The Horror Returns - THR Bonus - Ep. Go/Don‘t Go (2020)

Episode Date: March 12, 2021

This bonus episode Brain and Nez review the 2020 psychologcal/sci-fi/horror/thirller GO/DON'T GO. (((WARNING))) This review contains spoilers at the last half of the review.   

Adam. They were there. They were there. And then... Yeah. Really? What? I'm not making it up.

I saw it. You saw it. Did you believe me if I told you I didn't know how I got here? I know you. You got some tricks up your sleeve. The idea of you is the only thing keeping me alive. The idea of me is slowly killing you. Welcome back everybody to another bonus episode for the horror.

Returns, the THR podcast network. This episode, we are talking about a new sci-fi drama called Go Don't Go. And he was with me when we tried to explain

Science in Time Cop. He's back to help me explain Go, don't go. My brother, Nez, what's up, man? Yo, what's up, man? This is also going to be a part of East Society, the Anchor Edition. We're going to put this over there as well on our East Society feed.

So for all you, E Society listeners, please shoot on over to horror returns and listen to everything they got. Brian and I also have the action returns as well as THR present stream themes. So, but, okay, go, don't go. this came out last year that's what I'm reading yeah yeah just give him the synopsis

I mean there's a couple okay go to the Googles here the last survivor on earth feels like someone or something is trying to make contact with him straight to the point I'm D.B let's see oh there a little bit more into it caught between a lost love story and insatiable paranoia go don't go is a genre-bending slow burn thriller that follows Adam a wallflower who happens to be the last person left alive or so he thinks

this stars Alex Knapp who plays Adam which he is also the director and writer of this movie Olivia Laccardi, Nori Davis, Thomas Isig, Batina Sky, and Christian Peterson. Not a very big cast. Nez, what are your initial thoughts on this?

Well, here's the things that I did like. I loved, I thought the acting was good at the Alex Knapp did a really good job, as well as his visuals for with his directing I thought that that was it was all good I really loved his really wide shots There's a scene at the very end which we'll talk about at when we get to the end of this shirt review But everyone in it the the little short time other than the main character Adam by Alex Knapp everyone else is just kind of minimal they they pop in here and there with some foot flashback scenes and that was pretty much it. But the score was really good.

I was really paying attention to that. So, I mean, I liked how this all looked. I loved the way he filmed it. I just have some issues with the story. Mainly what the hell is happening in this? It kind of reminded me of that film, The Road, where it was just doom and gloom the whole time.

That would be go. Yeah, and then when you got to the end, it kind of didn't really explain what was going on. Gotcha. So that's how I felt in this. It's just a lot of just slow shots. This is a really a slow burn film. I was also reading some other things.

saying that it was like a psychological thriller or horror film. It could have been horror, but it just, it did not to say that it fell flat, but I think when this film was over, I just had more questions than answers. It also kind of reminded me of, what was that film? 28 days later, not the infected part. I mean, the part of just being alone, walking around this town and everything, wherever this guy was. Was this in America? I believe so. I don't think they ever really said where it was.

Yeah, but I mean, but overall, I mean, I did enjoy the film. It was just some of the story line, the story that I was kind of like, whoa, why and what? when the movie was over but what did you think of this okay first I'm gonna say I enjoyed the acting I thought it was shot beautifully he did an excellent job

directing this this I agree with you again on the score the score was really good in it the story I felt like at one point I did think it was one way and then by the time we got to the end It was something else.

I did think that. So I do kind of give them credit for that. But it just took too long to get to that part. Horror film, yeah, they could have went there because you do play with this aspect, like it says in a synopsis, not a spoiler, that he is alone? Or is he alone? Is he surrounded by, is there somebody out there or is it just all in his mind? because, you know, you got to really think about it, you know, being the last man on earth, possibly, or at least where you are, you got to go a little nutty eventually. And just I thought that aspect of it I liked because I think he just really played that off well in the movie.

The whole, is there someone there or am I really alone? Is it in my head? Is it not in my head? I thought that was played very well but it just it took too long to get there and when we got there it ended and

I was also left with more questions yeah I am this was a beautifully shot film I mean that to me that was that's the main thing for this uh this guy has a really good eye for his scenes and um I mean, it's weird. I mean, I always wonder how, well, I guess I can ask Mike.

When you're the director and writer and one of the stars in the film, like how, are you the one that says, all right, action? And then you start acting or I'm unsure. I mean, I can ask Mike, but I'm sure every director does it differently. Or maybe they have an assistant director to help them along. But yeah, I mean. The only way to really get into this is is spoilers, but I mean, but the premise of this film is this guy, Adam, we see him just doing everyday stuff. He goes to the store and gets groceries. He goes to work and punches in on the time clock and everything. And then we have some flashbacks of him meeting this young woman. named Kay,

played by Olivia Lucardi, I think he was. And also his friend Um Is he? Norie Davis.

Norie Davis, his friend Kyle. Yeah, I like that guy. Yeah, he was the one that introduced to Adam to Kay when they were at this par or a bar or a bar somewhere. Party or a bar. It actually,

I was doing some, uh, little looking. That actually was a birthday for him, but he didn't, but majority of the people invited there, he didn't know. And it kind of plays off the whole aspect of him, like they, like it said in the synopsis, of being a wallflower kind of just not very sociable with anybody. That's why you kind of see him drinking to himself and you don't even really realize this is for him. I wouldn't want to have a birthday party and not know anyone there. I mean, especially if it's for me. Yeah.

But, okay. I mean, to each his own. I mean, but those are just flashbacks that he has meeting K talking to Kyle. And then we find out he's just roaming around this little town and nobody is around. I mean, they kind of trick you a little in the beginning when he goes into the grocery store. Because he's talking and everything. And then we find out that that he's. he's alone and then he starts having flashbacks to some tragic event that happened

I assume that was what why everybody was gone and we don't know why yeah I felt like all that to get to that point was kind of rushed yeah and I think they could have used that time to kind of flesh out what happened or then again I don't know maybe it was his choice as a writer to kind of just leave that up to you to I guess imagine what happened or something. But I kind of wish he would have took that time to explain what happened in the flashbacks. And then I think the movie would have flowed a little bit more better for me. Yeah, because I mean, a lot of this films, especially mainly in the beginning, is him just walking around and going to these different places. there isn't there isn't much dialogue uh in beginning until he he does a flashback and he's talking to his friend

kyle but um that's pretty much the premise of the film this guy's alone in this town and he's just trying to figure figure out something um if the if we're done the review the review review is going to end right here but um Brian I got I got to ask Brian this so from from this on you guys hear that sound um we got to we got to go into spoilers I mean that that I was thinking the same thing it's the only way everyone if you don't if you do not want to

hear um the rest of the film once we get into it I mean you can stop right here watch the film then come back and listen to all we have a say. So I'm giving you guys five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one. All right. What the hell happened to everybody? Or what do you think? I know it was kind of put to it's all up to your own imagination on what you think happened. What did you think? It was kind of hard to really figure out because, I mean, it could have maybe been a virus, but there is like, nobody. There's nobody around. There's no bodies. There's nothing. And then you get a flashback of him

kind of meeting the parents. And then it cuts to him arguing with the dad about something that happened. And then it cuts to another scene of him kind of like, I guess he's in some kind of shed or something. And there's a fire outside. And I don't know. Did the world just go crazy or what? I don't know. But the one thing that just really was just bothering me because I just wanted to know what happened because you just don't know because there's nobody. It's like everybody just disappeared off the face of the earth. I was thinking kind of at first maybe it was a virus and it just didn't affect him. Then I started thinking, well, maybe he's dead and he's in between the, what do you call it? purgatory or whatever.

Yeah. Did you think he was jumping back and forth between time the way the flashbacks were? I think so. But they later on in the film when he's when he's when he's talking himself or talking to Kyle, he kind of mentions that, um, your, this is all in your head. You're, you're talking and you're answering for yourself. Uh, so I was like, hmm, okay, I think he's just been alone so long. we don't we don't really know how long this has been um obviously it may it could have been a few

months it could have been years we don't know that they don't really go into uh the time span in this but uh so i was thinking well maybe it was some kind of virus but then i was thinking maybe he's dead and he's in between worlds right now and then that's hard but me to cut go ahead go ahead but but then i thought well whatever happened because during one of the flashbacks they show k and she's getting dragged off by something that that was my next question um do you think it maybe since they kind of they labeled this as a sci-fi drama that it maybe was aliens because you get that scene where because he's constantly calling his self leaving messages i did this i did that and then you find out that he left

traps like explosives and stuff like that so do you think maybe it was aliens it had to have been something like a physical presence some of a being or something be it something from another planet or maybe just the world went mad um but i never really thought of aliens for some reason i was thinking monsters but then i was thinking well these monsters or whatever they were they would still be around So, I mean, because obviously this, whatever happened only happened to humans because there was animals still running around. So. And why is he the last one? Why did, why did he get left?

I don't know. I mean, but something was there that drug her away because they showed that scene twice where she's on her stomach and then gets pulled away by something. And so I was kind of like, all right. So, I mean, that just got me more intrigued to see how this film was going to end. And what is it that was out there that caused everyone to disappear? So there was no answer. I mean, we didn't get no answer to what happened. Or no, we didn't even get to see anything on what happened.

But we know it was something major because during one of the flashbacks, it's Adam K. and her mom and dad, um, trying to figure out what to do. Like, because they were, uh, loading up all their gear in their house. Okay, this is what we got. Um, maybe we need to go get more supplies before we do anything. But because their plan was we need to go to the top of this mountain. So we can see every direction on where it's safe and where it's not. So I took that as, uh, there was something there that caused.

everything but they just they just didn't go into it and um there's a lot of a to check green check marks and red X's I was unsure of with that but then later on when when he doesn't really explain it but when he starts doing things we see why he gives it a green check or why he puts a red X on it so I was like ah okay I was a little thrown when he got to the mountain because he ran out of gas and he was just walking

and then he hit this trip wire before the actual and then something blows up so the actual little device that blows up they showed it earlier in the film in his workshop so I was thinking did he go up there and put all this?

Because on his maps that he had, there was a lot of X's like, don't go here, don't go there. But then there were parts that were green, that all right, this part is safe. And on his notes on some of the maps, there was a red X somewhere, and it said, be careful trip wires.

So I assume he put that there and just forgot about it. Yeah, because that might, might have just told you how long he's been by himself that he has to basically remind himself of all this stuff yeah so i was just i okay so there was there was something there that caused all this that's why he put up the um the trip wires and again we see k getting dragged off but we we never ever find out what what happened a why ever ever everyone ended. I mean, and going back to that movie, The Road, that was another thing. They never

explained what happened in that, what caused this craziness that went on in the world. But I was kind of thinking, watching this film, I was going, he can't be the only survivor out there. I mean, other than him just doing everything by himself and talking to himself and imagining his friend that he was talking to. There was, I don't, they didn't really go into explanation why. But every time he left his house, he would shut his door, but then it would open again. They showed it twice. So that's where I was kind of thinking, maybe he's dead and he's in between dimensions or whatever.

Yeah. So maybe just people were still going and he was like, he can't see everyone. That's what I was thinking. But then later on when those other things happening, I feel like, okay, well, then that's not a possibility that he's dead. I mean, he's alive, but just being alone. And I'm sure being alone, you just start talking to yourself. I mean, like the film, I am legend. Yeah.

Well, Smith, he was alone so much. she was just talking to himself and talking to mannequins and everything. So I think that's what Adam was doing. He'd been alone for so long. He just had conversations with himself and to where he would say something and then he would get an answer. Maybe he would imagine somebody else is there talking to him. so um again i mean when the movie was said and done hey there was no explanation on on what happened

so i i would that's why i was i was lost i would love to talk this to to this director Alex Alex Knapp yeah and maybe he can explain more or maybe there was something that we missed in it um i mean yeah that's we can be all night trying to finish this movie out but that's pretty much this a time cop episode yeah but i mean that's pretty much where uh where i am uh with this film again i did enjoy it would i watch it again probably just to see if i miss something so but um yeah i will say though um for this being i'm looking at it

right now this is his first film he's directed he's got a good eye and it if i hear he's his name come up as directing something, I'm definitely going to check it out. I think he has a knack for directing and just the way everything was shot was, it looked really good. I mean, his acting of just being alone, I mean, I thought that was good. I think my favorite scene in this film was when he's in the Bullen Alley. It's towards the end of the film. He just goes into the Bullen Alley, has a little box of beer,

and he's listening to music and bowling and just pounding the beers. I think that what I loved about that scene is, because it's just him bowling, that's it. It was shot really good. It was really, really wide shots of this bowling alley. And it seemed to like he needed to just forget about everything that's going on outside right now. Let me just bowl and have some beers and listen to some music and just get myself away from everything. It's not a bad bowler for all them beers he was pounding either.

Yeah, it was. And then he had seen something. It looked like there was a lady in there that walked out of the bowling alley. And he asked to powering all those beers and then hauling ass running through the bowling alley. I was like, man, you'd have fell. Well, he did fall. But he would have been staggering. but I think that just being alone

his mind was just starting to play tricks on him seeing things so yeah that's why I'm at too so I mean yeah but I mean again there was no explanation even when we do the flashbacks of him I did feel sad sad and sorry for him that his girlfriend was gone

because he had a lot of touching scenes when he was thinking about her Like, because he was getting ready to go do something. He was in a nice suit. And he was dreaming that his, his girlfriend was talking to him. So I was kind of like, oh, all right. But, yeah, I mean, he ends up going to the mountains,

but then never really seeing anything. I mean, there was nothing answered. Because, I mean, they kept saying, and they were saying it throughout the movies. So I figured, well, maybe when he gets to the mountain, he will, they'll show something. Yeah. And go, ah, okay, but they never did.

Even with that, I kind of felt like something was stopping him from going to the mountain. I don't know if it was just him having bad luck with vehicles or something else, maybe. I think, I just think he didn't want to leave that town. I think he just wanted to stay there. He was more, that's where Kay was from and her family. So maybe he just wanted to go there or stay there. This also kind of reminded me, I mean, if you're going to bring in the whole alien factor, it kind of reminded me of war of worlds when the aliens came.

They did something to all the electronic, not all the electronics and basically the cars, because there was still power in the houses and everything. but none of the cars ran and he was changing things and they would start up for a second but then they would just die again so luckily he knew how to work cars

or fixed cars because I I'd be walking everywhere I ought to found a bicycle I'm sure somebody had a bicycle in that town but again there was some things going on here that just

wasn't explained so but we know there was something uh that caused this all it just didn't one day like that movie the happening i know when you when you when you hear that tell a lot of people go i like i almost did i like that movie so but um i was even thinking that maybe it was something like that that just killed everyone and he was the only one that that it didn't kill but i don't know I mean, we have to ask this director and as well as the writer. I mean, Alex Nat, we need to ask him. We need to find him somewhere because I was like, dude, what happened? I mean, is it just, it might be like whatever you think happened.

And if it's, if it's, everyone's going to think different things. I mean, because we came up with multiple reasons on what we think happened. But, I mean, we don't know because there was no. explanation okay my my last thing was um that little barn that was a that was burning up at the end yeah what what was that I think that was him kind of letting go of her is that where they were all trying to get to in the mountains I did man I don't know but I think the burning of it was him letting go of That memory because he was constantly talking to her throughout the movie and I think that was him in his mind

I think that was that's what that represented was him letting go of that or maybe everything. I don't know I love the shot of it's a really wide shot we see Adam standing outside I don't know how far away from this little shack this burning and then we see the the little wood the little cabin burning. And it was just, it was just standing there looking at it as you, as this whole thing is engulfed, uh,

by flames. I thought that was kind of like a really beautiful shot. You see him standing. You see this little, uh, this little cabin burning up and then you just see trees in the background on this big huge, uh, green clearing. So how was it? I mean for, and for an end,

and that shot went on for like, at least, a minute and all we just, the only thing moving was, were the, were the flames. So I really enjoyed that, um, that, that shot. But then at the very end of the film, it's, uh, wintertime and he's having some batting practice. Uh, he's got one of those pitching machines and it's just, he's just hitting balls. But then we see somebody in the background, kind of just walk behind this fence and walk towards Adam and it's a young lady obviously she survived whatever happened she did look like she was all beat up and tired and dirty but then that was the end of the

film so because I was thinking I was like he can't be the only one out there that this survived of this thing there had to have been somebody um really quick I mean on when he was he got this shit his truck up and running and he was driving to the mountain while he was driving uh somebody came up behind him in a car because the headlights were on and he was like what the fuck it was this and that's what made me think well maybe these were survivors up in the mountains but then it turned to nothing and it was yeah that's what was throwing me because i'm just like i said i think they really played it off well of is this really happening or is it in his head

I mean, I think a lot of it was in his head. And I guess that's just being alone for so long. Again, we don't know how long he's been alone. But to where he is to try to keep himself somewhat sane, he just starts imagining all these things and talking to himself. And I think he's still talking to his friend Kyle. No, but I think, but that last scene with Kyle when they're sitting around the campfire, I think that's when Kyle kind of explained that everything you're doing isn't good. You need to let go.

That's probably why he burned up that cabin at the end. So, but overall, again, I did enjoy the film. It's just really slow. And there was no explanation. Again, maybe the director wanted you to, well, whatever you think happened is the reason. I mean, go to Pulp Fiction. What was in that briefcase? A lot of people think it was gold because every time they opened it up, there's like gold light came out.

It's Marcellus's soul. Yeah, so, I mean, we really didn't know what was in it. So what? This, we don't know what was out there. What caused this? Obviously, it was something that did it. Because it wiped out pretty much, I don't want to say the whole world, maybe whatever state they were in, or maybe the whole United States was taken out. I don't know.

So, I mean, again, we got to find this director and ask him, hey, what happened? So. But with that, man, I don't have anything else to say, because again, we'll be here all night. Yeah, I want to send a special thanks to, I believe this one is through Gravitus Ventures, and I want to send a special shout out to Katie Armstrong. Thanks for working with us again. Yeah, thank you. I mean, I don't think I would ever have come across this film if it wasn't for you for letting us watch this film. Thank you so much.

Give us more. We'll watch them and we'll talk about them. So, I mean, again, this was a film that came out or was released last year. I think you got a full release this year. Okay. Hold it up real quick. It says February 1st of last year. Okay.

But I was reading something that this, it was an older film. Like, it had been out. for a while. It might have been, it could have been an older film. It might have been acquired by, by the company to distribute. All right.

Again, I mean, we'll be here all night, but I don't have any, anything else. I just really need to find this guy. It's because I got too much, too many, uh,

questions that, that need answers. So, but. All right. All right. You can definitely find this over at the horror returns as well as E-society and their anchor feed. And, yeah, just a really, really solid film. It just moved a little, a little slow.

And it just kind of got left with more questions and answers. But overall, I thought this. was a solid film, a solid debut directorial movie for this guy. And I'm definitely going to keep my eye out for him. You got anything else? No, that is it. Thank you, everyone, for listening. Again, thank you for letting us

watch this film. That's all I got to say. Well, we got more and more bonus episodes coming for you. So please come back and listen to more. So until then, please be safe out there because we don't know what's out there especially in this film but either way party on

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