The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #364: Mother’s Day Horror - Mama (2013) & The Babadook (2014)
Episode Date: May 17, 2023This week, we celebrate Mothers Day the only way we know how. Cool of the Week includes Clock, Oblivion, and Sweet Tooth. Trailers are Run Rabbit Run and The Meg 2: The Trench. The podcast spotlight s...hines on Keep it Weird. And we get feedback from Lyle Huckins, Mike J Marin, Student of the Game, and Chad Lab. Thanks for listening! The Horror Returns Website: https://thehorrorreturns.com THR YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@thehorrorreturnspodcast3277 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns THR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehorrorreturns/ Join THR Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR Twitter: https://twitter.com/horror_returns?s=21&t=XKcrrOBZ7mzjwJY0ZJWrGA THR Instagram: https://instagram.com/thehorrorreturns?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= THR TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-horror-returns SK8ER Nez Podcast Network: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-p3n57-c4166 E Society Spotify For Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/esoc E Society YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCliC6x_a7p3kTV_0LC4S10A Music By: Steve Carleton Of The Geekz
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victims. For those of you who delight and dread, who fantasize about fear, who glorify
goal, welcome. You have found the place where the horror returns.
Listeners beware. This podcast contains major plot spoilers.
and the foulest of language.
Join us in celebrating the old and the new,
the best, and the worst in horror.
Back one and all to the horror returns.
I'm Lance, and with me, as always,
are my co-host, The Terrible Two.
It's the return of Brutal Brian and fabulous Phil.
What's going on, guys?
I thought we changed that.
Well, you got the took. You're still rocking the took.
Phil's got the Astros cap on.
Just for Steve.
Champion Phil?
I know how big of a fanny is.
See, there's no illiterate.
I can't say champion, Phil. There's no alliteration.
Fuck.
Fucking Phil. I don't know, dude.
Help me out. I'm dying here.
God damn it.
So you're wearing the hat.
Fabulous if I want to.
You're wearing the hat for who, man?
Just for Steve.
I know how big of a fan he is.
Ah, Steve, Steve Carlton?
Yeah.
Of the geeks?
That's Steve Carlton?
That's the one.
He hasn't confirmed that he's a fan, but he also hasn't denied he's a fan either.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure he is.
That's all you need to know.
You guys ready to jump into cool?
Oh, hold on.
I checked out of kind of a cool of the week, Brian, but it was a show called Fuck.
Fuck, that's delicious.
Have you guys ever heard of it?
I've watched every season.
So they're in...
They're in Anchorage. Brian, what the fuck are you bitching about, dude?
That place is goddamn gorgeous, man.
I've never bitched about the way my city looks of just the people.
And the cold.
The cold, right?
You've heard of Action Brunson, the rapper.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is a food show.
It's called Fuck, That's Delicious.
That sounds like a great idea.
It is so much fun.
It is so fucking awesome, dude.
And I've been to that restaurant, the restaurant where his friends go, but he couldn't go because he got sick.
The steakhouse?
I've been to that restaurant.
It's very good.
I hope you brought your wallet, man.
That place is like fucking hell expensive.
If you want to go there for the cheap, just go.
They got this appetizer called The Tower.
It's just like a variety of different app.
just get that and then just have some drinks with friends and you'll be you'll be good.
And you can say you were there.
Yeah.
But I do recommend having dinner there.
It's very good.
All right.
So are we going to continue food talk or you want to jump into Cool of the Week?
We can, I don't know, the food returns.
We can change the show format.
But I'll go first.
I didn't get a whole lot in this week.
Got a new puppy, so been on puppy.
duty. Well, that's a cool of the week.
Yeah. It is a cool of the week.
Not today, because
to make sure I
have a clear connection
with you guys so you guys can hear my
wonderful voice, I
hardwire every time.
I plug up to the internet and this
little fucker chewed out of my cord,
I just noticed it today.
I had a feeling he might have done it,
but then he hit me with that face, and I was like,
okay, you're a good boy.
I plan guts for today
and conveniently chewed the part that I
needed to plug in with.
Great. Of course.
Yeah.
At a rock pilot that used to eat rocks, man.
Literally?
Yeah.
Like we had a little fountain with a bunch of the little smooth rocks in it.
One day it was knocked over and all the little rocks were gone.
And I only found out later on where they went.
I'm sure you did.
Clean it up for days, right?
let's see
I did get a couple
action movies in
actions return is going to come back soon
we just been on a little hiatus
but I checked out
I noticed he had a new movie coming out
because I just read recently
that Dolph Lundren just announced
he has cancer
so
I kind of
saw that he had
entirely sure that he was still alive
to begin with
well in this movie
he might not have been alive
because he phoned it in in this movie.
Oh, no.
The best man.
Starring him.
And action star Luke Wilson.
What?
That Luke Wilson?
Owen Wilson's brother.
Lulu Wilson?
Oh, Luke Wilson.
I hadn't seen him in a while either, actually.
Yeah.
I didn't know he was alive either.
It's basically they are kind of like a mercenary team.
you get introduced to them real quick in the beginning.
They're rescuing someone that got kidnapped.
This rich guy had his daughter kidnapped.
They rescue.
Then you fast forward years later.
Luke Wilson has actually started a relationship with the lady that he rescued
and they're getting married.
And some of the team members that got left behind are coming back to get revenge.
And that's pretty much the plot.
And they're trying to kill them at their wedding.
and Dol Flandron's in it, and he looks like he's had a few drinks.
He looks like he's very tired.
And some of the scenes, I'm almost positive that wasn't him doing the action scenes.
So definitely I did a paycheck.
I hope he turns into he man at the end.
That would have been something.
I just wanted him to wake.
I mean, he's kind of playing the older mercenary kind of veteran guy.
he's, you know, drinks a lot.
But as you're watching
a movie, you're just like, he's really drinking
through this fucking movie.
A lot.
It's called method acting.
So I cannot recommend
the best man. One that I really wanted
to recommend this week. Lance, I know
you've seen it. Netflix is
the mother.
Or as I like to refer to it,
the meh.
They missed
the mark so bad.
Oh, did they ever, man.
This could have been like extraction.
This could have been like a little secret hit.
Oh, yeah, it's pretty bad.
Pretty bad.
She's not bad in it.
It's just fucking long and boring.
Yeah, great description.
And then her daughter is fucking so annoying through this whole movie.
Like I'm just like, just kill her already.
Yeah, I'm like somebody just kidnap her and take her away.
So the movie's over.
But I don't know.
They could have cut a good 30 minutes of the whole.
them getting to know each other aspect.
They could have did a quick little montage of that.
Sure.
Sorry about the dog was barking.
They could have...
Add to the ambiance, man.
And I know she's, like, trained for other movies,
so I know she can do action.
They did that close-up shaky cam stuff.
That was bad.
For her, like, hand-to-hand stuff.
And I'm just like, you guys could have did some...
It was shot good, the movie.
Yeah, but Brian was just me,
where there's some, a couple of scenes where like the
edges of the camera were kind of like glazed over
like it wasn't. Yeah,
I thought there was a reason for that.
I thought there was something wrong with my
I did do it first.
I'm like,
is this scene that's happening? Is it a dream or
something or is it a memory?
They did that quite a few times.
You're right, Lance. I don't know. I guess
it was a director's choice.
I guess.
It made no sense. It just had
the effect that somebody was having a flashback or something.
Added nothing.
But she, Jennifer Lopez did good.
I just think they just,
they try to make this instead of an action movie,
they try to make it more of a drama.
Yeah, too much, too much family drama,
not enough, bang, bang, right?
And then they had Edie Falco,
Carmela Soprano in the movie for like two minutes
in the very beginning and then you don't have her in the
bookie again.
So what's the point?
Can't record. You're right, Lance.
That was the math of the week.
I mean, it wasn't horrible.
Yeah, it definitely wasn't bad because I watched it too.
That was going to be one of mine.
And I felt the same way.
It was just sort of, I mean, it wasn't bad, but it's easy on the eyes.
It was kind of boring, you know, definitely.
Well, yeah, still looks at me.
And I got to bring massage and he cast back.
There was no ass shots at all.
You got Jennifer Lopez.
Let's pan the camera down just a little bit.
I mean, I'm just saying, Lance.
How do we try to get a lot in this movie?
All right.
That's done.
But I guess I go with my cool of the week was this new Hulu original movie called Clock.
You guys heard of this one?
Yeah.
It's basically
It's this couple
The lady, she's kind of surrounded by everybody telling her
You know, your
Your clock's ticking, you know, you need to have baby now
Her friends are having babies, you know
The father wants her to have children
So he can have grandchildren
And the husband kind of wants it
But he's not pushing her
And I think there's a reason she can't have babies or something
So she kind of goes to this
clinic.
I'm doing
Air Cloat's Clinic
where they're going
to like special
treatment on her.
Witchcraft.
And throughout the movie
you don't,
she kind of starts
hallucinating and seeing
things and you don't
know if it's just her
or the treatment.
Interesting.
Okay.
I thought it was a decent
little thriller.
It's more thriller than horror.
I mean,
there's some stuff she sees
that are kind of horrific.
but it's more of a thriller, mystery.
By the end, you kind of get clear cut.
You know, was it her?
Was it the treatment?
You know, was it both?
Right.
So it's a decent.
It's a decent.
If you're on Hulu and you want to watch something like that,
I say it's worth checking out.
Not this year's Fresh, though, right?
Remember, Fresh came out pretty early in the year on Hulu last year?
It does.
All right.
But it does check off your cool of the week, though.
Yeah, compared to the other two things I watched,
too, definitely would have to be cool the week.
Yeah.
So I got a not cool, a meh, and a cool.
Check in all the boxes.
I kind of do too, but mine are sort of old.
I just sort of scroll through, and I'm like, yeah,
well, there's classic.
Let's check that out.
So I've watched the mother.
And, yeah, felt the same way.
Man, the nether.
And I was scrolling through and ran across Oblivion.
And so I checked that one out.
Tom Cruise?
Yeah, Tom Cruise.
Oh, wow.
I haven't seen that forever.
A little slow and a little weird,
but it was kind of a cool thing to watch in the middle of the night
while everybody was asleep.
And then Europa report came on after that.
And man, that movie's fucking boring.
I haven't ever seen it.
I think I have, but I've heard people talking about it.
Yeah, dude, it's, I mean, it's like, they sort of film it like real astronaut stuff, but like nothing really happens.
Right.
What's the point?
Yeah.
And I checked out inside, Lance.
I know you mentioned that one with old Green Goblin himself.
What's his name?
Sure.
Willem.
Yeah.
Willem Defoe.
Willem DeFoe.
Yeah.
Starring Willem and only Willem.
Yeah, it was like his castaway.
One man's show.
What'd you think, man?
I thought it was all right.
It was probably a little long.
Did it quite hit the cool of the week?
Itch, did it?
Ish.
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't bad.
I just, when those situations pop up, I'm like, ah,
it seems like he could have maybe tried something else.
And he was.
was like stuck in this apartment for I don't know how long but it seemed like a long fucking time
right like there's got to be a way out at some point did he ever did he ever eat a shoe at any
at any point no he did not use okay then he wasn't in there he wasn't in there long enough then
sustaining himself with with the garden yeah was he they had a garden in there yeah like one of those
indoor, like, what do you
call him?
Oh, with the water
and...
Yeah, so with the irrigation, he was
getting water.
Yeah, that's right. He still had
stuff. He was just stuck
in his own little private prison.
I was like, man, there's got to be
some kind of way out. I don't know what you're doing,
but maybe try something other than
the door. Yeah.
He only tried the door over and over and over.
Yeah.
It's like, I don't know
the glass is bulletproof or whatever, but there's got a way to chip it away or something.
A little at a time, right? Surely there was some heavy shit in there, wasn't there?
Oh, yeah. Well, he stacked up to furniture and was unscrewing a ceiling pain to try to climb out that way.
Yeah, that's like the last thing I'd try. Yeah, because that exit going up through the ceiling and kind of seemed like it would lead to death.
Yeah. Like, there's no good outcome.
Okay, well.
But still a pretty interesting movie.
It was something different, which is always fun.
And, you know, Willem to Phil.
And is it streaming anywhere?
Or you just found it through other means?
No, where is it streaming?
It's got to be streaming somewhere, right?
Or Peacock or something?
Is that one also on the clock?
That one might be on Peacock, too.
All right.
Taking a look here.
where is inside streaming
let's see
not available on any of your streaming services it says
so
it's on Peacock
yeah it is okay
Lance you said you watched it already didn't you
that was Brian
my bad that was Brian let me add
let me add Peacock to my list here
you guys go ahead I'm sorry
I've got this just watch
app, but the problem is that the shit
that I actually subscribe to, it keeps taking them off
for some
reason. So I've got to find a new
app. You guys
have any good suggestions?
Tell you what streaming where?
No.
I still got to watch
Matt. I'm going to, I still
got to watch Dungeons and Dragons.
Ah, yes.
I still haven't watched Avatar.
I mean.
Oh, I did it be much.
I did, I did rewatch Evil Did Rise this week.
It's still good.
I saw that on Facebook, I think, that you were doing that.
Yeah.
There's so much we didn't talk about, especially towards the end.
Oh, I know.
It was crazy.
We were running along on that episode, and there was still.
Yeah, I kept thinking about stuff after it was over.
I also checked out a Monster Squad.
I can't remember which that was on.
It was like Tubby or something, and it was just on, so we watched it.
on YouTube. Yeah.
It was, that's a fucking great movie, man.
Wolfman's got Nards.
Another thing I was going to
that I didn't get to watch
but it's streaming on Prime now. It was Air.
Oh, yes.
It is on Prime. We were
going to watch it, but we ran out of time last night.
Yeah.
I have a whole list
of movies. I was kind of do like
a whole biography type
movie thing with Air
and the Tetris movie and
the other one
not Luke Wilson
what's the other Owen Wilson
what's that movie is in paint or he plays Bob Ross
what?
Yeah paint
Owen Wilson plays Bob Ross
okay yeah because you know if you had to cast
Bob Ross Owen Wilson pops
and you had immediately. She's not bad
I mean it didn't look horrible
I saw the poster didn't look horrible
I still want to check it out
out there. Wow, it's a happy little treat.
Lance, what's your cool of the week?
What was yours, Phil? I missed it, man. Was inside your cool of the week?
Yeah, I guess as far as new movies go, but I enjoyed myself most in oblivion.
Oblivion. Yeah. Okay. So let me make a note here. Philip
falls into oblivion. There we go.
happens on a pretty regular basis.
All right. Yes. My cool of the week is to show that there was no way I was going to watch.
And it's kind of got, it's on Netflix, Brian. It's kind of got some The Last of Us vibes.
I don't know if you guys, I'm trying to give some hints here.
The Walking Dead?
It's got some Walking Dead. It's got some Walking Dead.
You're the Working Dead.
Actually. Well, there's so many good shows about the Apocalypse.
The thing is, I was really worried that this one was going to be like a total YA, young adult type shows.
I'm like, ah, not really, don't think I'm going to be into it.
And then AJ said, well, I watched the first season.
I think you'd love it.
I'll rewatch it with you.
And we had the granddaughter over the five-year-old was over all weekend, and she really got into it.
But we started watching Sweet Tooth on Netflix.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
My kid is watching that.
Yeah, it's really good, man.
Yeah, the geeks talked about it.
They all said it was really good.
It said it came out at the perfect time to put the subject matter.
I was pleasantly surprised.
It was, again, I thought it was going to be real kiddish.
But it's not, man.
It's got some young characters in it, but it's got characters of all ages in it.
It's actually based on a Vertigo comic book series, which I just learned about.
Vertigo was like a DC offshoot
that's got kind of like the more weird
storytelling, more edgy stuff.
But basically,
you had me at Will Forte.
I mean, he was in the first episode.
And I'm like,
I asked AJ, I said,
is that Will Forte?
She said,
yes, it is.
Keep watching.
But it's basically about these kids.
It's like the end of the world type stuff,
just like any of the shows you guys have just mentioned.
But I guess the twist is that you've got these kids
that are born hybrid, where they're like half-kid,
or half-human, half-animal.
So you've got...
Yeah, it's weird, dude.
It's like, they kind of explain it,
but they kind of don't.
So I'm thinking maybe season two and three,
they'll go into more.
They have said they're going to do exactly three seasons,
which I like, so they're going to tell the entire story,
but not go overboard.
They're not going to Walking Dead it.
So I'm enjoying it, man.
The characters are relatable and a lot of fun to watch.
There's great,
scenes in it. There's like
just enough character development
without going overboard
making it like a child's
show. I'll put it to
this way. If a five-year-old
and a 55-year-old both
loved it equally, you know, that's
a pretty wide swap there.
That's true. Pretty good
sample size. We had a lot of fun.
It's, what's his name
put it out, Robert Downey
Jr.?
Are you kidding? So he had something to do
with the production?
Yeah, executive producer.
I think it's like through his production company.
Well, you know what?
If they keep it like this, like they've already,
okay, so season two is out, just came out,
and I love the way Netflix put some,
where they're bingeable,
where they put everything out at once,
which I definitely appreciate that.
But if they've already said,
we're going to wrap it up at season three,
and that'll basically tie up the story.
I'm like, yes, this I can go for.
Yeah, definitely.
They're not going to leave us hanging.
So, yeah, Sweet Tooth, man.
I recommend it very highly.
It's, again, it's another reason I wasn't going to watch this is because it's a little too much like The Last of Us,
because they're, you know, you get certain characters trying to get from one place to another.
But there's enough differences in it that it keeps it interesting and it's definitely
worth to watch.
So highly recommend Sweet Tooth.
And it's suitable for all ages.
You know, I mean, they got a couple of four-letter words, but it got a couple of even gory moment, but not overly gory.
So it's definitely, it checks out, since that seems to be our theme side, it checks off a lot of boxes.
Put it that way.
Okay.
So that's the cool of the week.
Brian, we got any headlines to talk about?
Yep, and I wrote them in notes, so I don't have to fumble around looking for them.
That's always good.
Always preferable.
The Winchester's, the prequel to Supernatural.
Okay.
CW.
Cancels it at one season.
That's what easier, Philip, than what you had to go through for the original.
Yeah, I was going to say, if you want to jump into the Winchesters, you're only got one season.
Oh, yeah, I may as well.
Actually, I started rewatching Supernatural because Izzy wanted to watch it and then.
Okay.
Yeah, so we're, like, rolling on one for a season.
good one to play in the background, especially if you've already
watched it. I've been thinking about
adding it to a list of shows I'll never
finish, so.
It's a cool show.
And this is not
anything to do with horror, but I read
that the CW is going to cut
down the amount of episodes per season
for their shows, which I think they should have
did years ago. Very smart
made. That makes sense. Very smart move.
Let's see.
This one came to surprise
to some people I've come to find out
was I've never seen the show
Netflix cancels the Supernatural
show Lockwood & Co. After one season
and I guess it had like a fan base.
Never heard of it. I've heard of Lock and Key.
Yeah, I did some looking. It has a fan base.
A lot of people said it's very
underrated show that Netflix never really
advertised or anything.
Yeah. Okay.
So it doesn't surprise me.
Netflix.
Okay.
So I messaged you guys earlier in the week.
Nobody responded to me.
But I think as many shitty subparred movies as Netflix does, they tend to find good series.
That's true.
For the most part, you know?
Yeah.
I never really got into what was the Korean one that was the ancient zombies or whatever?
Kingdom.
Yeah.
I never got into that, but I've heard great things about that one.
Ness was here,
yell at you right now.
I've heard great things about dark,
which is, I think, a Danish.
Yeah, I started it.
I just,
again,
it just went on to another list of those shows
that never finished.
I think it was kind of slow,
and then on top of that,
it was subtitled.
Yeah,
that's a bad,
that's a dangerous combo.
Dangerous combo.
Let's see.
More American Horror Story
Season 12 casting.
I'm going to butcher this name,
Michael Gai Rodriguez,
and I always say her last name wrong.
Kara Delavine, Delavine.
Ah, the really, really, really, really skinny one
from the movie that Dane Dahan made famous
with this Keanu Reeves impression.
She's another one where the eyes are too wide on her head.
Yeah, she looks...
She has that heroin body.
She was in a movie
of the movie?
Yeah, the Valerian movie.
Oh, that's right.
That's what started
the whole Dane-Dahan thing,
because I liked it,
and you guys said
he was just doing
a four-man's
Keanu Reeves the whole time?
He was.
He even said,
whoa.
I got to admit, guys,
I tapped out
of American Horror Story,
man.
I haven't seen New York.
I think I'm done.
I think they're walking
dating that one, too.
I tapped out of the New York
season like
two, three episodes in.
It was boring.
Like they tried to make it like
true detective type
stuff.
And I was like, that's not what I want to see
in the American War store.
Too many good shows on, you know,
to have to fuck with that.
Yeah.
You know.
Let's see.
More TV news.
Sidney Chandler
is set to star
in Noah Holly's
Alien series, which I think
is about to go in production for
FX.
I mean, I'm all about Noah
Holly.
And I can't think of his
name, but she's the daughter of
what's the actor, last name, Chandler?
It's kind of an older guy.
Big friends?
No.
No.
The guy's from...
Pouscheon.
Yeah, there you go.
Okay.
His daughter.
Huh.
Let's see.
Birdbox, Barcelona.
I heard about that.
July 14th, release date.
Yeah, that snuck out of nowhere.
I had never even heard of it.
And then I saw a, like, a short,
a short trailer for it on Netflix.
What the fuck is this?
The trailer was more like a announcement,
title announcement.
Right, right, a teaser, so to speak.
For what?
Birdbox, Barcelona.
Oh, okay.
Because it didn't.
Why not?
Whatever happened in Birdbox happened worldwide.
So we're going to do a movie at Barcelona.
As long as they have plenty of those good-looking Spanish women from Barcelona, I'm in.
Because when A.J. and I went there for vacation, that was like one of my most memorable vacations ever as far as scenery goes.
Sajony cast is back.
Yes, it is.
Let's see.
Lance, you were asking about this.
a couple weeks ago.
When are they going to do another
season of Black Mirror?
Yeah. Black Mirror, season 6 coming
in June. Awesome.
Striking Vipers Part 2
is the first one.
You never know. It will be a five
episode season. I'm only going to read the cast
Okay. I go for five episodes.
I'm only going to read the ones that I recognize.
Aaron Paul.
Oh, nice.
Josh Hardin.
Kate Mara, Michael Sarah, Rob Delaney, Rory Colkin, Salma Hayek, Zazi Beats, Lance.
Ah, man.
So it's an American cast then.
So we're actually stealing something from the British,
rather than the other way around, in entertainment for a change.
That's a nice twist.
Every episode they've done has kind of come true.
I'm sort of not mad at them holding back a little bit.
maybe.
Trying to see what.
Oh, I see what you see.
Yeah.
But you do have to admit, since
Netflix has kind of taken
it over, they haven't been
as good as the original
seasons. Oh, yeah, not even close.
But that could change this season.
See, and that's, I don't...
Because, like, they had that one
with, like, Miley Cyrus, and I'm like,
right. Maybe we shouldn't have
big stars in this show.
You know?
Well, I have.
Yeah, fair enough.
Maybe we just shouldn't have
Miley Cyrus.
Well, that...
I haven't...
I haven't seen the new Guardians
movie, which I've heard of some really good.
Yeah.
She did a cameo as a voice for a robot
in the second one.
They did not bring her back to do that voice
for the third one, I understand.
Okay.
Well, I don't know.
I didn't really if she was in it.
I'll probably talk about Guardians three.
We're supposed to go, take the,
take all the kids.
But I've heard
another more good things about that one.
Yeah.
The worst thing I've heard is that it's dark.
I heard it.
I heard it's kind of a tear jerker.
Yeah, they said it's like James Gunn's like
goodbye to the MCU.
I got you.
Well,
long as he keeps doing peacemaker, we're happy.
He'll be back with DC.
Yeah.
I'm,
Fingers crossed, I hope he, whatever magic he worked with,
Guardians and Peacemaker, he's able to do for D.C.
He's doing the Superman movie himself.
With Nicholas Cage?
You know, I heard, I heard a rumor.
It's funny you brought it up.
I heard a rumor that in the Flash,
there's going to be a cameo of Nick Cage.
You remember he was supposed to play Superman?
You know what?
If they don't do that, they've missed out on the biggest opportunity of the decade.
I heard it's a rumor that when he's kind of running through the speed force and all the different timelines are going by.
Yes.
That was supposed to see Nick Cage in the Superman scene.
That would be amazing.
I mean, come on.
Let the man do it.
He named his son after Superman.
Yeah, he said like I guess the two roles that he really wanted to play were Superman and Dracula.
Yeah.
He killed it on one of them.
Yeah.
It wasn't even supposed to be his movie, and he kind of stole the role.
Let's see.
Did you guys, everybody enjoyed the platform on Netflix?
Very much so.
Yeah, it was in my top 10 that year.
The second one is currently in production.
The platform level two.
It just kind of, they released some,
set photos, I post them
in the group. It just
kind of looks like we're just going to follow
two different characters, two new characters.
It's not a continuation or anything.
They missed, I got a great idea for the sequel.
I hear me out, man.
The platform, but instead of food,
it's drugs.
All right?
So the guys at the bottom are sober?
The guys at the top jump into the cocaine
and bathe in it.
So everybody on the top dies early.
Yeah.
You slowly work your way up and try to make it through the platform of drugs.
Yes.
Would that be great?
I don't know how long that movie would be.
This is that beard?
It gets really weird at the top, man.
I'll bet.
I'll bet.
Let's see.
We talked about a barbarian director, Zach Craigers, new horror movie is going to be
tied to weapons.
Yep.
It's already cast its first actor.
Pedro Pascal.
Oh, wow.
Guys in everything.
No shit.
The guy that saves streaming platforms.
Man, you can't go wrong with that casting.
I'm going to pronounce this singer's name wrong.
I'd ask my daughter how you say it, but I instantly, when she said it, my brain rejected it.
Lil Yaddy?
No, I know Lil Yaddy.
Charlie X-C-X-X.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, sure.
joins the cast of the Faces of Death remake,
which was kind of weird
because the movie's already in production.
So.
Doing a little extra.
And a girl who's not an actor on top of it.
So is he going to be the one that parachutes down into the alligator?
Farm or what?
Who?
And the faces of death, dude.
The original VHS tape we watched.
And they said, uh, it's the she.
Oh, okay.
Well, uh, hey, it's the 21st century.
Now we can have a woman parachute into it.
Yeah, I'm all for it.
A woman can surely parachute to her death into an alligator pit.
Except she's going to be wearing like a bikini or something.
Oh, and I don't know if I ever talked about it.
It probably should have been part of my cool of the week.
The Corridor crew on YouTube.
They have a video series where they have stunt men and stunt women react.
Then they have a different episode.
They have a different stunt man or stunt women.
They react to like stunt scenes and movies.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, I never really thought about it.
The stunt women go through more shit than the stunt men,
Because they, because women in movies are always in short sleeves, skirts, shorts.
Good point.
And they can't pat up like the men can.
Trying to do stunts and heels probably is not easy.
Aye.
Yeah, that can be dangerous.
Because I watched one, I think her name was Amy Johnston.
She was a stunt double for Scarlett Johansson for Civil War, not Civil War, the Winter Soldier.
Right.
And she said she was thankful for her having actual pants in the jacket because she can actually put the pads on underneath.
But she did have to run in high-heel boots, though.
Because, you know, everybody runs in high-hill boots.
So more evidence.
That in childbirth are both hard evidence that women are tougher than men.
But yeah.
But yeah.
It's like you just get.
To get away from when you just run across the grass.
Yeah.
It makes no sense.
Corridor crew on YouTube.
They have a series where they have that series,
and then they have effects artists come on,
and they look at good and bad CGI effects and movies,
and they kind of break down how they did them.
Pretty cool stuff.
Might have to check that out.
But there's a lot of CGI fire.
Yeah.
CGM fire, CGS smoke.
Some in.
Water.
Lance, when the C.GI fire happened in the mother, I thought of you.
Yes. Yes.
I was like, this has got to be inferiorating Lance right now.
It's very CGI-ish. You are correct, sir.
All right. This is good news to me.
I don't know any of these actresses or actors.
Madison Eastman, Aaron Dominguez, Antonio Desplant, and Charlie Tahan.
I'll join the cast,
Witchboard remake.
Good news to me.
Hey, we also got
these guys.
Oh, Lord.
Nez is going to ship a brick.
He's probably rejected
all news of the remake.
I would imagine, yeah, I would imagine.
To him, that's like remaking
Jaws or The Exorcist.
His name's,
I can't think of his name,
Chuck Russell.
who did the blob
and DreamWords.
Oh, those were both fucking awesome.
He's doing the Witchboard remake.
It actually might be good.
It might be good.
No kidding.
It can't be any worse to that piece of shit.
I just made Ness mad some.
I know.
Let's see.
Scarlett Johansson is set to star
Disney's Tower of Terror
directed by Tyco
a Watiti. I feel like they've been
making this movie for like 25 years.
Yeah.
I think you're right, Phil. I think
they just recently just
attached these people to it.
Yikes.
I know. We'll be there.
I'll take the kids. I'll take the kids.
The ride is fun. We rode the ride
at Hollywood Studios.
Let's see.
Dan Stevens and Kevin
Duran, Duran, not Duran.
Not Duran.
I have joined the cast of Radio
Silence's Untitled Universal
Monsters movie. We talked about it a couple weeks ago
that they were directing a Universal
Monster movie. And we don't know what monster
yet. Still untitled.
Interesting.
Is Jenna Ortega in it by any chance?
This is only the casting,
but as much as they work with her,
I can see, but she's, she's going to be shocked.
She's going to be fucking busy.
Yeah.
Because the last little piece of news is she is confirmed to be in Beetlejuice 2.
Yes, I saw the teaser poster.
Also joining the cast is Justin Thoreau.
He's good.
Okay.
Ah, there you go.
Willem DeFoe again, Philip.
And a very, very beautiful Monica Balucci.
Okay.
It's a great cast.
I heard she's playing Beetlejuice's wife.
Mrs. Beetlejuice.
Why not?
I know I'm doing it a lot, but I'm going to bring
misogyny cast back one more time.
You guys remember she was in the latex outfit in the Matrix?
Yes.
Yeah.
She is a beautiful one.
All right.
She makes perfect sense in the casting of this movie.
And she's like, not that it's anything, like, important or anything, but she's like, isn't she like 60 or something like that?
Yeah, she's up there.
No.
She's just, she's got to be like in her 50s or 60s.
Are you fucking kidding me?
I'm pretty sure she's 60.
I got to look it up.
Oh, my God.
Somebody might be calling me a liar right now.
Hmm.
And she was just recent, not too recently.
but wasn't she a bond girl in one of the Daniel Craig movies?
Probably.
Yeah, that would make sense.
That would make sense.
So should we play that Jeopardy music, Philip, right here while we're waiting?
Well, I hate J-Lo's in her 50.
She's still killing it.
Yeah.
Yeah, she's not a spring chicken, is she?
No.
None of us are anymore.
Monica Balucci is 58 years old.
58.
okay
well I'm 55
so I can't talk
yeah
you still look good
Lance
thank you
very much
not Monica
but luci good
no
let's not go crazy
here
but yeah
I'm I'm more excited
I wasn't really excited
about Beetlejuice too
because it's been like
over 30 years
but with everybody
joining the cast
and Jenna Ortega
Tim Burton coming back.
It's a classic.
And that was in my, okay, so I remember, I saw Beetle juice at the theater,
the original Tim Burton Batman at the theater,
and they live at the theater all while tripping on acid.
That was like my college days when I had a lot of spare time to do acid.
And I can tell you, Beetlejuice still holds up, but it's not,
Kind of like the old, what was that old John Stewart?
Was it John Stewart that, have you ever seen Beetle Juice?
Oh, have you ever seen Beetle Juice on weed?
And we're getting Beetle Juice sooner than we think.
Already has a release date, September 6th, 2024.
Huh.
Okay.
Right around the corner.
They are.
They are.
After years of nothing moving forward on the sequel, they are all.
all in
all in on this one
now
so yeah
let's not
let's not get another
COVID outbreak or a
fucking soup
what's that new shit
they're all worried about
that's going on
what's going on
the chicken flus
I don't know
no no they got
Brian they help me out here dude
they got something going on
it's like a fungus
what's like the last of us
no this is a real
fucking
The geeks talked about it a couple of weeks ago, man.
They saw them.
They saw the writing on the wall.
That sounds world ending.
Yeah.
If that's a real thing and they just released a show about it,
I might not want to watch shows anymore.
It is floating around hospitals primarily,
and it's basically, it kills one out of every three people that it infects.
What?
So take down.
It's called.
Candidus something. Help us out here, Steve Carlton and the geeks, whoever's listening?
You guys were talking about it two weeks ago. Jesus fucking Christ, man.
Yeah, not good. Can we catch a break?
Not good.
Can we live in a normal fucking world for like 10 minutes? Can we do that?
This is the normal world.
We may be living in a snow globe. We may be living in a snow globe.
Oh, we might be living like that one show. I wanted to check out. I wanted to see if you checked it out, Lance.
silo.
I want to.
I want to.
It's on prime, right?
I haven't heard too many people
talk about the show, but I heard a lot of people say the books
were good.
I see, that's where I get in trouble
because I would have to read the books first.
But the Zisu said it's pretty awesome.
He was talking about it.
You need books for your list anyways.
Yeah, that's true.
I think I'm four deep into
the Sandman now.
So I want to get like six of those in.
I think Steve said his, I could be wrong, but I think Steve said his wife read all the books and she liked all the books.
The silo.
Okay.
I'm going to look it up while you guys are talking.
But that's it.
It's the news.
All right.
Trailer Park time, boys.
Trail apart.
Let's go.
Going to Netflix.
Run, rabbit, run.
Run, rabbit, run.
I always have Bill Mosley from House of a Thousand Corpses in my head.
Run, Rabbit, Run.
Yeah.
You know what I'm thinking of?
There was a book, speaking of books, there was a book series called Rabbit Run or something like that.
The Rabbit series, he was like a detective, kind of like Fletch.
I think it was like in the 70s or early 80s, but one of the books was called Run Rabbit Run.
It's called The Tortoise and the Hair.
That might have been it.
Is that what they told Eminem and Ate, Mom?
Before they jump up.
Is that what they said?
Run, Rabbit, Run.
Probably.
Yeah, I think so.
Spoiler alert.
Sorry.
For a 40-year-old movie or whatever it is.
Run, Rabbit Run.
Run comes from director Diana Reed
and stars Sarah Snook.
I believe she's from the HBO series Succession.
Let's see.
Sarah Snook plays a fertility doctor
who believes firmly in
life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter,
must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past.
That is not what I got from the trailer.
No.
Looks like she goes to maybe a place from her past and sees what might be her young sister that passed away years ago
and might not be her, it could be her.
I didn't see anything that synopsis said.
This trailer looks like it can either be really good and creepy and atmospheric or really fucking boring.
Yeah.
It's really hard to tell.
Yeah, they don't give you a lot really in the trailer.
I'm not sure how much I got out of like just seeing what the plot was or whatever.
It looks like somebody gets possessed at some point, right?
Maybe.
Yeah, I mean.
Or there's a ghost?
Maybe it's all in her head.
I don't know.
watching the trailer, like, I'm kind of into it.
The whole, is that really her little sister, or is she just seeing things?
But after reading the synopsis, I don't know if I want to watch this movie.
Uh-oh.
Because I don't know what her being a fertility doctor has to do with anything.
Sounds kind of.
Because the rap, like I said, it's big a lot of the baby.
Oh, I get it.
Oh.
Okay.
It's all coming together.
now.
It's all coming together.
Philip,
Philip's all the mystery.
The couple things I've seen Sarah Snook in.
She's a good actress, so
I would check it out for that.
I know I've heard of this movie
last year. I think it was in the
movie, the festival
run making his way through there
and got picked up on Netflix.
So I think off the
strength of that, I'll check it out.
Yeah, that's a good sign.
Off the synopsis. I totally
just don't even want to talk about
movie no more.
It has nothing to do with the trailer.
Right.
So we'll see.
Yeah. We'll table it.
But it's on Netflix, so it's free,
it's free for us anyway, so, you know.
Yeah, it sounds like none of us are real excited,
but we'll watch it if it pops up
and we have nothing else to watch.
June 28th.
Okay.
All right.
Next and final trailer is the sequel to the movie we reviewed years ago, wasn't it?
Philip, we all saw that together.
The moment that you've all been waiting for.
The Meg.
Well.
The trench.
The trench.
This movie's going to be so good that it doesn't even have a synopsis on IMDB because it doesn't.
God, does it need one?
Does it need one?
I mean, Giant Shark eats people should be dissuice.
I mean, I'm not even going to get into the cast or to the Ben Wheatley's back to direct.
Now, that, that intrigues me.
We got Jason Statham about to be eaten by a Megalodon, and he just puts his foot on it and pushes it away.
At one point, he literally jumps.
the shark.
It does have
while he's surfing
it though, Brian,
it does have
chains on.
While he's surfing,
he does jump to shark
while he's surfing
on a jet ski.
I am sold on this movie.
It's so
fucking ridiculous.
At least it knows what it is now.
Yeah.
I think that might have been
I did enjoy the first one for what it was,
but I think that was
the problem with it. I think
it was taking it.
self a little too serious. I think this one
knows that it's fucking
ridiculous. I would agree. Kind of like
chart nata territory.
We start off with a megalodon eating
a fucking Tyrannosaurus rex.
Which was awesome.
It's kind of graphic
for a, this wasn't even a red
van trailer. Because that was a lot of
I mean with CGI blood, but
it's kind of graphic for a regular
trailer.
No dinosaurs.
And then they're making of this movie.
And then they're going
I don't know
to the bottom of the ocean
and they got these super suits on
where they're like karate chopping
like stones in half
and
this movie seems
fucking ridiculous
and I love everything
then they had the barracuda song playing
what I thought was perfect
that was a good tie-in
they definitely threw in some comedy
moments in the trailer
so that you kind of know
what you're getting into I think
they just showed up
straight up showed people getting eaten
in the trailer
yeah
I'm with it.
Like, all right, that's what I was looking for out of the last one.
I didn't think there was enough carnage.
I know, dude.
We were let down in the last one, weren't we?
A little bit.
But, you know, Jason Statham, kicking shark ass.
Give it a shot.
Yeah.
I'm looking forward to this one.
Yeah, I'm looking through the cast.
It looked like pretty much who survived the first one is back.
and as far as anybody knew,
I don't recognize anybody.
Cliff Curtis.
Yep, yep.
Cliff and Curtis is in it.
Other than that,
it's like Jason State them and do what?
Cliff Curtis will probably die.
Oh, you think he's going to be fodder for the shark?
He's going to be the guy that knows what he's talking about,
but then he'll get eaten.
Yes, nobody will listen to him.
You'll better eat me in this movie.
I'm not coming back for the next.
next one. See, I'm going to call it now. He's going to be the scientist that is warning everybody about the Meglodon.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But he's going to get killed. Definitely. And they're going to have to go back and get Jason Statham because he's survived these before. And that's seen in the trailer where he's doing pull-ups for no reason.
Randomly doing pull-ups. Yeah, he's going to be trying to warn the mayor. He's going to be like, for God, say, why was the 4th of July?
Yeah, because there is a beach.
Yes.
There's a beach scene that, of course, for reasons, they won't shut it down.
How much money this beach makes?
How much money can the beach make?
Do they have to pay to go there?
I mean, if COVID shut it down.
Parking fees?
Should we put this on the list?
I'm down.
I'm down.
I'll check it.
it out for sure.
August 4th is the release
date. So, end of the summer.
I want to see
what the director of a field
in England and high rise
and other such
weird, edgy, like
British
folk horror type
movies is capable of doing what you start.
He did the first one.
No, I thought it was
Turtle Dob or something like that.
John,
uh,
Fuck. Who was?
Didn't you?
No.
It sounds like a totally made it name.
Oh, fuck.
All right.
Well, move on then.
I could have sworn the first Meg was directed by somebody named John Turtle Taub or Turtle Dauve or something like that.
It's missed.
You know what?
You're right, Lance.
Unknown.
You're right, Lance.
But didn't they have Wheatley picked it one time to do the first one or something like that?
I don't know.
Fuck.
I'm so confused right now.
You're right.
I don't know who this guy is, but you're right.
I thought you picked somebody.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, it was kind of like almost a relatively unknown, right?
I mean, I think.
I think so.
And you remembered his name, dude.
You had to be on Jeopardy.
Yeah.
No, it was a weird.
This is a weird name.
It was like a super weird name.
I got a point.
Like Zach Snyder.
Right?
Or something like that.
But it wasn't Zach Snide.
Zach Snide is a more believable name.
Ah, okay.
John Turtle Tertletob.
Turtle Tob.
There you go, Philip.
Take that.
He is the director of such movies as...
It's not telling me.
The Meg.
The Meg.
Oh, he did.
He did the one episode of the Rush Hour TV show
that got never...
never got picked up.
That one, oh, wow.
It's going to say, there was a rush hour TV show.
This is why you know this guy, Lance.
You must have blinked, Philip.
He did.
He did Zoe's extraordinary playlist.
Isn't it like a musical show?
That's a great, great, great, yes.
That's awesome.
That's how you know him.
So musical.
Oh, that was almost going to be about cool of the week.
Schmigadoon is back on Apple TV Plus.
But this year it's called Schmickago.
And it's edgy.
And they do.
lot of jazz.
The jazz in the jazz hands.
I'm not about that.
Chicago.
Hey, yeah.
Pull them out.
All right.
We'll end the trailer park on that note.
All right.
All right.
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Regarding bears on a ship.
Lyle Huckin says,
that there is what we like to call the bear kaiju.
and the director on Twitter
commented a link to his
Indiegogo to help fund this movie
so
Oh yeah,
wow we got to all
jump in then
I'm tired of you got to be part of that
Bears on this motherfucking shit
Well, Phil on the poster
The bear looks bigger than the ship
So
Yeah, much bigger, much bigger
Like the ship looks like a Lego ship or something
So it's really more like bear on a ship.
Maybe he squirts out little bears.
See, the movie just writes itself.
Regarding graveyard shift, Mike Marin says one of my favorite bad film guilty pleasures.
There you go.
Take that, Aaron.
See, I don't really subscribe to the guilty pleasure things.
I never feel guilty.
guilty about anything I like.
I enjoy it, man. I enjoy
the film quite a bit.
Man, just because Aaron's shit
all over it and also not great.
I think you met your match with Aaron.
Oh, more than my match.
I went down with the first blow.
That was a one-punch
fight. I almost felt like
she hit my glass jaw and I hit
the floor. I almost felt like
your scores compared to hers, you were giving
out like tens.
I was with
sporting it, wasn't I?
That's how her reviews usually start out.
What a piece of crap.
All right.
Regarding a fan poster for Gremlin's 3,
a student of the game asks, is this real or fan art?
I was finally like, ah, Gremlin's 3.
The posters dope.
Looks super exciting, man.
Sorry, Tavares, but not real.
Fan art.
Yeah.
It was a cool poster, though.
Yep.
Maybe it will inspire a movie like the Hocus Pocus 3 fan poster did.
Or Hocus Focus 2, sorry.
But the movie sucked.
Well, let's just say maybe of Beetlejuice 2's a hit.
Maybe 80s, certain 80s and 90s movies that should have got sequels, maybe they'll get sequels.
That's true.
Yeah.
it's about time for another
Grimlins for sure
and I mean sequels
I don't mean like reboots and remakes
I was going to say maybe a sequel to
Goonies I can watch that
with Josh Berlin
this is not hard
but I've heard
that there are
developments that maybe
instead of a movie it'll be a series
oh okay
that the original cast would be involved
I was going to say I think you have
have the original cast in there.
Oh, that's right. Because data
is back and big right after
everything. Oh, yeah. That guy
is in the MCU now.
He's going to be on one of
the Marvel shows.
No.
As soon as he won that Oscar,
you know, his phone was ringing off the hook.
Yeah, such an amazing
story. His little
speech up there, so.
Oh, yeah. I enjoyed it, man.
Yeah.
But he definitely, because the guy that played Chunk is his lawyer, his entertainment lawyer.
Oh, wow.
Look at that.
Yeah, that kid, like, stopped acting and got into law.
I'm going to guess the old lady's dad, right?
She died a long time ago.
The guy that played a sloth guy, too.
Yeah, I was about to say sloth has to have bitten the big one, too, right?
wishmaster's still around
Joey Pants he's still around
you can bring them back
Joe Pantilione
we'll see
Let's see
And regarding let us pray
Chad Ladd says
This movie is a hidden gym
And I watch it at least twice a year
Damn
That's strong words
Let us pray
Which one is that?
I think it's let it like a P-R-E-Y, right?
Yes, right?
I've heard of it.
I just can't visualize it.
I may need to check it out.
Yeah, I need to look it up if you're watching it twice a year.
No kidding.
Yeah, it's worth watching then.
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I thought we were supposed to set it
and forget it
there it is
it's Mother's Day this week
with Mama and the
Babadip
which I had to get that in there
but we're going to start with Mama
from 2013
You guys know what time it is?
I guess you wouldn't. It's late. It's really, really late.
Don't. Don't go in the closet. Nothing.
After a young couple take in their two nieces, they suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched onto their family.
Director is Andy Muschetti, also known for the newest version of It, almost at IT, as well as the up.
coming flash movie.
Writers are Andy and Barbara
Mochetti with Neil Cross.
It would take four hours every day to get
Javier Bautette into his mama makeup.
What?
And another two hours to remove it.
According to Jessica Chastain,
Annabelle's octopus tattoo
describes her character.
When Annabelle found herself caught in a
situation she did not love.
such as the octopus, she would take off her tentacles and grow new tentacles to escape.
Huh. Interesting.
I didn't know there was actually somebody in the mama makeup. It seemed pretty
C.G. I mean.
Yeah. Now that you say that, it kind of might bring my score down later because the fact that I know, I know, I never really known who that there was a person in the makeup that played the
mama character and to find out is Javier
Botet because he's in a lot of
movies. Right? Mm-hmm.
He's kind of like the Andy Circus
of Spain or wherever he's from, you know?
Yeah, he's like, or
Doug Jones.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
And to find out that
that was practical
and then you threw a whole
bunch of CG garbage on top of it.
Yeah.
It might bring him a score down.
Why would you do that?
Man, you're showing
on your hand early,
Ryan?
Well, I mean, if anybody's seen Javier Boutte, he's a unique looking guy.
He's super tall with super long arms and legs.
And he gets these kind of roles because of his unique body build.
And then put some practical makeup on him and maybe just use little CGI effects.
Yeah.
But this looked like it was completely done CGI.
I'm actually, I've never known that.
I'm actually kind of blown away that there was somebody in makeup as the character.
I don't know, man.
There were some scenes where I felt like I could see a real human, you know, like walking, you know, and stuff like that in the background.
But yeah, you're right.
It's a CGI festival, folks.
Yeah, I'm looking him up.
He has a condition called hyper-laxivity.
they're describing his body of Wikipedia
he has long thin fingers
he stands 6 feet 7 inches
and only weighs 123 pounds
Oh wow
Well he was made for
So you can see that he can play this character
Right
But me watching the movie
I didn't think anybody was playing this character
No yeah it looks like it's just a straight up
CGI manifestation you know what I mean
Sure
Looked like a, in other words, a cartoon, right?
Basically, just all animated.
But 100 years ago, he would have been in business, right?
He would have been in what they used to call like traveling freak shows or carnivals.
Oh, yeah.
You know, the circus.
So they'll always be a place for Javier in any timeline.
He's done a lot of movies.
He's, uh, yeah.
He's been in the wreck movies.
That's what I figured, yeah.
The Conjuring.
He was the Crooked Man in The Conjuring.
Oh.
They were supposed to do a movie about that.
What happened?
They canceled that bullshit.
Did he ask for too much money or what?
The new It
movie, he was the hobo, the leopard.
Okay.
Makes sense. Make sense.
He was a slender man
in that movie that made Phil go to sleep
in the pool.
Superboy.
He's done a lot.
They should have just left practicals on him.
then I think.
Oh, yeah.
True.
In that trailer we reviewed
the last voyage of the Demeter.
He's in that one.
He's Dracula.
Oh, that makes sense.
That might be his breakout role, Phil.
I like it.
Sorry.
We got off the rails there a little bit.
That's part of what we talk about, man.
So aside from
Mama not doing practicals,
which, yeah, it kind of blew my mind, too,
as I was reading it. What did you think
of the movie, Brian?
I remember liking it the first time I
watched it. This is my only second time
watching it. I watched it when it came out
in the theaters. I thought it was
fine, but on this rewatch, it just
seems slow.
Very slow.
Yeah. It's a lot of set up.
A lot of setup. A lot of set up to
find these children that went missing
that
are we just overlooking that
there's supposed to be two Jamie Lannister?
Like, they never really mentioned that.
I was like, I'm pretty sure he's got like a twin brother, but I don't know why.
I don't know.
I mean, it just.
It looks too much alike.
Yeah, like one had a beard, one didn't.
Yeah.
Kind of like when you put a chick in glasses to make her smart.
Yeah, one wore suits and the other was an artist.
But it was like, it just seemed almost there to purposefully confuse you.
You're like, wait, isn't this the guy I was just looking at?
Yeah, I'm like, sure.
When they do the, you know, the scenes of him getting in the accident and then finding the cabin,
and then they cut to the house, and he's running up to the house, and he's like,
is the girl's okay?
And I was like, you just fucking have the girls.
What is going on?
Right.
Yeah.
Like they don't even really mention.
I don't even think the police say your brother or anything.
So it was.
Oh, they don't?
We all just assume that then.
Okay.
I never, I, this, this, on this second.
watch, I'm not really buying Jessica Chastain as this
guitarist. I didn't know the first watch. That was so out of character.
I mean, she's got range as an actress, but Jesus Christ, man.
Yeah, you're not.
Anybody for them.
Like, I can't think of her name. Evil Dead Rise, the girl that was the guitar,
technician. Yeah. I bought her. I bought her in that role.
Jamie Chastain as a guitarist and a punk band?
Yeah.
No.
No.
Yeah.
I really did like the kids in this, though.
I thought they did great.
You know, playing these kids that were living out in the woods with Mama this whole time, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I tell you what, the CGI effects on that part were kind of cool.
Like when they first showed the kids and they were, like, crawling around on all fours and shit.
Yeah.
Everything with Mama in the background, I thought it looked good and creepy.
Yes.
But mama up close and out in full view looked horrible.
Take you out of it, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I said, the kids were great, especially them having to act like they were like, what's the word, feral?
Yeah.
Yeah, feral kids.
And I like that the older one retained her language or whatever you want to call it, knew how to talk.
And so it all slowly came back.
And the introduction, you know, the uncle giving her a glass.
and her putting them on and like, oh, I can see now.
Everything was slowly coming back.
Right.
And I like how the younger one was so young when all this happened.
You know, that's all she knows.
So there's nothing to come back to, you know.
I liked all that.
But I think just getting to the fucking point of the story just took forever.
This was like a two-hour movie and it should have been 90 minutes.
Right.
I still don't understand what really happened.
I still don't understand what really happened
the point of her
taking the mama taking the kids to the cliff
to jump off. Why didn't you fucking do that in the
first place? I mean
was it, Phil, correct me
if I'm wrong, but was it kind of a tie into
La Yerona a little bit? Like,
because she drowned her kids in a
lake, right? Or a
yeah, why
why had the kids for five
years if this is your end game? I don't know.
Yeah. And then
why did they let the one die?
Because she wanted to go with Mama.
I guess.
You remember the end?
She was like, Mama, Victoria.
And then she turned into moths, huh?
And flew away.
Fluttered away.
Yeah, I didn't.
Maybe it just went over my head.
Maybe I'm just stupid.
Probably not.
Yeah, sometimes kids want to do dumb shit that's not good for them.
Maybe don't let them jump off a cliff.
Right.
And then this is.
And essentially, this is,
The Jessica Chastain movie because Jamie Lannister
Yeah
Get thrown off the fucking stairs and is knocked out
For most of the movie
Yeah
And then at the end
When he magically shows up to where she's going
He gets knocked out again
So he's completely useless
Which I
I felt we should have had
Brian of Tarth show up
So she could have saved the day
I felt, see, I felt bad for Jessica Chastain's character because she clearly didn't want kids.
Oh, yeah.
She made that abundantly clear.
Yeah, there was a scene where she's like this little fucking brats get him away from it.
Yeah, there's a scene where she's taking a birth control test and it says she's not pregnant.
It's like, fuck.
She's like, whoo.
About to go, about to go rehearse with my band now.
There's more heroin than cocaine.
I don't know if it works like this, but
they, the
child care people
make them go live in this house
to take care of the kids and they can't tell anybody
where they're at, like, it's witness protection.
Yeah.
Why are they in witness protection?
I don't know.
There's a scene where...
Brian, at least in the Babadik,
you understand why.
the child protective services showed up, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, we'll get to that.
But this one, I'm just, they go stay at this house.
She's telling her, the people in her band, like, I got to go stay at this house,
and I can't tell anybody where the house is.
And I'm like, why?
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
It's like there's a catch.
And then the psychiatrist, psychologist is doing all this research and background checks,
and he's not telling them that they,
they might be in danger and I'm like, why are you not telling them?
Yeah, really weird.
I mean, at first you had your doubts and then you're like, now you don't have your doubts
and you're doing research and you're not informing the people that they might be in danger.
I don't understand any of this movie.
You're gonna go knock on their door and tell them there's a ghost after him?
Was it just-
I mean, she might believe just to get away from the kids.
Was it just made-
Brian, or did that psychiatrist or whatever,
reminds you a little bit of monk?
Tony Shalhub.
Tony Shaloo.
I thought it was Tom Shaloo.
I did too.
Should have been.
So what else, Brian?
It does not really much of the story that you really can get into.
Like, they get to kids.
Mama's haunting them because mama somehow came from the cabin all the way to their home.
is playing with the kids throughout the movie,
throws Jamie Lannister down the stairs,
plays with the kids someone.
At least you hadn't cut his hand off.
Scarees Jessica Chastain.
Somehow she believes in everything.
Right?
Knows that the psychiatrist, psychologist, or whatever,
has research on it.
Monk.
Yeah, steal Monks' research papers.
And then
the kids are gone
and she knows where they're going
and on her drive there
Jamie shows up
in the road for some reason
or was that the twin
or were they triplets
Brian maybe there's a big one
wait wait
while he's in a coma
uh huh
he's getting visions of what happened
to mama
for some reason
because he's connected
maybe it's the twin
connection
because mama took his twin away
so
So Jamie, Jamie number one is screaming out to Jamie number two.
Who's dead?
And they never really did the first Jamie, the business suit, Jamie, did he kill his wife and was going to kill his kids?
Because they didn't really talk about it.
He was out there, man.
He was ready to kill everybody.
They kind of just brushed that off.
But why?
Like, they just never really talked about it.
Like, the guy just tried to kill his family.
Two-hour fucking movie
and they couldn't even give you the back story
of why he was there.
Yeah.
I don't know what else to say about this movie.
You've said a lot.
I still think it was weird that he,
Jamie Lannister played two different parts.
That was seen...
I know.
I mean, if...
It's not fucking Eddie Murphy, man.
Come on.
I mean, if they would have,
if they would have just mentioned
brothers or something,
it was just weird how we're just introduced
to that their,
that they're twins is he just shows up right after we just seen him.
For no particular reason.
It's bad.
Like did the twins part move the story along at all?
Not really.
It was just there.
Maybe that's all they could afford to hire.
Maybe they got a discount.
You can get two Jamie's for the price of one.
There it is.
Maybe Jamie saw that Band-Dam movie,
double impact.
I can fucking do this.
He was inspired.
He's no Van Dam, that's for sure.
But it doesn't really
matter because like I said, he's knocked out for most of the movie.
Yeah, that's true.
Got a big cast on his arm and his leg up
and the hospital bed that he was in.
And then wakes up after his vision
and checks himself out.
After he's just been in a coma.
Right.
and the hospital staff is like
see ya
I'm gonna have a review
over on a Skaternaz podcast network
it's the ESP short that I do
on the short film mama
that anime shed it did
three minute film sure
more effective
than this fucking movie
okay well maybe that was the problem
they took a three minutes short
and made it into a two and a half hour movie
I mean I'm glad this movie
got Annie Mouschetti's foot in the door
because...
Right. Oh, yeah. It was great.
It was great. Everything
I'm hearing is the Flash is super
fun, so it's good that it got his foot in. Oh, God.
He's doing that piece of shit.
Fuck. Why is it a piece of shit? You're such
a Marvel fan boy.
You're a Marvel fan boy.
Yes, I am.
I even bought Disney stocks, just to have a couple of them.
That's you're a DC guy.
Nah, I hate DC, dude.
I was mainly an X-Men fan when I was growing up.
I read all the X-Men comics books.
Wolverine miniseries, X-Force, X-Factor, X-Calibur, you name it.
I fucking bought all of them.
But DC, man, I don't know.
I hated Superman to begin with.
I'm like, when you're that all-powerful, who can really be against you?
Oh, it's this thing called Kryptonite.
Oh, that's great.
Whoa, yeah, great.
A little green rock that can bring you to your knees.
Great writing, guys.
I'm not a D.C. fan.
I like Batman okay, if he's done the right way.
And the Joker's a good character, but
all right, enough of that, Brian.
You got a good one.
Les, what did you think about this one?
Before we go into the
movie review, we're going to go back to
misogyny cast.
I don't see why.
With mama?
You will when I tell you.
So, actually, yes.
Because here's the deal.
deal. So the wife and I,
guys, we all have
our hall passes, right?
We even did an episode.
Yeah. I think we each did our top five hall passes.
So my wife and I also play the hall pass game.
So her ultimate hall pass is Kevin Costner.
All right? So that's like her guy hall pass.
But my wife, I like the fact that she's a little bit liberal
when it comes to sex. And, you know, she thinks outside the
box and she has a female
hall pass list.
And that consists primarily of
Charlize Theron and
Jessica Chastain.
Not from this movie, though.
Not from this movie, but I will say
if you really kind of look at Jessica
Chastain in a couple of scenes in this film,
her bodice was quite
well packed and, uh,
hey, we are in Misogyny Corner right now, right?
She's a very good girl.
I,
I didn't find her attractive in this
movie.
No?
I'm,
I still attractive.
Yeah, she's
an attractive woman,
but I felt like,
I don't know.
Maybe it was my
okay.
Oh,
uh,
expecting that.
I'll say,
I'll say that,
I'll say that everything
girls are dangerous for me.
It's,
it's like,
it's like,
I put it this way.
It's like when I watch
Glad Danzig's
verotica.
Yeah.
That movie was so bad.
I got,
I got tired of
seeing naked women.
No.
How bad to
What about, kill her goats?
Did you get tired of the naked women of that one?
That was fun.
That's the difference.
Yeah, I think somebody would disagree with you.
I think our friend Tim from down under said,
this baby's a piece of shot.
He said, yeah, they got a lot of boobies, but they're not what the fuck.
That was a terrible Australian accent.
But, all right.
You tried.
Mama.
Good.
I kept thinking about the Phil Collins song, or the Genesis song, Mama, where Phil Collins goes, ha, ha!
But, no, it was, it was, it was creepy.
It had a creepy atmosphere, which I appreciated.
Super CGI-ish.
I'm with both you guys, like, I was kind of, I don't know, there were a few scenes where I felt like, yes, there is a real actor back in the background scenes, but you're right.
Anytime they did close-ups, it was pure animation and nothing but.
This might have been the worst cast movie that I've seen in a long time.
Because, yeah, Jamie Lannister had no part playing either of the two roles.
I have no idea why they would have picked him for that because...
Like, he's great as Jamie Lannister in Game with Thrones.
He's arrogant.
He is.
He is.
You hate him and then you love him.
And I give that not just to the story, but how he played that character.
This, he's just some fucking guy that you could have kept in every else in the fucking movie.
Yeah.
Yep.
A schmuck, like a fill in the blank, a check the boxes guy.
Like he's twin.
We mentioned a dozen times already.
He plays fucking twins.
Right.
And he's the same fucking guy.
And they're supposed to be.
He's the same a fucking guy.
clearly that's a scratch on his nose yeah clearly they're supposed to be two different
yeah clearly they're supposed to be two different guys because right
one's more business to like and the other ones an artist but sure plays it like they're the same
fucking guy I couldn't agree more bad bad bad casting bad bad acting
yeah Jessica Chastain was not the right person for this role at all she didn't sell me
all. The kids were kind of, I don't know. I kind of enjoyed watching the kids, especially
the, like you guys were talking about the part early on where they were feral. I thought that
was kind of creepy. But you're right. You guys are totally right. What is mother's end game?
Why the fuck does she let them live there in the house and fuck with her and play games and
shit and then get into the house, but then jump off a cliff with one? It just zero parts of
this movie makes sense. It's not well-written. It's not well-acted. They took the kids from
Mama. If you want the kids back, why are you hanging out in the house playing with them?
Philip, what do you think, man? Yeah, I mean, right. I mean,
bright covered a lot. He did. Yeah, but I, it sort of, it sort of makes sense now. I mean,
I remember when I first saw this, I was not necessarily impressed, but I wasn't.
like disappointed you know what I mean it was like okay well that was a that was a pretty okay
horror movie it sort of stands out from the crowd and the definitely had some jump scares yeah and the
generic shit that this should fit in yeah um so it was just kind of okay yeah i it was just
I think had they not had the CGI mama all over the place especially the close-up scenes at the
end. It just made it kind of hokey. And had they had they not had that shit going on, I think it
would have been fine. Okay. Agreed. Yeah. And yeah, the whole twin situation just seemed to
serve no purpose except to be confusing. Because they're cousins. Identical cousins.
I keep bringing it up, but that scene when it goes from the cabin to Jamie running to the house
look to see what happens.
Yeah.
It felt like there needed to be a scene
in between there.
And there might happen.
Like, yeah, that's true, too.
Phone calls saying,
your brother and the kids are missing
and we found his wife dead.
You need to get here quick.
Yeah.
Now, okay, they're twins.
But him just kind of just showing
up, I'm like,
how did you get from the cabin here already, you know?
I mean, obviously
something out of the three-minute short
inspired Gierermo,
wouldn't have thrown his money and his weight behind this.
The three minutes short, I'll find it in a post it in the group for people to watch.
But it's the scene when Mama chases them up the stairs and the little girl locks the older sister out of the room.
But in the movie, was there a fish bowl?
Because I know in the short, I noticed she was holding a fish bowl trying to save her fish, her goldfish.
I don't think that was in the movie, was it?
I don't think it wasn't a movie.
Yeah.
They didn't even add that.
Cool, cool creature.
Maybe they could have done something cool with it, but it was a, they sort of slid to the finish line.
At least they didn't jump over a cliff.
Oh, wait a minute.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I was a little bothered that they killed one of the kids at the end.
That was very disturbing.
They're like, oh, great.
Now the one that's hard to deal with is gone.
That makes our life easier.
Here we go.
Just get his day was like fist pumping mama.
It did seem like that.
The one that was the most hard to handle.
Yeah.
I'll just let her go.
She fell off a clip.
I don't know what happened.
Literally.
And how were they going to explain all that?
Oh, they'll think of something.
You notice there was no mama too.
What are they telling child services now?
They just lost one of the kids.
Thanks for the house.
Peace out.
Yeah, there's definitely going to be some aftermath.
Mama 2 is just, the whole movie is just set in court.
The CPS shows up.
All right.
What's your score, Brian?
You know what?
I'll be fair because it was well shot.
It was well directed.
it just, I didn't like anybody.
Okay, the people that are casted in the movie,
I like them as actors and actresses.
I just think they were miscast for this movie.
And Phil, you reading that Javier Botet was mama
and was done all in makeup,
and then they threw all that CG on,
it brings my score way down.
But I did thank the kids for what they needed to do in the movie.
We did a good job.
so I'll give it a five.
That's pretty good, man.
That's even water.
Treading, treading water.
Lance, you got a five?
No, it's three and a half.
It's one-third good.
It's creepy.
I don't know.
Maybe I was in the mood for jump scares,
but I actually kind of enjoyed the jump scares.
So I'll give it that.
Yeah.
There is definitely a creepy factor.
And after talking to, talking about it, I do kind of want to lower my score, but I'm still going to give it a sixth, I think.
Ah.
I had, I had an okay time with this movie, you know?
It's not, it's not a stand-up.
It's not a stand-out.
It's not a classic.
It just, it does separate itself from the group a little, though.
It's worth watching once.
Yeah, I will tell anybody that if you want to see where Andy Mochetti started,
check it out
because you see that
he's a good director
I just think the story
was lacking
like we talked about
it started from a short film
maybe there wasn't enough
in the short film
to garner a whole feature link
film so
yeah
but I still think as a director
he's a good director
so
it's just
movie
He was just miscasted, and they just definitely missed a mark on the story.
He got Geraima's attention.
That's where the money is.
That's the money pot.
Because here's the movie.
The kids go missing.
They find the kids.
Mama goes back, gets the kids, jumps off the cliff.
Keeps them alive for five years and then jumps off a fucking cliff.
I want to lower my score, I think.
With no real motivation.
but yeah it's a three
it's not a three and a half it's not
one third good
Brian you got me with that
why would she do that
why keep them old and let him be feral
and what was with the cherry kids
they give the little
the remains of her mama's baby
to her and I'm just like if you wanted
the baby why didn't you
why are you having these kids grow up
you're gonna make it's
I don't know
if mama's
supernatural just go fucking
create the baby in dreamland or something right let's let's get to the next one
okay goes baby score yes they're not a big ghost no what was with the cherry pits
guys why cherry pits those kids would have diarrhea for fucking days
they didn't they were just fed that's why they ran on all fours just in
case it squirts out the back all right
So Mama is okay at best.
We'll move on to the Babadook.
Or as binge media
lovingly refers to it, Brian.
Babadook?
Bobbidick.
The nose is broken in two places,
and they need surgery.
I'll pay for everything.
Can't even pay your own bills.
Look, I really have to go.
Claire, I think someone is stalking me in Samuel.
What?
A book turned up at her place.
I threw it away, but somebody glued it back together and put it on our doorstep.
Amelia, I just can't help you right now.
I don't expect you to help.
I just wonder.
Is you that worried you should go to the police?
I've got to go.
Babadook!
From 2014, a single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia with an eerie children's book titled Mr. Babadook.
manifests into their home.
Director and writer is Jennifer Kent,
also known for the Nightingale.
That's a rough film.
Yeah.
Director Jennifer Kent holds the rights to the film,
and when asked if there would be a sequel,
she said,
I will never allow any sequel to be made
because it's not that kind of film.
I don't care how much I'm offered.
It's just not going to happen.
Offer her enough money, and it will happen.
I don't know. I like that. I hope that. I like it too, but can we really believe that? I guess we'll find out.
What's his name that Robert Zemeckis? Does he own like Back to the Future? And because none of the original people could be really involved in it or the way that they should be. He said they'll never be a sequel. And nobody can do anything about it. I kind of respect when people stand on that.
but Lance I also do agree if somebody backed up that money truck with the right amount
making Babadook Netflix series everybody's got a fuck it price
Babad Duke the amusement bride
Bobby Duke the musical
Baba Bobba daubhubh duke
David Duke
Apparently in Hebrew
Baba Duke
means he is coming for sure.
That's scary.
Don't fact check me on that. I don't know.
All right.
Brian, what did you think about the Bobaduke?
This movie is
the definition of elevated
horror. Yeah, that makes sense.
It definitely belonged in
the March Madness list.
It deals with a lot of
heavy topics, depression,
grief,
amongst other things.
What mothers go
through raising being a single mother, raising a kid.
It goes through a lot of that stuff, and I think it hits
the mark on every one of those subjects.
A lot of people...
Why can't you be normal, meme?
Yeah.
The main actress, let me pull her up.
I thought she did a phenomenal job.
And, you know, a lot of people hate the kid.
Boy, you're supposed to.
Yeah, you're supposed to hate the kid.
Yeah, you're experiencing the movie from her point of view.
And then that's the cool thing about the movie because it kind of swaps.
Because then you see why the kid's acting the way he is, and then you're seeing it from his point of view.
And first you hate the kid, then you feel for the kid.
Oh, that's right.
You hate the mom.
When she goes to full exorcist mode.
Yeah.
And I really enjoyed that whole.
dynamic of the movie
how it just kind of makes you see
things from all different angles
and
the Babadook designer of the Babadook
I think is creepy I think they did a better job
with the look of the Babaduke than they
did the fucking look of Mama
oh big time
big time yeah for majority they kept
the Bobaduke in the fucking shadows
his little creepy
fingers and stuff would come out
and the little top hat
and the
the constant
showing up
of the book
she kept trying
to get rid of the book
and the book kept
you know
reappearing
and trying to
burn the book
and the book's
coming back again
and
slowly she's just
descending into
madness and
she thinks
you're
I just love that
you think it's
the fucking kid
and you're just like
do something
about the kid
but then
when you get
the kid's point of view
you know
he kind of
see this is
what I want to
get into. Do you think the Babadook
is real?
For me, yes.
Yes, the way I watch the movie.
I like to put a literal spin on these
artsy movies. So as far
as I'm concerned, there was a supernatural
element for sure. I say
yes, but at first, no. I think
all the
stuff that was going on in their lives
manifested.
Okay, Brian, so how do you explain
the fact that both she and he
saw the Babadu?
group psychosis.
I don't know what that means, but I heard it somewhere.
Well, there was glass in her soup, but not his.
That was interesting.
She put it there herself, Lance.
Maybe.
Munchausen syndrome.
I'm just yelling stuff out there.
Man, dude.
Brian, you're all over it, man.
She's got tetanus, Tourette's.
Whatever the fuck is.
Right?
Tentis.
I mean, this movie goes really.
fucking deep, you know, like they can't ever really celebrate his birthday because that was the day of the father dying and then...
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You kind of get closure at the end when they actually do celebrate his birthday and...
Or do you? Or do you? Yeah. Remember, she saw the video in her mind when she was like passing out on the couch and she actually saw the... She was watching all those weird animated shows and stuff like that where the Babadook showed up in him. And you could kind of see what was going to be.
going on in her mind and then she saw that news, that little news segment where it says,
the mother went crazy and shot her child on his birthday, you know, like where the news,
the news announcer was actually, I thought for sure that was coming.
What made it from?
Go ahead, Phil.
I was, it's, it's like mental illness, anxiety, depression, whatever you want it to mean,
but it's obviously that's what it is.
in the movie.
And that's why she sort of keeps it at bay at the end.
Spoiler alert.
And,
and, like,
keeps it in the basement and feeds it because there's no way to really get rid of it.
All you can do is tame it.
So do you guys think she was taking some of her son's pills?
Like the pills to sleep?
Because she was so desperate in that scene with the doctor, right?
Yeah.
But he was sleeping too, right?
The kid was sleeping too.
So was that just her being thrown?
off because like she would be awake at weird times and he'd be asleep.
With her being,
she thought it was during the day, maybe.
Her being sleep deprived and kind of having all these issues on top of that.
Right.
From her point of view, we don't really know what was real and what was, you know.
Totally.
Maybe you're going back to the glass in the suit.
Maybe she put it in the suit.
Right.
Maybe he put it in the suit.
We don't know.
Maybe the Babadook is when she goes fucking crazy and she's the monster.
Maybe the Babadook put it in the suit.
I mean, the kid called it.
Phil could be right.
Maybe it was her as the Babaduke.
Maybe she is the Bobadook.
Maybe the Bobad Duke is actually a supernatural thing, and he did it.
Yeah, there's a lot of angles, man.
It's a pretty deep movie.
It's enjoyable, man.
I love it.
It's creepy as fuck, dude.
And that kid is a creepy fucking kid.
When he's in the car and he's like yelling and shit.
he had a
he had an awesome backpack
catapult though
that was pretty cool
so
so what do you guys think
some engineering points for that
what do you guys think about
that scene where he
where she wasn't paying attention
to him and the next thing you know they look
up and he's standing on the top of that
monkey bars
contraption or whatever
oh yeah
do you all think he fell off
or
it seemed like his arm would be broken or something
right? That's true. The next scene, they were in like the hospital or something, aren't they?
No, I think the next scene, she was driving him home and he was yelling. Oh, that's when he was screaming and stuff.
That was just her screaming session. And then later he screamed more.
There's a lot of effective scenes where the Babadu pops up like that.
Right? The most memorable one to me is where it almost looks like she has, what do you call it, sleep paralysis?
But she can't move, but he's just above her in the bed.
Well, they tried that at Mama, but it wasn't as effective, right?
Yeah.
I'm tired of talking about Mama.
Movies bring it down to a four.
Like, I'm telling you, my kids watched this one with me, and they were, like, engulfed in it.
Yikes.
I didn't expect.
They were no shit.
It's weird, Lance.
My two oldest are in their early 20s now, and I remember showing this to them back when this came out.
And they, this movie, their eyes were glued to the screen, but they did the kid thing where they cover their ears.
Yeah.
The loud sounds are not going to scare them.
Right.
It's not about what they're seeing.
It's about what they're hearing.
Yeah.
And they, yeah, they were glued into this when they, when they were kids.
It's, it's an effective movie.
Totally unlike Mama, this, this is actually effective.
Yeah.
This is how you, this is how you make a horror movie that involves a mother.
This is like the winner of the two, right?
Yeah, and I think the end scene maybe was a little on the nose
where she's got the Babadook locked up in the basement.
But I also like it.
Feeding in worms?
Yeah, I also liked it.
I like the message behind it and everything.
It was a pretty solid film, man.
But you're right.
The definition of elevated horror is like before it was cool, I guess.
Sure.
Yeah, the lead actress is Essie Davis.
Essie Davis. I've seen her a few TV shows or something.
Yeah, she's been in
she's actually in Game of Thrones. Not much.
She's been in Game of Thrones.
Shit, that's about it. Game of Thrones.
Okay.
Game of Thrones. She was in the Matrix,
one of the shitty sequels.
Ah, take your pick, huh?
Just one of those people hanging out in the background.
Yay, Neo's home.
She was like dancing like this.
What was the one where they were in the rave?
What did they call that place?
Where they all went to is like Evan.
Zion.
Zion.
Yeah.
But yeah, the Babadook, I think it does a good job of, like I was saying,
taking all these different topics and applying them to the movie.
Sure.
Yeah.
Unlike Mama.
had an idea for something that maybe wasn't enough to stretch out into a full movie.
Yeah.
And then, like I said, design-wise, I think the mama does not compare to the Babadook as far as design-wise.
And the Babadu, even if this movie is not a blockbuster movie, but it's an iconic figure.
Like, everybody's seen the Babadook figure.
well and they don't ever really show him very clearly you know of course not yeah that
that's the the beauty of it you don't need to see it come up with come up with conclusions in your
mind on what it really looks like and that'll probably scare you more yeah it's a little
creepier when they leave it up to your imagination sure yeah her her acting was fucking
amazing. Like how she lost her husband and the first time you saw it, I think was pretty early
in the movie, right? Where you saw her turning around and you can see pieces of glass and
you slowly start piecing together what happened. And then it's like, she's like, seems
super ill-equipped to take care of a child all by herself. But then, and see, that's why I like
the psychological, or I mean the supernatural aspect of it because it's like, maybe there is.
some weird supernatural creature
fucking with her. Maybe she
could be a good mother if she
didn't have this, you know, this kind of like
a puck-like or a laparcon
type character fucking with her, you know?
I don't know how to describe it.
I guess that's what makes it elevated.
Yeah.
Yeah, but there you got.
Like, locus.
Mischievous.
These are, but like, going back to the whole
elevated horror thing, this is
done, this is elevated horror done right.
You know, it takes...
real-life situations and uses them for horror.
Right.
And it's more effective than having like a cheap jump scare every now and then.
Which is what Mama was.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like Mama tried to do something.
This one did do something.
Good way to put it.
Yeah.
All right.
Scores for the Bobaduke, Brian.
Let me give him an eight.
I thought it was really effective.
Jennifer Kent did an amazing job directing.
It looked creepy.
I felt like that whole house was fucking creepy to me.
And it was probably just a regular fucking house,
but just the way everything was shot and the lighting.
Yeah, it became a character, basically.
Especially when she was talking about all the roaches
getting behind the refrigerator.
If there was.
CPS showed up.
Was there or wasn't?
I mean, we've all been on bad trips and seen shit that wasn't there, right?
Oh, yeah.
Good point.
I like it.
Yeah, good score, man.
What do you think, Lance?
I'm with Brian. It's an eight.
Yeah, it's definitely an easy eight, man.
This is like one of the top elevated horror movies that I've seen in a while.
And when you guys are telling me that your kids also enjoyed it, that, you know, kind of also speaks to a while.
wide audience of people who enjoy
this film and get, everybody
gets something different out of it.
Like you said, at first,
you kind of thought the mom was just a bitch.
Like she was not
mature enough or not,
not a good enough mother, right,
to want to actually take care of her
child. But then
as it goes on, maybe some
evil spirit is fucking with her,
you know, maybe it's something different,
but whatever it is, it works.
It's effective. So I'm
I'm going with Brian. Also an eight on this one.
Also an eight. All right.
Yeah, I think it's an easy eight. I'm going to give it an eight and a half, actually, I think.
It was pretty effective. Any time they do like a demonic possession and like kids.
Yes. Yeah, that's what it is kind of like the exorcist, right? I got some vibes of that here.
Yeah. And then like put them in like real situations where this mother's like just fed up with life.
in general.
And I thought it had a cool,
um,
sort of metaphorical situation going on,
which was the elevated horror part of it,
but they,
they did it well.
And I,
they were relatively obvious with it,
which is okay.
I think especially in this situation.
I was pretty impressed with it.
It was a,
a movie that sort of came out of nowhere and,
Lived up to the hype.
Unlike Mama.
Unlike Mama.
All right.
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I can't believe I'm saying this. It's a no
new movie again, Brian, for
fuck sake, dude. Is it that
dry at the theater?
Everything is like superhero and action.
Which we've done before.
Yeah, but that's why we have the other shows,
because I got tired of people asking if we did the new John Wick,
that's not horror.
Well, they just call him Baba Yaya or whatever, or Baba Wawa.
I don't know.
All right, next week, it's another full moon retrospective.
We're going to check out Puppet Master 2 and subspecies.
So, Philip, until the horror returns again, good night.
