The Horror Returns - THR: 31 Days Of Horror Part 3

Episode Date: October 26, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:14 All right, welcome back, everyone, to Brian and Lance's 31 days of horror. Is it 31 days? 31 nights. Does it matter, Brian, these days? I go with days. Yeah, I tend to watch most of mine in the morning before everybody's awake. Because a lot of folks around here don't necessarily always like the horror movies, especially the ones with religious or demonic undertones.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Mm, gotcha. So, uh, keeping it cool, man. All right, 31 Days of Horror. This is episode three. And I think we went through 15 so far, if I'm not mistaken. Is that, am I close? I think so. I think we're on number 16.
Starting point is 00:00:59 All right, dude. If you want to kick it off, we'll get this party started. All right, number, my, this week's list is going to be more thriller-based, as you put it in, episode one horror adjacent okay I have a few of those I went to
Starting point is 00:01:21 screen box for this one it's a Norwegian thriller from 2024 it's called above the knee is it about midgets
Starting point is 00:01:32 with hockey sticks no that would have been a little bit more entertaining I read the synopsis and I thought it was going to be worth a lot
Starting point is 00:01:43 It's kind of slow. And it's only an hour and 16, but it felt like it was longer. It had a good idea. It's basically this guy, he has this obsession with his leg that he thinks it's rotting and he wants to cut it off. And he spends the majority of the movie hallucinating that it's rotting and bleeding. And he's making, he's preparing himself to cut it off. He also meets this woman who kind of has the same situation except with her eyes.
Starting point is 00:02:23 And she eventually wants to take her eyes. Okay. And it's got decent gore in it, but it just took too long. It was just this guy going through his daily situation with his girlfriend and his job. and he's slowly kind of going into madness over this obsession
Starting point is 00:02:48 because he keeps it's subtitled so I might have missed something because I never got why he has this obsession why does he think his legs just rotting lost in translation
Starting point is 00:03:00 huh? Yeah like he looks at his leg and he sees like his foot like literally like bleeding and rotting and then somebody
Starting point is 00:03:11 will come in the office to talk to him and then he'll snap right out of it and then he'll look at his leg again and it's normal this sounds like it sounds like a student film or something man it was well made well directed the acting wasn't too bad it just for an hour and 15 i thought it was just going to be straight to the point but again maybe maybe i miss something because i do tend to have to watch subtitle always twice Yeah, makes sense.
Starting point is 00:03:45 Yeah, be too. But, I mean, dude, but how long can it be? All right, so you got two legs. So let's assume he's going to cut off both. So 10 second segment cutting off the first leg and another, well, let's say he's suffering from blood loss, so it takes him 30 seconds to cut off the second one. Where's this going to go here?
Starting point is 00:04:08 I mean, the eye thing, I don't know, man. Am I missing something? well like I said he he has a girlfriend the woman with the eyes thing is a separate other woman that he's kind of meeting on the side so he's hiding this from his girlfriend he's trying to be the good boyfriend and at work he's trying to be the good employee and slowly everybody starts to realize there's something going on he doesn't seem normal he seems agitated irritated and this is on screen box yeah
Starting point is 00:04:46 all right so if people have it anyway it's no harm no foul except the hour and 15 minutes then yeah i mean it's a short watch just for me personally it felt like it was longer because i just wanted something to happen i mean something does eventually happen
Starting point is 00:05:04 and you do see him hallucinate like like i said his foot his foot rotting and him I guess daydreaming of him cutting his own leg off. You do see that. But maybe it's just
Starting point is 00:05:22 not enough story for me. I can understand that. I mean, I have trouble even envisioning someone making a movie. I guess you've got to give props to the filmmaker to take such a wonky idea and stretch it out to an hour and 50 minutes, maybe.
Starting point is 00:05:38 Yeah, I'm going to do some digging. Maybe this was a short film that he turned into a, feature link film. I could see that. Above the knee? Yeah. And it's Norwegian.
Starting point is 00:05:50 So did you think you were getting into like funny games at first, something like that, or did you kind of know what you were getting into? No, I kind of, because when I was looking up the synopsis, I saw the poster and the guy standing there with one leg. So I'm like, oh, this is like some kind of body horror slasher film, but no. What a spoiler? It's more psychological thriller. So I would ask you, does he really cut his leg off at the end?
Starting point is 00:06:23 But I guess that would spoil everything, huh? Well, spoilers. Skip ahead 30 seconds. Three, two, one. Yes, he does. Okay. So it's a happy ending. He gets what he wanted.
Starting point is 00:06:41 In my opinion for him, the way it ended, it's exactly a happy end and he got exactly what he wanted. Okay. All right. Happy for the guy. All right. And then you get the eye trauma girl. Man, you picked a weird one, dude.
Starting point is 00:06:58 Is this a 2025 release or an older movie? It was a 2024, but it got the screen box exclusive. So I guess you can call it a 2025. Yeah, I would think so. I don't think I'm going to add it. You haven't sold me. No, I know you, Lance. I don't think you'll enjoy this one, so you can skip this one.
Starting point is 00:07:25 All right. I'll skip. I'll skip. All right. 16 for you? Yeah, 16. So, yeah, one thing that's weird about me that not a whole lot of people know, but I think you do. I think I've told you this.
Starting point is 00:07:41 I've never missed a single episode of Saturday Night Live from, 1975 on? Yeah. Yeah. So one of my favorite contributors during Weekend Update there for about a three-year period was I think you know what I'm getting at here, right? So I'm going to look this movie up here
Starting point is 00:08:02 because when I say Pete Davidson, this is not what I think about. I think you've seen this one actually. Oh, the home? Yeah, yeah, the home. I was trying to look up what other movies he's done. Oh, yeah, so he did the King of Staten Island that had some comedic elements, right?
Starting point is 00:08:22 Yeah, it was more comedic drama. He did bodies, bodies, bodies. Yeah, and that was comedic with horror. The pickup, I haven't seen it yet. You have, I think, right? Yeah, it's... Is he the straight guy, or... No, he's the comedic guy.
Starting point is 00:08:41 Good Burger 2, Pure Comedy. The Freak Brothers. I don't know what that is. Okay, dumb money, pure comedy. Fast X. Definitely, he was the comic relief. Yeah, look, dude, this is so different for him. I can't get into it.
Starting point is 00:09:01 I mean, I don't want to see Pete Davidson as a straight man. And I get it. You know, it's a story that they're building. And it gets convoluted for me at the end. like really convoluted, but I did kind of enjoy that final scene with the needles in the eyes and the reason that those old people are keeping all the folks up on the top floor of the old folks home and stuff. But I want a funny Pete Davidson, man. I can't handle this completely straight-faced, try to be in every man. Was it just me, dude, or did you get that
Starting point is 00:09:42 impression too. Like it didn't work for me. It didn't work for me because it was something different for him. I mean, you got the wackiness near the end, like that final sequence. Yeah, I know, but it wasn't him, I don't know, it wasn't his normal shtick for me. Maybe I'll watch it again.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Because I did like that finale that you're talking about, where it went completely off the rails. And I kind of understand what they were doing and why they were doing it. it's kind of a complicated for a movie that you're when I was watching
Starting point is 00:10:17 I was just kind of trying to rush through it and there were scenes where I'd like go into the kitchen and start cooking something and I'd come back and had no idea what was going on. Yeah, I guess you. And then with his brother and the old people, the young people,
Starting point is 00:10:31 the stealing of the youth. And it's a great concept. I'll probably watch it again. I just, I like my Pete Davidson to have kind of a comedian. slant to him at least a little bit. I got you. Like his, the way that hit, the way the quote-unquote murder happened when you finally got to see
Starting point is 00:10:52 his little video, he never posted at the end of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, that's like my Pete Davidson. And this thing was just like, I'm being completely serious now. There's nothing funny about this. You know, I don't know. But it was okay. I like the, the Batshit ending. not terrible, but I'm ready to move on.
Starting point is 00:11:16 All right, number 17 for me. I believe you've seen this one. Excuse my dog barking in the background. This one is a 2025 release on Shutter. It is a French-American horror film called Other. Yeah. Now, I can't wait until you explain to me what this is really all about
Starting point is 00:11:40 what the fuck's going on in this movie because I really want to know. This is from the director David Maru he did that movie Mads. I think you and me seen that last year. I like that one because that's the one that was filmed in real time
Starting point is 00:11:55 and it was the outbreak that was going on and it's kind of cool the way it went like from one party to another party and then like the chase scenes and the street and stuff like that but like they kept it so kinetic that I believe the single shot concept
Starting point is 00:12:12 on that one? I thought they did that one extremely well. Visually, this one has some things going for it, right? Yeah, I think he has an eye for that kind of stuff. It stars, I'm going to butcher her last name, Olga
Starting point is 00:12:27 Currie Linko. She's Taskmaster and Black Widow and Thunderbolts. Okay. And I think she was a bond girl on one of the recent bonds. movies. Yeah, there haven't been too many terribly recent. That must have been at least 10 years ago, you think? Yeah. I guess it's hard to say. Daniel Craig Bond movies, she was a Bond girl. Okay. I don't remember
Starting point is 00:12:55 that specifically. She's a nice-looking lady. Yeah. Essentially, this is about this woman named Alice. Her mother dies and she has to go back to her childhood home to take care of. care of some affairs and she hasn't been there for a while because of reasons that the movie gets into and then strange occurrences happened in the house. Very strange. Yeah. Which I like, I like the strange occurrences and sorry, my dog's distracting me. I like the strange occurrences.
Starting point is 00:13:36 I like her kind of not knowing if it's in her head. head because she has some childhood trauma that she's dealing with being at home or if it's really happening. Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh, now it makes a little bit more sense. So you're basically saying that it's a narrator that you can't really depend on for accuracy.
Starting point is 00:14:02 It's like don't take everything literally. Okay. That makes a little more sense now. Yeah, like the lady without spoiling anything, the lady that keeps popping up on her bicycle. Yeah, is that a lady or a little boy? I didn't necessarily know if that was really happening or not. I didn't either. I heard the voice.
Starting point is 00:14:22 You ever heard of this? I don't know if she's on just reels or TikTok or whatever. My wife watches her all the time. The voice was exactly the same. The entitled housewife? You ever heard of this character? Oh, I think I've heard of her. I thought,
Starting point is 00:14:45 said, AJ, is that the entitled housewife? It sounds just like her voice. But then toward the end, I thought it was a little boy, like a teenage boy or something. You couldn't tell because she had a mask on
Starting point is 00:14:56 and she clearly was changing her voice. But there was parts in a movie where I was kind of like, is this person really there? Is this person involved? What's going on? Yeah. And then, like, on the walkie-talkie, like, okay, now go down into this cellar.
Starting point is 00:15:16 And then they get, she gets locked in the cellar and that character's like, I'm doing this to protect you. And I'm like, why? I don't know. It looked beautiful. I mean, she's, like I say, she's pretty on the eyes. I guess I kind of like the way they, I don't know if you notice that they would always show people like in the background out of focus. Yeah. So you can really see a lot of faces.
Starting point is 00:15:44 And then, like, she hit the security camera early on in the house. And she had, like, this cracked security camera every time someone walked up. And then, like you said, people were wearing masks. I thought that was a strange choice. I thought, are we going, like, in the direction of men here? Like, at first, I thought it was going to be, like, all these men were out together or something like that. Kind of weird. I've got questions.
Starting point is 00:16:09 You've explained it a little bit. the way you put it that we can't really count on her narration makes a lot more sense now. Yeah, I think it probably deserves a rewatch. You probably pick up more things on the second rewatch, but I think it's a decent little horror, thriller, a little drama mixed in there. Sure. And, yeah, if you got Shudder, AMC Plus, you should have AMC Plus, because you get Shudder and everything else.
Starting point is 00:16:39 yeah amc plus is one of the best deals in streaming i think all right number 17 for you 17 was bloody axe wound opening sequence opening sequence of nighan being nigan yeah and uh not too much more of nighan i really kind of love this story dude it was
Starting point is 00:17:03 it was silly it was very indie feeling it was completely off the wall it's kind of my jam. A lot of people, I know our buddy Matt, I think, put a comment on there like, boy, you're really dragging the bottom of the barrel with some of the movies this year. So I don't think everybody loved it, but I enjoyed it.
Starting point is 00:17:23 That was a fun movie. I mean, what did you think about it? You saw it when it first came out, I guess, right? Yeah, I like the whole aspect of their, these slasher movies are actually being, I guess, filmed for real. kind of had a meta snuff films
Starting point is 00:17:41 yeah like you'd see posters on a video store and that was for the upcoming murder slash slasher movie that was going to take place I like that idea it's got me
Starting point is 00:17:58 wondering about our buddy Steve you know the way he collects all those VCR tapes I wonder if any of those are his handiwork He's got a lot of explaining because he has a lot of VHS tapes. He does. He does. More than creep even. Yeah, I enjoyed it, man. I loved all the way they took a lot of the horror tropes. And you didn't get the final girl. I like that scene when they were all in the cabin and they thought they'd take it like an upper to stay awake, kind of like Freddie Krueger style. But they started all like getting sleepy and like, are you sure those were uppers? That was kind of cool.
Starting point is 00:18:35 I liked all the characters. I liked the low-key love story. I liked her relationship with her dad. I liked the backstory on him where he looks like death-formed over because he's so very old, right? Because of all the times he's been killed and burned and whatever
Starting point is 00:18:57 and come back to life like Jason. I just thought it tied a lot of really cool, old-school horror elements together. It had a little bit of a retro look, but everything was like super modern. And I got a kick out of this one. This is one I'm glad I watched. I really enjoyed it.
Starting point is 00:19:14 All right, cool. Number 18 from me, I went with something light after above the knee and other. Okay. This one is a to be original. It's R.L. Stein's new movie Pumpkinhead. I saw that. it worth watching? For the kids.
Starting point is 00:19:38 I don't think you'll necessarily enjoy it yourself unless you watch it with some young children. It's more goosebumps than Fear Street. I'll put it that way. Okay. But is it fun? It's okay. It'll probably be on the lesser end.
Starting point is 00:19:56 Okay. Well, shoot. It does have a very dark ending for a kids movie. really yeah but the majority of the movie is basically your typical like goosebumps slash kids
Starting point is 00:20:14 on bike type horror movie PG 13 style kid moves a kid in his family moves to a new town town's kind of weird he messes with this old guy's farm where he finds this pumpkin for some
Starting point is 00:20:33 fucking weird reason he takes the pumpkin and he wasn't supposed to take the pumpkin and he unleashes some kind of curse. Was the set design? Was the set design awesome? Like those, like real Halloween-ish? Yeah, it takes place
Starting point is 00:20:49 during Halloween, so. Yeah, okay. I like that. I like that. Yeah, it's, it has its fun moments and like I said, the way it ended, I was just kind of like, for the way this movie was going on, that's kind of, fucked up.
Starting point is 00:21:06 That's cool. Was it better than Hubey Halloween? Yeah, I'd definitely watch this over Hubey Halloween. Okay. So check out if you're a fan of R.L. Stein,
Starting point is 00:21:21 I'd say check it out. It's a tubi original. I got you. Well, I would say, because I'm going to be in Houston this weekend, I would say I'd watch it with the seven-year-old granddaughter. But the last movie, she and I watched together, was Terrify her too.
Starting point is 00:21:40 So that's her taste in movies at seven years old. And I watched, you remember that one we saw the trailer for Brian Monster Summer with Mel Gibson? Yeah. Yeah. And that's four kids. And that ended. And she said, Papa, that was one of the silliest things I've ever seen in my life.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Can we watch something good? And so I put it on centers and she loved it. so she may not go for this right no i don't think so okay all right we're moving on yeah your number 18 okay 18 brian i'm i'm what you call a disney adult are you familiar with the term yes disney adult uh all the way so this next movie and you know i'm not typically a huge fan of the, you know, Bambi reckoning and Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey
Starting point is 00:22:34 and, but there's this little one called, oh, and we hated that one last year with Mickey in it, the Mousetrap. Oh, the teleporter? Well, I think they made up for it. I think they made up for it this year, man, with a little movie called Screamboat.
Starting point is 00:22:53 I think you've seen it. Yes, I have. Friend of the show, David Howard Thornton as a little rat. I didn't know he's going to be a tiny rat, dude. I saw the costume for him on a poster, and I thought, okay, he's going to be human size, but he isn't, is he? I don't even think the trail has even made you think he was going to be that size. Yeah, that was what I thought going in, man.
Starting point is 00:23:23 I was delighted with this movie. Absolutely delighted. I think I caught every single Disney uh, Easter egg. So they had, they, they went for it too,
Starting point is 00:23:35 man. He even sang the literal, or he whistled, I should say, because all he did was whistle. He whistled the literal, um, theme song from the beginning of every fucking Disney movie.
Starting point is 00:23:46 That they show in the credits from Steamboat Willie. Now, how the fuck can they get away with that, Brian? I think you can whistle it. I don't think you can sing the words. Well, well,
Starting point is 00:23:56 well, they found the loophole because he's over there on the, killing people, off and beheading the captain of the of the uh oh yeah and they're on the long island ferry so you get a bunch of new york and long island jokes in there yeah so that was kind of funny yeah dude it all started with um the disney princesses right getting on the getting on the the ferry boat and he proceeds to kill them off and i would show it to the granddaughter but there's one scene in particular that you might remember where a guy loses a certain
Starting point is 00:24:30 bodily member. And I don't know if I want to see that with anyone in the family. Other than that, though, man, it was great. And the way they would just work it into the script, like, I'm telling you after this, we're going to see a whole new world. And then, of course, you know, the guy saying,
Starting point is 00:24:51 do you have any food on the boat? They say, be our guest. I won't go on with anymore. You get the idea. I love Screenboat, man. It was fun. I love the way they made him tiny. I love the way they brought on mini, but not many.
Starting point is 00:25:08 I love the way that the final girl kind of tricked him at the end there, dressing up as many. Yeah. It was a hoot, dude. I enjoyed it. Nice. All right. Number 19 for me is a trailer or a movie that we've been.
Starting point is 00:25:27 a movie that we reviewed the trailer a while ago. A little creature feature, core comedy called Scared Shitless. Oh, I gotta find this one. Is it streaming or rental? Rental. All right. This one I do want to see. What did you think?
Starting point is 00:25:46 I thought it was pretty decent. It had nothing but practical effects in it. Okay. And it had our boy Stephen Og, aka Simon from the Walking Dead. was the lead. Okay. Nice. A cameo from Mark McKinney from the kids in the hall.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Oh, okay. They're always hilarious. So basically this monster, creature, whatever you want to call it, gets loose in a apartment building. Stephen Og and his son are plumbers. They discover it and they have to do battle. the said creature and that's pretty much your movie it's pretty straight to the point
Starting point is 00:26:35 I like it I like it so yeah I enjoyed it the comedy didn't hit all the time with me but I think you should see it if you appreciate practical effects it is it a shit monster not necessarily
Starting point is 00:26:53 but it does come out from the toilet okay all right well I'm in dude I got to find it. If I can find it in time, I'll add it to my 31 days. If not, I'll check it out next month. But, yeah, this one I was kind of interested in from the trailer.
Starting point is 00:27:11 All right, moving on. Yeah, number 19 for you. 19 would be another documentary. So this is my third documentary of the month. It's, and easily the best. Jaws at 50. Okay, I wanted to. I haven't seen it.
Starting point is 00:27:27 I wanted to see it. You'll love it, dude. They go really deep into, yeah, obviously they do the setup where they talk about the novel, which came just barely before the movie, and then they talk about the beginning parts of the ideas for the movie,
Starting point is 00:27:43 and then they start talking about, like, critical reception. And this is all kind of like in the overview, right, at the beginning of it. So this is all, like, in the first 10 minutes. I'm not really spoiling any of the things that you're going to learn. I really don't want to give things away, because it's trivia that I never would have known and now I can throw it out on trivia night
Starting point is 00:28:02 or impress people with it because you learn a shitload in this movie. It's just fact after fact after fact. And it's like inside stuff. And you get Spielberg on there a lot as well as other people that were in the movie. You learn how they picked the cast. You learn why they chose the location.
Starting point is 00:28:21 You learn all the problems they had with Bruce. You learn just not just things that we all. all know about Jaws, but a lot of inside baseball stuff. It's really cool. And you got to love a movie that gives you a critical review from Fidel Castro. Early on, and they say, oh, we should use that on the box. And I think they did. I don't know if he gave his permission, but, you know, running a communist country, who cares, right?
Starting point is 00:28:53 So a lot of fun, man, I don't want to give away any of the same. secrets, you got to watch it. And it's not super long. It might be like an hour and 40 minutes or something like that. So definitely worth to watch. It's streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu. Okay. Number 20 for me is a 2025 horror film called Your Host. Your host? Yeah. Basically, this is the premise. Imagine Saw, but instead of torture rooms, they're on a sadistic game show. Sounds fun. And the host is played by Jackie Earl Haley.
Starting point is 00:29:37 And I'm going to have to go out on the limb and say he was fucking entertaining in this one as the psychotic game show host. It gets into the reason why these people are, why he's doing this to these people and where his background and all like that. But I just liked it. It was to the point. It was fun. practical kills. Other than Jackie or Haley, I didn't recognize anybody
Starting point is 00:30:09 in the cast. The main girl, she's a cutie, the final girl. I like turning it. Gotcha. So, fun watch. Oh, cool. All right. Yeah, that's definitely on the list. Yeah, it's sounds like a fun movie.
Starting point is 00:30:25 And Jackie Earl Haley, he's got to be better than, but not Jackie Earl Haley. What's his name again? I'm sorry. Better than who are we talking about? Was it Jackie Earl Haley? You did say that, yeah. Okay, sorry, dude.
Starting point is 00:30:42 I was getting him confused with somebody else. Okay. The dude who played Freddie Kruger? Jackie Earl Haley. Oh, okay. Thanks for sending me straight. Okay. I'd say it's been a long night, but it's just getting started.
Starting point is 00:30:56 So I can't use that. Yeah, definitely. More funner to watch him as this game show host than Freddie Kruger. Understood. And I believe you. All right. What are we on? 20.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Pick my list. Okay, well, we already talked about other. I don't know what else I need to say about it. You've convinced me of a rewatch. Now that I know that it's kind of that American psycho type, is it really going on or not deal? I think I might watch it in a different light. Because the visuals.
Starting point is 00:31:29 were amazing. And I remember the score being really good too. So I'll give it a second watch, Brian. All right. Number 21 for me is a horror action thriller called Delivery Run. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Nobody you would recognize in this one. Basically food delivery guy. He's desperate for money. He has gambling problem. He owes money. He's trying to get money together. On one of his
Starting point is 00:32:02 food delivery runs, he encounters a I guess you would call him like a serial killer that drives a semi-truck. Sounds fun, dude. And he's basically chasing him through it's a game of cat and mouse through the entire movie.
Starting point is 00:32:23 Oh my God. And it's pretty, it's pretty fucking decent for a little independent movie in a movie that I don't recognize. Not one person I don't think I recognize them in. Okay, what's this movie called again? Delivery run. Delivery run. Let me take a look here.
Starting point is 00:32:44 All right. Yeah, pretty new. 2024, so what, it could be 2025. I have seen this poster. The poster does look familiar and looks like it's more on the rental front. Yeah. Damn. I don't know, dude.
Starting point is 00:33:06 You've really got me interested in this one. I got to check this one out. I like everything about this plot. All right. You're number 21 then. Number 21 is going to be for me. You're talking about slipping out of horror a little bit. I didn't have any idea how just how out of horror this movie was going to be.
Starting point is 00:33:29 The woman in Cabin 10, have you heard of this? Yes, Netflix movie, right? It is. It is. Kira Knightley, I think is her name. I like her. You can skip this one. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's the dumbest plot I've ever heard of.
Starting point is 00:33:48 And I guess it's based on a novel, so maybe the book was... What's the general plot? It's... Man, I don't want to spoil it, because it's like... The whole thing... Things are spoiler. You know what I mean? Like 20 minutes in, once you start learning the mystery,
Starting point is 00:34:03 it's like it kind of changes everything, all the dynamics of all the character interactions and stuff. And if I say too much, then anybody that hasn't seen it yet, it's going to be ruined for him if you catch my meaning. All right. The setup was awesome, right? Because the setup reminded me of like, you know,
Starting point is 00:34:24 Knives Out or Glass Onion, where they're bringing all these rich douchebag characters. together, but they, Ryan Johnson didn't direct this from brother. This is not, this is not that clever.
Starting point is 00:34:37 But anyway, we, yes, we can move on. All right, we are going to finish this episode with number 22, and this one
Starting point is 00:34:45 released last night from, as we're recording, and that is the hand that rocks the cradle. Oh, the new one. I have to say
Starting point is 00:35:00 I don't like it as much as I do the original one but I thought it was a pretty decent remake. They made enough changes. It did the thing where they took the idea of the original one and then they made some changes to it. Okay. And I like that. Michael Monroe knocked it out the park
Starting point is 00:35:19 as far as I'm concerned as a villain. Okay. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the mother with the mother slash wife of the family. They changed the reason for the revenge, which I like that. Because it wasn't, it wasn't a, basically it wasn't a shot-for-shot remake. Okay. That's good.
Starting point is 00:35:43 That's good. And there were two instances where there was pretty graphic gore that I was not expecting. Two scenes where I was just kind of like, well that's definitely nothing to happen in the original movie so i i appreciated that so that's cool the husband the husband in it is a i use this word all the time when i'm describing these characters he's a fucking weenie he's a scoot mcnary yeah i mean like if your wife is like going crazy and hysterical and trying to tell you something listen to your wife that's usually a good Don't be a fucking weenie and be like, oh, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:36:25 Yeah. How do you know that's true? And I'm like, shut up. I got you. Did they have the same secondary plot line where there was the guy that was gardening or working on the property that she tried to pin everything on? No. And I'm assuming for reasons that they, you talk about the Solomon character, the, Ernie Hudson? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:36:51 No, they didn't have a mentally challenged handyman in this movie. Gotcha. Which I thought there was a second there, I was kind of like, where is this character going to show up? But after a while, I was just kind of like, we don't seem to need to meet this character. Almost seems like a totally different story. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, same outline, but, you know, just as certain things moved around to make it its own thing. Gotcha.
Starting point is 00:37:22 But if you're a fan of Michael Monroe, you should be watching it anyways. You got it, dude. I'm going to watch it just for the two actors alone, no doubt. And sexy time with the Michael Monroe. And the daddy? Change it, Lance. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Ready? Yeah. Moving on. Your last one. My last one and not best. Oh, no. 825 Forest Road. Wasn't that disappointing?
Starting point is 00:37:54 825 Forest Road, a.k.a. nothing happens, but a bunch of people standing around talking about ghosts that are never seen on screen. Yeah, from the makers of Hellhouse LLC. I know. Cognetti. It's our boy Cognetti. He let me down with this one. I do not want to have him on the show again right now.
Starting point is 00:38:18 I did not enjoy this movie, dude. I'm not hearing great things about the last hell house. We haven't seen that yet, have we? No, I think by the time listeners hear this episode, I think that will be on Shudder. Okay, all right. I'm assuming you and me will probably talk about it next week. Yeah, I'll watch it, guaranteed, and pray.
Starting point is 00:38:42 Because I like the dude. He was fun to talk to, but I'll pray that it's better than this piece of shit. this was fucking horrible dude you had the the husband and the wife moving into the house and everybody's so so low-key about it's almost like you're talking about with the hand it rocks the cradle like the woman's seeing things
Starting point is 00:39:03 and the dude doesn't believe her and then you get the sister and they try to be oh so clever with the three chapters that are the three different points of view so they try to they try to kind of do what was successfully done in weapons right where it's kind of
Starting point is 00:39:19 story changes a little bit because now you're seeing it from this person's point of view. But when literally nothing happens, it doesn't really matter. Like, okay, I just saw them get a Coca-Cola out of the refrigerator from the left angle. Now I'm seeing them get a Coca-Cola out of the refrigerator from a right angle. Now I'm seeing the third story where they're getting a sprite out of the refrigerator. It's that bad, dude. You haven't seen it? I've seen it.
Starting point is 00:39:46 I was disappointed. I couldn't tell you really anything. I remember. I remember being that bored of it. The creepiest thing that happens is there's a mannequin that the lady uses because she does like a vlog. And it moves around and ends up outside. Yeah, I remember that part. Moving on.
Starting point is 00:40:09 All right. Is that it for this week? That is it for this week. Next week will be our final installment for, 2025 is 31 days of horror. Very nice. Very nice. We're going to make it this year. So this is
Starting point is 00:40:25 Brian and Lance signing out. And until next time we meet, stay spooky.

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