Horror Gives Back 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Prepare yourself for the terror the prison of madness. We
have a few inter and nonritter.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to Unsung Horrors with LUNs and Denica. Leave all
your sanity behind. It can't help you.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Welcome to another episode of Unsung Horrors. I'm Erica, I'm
Lance and this is our annual recap of our films
that we watch for the Horror Gives Back Challenge, so
if you're not familiar or Horror Gives Back Challenge is
where we ask folks to donate a dollar or more
per horror movie that they watched in October. We do

(00:58):
provide a list of for each day that you could
that you could have followed, but you didn't have to
a lot of people did, and we were excited to
see everyone's watches and our discord and people who were
sharing on Instagram. Maybe there were people sharing on Twitter.
I don't know, not there anymore, but yeah, we had
a great month. We had a lot of people donate

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not only to our fundraiser through Best Friends Animal Society,
but a lot of folks and I think more than
in previous years, actually donated to a lot of other
local charities. A lot of folks donating to food banks,
which is definitely needed right now. Yeah, for sure, But
I did want to start before we jump into all

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of going through all of our picks and shout out
all the folks who did donate to Best Friends Animal Society.
Besides Lance and I, we had Alex S, Mark, s
Adam H. Matt C, Kelly K. Matthew s Adam R.
Austin G. Terry E. Brendan T. And we had an

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anonymous donor who matched what everyone else put in. So
we did meet our goal and actually surpassed it. We
ended up raising just over two thousand dollars for Best
Friend's Animal Society.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Sam Panico also donated to Best Friend's Animal Society, and
he had a recap episode for his podcast BNS about Movies.
It was a recap of his watches, but it also
included some of Adams Parker's from the Where Is My
Mind podcast and one of our listeners, John conn all

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of whom had write ups on the BNS website four
hoor Gives Back during October.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, that was a really cool idea from Sam.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah. I love when he brings in like actresses voices
to read something for him. It's the funniest thing. But
we also had Celeste Leacabre. They did a recap on
YouTube of their watches for Horror Gives Back, so you
can check that out. I'll put a link to Sam's

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podcast as well as link to celeste YouTube recap. And
I did also want to shout out all the other
people who donated and to the charities to which they donated.
So first we had Leonidas who donated to a local
foundation for bat protection. Stiff Tongue, Fleeter.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Mouse Schwootz good.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
I tried, I you know, the German part of me
should have done a little bit better with that, but.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I ended it with the shoots, which was good.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I tried. Henry donated to Wild Futures, which is a
it's a monkey sanctuary and this is actually where his
adopted son Chico lives.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Clockeran on on our discord. I know his names like
I think it's Michael. He donated money to Ingus Katayam,
which is a Danish animal shelter that rescues and rehomes
cats he studied. Primarily donated to them because he wanted
to hear how well we would pronounce it. I think
I did okay ingas Katayam.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Sounds, I mean better than I would do it, okay.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Navy ninety eight donated to the Trevor Project, another charity
that we love. Kringle donated to a local charity called
The Brick, which helps the homeless in their town in
northern England. George donated to Anima Wildlife Rescue in Greece.
Princess Cosmia donated to the trans Equality Youth Fund. John

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conn who I mentioned earlier in the n sput Movies recap,
he donated to a local snap fundraiser that his friend
was helming. And then Klon donated to a local food
bank in Georgia, and in our discord also put an
amazing list together of some random awards which I wanted
to chair. From his watches for the month. He said

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the best weapon was from Psychoape. It was a banana.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Okay, yeah, I've seen that movie.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
He said the best kill was Blood Brothers the Fetus Ripper.
Best nudity Male goes to Dick flapping muscle dude on
horseback in Night Terrors, and best nudity Female it could
go to no one else but Lina Rome. And he

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that was for her at a psychedelic orgy in Night
has a Thousand Desires. So thanks everyone for donating once again,
whether it was to our fundraiser or to another one
of your choice. I know times are tough this year,
but seeing people still pull through and do this means

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so much to not only the people who are receiving
these funds, but to us to see people who continue
to participate this way.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, and I love the idea have everybody donating, not everybody,
but those who donated locally to local charities. I love
seeing all the international charities and reading and learning about that.
So very cool, very good.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, there is a bat sanctuary in northern Texas that
like that would have been more my money when if
we weren't doing the best Friends because it's still animal related. Yeah,
but I follow them on Instagram. It's my favorite Instagram
page besides dramatic Skeleton reenactments, that's my other one.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. There's an Austin Farm Sanctuary here in Austin that
I follow and I've donated, you know, just throughout the
year to them. Yeah. They do great work, just bringing
in animals for no kill and raising them till till
they naturally pass.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, live their best life until it's time. But we
have a lot of movies to get through. Lance probably
has thirty one. I've got maybe sixty.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
You're joking, tell me you're joking.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, maybe forty ged there's a lot. I think we
have a lot of duplicates, so it's fine we do.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I think we picked a few of the past episodes. Yea,
let's fly through this, right.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I think I think we owe our listeners.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
You get the guest room ready, I'm gonna take multiple
pe breaks.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I hope you ate so your stomach doesn't start growling
mid recording.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I mean I didn't need it up. This is early
in the morning, it is, I mean earlier than normal. Yeah,
we'll get through.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
It all right, Well, why don't you kick it off then?
With day one? Lawn Cheney junior or senior?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay, I went with senior. I think we both picked senior.
In the same movie, The Unknown from nineteen twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes, this was mine as well.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, directed by Todd Browning. Yeah, Lawn Cheney plays Alonzo
the Armless. He has no arms, and it's a very
committed plan. Your arm's off, well, Joan Crawford's hands, Min's hands,
How I hate them? Yeah, so Lon Cheney, he's very

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committed to this plan. Basically, he's acting like he has
no arms and he joins a circus so that he
can't be fingerprinted because he's a criminal. A little excessive,
but mad respect.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, yeah, I love it. It's a complicated and
requires a lot of dedication to doing something like.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
This, and he's dedicated to this, this role that he's
taking on. He's shooting rifles, throwing knives at Joan Crawford,
smoking cigarettes, playing guitars, all with his feet and it's
very real looking. I was like, this can't be real,
but it is. It's I had to look it up.
It's a gentleman named Paul de Smoke. He was a

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real armless circus performer and a knife thrower. He performed
all these movements and Todd Brownie and stage kind of
elaborate angles and setups to kind of integrate his feet
and his legs underneath Cheney's head and torso. And it
looks great. I'm just wondering if Cheney actually got like

(09:12):
a mouthful of toes every so often, like accident tosucking
some toesucking in nineteen twenties. But no, I loved this.
The twenty year old Joan Crawford was unrecognizable to me.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I didn't know it was her until after I looked
it up and was making my notes, and I was like,
holy shit, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
I mean I know her, you know, in her later career.
So I kept reminding myself that's Joan Crawford, and I
could never see it. It was very strange, but she
was great in it, very dramatic nineteen twenties fashion. I
loved the costume designs and how all the men wore
these head scarves like they were Douglas Fairbanks or something,

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or Jack Sparrow.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Jo why'd you go there?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah? But I think I'll be Alon so the armless
for Halloween one year and just have everybody feed me
and serve me drinks.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
You're gonna smoke with your toes, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Won't have the three thumbs that was very interesting too,
or the three thumbs that's what he had and he
took when he finally revealed his hands.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, or two thumbs it was like double thumbed, like
yeah for a one pointing out there.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Right, and then he had just the regular one. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
John was actually reading the Todd Browning biography around the
time that we watched this, and he was telling me
about how at one point Todd Browning had pitched a
movie to a Mankowitz, one of the producers, about ape
heads on women's bodies or something like that. And I

(10:41):
want to live in the timeline where that movie was made. Yeah,
because I don't like this timeline, but I also want
to see that movie.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, I want to see an apet on twenty year
old Joan Crawford.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
I'm a great and have you know Alonzo feeding it
bananas with this?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Throwing bananas at it with Yeah, yeah, no, this was
a good way to start October. This was actually the
first movie I watched in October, so I kind of
lined up. I don't think it was on the first, but.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, it was one of the first I watched. I
started mid September because I had a lot going on
and a lot to get through. So this was one
of my earliest watches though, but still memorable. I think
it was one of my favorites of the month.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Nice, yeah, same, it was one of my favorites too.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
What did you watch first sequel?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Okay, so I watched all my movies out of order
and for my sequel, Picket's Doctor Satan Versus Black Magic
from nineteen sixty eight. It's a sequel to Doctor Satan,
which I watched for Hail Satan on eighteen, which I'll
get to. This was directed by Rogelio Ai Gonzalez. Ship

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of Monsters Skelton Missus Morale is one of our favorites.
So Doctor Satan is brought back to life. Yes, he
dies in the first one, seemingly brought back to life
by Satan, who instructs him to find and kill a
man named Yalen, who's this black magician. He has this
formula that will challenge Satan. And the formula is a

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combination of metals which can be turned into gold. And
we learned that Satan created gold to control the souls
of man. So if Yalen is able to control this,
you know, create this gold, he pretty much can control
the world. That's what Satan thinks. And you know, Doctor
Satan's like, yo, I why can't you just kill him?

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And he Satan replies that quote only man can kill man,
which was kind of interesting to me. I mean, there's nature,
there's disease.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I don't know, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Satan threatens him like, if you don't do this, you'll
never find eternal peace. So this is your project. The
Yalen character is awesome. He's like a vampire, but he's
also like this wizard and he can turn into a bat.
Has a very fantastic cute bat, which you would appreciate.
The cute bat attacks Doctor Satan, so we get this

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great scene of him fighting a flapping puppet. Grow very
cute as a vampire. He tries to bite one of
doctor Satan's zombies, which I'll talk about more when I
get to Hill satan As zombies. But when he bites
into it, he looks up at the cameras all zombies disgusting,
very cute. This one is in color, so it hits
a little different than the original. It's less spooky, less

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kind of horror feeling. Same composer though, Luis Hernandez Breton,
who did the score for both movies, and this is
it's just stand out. And he also did the score
for on Ta Lejandra, which we'll be talking about the
ending is way. It's much sillier than the original, but
a very action packed. It has bombs, it has fist fights.

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I enjoyed the first one a little bit more, which
i'll talk about here in the next four hours. But
I'd love to see both of these if they're not
released already. On like a set, A Lot of Fun,
A Lot of Fun. I picked a lot of Mexican
horror month, so.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
I wish I had so my sequel pick and I
didn't feel like updating my list yet again. On Letterbox
because this was the last one that I watched for
Horror Gets Back. I watched it like the first week
of November, actually, because John said he wanted to watch it,
and I kept being like, do you want to watch it?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
You want?

Speaker 3 (14:21):
And he's like, oh, tomorrow or later. I'm like, god, fine.
So I finally watched it, and I should have checked
the genre labels on this one because it's not a
horror movie.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
I watched.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
This is not even like thriller category?

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Is it horror? On Letterbox No, that's my fault.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I didn't even check the genre there. So I watched
Door to Tokyo Diary from nineteen ninety one. Now that
being said, I love this movie, but it's not a
horror movie. I really liked it. I do recommend it.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
You watched it in November. It's no rules November.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay, Well, I guess that counts, but I can say
that I don't recommend an act horror sequel that I
paid movie theater money to see because there's a dead
kid in it. I watched The Strangers Chapter two.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
What I know is this is like the surprise of
the year.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
No, I watched these movies whenever someone's like air because
like I watched Thunderbolts because Celeste told me there's a
dead kid and I was like, God, fucking damn it,
there's a good kidnet.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I haven't seen it.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
They take it back though it's a you know that
they they undo it because you know, cowards, it's a superhero.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Well, there's a flashback of one of a girl getting
shop and I think she's a teenager, but the one
like actual dead kid. They undo it at the end.
So spoiler for Thunderbolts guys.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Sorry, I don't need to watch it anymore. So.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Strangers Chapter two is the sequel to the reboot and
the most absolute and pointless boring horror movie that I
have seen in a very long time. It strips away
everything that's gary about the villains. And I don't even
like the original Strangers because you see, I think it's
you and I. I think you and I are the

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United Front on not liking the Strangers because Liv Tyler
and you know, I don't know Scott STAPs whatever, whatever, it's.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Scott, Scott stop. That's great. My doors bust open the Strangers,
which we had been made with it, that would be awesome.

(16:36):
I want a musical of that, stat Stapy.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Anyway, they're super unlikable, so that movie Hanks and uh anyway,
So what Rennie Harlan is directing all of these reboots.
There's fucking three of them, because it's the first one
is a reboot. It's just the first one and then
a second one. It starts off which what you think

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is gonna be like Halloween too, because the girl is
in the hospital and and it like stays there for
a while, and I was like, oh shit, is this
gonna be Halloween too? Okay, maybe I can get behind this. Nope, Nope.
We got to leave the hospital and she's got to
go get lost in the woods, and then we have
to have a giant fucking bore b o a r
also b O r E happen in the middle of

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the woods, and then there's like the fucking ending of
it is one of them gets killed by the you know,
girl boss, and like the dude stranger is all sad
about it, Like the strangers have feelings too. I fucking
hate this movie so much.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, it does have a dead child.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
It does.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
It's in it's in the flashback because you know, you
got to have an origin story for the strangers about
like why they're you know, they have a strangers. They well,
this is how two of the strangers met in a flashback.
They killed a girl together, and we're like, oh, it's friends. Now.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I fucking need this movie watch listed.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
No, anyway, let's move on to something I did really like,
and that's The Bleeding Skull Pick, always a favorite. I Oh,
so I did a lot of rewatches this month because
I did a guest spot on Sam Degan's podcast aerosplus
Massacre of Telephone Tear, and so a lot of them.
I was like, well, I can count a lot of

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these for categories that'll save me some time. This is
one of them. So I rewatched Out of the Dark
from nineteen eighty eight. This has a review on the
Bleeding Skull website from twenty twenty one, and I actually
I liked it when I first watched it, but I
liked it even more on this rewatch. There's a phone

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sex company ran by the lovely Karen Black and it's
called Sweet Nothings. But these phones X girls are being
murdered by a guy who calls in and wears a
clown mask. He's got great lines like nobody can handle
nipples like Bobo. It's got Bud Court in it. Paul

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Bartel is in it as a motel manager. Divine is
in it as a detective, only in it for like
a couple of scenes.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Jeffrey Lewis, does this have a comedy comedic tone to it?

Speaker 3 (19:27):
No, it has that a little bit when Divine is
in there, and but it is it is. I mean
it's a slasher and it can get a little bit brutal,
but I think it's a lot of fun. Yeah, I
mean this the cast is stacked in this one, so
out of the dark.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
If it was a brand new to me watch, I
would say, like one of my favorites of the month,
But because it was a rewatch, I wouldn't say that.
But you want to hear me talk about this movie
a little bit more, you can listen to that episode
with me and Sam Awesome.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
My pick for Bleeding Skull Day three was On the
Edge of Terror nineteen ninety two, directed by Alfredo. This
is another Mexican horror. Like I said, I think I
picked about fifteen or sixteen oh nice horrors for Mexico
Alfredo B. Cravenna. This is the first of two films
that I've watched of his during Horror Gives Back. So

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this is about an asshole father who has this ventriloquist
act that's been failing for years, and he blames his dolls,
his dummies for it. He basically like, you're fucking up.
You need to step up. So after a terrible performance,
he drinks, he goes home, he treats his young daughter
like shit, grabs an axe, and he chops up the

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dummy that he blames for that failed performance. That's that night,
and he also whips them at night to teach them
a lesson. These are just dummies, you know, just ventriloquist.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Oh wait, this is this the one where it comes back.
The life is the Okay, I was like this sounds
so familiar, but I forgot the title of it.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Okay, yeah, yeah, this movie, this was my favorite, probably
my favorite watch of the month. Okay. But the really
sad thing about it is that his daughter loves all
these dummies, and she goes down to the basement where
he keeps them, and she talks to him. And that's
when we get the little their little people playing these
these dolls. Yeah, and they talk back to her, and

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they're creepy, you know, painted up like clowns. They have
names like Smiley, MOPy, Musket, and Dario Dario. But one
evening the father goes down to the basement when when
his dummies, uh, you know where he keeps all his dummies,
and he finds his daughter talking to them, and they're
telling her raunchy jokes and he's he's thinking, it's just

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her talking to herself, coming up with these voices, coming
up with these great jokes. He doesn't think or know
that these dummies are actually alive in her mind, and
he makes her act like a dummy for his performances
moving forward. He paints he paints her up as Smiley,
the one that we chopped up with an axe, and
you know, if she shows like any type of she's

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pushing back, saying I don't want to do this. He
basically says like, I'm going to acce up all these
other dummies if you don't help me do this. She's like, no,
those are my friends. Okay, I'll do it. So it
just becomes you know, his act becomes very successful, and
it gets it just gets wild. Felt a bit like
Maniac or an Eye for an Eye, you know, a
little Joe Spinell, Like the actor Fernando Almada had a

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Joe Spinell look to him. He does, yeah, and I
kept thinking, like, this is like the Maniac two sequel
that we never got. Yeah, but he acts completely mad.
He's so delusional. The young daughter, Carlita, she's also really
great in this as a child actress. There's a great
montage of her learning to be a ventriloquist doll. The
biggest scribe, which I read on a lot of reviews

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and I can understand, is that the creepy dolls don't
get enough screen time, which and it kind of turns
into this telenovella, which I love. Yeah, you know, it's
very melodramatic. It probably runs a little too long, but
I was completely invested. One of my favorites of the
month has this crazy music as well. The whole thing.
I was waiting for something to just kind of take

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me out and disappoint me, but I think I gave
like four and a half stars. I was like, this
thing is wow a banger. Thank you Bleeding Skull for
putting it on my radar. Good stuff, Okay. Day four
Lena Rome Faceless from nineteen eighty eight. I had never
seen this. I think a lot of people have seen this.

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Franco kind of given us a standard done before plot.
Doctor kidnapps beautiful women to use their blood for his
practices of like reconstructing faces, and one of his patients
becomes disfigured due to one of his experiments, and she
comes by and tries to throw acid on him, but
one of his companions take the bullet for him, and

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his goal is to fix her and her burned face.
So it's kind of, you know, it's something we've all
seen before. This has a great cast. Bridget Lehayes in it,
Caroline Monroe, Helmet Berger. He plays the wicked but very
boring doctor. Like great cast, but I just think they're
kind of boring character. Sadly, Chris Mitcham plays the private investigator.

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The only character wasn't very boring but didn't get a
lot of screen time is Telly Savalis, who's loud and
just rambunctus. He plays Carolyn Monroe's father. He's like a
rich business mobile trying to defind her she's been kidnapped.
There's a doctor Orloff, who of course has to be
played by one person, Howard Vernon, and Lena Rome plays

(24:37):
his wife in a very small part. Yeah. It's fine,
very slow paced, uneventful in my opinion, a lot of
talking about like flesh experiments and new treatments. Honestly, you
got a little old for me. It has some cool
practical effects though. There's a woman getting her arms chopped off.
Another takes a syringe to the eyeball, which is really
good practical effect. There's a gnarly face transplant wrong. The

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burn scars looked great, but everybody did this to me
felt tired, except for Telly Sabalis, who's like, you know,
all hopped up. It does have a wonderful original song
that plays multiple times at the most awkward moments throughout
the film, which kind of was my favorite part. I
definitely appreciated that. But it's just Franco movie. You kind
of expect these nonsensical plots with beautiful women and crazy characters. Yeah,

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it was kind of middle of the road for me.
I enjoyed it overall, but wasn't my favorite.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
So my Lina Romee pick was Mansion of the Living Dead.
I really enjoyed this one. I think this is going
to be up there in my top Franco movies. This is,
you know, Franco doing the Blind Dead. Essentially, there's four friends,
including an adorable Lina rome In a like blonde bob Wig,

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and she's naked for a ninety percent of the movie,
which is what I'm here for.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, that's kind of what I was hoping.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
So they arrive at this Spanish beach resort, which they're
told is booked, but there's no other people that they
can find there except for the front desk guy. So,
I mean a lot of the movie is them sort
of wandering around the result the resort and going down
to like the beach and talking and like wondering where

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everyone is. But once like the sort of creepy stuff
starts ensuing. There's some horny, living dead monks and you
know what the only thing is that can save them.
It's Lena's vagina.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Oh yeah, I mean that's every email.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
It can save us all. Yes, But I really like
this one. It's it's got that perfect sort of euro
horror daytime laziness to it that's just kind of perfect
for like a Sunday afternoon watch. I might have, you know,
be giving it more credit than it deserves, but I
really enjoyed it. One thing I don't like for this

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is the poster un letter because I'm like, you got
Lena Rome in an adorable blonde like little Bob haircut,
and who's this broad on the cover. That's not that's
not Lena. I don't care for it.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
The undead look cool, yeah, ground but yeah that's yeah.
I see your Bob right there. See adorable kind of
ahull and drive you. I like it. Yeah, I want
to watch this.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
It's fun. I can't remember where I watched it. I
took out all my where I watched them. People can
find it though. Everyone has a letter boxed right, And.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
You're saying that you're hyping this up and maybe giving
it a higher rating. That's every film that I'm going
to go through.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
So you do that whatever you're you're nice to.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
I just SKay, four and a half stars on the
edge of Terrace.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
I mean it's fun, but that's that's a lot, okay.
Twenty first century horror. This was a This was a
struggle for me to accept this as a category.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
But I was like, you know what, sorry, I put
it forward.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
It's okay. Because I realized that there were career to
care solve movies that I have not seen yet, and
one of them was Pulse from two thousand and one.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Oh okay, I watched this, I feel like a couple
of years ago.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
I got to say, like, having watched a few of
his movies that, man, I think Sam Deagan has said this,
he's the only person that should be allowed to make
new horror movies because he knows how to genuinely creep
you the fuck out and also just make you question
your own existence. I didn't know what else to write

(28:30):
about this movie other than like, it's basically about technology
and the lack of connection that we really have with
one another. So like my notes just that I didn't
even put into you know, full sentences were ghosts in
the machine. We are all connected but cannot connect. Will

(28:51):
you be my friend?

Speaker 2 (28:52):
I like that. Like, that's it.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
That's my review of it. I love this movie. This
was another one of my favorite one watches of the month.
I am It's it's two sides to me where it's
like I wish I had seen The Sooner because they're
so good. But then there's also that part of me
that's like, no, I still have amazing things left to
watch that are new, that aren't you know that. I'm

(29:16):
not like, oh, I have to go back to, you know,
the sixties or seventies to find those movies, those gems,
those four or five star movies, Like, no, they still exist,
they do with Corosawa.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, well, I think with with this category two and
I brought this category up. I did put this one
off to a little very last minute. I think we're
thinking along the same lines that I'm definitely going to
pick an international modern film because a lot of the
American made stuff is just like The Strangers and shit.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, and we all I'm not going back to that.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, so I had initially picked Here Comes the Devil,
which I think you watched later on in this maybe
for your state yes I did. I never got around
to it, so I was like, okay, and I did
watch the New Franken Sign a couple of nights ago,
but I'm not going to cover that.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Wait, what did you think? Just curious?

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I gave it three stars because it looks cool. There's
a lot of CGI. But yeah, I wasn't a fan
of I like the first half. I did not like
the second half.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
I feel like del Toro does that like it's it's
always like I.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Think he just needs to narrow it down, Like, yeah,
I love that he has. He wants to make these
sprawling epics. You know, he's two and a half hour movies,
but this thing would I think I've been badass if
it was one hundred and forty minutes. You know. Take
out some of the stuff with the creature that I
wasn't a big fan of. Just take out the stuff
I didn't like. Okay, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Appreciate him as a fan, But a lot of his movies,
I'm like, they're pretty Yeah they are.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I mean the set design, the actual set design at
the CGI sets that you can you can tell that
which are which, Yeah, are fucking amazing. Okay, costume design
looks great, but I'm not going to talk about Frankenstein.
A lot of people are loving it, so I'm glad
people are liking it. I want El Tour to keep
making movies like this, for sure. I'm picking a mystery thriller.
It's kind of a cheat, it doesn't really have a

(31:10):
horror tag, but it's a psychological thriller. And I watched
this a couple of weeks ago, technically a November watch,
but I loved it, so I'm talking about it. It's
a South Korean thriller called The Vanished from twenty eighteen,
directed by Lee Chung Hee. And this is actually a
movie that I've probably put in my watch list when

(31:33):
it was released in twenty eighteen. It's been sitting there
for that long. It's an adaptation of a script by
oriole Paolo, who I'm pretty sure I've talked about on
the podcast. He wrote and directed The Invisible Guest, which
I loved, saw that at Fantastic Fest when it premiered,
And this is an adaptation of a film that he
wrote and directed called The Body. He's a Spanish director

(31:56):
from Spain. It's essentially about a woman who was murdered
and her corpse ends up disappearing from the morgue and
her husband is suspect number one. And there are like
so many amazing twists and turns. Like every Palo script
and film that I've seen before, this guy just does

(32:17):
He catches me off guard like any other script writer
that I've consistently watched. To me, it's like a modern
Spanish kind of Hitchcock. It's just there's a lot it's
very modern though. It's very like, you know, there's a
lot of cell phones involved. You know, it's definitely the
twenty first century. Okay, The cast is awesome. The pacing
it's an hour forty. It's long, but I never felt it.

(32:40):
It all takes place in a six hour period, so
it feels almost like real time. Awesome sound design has
kind of an old school thriller original score, But like,
these are the twenty first century horor thrillers that I
can get behind. Like you were saying with Pulse is,
these are totally my cup of tea. There are some questionable,
arguably unrealistic decisions and situations that happen which are required

(33:05):
to move this thing along. I can overlook those when
at least leads to a very satisfying finale and twists
that I never see coming, which this movie does. Totally
recommend it. It's on TV. It was recently added because
I've had it in my watch this forever and it
was never on streaming services, So okay, check it out.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
You know what's sad is that that movie has like
twenty five hundred views on letterboxed. The Vanished from twenty twenty,
directed by Peter Facinelli as over twelve thousand views. People.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
That seems about right.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Let's let's figure out our priorities here. Should we shout?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Shall we shall shout?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Shan we shall we?

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Day six slasher. I'm picking Phantom of Hollywood. It's a
cheap pick. Go listen to it. Listen to the wild
way Jack Cassidy passed away in real life. It's fun.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
My slasher pick is one that I'm also going to
point you to an episode four, but that's again, my guest,
what I did with Sam Degan. That's we talked about
Open House from nineteen eighty seven. This is about someone
who's killing female real estate agents because he doesn't like
rich people. It's the same director as hack O Lantern.

(34:21):
Adrian barbo Is in this I was pretty lukewarm on
this one when I watched it, but you can hear
Sam and I talk about this one. I know Adam
really likes this one, but I wasn't super hot on it.
But it has a phone element to it, hence why
we talked about it in the episode. But I don't
know where this was to be YouTube, so I think
it was on YouTube. Yeah, Open House nineteen eighty seven.

(34:44):
It's fine, all right. Day seven is Stelvio Chipriani. I
watched The Dream of Another from nineteen eighty one. This
is on It's the last TV movie that's on the
Devil's Game disc from Severn that's the with like all
of that. There's like six TV movies on there. This
is the last one. The star of that disc is

(35:07):
Venus of Ilse by Mario Bava. That was technically his
last film, so it's worth picking up for that alone.
But this one's actually directed by a woman, Giovanna gay Gliardi.
I think this is based on the HG. Well short
story The Story of the Late Mister Elvisham, which is
about a young medical student who has offered the estate

(35:29):
of an old philosopher on the condition that he formally
become his heir by changing his last name to his
so he's like, hey, you can have all my money,
but you got to change your last name to mine.
I won't spoil the outcome for anyone who hasn't seen this,
which is basically everyone, because this only had like fifty
logs on letterbox, or anyone who's read the story you

(35:51):
know how it ends. This has a very very sparse
sound stage setting, but not much is really needed for
it anyway, so it didn't really bother me that it
felt like a stage play overall. I think it was good,
not entirely memorable. The Chipriani score, though, is beautiful. There's
wind instruments, harp, piano, very soothing, very fitting.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I really enjoyed this one. Nice.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
What about you for Chipriani.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
My Chipriani pick is Birds of Prey nineteen eighty seven,
another Mexican horror Renee Cardona Junior as the director. This
thing cold opens with a couple who are hang gliding
and just having the best day ever. It's just like
the coolest date, like right over the beaches, and these

(36:39):
hawks start attacking them mid air. It's it's a very
cool idea, but it takes about five minutes of setup
of them enjoying themselves, and then it's like five minutes
of the bird attack and then you get then you
get your credits, and that that's kind of the mo
of these Cardona Junior jams. It's this is an hour

(36:59):
forty very cool ideas presented in scenes that just go
on too long, which I don't you know, I don't mind.
Really if you know Cardona Junior, you kind of expect this.
He has, you know, Bermuda Triangle, which is super slow.
I love Cyclone, which is like over two hours long.
But it is like this, It's like, here's a great
idea and let's just fucking bury it in the ground,

(37:22):
you know, for twenty minutes. Yeah, so this this one's okay.
In this one, we follow this extremely boring journalist in
our cameraman who began putting all these bird attacks that
are happening all over the world. They're putting them all
together and realize something's up, and they start interviewing the
least interesting people in the universe who are experiencing these attacks.

(37:44):
Think the prey with killer birds. There's a lot of
nature shot, a lot of birds just sitting there a
lot of birds taking flight, a lot of birds flying
in the air, just you know, probably get forty minutes
of all that. I did love. There was a bird
shrieking sound effect that they use over and over again
throughout this thing, and it's like a hawk, you know,
it's like but they show but they use it when

(38:06):
showing pigeons attacking people. I like love this. I was
also a little upset because they show so many child
death fake out.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Yeah, I remember that when I watched this. I think
it's in one of the Vinegar Syndrome sets.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, it's probably in one of the Cardona His Natural Disaster. Yeah,
it's just like random shots of kids running through birds
in slow motion. I'm like, here I goes. Yeah, this
is a five minute scene. It's got to end with
something good. Does have a great score again, Chipriani is
the reason for this pick, and that makes it worth it.
Kind of reminded me of Prince of Darkness. Carpenter's Prince

(38:44):
of Darkness, very doomy and tense. I'd give the score
definitely a higher rating than I did the film. But yeah,
I do love Cardona Junior. Okay. Day eight physical media.
I picked up Bleeding skulls The Other Dimension The what
is it? The Other Dimension in the films of Fabio Salerno.
Oh okay, so I watched The Other Dimension. It's a

(39:06):
nineteen ninety two horror anthology that Salerna made very low
budget DIY, perfect fit for a Bleeding Skull release. I'll
just go over the segments real quick. First segments called Delirium,
about a guy obsessing over a girlfriend who recently dumped him.
He ends up going to Balaan and plans to drug
her and kidnap her. But she has a secret, which

(39:28):
I will now reveal. Can you guess it? I mean
when I read that, I was like, oh yeah, I
got it. I know she is okay. Second segment is
called Mortal Instinct. The first segment was good because it
was short and quick sweet. I was like, okay, this
should be interesting. The second one called Mortal Instinct. This
one had a dedication screen when it opened up, quote

(39:50):
dedicated to the sleazy boys and the women who love them.
And that's mee yeah. But again, this is about a
woman who leaves her boyfriend. It goes back to her
and the broken hearted new boyfriend practices black magic, so
he gets these voodoo dolls of her and her new boyfriend,
and he starts doing these black magics. Just great practical effects,

(40:14):
if not unintentionally humorous. But I started seeing a pattern, like, okay,
there's a lot of ex girlfriends here. This Solerno's going
through it. And then the third is very long, the
third segment called life and Death. The first two segments
kind of fly by, and I'm like, this is pretty fun,
good practical effects. This one is once again about a

(40:36):
girl breaking up with her boyfriend to date some filmmaker,
and you know, when they're breaking up, they getting a
huge fight. Days later, he goes to her place to
bring like back all her stuff, and he walks into
her place and she's dead by apparent suicide. So he
ends up like staying with her. He sleeps with her,
get a little little necrophilia, which we always like, begins

(40:58):
hearing her voice telling him to cut her up and
eat her so that they can be together forever, and
he starts like cooking up her leg on the stove
while watching on TV as Dario Argento's Inferno. This is cool,
but all the stories are just bizarre and very to me,
clearly like a heartbroken teenager it feels like a heartbroken teenager,

(41:22):
like not even in film school, just at home with
his camp quarder and he's like, I'm going to make
these films and she's gonna love me again, and I
don't know. It's all very it's washed out sixteen millimeter films.
So it looks cool to the orange skies, the blue
lit rooms, very otherworldly, very other dimension. But I wasn't

(41:43):
blown away by this. I'm I want to check out
his other films, because you know, Bleeding School puts out
a lot of fun stuff. These are fun. I think
they're worth the watch. But I've heard some of his
other films are even better. His like standalone, non anthology stuff,
and I want to see if it if they don't
involve like an export friend.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
All right, So my physical media pick was another Todd
Brownie movie. So we have that criterion set with Freaks
and The Unknown and the other one is The Mystic
from nineteen twenty five, so that was my pick for
this category. I like this one a lot. I didn't
like it as much as The Unknown. This is about
a con man named Michael Nash. He recruits Zara, who's

(42:27):
a phony psychic, from a Hungarian carnival, so he brings her,
her father and this other guy over to New York
so that they can start, you know, fleecing high society folks.
So there's some really cool scenes in this, like the
seance segment where like the whole background is black and

(42:48):
you can see like the ghost and like kind of
the tricks and how they do all of this. It's
a lot of fun. There's a lot less time spent
in the carnival setting than Freaks or the Unknown, but
I don't think that's a bad thing here at all.
This is kind of like a fish out of water,
but also them succeeding in that environment, you know. I

(43:10):
think just the whole, the whole set, This whole Todd
Browning set from Criterion is great. Anyone who doesn't have
it should pick it up. I think the Criterion Barnes
and Noble sales actually going on right now.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
So for that it's always going on.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Yeah, well they have the other They had the Flash
Sail like last month, and now they've got the Barnes
and Noble, which they have twice a year, so they
have that one going on I think through the beginning
of December. So if you have the means. I definitely
recommend this one picking up the set because I think
all the movies in it are are great. Then we
have are made for TV category. This is another favorite,

(43:47):
and I picked The Phantom of Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
For this one.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Like Lance said, go back and listen to our episode
on that one.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
It's a fun one. Yeah. My made for TV movie
is Paperman from nineteen seventy one. This is directed by
Walter Graymond, if I'm saying it right, He directed Are
You Alone in the House and Lady in a Cage.
This is about a college kid who well, it's about
a bunch of college kid but it starts off with
this college kid who one day checks his mailbox and

(44:15):
he receives an envelope in his box addressed to a
Henry Norman which isn't him, and he can tell by
feeling it through and looking at you know who it's from,
that there's a credit card in there. So he's like
fuck yeah, so you know him and his three other
college friends they begin using the card, just racking up
all this this debt, this credit or debt. When the

(44:36):
credit card company starts asking questions, they ask Dean Stockwell,
who plays this computer genius who's like kind of an
intern at the campus or something. He kind of works there,
but he might have been a student. I couldn't tell.
But they want him to log into the supercomputer, which
they call the Almighty Brain. This is nineteen seventy one,
to create a real Henry Norman, to fool the credit

(44:57):
card company, create this real profile. So he's he does this,
then he begins dating one of the girls, and one
of the other guys starts getting real jealous. So all
these everybody who's using the card starts getting murdered off,
and he becomes the prime suspect because he thinks people
think like, oh okay, he's like the old smart guy

(45:18):
and he's dating the young girl. He's got to be
a suspect. So is he killing him? Is it the
real Henry Norman out there? Maybe it's the computer itself.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Watch this thing and figure it out. But what really
makes it entertaining is how outdated everything is. Again this
is nineteen seventy one. The computer language is fucking funny
to watch, and how how loud and big everything is
boo booppo. Yeah, it's more like a.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Oh, piper did not like that.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
The characters are just poorly written. They change on a dime,
which is annoying, but still fun as hell to watch.
The mysteries kind of. It's strong enough to keep you invested,
which it did for me. Also has an amazing dummy drop.
Oh there you But yeah, the paper Man, it was okay,
Dean Stockwell's he's good in it. He's I mean, he's fine.
It's made for TV movie in the seventies. We love him.

(46:10):
But this one, this one fell a little flat. Day
ten right, Yeah, The Sweetest Taboo mm hm. So this
is a bit of a cheat for me because I
haven't watched it yet. So when I created my Horror
Gives back list, my pick was on Alejandra. Oh okay,
and this was before you announced the no rules November pick. Okay,
So I'm just going to watch this, you know, maybe today,

(46:34):
if you know, we ever, if I ever get.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Home, I mean you, if you had watched it, you
would just say wait for our next episode's to hear
my thoughts. So yeah, that's I feel like, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Yeah, next episode I will be talking about my sweetest
taboo pick.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
All right, So my sweetest taboo pick, and I had
plenty to choose from because I got a big chunk
that I need to get through for volume two. I
wouldn't say I chose poorly, but I mean I could
have chosen better.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
But it's a child death.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Yeah, I know, I picked a twenty twenty three movie,
though I know I had to watch it, so yeah,
I know, all right. So this was No One will
Save You from twenty twenty three. It's about this girl, Brinn.
I'm guessing she's like mid twenties. She lives alone in

(47:25):
my dream house. If anyone's seen this movie, you've seen
this house. That's what I want, all right. So she
keeps herself busy with crafts and hobbies. The people in
the town refused to speak to her because of an
incident that happened years earlier, which earned this movie a
place in the Sweetest Taboo. So the only solution to

(47:45):
her regaining their trust and having a social life is
apparently an alien invasion. This movie got a lot of
attention because it has a I guess you could call
it a gimmick where there's no dialogue in this and
it makes for the movie. Because she lives by herself,
she doesn't have a pet, which boo selfish, like you've

(48:06):
got a huge fucking house, like, get some animals.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Yeah, she could have some sort of medical condition.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
They then establish that why don't you have animals? It's
because I have severe allergies or compromised immune system. What
fucking avery, No animals with a big house, Like that's
fucking waste. AnyWho, I was fine with a gimmick. I
didn't actually notice it until she screamed on the bus.

(48:32):
I was like, oh shit, wait, there hasn't been any
dialogue in this because I didn't know anything about it.
I didn't, you know. I tried not to read reviews
before I watched something. Like I said, it works in
this situation because she doesn't have anyone to talk to.
Some people might argue that she would at least have
some kind of internal dialogue, but I don't think that's
needed here. I guess it does do a good job

(48:54):
of showing and not telling in that way. So there's
something nice I can say about a modern horror movie. Yes,
I guess, like I don't know, if she had like
a cat, she would have someone to talk to you,
Like I said, a dog, I guess I don't think
a dog would work because then she would have had
something to save her from the aliens.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
You know. Oh, so there's there's aliens.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
There's actual aliens in this and they destroy that beautiful,
beautiful home. So what doesn't work for me and skip
ahead if you don't want this movie spoiled for you.
What doesn't work for me is that the aliens end
up sparing her. Like they're basically lobotomizing everyone and like
taking like they attach these things to you, like there's

(49:37):
this thing in like your throat here where, and like
that's the aliens are like the people now, so they're
basically just walking around like zombies kind of thing. Okay,
they spare her from this because they scan her brain.
They see her trauma, the thing that happened years ago
with the dead kid that caused her to like, you know,

(50:00):
no one talks to her anymore and I got trauma.
The aliens spare her for that reason, Like, and we're
also supposed to believe that she was able to there's
the thing in the throat. We're supposed to be able
to believe that she stuck her hand down her throat
and pulled it out because she gets one in her
at one point. Oh, but after like she's able to

(50:21):
pull it out. Then the aliens like suck her up
in the ship. They scan her brain and they're like,
you're cool, and then they drop her back off and
then she gets to live in this town where now
she gets along with everyone because they're all fucking lobotomized.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
This sounds terrible.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Yeah, I didn't like it.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
I did. I didn't see the actress though she's scared.
She was to star in Books Smart.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Oh, okay, I didn't see BookSmart. Anyway. I want to
know where this house is and who wants to give
me money to buy it. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
What's destroyed in the movie.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
It was destroyed.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Okay, the movies are real, But maybe that's the problem.
Maybe it's maybe it's a lease and they have a
no fucking pet policy. Maybe that explains it.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Oh, she owns the home her mom died. That's her
other trauma. So like it's her mom's house and she's.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Maybe the alien spare because they're like this, this bitch
does not have as any pets. What a fucking Yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
I don't think i'll watch that one.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
D you're not missing anything, all right, So next category
is nineteen seventies. I watch Lovely dead Me. Listen to
our last episode.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Hey, I watched Lovely love Me Deadly too. Yeah, you
learn listen to it. Learn the acronym CCDTF.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Right.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
It's a fun one. I guarantee you might even get
tattooed on your own or something. Yeah. So that was
my nineteen seventies pick for Day twelve. It's Animals Attack
nineteen forties The Devil Bat, directed by Jean Yarbrough, who
went on to direct She Will fle Up a London,
The Brute Man, starring Rond o' hatton, and he also

(52:04):
directed I think this was an old hor gizbackpick. I
covered Hillbilly's in a Hunted House.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Yeah, I know you specifically remember you talking about that one.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
I rated that way higher than I should have. But
that had Lawn Cheney's junior in it, Basil Rathbone, John Carrodine, great,
great cast, terrible movie, a lot of singing. But for
Devil Bat. Bela Lugosi plays a doctor who the village
sees is a very kind man and they love him.
He's a great doctor, but he's secretly creating a giant

(52:33):
bat in his home that will attack these people wearing
a scent that he also created. Apparently he makes money
on the side for a local cosmetic firm and creates
this aftershave perfume. While I guess he's a doctor, but
I don't know, but you know, it's Lagos. He plays

(52:53):
a mad doctor very well, mainly because the character, again
I felt was so poorly written. He hates everybody for
no real reason. I can't understand why he hates everybody.
It's implied that he doesn't make enough money, but you know,
it's kind of poorly written. But he starts seeking these
giant bats on the rich family members around the village.

(53:15):
A bat kills the head of the cosmetic company's son,
and a reporter is sent in from the big city
to investigate because everybody thinks this is murder. Of course,
they call doctor Legosi to view the bodies, and it
doesn't make sense again because he immediately is like, yeah,
a giant animal must have done that. I'm like, dude,
come on, like lay low, what are you doing here?

(53:36):
But apparently, unknowingly, the company releases this after shave, so
the bat starts killing more people wearing it. But what's
funny is Bella does kind of zero in and target
some people, so he gives them this perfume. They call
it a lotion, but it's like an aftershave. He gives
it to his next victim and they recycle this joke

(53:56):
like five times throughout the movie. It's like it's always
at night and he's all, would you like you know,
some lotion for like, oh sure, it's a test for
cosmetic and they always say thanks so much, good night doctor,
And instead of him saying, you know, good night, right back,
it gets real, you know, dramatic in tone, and he's all, goodbye,

(54:18):
mister Leyton. You know, it's just over and over again.
By the fifth time, you know, the third time I laughed,
the fourth time, I was a little annoyed. By the
fifth time, I was like, come on, this is too cheesy.
Fake bats though great. They're giant. They're huge. They're like
people size, so when they attack, they like just land
on people and they fall. They also scream like the

(54:39):
Chicken Lady from Kids in the Hall. It is loud,
and there's some moments where they scream for like five
seconds a terrible There's this one scene where a guy
asks he hears it, He's all, what's that shrieking sound?
And another casually answers, oh, just some night noise. Yeah,

(55:00):
I love it. Awesome poster, probably more fun to look
at than the movie, unfortunately, but it's only sixty eight minutes,
so you can't really you could do a lot worse.
I think I brought this up in the Fatal Exposure
episode where I read that apparently there's a twenty twenty sequel,
a very low budget sequel to this, made with Tina

(55:22):
Kraus's in the cast. Yeah, but yeah, I salute. I
want to seek that out and watch that.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
So, speaking of awesome posters but not so awesome movies,
my animal attack movie was Bigfoot from nineteen seventy. Okay,
so the tagline that's on the poster is Bigfoot breeds
with anything, Oh shit, And then he's holding a motorcycle
over his head and there's a woman tied to a
pole in the background. I want this one sheet.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Oh yeah, that's badass.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
But so the movie itself though, it's about a family
of horny bigfoots big feet whatever. They kidnap women and
only John Carrondine and Chris Mitcham can save them. So basically,
these women are definitely getting screwed by Bigfoot.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Big feats, Big big feats thesis.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
I mean, the premise is great, but it's not as
fun as it sounds or should be. There's a terrible
copy on to be like a squinting copy. But the monsters,
the men in ape suits, I guess look fun. One
of them fights a bear. I don't know. It's just

(56:42):
I wish I had a better copy of it, maybe,
like I would definitely give it another chance if I
had a better copy of this. I think it's very
kind of similar to Bill Griffet's Whiskey Mountain. Okay, but
not it nearly is.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Charming a great freeze show.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
No, or it doesn't have a great theme song either.
And it's just it's got the cast that's got the
prep like the fucking poster posters.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Amazing. I love this quote. The most realistic horrifying film ever.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Yeah breeds with anything. So yeah, Bigfoot nineteen seventy If
you've got an amazing copy of it, and maybe you
can tell me if it's better than I think it is,
and maybe share that with me, all right? And then
South Korea my pick I watched quite a few twentieth

(57:34):
century movies. This war gives back. I'm not going to
do that again next year. I'm going to tell you
that right now. That's my goal if I can help it,
all right. So I watched the Fifth Thoracic Vertebra from
twenty twenty two, sixty five minutes long. This is about
a creature that grows inside a mattress from the mold

(57:57):
that's on it, and it steals verteb from the numerous
people who use the mattress over the years. So it's
kind of like like Slacker in the way that we're
not following one person or group throughout the film, but
more like we're following the mattress essentially, you know. So

(58:19):
we're watching it through the point of view of the
mattress creature, and it's a sort of voyeuristic look into life,
love and death. There's some gore in it, but it's
very much art house horror, if that's that's your bag,
if that's what you're looking for. And it's sixty five minutes,

(58:40):
so you're not committing yourself to something significant, and I
thought it was interesting, So I guess it would be
kind of like slacker meets rubber in a way. I
know there's some haters of rubber. I get it, but
it's kind of like that in a way.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
No, No, deathbed, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
You could give it that too, I think, but deathbed
just kind of like steals the entire person. This one
is more like the mattress travels all over the city
kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
So yeah, I mean that's interesting. I liked it. I
think it was.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
It was on one of the suiting Okay, yeah, what
about you.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
South Korea this was a major blind spot for me.
The Whaling from twenty sixteen. I'd never watched it. I
think most listeners have already seen it. But it's about
a Japanese man who arrives in a small South Korean village.
Weird things start happening. People are going crazy, murdering their
own family members, acting very strange, and the police are

(59:40):
trying to figure out what the hell's going on everybody's
They kind of believe at first it's an infection from mushrooms,
but then it turns into like this possession mystery, and
one of the cops's daughters start showing symptoms, and it
essentially turns into a South Korean Exorcist. I loved it.
Favorite of the months for sure. This was a long

(01:00:02):
one too, This was almost three hours long. It's yeah,
and I typically stay away from long Horgis back picks,
but this one called to me. It has it does
have like a battle of wizards or they're Shammon's and
it's kind of felt very kind of third act in
a Shaw Brothers whoror it kind of happens in the
middle of the movie. A lot of comedy kind of
pops up in this, but it's presented in a realistic,

(01:00:25):
realistic manner, not heavily goofy or anything, just kind of
real talk that friends, you know, close friends would do,
even in like heartbreaking or tense situations.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
I feel like South Korean Horr does that really well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
It's very real, like the dialogue, even though maybe the
subtitles are a little inaccurate, but it's yeah. The performances, yeah,
it's some of the best I've seen for sure. Yeah,
one of my favorites. Beautifully shot. Majority of the film
takes place outside, so you get a lot of forests
and kind of these busted shacks, usually with a hard
rain going on. Just shot really well. I'm glad I

(01:00:59):
finally checked this off my list. Nice Day fourteen Unsung
Horrors Rule. I watched Peter B. Goods masterpiece Fatal Exposure.
Me too.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Hey, we have a whole episode about it, and you
should go listen to that. Watch the movie and then
listen to Yeah, listen to the episode next category, day fifteen.
Halfway there, Yeah is Jay and b the disgusting whiskey
that makes its way into so many, so many movies.

(01:01:31):
I finally watched Duccio Tasory's Puzzle from nineteen seventy four.
You know, I love Luke Morenda and so I was
glad to finally watch this. There's a dog in it
that's named Whiskey, so it's very fitting for this category.
The dog dies. Unfortunately, it happens halfway through, so I
guess that's a little bit of a spoiler. But I

(01:01:52):
bring that up because the dog's death is the kid
Luca's fault. Like Luca, this little boy who is friends
with Luke Morenda's wife, he's got the dog on a
leash on the beach. He lets it off leash. Don't
let your dogs off fucking leash. Like that's the kid's fault.
That dog is dead, all right, So Luke Morenda. He

(01:02:13):
plays Edward slashed Head. He's an amnesiac who's trying to
put the pieces of his life back together, hence the title,
And basically he travels back to another city and he
finds his wife, but then he keeps all these people
keep popping up and are like, hey, where are the drugs? Hey,
where's the money? Like all this other stuff happening with it.

(01:02:35):
So it's a jallo, So I don't want to give
away too much about it, but it wasn't It didn't
quite scratch the itch of a jalla that I was
looking for. It's much more relationship mystery focus than murder.
But I mean it does have a beautiful setting, but
it doesn't really have any like the sort of stylistic

(01:02:58):
flourishes that you would kind of point to in some
of like the Okay, but the end that she brusts
out the chain saw in this, like I appreciate the chainsaw.
So I will say like, I did enjoy it quite

(01:03:19):
a bit. It's not a traditional jallo, but I think
that kind of makes it stand out in a way
when it comes to Douccio Ta. Sorry, I still like
Big Guns. I still think that's his best by far,
and I like a Bloodstain Butterfly a little bit more
than this one. But I'm going to finally get to

(01:03:41):
his Ringo movies next year. You've seen a Pistol for
Ringo and your review said, this is a top five
Christmas movie? So would you recommend I watch it at Christmas?

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Yeah? You can watch it anytime. I mean usually I'm
a little joking in.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
My I but I didn't know if it was actually
a Christmas It's a Christmas movie, Okay, I didn't know
if it was also something like you just watched your
in law's House, so it happened to be on No.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
No, I don't think I even watched that in the
in law's house. Okay, Yeah, that was something I probably
put on t B or something or YouTube.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Okay, home, all right, what's your would you raise a
glass too?

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
For this category? For jamb Is, this was perfect timing
because I went to a theater. I went to the
Alama Draft House weird Wednesday and watched this on October fifteenth,
the perfect day, and it was in the folds of
the fame. I launch this movie in nineteen seventy. Director
of one of our earlier episodes, Blood Delirium Sergio Bergenzelli. Yeah,

(01:04:37):
I watched this. Like I said, it was perfect timing,
like Day fifteen. You know, most of the most of
these watches I watch out of order, not even on
the actual date. This one fit perfect. It's also very
fitting for a weird Wednesday, because it is weird as fuck.
Manda Micabro released this I guess not too long on
Blue and Sam Degan did the commentary. Yeah, and there

(01:04:58):
was a note that she began her commentary with it
quote defies convention as well as logic at nearly every turn.
And that's exactly right. And since this was programmed and
presented by Laird Humanez, I'm just going to read his
letterbox review and then be done with it. Right. I
might have more to say, but okay, it's a madhouse tasteless.

(01:05:23):
Wait till you see how they finally show full frontal nudity,
hysterical absurd, has editing rhythms that, by design or not
knock you for a loop. Think double story or boarding house,
constant cutaways to caged vultures, looping snap zooms, kaleidoscopes. This

(01:05:44):
is way more spider baby slash Undertaker and his pals
blackly comedic than the Bava Hitchcock Christy Wallace influenced Giallo
wave it gets lumped into, though I'm eternally grateful to
Criterion Channel for including it in their giallow collection. Throw
it in the middle of a triple feature with Orgasmo
and Pieces and ascend to some sort of sleazy camp Nirvana.

(01:06:09):
Someone else can sit with this movie and parse what's
parody and what's just shoddy writing and filmmaking. I'm just
gonna enjoy getting the carpet yanked out from under me,
and Yeah, this thing's very sleazy, very melodramatic, great gore kills.
Of course, it has JMB, a little bit of incest. Yep,

(01:06:30):
it has arguably these very uncomfortable, maybe unnecessary flashback scenes
of Nazi death camps. So bizarre. I loved it. Yeah,
one of the best Weird Wednesdays I've been. I mean,
I don't go to Weird Wednesday that much at all.
I don't go to Terror Tuesdays that much at all,
but this was one of the most fun I've had
in a while in the theater.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Yeah, I wanted to go to this one, but I
was like, I've seen it and busy this month, and
I saw you were going so I was like, all right,
well Lands can represent.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
But I lost this movie. Yeah, Like, I mean, it
doesn't feel like that much of a Giallo. I mean,
the JMB is obviously there, it's Italian and YadA, YadA, YadA,
but this thing is just on its own bizarre. Yeah,
Day sixteen still me right, yep. Nineties nineteen nineties one
of my favorite favorite categories. Another Mexican horror, Diabolical Inheritance

(01:07:20):
from nineteen ninety four. I'm really going on with these
little people dressed. Okay. So a man, a man's aunt
dies and he inherits her house and estate, and he
and his wife moved from New York to live in
this house, and she quickly finds out that they're pregnant,
and then she finds his old aunt's favorite doll from

(01:07:43):
when she was a kid. The husband finds a job
in this new town. He has to go on a
business trip, and the doll starts showing up on its
own throughout the house, knocking shit over, freaking the woman out,
who's now very pregnant. She starts locking the dog, and
the locking the doll in entries, it randomly pops out,
and we finally gets to see the little person play

(01:08:06):
in this creepy clown doll. She falls or I guess
she's pushed down the stairs by the doll and dies,
but the baby survives. Six years later, the man marries
who I think is a secretary. I mean, this sounds
like a spoiler, but all this happens like in the
first twenty minutes of this thing. It moves at break
at speed. The sun starts playing with this clown doll

(01:08:30):
as he gets older. The new young wife starts freaking
out about the doll, so she takes it and tosses
it in the lake. You can kind of guess what
starts happening, right, Yeah. People on letterbox they call this
slow and boring.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
Oh there you people.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
It covers like ten years without any explanation, So in
that regard, it's very fast, luftiely. It moves very fast.
I can. I definitely get the slow argument, though, but
I clicked with the Pacne right away. I was like,
here we go as a crazy ass score that. It's
almost like Danny Elfman sounding just very very whimsical.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I also has two of the best dummy drops I've
probably ever seen. So I will say the end credits
are fucking hilarious. It's a freeze frame of the clown
doll his face. He's smiling real big, and the credits
are rolling and it's just him cackling, just laughing for
like three minutes, but he's freeze for his face. It's

(01:09:32):
it's like, it's not like Luke laughing. It's like the
voice actor was probably doing that for like three minutes. Thanks,
I love it all right.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
Nineteen nineties, so I originally had I went through a
few picks for this one, and I changed my list
quite a few times. For this one. I tried watching
some other like low budget movies, and my brain just
for whatever reason, like this time, would not get on
that frequency. So I just went for some low hanging fruits.
Since I have never seen this, I watched Scream two

(01:10:07):
from nineteen ninety seven. Oh wow, you know, I just
never got around to scene it. I saw the first
one in theater. I saw the reboot one. I don't
know what number people over that. I saw that one
by accident because I got it. I do like preview
new movies occasionally. Thing and this one was like an

(01:10:29):
in theater one, so I went and saw it for
that and I was like, oh, it's a new scream movie,
and like the whole audience was like so excited, and
I was sitting there with my diet code just like
all right, so yeah, I'd never seen Screen two. It's fine,
it's a scream movie. I don't know. I love Wes Craven,
but these movies sort of mark that turning point in

(01:10:52):
the nineties of horror movies becoming overly polished and everyone
just being super attractive, and that's just it's just not
something I want to watch anymore, you know, Like this,
this is like that line like where it crossed, like
my my sort of cut off point I think I
generally tell people is candy Man, and like after that,

(01:11:12):
I'm like, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
Yeah, And I don't I've never really given a much stop,
but it just kind of popped in my head. It's
also I've never been a huge fan. I think Stream
one's a lot of fun. Wes Craven is reinventing horror again,
but you know, I haven't been like sucked in as
many as much as a lot of my friends are
with the screen franchise. But I almost feel like Scream
is also when the eighties nostalgias started popping up in movies,

(01:11:36):
like because they reference all the old, you know, horror
tropes and stuff, and I feel like people really latched
on and kept going with that type of and.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
They've taken it to like another level, and it's like
now we're nostalgic for nineties, and soon we're going to
be now like with no shade on Joe and his
programming for Terror Tuesday, but it's become very heavy on
a tour like the early two thousands, and I'm like,
those movies are ugly as fuck. They're all like fucking

(01:12:08):
Sepia Tinged garbage. They're ugly, They're ugly, and I don't
like them, and he keeps programming them, and I'm like,
this is why I don't go to fucking Terror Tuesday anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
I mean, there's some bangers for October.

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
Yeah, he'll bring it out for October, Like he did
Creep Show and I wanted to go to that but.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
It got fog.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Yeah yeah, so I mean, yeah, like.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
How some of a thousand corpses I really wanted to
go to that. It was the thirty five.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
I don't care, but yeah, it's so Yeah, I love
Wes Craven. I agree. I think Scream is great and
it reinvents it. But you're one hundred percent right, Like
it's really this is what also started that, Like hey
there's rules and hey, remember it's not like we didn't
know any of this stuff before, but like bringing it
to the forefront and then like now all these movies

(01:13:01):
feel like they have to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
They all feel like they're trying to be the next Screen.
Like I feel like a lot of modern horror, you know,
there's a lot of comedy mixed in with it, and
to me, it sounds like they're trying to reinvent and
try and do what Wes Craven did with Screen and
it's just like it's been done.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Yeah, but I have no aspirations to watch the rest.
Apparently Scream three is the worst one according to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
That's right, whatever, that's the last one I've ever seen.
I haven't seen any of I think there's seven at
this point.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
I'm seven's coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
I'm good whatever, nineties Scream two, check it out. I
guess I'm the last person on earth who hasn't seen
it all right birth year, I watched The Evictors from
nineteen seventy nine. This is starring Jessica Harper and Michael Parks,
who is not playing a scumbag in this, which is

(01:13:55):
rare for him. So they play Ruth and Ben Watkins.
They move into a new house on the outskirts of
a small Louisiana town during World War Two. Their real
estate agent, Jake Rudd, played by Vic Morrow. He fails
to tell them about like this long history of people
dying under mysterious circumstances at the home. So soon Ruth,

(01:14:19):
Jessicarper's character, she starts experiencing all these really strange occurrences.
There's like a person lingering around their house and like
trying to break in. And what I really appreciated about
it was that there was no gas lighting in this.
Like she would see someone at the window, freak out,
run and go get her husband, bring him back, and

(01:14:41):
there were actually like mud footprints out there, so he
was like, oh shit, So there was no like sure, Jan,
you know, there was none of that happening. Yeah, So
this is kind of a it's a really slow Southern horror.
This is another one that's really great for a lazy
Sunday afternoon. I watched this at the beginning of November

(01:15:05):
and this was sort of I think I actually watched
it on November first, but perfect as a calm down
for a lazy day after Halloween kind of movie where
it's not like, really there is some gore in it,
there's some kills in it, but nothing overly scary. Just
perfect for a certain mood. I did really like this one.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
When I see this one logged on letterbox just randomly,
I'm always intrigued by the poster. Yeah, that's a cool poster.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Yeah, it's a great poster. It doesn't really fit the movie.
It's trying to make it something that it's not, but
it's still really good. I liked it, so I think
this was on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Nice okay. Birth Here for Me is a Mexican western
with a horror genre tag hot Snakes, oh okay, directed
by Fernando Doran Rojas, about a guy named Emiliano who
he's a bounty hunter. He's after a wanted man named Jenkins,

(01:16:01):
who you know, he just murders and rapes wherever he goes.
Then a young waiter who Emiliano used to fuck with
when he was younger. He joins the story. He begins
stalking Emiliano for some unknown reasons, which we learn about
in flashbacks, and about halfway through the movie, Emiliano gets
his man Jenkins kills him, shoots him and kills him.

(01:16:24):
But while he's transporting the body back to Hot Snake,
Jenkins's body keeps popping up when Amelia is not looking.
It's hinting at a zombie, you know, dead coming back
to life ankle and kind of the reason that we
feel like it could be a zombe because there's this
quote Indian named Ramona, who people around Hot Snake and

(01:16:48):
all the local local towns mentioned she's a shaman who
dabbles in witchcraft. So there's this element of magic going
on throughout the whole, this undertone of magic and throughout
this Western which is kind of the horror element other
than him might be in a zombie. I was definitely
in the mood for this when I watched it. Great squibs,
great gore, beautiful Mexican deserts and rough terrain. It looks

(01:17:11):
like it was filmed in autumn or early winter because
there's a lot of you know, you could see their
breath in a lot of scenes. Fantastic original score by
a gentleman named Nacho Mendez who kind of puts together
this great original western theme, very more coney sounding, kind
of you know, sounds like a popular spaghetti western, but
it's his own. It's unique in a weird way. But yeah,

(01:17:34):
I just really enjoyed it. Does have a lot of
real snakes getting blown apart, which is kind of you know,
you can't expect that one putting on any movie from
the seventieses. Yeah, especially horror movie or western. But yeah,
I just really enjoyed this one. Hot snakes. I think
this one was on two B as well, but it's fun.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
I think who put this one out, either Vinegarson, Germ
or sever and one of them put it out.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
Yeah, it has that orange cover art that was from
the box set. I think there was another.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Oh yeah, there's two on it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Yeah remember, but yeah, I think it's okay. Day eighteen
hell Satan, hell Satan. I already brought this up Dtor
Satan from nineteen sixty six. More Mexican horror for Me,
directed by Miguel Moreda very reanimator concerning an injection of
potion made by doctor Satan. This is a different formula

(01:18:30):
from the sequel that yen Ley was doing, but it's
injected in the back of the neck and it brings
the dead back to life. And these zombies come back.
They don't know they're dead, but all they know is
that they follow the commands of doctor Satan and they're
like beautiful women. By the way, all the zombies, the
whole premise is pretty silly. Doctor Satan makes these zombies

(01:18:50):
to protect him from the police as he runs a
counterfeit money scheme with other Satanists. Goofy as fuck. I
had a lot of fun with it though, even though
if we the viewer know the mystery up front with
the zombies and we're watching the police trying to figure
out what we're we've already seen, you know, they see

(01:19:11):
a lot of people who they thought were dead or
walking around. The cast has great chemistry, especially the main
detective and his girlfriend slash secretary. But there's this great
scene of one of doctor Satan's zombies getting shot and
he sews it up. It's like a scene from Rambo
and it's like real quick scene, but it's pretty good
practical effects for the mid sixties. A lot of reviews

(01:19:34):
of this being more spy thriller than horror, and I
already said, like, there's a counterfeit, which I understand because
there's like safe cracking, there's a James Bond style bracelets
with tracking signals in it. But there's a lot of
horror in it. There's a lot of murder, a lot
of reanimating zombies. Satan himself makes an appearance. Oh good
for him, pops up because Doctor Satan needs to ask

(01:19:57):
Satan for permission when he wants to bring a dead
person back to life, he has to get approval to
take the soul. And Satan looks amazing. He has huge wings,
small horns. They never show the face, you know, he's
kind of silhouette in the back. At first reminded me
of the do you remember the Deviled Ham devil food logo? Yes,

(01:20:20):
where it's just like, you know, kind of like classic
but kind of evil looking double like dancing around. That's
what it reminded me of. I was like, what, it
definitely sets up the sequel for when doctor Satan he's
put in jail and says like this isn't over. I'm invincible.
This is an inconvenience. I truly believed him, and he
ends up taking this capsule and dying and dissolving, and

(01:20:43):
I was like, bring it on. The actor is Doctor
Satan is played by jo Joaquin Cordero, and he also
is in the sequel as well, and he just so captivating.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
All right, my Hail Satan. Pick you mentioned it earlier.
It's also sweetest taboo movie. It's here comes a Devil
from twenty twelve, and I already did my write up
for it for the book, so I'm just going to
read that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Okay, cool spoiler.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
Felix and Soul allow their two children, Sarah and Adolpho,
to explore a cave on their own while their parents
take a nap and get busy in the car. The
children disappear, but show up the next day, claiming that
it was too dark for them to find their way back.
In the weeks that follow, the children seem off to
their parents and are getting a little too close for

(01:21:32):
Soul's comfort. She and Felix think that they have figured
out what horrific events happened to the children that night,
but the truth turns out to be much worse. So
the opening kill, which actually does tie back into the
main plot actually had me hooked. I kept wondering how
it would connect, and while it was a little more

(01:21:53):
simplistic than the rest of the film, I did appreciated it.
I did appreciate that it wasn't just a h out
this gore and exploitative sex scene. The child death is
unremarkable as it happens off screen, and like much of
the movie, how, how, or even if it happened is
a mystery until the end when we get a flashback

(01:22:14):
and see some part of it. Viewers are left in
the dark about most of what is happening and what
to expect. Some of it is easy to figure out,
some of it will surprise you, and I think a
lot of that has to do with whom the director
explicitly cited as references. If you can make it through
most of the end credits song I struggled but prevailed,

(01:22:35):
you'll see his extensive list of ayuda es spiritual or
spiritual help, which included David Cronenberg, Dust Devil, Nicholas Rogue,
Henry James, Sergio Martino, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and the Entity,
a lot of which I picked up on in hindsight.
Since the moments were influenced by not references of those

(01:22:58):
people and films. I was somewhat taken out of the
movie occasionally, specifically with the quick zooms that felt like
they belonged in another movie, like one from Fulci. But
I didn't hate myself after watching this. In fact, I
gave it a little nod, so you can add another
to the list of twenty first century horror movies that
I don't hate. That list is still heavily foreign films, though,

(01:23:21):
because American directors continue to treat their audiences like morons.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Great, right, no, thank you. Yeah, and it's back to
a lot of what we've already talked about so far.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Yeah for sure, all right, day nineteen K and B
effects a lot to choose from, because you got the
three people. Sometimes they work all together, sometimes they work
on their own thing. I chose the Robert Kertzman directed
The Rage from two thousand and seven. I had something

(01:23:53):
else picked prior to that, and then someone in our
discord mentioned that there was a child kill in this,
so uh tagline for The Rage, this isn't your Daddy's
bird flu.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Daddy's bird flu.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Yeah, it'll make sense, Okay, all right. So, scientist doctor
Victor Vassilenko played by Andrew Divoff, which most people know
from Wish Master, he experiments with a zombie sorry rage
virus on people in his remote laboratory in the woods.
One victim manages to escape, only to be devoured by

(01:24:32):
vultures who continue to spread the virus. So Kurtzman saw
twenty eight days later and decided there's not enough gore
in this. There's also not enough vultures in this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Like flesh in the fold, in the flesh in so
many ways.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Yeah. There. He also decided that he needed to make
the vultures zombie vultures cool. That's the best part of
this movie, honestly, Although like the CG in it is
it's fun when they're the practical ones, but when they're
CG it's like, Okay, it's not fun.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Yeah, And when you get in twenty first century, especially
early two thousands, like my pick, you're going to get
that a mix of it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
The practical ones are fun, though they reminded me a
lot of the Turkey and Thanks Killing, like they look
exactly like that, honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Reggie Banister from Phantasm, he's in this briefly as Uncle Ben.
He's the reason why this is the sweetest taboo pick.
He kills a child in this So Ben he ends
up getting attacked by a zombie and it's funny because
like he makes like some references to fantasm before he

(01:25:47):
gets zombie fied. And basically what happens is like the
vultures eat the zombie flesh, like once the people die,
and then they become zombie vultures and then they go
around attacking people.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
And they become zombies when a vultures.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Yeah, so yeah, it's like the circle of it. So
I mean, honestly, like if if it didn't have this
god awful new metal soundtrack, I might not have like
outright hated it. But that was just it was just
all over it and I hate that music so so much.

(01:26:19):
The gore it's as expected with when you got Kurtzman
at the Helm, but I mean, honestly, at some point
it became so excessive that it was like, Okay, we
get it. You know, I know it's a zombie film.
I know it's a gore film, but like you can
dial it back like a little bit here. You're losing
the impact when you have it in every single scene.

(01:26:43):
I don't know, just felt like he was trying to
make a point. I don't know. I appreciate his work
definitely in the special effects realm. But when special effects
people like Gabe Bartolis, I think that's his name. He did,
like skin Deep or something like that. Those people, they're

(01:27:05):
great at what they do when it comes to effects,
but when they want to make their own movie and
when they have full control, it just it goes too far,
it goes off the rails, and it just it loses
I just I lose interest because it's like they're just
they become try hard to me, Yeah that makes sense. Yeah.
I didn't love it, but you know, had to watch

(01:27:26):
it because dead kids. So what about you for Canby?

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Yeah, mine's a two thousand and nine film, Survival of
the Dead. I'd never seen Romero's last film, Okay, I
was not a fan of Diary of the Dead. I
hated it. Actually, it's coorse Romero I've ever seen. So
I wasn't very excited to watch this one, but I
did want to complete, you know, this collection service and
watch his last film. I didn't mind this one as

(01:27:51):
much as I was bothered by Diary. The story wasn't
that bad. The actors are absolutely terrible in this. Some
of them are rolled over from Diary, but this thing
is kind of full on horror comedy. I like the
idea though, going to an island when there's a zombie outbreak,
which kind of sets up it's a great shooting location.

(01:28:12):
There's some underwater zombies which are cool to watch. And
even though this is a K and B category, which
you just brought up, this has a ton of bad CGI,
especially the kills. It's like you get these solid makeup
and practical effects, you know, mainly for the actors when
they're in their zombie makeup, but bad CGI when you
show like a head explosion or a head being chopped off.

(01:28:33):
There's this terrible scene where it's early on in the film,
a couple of redneck hunters they decapitated some zombies and
they put their heads on steaks and stuck them into ground.
So you have these heads on steaks that are just
you know, alive all and it's just laughable CGI. It's terrible.

(01:28:54):
So when you get that overshadowing any decent practical effects
that you see, it's not a very good time. Greg Nikotaro,
He's credited as a special effects makeup consultant in this.
I don't I don't know if this actually is a
K and B. It was in that list on letterbox.
I don't know if they're entirely involved, but he was
the consultant, so it was my pick. I still think

(01:29:15):
Romero deserved like a huge budget for his last two
yeah dead films. I think he. I read that he
made this one's Survival for four million, you know, mostly
considered throwaway films by a lot of people. I kind
of understand that I actually liked Land of the Dead,
you know that he did.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
I revisited it recently, and I didn't hate it as
much as I when I first watched it, Yeah, because
I you know, you fall in love with the original
trilogy and then that comes out and you're like what
the fuck? And you know what, No. Revisiting it, I
was like, no, this is fine. It's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:29:50):
Like, especially if you've seen Diary and Survival, it's like, yeah,
and I'm not gonna you know, it seems like he
probably had a good time making these last two.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
For Romero, that's all that matters. For everyone else, fuck
right off.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
One hundred percent. Yeah, that makes me happy, but yeah,
this one of my least favorite of the month. We're
going to day twenty Toby Hooper. Yes, I watched his
first feature, Eggshells from nineteen seventy one. This was subtitled
the film when it was released in nineteen seventy one,
it was called Eggshells An American Freak Illumination, and it's

(01:30:28):
like a horror fantasy, not really strong on horror. It
does have a horror tag though. Everywhere you look about
a young girl. She's living in this rural, conservative Texas
community and she heads to Austin for college to go
to UT University of Texas. So we get a lot
of early shots of UT campus and just the Austin

(01:30:48):
landmarks in the early seventies, which was like really cool
to yeash and I recognized them driving down twenty two
twenty two, going down South Congress, going down Guadalupe. You
see it all and there's still some landmarks there which
are really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
We should point out. Lance said Guadaloup and we know
it's Guadaloupe, but that's how everyone here pronounces it, just
like uh manor m A n O R is pronounced
maner here. So yeah, Lance does know how to pronounce.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
There's there's Manchac, which they actually it was Manchaca, but
they've changed it. They changed all the road signs to
men Chaka. Yeah, it's terrible. Austin's the worst it is.
But yeah, it was fun. It's fun to watch. It's
fun to watch on screen, especially in the early seventies.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
Oh and Burnett is Burnett. Yeah, sorry, just have to
clarify for folks if you're not from Austin, just making
sure you know that we know how to pronounce words
most of the time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Yeah, guadalu. That probably should have been explained because I'm
sure people are all my pigs are like Mexican whore
and this guy like look at this fucking h But yeah, no,
it was cool to see it during that time. And
this takes place during college, which obviously is kind of
you know, it's a heavy period during the college during

(01:32:05):
the seventies and seventy nineteen seventy and seventy one, a
lot of protests, you get that. Really Toby Hooper filmed
some real life protests on campus. Students are holding banners
that say the government is violent, not us. Still very relevant,
but it's pretty much about these I'm going to call
them pretentious college kids who they all live in a

(01:32:30):
house together and they think it's haunted, which it is.
There is a ghost down in the basement who like swords,
sword fights by himself, and it's very interesting. But it's
mostly them in their house talking about like communism and
political and civil issues, which you know, can come across

(01:32:50):
as pretentious, but college kids at the time during this period,
it's probably very accurate. It's what they talked about, especially
during this hippie generation which this film captures. I thought
it was all pretty boring, but it's presented in this
chaotic way, so it's boring but watchable in a weird
sense because Toby Hooper he does probably what might be

(01:33:12):
like groundbreaking practical effects and experimental shots. He handled all
the practical effects in this, you know, like I could
tell he probably filmed putting like ink underwater, you know,
and layering it over certain scenes. Definitely a young filmmaker
at work here. Again, not really a horror movie by
any means, but it does have these kind of cool,

(01:33:33):
freaky looking experimental shots. I did learn that Robert Burns
worked on this with Hooper. Okay, in fact, a lot
of people in this ended up working on Texas Chainsaw
Massacre with him. One of the main characters who goes
full frontal in this respect. His name is Kim Hinkle.
He went on to write TC him with Hooper Jerry
the bus driver from TCM. He's in this. He has

(01:33:53):
a role. But yeah. I also read that Eggshells was
believed to have been lost for decades, but it was
found and restored to four K and it screened at
south By Southwest in twenty fourteen. But overall it was fine.
I think I most the enjoyment I got was looking
at all these old landmarks of what you know was

(01:34:14):
there and is it now or what's still there? In Austin.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
So my Toby Hooper pick was originally going to be
gin from twenty thirteen. This was Toby Hooper's last film,
so very fitting you did his first. I was going
to do his last, but then Regal was doing a
bunch of screenings and John was like, Oh, they're doing Funhouse.
You want to go see the Funhouse? And I was like,
you know what, Yeah, I'm going to just do a rewatch.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Oh dude, I love that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
I mean this was this was on October first, so
I was like, fuck yeah, And you know what, The
Funhouse gets better every time I watch it. I think
I have a new appreciation for it after moving to Texas,
especially and how well Hooper really captured that vibe of
that sort of small town carnival. I have a one

(01:35:04):
sheet of it. I've never put it up because it's
just that gross.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
It's just the lip mouth and I'm just like, I
don't need that.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
It came in a lot from an estate sale, so
like I'm in that same one sheet, Like it was
like an accordion file of one sheets in that was
my Donna the dead one sheet. Yeah, so like that
was worth the money alone right there. Maybe one day
I'll track down another version. So yeah, I mean I
watched The fun House, but then on Toby Hooper Day

(01:35:35):
in our discord, someone pointed out, hey, Gin has a
dead baby, and I was like fuck, so yeah, I watched.
I still watched Gin as well, and it's definitely to
me a director for hire movie like this isn't This
doesn't feel like him at all. It was basically if

(01:35:59):
you look it up Letterbox, you look at Country, it's
UAE and it's shocked there too, and it's about this couple,
Khalid and Salama, who one year after the death of
their half gin baby, they move back to the UAE.
They move into this luxury apartment building that's like that

(01:36:19):
ended up being built on where Khalid was born. It's
this old, abandoned fishing village, but now it's this luxury
high rise and the whole place is like encased in
this fog, and so they're trying to create this sense
of like being cut off from the world and things
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
I just.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
It just to me, nothing really had any traces of Hooper,
Like I said, it just feels like the producers had
money and they're like, hey, let's get Toby Hooper because
he's a name. It does feel like it's got like
that Poltergeist two vibe to it. When they moved wait,
which is the one where they moved to the high rises?
That three two no two? They're still in the house

(01:37:04):
because it's a creepy old dude, right, isn't three when
they're in the high rise? Don't. I don't know. I
don't like those movies anyway. I don't know. So like
the building has okay, I don't know. So the building's
got like some creepy Gin stuff going on in it.
Will Dodson, who is you know, he's Ryan's partner over

(01:37:27):
at Someone's Favorite Productions. He co edited a book about
Toby Hooper called American Twilight. So I was like, I'm
going to go read the essay on this movie in particular,
and it was this and two other movies in that
chapter that the authors were writing about. It's Anne Golden
and Christopher Woofter. They did their best to make a

(01:37:48):
case for Gin. It's called their essay is called Unsettled
Architecture and Avant Garde Strategies in Toby Hooper's Down Friday Street,
Toolbox Murders, and Gin. So they focus on the building
as a character itself, the merging of flesh and architecture,
the fog that I mentioned that it develops this luxury

(01:38:10):
building as a way to sort of disorient the characters
and the audience. And I'm not saying those aspects aren't true, Like, yeah,
that the building is a character, the fog is, you know,
creating disorientation. But I think those authors are they're giving
too much credit to those elements as a way to
make a case for the film. And I feel like

(01:38:30):
some people try to do that with certain directors, where
they're like, even when it's very clear that Hooper was
like given a pile of money to like hear direct
this movie over in the UAE, and he's like, it's
twenty thirteen. He's at the end of his career, you know,
and so of course he said yes. And I don't
blame him for saying yes. And sometimes a movie is

(01:38:51):
just a paycheck. And sometimes we need to look at
a movie from someone like Hooper, from someone like you know,
Joe Motto, you know, whoever, whoever, like it's sometimes it's
just a paycheck. And I think that's all this that
this is. They They also made a point about they

(01:39:11):
concluded their essay to point out this sort of subversive
political nature of the film and its place in the
UAE's early film industry, which I think is kind of
the only interesting thing about this movie, not even the
dead gin babies or yeah, yeah, I don't know, it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
I think this is interesting when looking at the crew.
The original comproposer B. C. Smith does all the Barbie
animated features. It's just all Barbie, all right, And then
going to yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
Just hard to like watch something like this and know
it was their final film and that it wasn't his
vision because at least, like.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
With Survival, Yeah, that's that's his trips.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
He wanted what he wanted to do, and it's like,
you know what, I don't like it, but at least
it was yours, your baby, this is what you want
to do, and that's fine. And this I was just like,
I'm not with the authors.

Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
Of this, and it's unfortunate because and I know again
it's it's a paycheck. I mean, filmmakers, especially Tobe Hooper
probably didn't get paid that much for all these masterpieces
he made in the seventies and eighties. I mean a
lot of filmmakers didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
I was reading an interview though with there's an artist
named Frank Quietly who does comic books. He's a comic
book artist and he's very passionate. He puts out his
details amazing, but he's very passionate about putting out his
best work, which I respect, but it's also about a paycheck.
He's basically like, you know, you're going to get artists
who are going to look at your pages and study

(01:40:43):
your art for generations. To come and you want to
be remembered. You want to you know, you want to
give a service to them as well as yourself. So
I feel I do feel bad when we watch movies
like this by some of our favorite directors where it's like, yeah,
it's it's not good, but you do have to take
a step back and realize you got to make a

(01:41:04):
fucking living.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Yeah, And I'm not saying that there aren't like some
elements like that were his creative decisions in it, but
it's like as a whole, I'm like, it's no, I
don't This is not how I want to remember Toby Hooper.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
It's like John Carpenter's Ward or something. It's like he
didn't write that, that's he was hired to directly.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
I saw an interview with him recently and someone was
asking about what he's you know, trying to like a
sequel to Oh the Thing or something like that. He
was just hating on everything. He was just being a
curmudgeon and I love him for that. Like he was like,
I didn't like this substance. I didn't like anything about it.
I'm like, good for you. Everyone's like that. He didn't
like it because he's directed by a woman. I'm like, no,

(01:41:48):
he doesn't like it because he didn't like it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
I didn't like it either, thank you. I was this
is like when I first watched it, I was liked,
everybody's loving this, but I am not feeling this.

Speaker 3 (01:41:59):
Yeah, we're just haters, Lance, I mean, especially me. Yeah,
so says our one star review that we got on
the podcast, like I hate everything.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Yeah, and that's what's fun, Like, it's you know, you
can't have two of me on a podcast, just like saying,
check it out. I gave it four and a half stars.
And it's a shitty movie, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:42:24):
All right, Tobey Hooper, check out the fun House, check
out Eggshells. Yeah. Moving on to nineteen sixties, this is
another one where I change my pic a bunch of times.
John and I actually ended up grabbing this one from
We Love Video. It's Theater of Death from nineteen sixty seven,

(01:42:47):
starring Christopher Lee who plays Philip Darvis or Philip Darvis.
So he's taken over the Theater of Death, which was
previously run by his father who disappeared. And it's literally
called like Theater de mort or something like that. So
his father disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Philip steps up and

(01:43:09):
is like, I'll jump in here. We're going to keep
this theater running. So it's got all the actors and
stuff like, yay, we're still employed. But then these some
of the actresses, there's this series of murders where the
bodies are found completely drained of blood are occurring, so
a police doctor gets involved with one of the actresses

(01:43:31):
to investigate. It's okay, Lee isn't really in it quite enough.
He disappears kind of halfway through the movie and then
sort of comes back later. But it definitely fits the
mood for the month, Like it's a great like October Watch,
but if you watch it any other time of year,
you'd probably be like, ugh, it's Hanks. Yeah, but I

(01:43:55):
enjoyed it because I watched it in October. I will
I will say that much about it. It's got some
fun elements, you know, like you know, hidden entrances and
you know what like crips behind walls kind of thing like,
and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
A sucker for that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
So you know, it's like I said, it's good for October,
but any other time of year, I'd be.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
Like, nah, that's how devil that is. There's a lot
of those corridors and stuff. But yeah, it's definitely perfect
for October. Yeah, okay for me. Nineteen sixties. Another Mexican
horror the Book of Stone from nineteen sixty nine, directed
by Carlos Enrique Tobayato who did Poison for the Fairies,
Blacker than the Night, Even the Wind Is Afraid, basically

(01:44:38):
the best titles in Mexican horror ever, Like, I love
all those titles.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
So Margaret Lopez plays Julia, a woman hired to care
for a young girls whose father thinks is mentally ill,
and this young girl, Sylvia, his daughter. They moved to
a remote house with her father and his fiance, and
the father and fiance are both worried because Sylvia has

(01:45:03):
been talking to a statue of a boy that's been
there on the property and she calls him Hugo, doctor
Satan himself. Joaquin Cordero plays the father, and again he
just demands attention. He has such a booming voice, very captivating.
I'm definitely under his spell. But yeah, especially here in
the Book of Stone, his performance is great. All the

(01:45:25):
performances are really good, even the young kids. But it's
a lot of the same, which I got sick of
pretty quick. Family members and caretakers are all creeked out
about this statue of Hugo, but it's mostly just them
talking about it. They something weird kind of happens. Then
they shoot down the notion that Hugo is real, you know,

(01:45:47):
like they lose a broach, but it's brought back to
the house and they're like, oh my god, well, can't
be Hugo. It's a statue. Just a lot of rins
and repeat stuff. Takes a full hour or so before
things start getting really interesting. In myinion, this was another
hour forty minutes. I think this think could have been
trimmed a little bit shorter. I feel like I watched
a lot of hour forty because I've been saying that

(01:46:09):
a lot lately. Yeah, but it does have a wonderful
hammer House of Horrors type of ending, but it just
takes so long to get there. Yeah, I mean I overall,
I think I gave it three three stars, which is
a lot lower than a lot of people that I
follow on letterbox that I usually share a lot of
tastes with. But yeah, just a little too slow and
long for me. Too slow and long. Okay, we're on

(01:46:34):
the twenty second South America. Yes, I went to Argentina
with my pick nice Blood of the Virgins from nineteen
sixty seven. So the first five minutes of this we
have a young woman whose parents want to marry her
off to a man that she doesn't love. She's in
love with another man, and the other man just happens

(01:46:55):
to be a vampire. This is the first five minutes.
This is before the cold This is cold open. She
marries the man that her parents have arranged for her.
The vampire kills her new husband the night of their wedding,
bites the wife, and then she's brought back from the
grave as a vampire. And then you cut to these
awesome animated opening credits, which I always appreciate any type

(01:47:19):
of animations. Cut to the present. We follow a group
of friends who they're on a road trip, run out
of gas one night in the forest, and they come
across an abandoned house which actually is the vampire's house,
the old vampires. One of the guys who looked a
lot like Bethol O'Rourke to me, I kept seeing Beto
o'rourk he has the first night there, he has sex

(01:47:42):
with the old vampire woman who was married off in
the beginning. Then he wakes up the next morning all
his friends are gone. He's alone in the house. So
the whole movie is spent trying to figure out what
happened to all of them. Very very moody movie. Again,
this is probably a good example of perfect for October,
but I would watch it in April because this would
be a good April Showers of Blood. But you know,

(01:48:06):
the music mostly takes place where there should be dialogue,
so it's like, you know, you could be learning about
these characters. But I really appreciate how I think the
director was Vieira, how he just kind of has characters
walking together, and you know, you're not really building these character,
you know, their personalities, but just making it very moody.

(01:48:28):
There's just a lot of music, very minimal dialogue, probably
like just a few words spoken in the first twenty
minutes or so, but it is poorly edited and it
becomes kind of laughable. It's just very jar and you know,
scenes end really quick and pick up music very more
cony sounding, very hateful eight opening theme, which I love,

(01:48:48):
but then with a little bit of Reverend Horton heat
rockability thronin. So yeah, very weird. And what's very weird
and it's never explained but the vampire he does and
turn into a bat. He turns into a seagull. Hell yeah,
And it's always like the same shot of the seagull
when he flies away. It's like this very red tinted.

(01:49:09):
It's wonderful. It's a mess. It could be in April,
showers of blood, pig maybe because I kind of loved it,
but yeah, Blood of the Virgins.

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
All right. So I went to Brazil and I did
not do a Coffin Joe movie. I watched The Seven
Vampires from nineteen eighty six aka Ascetis, Vampirus, Vampiris Father.
So I didn't realize again I didn't check the genre

(01:49:38):
that the additional genres rather on this this is also
a comedy. But I know, my main issue with it
was that the copy that I watched on YouTube was
really bad and the subtitles were like really hard to
read sometimes and not translated very well. So I struggled

(01:50:01):
with it a little bit. But it has so many
great ingredients in it that are super fun. The opening
of it has Alfred Hitchcock, literally from his Alfred Hitchcock
hour dubbed to intro the film, so like they just
took Alfred Hitchcock and they just dubbed over him to
intro the film. It was laughable and hilarious. So basically

(01:50:25):
the film is it's about like this. It's hard to say,
like you're supposed to be following a detective in his
secretary who are investigating a murder, but there's also cops
that are investigating. But that's not even really where the
movie starts. So it starts at a shipyard and this

(01:50:48):
guy receives a plant from I think from like Africa
or something like that. He takes a plant home and
he's feeding it and it's this adorele hand puppet plant,
like you can literally see the hands like doing like
the clap like thing. There's a big flower in the center.
There's like seven arms with like the hand puppets moving around,

(01:51:11):
and the plant kills him because it needs blood. Yeah, exactly,
so I thought that's the direction we were going. Then
his girlfriend comes over because she's looking for him, and
she sees the plant and she's like, oh, what's this.
The plant bites her, but doesn't kill her. She turns
into a vampire, and so now we're following her for

(01:51:32):
the rest of the movie, and we don't get the
plant anymore after that, So the plant goes. I know,
that's the best part of the movie. Sylvia, she's the
main character. You know, she she's a vampire. We flash
forward a couple months. She's been in hiding for a
while just because there's, you know, suspicion that she killed
her boyfriend or he's missing or something like that. Again,

(01:51:54):
bad subtitles, bad copy. I'm doing I'm doing my best,
But there are lots of mysterious deaths that are happening
in the meantime the police can't figure it out. In
between all of this, there is like some aerobics happening.
There are random photo shoots with very necessary nudity. Sylvia,

(01:52:15):
she's running this nightclub now, and she decides to put
on a show called the Dance of the Seven Vampires.
So that's where the title comes from. The private detective
that ends up getting hired, he puts his secretary into
the club to like go undercover to try and like
get some information from all of it. Oh, his name
is like Detective Marlowe or something like that too, So

(01:52:36):
there's a cute little noir thing happening. I said it's
a comedy, and it is, and so a lot of
the humor I think got lost in the translation because
of the bad copy and the bad subtitles. But from
what I could get from it, it has a very
voyage of the rock aliens vibe because there's like occasional

(01:52:57):
songs that just pop up, but it's got a nineteen
fifties esthetic. This is made in the eighties, but it
feels like I don't know if they meant it to
be set in the fifties or they were just going
for some like retro thing or if that's like because
I know, like when I went to Cuba, I was like,
holy shit, it's like being in like the sixties here,

(01:53:20):
because like all the cars are from that period because
you know, they have no imports. But so I don't
know if it's just I don't know, I'm missing a
lot with it, But I had fun with what I saw,
so I gave it like two and a half on letterbox.
I feel like if I got a cleaned up copy
with good subtitles, maybe studied up a little bit more
on what was happening with this film and had some

(01:53:41):
more context. I would like it a lot more because
it has a lot of fun elements. I just I
wish the fucking plant was like the centerpiece here. I
really wish they were doing their own like Little Shop
of Horrors. You know songs, yeah, yeah, not musical numbers
like people singing, but like just full on like song.

(01:54:02):
Oh no, no no. There are some performers on stage
who sing like fifties esque songs in it too. So anyway,
I think you would like it, but I wouldn't recommend
watching it unless it gets a release where you can
actually see what's happening. Have some good subtitles, all right.
Then Day twenty three is series episode. I watched another

(01:54:23):
from the Hammer House of Horror set. I specifically watched
episode one, which is Witching Time. John Finch plays David,
a composer who works on a remote farm, and he
suspects his wife Mary is having an affair because she
is with Ian McCulloch as doctor Charles we all know
him from Zombie of course. Then the ghost of a

(01:54:47):
witch named Lucinda possesses him and Hammer hijinks in sue
for the rest of it, So I really I enjoyed
this one a lot. The whole composer element was super
fun and just it sort of blends modern with old
in that respect where it's like, oh, this is like
his sort of you know, this is his job, and oops,

(01:55:07):
he got possessed by a witch who was killed on
that property. With the explanation for how that happens, like
how he discovers her, is a little bit lacking. I
still I enjoyed it. I have yet to watch a
hammer House of Horror episode that I.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Did not like, so oh well, my series episode is
a hammer House of Horror episode that I didn't like
that Oh no, yeah, Visitor from the Grave Okay, this
was episode eleven from the series. So it starts off
with a man breaking into a home. He's terrorizing this woman.
He's demanding to talk to her husband, Harry, who isn't there.

(01:55:45):
Then he starts kissing her, kind of setting up that
he's going to rape her, and she grabs a shotgun
and shoots him in the face, blows his face apart dead.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
Her husband Harry arrives the next morning and he finds
that it's an old business acquaintance him of his guy
named Charlie. So Harry tells his wife to clean up
the place because he doesn't have a license for the gun,
and you know, he'lly put in jail and she would
probably be sent to an asylum for the murder. So
something seems off with the husband. To me right away,

(01:56:15):
I'm like, okay, something's up, and you know, he goes
he buries Charlie not far from the house while his
wife cleans up the place. Then his wife. Throughout the episode, though,
his wife starts seeing Charlie the dead man popping up
like while she's shopping downtown or going to a party,
and she's really freaking out. A lot of Rinsom repeated
that for again, far too long in my opinion, And

(01:56:36):
this is just like a little series episode. There's just
like I get it. She sees the dead body, like
this is only like a fifty minute long episode. Let's
get this, let's get this going. And yeah, her husband
agains very gas lighting. She swears she sees him. He's like,
chill out, take a pill. And the two leads, the
husband and the wife to me, were boring, Like I
think they're doing what the how the characters were and

(01:57:00):
they're performing as but they were handed, but they're just
not written very well. In my opinion, that there is
a medium that pops up named Margaret, who was really great.
I wish it was more of her, but yeah, this
thing just didn't hold my interest. Pretty good setup, very
boring middle, and the ending is just like it wasn't

(01:57:20):
satisfying to me at all. It didn't feel like Hammer.
The episode should have been called Terrible Husband. That's it.
It's like, definitely my least favorite Hammer House of Horror.
The episode that I've watched so far, Day twenty four,
Ingrid Pitt, Countess Dracula.

Speaker 3 (01:57:39):
Oh I watched this one too. Yeah, I think you
liked it a little bit more than me.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Oh yeah, I get it four stars.

Speaker 1 (01:57:45):
I saw that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
I gave it three. I still liked it, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
Don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:57:51):
I think I just was like I wasn't expecting a
bath refilm. I was expecting more like, oh, there's going
to be some sort of connection to dry and I
and I get it like it's you know, it's blood
and everyone suspects vampire and like they just literally call
her Countess Draculate.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Yeah, I kind of dug that because that's in a
small village. If there's a countess who's killing chambermaids and
that's all, you know, you're gonna be all. Yeah, yeah,
it is a misleading title.

Speaker 3 (01:58:18):
Yeah, but I did love Dobie Dobby, Dobby, Doc Dobby
and and him just this poor guy man, he's.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
He's got blue balls the entire fuck it movie. He
just wants to get with the countess. Yeah, but she
is the young guy that she's hooking up with. You know,
she's she's acting like her own daughter, her daughter's coming
to visit.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
Yeah, she's she pretends to be her daughter because she discovers,
like when she puts some blood on her that it
de ages her. And she's beautiful, Ingrid Pit, not old lady,
ugly makeup, Ingrid Pit. And so she pretends to be
your daughter. And yeah, the dude she's hoaken.

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
Up with, he looks like a mustache Paul RD a
little bit to be very act.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
Yeh, he's good looking dude.

Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
But the whole time, Dobby who is he's like the
Christopher Lee character. Like, yeah, I've read some Inner actually,
I think Adam brought it up in Discord, Like I
wish Christopher Lee played this character.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
It seemed like a perfect role for him.

Speaker 2 (01:59:16):
I disagree. I mean, I think visually it kind of
looks like him, but I feel like it would have
been a more serious tone with Christopher Lee and that
would have taken away. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:59:26):
No, okay, I can see that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
Dobby made us feel like at points when I was
watching The Princess Bride and he was like Prince Humperdy
trying to nail you know, Princess Buttercup. You know, all
he wanted to do was have sex with I felt
I felt this guy every scene he was in what
was the actor's name, Nigel Green, and he was wonderful
in this I love.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
No, I think that I don't. I don't think that
he's there's anything wrong with his performance. It just I
see where Adam's coming from, where it's like you see
someone in that role and not only does he have
that presence of Christopher.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
Lee and it's a hammer movie.

Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
Yeah, it's that. I was like, and I'm not saying
that Ingrid Pitt can't carry a movie, because her and
her bust definitely can, but it just felt it to me.
When Adam said that, I was like, Yeah, I can
definitely see that, but I think you're to your point.
This guy, what's Nigel Green? Is great.

Speaker 2 (02:00:23):
I mean i'd be willing to bet that Hammer probably
offered the role to Lee first and he was probably
busy or something, because yeah, yeah, you would want to
you would want Christopher Leean or any movie you're making, Yeah,
regardless of the part. But yeah, now I really enjoyed this.
It should have been called the Countess Smearing blood on
herself Counts Battory.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
You know, it would have been fine. But it's fine,
you know, I mean, Countess Dracula is going to get
more butts in the seat, so I don't. I don't
hate him for naming it that, but I was like,
that's inaccurate. Push his glasses up, all right, Haunted House.
This is another one I changed a few times. I
ended up watching.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
Why did I pick this?

Speaker 3 (02:01:06):
Is there a dead KIDNT?

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:01:09):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:01:12):
I watched a Book of Blood from two thousand and nine.
Now this is I know, Lance is making a face.

Speaker 2 (02:01:18):
I have a lot of two thousand.

Speaker 3 (02:01:20):
I know I'm a hater this year. So this is
based on the wrap around story from Clive Barker's Books
of Blood. It's not based on one of the stories
within Books of Blood. It's the wrap around story. So
it's about a paranormal investigator slash author who recruits a
videographer and a psychic to come live with her in
a house in Scotland that has a haunted history. So

(02:01:43):
we already know that this house is an intersection of
the Highways of the Dead, because there's text on screen
that tells us that it's said in like some other
part of the film, and then the author lady finally
discovers it later. So there's that aspect of like we're

(02:02:05):
waiting for the characters in the film to catch up
to what we already know, and those frustrate me. Sometimes
there's some good gore moments in this and enough horniness
to make it distinguishable as a Barker film. The guy
who directed it, though, he did the Tales from the
Dark Side movie and a bunch of those episodes from

(02:02:26):
the TV show, and he actually worked under Romero, so
that I think that's partially why I wanted to give
it a chance. Oh, I know why I watched this
movie because I was originally supposed to have a trip
to California and I was getting close to the end
of the month, and I was like, let me just
find some stuff that's on Prime so I can download

(02:02:46):
it to my tablet and watch them on there. And
so I was looking for movies specifically that we're on Prime.
That's why I watched this movie. Okay, I was like,
why did I do this to myself? Okay, that's why.
So it's not that great, but a lot of a
lot of that is because the characters are not really likable,
like none of them are.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
Yeah, that's always a tough watch.

Speaker 3 (02:03:07):
There's a cock shot in this though, so I appreciate
that respect. I gave it three stars. It's not a
three star movie. I just have a soft spot for
anything Barker, you know, hence my gigantic hell Razor poster
over here. Doug Bradley is in this. It's more of
a cameo, though he has no spoken lines in it.
He plays someone who was like a psychic swindler from

(02:03:29):
like a previous life and his ghost sort of haunts
the place that they're in. So I don't recommend it,
but it's just if you're a Barker completist kind of
like I am, go for it. Nice, but you wanted House.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
More Mexican horror Vacation of Terror from nineteen eighty nine, okay,
Rene Cardona. The third about a man who inherits a
country house from his deceased aunt and he moves his
family out there, which includes his pregnant wife, young daughter,
and twin boys because you know, twins or creepy as
fuck they are. His niece and her boyfriend also come

(02:04:04):
to check the place out. But so centuries before, an
ancestor of the family was accused of being a witch.
She was burned on the property. And when she was burned,
this is all in the opening scene. Her soul was
moved to a doll, which was then thrown down a
well that's in the property, which the little girl, the

(02:04:24):
daughter ends up finding. And it's another possessed doll fucking movie.
You know, we've seen all these before. You know this
one is there's a few scenes that set it apart
from like a possessed doll haunted house movie. It kind
of steals and purposes ideas from like Poltergeist. There's the

(02:04:45):
eggs opening up and cracking, or that's in Ghostbusters and
Ghostbusters that there's that. Yeah, they seems like they pull
a lot of inspirations from previous movies, but there are
some pcical, practical effects. The pregnant wife, her belly starts bubbling.
There's like these knife knives that are thrown on their own,
which look cool. It's handled really well. Snakes in the

(02:05:06):
closet like it. It was good.

Speaker 3 (02:05:08):
I mean on a plane.

Speaker 2 (02:05:10):
No, I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes and those motherfucking claws. Yeah,
it was a little slow, but the third act kind
of makes up for it because it does go kind
of balls to the wall, just kind of nuts's it
was Okay, I forgot what I gave this maybe three stars.
Day twenty six is Mexico. I watched chob Wedg. I

(02:05:32):
watched Chabello and Pepito versus the Monsters in nineteen seventy three.
This is directed by Jose Estrada, the composer. First off,
the music right away lifted me up. It's just this
kind of dynamic score, and I was like, who is
this guy Sergio Guerrero who scored the Ship of Monsters. Okay,
and this kind of feels like that same type of vibe,

(02:05:54):
very uplifting, very happy. You know, people are just in
positive moods.

Speaker 4 (02:05:59):
We have.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
I have this young boy named Pepito and his cousin Chabello,
who is played by an adult, by the way, but
he's a kid. Everybody sees him as a kid, and
they calls all sorts of trouble at home, pretending they're soldiers.
They're just wrecking the house. And Pepito's sister's boyfriend is
a boy Scout troop leader, and he offers to take

(02:06:21):
Pepito and Chabello on a camping trip that he's leading
that weekend, and they go along. The sister ends up
joining them later, and Pepito's very annoyed that his sister's there, right,
so he talks Chabelo into sneaking away from the camp
to explore this kind of off limits cave that they
heard about. Oh and the night before that they left

(02:06:42):
for the camping trip, they were watching the news at
home and a dangerous gorilla had escaped from a circus
or a zoo or something, right, so it was like
a killer girl on the loose. They get to the cave,
which looks amazing, amazing sets great fake bats. They come
across a mummy's tomb and a mummy comes out. Then
a creature from the Black Lagoon whose mouth is just

(02:07:05):
a man wearing a mask, and the mouse open on
the creature and you could see the huge like the
man's mouths flicking at his tongue. So endearing. But then
the gorilla shows up and they starts fighting with the creature.
But while this is happening, Frankenstein breaks through a wall
oh no, and puts the gorilla in a sleeper hole

(02:07:25):
and kills it. Right, So the troops goes looking for them.
They're very worried, and they come across kind of each
of these elements, the empty mummy, tomb, the dead gorilla,
and to me, it all started feeling like, you know,
Gooney's totally ripped this off, like the Fortellies. We're seeing
what the kids have already been through. But anyway, obviously

(02:07:46):
a were wolf shows up. Well yeah, one of the
creepiest looking vampires I've ever seen pops up. And then
the last twenty minutes I'm not even really going to
talk about because this thing even gets even weirder into
this weird sci fi direction. It's just wonderful. I'll just
say it involves robots, brain transplants, and an international gang

(02:08:06):
that traffics uranium. Holy shit, so much fun. The Chabuelo
character is really funny because all he does is fucking
eat all the time. He's the adult playing the kid,
and all he wants to do is eat. Yeah, if
you don't find him funny because his voice is very graty, okay,
it's like, you know, it's just like very high pitched
and he just tries to act like a kid, but

(02:08:28):
he's not. It'll be a long watch for you. But
I found him hilarious and I loved everything he was doing.
Doubt there's a release of this out there, but I
want one with legit subtitles. I'd also pair this with
Ship of Monsters.

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
Did you watch I thought it's on too b Is
that where you watch it with subs?

Speaker 2 (02:08:45):
No? I don't think to be had subs. I think
I watched it on YouTube with like automatic generated auto
generated subs. Okay, so yeah, it was definitely broken. You
can you can probably watch it without subs and know
what's happening.

Speaker 3 (02:08:57):
I mean it sounds like it. So yeah. It says
it's on Roku too, so I might try there and
see if it's got subs on there.

Speaker 2 (02:09:04):
It's wonderful. One of my favorites of the month for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:09:07):
Amando gave it five stars. I want to Mondo, you
give a lot of five stars, Armando, but like.

Speaker 2 (02:09:11):
Well this one I can It's just a fiable I
can understand it. Okay, what about you?

Speaker 3 (02:09:17):
So my pick from Mexico was both did Worthday So,
speaking of Armando, him and Joey from trash Mechs podcast
asked us to weigh in on a couple of films
and whether or not we thought they were slashers. This
one is, but it takes about an hour of its
eighty minute run time to get there. Has a lot

(02:09:38):
of the trappings, including some you know, stalking from the
bushes and a throat slash and horny teenagers and red herrings,
but also a really really obvious killer that not a
lot of thought went into the highlight For me, there's
like a head someone gets to capitate in their head
gets thrown through a window. So that's that was a
lot of fun. But listen to the trash Mechs podcast.

(02:10:00):
They did a whole series of Oi bro Esun Slasher
I think is what the series is called. They're basically
hey heybros as a slasher, and they did. They paired
up two films. I think they had three, no four
episodes that month. They covered a lot of movies. So
definitely recommend checking those episodes in all of their episodes out,

(02:10:23):
they're always fun. Next episode, Day twenty seven Witches in Warlocks.
This was another sweetest taboo movie that I just wanted
to get through. Two Witches from twenty twenty one. So
there's this witch who is on her deathbed basically, and
she's told by her husband Satan, that her time is

(02:10:45):
coming soon and that her powers are going to pass
to her granddaughter. So the old witch, she decides to
have a couple of babies for her last meal.

Speaker 1 (02:10:53):
Very nice, it is.

Speaker 3 (02:10:55):
So this one, it starts, it does a little bit
of like going from different characters to different characters, and
it's already the end sets it up for a sequel automatically.
So this younger woman, the granddaughter, she inherits the powers,
but she's already kind of socially awkward, and she moves

(02:11:15):
in with this roommate and the roommate's like really forgiving
and really like generous with her. But she gets to
a point where she's like, yeah, this is too much,
you gotta go. So it's basically like this young witch
taking some vengeance on some other people who wrong to
her when she's trying to fit in. I don't know,

(02:11:36):
it's this one was kind of like a rollercoaster for me,
like up and down. Like I was like oh oh oh,
you know, like like that where it was like, okay,
babies get eaten and it's like, oh wait, they're eating them. Offscreen,
the actors look like normal people. Yay, we're not like
pretty and polished, but then they do that terrible trope

(02:12:02):
of you know, like the cgi really fast headshake that
that thing. I fucking hate that.

Speaker 2 (02:12:11):
It's like Marilyn manson video.

Speaker 3 (02:12:12):
Or yes, yes there's a baby stew with the little
baby skull in it. So I was very happy about that.
But there there's a lot of violence to the character.
The Witch is the main character, the younger one. Her
name's Masha. She's played by Rebecca Kennedy. So she's like
the main younger witch. Two different men's reaction to her,

(02:12:38):
like being either obnoxious or like saying some curses to
punch her in the face, like it's yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
I supposed to do I don't anyway, it's terrible.

Speaker 3 (02:12:50):
There's a very cute bunny in it, which was which
but then it dies.

Speaker 2 (02:12:54):
Real, real, real bunny. Yeah, I can't really tell.

Speaker 3 (02:12:58):
Well you can't. I mean, I'm sure it's not because
it's twenty one, but like they killed the bunny. I
guess one thing I can say about it. Another positive
thing is that, like it doesn't treat the audience like
babies by explaining everything, so it's not there's not a
lot of excessive dialogue and treating the audience just like
an idiot. So there's there's that. But God, there's gonna

(02:13:20):
be a sequel, and I really don't want to see it.

Speaker 2 (02:13:22):
I mean, if there's dead babies.

Speaker 3 (02:13:23):
I know I'm gonna have to. Yeah, so what about you?
Which is her Warlocks?

Speaker 2 (02:13:28):
Which is her Warlocks? I picked Erma Linda Linda from
nineteen eighty four. It's a horror comedy from Mexico, directed
by Julio Aldama. This is based on a comic book
from the nineteen sixties. Apparently Joey and Armando did an
episode on this.

Speaker 3 (02:13:45):
Oh that's why it sounds familiar.

Speaker 2 (02:13:46):
And when I saw the poster, which has since been updated, sadly,
on letterboxed. I really wanted to see it. It was
like her flying on a vacuum cleaner and just look
like a mad magazine like centerpiece art wonderful. You get
that in the film too, she does fly on a
fucking vacuum cleaner. But this all takes place. It takes

(02:14:07):
place on Hollowey night. In the very beginning, her mer
Linda is she's sharing this story to a coven of
witches and the story is basically so he kind of
She talks about how she, you know, she takes odd
jobs to make money, doing random spells, like making an
old man younger, but the rule is he can't get

(02:14:27):
hot or you know, like sweaty or else it'll wear
off and it'll turn back to an old man. And
later in the movie in the story, he goes to
a party and Linda's air with her daughter and he's
dancing and he starts sweating getting real hot, so we
get this great hammer esque body dissolved scene of like,
you know, his his hair and his eyeballs popping out

(02:14:47):
all like just really funny stuff. Actually good practical effects
in this, but the majority of the film is irma Linda.
Linda and her daughter, who is also a witch. They're
working together to stop development of their neighborhood from turning
it into condominiums. Okay, so Mario Van People's is rapping. Basically,

(02:15:08):
that's what I kept thinking of. Remember, like, yeah, I
love them, I know you do. But Linda and her
daughter can communicate with each other telepathically, which is really
fun to watch. This has actually a very synth heavy
original score, which is surprising, and it's like synth like
the Madman scenes where he jumps out of the house
and it's like ring. Yeah, Like there's a lot of that.

(02:15:31):
There are a few musical numbers which I always get
behind and praise Irma Linda. Linda's musical number is so
fucking funny. I was literally laughing out loud by myself
watching this thing. Yeah you do get what was on
the original poster, sadly, which has been updated on letterboxed
where she's flying on the vacuum and then this scene's
great because it's like a little puppet on a string

(02:15:51):
scene of her flying around like a model house and stuff.

Speaker 5 (02:15:55):
Yeah, the singing cowboy himself, Loriano from Ship of Monsters.
He pops up in this Oh yay, Ulalio Gonzalez and
he is a cowboy hat wearing gun tote and corrupt politician.
And he sings a long song and dances, and he's
fucking Lariano quick singing, singing. I'm not familiar with a

(02:16:17):
lot of the acts and performers that have kind of
quick cameos that pop up in this, but to me,
it seems like it's a who's who of Mexican pop culture.
I haven't listened to the trash Max episode yet, and
I'm going to. But what I especially loved about this
is that even with ten minutes left in the movie,
I had no idea how it was going to end.
So this was one of my favorite movies of the
of the month. I gave it four stars. There's a sequel,

(02:16:40):
which Joey and Armando said, isn't his endearing?

Speaker 2 (02:16:43):
Are funny? But I have it cueued up. I'm gonna
watch it.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
Of course you arek.

Speaker 2 (02:16:49):
Is it me? So? Okay? In Memoriam, this is I
picked the last Wave from nineteen seventy seven. This was
a shift I think I had intruder. I went back
and forth on this. I watched this one in November.
This was one i'd been putting off. Actor Richard Chamberlain.
He passed away in March of this year. He was

(02:17:10):
Aramis and Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers with Oliver Reed
and who was the other York? Michael York. He played
Alan Quaterman in The King Solomon's Minds. If you remember
that Indiana Jones, everybody called it Indiana Jones off.

Speaker 3 (02:17:24):
He's in Murder by Phone. Yeah, yeah, actually that could
have been my pick. That's another one I talked with
Sam about. Oh real episode.

Speaker 2 (02:17:31):
Yeah, he's great. I think he's a great actor. But
the Last Wave is it has a horror tag, but
it's mainly like an Australian mystery thriller. It's about an
Indigenous Australian or they call him Aborigine, and this Indigenous
Australian is found dead and there's other Indigenous men that
are questioned for the murder, and a man Richard Chamberlain,

(02:17:54):
he takes on the case and begins having these nightmares
of the men that are involved. Pretty much tenset white
man destroying these tribal cultures and beliefs, forcing city life
on these Indigenous Australians. But then it becomes like apocalyptic
with the rebirth of the world, and it gets real trippy,
very psychological like upsetting. It's psychologically upsetting, hard to decipher

(02:18:19):
what's real and dream in a lot of scenes, and
that's what the character is going through. But in the end,
I was like, you know, it doesn't really matter because
we're all just gonna fucking die, like, and that's kind
of the look of the outlook of this movie. It's
it's a downer. It's just it's just unsettling. I think
it's a prime example of what I feel is in
an annoyingly overused phrase when describing horror movies or any

(02:18:44):
movie genre. You know, they just don't make them like
they used to. I think this is a perfect example
of that very disturbing, well acting, thought out, open to
interpretation type of thriller. I thought it was fantastic. Okay,
rip Richard Chamberlain, What was your memoriam pick?

Speaker 1 (02:19:02):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:19:02):
So mine was House from two thousand and eight. This
is from Michael Madsen.

Speaker 2 (02:19:10):
Here you go again, a lot of two thousands.

Speaker 3 (02:19:13):
Well, here's the thing. This was not my pick originally,
but then Celeste told me there's a dead kid in
this one.

Speaker 2 (02:19:20):
Okay, I mean this all makes sense?

Speaker 4 (02:19:22):
Is this?

Speaker 3 (02:19:22):
Anytime I'm picking something for which is a dead kid's
you know, like I'm doing that, I'll make it up
in the last three picks after this, I promise. So
Michael Madsen in this he plays a local shrif for
a local traffic cop, but he also plays the villain
called the tin Man in this. He's not dressed up

(02:19:47):
like the tin Man in this, so he plays he's
a villain who makes people pay for their sins. Basically,
So there's two different couples. They both break down on
a remote road separately, and then they all end up
at this remote in run by the budget Sawyer family.
Bill Mosley is even in this cast too. So it's

(02:20:08):
two thousand and eight ugly Sepia, unlikable characters, nonsense plot
for Satanism And so you know you just said your impression.
You know what Michael Madson sounds like. You know what
Lance Henrickson sounds like. Why would they hire Lance Henrickson
to do the voice over of the Tin Man rather

(02:20:31):
than have Michael Madsen just speak his lines.

Speaker 2 (02:20:36):
I mean, if you can get Lance Henrickson for any reason,
well they did for that it's just a voice over.

Speaker 3 (02:20:41):
It's just a voice He's not in the movie. He's
just it's fucking stupid. It has Yeah, it has a
child kill in the flashback. It's still my least favorite
watch of the month, and the letterbox description made me
hate it even more because part of it is like
based on the best selling novel by Ted Decker, Like

(02:21:04):
the fuck is Ted Decker? And I look him up
and he is a New York Times best selling author
of Christian mystery, fantasy, and thriller novels, and he looks
like an absolute fucking douchebag. Look up an image of
him and tell me that isn't the biggest fucking douchebag.

Speaker 2 (02:21:21):
Kk American author. WHOA, he's like Chris Angel or something,
or like Chris Gaines Garths.

Speaker 3 (02:21:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it looks like. Put on
a little like soul patch.

Speaker 2 (02:21:35):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:21:36):
He's certainly that is He's gross. So anyway, Jesus, Yeah, anyway,
that was my in memoriam watch. I chose poorly, but
again I had to watch it for a dead kid anyway,
so don't watch that movie.

Speaker 2 (02:21:50):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:21:50):
Celeste also watched it, so they cover it in their
YouTube video so you can check it out what they
thought of it pretty much the same like for satan
is stupid, Like, oh look, Panagram scary Satanism, it's dumb.
Onto what is always one of my favorite categories? Hammer
or British really in this In this case, I finally

(02:22:15):
got around to watching The Mummy from nineteen fifty nine
h for the first time years of putting it off,
And my god, what a what a treat Peter Cushing
limping around and covering the mystery of the Mummy. Lee's
really expressive eyes through the shroud. So happy I finally

(02:22:35):
watched it. But now my list of great horror movies
to see for the first time is one shorter. I
think you've said this, and I would definitely agree after
watching this, this is the best Mummy film.

Speaker 2 (02:22:47):
Yes, yeah, one hundred percent. I think it. Yeah, it's
just it's very viby, and I think it's the best
looking mummy.

Speaker 3 (02:22:55):
Mm hm.

Speaker 2 (02:22:56):
The Mummy from Monster Squad looks badass, but yeah, this, yeah,
this is.

Speaker 3 (02:23:00):
But that's like a character in a you know, in
a truth right, like this is like Mummy focused. I
love love this movie. I love how you see the
physicality of Peter Cushing, like you see that in the
original Dragula with you know, him jumping off the table
to grab the curtains. Like his physicality it's here as well,
even though he's got like, you know, the broken broken

(02:23:23):
leg in this.

Speaker 2 (02:23:24):
But I.

Speaker 3 (02:23:26):
This was such a treat.

Speaker 2 (02:23:28):
He's like my age in this love Peter Cushing. Yeah,
I didn't get any Peter Cushing in mine.

Speaker 3 (02:23:34):
Everyone needs it. Every October. You got to get your
dose of Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Chris really, otherwise
your October is not complete.

Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
I mean I've seen a lot. I mean, obviously not
all of it. He has hundreds of movies, but he's
my most watched actor for sure. And my Hammer pick
wasn't I mean, I had put it off because Peter
Cushing was not in this. It's the Horror of Frankenstein, okay,
which Victor Frankenstein is Peter Cushing and all the fran

(02:24:03):
Horror frank Hammer Frankenstein movies. Yeah, this one. Victor Frankenstein
is played by Ralph Bates, who I'm a big fan of,
especially in another Hammer film, Doctor Jekyl and Sister Hyde.

Speaker 4 (02:24:17):
He was in.

Speaker 3 (02:24:19):
Dracula, has Risen from the Grave, right. I think he
is okay because so they played that at AFS this
last month and Lars introduced it, and you know, it's
always great when Lars introduces a film there, and he
was talking about how you know the original plan for
that movie was to have Ralph Bates like he's going
to be Dracula now, because Christopher Lee is like, I'm done,

(02:24:42):
no more Dracula movies.

Speaker 2 (02:24:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:24:45):
But then the US distributor for Hammer Films was you know,
when they said, oh, yeah, here's what we're going to
do and Ralph Bates and they're like, what, no, christerpher Lee,
We're not We're not having that. So they went back
to Christopher Lee and we're like, hey, uh so we
know you. We said like peace out after you didn't

(02:25:07):
want to do this, but we actually do need you
back here.

Speaker 2 (02:25:09):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (02:25:10):
They threw I'm sure they threw a bunch of money
at him to do it. And you can see clearly
that they're trying to set up Ralph Bates to be
the next Dracula.

Speaker 2 (02:25:18):
Oh. I haven't seen that one yet.

Speaker 3 (02:25:20):
It is great. It was my first time seeing it
as well. But you can clearly see they're setting him
up to be it, and then they're like, oh no,
just just plopping chrispher Lee here and he's Dracula for
the rest of the movie.

Speaker 2 (02:25:30):
And yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, Ralph bait, and it's it's
not fair to him to compare him to Peter Cushing
his victor friends. And this kind of works because it's
a prequel to all that. He's a young you know,
he's young Frankenstein. He's going to college, he's at university,
and he's at odds with all the professors. He's at
odds with his father, who's refusing to give him money

(02:25:51):
because he just wants to do his experiments. So he
sabotages one of his father's hunting rifles, and his father's
killed and he becomes barren and basically takes over the
estate and he has all the money in the world
to do all his own experiments. But it was just
middle of the road for me. It's definitely the weakest
for obviously for the obvious reason of the Hammer Frankenstein films.

(02:26:16):
I think he does. Ralph Bass does a really good
job being completely fixated and emotionless, like most Frankenstein's are
I saw a lot of when I watched Giamo del
Toro's twenty twenty five Frankenstein. I saw more Ralph Bates
and Oscar Isaac's performance than I did in like, you know,
previous Victor Frankenstein. So I thought that was interesting, but
it just has a bit too much of like ladies

(02:26:38):
falling in love with him when he only cares about
his experiment and it turns into police looking for the
monster because he kills a man late in the movie.
It's kind of it kind of works, like I said,
as a prequel, almost like an origin story, and then
later we get Peter Cushing. But it didn't work entirely
for me. Darth Vader himself, David Prowse, he plays the creature,

(02:27:01):
and it's a most boring creature I've seen. He's just
like this flesh covered buff bully who.

Speaker 3 (02:27:10):
Does so would Rosalbanieri fuck him?

Speaker 2 (02:27:13):
Probably he's got a big head. But yeah, I mean
Victor treats him like a dog. Again, it's very like
twenty twenty five Frankenstey. This one lame ending. I thought, Yeah,
nothing special here.

Speaker 3 (02:27:32):
Sadly, I think I've seen it. I just don't I
don't remember it that much because it's you know, if
it's not Cushing, it's not memorable.

Speaker 2 (02:27:38):
Yeah, and again I think roth Brates is great, but
just not. They probably shouldn't have made this.

Speaker 3 (02:27:44):
That just that's it fair still Mia nineteen eighties.

Speaker 2 (02:27:48):
Okay, oh damn, we're all's done. Yeah. The Dracula Dynasty
from nineteen eighty. This is another Mexican horror directed by
Alfredo B. Cravenna, who directed my four and a half
star Are on the Edge of Terror that I watched
earlier in the month. First off, this has a fear
of your favorite things, Erica. It has an amazing fake
bat to open this up. And then about thirteen minutes in,

(02:28:12):
we have Dracula killing his first victim, a young boy
definitely under twelve years old.

Speaker 3 (02:28:18):
Did you already tell me about this one?

Speaker 2 (02:28:19):
No? I didn't, and I want to this as a surprise.

Speaker 3 (02:28:21):
Oh okay, what's Dracula's what?

Speaker 2 (02:28:23):
The Dracula Dynasty from nineteen eighty. About thirty minutes in
we get an even better child killed. Oh okay, when
he picks up an even younger kid, bites it and
kills it. I'm calling it it because that's what children
are they are it? So? Yeah, add that to your list.
Even though there are fake bats and child kills, this

(02:28:44):
thing is slow as Molasso. The majority of it is Dracula,
who has this female servant who turns into a doperman
every once in a while.

Speaker 3 (02:28:54):
You still gave it three stars.

Speaker 2 (02:28:56):
Yeah, yeah, it worked for me. But basically just following
them trying to purchase an old house in Mexico where
their master Antonio de orlaf is buried. He was murdered
three hundred years ago, and they traveled there to resurrect him.
And this is it's so telenovella. So you can understand

(02:29:18):
my higher than normal sure, now I do, Yes, I
really like how they killed one of the vampires in this.
You know, obviously there's a stake through the heart, but
as she's yelling, one of the guys grabs just all
these the raw clothes of garlic. I mean they're not like,
you know, open clothes or like you just buy a
whole thing. What is it called, I don't know. It's

(02:29:40):
not a clothes.

Speaker 3 (02:29:40):
Well, yeah, the cloth is a little thing with the.

Speaker 2 (02:29:42):
Big bundle like the big garlic, the big garlic, the
handle of raw not clothed garlic and just shoves it
in her mouth while she's screaming. Oh, and she dies
with them. You got all this garlic hanging out and
then they closed the coffin and I'm like, I gets
bad ass.

Speaker 4 (02:29:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:29:57):
The closest to that would be like they had the
that garlic bath and lost Boys.

Speaker 2 (02:30:02):
Yeah, something like that, but I don't work boys. Try
Holy Water Death Breath. Love that movie. But yeah, the
garlic is great in the mouth. Like, Yeah, even though
its slow paced, I had a really good time with it.
It looked great. It's at first I thought I was
shot for made for TV, but as it went on
it was kind of epic. And it's shot by Xavier Cruz,

(02:30:23):
who was a cinematographer for Ala Carda and The Evil
That Men Do. Oh, so it's well shot. I recommend
it nice and you're gonna have to watch it.

Speaker 3 (02:30:33):
Yeah, I am now all right. Nineteen eighties. This is
another one that I talked to Sam about on her
Telephone Terror episode that's disconnected from nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 2 (02:30:44):
Yes, he's good.

Speaker 3 (02:30:45):
So this girl Alicia, she starts receiving bizarre, discordant phone
calls after breaking up with her boyfriend. She ends up
going on a few dates with this film nerd Franklin,
whom she meets at.

Speaker 2 (02:30:57):
The video store that she works at.

Speaker 3 (02:31:00):
Although I have an issue with how the tapes are organized,
clearly not alphabetical. Visiting ours is on the top shelf,
Halloween went through three on the bottom. I don't know
what's happening. It's weird. So she goes out with this guy, Franklin.
He turns out to be a serial killer, but the
calls don't stop even after, like she's sort of dating him,

(02:31:21):
and so we're like, is it you know, maybe it's
not him, Maybe there's something else going on. One of
the victims is her twin sister, who's played by the
same actress. I know, you love that it's got a
similar synth to I Drink Your Blood, which I really enjoyed.
It's such an odd movie, and I mean, I love
that about it. And the fact that, like the very end,

(02:31:44):
I'm not going to spoil it is what just leaves
you scratching your head like, wait.

Speaker 2 (02:31:49):
What, Yeah, this is what I've had for a potential
no rules November pay actually, but I don't think we will.
We're recovering it on this and okay, did I just
reeve and you know? Okay, No, I have like a
side list, okay, potential pick Obviously, I never pick anything
until like the night before and after I'm.

Speaker 3 (02:32:09):
Like, Lance, what's your fucking pitch?

Speaker 2 (02:32:11):
It's like nothing on my list.

Speaker 3 (02:32:13):
So meanwhile I'm planned out un till twenty thirty five.
But yeah, no, I really enjoyed this one. This and
Out of the Dark were like two of my favorites
from that we talked about. The other one that we
talked about was Eyes of a Stranger, which is completely unhinged.
If you guys haven't seen it, definitely recommend watching that one.

(02:32:34):
It's Jennifer Jason Lee in one of our first roles.

Speaker 2 (02:32:37):
Oh yeah, I've not seen that.

Speaker 3 (02:32:40):
I do want to make sure people know that that
is not how trauma works just before you watch it.
That is absolutely not how it works. But it is unhinged,
all right. Last one Viewers Choice, Day thirty one. This
is another one of my favorites of the month. I
went heavy on Todd Browning this year or this month rather,
and Todd Browning is the only white guy to break

(02:33:03):
my top directors this year, which we'll talk about in
our end of year episode, our letterbox stats, but mine
is very heavy Over in Hong Kong, so I watched
Mark of the Vampire from nineteen thirty five. This is
starring Bella Lagosi as Count Mora and Lionel Barrymore as

(02:33:23):
a professor who's investigating a murder which appears to have
been committed by a vampire. It's just over an hour long,
has amazing fake bats, amazing fake spiders. There's a moment
where Luna, who is Legosi's sort of female vampire sidekick,
she flies in with a large pair of wings and

(02:33:46):
it's second only to Lorraine of Alaskaz and ship of
monsters as far as an entrance and flying in on
big wings, like it's pretty great. But yeah, there's like,
you know, these murders, they seem like, oh it is
it vampiric? And so there's a lot of suspicion being
cast on Count Mora and his assistant, and it's all
a very sort of clever unfolding in the end of it.

(02:34:08):
I don't want to give anything away for anyone who
hasn't seen it, But Mark at the Vampire nineteen thirty
five Todd Browning, another of my favorites of the month
All the Todd Brownie movies bangers that I watched this month.
Nice what about you.

Speaker 2 (02:34:20):
Viewers choice? I went with the cartoon a German animated
horror film, Fella Day from nineteen ninety four. It's a
murder mystery involving cats. There are a few humans that
pop up in it, but we follow a cat named Francis.
And that's how exactly how he says this name. It's
all German, and then all of a sudden, like, you know,
what's your name? Francis?

Speaker 3 (02:34:41):
Steph Crocodile put this one out?

Speaker 2 (02:34:43):
They did, Yeah, this was on too me and it's
deefh Crocodile's uploads. Oh nice, Okay, it's very clean, very
the subtitles are great. But this cat just moved in
a new into a new neighborhood and he immediately finds
a dead body of a cat. He teams up with
a rough cat name Bluebeard, who loves to walk up
on the buildings and just spray. They said, really bad

(02:35:05):
was here. It's gross, But they start finding more dead
cats and they work to find out who the killer is.
It's basically like a Giallo It's pretty fun to watch.
Francis is kind of the only person, the only cat,
who believes another cat killed it, where everybody thinks it's
the can openers known as humans. Visually, I really dug it.
I missed this type of animation style. Maybe it's still

(02:35:27):
out there and I just don't watch a lot of
modern cartoons, but it gave me like a heavy metal vibe.
But to me, again, this is usually I overrate stuff,
but this people I follow in Letterbox seemed enjoy this
a lot more than I did. I felt the pacing
is and the story is just very disjointed. It was

(02:35:48):
It's not really hard to follow, but it's kind of
presented in a way that makes it more complicated than
it should be. I was ever really hooked. I hate
to say that. I wasn't a fan of the German
voice actors just didn't work to me, like with the
visual cartoon characters. Yeah, I did read Armando wrote it.
I wrote a review on Letterbox which he really enjoyed it,

(02:36:10):
like most people that I followed. He wrote, think of
it as blue velvet and aristocrats in German, and it
made perfect sense to me because Francis the cat is
essentially like Jeffrey Beaumont from Blue Velvet, trying to solve
this murder. All these odid ball characters are popping in
from time to time. Definitely has that yellow aspect to it,
trying to figure out who the killer is. But overall
it was just kind of lukewarm on it. I like

(02:36:32):
the art, I like the animation. It gets really gory.
You know, they got there's cat fighting and they got
each other, and it's pretty gory for a cartoon. Okay,
just really wasn't a fan of the storytelling and voice acting.
All right, that's it, we finished it.

Speaker 3 (02:36:49):
Oh all right, Uh, we're going to wrap it up
here quickly. If you're not already, you can follow us
on Instagram at Unsung Horrors. I'm on Letterbox and Instagram
at Hex Massacre.

Speaker 2 (02:37:03):
I'm there at El Schiby.

Speaker 3 (02:37:05):
Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this
year's Horror Gives Back, who shared their picks, who donated,
whether to our fundraiser or to one that's near and
dear to your heart? What else?

Speaker 2 (02:37:16):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:37:17):
Next episode is my pick for No Rules November. We'll
be watching on Alejandra and we will be having a
returning guest confirmed. Oh good, Abraham Castillo Flores will be
back to talk about the movie with us. I'm very excited.
We love Abraham here and it's been a long time
coming to have him back. So that'll be coming out

(02:37:37):
the week of Thanksgiving. But thanks for listening and we'll
see you next episode.

Speaker 2 (02:37:44):
Bye bye, Thanks everybody. Hello, Filthy movie lovers. My name
is Gentry Austin. Now I'm Casey Scott, and we're the hosts.

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