The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #57: Spanish Horror - El Dia de la Bestia (1995) & [REC] (2007) (Re-upload)

Episode Date: December 18, 2021

Bienvenidos, listeners! This week we check a few films from Spain. Thanks for listening!

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Our goal here is to explore how our perceptions of fear remain the same from generation to generation. But we also want to point out how the presentation can change based on the social and political climate of the times. This week we're doing things a little bit differently. By the time you hear this show, I will be in sunny Barcelona. Look out. Or as they say, Bartholome. I think is how you correctly pronounce it. Oh, they put that TH in there.

Yeah, and they actually, actually where I'm going to be, they speak Catalan. So, they actually, well, you know, basically from what I understand,

they will be able to, most people will be able to speak Catalan, Spanish, as well as English. So AJ and I should both fit in, no problem. My wife's incredibly fluent on Spanish, so I think we'll make do.

We are going to include spoilers for both films, and we're not going to give a spoiler alert probably on this one because these are both older movies. But the big thing about this week, guys, is because of my upcoming trip, we're doing a celebration of all things Spanish horror. So we're focusing on Spanish horror movies this week, which is something that we think we might start doing in the future. And a couple of our listeners have put in on our Facebook return, or I mean on our

a horror returns Facebook page that they like the idea of us going and exploring different cultures. So just like we sometimes do the year in horror, we will probably be incorporating different countries, horror movies in. International horror. Absolutely, man, as we continue forward. So, Brian. International Horror Week.

Bam. As you guys already know, if you listen to the show, it's Lance, Brian, and Phillip. If you don't listen to the show, welcome. I know we have a lot of new listeners. And we really appreciate it. Our listenership has gone up significantly, I think, since we've gone out there and been public at Texas Frightmare and Comic Palooza. So we really love you guys. This is why we're here.

Philip, how are you doing, man? What's up? I'm doing good, man. It sounds like we might actually be on the verge of doing something right here. So I'm excited. God forget what I'm saying, man. Hey, thanks to everybody for listening, man. Reach out to us.

The horror returns. at gmail.com. Brian, how are you, man? I am doing great. How about you, my friend? Oh, man. I'm just dying to get out of here. Get on a plane.

Barcelona. Go chill out. Vacation time. That is something right there. You going to work Monday? I am going to work Monday, dude. No, I've got to tie up all the loose ends, man. We're actually not leaving until like $3.50 in the afternoon Tuesday.

Okay. So we got an all day Tuesday to pack and get ready and then get down to the airport and you'd be worthless Monday what? Oh dude it's going to be a long it's either going to be a very long day or a very short day you know what I mean

hopefully I'll stay busy as hell and just get it over with but now on our last show Philip you referred to Barcelona as Amsterdam by the sea or something Amsterdam by the sea that's what I've heard what's the deal that sounds super fun

legalize the pot haven't they well Oh, I don't know about that. I do know that I have going to be involved in something called a cannabis club. I'm not really sure what that involves exactly, but... Bring me home some candy and don't get caught. That might be the hard part. Let's just say that while we're there, we'll have fun.

I'm kidding. Please don't try to take that on an airplane. But, yeah, Brian, I'm going to actually be at a two-day music festival, man. Oh, nice. Yeah, we're building the whole trip around that. I saw that a lot of the... I'm into, for our listeners who don't know, I'm into something called progressive rock, which basically means I'm in like the one or two percent of the world population that listens to this shit.

But we'll be seeing a bunch of progressive rock bands, which you can pretty much only see in Europe for the most part as far as a festival goes. Who's a big progressive rush? Yeah, Rush would be considered Prague Rock. Yes, Genesis, Jethro Toll. Queensrach. Queensrike, for sure. Dream Theater would be like a newer

kind of like a metal, progressive rock. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of like a lot of tempo changes, a lot of strange. They do a lot of concept albums. 20-minute long songs. Absolutely, tons of 20-minute long songs.

So I'm going to be seeing Ian Anderson of Jethro Toll. We'll be seeing Marillion. Mike Portnoy has a new band. He was the drummer for Dream Theater for years. Okay. And about seven or eight other bands. So yes, I am stoked.

Nice. You guys ready to move on to Cool of the Week? Let's do it. You go, Brian. I got to think about it. Okay, because, again, I have a lot. I know we try to limit to one Cool of the week, but I've just been getting in a lot of good stuff lately. Well, I don't have one, so you can take mine.

Yeah. Yeah. Our friends over at the League of Geeks are currently doing a... John Claude Van Damme retrospective where they are putting out a review of each. They are going to review each and every single movie he's put out. Holy shit. He's got some classics, but he's got some trash too. He's got their work cut out for him, huh?

Yeah, which if anybody hasn't heard of them, the League of Geeks, Geeks with a Z. We will be doing a crossover podcast with them in the future. and for two of the movies that I've gone through so far is No Retreat, No Surrender, which is the fucking worst movie I've ever seen. But at the same time, it's so bad it's good. Ah. It's definitely like a perfect movie to review on a podcast. It is that bad. But it's no maximum overdrive, right?

No, definitely not. And after that, I got in with my... introduction to Van Dam was a blood sport. That's a good one. Great. I love that movie so much. It's got a special place in my heart. And let's see.

Another one off the list. Still working on that Wonder Woman Facebook group list. This one was from Kevin Nez. Foxy Brown. Classic movie. Ah, okay. Pam Greer's sexy as hell. Kickin ass.

That's all I need to say. What more can you ask for? and a couple more things started the new Netflix show Glow Oh, I've been wanting to hear about this man My wife said something about that one Yeah?

Yeah, I'm only in a couple episodes in So I'm not going to spoil it It's based off of The gorgeous ladies of wrestling And that's where it hooked me Because it's gorgeous ladies of wrestling It's like 70s or 80s or some shit, huh? Yeah

It's 10, I believe 10 episodes They're about 30 minutes each, so I'm probably going to binge watch the whole show probably later on today. So, and definitely so far I'm liking it. And the last thing I checked out was we had talked about Neil Blomkamp putting out oats. Yeah. I checked out volume one. It's on his YouTube page, Oat Studios. I also posted it to our Facebook page.

Okay. And I dig it. I've always done Neil Blomkamp's stuff. I like Sigourney Weaver. She's in it. I like, you know, Neil Blomcamp does really good with science fiction stuff. Yeah.

And it just makes me kind of bummed seeing Sigourney Weaver in it, and we're not going to get his version of Alien. I know, man. Too bad, huh? So, yep, got a lot of stuff in. I enjoyed it all. Yeah. Man, I'm not cool the week.

I got to go Game of Thrones trailer. That's going to be up there. Oh, the new one? Oh, they show the full trailer? Which is, we're recording this week early, so yeah, there's a new Game of Thrones trailer. It looks super cool. I'm really stoked about the season. I rewatched all the episodes a couple months back if you didn't hear me talk about that.

But yeah, I'm ready for this one. and then a news item, but I will refrain until you finish your news because you might mention it. And if you don't, then I will. Okay. Sounds like it's time for horror headlines then. Brought to you by Brian. Take it away, man. Caprio has been trying to put out another Twilight Zone movie through his company.

And they have hired a writer Christine Lavaf. she is I guess she currently has done a little work on the new Godzilla script so things are moving forward with that don't know if Leonardo's going to be in the movie I know I just know as far as right now he's a producer

now wait a minute is it going to be a movie or a TV show a movie I don't know about that man I like it as a TV show but I'll watch it yeah yeah I mean you never know things could change

it could turn into a TV show. So we'll see. Speaking of Godzilla, the new Godzilla confirmed will have Mothra, Rodan, and King Godora. Of course it will, dude. We all saw Skull Island, man.

That's a lot of bad guys. A big surprise there, huh? And, yeah, I'm super interested in it. I want to see how I am. I'm totally. I'll totally watch it. I'm interested to see how Michael Doherty does. He's the director.

He did trick-a-treat and crampus. Right. I hope to make it more about the monster. Yeah, I hope so. And if it does make it something about, like, my big problem in the first Godzilla was everybody, well, I'm sure everybody's problem. You thought Brian Cranston was the main guy. Yep, yep, that sucks, seeing him get killed so quickly. Yeah.

So hopefully we'll get a good move. I mean, I like the first one, but hopefully we get a better movie. Yeah. And you would think with this many monsters in it, it would be more about the monsters. I'm hoping. Release date. It could be good, man. I loved crampus and trick-or-treat, so.

Yeah. It's very interesting because this is a huge movie for him to do. Yeah. Release date, March 22nd, 2019. Nice. And not a lot of news to come in. So our last thing is like a bunch of news items having to do with the same topic. And you had a news item, right?

Well, I'll let Brian go first. All right. Okay. Spider-Man Homecoming will be the first in the trilogy. That's been confirmed. Okay. And now Sony is saying that the spinoff movies, Venom and the Silver Sable Black Cat movie are in the same universe as the MCU. and there's a lot of confusion going on.

The Sony. Sony, right, okay. So there's a lot of confusion going on because... What? Yeah. It's going to be in the same universe. Can they do that? Is Disney not pissed off that they're doing this?

It'll be like where they refer to the Hulk as the big green guy. You know, that's where the confusion comes from me because I think they, I didn't read the whole interview, but Kevin Faggy, he's like the president of Marvel. He didn't really seem that responsive to it. Like, I don't know if this is Sony just saying this or I don't know. It seems like a big mess. And Sony's adding possibly more spinoff movies,

Craven the Hunter and Mysterio. All the villains that Spider-Man's ever fought, huh? And the only thing out of this whole news that involves Venom, I don't know if you guys are familiar with carnage. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, the Red Venom, right? Yeah, he will be in the Venom movie. Cool. I'm looking for the Venom movie.

See, my problem, this is where I have a problem. All of this and my problem, Spider-Man's becoming my least anticipated movie. It's because they put out so many different trailers. Like, if you go online... Oh, I actually enjoyed the new trailer. I saw the new trailer before Transformers. And I actually kind of started getting pumped about it, man. Well, actually, this is where if you go online, Sony's releasing trailers that have...

They're like separate little trailers. There's separate little scenes added on to the trailers we get now. So there's a trailer that involves a little bit more of the vulture. There's, you know, stuff like that. And it's just... Save it for them. movie. Yeah, right.

And this is Sony, because with Marvel, you wouldn't have got this many trailers. And I think Sony is fucking it all up right now. Wow. And they're trying to do all these spinoff movies. You haven't even established a universe yet. Yeah. But you're announcing a Craven the Hunter movie. Everybody's trying to get what Disney's got.

Yeah. I mean, I'm still pumped for Spider-Man. And it's just, I don't know. And there's a lot of news I've been staying away from the actress Zendaya that's in the movie. I guess her character and her role has already been released to the public. Mm-hmm. And a friend of mine, I told him not to spoil it for me, but he felt the same way. It would have been a big, big thing to actually watch the reveal in the movie.

Yeah. Instead of, you know, them releasing it early. And I really think Sony just doesn't know what the movie. the fuck they're doing when it comes to Spider-Man. At least not on the promotion side. They're trying to show the whole fucking movie for free before it comes up. And you said you had a news item, Philip? I heard that the it is going to be rated R.

Yes, it has been officially rated R. So I'm super fucking stoked about that. So no cheesy junk, man. This one should be a little deal. No cheesy junk. But apparently the contraband. sexual sex scene that's in the book is not in the movie. So they stayed away from that.

Pretty sure about that? That's what they're saying. So I don't know if they want to shock people with the kids having sex. Yeah, and wasn't there something where, like, Pennywise, instead of showing up as a clown in the book, he showed up as like a homeless guy and he was talking about giving him a hand job or something like that? Really? Something really creepy. I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, as far as I'm hearing, the movie's pretty close to the book. So, I mean, maybe that's in the movie, but as far as the sex scene, they said that is not in the movie. Well, that's okay. I'd be way more of a fan of, like, overly creepy and some extra gore instead of, you know, super uncomfortable sexual situations. So, yeah, like I said, not. a lot of news other than the all the Spider-Man news coming out so right

we will get a lot of news going into next month because it's San Diego Comic-Con coming up oh yeah it's almost that time it's almost that time and I'm sure our buddy Kevin will keep us up to date because I know he's going to be there with Zisu the whole time

so it should be a lot of fun to keep up with their podcast for those weeks for sure man Boy. That's for everybody. That's the McNaz podcast and also E-Society. Yeah. Sorry about the A's there, Kev.

I know they got spanked by the Astros. Just saying. Got to get that? Oh, yeah. I don't think I gave his rating on our last episode for Transformers. Oh, you didn't. You didn't. No.

Two out of ten. Ouch. Whoa, that's brutal, man. I figured he would have liked that movie. Brutile. Oh man, were you guys ready to take a trip down to the trailer part? Let's do it. Okay.

We are going to talk about Serpent, starring Tom Ainsley, Sarah Germant, and Sky Russell. Sky Russell, I'm sorry, directed by Amanda Evans. Well, I kind of liked it at first until it went way balls out. I don't know what's happening in this trailer. You know, I'm with you, Lance. I liked it at first until it seems like there's one snake and it's not the biggest snake. Right. It's like just a regular size, like one snake.

Because I thought the movie, where the trailer was going, I thought there was going to be a large, neither large snake. There were a bunch of snakes. And they were kind of maybe trapped in their tent or trying to figure some way out to get help or something. and it turned out to be one snake that possibly this lady's husband put it in there? I don't know. It's a weird. No, because when the snake was already in there, when he pulled up his cell phone to distract the snake. And he saw that she had been texting some other dude, right?

Okay. Is that what happened? They started the preview out, though, by saying it was a cheating wife or whatever. And so I kind of, I kind of wonder whether he's taking it. her on this romantic escape just to kill her? Uh, okay. Or, I don't know

if it's about the snake or about the, uh, the cheating or, or what exactly is going on here. I don't know, dude. This snake is not exactly terrifying. It looks like a mess to me, dude, because when he grabs that fucking snake

and throws it in the water or he throws it and then he falls in the water and the snake starts coming after him. Yeah. It's like fucking dumb, dude. Yeah. It's weird. They had me up through the part when he looked at the cell phone and saw that his wife had been talking with some other dude.

Right. And I'm like, okay. So instead of distracting the snake, he's now going to move the snake toward her to bite her. No joke. But they went fucking a completely different direction after that. Like no joke, a black mamba and a tent, I'm sure is a scary fucking situation. No, snake's scared the hell out of the dude. But I don't want to watch a fucking movie about it.

You know? on the big screen a snake in your tent really there was a shitload of snakes on that plane and Samuel Jackson took him down now that was entertaining that was entertaining and then you got a movie like anaconda with a giant snake

that movie was entertaining I said dude I said what is this going to be an anaconda right make or what I said that before we even watched it um if anybody's interested I think the movie is currently available. Really? So if anybody wants to seek it out, I don't think this is a movie I would seek out if it was in front of me. Ready to watch, I think that I would watch it. But judging from the trailer, I don't think I'm going to go out my way to find it.

I'm really just kind of curious to know what it's about. Like, I... Give us something. You know, I don't know what the plot's about at all. Maybe I will check it out. just because it, I don't know, because the trailer was just all over the place. I didn't, I clearly from me talking about it on here, I didn't even, you guys had to explain to me what the hell was going on. Well, and even that, I'm just still confused about it.

But that was a misstep on their part, I think. So it is currently available now. Moving on to another, yep, our last trailer, Midnighters, starring Alex S.O. Perla Haney, Jardine, Dylan McTee, and others, directed by Julius Ramsey. Now, looking at the filmography of the director, he's directed episodes for the show Outcast and the Walking Dead, so. Okay, yeah, I noticed that at the beginning of the, beginning of the trailer, they said, director for the walking dead. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they have a lot of days.

Right? So, it has me a little intrigued, but I don't know what the fuck was going on in this movie either. So, yeah, I kind of was at the same part. It looks like maybe more of a thriller. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's kind of a who-done-it situation.

Yeah, in the, in the synopsis, they mentioned that it's a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness. So I mean, I don't know, man. I think I've seen this movie before. It looks super familiar. No, it like

super, super familiar. It almost looks to me like a shot for shot remake of I know what you did last summer. Well, there was another movie I was trying to think of it. I can't think of who was in it. But it was like a similar basis where they had hit somebody and killed the person, but somebody had seen what they did and was kind of like blackmailing them. It's called I know what you did last summer. I know, but it was a completely different thing.

movie and I cannot think of what it is but yeah I I don't know I kind of felt like I picked a couple duds right here because this one did not even this did not have my attention at all yeah not so much but you know what are you going to do yeah we kind of had we kind of had that feeling too man yeah and apparently this is also available now so okay I think we might as I think we should probably move on to some listener feedback I don't know what we've got since we kind of gave it away on the last

episode that we're recording this right after the other. Yeah, yeah. So it's not like a week's past here. We wasted a bunch of all listeners feedback, but we're going to go into the Facebook, the Horror Returns Facebook group. So yeah, check out the Horror Returns group on Facebook. If you're not a part of that yet, be a part of it. Corresponded was

directly. And we talked about the Spanish language movies and any fans of Spanish horror films will be recording in an upcoming episode dedicated to the Spanish horror films. That's this one. And we'd love any suggestions.

And the picture of it is, oh, what movies are from? Pans Labyrinth. Yes, that was a great one. Classic. I probably should have checked that out. But these were pretty good, too. So, Lance said he's never seen the Rex series.

I hadn't either. I'd seen quarantine, which is a remake of rec. The one with Dexter's sister in? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was pretty good. And I heard it was a remake. And let's see.

Kevin Ness, of course, says Rick is hell of good. Hell of good. It's an official stamp of approval. Yeah, but hey, Newsflash, Kevin, it came out after the 80s. Are you sure it's hell of good? It's still kind of a classic. Let's see, who else we got? There's one on the wedding.

Eddie Ramirez was asking if three was the wedding one. Ah, yeah, the wreck is a whole series. Whatever takes place at a wedding. I think it's the third one. And then the fourth one's like on a cruise ship or a ship or something. Yeah, that's the only one I haven't seen is the fourth one. Ah, but the third one is at the wedding, right? Yeah.

Okay. Which I didn't really like the third one. I like the second one because it continues right after the first one. You watched them all this week, didn't you? No, unfortunately, I've been kind of slacking on my sequels. Okay. But, uh... Too many TV shows for you to watch, apparently, huh?

Yeah, there's a lot of good TV on right now. I mean, American Gods. Yeah, it's crazy. Easter. Easter was crazy. Yeah, right? Yeah, that was great, dude. I love that chick. I did not expect to see Kristen Chinow with show on that in that show at all, dude.

That was amazing. And then Darren Wilson suggested pieces. What is pieces? I've heard of pieces. Pieces is brought up a lot. And that is it. I also haven't seen that. But I hear it brought up a lot.

So maybe I'll check it out by the time we do our next show. Yeah, maybe we should have seen that one, huh? Devil's backbone. That's Yarmadil Tora. Yeah, that was, uh, significant. suggested by Alan Easterling. Right. Eddie Ramirez says love...

Alan Easterling's... His alter ego is the hellbilly. Oh. Oh, okay. And then Eddie Ramirez says love devil's backbone and Pan's Labyrinth on... Own chronos, but still haven't gotten to it for some reason. I've never seen that one.

I haven't either. Ron Perlman's in it. Oh, yeah? Yeah, that's another del Toro. And then Mars. Popsie, Papandria, uh,

suggested Tessus. What? Is that what that's called? I've never heard of it. I've never heard of that one, Brian. Have you? T-E-S-I-S.

Yeah, I've heard of it. I don't know exactly what it's about, but it's another one that's brought up. Uh, she says it's fantastic

and well worth it, man. We should totally check it out. Ah, let's check it out, man. Uh, she's on the Super Marcy podcast, if you haven't checked that one out.

Um, Santo and Blue Demon films? Never heard of those? Mm-mm. No? Is this from Eddie Ramirez? Yeah. Yeah, he was suggesting some movies I've never heard of, but they, but the, but the posters, the posters were, had me intrigued.

No shit? Here's, here's a good one. Jesse Bollinger says, I'm not sure if this has been suggested before. I'm too lazy to read the other comments. But I really enjoyed witching and big. The same guy that directed one of the other movies that we're watching tonight. Yes. If you guys can get a hold of it, I'd also recommend the Spanish version of Dracula.

That movie was filmed alongside the original classic. Wow. Oh, wow. You've got to check that out, man. I've seen the first half of witching and bitching. Is it good? No, that's why I didn't want to stick that. I mean, it didn't hold my interest, so I just kind of like turned it off.

and of course Lars from Denmark suggested Daily Beast which is what we're watching and that's why we're watching it because he suggested it so you guys control the show man

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Leave us a review. You don't even have to listen to the show. Just, well, I guess you kind of have to. I guess tell your friends who don't listen to the iTunes interview. Say, these guys are fucking awesome, man. I've never heard them, but they're really rock. I just purchased John Wick 2 on Blu-ray. Hey, that's my top five of the year so far, right?

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Well, this week, of course, we salute Spanish horror with a found footage movie wreck, which is filmed in Barcelona, as well as the Day of the Beast, which is filmed in... Madrid. Madrid. That's right. Absolutely. Rec trivia. Directors and writers were Homme Baligero and Paco Plaza, also known for the rec sequels.

Manuel Valesco really is a TV presenter in her native Spain. She's also cute as a button, wouldn't you agree, Brian? Yeah. This was actually made and shot in real locations. no sets were built to make this movie the building where the film was shot is the seta metesca building

I've got a little work to do here in the next two days on Rambla de Catalonia 34 at the Example district in Barcelona it was assaulted by a group of youngsters in 2007 after the film became a big hit fucking kids And guess what, Brian?

I actually, I went in there and I looked up the address where this film took place on Google Maps. Uh-huh. And it is exactly two blocks from the hotel that Aegean are going to be staying at this week. Oh, nice. So I am going to be posting some pictures for sure. Cool. You mind if I go first on this one? Yeah, go ahead.

Okay. You guys know, our listeners that have heard a few shows know that I'm not a huge, I'm not the world's hugest fan of found footage movies. I just think that there's too many camera angles and there's too much stuff going on typically. It's like, this is not like one single camera. This is not believable, you know, found footage. That's what probably pisses me off the most about quote-unquote found footage movies. And that's why, well, that and the fact that I think they've just made two goddamn many of them that are basically the same exact fucking movie.

They're cheap and easy. Absolutely. And look how much money a lot of them make. And I also saw quarantine and I wasn't as impressed with quarantine as I was with this. I would say that this movie was found footage done right. I honestly felt like I was watching a news report. And there was like, she was in the fire station and there was like absolutely nothing was going to happen. on just another ho-hum night.

You know, I think they even at one point, didn't they like start playing basketball or something? Because they were so fucking bored they didn't have anything else to do. Yeah. Yeah, I was just like, okay, cool. This is probably how it would really go if you got a reporter. And then they get that call, and they're getting in the fire truck, and they're still like kind of poking each other in the ribs.

Like, you know, ha, ha, hey, hey, we're just going out. It's probably going to be a cat we have to rescue from a tree or something like that. Next thing you know, they get into this. building and all fucking hell breaks loose. And I don't think there was one time when it was a phony looking camera shot. I think they followed the same cameraman through the whole movie, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, he was kind of a little bit of a dick where he wasn't like where he was supposed to be. But half the people in this movie were dicks.

That kind of added to them, man. Yeah. No, this was very, to me, this was found footage done right. I think, I think you're right. Very realistic looking to me. Yeah. It looked like one of those like late night, local, you know, on the scene kind of things, you know, and it totally panned out. The chick from it even looked like that's what she was from.

Like maybe she had done one of those before. Yeah, I think, on my notes here, they're doing a documentary television series called While You're Sleeping. Yeah. So. Yeah. Well, that's, I mean, that was the premise of the movie. Wait a minute. I'm saying they're going to do one.

now and it was no no no no no in the movie that's what she was doing right but that it like it looked it looked real like it was very real dude yeah a little local thing and it was creepy as fuck no joke it would surprise me if she hadn't done one of those little you know quirky travel channel kind of things or something like that you know yeah i see what she's saying it looks for um i liked it man it was uh it was really good i uh i liked it i liked I like the crazy old lady zombie thing. Oh, wow. Yeah.

That day, when they opened that door, they should have totally left her alone because I don't know what the fires department was supposed to do with her. I know, right? Because she looked. But you know what? No, she reminded me of what, what's the name of the chick from the evil dad that they had to handcuff and leave down in the basement? Oh. I know you know who I'm talking about. She can't think of her name.

But that's who she reminded me of. She looked kind of like her a little bit. Well, that would be some kind of shit the fire department. And my best friends are firefighter in Houston. And I'm telling you, they deal with, like, stupid, crazy fucking people all day. That's like every day. And that's what these were. They were just one step beyond that.

There's people that go to the hospital 365 days out of the year. Come on, dude. That is their regular fucking thing. Wow. Thank you, taxpayers. but no i i thought it was done really well it had a really gritty feel to it you know um it was kind of cool that it was in a spanish language i think i think so too my only real issue is that she got like annoying as shit towards the end like i was like just shut the fuck up just shut the fuck up you're

supposed to be hiding yeah because she was constantly jumping in people's faces you know during any situations and I'm just like I mean you know maybe a little smack here you know calm down back up something you know it's too much going on

I get the reporter in her it was just at the end and she kept like screaming for Pablo and I was like I swear to God if this bitch says Pablo one more time I'm gonna turn his shit off but then that uh that weird creepy old

lady maybe thing at the end? Whoa, wow. What the hell was that? I don't know. Okay. That was super fucking creepy. Like a skeleton or something.

Okay, did you guys, okay, you guys noticed the newspaper clippings on the wall. A little bit. About the, about the girl that was possessed. Okay. I don't get it, though. Okay. From what I understand. But I understand, Rick 2 explains it a lot better.

Yeah, from what I, because I haven't seen these movies in a while. And I just, when I rewatch this one, for some reason, mine didn't have subtitles, so I was just watching it in Spanish. Do you know Spanish? No, I don't. From what I remember of the movie when I first watched it, this guy, I guess he was an agent of the Vatican that had the penthouse that they were in. There was a girl that was, I guess she was possessed. And I guess he was taking some kind of sample from her because I guess it was a virus that had like demonic.

something had to do with a virus. Yeah. The virus and demonic possession mixed together. But wasn't it kind of like rabies or something? Yeah. And that was the girl. That was the possessed girl in the newspaper clippings. He had locked her in there.

Because I wasn't. I wasn't sure if it was it was supposed to be that old guy. No, it was the girl. He basically locked her in there because she was, you know, possessed with the virus or whatever. Okay. You know, I really should have watched two because you're right. I think it really explains it. And I think he was...

Go ahead. No, no, you finish first. Yeah, I think basically his intention was, since she was the way she was, he was going to lock her in there with no food or water and hoping she would just starve to death. And that's why she looked the way she did. Oh, real super skinny and weird. Yeah. And then, like, the weird fucking kid in the attic? Yeah.

That I don't understand. Is that her baby? I don't know. I was confused about the kid. Maybe the priest raped her. and she had a baby and that's who was in the attic. He raped a possess girl? Oh, there could be so much too.

You never know, dude. I mean, I guess everybody's going to. Rule 47, is that what's called? Hey, depraved things happen. And if you don't believe me, wait until we talk about the second movie of tonight. And I believe the little girl that was with the mom in the stairway. She, yeah, she got it from the dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hmm. I liked her in this movie, too, man. When she went all crazy, that was like, Oh, that was awesome. Creep as fuck. Little girl possessed zombie, whatever they got. Yeah, and that's what I liked about the movie because it just, it was moving. They weren't afraid to do it.

Yeah, it was just going and going. You know, as soon as someone was affected, it happened quickly. And they not only looked terrifying, they sounded terrifying to. Those screams throughout the building that you can hear. Mm-hmm. And then the special effects were not bad, you know? Not bad at all. They had a, that guy with his face and they were sticking a needle into it where he had that bite.

That was gross looking, man. And it was an hour and 15 minutes, and it felt like a two-hour movie. I was just like, holy fucking shit. How much more can they cram into this movie? Like it took it a second to get there. They had a good setup. Yeah. We were like, okay, what the fuck is going on?

And then once it hit, man, it was like, bam, bam, bam, bam. Well, hey, tell all our listeners fill up the story about rec two. We tried to watch rec two. Oh, yeah. Well, there was not really much of the story. We couldn't find a good copy of it. Yeah, we're trying to sail the pirate waters a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

Nothing. Nothing doing. But we didn't end up watching what I probably should have said was my not-so-cool of the week, which I was fucking hoping was going to be a great movie, Brian. But we did not care for it that much, dude, or at least I didn't. The movie we watched and set a wreck two last night, Phil. What did we watch? Dude.

I know. The veterinary school, the hazing? Oh, raw. Yes. Yeah, I was... I was... I was buying to it, brother. I just couldn't believe it.

I kind of liked it. I went on Kevin's show to talk about it. Yeah, tell us about that, man. You know, it's... It's what it was. It was okay. The trailer sold... Sold me on a different movie than what you really got.

I would agree. and the it by all means all these reports of people fainting and passing out the movie day i don't i don't necessarily know what they were passing out too yeah no it was definitely not super gruesome and not super scary it was uh more of uh i don't know like an indie horror flick but it was actually a horror flick i thought that was kind of cool because i was expecting a little something like the neon demon and so i was kind of worried about that where he's going to be a little too RT for its own good. Right.

But I kind of enjoyed it. I thought it was okay. I was kind of, my biggest problem, and this is what I kept telling Philip while we were watching it last night, Brian. Yeah. I couldn't buy into it. I couldn't believe, why would you go to a veterinary school where your entire purpose is to do no harm to animals and throw blood on people and force them to eat and

eat and shit? That's just dumb. Yeah. It made no sense to me. Me and Kevin had talked about it. Apparently, there was no one running this school. because I think there was like they showed like one professor

and he was like the biggest dick there was their hazing is out of control yeah it was one big party slash fuckfest slash hazing I don't know if there was any actual learning of any veterinarian skills going on

right they learned how to cut them up and serve them on a plate yeah that was about it yeah I was not impressed Hannibal Hick's school of veterinary's I think I Yeah, I think I gave it a... All you did was a bottle of Kianti.

Yeah, I think I gave it a six. I don't remember my actual rating. I'm okay with that. I'd give it a five. Right in the middle. I like six. Oh, there was one scene that I loved, Philip. What was?

Oh, the finger. Where she started eating the finger. Oh, that was creepy. They got cut off? Yeah, yeah. I love that scene. That's the part I liked because when you find out the sister... Yes.

It's kind of the same way as her. Uh-huh. I kind of was digging it, but then it just kind of turned into, I don't know. I wish they'd have gone into something like different, you know, gone in, gone in, gone in, like vampires and something. Yeah, gone in deeper into that and it's just they were something else like vampires or zombies or whatever. Yeah, I was just, I wanted to be shocked. I wanted to be disgusted and it didn't happen.

No, not at all. Not even in the least a little bit. Like there was nothing about it that made my stomach turn. There was not a single scene in that movie where I was like, oh, man. The thing reading scene was awesome. It was cool, but it wasn't like gut-wrenching or super scary or any of that. I mean, it was definitely cool, and it was a staple of the movie, I think, but it wasn't, it wasn't anything so far out of the box that somebody else hasn't, you know, topped it before. Yeah, agreed.

I was underwhelmed, but as usual here on the horror returns, we go off the rails, right? There we go. We were way off the rails. We reviewed an international movie for you guys. Yeah, we should have saved it for our international horror French episode. Ah, we, we, we, monsieur. Perhaps next time. Well, we threw it in with the Spanish episode today.

Yeah, you're welcome, everybody. Okay. But having, talking to Lars and everything, I'm very interested to see if there's any good horror films from Denmark. Oh, no one. Yeah. Hey, hit us up, Lars. Would it be nice to know. They got to have some titles, though,

because I don't know what kind of writing you guys do over there, but it doesn't make any sense to me. All right, we're getting back to wreck. Yeah. But yeah, it really, for me, it just, it moved super fast, and I really enjoyed it. And it was, the kills were pretty brutal. There was, uh,

they were just going at it, people getting their neck, the throats bit out, uh, the one, uh, police officer that got thrown. from the top floor. Yeah. There's a reason they remade this one. Yeah. Very quickly. They remained it like within a year or two.

Yeah, really fucked up that they left that mom handcuffed like that. Yes. Yeah. She did really stand a chance. That police officer, did you not want to hit him in the face a couple of times? Oh, yeah. Fucking asshole. Fireman was pretty badass.

The bald guy. He was cool. Yeah, I like that. He was taking. the only one with any goddamn sense in the whole movie. Yeah, he was taking out people with that sledgehammer. Yeah, buddy. But overall, you know, this is a really fun movie.

I do recommend if people watch it, you watch one and two. Because two picks up right when this movie left up. If I can remember, they send a SWAT team in the building. We just got to find it. Oh, you know what? I'd be willing to pay for number two, man. No, we don't have to. You know why?

when we're done, when we're finished with recording this, as long as our wives let us. Oh, yeah. I've got, I've got REC 2. Okay. Let's watch. Yeah. We got like four movies to watch our house last night. Yeah, that's right.

Okay, cool. So hopefully we'll have time to do that. Yeah, for some reason I own REC 2. So I don't think. That I don't think about it. Let's try out things along here so we can do that. Okay. Yep, scores.

Scores. Yeah, because this is a great movie. I will give this a 7.5. Yeah? Yeah, strong 7.5. And I fucking hate found footage movies with a passion. But this was found footage done right. It literally actually looked like it was a tape from a camera that was found.

Yeah. It makes sense. Yeah, there wasn't anything they went off the rails are. They didn't have to like push it to make it found footage. Absolutely, man. It did. It got in and it got out. Yeah.

It did its matter. And it did it in, what, an hour and 15 minutes? Yeah. You know? So I got no complaints. I enjoyed it. Really? Definitely 7.5.

I'm right there with you. I'll give it a 7.5. I like the pacing of it. I like the practical effects. The lady at the end was just horrifying to look at it. Yes. Super creepy. I also think, you know, I like to bring up, like, iconic, like, moments in a movie.

and the scene at the end where she's reaching for the camera and she just gets dragged away. Yes. I love that scene, even though it's like the end of the movie, but... Right. Great movie.

And like I said, I recommend if anybody who checks it out, watch one and two. Nice. Yeah. Well, we're about to check out too here in just a few minutes or half an hour or an hour or two hours

or however long it takes to talk about this next movie. Fuck it is Saturday. You know what? I'll probably check out. because it's on Netflix now, I think. Oh, that's the one that takes place on the ship? Yeah. You know, I haven't watched it, so maybe I'll check that out.

Maybe it's another one that I'll bring up next episode. Well, man, I really enjoyed this one. I'm going to give it an 8.5. Holy shit. Yeah. I think it's kind of a classic. To be fair, though, I love Foundations. footage movies. I don't know what it is. I like that they're a little more real than some

movies. I like that raw feeling and this one really delivers on that. And it felt real and scary. It was kind of sucks at their subtitles, but it was better than quarantine. Yeah, definitely better than quarantine. Yeah, I mean, not by like a ton. I still think quarantine was a pretty decent movie, but if you want to see the original, this is it. It was great. I don't know. This, to me, this one felt a lot less polished and produced. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, which is good. For some reason, yeah, that really turned me on to it. I don't, I don't want to see a movie star in a found footage movie.

Right. All right, you guys are ready to move on? Yes. So I think we all three strongly suggest the original Spanish 2007 film wreck. Yeah, absolutely. All right, well, let's go a little bit further back in time, guys, and we're going to talk about 1995's Day of the Beast. That's a time machine. director was Alex De La Iglesia, also known for witching and bitching, as previously discussed, and also dance with the devil. Writers, oh man, I'm going to have some trouble with this name.

What the fuck is that? Alex De La Iglesia with Jorge Gere Kachevaria. That name is like 27 letters long. It's a very long name. Also known for live flesh, which is a Pedro Amote of our movie, which he is actually. probably the most famous director to come out of Barcelona. Have you guys ever seen any of Pedro's films? No.

Not that I can think of. Yeah, definitely not horror movies, but they're drama, but they do have some horror elements in them. A lot of themes of sex, love, and death. Okay. And he actually made Javier Bardem a pretty famous name. Oh, wow. Yeah, he's had a number of other Spanish actors that he's worked with as well.

So he's a very big Barcelona director. This, let's see, most of the rituals in this movie, I don't know if I believe this. I don't know how much of this trivia is accurate, dude. It says most of the rituals that they show are real Satanist rituals and weren't altered at all. I don't know about that. Okay, let's move on.

Who knows? Maybe they were like reenacting real Satanist rituals, because I imagine they weren't on set. Well, I don't know. That heavy metal dude seemed to know what he was talking about. Hey, I will tell you this, and this I believe, during the shooting, the crew and specifically the director received a lot of death threats from so-called Satanist groups.

Really? Yeah, they didn't want this movie to be made. Huh. How many Satan groups are out there? Probably more than you could even imagine, dude. Santiago Segura, who plays hardcore metalhead Jose, which we know very well. We know when we love him after seeing this. He claims not to be interested at all in heavy metal.

Instead, he prefers Frank Sinatra. I don't like that piece of trivia. I wish you hadn't said it. The truth is the truth, man. Brian, Day of the Beast, baby. What did you think? I really had some fun with this movie because it kind of fooled me in the beginning because you have this... You have this priest who is trying to commit all these sins.

And you think he's like a horrible guy. You know, he's trying to sell his soul to the devil. And then you find... I couldn't even tell if he was actually a priest or just dressed up as a priest. I thought he was a straight up satanic dude. I did. I was totally fucking thrown off at the beginning. I was going mad.

And then you find out he's trying to do this so he can be there for the birth of the Antichrist to kill the Antichrist. What a great fucking story, dude. They do not write scripts like this every day, man. And then along the way, you get introduced to his friend. What was his name, Jose Maria? Jose, yeah, Jose. Yeah, which at first.

At first, you don't know how to, what to think of this guy. You know, he's flashing his, you know, 6, 6. six tattoo. You think, you know, he's a, you know, into worshiping the devil. But he proves to be a very loyal friend to this guy throughout the movie. And, um, super fucking funny. This has just been in a lot of shit, dude. Oh, he has.

Look, like American stuff. Blade 2 and Hellboy 2? Wow. Oh, I'm kidding me? You know, I know who he is in Blade now that I'm thinking about, yeah. Yeah, he kind of a bad one. but no blade two is the good one no i like i like i liked all the blade movies i even like no blay yeah that's the shit one with triple h yeah

but uh i do remember him in blade two though he he kind of has a comedic role in that one right but um yeah i i really like this you know this whole trying to find out where the the the antichrist is going to be born so he can kill it i like this whole mitch i like the the dude that had the TV show. He gave me a Peter Vincent vibe from Fright Night. Big time. Big time. Yes.

And, or he even reminded me not so much of Peter Vincent. Well, you're talking about the remake of Fright Night, right? Well, I'm talking about the one played by the Doctor Who character. Yeah, well, I'm just talking about the character, the vibe, you know, the guy that he has a TV show, but at the same time, he kind of, he knows what to do. He's like a televangelist, but for Satan. But he kind of looked like the guy, I can't think of his name, he's in that movie, what we do in the shadows, the actor, he kind of looks like him. Ah, okay, yeah, yeah, I know exactly who you're talking about. This was the movie that was directed by the guy that's doing the new Thor movie, right?

Yes. Okay. So you're not talking about Jermaine Clement's character. You're talking about one of the side characters. characters in it? Yeah, I think so. I had to check. But yeah, I really got a Peter Vincent vibe from him because, you know, he's got this

TV show that's not, you know, it's not real, you know. Right. And he knows it's not real. Yeah, but then he knows, he knows what to really do, you know. Right. Because he studied it. Yeah. And then when you, when he finally believes, you know, he joins this group and they're just

on this fucking mission to kill the Antichrist. And it gets pretty fucking crazy. Yeah. Especially the scene with Jose Maria's mother, because she was something else. Okay, so let me ask you a question, Brian. Did you get the vibe that she kind of like had a thing for priests? And she was kind of like trying to seduce him a little bit? I don't necessarily know seduce him.

I know she, I don't know. She was a character herself. Well, do you believe that Jose's sister or whatever was really a virgin? I don't think that was his sister. I think it was someone he wanted to bang.

Whoever it was, I'm pretty sure she was not a virgin. No, and that whole scene was pretty fucking crazy. That he needed her blood. That was funny. He was trying to That was amazing. Yeah, he had knocked her out. He was dragging her around, hiding her.

Oh, yeah, grandpa walking around with his penis hanging out the whole time. Yeah, that was funny. And he would just give him half a hit of acid to chill him out or to get his mind working again. This was a definite definite drug-induced movie, man. No, you think?

Let me put it to you this way. I guarantee you every hit of acid that you saw on camera in that movie was a real hit of acid. It might very well have been. That's probably why he was walking around with his penis out the whole time. He's got a shirt on.

and just no pants. And when they were all hanging on that Shep sign outside, because they were trying to escape, and he just started laughing, and he would just jump. And they had to grab him, hold on to him. It was for great. It was such a great movie, man. I don't know why.

Lars, we owe you such a debt of gratitude for turning us off of this movie, man. Like, no joke. I don't know why this is not a cult classic. It's got to be a cult classic. It needs to be because it was so much fun, man. We were sitting here last night, Brian, thinking who would, if they did an American version of this movie, who would play the characters? And at first, when Philip said this, I was like, nah, that's not the right guy, but then the more I thought about it, he said Jack Black for Jose. And I thought, that's stupid.

Nah, Jack Black's not even relevant anymore. And then he said, wait a minute. they could make a musical. What if we were to do Jack Black as Jose and the other dude from Tenacious D as the priest?

You know what? That would be a great Tenacious D movie, man? Yeah, him, Jack Black and Kyle Kyle Gass. Yeah, I can see it. I can't. I can see it too, man.

Why hasn't it been done? I don't know. I'm telling you right now, dude. We got to get, we got to find their agent and we have to pitch this. I see here. In the early 2000s, the producer attempted to make an American remake. Oh, then it's right, brother.

Somebody's got to do it. Who's going to step up to the plate and make an American version of this fucking fantastic cult movie? You know Hollywood right now, they're regurgitating everything, so that might work. Except that they're also trying to make everything like fucking Avengers, so. Americanized. Yeah, I don't know how that's going to work. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You've got to keep the original spirit of the movie.

Yeah. And let me tell you something. When you say, when you go into talk to Tenacious D and you say, hey, we want to pitch a movie. I'm shocked how many people I've talked to that haven't seen this movie. Kevin, I thought for sure, it was right up Kevin's alley, right? We were saying that the whole time we were watching it. I think so. He would love this.

I hadn't ever even heard of it. I hadn't heard of it either. Lars, thank you, dude. This is a cult classic. This is a movie everybody should see at least one. If you listen to this podcast, you've got to find this movie. You've got to see it. You're going to love it.

It's super funny. And I'm telling you right now, if somebody would just pitch it and make an American version of this movie, the fucking dollars would just roll in. This is custom made for an American remake, but done the right way. But I don't know. Not changing it. It works well in the 90s. I don't know if it would work well now. But what were you saying the whole time we were watching it?

Okay, it looks like we're watching a fucking 1960s or early 70s movie here. I definitely had a throwback feel to it. And if it had a throwback feel from 95, could you imagine what we could do with it now? Are we going to direct it? You know what? Lars, you know Christian. Because once again, I don't have any money.

Christian's got connections. I think we need to make this the first horror returns produced film ever. We need to do an America remake of Day of the Beast, man. That would be, I mean, we're just going to. Oh, my God, dude. We're just going to be the fulcrum that pushes it forward. It has nothing to do with the movie. All I want is I want an invitation to be on the set one day,

and I want an invitation to be at the premiere. I don't want any money. I don't want any accolades. I just want those two things. If we can get that, I'm happy. I wouldn't mind some money. Just saying. Brian, what do you think about this movie, dude?

How fucking out there is this, dude? dude it it sounds great i mean it if it's done right you know it could be really good but like like i said like philip said you know everything is like avengers marvel universe style or if they remake a gritty r-rated movie that was in the past they you know they try to water it down so they can get more people to come see it get a wider audience that wouldn't that wouldn't work with this one period now it wouldn't work you cannot bastardize or or But you see... You see countless movies that it happens to,

and it's almost like, who is running these studios? I know. Because clearly the mummy wasn't the right way to go, since we're... That's going to be our new thing to bring up, I think, is the mummy. The more that I think about it, the more awful it gets. The mummy was bad. Yeah.

Yeah. Still not as bad as the bye-bye man, though. No. still number too far off you know yeah it really wasn't too far off and I

I enjoyed it when I was in the theater but the more I think about it it's like I argue the bye-bye man is by far the worst fucking movie yeah you're probably right it's worse it's worse in the darkness yes

strong words the fucking the lead actress when she sneezes she says a chew the guy that runs the fucking greenhouse in the movie his name is like flowers or something his last name is some ridiculous

or something yeah fuck that movie and you know what it's it's gonna and it's probably gonna have a fucking sequel too I know okay listen guys since we're since we're off the rails a little bit can I bring something up? Oh why not

we're here I saw a trailer before the Transformers movie for Valerian in the city of a thousand planets. Oh yeah? It looks amazing. I am fucking looking forward to this movie like nobody's business, man.

It looks pretty epic, man. You know what, though? I'm afraid it's going to I'm afraid it's going to disappoint me. Because remember a cure for wellness? Yeah. I thought that was going to be my next number one movie for this year, and it wasn't. That's the same guy, right? But it's still, oh yeah, it is. It is Dane DeHaan, isn't it?

Yeah. And they did a smart thing because the director is Luke Bassan. Yeah, Luke Bassett made some great movies. Yeah, they flashed all his movie titles he's directed. Lucy, I noticed. The Fifth Element, the professional, LaFemniquita. Well, if you're going to come out with a movie called Valerian and the city of a thousand planets, I mean, you're going to have to have a pretty kick-ass preview.

Well, it's a terrible name for a movie. The thing that gets me that, yeah, that's where. got me because they said we're way off the rails. They said it's based off the ground-breaking novel. I've never heard of this fucking book. Nor had I. But it looks

fucking gorgeous. It looks amazing. Let me, let me, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to spend $25 to see this movie because I'm going to IMAX, 3D, super stereo, everything you can get. I want to go to the, to the biggest and best of the movie theaters

to see this film. Because I I want to soak everything up, dude. The very unfortunately named Cinemart D-Box. You know what? I saw a movie in D-Box, the Guardians of Galaxy 2, and I was very unimpressed. Yeah. But I think if we go to the theater over here, the Santikas, they've got like a whole row of D-Box, like, kind of near the front. They got some D-Box there.

What am I missing here? I don't know. It's just a funny sound of name. I don't know, but it sounds funny. Is it supposed to be like a rapper? Like iced tea, D-Box? It just sounds bad. It sounds horrible, huh?

I would think so. If you're going to say D-box, that sounds like, you know. Like three steps down from a B-movie, huh? Like, Justin Timberleck. Dick in a box. Okay, now I get it. All right, I'll go sit in the dick in a box and watch the movie, man. I got my wife for a box for Christmas last year.

No joke. For real. For real. No, it looks fantastic. So we're all the Reels and we have crashed, Hartford. Day of the Beast. It is, from now on to me, it is going to be a cult classic. Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely, man. This is a movie that I have to own this movie, but I don't even think it's available on DVD. Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't get it on iTunes, dude. I really wanted to buy it on iTunes. I had a hard time on the seas finding this one. Sailing the seas of cheese. And, man, I loved it.

It's tenacious D, but without the music. It's what it is, man. This movie was kick-ass, dude. It was like a comedy version of The Exorcist. Jose Maria. What is it? The Omen. The Omen, yes.

Man. Jose Maria is the man. That guy is the most loyalist friend. you could possibly want. And he was so funny in this movie. He was so great. He was definitely the best part of the movie. And I just loved it when the priest asked him,

do you know anything at all about satanic rituals? And he goes, oh, of course. Yeah, yeah, of course, man. Yeah, absolutely. I'm all about that. Now, can we talk about what we suspected about the priest's cocaine habits? Oh, yeah. He looks like he's all coked out, huh?

He's right up there with Stephen King. I mean, this dude was nervous, so of course, he was sweating a little bit. But I've never seen anybody shake as much as this guy and swam. Oh, yeah. At the same time. He was probably on some for real coke while he was doing the movie. I mean... I mean, he's dealing with a lot.

He's trying to kill the Antichrist. He is. That's true. True. So he needs to take the edge off a little bit. He is getting his ass kicked throughout the movie, too. Let's not forget he did get jumped at the club. well as as philip and i said last night while we were watching the movie

either this guy is an incredibly good actor or he's literally coked up maybe a little bit of both you know what i loved the uh the cigarette burns in his feet in the shape of cross yeah i forgot about it was super cool that was that was a cool scene if you haven't checked this movie out man go fucking find a way to watch it i don't know how to watch it. I don't know what to tell you to find it, because it was sort of a struggle for us. Right. But we found it. Yeah, man. By hooker by crook, man. Definitely check it out. Yeah, it was,

it was super fun. It's a classic. It's on par with like Rocky Horror Picture Show cult classic. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. It's, it's criminal. It's criminal that nobody has picked this up and, and done an American remake. Not necessarily big budget, but at least kind of like moderate. budget with some stars that you would recognize. Right. That would be really good in the roles. Like we were saying, we said half jokingly, but Tenacious D would be perfect as those two parts. And then we were talking about who we could.

Oh, you remember when we were saying, well, just go crazy, dude. This is your mental fantasy. Pick who you want. And who did we pick for like the thugs that would go around beating people up, Pesci? And then you said, well, let's just go for broke and get De Niro. There you go. Yeah, I kind of didn't understand. I kind of didn't understand those guys, like, why, where they came from, or why they were in the movie. Maybe just because it was in Spanish, and, you know, we were watching the subtitles or whatever.

But, yeah, those, the, I don't know where they were like... It's kind of like some street thugs. Like some church thugs or something? No, yeah, they were, yeah. Those guys were weird, like Clockwork Orange weird people. Yeah, right. The whole movie was fucking super weird. It was a trip.

Did you figure that out, Brian, why they were doing that? What was their motivation? I thought they were Satan worshippers and they were just committing sins or... Maybe. Could be. I don't know because they were just, it was just kind of like they would randomly pop up and, like, beat someone with a baseball bat and then light them on fire and then it would leave. Maybe Lars can fill us in on what their motivation was. But can you imagine Peschi and Niro standing up there?

Beat them with a bat. Right? You son of a bitch! Oh, man. You know what? I got to admit, guys, between my unexpected joy of the Transformers movie, which I expected to hate. Right. Getting to revisit Maximum Overdrive.

Yeah. Okay. The wreck movie, which I'd never seen before. I had neither. Awesome. But this Day of the Beast is the Papa

of all of them, man. It is, dude. It took the cake for me too. You know what? It's been a great couple of weeks of film watching here. Well,

because we had some really fucking bad movies there for a while. You know what? With the mommy and what was the other one? Something else we watched that was horrible lately.

I don't know. What was it, man? I've seen so many movies lately. Yeah. I mean, it's always something, right? And it's rarely horror, it seems like,

these days. is the mummy the new darkness for our show? Is that where the bar is at now? No, it can't touch the bottom man, though. Well, look, I mean, it may not be as bad, but it's probably more recognizable. So I think that, yeah, I mean, that's our bar for, is this a shit movie? And should you go see it or not, you know? Is it better than the mummy, then go see it?

Is it worse than the mummy? Then leave it the fuck along. Well, fair enough. Anything else you guys want to talk about about this one before we do our scores? No, that and the mummy gauge. I think we're okay. The mummy gauge. All right, who went first on this one? I don't remember it now.

I think I might have, huh? Maybe. I don't know. We went way off the rails. It doesn't matter. Okay, hold on. Let me grab this little sheet of paper I've got here. Oh, yeah, because we got notes. Let me tear off a little part for you, Phil. Here, take this. Oh, okay.

I'm looking at her past episode. We're going off the rails again. Yeah, we had some shit movies the last couple weeks. Totally forgot about 47 meters down. Oh, yeah, yeah. Totally moot toast, you know. Yeah, that movie. It was kind of right up the middle.

Take it or leave it. All right, well, Brian, since we're all sitting here in the same THR studios together, and it's not like one of us is in Alaska and two of us are sitting in Texas. Here, open your mouth, man. I'm handing you over a hit of acid to take. Oh, okay. Okay, enjoy. There you go.

Now we are going to watch the Day of the Beast again. And then we're going to go check out Rick, too. And we're going to have a totally different outlook on it. What's your, oh, I still need to give my score, don't I? Suddenly this movie makes a lot more sense. Yeah, go for it. All right, guys. Nice.

8.5. This is one of my new annual go-to classics. If I could just find a way to get this movie either on iTunes or get a Blu-ray copy, this will definitely be an annual watch at least. And every time I meet somebody new and I want to turn them on to comedy horror, Sean of the Dead is way up there. This is also way up there for me. I think so, too.

I think it's right on par with Sean of the Dead. I think so, too. I want to say, if I remember right, I probably gave Sean of the Dead a 9.5. You gave it a real high school. I'm going to give this one a 9. I really, really enjoyed it. I thought it was super funny, super smart. I mean, it sucks that it's subtitled, but you know what?

It's, what are you going to do, you know? It's a really kick-ass movie. Go check it out. You forget that the subtitles are there eventually. The Day of the Beast. Yeah. totally agree that you forget about the subtyles because you're able to follow along with the story.

And for that and also for Jose Maria, that guy was awesome. I'm going to give it an 8.5. Nice. Excellent. Excellent. All right. Man, we're kind of in agreement on this one too. Yep. I think we all highly, highly recommend the Day of the Beast. Lars, thank you

so much, dude. If you have any more recommendations, send them to the Horror Returns group on Facebook or email us at the horror returns at gmail.com because at this point you've just got a lot of leverage with us my friend

whatever you recommend next we're going to go watch blindly I promise oh yeah absolutely so as always we want to thank you guys for listening to another episode of the horror returns we would love to hear your feedback and ideas you can always reach us

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It'll be next week for you guys. It's time for Spider-Man Homecoming as well as Chronicle. Awesome. And we are looking forward to having special guest, Melissa, from the Two Dead Chicks podcast with us. Yeah, they do Walking Dead. Yeah, it's basically, but what did they say? When you asked her if they liked Fear of the Walking Dead, what did she tell you? I can't remember.

I think she said, fuck that, right? Really? See, I'm not a fan either, man. Yeah, I am. I mean, I wasn't until this last episode. But The Walking Dead is my favorite show. Yeah, Walking Dead's much better. I would agree.

So, Brian, until the horror returns again. Good.