The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #93: The Strangers (2008) & The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018) (Re-upload)

Episode Date: October 29, 2022

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James victims, for those of you who delight and dread, who fantasize about fear, who glorify go, welcome, you have found the place where the horror returns. Listeners beware. This podcast contains major plot spoilers. and the foulest of language. Join us in celebrating the old and the new, the best, and the worst in horror. We made it. Welcome back to the horror returns. Philip and I are back from our trip to New Orleans,

and Brian is just soaking up the rays up there, right, Brian? Yep, up here. Battling the elements. Can't wait for it to go away. Is it at least sunny? No, we got another snow dump this weekend. It's the worst. All right.

Well, Philip, how was New Orleans, man? Man, New Orleans was a blast. I kind of needed that, just a time to do nothing and get way more drunk than I probably should. But yeah, it was a blast, man. We had fun hanging out with you guys. Yeah, I appreciate you coming down. But one day we'll get Brian down here, one day. Yeah.

One day. God forbid. You should have seen my wife, dude. She was bouncing all over the place on the dance floor or everything. It was hilarious. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the night I came back to the room pretty early, huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We came back to watch the Oscars. You know what? the night though that we took the ghost tour. I got pissed off because I kept thinking that I knew more than the dude giving the tour and he was going off all of these weird little side stories about Nicholas Cage

and his debt and everything and Nicholas Cage beating his wife, which I'm not sure I believe that story. You guys ever heard that one before? No, I haven't heard that one. This guy. Although I'm not a Nicholas Cage officinado, so.

This tour guy, Philip, he was talking everything but ghost, don't you think? Oh, yeah. No, I didn't really hear most of it. I was kind of trying to reel my wife in. I'm telling you, who is the straightest arrow you've ever seen? She literally never drinks. Well, she drank this weekend.

And, yeah, she was a little out of control, so I was trying to reel her in. And then John and Becca were out of control on the other side. I was like, yep, that's right. right people. This is our group that is ruining everything. I'm glad it was pretty funny. Yeah, so it was a good trip. Appreciate

you joining us. Brian, maybe next year, man. Maybe next year. Yeah. We'd love to go see WrestleMania. It's supposed to be there next year. Yeah, it's coming in just a few months, isn't it? No, well,

next year, not this one coming up here, but next year is going to be in New Orleans. Oh. I don't know if I can handle that many people in one building. You're talking about that many people in one building, and then WrestleMania fans out in the streets of New Orleans running free. That's how the zombie apocalypse starts, I'm pretty sure. You know what?

I can see that happening in a movie. It'll be fun, though. Yeah. All right. Well, we were going to do a little. Oscar wrap up, but I don't think we prepared anything, did we? Philip.

I'm not exactly prepared, but I know that, you know, the shape of water won. Best picture, best director, best score, right? Original. Yeah, original music score. Yeah. Best production design.

The whole slew of Oscars. They, they tore it up, man. Gieramo de Toro. That's the man. What were the other highlights, Brian? Get Out one for best original screenplay. Yeah, they didn't get much love anywhere else.

But, man, at least Jordan Peel got that. I feel like he got his name in there. I mean, obviously he wasn't the best director in the crew. And I don't think that that was the best picture. But I'm glad that he got this. It was a major milestone of first African-American screenwriter to win that. So, really?

Yeah. So, like, it's just first attempt at a legit movie. Right. I,

uh, that's always my, actually that's always my favorite award original screenplay. Whichever movie wins that is usually my favorite, or one of my favorite movies of the year, starting back with,

you guys remember the usual suspects? Yes. Yeah, I remember I started following it pretty closely. And I noticed that there was a pattern starting with that year. It seemed like, Like that was always one of my favorite movies of the year.

I kind of thought three billboards would win that one. Or was that an adapted one? I guess it was original, right, Brian? Yeah, I think so. Okay. Was Get Out in your top ten? Yeah, Get Out was my second favorite, remember after Mother? So there you go.

That's right. It holds up, man. It's a kick-cast movie. And Mother was nominated for nothing except I think some Razies. Oh, yeah, definitely. nominated for some razzies. Dude, that's about as artsy as you get, but I

still enjoyed it. I really think it was good. I think it was, I think it'll, it'll, as time goes on, people will appreciate it more. I think so, too. So what was cool of week? Speaking of Get Out, somebody's not on the door. Who is it?

Uh-oh, hello? Get out. It's Jordan Peel, ladies and gentlemen. Whoa. No, it's just my son-in-law. We got some killer guest stars today. Yeah, we got some killer guest stars.

We got connections. Y'all don't even know about it. I finished re-watching American Gods with my wife, too, so there's a lot I caught this time. But I think that's been my tool of the week, the last three weeks or something. So your turn. I went with my wife and saw Red Sparrow. It was... I also seen this.

Did you? Yeah. Is it your full of the week? It's, I got, well, I got, you know me, I got a list. Oh, yeah. It's on there. How did it? What did you, what did you think about?

I kind of, I liked it, but it might have been just a little tad long. Yeah. Yeah, it went, it went real slow and did go a little long. But those are really the only faults I can get it. Um, I mean, it was like a, a spy thriller, but it was more psychological. Like it was, you know, you didn't have the Jason Bourne fight scenes. There was a couple of, uh, a couple of fighting things in there, but they weren't awesome. Um, it was really, really brutal.

Yes. Like a lot. That's what I heard. But it was, it was good, man. Yeah. Hold on, guys, back it up. I, I just accidentally hit the stop button. for a second. You said something

about Jennifer Lawrence, Brian? Yeah, she was naked a whole lot in this movie. Yeah, that's worth the replay. And I was trying to think, I don't think I've ever seen her I think, I know her mother, she kind of had like a split

second topless scene. I can't think of anything. I mean, she was like full frontal, everything. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, and she was on it. She was being sexy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I was I will say her accent, it held up for the whole movie. Yeah.

And you're right, Philip, it was pretty brutal. But my only gripe probably really would be when she actually went into the Red Spell program, it kind of seemed like she was there for like a second before they just threw her in. And I don't know, I just, the stuff she was doing, I just, I don't know. I felt like maybe she should have been there. Because I don't really know if she was really going with anything that was saying in the program. Well, yeah, it sounded like probably not. I mean, I think there was definitely a time lapse there.

Yeah. So that was only like a little portion of it. And so you did have to kind of go on, well, she's suddenly a badass now, even though that she hasn't agreed with anything that they've done this whole time. But I kind of enjoyed that. I thought that she played a really bad, like, I thought it was really cool that she played a badass lead female in this spy movie. And I think she did a pretty damn good job. I was impressed with it.

And that was my cool of the week. I got to check that. That, besides Red Sparrow, let me see my list here. I also got to go see Death Wish with Bruce. Oh, no. I wanted to see it. Is that the not so cool of the week or what? Um, you know what? I didn't hate it.

I'll take it. I'll probably never watch it again. Okay. But I didn't, I wasn't mad at it. You know, they could have, what they needed to do was like, change the name from Death Wish to something else. Mm-hmm. This just would have been another Bruce Willis, like, probably straight to video action flick. Okay.

Um, there was nothing in here that I really would have thought Eli Roth. directed. If I didn't know he directed, I wouldn't even, I couldn't even tell. It was, I don't know. Nothing special. Kind of forgettable? Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of people that are like, fuck this movie. It didn't make me mad.

You know, I could still go back and watch the originals. See, as far as horror, I did check out a few Dead Shack, zombie comedy flick. Nothing new here, you know, typical zombie comedy. Right. You know, I can't really say anything.

I guess you didn't listen to it. I guess you didn't listen to the warning from horror news radio about that one, huh? No, I usually try to watch the movie before I hear someone else's review on it. I love zombie comedy, but that doesn't make me excited about this at all. Yeah. Let's see what else. Checked out a living among us. I think we reviewed this trailer.

It's a found footage. Vampire movie. Oh, boy. Oh, yeah. Yeah, got rid of that. Not bad, actually. Not bad. Yeah.

Not great. Besides Red Sparrow, it's been a week of not good, but not great but not bad. Okay. I will say, you know, it does explain. It does have a. reason for them to keep filming, though, instead of somebody just constantly holding a camera. Right.

You dropped the camera and get the fuck out of there? What's the matter with you? And another one, probably the best out of the three horror movies I watched, was Stillborn. Oh, okay. I don't think I can remember that. Yeah, it's basically this couple,

they had a previous child die, and they have another one. she's had another baby, but throughout moving into this house and taking care of this baby, strange things starts happening, and she feels like there's like a ghost or demon or something that's trying to take her kid. Throughout the movie, basically,

you're just kind of like, is this really happening, or is she fucking crazy? Is she just making this up, seeing things? And I think for me, it did a good job of bouncing back and forth because one minute, like, oh, you're fucking crazy. You're, you know, you're off your rocker. But then something will happen and I'm just kind of like, okay, maybe it's really happening, you know.

Oh, man, that sounds like my kind of movie actually. Yeah. So I dug it. Definitely better than Dead Shack. Definitely better than Dead Shack. And I think that's it. Oh, Atlanta, season two, loved it. Everybody checking out.

That's my non-horobic. No, I think it's on season, not season two. of course it's on season two, episode two. Episode two, got it. Okay. I haven't watched the first season. It's just started. I need to check it out, man.

Yeah, I've heard so many good things about it. Yeah. And yeah, that's all I got. All right. We got any headlines? Right now. I think over the weekend it was South by Southwest, the Festival Festival.

Oh, yeah, that's right. I was in Austin, man. Now I know the traffic was so bad there. Yeah, so, uh, Some news from there that we're going to talk about. But first, we've got some black mirror news. News probably doesn't shock anybody, but it's renewed for a fifth season. So that's guaranteed coming.

Thought that had already happened, but all right. Yeah. When I seen that, I was just kind of like, duh. They can renew that for like a 27th season. Yeah, the only thing that can be the next sentence. Yeah, the only thing that kind of was strange to me, usually when hit shows get renewed, you hear about, you know, renewed for this season and the next. Right, right.

But I guess they're just taking it season by season. So. Okay. Okay. And now it's some movie news. Get a little bit of superhero news right here because I wanted you guys' opinion. Casting is underway for Wonder Woman 2. And rumor is they're in talks with Kristen Whig as the villain. What? They're going to make it a comedy?

Now, I've heard both sides of this argument. I am on the other side that she might be able to pull it off because I've seen her in roles. Like you just brought it up, Lance. Mother. Right. She played a very, and I don't know if you guys ever seen the skeleton twins with her and Bill Hater. I didn't care for it too much, man. But I think she can do serious.

She can do a serious role. So. I wouldn't be mad at her in this. I mean, even if she went off the wall is a little bit funny with it. I think she could still do like a villain role and have some comic relief moments. Hopefully she does. Well, who knows, man. I mean, it's just in talk, so it's nothing concrete.

But I think she'd be able to pull it off. I like her and most of the stuff that she's been in. okay let's see here premiered surprisingly over the weekend at South by Southwest was the sequel to unfriended Unfriended Unfriended Dark Web They made another one of those

Yeah Reports that are coming out I got a couple quotes from people who've seen it One quote was it was a blast A different take on the same narrative That the first one had And it fixes a lot of complaints That the first one had

Interesting And I believe bloody disgusting.com had reviewed it, and they gave it a four out of five. Really? Yeah, didn't read the review because I kind of want to go into it not knowing anything. Yeah. So I think we'll probably be getting a trailer here soon. The dark web is a little mysterious, kind of scary. I think maybe we can get on board.

Let's see. Elizabeth Banks. joins James Gunn's. He's producing a new horror movie, The H Collective. Don't know nothing about it, but he's producing it. It's being directed by David Yara Vesky and written by Brian and Mark Gunn, so I'm assuming his brothers. Interesting. Okay.

Is Lizzie Banks like the comedy, Jake? Yeah. She directed the pitch perfect movies too, right? Or at least the second one, I think. Yeah, and they've worked together. Slither, James Gunn, director Slither, and she's sitting. Okay. So is she in the movie or is she playing some sort of production role?

No, she's starring in it. Okay. All right. Another one that could do comedy or drama, right? Yes. Yeah, I really like her too. Let's see. Lee Wanell, writer and star of the first song movie.

Yeah. he's got a new movie with Blumhouse it's a sci-fire horror film called Upgrade and it has received R rating and that's from what I've heard they're going with the hard R rating

so and a little synopsis for this a sci-fire horror set in the near future when technology controls all aspects of life and centers on a technopho who avenges his wife's murder and his own paralysis causing injury

with the help of experimental computer chip called the STEM. Okay. I don't know if I'm a fan of everything Lee Wunnell's done or written, but definitely, you know, hard R rating horror sci-fi. I can get into that.

Yeah. We'll be watching it for sure. I mean, as long as it's not like out there for the sake of being out there, but I mean, if the guy, you know, start in and directed Saw, I got to give him some kind of credit. Yeah. Yeah, unfortunately, I think he also wrote the newest, the movie. What was the movie we reviewed like a month ago that was so terrible? Oh, the last key didn't it right. Yeah.

He's here for me. Lance, I totally. removed that movie out of my mind and you just brought it back out. I was like, man, you know this hadn't been that? Oh yeah, the last key. Fuck.

Which you said it's probably getting a sequel, Brian, because it did really well. Oh, it did. It's the highest grossing insidious movie, so. Gross. Wow. How did that happen? Oh, well, judging my crowd for a movie

we're going to review tonight, I'm not surprised. people go anything people will go see anything and love it I guess I don't know but yeah

it's called upgrade and there is some casting Tom Hardy I always say because I wrote down Tom Hardy doppelganger who's like Logan Marshall

Logan Marshall Green I don't know if you guys remember him he's in Prometheus If you Google Logan Marshall Green and Tom Hardy they look just

they look just alike Pretty similar. He looks a little younger than Tom Hardy, though. Yeah. So he's starring in it along with Betty Gabriel. She was in Get Out. I believe she was the one playing The Maid. Oh, okay. I like you. Definitely check it out, man. Yeah, it sounds good, man. It's everything we like. Science fiction, horror, the whole nine yards, you know. And I'm going to say we're going to get a trail with this real soon because I believe this premiered also at South by Southwest. apparently everybody but me was in south by southwest that was in austin this weekend

and i was i was so so pissed off that when i when i found out that uh all that was going on after i'd already left the house because oh yeah because you were in austin yeah it takes me it usually takes me like a little less than three hours to get from houston to my mom's house and it took like four and a half hours i think it was pretty bad well yeah Yeah, pretty bad. You should have gone to south by southwest for a little bit. And Elon Musk was there was there Sunday. What?

Talking about SpaceX and things like that. So would have loved to have been in on that. Yeah, I would have been in on that. But she's in outer space, Philip. All right. You might. It's crazy. Our last bit of news is Bill Scarsguard.

star of it and I always say her fucking name Monroe. Macaiah Monroe she was the star of It follows in the guest.

Oh yeah, of course. I can't ever say her first name about. She was really big there for a little while. Yeah. She did Independence Day, the new one.

Oh, that's right. It's terrible. I don't know you're talking about. They have been casted in a darkly comedic home invasion thriller titled villains and they will play the villains.

Nice. Home invasion comedy. Okay. Yes. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that actually. I'm looking at it right now, man. This looks like a lot of fun. Yeah, written by Dan Burke and Robert Olson and the script was previously on the 2016 blacklist.

Huh. Who does that mean? One of the best scripts, right? Yeah. Unproduced scripts of that. that year. Okay, cool. Yeah, the short movie that we saw with Blake lively last year was on the blacklist.

I remember that. Yeah. And that ended up being pretty damn good. Yeah, I like that one. So, yeah, more on that when we get some more news. But they will play the two villains in the movie. And I believe, yep, that is it. That is all the news.

Not a lot of news this week. All right. Well, yeah, so I'm going to, I'll be in and out. a little bit here, guys, so you can message me when you guys get through each section because I'm doing a little impromptu babysitting here tonight, letting

my daughters go to the rodeo, so I'm watching the kids with AJ. So, I haven't done too much else besides New Orleans and that this week. I didn't watch the trailers, so boys, y'all both ready to take y'all's trip down now?

It's scary. I don't want to go there by myself. Where are y'all going to be going, Brian? To the trailer part. All right, we're going to talk about Prospect, starring Sophie Thatcher, Pedro Pascal, and Jay Duplas, directed by Chris Caldwell and Zeke Earl. A quick little synopsis, a teenage girl and her father traveled to a remote moon

on the hunt for elusive riches, but there are other revolving or roving there's others roving the moon's toxic forest and the job quickly devolves into a desperate fight to escape this for a second when i seen the trailer kind of look like alien covenant when they first got to that planet yeah and then it just kind of turned into a i don't know i mean it got a little it got a little crazy there just it looked like you don't nobody know who to trust and kind of look like Pedro Pascal was a good guy, but then he might be a bad guy. I didn't know what to think about this one.

It felt more like a teaser than an actual trailer. Yeah. Yeah, I really didn't get much from it except maybe outer space. You know, they have space suits. I see Pedro Pascal's using his country accent from Kingsman. Yeah He's pulling that off Yeah

Yeah It was a teaser But reading the synopsis You know I'm definitely going to check it out See Yeah I mean

It looks good I'll watch it Yeah And it looks like But don't It's like one of my main gripes About sci-fi movies It looks like they're just

Touching shit They should be touching Well yeah They pull that weird creature And cut it out of the ground And I'm like, I know that's probably going to go really bad. Well, they're exploring, you know? I mean, if you're not thinking this is part of a movie,

you want to explore the culture and get killed by crazy alien species. Yeah, and reading this, I wonder if that thing they're cutting out. Is that the elusive riches? Because I want to know what, what does that do? I don't know. I don't know what the elusive riches are. Like, I'm telling you, I really didn't get anything from this. from this preview at all. They didn't give you enough.

And it's weird that there's only a teaser because the date I got here, as we are recording this, this probably should be out right now on limited release. Really? Yeah. So. Limited release in theater, or is it VOD? I didn't see nothing about VOD. It might be, you know, the date I might have written down, it might be in the festival circuit right now. I wouldn't be surprised if it was at South by

Southwest or anything else coming up. But if anybody has access to it, from what I'm reading here, it is available in some places. Shoot. Time to look for it. It looks cool. Yeah. And I like Pedro Pascal from Game of Thrones before he got his head crush.

Spoiler. Yeah. That was more brutal than Red Sparrow. and not a lot of trailers to pick from so only two trailers this week our final one is Apartment 212 starring Penelope Mitchell Chris Johnson and Kyle Gass

from what was it him and Jack Black What is it? Tenacious D Yes yes KG Oh man I'm sorry I missed this one Yes

quick synopsis. Jennifer Conrad is a small-town girl starting over in the big city. Fleeing an abusive relationship, all she wants is a chance to begin again. Actually, sorry, I'm watching it. But it is hard to start over when something is eating you while you sleep, a painful bite at a time. What does that mean? Are these like demon bedbugs? Okay.

Or is it like a zombie thing? When I watched the trailer, it started out because it was creeping me out because movies like this creep me out because it looked like she was getting bitten by bugs. Yeah. And it just kind of made me like, you know, kind of just made my skin crawl. Yeah, she's got these doors and it looks like they just keep progressing. Yeah, but by the end it looked like some kind of small creature was in the vents. Oh, no. Oh, I don't know.

I didn't see that. That's the part of watching right now. Yeah. I don't, you know, I'm interested, but. I don't know if this was, because it started out serious, and then it went into, like, kind of a comedic tone. And I don't know. I don't know.

It's because I seen Kyle Gass, and I expected to be funny. Eat, pray, love. Sorry. I like that part of it, the Eat, Pray, Love thing. I'm down, man. This one, this one looks fun. I really want to watch it. I don't know if it's serious the whole time,

and they're just kind of throwing you off with the trailer. or not. Because, I mean, that seems highly possible. But it looks interesting. I like that. We have a release date of... Where are my notes? See, I don't know if IMDB is updating stuff.

It says September 16th of last year. Maybe something's not right, yeah. But I know the... trailer was just put online here recently. So I don't know if anybody knows or has seen this movie email us or comment on Facebook. Maybe that was another one of those, like. Festival movie. Yeah.

That would make sense. That would make sense. But I think it caught all our interests, though, I would say. Oh, yeah, definitely. So, yes. I think there's been a killer, killer bad. I'm afraid of bedbugs. Okay.

So apartment 212 might be available, might not be available. Somebody let us know. And if anybody wants to check any of these trailers out, they will be on all our social media pages and any trailers we do not talk about,

you could find them on there as well. And on that note, that is, yep, That is our last trailer. All right. So, Phillip, we got some feedback, right? The Strangers, Patrick Relier, is rewatching this and thinking it would never happen in Texas. And I'm thinking I'd probably agree with you.

There's a lot of, there's a lot in that movie. We'll get to it. What I would do. Right. Marcus Will Turner says, is Tamara here? Must be from the movie. There you go. Let's see.

Regarding Living Among Us, Ryan Stevens says Henry Rohingartner is in this. And newly deceased, John Hurd, how appropriate. And they're all in caps for some reason. Oh, Henry Rowan Gardner. That guy also came in a glass of beer in the American Pike. But first, uh... Oh, yeah. of who. At first I thought you were going to say

Henry Rollins. I was like Henry Rolingartner. I don't know. You know what? I just seen an interview. And now I know. I've just seen an interview with him. If he was in this movie, it would have been a lot more interesting. Right. I think he's not in this. It's just the guy who looks like him.

No, Henry. No, he isn't the guy from American Pie. Yeah. Yeah, he is in this movie. Oh, okay. I haven't seen it. All right. Then we got Patrick Lear from March 6th. In 1968, Rosemary had a baby. It was also the Night of the Living Dead.

That same year, another classic horror was unleashed on this world. Today, my friend Lance Langford turned 50. He's older than Nosferatu himself. Everybody wishes a happy birthday today. Hey, happy birthday, man. Happy Blue birthday. Yeah, thanks, Patrick. Appreciate that.

Peter Sayer. Peter Sayer says, Happy Birthday, my good friend. All right, Peter. Shout out, brother. Yeah. Let's see.

Darren Wilson and the folks at the Psycho-Semantic podcast are running a special episode about the 80s cult classic Repo Man. In this movie, Liam and Scott and Liam versus Evil

shakes off a hangover to call down into the bomb shelter to talk about Alex Cox's 1984 classic film Repo Man, starring Harry Dean Stanton, and Emilio Estevez, Emilio. A mighty duck guy.

Yeah. Side tangents involve punk rock, playing in bands, American gun violence, hangovers, and John Wayne. John Wayne? You guys seen that movie? I've seen that a long

time ago. I don't think of ever seen it. The guy was telling the story and he said that he made the delivery at the door and John Wayne came to the door wearing a dress or something like that. Repo Man's a fucked up movie. That's a classic. I remember you telling me about it a lot of time. I got to watch. I covered it with Kevin on his show one time. Oh, nice. Yeah, it's a good one. And then I went and watched a movie called Straight to Hell that was directed by the same director and a lot of the same crew that was from Repo Man just went over and did that movie.

And it wasn't nearly as good, but it was all right, you know. Not too bad, man. Yeah, but Repo Man, any listeners, I know it's not a horror, sci-fi movie, but our superhero movie, Brian, excuse me, you know. Check it out. We may not cover it here, but it's a good cult classic for sure. Emilio Estabez is a superhero in my book. You know what?

I have to go with you on that one. you guys will really like him in this one then let's see we got Sherry Pierre posted friend come over me no friend I got horror movies me picture of Samantha from Bewitched cruising on the broom

Okay All right And you know what I probably saw it And I never I never caught it guys I have to correct you It's Shiree

Oh Shri I'm sorry That is my wife's cousin and she heard and noticed that I did not say nothing and I told I did not even catch that. My bad, Sheree. See, I dated a girl in middle school that had the same name with the spelling and it was Sherry. My bad. Well, this ain't her. And thanks for listening, Sheree.

We definitely appreciate you giving us a listen for sure. Definitely. And appreciate the feedback. Um, regarding Veronica, Samantha Bean says, uh, Jim's gone for the next few days. So I basically shouldn't watch this alone, right? And, uh, Amy Jermaine Runnels says, it was good, but not as scary as everyone made it out to be. I said the same thing. I agree.

Heard a lot of that. Uh, Patrick Lear says, have you watched Carrie? Uh, B1. B1 to watch and the, well, hang on. I think that would be a good one maybe better than for a that would that make sense okay I was like I don't get the context of this that would be a good one to watch

that the guys just did their show on it there you go Jesus Patrick and Marcus Will Turner said LOL okay now I have to watch it to see if it's true Kevin Nez says it was okay he didn't say hello okay

I know I mean you know All right. Me and Philip talked about it. It's not bad. It's just not what they made it out to be. Right.

Because it sounded like it was going to be the scariest fucking thing you've ever watched. I hate it when they do that. And I was excited to come on here and just tell you guys, you know, I've just seen the scariest fucking movie ever. I know. And I got a little bored there. And nothing new happened. Yeah, me too.

Yeah, this is okay. Wouldn't bad. Uh, let's see. Regarding happy death day, Ryan Stevens, uh, also rewatching it today. It's so damn silly, but so good. Pretty good movie, man. Mm-hmm. Uh, regarding death shack. Hey, there's one. Uh, Darren Wilson says, uh, I was underwhelmed, uh, but I wouldn't tell anyone not to watch it.

Just ended up me for me. You know what? That, that probably should have, that probably should have been my review. You know, I'm not going to tell no one not to watch it Because it's not that bad But it just didn't do anything for me Yeah, forgettable Yep Kevin Nez posted about the new death wish

Bullshit Wow Wow Patrick Clear says I think it'll be a decent movie But they should have called it something else Oh Same thing you said Lance

that's what Brian said that's what Brian said my bad yeah I was just I was about to correct myself I was like wait a minute Ryan Stephen says I'll be seeing it I love revenge films

then he went on to say it was a good film though very very tame for Roth you know what maybe and I'm just thinking about it now maybe they could have kept it as death wish and just replaced Bruce Willis

oh I love Bruce Willis Yeah, he was fine at times, but there was times when he just really looked like he didn't give a shit being there. Yeah. And, you know, it's a movie, you know, a little spoiler. A little spoiler. It's a movie where his wife gets murdered and his daughter assaulted to the point where she's in a coma. Right.

Well, that hasn't in the first movie, right? Yeah, but I didn't feel like he gave a shit. I don't know. It just didn't sound like he was selling it very well. No, he was collecting it. paycheck. That sucks. Getting one last one.

Well, although, had he done well, maybe they could have turned this into a new franchise. Yeah, they just need to put Dane Don in there. I thought you would have won with Jason Clark. Tchay. So it disappoints him that it's a little tame for a Roth film. Samantha Bean says, no good. Is it a wait for it on Hulu kind of movie? And Nez says yes.

He sounded like he was not impressed. Denny Louis says Bruce Willis. I know Chuckie Bronson. No, he's not. Mark Chevalier says it's hard to be more alpha than Charles Bronson. Oh, man. Wow. People dogging on Bruce.

Bruce. It says a lot, man. It says a lot. regarding the new superhero movie Netflix is making with Keanu Keanu. Keanu's not a superhero movie. It's like a comedy amount of cat. Come on. Who said this?

Could be a superhero movie. Is it a superhero Keanu? Brian, would you consider Keanu a superhero movie? Like the cat, Kiyanu? Yeah, isn't that what you're talking about? I'll take it. I'll take it. Aye, aye, y'i. I never finished the movie, man, to be honest with you.

It wasn't great. Samantha Bean says, it was better than I expected it to be. Samantha Bean says I've always been a huge Keanu fan, even when everyone ripped on him. I think John, Ah, Keanu Reeves, there you go. Okay, we're talking about that.

I got my Ki- that makes more sense. I was like, they're doing a what now? Oh, okay. We talked about, we talked about this last week.

Oh, the Netflix superhero movie that they want to cast Keanu Reeves and not Keanu the movie. You're taking me off a grip, man. I was like, okay.

So, yeah, Samantha Bean, says I've always been a huge Keanu fan, even when everyone ripped on him. I think John Wick elevated him to a new status and respect for a lot of folks. So seeing this makes me happy. I really hope this turns true and he gets the role. Admittedly, I don't know a thing about this movie, but if Reeves is in it, I'm there.

Cool. Not the cat. Agreed. Patrick Lear says, personally, I'd like to see a rebooted John Constantine movie. It needs to be rated R. I-OK with Kiano returning to the role. Okay. It will never happen.

Well, I-OK with Kiano returning to the role, too, but yeah, probably not ever going to happen. And if they did remove it, they probably wouldn't do it with Kianu. With Kian. Maybe Kian. Maybe Dane Don. Maybe Dane. Yeah, I just think people don't care about, Constantine. The show got canceled after one season.

Oh, that's right. There was a TV show. there. Yeah. So you don't think Marvel could, doesn't Marvel own it now or what? That's a DC character. Ah,

okay. I'm just got to do it. I'm out of it tonight, guys. So it's a good thing you guys are here to keep a center. Oh, yeah. I'm great to doing that. Samantha Bean

shared a list of horror books. I know this group focuses primarily on horror films, but I'm a big reader and thought I'd share this list. Lance, this one's nice. Yeah, cool. Paul James Naylor

says, I don't know if you've ever read any Michael Slade books, but ghoul, headhunter, and cutthroat are all fantastic thriller slash horror novels. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I saw that on there. I haven't read any of his stuff, so

you know, it's probably somebody worth checking out, you know? there's one new for you. And Samantha, I will say this is every week when you fulfill your bet with your husband and you don't have to watch horror movies, I still hope you continue to watch them and comment.

She does pretty spot-on reviews, and she put a lot of people onto that, what was it, Hell House LLC, that foul footage movie. So, yeah. Good job, Samantha. She's kind of on top of it. She gives a great, like,

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at gmail.com we love to hear from you throw us the line leave us a review on iTunes we love to talk to you guys let us know what you think I did see the strangers but I don't feel like I

I don't feel like I could give a good review because it's probably been about eight or nine years since I've seen it. I think so. Not a whole lot to talk about. I will leave it to you guys. That way I can run up and check on the kids too. They may be burning the house down upstairs right now. Very good possibility.

They'll do that. But leaving lighters in their hands. Director and writer of the strangers was Brian Bertino. you guys heard of, heard of Brian Bertino? I've heard of Brian Boitano. Yeah, I heard of that guy. What would Brian Boitano do if he were here today?

Well, this particular guy wrote Mockingbird, and I've never heard of it. I don't think I've seen it, but the monster, which came out a couple of years ago. That was a really good one. Yeah, that was a good one. Charlize Theron?

No, you're thinking of Monster. Oh. Oh. Oh, okay, okay, the monster. That's the one where they get trapped in like a car, right? Yes. Yeah. Yes, okay, cool.

Just making sure? I was like, whoa. Yeah, well, this guy's real. We're either talking about Kiano. Brian Boytano knows this shit. We're either talking about Keanu, Dane DeHan, Keanu the Cat, Brian Boytano, or Brian Bertino, one of those guys. But this one's Brian Bertino. And during filming, in order to get an actual reaction from Liv Tyler,

director Brian Bertino would tell her we're to expect a loud bang from but would did have the loud noise come from a completely different direction. That shows. Oh, that's fucked up. Live Tyler's father is who, Brian? Stephen Tyler.

Front man for Aerosmith. All right. And he actually used to be in another band. He was in another band before Aerosmith, ironically called The Strangers. So, all right, guys. Kick it off. Who wants to go first? I guess I will go first.

It has been a long time since I revisited this movie. I remember first seeing it in the theaters. I thought it was really effective with the jump scares. I thought they were well-timed and well-placed. The whole fact that you had people moving around in the background was, I remember being not, scared because I don't I don't jump out my seat scared to move you know with movies but I just remember it was very unsettling having someone just moving around in the background like that's creepy yeah tense but for me watching it now because I believe it's it's 10th year 10th anniversary

of the movie coming out um this movie does not hold up for me no no I was a little bored rewatching it um I don't know It just was, and I'm not a fucking fan of Liv Tyler. I think she's a fucking horrible actress. Oh, I liked her in this. Yeah, with that, with that fact about her, trying to get a, you know, reaction out of her. I'm like, did you really get that reaction out of her? Because she's just kind of just, I don't know, wouldn't, I don't, I don't buy anything she does in this movie.

she's wouldn't yeah and then rewatching it I don't know okay the whole point of them killing going after them

is because they were home right yeah I don't think there really was a point to it which was kind of the point to it okay rewatching this

ice in the flashback scene of him proposing to her outside of the I guess they were at another different wedding

reception I swear I seen the white truck pull up in the background. Really? Yeah. If anybody has seen this, please comment, email something, because that kind of goes against a hole because you were home. Because it kind of seemed like it's, yeah. But I didn't notice that. Yeah, I could be wrong, but it looked like the white pickup truck pulls up in a bit in the scene where he gives her the ring and she kind of gives him that look like, you know, I don't want to marry you. Yeah. There's a

a white pickup truck that kind of pulls up in the background. Huh. I was an old Ford beater. I mean, it's pretty distinguishable. Yeah. But to be fair, I thought at the time when I seen this, I thought all the jump scares were well-time, well-placed. You know, we get a cameo from Dennis from Always Sunny. Yeah.

He shows up for. I was like, hey, it's that guy. Yeah. Let's see. There it goes. It has a lot of memorable lines. in it. Of course, we got, one was brought up earlier. Is Tamara here?

Yeah. You know, we'll hear that later again. Yeah. And I thought the whole them stalking them throughout the night was, was cool. You know, they were fucking with everything from the fire alarm to, you know, taking the batteries out of the phone. You know, putting the music on. I thought that was all really good effective. Yeah.

Just walking with them to be fucking with them. Yeah, but just overall, I don't know. Maybe just time has just not been good for this movie for me. So I don't know. How did you feel rewatching this movie? So I did see this in the theater. I remember it was one that I went to go see with my wife before we were married. Was it?

Yeah. Don't mean to cut you off. Does your wife go with you a lot to horror movies? Yeah. She actually really likes them. But, you know, then we had kids. I have to trick my wife. It's really not a

I promise it's funny. No, I have to tell her a completely different movie. And then the musical hit or the opening scene and she'll just shoot me a look and I'll just be like, well, it's too late. We're already here. Look, we've got to stay. You don't want to be rude. No, she's a big horror movie fan. I mean, she doesn't like them as much as I do.

gets weirded out by him. I still haven't got her to watch Annabelle Creations with me. Because I told her that it was really super scary because it was. And so now she's just scared off by it. She won't watch it. But yeah, I remember going on a date with her to go check this out.

But I couldn't remember for the life of me what the movie was about. I could have sworn up and down that it was about like they stayed in a hotel. and then there were people trying to break in or something. All I remembered was Love Tyler.

I was mixing up two movies. I can't remember what the other one is. Where were they in a hotel? Oh. I don't know. They were in a hotel, and I'm pretty sure it was like Luke Wilson maybe or something. Oh, vacancy. That was it.

They watched the videotape of someone being murdered in that room. Right. Okay. So when I started watching, well, that tells you how kind of, of forgettable this movie is to me. I started watching it again, and I'm not a huge home invasion fan.

I just feel like it gets I don't know if it's just too real. It's not as entertaining as I want it to be. It's just, that's a genre that I'm not a huge fan of. But I kind of like this one, when they started out with it at least.

The first, probably hour of the movie. I thought was great. They set up some really tense moments. I felt like they probably could have done a little more backstory on the couple.

Yeah. Because they gave you kind of a real quick rundown of maybe what had sort of happened, but they just kind of alluded to it instead of telling you what happened. Yeah, because I think I would have probably because they kind of question why he would even be there.

Yeah. For me, it kind of looked like how she turned him down, just completely devastated him. Yeah, definitely. But you're just kind of hanging around eating ice cream and just, I don't know, maybe she'll change her mind. I don't know. Maybe, you know, because I don't know if they're really pissed off.

Yeah, I don't know what it was just he. They had the scene where he gave it a ring and then we just assume she said no. Yeah. Well, and I mean, it starts out and they're in, they're obviously in the middle of some sort of fight. It's, like, neither one of them are really talking to each other, but they don't tell you what's going on. And then they just sort of allude to that. They show you him proposing to her. And then that's really the only backstory you get.

The whole rest of it you have to make up in your own mind. which I guess is cool but they probably could have killed some more of the time out of the movie with more backstory to make us care more about the characters. Yeah. Because I felt like when the strangers did show up, it was definitely super creepy in the beginning.

And then they started doing like these supernatural things, which sort of took me out of it. Because at first it was very real and really scary. And then it was like, you know, you turn around and a fucking table has been moved. It's like the poltergeist. And that kind of took me out of it. I was like, ah, well, it's just a movie, you know? And as they kept going with all the tension and all the fucking with them moments,

it just kind of got old. because they kind of kept doing the same shit over and over and over. And I felt like maybe they could have used a little bit of that time to tell the story about the other characters. I like Liv Tyler in this. I thought she did a pretty good job. I like Scott Speedman in this. He was the wolf guy from Underworld, right? Yeah.

After rewatched, I had to look it out because I was like, you're familiar. Yeah. The first thing that came up was Underworld. Yeah. I was like, oh, yeah. So I think he did pretty good in this, man. I really believed both characters. I think that it definitely shows that he surprised Liv Tyler,

because, like, whenever she jumped, it felt like a legitimate jump. There's maybe a couple of stupid people moments in it, but for the most part, it was they were just terrified out of their minds. I think it was really only the fact that the strangers got a little supernatural at points that sort of took me out of it. It was an okay movie for me. I can see why a lot of people like it, but for me it was a little forgettable. Yeah, I would 100% agree with you. Majority in the movie is forgettable.

Like, not rewatching it or before I rewatched it, all I remember is Liv Tyler was in it. Yeah. I remember all the masks, you know, the doll face, the pin-up girl, and the guy with the sack on his head. And besides those, the only other thing you remember is the lines, you know, the, because you were home, you know, is Tamara here. Yeah. And the really slow stabbing at the end. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Again, this is just kind of one of those movies. where I think this is probably why I'm also not really, I don't know.

I like Home Invasion, but it's not like up there as far as these little subgenre movies and horror. Because me personally, I don't know. I don't think I would have just waited around to get killed. Yeah. And it's not like they were the type of killers like that use guns or anything. Right. Yeah.

They really didn't even do anything to them until like the very end of the movie. It was just them fucking with them the whole time. Yeah. But, yeah, it's not, I don't know. Just like I said, I don't think it holds up over time. Maybe to other people, but it's definitely, for me, it's not a classic. It's not, if I made a list of home invasion movies, I don't even know if this would be, if it was on there, it wouldn't be high up on the list. Yeah. It was very tense. It was okay. But yeah, it's not going to make any lists that I've ever made in my life. I couldn't even remember which movie this was. I just remember Lipp Tyler's in it. And she's hot.

Eh. Agreed to disagree. Are you ready for scores? Yeah. All right. Since I went first, I will give my score. I'm going to give it a, I'm going to go right in the middle. I'm going to give it a five. Okay.

If this was 10 years ago, I probably would have gave it a higher score, but I'm giving my review based on my rewatch rewatching this. And it just, for me, it doesn't hold up. And I do like the look at the characters

though and the constant, you know, moving around in the back, in the background. And fucking with shit, that was probably the best part of the movie. But overall, It just was a little boring, we're watching it. Yeah. I do really like the ending, actually.

I thought that that was cool. And I like the true story aspect that they put on it, even though it's not. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it was based on something, generally speaking. I don't know. But had it actually been a true story, this would be a way better movie. as it is, I'm going to give it a six.

I liked it. I mean, if you're into home invasion stuff, then this one is probably up there for you. It's just not my cup of tea. And to me, it's kind of forgettable. All right. That was 2008s, The Strangers. Now we were going to talk about the strangers prey at night,

directed by Johannes, Johannes. Yohannis. also known for 47 meters down Isn't that some shit? And the other side of the door. Writer Brian Bertino, not Bortano. What? He wrote this one too?

Rewrites by Ben Katai. Also known for the TV series Chosen. Never heard of Chosen. Before the script was rewritten, Liv Tyler's character, Christine McKay from the first film, Return. and was killed off in a brief opening scene. I wish she was returned, so she was killed off.

Wasn't she dead? No, she screamed at the end when the boy found her. Oh, she was totally dying, though. There's no way she lived through that. Like a Halloween H-2-0 revamp, huh? Well, I guess it makes sense in these movies. Lewis Pullman, who plays Luke, is Bill Pullman's son. as always we want

not used to this not used to this good work man I'm heading out I am going to watch this next week so peace let me know when you guys are done

all right good luck everybody that was Lance all right and good luck watching it next week Lance you want to you want to start this one off Yeah, I would maybe advise against it.

I think this movie was really bad. They didn't have any of the same tension that they did in the original The Strangers, even though there's 18 other movies by that name. I don't think they could decide what they wanted to be. It was they almost had like a, because I think the 2008 The Strangers had more of a home invasion vibe than a slasher movie, even though it may be weasled into that territory. This one, I think, tried to be more of a slasher movie with some home invasion stuff in it. And then they were like, okay, what's popular now?

80 stuff, let's throw that in it. And we'll just throw this hodgepodge of script in there that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. And bam, there's your movie. I can't believe it came out in the theaters. I really thought that it would be VOD. I agree with you on the 80s aspect because it's set now, right? Yeah. I mean, they have smartphones and shit. Yeah, and I felt like they tried to go for that 80s

nostalgia just by giving the main killer. I guess that was like his soundtrack that he had to play. Oh, spoilers. Yeah. But I don't think anybody cares. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry if we spoiled this shit movie for you, but it was not good.

But I did not like anybody, except for Christina Hendricks. I have a thing for her. You know, so she was, she's okay in my book. Right. But everybody else, I did not give a, I thought that the father was, he was the worst father ever. Yeah. He did not know, he didn't have a clue on what the fuck was going on ever with his family. And what was his son?

He looked like he was fucking 30. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I'm assuming he's supposed to be 18. Yeah. Something like that. I thought the girl, what was her, Kinsey or whatever, her name.

Yeah, she was. She looks familiar. She was in some Adam Sandler movies as a younger kid. Okay. But I thought she was fucking annoying in this movie. Right. I mean, I think she was supposed to be annoying in this movie. Yeah.

But she pulled that off. I actually kind of liked the changing of the setting, though. Yeah. I was okay with that. I kind of compared it to a video game where you get the sequel to it and you get to, like, go, like, Grand Theft Auto. Like, you know, you can only go here, but. But then in later games, you know, it made the world bigger for you to go to. And I kind of liked that that we got away from just staying in one house.

Yeah. You had this whole, what was it, a trailer park. Right. And it was like an abandoned trailer park, right? Yeah. Well, I think it was off-season because I think they rents them out. So. But other than that, you know, it did nothing new.

and I kind of I don't even know if we should just skip the fucking I'm spoiling it we're just we're just going to spoil this movie because I really fucking hated that we've seen some of their faces the killers

yeah I always wanted that to remain a mystery and they kept up with it for most of the part you know with the with the shadows and them them fucking with the light bulbs on the porch and I just kind of wanted to keep it like that, but we didn't get that in this. It was a little bit more gory than

the first one. Yeah, that's true. Which I appreciate that, but overall, I just, I don't know, everybody was not likable in this movie, except Christina Hendricks. Well, they didn't do anything to build the characters, man. It was like at 15 minutes

and they were killing people. Yeah, which would probably be the same problem as the first one. We don't know, in the first one, we don't know what the fight really was about what went wrong. But in this one, I guess we're just going off of they basically sold their house and sold everything to take their daughter to boarding school and they have to go live in a trailer park.

Are they taking a vacation? I don't know. They mentioned that one line about we're broke now because they're sending you to boarding school. And then the daughter's like, no, they're not. And then, well, why do they shut the cable off then? Oh. And then the parents kind of look back and don't say nothing.

And he's basically, because they didn't say nothing, he sees like, see, it's true. Maybe that's where they live now. Yeah, because I'm assuming her, the wife's uncle, aunt and uncle own it. Yeah. And I get, that's what I was taking from. They could stay there for free. Okay. So.

All right. That makes more sense. But. And then, okay. So they totally pulled the Stephen Seagal with Christina Hendricks. I mean, if you're going to have her in the goddamn movie, especially as your lead actress, she's not at all the star of this movie. And she dies in the first, I don't know, half hour. If that.

Yeah. I was like, oh, man. So that was disappointing. I was hoping to see some boobies. Yeah. But, you know, they tried to make her, you know, really kind of, I don't know how to put it momish in this one. Yeah, they played her down. They played her sexiness down. It doesn't work for her. Yeah. She's sexy regardless. Yeah.

You want to give a review on Christina Hendrix? Because she was more interesting than this movie. And I got, I'm going to read a comment from past, uh, yeah. Carl McCalla, he commented on Instagram, a complete waste of 85 minutes. I was actually upset when this ended, a betrayal of the first one. Wow. Yeah. Well, see, okay, the first one, we didn't particularly like it, but I know a lot of people really did.

It kind of is in this, like, cult classic world. Yeah, absolutely it is. Which I can see. I mean, I definitely liked it more than I didn't. like it. But this one is not even in that same plan. There's nothing even to tie this one to the original. It just is

except that it's the same people that are killing people. Yeah. And my theory on why the first one is kind of a cult classic, I guess you would say. I think it's the look of the killers. Yeah. I think nowadays this generation, there's no real horror icons. Yeah.

And I think everybody's quick to grasp on to somebody hoping it's going to be the next whatever. I mean, granted, you know, it's been 10 years between these two movies, but. Yeah, we haven't had any really kick-ass horror villains like a slasher villain lately. Yeah, that's why they are constantly rebooting classic movies because I don't know. I can't even think of what horror icon there is right now for. this generation. I can't either. I was thinking about that

when I was watching these movies because people kept talking about them as slasher movies. And this one kind of is, but the first one is really not. I mean, it's just a crazy group of people. Yeah. Could be a slasher movie, though.

I mean, nobody, in the first one, no one gets killed until really the end. I mean, except from Dennis, from Always Sunny, you know, he gets shot with a shotgun. Yeah, but that wasn't even the killers that did it. That was his buddy. So it was basically more psychological until the end. This one, I felt like they tried to up the violence more.

Yeah. Which kind of just tells you they might not have had anything as far as the script close to the first one. Yeah. We don't have anything interesting, so we're just going to put a whole bunch of kills. And it's hard to set a movie like that in modern times because of the cell phones and all this shit. you know, you kind of have to stick them in the middle of nowhere. But then they kept like running into these situations where they, you know, find a phone or find a car that works or find a gun or something.

Things that, you know, can really make a difference in the movie and then they didn't take advantage of them. Yeah. And checking out the box office, it's already doubled its budget. Really? Yeah, I mean. Wow, I wouldn't have guessed that at all. Yeah, it was $5 million. the budget is already made 10 million.

Well, I guess there's that. Yeah, so I don't know if they'll do a sequel. I mean, they kind of left it open at the end, which I don't see how anybody, we are in spoilers. I don't see how anybody survived. I know, right? I don't see how anybody survived either. They had that Texas chainsaw massacre ripoff moment.

Yeah, yeah. That guy, the sackhead had. guy. Yeah. Guy like three times. So I don't know. I'm just going to call him T-Bag. Yeah, in my theater, like, every time he kept getting up, someone yelled out,

oh, it's Jason Voorhees. It's so hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't like the ending either. I thought the knock on the door. Like, dude, this is the, you're not going to make another sequel. of this. I mean, are you trying to start a new

fucking series or something? Because it's been 10 years since the first one. You're going to try to leave it open-ended. How come everybody didn't just didn't just fucking die like in the first one? That would have been cool. You know? At least you have the bad guy winning. Yeah, they should

have built it up to the point where you thought there was hope for at least one of them to get away. And no, sorry, you didn't. Yeah, and then they killed them. But they tried to make the two, the brother and sister badasses. Yeah.

Which they weren't through the whole first three quarters in the movie and then at the end suddenly they're superheroes. Yeah, they couldn't even be badasses together. It's like they had to take turns like, I can't shoot you because I'm scared. So I'm going to run

but then later on I'm going to stab the shit out of the next girl and then talk shit to the guy with the sack on his head. I was like, oh, why didn't you, why weren't you a badass before and just shoot, you know, you're, you know, and then the girl, the sister was crying through the majority of the movie. And then next thing you know, she's, you know, shooting people with shotguns and I know, right? Point blank. Yeah, which that second shotgun blast was so horrible

looking, the CGI effect. It was bad. Yeah. I, I did like the look of the pool scene, at least. I thought that was kind of I mean it was a cool visual. They almost had something here, maybe making them really more of a slasher kind of classic

atmosphere. I just, I don't think they pulled it off. There were too many stupid people moments and there wasn't enough character development and I didn't care about anybody that died at all. Agreed. You want to get into scores since we

bypass scores and went into spoilers? Yeah, well to hear the scores, you have to hear the spoilers. I'm going to give it a I'm going to give it a three. I think there was maybe something here. But I

wasn't super excited about going to see it in the first place. Yeah. I'm definitely not excited about any subsequent movies. I am going to give it a two. Ouch.

Again, I like Christina Hendricks, but you were right. Stephen Segalda's. Yeah. Killed her off. I did like the, basically the open world kind of aspect. It wasn't just in one spot. They kind of had room to

kind of like do stuff in. Yeah. And I thought, and I like that because it was different from the first one. I felt like if they would have did the same thing. it would have just been the first one all over again. Well, and they started it out like it was going to be the first and all over again. I mean, they had the exact same thing that happened, the whole asking for Tamara. Yeah.

And then she came back and did it again. Yeah, I was a little worried right then because I was like, okay, are we going to just rehash beat by beat what happened in the first one? But they tried to do something different, but, you know, they failed. And another thing I fucking didn't like. Because in the trailer, he's playing, what is that 80's song? Tiffany, I think we're alone now. Yeah, yeah. I really like that trailer.

And he's pulling up in a pickup truck playing that song. Yeah. Didn't have it in the movie. Kind of thought that was a, they should have had that in the movie. Yeah. Well, they played the song in the movie, though, huh? Yeah. But, yeah, too.

Can't get any harder. I don't blame you. That 80s nostalgia. It just doesn't belong in this movie. Not that I'm mad at the song choice, but they did it just as a marketing ploy. So, do you want to take us out? Yeah, I guess that's everything. So we're limping along today.

You guys made it through. Oh, there's a lit. We tried. We tried. All right. Try. Well, you guys, you guys all wrapped up? I came back on just in time, huh?

Literally just in time. I was about to say, as always. We gave strangers, pray at night, a score of a three and a two. Yeah. So you might not want to see it next week. I don't know. It was pretty bad. That is a three and a two, not a 32.

No, we watch it. I'll probably still check it out. Good luck with that. But we got to watch, in the meantime, we have. to watch some stuff for the horror mafia. Yes, sir. I felt like the mafia was filling my shoes with concrete

and dumping me in the East River after watching that fucking hard rock zombies today. Oh, I haven't seen any of them yet. I got to watch some heavy metal movies yet. Rough. The use of guys. I will say,

I kind of enjoyed it, though. Lance, should leave us? Well, as always, because I think that's the end of it. Everybody, that was a cameo by Lance. Yeah, that was a cameo by Lance.

As always, we want to thank you for listening to another episode of The Horror Returns. And we'd love to hear your feedback and ideas. As always, you can reach us at thehorror returns at gmail.com. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,

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What? Loaded with special guests in which we will crown a champion an elimination style showdown to get the greatest horror sequel of all time. So without further ado, Lance has disappeared into

the ocean. It's a mystery. But until the horror returns again, Brian. Good mind.