THE PODCAST ON HAUNTED HILL EPISODE 164 - THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES AND THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF

The podcast on Haunted Hill will contain spoilers and swearing. I am the devil and I am here to do the devil's work. Please, Elvis, Michael, be one of us. I didn't tell you my name. Hang up. I didn't tell them my name. They're all apart. They're all apartheid. Come, it is time to keep your appointment. Hello and welcome to the podcast on Haunted Hill, episode 164. My name is Gavin Jonathan hall. Hello, I'm Daniel Martin Bone. We are very british today.

Hello, everyone. Why are we being so british, Gavin? I don't know. I just went into that. I sometimes like, do my british like voice. I don't know why. Well, there is a reason why. There is a topic of this particular. No, indeed. Maybe my inner old man from the fifties, british man was coming out. Yes, indeed. Today.

Ladies, gentlemen, lovely listeners, you know, because you've read it. But we're doing hammer horror films, which, yes, a big love of ours got me into horror, really, I would say, because they were on always on british tv for outside of Britain, listeners, how is everybody? Is everybody well, I feel a bit weird at the moment because I'm in a different setup from normal. I'm in a makeshift sort of studio, so I've actually got my mic

in a drawer pulled out and it's all a bit weird. So just with me, you have got a very atmospheric green light in the room. So you do look like you are in a hammer horror film. I should imagine in a moment, Peter Cushing will walk in behind you and say, good God, man, what are you doing in here? Podcast. What? Podcast. Like a radio show, old boy. Oh, I see. Hope everybody's alright in the world out there and you're all dandy. I'm dandy. Dandy and gay. I hope everybody's dandy and

gay. Dandy and gay. We're all dandy and gay. Daniel, how are you? I'm very well. Very excited. We are a bit sneaky, bit cheeky, because although this year we're doing director specials, we've also managed to make this a bit of a hammer horror, like you just said. So we are doing. This is officially a Terrance Fisher director. Special, to be fair. He worked, he did other stuff, but he did a lot of hammer stuff, so it's easy for us to, you. Know, he was the head boy

for Hammer, really. So, yes, we picked one each. James Whale for Universal. He was indeed, yes. And you can compare Hammer to universal almost, in that universal came in the thirties, forties, and sort of died off in the fifties. Hammer came along in the fifties, sixties, and died off in the seventies. But they still go in and they. Remit, well, it is. And they remade the movie at home. With Eddie is odd playing. They did indeed. Doctor Jekhorn's sisterhood.

Yeah. Or Ms. Hyde or something like that. Yeah. But yeah. So they sort of remade the universal horror movies, but in color with very british tones. And this is where people like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and all the other stalwarts of the british horror film come from. And everybody knows the thick, gloopy red hammer horror blood. And like I've said, we grew up on it. But yes, Terence Fisher, we picked one of his each. And they both happen to involve the titles

of them anyway, as beasts. So, Gavin, you chose the hound of the Baskervilles? Yep, from 1959. Sherlock Holmes. Our first Sherlock Holmes. I was going to say that when I started reviewing it, I thought, oh, fuck, this is our first Sherlock Holmes. I'm a massive Sherlock Holmes fan, especially of Basil Rathbone. Sherlock, that's my favorite. I've got a box set of his. And every year, October, November,

come up to Christmas. I don't know why it's cold. I love to chuck on those black and white, uh, Basil raft band because there's some, there's some horror ones as well. You get like them after a serial killer, I think those. Yeah, they're really good. They're quite atmospheric as well. They're very good. And that one stars, of course, Peter Cushion and Christopher Lee. Yeah, this, this one, not, uh, this is, uh, Peter Cushion as Holmes. Yes, yes. And Christopher

Lee as just, uh, just. Um, the manor of the house. Sir Henry. Sir Henry. But it's a different role for Christopher Lee, which we'll talk about when we get to it. Very different from one of these done before. In some ways it's fantastic that they. Could just slip into the stern of Sherlock Holmes and it just looked like he is always bing, Sherlock Holmes. But they could play the other way around as well because they're just so good at their

jobs. So that's your selection. And my selection was from 1961, a little spanish film set, a very drunken Oliver Reed. And that is the curse of the werewolf, the only werewolf movie hammer ever did. So the two only sort of the beast dog films they've done. So we picked them, which is random. But yeah, it is what it

is. So that's what we're covering. I hadn't seen, I've seen the first one once, I've picked up on vhs once upon a time, and I sold it for a bit of money because it's worth a bit, but I hadn't seen it since. So I'm hound and it was on legend. It was on there, so I could just watch it from there, which is quite good. Streaming. I was gutted the other night, actually. I started watching the

third. Maybe it's satanic rights of Dracula. It's the third one with Pete Waterman was in it when he was younger, before mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. And I got halfway through, but I was so tired I had to go sleep. I was really enjoying it, actually, because I hadn't seen it since I got a videotape when I was a teenager. Is it. We just went there, whatever, and then went back to watch it and it gone off legion, so I missed it. Taste the blood of.

Is that. Maybe it's that one. Yeah, taste blood. Dracula. I'll tell you now, actually, because I've got here, horror of Dracula was the first one. Dracula has risen from the grave. Is that the one from 68? Okay, yeah, it could be that one. There's a few. There's a few of them. I think it got to a point where Christopher Lee was just, like, turning up, going, ah. Not saying a word right at the end of the movie, and going. And being like, fuck this. Well, he, in the documentary I

watched recently, he joked about that. He said, I didn't feel like I could even be bothered to utter one word. So I said to the director in this, Dracula is a mute. The director's like, cool, we don't care. We've got Christopher Lee here. We'll just carry on. Because, yeah, they do really tail off a bit. And that's part of the reason Hammer studios kind of closed its doors for a few years, because, yeah, they were. And the same with universal, really, you. Know, the same with

Marvel. It's the same thing with them. It's just too many. And then the Dracula, too many. So people like, well, obviously with, like, the Halloweens and the Friday thirteenths and those things, people kind of go towards those because of the serial killer stuff and they want to see the gorn blood, but these ones are just like, how many Dracula films can you do? And it just got to a point when times were definitely changing. When you got into the mid seventies, going into the eighties,

we're turning into a totally different era. Like, synth and stuff's coming around a computer age and stuff is, you know, Star wars. Yeah. So they unfortunately. But now I would love now them to go out on the hammer Facebook group and literally the other, a person said the other day, why don't hammer make a film now like how they used to? And it's, I'd love to see that one myself if I could. I really enjoyed women in black, I've gotta say. No, women in

black was actually pretty good. And then the resident came out that wasn't very good. That's lost. Christopher Lee Hammer performance. Yeah. And there's a new one we spoke. About and in some ways universal are still making horror movies, but they're nothing. Well, they've got a new wolf man coming out, haven't they? Yeah. And it does look like some. I'm gonna wait, I'll tell you. Is it James what's his name? Isn't it Juan? Is that his name? Yeah. Okay. Is he directing it?

Yeah. Well, wait, it's turning to horror. James Wan's alright, he's been doing horror a long time, so he does know horror. But at the same time it looks. Very good from the trailer. And I'm a big werewolf fan, but as we know, we're both huge werewolf fans. But there are, for every good werewolf film there is about 20 terrible werewolf films. Yeah. And that's just the way it is with that genre. But there we go. But talking of good films, gav, I've been to the cinema today.

Let's talk about what we've been watching. So I. Last time, ladies and gentlemen, ghouls, non gendered, lovely, lovely. Other people's or anyone else you are. And lycanthropes, all of you. Black creature, black lagoon, everybody. Werewolves, hounds, all sorts. Hounds on mauls, all sorts. Last time, as you know, if you listen to the episode, hopefully you did. If it's your first time, welcome. Oh God, here we go. Welcome. If it's, if it's, if. Okay, let's do it again. If, if you're coming back,

welcome back. If this is your first time, welcome front. I forgot it. Next time we're doing it beginning of the episode. And if you chuck, if you join us now and again, welcome side or anything you like. Anyway, last time, if you sound like. A daily party to me going all sides. I've got enough lube here. Um, just 100 bottles. I need thousands. Uh, yeah. Anyway, dildo, you got 584. Stop it. My brain can't do this. It's like a train being derailed every second.

Uh, last time I said to Dan, fuck me. You've got to watch this movie. Oh, it wouldn't been last time. Maybe it's a couple of times ago when I got back from fright Fest, actually. No, it probably. It was the last episode. That's right, yeah. Fucking out time's gone by quick, even though it hasn't the substance. I said to Dan to watch this. I watched this film and I was like, fuck me, I'm.

And I was tired. This is the end of the day of watching lots of films at a festival and I was actually pretty tired and I almost bailed it. I almost bailed watching this film because, I don't know, I'm pretty tired. I went to watch it and I was just like, fuck me. I think this. Maybe it's me and I'm tired, but I think this might be a classic film. Then I spent about two or three days thinking about this movie and going, nah, nah,

I'm correct. I think this is a classic horror movie and people need to watch this now. So persuaded Dan to go watch it. Dan. Yeah. So it hit cinemas this week as we record. And a friend of ours, our Jamie Creedy, one of our friends and patrons, also popped into his cinema to see it yesterday and messaged me to say, I've got to be honest with you, mate, this might be a future cult classic similar to what Gav had said. And I thought,

I'll try and make some time. I'll try make some time. So I managed to pop along today as we record and watch it. Obviously, I'm not really going to talk about it because this is a brand new film, but we're definitely going to cover it. But what I'm going to say is what I put on Facebook today, which is, this is definitely the best horror film this year. This might be the best horror film in about the last 25 years. That is a huge statement. And Gav agrees with me.

I'd be hard pushed to find something better than this. I need to go back through the years and then pull out all the best films and then put them next to it and go, nice. And this is also the best body horror film, which again, Gav doesn't like, but he loved this movie since probably since society or the flight. So we're talking 8586-8788 and there's been. Other, other body horror because I know Sarah likes them, like Cronenberg's son. There's been some great

body horror films. I don't know because I don't redo body horror myself, but yeah, this just works for so many levels. The difference is this isn't a straight up body horror film. The writing is phenomenal. The performances are sublime, the effects are phenomenal. Don't want to talk about anything about it because I would like people to just go see it and experience it. Because everything you love about horror, this will give to you mixed into a lovely little blended milkshake from

all of your favorite directors and genres. And, you know, and if you. I think this will appeal both to our age group because of what I've just said. You're watching it thinking, oh, that's a bit like, oh, that's a bit like. But not in a contrived way. It's very, I mean, Gav, you said, I'm going to quote you, you said, I do think this is a masterpiece. Yeah. Now, how often do you say that about a movie that's

just come out? Not really. And lots of us, I think I've seen the once, because normally you need to watch it a couple of times, then go, oh, this is a masterpiece. But it's one of those films, I think, with more viewings and over time you'd be like, wow, this. If this had come out in the eighties, nineties or whatever, the eighties would have been quite fine for it, napped for it to come out. It could have easily come out in the eighties. It would have gone down

as a masterpiece. And I tell you another thing, which we're all not even mentioning, which is definitely something to mention. What masterpiece horror masterpiece films do we have which are directed by a woman? Yes, indeed. None. This is directed by a lady. Yeah. And it's kind of a woman's film, really. But it doesn't push that on you when you're watching it. No, it's from a woman's point of view. Yeah, but it's from a woman's point of view as well.

And it's directed by women, and it stars two women mainly. And, yeah, it's about beauty, it's about vanity, it's about corporate greed, it's about life, choices. It's a classic. Director Caroline Fagiat, who also directed revenge. So this is only her second film. I know. And it's like sometimes say Quentin Tarantino, actually, because that's a lie. That's a lie. Creating Tantino's

second film was Resois dogs. I don't know if many people know this. And his first film was a movie which he will never let anyone see because it was so shit. Yeah. His first official film was. Yeah. But anyway, for a second film, it makes you go, what the fuck is she gonna do next? The other thing about it is it's almost two and a half hours long. And it really only felt like it was playing for about an hour. How did that happen? I don't know. It just flows through. The last 20

minutes is bonkers. Absolutely. And it might seem very high score, but Gav already knows this. But I came out of that cinema feeling like it might be a nine. And by the time the credits were rolling at the moment, that's a ten out of ten film for me. That's why I say it's probably the best horror film I've seen in about a quarter of a century, Gav, which. Is eight out of ten for me. Sarah gave April, it's eight out of ten or nine db. It probably comes out with repeated viewings.

I might give. It might drop to, like a nine, maybe even an eight, but it's very high up. And I had a lovely moment when it was over because only one other person came into the viewing. It's a shame, but at first, in the morning, you're probably not going to go watch that. No, but the guy, the other guy actually clapped as the credits rolled. And he turned to me and he said, I think we've just witnessed modern cult classic. And I said, I agree with

you. We ended up having. We ended up having a ten minute chat where we talked about all of what our feelings and influences while we tried to process it. And then he said, well, it was lovely to meet you. My name's Josh. Did you mention the podcast? Yes, I did. I said I'd give him a shout out, Joss. Oh, dude. And he said, well, you go and process it, and I'll go and process it. And I said, all right, fantastic. I spent a few days processing that movie.

Um, how nice is that, though? Like, it's just you and one other person. Yeah. Because of that. Yeah, yeah. If it had been underworld like and throat 52, and you went to watch that and it was him, when it credits rolled, you would have not spoken, and you just both walked out. You might have been. That was shit. That bit it. You know, if, as we walked up 26. But this, this is like people, get off your fucking asses. Get down to cinema and go watch this film. Yeah, please go support

this. It's not. Movies will come out like this if. People support this film in some way because it was dropped by universal because they were worried about reception. In some ways, that's a good thing. That's what I picked up, Mubi. I'm quoting my buddy RJ here. He said he feels it's a good thing that. That universal didn't, because they might have over marketed it. And although people aren't really seeing it, that's great, because people don't really know what's going on with

it or what it's about. As much as I'm saying to everybody, go watch it in cinema, and you should sit on a big screen. I know people have big screens at home. Speaking of which, Dan, I bought new tv, but I'll get on to that. But, like, I think in renting rentals, it's gonna go like. Like wildfires in people. Have you seen this? Have you seen this? Have you seen this? And I think rentals will probably pick up its value a bit more. But Sarah said

she went on a Monday night and it was packed. Cinema. Yeah, I was an 11:00 a.m. today, so. And I was at frightened fest, which is an epically large cinema with probably like a thousand of people. I guess people were laughing, clapping. Like, people stood up at the end, claps. And this movie got like a ten minute standing ovation. In France, it got best screenplay cans. You know, it's insane. It's Demi Moore's best performance of her career, in my

opinion, again. And she's a. She's a damn financial naked. She's very vulnerable. She's so vulnerable in it, but she's incredible. And you guys, when you watch this, you just wait. Yeah. So go. Anyway, we're sponsored by Mubi, and we're gonna carry on now the rest of the program. But, yeah, the substance. Highly, highly, highly recommend it. That's enough of that. Now, I did watch another film, which is shit. It's on Netflix. Just hit UK. Netflix. Baghead. I'd heard it was all right. It's shit.

Yeah. It's not really a spoiler, but it's basically about a woman who inherits a bag, a property. And in the property in the basement, there's a hole in the wall, and in the hole in the wall is a bag head creature. And you give the baghead creature a piece of memorabilia from a lost, deceased person, it will eat it, and then it will turn into them for two minutes. And it started off average, and it stayed average, and then it just got boring. Kind of

makes me feel like recently I didn't watch it all. I started watching the cobbler. Adam Sandler reminds me of that. He puts on other people's shoes and he turns into them. The cobbler is better. Cobbler is better. I'll be watching a few Adam Sanders in the background. What's this? I said, this is Happy Gilmore. He's one of the sequels coming out. Happy Gilmore two. Netflix, but, yeah, avoid Baghead. Not good. I watched the matrix the other day. I've got a moving

house in and I've got just not many more. I've packed all my movies away, but I've got a few in front of dvd players. I want to watch these before I go because they've been sitting there for fucking, like two years. I watched these fucking films. One of them was a matrix. I saw it when it first came out. Yeah, check that out. And I was like, well, I do like the old AI simulation things. And now it feels a bit more. It's kind of like they were a bit of ahead of their game a little bit. They were.

They were, yeah. It's very obviously, it's groundbreaking cinema because of the invention of the James Cameron. Yeah. But also like the. The cameras, bullet time cameras that were invented specifically for that film. Will Smith turned that film down. Will Smith, they went to him and they said, we've got this thing we're gonna do. We're going to put cameras all in a circle around you and you're going to be neo. And he was like, go on. And did his laugh and said, I'm not

doing that. It sounds rubbish. Then when he saw it, he was like, what? Yeah, I'm glad slappy Smith won in it because he just. I just don't think he was. I think Keanu does it really well. Actually plays it down quite well. I actually quite enjoyed the film. It's right. It's funny, though, watching that gung fu stuff with a camera in slow mo now, you, like, see so much CGI and there's so much AI stuff nowadays. You can do anything. So it doesn't feel as exciting

anymore, unfortunately. But that's why the second and third one was so jarring to me. Because the first one was all practical wires and the second and third one was so much CGI. Just looked like a video game. So I really only prefer the third one. Yeah, the first one is the best one. And 1999, in my opinion, still the best year for a cinema in probably my lifetime. Good stuff coming out that year. I don't know. I think. Isn't 84, like, the best year? Yeah, yeah, they're good.

But 99 was great. Groundbreaking stuff going on in 99 when that long ago. Well, I was not knowledgeable rather than remembrance. Imagine being in the seventies watching cinema when it wasn't CGI. So when you saw a car crash, it's probably someone almost dying when they actually did it. But, like, every time you saw something bigger, so say, like, say the sorcerer and you saw the truck in the thing in the cinema and the bridge, it would have been so, like,

emotional f. Oh, my God. Because it was. Because you're like, that's probably not some strings on a bridge or anything. Once CGI, they didn't even think about that. The computers weren't doing things then. But imagine that, though, like, the power of cinema at that point where now it's kind of been lost because we can do anything. Well, the reason I say that about 1999 is just because it felt like all the films that came out, really, this is back when I used to read Empire magazine and go

to the cinema probably twice a week. All the films that come out were changing the face of cinema. So let me just reel off a couple from that year. Fight Club, the Matrix, american beauty, the Green Mile, eyes wide shut, the 6th sense being John Malkovich, Magnolia Girl, interrupted. And then you've got, like, south part of the movie, you know, that was a big one that came out as well. American Pie, the Blair witch project list.

You just said they're all revolutionary. There's a couple of them, all right. But I watched thingy recent. Not that long ago. Her eyes wide shut. That was shit. That spent two and a half years. What I mean is, like, that was Kubrick's last movie, you know? And then you had, like, the Matrix, which changed action cinema. Fight Club, which was just like, visually something you'd never seen. The Blair Witch project, which kind of reinvented horror.

Really. There's a lot, a lot that year, which was just crazy american pie. I mean, we'd never seen such rude stuff since. What was it called? Porky's and all those movies. Hmm. Austin Powers, deep Blue Sea. That classic. Anyway, it's enough about 1999. I'm out in the woods tomorrow night, filming finale of a found footage film. Oh, fantastic. You've segued so perfectly there. Because I've got some woods to talk about. But you talk about your woods first. Nothing really.

I just could go out and. We're finishing shooting. Amanda, you know this because you're on the WhatsApp group, so I know you can see the messages just organized. And feel free to come down tomorrow evening. Thanks, I'll try. But, yes, quite nice to go and get that film finished then. I've only got a couple more scenes to shoot. And. Yeah, I started color grading it the other day and I was like, fuck me, actually, looks really nice because it's a regular camera. It's nothing fancy.

So hopefully, in next couple of months, we have a new feature film finished. Which I cannot wait to see. And then. And then I can start writing the next one, which we've already got fucking planned already. We've scored guns and things. You've seen the guns and the ammos. Everything's been bought. Yes, we've got. We got all the shit. Which. Not a script. I need to start writing it.

Shit. Don't have a script. Yeah. Now, talking of woods and color grading, I went back to the woods, back to 2004, because we recently covered Shyamalan, and I've been meaning to watch it. So I watched the village, and I love that film. I was gonna watch it again, actually, at some point. It's on Disney. Plus, all of his films are funny enough. So, yeah, really loved that. Forgot about the incredible cast. Corny Weaver, William Hurt. Obviously, Joachim's in it again. What's his name?

Adrian Brody. And, yeah, the color saturation on that is fantastic. With the reds and the yellows to make it feel like it is a period piece. And it held up really, really well and forgot. It was quite scary at times as well. But although I know what the creatures are, so that's one of the two woods films I watched. The other one I watched was a brand new film, Gav, from 2024 this year. That is okay in a violent nature of. I will watch it. I'm not rushing to see it, but we'll

watch it. So I gave it seven out of ten. That's quite high, which is high. But I was still a little disappointed with it. I wanted more from it, because the problem is that we are both huge Friday the 13th fans, and for years, we have fantasized about what it would be like to watch jason, you know, behind the scenes, where does he go? What does he do? What does he eat? Where does he sleep? But I've never wanted to watch as a feature, maybe for a short

film, for like two minutes long for a skit. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. What I will say about it is it's got some of the best, goriest death scenes I've probably ever seen. Effects artist, first turned director. There's two in particular. And my wife, I feel sorry for her. She came in about halfway through and sat down. There was one death that she witnessed, and she couldn't take her out. I said, don't look at this bit. Don't look at it. But it's too late. She was

watching the whole thing. She was like, why is he doing it? Why isn't he stopping? You have to show the substance. And I was like, oh, she would like that. I was thinking, she really like that? But yeah, so it's very gory. I don't care about the slowness of inner violent nature because I expect to watch a man trudging along. It's basically a Friday the 13th movie. And I did say to you, didn't I, off air.

I said, if they'd have just made it like a POV Jason movie, actually would have given it more sort of clout. But it's still worth a watch and it's on shudder and it's on, you know, prime and stuff. So if you've got access to that in a binary nature, it's definitely good. Just get ready for the gore when it comes. It is insane and it's insanely practical. The director has got a second one. Lined up in his head as the sequel. Yeah, that surprised me.

Yeah, it's good. It's weird to give a film seven out of ten, but not really saying that. Yeah, that sounds weird, but yeah, it's. Because I wanted more. That's where I was going with that. Because I'm a. Yeah, give it a. Higher score because you wanted it to have that. I know, I just want, I just wanted it to be really, really like a tan. But thank God I saw the substance today. That's the main thing. Now, gav, you've got something to talk about with John Carpenter.

Can you explain, please? Tom meant I on the Deadbolt pay group, early age, sending things, saying John Carpenters opened up an account on that box. And reviewing his films, I was like, I don't think he is. But now looks users out there. Oh, I did join up. I didn't understand it in the slightest and I've not been on since. I couldn't understand what I do or how I look at anything. It's really. I just didn't understand it. So I was like,

OMDB, it's so much easier. You just type the name in and look at it. That's just. I couldn't. I just, I don't know how I look up anything. I just, I don't know. Fair enough. So I haven't been on since deleted the app. Sorry. I know I said I was gonna do it. Yeah. So John Copter came on this thing, but I know these are, these are not true. This is not John Copter, but I'm gonna play a game. I've only got four of them, which were sent to me and we're gonna play game. Is this

John Carpenter or is this not? And Dan's gonna play along. And I actually already know it's not gonna be dark star. Half score. Embarrassing. I had not a single clue what I was doing. It's funny to think I thought a limousine would pick me up and take me off to my first studio set. After they world saw this movie that never happened, I almost gave up and moved back home to Kentucky. But I

refused to let the world kick me down. Kinda people tell me they really like this one, and I tell them they're crazy. Hopefully your feature debut will be better than this. Won't be hard. So is it out of five on letterbox? Yes. So he gives it his own film. I think, to be fair, Dark Star is one of the weaker and a lot of people love it, but I don't agree. He made it a college. I think that that's real. I think that he's. Because what I love about that there is. Because John Carpenter is a bit

of a grumpy bastard nowadays. What I love about that there is whoever's written that must be John Carpenter, because it's almost like a little bit of a mini autobiography. Well, okay, Halloween two. So that's. Am I right? Was that him? Well, no, I don't think it is him. We don't know. We will never know. Okay, Halloween two, one star. They paid me more money than I'd ever seen to write a sequel to a film that did not need. I took the check, spent it on beers to get me drunk enough to

plough through this crap. I looked at the final script, which I like Halloween to myself. I look at the final script, which took a whopping two days to write, and said, wow, now that's a piece of shit. And it was. I had faith in Rick Ross and foul, and he did not deliver. I suppose I expected him to be a miracle worker and nobody could have made this work. I don't regret hiring him.

Now, very quick tangent. I said recently that I prefer, these days, I prefer watching Halloween two to Halloween one just because I've seen Halloween one to death. And I like to watch the sequel more than the first one lately. But I don't feel like that's him saying that. I don't think even he's that grumpy. I don't think so. I don't think he'd say I bought enough beers to power through this show. I don't think he'd say that no. Memoirs of Invisible

man, half a score. I fucking hate this part of shit and want every copy burnt. Tom would like that. I could see. How do we in four? The return of Michael Myers. Oh, God. No stars, it seems. I think this is one of the better sequels. I prefer it to the second one, that's for sure. Dwight little did a good job I've not seen in a long time. Is this the one where Myers picks up a rifle and stabs someone through the stomach instead of shooting it? Now that's funny.

God, I know. Speaking of Michael Myers. What? Reckon I'm gonna say no, I'm gonna. The first one, the very first one made me think that could be John Carpenter, but the others are so grumpy that I don't think even he's that grumpy, really. I think it's a bit of an act. He's in real life. He's quite a sweetie. Yeah. Bit grumpy nowadays, but does like payday. So, um. So I was work. Where was I working? Oh, I was working in a chemist. I was doing some stuff and managers there and she's

chatting someone else, saying. And they came in the other day and they're just taking photographs or stuff. And when I challenged them, said, who are you? What are you doing? They said they were Mike Myers. And I just like, Myers, who's a. And I was just listening to this game. What, what, what was this? Someone just like, having a laugh saying, I'm Michael Myers. When they said, what's your name? Oh, Michael Myers or what? It's a bit weird, but unless it was Mike Myers, the Canadian. Canadian,

yeah. That's that joke in a baby driver, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I said, michael Myers masks. And it's Michael Myers. It's very good. Yeah. Anyway, well, there we go. Yeah, I guess the takeaway there is go watch the substance nag. Pretty much. Listen, Terrence Fisher, before we take our break and go into our first trailer, we're just gonna have a quick chat about Terrence Fisher, the director, the man, the legend. Mc Hammer, as I like to call. Him,

heard us the other day. Mc Hammer was the most feared person in the rap industry. Indeed. Yeah. Yeah, that's money, though, again. But that is until P Diddy came along. Ooh. P. Diddy came along with all his bottles of lube and went, get the slip out of here, man. Mc Hammer didn't need the lube. But no, MC Hammer was so well connected because where he's from in oakland, that was quite a high quantity of gangs there, and he was connected to a

lot of the gangs. He actually brought a lot of the gangs together. He's a bit like a Robin Hood, but. So although people don't really dig his rapping because he's not the best rapper, but I was a big fan of. But because he was a performer, a dancer rapper, and all of that, people were like, we just love him because he brings all the gangs together. He had a bit of religion in there because he was a bit of a gospel rapper as well. And then he got resigned to death

Row Records. Did he? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Did he? I like, what? You didn't even mean to do that. Yeah, no, he got signed to death Row Records right at the end, and there's, like, pictures of him, snoop two park and Dre and Sue Knighthood. I also heard Doctor Dre had a videotape stolen from his house, from his private collection Once Upon a Time. Yeah. And, yeah, I was listening earlier, and he's on a rage, and they said, tell us

all about. He says, how to take stolen from our private collection. And they said, oh, is it like the sort of, like the Pam Lanson type thing? Says, no way, way worse. And everyone went kind of laughing, said, snoop, you're on it. And stoops the fuck. Oh, God. Never gets shines. Somewhere out there's a tape someone's gonna one day say, give me some money. I'm sure they would have done by now. There's a lot of tapes out there, and I don't know if I really want to know about.

A lot of my heroes are getting destroyed. Want to see any. Any music artist really likes naked having sex. It's just not what I want to see. Let's hear them rap, you know? Yeah, I want to see you rap. I don't want to see a sack do that stuff. It's not. It's not what I signed up for. That's what they probably fought when they signed up for the bad boy records. This is not what I signed up for. No. Well, I know we're not gonna get onto it, but very cool. Terrence is waiting in the wings.

I know. Very quickly, Gop Diddy with one of them women. He. He told her that she would. This is all alleged, by the way. Yeah. It said she would have an album, and he had producers work her album, which would never, ever be seen, and he knew that no one would ever know the album, but it's just to keep control of her so that that person would know that they were okay. He's actually doing what. I'll keep doing what it says because this album's being recorded

with the attention never been released. What a cunta. Yeah, it's power. What a gun. He does. He deserves to fucking go down. I'm glad he is. I'm glad he's sitting in the cell now going, I don't like this food. Well, he always called himself bad boy. And I think he probably was such an ego. Anyway, let's not do this. Let's talk about Terrence. Terrence Fisher, talking of hammer that we segued briefly there onto P. Diddy.

But we're back. We're back to Terrence. Terrence Fisher, born in 1904 and he died, sadly, in 1980, but obviously best known for here. He was a director best known for working in Hammer Studios, which is why we're covering two hammer horror films today. He's the first person to do gothic horror in full color. People often say that he's the reason, you know, the first person to do that. And he's also the first person to bring in sexual overtones and gallons

of bright red blood. So Hammer really wasn't really hammer until Terrence brought in cleavage and thick splashed blood everywhere. Good man. Yeah, you know, and again, you know, these universal movies were fantastic in black and white, but he decided he would remake them all in bright british color and give them that british spin as. Well and really utilize staple actor Hammer studios. The amount of people they go, oh, that's the bartender from the Gorgon or what

the fuck, you know. Yeah. Well, often the Hammer films were filmed, as we know, back to back, you know, using the same sets and stuff. So he was 16 when he left school and he joined the Navy for five years. And then he decided he wanted to get into the film industry. So in 1933 he joined, you've probably heard of Limegrove Studios as a clapper

boy, just a little clapper boy clapping away. And he then worked his way up to editor throughout the very early thirties until he became a director in the mid to late forties. And Hammer decided they wanted him for their first hammer film that they picked him for was the curse of Frankenstein from 1957. So he'd done quite a few tv bits and bobs, a lot of editing. He did the adventures of Robin Hood on tv in the fifties as well in Britain. But yeah, Curse of Frankenstein

was his 1st. 119 57. You get now anyway, because for necessity and budget, all reasons, especially indie cinema directors who are editors, but if you get someone who's worked the way up and if they've worked in editing and then gone on to direct it. When you're directing, it helps you to know, okay, we can edit here, we can edit there. Even if you're not editing, you can discuss that with your editor. That's been hard to edit the film, but you know, that's gonna cut with that.

That's good couple. That's good couple that. And ultimately save perhaps a bit of money in time. Yeah, absolutely. And nowadays directors do it because they can't afford to. I do it myself because I just love editing more than directing. I like editing, but, yeah. So it definitely helps a director and their craft.

So he was hand picked by agreed Tilly, and he was hand picked by Hammer for this project because he had such an amazing reputation in the film and tv industry for reliability and like you just said, saving time, saving money and getting the job done, but doing a quality work as well. Quality job as well. And it was a really, really important project because it was obviously a Frankenstein movie. And they had Christopher Lee and they had Peter cushion in it.

And is this going to work? Well, it was the most financially successful hammer project at that point. So they got him back immediately and said, we need you to do another one with us. Will you please do Dracula a year later? So he did Dracula in 1958. It made even more money. Oh, actually, I started watching that the other night. Fantastic movie. Yeah. And that made even more money and it got back cushion again. And Lee, I've seen it many times before. They were getting

more money from their producers then. So to have bigger budgets and bigger budgets each time. He then stuck to horror. He decided horror is where I like to work. The only one time he kind of veered away from it slightly was hand in the basketballs, which we're going to be talking about on this episode. But that's still got some spooky horror vibes to it. It's in horror collection. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. It's the only Sherlock Holmes movie that is. Or only Sherlock Holmes story or

book that is slightly. Although it's revealed to a Scooby Doo. As a kid, I always loved the hound and the basket. A big dog on the, on the misty. Obviously it's revealed that, you know, it's not supernatural, but the Sherlock Holmes story is kind of told in that it. Even Holmes questions it during the story. So. Yeah, Henry the Baskervilles, he then went on to do the mummy again with Cushing and Lee. He worked so comfortably with them and they already liked

each other. And then he went on to do lots of scenes, Revenge of Frankenstein, a few movies that moved away from the sort of the universal, and I use that in quotation monsters type things. He came back and did a few sequels here and there and it was starting to wear a bit thin on him. He had a couple of car crashes where he had to take quite a long break from doing any work. I think he had two car crashes in two years. And by the time he'd recovered from them both, the industry had moved on a

bit and he was. He tried to get back into it. Yeah, he did come back and do curse of the werewolf in 1961, and that was then he did Phantom of the Opera in 62, which was their most expensive film today, and actually didn't really make much money. I never seen it and I never realized. Hammered at Phantom of the Opera. Well, he didn't work for Hammer for two years after that one because it didn't really make much money.

He then went and worked with other studios for a little bit, and it wasn't until he did night of the big heat, which you've seen and I've seen. We love that one. Hammer then said to him, come back and make this film called the devil rides out. And that's what tempted him back in 1968. He said, you know, what great. And what a film that is. What a film that is. And then he did Frankenstein must be destroyed. And then he did Frankenstein, the monster from Hell, which was an

absolute financial bomb. And that was kind of what killed Hammer, really. Hammer. Horror didn't really recover much after that, and his career didn't really cover much after that, and six years later. So he retired a couple years after that, and then he. Six years later, he died at the age of 76 in 1980. But the gist of this, really, is he was sought out by Hammer, who wanted to change the face of british film and horror, and he sure as hell made a damn dent in it with an incredible

career, which we'll briefly run through in a moment. I've already mentioned a few of his movies, but the guy is really hammer. He's the guy. He's like. Like you said, he's the James Whale of Hammer, really, isn't he? Universal? Yeah, no, he's the James Whale. Yeah, he really is. So, yeah, we'll run through his monster movies. I'll give our quick opinions on them or what we think of them, if there's anything to say, and then we'll talk about Hound of the basketballs.

So Christopher Frankenstein was his first one, which is really just Frankenstein you know, it's not a sequel, but. And that was Christopher Lee, which is a bit weird to see him has as Frankenstein. It's very different look, they weren't allowed to use the same makeup effects or tile or sort of style as the universal Frankenstein. It's an alright film, obviously. Hand of the Baxter was 59. He also did the mummy in 59, so he's a busy man as it was back then. You know, these british film

studios were churning them out. As you said, though, Gav. That's because we know they were using the same stable actors, same studios and sets, just churning them out. It's very, very. All very efficient, wasn't it? It was like a nine to five job. The same year as the mummy and Hannah Damascus. He also did the man who could cheat death and the strangers of Bombay. So 1234 movies in one year, three films in 1962. Faces of Doctor Jekyll, the bride of Dracula and the Sword of Sherwood Forest.

And then in 61, just the one movie, the Curse of the werewolf, which we're covering. 62, he did Phantom of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes and the deadly necklace. 63, the horror of it all. One of my favorites was 64, the gorgon. 66, one of your childhood stresses. Prince of darkness. Yep. Dracula, Prince of Darkness, which made you feel a bit queasy when they cut the throat and had. Turn it off.

Watch it, mum. Also island of Terror that year, 67, he did not the big heat, which I'm a really big fan of, but for Hammer, he did Frankenstein, created woman, the devil rides out. And then 69 was Frankenstein must be destroyed. Then he had those two accidents, came back and made Frankenstein and the monster from hell, which I believe starred what's his name? Darth Vader. Why can't I remember his name? You know, the guy from Bristol who played Darth Vader hime

as Frankenstein. So that was. That was him. So a hell of a career. Pretty much all of their main. You know, he's done a werewolf movies and the Gorgon movies and Frankenstein movies, Dracula movies. He's done all of them, really. And even a couple of Sherlock Holmes in there, some Robin Hood. Fantastic career. And. Yeah. Thing about these older directors is,

and it'd be the same with James. Well, there's not an awful lot written down about them because it's not like they had social media or anything back then. You know, it was just like, this is when I. Yeah, for him, it was literally did a damn good job. All right, cool. So let's get into a trailer for the hound of the Baskervilles. And we'll get chat about that. Know then the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. Take heed and beware the moor in those dark hours

when evil is exalted. Else you will surely meet the Hound of hell. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Which way, for heaven's sake? Which way? The greatest story ever written by one of the world's greatest storytellers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic masterpiece of mystery, suspense and horror, the Hound of the Baskervilles. Some revolting sacrificial rite has been performed. What depths a human being can sink to? What human being could have done this?

That is precisely what I intend to find out. But how can you be so certain that somebody took one of the bishop's spiders and deliberately placed it in Sir Henry's room? That it wasn't in the luggage he brought from South Africa? Elementary, my dear Watson. There are no tarantulas in South Africa. What do you want me to do? Identify any. Anything I may find. Strange things are to be found on the moor. Like this, for instance. Swine. You thought it was going to be easy,

didn't you? Didn't you? You won't be the first of your. Family who thought that. And you won't be the first to die because of it. The hound of the Baskervilles from 1959. I'm not going to bother with that. Pg hour and 27 minutes. When a nobleman. I see. I am. When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited state, Detective Sherlock Holmes. It's hard to investigate what goings on will happen in the moors. Great book. Yeah, it's a good crammer.

The only one that hammer did of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works. And it's a good one because like we said earlier, it's a spooky one. It's set on the moors. It's very sort of hammery, the setting and the big manor house out in the middle of nowhere and, you know, a potential curse. Like I said, it's a bit of a Scooby Doo vibe. Well, because, you know, we find out that it's not really a curse, it's someone pretending to scare people. Like are these pesky kids, you know, that kind of whole thing.

But it's good and it's very classy, very nice and I enjoy it. It's a good rainy, rainy afternoon film. Yeah, I'll happily put this film on. I did actually just check out when I was just getting a trader from YouTube. The actual whole film is on YouTube, if anyone fancy. It's not gonna be like some crazy high definition, but I've got a Blu ray copy, which is fantastic. I watched it on YouTube and it was in very good condition, very good definition.

Yeah. A lot of these films are now because they're so old, you know, 59 now. But yeah, it's only an hour and 27, so it's not going to eat into your day as well. If you want to check it out. It comes and it goes and it does the job. Most people know the story as well. Someone comes up to Holmes and says, oh, there's a. Someone that's been a fingers a curse and blah, blah, blah. And Sherlock says, okay, I said, watson. Watson goes down and Sherlock comes down a little bit later on,

but keeps an eye on things. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. And there's a escape prisoner, etc. We get into it. Let's do it. Let's do it then. So I love the fact. I love. This is the thing with these hammer movies. It starts up by a bunch of cunts, a real bunch of, oh, I've got all the money in the world. Private boy cunt types, really. Just not saying that if you go to school, you're cunt. But like, these are really like entitled

group in a pub. And the first thing they do is they just throw someone out window and they're laughing like it's just like the average thing you see down the right. I see where you're going with that now. I thought you were talking about the producers, the credits, I think. No, no, in the movie itself. And we get this group of guys in the pub, just really horrible. And one guy's just happens to be a Baskerville, really horrible, entitled I've

got money. Funny. We see this in the news daily. Always entitled people got money, hero cunts. And this is what's going on. And he's so horrible, isn't he, to this. This one, he's horrible to dad. And he's actually like, got that dad's daughter tied up in. Locked up in a room upstairs to go and do whatever they want with. And the dad's coming and says, please, my daughter. And they've thrown him

out. They're just giving you a shit. It's like, what indeed? I mean, it's a hell of a way to start a Sherlock Holmes story, but it is what happens. But we get. Just for that, we get the classic hammer of spooky credits and score and avoid. That's okay. Let me get the voice over introducing us to, you know, this is Baskerville Manor and this is. This is the established Lord Baskerville. And basically, like gavs just said, they're a bunch of frat boys. They're like a frat fraternity

and they're having drinking games and. Yeah, they. They throw that guy out the window, this one guy whose daughter was upstairs, and they just go outside and drag him back in, the filthy pig and roast him by the fire like their piggy ears. So they sort of put him by the fire and try and burn him by the fire and he says, my daughter, like you said. And upstairs there's this busty chick that they're like, basically betting on. And they're like,

well, I'm not going to bet you money. I'll bet you what I've got upstairs. And I. You mean the girl? All right, then, great. Let's bet on. She can be the prize when there's. So they're just doing these horrible fratz boy games and. Yeah, it's not. It's just not very nice. Using a woman as a prize or a human being of any kind is a prize. But. But Sir Hugo, who is the. The main basketball. I do love the classic very quickly, the classic horror colors of the green and

red in their felt jackets. Yeah, it's just. It's just really nice. Just looking hammer. Have a. I was gonna say that they've got a color palette, you know, and it is what it is. It's like reading a comic book come to life. You know, a comic book from a long time ago as well. So Sir Hugo goes to fetch the girl the prize, and he goes out there and the windows open and he turns and says, the bitch has got away. So what does he do, Gav? He does a smithers, doesn't he? Not smithers.

Burns. Send a pack of hounds on them. Set the hangs on her. Because the lady who doesn't want to be with. You, she doesn't want to be gang. Ray locked upstairs. Yeah. Does what? Being you abuse her father, who's an old man, just because they. She's managed to get away. You're gonna kill her. I. Yep. He says, mount up, let loose the pack on her. By Jove, we're going on a hunt. And actually the rest of the frat party will sort of back out at this point. And they realise it's okay. He gets his

comeuppance. We're not going to go with you. And he goes, well, by Jove, I'll get her if it's the last thing I'll do. And he goes off. And as he sets off, he goes. Off like he's fox hunting. We get that classic hammer weather coming then, don't we? Thunder and lightning and rain. Epic action. So she's running across the moors, barefoot, cleavage bouncing around rock area. She comes to, doesn't, he finds her. He's got his dogs with her. He stabs her. Do you know why he stabs her?

Because he couldn't rape her. Well, hang on, let's get before that. So he loses her, even though the dogs, you know, he can't find. And the dogs are trying to find her. And then the dogs get scared because they hear a big. Very good, Catherine. Very good. They hear a big howl like that and it's terrifying how, you know, in any other movie you think it's a werewolf. It's kind of.

If you didn't know this story, you'd probably think it was. I was the other night standing in the woods where it got dark with night vision goggles on, just by myself. Brilliant dogging. No, funny enough, a person walked past me in the path and it's getting dark, so obviously going back to the car. And I just stood still and I was like, they can't see me. Oh, my God. Sinus of the lambs.

It was. I didn't silence the lambs, anyone, because I was testing these goggles out anyway, and there was a sound in there and I was like, oh, is that a deer? I don't know, because I was completely still and it's dark. I've got his, but I could see. But just whenever you hear a sound out light. So if you're out Moore's or something and you hear that howl. Oh, yeah, that's american rail for London. It's that basically they've done

the hound of bascules and the beginning of american ware for London. It's the same principle. It's just like, shit. That doesn't sound good. And what's great as well is that the hounds that he's got with him, all. There's probably a hundred of them, they all run off and whimpered. So the dogs are scared of whatever this is. Excuse me. And then the horse gets scared too and doesn't really want to go forward anymore.

And we get a great close up here of the girl hiding behind, like a pillar of, like a little bridge over a little brook, right up close to the camera and then blurred in the background. You can just make out Sir Hugo getting off of his. Just slightly out of focus, getting off the horse. And he's trying to find her, he grabs her and he calls her a witch. You damn witch. You escaped from me. And like you said, because he can't rape her, he pulls out a curved dagger to stab

her. And the connection of that, though, obviously he couldn't rape her with his penis, cause trauma with his penis. So he causes trauma with a knife, which is the same motion. But before he can quite interest in a horrible way, well, before he can stab her, another howl, which sort of stops him in his tracks. This time we also hear some growling as well. And then, then he. Thank you. And then he turns around and we. Are doing a radio play. We get the sort of pov of

whatever. This hound is approaching him. No, dear God, no. And then it kills him. We don't see. Which is exactly how you should play that. Yeah, it's perfect. And that is your opening. Really? It says, cunt gets it. Yep. He does. Yeah, he does indeed. So this exact story being told to Sherlock Holmes and Baker in Baker Street. Doctor Mortimer is here telling a story. To Doctor Watson and Asheroc Herms. Yeah. And he says, and that was the curse of Sir Hugo and the Hound from

hell. It's like he's just finished a bedtime story. It's so fun for the way it's done, though. And when he says, obviously, saying that Holmes is like, dear God, I don't. Know if you could read that as a bedtime story. So then the lady who was going to be gang raped by the men escapes and he sends a pack of hounds. Daddy, is this a tear apart? It's not real. It's through a book and a movie. It's not a good bedtime. Well, he's reading the legend to Holmes and Holmes

stops him in his tracks. And obviously Holmes is the most logical Mandev since Doctor Spock. He just says, stop there. This is just a folk story. Why are you. Why are you telling me this? I'll tell you why. And he says, I'll tell you why you're telling me this, because something happened on Friday the 13th and the guy's like, how the hell do

you know all of this? And he's like, segue very, very quickly to a film which got pan and dissed and I really like it and find it very funny, which is Holmes and Watson. Don't think I've seen it. Oh, is that the one with Will Ferrell? Yeah. Sherlock Holmes. Have you seen it? I hated it. I'm so sorry. Most people hate it. I really, really like it. I find it fucking hilarious. When he's in the carriageway and watson is like, okay, let's play a game. And does a game to him.

And he gets right because he's homes. Goes right to the end of the game. So it's because of that reason he goes, what? And he beats him before they can even do the game because he's gone ahead, done the whole game sort of thing. It's just a lot of funny things in it. I really like that movie, actually. Maybe I'll revisit it. Sometimes. I watch it fairly. It's kind of like my chips. I don't think people like that.

I like chips. Okay, chips. But I quite. If I sit on Netflix, like cooking a Sunday roast or something, the kids or something, I've got my headphones on, I'm cooking like I'm watching folk. And Holmes and Watson put on. I'm laughing away at it. I find it really funny. Anyway. Segue. Well, Holmes is figuring out that something happened on Friday the 13th from a little sleepy place in Devon. And this doctor Morton was like, how on earth

have you worked this out? And he says, he says, because the paper you're reading, isn't he? He says, because the paper you're reading, I can see where it is printed. And I can also tell you about that paper that they only print that paper on a. Whatever day of the week. So therefore, the event that you're telling me about happened on a Friday the 13th, da da da da da. So why don't you cut to the chase and tell us actually why you're here? No wonder he wrote into that Holmes was opium.

He had to have something to relieve that mind, otherwise you'd go crazy. Imagine being like Elon Musk. He's like, I just want to go to sleep. So he says, look, just tell us why. Here, give me the facts. And he says, all right, I'm here because of the death of Sir Charles Baskerville two weeks ago on the moors. He says, all right, well, how did he die? He said he died of a heart failure. But the look of horror on his face. I just want plain facts, Mortimer. Plain facts.

Yeah, he doesn't want any of this nonsense. He just wants the plain facts. Yeah, you just want the a to b, not the fucking a to z to b. He says to him, now, the thing is, this guy was pretty loaded, and he's got a nephew who's coming in from South Africa. Christopher Lee called Sir Henry, and he's going to be inheriting this. It's a million pounds, isn't it? Everything's worth. And he said, I'm a bit worried he might be next, so I need you to investigate this,

please. What's happened? I got feeling someone knocked him off. He says, well, what makes you think that? He says, because there were strange footprints around his body. Almost like someone was tiptoeing around and eats juices. It's not tip turn, it's running. Running. Same. Same motion, isn't it? Feet. I suppose it is, yeah. And Holmes then says, well, look, I want to ask you a question. Do you really believe in dark forces? And Doctor Mortimer. So this is our little horror

elevation. He's so good at Holmes. He's great, isn't he? Yeah, because he's a bit. Bit cunty as well. Because Holmes is always a little bit. No, Holmes is always a little bit. Yeah. It's not cunt. Yeah, but sometimes it can be. There's one scene in this later, patronizing. But he only does that because he sometimes when he's a cunt, it's on purpose. He's doing it. It's a forced cunt. It's not actually him being a cunt. He's doing it for a reason, to find something else out there. And he

does it in this. Yes. Which you're gonna see. He does it later on. Very rude. Rudely later. And then I realized why he was doing it. But he nevertheless, he accepts the case. I love it. He turns to Watson, he says, this is a two pipe case, Watson, I need more tobacco, more opium. Yeah, I totally got that there. Two pipe cases. Yeah, just sit that. There's enough smoke just to go. That's about 20 minutes to think. Brilliant, you know. So he, um,

he sends Watson, doesn't he? Says to Watson, you're gonna have to go on your own in. Oh, actually, no, no, they go to the hotel first. He says to me, you're not doing anything, are you, Watson? No, no. Okay, well, why don't you go down there and I'll join you in a week. Well, actually, before that, they do go to meet Sir Henry at the hotel, don't they? Oh, okay, sorry. Yeah, I got it wrong, too. It's fine. They go to. So they go.

There's a quite a classic case of mistaken identity here where they turn up at Christopher Lee, who plays Sir Henry at his hotel room, and he just, as soon as he sees them, he goes, good God, what's taking you so long to get here? I've lost one of my boots. You know, everything's crap about this hotel. You're supposed to be a manager. He hasn't even said, who are you? And he doesn't know he's speaking to Holmes and Watson. Anything?

Well, he thinks it's the hotel magic. He's lost a boot. Ah. Anything goes like that in a, you know, a murder mystery type thing. If something happens and it's slightly signaled. Slightly. You're like, yeah, hmm. You've lost a boo. Okay. And then Doctor Mortimer arrives and he's like, do you know, these two are. They're not the hotel owners. Their homes. And Watson, he's like, oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed. I'm so sorry. I might just watch this film once we finish recording again,

because I do quite like this. Just Chuck. It's good, isn't it? It's good. So they do formal introductions and then they really chat about who he is. He's come in from Johannesburg, South Africa, that's where he lived. And he intends to move into this huge mansion on the moors. They ask him very specific questions and they're a bit embarrassed. He's like, how much is it worth? Just tell me. I don't care. I'm. I just need to know. A million pounds.

Great. Now, obviously that's a lot of money, but then it's a lot of money now. And then he says, and how much? What about you, Doctor Mortimer? And he's like, well, he left me 14,000 pounds. And he's like, okay, it's 40, actually. 40,000, which actually is a ridiculously huge amount of money. And you're thinking like. Because he says to Mortimer says, well, I don't need to know how much I got. Well, I do, because it's important for the case. 40,000, if you must know.

And it's like, whoa. He says, well, I was his best friend after all, isn't it? And then he says to Sir Henry Christopher Lee, he says to him, you're the last in line, and I think your life may be in danger. And Christopher Lee's like, do you know what? I don't care. I've just inherited a million pounds worth of mansion on the moors and I am moving on in, baby. Yeah, it's one of those things, though, when you. If this

was okay. You're by yourself, though. I know you've got Alice and the kids, but if you were by yourself, if that all son came up, you could go and live in this big mansion by yourself. Be kind of. It wasn't Wi fi. We got a member back in the day. You know, you go out there and just be like, this is a bit shit, innit? No, I'd love it. Bit peace. Yeah. I don't know. Imagine the library you've got there. Probably got a library full of books. To be

fair, it wouldn't bother me not being around people too much. I'd love it. Well, Holmes says, look, here's the deal, Christopher Lee, I'm too busy right now for the next week, but I'm going to send my colleague, Doctor Watson. Colleague here is going to come down. Sexy Watson is going to go with you on the train. It's not a puff daddy party, but. Something happens before

that. Before something happens, he says to him, something which you hear in american warehouse in London, he says to him, but when you get through to Devon, whatever you do, never ever go out on the moors on your own at night. And Sir Henry's like, all right, why would I? Then something happens, Gav, what happens to. Tarantula on Christopher Lee's shoulder? Appear to move and then like, knocks it off and then dramatically hits the floor

with his cane? Yeah, well, he batters it to death with his cane, doesn't he? Which I'm sure Sarah won't be happy about. No, but we didn't. You didn't actually see it? No. Two things. Two bits of trivia for you. We don't often do a lot of trivia, but firstly, in real life, Christopher Lee's only phobia was spiders and tarantulas. So he was genuinely quite afraid because for ages they didn't show him with the spider. You just saw the close up, which is, I'm assuming it probably wasn't him.

But there is one shot where there is a real tarantula on Christopher Lee's shoulder. And apparently that look of fear on his face is quite real. Secondly, Peter Cushing hated, hated the taste of tobacco. So every time they called cut on a scene where he'd been smoking a pipe, apparently his assistant had a glass of cold strawberry milkshake ready for him to take a big sip off. Get my milkshake ready, I've got to do a scene with tobacco pipes

ready waiting for him. Fair enough. I mean, if you're Peter Cushion, you're gonna be drinking strawberry milk aches all the time, aren't you? I would. So there we go. So, yes, they think that this tarantula was potentially a assassination attempt or the curse at work. The curse of the baskerville is at work. So Watson goes down there and on the way down, actually told about another we get into play here in the story, another thing which could be

like a whole thing which could be dangerous. A prisoner has escaped from prison. Yeah. So Doctor Mortimer, Sir Henry and Doctor Watson are in a carriage and this is where quite a rude, he's like a cabbie, the guy that taking them, and he's quite rude, he sort of says, well you be careful, you get your bloody throat slit in a minute. Like getting out of a cab in London and the guy going, oh, you're in a bad neighborhood, you're going to

get your throat cut in a minute. Because they're like, what do you mean? Last year I actually walked all around, did a ghost watch around Dartmoor prison in the dark. It's great. Well, did you get your throat cut by a ghost? No, thank God. So yeah, this cabbie says to them, a murderer is on the loose. Watch out, you might end up getting your throat cut. And Doctor Mortimer's like, you know what, I give zero fucks. See you later. And he goes off on foot, on his

own. He just goes off on his own. He doesn't care. The Watson character in all the Sherlock Holmes films, especially the ones that I like, I can't remember the guy's name, it plays Watson, he's really bumbling and, and just mucks things up and sort of trips over things. Sorry, it's just, it's always that Watson's always kind

of that character quite like. I love him in the one with Benedict, Cumberland Cumberbatch, when it's Martin Freeman playing him because he's like, the reason he's got his limp is because he was in like Afghanistan. And you know, he's actually, there's a scene in one of them where someone tries to attack Doctor Watson, Martin Freeman, and he does like some badass martial arts, just brief, like military martial arts on someone. And you're like, yeah, because Doctor Watson is like a badass,

you know. Yeah, I did like that show. Yeah, me too. We really enjoyed that. Some of it was filmed just down the road for me too, when I was five, the very first episode, but there we go. So Henry is shown around his mansion, his new manor, by Mister Barrymore, the butler. Mister Barrymore. Okay, so here you go, this is all the bits you need to see. These are all the portraits. One of them is missing that will come back into the plot in just a minute. And this is all the bits and bobs of

blah, blah, blah. Now while this is all going on, poor old Watson sort of sat there drinking wine and sherry and doctor Sir Henry says, I do apologize, Doctor Watson, this is probably quite boring for you, just me hearing the family history being shown around my massive mansion. And Doctor Watson's like, it's brilliant. I've got loads of cheese to eat, loads of wine string. I'm just sat here having a great time. You guys crack

on, it's brilliant. And Barrymore says to them, oh, he then says, I do hear there's a family curse. Is that just a legend or is it real? And then Mister Barrymore's wife, smash. He drops some glasses and gets all nervous and runs off. Oh, my wife's all over the place at the moment. Oh gav, that could be a clue. Yeah. So Barrymore says, look, this is, you know, we'll tell you about the body. We find the body out of the moors and he had a look on his

face of absolute terror, terror and horror. But I'll tell you something, I'll never forget the howl, the terrible howl of that creature that I heard that night. So he's sort of really sticking the story into them there and they're like, interesting, very interesting. Then we cut to very hammer scene. Now, middle of the night, Doctor Watson wakes up in his pajamas. He is crying, doesn't he? Here's a woman sobbing, doesn't he?

Anything's bloody, by Jove. So he goes out, I love this, he steps out of his room and as he gets a couple of feet away from his room, he just stops and he thinks, fuck it, I'll go back to my bed. Then goes back to his bedroom. What does he hear out the window, Kev? Another howl. And this time he sees a tiny, tiny little light flickering on the moors in the distance. And he thinks, by Jove, says, by Jove. So there we go. The morning arrives and we get a very drunk bishop arrived,

vicar turns up. And everybody in the town knows that this is a drunk vicar that likes a drink. Soon as he turns up, you're like, give him a drink. He likes to drink. Yeah, he rocks up at the manor and Sir Henry stood there like trying to say hello to him, but he's too busy trying to collect a butterfly in his hat. He's like, oh wow, that's a very good example of lesser spotted red wing. And he's like, oh, sorry, I was trying to collect my butterfly. So he's an entomologist, he's into bugs,

but he's also really into sherry as well, isn't he? So Henry says, come on in. You know, you probably knew my uncle. I've inherited this place. Have a glass of sherry with me. And he's like, yeah. Oh, I love the sherry, that your uncle always had the best sherry in Devon. And he's just necking this sherry, then he says, may he rest in peace. And then Watson comes over and says, hello, I'm Doctor Watson, I'm here sort of looking into the case. And he says, well, the reason I'm here is this

is hilarious, this scene. He says, the reason I'm here. Why did I come here? Oh, yeah, that's why. A jumble sale. And Sir Henry, who's so posh and from been living in South Africa for loads of years, goes, a jumble cell. What on earth's that? Which listeners, if you don't know, if you're out of America? I last week went to the village jumble sale. Can you explain to our listeners who don't know what jumble sale is? Gav, please.

It's generally inside, but the one in my village they have outside, it rained on, so they had it on tables. Basically it's loads of shit that people don't want and they're selling it, so. But you give it and it goes to. All the money goes towards a fund generally. Most of it's like a garage sale or a swap meet. Yeah, this is like the local scout group. Everybody just sets up a table and just sells their shit in one church. All the one I went to like scout group, so it's. I like

all the money goes to the scout. So they've got the whole stuff. So over the year people just take stuff to them. So I picked up. I've got a Chuck Norris dvd for 25 p. You know it's right. But yeah, it's called a jumble sale because it is just a jumble of things, really. It's a very british thing. But like I say, sir Henry. So Henry has no

idea what a jumble sale is. And he says, well, basically, and this is what the pissed priest says to him, he says, basically, any old cast offs you've got, perhaps you could donate some of your old silver. You're not using silver. Donate your old silver. But of course, Henry's like, yeah, okay, sure, why not? It's not really mine, I've just inherited it. What's he doing? And go like, don't like that. Get rid of that. Do you want these silver candlesticks?

Take them there. Shit. But imagine going to the jumble sale and you're looking through, rummaging through some dvd's and you find a load of Christopher Lee Silver. And they are brilliant. What happens? People do throw out stuff. They don't realize Watson's had enough at this point. He says, oh, I'm going for a walk. Fuck you, he says, I'm going to the post office. This is. I've got a. He says, I've got an affair. Some affairs to take care of at the post office. All right, see you later,

mate. All right. And the bishop carries on chatting. The last thing he says in the scene is, now that you've inherited this beautiful manor, you'll be one of the chief judges at the beautiful mother and baby contest this summer. It's all a bit weird and drunk and cd. The vicar, though, Sarah, called him a peahead because he didn't actually have a neck. It didn't go along here. It went there to there. Yeah. So you see that listeners can't see this, so it went from chin down to sort

of bottom of throat. Adam's apple. But there was no, like, l shape, if that makes sense, where your face comes out. It was just like a whole head shape. It's like, what? But the funny thing is, I've called him a peer, but I've written piss head, so you could say he's a piss head as well. It looked like a pea for a head. Well, Watson starts exploring the moors and the countryside, explore the moors and the countryside. And he almost steps in a bear trap when a man pops out of nowhere.

His name is Stapleton. And he says, watch out. What? There's a bloody bear trap down there. We're fucking living in England. What have you got these things for? And he's like, well, catch animals, isn't it? He actually says, which I thought was actually quite ahead of his time. He actually says to him, do you not having a more humane way of doing this to the animals, that's just damn right cruelty, that is. And I was,

oh, that's quite ahead of its time, really. It is. Yeah. I don't know if that was in the original book, but well done for including there if it wasn't. He says, I'm. I'm the neighbor of the basketball manor. I'm the nearest neighbor. My name's Stapleton. And he says, I'll give you. I'll come up and meet Sir Henry at some point. But for now, before I leave, you give you one bit of advice. Don't step off the tracks. Watson's like, fucking out, lads. So Watson sticks to the path. What does he

see? Gav finds a woman, but she. But busty girl with no shoes over. It in Dane, sitting on some rocks and stuff. So he said, hello, good morning. Then she runs away from. So he chases her. My first question, why does he chase her? Well, first of all, he says, good morning, and she didn't answer him. Then he says, I've got myself a little bit turned around. Could you please direct me the way back to the Baskerville manor? And that's when she just

pegs it away from him. So is he chasing because he's lost and needs to know where he's going? Because that's not a good idea. But at the same time, it's like, why are you chasing this lady? It's weird. I think it's because he's more worried. Well, I think it's because he's more worried about her. I think so. But it's like, hang on, she probably knows more way around here than you do, city boy, you know? Yeah. Because he's like, be careful. I've been told there's quicksand. Surely she knows.

And then he ends up getting stuck in the fucking swamp. And he falls in and Stapleton and the girl run over and they put him out. He says, um, this is Cecile, my daughter. Stop looking at her boobs. He says he doesn't, but you might as well say that. And he says, uh, you've got to be careful around here. And you shouldn't be out here either, is Cecile. Because there's that bloody escaped convict

that we keep mentioning in the plot. That's been really hard for, like, if you say that play, said I like, there's no one around whatsoever. So, like, if you are a young sort of person, especially a woman, like, like the farmer's daughter, do you know what I mean? It is like, must be really hard to be stranded when you just got, like, a mum and dad and their relationships done. But you're literally this pre Internet, I'm saying,

completely out of nowhere. Must have been so hard. He always, boy, I suppose as a male, you probably had more chance to leave because you'd be, I'm gonna join the army or gonna go somewhere. I'm gonna go traveling. She probably could, but for woman, it was sort of frowned upon. Stay at home. Stay at home. Must be really hard for them. Just poor girl. Poor Cecile. Yeah, but find out. Actually, they're a bunch of crooks, but. We go, well, they, they're nice to Watson,

though, because he's obviously very wet and muddy and cold and hurt. So they put him in the back of their cart and they take the manor. By Jove, thank you. Now, when they get there, his dad, her dad, Davidon, takes Watson in the manor. And he says, cecil, you wait outside. Well, no, they go up to the hall. So Watson says to him, well, do you want to come and see Sir Henry now? And he says, good time as Eddie. And that's where he says, you stay here to this daughter.

And they just stay inside the hall. But then Sir Henry comes along, and he's just like, hello. Yeah, well, he's not just hello. He's like, hello again. Sir Henry's a single bloke all of a sudden. Now he's in fucking bum tit ass nowhere. And he's just like, look, he's gav. He's just come over from Johannesburg. He's inherited a million pound mansion. There's many ladies around, though. There's a lady here with her boobs. Well, this one is so. Yeah,

so he. Straight away, you know, things are stirring in the downstairs department. Well, she runs off. So he chases her, going again. What is up with this woman? And this time, chase me. Chase me. She gives him a big kiss, which. Is mixed messages, love. Mixed messages. Run away from me. And now you're kissing me. Most women run away from me after they've kissed me. Go. They were just running away from me and not kissing me. Dan, I'd always kiss you.

So Henry then goes to meet Stapleton, and he's very frosty with him. And that's kind of the end of that scene. Nighttime. Next scene. Nighttime. This time, more sobbing. I actually say nighttime. That's my note. Nighttime. More sobbing. And this time Henry hears it. Fantastic shadow effects here. Now, as Henry is snooping around and you see his big shadow on the wall of a or door. And then you see another shadow move behind him. And it's Doctor Watson.

And it's just done so well. Nice little bit of shadows. Very hammer, very classic. Absolutely love it. They enter this room that the sobbing is coming from. And they can see that there's a light on the moor again. And it looks like someone's been signaling at the house from the moors. Who could it be? Let's go out to the moors together. They didn't listen. What was told to them. Watson's like, how many times do I. Are you like a child? A disobedient child that just keeps doing it.

So they get a Watson's got his pistol, and they run out onto the moors together in the middle of the night. So proud of me. They find a candle like a lantern that was signaling back to the house. So they know there was somebody out there. And then they. They chase and they hear a howl again. But then Christopher Lee, Sir Henry, clutches his chest, and he sort of falls over a bit. And it's like, my heart. What does Watson do? Pulls out his hip flask. Ego? Have some of that.

If you're having a heart attack, drink some of my whiskey. That'll help you out. It's such old school like ideas, isn't it? Okay, good man. Have some of this. And he's like, thank you. Thank you. They head back. How's the whiskey to go, David? If you have an art attack, have a whiskey. But they do see, like, what? A woman's in labor. Give her some booze because it slows down your heart rate. And it. You know, I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe there is. I mean, Doctor Watson.

He's a doctor, like, you know, maybe. I don't know what he's a doctor of, is. He's like Doctor Dre. I don't know. And as they head back to the manor. So the heart problem is through the bloodline. Basketballs. Is that hereditary thing? It is indeed. And that's known by somebody, isn't it? Because that's how the original was killed and that's how they're trying to kill this one. So the moors are fucking fantastic, by the way. The colors and the fog, they just

look so good. Now, I've got a question for you. So the final part of this scene, as they head back to the moors, to the mansion, they see somebody stood on top of the hill, watching them. Like the outline of silhouette of someone. Now, when you did the very, very, very first trailer for the shadow of death all those years back, did you have this in mind? No. Because, you know the bit. I mean, where there's someone. Exactly. The bit where I just panned out really far from John holding the head.

Yeah. That's what it reminded me of. Really far out. No, I just thought it looked good. Never made it even into the actual film. That was just a trailer put together. Just. That was before I even got involved. That's where I shot a different camera as a whole. That was. Someone gave me a camcorder, and I watched Grindhouse on the same day. And I was given a camcorder when I can make a horror movie. And that started deadbolt films. So they get back. Goes back to the moors

again. Like, how many times, Watson? Every time. First of all, they put Henry to bed. I. They took him in. You had a heart attack. Have a good sleep. Drink booze, just sleep it off. So that's what I do. Elijah thinks sometimes that I'm a mean dad because if all over cut himself, right, you'll be right. I can't believe you're saying I'll be all right. You don't get like, I'm trying to toughen him up, so. But you'll be right about it. Go on

with it, crack on, come on, you'll be fine. And I have to do that sometimes he thinks I'm a right mean bug, but you know, you have a heart attack just getting bed, you'd be fine. That's, that's been a bit meaner. Well, he says, doctor Mortimer, you stay here and look after him, all right? And he said, well, I've got things to do, it's the middle of the night. He's like, yeah, but he's had a fucking heart attack on the moors. Look after him. Yeah, you got 40 grand? He says, he says what?

I'm probably not going to get back to sleep tonight, so I might as well. What, nothing else to do now. And then doctor, such a twat. And then doctor Watson says, I'm gonna go back to the moors to see what was going on out there. At no point does Doctor Watson go, oh, I've had much sleep, I'm tired, I'm not gonna. No, he's a trooper. That's right. Yeah, he's been in the army, so. Right, come on, we've got mission. And we get one of my favorite scenes here with the

lighting, the fog. Yeah, it's fantastic, isn't it? And this is where we hear, what are you doing out here alone? And he finds Sherlock Holmes. And he's saying, why have you left him there? So before he can answer and say, like, you know, Holmes, what you doing here? Before he could sort of say that, question him, he has to answer, oh, he's right. Doctor Mormon's there. It's fine, it's okay. It's like, right, okay. He says, what are you doing here then? And he says, well, I arrived here 4

hours after you. And he said, so you've been in Devon for a week. Little tiki bug at home. I didn't see that. It might be in the extras. Okay. So he says, when did you arrive? And he said, 4 hours after you said, so you've been endeavored a whole week? Yeah. He said, I've just been watching from the sidelines, making sure everything's going right for a week. He said, I could, I caught an. Interrogated that convict. Yeah, well, bored, sitting on the

moors. So there was a convict actually escaped. So I actually caught him and questioned him, like, okay. I find out all about him. And then they heard bloke, you know. They hear a howl and they run off and they hear a man scream. And they find what they think is Sir Henry's body face down. Movie flies, doesn't it? It does. It really does. Yeah. Yeah. They find. So they. So they think, oh, no, he's dead. Christopher Lee's dead. Doctor Watson blames himself.

We can't do anything at the moment. It's too dark. Let's go back to the manor. This is just appalling. I'm so sorry. Let me, show me your room, says Holmes. I don't know why. He's very interested in going to Watson's room. Take me to your room immediately. Watson, is this a p. Diddy pie? I don't know, but he says, all right. And on the way there, he says, hang on a minute. There's a candle in that room. And they go in the room and they find Christopher Lee not asleep in bed resting after

a heart attack. He pops up and goes, who the bloody hell are you? Oh, it's you. You two. What are you doing here? Didn't you almost have a heart attack earlier? Shouldn't you be resting, like, literally 2 hours ago? What are you doing? He's like, well, I was. I thought I'd come in here and. You know, no home. Holmes, what says to the butler, put that candle out. It serves no purpose. And the butler's a bit hesitant. And he's correct. It does serve no purpose in the day to day schemes of things.

But we know. Well, later on, we find out in the butler knows there's a reason why that light's there. But Holmes knows that. Holmes knows exactly what he knows. He knows what's playing that with the butler put out, no reason. He wants to know what his reactions could be. This is that statement. This is that classic Jessica Fletcher Colombo where they've already worked out within two minutes of arriving. But for us, the audience, we get to now, let them, let people

trip themselves up and reveal things. You know, I just love, I love the detectives that do it like that. Like Columbo is my favorite, because I love the way he knows throughout the whole hour of that hour, you know, 90 minutes of that program you're watching, but he's just waiting for the person to give it all away themself, you. Know, I can't wait till I can unbox my dvd's at my new place and I can get my Columbo set out again and start cracking on. It's so good.

So they go back in the morning. They said, there's no point in going back tonight. We won't be able to see anything. You know, it's all very logical. So they go back in the morning when it's light and they find out that it was actually the convict that was dressed in Henry's clothing. Where did he get these clothes from? We don't know. We'll find that out later. And he says, well, where the hell is doctor? Mortimer asked him to stay here and look after. He said, oh. We ended up arguing

and he left. And I've written my notes here at this point, Mortimer. Because Mortimer's a dick, isn't he? Well, at this point I suspected it was Mortimer. Yeah, I agree. It does. It does. He is definitely a colorful fish. He's put across as he is a colorful fish. A little red herring there and a little blue tuner. But they all decide to go to bed. They're all poo. And as he walks up the stairs, Holmes also says, hmm, there's a missing portrait here. Interesting. He saw, he's building.

He's got everything in his head. It's like a machine. He's putting the case together. So morning time, they find a bloody trail along the moors and they find the body. Yeah, this was a bit of an odd one. Body's been mutilated in a ritualistic. It's been cut up for a sacrifice, they say, like, okay, so where does this come from? Well, yeah, so this is the convict. New horror has come into this thing all of a sudden. And it's been done with a dagger,

the curved dagger with the Baskerville crest. So this is the curved dagger that was seen in the opening scenes. But just the fact that there's been a sacrifice. It's been like, that's a bit like quite darker. It's all of a sudden throwing that in there like, okay. They said, what human could have done this? Holmes then questions the butler Barrymore and his wife. And he tricks them into admitting their real names because he says, he says,

now then, Mister Barrymore, chat, chat, chat. And then he says, and how about you, Misses Selden? He doesn't call her misses Barrymore. He says, miss. And she says, yes, I know, hang on. What do you call me that. Because they're in front and conversation, conversation, the conversation is already rolling, questioning going on. And it just throws it in there. But without any hesitation, it's very cleverly done. And she has given the game away. And she reveals the convict that's now dead was

her brother, Selden. And he was wearing the jumble sale clothes. Yes. So she gave. She gave him old clothes, which they. Would have been Sir Henry's oldenhouse clothes, though, because. So how many? Zane just got there. Yeah, but it must have been. But the priest said to him, give me your silver and you give me your clothes to me. So he did. But it couldn't be his clothes, though. So I'm saying, though, he's only just got there. And they say, oh, then again, it could have been

some of his old clothes turned up, and now he's a millionaire. He might have just bought a whole new wardrobe. So. Yeah, okay. Um. But, yeah, so the signal. So this is what going back to the candle in the room that you mentioned, they were signaling to him when it was safe for him to come down and get some food and some clothing, he was signaling back to them, basically. The prisoner escaped, and it was the. The butler's wife's brother. And she just felt bad.

It's been like, well, he's escaped from prison. Why is he in prison? But then again, we don't know the reason. But let's take a guess that he's probably a naughty person, obviously put in the wrong for wrong reasons or corruption or something that. But let's take a guess. He's annoyed person. And you can't really feel sorry for him, to be honest with you. No, but that is a great. That that plot line subplot is a great red herring threaded in there.

And ends now, halfway through the film ends, and we know that that's nothing to do with the rest of it. That story's now sort of gone, but. Because. And he's dead as well. She said, he's like, I'm afraid he's dead out there. You know? And it's quite sad in a way, I guess, but before the sister's loss. But I don't care for the prisoner so much, if that makes sense. But I do care for that. She's, like, trying to look after him now he's dead, and it feels like he was out on the moors

pretty much almost the same as being in prison. She can't actually see him anymore. He's in prison, being out in the moors still like a distant and all of a sudden gone. Now. It wouldn't have been such a shocking thing for lymph. Seen her brother every day all of a sudden, because he's been in prison stuff, but he still felt quite sorry for, in a way, with a. With a lesser director that and perhaps a more modern film. Yeah, yeah.

But it wouldn't have worked. But this worked so well because everyone's so committed to their acting and, you know, everything in this. So Holmes now goes to visit the bishop, who he knows is an entomologist, because he suspects he might have something to do with that tarantula that was there back in London. Yeah, he asked him about spiders and stuff. P head vicar. So he goes there and he says he's hammered again, staring for a telescope.

Wait, yeah, because he's having problems with his telescope. Yeah. This is, this. This is just ridiculous, though. I love it. I love it. He can't see properly, first of all. Then smashes a window with a telescope. Oh, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. He can't move it because it's a bit stiffen. Holmes looks at it and goes, hmm, have you got some graphite grease? Gives him this, like, graphite grease stuff. And he goes, hmm, puts it around it and

then the hinge works like that. Isn't. That isn't great detective work? I could have done that one. Basically, you need a bit of lube on your hinge there. And that move fine. And because it takes me back to. My p 2d times, but basically because it happens, he goes to move it like he's used to move in it, where it's all old and stiff, hits it just slightly and smashes a window. Oh. Oh, this is good now. Yes, you're so clever. He says, I do wish misses Jones wouldn't keep closing those windows.

That's all he says. He smashed the window with his telescope, but he's too pissed to care about it. It's not. It's not like some intelligent crazy thing that she'll. Only Sherlock Holmes could do as well. Which really frustrated me in a little way because it was literally like, you just got some grease on your hinge. That's it. Well, Holmes again, it's not a hinge. Sorry. It's a rotating.

Whatever it's called. Holmes again, tricks him. And it's not hard because he's quite drunk, into revealing that he had one of his spiders stolen. And he says, but he was very poisonous spider, so hopefully it's not roaming around London. And he says, no, it's not roaming around London because I destroyed it with my staff. He killed it, he squished it. And he's like, okay. He's like, well, I'll see you later. And he just sort of leaves.

Leaves the drunk bishop alone. And then Sir Henry is wandering around and he goes to visit his neighbour, Stapleton. Knocks on the door, obviously. So he goes to see that, basically, he goes to open up, opens the door. The daughter's there. She opens the door, obviously. He goes in. We can wait for dad. And then they start kissing. Well, before that. Okay. She says, come in. Would you like some cider? He's like, yes, I would. So they have a little bit of cider.

I was gonna say something else. Does she want something inside her? I thought you might. Well, he says, my father's not here. He's gone to invite you here for dinner, actually, funnily enough. So when you see him later, she also reveals, by the way, I'm half Spanish. It's like, oh, yeah? Yeah. And she says, and I'm very lonely. Yeah. She's saying, basically, saying, basically, I don't want to be here if a woman. Says to you, I'm half spanish and I'm very lonely, Bob's your uncle. And Lee

wants some. So they kissed. And. And then the dad turns up. Awkward. Well, just before that, the dad turns up, just as she says to him, will you meet me tonight? Yeah, yeah. And then they let rains. And then the dad's there. So imagine that. Imagine coming home and then your new neighbor's just coming next door. You come home and he's snogging your. Daughter, and your daughter's just whispering to him, come in. Come and meet me. Hello. Well,

he keeps his composure. He says, sit down. Let's have a cider together. Doesn't even mention it once. He says, let's have a cider together. But we do know that these guys later on, spoiler, are crooks. So that's why he doesn't mention it, because it's a part of the plan. It is. And so happy when he sees that. But it's just bit really. It's really odd, though, getting your daughter, sell your daughter out sexually just so you can get your society off, you know?

Now, Holmes has deduced that this tarantula from earlier was meant to try and induce the heart attack, which it never did because he killed it before it could scare him. But they do discuss the case a bit. They meet up with Doctor Mortimer and he seems very tense. And Holmes is quite accusatory. He asks him about an old tin mine and he says to him, you must stay away from the tin mine. And Holmes. Okay, he's being a bit defensive there. Mortimer he

says, I think you should come with us. Come with us to the tin mine. And he shows him, he says, I found this, this curved dagger, automatically, out. Of nowhere, frozen knife into a table. I found this. All right, Holmes, what's going on? Jesus Christ, why did you make it so dramatic? Why didn't you just say, I found this. Rather than possibly stabbing the poor fella. He says to him, how old do you think is? He goes, I couldn't possibly say. A couple of hundred years old. He goes on,

how old's the blood on it? I don't know. The evidence is gone now, probably. He says, well, I found it at the crime scene. So they head to the mine, he drags him there, and watson says, our way up here. But this is the point where we have Holmes's classic deer stalker hat. He does indeed, yes, his dear stalker. Magnifying glass, those classic homes. So Watson doesn't go down in the tin mine, and listeners, if you ever. Go to Baker street looking for Holmes residence, it doesn't exist.

Oh, by the way, the reason they've gone to the tin mine is because holmes looked at a map of Devon and realized that this tin mine could be something to do with the case. It could be to do like with tunnels and escaping around on the mortgage. So he wants to see if there is a dog or a wolf or something. It could be living in there. So he heads to

the tin mine. Watson waits up top. So it's Stapleton, the neighbour, Doctor Mortimer and Sherlock Holmes, and they talk about how it's too dangerous down there, but they go anyway. And Holmes goes off to explore. He finds an Indiana Jones Minecart. The other two wait further back, then they hear a howl of. And I think they push this Minecart, Gav, don't you? Because this Minecart comes flying at Sherlock Holmes and causes a huge

landslide. Yeah. Oh, no. We cut to them sort of climbing out, going, well, we've tried for, for ages, we can't find him down there. If he's down there, he's dead. There's no way he's alive. No, absolutely not. They turn around and he sat in. The cart going, smoking a pipe. What taking you so long? Okay, right, I'd be like this, right? Holmes, if you've been out in your fine, why didn't you fucking tell us your dickhead been sitting there trying to hunt?

Fucking pull you out. You're sitting here in a fucking pipe. Even says, Watson says, how did you get out? And he says, listen, I've hurt my leg. I'm very cold and I'm very hungry. Why don't you get me back for ten minutes? It's like, ten minutes. We've still been digging for you, you dickhead. So they take him back. That's the only thing in here which Holmes annoyed me. Don't be such a dick. That's a dick move. Just to prove how fucking clever

you are. He explains. He explains that he found a really big bone down there, like a big beef bone that you'd feed a dog. And then he says, pass me my tobacco, Watson. He said, it's not here. And he said, don't be ridiculous, man. It's in the top right drawer. It's not here. And he said, what? Where's the dagger? And the dagger has also been stolen, so someone's been in his room and stolen the evidence. Ooh. So Sir Henry tells Sherlock Holmes,

guys, you probably don't want to come, but I've been invited to. You're not coming. Really? You don't have to come at all. He's invited for a meal next door to the neighbors on purpose, turns into cunt and says, well, I don't like your peasant friends and you shouldn't be going. Yeah, he's really roots, him. He says, have fun with your peasants. He says, how dare you? I won't have you speak of a woman like that. Purpose.

He could have just said, mankle hurts. I'm not gonna go faster. Anyway, I'll have you know I kissed this busty wench twice in the last day. I'm hoping for some slippery, slippery, sloppy stuff around my genital area later. Oh, good day to you. When he runs off. But it's all. It's all done on purpose to make him leave without them because Watson calls him out on it and went home. He's just like, look, I'd had to be a

cunt to make him run off. Yeah. So we cut to Sir Henry and Cecile kissing on the boars. Watson is, you know, it's like Batman and Robin. Watson's with Holmes all the time. Always there. He's always there. Probably lives in the same house, but in a different room. You know, they share a bed, like Bert and Ernie. They're always together. And Bill and Ted. There's many, many months we could put together. They're always together.

Gavin Dan basis? I was going to say us, actually, but Raj reliving the same house or thing, but, like, he still doesn't. He still doesn't know when Holmes is put in a ruse. Like, he's been a cunt on purpose because Watson's a bit of a diffie when it comes down to it, but you need Watson because Watson's actually the heavy, which, you know, think about. But Watson is the one that can actually do some martial arts and stuff and has a gun. He's the one. So,

like, if he's a doctor. Yeah. Yeah. So an old school computer game. You could choose your characters and you can have two of you playing and going along the screen. And that's great because you've got that one because he's got the gun, but the other one, he's got the real intelligence, like it would be the magician or the mad, you know, wizard. So, yeah, amazing. Well, we see Sir Henry. So Christopher Lee and Busty Cecile are kissing on the moors. A little shot of that there.

And this is where things are starting to come together now because Holmes reveals that the missing portrait that we've mentioned a couple of times, it was actually a portrait of Stapleton the neighbor. And the reason it was taken down is because it reveals he's got a webbed hands. Weird. And that actually Stapleton the neighbor is next in line. So if he kills Sir Henry, me. And Dan Aykroyd have the same webbed feet. Oh, how, what do you, you have them on weekends and he has them on weekdays.

He's got web toes in the exact same place where I have rip toes on both feet. And he thinks that science do if his his one of his things supernatural. I was like, am I special too? He's a bit mad and he dumb. Yeah. But if ever I meet him, I'll fucking pull them, take my shoes and socks off and just going, look, hey. He'Ll be like. I don't know. Anyone else has got web feet. Both. Do you think he's actually received a blowjob from a ghost in real life? No. Maybe. It doesn't

help me swim any fast, I don't think. What, getting a blowjob from a ghost? No, web feet. All right, so yes, it's a bit of a weird, convoluted, but it works. Basically, the portrait was taken down because it showed that Stapleton's next in line. So the whole thing is that Stapleton and his daughter hate the Baskervilles and they want to kill Sir Henry by frightening him to death because they know that they've all got bad hearts in that side of the family honeymoon.

I suppose it does, yeah. It does frighten you to death. I know that one of you is a werewolf. I love haunted honeymoon. I've not seen it since we recovered it. Such a good film. So, yes, that's why Cecile was seducing him to his death, essentially. I mean, her dad's probably said, give him a really good shag, he might drop dead from that. He's got a bad heart. If that doesn't work, we'll get the hind of the basketballs onto him. Either way, we're going to kill him.

You get laid and we both get rich. That's a bit horrible thing to say about your kid. It is, but money's money at the end of the day. No, it's not. No, it's not. So Holmes and Watson wait at the ruins on the moor. This is where we get your favorite green lighting coming in, though. Holmes and Watson go down into a certain area of a cave and in the rock formation bit, and there's kind of a doorway and they go into it and there's a. There's been a purposely lit

green light basically put in there, which is. Looks gorgeous, but means nothing. No natural lighting would be there whatsoever. Because generally when you like a scene, even you have a. Your key, which is your main, and then you got Phil's, which is wherever. Normally, most time you have a light in a scene, you kind of go, let's put realism in here. Where could that be coming from? And trying to do like that? Unless you're Dario Argento or Terence Fisher doing this shot here. And you just

like. There's just green light in here. Terrence said he wants green. What? Look what Terry wants. Something he gets. All right, but go and get the green bulbs. The thing is, though, I don't care. It doesn't make me go, well, I'm not watching this film again. Because that light isn't natural. No, because you know what you're getting with a hammer film, don't you? You know you're gonna get. And I. But it still wouldn't put me off,

even if it was slightly off. Like tomorrow. Tomorrow night, I can't say the finale of the film, but there's gonna be, you know, cuz you. There's messages. We're gonna have a big thing like this. And it could be lit behind it on doing hand signals to Dan. And there's no reason why that would be. There's literally no reason. I've said to them, can it be red? And there's no reason. In the woods you gave a big fucking structure of a red light. But it's a style choice. I'm doing

it because why the fuck not? So, yeah, well, in this basking, in this green light, Holmes and Watson wait at the ruins and Cecile and Sir Henry Shelley up and kiss a bit more. She then reveals her plan to him. And she was the girl at the beginning of the film who ran away, who was trying. They almost raped her. And she actually is a Baskerville two. Her mother was related to them. She slaps Lee and says, you're not the first Baskerville who wanted it. Yeah.

Oh, great. I'll get sloppy seconds from my relatives, am I? We get another howl of, oh, the. Appearance of the hound. And it's so well done still. It looks terrifying. It's a big dog with a really weird face. It's got a big mask on it. Yeah. And it attacks Sir Henry. Yeah. Apparently the dog was quite vicious that they used. And there was a boy, a little boy on set watching them do this. And they said, don't worry, you know, we've got the dog really well trained.

And the dog really went for Christopher Lee. And at the last minute, it turned and its owner saw the dog turn and look at the boy, and he knew the look in his dog's eyes. And they. He grabbed the dog and stopped it. And they said, why is that boy on set? Because it was dark as well. Shouldn't have been there. Yeah, it looks like fucking the dog. Was like, I'm gonna eat that, boyden. Yeah, but, yes. So imagine if that happened. You're not even have this movie.

Jesus Christ. Well, Watson shoots Stapleton dead, and Holmes shoots the dog. Cecil runs off. This is really crafted, well done. The editing is fantastic. And that actually, because I've even got here, it's edited really well and looks good. That goes back to then, Terrence Fisher being an editor. It does, because normally. But at this point in a film, it gets a bit muddy, doesn't it? And we're sort of zooming through it. But this is actually done very well.

Especially here, though. Geography could easily go out of place. You can get confused because it's all grey, rocks with some fog. Someone shooting a dog. Somebody else is shooting a man. It plays fine. Yeah, it works very nicely. Cecil runs off. They said, don't worry about her. I find her later. Look, let me show you the hound, Sir Henry. And he's like, I don't think I want to see it then. I think you do. And he takes the mask off. What he said is that it's actually a dog that had been kept in

the tiny. Sad, really, because it's not dog's fault. It's been starved there. And basically they let it out at night to scare Sir Henry with a mask on. And they gave him the missing boot from London ascent. Yes. So it would try and track him down. They find Cecile stuck in the swamp. You dick it and she dies. Yep. And. Amazing last line from, from Sherlock Holmes. He says the curse has claimed its last victim.

Yeah. And then, well, the end is Holmes and Watson back in their house and they get a parcel from, from Christopher Lee. They're like, what has he sent you? He sent us the missing portrait of the webbed hand as a thank you along with a check for, you know, my time. And then he says the last word of this film. Muffin. That's the last word Watson says, muffin. I did not expect the last word of this hammer horror film to be muffin,

but it is and that's it. And what a fantastic, classy, brilliant Sherlock Holmes hammer horror, british whodunit, a couple of great red herrings. Very stylistic. As british as they come. Did you like it? I loved it. Oh, yeah. I chose it, so. Yeah, you did. I've only got a few hammer movies on Blu ray. Got plague of zombies, Dracula, Prince of Darkness. And I've got this because they're quite hard

to. They're quite a little expensive and quite hard. I wish I came up but like sort it out and do like, just like, I've got the dvd box set, but I wish they'd do like a Blu ray special thing. I don't know why they haven't done it. They would make a fucking killing. I've got to stand it. I've got a little dvd box that's got like six in it. There's that one and then there's the. Obviously the big square one which you can open up. Yeah, I haven't got that

one. Yeah, because I remember, like, I spoke about this before we did the hammer thing. HMV one. I went in HMV one time and they had a crate of these hammer ones there, all for 20 pound or 15. God. And there's a crate and they were just like trying to. Because they were going for like 70 when they first came out. And I went in there and it's like 19.99. I was like, take my money. Take my money, man. Yeah. Because, um, I've got the gorgon, I've got plague of zombies.

But, yeah, like you said, but blu. Ray, it's really hard and they're quite expensive, the Blu rays. And to buy them separately I wish they just do like a collection, much. Like arrow or somebody. Somebody like that could come along. I don't understand why it's not done. So if I ever get a chance to speak to someone from hammer, I will bring it up. Get your shit together. But listen, if you've not seen this and or you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes or hammer or all of the above, you're going to

really love this. If you've seen it, go put it on. You know, put a blanket of yourself. Yeah. Sunday afternoon viewing, fucking perfect. It's getting colder. It's perfect time to watch it. It's wonderful, wonderful stuff. Well, talking of wonderful stuff, look who's just walked in the room. Billy Murray. Oh, here he is. He heard us talking about Dan Aykroyd's web's feet and he's got all excited. He's got his glass of sherry just like the drunken bishop. Yep.

And he's saying he wants to be very british. What does that mean, though? I don't know. No, no, we're not going dogging, Bill. That isn't a british pastime. Look, just take us into world of the strange for good sake. Hi, welcome back to the world of a strange world. By jove, it's the word of the strange. What's it word of the strange. Thank you, Billy. Billy Murray. Stories about Hammersh. No, it's hammers about stories. What? No, I've got something very british

to talk about. But before I get into that, I've got two real life stories that came to me in the last week. One of them is about this very house I'm in. I might spook myself out telling you this. Oh, that's great. Now, my son Jack is currently potty training and he is having a bit of an anxious time. Blessing he's not sleeping great. And yeah, we were in the living room on the weekend, just me and him, because my wife took my daughter out. So do some one to one time, get that potty training.

Good to do that. And me and him had a really good weekend. We watched some great films together and played some great games and it's so. Lovely films you're watching now. Princess Bride, labyrinth, the same sort of stuff, really. But he, you know, he's got the attention span now to sit and watch them with me and he asks for them. But anyway, we were in our living room and he looked at that door and went, oh, who's that? I went, what? And he said, someone peeped around the door at me, daddy. Oh,

God, I said, what? No. And he went, I think it's mummy. I can hear someone out there. I said, there's no one home, Jack. Mummy's not home. And he ran into the dining room going, hello, Mummy, Daddy. Who was it peeping at? Me. And I said, there's no one peeping at you, Jack. And I was thinking, okay, this is getting a bit creepy now. And then later on, we were in the dining room and my daughter was home at this point, so it's me and both my children. And he said,

oh, that monster's back. And I said, what? And he went, I just seen him in the kitchen this time, peeping at me around the corner. And I went, right, you're gonna have to show me because I freaked out, but obviously need to be a brave dad and say, look, I've got to show you. There's nothing in the kitchen you can't say again. Oh, don't, I'm scared. So I went in the kitchen. I said, where is it? He said, it went back under the sink, under the, covered under the sink.

So I opened the cupboards and said, look, it's just saucepans under it. There's nothing. He went, oh, I did see it. I don't know where it's gone, though. And then later on, Alice said to him, what did it look like? And he said, I had a gray face like a zombie or something. And she said, what did it want? He said it wanted to come in and get me. Well, maybe that's his imagination. It might be, but either way, that's. What you got to do. Set up camera. I don't want to.

Very quickly I went into, I don't know if I told you this. I was, it's really funny, I might have said this, I don't remember. I was with Sarah and went into like a charity shop in her town and ended up just bought, buying a couple of horror movies. And then the cashiers started chatting to me and it was the manager and she, she started saying about, downstairs is haunted. And I was like, oh, what, the basement? Yeah. And afterwards she's like, do you want to come look? Yeah.

So she took us down to the basement and she's like, no, it's pretty hard down there. Shit moves, stuff always going on. And I was like, really? I was like, I've got a camera back at Sarah. I could bring it back in now and leave it here. Can I do it? So, no, no, no. And she wouldn't let me. I was like, please just leave a. Camera for like an hour. Go shopping, come back and just take it, please. But no. If you can do that overnight. Yeah. I actually said

to her, I'd happily stay overnight if you want, or even. Just leave the camera. But they can't do it because she's just mad. She can't just let a random person stay in the basement. What she could tell the head office, well, he's looking for. He's a ghostbuster. He's a ghost hunter. Well, the other thing that came to my attention, which is another real life story, a lady that I work with, good friend of mine, I've worked with her for over ten years, Emma. Shout out to you,

Emma. She's got a friend whose daughter has a doll, and this doll has been with. I think the daughter must be about five, six. She's had this doll for about two or three years. And they take this doll everywhere. This daughter she takes when they go on holiday, she takes the doll, and she brings a little suitcase with clothes in it for the doll. And I've been sent pictures of this girl, you know, with the doll, just pictures that are on social media. And she

takes. She thinks it's her real sister, to the point that my friend Emma's daughter's been invited to a party for, a birthday party for the doll that she's saying to her daughter, you're not going to that party. And then there was an argument the other day between the children because her daughter said, it's not your sister. It's a piece of plastic. Even as a five year old, she was like, it's a piece of plastic.

And this girl's like, it's my real sister. And the doll is really creepy, and I think there's something supernatural and sinister about it. And it turns out that the same time she got given the doll was around the same time her grandma died. Okay, so it's like. That'S right, the grand soul's gone into the doll. Soul in the doll. Gotta pay the toll to get into this boy's soul. I forgot. Actually, it made me think about. Actually, I did get to watch another

movie. I know we're not doing the intro very, very quickly. I went to cinema, Sarah, and we watched the new movie with that british guy. Hmm. He's in a house in the country in Cornwall and writes some people down. To them, do you mean? Yeah, it's a remake from, like, just two years ago or something. The scottish guy, James McAvoy. That's it. There we go. That's pretty good. Pretty decent. Just, I've heard it's very good. Yeah, it's not bad.

He's decent. He's a good actor. James McBoy is a huge horror fan and is frustrated beyond belief that horror never gets any recognition. Is he? Yeah, he's really the interview for speak new evil. He was doing some public publicity stuff and he was like, I never understand why a genre that can talk about so many layers and politics and social and this, that and the other doesn't get enough recognition. Yeah. And can also be

funny. And this, that and the other. Why doesn't it get the recognition? Yeah. Same reason oscars, they're just like, nah, it's whatever. Because he's been in, like, all the Shyamalan stuff, you know, he's done quite a lot. Give him a ring if he wants. To do some horror change. Come do some found footage. Me in the woods. He'd be like, all right, can I be Professor X again? Yes. Anyway, listen, the main bit, for word of the strange,

we're being british. We're doing hammer, we're doing Terrence Fisher stuff. So let's talk about. And these might not be weird to me and you, because we are british, Gav, but to anyone outside of Britain, these are some very strange british customs. Oh, because they won't be strange to us at all. It might be the odd one, possibly. Yeah. But when I go through these, imagine I being a foreigner. Yeah. And wondering, what the hell are they doing? So let's start with dancing around the maypole. Oh,

yeah. I love it. It's just wicked. It's wicker man all over. I love going to summer fete. And they're doing maypole dancing. Yeah. So it's very english. So to the untrained eye, it might look like just a bunch of school children. Yeah. Explain what? In different directions? But they've all got a ribbon each. And the ribbon that they're tied to a big pole in the middle. Yeah. And they all round and they weave. In and out each other to make, like, a pattern of the pole.

And it's all very sort of pagan and oldie. Englishy. Yeah. And it's still got, like. It's so still because it's such an old school thing. But it's so common, really, in England that everybody knows about it. And if you went down to a village fate, you wouldn't batter an eyelid if you saw it. You'd be like, oh, nice. You wouldn't think that's weird. You'd be like, oh, yes, maple. So it's been done since the medieval times to celebrate May Day. And, like, honestly, you don't

think it's. A weird thing if you. The original tradition was that the prettiest girl in the village was. Was the May queen. Gav, you're the May queen. I turned pretty. And all the other bright young things of the village put on their best sacks. So all the other children wear sacks apart from the May queen. And they. They do dances and jigs and they blow different instruments. Accordions, pipes. Someone plays a fiddle, they wind their ribbons round and round

and round and round. A very big phallic pole, basically. And so they all end up kissing each other. So it's a very strange tradition. When they're all tied up, they all kiss each other, then they lie to a big funeral sort of pyre, and then they pretend to sacrifice the May queen to the pagan God. Apparently. The rumor is they thought back in the medieval days, they actually did sacrifice the virgin, but they don't really

have that confirmed. But, yeah. Very strange tradition that we still do in villages regularly. Yeah, yeah. Ready to stuff. Next time I'm out and I see it. We're coming up to the winter now, so we went so much. Now, next time I say it, I'll take a photo or film it a little bit and put on the. I mean, we went to a village fate here, and I saw it this year. And last time I was a village fate in your village, we watched it as well. So I've definitely

used to do it at school. We used to do it, you know, I quite enjoyed it. The next. Next one is called Jack in the green. Heard of this one? No. So basically, it's like watching loads of Hedges walk down the road. Yeah. And again, takes place in a Maybank holiday. I would. I would go, what the fuck is that? It's to do with Morris dancing as well. But that is another activity which we'll talk about in a moment.

But basically you've got these green faced bogeys, as they're called, but they're actually like these big people dressed as bushes, and they all sort of walk around and pretend to get killed on people's roofs of their buildings. And it's just a very weird May day. No, I've never heard of this or seen it, to be honest with you. They don't do it in very many villages anymore, but it's called Jack in the green and it really only happens in a couple of villages in Sussex

these days. It reminds me of a canary wolf in San Francisco. There's a guy down there, Bushman. And he was just literally have a bush. Total bush. Like, you'd think it's a bush. Then he'd go like that. And then he'd try and get money out of it. You. If you jump. Brilliant. Yeah. Give me some money. Yeah. There we go. Well, here we go, gav. Let's say you're a foreigner. Hey, my american friend, would you like to come and watch the cheese rolling? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So, cheese rolling tradition. It's attracted around up to 15,000 people travel to Gloucestershire, which is quite near me. It's such a weird thing. And basically you roll your. You've got a big wheel of cheese and you roll it down the steepest hill in Gloucestershire. It's so steep, it's almost vertical. It's crazy. People who are using an excuse for getting a massive lump of cheese, which they'd never even eat. An excuse for them just to be

crazy. What do they do? Dan? The cheese can gather speeds of 70 miles an hour because this hill, so steep. You gotta think, a massive fucking bit of cheese rolling down a hill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rolling down a hill. The winner who gets to it is the. Is the winner of the cheese. You have to chase it. But everybody. But you have to roll. Every year there's broken legs, broken bones. It's insane. Watch on YouTube. You've got to be shirtless as well. So only men generally take part

in it, although they probably change the rules in some way. I think. Last I've seen it, I haven't seen shirtless. I've seen just all sorts doing it. Yeah. But, yeah, if you. If you manage to get to the bottom, then you win the cheese, which. You'D never be able to eat all that cheese anyway. And it's just insane. Watch it. It looks like loads of test patient dummies. No one's ever died down a hill. No one's ever died. But there have been multiple concussions, broken bones, legs, arms, etcetera,

because that hill is incredibly steep. And when you're. You know, when you're running downhill that steep, you cannot stop. And once you start tripping and falling. Bouncing and rolling all over. Yeah. Watch on YouTube, people. It's weird. So that's cheese rolling, baby. Cheese rolling is the next one. Tar barrels. Tar barrel racing. I don't know. Okay, so this takes place in Devon, and it takes place on Guy Fawkes night, which is. Remember. Remember the 5 November.

So flaming tar barrels. This already sounds dangerous, doesn't it, in Devon. So 17 massive old wood and iron barrels are filled up with tar and set on fire and then carried, usually at great speed, on the shoulders of the biggest, strongest men in the village on fire mine gang. I've never heard of this also. And they have to carry them around the town. And about 10,000 years turn up. People turn up every year to watch this. And you want to try and get as close as you can to the barrel.

Apparently, that's what you're trying to do. But don't get the tar on you, because apparently, if the tar gets on you when it's burning, it's going to take your flesh off. There's not really a set route, there's not really a race, there's not really a winner. No one really understands what they do. They just have 17 very strong men running around the village with boiling tar in barrels on their backs. Seems really stupid. Thankfully, it's just one village that does it now.

That's the reason it's stupid. Well, if you think that's stupid, let's move on to the next activity. Wife. Wife carrying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sarah came down. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Sarah came down to the village fate. I had, I'm moving out of this village in a couple of weeks. But Sarah came down, we had the village. It happened to be she came down on David village fate, and we went down there and had a program of all the stuff for the day. And one of them was carry a wife race.

So you put your wife on your back and you race against other men easily. That's what you do. Sarah said to me, and I was like, no, we're not doing that. It started with the viking invasion of 793 AD. So basically, you're being a Viking stealing a woman. Yes. Because when they used to rape and pillage, that's what they would do. They would jokingly get drunk and then pick up a woman and race each other with a woman

that they were going to take off to do whatever with. But it evolved and evolved and evolved over the years to now it's just like you only do it with your wife. But the pictures, if you. If you google it, there's so many different ways to hold your wife. There's one picture of a guy and he's not holding his wife, like a reverse 69. So her face is in his butt, she's upside down, her face is in his butt, and he's holding her thighs and he's running so fast with her.

I'd hate that. If you fall, your head's hitting the floor if you're the lady. But yeah, I'm glad you've heard of that one. I'm glad you've witnessed it. Yeah, I've seen it, yeah. And most of my local folks I ever go to always have wife. I was about to say wife swapping wife. Run it racing. Your wife must weigh at least 50 kg is the rules. And you must know where. A helmet. And you must complete all the obstacles. You must complete all the obstacles. There's no obstacles, just a race.

And you get 100 pounds if you win. This is in some villages, not the standard rules. In Finland, you get a pound of sausage if you win. It'd be worth it for the pound of sausage. But the man who completes the course with the heaviest wife, he gets a prize as well. So even if he's like the last one, if his wife's the heaviest, he's like, where's my prize? Well done. Your wife's the fattest, Mick. Well done. And the losers in Finland, the losers receive a tin of dog food that they must eat

in front of everyone. That's weird. Yeah. There we go. Not just England then, for those. Oh, yeah. That one extends out, doesn't it? Morris dancing. Let's get it done. Let's talk about Morris. Danson and the maple are just hand in hand. If you see that, you're going to see the other. Yeah. And the history of Morris dancing, the history of it is very confusing and not fully known historically. They think it comes from Spain, but it's moved very strongly to the UK, to Britain

in the 15th century. They're not fully sure, but it's usually men that take part. Sometimes women. They dress in white trousers, braces or breeches tops with red braces on and they have bells all over them and they do very strange hopping and they have swords, handkerchiefs and sticks which they bang and clutter together. There is some tradition, but it's a bit like being in a secret society. You only really get to learn the dance moves once you're like, so far into it. I've never known a Morris

dancer. Have you ever known a Morris dancer? Well, I've not known one. I've seen them many times, but I don't think who's gonna say to me when in conversation, oh, by the way, I'm a Morris dancer. Oh. So I don't know. They might do on the side. It's not really very often, I should guess. We can start at Mars dancers. Oliver Cromwell actually banned it for a while. Back in the. Back in the day? I don't know. And in Wales,

they've stopped doing this now. But in Wales, when they do their Morris dancers, they put blackface on. But they don't do that anymore. You'll be pleased to know. Okay. And then again, to us, this is very normal, but let's. Let's talk about pancake flipping. Yeah. I mean, it's normal for us. Shrove Tuesday, pancake day. Let's get some pancakes and we flip them. Very normal. I grew up as kids doing that. What's, what's, what's pancake day? What does it

do with Jesus? What was it? So, um, Shrove Tuesday. Yeah. Religious roots. Um, historic pancakes. So they were historically served up because it was a way to use up what was left in your cupboards before you fasted for Lent. So traditionally, you'd, like, use up all the crap that's in your cupboards and make pancakes because you weren't going to be eating for a few days, you know, because of lent. Reminds me of a friend who had no money one time. He was really hungry.

He looked in his cupboards and all he had was some corn flakes and some pastry. So he made a corn flake. Cornish paste pasty. That sounds awful. That's so dry. Was there anything in there that was wet? I don't think that was it a cornflakes. It's just like, what are you doing? I'm making a cornflake pasty, because I've got nothing else. Like, that's so dry. That's so dry. That's a bad state of affairs if you've got nothing in the cupboard to

eat and you're hungry and that's it. I mean, I was like that once. My dad used to be a milkman. This is a very british tale. And milkman didn't just deliver milk, they would deliver biscuits and dairy, other dairy products. But my dad said, oh, john, you love broken biscuits, don't you? Because in the UK we get a big box of broken biscuits, basically. Even though the briskets are all fucked up, they still sell them in a box called broken biscuits. It's like halves of this.

You never know what you're going to get. There's loads of broken biscuits crumbly together. My dad gave me a kilogram of broken biscuits for, like, you know. And I had at that point, and my parents didn't know this, I was so poor, I didn't have any food. So for about two weeks, I lived off this kilogram of broken biscuits. Wow. I was eating. I would pick out like five or six bits for my breakfast. Then I do the same for my. I take them to work and

eat them secretly, so no one knew. On my lunch break. Why didn't you have any money for biscuits? I had no money for a good month or so. I was really poor and I was living off these broken biscuits. My housemate, after about two weeks, my housemate realized what was going on. She was like, are you all right? Have you just been eating these biscuits for the last couple of weeks? I was like, yeah, yeah. I'm sick of fucking chocolate biscuits. Fucking. Oh,

but it wasn't a cornflake. Cornish pasty. That's awful. Anyway, so, yeah, pancake flipping. So we flip pancakes because it's to do with Lent and Shrove Tuesday, but it's just really in the UK that we do that. It's a very strange thing because obviously. Pancakes go like IHOP in America. Yeah. So, you know, just a very strange thing. And the last one on the list is the Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival. Not the wicker man, the straw bear. Okay. In Whittlesea, which is in Cambridgeshire.

So the tight is. Sarah's told me about it before she heard about it. Pretty sure. Well, she's in Cambridge. Well, Cambridge here. Yeah. So the town Straw Bear festival, which is held in January of every year, somebody gets in a five stone metal and straw costume and then walks through the town streets accompanied by loads of dancers, Morris dancers and a few other people dressed up. Basically a folk horror movie. It's a 200 year old tradition.

It was banned in 1909 because it's associating with begging, which is weird. And then came back in 1980. It came back weird. And in 1999, the Germans loved it so much that they've started doing it in some of their towns and incorporating lots of bavarian beer in the mix as well. They don't set the bear on fire, though, sadly, at the end. Oh, yeah, it's not Midsummer. No, the wicker man. But there we go. There are some

very strange. If you didn't. If you weren't from Britain, you know, if we said, you know, if I had some american friends come around or someone from, I don't know, Russia, and I said, oh, it's. I can't tonight. It's pancakes. And they'd say, sorry. Oh, I'm flipping pancakes tonight. What does that mean? What are you talking about? What do you do this weekend? I did some Morris dancing. Excuse me. What is that? Trying to explain it to people,

but every country's got there. I wear white. And I put a load of bells on my knees. Crank, clang, clang. And I hit my stick with another man. And he hits his stick against mine. It's weird, isn't it? It doesn't even look like they're doing it in times or anything. Anyway, Bill, do you wanna flip your pancakes and get us out of here? Bang your stick, Bill. Bang your stick. That's all the time we've got for. This week on world is strange. Next week though, give me Ira. Hairless pets. Weird.

The curse of the werewolf that was. Laid on a baby who grew into a man possessed by a monster. To this spanish town. The night brought drinking and dancing, music and girls. And the moon, the full moon that. Turned an innocent man into a savage beast. The curse of the werewolf, a man. Possessed by a desperate need for love. Who found in Christina all the passionate sincerity of youth. Christina, do you love me? Will you marry me? Christina, you say you love me. Will you marry me? Yes, if I will.

Help me. Get away. Get away. Help. Get away. The curse of the werewolf from 1961. That was Oliver Reed running out of booze. This one itself is only 1 hour and 33 minutes. Nice. Short and snappy, these little ones. In 18th century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town. Short and sweet. Now this is the only hammer werewolf film. But also, do you know why this is so significant Gav, in the world of horror?

No, I was gonna say only a movie. Oliver is done horror movie. It's not cuz he's done others. No, it's not. It is the only. The first color werewolf movie. Oh, splendid. So it's first time we'd seen a Wolfmande in color. And it's quite terrifying because Oliver Reed is quite a big bulky guy. And we can talk about Oliver Reed in a moment and how strange he is behind the camera. Was. Sorry. Loved his booze, loved his ladies a little bit too much. Well, we're talking about the

day died. What happened the day he died? You keep going and awkwardly just. Oh God, I. Oh God. Because he died making gladiator, didn't he? Yeah. And they had to CGI's face onto a body double to finish off that movie. But yes, the interesting thing about this film as well is it doesn't feel as hammer as some of the others. And the reason for that is it is in Spain. And that's because Hammer had the opportunity to use some sets that had been built for a spanish

movie about the Inquisition. But the movie was abandoned. And these sets were going to just get torn down and be a waste. So Hammer said, well, we'll use these and we'll. We'll do something with them. And they have this werewolf movie that they just turned into a spanish werewolf movie for no reason. Okay. So, yeah, they managed to get hold of these sets and do something with them, and they've obviously got Oliver Reed involved as well. And it wasn't as big

back then. And it's, again, another classy affair. You know, we got some different. We got royalty, we got priests, we got busty wenches again, and Oliver Reed thrown in the mix. And what's interesting again is Oliver Reed doesn't even show up till about 45 minutes into this. So it's quite a lot of backstory on the werewolf boy. And it's an interesting curse, because it's not your typical werewolf curse. He's not bitten by a wolf. It's because he was born on Christmas day. Weirdly, he's cursed.

And he's got the old hairy palms, Gavin. The old hairy, hairy pom poms. Yes. Um, did you find out about Oliver Reed? Yeah, I just needed the actual. I know. What about it? I just needed the actual facts. Okay. Can you tell us what happened on his final days? Yeah, well, Oliver Reed was a person, liked having a drink. Like, it's. It's a weird thing. So I now don't drink as Dan doesn't. So I. And I don't go out. Like, you should listen. You should be with the Lord. I don't go doing that to

people and stuff like that. But I do look at alcohol in a different light nowadays and see how bad it is and more of almost like a drug and like something which is just quite bad, actually. Um, Oliver Reed loved alcohol. If there wasn't alcohol in the world, I don't know, it was just like, literally, he absolutely loved it. It's now colic, but he loved it. Day died. It basically was shooting gladiator. I've still never seen that movie. And it shot in my town. Incredible film.

Yeah. Not my sort of thing, really. And basically, we had a break for filming gladiator, and they were in Malta at the time, so I don't live in Malta. Some of the gladiators filmed in my town. And he challenged the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland, which is in the pub. He challenged them all to a drinking competition. So this is one guy changing the navy to a drinking competition, essentially. But he's quite old at the time as well. Oh, this hasn't got the actual

how much he drank. That's so annoying. He drank. He drank like a crazy, crazy amount. Oh, so frustrating. And he was only 61, which isn't really that old, really. But he looked older from drinking. Same age as demi Moore when she made the substance. Wow. There's a difference nowadays to that. And he died in a heart attack from drinking with them. I'm gutted. The figures are just crazy. Bloody hell.

I'll see if I can do it. That's like the time that Andre the giant got challenged to a drinking competition, and he ended up drinking something like 120 pints. And he passed out in the pub, and no one could move him, so they had to leave him asleep in the pub until the next day. And he woke up and they were like, yeah, we couldn't move you, Andre. You know, you weigh, like, half a ton and you're eight foot

tall. So we left you here. But apparently, while he was asleep, he let out a gigantic fart that, like, rattled all the tables. Not the same sort of read, you know, but still. Oliver Reed. Yeah, he loved to drink. And if you want to go and get stuck into some interviews about, you know, of him turning up on talk shows in the seventies and eighties, hammered. Making a bit of a fool of himself, quite frankly. And it's at the time, he was

seen as quite manly. Oliver Reed, you know, he loves to drink, but it's not really that great behavior when you realize that he was probably not great to his. To women around him. Yeah, I don't. I don't really know that so much. I still can't. I still can't get how much he drank. But the bar owner says he still has the tab because no one paid it. Oh, dear. Ridley Scott didn't want to fork out for that one then. Oh, no, no. In the pub, drinking himself to

death was. No. Look out. Um, one last fact before we get stuck into the curse of the werewolf. My grandma had a cat called Oliver, and my grandma's surname was Reid. Oh, really? That's spelled about r e I d. So different spelling, but Oliver Reed. And when I was about ten and I started hearing and knowing about actors and stuff, I suddenly realized that my grandma had a cat called Oliver Reed, which I thought was very funny, but there we go. Should we get stuck

into some spanish werewolves? Definitely. I am still just trying to get the amount of drink. I've seen it before. I can't. I can't find it. Was it more booze than Dennis Hopper drink in a day on the set of easy rider because he drank a lot on the set of easy rider. It was. It was a ridiculous amount. He drank Dennis. Look, the figures before, but Dennis Hopper. Was, like, drinking a couple of bottles of rum a day on his own. Yeah. On the set of easy rider, man. I can't think who it was.

There's an actor, very classic known actor in a role which we'd all know in the movie, who would, like, drink, like, in the morning. He'd drink, like, a whole bottle of whiskey, whatever, and it'd be as soon as it says, like, roll, do the lines perfectly. Absolutely. Every time. And it was like waking up drinking that. And it's just like. That's insane. Yeah, well, that was what Matthew Perry's life was like

when he was at his worst. Obviously, I've read his biography, and it's tragic what happened to him, but, yeah, he would. He would. Couldn't cope without at least one bottle of vodka before he'd left the house. That's a lot of booze to put away. And then he then take the pills to balance things out. That's just destroying your liver and then. The ketamine and everything else. Yeah. And he was absolutely ruined

destroying your liver. Absolutely. That's. That's what's gonna take you down. Well, that's why his. His bowels imploded and. Yeah, you know, he. He didn't die from it, but he almost did, and then he did die from it. Wow. But anyway, hey, Oliver Reed, he's a werewolf. Oh, if you don't know, whatever aid legend I'm sure you do, if you don't always know, you do know about him and know of him, but you've

never seen anything. You can easily go on YouTube and find Oliver Reed drinking, and there's just videos of him, just as one of them is leather jacket for massive big grey handlebar moustache. Just walk around going, knock on the live show. It's just like, fucking hell. If you think, Chris, Nicolas Cage doing backflips, throwing money at people is bad, Oliver Reed is, like, drunk, not coped. Imagine if you were an interviewer on a

show like that, and you've got three guests tonight, gav, on your show. One of them, they say, is Oliver Reeds. That one's you flagged up. You've got. Oliver Reed is a top one. But you've also got a new actress called Grace Jones. Do you remember that interview where she slapped Michael Parkinson and was, like, trying to wrestle him and fight him because she was so drunk? Wow. You've also got this new actor called Nicolas Cage. He's coming on as well. And then we'll have Oliver Reed at the end.

Much of your show that night. Yeah, people would like to see it. Because those three are some of the funniest interviews I've seen. But not funny, funny, weird. Well, anyway, this is the first ever colour werewolf film, as I've said, and we open up with some crying werewolf eyes. Oh, sad, sad wolf man. Oh, I've got hairy paw. I got hairy palm. Sad. Very, very, very. Hammer score over the credits playing it's. In Spain and it's a public holiday. Yes. 200 years ago. It says, in Spain,

I've got, again, posh. Another posh cunt mocking the chef. Yeah, well, a beggar arrives, first of all. They sort of. This is weird. Yeah. Goes to the gates. This. This beggar just come to. Goes this big place. And who owns the door? Well, he says, why are all the bells ringing? Oh, yeah. And the guy says, don't you know it's public holidays? Can't you read? And he says, well, no, I can't. I love it. He says,

no, I can't. I'm a fucking beggar. Which is a very stereotypical homeless person, really, back in the day, because, like, we wouldn't think of homeless personnel. Could not read. So then he goes to a pub and this is where he's told, yes, it's a public holiday. The reason for that is our king is marrying and all of our money, all of our taxpayer money is going on his wedding. And if you want to know, happens to us anyway. He says, what are you doing here? He says, well, I'm. I'm begging.

Can you give me something? And he's. They all laugh no, you idiot. We haven't got any money or any food because it's all gone to that bloody wedding up the hill. He says, why don't you march your beggar ass up that hill and knock on the door and beg them for something? And he goes, all right, I will. And he does. And he goes, banging on the door. Imagine you're in the middle of your wedding, you're a kingdom, this village in Spain, and a beggar knocks, ruins your

wedding. Got any money? Got any food? Shouldn't ruin a reading, though, really. But anyway, today, you twine, the person. That opens the door says, like, not today. You should get out of it is Q from the old James Bond films. Roger Morrison, Sean Connery films. Yes. Oh, my God, it's Q. I love Q. He's in it a little bit as well. And he says, like, not. You should get out of here. He's trying to be a little bit. He's trying to be nice. Yeah. Slightly civil, but this other

good. He's not. He's not a dickhead, but obviously the fucking posh twat. No, send him in. He could be our entertainment. Yeah. Well, we realized because just before the beggar knocks on the door. Did he? Oh, just before the queen, they knock on the door that he says to his queen, says, what's that? He says, it's goose. My. Yeah, we've cooked it for you. And she goes,

I don't like it. So he throws it on the floor. Another woman doesn't want to be getting married to this guy who's just getting no choice. And he makes the guys pick the. Goose off the floor, a little bit of a wing or whatever, just throws it and makes. But the guy, the homeless guys. Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you. And they take the piss out of him. They say. They really take the piss out of him, and they're laughing at him. And they say, the wife says, don't mock him. She says,

don't tease him. He's a man, not an animal. And she says, oh, her husband says, do you want him as a pet, my dear? Is that what you want? How much? How much to be a pet for my wife? And he's like, um. He goes, one peseta, ten pesetas. And it's like, ten pesitas, my lord. Yes, I'll be a pet for your wife. It's like the poor. Oh, it's horrible. The woman first, obviously doesn't want this. Like, no. And. But then he's about to, like,

like, do whatever to him. And she's like, no, no, no. Tries to save him, but say, I'll give a drink if he's my guest. You know, feed. No, feed him if he's. So they make him drink, but he. Says, no, he need foreign food. And he's a drink. And makes him drink and drink. And this is a massive, massive glass of wine. I want to keep saying we said P. Diddy so many times this episode because we talked about. I don't want to say it, but this is exactly what he's been doing, is forcing. So it's someone

of power. I won't say the name anymore. Someone of powers. Got money, people around him, egging him on because they gonna. Because otherwise they're getting thrown out the circle, using people and making. Forcing them to take in. You know, take stuff in, which is gonna make them do crazy things for their entertainment. It's exactly the same. Yeah, because they make him now, because he's now drunk. They say to him, right now, you're drunk because he gets hammered instantly because he hasn't eaten

for days. And they give him gallons of wine. They say, right, I want you to sing and dance for us. I can't dance, sir. And they make him do this really embarrassing dance. I feel really sorry for him, actually. And they're all food, and he's looking around at them like. And then he says. He falls over and they say, why don't you come and get some food like a dog that you are? So he crawls over like a dog and starts barking because he hasn't eaten for days. And she's obviously

very upset about this. And he just stands up and says, well, I'm taking my queen off to bed now. We've got business to attend to. Wink, wink. Have a good night, says the beggar. What did you say? I said, have a good night, my lord. I'll make sure you have a good night. Lock him in the dungeon. And he's forgotten about. And they literally forget about him for years. Yeah. See you later. And he's in his prison. It's really weird, though.

So I'm just gonna put this out straight away. This person is not a werewolf. No, he's not werewolf. No, he's just a homeless person. Somehow he can spawn werewolves. Well, the reason that the curse of the werewolf comes about is because the child is born on Christmas Day. So in spanish tradition, you're born on Christmas Day, but on Christmas Day, if you're born on Jesus's birthday in Spain, it's really bad. Like, you're going to be cursed. You're going to have a

deformity. So that's the reason. Yeah, that's the reason. So anyone that's born on Christmas day in Spain is where. Yeah. That good. Every year we've got another couple of werewolves running around, for fuck sake. We got werewolves here. So weird. It is weird. But spanish werewolves for you. So this fella's put in prison and forgot about. So it goes all hairy and skinny. And it does have a. The jailer kind of brings in food a little bit and has a daughter that's quite.

Oh, my God. They're kind of. She's a mute daughter, but they feel okay. They're kind of like, not all right people. They've kind of feed this guy because. Well, they cut too many years later where the jailer has died and then. The daughter still feels bad, so carries on feeding him. Oh, my God. She is nice. She's nice to him. But then she goes super hot. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Which makes it. But she is super hot. She might be one of the hottest hammer horror girls.

Oh, Jesus Christ. I watched this with my beloved dearest, so maybe I wasn't looking. The funny thing is in the posters for this back in the day and still now, one of the posters is Oliver Reed as the wolf man, holding this servant, this girl in his arms, but that's his mother, like, so that would never have happened because she dies giving birth to him.

So anyway, very strange. But anyway, yeah, so she grows up to be this hot girl who brings him, still brings in the food because her job, I guess, she inherits her job as the jailer and making sure that he's still fed. And we also understand that the queen died, leaving the king to be an old, horrible recluse with a bit of a horrible face. And the jailer's daughter goes upstairs to him at some point and he says, what's your name? And he basically tries to rape her. And she bites him.

And he says, right, throw her in the dungeon to teach her some manners. Yeah. And she gets thrown in with the beggar. He takes one look at her cleavage. I'm looking at a picture of her now. It's great, isn't it? Yeah, she's right. Come on. She's right. So, very tastefully, the beggar grabs her and then we cut away. And we just see her lying on the floor. And she sort of wakes up with a few cuts and bruises on her. And we know, sadly, she's been raped by this beggar, by the guy that.

She was being looked after from her. So. Yeah. And we mentioned she still knew. She still has no voice, so she could not have called out or screamed out for help. Not that I'd have done anything. And this, this does something in her brain now. She's had enough. She. They let her out. Oh, I hope you've learned some manners now. And they said, you've got to go up and see the king. He wants to see you. And obviously he wants to have his way with her as well.

She gets up there and the first thing she does is pull out this really sharp object that she's been hiding behind me on her back. She stabs him to death multiple times. The king is dead. I'm. And she runs off. She collapses in a forest. She lives in the forest for a few months like an animal. Oh, glad he was stabbed to death as well because they go up to his place and at this point it says, like, he's got turned into recluse and nobody likes him anymore.

His wife died of stress. Yeah, well, I love the way that she pulls out this thing. He's like, no. And he stabs. She stabs him. And then she just keeps stabbing him. Yeah, it's good. But yeah, she. So she lives like an animal in this forest for a few months and then eventually she collapses and she's found in a lake in the river by a man. And he pulls her out of the river and takes her home and nurses her back to health with his wife. And the man that finds her is narrating the

story. It is. And we find out she's pregnant. Yeah. She says, oh, well, she's lucky to be alive and even lucky that her baby's still alive. And he looks at like, by Jove, what? Even though this is Spain, they wouldn't say, by Jove, she said, yeah, she's pregnant. Quite controversial, you know, pregnancy via rape is a very, very obviously a horrific, horrible thing. And another controversial thing as well. And another part of the curse, I should imagine, you know,

so, you know, much like Freddy Krueger, etcetera. Yeah, I guess. Part of the law. So it's Alfredo that rescued the, the girl, the servant girl and his wife. What is up with his pipe? What is all that decoration on his pipe? I haven't really noticed it. Big grey pipe with all this crazy decoration on it. It's massive. And he paints with his big pipe, stick out his mouth. It's really. It's normal. It comes out then atop it. Almost looks like it's

a load of buildings on it or something. It's really weird. Is it a crack pipe? It's just obviously a tobacco pipe, but it's just weird as fuck. Yeah, I've seen some crazy pipes in my time. This is weird, though. It's just. I don't understand what's going on there. Well, they decide to look after this girl, Alfredo and his wife, and she's mute. So they're sort of saying, tell us. Tell us what happened to you, girl. And she's like,

she can. How much awful. Back in the day, if you immute yet you couldn't read or write, that would be so frustrating that you couldn't communicate. How did you tell anyone anything? Yeah, only the people you've grown up with, like your parents, and then they die. Then it's kind of like, uh, you know. Well, Theresa says to her husband, Alfredo. Oh, God, I think I'm. That this woman's gonna give birth. I hope it's not gonna

be on Christmas day. And he's like, what do you mean? She says, oh, do you not know the curse, this old spanish tradition, if he's born on Christmas day, he's like, isn't that like a good thing? Like Jesus? Exactly like you just said, cal. And she says, no, it's terrible. Let's hope this baby's either a bit early or a bit late. Well, let's just imagine Jesus that turns into a werewolf on full moons. Imagine they put on the crucifix. I would watch werewolf

Jesus. Well, maybe that's why they tried to put him on the crucifix because they knew he was going to turn at full moon and that's why there was some silver involved. I turn water into blood. Yeah. Anyway, I'm trying to think of other things to do with werewolves and Jesus, but it doesn't work. It's more chance that he was a vampire. Yeah. Anyway, this girl, a few days later, she goes into labor and what? They're down says, oh, is that the noise of the baby coming out,

is it? There you go. Hang on it. So it would be, oh, well, there. Is a funny little howl that happens, isn't there? Like an animal howl just before the baby is born, before the cry of the baby, they go out and they see her and the baby's are. The baby's so beautiful. And then they show the baby to her mum, to its mum and then she looks at it and then just goes dead and she bled out and died sadly. Segway. I bought a new tv, I've got. To say what's that got

to do with bleeding out and dying? Hasn't. But I got a JV big JVC TV. Okay, I did what? JBC. Same as me. Yeah, I was gonna say that I got a rocky one. Did you get a rocky one? No, I got fire. I got rocky one because I was like Rocky Roku rock. You know it's Roku. Do you not know what a Roku is? Roku is a device like a chromecast. Rock you Roku. Anyway, I got that one because there's loads of different channels on there. There's loads on your Jivik tv.

Fuck off. There's loads of horror channels on. I can't help but I can't talk properly. It's a problem I have and I'm still a podcast host for ten years, which makes no sense. And it's got loads of different horror channels which got loads of, like, old school horror movies. Quite a lot, actually. I was quite surprised by, oh, that's good. But I did what you did. So I was in the shop, right? And I'm with Elijah. I had to Elijah come help me buy tv.

I even cleared my car out because I just had those. I was like, I'm sure they come in huge boxes. So I cleared my car totally out so I could put a massive box macarthur. It wasn't that big at all, but I persuaded. I don't want to come watch tv. I said, it used to be fun looking at tvs. Come on. Dragged him out. And we're there. Look at them. And the tv's so big. 4000 pound tv. They're so big. And then I saw one. I was like, oh, it's kind of smallish, but it's 42 inches, which isn't really small.

But I. With everything else, it looks really small. I got it home, but it's too big for my tv stand. So I've got a plank of wood. It's on, sticking out. It's ridiculous. That's what we did. I did exactly what you did. We got the 43 inch. Oh, maybe I've got 43 inch. Yeah. Yeah. Probably is probably the same tv. Yeah, we. We looked at it in the shop compared, compared to the ones next to it that are like 80 inches. I was like,

well, that one. That one's probably about the same as our one. We got home. Our one at home was probably 36. Yeah, yeah. So when I got it back, I was realized, no, it's because the ones next to it were giant. Yeah, that's exactly what I did. It literally just fits. Mine is too big for my stand. So I've got buy new stand. I was

like, for fuck's sake. By the way, very quickly go into the advanced settings on your JVC in the picture mode and go to color tone because they've got it on cold as preset. And turn it off. It makes everything like green or blue. And as soon as you turn it off, you know, oh, that pops a bit more. Okay, thank you. All right. Anyway, go back to the movie. Film. Sorry. Thank you. If you need any more advice on Givix or rock use, then fuck off. Gov will help you. So,

yes, the baby. The baby is basically then adopted by Teresa and Alfredo because they're kind, really lovely people. Yeah. They take this woman in the crazy pipe man and his wife took the woman in, she gave birth, died. They thought, let's take the child on ourselves because they didn't have a child, kind of works. Let's get it baptized. Oh, shit. So whilst it's being baptized, lightning starts smashing

down. The rain comes, and as soon as he puts the baby near the holy water, the holy water starts bubbling up, and they will look at each other like, is this a curse of some kind? Now, I'm wondering if the people who developed omen, the first omen film, watched this. I went, basically, this is the omen film we're making, because a lot of things in this movie is like the omen with the child of Satan, obviously, and things happening very, very similar to this film.

It's true. Well, let's cut to a farmer finds a goat with his throat ripped out. He shouts to his buddy Pepe. Why, Pepe? Why the hell do I pay you to look after our animals when you're just letting wolves come around, rip out people's throats? Well, I don't know. I'll have to go out and have a look for this wolf. I haven't seen anything around here. Well, do your bloody job, Pepe, for God's sake. And Teresa, he goes back and says, oh, bloody goat at his throat ripped out. And Teresa

says to this farmer, oh, that's funny. A kitten was found with its throat ripped out earlier today, and it was. It was little Leon, because they've called him Leon the little boy, or grew up to be Oliver Reed. Little Leon's kitten is what. He really loved, that kitten. Well, I hope he doesn't see it, because he hates the sight of blood. Does he? But does he? He says, well, yeah, I took him out hunting, and he almost got sick when I took him out. Yeah. So he really doesn't like the sight

of blood. Interesting, interesting, interesting. They find Leon and they say, oh, it's time for your dinner. No, I'm not hungry, thanks. What? Yeah, I'm not hungry. I feel like I'm really full up. Is that because you've just eaten a goat and a kitten when you were off being a little werewolf, Leon? Is that so? He's about ten years old at this point. He looks a bit like a little Pugsley Adams type character. He looks very much like a young Oliver Reed. He does.

They've done a good. Yeah. And Pepe gets told, you know, go and hunt and kill this wolf. You've got 24 hours, basically, to trap this shark down. I mean, to track this wolf down. It's not a shark. Get him. I take him down. All right, I'll get this wolf in 24 hours. Bloody hell. Anyway, full moon that night, and Pepe has his gun and he hears a howl and he thinks, there's something over there. I'll shoot. I'll shoot it. And he shoots. And he shoots. Poor little Leon

who's out running around. What are you doing out here? So at home, Alfreda and Theresa, his uncle and auntie, or adoptive parents, they tend to his wounds and they go, what could have happened? Oh, what's this pulled out of his leg? A big round shot from the shotgun. And the guy's like, you know, I saw a wolf and I shot. I saw a wolf and I shot at a wolf. Yeah. And they're like,

yeah, whatever, mate. And he's like, no, I did, I did. Yeah, I. And there's a few more dead animals as well from that night, which we know now. Leon is probably killed, but they. They haven't figured that out yet. But Alfredo and Teresa do, they do look at his windows and think, how the hell did he get out of his room? The only way out, I guess, was through the window. But because we would have heard him come down the stairs, how did he get out and jump out the window? So they

asked him, what happened? Where did you go last night? And he says, great bit of acting here from child actor. You don't get it very often. He says, I really can't remember anything. I just have this dream and I have a bad dream every night where I go and I put my face in the blood and I drink it and it tastes so sweet, so sticky and sweet. And I just think the poor boy, like, it really sells it to me that he's having these horrible nightmares about drinking, tasting blood.

And Alfredo says, right, show me the palms of your hands. And he flips them over. Gav, I got hairy palms and it's not from masturbating. Why was that always a thing at school? Have no idea. Well, you get hairy palms if you keep doing that. Surely you wouldn't because you'd wear them down. That's what I always thought. And I tried enough times and I still didn't get any hairy palms. I've got not one hair. No, not. You're a massive wanker as well. Chronic, chronic mass. Imagine if someone

has once killed themselves from masturbating. The boy did. Once I read a story about a boy that did it. Like, he was doing it like twelve times a day. And he died of, like, fluid loss or something like that. He's so dried out, like a little prune. Can I get one more wake before the end of the day. Worn it down to a little nubbin. Now Teresa is very distressed because not only is her boy having these nightmares and he escaped his room, but he's also got hairy palms. So she thinks he's a

massive wanker. Alfredo says, I'm gonna go and talk to this priest about dark forces and evil and stuff like that because they know about that kind of thing. It's omens. It's the first omen movie. Yeah, dollars just like. Yeah, basically gonna make remake this movie, but it's just could be not a werewolf, but the Antichrist. And he says to the priest, do you think he

could be cursed? My wife says, mentioned this curse and this is the first time we hear the word werewolf because the priest says there is such a thing as a werewolf, which is where a man's. And there's a man's soul in the body of an animal. Yeah. Happy. I love this. To stop the werewolf. Happiness and love. Love is the key. Love is the cure. Love, love generally is the key for life. I'll let everybody know this right now. If you ever

looking for anything in the world, love is the key, honestly. And it's not just my love for my wife or whatever, it's the love of just love, you know, love and existence. Love is all you need. Love is all. Unfortunately, it's a cheesy and cliche as a Beatles singing that. It is, it is, it's true. It is at the end of day love. Yeah, it's, you know, I love dinner anyway. I love the fact that this werewolf, what you do for this one, I love

the fact that they're just throwing it right. Basically there's no. This is the first colorful werewolf movie. We're just going to throw loads of shit. This basically, you turn into a werewolf if you just born on Christmas day in Spain. Merry Christmas Bridge is gonna fucking do whatever you want this. And just to stop the werewolf from coming out all your life, you're absolutely fine. If you've got someone that loves you and you love them for the rest of your whole life, you won't be aware of.

So basically your mom and dad love you, but also try and find a wife or someone that will love you as well. Because at a certain point he does get into it. I'm jumping ahead, but at certain point he grows up and he leaves, leaves the home. Now I was like, okay, so he hasn't got love here. Has he got a love meter? And it's slowly going down. But as soon as he meets someone, it's going to top back up and it'll be all right. Well, his mate Jose certainly takes him off to find love

at the brothel later on, don't he? Well, exactly. Love in any form, I suppose. But yes, he says, the priest says if he finds true love, his soul might be saved from the werewolf curse. Someone's right now. So I'm gonna have true love. So what's the werewolf? So how's it true love stops it, dear. You've true love, so what about silver bullets? Yeah, they work as well. True love for this one, true love. In this, in our film, it's gonna be true love.

Silver bullets and burning, those are the three ways to kill a werewolf. But true love is the top one. It's a hard one. So he's got love, but if his. And if his wife was to pass away and his mum and dad were not there or whatever, and he'd have love, you know, if he had a child, though, then that love would still possibly be there. Yeah, because that child will love him.

Well, we cut to some pissed blokes in the local tavern talking about, there's a man saying blood was drained from the animals by the light of a full moon. And they're like, what you talking about, Pete? And he says he finishes with this after ranting for ages. And they ask him what he's talking about. He just says, that which we shall not speak of, and then walks off. Fucking hell. You spent ten minutes

on a rant about something, killing animals and sucking the blood. When we asked you what it was, you just said, it's that we shall not speak of. I don't speak very much. I don't talk huge mounts. If you're with me quite often, I'll be quite quiet. Often podcasts and that'd be a shit podcast, but generally I like to stay quiet and not speak and stuff, but I hate it when someone just dribbles on and talks to me about saying I don't need to know about, and I'm what

this? As I'm listening to, I'm like, I don't need to know this and I can't stop you, and you're just gonna keep talking to me. I hate that. Stop talking, you. My brain's having to remember this and it's not important. So basically, stop talking. Now, Alfredo has put some bars on Leon's windows to keep. He says, this should keep your nightmares away, son. In other words, keep you locked in. If you try and escape the windows and for some reason, we see Pepe, who suspects more than he's

letting on. He has melted down his wife's crucifix. He thinks that love better not, you know, just in case love meter goes down. He thinks, I better make a silver bullet. Bullets. Because I've seen a few other movies. Cross across, which was blessed by the bishop. Yeah. His wife goes, where the fuck's my crucifix? And he goes, I don't even try and hide a bullet case. I made it into a bullet, all right, but hang on. That was blessed by the archbishop. And he's like,

it's even more holy then, isn't it? I don't care if it was David Hasselhoff's. I make a silver bullet out of it. Have you seen my Hasselhoff crucifix, Gav? I've melted it down. That's my David Hasselhoff crucifix. He used that on the 7th Night Rider. So, yeah, he's got a silver bullet and he. He loads it into his gun. And he sees a dog or a wolf. He's not sure. He shoots at it. It's only one bullet. I wouldn't be fucking nearly willy with it.

Now. Lay on. Because it's full moon. You might. You get home. I said, did you use that fucking bullet? Well, I shot it at something tonight. You wasted my. Wow. Thanks for that silver crucifix. I only had one of those. Yeah. Now Leon is wolfing out a little bit. A little Leon, he's up at the bars trying to get out with big fangs. Is there any comedy, eighties comedy, horror movies called wolfing out? Wolfing out? There should be. It's just

a werewolf driving around in. The cadillac trying to get into college. It's like team wolf three wolfing out. Yeah, but different. Tacky. Yeah. Good. I'm glad you said that. Zim Wolf isn't tacky. I don't know. I'm not a massive fan of it. It's a bit cheesy, but it's not kind of tacky. It's fine. It does its own thing. One of my favorite werewolf movies of all time. Now they put him back to bed and they calm him down. You know, put your fangs away, Leon. Glide back down.

Stop rubbing your hairy palms. Actually, I'll have to let larger watch Team Wolf. He might find that funny. Yeah, I think you'd like that. Yeah, it's great for puberty as well. Like helping you to understand these changes your body goes through. He's this morning. Excuse me. I was gonna do his home, Ed. I was gonna do. I went and got some mushrooms and we could do this online thing where dissecting

a mushroom. And you're going into it looking at all how a mushroom works and it wouldn't do it with me because I'll make it rubbish. Because you're. Because you're annoying. Oh, okay. Tells me recently all the time how annoying I am. It's turning into a teenager and I don't care, you know? Oh, dear. I've been called all sorts from my lovely young daughter Daisy when she turned into a teenager. Oh, dear. I've got all that to come. Oh, yeah, you've got it twice at once,

though. Now it turns out that Pepe, all he did was he killed the farmer's dog with that silver bullet. So you're right, his wife is going to be pissed off with him. And the farmer is also annoyed because he's lost his dog. Yeah, a bloody sheepdog. Anyway, many years later, cut to many. Years later, Pepe's wife's still annoyed of him. Yeah. She hasn't forgot, but Oliver Reed is on the scene now. Leon has now grown into a fully blossomed Oliver

Reed. And before we did that, when we had the boy, there's a shot of him at the bars like that. Did you mention it? Yeah. I must been this daydreaming, but his teeth, the way he looks. Looks a little bit like the kid in Salem's law hanging. Yeah. Really did, didn't he? He really did. I thought that. I didn't say that. But, yeah, you're right, he did. We got sidetracked by talk of Team Wolf. That's what it was. Okay. Yeah. So Oliver is now a grown, strapping. Lad and he's leaving.

He's doing that thing which kids can't. Do anymore, leave home, because the voiceover says. And by then he'd grown up and cured him of his terrible secret. And then he says, I'm off to make my own way in the world now, father or Alfredo. I'm probably going to try and get a job at the vineyard. And they're like, okay, goodbye, son. Take care. Bye bye. Or spoken in this Oliver read, obviously, he hasn't started drinking and he walks. What? He's off to get a job at a vineyard? Fucking hell.

He walks through the countryside. We get the jolly music playing. Very unhammer music, this jolly score that comes in. Yeah, I think. I think this movie in hold is a bit of an oddity for hammers, actually. Yeah. Especially with Oliver Reed. Well, it's almost like an accident. They basically got the set and they're like, fuck it. Let's do it. Who can we get to make sure it works? Terry Fisher. Get him there. Yeah. The guy he gets a job with is the neighbor from Hound of Baskerville.

Oh, is it? Is that the same guy? Oh, wow. What? Jose, the guy that he works with. The vineyard, gives him a job. The one? Yes, the guy that gives him the job. That's right. Stapleton. Is he. Wow. Okay. Well, we get another moment, which I'm sure you're going to get annoyed by, because Oliver Reed turns up at this vineyard, and a carriage with a posh twat in it goes past and splashes him with mud. And they go,

ahahaha. And that's the girl that he's gonna hook up with later on in there, so he'll get his own back. And then the vineyard owner comes out. He says, you look very strong. Are you ready to work? And he's like, yes, I'm strong and I want to work. That's your job interview done. Come on in. Then. Some good script writing just there. And he says to him, I've written this down, Gav. He says to him,

okay, this is where you work. You work from 07:00 a.m. till 10:00 p.m. every day with a 30 minutes lunch break. Fucking hell. Seven till ten every day. That's a long day. Yeah. And probably gets paid shit all. That's 13. That's 15 hours a day. Yeah, probably for nothing. Next to nothing. And then he meets his colleague Jose, who's pissed because he works in a vineyard. That's probably what you're going to end. Up, because he says

to him, what do I do? Then he goes, basically, put the red wine in these bottles, white wine in these bottles. Anything else I need to know? The labels go on the outside, and the wine goes on the inside. And he's like, I'm going to like this. Yeah. And then he fills him in on the locals, and he tells him, that woman, that hottie that you saw earlier, Christina, she's marrying that guy. She doesn't love him. Another woman who doesn't love the man she's marrying, Gav. Yeah.

Traits. And he's like, oh, she's really hot. And he's like, yeah, she is really hot, but she's getting married to that twilight, so I wouldn't worry about it. Well, she comes over and. And says, excuse me. And Leon's like, hello. She's like, are you the man, that we splashed with mud earlier. I'm really sorry. I wanted to apologize for my stupid fiance doing that. It's very mean of him. And he's looking at her like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ding.

He's looking at her like Christopher Lee looks at that woman in the behind of the basketballs. And it's. We look, as an audience, learn that Christina is very, very unhappily engaged. She doesn't want to be with this guy and she likes the look of Oliver Reed, too. So, um, Cork, there we go. Um, Jose says, well, don't worry, don't stop thinking about her, Oliverie, because I've made some porn. Look at this porn I've

made out of. I've cut out some paper chains of women and I'm going to hold it up to the light and I'm going to move it around a little bit. And it's like primitive porn that they look at. I can't believe that I've got no notes for the primitive porn. I remember it, though, very well. That's why I'm surprised. I must have been so surprised by. I just didn't take notes. I must said, sarah, what the fuck? And I love the fact she's like. It's like one step back further. Then in that Friday

the 13th movie, when he finds the victorian porn films. On, it is basically almost like this. Making our own porn. It's crazy. Anyway, he says to him, don't be sad. You know what tomorrow is? It's Saturday, it's payday. We're going to go out, we'll go dancing, there's going to be music, there's going to be women. And Leon's, like, kind of pressuring into going out. Don't really if I want to, really. Anyway, we find out that Leon and Christina start having an affair and he

says, well, let's run away together and get married. She says, I can't, you know, I'm marrying someone else and I just know where I can escape from this life. Oh, it's all very sad. So he gets depressed and he goes back and he goes, all right, then Jose, take me to the brothel. I'm really depressed. Jose says, yeah, party time. Come on, then. So Oliver Reed and Jose head to the brothel and it is indeed party time. It's full of girls dancing, they're drunk, everyone's having a great time.

Jose's got a girl on each side of him, but another girl sees Leon and say, oh, I like the look of. Her name's Vera. There is a full moon. And the full moon kicks in. He starts sweating. Why now? Is his love meter gone down? Might have done, because he's not with his Alfredo. There's been other four moons have happened. I love the way you've got this love meter built into the plot now. Oh, yeah. It's like a video game. Full moon is a thing still. But if love meter goes down formally.

So it's because he's moved out. Yeah. And yes, love me, it's going down. And a sex worker won't run off with. No, the hot girl Christina won't run away with him and get married. So even though she's giving him kisses. And the sex worker isn't real love, so the full moon is starting to affect him because his love meter has gone down. So he starts sweating and she says, are you all

right? You okay? And he doesn't really answer. And he says, she says, I think you should come out with me and get some air. So he stumbles outside and she says, it's quite a saucy little minx now. She says she's terrible. She says, you're not well, maybe you should lie down in my room. Yeah. And then she says she sex pests him. Then she says, we could slip up the back way. She literally says we could slip up the back way so no one will see.

Yeah, slip up the back way. I bet you could. When they put that in the script, when Terrence Fisher said, just say that line, they were loving that. They've got that past the BBFC. BBCFC or whatever it's called. BBFC. Thank you. Slip up the back way. Anyway, Jose, meanwhile, is smashed with two girls downstairs there. He's got one on each side of him. And they'll go, where's your buddy? You said, we're gonna have a bit of an orgy. And he's like, I don't know where he is. He's upstairs with Vera.

Brewer's droop is not getting it up. I mean, he's got two girls. He better try. So Leon lies on Vera's bed, I've got a friend. And every time, almost every time he got drunk, when he pulled, he was always so wasted, pretty much every time. And he's put. He pulled quite often. And you'd be kind of jealous, like, how do you do that? But always get back. Then he'd fingers. No, he couldn't get up. Every time.

That must be so bad. It's the word. I've definitely had it happen, but not every time, lady. I don't have the issue. Christ. So she's on the bed and she's pretty much sex pestered him. Yes. Well, he's spaced out, isn't he? Staring off into the space. Yeah. And then almost the full moon comes on a bit more from the clouds and then he sort of starts to kiss her. Yeah. He gets really animalistic. He flips her over and kisses her and he. And he's got a really

weird look in his eyes. And she goes, ow. And he's drawn a bit of blood on her throat. And she runs over and she says, if you want that kind of thing, you've come to the wrong place, mister. Well, you're the one that fucking coheres. Cohered him into. I think she means drawing blood, Gavin. And all of a sudden a werewolf hand grabs her by the neck. Yeah. And then we get blood everywhere. This is quite full on for a hammer film. The amount of blood. Actually.

Now, this film got an absolute bollock in by the ratings because when they presented the film initially, they told them there was too much sex and too much violence. So they said, you're going to need to cut down one or the other. So they toned down a little bit of the sex. And that was a. They toned down a little bit of the rape scene. That's why you don't see it at the beginning. And they toned down some of the girls stuff here.

But they, in doing that, the BBFC let them leave in all this blood because it's a lot of blood in this scene. And I know it's gloopy, bright red hammer blood, but it's still a lot of blood going everywhere. Anyway, Jose says to his two girls, I'll go and find Oliver and we'll get our orgy going. Let's go find him. So he goes knocking on the door and he goes in and he sees Vera dead. And then by shadow, we see the shadow of someone strangling Jose. Poor old Jose. We do. We do come.

Go on. What we're gonna say we do. We see an old drunk then. Is that what you're gonna talk about, the old drunk? Well, no, I was gonna say about my next notes, about the guy who's still moaning about his dog's being killed 13 years ago. Yeah, he's rambling about a silver bullet 13 years ago. That was his dog being killed by a silver bullet. Yeah. I'll never forgive that bloody guy 13 years ago. My bloody dog. So that wife probably never forgiven him

either. And then as he's stumbling on, she's been thrown out the bar. It's like, go home, Harry. You've had too much to drink. No one wants to hear about your fucking dog. So basically, without it kind of being telegraphs or so to speak, we have now got to where american rail for London, where the. We've seen the werewolf change and he's gone out on town. That's where we're at now. It just doesn't. Sure show us this. We don't. It's a very gentle

uphill to this. It's not all sudden a massive, like, miracle for London. It's a very mid. Well going into the third act, I guess, really. No, it's probably midpoint. It's that bit where it's just like, fuck me. And that's where it's like, oh, my God. We don't have that with this. But we now are in that territory where there's a werewolf out there. Because a common complaint with this film is, firstly, Oliver Reed doesn't shut up for 45 minutes,

which is exactly at the halfway point. And secondly, you don't really see much of the werewolf, but I don't think that's a bad thing. The world looks good, though. This fight have it very much this night where he's ma. He's basically on a rampage. His massacre is his first proper night as an adult werewolf. He's killed that Vera, the sex worker, he's killed his house mate, Jose, and now

he's killing this drunk guy in the street. Well, you see, I tell you what, you see the wolf shadows on a roof, which is really nice when he. Jumps off the roof. And it's great onto that guy. Some really cool stuff going on. Yeah. Really athletic, you know, jump. And I wouldn't be surprised if it was Oliver Reed doing some of that. Yeah, I expect so. He jumps onto him and he kills him as well. And Alfredo

wakes up Leon later on. So he's made his way home, all the way back to his uncle and aunties, not at the vineyard. His animalistic nature made him go all the way back home. And he wakes him up and he says, leon, leon, where are you? Where are you clothes? You bent the barna you got out of your room. How have you done this? And he says, I don't know, I can't remember. And they say, all right, we're going to tell you the truth now. You're a werewolf, mate, plain and

simple. I'm really sorry. You're a werewolf. And he's like, no, no, I don't remember anything about last night. And then he says, all I remember is blood all over my hands. And they say to him, look, Leon, we have got some good news. Love is the only cure. They tell him the whole thing, you're a werewolf, but love is the only cure. They're like, okay. And then the priest says, look, I want to get him into a monastery. He keeps saying this all the way through. I reckon if I can get him

in with the money, he'll be alright. I'm actually wrong. I was saying his gentle, uphill here, werewolf territory. Now we're not, because it does stop. He's not well for anymore. We actually do have a point where there is a build up leading up to it, because it's, there's a moon coming up again and he's like, going to be, leave me in jail. So we actually do have a tension riser here. I'm wrong from what I said earlier. But it's

still like a burst out of nowhere. But you're right, it does stop for. A little bit, I guess. Yeah, we had that showing us it stops. But then we're building up to another werewolf attack, which we know is going to happen because we now know there is a werewolf. Well, a great little piece here, you know, as any person who woke up cannot remember what's happened and then is told they're a werewolf. Love is a cure.

And we're probably going to try to lock you in a monastery. He can't take it and he just runs off and he collapses in the countryside and he sort of walks along a little bit and then two cops find him. Hello. Hello, hello. They say, I want to talk to you about your whereabouts last night. We understand that your boss is the owner of this vineyard and your housemate's missing. And he's like, I don't remember it. I was very drunk and I ended up back at

my parents. And then his boss appears and says, oi. You went to that bloody brothel with Jose. I'm disgusted by your actions. Get out of my sight. Make sure you were ready tomorrow. So he sort of, he's all spaced out, he's very forgetful. Nighttime comes, full moon. Oh, shit. His, well, his girlfriend stays with him at first, doesn't she? Yeah. Christina comes in passively, aggressively, asks her to marry him. He does that in a minute. He first says to her, like, get away,

get away. And she says no. And then he falls down the stairs and she stays with him and he doesn't transform because love is the cure. As we've said, the love me is topped up. Yep. And this is where he says to her, he grabs her and he says, christina, let's run away and get married. It's like, jesus Christ, all right? She says, yes, of course. But then he's saying, tell the mayor I need to be executed and burnt alive. Hang on, hang on, that's in a minute

then. So that's before he's arrested, when he asks her to marry him, because then some men arrive and arrest him on suspicion of murder. We found your bloody clothes at the scene. You're coming to jail. That's that. And then he realizes, ah, okay, if I can't run away and be with Christina, I'm going to turn into this werewolf again. I'm going to kill people. So while he's in jail, he says to the jailer, can you go and get my dad, my, well, my adopted father, Alfredo? And he

says, why? And he says, please, just do it, just do it. And then Christina is caught by her father trying to elope. He says, where are you going? She's like, I'm running away with my fiance, you know, Oliver Reed? And he's like, ha, he's in jail for murder. She says, well, I want to go and see him. He said, well, I won't let you. Then her fiance that she was supposed to marry comes in as well. And he says, what do you mean you're marrying someone else,

you're supposed to be married. She says, give me your carriage, I'm going to go and see him in jail. No, I'm not letting you go. She runs off and she steals his carriage and heads off to see Leon. Now Leon begs, as you said, please kill me, get me hung, get me burnt. Why is all suddenly said that saying basically, let's get married. On my way. Actually decided, I've decided I can get. But you don't need to love me is what you need. Yeah, but he doesn't think he's gonna see Christina again.

He's in jail. It's all do have an all very civilized werewolf goings on in this film. It's all quite a. Yeah, his uncle and the bishop turn up and they say, look, all right, we'll talk to the mayor about getting you burnt alive. It's also civilized, just discuss this discussion because as you're werewolf, we could find out, we could probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We could probably get you burned, no problem. So they go to meet the mayor, the mayor of this town. He said,

hello, hello. Look, my nephew is in jail, just to let you know he's cursed. He's a werewolf. If we can just get him burnt alive rather than stand trial, he's like, okay, well, let's go and have take a look at him. Then the priest pipes up, I could always take him to my monastery. Stop saying that. You're not having your way with him, with the monks in the monastery. So the mayor goes over and he goes, right, show me your hands,

show me your teeth. So there's no palms there, no, teeth. Aren't shop. You're not a werewolf. Let me ask, is he a werewolf? No, she's. No, he's not a werewolf then, is he? There he is, Sherlock Holmes on the case. He says, right, I'm going home for my tea. He'll have to stand trial and that's the end of that. I'm not going to burn him to death. See you later. Yeah. And then Oliver Reed says, look, I know someone with a silver bullet, Pepe. Go and get it, dad, and use it on me.

Yeah, he's a bit distraught, obviously. Christina is told about the curse. His cellmates, Michael Ripper. Classic, classic. Hammer person. Yeah. Background guy. Well, in loads of films. He's the one I love in the plague of zombies. He's in the pub and he's. Hello, hello. What's this? He always plays like when everyone's leaves the pub and he's alone by himself in the pub. What's going on now? He's in, yes, he's in this cellmate with Michael Ripper. And the

full moon is shown. And you think this cellmate? Yes. We cut briefly to his dad finding Pepe and saying, I need the silver bullet now. And Pepe's like, oh, boy, here we go. Not again. Leon changes. Yeah, transformation, it's good. I love those old school sort of. Yeah, it's universal. Yeah, it's just. Yeah, yeah. And Christina goes to visit Leon's adopted parents and she finds out all about the curse and all this, that and the other. And,

you know, love is the cure. Keep getting told the prisoner is killed by Laon and Leon rips the door off, kills the jailer as well. So he's on a rampage now and the whole village see him and they see him climbing around on all the rooftops. Really good makeup. Looks all really good. Yeah. And I love a bipedal werewolf as well. And he's running around. He's a wolf man, really. Like, he's not a werewolf is heavy. Frankenstein. We've got the town folk

after him. Yeah. With their pitchforks and torches and I. Don'T know how he's just jumped out and got on the roof and all of a sudden, out of nowhere is a group of people. How do they know? How have they formed so quickly? Oh, that's what they do back in these villages. Are they ready? Like, it's going to be saying, come everybody, let's go. It's like the neighborhood watch. As soon as they. There's a monster on the loose. Everybody get your pitchforks.

Which type of monster is it? A vampire? Frankenstein. I watched movie again recently, which I actually really quite like and actually thought about possibly cover it. View the watch. With Ben Stiller. Yeah, yeah. It's quite good blood in there, actually. Yeah, it's quite good. Yeah. I thought maybe we could cover that. We could do that one with, um, attack the block or something. Yeah, I don't really attack block, but I would. I would do it to review it. So. Yeah, I will add it to the list.

Yeah. He climbs, he scales a wall. They set. Set a few buildings on fire. He manages to get to a bell tower. And the sounds of the bell is very quasimodo now. Hunchback of Notre Dame, because the, the bell tower is hurting his ears and he's trapped. He's howling. There's a bit where it's like he's doing Ernie parkour. Yeah, yeah. He's like bouncing around. He's very Tom Cruiser like. And Christina sees him and she is horrified. She's like, that's the guy I was going to run away with.

And he's a grotesque werewolf. Oh, no. So he's down to Alfredo, and it's his poor adopted dad. His uncle climbs up with a silver bullet in the rifle. And he looks at him and it's not his. He knows it's not him. It's just a werewolf. One of the crowd members looks like Willy Wonka. He's got a top hat. And it's exactly like I'm describing a really heartfelt moment. You're like, and Willy Wonka was in the crowd. He had a really big hack. Sorry, carry on. No, no, no, it's fine.

I love a big hat. And he shoot, yeah, he shoots him in the chest. He shoots Oliver Reed in the chest. Sad, almost get up there and he. All of a sudden, these bells start ringing out and he's just. It's like Quasimodo, like I say, frankenstein. Monster, you kind of feel sorry for the thing, the monster, when, when it's not totally the monster's fault because he. Swings the bell at his dad, almost like saying, please do this. I want to be dead. Yeah. Like provoking him.

It's quite sad actually. And the saddest bit for me is after he shot him in the chest and he doesn't turn back. This is rare for a werewolf film. He doesn't turn back into it. His dad covers it, takes his cloak off and covers it over his son's face with teary eyes and he's like, I've just had to kill my adopted son. So that you know, they find well. Think about how the son came to him. Yeah, I was going to say they found this woman in the river. She died. She was mute

anyway. She could never even tell them that she was. And it's not always these tears aren't sadness for himself, his tears are sadness for the kid who turned. It was born from this. He didn't know what the rape etc. But, but mum died and we tried our best and just. He was a good kid and then grew up and yeah it's quite a sad ending really. And it's a fairly good performance all of, under all the makeup. Um, it's a very different werewolf film.

It's really different. And it's, it's not, it's not really a monster film. It is more of a curse film really. Yeah. Um, I wonder um, you know, I wonder what other people think of this film. Say people who are non england growing up with hammer and stuff to watch this film now and think what Jamie, what do you think of this film? You've been werewolf fan, what do you think of this film? She's a huge werewolf fan so it's. Just interested you know. Yeah, it's um, it's like

you said, it's definitely an oddity. Um, and partly because it's a Hammersoni werewolf film, partly because it's the first color werewolf film, but, but second, but thirdly because it's, it's quite a classy toward a force of acting really. And story just happens to have a wolf in throne in the mix like a werewolf. It's very strange but I do really like it and it's a staple of, you know, werewolf films in my opinion. Yeah, I really like it. And it's a

thumbs up as was the other one earlier. Yeah, we did an argument, both thumbs up. It's a second time watch this movie. But always different when you review it for the podcast. I thought it's really good. Yeah, it's really good. I've got not a lot to say on it really. It's just great really. It's a fairly good stuff. I'm not gonna watch it loads. If it was on, I might watch it, but I'm not gonna watch it. I've seen it now. I reviewed it. I remember I own it,

so I'm happy to, like. I kind of own a lot of werewolf films. Some of them quite shit, because I love werewolf films, but that's not really. There we go. I got it on videotape at a car boot sale for 25 pence. I watched it and went, all right. And sold on ebay for 25 pound. Bloody hell, that was. Yeah, that was probably 20 years ago. Anyway, um, yeah, these sets, by the way, were shot at Bray, so it wasn't filmed in Spain. Bray Studios in Berkshire. But they were.

The film that was going to be made was called the rape of Sabina. And then the BBFC objected to the script, which contained lots of rape, so they shut down the production of that film. And then Hammer were like, oh, that's cool. Well, let's change it. Yeah, but actually it's not a huge change because they were going to set the film in Paris and then they just changed the film to Spain. English werewolf in Paris. Oh, Oliver Reed getting drunk in Paris. That'd be

brilliant. But there we go. Yeah, great movie. Both great movies. I guess the last, I picked red wine out my nose in Paris. Oh, wonderful. Never done that before, ever. I was like, why is red wine coming out my nose? Well, I was about to say, Terence Fisher, thank you. We salute you. Thank you for all your fantastic horror films with hammer especially. And we hope you've never puked red wine out of your nose. Terry. Old Terry Fish. Yeah. Somewhere, I think there's actually video of me

doing it. Oh, my God. Get it on the facebook page. I don't know where it is now. It's probably gone. Long gone, but yeah. God, I'm so glad social media wasn't around. There is a few things of me around still, but nothing too bad. There's me, there's skateboarding videos where there's bits where there's like one bit where I'm doing a line of paracetamol. Oh. As I, like a 15 year old kid, there's a skateboarding. It's a video. And I was watching again. Okay,

I don't remember that, but all. Right, there's video footage somewhere of me out there dancing to the entire full length, like, six minute extended version of Jump by Van Halen on my own in the living room. Wow. There's also video footage of me at a wedding dancing with the bride's garter on my leg with an. It's one of my ex girlfriend's cousins. So when she looks at that video, she'll remember me 20 years later because I'm the drunk guy with the garter on my leg.

Great. Anyway, let's take a break and come back to the outro. We're back. We are back. Well. You see DC album back in black. In black. We're not, though. I'm in white and you're in green. I'm in green. I've got a black t shirt on that says Dario Argento on it, though. It does. But I'm also wearing Bermuda shorts. I thought it was nothing. No, that was Terrence Fisher. That was another director's special. That was also a sneaky hammer horror double bill for us to get us in the mood for Halloween.

Spooky times. So that was episode 164. So I'm two things. John Carpenter, breaking news. Breaking news. John Carpenter's now tweeted a message saying, what's a letterboxed? So that answers that one. So it's not him. And the other thing is, I'm actually djing a Halloween party this year down at the cobbit. Are you gonna be dressed up? I potentially might be making a Freddy Krueger music video soon with someone in a Freddie. Music Freddy music Freddy Krueger costume. And if I

still got the costume, I'm gonna wear that. But I wear glasses and it's a cunt. When you wear glasses to do costumes, you can't do masks or anything. But if I wear the hat. No, I can't read a hat. You. I have my headphones on, but I could wear this drivey jumper. People don't know where you are. That's all. That's what I'll go for. That'd be it. Yeah. Well, Halloween is coming, so our next couple of episodes will be leading to October.

So let's talk about those. So our next episode will be episode 165, which is another patron pick. And that'll be Holly. And she's. Yeah, I. Irish comedy horrors. The boys from county hell from 2020, about an irish folk horror vampire thing. Great. Can't wait. It's based on a real story, and there's a lot to dig into on that one, if you've gotten the pun. And extraordinary from 2019. Yeah. Which is another irish comedy, as I must say. So that's going to lead us up then, to our Halloween special,

episode 166. And I am moving House. So we're gonna try our best to sort this out and get, obviously, a Halloween episode out when we can. Yes. We're hoping both of them will drop. I can. Yes. But. 166 our Halloween special will be, as always, the next in the franchise. A nightmare on Elm street part five, the dream child and Halloween five, the revenge of Michael Myers, both from 1989. So tail end of the eighties with those two. Interesting. Remy Harlan did par five. I cannot remember him

talking about the movie the nightmare one. He did. And like, how he tried to really change it and put a lot more. And so I was like, oh, that'd be quite interesting. Watch. It might even be part five. Actually. Maybe it's. I don't know. But we'll talk about them. It's Freddy Krueger. And it's Michael Myers. Now we talk. Okay, so that's Halloween. And then, gav, you're gonna be excited for episode 167 because we're covering. Yeah. The exorcist two, the heretic.

I've never seen it. Exactly. And the exorcist three. Oh, very good film. So we're going to be covering exorcist two and three after our Halloween episode. So lots to look forward to. Some irish comedy horror, Freddy and Michael, and then some exorcist sequels. Excellent stuff. Have you found Rennie Holland? I think it was three or four. He did. Uh. I'm getting to it. He's getting to it, everyone. He's getting to it. Come on, Gabriel. Waiting. We're waiting. We're excited.

Yes. Because he did other things, you see. I'm sorry, I was sure. Just clicked director, but in prison. Oh, no. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it was the last one, right? But there we go. So that's what coming up. And don't forget substance. Go watch the substance, everyone, please. I'll remind you again at the end. Right, Gav? I'm going to do some housekeeping and then we can say our goodbyes. We are the podcast on Haunted Hill. Thank you, everybody, for listening to episode

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Thank you so much. By Jove. Yes. That's the housekeeping. I just want to say, as it's going to be October in less than a week, just 31 days, guys. You don't have to watch something every day. You can just watch one film, but as long as you partake in halloweeny, spooky stuff, whether you play a video game, listen to the thriller soundtrack, you. Should do a series. So you watch. Doesn't matter what you do. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Ghostbusters episodes, like the cartoon

or something. Oh, yeah. That'd be amazing. Well, I'm. I was gonna say I'm doing. Yeah, you quite cool. I think I've got 38 universal monster films or nothing. Horror films. So I'll be watching those. And I've. Because they're only about an hour, an hour and five minutes each. A lot of those, I've realized I'll have a bit more spare time. So I'm also going to watch every single episode of the Simpsons, tree House of Horror, which I'm really excited to do because I've never done that.

So. Although I'll be doing more than 31, but I'm not going to put them. On many of those episodes. You've not seen the Simpsons at the treehouse ones? I've only seen one or two of them. There's 34 of them. That's. Honestly, that's so cool because there's so many movies, they, you know, homage. Yeah, I can't wait. Like, I know what you did last summer, and it's basically Ned Flanders as a werewolf did his midnight walks. Don't they also have, like, where some of them are like this.

Shorter stories into one episode? Yeah. So it's generally like three or four stories free episodes or so. But you get loads of films. You'd be like, oh, this is a shining. Oh, this is conjuring or whatever. Well, I probably won't post those up because they're only 20 minutes each, but I'll certainly post up my universals. And you're gonna just watch favorites, aren't you? Yeah, I think so. It's very hard when I put. I'm a weird person.

I've come to terms with this over the years. It's fine. And I'm quite odd and strange. And if I put a pressure on myself and I put labels and things and stuff, it becomes, like, almost too much for me. It's a weird thing. So I'm trying to this year just flow of it. So I figured I'll just kind of go, I'm gonna watch that. I'm gonna watch that and let's get kind of go like films. I might do new stuff as well. I don't know. I'll just be watching movies. I wish I could do like you do,

but I don't know why I can't do that. But it's a lot of work because I. I actually have sat down over a few nights and written up a spreadsheet. Sadly, what I'm watching and where I'm going to be able to get these films from, whether I can stream them. I'm on a lot of found footage. Facebook groups and someone on there put up a whole very pretty up very nicely their 31 days of found footage. Yeah. Because I now know where I can watch my horror movies, my universal movies. Because where

can you see? I've got a. I've got the classics on the Blu ray boxer, which is very cheap to pick up, by the way, people. Well, I'd say about 50% of them are on prime to rent or stream. There's a couple of them on YouTube. I've got probably about ten of them on dvd. And there's a fantastic website called internetarchive.org and you'll find a lot of very, very old films and music and commercials and adverts on there and some of these that are no longer what

you call it. You know, like when the Night of the Living Dead doesn't have. No one owns the rights to it. What you call it, public domain. Yeah. So a lot of older films are on there now. So Internet archive is where. Where a lot of the more obscure ones are available, like House of Horrors, House of Dracula, some of the Abbott and Costello, because I've got all the Abbott and Costello's at the end of that run. There's like three Abbott and Costello

movies to watch as well. Yeah, they're good as well. And then I'm ending with. I'll tell you now, I'm ending with Van Helsing from 2004, because that is officially universal horror film. Not Van Halen. Not Van Halen. Jump. No jump. So that's what I'm doing. And you're doing favourites. And it's coming up, guys. It's really coming up. So on our Facebook page, you're going to see a lot of activity throughout the month of October. And it's such an exciting time. I'm really looking forward to it.

Yeah. But until then, bye, jove. It's time for us to say good night. Good night, all. Good night from Terence Fisher. Thanks for listening. And good night from the creature who lives on the moors. Indeed. Watch out for those dogs on the. Morsh wearing masks on the morse. Good night from tarantulas on Christopher Lee's shoulder. It's a good night from towns Fisher. And it's a good night from Oliver Reed, who is challenging a bar full of Navy man seamen. Oh, my God. I'll leave you there.

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