About this episode
Movie Meltdown - Episode 616 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") There's no place like Movie Meltdown for the holidays, and this year the horror club comes together to discuss the 2019 movie Pilgrim directed by Marcus Dunstan. And as we make Thanksgiving dinner like the children we are, we also bring up… A Haunting in Venice, The Conference, Bob Clark, Kerr Smith, Psycho 2, the healing power of love, a set dinner for cannibalism, Into the Dark, Hallowe'en Party, look at everyone with a skeptical eye, (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays, iPad finance dad, the elaborate dunking chair, jelly bean flavors, headbutt technicalities, Agatha Christie, the taffy timeline, Psycho IV: The Beginning, doing things as a family and a marketing goldmine. Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for "Pilgrim", so go watch the movie before we listen. "I've seen this movie like four times, I think… and I just turn my rational brain off."
Transcript
Automatically generated, so expect the odd misheard name.
Garfield will not be seen tonight, but will return next week at its scheduled time. Guess it's time for our early mid-morning nap. Instead, stay tuned for the following Meltdown Horror Club Thanksgiving special, where you'll hear them say amazing things like this. Nowhere in this song do they mention Santa Claus or Jesus or presents or any of that crap. So, I say we take it back.
Again, I didn't know that when I hit play, so I was like, oh, what am I getting into? I am nothing but a small child trying to operate like an adult. As far as I know, he's not an orangutan, but I'm kind of picturing it, and that makes it so much better. The metal clinking of shoe buckles. You stay over there, Kerr.
We're keeping an eye on you. Semicolon? Colon? Exclamation point? Apostrophe.
Ah, that one. I don't know the words anymore. Oh, yeah, because it's like Halloween. Yeah, it's between the E's of all places. But it doesn't get rid of one.
So is there a third E that she uses, but she decided to cut out so the weird Americans would understand what Halloween is? It would. Yeah. Being like, oh, hell yeah. Because it's in some big gorgeous villa period piece.
It looks amazing once again. Spooky gothic. I'm like, I love that shit. They did make one Ikea joke because, of course, you did. So now he's like, well, murdering people, people like that in this country.
So he's just kind of. He's not wrong. He's all in on this. And I'm like, more power to you. Keep making these things.
And then once they got there, which was in a set of cabins in the woods, it became a pretty decent Friday the 13th ripoff. That's fun. Yeah, complete with like masked serial killer. So I wondered, I was like, all right, they're crossing over that maybe now we're getting into more of a spooky territory versus stabbing people territory. So I like that she was our internal voice the entire movie.
Yeah. I'm just like, what? No, this is stupid. Why are you doing this? And then we got the cranberry blood fake out.
No, this movie, if you think about it too much, yes. You just gotta enjoy the ride and just accept. They're murderous pilgrims. They're, they're, uh. We should, we should have a board retreat.
The Meltdown Horror Club. I'm all for that. But instead of going to the woods, we just sit on the couch and watch a bunch of movies. Well, I'm not going to the woods. Popcorn, serial killer or not.
Too many other things. Out there, yeah. Bugs. Sunlight? No, thank you.
Fresh air? Gross. So go to MovieMeltdown.com and click on the link at the top of the page that says Join the Meltdown Horror Club. Then you'll be able to hear them talk turkey all year round. It's a quiet celebration with family and friends.
A time for counting blessings. A time to make amends. There's a feeling all around you. You can hold it in your hands. Pass it round the table for all to understand Though tomorrow may take us far away
