Doug Loves Movies - Yourgo Artsitas, Kenice Mobley and Ellory Smith guest

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

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Doug hates candy wrappers screening maybe sticky seeds with 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see because Doug. Hey, hey, hey, everybody. My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies recording on a Wednesday afternoon, August 19th, 2026 for release as we do every week these days on Thursday. And my guests, who had to listen to the theme song, I don't know if the listeners realize this, but even on these Zoom shows, we listen to the theme song. It's short and peppy, but boy, have I heard it a lot of times. And so have these guests, because they are all repeat offenders, I mean participants.

They are Your Gord, Cetus, Kinesse, Mowgli, and Elery Smith. Hello. Hello. Let's meet everybody individually, alphabetically by first name. She can be seen tonight, Thursday, August 20th, at Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles in a show called No Boys Aloud. It's Ellery Smith. Hi. Is that true?

No boys are allowed. I think there are boys on the lineup. There are. I think there are. I swear I looked at the lineup list and they all seem to. like women lady names

well I'll let you guys know I'll file a complaint about it but that does that just means though that's just a fun

name for a show with lots of ladies on it and men can attend right yes I believe that men can attend remember there was a whole

flap when Eliza Slesinger tried to do shows just for women and some dumb and us men complained I want to go

no you you don't, you're crazy man. That's all I have, that's all of my questions for you for the time being, Eleree. Okay. Thanks, Doug. She is one of Time Out Magazine's

Comics to Watch. It's Kinesse Mobley. Hey, Keney. Hello! Thank you for having me. So, did you, what kind of exciting things came your way after Time Out Magazine decided to watch you? Well, some people liked the Facebook posts, and I would say, oh my God, I'm so old,

Instagram posts, oh my God. But the outcome is the same Facebook or Instagram. A few people liked it, and they said, oh, wow, can you still exist? And I do, in fact, still exist. Yeah, that's nice to have that confirmation. And I think Facebook, speaking of things it exists, Facebook still exists. It makes you seem old if you just reference Facebook these days? I think so. I think it makes me seem old because

yeah, it's just for the old. There are some communities on there which I use very regularly. Like my local buy nothing group is a Facebook group and that's like mainly the reason I log into Facebook anymore but it still does make me feel a million years old.

Well we know you're way shy of that and thank you for being here he was a recent winner at the comic con-con show we did in sweet home san diego it's still maker yorgo i'd seat this hey yorgo hey how's it going doug i uh i actually just got off facebook right before i got on here so uh i guess you can consider me one of the old people i'm just like i haven't set up so when I post something on like threads or Instagram, like it just also puts it on Facebook.

That's my involvement on Facebook. I never look at it. But my posts are there. And I get about 40 emails a day from Facebook about, oh, someone that you follow made a post. It's like, this is crazy. I don't know. I guess I could turn it off,

but what if Facebook really needs to get in touch? It's actually really hard to get, turn it off. There is so many different buttons you have to press to make it so like somebody that you met, you know, at a show 12 years ago. Their status isn't something that pops up into your email. It's, yeah, I mean, I just, you know, I just fly through it and delete them all, but it's still crazy how, how needy everything is these days. Like when you leave a streaming service, they're like, do you really want to leave? Like, where would you go? Like, just stay here.

Just scroll around for the rest of your life on this one's streaming service. Oh, well, you know what's funny? I actually, I use that to bring them to their knees because if you try to cancel, they'll be like, hey, actually, you get a couple months for 99 cents or whatever. I know, it's true. You get deals every time you try to get out. And I appreciate that, but that's also, that's, for me, that's too much work, like keeping track of when these things are going to, you know, expire and stuff.

Like, that's a real, I feel like that's a full-time job. But there was some fierce competition that you beat at the American Comedy Company, your go. But we've got some good competitors here today as well. Before we play some games, I'd like to ask each of you two questions. I know you normally might expect just the one question. Please recommend a movie. But I have a first question before that, and that is, what is, it's August something,

what is your favorite movie so far this year? We'll start with Elery. Do you have a movie that ranks number one? Hold on. I'm going to pull up my AMC steps because I actually cannot remember what I've seen this year. Oh, my goodness. How many movies do you think will be on there? A good amount.

I have an AMCA list. and I do try to use it. How often do you go outside of that, just for like maybe if you get invited to a special screening, or you're... If I get invited to a screening, if I do a... Benson movie interruption. A Benson movie interruption.

Absolutely. I see a lot of movies that way, but... That's not an AMC. There's never been a good movie. What do you think? Let's see. Well, the movie I'm recommending. I just saw Green Room for the first time.

Oh, okay. It was pretty good. All right. I like to Tom Turner. We'll get to that question. Oh, okay. The movie of the year. Oh, my gosh.

I'm sorry. I can remember any movies I've seen this year. Can you skip me and come back and I can think of one? Wait, I thought you were looking at your... I am, but it only shows me this month. Oh. It doesn't show me the whole year. You can, as you said it, I was doing the exact same thing, and you can select.

It says, like, there's a past 30. Days go to past year. Yeah. Thank you, Kennees. Of course. Good, long, long time, friend. Oh, my movie of the year was the drama. Okay.

That, of course, for anybody who doesn't remember, because that came out like in March, I think, is Pattinson and Zendaya, who, holy cow, those two and Tom Holland and Florence Pugh. I think all four of them, are in like four of the most massive movies of this year or probably any other. Like they're so huge and in more than one movie. Obviously, the drama is not making the same level of money as the Odyssey.

But my point is just that those two are really, we don't have movie stars anymore, but I think Pattinson and Zendaya are, and they can get something like this over the finish line because if you don't like them as actors, then this movie wouldn't be that great. Oh, 100%. And the movie is just, it really gnaws at you after you finish it.

You just start thinking about it and you ask everybody what they would do in that situation. The audience reaction was just so electric. I went in blind. I didn't know anything about it. And the way that people were reacting in the room, I think is what sold it for me. Agreed. Yeah, they did a great job of just getting you in the door just off of a very vague premise and two stars. and it is very effective.

Keneas, did you figure out scrolling through what would be your favorite this year? Okay, there are plenty of good movies, and I imagine that other people will bring those up. For me, one of my most enjoyable movie-watching experiences this year was taking an edible and going to see millions and monsters. I loved it. Minions and monsters, yes. Not versus. Nope. They're just two things.

They're in one movie together. And I got to say, Knieis, I love that movie too. Thank you. You know, and I don't know who was higher, but. Probably you. I'm a baby. I got good and messed up. But like, I went with my girlfriend and we saw it like at 10 a.m. screening.

And it was like, you know, at AMC where you can look at the map. and I saw like a couple single seats. And I'm like, you know, there's only two other seats sold in the whole theater because it was early on like Tuesday. And I looked at the map. Saw just a couple individuals. So like that's not somebody with a child or a child by themselves. That's just an adult who bought a ticket to see minions and monsters.

And so I went for it, looked at the map up until the last minute. And for whatever reason, like a bus load of like 40, you know, six years. year old. No. Just emptied into the, into the theater. And when the movie first started, they all jumped up and out of their seats and started jumping up and down like, like, you know, basically like minions. And then this movie is, that's how good this movie is.

These kids didn't bother us the whole movie. They all just sat down. They laughed at parts. But for the most part, they would just watch the movie. It was pretty amazing. I loved that. And like, the kids would. absolutely get something out of it, but the fact that there's like a minions

recreation of Citizen Kane, I was such a fan. Yeah, just all the tributes they do to old time Hollywood and just it's a love letter to filmmaking. So I think I've said this on the podcast before that I think it'll get, it may not win, but I think it'll easily get a nomination for best animated feature at the Oscars because, you know, the Oscars love movies about movies. Absolutely. And it's so the detail in that movie, like there's hardly a frame of that movie where there

isn't, you know, many things going on. Like it is really a feast for the eyes but never feels too chaotic. I'm like, oh, I think that has to be part of my weekend plan. I'm like, I've got to figure out where I can see it again and take some edibles and just have a good time. Yeah. Okay. So I'm, uh, this is worth two for, you know, two out of three.

I'm in agreement here. I still have a different movie that is my favorite of the year. But, uh, Yorgo, what's yours? Um, I, I'm torn on this. I want to say, uh, Nirvana, the band that show the movie. Right. Which rocks is incredible. And just a beautiful little, uh, male, uh, camaraderie movie.

But the movie that sticks out in my mind when I think of like the most, fun I had at a theater all year is send help with Rachel McAdams directed by me. I really, really loved it. I just fell all the way into it. I love a deserted on an island movie. Dylan O'Brien, who I was a little shaky on. He was tremendous as Dan Aykroyd in Saturday night, but I hadn't really seen him in anything. And he plays a dick just perfectly. And Rachel McAdams is a Perfect. She's awesome. I like her a lot, and she's been a huge part of my life for what, like 15 years? Yeah, all those reasons you gave her great reasons. It's super fun. It's super, it's very Sam Ramey. And the only thing I disagree with you on is being cast onto an island by yourself is not a genre that I get into.

but the fact that there's two people in this scenario really helps the situation. I mean, neither one of them has to talk to a volleyball. So, yeah, you're more six-day-seven nights last castaway. Yeah, I guess so. He brought up another one that having two actors didn't really help much. But, yeah, I'm just not a... I'm trying to think now, you know, what my favorite...

I mean, Blue Lagoon is, of course, a classic couple stuck on an island movie that just has very, very crazy parts. But, yeah, I can't think of a... I guess Michael Kane in the island is kind of a guilty pleasure movie of mine. Oh, interesting. I've never seen it. Yeah, it's a guy on an island and lots of crazy shit happens. All right, so moving on, we're going. We already have from Ellery Green Room is the movie recommendation because you just got around seeing that.

I did just get around to seeing it. Yeah. It was good. It was campy fun. I'd never seen Callum Turner and anything and I thought he was great. I wish I had a little more screen time of him, but he's so good. Yeah. And of course, Patrick Stewart, who's threatening to retire from acting.

Oh, fucking fantastic. Yeah, he's awesome. So, you know it's Patrick Stewart. and he's still scary as all hell. Like, it's like, you know, he's not Picard at all. Or a professor X. A friend of the show was, you know, involved in the most picture green room. And he's going to be coming up soon, Macon Blair,

who has a new movie coming out at the end of the month called Idiots that I got to see in advance. it's very good. Canis? Yes. Any movie from any year. You asked me what the best movie of the year was, and it made me go to truly last year. So I, this isn't the best movie of all time, but it's a movie I've rewatched, and I think about quite a bit.

It's companion. I love that movie. Let's go. All right. Nice move. It is great, that movie. I'm never tired of hearing people bring it up as a recommendation because everybody feels like it's not getting the recognition it deserves, but I will say that everybody who sees it seems to like it. And it was one of those things where it was such a great horror movie, so perfect, but then, you know, they got the January release.

Yeah. So that didn't really help. but people just assume everything in January is going to be garbage and that's a great movie. Jack Quaid plays a character that feels so real to me. Like, I swear I'm a nice guy who you're not surprised really when it turns out that he may not be. But if you haven't seen it, please check out Companion. As far as this is a phrase that I have come up with and it's not relevant to anything. But as far as like, hey, young woman cinema, when you're figuring out who you are, what you want to be in the world,

I think that's a great one because it warns you away from a certain class of dudes who is like, no, you're great. I would murder you, but you're great. That would be companion to be a good double bill with a promising young woman. I have not seen promising young woman. But I know, I know, but I like Saltburn a lot. I mean, I like that better than Saltburn, to be honest with you. Okay, then I'll watch it. Then I'll watch it.

Check it out when you get a chance. All right, what's your recommend for this episode, Yorgo? I'm going to go with a movie that almost everyone doesn't like, and I'm just sitting here on an island loving it. The Materialist, the movie with Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. I think it was marketed incorrectly, and I think if you watch it, it's really fascinating if you're in the mood for that. It's like if Aaron Sorkin did a Woody Allen movie, and it just kind of speaks at you the entire time. And the story actually undercuts all of the preaching that it does through the character's dialogue.

And I think it's really awesome, and I can't wait for people to rediscover it. I wish you'd said all this to me, like before I saw it, because I, I might have, you know, if I was watching it through your eyes, I might have appreciated it more. But I barely remember having seen it. Everybody hates it. I understand. Everybody hates it. Just how it goes.

But I love it. I think it's cold in the right way and it's deliberately not a rom-com. Yeah, on paper, I'm into it. So I should really, being sincere when I say when it comes to, you know, comes to, streaming, I might give it another go and see if, you know, I move in your direction as far as my feelings about it. Because I really, I didn't think, oh, that was bad. That wasn't my take on. It was more just like, I couldn't find anything to lock into. I couldn't stay interested. Yeah. I think what people really push back on is, I mean, there's a whole sub-scene that I don't

want to spoil. It's pretty rough. But there's also like the fact that Pedro Vescal is a rich guy who wants to get leg extension surgery. He already got like extension surgery. He used to be short is the big reveal. You're 100% right. He had already received it and got four inches or whatever and had become such a better taker. What was a unicorn in the marketplace or whatever Dakota Johnson says?

And yeah, it's just it's it has all those kind of things that are silly that if you're like expecting anybody but you or like sleep. people's in Seattle or something you're just going to push back on but it is I don't know I think it's really interesting all right I would you know I would never put anyone but you and sleep was in Seattle in the same category agreed oh I'm listening they're both rom-coms but you know one's ridiculous and the other one is sweet exactly so hard to sit through yes I could not deal with it I couldn't handle it like I was squirming like like Like, what is, like, the scene where, like, for some reason,

somebody's trying to get over somebody else on an airplane and just the, crawling and falling around, like, senselessly. Like, it was just like, do that. After they did that for 20 minutes, they should have said, oh, you know, we don't need this, you know? Like, it's so stupid. Anyway. But they sing the song at the end.

How dare you? That was so bad. I would sue if I was Natasha of Bettingfield. That was awful. Wait, what's it? I don't think I mean. made it to the end. Feel the rain on your skin.

Yeah. It is pretty rough. It's clearly they're trying for something, you know, at the end. They wanted to be Mama Mia, but they'll never be a Mama Mia. No, they wanted to be set it up, but they didn't even be, they weren't even set it up. No, they, you know, I hate how generic titles can be. What was the one with Jennifer Lawrence? It was really funny.

No hard feelings? Yeah. I was like a contestant in my own game show. No hard feelings. I love that movie, and that seems more like what anyone but you was kind of trying for. And now, this one night only movie I only hear bad things about, and that's the same director as anyone but you.

So I'm really loath to go see it on the big screen, even though I am an A-lister and can see four movies a week. But those were all good. great picks for this year and for previous years. And thank you for those. And we're going to take our first break when we come back. We'll play some games. We'll be right back.

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Willie Walker and the Chocolate Factory, Gil Daughtry and the celebrity, that's what this game is based on, movies with that kind of title. I've taken movies with a normal title, or I should say not a title that's the person's name, that's the lead character, and then something else.

Some more information. I've taken that format to movies that aren't in that format in the title. So I will say my new title, and then you have to guess what movie you think it is, and you get a point if you get it right, if you miss, the next person gets a shot at it

until all three of you've tried. If all three of you miss it, no one gets a point for that round. First person at two points, or best out of four rounds, is a winner. Ellery, are you ready? Yes. For the first title.

What movie do you think could have been called Marion Crane and the mid-movie plot twist. Marion Crane? Uh-huh. Is that the name of the character in the movie? Yes. Is it psycho? It is psycho.

How'd you figure it out? I just know that that's the only, because there's a big twist. Yeah. But it happens early. the famous shower scene is a mere 47 minutes into a movie that's like an hour and 40-some minutes long. Well, to me that's about halfway. Yeah, no, that's why I called it the mid-movie plot twist.

And so Ellery's all the board. Got the first one right. Let's see what Knieis can do with this one. Joel Barish and the magical memory erasing. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. You don't want to think about it? No. All right.

I see that movie way too many times. I wrote papers on that in grad school. I don't care if it makes me this basic person, but I fucking love that movie, dude. People do love that movie. I rarely hear anybody say anything negative about it. The only bad thing I have to say about it is I have to be in the mood to be extremely depressed. It's such a good movie. I can watch it once every five years.

It's so heavy Knie's. I mean, yes, I recognize this. It says something about me, but I'm like, I can pop that on at any time. No bother. It's a downer, is it? I don't know. It seems hopeful about humankind. That is such a you movie.

I love that. Yeah, that's a, you know, you should just tell people that, you know, on your, on first dates. I hope we tear each other apart. Yes, that's fantastic. All right, Yorgo, the pressure's on. People are nailing these so far. And here's yours. If you miss it, then Elery gets a chance at winning the game.

But Yorgo, what movie could be called Paul Edgecombe and the gentle giant. Okay. Nothing pops in like Eternal Sunshine did for Gines. Do you have a guess like Ellery's where you say the title, but with a question mark? I'm just trying to think of a gentle giant. And Paul Edgecombe, that rings a bell.

Paul Edgecom. Yeah, it should. Paul Edgecombe. and the gentle giant yeah uh peach dragon i have no idea i really i don't want to take up too much time peach dragon i you know i don't mind that as a guess i it is incorrect

i mean so i'm weird loud noise what a weird name for the little boy in that movie paul edgecombe oh here comes paul edgecombe and his dragon again Ellery what do you think it is is it the iron giant oh oh what a great guess clever but no Kinesse

okay I the name also struck of cord with me but I have absolutely no accurate guesses so he has a gentle giant you said a gentle giant

and it's not we've said it's not the iron giant and we said it's not Pete's dragon in. I know that's not the kid's name in, oh, the never-ending story. So I'm going to guess the guy in Terminator, he's not a gentle, nor is he a giant technically. A lot bigger than Edward Furlong.

Yes, yes, he is. But let me just make sure that you understand the phrasing here. It's Paul Edgecombe and the gentle giant. You said he has a gentle giant. He does not own this job. I was not assuming some slavery situation. I know that this is, he is with this person, not the owner of this person or this giant who is able to do what they want to do. And I'm like, fuck a duck.

I can't. I'm sorry. I can't think of it. I'm so sorry, guys. There was a Billy Crystal movie called My Giant that that also sounds like ownership, but it was just a guy that was like crazy tall. And I think Billy Crystal's character, like, tries to talk him into being in basketball. player or something. That's the whole premise of the movie?

Maybe he's a basketball player from another country and Billy Christmas to take care of him. I don't know what brings them together, but it's a silly movie called My Giant. But the answer to this question, though, Paul Edgecombe and the general giant, Paul Edgecombe is like, to me, it's like classic Stephen King name. I just, I hate his last names and his stories and books. and Edgecombe would be because there are always last names that you've never heard anybody have in the world

but the gentle giant is a great actor Michael Clark Duncan may he rest in peace and the movie is Tom Hanks in the green mind Oh But did you guys like that movie? I don't because again

Too depressing I was going to say another heavy one Yeah It makes me cry, but it's very long and it's a lot. That's my not watching it has nothing to do with it being sad at all. It's like, hey, is this black guy being like, I don't love the racial politics of this movie. Also, the fact that it talks about Tom Hanks, screwing his wife a bunch after getting his nuts healed, really bothered me for some reason. Oh, it's a movie. It's just disturbing all over the place.

like, you know, animal lovers can't enjoy it because of the way a little mouse is treated. And, yeah, it's just, you know, it reminds me of, like, a movie that dudes and film lovers in general, like, really put up there, a lot of them is their number one movies, Shawshank Redemption. And I can't make any prison movie, my number one movie, because watching people in prison is the most depressing thing. You know, especially as time goes on, it's more clear. prisons really are like just places to just throw, you know, dispose of people. So I can't really enjoy a prison movie unless it's, you know, like escape from Alcatraz. Thank you, Clint Eastwood. I was wondering what would happen at the end.

Sounds like you got out of there. It's real nail biter. All right. So, okay, so we're back to New Yorko gets to go on this one. You can push, you can force a three-way tie here, you go. Yorgo, if you get this one. Oh, you do you. The movie is, I call it,

juror number eight and the 11 Furious Fellas. That's so easy. Wow. That is a gimmie, dog. Well, Yorgo is silent. I don't know nothing. This has made me feel, now there's more pressure on me. It's like, this is a layup.

Juror number eight. Uh-huh. And 11 Furious Fellas. Oh, uh, 12 Angry Men? Yeah, it's more of a math question. Exhale. Movie trivia question. Yeah.

I didn't, you know, I was hoping that like, you know, Henry Fonda's character would have just some bland name that, you know, nobody remembers. And, uh, but then all the characters are just their juror number, which I, uh, is, uh, interesting. And speaking of Clint Eastwood is, his juror movie, uh, thought that was very, very dull. All right.

I put a lot of, I put a lot of courtroom stuff up there with prison movies. It's like also like just depressing watching people be on trial. But some of them are fun like my cousin Vinnie. Okay, we have a three-way tie. So unfortunately, to settle it, it just goes to Elri on this next one. if she gets it right, she wins the game. If Kinesse gets it after Elri misses it, you get the idea. Yorgo, stand by.

I will. Stand up and stand by. Elri, what movie do you think could have the name Beatrix, Kiddo, and the Whole Bloody Affair? Beatrix Kiddo and the Whole Bloody Affair? Mm-hmm. It's not like a Beatrix Potter series. No, it's Beatrix Kiddo. Beatrix Kiddo.

Like child of Beatrix? Beatrix says a child. I'm going like New York Times crossword style. Just kiddo is the last name, K-I-D-O. And the whole bloody affair. Oh, is it Kill Bill? Yeah. Yeah.

You get, that's her last name. Come on. Well, she's also known as the bride. I could have said the bride and the whole bloody affair. But yeah, that's also since as a tiebreaker, it was meant to be gotten. So congratulations to Ellery. You won that, but that just means you're going to go first in our next game

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hell sounds easy anybody could do it we're back a ds our final but determining game today this is what really counts Canis I know you've felt robbed on that last one because you do the answer quicker than Ellery did but why do they in the Kill Bill movies why do they make that bleeping sound whenever she does say her name? Probably an homage to a movie we've never seen

yeah probably some homage to some Korean movie or something protect her identity yeah I don't know why that happens in that movie but it really takes me out of it every time. Plus the sound is really, if you're watching it on TV, it's really piercing like some sort of alarm.

Like some sort of alarm went off in your house. Okay, so our final game today is called Scariest Movie. And the reason it's called that is because some geniuses at the 2025 Science of Scare Project hooked up heart rate meters on viewers to determine the intensity of horror films,

and then they ranked the results. Oh, wow. And I have written down, according to them, the top 10 scariest movies from 2005 to 2026. So the three of you, starting with Elri, then going to Yorgo and then to Kines, will take turns guessing movies that you think, when they hooked up a heart rate meter to people, ranked as in this top 10.

If you get the number one answer, you get 10 points, number 10 answers are worth one point. And there's all them beautiful points in between, and we'll add them up after you've each had three guesses. But like I said, well, you don't guess them all once you take turns guessing. So say the one you think is highest on the list. don't save anything good because somebody else might snap it up after your turn. Does that make sense to you with Hillary? Yes. All right.

What do you think? I'm terrible here, so I'd already be kind of screwed. I'd be saying movies from 2003 or something, but it's 2005 to 2026. One of the top ten scariest movies according to, Science of Scare project. My first one is going to be the Hills have eyes. Pretty scary, right? Pretty scary movie.

It could totally be in the top ten. Excellent answer. This is not an easy game. It's not in the top ten. No. That's a good one, though. That is a scary-ass movie, especially the original one. The re-made it.

The original one is very scary, but that's like, that's not in the window. Yeah, our friend Ricky Lentholmes in the remake. That's right. Yeah, I think she even gets murdered in her shower, I think, or she at least takes the shower. Okay, Yorgo, what's your first guess? I am going to go with it, the motion picture.

The like TV one with Tim Curry? No, the one that came out in like 2017, whatever. Oh, so it part one? It or part two? I think it's just it, right? No, they made two parts. It was two movies. Well, no, yeah. It, I'm going with it, not it chapter two.

Oh, when they hadn't, they didn't say part one on the first one until until they brought in the past scene and Maca boy. Yeah, Bill Hader. Yeah. Boy, that was a bum. Yeah, that's another movie. The characters' last names are terrible. Just check it out sometime.

But no, it didn't make the list. Wow, okay. Well, this is, all right, here we go. This is tough. Yeah, this is really tough. I mean, when you hear these movies, you're going to be like, well, yeah, of course people's heart rates went up watching these movies. But it is tricky.

Kniece, what's your first guess? First guess is 2017's Get Out. Ooh. just because a lot of people saw it and it seems like it would be on a lot of lists. Yeah, but it's right in the middle. But like more tense and like kind of intellectually scary.

You know what I mean? Not like pulse pounding. Damn. That's part of what I love about Get Out though is that it's like it's still even though you're like oh fuck how's this guy going to get out of this situation it's still it's fun tense.

Yeah. You know? So what's you're, So what I'm hearing is it's not on the list. No, no, it is not the list. Damn it. Okay. No.

But I, you know, I'm trying to, you know, find a logical reason why it wouldn't be. And also, it could be number 11 for all we know, you know, like, this is, obviously, there's a lot of horror movies in that 20-year period. Okay. Then I'm going to go with my heart on the rest of these, and I apologize for what happens. Okay. I say always play from the heart. You know, a lot of people like play from the gut. but like have you seen some

the insides, people's guts are gross. Ellery? What about the strangers? Oh, very scary. Also unnecessarily relayed. And you know, in the new version, they even like try to have a backstory of like when strangers were kids

and why they started to wear the masks and all that stuff. And what makes the first movie so scary is it's just three assholes show up with these masks on and started murdering people. I found the remake so scary that I never went to go see the original. This was the remake you were talking about?

Yeah, right? Isn't there a remake in like the last 20 years? Yeah, no, it just was just very recently. And it was like they broke it up into three movies. The one I'm talking about came out when I was like in middle school. So it would be like 2005, 2006. You know, probably the original one. Okay, that one.

Then that's the one I saw. Very scary. With Liv, you know, Errol Smith, Stephen Tyler, Liv Tyler. Yeah. Yeah, and Scott Speedman, I think. Oh, scary.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I was talking about. But they recently not only remade it, but made it into like a trilogy. Oh, yeah, I'm not so interested in that. No, good call. So, yeah, did I say it's not on the list? No. Had we implied.

Damn, okay. I have to say it. This will be interesting, because, you know, we may have to play until somebody just gets any, anyone of the 10. As I sit here looking at them, they seem like titles that should come up.

But again, I'm terrible with years, so I would probably be not getting any of these either. But what's your second guess, Your Go? I'm going to go with my head over my heart on this and go with Hereditary. Oh, that's a good guess.

Yeah, I think a lot of people consider that to be, if not the scariest, one of the scariest movies they ever seen. It's certainly got some really, really effed up jump scares in there. I wonder if a movie for being longer and scary, like if that hurts it or helps it, you know, in the terms of people's heart rate and their monitors. But enough yak and it's number six. six on the list. Oh, nice. Cool. Yeah, so that's worth five points. And now I feel like we're in a groove and more people are going to put more points on the board. What's your second guest,

Canis? Oh, gosh, the pressure. We said earlier that I was going to go with the heart and I accept the consequences of that. The thing that caused me the most heart palpitations to where I had to leave a theater and buy a roll of an acid because I felt viscerally ill was don't breathe. Oh, there we go.

Don't breathe. Is that the one where the maniac is blind? Yes. The bad guy from Avatar. Yes, he's a bad guy a lot. He really is. He's a scary, scary actor that dude. And it's funny, I watched the cams on Big Brother,

and Angela was describing that movie. She didn't know the title, but she was describing that movie to the other houseguests. And they were just all like, Angela, this movie sounds fucked up. But she didn't know the name of the actor or the name of the movie.

But it is a super, super scary-ass movie, and it did not make the list. Okay. I tried to let you give you the answer. are quicker that time. Instead of dragging out the suspense. All right, Ellery, this is your chance. If you can get one of the top five,

you will vault past Yorgo into first place. I'm stuck. I have two in mind, and I'm not sure which one would be scarier. What about the witch? Oh, that was super scary. again, I think it's an intense you know, all the Robert

Edgar movies are so you know I am tense throughout, I don't know how much my heartbeat goes up and that one that one did not make the list but you're not well yeah, you are completely out of this

but because your go does have five points but this is going to be it's going to be an interesting finish because Yorgo can add some more points here and maybe even get out of reach from Kniece. Let's see. I'm going to go safe or I think it's safe. Who knows? But I was really, really scared by the Conjuring.

And there's a million sequels. So I assume that it's the original might get a little bit of, of clout here. Yeah, people find that movie very scary. The whole conjuring universe, I've seen most of it and it never

goes past creepy for me or, you know, obviously, there's an occasional good jump scare in those movies. But it is, it has spawned a lot of other movies and you know, since it was the first one, back in 2013.

I think that's why it's on the list at number five. Oh, my gosh. Yes. So Yorgo just took an surmountable lead with six more points, which brings him to 11. I want to see if Kinese can get the number one. I'm excited. I want to know what number one is. This is thrilling.

Well, yeah, if Kinese can name the number one, then, you know, then it will have been a close game. But it's still, she still can't quite... Yeah, I can't win. Can't tie or surpass you. But just for fun, give me one. What year did the ring come out? It's not on the list.

Damn it. Thank you. Oh, shit. Shit. I'm like, what was horror even before? A24. I'm so pretentious. I don't even know. They should be called A24. Yeah, honestly, you know what? Yes.

I'm guessing, fuck a duck. It follows. Is it on there? Oh, you know, the dude who did It Follows did this movie end of the Oak Street that just came out. Wait, did you see it? I did, yeah. Would you recommend it? Okay, that's enough of an answer. Yeah, it's tough. It's tough because it is fine, but it's not awesome. Yeah, it's weird how, for one thing, it's like probably, if not the most violent,

it's definitely up there for a violent for PG-13. Oh, yeah. It's really intense. So, like, I found it, like, when I saw it, I found it interesting that people brought little kids, like, let's go see this fun dinosaur movie. but to me it wasn't Odyssey wasn't that much more violent that movie's a pretty hard arm

so anyway but the director I think the director is very talented and you know there's a lot to like about it but I didn't I didn't love it but it is

it does have some you know some pretty cool parts it's got some stuff it's got some fun stuff that some people have a problem with like the tone of it goes a little too, like they try to have a little too much fun, but I don't know. It's already such a silly premise that, you know, what are you going to do?

But they do a pretty good job of, there's portions of it that are pretty exciting and terrifying, especially for PG-13. Can I ask you one very important question? Are you pro or anti-feathers on dinosaurs and movies? well you know I always like to say whenever I see a bird I like to point out and say dinosaur so you know I think I'm in I'm in that camp I think it's fun to think that they're the birds are just you know modern dinosaurs but so you because there is a lot of a lot of feathered dinosaurs running a lot of feathers I think you know it's it's

It's the same thing that happened in Jurassic Park for me is it's just like, to me, it's such a cheat to have all these crazy dinosaurs, and you rarely see any one, more than one find in one scene. And when you do, it's just because one takes another one out at just the right moment. You know what I mean? They're either there to attack each other or to completely ignore each other based on what the story needs at any given moment. Interesting. So it's like... You know what I mean? Like if you're like, if your neighborhood suddenly was all the zoo animals got out,

they would like, some of them would attack you at the same time. Yes. Even though they're different breeds, you know, different kinds of animals. That is very true. You never see like people picking off carcasses after like the T-Rex bit off the torso. Yeah. And in Jurassic Park, you never see, you never see them interact except for those moments where like, oh, now this bigger dinosaurs are going to come in, eat the smaller one,

and save the kids or whatever. All right. I could talk about this all day. It probably feels like I already have. What is your final guess, Kinesis? I know it's incorrect based on the length of the discussion. You've made that clear. But I accept my, I was going to lose anyway.

I might as well go out with a movie that I liked. Okay. What is it? It follows. It follows. Oh, whoa, whoa. I see, I see. I see I said no no it did it followed

in big of it so congratulations to you or go who would you like me to call a shithead at the end of the show on your behalf you know I have to say it oh wow

who do I want to get called a shithead yeah didn't that would you say when we were in San Diego oh I think I just said the person that I sponsored me or the person who was like my person I was like hey yeah call him a shit head You got to you won a bag prize. Oh, that's so funny.

What's, is there anybody that's rankling you currently that you think is a shit head? Yeah. Could be a person, place, or a thing. There's a guy named Skyler. I would want to call a shit head. Okay, Skyler.

Yeah. All right. Is that one of the Skyler's sisters? No. What would you like to promote, Yorgo? Oh, well, I, uh, I want to promote my documentary that is now on Yahoo as part of nonfiction

hot list. There's a big group of short documentaries that Yahoo picked up and distributed and I'm part of it and so if you get the chance watch troll on Yahoo. Nice. Before everybody else does their

plugs and me I'm going to give you the answers that you're craving to hear and please don't be mad. Number 10 from 2022, I think it's pretty intense. Talk to me. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Number nine, these kinds of things generally don't work for me because I'm not religious, but the exorcism of Emily Rose. Oh. Yeah. Number eight, I think a pretty effective horror movie from just a few years ago called Smile. Yeah, there you go.

It's pretty good. But then, here's a twist. Number seven, Smile 2. This list suffers from recency bias. I agree. I think so. But, you know, I mean, they attach the people to the electrodes.

That's true. How old were these people? So I don't, you know, I don't know how big of a sampling they even gave. What if these are the only 10 movies and this was the where they finished it. That's the big question. How many movies do they do? This study is a little shaky, but it's still fun

because these are scary movies. Hereditary is number six. Conjuringers number five. Number four, another one that spawned a lot of sequels, Insidious. And that's from 2010, so that's not terribly recent. This one, this one cracks me up. Like, I do not know why I was bored out of my mind

from start to finish when I saw Skinnamarink. Oh. Yeah, number three is Skinnamarink. But I guess I've heard people find it very terrifying. But, you know, they're scared that something is going to happen. And then whoever does. Number two is host from 2020. I don't know that motion picture.

What is host? I don't know either. I know the host, but I don't know what just hosts. is from six years ago. And then number one from 2012, what they say got a 96 on the 1 to 100 scary scale is Sinister. Ooh. From 2012. Wow.

Yeah. Was this sponsored by Sinister? I have so many questions. Sinister presents the scariest movies. No, it's. Just, you know. That's wild. Folks that got together and claimed to have used science to determine that these are the scariest movies.

We need to know the demographics of the people wearing the electrodes. We need more information. Right. Yeah, they didn't get a cross section of people, you know. Dislist makes me feel like they, you know. They just ran out of people off the streets. The people that couldn't answer for family feud, they went in and checked. Maybe children.

This might be children. they might have done it to children. I think so. The Babadook is like the scariest movie I've seen of the century, right? Or maybe like the last 15 years. And it's wild that like the Babadook wouldn't make it. Or even like not even a paranormal activity, though those might be antiquated to people.

Yeah. And also there's like that, you know, a lot of the, a lot of these movies are, I'll say one thing they have in common is they keep the scares coming except for Skinnamarink. They're movies that, you know, there's a good jump scare every 15, 20 minutes.

it's, you know, and I feel like maybe movies didn't make the cut that are just more, more of a slow build, you know, maybe. If it's just heart rate based, I, like, okay, let's hook it up during a comedy. Let's see what happens there. I want to ask these people which things stayed with you and made it so, like, you couldn't go to sleep at night or, like, made you reassess your relationships with your loved ones. So that's the measure that I want for these movies. Yeah, and you don't have to help anybody up to anything to just ask them those questions.

Yeah. It's a much simpler study to perform. Keneas Mowbly, what would you like to promote? Okay, so I would like to promote this weekend there will be a hot guy draft. So this is a comedy competition of thirst. And this time we're focusing on people's first crushes. So we're talking about the things that shaped your taste, the things that made you say, okay, that was just a phase. I swear I'm over that.

And the things that make you say, okay, I've loved this person since the day I was born, and I will love them until the day that I die. And where's that at? That is great question. That is on August 23rd at Littlefield in Brooklyn, New York at 7 p.m. Excellent. And your social media name is? So they can find me at Kenese Moble. That's K-E-N-I-C-E-M-O-B-L-E-Y on all the socials.

and you can find Hockye Draft on Instagram and TikTok. Excellent. Ellery Smith, what would you like to plug? I am headlining the lyric Hyperion August 26th, 9.30 p.m. Come on out. Oh, okay. I plug that other show you're doing there, but that's a spot, and this is like a big headliner full hour of material from Ellery Smith.

I am doing the bits of movie interruption. at Dicey Typewriter in L.A. on Tuesday, September 1st. You can see me do stand-up when I headline at Comedy at the Carlson in Rochester, New York, September 4 through 5. And I'm doing another Douglas movies at the New York City Winery in the loft on September 7th. Thank you once again to all of my guests, Yorgo, Kinesse, and Ellery. and as always Skyler is a shithead

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