The Horror Returns - THR Presents: 31 Nights Of Horror, Part 2 With Brian & Lance

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

Brian and Lance bring you the next installment in their October Horror-thon. Thanks for listening!

Everybody, this is our second installment of 31 nights of horror. Is that what we're calling it this year, Brian? Yeah, 31 nights, 31 days. Same thing. It all works, right? Yeah, it depends on what time you watch your movies, I guess. All right, we're getting close to halfway done. So we covered eight films the first go around.

We're going to cover six on this one. Brian, you want to go first? Yeah, I'll go first. I guess we'll head over, like I said previously, all my 31 are going to be movies, new or old, that I have not seen. So this one, we're going to head over to Netflix for this year's Night Books.

Oh, okay. This one's more of, I guess you can call it, gateway or transitional movie for kids. You're trying to get your kids into horror. This one. I kind of had this one on the list, but the granddaughter didn't seem too interested. So, um... Yeah, it, it's a little more kiddie than...

Is it? Yeah, it's fine, though. It's, it's got, um, what's her name? Kristen Ritter. She plays a witch. Oh, okay. She is very sexy as a witch. Yeah. And the basic plot is the movie starts with a kid. Families arguing about something gets revealed later what they're arguing about.

He gets his stuff, tries to run away, and he ends up getting caught by this witch. She catches kids and she only keeps the ones that are useful to her. So he has to figure out what is his useful. and he happens to write scary stories and she wants him to write and read a scary story every night. Ah, okay. That's a little bit of a twist. Yeah, the kids are very influenced by 80s horror because when you see his room in the beginning as he's got like posters of like the thing, people under the stairs.

his favorite movie of all time is the Lost Boys, which it, which it, that, they kind of hooked me there because they play the, they play the theme song throughout the movie. So, uh, wonder how they got away with that. Uh, they probably paid some money because, uh, it's the actual song that's in the movie. Gotcha. The, the, the Cry Little Sister song. Okay.

Well, maybe, uh, hopefully. Hopefully Universal won't come after him. Hopefully they paid, huh? Yeah, it seems like Universal owns all music. But this was a decent one. Basically, throughout the movie, there's another kid in there with him. And while he's reading these stories or writing these stories, he's trying to figure out a way to get out.

And, yeah, it was decent. Like I said, more towards the kids. if you've got to watch something with the family and you're not trying to go too hardcore horror with it throw this one on it's on Netflix Nightbooks so she doesn't just eat them now I won't say I wouldn't mind being kidnapped by Kristen Ritter

Yeah You know Especially if she was dressed up like a sexy witch Yeah you just gotta be useful Yeah At one time I could have been. I don't know if I could still keep up with her, but I'd give it a shot. All right, so it's a recommend.

Yeah, I recommend it. Good deal. Well, I checked a couple out that you had on your list last time we talked. And first one being the Shudder original VHS-94. Oh, okay. Yeah, I really loved it. Probably my best or my favorite of the VHS installments, I think. As usual, the wraparound story was probably the weakest link, I would say.

Yeah, me and Ness are going to have a, I think we're going to do with 31 days on it. But I think out of all the entire series, I think this is probably the weakest wraparound. You think so? Yeah, it just kind of didn't really give you much. Like every time they came back to it had something had happened, and I just kind of wish we'd seen something happen. Didn't seem much. Yeah, and then the reveal of the wraparound, I was just kind of like,

that was very silly. Yeah, I was on the same. Well, far and away, man, my favorite of the, I guess the short stories within it was the, the, the, the Indonesian mad scientist. Oh, directed by Timo. He did that cult one, the death cult. That's right. And that's probably, those are actually probably my two favorite VHS segments ever.

Yeah, he does some crazy stuff. He's got some crazy martial arts action movies that are like super violent. He's a great director. He also did those, what is it, May the Devil Take? me those movies does a lot of good stuff then um that uh that mad scientist kind of stole the show i would say yeah he's supposed to be doing um because you remember they they're they're supposed to be remake and train to buson oh yeah he's i think he's directing but he's directing the americanized version right yeah but that's that's the only reason i'm kind of for it is if he's directed and

they let him do what he does in his movies. Yeah, I would hope they would, man. This was, I guess that very beginning when you had the close-up of the head, and then they kind of panned out and you got to see what was going on. I don't want to give too much away, but it was kind of like you were playing a video game. A lot of point-of-view stuff, especially from the point of view of view of one of his creations. I thought it was excellently done. And then the way they used cameras,

filming people going through the building that were, shall we say, trying to shut him down. And then they ran into more than they bargained for. That was a great segment. I thought the RAPMA segment was really good, too. The people, not the people under the stairs, but the people under the sewer. Yeah.

Yeah. Yes, all around fun movie. I recommend VHS 94. I heard you talking about it. You kind of sold me on it. Nice. Let's see. Staying with Netflix.

My next one is there's someone inside your house. A new slasher movie that came out this year. I've not heard good things. I didn't mind it. Was it okay? Yeah, it was okay. It's a slasher. You know, it's a slasher.

You know, there's a killer. Mm-hmm. Killing high school kids for, you know, certain reason. Won't spoil it. It has, the main actress is Sydney Park. She plays Cindy on The Walking Dead. Okay. She's, you know, the girl when she's part of that group that's all women.

Mm-hmm. And her mother gets killed and she takes over leading. Yeah, they lived in the beachfront area. Yeah, yeah. She's the main girl in this. All right, so you actually recommend. What's the basic plot? What can you say about it?

Somebody's killing. People are getting killed and right before they killed, like, their secrets are being, like, revealed. Like, every, like, I'll tell the main, the first guy that gets killed because it happens. like in the first movie. Okay. He's a part of the varsity football team and they like, Hayes another kid and they'd like, I guess like,

well, I'm not going to say they go too far. They do go too far like hazing him. And somebody had taken pictures or video of it. And right before he gets killed, like he walks into one of the rooms in his house. And there's just like pictures of him and the high school football team,

like basically beating the shit out of this. the kid and the killer wears takes like photos of who he's killing and he takes like 3d he makes mask it with the 3D printer of their face and where is it okay and there was some decent kills and from what I saw they looked I don't know maybe I was maybe because I watched it late so maybe I was too tired but they they look like they were for the most part a good mix of practical and a little bit of CGI in there. So it didn't look bad. Well, this is on Netflix, right?

Yeah, it's another Netflix one. So you need to throw something on. I think Pete MC is the one that was shitting all over it. But, you know, that guy's taste can run hot and cold. Yeah, but, you know, like I said, it's a slasher. So. Right. You get what you expect with a slasher.

If you're not a big fan of slashes, then you're not going to be into this one. So you weren't mad then? No. High school kids getting killed. Netflix? All right. I'll definitely check it out then.

Okay. Sound like everybody who went down had it coming. Yeah. That kind of adds an extra layer of satisfaction to the experience. Yeah. And there was some that you just kind of like, well, what he did wasn't that bad. All right, well, for my next movie, went back to the old days of Universal. I thought it was the first Universal Monster movie ever,

but come to find out that there was a like a two and a half hour silent version of hunchback of Notre Dame. You ever seen that one? I think I have, but I think when my dad showed me when I was a kid. Yeah, I don't know if I can sit through too. and a half hours of a silent movie, but this hour and 20 minutes of, an hour and 30 minutes of the Phantom of the Opera with the original Lon Cheney Sr.

Okay. Not bad. Not bad. I didn't know I was getting into a silent movie. I just kind of thought it was sort of like Wizard of Eyes where you, you know, I didn't expect it to be necessarily in color. I figured it would be black and white, but I thought it, I didn't think it was going to be like a,

keyboard soundtrack like you're out of a baseball game the whole time you're watching it um the the version I saw was pretty interesting because they had color filters it's uh the version that's on HBO max oh okay um so like when you're like above ground there's sort of like a tanish brown filter and when you're down in the depths of where the phantom where the phantom's layer is and the underground canal and all that, it's sort of like a greenish filter. And then when you're on stage or where they're doing the opera, it's a blue filter. So I thought that was kind of interesting. It had a little, you know, a little bit of, I don't know, panache to it.

Is that the right word I'm looking for? Yeah, I know what you're saying. It kind of added to the experience. So glad that I watched it, probably not going to be one of those. annual repeats or anything like that. It wasn't as fun as, say, like, the Invisible Man. Yeah, that one's fun. Which we had a lot of fun with.

And it wasn't, I didn't think it was as good as Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein. But, I mean, hey, it was the early days of Universal, and it's a silent movie. So if you go in knowing that and expecting that, I think you, you know, you won't be upset that you watched it. It's kind of a classic that I've never seen before. The mask that he wore when he wanted to look like a human was extremely cheesy.

Kind of like a, you know, those little wax-looking masks that you get that are clear, that just sort of enhance your facial features. Yeah. But I'm for $2.99 at the dollar store usually. Uh-huh. It was like that. And then when you saw his actual face, it was pretty, it was pretty, pretty, good makeup, I guess, for 1925.

Now, he was No Gerard, No, Gerard Butler, Brian. Yeah, don't go in expecting that, you know. But not, not bad, not bad. A little bit different story than the musical version we saw, but almost exactly the same. So, yeah, 1925's Fandom of the Opera,

my second, or I guess what, we're up to 10th pick of the year. Yep. Moving on to the next one, number 11. This one's the older one, 2012's horror comedy, Stitches. Ah, I don't think I've ever seen this. Yes, this is a British horror comedy. Basically, the clown stitches performing at a...

Wait, I think I have... Maybe I have seen this, then. Yeah, it's goofy. he's performing at a kid's birthday party and he has an accident where he gets killed and he basically comes back like eight years later from the dead coming after these kids. Yeah, it's

ridiculous. Run somebody over and then back up and run over him again or am I thinking of a different one? Did he do that? You might have, I don't know. but there were there was some there was some pretty good kills in here and it was all practical okay well you know it's like i said it's it is what it is i i it always pops up in in you know my recommendations and i've never seen it so i was just kind of like you know i'm not really

in the killer clown movies but yeah wasn't at the beginning like he was at the party or something and somebody accidentally killed him, it like wasn't like he was murdered or anything like that? Yeah, I won't say how. Slip on a banana peel or I don't know. He slipped on something and fell on something. Okay. And the main kid that it was his birthday, he essentially traumatized him.

And he had a fear of clowns. And then you flash forward like to when he's in high school and he's having a birthday party. and he's kind of like the nerd, the kid that nobody likes, and all the kids that were at his party when he was a kid, or kind of like the cool kids now and don't like him. But they come to his birthday party anyways, because, you know, it's a party, and there's, like, going to be beer and stuff. And that's what Stitches comes back from the grave,

because he remembers all the kids that were kind of rude or mean to him when he was performing at that little kid's birthday party. party. So there was there was some decent kills in here, but like I said, it's goofy. It's it's a horror comedy. And I really like the guy that, uh, that played, um, Stitches. I mean, he's trying to find his name really quick. I think he's a stand-up comedian. Yeah. Tommy Knight's. All right. That was, that was the main actor. Stitches was played by Ross Noble. Okay. I think you're right. I think he is a stand-up comedian. Yeah, English

stand-up comedian Yeah, I remember this I saw it It's just Hey, well, you got to watch something, right? Yeah, it was, you know, like I said, it always shows up On like, if you've watched this,

maybe you'd like to watch this And I was just like, I need something I haven't seen, so Oh, man, now that we're on TikTok Why don't we do a sequel to it We can call it Stitcher, Brian, and you put on the face paint. Would you do that? Hey.

People watch it. Why not? I guarantee you people would watch it. I don't know if I could do a British accent, though. Give it a shot. Oh, I'm going to have to do one for our fanatic, right? Yeah, you got to work on yours, though. Comes out a little Australian sometimes.

Okay, well, we'll have to ask. Tim about that, right? Yeah. Oh, man, so stitches. Yep. All right. We ready to move on? Yep.

Number 11 for you. Well, as luck would have it, man. Speaking of Australian, I watched the brand-new shark movie Great White. Ah. And speaking of Tim. Brian,

I think you might have been right about something. I think you got me on something, dude. And I'm going to look back and remember it at the end of the year and say, that motherfucker, because when you said that there was a great chance that escape room two is going to be crowded out of my bottom ten by the time we're done with the year. You might have been on to something. Have you seen this movie? I was going to put it on our schedule,

and then I watched the trailer and then I took it off the schedule. I'm not going to apologize to Tim. He seems to be the subject of conversation. Not going to apologize about my zero out of ten rating on Jaws the Revenge. But it's got some stiff competition with this one, man. This was absolutely horrible. the absolute most hateable characters ever

well the most hateable character since Black Christmas and just a script that makes absolutely no sense this guy and his girlfriend are in financial trouble and they I don't know if they're taking these people out on a flight on their little airplane because they have to because they need the money so badly or if they would have just taken them out anyway. I don't even know why they gave us that story about them being in financial trouble

because it never really played in. It wasn't like this was something that they weren't going to do because there was a storm coming or whatever. But the shark, I mean, good God, man. I mean, I think this was just a green screen and CGS shark all the way from start to finish. I don't think there was ever any real effects in this movie whatsoever. And then you've got this bizarre, weird relationship between the two people that they chartered the plane for to take him out to this private island.

And it's almost like, okay, there's going to be a payoff here. Because like he says something and she's like, oh, honey, no, I didn't mean it that way. And then kind of like shrunk back from him. I thought, ah, he's an abuser. And I looked at Asia. I said, watch, he's going to be an abuser. It's going to come out and he's going to get eaten and we're all going to cheer. never even came out in the storyline.

Nobody knows why they acted that way. Nobody knows why they set up the financial hardship for the main couple that had the airplane. Some of the worst effects of a shark I've ever seen in my life. They might as well just have done bubble guppies or something like that. Some hand-drawn cartoons probably would have been better. The ending of this movie is, I can honestly say, Jaws the Revenge, had a much more logical, ending than this movie did

um wow this this is going to be in a strong battle for for worst worst movie of the year it's it's really bad it is really bad and then at the ending um fuck it I'm gonna spoil it it's brand new

I'm spoil it anyway there's a couple of survivors at the end and so the big oh great the movie's over with they end up on a desert island no one else on the island. No one's looking for them because the guy forgot to call in that they were doing the flight. And so there's literally no one looking for them the whole time. And they're on this desert island and you're like credits roll. And so now what are they going to do? They survive the

shark, but they're stuck on a tiny island with probably no food or fresh water. Oh, okay, cool. That's the end of the movie. Really bad. Don't watch great ones. Don't watch it. Don't watch it. Did Katrina Bowden at least look good? Was that the blonde? Yeah. Yeah, she looks good. I can't argue with that.

In fact, there was a big teaser seat at the beginning where it looked like her and the main guy were about to kind of get it on. And as soon as they started going toward it, the camera just panned away and went to like a fireplace or something. so was the ultimate tease. Just stay away from great... So they gave you nothing at all in this entire movie. They gave you less than nothing. They gave you blue balls. Okay.

Yeah, so I kind of saw the trailer and I was just kind of like, eh, watch something else. I wouldn't waste your time, man. Unless you want to fill out your bottom 10, I mean, you may have a totally different opinion than me, but I don't think so All right

Number 12 We're heading back over to Amazon Prime And back to the Blumhouse Ah, okay Number 12 is this year's Am I saying this right? Madre Madre Okay

Yes This is about A couple I believe she Her husband's Mexican He's from Mexico He gets a job He gets a job

Uh heading a Being a manager of a crew Of a farmer farmhands or something like that Mm-hmm And his wife I believe she's Mexican too But she's Mexican American Like she doesn't really speak Spanish

Ah yeah Maybe a little Spanish Yeah They kind of hinted to that they her parents I guess weren't allowed to speak Spanish or something

what the fuck yeah they didn't really go in it they didn't really go into it okay because she she looks Mexican and then when you meet when you meet her sister her sister really looks Mexican so I was like how are you guys not allowed to speak Spanish but they did they

just kind of mentioned it and then didn't really go into it but she's pregnant they move into a new house this is set in like the 70s. Okay. And she starts to experience strange things in the house. And then there's a whole plot line of all the women, all the Mexican women that work for this company on the farm. They're all, they're all, when they get pregnant, they end up losing the baby.

Oh. And she kind of tells her husband, do you realize there's no, there's no Mexican babies around here? There's no, you know, other than like one person who are when they, I guess they already had a son when they came there. She was like, he's the only kid that you see. Weird, okay. Yeah. I feel bad for laughing now. I thought you were going to say something different.

And there's kind of a twist in there that it's kind of a, there's something. bad going on but there's also something supernatural kind of in the mix too and she's trying to figure out you know what the what's what's really happening you know and then she

she starts to get sick and have this rash and basically people are saying that she has the curse this actually actually sounds kind of interesting yeah it's not bad it has a message

it's kind of like based off something that actually happened in real life and they kind of they kind of you know do the when the credits roll kind of give you the story of what happened interesting so i thought i thought the subject was interesting and then when you find out you know something like this like actually happened you're just kind of like you know that's fucked up and yeah i guess so uh the main actress she was pretty good and the guy that played her husband he was in that the Forever Purge. He was

the... Well, we want to hold that against him. He was the quote-on-quote real cowboy, the guy that was actually doing, you know, you know who I'm talking about. Yeah, the one who could break the horses and had the respect of the Patriarch. Yeah, he's starting to pop up in a lot of things. He's

I'm going to say he's like a great actor or something, but he's he's pretty good he's kind of he's he's very uh likeable yeah I'll probably check it out yeah uh Amazon Prime well I I too

visited the Blum House on Amazon Prime for my number 12 and again I went to a film that that you had seen in your last grouping that you know what dude I'm gonna just put it straight up I was not expecting much at all

out of the movie but what can I say you had me at Keith David not David Keith and that's really all you had to say man I was going to watch this movie no matter what but I was very pleasantly surprised with Black as Night

I thought it was just going to be silly this was not silly there was some heavy shit going on yeah there's a some of these actually I will say all four and I'll get into my

in my next one they all had messages in them even the Richard Brickwin yeah Bingo hell there's a like they take stuff that's that's going on in our country

and in the world and they all been I thought they were kind of put in there nicely that wasn't heavy handed with it or anything I was very worried at first because you had, I thought, well, here comes a total young adult movie that's going to be really crappy. Keith David's probably.

She wasn't a kid to you? Well, see, and that's what you were saying. I caught that line that she said, you know, when I, the year that I got my breast was the year I turned into a vampire or whatever. You know, maybe she was just a little slower to develop, Brian. Oh, okay. But, yeah, I'm with you. It seemed like a bit of an exaggeration. When you started meeting these characters, though, I was really, really getting worried.

I was starting to cringe a little bit that this is going to be just kind of like a kid's movie. Yeah, but some of the dialogue I was kind of like maybe something my daughter would like to watch other than me. As soon as they got to the part where she had to go and visit her mother, I kind of started seeing that this was a real, you know, a real movie with a real story to it. particularly when you're talking about and yeah oh I was I think I message you it was absolutely filmed in New Orleans there's no doubt you can't recreate AJ AJ was watching it with me

she has a photographic memory so she can tell you the exact she can tell you not only a street but like the address where a particular scene is film so she pointed a lot of stuff out to me so it wasn't set in Atlanta or Toronto or

no it was definitely filmed in in New Orleans. There's no doubt. You sure wasn't filmed in Bulgaria or somewhere crazy? I've seen that happen before, but not, I think we can safely say this one was, this one

took place there, and I'm sure that Darren filming, it would have been a lot of fun to meet Keith, Keith David, on Bourbon Street, because he was a lot of fun at Frightmare, three or four years back when we saw him. Nice. Great, no, great story, great

script. all of the actors I thought did their part Keith David just was way over the top he was in it so much more than I thought he was going to be and I kind of saw it coming a little bit but I didn't know how they were going to pull it off because of what we know about vampires and what they can and can't do

and be exposed to etc. Yeah, I like how they played around with it and changed it up. I liked it a lot. They had a yeah, whoever wrote the script I was trying to look up the screenwriter to see if they'd really done too much more. And it looks like, yeah, it looks like a lot of these people, Lunghouse has kind of given a chance to up-and-coming filmmakers,

which is a good thing. But this was a very well-written story. It was really tight. All the acting was good. The message wasn't lost on you, but like you were saying, they're not like hit you over the head with it. Yeah, like a certain Christmas movie.

I'm going to tell you what. Man, I think this, they pulled it off with this one. If the other, if the other Welcome to the Blumhouse are nearly this good, I'll watch all of them, especially since I've got Amazon Prime. Yeah. Yeah, very happy with it. I think they're good for the messages, because, and I think, I will say, the four this year or a step up from the four last year.

Are they? Yeah. That would make sense. I would think that hopefully every year they'll get better and better. And you're right. I like that too, how they're giving these up-and-coming new directors and screenwriters a chance to get their name out. I think Blumhouse is doing a really good thing. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned it.

It was a fun, fun experience. And David Key just, he stole it, man. I mean, I knew he would, but I didn't expect that much out of him. I thought it was going to be more of a cameo type thing, so I was very pleasantly surprised with that. I think we should have a T-shirt. Yeah? Keith David, not David Keith.

Or it's Keith David's smiling on one side, and then David Keith's freaking out from a fire starter on the other side. Well, as long as universe, doesn't own the rights to all that we might have a shot at it damn it universal all right my next one uh was it 13 lucky number 13 this one is the fourth

and final one of the welcome to the blum house series and that is the manor ah with the the famous barbara heresy yep barbhersey she is full on gray in this movie it was kind of because she was at Frightmare when we were there

right? I believe so yeah she wasn't gray like this at all so it was kind of it was like whoa kind of getting up there now Barbara this also stars Bruce Davidson

I felt bad that we didn't go by her by her table man we should have yeah she's she's a great actress and she's done a lot we should have yep should have should have gone by there sometimes i get i kind of my my throat you know my heart jumps into my throat a little bit when they're that famous and i'm a little bit afraid to to go over and talk to them but they're people too you know everyone yeah i think i think for before we get

to the next movie i think uh next year uh her next frightenair i'm gonna bring my daughter because i'm trying to she's starting to be kind of like that where she doesn't want to speak and I think maybe if I bring her to fright mayor and expose her to things like that and kind of get her out her shell and I don't know we'll see. Yeah, I think it's a great idea. But the manner, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davidson. Barbara Hershey is, seems like a fun, fun woman in this one and

she ends up having, I believe she has a She neither has some kind of heart condition or a stroke, and they find out she has, I forgot, now that I forgot. She has some kind of condition, and the daughter puts her basically in a nursing home. Like dementia or something like that? Yeah, I think it's kind of like pre, like. Early onset? Yeah, she doesn't have it, but she is basically on her way there.

and she gets put in this place called basically the manor. And it kind of makes you think that they're abusing the elder patients there. But then you also kind of get a... Was Ben Stiller one of the orderlies that would answer it right there? Oh, with his big handlebar mustache? Yeah. No, he didn't pop up. But then throughout the movie, you're kind of thinking maybe there's some other sinister things going on throughout the nursing home.

And you don't know if the staff are in on it or what's going on. Or this could all just be in Barbara Hershey's head because, like I said, you know, she's going through, you know, her condition. so she could just be seeing things or they could be happening, they could be supernatural, or it could be the staff abusing patients. You know, you never know. So a lot of high anxiety. Yeah.

And if you're a fan of Barbara Hershey, check it out. Like I said, she's in it, Bruce Davidson. And there was a couple other people in there, too. so probably not my favorite out the four but it was a decent one and like I said she plays a bit of a firecracker in this one definitely

definitely sounds like the slower of the four stories yeah she I like the character though because she like her son cusses her grandson her teenage grandson he's like gots her back and believes her you know, and it's trying to help her out. And when he cusses, she's just like, watch her mouth.

And he was like, Grandma, you cuss all the time. She was like, well, I fucking earned it. So I did like the character she played. So definitely. Might as well, if you checked out the other ones, give this one a try. You're right, Lance. It is on the more slower burn side. But it wasn't bad.

I didn't hate it. All right. I'll check. I'm going to check them all out, man. I mean, I really haven't heard too much negative about any of them except a couple of people, again, Ben's cast didn't care for bingo hell that much. Oh, you know I was going to watch it because of... I'm going to watch it. Because of Gigi.

And Richard Brake, right? Yeah. I mean, that's a one-two punch. What's up, Gigi? I know you're listening. Oh, by the way, pardon any background noises. You might hear the... My granddaughter is getting ready for the homecoming dance tonight, so they're out in the yard taking pictures.

Oh, nice. And, of course, the THR recording studios, Texas Division is here in my garage. So Houston, Texas. So you may hear little noises in the background. I'll tell her have fun, but not too much fun. Right. Yeah, make sure that phone. locator stays on, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to have it on there. So that was,

oh, so you said we're up to number 13. I believe so. Let me double check 10, 11, 12, 13. Yep, you're 13 now. All right, my number 13, I think you've seen it. Where did I see it? Was it on Amazon Prime? I streamed it somewhere. And that's the good thing about a lot. I noticed you and our both covering a lot of movies that are streamable with the exception of Great White, which whatever you do don't pay for it. I didn't. Ironically, I won't. I actually sailed the high seas,

which I rarely do. All right, my number 13 is a movie that I also found streaming. I don't know where it was, I think maybe Amazon Prime, but that's kind of a good thing about a lot of these movies we're picking. It seems like a lot of them do tend to be available streaming. Not Great White. I actually literally

sailed the seas for that, which as you know, I'm the idiot that normally pays for everything. Sure I'm glad I didn't pay for that piece of shit. Instead of body parts bobbing on the water with that movie, it's turds. But yeah, number 13, I checked out

one called the gin. I think you've seen it. Yeah, with the little kid. The one in an apartment building, your apartment? Yeah, you had us watch the trailer for it, and we were like, what the fuck is this? Is it like a haunted? I think Philip said, like, looks like it's a haunted bathroom or something.

He's not in the bathroom that long. No, but little did we know there would be a movie about a haunted bathroom coming out that we reviewed a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it. It's getting a lot of love out there. Like, I noticed a few people, like, gave it big props when I put it on Facebook that I was watching it. I think Heather from Friday Nightmares podcast said it was her favorite film in the year. I didn't get that much out of it.

Yeah, I liked it, but I don't think it would be on my top ten. Not top ten. I enjoyed it. It was nice for what it was. it was kind of, you know, a small enclosed area. The rules were, I like the fact that the rules that they established what the gen could do and what bodies the gen could take over or be seen as. I appreciated that because it was actually logical.

You know, it made sense. It had to be someone who had died that could show up as. And considering what this kid had gone through some of the choices the gen took made perfect sense. But I don't know, for my, for my, for my, for my, for my money, it's not, not my favorite movie of the year and, and I'm, I'm with you not probably not top 10. Kid, kid was a decent actor. I thought the dad was a little bit corny.

Yeah. I mean, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the kid could hear obviously, because you could see some, like, there'd be a noise and he'd react. act, but he was just mute? Is that what it was? I think so. It's been a while since I've seen it. So you don't remember if they ever explained that, why he was mute? I think it had something to do with the mother passing or something.

Okay, well, it was a decent movie. Check it out. He was good, and did you watch The Boy Behind the Door? I have not seen The Boy Behind the Door. Doer. Did that come out this year also? Yeah, it's on Shutter, I think. He's in it, too. He's one of the boys.

And that one, I think, is a better movie than Jim. Okay. Well, not mad that I saw it. It was a decent watch. That was one reason I picked it is because it was about an hour and 22 minutes. So it was a perfect, I think it's an IFC midnight movie, wasn't it? Yeah. Perfect little watch. for my lunch hour at work, because, you know, I'm doing the air quotes here, my lunch hour.

Yeah. Because I've, you know, I don't know who I work for that might be listening to this, hopefully no one, but I've been known to take a lunch three hours before for a particularly good series that I couldn't stop watching. But, uh, nah, hour and 22 minutes, perfect short film. Um, didn't have a lot going on, but didn't have too much going on. So, yeah, check out the gen. It's worth it. All right.

My last one for this installment we're doing is going over to Back to Shutter. And this one is Mosquito State. What the F? Mosquito State. Is this the one with Harrison Ford? Oh, that's the Mosquito Coast. Yeah, this one is not. really horror.

I would say it's more of a psychological. It says psychological thriller, but I would take the thriller part out and put drama. Okay. And there, I guess, mosquito state. I guess horror there would be body horror in it. Was there, does it get turned into a mosquito?

No, he's, um, how do I put it? He works on Wall Street, but he's kind of got, I don't know, I never really got what was really wrong with him. He's kind of antisocial. He doesn't know how to really associate with people. But I guess he's like the main, the guy that owns the company on Wall Street, he's like his, as he puts it in the movie, his golden goose. Because I guess he created like some kind of program that like,

some money and he's like super smart and but he like is super antisocial and throughout the movie he's kind of like losing it because he he meets a girl and I think he he thinks that he kind of maybe blew with her from him being kind of the way he is and on top of that I think his something somebody did something to his program so it's not working and so throughout the movie he's kind of losing it and then he uh it's really hard to explain you're not you're not selling me brian

you're not selling me he ends up i don't know why was he like the christian bail character in the big short where he was a genius and he came into work like barefoot and like nobody fucked with him because he was such a financial whiz kid No, they people fucked with him and made fun of him. Okay.

I'm not getting it. You're not selling me, man. He ends up reading mosquitoes. He ends up breeding mosquitoes in his very large apartment. He breeds mosquitoes. Yeah, I think, I'm trying to remember why, because I think he based his program off of bees or something. Why didn't they call it the bee state? Because he bred mosquitoes.

Well, if his model was based on bees, why would he breed mosquitoes? Well, his model's failing now, so. Oh, going for a new model now. Yeah, I think that's what the purpose was. but it's it's kind of gross because they kind of do close-ups of mosquitoes and mosquitoes laying eggs and like a national geographic and then he he lets the mosquitoes kind of on him and they're like covering his body and then like he shows up to to work with all these large very disgusting mosquito bites and this is christian bail no no i'm i'm i'm confused.

This is a Polish-American movie. It's a shutter exclusive. Nobody we've ever known. I didn't recognize. I thought I recognized the man-girl, but I looked her up and she just looks like somebody you might know.

Maybe she was in a Polish porn that you saw on you porn or something. I'd watch it. But it's slow. It's weird. it's kind of interesting but

I would definitely say it's psychological but thriller no drama yes all the mosquito bites he accumulates on his body that's the only horror I would say because it kind of falls into that body horror

okay because the first one he gets he shows up to work he has like a large one on this on his cheek and he's kind of just going about it like there's nothing wrong but you know people at the office are looking at him like what the fuck is going on with you you know like when you get a big pimple yeah you know there your buddy's like should i tell him about it or yeah but he doesn't really like

care what people because like i said they kind of make fun of him for the way he acts and stuff so it's not bad though but i definitely if i knew it wasn't really horror i probably wouldn't have threw it on the list, but it's super weird. Okay. Oh, man. That's mosquito state. I'm sorry, mosquito bite? Mosquito state.

Mosquito state, okay. Because that was his state of mine, I guess. Mosquito skeet. I'm sorry, man. Well, was it a bottom 10? Was it that bad? No. I didn't think it.

it was bad. It just, I don't put it in, because it's on Shudder. I remember they were making kind of a, you know, mosquito states coming to Shutter, you know, because they like to acquire other movies. And I just definitely, I went

to through the horror label on it. I'm going to pass, man. Yeah, it says right here, Wall Street Genius who becomes the willing host to a colony of mosquitoes. See, that has potential. sounds great. Yeah, I might have just explained it wrong.

You know what? Whether you did or you didn't, I'm probably not going to add this to the list. Yeah, I probably, after listening to me explaining it, I probably wouldn't watch it either. Well. It was well acted, though. Was it?

Yeah, the main guy, he really did play this person that was antisocial. and didn't know how, especially when he met the girl. He just couldn't look at her. And she was clearly, like, into him for some reason. Maybe she liked mosquitoes. Oh, this is way before the mosquitoes. Okay.

Well. But that is one thing when people did kind of look at him, like, you know, what the hell's going on? But didn't really, because if I saw somebody that was just covered in large mosquito bites, I'm neither getting away from this guy or I'm trying to get him help. I'm not going to be like, oh, what's wrong with you? Oh, how's your day? How's your day? That looks like it hurts.

So it was like probably oozing pus and everything after a while, I'm guessing. Yeah, they were just gross. Yeah. And he would like, when he would go back to his apartment, he would like walk around in his underwear. And he would just, yeah, he would just. Yeah. He'd then just have, like, large amounts of mosquitoes and... How did they not get out of his apartment?

It was almost like they were trained, kind of. Trained, like the old flea circus of those days. It was like a... And it looked cool, like, because there would, I mean, there was, like, millions of them in his apartment. And they would, like, swarm around. You know how birds, like, fly and, like, sequence? Oh, yeah, yeah, like the shapes of the swarm. this moves and stuff like that.

It looked cool. Like the collective mind type thing. Yeah. So it, like I said, it was super psychological and Okay. Yeah, if you check it out, like, you know, let me know,

because maybe I, I miss something. Maybe I will check it out. Now, was it subtitle? You said it was a Polish slash American. It's English. Okay. I don't believe it's dubbed. and you ever see SWAT with L.O. Cool, Jay?

Oh, wait a minute. Is that the, yeah, I think so. The guy that... They imitated SWAT officers and did bank robberies, or am I thinking of a different movie? That's a different movie. Swat's the one with Colin Farrell and Hawkeye and... What? Yeah, they're, like, transporting a prisoner, and he's, like, getting off subject here,

but he's basically he offers anybody a million dollars to break him out and he's the guy that owns the Wall Street company in this one and he's kind of bad. He's an asshole in this one too. So you've seen him before then? Yeah, I just thought about it. I did

recognize somebody. He's the asshole Wall Street company owner and he was in SWAT as the villain so. Okay. Well, so you said I guess SWAT could be the sequel to

mosquito, couldn't it? Or this could have been the sequel to the SWAT because somebody broke him out and he became a Wall Street broker, trader, whatever they do on Wall Street. Right, yeah, that's a great question.

Whatever they do on Wall Street. Yeah, because he was explaining his program and I was just like, I don't fucking get it. Well, you're kind of almost got me a little curious now. How long is it? Is it a two hour or hour and a half movie? Uh, let's say about an hour, 40.

Wouldn't it be funny if we came back next week and I brought this one out? And it was going on your top ten. You never know, man. Maybe there was a hidden message in there that, uh, that you just didn't get. But since, you know, I studied advertising and shit and read all those little books about, that my mom used to always keep those books around the house subliminal advertising, like with the ice cube that had like the naked woman in it and shit like that airbrushed into it. Oh.

Yeah, maybe it was like that. I don't know. Probably not. Probably not that deep, Brian. Yeah, but if you're definitely, if you're going into this thinking it's a horror, it's not. All right. Well, if we can, we will end this one on Shudder as well. but not a boring movie and not a slow burn,

but definitely super weird. And a lot of the times we'll watch movies that are like annual films that we watch every Halloween season over and over again. My next one is actually one that I've just seen for the fourth time this year. Oh. Kind of like this year's mid-Somar when I watched that one like five or six times. Brian, you can't beat Psycho Gorman. It's so good.

I have really got to go back and check out this guy's other movie again that I didn't like. You're still not going to like it. You don't think so? I just didn't like the cult aspect, like when they were in the hospital and all those cult members were showing up and shit. Yeah, I think you said it was borrowing too much from other movies, but you really, I remember you really appreciated the effects in there. The effects were great. Now he actually, what's his name? Kaskowski?

Kowalski. Stephen Kostansky. Oh, like Kastanza. I should have known. Okay. He actually did, speaking of VHS 94, he did that little vegetable masher commercial in there. Yeah, he is a part of a group called Astronauts. They are a group of filmmakers,

and they do a lot of practical effects. Well, I want more. I want more because I guarantee you Psychogormans going to be on my top ten. Nothing's going to push this thing all the way off the list. I love every minute of it, the silliness. A lot of people have a problem with the character Mimi that she's irritating or obnoxious.

She's supposed to be. That's what I love about her, man. Everything about this, movie is and I didn't my son was a huge power rangers fan uh-huh um back in the day and i remember him watching all those power ranger shows like the the yellow ranger the pink ranger the blue ranger the black ranger yeah i never got into it i didn't either i didn't see the point of it but he was into it pretty big time for a while and this captured that perfectly but it like turned it all on its ass you know what

I mean, like X showed the gore. It kind of had a little bit. I would like to ask the director if he ever watched the Geiver. You ever see The Geiver? I have heard of it. It's an Asian film, right? Yeah, well, they made an American version. Okay.

And kind of same thing. Well, not the same thing. It's kind of Power Ranger-esque, except his suit is like an alien thing that attaches itself to him and becomes a suit. Oh, I like that idea. And Mark Hamill's in it. He plays the detective. Oh, Mark Hamill? Yeah, I got a lot of...

Skat Walker himself. Yeah, I got a lot of feeling from that movie. I had to check it out. Nez is over here messaging us. He said, man, I wonder if he's talking about the Halloween movie or something different. Oh, we'll see. We should find out shortly. won't we?

Because I know people are divided on it. Not divided, but... Well... The question is, is this better than the previous one? We'll find out tonight. Or actually, you'll... You guys will probably all find out a day or two before you listen to this.

Yeah. Because I like to put that show up first. So I guess that's it for this week, Brian. Yep, until the next episode or next installment. Yep. The 31 days continue.