The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #417: Kidnapped (2010) & The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
Episode Date: May 22, 2024This week we check out the brand-new Strangers movie as well as Spain's Kidnapped. Cool of the week includes Dune 2, Hereditary, and Logan the Wolf. Trailers are Never Let Go and Longlegs. The podcast... spotlight shines on Spoils of Horror. And we get listener feedback from Niki McMahon, Samantha Oty, Mike Cadaver, Nick Roth, Ian Plunkett, Cameron Sullivan, Daniel Ryan, Ariel Wellman, Tim Davis, Christina Bainbridge, Larry Sheets. Sean Holland, Ferenc Gergely, Kirsty-Marie Hunt, Joshua Allen, Dan Michael-Trojan, Chris Shadowz, Pete Mayberry, Medeleine LeDespencer, Don Lowery, Stephanie Baggley, Isabel Shields, Terrance McNeil, Susan Moyland Farquharson, Liam Tindall, Aaron J Martin, and Bradley Francis. 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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Regings victims, for those of you who delight and dread, who fantasize about fear, who glorify gore, welcome.
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Welcome back, everyone, to The Horror Returns.
I'm Lance.
With me as always.
We have Brian.
We have Philip and...
We might have Ness popping by
to put in his two cents on a movie
if we're very, very lucky.
That was a super subdued opening, man.
Yeah.
Well, look, dude.
Pedro, I've had family here all weekend, and they run me ragged, dude.
Oh, I got it.
Lots of Disney parks and the beach.
And a pool day, AJ was none too happy.
Which you hope those trulys drink too fucking fast, guys.
Yeah, they're dangerous.
Jesus Christ.
That was not a good idea.
So, yeah, AJ's been in a state of anger
the last week, so we'll see where that goes.
But hey, listeners, you guys have all found the horror returns.
And a lot more listeners, you are, we've noticed.
As we scan our download numbers, keep those emails coming,
getting lots of emails from great people that we're happy to invite you all into the community.
We get lots of stuff through Facebook.
I promised you guys
at Brian's behest I promised
you all a double wide
feedback episodes so we've got it tonight
and two movies
and an extra reviewer for one
of the films so you guys
ready to get this thing going?
Yeah we even got two trailers this week
oh yeah
two trailers and damn
one of them looks fucking good
so and that's about the third trailer
I've seen for that one's like each time I see it
it gets better
Well, this is the one I'm thinking you're talking about.
This is the actual official trailer.
Those were like teasers because they were being really cryptic about what the movie's about.
Yeah, this one wasn't quite as cryptic, was it?
No.
Can't wait to see that particular actor as a serial killer.
Or it looks like that's what they're setting him up to be, right?
I think it's confirmed.
Okay.
All right.
Cool of the week.
he's ready to jump in.
I'm going to have to think about it.
I'll go.
I only got one movie in
and pretty damn
fucking good movie,
Dune Part 2.
Oh, yeah.
You liked it more than I did then.
That's good.
That's good.
I loved it.
A little talkie-talkie for me.
There was too much time
between the action sequences.
But it was
world building, Lance.
You got to tell the story.
And I felt like they did
a damn good job of it.
And the visuals were amazing.
The cast was amazing.
Yeah, they had like wars and shit in this one.
Yeah.
Like that. What's that?
Oh, the wars and shit in this one.
Yeah.
All that was kind of missing from the first one.
Yeah, and then I bitched that it's not close enough to the book.
And then we get something that's exactly like the book and I still bitch.
So what does that tell you?
Yeah.
I thought it was fantastic.
Rebecca Ferguson was probably.
one of the most outstanding characters in it.
And then I always pronounce his name wrong.
Timothy Sholome.
How do you say?
Yeah, his character, Paul, his progression on where he was in the first movie to where he is at the end of this one, amazing.
Yeah.
I agree with you.
I caught that one, too.
I was pretty excited about it.
Yeah.
So I can definitely use that.
is my cool of the week because I skipped it on
one of the other weeks.
Another one I watched this week was
Voyagers.
You guys seen that?
It's
Colin
I hated it, man.
It was terrible. Yeah, what do you think?
Carl takes a bunch of
test tube kids to space.
I know.
Are they like banging on the spaceship?
Well,
So they were given this drug that keeps them from, keeps them a little more submissive and keeps the hormones from taking over because it's a bunch of teenagers.
It comes across as a very young adult.
And they figure out, they're also very smart.
And so they figure out this thing that they're taking is messing with them.
So they stop taking it.
And then it's Lord of the Flies on a spaceship.
Great idea.
I like the concept.
I just didn't care for the execution that much.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what?
I'm kind of there with you.
I can't really call it my cool week.
I'm going to go with Dune as my week,
and I didn't even expect to talk about us.
But, uh,
but yeah,
this one was,
like,
it had a good cast.
Colin Farrell was great,
but he wasn't in it for very long.
Um,
but like a lot of the young actors are up and comers.
And,
uh,
but it still just kind of came across.
very bland, I guess is a good word for it.
Kind of hunger games-ish?
Yeah, yeah.
It just, it needed a little something in there that it didn't have.
Definitely an audience for that.
Other than that, I've been watching Forged and Fire.
It's a great show. I love it.
That's like knives and swords and shit.
Yeah.
I've seen a little bit of the show, but I, I,
sometimes I watch like YouTube videos of people doing that or like finding like old
metal stuff and cleaning it and restoring it it's very it's very calming it's it's a cool
show it's like they put them in like this top chef kind of situation right where
here's the thing you're using here's what you have to make and you have it in a time limit
go and and it's always kind of hectic but you don't have to pay attention to all of it so
I put it on in the background and do stuff around the house.
Yeah, it's a lot of fun, Brian.
I've been over Phil's house a couple of times, and we've blown through like five or six
episodes of that before we even know where the time went, right?
Yeah, you're just hanging out and talking.
It's a fun show.
It's one of those you don't have to pay attention to.
I like it.
And that's all I got this week.
I just remembered one more I checked out earlier today.
I'm not going to say too much about it, because I think.
think it's going to be another quick reviews
with me and Nez.
Okay.
It's another fan film.
This time it's Logan the Wolf.
It's a Wolverine fan film.
Oh, I almost watched that.
What?
I came across it on YouTube.
Fucking outstanding.
Is it?
I'm adding it.
I'm adding it.
Just all I'll say is a Nordic Viking version of Logan.
That is awesome.
That is awesome.
And the effects were amazing.
choreography was amazing and
Nez is the one who sent me
so I'm assuming we're going to do
quick reviews if not
we're going to do it anyways
Yeah, now it's how long
free on YouTube, right? Yeah, it's
under 10 minutes, it's like
nine minutes and some change
Oh, so a real short then
Yeah
Cool
Yeah, maybe we'll
Well, maybe we'll watch it next week when
Steve's on the show with us or something
And yeah, a matter of fact
quick commentary.
I'm going to send it to them right now.
Just to make sure.
Y'all want to do it?
You want to plan for that?
We'll do a quick little commentary
before we start the regular show.
Yeah.
Yeah, we can.
All right, I'm going to...
Yeah, I'll hold off on watching it until then.
Okay, me too.
Logan the Wolf. I like it.
All right, cool.
So let's see, we got Dune Part 2.
We've got Logan the Wolf.
I guess I'll go with Heretic.
Terry, you know, it's a, I know low-hanging fruit, but I did a re-watch of it earlier in the week
right before all the, all the family got here and things got chaotic, which, boy, we had a good
time, man. It was, it was just a blast. My son-in-law, RJ is just like one of the greatest
people that I have the privilege of spending time with, and I had to see my daughter and my
grandson and his girlfriend. We just had a blast doing the Disney parks and the pool, the beach,
you know they were only here like four days but we got like eight days we get in which is part of the reason I'm so fucking exhausted right now but could never
wish for a better husband and father than uh then my son-in-law RJ shout out I know you guys listen to the show a lot
so hopefully you'll listen to this episode and feel the love man he's a cool dude man I like RJ a lot
RJ is amazing
and I guess that's my
clue of the week too but I'll
throw hereditary down. No more
need be said about it. I do have a
man of the week Brian unfortunately
and I think you probably know where I'm going
we saw the trailer
I don't know Lance I don't know what you're
mad and you're just like sorry anymore
let me give you a clue
let me give you a clue it was produced
by the director of
Hereditary, which got me to
watching Hereditary, because I'm like, let's see something good
this guy's been involved in.
I don't know why he put his name on this.
Sasquatch Sunset.
Oh.
Who else has seen it?
No. I was going to watch it, but
where is it? Where did you find it?
I found it.
Gorgeous, look, gorgeous cinematography,
a really
great score
but just
fart jokes
it's nothing but an hour
and a half of fart jokes guys
it really is
and throwing poop
and
that sounds amazing
it does doesn't it
but it's not
somehow it's not
does it have that
aria aster
moments where you're just like
the fuck is wrong with this guy
I know he just produced it
but did they put
some of that in
there. You know, something
about this must have called out to him, right?
For him to throw his money behind it, but
nah, to me it was
a little... It was a little lowest common denominator
for me. Like with Arioster
when he does comedy, it's like
just, it's dark, dark
brooding, evil comedy.
And this was just like,
you know, throwing poop.
I don't know, man.
You know, Sasquatch are always funny.
after two or three of them they lose a little bit of their humor man it's just got a little
it is what it is i mean i'd watch it just for the you know i don't i think they filmed it obviously
they filmed it up in ammon's neck of the woods you know because you got all the giant redwood
trees and the forests and all that beauty but uh i don't know guys i was maybe i was expecting
too much but uh did not make full of the week how was uh how was uh
was it kingdom of the planet of apes?
I know you've seen that.
It was better than this.
I mean,
great,
great computer effects.
Other than,
I mean,
fire,
you still have problems with fire.
I haven't seen it yet.
It's gotten it totally right.
But like,
because you basically followed a clan that,
um,
trains eagles.
Like that's their,
you know,
that's what they do is they have pet eagles that they train.
And I don't know.
Some of these,
computer graphics were, I was believing the apes were real and also the Eagles. It definitely
helped to see it, I think, in the theater, you know, on the big screen added quite a bit to it.
But it's very slow and it's a lot of, again, world building like you guys were talking about
with the other movies. So, yeah, it's a lot of world building. Obviously, I think they're going to
make at least, you know, a couple more. Because what happens is at the very beginning, they show the
the funeral of Caesar, and then it says
many, many, many generations later.
It gets you up really close to the
time frame of when the humans
landed, you know,
and found out it was actually Earth again.
It's getting within that.
Yeah, we're getting back into that time frame.
So I wouldn't be too surprised.
That'll be the last movie of the trilogy.
I think it will be.
I really do, man.
I really do.
So, yeah, I enjoyed it.
Glad I saw it in the theater.
I'm going to go see Furiosa Friday.
That's exciting.
Oh, nice.
That one I can't wait for.
Yeah, those last few Planet of the Apes movies have been really good.
I just have a lot of desire to see this one.
I'll just check it out.
Yeah, I thought that trilogy as a whole was pretty damn good.
Yeah.
Yeah, hopefully this will start another trilogy.
All right, Brian, you got some news finally starting to come out for us?
Yeah, we got some release dates, but some release dates for next.
year. Of course. Of course. Oh, and by the way, Kevin Durand, not Kevin Durant, plays an excellent
king of the apes. Like, he's in a different tribe, the one that's kind of like trying to get all
the apes to sort of join with him. Last scene in Abigail. This dude, he's starting to be in a lot of
horror movies right now, too. Yeah, he was just a Frightmare. Oh, yeah, we missed him. Pedro was
there. I hope he records a
many episode for us because
Pedro ended up, I think, wasn't he
the only one that rep THR
there? Yeah, Nez was supposed
to go, but he couldn't make it.
Yeah, shit happens. We all wanted to go, right?
Yeah. I seen,
I forgot, I think it was Instagram.
I think Kevin Durand was, I think
he was taking pictures with people outside
the convention center.
Oh, that's cool. He strikes me as a super
cool dude.
I would think the
two people I would want to meet the most would be like him and help me out the dude that
plays the Punisher in the Marvel TV.
John Bernthal.
Berenthal.
He would be fucking amazing to meet.
I think like super real down.
They just strike me as really real real and down to earth.
I like him and everything.
You guys ever listen to his podcast?
I have.
I have.
I have.
Yeah.
That's fucking crazy.
He's Kurt Engel's nephew-in-law.
Oh, okay.
Really?
Yeah, he married his niece.
Huh.
Interesting.
Small world, Philip.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see.
The first release,
we're getting, of course,
because of the last movie
made some money, but wasn't a good movie.
We're getting the sixth insidious movie.
Of course we are.
August, August 29th.
next year. These are next year's releases.
Okay. All right. Well, we got to get used to that, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, at this point, if the movie makes money,
especially if you think that you can open up a franchise or it's part of a franchise already,
it's getting a sequel or two or three.
And it doesn't matter about the integrity of the artwork.
It's going to make money.
I was more excited for as far as in the Insidious franchise.
They had announced a spinoff movie called Threads.
Okay.
And I guess the Threads series of movies were supposed to be like different storylines.
Basically all new stories.
Going into the further.
Ha, that might not be neat.
Yeah.
I was more excited for that, but
I guess we're getting a six
Sidious movie. I don't know if they're going to...
Is one of them supposed to be
Poltergeist? Because that's basically what this is.
Yeah. I wonder
what they're doing with that franchise. I know
Amazon got, when they bought MGM,
that was one of the names of the franchises they were going to
revive.
But
Poulterguise, might.
lend itself to a good TV series
like 10 or 12 episode
a season series right
oh that could be good yeah yeah
different stories different families
or like a real slow burn
haunting
you know yeah
why not
let's see here
we're getting a new
I know what you did last summer movie
now this is going to be a
continuation from the original movies
not a reboot
And I believe it's rumored that Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prince Jr. are coming back.
I think that's been confirmed.
RJ and I were looking at that over the weekend.
And he's like, man, is Jennifer Love Hewitt in it?
Yeah, I think so.
We looked it up and there she is.
So maybe they're passing the torch.
Who knows?
I mean, she's got to still be hot, right?
Oh, absolutely.
And this one is a July 18th,
2020, 2025 release date.
I wish I could say I'd give a shit, but I don't.
I know. I know.
One of Lance's least favorite movies,
The Black Phone 2,
well, the Black Phone was your least favorite movie,
but the sequel gets a
October 17, 2025
release date.
Maybe it'll be better.
That one ended up on your bottom of the year list,
it did. It did.
I think it ended up on y'all's top.
didn't it?
Yeah.
You're making it on your bottom, like, amazed a lot of people.
Well, night swim won't be on my bottom this year, so.
Is it going to be on the top?
No.
It's not going to be on the top.
Is it still in your top as we speak?
I'd kind of have to look through my list that I'm keeping here, but it may be dangling on by its fingernails, yeah.
All right.
Megan, 2.0.
June 27, 2025.
I'm ready.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what they do with that, you know?
Like, how much further can you go?
She's already in the system.
We've reached singularity.
For all the kids out there,
five nights at Freddy 2, December 5th, 2025.
Okay.
I'm surprised it took that long to throw out another one.
Yeah, I think they're going to put more, I don't want to say effort into the story.
Okay.
Because they release some pictures and they're already at work at the animatronics and stuff like that.
Okay.
That's pretty cool.
So I like a little time in between movies.
Yeah, I do too, but this one seems like a franchise.
where they'd be just chucking them out there.
And it might be soon, right?
Like after this one, there may be a backlog.
If it's successful.
Yeah. I'm sure it will be.
Yeah.
I think that was all that was really announced.
Oh, we got some traction on Friday the 13th, but in a different way.
Okay.
They released, who is it, Horror Inc., the company that owns, I guess,
some sort of portion of the franchise released a website called Jason's Universe and they announced that this is going to kick off games, merchandise, and other kind of media.
Okay.
Which kind of spilt over into the whole Crystal Lake Peacock series that everybody thought was canceled.
It is not canceled.
They're just switching up the showrunners and going in a different direction that was pretty.
previously announced. So that's still going.
But no
announcement on a new movie because
apparently that part of the
franchise, the movie side
is still tied up in a bunch
of bullshit. And I guess
it's because of New Line Cinema. They own the
movie rights. Come on.
Yeah, they need to get their shit
together. Do what Sony did with Marvel
and write the coattails of the
MCU and just keep
cashing that check. Every time
man shows up in a movie, right?
That's true. You own the rights to it.
You still make money off of it, and you don't have to do anything.
Yeah, I don't know what goes through some people's minds.
I mean, if you really think about it, we haven't had a Friday the 13th movie since 2009.
We haven't had a nightmare on Elm Street since 2010, and these are like two of the biggest horror icons.
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
There's no need for that, man.
somebody's got to figure something out.
Can't we all just get along?
Revive them for a new generation.
No kidding.
But in a good way,
because I think that's what the remakes were.
I like the Friday the 13th one,
but that...
I did too.
That nightmare on Elstreet one was not good.
And I'm being nice.
I love Jason being a weed farmer.
I thought that was a cool twist.
They just left him alone.
that's right let him farm his weed some killer weed man all right that's the news
all right uh so it's time to go down to the trailer park brian is gonna bring us the big the small
and the very very weird and hopefully tonight more than just one trailer yep we got two trailers
all right busy week busy week two trailers came out with the
past almost two weeks.
Wow.
First one is
a new one from, I believe,
Lionsgate films. Never
Let Go, starring Holly Berry
and a couple of kids
who by the trailer looks like they're about to make
some dumb decisions.
Okay.
Let's see.
Synopsis. A family that
has been haunted by an evil spirit for
by an evil spirit for years.
Their safety and their surroundings come into
question when one of the children questions if the evil is real.
Like I said, dumb decisions.
Or...
Or...
Is mom keeping them captive because she's trying to shield them from the truth?
And this is what...
This is what has me excited.
This is directed by Alexandra AHA.
Yeah.
Did the Hills Have Eyes?
Piranha 3.
are you saying you saying we might get a topless holly berry i'm i'm not going to rule it out
but i feel like she's kind of past that in her career yeah okay well i wouldn't get mad
yeah i i wouldn't walk out the theater well no yeah how old is hallie berry right now
she's got to be in her 50s she's yeah probably my age that's what i'm thinking i mean she's
still looks fantastic, but
Oh, of course.
Let's look it out because now I'm curious.
She might be even pushing
60. Yeah, and
the only problem is
like Hallie Berry
movies where she's
the lead. Yeah?
And like carrying the whole movie
are usually not awesome.
Not the best? She is
57.
57. Look at that.
She's almost 60s. She's almost
60 years old. Still a baddie.
Yeah, we'll see. I mean, the Alexandra
Aha gives me
hope that this movie's going to be good.
I don't know. I'm not
sure what I get out of the trailer.
I mean, I like the premise that
these two children have been
told by their mother that
there's something out and when they
go out, they have to go out of
certain time and they have to tie this rope to them.
Right. And then one of the
kids basically does some stupid
kid shit and just like, well,
I've never seen it. So,
I don't think it's real. And decides to
take the rope off
and kind of venture out.
Yeah.
It looks a little, a quiet place
ish. Yeah. At the beginning.
Okay. And
we'll see. I'm sure there's got to be a
twist, though.
There's got. Yeah, there's got to be.
Right. The kid asking questions is going to unravel the story.
I thought it was going to be in the Birdbox universe at first when they had the rope.
But then I'm like, wait a minute. They're not wearing blindfolds.
That would have been cool. Another movie in the Birdbox universe?
I'd go for that with Holly Berry. Why not?
Yeah.
And I kind of...
She'll see.
I kind of hope that with this movie we get some explanation, not just...
They have to tie a rope to them.
and that's what it is.
Yeah.
No, I guess there's a chance that it is just a straightforward style thing like bird box where there's just an evil or whatever.
But I'm guessing that's not it.
It's going to be like the others, I think, where at the end you're going to, oh, they were the ghosts all along, you know, that kind of thing.
there was some cool visuals like at the very end of the trailer with the you didn't see what it was climbing up the tree but it was like two hands and then it became like eight hands crawling up the tree yeah that's creepy i know that actually gave me a little bit of hope i'm like okay maybe there is a monster yeah or it's in her mind yeah could be i hope not i like i want to see a good creature feature
seventh this year
okay this year
all right yeah
way to go
where to go
that's a timely trailer
another
another trailer
that we're going to talk about is for a movie
that also comes out this year
so
Hollywood you're two for two
awesome
and that is we
well we talked about the teaser
a little while back and that's
for
I think it's Osgood, Perkins, long legs.
Starring Nicholas Cage and Micah Munro.
What'd you guys think?
I think this is going to be another hit for Nicholas Cage.
This is going to be a number one movie contender for me, I think.
This says everything I like from the trailer.
I think so, too.
I mean, and I like their keeping us from seeing Nicholas Cage.
There was a quick flash of somebody would.
long hair kind of standing all creepy
I saw that was him
and then you hear his voice
he's got a little a joker thing going on
with his voice
from Superman to the Joker
huh he does it all
I hope he goes full Nick Cage
in this one
I think you can count
on that handy version Nick Cage
that's what I'm I'm hearing
I mean it could just be
talk to hype up the movie but they're saying this
probably one of his most unhinged performances.
Oh, wow.
That couldn't have described it any more perfectly.
That sounds awesome.
Kind of sounds like they were like, all right, Nick, you're playing a serial killer.
Do your thing.
Do whatever the fuck you want to do.
And Nick was like, can I wear a wig with long hair?
And they were like, sure.
Why not?
Nick out.
Nick out.
So it kind of sounds like we're all.
all definitely in on this one and it'll be the return of a cage rage episode awesome outstanding
because well i don't i don't think any of us have seen his other movie that came out this year
arcadian no creature feature movie that i've heard good things about okay awesome yeah man i'd
fucking nick cage at his finest i'll take it and it's neon they've
done a lot of good stuff lately yeah you you think he's added debt now because it seemed like all of a sudden the quality of his movies jumps yeah
well and i think he's found his groove in his little comeback that he's doing here yeah you know of like all right
let me just lean into this nick cage thing and i'll just play me in every movie and we're like yeah do more of that
More, please.
Yeah.
All right, this one comes up July 12th.
Awesome.
And that is the last trailer.
That'll be fun in the theaters.
Oh, yeah.
And I really enjoy Michael Monroe.
She's been in a lot of good stuff.
What has she been in?
It follows the guest.
Yeah.
A couple years ago wasn't that great.
The one where she was in Budapest or whatever.
She was good in it.
It was just a kind of generic story.
It was nothing that you haven't seen.
But I think even when the movie's not so great,
I kind of feel like she does her thing in it.
She doesn't phone it in, basically.
Yeah, I would agree.
I would agree.
She's in that movie, Lance, I told you to watch with Dave DeHan.
The stranger, right?
Yeah.
I think I saw the first little mini episode or two,
and then I started watching something else,
so I've got to come back to it.
Okay.
This is the Dane DeHaan film.
Yeah.
Speaking of Dane DeHan, did he email us this week, Philip?
I don't know.
We'll find out.
I'm going to read it with y'all.
So you get to listen to me a trip over a double dose of listener feedback this week.
All right.
But first we're going to shine the podcast spotlight on spoils of horror.
Stephen and Leo set out on a blood soap gamble to make each other watch horror movies and share with you the nightmares that they see.
These horror movie hangouts invite you to sit back, crack jokes, and share the love of horror.
That's classic, popular lost, and bizarre.
are episodes released on Wednesdays.
Sounds like a lot of fun.
Yeah, spoils of horror.
Check it out.
Nikki McMahon says,
Hi there.
I'm reaching out on behalf of Welcome Villains Film.
Welcome villain films.
Specifically, their newest film, Mind, Body, Spirit.
Oh.
There you go.
I would love to discuss having the filmmakers come on the show to chat about their
newest project, as well as the horror genre as a whole.
let me know if we can figure something out yes you can I think we I think we will
Samantha Odie from a real horror show sent us an email hey thanks for your
recent support Facebook is pretty automated for us these days so I didn't want you
to think I wasn't appreciative cool we share nice Mike cadaver says a great last name
Cadabber.
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for the constantly sharing stuff from the corpse collective group.
Cadabber.
I really do appreciate it.
I wish I had more time to do more for the horror community, especially the horror podcast community.
But unfortunately, I barely have time to keep what I have going.
I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate it.
We appreciate you.
Very nice.
Yeah, a lot of love.
Nick Roth says
I'm a TV writer and an indie filmmaker
and I would love to be a guest on your podcast
partly because I'm very interested and love to hear myself talk
but also for literally any chance to plug my very new
very independent no budget puppets and blood
comedy horror of me
Pinky Pinky
Puppets and blood
I've heard of this movie
No shit!
It has
what's his name jay burshell not kevin durand you guys know jay burshell
absolutely yeah i think he's in the movie jay bursh what's he from uh this is the end
philadelphia right oh he's the funny yeah yeah yeah isn't he in that one or i'm thinking of somebody
i might be thinking of michael sarer the the the skinny little like jewish guy from
yeah yeah right yeah okay
when they keep calling a hipster
because his pants are awfully
tied at the ankles
I like that guy
anyway it just came out on Apple TV
Amazon Prime and Google Play
and which
Christy Puchko of Mashable
recently called a gleefully absurd
avalanche of silliness
That sounds right up my alley
Yeah
And which a random person on letterbox
described as an extremely dumb movie that I enjoyed immensely.
Now you're right up my alley.
Okay.
We'll get him on the show, but go check out it hanky-panky.
That sounds awesome.
Definitely, definitely you're coming on the show.
Whether you know it yet or not, we'll figure something out.
And please let...
Oh, same guy, I guess, sorry.
please let me know if you'd uh have me on i'd be happy to send you a private screener link i'm also a dad
and a dm and a wg a captain and an adjunct film processor at cal state northridge go maddor
uh so you know i'm well-rounded in my podcasty entering interestingness
uh trailer links uh on our very very professional website i clearly built myself at http
all this stuff
Hankypanky the movie.com
That's easy to remember.
I like it.
Ian Plunkett says
Hello, my name is Ian Plunkett
and I'm an actor from Glasgow
I was in a short horror film called
Flesh and Blood a few years ago
and was wondering if it would be possible
if you to review it.
Many thanks for taking the time to read my message.
Kind regards Ian.
Flesh and blood, all right.
Check it out.
We have a lot of movies to watch, guys.
Yeah, just because you went to the trouble
messaging us, I think I'll talk to
Nes and maybe we'll work out a quick review
for it.
Sure. That's awesome.
Thanks, yeah.
Regarding it lives again,
Cameron Sullivan says
Larry Cohen is a
fucking God.
A little bit of love, huh?
Trick question.
Lemmy is God.
Re.
Oh, that's right.
Lemmy is God.
Re, I like it.
Spooky podcast's coverage of, oh, in regards to, I got you.
I like it.
Spooky's podcast coverage of dolls.
Daniel Ryan says, I like this one.
Unique Grimm's fairy tale feel to it.
Brian J. Godsell says, thanks for sharing.
No problem.
In regards to arachnophobia, Ariel Wellman says therapy.
It is?
This, like, arachnophobia is therapy to you, or you need therapy afterwards?
I think maybe he was referring to a lot of people needed therapy after watching that movie.
Yeah.
At least that's what I hope he's saying.
I think so.
I think that's awesome.
Oh!
Which reminds me of another movie that I watched.
Finally, I had to at least get it out of the movie.
ways so that it can make one on my list
of the other.
The
god damn it. What is the
Marvel's movie?
The Marvels?
Madam Webb. Madam Webb.
No!
Oh, so you had a couple hours to waste.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Man,
who wrote that piece of shit?
Oh, no.
The dialogue was so
corny.
Dikes.
Except when what's her name did her little ad lib jokes.
Like she's got a pretty cool sense of humor.
Dakota Johnson?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like her.
She was like a standout in it.
Did she know what movie she was in?
Is that what you're trying to say?
Well, I think that she had a lot of lines that were written that were awful.
But then she had some lines where she threw in a joke.
And I think that was her joke and it just ended up in the script.
That would be cool.
That would make sense, right?
Yeah.
I still can't believe Sidney was in that movie.
Yeah, and you know, I'm not, I don't know that I'm on the Sydney Sweeney train.
Really?
Yeah, you haven't seen Immaculate yet, have you?
Actually, I did watch Immaculate.
Oh, okay.
I forgot to mention that one, too.
No, and it was good, and she was good in it.
Okay.
But, like, I don't know how much differently she played it than,
just playing herself.
I can see that.
I mean, that's that final scene, though.
Did Rose watch it, would you?
No.
I think that final scene would have creeped her out a little bit.
Yeah, it was a little much.
It's like, all right, I get it.
We're screaming.
Well, we'll see what she can do.
I mean, I guess we can throw this in it's not in horror news,
but she's going to be Barbarella.
Okay, that makes sense.
Directed by,
help me out, Lance.
Shana the Dead.
Oh, these guys.
Baby driver.
Edgar Wright.
Edgar Wright.
I like Edgar Wright.
Yeah.
Okay.
That could be interesting.
Listen, I don't hate her.
I just like, even after watching Immaculate,
I was like,
I mean, she was good in it,
but like, was that,
like a great performance?
I mean, probably...
I think so.
Probably by her standards, it would be.
But for, like, most people, it's a regular performance.
It was no, uh, it was no Tony Collette in Hereditary, was it?
Right.
Well, that's different.
Tony, Tony should have won.
She should have won.
She should at least got nominated at least that year.
Yeah.
I think that was a robbery.
She wasn't even considered.
If we're talking about Oscars for Sidney-Sweeney at all,
the whole goddamn system,
his rigged.
Gotcha.
Yeah, I hear you.
I don't even think immacula would even be
considered for, what,
anything for the Oscars?
Probably not.
That's a tough call.
They shit on horror.
Yeah, they're not big fans of horror or comedy,
which are my two favorite genres.
I know.
And so they're not probably going to like
hanky-panky, because that's going to give us
a big horror.
comedy it sounds like.
Anyway, the ericropia
thing reminded me of it, so we'll move on.
We will enjoy watching
Hanky-Thanky-thew, though.
In regards to
Abigail, Ariel Wellman says
there's a ready or not Easter egg
in it that confirms
it's in the same universe. Yes,
I've seen that. Really?
What is it? I actually, I could
have brought it up in the cool of the week. I showed
my daughter Abigail. Yeah?
And she enjoyed it.
Yeah, it was a pretty good movie.
Yeah.
Kevin Duran was like her favorite character.
There's a vampire on my ass.
I love that.
But the Easter egg is, you remember the painting, the big painting that was on the wall at the mansion and Ready or Not?
Fagely, vaguely.
Well, you go, yeah.
That painting is on the wall.
in
I don't know if it's a universe thing
or just
directors
you know this is the
other movie redirected
type of Easter egg type thing
I mean it'd be cool
in ready or not
they all sort of exploded when the sun
came up didn't they
I think radio silence just likes
people exploding
but I would love
for Melissa Barrera
and Samara weaving the team up.
Well, yeah, for sure.
That would be the match made in heaven right there.
Yeah, no kidding.
Except depending on when they did it,
you couldn't bring the same actress back as Abigail
because she'd probably be older.
Oh, yeah, yes.
And I thought she was great.
She was.
She was fantastic.
For a child actor, dude, she killed it.
Yeah, and I've seen an interview with her.
She's very, she's a kid.
like when she's doing the interview.
So that Jet just says more about her acting ability
that she kind of turned it on and played this
not a kid but a 200-year-old vampire.
Yeah, and she like handed it up just the right amount.
Yes. I'd love to see an Abigail versus Mithrigan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Can the AI kill the vampires too?
after it finishes off the rest of the people.
First things first.
In regards to Freddy's Dead, the Final Nightmare,
Tim Davis says, I heard that Robert England
wasn't actually in this movie.
What?
Never heard that one.
I think he's referencing a previous listener feedback
that I talked about
where I kind of actually commented
and went back and forth with somebody
that was trying to convince me
that Robert England wasn't in a new nightmare.
So that was an end joke then?
I think so.
I got you.
That makes sense.
Funny to bring it up.
I actually had this Freddy's dead in the background
a few days ago while I was cleaning up
and he's in the movie
in makeup and out of makeup
so I think this is an end joke
but I heard he actually wasn't
that's what I heard too
Tim Davis
in regard to
that's kind of funny
in regard to Steve Carlton's
new T-shirt designs
Tim Davis says this is
fucking sick and it is
yeah and Steve is
the man
when he comes on next week
we'll have a
unvailing of a
new design.
Oh, awesome.
Yeah, I already got a chance to see it, and it's pretty fucking awesome.
Man.
Sweet.
Man, we are going prestige worldwide around here, Philip.
I know.
We're going to have to cut Steve in.
Yeah, boats and hose.
I know.
We should make a boats and hose t-shirt.
Oh, shit.
If you guys are on camera,
Who's staring the boat?
Good question.
Good question.
Let's see.
In regards to fan-created
Jaws posters in the Facebook group,
Christina Bainbridge says
there's so much to see on this poster.
Look carefully at the people.
Pippet the dog.
Harry and the bad hat.
Alex Kittner,
Kintner on his yellow Lilo, etc.
Wow
Cool
I love those
I love those posters man
Yeah definitely check that out
We'll get some artists
Yeah that's what we need
Well we got Steve
He can do it all
Yeah
I post new
Fan made posters every Sunday
All right
We'll set our alarms for that man
Okay
Not too early though
Not too early
Hey there's
Time zone differences.
Nobody really knows what time zone Alaska's in, so.
I'm in the past.
You guys are futuristic to me.
In regards to Hellraiser 3, Larry Sheets says, loved all those movies.
Yeah, me too.
Sean Holland says, for me, it was one of the best in the series,
certainly as good as the first.
Strong words.
Forink Gergley says when you go to a metal concert as a rookie, afraid of hardcore fans, but later realize they're actually nice guys.
Okay, that's, I can see that.
Yeah.
That guy, Ferrinck Gergergelli.
Like, he's definitely been to metal concerts.
That sounds very Norwegian.
Yeah, probably with Lars from Denmark, right?
I know.
What do they have out there, Norway?
Black Metal
Oh, that's right.
Black Death Metal or whatever.
Yeah, there's some Norwegian death stuff.
It's pretty good.
Kirstie Marie Hunt says,
I'll defend this film to the grave,
one of my all-time faves.
A lot of love for Hell Raise Your Tree.
Okay.
Josh Allen says,
Ah, CD head.
Gone but not forgotten.
He was throwing the CDs
at people. That was great.
Like he'd eject him out of his
little CD player.
Yes.
That was great.
Dan Michael Trojan says
this is my absolute favorite
Hellraiser movie.
Wow. Nice.
Chris Shadows
says this movie killed me
by not showing how Joey got turned into
a centibite or even how she died.
If you blink, you'll miss her
as a centivite. The church seems pretty awesome though.
Chris Shadows
in relation to the
Ah, fuck, I forgot where I was going on with that.
I don't know. You lost this.
There's a band. Somebody named Shadow.
All right, Chris. Right in. I can't remember the name of the band.
He left us on a cliffhanger.
A Benj sevenfold. Yeah, be sure to write in, Chris. I think his name is Mike
Shadows.
Anyway.
I'm probably wrong about that, too.
Tim Davis says after the fourth one at all went downhill with straight to video affairs after that so
bad that Bradley didn't want to be associated with pinhead anymore so they got someone else in
has anyone seen the remake in 2022 yeah I think we we reviewed it I think we all enjoyed it
prizingly good yeah it gets bad yeah it gets bad after four and it was like they kept
redoing the same story and I felt like
it was always a detective
detective that did something wrong
and he doesn't know it until the end
I'm just like this was like
the next five hellraisers
that's why I was surprised that people didn't
like the remake because I was like
have you seen the previous ones
yeah that's true
uh Pete Mayberry
says the first four centibytes
and the hellraiser were scary
I don't know what's happened to them since.
They look silly to be honest,
and are about as scary as a damn paperclip.
They need to let Clive Parker come up with new Cinebites
and not the silly-ass Holly Weird writers.
One of the Cinebites is that little Windows paperclip guy
that used to be down there.
We would ask you how to use Microsoft Word.
That's right.
I remember that guy.
Oh, man.
All right.
In regards to a photo behind the scenes for Nightmare on Elm Street, too, Madeline
Dispenser says that's Mark Shostrom.
Shostrom grew up in Hong Kong in the 70s.
He became interested in makeup after seeing the bride of Frankenstein in 1935.
Shostrom was encouraged to pursue makeup as a 13-year-old boy after befriending Evelyn Carloff,
widow of Boris Karloff, the actor who were portrayed.
the original Frankenstein's Monster.
He's the winner of three Emmy Awards out of four nominations
and has been nominated for four Saturn Awards
by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
Shostrom designed and created special makeup effects
for numerous cult horror films in the 80s and 90s.
In particular, the film series and sequels of A Nightmare on Elm Street,
Fantasm, and Evil Dead.
too. He also
contributed special makeup
effects to the music video for pet
cemeteries.
For pet cemeteries, the Ramones, and
9-inch nails.
Nice. True legend, man.
Wow. See, this is
why, Brian, this is why you want to
me to gather more feedback.
Yeah. Okay. High quality
feedback we're getting. This is awesome.
And say what you
well about, I know Nightmare on
Elm Street, too, is like the odd one.
out because it's kind of a possession
movie. Right. But
the special effects are pretty
fucking good in that movie. That's true.
True. All right.
In regards to Friday the 13th,
the final chapter, Don Lowry
says, I just watched
a bunch of behind the scenes footage. There's some
deleted scenes, an alternate
ending, and some neat stuff.
In my opinion, Ted White,
rest in peace, was the
most realistic and intimidating
dating actors to play as Jason.
Of the four where it was supposed to end before it got ridiculous,
but he didn't want to be credited for his role in the film
as he didn't like how the actors were treated.
The other thing I really liked is they brought back Tom Svini,
who is great.
He created the original Jason and character in the first film.
He got to kill him in the fourth, but his effects kills and everything is so amazing, as always.
Yeah.
Tom Savini.
Yeah, dude.
Can't go wrong.
It's a legend.
Yeah.
In regards to hereditary.
Stephanie Bagley says, absolute belter of a film.
I thought at first it might be a bargain basement material, but wow, what a film.
Definitely rewatch.
Oh, yeah.
Nice.
And I did this week.
It's dead-lose thing.
I picked up on so many little things, too, details that I miss.
There's so much fucking misdirection in that movie, which is great.
Probably going to go down to Oster's masterpiece
unless he gives us something really good on the next one.
Yeah.
He's doing a Western.
Oh.
Really?
Yeah.
Huh.
Well, okay.
Could be good.
It's probably going to be a fucked up Western.
I would imagine, yeah.
I would think so.
Somebody has some kind of problem.
Hopefully not as fucked up as the book.
I just finished reading Blood Meridian.
You guys ever heard of that?
Uh-uh.
It's so dark and violent that it's like unfilmable Western.
So I'm sure that's what it was really like back then, but it's just brutal.
It kind of leaves you with that empty feeling in your heart.
After you read it, but Cormac,
McCarthy, I'm done with him. I've read that and I've read the road and that's enough.
That's enough darkness for me.
Yeah, for as much as everybody's mad at each other all the time, we definitely live in the
easiest times there has ever been in humanity.
Go watch Hanky Panky.
Yes! Yes!
In regards to the upcoming five nights at Freddy's 2,
Isabel Shields says,
wahoo, I can't wait, I love the first movie, and cannot wait for all the others.
That's what I was saying. I was surprised it took him so long to get the second one out.
Yeah, and I don't know. I'm thinking about it, Phil, that this was almost two years before the...
Yep.
That's what I'm saying. Your whole audience is kids, man. Let's go.
They're not going to be too old. Unless they're going darker this time.
Yeah, I know.
I've speculated on that before. Let it grow up a little bit.
with the fan base.
Sure, sure.
Yeah, kind of
what's that movie?
Harry Potter, Harry Potter
the franchise.
Yeah.
Gradually let him get darker.
I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah.
I'd be willing to watch that.
All right.
In regards to Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, Terrence McNeil,
says one of my mother's favorites.
It will be the 50th anniversary
on August 8th.
2004.
Great movie.
50 years. That's
a long time.
In regards to the witch,
Susan Moyle
Farcaharson.
Sure. Sure.
It says, so incredibly well-researched.
Very eerie score. Great actors.
One of my favorites.
It is a fantastic movie. A lot of people
don't get that one.
I think it's the way they talk.
I think it kind of just confused a lot of people,
but it was very accurate for the time.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's hard to figure out really what we're talking about
until you're a good 45 minutes into the movie.
And then it, and then it doesn't affect you as much.
Then it makes sense.
Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, it just takes a little getting used to.
in regard to 28 years later
Liam Tyndall says
Surely all the infective would have died off by now though
That's kind of what I was thinking too
Well but if they're actually zombies then they don't die
But I was thinking that the other day while I was watching
Because like I said my wife is stuck on the Walking Dead stuff right
Oh geez yep
And I actually finished the seasons it's not bad
I don't know if I'm going to watch all the little spin-offs, but whatever.
But, like, everything is falling apart on them.
Why do they still have teeth?
Like, those could have brought it away, and then they could be, like, not really dangerous.
Technically, in the 28 years, days, months, or whatever, you want to call the franchise,
they're not zombies, they're disinfected.
Right. Or are they?
Was that question ever really answered?
Yeah, because remember, didn't somebody have a drop of blood land in their eye and it turned him into a raving lunatic or something?
Well, right, but like, do they just die of old age?
I mean, the time they die is when they get shot.
I guess we're going to find out.
I know I said I was doing that spreadsheet, but have we reviewed any of the movies in the franchise?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
No, and I haven't watched 28 days later in a long time.
Yeah.
And I really enjoyed that.
I enjoyed the sequel, too, with Hawkeye.
Yeah.
And a young Imogen Putes.
Yeah.
Great actress, weird name.
Free Black Christmas, thank God.
Yeah.
Not all of her movies are right.
All right.
All right.
And in regards to
I Know What You Did Last Summer Remake.
Here we go.
Aaron J. Martin says
It better not be like the series that came out
a couple years ago.
I'm still not sure what the hell that was supposed to be.
If you're going to redo it, redo it right.
I could care less about color.
Just hire a good cast.
Write a good story.
Make the cinematography as atmospheric as the original.
Get a good musical composer.
Do not use any pop songs in the soundtrack.
Pop and Horror.
don't mix.
Unless it's
old pop.
Okay.
You could do that.
Or if it's used ironically, maybe?
Yeah.
In regards to
long legs, Bradley
Francis says way too much hype.
Always a letdown
with this much anticipation.
That being said, I'm excited
and we'll be watching it.
L. L. L. L. L. L. L.
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Anyway, yeah, check it out.
We'll move on to featured attractions.
This week we check out, oh, that's not the right one.
We're going to do Kidnapped from 2010, a Spanish language movie.
And The Strangers, Chapter 1 from 2024.
We'll start with kidnap.
What do you want?
Don't go back to get the maximum of every targetta.
No, no negotiation.
They're alive because it does it fast.
Me da equal, your life.
I mean, I love the things fast.
To you?
Three hooded Eastern European criminals
burst into a Madrid-Gated.
holding a family hostage
Eastern European
Yeah, they were like Albanian or some shit, right?
It's like hostile territory.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, the bad guys always have to be from the eastern part of Europe, right?
That's it, man.
They're either Russians or Nazis.
Or Nazis?
So three-hooded Eastern European criminals burst into a home in Madrid-gated
community holding the family hostage in its own home and forcing the father to empty his credit
cards uh director is Miguel Angel uh Anhal Vivas also I was about to ask you is a different
pronunciation and hell yeah Miguel Anhevivas also known for extinction uh writers is Miguel and Hal
Vivas with Javier
Garcia Ardeño,
Ardondo,
sorry.
Orrando.
Antonio Vandes.
Oh no,
wrong that.
And the third week in a row
for a film which did not have trivia.
But that's because it's from Spain.
All right, Lance,
you want to get us started on Kidnapped?
Man, I'm really,
really, really, really, really.
enjoyed this movie and I
like the way they built it up
it was slow burn you didn't know what was
going to happen it was it was
absolutely you know
an exercise in anticipation
because like you'd have a scene where
someone would come into the house and then
you'd see the bad guy like grab a knife
but then set it down and you're like oh is he
gonna is he gonna you know and then there's
certain things yep they did
it's like it
started out really really slow
like I thought okay well it's probably not
going to be like super brutal or
bloody and it's just going to
be more of a psychological thing but
man when they turned it up
to 11 and they decided to
just kind of fucking go for it
they fucking went
for it and I was like
okay certain things I know
are going to happen
and they did
it's like just
really really well done movie
just had me on the edge of my seat
the whole way it just seemed like it went by really
really quickly. So I think it was like
about an hour and a half, but it felt like
maybe a 45-minute
movie or something like
part of a
part of an anthology or something. It just went
by that fast for me and
never really, you know, never let up,
never slowed down. You had certain characters
come in. They weren't there just to be
extras and to be silly. Like there was a
real good reason that people who
stumbled in stumbled in and they would give you the
backstory. And
yeah, it's just a great
great payoffs, super, super dark ending, you know, kind of like
like Lake Placid, and I loved it.
Enjoyed this movie a lot.
I really wish I'd seen the other one too, but I'm definitely glad I checked this one out.
This was one I hadn't seen before, so probably one I'll check out again in the future,
and it is on shutter now, Tim, I don't know if it's on Australian shutter,
because I know you guys get fuffed a lot, but it's definitely on U.S.
shutter and I would give this one a watch. This is a good, quick watch. Lots of action, great character
development, and all the violence that you're going to want like in the last, you know, act of the
movie. So, enjoyed it quite a bit. All right. Brian, what do you think? What a fun, lighthearted
movie. Kind of like Anki Pankey, right? Yeah. No, but seriously. You get a nice warm feeling.
Yeah. I'm glad the rope at Jim Crass.
to go take it. It was a nice sunny day when I watched it. I went for a walk, just enjoying life.
It's got all the good feelings after watching this.
No, but I agree with you, Lance. It was, it started out slow, and then once the intruders broke in, it just, it didn't let up after that. And it just got worse and worse for this family. I really felt for the daughter.
Oh, yeah.
because it just kind of ups and downs because, you know, at first you thought,
real quick, they did a good job with the intruders and they were all mass,
but you all knew one guy was the leader.
He was the smart one that clearly he's done this before.
One was the young guy that clearly didn't want to be there.
Which I have questions about.
Always have to have that.
Yeah, did he get away at the end or not?
I think he did, right?
Yeah.
Okay, so spoilers.
I didn't mean to take it away.
I'm sorry, Brian.
No, no, we can do spoilers.
Yeah, let's do spoilers now.
And I mean, because it is an older movie, but I imagine a lot of people haven't seen it.
And I really do want everybody to go watch it.
But yeah, spoiler alert, we're going to deep dive into some of this stuff here for a minute.
I think he did.
Did he get away?
wasn't that him at the beginning tied up and running away with the bag on his head
was that him i don't know that was my other question is who was that guy i
because i wasn't paying enough attention i thought it was a different family it could have been
a different guy yeah i thought that was like a different family to kind of show you what their
modus operandi was going to be and then you went into focus on this you know family that we
followed through it. That's the way
I, that was my takeaway.
That's sort of what I got to.
Maybe I just created a different movie watching
that scene in my head. I mean, in my work,
I could see you that working. Yeah, it would make more sense if that was
somebody from the movie and I think it would be a better
ending to sort of bring the circle back around
and tie it up.
But yeah, no, I think
I think he did get away.
Yeah.
Because everybody in this family
is fucking stupid.
Yes. I kind of don't as much blame the daughter because she's still a kid that doesn't know shit.
But I 100% blame the parents. They kind of reminded me of Speak No Evil.
Oh, yeah, the one that's being remade.
I'm like, you need to have a fight or flight reflex. These people had neither.
Yeah.
Stand there with their mouth that gave reflex, right?
Well, but in Speak No Evil, though, it was like, I mean, at least in the beginning of it, it was, it was things that were like, okay, you've crossed the line, but I still want to be polite about it.
Yeah.
Okay.
That went up to.
It's obviously going down.
Let's figure it out.
Yeah.
True.
True.
And it just, I don't know.
This is another movie where, where.
people angered me because like I said no fighter fly reflexes because when they come
when we get introduced to the intruders they just straight bust in through the bedroom window
yeah and my reaction would neither be to go at them or to go the other way not to stand there
and just like it just get punched in the face yes that was that was that was that was my criticism
if you're gonna I well I was gonna get into it mine but what I
I like talking with you.
And then...
If you're gonna fucking fight,
dude, that's the time to fight right at the beginning.
That's the time to go all out and fight back at all costs.
If you don't do it there, dude, you've lost your opportunity.
Yeah.
And you know when not the time to fight is?
When you're fucking tied up with your family.
Right.
Now you're already fucked.
now it's time to listen
and do what they say
yeah
but yeah there was
it just it just went on and on
with the or not on and on
like it was born but with the violence
it just kept escalating escalating
and they did a super cool thing
with the split screen
to show you what was happening
two perspectives at what was happening
at the same exact time
And I love the second split screen they did when the father came back to the house and then it just transitioned it to the same screen.
I thought that was super cool.
Yeah, that was very awesome.
And it wasn't even like technically well done.
It was just a great fucking idea.
Yeah.
And like I said, it just got fucking bad for the daughter.
I felt so bad for her because there was a scene that I've seen this movie before.
and there was a scene coming up that I was not looking forward to seeing again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When the tough guy, loose cannon intruder, takes her into the bedroom and you already know what's happening.
See, that's where the parents, like, dude, good luck tying me up if some shit like that is going down.
I'm going to tell that.
Yeah, you're going to have to shoot me.
Yeah, that's just going to have to be the end game here, you know?
I mean, and just little shit, like, you got to be on your feet, on your toes.
You got to, like, the mover is clearly watching you put shit in your safe.
He's just standing there.
And you're just like, what do you need?
Like, what do you mean?
What do you need?
Stupid, yeah.
I tell that to my fucking baseball players, man.
I'm like, listen, if you, I mean, you know, they're kids, so they haven't figured it out yet.
But if you open your fucking eyes and pay attention to the world around you, life gets a whole lot easier.
And then with the daughter, I totally forgot her fate because you think the guy just kind of leaves after killing everybody.
and then his his hand disappears from off screen and just stabs her 15 times in the stomach
and it's brutal brutal yeah well that was one of the scenes where uh like dad like he finally decided
okay this is it i'm gonna ram my car into this fucking tree and thank god you know kill this motherfucker
and then go figure out my family
because he realized, okay, well, they're not going to let me out alive.
Right?
Yeah, no doubt.
Good decision.
Let's fight back.
That was a great way to do it.
Took that guy out, especially since the other guys weren't answering their phone.
And then he takes his gun and leaves him in the car.
Does it fucking double tap him, man.
Dude, you've got to make sure he's dead.
There's so many opportunities in this movie of like, oh, the bad guy's down and
temporarily incapacitated.
Do I run five more steps or bash him the fuck over the head with something so he doesn't get back up?
Infuriating, isn't it?
It is very inferiority because how you get killed with a sledgehammer when you got a gun in your hand.
Yes.
Yeah, great point.
And then the wife comes up and picks the gun up and then she fucking shoots and misses and he's like five feet away.
And then she, like, keeps clicking the trigger.
And for some reason, the hammer keeps clicking, which doesn't make any...
None of that shit makes any sense.
That's not how guns work, A.
And then he clears a couple rounds and pops her a hole through the head, which was kind of an awesome scene.
But it's like, not only should you have fucking not hesitated to kill that guy,
you should have killed that young dude who seemed like the good guy of the group.
The fuck he's a good guy.
I would have fucking killed him all, man.
You should have killed him immediately.
Yeah, I never said he was a good guy.
I just said he didn't want to be there.
Well, yeah, I know.
But, like, he was the sympathetic guy.
You're like, oh, man, don't kill him.
And I'm like, in that situation, that's the other person is dead.
He was sympathetic up until they saw what their faces look like.
Right.
And then he was kind of like, oh, shit, I'm in this now.
Yeah, what a fucking.
dick, man.
I can kill them all.
But yeah, aside, oh, I'm sorry, you go ahead and finish your...
Oh, go ahead.
I don't mean it. Okay.
Aside from those few gripes of the stupid people moment,
which really wasn't even a stupid people.
It was just the movie was so realistic.
Then I'm like, man, what would I do in that situation?
Which are always great moments.
Well, I think we all agree when they bust through the window.
We're kind of rushing them.
Yeah.
Or not standing there and staring at him.
Hey man, what's going on?
With your hands down, because he just straight knocks him out with one punch.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
I'm running the other way to get my weapons.
And then that motherfucker's going down.
But it was a really entertaining movie.
It sucked me in and kept me there.
My wife was walking around doing shit.
and then she would like stop and get sucked in by it also,
which lets me know I'm watching a pretty decent movie.
Plus it was in Spanish,
and I think she just likes to practice.
Yeah, it's kind of cool that it was actually in a language
that I was able to watch a lot of it
without having to bother with the subtitles,
which always helps.
Yeah, it's fun to like kind of to watch it
and then know, oh, I get that.
That's what they were saying.
I still need subtitles there.
Yeah, like they said putta.
They said putta a lot.
Oh, yeah.
I've heard that word before.
I bet you're.
But yeah, it was a pretty fantastic movie, man.
I was I was impressed by this one.
I'm glad you had to pair it with this one.
Yeah, it's a good one.
All right.
Any other spoilers when we talk about before we do scores?
No, it's a pretty much.
short movie it's like what an hour and 20
is it
yeah it feels like less than that
yeah it moves really quick once it
yeah it does man that movie goes it's a great movie
yeah because basically
you just get introduced to the family moving
and once the
intruders break in it just kind of goes from there
and there's actually a whole lot more information
that I want
given this situation you know what I mean like
they could have stood to add another 30 minutes to this thing and give us some backstory or something.
All right. Lance scores.
Seven and a half.
Seven and a half.
Hey, that's pretty good for you.
Yeah, real good.
Real good.
Brian?
I'm going to go a little higher.
I'm going to go eight.
Damn.
There's not too much that I didn't like about this movie.
What I didn't like wasn't because of the movie is just the character.
Yes, totally good.
And not the acting or anything.
It's just the decisions the character's made.
I just was like, the fuck are you doing?
It's the speak no evil vibe, right?
It gets you yelling at the screen for sure.
And that's part of it.
That's part of it.
Not that I'm thinking about it.
When they bust in the windows, I don't even think they had weapons in their hands.
I don't think they did either.
I wasn't entirely sure any of them even had a gun at first.
I was like, is this in the country where they don't allow guns?
They didn't pull the guns out until, like,
there was like a hour,
half an hour left in the movie.
They had the element of surprise.
That was not a Spanish accent.
Never mind.
All right.
I'm going to go.
Yeah, I think AIDS fair.
I almost want to give it an eight.
I'm going to give it an eight and a quarter.
How about that?
Damn.
Yeah, dude, I had a lot of fun with this one.
It was,
It really sucked me in, and despite the fact that I was yelling at this guy for tactical moves,
Yes.
It was, it at least held my attention and made me involved.
I was involved enough to give a shit, which is nice.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
So I think we all recommend kidnapped.
On Amazon, man, go check it out, on Shudder.
And we'll go to The Strangers.
Chapter 1 from 2024. Do you know what today is?
Today is the third day of our three-day road trip across the country.
Or our five-year anniversary.
What a cool little town.
I actually like this so much better than I'm a hotel.
I'll bet the people who live here are really happy.
Tough crowd, right?
Hi.
Hi.
Do you hear that?
Hear what?
The silence.
It's nice.
Is Tamara here?
No.
I think you have the wrong home.
That was weird.
After their car breaks down in an eerie small town,
a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin.
Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three mass strangers
who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.
Director, well, we know their motive.
It's a stranger's movie.
Because they were home.
Yeah.
Director is Rennie Harlan, also known for Cliffhanger and Deep Blue Sea.
Cliffhanger, man.
Fucking Slice Stallone.
Hey, yo.
You know they're doing a sequel to that?
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, it was Stallone.
Stallone's in it?
All right.
I like Stallone.
He's one of the few old guys I'd still watch in a movie, man.
I think he's actually a legitimate, legitimately decent actor.
Have you seen, I can't think of the name of the series, it's on Paramount, where he's like the old mob guy?
No. I still haven't watched it. It is on my list of things to do.
Fucking amazing.
Yeah, I love Stallone.
Anyway, writers are Brian Bertino, Alan Cohen, and Alan Friedland.
Rennie Harlan simultaneously filmed all three films of this trilogy.
Oh, okay, well, there it is.
The producer explained that the lead star would film scenes for the first film in the morning and scenes for the second in the afternoon, commuting to many different locations for filming several times a day.
That seems inefficient.
What are you going to do?
All right, Lance, you said you hadn't watched this one, correct?
No, but we may have a special guest on who has seen it.
Oh, yeah, good call.
Well, Brian, you want to start us out?
Nes, be with us?
Put me in, coach.
Oh, my bad, I didn't know you're here yet.
Yeah, go ahead.
Here we go.
Nez, you're up.
Not Kevin Durand.
You hear the echo in the bathroom.
Yeah, that's great.
What are we doing?
You're going to hear, folks.
Des is taking a shit.
Okay.
I had to run over here, so hold on.
Dang.
Um.
28 days later.
I liked it when it was called the string juice.
There we go.
That's where that first one came out.
Seriously.
I didn't know any of the actors in it,
except for the Richard Great
that was just sitting there.
Yeah.
And the little diner.
Oh, sorry, one.
Buffing and puffing.
Did you make three?
No, I mean, is, are they going to stretch this story, two more movies?
Is that what we're doing?
Yeah, they already filmed all three.
Yeah, I was listening to Talk is Jericho, and Penny Harlan was on that.
He was talking about it.
They wanted to do something new, with the strangers, franchise, and I was like, well, this isn't a good start, because you did.
what we already seen. So I was kind of a really, I mean, I like the second one.
There's a prayer at night that took us out of the house and into the trailer park and then running all over the quits.
Plus the 80s soundtrack was amazing in that one. But this one, you knew what was coming around every corner.
You knew how it was going to end. It ended it pretty much exactly.
like the very first film
and I wasn't even that excited
for the little
mid-credit thing
and I was like
but everybody acting me
I thought they did a good job
a couple of I don't know the names
they were cool
the three strangers
I didn't really care for the main guy
that's his mask I loved how the mask
looked in the first one
but this one I don't know
I wasn't really impressed
super whole film.
Plus, I was glad it was only hour and a half.
It wasn't very long.
So the next thing to be
an hour and a half.
Yeah, I don't know.
I was kind of let down with this one.
Well, there you have it.
Brian, what do you think?
Yeah, I'm kind of right there with
Nez, but I also
expected this
because, you know, doing the news
for the show.
posting stuff on social media
I kind of knew that this first movie
was going to be essentially a remake
of the original movie and the next two were going to be
new story
so I somewhat
came into knowing what to expect but
you could have did some things differently
it was almost
the same movie
and little things they
like shot for shot yeah
I mean
they added some
a couple little little things here and there
and I was like that's cool but it's just not enough
and for a movie that I
believe I just looked
and I didn't even know this movie was rated R
until I just checked
because I thought this movie was PG-13
because they played it very safe
I didn't see anything
that would have forced an R rating
do you? No that's why
I had to double check
just so I can bring it up on the show
and when it said rated R
I was just like
kind of wracking my brain like
what was rated R?
That's weird.
But I am
in any kind of language.
Yeah.
I am intrigued with the
whole aspect of the town
because I think that's going to
play a little bit more
into the other two movies
and you don't
cast Richard Brick
to sit in a diner for like
30 seconds. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, I guess
if he plays a bigger part and
maybe they're trying to do like a
Texas Chansaw Mask or two.
Like a family?
Yeah.
I kind of was thinking maybe
this is connected to the
original movies and this is
like a cult of killers.
Oh, maybe.
Like, there's multiple baghead mask guys and pin-up girls and what the other, what is the doll face?
And they just take turns?
Yeah.
I'll be happy if they make Richard Brake into, like, Dennis Hopper and Texas chainsaw, too.
That would be great.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Wilding two chainsaws, too many chainsaws.
Yes, absolutely.
Spaced out of his brain on cocaine.
Dude, Richard Brakewarm.
at you with two chainsaws is terrifying.
Yeah.
So I, like I said, I came in kind of expecting what we got.
I just kind of hoped they would have just kind of turned it up a notch, which they didn't.
I'm still intrigued how the rest of the story plays out, but this was not a way to kind of pull me in.
If I was just a casual movie goer, you didn't pull me in to want to watch the,
other two.
True.
And if you
are not a casual
movie viewer and you've already
are familiar with the Stranger's
universe, then you
just re-watched a movie
with different characters in it.
Yeah, I would say go watch the
original one and then watch
the next two chapters in this series.
But then
you couldn't do that either because the
tone would be different. You would be
expecting a certain kind of dark, gritty tone, the original one set.
And this one is just kind of a more polished version.
Yeah.
That's what I was about the first one.
The first one was the drag was there.
Yeah, there was a lot of nothing in the talking, but you knew where it was going.
And then once they started, it was like you didn't know what was coming.
and then the second one
taking it out of the house
and putting it
where they were running around that whole trail
park that was cool because
you didn't know what was coming
and you didn't have been trying to kill you but
you didn't know what was coming around the corner
but this one
it was pretty much just play by
play of the original
and so you knew what
was coming you knew what was going to happen
and all this
but when we get to spoilers
yeah there was just a lot of it.
you already seen this what are you guys doing so right i love granite hard don't get me wrong uh i don't love uh nightmare four
i do shout out to lisa wilcox friend of the show i didn't like that i did like the dog on was pissing fire
but after dream warriors man to me the french i just went downhill that's you were you were just mad because they named the dog jason
See, I don't know to remember that.
But I didn't watch what I was right, because I don't.
I seriously do not remember anything past three.
But, but yeah, this one, I mean, it's a good popcorn movie.
I enjoyed by popcorn.
Yeah.
Shout out to the, there was four other people in the theater.
I saw it this morning.
The people way in the back, they were nice and quiet,
the people that sat in the row and framing off against the wall.
was in a smaller theater,
they brought a shopping bag
full of food.
I mean,
fuck the concessions,
they just came straight in
the big old paper bag.
They had a big thing
in a styrofoam full of nachos.
That was a guy,
and the lady had a big paparita
and smelled hell good through the whole movie.
Oh, wow.
And he pulled out the fort.
and I was like,
fuck, yeah, that's old school.
He's still holding it down in the 40s, but
but yeah,
strangers.
Yeah, I kind of felt the same way.
It was, it was really just kind of
a shot-for-shot remake as
far as I could tell. I'm not
a giant strangers
fan, and
it's been a while since I've seen the first one.
I think we covered it on the
show at some point.
But it's...
I mean, to me,
it could have been the same fucking movie.
Like, I kept thinking,
is this a shot for shot remake?
Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong.
But it damn near is, man.
It's almost exactly the same movie.
Which I get if you're trying to rebuild it
and with new characters.
But I don't know that you had to do it.
You could have just done a...
Yeah, why would he do that?
Why would an acclaimed director like Rennie Harlan bothered to do that?
It's like you could have just gone to the next movie and then replaced the actors and called them the same name.
That's kind of weird.
Yeah, you could have just used like, what's the word, archive footage.
Got other three style, huh?
Yeah, you could have just used footage of the original movie, like that end scene when they get stabbed.
in the
the two
Mormon kids or
Jehovah,
I don't know
what religion they are
the little religious
kids
find
them and
you could have
just started
this movie off
from there.
Yeah.
This whole
this whole movie
could have been
a montage.
Aye.
Well, you guys
aren't selling me
on it.
And there's two
kids.
It'll be streaming
somewhere to mine.
Those two kids
could
one of them could have been one of the new killers in this one.
Yes.
Years later and they're kind of grown.
What studio made this film, guys?
Lionsgate.
So is that part of Paramount Plus or Peacock or any of the above?
Hulu?
I don't know.
Okay.
Scores.
Ness, what do you think?
I'll be in the middle of six.
Damn, that's not bad.
that's not bad that's night
night swim territory man
oh way better than
nightswing out
I get out
to maybe
but
I really watch it again
because it's on peacock and that was
like wasted my money
why would you do that to yourself
I just had to see it one more time
to my putting it on the
good list or the bottom
so but
it's spoiler
it's going on the bottom
but
oh yeah
good old back
that's a decent score man
all right
so Nez gives it a six
Brian what do you think
I'm right in the middle
it's a five
it's a generic
yeah
home invasion
yeah paint by numbers
I like I said before
I'm still curious
on where the story's going.
Yeah.
Because there must been a reason
why he just basically
redid the first movie
if the next two are just going to be
a brand new story.
So I'm curious.
I wonder if after watching
the next two,
my thoughts will change about this one.
That's true.
When did those for now?
I think,
the next one is in August
and then the
third one is like
they said early
2025 so I'm guessing like January
or February.
Okay.
Well, I would almost bet you money
that they're going to go Texas chainsaw 2
on this and the whole town is involved
obviously.
That's cool.
And Richard Brake is going to be
the Anthony Hopkins character, you know?
he's probably going to be a fucking mastermind behind the whole guy being
I don't know that
Richard Brake is the cult leader
Oh god
I can see that
Or he's the chemist
He's got him all taking acid right
Yeah there you go
So yeah
I mean
That's actually some really good insight
Maybe your views will change
Once the next movies come out
I just feel like this one was unnecessary
This
Okay
I mean, I guess if they're filming them at the same time and they come out with the next one, like, soon, then that probably works.
But I think the reason it feels generic is because we've already seen this movie before.
Yeah, I mean, the production looked pretty good.
Yeah.
I had no problem with that.
I mean, well, the two main characters are kind of CW-ish.
I know what you did last summer
Yeah
They were
But I mean
It didn't
It made the first one great though
It was like
But well the fact that you like knew who these actors were
They were like the big blockbuster actors of the time
Yeah
So tell the truth
I'm not a big fan of the first one
Yeah
I'm not a huge fan of the first either
But I like the second one for
I like the second one for the reasons
Ness brought up
How it takes it out of the house
and the people are getting stocked in an entire trail apart.
Sure.
Well, and to be fair, that's kind of what I thought about the first one,
was that it was sort of a generic home invasion movie.
So, yeah, I guess that definitely works with this one also.
Yeah, I think I'm going to go five also.
I mean, it was well done.
It was, like, none of the acting was bad.
This was just sort of a movie where I was like,
why did you make this?
You know?
So we'll see where it goes from here.
I'm sure they have a plan.
But boy, they almost
they almost set that plan on fire
before it started with this movie, I think.
I heard it.
I heard it kind of made more money than expected.
Really?
That's good.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Helping pay for the other two.
I mean, the back line,
because I didn't know this was.
going to be like a remake yeah i think anybody else seeing this know it was going to be a remake i think
from what i'm understanding i think some people thought it was a sequel or a prequel i mean chapter one
i thought yeah i thought it was a prequel yeah this is just something new or it's like they just
re-boating the series i think so i thought this all tied into the original that's that's that's
my theory
that is well.
Are we in the spoilers now or what?
Oh yeah, spoilers.
This is a motherfucking spoiler alert.
You've been fucking warned.
This is a motherfucking spoiler alert.
You've been fucking warned.
This is a motherfucking spoiler alert.
You've been fucking warned.
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
I don't want to.
Okay.
Well, I mean, because how much can you spoil this movie?
Like, our spoilers are just speculations about
what the next couple of movies are going to be.
You've already seen this movie.
When it comes to this movie,
one scene that they tried to recreate but
kind of do differently
is when the boyfriend accidentally
kills somebody, an
innocent person. Oh yeah.
It was more impactful in the original one
because it was his friend that came
to see that they needed help.
And he accidentally shot him in the face with the shotgun.
This one is the
fucking guy that they called to come fix
their refrigerator. Who the fuck is coming to fix
a refrigerator at that time of night?
No shit.
That was the first thing that popped in my head when he showed up.
You had to be paying some fucking overtime rates for that shit.
I'd tell you that.
And like he said, I don't want to go out there.
And the first one, we cared about Dennis.
He's only Dennis in my eyes.
Yeah.
Those of you to watch, son, but we cared about Dennis.
This guy that showed up, he didn't care.
He just, whoops.
Sorry, girl.
I don't even think we did.
Did we meet him in the movie?
No.
Yeah.
No, the only thought I had was that like, oh, well, now they've killed an innocent person and they look like the bad guys and things are still a little weird.
But like it was just a deterrent from calling the cops or something.
Because the very end when they killed the kid, the man guy, it was exactly how.
they did it in the first one.
Had them tied up and chairs
standing at them while you're doing this?
Yeah.
Because you were home.
This sounds like it wasn't needed.
They stabbed the guy,
then he falls over,
and then they stab her,
and she's still alive?
Yeah, the line was different in this one.
They said, because you're here?
Yeah.
Okay.
So when the way the line was delivered,
it kind of made me feel like,
again, with the whole town thing,
like there's multiple people involved
and like they bring people here
right
not it was because you were home
we came to your home and you were here
it was because you're here
to where we wanted you to be
drove through and stopped at the wrong
redneck gas station
that's another
that's never happened before
I'm stopping to get something to eat
the highway that they were on,
there is a million places on the side of the road.
They eat.
Yeah.
All your franchisees.
Yeah, typically.
Yeah, they had to go off 10 miles off the main highway.
Find something they eat.
That was stupid.
You deserved to be killed.
That's your own fault.
Damn, Naz.
Brutal, man.
Maybe they wanted some real food.
At some point, you have to plan ahead.
If you're passing really good gas stations on a giant road trip,
you got to stop at the really nice well-lit gas stations.
Oh, you're not going to get fucking murdered.
Stop it.
Stop at Buckys, right?
Yeah.
Buckees is a great one.
To be fair, Lance, the boyfriend was kind of asking to be killed throughout the movie.
Yeah.
Because he was super fucking rude.
Like the diner scene.
Fuck that guy, then.
The dynastine, the waitress, she assumed that they were married and she said,
no, we've just been dating for fucking five, ten.
years and then she was like how come you didn't put a ring on it what are you waiting for
and he's like i'm just waiting for my tuna melt i know yeah that was kind of a jerk move
okay really quick she's making a joke asshole when they showed the garage room quick there was two
trucks in the old truck then there was a ford was that the ford that they were driving around you
yeah i i kind of catch that yeah i kind of felt like we've seen who the strangers were
Yeah.
I can't even remember who they were.
I honestly, I watched this movie three days ago.
I can barely remember it.
I was scanning everybody.
Everyone that came in, guys at the gas station, the everybody in the diner.
I was thinking it was those kids.
That were talking to them at the diner.
Yeah.
Then he met him again.
when you went to go get her food,
when he went to get his inhaler.
Right.
I was trying to think,
well, it's not then
because they wouldn't have rushed over there really fast.
So I don't know.
I kind of have a feeling that it's somebody we've seen.
Yeah.
Are they going to reveal it by the third movie?
I don't know.
Or they're trying to do some misdirects on us.
You know,
could have been the two sitting at the table at the diner.
Could have been the waitress
that gave a ride to the cabin.
Yeah, but I mean it was definitely
They didn't get stuck there by accident
Okay, like for sure
The whole town is involved
Yeah, I will say
A positive thing
Because I thought
In the previous original movie
The I don't know which one it was
Pinup Girl or Dollface
I felt like they were just kind of there
Right
Not really doing anything
Right
The one, I don't know if it was pen up
grow a doll face, but
I liked her portrayal of that character,
the actress,
because you got that scene when he kind of gets to
drop on her and has the shotgun to her and she puts
it to her head and starts going crazy, like
fucking shoot me. Yeah, right?
At least that's not going to shoot them.
Yeah. At least
you're trying to do something different with the characters, but
it only lasted that scene.
Yeah, man. I was, myself
and the lady that was sitting in front of me,
both of us, at the same time,
was like, shoot that bitch.
Right.
Yeah.
That's when you pull the trigger.
And this guy has no
fucking awareness because he doesn't
shoot her and then the
sackhead guy,
he just comes running off screen and knocks
him out. Yeah.
Just like the previous movie, another
one-punch knockout.
Yeah, that's true.
Another thing,
for everyone listening to this,
if you're going to pull off the side of the road
sometimes,
park where you or sit where you can see your car.
Yeah.
Because that's what I do no matter where I go.
If I'm in the city is different.
But if I'm out in the middle of sticks and some diner, I make sure I can see my truck at all times.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Because I've seen too many horror movies.
Yeah.
Very, very true.
Although that is a horror movie stereotype because you are much more likely to get murdered at an
inner city gas station than you are at one out in the sticks.
We haven't made those movies yet.
Well, we don't need to make those movies.
They're real life and they're scary enough.
Yeah.
Watch those gas station you can.
Twitter.
Yeah, there's a lot going on.
What's going on, huh?
Plus, it's the unknown that's scary.
Yes, that's what it is.
Yeah.
That's the problem with this movie is we knew what was going to happen.
Everything, every step of the way.
It was very clear that it was a straight-up remake.
Yeah, another real quick positive, there was some cool camera shots
because it kind of was like some misdirects.
The way the camera angles, we were like, is somebody watching them from there,
or is it just an angle of the camera looking down at them?
Yeah.
They did.
Cool stuff like that was pretty cool.
Well, and that's really my only gripe.
It's not like it was a poorly made movie.
It just...
I don't know about you guys, but I can sense if somebody's there.
Because that room didn't look very big.
Yeah.
I did like that shot there.
We see him up in the mirror as he's sitting there.
But see, stuff like that, we knew what was going to happen.
knew they were going to be in the house
because when the girl was left in the house alone
and she was walking around, looking out the window,
and we could clearly see
someone was going to pop up in the background.
She fucking
walks outside to check.
Yeah. After someone
bangs on your door and then you go
back inside and then you light up a joint.
Yeah.
Instead of maybe
locking the rest of the doors.
I mean,
and then I was like
you heard somebody singing to you
in that house
and you just don't think anything about
you just walk into the other little
I was like no
do things happen
where like rational people think
am I crazy what's going on
because that seems to happen in movies
quite a bit and I don't ever
remember
like
maybe one time after I got in a car accident
I was like,
maybe this is a drink.
Yeah, but for the most part, if you hear a sound,
it's probably somebody fucking with you, right?
Right.
Like, you know that that happened.
It's not, well, maybe I'm crazy.
Well, I mean, in this one,
in this one, you've got someone full on beating on your door
asking for Tamara.
Right.
And after it stops, you open the door,
and then you step outside and look around,
like, who's there?
Jesus Christ, guys.
That's not scary movie shit.
That's like real home invasion tactics shit.
I know.
Like clockwork orange, right?
Somebody is knocking on your door.
Yeah, somebody is knocking on your door and distracting your attention.
And then you heard some weird shit in the house.
You already know what happened.
Something's going on.
Yeah.
Ness, what was the after credit scene, man?
Doug.
Girl survived.
she got stabbed and then
she woke up in the hospital.
Oh, that was it?
Yeah.
Okay.
I saw that.
She woke up in the hospital and then she sat up.
Then we'll see the guy with a bag over his head laying there.
I kind of think that was a dream.
Okay.
In the first of the original one,
right?
When we see Liv Tyler standing there and then we see that guy,
the sackhead guy,
peek around. See, that was
spooky and scary. That was like my favorite part in that first
movie. And this one, we knew it was coming
and it didn't have that effect.
It didn't have the same impact. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't get the goosebumps.
I didn't feel scared. I was just, I was like, I was just
staring looking in the background, waiting for someone to peek around the
corner. I don't know. I mean,
I mean, I mean, Randy Harlan,
the way he was talking about it
I was talking about it
I was talking about it.
I was the same
that we were going to do something different.
So my fingers are crossed
that the next two movies will be there.
I think this one.
I think this one was not.
Right.
Different actors.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's about it.
All right.
Well, Naz, you and Brian have
some reviews coming up on the show,
don't you?
I think so
I don't know
We still got to do
Wrestling returns
and
uh
string things
yeah we got to do
wrestling
because we got another one
coming up this weekend
yeah
I need to
rewatch that movie
I watched it
and I don't even remember
for the string things
so
uh oh
that's how
that's about this movie
uh
uh
and you watched it yesterday
if they like equalized
that
I think I watched that like six times
before we did it
we'll get back on it
yeah we've got more quick reviews coming yeah
we've got more quick reviews coming so just
hold your horses so
but I'm glad if
it's that next movie's coming out in a couple months
I'm glad we don't have to wait a year
to see yeah thank God for that right
the next what's strangers
yeah the next stranger's chapter 2 or whatever
oh is it coming out in a couple months
they said this fall
okay
the third one
I remember now the third one's coming out in January
yeah that's what Rennie and Arnold said
I think chapter two
August
and then
chapter three January
so this was like a limited TV series
it's getting released in the theaters basically
yes pretty much
that sort of changes things
like Brian was saying
like maybe with chapter two
and
three, they'll go a different route and it's going to be really good.
Maybe they hit us with the familiar and are going to hit us with something different.
Maybe the familiars to get the core fans in.
The juice is flowing.
They'll maybe giving Rennie a little too much credit, but we'll see.
This is just four players.
All right.
Okay, well, on that note, we want to thank you.
you guys for all listening to another episode of The Horror Returns.
We would love to hear your feedback and ideas.
You can always reach us at The Horror Returns at gmail.com.
Check out the website, all the awesome social media stuff that Brian puts up.
And next week, our main man, Steve Carlton, is going to join us for which two children of the corn movies, Brian?
Oh, God, there's so far.
I had to, I made a mistake on the schedule.
So the official children of the corn movies we're going to talk about is Children of the Corn Revelation and Children of the Corn Genesis.
Okay. All right. Not to be confused with Terminator Genesis.
I feel like these are like Mormon horror movies.
Oh, no.
No.
On that note, Philip, until the horror returns again.
good night
oh wait really quick
everyone check out the
fan film Wolverine
the wolf
we talked about that a little bit
we're going to do a quick
commentary on it
yeah that was badass
I scrolled across it on YouTube
man it looks like it's going to be cool
it was pretty awesome
I like what they're doing there
yeah good night
The
No.
I'm going to be.
