WUH: September 2022

I Don't do Go Gay. Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, the world's greatest horror movie podcast. On this episode, my weird dad and I will be talking about Nope, nope, nope, no, nope, nope, nope. Hello, and welcome to Wake Up Heavy recollections of horror. This is Mark Bigley and Cleo.

Today we're going to talk about the movies that we watched as a family in September. Yeah, starting with Going to Save the trilogy we watched through the month. So let's start with Good Boys, a comedy that your mom and I watched I don't know, a year or so ago that we really liked Little Jacob Trimble other dudes. Oh, what did you think about that one? It was good, kind of insane, actually not kind of very insane.

There's a lot of fun stuff in that, a lot of raunchy, inappropriate humor for what were they sixth graders going into seventh? Yeah, fifth into six or something like that. So it's a big next step. I like it, even though it's really raunchy. They're so clueless about things that that's where a lot of the humor comes from.

One of the main antagonist girls, What did we just see her on Grey's Anatomy. Oh, that's right, she just started. We were all looking at her like, who's that girl? Yeah? Why does she look so familiar?

It's one of those that's what we do. And then grab the old phone and look up on IMDb and find out, Oh, yeah, she's in good voice. What was our next one? Thor leven Thunder? What is this?

The fourth one? Fourth one? Yeah? What did you think about this one? Compare to the other Thor movies?

Well, Thor mmmm one and two obviously are not good. I don't think anyone likes those first movies. But Thor Ragnarok was really great when it I mean it still is. I'm gonna say when it first came out, it's great. It's one of my favorite Marvel movies.

This one was good. I mean, it was still funny. But that's also a problem with it, which a lot of people have pointed out spoilers. I guess for Thor leven Thunder, it takes away there's like constant humor, and it takes away from the fact that like Jane Foster has cancer through the movie and that she is dying. Bill Ragnarok did the humor in a nice way.

Where it was like, yes, we have all of this, but I mean at the very end of the movie, Ragnarok happens, there is no longer a Asgard at the end, so it's still like there are some serious moments in Ragnarok. Leven Thunder was just a lot of jokes. So when that like end happened, or like the end credit scene where it was like, oh, she's in Valhalla, which basically she's dead, it's kind of just like, oh no, you know, like there wasn't enough on it. Yeah. I didn't care for this one, to be honest with you.

Yeah, the humor didn't land for me really all that much. And it was a weird tone thing where there's serious stuff not just with her but with that villain whose name I desolitely don't go. Yeah, and also people were mad but they didn't like Douce Christian Bale enough in that movie. Yeah, which is fine whatever. I was like, I don't really care him as a villain.

Killing the gods is pretty heavy toos. Yeah, it wasn't that put together. I think like there could have been more to take a what TD all his not interviews, but the what do you call it? Like the press press stuff that he did was weird and conferences. Yeah, well that and then there's a thing with him and Tessa Thompson where he's belittling the CGI, dismissive about that and just was like off putting the whole thing surrounding it.

Wasn't that great in that movie, which has been coming of a lot of Marvel things that yeah, the CGI is going downhill, but that is interesting. I didn't really pay attention to a lot of the press stuff. I always just heard about how there was too many jokes, there was too little Christian male, there was too little focused on the fact that Jane was dying of visit press. What can't you. I'm not sure I really tuned out on this one, to be honest with you.

Yeah, there were some fun moments, but yeah, I'd rather worry. It's on Disney Plus, so whatever. Yeah. The next one was a Netflix film, Do Revenge with My Hawk and who was the other girl? Oh, I can't remember her name.

I think she's been in stuff that I've seen, but I can't remember her name. It's Camilla Mendez. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, she's I think she's been in some other things that we've seen. That was actually really good. Yeah, that was pretty fun.

I was kind of worried because Netflix and they're weird. Teen dramas are interesting, so I was like, I don't know, but that movie was really good. Had a bunch of twists and turns and stuff. I liked it and it was kind of just fun in general. Once we started watching it, I'm like, oh, I know what they're riffing on.

Yeah, and I mentioned that, and at one point MYA Hawks character is reading Strangers on a Train Your Life my father Chris Cross. So there's that. And then a movie that riffs on Strangers on a Train called Throw a Mama from the Train, which is we need to watch because it's really funny. From the late eighties, I think with Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito Crystal that Danny DeVito directed. It's oh black comedy.

I saw that in the theater and it was a movie that I watched a lot, either rented or on cable or whatever. But it's I haven't thought about that movie in a long time, and we should watch it. Yeah, that was pretty fun. It was one of those movies that sort of just popped up, like I don't remember hearing a whole punch about it beforehand, only a few weeks or not even a few weeks, like maybe a week before it came out. I was like, oh yeah Instagram, I think I saw and I'm like, oh, you have a new movie out.

Oh it's on Netflix. Oh that makes sense because no one's heard about it till right now. Literally, it was a nice surprise that it had. Like I haven't really watched a lot of Netflix teen movies, but I feel like there are weird ones like The Kissing Booth, Like that's a weird. There's a bunch of weird teen movies on Netflix that are Netflix movies.

So I was like, huh, we can watch it and see how it goes. It was good. I like it, and I like the plot and all of the strangeness not strangeness, but it's like interesting, it's not weird. My favorite part was when that girl, the Camilla Mendez character was and the bleachers. She's like, I'm shocked, this is shocking, shocked whatever she kept saying.

That was funny. Yeah, they're like faking. I think my part, my favorite part is still the like whole um Sophie Turner screaming about how she doesn't do cocaine. That was insane. That wasn't like the first that became a memable.

Yeah, that really after I Don't Do Oh Good, which I think I like it more because it's so Fie Turner, like hello, wait, yeah that's her name. The name is familiar, but I don't know what she's from. I think she's a oh oh okay, yeah, maybe not watched an episode of that show started one once and I was like, oh, there's zombies. Okay, whatever, this is what's going on next up? This was your request actually, well not at all.

Do your revenge? Was you and mom? Thor I think Mom suggested we watch it? Yeah, this one was your request. Yeah, because so Crimson Peak, which I love, oh by Gama to I made you say his name because I can pronounce it.

Yes, Crimson Peak, which I had watched, I think, not that long ago, maybe this year. I can't keep track of these things. Fairly recently. It's on Netflix. You wanted to watch it, so like for sure, sure, Oh it was good.

It was pretty, but in like a weird way. I mean it was gross. His movies, I mean Pan's Labyrinth, Labyrinth. I like the look of those two movies. I think those are the only way.

No. Book of Life is one of his movies too, but that's like animated. So yeah, we should watch Shape of Water, which I keep mentioning every time I think, I think that's my favorite of his that I've seen. Actually, it looks cool. I like the story, and that one a little bit more than the stories in this or Pan's Labyrinth.

It's not quite as dark. Yeah, Pan's Labyrinth is sort of depressed. Labyrinth is depressing, but it's really good. It is really good, And Crimes a Peak has some depressing moments, but it is very interesting. And all the clay I just remember noticing the clay like oozing from the walls and just being like, how do you think of that?

Like, here's a red clay mine in the middle of thingclads. When it liquefies, it's yeah, weird. I didn't even know it liquefied, yea, to be honest with you. Or when he I think in the beginning when he steps on the floorboards and it just oozes out, like oh, but it looks so cool. And I know the house is like falling apart each time they like walk in it, but it's so pretty looking and all the costumes.

I'm always going to be the first and he's like that the casteins and yeah, well it's very gothic. And it has also that fall of the House of Ussher idea that's the house falling apart is taken from that, which is going to be Mike Flanagan mini series, so we'll have to check that out. And then another thing was that the ghosts were really unique. I guess, well, especially the mom in the first and what like I don't know, five minutes where it's just like when you first see her, you see clothes, so you're like, oh, it's probably just gonna be like some like an actual woman, but it's clothes, but it's a skeleton. And I don't know, they're just really cool looking.

And then like his movies are very visually interesting and that movie is just really good. I liked it and I'm happy. I was like, I want to why. I mean, I think I had been wanting to watch it for a while because it is a period piece and I was like, ooh, I went to see it. But then I was like, oh, it's spooky too, So yeah, caught mom a couple of times.

She did her yelp, maybe once or twice. Yeah. The next one was a rewatch of Emily. Yeah, I love that movie. I think your mom and I watched that quite a bit years ago and then hadn't in a long time, and we watched it.

I don't pretty recently. I don't remember. I guess I can look on my phone and see when we watched it last if it was one of the times when you were we had that um like kind of not rewatch but just like not rewatch at all, watching of like a bunch of movies of I don't it was. I want to say it was maybe the beginning of the year and we were watching a bunch of stuff and that came up. So we watched Emily and I was like, oh, I liked this movie.

We watched it in April, so yep, I was gonna say, it's not even six months ago. That's when I got my docs because they looked like Emally shoes and that when we watch it now, I remember, like why we watched it so much back then. It's just so it's such a fun movie. It's fairy tail esque, isn't there's a word for that. There's like a genre.

Well, it's it's magical realism. Yeah, I just learned. Actually that term is specific to a certain kind of South American story, that magical realism. It has been co opted for things like that where yes, she lives in a world that's like ours, but there are magical things that happened. Do they really happen like her melting?

Yeah, I was going to say into a puddle, which is probably just like her feelings, but it is cool to see that stuff. Or I like her little pig lamp that talks to her, or they don't talk to her, they're talking to each other while she sleeps or something. The paintings do the same thing that when she gives him that picture from the photo booth, it's the four pictures that guy starts talking to him and then they're talking to each other. Just tell that's done. And yeah, it's on her lamp, I think, and they're talking to each other about her being in love.

Yeah, it's just a delight it's a delightful movie. But again, we need to watch more of that guy's films, like Delicatessen, which is considerably darker but has that same kind of magical realistic touch to it. I also really like that movie because of all the like I don't yeah, stories that like come together like the first I remember when when we first watched it, I was like, is the whole movie going to be about her finding this guy for the toy bin that she found? But no, she finds him in about quickly. Yeah, she finds him quickly.

So I was like, what is the rest of this movie going to be about? And it's just about her, like just doing a bunch of stuff, making her dad go travel with a gnome. Well, she's meddling in other people's lives because she wants to do fix her own. Yeah, and that's what the character across the courtyard explains to her about herself. I don't know if he says it to her or if it's in one of the because they send packages back and forth to each other.

But he's describing a person, but it's basically her. She's with him and he's talking about the painting of the girl right right, and he's talking about her. And then I think she even says it herself to the way the girl acts. Yeah, yeah, it's just basically talking about her. But it's such a fun little I just really like that movie.

Yeah, it's delightful. Like I said, the big watch of the month for you and for me. Since I watched these to do an episode with Chris over the Culture Cast, we watched all three Jordan Peel movies and Get Out Us and Nope, Nope, nope, nope, nope nope, and his new one's coming out soon. I think, well, it's a I don't think it's a movie. Isn't it a series on Netflix?

Like animated? It's Wendell and Wild. Yeah. I can't run up his name, the guy who didn't remember before Christmas? But I think it's a movie.

Okay, some reason I thought it was a series. But it looks cool and I think that's coming up this month. Yes, yeah on Netflix. Yeah. Is that Henry sell Yeah yeah, that did Nightmare before Christmas and James and the Giant Peachline.

Did he do Coraline? I think so, maybe not. I don't know. I just know Coraline is like a movie like a studio. Oh maybe he didn't.

Then they sort of have a their own little thing. Yeah. Oh those movies are so good. Yeah. No, Henry Selleck did Coraline.

Okay, he did yep, as I talk about for almost three hours with Chris. We like his movie, So what which one do you like the most out of those three? I think I'd say Nope, just because it might be because it's the first movie I've watched by him, but also because it's such an interesting Like, yes, Jean Jacket is an interesting concept in itself, but I think the whole horse aspect, like it looks like a Western but at the same time it's not really because there's a lot of other different stuff that the fact that they're like horse trainers basically is an interesting little aspect of it because I'm in the whole movie has to do with like animals being unpredictable and stuff and spectacles. But I like that it's like it's still how to do with Hollywood, but it's just horse training and then they somehow get into this whole thing where there's a giant saucer with them.

One thing that came to me when Chris and I were talking, is is it even an alien or is it just a creature that's gone and noticed till now from our world? Is a terrestrial? I was like looking at Staff and a lot of people were saying that it looks like, you know, a biblically accurate angel, and some people were like, maybe the basis of angels was that this thing was, you know, taking people up to heaven eating them. Yeah, Chris mentioned the angel angle, but not the heaven part. Yeah, that's interesting.

I like that. I hadn't read that. Of course, I hadn't really read all that much about it before we watched it. I just know that, like right before we watched it, it had become available on VOD. So I saw the images of the unreferraled creature.

I'm like, oh, well, obviously it's not a spaceship. It's yeah, this ship is the alien and it looks like a sea creature or a lot of people said it looked like a jellyfish. Jellyfish and then either some squids or some the pie yeah unfurl that way. Oh yes, squids open and stuff shows. I going to say.

Other people were talking about how the eye, the grand thing that it shoots out, looks like a camera, not like a lens, you know, like a camera, and so people were like, there's another part of like a spectacle, like it looks like a camera and stuff like that. I also heard something about how like it may have changed its shape to look like a saucer, just to blend in more because obviously people are gonna be like, if you see like it's real form just floating about, you're gonna be like, what the heck? It'd be more noticeable, And obviously that's probably why it hides itself in the clouds. But I think it changed its form into a UFO basically because it was not easier, but like it was more modern, like it was going with what people not expected, but like new.

I guess I don't know, or it could just be that that's the shape that people assumes a spaceship and it's actually a preacher. Yeah, but I really like that movie. I liked it too. I just remember it being really flummixed by it when we first watched it, and I talked about this on that episode, so I go into it a lot here there were I guess it was an expectation just based on his other two movies, what I had heard already about it. I just didn't know it was going to take the turns that it did.

Like I didn't quite understand the whole Stephen Yung thing from the trailers and things that i'd seen, like what's his part in this that's yeah, it's kind of weird. His whole story with the childhood actor thing. I mean they all tie in together, that whole idea of being chewed up and spit out by Hollywood and basically what everybody's going through. Yeah, and the what and the animals. That's what my friend was talking about when they first watched it.

They were like, what does Gordy have to do with the rest of this movie? And I was like, if you look into it more, you'll understand that Gordy is basically the same way as Jean Jacket, where they wanted to be like on film and stuff. They want to get shots of it, and that it connects to I was going to say abusing animals, that's not what it is, but that animals can act out and I think even OJ says that, like, oh, it's the wife of of Juke, she goes trained. Animals are still like can be unpredictable when Lucky doesn't leave the cage because you know it doesn't want to get eaten. So there's a lot of stuff that connects.

I was just having a fun time with that movie, so I don't think I picked up on it until I started like doing research because I was kind of like, what does the shoe have to do with this? With Gordy have to do with this? And stuff like that. My argument for that scene was that Juke doesn't get hurt by Gordy, so he feels like he had a connection, a real connection with him, which is most likely untrue. Yeah, which is it's still a chimp.

Yeah, So his idea that he can somehow he survived this thing because of that connection, he's not going to be harmed by gene Jacket, Yeah, which ends up thanks his end, you know the reason he's So there's quite a few different ways to take that look at it. That's the good thing because it's not over explained. Yeah, that's what I also liked about it. I know a lot of people were like, well, I don't get the movie, and I was like, just think about it a little bit. You'll make connections and stuff like I did, like the whole shoe thing where I was like, oh, it's it's a bad miracle and something that happened or like, which I think a lot of people compared to the to otis senior dying, which was like not necessarily a bad miracle, but that they got the property, which then led them to finding gene jacket and like all of that stuff.

So it's like there's a bunch of like interesting takes that people have come up with, or like, connect did anything else about that or any of the other movies? Mm, well, get Out's good. I want to talk about the chick and get Out. I don't remember her name, his girlfriend eating cereal and then having a glass of milk. But she's eating the cereal one by one in the it's such a weird scene.

She looks like such a freak in that scene what I have heard and I wouldn't have made this connection, most likely when I first watched it. It's my understanding that a lot of African American people are lactose intolerant, and so just her drinking milk is a race related thing, like, oh I can I can drink this glass of milk without worrying about having terrible, horrendous gas and intestinal distress. So a lot of connections, it doesn't need to be spelled out. I wouldn't have known that I heard about that before your mom and I watched it for the first time, however, many years ago, and it's like, oh, okay, I get it, but I wouldn't have made that connection. Yeah, if I hadn't heard or read that before we watched it, it just would have seemed odd to eat the cereal by hand and have a glass of milk next to you.

That's sort of weird. So that's fine if that's all you get from it is that she's weird off. There's also like other things. But if you know that, then it adds another layer, just like a lot of the other things in that and in us where don't spell it out for me. Let me figure it out on my own, even if I'm wrong.

At least you thought of something when a filmmaker says explicitly, this is what this means, and that's boring. Yeah. Another thing I saw about the milk was that a lot of it usually is little kids usually drink it, or innocent characters usually drink it. So her drinking it in the way that she does with the separate cereal it is more off putting because I think at that point, when we see her drinking the milk and eating the cereal, it has already come out that she's not a good person. He's escaping at that point, we know that she was in on it and brought the other two black characters that are there.

She seduced them and brought them there as well, and bunch of other people. So yeah, we know that she's no good. I think it makes her more even creepier because, like I said, a lot of people associate milk with innocent people or kids. And her drinking it right after I think they are getting ready to you know, dissect his brain or whatever, and like getting rid of her boyfriend, like she had to act like she was really in love with him for so long. So it is very strange watching her just do that and having a blank face.

And I think she's watching TV or no, is she looking for more people to Yeah, she's scrolling yeah for another victim, Yeah, dating apps or something. Could argue that she's the most sinister. I mean, you could argue about almost each one of all of them. Your family, the brother, the mom is up there, the whole hypnosis thing, but she's the one that's actually like and the brother goes out and kidnaps people too, but she is catfishing people and it seems like she's garnered the most victims. Yeah, just by what's in the movie.

We don't know how many people the brother has kidnapped that way. Definitely when they show the pit, when he finds the pictures of her with the people that are now employed there, it's definitely like, oh, like she's very she's weird. And honestly, same with the chick that was married to the guy who was then put into the other guy's body, who not fights him, but they like kind of get into a little whistle outside because he's like, what's wrong with you, dude? Or he recognizes it's presented as a fight, but he's telling him to get out of get out, yeah, because he's had a moment of clarity and as saying get out of this place, they're going to turn you into me a mindless It's such an interesting concept.

But all the people there who were just like this is such a chill event, and it's like, what huh. That was a good movie too. And I like us also, even though it kind of cred me out. I think of the ones to Rewat, well, I don't know, I lean more towards us for Rewatch, just because it's a little more fun. I was gonna say it because it's more horry, like, it's definitely a horror movie compared to the other two.

Yes, I mean I did. That was one of the other ones that I rewatched with you because I was like, I like this movie. It's a fun horror movie. Hurt my brain a little. It's definitely oh yeah, but I think, yeah, it's not the best of the three.

I think I just like watching that one more. Yeah, we'll have to see with Nope though, because Nope is still the one that I've only seen twice and that was related for the episode. I would watch any of his movies again and even triple feature them. Maybe during well, I was gonna say during this month, but I barely even watching any movies this month. Might have to be get on that.

I mean when you're on break or something. We I don't have school on Halwayne's so oh, I know. Yeah, then we'll see what we do. We'll pick up some good movies for them. H I do want to talk about Us a little bit though, just I mean, the movie is very interesting, and like I said, it did cree me out a little bit because it was like it's off putting knowing that like in that universe, the US was just like let's make clones of literally everybody like okay, but it is interesting that like the rabbit meat and stuff, which was weird.

I didn't really appreciate. That also kind of makes sense, like rabbits constantly reproduced, so it's like there, that's the thing I was trying to figure out, like why rabbits, But they make sense. There's just it's an endless supply of meat. They're just going to keep reproducing and reproducing, probably faster than you can eat them. So it makes perfect sense.

But I didn't know if there was like a race angle to that or I don't know something you know. More pointed, yeah, that Jordan Peele just doesn't like rabbits. That was a thing too that I heard. He just doesn't like rabbits, so here eat them. Okay.

It was definitely interesting that that was the rodent of choice. Are rabbits rodents? I think so. I'm pretty sure I've never heard them describe that way. I'm pretty sure rabbits a rodent.

Bo I don't know, but check it out with people and let us know. Yeah. I was going to talk about the whole Adelaide and Red Switch, but I thought of the scene where the husband keeps pushing his glasses up, and then his double eventually just snatches them because he's like stop like that. There were some good scenes, like just some funny scenes to break up the what is going on parts of that, because that was in the midst of like Red telling them how they were like going to die instead are like about how she was left behind or whatever. I don't know what she's talking about in that scene, but then it's just like the husband's grunting and taking people's glasses.

She's talking about the differences in there, and they're basically there to take that back, and she's there to take them back specifically because as we find out at the end, she's the real Adelaide. Yeah, a lot of that I missed, probably when your mom and I first watched that, as far as oh, yeah, well he's got bad eyes too, but he doesn't have the luxury of classes. So he finally snags them, puts him on and it's like, oh, I don't keep worrying them. But he does have a little epiphany. Yeah, but he's like, I can see I can see Adelaide the switched one, not Red, is such a complex character basically because it's like, obviously, when you look back on it, it seems that she has bad intentions from the start when she switches herself with Red because she like strangled her, she choked her, she choked her out, and then she switched places.

But then you look at like adult Adelaide, who seems like such a normal person who just wanted to protect her family. So it's like it's such an interesting thing to think about. And then you think about Red too. She's kind of insane. I mean, she's she is.

It's an interesting it's sort of a nature nurture deal because yes, she's not the real Adelaide. We talked about this on the episode. A difference doesn't make at this point. Yeah, because the implication at the end is that the Sun understands that she's read she's the doppelganger, she's the original doppelganger. But yeah, it's still his real mom.

Yeah, so he's like you can kind of tell the way he's kind of just like like he doesn't really know how to feel. He realizes that because he's seen her when she kills the second twin in the house, when she's gone back into the house and she's doing that animalistic grunt, So that's his first indication. But he's down there in the locker, Yeah, when that whole exchange happens between them, so he knows that that she was swapped out. Yeah. My point is, what difference doesn't make.

This is the woman that raised you, and she's done nothing unto bored the whole time you've been alive. As far as we know, there's no indications that she struggled fitting in after she learned how to talk. The only indication is of when she was a child she couldn't speak. She couldn't speak, she stopped speaking, she learned how to do that, she learned how to act like an above ground human person, like a normal person. So sort of it's very to me.

It was like, who cares, that's his mom. Yeah, whether she was came from belowground or aboveground, that's all they've known. That's all her husband and daughter have ever known. So Red's dead or the real Adelaide is dead, So what does it matter. She's Adelaide now, like that's her.

It's not that it was her putting on like a face the whole time she grew up into Adelaide. She is Adelaide. Yeah, and same with Red. Red went from being Adelaide to being Red. It's very interesting to think about, and I think that's why I like it, because it's like, m what what do we think of all this and stuff?

But also it's just like kind of a fun movie. That's why I say it's the one I like to watch. Okay, well, I think that's it. This is going out a little later than usual because you said last weekend that you wanted to talk about some of these movies, so I'm happy to wait to do that. We'll take a quick break here and play some ads, and just remember that if you don't want to hear ads while you're listening to Wake Up Heavy, you can join the Patreon and listen to episodes generally a day early and ad free.

So check that out at patreon dot com slash wake Up Heavy. And we'll be back after these brief messages. Welcome back from the break. It's always a pleasure to have Cleo along for the ride, and I will definitely always wait an extra week if she wants to record, and she said she did, so glad to have her onto my solo watches. And for once in a great while, I have more new watches than rewatches on this list, but starting with rewatches.

And this was actually a watch with Cleo, although I don't think she was paying attention at all. An old favorite of mine, the Rutger Hower CEE Thomas Howell classic the Hitcher because I cut of his legs and his times and his head, and I'm going to do the same to you. This was a I believe, an HBO staple. I'm sure we rented it as well, but I think this was just constantly on cable. There is a crappy version of it on HBO Max and Hulu.

Watch it there if you have to. I was able to watch it on Chris's Plex in the correct aspect ratio, and it is just an all time timer for me. Everybody talks about Rutger Hauer, but I think c Thomas Howell in this is just great. The next movie is another all timer for me. I own the LaserDisc for this, so that tells you something.

If I bought a copy of this. It is a meaningful film to me. Roman Polanski's La Noir Chinatown Get a gat and I watch that because of a movie that is on my new watch list, and I'll get to that in a minute for my foray into the Fincher verse this month, I think I've missed a couple of months. I rewatched Panic Room, not an Altimer for me, but a well done thriller with a creepy Jared Leto and an even creepier Dwight Yoakum and that brother can play some creeps. Man, just look at this and sling Blade.

I caught Bachelor Party on cable, I think on Stars or something. Not a favorite childhood watch for me. Don't really care for Tom Hanks in this movie. I don't like it when he plays against type, but I stuck with it has its moments raunchy bone or comedy, I guess. And the odd thing is I watched it, I believe after having listened to the Real Genius episode by the Projection Moth podcast and realized that it was from the same director.

I dove back into Not an old favorite, but I have fond memories of this film, and I had been thinking about doing some Italian horror that wasn't something that I watch all the time. And this is available on Canopy to Evil Eyes. We have two stories adaptations of Poe Rough adaptations of Poe Two stories one by George Romero sorta hearkens back to his anthology We Can Creep Show, and then the other one is Darior Gento. I think both stories are a little overlong. I believe this was supposed to be for a TV show and that didn't end up working out, and they put the two stories that had been filmed together as a movie.

Some decent effects work from Tom Savini, actually some good effects work, but they're a little overlong, kind of boring. I remember them more fondly, I think than I see it these days. It's been warm and is still warm here, but we had a slightly overcast or cloudy day. My usual go too as eraser Head, but I thought, hey, let's stick with black and white. Let's do some universal horror, which is something that I'm not totally up on, but this one I have seen it.

It's one of my favorites. Son of Frankenstein. I love the set decoration that doesn't sound right, the set decoration in this one. I also love Frankenstein's outfit in this one, Frankenstein Monster. Sorry.

And my most favorite thing about this is the little boy that plays Basil Rathbone's son. He was the voice of Bambi, and he has this real heavy Texas accent, and it just tickles me that in this whatever European country, with these British parents, this little Texas boy has this heavy accent. This is a perennial. I've mentioned this on the show numerous times because I know I've mined clips for it, caught the Blues Brothers again, watched it all the way through. Don't You Black Fame in Here?

Don't You Black Sam in Here? If you don't know, obsessed with this movie at one time forever even saw it. Generally, if I catch it early or at the start, I will watch it. And my only other rewatch other than the stuff that I watched with Cleo and my wife angel Heart, which I hit a couple of times for that episode, which is currently playing wherever you find finer podcasts. So for my new watches, and as I mentioned, there are more of these then rewatches.

Seventeen out of the thirty films that I watched in September were new watches, including Nope Do Revenge and Thor Love and Thunder, which were all family watches. And then on my own I watched some Shutter exclusives a little more Italian horror, a Caper film, weird remake, another Universal Picture, and just some oddballs. A lot of fair to middling three star movies for me in this batch, starting with Who Invited Them, Shutter Exclusive, Home Invasion Esque, the nice twist at the end. I didn't get us bother by this one, as I do buy a lot of them. And then my other Italian horror was the sect from Michelle Suave, who directed Cemetery Man.

He worked a lot with Argento early on, and I believe Fulci and maybe even one of the one or both of the Babas. And I had read about this a lot and put it on my IMDb watch list a long time ago. Chris found it for me interesting effects throughout. I don't know if it's the one that I will return to repeatedly. But Suave did Stage Fright, which is a very interesting slasher, and Cemetery Man, which a lot of people love, that has never quite hit with me.

One of my TCM viewings in September was Summer forty two. I've seen bits and pieces of it, I mean for years, I've just never sat and watched the whole thing. Caught it at the beginning decided to stick with it and it's one of those classic coming of age stories. Really enjoyed it. Actually, this next movie is the movie that made me want to watch Chinatown, and that is because while I was watching it, I kept seeing familiar faces and I could not place them.

And when I looked on the IMDb cast list, a lot of the bit players character actors didn't have pictures on their profiles, so I was trying to suss it out looking through their credits and finally realized, Oh, a bunch of these people were in Chinatown. So that's why I watched that. This was the Outfit, with Robert Duval, Karen Black, Jodan Baker, Timothy Carey, all those Chinatown people. Just an amazing seventies cast, two of whom were in Charlie Varick, which this movie is reminiscent of because it's about robbing the mob a little bit different storylines, but that plus Joe Don Baker and Sherry North who are in Charlie Barick, made me think of that movie, which I think I prefer, but this one was pretty fun.

The good guys always win Outfit. I have programmed October's movies for the Culture Cast it's called The Horrors of Netflix, includes those weird horror movies that went straight to Netflix that are kind of bonkers, kind of crazy, but I kind of love except for one of them, so The Perfection, which is the one I didn't really love but is definitely bonkers, Eli the Woman in the Window will Shoot, and I forgot the fourth one, so he'll be doing those. So definitely catch those on the Culture Cast. And then I'm supposed to find one for Chris and I to do, so I'm slowly going through Netflix originals or Netflix exclusive horror movies to find one. So I started with There's Someone Inside Your House, which I had heard a lot about.

Interesting premise where people are being attacked by someone who looks exactly like them, and I thought, oh, this has potential, and then it's sort of flatlined. It just became your basic slasher. Decent enough, but again, another one of those three stars. It's definitely not going to be the one that we do. I caught the remake of Goodnight Mommy, and the original is something that I've grown to really like each time I watch it.

That's the same pair that did The Lodge, which is one of my favorites. Of the last decade or so, and this one stars Naomi Watts, and I thought, oh, they'll do something different with the end of this, and it looked like they were going that way, and then they didn't. Wasn't bad. She's been in some clunkers over the last five or more years. It's decent.

The original is definitely better. Creepier for sure, and the kids are creepier in that one. Back to that gloomy day of universal horrors. This one I don't believe i'd ever watched all the way through. It's possible, but I don't think so.

Anyway, I watched the original Invisible Man with Claude Rains. The old timey, old timey. The special effects still really work. There's one scene when he unravels his bandages that's done. It's not green screen.

It works really well. So there's a lot of that. There's some, you know, not so great stuff. He plays such a despicable character that it's a real hoot. And of course these movies are all very short and fly by.

I really enjoyed that one. I caught Night of Dark Shadows, and I forgot that there were movies in the seventies that were tied to the Dark Shadows series, and I watched Dark Shadows pretty much every day when I got home, and remember finding it very creepy and eerie, and I have been meaning to dive back into it. It's just overwhelming. There are so many episodes of that show, and the ones that I've watched are some of the ones where you know they didn't do a lot of takes for stuff, and there are a lot of bad line readings and mistakes. I couldn't find the charm in it enough to want to watch hundreds and hundreds of episodes.

This was a little bit boring. I didn't realize until the end when I made the connection between the Colins name that it was even connected to the show. Decent enough, but again another one. I doubt I'll be returning to this next Shutter. I believe it's a Shutter exclusive foreign film tows that home invasion.

Oh what is the proper term for these where it's not a home invasion? But it's I guess not fish out of water. I'm not sure what to call these. It's two families, and I believe one is Dutch and one is Swedish. They meet on a trip to Italy, and then the one family invites the other to their cabin, and of course one family is very easygoing and kind of milktoasts, and the other one does all these weird things, and so there's all these uncomfortable situations, and my go to is always just fucking leave, fuck politeness, leave, leave leave.

So it's that it's really well done, and I was on board until the end, and you can say there's kind of a twist, although it's sort of telegraphed throughout, but it's really bleak and pretty mean spirited at the end, and I ended up not liking it because of that. It goes dark, and I'm not against that in general, but in this one, I don't know. Something about it just really struck me in a negative way. I stayed on shutter watched another po anthology. This is something I've tried to watch in the past and have shut it off, and I stuck with it.

It's Extraordinary Tales. Oh and that last movie was Speaking No Evil. I don't think I even said the title. Hey check it out if you're in a bleak indies. But Extraordinary Tales is an animated anthology of post stories.

One of these stories was done in that too, Evil Eyes, and it was pretty cool, pretty interesting animation throughout. You've got Christopher Lee narrating one of them, Bella ghosting an old recording of his of the Raven I believe, and who else Christopher Lee. Yeah, it was pretty cool. Also on Shutter, this Mexican slasher slash religious cult film I'd heard about and actually thought I had watched before, but the cover reminded me of something else I think I've seen. Had some great the ending was great, some interesting special effects, very low budget special effects, but they worked.

But overall this was another one that probably only garnered like three stars. Enemy same with the next one. This was a TCM underground showing I Believe, and it had popped up because of the trailer for Werewolf by Night when that came out. That show is now our that movie? What is it a show or a movie?

It's like fifty two minutes long. Anyway, when the trailer drew up for that, everyone was saying, oh, are they going to have a can you guess the werewolf break? Like the beast must die? And I was like, what this is the Werewolf break? Have your guests too?

The werewolf is and it just happened to play on TCM shortly after that. I recorded it, watched it. It's that you know, rich person brings all these people to their mansion to flush out the murderer or flush out the whoever. So in this case, instead of a murderer, it's a werewolf, who of course does murder people. It was very clunky.

That acting was very wooden. There was a lot of filler in it, so it just didn't quite capture my attention. I'm curious to see Werewolf by Night now to compare the two. I tried to educate myself on found footage films, which, if you listen into the show at all, Noah's one of my least favorite subgenres. I watched the found footage phenomenon on Shutter.

I had a lot of Shutter movies on here see It's worth the five bucks a month or whatever, and didn't learn anything all that new. Maybe added a couple of movies that I might check out. It was a well made doc and it was nice to see people who are into this go to bat for it and give me some extra background in things that I don't really think about for this subgenre. Okay, my big watch of the month probably will end up being one of the big watches of the year. For me.

I had either forgotten or missed when this movie played festivals that it had been picked up by Shutter, and if I had heard that, I didn't know when it was going to play on Shutter. So when I found out, I was pleasantly surprised that within a week or so I was going to be able to watch Peter Strickland's new film Flux Scourmet Let's continue our investigation into an array of intercountry disciplines. It's amazing. I loved it. It is absolutely not for everybody.

I realized about halfway two thirds of the way through that he was really hitting on these old or original midnight movie ideas. There are threads to erase your head in this There are threads to El Topo and The Holy Mountain and to a lot of those first midnight movies. It is scatological, which you don't see very often. I think of things like the ones I just mentioned of Salo just it hit a transgressive point for me that is just missing from most films. Really interesting combination of food and sound and body, and again, not for everybody.

If you're not into scat, and I mean that kind of scat, it probably won't work for you. But I thought about this movie for days after I watched it. I tell you that Peter Strickland, he's battened just about a thousand for me of what I have seen of his All right, that does it. Don't forget about the Patreon if the ads are bothering you. If you're having a problem listening on iTunes and has something to do with the ads at the beginning of the show, ad blocker, anti virus stuff, might a firewall, whatever might be preventing you from being able to listen to it.

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