Re-Connected September 19th, 2024: Announcements and Nightmares with Dustin Putman!!

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Hello and happy Thursday everybody. What's going on to you out there? Welcoming back my dear friend, mister Dustin Pupman.

Hello, thanks for having me again.

Of course, Uh first I have to apologize last week as we were closing out, I literally was looking at like six different things at once and said the voice from the Almost Major podcast on next week, and obviously they're not. We have Dustin the Almost Major Boys will be on next week, and they've let me know they might be bringing on a surprise guest. We might have a very very full house next week. So just the heads up, come back. Next week's going to be a blast. Dustin.

I mean, well, I have a lot going on with like my job outside of all of them, but but yeah, with it being fall now and all of the you know, fall movies coming out, and it's getting really busy trying to see as many as I can. But I've seen some really good things, you know, we can talk about shortly.

We We've got a lot, a lot to discuss. I'm sure I'm excited for what you've been watching just this last week, because you seem to get to a lot of new movies that I don't get to.

Yeah. Well, yeah, there's one thing that that I got to that I'll talk about. But it's gonna shock everybody that I've never seen it before.

Well now I'm very curious. Hello to everybody in the chats. Josephine with her question as normal, first time watching since last time? Lars and the inc Maniac cop Countamoss, Count of Monte Cristo not Cristco Christo, Tender Mercies, Phantomly Opera, Pulse, Dragnet, and The President's Analyst. I've seen a handful of these. Maniac Cop is a great one, of course. Count of Monty Cristo I've seen. I hardly remember, it's been a long time. Pulse is great, The sixty two Family Opera,

What did you just say? I'm sorry?

Any of those special for you?

I love, but I haven't seen any of the other ones.

Shockingly interesting, and you've seen a lot too. Well, first this week, let's let's get into some pickups. What have you been getting in lately?

Pickups? Okay, I got well, I got a lot of the partner labels and stuff from from the O C and for Benninger Centrome. I won't go through all of them, but it was a really busy month. But I did get Go Fish from Cinematagraph, and I was really happy about Howling two. I will defend this movie with my life.

And for many people it needs defending, that's for sure.

Yeah. I know, I know, you know it's not as good as the original, but I have a soft spot for it. I remember growing up it used to come on the local like the local access stations for their creature feature on Saturdays, and so yeah, I loved it for that. And then I got from Film Movement the three films from Jessica Housner, YEA Lovely Rita Hotel, and Lords, and I'm really looking forward to all three of those, although I was surprised that they didn't put them in like a box set or something.

Yeah, I bet there was something in the contract that they couldn't. For some reason, it felt like it would have been a great little three pack, kind of like they did for Lee Chang Dong.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And then I got from a screen factory The Stepfather. This is a great movie. Have you seen this one?

Oh yeah, it's a classic.

Yeah, and yet part two and three have never come out on LUI.

Uh correct, And the rumor is the elements are destroyed and they likely never will. Oh no, I'm hoping that's not entirely the case. But yeah that was said gosh, probably three or four years ago, somewhere back then.

Jeez, I hope they are able to find something, you know, eventually, that'd be nice.

Uh.

This is a big movie from when I was in high school, Can't Hardly Wait. One of my favorite teen movies. And I was so happy that Aero put out the four K of Silence of the Limbs when the Keno version came out. I'm not that picky when it comes of picture quality, like I'm oh, yes, nice, But yeah, I'm not that picky when it comes to the picture

Yeah, that's a that's gonna be a big improvement for sure.

And then and then from Deaf Deaf Crocodile in the Moscow Slums.

Love the art on that box, love it, love it.

Yeah, I'm really liking their new collector's addition hard By sets. It just makes it like more of an event.

Yeah. Yeah.

And then the last one is I was so happy that this came out. I love this movie bringing out the Dead.

I can't wait to get my name. Yeah, it's a big deal.

Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm so excited to watch that probably this weekend.

I got a few here. First from Air forty four forty four, they got their new bundle out, I've got the Muku or Mukudro trilogy, and this slipcover is intense, and then art on the inside is well, actually it's the same as the back of the slip. I can show that better. Nice from them. And then the bigger deal is the fact that they've got Red to Kill Adam blu Ray. This is one of the the craziest cat three films of all time. And very very eager to watch this one in a nice cleaned up copy.

Yeah, I got that same thing. I went to see it yes yesterday and I got home, got the mail, and that was in the mail that Fingora nice, but it was a little disconcerned, like if you've seen the movie and then you come home and get a package that says the substance on it, you were I thought I was going to run the other one.

Oh man, all kinds of people that saw it already, keV from almost Major saying it's the movie of the year.

I mean, I can talk about that one right now if you want me to.

That's that's why I save that for last is now we can talk about recent watches and it's time for you. So no spoilers, of course. How do you feel about the substance?

You're not ready for it. Nobody's ready for it. Like you know, a lot of times people can overstate things on movies and then you go see them and you're like it, you know, it doesn't live up to it. Yeah, there's nothing that I could say that would like it's it still wouldn't overstate things like like I like, I could say anything and it still is going to shock you. It's well, it's definitely one of my favorite films of the year. I would say it's one of the greatest

Interesting. Yeah, I would say We've got a couple of horror roles this year that are potentially Oscar worthy If this one lives up to it. One that I watched this week, I might say, is be to be worthy of an Oscar. But what else have you been checking out this week? You alluded to one a little while ago.

Well, I know exactly what you're about to say if you want to, Well, could it be WILLI Fitzgerald?

It is, but I was going to talk about that during announcements. Well four K.

The other thing that this one is also another one of my favorites of the year. It just shocked me how good it was. It premiered at Sundance this year and was highly praised. It's coming. It's in limited release now and opens next week. It's my old ass.

I'm dying to see this.

And you know, with a title like that, you wouldn't expect it to be as powerful as it is. Like it's it's one of the more authentic coming of age films I've seen in quite a while. Nic it's and just you know, I don't really cry that often during movies. This one made me cry three times.

Wow.

So so yeah, it's great. But basically the story, if you're not familiar with it, it's about an eighteen year old girl who is in the month before she goes away to college, and through mysterious circumstances, she comes face to face with her thirty nine year old self played by Aubrey Plaza, and the way that it sounds, you know, it sounds it could have gone in a lot of different directions, but the way they handle it is perfect, and it really just leads to a lot of truths about,

So yeah, interesting, I love I love Aubrey Plaza. She decent in it.

Yeah, she's she's excellent. She's not in it that much really only three scenes, but she you hear a lot as well, but she she's definitely a memorable force throughout the movie.

Interesting, man, I'm yeah, I'm dying to see that. There's there's a lot of good stuff coming out right now.

Yeah, and you know, I was, you know, this was a few weeks ago, but I was a fan of Beetlejuice. Beetle Juice. That was good.

Yeah, I'm still did not get to see that. My nine old is pissed.

Going to take him to see it.

I mean I want to. We just have not had any time whatsoever.

Well, it's definitely worth seeing. But it really did capture I felt like the feel of the original without feeling forced good. That's what I was happy about. And then the last thing, the last theatrical thing that I'll mention is tonight or right before this, I actually saw Never Let Go, the halle Berry movie, and that one actually

So, as someone that goes to so much theatrical, is there one for the rest of this year that's upcoming that you're really dying to see?

Oh my gosh, I've heard WHOA well this. I could be high falutin and say like I'm looking forward to like a Noor from Sean Baker and a lot of these.

Like high falutin like Oscar Worthy movies, But I keep seeing Terrifier three, the trailer for it before things I see, and I'm like, all right, that's really the actual thing I'm most looking forward.

I mean, it'll be a fun the theatrical experience. Watching part two with a full audience was, like, I gotta be honest, an incredible experience.

Yeah, it was. Yeah, I saw the second one in the theater as well. And I'm also really looking forward to Nosaratu. Yes, and and I have to say Wicked as well, because I'm a big musical than Yep. Yeah, although they've cut it into two parts.

I mean, you get more out of it, at least that's true. There you go on inside you agree?

Yep.

Yeah, I had to laugh at Anora is the high falutin word.

I was.

The brutalist is another one that I'm really looking forward to.

Yeah, I'm I'm eager for those. I'm eager for the Heretic, that one with Hugh Grant.

Oh, I can't wait for that. I have friends who were at Tiff and saw it and were just blown away by it, and it was like one of the smartest screenplays of the year.

So wow, interesting, that's awesome. Zach says he's excited for Flight Risk. I don't even remember what Flight Risk is.

That's a Mark Wahlberg film got pushed in next year, though, so I don't don't think it's coming out this one. I did not hear that. That sounds really good, although I don't know that that's been picked up for distribution yet. That's the new Mike Flanagan.

Movie got some rave reviews out of Tiff as well.

Yeah, I think it won the Audience Award.

Yep, Nora got second to that. Yeah, so this week a random one. There was one that we we we announced a kickstarter for about two years ago on this show, and it was ry Levey doing a documentary called Boutique. Uh. And then the subtitle on this is to Preserve and Collect And it's literally about boutique home video and this is a documentary that is about archiving films and what goes into these releases and what makes the disc special and all that, and uh. It was. It was decent.

Did they mention, you know, like Vinegar Syndrome.

And literally everybody from the labels was in it for the most David Gregory was in it forever. Joe Rubin and Oscar Bescher from Vinegar Syndrome were in it for a little bit. They were on site at Vinegar Syndrome and in LA with the Severn guys. Sam Degan is in it for quite a bit. They they took a clip from my interview with Sam Degan so you can see my mug on the face for like four seconds. It was I don't know, I wanted. I wanted substance, definitely want a little more out of that one.

Does that have a planned release yet?

I believe it got one through the Kickstarter and I'm willing to bet it does get picked up by someone else for a little more robust release eventually. But yeah, I would, I would check it out for sure.

Oh coo, sounds interesting.

I really only got to watch that I can talk about one other things this week, and we're gonna be talking about that during the announcements, but I did want to talk about a sneak peek for something that is getting technically announced tomorrow, even though we've already talked about

Nice. Yeah, that looks good. Yeah, I'm glad I'm a subscriber.

Yeah, that's a big thing for sure. For everything that you get with the subscription with def Crocodile, you really eventually understand that it's really something that's you're getting. You're getting your money's worth. However, as far as it comes to announcements, we need to start with something where you are absolutely not getting your money's worth. Let's talk about this three hundred dollars package for the Texas Chainsaw Masker that is being released by dark Sky Selects. This thing

I think when this was announced, I think I commented, you know, I don't think I have room on my shelves for a chainsaw. I actually maybe I missed that in the description. I didn't realize that it was an actual chainsaw. I just thought it looked like a chainsaw.

It's not an actual chainsaw. It just makes the sound of a chainsaw when you open up. What I'm saying right now, you could go buy a four K release of Texas Chainsaw Asker and a real chainsaw. You could buy both of those and it would cost less than this bundle.

Wow.

Okay, Wow, to me, that's insanity.

I think I'll stick with the four K of this that I already have. That's very nice. Was it second site that put it out?

Second? Well, not only did second site put it out, this is already the second release of Texas Chainsaw mass Ground four K from Dark Sky. They have also released Texas Chainsaw already.

I mean, I'm I mean, I'm sure there's people that will absolutely go for this, I guarantee it, but I won't be But but I mean, that's cool that it exists. I guess.

I said, what are we doing? And Sasha said, sure as fuck, not buying this dumb ass thing. Yeah, I'm remiss to tell people what to do with your money, but I would say, please, please, do not go purchase this.

Do you think that so? Will they be doing more like in the future as well?

Nobody has confirmed that Severn has not said anything other than they were doing this, and they've technically not even really commented on this since it was announced by Variety.

Yeah, I have to say russ Meyer is actually a blind spot for me. I haven't seen anything of his, but I definitely would be interested in doing so.

Yeah, they're they're wild, and I gotta admit I've seen the restoration for the super Vixen's and it's crazy how much better these look than the old releases, that's for sure. Nice Craig says Dennis looked into releasing a bunch of Resmeyer stuff a while back. They apparently had everything stored in a shed outside of their house. Fingers crossed they held up over the years. Yikes. And then Joel from Scarecrow Video says, easily the most exciting release of the

Now go ahead, I said, Now I've got to get.

Him moving on from Russ's Blue Underground announced that Venom is coming on four K in early twenty twenty five. This will be a new Dolby Vision HDR four K Master with Dolby atmost and this is the Venom from nineteen eighty one, so there will be no Tom Hardy present in the film.

Yeah. When this was announced, I had my Blu ray of it that I've had since twenty sixteen, and I had never watched it. So I was like, let me watch it and then I can decide if I would want to upgrade before K. So I watched it last week. It's it's good. It is really good. Have you seen it before?

I a long time ago. I think this is one that I confused with a couple others.

Yeah, it's interesting. It has oh my gosh, now I'm blanking on on the It has like some big big name actors in it, like like even right from the very beginning, I was I was like, this is this is like a legitimate film. This isn't like copper not the copper Heads bad. I mean Copperhead, you know, is fun in itself, but this was like a big budget film.

Yeah, this has Oliver Reed and klaus Kinski.

Yes, yes, yes, how could I forget klaus Kinsky? But yeah, it's it's sort of like these bad guys hold hold this child for ransom or whatever. And at the same time he's like really into different pets and animals, and he goes to the pet store and they switch out like a house snake for a black mamba, and so he unknowingly has like the most poisonous snake in the world and so and it is let lou in the house with these thieves and it gets wild. But it's well done. I liked it.

That's good to hear. Going to our next one. So, Vinegar Syndrome was prepared to have their Black Friday flash pre order event tonight, but unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you're looking at your wallet, tonight, they have decided that they are delaying their Black Friday flash pre order event.

And I'll be there for it at twelve oh one pm Eastern.

I am sure they're going to be revealing a bunch.

I'm sorry, did they say did I not see it? What did they or why did they decide to delay it?

They technically just said because of the success of the totally WRAPD sale. However, I don't know how that changes things. I mean maybe they're busy with shipping everything out and moving their warehouse so they didn't want to do it right now. But uh, yeah, it's a it's an odd decision.

Uh.

Let's see, we got a lot of comments I missed here. Toby Hooper was the first director, but fired that was for Venom. Some rumors say that there's still some of his shots in the movie.

I like, I like, not sure how they're gonna keep things under wraps.

Yeah, that's a that's a big out there secret for sure. What's going on?

I want to know how how they managed that? When didn't Michael Mann say that he would never allow it to be released or something?

Yeah? Yeah, I I I hope as part of their release that is clearly coming, uh, that they do something to explain what happened behind the scenes, some sort of featurette like they've done on a couple of the releases, to explain that, even you know, a conversation with Man to say what changed his mind? That would be great, do.

You think so? Do you think he'll be involved at all?

Like this? I mean I would imagine. So most of the time that his stuff is out, he has been heavily involved. So I'm I'm thinking that they're probably going to lean into that and considering it's something that people have wanted for a long time. First off, they probably play paid out the nose for it, but beyond that, they probably said, you can do whatever you want on this release. You can do a commentary, you can do an interview, you can do nothing, you can supervise the restoration.

Yeah, that's definitely gonna be one of the releases of the year.

I'm eager to see it. Next, Oscilloscope is releasing this film called Once Within a Time from twenty twenty two. This is coming late this fall on Blu ray and DVD. This is directed by Godfrey Reggio, who did Coya Cannot say it out loud right now, Koya Niscatzi. We talked about that earlier this year or last year. I believe returns after ten years with a new experimental film, unlike any other from his already daring career. It's a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world in the

Yeah, Kotski is incredible. So yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to this. I feel like it's interesting with a selescope because I'm a part of their subscription, so I get their releases and sometimes I'll get things that haven't even been announced yep, officially, but then like for something like this, they're announcing it months in advance, so that's interesting.

Uh, that's a good reminder, you know. I showed the two asiloscopes that came as part of my sub tonight. A reminder that their subscription is called the Circle of Trust. You can go on their website. It is a great, great, great value. I cannot stress that enough. You get their next ten releases if you do Blu Ray it is one hundred and forty dollars. Now it was. It was one hundred dollars for the longest time, which they were

And I think you mentioned it last week. The one released Godden Country, I think it's called that they see basically for free to subscribers, just because they said that it was such an important film that they wanted everybody to see it, and they didn't even count it towards the subscriptions.

So yeah, that's crazy. And they've done that before with gifts and stuff, like when they they put out Short Bus and they sent everybody that was a subscriber at the time they sound on a free bottle of Loube with your subscription, Like, that's amazing.

That's what. Yeah, I wasn't in the circle of trust at that point. I wonder if I wonder if I went back and ordered that one, if it's still Kate would come with the Loube.

I think you can still buy the lube. I'm not sure, all right? Go in to our next title, Killer's Game. This is the Bautista film that has been playing recently. This is getting an Amazon exclusive four K steel book from Lionsgate. It'll also get a standard four K and a Blu ray release, but you can pre order this four K steel book now. I've heard that this movie is so over the top that it circles back to being interesting and funny, but be prepared for it mostly just being brainless schlock.

Yeah. I missed this one, but I heard next things about it. Some people really liked it and other people did not.

Yep that Jack's out for a Batista film. Uh, here's a big one. November nineteenth, Sony is releasing Little Women from nineteen ninety four on four K. Now. Recently, when they announced one of their big four K box sets Greta Gerwig's Little Women was in that on four K and everybody was whining that it wasn't this one. I'm I'm much happier that this one is getting a standard,

Yeah. I love this movie. Yeah. I saw this in the theater when it came out. And it's interesting that Columbia sent or their previous release of this, I think was like a it wasn't it like a burned disc of it? I believe it was like an Emma are A MD release.

Yeah, and.

I mean the picture called. He was still very good on it, but it was m od. So I love that they're putting it out in four K.

Now, uh oh uh, that's kind of funny. Sina Journeys though, if if you don't know who Sinned Journeys is, you should. This is Aaron West. Of course, everybody go check out sinajourneys dot com. Uh. He is saying, serially, seriously, is this one good? I thought it wasn't as well received. I love Greta Gerwigg's No this was this is a classic. Like most people that I know absolutely adore this movie.

And I like that it's the Gerwig version tells it in a you know, it's the same story, but it tells it in a very different way. Yep, it's not just like a repeat of what you've seen before. I think they're both. I think they're both great movies.

Yeah, they're definitely, They're both worth having for sure. All right. That is that's Keno announced that they are putting out the claim from two thousand. This is a movie I don't think i'd ever heard of. This is starring Wes Bentley, Miladjovivich, Nastasia Kinski, Peter Malon, and Sarah Polly. This one is directed by Michael Winterbottom, who also did Jude Wonderland Code forty five and somehow this bypassed me entirely. Did you see this one?

I have not, and I don't think that I had heard of this either. But I do like the cast.

It's a very interesting cast, lots of lots of smaller names, but lots of great names. I'm betting this is probably a good film.

But I do Yeah, I question how it slipped me by like two thousand. I was I don't know, maybe it just got a very small release when it came out.

Mister simonar saying this was a blockbuster staple. Interesting the claim of some good problems on his hands. This is an art house movie. The early two thousands had a solid DVD. Nice. Yeah, this is definitely a very two thousands looking poster though, all right, that is Keno. Next, they announced that coming soon is Frankenstein's Bloody Terror from nineteen sixty eight. But not just that this is coming. This is coming on three D Blu ray. This was done by the three D Film Archive. This is one

Yeah, I'm looking forward to this too. I haven't seen it, and I hadn't even heard of it before this announcement. But I just love discovering things like this every time, you know, there's an announcement and yeah, another Paul Nashy film.

Craig is saying blasphemous to ask this about this release, but is there a two D version on the disc? I can almost guarantee there will be one. On all of the three D film archive and Keino collaborations, there has been a two D version on the disc. However, this is a classic KENO. Hey, we're releasing this, but we will not tell you when or any details about it. So we'll check back in five or six months and

I'm kind of glad that I'm not familiar with the show, because if I was a huge fan of this, I mean, I would be frightened to get it, but I would have to although, yeah, I had missed the part that it's DVD only. I thought that it was Blue Ray.

No, this is only gonna be DVD. I don't think they will ever release this on Blu Ray. This is insane though. Oh I love Brendan's comment it makes the sound of something closing when you open the box. Oh man, hilarious. Next up, Galaxy Quest is coming on four K on December third. This is a big deal for so many people celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary. You can pre order the steel book now, or you can get this wonderful looking standard four K release coming with a slipcover again

I'm looking forward to finally watching this. This is one of those movies that everybody raves about and I somehow have missed.

It's pretty great. I gotta admit, it's pretty great.

Like I've seen, I've you know, I mean, it's a takeoff obviously of Star.

Trek and right like kind yes, yes, amidst other things. Actually, Okay, okay, it's a it's pretty great.

Yeah, now I know that it's coming out before Kale, I'll finally watch it.

Yeah, and it's got it's got literally one of the best casts of all time. All Right. Concept Media is a company that we've not been able to talk about much in a long time because they've just not been releasing much. But you can order from their website right now a Blu Ray release of Triple X Miss. This is from twenty twenty three. And the big thing is they got Feliziose to star in this. I say stars, She's probably not in this for much of it, but

How did they ever think of that title?

They watched all of the Friday the Thirteenth sequels.

Yeah, I would be interested in this, just for the Felssa Rose part of it, But you're probably right, like she's probably in it for a minute.

Yeah, probably right around the amount of times she was in Terrified too. Next up, we got some Criterion announcements this week and they were pretty great. December third, four K release coming of Paris, Texas. We talked about this for the Curzone release already. This is coming from Criterion. It will be the exact same disc as before, nothing new, except it will be a UHD with a brand new four K digital restoration. Obviously a big deal. Have you seen this one there, Dustin?

Oh, yes, yeah. This is probably my favorite Them Vendors film and probably my favorite Harry Dean Stanton performance. But it's yeah, this is this is a great film, and yeah, I'm all over this.

Yeah. I think that this is probably the one to get over Curzone if I can guess. If it was Studio Canal doing Paris, Texas, I might go with that one over Criterion. But yeah, this is what everybody needs to see. But the one that made a hell of a lot of waves. This week, December tenth, four K and Blu Ray release of two thousand and sevens No Country for Old Men coming to Criterion. One of the best movies of the twenty first century in my imprenier

K Oh, I love this film. This is probably my I would say this is probably my second favorite Cohen Brothers film, behind Fargo. Yeah, it's tremendous, and I feel like it's in desperate need of a better release than the previous one, just because it was it probably came out last on Blu ray. What was it like two thousand and eight or two thousand and nine.

Yeah, it's been a while, but.

Yeah, I can't wait to get this and yeah, this is this is a noe brainer for the Criterion collection.

I think, how how do you feel about this coming out before the other two thousand and seven film, the one from mister Paul Thomas Anderson. I know that that a lot of people, of course, are going to make that comparison, because the two films were obviously important and facing off and even filmed at the same time. Of course, talking about There Will Be Blood came out the same year. How do you feel about this beating that one to Criterion?

Well, I know, are they planning that one?

Do you know? Or I mean they might be, but they've got other PTA films and a lot of people have wanted that one in there and wanted a release of that.

It still blows my mind that they haven't released Magnola.

Yeah, yeah, that's.

But yeah, No Country for an Old Man, I mean there will be blood, yeah that one.

Yeah.

I have a feeling that one's probably eventually gonna come.

I imagine so moving.

I think No Country for Old Men is a better film, just personally for me.

I would agree, but a lot of people would stab me for that.

Don't hate me.

Fellini's eight and a half is getting a four K release on December tenth. What's interesting is, just like the release of Le Samurai, Uh, they have changed the cover for this one, so we actually can tell while looking at the shelf at Barnes and Noble if this is the four K or the Blu Ray release. The Blu Ray was much more zoomed in on the individual on the cover. Yeah, this is the same thing though other than a different cover, it's the same disc.

Yeah. I mean I love this film. Yeah, this is one I've been going through this year and watching a lot of like really classic films that I've somehow missed, just trying to fill in those those spaces, and this was one that I watched maybe like a month and a half ago, two months ago, and yeah, it blew me away how good it was. I'm like, how did I wait this long to watch this film?

Yeah? I love Aaron's comment here. This is for people to buy if you don't have the Blu Ray, if you don't have the Fellini set, and if you aren't buying the fortieth Anniversary Criterion box that they're doing because this movie has already been on all of those, so they're just put it out there again in a different format.

I would love to know the sales numbers for that CC forty set.

I I would be willing to bet it probably overall will sell less than man, now I got to put an actual number on, probably less than like five hundred copies. Ever, don't I don't.

See who it's fo Yeah.

Especially because it's not getting another Spine number, so even if you collect all of their releases, you don't have to get it. It's a big deal.

Yeah, there's a lot of problems with that release, but like, yeah, you just yeah, like and also you know they're releasing the the Blu rays and everything, but some you know, some of the titles have already been re released in four K, so you're on.

A few of them back. So next one up is December seventeenth, a Blu ray release of Eastern Condors, directed by Samo Hung. This is from nineteen eighty seven. This is gonna have a two K digital restoration, a new audio commentary with Tony Rains on this, a new interview with Samo Hung as well, and just a reminder that this was released by Eureka a handful of years ago. This is going to be that exact same restoration and all of that, but both discs are gonna have very

Yeah, I haven't seen this one, but I'm definitely getting it so well, Yeah, I agree with you. See it looks like something that Vinegar Syndrome would have put out. I feel like like even the cover looks similar to one of their releases.

I feel yep, Simners making the joke this could be a VSC release Vinegar Syndrome Criterion Terror Vision has posted an update. They wanted to let everybody know that they were notified that they had to vacate their warehouse by November first, which means they've got to find a brand new warehouse. This kind of came out of nowhere and

And I saw a message from Brad that that it sounds like they've been doing pretty well with the with the sales so far, so that that made me happy, because yeah, that that sucks that they have to vacate the warehouse like that.

As far as past tear Vision releases, I know that you've been a big fan of some of them. Any that you want to give a special shad out that people should check out if they never have oh gosh, not to put you on the spot or anything.

Oh I love I mean, yeah, there's lots of great ones into the line. I love that film and both of the The Door films. I really was a fan of Hell's Highway that that that's one of the better shot on video films that that I've seen lately, and then one that's just oh what is it the Newly deads That one's wild, and then and then one that I have that I've had a soft spot for ever since I first saw it years and years ago as a kid, was Hollowgate. Yeah, you know, it's not it's

Yeah, they they've got a lot of great titles. I definitely want to suggest Slashers if you've never seen it. Fun one that I watched a couple of months ago that I loved. God, some of these titles. I'm so glad that they were able to put out, so glad that I've been able to work on some of them. They've got some great stuff. Chris has seen someone complain that they can't get free shipping in Europe for only

That's insane.

I mean a handful of years ago, literally like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, for me to ship one Blu Ray to Canada was literally like eight dollars, and now it's more than triple that. To go to Australia is crazy pants money now, especially if you were getting like I don't know, like five or six pounds worth of stuff. It is so much money, so much money to ship. Joel's pointing out Canadian shipping has always been nuts, but now it's obscene. Absolutely.

Believe that, because, yeah, I oftentimes will order directly from you know, like Imprint and Yep, places like that, and you have a Yeah, international shipping from Australia is quite a lot.

I'm still grateful that Imprint and an Umbrella both do free shipping at some point. That's it's something that I'm grateful that they can even offer it. What's going on? Spaghetti John says, I felt bad because my TV order was huge. They would have lost money on my order shipping wise, no doubt. I mean yeah, But at the same time, you're saving them money. I'm moving for the warehouse, so it's a good thing. Don't feel bad. Terry wants to recommend the Head for the discount of price. The

Hey.

The next issue of The Physical Media Advocate is printing on October first. We are trying to do an all horror focused issue and we are open to letters. We are taking letters to the editor. If anybody wants to say anything, you want to ask a question about acquisitions. If you want to ask a question about anybody that writes for the magazine or anything that goes into the magazine, or you know, what really should I or what is you know, everybody's special feature that writes for the magazine,

When I heard that the next issue was hard focused for October, that really perked my ears up.

I cannot wait for people to see the cover. I'm always so stoked and I'm so thrilled that we snuck a Happiness cover onto retail stands in like eight different states and everybody's just walking by seeing this super orange cover with Happiness splayed across the front.

That's amazing.

Cannot wait for people to see the next one. Kevin Smith's next one, the four thirty movie, is getting an Amazon exclusive four K steel book. This is a Lionsgate film. I think this is a slipcover on this and this is not what the steel book is going to look like, because this mock up is definitely not a steel book. But you can pre order this now. Now we don't

Yeah, I was very happy to see that it was getting a four K. It's not one that I would have expected.

I'm glad it is. I adore Kevin Smith, so I'm eager to see this one. Have you gotten a chance to see this one yet?

I haven't.

Are you a Kevin Smith fan or hater?

Oh no? I like him. I feel like some of his more recent stuff is you know, a little bit hit and miss. But the trailer for this looks looks very promising. I'm still waiting for the four kV Tusk personal.

An a twenty four exclusive go all out with these special features. Yes, please, everybody go watch Tusk if you've ever seen it. Adore that movie. Uh Keno is reissuing Billy Wilder's one two three. There is, as far as I can tell, literally nothing new on this disc except for a slipcover. This is coming on November twelfth. But yeah, they already put this out. I think it was twenty seventeen something like that. Everything's the same and uh yeah.

I have nothing, but I'm looking, but I haven't seen this, but I'm all for anything Billy Wilder.

So alrighty. Next one, twenty twenty four's Cuckoo is coming to Blu Ray from DCAL in the US. Reminder that this is getting I believe before I say that, I think this is getting an overseas four K. We already talked about that, but maybe I'm wrong. Let me see. Nope, nothing's been announced yet. I'm an idiot. Cuckoo is getting a Blu ray release on October twenty second in the US from DCAL. I would not be shocked if this

That, Yeah, this is what I'm just I'm not, like, I really want it. I thought this was a really good film and just like Variety says on the cover, it's very bonkers. But yeah, I feel like this is one that's bound to get a four K eventually. I don't know. And yeah, like Neon is. I mean, granted it wasn't as big of a hit as Long Legs, but Neon is putting out a four K of that next week, so right, I sort of wish they. You know, lions Gate seems to be doing really good with consistently

But yeah, Unfortunately, lions Gates four k's aren't always the best quality either. But at the same time, d KEL does not do great discs either. Their encoding is pretty poor. Anyways, I've not seen this yet. I really want to. I'm glad Dustin liked it. This is coming with some deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage. UH interviewed with Hunter Sheet and I love Dan Stevens, So I'm sure this is pretty great.

Yeah, Hannah Schaeffer is great in this. Yeah, I think she's got a really promising career ahead of her. And yeah, I mean she's then basically every scene of this movie it follows her and but yeah, it goes, it takes some wild turns.

Let's just say, yeah, I will be watching this soon, I imagine. Next up, Stephen Spielberg, little indie director, is putting out The Sugarland Express from nineteen seventy four on four K. This is coming on a sorry November twelfth, from Universal. This is going to have the art of restoring universal cinematic legacy here called from vaulta screen. But that's it. This is a fifty year old film getting it on four K, starring Goldie Hahn. And I know a lot of people love this one. I don't know

I saw it in during VHS day, so I might have been like fifteen when I saw it, So it's been a long time. I remember liking it, and this would definitely be the way to revisit it. So yeah, I'm happy it's coming out. Yeah, Yeah, this was right after Dual.

Yeah. Yeah, and now most of his stuff is going to be on four K. I imagine we'll probably get the rest eventually.

Yeah, I'm waiting for Empire of the Sun. Yeah, really, under I feel like underrated Spielberg.

Film definitely is one that is hard to talk about seriously. December seventeenth, Cynadim is releasing The Mean One in a Blu ray steel book. Now, if you're just dying to see the Evil Grinch movie, sure, here you go. But the big thing is if you just love like cheesy indie horror. I believe the first release of this was a BDR only, and I'm pretty sure this is going to be a pressed disc.

So yeah, yeah, I saw this and it wasn't terrifying. Although it's the same actor, right French, and he's the best part, David Howard Thornton. He's definitely by far the best part of this film. Like, I don't know, he just he's hugely talented at just portraying these really over the top villains. But yeah, I wish the rest of

Oh my gosh, I didn't this have another title? Or was this always the title?

No, this was always the title. There's another Mickey Mouse movie called Screamboat that's coming out that's a little bit higher profile, but this one came out theatrically just for like a few nights, I believe, like a couple of months ago. And then yeah, the Blu ray just came out last month, and but yeah, it never actually got an official announcement. And then I received a press release for it, and it mentioned that there was a blu ray of it, so I looked it up on Amazon and there it was.

So is it a press disc?

No, No, it's not a press disc. But it's not a bootleg either, of course.

Of course.

Yeah. I just wanted to mention it because it's it's sort of similar to the Mean the Yeah, but it's not good. It's actually very terrible.

Is it. Is it worse than the mean one?

Yeah, it's worse than the mean one.

There was no hesitation there.

It reminds me of It's set almost completely in like an arcade sort of like entertainment center, so sort of like a five night at Freddy sort of thing. And the manager is he like puts on a film reel of the Steamboat Willie cartoon and is somehow possessed and then puts on and then happens to have like a Mickey mask like in his memorabilia, and he puts it on and starts like killing like a bunch of teens that are there after hours. Most of the kills are

Craig is asking any chance a good film is being made from all these franchises that have recently entered the public domain. I mean, I can't confirm or deny either way, but I want to point out, and I'm you may have seen it. I've heard the second winning the Pooh movie is supposed to be decent.

It is, it actually is. Yeah, I just watched both of those again, Blood and Honey and Blood and Honey too, And the second one you can tell they had such I think they said that they had like a budget that's like a hundred times what the first one costs, and you can clearly tell, like I really up to the production values of the second one. And it's a lot of fun. So if you hated the first one,

And now he's specifying as a non slasher film, probably not. I mean, what reason does anybody have to make a steamboat Willie movie in twenty twenty four?

That's that's not slasher.

Not a slasher?

Yeah, what would it be like? A romantic comedy?

Like I, do you want to go for a ride of my steamboat? I guess the following question would be, well, do you want to go for a ride of my WILLI never mind? Dark Force, which we don't talk about on here a whole lot. They announced that they're doing a four K release of The Student Body from nineteen seventy six. Now I gotta laugh at Demon Dave's copy that he wrote here. He says, at last, the world's first comedy horror movie, and this came out in nineteen

Yeah. I'm a fan of student Bodies, but I'm not familiar with the student body.

Uh, Sumner is saying, didn't eighty eight put this out years ago? I'm not sure student body? Uh no, they well not on Blu ray least it might have been on DVD. Uh. Not to be confused with horror comedy student Bodies.

That's exactly that's That's exactly what I thought when they said, you know, horror comedy. But then, like the the synopsis that they released with it doesn't even really sound like horror at all.

Nope, Nope, nope nope. And student Bodies, I bet that's getting a new release sometime soon. It's been a long time since we've seen a good release of Student Bodies. Are what do we got next? Twenty twenty four, Strange Darling is getting a four K release on December second in the UK. This is coming from Icon Film Distribution and the important thing is this was shot on thirty five millimeter and in the US, the production company, which is I think Magenta Magenta something they produce the film.

Oh? I love Yeah, this is also like the Substance. It's definitely one of my favorites of the year. And yeah, Willa Fitzgerald, the lead actress in it, is just her performance is beyond Like I'm surprised. I'd never really I wasn't really familiar with her before this. Yeah, I think this movie is gonna really, you know, break you know's it's going to be a breakout for her.

So it absolutely will be. And I mean some people have already been saying it because we all know that the Academy's not going to nominate this performance sadly, but some people are already like comparing if she doesn't get a nomination, it's as big of a snub as Tony Kollett and Hereditary, which is a huge honor to even be compared like that. But legitimately, she is incredible in this movie. She's required to do a lot in her role and she does it very very.

Well, and yeah and oddly and as effective as the film is from beginning to end. I'll say, for those who haven't seen it, the biggest jump scare is a stick of butter. In a breakfast.

Scene, Chris is asking will this have some extras? Do we know? I don't think that has been revealed yet. I tried looking it up, could not find anything on it. But you can pre order this from Amazon UK and I think Orbit has the four K of this up for pre order as well. I bet you'll be able to get this from all of you know, Diabolic, Atomic Grindhouse everybody, So be on the lookout there if you.

When I saw this announcement, I instantly pre ordered this.

Nice all right. Keno has announced that on November twenty sixth, they are releasing an Arthur Dong collection. Now, you may notice that some of these titles they have released previously. Just June of this year, they put out the first couple of discs in this as their own release. That was the Asian American Stories and the LGBTQ Stories discs. And then they've got a third disc on this, which is all bonus features. So it is taking those first

I'm always up for some Dong, so.

Yep. And then Ronnie announces or not announces, but Ronnie does say I'm frustrated by this. I bought both Keno Arthur Dong releases when they came out a couple months ago, and they were bare bones. Now Keno is announcing a set with the whole disc of extras and a booklet. Yeah, that is that's a rough, rough move. To make I think yeah. Next up, we got some announcements from MVD. They are releasing Killers from nineteen seventy seven on Blu ray and DVD as part of the MVD Classics line.

I'm not familiar with this one me neither.

Never never seen this Lunger. And then the third announcement from MVD as Cheerleaders Wild Weekend, also coming on December tenth. This was a previous code red release. I think it was dB D only when it was code read. I may be wrong there. It might have been Blu Ray. But this had some decent extras on it. We've got a couple different audio commentaries and a handful of interviews,

I wish this was the horror comedy because it sort of looks like it based on the cover more so than the.

Yeah, definitely get that. Indicator announced two new titles this morning, both from Genre Lan. This is coming December ninth in the UK December tenth in North America on four K and Blu Ray for both of them. The first one is Requiem for a Vampire from nineteen seventy two. This is going to have two presentations of the film, both the original French language version and the English language version.

A few things. I mean, I'm a fan of the of what I've seen so far, but now I'm like, there's one all of the titles run together for me, so even though I've seen a bunch of them, Like there's lots of like recmum for a vampire, and then.

He did a lot of vampire ones.

Yeah, there's like so many, and and now I can't even think of what the titles are. Of the ones that I've seen, there's one that's set in a cemetery, like most of the movie is set in the cemetery. That probably doesn't really like that's probably like half of his right. But I collected these from Redemption, the Redemption.

Line, yep.

And this is sort of like going off on a tangent, but I have like a grudge with the Redemption Line because they would number their releases and they skipped thirteen, and that like just bothered me so much for like somebody who's sort of like OCD is me when it comes to to like how things look on a shelf. So I contacted them and asked them, and they promised me that they had a big release coming that they were saving for thirteen and they were going to go

Well, on that note, let's make it even worse because Indicator has done the exact same thing. They apply spine numbers to their titles when they acquire them and not when they release them. And there's a couple titles that will never be released that they did number and so if if you are collecting all of their spine numbers, they will skip some of them as well.

That's what it is. Davy Collins, The Iron Rose. That's one of the ones that I've seen, and I really liked that.

The Iron Rose is coming on four K from Indicator. It should be coming the next handful of months. They've already teased it. We will be getting it. There's a couple from them, but I did want to say this isn't actually a really good one from him. I don't love all of his titles, but this is one that I really like quite a bit. I hope people check it out. I'm very eager to see if they release Grapes eventually. I see Davy pointing that out as well. It's one that's never had a great release and I'm

How is it about to say I love the cover art on this?

Oh? Really, this one is better than the last one, But for what they've done so far on the other Indicator releases of these Rolan titles. I like those a lot more.

Yeah, I do like yeah, the ones that are like just the artwork. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways, that's that's Indicator coming up for December.

Hey. Yeah, I've been collecting all of those, the Indicator four k's that of all the roll on films, So I'm definitely in for these two.

Uh yeah, these look good. Hey Tony, what's going on? Uh? Move into our next one? One on one Films in the UK releasing their next Black label title. This is Slumber Party Masker and Slumber Party Masker two, coming in a four K and Blu Ray dual format release, and all of the extras are identical to the UK or to the US Screen Factory release. There is a limited edition booklet in this with a couple of essays. We

Yeah. The Yeah, I like these as well. I feel like the first one is just like a textbook example of an eighty slasher, like it has everything, and then the second one is just batshit crazy. Yeah.

Yeah, if you've never seen Slumber Party Mask or two, you need to watch it like tonight.

I mean yeah, the the climactic chase scene that is also a musical number at the same time has to be seen.

Oh man, Yeah, I love these movies. Uh. Keno gave us some details on the Hunted from two thousand and three. This is the Freedkin film. We announced this previously, but now we know this is coming on November nineteenth on four K. No new extras on this, but the Blu ray disc did carry over some previous features that they had on the old studio Blue Glad. This is coming out and people can get this. Now that Freakin has passed, the films are less likely to get fought with in

Yeah, I remember this was a solid one. I saw it when it came out and reviewed it, and I haven't seen it since, but I do remember liking it and it sort of has a sort of like a first blood feel to it. Yeah, so I think that, Yeah, all of like the forest, you know, all the the photography and the forest and Son. I think it'll it'll really pop in four K.

Yeah, I think so too. I love that Sibners asking about Jade four K and Chris is wanting Bug four K. Yeah. Bug is gonna be a big one for a lot of people. The next keynot Cult line was announced as well November twenty sixth, number one of the Secret Service. This got announced previously, but now we got details on it. This lab an audio commentary by Alan Spencer, the creator of Sledgehammer. We got an interview with the editor John Luton on this video essay by Chris O'Neil. It's like

Yeah, I was so excited for this news. I haven't seen Murder Party, but I've heard so much about it over the years that I'm kind of excited that I waited so that i can see it for this release. And yeah, yeah, the fact that, yeah, Magnolia now has a partnership with OCM. Yeah, there should be a lot of exciting things coming out.

I'm excited because Magnolia is the one that still holds the rights to let the Right One in, and they announced that there's some four K and Blu Ray upgrades coming up. In the early part of this article, and somebody posted on one of the Facebook posts, I want a four K upgrade for let the right one in, and Justin the Liberty from ocen commented under that replied to that comment with a fingers crossed emoji, which to

Time Crimes is excellent.

Yes, yes it is. Let's see haunted. Side Show says hopefully a lot of those DVD only shutter films will get blues. I am willing to bet at least a few of them will that is a great, great move, great idea for them, and some that never got any release. I mean, we just got that with the Wounded Faun. I'm so glad that that was getting announced. John wants

Yeah, I feel like this one is going to be popular enough they can almost do three thousand.

Yeah, I mean, I wonder how many. I don't remember any partners doing three thousand for quite some time. Right next, Anchor Bay. We've not talked about this on the show yet, but some people are real I don't even know how to talk about this the right way. So a couple people are operating under the name of Anchor Bay Entertainment. From what I can see, these are not anybody that was ever associated with Anchor Bay in the past. They

What is it going for otherwise.

Twenty five and that's the pre order price. It'll likely go down, Yeah, forty two dollars on their website anyways. Our last discussion on announcements for this week, November fifth, we are getting a blue and DVD released from Sony of the film Afraid from this year twenty twenty four starring John Show. This lab five deleted and extended scenes, including an alternate ending a featurette called The Dark Side of AI, and that is it. But I think the

No, No, I'm interested in it just for John Show, like I'll watch him in anything.

Yeah.

Yeah. The fact that even Jason Blum wasn't really promoting this the week it came out, and usually he promotes everything, you know, obviously from Blumbhouse, sort of like Less Suspect.

So yeah, uh this, oh it is Blumhouse. See I

Agreed, I don't know.

I like, I agree that everybody did not need to respond by saying everything from Shout Factory is gonna be AI, fuck them, and like everything else that we read online over the last couple of days. But also that's not a smart move when you're an art focused company. Anyways, as we always do after the announcements, let's discuss what is coming out next week, just in case you forgot, right before we have our discussion on film next week. Is that long Legs four K that Dustin mentioned just

I already got the Friday the thirteenth Era release, and yeah, this is a big week. It is a big body double four K. Gotta get that happiness I'm so excited about. And oh in the Greg Iraqi trilogy.

It's a big deal. Yeah, I definitely need that body double four K at some point. All Right, film discussion tonight, Dustin, I did not even tease at the beginning like I normally do. What are recovering tonight and why are we talking about it.

Yeah, tonight is a discussion nightmare Fuel through the years. It was an idea I had of coming up with ten films sort of like through through the ages, so you know, from our childhood up to the present day, any any films that really had an impact on you, whether you know they scared you or unsettled you, or just had a really big effect on you. And I just thought that that would be an interesting jumping off point for a discussion.

It is, and it's one that's obviously for many of us that are either into cults or horror now as adults. Most of us have some sort of story where we watched this far too young and it messed us up, but we kind of liked it, and we went back for some of them, and so of course all of these are going to have some interesting talking points to talk about and why they're traumatizing, why they were nightmare

Yeah, I have a book available in paperback and hardcover, The Fright File One hundred fifty Films to See before Halloween, and it's just a compendium of essays reviews of just one hundred and fifty selections of you know, my favorite card films.

And they're great. It's a wonderful, wonderful piece. Glad that it was written the way that it was. I love that there's snippets on everything in a way that you can feel personality through all the reviews. Give them. You're amazing. I'm so glad you're here, Dustin.

Thank you, thank you.

Well, let's go through our list. Why don't you get us started with the number one from your list?

Okay, so yeah, so, like we said, you know, we're starting at the earliest age that we could remember and moving up. So the first one that really came to mind when I thought of this is, and it's probably nightmare fuel for a lot of people when they were kids, it is Returned to Oz. It just blows my mind. I still can't believe that this movie was made. It just blows my mind that they made the Wizard. And I mean, you know some people, you know, as kids,

And here it is still having a legacy for so many people so many years later.

I mean I remember, Yeah, that's one that I probably saw when I was about five years old, and I would rent it, and I remember, I very specifically remember every time I watched it, like I'd have family members like walking in and out, and like I wanted them to go away because I sort of thought of it as a badge of honor. If I could actually get through the movie by myself watching it without other people around.

That's hilarious. Yeah, this is a good pick. I didn't see it until I was old enough to say what the fuck, so it never had that moment with me, and I feel like I missed out on that. I feel like it would have been a good one.

Yeah, Like what do you like, go back to when you were five years old? Like what do you imagine?

It's so confused, so confused. My Number one is one that I don't remember a whole lot of the interaction here, but I know that when I was four years old, a babysitter put on Child's Play to keep me entertained. And entertained, I was terrified of dolls for a couple of years after that, And now looking back on this franchise, it's hilarious because this is like one of my least favorite entries from anything. For Child's Play, It's it's good, but man, I first off, the second one is clearly

The first one I love, but I love part two as well, good, good, good, but I yeah, yeah, that's another one that I saw. When it first came out, I was like six, and so I was exactly the same age as Alex Vincent, the you know the little boy in it, yep, and so like, I absolutely loved like him just because he was like the same age as me. And you know, it's rare to see a horror movie where you know the main character is you know that age yep. But yeah, I remember, like the scene.

That's no, I literally don't remember anything seeing at that age. However, I do know that for a couple of years, like all all dolls were off limits for me. I just I could not I couldn't do it anymore until gosh, I was Let's see, I was six and a half when my sister was born, and of course shortly after that she started having dolls, So I was over it by then. But yeah, it was definitely definitely rough then.

Yeah, I think the Yeah, the part that really got me was when and she when Catherine Hicks's character discovered you know, the the dollars is talking and she discovered me in it, and then she threatens to throw it in the fire and it just completely blows up.

Yeah, I imagine at that age I probably had no clue that batteries were important. All right, what is the next one on your list?

All right, so this is gonna start a series of And it just happened this way. Three Stephen King films in a row, because I saw them all as kids, and they all had a big effect on me.

My next one Stephen King as well.

So this one I probably saw. Yeah. Yeah, just a preface that my parents were fairly lax with me when it came to watching movies. So I watched a lot of horror movies when I was five six. They were just always told me, as long as you know it's not real, it's fun. The only thing they wouldn't let me watch is anything that had Santa as a killer, so like Silent Night, Diddly Night was off limit. But otherwise I was like watching Friday the Thirteenth at like

I don't remember how old I was. I had to have been somewhere around like nine or ten when I saw Creep Show for the first time, and it freaked me out, but for the funniest reason because Stephen King's character's last name in that is Virile, and in my mind at that age, nobody else in the world is name Verril other than my family. So I was like, who is this?

Yeah that was anybody like growing up? Did anybody mention that to you?

Like, no, no, I don't think so. But yeah, so without anybody ever bringing up and it was here's Jordie Verel and yeah, it was great. My Stephen King. She she already went to bed, good night, mom, But just in case she comes back, I will say, uh, she at the age of six or seven. I can never remember what it was. We We had a crazy relationship

So yeah, and it has the very last scene.

Oh yeah, got to go for the original jump scare there for sure.

So my next one, yeah, the next stephen Kingwin. So this came out eighty nine and I saw it when it came to VHS, so I would say I was like seven maybe when I saw this for the first time, which is quite a lot this movie. Pet Cemetery. Where

I will bring it up now. I was gonna bring it up afterwards. I never was really scared by pet cemetery. I thought a lot of it was just goofy. I don't know why. The acting for some reason never clicked with me. The remake wasn't great obviously either. However, Zelda

When did you see pet Cemetery for the first time?

Oh gosh, I think I was.

Eight eight ish. Oh okay, so you were really young man.

Yeah. I well, and this next one is where I start to actually start watching them, so I'll go into it. My third pick is Halloween. I was eight years old and we lived in a house that and I've told the story before and so sorry if you're hearing it again, but we had a really weird setup because we had a separated garage because it was in a really bad part of town and we lived on an alley basically, but the house was here. There was a back door and then the garage, but you could walk around it

Yeah, for Yeah, for anybody who knows me well knows that Halloween is my all time favorite movie. It's the one that means the most to me, just on so many levels. It was the film that really created my love for the genre overall. And I think also my brother introduced me to it, and really, I mean he really got me into movies overall. He was he was a huge, uh you know, film fan, so he really got me into into that and and so it means a lot to me. And it's probably the movie that

It definitely doesn't scare me now, but man, that that memory and opening the gate with that to everything else. Like shortly after that is when I finally got to see pet Cemetery. It was now that I've seen Halloween, the faucet was on, and I can watch everything, and so some of these others, these are going to ramp up pretty quickly for me.

Yeah, I've still got a few in my childhood because yeah, a lot of people say this, but when when you watch her as much as as I do, like and you know, as much as anybody does, you know who watches it a lot, like it takes a lot to really scare me. Like I don't really share that much anymore. Like I can watch a movie and say, oh, that's you know, that was very effective. I can jump stuff like that, but you know, you typically when a movie's over now I can just leave it behind. It doesn't like,

That ending, though, I it so does not work anymore. The the whole spider aspect of it does not do well.

Did you like the the you know, the the feature film versions of it.

I I am a rare defender of both parts. I think chapter one is much better than the second one, but I think that the second one worked for me as well. I didn't love it like I loved the first one, but I think that it was decent, and I really like what they did with the dead lights, and the ending was clearly a better ending because of what they could do with technology and stuff than the

Yeah, oh yeah, I'm a defender of both of them. I agree, and I yeah, if the second part of the mini series isn't as good as the first, I feel like they did a really good job of improving upon it.

And Ryan in the comments as I can confirm the new It's play well with thirteen year olds. That's exactly what it needed to be. All Right, I'm on number four. Okay, So Halloween opened everything for me. I started watching stuff like pet cemetery, some of the others from like the sixties and seventies that were a little more low key, and that led me to finding the tapes on my mom's shelf of the Omen franchise. And so my number four is the Omen because this thing fucking got to me.

Yeah, the first one is is my favorite as well. Although have you seen the first Omen yet?

It's the only one I'm not seeing. I saw the remake, I've not checked out the one from this year, and.

I think you'll really like it. It was it was better than I feel like a lot of people were anticipating.

We unlike many people who chose the first Omen over this. My wife and I chose to go see you with Maculate instead of the first Omen, which I loved to Maculate.

So yeah, well, out of the two, I actually I think I like Immaculate a little bit better, but I like them.

I think most people have been leaning towards first Omen, so I'm glad to hear that.

Yeah, and so my next one is yeah, I would say, I would say around the same time as it. I feel like probably eight years old was when I first saw this. And it's sort of a semi religious movie like the Omen in a way, it is John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. You've seen this one? Oh?

Yeah, this movie I hated until I saw it in the theater. That change my entire feeling on this movie. Part I'll get into that after you talk about it.

But yeah, so, yeah, if you it has a sort of a silly premise, but I think that they use it in such a cool way. Yeah, I've been a huge fan of this movie. I feel like, you know how Halloween as far as John Carpenter goes, like, Halloween is obviously my favorite, but I feel like Prince of Darkness might be the scariest of his movies for me.

One?

Yep? Yep, he did it. The score like plays throughout this movie, and it almost the way that it's edited together, it almost feels like it almost feels almost like a music video in a way, like it's hard to explain like not that it's a musical and any it's not a musical, but the way that the music plays throughout it, it like each scene blends in with the next, and it just has this level of tension that rises throughout it.

I did not see this like I saw Halloween at eight. Like I said, I didn't catch up with The Prince of Darkness until I was like fifteen. This is one that was not super easy to find. My parents didn't have it on VHS. It was not We only had a shitty Blockbuster in this tiny town I lived, and so we didn't have everything. Finally saw it, did not care for it. It just felt cheesy. It felt like not Halloween, and so that pissed me off. But eventually,

I'm so glad you came around too well, and it's yeah, that reminds me of I saw the other besides Halloween, Prince of Darkness, my other real well, I love the thing, but my my other real favorite is The Fog. And I saw that in the theater like I'd seen it so many times, you know, bund myself on you know,

And I mean I always loved John Carpenter. There was just a couple that never really stuck for me, and I'm so glad that this one does.

Now.

It's great. So I saw the omen Like I said, I was probably nine or ten when I saw that, and then a couple of years later, I get into that age where you think you are hot shit and everybody around you is, you know, talking about the craziest things they've seen, and you start venturing out into that world of I have to see extreme movies, and of course in the mid nineties when everybody's talking about extreme movies,

Yeah, yeah, yeah, going to that. I couldn't bring myself to buy Calamity of Snakes, Like I'm usually all over every snake movie. Snakes are one of my great fears in life. But I love watching I love watching any movie with snakes, even though I can't stand them. And but yeah, knowing that that there was even no I can't stand them, knowing there was so much cruelty to so many of them in that movie, I just couldn't bring myself together because I was like, I don't think

It just it. That's why I brought that up. You know, living in the desert, we saw tortoises all the time. I uh we we We even went through the proper channels because a tortoise was living in our front yard. We went to the Bureau of Land Management and got a permit to keep it as a pet. We we loved animals so much it is appalling to watch the tortoise scene. Yeah, this movie is still like some of those scenes still get to me.

Yeah, yeah, that's I mean, that's a good one for unsettling.

All right, sir, we're halfway done.

Okay, So this one might be slightly a surprise, but you have to go back to like when it came out. So this is a movie that's so well known, and it's probably not thought so much anymore as like a scary movie, more as just like a smart, irreverent type of thriller. But but when I first saw it at age fifteen, I saw it opening night in the theater December nineteen ninety six. Scream the opening scene of this movie with Drew Barrymore. That scene, it's like a short

This is hilarious because this was going to be my number six and I literally removed it because I wanted to advance a couple of years instead. This is one that, funny enough, the exact same scene really got to me. The fact that she cannot open her mouth and speak reminded me so much of the amount of times that I've dealt with sleep paralysis that you feel like you want to open your mouth and beg for help or say something to somebody else in the room or whatever.

So yeah, that's interesting to compare to that. But I can totally see that and I've experienced that before too, and that it is very similar to that feeling of being so helpless, wanting to.

Exactly and you feel like help is right there, you just can't do anything about it. Right, So this is such a weird transition, my first one that's technically not a horror film, but also very much a horror film. My number six is here because it is a very manipulative film. I am advancing kind of far here. I'm jumping like a good six years to two thousand and four.

However, I only saw it the one time in the theater and I've never seen it.

This movie is so fucking traumatizing, Like everything about this is made for you just to feel bad about yourself. But everything about this is just why this is so weird. And at the time, like Craig just commentsed hot date movie, Bravo, I mean, I thought I was doing the right thing as somebody that was completely enveloped by religion at the time, and yeah, this is this is something I definitely could have listed something else here, like Jesus Camp another movie

Yeah, it didn't, it's definitely. Yeah, it's a very weird movie. It it didn't have the same effect on me, perhaps just because I didn't grow up in a religious households, But I can imagine at that time for you, like, yeah, I can imagine what was what was Laura's reaction to it?

Uh, same sort of thing, Like she was so enveloped. It was like, oh, that was just a touching thing. We both definitely cried in the theater. Funny funny enough, like I don't even remember most of our immediate visceral reactions because on the way home, well, on the way to drive her home afterwards, I took a corner too sharp and barely hit the curb and got pulled over by a cop. And Laura was fifteen at the time, So it was like that was a traumatizing moment for

You mentioned Jesus Kem. Did you have you seen a documentary called Hell House. No, I think it's called Hell House. I think that's what it's called. It's about think it came out in the early two thousands, and it's about a Christian haunted house that they put on for Halloween. And so instead of like you know, ghosts and monsters jumping out, there's like a room where like a woman is having an abortion and and then it's it's it's horrific.

Two thousand and one. I am who But Yeah.

That's another movie that was that's very unsettling.

I will be adding this to the watch list.

Yeah, that would be a great Nightmarish double feature with Jesus Camp.

Yikes. Oh Leifsa's hull House is great.

Nice, So for my next one. All right, So now we're going to nineteen ninety nine. So I was a senior in high school at this point and oh, the

There's also no way to recreate the marketing that happened for this movie. This will this will never be able to happen like this again. I think the only thing that's ever really come close is Cloverfield probably, and it's it's it's interesting that they're both found footage, I guess. But what's more interesting is that the Internet has taken away the ability for something to ever spread the way that this did in such a unique and organic way. This movie was everywhere in a way that other films

And the fact that even with that, the fact that it blew up in was such a huge hit like that, I mean, yeah, you just can't really recreate it quite like that.

Again, it still had it still had so many people thinking that it was real and that it was never going to come out, but that these kids were definitely dead, and even though you could literally see them at the premiere, like of course, it wasn't that anyways.

And I grew up in a town that is about a half hour away from Burkettsville, So I was always going there like after the movie, like I visited the city, the terry, the different shooting locations, and yeah, it was just cool that. I think that also added to it was that I knew that I lived so close to where it was shot.

Right Well, funny enough that last sentence is the perfect segue to my next one. I, like I have mentioned multiple times Tonight, grew up in the desert in California, and being in California, a lot of these films that are you know, from creators living in LA they need a unique place to shoot. Lots of things shoot in the high desert in California, and so things like kill Bill Volume two filmed in my hometown when I was younger.

I mean, like, and you don't expect that from a remake.

Right You get like one of the villains from this family, clan, group whatever, like licking one of the victim's faces, and even that moment was just like, you're crossing so many boundaries. I wasn't even ready for the sexual assault after that. But so much of this is just no one is holding back. This movie goes to everywhere that the original film really wish it would have. Absolutely adore this movie.

I love that story. So, how like, what would you do when you got out there? Like would you climb it or what?

Yeah? Like the there was this rusty, old crooked ladder. We would climb inside and go up to the loft area walk around. We would scare each other. We would just hang out. It's just something to do. Like when you live in the desert with nothing to do and you're you're not one of the people that's on meth or drinking, you just do stupid shit like we used to go. There was a ghost town Calico ghost town

Hearing that story, though, it reminded me of one that a film that I actually meant to put on my list and then it completely slipped my mind. But I have to mention it Fall from just a few years ago. So one of my other fears is heights.

Yep.

I don't think I've seen another movie that like made me that anxiety ridden. Like it just, oh my gosh, it's so effective, it's so well done, and yeah, it's great.

I just saw A Fall for the first time about two and a half weeks ago and loved it. That was filmed I believe, fairly close to where I grew up, that that sort of desert. It was really well made. It really reminded me of if you've never seen it. Adam Green's Frozen. Everybody needs to go watch Frozen. It is a different version of that that doesn't focus on the heights as much.

But man, Frozen and and but yeah with Fall, like yeah, I just remember I'm thinking back on it now. When I watched it, I was like, I was like uncontrollably like screaming out loud. I mean, thank goodness, I was at home. But but like I was, I was so tense just watching it with those characters being up that high. I just could I just couldn't bear it, like I was. I was like holding my hands over my face, like I never do stuff like that, and this movie made

Crazy, Yeah, I'm gonna have to see this one that I mean. It sounds super interesting.

And actually it's a Magnolia film. Maybe they could put it out on.

All.

Yeah, yeah, this is a Blu ray.

Oh okay, that's right.

Maybe not, but but I mean this is a Blu ray from two thousand and nine.

So all right, yeah, I'm gonna have to check that one out. I feel bad because a lot of mine obviously have been huge films, and this next one is another huge film. The next two after that are many many people have not seen the next two. So my last big one, Hills Have Eyes, was two thousand and six. I was eighteen when that came out, so a couple of years later living on my own, and I just moved into a house that was out in essentially like the middle of nowhere. It was just off of a

But one of the things, sorry and I was just gonna say, and the fact that they don't play any score, they don't like tip their hat, that there's you know, they just let it play out silently. It's so chilling.

It's perfect, and if they would have, it would have been less chilling. It's so much more just because it's silent, it's so much more terrifying and real. But one thing that really got me about this movie is the random first off, Glenn Howard's appearance, but the fact that somebody is sitting here so terrified that their friend shows up to help them, and they react so quickly that they

Yeah, it has a great soundtrack, it does, and it's so stylish. Like that director I think his name's like Johann Roberts or something like that. I can't wait to see what he does next, because I don't know if he's done anything since this, but he has such a style to his filmmaking and it really it almost reminded me of John Carpenter.

He he's the guy that did forty seven meters Down and forty seven meters Down Uncaged.

I saw forty seven meters down. It was pretty good.

Good movie.

Yeah, I love the Strangers. Yeah, I agree with everything you said. It's so yeah, it's just yeah, certainly one of the best home invasion films, and I think those are honestly the I've always said that that, as far as sub genres of hargo, home Invasion is the scariest to me because it just feels so real. It feels like it could really happen. And there's so many times that my mind gets carried away and I imagine like people coming into the house while I'm asleep and I

That, Yeah, good good movie.

All right, So my next one, and yeah, we're we're firmly into adulthood by this one. So this one, every time I've seen like it has some of the most just crawl out of your skin, just creepy scares in it that's just so effective. And it is the first Insidious James I think. I think technically probably The Conjuring is a better film, but I think Insidious is scarier

To this day, if Laura is ever creeped out, by something, or we're like walking into the house and she's like, did you hear that? I'll let her walk a couple steps in front of me, and then I'll get real quiet and starts singing tiptoed and she loses her shit every time.

It's really creepy.

It truly is. And with tiny Tim's weird ass voice to it, it's ten times better.

And and and also I must mention there's another part, Oh my goodness, I yeah, I remember seeing it for the first time and jumping so hard. Is when she uh, I think she she hears the I think she hears like the baby monitor or something, and she runs up into the room and like there's a figure behind like

I loved seeing Insidius in a theater. It works so so will I really want to. I need to do a full Insidious franchise. Watch through again, Good Pick, What's funny is like in the comments and Insidious? There was like five that were on my list that I had to delete to replace other things. Insidious was definitely there

Yeah, the disc. I love The Descent, And oh, I just it's a movies like that that I cursed trailers because how effective would that movie have been if they had just set it up as a film about a bunch of you know cave you know, friends who are who decide to explore this cave and get trapped in it and can't find their way out halfway through the movie, or I mean, there's already this claustrophobia to the movie by that point, and it takes so long, and they're

Yeah, it would have been rough. All right, My number nine, we are so close to being done now. My number nine is a very recent film. This is a film that literally it's just the imagery in this movie that is truly stuck with me. And it's it's an important one to bring up right now because everybody last year seemed to love When Evil Lurks, I got to bring up twenty seventeens Terrified, by the same director, Damian Rugna.

I couldn't agree more. Yeah, And I'm actually with you. I really liked When Evil Lurks, but I think Terrified is just even better. And that scene that you mentioned is definitely the highlight of the movie. It is just so chilling to just see this like motionless corpse of this child just sitting there at the table. Oh my gosh, it gives me chills just thinking about it. Now.

I love that movie, and so many people did not see it. I feel like you played a couple of festivals and then it like a year and a half later it showed up on shutter But it is something that so many people slept on. Terrified is amazing. Everybody can needs to go watch it.

Yeah, all right, my final one, and this this was an easy pick for me because, like I said, you know, yeah, movies, you know, don't you know, Like we talked about Terrified, like that's that's chilling. But like I walked away and was fine after it was over. But that's that's because I see somebody. But this movie stuck with me for weeks after I saw it, and was just it affected me on a level that I really couldn't recall having a movie affect me as an adult. And it is hereditude.

Tony Klett is always incredible, but she is next level in this movie. Yeah, this is a great movie. Good pick.

Your final one.

My final one. I mentioned that I have two on here that are not horror films, and this is the second of those two. And uh, I don't know the best way to go about this. Earlier I said that I love downer films and this one is traumatizing for a few reasons. I you know, I will just say it.

I adore after some Everyone needs to see this movie. It is so powerful and the first I actually went you know a year a year or so after it came out before I saw it, and you were your praise of it in a previous episode of Reconnected was what got me to to get the Blu Ray into watch and I just loved it so much. And you know, I'm not a parent, but I also felt like I

Ronnie Adam says the best here. This is it real life horrors is way worse than being attacked by werewolves, et cetera. Yeah, for me, like a lot of the things that have been traumatizing have been for me at least because they are something that I can see is realistic. It's something that was not as supernatural at the time. It was something that was tangible, something that I could actually imagine happen. And on that note, like there's a lot of people in my discord, there's a lot of

And I know when I text you you answer right away.

This has been a really interesting conversation. I won't say, I won't say it's been fun, but it's been fun. And and what's cool is it was it was interesting too. It was interesting to see what I cut off of my list because I had another four or five, Like somebody mentioned funny games that was on my list before. Uh, one of these took it off. Uh. Like I said, the Descent was on there. There's a handful that easily easily could have been on here.

I have five honorable mentions. I can just toss them out. Yahoo it Alice, Sweet Alice, have you have you seen that one?

Alice?

That was another one that I saw very young, watching a very little Brookshields at her communion being strangled to death by what you think isn't her Masth's sister is and then being burned it is. It is like, yeah, that's that's also nightmare viel for a child watching. And then the extra this three solely for the Great Hallway

Yeah, even all is great in that movie too. That Yeah, love Sinister.

And then this is the very last thing I'll say. At the very beginning of the show, I said that that I watched something that's gonna shock everybody, because remember I said that I watched something this week that, yeah, you would think that I'd seen. We went to the the releases or the announcements this week before I got to say it. So I just want to say it and shock everybody. For this very week, I watch for the first time the Godfather trilogy.

Nice, what did h what did you think? Did it live up to the hype?

Live up? I mean that's impossible, like to I almost feel like it's impossible to let because you I've heard so much about these movies and you already even though I haven't seen it, Like there's certain things about it, you know, you know, like the horse Head in the Bed. You know a lot of the lines that you hear and you're like, oh, that's that's from that movie. But yes, exactly. But I'll say that, Yeah, the first two are absolutely great.

Yeah, that's a that's a crazy one. I mean not to not to gate key, but yeah, that's surprising for somebody like you that it took this long I'm glad you glad you got to see him. Yes, was there was there an impetus to watching them now.

Probably because Francis Ford Coppola is putting out in another week and I was like, I really need to see the Godfathers. And at the beginning of the year I told myself that by the end of this year I would see the Godfather films. It's it's a trilogy that like I've owned on DVD. I owned it on Bluerray, I owned it on four K, and I never watched it. Sounds like I'm going to watch them.

Hell yeah, well then that is our show. We will end it here. Thanks everybody for hanging out tonight. Dustin, thanks so much for doing this. I was a hell of a topic. I'm so glad that we could do it.

Thank you so much. And also congratulations on the one year anniversary of someone's favorite saw that this week and I couldn't believe that it was a year. But the amount that you've accomplished in that time is amazing, and I love all of the podcasts that are under there. I just listened to the newest episode of Pump Vacation. When was it earlier today? At works, So I just love it so much. So yeah, congratulations on everything.

Jut. I mean, just this morning we got Deaf Crocodile here. Just this morning we core to the next episode of the Deaf Crocodile podcast. Just this last week we released the next episode of the Modern Macabre podcast. There's literally stuff coming out every single day. We've got like fifteen sixteen active shows, so please go check out any of the other podcasts on the network. There's so much, so

I'm loving them. I'm loving all the podcasts. And every time that you show up on a special feature or you know, a supplement for a disc, I'm just like, ah, I'm so happy.

I love that. We we're saying happy when your anniversary and yet two of our two of our first four commentaries that we recorded still have or no. Sorry, three of our first four commentaries have still not been released. One of them has not even been announced, so it'll be a long long time.

Are they having problems with it?

Is it? Uh? Well kind of yes, stuff. I can't say. Thanks everybody for hanging out tonight. I know it was an interesting kind of dark conversation, but it's something we can all relate to, so I'm glad we did see Next week. Next week is actually the guys from Almost Major and with a special guest.

Yeah, all right, thanks everybody, you Ryan.

Thank you. We'll see all next Thursday. Have a good one.

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