Attack of the Final Girls is a podcast about the horror genre, so listener discretion is advised. Please check the show notes for specific content warnings for this episode. And of course, beware of spoilers. Welcome to Attack of the Final Girls. I'm Juliet. And I'm Teresa. And today we are going back to 1987 for...
A movie that takes a lot of inspiration from its peers, but is also its own special, unique little gem of horror. Slaughterhouse Rock. Hell yeah. 1987. What a wild year for movies in general. Yeah.
i'm gonna look it up while we wax poetic but i'm sure that there are other movies that have come out in 1987 that are worth talking about and one that i definitely will be talking about later because of one of the stars but the lost boys came out this year monster squad came out this year which like i mean come on um which monster squad's been getting its flowers like
of late i feel like yeah a bit of a monster squad resurgence also hellraiser og hellraiser yeah blood harvest house two which you know and the howling three which everybody you know everybody loves that one yeah i'm just kidding so 1987 was a was pretty much a banner year for horror movies and this one is no exception yeah so let me just give the
Let me give the IMDb description first and then we'll talk about what this movie is actually about. It's not that the IMDb description is inaccurate. It's just there's a lot going on here. Okay. So a man plagued by visions of Alcatraz visits the prison only to find his brother possessed by a cannibal entity. He's aided by a heavy metal singer's ghost in battling the evil forces. Yep.
Yeah. I mean, it's that and so much more. Right, right. It's not wrong. It's just that barely scratches the surface of what is happening here. Very true. And in terms of barely scratching the surface, this actually is like a small part of the...
that position of this movie which takes about an hour to get to and then it breezes through it in about two to three minutes and then we're kind of like back to where we were at the beginning of the movie where we're just kind of flying by the seat of our pants in this monster story and then it's like hold up wait a minute give me three minutes and let me bust this down for you and then we're back to monster monster running running but it's great it's great there's no problem there
Yeah. I mean, when you think about what it takes influence from, which is among other things, but mainly A Nightmare on Elm Street, it does make sense. Like it does take quite a while in A Nightmare on Elm Street to get to like who the hell is Freddy Krueger and what is happening and why is he doing this? So in that regard, this movie, you know, honors the source material very well. But yeah, it does take a while for us to get to the exposition. And I still left with questions at the end.
What? What do you mean questions? And this movie came out three short years after Nightmare on Elm Street. So you can definitely see that it was inspired by the Freddy situation. Although...
less of like a central figure because like freddy doesn't really possess people right yeah i mean kind of in later films but he's more of a possess your dreams dude and this is like a ghost possess your dreams and then when you get there the ghost actually possesses you yeah it's kind of nightmare on elm street meets night of the demons yes like you you go to the place and you start you know doing the things and then you have the dreams first yeah then chaos ensues yes
Exactly. Yep, you're exactly right. Yeah. Stars in this movie, Tony Basil plays Sammy Mitchell. She's the heavy metal ghost singer. Nicholas, gonna guess here, Selozzi. He plays Alex, who's our main character. Tom Riley, who plays his brother Richard. Donna Denton, who plays Carolyn, who's sort of the...
I don't want to say fairy godmother, but kind of like the witchy fairy godmother who also like helps them to get half of the story. And then Tony Basil does the other half. Yes. Of the lore. And then Hope Marie Carlton. I'm going to come back to her. She plays Krista, Richard's girlfriend. And then Tammy Heiler, who plays Jan, who is Alex's like sort of girlfriend. Like they're going to be dating. But Alex is sort of a space case because of the wild dreams that he's been having.
And she ends up just being kind of like needing to be saved. But I can bring up Hope Marie Carlton as Krista because another movie that came out in 1987, one of my all time favorite movies actually has her as a star in it. And it's called Hard Ticket to Hawaii. And I have another podcast I made entirely about this series because it's just batshit action movies.
And she plays a character called Taryn in that. And Hope Marie Carlton was actually a Playboy playmate. So in lots of the movies that she was in, she is bare chested, you know, because it was the late 80s. And everyone's like, how do we get more boobs on the screen? Well, you called up Hope Marie Carlton. You said, hey, you're a Playboy playmate. Will you be in my movie? And she's like, sure. And so she was in this one. She hasn't been in a ton of movies, like actually in the course of.
the other podcast, I found out that she's a makeup artist in Colorado now. Oh, nice. So like totally kind of, you know, still in the beauty industry, but like pivoted out of the movie industry itself. But she was in several of the Andy Sedaris Bullets Bombs and Babes series, which is funny. When I looked this movie up on IMDb, I saw her there and was like, oh my gosh, she actually does play kind of a big role. I mean, honestly, probably bigger than Jan.
Yeah, she does. And I will say, like, if you say at the outset, like, okay, they're going to have a Playboy playmate in an 80s horror movie, a lower budget 80s horror movie, I'm going to assume that she is just there to, like, be in various states of undress. And I hope Marie Carlton is. But actually, her character is pretty important. And she does get to act throughout the movie, especially in the second half of the movie. Like, she gets to do some...
honest to God acting which is refreshing yeah for sure as where unfortunately Jan is kind of pushed off to the side
and semi-ignored for most of the movie. Hope actually had some cool stuff happening. So always nice to see one of the actors from the Sedaris movies, which the later Sedaris movies are famous. Our listeners probably will be more familiar with this character. They're famous because of Julie Strain. Julie Strain was like one of Sedaris's muses. She's in like the last seven of them and there are 12 movies. So she's in like six or seven of them. And she was like...
a favorite of Sedaris. So our listeners probably will be more familiar with Julie Strain. But like Danny Trejo is in one, Pat Morita is in some of them. So it's a whole thing. But yeah, she does really good in this movie. Also, Hard Ticket to Hawaii is...
fantastic it's ridiculous there's exploding blow-up dolls there are drag queens there is a radioactive snake like what more do i need to say check it out it's on streaming i'm pretty sure it's on amazon prime but they're fantastic so i'm that's it that's my plug i'm gonna step off my soapbox now well much like those movies this movie does have everything you know i kind of said that at the end of last episode like it's got dream killers it's got weird demonic possessions it's got a
band it's got 80s neon all over the place and smoking in bars and smoking in bars it's got the college professor who's like the knowledgeable guardian but also she's hot you know it's got the sort of doofy messy
boys, college boys. There's a lot going on here. It's got its own theme song? Yeah, it does. It does. It's got music by Devo. Yeah, there's a lot happening in this movie and a lot of like very tropey things happening in this movie, I would say. Yeah, Mark Mothersbaugh introed this movie, which was wild to me. Also, I didn't learn until today that Mark Mothersbaugh was in Devo because I just know him from like Nickelodeon.
intros like the Rugrats intro is Mark Mothersbaugh so that's what I think of it's like the weird ba ba ba the start of the Rugrats episode but the music is awesome that like killer soundtrack especially like the DVD menu has like a loop of it and it drove me crazy because we were talking during it but it's a banger and it plays over the credits and it's really great yeah I don't know if they play it in the movie movie though uh I don't know
beyond like just a little tease here and there they should have they should have like during the montage yeah they should have played it like just like really amp amp people up for it yes so this movie so like just like nightmare on elm street you know we follow nancy i could have just like spaced on her name for a second
know her by her actual you know birth name but we follow nancy and nancy slowly starts to kind of lose touch with reality because she's not able to sleep because she's terrified of what she's seeing in her dreams and alex does the exact same thing except he's a college kid instead of a high school student yes so he has the autonomy to be like oh
I'm missing my class because I'm really tired. And my roommates are like, hey, why are you so tired? And I'm like, I don't know. It's like straight out of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Yeah. Alex is a little whinier about it. That's true. You know, like Alex is just like, he's just whiny and obstinate and just really, you know, kind of annoying about it at the beginning of the movie. He's like, I'm tired. Stay up with me, though, because you try not to sleep. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
The stuff that he's seeing in his dreams is stuff like he's cutting off his own arm and he's being set on fire. And I mean, bad dream stuff, you know. And I get that he's, you know.
suffering from lack of sleep but he's also like lashing out at his brother and his friends and acting like well you just don't have my problems i'm getting murdered in my sleep yeah and same with his girlfriend yeah like just fully spaces out yeah although i'm not sure if they're like a fish you know girlfriend boyfriend but she's definitely trying and everybody's like real hard everybody's like come on bud and he's just like she's talking and he's like can't listen
And falling asleep during these things, like he fell asleep kind of and had like this premonition of, you know, the entity busting through the wall. And then he's like falling asleep in class and straight out of Nightmare on Elm Street, you know, like being attacked in his sleep. But then.
And his roommates and also his teacher who come to visit him wearing a very cool cloak. Oh, yeah. Her clothes. There are a lot of cool clothes in this movie. Oh, yeah. Her clothes are great. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Carolyn. Yeah. Carolyn. Yeah. She she pops in. She's like, hey, is Alex here? And Jan's like, yeah, he's in his bed. They open the wait. They're like, do you smell smoke? And then they open his room. He's just on fire. Yeah. They stand there screaming. They're just like.
for a kind of a long time yeah longer than they probably should have been so it starts to transcend you know like the dream realm he's not just being attacked by these monsters in his dreams they're starting to affect real life and then they're like uh we gotta go to Alcatraz yeah yeah
Which wild pivot. But at the beginning of the movie, his friend and roommate is like, oh, Body Bags, the band. Yes. The ghost band from later. They left their tour group and got killed on Alcatraz Island. And so they're like.
We got to go to Alcatraz Island. Yeah. And something about I think I missed like the crucial bit of this, but something about the class that Carolyn is teaching that Alex is taking. It's an occult class, which like sign me up. Yeah. You know, where's where's that? I mean, I took some, you know, close to that in college. But like, what college do I go to to take that class? Well, and he says that it's because of this class.
That he has become plagued by these nightmares and then has been chosen by this like entity, which I don't know how that is related necessarily. Well, and we never really get an answer to that. Like not to skip ahead to the very end. We get answers about a lot of things, but we never really come to understand why Alex in all of this. Like there's nothing in his. history or about him in particular or there's not like
Oh, he went to Alcatraz in fifth grade and he touched the brick where the, I don't, you know, like there's nothing. Or like an ancestor or something. Yeah. Yeah, no. We never know why Alex. And we see the character like trying to grapple with that the whole time, but we never really get an answer. It's like, well, it's just, you're the guy. Yeah, no. And like, we don't, like he didn't read anything weird in class or anything like that. And he's also kind of being a ween about the whole thing. Yeah. He's like, oh.
I hate these visions. They're so bad. And then Carolyn's like, I wanted to have this experience my entire life. And he's like, you don't understand. You don't want these visions. She's like, actually, I do because I'm an occult teacher. Also, I'm probably better equipped than you. Yeah. Yeah.
handle this. Yeah. Carolyn's like, look, I've been training for this my whole life. I've been training my whole life. Drinking green tea all day. He was very confrontational. Like everybody, his roommates, his maybe girlfriend, his roommate's girlfriend, which has nothing to do with this.
I forget her real name or I forget her name of the movie, but I hope Marie Carlton, she doesn't have anything to do with this. They all band around him and they're like, no, let's all go to Alcatraz together so that we can try and figure this out. And I actually wrote that down. Like, I don't know if I would go with.
like five of my close friends to Alcatraz and be like uh let's just see what happens yeah exactly on a dinghy like on a tiny boat yeah in the middle of the night too because when they decide to go there's a whole moment where they're like okay well we we'll go tomorrow and Carolyn is like no we have to go right now in the middle of the night and they're like all right okay like no gathering of supplies no planning they're just like let's just get on the dinghy and go yeah and like
I don't think Alcatraz is just accessible like this. I'm pretty sure you can't just like yeet over across the bay and be like, yeah, I'm going to Alcatraz tonight. I don't think that's how it works. Yeah, I don't think so. Maybe in the 40 years, almost since 1987, it's changed. But I don't think so. Yeah, I kind of doubt that. Because like...
That seems dangerous. And they did actually get to film in Alcatraz. They filmed it on Alcatraz for four days. I mean, okay, Alcatraz is a national park, so I'm guessing you can't just go waltzing in there. Probably not. Maybe you can right now in the year 2025. When did it become a national park, I wonder? I do not know. Added to NRHP 1976, designated NHLD 1986. So I wonder if they...
filmed right before it became a national park i bet they did yeah i don't know what the n-a-r-h-p and n-h-l-d means but it was designated as a national historical landmark in 1986
And it was in 1972 as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. So that was probably before it became a National Historic Landmark. I don't know if you can film horror movies on National Historic Landmarks. I don't think that the Department of the Interior likes that. I'll confer with one of our friends and see what she says. Our park ranger colleagues. Let us confer and ask how that works. I'll just type up an email real quick. Can you...
film a horror movie yeah like how do does it need a presidential signature because you're not gonna get it right now no actually he does like to see himself sign things yeah did you notice that he signs with a permanent marker like a big chisel tip permanent marker i mean i know they sometimes will sign with pens or like sharpies for things but a chisel tip yeah chisel tip it's like fat
I saw it the other day when he was signing all of the executive orders and I was like, ooh. Yikes. I hate it. Yeah, I don't like that. Like, even George W. Bush used a fountain pen. Yeah, why? You should look. It's like, it's wild. It's wild.
The office supply nerd in me is being made very uncomfortable right now because I'm like, wouldn't it bleed through the paper? Exactly. Do you have to have a blotter in between each piece? But I will say that most of the time that paper is like the real thick linen paper. Sure. So maybe it's not a problem. Anyways, that's one of the things I actually said. I was like, is Alcatraz just accessible like this? I don't think so.
But it was to the makers of this film, for which we are eternally grateful because it's great, that they were able to actually use the real Alcatraz, which I don't think would be a deal breaker. They could have just done like literally any other prison. I mean, like real talk, I wouldn't have known the difference. Exactly. Like nobody is watching this movie like, that doesn't look like Alcatraz. Yeah. It's a movie about a dream.
demon who let's get into the exposition the three minutes of exposition let's do it let's do it carolyn's like oh it's because of this document i found this document and it's about this evil commandant who was on alcatraz island and then we switched from her ability to tell us about this commandant to tony basil's character who then fills us in the rest of the way he was a powerful warlock somehow yeah
No other information that like to eat women. And so the Native Americans who lived on Alcatraz Island burned him. Yeah, they were not cool with it. No, they said no more eating sex workers that you have ordered to the island. Which I have to say is like a very progressive thing about a film made in 1987 that they weren't like, oh, the indigenous people were doing magic and eating people. No, no. The indigenous people were like, hey, white dude, stop killing and eating sex workers.
All right. Yeah. You know, thank you. But the Commandant had learned too much magic, and now his spirit is interred on Alcatraz. Yes. And killing people. Yeah. Although he possessed Tony Basil's character, who then killed and ate all of her bandmates, but still unclear as to how...
It got to Alex. Right. Yeah. With the exception of just like his friend reading him the article about it. Yeah. And that doesn't seem like enough. No. I really wish they had done like a trick or treat situation where it was like somehow Alex ended up with Tony Basil's band's last demonic recording and it summoned the blah, blah, blah. That would make sense to me in the world of 80s rock and roll horror. I would say yes, obviously that's what happened. But we don't know.
We don't know. No further information. No further information. Yeah. And we just needed a little bit because like we're already bending over backwards here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've already accepted that ghost Tony Basil is going to wear a different outfit every scene she's in, which I love. Yeah. Which leads me to my next question. How do you get to change your wardrobe in the spirit realm?
Well, I mean, that really gets into the nature of ghosts. Like, are we to believe that as a ghost, you are trapped in like the outfit you died in or like your, you know, most iconic outfit? Or are we taking a more progressive view of ghosts and saying, actually, when you're a ghost, you can just, you have freedom of choice, at least with your clothing. Yeah, these are interesting ghosts because sometimes they can interact with...
the possessed person right like they throw richard when he's possessed they uh tony's able to like throw him across the but also the ghosts are able to sometimes interact with the other people so it's like kind of a weird situation but it is hilarious to me i wonder if that was like a specific thing that tony basil was like look i'll be in your movie but i have to wear every single fabulous outfit that i own i mean maybe that would be great and i have to do changes in between all scene cuts yes
If I'm not on the screen, I'm changing my clothes. Yeah. Yeah. And it worked out. It worked out. She looks great. Yeah, she does look great. She's got several interesting hats. Oh, yeah. The hat game was on point. Yeah. Very strong hat game for her. The choreography also, this movie does have choreography, by the way. A lot of people don't know, like, Tony Basil, obviously famous for Hey Mickey. She was also a choreographer, like a very well-known and respected choreographer, like within the music industry.
And so they had her choreograph this whole little interpretive dance thing to awaken or I guess pull Alex's ghost slash spirit out of his body. Because that happens too. Sometimes Alex is walking around as a whole person in his body. And other times Alex is, his body is chilling out in a side room and he's walking around as a ghost.
Yeah, whatever fits the plot, you know. And the only way that you can tell is that his voice kind of sounds like it's underwater. Yeah, they put a little reverb on that. Yeah, like one of those microphones that you get at the dollar store that has the spring in them. Yes. That's what it sounds like. Yeah. How did they do that? Did they just like dub over the track or did they have somebody like, do you think that they just like modded it like while they were recording?
Oh, you do it in post. Okay. Yeah. I wasn't sure because like, it doesn't seem like it's dubbed. You just take the sound, the voice track and then just like. Apply reverb to it. Okay. Yeah. Like I could do it digitally to our voices right now. Right now. Yeah. Yeah. I could, I could do it to our tracks.
afterward or at any point in the production process you wouldn't be using digital process uh it would be a more like analog like you'd be running it through like running the tape through like a pass through like a reverb generator i see yeah interesting guitar pedals can do that too oh yeah yeah sometimes you'll have musicians that will actually run they have vocal pedals now too but like back in the day
People would sometimes get very innovative and run their vocals through a guitar pedal to get weird vocal effects on stage. Nice. Cool beans. The dance sequence in spellcasting is great. It was giving the Tears for Fears video for Mad World. Oh, yeah. So if you remember the weird dance moves, that's what it was giving. That's what it made me think of.
Like strange, kind of like jerky, symmetrical, but like on beat. I don't know how to explain it. It was great. I loved like her conjuring of Alex's spirit out of his body. That was an interesting thing that happens during the course of the movie because there are instances where we have scenes where there's only like one or two actual people in the scene and like everybody else is ghosts or possessed. Right.
And then it'll like pan out and just show like, oh, actually, it's two people and then just like a bunch of ghosts arguing. Yes. Which I thought was kind of cool. Yeah, I did like the back and forth. Like that was something really clever about this movie is the kind of like back and forth where within the same scene, you're cutting back and forth between like what the actual embodied people are doing and saying and then like.
the sort of parallel track that the ghosts are on and that was really really fun like when you catch on to that that's it's kind of hilarious because you're like oh man like the ghosts are over here having their own argument while these two people are trying to figure something out and they're both existing in the same space but they can't interact yeah that that was very fun yeah for sure
I also loved the design of Richard when he was possessed. Yeah. I would say that they very heavily borrowed from American Werewolf in London. Like, yellow eyes, big nasty teeth. Like, imagine the main character of American Werewolf in London when he first starts to turn. Uh-huh. And he's, like, sweaty and he's got the yellow eyes and the big teeth. That's kind of what Richard is like. Yeah. It's also giving, like, demons. Yeah.
possessed and the teeth start to grow and i i think in night of the day when their eyes might turn white like they roll back in their head i can't remember but um same kind of principle yeah yeah and i mean it looks good he's supposed to look like the commandant like yes over time he's supposed to look because apparently the commandant ate so many people that his eyes turned yellow which i didn't know that happened i did not know that was a thing or it could have been the magic
No further information. Yeah. But yeah, there's a part where Richard kind of like reaches his final form from the Commandant, which looks nothing like the Commandant. It's just like a creature.
Yeah. Sort of like a Buffy vampire. That's exactly what I was going to say. Yes, it's very Buffy-esque. Like the weird like big head with like ridges and stuff. Yeah, the kind of like outsized features. Also, we find out that if Alex's spirit form is harmed, that his corporeal form is also harmed because he breaks the shit out of his like ankles and hand and some other stuff. He's having a rough time there at the end. Yeah, which is a nice touch. Yeah. He's not just like instantly invincible by virtue of being in spirit form. Yeah.
I forget. Does Carolyn die? Because Jan just like leaves her in the burning building. I don't know that we ever find out what happens to Carolyn. Damn it. Yeah. She might be hanging out in ghost form with Tony Basil. She might be somewhere recovering from being very badly burned, but she's just kind of left. She's like, got too close to the sun. I don't want any more of these experiences, please. At the end of the movie, Tony Basil's character kisses Alex.
She's like, oh, this is the fun part. He's back in his body. She gives him a little smooch and then she disappears. And then he goes back to his girlfriend slash friends. Then he starts to play piano and randomly. And his girlfriend, future girlfriend is like, oh, I didn't know that you play piano. And he's like, I don't. Yeah. Looks through the window, breaks the fourth wall because.
I guess Tony Basil's character has imparted her musical ability onto him. Or she just yeeted him out of that body. Yeah. Very interesting possibility that she has taken over the body. Because she also, this is something that we didn't talk about, but Tony Basil's character also, in addition to being a heavy metal vocalist, is a huge...
proponent of like, not the proponent, but like huge student of the occult. Yes. And that's how she finds out about this dude on Alcatraz and why they wander off from the tour group. And she repeatedly says, in reference to everything that led up to these events and the death of her bandmates and all that, she repeatedly talks about how much of an asshole she's been. And I'm like, hmm, was she redeemed at the end? Or was she just tricking Alex?
Yeah, because she was very powerful. Yeah. And she also was the one who had to kill all of her bandmates. Yes. And they were like, uh, it's fine. Yeah. They were very nonplussed about the whole thing. They're like, we're dead, but we can still smoke. So whatever. You mentioned, though, kind of a good idea for a TV show. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, you know, the squabbling among the bandmates. We only see the bandmates very briefly, but it's quite funny. Like how just like.
not angry, but just annoyed they are about like being killed and like gnawed upon by their band leader. They're just like kind of, they're not like mad. They're like, oh, you killed me. They're like, damn it. You killed me. Whatever. And I'm stuck on Alcatraz. Yeah. Now I'm stuck here. And it was giving what we do in the shadows vibes. And I'm like, I want a series about the ghost band.
They're little adventures as ghosts. Maybe, you know, you suggested like trying to like make a new album, but like they're ghosts. Somebody write that up. Yeah, like a ghost band situation where they're trying to become relevant again 40 years after all of them died.
And they're like, oh, shit, we could still play. Like, we still play music. We could still, like, be a band. Or it's like their album anniversary, you know? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's like the 40th anniversary of our last album. Let's go back on tour. But we're ghosts. We're dead. But they're just, like, not really bothered about it. They're like, yeah, I mean, I guess we're dead. They have to get, like, a human manager. Like the Guillermo of the thing. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking Keanu Reeves.
I don't know why. I don't know why he just popped into my head. But I was like, Keanu Reeves is like the ghost band manager. Just like very like stoic. Just like stone based. Yeah. Just like, okay. Yeah. No, you should get Fran Drescher back. Like this is Spinal Tap. Oh, yes. Like level Fran Drescher. Have her come back. That would be amazing. Okay. So you know what like a Kupi doll is? Yes. Okay. So randomly, I went to Earth to Kentucky last weekend because this is their final weekend this weekend.
And they had like an art show a couple of years ago where everybody took a Kewpie doll and then like made it into something else. And they had one of Nigel from This is Spinal Tap in the thing when he's like stuck in the plastic thing.
Somebody made that out of a Kewpie doll and even had like the little plastic like thing around it. That's amazing. Oh my God. I love that movie so much. But yeah, like Fran Drescher coming out and like the band members are like, yeah, let's have this like really disgusting album cover. And then Fran Drescher's like, you think a woman on all fours is just like expanding on. Shit sandwich. Yeah. And like, you know, telling them like, hey, it's 2025. Like you can't do that. Yeah.
I think that'd be hilarious. That'd be so funny. Or she just works for the label or something. Yeah. You know? I hope she's in the new Spinal Tap movie. Oh, me too. If she's not, like, I'm out. Yeah, I know. They have to. God. I really hope it's good. I'm... Yeah, me too. Cautiously optimistic. Yeah. Like, don't ruin this for us, guys. Yeah. There's a new Happy Gilmore movie coming out.
I mean, even if you don't like Happy Gilmore, right? Like, Happy Gilmore is the comedy movie for, like, 95% of dudes born between 1986 and 1997. My sigh is more, like, just because we can doesn't mean we should. Oh, absolutely. You know, re-Robert Eggers' labyrinth rumors. Like, please, God, no. I seriously, out loud, was like, no. Yeah. When I read the headline, I was like, no.
I like love him to death we'll watch anything I did see the werewolf stuff about like the old English and I was like excited it's like my partner's gonna friggin hate this yeah he wasn't a big fan of the witch for that specific reason so yeah but yeah when I saw that I was like please god no yeah he's it's gonna be how do you take a movie like that and turn it into a dark
movie and also like i'm sorry like we just can't do this without david bowie so let's just not yeah how about we just don't yeah like no cgi no like remaking him no ai shit like just
And is Jennifer Connelly going to be in it? Probably not. Yeah. Just don't. Let's just not and say we did. Or not and say we didn't. I don't know who they're going to try to cast as Bowie, but it's going to be like fucking Harry Styles or Timothee Chalamet, both of whom I don't mind. But please, just no. It's going to be Liam Hemsworth. No. He has to take everything sacred away from us. He has to take Henry Cavill as Gerald.
And now he's going to take David Bowie as Jareth. Please, no. Yeah. Please, God, no. Yeah. Did you say Timothy Sheldon? No, you said Harry Styles. I said both of them. Oh, God. No, the pain. What are both of them? The pain increases. Yeah. The pain has increased. This movie is generally pretty funny. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is.
humorous but there's a part where alex is talking about how he can't sleep and he's like oh these dreams are making me is turning my blood into barbecue sauce it's the best quote ever it's the best one that's what we're naming the episode after so i was like we have to mention it because otherwise people are gonna be like what the what does that mean why did you call it that watch the movie and find out yeah true that true that so what
are we doing next? I assume this is going to be something completely different from this one. Something completely different. Yeah. So as we swung wildly from Revenge to Slaughterhouse Rock, we're going to swing wildly into a different third direction. We're going to watch 2024's Oddity. Have you seen this one yet? No, I'm so excited to watch it. Okay. So this movie was like unexpectedly a favorite of mine last year. I hadn't heard anything about it. And one of our mutual friends was like,
Hey, I have actually seen this movie two times already. Y'all got to see it. I was lucky enough to be able to get in a screening, but they had just stopped showing it in theaters. So Juliet hasn't seen it yet. But I'm very excited for you to see this because it's about one of my favorite topics in horror movies, which is female revenge. Excellent. So I guess it's not too far away from the direction we were in last time, but it is different. Yeah. So maybe we could say Tony Basil's ghost is taking revenge. We don't know.
That's true. This could be a revenge thing. He goes back to Alcatraz. No, yeah, so we're going to watch Oddity. Yay! Thanks for listening to Attack of the Final Girls. Find us online at attackofthefinalgirls.com and hear bonus episodes at patreon.com slash attackofthefinalgirls.
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