Tie Me Serial Killer Down, Sport

What's up, and welcome to Movie Meltdown. Now this episode, we are back for another meeting of. The Meltdown Horror Club. Now that's been a good portion of our episodes lately, and that's not going to change. In fact, we're in the process right now of planning out our next several Horror Club episodes, and on top of that, we've just been talking about what we're going to be doing for Halloween this year.

Because yes, it's never too early to be thinking about Halloween. And of course, these episodes are available exclusively to members of the Meltdown Horror Club. And if that's not you already, well, it's easy to take care of that. Just go to MovieMeltdown.com, and right there at the top right-hand side of the page, it says, Join the Meltdown Horror Club. Now, I know this last year and a half or so has been really hard for a lot of people, and that's kind of why I haven't wanted to push the issue.

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A studio hired a handful of writers. Four or five writers. Write me a natural disaster epic. And then they picked Twister. Well, now you had four finished scripts.

One was Dante's Peak. One was Volcano. And so they all went to other studios to shop them around. Here, rewrite this a little bit. And so, I mean, that's exactly what they do is that they hire a handful of writers.

And then once they pick the script they want, there's two or three other scripts finished. So people are like, well, shit, I'm going to go shop this over to Paramount. I mean, how often do you have a movie that far down the line where it's not all about the killer? You know, because you watch that first movie. We spend a lot of time with those kids and we don't even see Mick for like half the movie.

Like it is a good amount of time getting to know these kids. It's all about them setting up the, the, you know, waiting for the tension to show up when he's there. So like it all kind of works on that level. Whereas this one right out the gate, we get nothing but him killing some cops. Yeah, I still enjoy Jack.

I think that the movie is perfect for what it was. It encompassed every character. I mean, everything you loved about, you know, just fun horror that wasn't necessarily a gore fest. This looks dumb, but like maybe there's something else going on here. I'm like, no, there's not.

Only something else. There's nothing going on here. It is the most minimal amount of effort you could put into a movie. I feel like it would be, you know, like maybe too much. Well, I feel like it would be very, very contrived.

It would be like very, very much like, uh, well, final destination again, where they go back to the mental home and get the girl who's keeping herself safe, you know, or they go back to the, you know, the guy who once dealt with this menace, you know, and, and yeah, I mean, it could work, but at the same time, I kind of like knowing that he was so fucking traumatized that you'll never hear from him again. He's under special care. He's basically not good for anything anymore. And you don't really realize it right off. But it's like, last movie, we saw them hand the baton three times.

I was like, here's our main character. Oh, she's dead. Okay, the other girl's gonna be our main... Oh, she's dead. So we did this, and some dude out of the blue becomes...

At least last time, it was all three of them, and it just kept switching. But this guy was. Out of nowhere became our main character by the. End of the movie. It makes it as chaotic for the people watching as the movie is trying to be.

So, the one I did an episode on years ago was Primeval. So, 2007, a news team is sent to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Our director here did Rogue. 2007, an American journalist encounters a man-eating crocodile. This is the same damn.

Movie, the same year. But again, I don't feel like they did it in a way that was just, like, exploitive. Like, I don't think it was done to just be like, oh, look, more gore, you know? It was like, the times it did happen in this movie were brutal as hell. Oh, yeah.

And you were almost not expecting to see it because of, again, of the way they filmed you don't see certain things. And then they just show you certain things, and it's almost even more jarring. Yeah, kind of. I know we put it on our list, but then it was $ 20 when it got released. And I was like, oh, shit, dude.

It is not worth $ 20, I'll tell you that. I spent like two bucks, and I was like, maybe I should have picked something else, man. Really? Okay. It was annoyingly bad.

Well, then that's where it also becomes very, like, Texas Chainsaw 2, like, you know, House of a Thousand Corpses-ish, you know, where he's got decor made by, like, bones and. Which we all have, you know. No, totally, you know. But I just, you know, like, with the Christmas lights wrapped around, like, skeletons and shit, it felt very much like your Twisted Murder Ride haunted house sort of, like, catacombs of evil. Yeah.

If I'm calling him out for anything that's questionable, I'm not saying impossible, but I do not remember in the first movie at any point. Does Mick get involved in like pop culture? Like he is of his own. He is out in the middle of nowhere and everything is just him sort of taking his, his, you know, doing his Mick thing. But he is like of his own little world.

He is not even part of our world. In this movie, he makes maybe three different references. Or other people. And he knows what they're talking about. I'm just like, is he somebody who would be involved in, And paying attention to pop culture?

You can throw on half of his films for pure shits and giggles. And then he's also handed some... Now, unlike Steven Seagal, he's handed some genuinely insane scripts. Yeah, it feels very, if not post-apocalyptic, at least in this country, the Old West, where... As long as you're away from the law, man, you can shoot somebody and throw some dirt on them and move on with your day.

And, like, nobody cares. So it definitely has that, like. Old West feel for America or nothing else post-apocalyptic, which is back to the road warrior. Everything comes back to the road warrior. Speaking of directors that are old and still killing it.

Yeah. That was the one time you see him lose his fucking cool. And I mean. That was like the one time in the movie, and I feel like it was very specific, that they made it to where he was not in control at that point. He straight up was like, you're fucking caught in it.

Fucking fist up against the guy. He was furious. I feel like this is just a great example of independent Australian filmmaking that turned into something bigger and is being still treated the way it was when it first came out. Yeah. I don't think it's being bastardized yet.

And hopefully with the third and the series being done still with the same production crew in the same area, the same actor, and hopefully that's going to be taken with the same care. Again, I think having that original guy still running everything makes such a huge difference. I mean, it's not really even about the money. I mean, yes, we do need money coming in to pay for hosting fees and to keep the site going and things like that. But more than anything, we're really just trying to build a community.

A group of friends that like movies and horror and want to sit around and talk about them. I mean, that's what this club, hell, that's what this show is built on. And it's no fun to go through all the trouble of putting this together and then nobody's out there. So if you are out there, if you're listening to this right now, go to MovieMeltdown.com and join the horror club. Then you'll not only get to listen to every episode, but you can help us choose what movies we're going to watch in the future.

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