We Hate Movies - S14 Ep704: The Devil's Rain (with Ben Worcester)
Episode Date: October 31, 2023“It is ugly as sin, this amulet… it better protect you from evil, otherwise…” Chris On the final Spooktacular episode of 2023, the guys bring on their beloved bud, Ben Worcester to chat abou...t the unfairly maligned Satanic Panic picture, The Devil’s Rain! Why couldn’t they have Ernest Borgnine in a Hawaiian shirt here at some point? Was this film’s makeup the inspiration for the Shatner Captain Kirk mask that then became the infamous Michael Myers ‘The Shape’ mask? How hilarious/great is that flashback sequence? And did everyone get a good look at Shatner’s belt buckle and wicker cowboy hat combo? PLUS: Is this the meltiest movie of all time? The Devil’s Rain stars Ernest Borgnine, William Shatner, Eddie Albert, Tom Skerritt, Joan Prather, Keenan Wynn, Woodrow Chambliss, John Travolta, and the legendary Ida Lupino as Emma Preston; directed by Robert Fuest. Be sure you snag your replay ticket for our Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter digital show! Available now through Thursday, November 2nd! Get it before it’s gone for good! Today’s episode is brought to you by Nutrisense! To start decoding your body's messages and pave the way for a healthier life, visit NUTRISENSE DOT COM SLASH WHM and get $30 off your first month and one month of board certified nutritionist support as well. When they ask how you learned about Nutrisense make sure to tell them it was the We Hate Movies podcast! Want more WHM? Join our Patreon fam today and instantly unlock hours and hours of exclusive bonus content, including Ad-Free WHM Prime at the $8 level and up! Be sure to get tickets for the WHM Holiday Extravaganza where we’re talking The Santa Clause! Check out the WHM Merch Store featuring new Polish Decoy, ‘Jack Kirby’, and Forrest the Universal Soldier designs!
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This week on the program, we wrap the
2023 Halloween spooktacko with a real
demonic banger. It's the devil's rain. I'm Andrew Jupin.
I'm Eric's reign.
I'm Chris Lucifer.
Ben Beazelbub.
Yeah, there you go. Oh, perfect. Then we hate movies.
sometimes. You know, it's Halloween. I guess everyone's a title of one good scare.
Sometimes, dead is better.
The zombies have entered the building. They're at the door. They're coming in.
It is time to keep your appointment with the Wickham Ann.
They're coming to get you, Barbara.
I'm sick for fucks you've seen one too many movies
Now sit, don't you blame the movies
Movies don't create psychos
Movies make psychos more creative
Put the fucking looser in the back
That's an excellent day for an exorcism
Hello everyone, welcome to We Hate Movies
Thank you for tuning in as always
That's right
We welcome our bud Ben Worcester back to the show
How you doing, sir? Oh, gentlemen, good
to be back.
The BVW,
beloved Ben Worcester's here.
Oh, that's right.
We're not on camera here,
but wearing a hat that literally says beans.
That's right. It does.
Blue beans wearer also.
It also works.
He had a bean dinner and he sauntered on over here to talk to us
about the devil's reign,
a William Shatner film.
That's right.
From 1975,
directed by Robert Fust,
who this guy,
if you are a Vincent Price fan
he directed two of the Abominable
Dr. Fibbs movies. Oh, really? The first
one? The first one and Dr. Fives
rides again. And he also did this movie
and Soon Darkness, which is like a
creepy, like, girls
out in the country, one girl goes
missing. I mean, this dude
was like... So they're creepy girls that
were out in the country? It was the country.
No, the country was creepy. Yeah, yeah. But the girls were
regular? Uh, girls were pretty
regular. Pretty regular, regular ladies.
Hippy, you know, hippie, dippy kind of
lady oh okay so that's a little something they remade this uh i think with uh your favorite actor
uh from uh dread and star trek west carl urban carl urban i think they made it ensuing the darkness
i think that's they did make a remake oh is that right with it and they called it ensuing the
yeah yeah yeah i'm almost positive it's carl urban dude i might have to check that out oh i prefer
carl rural oh really but you're talking about out in the country yeah i know i don't you're right i don't
I like the Urban.
I know for a fact that one's a lie.
I know that you love Carl Urban.
I do like Carl Urban.
Ben, what do you think of Carl Urban?
Dread is quite a watch.
Hell you.
I like it.
Yeah.
I wish they did another one of those.
Me too.
Me too.
I say it every day.
It's a great movie.
I wake up every morning saying it.
Wait, what side are you on with this, Chris?
I think it's fine.
Because Steve Sadek, who's not here today, we should say.
He's off worshipping the devil in a burned out country western town right now.
As he so often does.
He despises that film, man.
He once called me a loser for saying I like it.
I don't despise it.
I am not as gung-ho about it as others, but I think it's fine.
You guys are talking, you're familiar with the work of Robert Fwest.
Is that what this guy's?
Fused.
Fused, which you know.
Fused.
What they wanted here was the director that had the name as close to Faust as possible.
It's like, look, we got to look.
Cook, no, that's not going to work.
Linger, no, that's not going to work.
Fused. Oh, perfect. This is a movie I realized when I turned it on. I definitely gave this movie a shot once before and straight up passed out before the credits were over with. This movie is so maligned. Everyone says this is one of the worst movies ever made. I think they're crazy. Everyone just tries to watch it when they're blind drunk or way too late at night. Yeah. I mean, it's a quick 85 minutes or something. Just don't watch it as greened out as I was at the time. Had you seen this before, Ben? Absolutely not. This is my third time.
Oh, really?
Yes, yes.
Wow, the three timers club.
Hey, congratulations
of being the first person
since Robert Fuse to watch this movie three times.
I think you just called me a loser.
Was this originally on one of like your little Discord movie mania things that you do occasionally?
It might have.
You know,
I think I first saw it because it was Shatner.
And then I think I saw it on one of those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not Discord, but yes.
Oh, one of them.
Yes.
One of these internet,
one of these illicit broadcasts.
right this is the stream sites
that we don't like talking about
because we don't want them taken down
sorry folks
they're out there yeah they're out there and they could
but if we could you know
pay us for advertising and I'll talk a blue streak
so you can you can fucking play
chicken with the copyright infringement
any day you like
now Ben are you a big Borg9 fan
love love Ernie
yeah big Ernie I mean
I was hoping there'd be a Hawaiian shirt in here
at some point
but there's no time for that
this movie. The devil goes Hawaiian.
I love it. That's the sequel.
Yeah, it's Corbus fucking eating a roast
pig in Hawaii. Corbus Hawaiian
Louau, absolutely.
I also love that he's just corbus.
Yeah. It's great. I'm fucking great.
Unthrown made of pineapple. But remember, this is
accurate, okay? Technical
advisor and cameo in the film
Anton LeVay. Oh, yeah. Pretty great.
Which we all know, the Church of Satan
is real and it's all based on
no, it's all fake. It's all bullshit.
But he probably brought some good
ideas. I just want to hear
like I'm sure he was
very helpful for this movie
but I kind of just want to watch movies
with Anton Leve and like have
him like be like oh no
that's all wrong. That's no
that's just absolutely incorrect. No no no
no no no. You get one of those like
you know those old disc sets where they license
like five or four like random
movies to put in a set but it's all
devil movies but the difference is
in this set Anton LeVay doing
commentary. He's also
long dead. Well, sure.
But he could also
he could comment from beyond the grave.
That's true. Dude, yeah. A commentary from beyond the grave
that would be the highest selling DVD
in all time. If everybody's still
checking in, I would bet on Anton. He seems like someone who liked
current events and keeping up with things. Oh, yeah.
He was a political man, you know?
He liked reading the newspaper every morning. He's got a great
look at this movie. He's got that gold helmet on.
towards the end with the ceremony.
Pretty rad. Pretty red. So, Eric,
this was, this was your, you've been
carrying the torch for this movie, and I think rightfully
so, this is like,
like, Andrew to Chud
is you to Devil's Rain almost.
Well, I think your history with Chud is a little
more storied and longer than mine. I guess so,
but just, you know, your history
of the film and, and, and, capsule
description. Okay, capsule description
is this is about, okay,
so William Ashatner is
descended from a lineage
that portrayed Corbus in like
the 1600s and
Ernie, I almost said, Ernie Hudson.
Ooh, yeah.
Gordon, I wish. Although I'll take it.
Yeah, please.
Borgnine is a fucking,
you know, devil-worshipping master.
He's like the Pope of Satan or whatever.
Yep. And he's chasing this family
through time trying to like kill
all their lineage and stuff. It's a lot of fun.
But my history with it is, I mean,
I only saw it a few years ago. I think it was the pandemic maybe.
Yeah.
Because I feel like only a few years ago
was when some sort of like
acceptable transfer of this movie became available
and not like in full on YouTube
like VHS trash show.
It was probably 2020 and then I watched again
a part of some marathon and it's like 85 minutes, why not?
And then, you know, I was pushing it for actually a little
inside baseball for if listener request
month last year, this past year didn't
I guess this year, 2023.
Still 23.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, Christ.
Oh, time.
Corbis is chasing you, too.
March feels like six years ago.
Yeah, it's okay.
Episode 666 fell on listener request month.
If it had not, I was pushing for this movie to be episode 666.
Yes, this would be a good one.
Which would have been a correct one.
Yeah.
What do we do for 666 instead?
The covenant.
Oh, sure.
That's the witches and the devial in a way.
The new metal witch.
A movie that you definitely remember.
That's for sure.
You remembered so much.
I didn't remember.
that that's what we did
666. I love
the start of this movie where you're
just watching Hieronymus Bosch
paintings over the opening
credits. That dude loved painting
The Seven Deadly Sins, that guy. That's hell
right there. That's what it looks like. It's a fucking
your little bodies being cut in half
and put inside a chicken. That's hell, man.
Was that all the same Bosch
painting? I think so. I think so. Was it all
the same one? I wasn't sure.
It does seem like the same. I think it's the
one I'm... But the credit of it,
says like intro credit paintings by
Hieronymus Bosch. It's possible. I didn't keep two, but it looked
like all the same tints like the red background. It's just like it is a great
where's Waldo of fucked up devil shit happening? Oh and they were taking
their time with that too. They were not rushing through those opening credits. They
were showing you everything. Everything which is great. Dude, give me all the time
with these paintings. Yeah. Yeah, hilarious dudes getting stuffed in chickens. People
getting thrown into bottomless
pits, speared with shit.
Oh, I hate these ones. He always
hides in plain sight.
Is he near the boy being
split in half? No.
Dude, yeah, spot the devil. Where's Satan?
Is he on the boat near where the
shark is eating the man? No.
So we got Ernest Borgne
top credit in the movie.
God bless him. Before the title, right?
He's before the title. Yeah. And then we got
Shat as a co-starring,
William Shatner, he's like the first one
out of the gate there, which I was
kind of surprised about, but at this
point, yeah, not too great. We hadn't
yet made the first Star Trek
the motion picture. No, T.J.
Hooker yet, obviously. This is a
real, am I going to wake up
dead tomorrow? That's, I
kind of feel like Scarritt is more of
the lead here. Like,
Shatner gets some extra
time up top, which is kind of, but
it seems like he really, he brings
the ball into the touchdown. I want,
You're right. I agree. And you wonder if you would have gotten more Shatner if for not the fact he left production for two days to go to a Star Trek convention in New York City.
That's how much he hated making this movie. He was like, yeah, I'll do the convention. I'm done with this fake devil stuff. I'm going to go where the real evil is.
Bring me and all the real monsters. You're going to brand me.
Oh, dude, he definitely gets branded in this movie. I'm ready for it. Put it right on the tuckuskis.
It's crazy, man, because not only Borg9
in this movie, you have Ida Lupino,
another Hollywood legend.
Wild.
Very weird to see her
showing up in dingy 1970s
horror movies, but everybody gets old.
Hey, everybody gets to have something.
Like, that's what I find
what I find funny about Ernest Bordenine is
like everybody, at least
from like a Hollywood history
point of view, like everybody remembers
him as Marty, the very
cute, very shy
Brooklyn boy.
In the titular film, Marty, who can't get a date and, like, is, you know, a romantic hero in a lot of ways.
But then, like, I remember forgets that, like, everything else he did.
He was always evil.
Like, he was just not all the time.
Just disgusting, though.
Often evil and almost unusually disgusting.
So that, like, stuff like this and, like, when he comes back in later years and he's always a villain in this kind of way, he's usually, like, in charge of some evil town.
Well, because.
In, um, he's got a great cackle.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's the laugh.
It's awesome, which he uses a lot in a movie where he's not a villain,
but he is a scumbag, escaped from New York.
Oh, he's the cab driver and escape from New York, and he's,
but he's still a scumbag, even though he's kind of got a heart of gold.
I got to say in this movie, not a ton of the Ernest Borgon laugh, which was a little disappointing.
Yeah, that's true.
You trade that in, you see.
You don't have the laugh, but you have.
And this is really what should be getting
the top billing. You get
goat, Borgnine.
Right. A
be horned
earned his board nine.
With some porcine qualities as well. I feel like he was
kind of like pig demon. The noises
sound more pigish. But the face is all
goat. Yeah. To me.
It would be cool if you had a curly cute tail,
though. Yeah. Show me what's going on in the
behind. Yes.
That would be like, stop pulling it.
If he had the must
and the pitchfork, you could have got the cackle.
Oh, yes, if he's laughing as the devil, like, I got you now.
I did Lupino, by the way, just wanted to mention, as far as, like, she was a great, like, Golden Age Hollywood actress.
She also directed a bunch of incredible director.
One of the ones, it's totally great, and you would really like it.
It's called The Hitchhiker.
Really good.
It's two dudes just pick up a fucking murderer who's a hitchhiker, and, like, he's just in their car the whole time.
I think I saw this. What year is this in the 40s or 50s?
I think I might have seen this actually.
Suspensful.
53.
Yeah, I think I've seen this. It's good.
Directed one of the first depictions in Hollywood of an abortion or straight on abortion
movie called Not Wanted. Very good.
I do appreciate that up front in the credits, they are like technical advisor, Anton LeVay.
Oh, yeah.
High priest of the Church of Saint.
It's all like right there in the opening credits.
Like this movie, unsurprisingly, not released by a major distributed.
movie house of any kind. And I wonder
if that's the reason why a lot of people went
hard on this movie when it came out. I know
it's a shorter movie and certain
things feel padded or maybe it feels a little
dull here and there. But the fact
that you're paying the Church of Satan
is that why Roger Ebert
put this on his most hated
movie list? I mean, I told
you, man, Ebert was a
hardcore Catholic boy. Which is
crazy. You know, I'm sure this movie
he was just like,
nope. Sorry. You know what I
I read most of his review.
He basically just tells you the entire movie, including the ending.
Really?
Yeah, I'm like, why are you telling us the ending?
That is the worst kind of film criticism, man.
When you are like really patting it with like the plot of the film, come on, Raj.
Do bet.
I know it was 1975.
I feel like he was, I read his review.
He was approaching it from a broad perspective and not from like an enthusiast's perspective.
Well, yeah, you know, like he's expecting like polish.
And, like, that's, I'm like, why, why would you expect that from this film?
Are you out of your fucking mind?
The opening credit says, like, it's not this, but it's like a movie house LLC production.
Like, of course it's not going to be polished.
And apparently Borgnine claims that this movie was financed with mafia money and he never got paid.
Oh, well, the mafia ripped him off.
That's surprising.
He said this in like 2010.
So I don't know if he even remembered this movie when he said that.
I think it's amazing that someone was asking him about this movie in 2010, though.
What was it for?
I don't. It was some IMDB trivia. It's probably just a...
Some fan convention fucking poll quote.
Yeah. I got him to say it. And then as I walked away, I heard him saying, wait, that's not the one, but it was too late.
He'd already weighed in?
Ah, the devil's reign. Yeah, yeah. That was a Western version of Shakespeare's Othello.
That's Jubal.
What? What's that? That's Jubal.
What? No, that's the devil's reign. I remember that very clearly.
It's just insane if it's true that he has top billing and never got a dime off of this.
Yeah, that's pretty shitty. Come on.
No, if we can't trust the mafia, Satan, who can we trust?
Exactly. Come on.
Does seem like a good pairing, though, right off the back.
They should make more. They should start up again. Get the boys back together, you know?
Get them out of the nursing home. Yes, it's true.
It's not, what I find interesting about this movie is it's not 100% like super,
anti the church of Satan in any stretch
of the imagination. It seems pretty good to me.
It's like, it's, the movie's like, well, Tom Scarrant has a problem with it.
You know what I mean? But like that's versus like, I don't know,
another devil thing we just covered this month like the exorcist, right?
That movie is very much positioned as like Satan is evil.
The, you know, the power of Christ compels you to cast down Satan and all that stuff.
This movie's like, well, it could be a good hang unless somebody fucks it up for you.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Well, isn't that kind of where we're at?
now. I mean, I feel like
if you hung out with Satanists,
they'd be kind of like
cool, cool dudes.
Everybody's looking at, have pleasure
such as it is. They're wise
asses. That's what they are.
They like a good ribbing.
If you've ever seen the documentary
Penny Lanes,
Hail Satan, yes.
Interesting watch.
It's about Satanists today.
They're still cracking.
They're still doing their thing. And that's the thing.
And that's the thing.
they seem like they're kind of pranksters.
They like being like, oh, really?
Well, how about this?
Kind of stuff to everybody in general.
They challenge a lot of stuff.
They seem like they're doing good work.
But like this is, of course, what I'm always looking for is Satanists in the traditional sense.
Right.
We're killing kids.
Yep.
We're drinking blood.
We're taking souls.
We're in robes and whatnot.
I don't want these do-gooders satanists.
It's fine that they're out there.
No, it's not.
I agree with you.
You're a traditionalist.
in my movies at least
I want to see them doing their Satan stuff
I don't want to see them
you know going to fucking Congress
what? Who got elected?
No they go there to like petition things
and like petition you know
for different it's I mean it's a lot of it
is like oh you say you're so
Christian but what's you're feeling
on blah blah blah oh really
that's pretty anti-Christian
if you ask like it's a lot of that like
they have a good
they have a good amount of fun like poking
holes in like Christian.
People who claim to be Christian, but it's like
fuck the poor and fuck refugees
and all this shit. It's like Captain
Kirk talking a computer to death,
you know, it's like, yeah,
I guess you're, oh fuck, I'm dead.
But it's some like, yeah, it's some dumbass evangelical
so it takes like two seconds to do it.
So we open, we meet Ida Lupino
as Mrs. Preston. It's a dark and stormy night
like setting this real great.
Wait, are you saying that it's
raining outside?
Oh, it is. But right now, I think this is just Jesus. Jesus rain.
It's regular rain. I mean, I sat down and I thought, oh, all right.
You're giving us the rain right away.
Geez, they kind of rushed the devil's rain. You know, you can take long.
Is this about a flood that was really bad? Is that why it's called the devil's right?
Man, no, you would not believe it. Yeah, we called the rain Bruce and the fucker never worked.
It just broke down every time we tried to do the final scene with Robert Shaw. Every fucking time, the rain just
broke down. It wouldn't work.
I think
some issue people have is like the start
the start of this kind of feels very playy.
Well, it's also very like we are
dipped right into a situation
that we don't know anything about. Right.
It's like Shatner runs into the
house. By the way, completely
dry. What's that? Sure.
Dressed exactly like
my father every day of his life from
about 1973 to sometime
in 1995. Like just
a flannel shirt.
crisp flannel and just a pair of dungeries.
The only thing my dad was missing
was the big belt buckle
that Shatner's got in this movie.
And the only thing that Shatner was missing
from my dad was a killer mustache.
So did your dad have this hat?
He's this fucking beautiful hat.
Oh, this wicker cowboy hat?
No, my father did not have that.
But it's amazing.
Father's Day's coming up.
It's a fashion statement.
Oh, I stopped buying gifts for my father
on Father's Day a decade ago at least.
When I saw, I bought him a John Wayne DVD box that.
I saw him using it as a fucking coaster one time.
I was like, that's the end of it gives for you.
Just a hard salami after that.
Something you know he's going to use.
He even stopped drinking, dude.
So booze is out of the question.
It's really, you know, some cheese and meats maybe.
Or a steak or something.
Yeah, I don't know.
The man's very hard to buy it for.
Listen, folks out there, feed your father's meat.
It's true.
Cheese and steaks.
By hand. Yeah, yeah.
Just feed your father with your hands with meat.
Like, you are a traditional Satan.
That sounds very.
Yeah, yeah, you gotta go back, man.
You can't just with this newfangles.
You must feed your father with your own hands of Satan.
You chew it for him?
No, you move the jaw for them if you have to.
Oh, you get a baby bird.
Oh, you want to do it.
You got to eat the steak and puke it into your father's mouth.
See, Eric, I'm not going to tell you how to do it for you.
That's good that you have that system.
I'm going to do it my way.
I'm just dropping pieces of meat in my father's mouth.
Can you ever puke in your father's mouth?
That's not for this episode.
It's a trusted space.
It's a safe space to talk about such things, Ben, if you need to.
Really?
Yeah.
Hey, if you have to.
I've been wanting to get this off my chest then.
You're all very supportive.
Back in the summer of 85.
It was the summer of 85.
And I just finished eating the biggest T-bone steak.
I was like gear up dad
I was four years old
No no
Ben Worcester is older than us
Ben Worcester is 78 years old
Oh really I was not aware I'm sorry
Yeah well you know it's the
It's that young blood
Yeah you do one or two of these rituals
And that's right
Definitely not drinking enough blood in this movie
I agree I agree yeah
I mean instead of blood
What we get in this movie is like that weird
Like ooze
There's a lot of ooze
There's a lot of oozing.
You know, I did not expect this movie to be as oozy as it is.
Very oozy.
This is fucking devil's rain colon secret of the ooze.
It's true because you don't expect it with when you know it starts out.
He's coming in from the rain.
Oh, no sign of the truck.
Oh, Simpson's Bridge has been taken out.
Yes.
They're waiting.
Ida Lupino is worried that the father has not come home yet.
She's worried about something staring out at the stormy night in, in barges Shatner.
Yes.
she's been having dreams that like
the father ate shit at one point
you kind of gather she doesn't give the whole dream
but she's like oh you know
Shatner my son you know
this this is how my dream played out
and your father oh you know
and then this dude
comes home they also have
I guess because it's like a desert
farm kind of thing they have this old
timer John John who just
yes is at the house also
but that's not the dad or the grandfather
I mean he's just a guy
He's just a slow guy they live with.
I think that's husband number two.
I think we're not going to talk about it much, but Ida Lupino's got to have two there.
Back up cock. Yeah, I mean, come on.
The guy's looking okay.
Back up.
Yeah, the guy was the guy's like barely coherent and I guess.
But he is protective.
I mean, when the, when the, when they assault the house, he does try to keep.
Well, he gets a good though.
It gets slammed.
He doesn't do much.
He's a frail old man.
He gets strung up pretty easily.
But first.
The father comes home
with the empty eyes.
And it's like, that's not your father.
And he tells them he's like,
Corbus is out in the desert
waiting for his book.
Give him what belongs to him
is what this dude says.
And then he drops dead
and starts melting in front of the eyes.
And this is where I was like,
I was like, I'm so fucking keyed into this movie right now.
Like this old dude just dropped dead and he's,
oh, what's that?
He's melting.
thumbs up. This is why I thought
it was actually the devil's rain because I thought the rain
was melting him. Oh, like, so
like it's an environmental like acid rain
message movie. Meanwhile, he's putting on his wicker
cowboy hat and it's like, we'll probably do better than that. I would
definitely do that right after I watched my dad die.
I'd be like, where's my fancy wicker hat? He's going to
go out and give Corbus a talking to. But he'll never
give him that book. Not once.
This humongous book, I would not be referring to this thing as a book.
This is a tome.
This is a 100% of a tomb.
The book is inside the house, right?
Yes, it's buried in the floor.
It's like, I pointed at the screen, I was like, a necronomicon.
We got us a necronomicon situation here.
Don't read from that sucker, huh?
Oh, my.
I was like, are we, is this going to veer into evil dead territory?
I was hoping.
I wish the book was spookier or it was like a spell book, but it's just a ledger of
the souls corpus is cool. It's a
total McGuffin. Like it's not
used for anything. It's just something
he likes. It's like a sole
accountant ledger. We just have it
there in the movie that like
pages start getting added
of people who he's taken since.
It's just kind of cool and converted.
He did a bunch of he seems to be working.
I get that. I guess it's valuable in the sense of
like if you are trying to
fight this group of people you know
the list of all the people that have been
turned. Right. Yeah. You know
because that's what it is.
You need to know who you can trust
in the new world order.
Yeah.
And it's like here's all the people
that Ernest Borgnine
has converted
into this cults over the years.
So you find the book
and you're like,
oh shit,
I guess I can't trust
Martin Fife in 1638 or...
Oh, that guy.
Yeah,
you don't want to cross that guy.
Any of his kids,
you know what?
They're going to let you burn alive.
They're not going to do anything
to stop you from burning alive.
I do love like Shatner's like,
I'm going to go out to Redstone
and show him what it's life.
or whatever. And, like, Ida Lupino's like, no, you can't go out there or whatever. And Shatner
just cocking this gun. And he's like, oh, settle this on my own terms. I think John, the
slower guy there is like, that old man in town, it's Godforsaken. It's a ghost town. It's
almost like this is half a Western. It, I mean, it is. This is, I think, the Hollywood's
only Western Satanist movie. Yes. Which adds just, I mean, to kind of,
interject because I know it was mentioned earlier
about the polish or lack of polish
like the western
elements I found actually kind
of polished in a sense
like some of the shots are composed
where like it looks really pretty
I'll tell you this movie shot really well
it's bizarre the production design here is really great
like they just built this old
timey western town in the middle of
wherever they shot this and not only that they built
a New England style church
later on the character Julie's like
that's not supposed to be. Right. Yeah, that shouldn't be here. Do you think like if it was a,
if it was like a Southwestern church, Corbus couldn't get there because it's like,
oh, that's, we're the devil guys. Those are El Diablo. It's a little different. He needs those
Puritan vibes in there. Exactly. But that's what's cool about it too. It's like you got this
old West town with a New England church in it. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
it's a devil stuff. Honestly, you're mixing those kind of cultures. That's not good. It's like
It's like seeing a modern house
next to a colonial
bone chili.
I'm just going to vomit right now.
Gag.
No, but it is when you realize
what the whole deal is,
it's like actually kind of cool
because it's like people who have like,
I don't know if Borgnion is supposed to have been
alive that whole time,
but it's like maybe reborn or whatever.
And it's like,
yeah, I think it's reborn.
They left their like, you know,
pilgrim-esque New England area
and were driven way out.
His soul is jumping or whatever.
Yeah.
How do we know if Corbus has really been born into our beautiful new child, James?
Well, I don't know.
Why don't you tick him a little bit?
Oh, our two-year-old is cackling like the leader.
Oh, man.
He drew blood while breastfeeding.
It's Corbus all right.
Dude, if your baby laughs like Ernest Borgne, you get it to a priest immediately.
I don't know what else to tell you.
That kid's going to have problems.
But so this pickup truck pulls up in the middle of the storm.
And they're like, oh, that's dad's truck.
Shatner races out there.
Uh-oh. No one is in the truck, but like a little wax doll pinned to the steering wheel.
And you're like, oh, that can't be good.
And then like, Shatner hears screaming from inside the house and he runs back in.
And like, these devil worshippers, man, they are pretty efficient with their timing.
Like this house is fucked up.
Oh, yeah.
This old timers strung up upside down by his feet.
He goes out to the truck and it's sort of like a voodoo doll type of thing.
Right.
Of the mother.
And then the house is being tossed and it almost feels.
feels like a poltergeist thing because you don't see anyone do it.
Right.
Then suddenly this John guy's tied up upside down and they cut him down.
He's like, oh, where's my mother?
She's, she's gone over the sun.
Your mother's gone over the sun.
I love that expression for a guest going to heaven.
Yeah.
She's gone up over the sun.
Mr. Tuilliger.
Mom going to heaven, Mr. Turwillinger.
Oh, cousin Burl, really.
I like that all this happened, like the dad melts.
And then they just, they go back inside.
Yeah.
And just start talking about what to do next.
Shatner grabs his gun.
Yeah.
Goes outside.
Meanwhile, the puddle of the father is just sort of like,
it's fine.
Do they do a cut back to that puddle?
Wipe your feet.
They cut back to a shot of that puddle at one point.
And it's like, bleep.
Like, it's like, yeah, I'm still here.
Blab.
Oh, get ready.
Because there's going to be a lot more.
focused shots on puddles.
It's melting. Puddle
Paloza the last 10 minutes
of this movie. And I mean, you have to
imagine these puddles smell
like shit. Oh, yeah.
I mean, I know you're washing it away, so
that's nice. It's a melted person.
Yeah, yeah. And it's a fake, you know, it's not a
real person, I guess.
Whatever this.
Whatever, yeah, I don't know.
There was a debate of that and Shatner
was like, it had its, it's had his face,
it had his clothes.
It looked like father.
Somehow it's made out of a green and red goo.
I don't know how, but it is.
There is a great, like, you know,
we just recorded the November nexus episode
on Search for Spock.
Yeah.
Where Kirk yells,
you cling on bastards,
you kill my boys,
screaming like that.
Dude, in this movie,
there's more shat and screaming,
he's like,
Corbin!
God damn you!
That reminded me of Khan,
the con screen.
Yeah, he's been working on it.
He's many,
years. There's some shouts to the heavens. There's also like, you know, cries of agony. There's just
great Shatner moments in this. One, I feel like as, you know, the T.J. Hooker fellow squad car
member here. Don't want to gloss over that, I mean, this is just a little moment, but I appreciated
it. One moment, like, he took, I guess his mom, right? Yeah. He took his mom and kind of like,
like, gave her a little shoulder shake. Oh, yeah. Snap out of it. I was like, yeah. It's like, yeah.
There's Billy. Cut the shit.
Cut the shit.
But yeah. And then
this old timer, John,
he's Shatner's cutting him down and this guy
started screaming about they had no
faces. They had no faces. That's kind of
like the only thing he's saying.
No, John, but that's inaccurate.
They have no eyes.
They do very clearly have faces.
I spent my entire life
thinking the word facemen eyes.
I was not to
The face was the window to the soul.
I was calling the face, the eyes, and the eyes, the face.
I didn't know why everyone was laughing at me.
I spent too much time looking at that Haramia's Bosch picture.
There's so many faces on there.
Now I know.
I thought everybody got stuffed inside a chicken.
I don't want to turn into a red and green goo man.
Mr. Wicker hat.
As far as I know, he doesn't.
I think he just gets killed.
We do, whoa.
Does he get murdered in this movie?
He looks bloody as shit the last time I saw him.
I don't know if he's actually dead.
Oh, I don't know.
Cut me down, please.
This is embarrassing.
I feel all the blood rushing to my eyes.
Shatner cuts him down.
It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll be back.
And then he's off to Redstone.
Yes, it's like the next morning.
You know, morning comes, you know,
we've been dealing with this all throughout the night or whatever.
The storm has passed.
that's dawn. Shatner decides he's going to drive up to Redstone. I love
Shatner driving this shitbox, like, station wagon car. Oh man. It is a
real clunker that he's got in this movie. It's kind of great. We got some like
Badlands-esque landscape shots.
There's some gorgeous ass shots in this movie. I'm telling you, it's polished.
And it did, it felt like to me a big transition too, which made that all the more funny
because it was like, yeah, I'll be right back.
And then I didn't necessarily know that where we started with all the rain, that they were already kind of in the desert.
Close enough.
Close enough.
But it felt like to me like he drove across the country.
He just, I'll be right back.
And then stay right here.
I just got to get to Nebraska.
But yeah, it's great.
And he drives into Redstone, which is just this abandoned town that I think at the beginning he'd been saying like, oh, I'm just going to go out to Redstone.
And John, the crazy old timer there had been like, no, you can't do that.
Too spooky.
It's Godforsaken.
Yeah, exactly.
But so Shatner drives out.
Yeah, all these like abandoned, you know, old West buildings.
The church is spectacular.
I mean, all of this is really great.
And like, based on where it is, I'm like, either the production, like, built this or this was, like,
leftover filming locations from something else that had run down and they were, like, perfect.
Yeah, I was guessing something like that.
Spawn Ranch.
Yeah, could have.
Right?
Yeah.
But this is where you.
see him wearing this wicker cowboy hat and
hot damn is it stupid like but it's so awesome at the same time
and you know what the perfect like accompaniment to that is
the big giant amulet that his mom gave him let's not forget that
yes she's like yeah wear this around your neck at all times they can't hurt you
bad advice mom well also he should flavor flave sized like brass
amulet like this thing is yeah boy
Oh my god
I love it
It's ugly as sin this amulet
I mean like it better protect you from fucking evil
Otherwise he gets tricked into taking it off basically
But oh you're right you're right
This is where we get Borg9 coming out to meet him
And Shatner's trying to get water out of this like
And what I love about this is like
Corb is just it's like dust
Yeah that Corbish shows
I killed me.
He shows up
and it's suddenly working
because he uses devil shit.
It's freaky.
And then he gives him the old
like, well, Shatner, first
of all, in like, this was like
out of like chaplain or something like that.
Like he's kind of, works the pump
and dust comes out.
Just dust shooting out of it. I just, I laugh.
Here's my thing about what's going on here.
So it's like a trough, you know,
for the water to fall in water pumping.
There's like this tiny
like coffee cup or like a mug.
just like sitting on the edge of the trough
and I was like,
was this like the village mug?
Like everybody come take a drink?
No, yeah.
Hi, yeah.
This is Ernest doing the commentary for the film.
That's Tom's mug.
He forgot it there.
He wasn't even filming that day.
But Tom decided that would be the best place to leave a little mug.
So what we did was we used it as a urinal for the entire shoot.
And then Tom took it home and drank for them.
We never told him.
Find it out now.
Take that, scare it.
Did the green tea taste good?
But when Shatner drinks of the water, it's bitter.
But it's sweet after such a long thirst, isn't it?
Which is great.
It's such a fucking devil line.
It's like, yeah, it's bitter, but it's better than nothing.
The devil is better than nothing.
It's bitter.
That's because it's my urine.
My urine is all around these houses here.
Oh, yeah, William Shatner.
You enjoy in the water.
There's taste a little bitter, doesn't it?
Yeah.
That was the working title for this movie.
The Devil's urine.
I don't know how we can sell a movie to theaters with the title is devil piss.
It's your God who has to clear blue stuff that tastes good.
I have the yellow bitter stuff.
I like this concept that God is pissing on us and we're drinking the beautiful piss.
It's way from being a kid.
clear and blue and angelic
and we call it water. He's well hydrated.
Yes. That's right. No asparagus
in that. I'm not smelling nothing.
The Lord hates asparagus,
dude. Absolutely.
He's like, I should have never
created that. That's embarrassing.
But he loves pineapple so his cum tastes good.
Yeah. Anyway.
The juices too, yeah.
So Borg 9 and Shatner kind of get into it a little bit
here. And it's a weird, like again, the movie
the movie knows more than we know at this point
because Shatner is just like
yes whatever I go up against in there
I know that my faith is going
and it's like he knows whatever he's about to like do
or whatever party he's about to crash
and like us as the audience are like
well what are you facing in there
what the hell are you talking about?
That's kind of confusing
and I saw some reviews saying
the plot is incomprehensible.
That's not true. It's not true.
No. You just didn't, you were on your phone
the whole movie and then when you wrote
your Rotten Tomatoes review, you
sounded like a morrow. Just because
it's stupid doesn't mean that
it wasn't done. It was done.
It's just very stupid. It's fine.
Corbus is like, where is the book
away from you, devil?
Right. After this little water
Tedda, Ted, it's like, okay,
I'm talking to the devil
right now. Let's get down to business.
Where's my book?
And he basically, Shatner
challenges him to a faith off.
Which is so ridiculous.
my notes, Eric. And the whole thing
is like, oh, if I win, I get
my parents back to life and they come
with me or whatever. Right. And
if you lose, the book. And you. Yes,
Borgnan's in you. Oh, yeah. Pretty
great. I gave you my piss. I was the nicest man to you.
Now come to me and bring me my fucking book. Did I
not quench you when you suffered from Thaised? I didn't
laugh when I sawed a hat on your head.
Isn't that nice of me?
I got out to church.
I looked right at your belt buckle
and I was in my head thinking,
man, that's stupid.
But I didn't say anything to you, did I?
I was going to call you a Trek boy.
I didn't do it.
Didn't do it.
But so they go into the church here
and this is where you see.
I mean, this is a great set right here.
I love this church.
I love the stained glass.
Oh, face, whatever you have behind those doors.
It's pretty great.
That's a good line.
It's a satanic temple
is what they've turned the church into
Borgnine does kind of have to feel
cocky about this though. You've got this young
man who comes up
looking for water and afford
presto and like
you're supposed to be like
oh yeah this is the guy who's going to slay me
of course like no
shut the fuck up. But that's what's
weird right is like we
don't know at the start
of the water pump scene
that Borgnion
is the character Jonathan Corbus
that they've been talking about.
But like we learn after the fact
that like clearly Shatner knows
who that dude was like immediately
when he got there.
He knew that he was facing Corbus.
He knows what Corbus looks like.
Like it was a mystery to the audience.
It's not a mystery to any of the characters.
This has been like a long,
indeed like centuries running.
Yes.
You know,
the flashback coming up really sets the record straight on that.
Right. So it's like, you know,
the faith off, such as it is,
is basically like who
can do like the best praying
all of these like accolites
you know these like dudes and hoods and whatever
like doing some sort of satanic chant
and Shatner just sits down in this pew
and starts just doing the our father
the Lord put the Lord's fair here.
You've got to pull out some bigger stuff
if you're fighting with the devil's main minion
you got to get some like really niche stuff.
Stuff I haven't heard before.
Am I fighting the devil?
Well, then I'll say grace.
Thank the Lord for the food.
The bitter water.
Thanks for the grub.
That's all you're going to do.
I would get used to the taste of my piss.
Because you're going to be having it for quite some time.
No shock.
He loses his faith up.
He does have a good line.
I do have to say, I mean, yeah, he does our father,
heart and heaven stuff.
But at one point he grabs, I'm big on the amulet.
He grabs the amulet and he says,
Be my shield against the terrors of hell.
Yes, that's not too bad.
It's shabby.
There's also, I was, because, you know,
the Lord's Prayer, again,
it is like the greatest hit of Christian prayer, right?
You know, Our Father Heart in Heaven, yada, yada.
I swear, though, Shatner added in like a verse
that we never did growing up because I was like,
oh, did he switch it?
But then it went back to the Our Father.
And I was like, oh, you're doing like the hidden lyrics
that nobody gives a shit about.
Shatner. This is some hardcore stuff. I had not
heard the part from the Bible that says
William Shatner deserves more leading
roles in Hollywood. Hallow be
thy name.
At least do like the Hail
Mary or something, dude. If it's
the one that I can remember in full,
you're not doing a good job fighting the devil.
Look, everybody's heard God only
knows. You got to do another
song. Not the most famous
fucking one. All right.
All right. Fine. I will send you
back to hell, demon.
Help me Rhonda. Help, help me, Rhonda. Gotta get her out of my heart.
Oh, you're still here? Oh, fuck. Some people know that one. Not all people know that. So, you know, that's fine. It's not hold on to your ego or nothing. It's not the real crazies yet.
Sure. Oh, great tune. By the way, that's all. I'm picking up bad vibrations.
It should be noted, too, that Borg9, you know, when we see, first see him, he's,
in the cowboy outfit, just like Shadner.
As soon as we get in that church, there is
just, he's in full
reds. Oh, yeah. He is in
full reds. He's got his
organ and everything. Oh, my God.
The guy playing the organ up there
pretty great. I have to say, also
like just another bit of
props for this production, it's
lit so well in this church.
Yes. Like, it understands, like, the movie
understands it's okay to have theatrical
lighting and not like
drawing for realism. Like, I'm
sorry. When all these motherfuckers, especially making
horror movies nowadays, are trying for
realism, it translates to,
I can't see your movie.
Well, that's Jason, that's
Paul Greengrass, that's Platinum
Dunes shit. Like, that was
all like you're, it's not only
the realism, it's urgency.
It's like the feeling that you are there,
right there, there is no distance between
you and these actions at all.
Which is so dumb because it's like, I know
I'm at the movies, man. They can look
artistic in some way. To me, that just
makes it feel more distant when you got like a shaky camera and you're trying to be frantic and I'm just
like, well, that's not how I live my life. No, I don't. But like, I'm not running around. I'm seeing
the art in life. Oh, that's a beautiful lamp. If you were in a horror movie, if you were in a
horror movie, I don't know, maybe not you, but most people in a horror movie would be running
around in shaky cam vision. I guess so. For me, it's a rom-com.
So, you know, Shatner gets outprayed here, hardcore.
he kind of like stands up knowing he's sort of defeated he runs into uh oh here's mom i did lupino
no fucking eyes in her head and she gives a great like giant ass and he kind of freaks out
runs like out of the church right here as they all sort of chase after him oh one oh right
he pulls that pistol right you're right shoots one and corbus has a great line is this your
faith yeah yeah i feel like that that's when he lost was when he had to resort to fighting on his own
turns. Right, exactly.
It is the first of
at least two, maybe three
times in this movie that Ernest Borg9 yells
Sees him.
I love that. A good, like a
modern day set movie where someone
is yelling sees him, pretty
fantastic. I love it. The key problem
with having a faith off between
William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine is that
means essentially
it's an acting off
between Ernest Borgnine and
William Shatner. Guess who's winning?
I love Shatner and all
but it's Ernest fucking Borg Nighter
is great though
I love cheese and all
ham and all
but he does have some great moments
maybe not in this film but
The intruder he's great it
Oh my God
That's a great movie
Oh hell yeah
Yeah
The guy he shoots in the belly
I want to focus on that for a sec
Because we do see more of this like
Those hell slurry
Come out
Yes
And it's like
Is that part of the converting process that, like, your internal chemistry turns into this paste?
I think so.
We reveal later on that, like, these people are now inhabited by souls of loyalists to Corbis.
Like, he's putting someone in that body.
And I guess that just makes the fucking work.
The pipes go to shit.
I don't know.
Oh, is he the problem?
You got a crooked soul in there.
That's why you're pissing green.
No, yeah. Demons don't have nothing, no use for aesthetics. They just fuck up the whole place. You know, your kidneys, your liver, your liver's your heart. It's all just a bunch of muck down there. So Shatner runs out of the church. He's like, I'm still free, Corbus. And then this is where he gets tricked. Because Corbus is like, oh, yeah, you're really nice amulet, huh? Take a look at it now. And it turns into a snake, which is pretty sweet.
And then he's scared and throws it off. Dude, leave it. Leave it. Yeah. That part was fantastic.
Because you get like a little, like a little jump, you know, transformation.
It's a jump effect from like a cheap Star Trek episode, honestly.
And then, of course, Shatner's like, oh, it's great.
He has a freak out.
I think when Borgnine turns it into to a snake, he yells, behold as well.
Oh, nice.
Which is another great thing to yell.
Sees him and behold.
I don't, I think we only get a quick flash of goat Borgnine here.
You don't get the full one quite yet.
Yeah, I think you just get like a flash of it.
Like a fight club, you know, porn in the kids movie frame.
There's like a steady cam here or something going.
Like Shatner's running. Yes. The shot is great.
It's better than 1917.
It is.
It's a great like Shatner tries to run away from them.
Yeah.
And they're chasing him. And like there's a car.
Yeah.
A camera mounted on it driving ahead of Shatner.
Yes.
And it's it's great because the car's moving pretty fast.
Shatner's like going as fast as he can.
Oh, he's hedgehoging.
It's great.
The little hedgehog run of his.
It's awesome.
Get me my gold rings.
I must have all of my gold rings.
Comtails, let's go.
Boy!
So that it sort of cuts
like right in the middle of all that crazy, creepy action
to like a medical lecture that's going on.
And we're introduced to Tom Scarrett here
as Tom, which is nice and convenient.
He's a doctor along with
the dude from Green Acres
as this other guy.
Alan or what is this guy's name?
Oh, I forget.
Sam, maybe.
Yes, Sam is the character's name.
Eric, you told me going into this,
it's Shatner, Borgnine,
you know, I didn't look at the
IMDB page
before I started watching it.
Scarrett one of,
this movie just keeps giving you like,
what? Yeah.
Who is that?
There's several of them.
There's more to come.
Absolutely.
But yeah, so this is,
Scarrett, his character Tom and this other guy, Sam, are these doctors that I guess are talking about, like, I didn't really understand this, but it's some sort of like mental control where you can, if you learn how to harness this internal power that we all have or whatever, like you can do ESP. You can harness telekinetic powers. It's kind of like you can harness the satanic magic through medicine. Come to our free lecture. Yes. And $35 for tickets after this one. But the free lecture today.
You will learn how to do ESP.
And then so Scarrett has his wife, Julie,
played by Joan Prather,
sort of laid out on the table here.
And she's like in some sort of trance
talking about what it feels like to do all this stuff.
Now, we should say, by the way,
Joan Prather,
a little bit of interesting trivia about this lady.
Oh, yeah.
So apparently on the set of this film,
she introduced John Travolta to Scientology.
You're telling me John Travolta is in this movie.
Yes.
That's in the movie.
he's in the movie
he is in the movie so I think there's a big
joke about like it's a cult movie
with a cult in it and
John Travolta joined a cult during it
yeah the Satanist cult is not the worst
part of this film
Scientology hanging over its
head I mean congratulations Joan Prather
for ruining that man's life
and ruining his fucking
Travolta's yes
well for Scientology they run Hollywood
you gotta be that or you know
it was good for a while
It was worse when he needed Pitbull to tell him it's okay to be bald.
No, not the career shit, man.
It's like, didn't fucking invest in seizure medication for his son, who died of a seizure.
His wife, also a Scientologist, died of breast cancer because they don't believe in that shit.
And it's because this woman fucking gave him this book on the side of this movie.
To be fair, doctors are annoying.
You go there.
Oh, put on, take off your clothes and put this on.
let me put a cold stethoscope there. Oh, yeah, you're dying. A million dollars, please.
What does Scientology do? You eat a banana. You'll be fine. I mean, okay. Yeah, that seems easier. A banana
a day keeps the Zeno away. What they say famously. Yeah, you definitely won't drop dead of a seizure near your father's plane.
I mean, all the serious reasons. Yes, they're terrible. But folks, John Travolta barely in the movie,
blinking, you miss it. Yeah, you really. He's in like freak makeup only. But, yeah.
I'm pretty sure.
Technically, his first feature film.
That's right.
I believe that's the case.
I think the trivia says it's his film debut.
Maybe he had television prior.
Well, of course, welcome back.
Welcome back.
There you go.
Hey,
Mr.
Carter.
Yeah,
yeah,
we got the kid from Cotter to be a freak.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We got him.
Can you believe that would be a devil?
I've actually never seen Welcome Back Cotter.
It's, you know, a bunch of,
it's an old TV show.
No, it's mostly garbage, but it's fine.
Mr. Cotter went to the school.
He comes back to teach at it, hence the welcome back.
Yeah.
You know, like Horshack, you know, he was one of the...
In the 80s and 90s, they made like 100 movies about this same exact thing.
What were they called in that?
They were the sweat hogs?
The sweathawks.
I think that sounds right.
That sounds one of the, like, the group of kids and...
Oh, I forget.
I don't remember.
Maybe the sweathogs were part of something else.
Do we think David Miscavage has seen the devil's reign?
Oh, yeah, probably.
He's a man who does his research.
Yeah, it's like, I want to see the projects of all my pretty children.
He's a man of amulets.
Yeah, he saw the little like, that dude will wear your amulet.
He saw the Lily Tomlin movie.
He saw this one.
He saw all the early Travolta.
I just checked it out.
Yes, Travolta, he was in a few TV shows guest appearances.
And then this is the debut.
Had he done the TV movie Boy in the Plastic Bubble at this point or no.
No, no.
Oh, okay.
Before this.
all he has done was an episode of
emergency, an episode of
Owen Marshall Consul at Law
Counselor at Law
Whatever that is, the rookies
which is actually kind of a proto
T.J. Hooker.
Hey now. Stay tuned. Nightmare
the TV movie. He plays man outside
store. Nice. Oh, of course.
A appearance on a show called
Medical Center. It looks like a
ER kind of show.
Devil's Rain. Then he
let's see. If this is 75,
Carrie's got to be right around the corner. Carries around the
corner. I'm skipping some...
Then, boy in the plastic bubble is the same year
as Carrie, then Saturday Night Fever.
Okay, which 77?
And then...
Yes.
So, okay, because Welcome Back Cotter
ended later, so they shifted
up on the IMDB. Oh, got it.
So he started to star
on Welcome Back Cotter the same year
this movie came out. Got it. Okay.
75. So he's off and running now.
Yeah.
but yeah so whatever
Julie's like explaining what's going on
and what you realize after you've seen the whole movie
these visions that she's describing having
during this experience is shit that's about to happen
in the movie and it's kind of funny because she's like
yeah it's all just right here in front of my face
and I feel like I can reach out to it
it's kind of like watching a movie
you're literally watching the movie
it's clever but then I'm acting in it
it's better dude it's brilliant
Yeah, that was pretty great.
She comes out of the trance with a tongue, like, scream that I thought was pretty, like, it was a solid scream.
It's a jarring moment because she is, she is very much like, and now it's this and it feels like I'm in a dream.
And then it's just like, boom, like, just like total screaming.
That's also how she described Scientology.
It feels like I'm in a dream.
Forever dream.
I have a message from your brother.
He says he needs to see you now.
His name's Mark.
Yes.
Yes, Mark.
Which is Shatner's character.
Mark Preston.
Mark Preston family.
So this is Dr. Tom Preston is Tom Scarrett.
So anyway, this big freak out happens.
We cut to the next day.
They've gone to the family house here.
And they're talking to the sheriff who's just like,
this guy does not want to have anything to do with a possible crime.
So for this, for me.
Yeah.
Because it was another moment for me.
I was like, that guy.
I didn't know the name.
I had to look it up.
Keenan Wynne.
Yes.
Legendary character actor.
Colonel Batguano himself from Dr.
Strange.
Oh,
okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I recognized the name and the credits and I didn't look him up.
But yeah, that dude was in a ton of movies.
You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
Oh, yes.
That line is just stuck on my head.
Smaller mustache in that movie, I believe.
Yes.
one you can have crows resting on it
oh it's a big one
he's an old west sheriff yeah yeah it's
a big boy how dismissive he is
of this whole concern it's just like
oh let's miss it from that story is a UFO
yeah he's not having it man he is
he is convinced that this whole thing is full of shit or whatever
and scare it's like all right
well you can't stop me from driving out
he's like I'm going to drive out there anyway or whatever
and he's like well ain't no law against that
I'm like yeah all right
it doesn't really seem like
Redstone, nothing is
happening. Like, it's not like...
It's true. There's no stores open.
There's no restaurants that you can go to.
It's just a ghost town.
Like, so the sheriff has to be like,
oh, well, another long day of doing nothing
and I guess hearing about Ernest Borgnigh.
And the main complaint, like, all the evidence they have
is like the house was tossed and churned around
and the guy's like, yeah, there was a huge windstorm.
Yeah, he's saying like, well, he's also like being dismissive
because he feels like he's got
better things to do because that
Which he doesn't
To be clear
Yes he does
It's called drinking during the day
He recommends
He claims that like
Because of that rainstorm
There was flooding everywhere
And all his guys are out
Dealing with all the people
And he's like
Scarra's like you think a storm
Did that sheriff and he's like
Yes yes I do
He also makes a crazy claim here
That they had
Helicopter surveillance
Of Redstone
And the guy
Piloting the helicopter
Saw no signs of life
around the town and he's like, so
no one's there doing anything. And Scarrett's
like, well, they could be inside somewhere. He's like, no,
no, no. The helicopter guy said
no life signs.
I talked to the helicopter man
today. I also talked to my big
friend Harvey, who's a rabbit.
I just, I
thought I talked to all the important
people today. I talked to my
dog. He told me to kill some people.
He's definitely been drinking
during the day, it sounds like. Oh, yeah.
I imagine it's gotten so bad.
for him that he's like, well, you know, if you'd have just a little nip, little nip of rattlesnake
venom, it actually gets you pretty fucked up.
Oh, that's awesome.
If you don't, you know, you don't want too much of it, you know, because that'll kill you.
Just like a thimble, right?
Yeah, if you just put a little bit on your tongue, it fucks you up in that bit.
Come over here.
You want to meet the helicopter, man?
Come here, Mr. Ratler.
You want to meet the helicopter?
Take a sick of this.
Ooh, here's this thimble right here.
Just drink from this little thimble.
you'll see the helicopter man
Can you feel it?
Your rotors are going there
Going out to the desert
And drop in venom, dude
Yes, absolutely
Oh hell yeah
So yeah, he's like
I'm going to go out there
The sheriff's like
Whatever you do what you got to do
This dude peels out of here
Which is great
Driving way too fast for just a pull out of a driveway
But anyways John is like
They didn't have
He's repeating all the shit from last night
Like there weren't no faces on him
They wanted the book
Blah blah blah
For the seventh time, John.
Eyes.
They notice the pile, the goop pile on the porch where that dad melted.
And because the wife, Julie, is like, what's with this like pile of black wax that's on the porch?
And this dude's like, that there was your paw.
That was here.
He melted.
He had no face.
I sure it ain't.
You didn't want to take a hose to that thing?
You maybe just, you know, clean it off a little bit.
It was a traumatic evening.
The old timer was hung up by his bootstraps.
Oh, yeah, I guess if I saw my father turn to goo, maybe.
How's this for a dramatic, a traumatic evening.
Oh.
Shatners with Borgnine.
And guess who's there?
Lilith, the queen of delights.
Oh, enough of Lilith, the queen of delights.
Yeah, but it's a, it's like, oh, my God, this sexy Satanist lady is going to fuck me.
Oh, wait, it's my mother.
Oh, boy.
That's that's, that's, cut to the mother.
That's a real problem.
Well, it's like a sexy lady at first.
Yeah, yeah, but then it's over.
And then it's just the mother, which is creepy.
It's more of that Borg9 trickery going on.
It made you fuck your mom.
You never know.
I can make you fuck anyone I like.
You got a sister?
Yeah.
You's got horny for a second.
Then I swapped the sexy Lilith for your sexy eyeless mother.
If there's, if there's anybody you're not supposed to fuck, you'll fuck them
because you're me.
So I guess
Lilith might be the soul
that's planted in the mother now.
Oh, yes.
Yes, you're right.
That could be.
Yeah, that's a good call.
There is a logic underpinning all of this.
This is only the stuff
you come from seeing the movie three times.
Three times.
Well, it's 85 minutes.
Folks, you could do it tonight.
It's just rock it.
If you're listening to this at like 11 p.m.,
yeah, you could still do it tonight.
It's pretty quick.
It really goes by.
This is great, though,
because in this whole thing, like, he starts freaking out.
Like, no, I don't want to have sex with my mother.
And then, like, the camera kind of pulls back and you realize Shatner is tied to an upside down crucifix.
Oh, yeah.
And they're about to, like, hang him, you know, upside down from it.
And this scream that the movie tells us is coming from William Shatner definitely does not come from William Shatner.
There are other Shat-centric screams in the movie where it's definitely him doing it.
This is no way.
It's, like, part animal.
It's part little girl.
like whatever this like modulated scream in that's happening right there is creepy as hell you're right they're trying for like a blood curdling scream but they should have gone but just uh you know just shatter do i can't imagine william shatner having such an ego that he hears it over and over again he's like i'm tired of that william scream we're going to have a william scream oh yes just my scream and you get to use it whenever you like and then you hear it like unlike the shittiest movie like terrifier has the williams
It would be crazy if they, it would be great if they had the Wilhelm scream in this, at least once.
The Williams screen. It's more important now.
If they worked it into that soundscape in the beginning, like the,
yeah, all the people are like the sounds of hell.
That's one place.
Also, during like the 10 minute meltathon.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Popping in there.
A lot of people screaming crying in that.
When Scarritt shoots one of them.
Yeah, why not?
I'm hearing like parrots.
Like I am.
I'm hearing parrots in that fucking end.
soundscape.
There's a lot of sounds in there.
You could mix it in.
Devil's rain, dude.
Hell's tropical.
You, I didn't know.
That's where we should get Corbis in the Hawaiian shirt down at hell.
I like to eat the pig's eye when I cook it.
Oh, absolutely.
Pop it into my mouth.
Now, you have to think, though, with that Shatner's scream and the soundscapes in the beginning.
Yeah.
That has to have been technical advisor, Anton LeVay, contributing some.
some info there
So, you know, when we were about
to hang someone upside down
from the cross, you know, this is how
the scream usually sounds. It needs a little
more, a little more bleeding
sheep in there.
Yeah, exactly. Now, when I was
in the church, the king
thing we always did, it sounds funny, but
it's true, we did it. Whenever
we were referring to eyes, we called it
face.
It sounds weird, I know,
but we decided
to do that. If we want to be
technically accurate. Yeah, I mean,
this old man is just repeatedly
wrong about what's going. Because it's like
their faces, yes, are
fucked up, but they're still like a mouth
and a nose and cheekbones
and what? Dead eyes. It's all it is.
It's just dead eyes. I was
having trouble with those eyes. There was a lot
of close-ups of the eyes. I was like
it's no good, dude.
Creepy, creepy stuff in this creepy
movie.
So Tom and Julie get to
Redstone and I love this
this is like I guess I could see people
like arguing right here like
it slows down a little bit
but it's not terribly long and it adds
to like the atmosphere the eeriness of it
I do love the shot they walk by
and this is all the you know this is Beckett Redstone
all the old timey western town stuff
I love the way the movie
plays with you here a little bit like they
pass by one building
and there's a rocking chair out front
that just starts moving and you're like
oh go shit and then the camera
just kind of comes up a little bit
and you realize someone's just jabbed a knife
in the arm of the chair.
So it's that nice thing of like,
yes, there's weird devil stuff
afoot here.
But there's also like,
this is grounded.
These are people sort of doing this.
Right.
Right.
This is also where we get Julie saying that,
oh, the church is from New England
and it doesn't belong to.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just, yeah, again,
sort of just like adding to all the eerieness,
the mystery of what's happening.
Right.
And we're sneaking around,
Scarrett's got this rifle out. He goes into the church.
And this is Julie recognizes the stained glass from her vision.
And it's like you, you then, the person watching the movie, you're like, oh, she's been seeing
stuff that has yet to unfold in the movie. Tom, come here. I can't believe it. I found,
oh God, it's disgusting. I found the original Celtics mascot here. It's here. It's New England.
They've haunted us forever. Oh my God. This little dead cartoon leopard. It looks like
E.T. at the end of that movie. Why is he winking at me like that? Oh, my God. His corn cup pipe!
They do get attacked by a dead-eyed guy and they fall down the stairs. Oh, yes. Honestly,
pretty good. The scariest thing, I think, is falling down. Stairs in general. Oh, my Lord, yes.
Well, that's, that's dead-eyed Travolta. Oh, is it? Okay. Oh, Travolta's who gets them in the house at that one point?
I think when he's like searching for him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. I'm pretty sure that's, because he's like, right, they go in
the church. She finds like
the wax. She's like
oh, this is. They see Shatner's shirt.
Yes, because Scarrett's like, oh,
this is my brother's shirt or whatever. And then
she's like, oh, this is all the wax
that we found on the front porch back of your parents'
house. But I do
love the idea that this dude just sees
a flannel shirt on the ground.
And he's like, this is clearly
my brother's shirt. This flannel
shirt. I couldn't tell you any of my
brother's shirts. Oh, no.
I don't know. Could you
would you know by scent
like if Tom put it up to his
because I was assuming like Scarrett
like smelled a dog
I don't know if Tom scared a dog
no he's a man
it's the it's the crisp
the level of crispness could only come
from William Shadden
right that's true that was a crisp flannel
that's a man who irons his flannel
absolutely
so while they're in there having this moment
there's a big boom outside
and this is a
Dude, it's fucking great.
They walk out and the,
the Scarrot's car has been blown up.
Again,
these robed,
the Satanists,
they put in good wet work.
Like,
it's very efficient.
Oh,
these guys know what they're doing,
man.
They really do.
We learn from the IRA.
Oh,
man,
almighty.
Nice.
So they're borrowing from heaven's soldiers?
Yeah,
they're getting it.
They got their,
their playbook.
But,
after the car blows up and they're like,
holy fuck the car blew up.
One of these creeps speeds by,
this might be Travolta, speeds by
in Shatner's Shatbach,
shitbox car here.
They're like, oh, this is the old
Shatbox mobile here.
Speeds through and they sort of like
give chase. They go into like an old
saloon it looks like.
The other reason I say that is because it definitely looked,
I saw some green felt on a table and I was like,
oh, that looks like a card table.
That was definitely a.
saloon. Yeah. And so they go upstairs
where, you know, all the sex
workers would be in the saloonies. Oh, nice.
Tom, not now. We're being chased.
But then this is,
this is, I think, where you're saying, Ben, this is where
Travolta might come in. It's a goon wearing a cowboy
hat. And he's all
I fucked up still and everything. I could
have sworn the way I was tracking it was
yeah, Travolta had the car
and then they chased him
into the saloon and then he was hiding
and got the drop on him. Right, right.
They tumble down the saloon main staircase.
And as he's on the staircase there,
like they go down and look at him and Julie starts having a vision.
And this takes us back to the 1600s.
She stares into his eyes.
Right.
And we go through the eyes into Puritan times.
It's pretty cool.
It's wild.
And I love that the way we are able to recognize
where the movie has taken us,
like the first clue
is Ernest Borgnine
wearing a pilgrim hat
and it's awesome
he's got my big pilgrim hat
shit I couldn't do folkhor
it's great
and he's all pulled up
with his fellow Satanists
one of which is also played
by William Shatner
Martin Fife who I guess
the descendant
Mark Preston is a descendant
of Mark of 5th
and that is the thing
that again the movie
the movie knows before we do
because Borgnine keeps yelling
out Mark Preston
like during that
during the faith off
and you're like
who the frig is that guy
like what are you talking about
and we only learn here
at this point
that Shatner is Mark Preston
from generations back
sort of a deal
no as far as I could tell
maybe I'll go back
and check the scene again
because it would be cool
to just see him
without all the makeup on
do we have
Travolta floating around
in this scene
I have no idea
I didn't spot him
perhaps I have no idea
I feel like it really would
I like, Travolta's face is so unique that I feel like I would have.
You would have had to have been like, holy shit, there's John Travolta at this pilgrim scene.
But the problem is I was confusing eyes and faces.
Yeah.
Oh, I couldn't tell.
Dude, you know what?
Don't feel bad.
Classic mistake.
But yeah, so Borgnine here is, again, he's like, who stole the book?
Where's my book?
And blah, blah, blah.
And then what basically is revealed in this scene is Borgnine suspects that
Shatner's wife during this time period is
crooked and has told the rest of the town
what they're up to. And all of a sudden there's a knock at the door. And
Borgonite, it's kind of great because he's like, all right, now remember,
nobody's supposed to know that we're Satanous. So once I
open this door, don't say anything about Satan. They don't know nothing.
We like God. God. He's the good one.
God the Father, you see. Satan bad. I know what's hard. This is
difficult. Satan bad for now.
No, we were actually in here denouncing him.
Yes. We don't like him.
No.
But yeah, well, the reason, by the way, that Borgnine is suspicious of Shatner's wife
is because he's like, there's only one member of our clan that's not at the meeting right now.
And it's your slut wife, William Shatner. What do you think about that?
He does. Now, the preacher comes and yells at Borgnan and condemns them.
This dude was in, um, it's not a huge.
role, but I look this guy up. He's in
License to Kill. Oh, boy.
One of the two
Bond movies with Timothy
Dalton. Dalton, yes. Thank you.
He's like a
banker at one point in the movie
that has a couple of like fun
interactions with Bond. That's cool.
So he denounces
or no, he like casts them down
says that, you know, they're their witches or whatever
and they're going to burn. And then...
He goes, what are you doing here? And this guy goes,
God's most holy business.
the condemning of evil.
Dude, get a fucking hobby.
How about that?
Borg 9 spot Shatner's wife in the crowd and yells slut and slaps her in the face.
He is a slap, a slap and run situation.
I was kind of like, Ernie.
My goodness.
I mean, I know you're Satan's minister and all.
But it's a really like shitty version of hit it and quit it.
Show some decorum.
If she says I like Satan, she's lying.
She's lying.
I don't like Satan at all
And so this is what's interesting though
Is like the movie again
I think this is like what
It maybe led Raj to despise it a little bit
These you're puritanical Christians
Such as they're supposed to be
And this movie are played as like
Bloodthirsty
And like there's the one guy
When they're trying to knock down the door to the house
Because like Borg9 goes back inside or whatever
And they lock the door
They're trying to like use a battering ram or something
That open the door
And there's a guy who's like straight up wasted
And he's just like
Yeah!
locked down the door and get them.
And like they are presented
as kind of being worse than the
Satanists who are just quietly having a meeting
in the cabin. Because Shatner's
wife turns on the coven or whatever
and tells everyone about it
under the conditions that
she and her husband are freed.
Right. They burn them along
with everyone else. Confirm then.
Roger Ebert, pro rat.
Son of a bitch.
The wife
shouting after she
finds out that, you know, her deal has gone south.
Vow vowed.
Vow.
Yeah, well, that'll teach you about vows, huh?
But you know what?
Borgnine, it doesn't matter to him.
He was ready to get burned.
Dude, it's hysterical because, like, so it's like,
Shatner and his wife are being burned on one steak,
and Borgnine is being burned on, like, a neighboring steak.
There is definitely some laughing right here, which is great.
But, like, they are engaging in a conversation whilst
being burned at the stake and he's just like
he's cursing him he's like now let me tell
you something I'm gonna follow you through time
I'm gonna kill every member of your fucking family
it's kind of like a Freddie Kruger thing
you just wait motherfucker you just
and it's like the like animated
admittedly like flames are like
rising higher and higher and he's just
like talking shit like totally
painlessly it's awesome
no yeah yeah put some gasoline on it
why don't you yeah make the flames a little higher
and bluer he kind of does the Danny
of you know burn baby bird he's like yeah burn burn burn me i don't give a shit come on fucking
do it there's a lot about like you can't destroy something bigger than life by destroying life
yeah it's true i mean it's true yeah and it's it's the fucking satanist the quote unquote
villain of the movie saying this stuff there's a lot going on devil's rain gang i'm just
going to say why don't you cook your sabs of meat on the fire that surrounds me you sons
of bitches. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. The fipes over there. They're crying. Oh,
we're burning to death. Why don't you enjoy it? Huh? Why don't you puke in your father's mouth?
Welcome to every day from now on. Bring that pig out here. Let's get a spit roast going.
Oh, yeah. Lou-out music is playing. Grill the pineapple, too. Do it all. Make it a big day.
That's the second pineapple reference.
Hell yeah.
It was not going to...
Yeah, juicy.
Big fan.
After this, we get a great thing
of Shatner being led
into the,
into the desert.
Black mass.
Yeah, he's about to get black massed.
And Tom Scarrett going undercover
with a robe.
Dude, fucking, yeah, man.
Love it.
You know, and I don't want to be like
Hong Kong drive a truck through it,
but like, what happened?
How'd this happen?
Yes, I need to see, like,
because they're all marching out.
It's, again, it's a great shot.
We're out in the desert.
All these dudes are.
like be hooded and they have torches and
shit. They did a massive day for
night shot on this. It is.
Oh, amazing. Which like, I think adds
to the... At this part right here,
the big... This was day for night?
Where they're, when Shatner is like
shirtless and they're taking them out.
Yeah. And it's
like, yeah, he just shows up
Scarrett. Like, I need like
scare it just like boom, like
knocking some fella on the noggin.
Oh, we were robbed at that. Taking the roll.
It's a real comical, like, gunk.
So that they're black, empty eyes go to stars for a second.
Yeah, it's like, wait a minute.
Those are stars and birds around his eyes.
Hang on a second.
Oh, not eyes.
Face.
Excuse me.
Ernest Borg Nye starts singing, oh, death.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Dude, we got to get some O death in this movie.
Oh, man.
Great song.
Oh, I was thought you were talking about the music from the group O death.
Oh, brother.
When they seek it to the KKK.
meeting. Got it. He's singing O'Deth. Yes. Okay. The traditional
song. I thought you meant the old, remember the old purchase band? That's what I thought we're talking about.
Yeah. So Shatner being dragged along here. This is, again, we don't see Shatner get the branding, but he's got the chest mark here now.
That's another scene that could have been. I want to see that dude's chest the sizzle. You know what I mean? Just burn it right in there.
Hell yeah. I want no damage will be done to this chest. You leave this.
chest alone. I love that it's William
Shadder shirt off, belt buckle
definitely still on.
This is almost the greatest view of the belt buckle
you get. It is gigantic this thing.
It's awesome. It's a big buckle.
But yeah, so Scarrot's
kind of following them along here.
Corbis starts doing like another
gospel on the mount kind of
thing. Like, you know, the master of
the world, hear me.
I petitioned the
prince of the abyss.
Oh, thank you. I got goat face.
Wait, I lost my line. Hold on. And then the goat and wait. Never. Wait.
Son of a bitch. Because there's like a big boom and like a cloud of smoke. And then here comes Ernest Borknheim.
Oh. Straight out of a fucking Ninja Turtles movie or something here. This moment. This moment. I like, I just, I got to say. Like, we're to me, similar to the shocking screen.
of Tom, you know, like
this moment, they drop it on you
like instantaneously
because he's in the middle of that sermon
that you were saying there. And then just out of
nowhere, boom! And then he's
a fucking pig goat
man. And I think... Huge horns.
He looks kind of like the stained glass.
Yeah. I mean, I think this is like he
now is like the vessel
like the devil is inside him. Yeah.
This is the devil.
Yeah. This is like how they show the devil.
You're right. Because the devil, he's a little aloof.
Is it been prepared?
I mean, out of here, is it prepared?
Wait, is everybody ready?
I was on time.
Places, everyone.
Where's the baby blood?
I thought we would have the baby blood ready before we got here.
What do you mean you already branded him?
That's my job.
Why are you taking away my...
Well, you know, I guess you don't need old Satan anymore.
And I keep telling you people, those are eyes and these are faces.
It's different.
All right, all right.
Just tell me, please.
Oh, man.
Please tell me you've already bathed them in ash.
You haven't?
Oh, well, fuck.
Well, it's just, you know what?
Let's all go home.
Let's go back to hell.
Everybody go back to hell.
We'll come back.
Next weekend when you're ready to be serious about this.
Rank amateurs.
Yeah, totally.
Corbus?
My office.
Y'all made me look like an asshole out there today, guys.
The district manager came and you guys made me look like a real asshole.
Yeah, but so he's like
Cleanse this body of its current soul
Or unworthy soul
And Shatner starts screaming right here
And this is, it's interesting because you're like
Oh, even though this is William Shatner
Captain Kirk himself, blah blah blah
This dude's just getting put through it right now
And it is not going to make it out the other side of it
Like he gets transformed right here
The glistening William Shatner
branded with a pentagram
getting transformed.
His insides are turning into
hell slurry right here.
Absolutely. And they have another
like wax figure right here that starts,
they place it like over a big
like candle cup kind of thing
and it starts like melting into it or whatever
and he's like be sealed by the holy waters
of forgetfulness. And I think this is like
supposed to be like as this fife guy
gets put into the body, he's going to forget
all of the current day, William
Shatner character memories
and everything. Like that person's being erased
and this Mr. Fife is coming
back. Yeah, here comes. Jack the Ripper
will take his role.
And now this is where he starts looking
like Michael Myers with the eye
effect here or face effect, whatever
you want to call it.
And I did some deep digging on this because I'm like
because it's been so, so much
has been talked about the Michael Myers mask.
Obviously, we know it's like a Captain
Kirk mask that the eyes were cut bigger.
Right. Apparently it's
been long rumor that it was a molding of the face of Shatner's face from this movie
is what they based the mask for Captain Kirk on yet
Shatner has refuted that and said that it was from an earlier face molding that was done
like a year prior but there seems to be conflicting stories on I mean that that was my first
thought seeing it once he had the the dead eyes it was like Shatner is wearing the
Shatner mask.
Right? What the fuck?
And even if it isn't like a direct
relation, it's like he looks
just like Michael Wires and he does.
I don't know, Eric. I don't know if
Shatner would ever lie.
I don't know.
I don't know if he could be mistaken. He doesn't usually
do that. Because one of the things Carpenter says
about that mask is that not only
yes, was it a Captain Kirkwreck mask that they painted
white and teased out the hair and whatever
but they also widened
the eye holes. And like in this
movie, four Shatner's
to have the fake, like, blacked out eyes or whatever,
you had to cut a wider hole, you know,
because you're cutting,
because not only you're cutting out the eye, right?
You're cutting out, like, the lower and upper, like, eyelids.
So it would just be a larger hole,
which is what is featured here.
So I would totally buy that.
That's what I got this from.
And also, like, yeah, right.
William Shatner was, like, paying attention
to how Star Trek merchandise was being made.
also it was made for a movie from beforehand don't you think like what was it and of green gables like what the fuck
what was this movie that he's like no it was this other one that happened although i think he's saying like
they had already manufactured because the show went off the air in the original okay so it's like they'd already
made captain kirk Halloween costume so they had done it okay yeah i i feel like a mobster was like
ooh you got this shatlin mask line around it's uh it's Halloween time
Listen, this fell off a truck.
Bing, bang, boom, you're painting white.
You got your boogerman, all right?
We sell these masks off.
We could make $50.
That's right.
I said $50.
50 big ones, dude.
And that's for the whole lot.
So actually,
actually, why don't we just burn them?
You know what?
I know.
It's just a cut loss here.
I love Scarrick getting found out right here because some fucking nerdlinger just
start screaming,
blasphemer.
It's a blast fever because he's the only one in the crowd
that doesn't have blacked out eyeballs.
Right.
He is hunting around and barrobed, you know, watching all this happening.
I guess, I don't know what his plan is necessarily.
Well, he's got that shotgun.
Yeah.
I think it's like, make my way as close to the front as possible.
And then maybe like get Borgnine or something.
And shoot the devil in the belly.
Dude, shoot the devil with buckshot.
What if you miss?
Kill Borgnine and then, of course, all of his followers die just like that.
how it works. Right. Yeah. It's like
werewolves, vampire lore in some cases.
That's true. He finds, a devil guy.
He finds his mother, Ida Lupino,
who has also been turned, and he freaks out over that.
Mother my God. Yeah.
That's pretty great. Yeah.
Also, when Scarritz found out to sort of like save himself,
he just ices a couple of these dudes with the shotgun,
which is pretty great. Oh, yeah. And then he just runs off,
which is the move. You're like super outnumbered here. He runs back
to Rudstone. And this is a great.
he runs into one of these houses again
this might be back to the saloon
there's a guy that he like gets into it
with and he throws him off the balcony
yeah great stunt work here
it's a dude like scarrots really
throwing a stuntman over pitchforks him too
at some point yeah separate guy separate guy I love it
even better so first guy goes over the balcony
and then he's like whew it's kind of like
Lori Strode and Halloween actually she's like
oh got him and then like he comes out
like it's a different dude attacks him
and then this he's got the pitchfork
and I'm like, ooh, pretty cool.
And it's kind of great.
The movie faked me out right here
because the way they're shooting it's like a hallway
and like pitchfork guy comes up from the stairs,
you know, and starts trying to get at scare it here.
And the whole time they're shooting this wide shot,
you see this beautifully lit huge window.
And I'm like, he's going to fucking pitchfork this dude through the window.
And unfortunately, he only pitchforks the guy.
And the guy's like, ha, ha, it's been a tough day.
I'm done.
Shit, that's usually what us devil guys use.
We use pitchforks.
Oh, my God.
This hurts.
What have I been doing to people?
Oh, the irony.
Hoisted by my own petard.
Ah.
Ow, my petard.
Oh, he got me right in the potard.
But then so,
Scarrett goes back to the house.
And this is where, like, his buddy,
Sam finally meets back up with the movie.
and Sam has been like talking to crazy old man John or whatever for a while.
And he's been like mind talking with Julie kind of, it seems like.
And they find the book and they go through it and they've seen now that his brother's name has been added to the book in blood.
Right.
Of all the converts and it's pretty big.
I mean, it's a hell of a mailing list that he's got here for when the apocalypse happens.
The letter from Martin Fife's rat wife, like way back when,
it's just this long screed or whatever.
And I think that's like, is that supposed to be a letter she wrote to like the church
like ratting everybody out and they like got hold of it and took it as devil evidence or something?
Yeah, yeah.
It's a, yes.
They're making a little collage here with all that shit.
But yeah, so, you know, this dude Sam is explaining like Corbyn believes that he has the power
to like take one soul out of a body and put another one.
in it. And I'm like, finally,
we as the audience are ahead of the characters
in the movie because we're like, yeah, we just saw
that happen to Shatner. Like, it literally
just happened in the last scene. But the cool thing
like you mentioned before, Eric, we
do see, uh-oh, the latest
addition to the book, the latest
name is Mark Preston.
And Sam, it should be
explored a little bit more. It's a little bit of a throwaway
line. He's just like, this name wasn't
here last night. And like, that's
the end of it. But at least we know, like,
okay, there is, maybe it's not like
the Necronomicon proper, but it is
a creepy book that has
magic powers and whatever. And it's updated
very, like, promptly.
I mean, it doesn't take any time whatsoever.
They're going right for it. They don't say, they're not lazy
these people.
Good bookkeepers, those Satan's.
Yeah, no, really? It's all about the numbers.
It's all about keeping perfect records. Because if the
devil audits you, dude, you're fucking. Yeah, we don't
even have the ledger, but we're using our mind
to update it because we need these records
together, folks. Oh, we got to
update the quarter ends next week.
We've got to update it tonight.
And this, I feel, is like a little bit of bad editing because it's like, it's night time when
Scarrett, like, you know, makes the great escape from Redstone.
He goes back to the house.
It's daytime.
They have this quick conversation and it's like, okay, well, let's go back to Redstone.
And then it's night again.
And I was like, yeah.
You could have just kept everything like at night.
Isn't there some line too of Scarrett's like, I don't even know where Julie is.
It's like, I got to find Julie.
Let me check the script real quick.
Yeah.
She's in a car somewhere.
I guess they got separated.
There was,
no,
there's a thing.
There's a thing.
Yeah,
we skipped over this,
but there's a moment like after the first like,
Redstone's getting creepy kind of freak out.
Scarrett kind of drives way far away and stops the car.
And he's like,
all right,
you go back to town and tell everybody what's going on,
get the sheriff.
Oh, right.
He walks back to town with the shotgun.
It's actually,
it's a very creepy moment.
she's driving back
and you see
like the camera's just shooting
like through the windshield
and she's driving the car
the Ida Lupino
pops up in the back seat
and then all of a sudden
the car like careens into a tree
the classic the classic
yeah
and so she has been kidnapped
by the group
so that's why when we come back
we're at the same like
big sacrificial mount or whatever
Ernest Borgnine
back in the same red robe
and whatever
looking like Borg9 again
he doesn't look like the devil
but now Julie is carted out
tied to a table and they're going to do a soul
a soul swap on Julie. We should have saved
Lilith the queen of delights for this one and not the mother.
Yeah, that's fair.
But she's like placed on this altar or whatever.
And so like Borgnine has some line about like blah, blah, blah, blah.
So we can see divine fire.
And like she starts screaming.
And then so this is, there's,
they go from like outside doing the shit
to Julie and I guess like whatever they're going to do
they sort of start doing it but then
they all walk back to the church
because this is where Sam
which the actor's name by the way is Eddie
Albert I believe
the
the Green Acres dude
from Alan Dwan's fantastic
rendezvous with Annie. Fantastic movie
if you get to see it ever. Oh is that right?
Phenomenal. Really good comedy. Also Green Acres
phenomenal. Yes. 160 episodes
Green Acres. Oh yeah.
But so, like, they sneak back into the church at one point, and they find, oh, that's right.
The Satanists aren't there yet.
Sam and Tom go into this church again.
And it's like, oh, what's this satanic designed manhole that's glowing?
What could be under here?
And they open it up, like, behind the altar or whatever.
And there's this big, like, glass vase with a TV in it.
And you see all these people, like, screaming and whatever.
And they're like, well, let's take this out of here.
because this clearly has something to do with everything
that's going on. This definitely
feels evil. I don't know how
evil, but definitely the smell
is of evil. And this is where this guy,
Sam, kind of comes in as like
the DeiSX Sam, because
he's like, while you're up
at Redstone that whole night, I did
all this research about what's going on.
And now I have all this information.
And maybe if you flesh this out more, he could be
more like a Van Helsing. Yes.
Like he's just an expert you reach out to.
My brother's been kidnapped.
versus this
a doctor acquaintance
just reading something
I guess
because when you meet them
like it's almost a thruple vibe
like they all are working on this
ESP thing together
they don't seem to have workers with them
well I think it's this like BS
like Simpson and the Sun
magic tonic medicine road show thing
oh man it would be so much better
if they were like hustlers
if they were just like completely
I kind of thought that's what it sort of
was at first but they're at this like
medical college or whatever? I don't really know.
No, ESP's real.
No. Come on.
Scientific studies. It's one of the
threadbare elements. I mean, there's a lot.
Like, we're kind of filling in details where it's like
it could have been better. But they were on, they were on that
mob schedule. The mafia really churns out movies.
We got to get this thing made.
You've got to shoot it in 14 days.
That's all you get from us.
We're going to put the reels and cement
and throw it in the ocean.
Because that's how we do it around here.
but yeah so this is
we're told this is the devil's reign
this is like the jar
that has all the souls in it and that's actually
kind of cool. Yeah and when they do
the close up of it you know you see
like some people
dressed in like pilgrim clothes
others not you know
they're all wailing and crying. It does seem
been brought up Sonic before
I do believe that all the souls would
come out like little birds and bunnies
if you were to drop
this thing like just a bunch of
if corpus fell over a bunch of coins
would fall out. Actually,
Ernest Borgneid,
an absolutely phenomenal
Dr. Robotnik.
Oh, yeah.
In 1975.
Get him in a little floating thing
just trying to fucking torture a hedgehog.
Absolutely.
A $100 billion movie.
The sheriff shows up
and it's kind of a great moment where they're like,
oh, thank God, sheriff you're here.
And that dude's been transformed.
Now, I wondered the thing the whole time,
do you guys think the sheriff
was in on it from the jump, and that's why he was like,
no point going up to Redstone.
No, I think he was just lazy.
Bat Guano's a straight shooter.
Yeah, that's true.
It's kind of cool, though, seeing him, like, walk in,
and the way it's shot is very cool.
Then suddenly his cowboy hat goes up.
Yeah, he looks up and you see that he's been turned.
And he's using an axe, which makes me think
they put in a guy in his body
that didn't know how to use a modern firearm
that the police have.
You're right. He's just like a pilgrim.
I put Lizzie Borden in there.
An automatic what?
Just give me the axis.
I know axes, okay?
But he's easily dispatched.
He falls into the like little well storage area for the devil's waiting.
I think that's a pit straight to hell.
Yeah.
Just a fire.
He just a fireball.
Yeah, yeah.
But so the goon squad comes back here to the church at this point.
And we kind of have the big finale here.
where they're hiding up in the
sort of the organ players nest
there and looking down and they're
you know all the goons are going to try to complete
the ceremony or whatever and this is
like this is a bad
like sort of
too impulsive move on Scarrett's
character's part here because like
he just jumps off this balcony
not even on to Ernest
Borgline like just one of the dudes
and starts kind of getting into it
like they immediately all like
come on top of him and they're like
you know, well, there's like
40 of us in one of you, Scarrett, got you.
They come on top of him.
40 on one. Yikes. Wow. Real Bukaki
situation. Well, that sounds like what the devil
would like. That sounds like the devil's rain.
That's the devil's rain. Yeah, of course.
Spurt, spurt, so
us speak. Where's that
pineapple? There's a lot of
Travolta, like, in
demon makeup here because he's kind of
like the main guy
assigned to like stop
Scarrett and whatever. So he's
kind of scene around a lot of here. And like, if you look at it, like, it is that like 1970s
thin John Travolta face, but he doesn't have any eyeballs. He can't really super tell
that it's Travolta, but he is in the movie. He's got to get his revenge from the, the shame
he got on this, getting bested on the staircase. Oh, yeah. But so then Sam has this really
pathetic, like, he's holding the thing up and he's like, all right now, I swear, I'm going to break it
if you don't stop that. He's holding all. He's holding all.
all the cards because he's got the big fish bowl
full of souls. Just break it.
This guy beefs this so hard.
Like a cultist walks up and he grabs it.
Dude, it is just, I'll take that.
Thank you very much.
I guess I should have just done it.
Dude, save the speech and just
break the souls. You're an old
fucking man. Act like it.
You can't fucking take on the zombie
hoard. Well, he can now
through the power of reading.
Oh, of course. Kids at home, you're listening.
Him and LaVarber and read.
Okay, read things.
Because now Shatner has, he's returning the devil's reign, the jar of souls to Borgnine.
Right.
And this dude starts calling out the wife, his wife's name, remember, what was the name?
Aronesa.
Aronessa, remember Aronessa.
He's done his research.
So he knows.
Yeah, that's right.
He spent all last night reading the rest of this movie.
Let me say some other bullshit names, Clarinetta, Oster.
Yeah.
And then it's like, you know, Borgnine's just.
Like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't do anything to rash.
Because if you do that, you're going to be a creature of nothing.
Pergatory, you're not going to be a creature of hell, which has been pretty nice.
Or heaven.
You're not going to heaven if you do that, just so you know.
And Sam starts yelling stuff about, like, you know, without the devil's rain, he has no hold on you.
You can think for yourself again and blah, blah, blah.
Back here, what is the devil's rain?
Yeah, I've only been a goon for like two weeks.
What's the devil's rain?
We don't think we had that meeting.
Good, like, two sentences.
I don't need anything.
Yeah, hi. New Soul here. Yeah, you got me last week only. I don't know what any of this shit is.
You put me in some guy's body and we're basically the same age. It's just weird.
I just want to be ready for when it happens. I mean, do I need to, do I need a wicker cowboy head here? I want to stay dry.
It's time to keep your appointment with the wicker cowboy.
He needed slicker as well. Excuse me. Yeah, new ghoul here. I don't have a belt buckle that large. Is that going to be a problem? Do you supply the big belt buckle?
for us or what?
Is Corbus, like, the big man?
Or is he more of like a supervisor, like in the evil, you know?
Quick Corbus question.
So Corbus, when you turn into the goat person, are you actually Satan or is it like
it's just Corbus with some devil stuff on?
How's that work?
Yeah, I was actually wondering that too.
Thank you.
New hires, new hires, there's going to be orientation next Monday in the rec route.
There will be donuts and coffee.
We did not intend for Tom Scarrett and his weird girlfriend and the weird scientist guy to come out here.
So this is, I know it's all like advanced level demon cult stuff, but attend the information session next Tuesday.
It seems a little early for it, but according to some requests, we will also have soda and cookies.
Don't worry, we're going to make the best of it.
All going to go to the saloon afterwards.
Lilith will be upstairs.
it's going to be a good time.
It would be good.
Yes, I will be.
Now don't you talk, Lily.
You just wait.
So, you know, there is a great, like, Shatner, you know,
they finally get through to him when he just goes,
Aranesa and breaks the devil's drain glass.
Oh, yeah.
As soon as he does this, the roof of the church explodes.
Oh, yeah.
Awesome.
Do not turn off the containment unit.
That's right.
It's pretty fantastic.
He spikes this thing like a football.
It's really great.
And yeah, someone like steps on the TNT because like we get a big boom.
I thought like it was like the top of it blew off.
Just like because people are still, we have a lot more.
We had a lot of melting to do.
The church, the whole building, you're right.
The whole building eventually explodes.
Yeah.
Masterfully.
Yes.
But this first is maybe it's like just the force of the just goes straight up.
And it just blew a hole in the ceiling or something.
something. But as soon as that happens, I feel like the spell's kind of broken a little bit.
It starts pouring down through the hole in the church. And all these people are like
freaking out and the melting begins. Hell yeah. It's really cool. Like the ending of
Gremlins 2, but with people. But yes. And 10 minutes long of just people melting. It goes
on forever. But we do get insane little mini scenes within it. It's like, first of all,
Tom Scarrett, why don't you wait this one out for a minute? Everyone's
melting. Why are you running after Corbis?
He might still have powers.
Yeah, totally. He's ready to go
toe to toe with the pig goat
demon. Yeah.
Find a good like
overhang somewhere. Take a smoke.
Wait for this all to blow over.
It's going to take some time.
Tom Scarrett.
Underrated mustache or
properly rated mustache?
Pretty solid. I think it's a
properly rated mustache. He's just
not as well known.
as other moustachioed, like Tom Sellex.
Because it never was a lead, really.
Like, even in his bigger movies,
he was always like the secondary character, really.
Right. He sort of went tertiary.
This is sort of an example of a Tom Skirot lead, more or less.
This is, yeah, this might be it.
Like, this kind of is it.
Did he have a mustache in that movie
where Drew Barrymore was trying to fucking poison ivy?
Poison Ivy. Yes, he did.
Because he's licking his lips the whole time.
He's got the thing.
Because he's supposed to have some, like,
that character has like a teeth disease or something.
I don't know
I don't remember what it's called
like yeah I have a thing
where I'm always kind of
my face hurts a lot
and I got to touch it
it's a weird
Nick that the character has
I like to have sex
with 17 year olds
as is the plot of that film
well I gotta go to the dentist
Poison Ivy
technical advisor
Anton
no yeah that's exactly how you do it
no yeah that's exactly it
right there
that's all legit
that's sure
check the birth certificate
so goat nine is trying to like swoosh his head which is a great visual just like trying to smush his head he's trying to kill scarrett here but then like he starts weakening because he also starts melting and so like all of his fucking goat makeup is melting off and his hands are melting off and he can't it's hard to keep a grip on there you know oh yeah slippery conditions on the field all that slurry in the in the in the in the in the
Put a tarp over all the occultists here.
Well, that's what old John did to the dad.
Eventually, he's like, I'm not cleaning this up.
Oh, I'm not going to scrape the wax off this porch.
Putting a tarp on it.
Put a tarp there.
That looks nice.
What am I going to buy a chisel to get it off?
No, sir.
So you're going to wait until it's hot out.
The wax will melt and then I'll just mop it up.
Maybe the dog will eat it.
That'll be nice.
Oh, we got to take the dog to the vet.
He ate a bunch of devil wax again.
Oh, well, okay.
So now the dog is Satan.
I don't know how that has.
happened. Well, yeah, I do, actually. That would add
to the movie of a pack of feral animals
showed up to start feeding on them. Hell yeah,
dude. They're just lapping up all the
goop and whatnot. That would be pretty sweet. Always a positive
I said. Uh, so
in the struggle, whatever, Borgnine falls
into this whole massive
explosion comes out there, which is
pretty sweet. So he's done.
He's down for the count and out of the movie.
Ida Lupino, you see, I mean,
it's cool, but like all's at the same time,
this poor woman. She came
up in classic Hollywood times. Here's she
is pressing a special
effects mask on her face to make
green shit come out of her eye
sockets and everything. Well, she thinks like
man, I acted for Raul Walsh
once. Yeah, I did movies with Humphrey
Bogart. Here I am pressing
Nickelodeon slime
out of my fucking face.
Well, it happens.
This movie has two things going
for it. Like, these are the aces in the hole in this
movie. It's like oozing faces.
Like, whatever special effect they had.
They're like, we're going to get
Our money's worth it.
They accidentally bought in bulk
and they're like, well, we're going to use it all.
Mumbles likes oozing.
What can I say?
Yeah, it's a big fan of oozing over here.
Yeah.
Well, the last movie was bloody.
We've got to have an oozy movie.
We got to have an oozing movie.
Pastoral landscapes and oozing faces.
I want them wet.
I want them all wet.
That's the most important.
There is a really great shot of the organ player upstairs,
also just has melted onto his organ keyboard
which is great.
You'd never see this dude ever
outside of just the arms playing the organ
and it just cuts to his shot of like
just on the keyboard. Pretty great.
And yeah, it just goes.
It just keeps going.
People keep melting.
There's a great one where it's like,
I think it was like a married couple.
You see these two gloopy hands
trying to like reach out
before the moment of gloopitude consumes them all.
It's pretty great.
So romantic.
It's just a puzzle. Everybody's just a puddle.
And eventually they get out of there
and then the whole thing explodes. The church just explodes
and we're just blowing up this church that
we built. Awesome. Was there a
catalyst for, I can't
all the wallowing in the ooze, like I
couldn't, I can't quite recall, but like
was there
something that led to the... I think here's what
it was. Here's my theory. So, remember
in the film Die Hard
with a vengeance. Certainly. Where they
find the liquid bomb
and it's like when you mix
the red and the white together
and then you drop it, it's an explosion.
I think in this movie,
because they're gooping out green
and they're gooping out red
and all that's mixing together.
Oh, yeah.
You see, and then somebody
threw a paper clip on the floor
and all of the mixed goop made the church.
Charlie, you're going to be wearing
that church up your ass!
Yes!
Absolutely.
Corn syrup?
They were just bleeding corn syrup.
But it's
it's a great fucking explosion man this thing goes up and i gotta say for like a cheap ass movie
financed by the mafia they could bother to blow up a set of a church it looks amazing it's great
well if the mafia knows one thing it's explode in things how to blow up cars how to blow up buildings
no no we got the extras for the bodies don't you worry about that no one's gonna find
well it's an exterior shot sir we don't need anybody no no it'll be more realistic
Authenticity.
No, we run a dummy company that makes dummies, and we'll stack the dummies in there.
Don't worry about it.
This dummy's still moving.
Yeah, that's all right.
It's a new one.
It's an electrical one.
It has little things.
Bring me that pitchfork.
Faster you blow up this church, the faster you don't have to worry about that no more.
You know, I can fix that moving one.
What you do is you just crack the neck really quick.
And then that makes them just.
stop. Yeah, that's how the puppet
stops moving. Yeah. It's a factory
reset. Look at this.
It works very well.
So, like, the last moment
of the movie, I think is very rad.
It's like, they run out of the, you know, the church blows up
or whatever, it's scared. It's like, oh, Julie, there
you are you are. I guess, does the friend
get it? Where is Sam at this point?
Is that guy eat shit? Maybe.
I don't think you're ever shown.
He's not because this last shot is Julie
and Tom, they come out and she, like,
gives him a big hug. And then as they turn around,
around. Uh-oh, Julie's actually Ernest Borgnine.
Just, yeah, yeah. I took over her soul and now you're fucking me.
You think you're hugging your wife, you see, but you're actually hugging me. Ernest Borgnine.
I'm going to get married to you. I'm going to live together for 30 years.
Cut to Anton. I mean, like, yep, that's just exactly how it is.
All your wives are Ernest Borgnine. Every one of them. You don't know this.
True tenant of the Church of Satan is your wife is actually secretly earned a
is working. But then that's
the end of the movie and it's
kind of great because these credits
very short because we got so much
of that stuff up front over
Hieronomous Bosch and everything.
The end of it is the last
image that we kept seeing in Julie's
visions, her trapped
in the devil's rain, pounding on the glass
screaming. It's fucking
rad. And then what the coolest part about
it is there's actually like
there's a moment of development in there.
It's not just like we fade out on her
screaming, she's screaming through the credits
or whatever, and then she like stops
and gives up. And it's like, resigning
herself to like, guess I'm stuck in here.
And then the movie, it totally fades to black.
It's a really, really cool
fucking ending. It's a great, great
thing. So is he able to
reform? Does this thing
are they just got spare fish bowls
lying around? Yeah, we always got to have a backup.
Yeah. You got to find
a new one now, I think, like an old
samovar or something. Sure.
I mean, she might be like the first in this new devil's rain bucket.
Yeah, I didn't see anyone else there.
It was just her.
That's even like more terrifying in a way, right?
At least when you're screaming around 300 other people there, you're like, all right, well, at least I'm not the only one this happened to.
Well, he'll get, they'll be, they'll be more fish in that tank soon enough.
For Devil's Rain, too, that never happened.
Oh, too bad.
It's bullshit, man.
I think it should be remade, get a little franchise going.
Oh, yeah.
The devil's snow.
Let's get going here, everybody.
devil's wind. It's a whole movie
about satanic farting. The devil's sun.
I mean, come on. It's just... Oh, sure. That's...
Well, that's just the omen.
The devil's earth went and fire, yeah.
Yes.
Ooh, funky soundtrack
of that one.
But that is going to do it
for this episode on The Devil's Rain.
We'll go around here. Final Thoughts. We'll start with our guest
Ben Worcester. I mean,
a cult classic.
Cult, capital C.
Is it, though, like, it definitely
is not something that was on my radar.
No, people actually don't like...
I feel like people don't like it.
It's not rated very highly
on leather box or anywhere.
Or a lot of people just don't know about it.
That's true.
And I feel if you say like,
you know, hey, devil's rain, cult classic,
it's got to be like a lot of people know about it.
I don't think that's the case.
Right, right.
No, it was certainly new to me.
I can see why in a lot of ways too, though,
because of how incongruous
some of the elements are.
And there is, and there's like...
Well, it's certainly for the people that saw it at the time,
especially our boy Bobby Ebert,
like it kind of was dead on arrival, so to speak.
So it's probably why it didn't gain more of a following.
But there's a lot of fun in this.
Like, there's a lot of fun to be had.
And certainly for anyone where this is in the wheelhouse,
like, you got to, I mean, come on you get William Shedder with a pentagram on his chest.
Hell yeah.
Come on.
That's not enough to get you in the door.
of the Puritan church
to be converted.
I don't know what is.
So it's a recommend.
Yeah, I would say for sure.
If this is in your wheelhouse,
got to check it out.
Chris Cabin.
Yeah, you know,
a light recommend.
I think what people are probably turned off by
is this movie does not have a lot of scaffolding.
Like you're not setting up a lot.
Things kind of hit the ground running.
Yeah.
And if you don't keep up with it,
And if you don't, like, allow it, it's moments of, you know, backstory and exposition and stuff like that.
I can see people kind of getting turned off by that.
But, like, I've watched a lot of movies like this.
They're not, they don't look as good for sure.
And they don't have the star power.
I mean, like, Tom Skirt's fine in it.
But Ernest Borgneye just knocks the shit out of the park.
Like, I love the man.
And he just really goes ham here.
And, yeah, I enjoy.
enjoyed myself quite a bit. Full pig. God damn it. Whole hog, full pig. For a man that was
allegedly not paid, he is not phoning it in at all. Well, you know what? I got to jerk off every
day, so I felt good. I felt good about what I was doing. Estimate a lot. Yeah, no, this is a total
recommend for me now that I've actually like watched it beyond the opening credits, uh, it's a lot
of fun. It's really cool seeing
dudes like Ernest Borgne and William Shatner
and Tom Scarrett in like Scuzbo
horror movies like this,
you know, and Ida Lupino for God's
sakes. I mean, that's fucking great.
No, it was a total surprise. I think it's a lot
of fun. I think it does have an unfortunate
bad rap.
Probably from a lot of people that just look at it and go,
oh, William Shatner horror movie, huh, ha, it's bad.
But like, I thought it was a lot of fun. And it's
really fucking well shot. And I'm sorry,
like, you used a real ghost town
set. It's cool.
Total recommend. It's streaming on Shutter right now.
Eric Siska closes it out.
Yeah, I know it's a recommend for me as well.
I really enjoy it.
Like what Chris says, like it's it hits the ground running so people might get a little lost.
But you have to pay attention to this movie.
Like you have to watch them set the table.
You've got to hear about Corbus.
I feel like compared to a lot of other horror movies, like maybe like a slasher or whatever,
you can kind of zone in and out of those.
Right.
But I feel like if you walk away from this movie for five to ten minutes,
you've, you've, you've lost the thread.
Right.
And maybe that's part of the problem.
A lot of people watching shit on phone.
I'm on my phone while, quote, watching the movie.
Right, right, right, right.
Exactly.
But, uh, kids, put your, no, it's no screen time.
No.
Just pay, you know, just give it a chance.
I think that's the thing is, just give it a chance.
It's a hot little picture.
Yeah, hell yeah.
Uh, but that is a wrap on the 2023 Halloween spooktacular.
Of course, Ben, we thank you for dropping by.
Absolutely.
Catch Ben and Eric doing T.
Hooker, of course.
Hooked on T.J. Hooker.
Yes. Hooked on T.J. Hooker is a podcast, Ben and I do
once a year. Yeah. It's really
fallen by the wayside lately.
Clipping along. We've got some, some severe
life events happening.
Severe. Severely good.
But not a lot of time, but we're going to be back
at it again, wearing the blue, talking
about every single episode of T.J. Hooker.
We're into season four out of, I think,
five. Yeah. So we are, I don't even remember
what the show is.
But we are working our way through it.
We've got to put the foot a little on the gas a little more.
We got to inch that up to cruise control.
Romano, put your foot to the pedal.
Let's go.
We have a ton of episodes already recorded.
So dig into that if you haven't heard the show.
T.J. Hooker Podcast.com or just search hooked on T.J. Hooker, wherever a podcast.
You never know when a Blaming on Outer Space is going to show up, too.
That's right. I said when we miss episodes, I'm going to post an old Blame it out of our space.
But then guess what happened?
I didn't do that.
There are reposted ones that are a lot of fun.
There will continue to be reposted ones once life settles down.
Eric just needs to, he needs to get into his, he's got to put his robe on.
That's right.
He's got to slide into his.
I'm building a satanic temple upstate.
It's taken a lot of time out of my schedule.
But soon it'll be done.
Goatface will be there.
And we will be talking about T.J. Hooker once more.
Get back into that Alfred Molina and Boogie Knight's mindset that you love.
on. Exactly.
But I know this episode is coming out,
I believe, on All Hallows Eve itself.
Oh, sweet.
Yeah, hell yeah.
But, you know, we got a lot of spooky stuff
that came out content-wise here on We Hate Movies.
Again, all of the main feed W-HM episodes that we've done,
which this month included Exorcist the beginning,
the purge.
What are their main feed ones?
I'm looking at Chris Cavend.
He's just fucking laughing at me.
I was about to say society
commentary but that's not
Oh well that's a commentary that's out
Yes of course
So you're going through the spook tag
I'm sorry
Exorcist's beginning
Okay saw five
It started early
So five right
Exorcist the beginning
Bushed whacked
The classic comedy
With Daniel Stern
Sure
Pumpkin head the purge
Pumpkin head
There we go
Purge in this movie
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What was her name on
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It was Gephs. Gelsarian.
It's a Star Wars Witch. So we
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to do a fun movie night tonight, you can watch society along with us. You can listen to Steve
Sadek silently lose his mind, which is one of the funnier things you'll hear this year.
Really fantastic. And that's all over on patreon.com slash we hate movies. Now here on WHM Prime,
the show continues next month. It's going to be November. It's We Love Movies Month. And so Steve
wasn't here. I actually, I had the foresight to look it up.
Thank God.
really, okay, because I was scrambling.
I was going to look at up for you. Because usually you never do that, but go ahead.
Yes, no, I actually was a little more prepared this evening.
Hey, Andrew, what are we doing next week?
Thank you, Chris.
Actually, the horror keeps continuing here on We Hate Movies.
We're talking about Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Oh, G, classic film to get us into We Love Movies Month.
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So that'll be there telling you everything we're going to do
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next Tuesday, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho,
1960, Janet Lee, Anthony Perkins,
hell of a fucking time.
Very excited for that. Ted Knight from Caddyshack
and a little roll at the end there.
Shows. Knives. Shows, knives. It's all there. Throwing cars and swamps. Absolutely.
Big houses. That's right. And shitty motels. All that and more next week when we talk about Psycho. Until then, I've been Andrew Jupin.
Eric Sisko. Chris Cabin. Ben Worcester. Take it easy and happy Halloween.
Sometimes dead is better.
Zombies have entered the building.
They're at the door.
They're coming in!
It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicca Man.
They're coming to get you, Barbara.
He's sick for fucks you've seen one too many movies.
Now, Sid! Don't you blame the movies!
Movies don't create psychos!
Movies make sense.
Side goes for creative!
Put the fucking lotion in the bathroom!
What an excellent day for an exitism.