ROTC presents Black Glove Mysteries with Ian Urza and Greg Amortis. Welcome to Land of the Creeps and Black Glove Mysteries. I'm your host, Greg Immortus, along with Ian Urza. What's up, Ian? I brought each and every one of you here because you're all driven by personal motives. Jilty, they raped your daughter and she killed herself. Me, it's the one chance I've got to get a little justice in this world. Pepe's here because they caused the death of his nephew.
Mozzarella, they busted you up so bad that you'll wear that brace for the rest of your life. Rossetti, they raped your wife and burned her alive. I did that a little out of order, but I was having a hard time remembering all of it. But anyway, that is the monologue that Fabio Teste gives right before the, uh, the climactic scene at the end. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And, uh, big racket, man. That was a great scene too, man.
which will break these two movies down. But we are back with our Enzo G. Castellari. This is our spotlight part two. And we're super excited, man. The two movies chosen tonight are not giallo, but they are Italian cinema at its best. And it's The Big Racket from 1976, as well as The Heroin Busters from 1977. uh both star and fabio testy so there you go it could be a testy uh spotlight as well that's so cool i'd actually seen the big racket before uh heroin busters
For some reason, it seemed familiar, but I don't think I had seen it. For some reason, it just had a familiarity. Maybe it's some of the cast. Yeah, I think I remember you talking about The Big Racket maybe a couple of years ago. I had steered you wanted that one or something. Yeah, I think you did. It was one of those deals. Pearl seems to remember maybe I was watching something like on Tubi or something and like it.
you know, gives you another suggestion and plays something similar to that. Uh, I think you had said, watch this and I did. And then that popped up or something, something similar, but anyways, uh, so it had been a couple of years ago. Uh, I can't remember the exact date it was when I,
watched it but it's been a couple years ago uh so re-watching it man was fun so um that's what we're reviewing tonight once again 76 the big racket as well 77's the heroin busters uh both directed by enzo g castellari Some of the music will sound familiar. I will tell you that when we get to it in the heroin busters. Yeah. One specific scene where.
where uh fabio testes character literally named fabio in the movie um is there's a part when he's going down this lift and that music is like straight up dawn of the dead goblin music yes yes yes Well, cool. Without further ado, let's go ahead and get right into them, Ian. I'm ready, man. Let's go to chronological order. We'll go to 1976, and we're going to go straight to the big racket.
We'll let Ian do the plot synopsis, and we'll come in and start breaking this big bad puppy down. All right, so as usual when we do these Eurocrime films, this is taken from Italian crime filmography, 1968 to 1980 by... Roberto Curti. Rome. Police Commissioner Nicola Palmieri is on the trail of a racketeering gang. His investigations, however, are hindered by the victim's fear and the hostility of his superiors who do not approve of his methods. Determined to go all the way, Palmieri enlists...
enlists two petty criminals, Gio Pepe and his nephew Piccio, who provide him with information on the racketeers in exchange for some freedom of action. Gio Pepe warns the police of a robbery that's about to take place. A fierce gunfight ensues. where the bandits are defeated. And on this occasion, Palmieri is helped by an Olympic skeet shooting champion, engineer Gianni Rossetti.
However, the criminals exact revenge on both Rossetti, raping his wife and burning her alive, and Pepe, making him kill his own nephew. Palmieri is forced to resign from the police. This, however, does not stop him. Aided by Rossetti, Zio Pepe, and other victims of the racket, Palmieri...
Faces the gang in their lair in a furious shootout. Dun, dun, dun. Man, once again, I've seen this one time before, so I was familiar with it. And the cast is great in this movie, man. Really good cast of... thugs turn good guys and just man it's such a great scene two different uh fight sequences that are so well done i would put them up against Many fight scenes in any action flick and it's got two of them in it
Which particular two are you talking about? You're talking fight scenes, not shootouts, right? Shootouts. Yeah, shootouts, I should say. The train sequence and then, of course, the ending in this movie. Both of them are phenomenal. Which one do you prefer, by the way? The train or the...
finale i mean there's definitely more of a catharsis with the finale but um the train shootout is amazing i mean the squibs are amazing just how how they get like every detail right how well it's shot like for example when um When one of the guys starts shooting at the police car and you see the little holes in the side of the car, that's a little detail. When Rossetti shows up, you almost get a first-person video game style view where he starts gunning people down with a shotgun.
And then just kind of right in front of him. You know, you get awesome squibs. You get that unfortunate moment when Sal Borghese gets shot, his partner. You know, as to be honest, I think Nico. is so emotionally driven in this film that he makes a lot of mistakes, and specifically the way he plans that ambush.
He may have been able to plan that out a little better. I think the gang kind of knew that the cops were going to be there somehow. And I think they even addressed that at one point later. He's like, oh, how did you know? He talks to the commissioner, and I don't even know.
if um he's like he's like how did you know about it i don't even know if that's pertaining to the show but he's like anonymous tip he's like oh anonymous huh but uh yeah there's there's a lot of that and this beyond any of the euro crime movies probably has the most like It's exactly what they're going for, where they make you hate the criminals so much that you almost want to take up arms yourself and go start committing acts of vigilantism.
or be a vigilante, I should say, because I don't think that that's a word. But, you know, Almost Human is an example of a film that's kind of similar, but Almost Human only focuses on one person. where this is a gang of criminals that at the end of the film was revealed. They have a lot more influence. There's a lot more big people behind them and what they're doing. And this film, more so than any other. provokes you into a certain kind of reaction and Castellari who
doesn't really have much of a mean streak in his films, truth be told. This is easily the meanest of his films. I think he kind of knew exactly what he was trying to do. I mean, he cast his own daughter, Stefania. as the girl who gets raped first, the first victim of that. So...
In a way, I think he knew what he was going for. He talked about it in his interview where he said, look, there's such pathos in her death scene that I knew casting her was the right choice for that kind of part because I knew that that... That was like what I would think, you know, if these criminals did something like that to my own daughter, that I would be, you know, that mad. So he was definitely thinking somewhere along those lines.
yeah i could see that too and uh that's a hard scene too i'll be honest like any type of rape scenes are hard but in this movie man the way that it went down was really it was tough man i'll be honest and then we also have another rape scene in this one that's in this one yeah yeah the the wife of rosette rosette and that was tough too man so both of those sequences man you don't just have one you have two in this movie man so it's kind of like but
In the whole scope of things, man, they really put you in a position. Like you said, man, you... You know, you're ready to fight these criminals, man. They're there that way. Oh, yeah. You want to reach to the screen, join the vigilantes, and shoot a bunch of them. Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely. I really enjoy this film for what it is, man. I mean, I really enjoy the overall feel. Like, I think Fabio Testi... tremendous in this one i think i really enjoyed his character nico uh i like how they kind of did the whole uh what do you want to call it almost like uh Not 48 hours, but something, Beverly Hills Cops or whatever, you know, where the cop gets in trouble and gets suspended. They go that route, which is fine.
When he gets took off the force or fired in the sequence, man, I thought it worked well that, you know, he's still so hell bent on getting these people. Right. He's like, all right, I can't do it your way. I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to go to the dark side and I'm going to really get. this thing done well think about how far to his limits he's pushed i mean this is a guy who doesn't you know doesn't seem to really like any
sort of criminality doesn't seem to approve of it. But he's forced to work with criminals because he has no other choice. The system is defending these other ones who are way worse than some of the others. And it's not like It's not like all the criminals he ends up working with are good people. Mozzarella, for example, is a nightclub owner who deals drugs like he's not a good person. Right. But he ends up having to work with them. He works with.
the bank robber, and his nephew. Uncle Pepe. Yeah. I like him. Yeah, I like him too. Vincent Gardenia is a good actor, an American actor who was also in the first two Death Wish films. Might have been one of the reasons why he was cast in this. And I'm sure he is Italian as well with that name. But I enjoyed him. I mean, I like the whole cast. Glocko Onorato as Mozzarelli is really cool. You got...
Orso Maria Guarini, who was also in Chioma. That's another link. I mean, there's a ton of people within Castellari's films. There's a nice Venn diagram or like a Where's Waldo thing where it's like, oh, when is this guy going to show up? Specifically Massimo Vanni, who's seen. to play villains in all of castellari's films with the exception of a few but he's in almost all of them but orso murray guarini you you have all three of the brothers from chioma in this because antonio marcina
who's one of the other brothers in that, is playing the lawyer. And then Joshua Sinclair... who's the other brother, is playing Rudy, the leader of the racket gang. So all three of the brothers are from Kiyomar in this. Which is a good movie, by the way. If you've not seen Kiyomar, you've got to watch it, man. If you like the spaghetti western.
man it's a really good film i'm glad you turned me on i'd actually uh did i buy that one i can't remember if i bought that one i know about it's an arrow video blu-ray it's it's a great film up until like the very ending that i don't necessarily love but everything else is is uh is great. This one, I actually really, I enjoy the ending of this because Similar to something like Park Chan-wook would make, he doesn't necessarily reward the characters for their, you know, bloodlust for vengeance.
I won't say exactly what happens, but it's not like they get rewarded for that. exactly either i think he's trying to say hey look these criminals did some really bad things but just wanting revenge isn't necessarily the right thing either yeah definitely well the setup of it we have the the group of vigilantes in this one that are
the big racket. They're basically going around to store owners and they themselves are causing you know hell and then they ask them to come in and protect themselves from themselves right so it's a money racket is all it is uh we'll give you our protection and you know nothing will happen to you and if you try to
you know disagree or try to not take them up on it then they you know go in and either destroy your business or just make it to where you have to get out or even kill you so i like that concept i know that's something you know back in the day with the uh the mafia you know the mobs
in boston and in chicago and all these areas had these situations right you know where this was happening uh this just happened to be in in italian cinema and uh it's a cool concept man these people there's uh four uh you had you have three three guys and one girl so you have four main
of the vigilante at first you know and this is a whole big racket so it ain't just them but that's your four that we see on screen so i really enjoyed them they they came off as bastards there's even the scene with the uh pepe and his nephew right when they're getting ready.
They're getting ready to get busted, but they're inside a bank. And the crowd is, the mob has kind of gathered around because they know they got them caught. You know, the vigilantes, the actual vigilantes are sitting here starting to rile up the crowd. Oh, they're the ones.
that killed someone so you know and they're whispering to everybody michelangeli basically saying like oh they killed a baby or something like that yeah there's a lot of that going on cop killers you really hate these criminals because it's just like every little thing they do you grit your teeth and just
get more mad at them like the part when he takes them all to the police station technically doing the right thing yeah you know he catches them at the restaurant ironically beating up the director of the film and so g castellari in that one scene
You know, he's kind of he's not even being that horrible to them at the station. And the lawyer shows up and they all try to act like they're, you know, poor defenseless victims like Marcello Michelangelo. He's like, oh, he tried to, you know, he tried to rape me in the next room. And then.
He's like, oh, I think one of them's like, oh, we were just minding our own business till he showed up and started throwing bottles of beer around and stuff like that. So there's a lot of that with these people where they just you you really every little thing they do. You hate them even more. It is funny, though, because Castellari does inject a little bit of levity from them. Like, he makes some of them pretty funny, specifically Massimo Vanni's character. Like, when...
After the opening scene, Massimo Vanni goes into the place. He's like, oh, look, this place got trashed. Uh-huh. Well, you know, you better pay up so it doesn't happen again. Like, there's some sarcasm from these guys that I will admit.
is is kind of funny at times yeah agreed agreed uh well all this takes place and then we end up getting to the climax of the train situation which is basically the uh fabio testes character nico you know he sets a trap he's going to try to get him trapped and he's he's going to capture him or whatever and there becomes this big shootout and of course this is where we are introduced
Rosetti. Rosetti. Thank you. Rosetti shooter. Yeah. Yeah. And I love that scene because the shootout happens and the police are there or whatever. And, but they're outnumbered. They are freaking did not expect to happen. What happened? And they.
come out of every corner and Rossetti comes up and realizes you know he's just an innocent bystander that just happens to be a sheet you know a sheet a skeet shooter and he pulls his gun out to do the right thing right you know let's help the the law let's do the right thing and he starts doing his thing and he helps i mean he legit causes it to end and everybody leave that was there right so yeah he's a hero all of a sudden
Well, unfortunately, when you put your name out there right in the papers, these guys come after you, and that's what they did, and we see what happened with him and his wife. Then that causes him to be one of the vigilantes. I love that, dude. I loved he was ready, right? You know, you can see every one of the guys that got together at the end of this movie, every one of them had their reasoning. The one guy's daughter was raped and she committed.
suicide you got you know one of the store owners who's business you know so all these they have reasons right Ian so they are so we're going to get our vengeance and of course Nico Doing what he's done, he's fired. He's not even a police officer no more, but he's going to bring them to justice. He's doing the right thing.
Well, at that point, he's like, look, I have nothing left to lose. Like, I've tried to do everything right this whole time to bring these people down, and I can't do it. Like, I've exhausted every possible option. Like, think about it. The store owner, the one that Renzo Palmer plays, who we saw.
in our last episode in Street Law, playing the inspector in that film, he's, you know, that guy files a complaint, but they can't protect him and his daughter and what ends up happening to her. And then he ends up, you know, shooting a couple of people, actually going to jail. and at that point he's pretty mentally unstable it's actually kind of fun when we meet him again like he's completely
He's completely fallen off the rails at that point in the movie where he's talking about how he's like stabbed people in the prison already, like three different people. But, you know, and then the thing that happens to the nightclub owner. So Rudy.
who's the leader of the racket wants to deal with the nightclub owner because he does drugs. He denies trying to do it, but they end up, uh, basically maiming him to the point where you know he's disabled right they run him over yeah um giving him a like a spinal or a neck brace for forever and then you know he's like okay well i can't figure this out this way so let me go to to Pepe, who's a criminal I know, and I'll have him rob banks so he can...
you know, getting good with the gang and try to figure out what's going on. But then, you know, Pepe's nephew ends up getting killed. So it's like every little way he tries to do this just doesn't work. And then... He ends up basically freeing two different people from prison somehow because he goes to Durango, who's played by Romano Pupo, who used to be a member of the racket.
We don't know quite as much about his character, but he's just another person who agrees to help him out. So he goes to all these people and says, OK, let's find a way to, you know, kill these people. I mean, that's basically it.
Pepe, I think, gets information on a meeting that all the higher-ups are supposed to have. So that leads to the shootout at the end where all of the sort of bigwigs of this organization, this... the syndicate so to speak show up um because they're even he's even pointing out who all of them are at the end and there ends up being a surprise
sort of i guess who one of the people is who's really the head of the whole thing yeah exactly i enjoyed that i loved seeing uh when they all set up on their perches right where they were going to be and you got to see each one and we had the monologue of uh the one guy that keeps telling nico you know uh well who's this this one's blah blah blah blah and then this one's blah blah blah blah and we get introduced to all the crime boss i love that dude i really
enjoyed that part. And Pearl's like, will he hush? Because they're right under him, right? So it's like, they're going to hear him. She's like, hush! But, you know, we had to have that. We needed to see who it was. And when the final boss was revealed, I'm with you, it wasn't that big of a shocker for me. I knew something was definitely on. Did I think he was the main crime boss or whatever? No, but I knew he had to have something.
His hand's in something. But it makes sense. It definitely did. But the fight, the shoot sequence was awesome, man. I loved. I knew. I knew homeboy was going to be stupid and cause the, the whole shit to go down. Right. I knew it. He was, he was off wire. He was off kilter. And I was like, dude, please. And I knew he was going to blow this.
It's like, damn it. Oh, but I love that Rossetti got some of his vengeance, right? You know, some of the torture. I'm going to call it torture. I mean, you know. left arm right arm left leg right like shooting them in every part of their limbs yeah i mean that's what you would do right if you knew you had time you don't want to just shoot them you want to fucking make them pay for what they did right so
uh unfortunately he didn't get the one main guy though that that raped his wife that's the one i wanted to see him pop somebody else got him but whatever i mean it's still it's still justified it's still satisfying when you see it but where it finally ends The finale of this movie, and I'm talking...
You know, when Nico's walking out the door, I was like, oh, my God. It's so fucking good, man. It was like that standing O, right, when this movie credits start rolling. I was like, yes, this is a damn good movie. For sure. One of the things that makes this great, and it kind of clicked with me while I was, you know, looking at the cast for this, you know, in preparation for it was, you have, so Sal Borghese plays his partner.
who was a stuntman. Fabio Tessi was a stuntman as well, so he's definitely doing some of his own stunts in this movie, including the one in the car at the beginning. You've got Roberto Delacqua playing one of the criminals, the one with sort of the long blonde hair and the beard, arguably the meanest of all of them, truth be told. Massimo Vanni is playing one of them.
And then you got Romano Pupo playing Durango. Well, what that really means is you had all those guys as stuntmen in the film as well. So that's about as good of an all-star team as you can get. for having those kind of stunt men in your film and explain it explains why the action is so good having all of them in this film being stunt coordinators and playing characters um and enzo enzo talked about this in his interview where he was like look
if you just have these people play parts, you don't need as many stunt performers. They can just do all their own stuff. So that was his logic with giving them bigger roles in his films. And Pupo and Vani specifically... usually would play parts in his films uh they would also play parts in a lot of bruno mate's films as well but you you see these people in other films i mean the del aqua brothers um are in a ton of films as well roberto i don't know if i
know how many of them he's in specifically uh taviano is probably the most famous of the del aqua brothers because he played the the worm zombie in lucio fulci's zombie uh but they do look quite a bit alike but there's so many of them that were in films. Apparently, according to Massimo Vanni from his interview, he had said there's like 10 brothers in that family. And they were all circus performers, which explains why they ended up being stuntmen. Borghese also shows up in a lot of...
Films as well. And this, you know, he has a he has a cool fight scene at the beginning. Like, it's cool to see that, you know, the partner of the, you know, the main police character can hold his own because there's a scene where he fights like three guys and he holds his own pretty well.
until he's forced to take out his gun. So, you know, I enjoyed seeing that aspect of it where the partner is arguably just as tough as the main character is for part of the film. Yeah, it's heartbreaking what happens to him too, man.
they set that up man it's like oh my god very very emotional you know if you're invested in this movie uh especially second time man and then you see what's happening like holy crap bro that was tough yeah i agree with you man i think having that amount of talent as far as you know stunt slash actors man it has to be good and it did it just bang up job because there is a lot of stunts in this movie
And I thought they'd done well with it. The squibs are great. The squibs are so good in this one, specifically the train sequence I thought was really well. Yeah, about as best as you can get for those. Yeah. Music-wise, I've got to talk to the musical score. I thought was really good in this one as well. Guido and Maurizio de Angelis, again, done a bang-up job in this one. I think I prefer the Heroin Busters, but I'll get to that because there's a reason why I preferred that one.
We'll wait and get to that later, but I do enjoy the music in this one. I thought it was good. Yeah, I agree. I like it as well. I think what they do such a good job of in this one, because normally they're more known for putting a lot of vocals into their scores.
you know in street law of course you do have the main song that's that's a little more vocal but they're also really good with like the woodwind instruments and they do a good job of like putting the funky instruments and the woodwind instruments with the percussion into the main theme for this it sounds really
good altogether it does it does uh 101 minute long movie so it's not super long it runs uh really well it's fast paced um in a lot of these sequences which i enjoyed as well um i think uh what do you got on the dubbing corner on this one Oh, boy, a lot. For the heroin busters, it's going to be even bigger. There are going to be some of these. For the heroin busters more specifically, I'm going to say, like, there might be some actors I can't name or characters I can't name because it's small.
parts and it's like all i can say is oh this guy's a criminal or this guy's a drug dealer uh for some of this so just just bear with me I think it's so John Gayford is dubbing Joshua Sinclair as Rudy. You know, Joshua Sinclair, it's interesting. He's an American actor. He helped out with sort of translating some of the dubbing scripts, but he never dubbed his own voice. It's very strange for any of these.
films um popped up in a lot of castellari's films as i said uh as i had mentioned before kiyoma as well as inglorious bastards uh carolyn defonseca is dubbing anna anna zimmerman
Zinneman as the wife of Rosetti. Michael Forrest is dubbing Fabio Testi. I have an interesting story about that. One of... castellari's films from the early 70s was a film called hector the mighty uh it's sort of a modern day retelling of like uh like the iliad or the odyssey uh that that kind of story Michael Forrest actually ended up getting cast over Fabio Testi for some reason in that film, even though...
Castellari had wanted Fabio Testi to do it. And it's just ironic that Michael Forrest ended up being the person who dubbed Fabio Testi in both of the films that we're talking about. tonight. Frank Von Kugelin is dubbing Massimo Vonnie. That's a very recognizable voice as, you know, one of the members of the racket. Roberto Delacqua, Andy Luato is dubbing Roberto Delacqua as another member.
of the racket gene luoto is dubbing i think one of the store owners daniele delano and carlo gentile they might be two of the store owners actually that are threatened by the racket um Ed Mannix is dubbing Renzo Palmer. That one is easy to recognize. David Mills is dubbing Antonio Marcina as the lawyer. Ted Russoff is dubbing Sal Borghese as... as Nico's partner. Robert Sommer is dubbing Orso Maria Guarini as Rossetti. And Robert Spafford is dubbing Glocko Onorato as Mozzarelli.
And that might be it, actually, from what I know. Oh, actually, no, there's one more. William Keel, another recognizable voice to me, is dubbing Giovanni Gianfreglia. as another member of the racket, the one who's a little more rough looking, kind of looks a little bit like Charles Brompton, actually. Yeah.
I always remember his line when Anna Zimmerman spits on him and he's like, you dirty little slut. Something like that. He says something like that to her. Anthony LaPena is also dubbing Vincent Gardenia. Vincent, even though he obviously could speak English, is not dubbing his own voice, which is obvious, because if you hear his voice in Death Wish, it sounds completely different from the voice he has in this.
Yeah. I told Pearl, I said, I wish that there was a way, and we can't now because most of these are from the 70s, right? I wish back in the day they would have released these movies to us. an original dialect right like no dubbing no nothing just give us their voice even when it was their voices most of the time it's not even their voices i'm like yeah it drives me crazy because i really want to hear an actor's voice right i want to feel and
hear it even if it's italian i don't care right and so many times you just don't get to hear that and it sucks but i do have one more too so marvin drake apparently is dubbing leonardo scavino and leonardo scavino plays, I think, the toy owner in this with the glasses, but he's also...
I don't think he's done by the same person, but he's also in the heroin busters as that, like one drug dealer guy who's dressed all weird. And he's like, no one wants grass. So that's the same guy. Yeah. Weird character. Yes. oh that's coming up stay tuned and I mean I know we've talked about this several times but like in the Italian versions they're not dubbing their own voices either like Fabio Dessi's not dubbing his own voice he's dubbed by someone else That's crazy. Yeah.
I don't get it, man. It just drives me crazy. I would love to know. I still can't tell you what. What does Fabio Testi sound like? I don't know. I don't know. What's Franco Nero sound like? I know what he sounds like from his interviews, I guess, but that's about it. I mean, that's one of the only reasons.
reasons why because most of the time i prefer to watch things in their original language like when it comes to japanese films korean films almost anything like that yeah but with these i'm just like well They're not dubbing their own voices in Italian anyway. So I'll just watch the English version. Right. And it's what I grew up watching anyway. So I just, or what I grew up watching, what I, what I, you know, when I started watching these films, I was watching English versions. Yeah. So I just.
kind of stick with that all the time yeah you might as well I mean you know because you're not getting any benefit out of the other way unless you just want to hear Italian words and if you're Italian that's great I wish I was I'd love to you know learn how to speak the language and be able to understand it in the dialect but you know like you said i mean it's not their voices anyways most of the time so why
Yeah, just go ahead and listen to it in English. Well, you sometimes can't pick up on the subtleties. It's funny because... You know, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a relatively famous film to us even, not just people in China or Hong Kong. But Chinese people complained when that film first came out that everyone has this different act.
Right. The one person has like a Taiwanese accent. So Michelle, you'll learn to speak Mandarin because she couldn't even do it because she normally speaks Cantonese. Xiaoyuan has this Cantonese accent. So they were complaining about the accents, whereas us, we don't even, you know. We obviously don't have any idea of what their cadence or affectation sound like at all. Yeah, and there is a difference. They're absolutely Latin and all these different other, there are different dialects.
Well, cool. Well, the big racket, I got to say, music, really good. Cinematography was done by Marcelo Masiocchi. I was looking him up. I didn't see. I know he's done some other stuff, but... i was trying to go back a few movies and see if enzo used the same cinematographer it looks like he kind of bounced around Back and forth. I know the cinematographer he uses in the heroin busters. Which is Giovanni Bergamini. He uses him a few times. Or at least one to two other times. But I didn't.
just doing a real rough look i didn't see marcello so i think maybe he just uses whoever for hire at the time he done a good job i mean it's a shot well i thought the especially the fight sequences man it's a fast fast-paced much like the heroin busters it's a fast-paced movie so you know the cameras have to be spot on i thought they've done a good job with it man really did yeah i i agree i i think
He definitely apes a lot from Sam Peckinpah in terms of his shooting style with the action where he'll slow down the frame rate, do some slow motion. Obviously, the blood squibs. I mean, thank God that those were a thing because, you know. Thank God for Arthur Penn and Sam Peckinpah for making those a thing because, you know, it just added so much to action films in the 1970s and beyond. I mean, nowadays it's mostly done with CGI, but you can't really beat the...
the blood squibs from the seventies and the eighties, uh, have the way they looked. Oh, absolutely. Especially like the, uh this one does it more than many of the other ones where you see them being shot from the front and then a squib comes out from the back i thought man was perfect like dude because you know sometimes you'll see a squib hit from front nothing from but this was showing some back squibs I thought that was really cool. Give you a different perspective, a different angle.
So I enjoyed that. There was a couple of those little head shots that were, you know, you could just tell blood splatter. Yes. Yeah. Somebody swore to catch up on her head. I, uh, yeah. Did you, so do you, that's stunned. um at the beginning when you know the car rolls over the hill what do you think of that i do loved it loved it
Any car crash, any of those type roles like that, I'm always into, right? The car, different movies like that that use those stunts, man, they're hard to do, man. I mean, and... You know, if you get it to work, it works. And I thought they did a good job of this one. They so apparently they used like a giant rim from like a caterpillar. They had already destroyed the car itself, which is different footage. And they just rotated the body of the car with Fabio.
it around in a circle wow so it made you think of that and he said he had these plastic sheets all around fabio but fabio still said yeah i still got hit in the face with a bunch of stuff while i was filming the scenes so i mean You know, props to Fabio for a certain part of this film. He has to wear a neck brace. For some of it, he has to wear a cast. He does get beat up quite a bit throughout. So props to him for being willing to do that.
you know, be awesome at the end with that shotgun and that whole, what you may call it, that whole bandolier of ammo he's got. It's a really cool signature look for him there at the end. Oh, that was so cool, man. I love, I love that look. I love that Rambo. bullets on the belt around your neck. I love that. It's such a good look.
I guess, what was that in Blast Fighter? I think it had something similar to that. Yeah. Man, I need to watch that movie again. I need to get like a six pack of something or some Colt 45 and watch that movie again. Just look at that pumpkin ale. Well, no, it's Thanksgiving time now. You got to find some turkey ale or something.
That'd be nasty. Yeah, the big racket, man. Lots of fun, dude. I highly recommend this one if you've not seen it. Definitely check this one out. I think it's a banger. I know where you're at on this one, and I can't disagree with you.
you at all like i think this is i've not seen as many as you have so when you get into the polizias and the action flicks of the italian cinema i'm not seeing a a fraction of what you have most people put this one close to the top i think that this is dave parker's favorite euro crime film if you ask him uh when dave becker and i did our show
on it so dr shock and i did our show on this um this was both of our second favorite of all time so it usually people have this one pretty high i think it's enzo's masterpiece overall i
I love Inglourious Basterds. I think the action in Inglourious Basterds is a little more high scale, like just more miniatures and explosions, but this one... from a from sort of a a pathological perspective you know the emotions you have to go through and and what it makes you feel as well as the action i think it's the best
thing he's ever done yeah and looking back now there's some like i've not seen escape from the bronx the new barbarians the bronx warriors well we did did we see which one did we watch was it the bronx warriors We haven't watched either one of them yet. They're slight. Yeah, gotcha. I like Escape from the Bronx a little more, but we'll get to that.
at some point but yeah looking at looking at his list man i would definitely put this one uh i love kiyoma but uh this is definitely but that's a different type film but I need to watch the new Barbarians and some stuff like that just to get my full. yeah yeah this is the be all end all of it but so far man this is definitely right there yeah i mean he also even before he was doing films like this he did
I have yet to see this one, so full disclosure. He did like a World War II sort of macaroni combat movie in the late 60s called Eagles Over London. There's a used Blu-ray of it. I'm probably going to buy it at some point on eBay. You can still find him out there. But I have seen, and I do own, a spaghetti western he did in 1968, I think, called Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, with Chuck Connors in it as a star. That is an awesome film.
It's a complete stunt show, too. Just a lot of stunts in action, and it was just a precursor for everything he would do as time went on. Very cool, man. All right, well, if you're ready, let's pass the rating around on this one. The big racket. I am going to give this one a 9.5. I give it a 5 over on Letterboxd. It's a 9.5 for me. Where are you coming at, Ian?
Uh, I'm also, I'm going to give it a 10. Uh, so I'm kind of right with you. Uh, one thing I had neglected to mention. So I remember during our Colt 38 special squad episode, which ironically Antonio Marcino plays the lawyer was. also in as sort of Ivan Rasmus right-hand man in that movie I ranked our top euro my top euro crime villains and
The thing is, the villains in this are a group, so it's hard to pick out one specific one. But I did have Marcella Michelangeli, who plays the woman in the racket. I think number five on my list is because I found her to be the most disturbing character of all of them. She's almost like she's like this misogynistic, almost like Manson family like woman in this movie. Yeah.
She's a misogynistic woman, if that makes sense. Right. I found her to be the most troubling and mean out of all of them. Yeah, I mean, she sits back and holds the character back while they write. the dude's wife i mean she's holding so yeah she's right there in it so that's that's yeah you're you're 100 right and yeah by the way as we're now about 40 plus minutes in this episode you're listening to episode 401 of lotc double double 49 if you're keeping score
I never said it at the beginning. I just said, welcome to Land of Cree. So there you go. Just as something extra, too, we had seen her, Marcella Michelangeli, when we did our horror westerns episode. She played... the girlfriend of um well she was the girlfriend i should say of klaus kinski's character in and god said to kane she was the woman who betrayed him in that movie she was a bit younger in that film
Aw, cool. I have to go back and watch it. All right, cool. Well, let's get into our second and last review of the night, and we do have one voicemail we'll get to, Ian, right after this. It won't tie into this episode, but it was one as we released like six episodes. There was one that came in, so I want to play that. We'll do it after we do the heroin busters. So...
We're going to go to 1977, one-year leap, and we're going to the Heroin Busters Inn. Take it away. Okay, the Rome Office of International Narcotics Bureau, headed by...
Mike Hamilton, who's convinced the international drug traffic has this distribution center in the Italian capital, infiltrates an undercover agent, Fabio, in the ranks of the criminal organization. Fabio, who arrived in... geez that's an interesting uh fumachino from hong kong with a shipping of drugs manages to get himself arrested this way he gets in touch with gilo and vera small-time drug dealers who are less criminals
who are less criminals than victims themselves. Through them, Fabio contacts Leroy's men. Hidden behind the screen of Pharmaceuticals Lab in Rome, Leroy's organization distributes the drug handled in a clandestine laboratory. Although he has followed... at a distance by Mike, Fabio's task is not easy at all because of Leroy's
men's distrust of him, as well as the fact that the police are unaware of his mission and thus harasses him several times. To win Leroy's confidence, Fabio is forced to act as a drug courier, eventually unmasked by criminals and forced to fight alone. Fabio will nonetheless.
succeed. I'll be honest with you. Throughout the first part of this movie, I thought Fabio was a villain. He was a villainous character. We didn't know until partial way through the movie we finally realized that he was undercover now my mind i'm thinking he's got to be undercover but you don't really get it introduced really until a partial of the movie's done and then you're like yeah they kind of pull
they pull a little bit of a fast and the furious on you where you don't really know. And even then, you know, I tried to figure out for a while, like, okay. Does he go undercover after he gets arrested at the beginning or is it even before that? Because now I think it's even before that. I think he's literally undercover from the start of the film because I'm thinking. Why would this tough Interpol agent ever trust a guy he arrested?
to be an informant for him right you know that's that's the thing about david hemmings his character in this film he seems to have such a hard line against uh criminals that i i can't imagine that he would just recruit um fabio to be an informant for him so i think i think he's undercover right from the beginning and even even during that scene in the airport hemming starts getting pissed off because he's like no don't arrest him now
They're going to, you know, he even says something like they're going to ruin everything. So I think there's even a bit of foreshadowing for him already being an undercover agent, possibly for him, or at least knowing of him. Yeah.
And that was something because I questioned it throughout the movie. I was kind of where you were at. And I think with that statement in the... where there was that shootout that maybe you're right that he had to be uh love that david himmons was in as soon as i saw his face i'm thinking deep red argento i was like yes uh love this guy and the character he plays of course you know the
head over the the drug trafficking as far as the police side of this thing uh really enjoyed that and and what i like about this movie i'm gonna go into a little bit of this one is is it's a weird paced film right like there's a lot of the opening shot alone we see what four different regions there's heroin getting out of you know hong kong or wherever it was asian country and then we're over in columbia and we're here here i mean we're in four different
Amsterdam. Amsterdam, right. So I'm like, wow, where's this movie? And it's like that. Like, this is one of the most fast-paced films. A lot of the shots are fast-paced. Like, you're going in between alleys. There's a lot of fight sequences. Wow. wow, this movie needs to slow down a minute, because it feels so fast. I will say it is a little convoluted. The action basically starts... You know, like it is nonstop action starting an hour in or so.
But before that, it is a little tough to figure out what's going on. I mean, they focus a little bit on Wolfango Sodati's character as that one drug addict and his girlfriend played by Sherry Buchanan. They focus on them a little bit. little bit and it doesn't ultimately do too much for the film i think focusing on them there's there's you know there's just a lot going on that you know there's the whole
There's that one guy, I can't even remember who the actor is, but the one guy who David Hemmings ends up tracking down in that hotel room or whatever, they focus on him for a little bit as sort of this drug pusher. There's just a lot of characters and a lot of things. going on up until the point when Fabio is able to infiltrate this gang a little more and he works once again with Joshua Sinclair.
playing a different character, basically playing the same character he played in the big racket. Just as instead of a racketeer, he's this drug... pusher or drug dealer or supplier, whatever you want to call it. I don't really know, um, the exact lingo. But once once that happens, once he starts infiltrating where they send him to that deal with the I think the Tunisians in Genoa.
where there's that big shootout and that sort of abandoned warehouse. That's when the action starts, and I think the film really picks up. But before that... It does meander and it doesn't seem to know exactly the direction it wants to go into. It's not a bad film up to that point by any means. It's just it seems to be searching for its own identity before it finally gets there about 45 minutes in or so.
I totally agree. The first act had me scratching my head and just confused. And then it was that second to third act that finally made this movie kind of, okay, I like this. I wish the beginning would have been there and this movie will be.
a lot higher rated than what i'm gonna give it but still not a bad film like you said not at all uh i think the fight sequences in this are are good it's not the type film though it's not that big racket we don't get those big uh we do get some but we don't get those big train sequences we don't get that big finale you know these are a little bit different but you know for the movie it's not warranted to have those necessarily either so
You don't, but you get so many cool moments in the second half. You get the part when Fabio goes to that sort of place where they're making the drugs, that sort of chemical area. Then from there, you know, he just spends so much of like the second half of the film running around. Like he's almost doing more running than Tom Cruise. It's funny because he's wearing like boots this entire film. And he's running in these boots. Like knee high.
high cowboy boots almost yeah and he uh and but during these shootouts there's some awesome things that happen like there's that part where he shoots a guy while aiming through a pipe i think that's pretty awesome there's the part when he you know he He's like out of ammo. So he uses a guy's body after choking him out and throws the body on the gun and drags the gun back to himself. Then there's a part where he just slides down a giant escalator and shoots Romano poop.
bow yes uh so there's and there's that moment when he's you know on the train tracks when people are are chasing him on motorcycles and he goes i don't exactly know what what this area is called but that little side area sort of um and it you know along a train track where there's like a little tunnel or whatever and you just see the flash of his gun as he's shooting at the person on the motorcycle and even some of the motorcycle stunts at the end are amazing like there's one person who just
falls like over this you know giant uh basically just gets stopped and they have to fall like 10 or 15 feet off a motorcycle like an awesome stunt and then there's a the final shootout and that giant amphitheater or whatever that is. So there's a lot of good production design and set piece here because...
And Castellari had talked about how the subway had been built but wasn't open yet. So he just got access to a subway that no one was in. Same thing with that highway at the end when there's that whole sort of plane chase. There's that highway.
on the ground that uh was open but no one could go go on it so they were free to sort of use that as their ground as they wanted even though some of that stuff was miniature some of the plane chase and the part when the plane goes in between the little bridge was definitely a miniature oh yeah oh yeah and you know I'm a sucker for miniatures man
But Fabio was the licensed pilot, so he did all of his own flying, actually. Yeah, that's really cool. And to have that in your back pocket, you know, that gives you a little extra, you know, you're a stuntman and an actor. So, you know.
roles are coming to you a little bit more serious than some other characters that, oh, we got to hire a stuntman to do his parts. No, we got a guy that can do it all. I love that, man. It's the same as Thomas Milan, right? You know, you get a lot of character or a lot of roles because of the fact you can.
do both it's really cool uh story wise i mean this is another one by massimo derita uh who also did the big racket and many others uh so him and enzo I did the screenplay for this one as well as the big racket. I just don't know, man. I think the Fabio freaking, the hobo dress of him, man. Well, he designed his own costume for this. He said that. I enjoy the costume. I actually kind of like it because it's so.
ridiculous. It's so hobo-ish. I don't get the decision making. He's got these sort of weird necklaces on. The long coat? He's got like the Apollo hat on and just that, yeah, that whatever the hell he's wearing. Oh, God. And then there are times when he changes out of it that he's wearing like this pink shirt that really shows off his physique really well. Yeah. Yeah, it's a strange costume. Yeah.
This is also the first time when we've seen him and it kind of makes sense for his character that he has like this sort of unkempt facial hair a bit where it looks like he's been growing it out for like three weeks but hasn't done anything with it. So it kind of fit his character. well. I mean, I enjoy his character in this. I mean...
I enjoy the movie overall because it just feels a little more lighthearted compared to what you're seeing from these Euro, you know, what you're usually seeing from these Euro crime films and Castellari's films in general. They're usually very serious. Whereas this. I think it's kind of, I think it's more fun than it is. It is. I totally agree. And on top of it, we got to mention the music of Goblin, who had just did the music for Suspiria, for Argento, and man.
And I told Pearl, I was like, the music in this at the beginning, I thought, this sounds like zombie, Fulci's zombie. This sounds like... dawn of the dead this sounds like and now knowing it's goblin i'm like well gee whiz no wonder right if i didn't look up and see that this was goblin i would have knew it was goblin because of the musical score which i'm not knocking that i loved it i was like but it felt
Goblin. It just felt like I was watching Argento film or something, but I'm watching Enzo. But it's great. I love the music, man. I love it. Yeah, I enjoy it as well. And there's a lot more tracks in this one as well. There's just a lot more songs to select. There's that stuff at the beginning. There's some of the more psychedelic stuff. If you look at the score, I'm sure there's a lot more tracks than there are for something like the Big Racket.
And Guido and Mauricio DeAngelis were ones to sort of reuse the same themes and just put different instruments into them and stuff. But Goblin would create a lot more songs, and it's definitely there in the score for this. Oh, yeah, absolutely agree. What do you got on dubbing on this one? Okay, so I have a lot of stuff here. For some of this, I might not be able to name the exact characters. I might be able to just tell you this is the drug dealer at this time or whatever.
I do know Robert Spafford is dubbing like three different voices in this. He's dubbing a guy when they cut to New York at the very beginning of the film. There's a guy in the office. Robert Spafford is dubbing him. He's dubbing one of the police agents who's holding Wolfango.
uh soldati and fabio testi in that one scene where they hold them in jail for like a night he's also dubbing i think one of the guys at the bar at the very end of the film where uh fabio desi goes into this place and is trying to use the phone Christopher Cruz is dubbing Joshua Sinclair sort of as the main villain who Fabio Testi is working with. He's trying to infiltrate his sort of gang. Charles Baromel is dubbing Romano Pupo, who's playing, once again, a villain, sort of another henchman.
Louis Janelli is dubbing Angela Ragusa. So there's three drug dealers, right, that are kind of more prominent in this. Angela Ragusa is one of them. Massimo Vanni is another one. I'm trying to remember who he's dubbed by. I'll find that in just a second. But Ed Mannix is dubbing the other one. So it's those three.
Michael Forrest is dubbing Fabio Testi again. Richard McNamara is dubbing Giovanni Bonadonna, who's like this big guy with some facial hair who ends up going with Fabio Testi to the police station. when they're trying to break some drugs out of evidence. He's like this bigger sort of heavyset guy. Frank von Kugelin is dubbing Wolfango Saldati.
uh as the one sort of drug addict that they drug addict that they that they follow around for a little while like them two are together for a little while in the jail and a little while after Carolyn Defonzica is dubbing the woman that David Hemmings gets on a motorcycle with.
which is a very funny scene. Yes. Okay, so Annie Luoto is the one dubbing Massimo Vanni. I was trying to find that as one of those three drug dealers that you see. Ted Russoff is in this too. I think he's dubbing the guy... There's a part when one of the three drug dealers sort of harasses a guy in the bathroom. That's the one who Ted Russoff is dubbing. And Steven Luoto is dubbing this guy with glasses who...
talks to Wolfango Sodati at some point about getting drugs. So like I said, I kind of have to be vague with these because mostly actors I know, but some of the characters are like, I don't even know their names at all really. And it's hard to remember all of them. I can remember the voices easily, but it's just hard for me to put characters in some of them because some of them are just really, really brief parts.
But that's about the best I can do. Yeah, well, that's the thing with this. There's so many characters in this movie, and some of them are just flash-in-the-pan characters.
But there is a lot of characters in this movie. So I totally understand what you're doing. That's cool, man. I always love hearing your... corner there that's so cool what do you have on i mean well let me do this first we got to go to the cinematography because it's a different cinematographer the one in this one uh was giovanni
Bergemini, who has also done a couple other of his films as well. So another returner for Enzo. The cinematography in this one, I think it was probably a little bit harder than The Big Racket because there is a lot of... fast-paced uh shots in this one right we got some going up uh stairwells
in rooms in tight quarters you know there's a lot of camera work going on in this one angles i love the gun and the barrel sequence i thought that was shot so well uh you know looking through the bullet you know and you knew what was going to happen when he's looking through this little hole. I thought that was, well, even though I think that would have probably busted his eardrums, dude. I don't see how you're shooting inside a barrel like that. A steel pipe and that thing does not...
death in you. Yeah, especially with I think he's holding like a Smith & Wesson model 2944 Magnum. That gun is loud. Yeah, that thing would have... burst your ear drums like kapow uh but there is so many of those cool sequences so i gotta give it up man great great cinematography in this one as well
Both of these are distributed by Titanus. I love seeing that Titanus logo pop up. Yeah, and I love the music. Oh, it's so good, man. So freaking good. Once again, musical score by Goblin's banger. But you said earlier, you know, in the last... review about dawn of the dead like it's straight up like it is like so much of this music sounds familiar because it i'm not saying it's a repeat i don't think it necessarily is but it's goblin so they have that
that flair you know they got their their niche and they they definitely had it in this one for sure yeah and i i just like all the stunts that fabio testi did which funnily enough Angela Ragusa is actually a stunt double, so he's doing some moments. Angela Ragusa is one of the three drug dealers, and Fabio Testi was like, well, me and him look exactly alike, so he would just do some stunts for me sometimes.
That part when, you know, he has to fall over the boxes, the part when he goes down the lift, the part when he's climbing up the side of that construction site is not him. That I could tell is probably Angel de Ragusa or some other.
stunt double but he has to do a lot of stuff the running the part when he slides down the escalator which is amazing i think that might be my favorite part yeah i love the i did too i did love the construction wall though and you could tell it looked like a wig uh whatever But yeah, that was impressive, though. I was like, that was really well done. But I do love the escalator scene, man. That was so, so well done.
and then um david hemmings with a woman on a motorcycle that shit is so that's so funny to me every time you text me about it man he said wait till you see this then i'm laughing dude i was like yep i know why it was funny uh Good sequences, man. I think the squibs, there's a few squibs in this one as well that worked. I think, I don't know. I think if the first act, man, I really think if they would have done something a little different with that first act.
I would be a lot higher than I'm going to be, but man, because the second and third actor are really good in this one. I think it's once we realize Fabio Test is who he is. And then the story kind of changes, right? Because at the beginning, they're having to kind of hide some things from you to make you feel a certain way. But once they reveal, then they just give it to you, right? So I think it changes.
speeds a little bit. Still a fun movie, man. It's really fun. The poster art they have on the Wikipedia is just... I don't know, man. I don't know what I'm looking at. I don't... You got a picture of Fabio, a drawn picture of Fabio with a gun, and then you got this weird...
lines through it. I don't know what the hell. Isn't that supposed to be the map from all the different places where the drugs are? I think it is. Yeah, I think that's what it's supposed to be. This is such an odd placement on a poster. Yeah, I could see that. I mean, I don't mind the poster.
It's not like my favorite Italian poster, but it's not bad. We got to see your posters. You got to get some posters, man. I want to see your walls just shattered. You've already got a bunch up, but man, I want to see a bunch of these Italian posters. I mean, I have this other room for podcasting that I don't have as many posters. and yes, I'll have to put a bunch in here. I have a giant Yingling sign in the corner here.
Yeah, like one of those Yingling signs where it says an old friend since 1829 Yingling's beer with a guy holding the glass. Right, a man's room. is not complete until there's some beer sign up on it. Whether it's Schlitz or Yingling. You gotta have one. I'm surprised we don't have a JB up somewhere. We gotta have that. Oh, that would be fun. Oh, we gotta find one.
I've got to find something from Barbara Boucher holding J&B and just use that from one of her movies or something. That would be good. That or maybe... Edward Finch or something. I mean, I'm sure, you know, it would just be fitting to have a J&B bottle, you know, just like JB right here. Well, cool. Well, what else you got on the heroin busters?
So Enzo DiCastellari again has a cameo and he gets beat up again. He's the guy like who's going, you see him before he even gets beat up. I think he's in Amsterdam trying to find drugs and then he ends up getting beat up on a boat at one point early. on uh his daughter who was in the big racket um once again is back in this she she shows up for a very brief scene stefania uh giralami
She shows up when the guy's like, oh, hey, you won't get hooked on it if you do one time where people are peddling drugs sort of in the street. That's that's her in that very brief scene. I'm trying to think of other. I mean, once again, you got Massimo Vanni in it again, and Romano Pupo, just people he worked with all the time. Oh, one line I love from this. It's when Hemmings and Testi get into this big chase, which... It's also fun because Fabio Testi had talked about how...
Hemmings was he basically said David Hemmings was running for his life in that chase trying to chase me down. It was actually very funny to him. Hemmings had insisted to because Castellari had said, oh, I can get you a stunt double for this chase scene. He's like. no, don't do it.
So that was that was fun. But I love the scene where they meet up on that roof and he's like, oh, the criminals are coming back. And he's like, oh, here we go again. And he's like, he says something like in the English dub where he's like, give my regards, your dentist. And he punches him. the face i love that line so much oh my god good stuff uh i can't i'm trying to think of anything else that i that i have i mean
I enjoyed watching some of the bonus features for both of these. Both discs on the Rogue Cops and Racketeers set, it's just these two films. They all have the same bonus features, basically. They have an interview with Fabio Testi, an interview with Enzo G. Castellari, an interview with the editor. Gianfranco Amacucci, I think it is, or Giancarlo Amacucci.
And there's an appreciation from a musician named Lovely John talking about the composers of each one. So in the case of the Big Racket, it would be Guido and Maurizio DeAngelis. In the case of this one, it would be Goblin. And there's an interview with Massimo Vanni on both. And is this the one that has Street Law as the third one? No, that's an old Blue Underground set. That's a different one. This is just so...
It's from Arrow Video. Arrow Video, Rogue Cops, and Racketeers box set. Okay, I think Michael Stanislavski had commented. I think he has the street lol. big racket and heroin busters on one yeah that's an old blue underground dvd that's a little harder to find now although i did do some research um I think it's Orbit DVD. Their website has like a used version on DVD for like 20 bucks if anybody's interested. I mean, you get all, you get those three films, Street Law.
uh heroin busters and the big racket which is still pretty good and those blue underground prints are pretty good although you can find them on tubi anyway cool uh so let's uh i guess just go ahead and pass around the ratings man what do you got for uh the heroin busters i'm gonna give it an eight out of ten that's exactly what i had it's and i wish it'd be higher had to begin and be a little better i think or a little concluded just so just fucking just but
yeah eight strong eight for me man definitely worth a watch so yeah so that's eight and eight and the big racket a 10 and a 9.5 man you can't beat that uh so let's see here i think em what we'll do next let's uh Well, let's do this first. Let's go ahead and get out the next episode of LOTC. And we do have one voicemail we're going to get to, listeners. But what is the next episode? What are we going to be covering? So we're going to be...
Continuing with our Enzo G. Castellari director spotlight covering 1990 The Bronx Warriors and Escape from the Bronx. Woo-hoo-hoo! All first-time watches for me. so i cannot wait to check these out uh so stay tuned go ahead and and get your eyes or ears on those i think what we'll go ahead and do now though let's go ahead and get to our voicemail here This is from Derek Johns, Ian. Let's go to Derek Johns. Black Love Mysteries. Hey, guys. Ian and Greg, this is Derek Johns calling in from Canada.
It's been a couple of episodes for this, so I called in as well. It's kind of hard to remember and confusing when there's no episodes being released yet. I know you've done them, just not released them. I was just calling in. to say I love the show, great job on all this stuff, and I posted a few weeks ago about some of the Italian horror movies that I've been picking up, some of the older ones, like First Time Watch.
For me, it was Zombie 79 and Nightmare City. There was both brand new watches. Both are pretty good. I like Zombie. Give that one like a 9 out of 10. And then I also got City of the Living Dead. There's a few other ones. My wife put some away for Christmas for me. I got like 40 movies under this bag, but I kept like five of them out, and those were three of them. I all enjoyed them. City of the Living Dead, I believe I've seen before.
As I do remember, I owned it on VHS, and I'm pretty sure I remembered nothing about it except for the picking up her own guts, which is kind of crazy. But anyway... Keep up the great work, guys, and looking forward to when the new shows do get released. Bye.
I love it. Derek Johns. And what he's mentioning was, as you know now, we went almost a whole month without being able to release episodes. So he was calling in between that. So I didn't want to get this put out there. So the episodes have been.
released now and we got them all at like one time he had like five episodes popped and went bam bam bam uh but anyways man that was some good picks so uh what was it zombie city living dead night living or not night living dead but uh nightmare city nightmare city thank you and then city living dead all all those are bangers dude i love it yeah i i agree um as far as the puking up your own guts out part i know i talked about this before
But I'm friends with Daniela Doria, who goes by Daniela Cormillo now on Facebook. And I have a City of the Living Dead shirt. And at one point, she reposted a picture of me wearing it onto her own Facebook page. Which is epic. By the way, you know, anytime you get posted somewhere is freaking awesome. Well, Derek, man, thank you so much. Glad you're enjoying the show. And I always love, and I know Ian does as well, hearing from.
from people saying that they enjoy the show. With that said, this is it. Ian, this is a wrap-up, man. Let's go ahead and get your plugs out there. What you got for outro? So you can find me on Twitter or X, as well as Instagram at Erzonomics. Because everyone's been doing it, I'm also following the trend. You can find me on Blue Sky Social, same thing, Erzonomics. You can add me on Facebook if you want, just by typing in my name, and the same goes for Letterboxd as well.
Nice. I'll get a link to your blue sky and put it over there on the, uh, block spot. So it updates, but, uh, That's cool. Well, with that said, you can follow me, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all that. Pearl and I will be back really soon with Mortis Vision. We'll thank you for something, right, Pearl? Sure. We'll get something, whether it's a movie or something.
Uh, we'll get something out there, man. It's just been busy with all the episodes we've been dropping and everything. So it's been really cool. Uh, so that said, follow us. Uh, thank you for tuning in episode four OT of LOTC is next.
episode you'll be listening to and that one is going to be all about Terrence Fisher which you will understand from the Hammer films from the 50s and 60s whatnot so if you know anything about that uh that's what the next episode is it's already getting ready to be recorded so if you haven't called in don't call in because it's already been done but listen to the show it's gonna be fun uh so that said we're gonna sign out until next time help keep
We do that one movie time, one review at a time, as well as get your jally on. Peace. Help keep horror alive. LOTC presents Mortis Vision with Greg Amortis and the Twisted Temptress. Welcome to Mortis Vision with the Mortises. I'm Greg Amortis along with... The Twisted Temptress. That's right. The love of my life. Pearl, what's up, love? I'm watching right now. What would you do? What would I do?
For a Klondike bar. Well, you wouldn't do if people only knew. Oh, boy, I'd do about anything for a Klondike bar. I ain't gonna lie. Yeah. I found the rapper on the floor. I was looking for you for the longest time of wondering, where the hell did he go? And the stupid rapper said on there, you must play hide and seek.
Well, who are you playing with, huh? Because you were hiding forever and no one was looking for you. It didn't say who. It just said play hide and seek. So I started playing hide and seek. And I got my Klondike bar. He was eating his Klondike bar somewhere. That's right. Remember that. Well, cool. This is episode 401-0049. If you're keeping tabs.
And you just heard Black Glove Mysteries of the Inn and I. We looked at the Big Racket and the Heroin Busters. But we're here now to talk our Mortis vision. And we're going to not have necessarily a... I guess, an outline tonight. We're just going to kind of go off the cusp. Yeah, we're walking on a tightrope and hopefully no one falls down. That's right. No falling down tonight.
What we've come up with, and I think it's a really cool idea, we're going to throw some TV shows. Pearl's watched a few episodes of these, so we'll throw a few horror TV shows that are out there right now. Some we have not fully watched. Some we haven't watched at all. up a little bit about uh we're also going to look at the uh oh the creeps the creeps tapes it's the creep tapes or the creeps tapes uh two episodes are already out as we're recording
Yeah, and then when this is out, there'll be two more. That's right. So we're going to break those two episodes down. And we're going to talk some horror movies that we're looking forward to at the end of the year. End of November now, mid to end of November. So, you know, we're fixing to have one more month left, love, of 2024. And there's still a couple heavies, I think, coming out. Yep.
Two that I'm really looking forward to, I can say. The rest I'm not really familiar with, so I'm not going to give high hopes, but there's two that we'll talk about that I'm really looking forward to. Potentials. potentials uh so we're super excited so thank you for tuning in i hope you'll enjoy this off the cusp kind of uh uh just pearl and i chit chatting off the
Off the air. Onto the air. So you get to hear us chit-chatting. I love it. So what do you want to start with, Love? You want to start with TV shows? You want to talk about the movies? What do you want to start with?
Let's talk about the movie. Let's talk about the movie. So recently... recently love uh we actually checked out a couple recently and one of them in particular was a quiet place day one we finally got around to watching that one yeah finally i know it's like been forever and we actually had some free one day rental codes for this thing uh that was given to us and man we just still didn't watch it forever it just
It was just not one that we watched. And overall, let's say, because this is the third, but it's supposed to be technically the prequel. And if you haven't watched it, we do spoil. We do spoil. I don't know that we'll spoil too much of this just because of what the hell. Right, love? But it's... Let me say this. Let me go this way. We'll do it this way. A quiet place. Let me pull up the I am a BD.
I-M-B-D. I-M-B-B-D. How is it that Gilman Joel calls it? He calls it I-M-B-D or something like that. I can't remember how he does. I love Gilman. He's so cool. When I grow up, I'll be like Joel. But A Quiet Place, day one. And I know I'm older than he is, so what am I talking about? About an hour and 40 minutes of love, PG-13. And this one directed by Michael Sarnoski.
And once again, this is the prequel. So this is the beginning of it, right, Pearl? Yep. So here is my hot take of this movie. I thought it was okay. You got Lupita Nyong'o, who I think is a tremendous actress, right? Love her characters. She's just a good actress. And you got Jimon Hounsou, who I love him as well. Great actor. Alex Wolfe. We recognize Alex Wolfe. I believe he was in the, what's the Hereditary? The bang his head on the table.
He was also in Pig. Oh, yeah, he was, huh? He was. Remember, he just smashed his head. Spoiler, if you've not seen Hereditary, but he just smacked that face. Smack! But he's in this one, and here's the take. Like, the character of Lupita, which is Samira, she's dying, correct? She's got cancer. And she's in a home.
of some sort okay hospice yeah so we have hospice going on and alex wolf reuben he's over it right and he the the one that's over it or something he's like the not the over it but he's One of the helpers, I guess is what you could say, or maybe a male nurse or whatever. But he oversees them and he tries to help them out. So we got this scenario going on. And this is pretty much Pearl It Takes.
right away pretty much that this damn attack happens with the creatures yeah right so we have these creatures and then we find out that you got to be quiet because they're attracted to noise and you know we know it because we've seen quiet place part one and two so this is supposed to be the beginning so here My hot take was I was let down, I'll be honest. I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would. I have slight opposite of it. You really enjoyed it? I did. My problem was...
that we're about 10, 15 minutes into this movie and the alien attack happens or whatever. And then it's just balls to the wall for that X amount of time the rest of the movie, correct? Yes. My problem was everybody figured this out so quick about being quiet, right? Like everybody joined into that theater or whatever when the attack happened. And like everybody was super quiet. I'm calling bullshit. Like I don't know anybody.
In the scenario where we got shit flying out of the sky, we got alien, whatever these creatures are, attacking, killing, mutilating, destroying the city, and you're going to sit down super quiet in this room. Nobody's going to make a peep. They didn't know this. How did they find out so quick? I don't see it being a scenario where you would figure it out that quick. I don't think it was that super quick.
In the movie it was. In movie time, we found out within a couple minutes, everybody already automatically knew to not say a word. Well, movie time. But if you see how it fell out. you got things going in the air all of a sudden bam everyone's being hit by something not knowing what everyone's screaming and running and then you see okay you suddenly see these monsters like swiping these people
Some it passes by, the ones that are so super quiet that they're like so in shock that they're not screaming. Right. And you got people looking like, okay, that one didn't get taken. Why? You know, you don't know yet. But you start observing like, you know, wait a minute, the ones that are acquired are not being taken. Why? But then, you know, of course.
The main girl, she gets knocked out. Yeah, Lapita, Samira. And by the time she wakes up, it's already dark outside. So you're talking about hours here, possibly, that like... the ones that are in that theater already know that they got to be quiet because they're watching people out there running and getting taken and those that are not. So you kind of pick it up. You kind of see like, wait a minute, they're going by sound.
Yeah, I guess I can kind of see that. But for me, it just felt rushed. It felt too easy to know not to say a word. Like, I would have thought it would have took more time to understand. That whatever these creatures are, you know, it's not by sound. I would have thought something different. But, you know, to overlook that and to go to your scenario, I get that part then. And maybe they are learning. And the helicopters. The helicopters.
They say no one makes sounds, you know, they're sensitive by noise, you know, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I will say this. I thought... Juman Hunsu, who plays Henry, he actually helped her. He's the other African-American that helps her. I liked his character, and I always liked him. He's such a good actor. He is. He's a tremendous actor.
And there's this one scene where he's telling somebody to be quiet. He's like, shh. And he has that expressional face that you take him serious. But then that one dude would not shut up. He was hysterical. He was hysterical and he's like making all these noises and he's trying to tell him, shut up. Right? Spoiler if you're not seeing it. And what does he do? He like fucking, he, him.
actually kills them, I think justified. Yeah, I mean, sometimes, I mean, God forbid you have to be in that scenario, but you got a whole bunch of people, including your child. Mm-hmm. I mean, pick and choose the one that's going to kill all of you or you just get rid of one. Well, that's it. And I think, like I said, I think it's justified in the fact that he didn't immediately try to.
kill him right he's trying to keep him quiet to the point he's got his hand over his mouth to try to shut him up hand comes off he screams and he he just smashes the head and it kills him i say I'm sorry, but this dude was going to cause the whole place to die. So he had to die, unfortunately. I mean, it's a bad thing, whatever. But one, like you said, over a mass, you know, it's not a bad. turnaround so uh that was a great scene there i will give them that
Uh, feel of the movie was okay for me. I kind of prefer the first one and then the second one with the scenario of the family in the first one and then the dynamic of the second one. This one... You know, you got so much because it first happens. You're in the city and it's super loud. I think it's New York and there's so much going on. There's so much chaos.
I'm okay with that to an extent, but at the same time, I kind of preferred this first one. I liked having it just the one family, and they're figuring it out on their own. I think the creatures look great. I thought, you know, the... The effects, CGI, were plausible to good. There were a few moments that were a little honky, a little...
A little hokey, right? But overall, I didn't think it was that bad effects-wise. There's a lot of money. There's a lot of money behind it. I did like the character Eric, though. Yeah. I love the fact that you could tell he was so scared and remained scared. But, you know, with Samira. Yeah, Samira. With her help. And her cat. The cat. He needed it. She helped him with that. Even the cat saved his life a couple of times.
yeah and and you know honestly that was one thing that kind of had me pushing and pushing the movie it wasn't so much as like it's because i kept hearing everyone say like Oh, it's so unbelievable. No cat stays quiet. No cat this and that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I even agreed with it when we were watching this movie. And I was like, yeah, I mean...
It's rare when a cat does stay quiet, but no matter what, at some point, they'll meow or they'll say something or, you know. The amount of stuff going on that cat would have been hysterical. Yeah, and then, like...
with water and everything you know it would have been crazy and at one point you even kind of see the cat's face like like today tranquilize this cat you know because he was spaced out for one scene which would everyone know the water scene yes but after we finished watching this movie it kept lingering in my head. So I looked it up and now I understand why the cat can't hear.
So it was going by side language, and I didn't know that until you start looking at the movie and start even seeing, like, Samara, like, do the side language, you know, to make the cat come. There was never a time she was like, here, kitty, kitty, nothing. No, it was always the hand.
And same thing with the guy, for the guy not knowing the cat, knowing that the cat was a service cat, you know, so, you know, care cat. Even he, when there was a time that they showed between him and the cat, he... made gestures yeah and the cat would just look at them and i was like oh i get it now i'm like looking at all these clues but we didn't know that because we did we only saw that the cat was a service cat you know for me
I was kind of going into it knowing because you had said it and we had seen him talking about the cat. I didn't realize it was a mute cat until you just said that. And that's cool. So that might help everybody then. So that might actually put another perspective into it that maybe we didn't realize it because I had no clue until you just said it. Well, it changed my thoughts on it because at first I was like, everyone else, because I was hearing it from other people.
horror groups and stuff like that about the cat everything was an issue with the cat you know one of them too I did the same thing until like I said I read it and I didn't know that the cat was like that so it made sense after when you go back and start watching every part like oh i wish they would have made it known though i wish they would have said something like all my cats mute i think it would have changed the way of viewing it okay okay uh but
I will say this. I will say that the action was good to great, right? I can't fault it. Did you like the ending? Do you like how the scenario worked out? Let's not spoil that because it is still new, but...
Do you feel like that is a legit Dawn of the Dead remake? You see me doing air quotes. The Dawn of the Dead scenario. Do you think that's... plausible for what was going on they knew what they were doing obviously you know they weren't there to really help them they were there to lure the monsters to them so they can you know whatever they were doing whether they were
Capturing them or hiding them. Yeah. You know, governmental things. Right, right. Just the way everything was going about. I mean, they wanted to make sure no one was going to leave. I'm okay. Yeah, to an extent I was okay with it. I'm telling you, you know me. I'm picky and I always want more. I always figure out more on any movie that I watch. I'll be like, why didn't they do this? Why did they do that more? Oh, I get why they did that.
God, y'all need to sit down with Pearl and watch a movie for five minutes. I don't think no one wants to sit next to me. I'd be the lonely girl in the theater because I'd be the one yelling and complaining and being like, why you do this for? It's the truth. Y'all just don't know. Very vocal when watching a movie. I am. Very vocal. I am. You are. But that's okay because you try. Here's the thing. If you don't know Pearl personally, then you wouldn't know this. You are a very observant.
And you try to figure things out on the spot. So you're a very observant person. So when you're watching a movie, you're trying to figure this movie out as it goes along. So you're playing scenarios out in your head and you're talking it out. Why are you doing this?
but you're not saying in your head, you're audibly going like, why are you doing this? And I love that about you because you do, it's almost like you're trying to tell the director who's not in the house, by the way, but you're trying to tell the director, why are you doing this?
Well, yeah. Because you're figuring it out. You're watching a movie, but you put yourself invested into that movie so much that you're trying to figure it out as you're watching it. And you're like... questioning it like why am i and then okay oh yeah yeah i see there well it's that but at the same time too
I have a problem that I'm always overthinking. My wheels are always turning 24-7. And when you don't sleep, you kind of have a bigger imagination than what you're supposed to have. Or you could call it delusional. Yes, yes, yes to all these.
but uh yeah the analyzing the overthinking and you know i mean i do do that a lot you know i know people that listen in the past what three four years that i've been on that i probably think god this girl's crazy sometimes what the hell is she thinking but that's why because by the time i get to the next scene
i already thought five different scenes that were made that weren't made for the movie but i'm like i have on my head and be like well why didn't this happen true true so i get it and for me To look back at these movies, right? I'm rating them right in the row.
it's quiet place one it's quiet place two and it's this one third you know if i was right i would give a rating right now because i don't know if i've even rated i'm like a six and a half to a seven on this one i i would give like a seven yeah and it's not a bad film is just not exactly what i was hoping for after seeing part one and part two because i thought part one is excellent like that movie but that's the problem when sometimes prequels come out later it's like
you give people all the action and all the ooh and ah and then when you come back with the prequel because everyone like me included wants to know how this even came about right Well, if you're going to do that, give us something bigger than what you already gave because then we're like, womp, womp. Yeah, and this was a little bit of a womp, womp.
yeah all right so fair enough so this one uh we did watch like i said and it is streaming now so you can watch it streaming uh i can't remember exactly where this one where was this one at uh it's it's worth a watch i don't Do you see this being on anybody's top 10 out of, you think?
Actually, some of them, yes. I kind of do, too. I kind of do, too. I will spoil the shit out of this. It will not make my top 10. Some of our creature feature and sci-fi lovers. Oh, man, yeah. If you like your sci-fi and creatures, you definitely love them.
this one uh so you know we checked that one out recently and there was another one too love that we watched paramount plus the streaming okay paramount plus thank you uh there was another one i just watched and this one had been talked about a lot love and i finally watched it and it's the azrail azrael um i finally took time to watch this one and wow um i don't even know what to say about it like it it's one of those movies that how long did it take before somebody spoke
Right? Yeah, about almost 20-some minutes. God, it's a long time in the movie before you ever hear a word. And there's a reason behind it. And you watch the movie, you'll understand. It was a movie that, for me... I know the hype is there. I think a lot of people, and it's got Samara Weaving who, okay, Jay of the Dead, this is Jay of the Dead's gusher. He loves him some Samara Weaving, right? That's his honey bunny. That's his honey bunny.
To me, when it was all said and done, Pearl, I was let down. You didn't feel like there's a possible conclusion? I don't. I really don't. Yeah, I don't. I don't. I really wanted... I don't know how this would have even ended. It's one of those movies where... Actually, it's not even the apocalypse, right? Yeah, the rapture supposedly already happened or something.
No, this one ain't that one. Never mind. That's a totally different movie. This is the one. Yeah, it's after the rapture. I'm sorry. The rapture had happened. So all Christians are gone, right? All that's left are sinners and people who... All that's left are the muted sea lots. Yes. We have that, and Samara's character, she has to do a battle by herself. Anyways.
There are some really good visual effects in this one, but I just never really invested in the story. The story never really intrigued me enough to stay fully... Oh, this is right on the edge of the cusp. This is such a good... I never felt that in this one. I didn't. It just never appeased me. I think they failed to point out more the story of the apocalypse of Israel. Yeah. They more focused on like...
the brutal eating scenes and the chase and the hunt, you know, and all that, that they kind of forgot, like, wait a minute, there is still a story. Yeah. I was waiting for Gargamel to come out. That would have made it better. There were no Smurfs in this movie. But it would have made it better. We're talking Azeroth. There was boysenberries, but no Smurfs. Yeah, this one really let me down. This one, I was...
I was not too thrilled with, I'll be honest. And I know there was a lot of people that enjoyed it, but that was one that we watched recently. And I mean, you've seen a ton more than I have. I've been way behind when it comes to... To movies, I'll be honest. 2024 it is. Wow.
I mean, for this being a post-Christian movie, I mean, this is one of the many religious movies that were out this year, so. There was a bunch, weren't there? Yeah. Early and mid and ending. Holy crap, dude. I mean, what did we start out with? We started out with... The first omen. Immaculate. Immaculate. We had the movie with Russell Crowe. The exorcism. Exorcism. Just exorcism. We had that movie. Apartment 7A. And I have not seen that one. You've seen it. And that is religious as well.
Well, yeah, it's supposed to be Rosemary's Baby's prequel. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to watch it because I love Rosemary's Baby, but you said it wasn't as good. Again for me personally, yes. We don't want to go into that. In episode 400, who was it that asked, somebody had asked us where we think 2025, where do we think, what will be the big sub-genre to kick? And I said slashers.
I think I'm wrong. I think it's clearly religious horror, like religious horror and probably what the last three years, at least we've had so many exorcism movies come out. It's like the norm now. Yeah. I think it is here to stay for a while. See, here's where you're stuck in that movie that is real that you saw that you're not sure about. What do you feel she was to you? Do you feel that she was...
Protect her? Protected? Or you feel like she's something else? Do you feel like the ending told you anything? I mean, no, the ending really didn't. I mean, other than... Well, let's just say because her portrayal... she's a young woman obviously named israel the name means various stuff especially in hebrew it means she's protected by god okay but in muslim it also means the angel of death
And the fact that she was smiling. Right. Holding a particular something in front of something. Mm-hmm. What do you think she was? That's a good question. She would have to be. But exactly. That's where you got to pinpoint and be like, who was she really? Yeah. I still didn't get into it. I get what you're saying, though, 100%. But, yeah, it is never done. I just think religious horror is here to stay for a while. Like it or love it, lump it or none.
I don't care. That's because right now religion's on the high rise for the most wrongest reasons, but we won't get into that. Which leads us to probably one of the best movies of the year. We've just seen it in the theater. And we don't get to go to the movies much anymore. I know. Right. We're poor ass folks. So we did get to the theater and watch this and we made sure by damned it. And it is Scott Beck and Brian Woods heritage.
And I'm going to tell you, holy shit balls. And not for everyone, because not everyone likes the dialogue. especially if it prolongs true uh this one is very dialogue heavy it is a lot of you know talking a lot of communicating with little action there is some action toward the end of this movie but for me personally the suspense level in this one was so thick
The acting of Hugh Grant, who, by damned it, should get a fucking Oscar for this character, man. He always gives his all. Holy crap. I didn't know Hugh Grant could go where he went in this movie. We've seen them. You've seen them a lot more than I have, but being with you, you've shown me a few movies, and I've seen Hugh Grant, the Drew Barrymore one, the Lovey one. I showed you the quirky ones. You showed me the quirky, goofy ones.
You know. I've never seen him in a character. Four Weddings and a Funeral. Yeah. You know, you got him nine months or two weeks notice. You got all these movies he's come out in. I've never seen him in anything like Isla. Especially with Sandra Bullock. Yeah. Nothing like this. And it shocked. the crap out of me I will say this Justin Beam who is good friends with Scott Beck and Brian Woods who they wrote and directed this movie he had spoke with them and they had made mention about how
This movie had been in the works for 10 years. They wanted to do this type movie. They wanted to study as many religions as they possibly could. It took them 10 years to get to the point where they said, we've done to where we think we can do this justice now. They wrote the character in specific mind of Hugh Grant. They knew that they wanted him and they hoped that he would take it. And by goodness, did he take it and ran with it. But that shows you how much love.
devotion went into this story from scott beck and brian woods well it definitely shows anyways like when you see all the paintings all the different art art collections Everything meant something there. Everything in that room and everything that even was suggested. Even blueberry pie, like I told you, blueberry is significant. It's just all that. You can see what it took time. It did. It did. To make, you know, compare something and see the comparison of even then and now, et cetera, et cetera.
I say Bravo. They did great work. It's a very intelligent film. And here's the thing. Scott Beck and Brian Woods, if you don't know who they are, they wrote A Quiet Place. They wrote and directed Haunt. which is such a great freaking movie. They've done some really good stuff. They're really good guys. I think they're out of Iowa, so over there where Justin's at. Just some really two very intelligent... Love horror type guys that I'm rooting for.
in the future to get even more praise they deserve right so with this movie let's let's do a quick synopsis first love and uh i think that's warranted okay so it's basically i'll just read this uh How should we do this? We'll just do it this way. So here's the plot. You got two Mormon missionaries.
Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, who are on their missionary journey. They have a home that they are going to go to. It was basically pre-set for them to visit this home, right? And it's Mr. Reed, played by Hugh Grant. Now, what happens if sometimes people will specifically ask for the mormon teachers or the mormon missionaries to come visit them and to you know talk to them so he had already arranged for sister barnes and sister paxton to show up so they show up at his house and it's a very
Strange scenario, right? You become kind of a little bit uneasy, but not uneasy because he's a very friendly guy. He's very polite. He's older, so you... Kind of think, okay, safety. Yes, and they mention right away, where is your wife? Or we can't come in the home without a female being present because that's the right thing to do as a religious.
Oh, she's inside. Sure. She's a little shy. She's in the kitchen making blueberry pie. Come on in. Or they didn't even mention blueberry pie yet. He just said that she's in her cooking because he asks what she smells. she says what blueberry so there's there's something that plays in that you gotta you gotta watch this movie to know where we're going with that so we're not going to definitely break this down word for word but the they come in and hugh grant starts
telling and letting them know he knows a lot about religion. He knows all about the Mormon religion, and he knows a lot about... christianity he knows a lot about catholicism buddhism like he knows religion right pearl yeah i love where he goes and
I swear, like, dude, I was raised religious without being religious, right? Mom didn't force us to go to church. We didn't go to church, but we would... be religious to an extent and it's a very minor extent it wasn't until 94 when i got into the religion that i which was a baptist i'll be on an independent baptist but it just happened that the church i went into
call a cult now because after looking back uh six years that I was in it where we were at it was a cult it was straight up what it was so Knowing what I know and being in a scenario like that, seeing Hugh Grant playing Mr. Reed and he's... giving them all these scenarios right for when they're in there you know he's explaining the monopoly and it's a religious mr rogers yes like he you can't trip him up on anything but at the same time he wants to learn so if you know something he doesn't know
He wants to know, right? So they're stuck in here and then all hell breaks loose. This movie is so, for me, so fucking good. I was into this from jump. It got a little bit freaky at the end that I was like, did we need to go there? I'm okay with it, but... I don't know that the ending really landed where the rest of the movie landed, but overall, man, Pearl, I love this movie. Well, it does, because after all the questions...
After all the answers given. After all the thinking that makes you re-question other stuff. Yes. The beliefs, the disbeliefs. There you go. So in the very, very end. Yep. There has to be a conclusion on what you chose. Point well taken. And that's all you got to know. Belief or disbelief. What door, I'm not going to spoil it, but what door would you go in, belief or disbelief? What a fucking scenario. Yeah, but.
no thing about it without fully giving it away it's realistically it doesn't matter what you choose because what matters what door doesn't matter what door you go through it's what you bring with you that's right or does it Right? What a movie. Was you as impressed as I was? I was because, you know, those who know or don't know, I mean, I grew up, you know.
was family wanting you know into the jehovah witnesses and all you know going to those big like stadiums where everyone's there now you know what the hell was going on but i was just like oh okay everyone's singing reading whatever i was really little you know and then you got some family that are catholic you got some there you know so everyone wants to convert you somewhere and you get to learn everything everywhere me
You know, I mean, I have no problem telling people. I go, I believe in God. I believe in everything. I'm an open-minded person. Do I feel like I have to join a religion or go to church? No, because I feel like you can be kind-hearted. You can, you know, love one another. You can do whatever.
whatever it takes, you know, to be under the good graces, you know, just by being a good, decent person. I will never fault anyone on their religion. In fact, they can talk to me all day about it and I'd be happy to hear it, you know. the fact of learning everything
Did I know a lot of it? Yes. I remember hearing some stuff. Did I know about some of the collaboration that they used I thought was clever? Yes. I learned a few things and that was great too. I just... the way i always see something is like as great as hugh grant was as great as he was that person trying to learn honestly i don't feel like he was really trying to learn i just think he was that
devil in disguise trying to provoke what others are learning you know and that's where i'm kind of in the back and forth of it because you know all the stuff that he was trying to do to make someone either believe or disbelieve so Yeah. Yeah. And I'm with you there as well. And I would listen to anybody talk as well. I'm that person. I'm curious enough to.
you know learn something maybe maybe i want to hear you out so that said this movie definitely makes you think or at least it did me and i i highly highly highly highly recommend this movie i think not only hugh grant Sophia Bathsheba Thatcher. She plays Sister Barnes, and I thought she was phenomenal, right? The dark-headed one. I thought she was great. I looked her up.
Pearl. And she had been in a couple things here. She was in the Boogeyman that just came out in 2023, which I still have not seen. She was in Maxine. She had a cameo in Maxine. And she was also on some TV shows. She was in the X. There's just a couple episodes. Yellow Jackets. Yellow Jackets. That's right. Which is still currently on. True. Chicago PD. A few things like that. So she's had a few things. She's still a very young actress. I thought she was phenomenal.
And then you had Sister Paxton. Now she's played by Chloe East. And Chloe East, man, she done phenomenal as well. And she was in Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans. Yeah. which was such a really strong, strong movie. The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Nothing else I would recognize there. She was in an episode of True Blood.
way back she would have been super super young uh so she's been in a few things as well she done really well and the whole movie there's very little cast right it's a very mainly just the three of them And then there's a couple characters that come into play, but it focuses on those three characters through the whole movie bout. Well, yeah, because...
There's one who's trying to help the other one convert into what she wants to become. And in order to do that, you have to help someone else out there and convert them too. Yep. So I liked it. I love the movie. I thought it's great. If you've not seen it, definitely check it out before you do your top 10 horror list of the 2024 year. I think for some it'll make it, some it won't. I can understand people who do not.
get this movie, I would totally understand people that say, yeah, this was a bore. I get it. I get it. It's definitely, like you said, Pearl, it's not for everybody. It's not for everyone. But it was for me. Like, this movie was for...
freaking me and i loved it i can't wait to see it again yeah i mean it made me question a lot of things in my life and i love that i love movies that challenge me like that yeah it did its job absolutely from their love from the heretic what else have we watched recently I can't think of anything. You've watched a ton of stuff. I watched a ton of stuff and I remember a ton of stuff. Brain fog. Brain fog. Let's do this then. We got coming out in December.
What is it, like December 15th, I think? Something like that. It's like on a Wednesday. Nosferatu? Oh, yeah. Robert Eggers? Yep. Oh, I'm telling you what, Robert Eggers has not let me down yet. Which was supposed to come out on Christmas, but they changed their mind knowing that no one's going to go to the theater on Christmas. I know, I know. But look.
This is what Robert Eggers has given us. In 2015, he came out with The Vovitch. Not The Witch, it's Vovitch. That's the way it's spelled. But anyways, The Witch. Rope directed it. Banger. That's like a freaking 10. He came out in 2019 with The Lighthouse. Holy crap. 10. Perfect film. Loved it. Black and white. The cast. William Dafoe and freaking...
Patterson or whatever his name is. Patterson. Patterson. Whatever his name is. Great movie, right, Pearl? Yeah. Then he comes out in 2022 with a fucking Northman. Oh, I love that one. Oh, man. If you like Vikings, man, that's such a fun movie. I love Vikings. Holy crap.
Although the fight sequence, the naked fight sequence at the end is fucking bonkers. That's so stupid. But overall, the Northman's great. He just wasn't going to turn down the fight even if he was commando. I know, but the CGI was horrible. But the Northman, great. So, man, Nosferatu has got to be great, Pearl. It's got to be. You cannot tell me that you have three movies that are like tens, in my opinion. Well, when we went to go see The Heretic, there was...
A trailer for Nosferatu. Yes, that I fucking had to watch and I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to either. The difference between you and me, I don't care. It won't spoil nothing for me because I don't know what part I wear. You don't know it's going to be there. But, you know, from what I saw, I was like... Wow, this is gonna be dark. Yep. Very gothicky. Yep. Very dreary. Yep. And it's just...
It has already an ice-cold, chilling feel, and you haven't even... I do give them credit, though. They did not fully, 100% show what Nosferatu looks like, and I appreciated that. I did, too. I don't think they're going to. I don't think we're going to see Nosferatu very much in that one. It's just not what we probably think. Right, which is smart.
Yeah. No, I'm totally the musical score they had going on in the trailer, which may not even exist. I don't care. I love the feel of this already. I'm already super excited. So Robert Eggers, don't let me down your three for three, three bangers. I'm expecting for it to be a banger and it's Nosferatu. So that one is definitely what I'm looking forward to. And there was another one, Pearl, that is coming out.
uh, this week coming up a couple of weeks or whatever. And that's the one that I'm really curious about too. And it's werewolves. Yeah. Now that one. If anybody's not familiar with it or have not heard about it, it's going to be more of an action horror because of who it is. It's directed by Stephen C. Miller. I love Stephen C. Miller. He's the one that gave us Silent Night.
was it silent night oh god he's gonna kill me for that too because i love steven c miller man he's such a good guy so anyway so it was silent night i was exactly right in 2012 uh which was a really It's kind of a take off of Santa Claus and whatnot. It's really good. If you've not seen it, it's a really good film. It's supposed to be a remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night.
even though it's really loose okay so he gave us that one and then he's come out with some action flicks all along where uh extraction submerged marauders escape plan 2 he had a long uh standing with Bruce Willis. They had a real good friendship, so he used him a lot in his films. But Werewolves now, Pearl. This one has me excited. It's got Frank Grillo back. Stephen C. Miller uses Frank Grillo a lot, and I love Frank Grillo. such a good actor uh it's got lou diamond phillips in it
Who cannot not like Lou Diamond Phillips? But the premise is a super moon event triggered a latent gene in every human on the planet causing anyone exposed to the moonlight. anyone, Pearl, to transform into werewolves and kill millions overnight. A year later, the world attempts to prepare for another supermoon.
Oh, shit. So that's your premise, and I'm looking forward to it. He's super, when I say he, Stephen C. Miller's super excited about it. He brought werewolves back, he said, and it's got a lot of scary effects, he says. So I'm super excited. And the fun fact about it is that none of the werewolves in the movie use bad language because they were all werewolves, not swearwolves. No swearwolves in this movie. That's actually funny. So I'm super excited about werewolves.
I am too, because I just, I feel like we lack werewolf movies. Yep. And I know the Wolfman's coming out next year. Yeah. But it doesn't seem too appealing yet. Mm-hmm. Who was the one in the group that mentioned we needed more werewolves? There's somebody in a group.
It might have been Chris Bartoli, I think. It might have been Chris. Somebody was talking about how we're wanting... There's a few werewolf lovers in there, so, yeah. And I agree. There aren't as many werewolf films as I thought should be. There's a lot of vampires. Yeah, but they kind of second less, but... Yeah. More werewolves. More werewolves is fine. I'm totally down for that for sure. Any other movies you want to talk about, Pearl, that come out to you? Not at this moment.
Okay. The only other one is mentioned is a 2024 Supernatural. It's directed by Chuck Russell, and it's a remake of the 86 film Witchboard. Witchboard, who I absolutely love. Remember Tawny Katan? Oh, yeah. I love that freaking movie. So Kevin Tenet had wrote and directed that one. This one is supposed to be a remake of that. I don't know. I've not seen anything.
physical about this one so we'll see which board i'm not super excited about it because i haven't heard about it actually so yeah i'm i'm all about uh kevin today and you know he gave us night of the demons he gave us this or a witch board so yeah i don't really need to see it remade but all right so let's uh look at tv pearl
Okay. All right. So I have not watched much TV shows. You have. But the one that I do think we should focus on right at the beginning is the creeps tapes. Oh, yeah. Or the creep. I don't know why I keep saying the creeps. It's the creep tapes. Two episodes. Probably because the movies are creep. That's true. That's probably what it is. All right. So basically, there is two episodes out right now. Pearl, they release every Friday. There's going to be six of them, correct? Yes.
okay so as you're listening to this on a friday two more episodes have dropped And then there'll be two more the following Friday, and that should be it. On Shudder. On Shudder. Patrick Bryce and Mark Duplass, who, if you have not seen Creep 1 and Creep 2... watch those movies first then watch this and it'll make you appreciate it even more oh my god i love this right so we go into these two episodes pearl
Season one is Vampire Monologue. Right? I guess we give Spoiler out here a pro or no? I think we can. Just... Say it ahead of time. Yeah, say it ahead of time. If you've not seen Creep Tapes Part 1 and Part 2, watch them. They're 25 minutes. They're not long, right, Pearl? They're super short. Yeah. We'll break them down a little bit.
you know may not go scene for scene but we'll definitely break them down but anyways so the first one is called vampire monologue and it's much like the movie right pearl we have uh we it's hilarious we have the character You're reaching out, trying to get a cameraman again, right? Yeah. He loves doing that. He likes it. It's peach fuzz.
Peach fuzz. Peach fuzz. He needs a cameraman, so he hires a guy to come to his place to do some filming. And what does he want to film, Pearl? His life. His life. But in this one, he's basically... filming him do vampire he wants to do a vampire he wants to be hired for a part so how you do that is you you turn in a demo you know
a vampire he's a vampire i'll give you a thousand dollars to film me being this vampire there's some scenes in this one that's really fun he keeps doing this one scene over and over right And he finally, the guy's like, okay, you've got it. And Peach Fuzz is like, I don't have it, right? He's mad. He's like, because he knows he's lying. He's like, I don't have it. If he got good acting, he goes from psycho to calm in seconds. Oh my god, dude.
Fucking great because, man, he has a way of just his facial expression. He don't even have to do nothing. Just his facial expressions are scary as hell. Like, this dude would creep me out in real life. If I ever met him, I would probably shit my britches. I'd probably walk up and... He'd probably look at you and be like, what, you think I'm not a good actor? Dude, and I would... You don't like me? And I would shit. I would literally shit. I would. I would drop a dump.
Right there. I mean, he makes me that way. Like, he scares the piss out of me. He's one of those people that you just don't know 100%. Like, he has you super guessing yourself. Is he nice? Is he... psychotic what's wrong with him wait a minute he's just acting are you sure he's acting that's just like is he like i don't know if you met him in person pearl I wouldn't know if he's exactly what he is in these movies. Dude, I'm scared. If he isn't, well, he has quite a...
Holy crap. Good thing to fall back on. Dude, I'm telling you, this guy's a phenomenal actor. I mean, he is a phenomenal actor. I think he's more of a stage actor. I could see him doing theatrical plays.
and be like a vincent price yeah the way he's able to emote himself facially and physically and i love that about him but the first episode is my favorite of the two so far i'll be honest it gets creepy like it snow happens like the scene takes for a while he's getting ready uh the cameraman finally is like i gotta leave
He can't leave, right? I'm surprised you haven't asked me about the axe. We'll find out about that in a minute. So he goes to try to get in his car. He can't leave because there's so much snow. The snow has hit now. So he's like... Listen, I want to get this scene right. I'll give you another $1,000. That's $2,000. Yep. If you stay and help me. So he's like, okay, whatever. Why do these people keep taking this money?
Money talks. Money talks, but damn, have you not watched part one and two of the movies? You know you're not getting paid because you're going to die. He hasn't watched part one and two because right now...
Those two don't exist. This is true. We're watching his personal collection in his closet. Why he even became what he became. Good point, Pearl. Touche. You got me on that one. So we do see a scene where he's going to practice a... another scenario with an axe right and that's such a good scene because he picks up the axe he says so you see it's just a rubber a rubber head or whatever here fill it and he touches it and he says right he says yes right and then he flips right
He flips just like that. He said, did you really check it? Did you really like grab it? Do you really know whether this is real or fake? Did you take the time to examine this? You just took me by me saying it's this and you touched. Oh, my God. I'm freaking out. I'm like, dude, you know it's real. Did you not see it stuck in how hard he had to get it out of that stump? He's like...
But you would have known it was real because you would have seen when I clashed against my hand, I would have had blood in my hand. He holds his hand up and there's no blood, right? Yeah, he goes high five. Yeah, but then he goes to shake his hand with the other one, and there's blood. You're like, oh, fuck. Oh, shit. That's when the camera guy runs. That's when you went from zero to 100. You're like, fuck, he got me.
and dude he chases him down and then he does let's but even with that he never flinched right like You just cut your hand and nothing. Not even a tear in the eye. No pain. He's got Vader. No pain. No pain. He took him to pain town and there was no pain. And seriously, who's stupid enough to touch the handle and not actually the actual main part? Oh my God. What an idiot. Oh God. So here's my thing. Okay. In these movies, in these scenarios, we know people.
are gonna die nobody's surviving these because we know who him by now because we've seen the movies all right the name wouldn't be on the tape right so you know right away here i'll give you a thousand dollars i don't care if you give me a million dollars i'm not gonna get it because i'm gonna die
But he makes sure he gets their name every time. Sure, absolutely. Yeah, write it down. So the first one, really good. I mean, it was really good. Second one, it was okay. It wasn't as good as the first, and I'll be honest. It's not bad. but i'll be honest i was a little bit not uh episode one was called mike episode two is called elliot okay so elliot's a bird watcher
And he's out in the middle of this open field and he's looking at birds. And then he notices something off to the side. It looked like a parachute. And he sees some shoes or feet or something. He goes up to investigate. and what is it pearl it's empty
There's no body under there. But then all of a sudden. I thought he was, though. Until it got real close. I think it was rigid. But when I get real close to it, I was like, there's nobody in there because the feet were too flat. Yeah, but you still saw the outline. It was. That was a trick, Cameron. And then all of a sudden, who shows up? Old Peach Fuzz himself just out of nowhere pops up.
choking yes and we find out you know he's talking about he's choking yeah you're right he's choking he's all hyperventilating yeah he's got his uh gear his parachute gear on like he crashed and he's like and i need help Which, of course, that part itself was so overdramatic in the wake of doing it. Yes. I need a bag. Yeah. This one definitely was funnier. It had me laughing more. But at the same time, I'm just scratching my head like.
Can you be... But you know he treats people the way he sees them. True. He analyzes this person and he's like, oh, bird washer. No, nowhere. Yeah. He's kind of an easy prey. He was. I don't need to do much with this one. Let me be stupid. He won't get it. Elliot was a complete moron. He gave the dude his keys to the car and he's driving within five minutes of this episode. Oh, because...
Only because he has the camera in his hand because he told him he saw the special bird. Oh, yeah. The special bird with blue legs or whatever. Yeah, long legs and blue beak. Yeah, or something weird. Yeah. Oh, my God. You won't believe it. saw them like a whole clan of them they're oh really really can i go with you yeah and that's when we see like wait a minute why where did he get a car i thought it was his car and then you said no he's driving i'm like
Yep, it was his. Really? He got a little key? I know. You're like saying that, and then I'm sitting here like if I was Elliot, I'd be over here going, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, can I go, can I go? Oh my God, what a complete moron. Do you not realize this dude's a serial killer? Like, do you not realize that this guy is out here? And he even tells him the scenarios, right? He breaks down obsessions, right? He gives obsessions and the rules of obsessions and different things. So it really...
Well, yeah, I think the one thing that people don't realize about Peach Fuzz is that even in the beginning or some part during in the middle, he always gives you a clue what he's going to kill you with. Yeah. And his fascination with like that he needed the bag and he kept it. He didn't wash and put it inside his shirt. He kept the bag. And he said for purposes later. And it's like, well, what purpose is that? You're okay. You're not having anxiety no more. True. That's true.
So it's just one of those episodes, man, that like you said, the bag scenario, all these things, we're as viewers watching it and we know what's going to happen and we're screaming at it like, dude. Are you fucking kidding me? You're that stupid. You're going to die. You realize that, right? Yeah. Especially with the fact that he asked them questions and he lied to him. Yeah. That's one thing he didn't like. The lie. The lie. This guy was so gullible. So gullible.
And so then we see the death of them at the end of this one. I think this is a really fun series. I'm looking forward to the next four. I'm going to be straight up honest. Like, I love the fact that they... have done this because creep one and two, you and I love creep one. And I thought because of creep one and creep two, we knew he had tapes. So I love that they're doing this to give us a look into those tapes.
And I hope they do more of these. I really hope that we do more, even though it might get a little tiresome after a while because we know the scenarios. But at the same time, give us some more. I'm really enjoying it. And that's the thing, too, because we were supposed to get a creep through. right first and then these tapes but because they weren't satisfied with what they had and mark being obviously the main guy he
He wants this to be perfect. So you know he's deviantly getting into it so much that he's like, it has to be that big bang for the three. And so it's a little bit on delay.
But it's still in production. So we just had to wait for it. But thank goodness, yes, that they gave us this creep tapes because, yeah, like you, I want to know every single one of them. I'd be... popping in every day to watch and who knows i'd probably be the stupid one getting killed with all the videotape wraps around me because i watched them all same here's the thing with i kind of i don't compare him but at the same time his man
his facial expressions, his maniacal and innocent type way reminds me of David Howard Thornton, Art the Clown. Yeah. He is that. conniving, that maniacal. But at the same time, you're intrigued and you watch them. And then you're like... Spellbound. And I see a little Jack Nicholson in him. Oh yeah, definitely Jack Nicholson. So I love it. I think if you've not seen the creep tapes, definitely head over to Shudder and watch the...
First two episodes, and as you're listening to this episode right now, if you're listening to it on Friday, two more just dropped. Yep. You got four of them to watch. They're 25 minutes. They're not long at all. Do you like them that they're short? I do. I do, too. You know, it makes sense because, you know, I mean, I'm...
I would assume that if you're going to kill someone and you're going to prolong it, you're going to try to hurry up and kill someone. Yeah, and not only that, though. I mean, if you're going to make it an hour episode, you might as well make it a movie, right? So give us short tapes because that's what they would be. If you were filming something...
And these were tapes you found in your house. They wouldn't be, I would think, hour-long-ish. I think they would be quick tapes. This is perfect. If you had to wait to go somewhere or do something and you got that 20, 30 minutes, it's perfect. Throw it on. I'm telling you, absolutely love it. So the creep tapes over on shutter, man, these are, this is 10 dude. This, this is excellent. It's a great companion to the actual.
Creep 1 and Creep 2 movies, so definitely watch them as well. So, Love, I want to mention a TV show that I have not seen yet, and I don't know if you've seen it quite yet either. You may have, but it's on Peacock. And it's called Hysteria. I've only seen two episodes. I haven't got fully into it yet. Okay. It's created by Matthew Scott Cain. This one does have somewhere in it. I don't know if it's in all the episodes, but Bruce Willis.
I mean, Bruce Willis. Bruce Campbell. I love you, Bruce Willis, man. Please get better. But Bruce Campbell, and it's got a big cast, it looks like. Yeah, I see a lot of familiar faces in it so far. And so in two episodes, is it enough to keep you wanting to watch more? Has it been that sour? Is it just kind of, eh, when I get to it, I get to it. Probably need one more because...
I think it's more on the side that I haven't fully got into it either because or else I would have already watched another one. This is true because Pearl, you are a habit of, you know, you watch it straight through at one time. I do love the music in it though. okay i will say that okay cool so hysteria is one that i'm putting on my radar uh
If and when I get some time to watch some TV shows, that's definitely going to go on there. What about FX's grotesque or grotesquerie? Grotesquerie seems to be more a little bit up my alley, so I am watching. I'm on the third. Okay, okay.
I will continue watching that part tonight. Nice. So a detective and a nun investigate a serious, heinous crimes that seem personal while grappling with the personal issues and uncovering a sinister web that raises more questions than answers. It's got Ryan Murphy. It's going to be good. I love Ryan Murphy. He creates so much good stuff. It has a lot of sinister moments. I say that so far. Look at you. You said sinister. Looks like a good cast. Nicey Nash.
Great actress. Courtney B. Vance, really good actor. You also got Raven Goodwin. Brooke Smith, so really good cast. Travis Kelsey's in five episodes. What the fuck? Oh, my God. That's a Taylor Swift thing already, I can tell you. Yeah, this started in September, and it is on Hulu, so. Okay. Well, if you got Hulu, you're saying you recommend it? So far, I do. Okay.
Fair enough. Because this is an FX thing, so clearly they can't do as much as they could if it was a Peacock, Showtime, something like that, right? i haven't really seen them hide as much i mean but you could tell they do hold back a little yeah because network tv you got to be a little careful with all right cool so that is that one what about the uh
You mentioned this one, Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Dreams. That I did love. Okay. Of course, you know, I love foreign stuff, you know, so that was up my alley, Indonesian. eight episodes and it's one that you have to really kind of pay attention to because at some point they combine And you kind of figure out like, oh, why is this person in that one? Oh, wait a minute. That's who did that. Okay. I would consider it kind of almost somewhat anthology.
Without being anthology. Yeah, I caught bits and pieces of this when I'd come home for lunch, you were watching it. So I do remember, I'm watching a little bit of the trailer, so I do remember a couple of the characters.
I do remember it being kind of gory, too, at some scenes. It is gory, and it has a lot of, like, it just makes sense. There's a lot of great scenes in it, so I would highly recommend it, especially if you're trying to get into the foreign. This would be one of them. Indonesian. Listen at it, listeners. indonesian horror uh as a tv show it's on netflix check it out pearl saying check it out and hey i'm all for it and then another one pearl you mentioned and some of the ladies over there in the
Facebook group has been talking. This one is teacup. Teacup's very, very good so far. This ain't like that. I'm a little teacup. Nothing like that. You're somewhere off in La La Land. Fair enough, fair enough. Of course I am. No, but this one's almost like an American Horror Story type. Okay. You got the gore, and oh, trust me, you got the gore. I love gore. When you see the scenes, you're like...
Oh, my gosh. What the hell? I love door. And James Wan is a executive producer, and he's joined by Ian McCulloch, who's, you know, doing the Yellowstone and Chicago and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, Chicago Fire. Wow. Yeah, so this premiered in October. It is on Peacock. It is a good thriller. It has eight episodes. I'm on number four right now or going on to five.
um i do highly recommend it it keeps you on your toes what's up with the gas mask looking thing is that in the mood the show mass is for a reason because uh well Not to give it all away, but when you do watch it, you know that there...
You can't cross over a certain spot. Okay. If you cross over, then you'll see the gore. Oh, okay. But if you cross over the other way, you're okay. Uh-huh. But whatever is lingering around, it has... there's a special liquid and it's blue if you drink it you can cross over yeah but because there's a lot of contamination the main guy who's supposed to be like trying to help people
not cross over and then trying to cross others over. He's the one who wears the mask. But, you know, there's also something lingering around. Okay.
um there's a little boy i mean it kind of that part kind of makes you think if you've seen the ring it makes you think like you know when sonora's in inside the little boy calls her mommy and she knows like oh that's not my kid because you don't call me mommy call me rachel but this is almost like that there's a smart smart kid he's cute as hell he when he's not him
He's like, this is what we got to do. And you got to hurry up because when he comes back or if he hears it or feels it, then you won't have a chance. They don't like this and blah, blah, blah. He's giving out all the dibs while he can. Kind of like Stranger Things as well.
Okay. You know, you got that scenario moment. It's intense. Like I said, it keeps you on your toes. You're wondering, well, who the hell? Like, even if you didn't like certain things, you still invested because you want to know what happens to so-and-so and what happens to blah, blah, blah. Okay.
I recommend it. I mean, it looks like 32-minute episodes or around 30, 32-minute episodes. Peacock. Cool. I'm liking the gas mask. Yeah. It looks almost like a... across of leather face across of the minor from my bloody valentine and A little bit of Frankenstein's Army, if you've ever seen that movie. It's got a lot. It's kind of cool looking. Yeah, it's got a little bit of a steampunk style. Yeah, there you go. Steampunk. That's what I should have said. Sweet. So Teacup on Peacock.
Pearl says check it out. On Peacock. On Peacock. Pearl, I don't know where else. What else you got? You got anything else up? We're already an hour in and doing great. No, I think we... Jibber jabber don't know. I think we jibber jabber. I'm sure we're everyone.
Being like, yay, they're done. That's because they don't want to hear me talk anymore. They're tired of hearing Greg Amortis. Ain't you with me. It ain't you, it's me. Nobody wants to hear Greg Amortis. But this has been fun. This has been cool. Letting you come into our world a little bit and seeing kind of what we've been up to and there again I
Have not been watching a lot of TV at all. I've been watching some wrestling from 1992. I will say that. Nobody's been watching wrestling. I've been, and we'll close out with this, but I've been trying to go back into the era of the 90s. I love the 80s with Mid-South. Mid-South wrestling, you got Mid-South Atlantic, NWA, WCW. WCW is my heart and soul. That will always be my heart and soul. I do give you credit, though. You are doing it right. You're watching them.
By date. Yes. And in order, and then the main event. So that's what I was going to tell you, that what I have done is I've started with the year 1992. And the only reason I started with it, because over on Peacock, on the WWE Network, they had a show that was called the Saturday Night Main Event. Okay, so it was Saturday night.
And it was an hour-ish to two-hour show. I did watch this back in the day before I joined the church in 94. So for a couple years, I did watch this. So Sunday was their main show, Pearl. And that one was the... called the sunday night main event and that one a lot of stuff happened there was a lot of good content it's not on peacock Sucks. So Saturday night is on there. So what I have done, I started in 92 from the debut of it, and I'm going date by date.
which was a weekly episodic show. And whenever Clash of Champions or a pay-per-view pops up, I will stop it, watch that Clash of Champions or the pay-per-view, and then go back and watch the next episode to try to keep it in order. It really plays well that way, guys. So if you are into wrestling or you want to get into wrestling,
I highly recommend this. Do your research before you start watching them. Most of the shows, they'll tell you coming up next week, we're going to have Clash of Champions on Monday night, blah, blah, blah, blah. So you know to look it up. Okay. So with that said, that's kind of what I recommend doing that. And I love WCW. I'm telling you, Pearl knows I bleed WCW. Thanks.
Oh, I love Sting. I loved all the guys back then. Still think Medusa's the best girl on the beach? Was it or was Missy Hyatt? I don't know. Missy had the smoking body. I'm not going to lie. Medusa was a kick-ass. She was one of the best wrestlers, female wrestlers, back in the day. So she was a beast. But yeah, go back and watch Beach Blast from 92. That was fun.
I don't know. I've just been doing some of that. It's not something I do every day. Usually if I got an hour or two on Saturday morning or Sunday morning, I'll watch it. So it's not I'm doing it every night, but I do try to squeeze them in. I love me some wrestling. I'm telling you. Here is my love, right? Wrestling.
music that's my three loves horror wrestling music maybe not even necessarily in that order but that are my three loves right there other than of course my wife duh i was wondering when that was your number one wait a minute how did i get push from number one to to horror first wrestling second and then your other third one and then all of a sudden wait a minute I finally came up your numero uno so that was a clear that was obvious that's why I didn't mention but
But as far as watching stuff and listening to stuff, horror wrestling music and not necessarily in that order. I'm a huge listen to music during the day type person. But if I'm at home, I don't listen to a lot of music because I've already listened to it all day. And I'm a watcher of movies and TV and stuff. So I want to watch. When I come home, I don't want to necessarily listen to music. I'm ready to watch stuff.
I could personally watch wrestling 24-7. Pearl knows. And then you got those moments when he does all three. It's like you go in the car and all of a sudden he's playing all the theme songs. And you got the horror because you got The Undertaker. You got Kane. You do.
have a few you got like you know some of some of the ones on there so you got your i found a if you got spotify i do spotify pay for that for pearl and i and it has no commercials so i found a a place list which is over good god like i don't have many hours of ha of halloween of wrestling themes and entrances and i have what listened to this on repeat for weeks and it's great dude every anything from wcw to ecw to wwe to wwf to nwa whatever
these guys will pop up and I put it on random. So I never know. I might have DX one minute. And then I might have the NWO's old ring interest. Or I may have Sting or I may have Undertaker. I don't know what's going to play. I might have Randy Orton's theme song come on. But I love it because it's always keeping me on edge. Bret Hart will pop up all of a sudden. And then you got demolition. Here comes the ass. Here comes the smasher.
It's so good. So that's what I've been listening to a lot. Which I love it too because, you know, when I used to go visit my uncle, he all the time watching wrestling. Yeah. And this was like... late 80s all through 90s right so you were there i was there so i love all the themes and i'm like i remember this one yeah oh yeah that one pearl was actually in pittsburgh Pennsylvania, the night of the infamous Hell in a Cell match between Undertaker and Mick Foley when Mick Foley did the big drop.
and then drop again, and they carried him off. The one that practically almost killed Mick Foley, Pearl, was there? Yeah, it was funny because it was a radio. It was the first time I ever won anything on the radio. And I was like, well, I win. And they're like, oh, you're going to pack your bags because you're getting two tickets to the wrestling. From San Diego to Pittsburgh to watch freaking.
uh hell in the cell yeah and they gave us uh well because i could take someone so of course i took my cousin at the time and they gave us uh two big uh super soakers and we and we got i got to with uh they had the green oh god i'm gonna kill myself for forgetting but i forget everything now I want to say British Bulldogs, but they weren't them. It was the other ones. There was the head. Bald head. Headbangers? Yes. Okay. Them. Thank you. Yeah. I lost.
I got soaked. Well, clearly they wanted a wet t-shirt contest. That's why they gave you the super soaker. Hello. Holy cow. I would have loved to have been in that crowd to give Pearl the super soaker. You would have won over me for sure. Yeah, and it was just a fun time because I remember Stone Cold and Sable, they passed by. They were laughing. They were like, everyone was having fun. Mick Foley had came because this was before.
them fighting and doing the event i remember mcfoley taking one of the super soakers and he was you know getting at them and and trying to do the crowd that's fun This is awesome. See, this is stuff that you didn't even know about, Pearl, and I did. So that's cool. Let's go ahead and wrap it up, Pearl. We're going to wrap this up for episode 401, which is Double Double 49. We're going to wrap it up. It ain't even Christmas time. That's true. We're wrapping it up.
Wrap the tool up. I don't know what 403 will hold for us. We'll see. We'll see what we'll do on 403. We might talk some more movies or we'll find a TV movie or we'll do something. I don't know what we'll do, but we'll figure something out. But with that said, what do you got?
closing pearl dad i hope everyone has a remaining what we got five weeks left of the year pretty much hopefully you get your 2024 is in and anything else that you little hearts desire you know that's right you guys know where to find me main lcc group page and anywhere greg and mortis is at Oh, and you know you can follow me Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, which I have some, hopefully some exciting news on YouTube coming up in the near future. So we'll see how that works out.
as my time permits uh we'll see something maybe special coming up with that here in the near future so that said we're signing out help keep poor live we do that one movie time one review at a time till next time peace