WUH: September 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Wake Up Heavy is a weird Waymedia podcast. It just made a yummy
sound, so I thought you'd likethe dessert. Welcome to Wake Up Heavy,
the world's greatest horror movie podcast.Hello, and welcome to Wake Up

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Heavy. This is Mark Bagley,your host, and I'm doing something I
haven't done in almost a year,and that is a month watch list episode.
Although I am sure that I haveincluded watch list in most of the
things that I've done since November twentytwenty two, I haven't put out a

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month year episode in a while onmy own without Cleo. So that's what
I'm doing today. And at theend here I'll have a few news and
notes, technical issue announcements to make, as well as some future episode announcements.

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So if this kind of episode isn'tyour thing, Dad, just turn
this off and go watch a movie. I love movies, Gosh, I
love movies. I love watching them. For recent watches, and this extends
to the last day of August throughOctober first, just because that's where I

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left off last time, and includesthe last two movies that Cleo and I
watched, not really sticking to Septemberper se as the cutoff dates most of
these are rewatches. For me,I think there are only eight new watches.

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Most of those new watches were withCleo and or Cleo and my wife,
and most almost all of the rewatchesexcept for about four or three,
we're also with Cleo and Or mywife. So I've been watching a lot
of movies with them, not somany on my own. And part of

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the reason for that will come upat the end of the episode when I
talk about the work I've been doingon the show. So back on August
thirtieth, I watched something I hadbeen hearing or reading a lot about online,
especially Twitter, a movie called innessMen. And I may be mispronouncing
that it's a cornish phrase. Andthis is an interesting I would like in

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it to skin em rink in away in that it's almost more of a
not experimental you know, that's standbreakage type stuff. When I think of
experimental or even Kenneth Anger, it'snot that. But it's not really a
narrative film. This gal is ona small Cornish island and she's studying a

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plant. There weird stuff starts happening, so it's got a lot of repetition,
not a lot of dialogue, there'sa lot of is this real or
is this her imaginings? Weird timestructure, that kind of stuff. If
you want to really lose friends fast, invite them all over and play this
in skinner rink for them and you'llbe hated forever. Pretty interesting. John

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Woodvine is in it. He isfamously known as doctor Hirsch from an American
Werewolf in London. I'm making amark a Malston my belief WAW and his
daughter is the lead. I don'tknow that I'll be rushing back to watch
it anytime soon, but you know, hey, it's on Hulu, so

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if you've got that service, checkit out. Khalio had been begging to
watch this movie for a while,so we finally tracked it down Ready or
Not with Samarrow weaving, which isa lot of fun. My wife and
I watched it a number of yearsago. I'm sure I mentioned it on
some episode way back when. Veryfun, most dangerous game style. I

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preferred this over The Hunt, whichhas a similar premise. This is a
little lighter on the commentary of modernsociety, which I appreciate. We also
stumbled on Becky and Wrath of Becky. I think Wrath of Becky is available
now on Showtime or something, andI said, well, you know,

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the first one's actually really good.We like Lulu Wilson, and so we
watched Becky and went straight into thesequel. I prefer the first one.
I think Rath leans a little moreagain into that social commentary, as well
as becoming a little bit more cartoonish. I kept thinking of The Roadrunner and

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Wiley Coyote while we were watching it, but still pretty fun. I think
if I were to have to pickbetween the two to watch again anytime soon,
it would be the first points thoughfor Wratha Becky, having Courtney Gaines,
the ginger from Children of the Corn, Nanda, we have You a

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Woman? We got. We've beenwatching raunchy comedies, I think Cleveland.
I talked about those the last timewe did an episode, and so we
watched super Bad. We all loveMichael Sarah enjoy Jonah Hill. For the
most part, I forgot. Ithink I've only seen it one time before.

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I've forgotten just how raunchy it isthough, so it got a little
uncomfortable in spots. And then acouple of other new films which I did
an episode on with Chris Cobweb andThe Boogeyman. Cleo watched both of those
with me. We went back intothe comedy zone for the next three films

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with Austin Powers International Man of Mystery, her first time Horrible Bosses. So
now we're getting into the Jason BatemanJason Sidikas area. Nowhere near as good
as Game Night. I will say, right now, how can that be
profitable for Freedomly? I have seenHorrible Bosses and Horrible Bosses too before,

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and they're they're fine, They're fine. We didn't watch Horrible Bosses too,
but I'm sure we will, eventhough he's not my favorite, because we
watched that and Jason Sidikas is init. We watched We're the Millers,
which I do think is not nearlyas good as Game Night, but definitely
better than Horrible Bosses and poor WillPoulter in that movie. Come on,

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I've seen a rainbow yesterday, buttoo many storms of common God leaving a
trace of not what God given?Is it? Because my life intend shades
it? Right. I played OffHands Fade Away, Sold in Place as
far as Sunny said, you playthe insane and name the place. It's
half of fallen praying to crimers,where the system got your victim too?
Your own mind, dreams of hopelessaspirations and hopes to come in true believe
in yourself. The rest is upto me, and don't go chase and

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water? Where did you? Oh? It was fun seeing Cleo react to
his spider bite, something that I'vebeen wanting to show Cleo for a while
since we watched the Evil Dead rebootrecently tracked down Don't Breathe by fiddy Aalbarez.

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This to me is sort of likeGreen Room, where the violence is
is played naturally and realistic, andit's pretty brutal. I was waiting for
again Clio's reaction to the twist inthat film, and I said, Okay,
from this point on it gets prettygnarly, so just watch out.

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I really enjoy that film though.Jane Levy again great Dylan Manette. I
love when he shows up in thesemovies. And I always forget that their
other cohort is the kid from ItFollows. One of the kids from It
Follows. We watched as a familybarbie that they had seen it in the

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theater. I think we mentioned thaton an episode. It's fine, I'm
going to be that guy and sayit didn't really do much for me.
The commentary, the whole patriarchy thingdid not bother me one bit. I
don't know, it just didn't clickwith me for whatever reason. We watched

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the new Australian film that everybody's beentalking about Talk to Me, which again
was fine. I think we allenjoyed it pretty much for the most part.
I had heard that it was reallygruesome, and I know I've said

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this before. I don't know ifit's just me being desensitized. I didn't
find it all that gory or brutal. There were some tough scenes, especially
with the young boy, but allin all, I don't know, it
didn't seem over the top to me. I enjoyed it. I kept seeing
people say it's trophy and stereotypical,but I didn't get that feel so much.

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It might play in the same sandboxas a lot of movies. We're
talking possession here, but it's doneso much differently. It's kind of seance
with that hand, you know,mummified or whatever hand, some medium that
has power. But I really likedthe look of the characters when they're possessed.

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And then also the look of thedead people that they're seeing was done
really well. I'm sure we'll watchit again eventually, but I wasn't completely
blown away by it. Cleo andI watched Insidious Chapter three. Kind of
feels like we're slowly going through thewhole series to get to the new one.

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I know I've said when talking withher that I tend to enjoy these
films in this series, so youknow, we'll see what happens with the
fourth one and the fifth one.I told Cleo, I think it was
my decision. I wanted to watchgo through the Corneto trilogy again. So
we watched Hot Fuzz, and I'msure we'll get to the other two shortly

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since it's a spooky season. MaybeShaun of the Dead again, or even
World's End since they're more horror related. And then we watched another new film
that had a lot of buzz,Brian Duffield's No One Will Save You,
which is a Hulu exclusive Hulu originalquote unquote, and a lot of people

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had been talking about how fascinating andinteresting it was. I don't want to
spoil anything. It's I don't knowif this is a spoiler. I mean,
if you've read anything about it,you kind of know that there is
basically no dialogue in this film.There's one or two lines, maybe eight
ten words total. Caitlin Deaver thelead in it. It's just reactions,

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reactions to the things that are goingon in her house. And it does
have that through line of trauma andguilt like a lot of movies. But
I really enjoyed how this was handledin this one. So a home invasion
movie of a different kind, prettycrazy in parts. We really enjoyed it.
And Brian Duffield is the guy thatwrote the Babysitter movies, so I

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mentioned that to Cleo as an incentiveto watch it, because we liked those
films. Another film that Cleo hadbeen bringing up a bunch like every once
in a while, and I couldtell this meant that she wanted to watch
it is Triangle with Melissa George andLiam Hemsworth, and I had watched it
a number of years ago and rememberedenjoying it. It's just that it's very

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similar to another movie called Time Crimes, not that that's a bad thing necessarily.
It's a time loop movie. Theyboth handle their time loops in a
very similar way, and there's evena want to say costume, but the
characters, the lead characters, andboth of those movies end up dressed up

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the same way. They're both reallyinteresting films to watch, and that time
loop stuff can get kind of crazyin your brain. But I enjoyed watching
this one again, nice, lowbudget, interesting, time loopy, sort
of depressing at the end when yourealize what's going on movie. The next

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four are movies that I actually watchedon my own. I rewatched The Exorcist
for the millionth time. Your Motheris So sucks but small. I think
it was close to the end ofSeptember, felt like Garinet for the October
mood. And I think because Iwas on Max watching that I started going

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through their suggestions and landed on YoungFrankenstein and just had to watch it yet
again. Wolf Ah Awsome, whyare you talking that way? I thought
you wanted to No, I don'twant to see yourself. I'm easy one

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of my favorites. So September isCleo's birthday month. We had a family
birthday party for her and then shedid a birthday with her friends. What
my wife did was rent out anairbnb here locally, have all the kids
over there that could stay overnight ifthey wanted, so I was left to

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my own devices. I finally wentback and watched Fear No Evil, which
I had been talking about for awhile now, and a few episodes back.
That was my movie wreck, eventhough I hadn't watched it, because
it's on Shutter and I think Ihad watched Evil Speak or something, and
the two go together in my head. It's such an interesting film. It

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slogs its way through the middle anddoesn't really stick the landing, but fascinating
independent eighties satanic panic film with allthe these undercurrents of homosexuality and this other
stuff. Great soundtrack, and itreminded me of a Talking Head song that

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I always forget to download on myphone. It comes up every once in
a while and I forget about itbecause it's not a track on any of
their albums. It was I don'tknow if it was released as a single
or what. Love Building on Fireas the song, and it's playing in
this movie and I'm like, oh, yes, one of my favorite Talking

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Head songs. I need to goand get that on my phone, and
I finally did, so thank youmovie for that. But there's more Talking
Heads there's a man, there's punkstuff on their new Wave one of the
best eighties horror movie soundtracks, andthe movie is very interesting as well,
which is ah And then because ofTwitter, I ended the night with a

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Category three Hong Kong film called TheSeventh Curse. I kept seeing it through
the week, and then somebody posteda thread of pictures from the movie and
I was like, yeah, Ineed to track this down. Stuff like
The Boxer Zomen and some of theother films that I've seen that are just
crazy. Although I don't think BoxerZoneman is a Hong Kong film, maybe

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it is. I looked it upknowing it wasn't going to be available anywhere,
and then lo and behold, it'son to be right now. So
I watched that. I couldn't tellyou what's going on in this movie,
but it's a whole lot of fun. Chow Yun Fat is in it in
a bit role. Crazy special effectsthat are super clunky and goofy, but

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they work because these guys knew howto edit movies. There's puppets and ooze
and blood and the curse that thisguy is going through. This blood curse
makes his leg parts of his legexplode at different times. It's just bizarre

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and Category three films and not somethingI know a lot about. But from
what I've read and researched just byseeing these movies pop up, is that
they're basically like n C seventeen.They're the highest rating that they give to
movies, so no one under eighteenis allowed to watch them. And I

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don't know. I don't know.If I saw an edited version, it
seemed like the time matched up withwhat's on IMDb. It didn't seem all
that bad to me, again desensitized. I mean, there was a nudity
and the gore is crazy, butit's kind of cartoony, so I don't
think it's one of the more outrageousCategory three films out there. A heck

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of a lot of fun, Agood way to end the night on my
own. When they got back homethe next day after the party, Cleo
had been asking to watch this moviefor a while and it's not streaming anywhere.
I'm a cheap skate, so I'mlike, Wow, how are we
going to watch this? I wasrecently reminded that I needed to renew my
library card, so I did that, and when I was at the library

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doing that. I thought, oh, I can get Happy Death Day here.
They didn't have it at the branchI was at, so I put
in a request to hold it andhave it sent to that branch picked it
up. We watched Happy Death Dayon the first and then watch the second
one again, like Becky and Ratha, Becky, I prefer the first one.

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It's more horror related anyway, andthe second one time Loop stuff,
well, Time Loop Alternate Universe andit gets really crazy. And I don't
think Khleio liked it as much either, because she just kept saying there's way
too much going on, and Ikind of agree. Still very good,
and the lead in both those it'sjust great. She should be more stuff.

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I don't know why she isn't.I think they're doing another Happy Death
Day and we'll see what happens inthat. Okay. As I mentioned,
I do have some news and notes, and I'll try to go through this
quickly so as not to bore peopletoo much. I am still going through
old episodes and remastering them, whichbasically means leveling them because the levels were

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all out of whack. But throughprobably the middle of twenty twenty even though
I was using Audacity by then,I still wasn't utilizing all the tools of
that or the leveling software that Iuse. Now. I think I'm getting
close to the end, though,so I have done a ton. Twenty

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nineteen had forty seven episodes. Ihave done all of those, and I've
done all of twenty eighteen, whichwas probably only not even twenty episodes because
it wasn't a full year. Iam into early twenty twenty now, and
once I get to when I startedusing Audacity and the other software and doing

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the clips better, I will stop. I'm getting there. I think if
you are subscribed to the show,those episodes redownload, but I believe that
they just download over the old one. But check your downloads maybe and make
sure there aren't duplicate episodes on there. Keep the new one because it's it
sounds better. It's not very technicallyhard to do this. Sometimes I am

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replacing clips as well, Like whenI threw a song on at the end,
the leveling software kind of messes themup, and if I have the
song, I'll readd it so thatit sounds better. Other than that,
I'm just letting the leveling software doits work and do its work that came
out at odd get everything up tothe same level, which has been really

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helpful. So I do have episodesplanned. I don't know that any of
them will come out in October.Parents with Chris dashe should be coming soon,
and then Chris, Mike and Iare going to be recording an episode
on foul Play and that is definitelyset for November. And then I have

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been tossing around a few ideas inmy head for films just solo spotlight things,
possibly on Poison for the Fairies andpossibly one on dir Fan and both
of those have come up because ofthe episodes that I'm fixing, and I
talk about those movies on there andthen I'm like, oh yeah, and

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I'm trying to catch some stuff.I would always say, oh I might
do this, I may do that, and never get to them. So
as I'm spot checking the episodes,I'm kind of listening for things that I
said that never happened that I couldstill go back and do. And those
are two films that I really enjoyand would be interesting to talk about that
may happen as well. Over onCambridge and with Sean, there is a

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new episode out and Ronnie and Ishould be recording in a couple of weeks
here for our November episode. Sothat's back on track. No more breaks,
no more special episodes about the plasticrock ball that everybody has heard so
much about. If you listen tothat show, please do. If you

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don't, we could use more listeners. And I think that pretty much does
it for me today. Stay safe, be smart, enjoy hopefully cooler weather
where you are. It's cooling downhere, but it's going to be back
in the nineties by the end ofthe week. Great, it's October.
It's spooky movie time. Watch abunch of horror movies, listen to horror

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podcasts, go trigger treating and getin that spooky mood. Thanks for listening,
and don't forget anything can happen whenyou wake up heavy. When love

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stands next to you. Love,I can't compel off. When it's not
long, it's not which is myways, which is a bully which is

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on fire fire my love? Doesthis take your love? I can't define
love. Well, it's not love. It's not love, which is my

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friends, which is a building whichis on stoop. Of course, school

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Ma say, did they say likethe one, They say like the fast.
So which is my name? Andwe the building which is on fire,

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the fire when my life. Thisto your life. Be fine love,

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which is which is a building,which is a ploy,