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Oh, boy. Welcome, welcome, everybody, to the cult classic hoarder show. Danny Bonin here. And... Hey, guys. What you doing? I'm just petting my dog. This is maybe a first. Just the Rob and me on the old PC. That rhymes. Just the Rob and me on the old PC. That's how it goes. The others couldn't handle body melt.
Couldn't handle body melts. Yes, welcome. Carmelo wanted to watch something probably like The Labyrinth because the goblins scared him, so he considers it horror. Yeah. And Scotty is in actually Rob's state of Florida. Yeah, I'm sure freezing his ass off right now. He probably is. It's 40 degrees. It's pouring rain with like...
20 mile an hour wins. Over at Disney it is? Oh, I don't know. Orlando's got to suck up. Yeah, I wonder. He's there celebrating his daughter's birthday, although he'll be home tomorrow night. He didn't even let you know he was there until yesterday, right? I think he knows my feelings on Disney. Rob knows. Rob knows that even if I was just going to go to Disney, we would still meet up. I'd come out to Annaria. It is 44. Feels like 32.
60% chance of rain, 95% chance of rain tomorrow. Dude, it's just disgusting. I'd actually rather be at Disney under those conditions than middle of summer. Except for the rain. I would be there. I mean, freezing cold is fine, but I'm trying to see if they've got a wind report here. While Rob's looking at weather report, we'll keep you up. 87% humidity. We've got a 30.3.
barometric pressure you know rob's one of those those dads that's just like he has the weather map pulled up and he's texting texting screenshots of the of the weather even in where i'm at like warning me of my own weather shit that's right wind is uh 15 with gusts up to 30 uh oh boy so i told you i was pretty close without even looking i said 20 it went from negative 15 this morning to now it's like 28 degrees here so
It's a dry cold. The 28's not bad. The negative 15 was a little... I'd call it brisk. You probably had to wear thicker socks than usual. I had to do some shoveling. Yesterday I did some shoveling. It snowed a bit. Just put rock salt out there. That too. It's not going to eat through all the snow. You've got to shovel some. Don't they sell like the chemicals? Just like the snow melt?
which i'm sure shannon wouldn't agree with but she probably wouldn't no no it would somehow seep into our children's water supply yeah you're out there body melt out there putting sunscreen on the body melt rob have you did you ever even see this movie before you said we should watch it or did you just see it scrolling on shutter i well no i've seen it for years and years and years and then i did see that it was available on shutter um so that did help
um but yeah yeah i just we just we needed something we needed we need something fresh needed something original i know y'all were really excited about watching uh dust till dawn that was and you you purposely missed us i feel like even though it's a good movie come on no probably didn't purposely miss you um i miss you all the time just regardless not even intentionally
But no, I think this is more of a Rob movie. It is more of a Rob movie. This is definitely more of a Rob movie. I was really excited and surprised that they're Australian, so it made it even better. It is Australian. I didn't realize that at first. Oh, Carmelo just chimed in that he will be joining us. Can we block him somehow? It is an Australian movie.
You know, Rob, this is a Rob movie. It requires no thought, very lowbrow. No, I mean, I wouldn't say lowbrow. I mean, everybody's sitting here applauding to me more in The Substance when this movie is basically The Substance. I actually haven't watched The Substance. It's so good. It really is good. I did watch a lot of movies this last week, though. I need to watch it. Have you watched Nosferatu yet? I did. I thought it was good.
I think we talked about this last episode. Did you see it in a fancy theater? Do you see it like in a nice theater? I saw it in a nice theater. It was loud shit. I think it'll change it. Oh, mine was loud. Mine was like stomach rattling. Well, you know me. I've got like a small bladder, so I don't do movies very well. I have to excuse myself. Well, I do too. Savannah wouldn't let me drink anything. We both have small bladders. Well, the theater makes it worse, doesn't it? Because you're all relaxed and then it settles.
And then like, I think the surround sound like shakes it loose. I have to plan my, the amounts of liquids I drink around movies and public events. Yeah. I mean, I barely even finished my Coke zero. Like I knew I was going to be in trouble. I did like it though, but no, the substance was really good. I mean, and you got like the substance, I think the stuff, the stuff. Yeah. And then I think this was before the stuff where they're all basically like making fun of like the suburban.
health yeah and everything like that actually look up what you're i think the stuff was like eight maybe no maybe the stuff was no stuff was first it's 85 stuff is 85 this is body melts 93 okay i will say but this is australia they probably didn't see this the stuff until 97. they had to have seen the stuff but i i think that it's it's not i mean
There are movies that are just absolutely mind-numbing. But like this, it's fun. I like how movies like this take the subtext, which is the health phase and the fanaticism and all that. And instead of making it the subtext, they just blow it up so stupidly huge. That's fun to me. I like that because somebody else would make...
You know, like, you know, I liked it. And then it turns out, what, the movie was made, like, by a bunch of really shitty punk rockers? Sort of, yeah. Yeah, so the soundtrack was pretty good. But, like, I will say, I like the fact that it's just blown up. I like the whole, you know, like, you could have a movie like The Shining where the subtext is, you know, the alcoholism and stuff like that. But I like that this movie took that and is like...
there's no subtlety yeah yeah at all like look if you if you're the dumbass that wants to take every multivitamin or every get fit thing on the world and your dick explodes it's on you that's what happens i think it's i think it's brilliant i think it's hilarious well i thought it was i thought it was pretty decent there's actually in my opinion some decent performances in this film uh i thought the pregnant lady did a good job i thought that was like a job i thought it was surprisingly
like good you know um i was i was a little disappointed because i really wanted street trash i wanted street trash levels since you and since you recommended this i was expecting more gore i was expecting more gore and the title body melt it gives you a strong opening it does and then it's still good but um
It was... Man, I like it. I'm not gonna... My review would be like a 7 out of 10 because there are other movies that had probably less money and were older than this one that really ramped it up. But where the stuff is kind of subtle, I like that this was just outlandish. Ridiculous. The acting was good. I like the soundtrack.
And it being in Australia was fun because I had no idea that the accents were great. Yeah, no, it helped. But most of them were actually not most, but a lot of them were English actors and like celebrated English actors at that. And that's why we had these good performances. And a lot of them were also from Australian soap operas at the time and hadn't done a feature film before and were these esteemed, trained.
soap opera theatrical actors and left at the chance to do something out of the ordinary and just hammed it up you know we need we need we need more of that yeah we need more of that we're like trying to think i feel like matthew mcconnell is probably one of the only ones that comes to mind like when he he doesn't go out and do insanely outlandish things like like like this but going out and doing like true detective
in mud and uh like tommy lee jones does stuff like end of the electric mist or nicholas cage you know nicholas cage is trying not to go to jail for tax evasion which i respect yeah but that has nothing to do with the films he does no he does some good ones he does um but yeah i just i think it's cool i i think it's cool because like you said you you get you get surprisingly good actors out of this out of this movie compared to
there's a lot of stuff on like street trash there's no good acting um there's no good acting in any trauma film um and then you got like you know i'd put this kind of i put this kind of like kind of like around like roger corman territory it's weird it's wacky it's insane but like you said you luck up and you get a good oh we get it looks good shot well um good acting good soundtrack and i thought the physical effects were really good too so yeah
Yeah, and it ran the gamut because you had, and I'll talk about some of them, but you had some prestigious English actors alongside some first-time actors that had never done anything before, especially some of them, or had only ever done commercial here, little promo there. Because they weren't the right look for a soap opera or for a national TV ad.
I don't know. Unattractive might be the word to use or something. And then they can use something like this. Oh, yes. I mean, they're unconventional looking people. Yeah. Made more so with the effects makeup, of course. I do wonder how edited down this was. Because I don't know if you noticed it. There's really weird cuts in this movie. Like really like hard cuts.
you know where they kind of bounce around between play i don't know if it's because of the budget and they were like we're just gonna like cut it fade to black and reopen almost like a soap opera you know like where it just like washes the black and it comes back out again but i was pretty surprised because i mean i can't really think of much that's come out of australia no besides obviously mad max brain dead is the big horror one that was new zealand though
Well, was it technically? Yeah, because Peter Jackson's from New Zealand. Did they shoot it in Australia? I don't know. I mean, we covered it years ago, so I forget everything we talked about. But they talked about the effects guy on this film was the same effects guy that was on Braindead. They may have shot it in Australia. I'm sure Australia was looking for movies.
Yeah, and I can't remember the... I should pull it up, but the effects guy's name. Not that it wasn't anyone I recognized, but he was the same one as Braindead. Because I can't imagine they have a plethora at this time of industry people down there. Of course, now, yeah, they did all the Lord of the Rings, and I think they film a lot down there these days. No, they definitely do. But I guess...
uh we don't do we have any i guess we don't have any numbers on it yeah i do so i have some stuff i can get into and i guess i could i know carmelo is joining us or he says he is he usually does the rundown or the synopsis but we could we could sort of briefly cover that then jump into some of the i don't have a whole lot which is funny like it's even the the synopsis on the wikipedia page is less than a pair yeah well yeah i was just gonna talk through a little bit of it but it was surprisingly i did buy
the special edition Blu-ray with two commentaries, like five featurettes. And I watched the main commentary and all the featurettes. And I still only have half a page of notes. Like they didn't talk about shit. They just, they just chatted like the whole time. I'm like, can you give us more info about the damn movie, please? I got to know the director and the producers really well, but they didn't really divulge a whole lot of.
what they talked a lot about development stuff like oh oh well this is like the director talked about how he came to make this movie a lot so it was like i don't really give a shit about your other little short projects and stuff you know just a bunch of nerd talk yeah just let's just tell me about the making of this film please but but there wasn't a whole lot so i will say thankfully from what i can tell doesn't seem to be a lot of shame
on no no not at all we've covered other things like anthropophagus i think and others and like most of the commentary and stuff like that is like yeah we're not ever getting her she wants to forget no they were totally they're happy with it they're totally happy with i mean i would be it's fantastic but uh so what do we go ahead do you want to do you want to do a little a little uh synopsis of this film rob for the audience might as well
Okay, let's hear it. It's on Shudder. If you guys haven't seen it recently or want to watch it again, you can go check it out. Okay, in a sleepy little town called Homersville? Homesville. I think it's a subdivision called Homesville. Sorry, my bad. Subdivision. Do we have subdivisions in Australia? We'll call it a town. We're going to call it a town. Homesville.
people down there are taking a new and improved what do we call it a multivitamin that's what they called it in the yeah yeah i think what the company is called v for vitamin yeah uh which is good because i mean you can't get sued for that anyway so this little town of holmesville basically is taking all these new multivitamins and it turns out all kind of crazy shit starts happening people start melting
Their necks are exploding and tentacles and awesome birth defects. And it turns out that it's one big giant cover-up by Big Vitamin. Yes. And a bunch of stuff happens. They run into a group of inbred mongoloids out in the outback, kind of like a Hills Have Eyes kind of tribute. I would think that's a Hills Have Eyes tribute.
Yeah, they even mentioned that. That's what they get a lot. I don't know if it was intentional, but that's the reference they get a lot. Anyway, so we got Hills Have Eyes tribute. And then Bodybuilder's dick explodes. Yes, it does. Okay, I'm on track. And then it turns out one of the hillbilly doctors or one of the hillbilly mongoloids was the original doctor to develop this
new strain of multivitamin yes and he intentionally left out a specific compound that turns everybody into basically i guess it's kind of like his vengeance that's right and then it you know it basically melts a bunch of people and then at the end they it's a happy ending yeah and uh one sort of key thing is that uh it's it follows
Four different stories, basically, that all these people live in a cul-de-sac together. Yeah, so we got the newlyweds that are pregnant, right? They're in one house. The teenage boys for a second. They're in another house. Okay. And then we have the super healthy jogger guy that wears spandex. The wholesome family, like him and his family. Yeah.
Then what's the fourth one? And it's the first guy who's like a professional, like a recording. That's right. That's right. The way he starts to hallucinate quickly. Yeah. He sees that girl that's not really there. Yeah. And then beat up and isn't beat up. Then we have sides taken out. That was cool. She massages his rib out. That was actually really impressive. That was actually a cool scene.
that made me squirm a little bit oh yeah um and then we have like a side story with like the two worst police officers of all time yeah um and then we have like the sexy you know do anything to get this done doctor lady yeah and we got like the old man who's tired of being a crooked crooked evil doctor kind of
Yeah, maybe so. I mean, he kind of seems like he is, but he's not really. He's sort of the only one trying not to push this to production and the stores. Yeah, but he's not. Yeah, exactly. So he's trying not to kill everyone. But he doesn't seem to care too much about the pregnant lady that he knows is about to explode. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That's kind of it, really. Well, yeah. Well, I have some stuff on it.
We're not going to end the episode there. Not at all. But I will say all the different storylines run good. Yeah. It's edited well. It sounds complicated anytime you've got four main storylines and then you've got three side quests. But it actually runs well. I think it's gotten edited well. What happened? Well, let me start at the top. So 1.6 million budget, and I assume that's an AUD.
And in today's money, that's like a million dollars US. That's like $75 US. Yeah, exactly. So that was the budget. There's no box office numbers. And they actually talked about how they ended up self-distributing. Because at the time, there was basically the Australia Film Commission with five people that just ran everything. And if they didn't...
And that's how they got the funding for this film was through government funding, like through the Film Commission. It's crazy how they do that because that's how Ginger Snaps got made. Canada paid for that movie. Yeah, Australia paid for this movie. They did. They had to pitch it to Australia, and it had to be explained to them why this should be made, and they had to go to them and really skirt around the word horror and all this, even though...
they did say like it is a horror movie but also not just a plain old horror movie uh it's a social commentary yeah we need something like this like uh australia has plenty of this and that and also the philip brophy who's the director and writer and also did the soundtrack um you'd mentioned yeah he's a i don't know i don't know punk rocker is the word but there's electronic music yeah like wikipedia said like a
punk rock but there's so many we've got so many genres of everything he he made a a film before this called salt saliva sperm and sweat and it was a lot more raunchy and i kind of want to watch that i think bordering on on not a porno film but just leaning that way you know and uh we'll call it lewd yeah salt saliva sperm and sweat and so he made that
they didn't think it was going to go anywhere, but then it had a small, like successful local theatrical run and made its money back like 10 times over. And so that got them, him and the producers. So the other producer, it's Rod Bishop, I think worked with him on that other film too, the salt saliva, sperm and sweat. They were then given the idea like, Hey, maybe we could actually,
try for a more commercially viable release not that the content is going to be commercial content but we're going to go over the gold as far as budget and distribution go you know because this one did okay and that's that's what led him into to this film but the um initial plan was to do an anthology and all these storylines so philip brophy had written um which every time i say brophy just makes me think of uh
You're the fishing boat captain that takes us out when I visit you. Captain Brophy. Captain Brophy, exactly. That's all I kept thinking about. Captain Andrew Brophy out of Cockroach Bay, Florida. Yeah. If you need a charter, go see him. He's the best. He'll get you on some fish. Yeah, he will. We're there biting like every three minutes. I did get eaten alive by bugs, but that's okay. Matt, you just swear. If you listen to this show, you know that I got eaten alive by bugs. I've talked about it in eight different podcasts.
You didn't cover up. I'm not bitter at all. That's your fault. Nobody else got eaten alive by bugs. Well, Carmelo did. That doesn't count. So anyways. But you did catch a cobia. And we did almost get ran over by a tanker.
I did. Well, that was the second time I came down and covered every inch of skin with my body and still are sorry, with clothes, every inch of my body with clothing. So my skin was not showing. And somehow I still got like 20 bites, not 365. You definitely got a couple on the knuckles. And I think Rob is against me clothing up because then I left.
Lots of those there, and then he just lost all my clothes that I left there. You left a pair of pants there. I got no idea what happened. And a pair of socks. It was a pants and a pair of socks. Well, I don't know what happened to the chain of custody of those things. They were not left in my house. You shouldn't be wearing pants in Florida anyway. Back to Body Melt. So, yes, this was written as an anthology, but the film commission could not see it.
Done that way. And I'm like Carmelo in now. Here he is. Here he is. The one and only Carmelo Chimera. Hello, everyone. I would have known you sooner, but I've been throwing up after watching this movie. Oh, no. This is not even that bad. And I'm going to do the stereotypical Danny thing and say, your mic's not on. Of course. We were actually just getting into the only half page of notes that I have because.
Although I bought the Blu-ray and watched a full commentary and five featurettes, it mainly contained the producer and director just chatting about random shit the whole time. Well, that's not unlike a lot of our episodes. No, that's true. That's true. So we pretty much shared our thoughts, got a little synopsis going, and we're getting into it. Yeah, I think we caught...
a better film though because this director's previous film was called salt saliva sperm and sweat i was telling rob yep that's on the list i think it leaned a little more toward the porno aspect and uh artsy definitely artsy you know what i'm i'm glad you brought that up rob because specifically in the commentary they talked about how at this time in australia the there was like a a large push especially with the film commission and a lot of support for
quote-unquote art house films and so anything that could be considered art and you know this is like 92 when they filmed this coming out of the 80s where it was yeah it makes me think of american psycho where oh this this we all have all these this new art a new style a new decor a new a lot of people trying to be bold and new right and so i think that they were trying to support like these hip artists in their
in their journey to make art house films. And so they knew there would be funding for that kind of film, but they still did have to pitch the film board on, on funding this horror film. And as I was saying, it was first meant to be an anthology film and the film commission just couldn't wrap their heads around an anthology film for some reason. But that's why it resembles so much an anthology film. There's four stories basically in this movie. There's four different houses in the,
they all live in the same cul-de-sac. It's four different stories, you know, stemming from these four people that live in the cul-de-sac. And they were all meant to be different stories. And for instance, you know, one guy was just supposed to die gurgling on his own saliva. And that's the wholesome family guy in the bathroom with all the green shit on him. And one guy has the hallucinations and everything. And that was with the girl who's not really there. Of course, that's the professional who,
gets the sample and drinks it and the two kids and so on and so forth. And so I'm scowling because I, I'm just the idea that someone was trying to explain to someone that this is somehow artistic or somehow like, like meritorious creatively. I guess they, you know what they, the director and producer were.
They said that was being supportive at the time, but this was not that. So they did not call this an art house film. They're like, we did not want to make an art house film, and we didn't seek to make one. And I think they actually achieved what they sought to make, because let me explain it to you. There was a popular soap opera playing in Australia at the time called Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. And the way they talked about it is they wanted it to be...
Healthy, wealthy, and wise, but with everything exploding. And we're very intentional about the suburban look. They wanted a quote-unquote bright flatness to the screen, and it's meant to look like ads on TV and not cinematic at all. I can see that. Yeah, and you weren't here yet, Carmelo, but I talked about how...
And there's actually some decent performances in this, in my opinion, because they wrangled in the soap opera talent, some celebrated actors from England, a couple of them, and got them to do this film just because it was so wild and different and people were tired of doing soap operas in Australia. And so they actually pulled from that crowd of people.
and then made this outrageous film with them. And of course there was some people that had never done a film in their lives in the movie as well. And you run the great gamut of both, but, but yeah, that's, that's what they were going for. Apparently. Well, they, they achieved it and they did exactly. It's my scowling is, is cause I just don't like this genre of movies. I just don't, I just don't care for the body horror. I find it like the grossness to me isn't.
true horror, and I just don't get any enjoyment out of it. I can totally see... Melting from the inside out is pretty horrific. I mean, it's horrifying in a shocking way. It's not like a makes-me-think kind of way. But I will say two things. I get the appeal from the effects standpoint, like watching cool effects.
I get, I get that as like someone who's made these movies and has heard Joe, our buddy, Joe Castro go on about cool behind the scenes stuff. That shit really geeks me out. I really like wondering like, how do they do that and how they achieve that? That's, that's fun. The other thing is this movie actually is a pretty decent satire of like suburban life. Cause as someone who has probably like Danny, a drawer full of supplements in his kitchen, like just dedicated to his supplements. I'm like,
Yeah, I get it. I understand where we're going. It's true. I was like, oh, shit. I'm like, oh, man, maybe I need to stop taking nine different supplements. No, I mean, it makes you think a little bit. But I think they did achieve their goal in what they wanted to create. And when you listen to them, they aren't so much like, oh, we've created something marvelous. It's more like, oh, this is.
You know, we wanted to go over this outrageous thing and the government paid for it. It's so much fun. That's what this is. It must have been a blast to make. It must have been an absolute blast. No, it really was. And from what I can tell, what I was getting into, Rob, when Carmelo jumped on was the distribution. Because there aren't really any numbers. We talked about the budget. It was 1.6 million AUD, I mentioned, which I think is about a million U.S. now. I don't know what that goes back to 93.
they there's like five guys at the film commission the film board they run it all all projects have to pretty much go through them and then one of them is like the guy that deals with distribution and just sort of has some contacts and if this decides first whether the film should be distributed or not and he decided this one shouldn't be so they you know they had they premiered it at a i think local festival it
showed here and there but ultimately they didn't really explain it but just express that it did not get the distribution they were hoping for and they basically had to self-distribute is what they said um they they claimed that tarantino is quoted as loving this movie i can see that definitely tarantino's got fantastic taste uh but they talked about how what movie did they cite oh saw they must have
They kept saying our students, like our student, the director and producer. So I don't know if they have a film school of some sort or something like that. Well, Saw was basically a film, a student film. Yeah, but they were saying one of our students, Lee Wannell, was part of Saw. And I was like, oh, they must have a school or something. And said that the showings at...
The festivals were very similar. Saw was so successful because it showed at a decent festival, I think Toronto, and it garnered all these edge-of-seat audience reactions. Everyone was just glued to the screen the whole time. Of course, the distributors are in the seats seeing that. They said that their showing had the audience just hooting and hollering and very engaged.
But, you know, it's just the one guy that decides, we're not going to send this along. That sucks when you make a real crowd pleaser and then there's just one bureaucrat who decides your movie doesn't get distribution. That sucks. Yeah, that's crazy. But obviously now it's seen a wider release and has become sort of a cult hit. It's on Shudder, as I mentioned. This Blu-ray got a release.
This was in 2006, I think, when they came back and did this commentary. And again, one of those, they didn't seem totally awestruck and surprised like the Night Beast guys. Going, what? That piece of shit we made back in 80-whatever is getting a Blu-ray release? Right. Like, from who? Yeah. Oh, that's hilarious. But anyways. Yeah, but some more specific to the film stuff.
i mean the hilarious kangaroo you guys i mean they had they had they tried to get a real kangaroo when the dude like throws a fucking rock at his head and it just falls and it's dead they take out his adrenal gland it's just a stuffed animal just yeah it is so they tried for a real kangaroo these guys were like apparently they had this contact that was like oh we'll get you a real kangaroo like we're gonna come down there we got kangaroos man like
So they bring a kangaroo. Oh, he'll do whatever you want. This kangaroo will do whatever you want. And he's trained. The thing's just completely wild and feral. They said that the guy pulled up in the wagon, unbolted the door, and the thing just fucking bolted. It just took off. And they never saw it again. That's fucking great. That's great. Just to stand there and just watch it. It was like, well...
I guess that didn't work. Well, we're not paying you, but that was hilarious. That was great. So then they had a taxidermy guy bring a kangaroo. And they had told whoever was sourcing this, the director's like, it needs to have these two positions. It has to be in this position and in this position. And the taxidermy guy shows up and he's like, well, this is it. He's like, well, can we bend its arms so that it's in this position? He's like, no.
this is it so they're like all right fuck it and uh stuffed kangaroo just falling over and they just really oversold it with the guys going and like not not like a crossbow just a rock he just throws a rock not hard either just kind of like like he's skipping his stone
Oh, man. Kills a kangaroo. Another little tidbit that was interesting is when one of the Italian kids is going through the house and he almost sits on that old woman watching porn. That shot of porn actually is from Salt Saliva, Sperm and Sweat, the movie, and that is the director's testicles you see.
That's awesome. On the screen, very briefly. Just a little cameo appearance there. I should put cameos in my balls and everything we do. Yeah, you should put, yeah. I think, you know, save them up. Get them all ripe. I was just telling Rob before we started recording that I got that vasectomy last week, so my balls are a little sore. That's right. That's right. Is it as bad as everyone says? No, dude. Not at all, actually. Really? I went in, a little tinge, a little numbing shot.
And that was the end of it. Then I just felt a lot of manhandling of my balls that were numb. Smelt a lot of burning because apparently there's some cauterizing involved. God. Yep. But then he's like, ice your shit for two.
the whole rest of the day which i did but i never that guy didn't that guy didn't do shit for tanny that's what i was wondering he just burned some he just left a little hole in my nut sack he just burned some of his arm hair down there and said you're done oh there's a little there's a little hole where he uh did the business so he's just taking the venom out of the rattlesnake
See, and I think this is actually on topic for this episode. This is a body horror episode. It's totally on topic. If anyone wants to share any gross stories about something that's happened to them, now's the time. But it wasn't until today, a week later, that I've slightly been walking around all day with, like, you just got hit in the nuts, but it's about five minutes later, so it's mostly all gone, but there's like a little tinge still there, you know? Just sick to your stomach still a little bit. Just like a tiny, but not enough to really bother me, but just like, oh, did I?
Maybe your nuts are pinched in your underwear the wrong way while you're sitting down or something. Sometimes the tater tap hurts worse than a full-on... Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Sometimes it's just the thud that immediately... It taps the worst. It immediately makes you want to shit your pants because your stomach drops. I don't watch you on YouTube can see Carmelo flapping an imaginary nut sack. That's right. I'm just flapping away.
Yeah, it's the worst. We used to do that at the comic book store. It was like a thing you would do is actually, no, one guy did it. He would walk up to you and it was like, and it was the fucking worst. It was terrible. It's the worst. I would rather be kicked than take the tap. I've had some square kicks where you're like, okay, I'm actually okay now. But yeah, then I've had some grazes where I'm like, oh God.
Yeah, stiff rings sometimes is all it takes to bring me to my knees. It's true. Very true. Yeah. But, no, it's all over and done. I have to bring a sample back in in four months to verify that I am sterile. So, you know, hoping Rob can help coach me through that. Rob can help you. I do need to know, like.
I am interested to know if it's different. Does it just... I'm told it's not. Does it just crickle out like water? Or do you have... I ask those questions at length. Will it still stick to the wall? I ask those questions at length to the couple people I know that have had this done. They assured me that nothing visibly changes.
because rob likes to paint he likes to sign his work and he does he wants to make sure yeah if you're staying if you're staying in any hotels in tallahassee be careful i was asking an honest question to the nurse when i checked out i'm like i said so you i need to come back like in the doctor saying you come back in a few months to to give you a sample and she's like oh yeah yep like do i need do i like go what do i just come in and
It's like, do you have something to put it in? She's like, oh, yeah. And then she went and got this little bottle. And I don't know, like, how long does it need to be done there? I was like, do I need to do it here? Yeah. I prefer that you don't unless you live a long way away. I was like, no, I don't want to do it here. No, you don't understand what I'm asking. I don't want to do this here.
Do I need a cooler? What do you want from me? Just bring it to her. Do you offer support services if I have to do it here? Can I get a magazine or something? Is there someone other than you? Is there a lineup I can choose from? Support services? I don't know. Do y'all have street trash?
All I can say is I'm lucky that the nurse that had to completely swab the two by two foot area around my junk, every nook and cranny was not attractive. Luckily. Yeah. Yeah. That would have been awkward. Yeah. And they swab it with like icy hot, basically. God. How stimulating. Anyway, I'm glad I never have to. I would say back to body melt, but I don't think we ever left.
This is Ben. That's what I meant. This is on topic today, actually. Anyone want to hear about the time I burn my hands off like Hellraiser looked like? Let's get back to the movie. What if they cross the tubes and it just keeps going back? Actually, that's what I heard can happen in a minority of cases. I decided not to do it, but I did go to a consult. I've done some Googling. It backs up for some people. It backs up? Is that what you said? Yeah.
The sperm keep getting created, right? They just kind of back up. In some cases, they just kind of die off and get dissolved, but in some cases, they don't. When that happens, it can cause a lot of pain. So much so that at that point, the only thing they can do is remove a testicle.
He was like, it happens. He's like, it's happened to me once in the 50 years I've been a doctor, but it happened. Wow. I have it over here in this jar. Yeah, he's like, I saved it. It's so rare. I bronzed it. So that can go wrong. But he said it was super uncommon.
The weirdest part for me, for the consultation, again, I didn't have it done like you did, but I went for the talk. I heard him in the next room talking to another patient, and I heard him say the words, well, I mean, what's more important to you, like having an orgasm or being able to ejaculate? And I don't know what the context for that was, but the guy gave him.
The wrong answer. I was like, no, I want to be able to shoot out my load. And the doctor's like, well, I guess. No one's ever given me the answer before. Oh, gosh. And I'm just sitting there waiting for him to come in. I'm like, stop talking. I don't want to hear this. Oh, that's hilarious. Apparently they do it. I think it's updated or something. Because he said, oh, he was down there burning. I could just smell burning. And luckily it was all numb.
And having a nice conversation with me at the same time. And was asking things and was like, well, if this was five years ago, you'd be done by now. But he didn't really elaborate on that. I was like, oh.
okay just pulling interesting yeah i'm glad you take your time with it now like i'm glad that i was numb because he was like he was fucking like chinese stress ball in my nuts down there it was there was some pressure going on like my nightmare one of my friends had one two years ago it went wrong and got infected which again happens but is rare and he um his
his whole sack swelled up to the size of a softball. Oh. And he was out of commission for a while. That wasn't really bad. Well, I'm counting my blessings then because I haven't felt anything. Yeah, you're already good. I'm good. I wouldn't have said it to you before. I would have waited to tell you the story. God. No, thank you. Anyways. But yeah, going back to bodybuilding, we talked about how it's –
it was not meant to be an art house film and it is a little all over the place because we got these four stories that had to be it was an anthology that had to be made into a movie and philip brofiege says the things that things just happen and he was never worried about depth or cohesion in the film and as you shouldn't be that he he was he was admittedly saying that his film was just a fun romp and shouldn't be try to be understood or
any subtext read or anything like that. Um, which is interesting because I don't think it's very, I don't think it's very deeply buried. I think that's the, the, the obvious satire teasing of like healthy lifestyle is, you know, it's there. I mean, if he doesn't want there to be any subtext, he, that he failed him because there's some. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But no, I, I hear you there. Um, another fun.
another weird thing they said uh oh the the bodybuilder obviously was dubbed by a different actor and i thought just in my head for hilarity it's by like a female or something you know and he just said he was like oh we had so and so dubbed because their vote their it was it was like had nothing to do with the tone like the pitch of the voice like their performance wasn't something something like you just had like a
A 12-year-old kid dub a bodybuilder and not be intentional? I don't know. The reason was that he wasn't a good actor or something. Not that they wanted to intentionally have this bodybuilder have the voice of a 12-year-old. I thought that it was intentional just because he was on the roids. Yeah, well, that's what I figured. Maybe it was and they just didn't say it. Yeah, they just didn't want to upset him. I mean, his dick did explode.
It did. It did. But I was mentioning they had some actors that were of notice. None to us. But at the time, I guess the guy that played the doctor. Well, both doctors. So Vincent Gill played Pud, who's the hillbilly has-been doctor. They call me Pud. Yeah. He is like an...
what i want to say accomplished actor same with ian smith who played dr carrera he did look familiar yeah and he's uh his big famous thing i guess is a uk show called neighbors or something and uh i mean people were coming out just because of that like they they remembered him wanted to see him uh and gerard kennedy who played detective sam phillips is also was sort of top right actor in australia at the time as well so
i mean they did they went to these people who they didn't know would do it or not and everyone they didn't get one like denial everyone wanted to be a part of it just because it was something different they hadn't done it in australia at the time really i know we talked about brain dead was down there and or new zealand um but yeah it was just something refreshing and new for all of them to do uh but then they had actresses like the the girl who you know the girl hillbilly
yeah she it was her first film ever and they just had commented that she was on the casting director's roster but had never got cast in anything because she doesn't have this typical attractive female look and wasn't you know they just did soap operas and ads down there and so it gave her
among a few others the chance to finally do something the casting director to finally say oh here i have people for that like we don't need models for everything you know so uh so yeah yeah it worked out but um and i i mentioned it carmelo to rob that it's the same same effects guy that did the effects for brain dead or dead alive too so
Have you ever watched Brain Dead Carmelo? We covered it years ago on the podcast. No, I've never seen it. I know you said you don't like... It's been on my list. No, go ahead. I was saying. I was going to say it's been on my list for a while. I just haven't gotten to it, but I do want to see it. Yeah. I know you said you don't like body horror, but I wouldn't really consider...
I mean, there was a lot of gross, weird shit in it, but it's like zombie. It's like zombie, you know? Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was just a gory zombie movie. I'm fine with gore. I don't mind the gore. And zombie's a genre I enjoy a lot. Yeah. I guess when I say I don't like body horror, what I mean is I don't care for movies where the focus and the point of the horror is just to watch.
gross things happen to the body. Yeah. Street trash and this are two that come to mind. And I know there are people like them. So, you know, I get they're popular and I like that. Every horror movie has something horrific happening to a body. Well, well, right. If it's just gore that's happening in the movie. Yeah, but this is like, this is the thing that this is the killer in this movie is bodies melting.
This is what the movie, what is the movie about? It's about body melting, like period. It's about, it's about the vitamins melting the body. I will say, I don't, I don't, I don't think you watch the movie is all I'm saying. Oh, no, I think we know who the king of not watching the movie is. Certain, certain body horror. Yes. But this, our art. Yeah. In every horror movie, like.
Yeah. I'm not saying it needs to be hard for me to like it. Yeah. Is it me or is it you guys? I don't know. It's not between Rob and I. I think it's coming between me and Rob and you somehow Carbello, but no biggie. We're still getting the point across and everything. But yeah. I think it has to do just with production value because The Fly and David Cronenberg is the ultimate body of horror. The Fly is...
Yeah, and I love that movie. It's sci-fi, yet he literally melts on screen. And he pulls his own teeth out and he pulls his own fingernails off and he literally is coming apart. So I do think that there is like, like I wouldn't call the fly body horror because the production quality is so good and it is sci-fi. But like, I still have fun with, I think body horror is one of the last movie films that are genre or sub-genre of films where like,
It's like a roller coaster. I'm looking away, but I'm actually like giggling. Oh my God. Like that. Like where like, I still can't stomach hostile. Like I can't stomach like torture porn because it's too real. It's not funny to me. But like this, I'm like literally laughing. You have to have the over the top. Yeah. You know, when a guy's exploding purple and green.
i'm like that's that's great that's the best thing and like in like the in like the substance the new to me more movie nobody's really i mean some people are calling it body hard but it's more like the fly the production quality is so high and there's other things about it but like i mean good god to me more like i don't i need to watch it still i don't know how i don't know how they convinced her to do it i gotta watch it it's insane oh yeah yeah i gotta watch it still was the uh
was um you watched the new street trash right rob no not yet i thought you did for some reason mixed reviews or something about it i don't think i don't i think they really dialed it back i watched the trailer and it looks fun but i think i don't know i i wouldn't mind watching it i'm not sure where it is yet i thought it was on shutter but i was just i think it's on plex or something i'm not sure i was just curious but that does pretty much wrap up what i had on um body melt like i said
Tons of content on the Blu-ray, but they just don't talk about shit the whole time. I'm sitting there just waiting for it. You either get William Friedkin or you get it sounds like my version of a commentary where even if I made it, I didn't pay a lot of attention. Yeah, to what happened. Well, Friedkin's worse because he just narrated it. That was just as bad. It's too much information. Yeah, but...
now that we're already talking about it we could just move on to what did you watch and i did actually watch some good some shit and i should pull it up otherwise i'm gonna forget everything if i just try to remember did you watch anything good rob oh i watched um i watched the substance it was fantastic surprisingly really surprisingly amazing you paid and rented it right
I paid $20 for it. What, you bought it? Or did you rent it for me? I rented it. It's cheaper now. I got it as soon as it is. I want to watch that Werewolf or Wolfman that's coming out. It looks really good. I went to the theater for the first time in like 10 years. Oh. Did you see Nosferatu? I saw Nosferatu in the theater. That's right. Savannah hated it, which I could see.
Really? She really hated the ending. Really? Yeah, I mean, she loves Bill Skarsgård and all the Skarsgårds, and you didn't get Bill Skarsgård. No, you couldn't tell it was him at all. She was really upset about the makeup. Very upset about how he looked. You wanted some Skarsgård? Just a dashing.
i don't know it hung with me for i will say like a like a good edgar's movie um because he's got some dog shit ones but um like the witch i thought the witch was fine no no like i said like the witch the witch was good it hung with me you didn't like northman or lighthouse i did didn't care for it just the lighthouse was very much i think like an overreach uh the northman was good but it didn't
I rewatched it like six months ago and it kind of just didn't hit very well with me. The Witch did. The first time I watched it, I hated it because I thought I was getting like a traditional horror movie. I hated the ending the first time I watched it. And then I rewatched it and I was like, man, it really hung. I really liked it. I really did. And this one hung with me. I just, I don't know. It was too much Nosferatu and not enough Dracula for me. And I understand that's the point.
but I still say he could have cut 30 minutes out of that movie and it would have been just as good. And I just, I don't know. It just wasn't. I went in. If I would have saw it in IMAX and really, really saw, because that's the one thing everybody said was the cinematography. Maybe I would have been different, but I don't know. Did you see it, Carmelo? I did see it, actually. I heard enough.
mixed things that i i wanted to decide for myself and i actually more and more on this podcast i'm saying this i agree with rob about a lot i i liked it and the cinematography was spectacular and the acting was great but it is slow and long and so i think it's a really good movie that i just didn't enjoy very much but okay i gotta i gotta pitch this to carmel as soon as how he's he's agreeing with me this is my thought this is my thought
The ending of the movie, they do the elevated shot. They do the shot from the ceiling down, right? And you see his little withered chicken, little frog legs. Right, right. They do the mirror in the motel room ceiling shot, yeah. I think that when you Google Nosferatu, the very first image depicted of a Nosferatu is that shot. You know, the illustration. Interesting.
the little coiled thing, like, like in like, like, you know, like a medieval tapestry. Right. Um, and Robert Eggers kept harping. I want to make the note. I think he saw that in a book, that little mini and he shot the whole movie just to lead up to that one shot. Like if that makes sense, the whole movie is leading up to this one silent scene at the end.
And I think that was like his whole vision to making that movie. Cause if you Google, I'm telling you, Google the medieval thing, it's the shriveled legs. It's really cool. But like, it was a lot of filler that just, I don't know. It just didn't get me. I think he had that idea for this epic shot and he, he made a whole movie just to get that one shot. I think you're a hundred percent right. I, I, I think it makes, not only does it make sense, it's a good thing. Sometimes an artist starts with. Yeah.
This vision of like, oh, this is the scene. This is the money shot. This is the thing I want. And some of it is working backward to get there. And I think you're right. I think you probably did. And I think that's a compliment because it's a striking shot. And I do think, I think it's a good movie that I think if it were a half an hour shorter, would have been an insane blast. But I also like, I also am sympathetic because I don't know what exactly you'd cut.
ironically, even though Nosferatu is a ripoff of Frank, excuse me, of Dracula, it is one of the most faithful adaptions of the book. So I don't know what I'd lose that wouldn't have compromised some of that. And there was nothing in it that was bad. Like Aaron Taylor Johnson apparently is a 10 times better actor than I thought he was. He's blowing up.
He's blowing up and he deserves it because he's actually got range in this movie. I thought he was taller though. Or apparently, what's his name? He's very tall then. Nicholas Holt. Nicholas Holt is either very tall or Aaron Taylor Johnson is very short. My guess is it's both. But Nicholas Holt's another one who's great. Willem Dafoe's great, right? And so it's a movie where I'm not sure I had...
a lot of criticisms and yet i just thought it was long and a little slow rob i think you're totally right about that ending that that shot was really haunting and cool and i can see it lingered with me i think no if you had something else please i was just gonna add the movie had a lot of shots that were just so masterfully orchestrated that
The imagery of this movie is sticking with me. And that's tough because when you're making a Dracula movie, when there's so many famous images of Dracula, of Bela Lugosi or of the original Nosferatu, or even stuff from Bram Stoker's Dracula by Coppola, that's tough to come in and add to that pantheon of imagery. So in that sense, it's a great movie. But in an entertaining sense, it's not. Well, I went in.
Knowing it was Eggers, knowing it was new and already seeing some people being like, not initially bad reviews, but it getting some flack for being basically maybe an art house film, right? The funny meme was the biggest fans of Nosferatu haven't even seen the movie yet, you know? And then I think that I like everything Eggers has done after it's been watched and it's settled and I see it as...
like maybe this eagle eye vision visionary thing that he wanted to do like with lighthouse and things like that but i do when i went to see northman when he came out with it i was a little let down because i thought it was going to be this brutal action movie and it really wasn't it was just sort of it was it was it was a good movie it was cool there's great performances but there just wasn't a lot of action there wasn't a lot of like revenge there wasn't a lot of what you want out of what the previews made it look like and so knowing that and seeing
the hoopla about nose fraud tool. I actually went into it expecting like a good movie, but a sleeper, you know, like, uh, we're just gonna sort of get through it and there's going to be some great cinematography, some great, uh, soundtrack, uh, exceptional acting, but overall, you know, so I was going in with that mindset to, uh, like to the max. And because of that, I actually was pleasantly surprised. It was a lot more,
horrific and action-packed than I thought it was going to be. But if you went in thinking it was going to be, you might be let down in that manner. You know what I mean? I will say that it was better than I thought. I knew it was going to be very artsy. Very shot in a certain way. I love the Hungarian-ness. I love the mustache. I love the costume type stuff going on with her. I would say where I would have changed it would be
And this has got nothing to do with the fact that she's Johnny Depp's daughter. She didn't do anything for me in this movie. She played the character, fine. But the opening scene, there's so much of her trauma or possession stuff. I wanted more of Skarsgård and the guy stuck in the castle. I wanted more of that. And I don't even mean action.
That scene where he comes in and there's the fire going and you hear Skarsgård's voice, I could have listened to an hour of Bill Skarsgård talking. And I really could. They could have given him way more monologue. I think he was underused. I think he was fantastic. Willem Dafoe's character, I think, was kind of underused. Have you seen the meme?
You know the viral meme with like Sydney Sweeney doing her makeup and hair in the mirror while I'm in the shower doing whatever and then fill in the blank. There was one going around that said me practicing my Count Orlok impression while...
It was like it had Skarsgård doing it. Then it had like a guy trying it. And the whole time she's just in the mirror. I thought it was fucking hilarious. Oh, I was like driving home in the car, aggravating the shit out of Savannah. I was like, it is a black omen to drive 50 in a 45. I thought it was really good. I just don't think Lily Depp Rose needs to be in it as much. And I wanted more. I didn't even want to see him.
Like, I think he shot it. Everything was really well, but man, his voice and his presence were so good. I just don't think we got enough of it. And all in all, though, his biggest problem is Dracula is better than Nosferatu in every shape, form, and manner. Like, I don't like the character or the story or what do you mean? Just Ford Coppola.
Oh, that movie is better. Yeah, because that movie is the closest thing to... It's such a mix of Dracula, the handsome, good-looking Bela Lugosi, and Nosferatu. It's a mix of them. He shows up and he's crippled. I still say Anthony Hopkins believed his role was a comedy. He was wild. And Willem Dafoe does that. He's wild and crazy and fun.
And I never want Bill Skarsgård to be handsome. I like him disgusting and all that. But there's gaps in it, like Savannah, who wanted to see sexy Bill Skarsgård. Like Boy Kills World, Bill Skarsgård? Yeah. Or The Crow? No, we haven't seen that. But no, he's feeding on the people he never heals. There's weird things in there that don't... Well, they took a different angle. I know, they did. Animated corpse.
Yeah, and I really like that. And like I said, I never want, I don't care if he was ever pretty, but it's strange. And, you know, he signed a document. Like, there's cool things in it, but I just, for such a long movie, I don't know. I think that was parts that made it drag. Like, oh, yeah, he did sign a contract, okay? And then he has to give herself. Like, there's just, I don't know, it just didn't.
And then you look at Ford Coppola's, which is a long movie, but we needed more Dracula, just a little bit more Dracula, I think. Or less of other stuff. Less of other stuff, a little bit more. I just say more Orlok. We needed more. Right. We did see all of them. There was another funny meme that had Nicole Kidman in something as a happy suburban mom, and it's like me staring at Orlok's.
nine foot penis on the imax screen did you see that they framed the prosthetic and gave it to nicholas holt i heard i heard something like that because that scene where he's drinking from his chest instead of his neck the whole scene it was rubbing him i guess it was really hard for him not to laugh and so that scene was the longest to shoot so they took the prosthetic and cut it out and framed it and gave it to him on the last day of shooting wasn't it
I heard it was like the same prosthetic used on another movie. I forgot. It could have been. I don't know. I did like it. I just it's when you look like Carmela said the mixed reviews, I would say the majority of the negative reviews just didn't even know what the hell they were going to see. Yeah. Like they thought they were going to see Dracula. We all. Well, thanks to Joe Bob. I watched all the Nosferatus because he did like a double feature. Did you? I kind of I kind of had an idea, but.
People were like, I love the mustache. I like that it was more animated. He looked like a Cossack. I think it hit harder than people thought it was going to hit. I love his voice. Like your casual viewer. Well, they said he trained for like 10 months with an opera singer or something to like lower his voice. Yeah, I heard him say that. Like many octaves. I thought it was great. And I like the wheezing and the crackling. And I really did. I just think, yeah, I think they just took a couple of turns. They didn't.
They should have moved a little bit here or there, but that's all subjective. I never go to the theater, and I was happy to go. You got out of the house. Did you watch anything else besides Nosferatu that you want to share? Nosferatu were really good. I want to see Wolfman, but it's not out yet. And then I saw Frank Grillo has a movie. Werewolf one? Yeah, I didn't see it. Werewolves or something, but I hadn't seen it. I saw that was out too.
I want to see that Hard Eyes looks good. That's coming out. I'm actually not opposed to this long segment at the end because we don't do normal episodes on other recent horror movies or anything like that. You guys could bow out if you want once we're done talking about Body Melt or you don't have to. It's up to you. That's true because we've talked about doing more modern ones, but this What Did You Watch segment is a good way for us to
keep relevant and talk about new shit while we're doing the thing we're supposed to be doing. Yeah, that's true. And it's not always new shit because, like, I watched some other movies this week that I should talk about. What did you watch? Because I've gone on and on about Nosferatu. No, I finally watched, well, to stick with new, I watched Abigail. I hadn't seen that yet. That's good. I like that. I thought it was good. I thought it was good. Did you watch that, Carmelo? No, I haven't seen it yet. A little vampire girl.
Yeah, that was good with Dan Stevens. He does a good job in it. He's another sort of chameleon, and sometimes when I see him acting, I can't tell if he's... I don't know if it's good or not, but my gut is that it is very good, but sometimes it feels like he's overacting, like playing a character when he doesn't really need to be at the moment. I don't know, but I really like him a lot. Which one did he play in it? He plays the main villain ex-cop that...
that ends up being the villain at the end he's like the good guy most of the time and then i liked him i like that character a lot the overacting i don't know if it was overacting or if well not in this movie particularly he actually did good he's like a new york ex-cop in this one yeah but he does he does ham it up he had watched him in um i watched him in god damn it's not in my uh it's probably because i watched it on netflix he did another film called like it's not the ritual but that's what i want to say because obviously that's the guys in the woods but
Some period piece where he's saving his sister from a cult. The apostle. The apostle. Yeah. Very good. I thought in that one, I almost thought. That's a solid movie. It is good. But I almost thought the character he was playing was sort of like, what's he doing? But I liked it. But at the same time, I was like, what's he doing? In that movie, he acts a lot with his face. He's like sneaking around and there's a lot of like. Yeah. But both of those are good. I think Abigail.
is a better performance. Apostle could arguably be a better movie. It is a good movie. It's one of those that I was pretty sure I watched but wasn't sure and then got like 20 minutes in and was like, oh yeah, I've seen this. I've done it like three times with Apostle because I keep trying to find good stuff on Netflix and it's hard. So Abigail, that was good. I thought it was awesome. Nothing revolutionary but a fun ride. And then I finally fucking
Everyone talks about it all the time. Tarantino talked about it in the commentary for Dust Till Dawn. I finally watched Audition, the Japanese. Oh, I can't bring myself to do it. How is it? Tell me about it. It's good. I mean, I don't think it's that graphic compared to some of the shit we've watched in the last year. Really? There is a couple parts where you're like, oof, but it's not too bad. And most of it?
it's really this chameleon of a film where it's the first three quarters is a dramatic love story and yeah it just goes south like the last 30 minutes it's really not even it's not even it doesn't even come close to some of the wildest stuff out of japan like t uh takashi takashi miike did like it's like oh my god he's oh dude there's there there's movies i watched in high school my buddy's older brother
was a junior in college, and he would get all these bootlegs. There's shit that they made in the 80s and 90s in Japan that would just turn your stomach. To this day, it will turn your stomach. Audition is not bad. I just can never get past eating vomit. That's what did it for me. You just got to watch Two Girls, One Cup on a loop. Nope.
Do they eat? Vomit in audition? I thought you meant two girls. I don't think that happens in audition. Not that I'm remembering. No, the main bad stuff is she uses a wire to put his foot off. Piano wire to put his foot off. And uses these thick acupuncture needles to put under his eyelids and stuff.
Yeah, there's definitely a couple. You don't watch it. I've heard enough about it. I think you would. I don't think it's not as bad as body melt as far as the body work goes. There's like one or two that Carmelo would quit the show. I watched a couple others. I'll just rattle off. I got into a found footage thing. I was like, I just watched a couple found footage movies. So I watched Sanatorium that was actually sort of decent. I haven't seen that one.
Yeah, I think it's like 2014 or something. And then I watched Survive the Hollow Shoals, which was not good at all. Do not watch that movie. See, the name's too long. Do not watch it. And then a while back, I watched, because we haven't recorded in a while, Azrael with Samara Weaving, where she's mute and escaping.
post-apocalyptic cult. I don't know all these cult movies coming up. That was pretty good. It wasn't too bad. I've seen the trailer for that. It's like post-apocalyptic. They're living in the woods in these little Mad Max looking encampments. They don't go as ham as Mad Max. What's the new one that's from M. Night Shyamalan? Is that the one where they're in an underground bunker? What's that one? It came and it went.
No. I know what you're talking about. Talk amongst yourselves. The last one I watched a while back. It was a long time. It was probably two months ago. But I wanted to mention it was Take Shelter with Michael Shannon. I thought it was pretty good. Where he has these visions of the world ending. And you don't really know if he's nuts or not. The whole film. And he's throwing his life away. Then it turns out he's right at the end. The Watchers.
I watched The Watchers 2, actually. Thank you for saying that. That's the M. Night Shyamalan movie. I saw it, and I almost watched it, but then I complete... Yeah, Dakota Fanning. Actually, that's the most recent one I watched, and I just brain farted and forgot it because it wasn't on Prime. I watched it on Netflix. Was it any good? I thought it was actually... It was pretty good. I thought it was pretty good. I'll try it. There's some cool visuals, the last bit of it, and the story sort of keeps you guessing what the heck's going on. Yeah, I thought it was good.
So that's, yeah, that's, that's all I got for now. Did you watch Carmelo? I know you had to watch something. Nosferatu was my big one. We spent most of the, most of it on that, but otherwise I've just been watching Marvel put out that. What if season three is their, their newest cartoon. So I've been watching that horror wise. I've been a little bit slacking. I will say if I can go off brand for a moment.
I've been listening to an audio book that is going to be turned into a movie called Project Hail Mary. Oh, I listened to that too. You listened to it too? I was speaking of you the whole time because I thought you'd love it. I loved it. Yeah. I know how you like real sci-fi and they go through so many lengths. It's the same guy that The Martian, right? That's right. That's right. Andy Ware. Yeah. And I thought it was fantastic. I finished it actually tonight. And I was like, I was almost in tears at the ending. I'm like, this is beautiful.
I will admit I don't really remember all the details about the ending and everything because we did. I listened to an audio book I think two, a year and a half, two, whenever we drove Rob to visit you when I came from Shannon's dad's up in South Carolina or whatever. Shannon had it on audio book and we were listening to it. It was really good. I heard that I thought they had the actor picked out. It's like Ryan Gosling is going to play the main guy or something.
I think. Yeah, I think I'd heard that. I'm curious how they're going to do it because the story doesn't have a lot of characters who aren't human, and so I'm really interested in like... They're saying Ryan Gosling has got it. That's right. I just coincidentally watched The Fall Guy last night. I wasn't really going to mention it because it's not horror related. I went on a western kick.
But it did have Aaron Taylor Johnson in it. Fall Guy does. Yes, it did. I thought it was good, Fall Guy. It was a fun ride. It was a cool little industry flick if you're familiar with some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. Savannah's been trying to get me to watch it. I haven't watched it yet. It's a fun ride. Oh, that was the other one. Dang it. I watched Horizon and I loved it.
Oh, yeah, because you are all up on Kevin Costner's nutsack. No, I thought he's actually not even in it that much. But what's his face from Avatar? Sam Worthington? Danny's buddy. Yeah, Sam Worthington. My buddy. Yeah, the guy you did movies with, your best friend. I did one movie with him. Yeah, several movies with Sam Worthington. He is so good in this movie.
He plays a character very much like Christian Bale in Hostiles. And I really, really like him. And I'm telling you, when he first shows up, it's like Wyatt Earp. It's not wham, bam, quick. But the cinema, where they shot this movie, I think in Utah, is gorgeous. Worthington's fantastic. Michael.
um oh god the guy from walking dead the old guy michael rourke or whatever um he he's fantastic in it um everybody's good in it but sam worthington the last the last 10 minutes of the movie it's it's putting you on like worthington is really like his storyline is gonna massively take off and it ends and like you were just like scrambling to keep and worthington just grabs you which i thought he was
He was fantastic. Worthington really got me. But yeah, Horizon was wonderful, and then that got me. I watched a bunch of old Clint Eastwood movies. I'll have to check it out. All right. Well, I think we've talked just as long not about Body Belt as we did about Body Belt, which is okay. But they didn't give me a shit. I did the thing, and they didn't. It was their fault. It was their fault. We do have The Kindred lined up.
for next episode. I have the Blu-ray already. I wasn't familiar with it either. Another Jason Purcell recommendation. 87? Yeah, 87, I believe. Looks pretty cool. It looks like they remade it in 2021, too. Oh, we're doing the older one. I hope that's what I bought. I hope that's what I bought. It is. I've never heard of this, so it looks good.
All right, guys. Well, yeah, that's what we'll be covering. Watch it if you would like, and then we'll fill you in on all of the how it's made details. Or don't watch it, and you'll live the podcast like I do. It's an immersive experience for Rob. It is. Yeah, tell me more about it. What happened in that one scene with that one guy? Someone's got to be the hapless guy that just happened along. That's part of the entertainment. Look, I submitted a meme to get on this show.
That's true. All I did was get the link emailed to me accidentally. I've been here ever since. Yeah. All right, guys. Well, Scott, you should be with us next time. If he hasn't frozen to death in Orlando. Yeah, if his flight made it back tomorrow night. 32 degrees in Orlando. It's 3 right now in Chicago. I was telling Rob it was negative 15 here this morning, but now it's 28. Dude, there's a foot of snow in Florida right now. That's nuts.
Good thing global climate change isn't real. Alright, goodnight everybody. Well, look, we can all say it's not warming because Florida's freezing. That's not how that works. That's exactly how that works. Nope, that's not it. That's exactly how that works. Listen to Hail Mary. I am currently burning tires in my backyard and spraying hairspray directly into the ozone layer. I'm just farting non-stop. Well, that's because you eat so much protein.
it's because danny's danny's protein is bigger than his fucking carry-on when he comes to part sometimes i don't bring it sometimes i buy when i'm there you know now that they have levels at vitamin cottage so don't even know see these guys with their supplements and their stuff and see that's
Body mail is never happening to me. I'm going to die of a heart attack at 45 years old like how you're supposed to. Like a normal person. Like a real man. 45. Drop dead with a Coke Zero in my hand. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We'll catch you next time. Later. Don't you blame the movies. Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative. There will be blood.