Land Of The Creeps Episode 433 : Top 5 Horror Films From 1995

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Welcome to Land of the Creeps Horror Podcast. I'm your host, Greg Amortis, calling in from North Kaki-Laki. That's North Carolina to all you northerners. You're listening to episode 433 of L-O-T-C, baby. And this is actually our top five horror movies from the year 1995. And I cannot wait to get into... This barn burner of an episode. We're super excited. So what we're going to do without further ado.

is welcome in the crew and we got our guest coming on tonight we'll introduce him right here in a moment uh let's go ahead and go outside of philadelphia pa and welcome in the encyclopedia of knowledge himself from dvd infatuation Dr. Shock Dave Becker. What's up, my friend? Hello, Greg. Good to be here. And listen, I got to tell you.

I was surprised by 1995. I went in expecting it to be like 93 and 94, but it was better than both. I mean, I had a few movies vying for the list and had to drop a few off that I... I hope we'll make some other people's lists. We get to talk about them, but would have made my list in both 93 and 94 without a problem.

um uh you know i i after watching some of these there were some 1995 movies i hadn't seen before and i got to watch them uh and i came away with it's a bit of a hot take this was a precursor of what was to come in That's what I think. Of course, Scream is what set Horror Blaze again in 96. But the movies of 1995, both directly and indirectly, set the stage.

for that sort of horror renaissance that was about to come. And so, yeah, I went in expecting it to be more like 93 and 94, but I think it was better. It's definitely been a strong year for sure. I left three or four off that I could have definitely put in here, and I feel kind of bad doing it. I do too. I do too, yeah. I'm 100% with you. I think our honorable mentions, if they're not mentioned in the voicemails, will definitely be – Broad.

Uh, so what we'll do now is let's go ahead and go up to Canada. Welcome to men straight from the butchery himself. The, the teacher of butchery teacher of butchery. I love it. No, it's, it's my. It's my butcher man. It's none other than Bill the Butcher Van Bagel. What's up, Bill? Home of the free, land of the brave. Yeah. At 1996 or 95, I agree with Dave because I went in knowing a couple. And on my Letterboxd, I think I'd only seen four films. By the end of it, I'd watched 28 films.

I watched 28, so I had 32 in the banks, plus a couple that I'd seen before that I didn't have in there. And I agree with Dave in terms of there's a lot more depth. Then you realize for 95, like I would not be shocked if each of us had a different number one. Because I didn't find that there was any one huge standout, but there was a lot of, that's pretty good.

So depending upon what your take is or your flavor of the day or what caught you the best you made a connection with, that's going to be your number one. So I was quite pleased. I saw a bunch of TV movies. I saw a bunch of low budget movies. I saw some Hollywood movies. So I'm really excited for what's down the piper here. So let's get her going. And as the big song of 19... 1995 is. Actually, I looked up 1996.

But I could tell you in 1996 until it sleeps was big by Metallica. Epic fail on Bill's part. That's okay. That's okay. That's what happens when you talk baseball before you start. That's right. By the time we get to the 96 episode, he'll know which 95. There you go. And I'll be camping, so it's all right. It won't matter. That's right. All right, well, good to have Bill on, and let's go to the Twisted Temperature Self, the love of my life.

My wife. What's up, love? Hey. Hi. Hi. You know what? After hearing these guys talk about baseball before all this. Listen to the spoiler section because we probably had about a 15-minute at least baseball conversation. Yes, I was finishing my list at the last second. But, you know, for 1995, baby bottle pops, toxic weights. Warheads, gummy bears, gummy worms, and airheads were the popular 1995 candy. Warheads. Ugh. Hey, toxic waste. You know you got something good there. Oh, yeah. All right.

What the hell was that? I don't even remember that one. The other ones I've heard of, I don't remember toxic waste. I don't either, but it's a barrel that has sour candy rocks in it. Oh, yeah. I literally got one sitting right in my hand right now. It's toxic waste hazard. to sour candy uh and it looks like the toxic avenger uh garbage can so yeah there you go well now that's actually kind of cool

Yeah, that's why I got it up here because it just looks like the trash can. It's a prop. It's a prop. I'm not opening it and eating it or nothing. But you know what? I found 95 interesting because I saw a lot of eye candy. There's some Michael Paré in there. Oh, yeah. Oh, there's some Paré. There's some JT in there, too. And there's Christopher Reeves. Oh, yeah. Oh, boy.

But let's welcome our guests, our family members. Let's do it. Let's welcome in our family member. It is none other than John Barnhart. What's up, my friend? Hey, pretty good, man. Thanks for having me on. Absolutely. So welcome to the show officially. All right. Appreciate it. We're breaking the cherry.

so to speak, on LOTC. I was going to say, are you breaking it or popping it? I don't want to break it. We just break it. It depends on what you do to that cherry, I guess. I don't fool around. I break it. No, this is so cool. John's been a member of the group for a while now, and super glad to have you on, John. And this is going to be super fun, listeners. And I'm going to get to John here in a second again because I'll go to a few things so everybody will understand.

We are going to be doing a round robin. countdown of our top fives so what that will entail is is mr john barnhart will be going first then dr shock and then

Pearl, then Bill, then myself. And we'll start it from number five, work our way to number ones. And then after that, we will play voicemails. We have you, the listeners who have called in and given us your list so wonderfully and beautifully. So we will go to... that as well but i think before we do any of that before we do our shots before we do anything because we always like to take a shot too i got to read this email uh i think it's a

Really cool email, too. And the reason, and Brian Scott just emailed his voicemail, by the way. He texted me right now and told me. Good job. Good job, Brian. Good job, buddy. He waited until he thought we were a half hour. 20 minutes before we start recording so oh my god what a great guy all right so anyways well go to this email i got this email and this was actually on may 25th and i've already gotten permission from uh the individual

to be able to read this out. And I thought it was special. It's touching. It's a great email. So anyways, it's from Sean. And Sean has been listening to the podcast, as you'll hear, for many years. He says, Hi, Greg. I just want to take a moment to thank you for your podcasts and what they have meant to me over the years. my dog. And please forgive me, Sean, cause I'm going to probably butcher this name and I don't mean to, but his dog.

Kai Koura, K-A-I-K-O-U-R-A, and he calls him Kai for short, passed away yesterday, which is on May 24th. And that's a super bummer, man. I'm still not... I am super sorry about that. He says she was a beautiful Siberian Husky and a huge part of my life for the past 12 years. I discovered Land of the Creeps right around the same time my wife and I brought her home as a tiny six week old pup.

So take that back, listeners. That's him being with the LOTC group from the beginning. That's 12 years, Dave. He's been listening to the podcast, so he's definitely been here from the beginning. Wow. He says, from the start, she needed a lot of exercise, which meant lots of long walks and hikes. Something I was more than happy to do. I also quickly...

realized LOTC would be the perfect companion for those long outings. Some of the best memories with Kai are these long walks through the woods, trails, and back roads, just the two of us. Over the years, LOTC and, to be honest, Horror Movie Podcast became a part of that rhythm.

When I think back at those times, your voice and your passion for horror will always be woven into the memories of her. So I just wanted to say thank you. Your work has meant more to me than you probably know. In a very real way, it helped me soundtrack some of the happiest moments of my life with gratitude. and sadness shown. He sent a picture.

of Kai and him, man, such a sweet picture. And I have since, you know, responded, of course, to Sean and actually had Sean, you know, join the group. And this is, he's not on social media. So he specifically just joined the group.

just because of all the mention that he hears on every episode. So, Sean, thank you so much. I know you're listening right now, my friend. And once again, dude, I feel you on the loss of your... child there basically Kyle that's a shame I mean we've all been there we've all felt that loss

And it's never easy. But to have listened for that long and it's funny, you know, when you hear these type of things, because we just we're just sitting here talking. Yeah. You know, we don't think about who's out there. listening, and what are the circumstances that they're listening, you know, and it really makes you stop and think, and that's awesome.

that um that you you have those memories i mean that's that's that's special to us as well yeah i was gonna say like one of the goals i have always is you know whatever mood you're in or you're in a good mood happy mood uh you know whatever

we just take a couple hours and just take you away. That's right. And that's what we try to do. You know, we can laugh at each other for self-deprecating humor, that kind of thing. But seriously, everybody's got some stuff going on. And hopefully during this couple brief hours, you're able to forget about it.

I think it's very heartful and very rewarding that you guys get to have this impact. Like once you guys realize exactly who listens, what it does for them. I mean, you guys... you know to give kudos to each other you know all these years imagine all the people like that called in and given their reasons why they are listening and

so much gratitude and gratefulness you know to them and i'm glad that they're part of the family that's right another 12 years 12 years sean you and you and your pup there buddy grew up with lotc that is so wow

You're a young guy, I can tell. I can tell by your picture. You're a young, strapping guy there. So that's awesome, man. Thank you for reaching out, and I hope you're enjoying the group page as well. And even if you're not doing much on the group page, if you are and if you aren't, that's no problem. At least you're there.

And I know you're listening to the podcast. That's what it's all about. So that said, we're going to do this. We're going to take our shots. We like to do this. If you're new to the show, we start every episode out with a shot. I do. the normal which i'll go ahead and introduce which is the jim beam and honey and in honor of the jim beam and honey we're going to do a california shot glass that has a and this is filled to the brim by the way this is i'm fixing to spill it probably dave uh

But this has all the images of different things from the state flag, the flower, all these, you know, whatever. So anyways, it's the whole state of California. It's got to be a big shot glass. Holy cow. This thing's going to make me cry. My mom's going to be so mad at me. List out all the counties. List out the year they were incorporated. That's right. That's right. This thing's large.

By the time you've done the whole bottles in this freaking shot glass. I had to go to the liquor store and get two bottles to finish this one up. Doing my Jim Beam and Honey as always. This is the Jim Beam and Honey. in a white bottle it looks so cute and and talking about that there's a 1995 b movie i don't know if it'll hit anybody's list but anyways it makes me think of it as i'm looking at the honey here so uh

The Jerry Seinfeld animated one? No, I'm talking... No, I'm not. There is a B movie out there. Literally. And it was awesome. So, with that said, let's go to Dave. What you drinking tonight, my friend? I have my Jamaican Me Crazy in my Wawa Thermal... mug here. But I brewed it about an hour ago, so I should be okay. I shouldn't burn the roof of my mouth. It can't be an episode without Dave's Jamaican me crazy. There you go.

What energy drink you drinking over, my friend? I've got water with grape squirty juice and strawberry Fiesta Rockstar. Fiesta! I don't know what that means. Maybe there's a party in my mouth. There's a rock star party. I don't know who's coming, but it's usually me. A rock hard party and we don't know who's coming. Okay, we're...

We're off the rails already. We're way off the rails. We're so far off, we're almost back on them again. That's right. And we're going to get it back on because we're going to get a Pearl. Pearl, what you drinking? I'm the Debbie Downer right now. So, yeah, I have white grape clear water. Look at her living on the edge. I'm living on the edge. Speaking on the edge. If it's grape, how can it be clear? Grape is clear, mister. Where are you from? Over here, grapes are purple.

That's red grapes. This is green label, but it is clear, just like water. But I have white grapes, and white's clear. Well, clearly, because I'm looking right at it. It's a clear bottle. I can see right through it. And just disclaimer ahead of time.

Please be careful with your shot glass over the computer. Please do not. It is right over here. Please do not. If you spill that thing, you're going to wash it off the desk. I seem to remember you doing that, Dave. I seem to remember you poured it on me. It may have happened. I want a picture of Greg licking the keyboard. I will do that. I'll do that every night anyways. John, what are you drinking tonight? I've got to keep it clean. John, what are you drinking tonight, my friend?

Tonight, I've got my rum and Coke Zero. I got some Captain Morgan white rum and Coke Zero. I would like to think that's in honor of me, but if it's not, that's fine. You don't have to indulge me with that, but the fact it's Captain Morgan.

just buy a fresh You know bottle of Captain Morgan just for this Oh Morgan right there Because you guys don't get to see this but I do he's doing the Captain Morgan stand And you're like... yeah yeah but you have a crowd of four other guys standing behind you going no it's just me i got four personalities though uh so with that saying you never know which one's coming out all right so let's go ahead and do

this without me spilling it we'll count it down three two one chug oh god almost didn't get it right oh wait i gotta open it for pearl damn it Oh, and I just sprayed her in face with the spill of the waters. Wonderful. There you go, Pearl. You get to the late chug. She's still chugging. There she goes. Yeah, I took a gulp. I had to actually take two gulps because that was a large shot.

for me. You filled it to the rim. I did. Alright, so there we go. So our shots are down and we're getting ready to get into this, but we want to go to John first because I want you, the listeners, to get a little bit of taste of who John and his taste of movie watching is. This sounds so

Stop it! I'm trying to be smart and fresh. This is a tasty episode. This is a very tasty episode. Maybe we should title this The Tasty. 95s. But anyways, let's go ahead and go to you, John, first of all, and let us know a little taste of your horror love. So I was trying to review...

what I really enjoyed at that time because I was coming in about 13 at the time when 95 hit around. I remember going, seeing a couple of movies in the theaters and the one I put on number five, goofy one, probably a mix of a comedy horror, you'd call it. but Eddie Murphy and Vampire in Brooklyn. Oh, nice. As goofy as it is, but it's just like a memory because I remember going to the theater when I was that age. I stayed with my aunt.

I walked down to the theater downtown to go watch it on a matinee. It just stuck with me. Just Angela Bassett and Eddie Murphy's chemistry on that movie was awesome. It just... You know, his little ghoul was hilarious, just him decaying and falling apart during the movie. So you're going straight into top fives. You're already giving us your number five, which is Vampire in Brooklyn. Yep. I like it.

Eddie Murphy. You know, I have never seen this movie throughout. I think I saw it in 1995 and haven't revisited it since. Pearl's watched it. a few times anyway i don't know how many exactly because she'll watch stuff all the time and i'll come in in the middle of it or at the end of it or start of whatever and i've seen bits and parts of because pearl has been watching it and every part that i've seen i've enjoyed it i'm laughing because i'm like yeah

man i love eddie murphy like dude i grew up on saturday night live i mean i love eddie murphy delirious and raw are my two oh god great great stand-ups uh i was gonna say talk about talk about a bathtub oh god yeah don't don't don't watch her all kids without anyways but the parts that I have seen of vampires in Brooklyn is it looks fun it looks fun it looks Eddie with long hair looks fun

But the thing I heard about that film is that Eddie wanted to make a semi-serious horror film, but the director kept saying, okay, now make him laugh. Oh, really? Because that's what you expect with Eddie. I think Eddie wanted to go more Blackula. And it just didn't quite vibe. Yeah.

yeah i like that i mean i like when he was pretending to be the preacher and he thought evil he thought there's evil here that's the part i saw was where he was preaching right yeah that part i loved i'm like dude and and you know he's like having all these these sexual thoughts too and stuff it's just funny it's funny and julius jones too like he was falling to pieces he's like losing his ear losing this losing that looking nasty particular part

sophisticated and classy like there's a new vampire in town. Julius Jones. What brings to mind the phrase necessary evil? Now I know many of you may hear the phrase necessary evil and you say to yourself, That don't even make no sense to me. Can't be no such thing as necessary. How's evil necessary? That don't match. That's plans and stripes, evil and necessary. You see, because without, bam!

There is no good. Without light, there is no dark. You need both these things. You know what I'm saying? If every day is a sunny day, well, then what's a sunny day? Well, the bottom line, brothers and sisters, what I'm trying to tell you tonight is that evil, evil is necessary. Evil is necessary. Thereby, if necessary, evil must be good. Evil is good. evil is good yeah

Well, to lead into this, with the 96 change in Scream and stuff, Wes Craven was the director of Vampire in Brooklyn in 95. There you go. There is your taste of where Scream is fixing to come from. He just needed Kevin Williams. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. that needed to be there well that's cool john's number five and we are into our top five list listeners so we're gonna go from five to one uh round robin and we're gonna go ahead and uh head over to dr shop band dave what you got for your

Number five. All right. Well...

You know, as Bill was saying, he made a good point that this is one of those ones where we could have, like, all these different movies on our list. My number five is Vampire in Brooklyn. Wow. Oh, there we go. Now, I know this movie actually has... bad reputation but damn it it is a good movie it's not i'll say it's not a great movie like a lot of films in the 90s not all the dots are connected story-wise and to be honest i hated the way the movie ended

I'm not going to spoil anything, but there is a relationship between two characters that is never well established. And I knew at some point in the third act, the film would not end like it should have ended. It chickened out a little. Angela Bassett, who is really strong, she plays this.

police detective. What it is is Eddie Murphy's Caribbean vampire who has come to Brooklyn looking. He's completely alone. Every other one of the vampires in his group had been eliminated and he's looking for someone to be with him. and he knows that there's a girl there who is half vampire but doesn't know it and she's going to give herself to him willingly and angela bassett is this police detective and that's who she is she has a mysterious past she should have

Well, I won't say anything more. Just that the relationship that proves strongest in the end is not the one that should have been strongest, and I was rooting against it, frankly. And with Eddie Murphy as the star, it is a comedy. But here's the thing. And Bill, you said that, you know, well, they weren't really letting him do it. And this is the reason Vampire in Brooklyn made my list. Murphy is the vampire, and when he's on screen as the vampire, he is playing it straight.

deadly serious now there is comedy around him every now and again he'll say something that could be taking comedic but he is in character as that vampire As with many of his movies, he does play other characters. You know, we talked about this portly revenue plate. He also plays this mediocre hitman for the Italian mob. and he gets his share of laughs as both of them but when he is on screen as a vampire he is a vampire and he's a damn good vampire

I'm talking, he is William Marshall, Blackula, or even Chris Sarandon, Jerry Dandridge level. Like those two, and also, I'm going to say this, like Christopher Lee, Murphy can play debonair. play the romantic count seducing his prey, and he can play the monster, which he does on several occasions in this movie, and he is excellent. And this movie got me thinking.

I think Eddie Murphy is right up there with Alfred Hitchcock and Peter O'Toole as masters of their craft that have been ignored by the Academy. Because he's mostly in comedies, Murphy never gets the acting recognition he deserves from the Academy. He should have won two Oscars by now and have at least six to seven nominations. Now, he was nominated for his supporting role in Dreamgirls. I don't know, 2004 or 2000.

2005. I don't remember the year, but it's not nearly enough. I mean, you look at his versatility. I don't know if this happens anyway. Sometimes when I'm on Facebook or Instagram, you know, as you're thumbing down, looking through things, they'll have an area for videos. And you click on them and you'll, you know, I'll watch a few of them. And occasionally they're going to post like a one to two minute clip from one of Murphy's Nutty Professor movies. You know, like usually the dinner scenes.

where he's playing every member of the family. He's the lead. He's the nutty professor, the professor of the title. But he's also the father, the mother, the grandmother, the brother. That's right. Now, think about this for a minute. You're talking out.

and hours of makeup and prosthetics to pull off each of those characters he had to shoot every line is one character then spend hours getting out of one makeup and into another then go back and do all that new character's lines, and he had to do that again and again. And again, he had to carry on conversations with essentially himself. He had to remember how one character spoke a line and then respond accordingly as another character. And he pulled it off. You watch those scenes and you are one.

hundred percent convinced that there are five distinct personalities all talking to one another in the same scene when it is in reality one person playing them all it's truly genius and something murphy has proven he can do you know he's done that time Again, he did it as far back as was the late 80s. I want to say 1988 with Coming to America.

in the barbershop which i think is one of the all-time great comedic scenes to be honest with you it's absolutely amazing i'm telling you murphy should have even been nominated for best appointing actor for his voice work in shrek for christ's sake he stole every scene as that donkey and he

got the movie's biggest laughs as far as i'm concerned now here in vampire to brooklyn he shows he's able to play it serious as well and even monstrous like i said um there are some scenes where man he is the monster he is he is scary he i think he manages to i think he manages to scare you of some scenes and now i had read that eddie murphy at one point wanted the role of candy man for the 1992 film and i was always happy it went to tony todd and you know what i still am

Tony Todd made that part his own. He really did. But after seeing Murphy in Vampire in Brooklyn... I kind of wish there was this Rick and Morty style alternate universe that I could visit where Murphy did play Candyman. And I bet he would have been really good in that as well. Like I said, he gets his laughs playing like the Reverend and that. that hitman. And when he's the serious count, Kadeem Hardison and John Witherspoon are getting the laughs. Kadeem Hardison is basically Renfield.

his Renfield in this movie and he's pretty he's really funny and and John Witherspoon is his motormouth uncle you know just their opening scene as the boat is coming in and it's like coming right toward him and they're sitting there watching this show it was it was amazing as as it was directed by wes craven uh whose film next year next year's film would would prove probably one of his best i think he does some good stuff here as well

This is nowhere near the disaster that critics said it was. It is a very good movie, and it is my number five as well. I love it. Vampire Brooklyn. I love the fact that, John, that you come out with this movie, and then here comes Doc, and we're not even thinking we're probably going to have the same movies on any list. I'm sitting here. When he said fan pram in Brooklyn, my first thought was, you've got to be shitting me.

Now, if we see your 4, 3, 2, 1 go down the same, then it'll be like somebody's copying papers. That'll be interesting. We'll see what happens from here on out. Is it just me when you hear Eddie Murphy, you instantly hear his laugh? Oh, yeah. That's great.

You think about that, even in something like his first movie was 48 hours and the confidence he showed with Nick Nolte, that's almost like the, the buddy cop movie. It might be the one that even sort of started that craze. They are so good together in that. He carries himself perfectly and he handles the comedy and he handles the action and the more dramatic parts in that as well. And he's just made a career out of doing that. He really has. He is one of our...

He is one of our great actors and he has never gotten the recognition he deserves. This guy has so much talent. And I don't know that he ever will at this point. And that's a damn shame. When I hear Eddie Murphy, all I think of is... Roxanne. Right in 48 hours. That's his first scene. His first appearance on screen. He's sitting there singing Roxanne in the jail cell. Dude, that's crazy. I could sit here and talk Eddie Murphy for 24 hours and not even.

scratch what I love. The royal penis is now clean. That great line with James Earl Jones. Do you like it when they clean? That's my favorite. Seriously, that barbershop. seen jesus christ well he's the old jewish guy yep and he's he's the barber doing that that whole debate you know pound for pound joe blue is the greatest father ever lived What about Rocky Marciano? There they go. There they go. Every time we talk boxing with a white man, they pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. Yep.

I am so far off from everyone because the only thing I hear, mainly because I've been watching it over and over recently, but... I hear him as Donkey from Trek. Oh, yeah. And he's so funny as that. He's so funny. I mean, I took my sons to see that. I didn't even know what the movie was about. And I was almost crying laughing at some of his lines.

When they're walking up that mountain and he rears back, ooh, Shrek, was that you? You got a one for a moment when you crack one off like that. I had my mouth open and everything. I had my mouth open. Oh, God. Ooh, Shrek. Did you do that? Man, you gotta warn somebody before you just crack one off. My mouth was open and everything. Believe me, donkey, if it was me, you'd be dead. It's brimstone.

We must be getting close. Yeah, right. Brimstone. Don't be talking about just the brimstone. I know what I smell, and there wasn't no brimstone. Ain't come off no stone, neither. Okay. Well, Eddie Murphy, we love you, buddy. Hey, this is the Eddie Murphy podcast. You can just follow us at Eddie Murphy. It's turning into it anyway. Yeah, we can turn to EddieMurphy.com. I love it, Dave. I love it. I love it. So Vampire Brooklyn, I'm curious if it's going to pop.

I was going to say, coming up next, Flubber. Yeah, yeah. But let's go to Pearl because I want to know, Pearl, you're number five vampire in Brooklyn? I don't know. Let's go to Pearl for number five. No, you know. Well, guess what? You know what? I have no ties. What? Disclaimer, no ties. At all? At all? At all. Oh, my God. Jesus, I almost went with ties, but I said, no, I'll leave that to Pearl. You know what? I was going to, but I was like...

No, because I also, too, had like three movies that I could not let down. And I was going to be like, well, maybe my last three can be tied. I'm like, no, I can't do that to everyone. So, yeah, I just left them out. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, go ahead with your number five.

okay my number five who would think otherwise because you know i love my fairy tales and dark foreclores i know where this is going yes horror comedy a young widow wishes to see her policeman husband one last time. She frees a demonic being that wants her infant son's soul. And this is Rumpelstiltskin.

a fun movie it'll be hard for me to mention anyone's name in the cast because I cannot mention one single person's name without sabotaging it like butchering it or anything but it's a fun cast I mean everyone played their part well I Love Rumpelstiltskin. He was a perfect little character. He looked evil. In fact, he looked like the little gremlin from Cat's Eye, honestly.

you know we're introduced in the beginning where you know the typical story of you know spin the golden thread and and give him the baby from the first born and when that went down and he wasn't given the baby you know there was a curse. Once a thousand years passed he came back for a baby and you have to say his name three times if you knew his name. So yeah.

I love it. And try spelling that, by the way. Yeah, that's like spelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. That's like trying to get Mr. Mixoplick to say his name backwards. I'm sitting here having to look it up, and I can't look it up and write it. at the same time. Bull, stilt, stilt, stilt skin.

I'd be screwed if I had to say his name three times. I barely can say it once slowly. It would be kind of like, what's his name from Army of Darkness? You had to kind of... Oh, yeah, yeah. Bruce Campbell. Yeah. No, I like this movie too, love. I like the special effects in it. I think the effects are really, really fun in this one. And the little...

trolly guy looks freaking cool. Rumpelstiltskin himself, man. I've seen it, but it's been many a year. I don't think I've ever seen this one. Is this the Amy Irving one? Oh, I forgot his name. I know that Max guy plays Rumpelstiltskin. Oh, God, I forgot her name. Yeah. It's Kim Johnson. Yeah, Mark Jones directed. Okay. Jay Pickett. I've never seen this one. It's fun. Go ahead, John.

Oh, no, I was going to say it's the same thing. It's just a fun movie to watch. The special effects were good for the time and stuff, especially as you get the nice practical stuff. But it was a fun one. I remember watching that one.

It's been a couple of years, probably three or four years ago. I actually came across it on, I think it was on YouTube for free. And I watched it again after seeing it when I was younger. I was like, holy crap, I forgot about that one. So I think around that time, I think they also had a Pinocchio one come out too.

a couple years later or something. Pinocchio's Revenge. Yeah, Pinocchio's Revenge. It's kind of a darker... It's definitely darker. If you think of Leprechaun, it's a darker version of Leprechaun for sure. It'll put you in the same vein with the... effects, but really good stuff, Dave. Definitely check it out, bro. Okay. Cool. All right. Well, Pearl, you got anything else on that one? Nope. All right. So let's head to Bill. Bill, you're number five.

My number five, numero cinco, is one that I hadn't seen literally in 30 years. And I watched it this afternoon. Last movie I watched before we... recorded here i remember going okay i've got certain core movies i want to make sure i watch and then if i get time i'll watch these other ones so this was uh one that i i threw on and i love it when you get ones with low expectations not low expectations just

a blank slate and you just want to see what it is and so this one i i do remember seeing it originally but it's been as i said 30 years so this one's from 95 it is the mangler Oh, interesting. The description is a laundry folding machine has been possessed by a demon causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.

well what we got is we got a basically a sweatshop uh where they clean uh sheets and drapes and curtains industrial cleaning of uh people's uh things that they need cleaned and robert england runs the factory and robert england has in the past had injuries from this machine where it basically took out his bottom two legs so he's got these metal legs and he's got eye patches and he's got a sneer like he's like one of those sweatshop owner sob guys the the job

if you want to be paid is this way if you don't want to be paid there's the door what happens is one lady who's working there she's i think she's maybe 16 and she cuts her hand And in the moment after she cut her hand, she shakes it to try to see what's going on. And some of the blood gets onto the machine and the machine gets a taste for blood. And let's just say a lot of people go down. And it's one of those movies that I like because...

I mean, I've got the reputation of being Bill the Butcher. I don't mind a bit of gore. And this one has a bit of gore. Now the other major actor in this is Ted Levine, Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Yeah. And my wife hadn't seen.

this movie before but as soon as she heard the voice she goes that's the guy from silence of the lambs and you can almost see it you know you know i think you only saw him for 15 minutes in signs of the lambs but he carries the movie here him and robert england and it just gets down to

You could tell Robert Englund was having a blast. It reminded me of when he did the character in, what was it called? 2000 and... uh 10 2000 maniacs when he did the the updated version same kind of thing he had that glint in his eye he was having fun with it being the asshole you know owner saying, you know, you got to do this. And he's had this in his family forever. His dad bought this machine that was affectionately called the Mangler.

as the movie goes on you find there's a pattern of 16 year old girls that have been gotten killed every so often throughout the history of this factory and it just it gets i mean it's over the top is it a brilliant film it's not brilliant but it's a fun watch. I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would. So if you're just looking for some fluff with a little bit of blood, check out the Mangler.

I like it. I have not seen this movie in many years and it was one that I wanted to get to, but just never got time to do it for the show. So, uh, it would have probably made my list cause I do remember really enjoying this one, but I just, I, it. Did not have the time. So I'm glad you did mention the Mangler. Not one of my favorites, I'll be honest with you. I thought that I liked Ted Levine.

as that as the uh as the as the lead and i liked robert england you know it's it's sort of a fascinating character that he's playing in this um and the idea of this machine um going crazy i i like that uh i just thought it it's it's you know it's

It's a ridiculous story, but a lot of stories are ridiculous. And if you do them right, you know, it doesn't matter. But it's just sort of all over the place. I mean, you know, characters jump to conclusions with little or no evidence. You got... characters changing their personality in the middle of the movie it just it seemed like it was sort of all over the place i think it would have been better if if if hooper um if toby hooper had made it a comedy

Personally, that's just me, but I know a lot of people who do actually who enjoy this movie as is and that's great I'm glad you did I just it just wasn't really for me. Yeah, I mean I don't think it's gonna make my top ten of the 90s or anything wrong now But it's but yeah, no, but a lot of people enjoyed this movie they do and it's it's just it was it like i said it i think it would have been better as a comedy there you go it's the mangler

Let's get to my number five. My number five is off of a TV series, and it is Tales from the Crypt Demon Knight. This is the... first of the movies we later ended up getting bordello blood which i love a lot more than this one but it's funny in the stinger for this they they say another movie yeah

They have another title that was supposedly coming, and it wasn't Bordello of Blood, unless that was the one and they just changed the title. It may have been, yeah. So this story here is directed by Ernest Dickerson, and if you've seen the TV series Tales from a Crypt that ran for...

from like 89 through 90, whatever it was, 96. It's just similar to it, right? It's just like one long version of a TV episode of Tell Some Crip. But we're following two characters mainly in this one. The characters is... Frank Breaker, who's played by William Sadler. And he is the... He has something going on to where is he a good guy, is he a bad guy kind of scenario. And then we got someone called The Collector, quote-unquote, played by Billy Zane. And they're after each other.

through the beginning of this movie. We don't know why we don't know who's the good guy. We don't know who the bad guy is, but it quickly finds out who is the, the bad guy. And basically it is a, a a relic that they have the blood of something that is protecting so this uh collector billy zane is after the blood that is in this relic and to become the all-powerful right he's too to unleash hell and to have all power. And it's just a fight between these two to protect the blood.

uh before the other gets it we got jada pickett in here and we got uh we got uh thomas hayden church in this movie we got dick miller the great dick miller in this movie john larroquette He's uncredited, but he's the slasher. Yeah, I guess he has a quick appearance at the beginning. Just a really quick, really quick flash. I remember I rewatched it going, is that John Laro Cat?

Right? He just shows up. And by this point, he was popular. I mean, the Night Court was in the 80s. So he was known at this point. That's right. But anyways, just to watch it, it's just a cheesy... uh movie he's able uh frank breaker is able to

put a protection spell around by using the blood you can put it in front of a doorway and it kind of seals it and these demons can't get to which i thought was really cool i thought that was a really uh cool little um that that was that was a story element yeah was that Because then you're starting to think, okay, well, how they get around this? What can they do to get around this? Because you know they're going to have to get around it at some point. Exactly. I really like that.

Yeah, and some of the facts are of its time now, so you can really, you know, they hurt now. But they're practical. They're practical. And you've got to give them a little bit of credit for that because there are some of them that are pretty damn good, too. Yep. Anytime I see Dick Miller on TV, man, I'm just excited. I just really enjoy his character. But no, it's a fun little watch for what it is. If you like Tales from the Crypt, the TV series, like I said, it's just an extended episode.

I would recommend it. I like Bordello Blood a lot more, but this one's still fun enough to put it in my top five, making it right narrowly in by the skin of its teeth. So number five for me.

demon knight tells what really stuck out for me in this one was um uh billy zane yeah yeah you really he is so good in this film now the first thing i've ever seen billy zane in was in titanic And it's not Billy Zane's fault, but that is the most one-note villain I think you can get in a movie like that. He has no redeeming qualities. He's the type of villain that you know is never going to win in the end because that's just the character he's playing.

And there's nothing to it. But that's the way it was written. You see Billy Zane in this. You see Billy Zane in Dead Calm. You realize this is a damn good actor. This guy could do something. And he is so, so good in this. I mean, every time he's on screen, it sort of picks up a little bit, you know?

And so was Jada Pinkett. Jada Pinkett was really good in this as well, in what proved to be a really pivotal role. No, I liked it. And it's basically one setting, everybody in one setting. And I like that kind of horror movie, too. Agreed. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I remember seeing Billy Zane early on. And I think before I seen Demon Knight, I had seen him in Tombstone when he played the actor, you know, just a small role, but he didn't.

I think it's phenomenal in that role, just a quick part, but it just seemed really authentic for him, like that's the kind of style of acting that he likes. Being on the stage, quoting Henry VIII and all this stuff. Yes.

This was the era where Billy Zane, you know, for a while there, he was kind of the butt of jokes. Oh, Billy Zane's in the movie. But for a while there, he was a pretty hot commodity. He was. It's almost like what Eric Roberts has become nowadays. But everyone forgets, Eric Roberts was a... hell of an actor in the 80s and into the 90s in some really good movies like Pope of Greenwich Village and Runaway Train and the Coca-Cola Kid, things like that. He was in a lot of good movies and really good.

in them it's just now he's in everything you know and billy zane aligned himself with uber bowl Well, he also did the sci-fi movie for The Phantom as well. Yeah, so there's maybe some questionable choices there. Yeah. It's like, why'd you agree to this?

I'm going to put a plug right here and then we'll get to number four. I'm going to plug the Magnificent Others podcast. It's the Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan. If you don't know who Billy Corgan is, he's the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins. of the NWA Wrestling Federation, right? I have crashed and binged his podcast in the last two days to the point that I'm almost done.

Super awesome. You can watch them on video or you can listen to them via Apple, Spotify, all that stuff. But what I want to plug is this one specific episode because you mentioned Eric Roberts and he interviews Susan Olson. And if you know who Susan Olsen is, you'll know the Brady Bunch. Cindy. Exactly. So there is Susan mentions Eddie. Eddie. Eric Roberts, specifically because she's good friends with Eric Roberts. And there is a part in this podcast episode, Susan Olson.

and billy corgan where she mentions eric roberts and how you know billy corgan says you know he's in a lot of stuff and she says yes she says he pretty much takes any role but Here's why I'm saying this, Dave, because it'll make us maybe understand a little bit more why he's in everything. Because he was trained under a British acting scenario. And the British actors were always taught, if you're acting... Or if you're an actor, you act.

yeah you're not if you're not acting you know like if you're not currently acting then you're not an actor and i'm not and i will never ever like say he should be playing less or anything like that never because that's exactly right and actor acts that is their job and take as many as you can take as many parts as you can you can sit here saying what's he doing in this floating turd but you know what he's acting and he's getting out there and he probably knows oh he knows

of the movies he's in are not great. He's still going to do his best to make it good, you know? yep exactly so go check out that podcast man it's the magnificent others i absolutely love it he's he's phenomenal uh so anyway so that's that's at demon knight number five for me let's get into our number fours let's go to john b over

here john what you got for number four my friend okay number four uh i might get shot for having this one not higher up on there but i like my my slasher stuff too but watch it i I put Halloween Curse of Michael Myers as number four. Oh, wow. I love my Halloween movies. Absolutely do. I love this one, too. It's kind of neat seeing Paul Rudd, his first big role and stuff like that, playing an older Tommy and stuff. You know a little part of me died when you said...

there for a little part of my life. I know. It hurts me too, believe me, because I was trying to think of which ones I wanted up there, but it was a hard choice. But like I said, I did like Curse of Michael Myers. There was some things I think when they got to the end of...

the four without spoiling it to go to five. I feel like there are some things left undone, and I think that hurts me a little bit. Well, no, it was four and five, and then we got six here, and it seemed like it was a different turn. Like almost they were trying to reinvent the series or something at that point. They were. You know, so, you know, a little bit different take, but I still enjoyed it. Yeah. Yeah, it was really good.

I love my Halloween movies. That's never going to stop. I watch all of them. I watch the Rob Zombie ones. I watch the new ones, the old ones. I watch everything on them, so it don't bother me. Everybody says, well, that one's not very good. Even Resurrection, I don't care for that much. I still watch it every year. no matter what. John, you're cut from the same cloth, my friend. I love it. I was going to say, Greg, if him getting him fourth hurt you,

then it's not on my list, so it must kill you. I was just going to say, Greg, you're going to pass out. I'm used to it by now, guys. I'm used to it. I re-watched it. I've become numb to you guys. on this. I want to see the new cut. I still haven't seen the new cut of this and I do have the Blu-ray for that.

um because i i'd like to see how it compares to to the original cut i just i didn't like where they went in the like the new direction now it's nothing like jason goes to hell the direction they went with that one i mean you know that was just Ridiculous. Only a Voorhees can kill a Voorhees. Get out of here with that shit. But this one, it still took it in a direction I wasn't totally behind, but I really would like to see the new... I'd like to see the...

the new cut of it to see how it's different. Yeah, I'd like to too. I've never seen that new cut of it. I think that's what I'm missing. I'd like to see that cut of it. I'm going to have to just... Go get it and just not worry about it and check it out. Yeah, it's a whole different film, so you definitely need to check it out. So there you go, Halloween 6. And I did not die a little bit, John. I know.

I know. I had a hard time deciding which ones to put up. I just tried to go off of which ones do I have a lot more... ties to remember watching them when i was younger it's all it's all i ain't gonna say whether it's on my list or not it may not even be on my list listeners you know uh as halloweens go down the road you know the road they got a little bit weaker so uh anyway so

Yeah, no spoiler for me. Cool. Halloween 6 for John B. Let's go to Dr. Shot. What you got for number four, my brother? All right. The full moon train continues in the 90s. My number four is Castle Freak. Oh, yes. And they first worked together 10 years earlier in Reanimator. You had director Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.

They get together a decade later to make another H.P. Lovecraft-inspired film, Castle Freak. This one was based on Lovecraft's short story, The Outsider. But unlike that earlier effort... which had some comedy i mean let's be honest so there's there are moments in in uh in reanimator they're just amazing uh like they're very funny this one is is very serious this is this is a very serious film

um you know it's about this this american john riley played by jeffrey combs he goes to italy because he's he's uh inherited um this this castle uh And he goes with his wife, Susan, played by Barbara Crampton, and their daughter, Rebecca, played by Jessica Dollarhyde. You know, they're moving into this castle. It's theirs now. And he's there to check out the property. But he also hopes that this is going to bring him and his wife closer together. See, because...

A few years earlier, he was drunk and he got into a serious car accident, which left Rebecca blind and killed their five-year-old son, JJ. He's repeatedly apologized for it, but she can't forgive him. sleeps in another room now. But they find out that they're not alone in this castle. For years, the Duchess, who owned this before, the Duchess was played by Helen Sterling. She has this deformed guy.

played by jonathan fuller uh in the basement you know she would whip him regularly feed him like next to nothing and uh rebecca you know uh is the first to hear this stranger and though her compare her parents are saying now you're imagining it uh but pretty soon everybody's going to realize that that she's not castle freak has a lot going for it and you know

Stuart Gordon, his direction in this I thought was great. There's this pre-title sequence which shows us how the Duchess died that I thought was pretty stylish. Combs and Crampton are really good as husband and wife dealing with this difficult situation.

uh jonathan fuller under all that makeup is imposing as hell as that title character i really think he did a great job in this as well um the setting at the castle works um there's uh there are some you know you the the the uh the scares in the movie are from like sort of like well creepy

after you know there's a scene after the the form uh you know the castle freak escapes from the basement he makes his way to rebecca's room he's just watching her as she sleeps and every time that scene pops up greg i think of you because i know how much that really bothers you oh yeah Scenes where someone's asleep and someone's just watching them. Yes. And there are gory as hell scenes. There's a scene with a prostitute in this that the prostitute, Raffaella Offedani, plays the prostitute.

um and becomes the freak's prisoner and it's it's it's pretty intense it's it's a dark story um and it tells it well and i think this is this would probably be in my top five full moon pictures if i'm being honest it would be up there with with one of the subspecies probably the second subspecies um and also like doll man trancers if i'm putting together top five this would be in that as well

Awesome. I'm a big fan of Castle Freak, dude. I'm a big fan, of course, of Full Moon. Never go in the basement. As long as you stay out of the basement, you're alright. Great choice. buddy. Castle freak for Dave. Let's go to you, Pearl. What's your number four? My number four is dark fantasy. Uh-oh. Horror sci-fi. Well, they consider it horror sci-fi. Honestly, I don't... find the full horror in it i see it more yes sci-fi thriller kind of deal but my choice is powder wow

Oh, I remember seeing this in the theater. Yes. And Lance Henriksen has a role in this, if I don't... If I can remember correctly. Yes. Yeah, it's Jeremy Reed, an albino teenager with exceptional intelligence is rescued from a basement where he lived his entire life. However, the community is not receptive.

to him despite the assistance of two teachers his relationship with another student makes things worse i mean you have sean patrick flannery jeff goldblum mary steen bergen and yes lance henderson was great i mean this one made an impact on me because it just it had impacts everywhere throughout the movie i mean you see a a guy getting you know hit by oh no actually it's the woman sorry hit by lightning

and she's having a baby you know and then the baby's born albino and the dad don't want it you know so it's like he gets pushed aside and someone does take care of him because the mom passes unfortunately but he's super intelligent you know he's he wherever he grew up he into books he reads a lot he stays in the dark he stays in the basement until one teacher wants to bring him out of there and kind of help him. And meanwhile, another, you know, played by Jeff Goldblum, you have Donald Ripley.

I mean, we all know Jeff Goldblum. He's always the super smart guy, and he portrays the super smart guy all the time. He wants to study him. He wants to see how he works because he's noticed that electricity and everything works around him, but... Powder is afraid of electricity. He's afraid when it starts to rain, he knows it's going to storm. He stays inside. There's a reason for that, you know, because it's like a magnet.

throughout the movie you see him do wonderful things like he brings someone to life he brings an animal to life he just he's amazing he does all these amazing things and The ending, I won't give it away in case someone hasn't seen it, but the ending is so powerful, you know, what he...

makes a life choice to do that's what i remember most is that final scene yes that was such a beautiful scene but he gave a part of himself to everyone in that process i had never seen this and i've said this on the podcast years ago and i'll say it again uh back in 2010 2011 i was at a horror convention and sean patrick flannery was there and i went up to him to get a boondock saints autograph right yeah and i asked him when he was at the table i was like i couldn't pick out what

picture I wanted to autograph. And, um, I said, as Sean, I said, man, just which one would you, which one do you think I should grab from you? And, uh, he goes right to his powder. He says, have you ever seen this? And I said, no, what is this? He said, oh, my God, you've never seen this movie. He says, this is one of my most loved movies.

role i've ever played he said this is such a powerful movie you need to watch this and he actually autographed for free because he ended up autographing the boondock saints that i ended up getting but he autographed for free the powder picture and what he put on there was

I think the way he wrote it was something like, watch this movie or something like that. Be sure to watch this movie is what he autographed. And he didn't even put his name on it. He just signed it. But that's my personal. He signed it saying, you know, on that picture, he didn't have to give me a headshot. shot and he did so that's great it's really good well see the movie did i mean it would have did fantastic it would did better but unfortunately because the director victor

after Salva, you know, was convicted for, you know, what he was convicted for. Was this the movie that happened on? No, that was a different movie. It wasn't on this one. No, this one, right when it started, the critics started like dogging it because of the fact that all the accusations that he was going under you know so it didn't do what it was supposed to do yeah yeah he but it was a film that he had done previous this is where they actually had

I didn't think it was this one. No, it wasn't. I haven't seen the movie where that supposedly happened. i hadn't either and i don't want to uh no i don't i don't i'm not going to seek it out i'm not going to watch it no i just uh yeah and i knew that he was somehow associated with this now let me tell you i took jackie to see this uh this you know 95 was after my army of darkness ban had

I took her to see this one. And you know what? She really liked this movie too. I got to tell her it's a horror movie. This is going to go, what? I have not seen this film. Not that I can recall. Bill, you need to watch it. It's really good. I'm looking at the cast, and you did mention Susan Tyrell. I think she's a great actress. And Ray Wise is in this film as well. So I definitely do. Yeah, put this on your must-watch.

But every one of the descriptors on IMDb, coming of age, supernatural, drama, fantasy, mystery, thriller, is there horror elements to this? Well, the resurrection, you know, the fact that he's kind of like... Alien niche to outsiders. I mean It depends how through the eye of the beholder what you see as horror to you. I got you. Just put it on and watch it, buddy. I'll just put it on. I have a running list going on my phone to watch, and I'll just put it on. Put that to watch out while you go.

camping with uh gin and or maybe i'll maybe i'll review it for uh mmss there you go perfect boom um in recommendation from the lovely miss pearl there you go cool all right well good love

Glad you mentioned that one, Powder. I totally forgot it was 95. So let's head over to Bill. Bill, what you got for number four? This is another one I watched that... I had never heard of, you know, these kinds of episodes are great because you got to dig and you'll just watch regardless and see what comes up. And this is one that has supernatural elements.

And anybody that knows me knows Supernatural is really not my bag. Like, I'll watch it if it's good, but it's not my go-to. Ghost stories and all that generally just kind of blow over me, especially with all the, you know, things about, you know, possessions and things. But this one I quite enjoyed, and it's called Haunted. The description is, a skeptical professor visits a remote British estate to debunk allegations of psychic phenomena.

but soon finds himself haunted by a ghost from his own past. This is a bit of a slow burn. This one is more akin to the innkeepers than it is to the exorcist. But what really drew me to this was the cast. It stars Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale. And this is perhaps the best acted film. I saw for the entire year, but it's a slow burn. And what happens is Aidan Quinn comes to this old mansion. You know, the family's been living here for generations.

And he's brought there because he's, I think he's a professor or, you know, an esteemed person in the realm of supernatural and ghosts. and he really goes with science he wants to figure it out like he's more apt to debunk something than he is to prove that there's ghosts in this house but

And so when he first gets there for the first day or two, he's like, you know, it's kind of spooky. It's an old house. It's creaky, you know, that kind of thing, but not really anything that jumps out at him. And then as he sleeps, he starts to hear things. And certain things start to emerge. And he has a relationship with Kate Beckinsale that's kind of in the background, a slow burning romance. But, you know, it takes three quarters of the film to get there.

But certain things happen along the way. It kind of reminds me of The Innocence with Deborah Kerr back in 1961. It's that kind of style. It's funny, I was watching this and I talk a lot with Victoria Chambers. Victoria is fantastic for knowing the films. And she goes, I think this was a made-for-TV movie. Because it had kind of that bit of a feel. Until about 20 minutes in when Kate Beckinsale goes skinny dipping. Nope, this ain't a made for TV movie. No, this is not.

Unless it was made for HBO or something. Unless it was made for Skinamax or something. Right. But it's got John Gielgud plays a doctor in this who's coming to deal with some of the things. I mean, you've got... Some old-time actors, Liz Smith. Kevin has to be near the end of his life. It might be. Yeah, he looks to be in his, I would say, a minimum of 85 in this role. It's one that, well-directed.

And it almost has a feel of some of those early 70s AIP and Hammer films with a bit more of a budget. But you can tell that whoever direct, whoever, uh, produced this, uh, let me just go down to the bottom to the credits, uh, October films, Lumiere pictures, double A pictures, but it was shot in England and it's one that.

I just stuck with, and I really liked the way it was laid out. I liked the way it was shot. I know Victoria, if she calls in, I know she called in. She wasn't a big fan of the ending. I didn't mind it. And I think if you're looking for one where you just want to appreciate a well shot, well acted.

decently crafted like the story is not you know it's not perfect or anything but for me and i'm not a supernatural kind of guy i kind of dug this one so check out the haunted i have not seen this one um but i'm telling you what you're saying it's more innkeeper you're saying comparing it to the innkeepers and also um the innocence yep definitely has piqued my interest because i love uh both of those films uh and for the record john

good died one month after his 96th birthday may of 2000 okay so he would have been he would he would have been he would have been like 90 he would have been 90 um in 90 he was born in april of 1904 So here he was making house calls. The age of 90. The age of 90. He's sitting there going, I'm never going to be able to retire, am I? When the fuck is this town going to get healthy? Where's that other damn doctor you were supposed to bring in? Where's that 24-year-old from Oxford?

I used my deposit on that house in Florida, for Christ's sake. I love it. But, yeah, I know that Victoria posted in the room, and I think, Greg, you put down below, you think you'd seen it, but it would have been a long time. Yeah, I have seen it. I just, yeah. I actually own it too, so I'm sure Dave does as well. Dave, check your records. I did, and I do not see it there. I have several things haunting and haunted, but I do not have that one. Uh-oh.

If I got an extra copy, I'll send you one. Well, I was looking up. What was your number five again, Greg? Oh, no, it was Pearl's number five, Rumpelstiltskin? Yes. i could own that for the low low price of 74.99 oh god whoa wow it's pro it's probably just a dvd That's why I was hoping it was the Amy Irving DVD. That's a hell of a lot cheaper. We'll figure out a way to get you to watch it. We're going to make it happen.

Cool. Haunted for Bill. I recommend it too. It is a good movie. Good job, Bill. My number four is going to be a repeat from Dr. Shock's number four. It is none other than Full Moons. Uh, Scott. That's Scott. Stuart Gordon. God. Thank Gordon. Stuart Gordon. Stuart Gordon. SG. Did that dude call Nick Gordon? Stuart! Have another shot. I need to. I actually do need to. You need a third shot. Fill up that bucket. I'm going to do a big bucket. Stuart Gordon from Full Moon.

Under the full moon umbrella, I should say. But it's Castle Freak. Filmed, by the way, as we do know, under Charles Band's castle. It was actually in Charles Band's castle. Yes. Which I think is really cool, man. This thing's got such... Is that where they did... No, but was there... this in italy because i doesn't he also have a castle in romania or something because they they filmed i think that's where they filmed subspecies yeah what was it subspecies two uh or is it all of them

I think all of them were shot in Romania. A lot of movies were shot in his castle. It was just a main spot. Unless it was shot in Italy and it just stood in for Romania. I'm not sure, but I know that was also in a castle. It could very well be the same one.

I can't really add much to what Dave said because he's spot on, dude. I love it. I think the special effects are great. The music by Richard Band, Charles' brother, is phenomenal. I really love the music in this one. There's some really good body horror in this one. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

it's definitely took serious and it's hideous hungry and loose and i had the blu-ray and absolutely love having the blu-ray for this i mean they were really just knocking it out of the park full moon around this time they really were they were man is full moon still kicking oh yeah Yeah, oh yeah, they are. I mean, the last thing I've seen of them, what was that coronavirus one? Oh, that was awful. It was just terrible. Just terrible.

there's a mishmash of two films they stuck together god it's that's that's why because they had the because of the coronavirus came around and they put all these things together and i'm like what what am i watching what the hell's going on here but um i'm hoping that's not i'm hoping they're going to do

do something hell do another do another bong whatever the thing oh the evil ball evil ball yeah do another one of them for christ's sake just to get this the taste of coronavirus by the way tommy chong just turned 87. good on him yeah there you go yeah the new uh the new stuff that john uh charles band's focusing on right now is his noir series that he's been releasing uh he's doing a whole series and he's released

two i know he's done uh quadrant death streamer and i think his next is the lost girls private diary uh so are they like uh you know like uh humphrey bogart film noir kind of no not necessarily i reviewed uh quadrant which was kind of a Jack the Ripper time travel type thing. And in true Charles Band fashion, a lot of nudity and just different things, but the blood was really cool.

So it just, it has a good flavor. Death Streamer is kind of a take on the whole internet craze and social media type situation. So, you know, he's definitely hitting on. on current events uh good stuff i mean i love charles something about jack the ripper and time travel from what was that time after time from 1979 which is yeah david warner yeah david warner is jack the ripper and then malcolm mcdowell is Oh, God, who was the author? H.G. Wells. Nice. Good stuff.

All righty. Well, we're up to our number threes, listener. I said listener. I guess we only got one person watching right now. There's one poor guy in South Africa. There's one person that's sitting there all lonely going, I sure love LOTC. Well, isn't Anthony's in Japan? Korea.

Korea, somewhere, yeah. He's overseas. Oh, Korea, sorry. Somewhere, yeah, he's somewhere overseas, yeah. Somewhere in Asia. So he's our one listener midair. There you go. Thank you. Thank you, Anthony. Thank you for your service. Let's head to John B. What you got for number three?

Okay, number three. Okay, so when I was looking around, I remember this one. Actually, I watched it probably just recently. I think I actually watched it last year because my wife hadn't seen it. I like the lore and everything behind it, but I did like Candyman 2, Farewell to the Flesh. Nice. I did enjoy that. I like the story. I like having more of the story from his...

From the first one to this one, you've got a five-year gap between what happened from Candyman to Candyman 2. I'd enjoyed it. I did enjoy this one. I know it received a lot of negative reviews, not as good as the first one. It'll never be as good as the first one. There's just no way. But I did really thoroughly enjoy this one. I like having more of the legend. He's living in the mirrors.

You know, got to find the lover's mirror, everything else, and seeing the slave quarters that he was at and everything, the plantation, just kind of all coming together from... seeing from the Chicago setting down to the new Orleans setting where he was. Yeah. I, I enjoyed this one. I, but I like a lot of the lore movies too. I do like a lot of the, like having a good story with it too. I mean, I will watch mindless gore and what.

but I do like a good story and I think Candyman does have a good story. So you're a fan of the urban legends then, I'm sure. Yes, I am. I'm a fan of the urban legends and stuff like that. That's what I was figuring because of the lures and stuff. If you watch TV too, you're probably a supernatural fan, correct?

Yep. Actually, we just got done, me and her just got done watching the whole series again. Yeah, I think I've watched it probably three or four times since it's been on because I started watching it. not too long after it started picked it up on cw and i was like hey this ain't too bad and i've watched it ever since and still every once in a while we'll flip it on start over if we if we're if we're in a

TV hole or something, we'll put on something that we've seen like that and we'll watch it or we'll watch Grimm. She got me watching that Grimm series, watched it.

enjoyed it and stuff. Whatever a show hole or movie hole, we'll go to something like that that we've seen and we'll just binge it. We kind of binge too, but that's 15 seasons of binging. That's a lot of TV. It's a lot, but... know so we just take our time and stuff with it so i think he needs to see into the dark on hulu yeah into the dark on hulu okay check those out

All right, I'll check those out. Yeah, listen to Black Glove Mysteries and Mortis Vision. The latest episode, we talked about four of them. I've heard Chris Bartoli, good stuff. Okay. All right, cool. I can tell you, with Candyman, with Candyman. Hey, easy. Well, actually, I got something to say about it. But anyway, Candyman 2, I had not seen it. I had not seen it for a long time. I mean, I'd never seen it. I'd never seen the second one because of its bad reputation.

And I'm right there with you, John. I really liked the story. I liked it a lot. I thought it was really good. I love that they went to New Orleans. I love that setting. I just like that setting in general. And to have the story actually set there, I thought was really cool. I liked that they brought these other characters in and how they brought them in.

um and where that ultimately went like you're saying with the mirror and so forth uh i liked that a lot having tony todd back is is always is always absolutely And yeah, this was a lot better than I would have been led to believe. I was pleasantly surprised. by this movie i really did enjoy it now it did get me thinking though and this movie more than with the first movie if there is one

If there is one thing that sort of irks me about Candyman in general, not this movie, but the character in general. And it's what you're doing here, Greg. This is it. It's too easy to conjure him.

for the lore and everything i mean his legend is there is so much like social commentary in his backstory and what he went through and what this character um you know like the the terrible thing he happened and the way he kills people stabbing people with a machete is bad enough stabbing them with a goddamn hook holy cow i mean that's like really rough stuff there is a lot to this character

They should have put more thought into how to conjure him. It's way too easy. And it got me thinking. This is obviously a very well-known story. I mean, the first one was in Chicago. Now it's in New Orleans. And both of those cities knew it. really well so you gotta think the rest of the the rest of the country and probably

The world, you know, with just the way things are getting around with information knows about this story. What happens if a guy in L.A., a guy in New York, a guy in New Orleans. Two people in Ontario and someone in South America all say it at the same time. What happens? What does he do? Does he have on call? Is it like an alarm service where he has three minutes to get there? What happens? It's too easy. For everything that they put into this, it's too easy to conjure this spirit.

one of its it just got me thinking i said they really should have put more thought into that aspect of it in all the movies it didn't bother me at all in 92 because that that was the first one and it's so good i love that first one and i really like the second one I'm just like with everything that this character

sort of with all the social commentary and everything i mean for god's sakes in hellraiser you got this freaking puzzle box that's hardcore shit they're trying to get to get these things to show up but here just say the name five times into a mirror and Literally, what if three people in Tokyo do it at the same time that somebody does it in, you know, Tallahassee? And that is not out of the realm of possibility. That could happen, and especially nowadays.

They will say that I have shed innocent blood. What's blood for? It's not for shedding. My God, Candyman wouldn't know whether to shed or go blind. He'd have to show up in so many places. That's true. Or just listen to the podcast and there you're screwed. Yeah. It's way too easy to contact this. incredibly complex character.

Agreed, Dave. They put so much thought into the character and his backstory, they needed to put more thought into conjuring him. It's just weak. Maybe you had to say his name five times, but you had to be standing on your right foot with your arm. You know, something different.

or something like that or maybe here's something you had to actually be a bastard or you had to be someone who deserved what you were going to get not just i mean what what if a five-year-old stands in front of the mirror and does it and you know and

They don't even know. Maybe they're saying Candyland. What if Candyman, what if they're speaking a language he doesn't understand? What if they're saying Candyman in French? You have put so much thought into this. But it's serious, though. Yeah, but that's the problem. it's bon bon monsieur bon bon monsieur Okay, well, be sure to let him know that. Cool. It's Andy Mack, number two, farewell to the flesh. Let's go to Dave for your number three.

All right. My number three is a movie I just saw for the first time. So I really want to see it again. Because I liked it a lot. And it is a horror comedy from Spain, The Day of the Beast. And it was directed by Alex de la Iglesia. And the whole story is this priest, it says a Basque priest, and he's played by, let me get the cast list here, Alex Angulo. He's Father Angel. and he has made a discovery that it's coming up on Christmas Eve, the Antichrist.

is about to be born he it's going to be in madrid and he's trying to figure out a way to conjure the devil to um to somehow prevent this from happening And he says, you know, there's a great scene where he's there with his mentor in the chapel. And he says...

I'd like to confess my sins. He's like, what are your sins? He goes, well, I haven't committed any yet, but I plan to. Because in order to conjure the devil, I figure I've got to sin. There's scenes where he's out keying cars in a garage and things like this because the guy, you know, he wants to sin to get him. into a state that he can conjure the devil and stop the Antichrist from being born.

um he teams up and this is what i really liked about this he goes into a record store because he figures he's got to get heavy metal and play it backwards because everything he's been told that that's going to be satanic and that's going to help him conjure the devil so he meets up with this heavy metal the guy who runs the store is played by uh okay i'm gonna butcher names here but his name is jose maria he's played by santiago segura

And he sort of warms up to the priest. He becomes good friends with this priest, and he becomes his sidekick throughout this. So you have a priest, and you have a Satan-worshipping heavy metal fanat. teaming up to to uh try to get this so then a third person is brought in and this is a guy who's very popular he has his own tv show where he is like a medium and he's uh dealing in the occult

And I'm trying to figure out who this guy is, what his name is. Who is it? Kavin is his name. And he is played by Armando de Raza. and they go to his they figure out where he lives and they go there because they figure he's going to know how to contact he's going to know how to conjure the devil he's going to know how to do this well what they don't know is this guy's full of shit he doesn't believe in any of this stuff he fakes all this stuff it's all just bs he makes it all up as he goes along

So when they get there, he's not going to help. He's got a woman coming over. He's looking to get lucky. Well, they end up like the priest knocks him out, ties him up, and is forcing him to do this. So this guy just starts rattling stuff off. Well, you need blood.

from a wall of you need the blood of a virgin and so he's got to go find the blood of a virgin and they come back and he and while he's doing that the guy the the heavy metal guy's drawing a pentagram on his floor he's like carving it into his floor and all this stuff and they get back they get the blood and they needed hosts so the the heavy metal guy crushed some bread from this guy's kitchen and they go through all this stuff

And they do the ceremony, and the guy Kevin is like, oh, nothing happened, huh? Yeah, because it's all bullshit. But then something happens. And that is where the movie really gets cool, is then Kevin, I don't know how to pronounce his name. This goes by professor, but he's not really a professor. He's just this TV personality. He gets pulled into it.

And they get separated for some reason. And the professor goes into his TV station and goes, put me on the air now. It's like, well, we've got Christmas programming on it. He's like, I want to go on the air live now. I want to tell all these idiots who listen to me. And I want to contact this priest. I want to let them all know the bullshit. And I got to get in touch with this priest. He's out there somewhere. And I got to get him this message. I figured something out.

And the movie just gets so cool. There's really good effects. This film was nominated for... uh 14 uh goya awards um and that would be like the the spanish equivalent of the academy awards it got 14 nominations and it won for best director best new actor uh segura the guy who played the the heavy metal loving sidekick, best art direction, best sound, makeup, and special effects, and it deserved all of those. It's really just a fun movie, and it does go there.

when it comes to the horror elements as well. I really enjoy it. And you know what? Because it's set at Christmas, you could make this a Christmas movie if you wanted to. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, Dave. You're right. I love it. And it should be a Christmas movie. I watched this for the first time in prep for this because I know it had been talked about forever and it had been on my list to watch and this gave me an excuse to watch. And it gave me an excuse.

used to break out the Blu-ray finally. And let's just say they're not afraid of heights. Oh, yes. I'll just put it there. The one guy who's a little too cavalier while scaling a building, let's just put it that way. And I found it funny, Dave, I don't know about you, when...

When the mother who runs the boarding house, they don't have any room in the house and the guy goes, I'll offer you, I don't know, 2,100 lira or whatever it is. And so she takes the money from her daughter and sticks it in her bosom. Goes out with the maid. That was actually the maid. Is that the maid? Yeah. And boy, what happens to her. I mean, there's some definite violence in this movie. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I love it. Day of the Beast from Dave number three.

I love it. All right, Pearl. Number three. Well, as we leave summoning the devil with Dave's, we're going to go to mine for the fallen angels.

evil angel gabriel has come to the earth to straighten his powers by claiming the wicked spirit of the psychotic veteran a benevolent angel simon wants to stop that from happening so he hides a man's spirit where gabriel lasts least expects to find it in a little girl caught in the cosmic battle with even lucifer

playing the part of... I can't even say that word. Never mind. Moves to heaven and earth to protect this child, a nice-minded cop. I'm going to say nice because I can't say the other word. This is the prophecy. Very nice. And, of course, Christopher Walken as Gabriel. Viggo Mortensen as the devil. And Eric Soltz as Simon. Virginia Madison as Catherine, the teacher.

Amanda Plummer as one of the poor hostage that he keeps alive you know just to use her you know you got good good angel bad angel trying to like you know fight for the spirit and capture it you know save the soul or damn the soul you know and Of course, the devil's waiting around, but he's not only waiting around for that. So he's also waiting for Gabriel because Gabriel wants to take over. And that's a no-no with the devil.

I mean, this is intense moments and even a little slight comedy moments. When a battle between heaven and hell, I mean, who perfectly to portray... punk ass mean angel better than Christopher Walken. I saw this one for the first time too. And yeah, this, I have the, like the Mill Creek set where they got all the, all of the prophecy movies.

And I'd never seen any of them. I watched this one and I, yeah, this was, this is like, Christopher Walken, of course, is great. Elias Koteas, he's an actor I think doesn't get the recognition either because I thought he was really good in this as the former priest. who is now a detective pulled into this case. Eric Stoltz is good, but I'm telling you, who stole this movie and the few scenes he was in for me was Viggo Mortensen as the devil. He is so good.

And so damn sinister in those scenes. I really, really liked his performance in this film. I thought he was great. It wasn't always, I never fully understood why they wanted that. old guy's soul i mean i do understand i do kind of get it But the motivation for it wasn't, I didn't really understand that part of it, but it didn't matter because it's about the battle between, like you're saying, heaven and hell. And it's really that Gabriel is jealous of humans because they got his...

given them his love and has basically turned his back on some of the on some of the archangels and and gabriel too happy about it um and that's really where the battle is so it's you know when i see when you hear gabriel you're thinking oh well he's going to be on the side of No, no, he's, you know, he's definitely not. And yeah, this has me interested in checking out some of the other films, because I think Christopher Walken's in pretty much all of them, isn't he? No, but...

The first two are the best ones. It kind of starts tearing off after that. Okay. All right. Did they make five of them? Yeah, there's five total. Jeez, I thought Christopher Walken was in all of them. Because his picture is the only one on the cover of the DVD. I thought he might have been in all of them. They know what sells. Yeah, I guess that's true.

I wore these wings up my ass for three years. Yeah, I think the third one was the last one because the fourth one, the guy from Hellraiser is in it. Doug Bradley. Oh, okay.

oh doug brello right oh wow okay okay nice no but i i i was this is one of the ones that i i had never seen it and i was like wow i'm this this was that's what i got a lot a lot of my reaction to these films were better than i was led to believe or better than i expected part five is not too bad and it does have tony todd in it so it is worth seeing but you're not going to have the same

feel as one and two. Gotcha. I was going to say, I'm like you, Dave. I watched it for the first time, and yeah, it's a fairly decent little film. The Prophecies. Yeah, I was fairly young when I first seen it. I think it actually premiered on Starz, and that must have been like 96, 97 or something like that after initial theater. I remember recording it because I couldn't see it because I was gone for something, but I remember having to watch it.

Watch it two or three times to actually get the full grasp of the story, maybe just because of my young mind or I wasn't paying attention or whatever. No, I don't think, I just don't think, the whole thing with the old man, I don't think they laid that out as well as they could have. Yeah, it took me a couple of watches to... Like, why him particular? Of all of them.

He was supposed to be a Nazi. I don't know if he was supposed to be Eisenhower or Hitler or something. I think he was from the Korean War or the Vietnam War. Or the Vietnam War. Atrocities, some war crimes or something. black soul to use as a weapon to turn the tide exactly but I'm thinking is this the blackest soul they never really did

to find why he was the blackest soldier. Yeah, because they never got into the war crimes or whatever he was convicted of or looked at for. It was just sort of on the surface. Yeah, it's like, oh, need this soul. What? But you know what? I still enjoyed it for what it was. Oh, yes. I love the scene where he has the kid blow the trumpet in the windows.

explode on the top of the school. I thought that was really cool. You know, for it being in 95 too, that's when they took advantage of that. Like they used Christopher Walken in one of Madonna's videos called Bad Girl. He was... portraying gabriel in in her video doing the same thing like waiting for her to mess up and then to take her soul yeah nice there you go

Ba-bam. So we got the prophecy for Pearl for number three. And let's head to you, Bill. What you got for number three? So number three, for my birthday on the 3rd of June, my wife got me Shudder finally. So I got Shudder.

And so I'm on there and I type in, you know, whatever it is in the search engine. And I came up with this 1995 movie that I'd never seen, I'd never heard of. And this, again, why I love these kind of things, because I find them. And it's called Mute Witness. A mute makeup artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder and must escape capture.

So what we have here is a studio kind of being shot in one of these big production houses, but it's kind of out in the middle of, you know, industrial part of the town. Most of the crew from the main movie that's being shot or TV show is gone for the day. Like at the end of the day is gone. But the makeup artist, she is mute. She doesn't speak. And she's walking around through the bowels of this warehouse. And she comes across another film crew that's doing a film.

Well, it turns out that she walks in and some guy is laying a sausage party to another girl in bed. They're shooting. She thinks it's a porno film. So she just kind of hangs in the background and just kind of watches what's going on until it becomes a snuff film. And the girl who's getting first screwed to death and literally gets her neck slashed off is looking at her the whole time in the eyes like, help me, help me, help me. But the girl is mute.

can't say anything and doesn't want to be seen because obviously the nefarious film director and producer have other intentions for this film so she's essentially just witnessed a mass execution on film and so now she's it's the middle of the night And she's got people that are looking for her and eventually find out that she's there and they come in on the act. But the people running this film also, I don't know if they actually say it, but they're essentially Russian mafia.

and so they're chasing her through this warehouse for most of the film and she's dealing with police she's dealing with survival and it gets pretty sticky at times and so To me, like it's set up to if somebody had a bit more money and a bit more, you know, exposure to a bigger film studio, this could have been even more than it was because the story is pretty good. I just don't think it got the distribution.

you actually see a small role by Alec Guinness in this film. Mute Witness, to me, was one of those ones where I wasn't expecting this, but... i couldn't keep my eyes off it for the 95 minutes or whatever it is so mute witness is my number three shoot you know what damn it my my um dvd profile listed this is 94 but i

I see on IMDb and all it's 95. I wish I'd watch this because I have the DVD for this. God damn it. And I wish I'd seen it because it looks like it is a 95 film. Son of a... bitch because i figured i was upset with myself for missing it for 94 and now i get to miss it all over again have you seen this one gregor uh if i have and i don't know that i have it sounds familiar but i don't think I have, to be honest. I have. It's been so long that I need to rewatch. John, have you seen this one?

No, I haven't seen that one, but I'm definitely going to put it on my list to watch, though. I'll put it on my Shudder list, because I have not seen it. It sounds pretty good, though. I kind of like that. There is horror in it, but it's as much suspenseful, because you don't know if she's going to survive. She obviously has some sort of day.

They're being chased, bodies show up here and there. And so, you know, and there's corruption within the Russian police service and all that kind of good stuff, you know, Cold War stuff. Kind of reminds me of a recent one that was out that hush or whatever. Wasn't she the deaf gal getting stalked? Yeah. It's very much probably an inspiration for that one. Yeah, I'm sure it is.

okay all right well mute witness from uh bill there for number three awesome nice let's go to my number three my number three is actually a a trilogy no it's not but it's the third in a series and it's children the corn part three urban harvest uh directed by james dr hickok

Hickok's, I guess. Hickok's. Similar to, if you've seen the first two, you know what you're going to get number three, but it's following the brothers Eli and Joshua out of Gatlin, Nebraska. They're adopted by Foster Holmes. they're sent to chicago and uh in chicago they don't fit in because you know they're coming from the the wilds of the of the murders from uh gatlin and there's some he who walks behind the rose in this one as well um So basically, Eli ends up becoming the main...

preacher whatever you want to call it uh the main villain in this one i guess uh and he takes on this whole town and he's able to get the minds of the kids like all the other movies are able to do as well and we have this ultimate battle so i think one thing that helps this movie is the special effects are really good in this one there are some really good makeup effects practical effects in this one that really work i think one thing that hinders this movie is the

kid playing Eli is hitting puberty about the time of this movie because his voice is very cracky. Bless his heart. He's definitely hitting it at stride where he's Daniel Cerny and he's kind of...

you know, every once in a while. So it kind of hinders a little bit, but not bad. Uh, this is the screen debut of Sharice Theron. So we got that going on. Uh, and Nicholas Brendan from the, uh, yeah buffy the vampire slayer series so both of these are i see uh rance howard's in it as well he is yep uh it's a fun watch like seriously if you like children of the corn

part two is really good part three is really good and then they go down from there uh this one really fits in well with the with the uh

the lore of it. It's just a fun watch, you know, the scythe and the corn and who, he who walks behind the rose, you know, that whole religious aspect of it. There's a scenes in here where Eli takes on the, uh, uh the priest or whatever you want to call him of the church and it's kind of funny there's one scene where they're uh having their service and the preacher's like you know eli's not paying attention he's talking to his brother crossing the pews and uh

The preacher rebukes him, right? He's right in the middle of the service and says, you got something you want to say? So he just jumps up. Eli says, sure. And he starts laying out this sermon. And he starts getting everybody listening. And the preacher's like, that's enough. That's enough. Stop it, Eli. And he's able to do things with his mind.

different things. It's really fun. This is a fun one. I watched this one again for the first time. I'll be honest, this series just isn't for me. I liked the first one well enough. But even that wouldn't make my top 10 Stephen King adaptations, to be honest with you. Oh, this would definitely not make my top 10 Stephen King. Oh, no, this isn't even a Stephen King. This is just like, and I didn't like the second one, and I got to be honest, I didn't care for this one too much either.

like some of the effects though there's one especially late in the um in the movie involving a uh in a cornfield with a scare see the one thing about this one i'm like The one thing that I, even though I wasn't, like, I liked the first one, I wasn't a big fan of the second one. The one thing I never said was, boy, they need less farms in this. I don't know why they had to take it to the city.

But I guess that's why it's urban harvest. And the whole idea of shipping the corn around the world, what the crap? Like this little garden is going to make enough. For some reason, this little garden he's made in a warehouse. They're shipping it all over the world. I don't know. But anyway, it's just not for me. And I know some people really love it. And now that you're saying...

like these were the top ones and then it goes down from there. I'm definitely not watching. Oh yeah. Yeah. When you get into four or five and six and all those others, Dave, it's, it's, it's rough watching those. I did enjoy watching.

this one it's a fun watch i said i'm with you greg i like the first three then after that it's kind of went downhill i think there was one i watched it's all go it was the original kid wakes up from a coma it's like i thought he was dead yeah but it just kind of start Mike went a lot of stuff trying to get the stuff in, but I enjoyed the third one. I thought it was a pretty fun watch. It's just out there, but it's fun. Yeah, for what it is, it's a fun watch, though.

cool i like it number three for me children corn three urban harvest we're down to our top twos listeners so uh let's go ahead and just get right into it head over to john b what you got for number two

Alright, my number two. It's actually an anthology movie. It's got Mr. Sims played by the late... great Clarence Williams III as he welcomes three drug dealers into his mortuary to buy some drugs that he found on the street. And it is Tales from the Hood as he takes them through several stories. And it's got a nice wraparound story that you pretty well know what's going to happen by the end of it. But I enjoy this one. I like the anthology movies as well.

This was a nice take on it to see kind of in more of an urban take on the anthology series. I enjoyed it. There's several of the stories I like. I liked the one with Corbin Bernson. Shows up in one of them as he's in a plantation haunted by these little dolls, these little voodoo dolls chasing him around. It's a fun one. I did enjoy it, and I like Clarence Williams in this one, even though he's not in it.

you know, a whole lot, but I still like his portrayal. Just tell, taking them through, tell them the stories of each. He opens the casket. Oh, this one, he heard some voices. This was a real monster. I enjoyed it. I've not seen it yet. I think there's like three of them now. But that first one sticks with me more than anything. I really enjoyed that first one. It's over the top. I love it. It is. And it's just, I...

Like I said, even to throw in, you had Clarence Williams III in there, then all of a sudden you see Corbin Bernson playing in there. He's been in several different movies and stuff. Just seeing some of the actors that are in it is pretty good. just yeah because i said the little short stories are fun you know nothing too serious but yep i love it dude great choice anybody else got anything on this one

No, I don't know. I have not seen it. I have not seen the first Tales from the Hood. Oh, you need to see it, Dave. I think the only one I've seen actually is the third one. Oh, okay. yeah i i enjoyed it i hadn't seen it for ages it's a lot of fun you know that's what these 90s you know it gets a lot of crap and stuff but you know people have a certain vintage it brings back memories and this was one of those ones it did yeah Absolutely.

I just have so many, because this is the year my oldest son was born. Oh, okay. And, you know, this was the 93, I met Jang 95. No, I'm sorry. 95 is the year we got married. The next year, 90. six is when my oldest son was born christ don't tell her i got that mixed up but so so this was a lot this was like i i wasn't as going to the movies as much as um you know and then and certainly when i was it wasn't horror

when I was going with Jackie. I was sort of out of the loop for a little bit in the mid-90s, and that's why I'm enjoying it to the point of being able to catch up with a lot of these films. I love it. All right.

Dave, let's go to you for number two. All right, my number two. And this is a line spoken by the main character in my number two film. Existence is the search for relief from our habit. And our habit is the only relief we can find. That is a line spoken by Kathleen, played by Lily Taylor, who is the lead in Abel Ferreira's The Addiction.

And she's also the narrator of the film. She's a graduate student majoring in philosophy, and her world is turned upside down following a chance encounter with a vampire, played by Annabelle Sciorra. As a result of being bitten, Kathleen herself begins to change, and before long, her thirst for blood is unquenchable. At first, she's kind of energized by this, but a brief meeting with another vampire, played by Christopher Wolfe.

walking uh in a cameo he doesn't have a big role it's more of a cameo has kathleen seeing her condition in an entirely different light now this is shot in black and white and it's really great i mean i love the photography in this then the black and white really serves the story well and it really is a fascinating take on the whole mythos of vampire of vampirism uh you know treats those affected as addicts

uh you know equating their desire for blood with like alcoholism or drug dependency while at the same time drawing comparisons between the so-called evil inherent in vampires and that of humanity itself You know, the evil in humanity. At one point, Kathleen attends a lecture about the Miley Massacre.

you know from in the during the vietnam uh conflict and later visits an exhibit with images from the holocaust uh you know you get these and it seems like director ferrara is suggesting that vampirism isn't the root of evil it's merely a magnification of the fundamental evil that is always lurking uh in within man um and it's you know this thoughtful approach to it uh coupled with this visual style this sort of kinetic visual style that he brings to it

And he's made a vampire movie that has an arthouse mentality, but also has plenty of blood and carnage in it. And it's really kind of a hybrid genre film that I think is going to appeal to a lot. A lot of different people.

And you get a great performance by Lily Taylor. I think this is one of the great vampire films, I think, definitely of the 90s and possibly of all time. And that's saying something in both of those regards. I mean, the 90s have given us a... some damn good vampire films um and this one's right up there with it so my number that's that's my number two uh is abel ferrara's the addiction

And Arrow has a really good Blu-ray release of this, I hear. Yes, they do. Good stuff. The addiction. Cool. Let's head right over to Pearl. Pearl, what you got for number two?

I got a cup of eye candy. Oh, boy. And a double. Oh, boy. I was going to say you both inhaled and exhaled at the same time. Yeah, there you go. Mine's a 1960 remake. And it is 10 months after a small California town in Midwest was struck by a mysterious event during which everyone in the village falls unconscious at once. 10 local women give birth on the same day.

As an unsettling, calm, and unemotional children grow at an abnormal fast rate, it becomes clear that they can read adult minds, force people to harm themselves. The local doctor, Allen, And Federal Agent Susan must team up to battle the alien children. And this is Village of the Dam. Good. Of course, with Christy Allen as Dr. Susan.

You got Christopher Ree as Dr. Allen. Even John Carpenter who obviously directed this remake. He was the man at the gas station. And of course Michael Perret who was Frank who... Unfortunately, he did not last long in this movie. I was going to say, he didn't have a long appearance in this movie. He did not, unfortunately. Yes, I cried when he... He blows up real good. Yeah. Yeah, he was barbecued.

And even Mark Hamill as the Reverend in He Too. It's in Luke Skywalker. Luke Skywalker. Kirstie Alley looked hot, too. But Lindsay... I don't know how to say her last name, but she plays Mara, the leader of these albino, odd children with glowing eyes. She's the bitchy one. Really does take over meanwhile the runt of the bunch David. He's like the sweet one

Yet he still has to listen and follow the rules from the rest of them. And I say there's one to be nine because one of them, that's supposed to be his partner, you know, dies at birth. Which, uh, Christy Alley's... dr susan she takes that deceased baby so she can experiment on it and she kind of adapts and knows that they can read her mind so she tries to like you know

play it off and she does a very good job you got christopher ree who doesn't like what's going on because when they get they don't like to rules they don't like to be told no They don't like to even slightly get hurt because they're vindictive. They'll make you hurt yourself or kill yourself off. I mean, it's like a wild goose chase. You have to stick with it. I mean, it's not bad for what it is.

Kind of personally, I like the 1960 more, but I do have fun with this one. And of course the characters, because you can't go wrong with Christopher Ree and Michael Paré. Seriously. That's right. It's a fun watch for sure. It is. It's a fun one. I like that one. It has been a very, very long time for this one. As a matter of fact, I really wish I had caught up with it again. The only John Carpenter movie I've never seen is Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Same.

yeah i've not seen that one and this one it's been a long time and i wish i had gotten a chance to see it again because i really wanted to refresh on this one i'm with you i love the first i love the the uh the 60s version of this. I think because the lead kid is the same one who played the son or the brother in The Innocents.

And I think that kid is a great actor. I mean, he is such a good actor. He ended up not appearing in too much, unfortunately, sort of gave up acting not too long after he made those films. And it's a damn shame because he was so good. in both of those films but uh yeah i mean yeah you're right john carpenter Even in the 90s, I think he was still, he's always got a lot of crap for his films in the 90s. They weren't as good as his stuff in the 80s.

But I think he proved that he still had it with this, with a lot of them, and some that we still have yet to discuss. I agree. Yeah. And it has one of my favorite character actors. Peter Jason is in this as well. And I forget what he, I forget one of the townspeople or what have you. The other thing is, as a teacher, you know, those kids might've been little SOBs.

But they were obedient in class. Yeah. Turned to page 27. And he could leave the entire school. Nobody's squealing home. They're reading their chapter. I couldn't wish for that class.

management if someone's going to remake this movie i think john carpenter's want to do it because he's proven that he has a real love for like the sci-fi movie because i mean my god his remake well it wasn't even a remake it was a reimag like a yeah so a different version of the thing um you know then the then the movie then the thing from another world the original one um you know that he just has

so much love for these movies um so he would have been he's the perfect person to to remake one of them i mean to me this reminded me of 13 years later a similarly veined the fog like it's the same kind of you know overarching something's over this town things are going haywire the town has to come together to figure it out like it's the whole kind of deal

Nice. All righty. Well, cool. Village of the Dam. Let's go to you, Bill. What you got for number two? Now, I smiled earlier to myself when Dave was going on about Eric Roberts. And we all know the Eric Roberts of Diner, and we all know the Eric Roberts of Human Centipede 3. And there's a lot of variations in between. The one I have here...

has a couple names that we've already mentioned. This movie is called The Nature of the Beast, directed by Victor Salva, starring Eric Roberts, and lance henriksen and it's a road movie it's got combinations of road games duel and it's one of those you know joyride And I'll let you know why. Here's the description. Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert. So what happens is...

Lance Hendrickson is on a long road trip. He looks like he's a businessman. He's got a nice suit and a station wagon or a mid-level car. And he's got a briefcase with him that he desperately won't give up. And as he drives through a town, he drives through a police barricade and... A deadly murder has happened on the highway, and the policeman basically says, stop slowing down to rubberneck. Keep on going and go all the way through. Don't stop. He goes to a diner down the road.

Gets himself a sandwich or a burger or whatever it is. And then Eric Roberts comes in. And Eric Roberts looks a little worse for wear, shall we say. A dubious character at best. A drifter. And he kind of stumbles in and sits in the booth with Lance Henriksen and tries to befriend him. And Lance Henriksen in his situation there, you know, he's friendly enough.

And he goes up to get rid of his food and leave and pay and give the waitress her tip, et cetera. And Eric Roberts is like trains, planes, and automobiles. He won't leave him by his side. And despite the fact that at one point, Lance Hendrickson takes off from the diner and stops in a motel to stay, Eric Roberts catches up with him. And let's just say they both have a secret past.

That comes out in the film. And you're not quite sure who's the good guy. Who's the bad guy. Are either of them good guys? Are either of them bad guys? It's kind of like a horror version of a buddy film that isn't quite your buddy. It reminded me a little bit of that one with Greg. What's the one you like with David Hess? Where he's a hitchhiker. Hitchhiker.

A little bit like that. And let's just say it comes down to following the clues along the way, listening to the radio, seeing who else dies along the way. And who's going to reveal what. And so it gets a 6.2 on IMDb with 2.9 thousand reviews. It's one of those ones that I had never heard of. Not a clue.

But it had Lance Henriksen. So I thought, sure, I'll pick it up. I really enjoyed this film. So The Nature of the Beast, I don't know if anybody's seen it, but checking it. Never even heard of it. Never heard of that one. It's playing on Fossum and Plex. There you go. Oh, cool. Well, I like Lance Anderson, so at least you got that going for you. But this is one of those ones where you could see Eric Roberts. Yes, he is an actor. He knows how to act. He can be...

You know, he's got that Buffalo Bill kind of, you know, look to him like he's just unhinged. You want to stay on the right side of him until you can tell him to fuck off. And that's kind of the character he plays.

Well, there you go. All right. Well, cool. Nature of the Beast for Bill for number two. My number two is Dave's number three, and it's Alex de la Iglesia, and it is Day of the Beast. Love this movie. I've loved it since I first saw it. Just go back and listen to today's review because that was so well done. It's spot on. You got the Catholic priest in the middle of Fishiano. That's what you got. You got a lot of hilarity.

but you also got some really cool visual effects in this movie, man. Some really cool twists and turns. I love it. This is a fun movie to watch. I love that scene when they're on the side of the building. The sign. When they're going down the slopes. The sign.

i love that it's like it's a dark movie but at the same time the humor is there oh yeah and uh but the humor is done in a way that you're going to chuckle but at the same time it's still somewhat of a of a dark movie but it's still funny and you probably shouldn't be laughing at some scenes but you are love the cast love the cast and you know what's funny it's like this is made in spain spain is one of beside italy maybe the the most catholic

country in the world right and it's it's a little irreverent towards the The church. Oh, yeah. Most horror movies are that are around the church. Yeah, it doesn't quite toe the line. And the guy in the store, he's like, you want this? Oh, no, I got the good stuff. Here's what you want to listen to. And here's this guy in his late 50s.

these are whatever it is trying to listen to hardcore heavy metal yeah exactly so it's good stuff so definitely check out day of the beast uh i believe it's on shutter and a lot of other places uh it's out there you can definitely find it Uh, so now we are come to what everybody's came to want to listen for. And that's number ones. And we are at our number ones. Uh, so we're going to head over to John D first, John, what you got for number one.

Okay, my number one is probably a lesser-known film, but I remember watching it. I liked the idea of it. And I really enjoyed it. It has a little part from John DeLance who played Q in the Star Trek Next Generation show. So this one is called Evolver. Evolver! Good for you. Good for you for choosing that one. The kids win this laser tag thing to get this robot.

and it's got ai intelligence but every time it's defeated in this tag it gets smarter and smarter and starts killing people seeing all the negativity and everything and around it it absorbs it and I think later on they find out it was made to be a military robot to send into war zones and stuff at one point but it just keeps evolving and gets harder and harder to beat and it starts

going on murder rampages and everything. I, I really enjoyed it. I mean, it's a goofy one, probably lesser known, but. I thought it was a blast watching it. Just the idea of, you know, in 95, they're talking about this AI robot that's going to adapt to its surroundings, and every time it's defeated, it gets smarter.

And it gets more dangerous. It goes from using little compressed air foam balls to ball bearings in its gun and just... it just advances as it goes and i just you know it amps up a little bit i mean it's nothing great but i enjoyed the heck out of it i thought it was a great you know i think it was a direct video and i think actually the the disc i had was on

I think there might have been five different movies on it. And that just happened to be one of them on there. And I just enjoyed the hell out of it. It was just so fun to watch. Just kind of reminds me a little bit of chopping mall, a little bit of that one, but.

Just a little bit more advanced. Nice. I have not seen this one. I haven't either, but I'm telling you, John DeLance, as soon as you said that, Q was... was was one of my favorite characters in the next year he was in the opening the first episode obviously the the um the very the the sort of pilot episode of the next generation um and he was just such he's the reason the borg entered

the star trek um you know he's the he's the one who sent them to that quadrant and alerted the board that they existed so it's he's he was a fun character in that one and there's a scene as a matter of fact there's a scene in the star trek next generation

where you have two members of the Q Continuum, it's John Delancey and Corbin Bernson. Evolver is one that I actually reviewed on music, movie, sports and stuff. And it was because I came up in this year and I thought, it's worth an individual review.

and yeah it's i always like those films from the mid-90s where they show the technology of the time you know like uh brain scan or lawn mower man or any of those you know the the inner the the net like those kind of films interesting yeah and at the beginning they're all playing the laser tag and it gets pretty gory i said it was a combination of chopping mall and short circuit yeah yep yeah right there

It's right there, but a little more sinister, you know, and you know, you don't, it's not exactly, you know, 2001, but it's, it's a fun little film. good on you for choosing that one nice all righty well number one for john evolver and let's go to dave dave what is your number one for 1995

My number one, there's always been a little debate whether it's horror or not, but I'm telling you, I think it is. It gets there for me. Just reading the IMDb, two detectives, a rookie and a veteran hunt a serial killer who uses the seven-day Ridley sins as his motives. It is Seven from David Fincher. I adore this movie. I love Morgan Freeman as the veteran. Brad Pitt as the rookie. Gwyneth Paltrow is really strong in this as Brad Pitt's wife. And Kevin Spacey as John Doe.

And it's the nature of the discoveries they make. There are no kills that happen on screen, but when they get to that one, the gluttony, where that guy's there and his stomach is broken open, you can just, you smell it. You can smell it coming off the screen. the way they put that together. And it is such a disturbing movie. Certainly one of the most memorable endings of any film from the 90s as to where it goes.

uh yeah it's for me it's a masterpiece and it's in my top five of that year and i'm like i can't in all honest i can't in good conscious keep this off my list so seven is my number one seven what's in the box pearl yeah what is in the box we know we we got to go down to uh jay of the dead because i think it was that whole day z and that whole scenario What was that? I think that was some big, long debate, right, Dave, over on Jay the Dead?

What's in the box? What's in the box, right? It's funny. I remember seeing it in the theater. And I remember sitting there watching it when they get to gluttony. And the large man is... dead on the table with his face just in full of the food. Dark. it's and and the fact that the the you have the woman who killed herself as opposed to living deformed because of vanity you know it's it's Where he goes with that, I think, is really fascinating. And just when you realize...

And you find out who it is. It's a police procedural for a lot of time, but you find out who is up against this at the beginning of what would be the third act. I mean, it's early in the movie where you find out what's going on, but there's a reason for that. and and then it just builds from there and it's not it's certainly not a feel-good movie this is

That's something you're going to walk out and you're going to be the way it wraps up. But it really is for me. It's just a masterpiece. It's one of David Fincher's best films. And I put I mean, I'd say this in Zodiac. are probably my two favorite David Fincher films. I'm not saying something, because he's made so many good films. I love it. Yeah. All right, well, seven. Wow. We're already up to Pearl.

Love, we're up to you. It's number one. You should have like three ties. I put five together. She promised. I know I did, so I can't break that. My number one has already been mentioned about a creepy mortician who... is letting these two guys know exactly what it is to be redemption. So he tells them these three tales. One with supernatural powers, one about a schoolboy, and another one about these young thugs, and a crooked politician.

This is Tales from the Hood. Yes. Who would I be not having an anthology on my list? I didn't even think about it, but you don't have... Yeah, this is your first... Yeah. This is your first anthology on your list. Pretty much, yeah. Yeah. I mean, seriously, you can't go wrong with this movie. You got a crooked politician who's doing the cotton.

field and everything wrong to the people past lady I forgot what he calls her but she has all these dolls and basically they're kind of like worry dolls but they're also vengeful dolls so She does what she's supposed to do with them. And all she does is sit back on a rocking chair and just lets it happen. And you got this family, you know, the kid and the mom are dealing with this stepdad-ish.

he's a real like he's abusive and he like easily gets angry but uh the little boy calls him a monster and turns out he really is a monster He finds a way to defend himself and his family and all it takes is a little drawing to make sure you're going to get rid of something. but i mean the other stories are good but what i love best is of course uh clarence williams because he After knowing what's going to happen and how he knows how this is going to go down, way down.

he reveals who he is yeah and uh and the shocking fear on those young thugs faces when they open the coffin and they see themselves he's like oh well some of you didn't make it After you killed Crazy Kay, a few of his boys killed you. I guess. You didn't make it. Very! Motherfucker bullshit! If we did, then what the fuck we doing in a funeral hall with your crazy ass, huh? This ain't no funeral hall! The pterodome! Neither!

This was one of my favorites, and that's why it's my number one. Yeah, Clarence is so good in this movie. So good. Man, the effects in this one are awesome, too. The gore effects and stuff are phenomenal. Dave, you definitely got to watch this, bro. Yeah, I want to I was at the the video store at the at the Q Mart today and I went there with the I was looking for two films one that Jay had recommended to me a western called Seraphim Falls with Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan

And the other one was Tales from the Hood. I wanted to see if they have, because every now and again, they will have something I can't find anywhere else. Or they even have things that are out of print and have been out of print for 10 years. Sometimes they're selling them there. But the only one they had was Tales from the Hood 3, and that's the only damn one I've seen. So I didn't, you know, but I was able to find Seraphim Falls.

It is on Tubi right now, so you're in luck. It's 11 days left before they take it out. Okay. All right. Well, good. On Tubi, I will definitely give it a watch then. All right. Nice. Well, the thugs definitely, one of them has one of the best lines of a movie.

I don't want to go on the mortician. Well, if something jumps up, well, you shoot it and kill it. Well, how do you shoot something that's already dead? Well, it's just like beans. You wouldn't have to re-fry them if you fry them right the first time. Oh, God. what a fuck god dave i want to hear your thoughts when you hear i watch it dave too absolutely nice all right now we're down to bill bill you're number one

Well, this is a little film with Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey. Oh, Jesus. Uh-oh. The soundtrack is great. There's electronics of a leg. My number one is... We'd have to declare war on Canada if this was... No, the border won't let you through. Sorry, Dave. No, my number one has already been said by Pearl. It's Village of the Damned. It's the one that hit me the most. Like I re-watched most of these films and I thought that the acting was strong. The story was good.

Now, Dave or Greg or John, why don't you guys correct me? This has to be one of Christopher Reeve's last films before he had his accident. I think it was. I was trying to remember that because I know that... A few years after this, he was in a TV movie with Daryl Hannah, which was a remake of Rear Window. And I'm wondering if that was after his accident.

I got to find out what year it is. It was Above Suspicion was his last movie. Which was Above Suspicion. Yeah, which was still 95. Still 95. Okay, so this was one of his last. One of his last, yeah. But, you know, like watching it. You're used to seeing him as this puff-chested Superman. You forget how good an actor he was. He was a really strong, physical, good-looking, demonstrative actor.

and you know heaven forbid you know you forget that because of you remember what happened afterwards with the accident with the horses etc but he really really was good in this and he was in great shape like good looking guy like he could have easily gone on to do it another 20 25 years he could have been a shatner kind of deal

I like it. You know, it's a mix of sci-fi. It's a mix of horror. It's a remake from the original. I think it's one of the few redos that does the original justice. And it updates it a bit. but not so much that it's an unrecognizable story. And there's lots of bombs going off and there's a lot of tension involved. And let's just say it ends in a Corman-esque manner. And this is the one that I enjoyed the most. So Village of the Damned is my number one.

Nice. Christopher Reeve was a really great... I mean... He was born to play Superman, as far as I'm concerned. When you see him, he is Superman. He looks exactly like what you would picture Superman to look like. And it's not just because he's the one I saw.

I mean, you look in the comic books, it looks like Christopher Reeve to me. So he was like born to play that part. And another great performance, if anybody hasn't seen it, is Death Trap with Michael Caine and Diane Keaton. It's a great mystery. good film, and he is tremendous in that as well. I love it. I love it. Great job. All right, so let's get to my number one, which I don't think is going to be a big surprise to anybody. Of course, it's going to be Halloween.

The Curse of Michael Myers. Hello. So we did it. We all had different number ones. We all did. We all had different ones. That may be the first time in a long time. I think so. And what I love about this movie, and I'm not going to say this is the best in the series because it's not. It's one of the little...

weaker ones of it. But I did appreciate them trying to do something different. I mean, we're at the sixth movie of this franchise. It's like we have seen and done michael in different ways what else can we do they went the route of the thorn the cult and uh i actually kind of dug the whole cult thing i kind of dug the whole thorn uh did it Take away from the mystique of Michael, absolutely, because it now has become more supernatural.

absolutely with with the way they were going this route but regardless still uh you got of course donald place and paul rudd who uh we have jamie lloyd who is supposedly jamie lee curtis's niece and blah blah blah she has the baby and she's trying to hide the baby and there's this whole scenario going on with a train station bus station whatever and

There's some weird shit going on. But still, there's some really good kills in this one. You've got a much chunkier Michael Myers in this one. That's because it was played by George P. Wilber, who was a little bit larger guy, heavier-wise. I also noticed they didn't show that many close-ups. No, they didn't. So you couldn't tell exactly. But it was filmed, and Pearl and I had the privilege last year when we went to see Jay.

We had the privilege of going by and seeing some of the filming locations, so that was kind of fun. They're in Salt Lake City, Utah, which I thought was kind of cool. And it's just a fun little flick. It's not great. It's not going to blow your mind away. but it's still fun. There are two versions. You do have the producers cut and you have the, uh, theatrical cut. So I recommend just watching both of them. Uh, I've had people ask me which one I prefer there. It's almost.

If you watch them, they're different. They're just really different. So it's almost like watching two different films. Uh, so I would highly recommend it. This was the one that I, I did not get to see in the theater because this is when I was in the church. I'd just gotten into the church thing and you know, this was, I didn't see this until around 2001 ish.

uh and remember seeing it for the first time and was a little creeped out on it honestly i was like you know coming out of the the whole you know christian church thing and and then i'm watching a scary movie and i'm like there's no kurt cameron in this one no no Totally different. No left behind. No left behind in this one, my friend. But it's still a fun watch, man. I highly recommend it. It's Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers, a.k.a. Halloween 6. Once again.

What I liked about this one is I hadn't seen it for ages. And I texted you, Greg, as I was watching him going, boy, this is one of the weaker ones. You did. Yeah, you did. And you're not the only one to say that. And I'm going to be honest. As I said, this is not one of the better ones of the franchise.

but I appreciate what they were trying to do. One of the aspects I did like about it though, is because I hadn't seen it in a while, the way that when you're watching, I don't want to give away spoilers, but the way they portray Paul Rudd. Up until about three quarters way through, you're not quite sure what side he's on. Exactly.

Exactly. And so they kind of keep you hooked that way because you're trying to figure out what's going on behind the scenes. I like Paul Rudd. What's going on with this costume? Is he playing Tommy? Yes. that's what i figured all right that's who i thought he was playing in in this one and this is this this is the franchise that changes things up because you're right they changed up this one from what had come before obviously not the third one the third one was a change as well

So it seems like every three, they were changing things up a bit. But this one, they changed it without taking Michael Myers out of it, I guess. Right. Yeah, and you got Mitchell Ryan. I love Mitchell Ryan.

But good cast. Good movie. Check it out. Halloween 6. So this is our top fives. Let me go ahead and run them down one more time. And then we'll start getting into our voicemails. But we'll start with John B. over there, John Barnhart. His top five he had, number five, was Vampire in Brooklyn.

Number four, Halloween 6. Number three, Candyman 2, Farewell to the Flesh. Number two was Tales from the Hood, and number one was Evolver. Dr. Shock is number five, Vampire in Brooklyn. Number four, Castle Freak. Number three, Day of the Beast. Number two, The Addiction. and number one, seven. Pearl had number five as Rumpelstiltskin, number four, Powder, number three, The Prophecy, number two, Village of the Damned, and number one, Tales from the Hood.

Bill came in with number five with The Mangler, number four, Haunted, number three, Mute Witness, number two, The Nature of the Beast, and number one, Village of the Damned. And then my top five, number five being Demon Knight, which is Tales from the Crypt, Demon Knight. And then you got number four, Castle Freak. Number three, Children of the Corn. Urban Harvest. Number two, Day of the Beast. And Halloween 6, my top fives there for...

this episode. So that is our part of this show. Alrighty. So before we go to the voicemails, I want to head over to Dr. Shock, Dave Becker and Dave, what is the next episode of LOTC going to be? Our next episode.

is, well, it's episode 435. We are looking at disability horror. And our guest is going to be, well, it's not even a guest. It's Ian Erz. He's the co-host. Exactly. We'll be joining us for this, looking at disability horror and new films. And they are Wait Until Dark.

with uh you know the one from the i want to say the 60s audrey with uh with audrey hepburn and hush yes the mike flanagan film hush uh will be the two films that uh we will be reviewing we'd like to hear um obviously from the from the listeners call in with your opinion of those movies let us know other disability themed horror films um that uh you would uh like to talk about as well

Awesome. So that will be the next episode. So get your calls in 1-804-569-5682 so we can hear your thoughts on that. So with that said, it's time to get into our voicemails. We got a few calls here that we'll get.

to and i cannot wait to uh to break them down so let's go ahead and get right into it with darren from northern california hey great pearl dave bill darren from north california call all right we're on to 1995. Oh, great. Why the fuck did you pick the 90s? Okay. Yeah, I mean, this one's kind of a slog, but still, I'd have to find some. My number five...

for 1995, is Village of the Damned by John Carpenter. Not a bad remake, but not the greatest either. Definitely not one of Carpenter's best, but there was still a lot of fun in it. Number four, Lord of Illusions by Clive Barker. I thought this was actually a pretty strong Clive Barker film. Scott Bakula. And, you know...

I would almost rank it up there with Hellraiser, but there was just something about it that just didn't quite get there for me. But still, it was still a good watch. Number three, Halloween Cursor of Michael Myers by Joe Chappelle. I know it's a weaker entry in the series, but it's also Donald Pleasant's final performance as Sam Loomis. And I don't know if this...

I think this was also his final film. I could be wrong about that, but I think it was probably his final film as well. So that's another reason why it holds a special place in my heart. Number two. Tales from the Crypt Demon Knights by Ernest R. Dickerson. I thought this was a good first outing for a Tales from the Crypt feature film. You know, William Sadler, Billy Zane. It was a really fun film. And finally, Tales from the Hood by Rusty Cundeef. You know, I've got to get my anthology in there.

I saw this at the cult film series with my son about, it's been almost a year now, but it was still fun to see on the big screen. Okay. Hope you guys have a good time finding some gems from 1995. And I'll talk to you next time. Take care. Bye-bye. Boom, Darren from Northern California. Nice. And we got to first mention the Lord of Illusions. Yeah, that was the first. I rewatched that for the first time in 30 years.

Really interesting film. I like Scott Bakula in it. Yeah. You get to see a shirtless Scott Bakula, Pearl. No, thank you. He was shirtless in quite a bit of that movie, actually. He was real. I don't know what movie has more chest, that or Amityville Horror with James Brolin. well amityville problem i love it great call uh darren appreciate that buddy uh let's go to uh oh here comes andrew hello

Land of the creeps. Greg, Earl, Dave, Bill. This is Andrew calling from the backwoods of West Virginia. This time I'm actually in the backwoods because I'm house-sitting for my sister and my brother-in-law. They left for Florida, and they have a real nice peach property out in the middle of nowhere. It's a place called Odd.

West Virginia. Kind of odd, huh? You'll have to look it up. Anyway, this voicemail is just random. It has nothing to do with an upcoming episode or anything. I just wanted to call... And just I wanted to thank everybody for the birthday wishes. Pearl was gracious enough to... Send me a few screenshots of all the people that wished me a happy birthday. And I just wanted to say thank you. I haven't been on Facebook lately.

I'm still on there. I just have my account deactivated. But anyways, I just wanted to say thank you. That really means a lot to me. I love you all so much. I truly mean that. I've been going through a lot here lately, just a lot of family stuff and just trying to... I'm just trying to work through some things and personal growth and whatnot. But I just wanted to call and say that I love you all so much. And I know that I tend to just keep popping up and then...

disappearing like the invisible man. But anyway, I don't want to get benched, so I am going to leave now. Ta-ta. I love you all. Bye. He pops up like the invisible man. That's the invisible man. Wrapping bandages. Yeah, right. You know, it's funny. He says that, you know, like he pops in and out and everybody has their own schedule. Everybody has things going on in their life. A couple of things. One, Andrew, you must have the best, coolest voice.

You were born for it. You've kind of got a delivery kind of like Michael J. Fox did where he purposely hesitated and everybody's waiting on the tip of their tongues to hear what you have to say next. I know for you it's an impediment due to other factors, but that really works to your advantage. So if you really want to get into voice work or something, I think you're bang on for that.

The other thing, Andrew, is I don't know if you heard my last episode of music, movie, sports and stuff, but on my, the last segment of mine, we talked about men's mental health and I went over all the issues I've had over the years. There are some phone numbers there. If you ever need to talk, if you ever need to call, just give me a buzz, all right? Keep a chin up, keep your elbows up, and keep watching horror.

It's always great to hear from you, buddy. Thanks for calling in. We definitely appreciate hearing from you. Absolutely. Let's see who's next. Amy Lane of Creeps, Victoria, calling in for the 1995 episode. I watched a good few movies, and... It actually ended up being a little difficult to fully make the list because... Put it in there. I actually found some pretty good movies. And first I want to say hello, John Barnhart.

So cool to hear new people on, and I can't wait to hear what Charles List are. I'm going to start with a dishonorable mention, and this movie, I watched it, Rift. the wrist tracks and it was still one of the most agonizing 90 minutes of my life mind ripper Avoid. A few honorable mentions. A new one for me was The Village of the Damned. I really enjoyed that one. A very strange one.

called The Passion of Darkly Noon. It's an early Brendan Fraser movie, and it is worth the watch. I do recommend it. It's a little weird. I can't say it's... full horror but it it has a great ending and then a really weird one so it's on tv another honorable mention is uh tales from the crypt demon knight that is a blast

One that I don't know who would consider it horror. It's horror-adjacent, I guess, Godzilla vs. Destroyah. That was a fun watch. And then another first-time watch was Lord of Illusions from my last honorable mention. All right, so my top five. Number five is a Jeff Goldberg movie, because if he's in a horror-related horror movie, he's going to make my list. Sorry, it's just...

I'm a little biased for that. It's a movie called Hideaway, and it goes into kind of alternate reality dimension of the world, which is always going to be a favorite for me, and I'm always going to want to pick it, and I'm always going to want to watch it. Number four and three are two that could honestly switch out back and forth. I actually had them back and forth over a couple times. So I'm just going to say them and then know that they could switch out for me.

The Prophecy. That was the first time watching. That was a lot of fun. And then one called Haunted. And, Bill, I know you watched this one, too, and you liked it. And I wasn't sure about it at first, and I sat with it, and I thought, man, Beth. It was actually a really well-acted, slow-burn, very atmospheric movie. Number two is, again, number two and number one I still have difficulty with, but my number two is an absolute blast that I watch every New Year's Eve along with.

And she got cut off, so let's go to her next gun. I knew it. I was waiting. I said, she's going to bench. She's absolutely going to bench. She purposely timed it. It's like a cliffhanger. She's got a time and she says, and my number one without question is, and that's when the bench comes. Who shot J.R.? That's right. Right here. Here we go. I was trying hard not to get benched.

Anyway, all right, number two is one that I just highly recommend anyone watches. They just want a fun movie. It's called Day of the Beast. And if you haven't seen it, just trust me and go watch the movie. It's on Shudder. And my number one is an anthology called Tales from the Hood. I think that's going to be on a lot of people's list. It's a favorite anthology. It's one I can just repeatedly watch.

and just enjoy the story and the characters and the actors and that ending that I just, I love that ending. So that was my list. I'm really enjoying going through the 90s. and I'm really looking forward to hearing what everyone has on their list. I hope everyone's doing well, and I'll talk with you all later. Great call. She did it in two calls. She's done great.

Excellent. And I go back and forth with her quite a lot. We're both pretty good with our movies. And she brought one to my attention that she mentioned there, The Passion of Darkly Noon. Now, The Passion of Darkly Noon has... uh what's her name uh it has vigo mortensen and it has brendan frazier in a way that you probably haven't seen him before

In the last 10 minutes, he is absolutely unhinged. And it's the same director, Philip Ridley, that did another one a few years earlier called The Reflecting Skin, if you've seen that film. Another kind of horror-adjacent film that I reviewed years ago on Phantom Galaxy. If you've never seen The Passion of Darkly Noon and you like Brendan Fraser, it's well worth a watch.

Nice. I like the reflecting skin quite a bit, so if that's the same director, I'll definitely have to check that out. Cool. Let's go to our next call. Hey, Atlanta, the creeps. Joe Patterson out of Madison, Ohio. I'm just calling for the 95 episodes. I'm going to start it off so I don't get benched. Let me start with number five, and it's actually thanks to you guys the first time I saw it, but it's Jacko.

I don't know why I love cheesy horror movies, but this is as cheesy as it gets. And it's a lot of fun. Number four, Tales from the Crypt, Demon Knight. Pretty good movie. I like the Tales from the Crypt series and movies and stuff. They're fun. And 95 doesn't offer a whole lot. And then number three, Tales from the Hood. I don't know who doesn't like Tales from the Hood. Tales from the Hood is wacky fun.

uh you know a little bit blaxploitation i guess maybe i don't know uh number two would be castle freak castle freak is because of you guys i watched it as well and it kind of messed me up the first time i saw it with the whole Sleepaway Camp type reveal. Number one, I know a lot of people won't agree with me, but Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers, I actually really enjoy this movie. I watched it so much as a kid.

Me and my friends would watch it a lot. Maybe because it came out around the time we were eight years old, so it would be on TV a lot in the next couple years. Maybe that's why I watch it so much. I don't know. I actually do enjoy it, even though I love the old lady, for one. Old people that tell creepy stories just get me. I love that. So I liked it. I liked it. I like Curse of Michael Myers. I don't know. It's a good one.

For the kids, I would say Casper. I know, Dave, you don't care for it, but it was right up my alley. I was a kid. Casper and Christina Ricci. Couldn't go wrong. And then lastly, Goosebumps. The Haunted Man. This is the first ever episode of the Goosebumps series, and I love the Goosebumps series. I'm going to cut out before I get cut off. I hope you guys have a good show, and thanks for keeping the horror live. Bye. Way to go, Bo.

that's great now that's great and i i don't dislike casper i i kind of like it that was just one of the movies i was dragged to during the ban Well, you know, because of the Army of Darkness. That's one that my wife dragged me to. So it's lumped in with those. But I liked Casper. First off, I think, you know, Christina Ricci was good in that movie. And.

And no, for what it was, it was a good film. I pictured Jackie having Dave by the collar saying, you're going to go watch this and just seeing Dave with a pouty face. I wasn't allowed because of the first movie I took her to see. I understand. She had no point of reference. But even if she had a point of reference, it wasn't the greatest. It wasn't my.

I, you know, shining moment in the relationship. And I just got I had to see that I had to see father of the year, which I think had Gerard Depardieu in it. And, you know, movies like that are what what I got dragged to. So I didn't.

to the movies a whole lot the one that finally turned it around that i i was able to convince her and i was able to piggy and was in the name of the father with um with daniel day lewis and uh the jim sheridan film which is just great um you know nobody could uh not like that one i guess so then i started to get to choose again but uh you know casper was during band and was that 95 I thought it was earlier than that because I maybe it is maybe it was

Jesus, that band did the band. Dave has a whole list of movies between 94 and 96. He has PTSD. I really do. There's a lot going on in my personal life those years. Wow. Okay. hey he mentioned goosebumps and bo got me on goosebumps i love me some goosebumps nice yeah all right let's go to our next call you like them too john oh yeah i remember growing up watching the

The Goosebumps show, the Are You Afraid of the Dark, and all that stuff. Was that Nickelodeon? Goosebumps, those were Nickelodeon? Well... Are You Afraid of the Dark? Are You Afraid of the Dark was Nickelodeon. Okay, because I remember some of those early Nickelodeon shows, like you can't do that on television.

vision and um oh god what was it clarissa explains it all and all that kind of stuff i don't picture you watching clarissa clarissa explains it i don't know how there's something about nickelodeon that i know and and when i was um I started recording it when I knew we were going to have a family. I started recording things like, ah, real monsters to show the kids at a certain age. I thought, I was hoping at least one of them would be a horror fan.

And it never really panned out for me, but... yeah i was trying to uh to i was recording things like uh just to have them in reserve for them in case they got canceled or something and they didn't get a chance to see them that's how i know like clarissa explains it all and then was that the adventures of pete and pete and all that sort of fun stuff salute your shorts was that a nickelodeon All right. Nice. Let's go to Bobby Harris. Hello, LLQC family. Greg, Pearl, Dave, Bill, and John.

Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there. This is Bobby Harris calling from the Bob Cave in Baltimore, Maryland. Calling in with my top five from 1995. Starting off, I'm going to give an honorable mention. I'm gonna go with Castle Freak. I really enjoy that Cool Moon movie. It's very good. Number five, we got Leprechaun 3. Well, I mean, it's more comedy than horror.

This one takes a trip in Vegas. I think it's a lot of fun. It's stupid fun. Number four, we got the remake of Village of the Damned directed by... john carpenter uh starring christopher reed and kirstie alley i really enjoyed this remake uh number three we got tales from the hood now this anthology is one that uh

I've seen so much as a kid. I haven't seen it in probably a decade, but I remember just really enjoying it. The segment with the puppets, I always remember that one. That one stands out. And the wraparound story is actually pretty good in that one. A lot of laughable moments in that one as well. At number two, I got BSD.

This is kind of more of a sci-fi horror. The first one's definitely a horror, I think. Now, I believe it's Natasha Henstridge. I haven't looked it up, so that's on me for not looking. yeah it's been a while since i've seen this but i just remember uh yeah really enjoying this and hey if you're ever going to be taken over by an alien or you know forced to reproduce

Hey, what better alien than that one? And last but not least, we got Halloween. Yeah, the curse of Michael Myers, I guess, either version. Yeah, this year ain't much to choose from. So Halloween is going to win it. I've seen this one so much. It's the last one with Donald Pleasant in it. Paul Rudd's debut. Yeah, I mean, I do like Michael in it. He's mean, he's fat.

And the kills are pretty good, depending on which version you watch. And, hey, I want to thank you guys for letting us call in. As always, I appreciate it. Thanks for keeping horror alive. And I've had enough of this Michael Myers. Bullshit. Bye, guys. That's very cool. I love it. Brought up a couple movies there that hadn't, like, Leprechaun 3. I think that's a first-time mention.

I had fun with Leprechaun 3. Again, that's a Brian Trenchard Smith film. So I kind of had fun with that one. I thought it was a step up from Leprechaun 2, to be honest with you. Scene where you have a leprechaun and an Elvis impersonator, like sort of posing together. I mean, how cool is that? And surprisingly, the first mention of species. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that was not one that I mean, it wasn't going to make my list. I think if you know, when when you think of a 90s movie.

For some reason, Species always struck me as the most 90s, 90s movie out there. And not in all the best ways, but I remember still kind of there were parts of it that I really did enjoy. I debated about putting it on my list, but it's just not quite there for me. It was good, it was neat, it was a neat idea, but it's just not quite... Top five. That's why Vampire in Brooklyn kind of made it up there. Let's go to our next call. Well, well, well. It's Greg from Ohio.

was instructed to call and describe my escape from the unknown goler. You know, it just was one of those moments where... You know, I pulled that inner MacGyver inside of me and, you know, with some small household chemicals that I could find and some well-placed Irish spring soap.

It was straight out of home alone. He slipped, he fell, clunked his head, and I made a break for it. Of course, he's probably going to be on the hunt for me again now once he reveals that I am missing, but that's okay. I survived his brutal attack from capturing me, taking me to Florida. So I'm back in Ohio safely and here to call about 1995 horror movies. And so, you know.

wandering the countryside to get back up here, I had plenty of time to think about movies from 1995. And, you know, it wasn't a spectacular year, but it was a year for those average... above average, and then, you know, below average, but right around the average, right in the middle. So, of course, you know, any year that can bring Leprechaun 3 where he's at some... you know, off beaten path casino in Las Vegas. Uh, we had screamers. There was Dracula dead and loving it, which is a great, um,

It really is a good, it's a fun movie. We have Cruel Jaws. I'm pretty sure that's what that Hulk Hogan lookalike. Horrible, horrible movie, actually. But, of course, nothing could be as good as Dave Geithershock Becker's favorite movie, The Return of the Texas. chainsaw massacre. Leave it to Mr. Patch. Or whatever you want to call it, robotic. It doesn't matter. I'm kind of on Dave's side. I have no desire.

watch it ever again, really. Then, of course, there's all kinds of honorable mentions. I haven't even gotten to my list yet. I'm just enjoying this year so much. You guys were so concerned about me being captured and that I am surviving and I did survive the Unknown Caller.

He got benched. With a bar of soap. With a bar of soap. Bench got benched with a bar of soap. I picture him running around booby-trapping his house like he has 30 minutes to do it like Nancy at the end of Nightmare on Elm Street, but yet turns into every... room into this elaborate movie trap. Which MacGyver was he?

Now which MacGyver was he harvesting? The 80s or the new one? That's a good question. I'm not sure. I just want everyone out there to know that I did mention Make a special arrangement with The Unknown Call for anybody who brings up on their list the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Next Generation. So that's just, well, you already left your voicemail, so I guess you rolled those dice without knowing. And Greg's on the list. Greg's already off the list. He saved us.

himself so greg's all right this is just this is you know the unknown caller only strikes once so greg is actually uh in the clear I don't know what the hell the unknown caller does, but let's just say he only strikes once. Let's just have that as his lore. I wondered if somebody was going to bring up cool Jaws. Right. Cruel jaws. Yes. It is. I think I'm pretty, I, I, I,

I think I have it on Blu-ray. But yeah, no, it's not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. Let's go to his next call and see what he's got. I know. No, no, no. It's Greg from Ohio, and I'm calling back because I was rambling so much that I realized I was running low on time. And now I'm just going to get a cut to the chase. I'm going to say it as fast as I can because Bill just loves that kind of stuff.

So number five on my list, we're going to go for my list here. No ties, Bill. No ties. Straight off. I'm just going for it. Five. Right in a row. Boom. Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers. Yeah, Halloween 6. Whether it's the theatrical or the producer's cut, it's not great, but you know what? It's the best that we can get from 1995's Michael Myers, so I'll take 1995's Michael Myers.

You know, he's been hitting the jam. He got a little juiced up. I don't care. He's a dad. He becomes a dad in that one, supposedly. You know, sorry, spoiler alert. But, however. You know, they imply it. But, you know, the real travesty was losing Dr. Loomis. You know, so, you know, rest in peace. But, sorry, again, spoiler alert.

Number four is Mute Witness. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch. It probably deserves to be higher on the list, but I don't know. I just put it in number four, Mute Witness. Number three is The Addiction. I don't know. There's just something about this one. Lily Taylor and Christopher Walken. I don't know. It's just atmospheric, independent horror. And, of course, sadly, I thought...

Nadja ripped this off but maybe the addiction ripped off Nadja or Nadja or whatever and that was a year prior so interesting but they play for a good double feature Number two, Tales from the Hood. It's such an anthology that's outside the box of what I was used to. I don't know. It just hits all the right notes, and it deserves to be on the list. And number one, you know what? I don't care. This one's going to be argued over, whether it is or isn't. It doesn't matter.

It's horror in my eyes. It's horror in my heart. And that's seven. Morgan Freeman, Bradley Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow. This one had some meat on the bone. And it freaked me out in theaters. Really was a good theatrical experience. And this was the year where I really started getting to go to the theater a lot more. by myself and with friends you know i was at that age now where i you know was being included so um but yeah actually i shoot i'm not done yet

And he did call in one more time. So let's see what he's got. It's great. It's great that he just, he just rattled them off right in a row and benched himself. So here we go. All right. He's going to get to it. I'm sure he's going to get right down to it. Well, he got through his list. So I guess this is just the wrap. Yeah, this is the wrap around. Let's see what he's got. All right. One last time with Greg from Ohio, baby. Yeah.

Oh, this was just another outstanding, not outstanding. I just, I love my word choices, but I always just rocked my brain. It truly is one of those years where... Maybe some people have those perfect movies. I struggled. I didn't struggle to find some. I just struggled. What should be put on the list? And, of course, I'm just a blabbermouth, and I just couldn't resist calling back and listing off more movies. I had already list off some of the, you know, what a year kind of a movie list.

This kind of adds to it, but we had species and Lord of Illusions, The Mangler, Hideaway, Castle Freak, Copycat. And one more outstanding movie that I think somebody out there, if you haven't seen it and the title tickles your funny bone or tickles your curiosity bone, go for it. It's called Blood and Donuts. I found this one kind of on accident. Not really, but kind of, because I had never heard of it.

if we go back into my catalog of my brain catalog let's go back 14 years ago i know it's crazy but in 2011 um uh good friend jody He approached me about the lost decade is how he posed it to me, and that was the 90s. Not that it was lost, but it was... It was one of those decades that there's more to it than what we see. It was a clutch decade for him. I was still one that clung to the 80s.

even though i was you know just a kid but um i was a teen in the 90s there's no doubt about it that the 90s were also formative but he he had this very ambitious uh let's just see how many 90s movies we can watch. And what we'll do is we'll start this blog and we'll write them down and we'll put it on the Internet. And so that was actually one that I found early on. And just the title alone is what piqued my interest. And that really kind of fizzled.

About a year into it, you know, some things happened in 2012 that really burned me out. But then again, it also inspired watching every theatrically released horror movie. since 1990, so we did that instead because it was more feasible. And that was it. All right. So he still didn't finish it up, but he didn't call back. No, he ends with but. But.

Every voicemail in with butt. I watch Blood and Donuts. I gotta say, it's not for me. It was more of a romance-y kind of... or and i was just like nah no no but it is canadian so i had to watch it oh yeah all right greg thank you for calling in buddy and glad you survived now let's go to the unknown caller oh this is scary because i don't pre-listen to any of these so i don't know if he might have somebody captured we don't know let's see

Pay no attention to that. You didn't hear any of that. Unknown caller. Shut up! All right, hold on. Anyway, 1995. Not much to say. Obviously, Lord of Illusions is way up there, and so is Demon Knight. Ooh, Demon Knight, love that movie. But Dave, I don't know, man. I didn't hate Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I didn't hate it. I think you've got to go about it this way. Imagine if John Waters directed a Texas Chainsaw movie. And there you go.

That's all I have to say. I think that's what makes the movie worthwhile, if you think of it that way. Definitely not in canon. But McConaughey rips up the screen, man. Hey, hey, hey. I have other matters to get to. We love all of you. Sorry for the late call. Thanks for keeping the horror alive. I'm going to go kill somebody. And that's his call. Clearly, I was lying about the arrangement I made with the unknown caller.

Yes, if John Waters made his chainsaw after a full lobotomy, I can see that, yes. Let's go to Mike Stanislowski.

Hello, Creepers. Hello, Greg, Pearl, and Bill and Dave. This is Mike Stanislavski calling in with my top five horror movies of 1995. Number five for me is... Children of the Corn 3, I think this is probably the best of the Children of the Corn sequels, and it has a lot of fun special effects. Four for me is Ice Cream Man. I really like Clint Howard's performance in this film. Number three is Leprechaun 3. I think the...

The series really kind of hit its stride with the third film. It's directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, I know Dave is a fan of. And a number two choice is Castle Freak. You've got Stuart Gordon again with the cast from Reanimator and an H.P. Lovecraft-inspired story. It's no... you know from beyond or reanimator but it's it's still a good movie and it's um unlike a lot of the the other films from this year it's not a horror comedy you know it is a straight horror movie

And my number one choice is Tales from the Hood. I love this anthology film. It's got a great soundtrack and, you know, some social... along with the horror. So that's my top five. And thanks for keeping horror alive. Good choices, man. I like it. Ice Cream Man would be sort of like a guilty pleasure for me. As a matter of fact, I have the Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, and they have a really cool special feature on this.

where you can watch the movie along with Joe Bob, the show he did back at this time, because he had an episode where he watched it and then he'd interrupt the movie and do like a little segment before the commercial breaks. Well, Clint Howard joins him a little like at one point, not midway, but maybe after a couple segments, to watch the rest of the movie with him. So you have a chance to watch Ice Cream Man that way.

like along with Joe Bob during the show that he recorded when he was watching it. It's really a great special feature. It's a lot of fun. I'm pretty sure I got this for Gilman, Gilman Joel, for Christmas one year. it's it's a good it's a good blu-ray release of the film yeah i mean it's a little it's rough around the edges let's be honest it's a it's a rough around the edges film but there are moments in it there's a scene with two ice cream scoops that just

cracks me up every time. And it's Clint Howard. So you can't go wrong with that. The scariest scene for me is at the beginning of the film where kids are coming in to get ice cream. And he gets his hand into this goopy ice cream and plops it on the... And they're like, this is great.

That's fucking disgusting. Yeah. He's definitely not an ice cream vendor that you would want to visit. And you know, like right beside the ice cream is like this, you know, this bat of eyeballs or something, you know? Let's go to this call. Hey, Creepers, it's G-Rag calling about 1995. And just wanted to... get in uh get in a call since like 11 o'clock at night um thursday but i want to get this in uh let's see so i was thinking for number one um i just gave it a rewatch tales from the hood

So good. And it's Juneteenth. So, hey, let's go with Tales from the Hood. Such a great flick. Especially the first segment. Not the wraparound. Well, the wraparound's really good, too. But the part about the black cop that gets tied up in the bad business in his police department and the bad cops get their comeuppance by the end.

Anyway, so Tales from the Hood, I call that my number one for 1995. Then, it's a little tough, probably Lord of Illusions, followed by Day of the Beast, the Spanish film, that's so good. Hmm, the tough one, Castle Freak or The Prophecy? They're both very good. 95 had some good movies. This was definitely an uptick from 1994. Yeah, the Castle Freak.

prophecy i don't know four four slash five either way um and then kind of like second here uh there were some other good ones you know vampire brooklyn species village of the damned uh tales from the crypt demon knight the mangler ice cream man and uh the one you know i know that's gonna be dave's number one uh texas chainsaw master the next generation i listened to a random random uh

uh episode of land of the creeps um i don't even i can't remember but it was how old it was there were like different hosts on it uh it was uh dave and greg and uh Maybe Haddonfield Hatchet, I'm not even sure. But it was an older episode, and Dave was all took off because somebody had made him watch Texas Kate's All Hatch for the next generation. And he said, I've watched it twice.

i will never watch that piece of again or words to that effect so that's how long ago it was david only watched it twice and he was mad as a wet hand even then all right i feel like i'm gonna get benched But I hope you guys have a great episode. I'm excited. I think that 1995 was definitely an uptick for me anyway. I thought so. My top five, I think, are all solid, solid movies.

any darn year you know um maybe not everybody loves lord of illusions that much but i just thought it's got its own charm uh scott bacula speaking of charming hey And Daniel Van Bargen as, I think his name is Van Bergen? Anyway, as the villain, the evil wizard. He was really good. Like, you don't need to be a mustache twirler. Evil is often very banal, much like Daniel Van Barton.

And G-Ray got cut off, and that was his last call. And he broke Dave's golden rule of mentioning Chainsaw Massacre. Oh, well. And you know what? I remember that episode where I was, and I think I was mad at you, Greg, because I think you made me watch that shit twice. You're the reason I watched it the first time and then the second time. But then I watched it again years later, not too long ago for Raul and Ashley.

For an episode of Headlong into Monsters. And then I was invited on Poppin' the Scary with you. Yes. And I started watching it a fourth time. I got 20 minutes ago. No, fuck it. I can't. I can't. I can't do it. I can't do it. No more. I remember it. If I don't remember it, I don't give a... shit, I'm not watching it again. I will not watch this movie. We should have done a drinking game before the episode began. Every time it gets mentioned, Dave's a shot of something. I should take a shot.

Yeah, right. Well, I'll take a shot with three bullets in the chamber. It's a scene of the deer hunter. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. let's see here let's go to patrick gunner who was actually our first message of the uh episode and we'll read it now his top five number one was tales from the hood number two candy man farewell to the flesh number three tells you

The Crypt, Demon Knight, number four, Lord of Illusions, number five, Castle Freak, and The Addiction. Oh, excuse me. So there you go. Billy had a tie. Way to go, Patrick. I appreciate that out of you, buddy. So let's see here. Okay, I done read that one. That was Sean. All right, so let's go to 00 Tim, who... All right, dude, all I'm saying is... Next time I explain this, I'm finding the unknown caller and he and I are going to smoke these jug heads. And he's got a picture of them Bay City.

Do you know something? I was talking with him about that, and you know how you said it was like in Christmas or something? It was four years ago I mentioned that. How the fuck did he remember that? I don't know, brother. I don't remember bringing up the Bay City Rollers for you. I wouldn't have remembered if I did it two months earlier. But I sure as hell wouldn't remember four years earlier. That's funny. That's a hell of an index he's got for these episodes.

a cross-reference Bay City Rollers. That's right. Dave, it's because it's Saturday night. Saturday night. Christ, I get them mixed up with the Sid and Marty Croft show, The Bugaloos. Oh, I love The Bugaloos. The Bugaloos. They're in the air and everywhere. The Boogaloos. Oh, God, I love Sid and Crawford. I don't know why the hell I mix them up with the Bay City Rollers. They have nothing in common, but I just do. The Boogaloos fly.

Maybe because they both have... See, I always get the Bay City Rollers mixed up with Casey and the Sunshine Band. I can see that. That makes more sense than the Buggaloos, that's for sure. Nice. Let's go to his voicemail, see what he's got. This is 00 Tim, and first things first, I've got to clear up this Bay City Rollers thing. So normally I listen to LOTC on my podcast app.

But if I'm going to be running errands around town or sitting in a doctor's office, I'll just download the episode onto my phone's SD card because we get a lot of dips in Wi-Fi. So on May 12th, episode 427, that's when Dave Becker made the comment about... This was the first time the Bay City Rollers had ever been mentioned. And the next morning, I'm sitting in the dentist's office.

And I look at my phone's SD card and I see I still have a bunch of random LOTC episodes. And the first one at the top of the list is episode 237. It got released on December 22nd, 2020. So this is like almost five and a half years ago. It's at the six-minute mark when Dave brings up the Bay City Rollers. And I'm like, holy crap, I've got to throw this in the next voicemail, man. This is gold. So that is the story.

behind it i you know the first couple people was fine but then others brought it up and i know i do not memorize everything that gets said on these episodes that's a hell of some nsa database of every comment that gets made it just Total fluke. And I had to cap.

on it so dave i'm just i'm letting you off the hook man there was no way you were going to remember that you had said and for all i know base city rollers may have gotten mentioned even before that so i i just wanted to clear up that air so nobody thinks i'm i mean yeah i'm nerdy but i'm not that That far gone. My top five from 95, starting at number five, Lord of Illusions, Tales from the Crypt, Species, Prophecy, at number one, seven. And thanks again to...

Dave and Gray for just being good sports about being razzed. I really appreciate it. You guys are all really cool. And 00 Tim out. We're good at getting razzed. Yeah, we are. That's a hell of a coincidence. I mean, that's like the universe saying something. That lines up with the Bay City Rollers. And to be honest with you, Tim, we could have done an episode on the Bay City Rollers and I wouldn't have remembered it. Oh, boy. Well, let's go to Sean Taylor.

and let's see a long time since i sent a voicemail but i didn't want to miss 1995 i think 95 was starting to get some better horror than most years in the 90s i did watch uh project metal beast for the first time didn't make my list but i think they borrowed some hellraiser score and sound effects and resident evil 2 video game five and a half out of ten have a good episode shown and here is his voicemail

Welcome to the Creeps. This is Sean from Indy. I had to call in for the 1995 list. 1995 was a pretty big year for me personally. I turned 18, graduated high school, and started working at FedEx. And whatever reason, I'm still there 30 years later. Anyway, nobody cares. So my top five. I think it was a pretty cool year. There was a lot of horror comedies, more than probably most people enjoy. I know it's not everybody's usual favorite, but I actually love horror comedies myself.

So here's my top five. Number five, I do have Screamers. It's kind of, I mean, it leans a little bit more on the sci-fi side, but I still think there's plenty of horror there. I would watch that at least, you know, once or... once a year maybe every once or two years or whatever but it's a cool cast cool concept and i enjoy it a lot and number four is vampire in brooklyn i mean eddie murphy

And doing this thing, playing all those different roles. You know, it's only like 10% horror and more than 90% comedy. But still, I think there's enough there. Makes me laugh every time I watch it, especially when he plays the preacher. So it's pretty funny. And for number three, also we got Dracula Dead and Loving It. I mean, I love this movie. It's so damn funny. I mean, Mel Brooks.

It might not be his best, but I still think it's funny as hell, and I enjoy it every time I watch it. And number two is another horror comedy, I guess, is Demon Knight. I mean, it's probably more like 60-40. Being from Tales from the Crypt is always a little bit more comedy sometimes thrown in than just straight-up horror, but it kind of, you know, there's enough seriousness to it, but Billy Zane.

that was the demon that was pretty awesome i mean everybody loves the his you know his line whenever he gets thrown out of the house and that's usually what everybody remembers about this movie and my number one movie no surprise i'm sure for most people it's seven

I mean, I don't remember if I saw this movie in the theater. I might have. It's been a while. But I just think it's incredible. And everybody kind of on the edge of saying whether or not this is horror or not. I think this is even more horror. Than like Silence of the Lambs. I used to consider Silence of the Lambs horror as well. But I think Seven gets there way more than Silence of the Lambs does.

So that's it. And if I had any honorable mentions, probably I really enjoy Prophecy. And that's probably me, number six, I guess. That's pretty good. I got the box set. And the sequels are fine, but the original is pretty good. So that's my list for 95. And I'll be listening to hear everybody else's. And I hope you guys have a good episode. And I'll see you later. Bye.

there's some more mentions of seven again yeah it's seven seven and then it's funny it's been mentioned aside from myself three other times and it was always at number one that's right yeah It's not been a 3-5 or anything. It's a 1. I love it. I've got three or four more calls here. Let's go to Ian Urza.

Hey, Land of the Creeps, it's Ian Urza sending in a voice recording for the Top 5 1995 episode. This is actually an interesting year. You've got some legacy sequels to some franchises. You got some rip-offs here. You got some good original movies in there as well. And you got some good kaiju stuff as well. So it's an interesting year. And without further ado, I'll get to my top five at number five.

I have Stuart Gordon's Castle Freak. Really good set design. Really good location shooting. Good performances by Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs. And a great creature design. It's been a little while since I've seen it. I definitely need to watch it again. because I do enjoy it quite a bit. At number four, I'm going to The Great Cat and Mouse Thriller, one of Alec Guinness' last movies, if I remember correctly. And I think his footage was shot like years before or something like that.

we're going to mute witness which actually almost feels like a korean movie because of how non-stop the thrills are just how it keeps going uh throughout and it's it truly is just a great cat and mouse horror thriller with some great music and some great direction and some pretty funny like almost unintentionally funny moments if I remember correctly at number three

I am going to one of my favorite horror comedies of all time, a movie that makes me laugh every time I watch it, especially the part when Dracula isn't dead. So he says, stab him again with a stake. And this is Dracula.

dead and loving it i i absolutely love this one peter mc nichols performance is just so funny and it the movie never ceases to make me laugh i i think there are a lot of people out there that don't necessarily love it but for me it just it just hits me you know in the perfect spot for what makes me laugh it's it appeals to my sense of humor maybe more so than other people i guess um and number two and this was a big battle the the kaiju battle here who's gonna win and um

At number two, I'm going with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. This one has some really good sequences. I mean, you've got the battle between Godzilla Jr. and Destoroyah, and then Godzilla coming in to save him at the end. You've got the orange. lava on Godzilla because he's overheating which is awesome Godzilla attacks early in this movie which is also awesome and then even the like evolution of Destoroyah where the first time you see him he's almost like a Power Rangers villain

that becomes like the bigger version of a Power Rangers villain that always happened in that show. So that was really awesome. And you've got the conclusion of the storyline from the Heisei era where they bring back Mickey, the... what you may call it, the telekinetic psychic woman who's in a lot of the other Heisei era movies besides the first one. So you have that continuing story where there's a continuity between the Japanese self-defense forces and some of the characters.

And Godzilla within these movies. And then at number one, we are going to Gamera, Guardian of the Universe, which to me is... as perfect of a kaiju movie as you can get for the scaling of the models and the costume design of the kaiju like it all looks to me perfect like it's it's it's so it seemed in so well the transitions between what is real scale and what is like make and model scale um it's it's so perfectly well done in this movie to me and

I think that's why I love it. But I also like the characters. You know, I like the science characters and I like the girl that's Steven Seagal's daughter, actually, if you can believe that, who has like the psychic connection with Gamera and that showed up.

on the bridge and the final fight and just Gamera as a character the way it looks the way it can shoot fireballs like it is to me one of the most memorable and interesting kaiju because of that as always guys thanks for letting us send our recordings and our voicemails into the show, and I hope there's some interesting suggestions, and I hope that it goes well. Look at that. First two mentioned. First two kaijus mentioned. And both my in and in his top two spots. Yeah. Every time I hear...

Godzilla vs. Destroyah, I think, of Jackson Rawlings. Because wasn't he on the episode with us? He kept saying, Destroyah. Destroyah! He kept talking about that one. I had forgotten the Gamera movies that they did in the 90s. I remember seeing the one from the 60s, I guess the early one. But I forgot they did a round of them in the 90s.

It seems I was on to something with Mute Witness, because it's been brought up a few times. Yes, it has. And the funny thing is, we're going to listen to Brian Scott's voicemail right now, and he says, Mute Witness for life. Did he get it under...

30 seconds this time? I don't know, let's see. Uh... No! Hey guys, Brian Scott, horror movie fanboy here, calling for 1995. Yay! Children of the Corn 3. Amazing. What a great change of pace. Take it to the urban area. I really like Children of the Corn 3. Demon Knight. Billy Zane is so freaking cool. Dick Miller. Gotta love Dick Miller and everything he does. But let me highlight my favorite movie from this year, A Hidden Gem, a 1995 thriller, Mute Witness.

This movie is rarely watched. It starts off with a movie. First of all, movies where they portray making movies on the set is awesome. Then after hours, the crew comes back and they film a snuff film. Somebody witnesses it. Then it turns into a slasher movie, which turns into the title Mute Witness. It's a snuff film turned into a...

Somebody that observes it and it's a slasher as they try to hunt her down. A mute woman that works on the set of this film company. Go check out Mute Witness. Amazing movie. L-O-T-C for life. For life. A minute and 19, Bill. Wow. He's slacking, slacking. And you get five movies plus a bonus in a minute 19. So I'll give him credit on that. You know what? And we did get all the way to this point and it's been brought up several times. Demon Knight.

without talking about Dick Miller's scene when he walks in and he's in that club. Oh, yeah. With all of the women coming up to him. Mm-hmm. Definitely one of the more memorable scenes from 1995. But why does Dick Miller always play like a drunk? he's always playing like someone who's stumbling or bumbling or dim or i'm pretty sure he was sober when the um when the kill bots got him in chopping mall

This is true. I love it. But we've got two more calls left, so let's go ahead and go to these calls. We'll start out with Gary Hill.

Hello, Land of the Creeps Power Podcast. This is Gary calling in to submit my picks for $19.95. I'd imagine a lot of the top picks are going to be... a lot of the same, because according to you guys, there's Slim Pickens in 95, and I agree and disagree. There's a lot of stuff in 95 that people put on a pedestal that I feel, and I'm sure you guys feel too, that it's just unwatchable, but people like it anyway.

like a ice cream man with glenn howard i realize being a starring vehicle for one glenn howard you know makes it better than most horror things in 1995 to some people but Not so much to me. You know, I've watched it once, maybe one and a half times to see if I can still get into it. But I never get into it. So that's... that's out for me uh let's start with the with the the stuff here the the uh the picks for 95 which i i have a tie in honor of pearl because it was hard to pick

5 for me, so I'm going to kick it, uh, kick it Pearl style with one of these choices. If I had to put them in order, uh, number 5, uh, would be Leprechaun 3. uh sheer fact that is my favorite of the series leprechaun goes to vegas does a lot of funny puns and kills caroline williams hilariously and

I had the most fun with this Leprechaun movie, and he's, you know, well-rounded as a character now for the first movie, and the more sillier second movie. People bitch about those sequels, and I think the second one is just like... There's some fantasy in there that just doesn't work. And this one kicks it back. Brian Trenchard Smith directed this and the Leprechaun in Space. And it really shows...

How much fun you could have with this character. So bless that Australian man. I digress. Next on the list in order. The Mangler. Number four. Based loosely, very loosely, on a Stephen King story about a laundry mangle. My mother worked in dry cleaning and pressed the clothes for a long time. She said these machines were really a thing.

way back when, these big old industrial steam and folding machines, and not one that came to life, of course, and chased somebody in a sewer, but, uh, again it gets silly but you're there for robert england being all old and crotchety and crazy ted levine unhinged detective it just gets really dumb with the with the the the machine coming to life if you haven't seen the mangler i'm sorry if i'm spoiling it for you but

There's enough meat on them bones to go there and buy that Blu-ray and watch them ready to cut. Just to watch how gory it gets. You know, when it starts folding people and stuff. The machine. I, uh... I enjoy the hokiness of The Mangler. It's just, um, it's there. And it should be more serious, but it's not. And, yeah, I love The Mangler of 1995. Number three, um...

It is the tie. It is the tie, if you will, because it was hard to pick. I filmed it last year because it came on Shudder. I've always seen a box for it. Day of the Beast, Spanish movie. about a priest who goes so far to want to kill and stop the birth of the antichrist that he's willing to do all kinds of funky sins to do it and enlist some metalhead to help him out And if you haven't sat and watched this film, it is a fun and somewhat sometimes funny horror film.

Yeah, you guys should check it out. I'm pretty sure it's on Shudder right now. Somebody put a special edition out of this. Again, Spanish-language film. Don't be afraid of subtitles. Super fun. Super crazy. Just a super... insane take on um uh the subject matter of killing the antichrist so just think of the omen but extreme ways to kill the antichrist i just uh

I love this. I love this film. Tied with something great personal with the Halloween franchise. This is the year Halloween 6. The Curse of Michael Myers came out. Now, why I love this film... so much because it jumps the shark so hard. It goes from telepathic Jamie to a dead Jamie and you find out that Michael Myers, the whole thing, is a part of a cult and...

Spoilers if you haven't seen it, but that's the angle they go here. And the producer's cut is even more crazy. I love the shitty fucking...

Father in this movie. Just calling the kid a little bastard or something. I forget what he calls the little kid. But I love the cult of Thor and stuff. I love... what I'm going to call in the producer's cut the Rain Man Michael Myers scene in the film where for some reason I forget if it was Dr. Loomis or or tommy has a bag of runes and he throws them on the floor at the hospital and like michael myers stops and i just can't stop thinking about dustin hop and counting toothpicks and rain man

And I just laugh. A lot of these films are made for me to laugh at because it just gets silly. And I love it. I love it for it. I remember the preview, and it just made me excited. And it's got some cool kills in it, too. So that's Halloween 6 in a nutshell. That's my number 3. Tied with Day of the Beast. Both films you should watch. All these films on this list you should watch if you haven't before. Number 4. The most fun you'll have with Billy Zane.

Tales from the Crypt presents Demon Knight. Starring Billy Zane. Starring William Sadler. starring a bunch of characters you may know, like C.C.H. Pounder, who I've loved for years. That's the lady who loses her arm in this movie. And Dick Miller, of course, because people love Dick Miller. billy zane crazy cowboy demon the demons look great directed by ernest dickerson who shot a lot of stuff for spike lee who i have a lot of respect for

Also directed Surviving the Game with Ice-T. Not horror, but a fun, fun action movie, Surviving the Game is. Get to hear Gary Buse talk about him basically murdering a dog. With Moxie. Usually I don't apply for dog murder, but when he starts talking about that freaking dog, I'm going to leave that alone. But Demon Knight's crazy fun. A lot of great gore.

A lot of great work from the actors within. Best use of filters. Hey, man, nice shot ever is in this movie. Usually I don't like Jada Pinkett, but I like her in this movie. Uh, Tales of Stray Demon Knight. Really, really good for $95. Good for humanity. Um... Number one, Tales from the Hood speaks for itself. Great social commentary in this movie all over the place. Great stories in this film all over the place. The great Wingshauser, the director and writer Rusty Cundieff.

Gave a great tribute to Wings as just a great guy to work with for this movie. As a racist cop who kills a... I forget what he is. He's a senator or something? councilman and comes back from the dead and just murders people. Love it. Every story in here is a banger. They have the little clockwork orange thing, you know, with the The gangbanger trying to rehabilitate him. The little dolls with freaking Corbin Bernson.

I forget the rest. It's been a while, but I remember loving this film very much and, of course, emceed by the great Clarence Williams III. who's helping three young bloods get the shit, as he says. And their shit is... A gateway to hell, because this is like the perfect wraparound to a film like this. It's him luring them in, telling them these stories. And by the way, you guys are dead already. You guys are going to go to hell now, because I'm the devil. You know, it's just...

So, it's so perfect. And I got done with a couple not-so-perfect ones in 95. But still, still work your time. The Fear came out in 95. Now, if you might have seen the cover art for this... It's a wooden man face on the cover and his eyes are open and it looks really stupid. But as a concept for a film about this thing in a psychologist's house, That plays on all these people's spears. And it did it before Wishmaster. And did a lot more simple and without having a mug for the camera.

So I love Andrew Diboff, but this did it just as good, I think. What else is there? There's more. Candyman 2, Farewell to the Flesh. Does not deserve all the hate that it gets. It takes a lot of the lore of our Candyman and it raises it up. It does that thing that some folks hate. I'm mid-range on this one with it.

Tells a story, you know, connects the story to a mirror for some reason. And gives us some decent gore in this movie. I love it. I love Candyman 2. And the last I'll talk about a series that just... Again, this is what Gary loves. Seriously, they just jump the shark with every installment. Freaking Children of the Corn 3, Urban Harvest. This is probably going to be a trend, me talking about Children of the Corn films and these things, because...

I love them. I think they just get more crazy as the series goes on. This one, two farm boys get adopted by this couple in Chicago. Little man starts his own cult and with their brother being apprehensive and there's a great monster in the end of this that murders a lot of people and he just plays it so convincingly.

uh, just this kid, and I just have a lot of stupid fun with Children of Corrin 3, much like the second one, much like the first one, much like future installments, and it's gonna get me every time, these freaking Jump of the Shark stuff, but, um, This is where I'll leave you. I hope you guys found some goodness in 95. I know you guys didn't have high hopes as far as, like, as the year goes. It's hard sometimes to love trash, and it gets...

Mixed in a lot of trashier stuff, and Full Moon's content was on the decline from here. Except for Castle Freak. I didn't mention Castle Freak. That deserves your love. But beyond that, it just, Charlie's making money. And that's fine. But, yeah, thanks again, guys. Love to everybody.

Love to the guests if you have one on. I don't recall if you guys did or not, so I apologize if I don't remember your name. But this is me signing off. Thanks again, Land of the Creeps, for keeping horror alive. Bye-bye now. All righty, there is Gary Hill's voicemail. Ran down a lot of movies there. He did. I love the mention of Day of the Beast for sure. I mean, anybody that put Day of the Beast. Oh, yeah. We love it. And mention of fear.

The movie Fear. that's that's the first mention tonight that is the first mention of that one yeah yeah so and i gotta say i agree with him on his love of ice cream man especially when served by a creepy guy with his hands all over the ice cream I love it. Gary, appreciate you calling in, buddy. And Leprechaun 3, of course. Of course, Leprechaun 3 would be right up your alley. So let's go to our last call the evening, which is going to be from Greg P. and Amy.

Lee without Amy Lee. So let's go to that call. This is your gruesome twosome coming to you for the year 1995. Mia's a little under the weather, but she did make a list a couple weeks ago. And so I'm going to go by it to tell you her pick. Though in true zombie RN fashion.

We're going to start with her number one, which is Tales from the Crypt, Demon Knight. Now, I know for a fact she absolutely adores this film. We've watched it multiple times and pretty much any time it comes on, we're going to watch it. I am more than sure this is going to be mentioned. multiple multiple times so i won't go through the whole thing except billy zane is a pretty cool demon and it would be hard to resist that charm this also stars william sadler cch pounder

Ada Pinkett Smith and Thomas Hayden Church. Sprinkle in a cameo with Dick Miller, and you've got a very good movie, and I get why this is her number one. For my number one, we're going to go into my favorite sub-genre of horror, which is... science fiction horror. For some reason, this just is really scary for me. So with that, my number one will be Species, starring the lovely Natasha Henstridge, Horace Whitaker, Ben Kingsley.

Michael Madsen, Marge Helgenberger. Again, I'd be surprised if anyone has not seen this gem. You've got our team of scientists who also double as adventurists looking for seal. a human hybrid who has escaped from activity. Zeal is looking for a mate, and like a praying mantis, will kill the mate once she's done her deed. Moving on to number two, Amy picks...

Village of the Damned, excellent remake, stars Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, and Michael Perret. Boy, Pearl must be in heaven. This one would definitely be in my top five for sure. because I love this, as well as the original, my number two prophecy, starring Christopher Walken, Elias Cotius, Virginia Madsen, and Eric Stoltz. Oh, and Viggo Mortensen. This movie has to deal with a war in heaven.

most evil of souls placed in a child and humans trying to stop the apocalypse. For Amy's number three, it will be Clyde Barker's Lord of Illusion, starring Scott Bakula and Famke Jansen. Here we have a detective investigating the supernatural and in particular an illusionist remind number three i have a science fiction werewolf movie to some it might be a guilty pleasure but i enjoy this movie a lot and that is project metal beast what could be better than

The government putting indestructible metal skin on a werewolf. Sounds like something out of an X-Men comic. It's movie stars Barry Boswick, Kim Delaney, and Kane Hodder. I'm pretty sure you can find this on YouTube. It's low budget, but it's still entertaining. So check it out. Reason number four will be Copycat. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Thurman Maroney.

and Harry Connick Jr. This has to deal with a serial killer and trying to find him before he kills one of the main characters. I believe I saw this in the theater when it came out. For my number four, it's going to be Screamers, also a science fiction horror film starring Peter Weller, who interestingly is married to a high school friend of mine named Sherry Stowe.

This is a variation of machines turning on human, and they come in various forms. Some look like saw blades, some look like the Terminator, and then some try to look human. Anyhow, check this one out. It's low budget, but very good. And for Amy's number five. embrace of the vampire no that's a joke um i'm not even sure she's seen that movie it's going to be ice cream man we have plant howard as the ice cream man we've got olivia hussey dan michael vincent

David Warner and David Nottington. You've got Greg who's released from the psychiatric hospital and he opens up an ice cream factory and using human flesh to make it taste oh so good. I believe Joe Bob showed this on Monster Vision once upon a time and I'm sure it gets...

Four stars. For my number five, I have Castle Freak. This is another Stuart Gordon film that also stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. I'm going to watch for that reason alone. Moving at short and simple, I think Amy would have... the mangler as a honorable mention steven king giant rats it's creepy it's dirty and for me i'm gonna have tales from the hood i actually enjoyed this movie a lot

I've always liked the black exploitation films, and this has a little bit of that flavor. Also, Vampire in Brooklyn. I know what you're thinking. This movie's not that great. But I do think Eddie Murphy gives a decent performance as a vampire.

And this movie could have easily gone another way, but it's always one of those things where producers get involved, movie company gets involved, and they water down what could have been an excellent film, if you ask me. I think Eddie Murphy had in mind Blackula, but he had those producers.

are saying do something funny do something funny and so it took away from the film feel the same way about john carpenter i think after a while you just get tired of beating your head against the wall when it comes to artistic freedom and trying to do your own vision versus those that have the money that are putting up the money that are saying they want it done this way. I feel like if Carpenter was making films today, they would be...

probably closer to the original Halloween just because of the movie industry being so diverse with money nowadays. We've got smaller movie companies that give the professional freedom more so than you did back in the 80s and 90s. doing an a24 film or one of those lower tier loom house productions where they're not involved they're not trying to make money just where they step back and let

someone do their thing and hope that it's another paranormal activity. Anyway, that does it for us. And she will say... Night, guys. Good night. There we go. Great music. As always, and hopefully Amy is feeling better, but good lists. Greg added one. I don't know if anybody mentioned Project Metal Beast. I think it was mentioned one time earlier. Somebody said they watched it for the first time. Yes.

It was a pretty fun watch. I mean, nothing great by any means, but it was kind of fun. Very Bostwick and kind of like robotic werewolves. Yeah, werewolf. Yeah, looking for a great... military soldier. We're going to experiment with this armor on this one with the werewolf blood. A lot of stuff all thrown into one. In that sense, it's not that far off Evolver. That's true. I'll tell you, Barry Bostwick is one of those guys who appears in such interesting films. I mean, he was in the Sleigh Bells.

From 2018, which is that holiday horror movie. Yeah, but kind of a low-budget one. Oh, definitely. I think I had contributed to the... uh indiegogo uh uh campaign for that you have an autograph copy i i have a blu-ray copy it's not an autograph but i do have a blu-ray copy of that movie that i got for um uh for them for my money But the one of his I really want to check. He plays an American, a historical American president in FDR American Badass. From 2012. Nice.

I'm glad she had Billy to the dam on her list. Yeah. I do hope she feels better. Yeah, absolutely. It's not quite the same perkiness without her. That's right. And something that's... Smashing Pumpkin-esque music is awesome. So sitting there going, that's a cover. That ain't Billy Corgan. No, it's definitely not Billy Corgan. Oh, by the way, Greg, that Billy Corgan I've seen, I watched...

the podcast when he had on Corey Feldman. Did you get through that one? Great one, yeah. That was a really interesting one. What was Corey Feldman talking about?

Well, here's what the whole podcast is about. Billy Corgan definitely comes with the questions that burns in his heart, right? Stuff he wants to know. So he will come at you in a way that's very... uh approachable but at the same time like with gene simmons was the first episode he did and gene simmons was asked questions about what was like what he's pretty or whatever and if gene would not give you the answer that he was waiting for he would be yeah but wait

and he would interrupt you and stop you and that's the way he comes at these podcasts is he's asking a certain question and he wants an answer but he wants you to give him an answer you know that you will you know what i mean he wants to know the answer because he's he's clearly you know he's doing it in a way that he wants to know and if you're not giving him what he wants to hear he's going to get it out of you one way or another and i and i could see gene simmons not wanting to talk right

Yeah, he's going around and he would interrupt him and say, no, no, I want to know how you feel. So in the Corey Feldman interview, which I thought was phenomenal, I saw a new light of... cory that well well the thing the thing with it is is he asks some questions point blank yeah other people just don't look kind of tiptoe around he asks

Yeah. Well, that's what I mean. He'll go right at you. And he even mentions in the interview, so definitely listen to Corey Feldman. But he comes at me, so I'm not trying to be a therapist. But he's trying to help Corey. you know, open his heart up into some things. And he comes at it in a point of view like that. Now, it's great. I mean, I'm telling the trauma, I'm guessing it has to do with some of the trauma as a kid. I mean, I mean, Corey Feldman, I have his.

I got his audio book where he actually does the reading and it's about his life and it's fascinating stuff as to what he went through. with his parents i mean his parents really kind of screwed the poor kid over um both of them separately because they weren't together anymore after a while and and he just he just did not have a good time of it unfortunately plus what happened to him you know what is something that happened to a lot of young actors

back in the day. It's a great book. I would definitely recommend his autobiography. But now I've got to check out that interview as well. And the thing with Corey Feldman is, you know, I like, I appreciate his early stuff. And then obviously he had some mental or health issues in the middle of his life. I genuinely think he is trying his best with the music. He definitely has a passion for it.

and it's there but he gets shit on so much he does you know and you know he might not be your cup of tea but that doesn't mean he can't make a living doing it right right he's getting crapped on a lot and you know what if it isn't your thing just keep on going but don't put the guy down i mean it takes a lot of guts to stand in front of 10 000 people and play guitar that's exactly the that's the way

The only thing is, is he wears some really god-awful flashy outfits. Like, he reminds me of Slade. Like he's got all the glam. I wonder why people are coming after him. I mean, do you think it's like some professional jealousy? It's like, well, because he's an actor, he thinks he can get up there and sing and other people who have been trying to break into music. Well, I think some people think he's almost, you know.

doing it not as a farce, but as a reflection of what music used to be. Yeah. You know, and I think like you watch a couple of his concerts, you know, some of it's bad. I'll grant you some of it's bad. But there are other times where he's genuinely trying his best to do his guitar stuff, and people are just giving it to him. Yeah, that's the thing you'll hear in an interview. That's the one thing Corey will tell you is he's earnest.

And Howard Stern is where it got started. Howard Stern, he says in the interview, he had been on his show a couple times, but he went to a Howard Stern show thinking they were friends. And Howard Stern, and it was during a time when Corey was doing the first music video.

of a new album or whatever and howard stern ended up sending a midget out there and a tutu and started doing all these poking fun type things through the whole video and and cory was like what the fuck dude like you know what am i doing here you know why are you and it become a running joke man like he become a comedic singer and that's not who cory is cory is somebody that is earnest about his musical craft and if you don't like it i agree with you 100 bill just don't fucking listen to it

You know what I mean? But he's trying to do what he loves to do, which is uplifting. And God bless him for it. And I love Corey Feldman to death, dude. And I will support that dude to no end. And even if you don't like it, it's an entertainment. concert it really is exactly and I've always liked I always thought as far as as far as like child actors he was

Definitely one of the best, you know, and you were lucky enough to get two of the best in the same movie with him in River Phoenix in Stand By Me. Yep. And I mean, I mean, Friday's 13th part four is my favorite of the series. Oh, yeah. And he's so good in it.

He really is. He is so good in it. I love when he's shaving his head at the end. Well, he's doing that, but the scene early on where he's seeing the girls, like... naked across the way oh skinny dipping and you just see their ass out of the water he's doing it as a kid that age would react you know he's not leering he's not all you know he's just sort of giggling and laughing about everything and that's exactly how a kid

that age would act. I guarantee he had a little bit of wood at that point. Sure. Of course you would. Go listen to Billy Corgan. Magnificent. others podcast i'm telling you i'm promoting the shit out of that i love it great stuff

So with that said, that is basically our episode, other than the fact that we're going to do honorable mentions. So the way we would do our honorable mentions is the way we typically do them. We're going to do this in our outro section. So basically what we will do is...

I'll head to John, and then I'll head to Dave. You can do your honorable mentions, and then you can do your outros, and that's how we'll close out tonight. But I do want to go ahead and go to Dave once again to get the next episode out. Once again, what is the next episode going to be, Dave?

you got it sir the next episode as i said i said i believe it is episode 435 it is disability horror with uh ian urza joining us for that episode and we are reviewing wait until dark and hush other two movies we'll be discussing but like i said please call in and mention any other um horror films uh disability horror i guess is what we're calling it along the lines of you know uh mute blind deaf

Physical disabilities. Physical disabilities, anything like that, yes. Is there a certain kill on a Friday the 13th? Oh, sure. yes there is a yes till in a friday the 13th yes yep so 1804-569-5682 get those calls in so let's head over to john first of all john it has been an absolute pleasure

uh having you on dude you you banged it out man i loved your list and uh well spoken dude uh you your joy dude i have loved having you on but uh let's get your honorable mentions and then all your plugs Actually, John, before you answer that, just let the audience know, what is your all-time favorite horror movie? My all-time favorite is Return of the Living Dead. That was the...

I think I must have been, I remember seeing it on HBO. I was young. It was probably, I must have been third grade when I seen it on HBO or something. And ever since then, I have fell in love with horror. I still watch it to this day every year around July 4th. I watch that movie. I don't know. It's what stuck with me. That's what got me into it. The whole idea of the...

the running zombies and stuff. I might see a glimpse of, you know, dad seeing, you know, the black and white night living dead or whatever, but I don't know that return of living dead. That one stuck with me. And that's my all time favorite. I think I've got the Blu-ray copies of it when they came out. I've got digital copies. The whole nine yards. How old were you when you saw it? Let's see. I must have been third year. Let's see.

Probably about six, seven years old. So Linnea Quigley sort of catapulted you into puberty. It did because it was like, you know, it's like I was kind of screwed up a little bit. I'm like, okay, but yet they're dead and they're... It was a whole clusterfuck in the head. But to this day, that is the movie that I remember watching on HBO. It may have been more closer to the 90s when it... was on hbo but i remember watching it one morning it was on there and i watched it and just since then it

It was horror all the way. Awesome. I was always looking for any kind of scene. USA Up All Night was a big thing there for a while. It would be Friday the 13th or 976 Evil or something like that was always on. They're staying up late watching all that stuff. If all horror movies are like this, damn, I like this genre. Exactly. I've got to say this before you give your honorable mentions. Somebody said that they wanted to hear me say this or something.

Girls have VJs and boys have penis, right? What was I supposed to say? Girls have a vagina. Girls have a vagina. Boys have a penis. Okay, go ahead. My mom says my dad's a real sexist. All right. Audible mentions, and then you're blown. Okay. So for a couple of our missions, definitely demon night. That was a fun show. Like Greg said earlier, it's an extended episode is what it is. Probably not as good as Bordello of Blood that we got next year. I think it came out the next year, but...

But that first Demon Knight was a blast. It was just a fun movie to watch, just to see a full-length Tales from the Crypt movie that was more than just 25 minutes on HBO. And then the other one, just for the comedy aspect, because I love Mel Brooks, loved Jen Frankenstein, but Dracula Dead and Loving It was, it's just one of those funny ones that I can't ever get over. I just...

I don't know, it's just something about it. Like I said, his young Frankenstein was great, and I think his spoof for Dracula was just as good. And just loving that ending when... Dracula's dying. Rittenfield, you asshole. That just sticks with me the whole time. Just Leslie Nielsen doing that. Definitely an honorable mention there. One of the great spoofs for a Dracula movie.

and then any plugs i got uh right now i don't have a whole lot right now going on uh did have a podcast it kind of dried up a few years ago gonna work on getting it started back up called the fright corner nice uh have have a youtube on that and then i think on spreaker there's still a few episodes left on there from the last ones that we've done other than that no i don't have much else right now uh but i appreciate being on really thank you guys for having me on this time

Absolutely, man. It's been a blast having you, dude. Like I said, the honorable mentions are cool, and love the list, bro. Don't worry. Greg will show you the secret handshake. Yeah, right. Oh.

Handshakes will be approved. Cool. John, thank you, buddy. Let's head over to Dave. What you got for your honorable mentions and plugs, brother? All right. Well, first off, thank you so much, John, for joining us. You did a great job, had an awesome list, and it was great to finally get to talk with you.

honorable mentions. Most of them have already been mentioned. I don't want to go back over too many. The only two that I have here that have not been mentioned, actually one, and this is not necessarily horror, but I think it touches on it. Outbreak. With Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo. I think that definitely approaches horror. I think it's pretty horrific what happens and how quickly it happens.

um i'd put that i'd say that and contagion are both uh very uh horror adjacent um if not at times straight up horror And then one that I'm surprised did not make bills less embrace of the vampire. I, I, I literally, when I started this process, I had it at number five. Oh, wow. Okay. But I couldn't with all good honesty. No, you can't. You can't, yeah. I mean, I've only ever seen the whole movie once, but there are scenes I've seen about 60 times.

It's funny, you know, if I ever thought I needed Viagra, I watched this film, I don't. One thing's for sure, if you had a VHS tape, you know exactly what scenes you've seen. The one where the lines would get fuzzy? exactly but as far as plugs I've been on it just was released it's on YouTube I was with dave parker and dave garratt jr and we got together and we talked about 1982's next of kin and it is on it is a video

On YouTube you could check it out. I did put links to it in the Facebook group page To definitely if you want to check that out And all my other plugs are pretty much the same. The DVD Infatuation podcast, the weekly watch list, both of them on considering the cinema feed. From Jay and, of course, Jay of the Dead's new horror movies with Greg and a whole slew of us.

So check those out and my blog, DVD Infatuation. It is still going, but I've decided to take the summer off. I was going to start posting again, but I'm not going to start again probably until September. I'm going to leave number 3000 hanging out there for a while. But I do have about...

Probably about 18 reviews already written. And I'm just going to start them up again in September. I'm going to take the summer off. And then 3001 should post, I'm guessing, right around the beginning of September. But that's it for me. I will talk to you next time we'll be talking disability horror. That's right.

Love it. Dave, if you've got 18 written up already, you're good till Christmas. Yeah. Well, that's the goal. That was my goal. I said, you know what? I want to get this at the end of the year. So let me just, I'm going to start in September and then I'll be done for the year. And I don't have to, I got a little bit of time. time to maybe, maybe write some more. I'm not really pushing it anymore. I did want to get to 3000. And now I'm just going to write when I feel like the,

that I've seen a movie I really want to write about. That's one I'm going to write a review. Otherwise, I'm just going to discuss them on the weekly watch list. um with with jay and mac uh which has been a lot of fun um i'm finding that we're recording 12 for every one that gets released so we're probably good till december on that one too to be honest with you oh yeah So Dave, lots of Ed Wood films? No.

No Ed Wood films. Hey, don't crack on. I got the Ed Wood collection up here, the hardwood. Well, you have the Ed Wood adult film when he got into the triple X. uh movies but um so so what's a low budget porno from the 60s look it looks like this was in the 70s i think didn't they go into the 70s it was in the 70s it's uh severed just released it uh

them out yeah because ed wood i mean that they're not from what i understand they're not like what you would think of like you know with uh with maryland chambers or something like that deep throat no it's it's basically like middle of the road like uh not people not in the best of shape uh kind of porno you know it's sort of if ed wood's making a porno here is an ed wood porno

type of thing is what i understand i haven't actually seen any of those but he's getting the strippers at the end of the night that are just there to fill the time exactly and then they're usually the the strippers who someone said hey when are you going to retire There it is. All right, let's head over to Pearl. Pearl, what you got for honorable mentions as well as plugs? Well, first I got to get a question out of my head because I'm distracted here.

I have a question for you, Dave. Yes. When you were on Dave Parker's podcast, who answered first? Because there's three of you, Dave, Dave, Dave. Well, it had to go since Dave Parker was running it. He didn't really have to refer to himself. I was Dave and the other one was David. Is how we get it. Oh, yeah, there were three Daves altogether. talking about next of kin. Dave Parker is such a great guy. He's great. He ran it really well and he kept it on task. It was a lot of fun.

And then my second question, all the seagulls that you were running into, all the toys. Jesus God, I can't believe that. they they they every store i went into they had like a rack of these stupid stuffed seagulls with fries in their mouth or some sort of food just as a reminder that hey You know, it's like, and it's personal. Now it's personal. They're just taunting you, dude. Yeah, it is. Kyle Bishop.

He's over in the UK right now with his family. He was. Anyway, I'm not sure if they're back yet, but he was in Edinburgh and they were down by the water. And he said, you'll never guess what happened to my daughter, Dave. And sure enough, she had something taken by a seagull. They're just as much of a bastard across the pond as they are here in America. I wonder if it was a chip buddy.

No, I don't know what it was. No, gelato. It might have been something like that. Ice cream. Yeah, something like that. And the seagull took it and ran off with it. You know what? I almost want to do what some people do when people are stealing their sandwiches at work. I want to put like a red hot pepper in a sandwich and just let this.

Goddamn seagull, eat that. Let's see what happens to it. I think when it shits, it'll be like acid falling out of the alien. It's just going to start dripping into the sand. It'll be a new version of Ring of Fire. Yes. It would be like that parrot from Scary Movie. Yeah, right. Yep. Okay, I only have four honorable mentions. I have Malicious.

Mysterious girl turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her for a one-night stand. And it has Molly Ringwell and Pat McGraw and Sarah Lassner. John Vernon in it. Oh, John Vernon. Okay. so it's kind of like uh between like all those uh single white female type of movies and all right and i had to mention because it's a short 18 minute but it's the black cat because We love all the versions of the Black Cat. Who's in that one? David Kincaid, Clive Perrette, Mark Webb. Okay. And then...

My other one is The Girl with Hungry Eyes. It's a horror erotic. It's about a beach hotel photographer who ends up taking care of this beautiful vampire. Taking pictures of her and it escalates from there. Wow. Isaac Turner, Christina Felton, John Jacobs, amongst many others. But, and the last but not least, is one of my favorites that I actually didn't get to rewatch, but I'm going to steal anyways. It is Dolores Claiborne with Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and...

Christopher Plummer, David Stratum, et cetera, et cetera. But the Stephen Keen adaption. Great suspense and mystery and everything. I mean, check it out for those who haven't seen it. It's really good. I got no plugs. I don't. I got my letterbox, but like I always tell everyone, I'm getting to it, and I will get to it. I'm on the main LLTC group page, and anywhere Greg Amortis is at.

That's right. Love my wife. She does great. Let's head over to you, Bill. What you got? Of the ones that I've seen that haven't been mentioned, I'm really surprised nobody mentioned 12 Monkeys.

I mean, it's not really horror. No, I didn't consider it, but it's a great movie. Yeah, I mean, it's on the sci-fi end of it. Did Brad Pitt really make that the same year he made Seven? Wow. Yeah. Or they were released the same year. Wow. The Scandinavian film Evil Ed. I saw that ages ago. That's a fun one, yeah. I think Peter had recommended that to me years ago, and I did finally check it out. It was fun.

Yeah, you know, it's kind of like day for night. An animated corpse comes back and, you know. Pearl, there was an anthology film called Freak Show that had Gunnar Hansen. as a ringmaster at a circus. Or a carnival and these kids come to see the freak show and it's four tails based on the things on the stage. Okay. Not great, but I know that you like...

those kind of films. And they're not bad. I've seen a lot worse. One that I actually almost had on my list is called Relative Fear. It has James Brolin in it. And the description is just why are people surrounding Adam Prattman dropping down dead? Is this five-year-old really a murderous sociopath? It's a killer kid. Uh, and I think it's Emma Walsh is in it. It is. Emma Walsh is in this one. Uh, not a bad film. It really isn't. Uh, check out relative fear if you can.

uh what else is left here the alien within is kind of a ripoff it was a ripoff of those underwater leviathan abyss those Those kind of ones with an alien on board under the water. Oh, here's one I said to Greg the other day, have you seen this? He goes, I haven't fucking heard of this one. Frostbiter, the Wrath of the Wendigo, which is... a low budget, essentially homage to the evil dead.

that's essentially what it is and there was one i watched last night i was just thinking around i'd finished everything i needed for the day i was looking for something there's a made for tv movie that i don't think actually is made for tv it's called terminal virus and it's got more james brolin this is the year of james brolin and essentially it's a really interesting concept of it's post-apocalyptic

And somehow something has been put in the air of virus where having sexual intercourse kills you. So they can't repopulate the universe. And so there's one faction of men in one area. There's one faction of women in another. and then there's the evil overlords that are kind of trying to put their... spin on everything. And they come up with a serum and they get Brolin and they kidnap a woman and then they have to do the deed after they've had the serum.

Really, actually, not a great movie, but in the first minute, you know that this was produced by Roger Corman. In the first minute, with no context, there's a woman topless running across the desert. that's right now the last one is the Langoliers the TV movie Langoliers oh yeah I haven't seen it in many, many years, but I have seen it. A couple times, actually. Who's the guy? Dean Stockwell. Tom Holland is in this. So, not bad.

1995 is an interesting year, that's for sure. So as far as plugs, I really appreciate everybody. And if you haven't checked it out, please check out my podcast, Music, Movies, Sports and Stuff. My last one came... out and my new one will come out next week they're bi-weekly other than that i have a few appearances but the next episode will be my last for a month

So I'm going to be out in the wild and you'll find me, you know, scratching myself in the forest, looking for Bigfoot or the ice cream man or something out there. So everybody let's enjoy ourselves. Let's treat each other kindly. elbows up let's be good people let's do what we can to be good people and let's keep watching horror and let's keep it alive

What the hell was that? I don't know. It sounded like you swallowed a bug. I was clearing my throat. That was actually flair. All right, cool. Okay, good. And our hope for you is you do not ever see Bill scratching himself. I know, never, never.

That hairy beast. Hey, hey, are you Jen? That's what she said last night. Yeah, well, I'm just saying. Honorable mentions for me, let's see. One that I... I really thoroughly enjoyed, but it just didn't make my list is a, I would say it's a made for TV movie, but, uh, it is called deadly invasion, the killer bee nightmare. Uh, so everybody knows I love bee movies and we watched this one other night.

night and it was actually i was gonna say is that a perhaps a mortis vision film uh it could be definitely got robert hayes in it uh nancy stafford gina phillips a uh younger gina phillips and it's it's interesting it's fun because it's telling the whole story it even puts the disclaimer up this could be a true story

kind of scenario that they put out. Those bees movies scared the shit out of me. They did. Listen to the savage bees when they said, these are on their way. Well, the thing that I really liked about this movie was they used live bees. So there were scenes where they had had bees flying all around them. And I'm like, dude, I don't know how in the hell. I mean, I don't care if the honeybees are not. But anyways, it's just a typical movie where a family is...

The killer bees are coming to their town or whatever, and a family ends up stuck in a house, and they have to try to survive with all these killer bees. Still, it's fun if you like those type movies, and you know we did a bee movie not too long ago, a year or so ago, this one would have definitely been one i'd like to chose now so now i know about it deadly invasion another one not that good of a movie but i'm gonna mention it it's called fatal passion aka portrait and red

The reason I'm going to mention this movie, Pearl, will tell you it's not that great of a movie. It really isn't. You mean a movie called Fatal Passion isn't great? But the scenario is basically an artist, a woman who is doing art. that she uses the victims of men that she loves and she paints with their bodies, with the blood of their bodies and stuff. So she'll basically have like, geez, that's a ripoff of the Herschel Gordon.

Lewis movie, Color Me Blood Red. Kind of that way. She'll bring a guy home, she'll have mad sex, and then kill them and use their bodies as paint. Oh, I see Lawrence Tierney's in it. Lawrence Tierney's in it, and Tori Sinclair is the main girl, Rebecca. And you also got Cynthia Rothrock in it. So some of you martial artists people wouldn't know Cynthia Rothrock. Oh, Joseph Pilato.

The guy who gets torn apart. Yeah, and Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead, yeah. I'm not saying this is a good movie. It's not. There's some eye candy in it. You definitely get a lot of breastage and a lot of that affects what you think. Girls have vaginas. Boys have penis. But I'm just saying the scenario of the movie was interesting. The movie, not so. much uh so i think those two are the only two i will mention other than how did you find that film right

I just flipping through and found it. So those are the two I mentioned. So as far as plugs, what, Pearl? Say, what about the dummy and the granny? The dummy was horrible. Oh. Dude. i tried watching the dummy and you want to talk about straight video this was like straight to the crapper like dude it looked like it was damn i don't even know who was shooting it but it was you know what's funny on imdb it gets a 4.6 the one you just mentioned gets a 4.1

Bullshit. They took a Charlie McCarthy type doll, but it's shot almost in a black and white look, but it's really grainy and really... poorly shot and the acting is atrocious. Like, it's one of the worst acting movies. Okay, then there are two that should be mentioned then. Okay. Serial killer with Tobin Bell as the killer. Okay. lunar cop that's supposed to be like a sci-fi Mad Max with Billy Drago and Michael Parade. Okay, Mrs. I gotta get my... And Greg, they made a dummy part too.

Well, bless their hearts, because Dummy Part 1 sure wasn't worth anything. And I love dummy movies, but that was a dumb movie. So with that said, let's get my plugs in. Facebook, Instagram. x all them spots i want you to head over to our youtube channel where every other friday ian and i are releasing our black glove mystery so if you like italian cinema we're talking italian cinema over there and you can watch us now so you can definitely check that out head over to

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I think the sentence should be, you're pulling on things too much. I ain't going to say that. Dave, how was your one-day trip again, brother? Oh, it was awesome. Nice. Yeah, I love getting down there. So, no, it's great. Always fun. Do you prefer the one days? I have to ask Dave, have you ever been to that Mennonite America's Largest Buffet? Oh yeah, in Shady Maple. Yeah. Absolutely.

I always see people on the internet. I always watch these food review people. We've made it all the way from Tennessee to the largest buffet in America. That is on my way to my parents up in Lancaster County. My parents live about...

like less than 10 minutes from there wow oh really and which is a really decent food we have to as a matter of fact they say to us you know when we're driving up say let us know when you get the shady maple because that's like literally we'll be there within minutes at that point

really okay yeah wow yeah the line is usually out the door to get in there even with all the tables they have and the tables stretch for like rooms and rooms and there's still like so many people just waiting to get in there damn They make their money there, that's for sure. I bet. No, no, I didn't realize. I watched one of those the other day, and the difference between Amish and Mennonite is one of them is allowed to use electricity and one of them isn't.

Mennonites can drive cars. It's funny, though, that it has to be a black car. It cannot be any other color. So when you're passing a church and you see 37 black cars in the parking lot, you know it's a Mennonite church. Another thing with Mennonites and it's the same with Amish, you know, women handle all of the housework, which is, you know, cooking, cleaning, things like that. But it's also mowing the lawn.

painting the house, taking the shutters down to paint them if they need to be painted, putting brick into the front of the garage if it needs to be done. That's all women's work to the Mennonites. I was going to say, can I get Jen to switch? Yeah. Anything associated with the house is the woman's job. Doesn't matter what it is.

I know one of them can use buttons and one of them can't use zippers or things like that. And then it's funny, the Amish, you know, they're supposed to be like a certain, a certain way. Last time we were up there, first off, there were these two kids on those motorized scooters with two Amish girls on the back of them holding on, and they were streaming down the road. But then Jack is like, oh, get a picture of the buggy as it goes past.

get a picture you get a close-up of it do kids on a cell phone in a buggy because it's supposed to be you know it's the old world but he's on a cell phone Okay, there we go. Yay! What's up, bro? Welcome to this wacky world of LOTC. Awesome. Glad to be here. If you're listening to our religious conversation, you're in for a real treat. I had my boss when I worked at the meatpacking plant, he was Mennonite. And my God, you want to talk cheap.

Jesus Christ. I mean, this guy, he owned his house outright, didn't have a mortgage. His car owned that outright. He had a house up in the mountains that he owned outright. He had a good job. His wife was the head of surgery, head of the emergency room at Lehigh. High Valley University, which is a pretty big hospital in this area.

And she was the head of that unit. So they both were pulling in really good money. And he was telling me that, you know, for his house up in the mountains, that he got a call from the phone company. He still had Pulse. You know, when you hit the button and it goes like that, he still had pulse dialing instead of touch tone. And they called and said, for one dollar more a month, we can give you, you know, touch instead of pulse. And he said.

Screw you. No way. Well, I didn't know that was still an option. Now, of course, it shouldn't be an option. This dude is the only one left in the world who has it. Is his phone rotary? No, it isn't rotary. It's push button. And when we first had it, yeah. Yeah, but even with the initial push buttons in the early days. you'd push him and he'd still hear like a click nine times and things like that in 1992 yeah and but this guy he would not pay 12 a year

For the convenience of dialing a little faster. $12 a year with all the money he had. They didn't even have a TV until his kids were like in high school. In the house. And he only got that because he won it at the company picnic. Giving tools. Here we go. It's rigged. It's rigged. Yeah. I'm telling you, it is sort of a different world.

That's wild. If you're comfortable enough, I'll let you start. Yeah, no problem. Okay, great. And then we'll go to Dave and then Pearl and then Bill and then myself. Oh, I'm in the middle. We're going to put you in the middle. I'm going to put you in the middle. Yeah, we're going to split you. Put her in the middle. She's like the Oreo. You know what, Greg, you got to give me a minute. I just realized I left my coffee upstairs. right back. Yeah, perfectly fine. Throw some booze in it. Robert.

Robert Suarez received a three-game suspension. Dave Roberts and – I can't see the rest. Schiltz or whatever his name is. Yeah, both of them were the reason the bench clear. And he – the manager come out, rightfully so. I mean, this player's been hit three times. So he came out and started screaming toward Dave. And Dave come out of the dugout. And what started was Dave went straight to him and kind of shoved him with a shoulder.

And then that's when all the benches cleared. And it was, you know, I'll meet you outside. You know, I'm going to beat your ass kind of deal. Dave Roberts don't back down. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He did not back down. Because he played in the majors, didn't he? He did. Yeah. Suarez, straight up, he went legit at Shohei. And Shohei just took it. But it's one of these tit-for-tat kind of things. Yeah, he knew it was coming. You knew it was coming.

But yeah, regardless, I mean... And did you see the guy from Pittsburgh going at the fan? Yeah. He got a four-game suspension. He should have. John, you can feel free to speak with us. What do you think of those baseball? John, are you a baseball fan? I don't picture you being a baseball fan. Oh, I am. I just mostly, I follow the Royals. I grew up near Kansas City, still live close to that. So you got Caglione. Yeah. Between that and...

Of course, their run back in 2015 to finally get a World Series win again was huge for me. To see Hosmer and all them guys just take the risk to do it. Yeah, we got y'all coming up in... About three or four games. I caught a game in KC a bunch of years back, but it was the year that they were doing construction on the stadium, so I didn't see the crown up in the outfield. It was all...

All the boards were up and you had to divert away. I was so happy when they won the 85 World Series against the Cardinals because I hated the Cardinals. Absolutely. I despise them. I despise the Cardinals. I was not because the... the jays and the alcs i mean the thing with i hated the cardinals and that's the reason i became a mets fan in 86 because i wanted to see them beat the cardinals and then i just start to like the mets in 86 because

We're a damn good team. And end up going the whole way. But, yeah, I watched it. I could not stand Whitey Herzog. I couldn't stand Jack Clark. There were some players on that team I just flat out, I'm like, I want, there's so many players. I want this team to lose every freaking day. Jack Clark was the one I couldn't get into. I love George Brett, too, by the way. George Brett's amazing. Was Kent Herbeck on that St. Louis team?

I remember him on the Twins. I remember him on the Twins, but I thought he played for... The guy on KC I liked on that team was Steve Balboni. Yeah, Steve Balboni was good. George Brett was amazing. of my favorite players what's that pearls over here giving us a look she can contribute who's your favorite padre mine

I don't go for the Padres. He's a Dodger fan, buddy. He's a Dodger fan. Well, she is since he met you, but in 1997, maybe she liked Tony Gwynn. No, even before that, I was all L.A. because mainly because my uncle, he loved all the Raiders and everything. My city sucked. I mean, we had the Chargers for football and they sucked. Rams were okay sometimes. I remember San Diego making the World Series with Steve Garvey.

A third base. Hey, you had Ron Burgundy as your news anchor for a while then. Yeah. What was Christina Applegate's name? I can't even remember. Tits McGee. Tits McGee. What a name. What a name. Yeah, she's not a Padre fan, and, of course, neither am I. I'll never forget when I went to go see her.

for the first time. And was it first trip or second trip? We walked by the stadium. Second trip. Second trip, I walked by the stadium, which is downtown in San Diego. You go to the end of downtown, you walk right into the stadium. It was closed, no game yet. And I was wearing my...

had i didn't think nothing about it i was going to go in i collect hats so i was going to go in and walked into a store right outside of the stadium and uh clearly a padre store but i mean they've got all kinds of teams in there and i walk in and i'm like with my freshly brand new dodger hat by the way and i walked in and i'm like looking around and she ended up asking me she said uh what was it she said uh

She said, hey, asshole, you're in the wrong place. Well, no, it basically, this is the way it went. She said, can I help you look for something? So I'm trying to find a good Padre hat because I wanted to buy a Padre hat. believe it or not that it didn't have any that I liked. So I was like, well, whatever. She said, uh, by the way, she said,

I would normally kick you out of here. And I said, what are you talking about? She said, you're not welcome in here with a Dodger hat on, by the way. And she gave me this whole spiel about you can't walk into this store wearing a Dodger. I said, I came in looking for a Padre. Hat, lady. I was going to buy a Padre.

hat from a Padre store and you don't have a Padre hat in your Padre store. So, you know, me wearing a Dodger hat should be irrelevant right at this moment. Although I will notice that you did not wear your Dodger hat into Citizens Bank Park. in philadelphia no i wore a philly's hat yeah you you take you take your life into your own hands yeah there's two stadiums there's two stadiums you watch for that and fenway you better wear

Oh, you know what? That reminds my father when he was in the service. He was stationed up in Massachusetts and him and some guys from his base went to a basketball game at the Boston Garden. It was the Celtics against the Sixers. and it was a free throw and it was the like the the time had gone off and the and the Sixers had fouled um the Celtics and the guy was at the line all right if he made this it would have tied and gone into overtime

You could hear a pin drop. My father yelled, MENCE! And the guy missed it. And the guys he was with stood up and went, Goodbye. And just left him. Yeah, I don't know you. Back in 23. So me and wife just got married on Friday, October 13th. And then.

We went out to Arizona to see her mom and her cousins, huge Dimeback fans, of course. Of course. When we went down there, so it was the game. If they won that game, they're going to the World Series. They said, hey, you need to come down here by the stadium. At the bar. And oh my gosh, I've been in some crazy spots and I'm like, I'm not really a Diamondbacks fan, but okay, I'll go down there and hang out and just have a good time. Oh my gosh, I've never seen so many people go crazy.

in my life right in a small area just right next to the park and just go nuts is probably the only good thing was there's an away game to do it yeah yeah oh man it was It was completely lit. The poor gal that was the bartender, they had pretty much two gals run that whole place. Oh, God. And that place was wall to wall. It had doors open and everything else. Big garage doors open.

I felt bad for them. I thought, oh, my gosh. Poor gals. They're trying to hammer down all the drunks. I said, yeah, this ain't going to be good. I'm just taking an Uber back. I'm not driving. All right, guys. we'll get started here and um she's lost her son she's come undone What the hell are you singing? She's Come Undone by the Guess Who. I don't know who. Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman. Oh, okay. Jen, Ella is at a sleepover tonight.

So we get the house to ourselves and Jen's actually just says, I'm just sitting on the deck. I'm looking at the lights come on and I'm just enjoying the silence. I like it. Yeah. Their names off and they lost. They should have. We'll see if it shows up. I don't think either one of them are putting it on their resumes anymore. Put it that way. That's right. Although I actually didn't think McConaughey was that bad.

He's not the worst part of the movie. No. I mean, I honestly think the story itself was weak. That's the problem. I think from the moment they had those shitty... Everybody's talking at that... at the high school whatever it is everyone's talking like nobody knows what the hell's going on and it uh please please not just go on please we're bringing up past trauma

All right, here we go. Ba-bam, guys. Listen, I got to real quick, and it's only going to take two seconds. I got to tell you guys a joke. Bill reminded me when he said about running naked in the desert. And my father reminded me of this joke. It's an older one that he told me, and I thought it's one of the funniest I ever heard. The French Foreign Legion, a commander is out there, and he's inspecting one of the forts.

And he notices against the wall there is a female camel tied up. So he goes up to the lieutenant. What is this camel doing here? And the lieutenant is like, well, sir, you know, in the... The desert, the men get lonely. You understand. So the captain's like, say no more. So he wants to show he's one of the men. So he goes over, he drops his pants, and he knocks a piece off the camel.

Turns around, he's pulling his pants up, he's zipping up, he says, well, lieutenant, is that how your men do it? And the lieutenant's like all wide-eyed, and he's like, actually, sir, we usually just ride her to the whorehouse in town. Oh my gosh.