January 18, 2025 • 47 mins
2024 delivered a stellar lineup of horror films, from bone-chilling reimaginings to fresh spins on classic tropes. We’re diving into the best of the 2024! Tune in as we explore what made these films stand out to us and why 2024 was a remarkable year for horror.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
What's Up? And welcome back to thirteen thirty one. I'm
your host, mister Ripper, and as always, I have my
lovely co host here with me, the one, the only,
the man, the myth, the legend, the only one that's
ever been mistaken for Bigfoot twice at Virginia Beach. Todd
of Thunder, What's Up? And the Qutie Patuti Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hey, my little monsters.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And we're here with your top ten best of twenty
twenty four. You've heard the worst, now let's hear the best,
the best of the best. The cream of the crup
is a macho man, once said back in the day.
So I think you're gonna be a little shocked with
our top ten list twenty twenty four. Horror movies were
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really good when they were really good, and it was
a lot. And to reiterate that we've seen sixty two
movies around that munch, Yeah, Todd, your list was about
it sixty two also, right, yeah, right there. This was
probably the hardest that I think I've ever had to do.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It was really difficult because there were so many you know,
the cult knows that I love to be about fives,
but there were so many good ones that it was
very difficult on what I put above another.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
A lot of movies this year thirteen thirty one. Over
here we have been kind of against the grain, so
to speak. Everything that everybody praised, we kind of was
scratching our head, and everything that people shouted on we love. Yeah,
a lot of people hated Alien and we loved, and
some people hated Terrifyer and some people hated Immaculate. And
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for some reason Late Night kept getting shitted on a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I just don't crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I don't quite understand why I'm going to be the
one to kick off this top ten because Miss Lanta
did not want to go first, not it, so at
number ten, I have one that I think got slept
on a lot. I didn't hear anybody else talk about
this movie except for us, and.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's Lowlifes Low Life.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It was a to be exclusive and it's one movie
that I think should have went to theaters. We did
a review on it because we loved it that much. Normally,
if it's a streaming movie, it's got to kind of
get blessing from all three, like, holy shit, we got
to talk about this movie. And I think that's the
only streaming one in twenty twenty four, we did.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I saw the TV GLO did that want go to theaters?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That was in theaters? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, shouldn't have been. They should switched those too.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, they should have paid I think they paid people
to talk about that movie. Whatever. So that's my number ten,
Miss Lanta. What do you have for your number ten?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I have a movie that some may not actually consider horror,
but it falls in that horror genre to me, and
I loved it so much. I watched it three times
in one week. And that is Your Monster.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's a goodie, that's a fun time. Yeah. I was
very surprised how much I liked it because Melissa Barrera.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Sucks, but this was I felt like this was her
kind of role, Like she fit really well in that
kind of horror comedy silly aspect, like stilly character.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I agree with that, And it kind of ruined what
good I had in watching Scream five and six because
we watched Your Monster and then we went back and
rewatched Scream five and six. I don't know why I
wanted to watch it, but I just wanted to go
back and revisit it, especially six, because me and Thunder
hate six and we wanted to make sure that we
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were justified, and we were. Melissa Barrera seemed to be
a lot more shittier than I remember after watching Your Monster,
but she was good in Your Monster. So it's weird
how I feel about that.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I think maybe she's just one of those actresses that
just does better in a less serious role.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Probably maybe thunterer from down Untier.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, my number ten, first of all, I like both
of those choices at number ten. You guys got just
watched Your Monster the other day with you, and it.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Was pretty good. I liked it.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I mean, I have no complaints. I definitely agree that. Yeah,
Scream six on a third, fourth watch, or how many
times I watch, it still sucks even probably worse. It
doesn't get better as I watch it, as some movies do.
This one doesn't it. We were just poking holes the
whole time. Anyway, Low Life was really good to shout
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out to that neither one of them in my top ten.
My number ten is Da Da Da. You guys might
be shocked. It's Nospharatu whoa number ten? Number ten? It
made the top ten, so that's cool. Well, you know,
I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
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I had ten movies that I gave the same score to,
so I had to really crunch down on the last
two spots, which is basically I had to choose my
best two out of those ten that did not make
the list, so eight of them I had to be like, ugh,
but yeah, I like Nosparratu enough to make it one
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of those movies that just made it. By the way,
Low LIFs came in at number eleven.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Ah, it was hard for me making my top ten
two because I didn't give that many fives out actually
this year, after going through my list and everything, so
my top six is like all fives. You know how
many fives I gave? Five? So you gave one more
than I did? What was you saying?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I didn't count exactly how me I gave, but I
know I gave a lot, And I'm curious to see
because this is my first year really doing ratings for movies,
so I'm curious if I'm gonna buckle down and be
a little more hesitant to give those next year.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I am, yeah, and I will say that my top ten,
I really am proud of it, because, like I said,
the first five or all fives, the next three or
all four and a half. Nine and ten are both fours.
So I will say that all of these movies I
think are excellent in my top ten.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh nice, nice, nice. Well, my number nine is another
straight to streaming service movie. Okay that I'm really mad
didn't go to theaters. But it's mister Crockett.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Mister Crockett, mister Crockett, and these.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Streaming movies came out of nowhere, like we really didn't
know anything about them.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
We just saw them, were like, oh, what's this, we'll
watch it? Yeah, surprise.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Mister Crockett was so fucking good, so refreshing, a great
new twist on kind of stuff we're familiar with. We're
kind of familiar with, you know, that quirky TV character
that's a killer, but it's never been done to this extent. Yeah,
and we really haven't had a kid serial killer since
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Freddy Krueger that was done well. Well, I guess you
could count I reckon Chucky maybe, yeah, but he focused
on adults, mister Crockett, and Kruger was kind of focused
on kids and teenagers. Yeah. I mean, if you want
to the youth, I guess the youth kill.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Save the kids first, Yeah, ish ish kind of yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I mean it's definitely more Nightmare on elm Street ish
because it's in that fantasy world type of deal and
you are trying to like, you know, draw in the
kids to kind of you know, turn them against the parents,
and you know, I'm I'm your friend to the end exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We didn't review this movie. We just couldn't get around
it because it came out at a time that everything,
everything was fucking dropping, and unfortunately it fell short.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You know, I feel like we still could do an
episode on it. It's worth it because it was so good
it is.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I want this to be a franchise, I really do.
I want so more. Mister Crockett. I don't know what
it is about this. I thought the special effects were good,
the practical effects. The acting was flawless, like just flawless acting.
If you get a chance, watch it. I think Hulu
is it Hulu?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I can't remember what streaming.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think it's on Hulo. Anyway, look at mister Crockett.
It's definitely worth a time. I could not not put
it in my top ten, Miss Atlanta, what's your number nine?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, my number nine. We also did not see in theaters,
but I can't remember if it was a theater release,
but I had a great all time with it, and
that was Oddity.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, I think it was. It was in theaters briefly.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
But I don't think our theater got it. Maybe that's
why we didn't go see it. Yeah, but Adity for
me was it's really really difficult for a movie to
get me gared and like my heart's racing and I'm
like on the edge of my seat genuinely, and this
movie fucking did it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I thought the movie was done very well. It was
my number eleven. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was almost
in the top ten.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, I don't think you've ever seen me react the
way that I reacted to that movie to anything else.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I was very like, oh my gosh, maybe the Strangers.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Maybe yeah, the Stranger. That's true.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You were quite freaked out about.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That because in both of those it's really I mean,
there is like that slight supernatural aspect to Oddity, but
it's a person, and that's what that's what gets me
is when it's when it's a person.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It had one of the best intense feelings in a while.
It done that very well. It was really good I
think that's the thing with the top ten is that
you're gonna notice for me is I'm kind of going
off of original. I guess so more this year because
everything was done so well. So I'm looking at like
who had the better creative ideas and what was done,
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you know, just a little bit better, what was a
little bit more original. That's why Audity was like right there.
I mean between like Lowlife's and mister Crockett, Lowlives wasn't
quite original, but it wound it up being original. Yeah,
that's the great thing I liked about Lowlives, Like we've
seen cannibals before, but they flipped the script on you
and the good families. The Cannibal family and the quote
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unquote rednecks are good people, right. They kind of do
a Tucker and Dale versus evil twist on you, and
I really like that. But mister Thunder, what is your
number nine? My number nine is immaculate?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Immaculate.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That was a good one.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, it surprised me because when this movie came out,
I wasn't looking forward to the subject matter because I'm
so fucking over the whole nun demon shit. But this
one one of the best of the Bunch this year.
I don't know, man, I was really impressed. I felt
on edge about this movie. It was kind of familiar
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how all the church know movies go, but it was
a little bit more faster pace and it really didn't
kind of slow down to where I'm like, God, this
movie's dragging. So yeah, and it was a lot of
like weird shit in it that I was like, yeah,
I like it, So it was good.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I wasn't filling it at the time, and unfortunately I
didn't get to go back and rewatch it, but it
had Immaculate at number twelve.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, I'm my list, But.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I loved about Immaculate, or one of the things that
I loved about Immaculate was that it really, you know,
like you said, we kind of were expecting it to
be the typical nun possession movie and it wasn't that,
and that was refreshing to like get something different very much.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So good Lord, go against the grain, That's what I say,
speaking of nuns and going against the grain. One that
very much surprised me was the first omen and that's
my number eight. That movie shouldn't have been as good
as it was. Honestly, it okay, so immaculate. And first
OMEN is very neck and neck in storyline. It's almost identical,
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like very very close. Even came out what we figured
out like three weeks apart something like that. One was
in March, one was in April.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It's like the end of March, beginning of April.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, which is crazy. The first Omen, I felt like
knocked it out of the park. It was just so
fucking good and unexpected. You know, a lot of prequel
movies we get you kind of dread because they're not
really done good often, and this movie just fucking nailed it. Like,
it was so good and I was very pleasantly surprised.
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I loved the cinematography in it. I love the route
they went with it. I love how they tied it
in with the Omen at the end of the movie.
It was just done very very well. But Miss Lanta,
what do you have a number? Eight?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Eight? We have spoken about already, but I have number
eight at Love Lifes.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh okay, we didn't dive too much into it.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, well, and I don't feel like we need to
because we did. Do you know a podcast episode on it?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But it was another one where we were just kind
of scrolling through see what was on streaming, came across
it and we were like, well, we'll give it a try.
And it had a nice little twist to it. The
story was great, the acting was great, everything about it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I thoroughly enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Even the way that they did the ending, which if
anyone has not seen it, I don't want to spoil anything,
but go go watch it or go listen to our episode.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, Todd of Thunder, what do you have at number eight?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
My number eight? I have The Substance at number eight. Yeah, yes,
we did a podcast on the substance. The Substance. Yeah,
good old fashioned body horror. Kind of one of those
films where for me personally just came out of nowhere,
you know, didn't really get any hype on the movie,
but I watched it and it blew me away.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I love the film, So I have it at number eight. Well,
piggybacking off of what you just said, go your own way,
get off my back, I'm gonna piggy on your back
because my number seven is the Substance. I thoroughly enjoyed
this movie. It's been a very long time since we've
got such a good body horror movie, and the storyline
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was just done so well. The acting was just top tier.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You know, it's good to see an old nineties face
in a new film with demean more.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, exactly. I went into this movie blind. I didn't
see a trailer. I didn't see anything for this movie. Same,
I actually didn't know anything about it. Now thinking about it,
and I think that's why I've preached so much before.
The best way to watch a movie, for the most
part is blind, right, like you can take it all in.
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I think that's why it got so high on my
list is because it was just like, Wow, this has
done so fucking well. Practical effects are amazingness, score is amazing.
It just knocked it out of the park. It was
a shame that we didn't get to see it in theaters.
That's the only thing I really hated about it. I
wasn't too big on the ending, that was nitpicky, But
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the rest of it is just absolutely am to watch.
If you haven't watched it, you need to watch the substance. So,
Miss Lanta, what do you have at your number seven?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
My number seven is Long Legs.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, you know, the originality of it was incredible. Nicholas
Cage is fantastic at what he does. Basically from here
on out. I had a real, real, real hard time
with the order. Some of them I feel like are
kind of interchangeable depending on my mood in a way,
So I don't want me putting at number seven that
I think lower of it. It was absolutely amazing, very unique,
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very unnerving. I had a blast with it. But number
seven is long Legs, Stide thunder.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
My number seven is a sequel, and it's ter Fire three.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Now ah Oki Doki Art the Clown, Art the Clown.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I will boost all the time about how we love
this series, that we love this franchise. We can have
fun with all the movies. Tear Fire three did not disappoint. Honestly,
what I got I was. I mean, I just wanted
to be grossed out, just good old fashion, over the
top slasher film, and that's exactly what we got. Of course,
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you know have that hangar of an ending where it's
just like, yeah, four is coming, you gotta wait. Though, Yeah,
I would say that. You know, I think two was
still my favorite, but three is right there, literally right
behind it on my list as well.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I think that two and three is going to be
like Halloween one and two for me is going to
be so interchangeable depending on the day. Yeah, in my mood.
But speaking of a mood, my number six is No Speratukay.
No Saratu had a very haunting, beautiful atmosphere with a
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great story, a more in depth look into the No
Sparatu character that we haven't really ever gotten in one
hundred years. Just nelt it one hundred percent. I think,
I say I, but we as a podcast all agree
that it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It was the most visually stunning movie that I've seen
in a long time.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, it was great. I know this movie for people
is either they like it or they really don't like it.
It's not really in between, like eh, because even the
people I hear about eh, there's so much negative in
the end to where I really feel like it falls
into they really don't like it. They're just trying not
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to bash it because it was done so well right.
It's not like it was a b ready movie and
you can get shit on it beginning to end. It
was very well done and I love it and it's
gonna be a rewatch when it comes out. But miss Lana,
what do you have at number six?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Number six, I have Heretic with Hugh Grant himself.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So many of them that are on my top ten
were ones that kind of surprise to me because Heretic
was seemingly going that religious route, and I just I
felt like they did such a good job of changing
what you were expecting it to be. It was not
exactly how the trailer portrayed it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Right, mister Thunder, what do you have it? You're number six?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I got the first Omen, Like I enjoyed this one
as well. This movie was either really going to be
good or really gonna suck, And honestly, it ended up
being probably the best Omen film since the first Omen. Yeah,
considering this is the first Omen, but yeah, I mean
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it was shocking, right yeah, And it was what I
really loved about this is, you know, this is an
old time franchise. They can make money just off of
the name itself because it's been around since the late
seventies or whatever. They wasn't afraid to go far in
this film and be disgusting and be shocking and be
just even more than any of their Omen film.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
They came before it. Yeah, it's crazy that it actually
got love and respect and treated right. You get that
often with sequels or prequels. That's why it's on me
and Todd's yeah, top ten because we love the Omen
and this movie. It made me happy watching it and
it did what Immaculate did because I said, you know,
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it's kind of the same things going on, but I
think the first Omen just did it better. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I think the reason I put the Omen a little
bit above Immaculate is that the Omen, like I said,
was a franchise, and a lot of times you get
movies in a franchise that the filmmakers want to protect
and not give so much, want to be basic with it,
you know, because they're scared of fucking it up. But
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this one it was like, yeah, throw that in there. Yeah,
like Baby coming out of Vagina, you're gonna see it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, demon CDs. Now it's time to get to the
top five of twenty twenty four, the Grand Finale, the
Big Five, and at number five I have Alien Romulus.
I know a lot of people I've seen on the
interwebs said it was okay or didn't care for it.
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I didn't see a lot of people boasting about it
and to them, I don't know. We did not watch
the same film, right, This to me is the best
sense of the first two, hands down.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I don't know how you can put this movie down
and say it's disrespectful. And two or I mean three
or four is better. I think this movie is on
par with Part two, and I think Part two is
the best one. So I don't understand the hate. And
I want more Rain and Andy. We wanted an alien
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movie that returned to horror, back in space characters that
we could get behind a good story and fucking.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Aliens and with Tugger's goalre and we got it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We got practical effects with actual people back in xenomorph suits.
It was perfect. You know, hater's gonna hate whatever this, Atlanta.
What's your top five?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
My number five Alien Romulus? Oh okay, which this was
really fun for me. We did this a couple of
times this year. Alien was one I had never seen
anything in the franchise. Oh yeah, yeah, I watch every
single one.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. We had a marathon right before
we watched the big Alien Romulus on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yes, which was so fun. Obviously my first one on
the big screen. But that was fun for me, and
I feel like having had just watched them all and
it all being so fresh in my mind. Alien Romulus,
I agree with you, is right there with Alien and
Alien two.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It is right there with Alien and Aliens. Agree, Funter,
What is in your big five at number five? My
number five is heretic? Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, again, I wasn't expecting much because I hate Hugh Grant, So.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, you were not looking forward to this movie.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
No.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I thought this movie was going to fucking suck balls, honestly,
But I'll tell you why I like it. It had
a very unique, quirky kind of sense of humor to
it when it could have played it straight. And if
it would have played it straight, I probably would have
hated this movie because it was so goddamn quirky with
the way the characters were bouncing off of each other.
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That is what made this movie highly entertaining to me.
I had to put it in my top five, and it.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Was super refreshing to see Hugh do a horror movie.
Yeah yeah, he fit that character so well.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And I must add, just because it's quirky doesn't mean
that it's not serious or it was a comedy or
anything like that.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
It wasn't. It was.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
It was a film that A twenty four tries to make.
They try to make these off the wall, quirky characters
and it all kind of falls flat to me. This
is how you make it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, I agree with that. You can have some characters
that are charming and quirky, but they're not good people.
It's very hard to understand. You're getting behind a person
that is a little off you as crazy as hell,
but he's nice. Yeah, but you enjoy it. It's kind
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of like he's like a real life Mormon. It's like,
if you've ever watched Creep, well, we really don't know
his real name because he changes his name in every movie.
The Creep is a very charming character, but he's a
serial killer and we know he's crazy and he's cuckoo.
There's just some.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Something about him that you like.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's a charm about him. You just can't help getting
behind these characters that just have a charm, like my
number four with Art Terrifier three, it is just a
charm about the way that David Howard Thornton makes Art
so lovable. Yeah, the quirkiness and with Terrifier three. We
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also got that Christmas aspect added to it, which we
don't have a lot of good Christmas movies, so now
we have, you know, one to watch during Christmas. Yeah,
he just you know, knocks it out of the park.
But there's just something off about Art the Clown. But
god damn it if not everybody loves them. People really
don't get behind Terrifier. But well not all people. I'm
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just saying some people. The people that don't really get
behind it still like the character of Art the Clown,
so it's something magical there. But at the end of
the day, he is by far one of the most
sadistic serial killers that we've had on screen. Mis Atlanta,
what is your number four?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
You?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What number four is?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
What's your number four?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's Terrifier three, Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And you and you was worried about your list.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I was, well, we'll see no, like you said, I mean,
Art the Clown. David Harthorton just does such an amazing
job bringing a silent character to life, like giving a
silent character so much character.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, it's crazy. He just he's so good at it,
and I really hope he doesn't get type cast. But
he's rolling down that road.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He is a little bit and it is kind of ironic.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I mean Terrifier three, like you said, it was Christmas themed,
so it was different in that aspect.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's hard for me.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I go back and forth between terr Fire two and
Terarifire three, which one's my favorite because I love them
for like in different ways. I love that all three
of them have a little bit of a different feel,
like they're almost their own thing, but they go together
absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, I had Terrifier three higher on my list because
it's some favoritism. It's my list. I don't care. I'm
a slasher fan.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
So right, and I'm actually I'm definitely not as much
of a slasher fan as you. I enjoy them, but
it's not like my top.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Category are romantic. I do.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I'm a girl, but no, But this one, it just
is so entertaining and something about about Arthur Clown it
just captures me and I had such a fun time
with it, and that's you know, for me, with my list,
it's more about like, well, how did it make me feel?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Speaking of feeling, mister Thunder, what are you feeling at
number four? Well, I'm feeling at number four. I have Maxine. Maxine.
I think I liked this movie a little bit better
than y'all did. It is not in my top ten.
Well that's okay. I had.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
You know, I don't have Oddity or Mister Crocket or
Low Lives, but you know, it is what it is.
A lot of people didn't like this one or whatever,
and that's totally fine. Like I said, you know, my
saying is did I have a good time watching this
in the theater?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And I did.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I enjoyed every moment of it. I enjoyed Goff's character
in this as I do in Pearl ANX. I like
the time period. I like the eighties time period. I
like the fact that she's an aspiring star that doesn't
give a shit about anything but herself.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, she's something in it.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, I mean I took her. I mean, even though
she's a horrible person, I found myself rooting for her
wanting to succeed in this film.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah. Speaking of rooting, I'm rooting for my number three,
and my number three is Late Night with the Devil.
Late Night, Late Night with the Devil. We just rewatched
it again and it is just one of those movies
that was a delight to watch the practical effects, the
special effects, the story, acting, the atmosphere. It was just beautiful,
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so well deserved of being in the top five. It
deserves all the praise in the world. I'm so glad
we got to watch this in theaters.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
It definitely hits different in the theater than it does
at home. But I think that's the great thing about
being at the theater is that sometimes you just get
that feel and that vibe that you just can't get
at home.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, I think partially that and partially that you know
what to expect when you're watching it at home. I've
already seen.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It exactly, and this movie is just if you haven't
watched it, go watch it to own Shutter, which is
one of the few streaming services you can get that's
worth the money other than to be that's free. But
I can't boast enough about this movie. It's just one
of those that's great. And my top six they're all fives,
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so keep that in mind. It's very hard to organize
a top ten this year for me because a lot
of them deserve to be number one, Right, miss Lanta,
what do you have at number three?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Number three? I have Late Night with the Temple, but
you know, we're watching it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
We just rewatched it today and it just kind of
revalidated that it deserves to be for me the top three.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Just one of those movies that
was at a left field original, great and concept beautiful.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Another one we kind of went in blind. You didn't
know at all what to expect.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah. Yeah. The ones we went in blind to were
very very on point. Yeah, and I'm very happy with him.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
In On contrast, some of the ones that we had
seen so many trailers for and we're excited for fell flat.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Very flat. Lord have Mercy Thunder. What do you have it?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
You're number three? I have at number three? Long legs,
long legs, alrighty, Yeah, I enjoy this one. Kind of
had that crime thriller vibe to it. Yeah, in the beginning,
then all kinds of twist and turns, especially when you
get to the end, and it was a good ride.
Nicholas Cage gave a great performance as a aging rock star,
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glam leather face looking thing.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The accurate.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
He was creepy, he was supposed to be creepy. He
was odd. He was supposed to be odd. This was
a very a great movie that was on the back
of the lead actress.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I can't I can't remember her name.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
She really, you know, led this movie until Nicholas Cage
commanded the screen. It was just great between back and
forth between them, and it really reminded me of like
that old school seven five to it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Like it speaking of something with good vibes. My number
two is heretic?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Nice?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, heretic Jesus Christ. There's so many times and so
many movies that when we talk about religion, it gets
so muddy and it gets so ignorant, to the point
where you just can't watch it right. And this movie
did not do that. This movie made everybody question everything right,
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And that's what I was worried about. Are they going
to sit here and is it just gonna be a
Bible bashing fest? Is it going to be knocking all religions?
Is the twist that atheists are stupid or non believers
are stupid? But they didn't go that route. They made
you question everything, made you think they made Do you
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think it was brilliant?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I really enjoyed. I didn't say this when it was
my number five, but I love the fact that It
was all the above that you just said.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And it's so surprising because we all knew about heretic
and we were well you in particular, was worried about
Hugh Grant. I wasn't too worried about it, but I
was worried that he wasn't going to be able to
pull off a horror character like I've seen him in.
You know, he's type cast in that rom COM's role.
I mean, that's what we know him for, that's what
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Todd hates him for.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
That's what I love.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, he just hasn't done anything for
me to compare anything to. Like you said, you didn't
know how he was going to be in this type
of role, right, So going into it, you know, I
kind of figured if he got the opportunity, probably could
do it, and he proved it. Maybe he's one of
these latent life, fucking late bloomers, you know, like one
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of those Michael Caine type of actors who plays in
these sophisticated it rolls and then when he gets older
he's like, fuck it, I'll do something like this.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
The movie just blew me out of the water. I
enjoyed it. It was so great. It was so fun,
it was refreshing, It was done so well, and it
didn't disrespect anybody, right, and the ending was open did everybody? Yeah?
Yeah it did.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Oh that's what I was thinking. It was like, you know,
is this right? Is that right? Is this right? Is
that right?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And then the message at the end is like it's
kind of all bullshit, but you know what's not bullshit?
Landa's number two.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Hopefully hopefully my number two. I think both of you
have already spoken about, and that is the substance.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yes, wow, I'm surprised it's that high on your list.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
This was the first very heavy body horror film that
I could not keep my eyes off of. Even as
cringey as some like some of the nails and eye
scenes that normally I would turn away from, I was
glueden and it's still cringing in the inside. They did
such a I think only the reason why is because
the practical effects were done so well that it was
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just like I didn't want to miss anything. And the
storyline I've related so much.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
The storyline as a woman was so relatable. So and
Demi Moore, I mean, can I praise her? Enough for.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yes, please give me more. So awesome seeing her play
in horror.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You just talked about Hugh Grant, who's never done horror before.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Is this her first horror.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Movie, like true true horror. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
The only thing that you can compare this to is nothing.
I mean, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Ghost, but that's just I mean, that's just right. Well,
that falls into the your monster category Edward scissor Hands,
Lisa Frankenstein.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Ghost.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Technically it's a and whoop it Goldberg's lips, Todd's number
two number two, I have Alien Romulus.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Shit, yeah, I'm I'm with you. I didn't say much
earlier because I knew it was coming up. Anyway, I'm
with you. I I'm going back and forth between which
one I think is better, the first Alien or Alien Romulus,
because Aliens is my solid number one, exactly. I just
don't have a solid number two. I go upstairs. I'm
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hoping to have a solid number two.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I think I might like Alien Romulus a little bit
better than the original. Classic and crazy, right, you know,
a horror you know fan like me, that's that's almost sacrilege.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
It's very funny that we have two prequels in the
top ten, and prequels, like I said, are normally dog shit.
In our opinion, we got some of the best prequels
we've probably had in the past ten years. Maybe longer, Yeah,
no longer. We are at the Grand Finale and my
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number one is Long.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Legs, Long Legs, the.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Legs, actually the long legs of long with Nicholas Cage.
I have been fucking going over this list over and
over and over and over and over and over again,
and I've switched a lot of my number one throughout.
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The one movie that I kept competing at number one
was Long Legs. I know this term is used often
in the horror community. This is the best horror thriller
since Silence of the Lambs. You hear that comparison often,
and for me, this comparison is true. The atmosphere was dreadful.
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There's so much going on in the background with the
demons and devil shadows. Nicholas Cage is just fucking over
the top every bit of what you want him to be.
The main star. I can't remember her name, I'm sorry,
off the top of my head, just fucking nailed the
character that she was playing a lot of people was
(36:17):
like talking about like her character and her acting, but
she fucking played a great character. She brought that character
to life. She did exactly what Jody Foster. She did exactly.
She did exactly what Jody Foster did in Silence of
the Lambs. And granted, you know, her Southern accent was
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a little over the top, but you know, the autism
that she brought to the screen was a little over
the top too, But it's great. It was a great
character to get behind. I loved the atmosphere, the spin
on this kind of devil aspect that is kind of burnout.
But this movie didn't throw shit on it. This movie
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brought it to a new level that we haven't seen.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
It still felt fresh, and it still.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Felt fresh, and there could still be more. I want
more Long Legs. I don't really want Nicholas Cage in
it again because I don't want that character to be
shipped on. I think it'd be great to see someone
new in every movie, a carrier type character that we get.
I look forward to hopefully more Long Legs, and if not,
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we got a instant classic. I hate to use that term,
but this is one of those movies that's going to
be talked about ten to fifteen oh years from now.
It's going to be in the all time greatest at
some point within the next fifteen years. Yeah, Lanta, moment
of truth, the moment that you've been dreading. What is
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your number one? I know what it is.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
It's Sara knows Foraratu it is.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I know that there's a lot of controversy, a little
bit divided in the room. But for me, you know,
I said earlier, it's the most visually stunning a movie
that I've seen in a really, really long time. And
I thought that Lily Rose Depp's performance as that character
was incredible, just the back and forth between being this sweet,
(38:18):
you know, missing her husband, stay at home wife, to
being possessed by Nosferatu, like her mind being controlled, and
the transitioning with the convulsions, and it was just impeccable
to me. And I loved the storyline. It's funny because
we know we've said it's kind of kind of a
slow burn kind of not but it didn't feel like
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we were in the theater that long because I was
so enthralled by the movie and I just I could
not not put it as my number one.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I'll boast about it for a little bit. I think
it's the best dark Gothic romance movie we've ever had
on the big screen. It was very well acted, well written,
and the performances. I know, I said it was well,
but the performances were top notch, to the point of
mister Scar's guard knocked it out of the park as usual.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Oh my gosh. Yes, the it's really fun to me
when I can tell that the actor truly put everything
they had into the role down to you know, we've
spoken about it on the podcast episode specifically for No Sharatu,
but the way that he took vocal lessons to lower
the octave of his voice so that he nailed the
sound he embodied.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Or lock one.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Speaking of embodying mister Thunder, what is embodying your number one?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Well, I don't think it's a surprise. It's Late Night
with the Devil.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, we've known it all year.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Yeah, yeah, I've been waiting for something to dethrone it
in my eyes.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Close but no cigars.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
I don't know, man, I just I guess I watched
this at a at the right moment. I guess I
don't know. I loved everything about this movie. I loved
the fact that it's telling me that this was a
lost from the late seventies. I felt like I was
watching that. But when we got into like real time
in the movie, like on the set, I still felt
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like we were in the seventies. Yeah, I still felt
like this was a real show. These you know, kind
of shock shows. You know, we're gonna bring some magic
people and we're gonna bring.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Some Johnny Carson Late Night Show.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah, the heyday of those shows that were so popular
back then because it was the last thing you saw
before you went to bed. Because after that it was
like the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It was like.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
It was literally nothing that you could fucking watch else
on television. So the performances, I thought they were knocked
out of the park. I enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The aesthetic of the seventies in that movie is one
hundred percent like on PARR, Like you feel like you're
watching something in the seventies for sure.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
And we talked about this a little bit earlier with
the substance there was some body horror in Late Night
that I don't think we kind of picked up on
or the substance really like put it in our face, like, oh, that's.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Obviously body horror.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
But yeah, we had like cool little dream sequence type
of deal.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
That was, Yeah, it was. It was pretty disgusting. Yeah,
when he hypnotizing him and everything like that and he
just tore him fucking self apart, and yeah, that was
that was really disgusting. I don't get really grossed out,
but when he started pulling the actual worms like out
of his neck, that was fucking beautiful.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
And I will say that you talked about Lily Rose
depth being possessed. I think the only other character this
year in a movie that rivals her being possessed so well,
it was the little Girl from Late Night. So the
little Girl fucking creeped me out. It still creeps me out.
The way she looks is just so unsum Yeah, it's unsettling. Honestly,
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if they did a Exorcist remake or some kind of
Exorcist movie and.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
They hurry up and cast her while she's still young, yeah,
I would be hesitant to watch it because it would
creep me out. Like her performance is fucking out.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Of this world.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
I feel like this should have been you know how
like the real Amityville horror murders happened, and then somebody
wrote a book, and then somebody made a movie. I
feel like Late Night with the Devil should have really happened,
and then somebody wrote a movie, and then somebody should
have made a movie. I feel that, Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. It feels like this really happened. Yeah,
(42:40):
it feels like I should read in a true crime
book that the Warrens fucking investigated this creepy stuff that
happened on this set of a late night seventies.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Show, but the tape's never been found, you know what
I mean. I think it's pretty cool that all of
our number ones is in our top ten. Yeah, and
this year has been really hot, hard to make a
top ten. Honestly, twenty twenty four has been one of
the better years in horror, and I think it's progressively
getting better.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
You know what I find interesting? I noticed a theme
that there were several movies in all of our top
tens that had lead actors or actresses that are not
known for horror.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Bliss Cage isn't known for horror.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
You Grant has never been in horror that I know
of Demi Mour. There's several of them. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
It was kind of a breakout year, first dives into
horror and a lot of original stuff came out. Yes,
and if some reason yet heard our top ten and
you didn't hear a movie, it's a possibility we didn't
get a chance to watch it. I know we didn't
get to watch The Coffee Table, a couple other ones
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that a lot of people talked.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
About, or it could be one that was very close.
You have to lower it down to ten, right, So
there's so many good ones that didn't quite make the list.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
And I'm sure that we'll get around to watching some
of these films that other people talk about as well.
We'll give you our opinions and stuff about them. But
I don't know, man, I feel like a lot of
the hype movies I thought was shit.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
I tend to find that I don't agree with most people,
not because I'm fifty. I'm fifty, not because I feel
like I'm an elitist or whatever.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Maybe they feel like they're an elitist. I don't know.
You're a fucking gatekeeper. Ounah, yeah, I'm a gatekeeper.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
It's a lot of films, like you said TV Glow
that we talked about last episode. Mm hm oh man,
it seems like, uh, you know, people just think A
twenty four shits out fucking gold, and I think they
just shit out shitty shit.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
Yeah, they shit the bed a lot, but also can
put out some bangers too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
Yeah, I mean Maxine is an a twenty four film
that was in my top ten and was anything else
A twenty four?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Twenty four? Well, Heretic was really good. Yeah, A twenty four.
When they get it right, they definitely get it right. Yeah,
and get it right a lot better than Blumhouse here recently.
I will I will say that, don't think that we're
Blumhouse fans neither. Oh Bumhouse gets it It gets it
wrong quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
And I think a lot of fans just clamor for
something different. They want films that they haven't seen. There's
a lot of films that are similar.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Blah blah blah. They they're constantly they're like, ooh, I've
never seen that. But just because you haven't seen it
doesn't make.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
It good exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah, And just because it's an original idea doesn't mean it's.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
A good idea And just because you don't understand it
doesn't mean that you're dumb, and that's a really smart movie.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yeah, it doesn't mean you're better than anybody else. I'm
not down with anybody that tries to come off that
they're better than me, like we're equal here. Why can't
we have like an open conversation. Why can't you hear
my point of view of why I really don't like it,
my flaws in it, and look at it from my perspective,
and then I'll look at it from your perspective. But
I'm very satisfied with our number one too. I think
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Speaker 4 (46:32):
If you love those frickin a twenty four hereditary movies,
write us a little description of why.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Let it make us understand. Yeah, let me see it
from your point of view. Yeah, let me hear what
you think about it.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
And I also would challenge if you're one of these
people who put I saw the TV Glow on your
best please explain that one too, And.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
As always, thank you for tuning in to thirteen thirty one.
I'm ripper and I'm tired of thunderstand tou dalou buy
my little monsters, stay spooky, and here's to twenty twenty
five
What's Up? And welcome back to thirteen thirty one. I'm
your host, mister Ripper, and as always, I have my
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the man, the myth, the legend, the only one that's
ever been mistaken for Bigfoot twice at Virginia Beach. Todd
of Thunder, What's Up? And the Qutie Patuti Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hey, my little monsters.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And we're here with your top ten best of twenty
twenty four. You've heard the worst, now let's hear the best,
the best of the best. The cream of the crup
is a macho man, once said back in the day.
So I think you're gonna be a little shocked with
our top ten list twenty twenty four. Horror movies were
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really good when they were really good, and it was
a lot. And to reiterate that we've seen sixty two
movies around that munch, Yeah, Todd, your list was about
it sixty two also, right, yeah, right there. This was
probably the hardest that I think I've ever had to do.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It was really difficult because there were so many you know,
the cult knows that I love to be about fives,
but there were so many good ones that it was
very difficult on what I put above another.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
A lot of movies this year thirteen thirty one. Over
here we have been kind of against the grain, so
to speak. Everything that everybody praised, we kind of was
scratching our head, and everything that people shouted on we love. Yeah,
a lot of people hated Alien and we loved, and
some people hated Terrifyer and some people hated Immaculate. And
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for some reason Late Night kept getting shitted on a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I just don't crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I don't quite understand why I'm going to be the
one to kick off this top ten because Miss Lanta
did not want to go first, not it, so at
number ten, I have one that I think got slept
on a lot. I didn't hear anybody else talk about
this movie except for us, and.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's Lowlifes Low Life.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It was a to be exclusive and it's one movie
that I think should have went to theaters. We did
a review on it because we loved it that much. Normally,
if it's a streaming movie, it's got to kind of
get blessing from all three, like, holy shit, we got
to talk about this movie. And I think that's the
only streaming one in twenty twenty four, we did.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I saw the TV GLO did that want go to theaters?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That was in theaters? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, shouldn't have been. They should switched those too.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, they should have paid I think they paid people
to talk about that movie. Whatever. So that's my number ten,
Miss Lanta. What do you have for your number ten?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I have a movie that some may not actually consider horror,
but it falls in that horror genre to me, and
I loved it so much. I watched it three times
in one week. And that is Your Monster.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's a goodie, that's a fun time. Yeah. I was
very surprised how much I liked it because Melissa Barrera.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Sucks, but this was I felt like this was her
kind of role, Like she fit really well in that
kind of horror comedy silly aspect, like stilly character.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I agree with that, And it kind of ruined what
good I had in watching Scream five and six because
we watched Your Monster and then we went back and
rewatched Scream five and six. I don't know why I
wanted to watch it, but I just wanted to go
back and revisit it, especially six, because me and Thunder
hate six and we wanted to make sure that we
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were justified, and we were. Melissa Barrera seemed to be
a lot more shittier than I remember after watching Your Monster,
but she was good in Your Monster. So it's weird
how I feel about that.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I think maybe she's just one of those actresses that
just does better in a less serious role.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Probably maybe thunterer from down Untier.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, my number ten, first of all, I like both
of those choices at number ten. You guys got just
watched Your Monster the other day with you, and it.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Was pretty good. I liked it.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I mean, I have no complaints. I definitely agree that. Yeah,
Scream six on a third, fourth watch, or how many
times I watch, it still sucks even probably worse. It
doesn't get better as I watch it, as some movies do.
This one doesn't it. We were just poking holes the
whole time. Anyway, Low Life was really good to shout
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out to that neither one of them in my top ten.
My number ten is Da Da Da. You guys might
be shocked. It's Nospharatu whoa number ten? Number ten? It
made the top ten, so that's cool. Well, you know,
I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
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I had ten movies that I gave the same score to,
so I had to really crunch down on the last
two spots, which is basically I had to choose my
best two out of those ten that did not make
the list, so eight of them I had to be like, ugh,
but yeah, I like Nosparratu enough to make it one
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of those movies that just made it. By the way,
Low LIFs came in at number eleven.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Ah, it was hard for me making my top ten
two because I didn't give that many fives out actually
this year, after going through my list and everything, so
my top six is like all fives. You know how
many fives I gave? Five? So you gave one more
than I did? What was you saying?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I didn't count exactly how me I gave, but I
know I gave a lot, And I'm curious to see
because this is my first year really doing ratings for movies,
so I'm curious if I'm gonna buckle down and be
a little more hesitant to give those next year.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I am, yeah, and I will say that my top ten,
I really am proud of it, because, like I said,
the first five or all fives, the next three or
all four and a half. Nine and ten are both fours.
So I will say that all of these movies I
think are excellent in my top ten.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh nice, nice, nice. Well, my number nine is another
straight to streaming service movie. Okay that I'm really mad
didn't go to theaters. But it's mister Crockett.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Mister Crockett, mister Crockett, and these.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Streaming movies came out of nowhere, like we really didn't
know anything about them.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
We just saw them, were like, oh, what's this, we'll
watch it? Yeah, surprise.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Mister Crockett was so fucking good, so refreshing, a great
new twist on kind of stuff we're familiar with. We're
kind of familiar with, you know, that quirky TV character
that's a killer, but it's never been done to this extent. Yeah,
and we really haven't had a kid serial killer since
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Freddy Krueger that was done well. Well, I guess you
could count I reckon Chucky maybe, yeah, but he focused
on adults, mister Crockett, and Kruger was kind of focused
on kids and teenagers. Yeah. I mean, if you want
to the youth, I guess the youth kill.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Save the kids first, Yeah, ish ish kind of yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I mean it's definitely more Nightmare on elm Street ish
because it's in that fantasy world type of deal and
you are trying to like, you know, draw in the
kids to kind of you know, turn them against the parents,
and you know, I'm I'm your friend to the end exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We didn't review this movie. We just couldn't get around
it because it came out at a time that everything,
everything was fucking dropping, and unfortunately it fell short.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You know, I feel like we still could do an
episode on it. It's worth it because it was so good
it is.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I want this to be a franchise, I really do.
I want so more. Mister Crockett. I don't know what
it is about this. I thought the special effects were good,
the practical effects. The acting was flawless, like just flawless acting.
If you get a chance, watch it. I think Hulu
is it Hulu?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I can't remember what streaming.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think it's on Hulo. Anyway, look at mister Crockett.
It's definitely worth a time. I could not not put
it in my top ten, Miss Atlanta, what's your number nine?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, my number nine. We also did not see in theaters,
but I can't remember if it was a theater release,
but I had a great all time with it, and
that was Oddity.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, I think it was. It was in theaters briefly.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
But I don't think our theater got it. Maybe that's
why we didn't go see it. Yeah, but Adity for
me was it's really really difficult for a movie to
get me gared and like my heart's racing and I'm
like on the edge of my seat genuinely, and this
movie fucking did it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I thought the movie was done very well. It was
my number eleven. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was almost
in the top ten.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, I don't think you've ever seen me react the
way that I reacted to that movie to anything else.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I was very like, oh my gosh, maybe the Strangers.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Maybe yeah, the Stranger. That's true.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You were quite freaked out about.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That because in both of those it's really I mean,
there is like that slight supernatural aspect to Oddity, but
it's a person, and that's what that's what gets me
is when it's when it's a person.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It had one of the best intense feelings in a while.
It done that very well. It was really good I
think that's the thing with the top ten is that
you're gonna notice for me is I'm kind of going
off of original. I guess so more this year because
everything was done so well. So I'm looking at like
who had the better creative ideas and what was done,
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you know, just a little bit better, what was a
little bit more original. That's why Audity was like right there.
I mean between like Lowlife's and mister Crockett, Lowlives wasn't
quite original, but it wound it up being original. Yeah,
that's the great thing I liked about Lowlives, Like we've
seen cannibals before, but they flipped the script on you
and the good families. The Cannibal family and the quote
(10:23):
unquote rednecks are good people, right. They kind of do
a Tucker and Dale versus evil twist on you, and
I really like that. But mister Thunder, what is your
number nine? My number nine is immaculate?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Immaculate.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That was a good one.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, it surprised me because when this movie came out,
I wasn't looking forward to the subject matter because I'm
so fucking over the whole nun demon shit. But this
one one of the best of the Bunch this year.
I don't know, man, I was really impressed. I felt
on edge about this movie. It was kind of familiar
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how all the church know movies go, but it was
a little bit more faster pace and it really didn't
kind of slow down to where I'm like, God, this
movie's dragging. So yeah, and it was a lot of
like weird shit in it that I was like, yeah,
I like it, So it was good.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I wasn't filling it at the time, and unfortunately I
didn't get to go back and rewatch it, but it
had Immaculate at number twelve.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, I'm my list, But.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I loved about Immaculate, or one of the things that
I loved about Immaculate was that it really, you know,
like you said, we kind of were expecting it to
be the typical nun possession movie and it wasn't that,
and that was refreshing to like get something different very much.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So good Lord, go against the grain, That's what I say,
speaking of nuns and going against the grain. One that
very much surprised me was the first omen and that's
my number eight. That movie shouldn't have been as good
as it was. Honestly, it okay, so immaculate. And first
OMEN is very neck and neck in storyline. It's almost identical,
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like very very close. Even came out what we figured
out like three weeks apart something like that. One was
in March, one was in April.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It's like the end of March, beginning of April.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, which is crazy. The first Omen, I felt like
knocked it out of the park. It was just so
fucking good and unexpected. You know, a lot of prequel
movies we get you kind of dread because they're not
really done good often, and this movie just fucking nailed it. Like,
it was so good and I was very pleasantly surprised.
(12:32):
I loved the cinematography in it. I love the route
they went with it. I love how they tied it
in with the Omen at the end of the movie.
It was just done very very well. But Miss Lanta,
what do you have a number? Eight?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Eight? We have spoken about already, but I have number
eight at Love Lifes.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh okay, we didn't dive too much into it.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, well, and I don't feel like we need to
because we did. Do you know a podcast episode on it?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But it was another one where we were just kind
of scrolling through see what was on streaming, came across
it and we were like, well, we'll give it a try.
And it had a nice little twist to it. The
story was great, the acting was great, everything about it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I thoroughly enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Even the way that they did the ending, which if
anyone has not seen it, I don't want to spoil anything,
but go go watch it or go listen to our episode.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, Todd of Thunder, what do you have at number eight?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
My number eight? I have The Substance at number eight. Yeah, yes,
we did a podcast on the substance. The Substance. Yeah,
good old fashioned body horror. Kind of one of those
films where for me personally just came out of nowhere,
you know, didn't really get any hype on the movie,
but I watched it and it blew me away.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I love the film, So I have it at number eight. Well,
piggybacking off of what you just said, go your own way,
get off my back, I'm gonna piggy on your back
because my number seven is the Substance. I thoroughly enjoyed
this movie. It's been a very long time since we've
got such a good body horror movie, and the storyline
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was just done so well. The acting was just top tier.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You know, it's good to see an old nineties face
in a new film with demean more.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, exactly. I went into this movie blind. I didn't
see a trailer. I didn't see anything for this movie. Same,
I actually didn't know anything about it. Now thinking about it,
and I think that's why I've preached so much before.
The best way to watch a movie, for the most
part is blind, right, like you can take it all in.
(14:37):
I think that's why it got so high on my
list is because it was just like, Wow, this has
done so fucking well. Practical effects are amazingness, score is amazing.
It just knocked it out of the park. It was
a shame that we didn't get to see it in theaters.
That's the only thing I really hated about it. I
wasn't too big on the ending, that was nitpicky, But
(14:57):
the rest of it is just absolutely am to watch.
If you haven't watched it, you need to watch the substance. So,
Miss Lanta, what do you have at your number seven?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
My number seven is Long Legs.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, you know, the originality of it was incredible. Nicholas
Cage is fantastic at what he does. Basically from here
on out. I had a real, real, real hard time
with the order. Some of them I feel like are
kind of interchangeable depending on my mood in a way,
So I don't want me putting at number seven that
I think lower of it. It was absolutely amazing, very unique,
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very unnerving. I had a blast with it. But number
seven is long Legs, Stide thunder.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
My number seven is a sequel, and it's ter Fire three.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Now ah Oki Doki Art the Clown, Art the Clown.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I will boost all the time about how we love
this series, that we love this franchise. We can have
fun with all the movies. Tear Fire three did not disappoint. Honestly,
what I got I was. I mean, I just wanted
to be grossed out, just good old fashion, over the
top slasher film, and that's exactly what we got. Of course,
(16:08):
you know have that hangar of an ending where it's
just like, yeah, four is coming, you gotta wait. Though, Yeah,
I would say that. You know, I think two was
still my favorite, but three is right there, literally right
behind it on my list as well.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I think that two and three is going to be
like Halloween one and two for me is going to
be so interchangeable depending on the day. Yeah, in my mood.
But speaking of a mood, my number six is No Speratukay.
No Saratu had a very haunting, beautiful atmosphere with a
(16:48):
great story, a more in depth look into the No
Sparatu character that we haven't really ever gotten in one
hundred years. Just nelt it one hundred percent. I think,
I say I, but we as a podcast all agree
that it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It was the most visually stunning movie that I've seen
in a long time.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, it was great. I know this movie for people
is either they like it or they really don't like it.
It's not really in between, like eh, because even the
people I hear about eh, there's so much negative in
the end to where I really feel like it falls
into they really don't like it. They're just trying not
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to bash it because it was done so well right.
It's not like it was a b ready movie and
you can get shit on it beginning to end. It
was very well done and I love it and it's
gonna be a rewatch when it comes out. But miss Lana,
what do you have at number six?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Number six, I have Heretic with Hugh Grant himself.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So many of them that are on my top ten
were ones that kind of surprise to me because Heretic
was seemingly going that religious route, and I just I
felt like they did such a good job of changing
what you were expecting it to be. It was not
exactly how the trailer portrayed it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Right, mister Thunder, what do you have it? You're number six?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I got the first Omen, Like I enjoyed this one
as well. This movie was either really going to be
good or really gonna suck, And honestly, it ended up
being probably the best Omen film since the first Omen. Yeah,
considering this is the first Omen, but yeah, I mean
(18:37):
it was shocking, right yeah, And it was what I
really loved about this is, you know, this is an
old time franchise. They can make money just off of
the name itself because it's been around since the late
seventies or whatever. They wasn't afraid to go far in
this film and be disgusting and be shocking and be
just even more than any of their Omen film.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
They came before it. Yeah, it's crazy that it actually
got love and respect and treated right. You get that
often with sequels or prequels. That's why it's on me
and Todd's yeah, top ten because we love the Omen
and this movie. It made me happy watching it and
it did what Immaculate did because I said, you know,
(19:23):
it's kind of the same things going on, but I
think the first Omen just did it better. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I think the reason I put the Omen a little
bit above Immaculate is that the Omen, like I said,
was a franchise, and a lot of times you get
movies in a franchise that the filmmakers want to protect
and not give so much, want to be basic with it,
you know, because they're scared of fucking it up. But
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this one it was like, yeah, throw that in there. Yeah,
like Baby coming out of Vagina, you're gonna see it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, demon CDs. Now it's time to get to the
top five of twenty twenty four, the Grand Finale, the
Big Five, and at number five I have Alien Romulus.
I know a lot of people I've seen on the
interwebs said it was okay or didn't care for it.
(20:18):
I didn't see a lot of people boasting about it
and to them, I don't know. We did not watch
the same film, right, This to me is the best
sense of the first two, hands down.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I don't know how you can put this movie down
and say it's disrespectful. And two or I mean three
or four is better. I think this movie is on
par with Part two, and I think Part two is
the best one. So I don't understand the hate. And
I want more Rain and Andy. We wanted an alien
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movie that returned to horror, back in space characters that
we could get behind a good story and fucking.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Aliens and with Tugger's goalre and we got it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We got practical effects with actual people back in xenomorph suits.
It was perfect. You know, hater's gonna hate whatever this, Atlanta.
What's your top five?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
My number five Alien Romulus? Oh okay, which this was
really fun for me. We did this a couple of
times this year. Alien was one I had never seen
anything in the franchise. Oh yeah, yeah, I watch every
single one.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. We had a marathon right before
we watched the big Alien Romulus on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yes, which was so fun. Obviously my first one on
the big screen. But that was fun for me, and
I feel like having had just watched them all and
it all being so fresh in my mind. Alien Romulus,
I agree with you, is right there with Alien and
Alien two.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It is right there with Alien and Aliens. Agree, Funter,
What is in your big five at number five? My
number five is heretic? Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, again, I wasn't expecting much because I hate Hugh Grant, So.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, you were not looking forward to this movie.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
No.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I thought this movie was going to fucking suck balls, honestly,
But I'll tell you why I like it. It had
a very unique, quirky kind of sense of humor to
it when it could have played it straight. And if
it would have played it straight, I probably would have
hated this movie because it was so goddamn quirky with
the way the characters were bouncing off of each other.
(22:37):
That is what made this movie highly entertaining to me.
I had to put it in my top five, and it.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Was super refreshing to see Hugh do a horror movie.
Yeah yeah, he fit that character so well.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And I must add, just because it's quirky doesn't mean
that it's not serious or it was a comedy or
anything like that.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
It wasn't. It was.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
It was a film that A twenty four tries to make.
They try to make these off the wall, quirky characters
and it all kind of falls flat to me. This
is how you make it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, I agree with that. You can have some characters
that are charming and quirky, but they're not good people.
It's very hard to understand. You're getting behind a person
that is a little off you as crazy as hell,
but he's nice. Yeah, but you enjoy it. It's kind
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of like he's like a real life Mormon. It's like,
if you've ever watched Creep, well, we really don't know
his real name because he changes his name in every movie.
The Creep is a very charming character, but he's a
serial killer and we know he's crazy and he's cuckoo.
There's just some.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Something about him that you like.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's a charm about him. You just can't help getting
behind these characters that just have a charm, like my
number four with Art Terrifier three, it is just a
charm about the way that David Howard Thornton makes Art
so lovable. Yeah, the quirkiness and with Terrifier three. We
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also got that Christmas aspect added to it, which we
don't have a lot of good Christmas movies, so now
we have, you know, one to watch during Christmas. Yeah,
he just you know, knocks it out of the park.
But there's just something off about Art the Clown. But
god damn it if not everybody loves them. People really
don't get behind Terrifier. But well not all people. I'm
(24:31):
just saying some people. The people that don't really get
behind it still like the character of Art the Clown,
so it's something magical there. But at the end of
the day, he is by far one of the most
sadistic serial killers that we've had on screen. Mis Atlanta,
what is your number four?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
You?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What number four is?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
What's your number four?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's Terrifier three, Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And you and you was worried about your list.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I was, well, we'll see no, like you said, I mean,
Art the Clown. David Harthorton just does such an amazing
job bringing a silent character to life, like giving a
silent character so much character.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, it's crazy. He just he's so good at it,
and I really hope he doesn't get type cast. But
he's rolling down that road.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He is a little bit and it is kind of ironic.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I mean Terrifier three, like you said, it was Christmas themed,
so it was different in that aspect.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's hard for me.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I go back and forth between terr Fire two and
Terarifire three, which one's my favorite because I love them
for like in different ways. I love that all three
of them have a little bit of a different feel,
like they're almost their own thing, but they go together
absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, I had Terrifier three higher on my list because
it's some favoritism. It's my list. I don't care. I'm
a slasher fan.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
So right, and I'm actually I'm definitely not as much
of a slasher fan as you. I enjoy them, but
it's not like my top.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Category are romantic. I do.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I'm a girl, but no, But this one, it just
is so entertaining and something about about Arthur Clown it
just captures me and I had such a fun time
with it, and that's you know, for me, with my list,
it's more about like, well, how did it make me feel?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Speaking of feeling, mister Thunder, what are you feeling at
number four? Well, I'm feeling at number four. I have Maxine. Maxine.
I think I liked this movie a little bit better
than y'all did. It is not in my top ten.
Well that's okay. I had.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
You know, I don't have Oddity or Mister Crocket or
Low Lives, but you know, it is what it is.
A lot of people didn't like this one or whatever,
and that's totally fine. Like I said, you know, my
saying is did I have a good time watching this
in the theater?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And I did.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I enjoyed every moment of it. I enjoyed Goff's character
in this as I do in Pearl ANX. I like
the time period. I like the eighties time period. I
like the fact that she's an aspiring star that doesn't
give a shit about anything but herself.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, she's something in it.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, I mean I took her. I mean, even though
she's a horrible person, I found myself rooting for her
wanting to succeed in this film.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah. Speaking of rooting, I'm rooting for my number three,
and my number three is Late Night with the Devil.
Late Night, Late Night with the Devil. We just rewatched
it again and it is just one of those movies
that was a delight to watch the practical effects, the
special effects, the story, acting, the atmosphere. It was just beautiful,
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so well deserved of being in the top five. It
deserves all the praise in the world. I'm so glad
we got to watch this in theaters.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
It definitely hits different in the theater than it does
at home. But I think that's the great thing about
being at the theater is that sometimes you just get
that feel and that vibe that you just can't get
at home.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, I think partially that and partially that you know
what to expect when you're watching it at home. I've
already seen.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It exactly, and this movie is just if you haven't
watched it, go watch it to own Shutter, which is
one of the few streaming services you can get that's
worth the money other than to be that's free. But
I can't boast enough about this movie. It's just one
of those that's great. And my top six they're all fives,
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so keep that in mind. It's very hard to organize
a top ten this year for me because a lot
of them deserve to be number one, Right, miss Lanta,
what do you have at number three?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Number three? I have Late Night with the Temple, but
you know, we're watching it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
We just rewatched it today and it just kind of
revalidated that it deserves to be for me the top three.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Just one of those movies that
was at a left field original, great and concept beautiful.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Another one we kind of went in blind. You didn't
know at all what to expect.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah. Yeah. The ones we went in blind to were
very very on point. Yeah, and I'm very happy with him.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
In On contrast, some of the ones that we had
seen so many trailers for and we're excited for fell flat.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Very flat. Lord have Mercy Thunder. What do you have it?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
You're number three? I have at number three? Long legs,
long legs, alrighty, Yeah, I enjoy this one. Kind of
had that crime thriller vibe to it. Yeah, in the beginning,
then all kinds of twist and turns, especially when you
get to the end, and it was a good ride.
Nicholas Cage gave a great performance as a aging rock star,
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glam leather face looking thing.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The accurate.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
He was creepy, he was supposed to be creepy. He
was odd. He was supposed to be odd. This was
a very a great movie that was on the back
of the lead actress.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I can't I can't remember her name.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
She really, you know, led this movie until Nicholas Cage
commanded the screen. It was just great between back and
forth between them, and it really reminded me of like
that old school seven five to it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Like it speaking of something with good vibes. My number
two is heretic?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Nice?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, heretic Jesus Christ. There's so many times and so
many movies that when we talk about religion, it gets
so muddy and it gets so ignorant, to the point
where you just can't watch it right. And this movie
did not do that. This movie made everybody question everything right,
(30:39):
And that's what I was worried about. Are they going
to sit here and is it just gonna be a
Bible bashing fest? Is it going to be knocking all religions?
Is the twist that atheists are stupid or non believers
are stupid? But they didn't go that route. They made
you question everything, made you think they made Do you
(31:00):
think it was brilliant?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I really enjoyed. I didn't say this when it was
my number five, but I love the fact that It
was all the above that you just said.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And it's so surprising because we all knew about heretic
and we were well you in particular, was worried about
Hugh Grant. I wasn't too worried about it, but I
was worried that he wasn't going to be able to
pull off a horror character like I've seen him in.
You know, he's type cast in that rom COM's role.
I mean, that's what we know him for, that's what
(31:31):
Todd hates him for.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
That's what I love.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, he just hasn't done anything for
me to compare anything to. Like you said, you didn't
know how he was going to be in this type
of role, right, So going into it, you know, I
kind of figured if he got the opportunity, probably could
do it, and he proved it. Maybe he's one of
these latent life, fucking late bloomers, you know, like one
(31:55):
of those Michael Caine type of actors who plays in
these sophisticated it rolls and then when he gets older
he's like, fuck it, I'll do something like this.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
The movie just blew me out of the water. I
enjoyed it. It was so great. It was so fun,
it was refreshing, It was done so well, and it
didn't disrespect anybody, right, and the ending was open did everybody? Yeah?
Yeah it did.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Oh that's what I was thinking. It was like, you know,
is this right? Is that right? Is this right? Is
that right?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And then the message at the end is like it's
kind of all bullshit, but you know what's not bullshit?
Landa's number two.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Hopefully hopefully my number two. I think both of you
have already spoken about, and that is the substance.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yes, wow, I'm surprised it's that high on your list.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
This was the first very heavy body horror film that
I could not keep my eyes off of. Even as
cringey as some like some of the nails and eye
scenes that normally I would turn away from, I was
glueden and it's still cringing in the inside. They did
such a I think only the reason why is because
the practical effects were done so well that it was
(33:04):
just like I didn't want to miss anything. And the
storyline I've related so much.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
The storyline as a woman was so relatable. So and
Demi Moore, I mean, can I praise her? Enough for.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yes, please give me more. So awesome seeing her play
in horror.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You just talked about Hugh Grant, who's never done horror before.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Is this her first horror.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Movie, like true true horror. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
The only thing that you can compare this to is nothing.
I mean, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Ghost, but that's just I mean, that's just right. Well,
that falls into the your monster category Edward scissor Hands,
Lisa Frankenstein.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Ghost.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Technically it's a and whoop it Goldberg's lips, Todd's number
two number two, I have Alien Romulus.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Shit, yeah, I'm I'm with you. I didn't say much
earlier because I knew it was coming up. Anyway, I'm
with you. I I'm going back and forth between which
one I think is better, the first Alien or Alien Romulus,
because Aliens is my solid number one, exactly. I just
don't have a solid number two. I go upstairs. I'm
(34:23):
hoping to have a solid number two.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I think I might like Alien Romulus a little bit
better than the original. Classic and crazy, right, you know,
a horror you know fan like me, that's that's almost sacrilege.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
It's very funny that we have two prequels in the
top ten, and prequels, like I said, are normally dog shit.
In our opinion, we got some of the best prequels
we've probably had in the past ten years. Maybe longer, Yeah,
no longer. We are at the Grand Finale and my
(35:11):
number one is Long.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Legs, Long Legs, the.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Legs, actually the long legs of long with Nicholas Cage.
I have been fucking going over this list over and
over and over and over and over and over again,
and I've switched a lot of my number one throughout.
(35:36):
The one movie that I kept competing at number one
was Long Legs. I know this term is used often
in the horror community. This is the best horror thriller
since Silence of the Lambs. You hear that comparison often,
and for me, this comparison is true. The atmosphere was dreadful.
(35:56):
There's so much going on in the background with the
demons and devil shadows. Nicholas Cage is just fucking over
the top every bit of what you want him to be.
The main star. I can't remember her name, I'm sorry,
off the top of my head, just fucking nailed the
character that she was playing a lot of people was
(36:17):
like talking about like her character and her acting, but
she fucking played a great character. She brought that character
to life. She did exactly what Jody Foster. She did exactly.
She did exactly what Jody Foster did in Silence of
the Lambs. And granted, you know, her Southern accent was
(36:40):
a little over the top, but you know, the autism
that she brought to the screen was a little over
the top too, But it's great. It was a great
character to get behind. I loved the atmosphere, the spin
on this kind of devil aspect that is kind of burnout.
But this movie didn't throw shit on it. This movie
(37:00):
brought it to a new level that we haven't seen.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
It still felt fresh, and it still.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Felt fresh, and there could still be more. I want
more Long Legs. I don't really want Nicholas Cage in
it again because I don't want that character to be
shipped on. I think it'd be great to see someone
new in every movie, a carrier type character that we get.
I look forward to hopefully more Long Legs, and if not,
(37:27):
we got a instant classic. I hate to use that term,
but this is one of those movies that's going to
be talked about ten to fifteen oh years from now.
It's going to be in the all time greatest at
some point within the next fifteen years. Yeah, Lanta, moment
of truth, the moment that you've been dreading. What is
(37:48):
your number one? I know what it is.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
It's Sara knows Foraratu it is.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I know that there's a lot of controversy, a little
bit divided in the room. But for me, you know,
I said earlier, it's the most visually stunning a movie
that I've seen in a really, really long time. And
I thought that Lily Rose Depp's performance as that character
was incredible, just the back and forth between being this sweet,
(38:18):
you know, missing her husband, stay at home wife, to
being possessed by Nosferatu, like her mind being controlled, and
the transitioning with the convulsions, and it was just impeccable
to me. And I loved the storyline. It's funny because
we know we've said it's kind of kind of a
slow burn kind of not but it didn't feel like
(38:39):
we were in the theater that long because I was
so enthralled by the movie and I just I could
not not put it as my number one.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I'll boast about it for a little bit. I think
it's the best dark Gothic romance movie we've ever had
on the big screen. It was very well acted, well written,
and the performances. I know, I said it was well,
but the performances were top notch, to the point of
mister Scar's guard knocked it out of the park as usual.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Oh my gosh. Yes, the it's really fun to me
when I can tell that the actor truly put everything
they had into the role down to you know, we've
spoken about it on the podcast episode specifically for No Sharatu,
but the way that he took vocal lessons to lower
the octave of his voice so that he nailed the
sound he embodied.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Or lock one.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Speaking of embodying mister Thunder, what is embodying your number one?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Well, I don't think it's a surprise. It's Late Night
with the Devil.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, we've known it all year.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Yeah, yeah, I've been waiting for something to dethrone it
in my eyes.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Close but no cigars.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
I don't know, man, I just I guess I watched
this at a at the right moment. I guess I
don't know. I loved everything about this movie. I loved
the fact that it's telling me that this was a
lost from the late seventies. I felt like I was
watching that. But when we got into like real time
in the movie, like on the set, I still felt
(40:10):
like we were in the seventies. Yeah, I still felt
like this was a real show. These you know, kind
of shock shows. You know, we're gonna bring some magic
people and we're gonna bring.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Some Johnny Carson Late Night Show.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah, the heyday of those shows that were so popular
back then because it was the last thing you saw
before you went to bed. Because after that it was
like the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It was like.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
It was literally nothing that you could fucking watch else
on television. So the performances, I thought they were knocked
out of the park. I enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The aesthetic of the seventies in that movie is one
hundred percent like on PARR, Like you feel like you're
watching something in the seventies for sure.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
And we talked about this a little bit earlier with
the substance there was some body horror in Late Night
that I don't think we kind of picked up on
or the substance really like put it in our face, like, oh, that's.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Obviously body horror.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
But yeah, we had like cool little dream sequence type
of deal.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
That was, Yeah, it was. It was pretty disgusting. Yeah,
when he hypnotizing him and everything like that and he
just tore him fucking self apart, and yeah, that was
that was really disgusting. I don't get really grossed out,
but when he started pulling the actual worms like out
of his neck, that was fucking beautiful.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
And I will say that you talked about Lily Rose
depth being possessed. I think the only other character this
year in a movie that rivals her being possessed so well,
it was the little Girl from Late Night. So the
little Girl fucking creeped me out. It still creeps me out.
The way she looks is just so unsum Yeah, it's unsettling. Honestly,
(42:00):
if they did a Exorcist remake or some kind of
Exorcist movie and.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
They hurry up and cast her while she's still young, yeah,
I would be hesitant to watch it because it would
creep me out. Like her performance is fucking out.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Of this world.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
I feel like this should have been you know how
like the real Amityville horror murders happened, and then somebody
wrote a book, and then somebody made a movie. I
feel like Late Night with the Devil should have really happened,
and then somebody wrote a movie, and then somebody should
have made a movie. I feel that, Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. It feels like this really happened. Yeah,
(42:40):
it feels like I should read in a true crime
book that the Warrens fucking investigated this creepy stuff that
happened on this set of a late night seventies.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Show, but the tape's never been found, you know what
I mean. I think it's pretty cool that all of
our number ones is in our top ten. Yeah, and
this year has been really hot, hard to make a
top ten. Honestly, twenty twenty four has been one of
the better years in horror, and I think it's progressively
getting better.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
You know what I find interesting? I noticed a theme
that there were several movies in all of our top
tens that had lead actors or actresses that are not
known for horror.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Bliss Cage isn't known for horror.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
You Grant has never been in horror that I know
of Demi Mour. There's several of them. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
It was kind of a breakout year, first dives into
horror and a lot of original stuff came out. Yes,
and if some reason yet heard our top ten and
you didn't hear a movie, it's a possibility we didn't
get a chance to watch it. I know we didn't
get to watch The Coffee Table, a couple other ones
(43:51):
that a lot of people talked.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
About, or it could be one that was very close.
You have to lower it down to ten, right, So
there's so many good ones that didn't quite make the list.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
And I'm sure that we'll get around to watching some
of these films that other people talk about as well.
We'll give you our opinions and stuff about them. But
I don't know, man, I feel like a lot of
the hype movies I thought was shit.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
I tend to find that I don't agree with most people,
not because I'm fifty. I'm fifty, not because I feel
like I'm an elitist or whatever.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Maybe they feel like they're an elitist. I don't know.
You're a fucking gatekeeper. Ounah, yeah, I'm a gatekeeper.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
It's a lot of films, like you said TV Glow
that we talked about last episode. Mm hm oh man,
it seems like, uh, you know, people just think A
twenty four shits out fucking gold, and I think they
just shit out shitty shit.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
Yeah, they shit the bed a lot, but also can
put out some bangers too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
Yeah, I mean Maxine is an a twenty four film
that was in my top ten and was anything else
A twenty four?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Twenty four? Well, Heretic was really good. Yeah, A twenty four.
When they get it right, they definitely get it right. Yeah,
and get it right a lot better than Blumhouse here recently.
I will I will say that, don't think that we're
Blumhouse fans neither. Oh Bumhouse gets it It gets it
wrong quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
And I think a lot of fans just clamor for
something different. They want films that they haven't seen. There's
a lot of films that are similar.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Blah blah blah. They they're constantly they're like, ooh, I've
never seen that. But just because you haven't seen it
doesn't make.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
It good exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah, And just because it's an original idea doesn't mean it's.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
A good idea And just because you don't understand it
doesn't mean that you're dumb, and that's a really smart movie.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yeah, it doesn't mean you're better than anybody else. I'm
not down with anybody that tries to come off that
they're better than me, like we're equal here. Why can't
we have like an open conversation. Why can't you hear
my point of view of why I really don't like it,
my flaws in it, and look at it from my perspective,
and then I'll look at it from your perspective. But
I'm very satisfied with our number one too. I think
(46:12):
if you have a top five or top ten list,
you know, post it on some of our comments. Hit
us up on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok It's thirteen thirty one
hard cast. We'd love to hear what you think about
the episodes, what we can improve on, what you want
to hear us bitch or complain about our review.
Speaker 4 (46:32):
If you love those frickin a twenty four hereditary movies,
write us a little description of why.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Let it make us understand. Yeah, let me see it
from your point of view. Yeah, let me hear what
you think about it.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
And I also would challenge if you're one of these
people who put I saw the TV Glow on your
best please explain that one too, And.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
As always, thank you for tuning in to thirteen thirty one.
I'm ripper and I'm tired of thunderstand tou dalou buy
my little monsters, stay spooky, and here's to twenty twenty
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