WUH: That's hella tight

Wake Up Heavy is a weirdy way media podcast. That's how it's tight. Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, the world's greatest horror movie podcast. On this episode, my weird dad and I will be talking about. Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Wake Up Heavy with your host me, Mark Begley and my third favorite co host, my daughter.

What the heck Cleo Begley just mixing it up a little bit. So it's been a couple of months, well three months since last we recorded back in April. Yay? Have you had any major educational events since then? I just graduated, you know, yeah stuff.

Graduated high school back in June. Yayay with the very good GPA. Yes, and you're off to where college? Fresno State? Yes, my alma mater, aw, which doesn't really get you any benefits or anything.

I don't think. Yeah, what the heck man. Tell me about it. But at least they keep asking me for money. Of course, of course I believe that's what tuition is for.

But I could be wrong to freeze. Oh no, no, I'm just texting my wonderful mother. Oh tell your man to leave us alone. Oh wow, you in danger? Well, we haven't watched a ton in three months time.

But we got some good stuff on here. We're going through the end of the year. That was a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, and the graduation, graduation party, Yeah, getting enrolled in prison of State, dog days, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So we've got some.

Stuff on here, and I'm gonna say some silly stuff, but it's all it's. All pretty decent. Starting with Greta Gerwig's big breakout film that your mom and I watched a while ago. You were watched it when Little came out. I don't know, probably not.

We probably didn't catch it right when it went to streaming or anything. Yeah, So we watched Lady Bird. Yeah, I'm not even going to try to pronounce her name. Yeah. And Timo te Chala May Yeah.

Oh he's hella tight. Dude, beautiful. That's hell, it's tight. We really enjoyed it when we first saw it, and I know we've been bringing it up because of high school movies and yeah, I was specifically looking up graduation movies and that popped up and I'm like, oh, yeah, of course we watched it. It was pretty good.

I liked it. I mean, I like I don't even know how many movies she has, but I like most of Greta Gerwig's stuff. If we watched Little Women a few times, obviously, I liked Barbie, so they're good, and I like Ladybird. There's Francis Haw, which I know is supposed to be good, which I have not seen. That's like one of her early early movies.

I think it's part of that mumble core stuff that was going on. Then I've liked everything I've seen by her as well. Francis Hall was written by and starred Greta Gerwig, but it was directed by her partner Noah Bombback. And it's fun watching her getting her head load off and the House. Of the Oh my gosh, dude, that scene was very surprising.

That gets you. That's a surprise. Oh wow. Yeah, I really enjoy that movie. Yeah, it's good, and it's you know.

Kind of valley related. Sacramento is close edge of northern California, California, California, California A. Oh wow, Yeah, I liked it. Yeah, Sacramento is close enough. It's not like four hours away or whatever.

Yeah, it's just hitting the edge of the valley just right there, and then we watched a big buzz film. M Sinners ended up making a lot of money. I think it's like one of the top grossing horror movies of all time. Got a lot of hype when it came out, which I think it probably oversold it a little bit. I enjoyed it, but yeah, I liked it.

It was good. It was fun, interesting concepts. Since almost kind of wish it wasn't a vampire movie, but yeah, instead of a known creature, it could have been something new. Yeah, I create your own type of thing. Yeah, I get that, but vampires are still fun.

Yeah. It was good and the acting was really good and the music was good and music was cool. I was shocked by the language from Little Hailey because I only ever think of her as the girl in True Grit, because I've seen that movie so many times. What's her name, Maddie in which in True Grit she's a little baby, she's like fourteen. Yeah, and she's really good in True Grit movie.

Yeah, she's super vulgar in centers and it's fantastic. She does a good job. And yeah, so vampires, yay, yay, vampires in the South in thirties twenties. Or thirties twenty Yeah, twenty thirties. I thinkty they got cars, so it can't be too old.

Yeah. I think it's probably like right on the cusp a great depression, and. They're playing blues and stuff, so it's pretty fun, pretty fun. I definitely watch it again. Yeah, for sure.

I heard you loud and clear, but then you stuck your tongue and makoos and fucked me so hard. I figured you changed to much keep. Your voice down out. Speaking of vampires. And I can't remember what made me think of this.

It wasn't sinners, but oh I think I watched something on Red Letter Media. They did a not a review, but one of their shows on Midnight Mass Is that the only Mike Flanagan series that you hadn't watched yet? Yeah? Pretty sure. We've watched the other ones together, which I like.

I like his stuff. I want to say for me, this might be my favorite. That was good. I really like it. I like Catholic horror stuff, so I enjoyed too.

And it's holy original, so I like that aspect of it. Yeah. Because Hillhouse and Blind Manor are both based off of things. I have the Blind Manner book well and Midnight Club. Oh yeah, almost all of them.

What's the other We're missing one though? Or is that it h Hill House, Blind Manor, House of Usher. Oh yeah, House of Bus which is also a Growland post. So yeah, Midnight Mass is just fully original. That one I really liked too.

I've liked them all crazy, You've won. Yes, that was blind Manor is probably my least favorite. Man I'd said Midnight Club was my least favorite. Yeah, I liked that one. I liked it too, and like none of them are bad by any means, it just wasn't my favorite.

Blind Manner. I'd have to watch that one again. Yeah, your mom and I have only watched Hill House twice and Midnight Mass twice. None of the other ones we've gone through again. Definitely willing to.

Yeah, i'd want to watch Blind Manner because I don't even know if I've seen it all, like fully all the way through. You were still little when we were watching a lot of those, and then we went back to watch Hillhouse on your request. And which I loved was a really good show. We watched Midnight Mass when it came out altogether because you were older, I mean Midnight Club. Yeah, I'm like, God, I didn't want then we watched Midnight Yeah.

I like the lower I like the combination of vampires and religion. I like sleepy seaside villages. Yes, it's very Stephen king Es. That's exactly what I was going to say. And it's got, you know, his usual troop of great actors.

And I really liked the two leads. I guess you could say, can never remember that guy's name. Yeah, Katie Siegel, getting her name right, It's just Kate, Kate Siegel. Yeah, I get her confused with the gal that was on Mary with Children, who has a very similar name, Katie Sigal. I see.

I like Kate Siegel. She's yeah, she's everything. But I liked their doomed relationship. But yeah, yeah, a lot. All the different parts of it were interesting, like the kids, his stuff, the rest.

Yeah, and all of it. It's Catholic, it's form Catholic. It's not even episcopalian or anything. Yeah. I liked it.

It was good. I liked all the different parts of it. The creature was cool. Yeah, we're he's odd looking. It's stuck to some of the typical lore, but then had its own things too.

As far as vampires goes, I don't think garlic or crosses. Obviously not crosses. Since half the movie takes place in a Catholic church, I really think that works on him. Sunlight seemed to be the only thing really that worked on them. And yeah, how they were infected was different, and the.

Like healing aspect of it was really interesting. I mean the deaging and stuff, right, cool, very cool. Little that threw me off because I'm like, why are they all in old age makeup at the beginning of this? And then you're like that makes sense after a while and you're like, oh, okay, I get it. Yeah, Yeah, I really like that series.

It's good. I really I enjoyed it. Was it the shortest one of all of. Those two and yeah, it's only seven episodes episodes, and I was like, I think your mom and I when we first watched it, went through it in like two nights. Yeah, watched three or four one night and three or four the next night, and that was it.

And we got through it pretty quickly too. Yeah, we did. It was good. I liked it. Speaking of a series or franchises, why did we.

Watch these because the new movie came out. Oh no, that girl that we watch on YouTube. Oh yeah, she watched the Natalie Gold Natty Gold reaction videos. One of the few reaction video people that I can actually watch. Yeah, it doesn't just cringe going through.

I didn't watched any of her stuff in months, and that we just landed on her watching Final Destination. I believe she watched it because there's a new one out the movie. Yeah, that spurred us on to watch the sequels that are available on HBO Max, which is two through five. Some of them have subtitles and I have no idea what any of them are. Yeah, they're all just five.

So it's two through five. Yeah, because we watched the first one. Who yeah, like a couple of years ago or something a year or two ago, and since we watched her reaction video, we didn't rewatch that one. Yeah. So those are fun kind of hit and miss.

Yeah, some of them were interesting, not my favorite. I think I liked the second one the best, That's what I. Was going to say. I can't even really remember if I have watched all five of them prior to this. I know I have watched at least through three before I want to say, I went through them all just because none of them are awful, and it was like, oh, well, there's another one available, so I might as well watch it.

Yeah. Kind of did that with the Saw movies to at one point, since we watched them so close together, basically over a couple of days, I was like, yeah, I think number two is my favorite, even though number three I thought was my favorite, just because it has Mary Elizabeth. Instead in it. I like her character, and that three is like fine, it's not again not they're not. None of them are really that bad.

It's just they differ. Yeah. After three, I think they get a little bit cheese ball cheesy. Yeah, I'm not even gonna say silly. It's just that they're all pretty silly.

I don't know which one it was, four or five, The one with the bus of people going on a trip. That one was kind of interesting. After three, I start to kind of lose track of what happens in each one. Yeah, and then then the last one they loop it back to the first Oh movies. Yeah, that's the bus one.

That one was like because I kind of just liked that it tied into the first movie. So I was like, Okay, this isn't that bad. But four, I was like, eh, I like two and three those are pretty good. Three has the fun tanning bed death. Yeah, that beautiful match cut at the end when they show the beds and then their caskets.

That's like, actually so awful in Narley, I. Think I laughed out loud. We did, for sure, and then together as a family. I've been pushing for this movie since it came out. Actually, I've been wanting to see it, not necessarily in the theater, but I remember being very intrigued by it when it came out, and then I knew I wanted to watch it when it started streaming.

It's been on HBO for quite a while. Yeah. I kind of figured it might be kind of heavy and dark. Maybe it needed to be the right time. Yeah, but we watched A Different Man with Sebastian stan and Adam Pearson and as really interesting.

I don't know if just when I saw the trailers for when it was coming out, I like misunderstood the movie. When we watched it, I was like, wait, this is not what I thought was happening in this movie. So it was very interesting to watch. It had a very nineties independent film vibe to me definitely. I think it was shot on sixty millimeter.

I'm not one hundred percent sure, but it seemed particularly grainy. Yeah, yeah, the film stock, just the look and feel of the spaces that they were using, the production design and stuff. I thought it was going to be a little bit different too. I knew there was something between Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson. Adam Pearson is a yeh to say, a disfigured actor.

He's in under the skin. I think that was the first thing he did, and then he was in a movie prior to this by the same director of this film, which I also want to see, Chained to Life something like that. For some reason, I think I thought that they switched places or body swapped or something. So yeah, I had a completely some of the trailers I didn't watch all the way through. I just would like catch glimpses of them, but I thought they were some weird, not supernatural thing.

I think I thought it was the opposite that Adam Pearson basically became Sebastian Stan, but that's like not so. I was just watching it and I was like, wait, I misunderstood. After a while when I saw not the trailer, but just clips from it. During ward season, I would see clips and I'm like, oh, wait, Sebastian Stan had this disfigurement too, and I aint the got that. And then I was like because I kept seeing the scene of them in the bar when Adam Pearson does the karaoke yeah, and I'm like, okay, well they're both there.

He's in the crowd, but he looks like a Sebastian Stan. And then I'm like yeah, so anyway, Yeah, I was surprised this trip. It was It was very interesting. It was good. It was really good and dark at the end and yeah heavy.

Yeah. I really liked that guy, that Adam Pearson. He was really good in this. He's funny too. I've seen a lot of like press stuff.

He's pretty funny. People were pushing like, where's his Golden Globe nomination? Yes, his Oscar nomination and stuff, So. Show me. I'm not your kind mine, No.

Jack tu sh shame. Who quic. I don't know if you want to talk about this movie, but I got on it almost got on a John Carpenter kick. I was getting ready to blow through a bunch of eighties John carpenter and really only did the fog. And I'm not sure how much you were tuned in.

I caught parts of it, but I didn't get like the full plutch. We'll just sail by that one. So we watched the fog. All right, watch the fog and Kleil was in the room. We'll say that.

But the next movie, this was your suggestion. Yeah. After hanging out with my cousin, we kept being like, oh, should we watch this movie? And then I was like, no, I will wait to watch it with my dad. So we watched Oddity, which is also not where I thought that movie was gonna go.

I had only ever really seen images of that wooden figure. Like galum thing I don't know to call it. Yeah, that's basically what it is. Yeah, it's a collumn yeah, because it has the like papers in its head or whatever. It's basically the entire myth.

Because, like you said, like I had only really seen when me and Will looked at it. That's like the picture of the movie on Hulu is the thing. So I was like, oh, it has to do with this more so, and then we watch it and not so much. It doesn't focus it on it, so much. It's so pretty interesting, like what direction the movie goes?

So more of a oh gosh, what would you say? I don't even it's like folk horror. Yeah, you have stuff happening in the not the woods per se, but there close to the woods. And then yeah, the guy who becomes the lead is a blind seer, medium or what you want to call it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty creepy.

Again. Talking to my cousin about it after watched it, and he mentioned the tent scene. So I'm pretty sure that's one of the biggest, like freaky parts of the movie. But yeah, I didn't have this spooky. Yeah, I just know that he was trying to get his mom and dad to watch it, my sister and brother in law to watch that, and made them watch Long Legs.

And I think he was going to get them to watch Bring Her Back that's not available yet. It was we want to watch to Bring Her Back? Oh no, he yeah, talk to me, talk to me and Barbarian. I think we're his two next movies to show his parents. Good luck, have fun and after oddity was it even?

Was it the same day? I think it might have been. Gosh, I haven't watched this movie. In quite a few years, but I watched it a bunch early on in Wake Up, Heavy Day, and I know I've talked about it then. Probably my favorite anthology movie of recent years Southbound, So what'd you think of that one?

It was really interesting, a lot of interesting concepts. I mean, I like anthology series, I love trig or Treat and all of those. But yeah, it was interesting and I really liked it. It was fun too, lots of weird stuff and pretty good effects, nearly effects. God knows what the budget on this movie was.

But the CGI in this too much is watching it thinking why does Marvel and Disney all this other stuff not look this good when they have billions and billions of dollars and all the best CGI artists available to them, and it doesn't look as good as those freaky creatures in this. Yeah, the I kept calling them reapers, but like grim reapers because they have the size. They're weird looking. Yeah, that first story of the guys just like kind of driving around and you would just see them like curled up in the distance. That was pretty cool.

They looked good too. Yeah, weird because at first when you see it back there, you're like, what was that floating in the sky. Yeah, you're just like this little ball of nothing. I mean they're out in the middle of nowhere, so it could be anything. Something on a.

Farm that'd be a tumbleweed in the air. Yeah whatever, or something that's on a pole and somebody that farm or but yeah, then you keep seeing it and going, oh, this is something. I love that simple shot of when they leave the gas station and then they pull. Right back right back into Yeah that was that was well done. Single shot.

Oh yeah that. I like their story. I loved the story with the cult with our girl from Starry Eyes who plays that hag and Starry Eyes. Yes, I liked the weird demon one at the end. I think that one was fun.

The weird Demon one, he goes into the bar and then they all turn out to be like little demon. Oh yeah, yeah, it was interesting. All of them are good, though, like pretty solid. Yeah, that one and the one with the car where he hits the girl and that's how that story connects. Yeah, they're not super deep or a lot going on, but there isn't really a bad story in there.

No, I don't think so. And they don't always have to be super deep stories. Yeah, the one with the car has pretty gnarly body. Oh yeah, I guess broken bones. Body trauma.

Yeah, supernatural or scientific is happening to her. She just just got wrecked by a car, literally wrecked. I was glad to watch that again. I haven't seen it in so long, and I was like, oh, yeah, totally holds up. This is good stuff.

It was good and we have seen and I'm not going to try and figure it out right now, but a couple of those were directed by people that we have watched other movies. By, like Radio Silence. That's like the biggest Yeah, yeah, yeah, Radio Silence. And so they're all still doing good stuff. And then I've been pushing to watch these films again, like Final Destination.

There is a new intrigue in this. I'm not going to call it a franchise, the series of films. I guess trilogy. Now the new film twenty eight years Later is out or was out. I'm sure it'll be streaming fairly soon.

It just made me think I haven't really seen either of these and ages they're not movies that I've watched a ton generally remember enjoying them twenty eight days later, as I'm sure anybody who's listening to this and likes horror. NOS is not available to stream anywhere. Well, might be on TV or Pluto TV right now. You don't mind the gazillion commercials, you can probably check it out. I had put it on hold at our local library and was like seventh in line because again a new one had come out, so it seems like we only had one copy to share in Fresno.

Then I just happened to think when we were at my sisters, asked, will your cousin my nephew, Hey, do you have twenty eight days later? Because I knew twenty eight weeks later was streaming, we could watch that one, and he's like, oh, yeah, we got two pack. I was like, oh, yeah, of course. I was sort of surprised that they had them, but yeah, we watched both of those. They're good.

A lot of movies on here are I didn't know really anything about this movie other than like, it is a zombie movie, is it? Though? Yeah? I was just gonna say, I didn't really realize they also aren't really zombies. That also, it was kind of interesting and honestly, they're not entirely focused on the zombies.

A lot so it was interesting like that. They're pretty good, though I enjoyed watching them. I think I still enjoy the first one more than the second one. The second one is good, frustrating at times though. Well, yeah, for sure, I am not a fan of Fast Again.

They're not really zombies. They're infected fast zombies, but make it pretty well and I get it in this it's a rage virus, so it makes sense in that regard. I just always like the kind of slow limping zombies that yeah, all of a sudden you're overwhelmed by them or whatever and you can't get away. But yeah, interesting look to the first film being digital like it is, and it didn't bother me as much as I thought it would this time. I know it bothered me before and it's probably why I didn't really watch it very often because it kind of looks ugly.

It makes sense for the movie too. Does look, Yeah it does. We were looking at the release date and it said two thousand on it, so like, yeah, it made sense for the time and for the movie. I mean the look for it being dingy, almost like a video diary. Yeah, kind of like Cloverfield, like the first clover Field being shot digitally.

It makes sense in that regard, even though it's not a found footage film. I believe we just watched it on DVD. I don't think that was a Blu ray. I don't know. Blu ray may look a little less gunky.

It adds to the idea that you know, this is a acalyptic world in a way. There's no real cameras or any of that electricity or whatever unless you have a generator. Yeah. Technology, No, you're not going to be hopping on your computer and doing stuff like that. So it works in that regard.

I think they're fun. Yeah. When it first started and that like first scene was on, I was like, oh wow, this looks crunchy. Yeah, well that's surly digital. It's gotten a lot better, But that was not like a top notch digital film camera anyway.

You hate shot with. Hey, folks, it's Mark here and I just wanted to break into the middle of our episode and give a quick non update update regarding my health my accident that happened just a little over six months ago. As I expressed on the last episode, I figured as each day progressed, my walking would get better and better, which it has never did. Pt never felt the need. I'm not an athlete, my job isn't physically strenuous, and my limp is basically gone.

That leg gets a little tight, that's about it. We took a two mile walk the other day and had no issues except I nearly tripped and broke my leg again on a ray of sidewalk. So I still haven't received my hospital bill. The claim was processed shortly after the last episode aired, but is going through a reprocessing. I believe the hospital needed to submit some paperwork and so I haven't been built for that yet.

Again well over six months or just over six months since my accident. But what are you going to do? I realized after a clue and I finished this episode that we didn't go back and talk about Stop making Sense like I had hoped we would do, because we missed out on talking about it last episode when we actually did watch it. So who knows. Maybe I'll convince her to talk with me again before her first semester of college starts and we'll do a best of the first half of twenty twenty five so far or something.

I don't know. We'll see. We'll see if I can wrangle her into talking with me again. Other than that, I was looking through my meager letterboxed watch list for the year, and I have not really watched anything on my own without her or her and my wife together. The only things I have caught are and this one was just by accident hit I think about three fourths of ten Chlorofield Lane, one of my favorites.

Loved that movie, speaking of Mary Elizabeth Winstead. And then one night I was on my own, the girls were out doing something and I rewatched the really great Steve Martin documentary that's on Apple TV plus Apple Plus TV, whatever it's called, And yeah, I just really enjoyed it. Something about that guy just really fascinates me. And it gives me an opportunity here to play my favorite raunchy of his, which I know I've talked about in the past and probably clipped on this show. I know I've talked about it and clipped it on my other show, Cambridge Mashawan, which by the way, you should go listen to if you aren't doing so already.

All right, back to Khlio and I talking about what else we watch since the end of April. Now this doesn't happen very often, but about three weeks ago, I met a girl and she was real nice and she invited me her apartment. So I went over there and she had the best pussy I have ever seen. Oh no, come on, I'm talking about her cat now. That makes me sick right there.

No, No, you can't say anything anymore that people don't take it dirtie, and I'm sorry that discuss me. Th ket was the best fuck I ever wanted to do. What's next on our list? Chicko? Uh oh the empty man whose bright idea was this?

My you had been talking about it. We both had been talking about it, and then so was Will. I'm pretty sure. And then I think we turned on the TV one day and it was on a channel and I was like, oh, just record it, just record it and then we. Could watch it.

I think that happened almost immediately after I had tried to play it on Hulu and realized it was only for Hulu. Yeah, premium premium, which we don't have. So it was made by Fox, and it happened right before Disney bought them. Oh it got dumped onto streaming immediately. Yeah.

I don't think it played theatrically at all. May have played some festivals, and then it just dropped. I think initially on HBO. Probably I watched it way back then, and I was like, well, this is a trip. This is like somebody has got some things to say, and yeah, it's got all this lore in it, or.

It's kind of existential a little bit. This isn't just your dumb horror movie. It's complex. Even though the premise is kind of like Bye Bye Man or slender Man or whatever. You think, Oh, it's going to be cheesy, That's what I thought of.

I mean, that's basically what they're doing, a creepypasta thing. This That's exactly what I was gonna say. It is a very creepy pasta almost urban legend type of story, or at least what the kids talk about in it, and then it gets way more complex and deeper. When we were first watching it, I was like, this is literally creepypasta. Stuff mixed in with cult stuff.

Which I love some religion stuff. Yeah, I'm always up for a weird culto. Yeah, I kind of forgot though. I probably watched it early on in the pandemic, or maybe it was a little while later. You guys weren't around, so you were probably back in school and Mom was about at work when I watched.

It's probably maybe like when I was in ninth grade. Eighth or yeah, whenever, you were probably backfull. But anyway, I forgot the idea. So spoiler's here for this film. I mean, it's been out for four or five years that he is basically the lead is basically a creation, a tulpa tulpa, and I forgot that whole point of that that I think is the thing that really takes it over for me.

That's the extra thought, the detail that makes it very fascinating. And I was driving me crazy because I'm like, there's a movie that I really like that is basically the same kind of thing where the lead doesn't know that he isn't who he thinks he is. I was going to ask you, I'm like, what am I thinking of? Then I realized finally after the movie ended, and you wouldn't have known because you haven't seen this movie, But it's like Angel Heart, where the lead doesn't have awareness of his previous life or previous non exist distance. I guess however you want to put it.

Yeah, interesting, you did mention also that toulpa's are a big thing in like twin Peaks and stuff. Yes, yeah they are, which we got to get back on and other David Lynch stuff. Back to the creepypasta internet horror stuff that I've been exposed to because I don't know, I'm gen z or whatever. I knew Toulpa's as kind of what they are in the movie, but also as basically just like supernatural entities through video games and stuff. So when they said that word in the movie, I was like, again tying it in with internet creepypasta stuff.

But then the movie gets way deeper with all of it. Yeah, it fit together much better in my head this time. The first time I watch it, I'm like, this is like five different movies happening at the same time. And then I watched it this time, like, why did I think that there's a through line? Yeah, the beginning ties into this cult and the guy and they extended intro with them out and where.

Are they baton? Yeah, and that totally ties in specifically to what's going on later in the film. So I don't know why I thought it was like more disconnected, but that happens in my brain sometimes. That was good. It was very interesting and it had creepy stuff, the whispering, uh huh, spooky and.

When he's walking through his house noises and shadows, and i'd like to watch it again, not recorded off of FX or whatever record it was on. I don't even know. So that's the proper aspect ratio, and you're not missing any I can't even tell if anything was missing from this. Yeah, I don't know. It was good, though I enjoyed it.

Yeah, I'd like to watch it un edited in any way, shape or form again, definitely. So I think the next one is your pick as well. Yeah, I think we both do. But I follow A twenty four on social media and stuff. So I remember when I think the trailer for this came out, and I don't know if I entirely was paying attention to it at all, but I remember when it got announced and then I didn't hear anything about it.

But we were scrolling through HBO and it popped up and I was like, oh, that's her movie. That is like maybe horror, Like I didn't even know really what it was, right, So we just put it on and it was very odd, but I liked it. Yeah, So we're talking about Opus A twenty four. I don't even think I saw a trailer for this. I remember the image of her, the poster image or whatever you want to call it, of her with that kind of shocked look on her face.

Yeah, it's a fun poster. The only other thing that came to mind was is this the one that I heard that was a dud that people just thought was awful? And I don't know. I still don't know if that's the case or not, because I really liked it. It was very weird.

Also, when we were watching it, I kind of was like, there's been a lot of music singer horror in the last two years. Trap takes place at a concert and one of the characters is the singer at the concert, and then I think Smile too was also yeah, and then this, which I was just like, that's kind of an interesting trend that's been going on in a lot of horror things. But I liked this. It was very weird. Both of us kind of went in just being like, oh, we'll watch it.

I have no idea what we're about to watch, and. Yeah, it was fun. Another one that hits on one of my favorite things. It's a cult again, it's a cult around a cult of personality with John Malkovich being this very weird, amazing singer from the eighties apparently, and I love that he does his own singing in this. That's just fantastic.

It's great, and the songs are kind of amazing in a way. Everything like the weird little like almost musical style parts where he sings, it's cell weird. I loved it. He's always a joy to watch because he is very odd generally, and he actually didn't get as weird in this as I thought he would. They could have gone like way crazier with yeah, yeah, but I kind of liked that they kept even as weird as he is in the movie, it's kind of not as bad as it could have been.

They keep it grounded enough to where you're going, is this insidious or is this just. Where are they chill? Is this a chill coult or are they really bad one? And even like throughout by the end of the movie, you still kind of are like, at least I was, which I don't know what that says, but there's. The seeds of doubt have been planted, so you're not really sure, Yeah, if her story is the full truth or not?

Yeah, I can never remember her name either, but I owe a debris Apparently she has a really awesome letterbox account that everybody. I follow her on Letterbox she does. Her reviews are funny. She is a film fan. She was in Bottoms right.

Bottoms Yeah, and then of course she's in The Bear, which yeah, mom watches. I don't like. Stressful show. A bunch of people screaming at each other is not high drama in my book. But anyway, let's move on to the next film, which I also think you didn't pay attention to so we didn't have to talk about it.

But what one of my favorites, Jacob's Ladder. Yes, I did pay attention to this. I actually liked it. Oh okay, it seemed like you were playing your video. Games, but what are I know, full tai task.

Not when you're going to be on this show. You got to be full on taking. Notes the thing through, no whatever, whatever. Yeah, I've been pushing that one forever just because I like watching it and I figure, if I'm going to watch it, you might as well watch it with me so we can maybe talk about it on this little show I have called Wake Up Heavy, and yeah, so we did because I was scrolling through the horror movies and it showed up and you're like, we can watch it. And also when we watched Southbound, you said that the hospital scene kind of reminded you of Jacob's Ladder.

So there's like a little seedling over back there. Of it, right, that is rolling her through the hallways in there. That's sceneing Jacob Ladder was. When they're rolling in down to the basement. It was a very odd and also gross.

All the arms on the floor. Yeah, arms and limbs and guts and whatever else. It was bloody. It was weird. I liked it.

The like progression of it is very interesting because it starts with the Vietnam stuff and then you're on a train and it's just like, oh, it's a tentacle. What direction are we heading in? And it kind of goes a lot of places. But it was or tail, some kind of I don't know what it was. Pendage.

Yeah, appendage, that's the perfect word. That's not human. Definitely not, I'd hope not. Yeah. All those glimpses of that stuff or the people shaking their heads or got you actless people.

That party scene, the party scene was crazy. That's the only spot that I have a beef with because that song, that modern song, should not be playing because he would to know that it existed. Yeah, yeah, you. Know what, I don't even know that I would have. I actually read that complaint.

I don't know if it's on it's probably a goof on IMDb. Yeah, it wasn't your own cars. I'm sure there are a lot of cars on the mid seventies that wouldn't have existed. Blah blah blah. I get it.

But I do think just played off like it follows well, especially with cars and stuff. Speaking of Angel Heart, the director of that movie was like in nineteen that movie is supposed to take place in the fifties, and he's like, but you know, most people in the fifties don't have cars from the fifties. They have cars from the forties, forties, and a lot of people even may have still have cars from the thirties thirties. Yeah, not everything has to be like right up to the moment new So in a movie like this where it's sort of a flash forward, technically you could have all outdated stuff. You could have all outdated clothes because there are adults.

I mean, I wear clothes that are twenty years old. I they were close from when I was like six, Still they still fit me. Like all the music that I listened to is older, so it would make sense that at a party it would all be from the time when he was actually still alive. Yeah, you wouldn't need a disco song in your movie that's set during disco times. So anyway, that's my beef about the movie.

I love it. I love the visuals. I love conspiracy theory stuff. Yeah, it's funny watching it now. It's like all the unsubtle hints, especially with his chiropractor, It's like, really, I never I can catch on to this that he's not alive.

Yeah. Sorry, spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen Jacob. Sladder a movie from what when did it come out? Nineteen ninety? I think spoilers for this really old movie.

Watch it now. I was already a grown up when it came out. Yeah, yeah, but I love it. Little Michaulay Culkin taking him up to heaven and then yeah, little Baby. It was good.

I liked it, and yes I did watch it. What the heck? Okay, it didn't seem like good, but yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one and sad. Yeah, it reminded me of something, but of course I can't even think of what right now.

Well, if you remember, let me know and I'll have my AI girl put it in. It's probably something with another you've been dead the whole time thing? Yeah, yeah, or even just the aesthetic of it reminded me of something cool. Cool Next is another gestion of yours. Yeah.

Earlier this week, I hung out with my cousin again and we watched Nope for like the millionth time, and I love that movie and I like alien movies a lot, so I was like, I need another like interesting alien movie. So I kind of went searching and I came across significant other. When I was back home, I went, hey, Dad, we should watch this movie. Do I think you had seen it before? I think I stumbled on it, probably because I watched another one of her movies and I'm like, what the heck is this?

Because it was on Prime or something and it had just come out and I was like what. So I watched it and it was kind of like eh, yeah, and I'm still a little bit Yeah, it's not bad. It seems more like a short film idea yeah, I can see that stretched stretched. No, Yeah, because it's barely seventy five minutes of movie. Yeah, it's like just straight up like eighty maybe.

Well with five minutes of credits credits. Yeah, it's pretty short. Yeah, the opening credits are playing against the movie, but not much is happening. It's just them driving. So it's short.

It's at the edge of what a feature film is supposed to be as far as length. But it's not bad. It's just there isn't a whole lot to it, which is fine. I mean, I like simple stories too, and I always like her. She's great and stuff.

Yeah, I like Micah. It's not my favorite of hers or anything. It's pretty basic. Again, it's not bad in any stretch of the imagination. Kind of an interesting idea.

Yeah, it's almost the idea is almost X files E. Yeah, which is what intrigued me when I read the synopsis or whatever it was. But yeah, the movie, like I liked it, is fun to watch. But yeah, like you said, it's pretty simple, and I wish there was more to it in some places. Yeah, because not a whole lot happens.

No, over seventy five minutes. Yeah, it's another trope that I like Body Swap or Body Snatcher more to the point type film which I. Always enjoy assimilation stuff too. Yeah. Yeah, if you like Mica mon Roe, like we do, check it out.

What are we watching on that's on Paramount Plus right now? I think yeah? And then our last one I think was your suggestion. Yeah, I think I thought I liked this one more than I actually do. Yeah, And again, like Twenty eight Days movie and Final Destination, there is a new one or reboot of this out right now.

I didn't like just come out. I was about to. I think I've mentioned it a few times when Scream and some of those other things come up. I think of a lot of the crappy nineties Horridor came out because of Scream. Scream, Yeah, and this is one of them.

So we watched I Know What You Did last summer. There's Urban Legend, which it's pretty fun but has Jared Leto in it, but other good It's got Alicia Witt, it's got some other cool people in it. And I sort of get those two confused all the time, and I have to remind myself of like who's in what and what each one is about, because again this is sort of urban legend e. Yeah, it starts off that way. It starts off with a urban legend story, just like the Fog does.

Just like a couple other things that we've watched. Do I think I forgot how bad a lot of the acting isn't. Freddy Prinz Junior in particular, It's pretty bad. I mean we were talking about it while we were watching it, and I was like, I think his acting in Scooby Doo was more solid than this. Yeah.

Well and that came out a little later, so you know, had some learning to do and maybe took a few more classes and some method acting classes to get into that care. Yeah, it's pretty bad all around, pretty bad acting actually from Yeah, just about all of them, a lot of them. Yeah. Also, maybe I'm just dumb, but some of the story beats. I was like, wait, I'm confused.

Yeah. I think I was more confused watching it this time. And this is probably the maybe the fourth time I've watched maybe the third or fourth time. I don't think I've watched it a ton. Yeah, I'm like, wait a minute, what who?

Who? Yeah? Who? Some of them? Who killed who?

Now? Yeah? The big reveal about the suicide note that I think her name is Cassy's brother left was actually a death threat. I was literally just like what. I don't know.

Maybe I just misunderstood when it happened, but I was really, what is that what? It's in the same writing as the note that she got. Yeah, it's the same handwriting. So it's like, this is not from your brother, this is from the person that wanted to kill him or whatever they did kill him. Yeah, they explained that at the end of the movie, and I was like, oh, I okay, But even some of the other things like Freddie Prince's character being the guy that also visited that person's sister, which I was just like, what, Like, okay.

I didn't get that either. No, I know it's a little bit clunky. Yeah, like I mentioned when we started watching it, and it's the same writer as Scream, And I think it was one of those things where it's like, hey, what kid, what else you got? Yeah, Scream is on the mask there because you said that, and I was like, oh, okay, should be kind of solid. And then we were watching and I was like, I'm a little confused.

I think I missed simple and I don't think that's fully us either. I think it's a little bit clunky in it. Yeah, progression, I mean it could be us. The main character. I was like, she doesn't have a lot to her.

Maybe that's just me Jennifer Love Hewett. Yeah, yeah, I feel like, what's her face? Her friend Sarah Michelle Geller had more going on, and I remember her more than Jenthll Hewett. But yeah, I think that's fair to say, not a whole pretty simple. Yeah, and that break, that year in between where every everything's different now seems really just quickly written, like in well, I don't know.

I mean, I get the passage of time and these things happen, but it just it seems abrupt to me. Yeah, and she's all you know, they've got her dark eyes and greasy hair, and she's all, which I get to the story wise, you know, they did this awful thing which ends up they didn't do but whatever, she didn't know that yet. Yeah, it's just kind of a clunky. It's fun to watch, though, I mean like when we were watching it, I said, I was like, this reminds me of Scooby Doo, which again is also probably because the actors, but it is kind of Scooby do Ish. Yeah.

I think there's an old Scooby Doo episode of somebody in a rain slicker as one of the bad guys. I think I'm bring that. But there Well, in the version of Scooby Doo that I watched a lot as a kid, Mystery Incorporated, there's also a Fisherman character who he wears like a yellow raincoat, like the stereotype Fisherman. But I was like, that reminds me of that, and. They may have done that as a goof, you know, on the mad Yeah, or not a goof, but as a nod to nod.

Yeah. All right, Well that's what we've been watching. What's on your list of things to watch, Cleo, Like as far as what you want to watch, like new stuff that's out or streaming stuff for. Oh, I don't even know. I haven't.

Oh what's the other movie that the person that made Oddity did, Caveat? Oh yeah, Caveat Will. Told me to watch that, so I'm kind of curious. It's good. Let's see I mentioned that I had seen it before that Little Rabbit thing that was Yeah, that's what.

Yeah, Curio Shop is from that that movie looks like the thing in Caveat. But I watched Caveat and was impressed. I was like, oh, that was pretty interesting. I'm sure I talked about it here on an episode back when I watched it. I don't know, I can't really think of anything else.

I mean, I could be like basic or whatever. But I think they're releasing the Avatar three movie trailers soon, and I like those movies. So obviously the movie's not gonna be out for like another four months. But the Blue People movies or yes, the Blue People movies, I've not seen any of them. They're pretty fun.

There's a new ari Astra movie out. Oh yay, we need to finish bo was afraid. No, what movie is it. I don't know about this Eddington with Oh. Yes, idea, duh, I'm dumb.

I want to watch Weapons when it comes out. Oh yeah, yeah, and that's a barbarian connection. I am very curious about Weapons in the whole maybe Pied Piper thing. Yeah. I like grim fairytale, like dark fairytale stuff and folk horror kind of, so I'm interested in that.

It looks weird. The trailers look very odd for that movie. Yeah, I am confused by that movie as well. So I'm curious to see. I am very curious about it.

What exactly is going on? And I want to see bring her back? Yes, that too, which looks kind of gnarly. Yeah, it's supposed to be really gruesome like talk to Me was. Yeah, it might be worse than talk to Me.

Maybe an evil dead level perhaps. I don't know. We'll see. I guess we'll have to see. Yeah, we'll find out when we watch it as a family.

Wow, we're sickos yay, yay, alrighty Well, if you remember what Jacob's Ladder reminded you of, let me know and I'll put it in when I edit this episode. Yes, yes, Cleo has not remembered what Jacob's Ladder reminds her of. Thanks for joining me. As always, we've got a little ways until you start college. Thank god for normal semesters.

Yeah, don't start in early August and end in late whatever. Yeah. Yeah, and also thank god for the giant breaks that I get. Yes, Like winter break is like what four weeks? At least it can be five, just kind of depends on when holidays land and stuff'll be fun.

Yeah, get a nice long winter break, You get a nice, normal long summer break like we used to always get when I was a kid. Yay, and you have never gotten. Yeah fun fun for me. Well it's possible, clue and I will be back sometime before the end of summer, but we'll just have to wait and see. Yeah.

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