Doug Loves Movies - Brian Crano, Samm Levine and Joseph Rodriguez guest

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

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Doug hates candy wrappers screening baby sticky seeds with 50 as a pop or kernels in his teeth They're still not one that he won't see Hey, hey everybody, my name is Doug and I love movies this is Doug loves movies perhaps the only movie trivia podcast Hosted by and written by a person who is stoned out of his mind recording on Friday June 20th 2025 for release on Monday June 23 Also in 2025 no reason to hold it for a year my guests today are two returning champs and a timely

First timer they are Brian Crano Sam Levine and Joseph Rodriguez Hello, everybody. Hi, Doug Hey, Doug What's up? That was all so polite So one at a timely let's meet them individually and Alphabetically as I like to do by first name his book his book

He's back. He's back I Was like this guy wrote a book. He's back His own husband across the face Like this guy wrote a book he's back His own husband across the face It's writer director Ryan Crane. Oh, hey Brian. Hey, how you doing? I'm doing pretty good. How is How are things at home you being a returning champion and and David just having to sit on the bleachers

There have been some doping allegations No, then I'm wrestling with and I'm taking more shit than usual. So I'm gonna blame the podcast Well your movie the two of you were here to you know, promote the movie that you made together I don't understand you with Nick Kroll and Andrew Reynolds and it's in theaters now but also I've just learned there's a, you know, a VOD date when people can see it at home. Is that right? Yeah, the 24th of June, download that shit. So that's like, you know, this is coming out on the 23rd.

So all you gotta do is wait one day. Perfect. If they didn't get a chance to check it out on the big screen, which is of course is you know I say the first thing you should try to do Absolutely, but you know buy it rent it enjoy it. Yeah, zoom it however you however you can make it happen My next guest I'd like to introduce was a house guest on Big Brother

26 last summer Joining us from Tampa is it it's Joseph Rodriguez. Hey Joseph How's it going? Yeah, so these people have written movies and books apparently and I was on a reality show So that's why I'm on here. Well, listen, you know, I don't reach out to every reality show personality, but I did, you know, watch a lot of Big Brother and the cams and stuff.

And, you know, you were the person in the house last summer that not only, you know, knew more about movies than anybody else in the house, but you also, it came out that you work part-time at a still in existence video store. Yes, I worked at Viper Video in Tampa, Florida, which is a video store that mostly specializes in horror, cult film.

And yes, these businesses, Brick and Mortar, do still exist. They are out there. And I gave them a lot of free advertising dollars on behalf of CBS. So that was great. Yeah. And you weren't one of those. A lot of times the house guests are sitting around being all coy about what they do, you know, in real life and even like lie about it.

But you were just straight up like, you know, talking movies all the time. And now, refresh my memory, did you, were you still in the house when they had that special prize where people got to watch some of the house guests got to watch the wild robot? No, I was eliminated before that. I was so mad. I always wanted a movie reward But yeah, no, I was not there for that But if you had been there for that and they didn't choose you for it You would have been on the warpath because that would have been a real bummer

Right. Yeah, I definitely would have Shunned my ass to everybody and like giving them something to air on TV of me screaming at someone or something yeah, cuz That the amount of days you were in that house and the in they you know quarantine they put you through beforehand Is that was that the longest you probably ever gone without seeing a movie? Yeah So you have movies before you get into the house and you can watch like a little bit.

I think the last movie I watched before I went in was Go, which is like a great film. But yeah, but yeah, I went 52 days without watching really anything. Right, yeah, unless they put some dumb AI thing on the screen or something, you don't have anything to really? Watch so I know between not being able to smoke weed and not being able to see movies

I think I'd have a I'd have a rough time Your force to interact with people and who wants to do that you know But thank you for interacting with us today. Yeah. And our third guest, you know, sometimes referred to as the ringer. I don't think I need to say anything else about him. It's Sam Levine. Oh, hi, Doug.

Thanks for being here, Sam-o. Buddy, it is my pleasure. And I don't know if you know this about me. I feel like we've talked about this, but, you know, I'm what they call a big brother super fan. Oh, no Winky dink is this it is a delight to be on the show with Joseph. That's amazing and Brian I don't want to leave Brian out Also to be here with you Sam it's so funny. I actually had no idea who's gonna be on this and then when I saw your icon pop up I was like, holy crap the ahead of time that Sam's gonna be here because they'll, you know, they'll chicken out.

No. No way that's ever happened. All right, well thank you for being here, all three of you, but before we play our games today and crown a new champ, no kings, I'd like to visit. That hashtag? I could hear the hashtag. You could hear it. I'd like to visit.

This is another thing I should hashtag recommendation nation. That's where each of you takes a moment to recommend one movie, a legit recommendation, Sam, not a fuck around. I'm done with that game. Wonderful. Well, last.

All right. What do you got for us this time Sam? I'm gonna recommend a film I saw in theaters yesterday Boy, I wonder if it's the same one. I saw yesterday probably not. Oh, okay 28 years later. Holy shit. You saw that I did Okay, first of all I did. Okay, first of all, you're not, you're seeing that, you saw that because you're more into, if you're going to see horror, it's got to be arty horror. Not necessarily.

I have no sub genre of horror that I enjoy more than others. So you, why do I get the impression that like isn't your thing, really? I mean, it's not... I wouldn't say it's in my top genres of film, but I have enjoyed the first two films in the 28 later universe. And so I was very curious and excited because Boyle and Garland reteaming. And so my wife and I went and saw a matinee yesterday. Now it's been so long now, because it's like 18 years ago since the last one, a few years before that, to the original. Was there, did everyone talk about or was there a drop off

in quality with the second one with not having Boyle and Alex Garland as the writer and director? I mean, quality is an interesting word. I mean, they definitely had a bigger budget on the second one. So there's a lot more going on, but I mean, it was a decidedly different story. It's a much bigger story in the second movie.

And so I've, you know, I probably prefer the first one over the second one, but I enjoyed the second one. I thought it was a good, a logical step in the direction they were headed. And this one threw me the most recent one, 28 years later, threw me. It was I was expecting something different, but the more I've thought about it since seeing it

and especially understanding that it is meant to be part one of a trilogy. I think that's hugely important for fans to know. Oh, that's so funny because when it ended, I was just like, well, I guess there's going to be another one. Like I did not know that going in that they intended to do more. So like the ending could not be, you know, it's quite the setup for the next one. Yes, it is. Which I don't think gives anything away,, right? That's not a spoiler.

I don't think so. And I mean, it's been pretty publicly known that they intended this to be a trilogy. They've already shot the second one. That one's in the can and supposed to come out early next year, I think. Well, I can't wait to talk more about it when, you know, you can actually talk about details because it's really got some interesting things. But I think he's deserved it for years. Let's go ahead and start the campaign.

Ray Fiennes, best supporting actor. I'm here for it. He is so goddamn good at this movie. Even in movies he doesn't appear in, he should be getting nominations. Yeah, that's if Ray Fiennes is watching a movie, he's probably doing it with sensitivity and intelligence. And a take on it that no one else has. Just give him the awards already.

Yeah, he's fantastic in the movie. But again, I don't want to say too much about it, other than thumbs up from Sam and Doug, the new hosts at the movies. Which is funny, right? Brian? Well, I was going to suggest a movie called 28 Years Later. But I haven't seen it yet, but we're going to go this weekend.

But I fucking love Danny Boyle. I think Sunshine is a truly underrated weird movie, which maybe that's it. Go see Sunshine. Oh, this is fun. Danny Boyle's space movie, which I was came out a long time ago and I think is about terrorism in a way that you might or might not and how it makes us all crazy. But maybe that was just me at the time.

But it's a fantastically weird space movie that's better than it has any right to be. Well, you know, that's the thing I was going to say earlier about 28 Days Later and Danny Boyle coming back to the franchise is that, you know, even if I didn't like previous ones, but I did, I've just, I've got to be a Danny Boyle completist at this point. If he makes a movie, I'm going to watch it. I'm not going to love every one of them, but the guy is just an interesting filmmaker. For sure. For sure. And lots of, yeah, lots of God, there's so many interesting,

like, you know, especially for, you know, a horror movie 28 years later, really, there's a lot to sit with and think about. And, you know, it's two hours long and when it ended I was like what I was ready for more and that is rarely the case you know because they also end on a it's so cool anyway okay so Joseph you got a favorite Danny Boyle movie I actually like in preparation for Big Brother, watch Slumdog Millionaire because I'm like, this is going to be my experience. Like he's on a game show. I'm going to go on a game show.

But no, I like Danny Boyle a lot like Trainspotting. Honestly, 28 Days Later is I'm not just saying this like my favorite horror movie of all time just because it shifts so radically from like a movie about like you know zombies to like a movie about how man is the real enemy and but does it like pretty seamlessly. So I'm looking forward to the new one. Yeah I think think you'll like it. But what would you like to recommend today? So my recommendation, we're going to go a little bit back. It's a 1989 horror cult classic, Phantom of the Mall, colon, Eric's Revenge.

However, it is not a sequel, even though it sounds like a sequel, Phantom of the Mall, Eric's Revenge. Also they reveal the identity of the killer in the movie title, which is hilarious. But yeah, so this movie is about this guy whose house is intentionally burned down and they build a mall over it and he haunts the mall and starts killing people in the mall. It is the famous Sherman Oaks Galleria, which was also the mall. Chopping Mall, Terminator 2, Fast Times. Commando. Arnold Schwarzenegger does that, or Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double does that thing in Commando where there's that, like that balloon banner thing that he's on top of the elevator and he flies across the mall on it. It's amazing. Yep.

So, do you know what year this was? This was in 1989. It features a young Paulie Shore. I think it's one of his first movies. It also features the guy who plays the most interesting man in the world in the Doseki commercials. He's in it. His name is like Jerry Goldstein or something, I think. Yeah, yeah.

He doesn't have the beard, so it's like super jarring. There's a lot of cool kills. You know, Paulie Shore, obviously the comedic relief. It's just like a really good, super watchable bad horror movie. Yeah, that sounds sounds like something. Just last week on the show, on the last episode of the show, someone recommended the movie Secret Mall Apartment, which is a...

Oh my God. It's a documentary about people finding a weird little space in a mall and moving in there and living in there illegally and filming the whole thing. Yeah, that's right. It was really good. Yeah, so I think what you're trying to tell us is you love mall movies

In the mall as well as working at the video store, so it's a very mall movie theater centric I am I Frequented the movie theater that Ratner works at in fast times at Ridgemont High Regular Ratner, yeah, it was called the Pacific Four. It was the Pacific Theater chain. They had four screens and it was not a good theater really. But that's where I saw Ferris Bueller. Yeah.

The movie, not the fictional person? What's that? I said the movie, Ferris Bueller, not the fictional person? the but in his defense though he was on a European vacation and nobody understood what he was saying which is the premise of Brian's movie. Yeah, very relatable. Yeah. Way to tie it in. Right, but I guess also they do speak English where where that incident happened. Wasn't dirty dancing with him when it happened? Yes.

Jennifer. Yes. I knew what you meant. God, it was having a conversation with Frank Costanza. So that movie The Net with the girl from the bus. Jennifer's gray's gray's old nose saw that accident. Her new nose doesn't know anything about it. Well, thanks for those sweet ass recommendations, gentlemen. We're going to take a break and when we get back, we're going to play some games. BRB. Today's episode is brought to you in part by Shopify.

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What was that? That was Deep Impact. And the guy's name was Spurgeon. Spurgeon. Yeah, it's Robert Duvall's character Spurgeon. I guess it's a memorable name. And I don't I don't feel like I was mad at you. You know, mad at you for knowing stuff. I'm really mad at you all the time.

No. OK. Surprised. I think you were surprised. Constantly angry. All right. So let me explain this game to Joseph and Brian. The three of you are going to take turns guessing the answers on this one. It's called so and so in the something something because of that format of movie title like Harold and the Purple Crayon, Choo Choo and the Philly Flash, Thelma and the Purple Crayon, Choo-Choo and the Philly Flash, Thelma and the Louise.

So... BOTH LAUGH I've taken movies that don't have that format of a title and made up a new title that applies using one of the main characters' names or a character from the movie's name and then something else, some other pertinent piece of information

Sometimes a spoiler These should be tough at first and get easier as we go along So don't get too panicked if it seems super hard the first person Yes No, you're good. Oh the first person to get three right or the most out of seven will be the winner. The order will be alphabetical by first name, so we'll start with Brian. If Brian doesn't get it, then Joseph gets a crack at it. If he doesn't get it, Sam gets a shot.

If all three of you miss, we just hang our heads in shame and move on to the next round. Every time somebody gets one right, the next person will get to go first in the next round Brian, are you ready? I hope so What movie do you think? Could have been called Maggie Fitzgerald and the punishing stool. Oh Fuck punishing stool. Oh, fuck. All I can think of is Rachel at the wedding, which is definitely incorrect.

I love that you thought of anything because I don't know how you got to that movie, but that is not the answer. Joseph, do you think you know what it is? Maggie Fitzgerald and stool like stool problems punishing stool Stool, okay I don't know But it's a good thing we clarified.

Yes. Sam? Million Dollar Baby Duck. That is correct. Jesus Christ. It's Maggie Fitzgerald. It's McCushley, you guys. Yeah, and you know, as you may recall, Hilly Swank, as Maggie Fitzgerald hits her head on a stool and it does not work Out well for her. Yeah

This could be all spoilers all the time on this episode All right, so Sam's on the board Brian Europe first on this next one Jonathan Trager and the inevitable conclusion Traeger and the inevitable conclusion Like I said they start off difficult except for Sam And then sure get easier the shaming and make them mad I feel confronted Jonathan Traeger like to grill

Okay, what what is Alex what is Gone girl Yeah, it's pretty inevitable that the girl would be gone. Then she isn't. Incorrect. Joseph. Keeping with the theme, we'll say God, baby God. Just in case. I mean, these things start off with the sub something being gone, but that's not right.

Sam, if you know this one, Sam. I do not. I do not. Jonathan Trager and the inevitable decision. No conclusion. Oh, conclusion. Excuse me. It's not a decision at all.

Oh, it's not. So it's not Sophie's choice. It's's not. No, it's inevitable conclusion. No, not Sophie's choice. Was that your guess? It was the inevitable decision. Yeah. The inevitable conclusion. I really have no, that is not ringing any bells.

So I'll say 2012. Great guess. Thank you. Great guess. Thank you. Jonathan Drager is played by the great John Cusack. Oh my God, is it 2012? No, but crazy that you said that. He of course, he's Jonathan Drager and he is in a case of serendipity. Oh, yeah, I would have never remembered.

Yeah. So, I mean, most romantic comedies, you know, the whole time you're getting together, but that one really sells it right there in the title. Yeah. OK, so Sam's on the board with one. We go back to Brian with round three. Donna and three men men but no baby. Oh my god. Three men but no baby. I'm thinking, shit, is it that movie with Chris and Wig and they're doing a robbery

and it's Owen Wilson and Galifianakis? Oh, Masterminds? Yeah. No. Joseph? Donna Three Men. No, baby. No, baby.

I think it's like a Donna Summers autobiography of some sort. I don't know how many men Donna Summer was with. I bet you she did all right for herself. Yeah. She's queen of disco you guys. Yeah. So yeah.

Is Thank God It's Friday your guests. Yes Be wrong Sam I Have bring it. Oh, come on. I have low confidence in this guest, but it's all I can think of is it mama mia Yeah, he does have a baby with one of those three dudes, but in the movie, it's a grown woman. Yeah. Played by everybody's favorite, Amanda Seyfried, but mostly Brian's favorite because he's she's in his movie. Yeah. Oh, this is must be embarrassing for you, Brian. I'm so sorry. It's'm so sorry I was at the premiere

All right, Sam is killing it with two points, but it doesn't mean it's over because Brian is up next Carl show Walter and the wood chipper. It's got to be Fargo, right? That is it. It is Fargo. Nicely done. Joseph. I was going to get that. No, I know, right. I bet you Sam would have to. Oh, come on.

I've I've seen that wood chipper. It lives in Fargo, North Dakota. Do they have like a plaque on it or something? It's in the visitor center in Fargo, North Dakota. I have photos with it. It's great. What a bizarre guy. That would be so cool if it got used again. You know, I mean, if somebody pulled off putting another person in it.

There's a fake leg sticking out of it Oh, you're kidding now talking everything that is nasty Oh my god, and then they just pay Peter Storm air to like You know stick his face out from around the around the corner and scare people Okay, Joseph Merritt McKinney and the Magic Hat. Merit McKinney and the Magic Hat. Oh gosh. I'm, my first thought is Harry Potter just because of the sorting has the beginning. I have nothing else.

Oh, that's not a bad at least you had a connection there with the sorting hat. Sam Merritt McKinney and the magic hat. Jack Hat. I feel like this is, I feel like maybe you're, it's like a VR thing. Cause the name does not ring a bell. I mean, all of these names aren't supposed to ring any bells, but you've got special bells. Well, existence, how about that? How about this? No, no.

Yeah. Zero confidence in Nick. All right, Brian. Uh, OK, hold on. It's coming. I think I have it. Oh, boy. Uh, it's it's it's a Halloween movie with Bette Midler in it. And I just watched it with my kid. What the fuck is it called? Focus focus final answer incorrect. Oh fantastic Yeah, I mean that's just just a future tip But I when I say the title to you when you don't know it

When I say the title to you when you don't know it, that's not going to be the correct answer. I'm just trying to save you from torture and try to come up with what will be the wrong answer. Merritt McKinney, did you all guess? Yeah. Yeah. Merritt McKinney is the name of a stupid character in a stupid movie Called now you see me oh wow

And I just assume his hat is magic as he always Who plays Merritt McKinney? Well the one in the hat. It's Woody Harrelson. Oh my god Yeah, no, I'm sure all of their names are terrible if you take the time to find out what they are. But yeah, Merritt McKinney. Very well. I feel like they missed a trick on the third one, which is not, for some reason, called Now You Three Me. I mean, it was.

They've been blowing it every step of the way, because the second one should have been called Now You Don't. Right. It was right there and then now they now you three me would be so cool now you see me now you don't now you three me but now this third one is now you see me now you don't they did the whole thing i think which is also uh the name of a uh kurt rus comedy. Where he would actually, he had the power to be invisible. All right. We're back to Joseph. Yeah.

You're up first for this one. Like I said, we should be getting into easier ones. Okay. Sally Albright and the deli incident The deli Brave little toaster. Hmm. No Sam. What is it? It's when Harry met Sally. That is correct. I'm so glad we didn't get to the really easy ones because they were Al Gore and an inconvenient truth. And the final one was going to be Hans Gruber and the Death Drop, parentheses, spoiler alert.

All right. Congratulations, Sam. Of course, winning that first game means little to nothing. It's just a warm up for our next game that we will play when we come back. We'll be right back We are back and Sam won that first game so he gets to go first in Our next game and it's one you're gonna love Sam. Oh boy And then we'll go Sam Joseph Ryan because we flip the order around and

It's a game that I call deadhead summer. Oh, what? What do you think deadhead summer is about? I don't know. Summer movies featuring songs of the Grateful Dead. No. Okay. Too specific.

Yeah. It's summer right now. It's the only reason why the summer part and Deadhead is because this is a game about zombie movies, which I'm now realizing all three of you should excel at. So we will we will see how this works out. Okay. In honor of 28 days or excuse me, years later, opening this weekend and Sam and I having seen it and liked it very much. Um, I found a list on the internet. You can find a list of almost any stupid thing these days, but this is a good topic

To Find out what people out there are thinking and maybe discover some new zombie movies. I wrote down according To one list I found on the internet of a fairly I won't tell you where I got it from I'll tell you later, but it's you know, it's a reputable source. It's still Opinion based of course. It's a list of the ten best zombie movies, that's the only Descriptive is just zombie. They're just zombie some sort of zombie Movie so I wrote down the top ten and the three of you will take turns guessing movies that you think will fall into the top ten best zombie movies according to somebody higher up on the list your guest is the more points you get will take turns until each of you have guessed three titles and

then we'll add up the points and Pick a winner and If it's not in the top ten that of course would be worth zero points. Is sorry, I might have missed this is in 28 days later is is or is not on the list. I didn't say anything about anything being on the list. I just said that just just the intro in honor of 28 years later so That's the only clue is that I'm basing this game off of

that movie being out currently and This is all zombies Sam Well, you're up first. What's the first movie that comes in your head? It is the best zombie movie of all time Jesus sorry. Well, I just you know, I want to make sure everybody has all the same information before we start This this was posted this list in 2021. Oh Mmm, so don't go any anything to current. Okay, that is important. I appreciate that. All right, Sam, go ahead. I'm still going to say 28 days later.

Now, you know that I often set traps. Yes. Where, you know, you would assume that 28 days later would be very high up on the list. Yes. And it sort of is. It's number three. three okay I'll take it 28 days later sorry Brian that I'm sure Sam would have said that anyway even if you didn't ask 100% correct so Sam gets eight points for that because

it's number three. And now we go to Joseph. What do you think is a better or you know, what's the best zombie movie Joseph? Just got to go with the original Night of the Living Dead. You know, it's like, I feel like a lot of people have kind of moved on because there have been so many It's seems to be a little bit forgotten and and remade quite a bit, but it is number one Congratulations Joseph out of the gate with ten points But it's still anybody's game

Brian what's your first guess? I was going to go Sean of the dead. Number two on the list, you guys are killing this. You absolutely killing it. So Brian has nine points. So you're all one point off of each other. So now it's going to be the trick is going to be finding these movies that landed four through ten

What's your second guess Sam? I gotta go dawn of the dead You have to I think so Is there a law or something? No It's one of my favorites. I will say that. I don't know if it's number one, because it's just, there's so many of them now. But you know, certainly at the time, I thought it was the best zombie movie. And I even liked quite a bit of the remake of Dawn of the Dead. But anyway, it's number four on the list. So seven more points for Sam. As long as he doesn't nail another one, he still can be surpassed, especially by

Joseph. Well, Brian and Joseph both have an excellent shot at this. What's the next one that comes to mind for you, Joseph? I got to go just as I think it's going to be on there. I will go with Day of the Dead. Interesting. The third and final, or was it even Romero did another one after that too, right? Yeah. But that's the final one of that trilogy. Yeah.

Yeah, because you can't have four movies in a trilogy. Right. And unfortunately, Joseph, it did not make the cut. No. I know. So we get a little circle there under Joseph's name for that one. Brian, probably over there racking your brain. What have you come up with?

I'm thinking 2021. I'm thinking this is an out. This is a bank shot, admittedly. Bank shot. I'm going to go sort of it. Not really is it zombie movie, but it has a zombie element. Is this crazy? Should I not do it? I don't know. I feel like. I feel like when you're guessing zombie movies, a zombie element

might not be enough, but then maybe it maybe it is so I don't I don't want to scare you. Maybe I'll save it. Maybe I'll save it for a third Hmm fuck now. I'm stuck. I'm just confused by I'm trying to think of a movie that isn't a zombie movie, but as a zombie element That's an interesting I Was gonna okay fuck it I'm gonna go I'm gonna go safe and then I'll go risky next one That's an interesting. I was going to. Okay, fuck it. I'm going to go. I'm going to go safe and then I'll go risky next one.

Okay, I'm going zombie land. Excellent decision on your part because zombie land is number six on the list. That's worth five points. So we're really all we really all quite clustered together at this point. Because the person who can name number five is probably going to win this thing. Oh, boy.

If somebody can name number five. But Sam, you can either way, even if you don't get number five, you get eight, nine, 10, seven, eight, nine, or 10, you'll still put some more points on the board, which could be helpful. Yeah. So what's your third and final guess? Sam. Oh, my God. I mean, man, I really wish you'd taken your big chance there, Brian. I was so I had zombie land locked and loaded.

Oh, man, there's so many to choose from at this point. But they're all I feel like they're going to rank so much lower in the list. It's not going to be zombie land to double tap. I can I can tell that in my bones. But at least you know, it's called double tap. Yeah, I know. Because that one always throws people off. All right. I doubt that this is even on the list, but I enjoy this movie very much.

So I will say World War Z. Yeah, why isn't World War Z on the list? I don't know. That is a good answer, I think. What happened with that movie? Like, I felt like when it first came out, everybody was like super into it. But then it just sort of got forgotten kind of quickly. Was it to CGI the zombies?

I don't remember what anyone's problem with it was. I know they had a lot of production problems and they like reshot the ending. And well, the ending is also the last part of the movie is just Brad Pitt running around in a facility and hardly any zombies, I think. So it's like kind of it kind of goes to a weird place. Yeah. But anyway, you're still in the lead, Sam. OK, well, not so long, I'm sure. But unfortunately, World War Z did not make the top ten.

That's alright, I gave it my best shot. Yeah, no, it was a good, it was a reasonable shot. These are all reasonable guesses. Okay, good. But Joseph, what do you think is number five? Now I'm just like questioning everything. I'm like, is Re-Animator a zombie movie? Like they come back, like does thatAnimator a zombie movie? Like, they come back. Like, does that count?

Does Evil Dead count? Do I just go safe and go, does I Am Legend, are they vampires? Are they zombies? Yeah, so that's kind of where I am. So I am- Wait, in I Am Legend, what do they do to you when they catch you? Do they just eat you? Yeah, but then they also can't come out during daylight.

So they're like vampire slash their vampire zombies. It'd be funny to see one of those kind of zombies noticing they can't see the reflection in the mirror and then realizing they're vampires. That was I think I'm Legend is another one where, you know, it's kind of a cool movie, but I think the effects must not be so great anymore. You know, because it looks kind of like a video game. Yeah, doesn't hold up well. Yeah, doesn't hold up well.

But. OK, so I will go with the one that I think is closest to qualifying, which is Re-Animator. I think it counts as a zombie movie, but unfortunately, it's not in the top 10. But yeah, I think being reanimated certainly qualifies it. All right, so let me set up this exciting finish. Sam. Oh Jesus.

Sam has 15 points. Brian has 14 points. Oh my God. So if Brian can get pretty much anything, but You know number 10 Is worth one point so that would just tie it up, but if he gets five Seven eight or nine Then

He could win this thing. No pressure at all brian Oh my god, I can't this is that's like taking fucking games, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is like taking my fucking SNP. You've seen squid games, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. This is like that. So no pressure. Now I'm like, now that it's close, I feel like I can't do my fucking crazy one. Oh, that's a good point. We would love to hear your crazy one later though, if you...

Do it. Do it. If you feel so inclined. But Sam wants you to do it now I wanted you to do it last round and then this thing would be over and I'd be sipping lemonade and living in the Maldives oh my god I was gonna say before the Maldivesives part, you could go ahead and have some lemonade right now. You don't have to. No, only if I win. You have to wait. The deal I've made. I'm going to go Evil Dad,

and then I'll tell you the other one later. Okay. Evil Dad did not make the list. Yeah. Honey, get the lemonade. Congratulations. And don't shrink the lemonade, honey. Sam Levine has done it again. Oh, man. What a surprise. You are our winner, Sam. Congratulations. Thank you.

Before I tell you the remaining movies that were missed, Sam gets to do since he's the winner, he gets to do his plugs. What would you like to promote, Sam? Oh, well, definitely come find me on Cameo. I've been having a lot of fun there recently. I made a lot of fun roasting videos, and I got a very good apology video recently requested. So, if you need to apologize to someone or break bad news, definitely come find me on Cameo. And of course, you know, birthdays, graduations, that sort of thing as well. But yeah, come find me there and check out City of Dreams,

a harrowing film about human trafficking that I play an absolute monster in. Streaming now, somewhere, go find it, City of Dreams. What's the, like, is there a cut off on the how horrible the news can be that you break to somebody like? Um, I mean, I leave it to their discretion. But like, how would you feel about it? Like somebody said, well, could you tell so and so that somebody died or something like that?

Yeah, I would do that. You'd break that news? I could do it. Sure. And for the rest of their dog, the rest of their dog, Greeks and geeks told me I, you know, my dog died. Here's the thing. It's it's one of those weird things where sometimes the brain can't really comprehend or it resets the brain in such a way where it allows you to

to ingest the news differently, I think. When you're getting it from a source, your brain is so not prepared to have gotten it from. And so that's my hope. Yeah, they think, oh, he's here to give me a nice message. And then you're like, sorry, your dog died. Right. And I'm the one that ran it over in the street.

Well, I wouldn't admit to that, you know, for legal reasons, but yeah, no, I would be very nice about, I have been very nice about breaking the bad news when I do it. All right, well, you know, that's how you want to spend your days. Well, I mean, it isn't, but this is, you know, where life has led me,

so I want to embrace it. I'm sure you're, you know, very good at it and you're very good at this. And we will see you back soon as a champion. But now I want to hear Brian's wild guess. Again, kind of in the same thing that Joseph was talking about, like, is this a zombie movie? I was going to go with Get Out.

Oh, that's I'd call that a hypnosis movie. Hmm. That's right. I think there I think it's all about hypnotizing people. I'd also call it I'd also say it was about racism. Right. Really? Which very few zombie movies have done that.

I've never gotten a racism vibe from Get Out. That's crazy. You saved it for us and nope. All right. So first of all, let me just say that nobody should feel bad about not getting all 10 of these because these were chosen by the editors of Esquire magazine. Of course, the go-to source for zombie movie rankings. Yeah, they seem like a kind of an esoteric crowd that would maybe not be that into zombie movies, but they clearly got some

really good ones here in the top, you know, because you especially the top three Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, 20 Days Later, there's hard to argue with those three and Donald the Dead fourth. Hard to argue with that. But things get a little weird for the rest of the list because number 10 is Zombie 2. Oh, I was almost going to guess that. I swear to God, I was almost almost I mean it would be worth one point But this would have been one point you want to want harder. Yeah, I get well That's the I mean if I know you guys will know this that's the one where the wood goes through the eye and the zombie

Yeah, see or the ocean well Esquire Specifically points out that some of the kills really hold up like they're really good. And this was made this an Italian movie where the idea was let's make a sequel to Dawn of the Dead without getting permission. Like, let's just do it. And then and then so the baller. So Italian. The first movie that that that guy made. But it's called Zombie 2. I don't get because. Yeah. Go ahead, Doug. That right that that guy made but it's called zombie to Doug it's all because yeah, I'm going to and zombie is there's no e at the end of zombie. It's just z o m b I it's because when they released on to the dead in Italy, they called it zombie. That's it. There you go

So then he just added it to to you I mean, I wish there was more people out there making unauthorized sequels Mean I wish there was more people out there making unauthorized sequels But then I guess honestly I guess if their lawyers are good though that you know of the original movie with the Unauthorized or never seen a light of day, but but zombie 2 is considered a classic Super high me too right now Number died is another one that I was surprised by because I guess it's a zombie movie. Planet Terror.

Oh, come on. Hmm. Yeah. Half of Grindhouse. Get off your high horse, Esquire. That just seems like going out of your way to pick something that doesn't immediately I guess they're there are they are zombies but I you visually you just think of you know the leg that's a gun or whatever. Number eight is a pretty cool movie but again we're getting into esoteric area here It's from director Peter Jackson.

Oh, Dead Alive! Dead Alive. Yeah, I thought about that. Yeah, that's got some pretty cool stuff in it. And then number four is another one that's just like, well, good for them. It's a broad reach. It's not just recent movies, but it's a white zombie

No Which of course inspired Rob Zombie Bad zombie land of course was number six and then number five Which by the way, why isn't anybody just open to zombie land like rides but also you're constantly being harassed by people in walking dead costumes? Number five, this is where I thought you were going to maybe go Brian when you were saying I've got one that I'm not sure if it counts as a zombie movie and I also thought that maybe Joseph would land on this when he was speaking of Reanimator, technically being a zombie movie, because their number five is the original Frankenstein. Oh, that's a reach.

That's like, isn't that weird? That's weird. Zombie movies. I mean, they try to justify it in the text by talking about how it's you know a corpse put together and reanimated but i guess you could call it a solo zombie movie if that's in there is the steve martin classic the man with two brains also in there that did not make it

did not make it, It's not number 11. Yeah. Well also their list has the temerity to be 18 titles long. So some of the other ones you mentioned might be in the other, uh, uh, the other eight, but, uh, for the purposes of this game, I

did not pay attention to that gentlemen. Great job all around. Brian Crano, your movie. I don't understand you. Which is not the story of bad cell phone service. It's in theaters now but available tomorrow to watch in your own damn home and laugh and jump because I'd say it's the funniest movie that has lots of jump scares. Is that fair to say? Thank you.

That's so nice. Yeah, I think so. That was the goal. Yeah. Appreciate that. That's another thing that's cool about 28 years later is it's pretty serious most of the time, but also has some really funny stuff in it. I love Danny because he's not afraid to do shit like that.

He'll go nuts. I love it. Yeah. Well, speaking of going nuts, this is a good question for Sam because you saw the movie. I did. Why are so many of the zombies, do they say out loud why so many of them are naked? They don't say it out loud. But I guess the assumption is if these people have been, you know, wandering around, crawling along the ground or whatever, it's really just a matter of time

before their clothing sort of disintegrates or gets ripped away from them. And you've seen everything. But also, I like that. I like that. That's a good explanation. Yeah, and also it's hot and the zombies are just trying to cool down and they don't care about public decency. Body shaming.

Yeah, there's no body shaming in the zombie community. There's no body shaming. It's a very accepting community. And Danny Boyle doesn't care either. I haven't seen that many running dicks since Red Rocket. Well, I mean, it kind of relates to the first one because you get that full frontal Killian introduction. Yeah.

Killian is Jesus, Naked Jesus. Yeah. Oh, Sam, also, how do you feel about everybody kind of lost their minds thinking that Killian was going to be in this one? Right. Well, that's the power of the internet. Yeah, it sure is. Because he is listed as a producer on it. So, yeah, that's cool. All right. But anyway, see Brian's movie anyway you can. And thank you for going through this process a second time and say hi to your partner for me.

He will be thrilled that I lost. He'll be the first to rub it in. Joseph Rodriguez, what an amazing debut on the show. You had answers, you had knowledge. Right. I had wrong answers. I think I had at least one right one. Yeah. Yeah. What I want to plug is my YouTube channel,

Joey Loves Movies. I do movie reviews from a store. So you can check that out. You're also involved with the actual brick and mortar theater in Tampa? Yeah. The Sunrise Cinema, which I believe that you're familiar with. Yeah, because the guy that owns it used to have the Sunray Cinema in Jacksonville. Yeah.

Right? One day my boss comes up to me and he's like, do you know Benson somehow? He said that Joseph Rodriguez from Big Brother is posting about this movie theater. But yeah, yeah, so I work at a brick-and-mortar one now trying to keep the movie theater dream alive independently It's obviously not owned by like a big franchise or anything. It's more of a mom-and-pop thing, but it's fun yeah, I can't wait to come check it out sometime and Thanks for doing the show and we'll certainly have you back sometime in the future. Doug Plugs, Saturday June 28th Tacoma Washington at 420. I'm doing

Douglas Movies at the Tacoma Comedy Club and then on July 1st I will be back in Los Angeles with another Benson movie interruption at Dine-C typewriter all of my dates and deeds and links are at Douglovesmovies.com and I end every episode with a Last line from a movie and so just out of curiosity because when Harry Met Sally came up in this episode I looked it up what the last line of when Harry Met Sally is and it's short and I don't even remember what it is in response to but it's not for a movie full of quotable lines. It is not particularly quotable.

But Ryan, be ready with the end theme because it's super short. Thank you again, Brian Craynaud, Joseph Rodriguez, Sam Levine. As always, right. Other talkies, eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky There's no room in his heart for you, cause Doug loves movies!