnerOliver So this it looks great. It
shot really well. The score isfantastic too. The edit the end credits
tune sounds like something from I'm afan of this band called Blonde Redhead,
kind of like it's this three pieceband that's really good, kind of very
experimental, but the end credits tunesounds like a song from them, and

(01:39:48):
I was like, okay, yeah, the composer was Bob Colbert, so
yeah, just just visually and audibly. It's really fun to watch. But
it's a story that's so angry,and everybody knows story of Dracula. So
when I watch Dracula movies, Ialways look more at the performances, especially
who's playing Dracula. And Jack Palanceunderstood the assignment. He is so good

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in this. So Dan Curtis andthe writer Matheson he wrote their adaptation is
very It's true to the source material, but it's very focused on Dracula having
a broken heart and just being lonely, which is in the most Dracula movies,
but this is basically him just beingsad and alone. Yeah, I
mean, I recommend it. Iliked the Jackal and Hyde more actually,

(01:40:38):
mainly because it is the Jeckel andHyde feels like a stage production and I
kind of enjoyed that. And Palanceis way more over the top as Jecko
and Hyde. But I highly recommendthis. There was this one scene it
skips over the Demeter trip. There'sthis amazing quick scene of the beached ship

(01:40:58):
on the shores of England and ithas a Dracula standing in the background while
this dead guy's kind of like thisdead semen is tied to the what is
it the Master or whatever, andit just looks amazing, very very pretty
look at and next right mee Goblin. So this is either your interpretation of
Goblin on the calendar, we haveGoblin the band for original score. I

(01:41:24):
watched Bloodline. Bloodline is twenty tenand it's on to be as Bloodline Vengeance
from Beyond. It's an Italian horror. Obviously I went because Claudia Seminetti did
this original score. Yeah, soit's it's bad, it's terrible. This

(01:41:45):
was I'd rank it just above Isaac'sReturn. I think I gave it one
and a half stars. But it'sabout there's twins in it, which I
respected as this girl Sandor or twinsister was brutally murdered in the beginning of
the movie. You don't see thekill, but there is her ghost and
you see the body, so Idon't know if that counts as a child
kill, but she's murdered by aserial killer. And then fifteen years later,

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Sandra's now a professional journalist whose careeris on the fritz. She's given
one last shot, an assignment whichwill kind of prove to be the toughest
in life because she has to goback to the location of her sister's murder
to shoot a behind the scenes exposefor a hardcore porno flick. Oh,
so she's forced to confront the ghostof her past and the killer, known

(01:42:31):
as the Surgeon, apparently is stillout there. So I was like,
okay, twins, serial killer porno, let's see what we got. And
there are scenes are they're filming aporno. There's men tied up groups in
hot tub. But there's only oneproblem. No one is naked. There's
no nudity in this thing. That'snot how you do porno. I know.

(01:42:55):
So obviously that dropped it about threestars, just kidding, but it's
the director's name of the porno wasKlaus Kinky, and he basically sees that,
you know, his crew and peopleactors are getting picked off and he
wants to start filming the murders tomake like the ultimate stuff film. It

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just it doesn't work. And thereason I watched it Goblin and the music
is sadly very forgettable. At thehalfway point, you kind of start hearing
classic Seminetti, which was welcome becausethe movie's terrible, but having his name
is the only real reason that somebodywould watch this. I feel like,
like, oh, look, ClaudiaSibbennetti. But sadly I don't think it's

(01:43:38):
worth it. Yeah, the wholething came across as like an Italian Joe
Bagos movie. Is that he's name. Oh God, I'm out, I
know it. You know. Itkind of starts ramping up towards the end,
but it's like so much like shakycam direction that it doesn't capture anything
that might be interesting. So itreminded me of Vegas is like crappy filmmaking.

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I would not recommend Bloodline. I'min a bad mood. Now you
said his name. Yeah, welllet's talk about your goblin pick. Maybe
it's better than mine, and they'llput you in a better mood. Average
pick. It was the House ofWitchcraft nineteen eighty nine. Shout out to
Golden Bush, twitch of the Twitchof the Death Nerve discord user who shared

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this movie on his Google drive soI can watch it nice. So it's
directed by Lenzi, original score bySimonetti. It's about this man who's having
nightmares about a witch putting his decapitatedhead and a call durn at a remote
country home and then he, youknow, when he wakes up from it,
he finds out his wife has bookedthem a vacation at that very place,

(01:44:47):
so they go and they have avacation sort of there. There's some
murders in fog, but it's predictable, repetitive, it's but it's still also
a very like warm blanket, lateeighties Italian horror, where it's just like
I know what I'm watching, andit's like I gave it two and a
half, but it's it's still somethingthat I would like, I would just

(01:45:08):
put this on just to like hearthose dubbed voices and like see that fog
and nonsense and whatever it may be. So it's fine, it's not it's
definitely not upper tier Lindsay by anymeans. It's just that late eighties Italian
warm blanket. That is all itis. Then Day twenty three is Hail
Satan, Haled Satan, and Ianother blink, blind spot. I finally

(01:45:30):
watched Black Candles jose La Roz Severnblu Ray This Young when Carol travels with
her boyfriend Robert to England after theunexpected death of her brother. So she's
staying with her sister in law who'spart of this satanic cult. And all
this cult does is fuck and it'samazing. I mean, I join as

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long as the initiation didn't involve agoat like it does in this film.
But you know, that's all Iwas, Man, this is just one.
It's like, it's a perfect sataniccult, like horny movie. I'm
so glad I own this. I'mbum that took me so long to watch
it. But I finally did thispoint where John and I are watching this

(01:46:15):
movie and I said to John,I was like, that boyfriend Robert looks
like mister Bean. And John,of course is like, what have you
actually had mister Bean in this movie? Like stumbling upon this like orgiastic satanic
cult and like, oh face,oh my goodness, I'd be genius.

(01:46:39):
Yeah, anyway, that's not thismovie. But you ever watched watch it?
Yeah? I've had that one sinceit's released on my shelf. I
need to watch it, yes,for sure, And for anyone who doesn't
own it and wants to buy it. I accidentally bought it twice, so
I have one unwrapped copy of it. Hit me up, all right,
Hail Satan for you. I watchedEnter the Devil nineteen seventy four. It's

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an Italian horror exorcist ripoff even hasone of those. This story is based
on true events set up, ofcourse. It's also known as The Eerie
Midnight Horror Show, which was thetitle card of the version I watched on
YouTube, which is such a differenttone of a title. It's like,
okay, it's Franken Frederigan a popup. But this one again is very

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very horny, like here's very sexualin nature, which kind of makes sense
given I've seen the director Mario Gariozzo. I've seen one of his films called
Play Motel, and that is avery very horny, softcore gallo movie,
a lot of porn inserts going onto dunce, but this one has some

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legitimately creepy scenes. And Enter theDevil, which is about a young college
art student whose university acquire a deconsecratedcrucifix, or this life size statue of
a crucified man, and there's thisamazing scene of the life sized wooden crucification
crucifixion of the man coming to life. The music, the slow camera work,

(01:48:12):
the look of the statue, justsee overall atmosphere. It gives it
like a Folgy esque zombie rising fromlike a gray from the ground, which
you know, it's like a zombieJesus kind of this scene right here.
It's not Jesus though, But whatthings even, what makes things even more
unsettling is the art student has sexwith the living statue. Oh yeah,
good for her. And as they'refucking the cross he's nailed to or sculpted

(01:48:36):
to whatever starts burning in the backgroundas thunder and lightning is going off.
It's such a great scene. Imean, obviously going for like controversial imagery,
but it's it's good. It's it'sgood anyway. The man on the
cross ends up being Satan or likea demon of some sort. I mean
I think he's I think he's creditedas Satan. It's Ivan razma Off.

(01:49:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, and he'sgreat in it. He's haunting her throughout
the whole film. Basically, hejust laughing like a madman the entire time.
Just smiling, you know, buryinghis teeth. So it becomes this
possession film. As a young womanstarts, she starts freaking out, and
she's masturbating all the time seeing visions. So an exorcism obviously occurs when the

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doctors can't do anything. Luigi Pistellifrom Bey of Blood and All the Great
Spaghetti Westerns. He plays the priestwho performs the exorcism. But it gives
us some weird messaging, almost seemingto link like infidelity and masturbation to satanic
possession. I don't know if thatwas the director's intent, but it's kind
of implied a little bit in aweird way. But it's good. This

(01:49:42):
is all about mood. It's slow. I think it will bore a lot
of people. But I was inthe mood for something like this when I
hit play, and I was completelysatisfied with it. I think I gave
it three and a half stars,which might be a little high, but
I was into it. Yeah,you know, and that whole idea of
like hyper sexual women being possessed,it's still happening. Like I saw a

(01:50:04):
movie at Fantastic Fest. Not thisyear, but I think last year.
There's some Spanish horror movie I think, and everyone was like, oh,
it's so good, and I watchedit, and part of like her being
possessed was like she's masturbating all thetime. I'm like, excuse me,
hello, that is normal behavior people, and like it's just and everyone's just

(01:50:24):
like, oh, it's kind ofin the Devil's Play thing that I watched
too, where they do these ritualsthat causes people to masturbate. It.
Yeah, like that's a bad thing, you like people, prude people.
Yeah, it's terrible. All right, Hail Satan sounds good. Watch listing
it immediately. Now we're onto TonyTodd, so mine. I know everybody's

(01:50:45):
excited about this. No one's excited. Everybody's excited about this. Soul.
Would you say? Tony Todd's namehas become like synonymous with like movies just
bad movies, bad horror movies,like no budget but kind of endearing horror
films from like the two thousands.I'm not going to say, kind of
like a LINAA. Quigley counterpart,but I mean this movie I watched,

(01:51:06):
which is called Shadow Dead Riot,is terrible. But I'm looking at my
notes and I think it's the mostnotes of any film I have from work
is back that tends to I havea lot of notes about my Tony Todd
movie, and that says I hatedit so much. Okay, well let
me do mine. Let me knockmine out real quick. Directed by Derek

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Wan, this is a woman inprison movie that turns into a zombie movie.
Okay, it was kind of soldinto it sold it's like zombie death
House. Yeah, yeah it is. But this is Tony Todd's zombi death.
So he wears his hideous wig TonyTodd dreadlocks worse than anything in Vampire
in Brooklyn, which I think hasthe worst wigs ever. By the way,

(01:51:49):
he also wears these library and glassesI don't fit, so they're real
crooked on his face and he justkind of bones and groans his way through
his first five minutes, and youknow, quickly you find out that this
is like early two thousands horror atits absolute finest, which is usually always
bad. Right. So he playsa guy named Shadow who's a man convicted

(01:52:11):
for murdering twenty two people twenty threecounts of raping women and children. He's
executed, and while he's executed.He's being injected Unleasha's hell, causing a
lot of the inmates to kind ofgo insane and shit and start killing off
people, you know, police guardsand themselves. And then after all that,
his body's buried in the prison yard. So you cut to twenty years
later and a woman called Solitaire issent to the prison where Shadow is executed.

(01:52:36):
It's now twenty years later in allwomen's prison, which you know,
which it's always fun to watch awoman prison movie, but this one's just
so you want to know why she'scalled Solitaire. It's because she prefers to
be alone. I mean, that'sgenius writing, right, But she gets
into fights. She sent to solitaryconfinement, which is the old cell Shadow

(01:52:57):
was captain, and he left allthese engraving all over the walls, and
when she touches them, she seesvisions of all his crimes. And while
this is happening, one of theprisoners, one of the female prisoners,
is trying to escape. She cutsher leg and it drips into the ground
where Shadow is buried, which resurrectsShadow. But you can't really tell what's
happening because the CGI is so terribleit's like CGI blood going into CGI ground,

(01:53:19):
going to CGI roots, and thengoing on the CGI skull and it's
like, oh god, it's sogood. But it's kind of like a
soft core porno too, because alot of shower scenes full front of a
lot of nudity for anybody who wantsit. There's a gross doctor who has
sex with all the inmates, getsthem pregnant. There's a female guard who
offers protection for sex. Yeah.So the first forty five minutes I was

(01:53:44):
like, this is terrible, thisis really bad. But then a girl
has a mutant baby that just popsup and starts killing people. So there's
this baby running around killing people,and then zombies start popping up, and
some of them look good, likestraight out of like burial ground or something.
No, uh all that line.Yeah, well there's even a burial
ground moment where the mutant baby isnursing on the mom You know what happens

(01:54:04):
next, right, bites the movieoff, bites the nipple off. And
what makes this even more effective isblood spurting out of this wound and then
milk starts getting mixed into it.So it's this it's just the splatter of
milk and blood, and I'm like, Okay, there is a scene which
I think was the whole point ofmaking this movie. Shadows resurrected his body's

(01:54:27):
back to life. All these zombiesstart popping up, right, I'm going
to make it has some pretty goodpractical effects, but the CGI just drounds
it all out. But Captain Haggerty, the fat Ball Zombie from Vulchi Zombie,
he plays a zombie he pops up, and Bill Hinzman from Romero's original
Night of the Living Dead he popsup as a as a zombie and they're

(01:54:48):
respectively credited as Romero and Luccio thezombies the Dunce. Yes, there we
go. That's the point that Davidwant I wanted to make this movie,
and apparently he is a stuntman.He's a stuntman like director. And the
fight scenes in this are like tenyear old kids filming their fights in the

(01:55:11):
backyard. It's so bad. Andyou could tell he's into it because the
fight scenes go on for like fiveor ten minutes. It's just bad.
Yeah, I would not recommend this, but you talked about it for longer
than any other message. So whatI'm saying, I mean there's a lot
to talk about in a movie thisbad. Stop. If you do watch
it, stay for the post creditscene. Oh gods, the post credit

(01:55:33):
scene is I timed it twenty fiveminutes long, just kidding. It's short,
but I'm still I got my fingerscrossed for that Shadow Dead Riot sequel.
Tell me about your Tony Todd experience. This was my first movie that
I watched in October because I knewit was going to be bad. I'm

(01:55:55):
like, I'm gonna get this outof the way. It shouldn't have picked
it as a category. It's badon you. You pick this fucking category.
You have a bad memory. Notalked about that. I understo.
I know I did not pick.I would never ever pick this category.
I like picking. I like pickingcategories that are challenging. People's not their
patients, but like their picks,like, oh, I would never watch

(01:56:18):
a movie like this, you know, And that's that's what. There's challenging
something. But I honestly think youpicked this one to antagonize me. It
was my birthday present to myself,so I also I wanted to get this
out of the way, and Idid want another Shark movie, so I
watched I watched sky Sharks from twentytwenty. I'm tired of these motherfucking sharks

(01:56:43):
on this motherfucking plane. No,no, are there sharks. They're shark
plane. They're flying sharks. TheNazis ride. Okay, I need to
watch these no fucking okay. Ihave nothing nice to say about this movie.
It's literally the worst thing I've watchedall year, not just in October,
all fucking year, mate, probablyeven last year too. Damn.

(01:57:03):
It has horrendous cig blood. Seeeverything is cg. Everyone just showed up
and is in front of the greenscreen this entire fucking movie. The guy,
the guy probably made this in hisbasement with a green screen and was
like, hey Tony Todd, I'mgonna zoom you in. You do this
thing, and like everybody else hasjust showed up and this like the hero

(01:57:25):
is I don't fucking remember. Iblocked this movie out of my mind.
I just he plays the plane.Here's what I do want you to do,
though, Look this movie up onletterboxed. Okay, what was it
called again? Sky Sharks from twentytwenty. Scroll down to the cast.
Okay, keep scrolling. Am Igoing to the very bottom? Damn it.
That's what I'm saying that the everysingle person who's in this movie is

(01:57:50):
is credited on letterbox. Guy withdog, ice cream guy, guy in
London. Serious, this is awesome. It does not like you just you.
Your thumb just keeps going scroll,scroll, scroll, I'm still fucking
scrolling. Anyway. That's the mostinteresting thing about this movie is that on
Letterbox every single person in the movieis on there. I swear I saw

(01:58:11):
Byorc on the plane, but Ididn't see her in there. But honestly,
there's five thousand people on the credit. She's right there, is she?
No? Yeah? Okay, wellwhatever? Who else is in this?
Oh? Lynn Lowry is in this? Who I love? Amanda Bierce
is in this from Fright Night,Hira Yuki to Ya Tagawa is in this.

(01:58:32):
Like great fucking people are in thismovie, and I feel bad for
all of them because this movie isthe most awful thing ever and I hate
I fucking hate it. Naked girlon plane, Yeah there's one of those.
Yeah wow. So anyway, Ineed to move on away from this

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movie. This category. Sorry aboutthat. No, you're not. You're
not sorry. You got your birthdaypresent, you got your wish you got
Erica to go on her fucking rant. Yeah, I'm getting a year older.
Everybody suffers, all right, it'sthe next category. Was were Wolf.
I watched The Undying Monster from nineteenforty two. This is on YouTube.

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This is like a you would likethis. This is like a wolf
Man meets Sherlock Holmes type movie.There's this London investigator with Scotland yard.
Obviously, he visits a remote castlewith his assistant to solve the case related
to the ham And family curse,which states that they should never go outside
on a bright, starry night whenthere is frost on the ground. It's

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short, it's just over sixty minutes. If Matt paintings high cliffs fog,
it's a really good mood piece.Nothing like outstanding. But if you like
Sherlock Holmes movies, you like allof those factors that I just listed off,
This is for you. Nice SoUndying Monster nineteen forty two for were
Wolf's what about you, I'm goingTodd Sheets Baby hell Yeah, nineteen ninety

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four. Did he thank Jesus inthe credits? I might have turned it
off after the credit. I thinkhe might have. Maybe. I don't
even remember it's okay, I amgoing to talk about the credits. So
this one okay, So this one'scalled Moonchild. It's about a guy named
Jacob Striker, best name ever.Right, He's escaped from a prison center
in this post apocalyptic city to lookfor his son, who apparently holds the

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key to save humankind. You know, cure diseases, regenerate cells. But
Jacob was a prison experiment when heescaped, gene splicing animal and human cells
together, meaning he's a werewolf.But he's a werewolf super soldier because he
has like fucking superhuman strength. Andthey also installed a device in a small

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intestine that will spontaneously combust and blowhim up, killing him in seventy two
hours from when he escapes. Right, So there's a lot to remember why
you're watching this. Yeah, Toddsheets extremely diy. There's either there's a
typo in the opening credits, Yeah, where he misspells producers and associate producers,

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Like, yes, this is exactlywhat I signed up for. Producers
is now spelled p r O du v c e r s. You
know, you can tell right nextto each other on the keyboard. I
get it. I had mentioned andthe Tony Todd that you know, it
seems like a bunch of high schoolersgot together and fought the fighting scenes.

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This is what most of this feelslike. But there's passion in this,
but there's love behind that. It'snot like, let me make a movie
so I have an excuse to showtitties. Yeah, exactly, and this
one probably does. I mean,I understand low ratings that I've seen.
I gave it three stars because youknow, credit where credit is due.
I was entertained the full the fullrun time. I feel like the first

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hour especially just flies by. It'smagic pacing, like he does a great
job, and then it kind ofit kind of kind of fizzles out a
little at the end. There's notmuch horror at all until the last ten
minutes when you finally get like thisweird satanist twists and you finally get the
full werewolf transformation. You get ahint of it in the beginning. That's

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practical effects. That's so sloppy.I would have if I would have seen
this, I would have probably talkedabout it in an Hour of the Wolf.
But the full transformation is digital CGIand I was like, this is
this is this is what I want? It is so bad. There is
an older woman playing a bounty hunternamed Medusa who is just terrible at acting,
which makes her immediately the best villainin this. She starts ripping out

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eyeballs. You know the gores therethat you want from Todd Sheets. Not
as much as I was hoping,But it's great. It's mainly a sci
fi action. But does the horrortag make sense? It feels like something
that would almost be a better fitfor jeene'splitation than Horror gives back. But
it's fun if you know what you'regetting into. I did you know I
visited my My Bleeding Skull. Thisis covering and covered in the Bleeding Skull

(02:02:58):
book the nineties trash audit see andJosiemba had such a great line that I
have to read it. This isTodd Sheets's Moonchild, and I've got a
Sheets eating grin. So good Moonchild. I think I watched it on twob
okay, And now we're jumping toactually one of my favorites of the month.

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This is the nineteen seventies. Kindof makes sense that it would probably
be one of the best rituals theCanadian horror from nineteen seventy seven, Hal
Holbroke. Yeah, I love thismovie. Directed by Peter Carter. It's
a bunch of old buddies. There'sfive of them. They get together every
year, with one choosing a destinationof their annual vacation. This year,

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they're in the remote woods of northernOntario. Yeah, I just love this
because I loved how real it is. So you have these guys who are
old but very adventurous. Obviously,you know you're quickly they're quickly established like
they're buddies. You know each andevery one of them's personalities. They're all
doctors, but they're these old guys. Some of them are out of shape.

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So I can relate to some ofthese guys and the reactions to like
the physical nature they're in, theconversations they have around the campfire. This
feel natural and freestyling. It's justgreat acting led by how Holbrook, who's
never bad. So their first morningthere, they all find that their boots
are gone, and they all assumesomeone came to their campgrounds and stolen because

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they're worth money. But it's kindof left a mystery until the next weird,
unexplained occurrence comes along one of theguys, the only one who brought
an extra pair of shoes. Heheads off to this dam that's a couple
of miles away to try and findsome help and get them out of the
woods because they don't have their supplies. But things start getting weird. Beehives
are thrown out them, animal trapsare left at river crossings. They start

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getting injured and dying off, allin a believable fashion. So it's really
tense as it moves along. Forme, it did start dragging just a
bit at the end when the lasttwo guys are so kind of beaten down
and they're just kind of talking andwalking. But I almost appreciated it that
the post the pacing slowed down becauseit almost gave you your heart beat and
blood pressure like rest. Because theanxiety of this movie and the tension is

(02:05:11):
just delivered so perfectly, Like Ithink that's the whole intention of it.
And the end has some shocking factors, so it immediately becomes really intense again.
Yeah, I just highly highly recommendthis. I love this movie.
It's very good. What was yourseventies pick? I watched Terror Circus aka
Barn of the Naked Dead from nineteenseventy four. I have a old Streak

(02:05:38):
show DVD of this. So there'sthese three showgirls who are on their way
to Las Vegas and their car breaksdown in the middle of the desert.
And what's funny about like locations likethis is I know this drive like from
La to Las Vegas, like goingthrough Barstow and you know Lancaster where I
grew up as a teenage and likeall that. Like I'm like, oh,

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there's look at all those Joshua trees. I know where they are.
So anyway, their car breaks down. This guy Andrew offers to help them
and take them to a phone.However, when they get there, they
find out like he keeps kidnapped womenchained up in his barn and trains them
to perform circus tricks. And sohe does the same with these three women.
They all get chained up and addedto his Yeah, just nice.

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Oh yeah, and he's got mommyissues too, because you know, mommy
left him and he keeps his mutant, his mutant dad out in a shack
on the property. Yeah, it'sit's pretty great. It's it's more it
feels more exploitation than horror. ButI mean it's still a horror movie.
It has an original song, butit's not called Terror Circus or Barn in

(02:06:46):
the Naked Dead. It's called EvilEyes. The score itself, though,
is pretty fitting. It feels likeit belongs in a circus movie, though
the circus elements kind of lacking.It's more like he pulls a woman out
and has like he has a bigcat. Don't know, it was like
a jaguar or whatever, some kindof big cat, probably a cougar or

(02:07:08):
something, and he basically is justlike here, run from the cougar.
And it's so it's not really acircus. You know. I thought you
were going to say like he hada whip, and I mean he dresses
up like a ring ring master,ringleader whatever, they're called the Big Top
whatever. Yeah. I mean it'sbasically like he'll paint a girl with blood
and then let her loose while she'sbeing chased by an animal like so,

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but he's doing it all in costume, so like he's in character, but
like it's not really a circuit.But I don't fucking care love the movie.
So that sounds like my retirement plan, all right. So that was
Tara Circus aka Barn and the NakedDead for the nineteen seventies. Moving on
to full core, I watched Inthe Devil's Garden aka Assault from nineteen seventy

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one. I have a DVD this, and I don't know where I got
it or how long it's been there. So the reason I picked this for
full core is that one of ourlisteners, Matt Matt Clark or mpls Matt,
he said it's on the BFI fullcorps list and he didn't necessarily like
agree with that either. But andI'm not trying to say that I know

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more than BFI, but this isnot full core. You know, there's
no elements which make it full core, like you know, local superstitions or
practices and outsider coming in and gettingmixed up on that. Like, yes,
murders take place in the woods,but if we called any movie with
murders in the woods full corps,then we'd be calling them fucking Friday the

(02:08:39):
thirteenth full corps. Like just no, I don't know where be if I
got this into full corps anyway.I got a little bit that when I
watched Genese's Dark in Days Bewitched,the documentary like I didn't understand a lot
of the movies that were being discussedas being full Corps. Yeah, Like

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I was like, okay, everything'sfull color. I know, it's like
there's a broad the definition itself isbroad. But I was like, there's
nothing here. It's literally just amurder mystery. Like it's just there's women
being killed in the woods and thepolice are trying to figure out like who
did it? Like that's it nota full Corps movie. The DVD box

(02:09:22):
called it a British jallo, whichI'll give it that, you know,
even though I know, like TroyHoward, that's problem with calling anything.
It's not Italian ajallo. But ifwe're going to call it a British jallo,
then that's closer than full Corps anyway. So, yeah, there's young
girls who are being raped and killedin the quote unquote Devil's Garden, which
is like the section of the woods. Susie Kendall, isn't it. She

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plays an art teacher who actually sawthe killer, but only through like this
distorted view. So the way thatshe saw him looks like, you know,
he kind of looks like a demonbecause there's like these red break lights
were reflecting on him, and he'sgot these type of glass. Maybe that's
the full core element. Does shedoes? She name like a demon from

(02:10:05):
some sort of fairy tale. Yeah, I mean she says like it looked
like the devil was killing her,So maybe that's the full core element.
But that's a fucking stretch. Yeah, Like it's not like we know it's
a person, so it's anyway.So she works with the police and a
doctor to find the killer. Itwas fine. I gave it two and
a half. Like, I'm noreason to revisit it, but I do
have reason to argue with anyone whocalled this full core movie. Yeah,

(02:10:30):
I'm interested to know why it's onthat list. Yeah, but what about
you for full core? I lovedmine. Mine was Celia nineteen eighty nine
Australian horror directed by Anne Turner.So it has this very sad, very
eerie, cold opening of the youngthe young girl Celia, she's probably about
I don't know, eight or nineor so, and she's bringing hot tea

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to her grandmother. Early in themorning. She finds her grandmother dead in
bed. You know, sad,kind of creepy look in the way the
grandmother loves with her eyes open.And then the night after the funeral,
the little girl hears this terrible screechingoutside her window and sees the snarly kind
of monster hand reaching in, andshe calls out to her granny, So

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you know right away that she wasvery close with her grandmother, and then
the whole thing is basically kind ofher dealing with the grief of her grandmother
passing. A young couple with abunch of kids moving next door, and
the mother reminds Celia of her grandmother, so she spends a lot of time
with her and her family and thekids. But the neighbor mom is a

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Communist, and Celia's dad, who'sa total dirt bag in this movie,
doesn't want her hanging out with thefamily, and they're ultimately driven out of
town because people find out they're Communist, or they were. They're trying to
leave the Communist party. But thisleaves Celia very heartbroken and angry all over
again. So her and some youngkids make voodoo dolls of Celia's dad and

(02:11:56):
some of the adults and some otherkids that they just don't they don't like,
and they do this creepy ritual that'sreally effective to watch. So you
expect bad things to start happening tothese people. Yeah, it's mainly you're
just watching Celia. You follow herthrough the whole movie. It's she's using
her imagination getting through her sadness.You're not sure if what she's seeing is

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real or not in some cases.And the full core element relies on this
old fairy tale that's brought up throughoutthe throughout the movie about the hobby as
these goblin creatures. So the imageryfor her fantasies come from this old fairy
tale and they're they're fucking scary,you know. Throughout the movie you get
quick glimpses of the kind of runningaround or dragging out bodies and stuff,

(02:12:39):
but at the end you get theultimate reveal and it's great overall. It's
kind of like coming of age film. I get the horror tag for sure,
but it's this coming of age filmwith creepy moments sprinkled in. It
kind of gave me super dark times. Did you see that movie? It's
it's probably within the last six orseven years, but about these kids who

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accidentally kill a friend has kind ofthis tone, a tone like that,
but it's very supernatural, but itturns into real situations that are very just
tense and kind of anxiety inducing.A yeah. And it has this feminist
message throughout the film too and inthe end, which is always great to
watch. Because the men in Celiaare scum. That seems to happen with

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a lot of things we watch.I guess men are truly scum. Yeah.
I'll definitely list this one in oneof my favorites of the month.
Celia full Core. Now we're jumpingtoo. Haunted House. I watched A
Quiet Place in the Country nineteen sixtyeight, directed by Elio Petri, who
did Investigation of a Citizen above Suspiciontenth Victim. This stars Franco Niro and

(02:13:46):
Vanessa Redgrave from The Devil's blow Up. But Franco plays a painter and he's
having these wild dreams and visions ofhis wife. She's kind of as I
think she's just his partner. Idon't think they're married, but she had
He's having these visions of her killinghim, and so it's implied that he
could be overworked, he's losing hismind, and there's this old country house

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that's been calling to him. Youknow, in the beginning of the movie,
as they drive by and he's compelledto buy it to try and relax
while working on a new series ofpaintings. And there's this great exchange between
him and the caretaker of the housewhere Nero says, I'm looking for a
quiet place in the country, andthe caretaker replies, only death could be
quieter than this. So he getsthe house. The house seems to want

(02:14:31):
to deliberately hurt his partner, Sothis is where the haunted house stuff comes
in, because it's you know,it is hurting people when things are falling
over and stuff does it kind oflike burnt offerings. It's kind of like
burnt offerings. Yeah, So thepartner leaves, but it turns into this
mystery of Nero searching for clues aboutwhat happened to the young girl who lived

(02:14:52):
there before World War Two. Andthis young girl was like in thefo Maniac.
She had sex with like all themen in town. So he's like
talking to all these men about herand how she had like this spell over
everybody and they all slept with her. She was like a teenager too.
But it's very very slow. Asyou watch Nero become both happier but losing
his mind even more as the househaunts him. It's arguably boring, but

(02:15:16):
it's like undeniably mesmerizing. Like theway it's filmed, Like you said before,
with Italian horror and Italian shot films, it's just a swarm blanket,
super smoky. It felt kind oflike a Julia Questi film for me.
The opening credits are very strange,the storytelling, the visuals. It almost
seems like the ideas and the visualsthat are coming across screen have more meaning

(02:15:39):
than what you first interpret it to. It could just be weird for the
sake of being weird, but bythe end I felt like it had something
to do with entities cashing on anartist suffering and not caring about the artists
or even contributing to their destruction.But it's great. They do have original
paintings throughout this because he plays apainter. It does a great job.

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You know, it shows him painting. Some of the hands probably aren't him,
but they're real paintings by an Americanartist, a well known American artist,
and a printmaker Jim Dyne, whoI think he's still producing works.
But it's amazing. I'm hoping that'sout there for sale so I can't ever
buy it or afford it. ButNiro is peak form here in nineteen sixty
eight. He's got the full beard, his hair's a little longer, has

(02:16:24):
got those maddening bloodshot blue eyes.It's just just looking the best. It
has a more cony score. Imean, it's kind of perfect. It's
what you want in an Italian film. If I had watched this before the
arcane episode, I might have pickedit as a double future. This one
was on Prime. I watched thisone on Prime. It might be on
TWOV as well. But yeah,Quiet Place in the Country. That was

(02:16:48):
a surprise, a good one.Nice. I watched Dark Places nineteen seventy
three for haunted Houses. This isin the Christopher Lee Severin collection two.
This is about a hospital worker whoinherits an old mansion which has money hidden
in it somewhere, but it's alsobelieved to be haunted by the family that

(02:17:11):
was killed there, so Christopher Leeand Joan Collins are scheming to try to
get the money for themselves. He'snot the hospital worker, that's somebody else.
And then the lawyer is played byHerbert Lohm. He's also involved with,
like you know, he's the onewho is like helping the guy,

(02:17:33):
but sort of not like they're allsort of scheming to like they all want
the money for themselves, but it'shidden somewhere in the house, like in
the like the guy who inherits ahouse knows it's in the walls. So
if like you see the poster,I think it's like a skull with a
pickaxe or something like that. Yeah, so yeah, Like the whole idea
is like they're all sort of searchingfor the money. But as the guy

(02:17:54):
who inherits a house starts like livingthere longer and longer, he starts to
find out what happened to the familywho used to live there and why why
everyone thinks it's haunted and kind ofis. It's very dialogue heavy and nothing
of note really happens besides a fewinteresting flashbacks until about the last ten to
fifteen minutes, so full history isrevealed, two kids get killed, and

(02:18:16):
the money is found. I gaveit two and a half stars. It's
been on my watch this for awhile mostly because of that poster, and
it's you know, it's good.Joan Collins is you know, her and
Christopher Lee are just like hating eachother in it, so it's kind of
fun for that. But it's fine. And then Slashers Day twenty nine,

(02:18:37):
We're almost there. I watched Hauntsfrom nineteen seventy six. I watched this
on Plex, and that made myexperience watching miserable because there were so many
two and a half to three minutecommercial breaks. When you watch something on
Plex, it's not like from aserver, but like actually on Plex.
Oh my god, it's fucking awful. So this is directed by Herb Freed,
who did Graduation Day, which Ireally like. Situation Day is a

(02:19:00):
perfect, like checks all the boxesslasher movie. It's got a Pino di
Nagio's score, which is probably thebest part of this movie. It has
a decent premise, there's a killerin a small town, and there's some
red herrings and childhood trauma flashbacks Pepperthroughout that eventually tie in, but it
takes away too long to get toall that it needed, like a short

(02:19:24):
and to the point explanation dump atthe end, and then cut out about
ten to fifteen minutes of this.I feel like just watching it on Plex
did not help because it was alreadyreally slow moving to begin with. Cameron
Mitchell is in this, he playsthe uncle. Yeah, so I mean,
Cameron Mitchell is fine in it,but he's not like eighties Cameron Mitchell

(02:19:46):
where he's just like drunk and sittingdown and like reading his lines. Yeah,
but I don't know, I feellike I want to give this one
a second chance when I'm not watchingit on Plex and not having to deal
with a million commercial breaks or threeminutes long. Yeah that's terrible. Yeah,
so that was slash Air. Whatabout you? I went with Rush
Week Bob Brolver, So I hadwatched this for the Midnight Ride episode.

(02:20:11):
Right, we talked about it abit on Midnight Ride episode. So going
to listen to what I said there. Okay, Right, I thought it
was fine. I loved that therewas a Halloween costume party and the killer
used to battle axe. But yeah, it's I think I gave it two
and a half stars. Okay,Okay, it's Hammertime, hammer Time.
Doctor Jekyl and Sister Hyde is mypick. I love. I had been

(02:20:35):
way. I probably should have watchedthis years and years ago. Directed by
roy Ward Baker, So Doctor Jekylis working on an anti virus to cure
all known diseases, and as peerlets him know that he'll be dead long
before he completes his goals, whichmakes him realize that, you know,
fuck, everybody dies, and it'snot worth my time and work unless he

(02:20:56):
can cheat death. So he beginsworking on how to extend life, concentrating
on women's hormones because of their beautiful, silky skin and they don't lose their
hair like men do. And heturns into like this doctor Frankenstein of sorts,
heading to morgues buying dead bodies totake their organs. There's even a
necrophilia joke thrown in there when theguy selling him a dead body says he
doesn't want him to take a certainbody because I've grown fond of him with

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this gross smirk. But yeah.Jekyl first tests his work on a male
fly, and flies are supposedly supposedto only live a couple of hours,
right, But he keeps this flyalive for three days and he finds that
it's turned female, laying eggs duringthose three days. So what do you
do? You test the potion onyourself, right when you're a scientist,

(02:21:43):
And he turns into Sister Hide,and the first transformation scene is brilliant.
It's one long take where he looksinto the mirror, which isn't actually a
mirror, it's you know, theactress playing swits to Hide, Martine Beswick,
who's amazing in it, you know, sitting on the other side of
the mirror, so it looks likeone long tail where you can see you're
obviously seeing Roth Bates play Jeckyal lookup and he's a woman, and it's

(02:22:07):
so well shot. Yeah. SoRath Bates as great as Jekyl, but
Martine Beswick is even better as thesinister Sister Hide. We know her.
She was in a Knight of theScarecrow, Jeff Burr's Knight of the Scarecrow.
It's interesting to watch is Jeckyll's neighbors, who are a sister and a
brother. They each fall in lovewith Jekyl's character and Hyde, so the

(02:22:28):
man's pining for Sister Hide. He'splayed by Lewis Fiander, who can kill
a child. Yeah, and then, like the true source material, it's
interesting to watch Sister Hide start takingover Jekyl, showing affection towards men.
Kind of groundbreaking in Star reguard fora Hammer film to portray that nobody does
laboratories better than Hammer film, andJekyll's Lab looks great. But what I

(02:22:52):
really really loved about this again oneof my favorites, a lot of the
universes coming together. It takes placein White chap So Jack the Rippers involved
in this store. Yes, Burkeand hair pop up yep, and they're
providing female bodies. They even mentionedthey've dealt with men like Jucko before,
who are doing it in the nameof science. So, yeah, you
got the Jacqueline Hide. I mean, I just I loved it. I

(02:23:13):
thought it it ran a bit long, an hour and forty minutes, but
I say take your time with movieslike this because I'm like all into it.
Unexpected gory effects pop up throughout.Yeah, this is one of my
favorites of the month for sure.A year up an yeah, Hammer time
for me was Hands of the Rippernineteen seventy one. I watched this on

(02:23:37):
to be so. This mental healthdoctor takes a female patient home to study
her and her homicidal tendencies. Hesoon discovers that she's actually the daughter of
Jack the Ripper. This is nota spoiler because they show Jack the Ripper
like killing his wife at the beginningand like leaving this child like in a

(02:23:58):
crib that's what they're calling me.Yeah, where babies go cribs, that's
it jail, which so basically hewants to study her to try to fix
it. Yeah. I really likethis. I think I gave it three
three and a half. I'll probablyrevisit it again in the future. I

(02:24:18):
like that it's a female murderer.She does kind of like she gets sort
of hypnotized by like sparkly objects becausesomething connected to when her father murdered her
mother. So you see her sortof like in a trance, but like
the doctor can't figure out like what'ssending her into this. And anyway,
it's great. There's a dummy dropat the end for Matt. I think

(02:24:39):
I mentioned that in our discord,but highly recommend Hands with a Ripper in
nineteen seventy one and then last Dayof Viewers Choice woo. So this.
I know that I've seen it before, but I don't think I watched it.
The last time I watched it waswhen I was in my twenties,
and that was Roger Corman's House ofUsher from nineteen sixty and to me,

(02:25:01):
this is just like ultimate like HalloweenWatch. You've got Corman, You've got
Price, you know, you've gotMark Damon, the Classic Tale, full
October vibes. You know. Iknow it's not technically a first time watch,
which is what we usually do forthese, but I hadn't seen it
in over twenty years, and Ireally wanted to revisit it, and it
was the perfect thing to watch aroundthe very end of October. So I

(02:25:24):
have the DVD. I'll never neverever get rid of it, even if
I probably even if I upgrade toBlue I don't need to upgrade to Blue
Ray. There's some like t i'meslike, I have the DVD. It's
fine. Yeah, yeah, thisis and that's the House of Us.
Sure it should be watched a littlechoppy, doesn't that have to be super
clear? Yeah, I've never seenthat one. Actually, No, I
haven't seen. Yeah, there's Imean there's a handful of Corman ones I

(02:25:48):
haven't seen that I want to getaround too. So I'm glad I revisited
that one, though I wanted toget a few more Corman ones in this
month or October. But it wasa busy month. Yeah, I don't
think I got one Corman movie inwhich seems kind of wrong. Well what
about you? Then for viewers' choice, so I picked a new horror some
This is one that I had beenwanting to watch, scary stories to tell

(02:26:11):
in the dark, you know,I was, I kind of wanted.
I didn't watch it on Halloween.I think this was an early month watch.
On Halloween, I watched like alot of rewatches Halloween three and stuff.
But I expected this to kind ofbe an anthology of short segments.
It's a narrative feature, and Iboth liked and disliked it because I don't
know it's an original take. Thecentral story, though, did nothing for

(02:26:35):
me. It was like, Idon't know, it had like this attempt
at a theme of stories heard stories, heal that just didn't really work.
The timeline was during Vietnam the nightthe sixties, and I guess that didn't
make sense to me either. ButI think the only reason it was is
because one of the kids were supposedto be drafted. It just it didn't

(02:26:56):
work. I mean, I wasI was there because of the movies,
because or because of the monsters fromthe book. I love the books as
a kid. The monsters were youknow, they're drawn by Stephen Gammel and
his art and designs are they're turnedinto practical effects really well. Like that's

(02:27:18):
what makes the whole movie. Andit makes sense because the books, that's
what all the that's what the bookswere all about. For me, Gamel's
art, it wasn't really alver AlvinSchwartz's stories and his writing, because I
thought the writing was just okay.I bought the books and look at the
books and still look at the booksbecause of the art. Yeah, and
most of it is practical effects orsome cgi, but it's not bad.

(02:27:39):
It's actually presented really well. ButAlvin Schwartz, the author of the books,
I found him fascinating because I afterthis, I watched it, I
watched a short documentary that was likeon I don't know, it might have
been YouTube or something, but youknow, I found more respect for him
because he actually researched for quite awhile all the stories that he wrote,

(02:28:01):
and he would look into existing folkloreand other haunting tales from different cultures and
countries, and he would reference allthose in the back of the book,
which I remember as a kid,and then that kind of led kids and
adults who read the book to kindof seek out other kind of cultures and
stuff, go check these out atthe library and stuff. Which is so
dumb that so many parents wanted hisbooks ban from school libraries and stuff.

(02:28:24):
You can't have people learning things lance. Well yeah, I mean it's mainly
because of the imagery, the drawings, which make the book so fucking awesome.
But yeah, but I like themovie. If you're familiar with the
stories in the book and how theyend, it doesn't really ruin the experience
of watching this at all. Ithink you actually enjoyed them more because they
do change things up a little bitand how they tie everything into this narrative

(02:28:46):
feature. Like I said, Ikind of wanted separate stories, but I
kind of liked what they did withit. I would love to see an
animated version of The Scary Stories atsome point, but yeah, no,
I recommend it. It's by thedirector what's his name, andre Avdal I
don't know. He just did thatlast voyage of the Demeter movie that I

(02:29:09):
saw in the theater, which wasokay, andre Avridahl, I don't know,
okay, but yeah, I meanI think I gave it three stars,
okay, and that is how Iended my October. All right,
So we have some favorites to highlight. But before we, you know,
recap our favorites, we did askour listeners in Discord what were their favorite

(02:29:33):
watches. And again I asked,list one of your favorites, and everyone,
almost everyone, not everyone, almosteveryone listed multiple movies. So I
am picking for you. If youlisted more than one, okay, you're
just gonna pick one, yes,okay, okay, all right? So
John Peters listed The Child from nineteenseventy seven, Ryan Vrel or It from

(02:29:54):
Disconnected Targets Henry Davies. This I'llcheat on this one because as he specifically
listed it as a double, whichmakes sense, the night Stalker and the
night Strangler together. Nice. AdamHersey, Red Spell Spells Red, can't
wait to I haven't watched that oneyet, It's on my shelf. I'll
get great title, Jim Hackson Andwhat an amazing like October watch for that.

(02:30:18):
Yeah, Blasto stg stalked by mydoctor series. This is just amazing
And just a quick shout out tohim. He did lose his dog Merlin
recently and so he participated in thisin honor of his dog, and so
we appreciate him doing that. Mattclark O Groff Hell Yes, Ryan BMD

(02:30:41):
The Flesh and the Fiends, Yes, one of my favorite. People will
notice that I am picking movies thatwe have done from if you listed multiple
movies, so yeah, check outthese episodes. Yeah, I can't stand
pickles, weasels rip my flesh.This movie is a fantastic SOB movie with
a child kill. I will sayMatty K five five five The Passing.

(02:31:03):
Yes, it's Sam from BNS aboutMovies. Mondo, Candido ardiath Our Norwegian
Listener Sissy from twenty twenty two,Navy ninety eight, Derfan Dave h or
Wizard Hiss, Bleeding Skull Pick whichwas Trick or Treat from nineteen eighty six.

(02:31:24):
Multiple people listed this movie, butthese two only listed this one.
So ry Wan and C. Welkinpicked The Witch's Mirror, Stiff Legged Filmfest,
Popcorn, Jake the Devils, whichI mean that's peek, Oliver Reid
right there, John Connolly seconds andanthropophagose the Writer of the Skulls, which

(02:31:48):
has an amazing fake bat like youknow in Ship of monsters where like she
turns a neow a vampire and she'slike floating through and then she just like
it's like that, but like alsofake bat. It's amazing cool. I
reached out to a few people thataren't in Discord and they made donations.
Mike's favorite new watch was a sequelGate two oh Okay from nineteen ninety Austin

(02:32:13):
g. He said his first timefavorite watch was the Argentinian DIY horror films,
the Complete Plaga Zombie Trilogy oh Okay, which seven released. He said
he loved that, and then CraigCraig d He said they usually watch they
rewatch a bunch of classics, oldfavorites because first time few first timers that

(02:32:33):
they did watch were just stinkers.But he did go to Dismember the Alamo
this year and he really enjoyed Encountersof the Spooky con Oh so yeah,
great picks. Thank you everybody forparticipating in Horror GI is back this year.
Yeah and so real quick my favoritesof the month. Castle's Homicidal from

(02:32:56):
nineteen sixty one is on the Island, which hopefully will be an episode next
year. We shall see Ghost ofthe Hunchback nineteen sixty five, Encounter of
the Spooky Kind and the Witch whoCame from the Sea. I like it.
That's on mind. What about you? I would say the thrill Killers
for sure, Rituals, Doctor Jekylland Sister hide Celia. I guess I'll

(02:33:20):
stick in two in the five spot, permudos and footprints. Those I mean,
I really enjoyed this month. Iknow you had a lot of two
and a half in three stars.I did. I had some ones that
I just refused to rate that areprobably lower than that great times. I
mean, I had plenty that Ithought were really good, but it was
overwhelmingly like mid range movies, whichyou know, it's fine, it's all

(02:33:41):
like first time watches. I thinknext year I might consider doing rewatches,
but stuff that is still sort oflike underseen or I haven't seen in a
while that I want to tell peopleabout but won't be covered on the show
because maybe it's over one thousand.I'm I'm going to think about my list
a little bit more specific after thisyear. I think I want to do
that next year. So it's tough, because, yeah, I do a

(02:34:03):
lot of rewatches every October, alot of the classics. So it's it's
it makes it tough to get inthese thirty one first time watches. So
yeah, I think I'll change upmy strategy to next year. Yeah.
I do love to do first timewatches, but at the same time,
like I get stuck with sky Sharksbecause you picked Tony Todd and I'm just
you know, just wait till thenext actor off. My gosh, that's

(02:34:24):
going to be terrible. All right, So thank you again everyone for participating.
It's been a great month. We'lldo it again next year. We
do have one more regular episode thismonth and that's all Yeah, Lance's no
rules November pick yeah, last ofthe year, yeah, crazy. Well,
we also have we're going to haveour end of the year episode,

(02:34:46):
right, the last movie we're covering, right, Yeah, and we'll have
that sometime in December, but weare taking December off. We're getting all
of our stuff recorded this November,and then we'll have one episode just our
end of year with Lindsay from WalkingOn, Anthony from Colt Movies rejoining us
for end of year episode and thatis our top five Discovery is new to

(02:35:07):
Me, whatever you want to callit episode that'll be in December whenever I
feel like dropping it and getting itedited. Yeah. See, let's see
what happens on UCH. But firstthings first, no rules November. Okay,
So I had already talked about howI picked this creepy twins category for
Horror Gives Back. I was kindof hoping to maybe, you know,
find something that would really stood outfor maybe a future episode, but Mark

(02:35:30):
Ocain really didn't. So I'm goingto take this opportunity to select a twins
horror film that has over one thousandviews all letterbox. It's not Blood Rage.
It's the serial killer thriller Jack's Backfrom nineteen eighty eight, starring James
Spader's Twins. Okay, okay,it'll be fun to talk about. And
what will make this this episode evenmore fun is I'll be bringing on a

(02:35:52):
guest. It's Cody Cumming, myown identical twin brother. Cody will be
joining us because we're expert. It'son the subject, right. We'll chat
about twins and how they represented incinema and horror movies especially. There will
be a quiz on monozygotic siblings afterthe episode, so listeners take notes.

(02:36:13):
Okay, Okay, So for Jackspack, do me a favor. We talked
about this already during Hoyger gives backnumerous times, but do not read the
letterbox synopsis. It gives way toomuch away. Me mentioning the twin thing
probably is kind of a spoiler theway it's actually executed, but I needed
some sort of explanation for having mydumb twin brother on right. Sure,

(02:36:33):
okay, but here's a quick setup. Jack's Back. There's a maniac in
La recreating every Jack the Ripper murderone hundred years to the day, raping,
murdering, and mutilating women. Thecops know exactly what night and how
the next victim will be murdered,but they have no suspects. But actually
they do have one suspect, buthe might be the only person who can

(02:36:54):
solve this murder case. Oh okay, I leave it there, So Jack's
Back. It's more I'm thriller thantrue horror. It's directed by Rowdy Harrington,
who directed Roadhouse. Oh okay,he also wrote Jack's Back. It's
currently on two B and while kindof like the Steckler, we'll see how
it goes, but I'm kind ofplanning to we'll concentrate on Jack's Back,

(02:37:18):
but I kind of want to talkabout just twins and horror in general.
I like it. So we'll betalking about a lot of movies involving twins.
Doesn't have to be horror. Imean, we'll pull some movies,
but we'll see how it goes.Yeah, I'm excited. Yeah, I've
been wanting to get Cody on fora while. We'll see how that goes.
Yeah, we're gonna see if listenerscan distinguish your voices. Yeah,
well, Cody's gonna play me andI'm playing him. Okay, so yeah,

(02:37:39):
you're gonna You're gonna Okay, you'llfigure that out. Okay, all
right, everyone, thanks again foreveryone's participation. Thanks for listening. We
know this is a long episode,but you made it all the way to
the end, so thank you forthat. Yes, and we'll see you
back next episode for Jack's Back.For New Rules November. I have Nik
writing leaving dress a smoke across thesky on a room, but that I

(02:38:05):
am safe within my room. Iknow your friend is a which selves filled

(02:38:26):
the air. I think, guy, your footsteps on the stead coming near
her, thoughts are telling me thatshe's here. You know the girlfriend is
a which I know my governor isa witch. What a thing. I

(02:39:39):
was a third check far day,but tonight I become a one. I
just was my I know my governis a witch.

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