The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #15: Shaun Of The Dead (2004) & Range 15 (2016) (Re-upload)

Episode Date: April 24, 2021

Zombie comedy week as we cover Range 15 and Shaun of the Dead. Thanks for listening!

And here we are with another episode of The Horror Returns. I'm Lance, and with me as always are my co-host, Brian and Phillip. How's it going, guys? That's going pretty good. Guys, what is the coolest thing you've watched this week? Philip, you want to go first? Yeah, this is actually the thing I'm most excited about on this episode. I am half-ass caught up with Daredevil.

I kind of binge the second half of the second half of the first. first season and uh and um about halfway through the second season where they first introduce uh electra it's it's pretty fucking awesome you're uh you're up to the part right now where where they're just now introducing her yeah yeah yeah like and that everything you've told me about it has been totally 100% true like that scene where they had um or that whole episode where they had uh you know the punisher and and daredevil and they were talking to each other on the roof and then the fight scene on the way down. Oh, dude, yeah, having to get downstairs from the rooftop.

Yeah. You've seen all those, right, Brian? That was straight up. Yeah, I've seen them all. That was straight up Tony Jha right there. That was fucking amazing, wasn't it? It was really good. In my opinion, that blew away the single shot fight scene from the first season,

and the whole way, you guys remember that? Yeah. Yeah. I'm loving the second season more than the first. And, I mean, the first season was really good. It was just kind of a slow burn. Right. But the second season is really kick-ass, man.

And they've got these characters that are coming in, and something big happens every episode. Yeah, it's really found its footing, huh? Yeah, so I'm excited about it. I'm going to pick up where I left off tonight. Hey, Brian, what was your cool of the week, man? I revisited a couple of movies, The Collector and the Collection. Yeah, I saw you putting a lot of stuff on Facebook about that.

Yeah, you guys ever check these movies out? Yeah, I've seen them both. I've seen the collector, but it's been a long time. Yeah, I enjoy them. You know, this was originally supposed to be a saw prequel. Really? Yeah, but they just went ahead and it made its own thing. No shit, I had no idea.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it. You know, the first one, it's him going into someone else's house, and the second one's more basically. basically his own house, his own little fun house of traps and stuff. Right. So it's, I like them. They're pretty good films. Yeah, that's a pretty good double bill, man.

So basically the first one's like a straight up home invasion movie, and the second one was more of like a try to escape from the house of horrors type thing. Yeah, because the second one is a direct sequel. It picks up where the first one leaves off. Right. So they got to go into basically his domain. to get someone back. And it gets pretty crazy.

I mean, there's, there are some traps that you're, you know, you've got to suspend disbelieve. Yeah, of course. There always are. But, but, but yeah, that's what I checked out this week. So you'd recommend both of them? Absolutely. Well, I got all caught up with fear of the walking dead. So, Brian, I got to ask you first.

Where are you at? I am exactly where I told you guys I was last week. But I promise by next episode I will be caught up. Yeah, well, you may want to plug your ears because I've got to talk about a couple of things, man. Go ahead. So what I like about this second part of the second season so far is that they are telling different storylines. So the characters in case you hadn't got to that part yet, they're all split up now. And they're in Mexico.

So you've got three different loosely banded. groups of people together. One kid, one of the kids, Nick, he's on his own, but he's turned into a real badass. The Johnny Depp look-alike. I like the heroin addict. Yeah, I like him and I like his story that he's doing right now. Well, they switched it over to more of the story now of the mom and her daughter.

Yeah. They're in a really ritz-y, kind of like a Ritz-Carlton type, and like a tourist, like a huge tourist hotel, tourist resort. Yeah. And they've run into some people that have kind of hold up in there. But there's still zombies in there. So sort of like a maze a little bit. And I think they're my least favorite of the stories at the moment.

Yeah, maybe so, but I really like those effects of the zombies falling out of like the 30th floor of the resort. And landing on the ground and getting up and walking again. That was fucking creepy. I don't think I've ever seen that before. Because then suddenly there's more of them on the ground because they don't die, you know? Right. Yeah, Brian, that sounds like something you could get into? Yeah.

I'm probably just going to binge all the way up until the current episode this weekend. Yeah, that's, I keep thinking that, you know, there's nothing that they can do that's really new that they haven't already done in The Walking Dead, but I've never seen that shit before. Zombies falling out on the 30th floor and fucking walking after they hit the ground. I feel like that one's, that one's harder to binge than, well, I mean, I don't know. I'm a huge fan of the original Walking Dead, you know, so the fear of the Walking Dead is, I was really super excited about it, but it's not... When they finish an episode, I'm not like, oh, I really have to see the next one.

It's just, I'm watching it, you know? I was just going to say, it's kind of hard for me to catch up because my wife watches it, and our schedules don't link up sometimes, so... Oh, I got you. Most of the time, I'm waiting on her to get caught up. That's why I got stuck on Daredevil. Yeah, well, my wife won't come within... been a mile of any of the Walking Dead TV shows, so I don't have, that's not my problem at all, man.

My problem is I can't get her to watch it with me. But I would totally disagree with you, Philip, man. I fucking love right now that I love the storylines. Yeah. Well, I always like it when they have an ensemble cast and they film them in different locations, so you kind of switch from one to the other. It's definitely growing on me, and I like the dad and the kid. Yeah, oh, for sure, yeah.

I like Chris. Oh, he's a stone cold killer, isn't? I like their storyline that they've got going. And that's my least favorite storyline. Because this little fucking shit, he's going to have to be put down. No, I know. He's a little shithead, but it at least gets me emotionally involved when I'm watching it, you know? Right.

And I think that's what I like about it. Cool. Well, yeah, Brad, I think you've got a lot to look forward to, man. Sounds good. As with every show, it's time to take a little trip. Down to the trailer part. We take a look at the big, the small, and sometimes the very, very weird.

Brian, what's our first trailer to talk about this week? Our first one we're going to talk about is a movie. I know you can't wait to review. It's underworld Blood Wars. Blood Wars. What's this one all about, man? This is the Vampires versus Werewolves movie with Cape Beckinsale.

Okay, but what makes, what makes the blood war? I mean, what's, do you have any idea what they're referring to in that? No, this, um, looks like it's going into its own story. This is the fifth movie in the series, so I think they're going into a whole new story now. But by the end of the trailer, it looks like she's becoming like a, a leader to the vampires.

Yeah. Oh, what a surprise. Wow, didn't see that coming. You know, guys, I've seen this movie before. It's called Twilight. No. No, no, no. Look, okay, so here, I'm going to go with, I like the Underworld series. I really do.

Are they kicking a dead horse? Absolutely. But, you know, I mean, they're still not bad. It's kind of like they do with Resident Evil, man. They're bringing out a whole lot of sequels, and, you know, each one is not quite as good as the last. but I thought the original underworld was classic. And I've seen them all, and they all kind of keep my attention.

The new cast with that dude from the Divergent series, and so they're trying to make it appeal to this generation. Less we've hit Tywin Lanister from Game of Thrones. I noticed him in there. Oh, yeah. I guarantee when sunlight hits them, they don't sparkle like diamonds. No, I don't know, man. You want to make a bet on that?

I'll put a bet on that one. All right, you're on. Almost every movie has a love story, all right? Well, I'm going to say the best thing she's done is put this outfit on that she wears in these movies. Oh, yeah. Oh, there you go, man. There you go. Yeah, and she does that whole, you know, in the preview, they got to show the superhero landing, jumping off the building,

which she does in every movie. And looks just as badass as it did the first. time. God damn it. So when does this fucking thing come out so I know we're going to have to

review it? January 6. Hell yeah. Thank God. I've got a little bit of a reprieve. Okay. Our next one is

Death House. Death House. This is the superstars of horror movie, right? Yes. Yeah. Weren't you telling us

about this six months ago? Yeah, they've been working on this for a while. This is actually been written by Gunner Hansen. No way. Are you serious? He wrote it? Yeah, he wrote it with

another gentleman by the name of Harrison Smith. This was like one of the last things Gunner did before he passed. Okay. And if, I'm pretty sure people that listen know who he is, but if you don't, he was Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Yeah, quick a quick little rundown of just some of the cast in here. We got Kane Hodder, Barbara Crampton, Bill Mosley, Sade Haig, Tony Todd, Heather Langenkamp, Adrian Barbeau, Michael Barryman, and so on and so on. There's a lot of people in this movie. Big cast, you know. Wow. So it's a love letter to Gunnar Hanson then.

Yeah. Got it. What did you guys think of this? There wasn't much to see, man. Just a lot of darkness and flashing lights is all I got out of it, really. Yeah, I wasn't a fan of the preview. I mean, it looks cool. I'll definitely watch it.

But yeah, it didn't give you much except who was in the movie. You know, like the dude from the clown from House of a Thousand Corpses. Oh, Sid-Hag. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Tony Todd was there for like a flash. Split second. In fact, I was like, was that Tony Todd? I know, right?

And I didn't even hardly see it. Right. It was, if you're an epileptic, do not watch this preview. good advice that last scene though was crazy creepy no the very final shot that very final shot was super creepy

yeah I think this trailer was more so to let people know who was in the movie yeah because other than the story it just the only thing I can get for them is these people are trapped somewhere that they need to get out of right

some sort of security prison yeah but they didn't really give too much on the story. Yeah. Which, you know, I'm all right with. I like going into a movie with a clean slate. And I heard a rumor that maybe Robert

England is in this movie, but they just didn't put him in the credits. Well, I had heard something about him being in it, but I certainly didn't see him in the trailer. Yeah, I had read a story that he said he had he never got a script or invite for the movie,

and there was people saying that he might have probably was doing a little bit of misdirect for the fans out there. That would be, yeah, that would make a lot of sense. Robert England was or somebody else was? Or Robert England was telling fans that he's not in the movie. Oh, I got. Like he was pissed off about it and didn't get an invite and all that. But as far as the release date, there isn't an actual set date, but it will come out early 2017. Cool. All right.

Well, I mean, I'm sure we'll watch it. I mean, with that cast, you have to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Definitely watching it. And now it's time for horror headlines, brought to you by Brian. Okay, our first little bit of news here, you guys, fans of the Zombie Land movie? I love it, man. Really?

Yeah, I love that movie. Me, not so much. No, no. I wasn't my favorite of the zombie movies. So much. But, I mean, it's got a huge cult following for sure. Yeah, dude. It was great.

Well, then I will say, for one. of you. A little bit of good news. The sequel has just got a little bit of co-financing. Okay. Really? So it's one step closer to actually something happening for this movie because it's been in development for a long time. Right. They actually tried to make a TV show out of this. That was the Amazon one episode pilot that they put together. Yeah. I believe it was canceled after the first episode.

That sucks. Yeah, but Amazon does that a lot. They just came out with three new ones, in fact. It seems like they'll put, like, three out there, and if one of them sticks, they'll make it into a series. Yeah. I could have seen this as a TV show, but that kind of scares me. Does the second movie have the same cast?

I mean, minus, obviously. Hey, you never know. I believe... It's a zombie, right? Yeah, a little bit of red on it. I think some of the cast was originally signed for a sequel. There was an exec for Sony Pictures. Doug Belgrin.

He recently just stepped down and started his own company, 2.0 Entertainment. And that's the company that's co-financing this movie. So he's trying to get this movie going. Okay. Getting his own thing. All right. Well, hey, we'll see. I mean, as soon as I saw it, it immediately went on the list of my favorite movies.

You liked it that much, huh? Yeah, dude, definitely. Would you call it like top 10 of all time? Top 10 zombie movies at least? Oh, yeah. No shit. Yeah, yeah, definitely. That's pretty strong.

I like those quirky kind of movies, man. Right. That's right in my alley. Something tells me we're going to talk about a few of those tonight. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with Philip. That's in their top ten for me, too. Damn.

Well, you guys are going to enjoy it if they finally come through with this, huh? if they bring the original cast back Yeah That's part of what made it Yeah I understand that was a big problem With the pilot that they did for Amazon Was that it was like none of the same people at all Not even one

Oh well then Yeah it was none of the people But it was almost like they tried to get people That look like them Ah fuck that At least that's what I felt like When I seen pictures of the cast Well let's hope they learned their lesson

Yeah Yeah Our next news item here Relativity is aiming to start shooting the new crow movie in January and Jason Momoa is in and talks to play the crow. Oh, I think he told me about this before, yeah. Yeah, right. Not very, I don't think that's the right casting.

I love Jason Mamoa, but isn't the crow supposed to be like a kind of a skinny, emaciated, you know, almost like, doesn't he die and come back to life? I mean, Jason Momoa looks way too robust for somebody who's done that. Yeah, dude, but Brandon Lee was pretty. built when he did it. Yeah, but he was like a skinny strong. We talked about this last week or the week before. Skinny Strong, I mean, Bruce Lee is a skinny strong. Brandon Lee would be bigger than him. Yeah, I don't think this movie's going to happen.

No? Because I believe this is the same company we talked about last week that all these movies were getting pushback because of the violent for bankruptcy. So I just have a feeling it's not going to get made. If it gets made, it's not going to be Jason Momoa because he's He's got Aquaman in Justice League coming up. He's got a lot of big things in the shoot, man. I don't know if he's going to be fucking around with a company that just went bankrupt. Yeah. Yeah, speaking of Jason Momoa and bad casting, Aquaman?

I mean, really? I mean, I can understand. I still love it. Yeah, because I know what you mean, because it's revisionist. They're trying to redo the whole DC universe. But, I mean, Aquaman does not, the original comic Aquaman does not look at all like Jason Mamoa. No, but he's a little blonde dude that swims in the ocean.

Is that really what you just watch a movie about? I think I think he was... At Kepern is Aquaman? I'm not watching that. Bleets Blonde's Zach Efron, huh? I think he was recently rebooted for the comics.

As far as his look. Oh, no shit. See, I don't keep up with comics anymore. See, yeah, that's the thing. It's all the reboots and stuff. Like the reboot of Ghost Rider doesn't even have a fucking motorcycle. Oh, come on. I don't even believe you. He's in a badass, like, classic car or something. Oh, come on, dude.

That's not even a CIS rider. Yeah, it's very similar to, uh, what's his name's car and Fast and Furious, uh, Vin Diesel's, uh, charger. Man, Vin Diesel. But it's a completely, it's a completely different ghost rider, though. Mm-hmm. But, um, as far as this, um, yeah, I, I just, I just don't think it's going to happen. I don't, I don't think, as far as Jason Momoa, I just think he's, he's way too busy right now.

Right. Yeah. Well, if they were going to do it, man, they picked him when he was right for the picking, you know? Because I think Jason Mamo is fixing a blow up. And, okay, one final little news thing, just real quick, a couple of possible Blu-rays coming out. Okay. Are you guys fans of the Evil Dead remake?

Oh, hell yeah. I loved it. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah, Fetti Alvarez is trying to get a director's cut of the movie. movie put on Blu-ray and he's trying to get it out

by Halloween. I don't see how he could make it any better than the movie I saw. Yeah, I heard there was a lot

of scenes cut out of the movie to get it to that R-rating so I think this might be a few little more gruesome

scenes put in the movie which I'm all for. Yeah, me too. They should have I think that they should have put the scenes

in and just had the NC-17 rating, you know? It's hard enough for kids to get into an art-rated movie anyway at this point. I mean, you know, when I was good, it wasn't a big deal, but, you know, things are different now.

Once South Park came out, they laid the hammer down. And I think that this one in particular was all about gore and blood and guts and how far can we push the limit. Yeah, no kids should have been seeing this anyways. Yeah, exactly. And the next thing that is trying to come out, Eduardo Sanchez, who made the original Blair Witch project. Yeah, the original Blair Witch, sure. Yeah, he's started an online petition.

He's trying to get, I forget what studio it is that has the rights, but he's trying to get the extended version put out on Blu-ray. I guess there's an extended version. Of the Blair Witch? Yes. Does he have an extended ending? I don't know. But he's, if anybody wants to sign a petition, you can go to,

found foot found footage critic.com right and that's where he has the petition and last time I had checked it was uh he's got quite a few signatures on there he also has the support of uh oran orin pelly i believe how you pronounce his name he's the director of the paranormal activity movies oh jesus i don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing uh I mean besides the movies he's uh directed and written a lot of things, so I think he's probably a good guy to have on your side as far as support.

I guess so, man. I'll reserve judgment for sure. Blue rays, man. What are you going to do? It's all about streaming right now. And that is the last news item I have this week. All right, and now for the week we've all been waiting for.

It's zombie comedy week here at the Horror Returns. We review range 15, the world's first zombie comedy made exclusively by and for veterans, and also the modern classic Sean of the Dead, a 2004 film, and part of the Coronado trilogy.

Brian, does that mean anything to you? Do you know what the Coronado trilogy is and what it means? Yeah, the Coronado is an ice cream that is... From what I understand, a lot of people eat it for hangovers. No shit. I haven't heard. We learned something new every day, huh, Philip? I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Yeah. And in each movie, you can see them eating...

an ice cream that I believe that's a cornetto brand ice cream I got you right so what are the three movies Brian uh shana the dead hot fuzz and the world's end oh okay so that's the so that's the thread right there

the director is Ross Patterson known also for directing Helen Keller versus Night Wolves as well as numerous acting gigs including a really big role in this movie huh wait what yeah Helen Helen Keller versus Night Wolves.

I have no idea what that could possibly be about. That sounds really fun. I should totally watch that. But he also helped write it along with Billy Jay, who also wrote the upcoming John Came Home, which kind of looks like more of a tearjerker. And also Nick Paul Muskeano, and I think all these guys had pretty big roles in the movie.

This was the first military movie, made four military personnel and veterans, made by military personnel, with a cast that was made up of at least 75% veterans. ISIS made... You'll like this one, Philip. ISIS made threats to attack against several cast members in the release of this movie.

Instead of canceling showings... That might not be smart. Hey, get this. Instead of canceling showings, theater sold out, and patrons laughed at the thought of it. Welcoming an attack from anyone dumb enough. Needless to say, not one attack took... place.

You guys remember that joke kind of toward the end? Like a goat at an ISIS convention? Yeah. If you've ever seen this guy Matt Best before he's, yeah,

probably not the guy you want to decide to attack. He's got guns out the ass. The funding campaign on Indiegogo for the, and they talked about, they referenced that in the movie too. The funding campaign on Indie Go-Go

for this movie raised the fourth highest amount of any film funded on that site. So, Brian, you like the WWE and things that remind you of the WWE. What did you think of this movie? Oh, I don't think I liked it as well as some of you. Well, we haven't even timed in yet, man. You never know. Yeah. I thought the comedy was forced. It was a little

forced a little too much sometimes in the movie. and I think they should They probably How do I put this? Some of the money should have probably went more into the movie Than a lot of the cameos Because I'm pretty sure that's where most of the money went In this movie

But the cameos were a lot of fun Yeah, some of them were I mean I like Be honest, you dude Were you or were you not expecting to see Ron Jeremy pop up? That one I did even know he was in the cast list. So no, I didn't expect him to pop up.

I enjoyed that they had Randy Couture and Danny Trejo basically playing themselves. Yeah. They're badasses, like they said in the movie, and zombie versions of them is even more badass. Right. I thought Tim Kennedy was pretty funny in the movie, the MMA fighter.

I thought he kind of made it. Yeah. Which I've seen some video clips of him. He's a funny guy. Yeah. In the beginning, I really was not enjoying this. My wife hates this movie. She wanted me to turn it off immediately.

Oh, come on. Yeah. She wanted me to give you guys her rating, and it is a zero. I don't think that's possible. Is it a zero? But she only watched a few minutes. 95% on Rotten Tomatoes at one point. I remember that.

I remember that. But as it got in more of the actual zombie. in zombie apocalypse. I enjoyed it a little bit more. Okay. How did you guys feel about it? I was kind of the exact opposite. I actually really, really, really got into the first third of the movie.

And I thought it kind of fell apart toward the end. But I'm going to be honest with you, man, some of those early scenes and early cameos, and particularly the one scene that stood out for me was the montage, when they put the montage together toward the beginning. and they had all those fucking product endorsements in there and they were, you know, it's just like your typical

cheesy 80s montage. Yeah. That was just laugh out. I mean, I was rolling on the floor laughing at that. So for that alone, I'm really glad I saw this movie because I enjoyed that part quite a bit. And to see William Shatner show up as the defense attorney right off the bat when the guys

all get thrown in jail for drunken disorderly. And Shatner starts, you know, saying, you fucking idiot, you know, what are you up to and all this shit? I mean, that, anyway, those two things for me were worth the price of admission. I really did like a lot of the self-referential stuff. I really like the fact that it broke the fourth wall. I've never, ever, ever seen a zombie movie where the very first thing that happens when a zombie shows up is the guys look at each other and say,

it's the zombie apocalypse. Fuck yeah! They do it. They do it right away. The obvious. Nobody in any zombie movie ever until this one has been smart enough to pick up on the fact that that's, what they're in. And I really love the way they did that. But I kind of

thought as it got further and further along, they were sort of regurgitating the same jokes. I think it would have been a really great 30-minute short film, but I think they kind of overdid it. Philip, what do you think? Yeah, I can kind of see that. I've got a lot of, you know, I'm ex-Army, so I've got a lot of

military buddies, and I've seen Matt Best before on Facebook. And he has a lot of little short things that he does that are actually really funny. This movie I'd heard had gotten a lot of hype and I was expecting really great things from it. You know, I didn't like it as much as I thought I was going to. It is definitely made for military guys and there were some really funny moments in there. Like they had a joke about the PT belt that was hilarious to me, but nobody else would have got.

you know and or like the the lieutenant where they were just uh and he was he went to college yeah he was he was dogging them on their uh on on whatever they were wearing or whatever yeah on the uniform and stuff and they were like yeah whatever fuck what about that was really funny to me what about the challenge coins they talked about that yeah the challenge coins uh so whatever a big general or uh somebody somebody higher up comes like i've got got one from, uh, from Umsville,

actually. No shit. Yeah. Secretary. Uh, so whenever somebody from higher up comes down, um,

and visit your base or, or whatever you're doing if you're deployed or whatever, they, uh, they will give you a coin. And so that's a big army thing. They give you, yeah,

you get these coins. And if you're at a bar, you know, you compare whose coin is higher and then the other, the, the lower person has to buy the drinks. Uh, but,

you know, I thought you were kind of right, man. It was a little bit forced. There was a lot of really funny moments, man. It was super slapstick. There was a lot of stuff that I really liked. It just didn't live up to the expectation. It wasn't as good as I wanted it to be.

Brian, I know I made the comment about you like the WWE. Did you get that vibe from this too, that a lot of it just looked like a lot of WWE posturing? And the chicks, like I was telling Philip earlier, they were like super fine but also super rough if you catch my meaning and that i always equate that to the women of the w w e that's kind of how they remind me it's like you know you they're really really super hot but at the same time you're kind of i don't know you know there's something a little rough or masculine about that uh but did you get that vibe too brian yeah a little bit

but you know overall like like there was you know some people did fine in a movie I just think they should have just pulled back a little bit because a little bit of the comedy sometimes was just over the top and went a little too long. But a lot of, like I said, I enjoyed a lot of the cameos, though. It was quite a few who else was in it. They had Brian Stan and Mike Goldberg from the UFC. Right. Yeah. Which, you know, that probably cost a pretty good penny right there.

I said I kind of like the ending. Like, you know, Lance was saying it kind of fell apart. at the end and I thought that's sort of when it came together and uh I kind of felt the ending was a little like that when when they were actually done with the whole zombie thing I felt like the ending went on a little too long yeah one thing we didn't talk about I really really enjoy Keith David in this movie oh I enjoy Keith David and anything he's in man he could do a tire commercial and I'd enjoy it mm-hmm oh yeah he's he's he's awesome yeah he was perfect for that role that that was a big coup for them to get him I

I wonder how much they had to pay him. Now, is he, is he a vet? Do you guys know? I don't know. It would think sense that he would be. Was the one lady of a military vet? The one that... You talking about the armless one?

Yes. Oh, I'm quite sure she was. I would imagine that's how she lost her arms, you know? Just a wild guest there. She was awesome in that movie. I thought she was. Yeah, she was one of my favorite parts of the movie. The part where she...

he threw the keys to her and of course you know she can't catch him yeah um look i'm not trying to get in the spoilers but uh i just i just thought it was funny throughout me yeah but throughout the scene when he's talking to keith david you can hear the keys jingling in the back because she's kicking him around trying to pick him up right yeah that i was i was really laughing at that part well and they had the uh the the master sergeant who was uh super Huah and he was uh oh yeah the guy with the fucking i don't know what the deal was with his hair and he looked all the blonde hair yeah he looked way younger than he should have for a master's i've never had a master's sergeant that young and well apparently he's he's been saving presidents

for generations here right according to the is yeah if you're if you're gonna make fun of somebody for being really super you know go ranger that guy maybe was a little too young and a little too high-ranked to do it. You talk about Gene Van derham or whatever his name was? I guess so. The guy that was... Yeah, he was... I'm saving the fucking world.

Oh, yeah, he was actually played by the director. Was he? Yeah, that was Ross Patterson. I thought... I noticed that about halfway through. I thought his part was super funny. If they'd have had him in a different rank, I think it would have been funnier.

Like maybe a fucking... or something, I thought that would have been great. But, yeah, the Master's Sargent was a little too much. Yeah, one thing I liked about this movie, guys, is they definitely like the people with disabilities. You guys were talking about the lady that didn't have any arms. Yeah, yeah. The guy that didn't have arms and that little joke they made about him

and the closing credits that we won't go into. But they definitely weren't afraid to make fun of themselves. And political correctness was out the window with this movie, and that's so refreshing. Yeah. Because you never see that anymore. That's what I'm saying, man. It was definitely made Fourth Military

because a lot of these jokes were very military-based and like so far military-based that if you aren't in it, then you probably don't know what they're talking about. Well, I've never spent a day in the military, but I got a lot of, I got a ton of laughs out of this movie. Yeah. I definitely appreciate the fact that somebody's willing to make a film that doesn't give a fuck about political correctness at all.

particularly in the scene when they were going into the housing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they had like the different stereotypes of people that they were making fun. That was hilarious. It was great, man. I loved it. I mean, like, Ryan, there's flashes of this film that I just absolutely love, man. Yeah, there's really good parts, and then there's some parts that are, like you said, really forced.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I just thought they should have pulled back on the cameos and just put a little bit more into the story and to the movie. because when it got into the zombie apocalypse, I was starting to get into it. But then near the end, I felt the end was a little drawn out and kind of pulled me out. Well, did you guys stick around for the Stinger

after the credits? I think I might have missed the thing after the credits. Yeah, if you'd stuck around for the Stinger, you'd realize there is going to be a sequel called Janitors. And that's not spoiling the thing, because that's just a little... Oh, I did see this. I don't think I saw it, man. Was this where they, I don't know,

they made a comment about a girl's college? Yeah, it's the one. Okay. That's the one. Marcus LaTrell was fucking awesome in this movie. Right. For his two little scenes. Yeah, when he popped up, they thought it was Mark Wahlberg.

I don't know, Brian. I mean, it's in no way form or fashion a cinematic masterpiece. No, dude. And it's definitely not. And, you know, we talked about Zomeland before this, and Zomeland immediately, I was like, ah, this is amazing. It's one of my favorite movies.

Range 15, I expected that to happen, and it didn't. And I can see where, you know, if a bunch of military buddies are getting together and watching it every, you know, a couple of weeks or whatever and getting drunk and watching it, I can see where it would definitely have a cult following. Yeah, just, wasn't quite as good as I wanted it to be.

I was expecting really big things, though. Yeah, this is one I could definitely watch again a few times. Yeah. I mean, especially after a couple of beers with some buddies and stuff like that. I mean, there's so many moments that are, that are so politically incorrect that, like, you almost cringe. That's what I like. That's what I really enjoy, man. I love the midget zombie.

Yeah, that was great, dude. Wow. But I will say this. Brian, I don't think this is going to win any Oscars for visual effects. What did you think about the CGI, Brian? It was a little too much. I mean, there were certain things where they could have been standing in a room somewhere, but it looked like they was in a CGI background.

Right. As far as I don't even know of most of the jail scene in the beginning was actual jail. Oh, man, you think you think they faked it that much, huh? Yeah, I mean, there was a couple scenes where the background, I kind of felt like they were standing in front of a green screen or a blue screen. Well, what about the one scene where they were supposedly standing in front of the White House, and it was a real obvious, like, just a banner that was behind him, that had the White House painted on it?

Well, that's part of the movie, man, I think. I mean, cheese was definitely a part of it, and it was intentional. All right, cool. So, Brian, you ready to give us your rating on this one? Yeah, I'm going to give this a four. Ouch. Wow. Yeah, I just think it was just a little too much on the humor.

But then again, just now listening to you guys, maybe it's just, I could see where there was a lot of military references that I probably just didn't get. I just think they should have, like I said before, they should have just put more into the movie. instead of, you know, I really enjoy the cameos, but if it didn't have, maybe you cut like half the cameos. Yeah. And put a little bit more into the story.

I probably would have enjoyed it a little bit more. But I do really, I do really respect that, you know, that these vets put their time into making this movie because, you know, I probably can't make a movie myself. So I really respect that they put this movie out. Hey, Brian, don't you have some military experience in your family? I think your daughter has some kind of a connection, right? Yes, she just went to a five-month Youth Academy boot camp,

and she just graduated a few weeks ago. Cool. Awesome. Congratulations. Thank you. Really proud. You know, she got a scholarship towards college while she was in there. So, you know, looking forward to a few things.

She's thinking about actually pursuing a career in the military, so we're kind of discussing some things right now. Tell you what, dude. I don't regret it. Yeah, she's actually thinking about the Air Force, which I do remember Brian Stan gave a little shot to the Air Force. Yes, there was an Air Force joke in there, for sure. Look, there's always shots to the Air Force,

but real talk, man, that's the place to be because it's military, but it's still kind of cushy, you know? Yeah. Yeah, just like there's always going to be shots to the officers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. The college degrees and all that stuff, which she is going to get, so she'll probably be an officer, it sounds like. Like, I mean, you've got the grunts, the way into that spectrum,

and then you've got, you know, like, Air Force officers, which are the total opposite under that spectrum. I'd probably be peeling potatoes if I ever had it. Yeah, I probably would be, too. I'll be a little bit more gentle than you. I'm going to actually give it a six and a half. And, you know, the only reason I won't give it a higher score is just because the CGI was so horrible. So nobody's ever going to mistake this thing for any kind of the next 2001 of Space Odyssey or anything like that.

But I really, I got to tell you guys, I enjoyed the hell out of myself when I was watching the movie. I really, like I said, during the montage scene, I was just absolutely laughing my ass off. The credits at the end there, when they kind of told you what happened to all the main characters. Oh, yeah. Just fucking hilarious. A lot of the jokes in there just really got me going. And I love the fact that nobody was safe. I mean, fucking everybody got made fun of in this movie.

And they made fun of themselves. So, you know, just for all that, I'll give it a six and a half. What about you, Philip? Man, I'm going to give it really close to your score. I'm going to give it a seven. I really enjoyed it just not as much as I wanted to. Man, I was really expecting it to be like a 9.5. just from everything that I've heard about the movie before I actually watched it.

And I think that, again, you know, it's definitely a military movie for military guys, and it is as politically incorrect as you can possibly get. For a bunch of military dudes hanging out, perfect. Because we're not real politically correct all the time. It was a lot of fun. It wasn't a great movie. It's not going to win any Academy Awards, like you said. But it was fun to watch, and it was funny.

That's Range 15. So anybody who has had a chance to see this, if what we're discussing sounds like fun to you, you guys may want to give it a try. I know I rented it on iTunes. I think I paid about $3.99, which I think was a bargain. As much as I enjoyed the movie, I would have paid twice that easily.

Yeah. I know it was out in theaters for limited runs, but I think, you had to basically they had to have so many people sign up that said for sure they were going to be there so yeah it was hard to find it i wanted to see at the theater i just didn't quite get a chance but anyway folks that's range 15 a quick question yeah uh do do the proceeds go to any military foundations i don't know it's a good question we need to find that out because i i didn't notice they were wearing the t-shirts of some companies they run very possibly i know uh matt best is uh i mean he

runs a couple of different companies. And I've seen him on Facebook, you know. And like I said, he does these little short films that are two, three, four minutes that are really funny. A lot of it is for, you know, gun nuts. And he has some sort of military coffee thing that he runs. So, but I'm sure they definitely have some sort of, some sort of veteran connection where they donate to them too. Yeah, so if they do donate the proceeds, at least check the movie out for that and, you know, buy the t-shirts. Yeah, let's look into that.

And if so, Brian, can you make sure we get that on Facebook and Twitter and everything? Oh, yeah. Yes, out real quick. We're also on Instagram people. Hey, look out. Okay, give a shout-out, dude. Where can they find us? The horror returns on Instagram.

Pretty much any social media, if you put the horror returns, we'll pop up. Do we have the Twitter? Yes, we do. Hey, dude, this is Brian, man. He's all over it. For real. This is our guy for the social media stuff. I joined Twitter because I was trying to win some tickets from a radio station.

Did it work? Did you win them? No. But now I'm on Twitter and I don't know what to fuck do there. All right, moving on. Our second feature of the night is Sean of the Dead. Director Edgar Wright, also known for Hot Fuzz, The Whirls in, as we discussed earlier. and did you, Brian, did you know that he directed Scott Pilgrim versus the world?

Yes, I did. This is one of my favorite movies. Yeah, it's a great one, dude. That's one of my favorites of that year for sure. It was written by Edgar Wright and Mr. Simon Pegg, who probably needs no introduction. The trivia, George A. Romero was so impressed with Peg and Wright's work that he asked them to appear in Land of the Dead, his 2005 film. cameos as zombies. Now, this was news to me. Have you guys ever heard this before?

No, I haven't. That's pretty cool. A little something, you know, sort of minutia, I guess. All the staff at the electronics store are chewing gum. So I think I'll go back and watch it just for that. And now we take a little bit of a darker turn

in the trivia. At the end of the movie, there is a fake movie trailer about a boy named Ramirez, who using a shotgun. I'm sorry. I really shouldn't be laughing at this. He fought off his entire zombie family. This is a spoof of the Menendez brothers who murdered their parents with a shy gun in August of 1989. It's super fucked up.

So Phillips got a date night with his wife here in a little bit, so he may have to leave a little bit early. Oh, shit. Yeah, Philip, you want to get it started talking about Sean of the Dead while I grab us a couple more? Yeah, absolutely. Man, Sean of the Dead is a classic. It's another one of those, kind of like Zombie Land, where as soon as I saw it, I knew it was going to be one of my favorites. I love this movie. I'm a big fan of Simon Pegg and his fat buddy.

Nick Frost. Yeah, that he's in all the movies with. And I've seen all those movies, and I love them. And I had no idea about the Scott Pilgrim versus the World thing. but I love that movie too. Man, these guys are on it, you know. Obviously, Simon Pegg, because, you know, he's now he's in the Star Wars realm or the Star Trek realm,

and he's directing scenes and stuff from that. It's great, man. I don't know, I don't know what else to say about it. It's a really good movie. I loved it. It is zombie comedy, and it's probably the first one that did it. And they did it right. Yeah, I totally agree.

This might have affected my rating on Range 15, because I actually watched this one first. Yeah. This is way funnier. Yeah, this is, if you're going to do a zombie comedy, this is how you do it right here. Yeah, definitely. I mean, every time I watch this, I pick up something new. Yeah. The scene that always cracks me up, because sometimes I feel like that is the scene when the apocalypse is going on.

He's hungover. He's walking to the store. he doesn't even notice anything going on because this is like his every morning routine going to the store. And that is actually the scene where he gets to ice cream, the cornetto. Yeah, and that's part of what I'm talking about. I mean, like, it's a little more subtle, you know, they, it's kind of a play on how people are kind of zombies in their everyday life, you know? Yes. It's got a lot of double entendre throughout the whole moment.

movie. Oh, for sure. That's what makes it so brilliant. I mean, where are the zombies? It is smart. Especially during the opening credits, how everybody's just kind of walking around. Yeah, absolutely. You know, doing the everyday thing, but they're just walking around like they're zombies.

He like tosses the coin to that dude that's a zombie and he's like, homeless guy trying to ask for money. Well, yeah, but didn't he passed him earlier in the movie when he wasn't a zombie and he came back around? It was kind of the same thing. That's kind of like when anytime you see a homeless person, you're just kind of like,

ah, fuck here. Everything about this movie is funny, man. And it's super smart. Simon Pegg does an amazing job here. He's great in it. But I really thought Nick Frost, I almost thought Nick Frost was better in this movie than Peg was in some ways. Nick Frost is probably my favorite character in this movie. I love him in this movie.

As the, the sidekick who is hilarious. the whole time. That first chick that they run into that's a zombie. Right. That shit was funny. She's in the backyard and they're like throwing records at her. Yeah, throwing the old vinyl album's at her, huh? So have you guys ever, have you guys ever heard of the saying over the garden wall?

Heard that before? I think it's mainly a British saying. I've heard of it. I don't know exactly. Yeah, there's quite a few British things in here. Yeah. Yeah, I think it kind of means like going insane or going over, you know, going like one step too far.

He's gone over the garden wall. Yeah, he's gone over the garden wall he has. But I thought it was kind of funny how they worked that in, how they were jumping over the garden wall to get away from the, the zombies in that scene, like going from yard to yard. I don't think that was done accidentally. I really don't think anything about this film was accidental. There's not a lot of it that's accidental.

And I loved it when they were acting like zombies. I thought that was hilarious. Hey, they knew it before the Walking Dead people did, huh? Yeah, absolutely. That Harry Potter-looking dude that was a douchebagged the whole fucking time. Right. Yeah, I was kind of surprised how many cameos there were. Having watched it first probably back in like 2005, like over 10 years ago,

and then going back, there were a lot of really big British actors in this film that I didn't remember being in it, like in, you know, real tiny roles. Oh. Did you guys notice that going back? Like, Rafe Spall,

have you guys heard of that actor before? I believe I heard his name. Who was he in the movie? He's, well, a guy named Noel, but he's been in a ton of films. He's extremely popular lately. He was in Life of Pie, Prometheus. this. This dude's been around.

Yeah, a lot of the same cast pops up throughout the trilogy. Well, you guys also Bill Nihy. Bill Nyeh. Yeah, he's probably the most successful of all the actors that you'll know him if you see him, you know. He's, he was in Hitchhackers' Guide to the Galaxy. He was the, I guess, the creator. Oh, right. Well, I remember, I mean, he's in a lot of really good movies.

He's also in a lot of really cheesy movies. He's in a lot of stuff in general. You will know him if you see him. He's in Harry Potter movies. That's right. I guess I haven't seen too many of the Harry Potter, but I do remember hearing that he was in that. Probably one of his biggest roles was either Love Actually,

or do you guys remember the movie about the hotel in India that the people moved to? The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel? You guys ever seen those movies? There's two of them. Never seen those either. They're pretty funny. He's a big part of both of those movies, but, I mean, he's not, he'll show up in everything.

He's not afraid to show up in, like, Clash of the Titans and stuff like that, too. He's big in the British acting world, man. He's in, like, every British movie ever. He's also in one of Lance's favorite movies, Underworld. Oh, there you go. He is, yeah, I was thinking that. So anyway, did you guys also notice? He was a badass in that one, too.

Martin Freeman. Martin Freeman was in this for a split second. Did you guys notice that? The one group was leaving and the other group was passing them. Oh, yeah. Oh, Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins? Yeah, that's right, man. But he was in the movie for probably, what, five seconds or something like that?

Yeah, he shows up in the rest of the trilogy. He's got a much bigger role in, I believe, the World's End. Right. well we can talk about the movie some more but right now philip has a date night what movie are you all going to see tonight uh we're gonna see uh pete's dragon with the kids and uh i'm supposed to be there in like 10 minutes i heard i heard this one's pretty good so what's your rating on what's your rating on shan of the dead uh shot of the jet i'm gonna give it a nine man i really love this one i really love this movie when it first came out and everything it was it's it's really amazing it's super super super

smart and then giving it another watch after that. It's pretty incredible. Cool. All right. Nine, there you go. All right. So Brian, you had said this is part of the Cornetto trilogy and you kind of explained to us the very, very loose connection that they used to call this a trilogy. How would you rank the three movies?

Probably as they came out. This is definitely... This is one of my... Yeah, this is one of my all-time favorite movies. I love all three movies, but if I had to rank them, it'd probably be this one first, hot fuzz number two, and the world's in number three. All right, cool. Well, I'm pretty similar. I have one slight variation. I actually liked hot fuzz better than this one.

Okay. And I think a lot of that was just because it was not at all what I was expecting. I thought it was just going to be like a police buddy comedy. There is no way in hell I was expecting all the shit that that movie pulled on you. Yes. You remember the old film The Wicker Man? Yes. Not the Nicholas Cage one with the bees, but you have the original one?

Yes. Yeah, there was a lot of that in this one, didn't you think? Yeah. So I think I was just more surprised than anything else. But yeah, I would rate that first than this one. And then I thought the Whirls End was just a... Unfortunately, I really wished that I'd liked it a lot more, but I think it was a pretty distant third.

Yeah, usually, you know, when you get, if you want to lump this into like a series or a franchise, usually when you get to like the third one in the franchise. Right. Sometimes they're a little lacking. Kind of start running out of gas a little bit. Yeah, and I think a lot of people didn't know what it was going to be about. If it was like an end of the world type thing or ended up being an alien invasion movie. Right.

So I think that might have confused people a little bit. Do you by any chance think that it might have suffered a little bit from coming out so close to the Seth Rogen James Franco into the World Film that I think came out like the same year or just like. Yeah, I do. Because, you know, the names are really similar. Because sometimes referring to the Simon Pegg, Nick Frost one, I've referred it as the Seth Rogen one sometimes. by name because they're so similar in names and they did they did come out really close together so that that probably might have hurt it a little bit possibly i mean i think that kind of that kind of might have thrown me off a little bit too as well you know so i'm looking online here and there's a

there's a there's a whole bunch of shan of the dead uh quizzes like trivia quizzes yes so i think I think it's pretty safe to say that Sean of the Dead has become a bit of a cult classic. I'm also looking some things up right now. Quentin Tarantino said it's one of the top 20 films, best films made since 1992. Well, that's saying a lot from a man who should know, you know? Yeah. Yeah, and I think it's interesting that Romero liked it so much that he had a couple of the guys show up in cameos in his movie. Also, reading Stephen King described the movie as a 10 on the Fun meter destined to be a cult classic.

So this movie gets a lot of praise from a lot of people. Wow, well, they've given their scores. Let's give ours. So Philip has already given it. What did he give it a nine, right? Yes, he did. Might be a little hard to top that. What do you think? Well, I think I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm a given a 9.5. A 9.5?

Yes. I've watched this movie so many times. like I had mentioned earlier, I always pick up something new and just how sometimes I feel like if the zombie apocalypse would happen, I probably would be walking around, like, not noticing everything, because you just get into this, I don't want to say rut, but you develop, like, habits and you just, you know, you get up and you do this and you do this and, you know, you kind of repeat the same thing. and plus there's so many quotes from the movie the whole you know you got red on you right dogs dogs can't look up which I don't know why it's always funny to me that whole conversation about dogs can't look up you know what who cares why it's funny dude the only thing that matters is that it is funny to you and you get a lot out of it you know yeah what's what's your rating well I'm going to be a little less you know enthusiastic than you guys.

But I still give it what I would think would be a really high rating. I would give it a strong eight out of ten. Okay. I think that it's incredibly smartly written. I think that, like we were saying earlier, nothing in this movie is accidental. They know exactly what they're trying to say, and they say it exactly correctly.

I think the best part of this film is that it is, you know, on the surface it's just another zombie comedy movie but when you really dig down deep I mean they're saying a lot and it's kind of depressing if you think about it they're telling us that we are zombies right now and the more that I watch this movie and the beginning parts of the film and I realize riding the train over and over every day doing the same thing over and over every day

working in a thankless job for thankless people that are nasty and you know kind of self I guess like kind of self-obsessed you know it's like basically if you think about what our society is right now we're pretty much

fucked man I mean who's to say the zombie apocalypse hasn't already happened true true so I think this film has a lot to say I think it's a brilliantly written film the only reason I don't give it a higher score than I do is probably just because it

didn't hit me quite as hard, like the special effects and the acting and stuff like that. You know what? Fuck it. I've kind of talked myself out of it. I'll give it an 8.5. The more I think about the way that the script is written, particularly the early parts of the movie, as people just first start turning and you understand that nothing's really changed, it's kind of the same thing that we're already living in right now, and that's kind of the point of the movie.

It deserves at least an 8.5, so you know what? Brian, dude, you've talked to be into it, man, a little bit higher score. So that's pretty strong. Between the three of us, we've given it some pretty high praise here. Yeah, as far as like the director, Edgar Red, I really wish he would do more movies. Yeah, whatever happened to him doing Ant Man? From what I read, his version of Ant Man wouldn't have fit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And he kind of wasn't going to break from what he was trying to do.

so they kind of parted ways. It's basically creative differences. Well, you know what? Everybody thought Guardians of the Galaxy was going to flop too. Remember that? Yeah, but from what I understand, his version would have not connected

with the other movies at all. Still, it's Edgar Wright. You would love to see what he would have did with Ant Man, because what he did with, like, Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim's a great movie, man. Yes, it is. And you know what?

I would say that he's incredibly consistent as a director. I've never seen anything of his that I would give, you know, like a nine or a ten. But at the same time, I've never seen anything of his that I would give under like a seven and a half or an eight. Yes. Even his little short he had in Grindhouse, he directed one of the trailers. What? Or one of the fake trailers. Oh, come on.

I never heard about this. Yeah. familiar with Grindhouse and the fake trailer. Absolutely. That was actually my favorite film of that year. Yeah, he did the trailer, don't, where it just kept saying, don't go into here.

Don't do this. That was, and if you're, you're pulling my leg. Yeah, go back and watch it. There's a lot of familiar faces that are in the trilogy in that one. I'll be darned. Okay, I'm going to go back and check Grindhouse out

just for that. Not that I need any excuse to watch that again, because I love both movies. Yes, I did too. Cool. All right, so we want to definitely think everyone who reaches out to us. We love the feedback. As always, you can reach us at our Facebook or Podbean page.

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