The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #479: Ghoulies (1985) & Critters (1986)

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

Steve from The Geekz joins us this week to talk some tiny creatures. Cool of the week includes Fantastic 4, Heads of State, Gangs of London, and Squid Game 3. Trailers are Sweet Revenge, Hell House LL...C : Lineage, Keeper, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and Whistle. The podcast spotlight shines on Ghouls Gone Wild. And we get feedback from Sharon Mchugh, Todd Haig, Pamela Grimaldo, Joe Allen, Mark Komarzynski, and Xim Vader. 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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Starting point is 00:00:09 Regings victims, for those of you who delight and dread, who fantasize about fear, who glorify gore, welcome. You have found the place where the horror returns. Listeners beware. This podcast contains major plot spoilers. and the foulest of language. Join us in celebrating the old and the new, the best, and the worst in horror. Welcome back, everyone, to The Horror Returns.
Starting point is 00:01:02 I'm Lance, and with me as always, we've got the co-host. We've got Brutal Brian, fabulous Philip, and sparkling Steve. what's going on guys like one of those fucking twilight vampires or something I like that better than mine you're fabulous Phil you're sparkling oh man what's up what's up with the geek Steve
Starting point is 00:01:32 this isn't your only gig so what else is going on we've actually been kind of slow lately because a little been traveling and so we actually had to skip last week doing a fantastic forward drop that review this week and then our whole Comic-Con recap. Like we luckily, I got to take last weekend off. It was real nice.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Very nice. Yeah, free time. We had a couple more of the, or I had one more of the Geeks Court shows, which came out, I thought really cool where Sean argued that he thought Return of the Jedi was better than Empire Strikes Back. He made some valid,
Starting point is 00:02:09 he made some valid points. It is a much more fun movie. It's got a lot more like fun to it. you know um but it's not a better movie and so how we do it there is we let the listeners we put a poll up at the end of the debate and we let the listeners and the viewers uh all vote and that's how they we decide who wins and ed is now two and oh on geeks court okay okay all right so that was fantastic for oh that's on my that's on my i don't know of the week oh wow okay yeah Yeah, I've got to hear a little.
Starting point is 00:02:46 I haven't made it yet. I finally made it to Superman, but... Oh, you saw Superman? I love Superman. Yeah, I thought it was great. I thought it was good. I don't want to call it Superman, but... Do you like anything?
Starting point is 00:03:00 I do. I love a lot of stuff, man. What? Bring her back in centers. That Fantastic Four is pretty good. Oh, it's good. You saw it, Philip? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:14 It's good. I just feel like... Like, like, I feel like some characterizations were a little off. And they didn't really do much. Their car was awesome. You know, they had some really cool stuff with the car. But like Mr. Fantastic, barely fantastic doubt. And he was kind of a dick, the whole movie.
Starting point is 00:03:31 And like Johnny Storm is like, he's like a womanizer. And he's supposed to be a womanizer. But he wasn't. He was kind of like John. Oh, he wasn't a womanizer. Well, he sort of was. I mean, his whole thing. I mean, spoil away.
Starting point is 00:03:47 You know, I'm going to see it no matter what. I know, but that he only liked that because he could see his own reflection. He's weird, man. That's not wrong with a boy. Something awful about dude. He needs to see a psychiatrist maybe, huh? I thought it was good. But then like, there's like a stinger at the end and like, I'm like, fuck you.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Like, we all know who it is. Why you hide in his face? What are we doing here? Oh, okay. Maybe if you didn't parade him around at a convention, a year. ago this might be kind of shock but like at this point i'm just like oh fuck you you sit through all the credits you know i'm going to show me right ricks um but no it's it's still a great look i'm i have nits to pick and gripes and all that sure but like we still got to see an awesome galactus and silver
Starting point is 00:04:31 surfer fucking rocked and yeah right you know uh i thought ben grim was great i loved herbie um and sue storm like finally she's not just like you know there's not like funny jokes about her was being invisible, you know, like Jessica Alba. She actually gets to do some cool shit. So it definitely wins there. But for me, if you're telling me, like, which one of the July movies, we're going fantastic for Superman, my money's going to Superman. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:59 I think Superman takes the edge. See, I'm kind of even on both of them, I think. I think maybe I like Superman a little better. Superman was just, I think it was great. Like, the character of Superman, I thought David Corrin, so I did a good job. But for me, it was also the ancillary characters. Oh, yeah, a big time.
Starting point is 00:05:20 Fucking crushed. I want, they're like, we're going to do a show. I'm like, get it. I want all of it. Make it 20 episodes, all an hour long. Right. I'll take it. He's so good.
Starting point is 00:05:29 He'ller Lex Luthor. Great Lex Luthor. I like it. Yeah, Lex Luthor was great. I liked crypto. They could have overdone crypto. They could have easily overdone it, and they did not. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:40 What's that, Brian? I think D.C. was listening to your guys. review on Superman. Oh man. That was a hard review for me. Yeah, I felt really bad. There was high scores, but nobody was on your side. I was alone on the island. That Jimmy Olson show they're talking about doing, they're going to introduce
Starting point is 00:06:02 Gorilla Grads. So I think they were listening to your comments on there. It was weird to make that particular character of Jimmy Olson such a ladies man, because it doesn't make sense. Yeah. But I mean, like, that's kind of, look, I grew up, I was born in the 80s, I grew up with a very simple, plain idea of what, like, the beauty standards of Hollywood are. Now they're just throwing it all into the fucking out the window.
Starting point is 00:06:28 It's just like, whatever, we're going to put these really basic people out there and we're just going to tell you they're super hot and we're all going to buy it, right? And I'm just like, I can't, I can't do it. Stop putting these fucking fours in front of me and telling me they're 10. It's not true. It's just not true. It's okay to be a four. I'm fucking barely a four.
Starting point is 00:06:48 But, you know, no one's paraded me around calling me a 10 either. So, you know what I'm saying? True. But yeah, everybody go listen to their review and listen to Steve, fight off three other people. Even though there were high scores in there. Yeah, it was two heroes and two high side kick and a sidekick. And strangely enough, Alil was the one that had my back most. and he's the Marvel guy
Starting point is 00:07:13 it was it was Ed did go back he did kind of teeter on a high sidekick I thought for sure he was I thought for sure he was he loved that he came in full Lex Luthor cosplay yeah right
Starting point is 00:07:26 and then he's like I didn't like it I'm like what the fuck what's the costume for then so yeah that was that was a fun review nice all right but yeah the Fantastic Force
Starting point is 00:07:40 I would probably give that a high side kick. Is that your cool of the week, Philip? Yeah, I think Fantastic Four is my cool of the week. I had a fun time with it. It's way better than I thought it was going to be. I expected it to suck a lot. Easily the best Fantastic Four movies we've ever got.
Starting point is 00:07:59 That wasn't a high bar. My not cool of the week. I don't know. I don't know if it's a not cool or if it's just a, Yeah, there's a freaking happy Gilmore, too. I liked it, man. I thought, there you go, Brian, I liked it. I thought it was fun.
Starting point is 00:08:22 I liked it. I didn't hate it. It wasn't bad. Shocking, you liked something that somebody else didn't like. It just wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. I liked. What the fuck were you looking for, dude? I liked the tournament at the end.
Starting point is 00:08:36 I thought that was fun. Right? Yeah. It's a crazy tournament. All sports movies have to have a tournament. at the end. You need it. Of course. Absolutely. Showdown, right? Yeah. Where I see dead people has got some kind of superhuman strength.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Now, the callbacks on that were a lot more funner than what the fuck did we watch last week. I know what you did last summer. Oh, yes. That's true. It was definitely a better movie than that. Absolutely. I listened to your guys' review on that and I'm like, well, I have to fucking launch it.
Starting point is 00:09:13 So I watch it. Do you though? Do you though? Wow. That was a dozy of a movie. Yeah. I was just, I'm like, I can't believe what I'm seeing from, like, the inciting incident. I'm like, just call someone.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Yeah. You've done nothing. You don't even do anything. Right. I thought the same thing. The whole point is just thrown out. And they tried to scream. They tried to scream it.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Like, it's always. only ever been Ben Willis even shockingly in part three it was still that motherfucker it was weird but it was I still can't get over the
Starting point is 00:09:52 I have to make them remember Jesus Christ they're trying to erase us and like the thing is about that that whole turn is that that is a great idea in concept take a legacy character
Starting point is 00:10:07 turn it on its head it hasn't been done yet right Like, you know, they could have done that screen. They didn't. Right. But like, I thought it was an idea that might work. But the problem is that it was executed so poorly and his acting was so bad. So bad.
Starting point is 00:10:21 So bad. Not good at all. Yeah. So bad. It's like, why, is Fray Prince Jr. is just a really shitty actor? Would it? I guess so, man. I still chalk it up to, they didn't include these characters until they were already filming.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Mm-hmm. Because I think they had a whole other script. ready to go if they would have said no. They had to introduce somebody else because it was the same problem they had with Scream 6 where I'm like, yeah, well, that person can't be the killer because that person's way too small to have lifted up this other person, you know, when the other killer was in the room. I don't, none of this, you know, logistically is making any sense.
Starting point is 00:11:00 And when they did the reveal and I know what you did last summer, I'm like, well, you're way too small to do any of that. Yeah, but they had two of them. You're so tiny. Did you just get your ass whooped by the... No, right. It was the what are you waiting for, line where my eyes rolled out of the fucking head.
Starting point is 00:11:19 How did she say... How did she say... What are you waiting for? It's still, though, but you know what? It's still better than Part 3. It's still better than Part 3. No. Did you watch Part 3?
Starting point is 00:11:30 Did you watch it? I'm going to have to now. I'm not sure I knew that there was a part 3. Listen, part 3 takes place... It's fun with the ghost, right? Listen, part 3 takes place and call a fucking rotto. Not near any port where you would have a fisherman killer.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Sure. But he's still there. Oh, you think. Oh, and if you watch it and anybody has epilepsy, be careful because that movie has a lot of flashing lights and flashbacks. There's so many dream sequences. They're like, what is happening? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:03 Yeah, that was rough. I'll always know what you did last summer. It was a pretty rough one. we're doing the wrong turn series this year for 31 days nice that's so like i like all of those so far we haven't had i mean even the i think the third one was the one we last reviewed and that one was like the worst so far but oh big but like it was a really good kill in the beginning like you got boobies right away and then an arrow right through one of them right in the nip i'm like well
Starting point is 00:12:32 here we go like we're on to something here and then right so far has been a pretty cool soon You guys will get there. Well, there's seven of them. So, yeah. That's all right. Wasn't there one with Henry Rollins in it? Or am I thinking of it? That one was part two.
Starting point is 00:12:48 That was great. Okay. That's right. Henry Rollins was awesome. And then I've seen the last one, the one that came out in like 21, 21. Oh, the remake. That one was really good, too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Right? Not bad. Yeah, I love the remake. I'm starting to check out Naked Gun. I'm excited about that one. Oh, yeah. I want to watch. I've heard good things.
Starting point is 00:13:09 Looks funny. Looks funny. We'll see how it goes. Fantastic four, huh? Fantastic four. For fabulous Philip. Happy Gilmore was just ma'am. Okay. Happy Gil, ma'er.
Starting point is 00:13:23 Yeah. Steve? Cool. I think the coolest thing I've seen, it's probably been heads of state recently. Oh, come on, dude. I had so much fun with that. Dig deeper than that.
Starting point is 00:13:37 I can't because everything else I've watched recently has not been that good. But the heads of state was fucking awesome. That was a lot of fun. It's funny. It is kind of fun. It's a throwback action movie. It's like a 90s action movie. It was a great time.
Starting point is 00:13:51 Wait, is that the one with John Cena? And Indyselmins. Yeah, they're political. I got you. Air Force one scene was top shelf action shit. It looked great. It was really, really good. It was really, it was fun.
Starting point is 00:14:05 It was fun. John was in a former action. star that becomes president. Dude, it's a movie in which everybody in the world loves the president in the United States. It's a nice escape for a couple hours, okay? It's idiotocracy. The president is a fucking
Starting point is 00:14:22 WWE champion. Oh, for president, come up show. Yeah. It was really good. Well, it's just because every, I saw that, and then I also saw Jurassic World Rebirth. That movie also sucks. So like,
Starting point is 00:14:37 No. I don't know what to do. I'm like, I can't. There's no cool. The only cool I saw was the damn that was heads of state. The problem I had watching Jurassic World Rebirth was that the whole time you could tell it was people making a movie. At no point was I ever transported. You could just see the act. Very formulaic, very paint by numbers. Yeah, there was a couple of cool dinosaur scenes, like as you would normally get. But other than that, like the story is like, we're all going to go here and do this thing. like you're all stupid I won't say it is better than the last one because I still can't finish that one
Starting point is 00:15:14 Oh yeah That's another rough wash Is that where they were auctioning the dinosaurs Brian? No that's two That's that's a fallen kingdom Where they put all the dinosaurs in the basement I hate that one Dominion is Lance
Starting point is 00:15:29 Dominion is the one where they tried to bring up Bring back all the legacy characters Oh Yeah they had like C and Neil running around Sam Neal. Yeah, Chris Pratt. And those big bugs.
Starting point is 00:15:41 It was mostly about bugs, fucking like crops. That's right. Yeah, they were like in a laboratory or something like that or I barely remember it. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:49 To see bug dinosaurs. Yeah. Well, I didn't really want to see the Rancourt dinosaur they cobbled together and threw in this last movie either. So,
Starting point is 00:15:59 like, show me some cool things that are real. There's cool dinosaurs. Well, I mean, it's all made up, right? Like,
Starting point is 00:16:04 we don't know that's what dinosaurs look like. That's our best. That's probably true. Best guess. I saw this thing
Starting point is 00:16:08 where they gave us... They probably looked like giant ass chickens. Probably so. Yeah. I seen this article where they gave this scientist guy
Starting point is 00:16:17 a skeleton of a hippopotamus and they were like, do, you know, what would this animal look like? That scientist drew some wild shit that was not a hippopotamus. So like,
Starting point is 00:16:29 like alien stuff? Who knows? Who knows what they look like? Maybe they had fucking wounds. I don't know. I mean, it would make sense. with the little arms, right?
Starting point is 00:16:38 They seem more like wings than arms. They put them a little further back on the shoulder blades. Oh, they can easily be fucking up the anatomy. It's just a big ass chicken. The first T-Rex to go on the head was two different dinosaurs that accidentally put together. So they don't know what the fuck are you serious. That's why in the lane before time,
Starting point is 00:16:56 you always seen them T-Rex is standing up straight and walking on two legs like a big dope with his two arms in front. And then the time the 90s came around, he was long, you know, because they're like, right, fucked up. interesting science the more you learn the more you realize we don't know shit shit about shit no nothing
Starting point is 00:17:15 crazy out there so yeah cool the week head to state Brian let's see the daughter wanted to jump into the whole conjuring universe because she hasn't seen anything outside
Starting point is 00:17:32 she's seen the first two conjuring movies and I don't think anything else after that. So we watch the first three conjuring movies. I really hate the second one. It's fucking stupid.
Starting point is 00:17:48 The second conjuring movie? All you need to do to defeat the demon is say its name and the way she got the name was she asked it. She asked the demon for his name. Get the stupid.
Starting point is 00:18:03 Yeah, but that actually kind of makes sense in in the in the in the lore of it all i guess it's just the way it played out yeah give me your name and then she blacks out and then she has a flashback and it's like oh i know the name and then finds the demon i know the name valet and then you give patrick wilson singing songs sure true uh what else uh I checked out the home with Pete Davidson. Ah, okay. I've been wanting to see that.
Starting point is 00:18:40 Not bad. It's a straight role for him, not comedic. He did a pretty decent job. Basically, he gets into some trouble and he gets offered community service or jail. And he's like, fuck it, I'll do community service. And they're like, you got to go work at this old folks retirement home. okay good set of when he starts working there
Starting point is 00:19:05 like strange shit happens and then he's trying to figure out what's going down and there's some twisty turnies in there there's a scene where Pete Davidson just goes all out fucking crazy and there's some
Starting point is 00:19:19 there's some gore in there that I wasn't expecting either it's not the straight whore it's more like a psychological thriller okay but it was pretty decent I'm all in. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I'm all in. I got to get to the theater this weekend. Yeah. And I guess my cool of the week will have to be a finished Squid Game 3. Okay. I do agree with Phil. This all should have just been one season. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:51 But they did an excellent job. They always make you like root for certain characters and then they just take them right away. Right. Yeah, that's true. Like, I think my favorite episode was the Hide and Seek episode. Yeah. That was a pretty good one.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Yeah, that's it. Oh, finished a stick on Apple TV Plus. Did they end it on a cliffhanger? Yeah, and I'm glad because Apple renewed it for a second season. Yeah, Apple's usually pretty good about that. They'll give them a shot.
Starting point is 00:20:30 unlike Netflix or some of the other networks, right? Yeah, it's a good, feel-good story. I mean, I had to watch something after Squid Game. All the characters I was rooting for are just taken away. What a surprise. Okay. So that's it, huh? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:52 I let my Netflix lap, so I haven't checked out Squid Game. Did you? Yeah. I'm going to get it back. I'm getting back. I just, I wasn't watching it for so long. my Netflix is $26 a month dude I really need to think about letting that lapse but you know
Starting point is 00:21:08 they're really against the cruise industry right now I watch the poop cruise thing yeah and there's there's another one where this lady gets like kidnapped from a cruise in the 90s and she's still missing I'm pretty sure she's alive in Barbados somewhere yeah they're like Living the good life, right?
Starting point is 00:21:32 Or, you know, stolen into sex slavery and now she's, yeah. Living the good life. Living the good life. That's one way to look at it, I did. Always look on the bright side of life, man. Come on. She doesn't have to pay rent. All right.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Well, she may live on Barbados. I don't know. It's still unsolved. You never know. The lime and the cocoa. that, right? My cool of the week's easy. Easy, easy, easy.
Starting point is 00:22:05 And I'll bet some of you guys have seen it. But first, let me talk about Dexter. It is fucking amazing. This is easily the best season of Dexter since the John Lithgow season. And we now know how Peter Dinklage fits into the timeline. And it is glorious.
Starting point is 00:22:26 It is one of the best roles I've ever seen, Peter Dinklage play. He was awesome an elf, right, when he jumped across the desk. But yeah, this is awesome. Yeah. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:22:40 my cool of the week is a little TV show that my brother's been trying to give me to watch for like three years and I finally started it. Is Peter Dichlidge in that one too? Sorry. This one's on
Starting point is 00:22:56 AMC Plus. And I think Netflix for like another two weeks. Gangs of London. The show fucking rules. I told you to watch this years ago. Oh, you told me too. The action in that show is wild. That's so good.
Starting point is 00:23:13 Jesus Christ. You're hooked. They hook you in the first episode. They hook you in the opening before the title credits even happen. You're like, holy shit. Is he dropping that guy on fire off of a building? The bar scene in the first episode? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:30 The big dude with... He uses a fucking dart from a dart. He fights with a dart. The second episode with the big dude that has the butcher knife. Yeah. The cleaver, the meat cleaver. God, the hand-to-hand combat in that is wild, dude. They don't hold back on the gore either, do they?
Starting point is 00:23:52 Uh-uh. Have you seen it, Phil? No, I'm watching it. Get on that shit, dude. Dude. Gaines London's really good. The Gangs of London. Yes. What's it on?
Starting point is 00:24:03 The first two seasons are on Netflix. Okay. But they're all on AMC Plus. Okay. Yeah, and the fourth season's about to drop really soon. Got to get caught up. Did you like the raid, Philip? That movie where they had to get to the top of the building?
Starting point is 00:24:22 Yeah. And fight their way up. Yeah. Same. The director of that is the showrunner. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay, I remember talking about this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:31 Yeah. All right, that's it. Brian, I guess that means it's time for horror headlines. Indy, any Sandy, I don't know if our correspondent, Nez is going to show up or not, send him an invite, but he's got a lot going on. But we got to have some news, man, right? After Comic-Con?
Starting point is 00:24:50 Comic-Con news. Yeah, we got some horror news. Let's see. Greg Nictero is going to have a horror. competition series on Shudder called Guts and Glory. Okay. And it said, Guts and Glory is an unscripted horror-based competition show that
Starting point is 00:25:09 throws contestants into immersive, practical effects-driven scenarios inspired by horror films. Still not quite sure what that's going to be. What are you guys visualizing here? Like a competition show where they put in scenarios from horror films. It could be cool. Okay. They do all the makeup work and get out of the scenario, probably.
Starting point is 00:25:34 A whole bunch of saw reenactments. How do you get out of there? It could get a little too real. Like an escape room reality show? Yeah. Jesus Christ. This will premiere on Shutter and AMC Plus September 9th. Right?
Starting point is 00:25:52 Amazon trying to push that AMC plus shit. Oh, yeah. No, they do MGM Plus. That's right. That's right. That's the big... I'm not surprised. Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Starting point is 00:26:04 And then I was just like... Just Bezos needs to pay for another weekend out, you know? Yeah. Then I was just like, fuck it. I don't need AMC Plus. I'll just get Shudder by itself. Shutter... There you go.
Starting point is 00:26:13 Not under $10 anymore. What? It's like $11.99. Inflation. I bet you they just keep raising my price. Terrorist. I mean, I had Shudder when it was $5 a month. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:27 That's what I'm saying. Okay. Things change, boys. Let's see. Here you go, Lance. The Walking Dead Darrell Dixon renewed for a fourth and final season. Okay. Boy, I didn't know it was that far.
Starting point is 00:26:43 Oh, man. I didn't either. I stopped after one episode. No, that was the Negan one. I stopped after one. It was so fucking stupid. I couldn't get into it, man. Oh, that's right.
Starting point is 00:26:55 You went off to France or some shit. Yeah, now he said it in. Didn't they like the first episode, like he wakes up in a boat, like on the shore of France? What the hell? Yeah, I guess you're just here now. How long are he sleeping? He must have broken into a drugstore or something. I threw him the towel and the walking dead.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Like after the jail season. I've still not finished the original series. I at least did that. Whatever season, I think we last were viewed on the show as an episode. That's why. Is that where Negan popped up? I don't remember. Okay.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Maybe it was pretty interesting, although that prison season was lagging. Was it? But it was interesting up until Negan got there and then it got silly. Was that the season where? She was, Carol had to tell that little girl to look at the flowers. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of that shit.
Starting point is 00:28:08 It's like you wait all week and then you get this fucking plotting episode and it's like this sad little girl gets murdered. And then it's like, all right, see you next week. I'm like, I don't need this anymore. There wasn't even any zombies. Like, a bunch of shitty people. The zombies are the good guys. I'm going to go save them. Maybe she's on something.
Starting point is 00:28:28 Let her get in. all right casting news for Garth Ennis's horror comic adaptation of Crossed which is basically the sadness Oh
Starting point is 00:28:45 Devin Druid and Ash Santos will play the leads and it's kind of weird they're announcing it now because they said filming is also wrapped What? Okay. I was happy.
Starting point is 00:29:04 Good for them. The sadness. I got my cross fix with that. I don't, you say this is going to be a horror comedy? No. Where'd you hear comedy? I thought you said horror comedy.
Starting point is 00:29:16 You got a weird sense of humor, Lance. Where does comedy come into this story? That was nothing funny about the sadness. That was crazy. I said horror comic. A horror comic. Okay. Well, does it?
Starting point is 00:29:27 Does this make you feel better? Same director as the sadness is doing the cross. Oh, okay. Maybe a little bit bigger budget. That movie was wild, bro. They did some shit. Yeah, it was awesome. You can't unsee when you watch the sadness.
Starting point is 00:29:44 You're like, well, I've seen that now. That's going, right? Yeah, that's burned in my head forever. Have any of you guys played the video game, the mortuary assistant? No. Nope. Okay. Well, Shutter Greenlight, a movie adaptation of the video game.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Hmm. I'm surprised Steve hasn't. I am a gamer, but I don't play everything. I think from what I read, the game, basically you're doing stuff in a mortuary, and you've got to stop demons from possessing corpses and stuff like that. That sounds cool. That sounds kind of cool, actually. let's see
Starting point is 00:30:28 Brian Fuller's Dust Bunny gets a release date of December 5th and this is a fairy tale horror that stars Matt Mickelson Sigourney Weaver David Dalsmaltian
Starting point is 00:30:40 and Sophie Thatcher Dang Yeah I got a little cat Sold Fairytale horror Nicholson Yeah
Starting point is 00:30:49 A quick synopsis for the movie The film falls An 8-year-old girl Who asks her neighbor to help to kill the monster under her bed before the Who Ate Her Family That sounds awesome already Who knows, yeah
Starting point is 00:31:04 Never heard of it, but it sounds awesome Just from the cast Skeet Ulrich joins Five Knights of Freddy's Two Ah Skeet And he's not going to be playing a ghost And a de-aged version of himself
Starting point is 00:31:21 Right, that's cool I don't know why we haven't seen more of Skid O'Reyerke I feel like he should have been a big star. You think? You don't like Skeet either? I mean, he's okay. We had two seasons of Jericho. He was the main character.
Starting point is 00:31:35 Oh, I love Jericho. Oh, I got so pissed. He was like the new Johnny did there for a second. I know when they didn't do another season of Jericho. They did a season three of Jericho as a comic book and it's garbage. The art sucks and it's stupid. But it starts off right in the plane, right? Where it ends off in season two.
Starting point is 00:31:55 And you're like, okay. And then it goes, that show is so good. Jericho is so good. And finally, I wish Nes was here right now to talk about this news because he was in San Diego Comic-Con at the Jason Universe panel. Right. They announced that a Friday to 13 sequel movie and sequel game are officially in the works. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Okay. But that's pretty much all. they can really say about it. The last Friday the 13th game that came out for the Xbox was really good. That was kind of like one person plays as Jason, five or six people play as, you know, the camp counselors or whatever, and they got to escape. It was like 20-minute rounds. It was good.
Starting point is 00:32:40 It was pretty cool. It was like an all-online thing? Yeah. I got you. That's it. It's the news. That's the news. It's kind of sex way us to our first trailer, which has to do with this announcement.
Starting point is 00:32:53 Yes. Indeed it does. All right. Well, we got a double-wide trailer park, so what's the first one, man? First one is, I don't know what they're calling it. They're not calling it a short film or a fan film. They're kind of like a vignette or some shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:12 Vignette. Sweet revenge. Like what, like 20 minutes? It says here 13 minutes. Okay. Sweet revenge. Director and writers, Mike P. Nelson. I believe he did the wrong turn remake.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Oh, wow. Okay. Spoke about that earlier, too. I'll start it off with this one. When they show concept art of the new mask, I did not like it. It looked fucking stupid. But this, I don't know if it was the lighting or just the way they shot it. It kind of worked for me.
Starting point is 00:33:55 Okay. and this kind of fits more I don't know when they say sequel movie are they going from the original series or the remake the 2009 one because this kind of felt more and long underlines of the 2009 hmm
Starting point is 00:34:14 definitely not definitely not the TV show that's for sure no but they had that scene like from the original where he pops up and pulls her into the water Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:29 Oh, that's true. I feel like that's kind of like the Stone Cold Stunner though. You know, that's like a signature move. Wasn't that in the new movie too, though? Wasn't that in the new movie too? Didn't they allude to that? I can't remember. I know at the end he popped out of water to grab the girl,
Starting point is 00:34:49 but she wasn't on a boat. She was like standing on a dock or something. Yeah, he went out. Jason Vorey's likes. He's a synchronized swimmer. You know, he's got really good control over his body. He's launched himself up out of the water. Right.
Starting point is 00:35:06 Well, he's lived down there for years. Ironically drowned, you know. Yeah, I know. And I don't understand why people are getting mad about this vignette, short film, whatever you want to call it. I'm a fan of Jason Friday the 13th. I'm happy to get something. We haven't gotten anything since 2009.
Starting point is 00:35:29 Yeah. Agreed. Good point. Did you like the 2009? I like that movie. I mean, I don't know about it being like a remake of the original, but I thought it was a good movie. Yeah, I liked it. It had some fun kills in there.
Starting point is 00:35:42 The scene with the girl that was hiding under the dock, she could stab in the head, lift up, you know, tidy showing. I remember that one. That was really, I do remember that one. So good. He uses the dock planks to pull his knife out of her. Yes. That's really good. So.
Starting point is 00:36:00 This looks exciting. I was kind of shocked because I didn't know it was going to be a Friday of the 13th shoutout until, you know, 30 seconds into the trailer. And I was like, I know what this is. The girls all look really scared and terrified. And he looks brutal. Looks like he's just smashing through shit and, you know, looks really good. Do you think this is a, even though they can't say anything yet, possibly a prequel to the movie that they're developing? Why do they, why does it have to be so secretive?
Starting point is 00:36:33 Like, don't they just have the rights now? Like, why is it all so weird? There's still. Just do it. There has to be an agreement between the two people. Somebody has a really high opinion of themselves and just won't. You know what I'm saying? Like, ah, dad, you only live once.
Starting point is 00:36:50 Why are you waiting? Come on, just make this shit happen. What are we doing? Mm-hmm. Yeah. They're trying to give you money, bro. And I think they haven't locked down, finalize whoever the production partners that are going to be for the movie.
Starting point is 00:37:03 The competitions is still going on, huh? Yeah, I wish they would fucking do something about the damn nightmare on Elm Street. This has been, what, 2010 was the remake? It hasn't been anything since then. Yeah, don't bring back Jackie Earl Haley, that's all I say. Well, you also need to,
Starting point is 00:37:23 Freddie Grewer can't be a didler, right? We can allude to, but you can't just make that full of Didler. like that was not his role man he was a child murderer he they alluded to they yeah I'm pretty I'm pretty sure I've read a lot of the lore that he's talking about they alluded to doing some weird shit like picking the kids pictures and putting him in his book yes yes yes but in the jacket or hey the movie they were like show me on the doll where he touched him and the kid showed you know like it's like my bottle my wee wee
Starting point is 00:37:58 And he worked Where did he work at a child daycare? How many days? He was like the groundskeeper or some Literally, He was groundskeeper Willie They took the Simpsons episode Lord
Starting point is 00:38:15 All right Sweet Revenge I'm gonna hit here I believe on YouTube August 13th All right And next up is
Starting point is 00:38:29 final movie, Lance, Hell House LLC lineage from friend of the show, Stephen Cognetti. Yep. And I believe this is the first movie in the
Starting point is 00:38:43 franchise that's not going to be found footage. Ah, okay. We got to get Cognetti on the show again. I think this motherfucker's going to jump the shark. How do you ruin a franchise?
Starting point is 00:39:01 Bring in a fucking exorcism. Jesus Christ. I'll email him right now if you want him on the show to tell him. Please. I haven't seen it yet. I can't say it sucks. I'm just worried. I'm concerned.
Starting point is 00:39:17 But you've liked every movie. Anytime you bring a Catholic priest into a movie universe, I'm just saying, something weird happens. Yeah, but it's a, It's a universe of evil demons. I think that makes sense. Sure.
Starting point is 00:39:34 I'm just going to exercise the house. You blow my mind every week, Lance. You've liked almost every movie in the franchise. This one, Catholic priest in the trailer. No. Yeah. Oh, shit. Were you an altar boy when you're a little,
Starting point is 00:39:51 Lance? You have a fucking miss some like dark secrets. You're like, I hate Catholic priest. I'm a fuck ass. Look, I'm just afraid it's going to go the fucking exorcism route. I do not want to see another exorcism on film for a while.
Starting point is 00:40:05 They're gonna be like in front of the house. Throwing water on the house. Like the power of Christ compels you. Oh, you like the exorcism of Christ. What am I talking about? That fucking piece of shit. It was terrible, dude. The exorcism of God?
Starting point is 00:40:21 Yes. They were rules. What are you talking about? You're crazy. The exorcism of God. They turned a Jesus statue you into a monster that was scary to shit and all the exorcisms too sexy time it's exorcisms it makes sense that steve would like it because it looks like you're watching a video game that cg i's so bad go ahead philip little second this guy is tripping right here this guy
Starting point is 00:40:46 is full of that hot water he's on brand though lans i'm still waiting for you you said you like things and then you refuse to name things you love. I love the Hellhouse movies. I'm just worried about this one. I can't say if I like it or not. I haven't seen it. And fucking, I'm speculating. What the hell was that goddamn movie? I want to say swim fan. That wasn't it. Night swim. Night swim. That was okay. No, it wasn't bad. That was Bisprey man. It was not good. Okay, Steve. I believe you guys reviewed all the Hell House movies. Yes, but it was a few years ago.
Starting point is 00:41:31 I don't, they're kind of all blending together, but I do remember, I remember scenes, but I do remember being fond of the series. I think I remember liking the first one more than all the others. Yeah, those first couple were pretty killer. Yeah. But this trailer looks great.
Starting point is 00:41:46 I like that they brought that demon clown guy back from the first one, who's pretty prevalent in the trailer, so it looks pretty much. Did Hellhouse have a haunted house, like an extreme haunted house where they beat the shit out of people or is that a different movie? That was the first one. Right.
Starting point is 00:42:01 That's the first one. And like it all went to shit. Oh. That was really cool. They had like the interior cameras that they kept cutting back to and splicing together. Yeah. That was really good. Because there was definitely some haunted house stuff.
Starting point is 00:42:13 Yes. But I think I'm maybe thinking of a different movie. Yeah, maybe. Oh, there was good. Hant was good. There was one where these people went into like this extreme haunted house. Okay. And didn't realize what they were signing up for and got like stuck in coffins and shit.
Starting point is 00:42:31 It wasn't hot. It wasn't hot. It was something else. All right. Let's keep thinking. What you're describing. It sounds awfully like hot. Maybe it was hot.
Starting point is 00:42:42 We'll just go with that. Like word for word. Well, you, Philip, you had to check out McCamey Manor, dude. Are we still going to do that this year? You said you were ready to sign the 700-page waiver, right? What is that? Is that where they beat the shit? out of you. Yeah, they waterboard you, cut off your fingers.
Starting point is 00:43:00 Yeah, you're not pulling my teeth, dude. Yeah. I went to a, I went, last year, I went to one of the extreme haunted houses out here. And like, yeah, they made you sign, you know, before you go in and I was, you know, you went in. Well, of course. But like, they didn't, they didn't like touch you. Like, I was, you know, they got real close. They get like right up in your shit, but like, they don't actually touch you, touch you. I'll swing on you. Like, yeah, I don't. touch me, dog.
Starting point is 00:43:29 You guys going to sign a waiver too? Yeah. Right. But no, that was like a, that was one where they were like, yeah, we're going to, we can, we can waterboard you and pull your fingernails out and yank your teeth out. And I'm like,
Starting point is 00:43:44 uh, no. Bear you in mud. I wouldn't sign that way then. All right. I'm finding somebody. Hellhouse LLC lineage. in theaters October 2nd.
Starting point is 00:43:59 All right. Very cool. Well, we'll see it. Who am I kidding? Yeah. You'll love it. Me and Phil hated. Probably.
Starting point is 00:44:08 That would be ironic. I don't know. Okay. Next up is Whistle from Corn Hardy. I thought the name was familiar, so I just looked it up. He did one movie I liked, one movie I hate.
Starting point is 00:44:24 He did The Hollows. that Irish folklore movie lance It wasn't bad But then he did the nun The first one and the second one I thought the first one was alright Well I wasn't a huge fan
Starting point is 00:44:41 I mean compared to the second one That second one True True Yeah true I was alright on the first one I thought the first one was alright No he only did the first one
Starting point is 00:44:52 Okay Give a chance then right Steve sure i mean i thought that this trailer looks pretty cool the the death whistle the as tech thing or whatever um and then sc got daphne kean lord have mercy so it's a good movie it's a cool idea i mean i the aztec death whistle thing is pretty is a little scary i like it was that nick frost at the end of the trailer yes yeah the new haggard yeah yeah yeah yeah Okay. You all excited for that on the Harry Potter TV show?
Starting point is 00:45:30 I kind of am because I'm reading through all the books. I'll watch it. Can't say I'm like excited. I've never even seen all the movies. Who's Harry Potter supposed to be? What happened to the Harry Potter reviews? I've been telling them we should do them. They keep telling me like that I never say that we should.
Starting point is 00:45:52 You always say we can't do it. Like what do you? When do I get to make the rules anyways? I clearly remember you finally agreeing it to do the movies. So long ago. Yeah, and then nothing. Yeah, I take the blame a lot. Hey, Steve.
Starting point is 00:46:10 Who's Harry Potter? I say, what's that? The unknown kid, new kid. Unknown kid. Steve, I say we all do the Harry Potter show from Universal Studios. We can make it a tag. A tax write-off, right? That's what the rich people do.
Starting point is 00:46:29 Yeah, we got to figure out a way to get everybody, get the government to pay us to do this shit. Right. We'll apply for a grant. Lance, what did you think about whistle? Oh, I'm loving it, man. This is my favorite of the trailers. It looks, yeah, the death whistle thing is creepy as hell.
Starting point is 00:46:52 And was that like a little shrunken head or something like? that and that's bizarre and yeah Nick Frost I mean you can't go wrong with with him so I'm I'm all on board when's this one coming out this is the one I'm looking forward to for some reason it just says expected 2026 I was this close to buying an Aztec death whistle and I got ptoed by my wife a real one yeah well yeah you really thought about that yeah it makes it say no more It makes a really cool scent. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:27 It's like, like the engineering behind it is kind of cool. Yeah, like, you've seen the videos on like, you know, the guys on Facebook would be like in Walmart and they'll just blow that whistle and scares that shit out of everybody. That sounds like a screaming woman. It's crazy. That's cool, man. Fun toy. All right. Moving on to Silent Night Deadly Night.
Starting point is 00:47:52 Hell yeah. which I did not know in the trailer they said which is in Centiverse fashion they will be releasing this unrated okay okay I'm looking forward to this this had like a retro grindhousy feel to it I like the narration felt old school 80s and it looks like some good slas for fun Santa Claus with an axe accent people can't go wrong Unless you make him into a robot, like that one stupid movie. Movies awesome. I'm looking forward to this one.
Starting point is 00:48:30 I like that movie. Everybody did but me. There we go again, Steve. Well, you'll probably hate this movie, Lance, because it stars Rowan Campbell from Halloween. Okay. Was that the little kid that he took under his wing to be his protege? I don't know if he was a little kid. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:53 I'll give it a shot. I mean, Christmas and murder, what can be more fitting, right? Yeah, this is also directed. Like peanut butter and jelly. This is also directed by Mike P. Nelson. I'm going to be honest with you, a lot of the horror Christmas movies blend together for me. Like, if you give me a title, I couldn't tell you which movie that was. But that's why I didn't understand.
Starting point is 00:49:19 We got that movie that you brought up Phil with the killer robot Santa Claus. that's different shit all over that movie well hey at least I remembered it right yeah what about that David Harbor one came out
Starting point is 00:49:35 was that last year I loved that oh that was fun awesome that one was fun I was waiting for a sequel for that and there was one with Mel Gibson
Starting point is 00:49:45 too there was one with fat man fat man rules that's a good one time with with a that had um
Starting point is 00:49:53 what's his name Walton Goggins was in that. That's right. That's right. Well, he's really picking up the face now lately, isn't he? Big time. All right. Silent Night Deadly Night.
Starting point is 00:50:07 Yeah, like, if you go on YouTube, like they're playing his damn Walmart ad, like, every five minutes. He's got like Walton Goggins. I don't think it's real, but it's part of a commercial. Yeah, that makes sense. All right.
Starting point is 00:50:23 Silent Night Deadly Night hits theaters December 11th. Okay. And our final trailer actually came out of a few weeks ago, but we missed it, and it is Osgood Perkins Keeper. This trailer looked a little artsy, a little extra Osgood. I mean, you know, it has the quick cut, right? So it's like all these girls are looking really happy, and then cut now they're all looking.
Starting point is 00:50:56 super scared and covered in blood and screaming and all that. I've watched a few movies over the past week that have been felt really artsy, you know, almost like too much for its own good really. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. You know, and like, Osgood Perkins isn't like that.
Starting point is 00:51:17 I don't think. Like, I like long legs and I love the monkey. But this one's, I don't know, I feel like he could. I feel like Osgo Perkins could very easily. good into the schmaltzy a little too much area. He's going to go all art on this one, huh?
Starting point is 00:51:33 Maybe not this movie. I mean, the trailer was striking, but I don't know. I don't know how you guys can tell what the hell the movie's about from the trailer. I know. It wasn't very long.
Starting point is 00:51:44 I don't know. I'm assuming it's about somebody, the keeper, taking all these women and doing bad things. Yeah, this is the second time I've seen the trailer. And it looks like it is different time periods.
Starting point is 00:52:00 Oh, that's interesting. So. Okay. That could be a good twist. So maybe a madman kidnapping women for decades? Yeah. Or like an eternal demon kidnapping women throughout time. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:52:20 Doesn't look to have very much humor that we got in the monkey. Also. And the synopsis doesn't seem to go with what we watched. A romantic anniversary trip to a scheduled cabin, secluded cabin turns in sinister when a dark presence reveals itself focusing, forcing a couple to confront the property's haunting past. Okay. Well, maybe they find all those tapes or something on the property.
Starting point is 00:52:48 That sounds like a cabin in the woods set up. A little bit, yeah. And the couple is going to be played by Rasef, Sutherland. Donald Sutherland's other son. Okay. Rossif is his name? R-O-S-S-I-F.
Starting point is 00:53:03 Uh, R-O-S-S-I-F. Rossif. Hey, Rossif. Get out of hell. Fucking celebrities, dude. Why? Why? Get a normal name.
Starting point is 00:53:13 I know. Like, uh, Bob. Like, Dylan Musk. Elon Musk. He was like Cygnus X-1 and stuff like that. Yelling, gruffling. You're throwing in things that aren't even letters. Come on, me.
Starting point is 00:53:24 Right. Well, you can't name him Chris if his brother's keifer. Well, why do you mean his brother, Kiefer? I guess. It sounds like somebody that smokes a lot, you know? That's true. I can see that. Kiefer Green.
Starting point is 00:53:40 The salsa stars Tatiana Mislani. Okay. She's great. Yeah. What is she from? She-Hoh. The monkey. She was the mom.
Starting point is 00:53:50 Oh, oh, okay. And she-hook. And, uh... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it, Orphan Black? Yeah, great, great show. She was the hot one with the dreads and Orphan Black, remember? She was all of them, Steve.
Starting point is 00:54:07 Steve's handpicking the one he likes and going to bad memory. You don't like hot soccer mom with the glasses? I like the Dreds. Okay. All right. Now we know what you taste like. I'll buy a blonde one. They're all up there.
Starting point is 00:54:26 But the dreads is top. That's all, you know? Okay. Fair enough. Just don't have some suggestions. All right. Keeper expected release date, because it is still in post-production is November 14th.
Starting point is 00:54:44 And that's it. All right. On to listener feedback. This week, we're going to shine the podcast spotlight on the Gools Gone Wild. Now we're talking. how we're talking. The Goals Gone Wild podcast focuses on spooky topics, including ghost, schools, and other paranormal happenings.
Starting point is 00:55:08 The podcast features discussions about horror movies, music, and other related subjects. Two hosts, Christina and Jess, explore haunted locations and delve into creepy subjects twice a month. Another podcast with a similar name, Goals Gone Wild. All right. That's the exact same name.
Starting point is 00:55:30 What's happening? Is hosted by Adam Gourak, who also hosts the Pink Sock podcast and discusses music, horror movies, and other topics. So we're shouting them both out. But where are the boobs? I guess so, huh? Like, which one is it? They said, thank you for the shout-out. And they said they're also on YouTube and everybody, if they can't, go subscribe.
Starting point is 00:55:56 All right. Oh, I got you. Okay, so one of them is ghouls gone wild, and the one we talked about today is called the The Gools Gone Wild. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, I think I fucked up when I was... Get the show description off the internet. Sorry, sorry the Goals Gone Wild.
Starting point is 00:56:15 Goals Gone Wild, you can find them wherever you stream podcasts, and they are also on YouTube. All right. Check them both out. In regards to the Daryl Dixon series, Sharon McCaw says Watch this Watch this all twice and loved it
Starting point is 00:56:32 Okay All right Darrell Dixon in France In regards to Sweet Revenge Trailer Todd Haig says This still looks like that trick commercial
Starting point is 00:56:46 Where the zombie pops up Have y'all seen that one? I have no idea it was I'm not sure What are you talking about Todd Is that like where the car is driving on the road And then you're supposed to follow the car And then the zombie face kind of pops up
Starting point is 00:57:06 Oh, probably yeah Probably yeah I think that was a commercial though Yeah, I just like that's a funny video To show your little brother or something Okay Pamela Grimaldo says I have a Halloween theme for a ringtone during Halloween
Starting point is 00:57:23 That everyone should Yeah everyone should Why just during Halloween, though? You know, that's the right question. Yeah. In regards to the interview with the vampire series, Michelle Ostrom says Lestat's new glam rock vampire look is everything and more. Can't wait for season three.
Starting point is 00:57:44 Yeah. Me either. They're actually going to follow the books, unlike that atrocity that they tried to make like a weird nine-inch nails type, La Stott, if you guys remember that one. Oh, I don't know. remember when they made it. They were like, you know who's the voice of the generation is?
Starting point is 00:58:01 Jonathan David's from corn. I was like, I don't know, man. Like, I mean, I like corn, but like, yeah. Right. I mean, poorly tired. I hated them. Have you seen a trailer for that spinoff series? Which one?
Starting point is 00:58:21 The new one. Talamaska? Yeah. I haven't seen it yet. Uh-uh. Okay. That's pretty good. Yeah, even though I'm not caught up with any of the shows.
Starting point is 00:58:32 Okay, I'm all caught. They're like an organization that hunts. It's hard to explain. They're all humans, right? None of them are superhuman. They don't hunt so much to study them throughout the years, and then they'll pop up and get involved at certain times. And there's things they're not supposed to do that later they do.
Starting point is 00:58:52 Like one of them becomes a vampire, which that's like, no, no, no. Do not do that. So it's pretty good, man. It's a pretty good storyline. There's no books dedicated to them. So it'll be interesting if it's going to be like a monster of the weak thing. Because they get involved in all of them. They're involved in the witches.
Starting point is 00:59:13 They're involved in the mummy book this year wrote. They mentioned the vampires and witches in the trailer. Yeah, it could be interesting. Maybe they've got other creatures out there to introduce. I don't know. All right. All right, and Joe Allen says, what am I talking about? Oh, okay, I think we're still interviewing the vampire.
Starting point is 00:59:39 I was like, wait a minute. Joe Allen says this is one of those rare examples of an absolutely perfect casting. Oh, Lestat? Yeah, absolutely. It's exactly how I, well, I don't know, Tom Cruise kind of surprised me in a good way, but yeah, this dude looks exactly like what I picture. You don't like Stuart Townsend? in like a
Starting point is 01:00:00 that was the one I'm talking about I think that was bad ay ay all right in regards to the fan poster for alien with Jonathan Davis voice
Starting point is 01:00:17 A part of my That's That's I'm Clarify You know That's pretty I like corn too, but it's ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:00:35 You're not making a good case for that, see. I like all that old shit, though. That was my time, man. I was a Lumb biscuit too. I know. I'm ironically, still listen to Lund biscuit. See, that was a fucking metal snob when corn first came out. I was like, the fuck is this?
Starting point is 01:00:53 That kind of was too. Yeah. Yeah, see, Philip and I are more old school, man. All right. Fan poster for Alien. Mark Komersensky says this art looks awesome. I would venture to ask where Jones the cat is, but I think it would look comical
Starting point is 01:01:10 if his little cat face was mixed in with the other characters. Yeah. Nice observation. Yeah. That could work. In regards to Alien Earth, Mark Komarzinski says,
Starting point is 01:01:23 looking forward to this. I love the alien universe, so I hope it doesn't disappoint. far the previews are promising. They are. I've seen a couple of trailers for it. It looks kind of cool. I think Tuesday. Is that one that's coming out?
Starting point is 01:01:39 I think the first two episodes drop. Nice. All right. I might have to wait and binge him, but we'll see. In regards to the long walk poster. Zim Vader says I choose walk. I think the poster
Starting point is 01:01:55 says walk or die. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. I saw the new trailer for that one. I am really looking forward to that one. Yeah, I'll definitely watch it. It looks interesting. All right. That's it for listener feedback.
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Starting point is 01:02:32 All right, featured attractions. Let's get to it. We give due credit to the little creatures in the movies. Let's start with Peter D. Klitz week, huh? I mean, there are some midgets in this movie.
Starting point is 01:02:50 Yeah. There's some gooies. But we're going to start with critters. Start with murder from 1986. A group of small but vicious alien creatures
Starting point is 01:03:04 called Peter Dinklage. Called Crites. Escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth
Starting point is 01:03:21 pursued by two shapeshifting bounty hunters. Sounds a lot like Lilo and Stitch. Director is Stephen Carrick, also known for Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. There you go. Writer is Dominic Muir, also known for Evil Bong 2, King Bong. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 01:03:47 And The Ginger Weed Man Goes to France. This is a movie I didn't know existed. It exists, man. Grover's Bend, the town where most of the critters takes place, is a nod to the infamous 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds by Orson Wells. The broadcast reported aliens were landing in Grover's Mill and was performed so well that thousands of listeners believe the fake news report was true. Just like today.
Starting point is 01:04:19 Real history. All right. Steve, going to start us out. on critters. Yeah. Real quick, Steve. When did you stop acting? I know.
Starting point is 01:04:35 I do kind of look like that motherfucker from Norville. But he has much more bright red hair than I do. I never thought about that before. The ginger. I was watching. I was like, when did Steve change his name? He does look often familiar. I was watching it.
Starting point is 01:04:52 What's funny is I was watching it going like, Like, why is that kid so familiar? And I don't look at him. Right. Oh, son of a bitch. But Orville. I love critters. Now, you could probably poke a lot of holes in it, but this is old school and nostalgic fun for me.
Starting point is 01:05:10 I grew up on this fucking movie. I've watched this movie countless times. And it just gets better every time. I love the subtitle humor that we get from the critters. I love the puppets. I love their designs. I love when they keep attacking the dad on his fucking left shoulder. you know, over and there's just a lot.
Starting point is 01:05:30 And I like the bounty hunters, you know, Terrence man, I thought did a great job. You know, I like that, the song that plays throughout the movie. Right. It's a terrible song. But it's fantastic that when the little boy comes in his room and turns it on, it's like, strangers in the night. It's like, yes.
Starting point is 01:05:48 But it was like Steve Elliott. I was like, isn't that the guy from Def Leppard? Like they did a whole movie. music video. They had this dude jumping off a stage doing a fucking karate kick in slow motion. Like, God damn, they really put some effort in. So 80s, right? I love the alien shit, too, the weird alien tech in the beginning.
Starting point is 01:06:09 Oh, yeah. I love 80s alien movies where they're talking in perfect English using exactly how we would talk to security departments on Earth. The imagination is so small. But then you get like the visuals and it's just so wild. It's just a classic. I love this movie. So it's going to, you know, we can make fun of it all day.
Starting point is 01:06:32 It's a terrible movie, but it's so good for me. Nostalgia love, man. But is it terrible? It's, I mean, it's cheesy. In its own way, right? Yeah, it's, you would call it a B movie, but it's just so good. All right. Brian, what do you think?
Starting point is 01:06:51 Yeah, I agree with everything Steve said. The cast is phenomenal. I don't know. We got Dee Wallace. Yeah, a very cute, Dee Wallace. You got a young Lynn Shea, young Billy Zane. Yeah, Billy Zane popped up.
Starting point is 01:07:05 I was like, holy shit, that's the dude from the Titanic. Yeah. And like I said, I got a, you know, hand clap for Steve's performance. Very likable as Brad. Even took the heat for his mentally challenging buddy. Yeah, he's, Brad's a real one. Maybe he's just a drunk.
Starting point is 01:07:28 Yeah. He is. Even faced with losing his slingshot, and he was still like, all right, fine. Sure. Yeah. Good, good. But he's a sneaky fucker. He's like hanging out by his dad's window and his dad ain't.
Starting point is 01:07:40 Like, oh, man, the cartoon animated faces he makes. It's just gold throughout. Oh, so good. And Brad is a straight menace. He's talking about he's making firecrackers. He's making straight bombs. Yeah. Firecrackers that can blow up a spaceship.
Starting point is 01:07:56 He's making his own firecrackers. I love this kid. I kept laughing every time he referred to him as firecrackers. I got my firecracker. Like, that is a stupid pipe bomb. You're just running around with that in your pocket? Ah, boys will be boys. And then there's something I never really thought of.
Starting point is 01:08:22 Are we root for? the wrong side here. Possibly. The critters just seem like they're persecuted. I mean, they start out with prisoners on a ship. And they mentioned they had to kill a couple of them just so they have enough food. That's right, to make room. Or food.
Starting point is 01:08:38 Enough for enough food. Yeah, but don't they like get bigger and just annihilate worlds? Do they? I mean, it seems like they just kind of track wise and laugh at people. Yeah. Say fuck.
Starting point is 01:08:52 I see yeah, they snatched some chicks and was about it. They didn't blow the house up. They just, they did. No, they did blow the house up. They did that to be an asshole. That was it. They're like, because they did it, and then they laughed. They're like, ha.
Starting point is 01:09:07 Right. Yeah, they were flying away, Phil. And then they stopped and was like, let's blow up the house. Fuck you. Well, the bounty hunters, the bounty hunters destroyed the church. I mean, come on, man. A place of worship. They were still standing.
Starting point is 01:09:21 They were a little, little trick. happy in there. Right. Yeah. ...od edge, being on an alien planet. Rolling into the bowling alley, ready to wreck shop.
Starting point is 01:09:30 That's right. But I do like the... I love the bowling alley shirts, the, with the pins like Ghostbusters. Like the Ghostbusters? I do like the practical effects with the, with the critters, the crites.
Starting point is 01:09:45 Mm-hmm. And I like how they have their own little powers. They got the little quills that shoot out, and then they conform into a super... mega-critter. Yep. Kind of neat. They can be like
Starting point is 01:09:59 tumbling tumbleweeds. That's what I call it when I got to take a shit real bad. A mega-critter. Oh, cheese. But yeah, super fun rewatch. It's still nostalgic for me. I, Steve, I wouldn't call this a terrible movie. Not by any stretch, yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:19 It's got some almost A-list actors. in here. Does it? Well, the Wiles came in the time, but at least they were close.
Starting point is 01:10:30 They're not A list, but like eight and a half. There you go. I mean, well, maybe not A list, but there's horror legends in here. Right.
Starting point is 01:10:39 True. When I say terrible movie, I mean, it just has some hallmarks. I mean, you have a, they play this song in its entirety,
Starting point is 01:10:46 like three times. Yeah, in this fucking movie. It's been a lot of time on that. They kind of do. Yeah, they kind of do. So.
Starting point is 01:10:52 They wrote that one song. They're going to show it. God damn it. You know, it, it's, it has some, it just has, you could see some of the, you know, smoke behind the mirrors. But, I got you. But it's just, it's, for me, it's just that nostalgic. You just, I can't get enough of it. It's the sound.
Starting point is 01:11:13 It's like, I got a feel, a vibe to it that you just. Oh, definitely. Love to watch. All right. Lance. Simple joke. You go for, you go for. You go first, Philip.
Starting point is 01:11:23 I want to hear this theory you've got, man. Oh, I don't know if I have much of a theory, but I kind of love the movie, man. I had a blast with it, like so much more fun than I expected it to be. I hadn't watched Critters in a while. It's not something that I watch on a regular basis. I haven't seen it in a long time. And so, yeah, but it came on, and I immediately had fun with it. I was like,
Starting point is 01:11:50 picking out all the really young actors that were, you know, that you've seen all over the place all the time. And, uh, and it was just, it doesn't surprise me that this guy directed Bill and Ted's excellent adventure because I had that kind of fun with this movie.
Starting point is 01:12:07 I was like, dude, I, like, I'm totally going to watch Critters again. This is great. Not even from a nostalgic perspective, but like,
Starting point is 01:12:16 right. Just, just to have some. movie. Yeah. There you go. Well, what about your Lilo and Stitch theory, dude? You had an epiphany. Because it was, it's exactly the story of Lilo and Stitch, except instead of... Which came
Starting point is 01:12:31 first, right? Did Lilo and Sitch, Did Disney steal this story? Yes, absolutely. And they were like, hey, what if the critters was just one of them, but they were good? That's exactly, that's exactly what happened, wasn't it, Brian? It escapes from a space prison. They send shape-shifting bounty hunters to go get it.
Starting point is 01:12:51 It lands and attaches itself to one particular family. Sounds very familiar. One of them kind of is a cute little critter guy thing. It makes sense. Yeah, I can see it. Yeah, it's definitely a fun movie. I mean, it's not, you know, something that you kind of really think about, right? So it's, like you say, it's kind of,
Starting point is 01:13:19 Kind of a basic story, which obviously Disney loved, right? Some writer from Disney loved it when they were thinking of Lilo and Stitch. And why they have, why Lilo and Stitch hasn't been sued now that you mention it, I have no idea. It's like eerily. It's straight up the same story. Well, like the first five or ten minutes of the movie is like a shot for shot. Yeah. Lilo and Stitch.
Starting point is 01:13:44 Now that you mention it, dude, it's like, what the fuck? Even the warden guy has like the things on the side of his head like the lady alien does Absolutely and came out of the with the smoke and yeah fuck yeah dude So was the is this the one where the character creation was the Chioto brothers? Yeah that brought us killer clowns I think so But yeah the I love the I absolutely love the the creature design and like you guys were talking about the little the little quills that come out and where they poisoned? Did they like kind of put her to sleep? I think they did. Yeah, kind of like, yeah, like it
Starting point is 01:14:20 doesn't like kill you but it definitely makes you woozy. It's like they like drug her up real good. It seemed like they were on one, you know, they're like, oh. I was going to say they could have made it. It was like varying degrees because one one person was just out. But then the dad was like, I'm cool, man, it's all
Starting point is 01:14:36 good. The dad's like, that ain't shit, bro. You should see what I take on my lunch break. The puffer fish of the space world. Well, now now thinking about it. the dog. The mom and daughter, they did get quills to the neck. He got his in the back. Yeah, it's a little bit closer to the spinal column and everything, I guess. That makes perfect sense. They took the drugs in the wrong place. Yeah, but yeah, dude, I mean, shit, man, the Tropic Thunder director should have been sued too, because this was so obviously simple Jack, right?
Starting point is 01:15:10 the dude that was so I could do mechanics and I'm the town drunk and oh that's what I'm saying I don't know that he was I don't know if he was that simple I think he was just a fucking wino was he yeah he wasn't
Starting point is 01:15:24 like special needs bro he was just like well you never go full special needs you know yeah he was just sort of I think he drank himself silly you know he was quasi this this was a fun movie I think we all agree
Starting point is 01:15:40 Yeah. All right. Scores. Steve, what do you think? Critters. Well, you know,
Starting point is 01:15:48 I'm going to throw critters a nine. Let's give it a number. For what it is, it's a creature feature. Creature feature from the 80s. You know what else I can get into? Okay.
Starting point is 01:15:57 It's all the old school movie logos and shit that pop up in the beginning. And then even the critters title, like it comes in in that awesome 80 style font, you know, all big with the laughing critters and all that shit. Sure. Like, we don't get that kind of showmanship now.
Starting point is 01:16:11 We get a lot of like, you know, like, it'll just say, fantastic fever, you know, or, you know, whatever. And, like, sometimes I don't even have the title. You just get to get to going. Like, there's some showmanship to it. For an 80s creature feature, this is up there, man. This is a nine on, nine on ten. Nine it is.
Starting point is 01:16:29 All right. All right. Brian? No, price is right time. I don't have to go ten. Oh, what? I watch this movie over and over. on this scale
Starting point is 01:16:42 it's not like the Exorcist or any of those type movies but like Steve said for what it is and the cast it has and the effects it just it all works it's a very rewatchable movie
Starting point is 01:16:57 I think Dee Wallace is I think she's doing a fantastic job in this movie oh yeah because she is just like doing the mom shit during the day and just kind of seen his fucking miserable doing it.
Starting point is 01:17:11 You can tell this is a routine. She's so exhausted. They come running in the house. She's like carrying a plate of muffins. I'm like, where are you even going with that? Jesus Christ. And then she has that fantastic scene with Steve when she yells at him.
Starting point is 01:17:29 And he's like, go check the phone. And then I told her I was like, I was like, I already did. She's like, check it again. I'm like, goddamn bitch. So yeah, this is as far as like sci-fi horror movie, horror comedies, this is up there for me. And it's kind of like entry-level horror in a way, too.
Starting point is 01:17:49 There's no, I mean, there's a little bit of sexy time, but it's like Billy Zane and this chick making out for like 45 minutes. Yeah, there are 45 minutes and keeps her clothes on the whole time. It's a very different kind of scenario because he's not the one pursuing her. She's the one all over him trying to grab his dick at the dinner table. Yeah. Yeah, she's a little. And I don't know. Like your dad's right there.
Starting point is 01:18:13 He's looking right at me. Your dad didn't even want me to eat his food. Right. And I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old, but like, I was like, all that hay is fucking stinks. It's hella itchy. I'm like, ah. You got to be able to.
Starting point is 01:18:29 I can look past that. You got to think back then at that age, you know, we got to get it in where we can. You're going to get a rash or something. For sure. For sure. But I liked it was implied. Not every movie. Not every movie has to have boobs.
Starting point is 01:18:46 Yeah, I guess. And the language was minimal. I mean, I think the only ones that really said fuck was the critters. The critters. And if you can't read, you don't even know they said that. That's true.
Starting point is 01:18:57 And it was a perfect punchline. Yeah, it was really good. I laughed out loud at it. Oh, good. All right. I'm going to go, I'm going to bring us back down to reality a little bit and go eight. Okay. That's a good fair score.
Starting point is 01:19:15 It's still up there, man. It's still up there because it's a way fun movie, man. I had a blast with this one. I'd go watch it again right now. Cool. That's why it's a 10. Yeah, I enjoyed it too. I had a lot of fun with it.
Starting point is 01:19:27 It was a good movie. It's a 7. It's a 7. My God. Strong 7. That's good. That's above nice, and we got a straight. It's above night.
Starting point is 01:19:37 straight out of this? Yeah. That's a little too close to night swim for me. You're saying it's only one point above night swim, Lord. Yeah, I mean, in retrospect, I would have changed that whole score, probably on a second viewing it is what it is. We're allowed to do that. We have, I think I gave a Terminator Genesis a hero at one point.
Starting point is 01:19:59 Really? We all make mistakes. It's fun. We all make mistakes. True, true. I've liked a lot of movies that. don't like anymore. Yeah, I'm like, oh, I remember this?
Starting point is 01:20:10 I remember I was like, Werewolf movies and I'm like, Bad Moon, that movie fucking rules. And I was like, let's watch Bad Moon a little. And we watched it. And I was like, oh, no, this movie sucks. Fuck. I'm watching it and I'm like, God damn, I thought this was good.
Starting point is 01:20:24 Oh, no, we suck again. Oh, no. Not as bad as weird. That's for sure. All right. On to Goolies. See, we have as much fun with this one. Goolies.
Starting point is 01:20:37 a young man and his girlfriend move into his parents' old mansion, where his satanic father is buried and immediately becomes possessed by a desire to conjure and control tiny demons. Tale is eldest time. Director is Luca Berkovici, also known for the Granny and Rocula. Okay. I have not seen those. Writer is Jeffrey Levi, also known for SFW. What is SFW?
Starting point is 01:21:16 Single female white? I don't know. All right. As long as I was supposed to know it. According to stories producer Charles Band tells his full moon horror roadshow, he was tasked to come up with a great campaign to promote the film during a brainstorming session. He came up with the idea to have the gooly popping up from the toilet. The idea was a huge success, and the scene was then shot for the film after the fact.
Starting point is 01:21:46 And not included in the film, apparently. The poster for the film reportedly caused several angry mothers to write letters to the studio saying their kids were too scared to use the bathroom after seeing the poster. Come on. Come on. You know what it did it? Look who's talking. You remember that shit? would like the toilet man he likes to eat your
Starting point is 01:22:10 dutu and your pee pee that was terrifying he would talk and the water would spray out his mouth when he talked right oh god it's a little
Starting point is 01:22:22 jacky Earl Haley Frady Krueger for you there huh? Yeah he's going to eat your peeve oh really Steve what do you think about Goubies So goolies is a little trickier because, like, you know, it's like, you have your one side or the other, you know, where you Star Trek or Star Wars, which one did you watch?
Starting point is 01:22:46 Right. When you were, it was Goolies or Critters. My, you know, it's Marvel or DC. I was always running on the critter side. I never really fuck with Goolies that much. So I don't really have that much nostalgia for it. Okay. I've seen it, but I haven't seen it the way I've seen critters.
Starting point is 01:23:02 Like I can recite parts of critters from memory, whereas Goolies, parts of the, you know, parts of the, you know, this, I was like, what the fuck? I've never seen this before. I'm not a big fan of this one. I feel like it's kind of all over the place. You're not alone. You're not alone. People would just be screaming at the top of their lungs for no reason in the middle of a
Starting point is 01:23:22 scene. And then there's like these two old guys just like kind of choking each other by touching their shoulders for like 20 minutes at the end making zappy faces. The puppetry wasn't like. It was like the. the Darth Vader fucking Obi-1 sword fight.
Starting point is 01:23:42 But like way too long. Yeah. And I don't know. Like I just, I mean, listen, their sunglasses game was on point. They busted out some winners in this movie. The little wipers. You know, it's definitely a time capsule for sure. I guess. But the acting
Starting point is 01:24:00 was just really, really bad. And the, I wasn't a big fan of the look of the gooies. They weren't really scary. They just, they looked like you were doing close-ups on people moving puppets around. Whereas the covers, I didn't have that same problem. Like the one, the one, like, they made its eyes move, but they only made its eyes move. They still had its head looking around like that man, you know, it had to turn its whole body.
Starting point is 01:24:24 I don't know. None of them looked scary. I'm like, they all just looked like really easy to squash. Is that the one in the seance when they were doing it at the end when everybody was all like, oh. It had its eyes rolled back in his head. Yes, that one. I think so. Yeah, I think so.
Starting point is 01:24:43 That one. And the one in the toilet, like, yeah, you're right. They filmed it. And it sure felt like it was after the fact because it came out of fucking nowhere. Just got to throw it in there. And I'm like, where the fuck did that come from? I guess. Shoehorn.
Starting point is 01:24:57 Cheworn. So, yeah, gooies for me, so far, we're giving critters the win for the week as far as far as I'm concerned on these two franchises. All right. Brian, what do you think? Not a big fan of gooies. I've probably seen gooies. This might be maybe my third time in my life watching it. And I don't seem to ever remember anything in it.
Starting point is 01:25:25 So it's like a first time. Yeah, I know. The second one. The second one is the one I've seen probably 50 times, the one that takes place in a carnival. carnival, yeah. The puppet effects are bad. The acting's bad.
Starting point is 01:25:43 Everybody's not likable. The green eyes. The green eyes. The fight at the end with the lightning eyes. That gave me like Superman Quest for Peace buys when they're fighting back and forth. Sure. That old man came out of nowhere. My wife was like, who the fuck is that?
Starting point is 01:26:04 He was a day-s-X Machina. I was like, he was in the beginning. He's the old man that took the baby. She was like, what? I never explained. I thought he just showed up out of nowhere to save the end. They never explained why he takes the baby, why they allow him to take the baby,
Starting point is 01:26:19 what he's been doing the whole time, and why he shows up at the end. They just don't, he just is there in the beginning, is there at the end. Yeah, like he was a bad guy in the beginning, wasn't he, he was part of this crew? And then, like, at the end, he shows up. He's got, like, these fucking wizard robes.
Starting point is 01:26:33 Yeah. What have you been up to? You've been aged a little day. Listen to too much Black Sabbath, I guess, right? You know what stops demons? Wizards. That's it. And then the guy doing the seance is a fucking asshole.
Starting point is 01:26:50 Like, just the way he's doing it, I might have started laughing. But that one girl laughs and he's all, shut up, bitch. I know. Just get a slapper. Shut up, what the fuck are you doing a seance? But I guess he's just, Just like the father because the father gets interrupted sacrificing a baby. And he was like, what did he say?
Starting point is 01:27:10 You'll take his place, whore. Yeah. Isn't that your baby? And that's like, uh, and clearly he doesn't know what he's doing because you had to sacrifice the baby for a reason. That probably is the reason why he's in the grave. Because you can't just be sacrificing random people. Yeah, like you did this whole setup, this elaborate setup to sacrifice his baby.
Starting point is 01:27:33 you just get irritated and you're like, ah, fuck it. No. I'm like, what? Just take the goddamn baby. And then for a movie title, gooies, the gooies don't do shit. Yeah. Most of the movie, except lurk around boxes.
Starting point is 01:27:50 Oh, right. And the body count is ridiculous in this movie, because there isn't one. The only people that die are a dead guy who fucking comes back and dies again, just as jazz hands, the whole fucking movie. your honor and you know
Starting point is 01:28:04 but then he turns into a hot chick for some reason and makes out with his son's buddy that's right like was that really the most efficient way to do this and then yeah they try to go Freddie Cooger with the tongue thing
Starting point is 01:28:20 and like but all those things go to the wayside because it it's nothing like they don't actually get killed like so I don't get it yeah I'm with Steve I was never a gooies guy.
Starting point is 01:28:35 I've seen probably more of the Critters movies more times than I've seen goleys. There's a couple of Goolies movies where I've never seen. Like, I've heard of it. I've heard it talked about so many times. Goolies go to college, but I don't think I've actually watched the entire movie. I've seen it. Yeah. That one might be the best one because maybe it just moves into the comedy.
Starting point is 01:28:56 They're all pretty bad, man. And I'm going to continue throughout these reviews of Critters and Goolies to to mention all the young, famous actors that's wearing these movies before they were big.
Starting point is 01:29:10 Goolies didn't have it. Nope. I didn't recognize anybody. Yeah. Maybe the next one will. Oh, the girlfriend was somebody.
Starting point is 01:29:23 The girlfriend was the somebody. She was... Jennifer Anniston? She was fucking annoying. Yeah, she was not as hot. Not an A-list. to be too.
Starting point is 01:29:34 What was going on with that weight on her head? She was in a, she was the mom in Lionheart, the Jean-Claude Van Dan movie. I was like, where the fuck have I seen her? And I looked at it. Yeah, not an Oscar winner. Listen, I'm a big John Claude Van Dan fan, so that's big. Lionheart's a good movie. I remember the movie.
Starting point is 01:29:58 Lance, what do you think? Yeah, this is bad. I mean, bad, bad, because, like you guys said, it's just like the wizard pops up at the end out of nowhere. I thought it was just so they could wrap the story up. I mean, it was what, only about an hour and 20 minutes and like maybe seven minutes. I thought he was a groundskeeper or something. He was. Is he a groundskeeper?
Starting point is 01:30:19 Okay, he was the groundskeeper. All right. Which, they don't explain. And he turned into a wizard? When he's talking to his girlfriend, he's like, he's the only family I ever had. I was like, the fucking groundskeeper is the only family you ever had. Are you Batman? This is a fucking mansion.
Starting point is 01:30:33 You got a butler. That's your only family you've ever had. Must have been up to something then, huh? Like, didn't he just get this mansion? Like, I thought he was just like just showing up. But he's the only, the groundskeeper for this place is the only family you've ever had? Yeah, to me, yeah, to me, this movie is just like... It hurts my brain.
Starting point is 01:30:53 This movie was much ado about nothing, right? Yeah, for one thing to fucking, like you guys say, the goolies don't do shit. But they also don't show up until two-thirds of the way through the movie. It feels like he had the midgets. They're too busy hide behind boxes. I guess. You got the whole party. But they don't do anything.
Starting point is 01:31:12 You get that whole party scene in the beginning where they've got the fucking windshield wipers on the sunglasses and shit. That could have been a blood bath. Goolies could have fucking popped out everywhere and just eating them all and killed them. But they totally wasted. You know, and then the story plods along. I don't know where. I don't get it. I don't understand.
Starting point is 01:31:31 They just start yelling in the middle of the- dwarfs in there. Why were the dwarfs even, why were the dwarfs even in there? Seriously. I don't know. I don't know. Did they come with that?
Starting point is 01:31:41 I didn't understand. I felt, I felt so bad for him, too. They were, what is happening right now? They were real ones, though. Or they stood by his side, even despite.
Starting point is 01:31:52 But then they left him. He just left him there in the house that was crumbling down. They're like, oh, they're like, they're like trying to whatever, but they're,
Starting point is 01:32:00 their legs were too short. They couldn't keep up, you know. Poor little guys. I don't have shit. Yeah, I don't have, I don't have anything good to say about this. It's, it's a stinker. Yeah, I still enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to. Because I know that I've watched this movie before and I was like, it's bad.
Starting point is 01:32:24 But I still had a little bit of fun with it. It had some 80s, 80s flare to it. it. But yeah, the criticisms are well deserved. Like the goolies didn't really do much. They were just slimy little puppets.
Starting point is 01:32:44 And I didn't understand when the little people popped up. Why is this? What are we? Are they're minions? They're like in medieval armor and shit? I didn't understand the mid- medieval armor. I didn't understand his power set.
Starting point is 01:33:00 Right. Because when she's about to leave him, because, you know, she cooks dinner for him and he don't want to eat because he's fasting. Right. Oh, that's right. And then it was like the second or third time she catches him doing his weird sand shit. She's like, I'm fucking out of here. And he points to the little people.
Starting point is 01:33:17 And then they point to her. I was like, what are your powers? Because it seemed like you had them stop her. Did that? Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. His powers are controlling you. these people.
Starting point is 01:33:31 But then like, what's even his arc, right? Like, he wants to be this evil guy. And then some other evil guy shows up and he's like, oh, no, I'm good now. Well. And then he's just not evil anymore. He says he wants to figure out who his parents were. You just found out who your father was. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:55 And he tried to sacrifice you again. Yeah. And yeah, it was, yeah, like, I didn't feel bad for him. I was like, ah, all right, well, at least dad's going to come along and wreck shop and kill the evil guy. But I guess he's good now. But like, I don't, what, what do they want to do? Like, what is, what is their goal? What they want to conjure the powers?
Starting point is 01:34:21 But, but like, they're here. Okay, so now what? You, what do you? I don't know what you want. It's like the despicable me. They wanted an army. me of little minion goolies. Yeah, it's like the only purpose
Starting point is 01:34:35 the goolies serve to be summoned is just to be an audience. Yeah, pretty much. They didn't know to do that else. I guess. Every time they get summoned, like I said, they're hiding behind boxes, they're looking around corners
Starting point is 01:34:48 and not doing anything. Popping out of toilets. That seems like a bad idea. They'd run away. quick. I'm just struggling to try to put a finger on what the movie was even living. I don't think there is. Yeah, I don't really think
Starting point is 01:35:08 there was a plot line at all. I think they just do a bunch of random scenes together. They already said they cut the toilet scene in after filming. I mean, come on, dude. This is not a piece of art here. I don't think any
Starting point is 01:35:25 of us are off when we say we don't know what the fuck is going on. Yeah, that's true. The main guy was like, not. He looked like not Nathan Philean, you know? Not Nathan. He was like the wish when you order and Nathan Phillyen on wish. He got this guy. Oh, no.
Starting point is 01:35:40 If Nathan Phelian had a baby with Kyle McLaughlin. Yes. Oh, no. You nailed it, Brian. You nailed it. And with green eyes, right? Yeah, but why can't you get the fucking pupils, they'll be right? Why has one got to look east and one got to look west?
Starting point is 01:35:55 Like, I don't understand what's going on. Like, he's got. Right. he's like he takes his glasses off and he's got like one pupil's like shooting way up here I'm like what's happening right? I can see all at the same time. What's wrong with your eyes? Yeah, especially now that you mentioned like what was this movie about and what were they trying
Starting point is 01:36:22 to do? I'm like, you know what? That's a good point. Like, wow, like it's kind of like what I wanted to do with the. this retrospective was like compare the two franchises you know they kind of came up at the same right right kind of rich one well was better than the other and like critters around one that had a well we haven't scored yet we never know but but critters had a strong story one it had a whole thing that happened you could say oh well this happened sure and in here you're just like and inspired
Starting point is 01:36:48 yeah it's just yelling and some other people show up right it's people just doing rituals to summon things that have no use for anything no no use for it yeah that's something to do the google please. Okay, they're here. Now I summon these little people. Now they're here. Now I'm summoning my dead father. Now he's here.
Starting point is 01:37:07 Jazz hands. He did. He walked out. I was like, is he a vampire? What is he doing? He was like, the whole time. I'm like, what are you doing?
Starting point is 01:37:20 Jesus. It was rough. It was rough. The guy was putting his heart into it. And there's like two goolies hanging out in the fucking And like a fountain like looking at him He's like gets down
Starting point is 01:37:35 He's like with his hands like this like My children I don't know man I mean they filmed it so we're watching it But there's ghouls Steve what's your score on this one We're gonna go a two on goos We're gonna go right back down to number two
Starting point is 01:37:56 And I've given it a two only because they at least made some puppets. Now, if they actually did something with those puppets, it would be cool. But I'll give them some credit where credits do. But they did the trick where they like, oh, man, these puppets really look like puppets. What can we do with them? I throw petroleum jelly all over them.
Starting point is 01:38:17 Yeah. Make the eyes move. Really quickly, throw it out of the frame really quick. Never show its legs, ever, only from the waist up. Right. Except they do show that one with the eyes. They do show his whole body, kind of. And he's got like a little fat belly.
Starting point is 01:38:36 I don't know. Let's hope the second one's better. Did the goolies talk? Because I'm looking at the cast list and there's Gullies credited actors as voice. I mean, I think they were kind of like, yeah, they made little noises and shit. That had to be three separate actors.
Starting point is 01:38:58 Look, you've got to hide the money somewhere, Brian. You know, that cocaine don't pay for itself. Yeah, no shit. And judging by the green eyes in this movie, there was a motherfucker on one. That cocaine don't pay for itself. I was at a low school. I think I was at a two, but I'd give it an extra point
Starting point is 01:39:22 because Goolies is a known. They're a known name. Oh, wow. Oh, okay. Fuck, you, Lance. Did they have, like, toys for this or something? I can't remember. You know what they did?
Starting point is 01:39:40 I've seen a statue. I've seen a statue of the ghouly in the toilet. Come on. That's kind of cool. Like, because that, listen, like Brian said, you know, some of that does, it is, it does have that cult kind of classic stuff. It does have a following, and that is a classic-ass poster. Gullies poster.
Starting point is 01:39:59 That's true. True. With that logo, true, that little creature. But that little creature never wore a fucking blue t-shirt and suspenders in the movie. I'll tell you that right now, which is what he was wearing in the poster.
Starting point is 01:40:09 That post, that's prime VHS video store. Yes. I remember seeing that. I remember seeing that. I need that poster, man. It's really good.
Starting point is 01:40:21 All right. Lance. Two. Two. Oh, shit. I need to bring my score up. I can't be down here in the land. always be down at the bottom of shit.
Starting point is 01:40:34 I'm going to give it a four. I at least had a little bit of fun with this one. I'm going to bring it up some. I can't believe I'm the high man on the totem pole on this dumb ass. You are. But I think that's a reasonable score because like I said, for goolies, for like little creature features like this, this is known. This has got a cult following.
Starting point is 01:40:58 True, true. I mean. And the kids were afraid. kids were afraid to use the bathroom when I'm sure if I saw it if I was watching this at 12 or 13 years old I have a much different attitude about it than watching
Starting point is 01:41:10 it at first of one feeling like I've never seen it before so you know well and I like the demonic stuff that's fun yeah the summoning for the sake of summoning but yeah but then when you start when you start to like really like ask any questions at all it's like
Starting point is 01:41:28 all right well I guess there wasn't really a whole lot of point to that. And also I think a big point is if you had nostalgic memories of this movie, I didn't like when we get to the second one, when we get to the second one, my score is going to be vastly different from because I've seen that one, because it was always on TNT, TBS. Of course, yeah.
Starting point is 01:41:52 Some people, some people, some people like to go fly fishing all afternoon. Some people like to summon shit, you know, I mean. I just, I just like, what about like at the end when they're, it's a hobby? They're going to leave when the whole house is coming down and they're like, he goes to wake his friends up and his girlfriend's like, no, leave him. There's no time. I'm like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 01:42:15 Yeah. And then they're alive. Every man for himself. He's like, okay, we got to go. And then he leaves. And I'm like, do we just left him there? You're the reason they're dead. And then they go running out the stairs out of the thing.
Starting point is 01:42:27 and I'm like, it's only the two of them. And I'm like, oh, shit, they really left them there. And then, you know, they all come flying out. Like, you guys all just came back from actual death. And you're just hopping in the whip, ready to go. Flying ass down the street. Yeah, maybe don't hang out with that guy anymore. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:42:43 Never again, Bob. Might be a good idea. You fuck. No, fuck you. All right. What happened last time? All right. Well, hopefully critter goolies too is better.
Starting point is 01:42:56 Yeah, I think so. for, thanks for stopping by dude. I think everybody knows where to find the geeks, right? Yeah, absolutely. We're everywhere. Spotify, Twitch, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, all that stuff. But our podcast, you know, a little now that he's graduated college, is hopefully going to start releasing the podcast on a normally regular basis.
Starting point is 01:43:18 Okay. The last couple of years have been a little focused on YouTube more, but I think we're getting back to a normal schedule on the podcast releases too. You can look at it. It's a great day when you do. just get a whole batch of episodes to listen to them in one day. Oh, yeah. I know.
Starting point is 01:43:31 Like seven of them in one day. Yeah, I got to believe YouTube videos. But we have some people that are like, when are you going to review Ironheart? And I'm like, it's out on YouTube. We just haven't released the podcast yet. Yeah. So. All right.
Starting point is 01:43:49 Brian, what else do we have coming up on the network, dude, outside the main show? Me and Ness still got to record action returns for Avengment starring Scott Atkins TAHR presents stream fiends above the rim and we got SummerSlam coming this weekend two day events so it might be two episodes I don't know if we'll try to fit two days in the one episode and we got some quick reviews coming also Nice nice all right well as always we want to want to thank you guys for listening to another episode or watching, right, of the horror returns. We would always love to hear your ideas and, you know, consider becoming a patron.
Starting point is 01:44:37 We love you to join the family so we can do the movies you pick and have you on the show. Next week, we're going to check up the brand new movie together, as well as 2013's contracted. So, Steve, until the horror returns again. good night Thank you.

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