The biggest thing that I've been seeing in the reviews. It's like they didn't really explain anything. It's a comedy horror. Do they have to? And I mean, they kind of did. This is the kind of movie. This is a lot like the Coronado T Trilogy, partly because it has Nick Frost and scenes that go with music incredibly well. Let me put it this way. Iron Maiden is to this movie, what Queen was to Shaun of the Dead. Nice. Exactly.
The other way. This is the kind of movie that benefits from a rewatch, and I should know because I've watched this movie like five times in the past week, so. I have watched it. They do explain things. You just weren't paying attention. So welcome back to Imported Horror. This is the podcast that brings you the very best of gothic, creepy, shady monsters and spoilers set to music that will be stuck in your head for years. I'm Marcus. I'm here with my de thawing co-hosts.
Cocaine and Fat Dicks. I'm sorry, that's not my name. My name is Melissa. That's just my handle at the moment. Fuck the Polar again. I mean, and Grady. I feel like I really missed something by not having seen this movie that y'all are talking about, because you kind of did in classic Corno Trilogy style. It feels very quotable. Yeah. This may be the closest to a fourth Corno trilogy movie that we're going to get. It just was missing Simon Peg, Simon Peg and someone actually eating a Corno.
Yeah. Which they could have easily shoved in there with this. Yeah. That I can tell you right now would've been. Interesting. Choice. Of words, Melissa. I know, right? Even. Without having seen it. So this week we're talking about getaway with Nick Frost that recently hit Shutter and Melissa and Grady are promising they'll try not to spoil it, but because it's Melissa, I am not holding out too much hope about. That. I'm really wanting to try. It really is important that you don't know the twist.
Yeah. Honestly, I'm afraid I'm the one that's going to blurt it out just because we'll get there. We won't get there because we're going to try not to spoil it, but we'll talk about it. I snuck off and saw the Nosferatu remake, which isn't imported, but is a remake of vintage OG imported horror that we talked about a couple of weeks ago. So I am counting it because that's the thing we can do. It is based on the what is Undisputably, the very first imported horror. Yeah. Fair enough.
At least in terms of movies. Yeah, absolutely. But before we get to that, we have a couple of interesting coming Soons and a short that I've been wanting to talk about actually for a while. I'm glad that I'm actually finally going to get the chance to do it. Nice. So instead of Melissa Short, Marcus is short. I'm short this week. I'm not as short as Melissa. I am definitely shorter than Grady, who's probably the tallest person I know. I am as taller than you, as Melissa is shorter than you.
If we line up, we form a perfect 45 degree angle. That's super weird. Nothing is a coincidence. So the first one we've got actually hit last week when life got a little bit in the way. This is the damned this dropped on VOD and I hope you like gothic horror because we got a lot of it this week. This is technically 2024. It is from Ireland, the uk, Iceland and Belgium. I can't get IMDB to confirm it, but I'm pretty confident it was filmed in Iceland. It.
Looked like it was filmed in Iceland. That is the vibe that I got. If it gets that cold in Ireland then it's not the island that I thought it was. Let's put it that way. Fair enough. 19th century widow has to make an impossible choice when during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village. This looks dark, this looks creepy. This looks literally dark. It might be hard to see what's going on and it looks very cold, all of which.
This gave me voyage of the Deme vibes. Yes. Yes. And for that matter, Nosferatu and just about every gothic folk horror I can think of, which is a good thing. I think if you're into that. It also stars Joe Cole, who I really like. I don't know if you've watched Black Mirror. He was the star of the Black Mirror called not guess the dj, what is it? Hang the DJ and. Different things. One of my favorite Black Mirror episodes, and so I'm excited just because I really like him as an actor.
The only black mirrors I've seen, actually the only one I've seen is the Star Trek one, which was really good and I thought a really faithful adaptation of Star Trek. But the Pig as a pilot kind of turned me off the whole season, the whole show. Keep trying to get. Me into it and it just. Hasn't happened. That's a part of it. It's just such a small part of it. None of that makes me want to watch it, I'll be honest. But. I do and I are very different people.
I do kind of want to watch The Damned that did hit theaters, at least limited theaters. It was here in the Houston area for a little while, but only at a few theaters. The closest one was that giant one over on 59 on the way to Livingston, actually the one where we saw unbearable weight of massive talent and late night with the Devil and Immaculate. Or half of late night with the devil. Half of late night with the devil. But good reputation.
I want to say that that's going to be on shutter at some point, but I don't know for sure. So yeah, don't hold me to that. The other two are hitting shutter and because I am prepared and I have notes, I am not stalling while I try to find where the saved image was. There we go. Okay. On the 24th of January, that's today, we have grafted, which the trailer said was a cross between animator and mean girls, which if that doesn't scream, Melissa, I don't know what does.
Yeah, this is my first watch of this trailer and I watched it five or six times. I'm really excited for this. A bright but socially awkward exchange student takes her craving for popularity to horrifying heights. I feel like maybe that's underselling things. You did. One of the things they compared it to was the re animator. So I would venture against that. Yes.
Yeah. So I've been seeing it in, a lot of people have commented under the trailer and in other places that it reminds them of substance, which came out this past year, but it's not. It has nothing to do with that. It's not the actual, it's just body horror substance with body horror. This is body horror. So if you want to say it's a body horror, that's fine. But I think sometimes we haven't had so many body horror films close to each other. And so if you want to compare it to something,
this is not the movie to compare it to substance. It's not the movie. Have you seen the substance? Oh, other people besides us have a very limited reference pull for body horror compared to us here on the Horror Podcast? Well, that's a fair point. Yes. The age of Cronenberg is, I mean, it's never over for us. It might wax and wane for normal people. All you normies out there listening to this podcast, all three of you, the substance actually did really well in Oscar nominations. That came.
Out. It wasn't bad, honestly. It wasn't my favorite, but it wasn't bad. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll get into that. But I think that was sort of a surprise hit in a lot of ways. And so maybe that's why people are comparing it, but the body horror and grafted definitely looks serious. Looks pretty graphic. This is from New Zealand. It's not a horror comedy. I want to say that I feel like most everything we've done from New Zealand has
had a comedic element to it, and I don't know that this does. So. It's going to make it more interesting. And then on the 27th of January, we have the VOR delac, which is again creepy, gothic folk horror called and just wants everything this week because that's all we're getting. And I'm And another vampire. And another vampire, yes. This is from France. And if you didn't know that, you just would watch the trailer or presumably the first 20 seconds of the movie
and you would know lost in a hostile forest. The Marqui Dre, a noble emissary from the King of France finds refuge in the home of a strange family. That again, I think is maybe underselling. Things important safety tip that the characters in the trailer for this movie did not follow. If a man wearing white pancake makeup and a colonial English person outfit is dancing in the middle of the road, do not engage him. Do not compliment his dancing. Do not make eye contact. Just keep walking.
I feel like that's a lesson. Otherwise a horror movie will happen sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean this is historical. By that I mean it was set in back in the day where clown makeup wasn't clown makeup, I guess. I don't know. But yeah, it looked like if you watch Nosferatu and you want to scratch that itch again, but in French, this is probably the way to go. That is very specific. Someone out there is going to need.
That. It's dark and I don't know if it's tonally dark, but I know it's literally dark because IMDB is playing the trailer again and I'm looking at it and it does a lot with natural lighting and that's really cool, but it's also kind of hard to see. And it sets that tone of this is gothic, But Also French, which has a different vibe. Gothic, I dunno, sorry for butchering the French language and any cultural sensibilities about y'all's gothic horror that you have. So yeah. Anyway, that's on.
Shutter too. I'm not you people made under Paris. You have a sense of humor about this truth. You proved it. No. Yeah. And that's it for January. So relatively slow. I'm going to get the threads back up and running for February. Got some strategies going to get those posts brewing again. But I'm excited. I think February, there's at least a little bit of romantic romcom horror because Valentine's Day and everything else. So I don't know how much of that is international, but
so I am short this week. You are not short. I am short this week. You're short, short, short. So this was the tunnel, or tunnel in family is caught. IMDB is just crushing it this week. A family is caught in slow moving traffic with the hope of making it home safely. Now you might think, isn't that every single day in the Houston metro area and. Yes. Yes it is. Except it's not slow moving traffic. It's Mad Max. Yes. And also we. Don't have tunnels. And after seeing this movie, I'm glad for that.
That's true. That's very true. So this is Norwegian. It was directed by Andrea Overal, who also did second time we're going to mention it because it's a great movie. Last Voyage, the Demeanor, which I think is criminally underrated and also gothic and historical. He did troll hunter, which we all thought was great, that's got a real sense of humor. And he did autopsy of Jane Doe, which is. Also Oh, so good. Pretty gothic and really good. Yeah, I really enjoyed that.
So I haven't seen this in a little while because my toddler would not go down for sleepy time. And every time I'd try to sneak out of the room, she'd look at me and she'd go, dad, dad, no. And I'd be like, I already gave you like five hugs. Go fuck to sleep. And she just looked apathetic. Dad, dad, no. And of course she got another hug, and I didn't have time to rewatch this, but I taught a class on film reviews, like journalism, film reviews last spring. And we did a short movie every class.
And one of my students shout out to Blaine, if you're listening, suggested this. And so we just watched it cold and it has haunted me ever since. And it was a good exercise because it's not in English, so they had to do a little bit more digging. I had to do a little more research on the background and everything. And there is definitely background here, but what did y'all think about this? I didn't get a chance to watch it. I'm sorry.
I thought it was creepy. But also feel like there's some missed potential. Yeah. How so? Well, I mean, we see the tunnel close and that's it. Sorry, I'm sorry to spoil the end, but it's a 14 minute movie and there's a lot to be said for the trope. Nothing is scarier and I don't think that worked in this case. I wanted to, I was expecting, it probably isn't fair to voice my own expectations on a movie like this, but I was expecting something messed up to happen in that tunnel.
And probably something did, but we didn't get to see it. I just realized that I don't think that, I think I've seen this just not for this particular podcast this past week, because now I'm remembering there's a tunnel that automatically closes people in it every so often. It's random. Yes. Right, because of some dystopian. Yes. Stuff going on. Okay, so yes, I have seen this then that. Or Melissa, same idea. Well, so what did you think? Was I the only one that was thoroughly creeped out by this?
No, I thought it was anti climactic. What? Yeah, I mean, I was creeped out while watching it. I was getting into the buildup. It's just that once nothing came of the buildup, I was like, oh, okay. I mean, literally that's my own expectations. Not all movies have to do that. Just that was my vibe the time that I watched the movie. Fair enough, fair enough. Yeah. This has stuck with me for at this point nearly a year. This really pushed my buttons.
And I think normally I'm not a less is more guy, but in this case, because it's obvious what's happening and the acting is strong enough that everybody is really nervous and really tense and it's not some great mystery, but yeah, was definitely a less is more type of thing, but maybe because there's several kids in the car and in the other cars and everything else. And so maybe this was pushing dadda Noha buttons. Not everybody. I can totally see. But yeah.
So normally I am a less is more girl, right? I am the one that's like, yes, I love less is more. Well yeah, you're like, I'm remember. Yeah. I'm remembering why I saw this short and it was because they kept showing the clip on TikTok of the ending and I'm like, oh my God, I have to know what happens. I kept seeing this clip and it took so long to find this, and then I realized that that was what happened, and I'm just like.
I can see where that would be an issue. Yeah, no. I'm flying on the play. The TikTok equivalent of Peter Griffin saying it was his sled. I just saved you two long boob less hours. Right, exactly. Yep. That yeah. Ah, yeah, no, I'm going to give you a pass on that one because that's tiktoks bad. You can't do that. You. Can't just show me the last couple of minutes. Why would you, without context, it's not going to make any sense at all.
So this was back way back when TikTok would only allow you to play minute clips or 32nd clips or three minute clips. So what people were doing was where they were downloading only three minute clips. So they were downloading a full movie, but in three minute clips. So if you were scrolling. So you accidentally saw the last three minutes first. Exactly. Okay. Why would you do that. Though? Why not just watch? Because watch it on YouTube. Keeps taking it down. Yeah. It's.
Not down on YouTube. It's up on YouTube, but I think it was on. Short. But when you try to upload it yourself so you get credit for it and get to introduce people to it, YouTube takes it down because they're all copyright Nazis. Well, yes. Then. How dare they? I'm not going to lie. I've watched full episodes of crap on TikTok. It shows that I would never even think of watching Chicago Med. I'm like, but I have to find out what happens. I'm not even mad about it. Maybe you should be walk.
So this creeped the hell out of me. It was one of those, I thought it was one of these really tense, really build up the anxiety you could feel. And it difficult, it seemed like it was relatively big budget for a short movie and for a sci-fi short movie that's hard to do. But it didn't rely on the special effects or anything like that. But they were just kind of, there was this actually realistic enough to not take me out of the moment.
Super intricate sci-fi setting that just happens to be the backdrop for all this existential dread, which I think is why it surprised me that they didn't use some of those effects to show what happens. But. Yeah, I mean, I get that. Get it. Creeped me the hell out. And I actually read the, it's curious because most American dystopia, I feel like this is the part that has been playing in my head since I saw it.
We should do that for the podcast. We should do that for the, so most American dystopia I can think of come from the government collapsing. It's like a zombie outbreak and there is no more government. And that's where the dystopia comes from more often than not, or sometimes it's like capitalism run amuck. But I feel like most of the time there is no government, and this is the opposite extreme.
This is extremely Orwellian, extremely organized authoritarian dystopia that almost has this, I don't want to spoil it, but it has this way of rationalizing things that things sort of makes sense on paper in a way that the zombie apocalypse or civil war, the A 24 movie, the Alex Garland one that doesn't, that's just anarchy. That's a very different vibe from this. And maybe that was part of why I liked it so much too.
Yeah. I will say the propaganda elements of this that did come the closest to creeping me out of anything in this movie. So do y'all want to go first or should I run through? No, pu first. Why don't you go ahead and run through Nosferatu first. So this has been out since Christmas and I finally got to see it and I kind of enjoyed it like that because I snuck down to the movie theater
just down the road. And by this point it had been relegated to the smaller theaters in the smaller rooms, and it was cozier, it was smaller, it was late at night, and that was the way to watch this movie. I need to know about the necrophilia. You don't though. You really don't. You don't. A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her causing untold horror in its way. So I reviewed this on letterbox.
I gave it five stars and the little heart saying I liked it. That's important. It is very important because I feel like very often I put the little heart on things that I give like one or two stars and it's not a consolation thing. You're garbage, but I love you. That's okay. This was not garbage and I really enjoyed it. Gothic and bewitching. This faithful adaptation captures the bleakness and soul of the original silent film without coming to film. Snobbery. A few moments are trying too hard.
I would argue the one that Melissa just mentioned is in that category, but the vintage ambiance. Is it's difficult not to try too hard when you're doing necrophilia. That's true. That's true. The vintage ambiance is haunting and memorable, and that's probably the big takeaway because the cinematography and the costume work and the makeup work were creepy as all get out.
I think the problem that I had with the original watching, the original notes fra to was that the medium sort of got in the way of the story. I couldn't look past the limitations of the form of the silent film and actually appreciate the narrative because it was such a different medium. It was such a different form. It was an academic exercise, not an immersive storytelling. It was like the cinematic equivalent of trying to read Shakespeare. You almost need cliff notes for it.
Right, exactly. Exactly. And this did a really good job of grabbing that narrative and modernizing it enough to where it sort of the form disappeared. You didn't think about the movie you were watching, you were just thinking about the story and how creepy it was, but it's still maintained. It's mostly the same story. It's mostly the same narrative. They had a lot of the same details. They had a lot of the same dialogue. So it was really good.
And you believed, not that this was a silent film, but it was sincerely set in the 1830s. It was really well done and it got Oscar nominations for cinematography, costuming, and I think makeup did not get it for adapted screenplay, which surprised me a little bit, but big deal. And it stuck with me. Now, I like gothic horror and I like stuff with natural lighting and I was in the mood for something bleak, and so you got to kind of sign it up for all of that.
Don't go into this thinking, oh, it's going to be so scary. And the jump skiers, no, that's not, you hear dialogue that sounds unnaturally low. You see creepy things. You have creepy feelings. And Willam Defoe, just willam defoes all over everything. And he's magnificent. He has some, he is the only logical choice for that role. Oh yes, he really is. Yeah, no, and he's perfect for it. And the whole, I thought about it and I kept thinking about it, kept thinking about it.
I had to look up a couple of articles to help me understand it, but at the end of the day, take everything Willem Defoe says at Face Value. And the movie makes a lot of sense. You just have to kind of sit with it and kind of marinate it. And any good folk horror, it is got this tension between modernity and tradition, between spirituality and science, between belief and skepticism. It just nails it across the board. Now you do have to sign up for it because even I signed up for it,
I was creeped out. I really loved the movie. Even I, in the back of my head at the end of the movie, there was a horrible little demon whispering in my ear and singing A Lonely Island song. And if you've seen either of the movies, which Lonely Island song it is, and it's both completely appropriate and wildly, wildly inappropriate for the tone and the ending of the movie.
For a minute. When you said a little demon like screaming in your ear, I thought you were talking about Roz and I got real confused why she started singing you a Lonely Island song. It makes more sense now though. Yeah, no, she will not be watching this movie anytime soon. Nope. That is a hard pass. Maybe like 16 years. She does love that Lonely. That is her theme song.
She is not part of your system. In fact, she will throw it on ground and it doesn't matter how long you spent thinking about dinner and cooking dinner, if she looks at it and goes, nah, if you try to put it in her mouth, it's going on the ground. There's just no two ways about it. That's not the song that was playing in my head at the end of Nosferatu. Same group though. Would be really confusing. If it was.
It would be really confusing. Yeah, it also, I don't want to spoil it, but this is one of those examples of a real short clip that could make a TikTok without really spoiling anything, but there is some magnificent dialogue about a cat that I don't want to spoil, but. Interesting. The cat is awesome and I was too shellshocked by the end of this movie to check and see if the cat got the line in the credits. So when I rewatch this, I'm going to check. The cat did not die, did it?
I'm not answering that. I'm not answering that. But what I can answer is that the cat was magnificent and the cat was named the character, the cat's character's name was Greta, which was after the actress who played the heroin in the original was also named Greta. So that's sort of a. Throwback. Yeah, no, that's really cool. So I thought it was really neat. I thought it was gothic as fuck, but you kind of have to sign up for it. Wouldn't all sex scenes with vampires be necrophilia technically?
Oh, that's a good point, Grady. But. I. Don't think either one of these were vampires right yet. Well, I'm not going to help you spoil a movie you haven't seen. Come on, Melissa. Come. On, come On. Come on there. Fair. Fair. But yeah, no, we're so used to vampires being like Twilight E or what we do in the shadowy, and this is, no, this is old school. This is like whatever came before old school. This is like beyond vintage. I love that. This creeped me out.
I'm going to go ahead and put it a five on the tear scale and quality and enjoyment are also fives. This was good. That's a big statement. Yeah. Yeah. I try not to do that lightly. But yeah, I felt there's just this nihilistic sense of dread that came over me after that final scene ignoring the voice in my head, singing Lonely Island, at least know of the Vampire Mytho I can. It was not the one about the boat. No.
I'll say that. Boats do play a role in this film, and one really awful hot take I keep seeing online is why would a vampire take a boat from Pennsylvania to Germany, man? Like meh. Hey, you do know Germany has a coast, right? They have beaches. You know that, right? And I'm not sure the internet knows that. No. But also it's set in yesteryear and do you want to take a horse-drawn carriage over the Carpathian Mountains or do you just want
to get on a boat? Be honest with me, and at least one or two Reddit threads have argued that Dracula of the book covers that because if you're on a boat, you can go around like customs and border checks and everything else. And in the book he's going to England, which is an island. So he didn't really have a choice, but still that felt like a lame hot take to me. And as. The board game Fury of Dracula has proven, Dracula is an old man that is afraid of trains.
Yes. Important detail. I really want to play that again. I have been strategizing in my head ever since we played it the last time. And I have a plan. I have a plan. I know exactly where I'm going to start when I get to play this Dracula. I'm excited. Where are you going to start? I'm not going to tell you. Why, because. Just tell us. I'm going to start in Suki, that Hungarian town that none of us could figure out how to pronounce. We'll, never remember. You could tell.
Us. No, it's Suki. I'm telling you, I will start in Suzuki. What a vampire lie. They're not capable of it. Exactly. You're right. They're not. Totally truth. Truth. So tell me about Getaway. Oh God. Getaway. You can go first. Okay. It came out on Shuter recently. We actually did it as one of our coming Soons two weeks ago, and we were going to do it last week, but then life happened, the Wikipedia summary, because the IMDB summary, we're not talking to the IMDB summary right now.
A family owned holiday in Sweden travels to a remote island to take part in a peculiar holiday tradition. So this is Nick Frost. We all know Nick Frost. He is the F of the Corona T trilogy that's still making horror movies, and this may be his best non Corno trilogy thing. That's awesome. I do not say that lightly. Better than Attack the Block. You think. Oh, I forgot he was at Attack the Block. Close second.
Close second. Yeah. I feel like this reminded me so much of Hot Fuzz, but it was kind of like a combination of hot fuzz, scary movie and Adam's family values. Oh my God. I am sold. Which. People may be wondering, people may be wondering Adam's family values. Yes. Think about the Camp Camp song that Wednesday does. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Was not making that connection until now, but yep, yep. That is the. Whole play. That whole play.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So Melissa and I are having to be very vague about this because this is one of those movies that you really need to go into it as blind as possible. Yeah. If you like Nick Frost's usual Body of Work, you will like this. It is going to go some directions you may not expect it to, but that's just part of the ride. Nick Frost is so fun.
He has the best roles because he really brings his self to it, but his comedy and it's just so perfectly timed and he can be just so awkward, but so incredibly naive at the same time and it's just great. It's great. I love him. Well, Emily and I watched Truth Seekers and I really enjoyed that. It's a bummer if not for the pandemic. I'm sure it would've gotten a second season, but that was fun.
Yeah. The energy he brings is one scene in the climax that I can bring up without spoiling it because it's just kind of a funny joke. While all the action in the bloodshed is happening, he's arguing with his wife about a jazz or size class. I can't at all see Emily and I doing that. It's not even a little bit that we would never, no. I'm so, it's funny, you should have kept up street jazz. I fucking ate straight jazz.
So their relationship too in this is really adorable, but they call each other mommy and daddy, and my first thought before I got towards the end of the movie was, I am so happy that, go ahead, Grady. Call me daddy. I had forgotten about that. Yeah. This movie is basically what unwelcome should have been. This is unwelcome done, right? Yes, exactly. Exactly. All kinds of perfect.
I mean, if I'm being completely honest, I used to think that was weird until I had a kid and I refer to Emily as mom enough to r that it does sort of burrow into your brain. I could see how that might just replace some vernacular. Now that's awkward when your own parents are around pretty frequently, and that can get confusing, let's say. But I don't know. I don't, now that I have a kid, I don't think that's as weird as it might seem. It was weird when Chief O'Brien did it.
No, that's true. Yes, that is true. It was weird and unwelcome. It was very, everything about unwelcome was weird. Yeah, I don't know about that one. I don't know about that one. The other thing that there were parts of it, and I know this is a horror comedy and it is so much fun, but there were parts of it that I was like, oh, this would creep me out. There was one part where the daughter is not sure if there's
other people in the house. Something weird is going on in the house, and so she goes over to the mirror and I'm not going to say what happened, but she goes over to the mirror and blows on it. So you got some condensation and she draws half of a heart waiting to see what would happen with the other half if somebody would do something and that part creeped me the hell out. That was terrifying.
There are some bits that happened in the latter half of the movie where I will, like I said, this goes places you don't normally expect a Nick Frost horror comedy to go. And there got to be kind of a moment where all bets were off, so to speak. Well, so that would be my question. How much horror is it and how much comedy is it? Because usually horror comedies have to pick at some point, and this one doesn't pick No. Really. No, no. This one. Just slams the two together.
Oh yeah. Yeah. And it's awesome. And admittedly might have a little bit to do with some of the negative buzzing they got because some people probably expected it to be, the trailers definitely make it look like it hits way more on the comedy. Yeah. This is at least a three on the motion picture Terror scales, not the most grizzly thing we've looked at by a long shot, but yeah, definitely a little more intense than the Coronado Trelegy would yet. I agree.
More or less than Tucker and Dale versus Evil, which is the other horror comedy. That's sort of the. Different. Different. Yeah, I don't different. I would say more, but justifying that would have a hell of a lot of qualifiers that I don't want to do. That's okay. That's okay. Yeah, I don't think I can compare the two because for me, and I know, so when I think about both movies side by side, I understand where a comparison would come into place.
But for me, even though they're so similar, they're also so different in terms of execution and acting and all of that, that I couldn't, there's no way that I could put those into a category together, try to compare them like that. Okay. My brain just went there because that's one of the few, I didn't think it was scary, but it was definitely gory. I could a lot of horror comedy skimp on that, or they make it completely prepost just like dead snow.
I have to say, this movie surprised me, just like Barbarian surprised me, just like it really did things. It went places that I wasn't expecting it to go. And it did it in a way where you were still scared at Grady. I absolutely agree with the three with you on that, but it was still funny and still incredibly entertaining. So I don't know how they pulled it off, but they pulled it off. It was the perfect elements now. I loved it.
I'd give this whole thing a five. I don't have anything negative to say, but mainly because I love Nick Frost so. Much. Yeah, really, if I were nitpicking, I would say that there were some basic, the Spey is trying really hard. When I compare it to the Corno Trilogy, it's like pulling all of the stops. It's got all the foreshadowing, it's got all, there are some awesome scenes set to music in this. Oh. God. So good. Movie. This movie got me into Iron Maiden, but.
And that's thing that I have to thank this movie for, and another reason I'm giving it a five. But Really the only complaint I have, and it's so minor, I'm reluctant to even say it, is, it's just not quite as punchy as something that would actually be directed by Edgar Wright. But I mean, that's a dumb thing to complain about. So yeah, fight for quality, fight for enjoyment.
Well, and I like that Nick Frost, because he was always the sidekick in the Corno trilogy, and I like that he's kind of standing on his own at this point. And I get the sense he's not the sidekick in this movie, and he certainly wasn't in truth seekers, or I guess he kind of was in Attack the Block, but not quite the same way. I. Didn't even remember he was in Attack The Block and I attack the Block.
I thought he was kind of a relatively minor character in that, unless I'm just completely misremembering. No, he was, and he was funny. He played it had a purpose. Yeah. I'm remembering him now. He was the drug dealer, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he wasn't, wasn't the side the second he wasn't Robin to Simon Pegs Batman. He was sort of somewhere else.
So, no, that's fantastic. I definitely want to check this out. I'm not sure, actually this would be a good one because I, after Nosferatu last week, I really want something lighter. Yeah. Then take this. It's not going to be as light as you expect it to be, but it is definitely lighter than Nosferatu. So this will be a good palette clean. And I may be saying that because I want you to see this movie so I can talk to you straight about it. Yeah, this is killing us.
Do you know how many more things I want to quote. I know. Or I want to talk about that can't pretty do. It. I can see you both physically clenching and restraining yourselves. So I mean, for what it's worth, no. Ferra had some magnificent quotes too. One, I can't say it, but it's no one other than Willam, Defoe could deliver that line. Apparently no one other than Willam Defoe can do a lot of things. I mean, yes, that's true. He's magnificent. He is magnificent.
A true gift to the genre, and I think underrated just across the board, and we're not going to go there. I know what you're thinking, Melissa. We're not going to do that. We're not going to talk about that. Don't do that. Chaos rains. So if you're still listening, give us a shout out on threads. Follow us on letterbox, send us an email. Tell your friends about us. Tell anybody in your life into horror. Say, Hey, give these guys a shot, because I think we're pretty cool. I don't know,
maybe that's not high praise. My wife listens to our podcast, so there's that. Marcus, did I teach you nothing about being cool? Dont say, I think. We're pretty cool. No, no, no, no, no. Of course not. No, you were so bad at unquote teaching me to be cool. I just assumed you were trolling, and so I aggressively disregarded your advice. Don't worry, your daughter will take it. Yeah, I don't know. She doesn't need any help. She already runs the entire.