The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #508: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) & Cold Storage (2026)

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

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I'm Lance with me as always. We got our co-host, Brian, and Philip. What's going on, guys? Why don't you say Ann Philip? Like, you didn't know he was going to be here. Brian and Philip And Philip That's it

I showed up today guys Alright I'm here in spirit What do you guys How's it going Same old same old Weather's getting warmer up here That's good

That's good to know man Yeah Springtime in Alaska What was that movie that fuck, I can't remember what it's called I think it's a Mel Brooks movie and

I think it's called the producers maybe they were trying to make a play and they called it springtime for Hitler. I've heard of that. We're all trying to get together and decide who was going to play Hitler and stuff like that. I've never seen that movie, the producers.

Yeah, I vaguely remember it. There were some old Mel Brooks. Isn't he supposed to actually direct the new spaceball sequel, Brian? Yeah, he's like 100 years old. Still directing and producing. Literally, 100 years old. Yeah, literally.

I guess William Shatner could be in there with him. He's getting close to 100, isn't he? Yeah. The Shapp? He's hanging in there. That lasted a lot of people. We lost a lot of people in the past week. Robert Duvall,

Ronald Jesse Jackson. That's right. James Vanderbye Robert DeBall and who? Reverend Jesse Jackson Oh Jesse Jackson Oh shit Tom Noonan

A lot of people know him from Manhunter And he played Frankenstein And Monster Squad Yeah Oh okay I remember that guy Yeah James Vanderbeak one was sad

Because I didn't know he was sick And then like his like Instagram videos started popping up Yeah I'm kind of saying his last things and he was all skinny and Lance's vocal twin according to

some people that come on the podcast Lance you sound like James Band to be I'll take it I'll take it all right Brian I think it's going to be a quick cool of the week tonight because Philip and I are struggling man you got you got anything worth bringing up this week uh I checked out that movie Night Patrol I've heard good things actually

Night Patrol The vampires Vampire cops Gang bangers, vampires Vampires Hmm, okay It was Okay

It was okay at best Uh oh Whoop I think the main part I just not buying Justin Long As this ex Marine

Turned cop Yeah That's a stretch Yeah He's kind of a little guy guy and he's a little more comedy than action. A lot of the

the game members were played by rappers so they weren't like the best acting. Oh boy. Well. Some of the vampire shit was cool but I think it was mostly Justin Long just took me out of it

because he was playing such a serious role and nothing about what he did. I was like, oh you were a military military badass and now you're a badass cop. Yeah, it's weird because Justin Long is kind of like an every man sort of character.

That's a weird spot for him. And normally he's the like the draw for the movie. Yeah. True. So I checked that out. It's okay. Go ahead. Sounds like he was miscast, Brian. He was miscast for me.

I mean, I know a lot of people have been kind of praising this movie. If you liked it, you liked it. Pedro gave it a 10 on 10. He can defend that next time he's on the show. I might be exaggerating. Five, maybe six. Ooh.

Okay. Yeah, just as a Marine sounds like Paul Rudd as a Marine, you know. Yeah, he's kind of playing that straight, serious cop, you know. Yeah. Does everything by the book. wants to make sure, you know, everybody knows he's by the book and he plays it straight. And then you find out he was like a Marine special something. And I'm just like, this guy.

Okay. He doesn't even do anything in the movie that makes you think that he's got any kind of military training. Fucking Jesse Eisenberg. Might as well have been. Dane DeHaan, right, as a Navy SEAL. So I wait until that comes to, because I think it's eventually going to come to Shutter, because it's got the Shutter logo ahead of it. So I just wait for Shutter if you guys want to watch it. I shall.

Thank you, sir. And I checked out a movie called Twisted, directed by Darren Lynn Balsman. He did like Scream, or not Scream, Saw's 2, 3, and 4. And it stars Lauren Lavera, who is the final. girl on Terrifier. Oh, okay. Like her. And probably going to pronounce his name.

I always do. Demand Hansu. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Essentially, she plays like a con artist that like she rents like super expensive Airbnbs and after she gets into place, she changes her identity and kind of tries to sell them off like she's

real estate agent. And by the time she gets the money, she's gone. I've heard of this one. Okay. I've heard of this one. Brian, did we watch the trailer? I think we might have. I don't know.

This movie's like super forgettable. Uh-oh. Well, it rings a bell. The plot line rings a bell. Because she basically she's doing this scam and then she gets talked into doing this the same scam with the, another property that is kind of hard to sell. And it's owned by a doctor played by De Mon Honsu.

Okay. And without spoiling anything, she's basically conning the wrong person. Uh-oh. Wow. Sounds interesting, really. If anything, I would watch it for her because she gets a chance to do some acting

because she's playing a con artist, so she's doing like different, like she's doing a British accent, one scam, she's doing like an Irish accent, and it's not too bad. Okay. Kind of like Samara weaving, doing a British accent. Is she Australian or is she American? Okay, she's Australian.

That's why she gets so much comparison to Margot Ravi. Okay, that makes sense. I forgot Margot Rabe was Australian, to be honest with you. I've got some hot blonde's coming out of that place. No shit. I kind of skip twisted. I think that's eventually coming to Paramount Plus. I'll wait.

I want to see it. If I had to pick out of the two for Cool of the Week, I guess I had to go with Night Patrol. Night Patrol. All right. But I wasn't really too high on either one of them. Okay. So a five or six rating, Philip gets his cool of the week.

So we don't have to feel so bad. Checked out the first episode of the Burbs. What did you think? I did, too. What do you think? I tapped out. I did too. It's so trying to be the movie.

Yeah. With all the little callbacks and Easter A's. And I haven't seen the movie. I can't believe that. It drives me crazy. I know. What I have to do. And they're trying to make Kiki Palmer like a combination of characters from the original

movie. She's the one that's like super invested in what's going on in this house. but she's also kind of the skeptic that Tom Hanks was. Okay. And it's kind of taking me out. I'm just like, be one character. Don't be like two different characters from the original movie. Gotcha.

Yeah, I tapped down. I don't think I even made it through the first episode, Brian. Yeah. Just wasn't for me. I'm eventually, when I have nothing to watch, I'll probably go back and watch it because they drop the whole season. they're not doing week to week with this one but after watching the first episode

I'm just kind of done show my daughter the go ahead then you got to deal with Kiki Palmer's more huh this show God she's trying to play it so straight and cool in this one trying to be funny here and there

and just like I see through all your games but I did show my daughter you know what my cool of the week is the original movie. I showed my daughter that one. Oh, nice. All right, cool. Yeah.

All right, well, I'll jump in. I got a... What did I watch? I got on Netflix and started a series with James Franco. It's, uh, it goes back in time to try to stop Kennedy's assassination. Oh, 11, something.

Yeah, 11, 22, 60, something. Yeah, isn't it? 1122.123? There it is. It's based on a Stephen King, Got it. See, and I didn't know that, but I was like, well, this got James Franco in it. I like him.

Let's check it out. I'm not done with it yet. I don't know how many episodes it is. It said it was like a limited series, though, so that's always a good sign. It starts out pretty interesting. I like time travel stuff. So, not bad. And the new season of the Night Agent starts today, actually.

So I was kind of stoked about getting on that one. one. That's been a pretty fun show. This is like the third season that's in it. It's like CIA Black Op stuff. But you haven't watched any of the new season yet. You're just getting kind of getting ready for it? Yeah, I just, I didn't realize it came out today until I was scrolling through and trying to remember what the hell I watched this week. I was like, oh yeah, I got to watch that. Get something to watch later. Of course, I've been forced to watch love is blind. That was painful when you put me through that when I visited you, man.

I wanted to strangle you. Oh, I got a not cool to week. I think I did this last year. NBA All-Star weekend. Yeah. It's still fucking garbage. Ant Man was the MVP. Kind of like the Pro Bowl, huh?

Yeah, same thing. It makes no sense. Like they have multiple teams. Right. and they play like 12 minute games. 12 minute games, yeah, like pick up games. Because I totally forgot that they did this method. And I saw a commercial reminded me that the All-Star game was this weekend.

And it was Team USA versus International. And I was like, that's pretty fucking cool. Because the international team would be stacked with Luca. Joker and all those players. Yeah. Well, see, and I feel like basketball, they could go hard and not get hurt. Like, I get it why they don't do it with football. It's stupid, and it sucks.

It's like the Pro Bowl, like they don't care. Yeah, I know. They're just standing there while it guy makes a dunk. I get the Pro Bowl thing because, like, you don't want the best players in the league getting hurt for a game that doesn't mean anything. But, like, you're a lot less likely to get hurt than basketball. Yeah. Yeah. I know this is a horror movie.

podcast, but I just got to vent the dunk contest just ended. Because it was like, you can take the average guy out of the rec center, have them go dunk, and it'd be just as good as what happened

Saturday. Just as impressive, huh? It was so bad I had to show my, because my daughter was like bewildered. Right. And like, why is this guy dunking a ball like that? And, thinking he's going to get high score. And then I had to show her like YouTube clips

that were like past dumb contests. And I was like, this is what it used to be. Fucking Vince Carter. There is a lot of Vince Carter clips. Yeah. Well, luckily the real NBA season is back tonight, Brian. Yeah, the only saving grace was the three-point contest because Damien Lillard won in.

And he's been out since last year, would an Achilles. Okay. This was like his first time stepping on the court. Oh, nice. Kind of a homecoming. Yeah, but 90% of the weekend was garbage. Even the celebrity game, I'm like, who are these people?

All right, I'm done. Some dude to play officer ramped. Right. In night. There was like some guy like from like a. soap opera or something that I've never heard of the show. Come on. I mean, there would be somebody like Drewski or somebody funny,

Anthony Anderson. Right. But then it'll be like soap opera star or a random music artist that I've never heard of his music. Weird hell, Yankovic. That would have been something. Right. It's like they don't care about the week.

and I was noticing something with the dunk contest watching the old clips that I just it just dawned on me like in the old dunk contest all the all stars would be there to watch the right contest you know with their cameras and stuff I can tell you there was hardly none of the all stars were there on Saturday right outside maybe like a few so I didn't care about it at all yeah they knew it was shit and didn't want to show out. What's the point, right? Yeah. It doesn't count. It doesn't count for anything. I don't know. Maybe just so people can gamble on it, you think, because, you know, sports betting has gotten so big. Maybe they're just doing it for that. I don't know. I can't think why they would keep doing it,

Brian. I mean, it's not for the fans, because I heard not a lot of fans, even the, I know on Saturday night, the stadium was not full. Not even full. That's, sad. For the All-Star. That's crazy. Yeah. You gotta have some people you want to see in my life. Actual All-Star game.

I turned it off after the second game. Yeah. Because I just realized that they were doing the teams. Right. And I was like, well, this is fucking stupid. I can be watching something else. Where they have, Brian, like, team stars, team stripes, and team world? Yeah, team stars, team stripes.

All-stars, international. Right. I will hand it to Victor Wembe Nama from San Antonio. He was out there playing like like he was trying to show the world that I'm that guy. The only guy trying to take it serious?

Yeah. Yeah. Well, Wembe was out with an injury, a big part of the first of the season. So maybe he wants to get more practice reps in. out dunking on people shooting threes blocking shots i'm like right someone like someone someone hit a three on him and you can you can tell he was upset that he hadn't blocked the shot like he was the only one that actually was shown that he cared right but enough NBA all-star garbage stuff that's the not cool week i've got dog wrestling going on over here guys

Sorry. Hope that's not coming through. All right. What's that? Did you do yours yet? I started the new Talamazka series that ties in with interview with the vampire and Mayfair Witches. Oh, yeah.

I keep seeing little previews for that, but I'm like, I don't know. Yeah. All right, first of all, it doesn't follow any books, right? Like, it's kind of its own thing because there's there's no books about the Talabasca and it's not like a storyline that that Anne Rice wrote about or anything, right? So they're kind of going off the reservation,

but I don't know. William Fickner, he's kind of like the bad guy. You know, you guys know who William Fickner is, right? He's always the bad guy. Always the bad guy. He was the bad guy and drive angry. He's an asshole. Yes. He was in prison break.

He was the big bad and drive angry. You know who I'm talking about Philip? I think so. All right. He was... He was one of the pilots in Armageddon. That's right. Oh, man.

I forgot about that, man. Been a while since I've seen that. Yeah, he was the one that wanted to detonate the bomb early. Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah, I'm looking at him. Bruce Willis can... He could save us. Don't detonate it.

Yeah, he definitely plays like... He usually plays the good guy that like, or like the one that betrays everybody. He's the Judas character. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He has that face, though. Yeah, he pops up on screen. He's like, oh, he's doing something nefarious. Yeah.

Something nefarious. Yeah, and the kid, the main kid that we're kind of like following in the story, he's a pretty good actor. He's definitely got some acting chops. I don't know if I've ever seen him in anything before, but so far for me that Brian the story is kind of mad. Didn't you say you've watched some of it? I've seen the first episode going off of this wasn't going to be too spoilery

on any of the other shows. And immediately a character pops up from interview with the vampire. Yes, the writer. That's right. So I only seen the first episode. Okay. Yeah. I'll hang in there, but I guess my cool of the week.

And again, guys, bear in mind, it was a, slow week. Joe's college road trip. And yes. Tyler Perry bullshit. Oh, that one. Medea.

Medea did make an appearance for all you folks at home that are wondering. So when that's by cool of the week, boys, it's a slow week. It was funny, though. I got some belly laughs. I mean, okay, it was

definitely the nastiest. of the Tyler Perry movies, right? Like lots of really dirty jokes, lots of pussy, lots of motherfucker. Lots of Pips left that hoe. It was actually kind of funny. I got some belly laughs out of it,

but yeah. Rough week, guys. Rough week. Medea, cool the week. You know, Lance, I get enjoyment that you get enjoyment out of Medea. That's funny, man. And there's always a message.

There's always a message. I'll never know the message. So we got that out of the way. Brian, is it time for horror headlines? I think it is. Rumor on the Mike Flanagan-Carrie series. It probably will not premiere on Amazon until October. Halloween.

yeah that makes sense it's already done in production and stuff like that so okay it's not official because that's a long time from now for something that's finished yeah well he's got to be he's got to be working on all the other shit right the mummy will return to theaters oh the mummy returns to theaters next month for it's

this probably make you feel It's 25th anniversary. Oh, wow. That feels about right. You know, it's been a while. That's crazy. I guess it was like... Yeah, 2000, huh?

Was it 2000? Brendan Fraser's gained about 200 pounds since then. Yeah. He's actually lost some weight. I've seen a picture because everybody's coming back for the new one. And he took a picture. They all took a picture together and he looked like he slimmed down a little bit. Okay.

Oh, good for him, man, kind of buffing up a little bit for the, for the, the role, I guess. Yeah. Even the guy that played the mummies somehow coming back. You know, they defeated him twice. Can't think of that actor's name. He was all the rage in the 90s.

Yeah, he was in a bunch of stuff there for a while. It definitely always plays the bad guy. Was it Billy Zane? Put a cork in it, Lance. Okay. Nobody gets the Zulana reference. Put a cork in it, Zane. I haven't seen that in a while.

Bill Hader is going to write, direct, and star in his directorial debut horror film and it's going to be an original story. I could see that. He's definitely got a dark street, no doubt.

Yeah. A lot of his SNL characters were kind of I don't know, a lot of hidden humor in it and stuff like that, you know. Yeah, he seems like the tortured comedian type. Yes, very much so.

Daniel Kaluas set the star in a mind-bending sci-fi thriller for A-24 called Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel. That's a lot of hotels. Wow. Maybe you got one too many in there or something. That's being directed by a...

right? It's being directed by the guy that directed together. Yeah, could be good then. I mean, it's going to be a slow burn, it sounds like. Looks like we had another slow week. Double-checking everything. Yep, we've already talked about everything there is to talk about. All right.

February, that means, if I'm not mistaken, it is time to take a little trip down to the. trailer park. Brian is going to bring us the big, the small, and sometimes the very, very weird. What's the first new trailer tonight, Brian? First one is a new shutter movie called

Body Cam, directed and written by Brandon Christensen. This stars, people I do not know. But watching it, it kind of reminds me of the short horror film that I've seen. I think it was also called Body Cam. It was like a two-minute short film. It looked

kind of the same thing. Let's say it sounded familiar. Yeah. What was the one... Go ahead. Sorry. Okay, what was the one Ness was talking about in the discussion group

for found footage, Brian? The one with a really irritating chick? Dash cam. Dash cam. So is it supposed to be a take on that? Like, in that series or something? Well, I don't think it has anything to do with that.

It just looks like from what I got from the trailer, they're investigating a call. Accidental shooting happens. One of the cops wants to cover it up. Accidental shooting, he was in his face. Well, that's what it's saying on here. That's good shoot all day. That's what it's saying here.

Plank blank. But one, it seems like one, wants to cover it up, the other one wants to call it in. And during their discussion, it looks like there's in the middle of some kind of satanic ritual. Yeah, they stumble across some satanic shit. It looks like, I'm down.

I thought it was really creepy when they go outside and all the people are gathered surrounding them. Yeah. Kind of not letting them leave. Okay. To me, it's just yet another found footage movie. it. Phillips sounds like he's in. Yeah, it's like this cop, body cam stuff, I'm down.

And a perfect example of why the cam would always be going because it's attached to their body. Yeah. So it actually makes sense. I get it. I'm in. Yeah. I like it.

Let's go. Bad boys, bad boys. What you're going to do? That's how cop movies are going to be from now on. Just body cam stuff, I bet you. Yeah, that one. Jake Gyllenha did was really good. Oh yeah, that was a really good one.

That was mostly body cam, wasn't it? End of watch? Yeah. Okay. Can't find a date, but I think it comes to shutter next month. Oh, okay. Right around. Shutter, all right, cool.

Right around the corner. And our final trailer we're going to talk about is from starring our favorite girls, Mara Weaving and Jason Segal over your dead body, which I believe this is a remake. Is it? It seems like an interesting premise.

Yeah, probably of a European film, Philip. Yeah, what is her name? She was the original girl with the dragon tattoo. Oh, man, we're over for however many tonight, aren't we? Numi Rapace, maybe? Nomi repase, yeah. Oh, okay, I know her. So it's probably maybe like a Scandinavian movie then?

Yeah, I'm trying to look it up. Okay. They do that a lot, right? They take like a European kind of art house type movie and they remake it American. Yeah. Like sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don't. Well, I looked this up. What did you guys think of the trailer?

This has Philip written all over it. It's the first thing I thought. I don't know. Some of it looks uncomfortable. Really? But Jason Segal does that dark humor thing pretty well. Tortured comedian, Philip. Yeah, yeah.

I think it's going to work. I think it'll be good. And is she not using an Australian action? Is she doing a British? British, yeah. I don't know what, I couldn't figure out what her accent was. Matt can tell us. Maybe it is Australian because he makes a joke about it.

And at first I thought he was just making fun of her because she was making an accent up. I think he's making fun of her Australian accent. Okay. Some shrimp on the Bobby. Which is pretty funny. Right. The wrong movie, man.

I hated when that happens. Yeah, I'm excited about this one. It looks like a lot of fun. I didn't really get like an awkward or uncomfortable feeling about it. The movie is a... Sorry, it's a 2021 Norwegian thriller called The Trip, starring Numer. I have heard of that. Okay.

I oh yeah I've heard a couple of people had it on their top 10 list that year yeah because I remember seeing the trailer for the trip I think yeah this movie is basically a American remake yeah yeah I don't know it looks like one of those where like bad things keep happening and it has an uneasy feeling about it you know yeah true true I like seeing a couple of the guest stars show up yeah a lot of people in it it looks like Jason Siegel is like friends with everybody. Yeah, we got Timothy Oliphon in there, Julia Lewis,

which I think, if I remember the trip trailer, I think Jason Segal's character is trying to kill Samarieving, she finds out, so she's trying to kill him. Yes. And while they're going back and forth, I think Timothy Oliphon and Juliette Lewis's characters show up, and they want to kill both of them. now that's a great idea maybe i have seen that movie i think you have philip i'm pretty sure you

talk about it's familiar now yeah i think it i think the trip was on netflix for like a while okay i probably did watch it yeah well i mean i like the comedy in it looks like it's going to be a good time a lot of wacky stuff going on i think what philip said's going to happen things are going to just get worse and worse and escalation late throughout the movie and some are weaving I mean

that's all we needed yeah yeah the fact that she's in it automatically jumps at a point or two yeah she just stays working seems that way it's like she's got something

coming out like every other month yeah I strike while the iron is hot I suppose yeah this hits theaters April 24th and that is it for the trailers all right on to some listener feedback

this week we shine the podcast spotlight on horror hour with the hannas a married couple with a love for all things horror talk about your favorite scary movies simple enough I like it horror hour with the hannas Sounds very family

Family friendly And in regard to In A Violent Nature 2 Pat Caruso Says Wasn't a fan of the first one Except that one kill I'd still like to see if it improves the character

One movie Yeah In A Violent Nature too Movies garbage But yeah I mean that one kill It was pretty badass, and that made them movie worth watching, I think. I don't know. I kind of like that woodcutter kill, too, like how long it took.

And he kind of took his time with that guy. It took his time getting to the kill, you mean? Yeah, he took his time getting to the kill. It was about a 15-minute kill, Brian. They definitely didn't hit a home run with it, but there's something there. And so maybe they fleshed that out a little in the second one. We'll see. I just hope they take the...

opportunity that they know they did something. I give it to the movie. It was different and unique. Right. Don't do the same thing. Yeah. I agree. I agree.

100%. Something to elevate what you did in the first one. We can do the same gimmick. Just make it better. Make it an hour of walking instead of 30 minutes of walking, right? You can run this time. Yeah, that's true. Or we can just.

just skip the walking all together. Or he can do like Jason and teleport. There you go. There you go. All right. My Bloody Valentine. Lucas Sinha says Timeless Classic.

Ah, we have our new Michael Arnaz. Yeah. The Haunted Forest. Gutierrez Rio says another one that made it to my list. Interesting synopsis. Synopsis is a teenager. gets a job as a horror movie actor

at a haunted forest attraction. After forming bonds with his eccentric co-workers, a tragic death forces him to reconsider his sinister interests. Hmm. What kind of sinister interests? I don't know.

Leaves a lot to the imagination. What does he try to do? The Wolfman with Benicio. Pat Crusoe says Bad movie You are correct I didn't love it

Remember that movie Yeah It's forgetable Yeah Anthony Hopkins Brian I remember who was in it Anthony Hopkins and a Benicio do Toro And you fucked that movie up seriously

There's a lot of CGI in that one right Yeah I think so All right Alien Romulus Rob Hall says Love it All right, man, a few words.

Yeah. Diary of the Dead. Which one's Diary of the Dead? I think it's the found footage of Mara one. Yeah, they're filming like a diary, a video diary, and come across the zombies or something. I think it starts off in a hospital or something or outside of hospital. Yeah.

I think several of them do. Well, Ryan B says I remember being so hyped to go see it. What a dud. Yeah. I was thinking of that one with fucking Kylo Rin and Bill Murray.

That one was a dud. Oh, the one you and me shit on. Yeah, that one was... I still remember that review. I remember that review. I was talking about how I was just staring at the exit most of the time. That's right.

The dead don't die. I like the dead. I like the dead don't die. I liked everybody in it. God, what a shit movie that was terrible. I just kept telling myself, you don't have to be here. Yeah.

That exit looked pretty, pretty enticing, huh? Yeah. We got malignant. I don't know how to say your first name, buddy. I'm sorry, it's UUH, uh, Gupta. It says,

great movie. if it wasn't too bad shout up to uh gupta yeah uh gupta uh gupta uh could be in the spelling

i don't know you guys remember you remember that show two and a half man yeah they had that which version um

it was I guess it was the original one but one of them went to the pharmacy to get like a medication or something. He said, hold on, I'll get you what you really want. He pulls up a video screen. And it's this guy named Dr. Ghali Gupta. And he says, oh, what's his wrong with you? He says, I feel anxiety. Oh, I prescribe marijuana. He's like, this is what I really wanted. Thanks. That's what you needed. All right. That's it for feedback.

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The fungus horror. The girl with all the gifts from 2016. A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. Director is Colm McCarthy, also known for Bagman. Hmm.

I don't know if I like that synopsis. Yeah. Not the best synopsis, is it? It kind of makes it seem like they set on this journey. I know. Like a adventure movie. A road trip? Yeah.

Euro trip. Yeah, a scientist, a teacher, and a young girl. Well, I can't give it away. Some of the aerial footage was shot by a second unit in the ghost town of Pripyat near Chernobyl in Ukraine. Oh, director. Yeah. Director Colm McCarthy says, I was very interested in post-apocalyptic imagery and urban exploration.

We wanted to surprise people rather than have people coming in expecting a studio-level film. We sent a micro-drone unit to Priapit Chernobyl to shoot helicopter footage with prepot-pre-Piat doubling for Urban London. I'm probably saying that wrong. But you guys get the idea. This guy did Bagman. I don't remember what a bag man is. It is like you remember, uh, what is it? The Quiet Man or whatever.

Oh, the bye-bye man? Yeah, it's like that. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, that's even worse. I was like, the guy made this and made the Bagman. I thought it was going to be like a, like a crime movie, the bag man, you know? That would have been better.

Sorry, I had to look it up. Backman sounded familiar. It's in that genre, the bye-bye man, Slender Man. Gotcha. That makes it immediately worse in my head. Right. All right.

Well, what did you think about the girl with all the gifts? I enjoyed this one. I thought it was a good take on the zombie genre, which we would later get. a version of it with the Last of Us with the fungal infection that takes over your brain. I mean, it makes sense. I like the logic. Yeah, I've seen a thing that's saying out of all the scenarios, that would be the most likely outcome.

I like the cast. What's her name, Gemma Ardenton, who we've seen in Byzantium, that vampire movie. Oh, yeah, she's good. I like her. The little girl, I thought, did a great job. I like how they let us know about her character immediately. She's polite, intelligent. She's not like the other kids.

So she basically is the girl with all the gifts. But I did think Glenn Close was kind of just throwing in there. Like, oh, we got this big name. What do we do with her? We'll just make her the scientist. Yeah, it seems like a weird character for her. Although, I mean, she pulls it off. She plays a pretty good bad guy.

I believe the character. I definitely believe the character. And she wasn't really a bad guy, right? She was torn. She was like the mad scientist that just wouldn't give up on her dream. And I guess if you picture mad scientist in your head and make it a female, it's probably Glenn Close. I mean, I liked how they portrayed the characters because a lot of the soldiers were, you know, you got to, these kids are infected. You got to treat them differently.

But after spending so much time, with them you get to know them just like that scene when they're taking them to class and she tells everybody good morning and knows their names and their ranks and one of the the soldiers says something to her and the other one's like don't talk to it yeah yeah it's it's it's an abortion don't talk to it yeah and that guy uh patty consenin who played sergeant eddie parks i liked his his art because he was like you said yeah called them abortions and then he grown to like care for her like near the end. Yeah, good character art.

I agree. He ended up dying by getting affected when she released the spores by setting them on fire. But she tried to make sure he was safe locked in the air container, the little thing. And he was like, she was like, why did you leave? And he was like, I came looking for you. So I liked his art to his story. Yeah. So I guess that's the end of humans, huh?

Yeah, I mean, she, I mean, if you look at it from her point of view, why should, why should we die so you live if we're the next? Because you're not a fucking mushroom. You're still a person. Well, they were different. They were evolved, I guess. They were people wrapped in mushrooms, yeah. Well, I mean, like the children were something different. Yeah, but it was like they were. it's so it sounds like there are some of these children everywhere i guess it was just people children being born at the same time this happened because i think they're all the same age

yeah or after the event right like they were the next step in evolution yeah so it sounds like it was just a pregnant woman that got infected right and then it didn't all the way infect the baby but it controls the baby kind of genetically mutated them yeah and I liked how even though they were like if I compared him like Lord of the Flies like Farrell kids they're still intelligent because there was that scene where that one guy was looking for food and they

they were trapping him and they were like the others were like oh he's fine he's got his odor blockers on and they were like well they smelled the other soldiers that used to be here yeah so they know that smell so I liked that even though they were Pharaoh that showed you how intelligent they were. And I like the way the zombies looked, how they were all fungal,

and I liked the way they ended up hibernating when there was nothing going on. They would just kind of shut down. Yeah, those were pretty tense scenes. Pretty creepy. Even though Glenn Close, you don't have to see the zombie baby. I know. I was like, what are you doing? This seems like a huge mistake.

If that's going to be your reaction, yeah. Don't lift up anything to look at it. Yeah. She seems like not the one to have done that. You know what I mean? Yeah. Out of character a little bit.

But overall, solid movie. Lance, what do you think? Yeah, this is one of those that AJ watched with me. And she was riveted too, like from the very, beginning, like where they're taking the kids and like something's different with them, but we don't know what. And then they start having like kind of hints that they're different. And, you know, I started getting zombie vibes for some reason a little bit, even before they really kind of revealed anything, you know, or I thought, okay, maybe these kids are like monsters or something like

that. You know, like they've got some kind of a power. They've got some kind of a, they turn into monsters. Because the way they have to strap them into this wheelchair. Yeah, yeah, I couldn't figure out what it was And then something kind of clicked, I guess, a little bit later Maybe it was when you saw the hordes, but Yeah, it was it was Very good movie from the beginning The ending I was a little disappointed with, but we'll get into that, but yeah, I kind of felt the same way

It kind of far-fetched, right? Like how it ended up? I mean, is that sustainable forever? Really for her to live in there like bet and teach them? They said it was, it had everything sustainable to live in there. Okay, well. Hmm. But my thing was about the ending was how easily she just kind of was like, okay, this is my life now. Yeah. I'm gonna just look at this fucking box and teach these mushroom zombie fungal kids.

It felt, it felt either that or let them invade. It felt very. It felt very twilight. Zone-ish, right? The ending. It's kind of like I could have seen this as a 30-minute Twilight Zone episode more than a two-hour movie. But, yeah, but I mean, the movie itself was lush and beautiful. Like you guys said, they had good character arcs, good photography, the CGI, which was pretty plentiful, right? Like a lot of CGI blood and stuff. At least it was very well used. And it wasn't, you know, like out of control. And it was interesting the way they said that those pods were in shit,

Like, what did Glenn Close say, right? She said something like evolution has to take the heart along with the soft, right? So like those shells couldn't open on their own, they were going to require an outside force, like, would they say a fire or a flood or something like that? So, I mean, it all made sense. It was a well-written story and everything. I was just a little put off by that very last scene. It kind of felt cheap for some reason. I don't know.

But poor Gemma Artherton, huh, stuck in there with not been able to have. sex with anyone or interact with other humans. Not according to her reaction. She was just woke up the next day and was like, oh, it's time to teach class. How long is that going to last though? Maybe there was a time jump. Yeah, I'm sure there was a time jump. Yeah.

But I didn't like how she wakes up and it was the night the spores got released to the next. It was like she's teaching class. Yeah. I kind of wanted to see what she had to deal with in her head or being knowing I'm going to, if I leave this safety pot or whatever it was, I'm going to die or I have to stay here and do this forever. Right? She's going to shroom out, huh? I might have been tempted.

Maybe at some point she'll just say, you know what, if I could open the airlock and say, one of us, one of us. who knows man but it's like it's it's not like these kids get along with the infected people either I mean that you know that's true infected don't try to eat them but they're still fucking monsters and this girl has grown up through the whole thing I just don't understand her motivation to light it on fire was the question was then philip was she going to end up being more human or more mushroom right and she made her decision to to be more of a mushroom I guess I guess Even though she loved all the humans.

I like the scene with the kids in the grocery store. It reminded me that original Star Trek episode, Mery, like where it was the whole town run by children. And I definitely got a lord of... Oh, yeah. Left his backpack outside and everything. That kid from Mad Max. Yeah, is that he that was?

I thought he looked familiar. I'm not going to follow a kid with a dead rat talking about here. You Want it? Yeah. No kidding. Follow me. Yeah. And he did.

Like, you already know what kind of kid this is. What are you doing? He's the regular kid. He's trying to reason with it. Yeah. Yeah. Left all his equipment outside. Oi.

My name is Cyrus. What's your name, little one? Okay. What do you think, Philo? Yeah. I really like this movie. It's, I, I love the feel of it. The weird soundtrack thing.

they had going was super cool and like hypnotic. I like that you don't find out what's happening for like the first 20 minutes of the movie or whatever until they give the reveal

where the soldier wipes the stuff off his arm and they smell it and then they all start like biting. That was a good scene. That was a great where they just like one by one just started like snapping their teeth. Yeah. And then they had a and then they showed the little girl and she was like trying to fight it

with her friends that were in there. We were supposed to believe that she was more special than the rest of them. Is that why Glenn Close wanted her specifically for the cure? I think so. Because it's weird that she decided right then.

Glenn Close asked her to pick the number, right? And then she noticed that number 13, the room was empty and the kid was gone, right? Yeah, but now she suddenly is like, I can make this vaccine right now. It's like, well, because, yeah, how many kids did you feel to make that happen?

She was constantly asking her questions, like riddles and puzzles and stuff like that and just, I don't know. They could have kind of explained that more. Why did she come to the conclusion why she was the one that was going to give this vaccine? Because I did kind of wonder that, you know, like would

would Melanie have done the same thing had he like wiped the stuff off and put his hand in front of her? I mean, because it seems like as long as she had food right, she was kind of happy. Because if she was not the special one, why couldn't you have taken one of these little feral kids?

Right. So I think she was supposed to be as the title said, the girl with all the gifts, like she was the one. Yeah. Like the missing link, huh? Probably could have explained it better.

Because she was a little more human than the rest of them. Yeah. And yet she released the spores! One of, might be one of my favorite zombie movies, just because it's a little bit different. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah, it was definitely original. All right, scores.

Brian, what do you think? I give it a solid seven and a half. Okay. Lance? Seven and a half. Seven and a half. I'm going to give it a, I'm going to give it an 8 and a half.

I want to give it a 9, but I don't love the ending. Fair enough. I don't know what I would have done differently, but I'm not sure what I wanted out of it, but not that. But it at least was an ending, and like they wrapped it up. So that was good.

I just didn't. I'm not sure I understood the motivation. You didn't have to have some kind of twist or anything at the end. Just follow the conclusion of the story or something, you know? Yeah. All right. On to cold storage. When a highly dangerous fungus escapes from a secret laboratory,

a former bioterrorism agent is called Back Into Action. Alongside two employees, he must confront an invisible and out of control. but director is Johnny Campbell, also known for the Dracula TV mini series. Okay. Is that the movie on Netflix? Yes. Oh, okay.

That was pretty good. Yeah, I think I watched that. I never saw it. I was like, yeah, you're going to have to be a little more specific. I feel like there's been a bunch of Dracula stuff. Thus the title, Luke Besant's Dracula, right, Brian? We were talking about that a few weeks ago. writer is David Kep

also known for presence and stir of echoes That's a goodman, Kevin Bacon Yeah Vanessa Redgrave is mother of late Natasha Richardson, wife of Liam Neeson So he works in this movie With his mother-in-law However, they don't share any scenes together

That's the dream scenario, huh? For any man I have to work with a mother-in-law directly. I don't want her on my set. I have a very special set of skills. This stupid accent. I'm from Pennsylvania. Oh, you're not. All right.

Brian, what do you think about cold storage? You know, right before we were recorded, I totally forgot that I watched this movie. Uh-oh. Oh. This movie is so forgettable. Yeah. When did it come out?

It came out last week. Okay. You watched it and then you forgot that you watched it. I got it. Yeah, I'm like, Lance's is like messaging, you know, or ready whenever you guys are. And I'm like, what the fuck did we watch this week?

What are we watching? What are we talking about? And then I had to look at my phone and I was like, oh. Right. We watched Cold Storage and I was like, nothing special happened in this movie. I didn't see it either. I love the...

Uh-oh. I love the cast. I love Georgina Campbell and almost everything I've seen her in, but she didn't need to be in this movie. What else is she in? Barbarian. She did a bunch of kind of indie horror movies that she's pretty good in. Yeah.

Yeah. She did that one where she's, She was the park ranger last year. Yeah, that was pretty good. Okay. Yeah, I knew I'd seen her. I just couldn't place her. Yeah, I like Joe Kerry, you know, Steve from Stranger Things.

Right. Yeah, he's pretty good. He's basically Steve, like a more talkative scene. Right, right. And then we have Sosie Bacon in this movie for like 10 minutes, Sosie Bacon from Smile. Right. And then Liam Neeson, he's just, taking a paycheck to be in this movie.

Yeah. The basic premise is a fungal infection that the government's trying to contain in this storage container gets out and they're trying to stop it. Nothing new. Yeah.

The comedy didn't really hit for me. I don't remember any funny moments. Yeah, it was only sort of like half-ass funny. Yeah, and then the CGI wasn't the greatest. Like, nothing spoiler in that. in the trailer like the cat the cat and the deer

yeah that was horrible it's like you're you're gonna get away with bad CGI because you called it a comedy yeah so nothing great from this movie but before we move on to Lance

uh Nez what's on man I'm here I was uh doing grandpa and husband probably bullshit

it. Oh, life? Yeah. That's good stuff, man. It's in the way. The garbage disposal went on the fritz, I had to climb under there and do all that. Get your hand stuck in it.

Yeah, no, I'd go under the sink and move everything out of there. My wife wanted me to put up some kind of clothes hanger thing in the laundry room. It's a big cute snowstorm where I'm at here in northern California. What? And that's where our snow went. Yeah, it's been we've got where I live up on the upper res out of town, it's been about, I don't know, like, I think close to three feet. But they've been, they've been keeping it pretty good clearing the highways and coming up here, the, the res workers, they go and plow the roads, all the elders, which I guess I'm technically and elder. So they come and shovel my driveway and all that.

So I'm like, good because I don't want to do that shit no more. I tell my grandsons, get out there. But they just end up playing in the snow and nothing happens. Imagine that. Are you all close to the avalanche that they were talking about? No, that's more in Nevada, I think. Unless it's on the California side. But it's not.

That's still like over 100 miles away from where I'm at. But yeah, I heard that I was watching the news that it happened. There's some people missing too. I mean, people during the winter or even sometimes during the summers, people always go is missing when they're up in the mountains. So if you're ever going to go up there, any mountain, anywhere in the world, just don't go alone. Don't be like the guy in, what time movie we did, never hike alone. Don't be like him. Or they got stuck in the rocks.

Don't be like Kim. Always be with somebody. That was James Franco too, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Well, people die in the ocean out here every single year. Like, nature will definitely take you if you stop paying attention. Are you, like, close right on the water or?

It's like down the street. Okay. Yeah, he's really close, Naz. Really close. Right across the road. What about you, Lance? Are you close to the... we're about we're about

five miles or the Atlantic yeah we're five miles from the Atlantic but where we live as it's the surfing capital of Florida right so we get we get gnarly waves like really big waves here so AJ doesn't like to go to the beach here she wants me to drive her across the

fucking state to the to the Gulf side where the waves are more mellow I like it though the big wage is fun that cold storage I didn't make it out to see but everything I've been seen I'll take talk, people are like, eh,

it's okay. Man, some people are saying the same thing. Liam's just taking a check. But, I mean, he's hit and miss with all his movies.

I mean, there's some good ones and some, not so good. I like both of those ice, ice road. I think I like, I like both of those.

Those are all paycheck movies. Yeah. Oh, he plays the exact same character, like, taken came out. And they were like, all right,

that's who you're playing forever now. That one is on the airplane. Was it non-the-air flight or whatever that word? No, not stop. Okay. All right. I'm with you. He's like the older version of Jason Statham.

Yeah. Slap a job title as a movie title. I guess. Okay. I haven't even seen that movie. What? Shelter. Yeah.

So I don't know. What's Richard Bragg doing this? Is he good? Oh, shit. He's an asshole. He's an asshole. He's only in there for like five minutes. I was saying that was before you came on.

when Lance was like, are you guys ready? I totally forgot I even watched this movie. Yeah. Is that forgettable? Yeah, it's your basic premise and then you can kind of just make a

story and it's probably what happened in this movie. Yeah, the story wasn't particularly important. What about the girl with all the gifts? You seen that one? I seen that one when it came out. From what I remember of it, was that the one with

what was her name Glenn Close yeah yes yeah Glenn Close All right I mean There was supposed to be a zombie outbreak and she couldn't get it Is that what it was I saw it back when it came out They were They were children of the infected

Yeah The kids were like like a fungus like a fungus zombie Okay I'm looking at pictures now I remember this All right. From what I remember, I did think Glenn Close was just taking the check. But, I mean, she puts in a good performance and everything she does. Yeah. But the All-Star was that little girl in the film.

Yeah, she's good. I really liked her. She did a strong role in what she had to do and everything. And I like this world that they built that went to shit. And you're just trying to survive. I kind of got the vibes of a, what's that TV show? The Last of Us. I kind of got the vibes of that.

But from what I, from what I remember of it, I just mainly remember Glenn Close than a little girl. I thought they were really good in it. But, yeah, if I have to give it a rating, probably a seven. I was into it. I was into the movie. I mean, I liked what was going on. on. I like the world that they built for this. And it seems like fungus is the new thing that's going to take us all out because

all these TikTok videos. You watch one TikTok video. You fall down the hole. There's some fungus going around now. And I'm like, yeah, fungus does weird things. And it does, it's weird. It's like alive and giant. Yeah. I mean, because, yeah, there's everything.

A friend of mine, I mean, he just had to get out of his apartment because of black mold and all that in his house. It's bad. I'm like, are they going to tear down your walls and fix it? He goes, is they better? Yeah, I hope so. Pays a billion dollars for rent. Mm-hmm. So, I don't know.

Man, I mean, I'd be scared to dig through my walls. My house has been here for a long time. I think we're the second owners of the house that I live in. And I'm sure there's some stuff in there. Somewhere in there. They need to come up and see. But I don't know. I think we've got to worry about is wildfires.

So, oh, cool of the week. I talked about it. I think on the last episode of East Society, there's that movie The Lost Bus. It's on Apple. Banty McConaughey. Yeah. Oh, my God.

That was scary. That was real horror because it's only that place where it happened in Paradise, California. That's like 70 miles from where I live. You heard it, Brian. It's a horror movie. And that fire was, oh, my God. There's a documentary on Netflix. I think it's called Fire in Paradise or Paradise Fire or something like that.

And the thing that scared me the most about that documentary was, there was the fire got out of control so fast that it surrounded the town and there was people stuck um i think it was a helicopter pad or something or a basketball court i don't know something where we're a parking lot where they couldn't do anything there's only one road in and out of there and it was all backed up and there's i guess abandoned cars were blocking everything because people had to get out and just run That the fire was so bad. They couldn't leave. There was no, there was no way in and out there for them. Helicopters couldn't fly in and get them because of the flames. They just hid under those fireproof blankets. Oh.

And just waited to die. Hmm. Oh, yeah. That's scary stuff. It didn't, it didn't get them. Thankfully, it didn't get them. So, and they were able to tell their story. But that movie, man, it was intense.

on what was going on. Yeah, the guy, the real guy that happened, you don't look like Matthew McConaughey, but he's still a year. He rarely does. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure he was like, hell yeah, Matthew McConaughey playing me.

Yeah. Who do you want to play me? All right, all right. So, but it was a good movie. I think I ended up, I watched it once and then sitting there thinking about it and then I ended up watching it again. If I would have watched it last year when it came out,

it would have definitely been in my, my top 10 best movies of 2025 because it's really good. It's up for Academy Award. I don't know for what if it's writing, story or screenplay or something. Effects? Yeah, that was one thing. From what I understood, they filmed it,

not around here. They filmed it somewhere else, but the effects of when they were in the bus and the flames are all around it. Oh, man. I'm sure there was someone out there. All right, fires outside. Be scared.

Yeah. And shout out to all those little actors, all the kids that were in the bus that just were crying their eyes out and screaming. And I'm sure there was light and the guy shaking the bus and everything. But it was an intense movie. So I was like, oh, man, I was just sitting there like on the edge of my seat and thinking about it. And I said on our show that we live in a area, wooded area where there's fires every year. And our woods are just going. It's so dry here in California that there's parts of it, which used to be beautiful.

I love driving through the woods when I go down to the Bay Area. Now it's just open, like a bomb blew up and just clear it out everything. There's parts of the woods that are just gone or just they look like black burnt matchsticks sticking out of the ground. Yeah. And it's eerie. It's eerie during the, the day driving through and then driving through it at night, it's like real

spooky. Yeah, I've driven through some, some fire areas and it's creepy as hell. And that was just in Texas. So, I mean, I can only imagine what you guys have. Yeah, it's crazy. But yeah, that movie, I mean, it was

really horrific on what, just what they showed. It was what Hollywood gave us. I'm sure they embellished on some of it, but but just knowing that, That happened. I mean, there's been other, there's a closer town to me called Greenville, California. That town almost got wiped out.

A lot of it did, but some of the, some of the structures like the high school and the local supermarket and some other things survived it. But everything else around it gone. It was homes. Basically, the downtown Greenville was like old, like the first buildings they built where it was just bricks and stone. Just the stone and bricks are standing. Everything else gone. I was like, man, I had to drive through there. There was a big fire outside of town.

And I had to drive through Greenville to get to my house. And that was like four hours out of my way just to get home. And I had to drive through there at night. And man, that was eerie. No power, no nothing. The only lights was my headlights and just felt like I was just driving through some crazy. A wasteland, uh? Yeah, like we see in all these movies.

It does. Just driving to that. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, man, it's dumps. It's scary when, when, I mean, fire and all that, it's crazy. And even close to us, not even a mile from my house. It was a big fire over the summer. I hold my family. I was at work. I was hauling ass home. Yeah. I remember that, man. My wife and them, they all had to evacuate. I mean, they had to break into my My mother-in-law's house to wake her up. She was asleep. She was in there just taking a nap.

And the police, the helicopters, those big giant airplanes that were dropping that red stuff all over the fire. Thankfully, there wasn't a fire going on elsewhere close. Because usually if fires are going, they need people to come help. So they'll call all the local people and everyone loads up and they go help fire to fire. Nothing was going on anywhere within our area. So all the firefighters came here and they put it out. By the time I got home, which is about an hour and a half drive from Reno to where I live, it looked like it was done. Because I saw the helicopters dropping water and those big airplanes dropping that stuff.

But all I saw was smoke. I didn't see black smoke. So that's when I came over the hill, when I could see the town, I could see the fire. I was like, oh, okay, good. It's not black. And my wife said everything's good. We're all right. We evacuated.

It looks like they're just cleaning it up. So I immediately went over to as close to the fire as I could to see. Of course you did. Yeah. Well, it was at this church and everybody was there. Everyone was watching. And there was some people that didn't evacuate. They stayed up on the res where we live.

And they were out there with their hose and hosing their house down and everything. But those guys went up there, lickety split, got it on the, control. They were up there for about a week, checking for hot spots and dozering everything. And now it's, I think it's what's all under snow now. So, but I think it's the vegetation is slowly coming back. It took a lot of the tree line, but not a lot, which was good. So, but yeah, after that and watching this movie, I was like, oh, my God, it's just, it's close to home. Yeah, it's horrifying on what fire does. and I've seen

seen it I mean it's scary one two years ago there was a huge fire on this highway when I drive home there's a big mountain off on my left side of me

and at night when I looked over there and it looked like hell was coming over the mountain you could just see the red glow but as I was driving

you could slowly start to see the flames and you see all those helicopters and airplanes up there that's terrifying yeah man all the horrible movies we watch and everything. Yeah, it's fun

and we love them, but when real horror is close to you like that, I mean, yeah, I can't even imagine when it's weather, the weather down there, Phil, on how windy and if the water is, is the water ever

like got close to where you're at? No, I mean, it floods sometimes. We're up on stilts, so not too worried about it. I mean, it gets a little sloshy downstairs, but Right. But yeah, we've had to evacuate a couple times.

We stayed during a couple of them, too, and it does get a little scary. It was raining inside the house at one point. We had to get a new roof. Oh, man. Like we said earlier, you don't fuck with Mother Nature, and as that's the theme of the show tonight, I think. I slept through it. My wife was up running around moving beds and stuff. I'm like, right?

He slept through it. Yeah, man. I mean, the mother earth is, she's mad at what we're doing to it. And she's showing us with the weather and everything. So, but I mean, I respect the earth. I respect. I try not to. If I have to pull over and take a leak, I'll say, sorry, and then just go.

Sometimes it's a few toilets in between. When I'm driving home, I'm out in the middle of nowhere. Hey, if we could all agree to just not throw fucking trash on the ground. Oh, my God. That'd be a good start. That's what I hate. I mean, I live on the part of town when it's super windy up here. It's like everybody's junk that's in their yard blows over and ends up in my yard.

So I hate that. Yeah. There's always wind out here, so that happens a lot. Yeah, but snow's been messing up the power. I guess it took out a few power lines. The power went out for a little bit, but then came right back on. so but other than that it's just yeah I got to drive in it tomorrow well it doesn't look like it's going to be too bad I didn't even know it was going to snow today I woke up this morning like

thank God I don't got to go to work today so I said I was late no day late to work Tuesday yeah my wife had a had a snow day she stayed home the the kids all week they had uh late starts. But all the kids in Reno, Nevada, they shut down all the schools because of the snow. And I was like, man, they ain't even snowing that bad over here. But at the airport, they must have just dropped all the snow on the airport because it was hell. Oh, that's the worst. They closed the schools down here. If they even think it's going to freeze. I know. If it gets down to 42 degrees here in Florida, they shut the schools down. Like it might be 32 degrees tomorrow.

Let's close down to schools. We've got to shut off the water. All right. It gets that cold down there? Yeah, no. We have at least one decent little freeze every year. A couple of them have been pretty hard, like breaking water pipes and stuff. But I've replaced every water pipe in this house, so I'm okay.

At some point? Yeah. But yeah. It's all pecks now. so it's not going to freeze. The girl's trouble with all the games. Yeah, I enjoyed the film. But cold storage, so I should just wait until such a streaming.

Oh, yeah. This is a streaming movie for sure. Was Steve, was he just Steve? Because that's all I see him. Pretty much. Very chatty, Steve. Was he? Oh, he was chatty, wasn't he?

Was he like in that one movie? When he was the whoever killing everyone? Oh, Sprite. No, it wasn't like that He was He's he's like the ex-con type guy with a heart of gold You know Like he's got his little cheap prison tap

But he's But he's kind of a Kind of a push-over type guy Was he like Was he like white collar crime I don't see him? He said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time His buddy ran into a store with a gun

And he was in the car and got got nabbed man What Richard Bragg do? So he was military guy. Yeah. In the movie. Yeah. Was he an officer, Brian? Is that the impression you got?

Like he was calling some shots. Again, like, miscast. Misscast? Yeah. Which is a head of no military. Right. Well, he's the sheriff. He should have been one of those bikers.

I kept expecting Justin Long to show up. I thought we were going to. get a barbarian. You know, what I would have done, I would have switched Richard Brake with Liam Mason. Yes. Have Richard Brake be Liam Neeson's

character? Yeah. I don't know. I think Richard Bright could have done well as one of the bikers. Maybe, yeah. Yeah. Lance, what did you think about it? We've said it all. It's very mad. Yeah, forgettable. Like, I've, I've missed.

a few movies this year and last year. This should have been one of them. I'm not choosing very well. This is what I was able to find local here. It's not, yeah, it's not the worst thing. It's just very predictable. Yeah, I'd watch it on streaming,

Ness. Were you mad you paid for it? A little bit. Yeah. A little bit. Do you get the senior price? No, dude, it wasn't even showing at my theater here. I had to go to the fucking AMC and pay $10 for this shit. Well, that's what you get from missing all the other movies.

There you go, my penance. It felt like a slapsticky alien movie or something. Yeah, like a, what was that other one Liam Neeson was in recently that was comedy? Police files or? Oh, naked gun. It's kind of like that, a little bit of guess. It wasn't that slapsticky. You don't watch it either.

I want to see it. I like Liam Neeson. Yeah. It's worth watching. It's on Prime now. Yeah, it is. I mean, I want to watch that for him and, uh, what's her nuts? Pamela Anderson.

I hear she. Oh, Pamela Anderson. She turned herself around. She's not like her. She's not all sexy anymore. She's made a comeback. You guys ever, you guys ever see her in interviews talking about movies? Uh-uh.

She's, uh, what do you? call it Cinephile? No shit. I had no idea. She knows, like, her shit about movies. Oh, yeah? Her and Tarantino should hook up, maybe, huh? They would probably have a long

discussion about movies and shit. I had no idea. That's pretty close. And then you'd ask to see her feet. Yeah, he would. Put him in the dirt first. She was up for Academy Award for some. Oh, I saw that.

Jamie Lee Curtis was in that one. I can't remember what it. was called. It was all right. Yeah. Batista was in it. Had a pretty good cast. It was very indie, right? Like they were all doing it.

Have any idea what that movie is? That sounds crazy. The last showgirl. The last show girl. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't it kind of like the wrestler? Oh, ha. Like, seems like, yeah.

Aging out of being to the showgirl or something. Yep. Very much so. So it's depressing. It was all right. What's that? It's depressing because the wrestler was depressing. Yeah, it's depressing.

It's depressing. It's not a feel-good movie. They're not out there, like, partying and doing lines of Coke and stuff. Oh, man. Well, that's a point in being showgirl, then. Right. Liam Neeson, I mean, good for him. He's like Nicholas Cage.

He's out there just pulling out of the news out left and right. How old is Liam Neeson, though? He's got to be getting... He's like 70. Is he up there? He was in X caliber back in the day.

Remember that, Naz? He was in Kroll. He's 69. He's 69 years old. You remember that movie? Okay. Crawl. With the little knife thing. Yeah, with the...

Like the glade or the glade or I still want one of those. I don't remember that. I saw one at a con. I still want that. You don't remember Kroll? Crawl's awesome. I could be wrong, but for some reason, when I first saw the trailer for Kroll,

some of you probably don't even know what we're talking about. Anyway, it's old, old movies when Lance and I were kids. I could have swore it was supposed to come out in 3D. And then when I came out of it, he did. Oh, I'm sorry, Liam D.son is 73. Oh. Yeah, I figured he's, he's getting up there. Well, Mel Brooks is still making movies.

What are you going to do? right crawl oh 83 who's 83 no oh it was in 83

it came out it's on toby and rocuk the good old days yeah for those you yeah a lot of stuff

a lot of stuff on to be everything is on tooby yeah you'd be surprised how much shit they've got I don't know how they get it

but I get I just assume I was talking about this with with Theo I was assuming the ads must generate tons of money for them. I only get like two ads in a whole movie.

Well, it would have to be because you can't skip them. You have to watch them. Yeah, forced ad watching. If there's something on it that I really want to watch. Of everything also has ads. So it's not any different than watching free Pluto or Tooby. Right. And they have more ads.

Tubey's not as bad as if you get. like Hulu with ads. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Oh, that's brutal. Tobey. Man, plus those Hulu ads, they were like, blast you in the face.

They're so loud. I hated when I first got Hulu. I mean, when they first, Hulu first came out, there was no ads. Right. Then it turned into ads.

Ad, ad central, huh? I was like, I was like, oh my God. Yeah, it was kill me. I, I said, I can't do this. I told my wife, I'm upgrading.

This edits are killing me. Yeah, you have to. There's tons of stuff on there. Good stuff, too. I mean, I just watched this documentary. Another cool of the week. This documentary was called, was it in this house or this is the house

or something like that. It was a documentary about this guy just went around. He found like, houses where movies were made like the back to the future houses of course Halloween and stuff like that and the Home Alone

house and the house from I guess there was this one house Amityville Hoare? No there was this one house that was like in a billion movies. Can't hardly wait is the only how the movie that comes of mine Oh okay A lot of party movies then huh?

Yeah the house from old school This guy just went around and just did a documentary on how the Goonies house. He went there and was talking about that. That was a cool little documentary. I think it's called, this is the house of or in this house or something, something to do with house. But it was a cool little documentary. My wife goes, let's watch this. I was like, all right, what is it? I ended up enjoying it more than her. The Rubio House. The Rubio House, Nez, from Can Hardly Wait. Is that what it was? In Alta Dena, California. Okay. And that's how

American pie. American pie cheaper by the dozen as Seventh Heaven, the TV show? No, yeah. Stiffler's house? Okay. I'm interested in this documentary. It's on Tooby?

Yeah, it was something house. I can't remember. It's on Tube, though. So, but I guess I'll wait for cold storage, but if you want to watch a good Liam Neeson, maybe go to Tube and watch. crawl. There you go. If you haven't seen it forever. He's hardly in it. This is the beginning. The beginning. William Neeson. Yeah. Yeah. This is one of his first films.

But he's coming a long way, man. Did he win Academy Award for Chittner's List? It would make sense, right? I wasn't sure. It would make sense. If he won or not. So, but... I would assume so. I own that movie, but... That's a movie that I It's right. No, Sinler's list.

Not a feel good multiple times. Not a feel good movie either. That one. What about Rodi? The pianist. Bullshit.

What did you be depressed? Watch that one. Yeah, no kidding. All right. What's, Brian, what's your scores for cold storage?

Four out of ten. I forgot. We were talking. about it. Lance. Brian and I are in sync tonight. Yeah. Four.

It wasn't horrible. It wasn't horrible. I'd watch it on streaming. For real. I'll give it a five. Like it had some, it was, it's like lukewarm water.

You don't even know you're in it. We don't even need to go to spoilers. Let's talk some other shit. Oh yeah. Well, there's not really any spoilers. Did they? No,

the movie is explode. that's it. Did they save the world? Did they save the world? Yeah, they blew up the lab and saved the world. Yeah, predictable. With the bomb that would keep changing time to count down on it. Because it was so old, like an old nuke.

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. The time was set at a specific time that makes you think they might not make it out, but guess what? They make it out. Imagine that. There was one scene where it was down to, like, 0.1 second and then it went back up to two minutes and something. So none of them die.

Are we being generous with a four, Brian? Yeah, we're in spoilers. None of the main cast die. Steve and Liam. Random actor Ed and Steve die. Like those. Which are pretty good deaths. Random scene with the bikers.

That is true. It is true. Or the guy came to rob his own job. The nerdy, the nerdy bikers, Brian? What kind of fucking bikers were those, dude? Yeah. It's like living in their mom's basement bikers. Is that the chick from Barbarian?

Yes. Okay. Like, nobody was bad in it. Yeah, it's got a good cast. Who was bad in it? But it was like it wasn't, it was sort of funny, but not really funny. Like, I couldn't tell if they. were like trying to be funny.

It looked like they were trying to be funny. But nobody really tried to be funny. You thought someone was bad, Lance? Not really. Nah. I'm thinking about it. Nobody was actually bad. Everybody did their part.

Richard Brake was so fucking miscast, though. He has more scenes. He has more scenes than the strangers than this one. Oh, he does? Yeah. Well, he started to shine in the third one. Third part, chapter. Yeah.

And then look where that went. man. He is good at popping up for two minutes in a movie every once in a while. His best movie was the first movie I saw him in, the outpost. If you guys have seen that one. The first one. The first one, yeah. He was in one of the soldiers that went into that bunker before all hell broke loose.

He was badass in that movie. I guess, like, Red Grave. Doom was probably the first. The one with the rock. Yeah, the video game movie. He was in, I won't put it down, Brian, because I do not remember that. It was neither Doom or Halloween 2. I bet you I've seen that movie twice.

I still don't remember it. I couldn't tell you anything about it. I just remember. I just remember when they do the scene from the video game where the Rock goes and kills everybody. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was cool. When he gets the big fucking gun. Yeah.

There's our spoilers for the cold storage. We're talking about Doom. How about Vanessa Redgrave? Was she good in this? She was serviceable, you know? I mean, crazy old lady that's going to kill herself and then decides not to for some reason. Was she doing this for a check?

Because this doesn't seem like the movie sees she does. She doesn't even need to be in this movie. I don't understand why she's there. She just basically put her in a scenario where she's... This is a... This is a motherfucking spoiler alert. You've been fucking warned. This is a motherfucking spoiler alert.

You've been fucking warned. This is a motherfucking spoiler alert. You've been fucking warned. Gonna kill herself in her storage locker because she misses her husband and doesn't do it. For some reason, decides to take a nap. And wakes up in time to kill a zombie. And that's her story art. that's it that's all she does

yeah she shoots a zombie in the head two scenes this was it was either a favor it was either a favor for a friend or she just wanted to I don't know buy a new TV or a car because the movies that she did before this one she did the estate what's like some fancy

mancy hallmark movie I don't know what it is I don't know what it is and the movie you're not selling me after the TV series after call the midwife and then she had a cold storage in between

well it's not just that they like could have cast somebody else it's they could have deleted that character entirely from the movie and it would have changed nothing nothing yeah none of the trajectory she had to kill the one zombie though right yeah but you could have had you could have had Joe Kerry and George Camel killed the zombie and it would not made a difference

true it wouldn't have changed the thing no butterfly effect right what else and there's a deer at the end so I guess that was terrible CGI it really was yeah

it was like a cartoon it's like Bambi they showed that in the trailer the fungus deer they looked terrible yeah that was bad they didn't fix it up any all of the CGI

was kind of a mess I mean the the zombie guys were fun and like the head exploding was pretty cool but uh but yeah but the

CGI animals were bad. Who is the former bioterrorism agent is called back into action? Is that Liam? Liam. Yeah. Doesn't really... Nobody believes it. He's going to have his...

Richard breaks says, here we go again. It's going to have his big badass scene. And then, oh, his back goes out. He's laying on the crown the whole scene. He's probably... I'm too old to do these action movies. Right. I'm not doing them anymore. Like, wow, we're just going to put you in a car and you're going to bark orders of people.

Oh, all right. Oh, my God. What's the name looks terrible in this? Vanessa Redgrave? They showed her really quick in the trailer. She's no spring chicken, man. Yeah. She's a beautiful old lady with it.

Well, they did a good job. They made it look rugged. Well, she's supposed to be distraught and depressed. Oh, yeah, the CGI, and this is terrible. It's rough, man. I don't like Steve's blonde hair. Yeah. I did not like Steve's hair.

I was not a fan of that. It didn't bother me. I mean... Yeah, I got used to it after a while, but it was weird. Yeah. It's not all style like it wasn't a stranger thing. That's what he looks cool. And frosty tips now?

I think he just grabbed a bottle of bleach and stuck his head in a sink for 30 minutes or something. And what caused all this fungus? The Space Station. Skylab. Blue up. From 1970-something when it fell down. Skylab. The crash landed and then they took it and...

Yeah. Are they someone in Nevada? They give you a screen for all of the evening that explains everything. Well, get this, dude. They drop it in Australia. And I don't know where the rest of the movie takes place. Get this, Naz. They show a time lapse photography thing and it's like this super top secret military base

with like a fungus that could destroy the world, right? And they fucking leave it in there and build a fucking. fucking, what, UPS store around it type thing? Storage facility. You don't think our dumb-ass government would do some shit like that? I guarantee you. Well, you were in the military.

They build a storage facility. It's in Kansas. Kansas. Enough people go, you know what? They'll figure that out. What got it loose? For some reason in these movies when they store stuff, it's in glass.

Right. Some lady's head just blew up. I did like the little the little cockroach, the little timelat scene with the copper cockroach running along. I mean, it was bad TGI but it was at least kind of fun. Is it like an airborne

fungus or do you have to touch it to get it? Touch it. Okay. Saliva, bodily fluids, you know. But then it takes control of people, which turns them into the zombies. But that's what I didn't understand. There was like zombies exploding left

right around them and none of them got anything on now. Yeah. I was going to say that in this trailer, man, they're showing all kinds of shit blow up, like mouse or rats. Yeah. Yeah. And they're all infected.

Like they were all standing there watching it when it happens. Yeah, they would just like turn away real quick. It's like it's not even on their clothes. That first bitch got some on her shoe and died. I know. just a tiny little dab

It went all the way through its shoe leather They showed a commercial for Monarchs The Something of Monsters Was Kurt Russell in that first season? I didn't finish it Yeah, he plays The older version of a character

And his son plays the younger version I'm gonna have to watch it I'm kind of cool casting I tapped out on it I was waiting for Godzilla Season 2 looks badass Yeah Godzilla show up Brian

And Kong Kong Hashton not my Godzilla hashtag not my Kong but I'll still watch it because those American Godzilla movies are terrible right. Nez and I like

the black and white King Kong, right Niz? Yeah, that was the real deal with Faye Rade. Was it 76, 76? Oh, that was a good... Land was talking about 1931. 30 something. Yeah, man, that's the one I grew up watching.

I've seen the movies. A hundred times. 1970s. 1970s. It took place during the bicentennial I used to watch a lot of that old shit Like that old, old ass original Superman cartoon Oh yeah

He's good stuff Out of that I have to do King Kong Brian Put that one down 76 With the dude You have the dude

It's a good one A beautiful Jessica Lang Oh she was hot in that one huh Can we do the second one too Where they built that giant heart When they built that big heart with Sarah Connor. That's all I remember.

That's all that to theater. But anyway, cold storage. Back to this. What I'm seeing in the trailers is kind of getting me excited. Uh-oh. Unless that's all. They did a good job.

It's got a fun feel to it. It's just super forgettable. Like nothing happens. It's like all the good stuff in the trailers because that's what they seem, Hollywood seems to be doing right now. Yeah, it didn't even feel like it was super long or anything. It was just bling.

It goes by fast. When they discover that it's a storage facility underneath the storage facility, all of a sudden they hear a noise and they just immediately like, let's tear open this wall to our job. Oh, yeah. We'll deal with the consequences later. Yeah, like it felt like a special episode of Stranger Things where they do something stupid. It kind of did, didn't it?

Yeah, I got that. I don't know if that's just. because he was in it, but I get that vibe a little bit. It's the last episode. Yeah. It's what Steve was doing for the summer. You know how like sitcoms and stuff? They'll have some stupid like Christmas episode

or music episode or something where stupid things happen, but it doesn't really matter. That's what Steve was doing before he worked at the ice cream shop. Yeah. And before he started to be in an Uber driver. Well, this is showing Oh, the lights are flickering.

Whoa. Mother Nature. This is shown before I start work, so I might have time. We sold him, Brian. I don't know how. Maybe I'll rush out and see it. Trailer's sold down. Yeah, the trailer, what I'm watching, they're showing a lot.

I like crazy nonsense, so. Yeah, it's nonsense. You'll like it. Yeah. What scores did you guys give in this? I'm sure. Four. Four.

Four. Four. Four. All right. 35. All right. Well, boys and girls, I'll check it out, and I'll do a quick review, let you know what I think about it. So I'll go check it out. All right. It's like room temperature water. Get it. Right. With mold in it, right? Fungus.

All right, is that it? Is that it for this week? Yeah. Okay. We want to thank you all for listening to another episode of The Horror Returns. We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas. You can find us. at the whorereturns.com. Follow up all our links from that. Nez, Brian, what do you guys have coming up? Wrestling.

Yeah, we need to finish that, Brian. I've been... Lots of been going on. I'll tell you about it before. Yeah, that. We still got stream fiends and... Action. I need to rewatch that again.

But, yeah, that's coming. and everyone. And I can't think of anything else. What are you guys doing next week? Next week is killers, right, Brian? Psycho killers or something like that. You got the notes in front of you.

Do I, though? I got lulled with this talk of cold storage. All right, next week we got serial killers with the brand new psycho killer incidentally starring Georgina Campbell

Okay And 1989's the horror show All right A.k.a. House part three. Is it? Yeah, they did one of the things where it was a completely different movie and they just slapped

House Part 3 in other countries. Was William Cad in it? No, he comes back in House Part 4. Okay. All right, on that On that note, Nez, until the horror returns again. Really quick. I thought you meant the 1979, The Horror Show.

I don't remember that one. I don't either. That's my era, though. Julie, if you're listening, she's Queen of the 70s. But all right. Oh, MGM Plus, all right, I got that. Oh, man, there's hell of fools in this movie. The 89 one that we're going to do?

Yeah, a lot of all-stars. All right. That's good. Who's the other one? Cycle Killer? Yeah. That's a new one, right? Yeah. Written by the guy that wrote seven. Really? Yeah. But not Psychicorman.

The girl? Georgina Campbell. Is the girl the killer? No. Or is it some dude? I'm looking at the poster and some guy with a mask. She's the girl from Barbarian. Again? Yeah.

cold stories. She's fighting fungus. Now she's fighting cereal killer. I wouldn't throw cult storage on there if I was telling people my filmography. She shouldn't put that on her resume, yeah?

No. Malcolm McDowell. Nice. Oh, wow. If you guys ever get a chance, if you guys ever get a chance to meet him, cool, cool guy. He'll talk ears off.

All right, boys and girls, that's it. So until next time, be sure to check us out on the horror returns. the action returns, wrestling returns, THR percent, stream fiends,

frightful reflections. Hey, got it, Brian. And what's the other one? The streamfeas. We'll be back for more. So until next time,

be safe out there and good night.