Land of the Creeps Horror Podcast. I'm your host, Greg Amortis, calling in from North Kaki Laki. That's North Carolina to all you northerners, and you're listening to episode 406 of LOTC. Baby. And Merry Christmas to you. Because tonight, if you're listening to this the day it dropped, guess what? Santa Claus is coming to your house tonight. Or Krampus.
One of the two is coming to visit you tonight, hopefully at Santa Claus. Maybe it's Krampus. Krampus will be fun to get visited every once in a while, too. He'll give you a little fright and chill. But that's what we're talking. No, we're not. We're talking top ten horror movies of the decade of 19th. And we're super excited. We're going to rate our top tens from 10 to 1. It's going to be a lot of fun, dude. It's going to be a lot of fun. But I've got to say, disclaimer up front.
Myself and Pearl are still getting over a cold bug, whatever a fludge it was. So if you hear a sneeze, a cough, an ache, a punch, whatever.
Forgive us. But with that said, and my beautiful voice is a little nasally tonight, so I apologize about that. Sorry, fellas and ladies, that you've got to deal with my... nose like that but that's okay you love it you love it so that's it let's go welcome in a crew god dang it i'm ready let's go i'm pumped i'm psyched i'm i'm medicined up i'm ready to go let's do this thing let's welcome in from outside of philadelphia pa
The Encyclopedia of Knowledge himself, Mr. DVD Infatuation, and the one we call Hulk, even though we decided it was not Hulk because he don't smash. He brings knowledge. He's the visionary. He's the, yeah, we'll call him the visionary. He is none other than David. Dr. Shop Becker. What's up, Dave? Hey, Greg. First, I don't think I want to know anyone who would like that sound you just made. Maybe the green mucus guy. Here we are. The last episode of the year. Yes.
Christmas. It's Christmas, so this is the final episode of 2024. Our top 10 of 1970. Boy, people are on pins and needles as to what our number ones are going to be. The only one they may be in, there's two on the podcast tonight they may be questioning and want to be number one. and i think one of them it's one of three it's our guest is the unknown yes yes yes it's unknown until here in a minute but
This is awesome, Dave. I cannot wait to break down these tens from the 70s. This is awesome. The 70s has been a great year. There was a few years that were better than others, but there were some banger movies, man. The January, February episodes were a little rougher than...
everything that followed pretty much march on where we're pretty fairly solid although they weren't as as weak as i thought they were you know it turned out there were some good movies in in every in every year although we're going to find out tonight it's We might not have quite as many that go back to the very early 70s, like 70, 71, but who knows? There might be a few.
We'll find out. So good to have Dave on. So let's go up to Canada and welcome him in straight out of the butchery himself. He's been playing with meat all day. I love to say that. He is the butchery of meat himself, slicing it thin. No, he don't. He likes it. slice it thick, because that's none other than Bill the Butcher Van Bagel. What's up, Bill? I performed to act like they did in Sermon in the Rainbow. Good job, good job. Ow!
And when you were talking about, you know, you hope Santa Claus reaches your house and Krampus and, you know, lumps of coal. I mentioned this in one of the room posts. They should get a good horror movie about Chorta Pete. or Black Peter. Oh, okay. I was going to say, what? Okay, I know Black Peter. Now, Black Peter in today's political climate probably could not be made. Al Jolson would be great in that title. Yeah, his time might have passed. Yep.
I think if they dig him up, he'd probably be just as good. Anyways, I really look forward to this episode. The 70s, to me, the decade I was born. i absolutely love the movies of this decade my favorite horror movie my favorite any genre is the 70s music in the 70s sports in the 70s the whole world going on with chaos with you know, dealing with gasoline prices and the Vietnam War, and you've got environmentalism rising and women's rights.
It's a great, fascinating decade. So strap yourselves in. Let's get ourselves going. Let's talk to our other two panelists and let's get this frigging thing going. Absolutely. And let's go over to the... The one and only, I shall say, the twisted temptress herself. The one that keeps me straight, and that's an all-full-time job, and she does a really good job of it. Right, love? It's my wife. It's Pearl the Twisted Tipters. What's up, love? Hey, everybody. Hi. Bear with me.
I'm burnt. Not only sick, I'm in the middle of all these guys here. Poor thing. I don't know. I can tell they're all hyped up. Help me. Just like spider monkeys, man. We're coming off the trees like a spider monkey. But it's okay because if anyone gets out of line, I'm going to bring Krumpus. Well, you just bring Krumpus. I got something for him. I got a little bell for him. Yeah.
Ding, ding, ding. Yeah. How cool would it be if Krampus and Santa got into this big fight on your roof? Oh, that'd be cool. Like on the Christmas Horror Story movie? I want to hear the... Kapow. Exactly. You'd hear it. You'd see reindeer falling past your window. It would be pretty intense. I'd be like, go Krampus.
Santa, do I still get a present? You'd be saying go Krampus? Yeah. I'm just going to say I want Goldberg as Santa on my side, though. That'd be fun. I want Goldberg. Oh, there you go. I want that Santa. There you go. So I'm just saying. And Krampus, whatever. Goldberg will be. and and you know what also yes merry christmas to everyone and you know have fun be safe leave all the shit behind that's right once the new year comes in
And now we can welcome our special guest. I know. And we heard him on the last episode of LOTC over there on LOT. Well, actually the one before. Yeah. Anyways, we just heard him over on Mortis Vision. It's none other than. Darren from Northern California. What's up, Darren? Here lies the body of Mary Lee. Died at the age of 103. 15 years, she kept her virginity. Not a bad record for this vicinity. Hello, guys. Perfect. Wonderful. This is fantastic.
Outstanding. I don't know any other words I could put to it. Just great honor to be here and finally get to be on LOTC Prime and meet Dave and Bill. And this is going to be a ball. I can't wait. It's going to be exciting. So listeners, what we always do on these top tens, we will leave you, the listeners, we're leaving your calls to the end. So we'll get our list out. We will go in chronological order.
We're going Red Robin. I was going to say, I have to rearrange my list if that's good. Oh, my God. This cold bug has really got me. I'm saying Red Robin and all kinds of shit over here. Like, God, don't give me a burger. I know. We're going. Yeah. We're going. We're going in a Robin style here. Round Robin. Thank you. Good Lord. I can't even get round Robin. Rocking Robin. Rock. Rock.
Rocking Robin. All right, so we're going to go in this order. Like images of Burt Ward were dancing through my head. God, I'm delirious, and I ain't even took a shot yet. Adam West doing the Bat-Koozie? Yes, the Bat-Koozie. How much Benadryl did you have prior to this? None, but I'm getting ready to take a shot to calm me down. So, and not heroin, I'm talking...
On liquor. So, anyways. So, this is the way we're going to do this round. Why did you say heroin? I do not do heroin. Do not do drugs. Doctor shot first. Then we'll go to Darren from Northern California. Then we'll go to Pearl. Then Bill. And then finish out with me.
because, you know, you've got to have that heavy hitter come in at the end, right? No, you've got to have that one that's got the energy just so we can make it to the end. But anyways, that's the way we're going. But we're going to do our shots. We've got to do our shots. And I have... in my hand right at the moment the old smoky gatlinburg tennessee salty caramel whiskey old boy from gatlinburg tennessee handcrafted buddy 750 milligrams 60 proof
30% alcohol volume. That's what we got over here. Everyone thought Greg was doing Kentucky, but that's actually what the mayor of your town you were in. This is right. This is Zachary. That's right. So that's what I'm drinking. on tonight, Dave. You got that Jamaican Me Crazy? I got the Jamaican Me Crazy here right next to me brewed two hours ago, so it's not going to burn the hell out of my mouth. We got to see behind the curtain. The veil was lifted for us as Dave sent us a picture.
Of his Jamaican Me Crazy the other day. Oh, the box that I pick up once every few weeks, yes. Yes, yes. Those little K-cups. And how many comes in that box? Oh, God, I think it's like 36. or something like that the problem is is that i have this 20 ounce cup and i so i do two of them at a time like i can't run the water through one cup twice because it just dilutes it too much yeah so i have to use two of them
But I that was that I I still have some from the previous trip. So, yeah, I've got I've got a good supply. Nice. I love it. So Jamaican Me Crazy coffee for Dave. Bill, what you drinking on? Water with orange squirty juice and probably about a cup of... Red Bull original mixed with some Red Bull peach. A bit of a cocktail. I always get a kick out of you saying you're squirty juice. I always see something different when you say squirty juice. He says that leading right from you saying...
He's beating the meat. Thickly sliced. Thickly sliced. You're thickly sliced. All right. Cool. All right. You water energy drink. Pearl, what you drinking tonight? Besides my shot of Rubitus on a mucinex and that... One that starts with a D. Yeah. Decium. Yeah. Decium. I'm washing it down with some key lime flavored water. There you go. Key lime flavored water that you can get at your local Walmart. Yeah. That's walmart.com.
All right, Walmart, you owe me some money for that shit, dude, because I sure as hell ain't promoting your ass. Anyways, there you go. Give me some money, Walmart. Give me, give me. Well, if they were going to give you any money, they're not now. Well, that's true. They just got it for free. Hey, I would be like Beavis of Butthead trying to get money from people. I'd go ahead and say it and then, all right, give me money. Give me money. I mean.
What was it they were always looking for? The nachos. Nachos. Nachos. All I know is that we're sick, but we're delusional right now. Fucking delusional. I'm going to calm down a minute. I'm going to take a shot. All right, Darren. I think Greg's having a fever dream right now. Fucking A, dude. God dang. All right. Darren, what you chugging on over there, my friend? Well, first you got to scare him by saying, I am Cornholio. Cornholio. Cornholio. Hey, Cornholio. I'm Bunko. TP for my Bunko.
I'm doing something I haven't done in almost two decades. I just got home from work, so I'm having me an ice cold beer. Oh, my goodness. I got a Stockyard Oatmeal Stout. Oh, that sounds awesome. Nice, and it's been two decades?
I really don't drink. My wife and I, we really don't drink. We occasionally have a wine cooler, but that's about it. We're really not drinkers. The reason I have this beer is because my wife does buy... beer because she likes to make beer bread yeah but so tonight i'm having the beer without the bread dude what an honor that that that darren you're you're cracking the beer open after two decades for this episode that's that's freaking honor seriously so awesome
Hopefully you don't pass out here. Hopefully you don't pass out. See if you can milk it all episode. Oh, I would actually be able to, actually. I could sip on these pretty good. Same here. Be pretty warm. Give me that old Heineken. I like me a good old Heineken. Well, I used to drink Moosehead. Oh, good for you. So did I. Excellent. The first six-pack I ever bought was Moosehead. Yeah.
Let's chug them down. I got the LOTC shot glass, which I do not think is still on the, on the story. Okay. Still has not been updated over on the store front. Sorry. One day, maybe you can get one, but if not, I got mine. Thank you, Pearl. All right. So it's so pretty. gold rimmed and looks so pretty sorry you can't have one uh but hopefully you get one later i'm sorry damn it i'm getting i'm in a i'm in a crampus mood here we go all right so let's camp count it down three two one chug
Oh, that's a Jamaican me mad right there. I like that. I waited too long. It's cold. Aw. Smooth. Smooth. Hadn't had a beer in a long time. Smooth. Nice. Oh, my God. This old Smokey, man. I'm not going to lie. If you ever have the ability to go find you some handcrafted old Smokey from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, I highly recommend it. That is so...
freaking caramel. Mountain made. The way you're acting right now, I highly recommend that you do not put the bottle over any of the equipment. Yeah, this is true. I do not want to do that. But I'm going to tell you. That's Old Smokey from Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I said Kentucky earlier. What was I thinking? Yeah, or Tennessee. Who likes Kentucky? Tennessee is what you said. Okay.
Kentucky's where that damn Sean's at. That damn jackass. We don't talk about such shit as that. We don't do jackass. Right, Sean? The only good thing to come out of Kentucky is Todd Farmer and Sean Davis. That's all. The only thing good. There you go. And anybody else that listens. And Kentucky Fried Chicken. And KFC. I feel like KFC was probably from, like, Georgia. But they had KFC. I don't know. I'm just saying.
I feel like it was. I don't know. My bad. I know it wasn't, but it just feels like it should be. Who comes up with the name Kentucky Fried Chicken from Kentucky? You'd be from Arkansas or something and be calling it. I don't know. I don't know if a guy from Arkansas says, hey, let's be ironic and call it Kentucky. And was he even a real colonel? That's what I want to know. How the hell did you get a colonel name? He probably worked at the grocery store. Is he like Colonel Tom Parker?
Oh, God. I hope not. Probably. I mean, he wore the plantation suit. I remember seeing commercials with him in the 70s. If he was a colonel, it was going back a long time. I'll say, I'll say, I'm going to get you over here. No, Harlan Sanders was old back then, I mean. Yeah, exactly. And he was very old.
doing foghorn leghorn? Is that what you were talking about? I was, because when I see the colonel, that's who I think of. I'll say I ain't no chicken. That boy's about as dim as a two-mile boat. That ain't no dog. That's a chicken. That's a nice boy, but he's about as sharp. is a bowling ball. Well, I'll say it's time to get to our top ten list, Harold. That's what I'll say. Now I got a little Jimmy Stewart going. Right from Fonkorn Lighthorn to Jimmy Stewart?
Hey, it's Christmas time. We've got to bring it to you. I was going to say, when's Gregory Peck? Is he next? Hey! Hey! Hey! Let's keep it clean now. Come on, now. Don't talk about Gregory Peck. Now, shoo-shoo here. Shoo-shoo! Shoo-shoo! Shoo-shoo! Oh, boy. Okay, get wrangling in, Greg. Wrangling in. I'm throwing my... I was going to say, can you make a transition somehow with a lead actor or something? Hell yes. Hell yeah. We're going to do that. Give us your best Donald Pleasance impression.
I can only do Sam Elliott. The darkest eyes. Now I sound like fucking dude from Jaws. I can't do Donald Places right now. He's a legend icon. I can't do it. I love you, Donald Places. I shot him six times! I shot him six times!
Oh, my God. Okay. All right. Here we go. You know I'm next to you, right? Yeah. Okay. I know my neighbor right now is like, will you shut the fuck up? What the hell is wrong with you? I know he is. All right. Here we go. Oh, boy. Round robin style. We'll start from 10 to 1.
I blame Brian Scott. All right. I'm going from 10 to 1, and we're starting with Dave Dr. Shock. So let's go ahead and do this. Let's get into it. We're going to number 10. Let's go to Dr. Shock. Dave, what is your number 10, friend? All right. Well, real quick, it's, you know, this list was probably the easiest I've had to do in quite some time because nine of my...
10 are in my top 250 favorite movies of all time. And so I just had to look at the ranking of those and figure out what it was going to be. The 10th is the only one that's not now. When it comes to saying, we talked about this earlier, we're not going to give synopsis. There's no point in us giving synopsis for these movies anymore because we've already been talking about them all year. As a matter of fact, some of these movies we've been talking about for about a decade now.
Sure. Over and over again. And, you know, I'm saying the same things. I came into this and what am I going to say about these movies? So, you know what I did? I went out and I found out what other people said about these movies. And that's I'm just going to throw it out there. All right. And it's usually a celebrity or something. So my number 10 is Dario Argento's Deep Red. Ooh. And Guillermo del Toro.
has said it was the first Argento movie he ever saw. And it was, it had all the characteristics of Vigello. but was much more stylish with the camera becoming another character. He noticed how Argento was able to move the camera and even compared it a little bit to like Hitchcock is my number 10 deep red. And that's what I'm going to say.
Great choice. Love it. Let's head over to Darren from Northern California. Darren, what is your number 10, my friend? Okay, my number 10, I highly doubt it's on anybody's list, actually. It's one that I... Did briefly talk about when you invited me on Mortis Vision. And it's from 1970. It's Dan Curtis's House of Dark Shadows. Based on the soap opera.
of the same name and it stars all of the original cast from the soap opera playing their original roles joan bennett jonathan frid captain lee scott uh and just briefly i'll just say the storyline is basically they took a storyline that was in the soap opera and condensed it and made and made this movie they took the barnabas college storyline and just condensed him down to like a little over 90 minute feature film and changed some of the premises of it because in the series
Some of the characters survived that timeline, whereas, well, you never know what's going to happen to them in the movie. But I really enjoyed it because... I grew up watching the soap opera, and even though it's really kind of boring now, the movie was more like a hammer horror film, and it brought the heavy gore and vampirism to it.
you really wanted to see in the soap opera but you know they couldn't get that past the sensors at that time yeah and it was a rated gp not pg because they didn't have pg back then but it still meant the same thing parental guidance right but i remember those remember seeing the commercial for it and it's a rated gp and you know
At back then, it was just kind of normal. But no, that's my number 10. I'll just say that briefly because I know we've got to get through these lists. We've got long lists. A lot of movies to talk about. Well, I know... Ben, you said that was not on anybody's list. That will be my number 10 tonight, listeners. I'm just...
I'm going to be that asshole tonight. I'm going to be that asshole when somebody says 9 on their list. I misspoke. I'm kidding. I'm kidding, Darren. I love you. That's cool. House of Dark Shadows, 1970 for Darren. All right, Pearl, what is your number 10? My number 10. It's a TV movie that I told you I got in trouble with because I decided to go my way to find these things. It's Gargoyles.
gargoyles uh 1972 i love it i love hey i will i will back her on this she is such a huge fan of gargoyles i'm not kidding guys like she would watch this every day if she could so yeah that movie it feels very much like a tv movie Except when it comes to the Gargoyles. Those things were impressive as hell. I think they went beyond what you would think the budget of a TV movie would be with the look of them. Great choice, though.
Yeah, if I ever get a big, big house, they're going to be gargoyles on top. Okay. As long as they don't come alive. It's going to be one very gothic house. Yeah, right. We're going to be that one house on the street where everybody's got blue, green, yellow houses. We're going to have the black with purple shutters with gargles all over. No, to be fair, there'll be some color because I'll do the Edward Scissorhands thing. Oh, okay.
You'll have some really cool garden ornaments. Yeah. Yep. You have to make sure your address is 1313 Mockingbird Lane. That would be so freaking awesome. I could do that. I would love to be able to have a 1313 in my address. I need to make it happen. All right, Bill, what you got for it? Yeah, a little drag. Oh, hell yeah. All right, Bill, what you got for number 10, friend? Number 10. Before I do that, I want to shout out my good buddy, Taylor, new listener. Hey, Taylor.
He's a big horror fan, and I wanted to make sure you got his name out there. Way to go, Taylor. And I will give his number one later in the episode. My number 10 also, like Darren, is one I don't think anybody else maybe has in their top 30. but it's one I really like it's one that has a bit of atmosphere a bit of reminiscence I think it's one whenever somebody puts up a post in a room that says name a modern movie that can be remade with an old one and be done justice, I always say this film.
And it's funny, Dave, you said, you know, you won't see a lot of early 70s. Three of my top five are pre-74. Wow. Yes, like nine. I have a couple that are pre-74 also. So mine is Deathline. aka raw meat all right mind the door mind the door you know you get that mix of cannibalism that darkness that backstory that cat and mouse that detective serial
You've got that unknown and just a creepy feel. If you've never seen Deathline, a.k.a. Raw Meat in the USA, the name that you would know in this is Donald Pleasance. Christopher Lee's in it for, I don't know, 45 seconds, maybe one scene or something. But yeah, check it out. Really good. And let us know in the room if you think. I always thought Rob Zombie could redo this one really well.
That would be really cool. I would like to see that. But that was also, I think, Gary Sherman directed that one. Yeah. And he would go on to direct quite a number of really great movies in Dead and Buried. Quite a diverse set of films he did. Yes, Dead and Buried, Vice Squad.
is a really good one. He did Wanted Dead or Alive with Rutger Howard, where Rutger Howard played a descendant of the character that Steve McQueen played in the Western TV show. That's right. He's a very interesting filmmaker. I should totally put Bon Jovi right there. Want it? Okay. I love it. All right, cool. Bill's number 10, Deathline 1972. All right, my number 10 is a tie. I'm going with 1972's Deathline along with 1970's House of Dark Shadows. Ha ha ha!
All that booze is kicking in, isn't it? We'll see what happens when you mix whiskey with medicine. I'm thinking the same thing. I'm thinking the same thing. I'm coughing myself up. There's probably more booze in the cough medicine. That's right. That's right. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Maybe it was the heroin. It was the heroin. That's what it was. That's what it was. Leave crack alone. Number 10 for Greg Amortis is Don Coscarelli's 1979 Phantasm. I love...
The Tall Man, I love this movie, so I had to find a way to put it on the list, and it made it. Number 10, Phantasm, and it's called If This One Doesn't Scare You. You're already dead. What a tagline. Cool. All right, so that is our number 10s. How tall is Mr. Scrim? Angus was actually pretty tall because I'm six foot, so he is probably – I would say he was probably about 6'3", I would say, or more. I know he was –
He looks kind of imposing in the movie. I didn't know if those lifts were hammering. Yeah, they did some of that. But I know when I met him at the convention, he was... A little bit taller than me, for sure. And, you know, at his age, he was already starting to hunch a little bit. So, yeah, he was pretty tall. I think he was 6'4". Yeah, I was thinking 6'3", 6'0". Okay, cool. Love it, dude. Man, miss him. Angus, 6'4".
All right, Dave, it's time to go to our number nines. All right, number nine, breaking into the top 250 list, is... Lucio Fulci's Zombie, 1979. JoeBlow.com called it one of the best foreign horror movies ever made, complimenting it for its dark brutality. Which, according to them, left audiences in shock. And I was watching this video on YouTube and they were showing some scenes from...
Romero's Dawn of the Dead, of zombies going on escalators and doing sort of goofy stuff. He's like, you don't get any of that in Fulci's Zombie. This is just straight up serious. And some of the gooeyest zombies you're ever going to see. I think it was Fulci who said they look like flowerpots, which is what they did. And this is a it is. Probably up there, this and the beyond are my two favorite Lucio Fulci films.
Oh, same, dude. Same. So good. Head over to Black Glove Mysteries and you'll hear Ian and I talk a couple of Fulci films on the last episode that we just did, 405. Very good. So you can go hear that. Go listen as we... I was going to say Demonia? No, we actually did. Believe it or not, 1977's Psychic as well as 1984's Murder Rock.
So there you go. Psychic is, is, is a very close third. And if I see it like a few more times, it might, it might even crack the list because the psychic is so good. Yeah. absolutely all right so cool there is dave's number 10 zombie from 1979 let's go to my number nine actually number nine zombie from 1979 there's a lot of nines in that damn thing all right cool let's head over to
to Darren from Northern California. Darren, what do you have for your number nine? We have our first repeat of the night already. What was that word you used to say when somebody had a repeat? Hot dog. Hot dog. Hot dog. Hot dog. Hot dog. Number nine is Don Coscarelli's Phantasm. Nice. 1979. Hell yeah. I got to see this in the theater. back then and it was such a fun time me and my friends from school you know we'd never seen fly we never seen flying balls that drill into your head before and
And the tall man scared the hell out of us. And boy, did we love that Cuda. That was one of the best cars I think ever.
been on screen yes i'm not really a car guy but man we just fell in love with that car yeah same it was a it was just such a it was just such a very the whole movie was like it was just it's like a fever dream the whole movie but at the same time it's just it wasn't a fever dream that bored you it was one that just fascinated you so much and you just wanted to keep taking the journey more and more and of course they made additional sequels after that but
But that movie just sticks with me all the time. I love that film. I love it. Y'all forgive me for cracking up because Pearl's giving me that look. And I know 90% of you guys done the same thing when you said you weren't used to seeing flying balls. I got stuck with the balls flying to your face. That's a whole different type of ball style.
Dearest teabag right there if I've ever seen one. Sorry. Fucking drill coming out of that damn ball. Go get you, Bill. Anyways, I love that. Phantasm. I love it, Darren. Number nine. uh for you so let's go to number nine pearl you stop it damn it don't blame me you don't want to did it all right so number nine for pearl we have we have 1974
TV movie with Juliet Mills, Beyond the Door. Another one of your favorite movies. Yes, another TV movie. You love your TV. I didn't think that was a TV movie. Well, you know... I was four going on five. I was watching a lot of TV. I remember seeing that preview. When I was a kid watching MASH in the 70s, and that was an R-rated movie going to the theater. Oh, wow. Nice. That's a theatrical film. There you go, love.
Well, at least when I saw it, I was four going on five, but this movie came out when I was barely born. Yeah, Richard Johnson. Richard Johnson's in this one. Very cool. It's a good movie. Fun. It's a fun movie. And it freaked me out seeing Juliet Mills with... becoming possessed like that because I grew up watching her on a TV show called Nanny and the Professor and I kind of had a crush on her too so I was like oh my god
Yeah, she's pregnant, right? And the whole idea is that her baby is the one possessing her? Is that what it is? I can't remember. It's something like that. She's pregnant in this, and she's going to have the devil's baby. Well, I'm looking at the IMDB synopsis. Who the hell knows if that's right? It was. You could tell it was half a ripoff from The Exorcist adding Rosemary's Baby kind of deal. Rosemary's Baby. I love it. Cool. Beyond the Door. Beyond.
the door greg beyond the door let me type that in all right cool all right beyond the door all right so bill what you got for number nine my number nine numero neuf is one that i think is the poster child of a genre I think it's my favorite, narrowly edging out one that's already been mentioned, and it's one from 1970, and it is The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. I love this film. Absolutely love it. It's a little lighter on the horror side, but there's mystery.
It's creepy. It sets up the police cat and mouse chase. It sets up the police serial. It sends out the plot twists. It sends out the red herrings. And I love that you become a voyeur.
i love that you kind of know what's going on but you you're much like the lead actor in the film and can't help them you can't let them know what is going on because you're just as trapped as the guy on the outside of the glass when he looks and sees what happens if you have not seen bird with the crystal plumage if you've never seen a giallo deep red is a great first one but i would slightly go over this one just to see the setup
of what makes this kind of movie great. I would probably, I would tend to agree with you to say that you should watch the bird with the crystal plumage first because it is more of a true shallow. Yeah. Not the deeper. Deep Red is not. Deep Red definitely is, but Deep Red was that bridge between Argento of old and Argento of new. He took the giallo, and you started to see the sort of visual mastery that he would bring to later films like Phenomenon, Suspiria, and all of that.
that and deep red was the bridge between the two but definitely go back and watch what was the this was the
one that kicked off this yellow craze. It's not the first, but it was the most popular. Just like people would say, you know, Halloween might not have been the first slasher, that there were some slashers before that. Halloween's the one that... kicked off the craze it was it was burr with crystal plumage that kicked off the giallo craze that's right um so that would be probably the better place to start absolutely i didn't really start getting into giallos until greg and ian started doing the
black glove mysteries and the first one that i watched was bird for the crystal plumage and i just couldn't get enough of that film. It was just such an outstanding movie. It's really amazing. It's really, really amazing. Beautiful movie. Cool. Alright, number nine for Bill, The Bird with Crystal Plumage. Number nine for me. I'm coming in in space. No one.
can hear you scream. It's silence. Because it's 1979's Alien. Yes. Nothing needs to be said about this movie except it's a masterpiece. Which I gotta admit. Every movie in my top ten is a masterpiece, in my opinion. So, you know, I could have put this one anywhere on the list, but it's number nine for me, Alien. If you've not seen it, go see it. Watch it. And I'm going to say I like the offshoot on Spaceballs.
Yes. May that Schwartz be with you. Oh, no. Not again. I love it. Oh, my God. We could go on forever. Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello. Yeah, that's right. Cool. All right. So 1979 alien for me. All right. Dave, what is your number eight? Number eight is. from 1978 and it is invasion of the body snatchers On Turner Classic Movies, Ben Mankiewicz, when Ben Mankiewicz was introducing this movie, said it had a quirky cast.
which worked wonders for the movie. And it really does have a quirky case if you think about it. I mean, you've got Jeff Goldblum, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Mr. Spock. So it definitely has an unusual cast, but it works so well with the movie. Now, Mankiewicz was saying that Philip Kaufman, who directed this, And he remembered talking. He was a big fan of the original from the 50s, you know, the Don Siegel film. And he remembered talking to friends about it. It's like, OK, well.
You know, what was that movie about? Was it about communism? Was it about paranoia? Was it about McCarthyism? Well, he said that, you know, what he wanted to do... He just wanted to make a movie about conformity and the loss of humanity. And that's exactly what he was able to do with this film. Plus, it is legitimately frightening. Agree.
You can't deny that. My favorite story about that movie was if you look really quick and squint, you see Robert Duvall swinging. But the best part of that isn't the fact that if you blink, you see him. It's when he got paid for this, he didn't want any money. But according to the actor union, the guild for the actors, you need some sort of compensation. So he did that role for an Eddie Bauer leather jacket.
All right, well, 1978, Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Dave. Let's head to Darren. Darren, what you got for number eight? Okay, my number eight. It goes back to 1972, an Amicus production from Freddie Francis. It is Tales from the Crypt. Oh, loving this. I am a huge anthology fan. Every story in this anthology was just so creepy and outstanding. You have the most famous one starring Joan Collins with Altered the House. And that was repeated.
on the tale from the crypt tv series one of the premiere episodes with larry drake playing santa claus and santa killer and uh mary ellen trainer taking over the joan collins role But still, every story in this film, I think my favorite story is probably the end one with Patrick McGee playing a blind man at an old folks' home.
And this militaristic, this new militaristic director comes in and makes a whole lot of changes, cutting their heat and everything and the revenge that the people who live there seek out. is just something to behold. So, yeah, that's my number eight. Tales from the Crypt. And they did a sequel, kind of a sequel, Vault of Horror, a year later, which is just as equally as good. But this one is definitely my favorite.
Yeah, I agree. Vault of Horror is really good as well. I was just going to jump in and say I slightly like Vault of Horror more, but they're both. I just really like the one with Tom Baker. Oh, yeah, that's outstanding. And he's my favorite doctor, too. The one with Terry Thomas always makes me laugh. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, no, Tales from the Crypt is fantastic.
All right, so Tales from the Crypt, 1972, number eight. Let's head to Dr. Shock. No, we're not. We're going to Pearl. Pearl. I already gave my number eight. That's right. We got to do it again. No, I'm just kidding. Pearl, what is your number eight? I rolled the dice and I got eight. because I got a tie. Oh, tie at number eight? Yep. I will remain quiet. Poor Bill. Remember, Pearl, it's a double feature. Yep, that's true. Double feature.
Going back to, you know, this is how you know Darren is my West Coast brother because I too love anthology. Yeah. 1972 has a great anthology by a very known... voice of Rod Sterling. And there's a part where you'll know what it is when you say... Listen you well to my word. One by land, two by sky. Look to the Hectagon, for it is there. Seven times go around the three of you. And it is encounters of the unknown. Yes.
And if you've listened to Pearl eating length of time, you know Encounters of the Unknown is one of her fun movies. Yeah, especially the pit. I always want to know what's in the pit. And then the girl on the bridge. And also the one I just mentioned with the... Seven sisters. I saw that as a real little kid on TV, and the one I always remembered is the one you just quoted. Yeah.
with with one by land two by two by sky and that's the one i always remember for some reason i don't know if i saw the rest of it back then but i just remember being really like Well, that woman's creepy as hell. But she does because it makes you think like, God, it's going to really happen. Wasn't that the mother of the kid that died? Yep. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And then my second one is, I love the sound of that horn, but it's 1977, the car.
Oh, the car. Saw that in the theater, too. Oh, lucky. What year was that? 77? Yep. 77. Nice. That was a good year. I saw that for the first time when we did the 77 episode. And you loved it. you know what I went in because I had seen the poster before but it looked a little on the cheesy side it was a fun movie if you haven't seen it Nice. Pearl encounters Unknown 72 in the car, 77. And beer. Beer. Bill. Beer. Bill just shook his head. He's ready to give his double feature at number eight.
Bill, what's your... God dang. Bill, what is your number eight? I can't wait until we get to about number three and the cough medicine really starts coming. I know. I need to take me another chug over here. I'm starting to calm down a little bit. I need to stop. Come on. Come on. Get to it. My number eight is one that I will say minimal because others will say more with more enthusiasm. But it's a film I think that really brings a genre to the forefront that would forever change the face of.
Horror film history and that's Halloween. I will leave it at that. At number eight. Number eight. You're hurting me, Bill. You're hurting me. Someone don't look so happy. I had a few I could have put up ahead, but I really like every other one above it kind of has a sentimental piece with me. So this is the first one where I can objectively just put it there.
You hurt me, Bill. You hurt me. All right, so number eight for Bill from 1978 Halloween. Yeah. It's so good you can't even say it out loud. that's right you dare not mention this name all right cool number eight for bill is 1978 halloween for me number eight is do you know anything about witches witch That's right, it's Dario Argento's 1979 classic Suspiria. Love this movie. So good it came out again in 79 after being released in 77? Sure.
You can release this god dang movie anytime you want. Why did I write 79 down? You're right. Does it have any alternate titles? It does. It does. It has a lot of alternate titles. Why did I put 79 down there? I have no clue. It's 77 listeners. Yes. a while because Alien was above it. I think you're right, Bill. By the time the medicine kicks in around number three, we're counting down our top 20 of the 60s. From 1960, 78. Coming up is Roger Corman.
film, The Man with 22... The Man with 22... Number three with a bullet. Oh, I love it. Just like a woman to me. On America's Top Ten. All right, I'm taking another shot. I got to get some energy here. I'm dying down a little bit here. Let's go. All right, so my number eight was Suspiria from 1977. Seven.
Not nine. I shot him seven times. No, I shot him nine times. So it's 77. 77. So let's... As opposed to the scorpion that... What was it? The red scorpion that kills seven... What's that one? The giallo? Red Queen. Yeah. Kill seven times. Not cool. Well, number seven for Dr. Shock. What you got, Dave? My number seven is perfect. Fitting for the season.
It is Bob Clark's Black Christmas, 1974. And for this, I watched an interview with Margot Kidder. And she was saying what a lot of a lot of people were saying, especially around this time that. when she was making black christmas she never thought it would be remembered and that's how a lot of actors uh approached these roles back then as they take these horror films they'll be forgotten until i can get another but but she said she she says that even knowing that she had an absolute blast
making this film. She had a lot of fun making it, and she said, especially working with Andrea Martin, who she said just cracked her up the whole time, which makes sense. She would be a member of the cast of SCTV. I know Bill's very familiar with that. But she was also saying this was the start of, you know, this movement in Canada to to get films like getting tax breaks.
to get films made in canada and um you know she remembers that is this is being one of the earlier films uh where that was uh you know where that was a reality so that is my number that is my number seven For the season, it is Black Christmas. One of the, it has to be, if not the greatest Christmas horror film, certainly one of the top two. Now, Dave, what was that phone number the policeman took down? That's right. That was the name.
Felicio? Yes. With a straight face. F-E-L. John Saxon. And then they're laughing about it. He goes, it's something sexual. isn't it but it was funny is his partner is in there cracking up while he's looking at it because he saw it earlier that's right Cool. All right. Well, Dave's coming in. 1974's Black Christmas for seven. And let's go to Darren. What is your number seven? Hot dog. Hot dog. Dog. Okay. Mine was just mentioned.
for number eight, but my number seven is Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Philip Kaufman, 1978. I mean, everything that could be said about this film has already been said. You got the... quick cameo by kevin mccarthy kind of reprising his role from the original in that in this film one of the connections that i kind of have with this film is
one of my my my friend alan who was one of my groomsmen at my wedding he was actually an extra in this film he played one of the police officers that was chasing him through san francisco and he told me a story about how when he was getting in uniform and stuff uh how donald sutherland walked up to him and and still wearing in his trench coat hands in his pocket and go hi how are you and introduced himself said how you doing are you cold
He said, yeah, it's kind of cold because it was kind of a cold night. And he said they had a really pleasant talk. Sutherland was just like opening and going around and meeting all the editors and stuff. It was a really good experience for him. But yeah, that's my number seven. Another reason to love Donald Sutherland. Exactly. And did it make you want to eat capers? No, they're rat turds. I'm sorry. She's going to have to type something to me. I can't read lips.
Let's go to Pearl. I was doing something. Look at all. I'm doing something. We're not podcasting right now. We're doing something. You're not going to love me with your show. I'm in the middle of doing something. That ain't not right. Let's go to Pearl for number seven.
My number seven, guess what? Again, it's a TV movie. No. Yeah. It's an anthology? A TV anthology? No, but it is one of my... first childhood movies that i remember seeing and it stuck with me because there's one part that i thought like oh god if it ever happened and made me afraid of a certain breed this is actually came out on Halloween on 1978. It is Devil Dog. Oh, yeah, the Devil Dog. The Hound of Hell. Yep.
Suburban family adopts an innocent-looking dog that is not so innocent whatsoever. Love it. The devil dog, which we've talked about recently, so there you go. Yeah. I love it. All right, cool, Pearl. Let's go to Bill. Bill, what is your number seven? Hot dog. Mine has been mentioned. The devil dog?
all i'm devil is it a devil dog is that like a spicy chili i'll go with that um is one that's been mentioned so i'm not going to go into it other than to say it has the most beautiful shot of a woman in her panties but I dare not take them off because she'll beat the shit out of me. And that's Alien. I'll go with that. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And the best drool in horror history. Oh, it was a great drool.
Ew. That drool, seeing it slowly drip from the mouth and the teeth is one of the most scariest shots in horror. I agree. I totally agree. That's such a good movie, though. It really is. Even though I've said it a million times, Aliens is my favorite out of it, but I still really thoroughly enjoy Alien.
1979. All right, so let's go to my number seven. Hot dog! That's right. We're starting to get some crossovers. My number seven was Dave's number seven, and it is, if this movie doesn't make your skin crawl... It's on too tight. That's right. It's 1974's Black Christmas. Oh, I love this movie. And I know, I know Gilman Joel is cussing me right now for having it at seven. But that's okay.
It's still in my top 10, Joel. So there you go, buddy. I love you. He's cursing me too then. I know, right? So I love it, man. Super excited. And if you've not seen it, of course, watch it. I'm telling you. Watch it. You'll be thoroughly pleased. So there you go. Number seven for me. Let's go to Dr. Shock now. Let's go. We're in the number six. Six. What was it? Six. It makes me think of that. You know that commercial that.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. That. That was the pinball machine. Yes, that. I want to say it was from... I think it was from the electric company, but actually I think it might have been Sesame Street that that played on. It could have been Sesame Street. No, it was the one where the rolled up paper bill.
That's on the steps. Oh, yeah. Schoolhouse Rock. Yeah, that. Schoolhouse Rock. Oh, when our bill became a law. Yeah. I thought the pinball machine thing was a... was was maybe you're right i can't remember i thought it was uh something on like sesame street like one of their cartoon uh asides but uh i had one too but yeah but no the one she's talking about is schoolhouse rock but the one two three four five six seven
8, 9, 10, 11, 12. That's the one? Yeah, that one. What was it for? I mean, it wouldn't have been one of the mathematics, was it? Huh? Yeah, it was called Hey Little 12 Toes. It was about how to do your times tables by 12. It was an alien creature that came and taught people and taught the kids how to...
multiplied by 12. Wow. I have the Schoolhouse Rock DVD because when my son was... born and when my son was a toddler he i got that for him to watch oh nice that was one of his favorites hell yeah nice all right dave let's get your number six my friend all right number six Well, my number six is The Exorcist. Friedkin's The Exorcist. And for this I looked up, Quentin Tarantino was telling a story of how his mother did not allow him to see The Exorcist. Now, she let him see everything.
he could go to the movies and see whatever he wanted he said but there were two movies he wasn't allowed to see one she didn't have to worry about because it was rated x it was andy the andy warhol uh fresh flesh for frankenstein i think it was uh but he was not allowed to see the exorcist when it was released. She kept him away from it. And it was because it wasn't so much the movie, but it was because of reports.
that it was not just too intense for kids it was not too intense for the for the for the faint of heart it was too intense for everyone Everyone. It wasn't just a movie. It was the devil in front of you. There were reports in the National Enquirer. People were committing suicide because of this movie. They were locked away in insane asylums after seeing.
the film because they went crazy. And so that's why she kept him away from it, out of fear of how he would react to the film. And he also mentioned that he showed this one... uh halloween season at the new beverly he showed this as the midnight movie every saturday and he said normally during october they would switch up the midnight movie have a different one every week but he showed
this one the whole time and it was the 2000 cut the one that some people you know want to want too big on but he said it played So the audience always reacted great to it. And he also said it's perfectly cast. It has a great tone to it. So that is my number six, The Exorcist.
Can't argue there, buddy. We know that you're scared of the exorcist. I love it. All right, Darren, what you got from number six? My number six... again i saw in the theater me and a bunch of friends went and my mom dropped us bought the tickets for us and then she left so because it was an R-rated film, and we couldn't buy the tickets ourselves. So she went up, got the tickets, gave us the tickets, and got us in the theater, and then she walked out. And it was 1978.
Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero. Nice. Now, when we went and saw this the first time, now my mom had to take me back to the theater to see it again because when we went and saw it that night, Right during the SWAT team raid on this house, there's a scene where the SWAT team member kicks open the door, blows the head off of this zombie, and you see the head explode.
Two rows in front of me, there was this girl who was probably no more than 16 or 17 years old. She was drunk off her ass and she puked.
all over and the whole theater smelled like vomit and they actually had us evacuate the theater so they could get the thing cleaned up and it was and even after they got it cleaned up it was so bad you couldn't go back in there so me and my friends went over and watched another movie it was a cinema six so we went over and watched another movie and my mom took us back the next week to watch to finish watching dawn of the dead oh wow wow
Yeah, but I'm just glad that she let me go back without knowing what the movie really was. I mean, I was 13 years old at the time. 14 years old at the time. Yeah. Nice. We know Kyle Bishop, the walking dead man himself, is sitting there going, great job. Great job, Darren. All right, Pearl, what you got from number six, love? Another anthology. No way. Way. Okay. Way. All right there, Wayne's World. No, that would be Bill and Ted, right? Way. No, way. Way. Okay. Going back to 1975.
You know, all I'm going to say for this, I'm going to skip through the other two and go right to the Zuni doll. Because I want one. I really do. I want one. It's Trilogy of Terror, of course. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Pearl does not back down, dude. She's got her damn anthology. I'm putting them in there. I don't give a rat's ass. I love it. And if they've played on TV, it gets a bonus point. Yep. Hell yeah. But that's what I love about.
About my wife, dude. I'm not going to lie. I love her choice. Hey, anthologies rule. Yep, they do. Lots of fans. And Dan Curtis can do no wrong. Right. I love it. Trilogy. As you go to bed tonight wasted away in your Benadryl, you will be thinking about this little creature running around the floor of your bedroom. The reason she doesn't have it right now, because I know she would be like...
cursing me with it. That little Zuni doll be following me around like, you know, sticking a spear in my foot or something. Does she have a pin in her finger? Is there a pin in her? I just know Pearl would beat me. You'd have to stick slappy on. Yeah, that's right. Slappy, take care of him. Oh, that'd be no problem. You see the teeth on the Zuni doll? This is true. This is true. Wood chop chop. Trilzy tear is really good. I love it. Slappy would be kindling.
Yeah. And Brian Scott will be cheering. Yes. Stop it, Brian. You ain't getting that enjoyment. All right, Bill, what you got for number six, my friend? We're now getting into the films that I have a personal vested interest in. And number six is one that may not necessarily jump out as horror, but everybody has movies that they pound the table for. And ever since I started this...
podcast six, seven years ago. I pound the table every time I can for this film. Because if you've ever seen it, it will scare the shit right out of you. And that's 1971's 10 Rillington Place. yeah I adore this film the acting by Richard Attenborough a man who's maybe five six very slight build balding thin wire glasses unassuming who would kill women and leave them under their floorboard and in the back garden and in the shed and in false closets in their house.
It changed the way British law was upheld. Yeah, because of the whole John Hurt, well, the character that John Hurt played. A young John Hurt in a role you've never seen him in. If you've ever listened to me at all and you've never seen this film, go watch 10 Rillington Place. It will blow you away. That's a good one. I watched it because of your recommendation.
Absolutely agree. It's really something else. It's very disturbing. And Richard Attenborough, you know, you think of him as, you know, John Hammond from Jurassic Park. or the filmmaker who made like gandhi and all these other movies but you see him in this and he is really playing some like a character you would you would never expect him to play and he's doing it very well
Richard Attenborough has always been a very underrated actor. I thought he was outstanding in The Great Escape as well. Oh, yes. Yes, he was. He found that pin across the room. that's right well 10 reelington plays for dave i mean for uh bill for number six uh my number six is hot dog I will say that it is a hot dog and it is all the screaming in the world won't help you.
And you're like, what in the hell is that? It is Dario Argento's The Bird with a Crystal Plumage. Oh, I love this movie so freaking much. And yes, that's my number two Argento film on my top.
ken list of the 1970s deal with it because i love dario argento and i love the bird with crystal plumage man go listen and the one thing i like about that film is i love seeing early to mid 70s crime films where they're where they use their pseudoscience to try to figure out who the killer is right and there's that whole scene where they're trying to wire tap and all that and it's laughable watching it that's right that's right well cool if you haven't seen it go check it out
It's my number six. All right, Dave, we're down to five golden rings. What is your number five, friend? Line number five has already been mentioned, and a couple times I'm going to say it is Ridley Scott's Alien. and going to Tarantino again. He said, he remembers in 79, this movie was one of the events of the year. This was one of the ones that everybody was waiting to see.
He says I'm very interesting, though, that that Dan O'Bannon and his co-writer originally wrote this to get a movie going with Roger Corman. It was their version of what they thought a Roger Corman New World Pictures film would be. But Corman hesitated. They liked it and they were interested in doing it, but they hesitated. And then Walter Hill got a hold of it. Now, he didn't think the script was very good, but that he needed to make a few changes to it.
to get it made. And one of the changes that Walter Hill made was turning the Ripley character into a woman. It was originally written to be a male character, changed Ripley to be a female character, and the rest is history. I love it. Oh, my God. I can't argue with that either. Matt Quentin Tarantino was a legend. Still is a legend. Let's be honest. I love to hear his quirkiness. Hey, Dave, had you ever seen the movie It, the Terror from Beyond Space?
That's exactly what this movie was. And that's John Carpenter. He I don't know if him and Dan O'Bannon had a falling out. I don't know what it was, but there's a book out there of interviews with John Carpenter. And he basically says Dan O'Bannon pretty much stole everything he's ever done. And he said. that Alien was basically his version of it, the terror from beyond space.
Yeah, you can definitely see it if you compare the two. Yeah. I love it. All right, so Alien 1979 for Dave. Five golden rings for you, Darren. What is your number five? Hot dog. Lots of hot dogs. And my number five is also Alien from 1979. I mean, this film, you know, it just took that haunted house.
premise and put it into outer space and it's a haunted house you can never escape because you open the doors you're dead and if you stay inside you're dead so it and it was just really well done i mean the rewrite that walter hill did he did an outstanding job so everything that's been said about it has been said so that's my number five nice i love it uh alien 1979 let's go to Pearl, what is number five my love? Guess what? What? I have another tie.
Do you? For real? Yeah. Oh, shit. Bill's going to have an aneurysm. All right, Bill. Feature. Double feature. People tie it at number five. Unless we're doing a top five. Normally you tie it like the ten spotters. I mean, come on. I love it. All right, leave her alone. Love you have a tie every episode. I know I do, don't I? Do it. I love it. I love it. Okay. I would do it too because I just love to aggravate the shit out of Bill.
Go ahead, Pearl. It's my blue ass. It probably is all the way up in Canada blue. It's probably freezing. All right, Pearl. oh god it would be like that scene in um in uh what was it uh a christmas story with the kid putting his tongue on the pole except it would just it would be greg's lips on oh never mind Watch it. Watch it. Oh, God. All right, move on quickly, Pearl. I got a number five. You're a double deuce there. Okay. In the words of Rizzo from Grease.
Hot dog with relish. Oh, nice. A little relish. It's aliens. Okay. Alien from 1979. Alien. Yes. Okay. Got you. My other one. It's the place that I want to go see. I want to see this place. I haven't yet. I know Shannon tells me about it. The Amityville Horror. Oh, there you go. Very good. Oh, the love for Amityville Horror is strong in my house, buddy. I love that fucking movie, dude. God, that movie. It's like when you start looking at haunted house movies.
Where do you rank them? Because you got a lot of them, right? There was a lot that came out. Man, it's hard to beat Amityville Horror. It is. In my opinion. I mean, I know some people. And then you got Margaret Kidder. So, you know. Can't go wrong there. It's been funny. For me, Margot Kidder, when I was a kid, she's always Lois Lane. Yeah, she is. From Superman. She was always Lois Lane in the Superman movies.
but man she was she was in sisters you know brian de palma's sister she was in black christmas she was in amityville horror yeah a lot a lot of iconic uh 70s horror films She was. Love her and sisters. All right, Bill. Let's hear your number five. Do you got a tie? A 17-way tie for fifth. Sweet. I love it. I love it. Let's see which movie Jesus Franco was shooting in 74. Oh, yeah. My number five is one with my favorite all-time horror actor.
And it's probably my favorite of his and the one that sticks and it's my go-to. And I love the simplicity yet the deviousness. And it kind of helps set up those films where, you know, traps and deceiving your enemy. first kind of came out. And that is 1973's Theater of Blood. I love this film. And there's the revenge aspect to it. There's a love story attached to this. It's the creativity of the kills and getting back at people that didn't serve him, he thought in a way that was a proper manner.
the kills are so much fun when he is that groovy 70s hair stylist it is i got that as one of my uh icons as my figure in yahoo like that's one of my images is him with the hair or what he does with a a puppy let's just say a puppy I think and it's got even like it's got a very Corman-esque ending to this film yeah You could argue one of the early proto-slashers if you look at it in a certain light. I think this is just a fantastic film. I love this movie.
Great choice. Can't argue, buddy. I love it. So, Theater of Blood, 1973. Let's go to my number five. And here it is. We are going to eat you. The dead are among us. it's lucio fulci zombie 2 aka zombie oh man i love this movie Some of the greatest looking zombies you'll ever see in any zombie film in any genre. They were freaking scary, creepy. We got the greatest eye gouge scene in cinema history. Everything about this movie is classic. Love it.
Love it. Great Italian zombie film. 1979. Zombie. The dead are among us. Deal with it there, buddy. And I was going to say, how does your eye feel? Your right eye. My right eye is feeling kind of shoddy right now. Me eye. Me eye is looking a little. Damn, Papa. I do that because Pearl says it. So there. Pearl always says me eye. And I'm like, okay, me eye.
All right, Dave, what is your number? Let's say four. Let's say five golden rings, four turtle doves. All right, four turtle doves, Dave. Let's hear it. What's your number four? I got a rock. If you were doing that back at number 10, that would have been painful. All right. Well, my number four, I believe it is the first time it will be mentioned tonight. Pretty sure it will not be the last time it is mentioned. My number four is Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
and i saw a video for this now it was richard dreyfus now dreyfus was saying he turned down the part of hooper a few times spielberg kept approaching him with it and he kept turning it down and he said he turned it down because he knew this would movie would be held to make he told steven spielberg that he would love to see the movie when it came out but he does not want to be in the movie then
Dreyfus said he went and saw himself in a movie called The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which was his first big role. And he was so horrified by how terrible he thought he was in that movie.
that he was afraid he would never act again so he called and begged spielberg for a part in this film saying i'm you know i'm feeling you know he can't he feelings like i can't turn down parts now because he thought he was so bad in this other movie Also something very interesting, and I'm sure some people already know this, but both Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson turned down the role of Quint.
And I saw an interview with Lee Marvin and actually he was there with Charles Bronson. I wasn't sure who the interviewer was. But Marvin was saying that he said, I may even turn the movie down. It's not like I said, no, I'm turning it down because I just didn't take it. You know, it's not like we had these long conversations or anything. Just I didn't take the role. He said he didn't take it because he didn't like the book and he didn't like the script.
But both he and Bronson did admit after seeing Robert Shaw. who they said was magnificent in the movie, that it worked out for the best that they refused, that the right person did end up getting the role. Although Lee Marvin said he does shudder every now and again when he thinks about it, because in those days, and Charles Bronson had the same contract, they used to get 10.
percent of the prop they get 10 percent of the box office um and uh that would have been pretty sweet with the box office that jaws pulled in uh so anyway yes my number four is jaws Love it. I had also heard that Sterling Hayden had gotten that was originally cast as Quint, wasn't that? I had heard that as well. Yes, I had heard that as well. I love it. Nice.
All right, Darren, let's hear about your four turtle doves. What you got coming in at number four? Okay, hot dog. My number four is 1973's The Exorcist by William Friedkin. I did not see this back when it premiered in 1973 but I did get to see it when they brought it back to the theaters around here it was around 1978 I think it was and
That's just, I mean, my mind was just completely blown by everything that I had heard about it up until that point. I thought, you know, it can't really be as scary as it was. And when I went and saw it, it was even more scary to me. And I just couldn't believe what a great and frightening experience it was to see that film on screen.
So that's my number four. I love it. The Exorcist 1973. Yes, man. I got to tell you, the hardest part of me making this top ten list, I pared this down from like...
55 different movies anytime my list tomorrow if i made this list tomorrow it probably it would probably change and not with the same films in a definite rotation order i might actually drop some films and put other ones in i can't absolutely believe the plethora of great films that came out of the 70s so this is it's just amazing that i can get the list that i got now yeah i love it
All right, Bill, let's see your turtle doves. But no, it's Pearl. Pearl, let me see your turtle doves. What's number four? I ain't showing you my turtle doves. Let me see them turtle doves, damn it. You got to show me them damn turtle doves. You know what? Yeah. My number four. Quickly moving on from that. Yeah, go ahead, love. What you got? My number four. I know what it is from that.
Though he has a very, very short part in this. Billy Nolan. What can go wrong with a girl's telekinesis and get her on a... Bad day of the month. And at the same time be bullied and everything. And still have someone in the background. Even though he was mean. Kill the piggy. He did kill the piggy. He did.
But it's Carrie. 1976. I love it. I knew it was instantly. As soon as you went, huh, I'm like, okay, it's John Travolta. But which movie? I don't know. It could have been The Devil's Reign. I don't know. Maybe that's on there somewhere. We don't know. We don't know. That was my guess. Pearl's sitting with Carrie instead, so there you go. All right, woman. Bill, let me see them turtle doves, buddy. What's your number four?
Oh, you're talking about tea bags and my turtle doves. Mine, hot dog, ditto, whatever you want to say. My number four is the classic of the genre, Black Christmas. Yes. And whenever anybody talks about proto-horrors and proto-slashers and those kind of things, this is the one I bring up.
You know, you can go all the way back to Peeping Tom and you can go back to Bay of Blood and you can talk about Texas Chainsaw. But I really think that Black Christmas was the first one to kind of go there without going there. And if you watch the first five minutes of Halloween, you know immediately where he got a little bit of inspiration. And so, to me, it's a local film.
It was shot in Toronto and the University of Toronto campus and Andrea Martin went on to SCTV and she'd already just done Cannibal Girls. But what I also like about it is that it touched social concepts. Abortion. women's rights equality while still dealing with horror and that creepy guy who talks really dirty up in the up in the top of the house there and you just see the eyes
And you guarantee Stanley Kubrick watched that before he did The Shining. Black Christmas to me is just any time of the year, absolute classic. I love it. Cool. Number four, Black Christmas for Bill. Let's hear my turtle doves. My turtle doves goes this route. When was the last time you were really scared? Psycho? The Exorcist? Jaws?
Now there's Deep Red. That's right. Dario Argento's 1975 Deep Red. That's right. Three. Count them. Three Dario Argento films in my top ten thus far. Deep Red 1975. Love. This freaking movie is so hard. It's just hard. I'm going to do my Arnold. Get to the chopper. I'm telling you right now, dude, this movie just gets me going, man. I love Deep Red. Yes? No, it's because you distracted me. When you were counting 1, 2, 3, you made me think of the count from Sesame Street. 1, 2, 2!
three three three deep red there we go all right so number four was 1975's deep red hey greg you've got three where does phantom of the opera fit Well, yeah, that's probably around 9, 10. I don't know. Let me look right here. Let's see. Yeah, I'll do that one day. I'm looking at it. I've got all my Argentos right here. But, yeah, it would be down the list.
always uh all right cool one day i'll do that for you guys just for the hell of it all right so number three doctor shot three i don't even know what the hell it is fuck it uh number three dave what do you got all right no yeah What number three? I was trying to sit here and think of it myself. Thank God I don't know that song. My number three.
is one that has been mentioned, and I have a feeling may be mentioned at least one more time. It is John Carpenter's Halloween. And who did I look up for this? I looked up a review of what they were talking about. talking about slashers, it was none other than Siskel and Ebert. People who get quoted too often. When you're talking about horror, they were talking about the slashers and defending their stance on on the slashers of the 80s by saying that they both like Halloween.
They both gave it a positive rating and they said it stood apart from these others because of how it treated its characters, especially the female characters. They were smart. They were likable. you're sort of rooted for them. They weren't just these sort of cookie cutter characters that he said with the slashers of the 80s. And some, you can see a point a little bit, but I think it's a little bit too much because I think there were plenty of likable.
characters in the 80s as well siskel even said that went during the scene in the closet he put himself in jamie lee curtis's place like what would he do how would he get out of that and he could tell watching this movie that not only did carpenter like his characters who were the victims He knew that he also Carpenter also loved movies by the way he made this one. So, yeah, my number three is in my it's actually my number four favorite horror film.
of all time, and it is Halloween. I love it, and it's three wee-wee French hens. There we go. Three French hens. And I made it wrong because it wasn't four turtle doves, two turtle doves. It's two turtle doves. It's four... Mockingbirds. Four calling birds. Four calling birds. What the hell's a calling bird by the name?
Whatever. Jesus, God, one calling bird would drive me out of my mind. To have four French hens calling you would be hell, too. You should live in my neighborhood. That's where it was all over the place. Oh, boy. I'm going to say, would you rather have that or meads of milking?
Nah, give me that maids of milking. We'll go with that. You know that every single one of those references a bird, even the golden rings and the maids of milking, it's not actual maids milking. It has something to do with every single one of those. By the time it's done, you have like 80 birds in this house. They're tearing that shit down. I love it. I love it. All right, Darren. What is number three, my friend? Okay, my number three.
I have a feeling we'll also be mentioned again, but it hasn't been mentioned yet. It is 1974's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Tobey Hooper. I love this film, but it...
I did not see this one in the theater, unfortunately. The first time I saw this was in the 80s, and it was the very... first time at least in this area that it was ever broadcast on network television which in this case it was actually a syndicated network and it was only shown at midnight that way they could show the whole thing and i stayed up and watched it and
My God, it was just one of the best horror films that I had ever seen. And done in that gritty documentary style. And it's like you could almost... smell the odor of that house when you're going through it. It was that powerful. It was just one that nobody should ever miss, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That's what I always think of too. I know. It's the camera. It's the Polaroid. Yeah. And it did not turn me off a barbecue.
Oh, good. All right, well, Pearl, what is yours? I was going to say, what about head cheese? Oh, yeah, good. Ew. I do not want head cheese. Well, I never liked that in the first place. Good. All right, Pearl, what's your number three, love? My number three has been mentioned, so this time I'm going to say hot dog with chili cheese fries. Oh, chili cheese fries would be great right now. Oh, I know, right? I'm hungry. Yeah, me too. Anywho.
Well, you won't be hungry after this. Okay, good. My number three. Captain Howdy, do you think my mom's pretty? Captain Howdy. Captain Howdy, that isn't nice. Of course. It's Reagan saying that. little part after she's playing with the board that brings on the exorcist yes Love, love, love, love. Exorcist 1973. Of course, it'd be yours. One of your first movies ever seen. We were watching that the other day. We did. Oh, Pearl watches so many movies. It's Exorcist number three.
referral love it all right bill what's that french hens got for you all right my three french hens is one that is my third all-time horror movies my top three are all 70s A lot of people will have this as a remake. I will have it as a continuation of the story. And that's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I will argue with anyone that the appearance of Kevin McCarthy in this film is yet an extension of the original story rather than a remake. But that's up to the interpretation of the viewer.
always said my love for don sutherland probably my favorite actor of all time his versatility is just phenomenal and i will argue among the top five endings in horror yet alone any genre of all time you're not gonna forget it and whether you're four or 94 it's gonna scare the bejeebers right out of you It becomes a survival film. It becomes a sci-fi film. It becomes a horror film. It becomes an invasion film. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is just off the hook, as the kids might say.
Love it. You make a great point because I don't, I never, you know, because of the title, you just assume it's a remake. But there are no carryover of characters. or situations or anything from the first movie, except like you said, you have Kevin McCarthy.
redoing that role doing the same role like continuing on with that character in this so i think you're absolutely right this this is um it's it's it's a remake in title only you know but i do think uh see it more as a continuation and i love seeing don siegel as the cab driver yeah he did yes he had a cameo on this as well and he's the most you know plays it so straight yes where would you like can you know and he turns around and they're gone right now i
I agree with you, Bill, because I saw this in 78, and I came away with that same thing, thinking that this is actually a sequel. It's not a remake. When I saw Kevin McCarthy's appearance in there, because he was doing the exact same... thing that he did at the end of the original film. To me, I thought he was playing the same character. And a lot of people think Cujo is the scariest dog in horror. Uh-uh.
No, this damn dog scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Seeing that on TV, holy shit. That scared the living shit out of me. You know who was playing the banjo in that? Jerry Garcia. Oh, yes. Jerry was there. That's right. Yeah. That's cool. I love it. So you know there was a certain smell in the air. Let's just put it that way.
Yeah, I love it. All right, cool. Let's go to my number three. My number three is on the 4th of July, fishing season will open on you. That's right. 1975's Jaws. Dang it. Burn it. Burn it.
iconic love it my french hens brought me a shark and i'll tell you what it's a mean shark it's a vicious shark it's a shark that'll get you out there in the crawl and make you go higher uh so i love it i love jaws 1975 it was a no-brainer for me love steven spielberg i love this movie and this is such a classic all right dave let's go into two turtle doves let's go to it number two my friend all right my number
Number two is, well, it's in my top ten of all time. And it is George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. And for this one, I saw a conversation between Eli Roth and Rob Zombie.
talking about this movie and eli roth made a comment that you know this came out in 78 and he said when he first saw it he's like this doesn't look like star wars you know it looks it has more of a realistic uh look to it because of the grittiness of it and he said back then he didn't know the difference between like you know 32 millimeter 16 millimeter or anything like that um but this one had a more realistic look to it like it could have had it could have been a documentary
Rob Zombie was saying that the crowd that he saw it with had this aura of like the group was watching something dangerous, especially those scenes in the in that tenement building. with the cops going through. And it just kept getting crazier and crazier as they were watching it. You know, George Romero always had a theme or not a theme, but like a, I guess a moral.
one of a better term, with his films. And this one obviously was looking at consumerism and how they basically thought they found the perfect place to wait this out. and until they just started getting bored with the stuff around them uh you know among other things of course bikers coming in and then the zombies eventually finding them certainly put a damper on things as well So that was what Romero did. Romero was using zombies to make points. But yeah, this to me is his...
Best movie. It is, to me, the best zombie film ever made. It is Dawn of the Dead. I love that movie. Good choice, Dave. All right, Darren. I feel like it's going to be there.
What is your number two? I know where you're going, I think, but let's hear it. Oh, hot dog. My number two goes a little something like this. You know the thing about a shark? When he comes at you, he's got... lifeless eyes black eyes like a doll's eyes when he's coming at you he doesn't seem to be living till he bites you and those black eyes roll over white and despite all the pounding and hollering
The rest of those sharks come in and rip you to pieces. It's 1975, Jaws. That was wonderful, brother. I loved it. Yeah, I just, yeah. We, again, saw this in the theater. I went back and saw this probably like six times. My mom just kept driving us and dropping us off. to her it was like hey i get it i get a day without the kids we would always say we want to go see jaws we kept going back and going back and seeing it
This is the first movie that I ever actually bought a movie soundtrack for. I love the music in it so much by John Williams. And so we got the album, we played the album, and then we go beg my mom, let's go see the movie again. And off we go. But, yeah, that's my number two is Jaws. Love it. All right, Bill. Let's hear it, brother. Number two, Turtledoes. Oh, Pearl. God dang it, Pearl. I'm sorry, love. Damn it. That is totally... Number two, love. I need a shot. I need a shot. I need one.
My number two, you know, Brain Fog. I don't know if it was mentioned or not. I think it was. I don't know. We've listed a lot of movies. Instead of hot dogs, say sausage. There you go. That's a good one, Bill. Might be a sausage. Might be a hot dog. I don't know. Little big, little big. I don't know. We'll find out. Either way, you don't want to know how they're made. That's right. Yeah, exactly. No, no, no. Going to 1976, Gregory Peck, and of course, that...
Evil little boy where he says, Daddy, please don't. And I'm like, no, you better do it. And if he gets you, I don't know, find out. But the omen. I love it. The Omen is such a great movie, man. Everybody knows I love that movie. Has that been mentioned? That might be the first time. That is the first time. Oh, okay. Then there's no sausages or hot dogs there. I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned either, honestly. That tells you how strong a decade it was. Yeah, absolutely.
It's all for you, Damien. It's all for you. Oh, what a great movie. Love it, love. I'm glad you chose it. Really glad. I want a Rottweiler. You do? Yes. Okay. It's one of the few horror movies that my wife would actually watch with me. She's not a huge horror fan because she gets scared really easy. But she will watch that because she's an even bigger Gregory Peck fan. Nice. My favorite part of that film is the last shot because the director had to get the kid to smile for that last scene.
I haven't read into what he actually did. I don't know if he'd dance around. He's got that sly smile in the corner. Oh, it's great. Sweet. All right, Bill. Let's hear your number two, buddy. I was going to say, poor David Warner. One of the best kills. Oh, dude, that was brutal. That's awesome.
I know it was coming too. That's the tough part. You can see it coming and you know it looks kind of fake after but the actual event when it happened is just phenomenal. My number two has been mentioned a bunch of times. I will enter with a song. Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. Yee-haw! I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it's gone right to my head. Wherever I may roam, overland or sea or form.
You can always hear me singing this song. Said, show me the way to go home. Show me the way to go home. That movie to me is... You know, you see certain movies and you're thinking, you know, I'd tweak this, I'd add a character here. I can't think of anything that would make this film any better. And the beauty of this movie is that...
Originally, Brucey was going to be seen a lot more, but due to electronic problems, his minimal use actually adds to the effect and the scariness and the paranoia and the point of view shots. John Williams' soundtrack is awesome. I will argue with anybody that Robert Shaw's performance is the greatest character in American cinema. How he did not get an Oscar nomination blows my mind.
That I agree 100%. 100%. He deserved one for that Indianapolis speech alone. The thing is, he plays an asshole, but an asshole with a heart of gold. That's right. He's the asshole you want on your side in this situation. That's for sure. Unless you want to make a radio call. He's a character that nowadays probably wouldn't get written due to this toxic masculinity. Fuck you. That was one of the best performances you're going to get.
I agree. And that ending scene when the boat is collapsing and he knows he's going into the mouth of Brucey and you know what's coming and they delay it just enough for you to feel that fear. There's nothing like that on American. canadian european cinema out there i would say that that was the one time that they really got the shark to work perfectly because when there was there's this one close-up scene where you see this shark
They just show the shark's mouth and it's biting down, but you see it kind of, the way it comes down in just like increments, you can see it's like it's crunching through him. And that's right before it hit, the blood comes out of his mouth. You could just see, like, that just gave me the heebie-jeebies when I saw that scene. Love it. All right, well, Jaws, number two for Bill, 1970, blah, blah, blah, five. Five. Five. All right, so let's go to my number two. My number two is...
My turtle doves are screaming. They're saying, I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you got to do. Don't mean you have to like it. Do we know what it is? 1974's Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Let me scratch my little glasses. I have to think about that. Yeah, that's right. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That's right. Do it, Dave. Your brother got no pride in his home. Yes, yes. It would not be a Christmas top 10 episode without Dave doing.
that quote i love it all right so yeah 1974 texas chainsaw massacre love this movie love love love love so they're number two all right let's get into it we're down to the partridges in the pear tree We're down to the number ones. What everybody has anticipated. The ones that everybody will be completely shocked. Yes. I hope everybody is sitting down for this round. Tie up your pants, make sure your undies ain't falling because you're going to be shocked. I don't know why, but I did that line.
reading from Texas Chainsaw Massacre like I was Roscoe P. Coltrane from the Dukes of Hathaway. Stop rum running. Stop run running. That's right. Dip stick. Dip stick. All right. Here comes the anticipation. Anticipation. Anticipation, yeah. Well, I will end that anticipation now. My number one, of course, has been mentioned. It is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. One of the greatest.
This movie's ever made. And I'm going back for this one, actually, to Tarantino. And he came up when I did a search on this. He was on Jimmy Kimmel. He was promoting his book, Cinema Speculation. And they were talking about the movies that he would call perfect. Now, among the ones that Tarantino said he would call a perfect movie, he called out two others that were mentioned quite a few times today, Jaws and The Exorcist. He said he looked at them as perfect.
Woody Allen's Annie Hall was perfect. He said Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. He could certainly get behind people who would say that was a perfect film. But what caused Kimmel to bring this up was that in the book Cinema Speculation, Tarantino called the Texas... it's on massacre a perfect movie now what he means by that he says it's one that and this is him saying it one crosses all aesthetics even if it isn't your kind of movie even if it's something that doesn't appeal to you
You can't tear it down. You can't say, boy, what a piece of shit that movie was. No, it's just you could say, hey, that wasn't really something that did it for me, but the movie itself. Now, some people do, of course. That movie sucked. Whatever. But he says that you can't like legitimately do that with the Texas Chancellor massacre because it's that kind of movie. It has crossed all those sort of aesthetics that even people who don't just who will say it's.
not their kind of movie still have a certain respect for it uh with with what it did and what it was able to accomplish within the genre um so yeah number one Always and forever is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I love it. Cool. Hey, Dave, did you see the 2022 Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Yes, I did. I liked it quite a bit, but...
you know, it's, it's, it's very, it's very different. It's taken more. And what they did with Sally Hardesty was a travesty because they basically were building her up to be like Jamie Lee Curtis in the new Halloween. And then she was so ineffective. Yeah. Yeah. That was my big, that was.
my big problem with the movie, too, because at the end of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Sally Hardsley, you could see her mind had snapped. She was done. She was not going to come back from that. And they even talked about that in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. You know, that she was basically like, she was out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Texas Chainsaw 74. All right, Darren, let me hear it. I know what it is, but let me hear it, friend. This is another anticipation one here, but I know what it is.
My number one was probably William Shatner's greatest role because you only saw his face. That is John Carpenter's 1978. Masterpiece Halloween. And, yeah, I think it's...
Oh, yeah, I know. That's not sucking up. That's just reality, buddy. Halloween is the greatest movie of all time. Just saying. Just saying. Here's the reason why it is for me. I did see this in the theater back in 78. It really, it was like... it scared the crap out of me and i've talked i've talked on morris vision how i always wanted to find films that would make me feel that way when i when i go to see it and this one definitely hit all the buttons and it was
definitely the music had a big part of it and i you know and i saw it said john carpenter's halloween well who's this john carpenter and i realized and then i went back and i started seeing what else he's made and unbeknownst to me I had actually seen all of his theatrical films before this in the theater at the time. And so from that time forward, I made it a point to see any John Carpenter film coming after that that was in the theater as well.
I saw Dark Star back in 1974. I saw Assault on Precinct 13 in 1976. And this movie just – made me take notice of who this guy was and i wanted to follow his career and and he did it well i mean yeah he had some turds along the way you know looking at you go to mars that so the ward yeah there you go I liked the word better than you, Greg, but no, it's not a good film. I kind of feel the same way about that. I think I like the word a little bit more, but it's, you know...
Carpenter didn't see a lot of movies later on, and it's very clever if you've never seen Identity. Exactly. Yeah, if Identity was never made, it would have been a clever film. There you go. I agree. but yeah 1978 John Carpenter Halloween Jamie Lee Curtis was perfection in the movie so with Donald Pleasance and I know somebody else is going to say more about this so I will stop now it may come up one more time it might You can't argue with perfection. Good choice. I'm just saying.
And, you know, it's interesting, Darren, you mentioned about, you know, Carpenter, you know, seeing his earlier films. Now, Assault on Precinct 13, I always think one thing I think about with that. And again, I'm going back to this book of interviews with him. They spent a lot of the money that they had for that movie to get the look, to get the right camera, the right film. They spent more money on that.
um aspect of it because john carpenter said i want to make a movie that looks like a movie that i would have seen in the theater you know and dark stars not that but it was a college project so it's not going to be that So he said, I wanted to make a movie that would have looked like the movies I saw when I was a kid. And it was a big fan of Rio Bravo, you know, and those kind of films. That's what he wanted. So he put a lot of the money, probably more than half. Off the budget, I think.
into getting the equipment and film to make it look like a movie he would have seen in the theater. And I think he pulled it off. I think that he absolutely accomplished it. It's not the first thing that hits you as you're watching it. You're thinking about the story. everything else that's going on. But then you step out, you're looking like, this is it. He did it. This looks like a classic sort of movie. Definitely did. Yeah. I love it. All right. It's a Halloween. All right, Pearl.
What is number one anticipation? I'm curious. Born in the image of the greatest power in the world, the desolate one. Desolate because in greatness was taken from him. and he was cast down. But he has risen, Mark, in me. Join me. It is 1978, Damien, The Omen 2. The Omen 2? Yep. Holy crap! 19 cent. That is a surprise. But, I mean, not an unpleasant one. I think that movie gets a lot of, gets more crap than it deserves because I think it's a really good one as well.
Oh, it's extremely underrated, I think. Absolutely. And it's that whole thing of Damien finding out he doesn't know who he is yet. He doesn't know who he is. And he finds out during that movie. what he's there for and that scene where it's just a little bit too much for him to take yeah i would have liked to see them take that scene a little further but
Still, it's played well enough that you get the idea that here's here's somebody realizing, hey, I'm the son of I'm the spawn of Satan. I had no idea. I didn't know why that one aunt didn't like him or, you know. the the animals would be turning on him and things like that it was such a cool scene yeah i do like this one more than the actual first omen because uh i mean yeah because he is
Coming of age, he's playing with what he now finds out that he has powers. He easily starts playing with it. Yeah, enjoying it. When you first started reading it, I thought, did He-Man come out? Because I was thinking Grayskull. Grayskull. It just sounded sort of like that. I didn't know He-Man was right there. Jonathan Scott Taylor did an outstanding job, I thought, as Damian in that.
yeah like he didn't continue acting agreed he's really good wow i love it all right well cool pearl all right so here's another anticipation let me hear that partridge in the pear tree there buddy let me hear it i want to hear it Bill, what is your number one 1978 Halloween movie for your list? My Halloween movie? Yeah, that's your movie, right? Oh. I didn't mean to burst your bubble. I knew that's what it was. Go ahead. I'm going to do a classic from 1974. Halloween.
The devil in Miss Jones. I'm going to go with, obviously, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And it had...
Such an impact on me my all-time favorite horror film and it's my number three film of all time Yes, my top two are comedies, but that's a discussion for another day I watched it when I was I'm gonna estimate 11 And when I watched it it's both scared the crap right out of me yet i couldn't look away and was intrigued and you know you've got a movie when that happens i love hearing the voice of john laro kid at the beginning
And knowing the story that he was, you know, a young struggling up and coming actor whose role he was paid literally a gram of marijuana. He was paid a joint to do that role. And, you know, he probably said, you know, fair enough. Give me an hour of fun, you know? But... Just think of all the pot he got when Night Court. All the confiscated things? Is that what he was talking about? But...
I mean, things in that film that you don't realize. There's that opening scene where you see the armadillo on the highway. That wasn't in the script. It just happened to be on the Texas highway. It just happened to come upon it. Yeah, the first things you see in that movie are all, like, they're dead. You're seeing those bodies in the opening. You see that armadillo. Before you meet the characters, you're seeing all of this death.
You get into that scene where they, you know, they get near the cemetery and you got all the, you know, the Texas yahoos and their pickup trucks. And it just leads to, you know, the picking up a hitchhiker. This is not a film you dissect for political correctness. It's not a film you look for political meaning to it or any kind of societal impact. I'm sure you could, but...
The grittiness. I don't think it was intended. In this case, I don't think it was intended. I think Tobey Hooper's just saying, hey, I want to make a horror movie. You know, guerrilla filmmaking, you know, all the stories of filming the scene where the meat was becoming rancid and after multiple takes, you know, that, you know, Sally couldn't stand the smell of the meat, you know, a grandpa. And yeah.
If you haven't seen it, I'm not going to see it anymore. Just see the damn movie. I love it. Chainsaw Massacre for Bill 1974 is a no-brainer. But here comes the... the epicness anticipation song coming here. Who is number one for Gregor Mortis is 19, uh, 70s movie and it is from 1978 listeners yes it is it's dawn of the dead Wrong. Damn it. All right. It's invasion of the body snatchers. Wait a second. Darren wants to change his answer to Donna. I'm going to switch my number six.
Of course, it's Halloween. Everybody knows that. I mean, the cast. What can I not say about this movie? It's Superman. Superman? What? 1978. Okay, yeah, there's my number one movie. Pearl convinced me, 1978. Superman is my number one movie. Number one horror movie is Superman. That damn Donner got me. No, I love this fucking movie. I'm not going to say anything. I'm just going to tell you. a masterpiece is when you take a bob ross painting
and you finish it with the signature of Bob Ross, you haven't even scratched the surface. If you had a Picasso, if you had a Beethoven note, If you had any of this, none of that compares to the masterpiece of what John Carpenter painted on screen, and that is 1978 Halloween. Fight me for it. I don't care. It's the greatest movie of all time. Star Trek. And I always say this. You said it, Dave.
You said that it will always be 1974 takes a chase on Master, right? I want a movie to knock it off. I would love to find a new movie. It would be incredible. Every movie I go into, I'm hoping it's going to be a new favorite. Right. So I'm begging. I'm begging for a movie to knock off 1978 Halloween. Please do it. Please bring me a movie that's going to just freaking say Halloween is going to be number two. I would love that.
Please do it. It's not going to happen, but please do it. I do. I'm like you, Dave. I go right into it. And there's a couple movies this year that was really strong. There are. 2024. You know, we have that episode. It's not next, but we have that episode coming up in the near future where we're going to look at our top 10 of of 2024 and uh uh there are some movies that i've had to uh reluctantly cut from the list that in the last two years would have been like number six it's true
That's true. Wait for that. It's coming up in probably January-ish. We'll get out our top 10 horror movies of 2024. Stay tuned for that. So this has been our, our top 10 horror movies of... the decade of the 1970s. I hope you have enjoyed that part. And thank you for tuning in. We'll see you next time. No, I'm just kidding. We still got a lot more left. We got a lot more left.
All right, as we get ready to get into our calls for the night, let's head over to Dave because we want to do this up front and then we'll do this again at the end of the episode. But what is the next episode of LOTC going to be, Mr. Shock? All right. By the way, it's Dr. Shock. This is true. This is right. I didn't go to two semesters at a community college. It's called Mr. Love it! just call it out just call it like it is okay uh it is episode episode 408 episode 408
is going to be our guest, Justin Beam. We're going to be talking rock and roll horror movies with metal soundtracks. Yes. Examples that Pearl had provided. Shocker, Strangeland, movies like that. We're going to be talking for Captain Howdy. Maybe. Yep. So that is going to be episode 408. So you can call now 1-804-569-5682 to get your calls in. We'll announce this again at the end of the episode as well, but we wanted to get that in before we got to you, the listener.
So without further ado, let's get into these. We're going to go first to Patrick Gunter. We love Patrick. He sent in his top ten, and we'll go from number one to number ten. His number one horror movie. No, let's do it now. Let's go backwards. Number ten was... Alien. Number nine was Suspiria. Number eight was Jaws. Number seven Phantasm. Number six is Young Frankenstein.
Yes. Number five, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Number four, The Exorcist. Number three, Halloween. How dare you? Number two, The Omen. And his number one horror movie of the 1970s was Dawn of the Dead. This was very hard to make. And, Greg, you're right. Of course I am. He said Smile 2 was better than the original. I love it. Exactly. You're right. That's a first-time mention of Suspiria and Young Frankenstein. Hold on.
I did Suspiria, but definitely Young Frankenstein. Definitely first to Young Frankenstein. I love that. Good list. The only thing with that is you could argue Young Frankenstein isn't a horror. But it's got Frankenstein. We'll roll with it. But it's horrid, Jason. Damn right. All right, cool. I can't go back. Besides, Marty Feldman scares the shit out of everybody when he starts singing.
as that head when they're looking at the decomposition of the various stages. What was the comment Cloris Leachman made about a hump? He put it on the roots! Okay, there we go. All right. Next one up here is going to be from Matt Nichols. He says, hello, creeps. It's mainly horror calling in. And he says, I mean, typing in from Maine khaki lackey or just Maine for all you Southerners out there.
That's a good one. I like that. I like that. That was pretty good. He said, wanted to call in, but a bit under the weather. So this will have to do. Here's my list. And sorry, you're feeling under the weather. I know what you're feeling there, brother. I hope you get feeling better. His number. Number 10 was Taurus Trap. Got a bit of an Evil Dead 2 feel with this one. Number 9, ooh, here's a first time mention. And Taurus Trap was as well. But number 9, let's scare Jessica to death.
Saw it as a kid and loved it. Also, it was my sister's name, so she hated it. Oh, I got another first time. How about number eight's Killdozer? Enough said. It's a giant... Clint Walker. Yes. You wouldn't think a movie like Killdozer starts with a meteor coming down from outer space. He said, enough said. It's a giant Tonka truck of death. Number seven, Black. christmas what a movie and f landlines am i right that's right landlines suck
Oh, here's another first time. I was going to say the thing is, though, you don't get the pleasurable experience of hanging up on somebody anymore. This is true. This is true. Or having to run down. You can't slam it down. Yeah, you can't. That's right. Yeah, take this. There's a whole generation of people that have never slammed. Yeah, exactly. They won't even know. They'll be talking for five minutes before they realize you're not there.
anymore yeah or go back and do star 69 you call them back oh bam uh Not another person. They just slam it down, and they use it as an excuse to buy a new phone. That's right. Yeah, exactly. You slam it down, you're screwing yourself. You're not doing anything to the person on the other end. I can remember doing that and then making a quick drive up to Kmart. That's right. That's right. Number six is Race with the Devil. First time mentioned Road Trip with Colts. That's a good one.
Yep. Yeah. He said, road trip with cults. What else could a creep ask for? Number five was mentioned one time by Pearl, and that is Carrie. And he said, based on the book by Hometown. a hometown hero, Mr. King, and a bleak reminder that they all will laugh at you. They'll all laugh at you. They'll all laugh at you. Billy Nolan. They'll all laugh at you.
Oh, my God. Here we go. Number four. Matt, Matt, Matt. Mainly. Halloween. And he says, I know, Greg. I know. Then why did you do it? If you knew, why did you do it? I'm just saying. Because it's his list, not yours. But you're right. You're right. You're right. I can't argue with that. All right, cool. Number three, Dawn of the Dead. Got to love malls, he said.
Number two, great choice, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Man, does this one stick with you. And his number one film of 1970s decade is... That's me trying to do the suck up sound. It's Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In my mind, the greatest horror film of all. You suck up. You just want to suck up Bill and Dave. I know what you're doing, Matt. Good man. Good man. Just remember, I'm the only one that clicks record over here. Just always remember that.
No, I love it. Great choice, man. He said, God bless and love you bunch of little creepos keeping horror live. I love it, man. Great call. voicemail, voicemail, fuck, email because he was under the weather. So thank you, brother, man. Appreciate that, dude. He was great. Yeah, thanks. That's awesome. Absolutely, man. Loved it. All right, so let's get to some call calls.
Call calls. Call, call, call. Call, call. Call, call, call, call, call. Damn calling birds. Damn calling birds get you every fucking time, man. I guess it would have been better if I'd actually had my calls. up and ready right so i think that's where i should have been then you envy you well you know i don't do anything like i should so yeah you know i'm just thinking how how happy i am that at least in the 12 days of christmas there's no seagulls
All right, let's see. Here we go. This is going to be a good call right here. Let's see if we can get this call in. Everybody ready? Might be a voice you might recognize. The great Pearl, Dave, Bill, Darren from Northern California, Colin. And welcome, Darren from Northern California. Don't fuck this up, okay? And for God's sake, get a last name. All right. Anyway, I just wanted to call and...
in honor of the 1970s and talking about the top 10 from the 1970s. I won't give you my top 10 yet. Let my future self there tell you what that is. given you this call to let you know that I'm continuing my streak of not missing calling into every episode. All right. Hope you guys have a great show. Talk to you next time. Take care. Bye-bye.
There you go. I said at the beginning before we started recording, I said, this is going to be a very weird episode because we're not going to get a call from Darren from Northern California. And there it is. That was so good. That was so good. Yeah, that's great. Oh, my God. That was epic. I loved it. All right, cool. All right, let's go to- You should have kicked it over to Darren. Darren, take it away. Yeah, we should have. Go ahead, Darren. Call in right now.
Now I'm speechless. Yeah. Let's go to G-Rag from Norkacky Lacky. Hey, creepers. It's G-Rag calling on the best of the 1970s episode. And today I'm calling on Friday the 13th. I'm looking out the back window at my sign that says parking lot number 13. And you know what? I'm going to do a top 13 list. Just me? Going to do a top 13?
Here we go, because 10 was not enough. So many good flicks. We're going to start off, but let me go ahead and get into it. Number 13, I'm going to say Willard. I really enjoy Willard. I like little critter horror. uh little animals and animals are cute and rats are kind of cute and uh bruce davison was so good in this and uh ernie bird nine and the woman who played his mom whose name escapes me anyway
We're going to throw Willard in there, number 13. And number 12, Sisters of Brian De Palma, Margot Kidder. Amazing movie that's got so much of, I don't know, sort of classic horror. tropes, sort of giallo tropes, the whodunit part of it. Anyway, check that out if you haven't gotten a chance. Anyway, number 11, Blackula. Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, William Marshall just brings such gravitas to the role. And, yeah, and I'm all about, you know, underrepresented communities getting a fair shake and getting a damn good movie out of it, really like Blackula. And then we're going to go with, at number 10, The Brood, David Cronenberg. So good. You've got to love The Brood. Especially good in the winter horror, as we are right now in late December. We're going to go to number nine with The Crazies.
George Romero's first appearance on this list, and I really like The Crazies. I feel like The Crazies and The Crazies sequel are both kind of like, you know, very much like realistic in a way. technically and acting wise i'd say that the crazy sequel is better but you can't have that without the first one and george romero uh just destroying that man so good and then we're down to number eight with invasion of the body snatchers
And this is where we're going to start to see some variants. I bet people are going to have a lot of the same movies, but in different orders. Invasion of the Body Smashers, great paranoid horror, great period piece, great acting, such a good movie. And then we're going to go to It's Alive for number seven. Or is this number eight? Number eight. One, two, three, four, five.
Number 7. Yeah, It's Alive, number 7. That's just a personal fave. I don't think it's going to make a lot of people's top 10s or even top 13s, but I do love It's Alive. And, you know, it's sort of science-y, kind of science fiction-y, kind of real-world-y feeling. I wish it could happen. And then we've got Carrie. Love Carrie. Love Stephen King's stuff. Oh, and it's another Brian De Palma.
and he got cut off but i'm loving that he is bringing so many new ones to the list yes willard that was a surprise i i was like some reason i was thinking late 60s but no that is the early 70s that's uh that's a good one
Let's go to a second call. Hey, it's D-Reg, second call here. I got benched while talking about my number six movie of the 1970s, which was Carrie. And Carrie... um there was a there was a question popped up on the group uh somebody posted uh you know what's who's your favorite female horror movie villain and i do think uh carrie's mom this is smith
uh played by piper lori is a chilling billing uh villain um she she is just kind of magnetic charismatic and spicable at the same time um so gotta love her uh this is this is smith and yeah the brian de palma direction uh performances the source material the john travolta yeah uh pj souls just everybody was so good in that
You know, of course, Sissy Spacek is the title role, just really combining the wide-eyed innocence and the wide-eyed horror. Oh, she's so good in that. So anyway, number six, second Brian De Palma. movie on the list will it be the last uh and then we've got number five is the exorcist which is incredibly influential um has it got a goofy note here or there yeah but that's okay that's okay i mean the book
You read The Exorcist, it's got some goofy notes in it. So anyway, we're going to go to The Exorcist. And the number four, the second appearance by one of the directors here, we've got George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Personal favorite of mine, yes, another movie with goofy moments, but it really solidifies, you know, the zombies versus the world kind of theme that you see in so many works.
The Walking Dead was on for, like, what, 127 seasons. Somehow it predates the existence of film, but it started as a TV show. I don't know how that works. But, you know, you wouldn't have that without Dawn of the Dead. And it's just so good. Again, great performances, great acting, source material, special effects, amazing stuff there. Tom Savini just thrown it all in the kitchen sink. And then we got...
For number three, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is non-parallel, except I put it number three. But Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I'm sure it's going to get plenty talked up, but yeah, it's really good. And that's one I didn't see for a long time. I probably didn't see that.
until like 2010 or something i would just kind of put it down i was like oh it's just like grungy everybody's dirty it's filmed in the dark you know whatever and just kind of lumped it into that category but total eye-opener once i watched it um just fantastic anybody hasn't seen it uh you're missing out and then number two i'm gonna put jaws and uh jaws is real scary to me you know don't go in the water it was you
And he got cut off. No! Let's go to his third call. Let's get it. Let's get it. Let's see what he's got. All right. Hey, double benching for the old Jaeger over here. All right. G-Reg is back. Call 3, thanks for letting us make all these calls and take up, you know, so much time on the podcast. And love the podcast. Love this 1970s coverage that you guys dedicated this year to. What an eye-opener.
uh saw movies i hadn't seen before um you know even a couple of the movies that made this list um one of the movies that made this list i had not seen before But, you know, it definitely drew a greater appreciation for just the wider scope of all the movies that came out in the 1970s in the horror realm. And some I still haven't seen. You know, I was looking back, I got notes on my phone.
for lists of the 1970s movies for each year, for most of them anyway. Some of them I put on Post-it notes, and I've lost those, but the ones that are on the phone I do have.
and there'll be like need to watch want to watch and there'll be ones that uh popped up on list when i called in and i didn't have seen them yet and some i haven't gotten around to but in any case i was talking about jaws that was my number two and Steven Spielberg, The Master, and such a good movie, such great set pieces, and humor, the horror, and seeing as I drowned as a child, and, you know, obviously resuscitated.
But, yeah, that was a scary experience in my past. So watery horror will get to me. There's some movies I won't watch because there's so much of a water theme to it. There you go. Jaws is so good. and you know the john williams theme oh my gosh which brings us to number one speaking of great movies with great themes great directing great performances cultural significance and all that you know it's got to go tonight
I know it's not everybody's favorite. Probably not going to make that many number ones. And honestly, it doesn't make mine. Haha, just kidding. My number one is actually Halloween. Halloween. I imagine at least one of the esteemed hosts. At least one of you is going to agree with me on this one, the Halloween. Yes. So masterful. And again, the theme music. The segue to that, the theme music is so good. Just John Carpenter hitting on all cylinders.
I love the story of it, the little indie movie that could, that the music was thrown together over a weekend that, you know, changed the test screenings from, you know, bad. bad responses from the audience to very positive responses such as the power of the music and that's something you see follow through in his other movies and i don't know anyway i could blather on and on about that
But, yeah, that's my number one Halloween, 1978. And, you know, there's so many other incredible movies, you know, stuff that, you know, Eaten Alive, Basket Case, just all the movies, Rabid. Just so many good moves. And he got cut off, and it doesn't look like he called back in, so I guess he just figured he was done. He's like, screw it, I'm done. You heard it. But, you know, Halloween makes it perfect.
Does anybody argue with that list? No. Nobody. Nobody. One or two. Yeah, maybe. That was a great list. The thing I love about these kind of lists is it's your list. Yeah, exactly. So who's going to say, oh, no, you shouldn't have chosen The Exorcist. You should have chosen Phantom. Your own bloody list. Exactly. You can't be wrong with your own list. That is correct. Unless Halloween's not number one. Big mistake for him not putting Night of the Weepus on his top ten.
Hey, I'm a star. Oh, and them giant bunnies are. Yeah, those giant bunnies are running down the road. That's terrifying. I saw a picture today where somebody reviewed slugs. and it's and it's called slugs the movie i believe it's not just slugs for for anyone who mistakes it for slugs the bug this is slugs as opposed to like what the award-winning novel Slugs. Yeah. Slugs the hard rock album. Yeah, exactly. Slugs the opera. No, it's Slugs the movie. Come on.
All right, let's go to Derek Johns from Canada. Hey, what's up, Land of the Crease? This is Derek Johns from Canada calling in for the 1970s top ten list for the decade. Just want to... Start off by saying hi to Dave, Greg, Bill, and Pearl. And special guest, I think, is Darren. It was great hearing you on the Mortis Vision the other day as well.
i love listening to that show and the black belt mysteries both are great especially when you do the stranger things i can't wait to hear what you think of season three and four as i feel they are better than season one and two even though i love season one and two um but anyway let's get going on my list here it's going to be a little different could be no oddball movies in here really but number 10 start with bay of blood
which is the first time that I got to see this movie was earlier this year. Number nine, The Omen. Number eight, Last House on the Left. Number seven, Salem's Lot. Number six, Carrie. My next three could be kind of interchangeable. It just depends. I know some people in here won't agree with that, but number five is Jaws 2. Number four, Dawn of the Dead.
number three texas chainsaw massacre the only two that are not changeable on this whole list are my first two number two is jaws and then number one would be phantasm no just kidding greg we all know it's halloween 1978. It would probably be most people's except for maybe Dave and Bill, but they're wrong, and that's all right. That's right. That's right. Everybody, thanks for doing such a great show and everything you do for us. Love you guys. Bye.
I love it. Y'all could be wrong, right? And we love them, too. We do. And I love that he threw in Salem's Lot and Last House on the Left. They haven't been mentioned yet. That's the first mention of Salem's Lot. And the first... Wes Craven. He also did another pretty great movie in the 70s called The Hills Have Eyes. It's the first mention of Wes Craven tonight. I love it. I love these lists.
All right, let's get to Victoria. Hey, Landon Peeps. Victoria calling in for the top 10 of the 70s. I can't believe we're already through that and at the end of the year. And Christmas is right around the corner. That's wild. It's going to be 2025. I don't feel ready. But, you know, neither here nor there. So I'm going to...
I had trouble with doing these top ten lists of like one decade or something like that because there are a lot of movies I like. You know, there's a lot of movies there, but... You know, I like them in the same, they will be in the same ranking for different reasons. You know, one's maybe scarier to me, but one has, you know, better directing or maybe better acting or something like that.
or made me feel more emotional for the characters, just for whatever reason. But I decided, okay, for Bill there, Merry Christmas, Bill, no tie. Thank you. So I did do two lists, though. I did what I guess I would say is the top 10 of the 70s and then my favorite. Although I would say these would probably change on another day if I'm feeling different. So for what I have for the top 10, again, these will probably change, but I'm just going to read them.
Number 10, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Number 9, Carrie. Number 8, The Wicker Man. Number 7, Omen. 6, Black Christmas. 5, Jaws. 4, Halloween. Three, Alien. Two, The Exorcist. And number one, I think is the best one, is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And the reason I put that, that was actually...
When I thought about it, I thought, okay, what's my number 10 and what's my number one? And then I'll walk around that. When I think about it and I think about what the best is, I think about what's something that just strikes out in your mind that will always...
catch your attention. And it's the initial scene of, I can't think of the character's name right now, but getting hit in the head and the falling to the ground and the shaking and the door slam. That's something that lives in my head and rent free. i didn't grow up with the movie you know it was been out for you know 12 years before i was born but when i saw it i knew that that was something incredible amazing that
you know, change things for the horror genre. So that's why that is my list. So don't get cut off and I can just do the other list. I'm going to hang up and call right back for my favorites. All right. And she has some first time mentions in there as well. Like, uh, so coming in strong, let's go to her second call here. There. Okay. I'll have Victoria calling back in to list my favorite top 10.
of the 70s again these might change probably would probably next week anyway there are two that actually landed in the same position as my previous list of the top 10 so For my favorite space for right now, for 1970s, number 10, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Number nine, Asylum. I think it's such a good anthology that... I think sometimes gets overlooked by people who aren't as deep into horror as we are.
And so when someone asks for like an anthology or maybe an older movie they haven't seen, it's one of the ones I always try to recommend because I doubt they've seen it. Anyway, number eight, Tales from the Crypt. Number seven, The House That Drip Blood. Number six, The Omen. Number five, Jaws. Number four, Halloween. Number three, Suspiria. Bill, I told you that's going to be high on my list. Number two was my number one of the 74.
Yeah, magic. And my number one favorite that for right now is Black Christmas. Maybe I'm just in the holiday horror mood right now because it is December and I'm watching my... holiday horror movies, but as of it stands, that is my number one. I really am looking forward to hearing everyone's list and, you know, let's go into this new year with some hope and positivity and be here for each other and keep horror alive. Love you guys. Talk to you later.
Yes, we all do. What an amazing, amazing list. Love it, love it, love it. Even though Halloween was four. Put together two top ten lists. That's pretty cool. Yeah, definitely. And Halloween was not number one in any of them. Victoria. Oh. All right. All right. Let's go to, I think we know who this gentleman is. Let's see. All right. All right. All right. All right. Atlanta, the creeps. This is Greg from Ohio.
Yeah, baby. And it's the top ten of the sensational 70s. Yes! Well, I don't know. I didn't go with, like, the best. Because, well, my list was quite... I haven't seen enough to give off a best of the 70s. However, I also view my list as probably some of the best from the 1970s. Now, not all on my list are the best of the 1970s. However, again... There's some pretty heavy hitters on there, and it's probably verbatim, you know, for a lot of lists have some crossovers, I would say, at least.
Every top ten list probably would have three or maybe even four crossovers. Well, but without further ado... Going from number 10, and this is really not in any particular order, but I did put them in an order. So don't look now. Number 10. Number 9, Suspiria. Number 8 goes to... carry number seven black's christmas number six the texas chainsaw massacre number five invasion of the body snatchers
Number four, Alien. Number three, House. Number two, man, this was such a hard one. One and two were so hard. Number two was... John Carpenter's Halloween from 1978. Yes, I know Greg, I'm so sorry. I wanted to put it at number one, but my number one is one of those movies that... Very similar to Halloween. Every time I watch it, I see something new. I learn something new. I embrace something new. But I saw this movie before I saw Halloween 1978.
and that is Steven Spielberg's great epic movie, Jaws. It's a horror movie. I don't care what anybody, nobody's ever going to tell me any different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, it's a full subjective, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I agree. It's tried and true, a horror movie from start to finish, and it has more.
That's why it's so long-lasting is that it offers so much more. Dang it. He got cut off. That's why. You got cut off because you didn't put Halloween number one. I'm just saying. Dang it. I love you, Greg. All right, let's go to this last call. Yes, it's me. My little internal alarm was going, and I realized I was out of time.
I just couldn't. I just couldn't. I had so much build up for my number one. Yes, I'm pretty sure I was able to get that in and ramble a little bit. It is Steven Spielberg's Jaws. And yes, it's a horror movie. And I won't argue with anybody again. You know, it's all subjective. I understand all that stuff. But it's horror from start to finish. It never lets up. It gives you just the right amount of time to soak it all in, and then it hits you again. It's like a little bit of a gut punch.
I've just known this movie so much and I've watched it like several on this list so many times. It gives a warm hug. If a horror movie can give you a hug, this is one of those where it's like, I would just love to sit with any of the actors from this movie and just hear about their adventures. You know, either as the character or as the actor, it wouldn't have mattered. These guys are tops. And I feel like I always learn more every time I watch it.
I don't know. This movie just has... If there's a thing as elevated horror, this is one of the first. Or maybe one of the better ones. I shouldn't say really the first because I think there's other movies that would also have that, where it's not just all horror, blood and guts and scary stuff being thrown at you. There's some family...
drama involved and there's you know it's it's man versus man man versus self man versus beast all these very basic down to the bones primitive ways of telling a story and Jaws has it all in one complete movie and that's why it's so hard to see any other shark movie without comparing it to this one. It's the granddaddy. It's the king. It's Jaws. And baby, our Bruce rocked it out of the park. And I can't wait to hear the episode, and I'll talk at you later.
You know, I can't ever argue with somebody that says Jaws is their favorite movie. Because how can you argue with that? It's such a damn good movie. I do not. No, you can't. It's a masterpiece. It's a masterpiece. Let's see here. Who do we got here? Oh, we got Chris Bartoli. Let's see what he's got for us. Hey, Land of the Creeps, Chris Bartoli from Worcester, Mass.
calling for the my top 10 of the 1970s and so i'm just gonna go right into the list and i just got a couple things just to say after that so all right let's see boneless chicken breast heavy oh wait a minute sorry that's my shopping list all right just kidding all right number 10 the hills have eyes number nine black christmas eight the exorcist 7. The Omen. 6. Terry. 5. Alien. 4. With Joe Fulci's Zombie. 3. Dawn of the Dead. 2.
texas chainsaw massacre and number one john coppin is halloween that's right that's right so that's my top 10. now notice here's something that's going to sound kind of crazy he knows that jaws not on the list Jaws is my absolute favorite movie of all time. It's number one. Halloween's actually number three. And I guess I'm in that weird camp that doesn't exactly consider Jaws like a horror movie, even though it is horrific, it's scary, and...
But here's my thinking on that one. So this is just my opinion. The first time I saw Jaws, that was probably eight or nine. And I don't remember if it was at the theater or if it was on HBO, but back like in the late 70s, early 80s, they would re-release. movies to the theater like every few years so i know i saw and i loved it and there was parts that scared me for sure didn't terrify me but i really liked it now the first time i saw halloween was i think 1981 when they did it on the um
You know, the network television premiere that Halloween night. And I was, if it was 81, I was 10. And I remember my friend was sleeping over and we watched it with my mom. And that movie terrified me. And I loved it, but it scared the shit out of me.
So that's kind of where I make that little distinction. I know it's probably some people think that way. Most people don't. And I wouldn't begrudge anybody for calling it a horror movie because that's just my opinion anyways. So that's it. That's what I got. Land of the Creeps, love you guys, and thank you for keeping horror alive. Bye. Yeah, love you too, brother. And that was a good list. Good list, man, for sure. I was going to say, and I have had that debate many a time. Right. Chris.
Yeah. Like my wife, Jen, doesn't think it's a horror movie. One of my best friends, Gary, doesn't think it's. They just consider it an action adventure. Yeah. Like a thriller. I go the other way. I tend to think if it scares you, it's a horror, but... I don't know, maybe Showgirl scares you. Well, that had horrifying elements, too. I think the financiers of that one were the most scared. I know Joe Esterhaus was. Yes, Joe Esterhaus. Oh, boy. Oh, here comes Anthony.
What drink is he made up? I don't know. Let's see. Let's see if he's got him. I'll get our drink. Hello, creepers. This is Anthony. I'm calling in from the Grand Hotel at the Grand Canyon. This is the Grand Canyon. Taking a little bit of time off of my vacay. call in because i i have to get this in uh it's 70s and it's the top 10 and i i didn't hear throughout the 70s so i wanted to finish strong and also you know the holidays are coming up
Gotta wish happy holidays to everybody. I hope everyone has a great time, watches a lot of Christmas horror. And I'm going to cheers to peace and love and all of you. I'm here at the bar. I'm sipping on some... Some bullet rye. Why? Because I'm a rye guy. Oh, man, they just kicked on music. Okay. Hopefully it's not too loud here. But cheers, peace, and love to you all. Okay, really quickly, I want to run down my, I mean, again, 70, top 10 of all, that'd be extremely difficult, but...
I'm not even going to do any ties. I'm not going to be a tie guy. I may be a ride guy, but I'm not going to be a tie guy. I'm just going to do Robin Brandt down from 10 to 1. 10 Taurus Trap, 9 Deep Red, 8 The Brood, 7 Jaws. Six, Exorcist. Five, Dawn of the Dead. Four, Alien. Three, Tex Chainsaw. Three, Invasion of the Body Snatches. And number one, motherfucking Xperia, baby. Visteria, baby. Oh, man. And I don't know if you're in the background, but your STP just kicked on, and I feel it.
All right. Love you all. Love you all. I love it, man. Suspiria number one. I love you, Anthony R. You are the man, dude. I say nothing. Boo hiss on Bill. Boo hiss. I've been very polite. You have. You have. Acknowledge and say difference of opinion. I've got to say this. Dave, you and Bill have been very...
uh, very generous of not giving me a lot of smack for telling you y'all are wrong because you are, but you have been very generous of, of holding back. And I liked it. I appreciate that. Cause you know, It's not easy being wrong all the time, but it's okay. Well, I don't know. Yeah, well, we forget, Greg.
You know, sometimes ignorance is bliss. This is true. This is true. And I know a lot of ignorance. There you go. Oh, shut up, Jay. I love you, Jay the Dead. Here we go. Let's go to Jermaine. Here we go. What's up, creepers? It's Jermaine Adams. All right, so you guys need the top 10 from the 1970s. Yes. That's easy. Way too easy.
I'll give him an extra one, though. Anyway, top ten. Number ten comes in, Carrie. Gotta love her. Nine, Hills Have Eyes. There it is, Dave. And coming in at number eight, Dawn of the Dead. Seven. Phantasm. Six. The Amityville Horror. Five. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Four. Alien. Three. Jaws. I know. I know. Two, Halloween, baby. And number one, the only movie that still gives a shit out of me, The Exorcist. Oh, nice. But I'm going to add 10A and say...
The Salem's Lot miniseries, because it wasn't really a movie. It was more of a miniseries, but it's given to you as a movie now. You know what I mean. But yeah, those are my top ten. Hope you guys have a blessed and bloody Christmas. Later, fellas and ladies. Bye-bye. Bye. I love Jermaine, and I love he threw in the hills have eyes, Dave. He threw it in. Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Such a good list. I love that list. Good job. Hell yeah.
With an awesome remake, too. Yeah, exactly. God. Alexander, aha! Let's see. Just a few more calls here. Let's go to Tony Kanopka, who, Dave, you got to hang out with recently. Yeah. Oh, great. As a matter of fact, I was talking to Tony about, he says, what's the next episode? And I said, it's going to be the 1970s. He goes, oh, I have to call in for that one. Well, he did. He did. Perfect. Here it is.
What's up, Land of the Creeps? This is Tony Konopka from Detroit, Michigan. Going to give you my top ten for the 1970s and must be glutton for punishment because I haven't called in. for a while and this list has been driving me bananas um so for bill's sake i did not do any ties but i do have some honorable mentions because i got to mention something it's just unbelievable
Movies you love, you can't even put on this list. All right, so honorable mentions. Eaten Alive. Zombie. Nosferatu. Creature from Black Lake. Don't Torture a Duckling. The House That Drip Blood, Tales from the Crypt, and one of my favorites that's not a great movie, I just love it, Squirm. All right, top ten, here we go. Number ten, I got Black Christmas. Nine, The Exorcist.
I got The Exorcist this low because for me it's not very rewatchable. It's a classic and I love it, but it's not a movie I've seen a hundred times like my number one film that I'll be getting to here in a second. Number eight. Deep Red. Number seven, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Number six, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. Number five, Alien. Number four, Phantasm.
Just love, love, love that movie. Number three, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Number two, Jaws. And number one should be number one on everybody's list. Isn't that right, Gregor Mortis? You damn right. Yeah, Halloween. Yes. Michael Myers. Yes. Doesn't get better. All right. Can't wait to hear everybody's bliss. Hope everybody's doing great. I'm glad I got to hang out with Dave Dr. Shock last week. That was fantastic. Going to that movie theater, movie store.
They had like everything you want there. Well, I tried to buy everything I could, but I only have two hands. It was great to see Dave and be great. Hopefully I get to see Greg and Pearl again soon too. And we definitely need to do a meetup with Bill. But all right, guys, have a great one. Later. Man, great. Yeah, great call, and I agree with Pearl. We got to do this, Tony. We got to meet up again, dude. We got to have a beer again. Oh, so good. Love it. And I love that he, you know, it is.
honorable mentions obviously you know he didn't have ties or whatever i love that he mentioned creature from black lake That is, you know, that was one I went into, you know, I think I watched it for Greg and the Bigfoot episode or what have you, or it's a lake monster, whatever. But yeah, it's one of those ones that's a little below the surface. But it's a good little movie if anybody hasn't seen Creature from Black Lake. Yeah, it's a fun Bigfoot movie. Let's go to Justin Bean.
Land of the Creeps, this is Justin Bean calling in. The 1970s was such an incredible era for film, and the list is so long, but I'm actually going to stick to 10 here. I'm sure this looks like everybody else's. There's no way it can be that different. Maybe a couple little side roads that I'll take. But Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Martin, Snow Beast, Jaws.
Halloween, Suspiria, Black Christmas, Vampires, and Legend of Boggy Creek. And that's Vampires with a Y. V-A-M-P-Y-R-E-S. All of these movies are on constant rotation for me throughout the year, and I just adore them all. Thank you so much for all you guys are doing. Love to all of you, and I hope everyone has a great holiday. Bye-bye. What a call. What a list. Vampires. Vampires, dude. Yes. Hell yeah. Such a good film.
It kind of gets caught up in that lesbian vampire all about nudity. But the atmosphere, the story, it's a really good film. It really is. In fact, I knew Legend of Boggy Creek would be in his list somewhere because he's such a big fan of Snow Beast. Oh, Snow Beast was another really cool one, yeah. I'm surprised, Justin, you didn't put Avalanche on that one. Well, we know Justin puts Snow Beast on religiously every year, multiple times, and you knew it was there. All right, let's go.
Wait a minute. Oh, I could see some of what the boys, but I was like, wait, this ain't Darren from Northern California. Darren, you're over there, right? Yes. As far as I know. Of course he is. So this can't be you, but I love, all right, here we go. Listen to this call. Hey, Greg, Pearl, Dave, Bill. It's not Darren from Northern California, but he's on the show. God, it sounds just like that.
It's Grave Brewer Bozzelli. I'm in central West Virginia sitting in my classroom right now. My kids are all gone, and I have a list of 40 movies from between 1970 and 1979 in front of me. 40. Yeah, I had to narrow that down. to 10. And I didn't do any ties, Mr. VanVegel, although I wanted to, and even Pearl told me to. So, shout out. But I'm going to break it down for you. I'm going to give you my list from 10 to 1, and then maybe some...
Honorable mentions. How about that? So I have at number 10, blood sucking freaks. I really like this movie. All these I really, really love. Some of these are my favorites of all time. You know, movies I really enjoy from the 70s, and some of them are hopefully a little different than what other people might have on their list, but some of them probably won't be the same. Number nine, I have Blackula. Just an amazing take on Dracula. Great exploitation film.
Blacksploitation film. Number eight, Faces of Death. Now, this came out in the 70s, but I didn't see it until the 80s because I wasn't born until 82. But I saw it way too early. and it left an impression and it's still one of my favorites uh to this day all the controversy there it's just so good the controversy was fun um just gross great gooey gooey goodness
Number seven, I have The Psychic. Just an amazing film. I have it on multiple different formats. VHS, I got the new Severn 4K release with a beautiful box set. Really fun, really great movie. Number six, I have Torso. It was fun. Earlier last year, I think it was, I introduced one of my co-hosts, Dave.
to torso and it kind of blew his mind he's never seen anything like it so that was a lot of fun to see his reaction to torso um as well because it's really good fun fun movie number five i'm sitting at What have you done to Solange? I don't hear this on a lot of lists, and it's kind of a shame because I absolutely love this film, and I think it's really, really good, and their take on Giallo is really, really fun.
I say fun a lot. It's kind of weird. But it's a really good lick. And also, the band VHS does a great song called What Have You Done to Solange? So if you've never heard the VHS song, they did a whole Giallo album. And it's death metal, so it's really, really fun. Really cool. I'm probably going to get cut off, so I'm going to cut myself off and bench myself for the top four. Be right back.
Top four. And I love it, dude. A whole new list, man. This is also, this is why we do this. I didn't think I'd hear faces of death tonight. No, never what I'd have thought. No, I didn't either. i will say this i didn't see it until the 80s too uh greg and it put a big impression on me too i'm not gonna lie and then when i found out it was kind of staged and blah blah blah it really
kind of let me down a lot, but man, that movie, oh my god, dude, they fucking terrified me when I was a kid. It's like one of those Mondo documentary style things, right? Yeah. Like Mondo, Kane, and uh, yeah. Yeah, where they were showing live deaths and stuff. It's almost a rite of passage for a 13-year-old. Yes. And I've seen it way too young, dude. I'm like Greg DiZelli. I was way too young to watch it, but I loved it. And then I watched it, and then I'm like,
dude, I got to watch it again because it's so taboo. Like I shouldn't be watching this and I'm watching it. And I'm like, you know, almost grin and thinking, ha ha, if mom knew I was watching this, I'd be in so much trouble. And yeah, I'd watch them because of that. And then we found out, you know, nah, well, whatever.
yeah i saw it in the 80s and then um you know there was and i was believing pretty much everything but there were two things that kind of made me question it a little bit one was the bear running away with that arm in his mouth and it looks it did not look like a real arm to me and there was this one scene where this person jumps to their death And there's like a music cue that goes a one, two, one, two, three, four. And then I was like, why are they doing this? That's right. That's right.
By the way, the video story that Tony had mentioned, I picked up the 30th anniversary of Faces of Death at that video store. Did you? Yeah. Wow. I don't even want to ask how much it was, but cool. I'm glad you got it. It wasn't that much. I want to say it was like, because I think it was used. So I think it was like 1899, something like that. It was a DVD.
DVD, yeah. It was not on Blu-ray. It was DVD. Yeah, that's fine. All right, well, let's go to Greg Bozzelli's last call here. Horns up. It's me again, Greg Brewer Bozzelli. And I left off. with you guys at number four, I believe. So I'm going four, three, two, one here. All bangers, in my opinion. All top-tier films and two 10 out of 10s in this one.
So number four is Zombie with the ever-present eye of Fulci. Yeah, what can be said that hasn't been said already about Zombie? So I'm just going to leave with that. Hopefully I'll hear that on a couple other lists today. Piranha, number three. Joe Dante's take on Beasts. I think it's really underrated.
Maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe people do love this film. But I've always loved Piranha. I think it's a lot of fun. Again, I'm saying fun. I think it's really well made. Joe Dante's personality comes out of it. It's really good. Number two. Deep Red or Profundo Rosso. Yeah, I heard you guys talk a lot about Deep Red on your guys' show back in the 75, I think is when it came out, episode.
So a lot of love for that one. And I'm really, really pleased when I hear people talk about Deep Red because it's such a good film. And my number one of the 70s, it's... I'm in my top five of all time. It is a 10 out of 10. I got to see it on the big screen for the 50th anniversary last year. And just remember, you know, your mother cooks.
Socks in hell, I think is what she says. Maybe I'm dyslexic. I'm not sure. It's The Exorcist, baby. I love that film. It's my comfort film. I always tell people that certain things make me feel like I'm home. The Exorcist makes me feel like home. It just gives me that feeling. I know I'm weird. That's okay. I have a lot of announcements for you. I have a house. It's a, I don't know. It's a trippy ride. It's worth a watch.
Bill introduced me to Theater of Blood, and now it's one of my favorites of the 70s. It's so good. Really good flick. Cannibal Girls. I'm just going to leave it at Cannibal Girls. the mummy's revenge i'm a huge mummy fan mummy's my favorite mythological creature uh always will always has been uh always will be uh tombs of the blind dead um house of dark shadows barnabas collins is amazing
What else? We have Alice Sweet Alice, Black Christmas, CCM Job. I'm not going to mention all those. Those are going to be mentioned by everybody else. Deliverance. I live in Deliverance, I feel, every day in the Gulf of West Virginia. So there's that. I didn't get to say congratulations on the 400th episode, so keep doing what you're doing. Keep making sure that everyone knows what's going on, which is that we...
And he got cut off. He got cut off. Yeah, he didn't call back a third time, but he wanted to say the only thing he had left to say was that he loved us all. Elbows up and back to the mosh pit. He brought up deliverance And people don't really think of that as a horror film But it really kind of is Oh god yeah Are you kidding that there are moments in that That are terrifying
Exactly. Pig. When they're dragging his body down the river. Yeah. I love it. All right. Just a couple more calls here. So we'll get to these and then we'll do our. honorable mention closeout so i think what we'll do listeners is once we get done with the phone calls we're going to just kind of do our outros but we're going to give our our uh honorable mentions during our outros i think be a great way to go about it
So with that said, let's go to 00 Tim. Let's see what 00 Tim Mitchell's got. And he said, Dear Greg. This is what I looked like making the 70s list. If y'all can see it, I will show Pearl. He's got this little gif of this woman screaming like she's got tissues and she's like, ah!
This is what it was like. Yeah, okay, her. And then he says, and this is what it looks like when I finish the list and a bunch of whiskey. And he's got, I'm not doing yabba dabba dick today. It's got Fred Flintstone singing in a bathtub. I don't know why, but I can't. He says, I don't know why, but I can only read that title in Roll's sultry voice. Jackass. All right, here we go. Let's see what 0010 comes up with.
This is 00 Tim out in Bloomington, Indiana. In the best of the 70s, this was a painful list to make because I kind of agree with Bill. I'm not a big fan of... ties it you know just man up and pick one or rank them so what i have here is really kind of like my top four it's just when you iron out the two-way and three-way ties you end up with this list so what i got coming in at number 10
Carrie, Suspiria, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Omen, Dawn of the Dead, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Exorcist, Alien, and coming in at number one, Halloween. I wish you guys could see this list of other movies that I love just as much, but I didn't get to say because you only wanted 10. So you're only going to get 10. Everyone at LOTC and all your loved ones have a bodacious holiday season and a rockin' 2025. 00 Tim out.
Awesome. Another first-timer in there too, man. I love it, dude. I'm loving that these lists are different. I'd love to know how many different titles. Yes. Were mentioned, you know, during during this episode by everybody. That would be that would be interesting because it shows you just how strong a decade it was. There's such a diversity.
I mean, we must have had at least legitimately 25 different films make people's lists. At least, yeah. At least, yeah. This sounds like a 0010 project. Yeah, it does. Let us know how many different movies were mentioned on this. Yeah. Now that we've only got about now that we're getting to next to last callers, let's let's go back and listen again and then do that.
Let's do that. Let's go through every call. He's going to say, are you two, Ken? And I'm not going to be here. Hey, I got time. My wife's gone until tomorrow. Oh, there you go. Cool. Darren's hanging out with us. Let's go to... Pearl, edit it and get it to Darren before the night's out. Let's go to Ian Urza. Hey Land of the Creeps, it's Ian Erza sending in a recording for the top 10 horror films of the 1970s.
So I had one honorable mention that was a really hard cut from my list. I was really surprised they didn't make it, but it just tells you how strong the decade is for this not to make it, and that is Invasion of the Body Snatchers. film like the whole time i thought of course this is going to be in and apparently as i was going through my list i thought well i guess it's not going to make the cut um starting off at number 10 i have my favorite sergio martino film all the colors of the dark
At number nine, Dario Argento, Suspiria. Not the only time we're going to hear Dario Argento's name on this list. At number eight, The Exorcist. Number seven, Dawn of the Dead. Number six, Jaws. Number five, Deep Red. That's the other Argento film on this list. Number four, Halloween. Number three, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Number two, Alien. And number one, Zombie, Lucio Fulci.
Of course, I had to go with Lucio Fulci for my number one. I bet that that was really predictable. Anyway, as always, guys, thanks for letting us call into the show, eagerly awaiting what other people have to say about this, and I hope it goes well. yeah zombie was a no-brainer i knew that was gonna be there yeah that that was that pretty much yeah all right cool let's see we have two Yep, two more calls left here. So let's go to Brian Scott. I love Brian Scott. He texted me yesterday.
yesterday he said i'm gonna call in at 455 my time uh because he always does this last minute he does it on purpose i love you brian you know i do brother here we go hey and his calls are usually like hey 1970s for some great movies Yeah. OTC for life. Yes. Here we go. Hey, guys. Brian Scott, horror movie fanboy here. Well, my top ten list of 1970 feels so...
regular, mainstream, popular movies, but there's a reason these movies are popular, because they're awesome. And since my call, hopefully we played last. I just want to, in hindsight, predict Greg's number one will be Halloween. Bill and Dave's number one will be Chainsaw Massacre. But my number one is Black Christmas, 1974. I love that movie. My number two, Dawn of the Dead. Then Halloween. Then Chainsaw Massacre. Then Alien. Then Exorcist. Then Jaws. So then we get to my final three.
Number eight, children shouldn't play with dead things. My second Bob Clark movie here on the list. Number nine is a really interesting one, Massacre at Central High. It's a great... High school bully movie that turns into a weird slasher movie. It's rarely seen. I never hear it mentioned, so check that one out. Massacre at Central High. And then my number 10, Taurus Trap.
Thanks, guys. L-O-T-C for love. Here we are. I'm giving him a hard time, and he pulls out a couple of very cool titles that our children shouldn't play with dead things. And massacre Central High. You know that he was going to pull out some obscure slashers. You just knew that. But his number one of Black Christmas, he is the king of Christmas horror. So it is no surprise. That's right. All right. So now we're going to go to the last call of the night, which.
We'll probably have a couple more trickle in before we record possibly, or after we record possibly, so we'll still probably squeeze some in. Hey, guys and gals, we had a couple calls come in from...
Dr. Walking Dead, Kyle Bishop, and we're going to play these voicemails right now, and unfortunately it'll just be myself and Pearl listening in because Dave and Bill and... uh darren has already hung up this is a few days later so uh i want you to listen to these voicemails and see what kyle bishop comes up with i'm sure it's gonna be some really good stuff so here we go hey creepers
Dr. Walking Dead here. Yes. Late to the party. Oh, my gosh. My tiredness is an embarrassment, not only because you have another educator on Land of the Creeps. It's just unprofessional for me to keep calling in late. But now, now I got Doc Shock taking pot shots at me for being late all the time. I don't know. Starting to feel like Jay around here. Ugh. Bye.
Here I am, late to the party, talking a little bit more about Voodoo. You had some really great callers who did call in on time, Dave, such as Ian. Sorry, Ian Erza. Dave and Amy Lee. I can't remember Dave's last name, but they both brought a lot of really great information to the table. Super awesome stuff. But, yeah, I mean, voodoo is what we call it now. A less formal version is hoodoo, which is a little bit more of the superstitious commercial side.
But it does all come from an official Haitian religion that's usually represented as more of voodoo, D-O-U, or voodoon, with an N on the end. It does kind of come from Africa originally, so some African beliefs in the worship of Loa, or the spirits of dead ancestors, was brought from Africa. merged somewhat cataclysmically with the Catholic teachings of the saints and the worship of the saints. And so the Loa became kind of synonymous with Catholic saints because so many of the slaves were...
forced to convert to Catholicism, but continued to practice African beliefs and folk traditions. And so those kind of merge together into more or less what we call voodoo today. And the voodoo that is actually practiced in places like Haiti and the southern United States is more of, I think Pearl was talking about, it's more of a nature religion kind of worship of nature. And it's a maternal type of religion. And so a lot of the ideas about the voodoo dolls and obviously the zombies and stuff.
That's a little bit more sensational because people like William Seabrook went to Haiti during the American occupation at the beginning of the 20th century and, you know, to sell books. he wanted to tell the most wild sensational crazy stories about this primitive folk practice. So that kind of got into American mainstream and made its way into films, like White Zombie. One that wasn't mentioned on the show is King of the Zombies.
Although Wunga, I think Bill mentioned that one. There are a number of these films in the 30s, but most of them are really bad, so I didn't mention them. But anyway, there are connections, obviously, but it is a little bit of a bastardization of a real religion. So just wanted to share that. Super cool that you did. And he got cut off. Let's go to his next call.
All right. Semi-intentional benching. I knew I was going to run out of time. So I wanted to talk now about what is hopefully the current episode. Dave, Doc, Schockbecker, trying to be on time here. And if my enfeebled brain is telling me correctly, this is the top ten of the 1970s episode. I'm going to throw down with that. 70s, amazing decade for horror. I would say 1930s.
1970s, and maybe the 2010s or the 20s. I don't know. Maybe those are the three biggest decades for horror, although the one we're currently in is shaping up to be a nice decade. I'll just jump into it, and this list is probably going to change depending on when you talk to me. It'll probably be different next year. All right, from 1970s, my number 10 film is Amityville Horror. Love a good haunted house. American haunted house story. Love it. Amityville Horror. Number nine, The Crazies.
George Romero's other super influential film that kind of preceded and predicted the infected zombie craze of the 2000s. Number eight, Suspiria. That's right, controversial pick. Love the color scheme, great witch narrative, plus, you know, dancing. Number seven is The Exorcist. I know that probably should be higher. I feel a little guilty about that, but I'm kind of putting together the films.
in the way I like them or in, you know, the order I would maybe want to watch them. The Exorcist is maybe the scariest movie ever made. Not sure about that, but it is what it is. Number six, Zombie 2 or Zombie, Fulci's great film. Shark versus zombie battle is hard to beat. By the way, I'm enjoying the full cheat episode of Black Glove Mysteries right now.
Number five. Shocker, shocker. I know. Sorry. Dawn of the Dead. It's a little low. It's still my favorite zombie movie, but it's not my favorite horror movie. Number four. This is for you, Dave. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Love it. Always loved it. It kind of was one of my introductions to horror when I watched it in college. Love, love, love. Number three, this is where it's getting hard. Number three is actually...
Yeesh, I don't know now. Oh, three. I'm going to put Jaws on three. I go back and forth on Jaws because it is more of a thriller, but I think that last act is definitely horror. And then number two is Alien, my favorite sci-fi horror of all time. Love, love, love Alien. And then finally, my number one, because I'm always trying to curry favor with Greg Amortis.
is of course john carpenter's halloween my man horror movie ever made for so many reasons and thank you for keeping horror alive thanks for letting us call in thanks for all you do hi pearl hope you're on the show and peace I love it. That was Kyle Bishop, the Doctor of Walking Dead. And because he picked Halloween as number one movie of the 1970s, he absolutely gets the Atta Boy Award. Love it. And unfortunately...
We had already recorded this, so we'll have to let Dave go back and listen to all this because I'm with you, Kyle. He shouldn't be giving you crap about that, right? Boo! I love it. You were dead on, almost right on time, brother. Just almost. Missed it barely by being on time. But you're right there at it, brother. Appreciate you calling in. If not, this is officially, quote unquote, the last call of the night. We're going to go to Greg P. and Amy Lee.
Fun for all that children call Their favorite time of year It's under my butts. Is that better now? Yeah. All right. So this is your gruesome Tucson coming to the LOTZ family for the top 10 of the 1970s. This was not a hard list for you, I don't think. It may be a little harder for me, but I could have easily picked probably...
40 movies or so. I don't know about that. Well, this is my era for real. I just, I adore most of these films and they kind of broaden my horizons when it came to horror because there were so many different
You want to start from the top or you want to start from the bottom? How do you want to do it? I don't care. You know mine are never in order. I know yours are not, but I know which one's your favorite. Of course you do. You want to tell them that? Texas Chainsaw. So her number one is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 1974 classic and we got to see a lot of the people at the 50th anniversary Back in May of this year down in Texas Brightmare
It was pretty neat. I don't know who had a bigger crowd, them or the people from Scream. We went to three cons this year. That's crazy. Did we really? Yeah, we did. We went to the one in Atlanta. Texas, and then we did the one over in Middle Beach. At the beach. At the beach, yes, in Charleston. With the crew. That is with the crew. All right. I guess I will. My number one is Halloween. 1978 classic. I just feel like this says everything there needs to be said about horror.
Michael's iconic, even though there were slasher movies before this one, this one really set the world on fire and there became so many copycat. It just kind of sets the tone for... It did. It totally... Totally set the tone for the 80s. Now I need my leg warmers. You might. Definitely in some of those movies there were women getting killed with leg warmers on. Sure. Absolutely. You want to go with your number two on your list? I can't even read that. That says The Omen. Oh. My writing sucks.
I know you really like this film a lot. I do very much like it. We talked about it a lot back when we covered it. Just a great film. I feel like Gregory Peck did an excellent job. Couldn't get better than that little kid. It's all for you. That's right. It's all for you, Damien. All right. My number two, which probably... It really has to do with my childhood and just my love of the 1970s. And this movie really just speaks to me. I've watched it.
Probably more times than any other film. We just watched it the other day. We did watch it the other day. And I like to watch new stuff, but if something about that movie comes on, I just kind of stop and watch it. And that movie is Phantasm. I just adore this film from 79. I love the CUDA. I love the progression of the films, even though they're...
disconjointed, you know, if you take it as a fever dream, like if you had the flu and you were dreaming some crazy-ass shit, this is what you would do. I know you are. Speaking of flu. Alright, your number three is Halloween. Again, you know, we don't even have to talk about it. My number three is your number four, and that is Alien. So, this is also a classic number.
Badass woman with a cat. What's not to like? That's true. Came back from many sequels, but that first one was just claustrophobic and scary. It was really scary. And just a great film. My son had no appreciation of this. I know, right?
Sad. So sad. Alright, so my number four, since we've talked about yours, is Blackula. Again, I just feel like this is one of the best vampire films ever made. One of the best... uh dracula versions ever made if you want to call it that just really a top quality cast and production even though it comes into that blaxploitation it's really Rises well above, which I do like the black exploitation, which I've made you watch many. Aware. All right. Your number five is? Exorcist. The Exorcist.
your mother sucks cocks in hell what that's what that's the one thing you oh goodness well that was the first one that came to mind so recently watch this too yeah not too long ago but we probably watched it for this i know well and not just the halloween stuff i guess this movie you know to me i you know i know it is a scary movie and i know that it scares the hell out of dave becker but i kind of always felt like it was...
One of those that was slightly overrated. I'm not saying it's not good. I'm not saying it is a masterpiece. I'm just saying for me, it's kind of eh. But you know what? You know what I found interesting, though, is the stories from when it came out in the theaters and made people throw up.
I mean, all the hoopla that I encountered in the theaters. Yes, it did. And it definitely helped increase that satanic panic for sure. But, like, we don't, yeah, nothing phases us anymore. So I guess that's kind of why it, like. Well. And maybe that's why Terrifier is such a hit nowadays is because it is just so over the top and essentially gross in a lot of ways. Even though I did enjoy part three. Y'all can have all that. I know, but that's what I'm saying. You know, each.
has produced something more and more horrific. I don't even think. The people from 100 years ago, when they watched Frankenstein in the theater, they would have all probably just died of heart attacks seeing something like Terrorfire nowadays. But who knows? I don't even want to see it. But okay. Anyway. All right. Where are we? We're at... My number five, and it is Legend of Boggy Creek. I just love this Charles B. Pierce film about Bigfoot. Oh, the guy with the weird hat. Well, yes. So we...
Our very first con, we were very first together almost seven years ago. We've been together about as long as Greg and Pearl have. Our very first con, very first one you've ever been to. Also, Texas Frightmare, huge. But they had a Legend of Boggy Creek expose. It had Documentarian. Is that what you would say? I don't know.
The guy that made the film. He makes documentaries, and he was there talking about this film and the legacy that it left. He was also a Bigfoot hunter, too. It was interesting. It was very interesting. I mean, he needed a brownie, but... Well, we saw that, and... Is his last name Blackburn or something like that? I forget. We saw this film as well as the documentary. And, um...
It was good. It was very captivating. And the talk was very good, too. But anyhow, the reason why this is on my list is because this, even though it's Arkansas, reminds me of Far East. Georgia Woods. Oh I can see that. The people dressed. I remember this as a kid. People dressed like this, driving the same vehicles, same kind of houses. You know, it was like being out where I lived when I was like four and five years old, you know, really got to me.
Ever since I've seen this film, I've just adored it. All right, let's go to your number six. Which would have been Phantasm. It's Phantasm. You know, no surprises there. I know you like this film. Yeah, that's another reason why we're cohesive as we are. I like the cold aesthetic of the mausoleum. Yeah, that's true. You did say that in the last one, that you like just how...
dead feeling the whole thing is. It does give you a dream state feel. I agree with you there. Alright. My number six is The Car. Another movie I saw as a kid. A satanic car flying around and killing people and having a train horn. Is that that black car we watched? That is the black car one, and it just scared the crap out of me. Definitely made me look both ways when I crossed the street when I was a kid. All right. You should do that anyway. You're number seven. Jaws. Jaws.
What is there to say about Jaws other than, to me, it is the scariest film of all time because it's real life. You know, you put your leg in the water, you might get it bit off. I love the ocean. I just like to float. I don't want my arms or my limbs sticking out in the water. water well it's like i've talked about before i am an adult yeah you are and it still freaks me out i don't want something touching me in the water but that is what this film did to people
You see this film, then you go to the ocean. You get in the ocean. It's going to cross your mind. It is going to cross your mind. You know, it's like, oh, crap. A shark might bite me, you know. Me and my son were watching Shark Week, like literally the week before we went to the beach when he was young and he wouldn't get in the water. I should have showed him Jaws. That would have been almost more funny. I'm a terrible mom.
I had this back in the day on VHS, and Storm, he watched this movie over and over. And very much like me, he could quote it line for line by the time he had finished watching it. You know, and I could totally do that when I was a child. You did really good on that thing we did over there somewhere. Oh, yeah, that's right. We went to a horror thing up in... Knoxville. Knoxville at the lake, and yeah, I think I got...
the majority of them. But I'm a nerd. You know, I know all this horror trivia crap. Yeah, you did really good with that. Yeah, we did. Where are we at? Your seven. My seven is George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Again, this is the... First zombie film I'd ever seen. And this remains my favorite, even though I think Night is a better film and probably Day is as well. But I really enjoy this film and everything it has to say about consumerism.
You know, how we are zombies at the mall, you know, which we were yesterday. And kind of a dead mole. Yeah, it was kind of a dead mole. All right, year number eight. Body Snatchers. Year number eight, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film ranks up there to me as one of the scariest of all time because it also...
Goes into so many different things. Just to think of something taking you over and turning you into something that you're not anymore. You know, like a mindless... We got a lot of that in society. Well, we have plenty. plenty of those out there so again i consider this film incredibly scary and that is why it's my number nine to where it's your number eight so i'll just flip it around your number nine is going to be carrie carry all right stephen king's first film i think it's his first book
I think it's a very interesting story where he wrote this and then he threw it in the trash and his wife pulled it out of the trash and read it and said, no, you need to finish this. This is good. And she helped with the insights on teenage girls and how they would deal with coming into menstruation and that kind of thing.
So I guess I'd flip it to my number nine would be Fulci's Zombie. Everything about this film is just, when I think of a zombie, this is the epitome of zombie to me. This is the shark, maybe, that you're like, blah. But... When I think of a zombie coming up out of the ground and maggots in their face, jagged teeth, this is what I think of. Taking a big bite of, big chunk out of somebody. This movie just really gets to me. And that's why it made my list. Alright, you're number 10.
Stepford Wives. Stepford Wives. I totally get why it's on your list. I've loved that movie forever. I know, and I find that it's so interesting. Somebody was to interview you. I don't think they would guess that would be one of your favorite films. But it's an excellent film. I remember seeing it as a kid. I remember seeing the remake, even though I like the original better.
The thought of living, I mean, watching this as a kid, the thought of even living in those types of like perfect little cookie cutter communities, aside from the, you know, crazy drugging your wife, killing her into, you know, whatever robot thing. Besides all of that, it's just that whole cookie. cookie cutter community just made me nauseous. Like, oh my God, how do people live like this? People do lots for money and greed. That's for sure.
the men's society and all that crap. I'm like, oh, good lord. And I was young when I saw this. Again, it was just another statement on society and how it was changing in the 70s. Of course, I really liked Ginger. That's true. I liked everybody in the film. What was I going to say about it? Oh, back in the 70s, The Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman, there were fembots, and anybody could be a robot. You like Austin Powers?
Yes, that's probably where they pulled that from, but it really has to do with the same kind of thing. It's like assuming identity and changing and being basically somebody that's doing evil. And who knows, they may have stole that from Stepford Wives. I don't know, but I love that show when I was a kid. All right, honorable mentions. Oh, I see what it is. Frogs. Frogs with Sam Elliott.
And why? Because any movie with Sam Elliott in tight jeans has to make that list. And that voice. Oh, yes. Even though his voice hadn't come into full... Nicotine deepness. Those genes make up for it, though. Yeah, good-looking man back in the day for sure. Or, hell, even as an 80-year-old, he's still not bad. Right. Hell, don't we wish.
all right uh one of mine would be uh deep red because that's my favorite giallo it really maybe not my introduction to giallo but is definitely one of those that influence the type that i would like to watch and then your next one, which I really thought would make your top ten. Hello, dog. Would you like to say something in the microphone?
No, no. Thank you, sweet girl. All right, now you've got a... Tourist Trap. Tourist Trap. As odd as it is, I love this movie. I know you do, and like I said, I really thought that one would make your list, but it... There's just so many other really good things. Yeah, I agree with you there, so, but... The late 70s...
came in really strong with some really good films. And I believe that's 79. Nobody ever seen Chuck Connors like that. He was always the rifleman. He was always this true grit kind of cowboy. Here he is as kind of a transvestite. Crazy guy. I'm not a huge old movie fan, but I really like this movie every time we've seen it. I agree. Like the Spider Baby movie. Exactly. That's in the 60s, but I think we're doing 90s next. And my last honorable mention, which...
Really helped with propel my love of horror period is the Night Stalker. Carl Kolschak, Darren McGavin as Kolschak says everything I love in horror. Give me Monster of the Week. I'm going to watch it. We just saw the werewolves movie. We thought it was okay. I'd give it a 6 out of 10. I still think it sounded like... Miami Vice. It really reminded me of a Miami Vice episode. What did you say? They had the music of Resident Evil? Yeah, it kind of had Resident Evil.
Not too bad. The effects were pretty good. Totally could have been solved with a big old crinkly cheese wrap. You did say that. It was like, yeah. you know you want to draw them out you know crinkle some cheese they'll come running it works for our dog yes it does so or a bedtime cookie a bedtime cookie that's right all right
You got anything else to say about the 70s other than bye? No. Okay. I figured you'd be happy with this part. Sorry. That was kind of funny. I don't think you expected me to say that. Anyhow, I guess with that, we'll see. Night, guys. Good night. All right, there we go for Greg P. Getting some Christmas music in there. Absolutely. I find myself, it's funny that I'm a little more on Amy's.
side with list this time and it's not that not that Greg's list is pretty awesome as well but I don't know it was just something with with Amy's list I said wow she's you know probably because Texas Chainsaw Mass was on the list Yeah. I was going to say, Greg is a bit of a kindred spirit with Pearl. He put the car on at number six or seven. Yeah, number six. Number six, yeah.
And he put Carrie. They had Carrie up there. I'm going to have to fit in with Greg because of Halloween, but I thought Amy's did hit a little more toward my... my taste too so but uh greg p of course man you got man dude he put blackial on there and phantasm you got to get a i was gonna say is he the first mention of black killer did somebody else no a few people brought up black
Yeah, and Legend of Boggy Creek, so he's right up there with Justin. I love it. What did you think of the Kyle Pearl? That was awesome. I love how he'll... So just movies to her that he knows she'll stay awake for. Yeah. He knows the ones that she's going to fall asleep against. And is he the first guy to mention the Night Stalker? Yes.
Is he? Yes, absolutely. Yes, he totally is. Aaron McGavin did probably his greatest role. I'd even put Christmas Story as the father of Christmas Story second to that one, even though he was perfect. Perfect in that movie. I think he was absolutely a cold check back. And I think he was, I can say with fairly certainty, he was the first person to mention frogs. He was. I think that's a very safe bet. I love it. Well, that is the calls for now, listeners. If we have any more come in.
we pearl and i'll do some recording and and put them in there uh if not that is the cause so uh what we're going to do now is go ahead and start closing out the episode but we're not going to be fully finished because i know uh we all have some honorable mentions that are want to get in there so what we'll do is we'll pass around our outros but when this is where we can give you your time to give your uh final
you know plugs but also your honorable mentions go ahead and get them in right here before we close out before we do that i want to go to dave one more time and let us know what that next episode is going to be about once again if anybody's forgot here it is dave what is the next episode of L-O-T-C. It is again number 408 with our guest Justin Beam. We're going to be looking at rock and roll with the metal soundtracks. Yes.
And there's some suggestions in there. Yes. Strangeland. Now you're going to make me pull it up. Shocker. Anything with Thor Mickelson.
yeah there you go there you go so go ahead and start getting you some uh your minds wrapped around the the hard rock metal uh soundtrack in movies type movies right so think about those movies like shocker i really look forward to possibly reviewing uh lords of chaos oh i did love that movie uh so there you go so all right here we go we're going to pass around what we're going to do is we'll do this in the order of the way
we did our top tens so i'm gonna head over to dave first and dave uh go ahead and any honorable mentions you have or anything else you want to say here and then give us your plugs and and we'll roll that way Right. Well, I have about 40 honorable mentions. And if you want to hear them, just go back and listen to the previous episodes. You know that I will mention anything I didn't mention tonight.
uh, that you hear in those episodes, that would be my honorable mentions, uh, plugs to the same as they always are, uh, DVD infatuation.com, um, on, uh, on Twitter. I'm not going to call it X at DVD infatuation. Facebook, obviously, with the group. Definitely go out and join that Facebook group. Darren, it's great to see you out there now.
Thank you so much for joining us for this episode, Darren, by the way. Let me throw that out there as well. It was great to get to podcast with you, my friend, after hearing your voice for all these years and getting to actually have some give and take. That was great. As far as other podcasts, of course, Jay the Dead's new horror movies, DVD Infatuation over at Considering the Cinema, and another one over at Considering the Cinema.
our uh jay mac and myself doing our weekly watch list where we sit down and just talk about what it is we're watching uh which is all which is a lot of fun um we recorded one just the other day Mac had made a passing comment that, you know, he's like, oh, good documentaries when we were talking on a previous episode. And it stretched back to his days in film school because he thought the professors.
gave special attention to the people who admire documentaries, more than narrative films. So Jay and I got together and recommended some very interesting documentaries. for young Mac to check out. But anyway, that's also at consideringthecinema.com. And yeah, again, thank you, Darren, for joining us. This was great. Wrapping up another year, another decade, but also another year here at LOTC. And looking forward to 2025 when Jaws will turn 50. That's right. Golly.
oh cool well follow dave over at all these sites man uh the podcast and everything which i'm sure you do already because he's the encyclopedia of knowledge and he is he is my man and i love it and Yeah, Dave, we love you, brother. All right, so let's head over to you, Darren, and I will reiterate what Dave just said as well. It's been a pleasure having you on for real. For the second time,
For Pearl and I. But it's been a blast, dude. Loved having you on. But what do you got for honorable mentions and then any plugs or outro you got? Okay, well, I'll start with the honorable mentions. I got 15 here that I'll rattle off real quick. Won't hover on them. First one I have, and these are not in order. It would take me forever to put these in order.
uh first one i have on here is is the scars of dracula by roy ward baker from 1970 in my opinion the last of the best of the christopher lee dracula films uh black christmas 1974 by Bob Clark. Then we got Carrie from 1976 by Brian De Palma. Then we got The Hills Have Eyes from 1977 by Wes Craven. I saw that at the drive-in, actually. uh they got the omen from 1976 richard donner uh salem's lot 1979 toby hooper and
What I saw on the double bill with The Hills Have Eyes was this movie, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, 1976, by Nicholas Gemser. The Dirty Foster. Wow. Jodie Foster, yeah. Boy, does Martin Sheen play a creepy ass in that. He sure does, yeah. Oh, man. He was just, you wanted to kill him the second you saw him. Exactly. Next is the Night Stalker of 1972, John Llewellyn and Moxie. Yeah, I too am a big Darren McGavin fan, and the Night Stalker was my go-to.
must see TV every episode that was on. Duel from 1971 by Steven Spielberg. My... Son and I just saw that at the cult film series a couple of months back. It was one TV movie that actually got a theatrical release afterwards. This one... And soon The Darkness, 1970 by Robert Foyst. I loved it. That's one of the ultimate horror in the daylight type films. And Let's Scare Jessica to Death. by john hancock 1971 blackula 1972 william crane deliverance by john borman 1972
The Car, 1977 by Elliot Silverstein. And finally, and I love the book as well, is this movie The Legend of Hell House from 1973 by John Howe. Yes, nice. Anyway, so that's my honorable mentions. As for my outros, you can find me on the LOTC Facebook page.
Starting to get a little better at using that thing, but I've still got a lot more learning to do. Got some things in mind that I want to post on there. I started posting some... some movie locations up around my area there's a lot of there's a lot of movie locations around my area that i didn't even realize and i'm going to start taking pictures of those and posting those as well and uh
That's about all I have for outros. Other than that, that's the only social media you can ever really find me. But thank you, Greg, Pearl, Dave Bill, for having me on. It's been a... great honor and i hope hope to do it again someday yeah you'll definitely be back on again in the future man stay tuned uh great having you on great uh honorable mentions as well so pearl
What you got for honorable mentions and outros? Billy Nolan. You done said Billy Nolan, damn it. Well, I can say it again because this is ending the 70s. It's the only time I can say it. I just wanted to say this was fun. It's always a pleasure podcasting with you guys. And thank you, Darren, for being awesome and coming on again. Oh, thank you. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and be safe, be fun. And like I said, leave everything behind that.
will do you no justice, no good, and all that. For honorable mentions, I have John Travolta. 1975, The Devil's Reign, which he didn't have to say a word, and that was okay with me. and uh they're all gonna laugh at me and then uh yeah And a little horror erotic for the 18th century, Vampire Lovers from 1970. Ooh, Barbara. Nice. Nice, nice. 1979, When a Stranger Calls. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, yep.
And also 1973 Asylum because I had to have my anthology. Yeah, I'm glad you picked that because Asylum is one of those movies that... Doesn't get mentioned a lot. Victoria, I think, mentioned it. She mentioned it. She did in the ones that she loved or whatever. But that movie don't get mentioned enough, and it's such a damn good movie. Anthology. It's outstanding. Yeah. Yeah.
And other than that, everyone knows where to find me. I mean, I peek every once in a while in my letterbox and I'll promise to peek in a little more. With the amount of movies I watched, I think it should be filled. Oh, you'd already have like 3,000 movies already. But everyone knows to find me on the LOTC main group page and anywhere Gregor Mortis is at.
that's right love my wife great list love all right bill what you got my friend in closing it was a heck of a day i enjoyed these recordings and one of the reasons i love these type of recordings is I literally had no notes other than my list of movies. And you can just talk from the heart. You can talk from your head. You can talk from emotion. These kind of episodes are great because as I stated before, everybody's list is their own list.
Nobody's going to convince you that your movie number four is worse than his movie number eight. It is what it is. So these are the episodes I love. Darren, thanks for coming on. I appreciate... finally getting the chance to talk to you live. We've chatted a few times. Now I put a voice to a face. Not really a face, a virtual face, I guess.
So we'll keep up and thanks for that. Movies that I have that weren't mentioned. I'm only going to mention any that haven't been talked about because there's no point rehashing.
I have four movies that I considered for probably the lower five of my list. One that I really wanted to get on was The Abominable Dr. Fibes. Oh, I love that film. I'm a... an unabashed david cronenberg fan boy and i love shivers shivers uh i consider it on the list uh one that's more of a cult grindhouse film that i really like i drink your blood
i think i drink your blood is one of those ones that i can watch at any time and the other one i considered was a giallo that i bet very few people have seen called the killer reserve nine seats which is a group of people coming back from a party and the theater in a theater and people just start going it's sexy it's it's brutal it's a who done it it's a survival film checking it
Anyways, I really don't have a lot else to talk about other than I wrote down two films that I discovered as a result of doing research that made my list that I'm glad I found, kind of my hidden gems. One of them was Blue Sunshine. And the other one was Dogs. I thought those two films were quite strong. I think Dogs was a TV movie. Was it a TV movie? I think it was. I don't know. If it was a TV movie, I just can't see it being...
Well, I mean, I guess it wasn't really that violent. No, it did. I'm trying to, I'm looking it up now, but I think if it's the one I'm thinking of from 76, was it? Yeah. Is it David Callum? Is that who the... let me see i'm trying to look it up here because i i'm almost positive uh 77 david mccallum yep sandra mckay it's like in a school or something yeah it's at a university
No, no, no. It was rated R. So, no, that was definitely not a made-for-TV movie. It wasn't one of those, you know, like a blue movie. George Weiner. No, no, no. I don't think so. No, George Weiner was in it. I think he played a teacher. I just remember he has a line where they said, oh, this student is missing. He goes, the fat kid?
and then there's a shot like five minutes later of him just laying on the front lawn of the university right and of course when you see george one you can't you can't think of him as uh except as like uh who was that uh The sidekick for Dark Helmet in Spaceballs. You call this Radar? No, we call this Mr. Coffee. He gives Great Helmet. Another Spaceballs reference. And my good buddy Taylor, his number one was The Omen.
so good show that one that one just missed i think the omen has the best soundtrack that nobody talks about The score of that film is just... I remember Andrew, when he called in, he was talking about it a lot. But you're right. It won an Academy Award.
I mean, it's an Academy Award winning score. I mean, everybody thinks, you know, for good reason, Star Wars or Jaws. I mean, those kind of films. And they had great scores. Anything with Goblin and, you know. But The Almonds is pretty damn good, too. As far as... as promote i really don't have anything to promote right now other than you know stay tuned to see what you know holiday treats lotc gives you and have yourselves a happy holiday stay safe have you know copious amounts
of turkey and i hope santa's good to everybody whether you're naughty or you're nice a little bit naughty probably isn't a bad thing this time of year But everybody, let's enjoy ourselves. Let's keep a sane head. When you think your world is running away, there's always us around. Give us a buzz. Mental health is important. Let's get on track. Everybody, let's. keep horror alive that's right and then i'm just going to throw i had
Probably about 10 or 15, but much like Bill said, I'm going to name the two that were on my list that didn't make it but have not been mentioned to my knowledge. One of them, Brian De Palma's 1974 Phantom of the Paradise. My all-time favorite musical horror film, and that one I just absolutely love. Just narrowly missed out, wanted to put in, just didn't get it. And the other one was 1970s The Dunwich Horror.
That one was right on the border as well. Others that didn't make it, but they've been named, so I won't even mention them, but there was a lot. You know what? There's one that I'm looking at here because I looked up dogs, and I looked down on IMDb, and it says more like this. one that I don't think was mentioned, and this one surprised me a little bit. Was Grizzly brought up? Grizzly was not brought up. No. It's on my list. Actually,
Yeah, I actually had it written down, so it was on my list. I'm sorry. No bear. Yeah, Pearl hates Christmas. I love Christmas. Nobody mentioned either Food of the Gods. True, true. Might be a reason for that. Dare the animals. Yeah, dare the animals. Love it. Dare the animals. Leslie Nielsen versus bear. A shirtless Leslie Nielsen. A shirtless Leslie Nielsen versus bear, yes. Yes, Pearl? It's just the 70s were so full of animals.
the bees and all. It really was, yeah. That was sort of that decade, wasn't it? Starting with Willard and just taking it from there. And you know, you bring up John Travolta. John Travolta made some... I was in horror in the 70s. I was in horror in the 80s. I had a career resurgence in the 90s with Pulp Fiction and then put the final nail in that coffin with Battlefield Earth.
Yeah, that wasn't a good one. Pearl's like, why'd you have to mention that? Was that when he was in the depths of Scientology? Yeah. I'm sure, yes. I'm pretty sure that's what that movie was sort of all about.
All right, well, Plugs, you can follow us over at, of course, here at Jay of the Dead's new horror movie podcast as well with Dave and the whole crew over there, as well as my YouTube channel. I'm starting to post some more videos over there, and we're going to get a little bit more active, so stay tuned for that.
I want to give a big shout out to Gilman Joel. I got to give a big shout out. He created the... uh intro of my new youtube channel uh intro which he he did a cool font and it's uh it's just really cool he done a bang up job And definitely go out and check out Mom and Pop Video Shop. I was on a couple of videos with him where we're doing, he has his regional horror.
but it's become sort of shot on video, regional horror segment on Jay and the Dead that he also records on video and posts the video right around when the segment's released. But he also just released a short film that he and his sons made, a Christmas horror film. Which I'm going to check out right here in a few minutes. And I think that might be on his mom and pop video shop channel as well. Yeah, go check that out.
Once again, I want to give a shout out to Joel for doing that intro. And I want to give a shout out to 0010. 0010 does the voice. So the voice behind Greg Amortis' Little World of Horror was done by... none other than 00TM as well. So a big shout out to both of those guys and definitely go over to the YouTube channel. We'll have some Black Friday sale videos coming up soon. Just all kinds of good shit.
So with that said, follow us Facebook, Instagram, X, all them spots. Anywhere that you can think about horror, just type in Greg and Mortis, and I'm probably going to pop up there somewhere. So with that said, we're going to sign out. Merry Christmas.
And if we don't see you before New Year, I don't know if we'll have an episode before New Year. We may have one, but I don't think we do. No, I don't think we do. But if we do, that's great. If not, Happy New Year as well, and we'll see you next year. So until next time, help keep horror alive. We do that one movie at a time, one review at a time. Peace.
Well, you know, it's fine. You know, I like to share. I like to share. I like to share with my pals. Yes, he does. Just, you know what? Share the info. Don't share the mucus. That's right. We're not going to do anything over air, right? Let's see. Yo, yo, yo. Oh, yo, yo. Yo, yo, yo. What's up? I can't wait for all these people to say, oh, I spent hours over my list and I was debating. I didn't mind in fucking three minutes. I literally went to my top 250 movies of all.
time nine of my ten are on it so it was incredibly easy and then the tenth one i'm like okay well if i expanded it to 275 this one would be on there okay it really was like next night and we've talked about all these movies unless anyone has like Six movies from one year. We've talked about all these movies already this year. I know the episode because we won't have a call from Darren. This is true. We'll get live commentary. Right. What's up with that?
Now the cloak has been unmasked so now you get to let loose on the audience. All right. The unmasked villain. That's right. I just, I just said to Greg, it's going to be a very unusual episode of land of the crease. Cause we're not going to have a call from Darren. You like it, right? Two. One, two. I was going to say, did you say Pearl has two? Is that what you said? She's got two. Two. I respect her too much to go any further. I do, too, because I'm sitting right beside her.
and I'll get a knee to the shin, and then it won't be good. So, yeah, that's the way we're rolling. That's how I'm silent. The war. The war. Oh, yeah, that was, what was that? Fawlty Towers. I mentioned it once. I think I got away with it, but don't bring up the war. You started it. Oh, you did when you invaded France. Yes. No, it's like he's bringing up the Germans. Well, you started it.
No, I did not start it. You did when you invaded Poland. Oh, my God. What are we going to do, you guys? All right, let's see. Okay, I'm done. You're just going to have to either put us out of our misery or put up with it. There's only two things I can do? Okay, fair enough. Okay, I'm done.
You done, Pearl? I'm done. You were buying time for Pearl to finish her list? Yeah. How many double features do you have, Pearl? I can just see her back there making stretching motions to you. Come on, keep it going. I never tell myself. She uses her two to her advantage. That's right. Her two always makes me wait. And I respect her too, so I'm going to roll with that. And again, I remain silent.
That's exactly right. There's a reason he's been married 50 years ago. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. This is going to be episode 406. I always need to pay attention till the end because I need to know what the episode topic is. I know. Yeah. See, Darren, we don't tell Bill until the episode ends. I find out a minute before we start recording. Never let him prepare, Darren. Never, ever let him prepare.
Ever. That's how you get the best spontaneity. That's right. Never let us prepare except for the two weeks between recordings. You call it spontaneity, I call it scrambling. That's right. Scramming for an exam. You're a teacher, remember, Bill? That's it. bill works best so why give him that's when i used to be first second year university write a 30 page paper in one night go go yeah right there'd be a lot of a's ands and b's in there you know what i do i would buy a two liter bottle of coke
I'd buy a big bag of M&Ms. It was before laptops. I had one of those word processors. Yeah. Or you actually fed in the paper and it typed up. So I would go 30 pages in one night, double spaced. Anybody who's ever done that in a night knows that you get to seven, you slip it under the professor's door before he gets there in the morning. You'd always get a B. He'd say, very well written, but too much goddamn chocolate and soda all over. It was in front of a 500-student lecture hall. The guy said,
This was our second best essay. But if you actually had edited it, it would have been an A. Oh, God. You're lucky you goddamn got the paper. That's right. That's right. It was interesting. I still have dreams that I'm in school and I haven't been to the class all semester, but I'm going to take the final. I still have that dream.
I've been out of school since the frickin' early 90s. And I'm still having dreams that I'm in a school. I can't find the classroom. I haven't been there all year. I've blown the class off. But now I desperately need to go take the final. And I don't even know what the class is about. I have that dream like probably once every month. I wonder what the hell it means.
Okay. My thing is, like, water does that to me. If I drink a lot of water at the house. Water gets me first, yeah, of everything, yeah. Then I'll be pissing like a racehorse. Just take another swig of Benadryl. Yeah, it was funny. Like when the World Series, during the World Series, I went through the spell.
where i didn't drink anything but water during the world series so i had my bottles of water out and i would like chug in between in and so i'd be chugging chugging chugging and then as soon as the ending would end and they would do you know your commercial break i'd go take a piss and now come back and drink again and it becomes a ritual because they were winning. So I'm like, well, I got to keep doing it.
I got to keep giving my kidneys a workout here. Yeah. Oh, God, dude. I was sore. I have to run up the steps so I get my steps in. That's what I got to do. I have no steps. I was going to say, so, Greg, do you think the Angels, or the Angels, the Dodgers are going to keep Tia? Oscar, do you think the Jays are going to get him? I hope we get him, but he's just wanting too many. It's not him. It's his agent mainly, but they want too many years and too much money for him.
Bam. There we go, my fellas. All right. I got you done. We got close to three hours. That's right. We did it. And Darren's sitting over and it ain't even eight o'clock yet. So there you go. I know. Yeah, I'm done. I'm sitting here dozing off. You know what you need? Squirty juice. Yeah, there you go. Squirty juice. Somebody squirty juice all over my face. Squirty juice all over my face.
I think that was a 70s Grindhouse film, Dave. Yes, it was. As a matter of fact, when you initially said Beyond the Door, Pearl, I'm thinking, wait a second, that's not the Marilyn Chambers film. Behind the Green Door. the green door yeah well you know what i noticed i i noticed how easy the 70s is or so pornographic oh yeah i mean come on look through the whole episode we had uh um
Grinding on the door, we had... Yes, we had ball slapping drilling into the head. Ball slapping in faces. Yeah, all this stuff. I'm holding stuff going on. Yeah. And you know what? It's Margo Kidder, which she was talking about the Canadian tax breaks that, you know, to try to promote Canadian cinema. She said the movies initially that were doing the best.
were the pornographic films and the commission's like, this isn't really what we had in mind. You mean Linda Lovelace was not what they thought of when they were talking about it? No, when they're trying to give tax breaks for shooting in Canada. You know, they're not saying, hey, bring your pornos up here. That's right. I'm holding my hand right now. Seven Blu-ray releases of Vixen.
super vixen and beneath ultra vixens so i'm holding i do want to get and i i want to pick up uh the russ myer because russ myer is so He's not readily available because he held on to all of his own negatives, you know, because because he owned them all. So he sort of held on to them all and it's kind of hard to get some of that stuff released. So when they come out with a release like that, that's great.
I mean, see, look at even every sentence. It's hard. There's release. There's balls. Balls that are flying in the air right there. There's balls everywhere. Are we talking phantasm? Sure, that's what we're talking about. That's what we're talking about. That's right. That's what we're going to tell people, yeah. That's right. Because this is going into the blooper reel, so yeah, go ahead. Oops. Better say it now. I'm innocent.
No, you're not. I was forced to say this. I went to a podcast and Sausage Party broke out. And I like that movie. She does. All right, guys, I'm getting out of here. Yes. Dave, are you Jackie's present? Well, that'll have a return to sender. My wife and I solved that problem. few years ago we made the decision we're not getting any we're not getting each other presents anymore yeah and we just we just uh our present is to plan a weekend getaway
That's our gift. And we just give the gift to our son and our nephew. That's it. That is a good plan. I still like socks. I'd go over like a fart in church in my house. I was going to say, as long as I get socks and underwear, I don't care about the rest of you. There you go. All righty. Socks? Yeah. Why do socks? Every time I go for a pair of socks, I can't find them.
Every freaking time I go for a pair of socks. I said, wait, I got two sons. They're probably taking them all the time. I said, wait, I just bought a pack of socks and there they are gone. I see one sock. What the hell is one sock going to do? I'm only going to put it on and hop around like a sack waste. No, I need two.
You know your stage in life when you're younger, socks, underwear, and pajamas get thrown out like they're Kleenex. Now you look forward to socks, underwear, and pajamas. Hell yeah. I actually do look forward to socks so that a month from now they can... all be gone. They can all disappear. It's like, you know what? It's a line from the show Blackadder Socks are not like sex. Tons of them are around and I can't find it.
All righty. All right, guys. Y'all have a great night. All right. I'm not known of not getting any. I will let you go. No. Talk to you later. All right. Good night, everyone. Great talking with you, Darren. Take care. All right. All right. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.