Too Scary; Didn't Watch - GOOD BOY

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

Movie & Guest Intro @ 18:53Trivia @ 20:45Recap starts @ 30:00 See 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 I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies and so I watch them so that you don't have to and we have a good episode today

I decided that it is good she's so confident I believe her and if you want to get straight to it there's timestamps in the show notes because first we have a little bit of haunted housekeeping to do, and that is once again to remind you that on our Patreon, we have a couple seasons of TVSDW. We recapped Alien Earth. We're now recapping HBO presents Stephen King's It Welcome to Dairy. Season one of season three. Season one of season three,

comma, there will be three. And there's lots of other good stuff on there, too, like ad-free and trailer reactions and, you know, just trust me. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes just some like little chats and stuff, I don't know, just kind of like, just throw stuff out there sometimes. Bonus episodes. Yeah. Yeah.

So check that out. And also we have a fun virtual live show coming up this month, December 22nd at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern. We are going to be recapping a Christmas movie of some sort TBD. We'll let you know what we decide on. But we're going to be joined by close friend and correspondent Paul F. Tompkins. So yeah, you're going to be there for that too. Yeah, you're going to want to be there. So we will update with more info on that so everybody can watch the movie ahead of time and know where to find the video link and all of that good stuff. So follow us on Instagram or Patreon or, you know, we'll put, we'll be posting.

We'll be posting. So. And that's all the haunted housekeeping for today. So now I would like to know if anything scary happened to us this week. Well, this is the double record day. So by the time this episode comes out, it'll be, I can't do math, but it'll be like 10 days from now. So if you're listening in real time, 10 days ago, thank you for your honesty. So we recorded an episode this morning, took a little quick break, came back, and I could have used that time to, like, stand, move, go outside, didn't.

I spent it trying to buy Christmas gifts because the scary thing that's happening to me, is, I, it's, you know, as I speak this, it's like 18 days until Christmas. Is that true? Mm-hmm. Guess who's bought zero gifts? Like, all of a sudden, I'm like, what the fuck? What the fuck? I have to, what, what, what am I to do? I'm with you, Emily, if that makes you feel better. I also. How did it, how did we get here? How do we get here? It's been a really busy couple weeks and I can't just, I need to like truly, truly. focus for hours. Yes. It's like I need to like I need to be inspired and I haven't. Inspiration takes like like I can't be inspired if I'm stressed. I've been stressed and and Mabel's whole situation if you listen to last week's episode was happening through like all of Thanksgiving week and weekend. So I did no Black Friday shopping. I did no cyber Monday shopping. I got no deals. I was not focused on gifting. I was not focused on shopping. And now I'm like okay well now it's basically Christmas and I have.

It's like what I'm, I'm panicking. Yeah. Panicking to purchase, which is the real spirit of the, of the holiday. It's all about the gifts, yes. I have something for both of you guys, but I have to mail it through the post office. Yeah, I am stressed about the mailings, the people I need to mail things to. It's like, that should be done already. When I, like, when I purchased this, I was like, I'm going to have to mail it to them.

And then I was like, God, it's a 50-50 chance whether that happens. Yeah, it's like, it's harder than buying the gift. Like, I bought a pair of shoes that are too small for me and I'm dangerously close to the return window. But it's like that's how badly I don't want to go to the post office. Hundreds of dollars worth of return windows. Yeah, I used to be good at returning things and then I got too busy and I don't return things ever.

Yeah. And every time I go to the post office, it takes like 40 minutes to wait in line. like two people in front of me like God bless them the people who are working there but whatever's going on it's a long it's a long way yeah yeah it's tough it's tough out there the only free time I have in line at the post office that being said it can it's possible well and I really like I actually like really love getting people gifts like it brings me a lot of joy to find the right gift for somebody but if I don't have the right gift I'm very stressed out and it like really brings me a lot of angst.

The double-edged. So there's just like a lot of, there's just a lot of pressure. Yeah. To find the right gifts. And I don't feel like I have enough time to do it. And that, you know, amps the pressure up. Yeah. I know the feeling of like having an idea for a gift and then being like, that's not it though.

But that's not it. Like that's just a gift. Like, you know, like, yeah, I could get that. And yeah, maybe I will. But like, that's not it. Right. That's not the lightning bolt of. perfect gift you're like meet your potential meet your potential truly i'm like you don't fall short

like you could do better than this so that's the scary thing that's happening right now is that like every second every second that i'm not actively doing something else i'm like i've i think i literally have 60 tabs open on my phone of like yeah trying to look for gifts for people yeah i need to do that that's a lot you guys so i also also was really racking my brain, thinking about another scary thing. And then I remembered a video I saw recently. Where did I see it? You might ask. TikTok. TikTok, which I have an addiction to. And in this video... Don't say. Just you. Nobody else. Yeah, just you. It's rotting my brain. My algorithm, I've told you, it's just people telling me to get off TikTok and, like, it's not working.

But every now and again, I get on a different algorithm. I have lots of different versions. I can tell about, but one, sometimes shows me some funny videos. This video that I got served was like a dubstep remix with a bunch of like short clips of koalas talking about facts about koalas. And specifically, sorry to keep it on the topic of brains. I'm obsessed with brains because my brain is malfunctioning right now. So clearly I can't get enough information. So you know the term smooth brain? That we just toss around. Okay, that's because I think where it originates is a koala's brain it's smooth it's smooth it's like the stupidest brain i was going to say it means it's really stupid amongst the mammals so there are so many things about a koala that makes it so stupid and i

actually think that evolutionarily it was like the best shot we got is just being fucking stupid y'all and so that's what they did and like it's good for them evolutionarily it's working okay let me tell you some facts i learned through this dubstep techno remix on tic-tok about koalas. So number one, their brain size, I learned this in the comments, by the way. And then there was a whole argument in the comments about whether they're telling the truth. And like, I believe the commenter. I didn't do any, I didn't do any research myself. I do a lot of comment research myself. Yeah. TikTok is the comments are just as goes to the videos. The people are geniuses, ridges, nooks and crannies in those brains who are doing those comments. So, yeah,

60% of the size of a normal mammal brain, first of all, just. smaller. Only 60% of the normal male male brain size. That's what Aquala's working with. Also, look at pictures of Aquala's brain, smooth. Looks like a marble. Looks like a raw chicken breast. Ew. That's what it looks like. Chicken breast brain. And then also, okay, so they eat eucalyptus leaves solely. That's all they do. Oh, right. Doesn't it get them high? Are they high all the time? It's poisonous. The reason they eat them is because no other animals eat them because it's poisoning them.

They're addicted to them, and it's poison. It's just, they're filling their bodies with toxins, and then it makes them so weak and, like, tired that they have to sleep. They have to sleep all day. So they sleep, and then just eat these eucalyptus leaves that they have no competition for because no other animal will eat them because it'll kill them. But the koalas have figured out a way to, like, eat just enough so it doesn't kill you. Oh, my God. And they just hang out in their trees, and they just sleep. and then wake up and then they eat more of their poisonous eucalyptus leaves

Wow I mean an argument can be made for humans doing similar things Here's what I was going to say is turning us into that is that when I'm becoming? I am like other drugs and every single day I take one step closer to be in a koala in my tree You're just like mainlining TikTok and like weed gummies and weed gummies and then so tired and you have to sleep. And I'm like, don't force my brain to do any activity outside of its designated activity zones. Yeah, it's tough. Anyway, so I just thought that was fascinating.

Oh, also, another really important thing, they all have chlamydia. That is really important. All of them. Why and how? And apparently they are constantly falling from the trees and getting concussions. All the time. Oh, my God. What a difficult existence.

These guys. Yeah, I know. It's tough out there. But also, I respect it. I do. Yeah. I respect it. They're built for that sort of thing.

Imagine, imagine. You poison yourself. You go to sleep. You wake up the next day. You say, poison again. More poison, please. For me. Imagine that.

No, actually, I like, I like really can't imagine that. Every time I have a hangover, I'm like, well, I'm never drinking anything ever again for the rest of my life. And then, guess what I do? 24 hours later. Anyway, so that was, that's just my fun fact for everyone. Well, that is kind of, I feel a little, my scary thing is a little smooth brainy. Good. I've talked about this a little bit before, but I'm having a harder time distinguishing dreams from reality more and more.

I'm jealous of this because I can't remember my fucking dreams. When I think of my dreams, I'm in an airport or something, and that's it. Well, that's the thing is that it is not that my dreams are like so vivid and real. It's that they're really boring and mundane things that's like, well, that happened because why would I dream? For example, recently, I dreamed that I checked my calendar and saw that I didn't have to take out my birth control until the following week. And so I was like, okay, I don't have to take out my birth control this week. I don't have to have my off week. It's next week. And then when I woke

up, like, I thought that that was real. Sure. And then checked my calendar and was like, oh, no, that was a dream. I do have to have my off week this week. And so we're getting into just some like kind of tricky territory where I'm like, well, it's almost like your brain is trying to trying to get you pregnant. It's not just that. It's like I had a dream that I text while I was out of town. I had a dream that I texted Jenna the information she needed to feed my cats while I was gone. And so then I was like, oh, I already told her what she needs to know to feed the cats.

And then realized that, no, I didn't. That was, I dreamed that I did that. And so it's just like, I think it's the things that are on my, like the little tasks that are on my mind. Your brain's like, I got you, I got you. We'll just do it right now. Just do it right now. No, your precussions whatsoever. Like, we'll just kind of handle that.

I would get that out of the way. And it's genuinely confusing and how do you disorienting sometimes? Is it just like another voice bubbles up in your brain that's like, I think that was a dream? Like, how do you like figure it out ultimately? Well, the birth control one, I just, I saw it in, because it is in my calendar. And I saw it. And I was like, oh, it is this week. I thought I checked and it was next week.

And then I was like, oh, I guess that didn't actually happen. Oh, my God. Your dream self is like... Really strange. I'm kind of mad at it. It feels like it's like sabotaging. Yeah, that's like kind of rude. Does this happen to anybody else?

Because I, you know, there hasn't been a real problem yet, but it's just getting kind of more and more frequent and more. It's just that there's such like boring little small things that just feel like, why would that be a dream? That was a real thing that I did because it was so boring and dumb. I do you, how do you, how does one combat this? Or just dreams in general because like I, so I dream about things. I know their dreams, but they're so boring. Like literally last night I was telling Tim about my dream and I was like, long story short, he had to wake up early with Silas. I dreamt for like three hours.

the dream for three hours was I was like trying to get to the airport I had the wrong ticket then I got there and then I realized we needed to go pick up Tim's parents and then I'd get a train and then I'd go to Washington Heights and then I'd pick up Tim's parents and get them on the train and then go back to the airport I just felt like I was dreaming that for like hours and hours and hours and I hate that's exhausting I don't want that to be my dream life let's like be flying and stuff yeah you know Yeah. I just, I feel like my dreams used to be fun and cool. And now they're really just, just little simple tasks happening that aren't actually happening. And then they confuse me. If somebody can give us advice on, you know how you could, you know, there's people who are like, you can do lucid dreaming? And it's like, can you? Like how, I'm not super interested in lucid dreaming. But yeah, if you could tell me how to just like, have a nice dream. Yeah. Like, it's like, I'd lucid dream if I could be like, this is basically a time for you to have, like, like a little party. You know, like, we should be getting to have little parties when we sleep. Yeah. I think a lot of... Do whatever we want and have a lot of fun and like hang out with each other and have a great time. Yeah, we should be meeting up in our dreams. We should be meeting up in our dreams. Yes. A lot of advice is like keep a dream journal, like like write down your like right when you wake up. I just never going to do that. I can't write anything down. And we also this tucks into another TikTok algorithm my mom, which is mall world. Have you

I've heard about mall world. Mall world? This is a thing, this is a very big thing, where everyone is going to sleep and dreaming about mall world, being stuck in a mall, not being able to get out. Probably it's because they're all like talking about it on TikTok and so then they're like insepting it into their own brains, right? Probably. Because do people go to malls anymore?

I'm just speaking for the people of Mall World. I guess I associate TikTok with Gen Z and I feel like. I just assume Gen Z doesn't go to the mall anymore. But that's unfair of me, probably. I'm sure they do. It's not fair, Sammy. TikTok aren't Gen Z. Like, I'm seeing a good healthy mix of folks age-wise.

Interesting. But I personally don't experience Mall World. So I've only dabbled in it. Well, it's better than Hatman. You know when everyone dreams about the Hatman. That's worse. No, who's Hatman? What is it called?

dream hat man. It's like it's a freaky like sleep paralysis thing, isn't it? Where there's like a scary man in a hat. There is always a man in a hat. Yeah, it's a wide brim. Hatman dream is widely reported terrifying vision of a tall shadowy figure wearing a wide brim hat and off in a trench coat. Usually appearing during sleep paralysis state where your mind is awake but your body is paralyzed. I had that when I was a kid. I just dreamed about Hatman when I was a kid. I haven't seen Hatman but I've had sleep paralysis and it's not fun. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like it. Like we should just be able to be having little parties. I don't. It just should be a little party. Why isn't it a little party? It's just the audacity. The audacity of our brains. Sammy, I don't know

what to do. And also, I'm scared if it progresses. What if you think that you're in a fight with me? That's my top concern. And then what if we did get in a fight? And then I say, no, it was a dream, Sammy. I never said those things. Exactly. You're already afraid of you weaponizing her dreams again. I never said we've just jumped like four steps And I just can't trust myself any more about anything Or you can't trust any of your friends anymore about anything And here we are The world is tough enough

You don't need to be doing with that I'll never weaponize your dream mundanity against you I promise I'm not going to make any promises We'll see, we'll see Yeah so that's been a little scary I'll keep you posted to the best of my ability, because who knows if I'll know when it's happening. But I promised a good episode today. Yeah.

And that is because this week's movie is Good Boy. Good Boy. So it was a play out words. Oh, it's so good. Good Boy came out this year in October, October 2025. It was directed by Ben Leoneberg, written by Alex Cannon and Ben. Leonberg starring Indy the Dog, Shane Jensen, Ariel Friedman, and Larry Fessenden, and it is streaming on Shudder.com.

Have you guys heard of this movie? I've heard of it other than me texting you about it. I honestly thought you were doing Old Boy, I just realized. Oh, yeah. Different. That's a different movie. Yep. But I just figured that out.

I was like, that didn't come out in 2025. It's a different movie. No, I know of it. I know the general. premise, but I don't know anything else on. I don't know anything about this movie. Fun. I did not really know anything about it either. And I had quite a few people DM me just saying, are you guys going be doing a good boy? See, almost an old boy now. I'm kind of confused. Am I dreaming? What's happening? And so it had been on my radar and it just, I just noticed that it was streaming

on Shudder. So decided to give it a little watch. And I watched it with my two cats, my two good boys, curled up in my lap for the whole movie, which was really cute, until it got a little spooky, and I'll talk about that as we go. So, Good Boy has a 91% on Ron Tomatoes, a 73% on Metacritic, and a 6.2 on IMDB. Wow. The budget was 70,000, and it made 8.5 million. Wow. Whoa, that's really good. Pretty damn good.

Wow. Some trivia for us. This is Ben Leoneberg's feature film directorial debut. The main character of this film is a dog. And you may have heard me say Indy the dog. Indy is actually Ben Leoneberg's dog. Damn. Nepotism.

Yeah. Nepotism. Wow, we're not going to give any opportunities to other dogs. That's pretty fucking rude. And his wife, Carrie Fisher, is also a producer on the movie. So they had just a little husband and wife making a little movie about their dog. He's pretty cute. But Ben Leonberg said that shooting took 400 days over three years because they just

filmed with their dog. Holy shit. Over time because there is like some home video footage. Wow. Yeah, 400 is a lot. For those not in the film industry, a lot of times, shooting a movie is like 30 days. I was going to say, like, because I just did The Lost Boys,

it was 21-day shoot for that feature film. Yeah. A friend of ours just did a shoot that was 56 days. And it was like, who, that's really, really, really loud. Unless you're doing like Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Right. Yeah. I mean,

I presume that this was a lot of just like shooting one thing on one day. Yeah, we're not doing 400 full days. That would be really crazy and really expensive. And certainly you wouldn't be able to do that with the budget of 70,000. Also, I'm guessing indie is not like a trained movie dog. It's just a normal dog. Yeah. So maybe they're counting some of those training days as...

Work days. Sure. Sure. Indy is a Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever known for being the smallest of the retrieving breeds and having a beautiful crimson coat. And boy does he.

Nova Scotian duck tape. Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever. Cutees. Okay, I've seen these dogs, but I didn't know what the... Oh my God, it's really cute. Wait, maybe I saw one of these at the reservoir this weekend because I was like, I've never seen a golden with like little white feet and a white nose.

Maybe it was Indy because he's a famous dog. He probably lives in L.A. Oh my God. Oh my God. I can't even believe I saw him and I didn't even fucking know. These are really cute dogs. They're so cute. It was really cute.

And really like this is just like a dog. Do you know what I mean? How some dogs are just capital D dogs, that's a dog. Yes. This one is definitely a dog. Oh my God. Really cute. And according to a letter behind.

interview indie the dogs four favorite movies are challengers no way the birds the thing and of course airbud cutie cute cute cute interesting though that that one of hindi's favorite movies is the thing because that movie's tough on dogs tough on dogs yeah tough on dogs uh but i want you guys to get a little look at indy the dog so i think we should watch this trailer i'll also say that this movie actually did scare me. This is, I think, also a pretty scary movie. Whoa. Okay. That's interesting. Like a found footage with a real dog, normal dog. It's not quite found footage. There is some like home video footage in it, but it's, if it were found footage with the dog, it would probably be even scarier because you know that that's, that gets me the most. So it's scary even without

being found footage. Oh, I just started the first second of it and you're scared. Oh my God. Wait, I can't wait to see this dog, but I'm scared. Wait, I'm actually kind of scared now. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Do you guys remember a period in your life when you're a child when like your empathy came online and you started to be like really affected by animals being maybe hurt ever? No, I don't remember the moment. I don't remember the moment.

I just remember, I don't know how old I was, but I just remember. I mean, I remember seeing my dog skip and being like, that was the most fucked up movie I've ever seen in my life. I remember Homeward Bound, absolutely destroying me. Like me being like, I'll never be the same person again. I'm traumatized for life. But that was, I think that it started before my dog skip. I used to sob during Airbus, speaking of Airbud, the scene where he's like, get out of here, go on. You know, and he's like trying to, I was like, ah, it's so sad. They'll never play basketball together again. Oh my God. It was really tough. Oh, it's really sad. I'm scared.

That's actually like, I'm laughing, but I'm, like, actually thinking about it. And it's like really sad. Okay, that feels like the right headspace to enter before watching this trailer. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. I don't know. I don't know.

I'm sorry. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't know.

Oh! I don't know. I don't know. Oh my God. Oh my God. No I guess I'm next I shall never come here

I should never come here Um Um Um Um okay scary So what I knew what this was it was a horror movie Like I thought like from the perspective of the dog

But I just assumed it was a standard Like a home invasion Seems like it's got more to it than that, which is pretty freaked out, but also, oh, my God, that dog is so cute. The dog is so cute. And he's a really good boy. This is such a good idea. And I can't believe we haven't talked about this before.

But a horror movie from the point of view of the pet, of course. It's really smart. It's really smart. It's so smart. His little eyebrows. But, like, if you can do it well, holy shit, a really good idea. I'm so glad they did it well. Me too.

It's really good. Because, yeah, they're the first line of defense. They're the ones waking up here in the ghosts. Exactly. They're always the kind of first ones to know, like, have their, like, fur bristling and feel a presence when a human's not. Humans like, don't worry. Aware of it yet. I don't know why he's acting up.

And also, as we'll see, like, how scary that would be from the perspective of the pet that's, like, trying to be like, hey, something's fucked up. and a human just being like, shh, shh, go lay down, go lay down. I want to get into this, but this is also remind, that dynamic is reminding me that a cartoonist on Instagram has a series about like a haunted house

with a wife and a husband. Have you guys seen this? And the wife is like haunted by ghosts and the husband doesn't care and doesn't believe her. And it's just like, he just does these like weekly comics where it's like the wife is like freaked out

and like they're ghosts everywhere. And the husband is like, okay like you should take a nap oh god you're overreacting just like they're ghosts in our bedroom anyway I've been enjoying that I'm worried about my heartstrings

being pulled too much in this episode but it does it does get quite sad but it's ultimately a very beautiful film but Indy's okay do you want me to say Indy the dog probably had a good time

because Indy was with his owners the whole time when they was filming so that was probably really nice for indie it's true directed by daddy oh yeah don't don't tell us sammy i won't i won't indy the dog the real dog is okay yeah okay and we can and there's no sort of spoiler there you can't even tell what she means by that could you i don't know maybe between the lines i don't know oh my gosh okay let's freaking get into to it. What the heck? Let's do it. I have been so blind my entire life. I got glasses when I was a wee babe and started wearing contacts when I was in middle school, I think. So I have been through it. I am an

expert at this point about what is best and I have been using 1-800 contacts for years. 1-800 contacts is truly the best service out there. Dealing with vision issues is always annoying. That's just the reality. but 1-800 contacts makes it so much less annoying. I order them online. They deliver for free. They deliver really, really quickly, and I can even renew my prescription from home. This is so important. So they provide a way to renew your contact lens prescription with their online vision exam, express exam. It takes less than 10 minutes and gives you a doctor-issued prescription you can use to buy contact lenses. No other major retailer makes prescription renewal this easy. If you hate running out of contacts or having to make an eye doctor appointment,

Every time you're running low, 1-800 contacts is the best solution. They will save you time and money. Getting contacts doesn't have to be a hassle. Let 1-800 contacts get you the contact lenses you need right now. Order online at 1-800 contacts.com or download the free 1-800 contacts app today. Thank you to Aura Frames for sponsoring this show. That is correct. The hidden gem, which has become the favorite gift long after that wrapping paper is gone, everybody.

That's right. It's pretty much the season for your time. gift giving. So why not give the number one rated gift? We're talking about the aura frame. It has unlimited free photos and videos. Indeed. You can just upload photos of your loved ones and then give somebody the frame and they just see those photos and videos on a rotating basis. That's right, because you can preload that frame with photos before it even ships. How is that for friggin' personal? It's really, really good. You can share photos and videos. effortlessly. It's perfect for, you know, new grandparents or you want to give something to your

loved ones this holiday season. And yes, there's a gift box included. Every frame comes packaged in a premium gift box with no price tag. Now, see, that's good because if you're like, I forgot about the holidays. I need to ship something fast, but it's going to look impersonal. It's going to arrive in a big brown box. No, it's going to arrive in a beautiful gift box with No price tag. So don't wait. When the holidays now with Aura Frames for a limited time, you can save on the perfect gift by visitingoraFrames.com to get $35 off.

ORA's best-selling Carver Matt Frames named number one by wirecutter. Wow, just use the promo code headgum at checkout. That's A-U-R-A-Frames.com with the promo code headgum. The deal is exclusive to listeners and frames sell out fast, So order yours now to get it in time for the holidays. Support the show you're listening to right now by mentioning us at checkout terms and conditions obviously apply. Thank you, ORAFRAM's, and thank you, listener.

So we begin with a close-up on our titular Good Boy, Indy. He is waking up from a nap on the couch. There's a cell phone next to him buzzing, ringing. We see the name on it. Vera. We're close enough in that we don't really have a sense of the whole room. Can Indy read? Can Indy read? No, but he does look at the phone as if he can't. So I guess maybe the implication is yes, he can't. Okay. It's already horror vibes. It's dark and I think rainy and Indy wakes up looking a little scared already, kind of looking around the room. He's

maybe hearing something. As the camera pulls out, we see that he's in a living room. There's a TV playing just static. And then we see Indy from another angle, and we see a guy slumped over on the couch next to him. Scary, we don't know who that is yet. Indy doesn't seem to be noticing that and is staring into the corner of a room, as all pets do all the time. just bracing themselves and staring at a corner and we see the shadows in this corner start spreading outwards and the room is just slowly being engulfed in darkness, Indy is whimpering a little bit

as this is happening, and then the phone is buzzing again, Vera is calling again, and again, again Indy looks down at the phone. Can he read? We're not sure. But as he's looking at the phone, we see drops of blood falling onto the illuminated phone screen. Indy notices that looks up to see that the drops of blood are coming from the slumped over guy on the couch who is Todd, his owner. Todd's face is always like blocked from view either in shadow or just out of frame so right now it's in shadow but we see his mouth open and blood just pouring from his mouth oh and then the the door opens we hear keys in the door and see a woman come in this is vera she immediately starts panicking she calls for an ambulance and she says i need help my brother he's not responding he's bleeding i need an ambulance title good boy then we go to the sweetest little montage of indie as a puppy through the years getting a little bigger indian todd playing still not really seeing todd it's like shot in a way that

he's from behind or whatever just having all these very happy cute memories and then we see a shot of Indy lying in the same apartment living room that I think we just saw, and we see Todd in the background throwing up in a trash can. And then we see a clip of Vera with Indy outside of a hospital saying, like, your daddy's coming home. And we see them picking Todd up from the hospital. He has like a bandage on his arm where he had an IV in. And so, Todd is definitely having some health issues, and this montage ends with one of the memories of, like, a new clip of Indy, like, rolling around with his tongue out and kind of matches into Todd's phone background is like that exact photo. It's really sweet, and we see that Todd is now with Indy in a car on a dark road in the middle of the night, again, pouring rain. And it's like a gated road, and Vera calls and says, where are you? I'm at your apartment, empty apartment.

You're not here. The doctor said to, like, go home and rest. And we see he's like, it looks like he's like on a country road somewhere. There's nothing really around. And he says, do you know where grandpa kept the keys to his place? And she's like, you're at grandpa's? Are you crazy? Like the doctor didn't say anything about.

that. And he's like, do you know where they are or not? This is, I just want to be here to relax. And she doesn't tell it. She's trying to talk him out of it. And he's like, all right, fine, bye. And as this conversation is happening, he's, Todd has gotten out of the car to search for this key and look for a way to open the gate. And we see Indy in the car. And again, it's just kind of tense dread. The rain is pouring down. And so. So you can't quite see Todd and it's all red lighting from the brake lights as he's looking around. And then he hears something behind the car. Todd's in front of the car and looks back.

And there's just a silhouette, silhouetted figure standing right behind the car. Yikes. There's ominous music playing Indies, staring wide-eyed. He has, Indies got such a good little scared face. He's so cute. and then Todd gets back in the car, Indy looks back through the back window and the figure is gone. Oh, my God. I'm already, like, worried about my own sanity, like listening to this.

And I'm worried about Emily's, too, after everything she's gone through with Maple. And I'm worried about both of you because you both have cats that are constantly looking into dark corners. And what is this going to do, too? Well, this is what started getting less pleasant by watching it with my cats. is that there were definitely moments where they started, like, were startled by something and then just stared at a corner of the room and I'd be like, uh-uh, uh-uh. Like, you can't fucking do that right now. Like, you're doing this in front of their face.

Like, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. So Todd gets the gate open and we are driving down this secluded road to this old, nasty, creepy house that seems like nobody's been there in a long time. Indy is obviously scared He doesn't want to get out of the car Todd thinks it's because it's pouring rain And he's like come on it's not that bad Like it's not far to the front door

But we can tell that India is having Sixth Sense vibes of like this place is no good But eventually Indy does get out of the car And is following Todd up to the front door when he hears a dog whimpering and turns and sees some cellar doors next to the house that their dog whimpering seems to be coming from there. But Todd is not reacting to this. Todd doesn't seem to be hearing this. Todd's just trying to get the front door open, which is like barricaded off. Like don't enter very kind of comically, this set is dressed to just be like,

don't this place is so bad don't come in here and but he gets the door open and is calling Indy to come inside again Indy is whimpering kind of standing back not wanting to come in the door but Todd goes in and Indy eventually follows him he's a very very loyal boy and wants to stay by Todd's side as soon as they get in we see that the The house, again, like all the furniture's covered in sheet plastic and there's like nasty fluorescent lights and it's just really unpleasant in there. And immediately the power goes out. Basically as soon as he turns the lights on, it just shorts.

So he's taught his grumbling. I'm like, okay, I guess I would go find the breaker, opens the door to the basement, heads straight down into the basement Indy stands at the top of the stairs looking down into the basement just such a like cute sad shot of him wide-eyed like where's he going where's he going he's looking really scared

we hear Todd tinkering around down there there's some kind of sparks he's found a lantern but he's still figuring out the lights when Indy hears something in another part of the house And so he turns, and he's kind of walking room to room through all these plastic-covered furniture things. Everything looks like a ghost. It's like very scary. And he ends up in this room where there's a sheet of plastic hanging from the ceiling, like curtains kind of.

And once again, sees there's like a darkness in the corner. that starts moving and growing and is like in the shape of a human form again. But then the power comes back on. The shadow disappears. Cut to later that night, Todd has put on some family videos of Grandpa who lived in this house until his death. I think we've heard a little bit of from Vera of just like that they're a little bit scared of

grandpa's place. There's been a mention of like, oh, even after what happened there. So we're not feeling great about that. Something happened. I never like it when anything happens. No. It's better when it doesn't. Please don't. It's better to not happen. And we see in these home videos that Todd's grandpa has a dog, a golden retriever named Bandit, who they're playing, you know, fetch or whatever in the video. And we see Bandit is wearing a red bandana tied around his neck. Again, a very cute boy, a very good boy. That's not going to come back.

Oh, and then here is where Vera calls again and they have another talk. And she's like, I can't believe you're in that house. it's so creepy there and nobody has lived there for longer than a couple weeks he's like grandpa did and she says yeah and it killed him so don't like that so we learn that grandpa died in this house

and Todd is just brushing all this off and saying Vera I don't care I'm staying here and she just says okay well promise me at the first sign of any relapse of your health stuff that you'll come home and he's like okay fine we see indy exploring the house a bit always looking scared and anxious but being but being brave because you have to be scared to be brave right it's important and he hears he goes upstairs and here's a creaking in this one room, goes and looks in it. Once again, shadows are coming from the corners.

He's frozen in fear just like staring in the corner. When Todd comes looking for him and brings a little lantern up here and shines it in the corner, nothing's there. The next day, We see Todd and Indy walking through the woods, and there's a small cemetery in the woods near the house. I suppose it's a family cemetery, so I don't know who else would be buried here. I don't know if this is legal. Can you just do this?

Are there headstones? There's headstones, yes. I don't know how that works. But it seems like definitely private property. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And they get separated for a second, Indie's running around smelling stuff, and then Todd turns a corner somewhere and goes out of sight. Indy loses track of him for a second and gets distracted by this log on the ground that he's like looking at this log, like something's inside the log.

Like he maybe heard something scurrying in there. And so he's he's approaching it trying to. to look inside. And as he's focused on this log, we see a wide shot and behind Indy, a figure approaching a dark silhouette. And Indy doesn't notice until the last second and then turns around,

and we see it's a guy in like a really intense hunting suit that... It's like head to toe covered. You don't see anything. It's like the type of camouflage that if you were literally like hiding in the bushes and wanted to look like a bush, this is what you'd be wearing. And they kind of stare at each other for a second. We don't, who the hell is this? Is this monster?

Is this a demon? Is this a guy? And then eventually this person says, what are you doing out here, boy? And we hear it's, it's just a man. Oh, okay. Foof. Never thought I would say foof to that, but yeah. And then Todd comes back and it's like, hello, excuse me.

And this guy says, like, what are you guys doing out here? I have a lot of fox traps set out here. You guys should be careful. And then he says, oh, is that Mr. Richards or whatever? he's like oh my god Todd I haven't seen you since you were like a teenager or something so this is a neighbor that's been in the area for a long time who again is says something like oh I like can't believe you're out here after what happened with your grandpa and he's like oh yeah it's okay and this conversation is happening while India is like staring into the darkness inside of this log and so it's kind of muffled it's not the main thing that we're focusing on so we're kind of trying to like pick up clips of this conversation like what are they talking about and he says we hear mr richards say yeah when when i found his body or something like that we find out that

mr richards found the grandpa's body and he says but we never did find his dog and as he says this, we see Indy looking into the darkness in this log, see two glowing eyes, and then he gets scared and, like, backs out of the log. Cut two. I think it's the next day, or maybe just later that day. Todd is talking to Vera again. Vera seems to be calling a lot, checking in a lot. She's obviously really worried about him. And she says, has Indy been acting weird at all since you guys have been there. He's like, what are you talking about? She's like, I don't know, like, staring at stuff that's not there. Like, dogs can pick up on things that humans can't. They have, like, such a good sense of smell. Is this Vera Farmega? Is this Farmeca in your

contrary universe? Yes. Yes. I was picturing that because you never really see her either. So we can picture whoever we want. So we can just say, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great. And I thought this was a clever scene because at first you think that. that she's implying, like, that there's ghosts, but then she says something like, you know, that they train dogs to smell, like, diseases or health problems in people now. And so if Indy has been acting weird, he might be sensing something in you. And he's like, nothing's wrong with Indy. And she's like, I know nothing's wrong with Indy. I'm worried about you. Like, I'm worried about your health. And Todd hangs up on her. He's very frustrated with her and sick of being checked in on.

And so he hangs up and goes upstairs to go to bed. Indy is in the bedroom with him and starts kind of whimpering, sensing something. He's on the bed whimpering. And Todd, like, tells him to knock it off. He gets creeped out a little bit. You can tell by his sister's phone call. And he's like, don't do that like I did with my cats later in the movie. So they go up to bed and close up on Indy's face as it kind of fades to black.

And the camera moves down into the basement. And we see Bandit in the basement. And then Indy's in the basement with him. So we're in Indy's dream. So cute. And it's Indian Bandit facing each other in the basement. And then there's this really super close up on Indy's eye. Or maybe it's Bandit's eye, so close up, so I can't tell.

The dog's eye and the pupil of it, sorry Emily, it's a hand like reaches out. It looks like something is like so. close that it's grabbing it, and it's a jump scare. And then Indy wakes up. And it was a scawy dream. So then it's the next morning, and we see that there are photos of Grandpa and Bandit around the room. This is like Indy's research montage, essentially. He's like tried to piece things together. He's looking at these photos, like, that's the guy from my dream. And he's sniffing. He has no one to talk to. It's so sad. It's so Oh, no. He's the only one on the case. And he's sniffing around. He sees that there's a lot of dog scratches on the basement door. Oh, God.

And he's kind of nodding at that, but Todd doesn't notice. Todd sets down some food for breakfast, says, you know, eat up and enjoy the house. Bye. And Todd leave. Oh, boy. And Indy just immediately starts freaking out this performance really good. He's, like, crying and crying and, like, kind of running window to window, looking out each window, seeing Todd driving away. And he eventually, like, perches up in this one window looking out right towards the driveway. and he's just still looking outside and it match cuts to nighttime him still in the exact same spot, waiting for Todd.

And then he hears a dog whimpering again coming from the basement. He's hearing it up through the vents in the floor. And then he turns around and sees Bandit in the living room with him. and Bandit turns and walks up the stairs. Indy has like a little moment of like, should I follow him?

I'm a little scared. And then eventually he kind of like gets his courage and runs up the stairs. And Bandit is not there, but he's sniffing and sniffing and sniffing and sniffing and finds Bandit's red bandana under a dresser in his grandpa's old room, which is the room that Todd is sleeping in as well. and he's like using his little paw and his snout to try to reach under to get this red bandana and he kind of scoots it close enough that he's able to give it a good sniff

and then you just get this flash of images like he's smelling the history of this bandana and there's, like, grandpa coughing up blood and a scary, like, muddy, almost tar-covered hand reaching up the basement stairs, and a lot of really scary images. It's very quick, and then he, Indy, like, jumps back, let's go the bandana, and then just hears footsteps coming up the stairs very slow pounding footsteps no thumping thumping and he runs and hides under the bed he scoots all the way back under the bed and he's like staying real still wide-eyed watching the door to the room and we see a shadow growing getting closer to the door to the door And then we see a hand reach around the doorway. And in comes Todd looking exhausted. He has a bandage around his arm again. So he's had some sort of IV or blood transfusion or something. And he's like breathing really heavy, coughing still. And clearly,

feels like shit and like collapses down onto the bed, Indy comes out from under the bed and is excited to see him, is like sniffing and nuzzling him. Todd pushes him off. This is not now, not now, buddy, not now. And he's coughing more when Indy keeps like jumping up and trying to cuddle with him or like nudge him and he's really just like getting in his face and Todd snaps at him and like shoves Indy and is like, get the fuck off the bed. And it's really sad, no, I don't like this. And so Indy lays on the floor next to the bed and we see him kind of fall asleep. And then we get another dreamy sequence where it's Indy walking out to the cemetery in this like thick fog.

and we see a dark figure approaching him in the cemetery, again, like slow footsteps, a thump, thump, thump, and then close up on Indy's face as he wakes up to a thumping happening in the house, and his eyes are looking around, scanning the room, he can't see anything, but he's hearing this thump, thump, thump. and it's coming from downstairs, so he gets up. And I swear each time it looks like he's like psyching himself up. He's like scared. And then he's like, okay, I got to go. I got to go check it out. So he walks to the top of the stairs, hears thump, thump, and then walks down the stairs, looks into the kitchen, seems empty, but it's dark, can't really tell. And then we see

shadowy figure crossing the entryway to the kitchen and bang their head against the basement door, is the basement door is in the kitchen. And so that's what the thumping is, is bum, bum, bum, banging his head. And it is Todd. And we see that the wall. really like wet or the door the where he's banging his head to like the point that I was like did did he have a shower or something he's banging his head and he's like so wet but indie runs up to him when he sees that it's Todd and like rubs his little nose against his hand and kind of snaps him out of his days and we see Todd go like oh like uh uh what the heck like what's just happened he seems really confused and he is like okay let's go let's go back up to bed and then the next

morning we see that basement door at it is covered with blood so he was just like hitting his head until he started to bleed or coughing onto the because he has been like coughing up blood right and so the grandpa was doing that and the grandpa was doing that too and and Todd is watching that too and Todd is more home movies of Grandpa and all of them are, yeah, just like, not feel-good movies. It's sometimes Grandpa kind of waxing, poetic about life, but in a way that's like... Unnerving? Yeah, unnerving, creepy, and just like, well, I guess, I guess it's, this is it for me type of thing. like, you know, not fun home videos.

Again, Vera calls Todd, asks if she can come visit this weekend. And he kind of blows up at her at this and is like, I'm fine. How about you leave me alone until I ask for help? Like, please stop calling me. And as he's in an argument on the phone, Indy wanders. into the garage and sees that the chair that we've seen the grandpa sitting in in the home videos, this like armchair has been moved into the garage. And, and he senses something about the chair, he's staring at this chair.

And we see little flashes of the grandpa sitting in the chair, just like the quickest little flashes and then a light flickers and then grandpa is just there and we see grandpa coughing blood in the chair and we flash back to where Indy was and we now see Bandit watching Grandpa coughing up blood and as he's coughing and coughing and we are seeing these same like muddy, tarry hands climbing up from the basement dragging up and the grandpa leans forward and says, run as all this like blood falls out of his mouth and he's talking to the dog and bandit runs. But then we flash back to Indy who is actually sitting there having this vision and Indy pees on the rug. A-D needs a support group like ASAP.

Oh, it's so sad, oh, Andy. And then as he's kind of staring at the chair, now empty, the scary vision is over and it's back to normal, but he's still staring at it when we see behind him in the shot, this muddy skeletal figure rising up behind him. It's almost like a skeleton like coming out of a grave type of thing and cut to black. Then we're hearing some rustling, doors opening, and Todd is calling out to Indy. And we see a light as Todd opens the door to the basement and finds Indy in there covered in mud.

And Indy seems really freaked out. Todd is really confused. Like, how did you get in here? This doesn't make any sense, but let's give you a bath, your mess. So they go upstairs, and Todd is giving India bath. It's really sweet. It's just like, I don't know something about a dog getting a bath, like pouring the little bowl of water on its head and was scrubbing it behind the ears. It's so cute. I know. They're so, like, docile. And it's a very sweet moment. But Todd is kind of coughing more and more and then has this look overcome his face where his eyes go kind of wide and he's almost gagging. And then he has this explosive cough of so much blood and it goes all in Indy's face. Oh, God. Cough's blood all over him. And then it like goes into the tub and you just see all this blood everywhere. And Todd starts really panicking and he's like wiping the blood and he's going like, no, no, no, no, no.

no. Really, it's really sad. And cut to at a hospital, Todd getting an MRI. Indy is there with him waiting. And then at the like recap with the doctor afterwards, we see that he is being rejected from some sort of treatment because it's too progressed. And I think he's He was trying to get into some sort of clinical trial here because he's like saying, what do you mean? It's like to progress. I'm volunteering to be your guinea pig. And Indy is on his lap during this.

And Indy is like really whining and whining and whining. And she's like, it's too late. I'm sorry if you came in earlier, maybe, but now you don't qualify. And Indy's like whining louder and louder. And Todd snaps. stands up and like tells indy to shut up or be quiet god damn it and indy looks really scared and looks up at todd and todd kind of flashes into the tarry muddy man silhouette for a second and then flashes back to normal todd then we get back to the house and todd is like i don't know why

this makes me feel so sad todd is is really cleaning everything everything up and he's saging the house and he's like trying to do all these like little rituals to make it a nice place and it seems like I don't know like this moment of him really trying to to do something in his situation I feel like he we haven't like seen him really he's been kind of like resigned and angry about it and now he's like oh fuck I have to like yes be proactive yeah and Indy is at the door the room looking out at the hallway again feeling ominous sensing something there's like some candles lit that start to go out one by one and Todd's not noticing Todd is very focused on

his saging and then Indy sees a man like covered in goo it almost looks like like pink uh like embryonic fluid or something. It's just born straight out of the womb. Yeah, like just born. It's not played as a jump scare or anything. There's no like scary sound, which I don't know. Sometimes it makes it scarier. Yeah.

It's just like a goo covered man sitting there. Sometimes it's just scary when it's a good covered man. That's scarier. And then indie, you know, blinks and it's gone. There's nothing there. And then Todd sits down on the bed and just starts sobbing. and he's hanging his head in his hands and Indy goes up and nuzzles him

and Todd picks up Indy and just like holds him and cries hugging him. Then they go to sleep and Indy is sleeping on the floor again and he hears more thumping in the night he sees a shadowy figure outside of the room, he follows it downstairs and a light turns on in the basement and he's pretty scared of the basement but he goes to the top of the stairs and looks down and it looks as if Todd has collapsed

at the bottom of the stairs of the basement but the light is just flickering you can't quite make it out but then he hears a whistling coming from the basement and he's just looking like, should I go down there? I don't know what to do when the body at the foot of the stairs just like starts running up on hands and knees, like climbing up the stairs really scary. And then Indy wakes up back in the room, and it was another nightmare. Oh, poor buddy. He's really stressed.

But he wakes up, still stressed, and he's next to the bed, and he's looking out, looking around, looking, if anything's there when two hands grab him from under the bed, pull him under the bed, and he's struggling against the hands. And then we see that it's Todd, who has fallen off the bed and was on the other side of the bed. It doesn't super make sense like in the spatial reality of this. But we come to see that it's Todd that is holding Indy. And he's kind of half asleep. But then we see, again, shadowy figure hearing thumb, thumb, thump. And it wakes Todd up.

And Todd calls out, says, hello, is someone there? Still holding Indy. He's petting Indy on the head, stroking him, because Indy's kind of growling. a little like and he's like it's okay it's okay and we don't hear anything hand is just stroking Indy and then it becomes the muddy Tari hand and like pushes down on Indy's head and Indy turns and bites the hand and then it's Todd again and Todd is like screaming like ow what the fuck Oh, my God. But then looks down and there's no bite.

So they're both very confused. And then there's blood dripping, but it's not from his hand or from his face. And we see, again, obstructed from view a bit, Indy's POV into the next room as Todd looks up at something. Todd's like looking up how you just see like the back of his head as he's looking up and then Todd collapses to the ground and Indy runs to go to Todd and the door between them slams shut and Indy's like barking scratching at the door trying to break through but he can't get through and he tries that for a little bit longer and then he's looking around he doesn't know what to do and he sees that there is a window open in the bathroom or something and he jumps out

of it. It's a second, second story window. There is like a long pause once he jumps before he like, you see him, he like jumps into a bush and it's like quiet. But then he runs out of the bush and he runs through the woods and he's barking, trying to get the neighbor's attention, I think. And then he gets caught in fox trap Which is not like a bear trap It's not the claw thing It's like a rope It's almost like a noose thing

It's like a rubber noose He gets his head caught in it So it becomes like a leash So then he's leashed to a rock somewhere And can't get He's just barking and barking and can't get away Again, cut to black. Indy wakes up now in the front yard of Grandpa's house again, still nighttime, and now he is chained

to a dog house outside, and we see Todd saying, I told you to stay inside, or I told you not to, I don't know, he's like, he's punishing Indy for running away, I guess. So he's like, you have to stay here now and leaves him outside. And it starts pouring rain. Of course, it does. No. And Indy is looking up into the windows of the house and sees Todd coughing and coughing and we see inside that he's coughing up more blood. And then the figure in the window changes to.

just the silhouette looking out seemingly directly at Indy. Indy sees again the glowing eyes that we saw in the log, kind of in the distance. He freezes. He's looking. What is that? When a motion detector light comes on and we see that it's a fox, they do have a moment of staring at each other, but then the fox goes on his way and they kind of ignore each other. And as Indy's watching the fox leave, we see behind him again. Drippy mud skeleton man. It scares Indy.

Indy runs into the doghouse to hide from this man. We see the inside of the doghouse has like smeared either blood or mud. It's like brown stuff smeared on the walls. Indy's cowering in fear. he's trying to hide, he's barking, and then a hand comes up through the ground and grabs him. He runs out of the doghouse to as far as the chain will let him go, and it's, you know, not far enough to get anywhere. And then the chain starts pulling him in, and we see the, like, muddy hands pulling by the chain, pulling Indy back into the doghouse. Indy is struggling against it, pulling as hard as he can to not get pulled at the doghouse,

but the guy seems to be stronger and he's getting him. And so then Indy runs full speed at the dog house. Smart. Knocks it over and splinters the part of the wood that was holding his chain. So he breaks free. And he runs up to the house. But he can't get in. He's a dog.

He's a dog. I wasn't stupidly in this moment. I was like, well, go in. Like, why don't you go in? Like, just use your opposable thumbs and turn the door knob. Shouldn't be that hard. It's just a door. Stand up on your high legs.

What are you a fucking koala? And at that moment, he again hears barking from the cellar. and he looks over and the cellar doors are open and he looks down into the darkness it's nasty rainy muddy rocky really scary down there and he slowly descends the stairs into the cellar into the basement and when he gets to the bottom we see bandits skeleton with a dog skeleton with a red bandana around its neck really sad really scary we see upstairs todd in bed coughing and then having like labored breathing and then he stopped breathing. Whoa. And we hold on that for a moment. And then he gets up.

And for the first time, we see Todd's face as he's looking around the room. He hears something now and sees muddy footsteps coming toward him. He scrambles to shut the door between that room and his room. but it like bursts back open, but then nothing's there. He's really scared.

He's looking at it. Here's something coming, and then Indy runs upstairs to him, and they're hugging, and he's like, oh, my God, Indy, how did you get back in here? Because he came in through the basement. And then petting him and hugging him, and then Indy looks onto the bed. And Todd follows his gaze, and we see that Todd is still in the bed. Todd has died. Mm-hmm.

And they're both seeing this and shocked and kind of registering it when the muddy figure appears behind Todd, grabs him and pulls him quickly down to the basement. Oh, Jesus. Spirit, Todd or body Todd? Spirit, Todd. Got it. That's not what you want to hear. Indy doesn't think twice.

Rushes down after him. We're in the bottom of the basement now. It's very muddy and dirty down there, and it's been raining a lot, and so there's like, yeah, it's just real nasty. Todd is there starting to be covered in mud. We see the muddy figure standing above him. Indy is barking, trying to get between Todd and the muddy figure.

But I don't actually remember how it happens. The muddy figure kind of, in a supernatural type way, just enters Todd's body. And Todd collapses, but then kind of sits back up. and Indy is sniffing his face, and it seems like it's still Todd, even though he's now looks like the tarry, muddy monster man, and Todd says, you're a good dog, but you can't save me, and you've got to stay here. And then all of his skin melts off, and he becomes a skeleton, and he is, you know, now really dead.

I mean, I guess he was already really dead, but, uh, and now both of the basement doors, the basement door and the cellar door have closed. And so Indy is in there with the skeleton and bandit skeleton. And we're really feeling bad. He's looking a little bit for a way out, but then just lays down where, Todd was, see some shots of outside, sun coming up, and then Vera comes and finds Todd. And this is about to be like the saddest movie that's ever been. It's still pretty sad.

It's like an ex machina situation where then he's just like stuck in the fight. Ex Machina with a dog is even worse. But Vera does come and she finds Todd and we see from. Indy's POV as she opens the cellar door and she's sobbing and sees Indy and calls to him. He stays put for a while. He's looking back where Todd was. He hears a little whistle from Todd. He looks like he doesn't want to leave.

But then after a while, he runs up to Vera and out of his. and out of the cellar and that's the end of the movie Whoa It's pretty sad Yeah That movie was not at all What I thought it was going to be

Yeah Yeah It's And like I said It's honestly pretty scary Because most of it is just silent and looking in corners and there's not very much dialogue so it's just a lot of moments of tension and dread and then the themes of losing someone you love to a disease that might

make them unrecognizable is also just like completely devastating yeah well and and like yeah when severe was talking about like dogs can pick up on things that you smell like you might smell different or whatever and yeah like he couldn't even recognize todd sometimes which like a dog you'd think would have so many ways of recognizing you beyond just seeing you but if you're like changing it's really sad it's really sad it also I think it reveals how because I agree with you Emily, it's not what I was expecting it to be. I assumed that it was going to be about, like, uncovering some, like, family mysteries or family lore that, like, they weren't aware of before, that had to do with the grandfather

and what was the grandfather's, like, secret, and what were they going to uncover? And I think what this movie reveals to me is how any time, it's like what we talk about with Stephen Kings, it Welcome to Derry. Like, when the origin stories... HBO Presents, Stephen Kings, It Welcome to Dary, Season 1, of Season 3, come mother else three seasons um we always know that like anytime everything anything is over explained it's kind of like a bomb like it's a bomb to our sense of sadness to our feelings to our feelings of like despair and i was waiting for that i was waiting for like what's the secret what's the like

yeah what's like supernatural what's like the little tidbit that will be a distraction from like the deep just sadness of what's happening to Todd because also like I guess Todd's experience was mirroring his grandfather's experience who also died in this horrible way and then also just isolated yeah didn't well I'm not like want anyone around him he died there and the dog just died there after because he was alone and there is no one to check on him at least Todd had fair at a check and how we like push we push people away when we're scared yeah yeah and it's just so sad except for animals which is like a very but he was even pushing that's true that's true he was but they're a little bit they can't be pushed away they'll still stick with you

god he's indy's such a good boy we love indy we love all pets pets are so special And he was especially special. My good boys would do none of this for me, just to be clear. You don't know that. I'm, like, pretty convinced that Bunk is the father of hell from the bath. They're smooth-brained little, they're smooth-brained little guys. Bunk has the longest fangs and the longest claws I've ever seen on a cat in my life. But he's a gentle, he's a gentle, he's a gentle boy.

He is a gentle boy. Oh, my goodness. I just feel like he's like a misunderstood angel from hell is what I'm saying about. He's a misunderstood angel from hell. Yeah. That's correct. Yeah, so really sad, but really good. And just one of, I mean, I think this and anatomy of a fall, two top dog performances of all time.

Wow, wow, wow. This one is probably more significant just because it is, it's all indie. So, really impressive. Don't think this plate it can, but if it did, he would have won Palm Dog. Palm Dog. Give it to Indy. My goodness. Yeah.

So, sorry that it, sorry that is a sad one, but it was also very good. And I'm glad I watched it. And thank you for those of you who brought it to my attention. I still, I really did. I did love this movie. I thought it was very good. So nice job, Ben Leoneberg, great job, Indy. Wow.

Yeah, it was really good. It was really beautiful. And just, yeah, what a good idea. Because just to talk about it for one second, we think like the bloody skeleton, is that just representing death? I think so. Yeah. Or like illness. Yeah.

I guess so. Or, yeah, like all of it. The fear of illness itself, too. Like, I feel like it just feels like the darkness that. Or how it makes you feel like stuck, like stuck. Like, you can't, you can't break out of it. Yeah. Oh, my God.

What a brutal film. Yeah, it's tough. Truly. That was really tough. It's tough, everybody. Good night. Good night. Good night.

I'm going to go to Mall World tonight. my dreams. Where is everyone else going? Let's all plan to have some parties in our dreams. Yeah. Our pets will be there. There will be no shadowy monsters. It's only fun and good. We're not making appointments in our dreams. We're not changing our calendar in our dreams. No, we're not doing chores. We're not sending texts. We're not doing any of that. Nothing administrative, only fun. Exactly. And good. And we wish. And maybe some magic maybe some magic we wish that for you as well dear listeners we love you very much we love you too much and from all of us here at too scary didn't watch woof woof oh nailed it we did it we made it

thank you all for listening to another episode of too scary didn't watch if you enjoy the show please remember to subscribe and rate us on spotify and apple podcasts five stars only or we will haunt you. And if you simply can't get enough of us, we have good news for you. We have lots of bonus content available on our Patreon at patreon.com slash TSDW podcast. You'll get access to video trailer reactions,

two bonus episodes a month, the power to vote for upcoming episodes and more. And last but not least, you can follow us on social media at TSDW podcast. We'll be back next week with a new episode. We love you. That was a headgum podcast. Hi, I'm Nicole Byer.

Hi, I'm Sashir Zameda. And this is the podcast, Best Friends. And we're here at HeadGum. So this is just a podcast where we just talk. Yeah. We're best friends. We talk. And then we have a segment where we answer questions and queries.

So audience members can ask questions about friendships. And we can answer them to the best of our best. Yes. We are professional friends. We are professional friends. Subscribe to Best Friends on Spotify, Apple Podcast, PocketCast, or wherever you get your podcast and watch videos on YouTube. New episodes drop every Wednesday. That's the middle of a work week. I was deeply unhelpful to you during that whole thing. You were. I'm really sorry. I felt the support.

I was so, okay. I was trying to be supportive. Yeah. But I was like, I don't know, reading seems pretty hard right now. It's a lot. I think you did good. Thank you so much. You're welcome.