The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #400: The Year In Horror 1991, Part 1 - Body Parts & Sometimes They Come Back

Episode Date: January 25, 2024

This week, we go back to 1991 for a few early 90's horror classics. Cool of the week includes American Nightmare and Coming Home in the Dark. Trailer is Out of Darkness and Spaceman. The podcast spotlight shines on No Bodies. And we get feedback from The Mac-Nez podcast, Horror Nerds at Church, and Bede Jermyn. 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 X: 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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On two, the horror returns. I'm Lance. With me as always. Co-hosts, Philip. Brian. How's it going, guys? Freezing. Freezing.

What do you talk about? It's 85 degrees here today, dude. Well, maybe there, but... Oh, it warmed up today. It's four degrees. You got it. All right. So what this is telling me, Brian, is...

Looking positive. Brian, you got to come visit, man. When are you going to come visit? Hopefully, as soon as possible. There's some new additions to Texas Frigmare. Oh, yeah. Who do we have, man? who's who's put their hat in the ring so to speak.

Neff Campbell. Because, you know. Okay. She's not getting paid to be in screen movies as now. So she's got some time and, uh... Got a little time to kill. Jason Patrick from the Lost Boys. Okay.

He's got a lot of stuff, right? Like a lot of sci-fi, BB sci-fi movies and stuff like that. Yeah, I think my favorite movie of him outside of Lost Boys. You ever see that movie Sleepers? absolutely that's kind of that's a depressing one isn't it yeah but it's a good story and great cast might be somebody might be somebody worth meeting after i well if i don't get kicked out after i meet with uh after you attack eli yeah i almost said Elon uh oh been watching too many SpaceX launches out here i guess you know pull up in his cyber truck and get

that apparently the new one the new ones are not only bulletproof but they're also arrowproof just in just in case for some reason oh that's great in case they go by in case uh in case they swing by ted nudgeant's place huh yeah it was it it was an experiment they did on joe rogan he shot an arrow into the cyber truck it was kind of awesome yeah i was just like no shit it really happened yeah i was just like why not why not why not be out of yeah why not dude oh he said the windows

the windows aren't bulletproof unless you buy it that way and you can't roll them down oh if you're bulletproof you can't roll them I kind of feel like if you need bulletproof windows you wouldn't want to roll them down also probably true

it's a good point it's a good point so guys what episode number is this by the way this is magical number 400

holy shit yes that's lots of episodes that's more than one a day for a year right I think I don't know my math's not always that good which uh

because you've never did that spreadsheet Lance it makes it very hard for me to remember what movies it's getting harder and harder isn't it 800 movies guys some of those episodes

we did three movies Yeah. Well, shoot, I need to get the spreadsheet done. Let's see, I need to get the spreadsheet done. I need to get all of Steve Carlton's animated characters onto T-shirts. And I think we're done with T-Public, guys. I think I'm going to try to go with... Some people are using Red Bubble.

You guys heard anybody say anything good about that? I think the Super Network goes through them. I'm going to look into it because T-Public is not very user-friendly. when it comes to importing the artwork. And a lot of them, like, I'll import it over, right? And I guess it's maybe because it's vaguely reminiscent of another character in horror, but it'll say, like, copyright protected. And I'm like, fuck this shit.

There's got to be somebody that'll let us make the TV. Yeah, there was... You never heard of parody? There was recently... She was one of our podcast Spotlights. I can't think of her name. I apologize if you're listening. Her podcast and YouTube channels

called My Killer Podcast. She did a T-shirt that was reminiscent of You guys remember the Hellfire Club T-shirts and Stranger Things? Absolutely. She did one. Dungeons Club.

Yeah, she used the font to make for her pod kit. Yeah, and I guess she was only able to sell like a couple t-shirts before they took it down for copyright infringements because they look too much. I've been using the Iron Maiden font for every project since I was in sixth grade.

I don't even think you can use this anymore, Philip, or they'll get you. Speaking of which, Brian, I need to do some more re-uploads too. I got my work cut out for me. I need to get this shit done. Thanks for reminding me. Episode 400, I guess we're going to stick around for a while. Yeah, thanks for reminding me because I uploaded some, and I just got to send you the, I don't think Lance could hear us anymore.

Uh-oh. He died. Well, it was nice knowing you, Lance. Yeah. He must have got struck by lightning. But I guess I will take over hosting, and since we're continuing on with the show, we will get into cool, the little. week so so so you said said you remembered what you watched we were talking yeah so i've got one uh i

didn't have much for cool week this week because i've been caught up with work and kids stuff and um watching movies for some other stuff but uh and i can't really use that but uh i did i did watch a a little docu series on uh netflix called american nightmare and it's this girl who gets kidnapped. They give out like this measly little ransom, or like request this measly little ransom, and the police don't believe them. And so they think it's a gone girl situation.

So, because it happened about a year after the movie was released. It sort of sounds like what it is. And then later on down the road, Spoiler alert. All right, I'm going to be in and out. There is a crazy racist. That's okay. We already moved on to the cool movie.

Cool. I didn't see the Fahey movie anyway. So too much of work. AJ's working 80 hours a week, and I'm working 50, 60 a week. So let's say I had to join her. Cool of the week? Yeah. Yeah, but it was a pretty good little docu series that I was watching.

It's called American Nightmare. American nightmare. Yeah. So they accused this girl of being in this gone girl situation. And... All right, good. Sorry, my computer's making noise. And so the cops don't believe her about getting, like, kidnapped and raped and all this stuff.

Because it was kind of a far-fetched story. Right. Eventually, they find this, like, serial rapist guy. and turns out she was and they were wrong. But it was a pretty cool one to watch. That's kind of all I got.

That's all I really watched this week. American Nightmare, huh? Yeah, it's on Netflix. Now that's not based off that story of the movie that was it John Cusack that was in it, where they had the, they were in Alaska or something like that and they had the serial killer? Yeah, that's based off a true story.

story. But not the same as this one. No. No, this was just some serial rapists in California. That guy, that was up here, he was taking prostitutes and kidnapping him and then he had like one of those like small planes and he would fly out to the wilderness and basically

like let them, let them loose and then go hunt them. Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah. But I think as the victim started piling up, I think, I think he started getting sloppy. Yeah.

Well, that's kind of what happened with this guy. That's why he got caught. It was a totally different city in California. And he had broken into the house. And the dad had gotten a fight with him. Oh, shit. He was trying to kidnap the 22-year-old daughter. What an idiot.

And the cops eventually tracked him down, found the house. He's got, like, goggles with duct tape all over him, and all this stuff. Birdbox Barcelona, huh? Yeah, he's had like a ton of evidence. E. Frozen ground. Frozen ground.

There you go. Yeah, that was a good movie. But yeah, that's all I got this week. Check it out. So Netflix? Yeah. Cool. Did you say yours yet, Brian?

No, I'll move on to mine. A segue, because two things I watched this week are also on Netflix. The first one is the new Kevin Hard Action Comedy thriller Lift I almost watched that I almost did too

I thought it was old for some reason though Did you? It's not a bad movie but I can't say that I liked it because it's not goofy, funny Kevin Hart he's trying to be more Action Star Not even Action Star

He's trying to be more like Danny Ocean from Oceans 11 kind of smooth and what? That's not. Essentially, that's what the movie is is an Ocean's 11. You got this ensemble of people, characters that they all

have a specific thing they're good at for the job and then they rob very expensive things and they cut a deal with the FBI to help them to get their records clean. They have to rob something that's on the plane. That's why it's called lift. and it's nothing you haven't seen before.

I'd rather, you know, go watch the Oceans movies before I rewatch this. And I think the biggest part was it was just Kevin Hart playing it kind of more straight than he usually does. I think people got like Kevin Hart and The Rock Out. Yeah. Yeah, a little too, over exposure, huh? Yeah. Like, I mean, I really like Kevin Hart as a person. I think he's probably one of the most

like hardworking men in Hollywood but it's like man he's in everything not according to Cat Williams uh cat Williams is one that likes to talk shit

he's got a little little bit of green with envy behind the ears that was a hilarious interview though I didn't see it it's a crazy interview Brian that they had a

a spot-on skid on Saturday Night Live like it exactly like it and that's what got me to go and watch the interview and that dude is fucking off his rocker man now I yeah I looked into a lot of I looked into a lot

they said a lot of people said there's a lot he was saying that was true okay but then there was a lot that he was just kind of talking shit. Hellishy yeah I guess a lot of people said to Steve Harvey stuff is real

that he steals jokes from other comedians and Steve Harvey. Yeah. Wow, he dropped everybody in the grease. But he doesn't even really do any stand-up. He just anymore,

he kind of sticks to his gig now, doesn't it? Yeah, he kind of spoke on that. He said he doesn't do stand-up because he can't do stand-up no more. Uh-oh. Wow. That's a lot of...

That's a lot of shade, man. In that one five-hour interview or whatever it was. Yeah, and I... Nothing against Cat Williams. I enjoy his stand-up, but Steve Harvey was funnier than Cat Williams. Oh, yeah. Cat Williams was just kept repeating. You're going to be from the Slapeahoe tribe and that kind of joke over and over and over.

He was real repetitive, as I remember. Like always dressing like a pimp, always trying to be that character. Like every movie he showed up in, he was like the same cookie-cutter character. Yeah, like he was good, but he had that stick. No range. Yeah, no range. he's no Eddie Murphy right yeah

well that's that's once in a lifetime talent right there Eddie Murphy because when you talk Eddie Murphy you put him with the

the Bill Cosby's the Richard Pryors the you know the Sam Kinnison's yeah I'd put them up there too wrist in peace right I remember getting trouble

I was supposed to be in bed and I was watching HBO late at night watching Sam Kenison a stand-up special. Wow. You learned early. I was trying to figure out because I overheard it because I just heard

some guy going, ah! Say it! Say it! Then Bobcat kind of stole his stick. Yeah. That's what I think happens because I know a lot of comedians now, they don't watch. other comedians because they just don't want

to accidentally steal anything or get the idea planted in their head I think that's what happened a lot of times especially back in them not to see there wasn't comedians that were just because I know you guys probably know the Carlos Monsea story that's what I was going with that

that guy was stealing people's entire acts well I wouldn't think that'd be very sustainable in this TikTok age we're in now. No, it's not. That's why it's pretty easy to track down. I can't see it anymore. Yeah. All right, so I was, I'm sorry, go ahead, Brian. Yeah, Lyft, I can't

recommend, but one I can recommend is, uh, what was it called? Coming Home in the dark. Never even heard of it, so let me write it down. Australian Revenge thriller.

And I can't really... Yeah. Um, I think it came out a couple years ago I heard about it just never got around to watching it was just kind of flipping through Netflix and saw was on there and it was just like okay I'd give it a try and I'll give you the the basis of the beginning is basically there's a family they're going for a hike in the mountains and they stop for a picnic and these two uh drifters come walking up and they just start uh basically they take them hostage

somebody don't like you lance oh you bad guys but yeah take the family hostage and then the movie goes on from there and then you find out there's like a backstory to

one of the characters and it gets pretty interesting and I thought it was I thought the acting was pretty good nobody unrecognized I thought the main kidnapper was I thought he was really good in his role

but yeah it gets real dark many times throughout the movie okay and what was that one called coming home in the dark coming home in the dark

yeah yeah it's not overly violent but there's a lot of dark subject matter in there I got you I think Lance left us again Oh, shucks. All right, well, I guess we'll get to his cold week when he comes back.

You got any news for us? News, news. Is there news? Let me see. I don't know who asked for it. I don't know if we need it. But dinosaurs do sell. They're already reboot in Jurassic Park. I'm okay with that.

Yeah. From what I understand it, not going to be a sequel. It's going to, they're just kind of, going to tell the whole new story. Okay. Rettconning it again?

Yeah. Yeah, it got a little weird when they were like mixing dinosaurs together and stuff. I mean, I guess it sort of makes sense, but. All right. Yeah.

I like that first one that they came out with and the rest of them got like more and more ridiculous. All right, Lance. We jumped in the news, but we were waiting for your cool in the week.

My cool of the week, Brian, I hope you posted in our group. It's the night swim pitch meeting video that you sent me. Oh, that was Phil. Oh, okay, Phil. Thanks for that, dude. Those are hilarious, dude. They're more. They are.

What do those guys do? Oh, yeah. It's one guy. He used to work for screen rant. Now he has his own channel, and he just does pitch meetings of big movies. And makes fun of them and points out plot holes and stuff. Up, it's great. That was hilarious.

Send more. So that's my cool of the week, Brian. Okay. All right. Well, we just, when you were going to talk about, they're going to make another Jurassic Park movie. Of course they are. Seems like they're going to just tell a whole new story.

Are they going to bring King Kong and Godzilla into this one? If they're smart. And the, what was it, Transformers Rise of the Beasts Brian that movie he loves so much Yeah And don't forget Spoilers from anybody who didn't see it

But they tease G.I. Joe at the end A real American hero. Bring them in there. Bring Fast and Furious too. Barbie's going to pop up in the background. And then make it Yeah, they make it all the big universe Oh, did you all hear about the plot For the Barbie sequel?

Oh, well, you know what? Just real quick. Okay. Since you're a big, you're a big Oscar Academy guy. Do you think it was fair that that movie got snubed? Barbie? Yeah.

It didn't get totally snubbed, did it? I mean, it's nominated for best picture. Yeah, Barbie is nominated for Best Picture. Just take that in. I'm hearing a lot of people are mad. Margot Robbie didn't get nominated. Yeah.

Did we lose this again? I think so. all right i i can under i can understand where they're coming from but it's kind of crazy that it even got nominated for best picture like i know it was a big blockbuster thing but it's also the barbie movie i think people commercial i think people are just going to have to realize like like when end game came out and people wanted like robert downy junior to be nominated he's not going to be nominated for end game or right or a horror movie like um hered like we all thought Tony Colette

was going to get nominated that's different I think that that was that was a legitimate amazing performance yeah but I think I think just

John John movie or toy movie or something it's hard for a blockbuster movie to go and like win best picture or get nominated for a bunch of stuff it's a bunch of old people running the academy that's true

I guess I think I think I read a story. I think Christopher Nolan was talking shit about the Barbie movie. And then he watched it and was like, oh, it's not bad. I sort of did the same thing. I was talking shit about it

when it first came out too. And then I watched it and I was like, you know what, that wasn't a bad movie. I kind of liked it. I mean, would I nominate it for Best Picture? Probably not. Well, see, I would because

usually when I hear the best picture nominees 95% of them I probably didn't see or haven't heard of Yeah, usually little bullshit indie movies That's why I ask Lance because You know, Lance tries to watch all of them Before the Oscars come out Yeah

I mean Oppenheimer is objectively a better movie Oh yeah Just off the bat All right I don't even know who won all right or is it just nominations that are out yeah nominations have just oh okay okay oh is that is there any news

Deadpool 3 rap filming today so I'm here we'll we'll get the trailer the Super Bowl Sunday that makes sense and that is the one Marvel movie coming out that I'm excited about It's the only Marvel movie coming out this year. I'm okay with that. Yeah. That's probably better. That's...

Even on the New Star Wars stuff, when they were doing them once a year, it was kind of exciting. It was when you had to watch a thing every other week to keep up with it, that it was like, all right, this is too much. Well, I guess we can talk about that. You excited for the announcement of Ray getting her own movie? Not at all. How about the Mandalorian and Grogu movie that they announced? I don't know that they need a movie.

Yeah, that's kind of how I felt. Yeah. I mean, well, I'll watch the movies, but... Yeah. Just after the past couple of actual Star Wars movies, I'm just not... I mean, I'm excited that Dave Filoni and John Fabro are doing these movies. Yeah. But, like, I thought they sort of struck gold with that Mandalorian.

thing on the first season where it was like a new Western episode every week and he would like come in and save a town and then move on to the next one the next week and it was really episodic and great and then they started messing with it and now it's not as good

yeah I haven't got to the third season but I've heard I've seen it pop up on a lot of people's 10 worst TV shows of 2023 and that doesn't make me want to hurry up and catch up to watch it yeah it's like they they they just hit magic with some of these things and then they suck all the life out of it i don't get it have you played the video game until dawn i am not well that is getting a film adaptation from the guy that did

lights out is it like a vampire thing let's see the game revolved around a group of friends that vacation at a remote mountain retreat where they find themselves attempting to survive the night from various threats this is a horror

video game sounds like David F. Sandberg who did the Shazam movies and lights out and Gary Doberman who wrote the It movies was writing it. Well, it doesn't sound like a terrible

combination of people. Yeah. Would you like to see a rebooted Anaconda movie? Kind of. I don't know, the first one was great because of it was cheesy and campy,

but then you had the cast of John Boy, Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson. Yeah, it was stack. You just, like, if you go back and rewatch that movie, you're just like, what are you people doing in this movie? Yes, very much so. But it's kind of a classic. It's like a cult classic, you know?

I'm totally cool making a new movie like that. You know, if you're going to reboot a movie, it should be something like that. Yeah, let's see. I think we talked about Nev Campbell. express interest in returning the screen which I think I said the dollar signs must have been right so is that a done deal or she just

expressed interest expressed interest which kind of means like the dollar signs are maybe almost right okay well but I think I also she's showing up the Texas Frightmare I don't know how right they need to be yeah I think I read somewhere she also doesn't want because she the the franchise is so close to her that she just doesn't want to see it go go out the way it's going out so i don't know maybe they bring her back and just kind of make one final movie just kind of

yeah why not do we're going to come back somehow yeah i mean come back as the killer i guess oh i think you figured out the plottery you just got tired of getting stabbed fake to step It was him all along. Yeah, I'm not seeing anything. It's all a bunch of Maggie Jeline directing a Bride to Frankenstein movie. That's weird. Bride of Frankstein.

I think Christian Bales playing the monster. Of course he is. Did he get like leg implants? method acting that son of a bitch out yeah let's see Todd McFarlane is adamant that his spawn movies getting made yeah you've been saying that for

three years now yeah that'd be a good one to reboot for sure yeah when they said a 20 or Blumhouse was funding it Jamie Fox was gonna be spawned oh perfect

but that was three years ago and it's just been Todd McFarland saying, I promise my movie's getting made. Yeah, well, we'll see. The only thing I worry about that movie, I guess he's directing it. Yeah. Does he have any experience directing at all? No.

Okay, well, that's a problem. But if Jamie Fox is the guy, I'm sure he knows a ton about it. Well, that's the thing that. He had that health scare recently. So, yeah, that's even going to be up to. to it because I don't think he's even been out in public that much. That's a good point. And I think Jeremy Renner was supposed to be in it.

And then, you know, he had his whole accident. What happened? Oh, yeah. You got it ran over by the snow tractor. Yeah, because he was, like, trying to help somebody. Yeah, just completely, like, destroyed his leg. Well, that's a problem. Yeah.

So, I guess we'll end news on Jeremy Renner. destroyed leg well Jamie Fox's spawn would be awesome I think we should roll with that as soon as possible all right trailer park trailer park

let's see what trailers were we going to talk about first one out of darkness Stone Age horror survival Marvel Thriller. It's a new category.

Yeah, kind of gave me the feels of the ritual, but if you said it like in Stone Age time. Oh yeah, that makes sense. I mean, I'm sure it doesn't have to do it. Yeah, it looked pretty cool.

It looked like it possibly might be violent. Yeah. Well, Stone Age. I would think so. Look really good as far as like direction and the way the film looks. didn't recognize anybody in it. Yeah, I didn't either.

Although the trailer was super dark. Yeah. But, I don't know. I mean, I like the idea of it. It sounds original-ish. Yeah, I can't think of any horror movies off the top of my head

is set in the Stone Age. Yeah. I mean, but it's a scary time for man. You know, they had a whole lot more to worry about than we do yeah let me see out of darkness comes out February 9th huh hadn't heard a whole lot of push behind it and that's kind of right around the corner yeah the trailer that I sent you just said it didn't even say a date it says coming out this winter

I'm like well that's now so yeah This might have done really well if they'd have pushed it. Yeah, we'll see. The trailer's telling you to... This movie needs to be experienced on the big screen, but I'm not seeing any advertisements for it or anything. Yeah. All right, final trailer, new movie coming to Netflix,

uh, sci-fi adventure drama starring Adam Sandler called Space Man. Not your normal. Adam Sandler movie. Nope. When I heard he has a new movie called Spaceman on Netflix, I automatically

said, it's going to be like hustle, or is this going to be like every other thing he put out on Netflix? Yeah. And by judging,

by judging, looking at the trailer, it looks like we're going by the way of hustle. But, more serious. Yeah, it does look a little more serious. Yeah.

and I like that I'm a big I know people shit on Adam Sandler all the time I like him he kills it when he when he puts when he given the right role what was it

that came out recently uncut gems yeah yeah man he's he's still good at a bunch of serious stuff trying to pull up his it was uncut gems that I really liked.

He did Spanglish. That was like... Spanglish was a very... Bill Murray type of movie. Damn, he's done a lot of movies. Yeah. I mean, funny people was comedy, but it was more comedy drama. That's true.

Rain on me was a good role for him. Even a lot of his dumb shit is pretty funny. That one where he like... I think it's called Just Go With It. where he goes on vacation with Jennifer Anderson. Oh. And he's trying to hook up with... Brooklyn Decker.

Yeah. Carl's Jr. model. Yeah. That movie was fantastic. They got... God, what's the? Dave Matthews to try to shove up pineapple up his ass. Let's see.

Paul Danos in Space Man Okay Says voice so he must be the Because in the trailer he Encounters a spider that Seems to be talking to him and able to read his thoughts So I guess that's Paul Dano

Yeah, his voice in the spider Some weird spider alien Thing Yeah, and it looks like it's probably got some comedy In there But uh It does look like it takes a little bit more of a serious take and I like that.

I don't know. I'm excited about this one. This one is not too far away. March 1st. And this is, of course, going to be on Netflix. Okay. And that's it. All right.

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but this week we'll move on to our featured attractions we're going to go back to 1991 with the Jeff Fahey movie Body Parts and sometimes they come back based on a story by Stephen King. We'll start with body parts.

I'd appreciate it if you'd, uh, if you'd send a copy to all the members and indicate that, uh, you're going to be just fine. We've transplanted another arm for you. Well, that's not how it looks. It's how it works, right? I think there's something in that. After losing his arm in a car accident, a criminal psychologist has it replaced with a limb that belonged to a serial killer. Uh, director is Eric Red, also known for Night of the Wild and Bad Moon. Writers are Pierre Boulou, Patricia Hersevik,

and Thomas Nicargic. Advertisements for the movie were canceled in Wisconsin due to the Dahmer killings. Yeah, that probably didn't help the movie, or maybe it could have helped. I don't know, that's a stretch. The stunt double for Jeff Fahey, almost died during the car crash scene

when the force of the rear end collision caused him to be ejected 50 feet into the air without a harness. You know what? I thought that looked like a real guy that got flipped off the top of the car. No kidding. Fortunately, he wasn't injured

and the shot made the final cut. So there's that. What did you think about body parts? Imagine going through all that and the cut doesn't make make it into the movie. Oh, no kidding. That's a good point. You better put it in.

I have not seen this movie since it probably was closer to when the movie was erased originally when I first seen it, so I kind of went in kind of remembering some things, but not really remember the majority of the movie. This is definitely peak 90s.

This definitely gave off a lot of 90s fields. Jeff I thought Jeff Fahey was really good in it totally forgot Brad Dureoff was in the movie Oh me too and he hear that voice and you're like oh Chuckie He's great and everything he's yeah he was kind of stealing the performance you know his whole little monologue about why his art's so real Because of his new arm and I thought that was really good I just well people don't know the movie basically is Jeff Faye character gets into an accident,

loses his arm, which the sight of him having no arm was pretty gruesome, which I don't think they would just wheel him around the hospital like that with his arm all exposed. But he gets offered to have some experimental transplant, gets a new arm,

and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him until he starts seeing all these images and flashes. What I thought it brought up a good kind of concept that I think he said it in the movie. What if evil lives in the flesh? Yeah.

I thought that was a good concept for the movie. It just kind of didn't really execute for me because apparently they get the body parts from a convicted multi-mass murderer that apparently is a super athlete. No kidding. And an artist. because one arm can throw footballs like nobody's business

and the other arm can paint amazing quarter of a million dollar pictures and then the legs go to another guy who can all of a sudden slam dunk the basketball yeah and I'm like

as a little white dude yeah I'm like this killer is the most gifted athlete ever and apparently Apparently it makes Jeff Fahey better in bed too. So while he's sleeping, his hand kind of tries to do its own thing there for a minute.

Yeah, which I kind of wanted more of that. Not to the comedic levels of like Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead where his hands just gone like completely wacky, but just kind of, it has moments there when, like he said, when he's sleeping, it kind of, he, the hand, the arm grabs his wife by the throat and chokes him. and then you got the scene where he smacks his kid and you know he didn't really have control of his arm or the guy that got the legs the the one of the feet just kind of mashed down on the gas and the traffic like kind of wanted more of that stuff but we didn't get a lot of that and there's a lot of down time in the middle of jeffahey running around trying to get information which it kind of seemed like there wasn't a whole whole lot of information to get so I didn't I don't know why you're doing all this investigation yeah doing detective work stuff yeah yeah and then the ending was kind of little anticlimactic which I felt like the whole fight scene with the with the

killer who got new body parts but was just as strong yeah that was a weird a whole weird concept and maybe you can explain that I don't understand The doctor was having the killer take the body parts back for what reason? I don't know. And then, like, so they cut the killer's head off. Yeah. Did they put it on somebody else's body? Yeah, because he had the stitching underneath the neck brace.

But whose body was it? Yeah, and if, according to this movie, wouldn't he be controlled by? Yeah, also a good point. It just seems so weird, like, if you had a body to donate the head to where the rest of the limbs go, and couldn't you just, like, you know, use those? Yeah. Instead of the serial murderer. Yeah, but apparently from his information, he found a murderer of children also.

Like, this just makes a great donor. Yeah. Maybe not. Maybe that guy is filled with something that's not good. But I actually kind of liked it, though. It was, it's that, it's that horror thriller thing. Yeah. Where he's doing this investigation to find out what happened. And I always, I always, I always, I always appreciate that part in movies. It makes it more interesting to me, usually. kind of like when the ring did it, you know?

It was really creepy, and she's trying to figure out why it's really creepy, and I like that. So they sort of did that a little bit here, but obviously it was a 1991 movie, and it's not exactly up to enough, but it was worth to watch. I enjoyed it. Yeah, I just

had questions. Like, the killer, when you find out as the original donor, who who's coming to get back all the body parts. Like, he just seems, like, still superpowered, because there's a scene where he throws Brad Durr off through the window and he's hanging on to the ledge, and then he just tears his arm off.

Yeah, I don't think that's how that works. So, yeah, I just had a few questions. It's not a bad movie. It was a good, like, blast to the past of 91. And, like you said, the time of the horror thrillers. of this kind we're coming out. The psychological

thrillers and mixed in with little body quarter. No, it's not seven. But I thought the acting like a modern take on Frankenstein. Yeah,

I agree. And I thought the acting was really good. And like I said, Brad Duroff, whenever he's not in the movie a lot, but when he's on screen, he kind of steals

the scenes that he's in. He does. He's a little, over the top, but man, and I like him. I'm surprised he didn't get more stuff when he was in his prime. Yeah, it's kind of a shame that people just

kind of, I mean, well, it's kind of hard when you play as such an iconic character like Chuckie that that's all you get associated with, but he's got a lot of good roles. Yeah, well, like even that other Stephen King movie

that we watched with him in it, where they were the rat that thing was underneath the graveyard shift. Yeah. Like he was fantastic in that movie. I mean, he was about the only good thing in that movie. I mean, Brad Durff was in Lord of the Rings. Oh, he was, was it?

Yeah. I didn't even think about that. He's in the original Dune. He's in a lot of movies. But like I said, when you have... Totally gets forgotten. When you have such an iconic character like Chuckie, It's just kind of like what people only...

Just like there's a really good documentary about Robert England. And you see a lot of the movies he was in, and it makes you want to go back and watch them. But people only associate him with Freddie Krueger. Yeah. The child molester. Yeah, it was the remake version. Yeah.

Double downed on it in the remake. Yeah, they definitely did. You never said he was in the original version. but the remake we're telling you he is yeah they alluded to it all right scores uh yeah what do you got um i think it's a solid seven it's a good thriller good acting good premise uh didn't stick the landing with the end with the ending to me i thought there would be a little bit more of a fight between him and the the killer but it was kind of satisfying to see his head explode when he shot him that's true didn't make a lot of sense but I like it like that guy had a lot of

explaining to do since everybody including the doctor was killed no kidding but I think it's a solid seven uh yeah I think uh I think I think seven's a pretty fair score for this one. I'm glad that I watched it. I think this was the first time watched for me. I don't think I've ever seen this movie before. And it caught my attention and sucked me in. And that's really all you can ask for from a 1991 movie.

All right. We'll move on to the next one. I guess Lance is not coming back. Lance said finish without him. But sometimes they come back from 1991. From Stephen King, the modern master of terror, creator of pet cemetery and misery. John!

Comes an old excursion to the place where horror comes alive. This used to be a nice little town, but for Jim Norman, it holds a terrifying. fine secret. Now, 27 years later, he's come back with his family. But they won't be alone.

All he wants is a chance for a new beginning. I don't want to breathe. The things that haunt him are about to begin all over again. A man and his family returned to his hometown

where he is then harassed by teenage who died when he was a kid. Director is Tom McLaughlin, also known for Friday the 13th, Part 6. Jason lives. That's a good one. Writer is Lawrence Connor

and Mark Rosenthal. Hey, there you go. Jim Norman says 27 years ago they killed Wayne. Penny Wise also comes back. Heard 20 says it's 27 years in the novel It by Stephen King. the production

I don't know maybe he just likes that 27 number the production of this film was shut down at one point due to an intense electrical storm okay good idea all right

sometimes they come back what do you think first time watch yeah this always it was always there for me to watch but I just never had the interest to watch it. So this was any better time than now

we're doing year in horror in 1991. I was like, okay, let's watch it. And, you know, Lance is the Stephen King guy, so I thought he might have read the story. He could compare the two. But he's not here, so. Yeah, but I thought the same thing. Not bad, but you can definitely

tell? Because this was a made for TV movie and you definitely can tell. Not just from the where it cuts the commercial. It comes back. He's got a lot of made for TV movies. Yeah. And the production quality was definitely made for TV.

The makeup effects on the teenagers, the bully teens, when they would appear in their ghoulish forms, was actually pretty good. I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, it wasn't bad. But to call them teenagers,

this was the time when you were casting like 35-year-olds as teens, because the whole greaserhood group, they all looked 30 and older. That is very true. Especially the other guy that was the asshole kid.

Chip, the football player. Mm-hmm. With the 5 o'clock shadow. that guy was definitely 35 years old yeah for sure and I I mean it was a good story it just kind of got a little jumbled around for me I don't understand how the conclusion happened I'm a little confused on why he figured out or how he figured out to take him back to the tunnel where the incident originally happened and why that worked and

what was the point of his his brother little brother coming back to help him Wayne because people haven't seen it is little him and his little brother get attacked by some hoods doing air quotes in a train tunnel and the brother gets killed and the train comes and actually ends up killing the hoods also and according to trivia 27 years later hoods come back and there's a part of the movie where the brother comes back to help him but the brother doesn't seem to know that he's dead or what year it is and I don't understand if he even helped at all yeah it didn't give a whole lot of explanation to

anything on like why it was happening I guess he had the shining oh is that what it was yeah I mean I like parts of the movie where it was going how every time one of the kids in his class were found missing it one of the hoods came back to take its place I kind of like that whole

aspect yeah that was kind of cool but it just it would have been nice if they'd have tied it up a little bit at the end yeah I just got a little confused in the story I don't know if it was just kind of like adapting it from the book

to the to film maybe the story got kind of just messed up a little bit wish Lance was here because I'm sure he read it I guess Stephen King just does not like those greasers no he doesn't in every freaking movie he does man there's that guys but I thought they were pretty good as the greases I did recognize a couple love him. The main guy was in a Nightmare on Elm Street 2. Oh, okay. And a few other horror movies, so

I recognized him. I recognized the blonde one. Who seemed to look like he was getting older as the movie was going. Yeah, the movie sort of, they look familiar for sure. But, yeah, this one didn't grab my attention

the way the other one did. I didn't know that it was made for TV, but that makes sense and kind of doesn't surprise me that sort of that's where a lot of those Stephen King movies were back then though you know oh it was a short story maybe the writers got a hold of it for the movie and tried to expand upon the premise yeah and that's probably why that's so unexplained on this and that yeah yeah would have just been nice to tie it up nice and neat at the end like when they did uh the outsider

with uh jason baitman uh which was another stephen king thing like they kind of tied it up nice and need at the end and they explained everything and it was amazing um and you know that was that was a show i mean it was an hbo thing i think yeah but uh but this one this one doesn't do that from you know TV movies from 1991 are not the same thing yeah I think I think his work is just done better now oh yeah well it's because he's got really great concepts it's just finding somebody put the quality behind it you know yeah I mean what's his name has done a great job with his stuff uh Mike Flanagan

yeah Oh, yeah. Yeah, and so I'm excited about him. What is, what, what is, what is, what is, what is my clinic doing now, the stand? Allegedly he's doing a stand, but he's doing another horror movie before then with, uh, Loki, Tom Hiddleston. Okay. And then maybe like some tower stuff? Yeah, that's, that's, that's the, the rumor that, because, uh, Amazon has the rights to the dark.

Tower series and they had casted and was about to start production and then just kind of shelved it. So a lot of people thinking Mike Flanagan's with Amazon now. He's done a lot of good stuff with Stephen

King so why not put him on the project? Yeah. Well, I'll watch anything if he does right now. Yeah. He has gained my loyalty. All right. You got a score for this one? yeah it's it's a five it's it's watchable it's not the most worst thing you definitely can tell the production value is for TV the makeup effects were good it's just the now finding out that

it was a short story that they turned into it's kind of like night swim night swim was a short film that they turned into an hour and a half movie some ideas and short films and short stories are great to be turned into movies but not everything works well like Oculus was a short story right yeah short film that got like made into a feature length and that one was great mm-hmm maybe it's just yeah wrong writers bar and yeah and haunted mirror maybe makes more sense than haunted pool Haunted random greasers from the 50s. I kind of don't give a shit about it.

The Mike Flanagan, the movie he's doing next with Tom Hiddleston is a Stephen King based on the Stephen King book. It's called The Life of Chuck. Okay. So his next movie is a Stephen King. And it's got Karen Gilling, who was in Oculus. There you go. But yeah, I think I'll agree with you.

I think this one gets about a five. Yeah. I enjoyed body parts a lot more. I am curious because I watched this on 2B and the sequels are on there. Sometimes they come back again and sometimes they come back from war. Yeah, they kept trying to show me sometimes they come back again. So maybe that's the better movie in the series. I don't know.

I haven't watched it. Maybe we're talking about it. even made a sequel. Yeah. Maybe I'll give them a watch this week and talk about it next week. All right, man. You're good of watching those shit movies. Yeah, we're going to say.

It's a talent and a burden. Yeah. All right. I guess that's it for this one, huh? Yeah. Sorry, everybody. Episode 400 didn't turn out the way we probably. would like it too. We had some technical difficulties, a little shorter episode, but yeah,

it is what it is. It's the life of a podcaster. There's always some kind of technical difficulty. That's true. And we're from all corners of America, so there's weather everywhere. But with that being said, I do want to appreciate everybody for listening and just being with us, all these years. Yeah, no kidding. 400. I can't believe you're still here. Thank you guys.

But yeah, as always, we want to thank you for listening to another episode of the Horror Returns. We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas. You can always reach us at thehorror returns at gmail.com or find us at www. at thehorrorreturns.com. Follow all of our social media links from there, as well as hear the latest episode of. of the show.

Next week, we're joined again by our good friend, Steve Carlton, from the geeks, to talk about Children of the Corn 5 and 666. Why are we doing this? All right. Like I said, you blame

Steve. He put the idea out there. God damn it. This is the worst horror franchise. So, until the horror returns again, Brian. Good. Good night.