WUH: October 2022

Sure just come up like regular chickens. Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, the world's greatest horror movie podcast. On this episode, my weird dad and I will be talking about Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, recollections of horror. This is Mark Beagley, your host. It is a lovely, dreary, rainy November morning.

This is what I like to call an eraser Head day. Guys, just did just cut them up like regular chickens. Sure just come up like regular chickens. A day where I would normally watch that film and or the eraser Head stories on that old DVD I have that I bought from Lynch's site. Oh God, almost twenty years ago now, but I watched it last week on what was supposed to be a cloudy day.

Then being a sunny day kind of ruined the vibe. But anyway, I don't know if the rain will appear in the background of this recording. Oh I may add rain sounds instead of music as the ambiance for this episode, A great idea. Anyway, This is my October Watches, and I'm doing it a little differently this time and giving my watches first and saving Cleo and my discussion for after the break, so we'll go out on a bang with she and I talking about the movies that we watched over hollow. October was a weird month for watches.

I didn't I didn't watch a movie until October seventh, and that was mainly because of recordings and editing, so recording with Chris for either the Jordan Peels a while ago, I guess for the m Night Shamalan episode which is out, which I have, and he has the Angel Heart episode for Wake Up Heavy that was recorded on the first of October, and it took me a while to edit that. It didn't get to a movie until the seventh. Figured out my month is shot. This is spooky movie month. I'm blowing it.

But with that last weekend of the month and my daughter having that Monday off, we got in quite a few movies that way. For me. For rewatches, most of this consisted of things for the Barfly episodes, so all the Pikowski adaptations, including Factotum, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Crazy Love, and Barfly. And I got a couple of new things in there which will be later. Because Chris and I did an episode on Halloween ends, I rewatched the first two of the original franchise series.

I have a soft spot for Halloween Two Girls, that's Michael Meyer's sister. I talk all about that on that episode. I don't believe I have that one, so you'll have to go to Culture Cast for the Halloween Ends episode. During October, of course, TCM plays a bunch of older spooky movies on Monday's. The last couple of years, they've had Mario Cantone on with Ben Makowitz to introduce a couple of films that he picks, and I tried to catch as many of those as possible.

The ones that I missed, I would go back when they were on demand and watch the intros and outros with them because I loved their rapport. On the twenty fourth, they had what might possibly be the greatest programming lineup of TCMs history, at least for my tastes. They started with Creepy Loaners, so this whole night was creepy cinema. And so the two movies that Mario had been introduced were The Little Girl who Lives Down the Lane and Alice, Sweet Alice, which I've done episodes on, and then for the rest of the evening they had the Hunting of Julia, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Carnival of Souls, Spider Baby and Freaks, and those first two Hunting of Julia and Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Also kind of done episodes on the Hunting of Julia stuff that I did with Simon FitzJohn.

It looked amazing. I recorded it, so I have it. That is finally, if you listen to those episodes that I did with Simon and his work on getting the negative for this to get it rereleased has finally come to fruition. They are working on the restoration the remastering of that negative right now, so hopefully I get a chance to talk to Simon before that's released. I couldn't be happier for him.

He's been in a ton of work. So I have this on my DVR until that blue ray comes out. And it looked amazing, so I watched. I didn't watch necessarily all of those. I watched the intros for them.

I did watch The Hunting of Julia in that same vein another Mia Farah movie. I don't think it was shown that night, but around the same time, Secret Ceremony with a really weird movie with her and Elizabeth Taylor, which I talked about on that Mia Fara episode ages ago. My last rewatch of the month was something completely different, Airplane, and there's a reason for that, a new project that Chris, Mike and I are doing, actually recording the first episode tonight. More on that soon. There'll be a whole new podcast, limited series podcast that'll probably last about ten weeks, possibly starting in December or January.

More on that later, all right, for first time watches. I watched the new Hell Raiser, which is on Hulu. And this isn't a franchise that's near and dear to my heart. I didn't necessarily care for this all that much. Interesting Cinabyte designs or whatever the proper term for those guys is, it's okay.

I mean, if you have Hulu, you're a fan of the Hell Razor series in any way, shape, or give it a shot. I watched the new Newish, Newer, Newest Stephen King Netflix adaptation Mister Harrigan's Phone with a kid from Oh Shoot, I always forget his name, The kid from it and knives out Jaden something or other. He's always good and stuff. Donald Sutherland was in it. Yeah, it was all right, interesting concept, not much to it, but it had a nice mood going on, nice fall mood, which I was very ready for at the time.

Watched another Netflix exclusive or original I'm not sure which, no one gets out alive, trying to find I think I'm done trying to find these Another wacky Netflix original to do with Chris. Yeah, this wasn't so wacky actually, but decent. The new Bikowski adaptation that I got a chance to see was Cold Moon. Talk about that on the bar Fly episode. I watched some documentaries and some readings.

The one that I had never seen any of is called You Never Had It, And this was from a newly discovered Italian interview slash documentary that was done in nineteen eighty one. Pretty good, nothing mind blowingly knew for me. And then I watched most of his Last Reading and Redondo Beach and I used clips from that on that episode Pikowski. The last reading I come from Sam Pegro to put Ridondo Beach on the map. I used to have the LP of that reading.

Yes, they used to release Pikowski on record back in the day, and I don't know where those went. I had like four or five of them. Given to me from different people. Of course, I watched Talloween Ends for that episode. You can go listen to that.

My thoughts on that film. Part of the TCM Spooky Monday series that I did catch and watched were two Shelley Winter's films that I had not seen, I don't think all the way through before cut little bits and pieces of them over the years. Part of that hag exploitation cinema of the sixties and seventies where these older actresses came back and creepy movies like Whatever Happened to Baby Janet? You know, usually Betty Davis or John Crawford. So these both had Shelley Winters.

What's the Matter with Helen tell By the title and Whoever slew Anti Ru? And I think I kind of liked to Ever slew Anti Rou a little bit more than What's the Matter with Helen. I caught a film on TCM called Salt of the Earth that was a pro union film from the fifties that got blacklisted, that got squashed by that whole thing and wasn't seen for years and years and years. I remember reading about this way back when, and some of my film books really interesting, mostly non professional actors, had a real strong feminist vibe to it. It was definitely worth a watch.

I discovered quite by chance that there was a new Michael Monroe horror film on Amazon Prime called Significant Other, so I watched that. I would say, of the two new Michael Monroe movies that I have watched this year, this one and The Watcher or Watcher is it the Watcher or just Watcher, Watcher is the better film art but I liked Watcher more than Significant Other. It was pretty good, had an interesting twists, double twist. It sort of felt like a lifetime horror film. Though to me, after a certain point, we're checking out if you've got Amazon Prime.

Though, She's always great. One of the new horror movies that made a big splash, made a bunch of money in the Theater's got a lot of hype on Twitter from horror fans. Ended up landing on HBO Max Barbarian with Justin Long and Bill scars Guard and I forget the lead's name, unfortunately, Sorry, maybe I'll have the computer do that. And she is the lead. The lead actor's name is Georgina Campbell a Ken not as crazy as I had been reading or hearing.

I think I ended up not liking it all that much. It's again worth a watch if you've got HBO Max happy. It did well at the theater. Terrifier two has also done well, Pearl did well. All these independent horror films are bricking records making their money back plus and so that's great.

More to them. The rest of the new watches I had were with Cleo, so we'll get into those after the break For my breakdown, though, I think it's so. I think I had fifteen new watches out of thirty one thirty or thirty one total films watched for October, so pretty good. Keep it at the fifty percent, which I think is relatively high for me. I do a lot of comfort and rewatching of films that I like, which I will probably do today after I finish editing all this momo jumbo.

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I deleted that send everybody a message that I was creating a new tier. It's supposed to be an annual subscription of twelve dollars a year, so you could listen to anything that was released for that flat rate. I wasn't sure what they had done with it, because every time I looked at that tier, it kept saying one dollar per creation, but when I would open it up, it would have the annual fee on there. I can't change it as long as I have a patron on that tier, so unfortunately, it looks like they default to that. If you don't charge three dollars or more per month.

I believe that's what I'm getting from this. I'm not going to change it since there is a patron on that level, the only level there is now. But I don't expect people to pay one dollar per creation, So pay what you want to listen to. I guess add free. You know, in October there were like three or four things that I uploaded on there.

Whatever, it's not how I set it up. This is one reason that I don't like dealing with Patreon, but I figured there's an option for people that just can't stand the ads, and there's a little way for me to make extra money to pay for Zoom or whatever whatever the minimal costs are. My apologies that that isn't what I intended. At some point we'll get everything straightened out, all right. I think that's it for me.

Up next after these messages will be Cleo and I talking about the stuff that we watched together. I am back and Cleo has joined me for the second half. We're switching and at this time, Yeah, and we're going to talk about the movies that we watched, mainly over how a weekend. Yeah, you had the thirty first off of school for no real reason other than you guys had it off. They weren't taking it as a holiday, So don't write into me wondering why rules are now taking Halloween off as a holiday, although that would be awesome.

Yeah, we did our pumpkin carving over your aunties on that Saturday, so that day was mostly taken up. We probably watched some of the shows that we're going to talk about on this episode, as well as the movies that we'll talk about. But we watched movies on the thirtieth and thirty first, that's Sunday and Monday. Yeah. The only other movie or movies that I see that we watched were the m Night Chamalan movies.

Signs was a rewatch, and we've talked about that previously. But that was your first time watching Unbreakable. What did you think about that one? I liked it. It was pretty interesting.

I don't want to say it was slower than the other ones, but it wasn't as momm it was slower. I don't know, but I'm saying, yeah, Okay, did we watch Signs first and then Unbreakable? Or was it I think we went the other way around. Okay, either way, it's a new one. I had only seen some of the Well sixth Sense isn't that fast either, but those had more like things going on.

But I did like Unbreakable. It was it was different from the other two movies, or at least from Signs. But I liked all the like superhero type aspects of it. It was interesting, and him saving the kids in the house was interesting, and the tarp the water stuff too. It's an interesting superhero origin story.

Yeah. It was nice to have a non DC or Marble or whatever, an actual comic book adaptation. Yeah, just a fun, little Superhero movie. It does move slower, although, as I think I mentioned on that episode, pretty much all three of those movies are exactly the same amount of time. They're all like an hour and forty five minutes.

One of them I don't remember. One is maybe a minute longer. Yeah, So I mean it's just a pacing. Yeah, it's just past. Okay, onto the big watches our hell weekend.

So we started, I think we just picked random stuff, looking through our lists or looking through what was available either on the Firestick or on Exfinity. And so the first one who watched was A Quiet Place, Yes, which you haven't seen but Mom and I have. I actually went and saw that in the theater because the power had gone out at home and it was supposed to be out for like hours, and it was hot. We came out during the summer, so I went to the theater by myself and watched it, and meaning to watch the second one, and I figured, since you've been watching scary movies, you would have watched the second one together, but that meant you had to watch the first one. I like both of them.

I really like both of them. The first one was really the whole concept of you have to be quiet in the modern world. It was really interesting, and especially with her beginning, we have a younger child whom dot that's something stupid, yep, And then we cut to like later and then she's pregnant again, and I think I asked, I was like, how am I supposed to raise a child? In what's happening? And well we get all of that in the some in the first and then a lot more in the second.

But it was very interesting to add that baby into the mix because like the whole point gotta be quiet. Yeah, and then it's like, here have a little, tiny newborn baby and that cries way too much. It's the only way they can communicate is Yeah, I'm curious as to what it would be like without a newborn, although the newborn isn't in the film all that much, at least because I think all that goes down midway through to the end. What would be the big because that's the main stumbling block they have. They figured everything else out, well, kind kind of havely figured everything else out, because like we've said, and other people said, why don't you just live by the waterfall?

Yeah, something noisy live by I don't know, something else that's making constant noise or closer to the water at least when they're fishing. Is like, you know, allow this noise covers most of the small noises. Yeah, but we'll go live in this house is in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, that isn't really near anything, and we have three confirmed aliens in the area. But it's fine.

All the little details that you only see and they don't explain, that's like your exposition. So you don't get a lot of that. You don't get an exposition dump, which is kind of nice. Yeah, it is. It's nice you figure things out out of order.

I mean, the second movie starts with day one one instead of the first movie starting with day one. The first movie starts with day I think it's eighty something where bo yeah, bo, I think something the little kid gets it, and then it's a little over a year later. Yeah and yeah. So the second one, which none of us had seen, and your mom watched with us as well. I like both of them.

I like both of them, but I think I like the first one, yeah, more, just because it's mainly them. Yeah. I was gonna say it's more isolated in the like everything, it's just those and this it doesn't. I had heard that the second one gets into the whole idea, like most zombie movies now do that the people are more of a threat than the alien monster or whatever, you know, whatever the big threat is. And I thought, I don't know, They're just going to keep going from place to place and running into horrible people.

Yeah, and I thought, oh, Killian Murphy's going to be a horrible person, and we're introduced to him that day one. Yeah, they're friendly to each other, so I thought, well, maybe I'm wrong about that. And then we get to the scene where the kid gets his foot trapped and you're like, oh, this guy has traps everywhere. Yeah, and you think about it for a little You're like, oh, it's for the people, but then you're like, maybe it's for the aliens. So it's kind of interesting on his story too, because I think, up until him rescuing them, you're like, did he set the traps out for people?

But not really, Well, you have to protect yourself and other people are going to create more noise. Yeah. I didn't really think about that who the traps are set for. But I was just like, is he going to be a good guy or is bad guy, and he'sn't really set up as bad, but it could have gone either way. But then he ends up helping the girl on her mission the scene where he supposedly leaves her in the train, even though I think he just went out to like get supplies, but that seems like did he just straight up leave the little girl alone like by herself?

No, he did not so well. And then we get the whole deal with the people on the boat, and I thought, oh, this is the thing, this is the people are worse than the But it didn't last very long. Yeah, it was nice they got out that situate, so I was happy that it wasn't all that because I don't like that. That's why I stopped watching The Walking Dead, yep, because that's all it was. Each group we encounter is bad in some way and blah blah blah, and I got old really fast.

That was nice though, when it went from we have these like feral people on the docks, but when they got to the island, everyone was really normal there because yeah, they were isolated so and then things could really happen to them there, so there wasn't a reason for them to be feral and weird, but it was nice to see that there were still like normal people in the world. Yes, and then we learn the monsters kryptonite is water. They can't. It's a little bit like Signs. Yeah, in both movies where it seems amazing to me that somebody, either the military or their government in yeah, some country, didn't figure out, well, these things are mostly ears, mostly ear loud sounds bother them, like, yeah, some little deaf girl figured it out before.

Yeah, and she didn't even really figure it out. It took her a good amount of time to figure out the implants. But that and then the water thing. Hell, I mean, it seems like it wouldn't take that long to figure out, oh, they're not chasing us when we go into water, Yeah, and then get that out to people somehow. Anyway, my minor complaints about Poste, But like other words, they're really good.

I don't know. I think I stayed away from them, like I didn't. I feel like I didn't really want to watch them because of the noise thing, and I was like, I don't know, it'd probably just be like some weird saying. But those movies were like really interesting. I liked them.

I'd probably rewatch, and then we're having another one that's back to day one again, but it's other people's stories, and I think Lupita and Yongo is supposed to be in that, so it will be totally separate from their family, although I'm sure at some point Goll encounter them or who knows what. Yeah, okay, Next up, one of my favorites and Nil by Alex Garland, our favorite who brought us Men, which people loved so much. M Yeah, sure, I actually didn't really like Men, but yeah, I know, traumatize you. Your mom and I have watched this, like I've watched it a couple of times on my own as well. Very interesting ancept, very interesting visuals, good cast, good story.

So what did you think about it? I liked that one the I think this always happens, the weird like m like mimicking or like it's kind of uncanny Valley. I don't like the weird like fake men thing that always comes up in Oh, and they're in Men too, where there's like a bunch of weird not real men things giving birth. But then in Annihilation and had the weird I'm a clone of you thing that seemed kind of creeped me out a little bit. But that happened in the Cabinets of Curiosities episode, which I want to talk about because I was weird.

But I really liked that movie, and I want to bring up the Deer because I really like those deer, I mean those of the I kept thinking thinking about them for the rest of the movie because does she talk about She like mentions how it was just trying to make something new, and it did. It made really pretty things, but then it also has the like bear that I don't like because it's creepy. There was a lot of interesting stuff that went into the shimmer and stuff and became new things, and I think it's a cool concept. It's I guess it's based on a series or that was the first series of books. Yeah, I think it's like a trilogy or something.

But that guy's battening a thousand as far as I'm concerned, because I were like X Macina too. I haven't see that yet, all right, And then we ended the day with a Netflix film Window into Wild the New Henry Selick stop motion or whatever they call it. What do they call that stuff, these tapes some industry term they use. Yeah, probably I didn't care for this. I liked it, like it had an interesting plot and stuff like, it was interesting, but comparing it to Coraline or like other Henry Selleck movies, it was just a little off.

I saw someone say that it didn't feel finished necessarily, like the plot was a little off in some ways. But the thing that weirded me out was the dialogue. There felt like there was like weird pauses in between a lot of it. And I don't know that might have just been me, but some of the way some of the characters talked, especially the main girl why can't I can't remember her name right now, but the main character, she talked in a certain way where there were spaces in between her dialogue, or at least for me, I caught them, and it just didn't sound natural. It could have had something to do with the animation and they maybe had to insert pauses and stuff.

Yeah, that could be it. I didn't like the character design, oh yeah, said it was very interesting looking and after a while, so that threw me off at first, And then the story. I don't know that whole thing about the Key and Peel characters basically, and I have no idea what their names are in this Wendell and Wild doing the hair for the Beelzebub or yeah, his name. I don't know. It was just it was just weird.

I was like, I don't get that it was interwined in a weird way. I think it didn't do anything for me. It could have been put together more normal, like, I don't know, more smoothly. It seemed kind of cheap. None of the jokes landed for me.

That's the other thing. Character designsign I think I gave it a two on my letterbox. That was the other thing. When you talk about character design, most stop motion stuff I think of like like that it has their faces are smoothed out. I know that they take different parts of the face and replace them for talking and movements and facial expressions.

This movie didn't smooth it out. They were you could see the lines in the faces, and I think, yeah, I don't know if that was on purpose or I think it was part of what I didn't like about it. It was so off putting to me because it's like that makes it look incredibly masoufinished. Yeah, it makes it look unfinished, and it doesn't look right because I don't want to keep comparing it to coronline because they're not really similar movies. But Corline is like the main thing you think of when you think of like Henry Sect or like a studios.

You know, Wendel and Wild isn't like it, but we're not gonna talk about that. Corline has very finished and very smooth like edges and stuff that movie did not have, which that is definitely a style choice. A lot of the characters in Wendel and Wild had very like angular features and stuff, which like, I'd be fine with. The blonde girl and her mom was horrifying looking. Yes, I hated her character design and her dad.

They looked really weird, which which was on purpose probably, I'm sure it was, but it was not attractive at all. It was definitely off putting. Yeah, no, at least, like I get making like the main villains disgusting looking, but the little kids looked weird too, And I was like, the only character who kind of looked normal in that movie was There's two the main nun who helps her throughout the movie and the role those two characters looked at the most normal to me, which like, that's fine. I don't really have much to say about it. I don't know.

It was good, but I compared to others, which I like. I said, I don't want to compare it to them, but it's I feel there's better that motions on. We actually watched more movies on Sunday Sunday than Yeah, Sunday. I think we've got burned out on the last one and decided to watch some regular stuff afterwards. Oh.

Yeah, we started with Let the Right One In. We watched Let Me In. I don't know, a couple of months ago, I guess. Yeah. I had been wanting to get you to watch the original.

Yeah, because they're both interesting. They're different enough. They're different enough but also similar enough where it's nice and I like both of them. Yeah, I just like the American remake a lot. Yeah, but what did you think about this one?

And you had to read? Oh, I'm fine with I'm fine with reading subtitle. I put subtitles on normal shows or like English stuff because a lot of people do, because most shows don't have a very good sound design. Yeah, I can't hear people. That was good.

It was interesting. It was interesting to see some of the things taken out, Like I know, did you say that you didn't really the whole, like townspeople talking and stuff. Wasn't your KI prefer the American version. I like that it's basically the cop character in the American version, as opposed to hanging out with the old people drinking and in that nasty cat house. I don't need that extra stuff.

I like that it's more focused on him and yeah, her and her familiar in the American remake, And it makes more sense to me that it's a cop dealingless stuff that is supposed to just the neighborhood people. I like kind of like that aspect of it, that it's just neighborhood people. But I don't, yah, that's interesting. I'm not interested in They're just random. Like I remembering with each other they were talking about the death penalty and I was like, is that going to come into play?

It didn't. It was just I think it's just I do conversation that people have in the cafe. Yeah, like you said, I do like the neighborhood people being the ones who kind of like not learn about what kind of remember her name Ellie, but they have like weird suspicions. But I like that the cats come back. I like that the cats beat up Virginia.

I think that's what her name is. The chick who gets turned by Elie. I think that was funny. But I like that a lot of it is really similar, like the American version did a lot of it really similarly to the Swedish Is it Sweedish something? It's one of those, um But I really liked it, and I liked the differences to like the Ellie not really being a rural per se and the the American version that gets kind of done down a little bit.

Yeah, it didn't ambiguity of what she is or they are, because it's obviously and in the book I think it's spelled out very much so that it was a little boy that was castrated, traded, yeah, and then lived as a girl because of that for however, many hundreds of years, they've been a lot or been around. That's more explicit than the Yeah. I think in the American version they went down the route of what if I'm not a girl, I'm a vampire type of thing, because that's what I got from the American version, What if I'm not a human? Yeah, like that if not a human girl, But in this version, you can tell she's not talking about necessarily being a vampire. She's talking about the fact that she was castrated.

She's not a girl. I like the little boy in this and I like her, but I like Cody Smit McFee. He's a little creepier. I said that weird talking about it. He's a little creepier than the kid in the Swedish one.

But both of them are like, really good in both movies. They act the creepiness like it's good. It's it works. But I think what's his face in the American version is a little more creepy. Well, they show him spying on that girl.

Yeah, and I haven't read the book, but I just listened to the Protection Booth podcast in an episode on it the original. Of course, they always talk about remakes and stuff, so they mentioned that. But in the book he's really creepy and really not as likable, which is fine for books, but in the movie. Yeah, but they kind of need them, you need them to be more likable. I want to talk with the bullies, though they're a little more empy in the situation.

This little dude's little line Connie even smaller friend and skinnier friend, and hey, at least they all get it in both versions, yep. And to the ear, they still that ear scene is still in the almost all exactly the same, that whole ice skating scenario exchange. Yeah, the car scene isn't in the original, and I love that car scene. Yeah, the car scenees fun. I just like that whole setup.

So in the original it's he's gone to the school and kidnapped that guy in the gym, which seems really stupid. Yeah, not that hiding in somebody's car as much smarter, because they do. He goes and picks somebody else up. They stop at a gas station. What is he going to do?

And I'd just like that whole setup in the American version, and that they show it all them crashing and flipping and impouring the acid on his face. And yep. And I like that actor a lot too, that plays her familiar in the American version. Yeah, I do also the acid to the face. And we were watching it and you're like, I don't think it's as bad as are You said something about it not being as bad as the American It didn't look that bad in the reflection, And then he turned and you can see into his mouth, you can see into his cheek and they can see his like skins slabbing will he breeds?

And I was like, are you sure I'm not as bad? Both of them are really good, so I can't really be like I like this one more because they both have their like aspects to them where I enjoy can watch either one, and usually when I watch one, I want to watch the other one. All right, what's up next? Kid? Rocky Horror Picture Shop.

Yeah, we've been talking about watching this one for a while. Yeah. She kind of went with things that popped up and cut our attention. I've only seen this a couple of times. I saw it once at Fresno State.

They played it I think during vintage days, played it out in the outside because people dress up and perform and act out scenes and shot at the screen, which I knew about, but I didn't know any of the stuff. I just went to see it because we all hope, bunch of friends and I want to go see it. And then I think I've rendered it maybe once or twice, which is not quite the same experience. But what did you think of it? It was pretty good.

I mean, there are some definitely like, oh, this is very much like small production type of things, like the sets were very empty, which sometimes works because I mean we find out at the end of the movie they're not human. That a little there's four magenta color. Yeah, there's four of them. They're not human. So it kind of makes sense when you get to the end of the movie and you find out, Oh, well, of course their house looks look really strange and the weird.

But there are some things where it's just like, m you can tell this is from like the seventies and has this kind of a lower budget. You can tell it's low budget. Yeah, yeah, but it's really fun to watch. Even if it is like that, it's fun. There are some goofy parts.

I remember you asked why what's this day? Meat Loafe's characters his name Eddie in it. Yeah, had been in the freezer. I looked it up. That slice on his head is because they took half of his brain for Rocky.

Okay, I don't think that's mentioned in it, but he was used for Rocky parts of Rocky. He's the son of the guy and real Chair, and I guess originally meat Loaf was supposed to play both characters, which would have been interesting. I also heard that Elvis was supposed to play Eddie, which I was like, that's weird, that's a weird Okay, I guess it works. I don't know. The songs are fun, A lot of the acting parts get a little a little Yeah, I think that's more on like pace, Yeah, rushed, low budget bile.

I think it would be a lot more interesting to watch it with a crowd that knew what they were doing. Yeah, react everything. That'd be so cool to go see. I'm sure there are still some towns that do it pretty regularly. Yeah.

And then the last was my choice because I kept mentioning to Mom because I really liked the lead actress in this movie and it just showed up on shutter to end the night or to end the day, and I think it finished us off for scary movies. For the rest of the weekend, we watched Resurrection, what oh cut out or something? Yeah, Resurrection with Rebecca Hall is now on Shutter. I watched The Nighthouse when it came out on HBO Max and was a little disappointed in that one. I don't know if I was disappointed in this one, but I don't think I understand what the heck was going on.

Oh No, it was really weird. We won't spoil it for people, cleos, Oh no, no, no, but it was strange. She's really good and pretty much everything she does. She has that monologue scene in this when she's talking to that coworker sitting in her office and it goes I'm like, okay, this has been going on for a while when she tells the story about meeting the character the antagonist who's shown back up in her life. Felt like it was ten minutes lines, probably more like five.

Yeah, it wasn't that long, but it was very interesting. Yeah, this is a weird one. This is a weird It's not that long, is it. I feel like it wasn't that long of a movie. I feel like there's like an hour forty five or something.

I don't know. It felt long, but it also felt quite short, Like there were I think one hundred and three minutes, so that's an hour and forty yeah, profly. Yeah. So but I remember we paused it like halfway through and I was like, oh, we're only halfway through, because I feel like the first half of the movie is definitely like kind of slow bird and ish kind of first half of the movie is definitely like there's only these little things happening and then it gets more and which, yeah, that's a slow bird. But it was very interesting, Like the the contact is weird.

Yeah, be an antagonist is a very strange. His acting is like the way he portrays the character was also very strange. I did not like the way he talked in that well, when she first goes up to him on the bench. Yeah, and he was so weird. It was very mannered.

Yeah, the way he didn't really do that as much and the rest of the film, but it was like he was choosing his words very carefully and specifically, and then he smiles real weirdly. It was to show that he had an empty space and his teeth, which yeah, is a part of the film. Yeah, so that's Tim Roth, who's been a ton of stuff your mom and I have watched. It's one of those where you're not sure what's going on. You're not sure, you don't know if she's crazy or not, and so you're waiting, we'll just to find out if that's what it is, if she's crazy.

Yeah, the story is real. The d didn't Yeah, I didn't really find I mean, that's finally gas you to think I mean, I didn't call it men part two. You don't really know what is going on. There's a weird guy and a chick. Yeah, it has some connections to that, which we won't get into because of the spoiler eat.

But I can't say the bench scene is very because he's like talking about like not knowing her stuff. I don't know, but then he gives it away. But then he does yeh, daughter's name and yeah, so it was very off putting, which is how it kind of plays out until he very specifically we know, yes, this is the person that she's talking about from her past. It's definitely him. With that ambiguity of that, I don't know, I mean you just assume, oh, yes, this is the guy that she's talking about.

It weird. That put us through the ringer. So, yeah, stopped watching movies. I don't know if you watched any of the shows that we've been watching that kind or not, but we have been watching. Did we finish Midnight Club on Halloween or was that Sunday?

I'm not sure, but we can talk about the shows watch. We watched The Hunting of Hillhouse. I love that that was so than during October. Yeah, we did that pretty quickly. Yeah, that's a good one.

Amazing. We had a lot of fun finding the ghosts hidden, and the concept for that is really interesting. The Red Room and stuff and the Bent Neck Lady. And I think at the beginning of the show, I want to say, the mom talks about like places like having energy stuck with them for the rest of it, which comes into play with like people being trapped there and stuff. But I also thought about it more when it's revealed who the Bent Neck Lady is.

She was trying to tell Nell and like she was trying to help her, which is kind of really sad. But that was really good here, Mom and I really liked the first time I watched it. M and we didn't do haunting a blind manner to his newest show on Netflix, that is Mike Flanagan m The Flaniverse or whatever they called it, Yeah, Flaniverse, I think it was. I think it was just Flaniverse. That so stupid.

Watched his newest show on Netflix, m The Nick Club, and I don't know anything about those books. Oh I didn't know. Yeah, Christopher Pike, it's kind of like that kind of makes yeah for older kids. Yeah, the Fear Street stuff is Christopher Pike None, that's yeah, Okay, So anyway bringing up goose bumps and stuff shows like that, like are You Scared? Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Yeah, it's are You Afraid of the Dark? I think I turned to mom. We were watching like the second episode, and I was like, the Club is Is it the same idea as Are You Afraid of the Dark? Where they go into this certain area and just tell stories to each other, which was really interesting, and I think at some points I got a little drained from the show because I told somebody else I don't remember who we had gone from watching Haunted Haunting of Hillhouse to this show, and I could definitely tell there was different. Counting of Hillhouse is very much, I don't know, spookier, I guess I kind of especially watching that first episode, which is the continuous jump scares episode, I was like, this is weird.

I don't know if I like this yet. So it did take me a little bit of time to warm up to The Midnight Club, but I did really like it in the end. It was good. It was very interesting, and then it just took me a little longer because some of the stories I was expecting some Hillhouse stuff, and I remember hearing that some of the actors were in it, so I was like, oh, this should be at least kind of similar to Blind Manner. If it's not like super similar to House, it's not necessarily, but it is.

I still really like it. They have very different tones. Yeah, So I was happy about that because I've gotten a little tired of the previous three. The tone, the heaviness, the yeah it was nice, Trauma, the family drama that's in Hill House, b Manner, and Midnight Mass. They're all very like dark and deep and a little hard to watch sometimes, that Midnight Mass whenever everybody was complaining about like how everybody has all these long monologues, and which I didn't mind, but it's very talky and very heavy and very so I was kind of happy.

Okay, younger people, maybe a quicker pace. I like that idea of not only their stories but the stories they're telling, which is we're seeing a lot of that scary stories on the dark goose Bumps, Are You afraid of? Have you watched the new afraid of? Are You Afraid of the Dark? No?

I heard about that though, that they survived it. Okay, it's good. I watched. I don't know anything about the old show. I never watched it.

That was way after my time. Yeah, that was like late nineties, early two thousands. But I did watch the new one because I think there were only there weren't that many episodes. Are only like six or maybe eight episodes. Yeah, and it's good, so we'll check that out because I haven't watched it in a long time.

But anyway, I liked this. I liked the acting of all oh, yes, the young staff was all very naturalistic, yes, and I really enjoyed that. And most the stories that they told were pretty interesting and spooky, creepy stuff and I did like that, though not every story because like you watched the first episode and it's that jump scares, and it's like, it's pretty creepy. I put until they overdo the jump scares, which is like the whole point of that story. You get into some of the other ones.

With the one about her in the garage, that's not necessarily creepy, that's just deep and deep. That's kind of where. But yeah, it is, it's heavy. Yeah, that's more what I meant. But it does have some like creepier moments with the like passing the same person on the road, So there are like creepy stuff in them.

But then there's also ones that aren't necessarily like spooky monster's ghosts, because there's the one where it's also like the murder mystery nineteen forties murder mystery one that's in black and white. I think that I really liked that story too. That one was interesting the film noir basically, yeah, but all the stories that they tell are interesting and had different no I was going to say themes. That's not at all what I was when I meant different like styles and stuff, but like main story was also pretty interesting with the like cult members and the Julia Jane, yeah, I think that was her name. It did annoy me a little that they didn't push together, that Ilanka didn't put together that some they were still probably could activity around them, because it's like if there's a scary basement with a bunch of like interesting objects, and then you also meet a girl who's near the property and who lives on like a weird out in the woods area with a bunch of like campers.

Maybe it's just just me, but I would have pretty quickly gone to oh I think she'd like remade the cold because that's kind of dumb. But I it also takes place in the nineties, so maybe it wasn't that widespread that'd be like thinking about that. You know. That was the only thing that kind of annoyed me on where I was like, brol could you not figure like I've figured that out a little faster that that was all intertwined. I think we figured it out pretty much right when they showed that gal so yeah, or like when I first showed that she was like on the property and also had this like camp commune area.

It is very much she is a cult leader. Again, but I really liked that chat. Yeah, I liked it a lot too. I think there's gonna be a second season, or people were speculating our second season would like that. Yeah, we started this in October and finished it last night, but we'll go ahead and just talk about Yeah, Giarmo del Toro's a Cabinet of Curiosities.

Yes, it's an anthology series. I liked it. It was interesting. All the stories. Some of them were a little slow, or at least the one that I'm thinking of that was a little kind of slower was the Autopsy.

That one, yeah, because I had kind of zoned out into that but then we then I like got back into it right when all the weird body transfer things were happening. That was so weird. Yeah, I liked that one a lot. I liked the lotion episode just because of how strange that was, and also because that chick was a voice actor in a bunch of shows that I've watched, so I was like, oh, she's cho I like Kurt. That episode was so weird.

Yeah, that one was bizarre, and like I was talking about with Annihilation, the weird mimicking, like weird non human but uncanny valley bodies happens in that episode and I did not like it. We figured out that's something you don't care for. Well, it just creeps him out. I'll like watch him and it's uncomfortable. Do you think you're going to run into your weird uncanny valley doppel game we watched us.

You never know, dude, you never know. I think I liked all of the episodes. That Rat episodes. Graveyard Rats one might be my favorite. That one was fun to watch.

That guy was so good the lead, and that one was so it was fast paced. And it kept you like into it because there was so much stuff going on that you kind of had to be because there's rats, but there's like what's going on? They're stealing things, like what do you? Yeah, yeah, it was good. I think my least favorite was the Grant one.

Yeah, that one was a little I think it was too long. I think, yeah, going on, Yeah, there's too much like spacing. I don't know. The two that we watched last night, I also really like. I really liked the Murmuring the one with the birds.

That one is. I also might just like it because I think that was one of the only stories where the person kind of gets out in the end, like it was. It was heavier too, but I found it interesting. Although like that little kid though, was creepy. And you said he didn't like the noises that he was making crying, and I said that when we were watching last night.

I think it was distorted to make it sound like he was underwater. Yeah, well it was done very effectively because it was super creepy. I didn't like it. I didn't either. It looked it didn't sound.

That was an original story from Garmo del Toro, and it was it was interesting. I really liked the look a bit, the time period and all of their old equipment. Oh yeah, that was really cool for recording and filming. Yeah, and seeing her like rewind the tapes and stuff. That was.

I liked that they that they add stuff like that. Yeah, that one was very touching. Mm hmm, yeah, because I believe they made it out in the end and that they just had to talk about what happened, which was interesting. The other one was great. Oh lord, that was so weird and oh what was it called?

The viewing here from Panos Cosmatos who directed Mandy And that's weird. Shoot, I forgot the name of this first movie. Anyway, I liked the look of that episode. Yeah. I liked all the filterings on the like camera and stuff.

You could see. It looked it was supposed to look older. I mean it took place in the seventy nine. I think that's when it said. I like all of that.

I like how orange it was. The set decoration was great, The music was great. The score was so interesting to hear, very much. His style throughout so different than almost all the other episodes. I mean, except maybe for the lotion one takes place.

That's like eighties modern times as well, but yeah, earlier than now. I don't think any of them took place in our time. I don't think so. I think they were all later or earlier. Sorry, the HP Lovecraft one and some of the other ones were old one hundreds of years old or decades old, at least for the Craft ones.

That's funny too. Both of those had weird melting a people things kind of lotion, had weird woman doppelganger. The viewing had weird caso alien. It was so vibrant, that was weird. I don't know if I liked it as much as enjoyed it as much as Graveyard Rats, but it was very interesting.

It was interesting just how different it was from every other one. Yeah, because it had to like it had drugs. It had like they were popped up, they had been They didn't know where it was going to go to. That was the other thing. Yeah, where leading to?

That was the other thing, because we see the guns in the room that they're in and I was like, Oh, that's probably going to come back to play. They're probably like going to go insane and like kill each other, like I said that last night. And then it was like No, you were wrong. It went in a very interesting direction because it's like this creepy old man invites a bunch of people and you're like, okay, so what is he going to show them? And then they start doing drugs and you're like is this because he's talking about like getting inspiration for like the writer and the musician, and so you're like, is this well?

And they mentioned at the opening Pierramodo Toro's opening, And at some point one of the characters mentioned that he's a collector, like he's a collector of people. I'm like, oh, he's going to collected them, yeah, for their talents. Where is that going to lead? Which is wrong? But and I thought how is that going to play out?

And then they mentioned because is Charlotte the character I think she was an astrophysicist. I think yes she is. They mentioned her like talking about aliens and stuff, and I was like, okay, that's maybe something, which it is. It went some interesting directions. I like how it played out that it was a satisfying discovery.

It was also pretty funny. Yeah, it was funny, the two running around. No, I really enjoyed it, Like I said, the Rupert grint one wasn't my favorite, but pretty solid solid. Yeah, yeah, what was the first one? The first one was about Oh, I can't remember what was the first one.

One A lot thirty six was the first one. The guy that bien on the Oh yeah it's oh I was good, weird that. I liked the autopsy. The autopsy was the body swapping one, right. I liked the lotion one that was called the outside Pickman's model was good.

That one was interesting too, the all of it coming together. I like the little monster and that even know who's kind of scary with me because it it's like a cryptic and he's all right, kiddo. Anything else I want to say before we go and tell people anything important? Just to watch kind of the Curiosities, because it's good watch all those shows. Yeah already, I'll talk to you later.

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