Midnight Ride (1990)

Mark Hamill and Michael Dudikoff square off in a competition to see who can be the biggest asshole in this Cannon action/horror/thriller. Joker laughs aside, this movie takes you for a fun ride. Horror Gives Back fundraiser: http://support.bestfriends.org/goto/horrorgivesback2023 Join our discord! https://discord.gg/F8WsTzE9qt Follow this podcast on Instagram and Facebook @unsunghorrors. Follow Lance on Instagram and Letterboxd @lschibi Lance’s shop: https://lanceschibi.bigcartel.com/ Follow Erica on Letterboxd or Instagram @hexmassacre Logo by Cody Schibi Part of the Prescribed Films Podcast network (www.thepfpn.com)

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the US, it's shitty, yes, sort of the cops, which we'll
be talking about. Yeah, we'retalking about shitty cops, shitty man.
Okay. This is basically called uhokay, Well, well, this episode
we're covering an action whoror yes right, a canon film Midnight from nineteen ninety.
It began as a trip to freedom. I've done it, I'm leaving

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lawson. What became a journey intodarkness? Hi, listen, you think
I could ask you for a ride? Please? The first mistake was to
give him a ride. Hey,the dinner? How you go up?
You see my wife come through here? Jeez? I thought I recognized him,
but I had some ling likely todo going away with me? Okay.

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The last mistake promise was trying toescape. Catch me now a mad
man? Justin With all the worstcases I've ever done, this one makes
you look alive, profoundly sociopath onthe road. You're busted to destruction.

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Mark Hamill, Savina Gershak, MichaelDudakov, Robert Mitchell. Midnight Ride.
It's currently streaming on YouTube and Fubofor anybody who might have a subscription Fubo.
Fubo. I don't know if we'veever shouted out Fubo. I don't
believe we have. Now, okay, i'm gonna I'm gonna admit that I

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do subscribe to Fubo during baseball seasonbecause that's the only way I could watch
the Astros. Okay, So Ididn't know what Fubo was, so now
it's. Yeah, it's like acable's overpriced and probably not worth it.
But they do stream movies, Okay, Okay, And Midnight Ride has six
hundred and sixty views on letterbox.Six more people, folks get in there.

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Exactly, It's exactly what I wasthinking. Okay, So listen to
this terrible synopsis of Midnight Ride onIMDb in Letterbox that someone very poorly wrote.
Quote. A housewife just left hercop husband, and then she picks
up justin McKay. She'll wish shenever did, as she's plunged into a
nightmare and the grip of a psychotickiller. So this is worded in a

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way that makes it sound like sheshould be sorry for leaving her husband.
Yeah, who's a complete fucking asshole. Who will talk about here in a
bit? Yeah, but here's aquick, more accurate synopsis of Midnight Ride.
A woman named Laura finally leaves herhusband, who has aggressive anger issues
and only cares about his job asa cop. But she picks a poor

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time to leave though, because he'sthere at home watching TV and suddenly flips
out when she confirms she's leaving.He forces himself into the car to try
to talk her out of it,and she's having none of it and leaves
him at an ice cream shop,but as she's driving away, he starts
yelling threats to her and ends upstealing another Cops police cruiser to chase after
her. During this time, akiller named Justin just murdered a woman in

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town and is looking to get outof town to visit his doctor, but
he can't rid a car because hedoesn't have a credit card, so he
hitches a ride with Laura. It'squickly established that he's completely unstable and that
Laura is now in a totally different, shitty situation with a completely different crazy
guy who happens to love to takepictures with his Polaroid camera. Andy seems

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to have an endless supply of film, but the whole movie is basically the
crazy killer murdering people along his andLaura's road trip to see his doctor as
her possessive, shitty cop husband pursuesthem. So that's my quick synopsis of
this. So Midnight Ride directed byBob Browber. He directed three feature films,

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Midnight Ride being a second and hisfirst film as director. Is probably
more well known among horror fans becauseVinegar Syndrome released it a few years ago.
That's Rush Week. Yeah, Ilook this up and apparently I've watched
this and I gave it three stars, and I have zero memory of watching
it. I think you had recommendedit to me too. You're like,
you should probably pick up Rush Weekfrom that sounds familiar. And I recently

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just watched it, Okay. Idid pick it up, okay, and
I watched it for the first time. And I know why you recommend it.
There's a lot of there's a Halloweenparty first off, Okay, there's
a lot of live bands playing,you know, frat parties and stuff.
Okay, I you know what,I bet I probably recommended it when we
recorded Primal Rage. Then that wouldmake sense. Yeah, I think it

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was. I was really well,No, it was released in twenty twenty
one. But maybe you did watchit. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know either, but youdid recommend it. I mean it it
to me. It's fine. Yeah, it's an okay movie. It is
a little bit forgettable, like II or it's forgot. I mean,
yeah, I forgot. I lookedit up and I was I always should
watch that. Oh I already did. Yeah, it's something special. I

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mean the soundtrack is kind of abanger. It has Devo Dead Milkman,
the Dickies who actually play the Halloweenparty in the movie. Yeah, okay.
Now I love that the killer inRush Week uses a fucking battle axe
to kill a victim. But it'stame because they don't ever show the murders.
They just show the acts coming down, you know. I feel like

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it's holding back kind of the kindof the most of the film. Greg
Olman plays a hippie professor though namedCosmo Kincaid. Hell yeah, and he
was really funny. I was kindof hoping he would pop up in Midnight
Ride because I watched this before MidnightRide again. Yeah, and then the
other thing. The lead Pamela Ludwigfrom Rush Week. She plays the rental
car agent in Midnight Ride. Ithink she might be the first face that

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pops up on screen, which isa funny introduction to the movie. The
whole scene's really funny. And theonly thing that I thought Rushwek really had
going for it was necrophilia was happeningas a practical joke. Yeah. See,
Okay, now it's coming back tome. How do I ever get
a movie that is necrophilia? Yeah, that's my own fault. Yeah,
there's a there's a button in therethat I really want to make that that

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it's posted like a bulletin Boar andit says necrophilia is a dying art.
That's I'm like, I'm gonna makethat and I'm gonna sell it and make
millions. But yeah, it's fine. Rush Week's fine. I wish it
kind of leaned harder into the actualkilled score in Necrophilia. After Midnight Ride,
Browver directed American Ninja five. I'veonly seen up to three. I

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feel like three, okay, soyeah, Michael Michael du Dakoff was in
the first two. I know I'veseen the first two. I think I've
seen the third one, probably not, you know, I take it back
I've seen one and two. Iknow I saw one a long time ago,
but I went ahead and watched AmericanNinja five. I just jumped ahead,
and it made sense because it wasn'tintended to be an American Ninja sequel.

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Cannon Group changed the name that Ithink the original title was what was
American Dragons, but they reached Cannondecided to retitle it before its release.
It's okay, I mean, BobRober used the name Bobby gen Leonard,
and I'm not certain of the reasonsfor the pseudonym. After watching it,
I kind of understand, but Ithought it was kind of fun. There's

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this one funny scene. Before Iknew and read about American Ninja five not
being an actual sequel, there's ascene where one of the bad guys is
telling his boss that all of hismen got his ass kicked by some quote
little Ninja Man, and he's referringto this little kid named Hero who David

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Bradley, who's the American Ninja,is taking care of. But apparently Little
Ninja Man was also an original workingtitle. But it's it's good. I
mean, I get Cannon changing thetitle even though it's a completely different character
and has nothing to do with AmericanNinja, but that's that's what sells,
right, American Ninja five Yeah,super cheesy tho, it's pretty much like
a buddy comedy. Pat Marita playsa master Ninja. By the way,

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but after watching all three of hisfeature films, Bob Rovers can tell that
he shines when filming action right.Midnight Ride is definitely more action than horror.
Yeah, and he it makes sensegiven his career because he was a
stuntman before he became a director.He also he directed a shit ton of
TV series episodes, night Rider,the eighteen early nineties Dragnet, So you

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know, action was kind of hishis forte he was good at it,
and his career as a stuntman wasmainly in television doing stunts or stunt coordinator
for mcguy versus Starsky and Hutch A, Night Rider, Battle Star Galactica,
but he did some stunts for featurefilms like Roadhouse, Dark Man, The
Star Trek Motion Picture, Paul Bartel'sDeath Race two thousand, Chud Too by

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the Chud Hell. Yeah, Buthe started a stunt career in nineteen sixty
six doing a lot of westerns andhe's kind of kept doing it. I
saw the last stunt credit coming intotwenty twenty. He's an older guy too,
but he could just be sick inthere and say flip better. Yeah,
you know, flip Like I don'tknow, I don't know how coordinators

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really work. But anyways, I'ma fan of stuntman getting behind the camera
because they know how to film.You know, they know how stunt gags
work, they know how they shouldbe filmed, what angle. For the
most part, I think they're Yeah, I think that they're good behind the
camera in action films, like whenit when it comes to that, I
think that when we start getting intolike horror, I mean it's specifically special

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effects artists getting behind the camera there. You know, there's there's a good
chunk of movies like that that havea like who's Gabe Bartolus or whatever who
you know has amazing special effects.But he directed Skinned Deep, and I
fucking hate that movie. Yeah,I've never seen Skin Deep. I know

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the poster, and yet it's likeit's, yeah, it's basically like showcasing.
It's special effects, yeah exactly.And like there's there's a few others
that have come around, and youknow, it's it's frustrating because it's like
the special effects are the best partof the movie because they want to showcase
their work, but then they're notpaying attention to everything else that goes into

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making a film, so then itturns out to be not a great movie.
It's like, well, it's gotgreat effects, but yeah movie.
That's very true with stuntman becoming directorsbecause Class of nineteen ninety nine two,
the substitute that I watched during Jean'splitation, I mean that was directed by another
stuntman, Spiro Risotto's Yeah, andI talked about it a little bit in

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Jean's Plitation, but you get itin Midnight Ride. Basically there's some there's
some killings going on, but betweenthe murders, you know, the directors
like, we need another two fuckingexplosions, like let's blow up a fucking
car, all right. The killsare dragging this movie down. Craig R.
Baxley's another stunt man turned director.He did. I mean, this

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guy I think is legit. Hefocus solely on action. He did Stone
Cold, he did Dark Angel ActionsJackson. So this this guy knew where
you know he I mean Dark Angel'skind of like a sci fi horror,
but it's an action film, soI feel like, I mean, it's
a good point what you say aboutspecial effects people becoming directors and stuffman becoming

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directors. This is Bob Browbers's onlywriting credit other than a few television episodes,
and I'm willing to bet he wrotea lot of the action scenes,
like we just talked about, likeespecially the scene where Dudakov steals a car,
you know, off of a movingsemi. That's a car, it's
a truck, car haul or whateverthey're called. Completely unnecessary scene. Oh

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yeah, but I bet he lookedat the script and the script said like
love loss and character steals a carfrom like a passer by, and he's
like, no, let's spend tenminutes of him crawling over a semi stealing
a car. And it was cowritten by Russell V. Mansat, who
also wrote Rush Week and some otherlesser known movies. I've already mentioned Midnight

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Ride as a cannon film. Ithink this is the second week covered,
the first being you know, oneof our collectively favorites, doctor Heckel and
mister Ryde. So this isn't aGollan and Globis Production. But it is
in the video g Asinides Productions OurBoy, It is our Board. We've
mentioned him quite a bit in pastepisodes. Director Beyond the Door, Matt

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House obviously special place in My HeartTentacles. His producer critics include The Visitor,
The Curse, a few of theAmerican Ninja movies, including Part five.
Okay, so we never really talkedabout casting as far as crew goes.
Yeah, And I just want topoint out because Mark Hamill, you

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know, at this time during MidnightRide, is probably not on a lot
of people's minds to play like acrazy serial killer. Maybe he was looking
for odd roles, which you knowI applaud. But Ed Mitchell did casting
for Midnight Ride, and looking overhis other casting jobs, I think he
did a really killer job Killer Clownsfrom Outer Space, Night Game, which
getting you know we covered Night Game, Roy Scheider and Paul Gleeson. They

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make the movie like these character actorsand performances make the movie Sunny Boy,
which I know you just watched Idid with David Carridine, Brad Duriffe,
Paul L. Smith. You know, he cast that movie, and I
think that movie I watched that moviea year or so ago, and I
thought it was. I saw youjust recently watched it too last night.
Yeah, I thought it was.I mean, I think the cast and

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performances and the characters are obviously whatmake that movie. Yeah it is.
It's this very weird movie because itfeels like it should be an exploitation film,
but it's got a heart and it'slike, yeah, it has this
weird family dynamic. It's really sad, and like Brad Dorf is just fucking

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off the rails in it, LikeI mean, I love him to piece.
It's in everything he's in. PaulSmith is just doing his you know
pieces, Gardner scowl the whole stinkguy. Yeah, the stink guy the
whole time. And like David Carrodineand drag the whole time. And like,
there's a song that David that there'sa song David Carrodine wrote it,

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wrote the song and the first lyricsare actually on his tombstone no shit,
Yeah, like the first three orfour lines. I remember when I watched
Sonny Boy, I was like,this song, it says David Carrodine sung
it in the credits. I'm intoit. So I like looked it up
and I was like, yeah,he was really proud of the movie,
proud of the song. It's actuallythe first couple of lines were engraved on
a student stone. Like, ohmy gosh, that's amazing. I looked

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it up. I saw a picture. I cried. But yeah, Sonny
Boy, I recommend. But yeah, Also the casting director, Ed Mitchell,
I just have to point out Childrenof the Corn five. He cast
that. So that's I'm sorry again. You get David Carrodine in it,
and you get Fred Williamson's got agreat cast. But like then, I

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blame this man for getting me excitedabout watching na ChIL mccorn movie. So
Ed Mitchell did his job. Hehe's making people watch movies, right,
Yeah, they're not worth watch.Yeah, good for you, Ed Mitchell,
shout out. I did not getthose ninety minutes of my life back
there. Yeah I recently watched thatbad Okay. Last few crew members to

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mention a cinematographer Robert Dietore Piazzoli,who shot some Italian bangers Beyond the Door,
Mad House, Raiders of Atlantis,Luigi Kotsi's Star Crash, Tentacles,
Purana two. He also shot SonnyBoy some good stuff. And then we
have the composer Carlo Maria Cordio tome for Midnight Ride. He understood the

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assignment, I think. So hehad a lot of credits that were it
was he was a co composer,Like, there were multiple people on it.
So there's a few that there thatthere weren't, like Enigma and Sonny
Boy, like besides the David Carrodinesong, he's solely listed on there.
But yeah, I think this heunderstood like what this movie is, and

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I think the score fits really wellwith it. Yeah, it's like a
perfect little nineties thriller, just enoughsexy saxophone. I feel like if you
input it, like make a inthe AI, make a nineties thriller soundtrack,
you'd have something that sounds very similarto Midnight Ride. But yeah,
a lot of a lot of codestuff. I mean, he worked on

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pieces, Troll two, Absurd inGame, some good stuff. Yeah,
he makes movies better, like EdMitchell, the casting guy. Okay,
the cast any other crew members youwant to talk about. I got so
much like our last episode that wecovered two fisted tales. Midnight Ride has
a lot of unknown actors that you'reprobably just not familiar with. First,

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I'll go with the lesser no name. The man playing a serial killer a
guy named Mark Hamill or is itHamil? I don't know if I'm saying
it right, but he's started abunch of sci fi films, like something
called a New Hope, some spaceadventure stories. Yeah, I don't know.
It looked like a knockoff of StarCrash, So yeah, it totally
was. That's what The first timeI watched it, I was like,

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wait, what came out first?Is this is Star Crash? Okay,
yeah, savor no, But seriously, I mean, we're covering a movie
that stars Luke Skywalker as a creepy, unstable serial killer, and looking over
Hammill's filmography, there's a lot ofstuff that people have never really heard of,
you know, so Midnight Rye kindof fits into it. It's understandable

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that we're able to pull one ofhis lesser known movies on an episode people
seem to only care about. Obviously, a Star Wars roles, his animated
Batman movie voice acting roles as theJoker. But most of my favorite,
probably like straight up my favorite MarkHamill roles are his horror films where he
just fucking camps out, you know, body bag in Toby Hooper's eye segment

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where he plays the baseball player losesan eye in a car accident. John
Carpenter's Village of the Danned. SoI'm not a fan of the movie.
I'm not a very big fan ofthat movie at all. Yeah, but
his character as the priest, asthe reverend guy, he's completely captivating,
Like, I love his scene.And then he plays like a tiny little

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cop because he's a little guy,a tiny little cop with a massive mustache
in Mick Garris's Sleepwalkers. So Ilove his little his little smaller roles in
horror films. I think he shouldhave said, like, isn't he a
little short for a Oh that's verygood. That's right. I'm Luke Skywalker.

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I'm here to rescue you. ButI'm gonna say I think Midnight Ride
showcases his talent as an actor.Yeah, there was this other one that
I watched from nineteen seventy seven.It was a TV pilot movie called The
City, and it starred Don Johnsonand Robert Forrester Nice And basically they're chasing

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Hamil for the whole the whole movieor pilot or whatever you want to call
it. So it starts off withHamil. He's working at a gas station
and he gets some letter and hejust flips out and he kills someone who
pulled it into the gas station toget gas, and he just like you
know, smashes the car, thenbeats the guy and then runs off.

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And so then the cops show up. It's Robert Forrester and his partner and
then Don Johnson, Robert Forrester's spoilerpartner dies later, so then him and
Don Johnson have to team up togo after Mark Hamill. The whole premise
of this of it is that inthe letter he somehow found out that some
famous country singer isn't really his dad, and so he's I know, it's

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really weird, but most of itis just like Robert Forster and Don Johnson
chasing Mark Hamill, and Mark Hamillis a little off the rails in this
one. You get a few likeJoker laughs in it as you do.
And yeah, you know he's young, he's a baby in this is in
nineteen seventy seven, so it's it'son YouTube. It's this really shitty copy.

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So I mean it's it's fine.I guess I'm not gonna hard recommend
it, but it's you know,I love Robert Forster in anything, so
oh yeah, one hundred percent.Yeah, I guess. I guess Mark
Hamill has I mean, people obviouslyrecognized his his voice. He can really
control his you know, emode,emotions, and then just it's he's a

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great voice actor. He's been doingit for like the last three decades.
That's kind of all he's really doingnow, which which makes sense. It
seems a lot easier. Yeah,hotly see lest Star Wars movie. I
saw man. He just seemed grumpyand I was like, yeah, I
think he has like yeah, likefifteen minutes of screen time, but you
get paid millions and millions. Ifeel like these character roles and these horror
roles and voice actors, it's justhim saying like, fuck you, Luke

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Skywalker. You know, thanks forall the money. Right, I'm going
to take these roles because they're funas hell. Yeah, Okay, Next
we have Laura, the character lawyerLaura, who was played by Slovenian actress
Savina Gersik. I hate to saythat I found her to be a little
stiff. Yeah, just very boring. I don't hate to say it.

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She was. I mean, she'san essential role she she does her job.
She she you know, she readsher lines. But as far as
her performance goes, yeah, she'snever really seems scared or determined when she's
trying to get away from her husband. When we get to the end,
I'm gonna have some fucking words abouther. I mean, I know it's
not her fault as the actress,but like, yeah, no, the

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Indian is fucking annoying. Well,we'll definitely get to that. But I'm
willing to guess that producer As landedthis role for her because he's been associated
with most of her previous work.Okay, she was in Sunny Boy,
Beyond the Door three, The Cursetwo, The Lone Runner, Iron Warrior,
all Assan's productions. Again, Idon't think she's that great of an

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actress. So but I did.If You're still alive, Yeah, because
I I read in her film biothat after unsuccessful attempts to pursue an international
career in acting in the nineteen nineties, she retired really acting, settled in
Rome, where she practices as apsychotherapist. What Yeah, Wow, I
think I think Midnight. I thinkher meeting the Robert Mitchum character like inspired

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her. Okay, so we're goingto get to Robert Mitcham here in a
minute, but let's let's go overLaura's asshole cop husband Lawson. What a
bro name? Yeah, sorry,Tidny Lawson's No if your last name is
Lawson, Okay, but you knowI'm saying that because I'm friend Mike and
Mike Lawson. And but if yourfirst name is Lawson, yeah, fuck

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you did you see? I mean, yeah, his first name's Lawson.
Did you did you see his lastname laws in Chad? Just kidding.
I made that up, but itseems real. Okay. Well, Lawson
is played by mediocre star Michael Dudikov. I'm going to say it. He's
known as the original American Ninja.Yes right, I mean, I think

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dudakov is kind of even though tome he's a very forgettable actor. He
doesn't have a recognizable face. Whenhe pops up, I'm like, hey,
it's that dude, you know,and oh it's Michael Dukoff. He
does seem like he could be likemaybe a little poster you know, like
a poster child for Cannon group,Like he's an action star through and through,
but he's just forgettable. I thinkhis most memorable role is in Albert

(26:30):
Pune's Radio Actor Dreams from nineteen eightyfour. I recently watched that earlier this
year and it was the same thing. It was a thirty five millimeter for
Weird Wednesday when Albert Pune passed away. Yeah, he popped up and I
was like, I've seen that guybefore. Who is he? It's Michael
Dudakov. Yeah. I I hateto say this because like I I know

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it's me. It's not Albert Pion, it's me. I don't like his
movie is like in Radioactive Dreams isthe same thing. I watched it and
I was just like, I can'tstand this movie. Yeah, it's it's
pretty. I mean, all thecharacters are very grading and there's a good
child death in it. Thank youLaird for pointing that out, because otherwise
I wouldn't have watched it. Yeah. I think that month I watched Captain

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America, Yeah, which was fun. I didn't go to the others.
I think it was like, whatwas it Alien from La right? But
dall Man, I know you loveDolman. I I just I can't.
I every every single time I try, I'm like, i'm gonna get I'm
gonna give Pon another shot, andI just watch it and I'm like,
I just don't like it, andI'm sorry, you're he was a wonderful

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human, but I don't like hismovies and I just I can't. So.
But speaking of Child Death Avenging Force, I highly recommend that actioner Michael
du Dakov New Orleans set really fun. There's a fantastic child death in it,
Like a kid just fucking get fuckingrolls off the roof. It's amazing.

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But yeah, Dakov is is he'she's plug and play, you know,
just just PLoP them into any likestandard action movie and he's fine as
what he is. Yeah, Yeah, that's you know, sadly to say,
well, I'm going to talk aboutsome of my favorites in this movie
and it has nothing to do withthe leads other than Mark Hamill. Sure,
because do Dakov what's her name,Grosak Like, they're they're just not

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very good. They're just they're they'redoing a thing, and that's pretty much
it. Dudakov is a charisma vacuum. Yeah, that's a good way to
put it, that's just has noneand he takes it away from anyone else
that's on screen at the same timeas him. That's a very good way
to put it. But I mean, I yeah, I enjoyed him being

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such a fucking asshole, Like,yeah, it's infuriating it. Yeah,
yeah, it was. It wasdifferent than what I'm used to seeing him
in. You know, I'll giveit that. Yeah, So let's talk.
I'm gonna one cast member that Iwant to talk about, which is
a wasted role. It's a surpriseappearance of sorts, the Great Robert Mitcham
right, playing Harry Pell himself,but he's playing Justin's doctor, doctor Hardy

(29:12):
from Hendersonville. Everybody knows Robert Mitcham, Yes, unlike do to cough.
He's he has such a recognizable face. Out of the Past and out of
The Hunter, both Kate Fier movies. He's a narrator in the Western Tombstone,
which I love. I've forgot aboutthat, but yeah, he pops
up what in the last fifteen minutes, and he probably has i'd say two

(29:36):
total minutes of screen time. Yeahif that, and he's you know,
he's collecting a paycheck here. It'syou know, I guess if you're a
Robert Mitcham completist, like this isimportant to you. But I, yes,
he's not. He's not doing anythinghere, folks. No, he's
He's just an emotionless doctor reading lines. Yeah. So that's it off for

(29:56):
the cast. I mean, Ido want to point out Bob Robert plays
one of the cops, probably doeshis own stunts at the time. Yeah.
Any other cast members that caught youreye? Now, that's all I
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dot com. Thanks for listening.Okay, I already mentioned that every that
I feel like this movie should maybebeb called everyone is a stupid fucking asshole
the movie, especially men. Yeah, but I appreciate how fast it moves.

(31:07):
Oh yeah, this fuck this moviedoes not stop. Yeah, big
fan of the pacing. I mean, there isn't much time spin on setting
things up. It just kind ofimmediately throws you into this chase. So
much happens in the first twenty minutes, and then even more happens, like
in the next ten minutes. It'sit's great. Yeah. I think I
think it being like a car moviehelps it to feel that way too,

(31:30):
because you're not only like you're physicallymoving on screen all the time, so
it feels like things are happening andthings are moving. It's kind of like
that when you trick yourself when you'restuck in traffic and it's like, Okay,
I'll get there at the exact sametime if I stay on Mopak versus
getting on Lamar, which I'll actuallybe moving, but you know, and

(31:53):
so you trick yourself into thinking that. And I think that's a small part
of it. But there is alot happening in the film as well.
But I think it being a carmovie, a car chase movie, a
car escape by car movie kind ofhelps move it along a little bit too.
Yeah, there are some scenes thatI felt like are. You know,

(32:13):
they go on a little bit toolong. I feel like at least
lost a little steam when hammil youknow, I'm going to jump around here,
but lets Laura go and you know, you kind of sabotages or tire
and stuff. Again, maybe it'sjust like what you pointed out. That's
when it kind of stops and slowsdown there on the side of the road.
There's a lot of talking going on. It definitely ruins, not ruins

(32:36):
the whole movie, but it affectsthe pacing that you were kind of used
to for those first forty five minutesor so. And then there's a scene
where Dudakov is crawling through the airvents at the end in the hospital and
I'm like, dude, Jesus christisguy is lost? Like we're spending two
minutes of him walking through air ducks. I mean, cut out some scenes.

(32:57):
This movie easily could have been undereighty minutes. Yeah, it's still
a short run time, it's underninety, but it could have been shorter.
Yeah, I mean as soon asit starts the first you know,
forty five minutes or so, Ithink this thing is a bullet. I
really like it. You're saying,though, like it just jumps right into
the beginning, I think it soit doesn't really It starts with her leaving

(33:19):
her her husband, but it doesn'treally establish like why other than her saying
we just don't get along and yeah, she said, I'm married to you,
but you're married to your job,right you can't Yeah, and in
coompete. But the thing is islike, and of course how it and
we'll get to the fucking end,but the it never really establishes like why

(33:43):
is this such a big deal thatyou would leave him for that? Like
he's clearly abusive because okay, Soshe gets in her car to leave and
he's like, I'm not letting yougo, and he sits in the car
and he buckles the seatbelt and she'slike, okay, fine, I'm like,
what who would do that? Nobodywho is not abusive would do the

(34:04):
things that he did. You know, he gets in the car. So
if you don't let your partner leavewhen they want to, you get in
the car with them, you threatento get every cop in the state after
her and then steal cars to chaseher down. That's a fucking wall puncher.
Yeah, Well he's stealing cars andhe's you know, he's running through
fucking road barriers. Yeah, asa cop, yes, to chase his

(34:29):
wife because he's fucking pissed, andhe's causing these hazards that citizens are going
to drive through this road and they'regoing to die, like because he's breaking
through roadbox. Yeah. Yeah.In the very beginning, this lossing character,
you would think he's the villain straightoff the bat. That's the first
time I watched it, That's whatI thought. I was like, oh
shit, this is going to belike her trying to escape her fucking abusive

(34:51):
husband. But then she's also gotto contend with this, so it's like,
oh no, and then it again. We'll talk about the end later,
but like it turned into like,oh, well, Lesser of two
Evils, I guess kind of thing, which is fucking bullshit. It's it's
terrible. Yeah, the ending's bad. But yeah, Lawson and Justin so
Dudakov and Hammel, they're the samefucking character as far as I'm concerned.

(35:15):
They're both yelling and demanding Laura tostay with them the whole fucking movie,
and Dudakov says something like there's anotherthing that he said that it's like red
Flag City. It's it's when hehe wrecks the fucking patrol police cruiser.
His wife rams him, and thenhe goes to his friend who has a
taxi and he says to his friend, I need her back in the worst

(35:37):
ways, like you have no idea. It's scary, how unstable this guy
is fucking disgusting, and he thinksice cream can fix their relationship. Yeah,
I have a feeling that that washer plan. Like she he was
like, I'm not getting out ofthe car, and she's like, okay,
fine, have it your way,Like in the back of her mind,
she's like, I'm gonna ditch thisdumb shit. Yeah, okay,

(35:58):
Yeah, that totally makes sense.But like the fact that he would propose
that, Like he says, let'sget some ice cream. You'll feel better
after you have some. You alwaysdo. Yeah, And I'm like,
ice cream doesn't fix that. Itried mintship for my marriage. That ship
does not fucking work. I'm sorry. I mean yeah, yeah, I'm
sorry. Wait, I need totake that back. I don't want to

(36:20):
make it sound like my ex wasabusive. He was not. That was
just not a good marriage. Totallyshit. I needed to say that.
No, no, I didn't getthat. I didn't. Well, the
rest of the world does not knowmy marriage, so I need to make
sure people don't think that about myex husband. He's a wonderful human.
Yeah, I mean to top itoff, just to just to really drill
home how much of a fucking unstableasshole Losson is. He's going into cafes

(36:45):
asking people if he's seen you know, his people have seen his wife,
and the guys joking, making jokesand stuff like who ordered a taxi?
You know, because he's driving ataxi, right, Yeah, he's well,
no, he didn't steal a taxand he borrowed it, but he
borrowed it. Still he stole thepolice cruiser, though he steals another car
later there's there's the stolen or borrowedcar. Count is four plus a bus

(37:07):
in this four plus a bus.Yeah it's good. But yeah, this
guy makes a joke about his taxiand he's a cop loss In and he's
like, look, Jack, I'mtired, I'm pissed, I'm ready to
kill you know, so don't fuckwith me. He's just talking to some
dude like this guy's a fucking aggressivewhen the car starts dying. He's driving

(37:27):
a car. Oh it's on fire, and he's going to the the hospital
at the end, and he's yellingat the car, don't die, you
fuck her. Yeah, I'm likeJesus Christ, this guy is terrifying.
He's I mean, he's almost he'salmost scarier than Hamil because Hamil his justing
character. I'm not going to saythat they're trying to justify his his his

(37:49):
his traumatic past, you know,justify his killing is because they keep bringing
up these traumatic pasts with his hetells a story about his mother killing his
sister. But Doudakov is just straightup a fucking I mean it makes me
hate all men. Yeah, Imean Hammil's Hamil's character would be easier to
manipulate, Like, once you understoodwhat what does he want here? What's

(38:09):
his goal? Okay, I canfigure this out and then figure out a
way out of this. With Dodakov, it's like you just got to straight
up ditch this guy at the fuckingice cream shoppy and that's it. Yeah,
Doudakov should be definitely locked away forever. Yeah, take that fucker's badge
away. Yeah, he's I mean, he's aggressive, Hammel should just be

(38:31):
not incaution rate in jail, butjust put him in and you know,
a health facility. We're just hitgood therapy program. He can get better.
Do to cough. No, you'reyou know if you're an asshole built
in like that, you're yeah.Yeah. But Hamil, he's my favorite
character obviously in this he gives memajor We've already talked about Braddorriff, but

(38:52):
he gives me major Braddorriff vibes.Yeah, from his appearance and to his
voice especially. And I never reallyput the two together because I never watch
that new Chucky movie from twenty nineteen, but Mark Hamill took over as the
voice of Chucky, right, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't see it
either because you know, sorry,it's only on the original Chucky. I
you know what I've I don't lovethe Child's Play series, but I can

(39:16):
say with a lot of confidence thatI think from the first one through I
don't know what the last one wasbefore the remake, curse or it might
have been cursed or cult. Yeah, one of the two. Yeah,
all the way up and through thatthere's I mean, it has the most
solid output of the of any franchise. Like I'm talking Friday the thirteenth,

(39:38):
the Freddie movies, Halloween, especiallyHalloween's at the fucking bottom. Yeah,
but if you compare like the firstthree of a series, I mean,
I think the first three of Child'sPlayer the best. I think the first
three of Halloween might be the strongestof CEA. But like when you start
like factoring in like the later movies, like I actually really liked. I

(39:59):
don't remember if it was Curse orCult, but whicheverone took place. When
they brought in Braddorf Fiona, She'sgreat, and I this is me talking
about a horror movie made in thelast twenty thirty years that I actually like.
And you know, I mean,not like is a strong word.
I didn't. I wasn't vitriolic aboutit. I guess I'll leave it at

(40:21):
that. But as I am withthe new Halloween movies and you know,
everything else, everything else, Yeah, I mean I saw so many of
dori if mannerisms and voices and yeah, just a lot going on in Midnight
Ride that I think I do wantto actually give the new Chucky a try.
Now I think it's streaming, Ithink I'm going to check it out.
But it's streaming for free. Iall think about it. It's on

(40:43):
Prime right now. I think free, yeah, free, okay maybe,
But yeah, Hammill's I mean,obviously we've talked about his joker laugh.
I mentioned I think when I talkedabout this pick during two Fisted Tails that
I think you've kind of found hisjoker laugh in Midnight Ride. I think
he nailed it a year later playingthe Trickster in the Flash two TV movie

(41:06):
in nineteen ninety one. I mean, and then he perfected it in Batman
Mask of the Phantasm in ninety three. But everybody, he needs to go
pull clips from his role as theTrickster from the Flash to TV movie.
His laugh isn't fucking insane, andhis look is totally stolen by Jim Carrey
as the Riddler in Batman Forever exactly. But yeah, I mean, my

(41:28):
favorite, my favorite memory of Hammillas justin in Midnight Ride. It's him
casually sucking on that fake eye andhe's like, I'm getting hungry, you
know, let's stop for something toeat. Sucking on that fake guy is
the best. So good. Yeah, it's gross. So I've talked,
I shouted out to the cinematographer.I called him out. I love the

(41:49):
way this looks. It's very ninetyesthriller. It gave me night game vibes
with like the foggy blues, thehighways, the nights. It just gives
me kind of comfort. These typeof movies, Yeah, where they're stuck
in between decades. You know,that's kind of an eighties feel. But
you know, me and my nineties, I'm getting some of these nineties feels
coming in. It's the perfect timeand in movie making history. Yeah,

(42:12):
I think it's interesting because, youknow it, it does have the horror
movie tag on it, and thereare some some kills in this and I
think that type of that type ofcinematography kind of it lends itself well to
like this era slasher as well,and this is I wouldn't call this a
slasher. I mean, there thereis. You know, we do have

(42:32):
a serial killer, you know,but it's it doesn't fit sort of the
formula for that. I mean,I guess like the the late the Motel
Lady with the fake eye, butall that was off screen now when I
think about it. Yeah, asfar as I mean, the horror of
this movie is Mark Hamill yeah,and probably it's I think. I think

(42:53):
the scariest scene is when they pickup that girl, that lady Joan who's
our green with her boyfriend yea,yeah yeah, and Mark Hamill forces his
way into her home, and thatwhole scene is very creepy. It's it's
scary to watch. Yeah, Imean, well, we've done movies before.
They're like more borderline like thriller movie, but they have a horror movie

(43:14):
tag on them. But I meanI would definitely, yeah, this is
an action horror movie. It's actionfor show's fart action thriller however you want
to you know, yeah, Imean it would make what is what was
it called the Road the segment andtwo Fisted Tales King of the Road,
like it's they're very similar in likehorror action like you know, yeah,

(43:34):
yeah, yeah, but yeah,that scene of that lady Joan being killed
by Mark Hamill's character. I lookedher up because she looked familiar Leslie Dean,
she played Tracy and Freddie's Dead andshe's also a nine seven six evil
and girlfriend from Hell. But whatwas really interesting as I was looking her
up is that she was in adance pop group called Fim to FIM and
toward Europe opening up for nine inchNails and Marilyn Manson it's Joan that scenems

(44:00):
the scariest. Yeah, and thenyou know, I thought it was very
odd and didn't make a whole lotof sense to me. Maybe you made
sense of it, but that hecarried around a polaroid camera and took pictures
of everything. What was the purposeof that. I'm I was trying to
think of other and I've seen movieswhere killers take pictures of their bodies,

(44:21):
of their victims' bodies, but itseemed to kind of, you know,
play into like, you know,police procedural stuff and cops finding out like
who it is. But he justwalked around with the Yeah, if there
would have been some like throwaway lineby Mitcham at the end explaining that then
maybe if you tied it together,it does all positive theory. When I
get to my double feature pick aboutit because I've got a polaroid okay,

(44:45):
action for that one. Nice,But yeah, I don't it never gets
really explained in this one. Soyeah, I think that scene of him
pushing his way into the house isdefinitely the scariest moment My favorite moment is
when he blows up four at thegas station. Yeah, I mean yeah,

(45:05):
and he makes sure like other copssee him for like he sees that
they see O the dead cop friendsfirst and then that she's like, gotcha,
bitch? Yeah. I mean.My favorite is the I love the
fake eye scene where as soon asshe pops up and she's this lady who's
running like a CD motel, it'slike, are you gonna get a room?
Yeah? And Mark Hamills just staringat her. He's like, I

(45:27):
don't like her. She's got afake eye, and now he takes her
eye. I mean that one's great. Another one of my favorite scenes is,
uh, well, Mark Hamill,he's a fucking master of disguise and
more ways than one, he popsup in so many different uniforms throughout this
but he pops up as the busdriver. And did he kill the bus

(45:47):
driver by stabbing him to death witha gun because it's like lodged, it's
lodged in his cheek. I waslike, or did he shoot him and
shove the gun into the gun?I don't. I wish I wish that
was show. I wish they Yeah, I wish they had shown that,
because yeah, my first thought waslike, did the stabish god he's got
a pistol sticking at us cheek,And I have to point out this is

(46:12):
the least busiest highway, oh yeahin the world. Yeah, no one's
driving it and they're on their wayto Santa Barbara. I'm sorry, there's
no fucking like I know that,Like there was a roadblock and they're like,
oh, you got to go this. Well, he says, take
Coast Highway, which is yeah,coast, Pacific Coast Highway is fucking busy,
and then and that doesn't look anythinglike it because Pacific Coast Highway,

(46:36):
for the most part, is onthe coast. Yeah. There's like eight
total drivers in this movie on theroad and that all their cars get blow
up. Yeah, except for thebig the truck driver driving the cars who
is not very good at his job. Because when Doudakov is stealing the car
off of there, how do younot know those ramps are now down and
scraped, Yeah, and slowing youdown anyway. I'm like, the dude

(47:00):
was like eating an apple and listeningto the Yeah he's groom and now he's
doing this thing. He's listening toRamones getting ready to run over a kid
or something. You know, butlike, you know, cool stump Roe.
But don't you know what's happening backthere? Yeah? I mean the
road and the very little people onthe road sets up for so many perfect
coincidences, like Hammel being picked upby Laura, then he's picked up by

(47:21):
Lawson, then he's picked up bya bus, then he picks up Laura
in the bus. Then last andsteals a car and a Semion catches up
with him. It's like, okay, it makes for all these perfect a
perfect nineties thrillers situation. Yeah,because they have to catch up with each
other. Nobody's getting away. Itseems like cars drive two miles an hour
in this movie. Let's jump tothe ending. So first off, there's

(47:45):
a fight between They meet up atthe Hammill's takes Laura to he makes it
to the doctor in Hendersonville. RobertMitchum's there, Duda Kov shows up.
Hamil and du Da Kov have thisfight all over the hospital for like five
minutes, and it felt like PeterGriffin fighting Ernie the Giant Chicken from the

(48:07):
Family Guy. It goes on andon. They're rolling down fucking stairs,
they're breaking through windows. I lovedit, but it's great. Yeah,
the ending is so fucking annoying,the setup and the payoff. Lors trying
to get away from her asshole husband, but he essentially quote saves the day

(48:28):
because he kills Hamil and she basicallygives him another chance, even though he's
clearly a fucking asshole. So youthink Hamil's dead, but of course you're
expecting it because Hamil's been doing itall movies, been popping up, you
know, in different roles. Sohe pops up in the elevator and Dodakoff
shoots him in the head. Yeah, and the point of view shots you
like, you know he's going topop up too, Like there's no like,

(48:51):
there's no real jump scare of likeis he dead yet? Like he's
supposedly just been electro shocked, like, which was the whole point of him
going there in the first place,because he wanted Laura to get Ect or
Eest, like to shock Eest.And I think he calls it ECT in
the movie, does he? Ithink I remember it popped up and I
was like, wait, what didECT? That's not right? Okay?

(49:12):
Yeah, And so you know it'scoming. But at that point, I'm
so annoyed that I'm like, hejumps up and I'm just like, yeah,
I know, I knew he wasgoing to jump up and shoot him.
And she goes back to her fuckingabusive husband because she's like, oh,
well, he saved me from thepsychopath. I'm like, that's not
a reason to go back to anabusive husband. No, And what really
fucking annoyed me is more than oncethroughout the movie they mentioned that he got

(49:38):
her out of Russia, like sheowes him everything because like she's he took
her to the United States. Yeah, and that that whole maybe because she
has an accent, but that wholefucking backstory, whatever it might be,
it didn't make sense. It didn'tmake sense, and it makes it extra
gross. It seems to yeah,it does, and it seems to try

(49:58):
and justify like this is a goodguy, you know, and it doesn't
like due to call is the villain. I feel like he should have died
with Hamil, Yes, that wouldhave been And then she walks away.
She makes it to Santa Barbara,to her friend's house, and then Robert
Mitcham shows up knocking at the door, and he's like, I just wanted
to check in on you, andthen Sexy Saxophone movie starts credits role.

(50:21):
Yeah, that's the way. It'slike, you're ending much better. And
then and then at the end itsaid, dedicated to William Browner, who
I think is is Bob Brober's father. Oh, so that would have been
a much better ending instead of likehim being Hamil's being shot in the head.
And did you notice too, therewas blood like all over the fucking
place in that elevator when he dies. Yeah it's fine. Yeah, no,

(50:44):
ending is not fine, but themovie is. I mean, I
I had a lot, I havea lot of fun with Midnight Ride.
Yeah, it's a comfort movie.I love the way it looks. I
love these nineties thrillers. If you'regoing in for horror, it's not it's
not too much horror. Hamill's sellsthe role. It's more effective than I

(51:05):
mean, all men are fucking terrible. It's more effective than Alex Carlanand's Men
movie, which is like, youknow what you're getting into, but this
shows how fucking terrible man are.Yeah, so obviously this it's easy to
compare this to the Hitcher you know, Rutger Hower' is a Hitcher that would
be a perfect double feature pick right, I would love to get like Hitchhike
kidnapped by and stoked by Rutger Power. Though, I mean, I think

(51:29):
Hamil goes harder as far as craziness. That's hard. But yeah, yeah,
he doesn't have the look of RuckerHower and the coolness. Yeah,
but what would you It's probably notthe Hitcher. What would you pair with
Midnight Ride? Yeah, I thinkyeah, Hitcher is definitely there's a few
hitch hiking movies for sure out therethat I think could make sense, even

(51:49):
like, you know, some olderlike Hitchhike. So I went with a
movie that's been on my watch listfor a really long time, and I
finally watched it yesterday because I thoughtof the whole premise. So plot wise,
they have a lot in common.And that's Richard Stanley's Dust Devil from
nineteen ninety two for folks who haven'tseen it. Dust Devils are these body

(52:10):
hopping demons out in Africa that murderpeople who are on the cusp of like
just letting go, maybe killing themselves, or they just don't have anyone who
loves them basically people who are lostsouls but not dead. So a woman
leaves her abusive husband and she picksup a dust devil who's hitchhiking, and

(52:34):
he has a polaroid camera. Oh, and he takes pictures of all of
the people who pick him up.And so I think for him it's more
like documenting his soul, taking hiskillings and things like that, like it
just gives him there's still some humanityin the dust devils as far as the
narrator explains it to us, there'sa narrator, there's a narrator, Yes,

(52:58):
So I think that's part of it. For Hamil, I think,
you know, he's he's doing kindof the same thing, but on a
much more sort of infantile level,where he's just like a kid who's like
someone gave him a camera and he'slike, can take picture, right,
and you know, But I dothink there's some kind of shared element there
where it's like they're documenting this adventureto them, whereas the dust level is

(53:22):
much more like murderous intent. Hamilhas that too, but not as much
unless he's provoked. Yeah, it'slike him capturing his road trip, like
his vacation back to home. Yeah, exactly. Okay, So this woman
she leaves her abusive husband, shepicks up this dust devil who's hitchhiking.
He's got a polaroid camera. Butthen she has to contend with him.

(53:45):
But the dust devil is having thesesort of conflicting human feelings and they have
this weird relationship. So, likeI said, it's a similar sort of
bass plot, like abusive woman leaving, picks up hitchhiker with the polaroid camera.
But the gore here is really great, even in the black and white
crime scene photos. Very different artistically, it's this is not a Cannon film.

(54:07):
This is a Richard Stanley film.He did Hardware, the New Color
Out of Space with Nick Cage morerecently, and it was striving me nuts
because the guy who plays the dustdevil in this, I was like,
I know who that is? Whois this? And I was like,
I'm gonna my brain can my braincan do this. I'm not going to

(54:28):
look it up. I'm not goingto look it up. Halfway through the
movie, I screamed white Man fromTown and I was like, and I'm
so glad I was watching this bymyself because if I was in a theater
watching this, I might have gottensome looks of like and having to explain,
like, nah, it's a guyfrom Thinner, which I know you
hate Thinner, but I I there'sa part of me that Thinner is like

(54:51):
the trashiest Stephen King movie. It'scompletely offensive. There's so much wrong with
it. But because it's pure trashis kind of wh I like it.
Yeah, I mean, what's funnythat you brought up Thinner is because Nathan
from I Hope You Suffer He's beenlistening to some of our past episodes.
He said he was a little behindand he listened to me talking about Thinner

(55:12):
and how I said, Nathan likeloves this movie, like look at his
rating and his review. Yeah,And he messaged me and he's all,
this is a joke between me andmy wife. Like, I don't really
like Thinner that much. I don'tthink it's the best Stephen King adaptation.
I just do it to kind ofjoke on h Okay. So I don't
know if you wanted me to clarifythat or not, but I'm I'm pointing
it out now. Okay, Wellthere you go, because I did hate

(55:35):
on it, when I was talkingabout it, he did, And you
know what, it's fully justified andfair because it's racist. It's terrible,
but it's the practical effects are amazing. Yeah, but yeah, white Man
from Town is that's funny. Soanyway, Dust Level nineteen ninety two.

(55:57):
I looked it up. That isstreaming on Prime To. But I got
this from the library, So whatabout you? Okay, So, based
on this poster alone, my brainwent straight to Bill Lustig's action thriller hit
List. It has a guy kindof hanging on the front of a car.
There's that dudakov scene where hamilties himto the car, but Hitlist has
a Jan Michael Vincent in it playingthe dud Koff role where he's chasing the

(56:22):
deranged man played perfectly by Lance Henrickson. Yes, who can have his son.
But there's not much horror at allin Hitlist. It's an action through
and through and there's not really anylong car chases like like the poster kind
of hints at. But I'm stickingwith stuntman termed film director double feature okay,
And I'm going with the already mentionedClass of nineteen ninety nine two The

(56:45):
substitute from nineteen ninety nine. Ifanybody actually decides to do this double feature
Midnight Ride and Class of nineteen ninetynine two, it's going to test some
people's patience. But if you arein the mood for a night of excessive
explosions in between your murders, watchthese back to back. Yeah, and
keep in mind that these are stuntmenthat you know are directing each of these

(57:08):
were there. This is directed bySpiros Rosattos. This is his second feature
film, just like Midnight Ride wasfor Bob ralvar Risotto's first film was called
Fast Getaway, starring Corey Haym andCynthia Rothrock. Immediate watch list. I'm
to watch that, but yeah,I already mentioned Class of nineteen ninety two

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has awesome stunt gags, cyborg teacherhunting students, rambow style booby traps,
gasoline filled paintballs, way too manyunnecessary explosions, a lot more murdering going
on and showing the killings though,so it does have more of a horror
element. It's a great time.It's on two b. I think,
you know, if you did thatdouble feature, make a drinking game of

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you know, every time there's anexplosion. That's good because there's at least
seven exploded or crashed cars in midnightride. Yeah, I don't know because
I have not seen in class ofnineteen ninety nine. Two there's I mean
there's at least I mean, ifI could think of three immediately, because
that's when he does his one liners. Yeah, I like that drink every

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time there's an explosion. There yougo. I mean you can call it
an unnecessary explosion because that's what theyare. They're just from cars don't explode.
Maybe they do. Yeah, Okay. Wrapping up October, yes,
which means we are onto no RulesNovember. No Rules November. So for

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folks who are new to No RulesNovember, we get to break our under
one thousand views on letterbox rule forone month. Yes, and this is
usually the hardest pick. It is. It is like I've I'm happy,
but I'm not happy with some ofmy last picks. It's way more stressful
finding a pick for this. Itcan be. Yeah, And I even

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started like a little side list oflike here's some potentials because you don't want
to do like you know, I'mnot going to do. I'm still not
going to pick Suspiria. You know, we see the original, right,
we still want to try for stillkind of in our wheelhouse Unsung Horrors.
You know, previous years I've gonewith some of my favorite euro horror movies,

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you know, Who Can Kill aChild, the greatest movie ever made,
and Blood Spattered Bride. I'm notkeeping with that streak, and instead
I'm going in the most opposite directionI could possibly go. And I'll be
upfront and i will say that thismovie is not good, nor any of
the director's other films, but thereis an endearing quality to all of them,

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and his work embody is a lotof what we try to champion here
at Unsung Horrors. So I'm sorry, not sorry, But the next episode
we will be covering the incredibly strangecreatures who stopped living and became mixed up
zombies exclamation point, exclamation point questionmark from nineteen sixty four, directed by

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Ray Dennis Steckler, Yes Steckler.So Zach Carlson is going to be joining
us for this one. He cowrote the booklet essay for the Severn box
set, and he, of coursewas a previous guest on our Bleeding Skull
episode and that was a lot offun. So we'll probably be spending a
lot of time, you know,on Steckler's other films as well, but
still mainly focusing on incredibly strange creatures. So this film and most of the

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non sex films that are on theSuburn box set, such as Bloodshack,
Thrill Killers, Rat fink A BooBoo, those are also available to watch
on two be if you don't havethe Steckler set. Yeah, no rules,
November Steckler Baby Hell yeah, peopleare gonna be so mad. No,
I'm excited. I have not divedinto Steckler and I'm ready to my

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first Steckler. I'll probably talk aboutthis next episode. Was a rat fink
a Boo Boo And that's you know, Rip Booboo. That's who my dog,
my former dog was named after.So and it wasn't because like I
loved the movie, but I waslike, that's such an adorable name for
like a sidekick, and Boo Boojust did not fit my dog's personality at

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all because she was such a bitch. And like, well, we'll talk
about that. I'm sure it'll mostlybe we're sticking a mic in front of
Zac and it'll be him most ofit. Yeah, it's fine. No,
it's going to be great listening tohim talk. Yeah, so be
sure to tune in for that.But this is coming out in October.
We're still in October, which meanswe're still doing our Horror Gives Back challenge.

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You might be tired of us talkingabout it to death, but we
do it for charity, so youcan't be mad at us for that.
No. Yeah, donate a dollarfor every horror movie you watch in October.
We have a fundraiser set up throughBest Friends Animal Society. A link
to that is in our link tree. We'll put that in show notes as
well. We do have prompts thatyou can follow. You don't have to.

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You can just watch whatever you're planningto watch on your own. You
can do a flat donation if you'reonly just watching whatever you want anything,
Yeah, whatever you want to do. If you want to kick in,
that's great, even if you're notwatching movies, you want to throw in
five bucks exactly, I've got youknow, we've already had some people throwing
some donations already, which is great. Thank you, folks. You'll definitely

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be getting a shout out on ourepisode. When we cover all of our
picks that'll be coming out next monthin November. As well, you can
join our discord. You can seewhat other people are sharing for their picks
daily for each of the categories.Some people are sharing on category picks that
they're just watching, which is greattoo. I've added a lot of stuff
to my watch list based on whatpeople have been sharing, and a link

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to our discord is also in shownotes and in our link tree. You
can also follow both Lance and Ion Letterbox, where our lists for horror
gives Back are. I'm on letterboxat Hex Massacre, as well as Instagram
and Twitter same handle. Yeah,and I'm at Instagram and letterboxed at l
Shiby. Thanks everyone for taking thismidnight ride with us, and we will

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be back next month with no rules, no yes. When the wood is
full of care and every as Iscreams despair, when all this great salvation
warever is fine, then there's acertain thing I do, which I shall

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pass along to you that's always guaranteedto make me swine. I go as
a like the balance, but sipsome times go and you rug. Mister.

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Life is spelled in a balancer inthe chase work, you can change
your groom for love and the injections. Try Sunday, just go like a
that's in transmuting all along feature wrongTV. When the human race who has

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an anxious face, when the bombhangs overhead, when your kick turns won't
worry you. You can smile noinstead to me. Then you'll just talk
a thing man, so beaute.And then if you hurt inside gets but

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and if I should treat you,don't at God. Yes, Hey,
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