Too Scary; Didn't Watch - BRAINDEAD (1992) with Sarah Sherman

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

Sammy is out this week but not to worry - Sarah Sherman (Live + in the Flesh, SNL) is taking up the mantle! Get ready to get goopy nasty!Movie & Guest Intro @ 07:45Trivia @ 18:50Recap starts @ 25:26TrailerFollow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content!Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy.Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy. And you're listening to Too Scary Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those Too Scared to Watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies.

And we're without our Sammy. Our brave one is not with us today. We will soldier on. She's fine. freak out. We're going to make it through as best we can. I miss her. I miss her so much. I miss her already. But hen, other than that, huge gap in this moment and in our hearts, did anything scary happen to you this week? So right before this, literally moments ago, I was giving my children a bath and Silas got out. May was still in. I was bathing her.

Silas was very busy. He was having a great time. I was not paying attention to what he was doing. He was just like chit-chatting to himself, standing on the stool by the sink. I thought he was brushing his teeth. I was not paying attention. I was like focused on May. And then he starts like being like, mom, mom, mom, come here. Mom, come here. Mom, mom.

And I'm ignoring him. He keeps wanting to get my attention. I'm ignoring him. I'm ignoring him. I'm ignoring him. Finally, I turn around. He's like, I want to show you my potion. And he's been making a potion this.

whole time. That's not the interesting thing. The interesting thing is that he found my diva cup. He found my diva cup. Literally, I don't know how he found it. He's busy. We weren't paying any attention. What did you expect him to do? First of all, I have not been using my diva cup because, like, it's kind of like stresses me out. Like it, like, you know, it's like, you don't have to explain why you choose to put anything in your body or don't. I know. I know, but it's like, I want to, but I just have it. I saw an ad the other day for a thing that I hadn't seen before, which was, it's like a tampon applicator, but it shoots a cup. Stop it. And I was like, well, I had the same thought. I didn't get the name of the company,

but we can do some taking. Because I don't understand the geometry of my own body in order to like fit, like in order to like create the space. It's like too complicated. And so anyway, so it's been gathering dust in some corner of a cabinet somewhere. And Silas managed to get his hands on it. It also was like in its bag and he got the bag out. So he also had the bag on his hand. And he like had the bag on his hand and he was holding the diva cup in his other hand. And he was like, what is this? And I was like, hmm, like this could be like a good learning moment for my four-year-old son. Almost five. Am I going to take the plunge and describe what a diva cup is to him right now? And?

And I didn't. I did tell him that it's for my period, which he knows about because he won't, he will not like, He doesn't let you go to the bathroom alone. He doesn't let me go to the bathroom alone. So he has been present for like a lot of things happening in the bathroom. But he wanted to know more. And that's where I drew the line. That's where I drew the line.

I was like, we're not going to, we're not going to get into the specifics. Because personally, I don't even understand the specifics. You know enough to explain it. But I was also. But it's also one of those things that's like kind of really, I feel like when I'm with Silas and May, they do so many, so many crazy fucking things. Like they're doing crazy shit all the time. But I don't remember.

It's like, it's like water over my brain. I don't remember it. And so I honestly almost even forgot. But then right before this, I was like, Tim, like, what's a scary thing that's happened to me? Like, what's a scary thing? And he's like, well, you could just talk about Silas using your Deepa cup to make a fucking potion.

And I was like, potion. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows what was in there? I love that. I've got to boil that thing. I love, too, that you're going to forget things, but it will live forever for public consumption. I worry about that.

Someday, he'll know that this happened. I worry about that. I worry about Salas and May listening to the back catalog of this podcast because I treat it like a hangout with my friends and not something that's going to exist in a historical record. I don't want. Maybe everything will collapse by the time they're old enough to understand and listen. Yeah, let's pray for the downfall of society for that reason.

For you as a parent to have that wish? Okay. What about you? You know, far less. My life is far less eventful than yours because I do not have children. But what I did have today was a little bit of Trader Joe's strawberry sheet cake. Oh, you introduced me to that cake like a decade ago. It's so good.

You might remember a time of my life where I was obsessed with the Trader Joe's vanilla bean sheet cake and would just eat it. with a fork all the way through. I know. It's like $5 for all my fucking cake. Oh, my God. It's so good. And I haven't been to Trader Doze in years because I don't cook. I want to Trader Doze today. Wait, this is crazy. We're like really on the same page right now. Wait, this is crazy. And the parking lot's too hard. So I just don't go there. Ever. And it's also good for me because I've like, I've like severed my tie to the cake. And I'm like, I know I love it, but I'm sort of like, I guess I'll just never have it again. And that's fine. I did recently hear they came out with a coconut version and I have been very.

tempted but I haven't broken the seal. I haven't done it. Co-worker brought the strawberry cake to work today and I cut off just like the most like the tiniest little sliver. I was like, well, I'll try that. I went back to that cake like five times today because it's not even just like, it's like eat cake, who cares? It's this specific whatever they're doing in these cakes. Yeah. I can't. It's like, it's all I've been thinking about all day. I'm. I'm, thinking about it right now. And I think I've awoken something and I don't think I can put it back to sleep. I can't believe you haven't like outkaked that cake yet. There's no outkaking that cake. You've seen so much of that cake. That's what I'm telling you. I have a problem with this specific cake. Like there's, it's like I can't.

I've eaten so much of that cake. I know. I've eaten in one sitting until I've gotten sick and then like gone back the next day. Like it's like I. Okay. Well, that door is open again. It's wide open. The strawberry one is really good. This is like when you rediscovered little Debbie's cakes. And then I got really sick. I know. And there's no way to know if it was the little Debbie cakes or not. But yeah, I don't know. I have a sugar problem.

And the astrologer I worked for at one point told me that I shouldn't have too much sugar. And so every time I get like fixated on sugar, I'm like, well, like spiritually, astrologically, it's bad for me. You can find out about that in the stars. The stars will tell us whether we should have. He told me. He did also say that. Hillary Clinton was going to win.

Also a male astrologer. I kind of suspicious of. Yeah, we have questions. But anyhow, that's it. I have to figure out how to break this habit again. Wish me luck. Good luck. Thank you.

But the other scary thing would happen to me this weekend is that I had to watch this week's movie. I know. Boy, oh boy, much to say. We will be talking about this movie. Let me just tell you what it is. It is brain dead slash dead alive, depending on your hemisphere. It came out in 1992 in New Zealand, 1993 in the United States,

directed by Peter Jackson. Screenplay by Stephen Slinger, Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson, starring Timothy Baum, Diana Pinyoliver, Elizabeth Moody, Elizabeth Brimelcombe, and Ian Watkin. I was only available to stream it on YouTube. It literally didn't exist anywhere else, but it is in full, in several different versions on YouTube. So that's pretty cool.

And I did not choose this movie of my own volition. We are here with a guest this week who has chosen this movie. We are so excited to have the delightful and hilarious Sarah Sherman. Welcome to the pod. Welcome. Thanks for having me. This is my favorite movie. Yay.

If you can believe it, nobody else. has chosen this movie. This is the first time someone brought it up. To me, it's the most famous movie. I love that. I love that. I'm very excited to talk about this movie with you. Before we do, did anything scary happen to you this week?

I don't know if it's scary, but yesterday, I'm in L.A. right now, a place I don't live. And I, not to brag, was getting lunch with friends. I have friends. I have friends in a new city. Yeah, I mean, that's just kind of like my celebrity lifestyle. It's going to go.

And like we're eating lunch at this place and this guy runs in and he's like, Sarah. And he gave me a shirt and his business card and pitched me to be in his movie. Now, this sounds like a brag because it is. And if he by any chance hears this, I want him to know. I literally love him. He's like really important to me. I love everything about him. I love the shirt he gave me. I love the business card. And the movie that he pitched me on sounds amazing. But I was scared for a second. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Yes. It was because I thought, because he had so many things to give me that I was like, how did you? Are you a stalker? Yeah. Did you have it on you? Yeah. I was. Why were you ready? Right.

When did you see me? When did you get the stuff? Was he like a patron of the restaurant? Was he eating lunch in the restaurant? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

And like if he hears this, which he might. He might. Sarah, the likelihood of him hearing this is, I mean, I guess there's a chance. There's not going to say there's no chance. There's a chance. There's a chance. The next time I talk to him, which I will. Oh.

I will. I'm not, I will be talking to him. Okay, great. Popping up in the restaurant was a lot. Yeah, maybe too much. There are means, there are means of contacting you, I would imagine. But there aren't. Oh, well, then he did what he had to do.

Yeah, exactly. That's why I'm kind of like, I don't even fault him. Yeah. Like, how else is he going to get to me? I'm never going to see a DM. Certainly not. Well, this is, this is like the narrative, the myth about how, like, you get discovered, right? Is that you just, like, go up to someone with your,

those chances with your record that you recorded in your bedroom and you say that's certainly something I would have done that if my life I would have done that if my life had gone differently sure but I guess it's like not like because it's like my other answer was like crazy turbulence on the plane that the turbulence is scary by the way something happens to me on a plane where I achieve complete Zen Buddha status I think that's really healthy is it I don't think that's good I think that you should be in full fireflight, like, ready to jetpack out of an airplane any second. And I don't take anything. I just am there and I'm like, whoa, that's kind of should be studied, I guess.

I actually talked about in therapy once and so interesting what I'm about to say. I can't wait. I feel complete Zed on airplanes and at the dentist because I'm forced into submitting to forces greater than myself. Fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, I'm not in control of the situation. I'm not flying the plane. At the dentist's office, I'm in the chair.

There's a thing in my mouth. You can't see it. You don't even know what they're doing. Nope. I don't even want to know. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. You know, at the dentist now, people are so many people are scared of the dentist.

They'll give you... More people are getting scared at the dentist. I think we're just all freaked out about everything. But I feel like fear of the dentist has really like skyrocketed. Nobody wants to do it. Yeah, people are getting gassed up at the dentist. I thought they stopped gassing at the dentist. Oh, did they?

I thought they just started. Whoa, I'll sign me up. I did sign up my last dentist. I was like, give me the laughing gas. And they did. And I was like, more. That's not enough. It's amazing.

Yeah. Do you drive after? Well, this is in New York. So they weren't even asking me that question. But I think you can. I think it's fine. I think you can. Listen to me.

You heard of your. So the turbulence is bad on your plane. Kind of. But I was watching. watching a scary movie on the plane. Scary. Yeah, it's scary. Thriller,

Shutter Island. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That counts. Yeah, that definitely counts. And I know what happens in that movie. I have seen it. I think I've seen it multiple times. Watching it,

knowing what the, like, twist is, sobbing the whole time. Couldn't stop. Why? You cry more on planes. That's a thing. Why is that?

I don't know. I only know that fact, but I have no information to back it up. It's like lack of oxygen. pressure maybe uh i was inconsolable i don't i was like i was sitting next to my boyfriend he was like whoa it's shutter island that's a little cathartic i feel like when you have a good heavy cry on an airplane it kind of feels good because it's not it's like it's water coming out of your eyes as opposed to crying right maybe it's a that thing it's like pressure on the eyes like once it starts it's like it's like

when you're pouring a glass you know and it's like there's only one way it can go because my eyes were just I was like, Shutter Island. I don't know what's telling you. It's just happening to me. Yeah, I get that. So tell us, tell us,

what's your relationship to horror movies? Um, I love them. I think my first movie that I ever loved the most was like Edward Cisorhands. Like,

I don't know if that's like a horror movie. Yeah, it is. Yeah. It's like a creepy movie. It's creepy. They're just like always, I just like fun, pulpy, raunchy,

schlocky ones. I would, was really obsessed with the goosebumps books when I was like a kid. I wish my like foray into horror movies was like more interesting. And then I feel like my whole adult life, I'll just find out about an awesome movie because someone will recommend it to me. And that was brain dead, like maybe like eight years ago. My friend Robbie was like, I was doing all this like comedy stuff where I was like pouring blood all of myself. And he was like, you're doing all. of Stuffin you've never seen Brain Dead?

And I was like, oh, oops. Yeah, I had, I had not heard of this movie because it's not, it's not a world I inhabit as much. But I have seen all of the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings many, many times. Isn't this crazy? It's really a wild discovery.

Okay, now that I know you love Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson is amazing. Before Brain Dead, he did this movie. movie Bad Taste, which is these crazy aliens with big butts come to the planet and chop everyone's head and half and stuff. That's fun. And he made all of these like puppets and practical effects by himself and like used his mom's oven to bake these like giant like clay heads or whatever.

And he didn't do the practical effects for brain dead because they're like, I mean, that's like, if I had to make like a museum for best practical effects of all time, it would be this movie. It's so crazy his career. It's maybe one of the widest genre explorations is, yeah, it's, and this was, so this came on 92, the first Lord of the Rings movie came out in 2001, 2001, I was like, which meant in he was, I don't know, filming it for those that entire time, I don't know, a long time. And I just can't, it's like that gap in time is so fascinating to me. at the point A to point B,

I would never expect that those would be connected in any universe. Also, which studio exec was like, let's get the brain dead guy. I know. That would give me so much hope. I think, like, I'm like in L.A. right now. And I think ever since, like, COVID,

it's like people come to L.A. and they're like, movies are dead. Like, blah. You know, and you, like, all the showbiz, people are freaking out about movies. And then I just, like, think about, like, Peter Jackson, like, making all those own practical effects by himself and then

later a studio exact being like, you know who should direct one of the most giant biggest movie franchises of all time? This weirdo. And so it gives me like faith in humanity. And it's also like, it shows that he has such good taste.

Which is funny because he made bad taste, but it's like, obviously like Lord of the Rings is like so major. But it's like, I think someone like me would forget how fabulous you have to be to direct something like that unless I was a fan of that. Like, of course you have to be fabulous to make Lord of the Rings.

Yeah. And he's like my kind of fabulous. Yeah. Yes, I think it's that like I wouldn't have expected it to be the same brain and the same perspective. But it is like. But then it kind of is. Yeah.

And you would have to be like. Yeah. Yeah. You have to like have a really strong point of view. And you'd have to like know what your vibe is and know what you want to make happen and be able to execute it and it's like this is a really good this this movie is a really good example of him being able to do that yeah and like brain dead and bad taste they are kind of actiony and like brain dead is non-stop action like it's like it never stops the i mean everything is a battle

scene it's not like a or whatever about i don't know hobbit battles team both of those count but it's like it is a battle scene with like a lawn mower he swings the lawn ray or and the baby goes flying into the lightbulk. Like, it's just like all like, it's also like slapstick too. He's so cool. Yeah. So let's, I mean, let's get into this movie. A little bit of trivia.

89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Damn, that's high. That's high. A 54 on Metacritic. Not as high, but there's also very few reviews on Metacritic. So take a little grain of salt. 7.4 on IMDB, which for IMDB is over 100%. Yeah.

A plus plus. Yeah. It had a budget of around $3 million. It made in the U.S. $242,623. That sounds accurate and very specific. But on its initial release in its home turf of New Zealand, yes, this is a New Zealand film. This movie earned more per screen than Batman returns. Period.

Is that what it says when you look up the box office? They're like, we're not going to give you a number. No, that was just that was IMDB trivia, which as we know is, um, rock solid and requires no further backup information. User generated, so who knows? This movie was the bloodiest of all time measured in the amount of fake blood used during production. 80 gallons of fake blood were used in the final scene of the movie alone.

For sure. That record was broken in 2013 with Evil Dead. Evil Dead. Fedé Alvarez's Evil Dead, which had 70,000 gallons of... fake blood, which is fucking insane. Yeah. Crazy that that's the gap, though. It was like the record was 80 galas and then they were like, well, we topped it by going

70,000. It's so fun because I know what it feels like to be covered in fake blood all day and like getting it sprayed in your eyes. And it's not comfortable. No. We literally just talked to Samara weaving about this and ready or not. And she was like covered for the entire film. Oh, yeah.

She's covered in blood all the time. All the time. Yeah. All the time. And it gets like cold. Yeah. you're because you're wet. And I wear contacts. So like if I get sprayed in

the face, it gets like under my contacts and then I get like a red ring around like the contact. And it feels kind of weird. But they make blood that is safe. It's eye safe and mouth safe. They have a lot of kinds of blood. That's cool. Well,

and okay, so my next trivia here, this is probably, it's probably was not true in 1992. Right. Because they said the gore was achieved, this is so gross. The gore was achieved with pork fat. Yeah. Latex, sysole, polyfoam, human hair, and hundreds of gallons of maple syrup. Yeah.

Oh, it's very gross. Who's human hair? Who's human hair? Well, and let me tell you what. This gore looks... This is the grossest movie I've ever seen. The quality and texture of the gore is absolutely disgusting. To me, it's my favorite because it's like candy apple red and pink.

Yes, and like green and slime. That's my favorite scene is the Undertaker scene, which Peter Jackson is in. Is in. Very exciting. So it's like hot pink and hot red and bright green. That's like my favorite kind of slasher is the like candy red. And like a lot of new horror do that like really dark red, which is like more medically accurate and I find that

yeah no fair it's really interesting because the like the violence in this movie is not it's so silly and fun and stylized but like it's not even a horror everything kind of looks like mucus yeah yeah like when her it starts with his zombie mom's

wounds like shooting hot pink pus yeah ew oh pus even the word pus oh my god okay no we have to I told Hanley that I was like this is one of those movies that hearing about it is going to be worse because you're going to picture it like for real and it's so silly. It might help, I think, for you to see the trailer. Okay. To get a visual. Because it's like a, yeah, very stylized. Okay, great. To me, summer dressing is all about ease. When it gets hot, I just want to be wearing

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Because how do you kill something that's already dead. My Mark Picture presents a modern masterpiece of horror. Dead alive. Party's over. Okay, that felt very plot-driven to me. It's like you don't even get like an inkling of what goes on. Yeah. From the trailer.

Yeah, that was And I was really disappointed honestly, the voiceover was not Kiwi. It's like, excuse me. Right. That's what I was looking for. Yeah, mommy, my dog. I kick ass for the Lord.

Awesome scene. Awesome. Damn. Okay. I mean, honey, do you feel ready? I think so. I think so. I have my Vicks Vapel rub right here.

So I'm going to be smelling it if you need to. Sniffing menthol, every like five minutes. That's the second I start feeling like too grossed out. Great. Great. Okay.

We begin on Skull Island, which is where King Kong lives. That is not where the trailer was located. I am confused immediately. We've got a white guy carried a big, big googly glasses carrying a box. Very shoddy-looking crate on his shoulders. He's got his assistant.

They're running. they're like as if they're being chased. They're running through. Canyons, the assistant is telling him, we shouldn't do this, we should leave it behind. Like, this is bad, this is bad.

And the guy's like, now we're doing it, we're doing it. And they are out of the hills, very, um, dune style. Um, people pop up with spears as if to stop them from taking whatever they're taking. This,

a guy is not having it. He pulls up his, Pistol he shoots the air to scare them away, gets his cargo, keeps running. I think we've been told what it is. I can't remember, but I'm going to tell you what it is. It's a Sumatran rat monkey. Of course. Of course.

Very Indiana Jones. Yes. They managed to get onto, they've got like a Jeep warmed up and ready to go. There's some men in the Jeep. And he's like, let's go, let's go. And he jumps in. we're peeling off just in time Spears are being thrown at them

but they get away put in the kerfuffle whatever was in this again very poorly made cage bites the guy the men driving the jeep see this big look of terror in their eyes they stop the jeep the guy comes

goes flying off the jeep they see he was bitten on his hand and they point to it they say a word that I can remember in another language but it's clearly the bite or something bad and they pull up a hatchet and they chop his hand off. And it like takes some work. But it also looks like they're hacking it like a rubber dog toy in the best way.

This is when I was like, oh, I can handle this movie. And then it just like got grosser and grosser. But they chop his hand off. The guy's screaming, oh my God, you know, obviously that'd be awful. And then they see some more red seeping through his shirt on his other arm, point to it. Chop that arm off. Damn. Then to make matters worse, they look at his head.

There's some blood on his head. Oh, you got to chop that off to it. They chop that head off. Opening credits. Wait, is it like played for laughs or not? Yeah, it's silly. Okay. It's very goofy.

And this is when you know, like, always listen to the natives. There's something really bad about this rat monkey in the bite. There's a reason they're protecting it. White people. White people. Why did they want? They just for fun? Just for glory.

For glory. Yeah. We're not told, but we can assume it's for glory. I mean, that's why I do everything I do. Right. We got opening credits, and as the credits rolling, we do see. Well, my favorite company of the moment of that, which is blood splatter drips down to reveal title.

Oh, very good. Very good. Oh, and the reason it was dead alive in New Zealand. No, it was brain dead in New Zealand or the other way. No, it was dead a lot. No, it was brain dead. It was brain in New Zealand. And then when they brought it here, there was like another movie called Brain Dead.

So they had to give it a new title. Yes. That's why there's two titles. It's also awesome. Yeah. Cool. It's also an awesome movie. I'll get to that one next.

As this credits are rolling, though, we do see the box did get loaded onto a plane. I see the plane takes off. And there's money changing here. Yeah. And people are going to be like, ah, no, it's on the plane. And then we, and we arrive in 1950s, Wellington, New Zealand. Cute little town, seeing a train car roll by. Quiet, nice and quiet. We do see a truck roll past with the rat monkey. We are meant to know that it's going to the zoo. They're taking the rat monkey to the zoo. Can we describe what the rat monkey looks like? Well, we haven't seen it. Wow. Thanks for asking. We're going to see it

And I am going to ask Sarah to describe it We haven't gotten there quite yet, though We just know it's bad and it's going to the zoo Okay We meet our heroine, one of our main characters, Piquita. She is working at her family's little like bodega And she sees the butcher comes by

And she gets all excited And she's like wearing an apron And she takes it off to reveal a cute little dress and as he's leaving he like notices and it's like oh that's a nice dress picatia and her like um your accent's pretty good oh thank you so much emily is emily is really good at accents she's she tries to be she tries to be humble about it but she i do work with a lot of australian co-workers and i try to do their accent and they say that it sounds like i'm from new zealand which i'm like i don't know how to i can't differentiate well you like lord of the rings i like lord of the rings and this

because this movie's so silly and everyone's like acting really huge it makes it seem like they're also doing a fake accent, like in my brain. Like I'm, I hear it as them doing what I'm doing, but that's how they. Well, Pekita is doing a crazy voice. Yes. Pekita is, and I do, it's unclear where Pekita is from, but she is doing a different accent entirely, which that one I'm not going to do. But she's flirting with this, this butcher.

He pulls her strap back up on her shoulder. She's all excited. He leaves. jump scare her grandmother is like right up next to her face and it's like you like you like she's really excited they go to the back where the grandmother starts to pull tarot cards be like let's find out if he's the love of your life or if you like have a sugar problem or anything we'll like learn all of that and she's pulling cards and and she says he's not the love of your life but he's really sad she's like but you will meet the love of your life very soon you're going to have

one love he's going to be your love forever you'll know it's him when you see the sign of the star and like one of the cards has like a star symbol on it. Is it going to be the monkey? Is it the monkey? That would be really fun. The monkey is really cute to me. You know, to someone. Sarah, do you have any pets? No, but I guess I was trying to describe my one of my best friends Spike is a dog walker,

hardcore lifelong dog walker. Love that. And dog rescuer and all of the dogs they rescue are like blind and bald. And like missing a jaw and like tongue. Literally. Yeah. They text me that one of their dog's eyes fell out. And they saw like.

See, this is this is one of my fears because I really want a chihuahua someday and I want an applehead, which is one of the kinds that their eyes can can pop out. Because they're not meant to be that way. Wait. So their eyes literally just spontaneously fall out. They can pop out. Wait. In what circumstance? Like on an airplane when the pressures do?

No. on watching Shutter Island. My friend Spike's dog's eye fell out just like on a Tuesday. Whoa, that sounds like a poem. And they were like, they saw something like on the ground. They're like, that's weird. What is that? And then they looked at the dog and it had no why. Oh, the dog was not squealing or making a lot of noise. The dog was just okay with it. No. The dog does look like it's from Resident Evil. See, when it's a dog, I'm like pretty into it. I do like a decrepit, like nasty old dog. Does I just come out like not attached to anything? Isn't it still attached to like? Is it still attached to like all the nerves like what comes out i think by the time it's popping out it's like it's like a loose tooth it's like ready to go it's ready to go yeah it's like a loose tooth i told spike the kind of dog

that i wanted i described it i was like i want a tiny little poodle that has no eyes and no legs oh my god they said so you want a blind ball with curly hair yeah that's what i want that you carry everywhere or how what if they have no legs at all like you have just like you it's like I just want it to be like so compact yeah more than a stuffed animal but less than than other dogs yeah yeah right in between you that be so cute oh my god I'm glad we know that now if anyone knows a dog like that yeah if you know that this dog please my DMs are now open. That is just to say to prepare you for why I thought the monkey was cute.

Yeah, I get that. I get that. I really do. A blind ball. A blind ball. So, yeah, so we're doing this terror reading. And one of the cards comes up and it's something very ominous. And Piquita says, what's that?

I'm like, no, nothing. Don't worry. And like, shuffle the deck and puts it away. The bell rings. Someone's in the shop. So Pekita goes back out. This is Lionel. Who in this trailer, I was like, he kind of looks like Silas.

sorry. I was just about to say that this guy is hot, which meant that I was much to call your child hot. Awesome. I didn't notice anyone hot in the trailer. That's a good sign. That's a good sign. You passed. That's a good sign. That's a mother. And you passed. I passed. I passed it. Good job. Well, he's introduced this dork, this dorky loser. I thought when he walked in, I said, that's a handsome man. He is a handsome man. No, that's a handsome man. He's just a over his head. Oh, he's clumsy. He's knocking over carrots. Yeah, he's knocking things over. She's immediately like, this fucking guy making a mess. And he stumbles over to the counter and

like drops a bunch of stuff on the counter. And it perfectly forms the shape of the star and the moon, meaning that this is the love of her life. And she gets like big, like, like cartoon eyes. And and you've never seen more hard eyes on a person. And he knows. notices as well and gets pretty freaked out and is like what's going on and sort of like backs out. But she, she's just, it's a love of her life and she can't be dissuaded. Everyone's like, this dorky loser and she's like, mm-hmm. This is my guy. Back at home, we see he arrives back home.

He lives in this lovely large old house with his mother, Vera, and she is ordering him around. He has to mow the lawn. He has to dust. He has to clean. nothing's good enough. Mommy problems. Mommy problems. Mommy.

She's controlling. She is not a nice lady. And Pekita comes over to deliver his groceries because he ran out of there before he get them. She comes in with her dog. Her dog runs in the house and up the stairs. And, you know, she starts talking to Lionel. She's, you know, excited to get to know the love of her life.

and she sort of tricks him into asking her on a date. She says, like, this is my dog. Do you like dogs? She's like, yeah, I like animals. And she says, I like animals too. He says something like, like going to the zoo, like the zoo. And she was like, I'd love to go to the zoo, something like that. And he's like, oh, I guess I've asked her on a date.

And the date is set. And we see from the upstairs, we're like pulls the curtain bag and grumbles something. She doesn't like seeing this at all. She thinks her son is hot. She wouldn't pass. I'm nothing like Farah. Nothing like her. But Lionel seems excited.

He was freaked out at first, but now he's like, okay, I'm going on a date. And Piquita's hot, so we're excited. Goes to the zoo. They're having a nice time. They're enjoying all the animals. They see some sort of water animal. And this flashes Lionel to a memory of like a woman. It's like you're seeing her from under the water of her just like blowing out air bubbles,

like drowning, cuts back and he freaks out and Piquita says, what was going on? And he's first date. And he says, I'm sorry. It just reminds me of how when I was a kid, I was out swimming and I started to drown and my dad came in and saved me. But then he drowned. Oh, okay. So now, you know, he's got mummy problems and he has trauma. Yeah. Oh, no. That's key. That's honestly key for a horror movie, though. You need it. 95% of horror movies have some kind of mommy problem going on. And a mysterious memory to unlock. Right, exactly. This isn't quite what we saw, but... Interesting. You saw something interesting. This doesn't make interesting.

Pekita really comforts him. We're back on track. I think we kiss. You know, things are going great. We see, though, Vera followed them there. And she's watching them. through big old binoculars, she is not having it. And you see my favorite kind of shot, which is POV from her point of view, her old lady hand

with old jewelry pushing brush aside to see them kissing on the park bench. Nice. And they go, first they see some regular monkeys, monkeys that we've seen before. Classic, classic monkeys. And they're like, wow, they're so cute. In the cage next to those monkeys is one creature with the late. label Sumatran rat monkey. One of the regular monkeys

sticks his hand near the Sumatran rat monkey cage and the Sumatran rat monkey grabs it, pulls the monkey's arm off and starts to eat its arm like a turkey leg. They just have this

monkey out and about? It's in a cage, but they're I guess, you know, like adjoining cages. Oh, boy. It's not the most secure zoo. Okay, so now do we get a good look at this? We get a good look at this Sumatran rat monkey. That's Sarah's pet.

So basically how I could describe him is that, just so you know, as you can tell it from the trailer, this is a live-action horror movie. But all of a sudden, there are some interesting things that Peter Jackson does with scale and miniatures. Actually, I think the plane in the beginning of the movie is a miniature. Probably, yeah. It's a practical miniature with, like, cottonball clouds. but there's like a claymation miniature puppet deal with this the monkey is like claymation

and it's really awesome and it does look like a mutant rat with big bug eyes much like this applehead chihuahua that you want to longer snout longer snout and a long rat tooth it was a bit long in the tooth yeah and it has these big black eyes that could bug out of its head at any second. And so this is why I often, I struggle calling this a horror movie. Yeah. Because it's like you're, you're not so much afraid of this rat monkey as much as you're kind of loving and this crazy vibe. Yeah. It's like, this movie is like Looney Tunes. It's as much horror as like Looney Tunes is plus just like a lot of gore. Yeah. Yeah. But it is, yeah, it's a full, we've just saw like real animals at the zoo and then it's a full clay rat monkey. It's reminding me also of like evil dead too, like the second evil dead that's like more silly and ridiculous.

It's very evil dead too. Yeah. The tone is very, very silly. Even I mean like he just told Piquita a really traumatic story and she's like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm like, okay, great. I'm with the next. Like we're just, we're floating through this, you know? We're just having fun. I love that. That reminds me though, the movie magic stuff with Peter Jackson. I feel like I went to a display one time that showed like how they, showed made Gandalf look so huge. Like they did like a, there's like a thing you can do. I went to a museum when I was a kid that did that. And I mean, that was like, it's just perspective. It's just perspective. Yeah. Which he uses later in the movie a lot.

See, this is the kind of stuff that the studio execs are looking for. You never know what's going to get to the job. Okay. You got to just do your vision. And you could be the next Peter Jackson. So they see this. rat monkey eat the other monkey's arm and they're pretty upset about it so they turn to leave when vera sneaks up she's been falling them she kind of huddles down near that cage to watch them and that rat monkey

bites her we knew it was coming but she does not take this lying down vera fucking gets up screaming causing a huge scene takes the heel of her and squishes the head of that rat monkey to death. She squeezes and squeezes and heals its head into the ground until its eyes pop out. And blood and slime comes out. Oh. How old do we think that monkey was? 400.

Undead. 500 years old. 500 years. Probably. It lived a long life. And everybody sees and everyone's pretty freaked out. But Lionel, of course, has to rush with it. mother's aide dates over go back home a nurse is called to tend to her when you got a bite mark

on her arm so her arm gets all wrapped up and the nurse is like you should be just fine i'll come check on you to in a few days lionel is tending to her she's all sweet to him now like oh you're the best i love you so much you'll never leave me you just need to stay here and watch me all for the rest of my life and he's like yes you're right i'm so sorry this is my fall doll i'll never leave you overnight night falls we go to sleep piquita comes to visit Lionel and she you know she wants a little like nighttime meet up with him and that's

intercut with he's like accepting having like a little sneaky date with Piquita while we see his mom going through it she's having a really bad night she's getting like really

moist and she's getting some boils she's breathing really heavily um her wound is developing a heartbeat and like, I don't know how they do this, but like it, like a flatters. It's like a silicone. There's like a little balloon pumping. It's very cool. And it's like it's, it's throbbing and it's like wide open. Like it's like the inside of her arm is like coming out.

Oh, sick. And goo is spurting. It's gushing. It's real. It's so. It's so. gross. It's like very silly and fake, but it's disgusting. All the lighting is very, um, sparkly. So, like, all the sheen on the blood and pus gets like a sparkle. Sarah is making it sound really, like, lovely and fun. I know. It's everything. It sounds beautiful. It's scourgous. Is there, is there, is there, is there, is there, what's the vibe with, like, uh, yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, it's weird, it's ominous. You know, this is, ominous score. Things are not well with with Vera. And she's like,

uh, yeah, she's having a real, she's having a really hard time. Um, in the morning, Lionel goes to wake her up. He's in a, he's having a great,

he's in a great. He's, has a new crush. Everything's great. Kind of boned last night. Yeah. Basically. Damn.

Mommy's boy. Maybe for the first time. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty exciting for him. Um, so he is just walking, walking on sunshine and he opens up the blind and he turns to her and she looks

so bad. Like her skin has turned the consistency of like like it's as if she's covered in like hair gel. Like that's like the kind of moisture on her skin. She might literally be covered in hair gel. She's swampy. She's really swampy

and like moaning and he's like I'm going to call the nurse and she's like no, no, no, you can take care of me. Well she doesn't want the nurse to come because she wants to get into a fancy club. Yeah. The Wellington What is it? Hold on. I have this. The Wellington Ladies' Welfare League is coming to, yeah, I guess interview her and see if she can make it into the club.

So she's like, everything's fine. We're having our lunch. Like, never, everything's fine. Doorbell rings. Lionel's like, oh my God, oh my God. Gets ready to get lunch happening. Cut to them sitting at this lunch table. Vera looks like the last person on planet Earth you'd want to sit at a table with.

Lionel's trying to keep the conversation going. Husband of the welfare lady is oblivious. he's just enjoying the food. But the woman is like really freaked out by beer. Beer like, she's asking Vera questions and she's like, can't really answer. She can't really talk. She's like really on death store. Lionel brings out some custard, a gorgeous, delicious custard dessert for everyone.

Really what liquidy looking custard that like moves a lot in the bowl. Yeah. Like pudding mixture that has like way too much water in it. Ew. Ew. And they sit down to eat it and this hot. this guy's like, I love custard. I'm so excited. And her wound

spurts pinky red goo into his custard bowl. It is white custard. Oh, my God. He doesn't notice. He dips his spoon in and takes a big spoonful. Oh, God. Now it's going to start. It's nasty. It's nasty. It's nasty. Then her ear

falls off into her white custard bowl. and she's so blackout from like the zombie zaza that she takes a spoonful of her custard and eats her own ear. It's her own ear. Never been done before. The ear falling off is really fun. It just like kind of like slides off her face into the... And it has the pearl earring in it. Has a pearl earring in it, which I was like, I was worried she was going to like crack all her teeth. I was really scared. But she just chooses her ear and she just like spits the little earring out.

self-cannibalization. I feel like that's not something we see a lot. Kind of the least of the problems that happen in the movie. Yeah, okay. Great. Great. What comes next? Well,

what comes next is Pahita comes over. She wants to see her guy and, you know, check in on beer. She comes out. She brings her dog again. Once again, her dog just, like, runs in the house and runs up the stairs. And she and line will have, like, a little moment.

How's your mom doing? They're like, you know, flirting. Then it's time for Piquita to go, and she's calling her dog. Dog's not coming. Go upstairs to Vera's room. To... Oh, no. Wait, Sarah, you describe it.

Wow. Beer doesn't look so good. And I'm sorry. What's that sticking out of her mouth? Is that some fur? And a tail? He pulls, like, a long... 85% digested

wet dog carcass rope out of the mom's rubber head and then Pequita goes your mom made my dog and that's about as much like emotional processing as we ever have

also the bed sheets are like covered in guts zombie and it's been like five minutes and it's been like five minutes. Like she really, really did a number on this dog really fast. Oh, yeah. She goes, wait, my dog. And then he sees all the dog guts on the bed and he's like, well, not all of it. Okay. And so they decide, you know, we should call the nurse back. This is an illness that we need some help with. So the nurse comes back over. Somehow, do you recall Sarah how they end up toppling down the stairs? is he like carrying his mom or something?

They end up at the foot of the stairs with... They do a big tumble. Yeah. Down all the stairs. And the nurse comes and checks on her and, you know, determines it she's dead. But before that happens, actually, she had said, we need to call the ambulance.

She tells Lionel, this is, you know, this is above my paygruby, we need to call an ambulance. Piquita's like, great, I'm going to go pack her an overnight bag. Like, I'm going to be helpful. So Piquita goes away, but then the nurse, checks her pulse. She's dead. Very sad.

Lion was upset. She is telling him, I'm so sorry. Mummy's boy has lost his mummy. Yeah, it's awful. When Vera pops up behind the nurse, she puts her hands through her face,

skin. Under the skin. Under the skin. Yeah. And then rips, the head back. Through the skin to get a good grip, pulls it back so it comes off the shoulders, but it's still hanging on a little bit. Still hanging on by like, I guess the spine. A vertebrae. A recurring theme. Yeah.

Through the skin. Through the skin. In and back out. Okay. It's a really cool effect. Yeah. Lionel sees this, you know, so he knows things are not right here. But meanwhile, Pekita's packing the bag. He's trying to cover it up. Oh, gosh, oh gosh. I don't want to be embarrassed in front of my new girlfriend. I have to pretend none of this happened. This is so embarrassing. My mom died and came back to life. I can't let my girlfriend know this is happening. I'm going to tell her she's going to the hospital. Yeah. And she's sick. She's sick. She went to the hospital. Piquita's like asking, calling down like, what's, which toothbrush is hers? Meanwhile, both these zombies now are like attacking Lionel trying to turn him into a zombie. He's trying to wrestle with him. It's, it's

very like slap sticky, like zombie on zombie and he manages to get both of them in the basement, shuts the door, locks it. Fouf, Piquita comes down and says, where's your mom? And he says,

oh, she already went to the hospital. Everything's fine. Wow. Okay. Lionel then decides what he needs are some sedatives that that will solve the problem. If he goes to a really weird guy, I don't know how he knows,

who this guy is. He's a vet. Oh, he must be. Yeah, he goes to the vet to get sedatives. Which, in that case, reasonable. This guy, though, I would not take my animals to this guy. He's, like, drooling, but then, like, slurps it back up and is, like, Lionel says, do you have any sedatives?

He's like, no, I don't have any sedatives. But he goes, tranquilizers, though. And Lion's, like, great, perfect. he gets a big, big jar that just says tranquilizer on it, takes it home. Meanwhile, Piquita's grandmother does another terror reading, but she's pulling card after card after card that's like death, destruction, evil, peril, doom. And it's just like, oh, God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God. So Lionel arrives to see Piquita, now that he's got his tranquilizers,

and the grandmother gives him an amulet. And she's like, you're going to need this. He takes it. Oh, I think no, sorry. I missed that he did tranquilize them before he goes to see Piquita. And he chooses to do this by, it's the biggest unit you ever saw.

And he sticks it in the nurse's eye. And then in his mother's nose. And up his mother's nose. You could do it anywhere. You know, I would be a lot, arm, leg, but he went eyeball, nostril. Deeply respectful, straight to the brain. Straight to the brain.

Well, exactly. Exactly. That's what you'd want. So they're a tranked. He's feeling good. He goes to see Piquita. he gets the amulet. Somehow, Vera has,

she wasn't tranked enough, I guess. She's gotten out. She's followed him to the 7-Eleven, even in zombie form. She's like, I got to come after my boy. But she's moving slow. She's zombie. And she gets hit by the like street car

and goes flying right onto the floor of the bodega. And now she's dead. Oh, okay. Jesus Christ. Publicly. Publicly dead. Because everyone saw her dead.

Yeah. It was a big, huge thing. It's hard to cover something like that up. She does look like an insane zombie and not just a regular lady, but we're all just going to take it as plausible. Our crash victim. Exactly. What are some, like, rules around the zombies here, just in terms of like...

I think if you get bit, you become one. Okay. And they're like... there's like and they're like nasty they turn like into like swamp creatures I mean I guess all zombies are nasty

but they're like Are they hungry? They're just really nasty I guess they're hung they want to make other zombies Isn't that what all zombies want? They want to bite and they want to punch through people's heads

and like rip their eyes out and just rip and punch Yeah they like love it They do seem to like derive yeah joy from really interesting ways of just like killing people. Sarah, when you're watching this movie, when you watched it for the first time,

what was like, what was like the facial expression you had on your face? Like, you're just like shocked and smiling and happy. Like, kid at Disneyland? Because it's like, it's as if there's like 80, there's legit, it's the densest path. It's even more densely packed with like crazy violence gags

than like any evil dead movies. It's constant. It's constant. And it's like, there's basically 400 million mortal combat fatalities. And they get more creative and intense the longer it goes. Like everything, every fatality has like a crazy kill with like a creative joke after it. That you're like, did not see that coming. Shocked.

You're like, well, like later in the movie when someone gets cut in half, it's like, you better believe those legs are running around. Oh, that's fine. You know, he really uses the whole buffalo. Yeah. Yeah. He just the whole buffalo. It really does. Yeah. But so now we have a funeral because she's dead, for real, publicly.

So cut to the funeral. We see Father Magruder. They're waiting for the funeral to start, but Lionel's not here. What the heck? Where's this guy? We do see Vera's nasty brother has shown up. His name is Les and he's like smoking a big cigar and he's being disgusting. And he like,

sees Piquita across the way and is like, who's that hot little thing? He's just like nasty and we hate him. But we see that Lionel is trying to sneak in to give his mom's corpse more tranquilizers because he knows she's not actually dead and she's going to pop back up and be a zombie. I think you should describe the visuals of this next scene. So in the coroner's office, she is explained. floating with green slime, the most beautiful green you've ever seen in your entire life. And her eyes pop out. And there's like what seemingly looks like the corner has left his lunch

and salad on her stomach. Oh, God, corners. Pads of freaks. They are acting like, this is not what they want. They're like, oh, something's going wrong. But not like she's a zombie. Just like, oh, we messed up the embalming. They're just like another day in the office. What do you do? Yeah. So they pop her eyes back in like that. They're like, it's just going to have to be a closed casket. Now that we can do, just shove her in there. Let's make quick work of it. They're like, this corpse isn't behaving.

It's one of those days. It's exploding like the fountain at the Glendale Gallery. Yeah, from every, every hole. And some new holes and it's just geysers. Geysers a goo. Lionel does then manage to get to her casket. And he's trying to sneak in there. He gave her the tranquilizer.

Meanwhile, the funeral has begun. We're intercutting between Lionel trying to get into this casket without anybody noticing and Father Magruder giving a sermon about motherhood and what an important figure mothers are. And Vera reanimates. She starts attacking Lionel, trying to zomify him. They're fighting. They're fighting. The funeral's happening. When she lunges up, tackles him, pushes him through the church glass window onto the stage.

they're out there in front of everybody. He manages sneakly to plunge the needle back up her nose. This is so embarrassing, Mom. This is so embarrassing. His favorite place. And then he has to just like hug her and act like he's just like so grief-stricken that he was just hugging her corpse. Cut to the graveyard and we overhear people being like, oh, it's so sad.

He just really loved his mom so much. And we overhear them, we and less overhear them saying how he's the sole air of all of all that. money, which less really wants. We cut to that night. Oh, we're lying last and now sneak into the graveyard. This is not a great long-term plan. I don't know what he's really thinking is going to, every few hours the rest of his life, he's going to keep doing this.

I don't know. But he's sneaking into the graveyard to try to give her a more tranquilizer. The grave is like, it's just like, if you just a freshly potted plant where it's just like some loose soil over an obvious mound. where you could just dig that body right up. And so he's going to do just that when he's stopped by a band of greasers who are,

I guess they're just kind of hanging out at the graveyard, but also sort of defending it. They're there to make fun of anyone who's in the graveyard. Just has like a hobby. Oh, anyone mourning? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Morning is so lame. It's really lame. They are immediately making fun of him. And also like, are you trying to dig up a body that's really fucked up? They start bullying him.

And the main greaser. Wait, what? Okay. Sorry, what is a greaser? Like, what is that? Just like the guys from the movie grease. Okay. Leather jackets. Leather jackets. That kind of like hair.

Switch blade. It's the 50s, man. Okay. Okay. Sorry. You're right. You know? John Travolta.

It's John Travolta. John Travolta. Not John Travolta in a beret. In a leather jacket and the movie grease. Got it. In my mind's eye. But the main greaser starts pissing, literally pissing on Vera's grave. And he's really dehydrated.

The pee's really dark yellow. Oh, my God. Drink some water, man. Well, you know, he's not going to have to because just then, Vera's hand pops up. We don't see what she's grabbing, but we know she's grabbing his penis. Oh, Vera. He's screaming.

The other greasers were like, what the fuck is happening? He gets pulled down onto her. grave site. And again, we don't see what's happening, but the shot looks like they're fucking. Like the way that his body is moving, it looks like she's fucking him.

Oh boy. She's also like eating his whole stomach. It looks like, it's like a bird's eye view of him lying down on top of her fresh grave and it looks like his dick got stuck in a trash compactor. And it's just like spraying blood upwards from underneath him and he's like

vibrating and then he rolls off the grave and he has no flesh on the front of him. Is he still alive or is he a zombie now? Well, he's dead alive now. Dead alive. Oof, that's a tough way to go. One of the rules, hen, I do think is that like pretty much instantly you're like, oh, I'm a zombie now. And you're like up and ready to go.

And you're like, ah. Yeah. So he's like, he's a zombie now. Okay. He starts getting on the other greasers turning them into zombies. Vera is now up and about turning every, all of a sudden all the greasers are zombies. It's not looking good for Lionel. When just then, Father Magruder, who also was hanging out at the graveyard at night,

pops up. He's fucking psyched and ready to fight these guys. He says, I'll kick ass for the Lord. And does crazy, basically, like, Blackfelt, Taekwondo, karate on. He's like John wicking these guys. Is he winning? Is he beating them? Big time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's winning. Like, these guys cannot get him. In fact, he, like, full on killing. these zombies like they're not even they don't even become like dead alive anymore except he like decapitates he's like kicking him fling him around and he's like again like he's trade his whole life for this like he like could not be more excited this is like really hot this is the hottest thing I've ever heard in my life he's hot he has a really good head of hair he does a really good head of hair

he was giving a eulogy earlier about the beauty of motherhood and now he's taking out all these zombies there it's important for you to know that Henley's husband is a priest yeah and that's actually true. Wow. Okay, well, this movie's not allowed in your family home. No, all movies are allowed in my family home. He's not, he's a cool priest. He's a cool priest. This movie's against God. Well, Father McGuhr is fighting in the name of God against the zombies and he damn near succeeds when he decapitates one of the greasers and he's like, hell yeah, I did it. When that head comes flying back around, lands right on his neck. chomps through his throat and he becomes a zombie and then the legs of another kick him somehow he flies through the air and you see the finger of a statue of a saint mother mary the saints are the statues are

always pointing one finger up they're always like hey i'm a saint you see the clock the finger go right through his abdomen and he's Jesus. He's dead like that. On the cross. On the cross of the St. Spinger. Wow, that's fucking cool. Cut to once again, Lionel,

I got a lot of questions. He has brought all of them home. So now we have we have Father Magruder, we have one of the greasers. We have the nurse and we have Vera and he has sat them all down at the dining room table. They're like semi-tranked. Well, they're kind of, they're semi-tranked.

but they're like still a little bit. They're like awake but sort of heavily sedated. And he's making them eggs. Oh, wow. That's so sweet of him. He really wants to make sure that they're all okay. Yeah. And these eggs look like really wet.

They're like really wet nasty eggs. I mean, they don't have to be wet. And he sits them to all down. He puts eggs down in front of all of them so they can eat up. And it's so gross. Him. It's so nasty what they do with these eggs. eggs. My favorite, the nurse is eating the eggs, but of course, because if you remember, Vera put her

fingers through her face and broke her neck back, the eggs obviously come down through her throat hole. It goes without saying. And then Lionel decides, well, he needs to help feed her and he scoops the eggs back into her throat hole. Ew. Wait, so she puts them in her mouth, they come out the throat hole. Then Lionel's putting them back into the throat hole. And then he scoops them and and then pours them back down. Yeah. And one of the greaser zombies is just trying to eat his eggs with his hands

and Lionel says, excuse me, use your spoon. And so he picks his spoon up and he shoves it in his mouth and it goes out the back of his head because they're all like made of jelly now. And he's like, and he's got the spoon stuck

and coming out the back of his head and Lionel's like, oh my God, these guys, it's just one thing after another. We see under the table, the priest and the nurse are really horny for each other. They're like putting hands on thighs pretty excited. So these zombies have other desires aside from just

making other zombies. Although I guess in another manner of speaking. And we're having this freaking breakfast scene when ring on the doorbell. Uncle Les is here. Lionel shuts the door on the dining room. Less comes in. We know he's trying to get that inheritance, but he's pretending to ask, you know, how you doing? And you know, It's so, so sad. Lionel's freaking out. Like, everything's fine.

Everything's fine. You should go home. Kind of bracing the door shut. Les's like, what's going on in there? When we start to hear some moaning, that sounds, you know, a little inhuman. Their sex sounds from hell. And Lesz says, oh, you must be watching your father's porno tapes.

And Lionel's like, that's exactly what's going on in that room. But you know that's not what's going on. What's going on is that the priest zombie is, fucking the nurse zombie Yeah On the kitchen table Yeah And Les says

Is that the one With the donkey? Oh Oh about his dad's porn His dad had a porn Involving a donkey And Les knows about it Right

And Les knows about it That's the interesting part So Les is sort of like Well I'll leave you to that Sounds like you've got a lot Going on And leaves Lionel runs back into the room

To discover Yes they have indeed been fucking breaks him up, puts them all back down in the basement. Now he's tranked them all again and he leaves. But as he leaves, we see the nurse is getting pregnant real fast. Oh my God. So these zombies can make zombie babies? And guess what?

There's going to be a zombie baby. You know I think it's cute. Oh, my God. It's cute in the same way the rat monkey is. Yeah. Exactly. What does a zombie baby look like? Well, thanks for asking.

Basically what pops out of this woman is the cutest baby you've ever seen. Oh, okay. So just picture that. Yeah. Okay. Picture just the cutest baby you've ever seen. You guys do the insert picture here. Yeah, we'll do that. We'll do that.

Yeah, it's the cutest cherubic baby you've ever seen. And that baby pops right out of her. So fast. And I'm a little kind of what goes into, dad mode and he puts that baby in a stroller and goes I'm going to take this to the park but the stroller

obviously has to have a barbed wire great to keep the baby in Lionel is look immediately he's not in the best state of mine and this is one really interesting where Gandalf's the Gandalf scale trickery comes into

play so now he's taking this baby to the park obviously goes about saying demon baby escapes the stroll or in chaos ensues all over the park. And there's a lot of people in the park and children in the park. And in order to make it look like there's like a real baby running around, it seems like there are some shots where there's a little puppet baby running around,

like loose in the field. But then for scale, you'll see like forced perspective, what's clearly like a person wearing a baby suit with giant puppet. human legs that are giant to make the person look small. Like it's like weird camera tricks like that. Yes. That must be what they did for Gandalf. Well, there is a shot.

I've seen this movie so many times. At the beginning when Gandalf first appears and Frodo like jumps to give him a hug, you're looking at Elijah Wood, but then when it's, you're behind his head, it's a, it's a young, young child. It's a tiny child jumping into Gandalf's. arms. Anytime you're getting like a behind from behind shot of the hobbits, it's young children, which is so, that's a toddler. That's a toddler. So funny. Toddlers in little hobbit outfits. That is, there must be like a kid in that baby suit running around. Probably, right?

I want a frame by frame dissection of this, of this scene from Peter Jackson. Oh my gosh. Is there a director's commentary version? Well, he does. There's amazing like clown work happening because the comedy of the scene is that these like mothers who are at the park with their children see this guy with this baby that he's like trying he's trying to control a demon baby. He's like beating the shit out of it. Yeah. But they're like, that's child abuse. Someone called the cops.

But he's doing like clown work where he has to be like, he has to make it look like he's being attacked by a little baby doll. So he's like running around the baby doll like and like punching it. And like throwing it again. He at one point, like, pulls the swing backs, but, like, swings into the baby's head, like, knocking it out. That was probably an insane workout, fake fighting that little baby puppet doll. And he bags the baby, and then he just has a bag that he has to act with to make it look like the bag is attacking him. Okay, this is going to sound not true, but it is true.

Recently, I've been kind of doing this with May. May is really strong. You've been bagging her? No, not packing her. But she's, she, so this is my two and a half year old. And she loves the idea of pretending to be a baby. She is a baby, but she wants to pretend to be like, she wants to be like a dragon baby or like a, or like a monster baby. Or like, she like loves the idea of being like a baby that's like of a different species, basically.

I get that. That Ben is attacking me. And she thinks it's so funny because she's a baby, but she's a dragon. And she's like, she can do it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she like pretends to cry and I have to take care of her. then she'll like roar and like attack me and then I have to pretend like she's like a dragon baby attacking me. So honestly like I'm kind of doing this all the time.

Yeah. May would love this. She's going to be such an interesting person. I really can't wait. I know. She is stronger than I'll ever be. She's really strong. She would love this.

You should watch this scene then. See if I'm sure she wouldn't be disturbed by it at all. No, this scene is just like very silly funny. I wonder how. How old do you think you have to be to see this movie? Maybe like 32. Probably exactly 32. Yeah, exactly.

That sounds right. That sounds right. Lionel does end up walking past the bodega and tries to hide from Piquita. She accost him is like, you're ignoring me and he breaks up with her. Or she is like, are you trying to break up with me? And he doesn't say anything. He's trying to protect her, obviously, but she doesn't know that. And so she very sadly walks away.

He, Lionel immediately is like, goes to change his mind. Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. The butcher sees. thinks he's accosting Piquita. The butcher punches Lionel in the face and puts his arm around Piquita and they walk off together. The butcher? Yeah.

God damn. Lionel returns back home with the baby in the bag, but guess what? Les came over while he was gone, looked in the basement, saw all the corpses, thought that they were corpses, not zombies because they're tranked. So now Les is blackmailing him,

being like, I'm not going to tell anybody that you committed a murder, a bunch of murders, you're going to give me the house and all of your inheritance. And Lionel has to do it. Wow. So Les decides to throw a big party in celebration. He invites everybody over. People just immediately start pouring in, ready to go. We've got drinks.

We've got music. The house is jam-packed. Lionel's dressing out. Tending to these partygoers, we see Bakita walk by on a date with the butcher. She sees there's a big party happening in Lionel's house. leaves her date to go in there and see what the heck is up. This guy just broke up with her and now he's having a big party. Somehow she's in there.

She's looking for Lionel. She finds herself in the basement and sees all the zombies. And she's like, why didn't you tell me? My mom or grandma said that you were surrounded by death. Obviously, you've got to like get rid of these zombies once and for all. Like, this is totally understandable. Why don't you tell me about the zombies earlier? you basically have to vanquish your undead mother.

And he's like, oh, my God, I literally can't. And she goes, okay, fine, I'll do it. They inject the mother up at the nose again and all the zombies with what they think is poison, a reveal on the back of the poison bottle. It says, animal stimulant. No. Yeah. No.

So that obviously turns them into cracked out meth head, super zombies who look like they've chugged a lot of Celsius. Yeah. So there's a little brief, they like poison them, poison them and bury them. And they're like, that's done all good. They have an emotional moment. The only emotional moment of the movie is, like, processing. He just killed his mom. They go back upstairs.

Time to join the party. And then we see pink, green, crazy light, smoke. And one by one, the zombies shoot out of the mountains of dirt, like supercharged, ready to go. As seen in the trailer, of course. A scene of the trailer, of course. And would you know it? We've got a house full of people. About to be a house full of zombies.

Truly. Well, yeah. You basically hit the nail on the head. Some of the fatalities that occur are, it's some of the most cinematic slapstick comic book violence you've ever seen in your life. Yeah. It's, from here on out, it is just nonstop. Gore. A murderous second.

It's, it's a pure horror fest. It's impossible to recall the precise order in which all these things happen. It's a 70 gallons of blood situation. Sarah, can you recall some of your... I'll say all my favorite ones. Okay. Okay. Say all your favorite kills. Okay.

I love the legs. I love half a face guy. Then we get a guy who's severed from like the teeth up. I love, um, oh, well, she befriends one of the party go. Piquita befriends one of the partygoers. And she's like one of the last alive ones. the baby, the demon baby, crawls up her and that

explodes out from inside of her face. We have a really good baby coming through her face and she has like cool 50s glasses and the glasses go like and a half. And so then it's like two halves of a face and the baby face in the middle and it's like walk. She's like walking around with like

baby face in between her face and the light bulb one is so cool. It's awesome. And like a woman's head gets like shoved over like an exposed light bulb. blight. Yes. And then she becomes a lamp. There must be a version of that lamp that exists. Oh,

totally. You get something that's in the trailer is like a woman going like this with clearly fake hands. And what happens the moment after that is a zombie punches through her back of her head and through her mouth. Of course. There's so many good ones I'm like definitely and there's so much gore

that like I forget which zombie turns. I mean it's like rib cages, cracking over. open, like, heads, like, pulled through the end trails coming through the neck hole. Yeah, a lot of, like, intestines. One of the zombies gets, he's trying to get into a room and, like, crashes through the door. And then the shards on the door. Yeah.

Keep his bottom half in place while his top half, like, crawl through. So he gets, like, split hamburger style into the room. And then his intestines also are animated on their own and become, like, a little guy that's trying to kill people. The intestines at one point look at themselves in the mirror and get like, they like really like what they see. Like that's just like a little sweet. The intestines are cute.

They become the sentient zombie intestine that's like heart head with kind of gorgeous long wings, butterfly wings with his long entrails. And these like animated entrails like chase Lionel through the house into the attic and like catch him by like winding all the way around his leg. And it's important to know he goes with Atlanta goes in the attic and he finds some photos of his dad and that blonde woman we saw in being drowned. Oh. Flashes back to the real memory of Vera drowning his dad and mistress in front of him.

Whoa, that's dark. That's really dark. We haven't seen Vera yet, by the way, but we have. seen a big nasty claw at one point goes over to less he looks he says oh hey Vera and she spine rips him separates his spine from his body but then his

spine and head are like floating around like a little snake at the top of his body it's getting out of hand there's too many zombies it looks bad when Lionel comes in very astrome evil dead vibes with the lawnmower like tied around

his neck so he can wield it And he says, let's party. Yeah. This is where we got our 80 gallons of blood. Basically, he moves through the giant party of zombie, all zombie people. Oh, my favorite gag. At one point, he tries to, like, run away from the zombies. Oh, it's so good.

And he realized he's not going anywhere. And he looks down and sees his feet are just treading on a puddle of blood, and he can't run away. That's actually really funny. It's awesome. And so this is, like, this big, like, climax. He just, like, mows through. the entire party of zombies with like lawnmower forward and turns everyone into pink slush. Nice.

It's, it works. It's really effective. He gets them all. He just meanwhile in the kitchen like blending, blending people up. Any last bits? And this is one of my favorite effects are when you get severed half a head guy in a like food processor. And you can see the moments where it's like, first they're shooting with like a real actor whose head is inside like a blender

and he's going like, no, please no. And then you see like practical blood spray and then you see like the actor clearly like lowering himself to look like ground up. That's my favorite. When you like cut back and forth between like prosthetic and dummy heads

and like a live actor and then it looks really crazy. Yeah. It is a great achievement this final showdown. And then all the zombies are dead and we're like, great, we did it when Lionel says,

we haven't seen mum and the house is on fire now too because I don't know because light bulb lady light bulb lady so the house is on fire so Lionel and Piquita have to go up to the roof to escape when out

from the house on top of the roof emerges Vera and what does what's she looking like? Yeah this is the monstrous mother so she got big old cities she's got a crazy fucking head She's 100 feet tall.

She weighs 9 million pounds. She got big tities, a big butt, and a big stomach. A really big butt. Yep. Her nails are like long, curly nasty claws. And she's like, come from up. And she grabs Lionel, opens up her stomach like a clam shell, grabs him, puts him inside her stomach and closes it back up. And says it's time to return to the womb, basically.

Piquita's crying. Oh, no, oh my God. Vera's coming over to shook. She's hanging on by the edge of the roof. Now she's getting pushed off, about to get push off the roof. Vera's getting ready to push her up. She calls her a whore. She can talk now. And she calls Piquita whore. And she goes to push her off the roof. When blood starts spurning out of her, her pole inside comes spilling out onto the roof, along with a big lump of something. And that lump of something is Lionel. He's been reborn.

He's been reborn. You did his Saturn return. Fuck, yeah. He's got his Saturn return. He's 27 years old. It's going to be huge for him. And he cut himself out of his mother with the amulet that Pekita's grandmother gave him. Beer is dead.

They zip line off the roof, essentially, on the, like, clothing line together, Piquita and Lionel. So romantic. It's so romantic. They're going to be really good parents, you guys. They're going to be such good parents. totally yeah this is like the kind of shit you need to go through in order to be a good time you need to be ready for anything well if you've gone through childbirth i don't know how maybe you wouldn't be grossed out by any of this no this is like so similar yeah you would have found this all very benign i think probably um and they

they arrive down safely on the ground firefighters are arriving the whole house it's all it's gone they kiss they're absolutely like drinking in other zombie guts by doing this kiss but they're in love it doesn't matter by doing this kiss and Lionel

picks up the amulet tosses it to the side doesn't need it anymore puts his arm around Piquita and they walk off to a beautiful future and that's the end of the movie wow this is like a heartwarming

story it really is yeah about like overcoming And overcoming odds. And overcoming the crazy bitch mom. Yeah. No. Yeah.

I know. She was a huge bitch. Yeah. She was. Now he can live his life. And it's really nice. You know what? It's also really timely that we're doing this movie because this is reminding me of like a pre.

So we just covered obsession and backrooms. And those are two like directors who got their start on YouTube making like super low budget horror movies. but like you need to be so creative and come up with so many like never before thought of ideas in order to pull that shit off and this is like Peter Jackson doing that. You know what I mean?

This is just like the 1992 version of that. And it's just, you know, it's just like horror, you know? It's just so much, it's so exciting. There's so much to explore. There's so much to explore. It really feels like he's having so much fun with this movie. And that makes it really fun to watch because it's just like, it's someone just doing

exactly what they want to do, which is like the most fun thing to get to see. Yeah. And imagine reading the script, no dialogue whatsoever. Oh, yeah. And just like, and he ripped his head up, then he gets shoved into an oven, then the oven explodes.

I actually would love to see what this screenplay. It's all action sequences. Sure. Yeah. Like then Uncle Pervert shoves a garden gnome in a severed neck hole and the zombies watching the ground. It's like,

I wonder who read the script and was like, I'll give you $3 million. And probably in that time, probably that's what, like 10 million? Yeah, that's actually, you're right. That's actually, it was a lot of money. Yeah. It was a lot of money.

And you see it on the screen. It all, they use, they use every bit of the buffalo. They really do. If they're going to cut a body in half, they're going to use the inside. They're going to use the head. They're going to use your legs. We're going to make it all worth while. You see someone getting decapitated.

Then you follow the journey of the severed head into the trash compactor spinning around until it turns into pink mist. I mean, he's thought of everything. He's not of everything. That man's going to go on to do great things. Huge things. Huge things. Sarah, thank you so much for introducing this movie to us.

Seriously. We'd never heard of it. And now we know. And now we know. It's an important part of the canon. I'm glad I could be spreading the gospel. Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you for that. Thank you. Do you have anything, Sarah, to plug? Well, if you like, even if you like, minute of what you saw in Brain Dead Dead Alive. You might like my special Sarah's Grum Live in the flesh on HBO Max, which was heavily inspired by that movie. Yeah. Amazing. I feel like I'd already seen this movie because I've seen your special, which was amazing. And like the set, I feel like in and of itself is this movie, maybe, potentially. There are some

crossover visuals, I would say. I would say I use maybe four and a half cups of blood. Not 70 gallons. For a person that might be about For a stand-up special. Has anyone used more? That's probably true. You're breaking records. That's probably true.

And we do cover quite a bit of the audience. There is a splash zone getting soaked. That's probably more than it's ever happened. Yeah. Yeah. We don't fact check and we won't fact check, but we're going to say it right here that it's a record.

And don't look at IMB trivia, I bet. There is none. Don't. Don't. Thank you so much, Sarah. What a delight. I'm going to close us out with a perfect, a pitch perfect Kiwi accent. Oh. And say from all of us here at Too Scary Didn't Watch, goodbye. Goodbye. Good boy. Cool.

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