Werewolf Ambulance: A Horror Movie Comedy Podcast - Episode 562- One Cut of the Dead (2017)

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

It's a bait and switch, babies! Turns out it's harder to find our original movie choice than expected, so we called an audible (that's a sports joke) and subbed in the 2017 Japanese film "One Cut of the Dead" and truly what a happy mistake this turned out to be. Special topics for your consideration include: films within films within films, sick t-shirts, poking babies in the face, and truly doing it for the love of the game. We talk a lot about our patron saint Don Dohler in this episode. You can hear us discuss his films in Episode 183- "The Alien Factor," Episode 490- "Night Beast," and Episode 524- "Galaxy Invader." Truly an American treasure. You can support us at patreon.com/werewolfambulance and listen to a ton of action movie episodes! We are also getting into the meat of our second season of "Nice One, Mate!" which is FREE EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A PATRON. leave us a message at 412-407-7025 hang out with some cool listeners at https://discord.gg/DutFjx3cBD buy merch at www.teepublic.com/user/werewolfambulance the best place to reach us is at [e-mail] we're on Reddit at r/werewolfambulance sorta on Twitter @werebulance sorta on Instagram @werewolfambulance www.werewolfambulance.com if you feel you really must lodge a complaint with us, please do it on Facebook at facebook.com/werewolfambulance because we are probably not gonna see that, ever. If you liked this, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen! It helps others find us and allows us to continue to grow. Intro song is by Alex Van Luvie Outro song is A. Wallis- "EMT" Seriously, we have the best listeners, hands down.

Hi, Katie. Hey, Alan. Welcome back to Where We'll Family with her. Thanks. I'm shaking. I've had so much caffeine. I'm sweating. It's not even that hot up here.

I'm dripping. I'm sweat. I'm so sorry. It's going to be wild. This is a podcast where in each week... Thank you for welcoming me back to my own show. We discuss a different horror movie. If this is your first episode, welcome to episode 562.

Just got to hear what people thought about one cut of the dead One cut of the dead So we were supposed to do Sadako versus Keiko But when I went to watch it Even though when I searched it They were like yeah this is on Netflix Doi come on dumb dumb it's on Netflix Motherfucker

And then when I actually go to Netflix They're like yeah it's on Netflix in Germany Or somewhere else I see Honestly I'm a bit relieved I didn't really want to watch that You could say no I can't say no

Yes means yes, Alan. So instead I switch for a movie that has been requested a bunch of times with different people. Oh, really? On Shadair. I'd never heard of this movie before. Yeah. It's because I'm not paying attention, I guess. Yeah.

Well, I'm more of the media person. I'm the Joe in this situation. The Joe. Oh, you're talking about a nice one, mate. Yeah. We just recorded our season two, episode two episode of Line of Duty. Yeah. if you want to listen to that, go over to our

Patreon at patreon.com back slash to our alfambulance and you can listen to that whole series for free. You don't have to sign up. No, no. You might have to sign up. You don't have to pay. Yeah. And this economy? In this economy? But we'll take your money if you want to give it to us. OBS.

OBS. So, but now we were talking about one cut of the dead. Yes. A movie that is I feel like I should reveal this head of the gate. Yeah. I fucking loved it this movie. I loved it. I actually got teary at a couple points in it. I cackled.

Yeah. Oh my God. Very funny. When the sort of split happens between the first movie and the second movie, basically, I was like, I don't know if I'm on board for this, like, gimmick. And then by the end, it had completely won me over. I got teary, and you're going to laugh at me for this. Because I was like, I wish Don Doller could have seen this movie.

Oh, my God. Because it's such, like, a love letter to, like, doing what you need to do to get a movie done? That's making me teary. God, we are both so emotionally dysregulated. We are not well. Listen, I'll be

by the time this goes out, I'll almost be in California to play an emo fest. So I've got to get these emotions to the fore. Yeah, we got to get you crying where it matters. Question.

Yeah. This is a serious question. Yeah. Are we Don Doller's biggest fans? I hope so. Does anyone love Don Doller as much as we love Don Doller? Oh, what was the person

who hipped us to like doctor horror movie or doctor something i can't remember what their name was they they and us yeah yeah they won us over to being huge don't dollar fans like if you've not watched alien factor oh my god do yourself a fucking favor stephen aunt ruth come on a man dressed in jeans on the bottom and feces on the top the changing of the seasons i mean it's just beautiful if nothing else go to that film for Atlantis. Maybe someday. I think about that song all the time. I think about they're like kind of a heavy rock band, but the one guy is dressed like he's

in Herman and the Hermits and it's so weird to me. What are you doing, bud? I feel like, you know how our sort of barometer between each other was mausoleum where you decide, we realized the other one was also insane and then realize that we could be best friends forever? Yeah, yeah. As my platonic life made as I refer to you to other people. It's an honor.

Do you think that there's like we should use Don Doller as a barometer for other people? Oh, for sure. You show them an alien factor and their reaction determines whether or not you can love them. Yeah, 100%. And just know that we are judging you as we're watching you watch Don Doleur. Oh, yeah. While you're watching it, we're staring right at the side of your face. They're not enjoying men coming out of tents and flannels as much as they should be.

Because it's going to be a reoccurring theme. They're not questioning why a morgue is in this woman's basement. Or why grandpa has just stopped the car to go take a fist in the woods. Oh, my God. Stephen and Aunt Ruth are my favorite because they show up in other movies and sometimes they're like a married couple. And sometimes I love them so much. Don Doller, God rest your soul. Oh, my God, yeah.

That is making me sad that he didn't get to see this movie. Yeah. But like to people who enjoy. heartfelt be cinema. Absolutely. I feel like this movie is such a love letter to that. It really is. And it's so funny.

Yeah. It's so, it's like lovely and well done. Yes. Yeah. And like the reveals that happened throughout it of like, oh, that's why that happened are so fun and like.

Okay. So let's get into this. Okay. Okay. So this opens on basically like a found footage movie. Right. Right. Um.

Which is in it, it is a 30. seven minute non-stop shot. It's wild. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is your one cut of the dead. Yeah.

I only took notes during that part. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I stopped when that ended. Because I was also having to rewind a lot because it's subtitled and I cannot to screen in that way where I'm taking notes and reading. So we get a woman being screamed at, a woman covered in fake blood, an actor, being screamed at by a director. Right. We get the opening shot of her being attacked by a zombie. then it pulls out and we see the film crew filming this.

Right. And then the director is screaming at her face. Yes. I'm so glad my art is pointless is what I have written here. No one screams in your face. Yeah. This is our art, right? Oh, 100%.

What you all don't know is that I often will cut out where I get real close to Katie and scream in her face to do better at podcasting. Honestly, at this point I'm so, like, inured to it that it doesn't even bother me anymore. I just wipe the spittle off my cheek and we continue. Yeah. Who made you director? You're the media guy. Well, I'm the man.

You're the face. No, you're the man. You're the face. You're the one. You're the face of Whirlfambulence. I'm your sidekeg. Can we start opening episodes with like, and my sidekick, Katie? I'm your, uh, what's the guy?

Andy Richter. Was it Andy Richter who was, never mind. Just cut that. Conan Sidekick? Yeah. Just cut that whole. I'm a real TV's frank in this situation. I'm TV.

Frank. Oh, all right. Dr. Forrester. Yeah, I'm TV's Frank. So. I also have the curl right in the middle of my forehead. It's very good.

I'm actually doing it right now. I've got the bangs. No, no, I did it first. You just look like Danzig. Stop it. Yeah, you do kind of look like TV's Frank. I'm always worried about that man's blood pressure. He's always so red.

Yeah, yeah. He quit drinking after they made the, after they, that show ended. Okay, that's good. Yeah. He's doing well now. Good, good. So the director is like screaming in her face.

He slaps the guy playing the zombie and he walks off the set basically. Yes. After somebody tells him to leave and like go take a minute. So they take a little breaky break. And they talk about how insane the director is. Right. So now we're with the male lead, the female lead. And the makeup artist, I guess.

I couldn't tell if she was like a producer. or a makeup artist? Like, that never really comes clear. I think she's the makeup artist because she's, that's who the character, when she is, when she replaces that character with the makeup artist. Yeah.

Perfect. So they're having this sort of like very stilted conversation. Yeah. About like, okay, well, what do you do for hobbies? Yeah. What an odd question. Yeah. Have you ever met a person who does martial arts who hasn't immediately just been like,

put me in a head. Look, that's their thing. It's true. They want you to do it. Wouldn't you if you could do that stuff? Yeah. I love Palm so much. Palm.

Palm. Palm. She, we find out that the makeup lady now, I think her name is. Now, yeah. Yes. She, um, or the character's name is, she, she, she, her hobby is she's been getting really into self-defense videos. So she's learned how to do this thing where if you grab her from behind, she dips down,

shoves her arms straight up and yells palm. And she says, palm is the important part. Palm is the important part because that's what the guy in the instruction video said we learned later. It's very funny. Palm. But she also tells them

that the water filtration place that they're filming at was also a place where the army was doing experiments bringing human beings back from the dead. Right. Yes, human experiments. So as she's telling them this, there's a loud bang at a door, which spooks them.

And they're all like, oh, what was that? So the boom operator guy runs by and he's like, I have to go outside. Yeah. And there's a blood guy who comes by. He's like, I have to take blood to the roof. The director's demanded there be blood on the roof. Yes. I like this.

Yes. Yeah. And then the blood guy is now outside smoking. And up from behind him comes another person in zombie makeup. And he's like, oh, it's a guy we met earlier who had like a towel around his neck and went out for a walk for some fresh air. Right. And now we see he has become a zombie and he bites the blood guy. He barfs all over him.

He pukes his fucking face. He barfs all over him and then attacks. It's so funny. It's good. In the context of a zombie movie, you're like, oh, okay, yeah, sure, he's, like, infected or something. Yeah. It's very funny. He pukes in his face, and then we get these great, because it's all one shot, we see that, like, we don't see all the action on screen, but we just see an arm come flying into the shot.

Just throw his damn arm into the building. And they're like, oh, this is a great prop. This is really nice. And then they realize. Then they realize when he comes in. They push him out the door with using the microphone stand. Yeah, the boom. Yeah.

And the director is still filming. He's rolling through all of this. Oh, my God. This is filmmaking. True filmmaking. No fiction. No lies. This is reality.

And you're like, God, this guy's lost his fucking shit. Yeah. Oh, my God. When they're playing hot potato with his arm. Yeah. And the zombies just running after the arm and they get him to chase him out of the building. It's so good. It's so good.

There's sort of like a protracted scene of looking at a cell phone and trying to figure out if there's service. Right. There's like long pauses between all the lines. Right. And you're like, this is running a bit long here, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

And we've also seen the boom guy run outside and get attacked off screen. Mm-hmm. We learn about the reviving the thing using chanting a spell of blood. Chant a spell of blood, yep. So the director brings in this boom guy zombie and yells action, which is fucking hilarious. Shubs them in to fight them.

And they're fighting and attacking and the director's loving it. Now cuts off his head, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really good. There's an axe that's kind of going around at this point. The director says,

this will be a goddamn sick film. So they go outside and they run into a van And then they're in the van And there's like zombies coming up to the van So the director opens the door, yells action And then opens the door that the zombies at And we see the cameraman Who's been filming this whole time gets knocked down

Right And so we're on the ground And in front of him are tussling the blood guy zombie And the lead actress And they're fighting And then somebody picks up the camera and they start running again. Right.

She's twisted her ankle. Yes. It only hurts sometimes though because sometimes she just runs. Sure. Like during this part, I'm picking this movie apart. I'm like, why are they doing this? Why is that happening? It's so, it's so beautifully perfect.

Which is what we would do in any situation and any Don Doller movie we were watching. Why is the morgue in Aunt Ruth's basement? Why did you step out of your car in autumn and now it is fucking dead ass winter? Those children have frozen to death. Oh, God. So she runs into a tunnel. She's being chased by zombies. The one zombie I just referred to as the fresh air guy because he went out to

to hunt to get some fresh air. He doesn't look like Terry Gross, if that's what you guys were thinking. No, not at all. No. Not a round glasses or a pixie haircut and sight. Nope. Terry Gross. Welcome to fresh air.

You like Terry Gross more. and I like Terry Gross. Oh, I don't like Terry Gross at all. Uh-huh. I don't know how she's interviewed you for so long. I think she's terrible at it. Terrible at it. Fuck you, Terry Gross.

You know what you're like. You know who you are. So they run back to the building. We learn she's twisted her ankle and she also has a cut on her ankle. Right. And so now is like, oh, you've been bit. I have to kill you. Right.

now is dead set on murdering. And the zombie actor lead grabs her from behind and she immediately does the palm move. Yes. I love it so much. I was like, how can there be another hour of this movie? Like, it feels like we're reaching our natural conclusion. Yeah, it's wrapping up.

Yeah. Oh. We see the, uh, the actor runs she runs into a shed marked with a blood star um and she figures out that her leg wound is just makeup yeah she peels it off she wasn't actually hurt right um and we see a zombie walk up to her and like just see their legs yeah and she's like staring at them at crotch height yeah and i was like it's just a zombie dick you're wrong or just checking that zombie dick out just check it cough well done That's a callback to things that most people who listen to this episode will never hear.

And then the zombie just walks away. Which I have a note, who was that? Who did that? But she goes outside and she goes, huh, look, another axe. Yeah, lucky me. She picks up the axe. Yeah. And then they kind of end up reenacting the opening scene.

Right. because she finds co-star her co-star on the roof and he has become a zombie. Right. Except this time now pops up in the middle of it with an axe in her head and shouts something like, what's that? Because he had killed her earlier with the axe. Yes, right. He's had to kill her because she was going to kill the female lead. Presumably.

Yes. Yes. Then she screams and falls over. Yes. You're like, what the fuck is happening? It's so funny. It's so confusing. It's so confusing.

The director's here. He's stoked. That face, you nailed it. God damn it. Make it the last motherfucking take. She keeps saying stuff like stop to go and he'll stop. And then she'll be like, I love you. And he'll stop.

Yeah. And you're like, this is weird. Why is this happening? Very strange. And then she ends up cutting off his head. Yeah. And then she kills the director. director. The director's like, what the hell? Follow the script. And then she kills the director.

Yeah. And then she walks onto the roof pentagram. Yeah. And we get the title card of the movie and the credits. And then someone says, okay, cut from behind the camera. And that as I have in my note, one 30, 37 minute shot as promised in the trailer. I mean, I didn't watch the trailer. I had no idea what I was walking into with this movie. And then we get a title card that says one month earlier. Mm-hmm. And that's where my note stopped. So one month earlier, we're in a city. A city. And the movie is being pitched to the director.

They're like, so what are you good at as a director? He's like, oh, I'm fast, cheap, and average. Yeah. Which is very funny. I mean, that's me in a nutshell. I'm probably slow, cheap, and average, but yes. So they pitch up the movie and he's like, that's silly. Why would? Oh, oh, you're serious.

So they, they, essentially what they want to do is they want to start a thing called the zombie channel. Right. Where they want to have a 30-minute movie, all one shot done live? I think it's airing live. Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. And it's like, no one, no one will. It's an impossible task. to this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so that we get another title card for One Cut of the Dead as they begin production on One Cut of the Dead. Yep. Already I'm like, fuck, this is genius. Yeah.

So after the title card for now, we get credits for a bunch of people we have not seen yet. Right. Who are the crew of this movie. I enjoy them all so much. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we see the makeup lady from earlier is at home watching. self-defense videos. Yes. And we learn that she is married to the director and they have a surly teen. A surly teen who is constantly wearing t-shirts of movies such as taxi driver, the shining, Scarface.

I was also very stoked about the one woman who's the in-movie, movie, makeup lady wearing the specials t-shirt. Yeah. It's nice to see a specials t-shirt. You know how I love second wave scoff. Yeah, too chatty, according to my job. child does not like the specials too chatty she said that when she was like four i was like do you like this and she was like now it's too chatty she's not wrong she's not wrong you'll think that every time

you listen to the specials stop telling me about this ghost tale mister what's happening here stop saying it so fast they don't let to say too chatty i would like to hear her her impression now that She's turning nine this year, right? Next month. Yeah, next month. Wow. So if we could get a new updated, what you think of it now? I'll play the same song, yeah.

Love this. Every five years, we should get an update on how she feels about the specials. Okay. We'll be still, we'll still be doing the podcast. Well, unless one of us is dead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. We see the director's daughter goes out to film her own movie. Yeah. I mean, it seems like she's got a real crew. She's got a child actor whose mother is on set. Who she calls an old hag. She does.

She's so mean. So we've previously seen the director, what he has been working on, seems to be like a TV show. Yeah. With a guy who needs to cry, and so they're giving him eye drops. Yeah. This is like a recurring, yeah. Recurring theme.

So she is trying to tell this child that she needs her to really cry. No fake tears. No fake tears. And the mom's like, hey, the director said that we could use eye drops for this. And she's like, no, this is art. You old hag. You old hag. And so of course the mother walks off the set with the child. It's very funny. She's like, has to be physically restrained from her. And also her dad has been spying on her. Sure, mom sent him out to spy on the daughter. Yeah. Yeah,

because she's a loose cannon. So I think she's like a production assistant on someone else's movie. Yes. Yes. So now we are getting into the first table read for One Cut of the Dead. Yes. And we see the actor who I previously have been calling fresh air who's like drinking a bottle of vodka. And he's like, oh, it's from my nerves.

Right. It keeps my hands from shaking. Yeah. He is the actor that we saw in the TV. drama. Right, who couldn't cry. You couldn't cry. Yeah. And a lady shows up to be the makeup person, but she has a baby with her.

A new new baby in a ergo. Yes, and this baby has the most intense crying face I've ever seen on a baby. That baby was really sad. Probably because they kept poking it in its goddamn cheeks later. But she's like, don't worry, she's so quiet. Well, it'll be fine. And then the baby

is crying for the entire next like three scenes. And everyone's pretty bummed about it, but they just have to, like, power through. They're, like, yelling their lines over the baby. Over the wails of a baby. And the fresh-haired guy is just balls out drunk at this point. Right. Here's a fun spelling.

We see them rehearsaling. Rehearsaling. Rehearsaling. I like that. We also see that the guy who I think was, like, the camera operator in the movie, in the movie, he can't drink soft water you can only drink hard water or vice versa yeah i think you get to have a hard water because it upsets his stomach he gets he was like or i will get diarrhea i emailed you what is the difference of waters i mean i know people get like water softners if they have hard water

but i don't know why i don't think that gets bottled no and i also don't think it really affects your digestive system very much. No, I think it's like mineral deposits in your water. Like it'll get into your like your shower head and stuff. Okay. Well, it really does affect this man as we will learn later. Oh my God. Oh my God.

As soon as he said, or I will get diarrhea, I was like, oh no. Chek off's diarrhea. Chek off's diarrhea. So we get, we get those scenes. We get mom and daughter talking about mom and hobbies and how she gets bored really easily. And. And self-defense isn't a hobby.

Which mom says earlier, she's like, it's not really a hobby, if I'm really into self-defense. Yeah. Oh, that's so funny. Like, just the stuff that the, this second half in the movie reveals is so good. It really is. And we see dad come home and the daughter leaves the room when he comes home. They do not get on. No.

Well, also he had been spying on her and had to pull her off a set at her job. And then he gets fired on her behalf. So, you know. But I think at this point she also says to the mom, like, why don't you get into acting again? Yeah. You were so, you were a good actor or whatever. Yeah. And she's like, oh, no, no, I can't do that.

We'll find out why. More rehearsals. The boom guy is very concerned about the location of toilets. Yes. Which, same. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I like to know.

I like to know. Just in case. And I don't even have a hard water, soft water problem. No. No. But I'm sure I've told you if I think of like, I won't time travel if that becomes an option to any time pre-toilet. Oh, no, no, no. I do not shit in the woods.

I'm a toilet boy. I'm a toilet girl. Fresh Air tells the director that he's not going to drink for the duration of the suit of the shoot because he is worried that he's going to lose his daughter. Right. He has a photo of her inside the script. And he said, this is like my motive. motivation for staying sober. And it seems to be like a very sincere scene. And then he tells the super sad story about how he was supposed to go meet up with her and he was so nervous that he got drunk

and passed out and missed it. But he's like laughing through the whole story. And then at the end of he goes, but at least it was fun. Yeah. And the director is also laughing. Until we cut to him crying, looking at pictures of his own daughter. Yeah. And then the wife comes in. She goes, what is it that hard? So the daughter and mom are going to come to the set to check stuff out. Right. They are like two hours away at this sort of remote site that they've rented to make this 30 minute one cut movie.

And I'm still in my head, I'm like, oh shit. Like are the, is the production company like the satanic people who are going to make this on? Like I'm still like in the like horror movie thing of like these people. of like these people are doing something evil. Right, because we did see him be evil in the original movie. Yeah. The film within the film. The film within the film.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just for a moment, it didn't sound right. Sure, sure. So we're on the location. They're prepping the blood ritual.

We hear that there was a car accident. Yeah. And that the makeup, the woman playing the makeup artist and the man playing the assistant director. Or the director. The director. It was the director. Yeah.

Yeah. Obviously, yeah. Aren't going to be able to make it. Right. So who's got to step in? The director. The director. The director.

The director. The director of everything who also played the director in the original. It's going to play the director. Yes. And everyone refers to him only as director to. Yeah. And they're like, well, who's going to play the makeup artist? And we look and the daughter has raised the mother's hand for her.

And the director. slash dad is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, she cannot do that. And the daughter's like, but she used to be an actor. She can do it. Yeah. And they were like, he like grabs her arm and pulls it back down. Have you read the script? And she goes, oh, yeah, a hundred times.

Yeah. And she's like, oh, no. That's her real hobby. Dad doesn't want it because mom is intense. Yeah. And so the lead who we learned earlier is the daughter's favorite actor. Yeah, she's got a little thing for him. Yeah.

He's very like, but this is my art. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like a hunky lead guy who wants to do something more intense. Right. He's a Robert Pattinson. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whereas the female lead is like, sure, she wants to do that.

But every time she doesn't want to do something, she's like, oh, my people won't let me do that. Yeah, I think it's mentioned at one point that she's a pop singer. Yeah. So it's just like she has to keep a, yeah. Which is very common in horror movies. Yeah. So, the hunky actor wants to cancel, but the director talks him into doing it. Right.

And then we see the boom guy. He's like, you're the real star. No, everyone knows it. No one will say it. You're the real star. Just feeding into this kid's ego. Yeah, and it works. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So the boom guy, we see him in his stomach is rumbling. Yeah. Fresh air has the shakes. Yeah. And we've seen that some of the. the production company or the TV studio or whatever delivered a giant bottle of sake to them. Yeah.

And the director says to his production assistant, like, just hide this, hide this for now. Yeah. Because fresh air found the sake and now he's drunk as shit. He's drunk it. He has drunk the entire bottle. This just leads to pandemonium for the rest of this movie because they have to keep getting him into situation. It's so funny. Him being puppeted is so fucking funny.

So we see the broadcast start. Yes. There's a room full of like TV executives all in folding chairs watching it in rows. Yeah. Yeah. And immediately the director starts improvising this opening seed. He like really goes over the top. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And fresh air gets made up into a zombie and then promptly passes out in the grass. the loud bang we heard from earlier that stopped the scene was fresh air and the director falling into the door so he this the director has to now puppet fresh air

and they just keep falling down yeah and they're taking really hard bumps and it's really goddamn funny like I know I should be of an age where like people falling down isn't funny to me anymore it'll always be funny sure like farts cavemen laughed that shit. Yeah. Yeah. Ugg loved it.

Ugh. Ugh. Yeah. Ugh. It's just the physical comedy of this third act is so fantastic. And the juxtaposition of like thinking like these people are like kind of shitty actors in the first 37 minute movie.

Yeah. And then realizing how fucking good they are. Yeah. Like when they're actually doing these scenes outside of that. It's really fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And we find out that the whole hobby's scene was all improv because they had to get the fresh air guy on gone points. Right, they had to like maneuver him into place. So they had to like vamp. Pop! So when fresh air guy is knocking at the window, it's just the director on the ground below him moving his hands around. And when he pukes in the guy's face, it's real maubin.

Because he's so drunk. The panic on that man's, like when they cut away from him in the film within a film and now we're just watching him in the film. He is like, get in the hell of me! It's in my mouth. So fucking funny. As they're like stripping him down to put his like prosthetic arm piece on. Oh man.

That's so good. So there's he, and then the fresh air guy pukes on the lead actress's head. She has puking her hair. for the rest of the movie. And she was saying that she was not going, her agency wouldn't allow that to happen. So here we are. Then the camera operator, his rumble and tummy.

Oh, the boom guy. The boom guy. Yeah, yeah. He's got the poops. They're trying to get him back in. And the director's like holding him so he doesn't run away. And he just goes, it's coming. It's coming out.

And he goes, what? Poop. He still shoves him back into the room, though. And so that's where we had seen him be shoved into the building earlier to fight them. Then he has to be turned into a zombie. So he goes outside. And he's squatting in the grass next to the building, crying. Well, like the production assistant and makeup artists are just staring at him.

He's loudly shitting. Loudly shitting. And sobbing. Like, whom's amongst us? And then they have to make him up while he's shitting. Yeah, the director's like, no time. It has to happen now. And the makeup artist is like, ugh.

So she just has to crouch next to him and put makeup on him while he's shitting. So the producer guy that's back in like HQ where like the, you know, they're doing all the shots. It's like, all right, you've got to put the title card or the like the something's gone wrong card. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we've got to cut. and the daughter is like, fuck you, fuck no,

just refers to everybody as old man and old woman. Yeah. She, so he, and we have seen her like trying to get involved earlier and her dad keeps shoving her out of the way and be like,

stay out of their way. And she's wearing like, just an outfit. And then when we see her again, she's got a t-shirt of the production crew on. Because she takes over. She takes over.

She starts directing. Yeah. Oh my God. And she figures out basically how to like make it all work. by going back to an earlier scene and yeah, it works out. Yeah. So there's more improvving that goes on.

The camera assistant has to take the cameraman's camera because he gets knocked down and he has a bad back and he can't move anymore. Yeah, I thought he was like dead for a moment, but he is just paralyzed. They all just leave him because of course they have to. He had told the camera operator, he had told the assistant, his assistant earlier, like, no, you're not ready for this. Yeah. And she keeps having these ideas like, we'll go in and out, in and out. And he's like, no, that's cheesy. And she's like, that's what's good. But now she picks it up. Yeah. She also takes a really hard bump that I was like, is that, is that, was she meant to fall that all? Oh, when she like falls face first? Yeah. It's a hard fall.

Or did they just leave that in? Yeah, I don't know, but it was hard. So we see mom and she has now gone completely off script. And we learn. that she was not she had to leave acting because she gets too into her characters and once broke someone's arm she can't come back out of them she yes she has decided what now is going to do in this movie yeah where she has to kill people like literally because it's a real axe and she yeah they're really worried she's going to kill someone with the real acts and off screen from the can't film within a film her film her her husband says to her like, are you, are you calm?

And she's like, I am calm. I'm dead calm. And he's like, fuck. And then she says that again in the movie. In the movie. It's so good. How does he get his wife to stop acting it? Well, first, he tries to get her from behind and she palms him.

She thinks she palms him twice. Because she palms in the movie and then palms off screen. Palm. Palm. God. I hope I get attacked someday so I can palm. I just want to palm. I hope I never get attacked.

That's so scary. I'll just cry. Palm. Palm. So then he, like several of them hold her arms down against her body while he puts her in a chokehold and choke her unconscious. While she's unconscious, they attach the axe to her head because they need to have had the main actor have killed her. So that's why it's funny when she jumps back up later because she had just woke it up and being knocked out. And then when she goes back down, you see that it's because her husband was lying on the ground and just wraps his arms around her waist and pulls her back down.

My cheeks hurt. It's so funny. So we see that when mom was acting the fool, she had knocked the crane out of some guy's hand. So that is now broken on the ground. Crash on the ground. So they need to have this big crane shot. and this is what made me cry. Yeah.

Because the producer guy's like, well, we don't have a crane, we can't do the crane shot. And the daughter goes, wait, how many of you are there? Yeah. Because they're going to do a fucking human pyramid crane shot. They do a cheerleader pyramid. The reason they kept stopping the zombie was because the pyramid kept collapsing. And so dad would stop the zombie. And then they would go get when it got set back up.

And there's this great, the, the, And Crane Shot is dad standing on top the pyramid with his daughter on his shoulders, which is reenacting a picture from her childhood. That he was weeping over earlier. That I believe he had taped on the inside of his script that she found and now she knows she loves her dad again. Yeah. And so like all this stuff is coming together. They get the shot.

They're all together. They're all laughing. It's this joyous thing of making a movie, making art together. Making it happen. And making it happen. Like overcoming the officer. Oh my God. So fucking beautiful. So fucking beautiful.

Oh. I really did not expect to like this movie. Yeah. And I, after the first 30 minutes, I was like, I don't want this anymore. And then? And then it totally blew me away. Yeah. It just like sucked me in. I loved it. It sounds like Katie Werewolf and Allen Ambulance are moving to the ratings phase of their Werewolf Ambulance podcast. We sure are. Katie, why don't you go first? I'm getting this A-10. out of 10? I so rarely give 10s though.

It's true. And I loved it. Yeah. I adored it. Is it a perfect movie? No, I don't know. Fuck it. Who cares?

This means nothing. But I don't know. Fuck you. I didn't say fuck you. I said fuck it. I know. I will say fuck you. Because fuck you.

I loved it. I, yeah. 10. Across the fucking board. Yeah. Perfect. Like so good. I highly recommend.

Bumbed I took so long to watch it. But like it was just this hidden gem that revealed itself to me. I love it so much. I can't say enough nice things. Yeah, it's so sweet. Thank you everyone who suggested it and like, ah, ah, why is it so good? Because Don Doller. Oh, Don Doller.

You think if we didn't love Don Doller so much that we... Maybe if we weren't 12 years into doing this podcast. Maybe. You know, it's also Fulci. It's also Argento. It's also like all of these, you know, directors who are just like are working through whatever adversity they have put up to themselves or... Throwing maggots into a box. fan aiming it at your actress answer the maggot phone answer the maggot phone but in the end credits of

the movie you see the actual behind the scenes of them making the movie yeah like then it's a film within a film within a film yeah oh that's too much meta meta meta meta that's like some Leonardo decaprio shit oh inception I saw the first half of that and I was like this is boring welcome to a Christopher Nolan film yeah I do really want to see the Odyssey but at least he didn't have to come up with an ending, right? Like, at least just the Odyssey has its own ending. I've been watching so many videos of people complaining about all the things he's done with the Odyssey. I don't give a shit.

I just want to see it. So many good movies out right now. Oh, yeah? I just saw obsession. Oh, did you like it? I did. Okay, I haven't seen it yet. It was really good.

Nice. And you saw back rooms too. I did. I didn't go to the fucking theater. I know how it's, you know my, how I get. I get twisted by being in a movie theater. I'm like, everything's better because it's so big. Yeah.

I watched the trailer for backrooms and I was like, I don't know what this is. Yeah, I didn't either. And then it really hit me in such a, such a bad way, such a gut-punched way. I mean, it's, you know, yeah. I think it was also mad that the director's 20. 20. I mean, to me it felt like this treatise on middle-aged disappointment. Yeah.

And your life not turning out the way you think it's going to. And that hit me, a middle-aged woman who's like dealing with that in this moment. and then they'll know that some like YouTube guy YouTube child YouTube child has made this but I mean he did I think he did a great job but it does have Tuatel Egya 4 in it which made me want to watch it because A I think he's a great actor and B

I fucking love saying his name say it again Chewetel Ege a 4 Say it slower Chewetel Egya 4 Good for you Thank you I had to talk about him on marveling at Marvel's Marvels at some point What's this now?

And I spent a lot of time I'm practicing his name because he wanted to get it right. What's his name? Oh, it's a podcast about Marvel comic books hosted by John Othin and Joe Seff. And they get together and they talk about a character each week or an event. And I used to be their moderator, but then I couldn't moderate anymore. Because there was one podcast to rule them all. And that was this one.

Katie. Alan. Can I read you an email that we got while we were recording this? No way. Wow, this is live. This is happening now. This is breaking news. This is breaking news.

This is the email within the email. Go forward. Hi, Alan and Katie. Did you pre-screen this one? I read it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hi, Ellen, Katie. Katie's a cunt.

Here's my thoughts on my comp. Also, cops are great. What's wrong with you? Great. Mine comp, great. Also, cop's great. Katie, not great. She says all these things.

Yeah, Alan says them too, but she's a she. But she and her stupid woman's body. I just hear these words bouncing around in her uterus, and it's really gross. It's weird because women don't exist, as per the mythology of this show. But go on. This person's like, I just wanted to say hi. So out of the gate, it's A-L-L-E-N, not A-L-L-A-N, but very close. Closer than a lot of people get.

The double L, that's an effort. Yeah, yeah. You put in the effort. Hi, Ellen and Katie. Discovered your absolute gem of a podcast while I'm on holiday in Abitha. Oh, you're in Ibita? Yeah. I want to go to Ibita.

Yeah. Why you invite us, buddy? Also, imagine being in, like, paradise and being like, I'll listen to these two fucking bozos. Yap from an attic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Been listening to two episodes such as The Beyond Nightmare City and Dawn of the Dead, 1978, et cetera, as they are some of my favorite movies. Love how you guys bounce off each other so well. Your show is so entertaining.

Keep up the good work from Tim. Thanks, Tim. I hope you're having a nice time in Ibita. Tim, do me a favor. Go swim in the fucking Mediterranean and take these headphones out. Oh, buddy. Go have some touch sand, Tim. No, that's, no, that's super sweet.

And I'm, I hope that every time you listen to us, it transports you back to Abita. Oh, how beautiful that would be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Do you have anything like that? Do you have a thing that, like, when you hear a thing, it transports you to a place?

Yeah, I listen to a lot of podcasts while I'm running. Okay. So there are certain things that, like, will remind me of, like, really suffering or, like, feeling real proud of myself. Sure. Yeah, yeah. What about you? I have a very tactile memory of every time I hear the album

Facelift by Allison Chains. Uh-huh. I think about being, like, 14 or 15 years old and playing Castlevania in my bedroom Yeah Castlevania was cool Oh Castlevania was great man

Castlevania too was good too Yeah yeah tough fucking games though A lot of jumping yeah But thank you Tim That was very kind of you And I'm so welcome welcome to the family Mia Amelia And I like that you're on the Italian horror tip

Yeah And Nightmare City What a fucking gem Hey which one is Nightmare City? We just did that movie It's the one that they come off the airplane in the beginning and then at the end of the movie It's that again.

That's one of your favorite movies, Tim. Whoops. I think I, I think I abhorred it. Tim, I own it on DVD. I fucking love that movie. Well, you and Tim can talk about it while you dance and drink cocktails. To a DJ set by Lindsay Lohan. Yes.

Isn't that where she hangs out? Probably. Yeah. How would I know? God bless Lindsay Lohan. God protect Lindsay Lohan. God keep Lindsay Lohan. Dear Lord baby Jesus.

Get down on my knees every night and pray. Please protect Lindsay Lohan. She's a true gem of your flock. Listen, we didn't pick a movie for next week. We didn't pick a movie for next week because we're not doing an episode next week. You're goddamn right. Next week, I'm on vacation. Alan is going to be playing his emo fest.

Guys, it's happening. It's happening. I'm scared and excited for you. It's going to go great. That's going to go great. There's a few things I'm very good at in this world. And I feel like being in an emo band is one of them. I would say there's more than a few.

But being in an emo band is certainly one of them. So I think it's going to go. You've certainly got the experience. It's true. I've got a lot of emotions. Okay. So next week we're going to put out a Patreon episode on the main feed. And hopefully that'll suck you guys into joining our Patreon, which is patreon.com,

backslash, whirlf ambulance. Like I said earlier, you can go there and listen to Nice One Mate for free. That's our Line of Duty rewatch podcast. One of the dumbest ideas we've ever had, but it's real fun for us. And or, we love it. And and. And we're doing an action movie every month over there. So there will be a new one of those soon.

Yeah. Yeah, we've got to talk about that. So if you think of a, if you're on vacation somewhere in the sand with your feet in the water, listen to this podcast. think good thoughts for Katie on her vacation and me on my emo's. Yeah. And we'll think good thoughts for you. Yeah.

Because we love you. Because we've been thinking good, good things about you. I love when you drop a descendant's reference on me. You know it. It's just the weight of my heart. I'm so charmed. Stop it. These shoes are dirty and so are you.

I don't like that one as much. Hey, have a good week off. Yeah, you too. All right. And we hope you all have a good week off. And we'll see you back soon. Yeah. Although you're probably listening to this in five years

and you're just like, I'm listening to this at 3.5 speed and just going on to the next episode because I like to hear chipmunks screaming at me. They've both been dead for at least a year. Fuck. Hope not. No, I hope not too. Jeez, that'd be awful. No.

No, we're going to live forever. I love you, buddy. I love you, buddy. I love you, too. Yeah. Holy ghost. All right. All right.

Well, let's on that fucking morbid note. Let's go on vacation. Peace out, motherfuckers. Bye. Bye.