Nickelodeon introduces its series of Nicktoons with Doug, Rugrats, The Ren and Stimpy Show, the first three to air. The hottest toys sold during this year, number one. Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Number two was the Dual Deck VCR. Number three was the Swatch Twin Phone. Number four was Captain Planet Action Figures. Number five was the Home Fax Machine. Number six was Moon Shoes. Number seven was Rap.
Number eight was the Sony Video Walkman. Number nine was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bart Simpson swag. Number 10 was the Vanilla Ice Sleeping Bags. Ice, ice, baby. The New York Giants take on the Buffalo Bills in Florida. Super Bowl XXV. And it's a close victory as the Giants win 20-19. The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
The Chicago Bulls win their first NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers. The Minnesota Twins win the World Series against the Atlanta Braves. Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury dies from AIDS at the age of 45 years old. Top songs for this year. Number one was Everything I Do, I Do It For You by Bryan Adams. Number two, I Want To Sex You Up. Color Me Bad. Number three. Gonna Make You Sweat. Everybody Dance Now. C plus C Music Factory. Rush Rush. Paula Abdul. One More Try.
by Timmy T. Number six, Unbelievable EMF. Number seven, More Than Words, from Extreme. Number eight, I Love the Way, The Kissing Game. high five number nine the first time by surface and number 10 baby baby by amy grant The top rated TV programs in the United States, number one was 60 Minutes on CBS. Number two was Roseanne on ABC. Number three, Murphy Brown on CBS. And number four was Cheers on NBC. Here are the nominations for Oscars, beginning with Best Actor.
And I dare say that the five men we nominated are themselves larger than life because they're actors. I know, I married one. And the Oscar goes to Jeremy Irons. The five women nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role are... Cathy Bates in Misery. Angelica Houston in The Griffiths. Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Meryl Streep in Postcards from the Edge. Joanne Woodward in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.
And the Oscar goes to... Cathy Bates in Missouri. At the very first Academy Awards presentation, two Oscars were given for directing. One for drama to Frank Borzegi for Seventh Heaven, and the other for comedy to Louis Milestone for Two Arabian Nights. Here are five directors whose work carries on the high standards of excellence. set by their predecessors over the past century. Kevin Costner for Dances with Wolves.
Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part III. Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas. Steven Priers for The Grifters. And Barbette Schroeder for Reversal of Fortune. And this year, the Oscar for directing goes to... Kevin Costner for Dances Report. And the last award was for best picture. This being the hundredth anniversary of the development of motion pictures.
It seems fitting that we end our celebration with the award that recognizes the highest achievement in filmmaking this year. During the course of the show, you've seen segments of the five films for Best Picture. And each one is a remarkable combination of vision and dedication. The five nominated pictures are Awakenings, Walter F. Parks and Lawrence Lasker producers. Dances with Wolves, Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner, producers. Ghost, Lisa Weinstein, producer.
The Godfather, part three, Francis Ford, Coppola producer. Goodfellas, Erwin Winkler producer. And the Oscar goes to... Dances with Wills, Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner. And the year was 1991. Creeps Horror Podcast. I'm your host Greg Amortis calling in from North Caggy Lackey. That's North Carolina to all you Northerners and you're listening to LOTC episode 415.
415, and it's all about the year 1991. That's right. This is going to be our top five horror movies of that year. Unfortunately, we're going to have Hugh Lloyd on tonight. We love Hugh Lloyd. But he did have a family emergency, so he's not going to be able to be on tonight. So thoughts go out to him and his family. But he did want to be on, but unfortunately he just could not make it. So we're going to roll with the regular crew tonight. So let's go ahead and welcome.
from outside of Philadelphia, PA. the super bowl champs that's right super bowl whatever 51 i think it was or whatever year it was uh but we're welcoming the dvd infatuation the encyclopedia of knowledge and so many other things it's dr shock dave becker what's up dave Hey, Greg. Yeah, Super Bowl 59. Super Bowl 59 champs in convincing manner. Usually, whenever a Philadelphia sports team wins the championship, like the game, the final game,
It usually goes down to the wire or whatever, Super Bowl, World Series, whatever it is. The other team is always kind of in it until the final out or until the time finally runs out. This was the finally they had a decisive win where you knew they were going to win by like the middle of the third quarter. You had you were feeling really confident in the way they were playing. So that's great. And congratulations to the Eagles. And it does. I mean, the people are just going.
nuts around here absolutely nuts uh even more so than normal um but anyway yeah hopefully hopefully everything's okay with you so sorry that he was not able to make it i was looking forward to talking to him i don't think i haven't talked to you in years i think Pretty sure the last time I talked to him, we reviewed, oh God, what was it? Bone Tomahawk. Nice. Over on his show. And I don't even think he's posted an episode for quite some time. So I hope everything's okay with him.
And yeah, 1991, you know, it's funny how years can sometimes surprise you where you think it's not that great a year. And then you get into it a little bit. That didn't happen this year. This year sucks donkey balls. This is true. I'm not going to lie. You're right. It's right there. I mean, but I did get, I did come up with some, with some good movies. There are some, there are some, um, diamonds in the rough. So I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to hearing everybody else's list.
Yeah, this is going to be interesting. I can't wait. There's one I'm still trying to squeeze in on the list, and it may still make it. This is going to be a last-minute decision because I really— I thought you were going to say you tried to squeeze it in. I'm going to watch it while we do it. Yeah, right. No, it's just a movie I really, really, really want on my list.
list, but I don't know. Does it deserve to be on there? Probably not. But still, I just really want it to be on the list. I'm just really debating. But we'll see. This will be a last game minute decision. With that said, let's go ahead and welcome in from Canada. Let's welcome in the Butcher of Butchery out there, probably butchering some snow up right now. But let's welcome in Butcher Van Vagel. That's right, Bill Van Vagel. What's up, brother?
you know you're from canada when you're happy you're only getting nine and a half inches of snow right because just north of us is getting 18 inches it is what it is hi everybody it's bill here and 1991 was shall we say interesting It was another way of me. I put way too many hours into piece of shit films. But for the audience, I took that bullet.
And I watched them and actually you know some of them that you watch you go I didn't realize this one and the other beauty thing about doing these kind of episodes is it forces you to dig And when it forces you to dig, you find things like made for TV movies. You made things that were maybe outside of the mainstream or some independent stuff. So there is some stuff out there. But if you were in a horror fan in 1991 going to the cinema, you might have been pretty bereft of choice.
But anyways, I really look forward to this. This is going to be fun. I think there's going to be a couple on everybody's list. I have a couple of things I'll reveal as we go. Let's get down and boogie. Let's do it. Let's welcome in the Twisted Temptress herself. I always have to do Love of My Life because I always pull out The Shining. I've got to do that whole Jack Nicholson part. Wendy, Love of My Life. Ha ha!
I just watched a video where I just want to bash your brains in. How does he say that? I just want to bash your brains in. I'm not going to hurt you. You didn't let me finish. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to bash your brains in. I don't even know if that's the exact quote, but it's something.
Something similar to that, yeah. I would never do that. I was going to say, I just watched a video where a guy goes to his wife, he goes, the wife goes, honey, I'm going to sleep on the couch tonight. He goes, hello, my name is Couch. Good one, Bill. How are you doing? I'm good. Hey, everybody. You know, I still have my questionable rant. I had a rant.
on my little tc group page i still stand by it milkshake is part of a food group now you are only getting sympathy from all the listeners over all the all the friends over there that love you pearl It's not a food group. It's a milkshake for crying out loud. Next thing is candy corn is going to be a food group, right? No. No, there's protein shakes. I was going to say suicide crap in a Twinkie. Right.
No, they're protein shakes. What about the vegan people and the ones that do workouts? Do they not get milkshakes? If they're vegan people doing workouts, the worst thing they can drink is a milkshake. milkshake. Yeah, yeah. See, there's a difference between a protein shake and a milkshake. It has strawberry in it. So you can argue that. It has milk and ice cream, and they make green wine. Yeah, there you go. Can you eat it with a fork or do you drink it?
Does it matter? Yeah, you're going to win that just because you're cute and all that love. But it's not a food group. I'm sorry. But I will say it's a food group for you because I love you. Okay. There you go. Just like a root beer float is a fruit. Now you're talking. She just had one two days ago, three days ago. Is a tomato a fruit or a veg? It's a fruit. It's true.
But you don't eat it as a fruit. All right. You eat it as a vegetable, but it is a fruit. How weird is that? I know, right? Like knife is spelt with a K, which should be knife. These are those words that make you go, duh. Is it the same thing? Are you supposed to say tomato or tomato? Well, potato, potato. Which one is it? It's a mater to me. It's why English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Because you think of the word there. There are three different spellings. There.
all different meanings yeah and you try to explain that so when they're just hearing it you know when you when you're when you're learning another language you're sort of hearing the the phonetics of it and trying to pick it up and then looking at the translation and whatever
But we've got so many things like that. And you're right, knife has a K in it, but you don't pronounce the K. And all this other stuff, it's got to be one of the most difficult languages to learn. Thank God I learned it from birth. Otherwise, I'd be lost.
Yes, if I had to learn it now, screw it. Well, the other thing is I watch a lot of cooking TV. I don't watch much TV other than cooking. And we watch the MasterChef British version. And they're cooking with aubergines. What the fuck is an aubergine? It's an eggplant. Okay. Okay. But in Europe, everything that's an eggplant, they call aubergine. Or they go, oh, I'm going to make some haricot vert. Oh, you mean green beans? All you did is change the language.
Oh, boy. We're going south. We've gone way off. We're going way. Let's bring us back into horror. Pearl, you got us off topic. I'm sorry. But for someone who got... mingles languages mixed up throughout my whole childhood. You got a point, but it's good to have you on.
Yeah, and I'm ready and I'm excited. Was it a sucky year? I agree, yes. But you know what? I'm satisfied with the eye candy in a lot of these movies. Oh, I know you were. Yes, you found some eye candy. Believe that. Oh, yeah. So what we'll be doing. is our top five horror movies. We'll count them down from five to one and we do it round robin style. So if you're new to the show, you're going to hear Dr. Shock.
then Bill, then Pearl, then myself. We will count them down from five to one. And then at the end of the show, after that, we will be going to the voicemails from you listeners who called in and we appreciate that. We got something to get to and can't wait to hear your list.
I know there's some people in the group page over Facebook. If you haven't joined, definitely join the group page over Facebook. But I know a lot of people have done some deep diving this week and last week for 1991, which was fun. I loved seeing everybody's watch.
and everything i was like wow cool y'all take one for the team i won't i took some i'll tell you one about here in a little bit when we get toward the end but yeah i took one for the team for sure uh but i actually took a couple but one particular i definitely took for the team but anyways let's go ahead we like to do our shots before we get fully started so let's get our shots down i've had my lotc four face shot glass along with guess what guys
jim beam and honey this is the white label it's back the white label jim beam has been missing me uh but he's back and that's what we're drinking on tonight jim beam and honey so dave what you got tonight I have Guatemalan coffee. Ooh. Giving this one a try. Ooh, so no, not Jamaican Me Crazy. It's Guatemala. No Jamaican Me Crazy this time. I'll probably have that next time, though, if I'm being honest. But this is from Guatemala. Coffee from Guatemala. Nice. I'm just spicy.
Let's see. We'll find out right here in a minute. So, Bill, what are you drinking on tonight? I've got some squirty juice and water, some of the stuff that Kyle gave me, Mr. Bishop. So that one was, I think it's some kind of grape flavor. And I mixed that with Peach Monster. And I stirred it all up, and it gives me enough energy to get enthused for 1991. All right. Booyah. All right, Pearl, what you drinking tonight?
I just have soda, strawberry and cream. Okay, strawberry and cream, Dr. Pepper. She's rolling with it tonight. She's living on the edge. Oh, yeah. All right, so here we go. Let's count it down. Three, two, one, chug. Oh, how I have missed you, Mr. Honey. It's strong. This is a strong coffee. Uh-oh. I mean, I drink a black anyway, but this is really strong. Oh, boy.
Well, I'm going to tell you, Jim Beam and Honey has been missed. Oh, yeah, I bet. How long has it been? It's been, well, since before. This is the first time this year, I'm not sure. Yeah, it's been over a month and a half, two months since I've had this. She's over here giving me that smiley face like yes love. Because I can't help it. Every time Dave mentions his coffee.
I think of Bruce Almighty when he's talking to Juan Valdez. He wants his coffee medium. All right, cool. Well, listeners, we are super excited. If you're new to the show, here it is. This is what we're going to do. it's episode 415 hope you go back and listen to 414 other episodes may take you a minute but that's okay uh we'll be here with newer episodes to join along with but uh let's go ahead get started here we're just gonna go right into it we're ready
Dr. Shock, we're going to head over to you first, my friend. What is your number five horror movie for the year 1991? My number five is a movie. It's directed by Stuart Gordon, The Pit and the Pendulum. Good one. Produced by, I want to say, I'm pretty sure Albert Bandt produced this one. And the IMDB synopsis. And shit, I got off of it to look up Grease to see if Harry Ream was in the chat.
One second, I will get it. Let me just hit back arrow. All right, there we go. Yep, this is, well, as I said, 1991, directed by Stuart Gordon. This is the writers are Edgar Allan Poe and Dennis Paoli. I don't believe they collaborated. But the IMDb synopsis is horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Tokamata. Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, played quite well by Lance Henriksen. And the whole idea is that there's this young couple, Maria...
And I can't remember what her, is it Francisco? No, Francisco is Jeffrey Combs' character. It's not Mendoza. That's his son. Anyway, Maria, played by Rona De Ricci. She doesn't like what's going on with the Inquisition because basically what this whole thing is, is it's religious persecution. But they've also gone after witches. A lot of it is trying to convert.
people of other faiths by means of torture to you know that torquemada was was the grand inquisitor and um well the i think the three um uh people i remember playing This this character you had Lance Henderson, Mel Brooks played him, of course, in History of the World, part one. And I think it was Michael Palin who played him in a skit from Monty Python. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. But anyway, Lance Henriksen plays him the most serious.
And does a really good job because the minute he sees Maria out in the like, she's trying to help this this boy who's being whipped, like they're whipping a child who has just watched his mother. um who gets the contessa Dal Bomolina, played by Carolyn Purdy Gordon. Stuart Gordon puts his wife in pretty much every movie. And she had a role in this one. So please, everyone remember that when you're giving Rob Zombie a bunch of shit about casting Sherry Moon Zombie. Right.
Carolyn Purdy and Bill, either Carolyn Purdy or Carolyn Purdy Gordon, married to Stuart Gordon in every one of his movies. But anyway. So he has her arrested. Her husband, maybe he's... No, he's not a butcher. He's a baker. So I don't know why it says butcher. Is he a candlestick maker? No, no. I was thinking the same damn thing.
But anyway, so the husband tries to get her out, saying she's not a witch. But because Lance Henderson's character fell so deeply in love with her, he's like, she must be a witch. She bewitched me. And he is a very intense guy. I mean, he has Mendoza. This guy come in and and like flagellate him because he's he's he's after Maria. And.
He sleeps with this sword dangling over his bed from a rope that could break at any minute, saying it's just, you know, and he sleeps under that knowing that death could strike him at any minute. Just a lot of, just a very, very intense dude. But then he's got these people around him who love torturing. They love to torture people. And you get those scenes. And then you have this one woman who is.
A legitimate witch. She's actually in jail along with Maria Esmeralda, played by Francis Bay. But Oliver Reed turns up as a cardinal in this. And it's funny because in that portion of the movie, it's a takeoff of the cask of Amontillado, that post story, a little bit with Oliver Reed in it. But so, you know, this is not a I don't know that.
how faithful this was. When I think The Pit and the Pendulum, I think of the one with Vincent Price, you know, the Corman Poe Price series of films, which is a really good one. But this is very well made. Stuart Gordon is one of those directors. I just love the way he paces a movie, the way that he and there are some interesting visuals, the set pieces in this, which I guess have as much to do with Albert Band.
anything because this is produced by... I don't know if it's like... officially full moon or what would become full moon i'm trying to look up the company credits now to see if this is an actual full moon production uh it is full moon entertainment was was one of the um uh production companies on this and and also there were the distributors of it on on uh on laser disc anyway initially in 91 paramount home video had it for vhs but anyway so yeah this is full moon stewart gordon
Lance Henriksen, just a really well-made movie. Really, you feel that moment in history and some interesting... interesting scenes in it as well so uh yep i that's my number five the pit and the pendulum pit and the pendulum if you've not seen it definitely check it out on the uh blu-ray from full moon released it uh nice so it's really cool
I think I have it on like an eight movie set or something. So I don't have the best copy of it. I've got to look into that Blu-ray because this one would be worth having on that. Absolutely. Cool. Well, pit and pendulum for Dave number five. Let's head to Bill. Bill, what is your number five?
All right, number five. Now, something a little to say before, but Dave, I love any movie that has Frances Bay in it. She's the marble rye woman from Seinfeld. Oh, wow. Yes, the one who chased him down for the marble rye. I forgot all about that. I knew she looked familiar. Yeah. Yo, look, that boy, he took my marble rye. Yeah. Now.
I didn't know whether to save this till the end or I'll say it now because I know it'll spark discussion and debate. And I know when we're going to wait till we get there. 1991 caused me some challenges because personally. I don't consider Silence of the Lambs or Cape Fear horror films. I think, especially Silence of the Lambs, it involves a serial killer. But it's more of a, I consider it more of a thriller, a procedural.
You don't see any killing. The focus of the episode is more about the method than it is the killing. You don't see any blood. There's no supernatural. There's no presence. So I love the film. absolutely adore the film but i don't consider it a horror film so i was going into that you know you know all these listed cape fear santa the lambs and there's a bunch of others i'll list at the end that are horror adjacent so i went into this one
Eyes wide open. And when I initially started looking over my lists, I'd seen exactly four movies from 2000 and sorry, 1991 that I had marked down on. letterbox now obviously i'd seen before that i didn't catalog i think i ended up watching about 25 and so i did my research and i was telling the boys beforehand i had pretty much done my list and then i said i'm going to throw one more on
Literally, I was sitting there in the evening and the hockey team had finished and I was watching. My number five from 1991 is 976 Evil Part 2. Okay, okay. Now, why did I choose this one?
That's what I was just about to ask. I threw a dart. I like the practical effects of this film. It's practical for the most part. It's synopsis is... as follows you know what i went into imdb and it gave me 9676 evil the original and i want to give you the updated one nine six evil two okay uh the synopsis is sorry folks for not being professional A seemingly harmless telephone service endows an evil teacher with powers from beyond the grave. What the hell does that mean?
It is directed by Jim Warnowski. Jim Warnowski is an interesting director that he does a lot of films that are of the lower budgeted end. So, I mean, he would have hung out with the likes of Stuart Gordon. roger corman and charles band and that sort of thing so he's in that vein so you kind of know what you're getting into but the quality of film is actually pretty good in this one somebody else who's in this film that i like seeing whenever he pops up is buck flowers
Any film with buck flowers is worth watching. So what it basically means, what happens is, there's a teacher in town, and what happens is... people start dying in this town okay now if there's a it's a cool concept in that you can call the devil on a phone card that you get handed out around town everybody's getting these cards and you can call the devil and if you have an issue he can help you solve it but you obviously owe him
your life and so that's it's an interesting concept not one that's totally original but this is 1991 i'm scraping there is an still a feel like it's the 80s It's still kind of got that feel to the film, which is kind of probably why I put it in there. There's some boobs. There's some blood. There's some kills. It's easy to watch. You put your brain at the door.
And it's one of those films you would have watched with your friends in high school. You went down to Blockbuster, your corner video store and picked it up and the guy behind the counter wouldn't have cared if you rented it. So what's happening is murders are going on in town. And is there correlation between the murders and the phone calls? And that's what you're kind of figuring out. One other plus is I got to hear the song Pushing Too Hard by the Seeds.
That's really garage rock from the 60s. My bet is nobody owned the rights, and that's why he used it. Yeah. That's probably it, yeah. Whoever did own the rights, they died, and nobody else owned them. 50 bucks and a case of Pabst, and it's yours. Right. There's a cameo by Brigitte Nielsen. And back in the day, she was quite the looker. You know, the film doesn't always make sense. But you just enjoy the ride.
I wasn't exactly connecting dots going, hey, this character was supposed to. That's not that kind of film. And there's a fun chase scene towards the end. Now, is this a perfect film? No. But is it an enjoyable film? You could get through 90 minutes a lot worse. Yeah. So I'll go with 976 Evil 2.
There you go. And I haven't seen it. So I can't say that. I was joking earlier. But I have not actually seen this one. I do like Jim Wynorski, though. Jim Wynorski. I like him. So that's interesting. All right. 976 Evil 2. Yeah, I mean, this is the year of lots of sequels to film. Lots of sequels. Might not have wanted sequels. Right, lots of sequels that just don't quite rank as the best in the series. No, yet some of them had a three or four and a five.
Yes, right. Now, was Stephen Jeffries in 976 Evil Part 2? Not in the second one, because the second one is almost a story unto itself. But how are you supposed to have 976 Evil when Evil was Stephen Jeffries? I don't get how you keep it. No, but you did get Philip McKeon. But you don't have Evil himself. Philip McKeon and Tommy from Alice? Yes. Oh, well, there you go. Yeah, that's the one face I knew other than...
Brigitte Nielsen and Buck Flowers. And Buck Flowers. Well, there you go. Buck Flowers always plays like the custodian, the pervert, the drunk, the whatever. So there you go. 976 Evil Part 2 from build number five. Let's go to Pearl. Pearl number five. My number five is a little horror sci-fi-ish. A woman's suspicion. is aroused when her husband, a chemical engineer receives deliveries that appear to be human remains.
and performs foul-smelling experiments in a remote cabin that only belongs to his family for years. The reason I picked this one, major, major reason, is because of the nice, wonderful eye candy. of a man that's in this movie. Chris Arandon. Okay. That's what I was wondering. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Now I know what one you're going with. Okay. And it is The Resurrected. Nice. I just watched this the other night. Yeah. I didn't know it existed.
i actually got lucky like i follow chris arandon on instagram and i decided to ask him a question he answered it i asked him what was it like filming this movie because i go i i was honest i go i felt like you were still channeling um jerry dandridge he was and he saw he in his words he was goodness if i recall anything about that movie was about the mere fact that I had the worstest cold ever because it was really really cold and no matter what day I worked it was cold
So that's the only thing he remembers mostly about the movie. Yeah, but... I mean, directed by Dan O'Bannon, you got that going for you. True. That's pretty good. Yeah, Dan O'Bannon. The Resurrected. That's not the Lovecraft one, is it? Yes. Okay, it is the Lovecraft one. All right. Although it does scratch it a bit. I'm sure, yeah. Oh, Charles Dexter Ward, of course, yes. So it would absolutely be Lovecraft, okay. Yeah, it's not really a bad movie once you kind of get into it more. I mean...
It has to fill with Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde in ways, you know. Okay. I liked James Sibbett. I thought Sibbett was pretty good. Yeah. God, what was his name? Paul Jarrett. I liked him in this. I would say watch it. Yeah. It's not bad at all. I mean, if you want to see what happens to Chris Arandon in this. It has also a little back in time kind of deal. He has ancestry. Yeah. When they use the investigator, I was like, that's the guy from Fast Times. Yeah. And the house in this thing, the...
Two-story house. I don't know. I didn't research it. We watched the movie, and I kept thinking it was the house from beyond. Oh, the one that the... The Stuart Gordon. Dr. Pretorius. Yes. It looked like that house, like that old wooden looking house. Interesting. I don't know if it's the same one, but I swear it felt like that house from...
from beyond when they first pulled up and you're like wow i don't know maybe it was maybe it wasn't somebody done a little more research than i did on that one man let me know but it just really looked like that house well this was in uh new york so it could have been then could have been yeah
Cool. I'm glad you chose that one. Pearl, we watched that. When did we watch that one? That was a couple nights ago or a few nights ago. Yeah, Sunday. But you'd seen it before. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, it's an interesting film. So there you go, The Resurrected, a.k.a. Pearl. The Ancestor, a.k.a. Shatter Brain. And when you watch it, your brain will be shattered. Yeah, that movie.
yeah i love it 1991 1991 hey you gotta you gotta stretch to find some good ones in here so there you go pearl i like it resurrected all right let's go to my number five my number five and i had to really stretch God, I still want to put my movie. Pearl knows which one I'm talking about too, but I think I'm going to leave it off. Go with the bloodier one, Greg. Oh, that's what I'm kind of doing. All right, I'm going to go ahead.
I'm going to spoil something. This was going to be my number five that I want in here so freaking bad, and I'm not going to put it in there. Honestly, it's one of the shittiest movies, but it's one of my favorites. I was going to say make it a tie. It's shock them dead. Oh, shock him. With Tracy Lord. I love that freaking movie. Watched it again on Blu-ray. I had the Olive Films slasher video release of this on Blu-ray, and it's such a shitty movie.
But damn, I love it. It's kind of like Rock and Roll Nightmare. People watch that movie and say, that is the dumbest, horriblest acted movie in my life. you know i give it a 10 this movie shock them dead is that type of movie best part in that the rock band cheering on the rock band killing yeah the end yeah that was awesome yeah the rock band yeah
Well, what's funny is like Tracy Lords, you know, she has a limited acting ability, at least standing up. And but she's been in some films where she's not bad. Yeah. This one was awful. It was pretty rough, but you got eye candy, you definitely got breasts, and you got all kinds of stuff going on in this, and you got good music. Ironically, none from Tracy.
That's true. You got a lot of thrashing with the guitar. So you got that. That's because when she made this, she was over 18. There you go. So that was what I really, really, really, absolutely, really want to put in five, but I didn't. But anyway, so I just wanted to throw. The number five that I'm going to pick is a sci-fi body horror film from Eric Redd starring Brad Dourif, Jeff Faye, and its body parts. And let me make a disclaimer here.
If you go to Tubi and type in, I believe it was Tubi, you type in body parts 1991 and you go to watch it, it's not the body parts. Even though the poster shows it, we watched that whole damn movie. And there is a 1992 movie called Body Parts, and Body Parts is a strip club. So it is a quote-unquote horror movie, but it's mostly strippers getting naked, and there's some killing on it. But I watched the whole movie.
thinking it's the body parts, not remembering Jeff Fahey's in it, and he's not in that body part. But, you know, it's lots of brush. I'm guessing you didn't see Brad Dourif either. No Brad Dourif, no Jeff Fahey, but you got a lot of boobs and a lot of weird things going on. strip club. I was going to say Chucky didn't emerge from behind the scenes. Oh, he emerged, but it was like that.
but it is not the one. Okay. So Roku tricked me on that. It was not that one. And I wasted my, well, I won't say I wasted, but I watched that whole movie and Pearl and I, and then I go to do something.
I can't remember who it was. Somebody messaged me something about 1991. And I was looking up. I was like, shit, that was not the actual movie now. I look at it because Jeff Fahey was in it. So anyways, we watched it the other night. So Body Parts, I'd seen it before. Jeff Fahey, if you don't know, was a star of The Lawn Mower. Man, and a couple other films, Psycho 3.
And he's got the blue eyes, those striking blue eyes. He was pretty good in this movie. He was. I liked him in this film. I did too. It's an interesting premise. It is. And here it is, this basic setup. of this movie uh jeff a he ends up in a car accident which cost him his arm and he's going to survive but the nurse goes to or the head doctor goes to his wife jeff a he's character's wife and says i can He's going to lose his arm, but she said, if you'll go ahead and sign the paper.
We got a donor who is offering or we're going to take an arm from a donor and he'll have a full function in arm. And she has to make the decision immediately. So she ends up making the decision and he ends up. having this full function arm, even though it's scarred and whatnot.
Well, shortly thereafter, you know, he's doing his rehab is when he starts getting the full function of his arm. But then he starts noticing a few things. Not immediately, but there's a couple things where anger strikes out. He strikes his kid. You know, he does things that he normally wouldn't do. And then he starts putting things together like, wait a minute, something's going on here.
Like my arm is making me do things that I shouldn't do. And that causes him to go in and do like fingerprints and finds out that he's got the arm of a serial killer. Somebody that was actually on death row and one of the worst of the worst, right?
So then he starts knowing that there's other people that have had other body parts of this killer put on them. And he's tracking them down. And sure enough, some things are happening to them as well. So that's the movie plot. It's got some good... gore in it it's got some good action sequences in it some decent acting it's it's for 1991 this is a banger movie any other year this would be like a top 20 maybe but in 1991 it's going into my top five because there's
just not a lot to grab for. And once again, proof that just Brad Dorff cannot seem to give a bad performance because I thought he was really good as that artist who's using the arm to his advantage because he never was successful. Now he's doing all of this dark, sort of morose stuff, and it's selling.
And he's all of a sudden become become very, very popular. And I liked his character in this. And I just like I like Brad Dorf in pretty much anything that he's in. But I thought, you know, I love I love the scenes that he was in. He wasn't in it much, though. He was not in the movie much. But he wasn't the only good thing. I thought Jeff Fahey did a good job as well. And I kind of liked the story and him sort of tracking down the other people, the other recipients.
recipients of uh of these uh transplants so uh
I think I have this on Blu-ray, if I'm not mistaken. I think that's the one I watched, fortunately. I did not have to go to the YouTube one. I would definitely own this one. This would be one that I would own. I would definitely watch this again. There again, make sure... you watch this movie if the first scene that you see is a girl's breast and it's a strip club called the body parts wrong movie okay wrong movie wrong movie there are people who won't stop watching
Including me. There's people like me that'll keep watching it thinking, wow, when's the horror movie starting? There is some killings. There is a killing. Hey, I'm an hour and 15 minutes into this movie. I'll give it another 10 minutes, and that's it. And I'm shutting it off if they don't show me something here. But, hey, who knows? Body Parts 1992 may show up on next year.
The next episode, who knows? I'm just saying that maybe it'll make it because there is some killing. Don't tell me 92 is like 91. It's pretty rough. Well, there you go. Body parts for me. Let's go to Dave. Dave, what's your number four? All right. Number four for me, we are going to stay in in the full moon universe. But anyway, my movie is again, we're staying in full moon and it is subspecies. Nice.
uh this this i loved the vampire in this ragu uh you know played so well uh radu i'm sorry played so well by anders hove just a great performance um this has angus angus scrim in it um you know imdb three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the transylvania mountains and that's really what it is and this was actually shot in
a castle i believe that albert band owned or at least full moon productions owned yeah it the locations are very genuine radu i think is one of the coolest because he's like a nosferatu but It's almost like instead of more rat, he's almost, I don't know, is it bat? It's not quite Nosferatu. Nosferatu had that rat-like mouth.
this is a little bit more sinister you definitely get the fangs with with radu but man and it's a breezy one uh one hour 23 minutes and they pack a lot into it they really do there are miniatures in this This is where, you know, you see sort of the magic of full moon. You know, you saw it in the pit in the pendulum. You see it even more in subspecies. But it really comes down to Radu, to that vampire.
uh andres hove what a great performance he he gives in this so yeah that is my and it's directed by a ted nicolau um and it was actually co-written by a charles band so um yeah This is, this is, uh, that's, that's my number four. And, uh, this, I do believe belongs on, on, on a, on a top. I was happy, very happy with this pick. Yeah. Yeah. This one's, uh, one of those movies that.
watching it was like really shocking because i'm a big fan and i make no bones about it i'm a really big fan of full moon in general right so but it It's a required and acquired taste, right? It's not for everybody. It can be. There are masterpieces in there. I think Dollman is a masterpiece. I think Trancers is absolutely a masterpiece. And I put...
I put, I put the subspecies, subspecies two. I, as much as I like subspecies, I kind of like number two a little bit more, um, which I guess we'll get to later on this year. But, uh, Yeah, I'm with you. It can be an acquired taste, but there are some gems in there. There absolutely is. And we've got to give a big shout-out to our buddy Gilman Joel. Because recently, Joel was at a convention, and lo and behold, who was there? Irina Movila.
from yes and she actually gave us all a shout out gave us all a shout out land of the creeps grega mortis even though she couldn't remember some of the names and and gill's giving them all the names of the jay of the dead so she's trying to come out with like nine he's like it's a lot it's a lot yeah he goes he goes there's like ten of us i'm not gonna give him yeah so but it was really cool hearing her you know say her name and it was up so yeah big shout out but subspecies yes bro
I was gonna say, Radu's supposed to be half vampire and half demon, but then yet he's crossed between a vampire and a sorcerer. And you know what? He is not eye candy. No. You don't think he's eye candy? No, come on. He was a sexy beast. Ew, no. Yes. You'd bag him for fun, wouldn't you? I would. I wouldn't even put a bag over his head. No, he's one of... I agree with you, Dave. He is one of the creepiest...
looking vampires I've ever seen. You can tell they started with Nosferatu as a base. Sure. But then they took it further than that. And his voice. My God, that voice that he has. Everything about that character works. Yeah, agreed. Nice choice. I love it. So, subspecies for number four for Dave. Let's head to Bill. Bill, number four. Oh, nice. That's why I didn't have a lot to say. Yeah.
subspecies yeah like when 1991 first came out and i knew it was in this year i knew it was on the list yeah and like dave i legitimately would have put this on any year's list this anybody that's a vampire fan or, you know, that era and that darkness and they haven't seen this film, please check it out. The actual description on IMDb is three students get caught in the struggle between a good...
vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian Mountains. Dave, I think that castle, I think they also shot that one Meridian. from 1990, the full moon film? I think they shot it in the same location. I believe they did. Charles Band owned the castle, so a lot of these full moon films were there. They might have done Castle Freak there, too. I don't know if they did. But they might have. They do.
Here's the notes I put. I said, I love Radu's fingers and nails. Yes. My gosh. It's like a dream if you go to the spa and the ladies would have a field day with those fingernails. And here's what I put.
do is just cool he is just yeah he's calm cool collected you know i i love christopher lee and i love bella and you know some of the other vampires i think this one's i probably my third i think right yeah and i said it obviously borrows inspiration from nosferatu uh there's a strong use of practical makeup Now, this is 1991, so they're just starting to get into some of the CGI and the animatronics, but...
Mostly it is practical, which I appreciate. And stop motion. The little stop motion scenes. As bizarre as they are. They're still pretty cool. I was going to say, I love the little devil minions. Yeah, they're awesome. Yeah, they are cool. But what I put is, of the vampire romantic movies, this is the better one.
It's really good, honestly. Better of the romantic ones. It's a good low-key film because it's based on atmosphere and folklore. Do you get a bit of sexual things? Yes. Do you get a little bit of biting of the neck? Yes. Do you get the atmosphere? Yes, it's based on the atmosphere. It's not necessarily the action, but there is a really good action scene in the first five minutes. Yeah, I agree. And so, yeah, absolutely. I mean, don't expect thrill a minute.
But just follow the story along. Yeah. Agree. But whenever Anders Hove is on screen, it sort of soars. And the one thing I did respect is that... you know in these kind of films you know they often go to lesbianism or they often go to you know sumptuous topless women this film didn't do that no and for charles band not to go there
he must've thought the story was good. Right. True. And he just stuck with it. Yeah. Nice. Well, there you go. Number four for Dave and Bill subspecies Pearl. Number four. Still say he's ugly. My number four. Virginia congressman and his wife see signs of the devil on their adopted daughter. Minus the Omen 4. Omen 4. Beware of Delia, because she will come after you. Nice.
yeah for this being uh the sister of damien she was right off the bat like this little girl you look at her they picked the perfect girl she has a face like that she's gonna kill you like instantly like that vengeful face and a lot of things do happen in this movie you know and there's an awesome snake bite kill there's you know a lot of little effects where you see like
people's faces change. And I mean, it's pretty awesome for it being a TV movie that they decided to make this one into. Yeah. Yeah. Made for TV. Yeah. Yeah. I back you. We did that when we did our omen. series and uh i actually really enjoyed it as well actually uh cool omen four for pearl coming in initially i had it on my list yeah not a bad i mean the girl's a bit of a pee in the ass but yeah
It is what she is. That's right. All right, let's go. I'd have to look up my rating of it, but I don't remember disliking this one as much as I thought I might. Yeah. But then again, I don't remember. I have to go back and look at my radio. I'm going to find it, and I gave it a two or something. We covered it not that long ago. No, it's not that long. I think it was, what, October-ish?
I think it was. Maybe that was one of our Halloween episodes or something. Let's see. We did it on episode 363, which is March 4th. Coming up a year ago. Holy cow. I cannot believe it's been a year. And Dave. You gave Omen for a 6.5. Okay. I remembered liking it more than I thought I would. Okay. All right. Good. Yeah. Bill gave it a 7.5. He was one of the higher ones. So there you go. Nice. all right well cool well let's go to my number four
And my number four, much like the other gentleman, is Subspecies. Because there was a couple movies that were no doubters. I just didn't know where they would fall. Subspecies was one that I knew. Bill, you said it. Dave, I knew instantly 1991. species was in that list somewhere.
Just where I was going to put it, I didn't know. But number four is where it landed. And I back you on everything y'all said. I won't say anything else because I think it's been said already. And I just say, check it out. It's definitely worth the watch. Yeah. So that's why I'm going to leave it alone. I'm not even going to go anywhere. So subspecies number four. Pearl's over, stick her tongue out. Worth the watch, but don't look at him.
Yeah, but I mean, he's not supposed to be your Christopher Lee. You know, young, strapping man. He's a creature. He's a creature of the night. So he's not supposed to look beautiful. He's evil. He more reminds me of Phantom of the Opera. Really? Yeah, he has that essence of that more than a vampire. Okay, fair enough. All right, well, subspecies for me as number four as well. So let's go to Dave. Dave, we're already at number three, my friend. What you got?
We're at number three. And despite the fact that he has created a number of... beloved franchises. He also did some very great standalone movies. I am going with Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs for my number three. I just really I love the craziness of this. Sean Whalen is in this. What happens is this young boy. was it Poindexter Williams. His family is going to be evicted from their apartment. And Poindexter is also called Fool.
by his family and friends. And he's taken along with Leroy, played by Ving Rhames, and Spencer, played by Jeremy Roberts, as they break into a mansion belonging to their landlords, the people who own this sort of hovel. This this awful, you know, slum where where fool and his family and many other families live. And they are the landlords are played by Everett McGill and Wendy Robey, of course, from from, I believe, Twin Peaks.
They want to swipe their rare coin collection. There's a rumor that they – and their names are the Robesons. Everett McGill and Wendy Ruby played the Robesons. Well, there's a rumor that the Robesons have a rare coin collection. And they go in there. They want to steal this, you know.
and get out as quick as they can, but they find themselves basically in a house of horrors, um, with Rottweiler, with a, with a Rottweiler dog, cannibalistic, uh, people living, uh, you know, in the, in the, in the, uh in the house and and they've been prisoners in the basement the robesons are absolutely insane they are absolutely insane
They have a lot of weapons. So there are a few people. Fool does get a few allies, including the Robeson's daughter, Alice, played by A.J. Langer, and Roach, played by Sean Whalen. um and one of those basement dwellers who's now living in the walls fool is looking for a way out but the real question is it will he find one before the robesons find him
The real reason I think that this movie sort of stuck with me were those performances by Everett McGill and Wendy Robey. They are so incredibly over-the-top insane in this, but it works for their characters somehow. You know, he's kind of, you know, Everett McGill's character is is, you know, he's he wears what looks like a leather S&M outfit.
He fires his shotgun in all directions into his own walls, hoping to to hit Roach. But as crazy as he is, Susan Robey is the one who's really, I think, terrifying in this. She's kind of like a cross between Piper Laurie's character in Carrie and Betty Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jean. She's an egotistical tyrant. and she torments alice their daughter alice whenever she gets i remember this uh she throws her into a scolding hot bath
And vigorously scrubs her skin when she finds out she's been helping fool try to escape. And poor Alice is like screaming. She's in so much pain. You know, I'm telling you, both of them were over the top. You know, they both delivered performances that were over the top. But Everett McGill...
He can go to comedy sometimes. Sometimes he was sort of comedic. Susan Robey, for me, was just terrifying in this. And it had something to say about society in general. You know, it kind of throws a spotlight on poverty. And, you know, what people have to do to make ends meet, you know, even though they're committing a crime, we kind of root for fool and Ving Rhames in this, you know, we. We're hoping they can get away with it because it's kind of like the only option they had.
and and this was this has social commentary in it and i think it's kind of a kick-ass horror movie at the same time so that is my number three the people under the stairs Boom, boom. Pearl and I on the vinyl soundtrack of this one. Oh, nice. They had it for like $10 at our local record shop slash movie store. and i saw it and i was like yeah i'm gonna bring this one home uh it's a good choice people under the stairs do you know that they took inspiration from the 1978 los angeles uh burglary
No. It resulted police discovered children being held captive. Wow. Under the stairs. Under the stairs. There you go. I did not know that. It makes sense with Wes Craven because of Elm Street and everything. Of course he would take... Inspiration for something. Good job, Wes. We love Wes. Miss him. So there you go, people under stairs. Number three for Dave. All right, Bill. Number three.
Okay, my number three is one that I had seen years before. And I'd just forgotten it. And then it came across... my uh vision and looking over lists and doing research and such and i'm like oh yeah yeah yeah okay and that is a movie gets a 6.9 on imdb and that's clear cut Clear Cut is a film that for the first 40 minutes, it's an interesting story. It doesn't go horror. It's just an interesting story. And then it goes horror. So it's...
I'll give you what it's about. A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction. What happens is at the beginning, it's a dispute that's been going on for a while over a company looking to clear cut native land. The community has a large mill.
And it employs thousands. It obviously needs supply of wood. But they're running low. And so they're starting to chop up the land. And the natives, justifiably, are not happy about it and start to protest. And so then there's a lot of back and forth between the natives and the local police and the company. And the head of the mill is there trying to get this solved because he just wants to get the...
the machinery moving and get the wood cut down. Well, Graham Greene is one of the dissenters. And Graham Greene takes it upon himself, kidnap the head of the company. played by Michael Hogan. And someone else comes along with him who is the lawyer.
representing the natives who's kind of caught in between white man's land and native trying to make reparations with them to represent them effectively well graham green goes on a walk that's forcibly put upon ron ron lee who plays peter mcguire the lawyer and michael hogan the head of the company and it shifts And it shifts very much like that movie from, I don't know, 77, 78 Rituals. It's got a deliverance mix to it. Because at certain points, he isn't okay with the lawyer.
And at other times he's dismayed by him, but he does not like the owner of the mill played by Michael Hogan. And at one point wraps him up in duct tape and makes him go through the forest. There are a couple scenes, one involving eating and a fire. You can go, and the way that it ends is unlike any horror movie I've seen. It just all of a sudden, oh.
Okay. It's built on tension and the feel. And the first half of the story would be a good enough drama just to watch. Being in Canada, we get a lot. We've had a history of these sort of confrontations and conflict. But it goes. And so I really enjoyed, if you have never seen, check out Clear Cut.
I had never seen this. I was watching the trailer and looking photos up. And the only thing I question is why you would consider this horror over Silence of the Lambs. I understood that. And the difference is it was on my line. I was debating back and forth, but there are a couple scenes that push it over. But the Buffalo Bill scene, the kidnapping and those scenes don't get you there? No.
Hmm. As I said, I like Silence of the Lambs. Yeah. Yeah. To me, it's a gut check. You check it in your gut. And like, for example, Silence of the Lambs, I asked just coincidentally. Two people waiting for my daughter when she got out of school and my wife and my best friend. Not a single one of those four considered it horror. But who are they, Bill? Let's see.
And so if you ask enough people around, the consensus, and I don't care about the consensus. To me, it's just me. But clear cut, the acting is good. And the story sucks you in. Yeah, it's very much like that rituals. Okay. It's through the forest, forcing people to do certain things that's against their will. And you don't, it becomes a survival film. Yeah. And you want to see if they survive. Yeah, I'm just busting your balls. And then the way that it ends, it's very different. Yeah.
I'm just busting your balls. Like I said, it's all interpretation, but to me, I think Hannibal Lecter and the frying of skin and the different things that he did to get out of the spoiler and the thing, I just think that's... true horror in my opinion but that's me it is true horror but you don't see it i think you do kind of see some of it
I mean, look what happens to the people when they have him in the prison thing in the middle of the warehouse and how he gets out. There's some action up in there, bro. I found it more police procedural than I did horror. Okay. That's just me. Like I said, I'm just busting Bill's balls. This is a legit debate that like-minded people who are very intelligent can disagree on.
That's why I want to see clear cut now because I just really want to see where it goes. The first 40 minutes are not horror. okay well there's movies like we did what was the movie uh dave you'll know which one i'm talking about and not go off a tangent but what's the um uh the wilderness movie where the guys went on their trip every year and What was the name of that damn movie? Like there were doctors or something. You know which one I'm talking about? They go on the survival. Rituals?
ritual yeah the ritual that's i'm sorry yeah so that movie so that that movie to me is horror because of what goes on in that movie that's a horror movie that's the one i was referring yeah okay okay i got you so but yeah to me that's definitely straight up horror and that's kind of like
interpretation of of different things some people would consider that to be a survival movie exactly somebody put on the i think it was bobby harris i could be wrong somebody put name a movie that you know is kind of on that line Yeah, I think it was Bo Patterson, I believe. Or Bo Patterson. Maybe it was Bo. Yeah, I was thinking it was Bo. And this would be a perfect one for that. Oh, absolutely. So we'll check it out. Clear cut.
Number three for Bill. Cool. And that is one word, not two words. Let me take that. Well, it's funny. Some places have it as one. And some places have it as two. The poster has it as two, but IMDB, when you type it in, it's clear cut as one. I see that. I see that. Okay, the poster does have it as two. All right, I'm making it two words.
Damn, there you go. Screw you guys. So anybody who has actually seen it, call in and let us know. What end of the scale are you on for Silence of the Lambs and Clear Cut? Totally. I want to hear it. Boom. There you go. All right, Pearl, number three. My number three, I've seen it many, many times, and I've watched it many, many more times. Many, many, many. Many, many, many. High school teacher Jim Norton reluctantly returns to his hometown with his wife to pursue a job.
Jim is haunted by the childhood memory of his brother being murdered by a group of teenagers who were then struck by a train before they could kill him too. To Jim's horror, he finds the teenagers have returned to a town as they appear before they died and are transferring into his class. When a student starts dying off, he becomes a prime suspect.
And the eye candy in this is Robert Rustler. Yes. And the movie is Sometimes They Come Back. Yes. As soon as I watch this, I'm like, both Pearl and Greg will be both excited for different reasons.
Well, yeah, the wife in this one, hubba hubba. Yeah, I've always loved this movie, Stephen King movie. I did too. One, I love the car. Yeah. And I love the greaser look and just the atmosphere of this, but it's just... the way robert rustler approached this like he was his his expressions always said everything without him saying a word so i always had fun watching this
But, I mean, I think it was done well. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of this movie, man. Have been for years. So if you're not seen, I'll totally back you on this, Pearl. Well, I won't say nothing, but anyway. Yeah, sometimes they come back. Dave, you're a fan of this one. I know Dave knows this one. Yeah, I do. I like sometimes they come back. I don't think it's the strongest of Stephen King's adaptations, but I do like it. I did enjoy it. Yeah. I love that scene in the tunnel.
Oh, the title is great. Yes. Great scene. Yeah, man. It's got a lot of those cool scenes. And like Bill said, there's eye candy for both male and female in this one. So there you go. Sometimes they came back. Was that a made for TV or not? I don't think it was, but it sure plays like it. It plays that way. It played.
It definitely plays that way, but no, I don't believe it was made for TV. It's just like a PG film. It almost even has those cuts, like you have in a made-for-TV where you know a commercial's coming up. It almost has those cuts, but there's definitely nudity in this one, and there's different things. I don't think there's any swearing, any nudity, any extreme violence. She gets naked. There's a, there's a breast scene in this. Is there a breast scene? Okay. See, you remember.
Not that I was looking. I was saying. I was impressing. Was I the only one watching? You must have been. I am. But yeah, that's cool. I'm glad you picked that one, love. Sometimes they come back. Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes they come back again. That was the sequel, right? Wait till 94. There you go. We'll see if it makes it. All right, let's go to my number three. And my number three, I think Dave and I may end up having this.
Same. top five i feel like we're rolling in that direction because it is the people under the stairs from west craven and i won't add to it i totally agree with everything dave said this movie just really has all those great moments and and everett mcgill who
know from silver bullet as the werewolf uh reverend dude he is so creepy in this movie man he just oh the like you said dave with the snm look god dang it's disturbing as hell in this movie and the under dwellers are freaking to get that thing on
God, I don't know. About as long as it took Libby Newton-John to get her outfit on in Greece, I reckon. I wonder how much baby powder they had to use for it. Right? Yeah. I was going to say, put nothing on. I mean, its form fits to your skin. It's so tight. Holy cow. This movie goes there. I guess I'm not meant to be in the S&M neighborhood. No, me neither. Definitely not. I don't think anybody wants to see anything.
see us three gentlemen around in leather. There is zero. I can guarantee you. My wife doesn't want to see me. No, that's what I'm saying. There is zero chance that any female or male wants to see Dave, myself, or Bill in an S&M outfit. I think they're all like, no. I was going to say, find a better website. Yeah, right. Everybody call in and say, yes, please. Greg, Bill, Dave, no S&M. We're the wish version of S&M.
That's the T-Move version. That's the T-Move version. When you order a S&M person, a male, you get Greg, Bill, or Dave in an S&M outfit. You get dad bods. That's what you get. Thanks, guys. Now I'm picturing what, like, hell gear you are wearing. Does it matter? Does it matter? Although I would love to go into one of those stores and just say, hey, what about that thing on the wall? How about that?
I always name these like the top five of the year, but it should totally be like something along the lines of... Bill, Dave, and Greg, no S&M or something. It should totally be something along that line. It's not going to be, but I'm just saying. So there you go. All you ladies and males call in and say, please, Bill, Greg, Dave, no S&M. I was going to say, wait until we get to From Beyond. Here's the episode. Episode 415. The Timu...
S&M version of people under the stairs. Under the title of this episode, it's The Boys in Leather. Yeah, right. I'm tired of even thinking about me in leather. Golly. We're down to our top two. Let's go to our number two. Dave, we're going to have the same two right here. I feel it. Go ahead, Dave. Number two. It's very possible. It's very possible because mine is a... A late-to-the-game slasher called popcorn. I can't help but love popcorn, Ed, because it's a slasher.
It also sort of gets into supernatural waters from time to time, sort of dips its toes into that. It also pays tribute to the great William Castle and even has a few... your faces in its supporting cast uh that they're trying to there's a um a fledgling film club is trying to raise some money college students they follow the advice of senior member toby played by tom fillard and host their very own horror movie festival
And what's kind of interesting is you get to see three horror movies in this. You actually see like these three films in there and they're all a little bit different. But what happens is that... I was having fun at this sort of horror film festival, but then something... takes a dark turn when toby discovers a short film stashed among um you know this the these props that belong to this dr mess messin
And it's a movie made over 20 years earlier by a cult leader and a killer named Lanyard Gates, played by Matt Falls. He's the possessor.
And it contains images similar to those that fellow student Maggie, played by Jill Sholin, has been experiencing in a string of nightmares. And things take a very... sort of dark turn from there this is one like i said you have fun watching these these short movies um i like the sort of reggae soundtrack to this i'm pretty sure this was shot in jamaica And then it just sort of becomes like a slasher slash supernatural.
I just have a lot of fun with it. You know, Ray Walston is in this, who, of course, was in My Favorite Martian, but I think most people will remember him from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, where he played the dick. Are these people all stoned? Yes. And, of course, Steve Wallace has a part in this. And Tom Villers, you know, it's such a shame he died way too young. He was in this and played a really strong part. I really, really enjoy this movie. It's so much fun.
My number two is popcorn. And guess what, Dave? You officially got Kelly Jo Minter in your top three two-time movie. Your number three and number two movie. Kelly Jo Minter. There you go. Interesting. Wow. There you go. Who would have known? Who would have thunked it? Who would have thunked it? Number three and number two for Dave in 1991, Kelly Jo Minter's in it. This is meant to be, Dave.
You don't even know who Kelly Jo Mentor is, and you're sitting here, who is Kelly Jo Mentor? No, I know who Kelly is. I know you are. Absolutely. I love Kelly Jo Mentor in summer school. The one who keeps, I think the one girl from overseas was getting ready to take her top off. Yeah. No girl, this ain't the Riviera. You can't do that. That, that was. That was cruel. Yeah. His bottom jaw just fall. Yeah. I love it. Oh, God.
There you go. All right, so popcorn for Dave number two. Let's go to Bill. Bill, you're number two. I love going behind Dave because I can see ditto. I knew it. I knew it. I literally knew it. Again, this is another one of those films that when I knew the year, I knew it was going to be on. I just had to figure out where. And part of the beauty of it is the cast. Because you can tell this film is...
on the lower end of the budget, but they get the most they can out of it. You know, like, you know, like Dee Wallace, you know, she hasn't ended it barely at all, but she's enough to have her presence. Kelly Jo Minter is fun. Tom Villard. you know does a heck of a job jill scholen i thought was pretty good tony roberts i thought did a really good job and tony roberts is a very veteran actor who you know toward on the tail end of his career but does a good job on this one
The person that directed it, there were two directors. Oh, sorry. One of the actors in this, Mark Harrier. Is he the actor? Is he the... No, he's the director. I was right the first time. He was an actor in Porky's 1, 2, and 3. But the other director, Alan Ormsby, is his name Ormsby? Ormsby? Alan Ormsby. He directed and wrote Deranged and The Cat People.
and was the writer of the remake version of Dead of Night. So he has some chops there. You know, it's a lot of fun. I would love to see the full films of the ones that they show in the theater. because it's very obvious that they're you know they're into the b movies as well like the director and the writers and some of them didn't sound that far off from some actual plots
I've seen some bad 50s and 40s sci-fi films, and they're right in there. But I agree with Dave that lots of musical interludes. What's the one song? It's by The Drifters, Saturday Night at the Movies. saturday night at the moon and they get like a whole dance number out of it but like one of the films they're showing i could have swore almost is like possessor
Like, it's shot in that vein. It's just a lot of fun. The killer looked like Dr. Fibes. True. I agree with that, yeah. And at the end, you got a slide.
down the piece of rope that's like Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn whipping down that thing yeah I love the energy of this film I love it's fun don't go in thinking you're going to be watching friday the 13th because it's not but if you like a creative one that's done that shows just enough blood but doesn't go overboard like this is what this would be a slasher to show somebody that you're looking to get into slashers
Agree. You've got your 13-year-old son and you're not sure whether to dip his toe into this. This is the one to show him. Yeah, this is a 90s slasher. So they... they've run the gambit of the eighties. So then they're stretching and I love the movie in a movie and I love the whole, this is what they would call like meta horror. Yes. Cause there's lots of things within that. If you were in the genre, you know? Yeah. Yeah, totally.
Yeah, I agree with you there. And I love this. This is kind of like right there, Dave, with the episode that you had us do last year, whatever, when we did our own drive-in theater. experience that's like this movie because they're putting on the whole drive-in or not the whole movie matinee thing that was really cool right whenever i whenever i think of tom v art i think of one crazy summer
He was there. Died way, way, like Dave said, way too young. Hey, shoot. Well, cool. He was Bob Tackle's brother. Yeah, he was. He was, yeah. Yeah, totally. Nice. Well, number two for Dave and Bill, popcorn. Pearl, are you going to make this a trifecta? Nope. Okay. All right. Well, Pearl's bursting in the bubble. All right, Pearl, what you getting for number two?
My number two was directed by Steve Miner. Although it was completed in 1988, this film was delayed due to financial issues, so when it released... I took it. It was released, obviously, in 1991. 17th century New England witch hunter, Giles, captures an evil warlock. But the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help.
Flung to the future, the Warlock winds up in the 1980s, plans to bring about to the end of the world. And this is Warlock with the eye candy of Julian Sands. That's right. And before anybody says it. It is officially, IMDB says 89, but it is officially, I will say this for Pearl, if you go down to the bottom of IMDB, which is what I use as our measuring stick, it did not release in the U.S. until 1991, January 11th.
to be exact so i was like yes it does count pearl technically because according to imdb the u.s release 1991 so there you go Warlock. It just means he showed somebody in his basement in 89. Right? But go ahead, love. I didn't mean to hijack you, but go ahead. Oh, no. I'm good.
this is a fun movie and if you know anything about wishes it's pretty much to the queue where like you know hit a nail on the footprint and it'll hurt the witch yeah paint up uh pentagon on the farm and he can't come out and have a lot of fun and you get to watch lori singer get old every day 20 years that was what was cool was the way they made her go from over
like night she wakes up and she's like oh and then she looks like she's 40 whatever and the next day she's 60 something and the way they kept aging her was really cool it is so i love this movie absolutely a big fan of this yeah it's fun i mean horror fantasy um can't go wrong Yeah, and go out and get that Vestron Blu-ray of this, man. I highly recommend it. Cool. Warlot for Pearl from 1991, number two.
And I will go ahead and make it a trifecta because my number two, as I told you, Dave and I are going to be twins. It is popcorn. And it was a no-brainer. That was definitely going to be on the list somewhere. Absolutely love and adore this movie. Dee Wallace alone would have done it. Jill Sholin, such a sweetheart. And then you put in the movie in a movie matinee type thing. It was just a no-brainer. This movie is so freaking fun. Too much popcorn. I want kettle corn. Kettle corn.
This is a fun watch with a fun soundtrack. You have no idea how close we came to history then because... I dropped body parts to number six to put the pendulum at number five. Are you serious? Are we that close? Holy crap, dude. I would have shit britches. No, but I would have been like, hot damn.
When I made my list, I didn't even think about, honestly, yours or Bill or Pearl, anybody. I just said, all right, there's got to be five movies, and there's not many movies. I was doing the same thing. I'm sitting there going,
And I'm sitting there going, I doubt anybody has this sort of, like some of these movies. And there were some of them I knew were going to be on. Right, right. The one I didn't think would be the Pit in the Pendulum. Yeah, yeah. Sort of looking that way. But I'm like, okay, I'm sure subspecies, other people don't have subspecies.
the people under the stairs and popcorn and all that. The fact that we have it in the same order. Yeah, that's unusual. I had a couple for number five in case Dave took mine right away. I at least wanted to say one. So I have two good to go. Well, see, I could have, and I was going to go. Of course, like I said, shock them dead was going to make it, but I went with. That is horrible. But it's horrible in a good way. It is. It is. It's fun. It's fun. Watch, man. Which one?
The movie Shock Em Dead. Oh, Shock Em Dead. Have you seen it, Dave? Have you seen it, Dave? No, I have not. If you had chosen that one, there was no chance we could have. Oh, Dave, you're missing. Boy. Yeah, I mean, pizza nerd that... tries wants to play guitar tries out and makes a pact with this voodoo woman that's basically making a pact with the devil to give him whatever he wants he wants to be a rock star and everything that goes along with it so boom he's got groupies he's
He's the greatest rock star, but there's a caveat or a catch to it. To get his strength, he has to kill and suck the soul out of somebody, so there's always that. thing you got there's always the fine print there is there totally is so yeah and it's fun like it's really really fun
But it is shitty. I will agree, Bill. It's very shitty, but it's shitty in a fun way. No, it's a fun shit. It's a rock and roll nightmare movie, man. It's a Black Roses. It's one of those movies that are so bad, they're good. That's the way I put it. But anyways, all right. So popcorn for me, number two, move on. We're going to our number one listeners. We are there. So Dave, number one. My number one is one that.
Absolutely did. It frightened me the first time I saw it. There's a scene late in the film involving night goggles in a darkened house. There is a character in this who I think is one of the most terrifying. And it's just a legend because the two sequels that followed this up are both categorized as horror. and it is the silence of the lambs um and then one of the classifications i am to be a psychological horror now i do understand it is sort of a serial i can see people saying it's a thriller
Probably the biggest culprit for this is the studio itself who was selling it as a thriller because they knew that horror would not win Oscars. True. And this movie won. This is one of this was the third film to win the top five Oscars. at the academy awards best picture best director best actor best actress best screenplay wow the other two were it happened one night back in the 30s the frank capra film
And then in 1970, I guess it would have been the 76 awards for the 75 season when One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest did the exact same thing. This was the third time that that had happened. And absolutely deserved, I think, all of them. I think that, you know, Jodie Foster, I think, gives a good performance. She's playing a character who's sort of like a deer in the headlights. And I think she does that very well. It is really Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter who steals this.
um those scenes where they are conversing and i'm thinking of the one time where where she's walking out and that guy sort of you know masturbates into his hand and throws it at her. And Hannibal Lecter gets so upset because of how rude it was. And then when Clarice Starling comes in the next day, she finds out that the guy who did that... died in the night by choking on his own tongue and you know somehow that lector somehow from the other cell managed to steer him in that direction
that that's the level of power that this guy has and level of influence he has and he gets clarice talking about things that she would not talk to anybody else about you know the whole quid pro quo thing And then throw on top of that, you have Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill. uh amazing performance in this that scene where he abducts that girl you could see it happening just like that and that's kind of that's kind of terrifying as well
And that's where he kidnaps Catherine Martin, played by Brooke Smith. I'm telling you, I thought this thing was terrifying. And that's really, for me, nowadays. I could see them promoting this as a horror film. Because you wouldn't worry about it. I mean, now we've gotten some horror that's gotten into Oscars. It's got some prestige. Get Out is one. Of course, they've been snubs as well, because not everybody's ready. But this year, this is the year of the substance.
has been nominated and it's looking very possible very very possible it's not locked yet and you know what it's one of those things where i could see it being an upset because it's horror but demi moore could win an oscar for The Substance, which is absolutely straight up a horror film. So yeah, this movie always, always terrified me. Just...
from the character of Hannibal Lecter. And it doesn't even end on a bright note. I mean, even though everything sort of works itself out in one way. But think of how this movie ends. Like the last line of this film. And you know it's going to happen. Because that's the type of character that Hannibal Lecter is. I'm not even going to go into a synopsis for this. I think most people would know this one.
Yeah. And Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Demme absolutely knocked it out of the park with this one. Yeah, it is my number one. It is for me of all of the ones we're talking about. When we get to the best of the decade, this is maybe the only, and I'm not even sure it will be a representative of the 90s yet, because we've got some pretty strong years coming up down the road.
But this is the only one from this year that would be a strong contender for the top 10 of the 90s for me. So, yeah, it is my number one. Nice. And has Demi Moore ever won an Oscar? She's not, right? She won her first major award at the Golden Globes for the substance. Nice. Well, I'm rooting for her. Let's see if she does it. Let's hope she does, man. I root for her. I think I would put her right now because she won the Golden Globe.
I would put her as the front runner, but that doesn't mean anything because the Golden Globe is like the foreign press and everything. This is Hollywood, and there are still plenty of people who just have a bias against horror. That's what I feel anyway. That's what I feel. And I guarantee that some of these voters who who who are going to who are going to put movies, you know, vote for movies, you know, like like the prestige pictures of each studio are going to have a real hard time with this.
substance. So I can't say for sure it's going to win any of its awards. I'd like to see it sweep. I'd like to see it get best picture. and that's without having seen all of the best pictures you know I still have to see Dune 2 and I've heard great things about that so there are still movies I have to see that are up for best picture but
Just from a personal standpoint, I would love to see The Substance win for Best Picture. Fingers crossed. Then there won't be any of this, well, it's not horror, it's thriller type of thing that was with Signs of the Lambs. substance is straight up horror as far as i'm concerned yeah i agree all right well cool number one for days silence of the lambs let's go to bill bill what's your number one my number one is
The people under the stairs. Nice. I don't have a lot. It had been a while since I'd seen it, so it was just nice refreshing myself. I mean, really, it's a survival movie, kind of. It's got some really neat characters, and it's got enough there to hold you. But... What I like most about it is, even up until the end, you're not quite sure if they're going to make it out. It's a mystery. It's a survival film. It's also a bit of a treasure hunt.
you know you got some really neat characters you got the one character who can't talk you've got other little and the thing is what i like is you don't know the backstory of the people downstairs You don't know if they came in and they were, as was alluded to, a lot. You know, they could have been a worker.
somebody working on the heater somebody working on the uh the pipes could have been somebody selling encyclopedias could have been somebody looking for help for their car whoever they're all down and and so It's intriguing. It's not a horror story you see a lot. I kind of, if you throw, don't breathe the burbs and the collector and you kind of wish it around.
you're going to get the people under the stairs. What I like is its use of shadows, a dark... like it's it's dark in some ways it's almost a haunted house movie because it's a lot of going through tunnels different rooms that kind of thing but it's essentially there's not a lot of action there's not a lot of violence but it's sprinkled in there
but it's built on atmosphere, tone, and tension. And some characters that you don't like, and some that are in leather, and this really bizarre couple, and yeah. I'm not going to go too much because we've already talked about it, but yeah, that's my number one horror movie of the year. Hi, people under the stairs for Bill. That's a good pick. Heck yeah. I could have totally had mine up there as well. But let's go to Pearl, Dan Love. What is your number one? My number one.
It's horror crime. And I'm going to say Bill Fooey on you. Because you know what? Cape Fear is a horror movie to me. Cape Fear. Yes. I love the film. I love that movie. I absolutely love the film. every every woman's nightmare that work of robert de niro when he's having sex with that woman and you can just see his eyes yeah sorry sorry the dementedness of him yeah This is every woman's nightmare, violent sex offender, Max Caddy. You know, he's in for rape charges and spends 14 years in prison.
He comes back out, and he's on a vengeance streak, coming after Nick Nolte, who plays Sam, comes after his family. This is horrifying to me. I mean, because, yeah, you're always looking over your shoulder. You know someone's there. And someone as deviant as Robert De Niro's character. Oh, God. Yeah. He was so good in this movie, man. So freaking good.
I will never forget that scene near the end when they're in the boat. Oh, yeah. And the mom makes that decision. Don't take my daughter. Take me. Like, oh, what a tough call that would be. I think about him speaking in tongues when he's going under the water. That is such a great scene, just seeing the craziness in them. But there is so many. And watch the original as well, Robert Mitchum. That's a good movie. Oh, it is fantastic.
But this one definitely, I mean, because of the times and whatnot, it really goes there. And I thought Nick Nolte done really good in his part. But Robert De Niro is just so maniacal in this movie. He was perfect for it. Yeah. What's really interesting about De Niro, I think, in this film, and he is terrifying in it. I mean, he's like one of the great villains. I think one of the great screen villains.
is that when you think, like, he's in such an amazing shape. I mean, he got his body in such amazing shape. Four years earlier, he put on something like 70 pounds to play Al Capone. You know, and lost that and was looking like this. There's a scene where he, like, straps himself under a car. Yeah. And... Martin Scorsese told the story that De Niro came up and said, I think this is bullshit. I don't think you could really do that. I don't think that's something you could really do.
and he's like well you know it's in the script i think it's something you know i i don't know that it's impossible so de niro strapped himself under the car to see if it was possible or not but I mean the look at De Niro does he not look like every dad's nightmare yeah yeah yeah like it looks like it looks like every person's nightmare but i mean as somebody who has a daughter
Like it makes your skin crawl that there's guys. Yeah. And the fact that he's basically blaming Nick Nolte's character for withholding. or not representing him well enough in court to the point that Nick Nolte admits it going, look, I wanted this other bitch in jail because he was really a... What he did was brutal. The fact that there's just no connection in Robert De Niro's head that he deserved what he got, just that he was screwed out of a good defense.
It shows just how – what a maniac, what a psychopath the character truly is. how it escalates. And I agree. I think the original Cape Fear, J. Lee Thompson directed that one. I think that one is absolutely a masterpiece as well. And what's really interesting is that both Robert Mitchell and
and Gregory Peck show up in cameos in this film, which I thought was really cool. But those scenes like with De Niro and Juliette Lewis, uh oh my god they're just they're they're terrifying they they they are this is a it's it's a very strong movie it really is and um uh i remember the first time i saw it i was a little turned off because i thought it was
a little too flashy i thought scorsese was sort of trying to outscore cc himself with the flash and everything of it but i've sort of come down on that and i said you know what no i think it's just a stylish well-made incredibly well-acted film um with with one of the truly frightening characters as uh as the antagonist yeah i remember seeing this in high school and there's that scene where de niro shows up at the gym
and you're like like i was in grade 11 at that point and you're like oh my gosh like this was before anybody got buzzed in this is before there was any security at doors you can just walk into any school you wanted to and you know and you're like It's amazing someone could just walk in and do what they do. It scares the bejeebers right out of you. It does. Now, fortunately, nowadays, they have like, at least the schools around here, they have like locked doors.
sort of this cubicle type thing you can't get in and so they there's that but yeah you're right in the old days this guy you know this you just walked in there was there were no doors there was nothing like in my high school there was nothing like that you just had to deke out the secretary Yeah, well, it wasn't even a secretary. In my school, the office was, when you went in the front doors,
The office was was about 10 feet forward. You make a left and then you go down another 10 feet before you get to the office. There was nobody watching the front door. Nobody. It went into an empty area and then right into the auditorium. There was no guard. There was no secretary. There was no nothing. If the custodian happened to be walking by, that was the best you could hope for because there was nobody watching that front.
door at our school and you could get in all of the side doors from the outside as well wow oh we had nuns yeah nobody wanted to come in because of the nuns i mean i didn't So maybe they were our guards. Yeah. You're not afraid of, you know, grown men or women, but a 4'10", 85-pound nun, you're poof. Yes, exactly.
And the nicknames we used to give them, like Sister Scourging at the Pillar, Sister Satan. None of them ever had a nice nickname. Oh, my God. Sister Satan. If anybody's guilt was too high, you didn't like your legs. Oh God. I love it. All right, Cape Fear, number one for Pearl. Way to go, Pearl. You got us going down. I know, rabbit holes and talking about Sister Satan. Good Lord, I love it. That's right, yeah, nobody brought that book up, that movie up.
yeah that's right all right so let's go to my number one and it's anti-climatic at this point as it is dave's number one and it is silence of the lambs as well this is such a masterpiece and and i really wish dave you to put body parts in there we just said ditto a whole
whole time that would have been awesome i'm telling you i dropped it off to put on the pendulum i did but it was number five oh well that's so funny that would have been interesting that's so funny but that is our top five so let's write it down let's do it one more time and then we'll go
our voicemails so dave's from five to one the pit in the pendulum subspecies the people under the stairs popcorn and his number one film is silence of the lambs get your pen and pencils out if you haven't wrote down yet bills top five nine seven six evil part two subspecies clear cut
Popcorn, and his number one film of the year is The People Under the Stairs. With Pearl, number five is The Resurrected. Omen, four. Sometimes They Come Back. Warlock, and her number one film of the year is Cape Fear. No crossover with Pearl with anybody. Nobody. All herds are OGs. I love it. OGs. Pearl said, screw you all. I'm getting all new ones out there. I love that.
All right, and then for my top five, number five is body parts, subspecies, the people under the stairs, popcorn, and my number one film of the year is Silence of the Lambs. So there it is. You know what's funny, Greg? As you always say, get your pens out.
As soon as they open up the episode, the list is there. This is true. Or go to, yeah, you can go to landthecreech.blogspot.com, and I do it just for you guys and gals, just for ease. It's mainly for me, so later in... two three four years down the road i can go back and just type in and say oh god what was my top five it's for pearl when she has to tape it up in an hour i love it so there you go so that is our top five so now we're gonna
switch gears, and we're going to go over to our voicemails, and then we'll give our honorable mentions as well. So we've got a lot of stuff coming up, so stay tuned. All right, here we go. So we're getting ready to go to voicemails. But I think before we do that...
Let's go ahead and go to Dave, because I want to go ahead and get out what our next episode is early before voicemails, and then we'll announce it again at the end. But Dave, what is our next episode going to be? Our next episode, which is number 417. We are throwing a spotlight on a filmmaker, Mr. Jean Rolland, the French, I guess, exploitation slash art house. director sort of walks a fine line between both. And our very special guest for that will be Mr. Justin Beam.
There you go. I cannot wait. Super excited about that. So start getting your mindset on genre land. Look them up. Bill, I'll tell you it's kind of hard to find some of his films, but look some of his films up, and that's what we're going to be doing is a spotlight on them. So plenty of time, a couple weeks to get your research. I don't know. There are some YouTube ones out there.
that are in Russian with Japanese subtitles. I'll tell you the God's honest truth. I almost sat and watched through them in French. I don't always have the context. So even if you're picking up words here and there, it can be a little bit tricky. Like, is she saying death? Or she's saying eat. I don't know. I love it. Mort. Mort de manger. Mort de morgue. All right. So that is going to be the next episode. But this time, let's go ahead and get to you.
You, the listeners, you, the family members of LOTC, let's hear what you have brought to the table. Let's hear your top five horror films of 1991, and we'll start it right off with Darren from Northern California. Hey, Greg Pearl, Dave, Bill, Darren from Northern California calling. And welcome, Hugh. I hope you're having a good time on the show. Can't wait to hear what you bring to the party. All right. Talking 1991 horror.
Again, there were some pretty good ones. I mean, not as good as 1990, but still worthy watches. Here's my top five. First one is Body Parts by Eric Redd, starring Jeff Behe.
That was just a really fun ride. I always liked Eric Redd's work. Number four, I'm the worst in the series, but I still love it because I'm a Freddy fan. Freddy's Dead, The Final Nightmare by Rachel Talladeh. It was... campiest freddy that you ever had but i you know and the effects did kind of lack compared to the past films but i still had a fun i still had a fun time with it uh number three the pit in the pendulum by stewart gordon
Sorry, Lance Henriksen. I'm a sucker for anything Edgar Allan Poe. I love reading all of his works. But personally, my favorite films will always be the Roger Corman and Vincent Price films. My favorite actually being the tomb of Lygia. All right. Second, my next one is...
And some people don't consider this a horror film, but I definitely do. And that's Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme. It deserved all the Academy Award accolades that it got. You know, Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster just... absolutely superb in that film and so and so was ted levine and finally the people under the stairs by wes craven i mean
You know, that's where the GIMP outfit originated, as far as I'm concerned. You know that was an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino, that outfit. But, no, that was just really fun. fun ride that movie. All right. I hope you guys have a great show and I will talk to you next time. Take care. Bye-bye. The OG gimp suit. Good call. I never thought of the connection with him and Tarantino, but yeah, it makes sense. Totally. Let's go to the bench himself. Oh, yes. 1991. What could it be? I don't know.
I don't know. I'm just trying to throw out the automatic response or whatever. Yeah, this is Greg from Ohio. 1991. I don't know. As for theatrically released, because I was that uber nerd that has seen, I would say, every theatrically released horror movie from the 90s. And in all honesty, there was only 14 released in this year. So not a lot. I mean, we're starting to get into... A lot more video, straight to video, and VOD was, you know, gain.
You know, the premium channels, but not just premium channels, but the premium, premium channels. So you could see a movie by rental. And, yeah. Just rambling a little bit. But, yeah, so 14 movies. This one I kind of left very generic. I mean, there's a few from 91 that were not. released theatrically and they were okay but i i kind of picked right from the theatrical release so number five is uh body parts number four
Number three, yes, I include this. It is The Addams Family. Yes, I include that. It's 100%. Sure, it's gateway horror, but it is horror. Number two, The People Under the Stairs. And number one, which is, it's a great movie and I'm not going to be bashful about it. And I do include it with...
I do include it with horror. Sorry, my phone just beats. And that's Silence of the Lambs. And there's no doubt in my mind that it's a horror movie. I'll defend it. I get that it's a police procedural. I get that it's not. It's horror all the way. So can't wait to hear the episode. And, yeah, we'll talk soon. Later.
That body part's getting a lot of love, Dave. I was really not expecting it. And she's right at that number five spot. I know, right? Well, it's one of those things where, you know, if you include Silence of the Lambs, you've got about three or four that pop out, and then you're scrambling for that fifth. Yeah.
And so there's going to be, there's about seven or eight films. We're at about the same level and it's whichever one you like. Yeah. Right. I agree. All right. Let's go to Anthony. The shop master. Hello, Creepers. This is Anthony, the Shopmaster General, calling in for the top five of 1991. 1991. We're in the 90s. Loving it. And for my shot, I'm sipping on some bourbon. I'm a rye guy, but I'm also a bourbon boy. And I have with me Redemption High Rye Bourbon.
This is very smooth and spicy and tasty. And I'm going to cheers to everybody. And to the 991. Peace and love. Love you all. Yum. And since... We're in the 90s. The 90s are challenged for those of you playing at home. You take a shot every time you have a sequel or a franchise installment that appears in your top five. I'm going to be wrecked by the end of the 90s because...
It seems like to me the trend that I can see, my impression is that there's a lot of sequels, there's a lot of Full Moon, there are some weird oddities, and then there are like the scattered few objectively great films that came out. So far, at least in the early 90s. And I'm not passing judgment on anyone's list or in anybody's quality of what they've determined should be on their list. I mean, I am honestly baffled by my list.
I can't make sense of it. I went over it. I've watched a bunch of films from 91 that I've seen and haven't seen, and I still have this list that I'm just going to go into it. Keep in mind, I was 11, 12 in 1991. like nostalgia for these movies that came out at the time. So, okay, here it is. Number five, Puppet Master 3. Puppet Master 3. Why? Because they had the balls to go...
a puppet master franchise in third installment that had the balls to go into Nazi Germany to get the origin story. And that's a full moon, and that's a sequel. So I'm going to drink here. I've got a beer on the side. It's a winter cabin IPA with the winter scene. Go figure, even in Los Angeles in the winter, you can market this stuff. But, hey, I'm drinking it. Cheers. Cheers.
And my number four, okay, line it up, Child's Play 3. Child's Play 3 because, I mean, come on now, how many great... horror movies take life in a military academy and i love chucky and this is what he's got coming into his own and andy's in it and he's like a teenager and and yeah chucky's coming to his own that's all cheers cheers to child's play three okay
My number three, Freddy's dead. Freddy's dead. I'm a Freddy head. I'm a Freddy head, so I was going to have Freddy's dead. I love Freddy. Yeah, it's my number three. Yes, it is. So I'm not apologizing, but I am going to take another swing at this idea. And he got cut off, so now he's got to take a piece. Are you sure he got cut off or did he pass out? I don't know.
All I know is those markers are going to be marked on a curve. Those papers are going to be marked on a curve. Those students are lucky, lucky students. But I'm glad he brought up Freddy's Dead because I rewatched it. I hadn't seen it in a... long time. And you forget how much comedy is in that. Alice Cooper. Yeah, Alice Cooper. It was the silly Freddy. But still not bad. No, it's not. It's not horrible. Good.
Yeah, exactly, Dave. I agree with that too, Dave. Dave, I'm trying to stay positive. Let's hear some penalty shots here. Let's go back to Anthony R. I agree with Anthony R. I was benched. And here I have another shot for my penalty bench of Redemption High Rye Bourbon. Those of you wondering, it's a mash of 60% corn, 36% rye, and 4% barley. You gotta have the barley.
Cheers to you all. Cheers. Cheers. Okay, last two. First of all, I just want to say I've been giggly, but I am very proud of my list. and I will stand by it. It's just, I'm still trying to wrap my brain around this whole 1991 thing. My number two, I feel like, okay, so for my number two, I'm going to get into a little quick discussion about genre classification because who doesn't?
Love a discussion about genre classification because the way I see it is anything that can send to your skin, anything that horrifies you, disturbs you, unsettles you, you know, that's horror. That is what horror is. And that is why... uh well i didn't have this in my list originally and i had freddy's edit number two but like jesus man uh cape fear my number two cape fear and not only should this be hard just the fact that we need scorsese in the horror genre which is
It's great. It's a great film. Objectively, like, it's just the music is so dark, the dark tones, the violence. It's a dark film, and I feel that it's horror. And, you know, people don't, whatever. You know, I respect everybody in there. Everybody's, you know, choice to be wrong. I kid, I kid. You know, that's my number two. And number one, Silence of the Lambs. It's just whatever, copy and paste what I just said about Kate Fier and Silence of the Lambs.
Plus cannibalism. This is like one of my best, my favorite films of all time. I love it. And so, yeah, that is my list. Time to landscape fear. Freddy's dead child. Play three. the top of the all five films me according to me of 1991 i'm really looking forward to see what everyone else puts all of their lists and uh i just you know happen to be a part of this love you all greg bill pro greg and bill and
You, boy, come on, man. Come on, guys. The man's in the... It's like 4 a.m. It's like dawn where he is. You know, just so happy that I'm listening to this. whatever you guys said earlier, and I'm just going to get out now before I embarrass myself further. Bye! Bye! That's after about, what, eight shots of beer? But it's still going through his veins. Give him a half an hour. hour later oh boy yeah i'm telling you next morning he was feeling right i think number four well bad
I have got to meet up with Anthony R. Pearl and I. I cannot hang with him on drinking, but I definitely want to go out and hang out with him and drink a little bit and see how long it takes me to get plastered. Dave, it would not be long up against him. I think Puppet Master 5 is brilliant. It's a classic. That's my number one movie. Sorry, Anthony. I'm not making fun of you. I'm actually impressed that you could remember that stuff after. Oh, my God. I could not. I would be literally spewing.
Puppet Master 5 is the number one movie of 1843, I swear. Shock I'm Dead is like Wes Craven on steroids. Yeah. And it is. All right. Let's go, Jordan. Let's go to our next caller. Love you, Anthony R. Yes, 1991. It's Greg from Ohio. And, yeah, I... I already called in with a list. I know I did. And that's not why I'm calling. I'm calling because Victoria Chambers had recommended or asked me, I suppose, if I had heard or have seen this movie called...
There's nothing out there. And I viewed it last night during the Super Bowl. Well, actually, before the Super Bowl because I couldn't remember what time the Super Bowl started. But this one... is totally up the Bill Van Vagel aisle. It's quite, it's a little rough around the edges. It's framed as a slasher. even though it's not some kind of a killer, as in a slasher. It's just the way that it all unfolds, kind of. But what makes it more in that aspect is that it's this super meta...
movie. One of the characters keeps referencing that this is how it goes in horror movies. He's this horror movie expert and stuff. That would probably be the most entertaining portion of it. Aside from, I think, every female that was in the movie had to expose herself. with the top half of their body. That must have been in their contract to be in the movie. Otherwise, yeah, I mean, is it worth a watch? I think a one-time viewing.
So I watched it on Amazon Prime, but I imagine it's probably other places. There's nothing out there from 1991. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it definitely has an A for effort and a B for maybe somewhat of an original idea, but it has for a D on delivery. So I don't even know how I would rank it. Not that great, but it's a fun watch with friends or if you're bored or just for whatever reason.
just to add another movie to your repertoire. All right. Well, can't wait to hear this 1991 episode, and we'll talk at you later. Later. I love it. Has anybody seen this movie? I'm glad he brought it up. I did. I looked it up. I initially saw it on a big list and then I looked into it and I saw director Rolf Konefsky. And I remember JB coming on.
Yep. Saying that he had spent time with Rolf. Yep. And so I messaged Justin and I said, is this worth watching? Is it a good film? He goes, oh, it's one of my top three films by Rolf Konefsky. You got to find this one. So it turns out it was playing on Fossum and on Plex. Yep. I might have even found it on YouTube. I'm not sure. Yeah, there's a lot of titties. There's no doubt about it. But it's a cheeseball film. It's not bad. Thanks for calling me out on that, Greg.
mr bench because yeah it was entertaining i've seen a lot worse movie than that now is it gonna break any you know box office records no but it's worth a watch Yeah, this has actually got a Blu-ray release from Ronin Films. I don't know if you own anything from Ronin, Dave. R-O-N-I-N Films. Probably. I'm sure you do.
I actually had fun with this one. Yeah, Ron and Films. There's nothing out there. This got released last year. I think Justin had help with this one. Anything with a mutant frog? Oh, yeah. Oh, God, dude. It's so cool.
shooting beams out eyes green eyes so cool uh i had fun with this movie i've And here's what I will say, and this might be a minor spoiler, but I dare say Wes Craven's seen this movie because I think Randy from Scream is totally took from the main character of this movie, who is the horror nerd. I'm just going to say it. Another one of those meta kind of horrors. Yep. I'm going to straight up say everything that.
If you've seen Scream, you know how Randy always had the rules. You know, you can't do this. You can't do that. Blah, blah, blah. This dude did it first in 91. I'm sorry. Wes Craven, I really think you watched this movie and took that from this character because this character is all he talks about throughout the whole movie. You can't go out there in the dark. And they're like, what? Because you know you can't do that.
Or why would you put your hand here? You can't do your hand here. Or why would you do this? I mean, he is a walking encyclopedia for horror movies and what not to do. I'm telling you, Randy is took in pattern after this character. Prove me wrong, somebody. I don't think you can do it. I got that same vibe. What's that 80s film that every time they killed somebody, like a bell went off and they kept a track in the corner? Was that like sorority something?
i forget oh yeah i know which one yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i can't remember i mean that was the first time i kind of that or saturday the 14th was the first time i'd gotten kind of like that meta but uh saturday the 14th is dreadful It's a shit movie, but it had that theme to it. It does. There's nothing. It's called There's Nothing Out There. Yeah, There's Nothing Out There. There's Nothing Out There. I have a two-disc DVD from Troma.
Okay. Yeah, it's a trauma. It's definitely a trauma. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But Ron and Phil's released it on Blu-ray, Dave, and they put a bunch of bonus features. I know I've seen this movie. I'm looking at it. I know I've seen this. I thought I reviewed it on the blog, but I can't find it. Did Justin do the extras on this? I'm pretty sure he did because I remember him talking about it and we were going to order it. Whatever.
reason i didn't order it but uh i definitely wanted because the bonus features on here uh the bonus features that's available on the ron and blu-ray makes it worth uh, be in there because I think they put another one of his, a couple of his short films or something in there. Well, as well, the director. So there's a lot of extra bonus stuff out there that you can get your hands on. And I know, I can't believe it's a two dicks, a two dick, two dick.
set. There's a two dick set. There's a two dick set. Dave, you heard it. Bill said it. It's a two dick set. Hey, I'm pretty sure that Justin also did the special features on the body parts Blu-ray. He probably did. Justin, call us out. I'm sure you did. I need to go on his site. Well, he's coming on the next bloody episode. That's right. Yeah. We'll ask him. Nice. Well, there's no one out there. Definitely check that movie out. Thank you, Greg Bench and Victoria. There's nothing out there.
Yeah, there's nothing out there. Yeah, there's nothing out there. But there is. But all right, so let's go to our next call. That's a lot of bras on the ground. There's definitely a lot of bras on the ground. Let's go to the next caller. Hey, it's Sean from Texas.
of susan and sean from texas um calling in for the top five in 1991. oh this year sucks okay i'm sure there's some good movies that release big ones but i was limited by my availability and what i could find on bill van vegel tv and or youtube so let's get into it a number five is a weird ass japanese movie pinocchio nine six four um This movie is strange. It has something to do with it.
cyborg sex slaves and they were mutating there's not much plot really i had to look up the plot synopsis after i watched the movie hot garbage do not recommend and number four I'm going to put Alligator 2, the new mutation. This movie starts off really good. It's got a Florida vibe. I like the cast. Dee Wallace, you know, that's always a plus. The alligator's pretty cool.
It starts off good. The middle part kind of grinds to a halt. It's really boring. There's nothing going on. It has a PG-13 rating and a made-for-TV vibe, so you don't get any of the gore. There's not a lot of alligator effects, really. It shows up at the end. All in all, pretty disappointing, but you did get to see cane hunters and alligator hunters, so I guess that's worth something. And number three...
I put Critters 3. This one I actually had on Blu-ray because I have the Shout Factory box set. This got Leonardo DiCaprio as like a little kid. And he's got the most 90s shirt I've ever seen in my life. This movie I actually enjoyed. It's got a small feel. You're stuck in an apartment complex with these characters who are all pretty funny to be around.
the krites are awesome as always creature effects really good there's some explosions they get drunk on dish stuff i think i'm pretty entertaining a really good film uh number two i'll put howling six the freaks this one was a really eye-opening experience for me because i had never seen any of the howling sequels before um so starting with six is kind of odd but there's a really cool premise of a werewolf
He's being recruited into a traveling circus freak show. Turns out the main head honcho dude's a vampire. You get a really cool werewolf vampire fight at the end. Really awesome werewolf prosthetics. Kind of like a mix between old school Wolfman and the howling because he's got the reverse jointed knees. But he looks like kind of Lon Chaney Jr. Really awesome looking. I wish he got more werewolf action in the movie.
But what you didn't get was pretty cool, so definitely surprise. And Sean got cut off, so let's go to his next call. Hey, it's Sean from Texas again. I got benched. Damn it. And for these 1991 movies, too, which is just both really sad. Okay. So I was at number two, I think, with Howling, Six, The Freaks, Werewolf.
freak show uh traveling circus craziness and food i don't know what you heard i don't remember i don't know where it cut off but it's pretty good check it out um would recommend number one is one i've seen a million times I can't recount how many times I've seen this movie. 1991's Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. Probably my favorite of the franchise. It's got all kinds of shit in this movie. Time travel, cyborgs.
World War II battle reenactment scenes, nuclear submarines, MECA cyborg Kaiju fight. I mean, it's amazing. There's a lot of undercurrents for... current Japanese at the time, like the economic bubble that was bursting. There's commentary on that, commentary on World War II and Japanese-U.S. relations. A really good cast. Really, really good soundtrack. Akira Fukubei comes back for the first time in the Heisei era. Really good stuff. Pulled out the stops. Kimpichiro Satsuma as Godzilla.
Personally, my favorite person to ever wear the suit. Unfortunately, it passed away not too long ago. Really broke me up about that. Yeah, it's a really, really good movie. I would recommend. Easily the best movie out of this whole list. But that's not saying a whole lot. So if you can find it, check it out. It's kind of hard to get a hold of nowadays. Anyway.
That's my list for top five in 1991. This was a lot of work. I don't know how you guys do this on a regular basis. Take notes, find movies, watch movies. It was a pain. I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep up with every year from the 90s. I'll do my best. All right, creepers. See you later. I love this. And he did call in one more time, so let's get his third call and then we'll comment on Sean here. But I love that, dude. That was so funny.
hey it's sean of susan and sean from texas again 1991 just refuses to die um i just want to clarify it being the last message i kind of sounded like i was uh not enjoying the process that is not the case i liked tracking down these weird ass movies and watching them but it is kind of hard in between doing my day-to-day so i didn't want to sound like
uh you know i didn't enjoy the process or whatever that's not the case but um it is a lot of mental work and kudos to you guys and the members of the group for You know, keeping up with all this stuff. This is the first time I've ever done anything like that on, like, you know, kind of a timetable. So it was fun, but it was mentally taxing. Like I said, I'm going to try to keep up in the 90s because...
i'm interested to see where it goes hopefully the movies get better but again anyway as always you know i really appreciate the group i really appreciate all the work everybody puts in so cool It's like having an extended family who's in the weird, creepy stuff, which, you know, not many people I know in real life are in the weird, creepy stuff. So it's cool having you guys around.
I just wanted to clarify. I didn't want to seem like a jerk later. Not a jerk at all, dude. I did not take that that way at all. I was going to say, welcome to my life. Yes. Now you know the middle. Why we are so weird in Psycho is because we do this on a regular basis. It's funny. I want to mention on Sean's list, because he has a couple worth talking to, but in our group chat, when I watched Critters 3, I said...
I'm not getting those 86 minutes back. It was neat seeing a young Leonardo and it's not bad. I've seen worse, but I've seen better. That's all right. I'm putting the crew. We're going to put the crew through Critters. We're going to do that whole franchise in the future. So I'm putting Bill through that in the future. How many hallways can they roll down? Come on.
Godzilla vs King Ghidorah I had for the longest time as my number 5 Love that movie Fantastic film uh like i'm not necessarily a japanese you know monster movie kind of guy this is a good one well king kador is one of my all-time favorite um whatever you want to call them. What is it called? Kaijus. Kaijus. I mean, I love King Ghidorah, man. I love him. Yeah, it's a fantastic... You know what? A lot of those kind of films...
You don't really care about all the pseudoscience of trying to calculate this. Just wait for the fight at the end. Really, that's all you're looking for, the last 40 minutes. Now, the other one he mentioned that I watched I had never seen before was 964 Pinocchio. Same. Oh, boy. Dave, have you seen that movie, Dave? I was curious before Bill takes this off. Have you seen 964 Pinocchio, Dave? I have not. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Take it away, Bill.
A half-naked Japanese guy running down the hallway that's pretending to be a sex doll in the streets. It's very much got that vibe of Tetsuo. You know, the one about the iron? The other Japanese one. It's kind of in that vein. It's got a little bit of David Lynch to it. Yes. It's a little outside. You know, if you've watched the video for Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel, it's...
It's an oddball film. I'm glad I saw it, but it was not making my list. Yeah, I'm in the same boat with you, Bill, and Pearl and I are watching this movie, and I'm like, and...
There's very little dialogue through a lot of this movie. It's very Lynch. It's very Eraserhead-esque. It's borderline horror. It's just weird. I mean, it goes in so many weird... situations and like by the end of this movie i'm like looking at pearl like what in the hell did we just watch like what was this how much weight makeup did they go to to put on that guy yeah so weird dave i mean
Check it out, Dave, just for the filmmaking aspect of this movie. I don't know if you'll like the story itself when it's all said and done, but I got to give them props. I mean, it's definitely... And a unique original, I don't want to say original, but it's definitely a unique film that, hey, whatever. Go ahead, Pearl. For a film with that budget, I think he got the most out of it. Yep. Pinocchio. I had heard of the movie before this. Pinocchio. Pinocchio.
Pinocchio, Pinocchio, Pinocchio, Pinocchio. There is a fan base, like an underlying fan base that love these films. Oh my God. It's one of those cult. So if anybody's really got 90 minutes where you're going to go, what the fuck? Yeah. Watch 964 Pinocchio. Dave, there's like a, what, a five to 10 minute segment.
where the guy cannot talk and he's got a little patch of hair in the front of his head and that's it and he's literally uh he like i said he doesn't talk and the girl's trying to tell him his name and she says your name is pinocchio so she goes pi no keo right so she keeps doing in a way that he's doing his head like he's head banging to pa no keo and he keeps doing it over and over and over it's like this head you know parrot
type thing and then it finally is like pinocchio pinocchio pinocchio it's like she does it phonetically like she's teaching a three-year-old yes well she kind of is with that part where they're like all you can eat buffet like they're going to the whole store and they're eating like everything oh god this movie's weird so shalom thank you for bringing it up i was going to talk about it and i'm
Bill, I don't know if you were going to mention it. I was just going to say it in my honorable mentions once we got there. Yeah, so we're throwing it out there now. So there you go. So thank you, Sean, for bringing that out. And for taking one for the team, my friend. You definitely took one for the team in that one, buddy. All right, so let's go to our next call. Hey, Lane McCree, Victoria calling in for 1991 top five. This was not an easy year.
to find movies i immediately knew one or two but the others i i had to dig and i know others did too so i am going to start out with a And if you hear any weird noises, my cat is just losing his mind running around. Anyway, I am going to start with a couple of honorable mentions. I knew one I watched called Children of the Night. That is a movie that it has one character in it that is going to make the movie and you're going to love.
That character. And that's Maddie in this one. I think that was his name. I do recommend watching this one. It's on Tubi. It's a little ridiculous. Our hero is like a bought-in-from-Wish kind of protagonist, but you know what? Still a good ride. The other one I wanted to mention was a short on YouTube called The Sandman. It's an animated short. It's really good. I think it was like nine to ten minutes. Give it a watch.
And the last honorable mention is an intro horror for maybe kids and things like that. Ernest Scared Stupid. And I have a little bit of a story about this one. I saw it when I was about six years old and I was at my grandparents' house and it was around Halloween. So, you know, I had seen the other earnest, um,
The actor James Vernon, I don't remember, but, you know, Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Goes to Summer Camp, whatever it is. I've seen a couple of those, so I'm sure my grandparents thought, all right, that's a big video. It's going to be a kids movie. Be fine.
To this day, and I am 38 years old, I remember the scene where the little girl is, who's also about six, is... laying in bed and she's like lost her friends to you know the trolls and they got turned into those little things I don't remember exactly that part but they got turned into something else you know
Her friends are disappearing. Her parents, you know, the adults don't believe her. And her only help is a mentally challenged guy who calls milk monk. Like, she has it rough. So anyway, she's terrified something's going to happen. The camera is facing her. She's lying sideways in bed. And she very slowly, slowly, slowly reaches, looks over and looks under her bed, doesn't see anything. And the camera stays with her. She rises back up like you can't see anything but her.
So she goes, like, sighs and relief. She rolls over, and the freaking troll is right there. My first jump scare in my life scared the... Oh, it scared the... What'd you say? Victoria, what'd you call that thing? Let's go to her next call and see what she got called out on. Okay. I knew I'd probably get benched once. I'm going to try to stick it to just one bench. Anyway.
to begin that story i remember i i i would when i woke up in the morning if i was like laying on my side like facing my my door my bedroom door i would not do any i would immediately I'll go out of bed and run to the dining room right there. Wouldn't look behind me. Nope. That was one thing that really scared the shit out of me.
So it's a little special to me because of that. I won't rewatch it because I don't want that memory ruined. It's probably not near as scary, but I'm going to leave it as one of the scariest things that ever happened to me. And just keep that memory that... Triggered my brain to love horror. Yeah, it is. All right, so on to the actual list of top five for number five. I have a new one. There's three new watches for me on this one.
Number five is Clear Cut. It is on Tubi. It is about these Native Americans basically getting revenge for... this company coming in and clearing out their land and wasting it. The acting is so, so, so it's number five, but it's a good watch. Number four is another one on Tubi. No. No, I'm sorry. It was on YouTube. Maybe. Strays. I liked this one. It was a little bit fun.
There's wild cats attacking people. It's got a favorite kind of supporting actor of mine who I knew I immediately knew from West Wing with Timothy Busfield. And so I just enjoyed it. number three is subspecies this was again the first time watch cool vampires you know It's like that brooding, handsome vampire I usually don't like, but this was a decent watch. It also has your ugly, evil vampire, so balance. Number two is The People Under the Stairs. This one...
What I really liked about it is in our horror, we have movies where we want to see the bad guy win. We kind of root for the villain a little bit, or at least you don't mind. This is a movie where you can't wait to see these SOBs get what they deserve. And it is a cathartic moment at the end. And number one for me is going to be, I think, one we're going to hear.
From both sides, be either horror or non-horror. I consider it horror enough related to be on the list, and I think it's one of the best movies that probably came out that year, The Silence of the Lambs. I just think it's fantastic. Anyway, that's all I have. I'm not going to get finished again. I'll talk to you all later. Bye. I love it. I love the story, and I like where she's saying she won't go back and re-watch.
you know, it'll ruin that, that scary moment. That's actually pretty smart because I've done that. And then it does kind of take the, the essence away from it. So that's actually pretty smart. Great choice. I love Ernest Scared Stupid. I think it's a great movie. Victoria had actually recommended Boys That Children of the Night to me as well. I didn't get a chance to see it. But she was really high on that one. It's funny how she mentioned strays.
I had forgotten about that with Timothy Busfield and Kathleen Quinlan. It's about house cats. um and you don't usually think of them as like the most frightening creatures around uh but this movie managed to um the cat attacks are a little bit hit and miss um well the first there's a guy who works for the phone company and the sight of a cat leaping for his throat actually kind of made me laugh because the effect was not effective
But it does get better. So, yeah, it may not be the most terrifying cat-themed movie ever made, but it's not bad. yeah i was i was back and forth with uh victoria a lot we're chatting all the time hey have you seen this one from 91 no have you seen like we were going through the depths of depravity to find some films yeah you both and especially her like she went through
A large catalog of movies from 1991. I think there's only one she saw that I didn't. There was one called Poison. I didn't see that one. But Children of the Night, it's an interesting one.
about the the teacher and the priest in this town you know saving the world against vampires and strays yeah timothy busfield who i always remember from revenge of the nerds and my mom used to watch on 30 something and uh and of course feel the dream feel the dreams and i guess he was in the west i've never seen an episode of the west wing so i don't know But, yeah, we went through a lot. And it's a decent little film. It almost plays off a little bit like a made-for-TV movie. But it's, yeah.
I like Timothy Busfield. Has he fallen off the earth? I haven't seen him in ages. No, I haven't seen him either. Probably. I don't know. All right. Well, cool, Victoria. Thank you for calling in. Let's go to our next call, Derek Johns. Hello, creeps. This is Derek Johns calling in for the 1991 Top 5 show.
I hope I made it on time. I know this is kind of late, I think. I didn't really find a lot of good movies this year. I'm sure there is some I haven't thought about or missed again like I did in 1990. Two of the big movies, I don't really consider them horror movies. I consider them more suspense or thriller, not a horror. And those are Silence of the Lambs and Cape Fear, which if you consider the horror, that's fine too.
your opinion right so i'm gonna go with the top five i have only have six movies so it can't be that difficult but uh coming in sixth place i do a top six my honorable mention would be 976 evil two number five sometimes they come back okay number three would be uh puppet master three i think i screwed up already so number
Or sometimes they come back. Maybe. I don't know. I'm sorry, guys. I know I screwed up. So my number three would be people under the stairs. Number two would be subspecies. And number one is popcorn. Sorry for the jumbled, messed up call. But anyway, love every show so far. You guys have done a great job on everybody, Dave, Gregville, and Pearl. Like I said last time, Pearl, thank you for everything you do.
For all of us fans, it's amazing. Just until next time, hopefully I have a better call. Okay, bye. Thank you. That was a good list. Hell yeah. You're going to waste our time anytime you want. That's right. By the way, Bill Strays wasn't made for TV. It was made for TV? Yeah, it was. It was played on the USA Network. It just had that feel to it.
Yeah, USA, it was a cable network, but it was still with commercials. So they still had to watch language and content. Yeah, things like that, yeah. Nice. Let's go to the next call, which is Bo Patterson. Hey, Land of the Creep. This is Joe Patterson out of Massillon, Ohio. And I'm calling for the 91 episodes. As promised, I said I'm going to try and call for each one of the 90 episodes at least. I want to call for more, but I don't know too much about the subject.
I don't know. I just feel goofy calling, so I just don't. But I'll start out with the kids horror or potential kids viewing as I see it. And number one, I'll go with the Addams Family. I mean, who doesn't love the Addams Family? It's hilarious. Great. Christina Ricci and Christopher Lloyd. And, I mean, what's not to love about the atmosphere? It's amazing.
My favorite got to be Ernest Scared Stupid. I literally watch this movie at least three times every Halloween. I tried to introduce my kids to it last year. My oldest one was all right with it. My middle one was like, hey, I'm kind of losing interest. but I have to watch it a few times every single Halloween. But as far as regular horror movies, I'll go with number five, Subspecies. First time watched for me, and I actually loved it. It was great.
Number four is Popcorn. Popcorn's just a great movie all around. It's cheesy, terrible acting, but it's great. Silence of the Lambs, number three. I don't care what anyone says. That's a horror movie or none. And then also, sometimes they come back. Sometimes they come back as a movie that no matter what, I got to watch if it's on. I love that movie. It's quintessential Stephen King.
And I'm just a Stephen King mark when it comes to make for TV or adaptations of this movie. I'm going to call back because I think I'm a bench. So I'll call right back. Bye. And he does. Let's go ahead. go to his last caller here. Hey, Landon Screech. Bo Patterson out of Madison again. And I left off on number two. I hope you heard it. It was sometimes they come back.
Like I said, I'm a mark for a Stephen King adaptation. Every 90 episodes I call in, you'll probably hear one. Maybe two, who knows? You'll probably hear one if there's an adaptation for that. Matter of fact, 92, I know there's an adaptation. or at least a sequel to an adaptation of this. But number one for me has to be the people under the stairs. I love this movie so much. It's probably in my top three. Top two, maybe.
of Wes Craven movies. This movie is just so much fun all around. I love the little boy Fool. He was in Mighty Duck. He was in The Fan Lot. I just love that kid. He could do no wrong, in my opinion. Bing Rhames in the movie, just funny as hell, Bing Rhames. This movie could do no wrong in my eyes. And I heard something about, you know, a reboot. I'm not against reboots. I love reboots. I don't care. Give me more of it. I'll watch them.
Because here's the thing, I'll always go back and watch the original. It doesn't matter if the new one's shit. I'm going to go back and I'll watch the original and it's not going to affect me at all. So I'm off for it. But I hope you guys are having a good episode. I'm keeping up to my promise of calling so far. It's been two times now. I'm going to try and keep it going. And I'll talk to you guys next time. Bye.
He has a point. He's on a roll. You got to do three now. Keep it coming. That's right. Good list. I love the love for Ernest Scared Stupid as well, man. I'm just right there with you, bro. I don't think I've seen that movie this century. So fun, dude. So fun. Let's go to our next caller. Hello, Greg, Earl, Doc, Phil, and Hugh. This is Bobby Harris, the Bob, calling from the Bob Cave. I'm calling in with my top five from 1991. At number five, I got subspecies. This was a first time watch for me.
And I felt like it was very creative. It had a lot of atmosphere. I think the Bloodstone story was pretty cool. And let's face it that... Radu, he is the reason we are watching this movie. With a snake like his to go with the amazing performance. I'm actually thinking about buying the series now because of this. Let me know what you guys think about it. Checking out the rest of the sub-species.
series anyway number four i got uh sometimes they come back again sometimes they come back a tv movie this one starring uh tim matheson and robert rustler based on a stephen king short
I love the acting in this film. All the greasers are real pricks, man, but they're really good. And you really sympathize for Jim, what he went through as a kid. In my opinion, you can't see through those flashback scenes. Everything is really like... a time stamp of that date uh it's perfection to me uh number three i got people under the stairs directed by wes craven uh this urban tale
It's a lot of fun. I love this movie. I love the look of the people under the stairs and the kid that terrified me. There's a scene in here with, let's just say, a half a torso that just horrified me as a kid. It's great now. I mean, I laugh a lot watching this movie. The story's pretty good, and I find it highly quotable. May they burn in hell. All right, coming in at number two, I'm trying not to get Ben's true. I think I'm doing good.
Number two, I got Popcorn, starring Jill Sholin, Dee Wallace, and Tom Billard. The film pays homage to William Castle by using all the gimmicks in the theater. The movies within the movies are fantastic. I love any movie really set in a movie theater. You got me hook, line, and sinker there. But this one, having the theater full of people dressed in costumes.
All set to watch these movies, these gimmick movies. I love it. I love the look of our villain. The poster is one of my all-time favorite horror movie posters. And it's actually the first VHS I ever bought for myself as a kid. This movie is just simply home for food to me. And at number one, I got Silence of the Lambs, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Ted Levine.
No doubt about it. It's going to be on a lot of people's list on here. The cast is amazing. Hopkins is fascinating and truly terrifying. And Bobby got cut off, so he did call back in. Let's get to his last call, and then we'll come back and comment there. All right, that's Bobby back at it. I'm picking up where I left off. Number one is silence at a land. Basically, to me, Ted Levine, he's solid in this role.
I would never help anyone move a couch into a van because of this man. I will also never be able to hear goodbye horses without saying or thinking, I fucked me. I fucked me so hard. Guys, I want to thank you so much for letting us call in. Thanks for keeping horror live. Nothing but love for the LFTC family. LFTC for life. And this is Bob signing out.
Dang, I would have never thought that. But yeah, you're right, Bobby. I guess I could never listen to that song and not think that. That is the most memorable use of that song. They used it again a few... Years later one few years later, but maybe was it 10 11 years ago now for the movie maniac the remake of maniac songs in that too
But when you hear it, you immediately think sounds of the land. What a call. I love it. Well, we've got just a few more calls left. Let's go to G-Reg. Hey, creepers. It's G-Reg, a.k.a. Other Greg from Wilmington.
and given a call for the 1991 horror uh list and a pretty good year not nearly as good as 1990 but uh and there's a couple like really good flicks that are sort of in the is it horror question mark category um so i'm sure they are going to be discussed at length so anyway i'm going to say number one for 1991 silence of the lambs by far
What a good flick. I did get to see that twice in the theater when it was out originally and just enjoyed it so much. Let's see, we got The Resurrected coming in at number two, which is a... one of the best um hp lovecraft adaptations that is not uh reanimator or from beyond but it's right up there people haven't seen the resurrected i highly recommend it and Coming in at number three, I've got Cape Fear, which is kind of a, like I say, is it horror question mark, but fine, fine film.
can't say anything wrong with that and uh strangely enough was not filmed in wilmington even though the area is known as the cape fear that's one that was not filmed here and then we've got uh the people under the stairs this could be my number four Really enjoy that. Just fun. Wes Craven hasn't made that many bad movies. This is not the best or anything, obviously, but I enjoyed it.
Number five, I'll go with popcorn. Number five was a tough one because there's like some strong flicks in this. I mean, number five could easily have been subspecies or the pit and the pendulum or cast a deadly spell. all right so i'm going to call a four-way tie for number five and uh honorable mention to uh alligator two which is just dumb as dirt but a lot of fun so anyway i think somebody in the group
Facebook group that said they'd watched it recently. All right. Well, hey, that's going to do it for my 1991. Can't wait to hear what you guys talk about. I know there are a bunch on there that sounded cool, but I had just not seen yet. So I'm sure I'll get some good recommendations as usual. Thanks a lot for doing what you do, guys.
Thanks for keeping the heart of our life. Bam, love old G-Reg. Yeah, it is strange because of Cape Fear being on the Cape Fear, and we have Cape Fear here in Wilmington, but not filmed here. It's just one of those odd. I don't know why they didn't film it here. I know somebody brought up Cast a Deadly Spell. Before I started researching, I had never heard of it. It was a made-for-TV movie. It was a really fun film. I really enjoyed that one.
Nice. I don't know if you saw that one, Greg, or did you? What was No Mode again? Cast a Deadly Spell. It's got Fred Ward, David Warner, a really nice-looking Julianne Moore. No. Younger. Clancy Brown. isn't it um charles hallahan who i think he used to be the police chief and hunter i think now i've not seen that it's worth watching
And anything with David Warner, I'll watch. Well, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. All right, let's go to Chris Bartoli. Hey, Landon Creeps. This is Chris Bartoli from Worcester Mass calling. How's everybody doing? I hope everybody's well. So for 1991, you know, I got to admit, I haven't been doing my homework like I should, and I haven't really watched a lot of 1991 movies in the past little while.
But I just wrote a few down that I remembered that I liked. Some of these I had seen kind of recently. And when I say kind of recently, I'm talking like maybe even less. couple years or so so this won't be a very long one but i just wanted to call anyways and say hi and give you a few uh movies i'm sure these are gonna probably be on a lot of lists so there's probably nothing really crazy here but um
One, Silence of the Lambs, really loved that movie. Yeah, I think that was just a great one. I remember seeing that one at the theater, and I've seen it a few times since then, so I really liked it. And it's one of those that...
it is horror there's some parts of really horror but it's like i love the you know procedural stuff with jody foster and the uh stuff where she's trying to get into Hannibal's head and they kind of like playing off each other but then with Buffalo Bill it gets it gets pretty crazy at that point Another one is People Under the Stairs. I actually just saw that one for the first time maybe about a year ago, and I really, really enjoyed it. I'm surprised it had taken so long to see that one.
And then another one I got is Kate Spear and the one with Nick Malti and Robert De Niro. And I know it's a remake. I haven't even seen the original one, which I heard is really good too. But man, Robert De Niro, what a badass in this movie. Oh my God. Anyways, I like that one a lot too. But really, that's really all I got. I just really wanted to call to say hi. And yeah, that's it, man. So I'm going to hang up and I got to call the Black Love Ministry. So anyways.
Love you guys. Thank you for keeping horror alive. Bye. I love it. Awesome. And let's see, let's go to, and Chris Martoli always comes up with some just. Cool ideas, too, man. I love this dude. Yeah, I love chatting with Chris. I chat with him quite frequently. He's really good to blow ideas off of. He really is, man. I love that guy. And he's just on one of the newer episodes of MRAC, which is Anthony R's podcast.
podcast over there so go check that out done and he did well for his first time he did really well he did absolutely uh let's go to uh james dean let's see what james dean's got us i'm sure there's a nun in there hey everybody james dean here uh
Calling in for the 1991 episode. Before I get on that, I have to say, I have told Pearl that I will call in probably 10 times in a messenger in the last year. And I have... failed every single time uh i'm just always late and then the episode comes out and i'm like oh i missed another one but somehow some way i'm calling now and i have my top five for 1991 which It's an interesting year. Okay, so I think at number five, Child's Play 3. I think it's fun. I don't know. I like it. Four, Popcorn.
Also fun, Jill Sholin, a huge crush on her, so that's going to work its way in. Waxworks 2 for my number three slot. I'm a huge fan of the Waxworks movies. Again, they're just fun, you know. I always get first and second one mixed up, but I believe it's the second one that has the Bruce Campbell. I'm pretty sure it is. He has the Bruce Campbell cameo, so you can't go bad there.
Number two, this could be controversial, especially with Bill. I know he's more of a horror purist, but Silence of the Lambs, it's horror in my book. So I'm putting it in there, and pretty sure... Pretty sure something there won an Oscar. I think Jodie Foster won an Oscar for that one. So, I mean, it has to be good. Number one, I have a story for number one. That's why I blasted through all the other ones. Number one, people under the stairs.
holy crap guys and gals everybody uh i was 11 when i saw this in the theater with my best friend and his dad brought us and we would talk our parents into taking us to see stuff that we should not have been seeing And when the guy with the gimp suit jumps out with a shotgun, his dad was not sure what the hell was going on. But we loved it. And now, you know, 35, 33 years later, whatever.
It's taken on a whole different meaning, and it makes a lot of commentary at that film. But People Under the Stairs is definitely my number one. I think a lot of people love it, but I still think it's actually underrated. I think it's way better than any kind of... IMDb probably has it like a six-something, which is just insane to me. I think the commentary and the film itself is just amazing.
Hope everyone's well. We'll try to call back a little more regular. And thanks for everything you guys do. Thanks. Nice. I love, love, love, love, love hearing from... James Dean, dude. I was chatting with him yesterday and I said, you got to call in. He's like, okay, Bill, I'll leave.
Did he message me back? Okay, called in. He has redeemed himself. Yes, he has. And he's always another one who, you know, he's in the industry, but he's not afraid to talk to you. Sure. Anybody who's looking in that industry. Hit up James. He knows what he's talking about. Yeah, absolutely.
Well, cool. All right, so we got Patrick Gunner. Let's go to Patrick Gunner. He had wrote in his top five. His number one film of 1991 was The Silence of the Lambs. Number two was The People Under the Stairs. Number three, first time mentioned. Highway to Hell. Number four, cast a deadly spell, Bill.
And number five is The Addams Family. And he clarified the last episode when I mentioned he said something about Sidney Sweeney. So he says, to be clear, Sidney Sweeney is not in Deep Blue 3. It's just a fun movie. So there you go. Dave, if you remember that, I was talking, you know, because the way he kind of worded his last message, I thought he was saying Sidney Sweeney was in Deep Blue 3, but she is not. He says it is a fun film. So thank you for clarifying that, Patrick. All right. So.
I think we'll go to Brian Scott. And Brian Scott wrote in his, and he said, I forgot to mention in voicemail that I'm a Hugh Fan Lloyd. Hugh Fan Lloyd. Hugh Lloyd fan. Hugh Fan Lloyd. There you go. Hugh, get a kick out of that one.
He says, hi, pal. I love hearing your opinions from across the pond. Hugh Lloyd for life. And once again, unfortunately, Hugh was not able to be on tonight. He did apologize and he felt bad about it, but he did have a family emergency. So once again, thoughts and prayers out to Hugh and his family. family we'll get them back on that's right absolutely uh so let's go to brian scott's call see what he got for us hey guys brian scott horror movie fan boy here i got five movies from 1991
Not mentioned one, Mind Warp. Not brought up often, I don't think. A weird sci-fi movie in the desert starring Bruce Campbell. Next one, Warlock. This is one we watched a lot on VHS back then. People Under the Stairs. Great theater experience when me and my friends went and saw this. And, of course, Silence of the Lambs. Probably the best movie of 1991. I don't think there's... I think that'll be the consensus, and I do agree. But one of my favorites, shocker, Silent Night, Deadly Night 5.
And a lot of people may know this, but isn't it funny in 1984, Mickey Rooney lambasted part one saying publicly, quote, how dare they? A Santa that kills people. The scum that made that movie should be run out of town. Then, only seven years later, starred as a killer Santa in part five. Talk about a hypocrite. Some say he grew to love horror in that time. And appreciated the movies after his horrible statement on part one. How dare him. Yeah, how dare him.
Anyway, others say he was desperate for a paycheck. Probably more the case. Either way, I enjoyed his performance in the movie. And I do like that movie. I think it's a good part five to the series. Anyway. Have a great show. L-O-T-C. I think more what happened with Mickey Rooney, if I'm being honest, because he did the voice of... of santa claus in santa claus is coming to town the rank and bass and as well as the you without a santa claus so he had done that so they went to him about this
And they were probably in an uproar with whoever asked the question. So he was just sort of pandering to them. Oh, I'm saying all this stuff. The scum should be run out of town and all this stuff. And then, oh, well, he was in part five. So maybe he like, no, he forgot.
Totally forgot he said that about part one. Probably. Totally forgot it. And when they came to him with a page... check for part five was like yeah sure i can do that that's no problem i'm just knowing what i what i've read about mickey rooney and how he was his later allow cantankerous he was and everything i guarantee he completely
Forgot he had said that. Maybe someone reminded him at some point, but when he accepted the role in part five, there's no way he remembered what he said about part one. I love it. I was going to say, or he needed an addition to his backyard. That too. Or something, yeah. Needed a porch. That's why the one with Michael Caine with the hand. Right. So what did you think of? Well, I never saw the movie, but I love looking at the garage.
paid for there you go well brian scott love you dude man appreciate you calling in as always uh we got matt nichols had uh written his in and his top five was the people under the stairs ernest scared stupid
Freddy's Dead, Popcorn, and Child's Play 3. And he said, for me, 90s is just throwing nostalgia. So that's kind of how I'll make my picks. And he says, keep... keeping horror alive so there you go so matt nichols uh writing in there as well so we got um three more voicemails to get to so let's go ahead and get into these all right so what we're going to do is go to our uh Call here. We're going to go to Greg P. and Amy Lee. Oh Yeah
You ready? Yeah. Okay. Well, this is your Gruesome Twosome coming to you for the year 1991. The opening song is provided to you. It is Metallica. Nothing Else Matters from 1991, performed by my son who was born in 1991 when he was in high school. So there you go. Storm Russell, good job. What?
Talking about the 90s makes me feel really, really old. Well, I know. My son is going to be 34 this year. Is that not crazy or what? Yeah. Because I don't feel as old as I am. LOL. At least we don't like it either. that's true thank goodness so all right so this is your gruesome twosome 1991 again and i might have to get that out because i just did this twice but that's okay because this one i do have time to do
We're going to talk about our top movies of 1991. And with that, you get the lead off, honey. People Under the Stairs. People Under the Stairs. Now, see, I would pick that one because you love that movie. I would seriously think that might be close to your number one. But I know you don't like to, you know, put them in order. So whatever that works. But that is an excellent Wes Craven movie. A little off the beaten path with him.
Completely weird. Well, you tend to like all these movies where people are dressed up in S&M gear, man. I tell you what. I don't know what that's all about. Maybe something in your past life or something I don't know about. At the very end where they're coming out. Right. Unless we have that Guns N' Roses video. Right. Anyway, totally off. I know, that's funny. But, yeah, you were like 14, 15. Who knows what you were into then, so.
Just giving you a hard time. But a really good movie. You know, the brother, the main bad guy, he plays the werewolf in Silver Bullet. And then I'm trying to remember who all is in the movies. It's been forever. I know.
All right, so my number five, well, you know what? I'm going to start with honorable mentions. That's what I'm going to do. So honorable mentions for me would be the pit and the pendulum. It's a... retelling of that uh all the gothic post stuff that they did back in the 60s and this one has lance hendrickson as the priest and just to see him like kneel down on glass and beat himself man that was like
Pretty intense back then. That sounds atrocious. Oh yeah, I know, right? I'm thinking that's the right one. I may have to go back and look. Well, I'm just going by. Alright, your next one on your list. silence of the lambs of course silence of the lambs see that one would definitely be probably is my number one it's funny because i never had to guess psychological not horror but i know y'all think you know y'all consider this adjacent whatever well that's what they
To make sure people were nominated for Academy Awards, that's what they do. Change the category. Oh, it's a thriller. It's a... Serious drama. No, it's a serial killer who bites people's face off. Another one that puts their skin on and dress and dances around with them. Well, with a main character from West Virginia, you know, I kind of had to watch it. Oh, yeah. No, it was excellent.
And what I've said about this movie in the past, when this book came out by Thomas Harris, it was a huge book before they made it into a movie. I mean, it all circulated around, and we, where I worked, we all... Read the book and we all talked about it. And then later when that movie came out, I really felt like Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins captured the characters 110%. I mean.
when i read the book and when i saw them to me they were like the same people i thought that was fantastic it is very unusual because you usually don't get that you usually have to kind of change your brain and make it into an alternate universe you know so that you don't get irritated because the books are always better than movies anyway what i'm saying is usually someone's adaptation that didn't write the book so that's to me that's why the characters are so
vastly different in so many cases. There are a couple of things from the book that are different than the movie. Something that happened to do with Jodie Foster's boss played by Scott Glenn in the movie. There's a little bit more of a love interest between those two in the book. But that's, as far as I remember, that's the only difference. Fantastic film.
All right, so next I will talk about my number five, Howling 6, The Freaks. This is in that along those lines, it's also a low budget part of the Howling series. Who knows if it was... One of those like they did with Hellraiser where they just attached something. Oh, we'll put the Hellraiser name on it or we'll put the Howling name on it. This film has your main character, a werewolf, and he goes to a...
essentially a circus, and it's run by an evil vampire. So there ends up being werewolf versus vampire, and it's actually really good. It's one of my favorite out of the Howling series. Interesting. Yeah. All right, what's another one on your list? Body parts. Body parts. All right, this is an excellent film as well. It just kind of reminded me of a not-so-funny version of Idle Hands. Yeah, I could see that.
I mean, I like them both, but considering we're talking about actual horror. Okay. We always wonder, though, like, if you have a replacement part of somebody else. Right. I mean, realistically, it seems like a valid question. I mean, medically, I get that it's not. a concern but in your head somewhere you have someone else's stuff on you in you whatever it's weird i guess you could make that into like a creepy factor you know what i mean so
Like, I have an issue with if I ever need a blood transfusion. I don't know that I want that, because it seems weird to me to have someone else's blood pumping through my body. I never knew that about you. That's kind of interesting. I'm just going to do what's necessary, so...
Nope, you're gonna go grab my mom or my sister. How about when you just store your blood like people do for a rainy day? Or my son. I think my son's O negative. I think I might be as well, but I can't remember. You'd think I would know that, considering what we do. But... It's all good. Let's see my number four will be the bar So this film I know you're making a face. You don't know this one Essentially, it's kind of like sci-fi horror
Alien comes to Earth and it assumes people's identity by basically ripping their head off and sticking it on its own body. And it goes around. Yeah, it's definitely got that going on. It's gooey, as they like to say. Yeah, I like this movie a lot. All right, next. Sometimes They Come Back. Sometimes They Come Back. A Stephen King adaptation, and that was actually a really good one.
I want to say, was that in the theaters or was it made for TV? I can't remember. It's not always The Crow. It's not always, you know. The basis of so many horror movies. Yes, it is. Very much so. An evil spirit lurking. All right. Line number three is going to... Be children of the night. So I've talked about this film before. This is a vampire film where Karen Black is a vampire. The vampires in this town.
They live in the water, kind of up under this quarry, and their lungs, when they're sleeping, their lungs come out of their body and lay on top of their chest. It's really strange. But... The movie, the cinematography has a very 80s feel to it. I think a lot of early 90s movies have that 80s crossover feel. But like I said, also low budget, but I think really good.
it's one of those movies that you don't hear much about so it's kind of one of those that um i champion awesome all right you got any more on your list all right i mean there was like the child's play movies and stuff and i mean
Yes, I watched them, but they were never actually my favorite. Right. I think there was even, what are the little dolls? Are you talking about Puppet Master? Puppet Master. Yeah, part two's on here, and that one's actually pretty good, too. Those movies were actually really good, that whole series. And when I was young? Yeah, absolutely. I haven't watched them in a long time. Pretty sure I have a couple of those figures downstairs. Let's see. My number two is Subspecies, also a vampire film.
done by full moon again i think this deserves more accolades centers around the vampire radu who's very creepy looking you know i know there was some controversy over nosferatu with the mustache and all that kind of stuff but radu from subspecies kind of has his own look he doesn't look He looks more vampiric. He looks more like Nosferatu but not quite as much. And he has long hair. He definitely has like almost like a snake like creature to his face or maybe a bat like.
features to his face. It's really neat. I'll have to show you some pictures. Since you're looking at me like you've never seen this film, I'm pretty sure if... I know I have the whole series downstairs because I bought it and we'll have to watch that. But it's really good.
I think you'll be surprised. And then, of course, the number one was Silence of the Lambs, which we've already talked about. Maybe a couple of other honorable mentions. Ernest Scared Stupid. I had to say it twice because I messed it up. No? It's great. Oh, no. Yeah, it's got, you know, all the monsters are done by the Kieto brothers who did killer clowns from out of space, so they still have that same kind of artwork. It's fantastic.
I don't know that I actually ever saw it because I couldn't stand that man. Oh, you didn't like Ernest? You just didn't like dumb rednecks? Is that what the deal was? He was funny. I thought it was hilarious. Yeah, but he was so dumb. He was fun. You know what I mean? The last one. I know. The last one. Could have been a really good movie. It's decent enough, but his books are just never done well when they're made into a movie. And that is Dean Kuhn's Servants of the Twilight.
He had some excellent books. His books. I've read like 50, 60 of those things and kid you not. If I hadn't read him, I'd listen to him. He's just my favorite horror author. My first book I read from him was Dragon Tears. Oh, that's a good one. All right, guys, I guess that's it. Night, guys. Good night. All right, there we go for Greg P and Amy Lee. Cool track. Cool track. And let's get ready to rumble. Sort of having an echo.
effect i thought it was kind of cool i thought it initially that was that was by design but i'm not i don't know if it was yeah it was but it sounded really cool though It sounded like they were in a dome. It does. So, Greg P., I know you got a new mic. I know Greg got a new mic. Man, there's going to be some trial and error for sure, buddy, because I've been there, dude, but, man, your call was great.
They went over some they went over some great movies, you know, and that then that which it which we still I want to shout out storm Russell doing his version yes yes and happy birthday i guess for uh how old yeah he's uh well he was born in 91. Any call finishing with Alice Cooper, A-plus in my books. That's right. Feed my Frankenstein. But Children of the Night is definitely one that has been mentioned on the episode.
but I have not seen it yet. So thank you for the recommendation there. So throwing that out. Love it. Love that pit in a pendulum. I knew Greg would have pit in a pendulum. There was no doubt. I knew he'd have that on there. Cool. So, Greg P., Amy Lee, love you too, man. Appreciate you calling in. Good call on Howling 6. Hell yeah.
Yeah. The freaks. The freaks come out at night. Not what they were singing, but yeah, that's it. All right, well, cool. There's Greg P. and Amy Lee. So let's go ahead and go to our next caller, which will be Ian Urza. Hey, Land of the Creeps is seeing Urza calling in or sending in a recording about the top films of 1991.
This, from what I looked at on Letterboxd, seemed like a pretty weak year overall, at least compared to 1990, which was, I was surprised at how good that actually was with the mix of direct-to-video films, but also franchise films and some...
really competent horror films, whereas this year it seems much more bare, even though there may be some hidden gems you guys can point out and some of the other listeners can point out. I'm sure there will end up being a few. I couldn't do quite as much prep this time.
as I did for 1990. I did watch The Unborn, and I thought that that was decent. Not great, but decent. I actually think it's one of two films that Brooke Adams is in this year. Maybe you'll point out the other one. I think I remembered seeing one of them on Letterboxd. She was in 964 Pinocchio was another film I'll have to check out because that at least looked pretty interesting.
I'm only going to give you a top five this time because I had barely seen 10 films and some of them really weren't worthy. They were like, oh, just the least of my top 10. A film like Shotgun Dead, for example, which I thought was fine when I watch it, but I don't necessarily know if I would. it's in my favorite films for a particular year uh so at number five
I'm going with Freddy's Dead. And the only reason I have this on my list is because number one for me would be Silence of the Lambs. But I think a lot of people don't necessarily consider that a horror film, more of a thriller. And I'm kind of in there with that.
If that's considered horror, that would be my number one. But otherwise, the reason why Freddy's Dead is here instead of number six or an honorable mention is because Silence of the Lambs isn't my number one. Freddy's Dead, I actually like quite a bit. I don't like it as much. as I did when I first saw it but I still find it to be a pretty fun sort of
well, at the time, a conclusion of the Nightmare on Elm Street series. If you don't like the more Looney Tunes-style comedy, you're not going to like it, and I get that. Number five, I have The Sect, the McKellie Suave film. My least favorite of McKellie Suave's films. for horror films made from the late 90s to the early 90s but still a good one nonetheless has a lot of his crazy camera angles has someone getting humped by a stork which i enjoy very very much At number four, I have our number...
Number three, sorry. I have Puppet Master 3, which I think is my favorite of the whole Puppet Master series. And you've got Richard Lynch turning in his best Klaus Kinski performance. A lot of really... good additions to the usual crew there I think this might be the first movie that Six Shooter is in if I'm not mistaken who might be my favorite of the puppets and you have the whole historical World War II stuff going on it's a really really fun film.
Number two, I have Child's Play 3, which is one of my favorites in the series. I think the Chucky puppet effects in it are great. There's a really bad Diabolos Ex Machina in it where it takes him forever to say that voodoo chant. It gets really, really good.
ridiculous toward the end but i think it's one of the better parts of of the series uh even though some people might disagree and the whole thing with him sort of rigging the guns to have live ammunition is one of the most evil things he's done in any of those films at number one
I have Wes Craven's sort of commentary on gentrification, I would say. I think it's the right way to put it. And it's the people under the stairs. Even though I haven't watched it in a little while, I still think it's one of the shining gems.
of his filmography and he would always come up with different things and he would always usually take swings with some of those things whether it was a swing and a miss or a swing and a home run I guess is up to some with some of the things he tried to do but you know you can't say that Wes
Kraven sort of dodged making films you know he would always keep putting films out there he's he wasn't one of those type of directors like a Sergio Leone or Quentin Tarantino where he only made a certain number of films and as such the quality of them might
suffer a little bit when he's made some bad films specifically the hills have eyes part two but the quantity and quality of most of his films is relatively good and relatively competent and you can say that he made at least a really good film in pretty much every decade
from when he started working. I mean, even the 2000s, he had Red Eye, which is a film people really like, I really like it. So every decade he had something good and the people under the stairs, I would say, is up there among his top. films from the 90s along with Scream and that's about all I have to add this show more than others I am interested in seeing what listeners say and what you guys say among your best films because I'm sure there's going to be some that a lot of people including me
not seen and maybe some I haven't even really thought of or heard of. So I hope it goes well and thanks for letting us send our recordings into the show as always. All right, there we go for Ian coming in. A very interesting list for Ian. All right. He's seen 964 Pinocchio as well. Yeah, but mentioning like, what is it?
The New Nightmare and Child's Play 3, which I'm not a hater of Child's Play 3, to be honest with you. I kind of prefer, well, number one, I think, is the great one. And then I kind of like number two. But I kind of enjoy number three as well. I think it's diminishing returns each time. And he's right. It's set in a military, you know, I guess a military school.
You don't often see a horror movie set in a military school, so that's pretty cool. And he mentioned the sect. He's one of the few people that mentioned the sect. And that's not a bad little film either. Supernatural, which isn't normally my bag, but it's not bad. Or the Michel Suave film. Yeah, The Devil's Daughter. I mean, he sort of admits that it's like the lesser of his output from the movies. But it's still very watchful.
yeah the second i mean i like the the church and cemetery man yeah i bought all three of those on blu-ray from seven recently and we did watch uh the sect which is also known as the devil's daughter and it's really it was going to be in my honorable mention i'll go ahead and mention it now and i'll leave it off my honorable mentions but i was right there with you i really enjoyed this movie man i think Cemetery Man is definitely my favorite of the three for sure. But...
Oh, man. This movie is interesting. It's got our good buddy Giovanni Radice. Yes, absolutely. I love him. The bug up the nose in this one just really freaks me out a little bit. It's a weird, twisted movie, so if you've not seen it, It's the devil's daughter, a.k.a. the sect, S-E-C-T, okay? And it's also known by another name, which is La Seta. That's the Italian name. And Herbert Lom has quite a presence to him.
i would enjoy him as an actor yeah herbert lam has been in a number of um i mean you know not just he's he's more just franco and he's worked with um those kind of directors he was in mark of the devil uh and of course i Can't see. I can't see him without thinking of Inspector Dreyfus. In those Pink Panther films. He was in the dead zone. He's been in a lot of stuff. He was in the original Lady Killers with Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness.
yeah he's been he's been in a lot of stuff he's yeah he's but he was in was he in was he into those corman films back in the day the corman films you know like uh maybe if corman distributed them oh i don't know well he was i know he played um he was the phantom in hammer's version of phantom of the opera oh maybe that's it yeah i know he was in that one uh because there did come a point where he was kind of pulling a thing where he just take any kind of script because he needed it
Yep. I remember one of the other than the Pink Panther films because I saw them when I was a kid. But in cable, I guess it would have been like 81 or something. He was in a movie called The Man with Bogart's Face with Robert Satchy.
telling you it's a good movie and i remember he played a very uh sort of interesting part in uh in uh in that movie but uh now herbert lom is he's he's a he's a really he's a strong actor but he's also one of those ones he's almost like um joseph cotton in a way where her mom had this sort of air of respectability to him and then just started to make all of these sort of lower budget films just to
just to get out there and keep working and that's what joseph cotton did joseph cotton was in was in Orson Welles' Mercury Theater Company and Citizen Kane and the Magnificent Ambersons and all of these classic films. I always think of him like, what's his name? Ray Milland. Yeah, Ray Milan's another one. Ray Milan won an Oscar for Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend.
And then he's got his head on Rosie Greer's shoulder in the man with two, the thing with two heads. Two brains or whatever it was. Yeah. Well, there you go. Way to go, Ian. You got us way down a path. Yeah, right, Ian. Well, you knew Ian would do that. He always gets us thinking and stuff, and I love that.
All right, so we got one more call to get to, and this is going to be from the beef man himself. We're going to go to Gary Hill. So let's head to Gary Hill. Hello, Land of the Creeps podcast. This is Gary. Yes, I'm calling once again. It's been a long, long time. I was going to call, like I said, I just forget, man.
Pearl gives me the heads up and say, hey, Gary, you got a week. And then, you know, I'm doing this the morning of the show you guys are going to record. And I'm going to get to it right away, I promise. I'm sorry, love. I'm sorry. But I'm here to give you my... my list for the great year of 1991, which I love because it's, like, right on the edge of the 80s. So stuff still feels very 80s, you know, if you will.
Doesn't take itself too seriously. And most of my list doesn't take itself too seriously, which is a horror that I love. I love some more serious horror, but a lot of fun stuff came out in 91. I don't have a... Do I have a definite list? Because there's bangers that people should love. So let's go with the prestige ones first that people are going to say are their favorite ones.
These are all going to come up, and I'm just going to give a short list of stuff. Silence of the Lambs is going to probably be a big, big one for people because that's what it should be. I mean, I love this film that's... Not really about Hannibal Lecter, but made him an icon in that sense. I personally think that Brian Cox is the best Hannibal Lecter.
and manhunter because he just does it with like a a certain sarcasm but um for anthony hopkins to carry it over into a character to say hey yeah i'm gonna throw a little sarcasm out there too and be you know disgusting and devious and, you know, bite people's faces off while melting them off within a crowd performance. It's spectacular, of course, you know. I could take a leap, Jodie Foster.
in the film she's good good enough but you know it's really overshadowed by creepy buffalo bill of course uh what's the actor's name damn Ted Levine played by him and Creepy there and Creepy Lecter. But, yeah, it's good. It doesn't work without her, of course. I'm going too far into this film. I think it's just... It's there. It's good. It's good. In other words, people read four choruses, people are downstairs. What I call the best Tom and Jerry episode that ever existed because...
The interaction between fool and man, he doesn't have a name, played by Eric McGill. Yeah, when they really get into the stick, him being in the walls, him knowing he's in the walls, him just fucking with man the whole time. I just... It feels like Tom and Jerry, and I get a laugh out of so much of it now. As an adult, I didn't get a laugh out of when I was a kid. It's a wonderful film. I've always talked because I come from...
A very hood area. How come Wes Craven, as a white, you know, endowed American, has so much to say about black culture, but he pulls it off so well. We kind of buy it. It's so strange, though. But I do let people under the stairs to death. Some other ones, people are going to rep, but they should. What's that else? This is a long...
Popcorn came out in 91. This is a great film that includes movies inside of a movie. And Jill Sholin, one of the great unsung scream queens of all time from Stepfather and Phantom of the Opera. with Robert Englund, who Dwight Little, I think, directed that. Either way, great fun, great kills, really inventive killer.
I like the story of it, of it all. I like the ridiculous production of it. If you know anything about it, watch the extras because this has, of course, Dee Wallace, Kelly Jo Minter, and the late, great Tom Ballard. And it lost him way too soon. Wonderful popcorn is wonderful fun. That's three. Let's go for four and five here.
Cast a Deadly Spell. Now, this is important because this turn HP Lovecraft and Cthulhu, I have to get the word wrong, Mythos, and they took it and made him into a noir detective where somebody said, stole the Neconomicon, and it was up to Fred Ward. What's this character's name? I forget now. It's like, yeah. Where's it at? Dang it, dang it, dang it, dang it, dang it.
Anyway, it takes the name, yes, of Lovecraft in terms of an underwater detective. And so he has stolen an economic concept of him to find it. He's in this. Julianne Moore, David Warner, and Clancy Brown. Now, now. The importance of this is that HBO used to make really cool movies for genre fans. They made this. It's a technical sequel, Witch Hunt, starring Dennis Hopper. Space Truckers the Stuart Gordon movie um Bryce Stuart Gordon didn't direct this movie but he didn't um
Cast a Deadly Spell. I want it on Laserdisc, but it costs like $200. It's ridiculously priced. I'll rep for that, too. One more to make five. Ooh, snap. Body parts. Directed by Eric Redd, Jeff Behe, Brad Dorff in this movie. Based on a novel, apparently, by a guy who loses an appendage.
He gets it and it belongs to a killer. He starts taking out the characteristics of the killer. I've heard this happening in real life where people get an appendage or something apart from somebody. They start to take on some of their memories and stuff like in the real life. and it makes body parts all that much weirder.
It's a weird film as it is, but I do love and I will rep for it. Now, I'm going to do this now. I'm going to rep for some films hard here that people consider B-movies, but I still think in 91 they still live and breathe life, if you will. Jim Wynorski's 976 Evil 2, The Astral Factor. This film takes the whole idea from the first film, takes the cousin who's now a lone biker looking for, I guess, truth in this situation after his cousin gets taken over and then killed. Spoilers for 976 Evil.
It finds a bunch of shit, including a dean of a college who has the ability to leave his body and murder young co-eds. It's just a fun, fun movie. And George Buckflower shows up in this. That's always a good thing when George Buckflower shows up in things. This is so long, guys. Freddie's the other final nightmare for obvious reasons.
Fucking Looney Tunes fucking movie. But he got crazier and crazier as time went on. Freddy Krueger, seeing theaters six times. He's at the Dollar Stoller Theater. And if you went to the discount theater, it played for like a month. So you saw it a bunch of times. I digress, though. Dolly Dearest, starring Denise Crosby and Sam Bottoms and Rip Torn.
People would call this a Child's Play clone. I would not do that. It takes, like, this certain aspect of Mexican culture and mixes it with this freaking weird doll movie. It's slightly perverted. And if you haven't seen it, if you haven't took a chance on Dolly Deer, say, hey, it's the Child's Play clone. You know, Child's Play was a freaking clone. It was based on other tales of killer dolls. Look at Living Dolls, Twilight Zone episode.
Of course, you know, 91 was a time to love, love, love, love Full Moon features. The Great Charlie Band's second life with Paramount Pictures after Empire, of course. 91 brought us some great stuff, including the two best Puppet Masters, in my opinion, number two and number three. The Pit in the Pendulum, Stuart Gordon's Pit in the Pendulum. which of course featured Lance Henriksen and some other good people, and my favorite looking vampire of the past.
I don't know, 40 years. It's Radu from Subspecies, so he gave us that first subspecies, directed by the great Ted Nicola, bringing some class back to the vampire genre and, you know, making them look... Dreadful with just some shadows and, you know, the little guys really weren't necessary, in my opinion, but they were kind of there. He had some little creatures in his Charlie Band picture, but, you know, look at Radu.
This is phenomenal. And I'm going to leave my full moon love at that. But, you know, it runs deep. It runs real deep. A couple more will wrap is one I'm sure Bill VanBakel probably brought up. I would hope he would. Ron Switzer's very Canadian in U.S. co-production, science crazed. Just a fucking bonkers fucking movie in the horror genre. Check it out if you haven't. Give it a go. Thanks for keeping horror alive. Bye-bye now.
Of course, you know, 91 was a time to love, love, love, love Full Moon features. The Great Charlie Band's second life with Paramount Pictures after Empire, of course. 91 brought us some great stuff, including the two best Puppet Masters, in my opinion, number two and number three. The Pit in the Pendulum, Stuart Gordon's Pit in the Pendulum. which of course featured Lance Henrickson and some other good people, and my favorite looking vampire of the past.
I don't know, 40 years. It's Radu from Subspecies, so he gave us that first subspecies, directed by the great Ted Nicolau, bringing some class back to the vampire genre and, you know, making them look... Dreadful with just some shadows and, you know, the little guys really weren't necessary, in my opinion, but they were kind of there. He had some little creatures in his Charlie Band picture, but, you know, look at Radu.
This is phenomenal. And I'm going to leave my full moon love at that. But, you know, it runs deep. It runs real deep. Last but not least. Silent Night, Deadly Night 5, The Toymaker. This takes Mickey Rooney, a guy who bitched and bitched about that first movie coming out back in the day, protesting.
that it ruined the sanctity of Christmas, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He has become a Santa Claus in this movie, in which toys are killing people, and he is the prime suspect. This also includes that kid from Pumpkinhead. in society and uh he has a hilarious twist in this movie i mean it's perverted it's wonderful twist in this movie i i'm not going to give it away if you haven't took a chance
All the sequels jumped the shark with the Silent Hilliard series. This is what I enjoy about them. None of them make any freaking sense after the next one. It just keeps on pumping. There's other good ones in here. I forgot to mention the resurrected and sometimes they come back. They're still in my brain. I know.
resurrected some Pearl's brain because, you know, her man candies and that one. She probably ripped that pretty hard. I respect that. But this is the end of my super long... voicemail voice whatever you call this and uh yeah um i'll see you guys in 93 basically because you know i'm supposed to be on that show spoilers i can't wait to be back to talk with these guys
Love Bill. Love Dave. Love Pearl. Craig's okay. He can be kind of a dick, but not really. But yeah, I, uh, yeah. Rapid Heart for Land of the Creeps. Thanks again, guys. And always, thank you for keeping core. Alive. Bye-bye now. All right. There we go, brothers. Covered all the big ones. That was great. I haven't heard from Gary in a while. That's all.
Awesome. Although I had forgotten about space truckers. Yeah. Sure. Not quite horror, but it's a fantastic film. George Wendt is in that, isn't he? Yeah. I think so.
Because I'm pretty sure, is that not a Stuart Gordon? Yes, it is a Stuart Gordon. For some reason, I'm thinking that's a Stuart Gordon, and I know that Space Truckers, oh, it's 96, but yeah, no, it's a... space truckers is a fun i do too well i'm a steward gordon fan i'm a steward and i'm i guarantee george went was in it because george went was in a number of uh movies actually i don't oh yeah he was him and uh small cameo with dennis hopper
Dennis Hopper is John Canyon in that one. Yeah, I'm looking at the IMDb right now. Stephen Dorff. Debbie Mazur. Debbie Mazur. Okay, yeah. And Carolyn Purdy-Gordon. There she is. Stephen Dorff is still acting. Stephen Dorff is still going. Like he's always in something. Yeah. Yeah, probably. He's got 108 acting credits with eight upcoming.
He's a professional actor. No role is too small. Just keep going. There you go. I guess it's get me Eric Roberts. And if you can't get Eric Roberts, let's go after Stephen Dorff. And where did he start? Let's be honest. Is there ever a time they can't get Eric Roberts? I know. I love it. Well, Gary, man, we appreciate you, dude, as always, brother. You're always.
Love hearing your calls. So definitely call in. And if you don't follow him over on Instagram, I recommend it. And he's been doing these live videos where he's going through his, um, uh laser disc collection that he's getting he's purchasing a lot of laser discs from whatnot didn't he mention he spent 200 for one of them or something i'm sure he did like he has showed like he is he is racking up but gary is a collector that actually
watches them too so he has a working laser disc so it's actually really cool that's really cool one of the most awesome specials i remember seeing when i was a kid was cisco and ebert and ebert took us took you to his home and showed you the laser disc he had of raiders of the lost ark and what you could do with it now sharp the picture was and i just remember i mean that was vhs for me
at that time yeah and i just remember looking at it going oh my god that's like it's literally the most incredible thing i've ever seen and i wanted to save my money to get a laser disc player and but they were very expensive. I remember when they came out, the only one I knew with one, his dad was a doctor. And those discs were bigger than an LP. They were huge. They were like the size of a record. Absolutely. Yeah. You like throw it in your living room to Frisbee, you know.
yeah and that was like the early technology they were able to fit all of that onto a smaller disc eventually but they were kind of like opaque You couldn't quite see through them, but you kind of could. Right. Yeah, they were very – they're very cool if you ever get to see some of them. I remember –
Family friends had a laser disc. Are those machines expensive now? Because they haven't made them in 25 years. I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know. But seeing the laser discs for like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and movies like that.
I remember that was about the time when they had like... uh jurassic park coming out and seeing jurassic park on that would have been cool yeah it would have been you can find laser disc players like there's a guy that gary deals with and uh i've seen one that he had working for 115 so i'm actually may contact him and see if he still has that because I actually want a working player. That's what I'm talking about. When everyone's afraid, oh, they're stopping the manufacturer of Blu-ray players.
Well, first off, they're not – when Sony announced that, they didn't say anything about 4K. And 4K plays Blu-ray. Yeah. So you don't have to – it's not like, oh, now they're going out – they're disappearing. hearing and quite frankly still get a vcr you can still get a vcr yeah you know you can still get a laser you just said you can get a laser display
I mean, quite frankly, for the 15 million VCRs that they made, there's lots floating around. Yeah. Same. And if you can get a laser display for like a hundred and some dollars, I can't imagine a time when you're not going to be able to get. A player that can play 4K Blu-ray and DVD. That's right. And you're going to be stuck. And you're not going to have any way to display your collection. I just don't.
i don't see it happening because vhs now is going back to i mean it was there was forms of it around in the 60s but vhs as it was from the early 80s you can still get pleasure talking 40 years later well i'm definitely planning on hitting them up because I really want to try it because I've got Pearl and I have a few of the laser discs that I'd love to watch my Close Encounters on it and there's a local record shop that has like three boxes full of laser discs that you can get for like $10 each.
five dollars each like some of the horror titles it's not going to be better quality than you get on blu-ray or anything like that but there's just something really cool about putting that big sort of record size thing into a player and and playing it and you could you can do different things i think as what if you get the one like ebert was showing where you can pause it and then just slowly bring it back frame by frame or bring it forward frame by frame and
things like that. Really cool stuff. Yep. So I'll reach out to them and see if we can't pick that up and I'll let you listeners know about that and have fun with it. So Pearl and I will have fun watching LaserDiz along with our VCR, playing Atari and playing Nintendo. Oh, that's right.
Bring back the 80s. Anyway, so that is all our calls as we have it right now. If any others squeak in before we record or release on Tuesday, I'll try to squeeze them in there. But that is that. So we're going to do our outro slash. We got to get in our honorable mentions. So we're going to do that. But before we do that, one more time, I'm going to head to Dr. Shock there. And Dave, if you can let the listeners know the next episode one more time.
Absolutely. Episode number 417, the films of Jean Roland with our special guest, Mr. Justin Beam. I cannot wait. I get to get my indicator Blu-rays out, Dave. I still have the Redemption Blu-ray series. The films of genre lens series with the numbered spines and... I'm letting you know I still have all of, not all of those, but I think, you know what, I might. I think I have all of that entire collection.
that they put out of the genre land films from redemption, which was, it was that Kino sort of offshoot. Yeah. I had the first three, which were actually the first three of the Kino.
redemption label which was number one was the nude vampire number two was shivers of the vampire and number three was the iron rose so i do have those three as well as the indicators so i can't wait but the i mean indicator does such a great job you know i i can't justify like with with the way my collection is i can't justify upgrading it but if i were to say to anybody yeah i like the redemption label
I do. I think it's kind of cool that they made this little collection, the films of genre land, but indicator is absolutely the way to go with all the special features that they do and, and the work that they put into them. That's the way to go. If you're getting these for the first time, definitely go with indicator.
the booklets they give you and all stuff. So yeah, it's really good deal. All right. So let's pass it around. We'll get to you first, Dave, your honorable mentions, and then you can give your outros and then we'll pass it along. Well, not too many honorable mentions. A lot of them have been mentioned already. You know, obviously body parts was was a pretty key honorable mention since it was on the list for a while. I did get to see.
oh god what is it sometimes they come back uh which i thought was a uh an interesting uh like i said stephen king adaptation I'm wondering how much different the book was, only because there are things in the movie that just seem a little bit off, not quite like a Stephen King adaptation, but yet it's interesting enough. You know, it's interesting enough that it kept you watching to the very end.
And with what went on with, yeah, that black car in the tunnel. I think that's, and they returned to that several times throughout the movie, whether flashback or, you know, what happens in the film. Yeah, you know, there were a good number of movies. And like I said, I had no strays. I totally forgot about that one from 91. Right. Um, so, and as far as outros, my plugs are the same as always, DVDinfatuation.com, um, at DVDinfatuation on, uh,
Twitter slash X, whatever you want to call it. You can find me in the Facebook group, the Land of the Creeps Facebook group. And other podcasts, of course, the weekly watch list with Jason Piles and Mac Robbins on considering the cinema. The Jay of the Dead's sort of... I guess he has obviously Jay the Dead's new horror movies, and then considering the cinemas where he sort of takes care of everything else, and that's also where the DVD Infatuation podcast can be found.
And of course, Jay of the Dead's new horror movies with with a slew of us over there. You know, you could just go look at the Joel's video. Yeah. You know, from from that convention and and you'll hear all of us mentioned. So, yeah. And thank you so much. This was a lot of fun talking about 1991.
Again, you know, it's funny because, you know, we sort of dog on the movies. And I think once you get away from that certain group, that core group of movies from 1991, you're sort of dealing in not great stuff. But there's a strong core for it. If this was a top 10, I think we would have all been in trouble. Oh, yeah. We would have all had issues if we had to make this a top 10. Yeah. But I think top five is the sweet spot, especially for years like 1991. Some years you could.
make a top ten this was not one of them exactly All right, well, cool, Dave. Love you, dude. Appreciate you with your list today and everything. Always appreciate hearing from you. Let's head over to you, Bill. What you got, brother, for outro and for your honorable mentions?
For my honorable mentions, I'm basically just going to go over anything that hasn't been mentioned that I've seen from that year that kind of fits the genre. Door to Silence, Lucio Fulci and Joe D'Amato. It's an interesting film. but it's not necessarily a great film. Oh, one that I watched that I hadn't seen in ages that I really enjoyed was Highway to Hell. Anybody ever seen Highway to Hell? That's a fun one. Oh, Dave. Dave?
You did not mention one that you have reviewed that you love. Hiruku the Goblin. I do like Hiruku the Goblin. I did see that all. on there i did see that i saw that that was a 91 film and but i didn't get to re-watch it and i if i had re-watched it there's even a chance um it would have it could have maybe uh cracked in at number five if i had gotten a chance to re-watch it but i
And I just didn't feel right putting it on the list without doing that. I remember it fairly well. It wasn't that long ago I saw it. But I did enjoy that one. You're right. I didn't know anything about it. And Greg Vazelli messaged me and said, Dave and I reviewed this. You got to watch this. Yes, we did. We reviewed it on our when he was on DVD infatuation. Yes, that's when I watched it.
going back, boy, that might be going back two years now. That might be going back two years, at least a year and a half. Wow. Dolly Dearest. Yeah. The one about the little doll. It's basically a female Chucky. Yeah, but it's not even quite like as sort of cool. But it's a good. It's a decent, low-budget film. It's a decent, low-budget film. And I'll be quite upfront. I'm not a fan of the Child's Place series. So if this is a below Child's Place series... Yeah, I don't...
If you weren't impressed with where they went with Chucky, yeah, Dolly Deer is just going to do it for you. I wouldn't be shocked if they made a part two, though. Of Dolly Deer? Yeah. Oh, maybe. There was one called Wedlock. with Rutger Hauer and Mimi Rogers, where he has to... he's a prisoner and he has to get to a female other prisoner about getting a, I forget what it is. You got to get a, the thing says hidden loot. So, um,
The Haunted almost made my list. It's a made-for-TV movie, The Haunted, and it's got Jeffrey DeMunn is the main actor that you would know. But it also is one of the cases that Ed and, what's her name, Warren? Ed Lorraine. Lorraine. Lorraine Warren looked into. And it's an actual documented.
case of a haunting in a house. Yeah, Pearl and I actually review that. So if you listen to Mortis Vision, you'll hear Pearl and I review that on the last episode. So it's actually already out. Yeah. And you picked it because it was 91? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, yeah. It's not a bad film. Literally, I had it on my five line for a long time. Oh, Scanners 2. Boy, that's an interesting one.
Oh, this one I reviewed with Nathan back in the day on Phantom Galaxy. Blood-sucking pharaohs in Pittsburgh. It's low budget. I've seen that many years ago, yeah. Have you seen it, Greg? Yeah, many years ago. Yeah, many, many. It's got some name. I can't remember off the top of my head, but there's some names in the industry that show up for small parts. I know for a fact I didn't see it because there's no way I would forget that title. There's one called.
Scary Movie that was made in Texas, San Antonio. Clearly not. not the wayans brothers no that was much later than that this predated that and uh it's a little budget it reminds me very much of the barn
Do you remember that one a few years back? Yes, I do. As a matter of fact, I met that director at the show in Oaks and he signed a poster and I bought a Blu-ray from him for the barn. It's about a... haunted house gone wrong or uh you know when you go to the fair here's one that i guarantee 0.0.2 percent of the audience has seen but i did my digging and i watched this the sorority babes in the dance-a-thon of death.
Oh, I thought you were going to say Slimeball Bowlerama. Nope, nope, nope. I've seen Slimeball Bowlerama. I've not seen Dance-A-Thon of Death, though. No, no, no. Bowlerama is like Academy Award winning compared to this one. The other one that gets – Is it still – it still like the the from the same people i mean does it still have like it's not it's not bring stevens this is back when they shot videos with the camera on your shoulder
Okay. All right. Gotcha. I got you. The only other one that somebody mentioned in their phone call was the unborn. With Brooke Adams. With Brooke Adams. Brooke Adams was in a few horror movies this year. That's not a bad film, actually. Anybody looking for, you know, once in a while you find a diamond in the rough, check out The Unborn.
Now, I had a very short list of what I considered this year to be really good for horror-adjacent films. Obviously, we've talked about Science of the Lambs and Cape Fear. They were to me. put it up to your own interpretation the one i wanted to put on so goddamn badly but i it's not horror is ricky oh the story of ricky Yeah, no, it's not. It's gore. It's gore. It's gore for gore.
And you can, but no, it's a comic book. It's a comic book. It's a manga. If people listen to this, it'll be like Gore. Oh, it's one of Bill's Gore and torture porn. No. This is comedy over the top, martial arts. It's way over the top, but it's amazing. It's brilliant. It is so good. Yeah, it's brilliant. I think we covered it in our Extreme episode.
I'm sure we did. With all of the violence. But it is incredibly fun. Dead Alive has that scene with the lawnmower. This one has a couple scenes that you're just going to go... i love this film yeah i mean this has there's you know this has this has several lawnmower level scenes in there yeah and along the same kind of lines i call it horror adjacent some people might call it horror and that's a delicatessen
That was a wild movie. That's a fantasy... It's got some horror elements. It's kind of creepy. But if you've never seen Delicatessen, it's worth a watch. It's a very... It's a French film. So if you don't know what I'm talking about, it's very artistic. It's just they have a certain style of filmmaking, genre land being one of them. The French have a certain...
I don't know what it is. There's a certain style. A style. Like a certain tone and style. But it's also got a little bit of Monty Python to it as well. It's definitely, well, it's a dark comedy. Yeah, but Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a very interesting director. He's made... some amazing stuff amelie i think and that when we were talking about that on a horror podcast but i think amelie is a masterpiece and i think that might be his masterpiece from from 2001 um and uh he uh
He's a very long engagement. He's done some really interesting work. So he's a very sort of visual director and he has a great style to his films. And I think that's what you get here with Katassin. One that I watched, IMDb had it as horror, and I determined it wasn't horror. But it was pretty good. It was called All American Murder. And it had Christopher Walken and Charlie Schlatter.
and charlie schlatter plays a kid that goes to university but he keeps bouncing around university dad's rich he's not really quite dedicated enough he keeps popping he's gone to like five schools his dad finally says this is your last draw and get here and he falls in love with a girl
And she ends up dying. He is fingered at the crime scene. And Christopher Walken is the investigating reporter, a police officer. And everybody in the force... figures charlie schlatter's done it and he has a little bit of faith there might be more to the story so it's on fossum and to be check it all american murders
A couple of things. First off, they listed as a, it looks like it was direct to video. They listed as a slasher. And if you read the description on IMDb, you can kind of see it maybe being a slasher. But I think the most interesting thing about this. is that it was directed by Patsy Weber of Happy Days. Anson Williams. Anson Williams directed this movie. Somebody in the review says, thanks, Patsy, for this film. But you know what? On IMDb...
Out of 1,600 votes, it's got a 5.4, which for a low-budget horror movie, especially a directed video, that's not bad at all. It's almost like a certified fresh for a video horror movie on IMDb. There's elements of horror in terms of there is someone dies. You do see some dying. There might be some blood, but it's not.
in its essence a horror film and that's why i i chose maybe somebody would go the other way and i would totally be fine with that the last one i want to mention and then i'll shut up a movie called carne Carne is a 40-minute short, so I could not put it on my list. It is directed by Gaspar Noé. Oh, okay. And it's about a man who owns a butcher shop and what he does with his daughter.
And now, don't start thinking about where your mind is going to go. But it is a dark, deep film. And anything by no way is worth watching. Yeah, I sometimes I can't watch his movies, but then he had that one with it about the dance troupe that I thought was just climax. Brilliant climax. I love that one. I mean, watch irreversible again.
yeah this is not irreversible there's no uh rape scene or anything but it does and the rape scene is is awful and irreversible but that's one of several things in that there's no fire extinguisher this yeah yeah but carne is only 40 minutes and i think i found it on youtube it's it's one of those ones that i can see them sticking it on the end of a dvd of his films like he'd say and as a bonus or whatever
and that's pretty much it if there's anything there was a couple that I couldn't find I was talking with Greg Bozzelli online and it was like Hot tub of horror or something. And I literally looked everywhere. Sketchy Russian websites, YouTube, Dailymotion, Tubi. I couldn't find it anywhere.
but anyways that's why i love digging so for that person that called and said uh guys i can't see how you guys can do that all the time that's a labor of love that's what it is 1991 is episode is going to be three guys you don't want to see in leather and their labor of love that's what should be the tagline for this should be the tagline anyways enough from me uh have a great evening everybody
Have a great next couple of weeks. We've got snow for us up north. You've got beautiful weather, hopefully down south. Let's be nice people. Let's be good. Let's deal with our issues because we all have them. And let's keep horror alive. All right. Well, cool, Bill. Thank you for that, buddy. And check out some of these that Bill mentioned for sure. Pearl, I want to hear your list, love. And what's your outros?
I actually do not have a list, so I'm going to just go straight to my outro. Okay. I was going to say, there's no Travolta or Michael Paré or some film that we didn't mention. I wish... But no. the only the only the only thing i can like i mean like if i want to tag something you guys mentioned steven dorf well steven dorf was in the movie with john travolta and john travolta was in the movie with i can go that direction there you go there you go
Pearl will play six degrees of John Travolta. Oh, definitely. Not Kevin Bacon. Yeah, right. Not Kevin Bacon. It's got to be John Travolta. That's right. Yeah, no Kevin Bacon. Even though he was good in Footloose. He was great in Footloose. Even though I will say something else that shouldn't be said, but yeah. There was something else loose, huh? Was Kevin and Travolta ever in a film together? They were supposed to be. They were not yet. Oh, he was supposed to be in Face Off, was he?
No. No, I think it was actually Broken Arrow he was supposed to be in. But it ended up being Christian Slater. Interesting. That would be interesting seeing them two together. Those two and Nick Cage. Put them all in a film together. Oh, God. That'd be something. That would be something. That'd be a lot of eagles. In 1991, John Travolta was in, what the, oh, well, a TV movie. Well, he was in Boris and Natasha.
The hell is that? Oh, he actually played John Travolta, so he was playing himself. He was in something called Shout, and he was in Eyes of an Angel. Have you ever seen any of those? Yeah. Quick watches, I mean, quick moments, but yeah, it's... Okay, EA plays Bobby and Jack Cabe. Oh, Jack Cabe! Oh, yeah, I remember that. Shout out. I've never... See, it's not until 94 when Tarantino sort of put him on the map again in Pulp Fiction. Yeah. That then Travolta decided to, you know.
where his career sort of took off again. You mean Look Who's Talking 2 didn't do it for you? No, Look Who's Talking... Well, I didn't dislike the Look Who's Talking movies, to be honest with you. I thought for what they were, they were... Yeah, I thought for what they were, they were OK. And then, you know, it was it was all.
Right. And, you know, Get Shorty, of course, really good. And then Broken Arrow and a lot of the stuff he did, Face Off and Primarily Colors was it was an interesting movie. The Civil Action, he did a lot of interesting things here. And then we'll hit 2000 and then we got Battlefield Earth. Yeah, I know. Anybody that's a reader, Civil Action is a fantastic book. I'm sure it is. Yeah, I'm sure it is. I do like Life on the Line. He was good in that one.
Oh, OK. I even kind of liked him in Swordfish. I thought Swordfish was was a fun movie. I think that was was that. I think that was Halle Berry's follow-up to her Oscar win. It was. That was the one she did after, oh, God, the one that won her the Oscar with Billy Bob Thornton. Monster's Ball. Monster's Ball.
Oh, Monsters Ball. Monsters Ball, yeah. What was the one where Travolta had the wings? Michael. Michael. He played the Archangel Michael, I think, in that one. Anyways, we took you down the road. Well, Pearl's going to take us that way anyway. Yeah, more than likely. Well... Like I said, I don't have nothing to share, but I hope everyone did have a happy Valentine's Day. And again, thank you to everyone who did call for the goodie bag. Damn it, I totally forgot. Yes, you did. You did. Damn it.
And everyone knows where to find me. I'm on the main LTC group page and anywhere Gregor Morris is at. And if you leave a trail candy, then more than likely you will find me. I'll be the one. gathering them all and putting them in the basket. Like a little ant. She's coming by and getting to the trail. I'm going to leave Pop Rocks and I'll see if you'll lick the floor. Ew. No, I won't lick the floor. Not for Pop. You'd have to do more Pop Rocks.
By the way, there's a commercial going around for Pop Rocks. There is no way in hell that was a real commercial. Yeah, that's the one I posted. I thought so. There's no way. Okay, this is how I... No company would make a commercial like that to sell their product. That's why I get confused because I was looking through YouTube. It looked legitimate. It looked very legitimate.
But, yeah, I don't think that Pop Rocks would quite want that image. Especially what happens in the very last shot of that commercial. Come on. I know, but see, that's where that happened. I was... Innocently looking at candy stuff. And all of a sudden on YouTube I came across controversial. It's like this was a real commercial. Or banned commercials. It might have been a joke.
joke that somebody did that got leaked or who knows but well i mean there's a lot of people involved it was more than that probably because there was also a very odd weird oscar meyer baloney commercial There's there's very strange commercials from the, you know, I think I remember seeing and this was was actually a real commercial.
soap it was it was in japan a japanese commercial there's all these kids in a bathtub and all of a sudden you see bubbles come up from behind one of the kid and every other kid's in the back of the tub and this kid's in the front of the tub like because he farted in the tub that was that was a commercial but the one for pop rocks uh yeah first off it's longer than 30 seconds i'm pretty sure it's longer than 30 seconds yeah but aside from that yeah i don't think that they're going to say hey
pop in some pop rocks when you're trying to get an A from your teacher. Right. Yeah, I... Yeah, I gotta stay away from YouTube. Yep. These things find me. I'm not looking for that. I know. You go down holes in YouTube. I get there, too. You start watching one video, then you go to the next, then you go to the next. I mean, how many times do we have to see Jada, like, outshine her sisters dancing off screen, you know? Yep.
I can't wait for our next episode. And as always, it's great podcasting with all of you. And I'm out of here. I'm going to go get me some ice cream. All right. Get in your comfy jammies and get some ice cream. Well, I'm already in my jammies. I'm just going to name a couple and we'll get off here. We've been long enough. So we'll go Necromaniac 2 I think is worth a viewing.
better than the first one. Oh, yeah. I didn't mention Necromantic. Necromantic, too. Necromantic number two, definitely better than the first one. But know what you're getting into. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And Dolly Dearest, big fan of Dolly.
dearest i like i really dig that movie and uh dolls are creepy and alligator 2 which has already been mentioned but that's fine i'm gonna mention it anyways not as good as the first one i think the alligator effects look really hokey in this one uh but at the same time it's an alligator movie and i'm all about alligators so i was shocked i wasn't in your top five yeah
I won't say I love it. I really enjoy the movie, but to be fair, I usually say I put an alligator movie in any of my top fives. I couldn't do it. For some reason, I was thinking that that was James Cameron, but James Cameron was... is piranha too exactly that's he's the one who did piranha exactly so that said and i've already mentioned of course shock them dead uh so
That's it. So we're going to wrap this thing up. We appreciate each and every one of you that tuned in for the whole show. Thank you to all the callers that called in and wrote in their suggestions and everything in their top five list. That's awesome. Appreciate it to the winners of the good. on the mortise vision congratulations that was awesome and you know who you are by now so with that said we're going to hop off here
And we'll wait until the next episode, which is Jean Roland. Go ahead and watch you some Jean Roland films. Search them out. Watch as many as you can. Roland, Roland, Roland. That's right. Keep that motor rolling. I'm going to be in heaven with Roland. Uh, but we're going to get off here. So you can follow us over Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, all them spots. And, uh, we're somewhere floating around in outer space. So that said until next time.
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