The Invitation

Hey Graves, thanks so much for joining us this week for another episode of Great Girls Podcast. As always, it's me or Hallis Hawthorne and it's me am realists. This will be our last episode of the year until next year. Oh crap, we didn't even get like a good movie to do for the end of the year. I think it's a good movie. I wouldn't say it's the scariest movie we've ever done, but so we're doing the movie the Invitation. Yes, it's not the scariest movie, but I think it's

a good movie to do. I think it's like, Okay, it's not like bad, but it's not like good. It's kind of boring. It drags on. I feel like, yeah, but I think it drags on on purpose. Oh it does for sure. It doesn't explain enough, and I hate when movies do that and it's like, oh, it's gonna leave it up to you. No, no, I'm wanting a movie for you to tell me what happens. Like there wasn't enough detail. I agree with

you. Why didn't they show us how the Sun died? I know they just kind of mentioned him like twice, but he's such a big factor in the movie. Yeah, and like, how old was he? He's like the main reason all of this is happening, and they don't even bring him up. They show him, I believe twice. Ever, and I can't really gauge his age. I wanted to say, like eight, but he looks too old to be like eight. Didn't he look he looked twelve? But then at the birthday party where he died, his cake sat five.

I swear to God, get it, it's I swear it's at a five set, but it's true, Like he did not look five. If he was twelve, then shouldn't he have known better to not play with a big fucking bat or something like? Okay, I have a nephew who I'm afraid is going to turn out to be a serial killer. Oh yeah, and I can't not let my kid play with him, even though my kid knows better. But you don't give him a bat. Yeah, you don't give

him a bat. That's true. I was just at dinner with my in laws about two weeks ago, and my other nephew, not the serial killer one. He's just a crazy one. He has a really big fatuation with knives right now. And we were at an actual steakhouse with actual sharp steak knives, and they let him play with two of them, just slashing the air, thinking it was all good fun. And I'm over here, you know, a medical assistant, and I'm like, do you know how many

stitches I've seen done over stupid ass accidents? Kids don't understand how Yes, they are indestructible when it comes to like falling down, but when it comes to like bats and knives, they're low key really easy to kill. Dude, you guys, your family is a very yes, so were they in this movie. Okay, so we're doing the Invitation. Like we just said, I'm going to get right to the synopsis. We can get into it,

and here we go. The Invitation is a psychological thriller in which a man name Will is invited to his ex wife Eden's home after the death of their child Tie for a dinner party. Once there, Will consents something is off about his ex wife Eden and her new husband David. As the tension builds, David shares that they are members of a cult and they want their friends to join them. Boom boom. You brought up when we first watched the movie that it reminds you of our oldest sister. Yeah, we have

another sister. We do not speak with her our whole life. She's been horrible and some people are like, get over it, but the cruelties she has done to us. You know, as adults, you choose who you want in your life, So we don't choose to have her in our life. Nope. She's never done anything good. And it really reminded me of this film because Eden kind of looks like her too. Dude. Yeah, Basically what happens in the beginning of the film is Will is just chilling.

It's been two years since their kid died, and all of a sudden of the blue, he gets this very thick paper invitation fancy one too, and they feel bad if they don't go, and Will is bringing his new girlfriend, Kira, who's basically helped him rebuild himself from nothing. You know, if you lose a child, that's one of the hardest things you can go through. And now they're going to go see all their old friends and be in the house where the kid died in that backyard, is what I'm thinking.

I don't know, they don't explain shit, so but that's what I think, because he got really emotional when he was back there. But so we have a sister, and this is something she would do. She likes to think time will erase all wounds and then you know, five six years down the line, will mail you a Christmas present or an invitation to her baby shower or some shit and just think you're gonna go because we are the

nice ones. And she's the fucking crazy one like Eden. And she's also the kind of person who will go travel to Mexico, to Thailand to somewhere and hear about weird ideas and come back and oh I found enlightenment. Oh I found this. Oh life is so good. I just want you to feel it like this. She's that kind of person, and that's exactly what happened to Eden. The whole time. I was just like, Yeah, that's her, that's her. Yeah, I can see her doing this.

She's gonna invite us and kill us. I swear one hundred percent I could totally see it. So the movie starts out, it gets imitation. They get in the car. They're driving to his old house, which the wife still lives in, so he knows the house, which I thought was a cool part of the movie that they brought up they used to be a door here. Yeah. I kind of thought he was on a break kit break

through the wall. Yeah, bro. Same. But on the way to the house, they hit a coyote and he has to mercy kill it with a tire iron and Kira, his girlfriend, she's kind of upset by it, like she looked at him like, wow, you you really just did that. I mean I would be too, but it's not better for animal. Then they pull up to the house and Kira's like, oh my god, you used to live here. And it's like a big ass, bougiass house in like Hollywood Hills. We don't really know California, so I guess

that means something to some people, but I don't know. And they're basically the last ones to arrive. All of his friends he hasn't talked to here seen in two years, is there and the entire night is just an awkward, tension filled, weird time. If you've ever been around family, you

don't really like, you know exactly the emotion we're talking about. When Will first walks in, he kind of instantly I think knows it's a cult because there's a girl in their old bedroom like his old bedroom with his wife.

Now hear her new bedroom with her new husband. But there's a naked woman in the room, just standing there and she kind of gives them this slick like ooh, and you're like, his beautiful ass girlfriend is right there, and there's like this very crackhead in the corner, like, what do you

think's gonna do? He's just also right when David walks in and everyone's greeting him and him and Kia and everything looking, David locks the door with a key and then puts it in his pocket, not locking it like like a dead bolt. He used a key and locks them in and then put it in his pocket. Yeah, they have different locks on every door. Every windows just shut. And Will's like, why why are you locking the door? Why? Why is it like this? He also was like why are

there bars on all of the windows? Yeah, and David's just like, oh, we like our security. We just feel safer, and Will knows that's bullshit. And Enid's even like we had some break ins in the neighborhood, and Wills like, really, I didn't hear about that. You don't have to go to a dinner party because you feel obligated by a fancy piece of fucking paper. You don't have to go see people that make you uncomfortable, like our family, me and Emrellas. Our family forces us to do

things like this our whole lives. Our aunt will bring our sister that neither of us like and force us to go to dinner with her like force. It's insane, And just within the last year, I've stopped letting our family tell me what to do. And I know I'm like a thirty year old woman, and you guys are probably thinking, m why are you telling us to do things you're not doing up until now. It's because I didn't realize

how much this movie seemed like my life to me. Like, I know that sounds so dumb, but I really can see this happening in our family. It's how I'm gonna die. So driving to the house, they kill the coyote, they pull up, they not as far as on the windows. The weird new husband who's like trying to be like he's so cool that the ex husband and a new girlfriend or there locks them in and he's trying to cut the tension. He starts pouring everyone's drinks and will know he needs

to keep his wits about him. He's like, I'm good, and the whole movie is just this weird where they show like two or three flat backs. You don't really know what's happening, but we're going to tell you because we know two years ago Will and Eden had a birthday party or a barbecue or some kind of event where all of the people that they invited to this dinner party were at this event. There was a pinata at this event.

It's a kid's birthday party. But don't know if it was his kids brothday party or another kids broughthday party, because remember they do mention kids a few times. Basically, everyone has kids but the gay couple. And they were like, here's a bat, go play with the pinata. But since all the adults were drinking and not supervising the children with a real aluminum bat, an accident happened and Eden and Will's child Tie died. Is that what happened.

He got hit in the head and died. They barely even give you the whiff of what happened. You see these weird flashbacks. They don't show the kid dead. They just show a bat. It's very like blurry, so you can see the silhouettes of people in the background, so it kind of hints that it's a party. Will mentions a bat once literally once. Yeah, He's like, I shouldn't have given him the bat, and that was it. You got to kind of do some digging. But that's what

happens. So after the death of their child, Eden goes to Mexico, meets a new guy, gets married to him. Will meets Kia. He starts his life over and he erases everyone that he used to know, which I can totally understand having a child if they died at the hands like that, Like I have a dumb accident. This is exactly why I don't drink

or do anything around my child. I feel like I need to watch him constantly because, like I said, I have one nephew that I think it's gonna turn out to be a serial killer, and I have another one who likes to stab the air for fun. So kind of they kind of freaked me out when they're around my child. So Will keep spending time alone.

He's going through his old home and everything's the same but different. Like have you ever had a dream about your house where you walk through it and you're like, it was my house, but the furniture was different or whatever. I always dream about elementary school and it's always the same but different in little ways, like the playground will be somewhere else. Yeah, but I'm sure everyone has experienced this. So he's going through the house and he sees eating

through a glass window hiding pills in her room. So he goes in the room and he gets the pills and he grabs one and he goes up to Miguel, their doctor friend. I'm guessing he's a doctor because they don't really tell you anything. He looks at it, he's like, oh, it's phenal barbatall. It's for this. And he's like, is it dangerous? And he's like, well, if you take too much of it. And that kind of gets your wheel turning, like, huh, if you take too much of it, you know, I don't know, Oh, is

that what they put in the drugs and the thing? That's what I'm thinking they put in the drink. Maybe I didn't even think of it. We don't know. Anything can be too much if you take too much of it, like kind of drug. But I just thought it was weird how they just chose that, because you know, the backyard had garden, like a garden type of thing, like it was very green. It wasn't like he

was like, look at this deadly flower on the wall. It was like a pill that they decided to be Like, well, it's deadly if you take too much. I don't know, that's just what I thought. So everyone is taking turns talking to Will, trying to get him to join the party, and they finally get everyone together in one room and there's a knock on the door and David very weirdly unlocks the door answers it like a crack.

We don't hear any of the interaction. What he says. It's partygoers, but they were looking for the wrong party, but none of us see it. And then David's super creepy ass guy friend who looks like he actually kills people in real life and it is not an actor named Pruitt comes to the house. Oh yeah, the new Yeah, the creepy guy, so creepy. He reminds me of an anchorman. I want to say, his name is Chip or something, the one who's like whammy yeah him him,

but if he killed people went crazy? Yeah, or like that's like his weird brother because he's a very big man, and you just get this vibe of like social awkwardness, and like you can tell you it's like something he's hiding from them, and he does. He tells them later, so it's not really hiding. When you hear that, you're just like, oh, that makes sense, and now I don't want to be around you because you scare me. So this is an awkward part of the film, but it's

my favorite part of the movie. When Prue it comes the creepy, scary, weird old guy who you would not like. If you saw him at a store, you would make sure he left the store before you went to your car, Like that's the kind of guy we're discussing. Okay, all women would look at this guy and be like, he's the fucking weirdo.

And David comes out and he's like, I want to show you all a film, and like the weird crackhead girl comes out, his weird serial killer friend comes out, and the old group of friends and the new group of friends. Everyone knows this weird mixed friend groups. We should also explain everyone who's there. There's obviously Will and Kira, there's David and Eden. Yep, those are the basically the main characters. There's Pruett the crazy guy.

There's I don't know the crackhead. I don't know her name. I don't think she has a name. There's Tommy and his boyfriend Miguel. And then there's the other girl named something. She's white. Yeah, I don't remember her name. And then there's Gina the Asian girl, and Choi the Korean dude. We're waiting for Choi though. This is a big part of it. Yes, the whole movie, everyone's waiting for Choi. Everyone is showing up and Gina's like choice normally earlier, Choy normally calls me, Choi's not

here. Have anyone heard from him? And this is a good setup to it though, because both Eden and Will are like, oh, we're all the way up in the hills, like we don't get a good reception. Here goes in and out. Yeah, it literally does, like no one can use their phones yea, And they're like, oh, but don't worry. Choy always shows up. Troy will be here and Gina is obviously worried.

That's her boyfriend, that's like the love of her life. She's like, okay, but you can tell Ena and David are trying to like brush it under the rug, like stop talking about Troy. Let's watch this video that I'm bringing up right now. Yeah, they're like, he's fine, he's fine, he'll come, don't worry, and everyone's like, hum, Actually, everyone's fine because he's boozing him up and Will's the only one who has his wits about him, so he's like huh, and they keep trying

to give him more alcohol. He has really good alcohol, really good wine. Okay. If someone is like, oh no, just drink it's a really good wine. You guys don't have to drink. Okay, you guys don't have to I'm so weird about eating and drinking things. Oh my god, especially if you're in like a really awkward situation and people are trying to like give you alcohol to loosen up. You don't have to do that. Don't do it. Just be like I want water and I want chips that

I brought in my car, So that's what I'm gonna eat. Yeah, always bring yourself something to eat and drink at a party. Bring your own bottle of water if you think at all it's gonna be awkward. So to my favorite part, of the film. All this weird stuff's happening their Frenchroy. No one's heard from him. This weird serial killer dude's here, This

crackhead girls here who keeps trying to suck everyone. Everyone's drinking. It's just a weird, like forced happy time and Will is seeing through the bullshit. But before he can do anything in front of everyone, David pulls out his little MacBook and he's like, I have a film we should watch. And that's when people are like, oh my god, I know what this is. You guys are in a fucking cult, and they just start laughing. David and Pruett instantly are offended. It's not a cult, it's a family.

They help us this and that, and everyone's taken turns taking a job at it. Hal, Oh my god, you would eating You seem like you'd be in a cult, and she's like, no, they've helped me. I'm not sad over the death of my kid anymore. And that makes Will so mad. Though. Let's get to the movie. The movie. In the movie, so you see like people doing yoga, a voiceover happens.

This is the cult in Mexico where we do yoga and shit that's exactly what it says, and you think it's like a regular cult until you think it's the end of the movie and you see an not even an old woman, like a thirty year old woman laying in bed and she's dying, and we don't know what she's dying from. Apparently they say that she's very sick, poisoning. Probably. We literally watch her die and everyone is like, what the fuck did you just show us? She was probably doing yoga,

she was healthy. Yeah, she looked healthy. And everyone's like, is this real? Did you really just kill our vibe right now by showing us a woman's last moments on earth? And also while they're watching this, fucking David and Eden and the Crackhead and prud are just with the bayest smiles on their face. They're so happy to watch this, and you're just going, what the actual fuck? They like, love this movie and it's of a

woman's death, And so everyone has a discussion about the movie. Miguel's like, as a doctor, I can see that she went really peacefully. But then Tommy's like, that's morbid. And then Kira's like and she was like thirty, yeah, Kira, She's like, how did she die? She looked like thirty and Eden's like she was sick and it's just this weird tension and Will is like, is that why you brought us here today? And they find out that the cult is called the Invitation? Is it? Yeah?

Tommy's boss is into it, and David can tell he's losing his potential flock. Let's just say, and he's like, how about we play a game we used to play when we were in Mexico. And everyone's like, oh, what kind of game? And then who starts it? Is it him? Um? No, it's Eden. She wants to kiss. Oh. Eden's like I'll start. I want to kiss one of the friends we forgot to mention. He's like their chubby friend who is random? Oh yeah there's another one. Yeah, it's okay. And she's like, you want

to kiss me? And she's like I always have and then like he's like okay, and like they have the super smoky kiss. See first. It's funny though, because she's like I want to kiss him, and he does like a quick kiss and he tries to get away and she's like nope, but she goes like all up in his mouth. It's like and like her husband's smiling at it, and everyone's looking and they're like that did not help break the tension, and the guy who she kisses is like, well,

that was fun, but don't tell my wife. And then Crackhead gets up and she's like, I want everyone here, Gina, Eden, David, Pruett, La, La, La, la la, everyone and their mom to love me like I love you, and everyone's like, okay, I just met you, guys, but I love you so much. I hate girls like that so much, so Will's even more weirded out, and Gina, the Asian girl, she's like, I'll play I want some of that cocaine you used to sell David, and David like does he bring some out?

I always wonder that did he ever bring it out? He gives a tour, and then she did it. Yeah. I must have got water

at both of those points, because I didn't see it either. Time everyone started asking for things, David says like he wants them to be a part of their family or whatever, and then Pruitt gets up and he's like, I want to tell you guys about my wife, and no one sees a wife with him, so they're like okay, and he's like, what you have to understand is that our family, we're going to call it a cult. Though everyone in the cult has lost someone dear to them. That's how

they get everyone together. That's what brings them together, Yes, the sense of loss. So Pruitt tells the story that he had this wife who was like an artist, and he was in love with her before he even met her because of her art. And then one night, over something stupid, he hits her as hard as you can. He was drunk and pushed her. She hit her head. No, he said, he hit her as hard as he could, which I thought was like wow. And she hit

her head and she died. And I don't know why he brought up that story when everyone was uncomfortable with the nice death, to bring up this death which was not very nice. Then Tommy he's like, okay, if Gina is gonna get coke and Eden gets to kiss that one dude, I want to blow job and looks around and it's like somebody somebody comes suck the dick. Yeah, And the white girl gets up and she's like, Okay,

I'm leaving. This is like some weird orgy drug booze party. I'm not going to be a part of it, and she gets up to leave and Will gets up to like escort her, and David's like no, and Will's like why can't she leave? And He's like, no, she can, I just don't want her to. And then she's like okay, let me leave then, and it's like this whole kind of like standoff about David not wanting to let her go, and Will's like, do you want me to escort you? And she's like it's like five feet Will, and then he's

like okay. So then she gets up and she's saying goodbye, and Prue's like, oh, are you the priests? I blocked you in. I'll go outside with you. I would have just stayed after that shit. I am not going outside after Prue it. Don't you think he killed her? Yeah? But I don't know how though, because he's only outside for like not only like a few minutes, and you see her car goes that way, but you don't see it like leavely exactly. But he didn't have like

a gun or a knife. You can kill someone with your bare hands. He's obviously a murderer. No, I know you would have heard something. I don't know. I don't know. This movie doesn't like to show you anything. So Pruitt goes outside with the friend. He pulls out his car in the street. She backs up. He pulls his car back in and gets out, and Will is watching her to make sure Prue it doesn't hurt her. You see her pull away just past the driver's seat window, and

Prue it's like, wait, there's more. And they have a conversation, and before Will can make sure that his friend gets out of there safely, David and Eden pullm Ay. It's like, oh, why are you watching? Don't worry. Everything's fine, everything's fine. If people have to keep telling you things are fine, it's not. This is really one of those trust your gut movies. Because he really really didn't want to be there, and he really wanted to leave, but Kiro was trying to be polite and

made them stay, and like, just listen to your significant other. If they don't feel comfortable doing something, don't make them so. Then they all go upstairs and the familiarity with all of their friends there, everyone who was there on the night that his son died. They're all doing basically the same thing. They're all drinking, laughing, having a good time. It makes Will have a very slight, as we keep saying, very blurry, slight

quick flashback of their son's death. Will decides he doesn't want to be by the party and he tries to go outside again to Culchoi and didn't you want to bring up this part? So after everyone's like, oh, let's just drink. This has been weird, the game was weird. Let's not do that. Let's just just fucking hang out. It's fine. Will, It's like, no, I'm gonna go outside. They need air. I'm just gonna not be around the situation right now. I'm gonna go chill out.

You guys, go hang out, you guys mingle. Yeah, they really weren't that good of friends either, kind of just letting him by himself a lot. Like they're eating this big fancy dinner. There's like steaks, just like all this good food made me hella hungry. Yeah, there's like bread, there's potatoes. Yeah it looks good. Are you making fun of me? No? Oh, I would have eaten all the food on there they're eating. And this is when Will has this weird flashback or a weird flashback,

and everything kind of goes mute for him for a minute. Yeah, because when you're in like a sense of trauma, everything around you kind of gets blurred and muted. And like he's calling for Kira, and you don't know if he's like screaming like actually loud or screaming enough sound is coming out, but you can see he's screaming for Kira straight up, stands up,

screams for her. Have you ever had a panic attack? Yes, the last time I had one, it was a few years ago, and I where I was saying my husband's name very loud, and he didn't hear me at all. Yeah, And I swear I was saying his name over and over and he couldn't hear me. And that's what I think happened to Wellmer in this moment. I think. So after that, everyone's just kind of like freaked out, like, Okay, he just screamed at you, what the hell. So he goes outside and he's like, Okay, I'm just

gonna go get some air. I'm just gonna breathe. You guys do this. And so he goes outside and his phone beeps and he's like, oh shit, something's happening. Sometimes we get cell reception up here sometimes we don't. He listens to his voicemail and it's fucking Choi, who hasn't showed up? And Gina keeps asking, oh, as Choi showed up yet, and everyone's like no, no, no, don't worry. He'll be here,

he'll be here, he'll be here. And Choy called him apparently before anyone else had gotten there, and his voicemail is like, hey, will guess what. I'm actually early. I'm the first one here. I'm about to drive up. I was just wondering if you can go pick up like a pie because I don't want to go do it, you know, Gina always wants this pie or something. But I'm already here, so might as well

just stay here and I'll wait for you. Guys, And I love you and I haven't seen you in a long time, and I'm excited to see you. So I'm gonna go up to the house and I will see you in there. And it kind of seemed like to me that maybe Gina and Troy were kind of like their closest friends at the time. Yeah, because Gina was like, I just didn't want to bug you, but I've missed you and this and that and it was really sweet. Yeah, even though

he wasn't listening at all. Yeah, it was like that's cool. But anyway, so Will turns around to the party and he sees kind of everyone making fun of him for his big freak out he just had. Remember, they were like mocking him, which is not cool. They're like, oh, I'm gonna scream in and he's like, you fuckers. And now Roy was here, where is he? So he's like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm not gonna be crazy about this, and this is my favorite part,

just because this is exactly how I would be. And so they go upstairs and they're gonna have cake for Tommy's birthday. So Ione's birthday to theirs and they're like, oh, it's not my birthdays not till like next week, and they're like no, we're just gonna celebrate. It's full of love and happiness and rainbows and butterflies. And then while they're all sitting upstairs, Will just goes, hey, David, where's Joy And they're like what do you mean. He's like, where the fuck is Joy? He called me he

was here, he was here before anyone. Where the fuck is Joy? And David and Eden are like, he never came here, he never he was never here, he never came into the house. And he's like, that's fucking bullshit. I have his voicemail right now saying he was here, he came in. We've all been waiting for him. Where the fuck is Joy and Prue? It pops up, He's like, you know, calm down. He's like, who the fuck are you? I'm talking to my ex wife. I want to know where our friend is. I'm talking to

David, who shady as fuck, locking all the doors. Where is he? And she just like, he didn't call me, Choy didn't call me. He's probably just not here here. I don't know what happened. He's like, no, I have him right here telling me he's here. What the fuck? I know something weird is going on. Everyone's just pretending like it's not. You guys are all being fucking stupid. We know something's weird. Why is everyone trusting David? And he's creepy. He's so creepy.

Didn't he even look like a wanna be will too? Yes? So then he's just like, you know, what the fuck and they're all trying to calm him down. He gets up he almost starts throwing things. He's like, fuck this, fuck this, fuck this, Kira, me and you were leaving right downward, leaving. We're leaving. I don't care. We're done. And then there's a fucking knock at the door and everyone's like, what the hell, what's going on? Because during this time, you're like,

oh, fuck, Joy was here. These psychos fucking killed him. I don't know what's happening. Prue, it's definitely probably shoved him in his shrunk. And then he's like, no, we're leaving. You guys are fucking crazy. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. And then there's a knock at the door and David, the only one with the key to unlock the door, goes downstairs and everyone's looking over the banister and they're like what is it? What is it? And it's fucking Joy, and poor

Will is hyperventilating. He's like freaking out. He's like what, I got the call and what's happening? And Jane's like, oh, Choe, my love, you're here. I missed you. And he's like, oh, sorry, you know, I was up at the steps and I got called into work and I tried calling you guys, but I never get signal, so you know, I'm sorry. And Will is just like he's like he's struck. He's just like, I don't know what to do. And he fucking apologizes to David. He's like, I'm sorry, you guys are just

trying to be nice. I'm over here freaking out. It's not your fault. And David's like, it's okay, it's okay. We're all about love and forgiveness and everything's fine and rainbows and butterflies, and he's like, okay, it's fine. Let's just eat the birthday cake, drink some of your expensive line, and we're good. So then Will's keeps having this like feeling in the back of his head like something's still wrong, something's still wrong,

and I know it. I know something weird is going on. After we'll freak out and he's apologizing to David, he goes, can I see his room? And Eating's like, yeah, of course, of course, of course you can. It's the same way it was when he died. We haven't moved anything, which is so weird when people do that. I think

that's weird too. I'm sorry, I would clean it. Yeah, you don't want to just keep like everything the way it was when they died, because I'm like fifteen years later, you're like, oh, there's all this little kid and now there's like bugs because he was a kid. What if he had candy under his bed? So he goes and he's like lays in the son's bed and he like envisions him lying next to him, face to face, just smiling, and he's just like happy, and he's like,

maybe I should trust them. Yeah, he starts doubting himself. He's like, maybe I am just crazy. Maybe this is just me being like overly traumatized. I don't know. So he sits up and he's like, Okay, I'm good. I'm ready to go back. But outside of the son's window, you see David walking out in the garden and he hangs up a lantern. He's like, what the hell's going on over there? It's like

a blood red lead. He hangs it up. He looks over like the hills so you could see all so he could see all the other houses and stuff. You can't, but you just see him lighted. He has this weird content smile on his face. And he just goes back inside, and Will is like what the fuck? What? What? What? What does this mean? I thought it was like a signal to have people come into the house and kill them, like in other horror movies. That was what I thought. I could see that and I was like, oh shit,

that's like the signal some shit's gonna go down, which is true. Then after he puts the lantern and Will goes back, everyone's kind of mingling, definitely still talking about him, like, Well's freaking out, what the fuck's going on with Will? He's like, I'm sorry, Let's just eat cake, Let's just drink some of your fancy wine. Let's just relax and enjoy seeing everybody. And they're like finally, yeah, Will, We're so happy you decided to join us. This is gonna be great, And Well was

like the fuck. So David comes and he has this big bottle of like deep deep red wine, looks much darker than any of the other one they've been drinking, yes, and he pours everyone a glass. He handed it right to him, so that was weird. So they all make a toast. David goes, I really want you all to really look at each other right now, just take one last really good look at the moment we're in right now, and that makes Will go like wait. Will is like,

what the fuck? So right is there about to drink? Well gets up and he starts smacking glasses out of everyone. He smacks down Tommy and Miguel's and he's just like, no, no one takes a fucking wine, you guys. Jina looks him in his optics, sad and drinks that shit. Yeah, Gina is crazy. She's like, I want coke. I'm gonna just chug this wine to one drink and Will has long arms because he's tall, but not enough to reach all the way down the table to Gina anyway,

So whatever. I love this part too because he'd be smacking that shit happened right on the top and it breaks on the floor and then he's like, no, we're done, We're leaving. I'm done, and fucking crazy ass crackhead goes you ruin and she jumps at him. She starts like hitting him, trying to attack him, and Will's like, what the fuck?

What do I do? What do I do? So he pushes her off and she hits a desk or a table or something and falls on the floor and Prue it goes No, I would everywhere like, bro, this is how you killed your wife or are you judging me? Yeah, this is exactly what you just told us you did, so shut up. That's what I would do. So Miguel is the doctor and he's like, I need to put pressure on this. I need to do this. He's like, you got a first aid kit. Everyone's like, shoecase, shoe kay,

and I want to see. It's Kira who goes she's not breathing and Miguel's like, yeah, she is. I'm holding her right now. She's not breathing and she goes, no, Gina, and it pans over to Gina and you see she has foam coming out of her mouth and she's just like she's dead. And he's like what the fuck And they're like, David, go get the first aid kit. And David leaves the room and he comes back with a fucking gun and shoots Choy right in the fucking either head or

stomach, I don't remember. Well. He shoots Miguel first to stop him from helping Sadie. Then he shoots Choy like three or four times. He went all out on Choy. I'm like, poor Choy just got here. He barely got comfortable. He got maybe eat a piece of cake, and then he died. Maybe maybe it was poison cake. I don't know. Yeah, so everyone's kind of going ape shit on each other. Pruett and David are just shooting people, stabbing people, chasing them around. Don't remember

which one. I want to say it was Miguel or it was Tommy. One of them went outside and was being chased remembered by the pool or was it the chubby one, You're correct, I think it was him. Anyway, it was one of them. But like, shit's going crazy, and Will's just like, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck? We need to leave. But they remember all the windows are barred, all of the doors are locked. But Will knows the house because it used

to be his house. So he takes Kira under his wing and they flee. So Will and Kira run down the hall. They're downstairs and he's like, there's a door this way. They run, it's locked. They try to turn back around and Sadie's there. Will push the Sadie and they hide in a room and block it with a dresser. That's like when you said you see the friend get killed through the window. We think it's the chubby friend. We don't know, and they fucking stab him in the back,

like stab sta stabbing. And it was David too. It was both of them, wasn't it. They wait till it's quiet. Oh yeah, they're hunting. They wait till it's quiet, and they start creeping around the house and he looks at Kia and he's like, we have to do whatever it takes, and she's like okay. So they move the dresser quietly. They sneak out, and they see Sadie with a fireplace poker bleeding from her head wound on the couch, but she's accepting her death because that's their cult's way.

He takes the fire poker from her and starts creeping towards the stairs to go back upstairs, because he knows that there's a door upstairs that leads to the garage that they can get out of. Do you think that Sadie was gonna like scream or something, because I thought she was gonna scream and like alert them to where they were. I really did think that, because she's crazy. As they're creeping towards the stairs, they have to pass Eden,

and David's like bedroom, and didn't his crying. She did not want a murder spree. She wanted a peaceful drift off to sleep poisoning like they had planned for the last two years. David, you can tell he's more into this whole stabbing thing. Oh, he loves killing people. He's like, once this is over, then we'll all be together, like in heaven or whatever the fuck they believe in. Aiden's like, no, I don't want

this. He's like, You're like, babe, it's okay. She's like, you did not tell me that you were going to be literally hunting my friends, like crying for their lives. I don't like to hear this. So Will and Kia sneak upstairs and they see that everyone up there is dead, and the door that Will thought was there is somehow covered up with like a wall. So that part was kind of confusing to me. Did they really change the wall or is Will just not remembering correctly because he hasn't been

there in two years. Oh no, it could be the adrenaline. But knowing David, he probably covered it up because he doesn't like doors. When they get to the top of the stairs, they're in like a movie theater, looking thing. The house is a lot bigger than they show you. They only ever show us like five rooms of it. And Pruitt is hunting for them. Are you thinking they overpower him? And I actually thought that Kira was not going to save Will when Pruett was choking him out to death.

Oh, Kira goes crazy. She's like, fuck you is my my bred m And she basically does what Will did to the coyote in the beginning of the film, but her coyote is Pruitt. Was she hit him with a log or something. She had to bash his skull a bunch of times. While they're attacking, Pruett eating comes up stairs with a gun and she's like, oh, so sorry, it's a buzz they like that. And he's like it's cool. You can just stop what you're doing right now,

like let's talk about this. Then she shoots Will and she's like nope, boom, and she shoots herself in the stomach. Why would you shoot yourself in the stomach, got the head like a regular person. What the fuck? She's so stupid. That's just gonna be pain. You just want everything to be peaceful, and you gave yourself the worst death, like the worst and it's gushing blood. David's fine, He's like, grab the gun. When Eaton collapses, He's like, Eden was a shitty shot. Anyway,

it's fine. Kia grabs a gun and David's coming upstairs at them with a knife, and Kira' is like, oh shit, this thing is empty. And when David is about to go an attack Will and Kia with a knife. Tommy, who we none of us even knew was alive, jumps into action, attacks David, jumps on him. David lamb's on his own knife, stabbing himself, and he dies. They all wait to see what's going on, and Eden's like, well, please please bring me outside, and

for some reason they do it, which I thought was weird. I'd be like, fuck you bitch, you can die in here, you know. It's like, dude, you just fucking shot me five seconds ago. But I think that he did it for her because that's where their kid died. That's really why I think that. So Will and Kira lift a bleeding Eden outside and Tommy, Kia and Will are laying there. They see Eden die.

She doesn't even get to finish her sentence. She's like, Will dead, and that's when they all three of them look up for the first time and they see David's red lantern. And when they turned their head and look up the Hollywood Hills, you see fifteen other red lanterns and you hear gunshots. Yeah, you hear gunshots. You hear there, you see sirens, the whole nine. So you know that this cult like plant it for this day, and everyone who was involved with it is all executing their plan right

now. Yes, And that's how the movie ends. What do you rate it out of five? Go two point five? I didn't like it. Yeah, it's it's not a bad movie. I would not watch it again. I like the creep factor just because it's like this happens a lot lately. A lot of people are getting into Culton ship and you're just like, what the fuck be smarter. I just didn't like it. It was kind of boring. It drags on a lot. It finally gets to the good part, like ten minutes left in the movie, and I'm like, so

I watched like an hour of like nothing for ten minutes. The fuck boring. So I recommend seeing it at least once it's on Netflix, I believe, so might as well watch it. For free, I mean not free, but if you're paying for Netflix anyway. But I would never buy it on DVD. I wouldn't pay two ninety nine to watch it. It's okay. I just really liked the actor who played Will, and I think that's why I kind of liked the movie more than other people did. Okay,

I think that's good for now. Yeah, and I would write the movie at three. At three, Oh, you always are like I read my like a million, because like, I really liked it, and I'm the one he picked it, so it's like, really good. I know I already told you about our next movie and you're like, I'm like, I read it like a tune. Dude, I'm gonna watch it maybe today. Okay, We're gonna do as above so below next week. So that's exciting.

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Stitcher, Google Play, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Crime you later, all right, do you want to go first? You want me to go first? Of our things are so award winning? Um, I don't know, I don't know. This is such a scary movie. Anyway, I guess I'll go first. My story this week is from No Sleep because I kind of live on there. It was written by someone named Page zero four oh nine and it was posted a year ago. It is t old I remember the day I died. Oh do you remember that the happiest day

in my life is a dude. That dude good Charlotte is so good. There's no one pardon in the in it. That's like, um, I called my mother told her I love Jared. I beg not to cry. I wrote a letter let's say I miss her, and I signed that good bye. He should have signed a good Charlotte. And it's karaoke on New Year's Eve when we didn't just record anyway, your story, it's not gonna be as good as the song we just sang. I'm just that was my story, guys. I hope you liked so Happy New Year. I'm just

gonna read every ring from it into That was my story. That was and I related it because it was good. Alma Charlotte talking to our one follower named Charlotte. I'm sure we have Yes, Hey, Charlotte, can let you girl wat us and we will send you some shit. If your name is Charlotte, your name is Charlotte, and you leave us a five star review on iTunes, screenshot that shit an email at us at Grave Girls Podcast at gmail dot com. We will send you a Grave box if your name

is Charlotte. Get that shut up, let's do it. Then you win. And if your name isn't Charlotte, then hopefully in a feature episode, I think of a band that has your name in it and we sing it and we just do promotions like that. From that one, I'm fine to that. Yeah, we'll type the band Charlotte. We're coming, Biggest fans. The story is called I Remember the Day I died as walking my six year old to the school bus, along with my two year old, seven

month old, and my neighbor's five year old. Obviously only two of them were going to school, but I had to take all of them with me. At the time, I remember standing there talking to the other moms and one dad, facing away from the direction the bus was coming from. All of a sudden, they had fear in their eyes and they were quickly moving out of the way, but at the time I turned around, it was

too late to save us. All. The bus was arriving with the lights flashing, but a truck wasn't paying attention and swerved into the sidewalk straight towards us. I pushed the stroller with my two smallest in it with one hand simultaneously pushing the older ones with the other hand. I remember hovering over my body from somewhere high up in the sky. Am I dead? I asked to the air. Yes, came a gentle voice from beside me. Shit. Shit, shit shit. I remember screaming in frustration. The blood,

Oh my god, there was so much blood. I looked at my body in sorrow, seeing my limbs mangled and torn to shreds. I don't want to die yet. My kids need me, I cried in frustration. I just wanted to hold them one last time, to tell them how much I loved them. I grew up without a mother, and I didn't want them suffering the same destiny. I heard a regretful sigh behind me. I know how hard this must be on you. I remember your own mother suffering the

same fade as you. I remember watching you cry grow, never truly understanding what death was. Her death took a piece of you with it. Look at me, I was terrified of what I might see, a grim reaper, a god, an angel, an alien. I turned slowly, trying to prepare myself for what was to come. What I faced was the most glorious being I have ever seen. He was beautiful, yet ever changing.

One minute a beautiful man with flowing blonde hair and green eyes, the next a man with the darkest short hair and gray, stormy eyes, always changing, always glorious. My fear evaporated instantly. What are you, I whispered, death, your guardian, many things for now, your second chance, came a soft reply. My anxiety was slowly building as I waited for him to continue. You have three options. The first, I can stop the pain. You won't feel any of this, and you can watch your kids

grow up with you being in the afterlife, peaceful and pain free. Not an option, I replied angrily, Just let me finish, No need for hostility. The second, you can walk the earth, but only in the area your children are in. You will be a ghost. They will think they're haunted. You will only have so much power to show that you're still there. But over time, if they become frightened, you put yourself at risk of being banished by a priest to a realm of torture beyond your imagination.

The third, I can revive you. You can live, and you can see your children grow old. You will be in their life until you reach an age deemed reasonable but you will be paralyzed and a burden. You will make their lives so difficult that they won't even be able to move away and have their own families. In fear that you won't be able to survive without them, but you will be alive. Three choices. None of them would make us all happy. I know what you're all thinking. I should

just watch over them and die peacefully. Maybe even the second choice, so I could try and make contact. Humans are very much a selfish breed. I want to see my children, let them know I will be okay, and have them give me grandchildren that I can meet someday. I'd rather be there. I chose the third option, obviously, how else would I be able to tell this story. I'm feeling weaker these days. I know my time is near. I was eventually able to convince my boys to move on

with their lives and stop worrying over me. I don't feel that I've lived long enough. But I did meet my first grand baby. Boy was she beautiful. I couldn't hold her, but she saw me. She will have pictures of me, even if they see they are of me in a wheelchair or a hospital bed in my home. Since I have no control over my body since the accident. The only way I'm telling this story now is because

I convinced my husband to hire someone to document my life. It's not like it'll cost him anything once he gets the life insurance policy he has on me cashed out. My guardian has been here every night for around two and a half weeks. He wants me to go join him. I think I'm finally ready. I don't want to be a burden anymore. That's my story. Chose the Shelfish choice. Isn't that fucked up? I'm kind of surprised I

was too. As a parent, I honestly would risk the haunting one, but I just wouldn't like move shit, be like planning my three ds like on the sly in the attic. They just seem like a floating three DS walking around. But I know this story isn't like scary scary, but it is really it makes you think. The way I related it to the movie is like there was the kid who died and they would have loved to have him, you know, be back in their lives. There's also the lady

who they watched die because she didn't want to be a burden. She wanted to go be happy, like it wasn't scary scary, but it was definitely like like it did make be like It's like it's like the movie. The movie wasn't scary. It just makes you go like, oh, what would I do? What? What would I do in that situation? This is really fucked up no matter what is going on. But so I know it wasn't normally are like, ooh, spooky scary story. What was the first

choice she wouldn't feel any pain, but then she'll die. No, the first one was you just are in the afterlife when you watch them girl be peaceful and pain free, and she's like, no, why not? Yeah, that one seemed fine. The option one is with the lady who's I saw dying on the video basically picked yeah. Yeah. I feel like the other ones is like the cult ones where they're like, well you'll be dead, but like you'll be in the happy fucking with everyone because everyone's dead.

If I ever am in an accident like that, don't don't let them. Don't let them do that to me. If they can't freaking you do it like Futurama or my head's in like a tank. You can like click me on a new body. I don't want to live, dude, that's gonna be dope when they do it. Let's get that shit done. Come on, scientists. But so that was my story. It's good, very vague, but again, the movie Gets Self is kind of a lot of open ending things. A lot of it is centered around death and the people's different

interpretations of what's going to happen. You know, quote unquote, drinking the kool aid will take you to like the promised land and ship. Anyway, So that was me. What's your murder this week, Hawthorne? Mine is similar to your story. It's a little vague. I just found it and a fit perfect. I think that there's still more to come. So when I see anything else on it, I'll update you guys. But here we

go. My murder is Mattia del Zoto. In the northern town of Manza, just north of Milan in Italy, twenty seven year old Mattia del Zoto started acting differently. His family noticed he had become introverted. He began spending his days in front of the computer. He stopped eating sweets, stopped drinking alcohol, and he told his family members that he could only consume vital things. This new behavior was all part of a cult that Delzotto had recently joined.

He soon began to realize that his family members were unclean. Dozoto purchased sixty grams of thallium online. Thallium is a soft metal that dissolves in water. It is odorless and tasteless. Thallium used to be in like mouse killer, but in nineteen seventy three, the World Health Organization discontinued it because of its toxicity to humans. After purchasing the thallium, del Zotto began sprinkling it

in his members food and tea that they all drank. Family members, his paternal grandparents, who were ninety four and eighty eight years old, and a sixty two year old auntie of his, fell ill in the summer of twenty seventeen after ingesting the thallio. The initial symptoms of thallium poisoning include gastro intestinal problems, hair loss, and delirium. You can also experience psychotic behavior, organ damage, coma, and death. Luckily, there is an antidote to

thallium poisoning. It's called Prussian Blue. It prevents the thalium for being absorbed into your body. Sadly, though, after weeks of being in the hospital, his grandfather, Batista del Soto, his grandmother Maria Gioya Patana, and his aunt, Patrizia del Zotto all died from ingesting the thallium. Police began to investigate the mysterious poisonings. Once at the del Zotto home, they found traces of thallium and the tea the family drink. The police began to form

a timeline. First, the grandparents fell ill at the end of the summer and then died in October along with the aunt. Next, more relatives remained hospitalized with neurological problems, so they knew it was someone in the family. Not only that, but since so many of them got sick from the poisoned food and drink, it had to have been someone with constant access. Five other family members were in the hospital receiving treatment for thallium poisoning. On De

Sceve or seventh, seventeen, Mattia Delzotto was arrested by the police. Inside his home. They discovered a lot of evidence against him. He still had the receipt for purchasing the fallium on his computer. They found five containers of the element itself, and upon his arrest he said to the police, I did it to punish the impure people, and I don't want to cooperate. Once in the interrogation room with Delzotto, he began to confess, saying,

you'll never know why I did it. I don't have to collaborate with this institution or other institutions of this state. His mother said that Matteia is following a sect, which I'm guessing as their word for colts. He told them that he is no longer Catholic and following a new religion. All he has revealed is that the group is called the Second Vatican Council. That sounds scary

as fuck. I will update you as the case unfolds. My sources for this case are from Newsweek dot Com, BBC dot com, and Antsa dot it. I chose this case because in the movie The Invitation, Will is invited to a dinner where the hosts try to serve him a poisoned drink, and in this Mida Mattia del Soto poisoned his family's food and drink and successfully killed them. Jesus, dude, I feel bad. Why I kill your grandparents. You fucking dick right. It was like the same age as our

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