The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #450: The Best And Worst Of 2024

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

It's time again to run down the year's horror hits and misses. Brian, Phil, Nez, Steve, and Lance take you through the year that was (Pedro went a few weeks back). Cool of the week includes Baldur's Gate 3, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Squid Game 2, Blink Twice, and Subservience. The podcast spotlight shines on Halloween Babies Podcast. Thanks for listening! The Horror Returns Website: https://thehorrorreturns.com 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 Threads: https://www.threads.net/@thehorrorreturns?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== THR YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@thehorrorreturnspodcast3277 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns 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 Music By: Steve Carleton Of The Geekz  

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I'm Lance, with me as always, co-hosts Brian and Philip, and we got Steve from the geeks in the house tonight. What's going on, guys? What's it up? No fanfare this time. I've been here. No, Finn, man.

It's like to... Shut up. Let's get into it. All right. We'll talk about your award show, man. But we are going to have another guest here pretty soon. Naz is coming in because we're all given our... That annual top and bottom list that everybody loves so much.

So tell the listeners about your award show, man. You were telling us... Yeah. So we had... At the Geeks, on the first show of this year, we dropped the giggies, which is... I've got several different topics. where, you know, best movie, we, you know, put stuff in the spotlight, but we also take big, massive sheds on things. So it's like, you know, we have the worst movie.

Best series, worst series. Best animated movie, worst animated movie, and so forth. Some of those, most of those topics aren't pertinent to hear. I don't think any horror was on almost any of our lists, which was fine. I mean, we don't really primarily do that stuff. But I wanted to say, like, it was funny. We have a really fun topic that's. most surprising and most disappointing.

So that's always fun, you know, because like some movies you're not your favorite, but like you're surprised. You're like, holy shit. Like for me, my most surprising was Gladiator 2. We're not going to talk about that here tonight. That was most surprising to me. I'm surprised that that was actually a functioning movie. Like, it's Gladiator 2.

It's 30 years after the other one or whatever, you know, and freaking, like, it's got nobody from the first one. It's got Denzel Washington for some reason. And there's rhinos and fucking, and Lance, listen, the baboons looks. silly, but they also looked awesome. So I don't want to, you know, I was fine with their stupid mouths. I'm fine with it. Like, I was most surprised at Gladiator 2 was actually like, holy shit, this is not bad.

Good time. I haven't seen it, but I completely expected it to suck. Right? I have really enjoying it. It's like Titanic 2. You're like, what? Yeah. Why?

Titanic 2. All right. That's going to be the submarine that goes looking for it. I can't talk about my most disappointing because that will be on the list tonight. Oh, oh, okay. So we'll get to that, you're saying? And then, oh, we had like best animated series. I think unanimously X-Men 97 took that one.

Yeah, what a shocker. But Arcane Season 2, also, Arcane Season 2, strong, strong. So, we had a lot of fun talking about that stuff. That was good times. You said that award shows out there, right? Yeah, the whole live two-hour shabang is on YouTube, but we're going to start breaking them down and we're going to release, like, each section.

Like, best movie will release that one. You know, worst movie will release that one. So it'd be easier for people to grab a bite-sized pieces. And you got little animations at the start of each one. Yeah, man. We're in the future. We got little videos with music and all the little fun things I get to put together. Yeah.

It's always the best when it's like, you figure out you're good at something. And then everyone's like, all right, well, I guess that's your thing now. I guess it is. All right. Well, we're waiting for now. I guess we'll jump into cool of the week. Steve, what you got this week, man? This week was tricky.

Not a lot going on with the holiday, the new year, and work being up and down, up and down. But I did spend most of my time on another video game. Last time I brought you guys a video game, this time I'm bringing you another one. Yes, you did. But it's not a new one. It's Balders Gate 3.

I don't know if any of you are into Dungeons and Dragons at all, but it is a... It's a true Dungeons and Dragons kids. campaign, just done on a video game console. It's a lot of fun. It's very tricky with the turn-based combat, you know, like you have to roll the dice and all kinds of shit. It's because sometimes I'm like, fuck you, game.

Like, why do you keep making me roll a two? Like, I know that in real life I would have gotten something, you know, I wouldn't have just gotten into two every time. Sometimes the game is fucking with you. But, but it's... Like the slot machines, man. Yeah. Yeah, digital games like that.

I'm like, come on. I got a story. Sorry about that too. But Balders Gate has been a lot of fun. You can just get really immersed into it. I find myself trying to go to sleep and the music is stuck in your head. You know, if you're a gamer, you've got video game dreams. Those are the worst.

You play all day and you go to bed and you just think about fucking playing. The worst. But Baldur's Gate is fantastic. And also, shout out to Squid Game 2. I'm only two episodes in, but so far, very good. So far so good, huh? Yeah. So they're probably not even into the games yet where you're at.

No, we're just getting... Yeah, it takes them a couple episodes to get there. Yeah, but that Russian would let shit was... That Russian would let shit was fucking crazy. And then... I can't wait. Sorry, and then one last thing is Gangs of London. If you're not watching Gangs of London, you're doing yourself a disservice.

That's on Netflix, and that shit is. In stainly graphics, some of the best action-fight choreography you've ever seen. Oh, shit. Really, really, really good. I've always passed up. Made by the guy that did the raid movies. Mm-hmm. And it's like that?

In the series, all the time. And there's two seasons on Netflix now, and season three is dropping pretty soon, and that show is fucking great. God damn it. Another show I got to add to my fucking list I keep up with here. I told you about that show two years ago. I know. I know. Hey, I don't have any Walking Dead on here.

I finally got clean. You don't have Walking Dead on there because you're all caught up. Did you watch all of the Walking Dead? Darrell Dixon, Book of Carol, whatever the fuck, it's like 97 words, that title. I couldn't take it. I tried the first episode with Megan and... Did both of these motherfuckers wound up in France?

How the fuck does that have? That's crazy. Yeah, pretty coincidental, huh? From Atlanta to France. Like, I guess. I mean, it's just a hop, skipping a jump. It's amazing he kept his motorcycle, too. But they did a good job.

The same bike, right? Did they do a good job explaining how he got there? I heard they did, actually. I read a thing where they were like, they did a huddle episode to explain how he got there. And it was like, oh, okay, well, that makes sense. But I don't. Okay.

Did he, like, take a nap on a boat and woke up everybody speaking French? That sounds like something Norman Reattis would do. Oh, man. Who's next? Oh, okay. Yeah, because speaking the video games, I have been playing the Indiana Jones game. Yes.

It's pretty good. It's so good. I'm digging it. It takes a second to really get into it. It's a lot of cut scenes and stuff at first. But then once you get into looking for stuff, it's like first person, Tomb Raider, basically. Whereabouts in the game are you? I'm still pretty early on.

Are you the Vatican? Yeah, yeah. I think I'm towards the end of the Vatican. there's um there's a scene a level whatever a stage where you're in china and it is so good the action is in it's insane like the shit you do on planes in that level is manie like man this this is like the best movie we never got instead of we got that yeah crystal skull it really is like playing a movie yeah it's really good yeah because like i've i've only really gotten in the shit a couple of times where like somebody saw me do something I

wasn't supposed to be doing and so I've got like four guards on my ass or something. You can get overwhelmed pretty quickly. Because the shooting sucks so it's all about hand-to-hand combat basically. And like that's cool. Even like four guys around you, like you still handle yourself. But if it gets more than that, you're fucked. Yeah. For sure.

It ain't turn-based. They'll just beat the shit out of you. They're not like Van Damien. And then, and I took my son to his first cowboy game this year, which is the first time that I've been to the new stadium. And we had a fucking blast, man. It was great. Cowboys lost. Did you sit in the section where you get blinded by the sun in your own stadium?

No. So we sat, we had seats, but they were like three rows from the fucking glass up here. Oh, yeah. It was so far up. I got like there to go. That's the same thing when I went to Levi Stadium, I was watching the fucking big JumboTron most of the time. Yeah, that's easier. I'm like, you know, I could have just, but that's the same view I get at home. I'm more comfortable at home.

I know. I thought the same thing. And so I think the next time we're just going to, because they have like standing room only seats. And if you get there early enough, you can kind of get them upgraded a little bit, which actually probably would have been better seats than we actually bought. So I think we're going to try that next time. Plus the standing room only is where they could do. all the free giveaways and all that stuff. So it was, it was pretty cool, though.

We had a blast. He had a real time. As a 49ers, man, there's no love lost to me with the Red with the Cowboys. You know that. I'm sure you're doing the same way. However, there is something to be said about stadiums, though. Like, I don't like the Raiders either, but Allegiance Stadium is incredible. How did you like the new stadium?

Totally go there. That looks awesome. How did you like the new game? This is the first time you've been to here. So how'd you like it? That's what I'm saying. The stadium was great. We showed up early.

walked around. They had all kinds of great food and stuff. You can't really get into the, the cool parts of the stadium without having the tickets to get down there. But they have a lot of cool stuff on the outside, on the outskirts. Nice. Yeah. So, had a good time, man. A fun day out. The thing that sucks about Levi's is, if you go, make sure you know where you're sitting. Because, and then make sure, like, I went to a night game, so it's fine. But if you go in the day, there's a reason they built the stadium in a certain way. The Niners are dickheads. They put the team that visits, they're always in the sun.

In every day game, day game, there's no shade. The sun is nailing that sideline. It gets hot out here. That's cold-blooded, man. But everybody that sits on that side of the stadium also gets fucked that same way. So you've got to be careful when you go on there. Well, they had the roof working on this one finally because it was pretty cold out. by Texas

standards, right? Yeah, it was Texas standards. It was like 40 degrees or something. But as soon as the stadium doors opened, we went inside. That sounds like summer. Wear my shorts in 10 degree weather. I believe it.

I think it might be colder where I live than where you live, Phil. It might be. It's cold as fuck out here. Ice. Everything's ice all the time. I live in the, but I live in the mountains. I'm a higher. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Yeah, no, it's, well, it hasn't frozen and Galvest in all yet, but it, I'm pretty sure it is in Dallas now.

We got out of there just in time. Just in time, huh? Sweet. What's up, Naz? Yo. Yeah, Brian, Brian was just the best one. It was cool of the week, man. Oh, Naz, you can jump in on cool.

the week. So I just finished Squid Game 2 finally. Yeah? What do you think? I'm late to the game, but it was good. It was awesome. I liked what was happening. Didn't realize it was,

they were going to leave us on a cliffhanger. I know the third part is done, and I don't know when that's coming, but... I think June. Yeah. I thought it was... going to be like eight episodes and then it just cut off seven. Yeah, I was like, ah!

I know. I was like, it was like right when that last episode ended, I was waiting for it to a little thing in the corner. Nine seconds until the next episode starts and it didn't start. So I was like, what the fuck? So I looked at all the episodes and I was like, shit. That's it. It really seems like it cuts off in the middle of the season. Yeah.

Yeah. I think so. Sounds like it. It's done. They're just going to sit on it until it's time for us to get going. But yeah, that's my cool of the week. They got to make sure you don't cancel that Netflix subscription. You know what I'm saying?

That's right. Keep you hanging on. I don't know, man. After what happened in Raw last night, people already talking about canceling. What? Yeah. The live thing didn't go well. People always say that.

Did you watch it, Brian? Yeah, mine was. No, it was fine. I mean, I know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing. You're talking about the Hulk Hogan stuff. No. The, uh, they, they, uh, they boot that man out the arena. Yeah.

Um, what's his nuts? It's not fucking 1982 anymore, man, you know, fuck. Well, I know. He was, he was there to promote his, I don't know what the hell he's doing out there. He was there to promote his real America. American beer. Oh, God. Is it just regular beer

or is it an IPA? If it's IPA, I'll give it a shot. I think it's just like like Miller Light or Bud Light beer. Like just kind of a basic, you know, logger beer. That's okay. I think after last night, anything with Hulk Hogan, I don't think they'll be

having him on. I'm better than what are he doing? He's not, he's not, basically people are finding out he's not the character that he portrays on TV. It was just because of the stuff that has been said, the racial comments that he said and everything.

Everyone was going, oh, it's because of his political stance. And then they're like, no, it's not because Undertaker and Triple H and all of them are, uh, are conservatives. And nobody booed them. Everyone was on the feet when Undertaker came out. Yeah. So, but I don't just like, man, whatever. That old sex tape shit. Whatever.

20 years ago. That does sex tape. I don't know, man. The internet is for a car crash, too. That family has got some skeletons, man. I think that was his son. He got in a wreck. And I think someone was in the car died.

Well, he looked dumb. He looked dumb when he tore the shirt off to reveal the raw Netflix shirt, and then he waddled out with the torn shirt wrapped around his legs. Oh, me. What's the rapper's name that came out with the... Probably sky. Yeah, him. I'll give it to him, man. He had the Zaza lit up doing the Yeek dance and everything. It's Netflix. It ain't got to censor him smoking.

No, Netflix. Everybody was like, man, if I'd have known that, everyone was like, I would have lit up. So some parents are saying because of Travis Scott smoking a blunt and then the rock, drinking tequila, then jumping behind the wheel of his truck. drinking tequila then jumping behind the wheel of his truck and leaving if those are if their parents though that means that they're old enough to remember when people like val fucking venus were gracing our tv screens so this guy smoking a fucking joint shouldn't be a big deal to a guy that's finishing move was called the money shot hey i've had the stone cold beer before it's not bad he he does have an ipa yeah i want to try that

There you go, Naz. I guess I got to either order it or search for it at one of those wine beer stores. Yeah, I think I ran across it at a specs or something. Yeah, they don't sell that in the regular store. But yeah, I'm regular beer, Bud Light, Quir's Light, all that. It just tastes like water to me. Last time I had a Bud Light is when I went to WrestleMania at Cowboy Stadium. And I was partying with these guys.

Hey, you want one? I said, yeah, cool. And what? It tastes like nothing. It tastes like nothing. That's the point. I had to buy a better beer when I got inside. Well, yeah, see, those are the beers you drink when you just want to drink all day but not get fucked up. Yeah.

Get you some orange, some mud light orange. You'd be all right. I do got a, not so cool of the week. Not so cool of the week. we go yeah uh it was a friday i was at work about to get graphic well it's a horror podcast everyone um i was starting to feel pain in my in my back on my right side kidney area and i was like fuck no i've had a kidney stone before so but it wasn't like that because that first one i had it was like someone was stabbing me in the back hello hard and just turning it and i was like oh fuck that put

me on the ground but i was like oh i'm okay and i went to the bathroom and looked down in the toilet and I was just like oh fuck it was just like a crime scene I was like shit so I fucking I just took off I went to super's offices look man there's a medical emergency I got to go and they were like oh do these call ambulance I said no man I said I got to go so I just three hours into my shift I just left went straight that drool all the way home 90 miles all the way home went to the ER and I was hoping the whole way that it would the pain wouldn't kick in that bad while I was driving home, but I went straight to the hospital. They did a CT scan, did all that.

And they said, yeah, you got blood in your urine. And they did the scan. And then doctor came in. He goes, yeah, man, he goes, you got one. It's slowly making his way. He goes, it's small, but there's one. And he goes, ain't much we can do, man. You got to ride it out.

And we'll give you pain pills. And that's about it. So that's where I'm at. those are fun I assume it's still on its way down I'm always looking for the bright side because nothing's come out yet and I'm just like

I'm just just waiting I'm just at this point I don't want the pain to be like it was the first time because that shit hurt oh man I was in tears I mean that shit heller hurt I remember the nurse told me the first time she goes oh it hurts doesn't I

yeah she goes imagine having a baby coming out of your pee hole I was like what yeah I'm pretty convinced that the kidney stone is kind of the same basic concept oh that's true considering the size differential I guess that makes sense okay oh my gosh but I'm all right it's I still feel it but it's not like before I mean I'm glad I'm not taking whatever pain pill I had the last time because that shit. I don't know why it was borderline morphine, whatever it was. And it took the pain away.

But the after once I passed, I was like, oh, cool, I'm done. It's out. I'm going to be back in action. Then the withdrawals kicked in. Oh, no. Oh, I was fucking like just. I was sitting there at my house watching TV. Then all of a sudden, I just started going, fuck, what's the matter? I didn't know. And then I was, I went to walk. Your heroin, man? I guess. I went walking around outside, just trying to get air. And I was like, fuck, man, that shit. And then I went to the doctor that next day. I told my doctor, and she went, you're just withdrawals.

You got to ride it out. She goes, you still have those pills? I said, yeah, she goes, dump them. So I got rid of them. Take a half of one. Take the edge off. It took about a day and a half for me to just shake it all out. I was like, oh, I was like,

I did not want to go do that again. That's not good, yeah, that's not good, man. That shit was no joke. So, yeah, that's my not cool of the week, but I'm all right right now, and I'm still hoping that it's not going to be like the first time.

Ready to skate again? I skated Friday when I was fine, and then later, it was when it kicked in, but when I left work, I was about to skate back to the parking line, but the shuttle bus pulled up, I jumped in. Oh, man. And I just got a bike, too.

Put that together yesterday. It's just sitting there. I don't want to be out riding and it's kick in or something. Yeah, let that sucker bounce around and pop its way out. No, no. It probably didn't work that way, but pulling a tooth. Yeah, no, thank you. Yeah, that's it.

Brian, which guy? Brian, what do you got? I continue the not cool the week. I think right after I message you, Nez, because we were supposed to record yesterday, and I said we were having a rain and windstorm yesterday. Went to take the dog out as soon as I stepped on the ice, slammed on the ground.

Oh, no. Spraying my wrist and my ankle at the same time. Oh, man. I took one step off the porch and it felt bringing up skateboard and it felt like the skateboard just got snatched right underneath my feet.

Slammed hard. Wow. I see those ring cameras every once in a while where somebody's like trying to walk up on the porch and they get like, wham! It looks like it hurts. Yeah. Slam your head on the ice.

It does. my wife she slammed at work one time I did too was hell early I did the overnight shift at the airport and we were out trying to get we were going to spray the planes get all the frost and ice and all

that off them and we were about to get in the truck and I just slam my head hella hard thankfully somebody else was there with me or if I was there by myself I had probably laid on ice for who knows out long. But my buddy

was there. He came, you're all right, you're all right. And I was like, oh, man, I don't know. We just rung my bell. That shit's no joke. But now you're, now you're fuck, Brian, because you just fell. So now that means you just got into that new age of falling. You're going to start, like, after my first big fall in my 30s, and now

I enter the age of falling, and now I fall all the fucking time. I'm always following. I got into that last week. I didn't say nothing, but I fell last week doing the same thing. Jesus Christ, Brian. Except I made it. 10 feet the first time.

Dude, the other day, the other day I was just putting my ladder into my work van and it was icy in the morning. And I was, I stood up my, I have a big tall van. So I stood up inside of it and I slipped on the metal inside there. Way! Layed out inside my van. Like, how does that happen? Like, how do you explain that? But it did cross my mind about being old.

Because when I fell last week, I was like, I ain't fell in a long time. Right? And this last time. Yesterday when I slammed on the ground, I just kind of laid there. I was like, I don't even want to get up. Yeah, it's not so easy. Cover eight more. Oh, that's what happened to me.

My asshole dog didn't even check on me. He was just sitting on what was down the street. He just looked at you and shit. Freedom! Oh, no, he didn't look at me at all. Didn't even look at you, huh? He didn't even look at food, huh? Trying to go down the street.

Oh, shit. I was so many years without, so many years without falling. And then I had that work. accident fell off the ladder and then ever since then i fall all the fucking time i'm always was dropping i just falling like dude i just whipped myself off the top of a four foot ladder i one of the legs was in a hole and the whole thing just collapsed on me and i flipped upside down and landed on my back hat and glasses went flying off i was like man i'm glad i landed on the grass this could have been a lot worse could have been a lot worse yeah oh fuck man i stepped off one of our tugs at

worked years ago. Steped in a hole and twisted my ankle and it snapped. And I just fell to the ground. Figured everyone would come out and help me. Nope. Everyone came pouring out of the break room just to laugh as I'm laying there on the ground. Yeah. Let the body sit the floor.

Yeah, no one even tried to help me. I just laid there. I went, oh. And then I got up. I tried to step and it wasn't happening. And I was like, fuck. I mean, you have to have that initial first last. because it's hilarious but then you kind of stop for a minute to see if they're okay and then if they are

then you just get the really good laugh going get the good laugh in the belly you have to you have to make sure they're okay oh i laughed at myself dude i made the weirdest fucking noise when i hit the ground i didn't knock the air out of me a little bit another thing that you can tell you're old is when you're younger you usually you try to pop back up to make sure nobody's seen you fall yeah oh i had thought about that this last time i just i laid there i was like i don't care if the entire neighborhoods out right now. Yeah. Ooh, that fucked up.

I got to make sure if things still works. When I slam at the skate park, I just lay there. And then their kids come up. You okay, mister?

Oh, man, that old guy died. Sir, you're okay, sir? I'm like, I'm good, man. Just give me a minute. You need help getting up? I said, no, ma'am. All right. Look out of here.

You whippers. never. I did watch some things though. I also watched a Squid Game 2 finish that. Pretty good. Pretty good. It did take a while. I kind of wanted it to get to the games

but when it got to the games everything was more it was kind of a weird feeling because everything was more amped up. Yeah, it was like intense. Intense but at the same time it lets you know how fucked up these games are because they were playing like

whimsical carnival music during the games like like the games are supposed to be fun yeah and at first I was like I didn't know what to think of it but but then I thought about it this is just how twisted these games are because it's it's not fun to the contestants but it's fun to the people that are watching Jesus Christ so anything about that purple here dude oh Thanos yeah Thanos yeah he had his fingernails painting like the Infinity Stones. Yeah. Oh, man.

I'm going to see this. He was hilarious. He was probably one of my favorites. He was the dorquiest rapper I've ever seen. The way you're saying was in past tense. I haven't finished it yet. Making me feel like I shouldn't get connected to Thanos very much. That's okay.

I don't care about it. Well, you shouldn't get connected to anybody in Squid Game. It's Squid Game. You're right. Everybody's fair game. But he was probably my favorite character. You know, if he pointed at somebody you do like with a gun sign. Yeah.

right but he was like a little kid trying to act gangster yeah okay i got you like dame de han with jeans coming down huh now one evil lady the witch or whatever she is she just looked yeah she's creeping me out she just looks scary here they got a they got a lot of new characters in there that are interesting and my my daughter watched some of it with me and she's found like parallels to like characters from the first season that were in the first game and she was like this character kind of reminds me of this person and this person right you know yeah because there's like a mother and son team in this one too yeah yeah did you watch the

squid game challenge yeah yeah that was fun yeah there was a mom and son duo in that one they and they had they had it right too they were like we both don't need to win just one of us needs to wind. Well, that's okay, because one of you is definitely going to die. Yeah. Go ahead. No, nothing. Okay. I also played the Indiana Jones game. I'm up to the Vatican part. Nice. I don't know about fending off four people because it seems when I make noise, I have to fend off 12 people. You got to find the right outfits to wear. You got to find the Oh, I'm in my priest. I'm in my priest's outfit.

I'm in my priest's outfit, but I just happen to walk into a restricted area, and somebody wants to come speak to me next day. You know, I'm fighting all 10, 12 people. I know. They're like, hey, that priest isn't supposed to be here. Let's kick his ass. What a violent world. And I noticed about, like, all the little side mission things in there.

I'm like, I was doing them all. But then, like, you know, finding all the little things and all that. But it doesn't really, it doesn't do. anything. Like, it doesn't add to the game. Like, it isn't like, oh, you found all this things. So now you have this new cool thing you can use. Like, it doesn't. It's like, you found all the things. Do I really need to buy this camera? Yeah, you do need to buy the camera. I feel like I'm walking around for like an hour. You got to steal, I got to sneak into their tents and shit and steal their money.

Oh, yeah, that's when I'm fighting off a whole bunch of people. That's what got out. That's a very good idea. but i'm having fun with it though and i checked out a couple of movies checked out don't blink with channing tatum directed by zoie cravitz uh i heard some intense things about it it is an intense subject matter but it didn't it wasn't as graphic as i thought it was and i thought channing tatum did a good job and uh zoey cravitz um definitely i'm interested to see something else she directed because i thought she did a phenomenal job in it Okay.

And Very original. Very original. And the last movie I checked out, I won't say a lot about this, is Jackpot, starring John Cena and Ophaphafina. I knew he's terribly. All I say is I didn't laugh, I didn't laugh as much as I laughed. I get it. I get it.

I liked it. It made me laugh. I didn't have, I don't remember having one treble. I was just like Aquafina's voice is annoying me and John Cena is not funny. It was, it wasn't, it wasn't her voice. It was the dialogue. It was like, it felt like they were reading their lines. Oh, God.

It's almost like they, yeah. It's like they did a take reading their lines and then the director was like, all right. All right. All right, let's read it. Next. It's just. I didn't understand how her care because in California there's a lottery and the person gets the winning lottery ticket they have to survive the day to win the millions or billions or whatever the fuck it is and everybody everybody hunts them down and the person that if they kill them in time they get the money well that sounds like a bad idea our community even though she lived outside of California has never

heard of this concept ever and you think something in a state yeah that has lottery for murder you would have surprised you know i've seen those man on the street videos like there's a lot of people who like had no idea who the president was oh there's a lot of dummies walking around but like i i i would i would have rather go back and watch the sean william scott movie that we saw end at the beginning of this like i'll give me that one instead i'd rather follow him and it because he look he at least seemed like he was fucking able to handle his himself you know he got right got caught up by that old lady she she put a fast one on him but i remember that you mean you weren't buying aquafina's character took stage fighting classes and that's why she was able to fend off everybody uh

somehow i don't see that working in real life i i actually really liked aquafina in shung chie yeah nothing else like nothing else i don't have i don't have have as much hate for as everybody else does but I can't. Or Queens or whatever that show's called. Yeah. I think she's yellow funny. I think she's good

as a supporting person. Not as a... Yeah, no, she's not going to carry a movie. She's the comedy really. And I think that's it. Other than the raw Netflix, I think me and Ness will probably

do an episode on that possibly. Yeah, we need to. They can get Hulk Hogan to come on as a guest. We don't want to hear the booze on the podcast. That guy looks, if somebody gets him on. He was visibly like shook. Like he didn't understand why. I'm like, you say anything that comes to your mind.

Right, right. So they're going to boo what comes to their mind. So suck it up. And I will say I did. We'll probably talk about it when we do that. But I had a fucking huge problem with all the logos on the ring mat. It looked like a NASCAR. Those red light, those lights on the chairs were bugging me.

Well, that's the stadium. I know, but I was like, what the hell's going on? But I've never been in that place, so I don't know. I've only been in the football stadium. That's the arena, I think. So I haven't been there. That's where the basketball team plays, right? no clue

okay all right you got anything else Brian no that's it I'll just throw down a real quick cool of the week I haven't watched much this week but cool of the week was the Megan Fox

artificial intelligence movie on Netflix don't tell me about it no spoilers but it was but it was fun watching it with AJ and looking at her and saying that that looks terrifying I hope that never happens to us That's

Oh no. Reaction. How would you feel if we got one of these robots here, just for help run the house? But the look on her face when she decided he didn't get the English butler, but he picked her instead, or actually which the daughter found her first. They wrapped up that conversation quick. Like that was that conversation ain't ending that fast in my house. No. I'll take that right now.

That's like, you see all this high-end people to get. get this like hot ass babysitters and I'm like dude I'm telling you right now that would never happen in my house yeah I got to get some old Croatian woman or something yeah like a headscarf headscarf and three noses and headscarf I had a customer that was telling me oh yeah they they have like these uh programs were like these girls from south america come and do like a a oh they'll stay in your house and take care of your shit and it's like half the price of of normal, you know, stuff. And I'm like,

I don't think I can have a South American college girl in my house. That's probably a bad idea. No relation. Would it be sleeping outside for a week? Listen, my wife is jealous of invisible people, so I don't need a real one. All right.

Philip, I hear you, brother. All right, Phil, you're ready to move on, man? Let's go. What are we doing? Am I moving on? I think so. I think so. Oh, my bad. This is kind of a different show, so. Yeah, I thought we were skipping all that shit this week. Weather, medical issues, falling down.

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All right. Best and worst show. We're going to kick it off with the worst. Top, bottom 10, the worst of the worst. I think we're all each. We're going to do it different this year. We're not going to do round robin because that made the show take like three hours last time. Yeah, that's true.

And then we end up with the same answers in different. That's true. Yeah, that's true. We are going to each give our bottom 10. starting off with any dishonorable mentions. And Steve, since you were the newbie to the team here, we're going to throw it to you. Okay.

All right. So do I just go to it? Dishonorable mentions and then go through your 10. If you want to say a little something about each of them. Yeah, the dishonorable mention has to be the crow. That's the worst movie of the year, hands down. That's the worst movie of the decade. Well, that character is horror, dude.

that's number one. Well, that was... It might be on my list, Brian. With Bill Scarsguard and... Hold on, hold on. Time out. I did not like that movie.

I don't know why someone brings the crow and you say my name. That was my number four. Best comic book movie of the year. What? I liked it. I was a fan of that movie. I did not like the people.

Anyway, so that's my description. I'll mention that got the worst movie of the year for me on the geeks. So number 10 for me, I'm going to pick, and, you know, it's, it's on number 10 because it's, I don't hate it, but like I felt like it was a missed opportunity. It's called It's What's Inside. This was a Netflix movie where the body swap one, mostly because I didn't like the people. I couldn't get on board any characters. And sometimes that's the point, and I'm not going to fault the movie for that.

But, like, that also hinders my enjoyability of it. And I just kind of, I like the concept, but I didn't feel like they did enough with it. Number nine for me is going to be Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. I did not like Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice at all. I thought that it was a, I need some more Beetlejuice in my Beetlejuice movie. His name is in there twice, and he has half the screen time is the first movie. They included a bunch of characters that didn't need to be in there, and I thought we spent way too much time with Jenna Ortega's character and the ghost boyfriend. Yeah, true.

number eight is going to be watchers. The movie was just boring. Boring, boring, boring. And Kevin, I'm sorry, Nazman. I feel like I'm hurting your soul. I didn't like that one either. But Winona Ryder, I got just enough for a beetlejuts. What I wanted out of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice was Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder.

Maybe something happens in Gen Ortega gets kidnapped and taken to the afterlife or some shit, and they have to go on an adventure to save her. but what I didn't want was this weird office thing with Beetlejuice and his ex-wife and Willem Defoe, who was great, but didn't really serve a purpose. And Justin Thoreau, who I love, but also was just a weenie. Like, I just don't like it. And then, come on, like, Dan, like, what's his? Tim Burton gets shit off. They're like, you don't put enough black people in your movie.

He's like, oh, yeah, check this out. And then he makes, like, this whole soul train scene. That's not a good answer to that criticism. That's a terrible answer to that criticism. That's worse? That's worse. They're had afros. That's worse.

Number seven for me, or eight, I'm sorry, I suppose watchers, but you guys all know about that one with Dakota Fannie. Not a good movie just boring. Number seven, imaginary, one of our great PG-13 horror movies that just is there for no reason at all. Number six, Arcadian with Nicholas Cage.

Arcading with Nicholas Cage. Sort of with Nicholas keys, right? If you blink. Yeah, he's kind of in it. They just, again, a cool concept, but like this world didn't make sense, like, not believable. He's on the poster. He's on the poster more than he's in the movie. Number five, this is going to be for you, Lance, this is going to be night swim.

Nice one on the list. It's not a good movie. I'm sorry. It's a, it's an ungood movie. I tried. I went back for a second helping, and, No. Night swim, I just couldn't, I can't do it.

Number four, the deliverance. I went into wanting to like this movie. This is a, I forget the name of the actor, Lee Daniels. And he's done some good stuff. And this is his take on like an exorcist thing. But I just couldn't. I didn't like it. I thought it was cheap.

When they got into the exorcist stuff, it was extra cheap. Yeah. I think I've heard bad things on the geeks. Yeah, it wasn't awesome. It was not good. The deliverance. Okay, now we're getting into the nitty-gritty, the top three of my worst movies. Number three, hellboy, the crooked man.

Pooh, poo on you, hell boy, the crooked man. Sorry, I wanted to like it. I gave that movie, it's fair shake. I went into wanting to like it, but when you see him walking around and you can literally see the rubber on his suit folding as he's moving, it's not good the makeup was like peeling off him I know it's a budget issue but like even the crooked man

like when it got up close he just looked like a weird leprechaun it looked like a shittier version of Warwick Davis like I just I tried to I wanted to couldn't do it number two Ghostbusters Frozen Kingdom

Oh shots fired again not enough ghost busting in my ghost busting every time they went to go bust some ghosts we hung back at the fucking firehouse with the girl on her stupid ghost girlfriend. I don't want this in my Ghostbusters movie. Why don't you

let me go on the car ride with the guys that are going to do some fucking ghost busting? That's what we're here for. They had a great scene in the trailer with red jackets. Don't know why, but it pisses me off that those red jackets weren't in the movie. Like, why don't I get my red jackets? I didn't like it. I had a bunch of problems with that, but not as many as the number one

worst movie of 2024 has to go to the aforementioned werewolves. Oh, wow. That was a tragedy. a travesty, an unbelievable, like, the more I think about it, the more I just get confused. Like, why does this exist the way it does? How does one transform into a werewolf and keep the face paint? And the bulletproof ass, why were they even going after that house?

Like, what's the point? There's all these other houses with nobody guarding them. Like, this one's got all sorts of traps. And you just all, for what? Like, I don't know. Frank Grillo's... Well, their neighbors are safe. The wife, his sister-in-law or whatever, whatever that weird relationship was going on.

Yeah, that's a strange relationship. Oh, they were fucking definitely. For sure. Not good. And then what about that, like, the lady he's with when they're like, he's like, he's like, he's like, unloading the mini gun. And she's like right there. I'm like, dude, that's dangerous.

Yeah. And then, like, she makes it back to the truck. And then she, like, stands away from it and gets yanked up like an alien, you know? I'm like, why didn't you just get in the fucking truck? They caught her monologin. Werewolves was the worst horror movie of 2024 for me. So there it is. There's my list.

All right. We are going to pass it on to Nez. In no order, but these are just some. of the ones that I didn't care for, but I'll start from, I'll tell you my worst, the worst one of the year was night's whim. But tarot, tarot, tarot, tarot card

or whatever the hell that movie was called. I tried. I'm glad I didn't go to the theater and see it. I didn't see it in the theater, so I was glad I didn't. I would have been mad. Because I remember asking you, Brian, is it worth it? And you went, no. Oh, I saw it for free, so I guess maybe that helped. So I wanted it to be good, but, uh, nah, it wasn't.

So the Strangers, Chapter 1, uh, basically remake of the first film. And I don't know how we're, while we're getting two more, but, I mean, we'll be there to watch them. So, but it was the exact same movie. So I was like, uh, imaginary. Pretty much. Imaginary. That one too. I listened to your guys review first.

I said, well, it's streaming now. Let me check it out. Oh, man. I was like, when is this over? Yeah. I'll put this in bottom 10, but it was all right, I guess, but it was just not,

it was different because, all right, Russell Crow and as a priest, the exorcism. I was kind of like, all right, let me see. What was the other one he did? The Pope's Exorcist. Excellent.

Oh, yeah. That one was good. That one was good. This one. He wrote on the Vespa. Yeah. It was great. See, I was,

I got to watch that one because I thought it was a accent. Did he go to his Mario? Yeah, he did a very thick accent. He did a zooset. In the Exorcist. It was a thing. I saw the Pope one first. I said, that one was cool.

Let me check this one out. A blong. I was like, He should have done a Mario accident. He looked exactly the same as he did in the Pope's Exorcist. Like on the picture. He looks like he just walked on to the same here. Hey, you get out of that body in the name of Jesus.

I'll throw a mushroom at you. It's me, the priest. The next one, the watchers. I thought the trailer looked cool and it was interesting and what it was and I love Dakota so I was like all right cool let's check this out part of the Shamelon family whatever his daughter's name was

I'm like cool let's let's see what she can do epitism at its finest I liked it until the end and I went oh really that's what we're doing but I was like okay because it was a good it was a good idea good concept of what was going on I loved the cinematography and how they shot it and what they were doing but it just

when it got to the end it just did nothing for me. So I was kind of like blog. All right, next. All right, the next one that I was just like, everyone was talking about it

with the prequel to Rosemary's Baby Apartment 7A. I was like, can something happen? I mean, I'm an hour into this movie and nothing's going on. I was like,

yeah, I was just like, I had to do it in two parts because I was just like, I was like, nothing's going on. That wasn't on my list because I didn't watch it

because I heard, it was boring. I'm like, I don't have time to be more. Pretty dull. The Rosemary's baby wasn't action-packed or anything, but it was at least interesting for when that movie came out. To a snooze fest from the 70s? Like, not really. No. No, thank you. I was like, man, next. Let me see. But yeah, I was like, all right, this next one, I loved the first one. I mean, I didn't love it. I liked it. But I was juice for this one. But Winnie the Pooh, Blood Noney, too. I was like, huh. The first one, look, the first one I didn't, you know, like, it's low budget. It's, it's bare bones, but I, I didn't mind what they did.

I was like, they even gave his tetties at one point. Like, it was for no reason. Like, he just reaped down, Richter's shirt off and that was it. I was like, okay. But, like, you know. It wasn't the one I wanted to see, but, you know. It was some cool, move. They were some cool shit, and it's some dark shit.

It's like, I'm just going to wash them in the blood of your wife. Like, what? They had a better budget for this one. So I was like, all right. cool because they did they did good with the first one so I'm like all right let's cool let's check it out and nope

I was like uh I like this is better than the first next no man teach their own teach their own Lisa Franken Wait till they assemble in the Pooniverse movie Yeah Peter Pan's gonna be in shot

He's the big bad according to the Lisa Frankenstein I was hearing all this good stuff about the movie Some people are all the best movies of the year And I'm like oh really cool About that yeah i mean i watched it i was like yeah it was okay but i don't know i didn't see what everyone was ranting and raving about i miss something i think that's i think years from now that's gonna go

the way of jennifer's body and be like a cult classic could be yeah i could see that nez will nez will go by the steel book i'm good i am i'm all right he already owns the steel book I'm sure he does. This next one, I liked what was going on. I love the first two films, but this one, I was loving it because it was set in the 80s, and I was like, all right, right on, cool. But it just didn't have what the first two had.

I mean, X being the first one, which was awesome. Pearl was cool. I love that one. But Maxine, I wanted more. I mean, because I was like, oh, man, we had two awesome movies. I mean, not to say it wasn't awesome, but it was just, it was kind of a letdown. I wanted a little bit more. Yeah, we got that guy getting his dick smashed in that alley and everything, but I don't know.

I wanted, I wanted a little bit more. I was kind of disappointed in this one. I liked X. I did not like Pearl, so I didn't watch mixing. Okay. I mean, if there's nothing else on, man, check it out. Just to round out the trilogy. Mia Goth, I love her, but. I wanted a little more in this one.

I mean, because I'm a kid of the 80s, so I wanted more. Yeah, Arcadian, that was one. That was kind of like, whatever. Arcadian. This is all right. I think this is my last one. We had a, I watched it. I listened to somebody run through the whole thing.

Who was it? Shout out to the Horror Virgin podcast. they did it and I said I said let me go back and listen to when we reviewed it because I had a lot to say about this movie I mean and I was just I liked what was happening but then they just changed it all on me because the original film back in the 70s was amazing

Richard Donner's film and then we get the first omen and I was like this movie was trash only because of what they changed I was waiting for this. Trying to change it all. I was like, what? The, the fucking

blueprint is laid out for you already. Why did you? I like what they were doing in the beginning. They want to start a whole new franchise with the girl there. It was just terrible. I was like, no.

We're doing it all for you. So the nun's going to hang herself from the ledge, right? Oh, she's going to light herself on fire first. Oh, I see what you did. I see what you did. You did the same thing, but you made it better. but worse because she would just fall down a lot faster because the ropes don't handle fire very well I was just like I was like man this this movie was I mean I was all sitting there ready

and I was excited I was intrigued on what was what the trailer was I'm like all right cool I know how it's going to end I know what's going to lead right into and it just like was that was that the movie where the hand comes out like that like of the I don't remember but i can't remember this movie a movie did a movie did uh movie had that this year i don't remember which one it was it just oh wasn't that apartment seven a no because i didn't see that one hand like it was like a department seven a the abortion scene i mean nights swim night swim had the lead until i saw this and i was i was just mad i mean i've been a fan of the first one since whenever that one came out in the 70s and Oman 2 was awesome final conflict yeah this was what it was the Damien series

was amazing I love that um no suck we only got one season of it because they got canceled but when this one came out again like I said I was excited I wanted to see more of it they were hyping it up big at Comic-Con and all that or some convention I was at I can't remember but I was like cool let's let's see what they're going to do and they just slapped me in the face and I remember walking out of the theater people going oh man it's going to be awesome but a lot of those people younger people that saw it never saw the original one because they were all talking about oh they were like oh man we got we got to watch the original one now because that that's the next story and they're probably confused like wait wait what happened they're confused now I was like oh my god

I just this I mean night's when made me mad but not as mad as the first omen did I came out of the theater hot the first omen not terrible if you've never seen the omen oh no i mean it won't it doesn't match up if you're gonna if you're gonna watch the omens it doesn't line up at all yeah well they're starting a whole new franchise now following the girl in the woods no but they they had a picture of a gregory peck and he's in the original one oh that's right yeah it doesn't it doesn't match up so that's why i was like fuck this movie uh yeah first oman is is my number one worst film of the year. It got 83% on...

Did you not watch Werewolves? Not yet. I wanted to. That's why it's not on your list. That's why it's not on the list. Frank Grillo is awesome. Because he was badass this season of Tulsa King. He was hell of fresh.

He's great. He was good. I have no problem with Frank Grillo. I haven't problem in that fucking movie. Spoiler. It's not that character. I know. But I was like, man.

All right. I still want to see it. though. I like Frank Rillow. All right. I guess I'll jump into my list next. My honorable mentions Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. Okay. Pointless, useless. Added a whole bunch of extra characters to the cast that didn't even need to be added

because they didn't even have shit to do for their main cast. I have an idea. I can kill myself and we can hang out for a little bit. And then I'll bring myself back to what the fuck is going on? Very convoluted. Very convoluted. And Steve, you guys said it on the geeks. I brought it up on here. Where the fuck were the red winter coats?

Where's my red coats? I want them. I want the red coats. They looked sick. Yeah. Next up, Maxine. Didn't understand where they were going with her character. Part of the movie felt like they were trying to redeem her character.

And then it went back to how her character was. It just disjointed in my opinion. I didn't care for it. Probably actually should have been in my top ten if certain non-horror movies I've seen this year wouldn't have squeaked in. Another question, Brian, real quick. And Ernie Hudson's just running this whole other fucking

Ghostbusters in New York underground with all these tech people and all of them. They all had shirts with the Ghostbusters logo. They were just like, fuck these assholes upstairs, you know. It wasn't even... The firehouse, like, it's bullshit. It wasn't even just another team. It was like an academy where they were training new recruits. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, it was kind of hard to figure out the hell they were doing there. Next up, honorable mentions, apartment 7A. Boring, about time when she got to the end and she swan songed her way out the apartment window. I was cheering for the movie because it was over. Next up, imaginary. Don't always cheer for people. Imaginary. Okay.

Fine for young children, but I don't know who they were aiming this movie for. Right. Not us old timers. No, because when you see the posters, when you see the posters and stuff, you can tell, like, there's a part of you that wants, like, it can be scary. You can make a scary movie. You can make this scary, and they just don't. They're just like, why are you guys in the business of shit in the bed constantly? I don't understand.

And my final dishonorable mention is The Crow. I left it off only because I think, I thought there was some good ideas in there. I still think there was some good ideas in there. They just executed poorly. Bill Scarsgar was miscast as the Crow. What's his name? Danny Houston in his suit. Danny Houston.

Yeah, the bad. They should have did it. so much more with his character because we've seen him in other things play the villain and he can play the villain. He needs to change his look. He has the same haircut and he wears the same suit in every fucking movie and he's always the

bad guy. American horror story and everything, yeah. He looked the same in X-Men when he was fucking Stryker. Oh, God. You're right. You're right. Exactly. You're right. He did look well, no, no, he kind of looked the same in 30 days a night. Wonder Woman? Yeah.

Okay. Point taken. All right, number 10. It's probably going to be in a lot of people's top tens, but it is my number 10 on my bottom and is in a violent nature. Oh, what? That was divisive. Over an hour of walking through the grass. Well, you play video games, Brian.

What's the difference? Come on. Yeah, that part didn't bother me. It's not even his point of view. but we're looking at him so it's our point of view looking at him it's not his point of you true yeah it kind of would have made a cool video game now that he made it's like a third person video game well i got this awesome steelbook of the crow i don't know if you guys can see it i like that movie i do not i don't i'm not big on the junkies meeting and rehab and fucking for a few days

and now suddenly we're supposed to follow them as star cross lovers i'm good slow steve it's slow That's drugs and lust, brother. That's what that is. They're not dead already. You guys see the other crow movies? Come on. The crow salvation doesn't hold up, but it's better than that one. Which one was that one?

That was one with Kirsten Dunst, the third one. I actually liked that one. I liked the one with it. It was kind of lame, but I did like it. The one with Eddie Furlong. He was a game. David Borianas as the devil. That guy is.

Not the crow. And Tara Reed. Let's go. Come on. Keep going. Cat Castle. I like that. Let's just Edward Furlong.

What happened to him? Even the second one was good. Is he alive? City of Angels. Yeah, he's, he's clean now. He's doing the convention. Yeah, he's doing this thing. I talked to him once.

He was cool. All right. Number nine, M. Knight's Charmalaun's trap. Oh. Not good. But I still think that, a different movie, Josh, what's his name? Hardinett? Yeah, he can play a serial killer.

Because I thought the stuff he was doing in this movie was pretty good. It's just didn't match what the movie was doing. Two problems with this movie and that's it. That's all I had. One, the guy that helped him, the fucking, the merch guy, that guy doesn't exist in real life. Just the man with all the fucking information. Steve, none of these. The FBI gave him information when he meets him on the roof. He's like, what are you doing here? I don't know.

What are you guys doing here? Well, we're here doing this, doing this and doing that. We're here looking for a killer that looks kind of like you. Hey, I know you just murdered a bunch of folks, but let me, you can, we're going to handcuff you in the front and you can kneel down and play with your daughter's bike for a minute before we put you in the car. Oh, can I exactly? No, we totally didn't see you take that giant, fucking foot long spoke and shove it up your sleep. And then also, I didn't like when he got out of the, out of the, out of the,

limo. Like all the other ones, like, yeah, okay, maybe we, yeah, the cops shouldn't let him bend down, but they did, and that's how we got out of the limo, I'll let that stuff. But how he got out of the limo doesn't make fucking sense. He was in a driver's seat, and then we cut away, we cut back, and he's in the crowd. That's not fair. You can't do that. That's cheating. You got a trapdoor, what's going on? They all were looking at you. Is it a who need me or what? Number eight, we're just going to keep it all in the family right here. The watches. There you go. There you go. I don't know.

She didn't do her own movie or if her father just kept looking over her shoulders saying, you need to do this and do that. I don't know what it was, but... She probably meant, I don't know how to end this. And he was like, I got an idea. Let's do a twist. And then we're all like, that's a terrible idea. Let's see.

Waste of my fucking time. Number seven, PG-13 Blumhouse crap, afraid. I didn't see that. John Cho is better than this movie. Right. I kind of enjoyed it. I thought it would be good because I liked them in searching. It's like I had to pick one.

You always pick one. Whenever you got two combat combative movies, like you have two snow white movies, two whatever, two asteroid movies, you got to pick one. I chose subservience over this one. I think I got the choice.

Yes. Yes. I chose wrong. Way better. It's all right, Brian. I chose HD DVD over Blu-B. back in the day. We all know how that turned down too. You know what I'm saying?

So to the Xbox. Number six, I had to put one low budget in here. I'm very sympathetic and apologetic to low budget movies because they are what they are, but the mouse trap. Oh,

this movie should have been fun. You should have been just off the wall crazy with the kills, but come on, off-screen kills every damn time. And then what was in Lance, a teleporting Mickey Mouse killer? Teleporting Mickey Mouse, yeah.

And it wasn't even Mickey Mouse. It was a dude with a mask, and he's wearing, wasn't he wearing like a hockey jacket or something like that? Yeah. That could have been like Dead Mouse. Like, it kind of looked like Dead Mouse a little bit, didn't it? He's got like some techno star serial killer. Let's see, number five is Terro. I'm super disappointed with this.

I thought the idea of the tarot cards and the monsters was pretty cool, but they just did nothing with them. And again, I can't really remember this movie. I think it was another one where there was a bunch of off-screen kills. And the only character I can, he's the only one I can remember out of this movie. The fat guy? Same here. Same here. Yeah.

Every scene that's popping into my head is just him. It's just doing something. He's the only one. on that movie. I can't remember anything but him. I was just thinking that. I was like, you know, I didn't hate him and that, but that was it. All right. Number four, I saw this movie a couple weeks ago, and it jumped to my top five, and that is werewolves. Yeah. Oh, okay. So disappointing. But Steve, after listening to you and Phil's review, it did make some parts entertaining, because I was waiting for the, I was waiting for the mom to do the one-liners.

Oh, that stupid fucking cutaway scene that comes out of nowhere for no reason. Like, shit's happening. And then it cuts to them. And it's like, and then it cuts back to the shit happening. I'm like, what the fuck was that? Why are we there for two minutes? She does something badass. And then it cuts to the daughter.

And she's like, yeah. Yeah. She's like, I will defend my house. I will fuck you up. And the little girl's like, yeah. So it was so over exaggerated and over the top. It had like, it had moments to where I was going to leave it off. It had moments to where I was going to leave it off the list, but then that ending, where they just reach out to each other and it just cuts.

Yeah. Yeah. Or how about when the one, when the big bad, like when he just stands there, the werewolf just watches Frank or watches the transformation, you know, you're like, why would you just wait? Why would you just stand there and werewolves are dumb? And why do their faces look like those shoes? But I will say. look like leather boots. I will say I wish they all kept their clothes, all of them,

because there were some werewolves that were popping up that were just werewolves weren't nothing and they were like... I know. Is that Dave? I was like, how the fuck do you know if that's Dave or not? Because maybe Dave always walked around naked. You know what I mean? All right.

My number three is technically my number one worst horror movie. And that's fucking night swim. It's been there since January. There you go. Never left, huh? Still there. But I had two non-horror movies that made it to my top two. Same universe that recently just the studio called the quits on.

Oh, yes. Madam Webb. And number one, Craven the Hunter. Now, Craven gets... First than Madam Webb? Because I had certain expectations with the rated R. With the director of J.C. Shandor. Yeah.

With the star, Aaron Taylor Johnson. Come on. And this movie tried... It's not horrible. It was horribly bad. I thought we're just doing horror movies. I had to cheat this year because... There's no rules here.

I thought Madam Webb was the worst movie and most ridiculous, non-needed movie I've ever seen. Oh, I saw Craven. To Madam Webb, Doug. when the movie starts and you get the wicker fucking spider-man armor on the amazonian people and they're flying around through the trees and they have the spider-man mask but it's like in sticks i was like fuck yeah like we are in dumpster fire territory baby i was all i want to see was Sidney'sweeney and her costume and i think that's told me he

was like you get that for about a couple minutes at the end i was like man have you saw the trailer that was it like you're going to get more of Dakota Johnson and her giant blue blockers. Dakota Johnson, sleepwalking through the entire movie. Yeah. Oh, Madam Webb, what are you doing? He's like, this is supposed to be by character. I'm like, yeah, but that's how you act in, like, interviews and shit, too.

But Craven the Hunter was so bad, and it pissed me off so much that they tried to make this guy a hero, tried to make What was the character? Calypso. Calypso, I believe, is a villain in the comic books too. They made her a lawyer going against, like, greedy corporations.

What? Yeah, they wrote themselves into a corner. Now Spider-Man fights any of these people. He's going to seem like the dick. Like, get this kid out of here. He's a fucking punk teenager starting to shit with... These guys have been through the shit

to get where they're at. Get this fucking kid out of here. You know what I mean? Like, it makes it. Yes, that's the case for Spider-Man. And Craven the Hunter, like, why would he even put on the lion pelt at the end when the whole movie's about him protecting animals? Great question. Great question. It's like there's Sony's Spiderverse. It was like they made all these bad guys that we grew up knowing that were bad, bad guys, bad gals.

And they made them all like anti-heroes. Anti-heroes, yeah. It started more than them, right? Morbius made sense. I was actually, that's why I had high hopes for Morbius. You like Morbius? No, I didn't like Morbius. But I had, I remember when it first came out. I had high hopes because he is an anti-hero. He's a bad guy that also is a good guy.

So I'm like, okay, like that makes sense in the comics. He does have run-ins of Spider-Man, but like they're not always fighting. So, but that movie came out. It was just, it wasn't even Jared Lotto wasn't my problem. It was Matt Smith. Matt Smith ruined that movie. Oh, no. Who did he play?

Like a scientist. He played Jared Lotto's brother. Oh, dude, that movie sucks, too. You got to go watch that shit. But it's not as bad as like. I don't. When the lion bit Craven and then like the lion blood went into the bite hole. I'm like, oh, what the fuck?

Come on, man. So the lion blood mixed with the calypso juice made him super strong Russian men. That's how works in Russia. Craven was my number five movie. The crow was right above it, number four. And then I tried. I try even after that rhino scene it was on our list that was terrible no we took we we watched all the comic book movies that came out this year and then just threw them in in order that that's what we did over on east society all right number nine the watchman chapter one number eight madam web number seven transformers one number six hellboy the crooked man number five craving the hunter number four the crow number three venom the last dance number two deadpool and wolverine number one joker Folly, whatever, whatever.

What? Let me get to... Yes. I'm out of here. Yes. Let me get to... Since I watched these movies, I never seen the second

fandom movie. So I watched that because I had plans on watching the third one. The second one pissed me off so much. I didn't even bother watching the third one. The first two pissed me off. Joker. That would...

Was that your top list or worst? Yeah. I'm not... Number one, my number one best comic movie was Joker. You guys thought that Joker 2 is better than Deadpool and Wolverine? No, that was my list. Theo, his... He's not bad at him, Steve.

Theos' number one was Deadpool and Wolverine. Okay. Now, Joker was my number one. I couldn't even get through Joker to even put it on any list. Oh, that movie was awesome. I loved it. Should have stuck around, Brian. That was a hell of trash.

I love you, but I'm going to have to disagree with you there, man. agreed to disagree. I got it around here somewhere. Where's my steel book? Oh, of course he does. Maybe I want to put it right next to your fucking... Well, well, Nes looks for his steel book of Joker. We're going to throw it to Phil.

He's good. Nez is one of the three people in the world that have that steel book. I know. I thought there was a ton of them in Walmart. There was a time when I was just buying everything, but I've since have gotten picky. Yeah. We got it now with the prices they're throwing. Oh, here it is. Was it five bucks now?

Still, no. 30-something bucks or whatever it was. 4K, that tax. Five bucks. Nez, tell me when you see it in the Walmart $7 bin. I don't know, man. I bought the last one. I don't know how many they had on the shell, but I got it.

I got the last one. I know that. But I have seen certain websites post their top 10 movies at the year and Joker was on their best. Well, some people like it, man. That was at all the comic book movies that came out throughout the year. We watch all of them and then just throw them in our own order. As opposed to that, here's my worst of list.

We'll give some honorable mentions to Strangers Chapter 1. I still think that they could have some place to go with that, but it was just a straight-up repeat of the first movie that came out what 10 years ago or whatever um trap uh ghost busters okay uh and time cut which was uh yeah that wasn't great i had to stop it i couldn't i'm like i don't like any of the words that any of these kids are saying let's go back to two it's very young adult or whatever where everything is pretty much the same yeah it was it was very young adult that movie was not aimed at me So I take that for what it is.

And my number 10 is Founders Day. Okay. Pretty boring. My number nine is the Watchers. Been on every list so far. Yeah. So far, can we go five for five? Number eight is werewolves.

Is that streaming anywhere? I don't got to find it. It's out. there now. I was hoping that was out there before I had to drive it's gone feral. It's gone in the theater. Yeah. Number seven is afraid. It was pretty bad. Yeah. Number six is night swim. That's on a lot of lists too. Night swim four for four. It may be on one of mine, but it won't be this one. That'll be fun. Lean into it, Lance. Do it. Make it your fucking best movie of the year. If I'll explain one.

Number five is imaginary. Understandable. Number four is taro. Yep. Number three is the crow. Number two, and here's where I injected some non-horror in because I'm not following any sort of... Okay, so I did actually follow the, like I just did horror movies for my top ten and some non-horror. horror movies get the honorable mention but for my bottom list number two goes to the new joker movie

awful number one i loved it and my number one worst movie of the year also a comic book movie movie madame web terrible oh okay it was just it was i like everybody was there for a paycheck and they were just reading lines off a script it was awesome if even that right yeah might have been AI generated except Todd Phillips was in the backgrounds yeah one of brothers you wanted a movie I'm gonna give you a move here you go he's doing this all right that's my bottom all right all right lans the worst this is what I think this is what everybody's been waiting for all right this dishonorable mention Dan Stevens for the piccolo.

I still can't believe because of a piccolo. Yeah, that piccolo took me out of it, man. All the nice things you said about that movie. That movie was awesome. The monster with the red glasses or whatever for some reason that showed up in the library and all the bookcases fell down and, ugh, no, not for me. That movie was good. Pedro's right.

You get stuck in one thing. All right. Number 10. Founders Day. Didn't like the way it started. Stupid people on a bridge. I didn't know what the fuck was going on. Didn't like any of the plot twist that were so intelligent for them to put in there. Did not like Founders Day. Number nine, a movie that I loved the original that we watched the same week, Brian. But the new street trash to me was trash. It was pure trash, man. they got these little fucking robots flying around at drones taking pictures

of people and stuff like that and I don't know then you got all the police officers in the end I guess it's supposed to be the revenge of the street people but first movie got it right did you like the original street trash naz was it that's what I was it a remake they were throwing the dick

it's a sequel oh it's a sequel I like the original one it's goofy and everything I mean I was thinking to you the whole time I watched man yeah it seems like a nez kind of movie it's goofy potato with a penis

it's goofy and everything but oh so this new one's a sequel what what do they call it spiritual sequel spiritual huh yeah because it it takes place in South Africa but it references the first movie yeah

okay it's Greenbox that's where I can watch it all right I'll check it out South Africa or New Zealand South Africa or New Zealand South Africa South Africa, isn't it? I don't know. All right.

Number eight, I'll just say, oh, this. Damn, I still need to see it, though. Well, okay. Mine, I didn't see it. It would have to watch it, but it's not good. I'm afraid that Nez is going to find some weird angle to be like,

it's, I actually really like it. I'll see. I'll watch it. If you really want to see Frank Grillo as a scientist's former military special ops guy that constantly is walking around without a t-shirt watched any other

Frank Grillo movie. Taking care of his dead brother's wife and daughter. Take care. Yeah, no doubt. How do you have this relationship if you've done all these things

with this child? You shouldn't have never been around. Do you see what he was wearing when he was out there fixing up her house? He's aiming for something, even if he insane. Like, you don't be walking around like that. Sweat and had his hammer hanging down between his legs. That pose at the end when he stood there and like flexed his like 19 pack in the glistening

something. Like, shut the fuck. Why are you leaning back, dog? To be fair, his dead brother's wife is pretty hot. And to be fair, if I put it, if my body look like that and I put that much work into it, I'd be finding those right sun angles and be like, like, check that. That's true too. Yep, makes sense.

All right. What are we? Number seven, the exorcism. It started out kind of promising. I kind of like the relationship between him and his daughter, but then it went off on this weird angle with, is it a demon, or is he just going, falling off the wagon over and over again, crawling back into the bottle? And I don't know, it lost me. Exorcism, not Russell Crow's best. Number six, the mouse trap. It's fucking horrible. I don't need to say anything else about it. Brian covered all the all the high. points. Number five, yes, it's on all the list, the Watchers. God, this was so terrible. When I left the movie theater, I was like, what the fuck was that scene in the bus where they started playing the Irish song and all this bullshit

about? And then it's like just when you think the movie's over and you finally get to leave the fucking theater, then they got a whole new 20-minute subplot where they're in the apartment and the monster or fairy or whatever's coming out after them. So, yeah, watchers deserves to be number five in the top, in the

bottom five of the year. Number four haunt haunt season basically a lifetime I've seen this movie yeah it had so much potential

so much potential because it was going to be a serial killer in a haunted house how cool is that oh yeah it's a fucking lifetime movie they keep

they keep scenes go away from the haunted house and they're standing out of lake like you know talking sweet nothings to each other

and shit during the daytime skipping stones and stuff it made no sense so hawk season is on there number three I can't give this too bad of a review,

but it was probably the worst movie I saw all year. It's called Don't Turn Out the Lights. These kids are going to a music festival, and they're all tripping, and they get a flat tire on their RV, and then all of a sudden, these people start coming in, and just real paint my numbers, super vanilla, no on-screen kills at all.

I started that. I started that. And turned off, because I was like, this is bullshit. Yeah. Like, I think it was after the second off-screen death. I was like, I'm good. All right. Now let's get into the real milk and honey here.

So we've got number two, uh, trap. This is trash. This is so bad, man. This is easily M. Knight's worst movie. And then, yeah, I guess you guys are right. Josh Hartnett, I mean, he did play kind of a sinister dude, but I like that. Seriously, you guys are talking about the trap door and the leave, it was better than, uh, it was better than, uh,

last airbender. Okay, but you know what? I disagree. I think this, I think this, I think this was worse, dude, because he threw his last airbender. They didn't even say the main character's name right. Oh, I can't do it. Okay, trap, trap, second, second worst of the year,

but number one, far and away, guys, the crow. I guess, I get, yeah, they, you said they call them all something like the crow's salvation. I would call this one the crow abortion. This was really bad. It's terrible. Oh, God, this was so bad. And then, yeah, it's like they're in a, yucky guys are saying, a rehab center for two days. And then their love is strong enough to pull them back from the world of the dead literally.

It's just so bad. In the original, like, Eric Draven got like stabbed and shot and thrown out of a window and all. And this one, they put a bag over his head. That's about it. Like, it just doesn't have the same, umph, you know? Not the same. Yeah, not at all. Like, he doesn't come out of the grave a year later and, you know, go back to his house and have this crazy zombie remembering shit scene.

No, he just, like, wakes up, like, a little bit later. Like, in this apartment and, like, starts doing shit. All right. We are going to move on to our best TV series. Oh, I don't have, do I have a top 10 of the best series? No, we're just one. Oh. Okay.

If you want to throw in some honorable mentions, that's fine. Oh, yeah. Well, honorable mentions, um, basically anything Taylor Sheridan does, except for Yellowstone that I didn't watch, but all of Taylor Sheridan shows. Oh, you need to finish it out. Come on. Okay. Okay.

Um, are amazing. Uh, House of the Dragon was really good. But I think my, my favorite show of the year was definitely going to be Fallout on Amazon. Okay. I'm going to have to give that. It's, it was so good. As a Fallout fan. someone that's played all the games well i mean fallout three fall at new vegas fallout four fall at 76

they they just nailed it they nailed the tone they nailed the settings the looks of the characters looks of the creatures perfect 10-0 10 yes my number one was uh true detective was a season four that was a good season night country uh with the academy award winner and golden globe winner Jody Foster she won an award for this this series and uh Caley Reese awesome she was in it the subject matter that was going on in it

I loved that interview with her she's probably getting too big now we should have got her when that first movie came out but um yeah man it was good uh shout out to Theo he's the one that told me to watch it um because I only watched the first season and half of the second season and then I fell off.

But then when this one came out, he was like, dude, you got to watch it because, uh, uh, that chick's in it.

Uh, Kail Reese. I was like, did you watch season three? No. With, uh, Jumershal Ali and Stephen Dorff?

No, I watched. Fantastic. Very good. Go back and watch that one. I need to finish the second one. The one with, uh,

no you don't. That's all that. Um, um, I need to finish that one. The first season was elegant with, uh, Conahan and Woody Haleson.

So, yeah, I started that. And then I just kind of fell off. And then this one came out and I saw Jody Foster was in it. I was all right. I love her. Let me check this out.

Yeah, man, this was, it was hell good. That was my number one TV show of the year. Will? I think I'm going to, all right. So I'll give a little honorable mention to the gentleman. I thought that was a lot of fun. Oh, I got to see that still. You had another one for the list.

What is that on? Netflix. Okay. Okay, yeah. Is it a follow a movie? Yeah, it's kind of like the movie, but it's got a The guy from Yeah, that guy, that guy, that's a fucking guy, that's a fucking guy.

Yeah, the main guy, when you see him, you're going to say, I've seen this guy, but I don't know. He was in the Demergent series. He played like four. He's in that, going to be in that Stephen King movie, The Monkey. Okay. Okay. And then I sort of have two of them that are a number. I think I'll go ahead and give the edge to fallout.

But my other one is a three-body problem. I had a lot of fun with that one. Couldn't finish it, man. I didn't like it. I didn't like the ending. Oh, yeah. So they sort of had a problem where, like, it was really good up until the middle. And then once you, like, they had the big reveal, it kind of kept going.

And it didn't really get a lot better. So I'll give it that. But it was, I still thought it was a good show. I liked it. Three-Benger problems good. All right, I'll give mine because I skipped myself. Honorable mentions Tulsa King, Season 2, was fantastic. Yeah, nice.

Secret level. Okay. Hit and miss with me on that one. But, yeah, the good episodes, high. And you're a very hot game guy. A series that I didn't know nothing about going in, and I think it made my enjoyment even more greater was a T-cup. T-cup was good.

And Agatha all along, better than most Marvel series that have come out. I forgot about T-Cup. That was a good one, too. But my number one series of the year is Fallout.

Okay. No, nothing about the games, and it makes me want to get into the games now. You got Game Pass, baby. Damn, right. I don't know for you. Mine's going to be a very unpopular pick because it's been canceled already

after one season, but I really got into chaos on Netflix, the one with Jeff Goldblum playing Zeus, where he's like, but it's like a modern telling of the Greek myths. And so he's like out in his yard and he's got this big mansion. And he's got these guys serving him and he just starts shooting him with a fucking shotgun. Like, oh,

you know, like he's taking target practice. He's just completely, you know, chaotic. And it's, it's a lot of fun watching the, the Greek mythos, you know, told in modern day time. So I enjoyed it quite a bit. But, yeah, canceled after one season. All right. Now, I would be remiss if I didn't also mention a Star Wars skeleton crew.

If you're not on that shit yet. I haven't even seen it yet. Okay. That is top tier Star Wars for me right now. Really? What do you think of Ackleite? I did not like Ackleite. I thought that that...

Ackleite, for me, the choreography, the action in that show was awesome some of the best lightsaber force using fighting all that shit you're ever going to see is in that show okay but the acting and the storyline and the set design like it looked like they was fighting and it's like the line for splash mountain at times i'm like what is this bro this shit looks bad man that green chick that looked like a chick painted in green paint that did not look like alien that looked like white lady paint Boy, Pain. Ackleine made my best TV.

I didn't, Skeleton crews all right, but it didn't make my list. I want that, that man kid, someone's something to happen to him. He bugs the shit out of me. I want that man kid to die. Yeah, he, oh, man.

He should have fell off the clip or something. The ship that came out of the other ship in the last episode, one of the best. Don't say too much, man. Don't say too much. I haven't seen it yet. That's all I'm saying.

what's his name uh nick frost his character is my favorite him and that little i didn't even know he was in it that little lobot girl he's a droid oh yeah the lobot girl that was a big fight on star geeks and then neal neil's the MVP neils yeah he's the all-star little max rebeau yeah he's a little blue elephant boy fantastic it's so good all right best of the best steve 10 of the best movies that I got this year. I don't have that on my pad. I have it on paper. All right.

So, uh, yeah. So the, um, the shoutout is going to be, the honorable mention is going to be Deadpool and Wolverine for me. That was the best movie that I saw on the theater. I saw that three times in the theater.

Awesome. Uh, had fun every single time. I'm sitting here looking at my bucket and my, I even have my little cup right here. He's still right here. You know, I got it all going.

Of course. Uh, So, Deadful Wolverine was the best movie for me this year in the theater. But as far as horror movies go, here we go. Number 10, Late Night with the Devil, starring our friend, and our friend who's Brian Canberman pronounce his name, Greg. Dave Dasmaltian. He is a great...

He's a great... Pocodot, man. The Russian guy from Ant Man. Very good. I love when it would go to, like, black and white when we'd cut back and you were like following it in real time. Real time was black and white. And then the show was, I just had a lot of fun with that movie.

Yeah. The in between the credits or the in between the commercials. It was really cool. Number nine for me, Brian, sorry, but it is in a violent nature. Okay. In a violent nature made my list. I did. I was bored in the beginning, but I think there was the scene that really got me to where I was like,

okay, I forgive almost everything. It was when like the cop came at the end and was like talking with the kids and you saw the killer walking up, and you could hear the conversation they were having as the killer was coming up. Yes. And I'm like, I have been on the other end of that conversation in so many other movies where, like, you're sitting there listening, and then the killer comes, yeah, and it's fucking, you know, out of nowhere. And you're like, where the fuck did he come from? This movie, you're watching. I'm like, oh, that's where the fuck he came from.

You guys are just so caught up in your own shit you didn't see. I didn't like this. But then you have to hear a 25-minute story about a fucking bear attack at the end that goes. Only once. Only once. Because now I know I can just turn it off at a certain point and I don't have to watch that other 30 minutes. Now it's a shorter movie

that's more enjoyable. That story made sense to what was going on. But did it need that amount of time to be told? Sure. Absolutely. That was the director's vision. They were given brown panties a time to shine. You guys remember her from Friday 13th Part 2. But certainly that. But it had the best

shorten up that story and take less of take out the walking on the grass scenes over and over and then it's a 10 minute movie I didn't mind but like the walking

but the walking was like it was like three steps and then it would like change to a different location a few more steps it was like it was a lot it was a lot of walking but but I had

I had the best kill of any movie this year that you'll kill yeah that's true I was just like holy shit shit and then he kicks her down the hill it's fucked up of any movie in a long time that was a badass kill

that was great so have to give but it outshined anything else he did in the movie yeah that's true it did but you know i'm glad he did that in the daylight in full of you where we could see everything they didn't shy away it wasn't covered in shadow no cg i blood there i just wanted more to stop watching him walk and then he sits down to play with a little fucking toy car i was like do we fucking need to watch this. Yes. Number eight. I'm going to put Immaculate there at number eight for me.

Sidney Sweeney starring Immaculate Conception. I love religious horror. That's one of my jams. I'm a big fan. I seek those out. And so I heard this was coming out. Checked it out. Very good. A little bit of a slow burn. You know, you really have to be into the story for that to like for you to be into this movie

and I just thought like the end especially with Sidney Sweeney she just I mean that end scene was just like wow second best skill of the year second yeah well that's how you solved that problem Cindy Sweeney don't play around all right number seven I'm going to go

smile two I'd rather like smile too quite a bit not as much as the first one for me I still think smile one edges it out This one felt a little more polished. And the first one felt more gritty. I don't know, more dirty. This one felt like it was, I mean, maybe we're in the pop stars world, so you're just more glitz and glamour.

And also, I'm still confused as to how that guy in the fucking junkie house even got it because Homeboy didn't smile at him. So I'm like, you're breaking your own rules. A little bit of a stretch. Kind of. But either way, like, it was cool. I thought it was pretty cool. the monster thing that she sees at the end was nuts. So it was like, yeah.

Very cool. I like Smiles. Number six for me, Salem's Lot. That might be divisive for some, but I had a blast with Salem's Lot. Kids are not safe. They will fucking kill a kid in this fucking movie. And not only that, like, the kid that was part of the main cast, that was part of our crew, he was awesome. He's one of the best characters at all.

When he took down that screen and fucked up all those vampires, that was close. lunch. I'm like, this kid rules. Yeah, that was really good. I had a lot of fun with that. One of the best scenes was a shot of that movie where the sun is setting. It's like a silhouette with the two kids and the trees and the guy coming up to snatch the kids

and it's all done in shadow. Just very, very, very artsy, very cool. I actually really, really like Sampil Slut quite a bit. Number five, I'm sure that one listener of your guys is going to be pissed off at Terror Fire 3 is going on here. I had a lot of fun with this. It's not my favorite in the series.

I think number two is still the best for me, but Terror Fire 3 is still very good. I had a lot of fun with it. Very graphic. Almost felt a little, like at times I was like, like a snuff film. Like it almost feels too much at times. It's like, okay, I know you can, but do you have to? Number four for me is long legs. I wished this would be higher.

I really liked it, but I didn't love it, love it. I wished, I wanted this to be my number one. When I saw the trailers, this felt like it had all the, make is to be like the next silence of the lambs just the vibe that it carries the way that the shots are set up the lighting and it got there and Nicholas Cage was cooling it

I really liked it I don't know what I was missing I felt like there's something missing from it but long leg was very good number three movie I watched with you guys here on this show Alien Romulus fantastic I don't like the monster at the end but everything other than that

is really good that movie Too many issues with that one. It was a good year for movies. Dude, the facehuggers and that were nuts. So I had a lot of fun with that. Number two for me, the substance. That was a good one. Demi Moore, Margaret Quali,

fantastic body horror movie. Just kind of goes, those in places I didn't expect. And if you're a fan of body parts, check this one out because you get to see all the bits. Literally. Number one for me. This one, I'm sure it's going to be on everyone's list. Probably not at number one. But when I was thinking about my favorite horror movie of the year, this one, I liked every single character, plenty of gore, plenty of on-screen deaths, big time freaking stakes as far as like who's dying and how. Abigail, for me, is the number one.

It put, it put, it put, it changed up the fucking vampire, not changed up the vampire genre, but they did a really, really. good job with it. The child actress, if she didn't kill it, that movie wouldn't have been good. She could have ruined. Everybody else could have acted the same exact way, and it would have been a shit movie if she wasn't good, but she crushed it. Kevin Durand was great. The girl that I don't really like from Scream and all that much in those movies, but she was great in this one. It's so good. And also, Dan Stevens. Some of the most scenery-chewing Dan Stevens, you're going to get outside of a Godzilla movie. Like, this shit is so good. He just handed it up. I loved it.

I really loved this year. Abigail. Abigail, for me, really good. So that's my top 10, the 20-20-fold. All right, Ms. Well, Brian, I think I need to go next because the wife's going to make me give up the room here, so she came in and get to sleep. You're ruining the flow, because everybody's anticipating your list.

Because I know Steve noticed that there was a certain movie not on your bottom list. Okay, all right. Keep the rotation. Keep the rotation. She can wait. I'll go through it quick because I need to go too. Keep popping their heads in here. Number 10, this is a late one for me.

I know some people didn't care for it, but I thought it was an amazing film. I loved it. Nosferatu coming in number 10. Haven't seen it yet. Number nine. It's worth seeing. See it. It's IMAX.

It's gorgeous. Come on, Siri. I don't want to talk to you. My next number nine, Terrifire 3. That was cool. I loved how you can just kill kids right in the get-go right on. Santa Claus costume. My son and I was up.

My son was like, damn, really? That's how they got started. That one, you know. And they did. I didn't know what to expect. Number eight, Abigail. That movie was awesome. I loved it.

I was not expecting much out of that film. I was like, okay, whatever. I'll check it out. But, oh, man, the blood, everything. So much of it, awesome. Especially after they spoiled that in the trailer, like that she was, a vampire i was like why are they going to spoil them the trailer you've ruined it no no they didn't very good number seven salem's lot i loved it i wished it was three hours but they they did what they did

with it i thought it was a good film i liked it i watched it a few times uh my next one uh late night with the devil uh i thought that was a really good film i loved uh what they were doing and how they shot it all and uh the story and everything it got a little goofy with the effects but it was still cool i liked it i've watched it a few times i still need to pick it up i haven't picked it up yet i know there's a steelbook out there but i don't know if i want to drop that money on it um but anyway yeah you do yeah you do uh where was i four i oh number wait what was that one two three four um my next one uh immaculate awesome awesome movie i thought it was amazing sidney swini I love you if you're listening

and this was better than the first omen because the first omen was bullshit bullshit. But immaculate, it was an amazing, amazing film. I loved it. I picked that up somewhere. I didn't see no steel books, but if there is, I'm going to get it. My next one, I loved it.

Hugh Grant killed it in this movie. I didn't really think it was a horror movie, but it's got a horrific situation, but Ayrotic. That movie was really good. I loved everything. was going on in that and to see Hugh Grant in that type of role. I'm used to seeing him in just some maybe serious role or... Rom-com.

Yeah, so I thought he killed it in this film. My next one, the substance, amazing, amazing film. Golden Globe winner did me more awesome performance with her. I love her. I've loved her since the 80s. And she's still beautiful now. She's like 60-something, probably like maybe 59, when she filmed the film,

but she just let it all out, which was amazing. And holy crap that once upon a time in Hollywood chick really worked out for this movie. It was crazy, man. My wife came in at the end. It was like, what's happening? She just saw the end.

And she was like, oh, my God. That was nuts. When we were watching the Golden Globes, she goes, what she went for? I said, the substance, that movie you watched at the end. She was like, what? And I don't know why they put it in the musical or comedy category.

I was like, all right. Yeah, that's kind of weird, right? It was neither. But I was happy. I was happy she won. It was an awesome film. Give her her a reward. I ended up just buying it.

I didn't see it in the theater. Everyone was telling me to see it in theater, but I never made it out to it. And my number two is long legs. I thought it was awesome. And it was scary. I had to make sure all the doors were. were locked and everything before I went to bed. Nicholas Cage hit or miss with me sometimes, but I think a lot of these roles that

he's been taken lately has been, has been awesome. Not so much for that other one. What was that other one that's on Shudder? Arcadian. Yeah. That was a paycheck. Yeah. Maybe he bought something.

But a long leg. He's not going to go. Michael in Roe, too. He should be, she'd be paid off by now. He puts out like 10 movies a year. So, but, yeah. Like, so.

Micah Monroe might be like my favorite horror actress right now. She's a, yeah, it was a good role. Gorgeous and freaking good. I like her. Well, my number one of the year,

I loved every minute of it. The cinematography, it was like playing a video game in a violent nature. This movie was fucking awesome. I loved it. Oh, man. I sat in the theater.

just like glued to the screen. I'm going to wonder if everybody's going to have any of nature. Many times on Shutter over and over again. And I just couldn't believe how awesome this movie was. I loved it. It was just like it was something different. I mean, like you said, like, oh, this killer just comes out of nowhere.

We get to see him walk up and doing it. And just how they did it. I don't know what they're going to do with the next film. I think they should just leave it alone. Just one and done. I thought it was hilarious, too. The one scene where they cut away from him for a little bit is like he walks into the water. And then like they cut to those two girls talking.

And then the next thing, he's just, she just, whoop. I like the scene. I like the scene that was filmed by drone, where the drone went overhead and filmed that scene. You guys remember that one? Because I was, I was wondering. As I was watching it, I'm like, what are we doing here? What are we trying to do? Because, yeah, there was just him.

We just see the back of him. Yeah, it made you scratch your head, right? It made you question. I was kind of like, what's going on. But when the movie was over, I was like, oh, I see what they did. They did steal a lot from, well, a little bit, not a lot from Friday the 13th part two. That's probably why they put that lady in at the end. But I like, I liked it.

The original script was written as a Friday the 13th kind of reboot, and then it got denied. And then they changed up a couple of little bits here in there to make it make sense. Because when I saw the. trailer, I thought it was another Friday of 13th film. I was like, all right, cool, cool, right? We haven't had one in a billion years. We still haven't had one yet.

I don't know about this TV series, but I'll watch it. I was just like, okay, let's see what it is. A lot of people go, is this going to start a new franchise? I hope not. I think it would just ruin it. I don't want it to. For me, for me, loving this film, I think it would ruin it.

Just leave it alone now. I don't need to see why he was buried. Yeah, I don't need to see that story. Calling it now, Dave Greenlit the second one. When you guys watch the second one, you're going to go back and say maybe the first one's not that good. Okay, I'm open to that. I'm open-minded. I have a feeling that they won't film it like they did this.

It'll be like just a regular slasher horror film. I mean, that's why I loved it. I mean, Slashers genre being my favorite, which I love. and don't ruin it and I know they're going to they are if they're going to continue to make these films and I'm just like

just leave it alone. It was fine. A little indie movie got to surprise it was in a theater and I'm glad I saw it on the big script. Let them use that as a stepping stone to give them the part of the 13th franchise. Don't make them make a whole franchise out of this. Look, here's your proof of concept. Let them have fun.

Yeah, we can do it. Here, give us Jason and let us go with it. I don't know what they're going to follow them if they got to start it all over again then hey i'm all for it but i'm still waiting for a part 11 for um uh jason beyond on earth too that's what i want i that's what i want jason x too yes everyone everyone's saying that the the reboot reimagining and whatever that one was and was a 2009 or whatever and that was everyone no that was part of it that was not part eleven i don't care what anybody says that was still i thought that one's pretty good then and jason goes a

hell is still the worst one out of all the Friday 13th films. Fuck that movie. Awesome kills, but I hate it. I think that documentary's coming soon. Yeah, when is that? It was supposed to be out like years ago, wasn't it? Yeah, well, we'll watch it still. I'll still watch it, but I don't know what they were trying to do. Once New Line got a hold of it, oh man, but they brought me back with Jason X because that movie was fucking awesome. But yeah, in a violent nature is my number one horror

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So many witchboard reviews. We got that new one coming when that new one comes out. And we're going to do witch trap next year. Or this year. Hopefully, Lil, if you're listening, brother, I'll see you in Orlando

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We'll see you guys next time. Party on. All right. All right. Thanks, bud. All right. I'm jumping to my list. I'm going to run through it quickly. Honorable mentions, cuckoo, speak no evil, heretic, fetal Jew, Thelan's Lot. And I don't give a fuck what nobody says. Godzilla and Kong, the new empire. Fucking bad ass. There you go, man. There you go. It's fun. My parents hated it, too. That's all it is. It's just fun. We already have a giant fucking glove for his broken hand. It's fine.

We just happen to have one laying around in the shed here. Dan Stevens, no piccolo, Lance. No piccolo. Dan Stevens, top tier Hollywood talent, bro. I'm telling you. All right. Number 10, Immaculate.

Love Sidney's performance in it. And you guys already said enough about that scene at the end. Shocked me. I didn't even think it was going to go there. Number nine. He's in trouble. Number nine, A Quiet Place Day one.

Loved La Pita Nyongos performance in that one. I love what they, the situation they put her character in. I thought it was different from everybody, everybody else characters we've already seen throughout the franchise, so I love that. I let that motherfucker die. Yeah. Oh, Joseph Quinn.

Next year we're going to have the biggest weenie of the fucking year because Joseph Quinn, Scoot McNary. Scoot McNary. The husband or the boyfriend of Winona Ryder's from Beetlejuice. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Justin Thoreau.

Top three weenies of the year. Number eight, late night with the devil. Love that David Dalsmulchin. I get it? So close. The smelching. Okay. I love that he...

I love that he finally got a chance to shine in a starring role instead of being another movie where he's a supporting cast member I like him. He's good. One non-horror movie that's in here is Dune Part 2. I know a lot of people didn't like it because of the

length but I just love the universe and the mythology and everything that the world building that they did for that movie and the cast was amazing. The effects was amazing. Where are we? number my next one

is long legs love the performance Michael Monroe never disappoints number five Alien Romulus doesn't doesn't matter what Ned says about the placement of the asteroid in space

that was fine with that I did not get hung up on any of that I didn't bother you know I love the characters especially I'm a got his name of the Android. Oh, the vision? God damn it.

No, it's a, it's fucking Bilbo Hobbit. It's Bilbo Baggins. No. It's not Bishop. It's not Bishop. Brooke. I don't have it. Her, the main, the main.

Damn it, Lance. I'm going to make this take on. The lead actresses is a companion, Android. Oh, right. I forgot about him. He was, Andy, Andy, Andy was fantastic. Andy, there you go, Andy. Number four, terrifier three.

Not as good as the first two terrifiers, but damn, it was entertaining and it had some memorable kills in there. And, uh, Sienna, come on the show. We love you. I love you. Oh, yeah. Please, we know she's listening, so, you know, come on the show. She's, she's responded to some social media posts, so. Okay. All right. Come on the show.

Oh, yeah. Number three, a movie that I've watched probably three or four times this year alone. And that's Abigail. Super fun. Nice. Yeah, I agree with you. If she, if Abigail wasn't, if she didn't knock it out the park with the performance, the movie would have sucked. But that actress did an amazing job, not only playing a little girl, but playing a two, 300-year-old vampire.

Mm-hmm. And the cast was amazing. Convincing it hits. Everybody. Every single character. Dan Stevens hamming it up yet again. Plus exploding vampires. Esposito was in there.

Fucking hamming it up. That's right. Guess. When Kevin Duran tackled her like midair, that was fucking awesome. She's like floating there. He's like, wait. I was like, holy shit. He might have been one of the MVPs of the movie.

Just that scene where he's being chased through the hallways and he says I got a vampire on my ass. Vampire all my ass So good Number two And this again was another movie Based off performance Naomi Scott's performance And Smile 2

Knocked it out of the park For me And my number one movie Yes she was Number one movie of the year for me Was the substance Nice A little bit of everything

Body horror A little bit of humor in there the effects were amazing and margakwalee no kidding wowza we need to do that scene again I'm like yes yes we did yeah let's try to do that again

just double check it all right Phil all right I'll get through mine quick here all right this is like I'm gonna Lance is it honorable mentions are

Asrael was actually pretty decent. Really? That's got our girl. I was pretty bored. No, you didn't like the little devil baby at the end? Not Marco Robbie. It's pretty rare you get to see a little goat-faced devil baby at him. Yeah, that's true.

It was pretty interesting. Not a lot of dialogue, but it was a different kind of movie. The Platform 2, a lot of fun. Alien Romulus, Dune 2, speak no evil and only because I didn't put it on this list because it wasn't horror, Deadpool, and Wolverine

but that was a great movie. I loved it. Yes. Excellent. All right. My number 10 is Immaculate. Great movie. Nice slow burn. Sydney, Sweeney did great. Abigail, oh, nope.

VHS Beyond is my number nine. Okay. Yeah. Oh, that makes sense. A lot of fun one. Aliens. Lots of aliens now. And Abigail is my number eight, actually. Great movie.

Terror Fire 3 is number 7. Nosferatu is number 6. You really like Nosferatu. I just see that movie. Yeah. It was a kick-ass movie movie. I don't even think I mentioned it. That's some of my dishonorable mentions.

Ouch. Wow. You didn't like it. No. See, and I almost put in a violent nature. of my honorable mentions for the top. But it sort of falls in between for me. Yeah, fair enough.

Heretic is my number five. Really had a blast with that movie. Long Legs is number four. Smile 2 is number three. Late night with the devil, I put as number two. Nice. And my number one is the substance. Nice.

All right. That's making a lot of lists. Yeah, a good movie, man. A lot of great body horror. They did a great job with the special effects. I like the idea of it. The story was good. Demi Moore was pretty great.

And, yeah, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood chick, she's somebody's daughter. Andy McDowell? Yeah, that's who she is. Yeah, she's Andy McDowell's daughter. Yeah, it looks just like her if you really think about it. And she was smoking fucking high in this movie. You ain't lying. All right, Lance.

This is what everybody's been also waiting for. So many, yeah, so many good movies this year. It was a really good year. I could easily add 12 more movies to this. But, all right, honorable mentions. I'll go through them real quick. Blink twice. Super original concept.

Really good acting, good direction. Smile, too. more of what we got in the first one, which was good. Abigail, you guys have all talked about Abigail. That's honorable mention. Salem's Lot, really, really enjoyed this remake. And final honor will mention is Strange Darling. I thought that was kind of neat the way they twisted it.

Okay, so top 10, my number 10 is actually the substance. But it does still make it on here. It was just a little too far out there for me, especially in that final act. But hey, you know, to each, teach their own. That final act is what got me, because at first I was like, I don't know, but the final act was like, okay, this is wild enough to make it. It's fucked up.

It's fucked up. Number nine, here's a surprise, Steve, a little to be original movie. The little to be original movie that could, low lives. Talk about it, twist. I wish that I would have, I thought that came out in 23. I didn't even look at it. I thought it came out in 2020. Maybe it did, but I'm counting it, man.

I'm counting that. That movie is so good. And it's even better again if you watch the trailer after the movie because you're like, holy shit. How did they spend that? Total misdirection. Yeah. So good.

All right. Number eight, I was a sucker of the Americanized version of Speak No Evil. Probably because I watched the original one with AJ and she was so fucking pissed at me at the end that we had to get our Americanized version on. So, yeah, but James McAvoy, man, wow, he was really good in this. He might be one of my favorite actors. He really is, isn't he? Everything he's in is good.

Seven, I think everybody's mentioned late night with the devil, right? Yeah. That's number seven, six. Nobody's mentioned this one. Oddity, just a great little, you know, small. It can almost be a play. but it's just, it's kind of like a ghost story, but it's in the single setting.

I thought that weird skinned in. He looks kind of creepy, but. I really enjoyed it, man. I got a creepy feeling after I saw it. Number five, the aforementioned long legs. Definitely a director that's going places. Number four, another one nobody else has. I saw the TV glow.

Just bizarre, punk rock. It was, it. Yeah, that's why I haven't seen. Tina. It's the story about someone that is born a way they don't want to be born and they live through hell because they push that down and they, it's very, it has a lot of extra meanings, Philip. But the, for me, the effects in it were amazing.

The effects in it were amazing. And that one scene where like he has the memories, but his dad's pulling him like through the room and then pushes his head through the TV. and yeah it's that ending too where he's he's trapped in hell and he's just like screaming because he's working in that little chucky cheese shop and trapped it's just but is that what it is i kind of didn't understand really what the movie was like getting that it's weird it's weird it's weird you could read some articles and you know but everybody's going to interpret it differently so um yeah that's that that's my weird one number three brian in a violent nature it's just

I love the way that it took your expectations and subverted them, especially in that final scene. I think that's the only... That made everyone's top ten, but your bottom ten. That was weird. Well, Pedro, it was on Pedro's bottom ten, remember? Oh, so that's truly divisive film. Divisive film, by definition. Number two, Immaculate.

Everybody's talked about that. And number one, far and away, Hugh Grant deserves the Oscar now, Heretic. So that's it for this. year. The question I want to ask you real quick, Lance, don't want to take any more time. Did we pressure you into not putting night swim on any list? No, I fucked with you. I fucked with you.

Dude, I gave it a six. I gave you a six. It wasn't going to end up on here. No way, no how. But it was a very good year in movies. I thought you were actually going to put that on like the number one. It was my favorite because we had so much fun talking about it all year. brought so much fun to the show.

It would have been number one if it had starred day to hunt. We promised you no more nights when talk. We're into 2025. All right. New Year. Okay. Now we'll find the next movie to shit on it. That may be next week because Matt is going to really, Matt's got us going here. Next week, our patron Matt Wood, gets his way with a commentary of the John Waters classic pink flamingos.

never watched it have you guys I don't even know what it is I know of it but I've never seen it All right well we're going to experience it So uh Steve until the horror returns again Good night