Body Melt (1993)

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sky Wheel Media. All Right, folks, I feel like it's
been quite a minute since we've all recorded together, so
I know it's uh, it's the end of spooky season
and we've had a lot going on that they won't

(03:19):
even begin to try to get to all of. But anyway,
we have a full house, a packed house here in studio,
which by studio I mean my basement, me and Kat's basement,
and of course my co host this evening are Kat,
Andrew and Matthew. Lady and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Hello, nobody's going to.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
That'll probably be actually that actually would be a good
hyretty good. It's up, guys, how's ever been dealing?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Man?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, living life, body moving, body moving, body body.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Moving, doing good, doing good. Just a couple of a
couple of.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Guys hanging out with our legs spread, being comfortable. It
is warm enough in November this as of this recording
to wear shorts as I did today, So yeah, it's
it's happening.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I do.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I'm always so, I always always like to wear shorts
as long as I possibly can.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'll wear him in December if I can. To be honest,
with you.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
But anyway, guys, so it's again, as I mentioned, it's
been a while since we've all recorded together. If I can,
this is gonna be amazing to see if we can
hold everyone's attention with this football game around for this podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Here tonight, money is on the line. I thought that
was Mark Andrews. Yes, because there's no content that anybody
likes more when they're listening to a horror podcasts about
people yelling about gambling in the background, of course, which
we'll try and bring to you today. Gambling. We're talking
about allan pose Ravens.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
That's correct, Yes, Stretch, stretch, reach, reach or never never never.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Shout out to our Raven episode that we did a
few summers ago. Essentially me just read the Raven different.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
It was me and Andrew just yelling at each other
and Edgar Allan Poe voice and then Kat just being
the Raven going.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
That was one of the first episodes of your show.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Somebody I want to be on this, like, IM going
to step in and stop.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
I want this is.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Really I wish I could be doing the Raven with
these guys are Yeah, it was fun.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
It was definitely fun. Anyway, guys, So uh, I know.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
We still have an episode that's coming out this week,
so we're still a week ahead, but October has coming past.
We are out of Spooky season. We did have quite
a couple of months, if I remember correctly.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Before we did our Phobia's draft episode last week, we
did kind of recap Spooky season and everything, so I.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Don't know that we necessarily need to do that here again.
Did everybody like Halloween?

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
It was fun. Yeah, that's what that matters. Yeah, the
actual Halloween date.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I feel like the actual Halloween itself is usually you know,
if you have kids, it's just trigger treating and doing
Halloween stuff with your kids, which, oh my god. Yeah,
and it was it was great. We did a lot
of stuff with Bridget sounds like you had a good
Halloween with Laila and Vera, Matthew.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah. I mean Vera was just kind of a baby. Yes, yeah,
she was a bath was a vampire.

Speaker 6 (06:40):
But it was cute because Laila is the smallest one,
so like whenever they'd run to the houses, it was
all of Leila in the back.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I'm tired, Yeah, she was. She got tired. And then
she had made an official announcement that we were all
done for everybody, so I fed, like.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Keep going aproach can Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Then I only really give a ship about So I've
eaten all the I saved her a couple because she
liked them too, but I took like the big ones.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
You don't like oreos oreos, you didn't get oreos. I
get oreos at the house because those are like kind
of like you ate all your dinner.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
There you go. I picked up some.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
Java chip ones and the toffee ones.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, I don't go crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Good good Oreo talk, really good Oreo talking better than
weather talks. That's it is better than weather talk for sure.
We actually did get a little weather talking because I'm
wearing shorts and I said it was warm.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
So that's more your late comfortable uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
More music before we get roll.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
I like to think we're like the always Patty's Pub
of the Horror podcast.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's a very good we don't we we don't. There's no,
there's no No, you're Charlie Day No, No, he's the
wild are missing. We're missing. We need actually Shore Dennis.
Oh yeah, I mean Mac. I feel like I could
be Mac. Also feel like Max.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
Also, what's that word? You are the bird. You are absolutely,
You're absolutely the bird. So I'm Charlie in the respect
that our relationship.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Is like, you're also you are you are most certainly
Frank Reynolds. You're a combination. You are the You're the
beds that Charlie and Frank sleep. Yes, only cat food
can that they sniffed?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, we definitely all have quality, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm Pepe. Sylvia s a whole box full of Pepe.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
I love that clip that I just sent to that
group while ago, because we're all.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
We're all giving you a hard time, and you're like,
do you guys even like me? It's just Max sitting down.
It's like you guys like me? Right? Just like you?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Right, you could be one of the coils that's fucked up.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
It might be the most hurtful thing you've ever said,
just hanging out in the bathroom to her. You all
call her. Welcome to Andrew. How was your Halloween watch?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I watched Halloween three nice, and then I watched something
else The Thing Beautiful, and then I watch.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Poulter Guys No Living Dead. Okay, yeah, I like, but
like I feel like that's like a Halloween movie for me.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Halloween three is oh the thing, not really, but it
was like, you know, I mean I always.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Like admit, like a black and white movie, and yeah
it's black and white. That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
I've been in Price or like a Universal Class movie. Yeah,
Psycho is a good one too, black and white Price.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Did you guys.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Watch like the newer episode of h shuttered that show
we were talking about.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Like Horrors Greatest?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, okay, because you know they have like the whole
thing about the Abominable Doctor vibes.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Right, oh oh yeah, absolutely, yes, there was the Abominable
Doctor Five's thing. Yes, Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Dude, that's I mean, that's a great show. And I mean,
who doesn't love the surprise? Everybody loves so anyway, well,
I'm glad everybody had a good spooky season, and you know,
I know Kat is pretty much officially on the way
to Christmas mode and just ready to skip over Thanksgiving.

Speaker 9 (10:34):
Thanksgiving, I put all my pumpkins out, and I took
all the spookies down.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes, I put Christmas decorations. Why would you put isn't
pumpkin like Halloween Halloween?

Speaker 7 (10:44):
But pumpkins.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Put like turkey skeleton zone.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Have turkey hat?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
What is a turkey hat? It's a hat that looks
like I was just gonna say, I don't need to
see it. I don't need, you know what.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I think the thing that makes Halloween special is that
it only lasts a couple of you.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Know, depending on how much you like Halloween.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
It can start in September and ends October thirty first,
And I think, uh, I'm I'm happy that we're moving
past it finally.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
At this point, I'm actually like, I'm like, I don't know,
it's it's months. Yeah, it's two months auguste. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
To be fair to the Christmas lovers out there, you two,
I mean, I don't know if I'm the same boat.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Do the same thing with Halloween.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Two three months And you're like, I can't believe people
will start celebrating Christmas in November.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
You've been celebrating fucking.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
We've started actually since hey we did halfween Halloween. I yea,
so people celebrating Halloween acause also I got lose people
also celebrate Christmas in July.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
To like, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's how nobody means nobody people do that. Nobody that
you know does that.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Maybe that's a real person does that. Maybe some fucking
RPC characters.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Any NPC is an unplayable character role playing character role
playing I just shifted. But there you go, beautiful, which
potentially more to come on Christmas horror theme stuff in
the coming weeks. Stay tuned there. It's all teasy with
right now. But yeah, it's been a long couple of months, guys.
We had a lot going on. We did a lot

(12:24):
of fun things. I'm excited that that. You know, we
have this season to look forward to again next year.
But it's over for now and we can still continue
to love and talk horror, you know, threat to me
like as we always do.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
That doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah watch, I'm aw I'm still gonna watch it. I
mean now it is just a mad dash to the
end of the year to watch as many movies.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, now it's now.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Now the pressure's on in preparation for Verus, Like thirty
one days of October, it's twenty eight days of December.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I need to watch a movie like New get it.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
Yeah, I get the new stuff cranked out. Yeah yeah, yep,
And it's gotta be.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
But also because there's rewatches that like I need to rewatch,
like Late Night with Devil, I need to rewatch all
these movies that are up there in my writings and
figure out where.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, just get them out of the way. True, true,
this should be a good episode of the year. There's
a lot of good stuff. And then we have that.
We're gonna do that draft on the new after the
new year, right, our top figure it out top Yeah,
the top ten, top ten of the first third or first.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I thought, I thought, wait, what do you mean, Oh, like,
I want to do like a top ten of the
first half of twenty twenty five. Oh right, okay, okay,
so I'm getting wait ahead, yeah, I mean yeah, no, no,
I like that.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
So drafting, yes, drafting the first of the twenty twelve.
Let's keep our guests up to date. Be what we're thinking,
brains or guests. Listen, they're no listeners, they're guests. They
are to me and my invitable human being. Look at
them all sitting around in my basement right now, staring
at us.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
We're inviting ourselves into their hurting. Now they're not doing that. Hope,
that'd be really weird. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
I don't think anybody. I think somebody should be Unfortunately,
just me. Well, my cat watching in the background, might
be again, cat's always watching. What are you doing? Not
not not cat to.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Be confused with the an home your cat? Seven?

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Seven?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yes, yes, seven is just like wow, fourth time today?

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Are you going to feed me water?

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Wednesday? After work?

Speaker 4 (14:42):
You see a little litter box filled with ship while
your hands filled with your own Seamen.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Don't know what's going on here. Jesus, we're back. We're back, baby,
we are back, we are back. That's why you don't
ask your cat what they think seven otis. I wouldn't
ask otis anything they can't.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's probably as good at a time as any to
transition into tonight's topic, speaking of bodies and melting and
body things happening to lots of different body parts.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Can I mention one thing first? Yes? What would you
like to mention? I watched The Substance? Oh you did? Oh? Yes, okay,
thoughts must watch and it's I'm only mentioning.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
It because it is very much a would make a
fantastic double feature with this movie. Yeah, because I've heard
it's well, it's like so very almost identical in terms
of like what this like body melt is because you're

(15:43):
you're taking this chemical and that it's affecting your body
and this, that and the other thing. Uh, fantastic movie. Okay,
all right, so I know that fantastic movie.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's certainly gotten gotten a beautiful certainly gotten a lot
of highly.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
She's a quail or squalls squall, squally.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
But no, dude, seriously, this is it's yeah, it's it's
hard to consider it under.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
At least two for me. Really, Okay, wow, that speaks volumes. Now.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
I know it's been getting a lot of good reviews,
a lot of hype. I feel like this is one
of those movies that has gotten a lot of publicity,
like as it's been coming up to release time. But
I didn't even know it was coming out this year.
I hadn't even heard of it until they started promoting
it on Fangoria. That was Fangoria sounded that little special
mini episode. Yeah, mini issue they did with all about substance,
and I've heard that probably.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
One of them.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
And you can tell me I guess or no. But
one of the best parts of the movie is Dennis
Quaid's role. Heard that he's really good now he is.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
He's disgusting, Yeah, but it's the The concept of the
movie is the most as much of it as as
body horror as it gets. The mental aspect of this
movie is bar none outrageously horrific. It's the desperation for

(17:08):
beauty and that's that's what makes it really really disturbing.
It's just that you pull zero stops to just be
important and beautiful, and that to me is like, oh
my God, like let it go, like it's just like you,
It's just it's horrific.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, but yeah, Dennis Quait is pretty disgusting in this.

Speaker 6 (17:29):
There's one scene in particular, I don't want to. I
really would love everyone to just go into this and
just watch it as it is very remind It reminds
me very much of Recquem for a Dream.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Interesting.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
A lot of the shots there's a lot of like
really quick cut editing like that, like their requem for
a Dream is and it's it's just super surreal.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
But it is.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
Easily one of the best body horror movies to come
out in that whole long fucking time. Dude, Like, uh
it is it is legit.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
So yeah, it's very good. Cool. Yeah, it's new, yep,
this year very new, and it's actually so it's a
free trial to movie.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Yeah, streaming movie has a lot of extremely interesting movies
in their catalog, a lot of foreign stuff, a lot
of not even just horror, but just like set up
your but just like if you're like a cinema person,
if you're like a Criterion collection kind of person, and
you like that kind of stuff, you like anything that's
kind of off the mainstream.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
If you get the seven day subscription to check this
movie out not free, utilize it?

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Well no, no, it's like fifteen bucks a month for movie. Yeah,
but it's like you can do the seven day free trial.
That's what I did, but it's like, utilize it to
fifteen bucks a month.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Would you replace any other of your streaming apps with that?
Because I got I recently downloaded Plex and that's all free.
Like it's like Plex is like like a paid one.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Fifteen a month. That's pretty yeah it is, but it's Netflix.
Would you get rid of Netflix for this?

Speaker 6 (19:03):
Probably not, because I like to watch like a handful
of shows on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Document Rewatching, The Trailer Boys, Seinfeld. I feel like Netflix
gets you, like for Seinfeld, Stranger Things, and I think
you should leave shows that they also watched. They also
have a really good catalog of just movies.

Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yeah, they have documentaries are good. That Red Sox documentary
was really good.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I still have to watch. I'm gonna watch that. I
heard it was great. The dude, I probably not. I
don't know, Like I'm just like I kind of just
what I do is I never heard of them. Every
time I get a new one, I just ask movies
I don't have, and then.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
My problem is though that I'll log it. I'll take
three three week trial and then I forget forever fifteen.
It's just when you have another other ones.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
You spend on a door dash on a Sunday.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Morn that's irrelevant, like when you think I already have Netflix,
Amazon Prime, Hulu like you.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
But for me, it's like Sarah split some of them
and then like we don't pay for a couple because
like we get a few.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Friends and they give us you know what I mean.
So speaking of this is again why Shutter continues to
be one of the best value six a month for
what Shuttering has to offer, is they're going to raise
that price for sure. I feel, well, they should. We should,
we should have a we're.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
The best type of customers talent.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
I thought you were going to say we Streaming just
put out a fantastic catalog of like deep cut Japanese horror,
and it's very good Japanese insane.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, I definitely have seen that. And I'll say the
same thing I said to you guys when you sent
that to us yesterday is after watching the Uzumaki animated show,
I'm kind of like all in on Japanese. Everyone's yeah,
I don't get that, which is why animation isn't that
good substance.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
By the way, So is directed by a woman named
Cora Lee Farjattargier.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
I don't know how you pronounce it cheese French. And
she also directed another a movie you can watch on
shutter called Revenge, which I guess is very very good. Yeah,
very gory rape revenge movie that came out a few
years back that did very well on Shutter. So sing
her last name sounds like something that comes out of
my bottle.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
All right, So at this point, why don't we take
quick little break for a word from our sponsors. We'll
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Speaker 10 (21:27):
It's official critics decision is his.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Spooky world is spook check you.

Speaker 10 (21:32):
Entered the New Black Hole?

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Or the new horror House of Wax this year.

Speaker 10 (21:37):
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on the twenty four hour Spooky World Live.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
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Speaker 10 (21:45):
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you'd phoned five O eight eight three eight oh two
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Speaker 11 (22:05):
The new Face of Evil is going to scary. To
damn Barrett's Haunted Mansion. Its chilling. Then be next door
to the Abington Airlos Barents Haunted Mansion, Eat, drink and
be scary. Go to bh mansion dot com.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
All right, we're back.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Thanks for sticking with us through our commercial break, which,
of course, if you've listened, if you if you ever
listened to that, and don't actually fast forward through it
every single time. We do have a little fake commercial
reel in there advertising the old school Spooky World and
our friends at Barrett Barrett's Haunted Mansion, which again we
did finally have a chance to do a couple of
weeks ago. Barretts Honed Mansion is always good and it
was great this year as well.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Listened to the.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Episode Cat and I did about that that haunted attraction.

Speaker 7 (22:54):
Because he's a loser.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
That's right, Andrew, Do you have anything you want to
say about Barrett's this year?

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Did you have a good time? I have disgusting scorpion.
We both have the scorpion Margerita. I'm sure you talked
about how that tastes like Dart. The scorpion tastes like
there at the Margerite. It was very nice the scorpion itself.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
The houses were very fun.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
I forgot how long of a wait it is when
you go this latest season. Yeah, almost makes it like
I have no interest in doing that again, Like I
have interested in going to it. It's great, but I
don't want to wait two hours. Yeah, I know it's fast,
Like that's a long time. I have no it was
a it was a very long WAITLI for that long.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's like.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
But I think we said on the episode like that
is the latest that we have gone in the season
in several years, like usually where openings.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
They were awesome, And I think that that does affect
how you experience.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
The longer you wait, the less fun day and they
still have like the TV that plays Oh yeah, they
do a great job keeping entertained in the line. Yeah
they have. They have a lot more. They have a
lot more this year. But anyway, all right, so we
are here tonight for an Andrew Pick and tonight's Andrew Pick.
Everybody's listening now, YEP is a movie.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Called Body Melt, And if you've never heard of Body Melt,
Body Melt is a Nights rise. Body Melt is a
nineteen ninety three Australian independent science fiction black comedy body
body horror film directed by Philip Brophy and written by
Brophy and Rod Bishop. Apparently, Brophy and Bishop are also

(24:23):
ex members of an art punk Australian group called Arrow Up.
I don't know if they're actually called Arrow Up, but
their name is a logo of an arrow.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Pointing up, so it's like that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
The artist formerly known as Prince or ms Boys gino
from deftone side project Crosses, which is just three cross
emojis kind of weird.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
But anyway.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
The pair also too the does a lot of cocaine.
The pair Brophy and Bishop, by the way, members of
that band also composed the film soundtrack, which kind of
makes sense coming from a punk band or an art
punk band, because I feel like you pointing at you
and Andrew Catherine, both you guys said that this kind

(25:06):
of this music does feel like a Danny Elfman soundtrack.
Oh it's out there, it's wild, And Danny Elfman does
come from a punk rock background, and he was in
a new wave band of the eighties.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Called Oingo Boingo. What did you think of the soundtrack,
because I feel like you love it. It was great,
It was awesome. It was one of probably one of
the best parts of the movie. I thought it was.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
It's so fucking bizarre, but it's so good. Yeah, I mean,
we're gonna get into it. But I mean I feel
like the this is not a movie that you watch
for the plot or the dialogue of the characters. This
is a display of practical effects, and the music is
very good, and it's it's amazing practical effects and it's
just kind of cool to see what they do. I
also feel like it's a little bit ahead of its
time in terms of satirizing the you know, super healthy

(25:46):
trend that we'll get into.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
All this is literally like if like they could have
made this movie today.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, was that trick or pharmaceutical companies in general.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, like, don't trust them. You could do this anywhere.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Essentially, it's about yuppies and the suburbs that just start
blindly taking drugs that are supposed to make them beautiful
and more healthy and younger.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Hot and sweet and like they you think about it?

Speaker 1 (26:07):
What So I'm guilty of this also, So people just
scroll on TikTok no no, no, no no. So like so
I have seen on TikTok, right, several ads for like
Asa Ganda gummies. Right, that's supposed to be a thing
that like lowers your cortisol levels. I don't know if
you're supposed to see evens you out or whatever, but
I know.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
It's name.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yes, I'm thinking of you, thinking of yes, Yeah, it's
a different thing. Is a gummy you could take?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
And they advertise the funk out of it on TikTok
And I was like, oh, this sounds like something that
could really help me. So I ordered some of the
gummies and I bought some and they don't do fucking ship.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
They also taking gummies from there. They're reputable gummies that
they are.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
They sell them at targ of course, so you know what,
target donuts.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
It speaks to the level of blindness that people will
just just their own they'll just take things that people
tell them to take just because people say you should
take this, It'll make you beautiful and skinny and happier.
And I'm like, okay, cool, I could be more beautiful
and more skinny and happier. Cool, let's do it. But
you know what, I don't take any of this. I

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take things that they're like, oh, a burger from McDonald.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
And I have diarrhea. So I don't know. I don't
know if I agree with these people. We're we're on
a We're on a fucking ripper tonight, I don't.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
So.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
By the way, so body Milt, we can get more
into the.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
It does start Gerard Kennedy as Detective Samuel Phillips, Andrew
Dado as John O, Ian Smith as doctor Carrera, and
Vincent gil not that Vince Gill from Crue. He was
also night Rider and mad Backs as put There's a
character named in this movie. A lot of Australian stuff
is a very Australian movie.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
By the way, yes, they do throw rocks at kangaroos,
so yes, this is in Australia, so and the follow
is basically the residence of Pebble's Court in the suburb
of Holmesville, which is the suburb of Melbourne, Australia. UH.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
The unknowing test subjects for a new variety of dietary
supplement pills that arrive for free in their mailboxes. The
pills are designed to produce the ultimate healthy human, but
have unexpected side effects, including hallucinations and mutations and holy shit,
do they ever this movie? By the way, right now
you can watch in a couple of different places. If

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you have a Shutter subscription, which we talked about earlier.
Shutters great. You can watch it on Shutter ad free.
It's also available to stream on two B right now
if you like ads every thirty five seconds, so this's
not that not bad.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's every two and a half three minutes. No, it's
every ey it's like. But once you're saying of commercials, I'm.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
Not I'm not to be like, I can go take
a piss, be free.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
I can't complain. I really can't complain that they did
cut their horror s election most and half.

Speaker 9 (29:11):
Would you get after would you get a to be
would you get a Halloween like a.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Halloween is growing up?

Speaker 9 (29:24):
Do you want or the mom with the crazy shirt
that's she's the best this movie.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
By the way, a zero percent critics score on Rotten
Tomatoes because there's no there's no reviews reviews. Actually zero
percent doesn't necessarily make the news no interesting as it
also could.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
So I did see that there are four logged critic
reviews or not logged, but four critics that have reviewed
it for Rotten Tomatoes, but it has no score a zero.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I'm simply stating a fact, zero percent. That's not a fact.
That's big news. Okay, Andrew, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Well do you want to when you clarified it, you
stop chopping on the table that, uh, there weren't actually
any reviews.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
I'll kill you stop so fake news.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Also thirty one percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which
they're now calling the popcorn o meato oh meter score,
which to which I say, why why would you do.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
So?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
The audience there, they're no longer calling it the audience score.
So they have the critic, the critics score, and the
audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. They're now no longer calling
the audience score. An audience score, they're calling it the
popcorn oh meter score.

Speaker 7 (30:37):
Se So then does that say how much I need
for the movie?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
No, it means it is basically just fan reviews. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
So this had an estimated budget by the way of
one point six million dollars, which seems really high to me,
a very high when you look at.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
The practical effect. Yeah, the effects, and they had a
couple of big name.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Actors scoring nineteen nineteen ninety two was made, it was
released in nineteen ninety They did.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Have to pay that with the talk truck. True also,
according to according to IMDb, grossed one and fourteen dollars.
Hold on at this doesn't make. That doesn't make.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
That doesn't make.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
It's never seemed like they're backwards. Listen, guys, I'm merely
reporting what research has shown me on the internet.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Okay, yell at me all you want. Probably not only yeah,
probably not only in Australia. And it was very released,
so a movie ticket probably costs twelve cents. Yeah, so yeah,
that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I don't know what they're current. Yeah, so obviously I think, right, bangaroo,
I think I don't. I don't fucking right. The exact
same thing, which is weird. Guys.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
This is the first Australian horror movie we've covered, I believe,
first oz Ploitation, Lake Mango, Lake Mungo. Actually we did
do an episode on Wait did we do an episode
on like we did? Okay, so yep, actually our second
Australian film. And I think there's something else that you
can think of. And you did mention to me Andrew
that there is so basically like Australian horror is called

(32:13):
oz exploitation, which I think that was a nice little
fun fact that you brought. I think it is short
for ozzy ass is.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
What I'm assuming. Yeah, well no, he's English, he's.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
British, Australian, Australian like Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
That's that's like, no, but it's it's spelled oz is
a A S S. I I know how it's spelled. Yes,
I'm saying it's spelled oz ploitation. Oh but it probably
stands for this is.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Zim.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
You know.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
Those commercials are so stupid.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
They certainly are.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
They're just like dancing around and like they're.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Because they're not fat anymore? Is this drug? By the way?
South Park great satire.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I mean, I'm admittedly frustrated by the lack of output
from the South Park guys in recent years, but like
when they have released stuff, it's been fucking great.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
So anyway, that's a really good one.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Anyway, So this wasn't Andrew pick tonight and a movie
that Andrew has been trying to get us to talk
about for a few weeks, and I'm happy that we'll
finally get to talk about it because I know this
is if I had to, like, if this movie had
like dream sequences in it, which actually kind of does
because there's some hallucinations, I would say this would be
like the perfect Andrew movie with like splattering exploding body

(33:43):
parts and just craziness and it's it's fucking it's totally
and everything.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
You would want. Yeah, I don't know what.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I don't like this movie.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Lots of lots of tentacles and exploding pen this is
bread family and kangaroo deaths and sentient placentas and sentient ucas,
pregnant ladies exploding.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Say this would be like a semblance of movies. Yeah,
this might be the most aptly titled movie we've ever
covered on our podcast before.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Texas or like Hereditary or anything like that. But I
mean body melted. Literally, that is what you're getting. For
How long does this movie go on. It's at least
an hour and hour, hour twenty minutes, so it's like
it's an hour and twenty minutes of body smelting.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Bot his melting, body melting, body melting. Yeah, that was horrendous.
I'm really sorry. I mean, that's I mean, I did that.
I coody melted body melt in boo boo. This man
booms a man, he's a dirt bitch. Oh god. All right.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
So Andrew, I know, like I said, you've been kind
of lobbying hard for this movie for a couple of weeks,
so I guess, uh, talk to us about Body Melt
why you picked it? And was this Did this kind
of come on your radar because it was on shutter
or had you seen it before?

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Oh no, this is one hundred percent was on shutter
and on shutter for some reason. It's like twenty nineteen
for the year. And I'm like that, yeah, right, they
do that sometimes do that, and I'm like I'm looking
at it. I'm like, this can't be I'm not sure
if there's some sort of re release or something like
that where they definitely.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
It came from nineteen ninety three. This is everything I
look This is to me like like, that's everything that
I looked for. It just like a It's just it's
got everything you want. It's just cool, calm, collected Missus
Andrews and out of control. Out of control. This movie

(35:45):
is terribly acted. Dialogue. I don't even know if that
exists minuscula.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
But you start off with the movie where this guy
is racing down the street in the car because he
was taking drugs, and you don't know what You actually
don't really know what the fuck's going on at this
point because throughout this entire movie you don't really get
injected with He gets injected with drugs. Lady that he's
trying to have sex with, this is hot, and then
you're like this is weird. And then he's just guzzling

(36:15):
detergent in a gas station and this tellers like this
these fucking just always showing up.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
And doing this.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
And then the guy he just trashes into a fucking
mailbox and tentacles are bursting out of his neck and
I'm like, what the fuck am I watching? And nobody
seems to care and then it takes So what made
this movie so good to me is that we have
this good starting point and then all of a sudden,
it's just these two fucking dorks on a road trip

(36:48):
going away, and they just turn it. It just turns
into this other that part of the movie really has
nothing to do with anything. So other than the fact
that that guy is a doctor, I think that you
to work for the pharmaceutical, right, is that?

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I guess? So I think that's what is I think.
So it's put that whole side plot. It's like a girl.
It's like a big part of it is going on.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
So I think the reason for that was when I
was researching this movie, and there's not a whole lot
of behind the scenes stuff out there about this movie,
which is not surprising to me. This was originally intended
to be an anthology movie, so a lot of those
stories were supposed to be almost ont of like a
VHS movie where things are there's over marching story and
then yeah, so basically it's all one movie now, But

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it was supposed to be like one plot linking everything
together in the same town, but a bunch of stories
with this drug affecting multiple people, which is still essentially.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Can I be Can I be honest? Though?

Speaker 4 (37:47):
I like that, but I'd be honest though, like, are
you as interested in this movie having just watched it
without that weird fucking subplot that just happened, see, because
that gives like a different level of just one of
my watch Like it helps I think to me.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
See, I don't this movie is kind of a nothing
burger and like you know what I mean, there's no
there's no like it's the special effects. Yeah, other than that,
the like and there's the plot. The plots fine, like
the it's for the most part, like the the idea
that brings everything together works, It's fine. The plot's ridiculous,

(38:23):
like that's part of the movie is ridiculous. But the
special effects are fucking pretty rad for a.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Nineties movie, especially like you're getting what you're going in
to get, and that's kind of like what the whole
purpose of it is. It's like you're like, I just
want to watch people because if you don't get that part,
the movie sucks, you know what.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
This reminded me of a lot speaking of other Australian movies,
and it did come out in nineteen ninety three in
Australia was Brain Dead, that Peter Jackson movie are Dead
Alive and Know What's Gone by a couple of different names,
but like.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
That that's the type of gory just kind of like chaotic,
like just like ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah, like the top, like Dead Alive has that scene
where they're like eating at the table when somebody's nose
falls off, falls off and like the soup and ship
just fucking gross and pops of oil into someone else. God, Yeah,
this is very similar. Like it's obviously very It's almost
like you took like a not what what was the
what was the toy from the nineties in America? It

(39:22):
was like a monster face thing where you could like
put on like weird things that oil. It's like that,
but you know amped up, Yeah, pretty much. It's just
it's just gross to be gross. Yeah, And even that
whole like that whole part is gross.

Speaker 6 (39:36):
Like it's just like you're like this inbred family and
it's just like even one of the guys goes and
like tries to shack up with one of the ladies
in a shed and you're like Jesus Christ, like, oh
he does like and then you're like this lady looks horrible,
Like you're like what are you even thinking and doing?

Speaker 2 (39:55):
And like you're just like everyone in it is just
so depraved and ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
Yeah, it's like the whole thing is just so fucked
up and like it's just it's it's such an over
the top movie and like it's like you you look
at other like body there's like this other subgenre of
body horror, and you get to body melt where you
have literally body melt, you have street trash, you have
this stuff like it's all these movies where like it's

(40:22):
just people like completely falling apart, like melting, Like street
trash is the same way.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
I feel like you could even throw like some trauma
stuff in here too, like you could talk to you
look at like street trash. It's like sometimes have you
ever seen it? Toxic Avenger?

Speaker 10 (40:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (40:39):
No, street trash.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
So it's like about this, like they find this old
case of alcohol that all these homeless people get a
hold of and kind of like this skid row area
of this random town I want. I don't know exactly
where it is on the top I had it might
be like a part of New York I'm not sure,
but they drink it and they just literally fucking melt

(41:01):
and fall apart. There's this whole like subplot in the
middle of it of these like gang people and there's
like this whole like rape thing going on, and then.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
It's just like what the fuck is going on? And
that it's the same thing that happens in Body Melt.
You're like, what is this guy work for that company?

Speaker 5 (41:24):
Right?

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Yea, so maybe they're offspring of that creation that they
exactly but it's funny movies that Whipped Rocks and Kangaroos.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
These movies just have this weird like aspect that like
this Street Trash came out before Body Melt. I can't
help but think that Body Melt borrowed something from Street Trash.
But like, yeah, it's just like this whole weird aspect
of like this just disgusting, depraved, like just like fucking
blob of a plot.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Like they're like, do you.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Think that perhaps it's just a plot that was written
by people that were like I got an idea. I
think they wrote sentence I'm just gonna write this movie
this we have. These guys are doing great things with
their practical effects. Yeah, here's the plot. This guy just
came out of the woods and start eating a baby,
and you're like, the fuck is going on? It makes

(42:14):
it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
That part of the movie has literally nothing to do,
but it actually so much. That's so much the movie because.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
You go the fuck yeah, and then you get into
like it, and then it kind of like comes back around. Yeah,
it actually gets the government thing and you're like, Okay,
this is like an actual like movie again and then
like it. But then again you bring in that big
bodybuilder who's got the voice beefcake. Yeah, and the explodes
and like you're like, why does that that's happen? Like

(42:43):
why does not the same thing happen everybody? Why does
this lady's tongue explode out of her head? That's one
of the best scenes. So all right, before we get
too far ahead of ourselves here, I just want to
say it real quick.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
So that toy I was talking about from the nineties
was actually called monster Face, created by Rhode Island Zone
has Bro toy company, designed to be a spin off
of Mister Potato Head, and it was just called monster Face. Yep,
came with holes in a skull like head, and several
accessories such as bugs, fangs, noses, and blisters could be

(43:14):
attached to create a new monster based in alternately.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Like all about like boogers and dude this these like
creepy crawlers and like Nickelodeon's Time Kids. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Absolutely, yeah, I do remember that absolutely used to be commercial. Dude,
google google a commercial for that on YouTube or watch
on YouTube.

Speaker 7 (43:33):
I definitely remember that.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Anyway, So, Cat, this was your first time clearly seeing
body melts, and I feel like you definitely were like what.

Speaker 7 (43:45):
The I turned it on and I was like, what
is going on?

Speaker 9 (43:49):
Like I don't even understand, And Mike came home and
I was like and then like, okay, I don't really
know what's going on. It's like you don't have to
know what's going on. There's nothing, there's really nothing.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
So I'm just like anyone that knows me knows I'm
super chatty all the time.

Speaker 7 (44:09):
Yes, yes, so yeah, I don't really I still don't
really understand what I watched, Like, I.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Mean, I do think that kind of like just the
gist that there's this drug that's did you enjoy thing?
And that that's it.

Speaker 7 (44:23):
I mean I think I'd like to watch it again,
like not so distracted.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Oh well, there's no reason for that movie. It was
it was good, Okay, I wouldn't say it's good, it's enjoyable.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
Enjoyable. I mean I enjoy watching the movie.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
One it is.

Speaker 7 (44:45):
Yeah, it's goofy, its weird.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah, you have to certainly be a type of mood
to watch this movie. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
You know, it's not like you can it's sound like
you can like be like I'm sick of watching a
couple of episodes of Love is Blind and I'm gonna
pop on body Melted or like myself thing that, Like
I'm not gonna go out of my way.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
To be like ooh, like you know what I haven't
watched in a while. It is like toxic event, No, you.

Speaker 7 (45:06):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
Like it's like even the stuff I'm like, I gotta
be in the mood to like really watch, but the
stuff I watched twice a year.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, but that's of all of them, that's the best
made movie. Like you that's still a It's just.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
It's such a simple like it's a movie like that's
I respect movies for being simple and in order to
think about it, and I know what I'm going into.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
But that has like a really well structured plot like
it does it's very good straight trash, and this are
not well structured. It's just like no, it's just like
kind of like a Luccio Fulci film where you're just
like getting kind of like gore effects after gore effect
and you're like.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
What's what's what's the plot of that? What's happening?

Speaker 1 (45:44):
I think it's also something to be said too, because
like I mean, listen, I'm not going to sit here
and pretend that we're like, you know, uber creative, like
you know, content creators or anything like that. But we
do a podcast every week and it's work that goes
into that. So I can only imagine the type of
work that goes into like a gonzo style movie making
process like this where they're doing all the effects themselves
and apparently somebody gave them one point million dollars Australian

(46:10):
nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
That seems nineteen dollars, Like I don't know, I mean,
I can I can double check that. Yeah, that's I'm
curious to see what they're I thought I thought their
budget is seven Let me let me research that a
little bit for away, but like it's just that That's
the one thing for me is like the movie. The
effects are fantastic, and it is like kind of like
a renowned movie in terms of like, oh, you want

(46:34):
to watch.

Speaker 6 (46:34):
Something crazy, like it's this is what comes up. It's
like this like and like I said, street trash and
it's just you have all these kind of crazy, over
the top movies and but that's all you kind of
really get out of it. There's no subs, there's no substance.
But when you watch a movie like this, this is
just the sheer. Just this is you just want to

(46:55):
watch something. This is my favorite type of form. It's
just enjoy I call this enjoyment herd. Yeah, it's just
you're gonna have maytime. Man, this is what her started
off me. It's just just kind of like ridiculous, Like
there's nothing to this. This isn't You're not gonna be
like wow, that was really fucking brains. Yeah, citizens that

(47:18):
I had snots coming out of his face.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Yeah, it was just goolly.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
And then some woman that this teenager says, this was
mashing his nuts with the pole.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
What the fuck am I watching? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:30):
So by the way I found it, So this is
directly so. The director of the movie is named Philip Brophy.
This is on his website Philip Brophy dot com. Background
on Body Melt. Body Melt is a one point sixty
five million dollar feature shot on Super sixteen film with
a thirty five millimeters blow up and Dolby surround audio.
Funded by the Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria, The

(47:52):
film was shot late ninety two, with post production completed
by mid nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
It's got like skin himax bots.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
Yeah, you know what I mean, Like it looks like
it's like something you could only watch like like a
buzzy channel.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Like the practical effects are wild, and there's a lot
of car accidents and there's like there's a lot going
on with this.

Speaker 7 (48:13):
They don't even try to make it look real.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
They stumping into stuff.

Speaker 9 (48:17):
Yeah, Like they don't try to be like, oh, let's
try and make this look as real as we can,
just like swollen tongue that she's like that scene.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
They do nail it.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
The thing that's funny about all the like ridiculous like
effects is that all the actors during it, they they
go they go for even from the tongue is coming
out like you're like, this lady is something's had, like
she's choking.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
That part was awesome. But the tongue weightlifter when his
explodes and like it's it's funny. He like watches something
for like ten seconds and he's.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Like even the scene where the guy goes when the
guy goes into the gas station and starts chugging, yeah,
the desertion, it looks like he's literally chug chugging the church.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
So I was telling you this before. I was both
you guys this before.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
There's a YouTube video out there kind of explaining the
plot of this, and it's like an eighteen minute video
and there is one I think they go a little
bit too crazy because again this was made for this
made in Australia in nineteen ninty three. But they were
saying so like, one of the many reasons that the
tide pod challenge is deadly for people is that tide
pods and the detergent within tide pods are poisonous, poisonous

(49:29):
and they break down your cellular matter if you consume them.
And this guy was saying, well, this guy's chugging laundry detergent.
Maybe he's trying to kill the cells of the tentacles
that are coming up through his throat.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
It is wild that he did decide to choose Deger,
But also does that surprise you?

Speaker 6 (49:49):
I think I don't know if he's in like a
drug mania.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yeah, that's all I would say. It's the most like
And he drives into a house and then tentacles start
shooting out of his neck.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
By the way, gentlemen, as a parasitical as as two
avid physical media collectors and champions. On Philip Brophy's website,
which is again Philip Brophy Phillip with one L Philip
Brophy dot com, you can buy a.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Signed body Melt blu ray by him.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
For thirty a U D. Which I'm assuming means Australian dollars.
So I don't know what that equates.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
To send me that link. I'll send it to you
right now. Yeah, what can you look up the transfer
of what aud is.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
You can have him sign a post three dollars. You
can have him sign a body melt poster for eighty
Australian dollars.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
I know what this goes.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
I'll take all of it and he will sign, Oh,
this is actually the coolest thing for me. He'll sign
a body melt pill container from the movie, which contains
forty five tablets for twenty five Australian dollars.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
I want all of this, all right, so I want
to find out you have to send me this.

Speaker 7 (50:52):
One Australian dollar equals sixty.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Okay, Oh so it's actually okay, give me all.

Speaker 7 (51:01):
That's not ninety sure this is bill today right now,
you can find it.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, back, this is a nice dude. Let's no one
was worried about that. That's like sixty seven everything.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
To eighty Australian dollars in American dollars like fifty that's
to buy a sign a poster.

Speaker 7 (51:20):
In nineteen ninety eight it was sixty two cents.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
We're not asking that question. Well, give me the budget
of the film one point sixty five bill.

Speaker 7 (51:28):
We don't know how much that's.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Oh so we're doing that's in there Aussie money.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
That's Australian money because it was film was funded, as
they said, by the Australian Film Commission and Film And
how much.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Was it Ausie dollar worth back then? Is that offensive?

Speaker 5 (51:40):
State?

Speaker 6 (51:41):
So the movie was actually made for one million, one
hundred five hundred US dollars, but still fill a lot
of it.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
A million bucks, big amount, yeah, big time, big time,
big boys.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
So yeah, I'll send you guys this like like if
you got if you guys want a signed body milk
and body melt pill container.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
But I want all, I want all all, So I
just go to his website. Yeah, Philip Rophy dot com.
Will that guy has his own website? Blip we do? Yes, yeah,
well not yet right, Yeah, you can buy Anye with
Andrew and get drunk far and then hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Fifty dollars streaming like I got, I got, I got
two big doubles with big Back sauce.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Yeah, seventy dollars. Still no Chicken Big Mac for you, Andrew.
You haven't. You haven't taken. I'm not, I'm not.

Speaker 10 (52:37):
I don't want.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
I don't want to below you. That sounds disgusting, you do.
The Chicken Big Mac is officially below Andrew? Did you
try isn't that below you? Yes? I don't need a
lot of fast food.

Speaker 7 (52:51):
I would I would definitely try that.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Below me.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
But time you swaying in his chair being like you
fucking better than everything one of your charles, I can
see the doors. Actual. Of course, what do you think
this is if you're not eating food? I mean, of
course you cook something. It's a double chok chocolate cool.

(53:19):
It's boring cooking for yourself?

Speaker 7 (53:21):
No it isn't you have seven cook for seven, make.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Some BEAUTI seven, make seven some some some organic cat food.
There you go.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
All right, guys, you want to talk about some you
want to talk about some other nineteen ninety three hard movies?

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (53:36):
Actually, and because I'm curious because I know that of
Darkness just released their nineteen ninety or nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
I want it's fifteen hours fucking nuts. It's knocking futs,
absolutely insane. So ninety three, by the way, I was
very surprised. This is the I guess this is now
the fourth movie we've covered from nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Oh Thinner, Nope, we haven't done thinner that. Let's see
we have we have in ninety three.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
We have a we have a genthology pick, we have
a cat pick, and then are Saint Patrick's Day Special.
Those three movies Focus Pocus that was the cat pick.
We did Docuso podcast. Uh a janthology pick, oh, body bags,
that's correct, And for number three are Saint Patrick's Day
Special Tremors Nope, Leprechaun, I guess debt of one, Jennifer Aniston.

(54:35):
That was a trivia question at second leprechron I think
we only talked about Leprechaun for maybe five minutes and
then just got drunken.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Yeah, that's why I celebrated. Yeah, celebrated.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
That's why I didn't title the episode Leprechaun. I titled
it the America's Hometown Horror Podcast, Saint Patrick's Day Special.

Speaker 7 (54:54):
Yes, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Yeah, that's what I rolled with.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Yeah, So this is our fourth movie from ninety three,
which I'm price other nineteen ninety three horror movies, including
Out Again Horror Jason Here, big year for film in
general in ninety three. First one Adam's Family Values.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Movie.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Yeah, good Gateway horror movie, right, Matt Amityville A New Generation.
I'm not sure which Amityville number that is. That's a
that's War four, Okay, at least maybe nine. I'm gonna
hold you to amity two Ville two.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
So have you seen next? For sure? You've seen all
of them? There's so dude, there's so many. I was
wondering because I've seen I've seen the first three. It
would be interesting not including like the remain No, dude,
there's literally watched the cars, like sixty of them. You'd
be like an expert. There's a lot like it was
a new when that came out of this year. I'm
an expert on these.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
We already talked about Also in ninety three, we talked
about body Bags really quickly, but go back and listen
to our anthology episode on body Bags.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
That was a fun movie with John Carpenter and a
bunch of other cool people in it.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
We also talked about brain Dead also known as Dead Alive,
which was the directorial debut of one Pete Jackson before
we Crazy movie very similar to this that would also
make a very.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Good double feature with this movie Body Belt.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Speaking of directorial debuts, we got two more in nineteen three,
the directorial debut of one Trey Parker from South Park
Cannibal the Musical, which is a horror comedy music. And
we also got a movie called Cronos, which is the
directorial debut of Guillermo del Toro in nineteen three. I
have not seen either of those films. Coronus is good. Okay,

(56:35):
can't speak to it. Honestly, I say this every time
we do it. I feel like every fucking time we do.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
A podcast in we cover years, there's always a Children
of the Corn movie and of course this is no
doubt in here as well, Children of the Corn two
with the Final Sacrifice. This is also a trivia hint
it would not be the final sacrifice. This is my
bonus question.

Speaker 6 (56:56):
When we did the simples around, I was like, what
you had to figure out what what number? Movie that
you were like, this is an easy cased on the subtitle.
And I was like, told another coin the sacrifice and
everyone was.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Like six eight nine or the Final Sacrifice. I was like, no, two, sope,
write any number.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Andrew also in nineteen ninety three The Dark Half, a
Stephen King adaptation. Yep, that's the one with Timothy Hutt. Correct,
Sure is sure?

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Is that's?

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Is?

Speaker 4 (57:29):
That is that?

Speaker 2 (57:29):
That's that's a top yep, it is Georgie Ramar. That's
top three. Stephen King. That's a really good one for me,
for me, for me, for you, for you, for you.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
If we're doing Stephen King adaptations, it's Dark Half. We
did do it exact Dinner is two one is the Miss,
The Miss is Yeah. I just wanted to make sure
we all know how good that is.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
I forgot.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
This movie came out in nineteen eighty three, speaking the
next one, by the way on the list, and this
might be one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
Still and this is why alien horror is so scary
to me. Still Fire in the Sky, This movie, Oh
my God's true story allegedly, And I've listened to podcasts
with the guy that supposedly this story happened to and

(58:19):
it's very interesting because he might be acting it certainly
seems like he does not like to talk about it,
and it still bothers him to this day, even though
he does a lot of press for it and does.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Who is the guy that wrote a book after he
was abducted by aliens? This guy, No, there's another guy.
There's another guy that I'll find it. I don't know
if there was another guy that like the main one,
like the big guy. If we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
We're talking about arguably the most famous. He wasn't abducted,
but Bob Blazaar was the guy that worked at Area
fifty one.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
So Fire in the Sky based on the experience of
a guy named Travis Walton and his book with the
Walton Experience, which subscribed describes an extraterrestrial abduction.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Yeah, this guy Travis Walton, by the way, Yeah, he's
still out there, still kicking, still doing it. Communion Whitley
Schreiber's I don't know if I've heard of that. That's
like the biggest from the eighties. Like he wrote a
book about his abduction. There's movies based off of it.
It's Communion, that's yep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
But this that that story, the actual story that Fire
and Skuy is based on, Like there is an entire
crew of logging workers that saw this guy allegedly get abducted.
He was gone for weeks and then he was just
found again and he described all this horrific shit that
happened to me. So yeah, I mean, say what you
will if you believe it or don't. But you know, hey,
it's still a scary movie regardless. Hocus Pocus We've already

(59:47):
talked about enough and go back and listen to our
hocus Pocus episode, because we gave Kat over an hour
to talk about that movie with us. It sure is
definitely I I make fun of an I kid, but
hocus Pocus is clearly a how aween stay for.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
A lot of people.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
For again, good Gateway her right up there, like you know,
in the same category as Adam Stanley values, which already
mentioned like Gateway horror for a huge generation of people
that now love probably crazy hardcore horror.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Matthew Jason goes to Hell the Final Friday and if
I believe it is not in fact of the Final
Friday or is it? I know because there's next. But
I love this movie.

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
A lot of people hate it that are Friday thirteen fans,
but this is a guilty pleasure for me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
It's just it's it's different, and it's it's gory as hell. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
This is when they switch from Paramount to New New
Line Cinema. Yep, and it just it really took it
to a new level. That was the first New Line
Freddy movie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Yeah, Jason movie. Sorry, excuse me, jesus.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Wow, that's I don't know why I always thought I've
only seen I think the first one everly, Wow, I
have noticed that. But that's the problem. Once I get
like set in my head, so like as we've all
spoken of. You'd like I was like a late horror fan. Yeah,
so these eighties like these, like all these, like all helloween,
these ones, I didn't really give them a chance, like

(01:01:02):
the first, like four, Like you, I've seen the first one.
The first one is good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
You'd like two three and get a little We did
a podcast the first. I also don't like watching.

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
No, just like two three, Oh, dude, two is two
and four are arguably better than the first one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
That makes sense. Yeah, Okay, I think I have to
check those because they probably would.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Like guys, biggest movie arguably of the year in ninety three,
biggest movie at the box office in ninety three for sure,
and while not necessarily outright in a horror movie, I
think it's probably a huge movie that had an influence
on all of our lives.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Jurassic Park. I think.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
I would argue that there are probably three, four, maybe
five scenes in Jurassic Park that are about as horror
as it gets.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Dude, the guy getting eaten on the toilet, well, the
whole t Rex escape scene, Newman getting it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
There's a great edit on YouTube where it's that whole
scene and it like attacks Newman and then it shows
the jeep like rocking back and forth, and then it's like, but.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Bee be beat. It's like executive producer Larry David, like,
I love that dude.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
The Raptors in the kitchen with the kids, the Raptors
in any scene, in any scene really, but when when
Ellie goes into the shed and Samuel Jackson's arm falls
over and it's capitated and capitated.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
Yeah, Like I remember seeing that movie in theaters with
I didn't have contacts or glasses at the point.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
My parents didn't know I was blind because that happened
to me too. They were stupid. Yeah, maybe everyone you
shouldn't see that. I'm like, well, my fucking retarded parents
didn't know I was blind, so fuck you.

Speaker 9 (01:02:44):
I didn't know until I was in second grade and
I feel nine tests and I had just seen The Nutcracker,
and I was like, did you see any of that was?

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
I didn't know.

Speaker 7 (01:02:49):
I couldn't see thought was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Something. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
My mom was like, you cried at lion King. I
was like, yeah, I couldn't see. I was in the back,
and I know everyone was like this is great, and
I was like, what's going on? And then like I
was like what are those this guys? I thought it
was like, all those are stars, those are the lights
in the Oh fuck.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
I was like, thanks for ruining my life. My dad.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
My dad took me to see Jurassic Park opening weekend.
How old were you in nineteen ninety four, I was
like eight. I was watching I was watching thirteen movies.
I was watching Draft Spark when I was like, probably
were awesome. Eight Yeah, Men in Black and Draft Park Austin.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Towers came out. I feel like titan it was ninety seven.
I think I thought it was ninety seven.

Speaker 7 (01:03:33):
Remember, I thought the Jurassic Park was in like the
next day.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Or over it was so.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
The Mummy was ninety They definitely weren't they. So Titanic
and Draft Park were definitely not in theaters, not even close. No,
Titnick Mummy was ninety. Titnic was ninety seven, Mommy was
ninety nine, Titanic nineteen ninety sable Anyway, Jurassic Park obviously
great movie. You can argue it's horror, you can argue

(01:03:58):
it's not horror, But I would say probably impacted a
lot of people that loved horror that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Grew up in the nineties or just like when the
water is just like like, that's like one of your
top five.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Favorite movies of all time. Absolutely something with Jaws. Dude,
the opening scene with the raptor and the crate with
the guy getting pulled.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
Like if there's talking, like if you really heard the movie,
Like if we had a draft, it was like, what
five movies would you watch all the time?

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Draft parks up there, Jaws is up there, Jaws is
certainly up there at Jurassic Park there, it'd probably be.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
A lot of Steven Spielberg movies. So that's a draft.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Back to the Future really good one too, Amistad. No, anyway,
let's see Jurassa Park. We talked about Drafsta Park. We
already talked about Lepperchoon. We had a whole episode on Leperkom.
We talked about it for about ten minutes. Guys ever
seen Mattine Joe Dante movie about the making of fifty
sci fi horror movie starring John Goodman.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Very good movie. Check it out, really really cool. I
like that movie a lot. Never all right, I'll give
you more details no later.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
We also got in nineteen ninety three a movie called Chronomicon,
which is an HP Lovecraft movie starring Jeffrey Combs from
re Animator, and it was also directed by Brian Usna
and Christoph Gans. Christoph Gans went on to direct Silent Hills.
So Jeff on my list, More Stephen next, More Stephen

(01:05:26):
King in ninety three, by the way, Needful Things. That's
got Ed Harrison. I believe Anthony Hawkins too.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
I think he's not great terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
We'll get a Toby Hooper film called night Terrors in
nineteen ninety three. Catherine also in nineteen ninety three a
movie called The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Nineteen ninety three. Fun fact.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Obviously, Tim tim Burton is known for being the creative
mind involved in that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Do you actually know who directed The night Air for Christmas? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
What a good trip. It's a very good trivia question,
isn't it right? I would not know anything else direct Benyway,
Henry Selik, Tom.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Seliks brother by exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
We also got, speaking of more Stephen King, we got
the Tommy Knockers mini series starring Jimmy Smith's Jimmy Smith's
langealleres is real bad, it might be. And we also
got Return of the Living Dead three combination of three

(01:06:36):
and five not even with Romero's right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
No no, no return of is that's a tar Man? Yeah? Yeah,
three is great. Let's see also ninety three movies just
before we close the loop on this and put a
forest Gump on this episode. Uh So.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
The top five grossing movies in the United States in
ninety three Jurassic Park four hundred and fifteen million dollars,
The Abyss number two, Missus Doubt Fire two and nineteen
million dollars alone ninety two, number three, The Fugitive one
hundred and eighty three millions, number four, The Firm, Big

(01:07:15):
Year for John Grissom and one hundred and fifty eight mil.
Uh Sleepless in Seattle number five, one to twenty six mil.
Indecent Proposal at six hundred and six million, in the
Line of Fire one hundred and two million.

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
Seven.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
What happened to movies? Alright?

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
That's the Pelican brief More John Grisham at number eight
hundred million dollars, Schindler's List number nine, necking during Shidler's
List ninety six mil So. Steven Spielberg released Shindler's List
and Jurassic Park in the same year. It's insane and
Nightmare Before Christmas at number ten, ninety three million.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
Dollars about dinosaurs. This is just the Jewish, everyone in
the Jewish, Yes, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Let's see a couple of other highlights from ninety three,
by the way, Cliffhanger, Free Willie, Philadelphia, Groundhog Day, Grumpy
Old Men, cool running, this is just absolute. Just listen, gentlemen.
Rookie of the Year, awesome, pocus Pocus. We already talked
about Last Action this year too.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
I don't want to get Wayne's World two. Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles three, the worst teenage Mutant Ninja turt live
action movie. Uh, let's see the Robin Hood and men
and talking down falling down, Carlito's way, that's a that's
a that's actually not that can't be correct. Uh, let's
see what else there? Any other bangers, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
Like Carly does it's like a rip Bob the the
Bob Bob Hoskins and John like Wiamo, Super Mario Brothers movie, that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Coneheads awesome, dude. A Bronx Tale ninety three that was terrible?
Are you kidding me? I would love that. Jason goes things.
I just oh, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Number ninety six in the box office is true romance.
That might be my favorite, one of my favorite movies
that Tarantino was involved in and didn't directed.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
I fucking love that saying.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Is just.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Absolute babe in that movie too. Ye hundred movies at
the box office is wild. Oh man, I can't believe
you didn't correct me on this. I didn't see. Army
of Darkness was nightey three. Also, I missed that in
a RST. Really I think? So yeah, Oh, let me,
let me don't check that. But that was number one hundred,
the top one hundred domestic box office film. I'm wondering
if there goes Chase Gone Boom, it comes the boom. So.

(01:09:44):
Army of Darkness was a nineteen ninety two film. Let's
see release dates October of ninety two at a film
festival in February of ninety three in the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
So yeah, so it's ninety three. So Army of Darkness
also okay, pretty good. Army or Darkness obviously rocks. Army
of Darkness or my boomstick.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Guys, anything further on the year nineteen ninety three, or
on body melts, or on anything else in general, my friends? No, okay, cool? Well,
I think that's gonna put a bow on this bitch here.
I'm actually kind of amazed. We got eleven minutes. Guys,
been fun. It's another episode of America's Hometown Hord. We

(01:10:28):
certainly appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
We'll be back next week with an as yet undetermined
topic of unknown origin.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
I don't know who'se pick do it be? We have
to we have to actually figure that out. I don't
really know. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it eight OIGU.

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
Anyway, it'll be something, it'll be fun, it'll be parror,
it'll be something spooky, and it'll be probably lead to
ridiculous conversation about the years and alcohol and farting and
peeing and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Pp and people who were pants. So anyway, I'm gonna
bail on this while while we're ahead of the game here.
My name is Mike, has been Mike will be Mike,
and I've been joined by Andrew, Catherine and Matthew. Lady, gentlemen,
thank you so much for your participation in say goody
thing to all of your people that may be listening
in the constituents constituents.

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
I've been posing by my constituents. Can I offer you
an gig and he's trying to me trying. I wouldn't
want to exclude a good man. Is he actually going
by Frank and he has changed name for that? I
wouldn't want to exclude a.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
Great man like Frank in this conversation. I think I've
been posing my mac constitents. All right, we're out here.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Bye bye, Hey everyone, It's Mike from America's Hometown Horror.
I want to say thanks again for listening to another
episode of our show. If you're interested in more local

(01:11:56):
Plymouth podcasts, I'd highly recommend you check out the show
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Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
So head on over and give them a listen.