December 11, 2025 • 37 mins
Aaron and Darlene watch some classic sci-fi from the 1950s and '60s, good and bad. They talk about what makes these films memorable and fun, and if you should take a trip back in time and enjoy these films as well.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But aren't you fellows ever positive only about doomsday?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
What could be worse than disappointing a little girl disappointing
a big girl.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I have other ways of securing your cooperation. Sorry, miss
I was giving myself an oil job.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
When was it just azumbly as we've seen attitude to
it since we gave to a few low cabbages.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
An intellectual carrot. That mind boggles you see you see
your stupid lives.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Stupid, stupid, I said Santa Claus. Long enough, we will.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Bring him to Mars.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I've been afraid a lot of times in my life,
but I didn't know the real meaning of fear until
until I kiss peck me.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
One thing will be clear. It's not from man to
interfere in the ways of God's life.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Earth Versus Soup Episode
to eighty six. I'm Aaron Pollier, I'm darling. We are
taping this episode as a special episode. Let's say, because
we had we thought that we would do for two
eighty six a Paul Nashi movie, and we have two
(01:28):
Paul Nashi box sets, so I picked out one of
his kind of famous werewolf movies.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Werewolf and the Yetti, which we thought would be pretty
good because he wore he won the award Best Actor
at the Singus Internets Signus International Film Festival in Spain
in October of nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So we watched this and it kind of petered into
some problematic stuff and we stopped and we'll get into why.
And then we started the next one in the box
set that we thought, Okay, well, we're not gonna be
able to talk about Werewolf in the Eddie. We're just
(02:16):
not gonna be able to talk about it, so let's
skip it. Let's go to Exorcismo from nineteen seventy five.
And we made it through almost all, almost all of
the movie until it became kind of problematic and you
(02:38):
got very upset at it because this was like two
movies in a row where nearly the same problem happens.
And we'll again, we'll get into it. So I'm like, okay, fine,
we'll skip both of these movies and then let's go
to Night of the Werewolf from nineteen eighty one, which is,
according to lore, it is Paul Nashy's favorite movie that
(03:01):
he did. I mean, let's say halfway through it, it
becomes the same, the same problem shows up. So we're
titling this episode Paul Nashia Gogo because we're basically talking
about three movies that generally all have different things that
(03:26):
they do very well in them, as we've seen in
the previous Paul Nashi movies that we have covered that
have full episodes on Earth Versus Soue. But each one
of these movies has a single it does not work.
It made us incredibly uncomfortable, and it did not want
us to It made us not want to cover it.
(03:47):
But since we had basically three in a row, we
decided we needed to talk about it in general, right,
and what is that problem, darling?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Blood violence? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, well, okay, we have made it pretty clear and
previous episodes of Earth Versus Soup that nudity in a
movie is no big deal, Okay, especially when it's appropriate
to the plot, like somebody's taking a bath and there's
some toplessness or whatever, and it's not egregious.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right, But the third one was hanging a person upside
down her throat, yeah, totally naked and slitting her throat.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And so our our thing that we we have a
big problem with on Earth versus soup is not nudity.
It's combining nudity with violence. We do not like this,
even if it's not like a sexual assault, which does
happen in some of these movies, in some of these
three that we're talking about, all of them, you know,
(04:56):
not all of them, not all of them, but the
nudity is almost almost i'll say eighty percent of the
time combined with violence.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And then you had some violence like rape that was
in this last one, which was all clothed and the
three perpetrators got killed with a crossbow, but.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
There was no nudity in that scene. No, And I'm like, Okay,
that's fine. They're trying to show that, they're trying to
show some peril. They're also trying to show that Paul
Nashi's character has a little bit of honor. I get that.
But let's talk about Night of the Howling Beast. And
(05:39):
we're just going to really briefly cover these because again,
it's three movies. I'm not going to spend three hours
talking about all the Night of the Howling Beast, Werewolf
in the Yetie it has two different names. Okay, okay,
So in each one of these, well not each one
of these films, the two Werewolf films that we're talking about,
we have of Paul Nashi playing the same character, even
(06:03):
though they don't really keep the same continuity. His character
is Waldemar Dninski, who is the same character that we've
talked about many times.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
If they translated, it's the Curse of the Beast.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Okay, So this movie neither of the Howling Beast. The
basic plot is there is yetty sightings in Tibet, Okay.
So we're gonna go out there and find Yetti's Paul
Nashy's gonna go out there with Professor. Yeah, and there's
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all this, all these problems with like bad weather, so
the party gets split up, Paul Nashi and another person
just kind of disappear. We have most of the team
being killed except Paul Nashi, and then we end up
having like this is where the movie starts going off
(07:02):
the rails. Really we end up having like Paul Nashy
attacked by what pretty much seem like vampire women in
a cave. Okay, because we're we're watching this movie thinking, okay, well,
the movies that took place before Night of the Howling
Beast or Werewolf in the Eddie, they're cannon, right, So
(07:22):
why is Valdemar Doninsky not a vamp not a werewolf here?
And if he's being attacked by vampires, why does he
turn into a were wolf? Well, it turns out these
two women are like demons of some sort in a cave.
They hold weird rituals. They bite him, by the way,
these women are nude underneath very sheer gowns, and they
(07:48):
bite him and they infect him with lacanthropy. Okay, so
we've thrown out everything we know about Doninski before this,
but these women do not seem like were wolves. They
seem like vampires. And they even like when they die,
they like vaporize like a vampire was But anyway, this
(08:11):
is the movie that was the movie really went over
the edge with us when we have bandits that are
attacking like the party and they're capturing some of the
women from this expedition and they are taking them back
to this castle. And it turns out like the bandit
leader has all these like really ugly lesions on his
(08:34):
back and there's like this I don't know, medicine woman
of sorts or let's say, Charlotte of something.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I want to say she's a charlatan.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And she's clearly doing really manipulative things to everyone to
keep in control of the situation that she's in. And
I apologize for not going through the plot in like
great detail here, because again we're trying to talk about
three movies, and I really feel the ick with most
of these.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The monk that they were visiting and all of a
sudden it was a snapshot to a sex scene with
him and his girlfriend. Yeah, yeah, that was So this
is the movie that has the what just happened?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, it's a very weird jump cut. But what we
have with this bandit and this woman is that, uh,
they have like a BDSM torture dungeon in in the
bottom of the castle. So we have all these women
basically strapped the torture devices, being completely nude, and then
one woman gets the entire all the skin on her
(09:44):
back removed to be put on the bandit leader to.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Try to use one of the girls from the group.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Now, folks, we shut it off. Were like done at
that point, done, Like the movie was already encouraging, it
was already verging way past the line that we normally draw,
but were like, okay, come on, there's some good things
in this movie, let's just keep going. But that that
was a bridge too far. It was too much. It
was both disgusting but exploitative and violent for no good
(10:17):
reason at all.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I also felt, excuse me, I also felt that some
of the females were uncomfortable in their nudity.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, in this movie.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And in another in the next one as well.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
See, I can't I can't say one way or another.
I have to I have to assume. I have to
assume that the women were there voluntarily as actresses. I
have to assume that. And if they were told that
they would be nude on screen, then they they knew
it and still accepted doing it. With that being said,
(10:57):
I don't care if they agreed to this or not.
It's still pretty skeevy. It made me really uncomfortable, and
not really because of the nudity, but because of just
the torture and exploitative nature of it. So when we
turned it off, we turned it off or done. And remember,
this was the first movie that we watched in this
(11:19):
three movie set that we're talking about today, and we thought, okay, okay,
we're not gonna talk at all about this movie. But
now that we're gonna do three of these in a
row where we're gonna bitch, let's talk about what worked
in this first movie, Darlene, Can you say anything good
about this first movie? Because I can, I can.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, let's hear yours.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I actually think some of the costumes are excellent in
this movie. I think some of the sets are excellent
in this movie. I actually think that I actually think
Paul Nashy is excellent in this movie, and this is
the one that he won an award for. He's really
good in this movie. It's just that everything surrounding the
(12:03):
plot points and the evil stuff that happens is just if.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
The editing is if.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, some of the editing is really bad. But what
do you do you agree with my it works out
of this first movie. I don't even know how it ends.
I don't care because at that point where I have
a woman getting her skin taken off, I don't care.
I don't need to see anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The places that there were kind of worked. I gotta
give them kudos for any of these Nashi movies. They
know Spain and know how to film certain things in
certain environments, using a very small.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Area to get a lot of different variation in terrain.
Can I can I also say, like a standout actress
in this movie who actually appears in a lot of
Paul nash movies. Well, I shouldn't say a lot of
Paul National movies. At least two and specifically two that
we watched for this episode today. Mercedes Molina. She's actually
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really good. She does a very good job, she can
very well emote, and supposedly Paul Nashy and her really
liked working together. So hey, credit where credits due. So
what didn't work in general was the editing and the
combination of gore and blood and violence and nitterity, just.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Always doing the evil spirit kind of thing too.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
The evil spirit thing was really minor in this though in.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
This one it was minor, and the other two it's over. Yeah,
because then we get this one is just an evil
woman that's using the bandits bandit too, that's already evil.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah. So the next movie we're going to talk about
is Exorcismo or Exorcism. It's clearly meant as a let's
be let's be generous and say an homage to the Exorcist.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So we actually get a lot of drug use, alcohol abuse, Uh, satanic,
satanic ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's right, that hits you right in the face right
off the That was Yeah, the amount of nudity there,
that didn't bother me as much as further down.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh. Actually, yeah, that the beginning nudity was fine. It's
because it's it's minor, it's brief. It kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's that you didn't need it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You didn't need it, but it made sense in general.
But effectively, what this movie is is this woman who
has amazing well, okay, the mother has amazing clothes. Can
I say that that is like a big positive that
you were like, oh my god, I love her outfits
(15:05):
in this the mother. Yeah, Darlene's like going, oh my god,
I don't remember right here because you're just making Oh yeah,
I had to show her some pictures here. What basically
is happening is sister eldest sister has fallen in with hippies.
(15:26):
Hippies leads to Satanism for some reason. Brother is concerned
about her. Okay, which is fine, but brother is also
kind of a giant hypocrite and sleeps around and it's
kind of evil himself. But it turns out Mom's mom
is really starting to get concerned at this point because
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she's a single parent, not because she's been divorced, but
dad died. But dad was a piece of shit, And
it turns out dad is possessing eldest daughter and people
are starting to get bumped off. Now when people are
starting to get bumped off, there's some great gags with it.
When I say gags like reveals of deaths. Remember how
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like people fall out of closets with their heads twisted around. Yes, like,
it's clearly just somebody wearing clothes on backwards, but it's
it's framed in such a way and shot in such
a way as to actually be very effective. It's it's
when we start getting into it's when we start getting
into like the hardcore kind of Catholicism plus pustules and
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blood and gore.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I will say, the makeup was good, but it was
just too much that's on her. Yeah, they put that
had to be hard on the eyes to have that
marbleistic So yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Turned it off. We turned it off. Base when there
is a lot of gore on screen and you were
upset from the makeup of the main character who is
who is Oh god, that's it's Mercedes Molina again, that's that.
(17:15):
This is the second film that she's in. But yeah,
she's the she's the one that's being possessed. And the
makeup was way too much. I don't know, I guess
for you it was kind of an accumulation of stuff
in this where I was like, you know what, the
nudity isn't too bad, not compared to the last movie, right,
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but the makeup was incredibly effective on Molina, incredibly effective.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Like it was also the the like all the movies,
it all had this all of sudden things would switch
to another thing and and it was The editing was
not good.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It was a little jumpy at times. And there's like
there's weird. There's weird. I can't even describe it, like
weird plot points where the cops are like, oh, Paul
Nashy's involved because he knows all the victims. Well, of
course he knows all the victims. He's like the local
priest who has tended to this family for like years
and knows everyone. Of course he knows everyone. He's the
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Catholic priest. Anyway, a lot of it doesn't make sense,
and it comes across as needlessly cruel and evil, which
makes sense for an exorcism film. And this is why
I had I had almost no problems with this where
you did.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I didn't like the Exorcism either.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It was a bit I walked out of that one too,
Yeah it was. It was a bit offensive. But that
being said, out of all three of these movies, I
had the least problem with Exercismo, even though see that
you had more of a problem you Well, I can't
say that you had more of a problem with this
than the other movies. Did you have the least amount
of issues with this movie? Do you think?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Maybe? Possibly?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It just really turned to your stomach?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And yeah, I couldn't. I knew that if I didn't
I kept watching it, I would not sleep for a week.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Okay, so let's say that we decided not to cover
this film just because Darlene didn't want to have nightmares
for a week and I really didn't have a problem
with it. That might be the best recommendation out of
these three movies. So I should say, what would you
give it out of ten? And would you recommend it?
I don't. I know you wouldn't recommend me, But what
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would you give it out of ten. I finished watching
this movie. It's fine, there's no I mean, I had
very little wrong with it. The only thing I can
really say that's wrong with it was the editing, and
there's things that I really liked out of it. I
didn't think that the hippie stuff was good. I didn't
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think any of the stuff was good.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I didn't like the connection that they did there.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I didn't think the Catholicism stuff was well done in it.
But the makeup and the gags and the pacing of
it was like Chef's Kiss. It really was. So if
I had to give a rating to Exer seasonal, I'd
say like five and a half.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You think it's really that watchable?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I actually do okay, But again, out of respect to
you being so off put by it, we did not
want to do a full episode on it. So we'll
go into our third movie. And I know, again we're
really kind of cranking through these, but it's because these
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are all kind of upsetting, and I think nither of
the Werewolf might be the worst of all these. It
very well might be the worst. And one they shot history, okay, yeah,
anytime they actually try to touch on real history, it's
it's bad. Now. The plot revolves around Elizabeth's Bathory. Okay, Now,
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if you know the story of Elizabeth Bathory, Darlene, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
She's the woman that ordered people to take take young
women virgins, bleed them into a bathtub, and then she
soaked in it because she thought that was the way
to keep her youth.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Okay, So in this movie, we have Dninski played by
Paul Nashey, being like, yeah, a werewolf that is like
steaked with a silver cross. So, and then he has
like a lead mask on. And this is during the
trial of Bathory. Bathory is very alive, but I guess
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she's a vampire.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, well I guess so.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Even though she's out in the daylight. Yeah, anyway, and
she has her like minions and they're all buried. Then
we go to like modern day.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, we go from the thirteen hundreds to modern day now,
which is nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Nineteen eighty one. Yeah, nineteen eighty nineteen eighty one. We
actually have like this is where I started getting hope
for the movie, believe it or not. Like the beginning
was okay, weird, that's fine. At least they're they're trying
to do some interesting ideas with like Lady Bathry or whatever. Yeah,
they're kind of butchering history. But okay, fine, it's a
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horror movie. And then we get like college kids at
a swimming pool wearing like swimming trunks and little bikinis,
and they're going on a tour of Eastern Europe and
they're leaving Rome, and I'm like, okay, you know what
this is gonna be your stereotypical early eighties is maybe
slasher type movie that Paul Nashy is in. This will
be a nice change of pace. No, no, it's not,
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because it basically turns into all the girls are Satanists
except one. All of them except one.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
She doesn't even know why, because because the main research
person is doing it because she is a Satanist and
wants to bring.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Back Lady Bathory because she has been communing with Lady
Bathrie's spirit for years.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
The other one thinks it's just a kind.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Of a joke. Is she's been doing it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Just because the other one has no clue.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Okay, So we end up having like an attempted rape. Again,
no nudity at least, this is this.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Is they they try to show you how horrible the
Eastern basically the Eastern.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Bloc was they're trying to show the Eastern Block being bad,
but you know what, I think think they actually do
exactly the opposite, because yeah, there's these bandits and they're
they're totally referred to as bandits, but like everybody else
that is, like villagers and things like that, seem to
be completely honest.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And yeah, the guy, the guy that sells them their
his car.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, he's like, it's not a good car, ladies, but
it does run.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And I don't think you're gonna get another one, probably
because there isn't that many cars, so.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You know, thank you for buying it from me. But yeah,
and he's completely honest about.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It, and he tells him not to go there.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, he's like, don't go up the mountain.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's crazy. And there's bandits and problems, and right across
in the same room is three guys.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Are the bandits. We're gonna get some money and fun. Okay,
skivie crap awful. But it's not like they're trying to
paint the entire Eastern Block in a bad light. They're not.
They're not. But we actually this is the attempted assault
is stopped by Doninsky with a crossbow. Like he comes
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out and he's still wearing his like old old old
oldie clothes.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
He wears them all the way through the movie.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Does they would have rotted right off him? But I
guess like the bubble of were wolf not changing kind
of thing is like yeah, in his body, and.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
He doesn't even have the hole where the cross sit.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah. Anyway, that we end up having like Doninsky giving
everybody dinner. We learned that Dninsky has like a local
girl that's working for him.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now that's burned half of her face off in her hand.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
And and sometimes it's good makeup, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's like they made a mask that was made out
of wax, but it looked good.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Sometimes it looked really good, and sometimes it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Was it depends on how they how they did the eye.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
So we end up getting this again the Dninski werewolf
legend that this wounded woman says, hey, look, I think
this one girl who doesn't believe in Satanism might be
your salvation. She might be the woman that fall in
love with you and kill you. And you know, except
remember the whole nonsense that is the Dnsky Werewolf.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
How to kill him, so don't follow how he is.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We end up this is and this is where it
starts getting really nonsense. And this is where you started
walking out because the one head Satanist girl ends up
slitting the throat of another of the other girl, not
the one that's totally doesn't understand what's going on. That's like, yeah,
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she sacrifices that middle girl. So she bleeds all over
Bathory's body, and she like reforms out of nothing and
she's a vampire and then feeds on the Satanist girl,
so she's a vampire. And then they just end up
like stalking around and hunting each other. But you you
left when they hung a girl by her ankles, fully
(27:05):
nude over like a pit, so like like Bathory could
just like feast on her blood in like a chalice
or whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
To drip it right into the Uh No it was
it was over top of her.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Coffin, but she was already alive at that point. No,
this was like a different this was a different sacrifice.
This is where you're like, I'm done, because she was
full frontal nudity and they just slid her throat. There
was blood all over the place. It was awful, awful,
and again we don't like combining nudity and violence. That
(27:47):
is not cool. So you walked out. I finished this movie.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Well you got it on this thing that it was light.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Oh yeah. Now, depending on when you hear this review,
I will have put changes into Internet Movie Database because
I looked up at an Internet movie database. The story
of behind picking this one was I looked on IMDb
and trusted it. Ie, do not trust IMDb because IMDb
(28:17):
said mild violence, very mild nudity, only bear breasts, and
I'm like, okay, you know what that's that was?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Well, when she was upside down, that was full frontal.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
With blood and gore and bush. Oh I am. I
was pissed off. And I looked to you and I said, Darlene,
I swear to God. I swear to God. I did
not know this. But if you look on IMDb, depending
on when you listen to this review, because I very
well might have put some changes into IMDb about this
(28:48):
saying no, this is not mild nudity. This is like
extreme nudity because of the violence associated with it. And
it's all the way through, it's all the way through.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Anyway, I didn't watch very much of it.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Well, no, this is where you left. But there wasn't
a lot of time left in the movie, believe it
or not. There was only like twenty minutes left. So
it basically just comes down to a standoff between Valdemart
Doninski and lady Bathrie where they have like a telekinetic fight.
He's a were wolf, he like slaughters her, and then
(29:22):
what's her name? Uh, that was bit the girl that
actually did not believe in anything that was supposed to
save Dninski. She was a vampire at this point because
she had been fed upon and since he killed Bathory,
she like reverted back to being human because she hadn't
fed yet or something like that. And then she like
kills Doninski as he bites her, so she actually has
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a wound on her. He dies, But doesn't that mean
that since she was bitten that she's a were wolf?
But it doesn't matter. Everything is on fire, the castle
collapses the Yet again, I can tell you things that
work in this movie. The makeup is excellent. The sets
in this aren't really sets, they're actual like locations. But
(30:09):
some of it has we were commenting about some of
them are sets. But what about the wine things. The
wine that he that was.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Old vats like terra cotta. That's why I thought it
was in Italy because I could see that as being
the the olive oil.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
They filmed in some pretty amazing locations in this. That's
all I'm saying. The pacing is great again. The editing
is it's either hit or miss, being that you can
get like jumps to Doninski like in bed sleeping with
his woman for this. But there are things that work.
(30:57):
It's just that the the violence and nudity is offensively bad.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh and also the other thing that I found offensive
was the making the camera foggy.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay that it just makes it hard to see.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Or there was times when they made it tried to
make it like starbursting like there was one of those, Yeah,
and it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So to me, for this last movie again, i'd probably
give it like a five and a half if it
wasn't for the nudity, I'm not I wouldn't recommend it
because of the nudity and violence combined. If it was
just nudity, that's not a big deal. That's not a
big deal. If it was just violence, it's a little upsetting,
(31:47):
But it's not a big deal on its own. It's
when you put them together that I can't recommend any
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't think. I don't think whoever wrote these things
is has any understanding of the evil Satan and all that,
you know, just they just play it as evil.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, very rudimentary.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So I was, let me find a character in history
that's evil. Oh, here, here's Lady Bathory, or here's here's
the picture of what.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Lady Bathory and then Daninsky like in between me together, Like, okay,
come on, because Doninsky isn't played as being evil here
at all. He's not. He's like a victim, but like
everyone considers him evil, and it's like, okay, wait, what what.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
There was a fact that you liked where the lady
Bathory comes out of her grave and she brings up
her brother, Yeah, like why is he She's perfectly normous.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Lost a vampire. She just raises him from the dead. Actually,
I really did like that because she's like floating almost,
and she like gestures and he like explodes from the
ground as like a corpse like and just kind of
trembles there in front of her. I'm like, oh, okay,
that's kind of cool. I had to admit that was
kind of cool. And there's a couple scenes where the
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vampires actually do the whole Mortitia Adams just gliding across
the ground and you don't see their feet moving at all.
I'm like, okay, that's a little minor thing, but I
liked it. Again, I'm not recommending any three of these movies.
That's why we're just covering, because they upset us so
much that you didn't finish any of them. I finished two.
(33:41):
I only barely finished Extracies Boll. I forced myself to
go through the last one here. So we don't recommend them.
And I'm sorry that we've kind of put three Doninski
films together here. But the original intent was again that
we just would cover one of these, like we'd skip
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over it and then just watch another one and then
tape that. But then the secon one failed and then
the third one was failed, and okay, so we just
should do a really quick talk about all three of
these movies.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So here I am talking about them. Yeah, I despise
all three of them.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Do you despise it? And I see that there is
redeeming qualities in each one. There are things that are
done well I would not recommend any of them, but
you have to admit that at least the makeup in
all three of these movies was was at least good
and extra seismo. It was excellent.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
If it was where horror actually starts going horror horror.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh yeah, you mean gore horror, like yeah, splatter splatter horror,
And we both don't like that.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't like that, and I don't like horror horror.
That's just like.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Slasher films. I mean, horror horror.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Bringing evil into the whole thing, unless it's it's like,
what's the one that you like? That's the the evil
of darkness?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Uh, Army of Darkness? And even Head it's so over
the top and it's.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
So over the top and it's making a joke.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I love those I love all of those.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Movies, but these are taking it so seriously and it's
all serious, and it makes it just wrong.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
If it was a bit of a wink and a nod.
Even if there was a bit of a wink and
a nod, it probably would have changed the feel of
all of these movies, really, but they were.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Why do I want to watch something that makes me
feel like the human race needs to go in the toilet.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, and that's why we're talking about all three of
these movies together. So I'm sorry that if people thought
that they were gonna get like nothing but like joy,
because i mean, the previous Paul Nan movies that we've watched,
we've generally thought were at least okay, and we found
a lot that was enjoyable in them, as wacky as
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they were, but these were just kind of dark and upsetting,
so we should leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I hope everyone enjoyed listening. We'll probably go back to
our regularly schedule programming next week. So I'm Erin, I'm Darlene,
good evening to keep watching the skies. At no point
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What could be worse than disappointing a little girl disappointing
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
When was it just azumbly as we've seen attitude to
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
An intellectual carrot. That mind boggles you see you see
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Bring him to Mars.
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I've been afraid a lot of times in my life,
but I didn't know the real meaning of fear until
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
One thing will be clear. It's not from man to
interfere in the ways of God's life.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Earth Versus Soup Episode
to eighty six. I'm Aaron Pollier, I'm darling. We are
taping this episode as a special episode. Let's say, because
we had we thought that we would do for two
eighty six a Paul Nashi movie, and we have two
(01:28):
Paul Nashi box sets, so I picked out one of
his kind of famous werewolf movies.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Werewolf and the Yetti, which we thought would be pretty
good because he wore he won the award Best Actor
at the Singus Internets Signus International Film Festival in Spain
in October of nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So we watched this and it kind of petered into
some problematic stuff and we stopped and we'll get into why.
And then we started the next one in the box
set that we thought, Okay, well, we're not gonna be
able to talk about Werewolf in the Eddie. We're just
(02:16):
not gonna be able to talk about it, so let's
skip it. Let's go to Exorcismo from nineteen seventy five.
And we made it through almost all, almost all of
the movie until it became kind of problematic and you
(02:38):
got very upset at it because this was like two
movies in a row where nearly the same problem happens.
And we'll again, we'll get into it. So I'm like, okay, fine,
we'll skip both of these movies and then let's go
to Night of the Werewolf from nineteen eighty one, which is,
according to lore, it is Paul Nashy's favorite movie that
(03:01):
he did. I mean, let's say halfway through it, it
becomes the same, the same problem shows up. So we're
titling this episode Paul Nashia Gogo because we're basically talking
about three movies that generally all have different things that
(03:26):
they do very well in them, as we've seen in
the previous Paul Nashi movies that we have covered that
have full episodes on Earth Versus Soue. But each one
of these movies has a single it does not work.
It made us incredibly uncomfortable, and it did not want
us to It made us not want to cover it.
(03:47):
But since we had basically three in a row, we
decided we needed to talk about it in general, right,
and what is that problem, darling?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Blood violence? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, well, okay, we have made it pretty clear and
previous episodes of Earth Versus Soup that nudity in a
movie is no big deal, Okay, especially when it's appropriate
to the plot, like somebody's taking a bath and there's
some toplessness or whatever, and it's not egregious.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right, But the third one was hanging a person upside
down her throat, yeah, totally naked and slitting her throat.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And so our our thing that we we have a
big problem with on Earth versus soup is not nudity.
It's combining nudity with violence. We do not like this,
even if it's not like a sexual assault, which does
happen in some of these movies, in some of these
three that we're talking about, all of them, you know,
(04:56):
not all of them, not all of them, but the
nudity is almost almost i'll say eighty percent of the
time combined with violence.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And then you had some violence like rape that was
in this last one, which was all clothed and the
three perpetrators got killed with a crossbow, but.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
There was no nudity in that scene. No, And I'm like, Okay,
that's fine. They're trying to show that, they're trying to
show some peril. They're also trying to show that Paul
Nashi's character has a little bit of honor. I get that.
But let's talk about Night of the Howling Beast. And
(05:39):
we're just going to really briefly cover these because again,
it's three movies. I'm not going to spend three hours
talking about all the Night of the Howling Beast, Werewolf
in the Yetie it has two different names. Okay, okay,
So in each one of these, well not each one
of these films, the two Werewolf films that we're talking about,
we have of Paul Nashi playing the same character, even
(06:03):
though they don't really keep the same continuity. His character
is Waldemar Dninski, who is the same character that we've
talked about many times.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
If they translated, it's the Curse of the Beast.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Okay, So this movie neither of the Howling Beast. The
basic plot is there is yetty sightings in Tibet, Okay.
So we're gonna go out there and find Yetti's Paul
Nashy's gonna go out there with Professor. Yeah, and there's
(06:42):
all this, all these problems with like bad weather, so
the party gets split up, Paul Nashi and another person
just kind of disappear. We have most of the team
being killed except Paul Nashi, and then we end up
having like this is where the movie starts going off
(07:02):
the rails. Really we end up having like Paul Nashy
attacked by what pretty much seem like vampire women in
a cave. Okay, because we're we're watching this movie thinking, okay, well,
the movies that took place before Night of the Howling
Beast or Werewolf in the Eddie, they're cannon, right, So
(07:22):
why is Valdemar Doninsky not a vamp not a werewolf here?
And if he's being attacked by vampires, why does he
turn into a were wolf? Well, it turns out these
two women are like demons of some sort in a cave.
They hold weird rituals. They bite him, by the way,
these women are nude underneath very sheer gowns, and they
(07:48):
bite him and they infect him with lacanthropy. Okay, so
we've thrown out everything we know about Doninski before this,
but these women do not seem like were wolves. They
seem like vampires. And they even like when they die,
they like vaporize like a vampire was But anyway, this
(08:11):
is the movie that was the movie really went over
the edge with us when we have bandits that are
attacking like the party and they're capturing some of the
women from this expedition and they are taking them back
to this castle. And it turns out like the bandit
leader has all these like really ugly lesions on his
(08:34):
back and there's like this I don't know, medicine woman
of sorts or let's say, Charlotte of something.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I want to say she's a charlatan.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And she's clearly doing really manipulative things to everyone to
keep in control of the situation that she's in. And
I apologize for not going through the plot in like
great detail here, because again we're trying to talk about
three movies, and I really feel the ick with most
of these.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The monk that they were visiting and all of a
sudden it was a snapshot to a sex scene with
him and his girlfriend. Yeah, yeah, that was So this
is the movie that has the what just happened?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, it's a very weird jump cut. But what we
have with this bandit and this woman is that, uh,
they have like a BDSM torture dungeon in in the
bottom of the castle. So we have all these women
basically strapped the torture devices, being completely nude, and then
one woman gets the entire all the skin on her
(09:44):
back removed to be put on the bandit leader to.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Try to use one of the girls from the group.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Now, folks, we shut it off. Were like done at
that point, done, Like the movie was already encouraging, it
was already verging way past the line that we normally draw,
but were like, okay, come on, there's some good things
in this movie, let's just keep going. But that that
was a bridge too far. It was too much. It
was both disgusting but exploitative and violent for no good
(10:17):
reason at all.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I also felt, excuse me, I also felt that some
of the females were uncomfortable in their nudity.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, in this movie.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And in another in the next one as well.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
See, I can't I can't say one way or another.
I have to I have to assume. I have to
assume that the women were there voluntarily as actresses. I
have to assume that. And if they were told that
they would be nude on screen, then they they knew
it and still accepted doing it. With that being said,
(10:57):
I don't care if they agreed to this or not.
It's still pretty skeevy. It made me really uncomfortable, and
not really because of the nudity, but because of just
the torture and exploitative nature of it. So when we
turned it off, we turned it off or done. And remember,
this was the first movie that we watched in this
(11:19):
three movie set that we're talking about today, and we thought, okay, okay,
we're not gonna talk at all about this movie. But
now that we're gonna do three of these in a
row where we're gonna bitch, let's talk about what worked
in this first movie, Darlene, Can you say anything good
about this first movie? Because I can, I can.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, let's hear yours.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I actually think some of the costumes are excellent in
this movie. I think some of the sets are excellent
in this movie. I actually think that I actually think
Paul Nashy is excellent in this movie, and this is
the one that he won an award for. He's really
good in this movie. It's just that everything surrounding the
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plot points and the evil stuff that happens is just if.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
The editing is if.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, some of the editing is really bad. But what
do you do you agree with my it works out
of this first movie. I don't even know how it ends.
I don't care because at that point where I have
a woman getting her skin taken off, I don't care.
I don't need to see anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The places that there were kind of worked. I gotta
give them kudos for any of these Nashi movies. They
know Spain and know how to film certain things in
certain environments, using a very small.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Area to get a lot of different variation in terrain.
Can I can I also say, like a standout actress
in this movie who actually appears in a lot of
Paul nash movies. Well, I shouldn't say a lot of
Paul National movies. At least two and specifically two that
we watched for this episode today. Mercedes Molina. She's actually
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really good. She does a very good job, she can
very well emote, and supposedly Paul Nashy and her really
liked working together. So hey, credit where credits due. So
what didn't work in general was the editing and the
combination of gore and blood and violence and nitterity, just.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Always doing the evil spirit kind of thing too.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
The evil spirit thing was really minor in this though in.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
This one it was minor, and the other two it's over. Yeah,
because then we get this one is just an evil
woman that's using the bandits bandit too, that's already evil.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah. So the next movie we're going to talk about
is Exorcismo or Exorcism. It's clearly meant as a let's
be let's be generous and say an homage to the Exorcist.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So we actually get a lot of drug use, alcohol abuse, Uh, satanic,
satanic ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's right, that hits you right in the face right
off the That was Yeah, the amount of nudity there,
that didn't bother me as much as further down.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh. Actually, yeah, that the beginning nudity was fine. It's
because it's it's minor, it's brief. It kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's that you didn't need it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You didn't need it, but it made sense in general.
But effectively, what this movie is is this woman who
has amazing well, okay, the mother has amazing clothes. Can
I say that that is like a big positive that
you were like, oh my god, I love her outfits
(15:05):
in this the mother. Yeah, Darlene's like going, oh my god,
I don't remember right here because you're just making Oh yeah,
I had to show her some pictures here. What basically
is happening is sister eldest sister has fallen in with hippies.
(15:26):
Hippies leads to Satanism for some reason. Brother is concerned
about her. Okay, which is fine, but brother is also
kind of a giant hypocrite and sleeps around and it's
kind of evil himself. But it turns out Mom's mom
is really starting to get concerned at this point because
(15:46):
she's a single parent, not because she's been divorced, but
dad died. But dad was a piece of shit, And
it turns out dad is possessing eldest daughter and people
are starting to get bumped off. Now when people are
starting to get bumped off, there's some great gags with it.
When I say gags like reveals of deaths. Remember how
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like people fall out of closets with their heads twisted around. Yes, like,
it's clearly just somebody wearing clothes on backwards, but it's
it's framed in such a way and shot in such
a way as to actually be very effective. It's it's
when we start getting into it's when we start getting
into like the hardcore kind of Catholicism plus pustules and
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blood and gore.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I will say, the makeup was good, but it was
just too much that's on her. Yeah, they put that
had to be hard on the eyes to have that
marbleistic So yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Turned it off. We turned it off. Base when there
is a lot of gore on screen and you were
upset from the makeup of the main character who is
who is Oh god, that's it's Mercedes Molina again, that's that.
(17:15):
This is the second film that she's in. But yeah,
she's the she's the one that's being possessed. And the
makeup was way too much. I don't know, I guess
for you it was kind of an accumulation of stuff
in this where I was like, you know what, the
nudity isn't too bad, not compared to the last movie, right,
(17:37):
but the makeup was incredibly effective on Molina, incredibly effective.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Like it was also the the like all the movies,
it all had this all of sudden things would switch
to another thing and and it was The editing was
not good.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
It was a little jumpy at times. And there's like
there's weird. There's weird. I can't even describe it, like
weird plot points where the cops are like, oh, Paul
Nashy's involved because he knows all the victims. Well, of
course he knows all the victims. He's like the local
priest who has tended to this family for like years
and knows everyone. Of course he knows everyone. He's the
(18:26):
Catholic priest. Anyway, a lot of it doesn't make sense,
and it comes across as needlessly cruel and evil, which
makes sense for an exorcism film. And this is why
I had I had almost no problems with this where
you did.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I didn't like the Exorcism either.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It was a bit I walked out of that one too,
Yeah it was. It was a bit offensive. But that
being said, out of all three of these movies, I
had the least problem with Exercismo, even though see that
you had more of a problem you Well, I can't
say that you had more of a problem with this
than the other movies. Did you have the least amount
of issues with this movie? Do you think?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Maybe? Possibly?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It just really turned to your stomach?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And yeah, I couldn't. I knew that if I didn't
I kept watching it, I would not sleep for a week.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Okay, so let's say that we decided not to cover
this film just because Darlene didn't want to have nightmares
for a week and I really didn't have a problem
with it. That might be the best recommendation out of
these three movies. So I should say, what would you
give it out of ten? And would you recommend it?
I don't. I know you wouldn't recommend me, But what
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would you give it out of ten. I finished watching
this movie. It's fine, there's no I mean, I had
very little wrong with it. The only thing I can
really say that's wrong with it was the editing, and
there's things that I really liked out of it. I
didn't think that the hippie stuff was good. I didn't
(20:05):
think any of the stuff was good.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I didn't like the connection that they did there.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I didn't think the Catholicism stuff was well done in it.
But the makeup and the gags and the pacing of
it was like Chef's Kiss. It really was. So if
I had to give a rating to Exer seasonal, I'd
say like five and a half.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You think it's really that watchable?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I actually do okay, But again, out of respect to
you being so off put by it, we did not
want to do a full episode on it. So we'll
go into our third movie. And I know, again we're
really kind of cranking through these, but it's because these
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are all kind of upsetting, and I think nither of
the Werewolf might be the worst of all these. It
very well might be the worst. And one they shot history, okay, yeah,
anytime they actually try to touch on real history, it's
it's bad. Now. The plot revolves around Elizabeth's Bathory. Okay, Now,
(21:20):
if you know the story of Elizabeth Bathory, Darlene, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
She's the woman that ordered people to take take young
women virgins, bleed them into a bathtub, and then she
soaked in it because she thought that was the way
to keep her youth.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Okay, So in this movie, we have Dninski played by
Paul Nashey, being like, yeah, a werewolf that is like
steaked with a silver cross. So, and then he has
like a lead mask on. And this is during the
trial of Bathory. Bathory is very alive, but I guess
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she's a vampire.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, well I guess so.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Even though she's out in the daylight. Yeah, anyway, and
she has her like minions and they're all buried. Then
we go to like modern day.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, we go from the thirteen hundreds to modern day now,
which is nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Nineteen eighty one. Yeah, nineteen eighty nineteen eighty one. We
actually have like this is where I started getting hope
for the movie, believe it or not. Like the beginning
was okay, weird, that's fine. At least they're they're trying
to do some interesting ideas with like Lady Bathry or whatever. Yeah,
they're kind of butchering history. But okay, fine, it's a
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horror movie. And then we get like college kids at
a swimming pool wearing like swimming trunks and little bikinis,
and they're going on a tour of Eastern Europe and
they're leaving Rome, and I'm like, okay, you know what
this is gonna be your stereotypical early eighties is maybe
slasher type movie that Paul Nashy is in. This will
be a nice change of pace. No, no, it's not,
(23:08):
because it basically turns into all the girls are Satanists
except one. All of them except one.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
She doesn't even know why, because because the main research
person is doing it because she is a Satanist and
wants to bring.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Back Lady Bathory because she has been communing with Lady
Bathrie's spirit for years.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
The other one thinks it's just a kind.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Of a joke. Is she's been doing it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Just because the other one has no clue.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Okay, So we end up having like an attempted rape. Again,
no nudity at least, this is this.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Is they they try to show you how horrible the
Eastern basically the Eastern.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Bloc was they're trying to show the Eastern Block being bad,
but you know what, I think think they actually do
exactly the opposite, because yeah, there's these bandits and they're
they're totally referred to as bandits, but like everybody else
that is, like villagers and things like that, seem to
be completely honest.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And yeah, the guy, the guy that sells them their
his car.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, he's like, it's not a good car, ladies, but
it does run.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And I don't think you're gonna get another one, probably
because there isn't that many cars, so.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You know, thank you for buying it from me. But yeah,
and he's completely honest about.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It, and he tells him not to go there.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, he's like, don't go up the mountain.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's crazy. And there's bandits and problems, and right across
in the same room is three guys.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Are the bandits. We're gonna get some money and fun. Okay,
skivie crap awful. But it's not like they're trying to
paint the entire Eastern Block in a bad light. They're not.
They're not. But we actually this is the attempted assault
is stopped by Doninsky with a crossbow. Like he comes
(25:01):
out and he's still wearing his like old old old
oldie clothes.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
He wears them all the way through the movie.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Does they would have rotted right off him? But I
guess like the bubble of were wolf not changing kind
of thing is like yeah, in his body, and.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
He doesn't even have the hole where the cross sit.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah. Anyway, that we end up having like Doninsky giving
everybody dinner. We learned that Dninsky has like a local
girl that's working for him.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now that's burned half of her face off in her hand.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
And and sometimes it's good makeup, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's like they made a mask that was made out
of wax, but it looked good.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Sometimes it looked really good, and sometimes it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Was it depends on how they how they did the eye.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
So we end up getting this again the Dninski werewolf
legend that this wounded woman says, hey, look, I think
this one girl who doesn't believe in Satanism might be
your salvation. She might be the woman that fall in
love with you and kill you. And you know, except
remember the whole nonsense that is the Dnsky Werewolf.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
How to kill him, so don't follow how he is.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We end up this is and this is where it
starts getting really nonsense. And this is where you started
walking out because the one head Satanist girl ends up
slitting the throat of another of the other girl, not
the one that's totally doesn't understand what's going on. That's like, yeah,
(26:42):
she sacrifices that middle girl. So she bleeds all over
Bathory's body, and she like reforms out of nothing and
she's a vampire and then feeds on the Satanist girl,
so she's a vampire. And then they just end up
like stalking around and hunting each other. But you you
left when they hung a girl by her ankles, fully
(27:05):
nude over like a pit, so like like Bathory could
just like feast on her blood in like a chalice
or whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
To drip it right into the Uh No it was
it was over top of her.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Coffin, but she was already alive at that point. No,
this was like a different this was a different sacrifice.
This is where you're like, I'm done, because she was
full frontal nudity and they just slid her throat. There
was blood all over the place. It was awful, awful,
and again we don't like combining nudity and violence. That
(27:47):
is not cool. So you walked out. I finished this movie.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Well you got it on this thing that it was light.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Oh yeah. Now, depending on when you hear this review,
I will have put changes into Internet Movie Database because
I looked up at an Internet movie database. The story
of behind picking this one was I looked on IMDb
and trusted it. Ie, do not trust IMDb because IMDb
(28:17):
said mild violence, very mild nudity, only bear breasts, and
I'm like, okay, you know what that's that was?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Well, when she was upside down, that was full frontal.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
With blood and gore and bush. Oh I am. I
was pissed off. And I looked to you and I said, Darlene,
I swear to God. I swear to God. I did
not know this. But if you look on IMDb, depending
on when you listen to this review, because I very
well might have put some changes into IMDb about this
(28:48):
saying no, this is not mild nudity. This is like
extreme nudity because of the violence associated with it. And
it's all the way through, it's all the way through.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Anyway, I didn't watch very much of it.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Well, no, this is where you left. But there wasn't
a lot of time left in the movie, believe it
or not. There was only like twenty minutes left. So
it basically just comes down to a standoff between Valdemart
Doninski and lady Bathrie where they have like a telekinetic fight.
He's a were wolf, he like slaughters her, and then
(29:22):
what's her name? Uh, that was bit the girl that
actually did not believe in anything that was supposed to
save Dninski. She was a vampire at this point because
she had been fed upon and since he killed Bathory,
she like reverted back to being human because she hadn't
fed yet or something like that. And then she like
kills Doninski as he bites her, so she actually has
(29:46):
a wound on her. He dies, But doesn't that mean
that since she was bitten that she's a were wolf?
But it doesn't matter. Everything is on fire, the castle
collapses the Yet again, I can tell you things that
work in this movie. The makeup is excellent. The sets
in this aren't really sets, they're actual like locations. But
(30:09):
some of it has we were commenting about some of
them are sets. But what about the wine things. The
wine that he that was.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Old vats like terra cotta. That's why I thought it
was in Italy because I could see that as being
the the olive oil.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
They filmed in some pretty amazing locations in this. That's
all I'm saying. The pacing is great again. The editing
is it's either hit or miss, being that you can
get like jumps to Doninski like in bed sleeping with
his woman for this. But there are things that work.
(30:57):
It's just that the the violence and nudity is offensively bad.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh and also the other thing that I found offensive
was the making the camera foggy.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay that it just makes it hard to see.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Or there was times when they made it tried to
make it like starbursting like there was one of those, Yeah,
and it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So to me, for this last movie again, i'd probably
give it like a five and a half if it
wasn't for the nudity, I'm not I wouldn't recommend it
because of the nudity and violence combined. If it was
just nudity, that's not a big deal. That's not a
big deal. If it was just violence, it's a little upsetting,
(31:47):
But it's not a big deal on its own. It's
when you put them together that I can't recommend any
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't think. I don't think whoever wrote these things
is has any understanding of the evil Satan and all that,
you know, just they just play it as evil.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, very rudimentary.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So I was, let me find a character in history
that's evil. Oh, here, here's Lady Bathory, or here's here's
the picture of what.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Lady Bathory and then Daninsky like in between me together, Like, okay,
come on, because Doninsky isn't played as being evil here
at all. He's not. He's like a victim, but like
everyone considers him evil, and it's like, okay, wait, what what.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
There was a fact that you liked where the lady
Bathory comes out of her grave and she brings up
her brother, Yeah, like why is he She's perfectly normous.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Lost a vampire. She just raises him from the dead. Actually,
I really did like that because she's like floating almost,
and she like gestures and he like explodes from the
ground as like a corpse like and just kind of
trembles there in front of her. I'm like, oh, okay,
that's kind of cool. I had to admit that was
kind of cool. And there's a couple scenes where the
(33:18):
vampires actually do the whole Mortitia Adams just gliding across
the ground and you don't see their feet moving at all.
I'm like, okay, that's a little minor thing, but I
liked it. Again, I'm not recommending any three of these movies.
That's why we're just covering, because they upset us so
much that you didn't finish any of them. I finished two.
(33:41):
I only barely finished Extracies Boll. I forced myself to
go through the last one here. So we don't recommend them.
And I'm sorry that we've kind of put three Doninski
films together here. But the original intent was again that
we just would cover one of these, like we'd skip
(34:02):
over it and then just watch another one and then
tape that. But then the secon one failed and then
the third one was failed, and okay, so we just
should do a really quick talk about all three of
these movies.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So here I am talking about them. Yeah, I despise
all three of them.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Do you despise it? And I see that there is
redeeming qualities in each one. There are things that are
done well I would not recommend any of them, but
you have to admit that at least the makeup in
all three of these movies was was at least good
and extra seismo. It was excellent.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
If it was where horror actually starts going horror horror.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh yeah, you mean gore horror, like yeah, splatter splatter horror,
And we both don't like that.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't like that, and I don't like horror horror.
That's just like.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Slasher films. I mean, horror horror.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Bringing evil into the whole thing, unless it's it's like,
what's the one that you like? That's the the evil
of darkness?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Uh, Army of Darkness? And even Head it's so over
the top and it's.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
So over the top and it's making a joke.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I love those I love all of those.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Movies, but these are taking it so seriously and it's
all serious, and it makes it just wrong.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
If it was a bit of a wink and a nod.
Even if there was a bit of a wink and
a nod, it probably would have changed the feel of
all of these movies, really, but they were.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Why do I want to watch something that makes me
feel like the human race needs to go in the toilet.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, and that's why we're talking about all three of
these movies together. So I'm sorry that if people thought
that they were gonna get like nothing but like joy,
because i mean, the previous Paul Nan movies that we've watched,
we've generally thought were at least okay, and we found
a lot that was enjoyable in them, as wacky as
(36:08):
they were, but these were just kind of dark and upsetting,
so we should leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I hope everyone enjoyed listening. We'll probably go back to
our regularly schedule programming next week. So I'm Erin, I'm Darlene,
good evening to keep watching the skies. At no point
in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to
anything that could be considered a rational thought.
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