WUH: September 2023

Wake Up Heavy is a weird Way media podcast. It just made a yummy sound, so I thought you'd like the dessert. Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, the world's greatest horror movie podcast. Hello, and welcome to Wake Up Heavy. This is Mark Bagley, your host, and I'm doing something I haven't done in almost a year, and that is a month watch list episode.

Although I am sure that I have included watch list in most of the things that I've done since November twenty twenty two, I haven't put out a month year episode in a while on my own without Cleo. So that's what I'm doing today. And at the end here I'll have a few news and notes, technical issue announcements to make, as well as some future episode announcements. So if this kind of episode isn't your thing, Dad, just turn this off and go watch a movie. I love movies, Gosh, I love movies.

I love watching them. For recent watches, and this extends to the last day of August through October first, just because that's where I left off last time, and includes the last two movies that Cleo and I watched, not really sticking to September per se as the cutoff dates most of these are rewatches. For me, I think there are only eight new watches. Most of those new watches were with Cleo and or Cleo and my wife, and most almost all of the rewatches except for about four or three, we're also with Cleo and Or my wife. So I've been watching a lot of movies with them, not so many on my own.

And part of the reason for that will come up at the end of the episode when I talk about the work I've been doing on the show. So back on August thirtieth, I watched something I had been hearing or reading a lot about online, especially Twitter, a movie called inness Men. And I may be mispronouncing that it's a cornish phrase. And this is an interesting I would like in it to skin em rink in a way in that it's almost more of a not experimental you know, that's stand breakage type stuff. When I think of experimental or even Kenneth Anger, it's not that.

But it's not really a narrative film. This gal is on a small Cornish island and she's studying a plant. There weird stuff starts happening, so it's got a lot of repetition, not a lot of dialogue, there's a lot of is this real or is this her imaginings? Weird time structure, that kind of stuff. If you want to really lose friends fast, invite them all over and play this in skinner rink for them and you'll be hated forever.

Pretty interesting. John Woodvine is in it. He is famously known as doctor Hirsch from an American Werewolf in London. I'm making a mark a Malston my belief WAW and his daughter is the lead. I don't know that I'll be rushing back to watch it anytime soon, but you know, hey, it's on Hulu, so if you've got that service, check it out.

Khalio had been begging to watch this movie for a while, so we finally tracked it down Ready or Not with Samarrow weaving, which is a lot of fun. My wife and I watched it a number of years ago. I'm sure I mentioned it on some episode way back when. Very fun, most dangerous game style. I preferred this over The Hunt, which has a similar premise.

This is a little lighter on the commentary of modern society, which I appreciate. We also stumbled on Becky and Wrath of Becky. I think Wrath of Becky is available now on Showtime or something, and I said, well, you know, the first one's actually really good. We like Lulu Wilson, and so we watched Becky and went straight into the sequel. I prefer the first one.

I think Rath leans a little more again into that social commentary, as well as becoming a little bit more cartoonish. I kept thinking of The Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote while we were watching it, but still pretty fun. I think if I were to have to pick between the two to watch again anytime soon, it would be the first points though for Wratha Becky, having Courtney Gaines, the ginger from Children of the Corn, Nanda, we have You a Woman? We got. We've been watching raunchy comedies, I think Cleveland.

I talked about those the last time we did an episode, and so we watched super Bad. We all love Michael Sarah enjoy Jonah Hill. For the most part, I forgot. I think I've only seen it one time before. I've forgotten just how raunchy it is though, so it got a little uncomfortable in spots.

And then a couple of other new films which I did an episode on with Chris Cobweb and The Boogeyman. Cleo watched both of those with me. We went back into the comedy zone for the next three films with Austin Powers International Man of Mystery, her first time Horrible Bosses. So now we're getting into the Jason Bateman Jason Sidikas area. Nowhere near as good as Game Night.

I will say, right now, how can that be profitable for Freedomly? I have seen Horrible Bosses and Horrible Bosses too before, and they're they're fine, They're fine. We didn't watch Horrible Bosses too, but I'm sure we will, even though he's not my favorite, because we watched that and Jason Sidikas is in it. We watched We're the Millers, which I do think is not nearly as good as Game Night, but definitely better than Horrible Bosses and poor Will Poulter in that movie. Come on, I've seen a rainbow yesterday, but too many storms of common God leaving a trace of not what God given?

Is it? Because my life intend shades it? Right. I played Off Hands Fade Away, Sold in Place as far as Sunny said, you play the insane and name the place. It's half of fallen praying to crimers, where the system got your victim too?

Your own mind, dreams of hopeless aspirations and hopes to come in true believe in yourself. The rest is up to me, and don't go chase and water? Where did you? Oh? It was fun seeing Cleo react to his spider bite, something that I've been wanting to show Cleo for a while since we watched the Evil Dead reboot recently tracked down Don't Breathe by fiddy Aalbarez.

This to me is sort of like Green Room, where the violence is is played naturally and realistic, and it's pretty brutal. I was waiting for again Clio's reaction to the twist in that film, and I said, Okay, from this point on it gets pretty gnarly, so just watch out. I really enjoy that film though. Jane Levy again great Dylan Manette. I love when he shows up in these movies.

And I always forget that their other cohort is the kid from It Follows. One of the kids from It Follows. We watched as a family barbie that they had seen it in the theater. I think we mentioned that on an episode. It's fine, I'm going to be that guy and say it didn't really do much for me.

The commentary, the whole patriarchy thing did not bother me one bit. I don't know, it just didn't click with me for whatever reason. We watched the new Australian film that everybody's been talking about Talk to Me, which again was fine. I think we all enjoyed it pretty much for the most part. I had heard that it was really gruesome, and I know I've said this before.

I don't know if it's just me being desensitized. I didn't find it all that gory or brutal. There were some tough scenes, especially with the young boy, but all in all, I don't know, it didn't seem over the top to me. I enjoyed it. I kept seeing people say it's trophy and stereotypical, but I didn't get that feel so much.

It might play in the same sandbox as a lot of movies. We're talking possession here, but it's done so much differently. It's kind of seance with that hand, you know, mummified or whatever hand, some medium that has power. But I really liked the look of the characters when they're possessed. And then also the look of the dead people that they're seeing was done really well.

I'm sure we'll watch it again eventually, but I wasn't completely blown away by it. Cleo and I watched Insidious Chapter three. Kind of feels like we're slowly going through the whole series to get to the new one. I know I've said when talking with her that I tend to enjoy these films in this series, so you know, we'll see what happens with the fourth one and the fifth one. I told Cleo, I think it was my decision.

I wanted to watch go through the Corneto trilogy again. So we watched Hot Fuzz, and I'm sure we'll get to the other two shortly since it's a spooky season. Maybe Shaun of the Dead again, or even World's End since they're more horror related. And then we watched another new film that had a lot of buzz, Brian Duffield's No One Will Save You, which is a Hulu exclusive Hulu original quote unquote, and a lot of people had been talking about how fascinating and interesting it was. I don't want to spoil anything.

It's I don't know if this is a spoiler. I mean, if you've read anything about it, you kind of know that there is basically no dialogue in this film. There's one or two lines, maybe eight ten words total. Caitlin Deaver the lead in it. It's just reactions, reactions to the things that are going on in her house.

And it does have that through line of trauma and guilt like a lot of movies. But I really enjoyed how this was handled in this one. So a home invasion movie of a different kind, pretty crazy in parts. We really enjoyed it. And Brian Duffield is the guy that wrote the Babysitter movies, so I mentioned that to Cleo as an incentive to watch it, because we liked those films.

Another film that Cleo had been bringing up a bunch like every once in a while, and I could tell this meant that she wanted to watch it is Triangle with Melissa George and Liam Hemsworth, and I had watched it a number of years ago and remembered enjoying it. It's just that it's very similar to another movie called Time Crimes, not that that's a bad thing necessarily. It's a time loop movie. They both handle their time loops in a very similar way, and there's even a want to say costume, but the characters, the lead characters, and both of those movies end up dressed up the same way. They're both really interesting films to watch, and that time loop stuff can get kind of crazy in your brain.

But I enjoyed watching this one again, nice, low budget, interesting, time loopy, sort of depressing at the end when you realize what's going on movie. The next four are movies that I actually watched on my own. I rewatched The Exorcist for the millionth time. Your Mother is So sucks but small. I think it was close to the end of September, felt like Garinet for the October mood.

And I think because I was on Max watching that I started going through their suggestions and landed on Young Frankenstein and just had to watch it yet again. Wolf Ah Awsome, why are you talking that way? I thought you wanted to No, I don't want to see yourself. I'm easy one of my favorites. So September is Cleo's birthday month.

We had a family birthday party for her and then she did a birthday with her friends. What my wife did was rent out an airbnb here locally, have all the kids over there that could stay overnight if they wanted, so I was left to my own devices. I finally went back and watched Fear No Evil, which I had been talking about for a while now, and a few episodes back. That was my movie wreck, even though I hadn't watched it, because it's on Shutter and I think I had watched Evil Speak or something, and the two go together in my head. It's such an interesting film.

It slogs its way through the middle and doesn't really stick the landing, but fascinating independent eighties satanic panic film with all the these undercurrents of homosexuality and this other stuff. Great soundtrack, and it reminded me of a Talking Head song that I always forget to download on my phone. It comes up every once in a while and I forget about it because it's not a track on any of their albums. It was I don't know if it was released as a single or what. Love Building on Fire as the song, and it's playing in this movie and I'm like, oh, yes, one of my favorite Talking Head songs.

I need to go and get that on my phone, and I finally did, so thank you movie for that. But there's more Talking Heads there's a man, there's punk stuff on their new Wave one of the best eighties horror movie soundtracks, and the movie is very interesting as well, which is ah And then because of Twitter, I ended the night with a Category three Hong Kong film called The Seventh Curse. I kept seeing it through the week, and then somebody posted a thread of pictures from the movie and I was like, yeah, I need to track this down. Stuff like The Boxer Zomen and some of the other films that I've seen that are just crazy. Although I don't think Boxer Zoneman is a Hong Kong film, maybe it is.

I looked it up knowing it wasn't going to be available anywhere, and then lo and behold, it's on to be right now. So I watched that. I couldn't tell you what's going on in this movie, but it's a whole lot of fun. Chow Yun Fat is in it in a bit role. Crazy special effects that are super clunky and goofy, but they work because these guys knew how to edit movies.

There's puppets and ooze and blood and the curse that this guy is going through. This blood curse makes his leg parts of his leg explode at different times. It's just bizarre and Category three films and not something I know a lot about. But from what I've read and researched just by seeing these movies pop up, is that they're basically like n C seventeen. They're the highest rating that they give to movies, so no one under eighteen is allowed to watch them.

And I don't know. I don't know. If I saw an edited version, it seemed like the time matched up with what's on IMDb. It didn't seem all that bad to me, again desensitized. I mean, there was a nudity and the gore is crazy, but it's kind of cartoony, so I don't think it's one of the more outrageous Category three films out there.

A heck of a lot of fun, A good way to end the night on my own. When they got back home the next day after the party, Cleo had been asking to watch this movie for a while and it's not streaming anywhere. I'm a cheap skate, so I'm like, Wow, how are we going to watch this? I was recently reminded that I needed to renew my library card, so I did that, and when I was at the library doing that. I thought, oh, I can get Happy Death Day here.

They didn't have it at the branch I was at, so I put in a request to hold it and have it sent to that branch picked it up. We watched Happy Death Day on the first and then watch the second one again, like Becky and Ratha, Becky, I prefer the first one. It's more horror related anyway, and the second one time Loop stuff, well, Time Loop Alternate Universe and it gets really crazy. And I don't think Khleio liked it as much either, because she just kept saying there's way too much going on, and I kind of agree. Still very good, and the lead in both those it's just great.

She should be more stuff. I don't know why she isn't. I think they're doing another Happy Death Day and we'll see what happens in that. Okay. As I mentioned, I do have some news and notes, and I'll try to go through this quickly so as not to bore people too much.

I am still going through old episodes and remastering them, which basically means leveling them because the levels were all out of whack. But through probably the middle of twenty twenty even though I was using Audacity by then, I still wasn't utilizing all the tools of that or the leveling software that I use. Now. I think I'm getting close to the end, though, so I have done a ton. Twenty nineteen had forty seven episodes.

I have done all of those, and I've done all of twenty eighteen, which was probably only not even twenty episodes because it wasn't a full year. I am into early twenty twenty now, and once I get to when I started using Audacity and the other software and doing the clips better, I will stop. I'm getting there. I think if you are subscribed to the show, those episodes redownload, but I believe that they just download over the old one. But check your downloads maybe and make sure there aren't duplicate episodes on there.

Keep the new one because it's it sounds better. It's not very technically hard to do this. Sometimes I am replacing clips as well, Like when I threw a song on at the end, the leveling software kind of messes them up, and if I have the song, I'll readd it so that it sounds better. Other than that, I'm just letting the leveling software do its work and do its work that came out at odd get everything up to the same level, which has been really helpful. So I do have episodes planned.

I don't know that any of them will come out in October. Parents with Chris dashe should be coming soon, and then Chris, Mike and I are going to be recording an episode on foul Play and that is definitely set for November. And then I have been tossing around a few ideas in my head for films just solo spotlight things, possibly on Poison for the Fairies and possibly one on dir Fan and both of those have come up because of the episodes that I'm fixing, and I talk about those movies on there and then I'm like, oh yeah, and I'm trying to catch some stuff. I would always say, oh I might do this, I may do that, and never get to them. So as I'm spot checking the episodes, I'm kind of listening for things that I said that never happened that I could still go back and do.

And those are two films that I really enjoy and would be interesting to talk about that may happen as well. Over on Cambridge and with Sean, there is a new episode out and Ronnie and I should be recording in a couple of weeks here for our November episode. So that's back on track. No more breaks, no more special episodes about the plastic rock ball that everybody has heard so much about. If you listen to that show, please do.

If you don't, we could use more listeners. And I think that pretty much does it for me today. Stay safe, be smart, enjoy hopefully cooler weather where you are. It's cooling down here, but it's going to be back in the nineties by the end of the week. Great, it's October.

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