The Flop House - The Flop House: Episode #66 - Blood: The Last Vampire

Episode Date: October 2, 2010

0:00 - 0:37 - Introduction and SHOCKTOBER theme.0:38 - 8:47 - We spend nearly ten minutes introducing our special guest Federico Hatoum, and explaining why we've been M.I.A. for over a month.8:48 - 28:49 - We talk about Blood: The Last Vampire. .. or, more accurately, "CG Blood: The Last Vampire."29:50- 34:36- Final judgments34:37 - 47:54 - PLUGS! which eventually devolve into a series of mouth-sounds.47:55 - 58:52- The sad bastards recommend. 58:53 - 1:00:12 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

This episode we try and cash in on the vampire craze by discussing blood the last vampire. Hello and welcome to the flop house I'm Dan McCoy. I am Elliot Kalen. And I'm special guest, Federico Hatume. Oh wow. He's my name. He's my name. He did half of our work for us. Yep.

Indicating to your own special guest. Well, I figured that was my job. And saying your own name. Yeah. Was I not supposed to say that? Well, we'd like to have the option of coming up with a fake name for the guest. Terramid. Yeah, we are.

Yours would have been Billy Midnight. I Midnight. So I guess he lost out. We're continuing our trend of disappointing our audience. I mean, not your disappointment. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's not how I took it at all. That's how I took it. And I just say, for you, I'm offended. You know, it's usually if we've been gone for a while we like to come back with all three of the regular hosts but Stuart I don't know what the fuck is he doing. I don't remember if it's work or he's a shadowy guy he's kind of mysterious. Does he say things like I had to go see some guy by some stuff? Doesn't explain. Yeah, except he said it's more he the way he says it's like

Yeah, so I was fucking my girlfriend and That's his version of I've seen a guy about some stuff. Okay Make it Sundays. That's the thing they did Well, we don't need to talk about that. He'd probably cut that out of the Actually, he wouldn't say bang in, my girlfriend. Oh, okay. He would say something about getting his joint worked or something like that.

Information is not that personal, because he shared us. Yeah, that's true. No, Fed is a co-host of the number one foreign language. Spanish language. Yeah, at this point, Spanish is not a foreign language. It says American is how to apply. Maccabosh podcast, Apple. Apple related.

Apple related. Podcast. So it's called Budo Mac. Believe it or not. If you go on iTunes Spain for example, you'll see it is always much to my surprise, always and the top, usually the top 20 of all podcasts including video podcasts And what do you talk about on it? We talk about Apple products and

Apple news and you know every time Steve Jobs says something that's obnoxious. We say oh that's Steve Jobs But you say it's fanatious. We say it in Spanish. Yes. How would that go? Is this Steve Jobs is un idiota? Blow a view of the people and well, how do you translate? Er It's a charming language. Yes, it's it has such subtleties. Wow. We you know, well our producer has been saying that You know, we have a producer I just say our producer has been saying that we're in your living room. That we are, that the one quadrant we're not servicing is Spanish speaking.

Oh yeah, that's the one quadrant we're not servicing. We'll fish in out those. And now finally. Because we've already got the twin girl market. Yes. Already got the elderly market. Name the fourth quadrant that we have in... Retired servicemen. I think Stuart, with his frequent contributions to humor and uniform, was covering that for us.

So anyway, what do we, what did we watch? And I don't even remember we watched a uh... a movie called blood the last vampire blood colon the last but it did you did you did you explain on the what we explained on the website why it had been so long since our last episode let's address this before we get let's kill some time we don't have to talk about you know why you don't know well

is it married for me that's i a married okay. Yeah, that's true And then it was just the inertia from the marriage. Oh much like Ellie. It's best friend From high school I can't even remember I'm doing the running joke and I can't even remember as an halfway That's right. Yes, I just like Rachel got married. What was she doesn't even play Rachel in that movie? She's Rachel's sister She played your sister in your wedding. No, no my sister was played by my sister. Oh That's not as exciting. Who by the way I spent the entire wedding

Yes, speaking of actress I spent the entire wedding trying to figure out what actress your sister looks like because she looks like someone And I couldn't come up with it. I don't I don't want to ask her Okay, who do you look like? I got your twin sister and ask her. What actress? What famous actress she looks like. Oh she looks like, and that's awesome. Yeah, yeah, she's my twin sister.

Rose Murray to Whit was Rachel. My boy, Rachel getting married. That finally came back to me. But yes, a month ago today, I got married. And it's one of the reasons that the podcast has not been done is because now that I'm married my wife no longer approves of my friends, especially my podcasting friends. When I told her Stewart was not going to be able to make it tonight she said it was okay. There's constantly ever said that.

It was constantly a rolling pin hovering just behind your head. We subscribe to the Andy Cap Lockhorn School of Marriage, which is if you're not fighting, things aren't all right. Wow. So you get into like a big ball of fists and feet and just kind of like dust lines and lightning bolts. Interesting.

Yeah. And so that was that work's feeling. Yeah, that was the reason number one. And the reason number two was I was doing some First I was doing some freelance work for cinematics that may or may not see air. So I can't wait You would tell about the role you're playing on the new show New York sex debates I'm playing text McCabe The stubbly stranger from out west who comes and the citizen's misty Monday. I know I

I'm doing some animation work on Mary and Minot Be broadcast so that's and then and then number two. I was in the New York TV and video festival Yes in support of my Independent television pilot 9 a meeting of my independent television pilot, 9A in meeting. Based on the successful series. Which, which won the MTV Award for Animation, which came on. So you got one of those moon men, Stoke Babies?

Yeah, I got some gold plated popcorn. Popcorn, you won the moon man on it. Yeah. You won for Best Kiss. It was me and Kristen Stewart. And yeah, I was tremendous. That was actually I was at the first screening of the whatever animation you were in animation group 2 and I have to say I've seen all the episodes before but I really enjoyed seeing it in a big group of people and the audience loved na na na na na na na na. You know who did not love it was the reviewer

from the Aungi Naeemee club. Really? Who came to the show? No, he gave us a seat. That was crap. He wrote, or she wrote a of all the animation things. I think yours might have had the longest review with the most specific Senate.

Like this was obviously a show that stuck in this person's mind the most. And yet at the end, they're like, but it gets a little tired after a while, which is one especially compared to the other things that were in your block of nominees, not true. And then it was like they were going out of their way to not, you know, to not give a good grade. I bring it up just because I'm a negative person, but I mean I bring it up because I like to burn bridges Yeah, I do like but ultimately that AV club Dan McCoy thinks you're terrible

I love the NGNAV club, which is why it hurts my Never read your rag which I love by the words But it just doesn't matter because Because ultimately MTV gave us the money. Yes, congratulations. It did play very well with an audience. I saw the second screening of it. Oh, it did.

It's been a mainstay of Channel 101. We were brought back for 10 months in a row. So it plays well for us. I feel bad I haven't seen any of those. That's fine. I'm just saying I know the perfect place for us. if it didn't, they would have canceled us long ago. Yeah, that's true. So that's why we haven't had done a show in a while,

in a podcast while, but we're coming back with one of our best episodes ever, I think. We got it. BL Infinity D, the last vampire. Yeah, that's how it's written. Actually, the 2o's look like an infinity symbol I'm not sure why they did that. It should be I guess BL infinity D colon The last vampire

Or it should have been a an eight Like you write a B when you're writing boobs on a calculator I would just draw boobs on the calculator like on the keypad just ruin it. Yeah I would just draw boobs on the calculator. Like on the keypad. Just ruin it. Yeah. I don't even get to use it. It's sharpening.

Ah, boobs. Let's set, let's sex up this calculator a bit. Yeah, come on. Come on, Texas Instruments. Take TI, you're not giving me an interaction. Let's make TI into T and A. Yeah. High five. ROCK in the USA, right there.

But so we saw blood the Last Vampire, which appears to be an English language Japanese film. It's an English language version. It's a live action version. As they say in the credits, it's based on the animation blood the Last Vampire. So I guess that's what they say. Is it common where an animation becomes a live action film? Like I mean yeah if it's successful we which we did for the flop house was another and Avatar the last airbender and And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles You know what? Yeah, that's super good. Oh, that's not Japanese. I don't where we just talking Japanese

Well, I thought you just said animation in Japan. I think it is I think it is more common in Japan So resolved but It was interesting that they said based on the animation, but I guess trying to make it sound adult Not based on the cartoon or based on the drawing American Americanize the term anime. I mean like that would be literal. Well, the American version is Japanimation Which is what the section in the video story grew up with labeled it Japanimation Japan animation. I love that term action. And the phrase turns.

But it's a story we're all familiar with of a young girl. The tale is old this time. The tale is old this time of a young girl of indeterminate centuries of age who fights demons with a sword dressed as a schoolgirl. But she started out as a little girl. She starts out as a little girl trained by her old man dad. And of course she's working with a shadowy organization that cleans up after her murders of vampire demons. And she's just trying to get revenge on the vampire demon who killed her father called on again, called

on again, which and so for for this mission she sent to an American army base on in uh... in japan and it's at nineteen seventy it's a time for no reason yeah it's almost like they just they bought they bought too many sideburns yeah it's a little bit easier to get a sideburn warehouse because if not for a gross sideburn burns what we do with and there's one headline that says uh... u.s. bombers ravish Vietnamese landscape which i think they probably meant ravage and i pointed out they

probably meant radish because the radishes are very important in japan's culture that's very true but they so they're apparently ravishing landscape where so I guess these planes are just gorgeous. Just, you know, having their seducing the Vietnamese landscape. Right. But there's not too much going on in this movie. It was short. This might be the shortest movie we've watched. It's like 84 minutes long. No, it was 80. It was 88 minutes. I don't think so. I'm like including the movie 88 minutes, which was like two hours

But it was your false advertising the But it's basically this girl gets a mission she wants revenge on this demon She goes she kills a lot of demons. There's an American girl sidekick and I don't mean by that one of the American girl dolls It's not like it's it's the you know, but Paulie grows up in 1837 but It's it seemed very by the numbers but at the same time in the way it was made totally crazy. Yeah And yeah, it was, and it was really straightforward.

She's given a mission to fight demons. Another girl discovers their demons and so she joins in on the mission. And they fight demons. Sort of a life and leave, but then really, like she seems to suddenly know everything about demons. At the end, she's had no experience with them before. Yeah. She's a long flashback at the end to the demon hunting girl getting trained or like I guess her father

being killed. And then flashbacks within flashbacks of things we'd never seen before. Yes. For training. And then it turns out at the end that the head demon is was her mother and that's it. And then she kills her and that's the end of the movie. I don't remember that. It's in the climax of the film.

What? It's literally announced maybe five times during the climax of the film. Yeah, but I am your mother. Now you must kill me because I am your mother. To become me. Why? Why was the American girl in this movie, guys? I have no idea.

To get, she of the audience identification character she's she's a pretty girl but then she is a pretty girl who's having trouble with her aren't her one-star general father who looks kind of like a cross-preen ellie Ellen Page and no and Ellie Kaelin I think that's what you're gonna say you're gonna say say Elliot Kaylen and Ellen Page. I can't think of a prettier combination. Rattishing, Elliot Kaylen. Rattishing. Rattishing.

I've been told I'm rattishing. You're very tart like a radish. But she's basically, she's supposed to be the star of the movie, basically. But she is not interesting and the real star is the Japanese girl with the super sword skills. She has more, you know, it being an English language movie, she has more lines than the real star. She says more words.

Yes, but that's also because the real star is like this silent mysterious type. But there's no reason for her to be there. Other than... True. She's being attacked by demons and What was the the main characters she a shy shy a shy I'll both shy shy love off Is there to save her from the demons, but it could have been his name by the way his name in French means shy of the beef

Interesting So what would that be it's Spanish faith? Shia Lakarni Yes. I'm afraid. No, that... Interesting. Tell me what that means Spanish, Fed. Shaya Lakarni. Oh, beautiful. It's a beautiful language. Yes, that's... Dan, are you... Are you fanning yourself?

Are you coming? Like a Southern lady in the... Come in, the interbellum, sir. Oh, my God. I declare. Mr. Fed. That's why you invited me over. I'm...

I didn't see first. He's not even recording right now. This is all made of paper mache and marzipan. That's why it's so delicious. Delicious and flowery. Deadly. But the scene where the demons reveal themselves to the American girls is very strange because like, you know, I'm just going to call our hero blood at the last vampire because they're in the middle of an actual character. Her name was Saya.

Saya, that's right. Saya. And the American girl was either named Alice, Alison, Hollis or Anis. There are a lot of different accents screaming her name throughout the movie. So it sounds different every time someone and I think she might be the only actually American actress or actor in the field. Everyone else. Everyone else there was American in quotes. For a while, for a while, for a while, and then suddenly they'd say something. They're accent-win-driff. drift hey come over here you girl you've got to do what

you said they were correcting themselves they were really weird but yeah they they also said do that line again no they said we're running at a film let's just keep it rolling it's the last vampire fat they don't have a lot of time. But no, there was, like, Saya infiltrates the school, this military-based school, where I guess these two demons reveal themselves to Alice and get mad at her because Alice had an insight about Frankenstein in the English class. In their English class, Alice has a very potent insight, proven into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in English. In their English class, Alice has a very potent insight,

proven into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. They're the two caddy girls who don't like her, then stay with her after Kendo practice, because they're on the Kendo team. Of course. As many American kids are. And turn into demons, not going to kill her before Blood and the Last Vampire saves her. They're on the Kendo team of course as many American kids are and Turn into demons not gonna kill her before blood the last vampire saves her and

It yeah, they just the demons just suddenly start not liking Alice and wanting to kill her for no Yeah, I'm revealing them so I mean guess you know like houses because then she your house is gonna die But it's very sure that then she goes to she goes to a bar and the Kendo teacher is there and he's like she confronts him but it's very short. It's very short. It's very short. It's very short. It's very short. It's very short. It's very short. It's very short. It's very short. It's very short.

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prophecy says only in a man you know you will blah blah blah blah they're only true American among fake American accents you know we'll we'll bring us all to yeah instead the kind of TV which just turns into like a cross between the Giver and the the creeper from Jeepers creepers and flies off with There were some neat moments though in that that sequence like when he He grabs he grabs Alice and then goes running along the the building tops No, yeah, look It it's some of the scenes.

It gets, it's like everything is cut, cut, cut, cut, camera swooshing around. Oh, slow down. Fast again. Okay, look at that. Super cut. And then you go, and it was done for no reason. For no effect, no reason.

And there was all this fake CG blood everywhere. Yeah, all the blood was CG and like the demon blood I guess was supposed to look different than the human blood They all looked it all looked the same and never staying anything she's like fighting in a white dress and never gets any blood on her Yeah, but it was but like but the action scenes were genuinely fun like the choreography you couldn't figure out Just cutting when it was still neat moments. Yeah, well, it's weird to weird too. Sometimes bad special effects are charming, and sometimes they're just off-putting. And all of the CG blood looks like shots of melcon zero gravity or something like that.

Whereas like, just fudge spurting out of things. The monster on the other hand, the bad animation kind of made him look like an old like old fashioned like Flashlight Titans or something. Yeah, there was something charming about it. So I don't know. I don't know release the Giver. Oh, by the way, this is I don't know I don't know why I feel very disfacible this because it's so stupid, but this is our first Shocktober episode of the season. Oh, you forgot that. Oh, yeah This is I think no we should be 20 two minutes in with the right time to announce that to reveal it I've blood the last vampire was our shocktober in October episode number one. It's really not a not a harm movie

It's so much as an action Gory action And I'm an old man get an old man gets covered in knives and then his hand gets cut off. It's the Shocktober movie. Well, as you pointed out, Elliot, Shocktober just means that there's a 4% more chance that we'll watch a horror-oriented film. As opposed to something where Katherine Hygge and Gerard Butler get about for a while before falling in love.

Get about. That's the best way to describe it. I was trying to explain to someone recently how bad the movie The Ugly Truth is. And I was having trouble getting across without just describing scenes outright and saying lines of dialogue from it. In Injured, but most terrible, like really over

and unseated American accent. You don't understand, guys only want sex, come on. Don't you get it girl? I'm a truth teller. And ugly truth. I'm the last sane man in a world gone mad. He never says that. He doesn't?

Well this film had a lot of really bad lines that they were just like lifted from from other films What is he? You've gone soft old man Per that a thousand times now who's stupid Exactly after he shoots somebody I was almost waiting to hear something like I'm getting too old for this shit Yeah, it's quiet too quiet too quiet exactly well. Yeah, show me the money And the you complete me. Yeah,

wish I could. I wish I knew how to quit you. The general character, the father of the the I could have saved more. So she has lists. I could have been somebody. That old line. Yeah. The father of the of Alice. I think that in terms of Bad performances. I think he rates only a second to Chris Klein In Street Fighter Legend of China. Yeah, I didn't see that one. That is a Also bad movie and Chris Klein is in it and it's like it's like he someone bet him you can't emphasize every syllable that you say Yeah He and Nicholas Cage got drunk one night

And like the next movie that we do Let's just try and have to each other. Let's see you know worse and like Chris Klein won Chris Klein won that bet. There's a lot of bad. This is not a good, this is like a very forgettable movie. I'm having a hard time remembering scenes from it. But it zipped along. It's not super fast editing if you like that. Like you said, you said, hey, it was quick, it was short.

Very excitedly, you said that at the end of the movie. Yeah, we're done with it. Yeah it was short very excitedly you said that the end of the movie yeah we're done with it yeah I was very excited because we've been watching a lot of movies lately that have felt like they've been about seven hours long and there have been long scenes of people just walking around or looking at things or robin Williams and john trevolta like comparing how many pills they take for their old age problems you you know, Mugging to the camera. Yeah, after a movie like White Out, this is just a delight, you know. Now this has short scenes of people getting cut with a cataract. Yeah, right. People jumping around and getting blood spurting out of them, fake blood, yes.

And monsters suddenly remembering they can grow wings and you know the right so there was this whole scene where the the monster grabs allison or hollus or aniston or whatever name is and drags across the the roof top she's being chased by sia the japanese school girl with the with the with the katana cattabla

and then suddenly like i can fly i I'm going to fly and fly as a way. But fly is away in a straight line following a road pretty lower to the ground, pretty low to the ground so that they can chase it through the streets. He's following it very easily. And he's he they get to a runway and he's following a cargo plane with propellers on it. And we're all expecting him to get cut up in those propellers. So we're going to have to go through those propellers. Nope. and we're all expecting him to get cut up in the propeller. Nope doesn't have on the plane or like why why did

he fly to the airbase. Yeah it seems very expensive for them to shoot on and also somehow in between cuts our main characters have gone from running from the monster to chasing the monster. Oh right exactly. It's a movie that really follows no rules. And it breaks. It knows the rules are made to be broken. And you get the idea that, well, she can get on the army base or whatever, because her

father is the one star general. So they all know her. But there's never seen of like, you know, let me in or, you know, don't you know who I am or something? She just drives right in. Like, well, what she had done that anywhere. it's a poorly guarded army base it was the same way that one thing our bases are not known for is their security that's true the same way also that like when they're fighting a band of demons in the sun in the streets and then just being chased

with the streets they're in I think the the if I if it's the correct name against the neighborhood which is where like all the bars and things are which should be the street should be packed with people sure and but no it's empty completely empty for demons it's like it's like the whole city just took a just went on vacation oh and then this the two cleaners just come up in like in like five minutes clean up like what a hundred bodies yeah well that's the other thing is that everywhere that are the the heroin goes she's followed by two identical guys who are bald and

have mustaches they look like what's his name from uh from from lovely bones yeah I love like two Stanley two cheese two Stanley two cheese yeah or like the two guys from ten ten with no bowler hats and they just walk they just clean up all the bodies and leave but they have like supernatural cleaning powers well you know as long as he wasn't the character of lovely bones will be more fun to do Stanley two that's it that's it's a let's say he's the characters from bruleck

comes to the interior of christian agilir the movie that posits that there is an enormous glitzy underground brolesk scene in l.a. that has a lot of money flowing through it. Isn't there? And also that the plot of coyote ugly can just be taken wholesale. Ah. By the way, coyote ugly and showgirls, the same movie, two different ratings. I think I can think of the reason why coyoyote Ugly has a different rating than show.

No, I know, I'm not, I'm not. It's probably the full frontal nudity. I'm not arguing that the different ratings are wrong. I'm just saying, like if you boil it down, there are two movies that are the same plot that are going after the same thing. Only one of them has the courage of its convictions and the other one is like, eh, maybe we'll throw a thong in here. So, um about this. This is an axiom or grind. This is my thesis. This is my thesis. Your dissertation. Why are you sweating? For your doctorate in crap.

Your PhD in shit from sorry. Allie, why do I go too far. This podcast is part of my PhD. It's your ongoing thesis. Disertation. Your ongoing thesis called Life. From the school hardnoss. You really beloved it. We're going to gather you today. Anyway, so yeah, let's just...

What more can we say? So, blood the last man part. You know, it is what it is. Let's just make some judgments. Let's just be very real. Okay, well, I like your glasses. Alright. We're gonna do the final judgments.

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Well, it's usually not done like as if you're trying not try to make sure nobody hears it. I remember that mainly from the beginning of the twilight zone of the movie. Look at that old man. He looks like an old Maybe the best thing about the movie It's our Brooks and Dan Acroix Yeah, that's the only good scene in the whole movie Anyway, final stretch was this is a good bad movie a bad movie, a movie you actually kind of liked in some way, if I'd go. I think it's a bad, bad movie.

I really did not. I enjoyed a few moments, a few shots, a few scenes, or moments of scenes were interesting, but in general it was just really, I didn't find it amusing. There wasn't enough of a, well, I laughed, but I didn't laugh the right reasons. It wasn't trying to make me laugh, and it wasn't, it took itself way too seriously, and I, I did not really care for it. I enjoyed hanging out with you guys, though. Thanks. I thought you'd recommend that to the viewers.

Yeah, I'd recommend hanging out with you guys watching. You could swing it. Um, if, uh,. It's too long. Yeah, what I would say about this is, I hate to be wishy-washy. I feel like we've gone to an area of non-answers recently. But talk about quadrants. I feel like this, I mean, like, it's their tritons.

This opera, this. I am so confused. This occupying is all three tritons of a tritons. I am so confused. This occupying is all three tritons of a... Like tritons like you use when you're spear fishing? What do you mean gum? What is? I mean this is a good bad movie in the sense that it is not a well-made movie but I enjoyed much of it. It's a bad, bad movie in that much of it is deeply boring.

And it's a movie I actually kind of liked in some way in the sense that I don't think it's good because I laughed at it, like the stuff that I enjoyed in it. You enjoyed genuinely. I enjoyed genuinely. So it's sort of a hard call to make. I would say, if you turn it off after like maybe 40 minutes, you might have a genuinely enjoyable experience with this movie because it gets really silly

and crazy for a while and then it gets dull and it gets duller actually as it goes on. And the ending makes even less sense than the rest of the movie. Yeah. I would say like go through like the big like weird massacre in the town square and like the right up until the demon like getting killed on the the air strip and then that's enough. Yeah. You can turn it off right there. You can turn it off. Because I didn't.

We didn't. No, we watched all of it. We watched it so they don't have to. Yeah, exactly. And they don't have to Yeah, exactly and they don't want to I I feel the same way you do Dan like it's not a good movie I wouldn't really recommend it necessarily but I did enjoy big chunks of it. So I feel like If it's it's one of those things were like if it was

130 in the morning and you wanted to watch a was one 30 in the morning, and you wanted to watch some kind of violent demon battle, and then go to bed. Like, that's your movie, right there. Yeah, dial this up on your Netflix, InstaQ, then maybe like after the town square, you could fast forward to the fight between the ninja demons and the old man where he gets stabbed to death. Actually, that scene was actually, that was kind of cool.

There was like, they were coming out of the ground, and that's interesting. But for me, if she ran up a tree for no reason, and then slid down, and it's having a time. Yeah, to blow the sword in the eyes. That's where they had the flashback of a flashback of something we'd never seen before. And they have a sword.

There's a demon's underground, and his sword is running, is like, it's like BuzzFoney going, you know, burrowing underground with just a sword sticking up. But getting there is the con it's like, there's not half the fun. Yes. If there's enough of that for me to say it's a good bad movie. Yeah. If ever there was a movie that you, it is fine to watch the best scenes out of context and there's no reason to watch the rest of it You know, but someone gave you a cheat sheet and said jump to minute 12 and watch until minute 22 and then jump to this minute And watch these five minutes. You will know that they have spent too much time watching Go ahead and watch the fight scenes watch any scene that is like supposedly

filled with 1970s flavor or where the general is talking to his daughter because he is a terrible actor. Yeah I mean it's a other stuff you might not get if you want if you see it because it's a pretty subtle movie like when you first see the army base they play war what is it good for on the soundtrack and it's like that's a kind of a subtle touch that the movie's taking a bold antivetanom or stance movies asking a question or what is it good for yeah and I guess really the world of demon vampires right so I guess now we should move on but before we get into recommendations I think we'll go to blogs.

Oh, okay. Yeah, let's do the plugs now so that people don't skip over them. Yeah, no, no, so they can't skip over them. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I do. As soon as I listen to this podcast every week, well, whenever it's on, and I always,

and towards, don't revenue. Whenever I hear plugs, I'm like, forget it. I grab grabbed my my iPod and I throw it on the ground and smash it I'm not gonna listen to that That seems you could just press pause or you know no no We are all I don't want to even hear the plugs It's like I don't even want to near my ears Well I apologize. Yeah, well, it's very costly for me Hopefully it's you costly for me.

Hopefully it's you got a bulk discount. Elliott, what do you want to buy them blister packs? What do you want to plug? What will I plug? Well, well, well, seven packs. Well, I won't plug that. I host a monthly film screening series in New York City, the City of Angels. that's what i want to look at that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that I stole that joke from Janus. It's not even a name for the thing. It's a live one. That's a good question.

Come on. I've often said that once it gets to rock and roll a color war, I can't really take it anymore. I host a monthly film screening in New York City, close to watch films. Our next one is next week. Will this be going up this weekend, Dan? So this coming week Wednesday, October 6th at 7.30 p.m. I'll be showing the film, The Black Cat starring Bell Legosi and Boris Karloff, the best of the movies they made

together and the first of the movies they made together directed by Edgar Geomer, which involves Belagosi as an insane psychiatrist. He's the hero of the film, Boris Karloff as a satanic architect who has the best pajamas I've seen in a movie. The movie is very, has a very neat kind of like, art, decogothic look to it. And for some reason that means some of the best men's pajamas that I've seen in movies. But it's a movie that it's one of the universal horror films of the 30s, and it's one of the lesser watched ones

because there's no like big name monster in it. But it's a very creepy, weird movie and like there's satanism and torture and general weirdness and death and creepiness and like World War One guilt and things like that. Like it's this weird stew of elements and it's a very haunting movie. So I'll be showing that and then I'll also be showing in a very cut down version. That I'll be showing in full on 35 millimeter print. And then I have edited down the movie Dr. X starring Lionel Atwill from its original

run of 75 minutes down to about eight and a half, nine minutes. And I'll be showing you just the best parts of the Lee Tracy Lionel Atwill semi not really a classic, but it's pretty fun. Dr. X, which is another weird, it's another weird one that it's a 30s horror movie that involves like cannibal murders and things like things that you would not expect to find in the 30s. Howdy. Well, I wasn't going to ask you this. So first of all, where do you get the prints from?

The prints, the people at 92 I try back aware, the movies are screened. I should say that. So 92 I try back, which is 200 Hudson Street, downtown in TREBECCA. And I hope Dan will put up the information on the website. Thank you. They get the prints from different distributors and Christina, who is the programmer, they're actually arranges to get them.

So, and we once had to show a 16 millimeter print of closely watched trains because we couldn't find it. They couldn to show a 16 millimeter print of closely watch trains because we couldn't find it. They couldn't find a 35 millimeter, but everything we've shown otherwise is 35 millimeter prints. And we've got a good slew of movies coming up, the black cat on Wednesday, October 6th. In November, we'll be showing Doddsworth, which is at a print on DVD, I think. And in December, we'll be showing a thousand clowns, which was never never been released on DVD and there it should all be very good prints

well that sounds like a shocked over treat thank you! it's a very nice feat of say you're still in for anything right? so I would like to plug, I mean well first of all it's not a trick it's not a treat it's not gonna soap the but a treat. It's not going to, it's not going to soak the windows.

No, or egg the house. You just say that all through October, like you're at a restaurant, they're bringing you food. Here's your hamburger, sir. A perfect, shocked, October hamburger. I don't, I don't shocked, October know what you're talking about.

Well, well, shocked, October fest again, huh? This beer is spookily good. I didn't do our... That reminds me of a special Shocktober festivities. This is, you know, you're a little rusty. It's been a month. Little rusty.

Rusty flop house. Third year in a row of Shocktobertober and I have dropped the ball. Did you just say that you were like a vampire voice? It's like when you're a hero, was this scarily bad or like spookily good? Was this a real scare factory? A real snorf factory or was it, I don't know. A duck factory. Starting Jim Carrey

Better so I would like to plug well first of all you should go to 9am meeting dot com and watch the award winning Web series very funny. It's a very funny series. You sound so grudging Well, I just I hate I begrudge anyone else's success. No, I know. As anyone in comedy. It's really very strange because you're so much more successful than me. Well, I like to keep a safe margin between the two of us. So anything you do that closes that margin a little bit. Yeah.

But I also would like to plug on October the 18th, which is a Monday, I don't know exactly when, I'll put it on the website so moon day on october the eighteenth a screenplay i wrote is being uh... red at the jcc the jewish cultural center as part of the w g a east writers guild of american east

uh... reading series yet don't worry everybody. Dan did not convert. No. He is not abandoned his faith just to get a screenplay read in the JCC. It's true. It was it was chosen. It was chosen by the writers guild. The JCC just happened to be a good venue. And so there are two screenplays that are having excerpts written or read. Twenty page excerpts are going to be read from my screenplay and another gentleman's screenplay by professional actors. And the cost is $10 for the general public, $8, I believe, for guild members. That's me. Yeah. Hey. Only $8 bucks. I'll buy a ticket now. Here, Dan. Here's $8. Thank you. Can you write me out a ticket? No, I can't enjoy the eight dollars doll

but if you want to come and See what qualifies me to make fun of movies, which is nothing because Because this is not a produce screenplay You can do that you can come and enjoy 20 pages and not know what happens next. And what day is it again? It's October the 18th. That's a Monday. At what time? I think it's at 730, but I'm not sure. My screening is also at 730. Okay. So that might be a conflict. Well, they're not on different dates. Oh great. Okay. Then that shouldn't be a problem.

Then I can go to both. Yeah. And you can two, you can two listeners. So you can't do anything at 730 any day. Not if I have, yeah. No, if you have something coming up at 730, then forget it. No, just come to our stuff. And you'll put up the information on the website for your screenplay reading. Yes.

What's the name of your screenplay? It's called orientation. And speaking of demons, it involves demons. So if you enjoyed the demon, it was the last vampire. If you like demons, you'll love orientation. Yeah, if you want demons in a 20-page form that does not involve the last vampire, this is your best option. Sounds pretty good, actually, yeah. If you're getting your PhD in demonology,

don't forget to show up for the orientation at the university that teaches demonology. The JCC. Perfect. Perfect. I'm just trying to come up with a good, no, no, get in tune for your film. And I'll get it.

Just give me an hour or two. I work on it. What do you want to plug, Fad? Nothing really to plug. I'll tell you. That would have been a better movie. Plugged the last fanfire. PL infinity.

P.L. P.L. P.L. P.L. P.L. P.L. P.L. P. Blue. Comfort artist Mike Blue. That's the best room part. The last vampire. Well, I'll just mention again that I do this podcast called Boodle Mac. It's a Spanish language podcast about Apple and its products and so on and doing it for four years.

And I'll say it again, much of my surprise, it's wildly successful. It really, I don't, it's odd to say this, but it really is the number one Spanish language podcast about Apple that's out there. I can't explain it. I don't often think it's that good, but people seem to like it. So there you go.

Good pitch. Wow. Way to plug. No, it's, I'm very stuffed up for kidding about it. It's just, it's a conversation between two friends. It's my friend Flavio and me. And we just talk about Apple stuff. And we share things we've learned.

And we, we bitch about Apple. And it's a good hour. Now plug it again in Spanish. If you don't speak Spanish, you know, you won't speak Spanish. I think we have the widest podcast audience of any podcast. We have a lot of letters from prisons. We was surprising a number of female fans though. I would not.

I mean, I was my mother. You said group. No, I understand. I'm aware of what you said. I understand gender. On a separate note, I'm surprised by the number of female fans that we have. I'm not. We say a lot of funny things. You have a steward and yours, your deep, deep, deep, that's what I'm saying. You've got my high pitched squeal. Yeah. That makes women, that brings out the, it calls women to the yard like a dog whistle. It brings, it's like a maternal,

brings out the maternal element in them. Oh, the child sounds like he's in trouble. He needs taken care of. Yeah. It's hungry. Sorry, ladies, I'm taken. So, just missed them. There's already someone to deal with my unmanageable neuroses.

But, you know, we're... That doesn't have anything to do with how higher voices. My unmanageable neuroses, I would put the bucket of cheers in a second, sir. All right. Well, you've heard it here. A challenge. And the neuroses are... Which one of our wives were... Pre-neurotic. I don't know who would win. All right, well you've heard it here a challenge and a row sees all Which one of our wives will leave us first is the challenge good quest Well, are we start counting from the beginning of the marriage because you would marry No, I think I think it's the only fair way to do it is in total number of years

Okay, I mean yes This is a competition you really have to do it fairly Okay, yeah, well what really should keep what's the over under on this? I don't know I mean the thing is I we can't not there was can better it because then we'll just try and drive our wives off or drive the other ones Wife off true and the funny part is no matter who wins you both lose That is funny. Yeah. This is my own. So let's move on to regabulations.

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boom, boom, boom, boom. So this is the part where we... De-ly-ly-de-deep. This is the part where I recommend rupees. It's late. It's good times. Recommend movies that we saw that we enjoyed that one might like to see rather than blood the last vampire.

I'm going to start off and say that I haven't seen a lot of older movies recently, but two movies that I saw this summer that were not financial successes, certainly. And to a lesser degree, we're not critical successes although did did pretty well uh... were prana 3d and uh... sky program versus the world uh... both uh... very niche films but both uh... both enjoyable entertainment yeah both satisfied the sweet spot i mean like prana 3d uh... had the absurd levels of nudity and war the one would expect out of a late seventies uh... early the absurd levels of nudity and gory the one would expect out of a late-semities uh... early to mid-eighties movie but have not seen since

and uh... that was and that well that we that was a special occasion to uh... we went to see prana 3d the day of my wedding that awesome the audience might think that's a joke it is not uh... me and uh... dan was one of my groomsmen, me and my groomsmen and a couple other friends decided that including Flapphousers Stewart Wellington. Flapphousers Stewart Wellington and Flapphous Super fans, Sanyi or Ocean, Matt Carmen. We decided to all go see Prada 3D, the day of the wedding early in the morning, just to get out of the show here. Yeah. And to get out of the way, because you got to see it before the wedding.

And it was a lot of fun. We were the only, I felt bad for the other two people in the audience who were not with us because we talked and laughed throughout the movie and probably ruined their genuine appreciation of piranha 3D. But that was a lot of fun. I was very enjoyable. And Adam Scott and Christopher Lloyd were particular high points. run a three day but that was a lot of fun it was very enjoyable uh... and uh... at the sky and Christopher Lloyd were particular uh... high points

and jerry connoisse very funny and uh... uh... kelly broke who was new to in the water so that was good to get there's a lot of newt and uh... women and like nudity followed by violence it there is not i'm. There is not a fan. I'm not a fan of nudity. Like the best, the best nakedness was the,

on the non-parana attack long underwater nude ballet. Because the underwater, the nude underwater lesbian ballet was, was the high point of the film. You sold me a nude. I didn't even know what's did, what they're doing. I don't think you're the rest of it. There's a nude, okay, I'm going.

Really, I want to figure that underwater would be the thing that sold you. I like underwater too. That's a good thing. It reminds me of, I mentioned, I was a long time ago in an old old podcast, I was talking about something I overheard at Comic Con, that I thought was a website called aquafan.com But it was aquaman fan.com and we looked up what aquafan.com was and it was a blog about underwater sex And there was only one posting to it

It was underwater sex anybody tried this question mark That was it that was it that's the entire blog But anyway, but that but and scott pilgrim versus the world is also fine entertainment like uh... you know when it when it tanked i felt sort of bad i didn't have that not seeing it i felt bad because of like oh you know i was feel bad when something that i think is sort of pitched to me

uh... goes poorly and you know i like at the right i like the comic site you know but i will watch the movie and I realized that to anyone who didn't have a very specific grounding in like classic video games, comics, Japanese culture, like alternative like rock, like all these things, like it must have been a baffling experience. And you know, it's enough that the movie got made. It's enough of the movie got made and I enjoyed it. Well, not for the makers of the film. Those people are gonna make other movies.

You know what, like, that's... No, but I feel the same way. It felt, when I watched, I enjoyed a lot and I felt like this was a movie that hit my spot, but I could see why it would not be the right movie for other people. I didn't see it, but I didn't see it not because I didn't want to.

I never got around to seeing it, but it looked like it was really enjoyable. I want to see it on you. Oh, naturally. You podcast about Apple. So I think. Oh, so probably in the demographic. Oh, I guess. Well, I just like to.

I know there's an old man who hosts a podcast about apples He'd like it. See good point The imagery This is Tom Johnson. I like Apple. Good Apple in Tewia. Good Apple in Tewia. I'm stuck on that. But the imagery, like the...

No, it was beautifully shot. It looked really amazing. Yeah. It was too bad it didn't find its audience. Or it's where its audiences were. It'll find its audience in TV. Yeah, I'm sure of it didn't find its audience. I think it was audience's work. It'll find its own audience. I'm sure of it. Netflix or whatever.

I hope so. Ben, do you have any argument? Sure. I saw this movie a while ago, and it's been, I think it's been out for three or four years. It's been out for a long time. But I remember that when I saw it, I was very surprised at how much I liked it and it's the mist Which is a film version of a Stephen Stephen King novella novella wasn't even like a full length

Stephen King telling novella right? the old you and it was If you're unfamiliar with it, it's about what happens to a town, but more specifically, to a bunch of people who are trapped in a grocery store when this mysterious mist envelops the town and the grocery store and they're trapped inside. And the reason I liked it so much was because, well, apart from, from, from very good good acting and the fact that the special effects were were well done

they served the purpose of the film as opposed to being the reason for the film like Transformers or something like that. It was really just a story about what happens when people are trapped in a place and they can't leave and they all have very different ideas about what life is about and how to survive and what they're supposed to do and how how civility breaks down. Yeah that kind of situation. What you're saying is the true monster is us. What the... you just what the... holy what? I was not thinking that. I don't think so. Like there's probably like a monster with like claws and I Yeah, yeah, like a like a like a wear pyre. Yeah, I don't like a Frankenwald I mean really the film is just about a bunch of monsters killing people. Yeah, like mommy Kong

Like a drag drag like a drag you Stein like a drag again. That's a drag to the dragon. Wow. Like a drag your Sores. You know, you know, that common monster, you know, like a hunchbackzilla. One of those like that's the real monster. Yeah. True. Yeah, anywhere. You know, like a like a ghost mobile. You know, like a like a like a murder burger, you know, does a monster for you. You know, the I'll recommend just to confuse people a different movie called black cat than the one that I'm screening. I do recommend the black cat with both call off and bellagosi, which I'll be screening next. I'll be screening this coming week Wednesday October 6th, double plug. But there's re-plugged.

But there's a Japanese movie called Kuneko or black cat. What does that mean in English? Roughly black cat. It has a longer Japanese title, but it's known as Kineco here. Okay. And it's about... It's Konomii. I feel like I may have recommended before, but I don't think so.

But it's about this woman and her mother-in-law, the one man in the family, goes off to war in feudal Japan. So it's just his wife and his mother left in this house. They are killed by samurai, and they come back as cat demon ghosts that seduce samurai and then murder them. And meanwhile, the son is the last surviving member of this battle that he was in. There's a sequence where he kills a giant basically that's really great. And so the Dimeo, the Warlord, sends him to stop this cat, this thing that's killing other samurai's.

Him not knowing that it's his reincarnation of his wife and mother, getting their revenge as cat demons. And like cat demon stories are not uncommon in Japan, but they're kind, but they sound really weird when you talk about them in America. No, I mean, they sound totally normal. But it's directed, it's by the same director as the movie Onibaba, which is a little bit better known. And it's this very, very atmospheric, very cool, like neat, suspenseful, weird, ghost story movie. And it's actually playing for a week this month at Film Forum. This is a movie I wanted to show in my screening series, but

we couldn't get a print of it. And the Film Forum is advertising this as the New York debut of this movie, which came out in 1968. So I wonder if it's actually never been shown in theaters in New York before. So as much as I hate to promote another wonder if it's actually never been shown in theaters in New York before so as much as I hate to promote another theater It's worth going to see it If you go to a New York screening of the black cat you can't go wrong what I'm saying is either there are two movies called the black cat They're playing New York both. They're both awesome. Go to the one. I'm showing and then go to, if you see only one black cat movie in New York this month. Don't see mine.

No, see mine. Oh, yeah, see yours. See mine with Boris Kalloff and Belagosi. But then later, What do you see too? That's not a bad decision. If you see too. Later in the month, go see Kuneco at FilmForm.

Because it's real, and if you miss the FilmForm, sometimes they show it on IFC, which is where I saw it, on television. And if you see none, go fuck yourself. If you don't see any movies called Black Cat I don't even want to know you. Like what are you doing? What are you doing with your life? Look in the mirror and ask yourself some questions. I've been plugging this and plugging this all night and if you don't see it.

And now you're not going to see it? You shut up. Okay fine. Yeah. I never liked you. I mean I'm not going to see it for shut up okay fine yeah i i never liked you i mean i'm not that far that's all that's that's a but uh... but it is it but is a very cool atmosphere okay well guys i think this has been a delightful uh... return thanks for uh... for the invitation to uh... thank you for coming in

joining us uh... for the flop house i've been dan McCoy oh Oh, I, I can go next. I usually go last for this. I didn't, sorry. I am and will continue being and enjoyed being here. Federico Hatton. And in this corner, the monastic smaller, the man from the east, the devil may care, the devil's words, the devil's rata, the ugly truth, the man that planned the canal palma. Ellie Caelin. Goodnight everyone. Goodnight. Okay.

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