The Friday Nightmares Podcast: Episode 98

Hello, and welcome to Episode 98 of The Friday Nightmares Podcast. I am one half of your hosting team this evening, Mr. Smokeshow Crawford, coming to you from the town of Swartz Creek, in the county of Genesee, in the state of Michigan, in the United States of America, in the North American continent, in the Western Hemisphere, on the planet Earth, in the Milky Way Galaxy. I'm fully vaxxed, boosted, and waxed, and ready to climax, and if you can, please get me wet and feed me after midnight.

And with me, as always, is Heather Powell, coming to you today from Waterdown, Ontario, Canada, part of the premium podcast casting team that is The Friday Nightmares Podcast, that wasn't invited on the Slasher Radio.

Yeah, it's because, you know, Rob just keeps thinking I'm not inviting him to things, so he's pulling it against me.

Yeah, maybe it's because we never record and people forget that we exist until we come back. That could be why. So I'll just get it out of the way now. The last time we were going to record was a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, while I was on a call with Scott recording, I got news that my dad was being transported to the hospital in the ambulance, and he passed away that afternoon from a massive heart attack. So this was not because of Scott for once that we were recording and releasing.

Unfortunately.

Unfortunately. But three weeks have gone by, and we were supposed to podcast with Tim and Daniel and Rob last weekend. I just wasn't feeling it, but I'm happy to go back and do it with Scott. Scott's my brother, and it's nice to get back into it with him. So I'm looking forward to it today. And hopefully we will not be interrupted by anything else. And yeah, here we go.

Yeah. And I was saying, because of the long period of time that we've had between the last session, we do have a lot of movies. So I will say kind of scrolling through the list, because some of these were ones I was going to talk about when we previously recorded. I may not have much to say because a lot of them have faded from my memory. But we'll see you as I go through them and see if I can kind of get anything and any thoughts on them.

Well, yeah, sorry, I'm just sending a message. But yeah, I know it's been a while. Some of these are outdated. But that's okay. Some of them we can remember, like a fucking qu- Okay, we're going to just jump to it. What is with the Quiet Place franchise? So, okay. So Scott tried to watch. So we're moving around the list, Scott. I know I'm throwing you off, but I just want to get the cat out of the bag now. Why do we keep making Quiet Place movies?

The only point I know of the reason why this movie got made, money because everybody still goes and sees these movies. But you know, when you know, I talked about my theater experience and how we walked out like halfway through because of the kids that were being disruptive. But it finally came to VOD and we were able to watch it at home. And yeah, it just wasn't good. Like I like always have issues with these movies, like they don't follow their own rules.

You see, okay, I know you guys all love the cat. And don't get me wrong, the cat was fine. But the cat couldn't save this movie for me. I know why he's being made. Like now, mind you, I understand when the first one came out, it was like a big deal, right? It was something different. It was a little more unique. I get that. And I know you've always had the beef with the baby being born. Like what couple does that, right?

Hey, let's live in a world where we can't make a single noise. Let's freaking make a baby, because that's a great idea right now.

Yeah, like I agree. That plot point never really bothered me too much, because I thought, well, maybe they had the baby. Maybe she got pregnant before, like the day of or the day before everything went to shit. Who knows, right?

I don't think it was, though.

Was it enough time? OK.

Because they didn't have a baby. I think she wanted another baby after losing her son in the very beginning.

Oh, right. Yeah. The kid with the toy. Yeah. Yeah.

That's like, for fuck's sakes.

But I feel like the point of this movie was to be like, oh, what would happen if New York City went silent? And I don't I didn't need this movie. And and I don't I please stop making quiet place films. Please for the love of God, please stop making quiet place films. Like, I understand there's some fans of theirs out there, but I still don't get the purpose of this movie. Our main character, you know, has a condition. And throughout the entire movie, it feels like that was talked about.

Exactly. You fart.

You burp. Yeah. Like, there's so many things that, like, when they said that, I'm like, yeah, right? And then we keep going with this franchise. And this didn't even continue with the family. I don't know. I don't understand how this was day one. It had no connection to the other characters. It had, as I said, you know, people liked it. That's cool. I'm not shitting on the film. I think it's a well-made movie. Special effects were great. Acting was great.

Yeah. Oh, it did. Like a lot of horror in general this year in theaters made a lot of money. Whether the movies were good or not, they still have been banking and banking banking. Right. Unless you're the crow, then you're doing terrible.

Yeah, I haven't even I haven't even gone down that route. Like I'll be real, I didn't love the first crow. Like I thought it was okay and I enjoy it, but I'm not someone who's like, it's sad. It's a really depressing film.

Yeah. Like I loved it as the when I was the edgy teenager.

Yeah.

And then as I got older and thought about it more, I'm like, no, it's just depressing because of what happened to right brainly and then just the movie itself was just me.

Yeah. Like it's not a bad film. I don't want to piss off any crow lovers out there. But I don't know. again, things I don't get. Why we remade The Strangers with Chapter 1. Not quite getting that. Don't get why we keep making Quiet Place movies. But Winnie the Pooh, Bud and Honey, keep that shit coming because at least you know what you are and you don't take yourself serious. Yes.

And oh my god, they just because you brought it up, they dropped the trailer for Peter Pan's Nightmare in Neverland yesterday. I am here for it. It looks so ridiculous. I'm like, yes, bring it on.

Finally, man. Well, that's good. I have to watch The Quiet Place Day 1 out of my mouth. And like the cat, how did the cat like you jump? But anyway, it doesn't matter. I'm giving spoilers away. Everyone, if you like The Quiet Place series, you'll probably like this movie. But I personally would be fine if they never made another one. But it makes sense.

I was going to say, the only thing, I love the cat. The cat was beautiful. Cat was smart. Cat was awesome. But the only issue I have is the cat didn't act like a real cat. Like you could tell just like the situations that cat was in, that cat would have been like bye and ran off.

And there were some situations where the cat was clearly a stuffy. Or like a, you know what I mean? Yeah, funny. Anyway, if you're interested in A Quiet Place Day 1, it is out of the theaters, but you can rent it on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, and in Canada on Cineplex. I don't know, most people here are giving it three and a half stars, including Tim from Dummies of Horror, Matt Wood. You also gave it three and a half stars.

I thought I gave it three. It should have been a three.

Three and a half. OK, Scott's changed his rating. Three and a half. I would probably start, sorry, three. I would probably give it a three. I think it's a decent film. It just isn't one that I care for.

Yeah, I was going to say it's if it's, you know, like you and I say for like for me, a three star rating out of five on Letterbox is if I'm channel surfing and it came on, I wouldn't be like, OK, I'll skip out. I'll leave it out. Yeah, yeah, just like it's not great, but it's like at the same time, I didn't feel like I wasted my time.

Well, this one, apparently a lot of people felt like they wasted their time. So we'll go up to the top of the list again. We'll start off with good old black mold. Now, even though I saw this movie back in July, I still remember what happened. So whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, photographers Brooke Conrad and Tanner Bellman traveled to rural and abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long forgotten locations.

I can't remember the name of it, but I...

It was a vampire. You know what I'm talking about, right? So not that this has anything to do with vampires or any of that. It's very much one of those movies where it's talking about something, but it's talking about something bigger as part of that symptom of what's going on. I'll give them credit. They kept to a basic setting, this abandoned building, which probably cost them nothing. It's a small cast. It is a cast where it is a movie where it's an unreliable narrator.

Okay. Good to know. I'll say, but we'll jump on to the next one that will definitely be in my top 10 of the year. This one is, and it's fitting that I'm the one bringing this one in being what it is. So this one is called Dear Camp 86, has an 85-minute runtime tagline, they should have stayed in Detroit where it was safe.

Which is something that no one has ever hashtag said.

Right. The synopsis is, in the fall of 1986, six knuckleheads from Detroit traveled north to partake in the annual tradition of deer hunting. But something horrific has been awakened and the hunters become the hunted. So this is a Michigan-made film with a director from Michigan, actors are from Michigan, all the set locations are in Michigan.

Every November, people go deer hunting.

Yes, and they are people that take weeks off from work to go to deer to do deer hunting because deer hunting season is a thing here. I have had plenty my share of venison thanks to deer hunting because of friends that I know that are hunters and lots of venison from the deer meat. But anyways, so this movie is a horror comedy. What I have to say, I fucking love this so much. The actors all did an amazing job. It's the set locations are beautiful.

Yes, yes.

Like the monster effects in this are really good, or the monster effect is really good. The bit of gore you see is really well done, some CGI, but not a lot. Like I don't have a single complaint about this film. The more I sat with it, the longer I sat with it, the more and more I loved it. The characters are all endearing and felt like actual real life friends.

I agree with you, Scott. I thought this was a really good film. And again, I watched this back in July before my own traumatic event occurred. But I can remember it, which says something, I guess. I did find the acting and the casting of this, I thought was really well done. I thought the guys that, yeah, like the guys they selected where they all played a character role that made sense for them. Right?

Yes.

Like, if you were a dick, you were a dick and the dicks were believable. If you were kind of a guy that sat in the middle and could go either way, you sat in the middle and you cared. You were invested to what happened to these dudes. I know that a lot of people talk about not be caring about what happens to characters. And I think it's hard already to really, unless a movie does a really good job of pulling your heartstrings. This is a horror comedy, so it's even harder to care.

Kind of like I wouldn't, because I know Tim Davis is tired of movies with a message. This one has a message. But Tim Davis, I recommend you check this out because I could totally see you being like in this group of friends being one of the guys having fun. Like I think you should definitely watch this one if you haven't yet.

I don't know. I disagree with Tim. I think messages are important, but that's me, right?

I know he's tired of them, but like that's fine.

Yeah, I don't think it's heavy, though.

Honestly, like heavy handed at all.

I think most people may not even get it. I honestly I don't know if he would be in Australia. You know what I mean? Like it's it's definitely an indigenous. It's a little bit of a commentary on indigenous, the way indigenous folks are treated here. I know they have indigenous folks in Australia too, but I don't know. I don't know if the context would move over there for him. Like I don't know what the experience is like for indigenous folks there, right? So I assume they're probably similar.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

And it like felt like real natural 80s, not like neons and constant pop music playing and stuff like that. Going back to the 80s and it's like the 80s was never like this, but you remember that?

Yeah. It's like people who weren't in the 80s fantasizing what they think the 80s were about, right?

Yes, exactly.

Right.

But yeah, this is even like I was going to say like one more thing about the characters in this, where most horror films have a group of, you know, quote unquote friends, and you're watching this going, that person would not be in this friend group. Yeah. You know, this one, you're like, no, I could see all these like I've literally had a friend group of these types of people together.

It's a good movie and you know, it's available on Apple, Google Play, and YouTube. Honestly, I think it's worth the rental if what we described is your thing.

Absolutely.

If it's not, then don't rent it, you know, like I hate to be so cut dry. But if this is what we do on this podcast, if this does not sound like something you will enjoy, then do not rent this movie. Because we've broken down for you what it's going to be about.

And I want to read Matt's review, good old sexy Matt Wood. He said, this reminded me very much of Predator. There you go, Tim. You had a comedy version. I think it's well-written, had some great scripting. Buck's character was hilarious, I have to agree there. All the characters were likable, it felt real. Friendships felt real. I wanted them all to survive. The gore was pretty decent. CGI was okay. It had a message which was cool. Indigenous people were fucked over.

Awesome. Yeah, I think that sums it up really well. It's a fun film. So hopefully more people check it out. So that they stop complaining about this year in horror. I mean, I thought it played, but at least you watch. What is your watch list up to now? I think mine's 114.

Yeah, you are way ahead of me. I am 75.

75. Well, that's not bad. You're creeping up there, but I'm going to give you one you can avoid.

Oh, good.

It's called Underground. This is a UK movie. I don't know why they made this movie. So this is a found footage film. After a wild bachelorette party. Okay, it's not that wild. Calm down. And it's called a hen party there. So for the British folks listening, hen party. A group of young women find themselves trapped in an underground bunker complex. A disturbing finding turns their night into an absolute nightmare. So it started off decent.

We'll get to found footage rules when we get to the last found footage film I watched.

Oh, I'm looking forward to that. So this is one that you do not have to watch. I am the only one that's watched it, I remember one we know, and that's probably for the best. But if for some reason you're a found footage completist, and you want to watch something that's like, what was that one? The Descent, only not good, and Descent wasn't even found footage, but basically the same kind of concept of a girl's trip, gone bad, just watch The Descent, or fucking any other movie that's about that.

Right.

You know, it's a bad sign. But this next one, I think it's the other abigail film, and I haven't seen that one. I think you saw this one, right?

Yes. So this is abigail, but it is not the theatrical released vampire film abigail that was actually, you know, really fucking good. This one is not really fucking good.

I build up you had there.

Yeah. Yeah.

So you're like, and the opposite, the end onto the next three.

So I'll just give the small little synopsis here. It does have it. It's an 88 minute runtime in 1976, a troubled teen befriends her bullied neighbor seeking revenge on his tormentors. But her obsession turns deadly. That basically just gave away the story, like the plot and everything. Sorry, guys, if you really want to watch this. But yeah, this was not that great. Like, I found the chemistry between her and her, the friend that she makes went after she moves there.

You're like, it was just all bad. Yeah, like it's like underground. You don't remember.

Yeah, literally, like if it's a movie, I don't remember. It's two and a half out of five. Like, it's not offensive, but it's not good enough to remember. Like, so this is one I just say, why bother? Don't waste your time with it. It's very just mediocre at best. And that's all I can really say about it.

I love it. So basically, Underground and abigail, not the other one, not the good one that everyone's been talking about. The abigail that no one's talking about. There's a reason.

But if you do want to watch it, it is available to rent on Amazon, Apple TV, or no, available to buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Video, and YouTube, available to rent on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon, and YouTube. I wouldn't bother renting it even.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's some duds here.

Yeah, there is. And like I say, the more we go down this list, the more I'm changing my ratings too, because I'm going, oh yeah, I didn't remember that movie now. So that drops the score.

Well, yeah, I, yeah. Well, we got more blockbuster movies about to come up our way to you and more AI is scary is coming too soon.

Oh, I can't wait.

What is the one that's dropping that already just dropped? Is it afraid?

Yes.

Yeah, it's scary. When I saw that preview before I watched another movie that's coming up shortly, all I could think of was you. You know, you're scary.

It's like, yeah, except for this one's got a supernatural twist to it.

This is the demon in it, and it's scary.

AI.

For fuck's sake. Well, if you're if you're into technology being scary, I got a video game movie for you. Latency is a tagline is fear is reality. I know. I know. When professional gamer Hannah, I know a woman as a gamer. So woke.

Zero out of ten.

Like, of course, it has to be a woman gamer. Honestly. God, so woke.

It's bullshit.

This is what Tim is talking about. Enough of these messages and horror. You know, I don't need to shut down my throat that females play video games, okay? Like, I don't need to know that. I need to think that they don't. It just makes me feel better. Anyway, who suffers from an acute agoraphobia receives new equipment that enhances her game. It's a virtual reality game, just so we're clear. And she begins to wonder if it's reading her mind or controlling it.

Right.

But when I get to the conclusion, I'm like, what? So was that real or not real? Was that person there or not there? I don't like that. Like, you're not fucking Robert Ager's, and this isn't The Witch. So can you please just spell it out for the rest of the everyone in the class? Like, you're not making a high artsy film here. This isn't no A24 fucking IFC Midnight fucking party going on. You know what I mean? Right.

Aye, aye, aye.

All right. I saw this in the theaters, because I wanted to see Big Tornadoes on the screen.

Yeah, I was going to say, in which, you know, that's probably the best way to see this movie, because the effects and everything, it's like an effect of Stravaganza, right?

Right. So funny story, Glenn Powell is in this film.

Why do I know that?

He plays the sexy Mike Blonde. He's super, like, hot right now. Like, he's kind of like he was in a bunch of other shit. Hold on. Let me look up what he was in. He was in Anyone But You, Top Gun, Maverick, The Dark Knight Rises, Hitman, Hidden Figures, Spy Kids. He's currently kind of seen as like a hunk.

Gotcha. Okay.

So a week after my dad's funeral, my aunt made dinner reservations. And my last name is Powell, as many people know. And of course, like, I usually would catch on to jokes. So I go into the restaurant. I'm there on, like, I was there early, and I'm like, oh, I'm reservation for Powell. And they're like, Glenn Powell? And I'm like, no, it should be like, Bill Powell. That's my cousin's name. Or my uncle's name is William. Like, I'm super, like, not catching it, right? They're like, right.

No.

I mean, do you like country music?

Oh, God, no.

OK. Do you like tornadoes, love triangle and country music?

Oh, for love of God.

And random science talk that probably isn't even accurate.

Oh, God. None of this sounds interesting to me.

Well, that's fucking twister is for you. So chase, ride, survive. As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chasers Kate Carter and reckless social media superstar Tyler Owens, played by Glenn Powell, collide when terrifying phenomenons ever seen before are unleashed. And the pair and their competing teams find themselves squirreling the path of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

The only time that has happened near like me, like was about two years ago, the town of Gladwin got or Gaylord got hit hard and a lot of damages. A lot of buildings were destroyed. Then before that was an F5 in 1959 in the area. So that doesn't happen often.

Not often. It does happen, though. So for me, we've had tornadoes touched down too. There's been some damage, but nothing to put the people in fucking Oklahoma, for example, deal with. So I always like even halfway through this meme, I was like, maybe I shouldn't be here. This seems pretty exploitative. But anyway, I'm here for it. I'll give it credit. The special effects are great. You know, I don't mind the CGI. I think the CGI of the of the tornadoes is good.

I love Honest trailers.

It was so accurate. So I include this in here because it's a natural disaster movie. Some people wouldn't consider it horror. That's fine. I think if you liked the first twister, you'll probably enjoy this. Don't go in expecting a complicated plot. Don't go in expecting anything that makes any kind of sense in terms of the decisions. Like these are people that chase tornadoes for fucking crying out loud. Don't expect logical decisions to be made.

Exactly.

Perhaps Erica should not watch this film. Because there's nothing logical about what these people do for a living. Okay. Like there's nothing logical. And like, I don't even know how they all make money to afford the fucking gas in their cars to do this. Like, I know that one of them is a social media star. And like, I don't know. I, yeah, they kind of say where their funds come from. But anyway, if you're looking for twisty twisty, there's no cows in this one.

I heard there's a fire tornado.

Oh, there is. There's a rodeo as well. And a lot of country music, like a lot of country music.

Ay, ay, ay. Yeah.

So buckle up. It is available to rent on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, and in Canada at Cineplex. again, you know, it's entertaining enough for what it is. I would probably give it three out of five stars. It's an entertaining film. It kept me entertained. It kept me intrigued. But would I be like, oh, man, must watch of the year? No.

Right. Exactly. Like if I like if someone said, hey, I'm going to the theater, I'll buy your ticket. If you want to go see this, I'd be like, OK.

Stuff in your face full of popcorn. I'll buy you a walker. I would definitely not do that in the fucking chase. I would go the other way. These guys don't know what they're doing. Like these parts where they trail cars in the grounds and shit like that.

It's just so fucking like if I see a tornado, I'm running the fuck away.

You're not like, oh my god, let me chase it. And honestly, like it's so funny. But the next one is The Inheritance. Did you watch this or is this just me again?

This is just you again. This one is one that I was curious about because I watched the trailer and I'm like, oh, this looks intriguing.

Oh, this was good. OK, so billionaire Charles Abathory on the eve of his 75th birthday invites his four estranged children back to their home out of fear that someone tonight or something is coming to do something to him, I'll say. To ensure his family will protect him from whatever is coming, he puts their inheritance on the line. They will get nothing if something happens to him by dawn. I enjoyed this film. I think this is what you see is what you get here.

Yeah, Biff demanded shoulders.

A bibus. I would say even though I did see this a while ago, it's entertaining for what it is. It won't be on my top 10, but did I like it? Absolutely, I did. To put it on and watch it and see what happens, you know what's going to happen. You have an idea if you've seen any of these types of movies before. But I'm not going to lie, I was here for it.

Good to know. Because yeah, this one, I'm glad to hear it was pretty good because yeah, I think this is one Erica and I were playing and I'm watching at some point.

Yeah, I would say it's entertaining. Yeah, like Friday, Saturday night, you guys are just chilling or weekday night. Yeah, put it on. It's entertaining, easy to watch.

Yeah, one thing that Erica and I do, if we don't have a lot of time to watch like a movie or TV show or something, we'll get on YouTube and just watch compilation of upcoming 2024 horror films and it'll just show all the trailers. And so we just keep a mental note of ones like, oh, okay, that one's on Plex. Okay, that one's there. Okay.

Nice. Good.

So we got ones that we want to check out. But well, the next one, I don't think you've watched this one, correct?

I've watched some of it. And then the copy I was watching, I mean, borrowing, of course, because I would never watch anything online that someone didn't own. It kind of like got all weird and I haven't been able to. I got 20 minutes in.

Oh, really? Yeah.

And I'll be real, I wasn't overly excited for this movie. I kind of could care less about it. But I would love to hear your thoughts.

All right. So yeah, this one is a theatrical release and it is the third film in the trilogy. But this is Maxine, directed by Ty West, a 104-minute runtime tagline, Hollywood is a killer. In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

I don't think that's a shame.

Yeah.

But does it tie back enough into the other two or no? Yeah.

Like I think you could watch this one without watching the other two. But there would be some like little nods and little tie ins that would make the story make more sense.

And we are following the chick that survived, right?

Yeah. The one that survived X.

Okay. Okay. And there's no flashbacks to X?

I'm trying to think. I don't think there was necessarily a flashback. It was just X was brought like stuff that happened during X does get brought up by certain people and like even though she's trying to keep that part of her past hidden.

So she's not talking about it with people?

Yes.

Kind of thing. Okay. Okay.

But yeah, it's something about it just didn't gel with me like X and Pearl did. But like Mia Goth performed, it definitely wasn't Mia Goth because her performance is always is fucking great.

Well, even if you don't like movies that she's in, you still like her.

Yeah.

Right.

Like you can't deny that she's a good actress.

I felt that way when people with Infinity Pool, right? Even if they didn't like Infinity Pool, you can't take away from how she delivers.

Though Tim hate, I do remember Tim absolutely hating her in Infinity Pool because of James.

Well, and you were supposed, in all fairness, you were supposed to hate her. So it kind of doesn't make sense, right? So do you recommend this to people?

I recommend if you've seen X and Pearl and you want to finish off the trilogy, I say go for it. It's not the best ending for the trilogy, but I don't think you'll hate your time with it. It's just decent enough. I gave it a 7 out of 10 because it's well-made, well-acted. The story just kind of, I think it's just a story, just kind of falls apart for me.

fair enough. That sounds like a very good rating. Honestly, a very honest rating. And is it available just to rent still or is it?

Shit, I just backed out. Give me one second.

Yeah, I think it's still in theaters, right?

Nope, not in theaters anymore. It's available to buy and rent Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Fandango, and Amazon.

The next one, Mind, Body, and Spirit. Did you see that yet?

Yes, yes, I did. I didn't watch it when we were originally going to record, but I watched it afterwards.

Okay. So this is a low-budget film.

Found Footage.

Oh, Found Footage. That's right. Oh, is this the one the Found Footage rules you have an issue with?

No. No, there's one at the very end.

Okay. An aspiring yoga influencer embarks on a ritual practice left behind by her estranged grandmother. I thought it was an interesting concept for a film. I think this film struggled with delivery.

Yes.

And consistency. I think the whole premise here is that she's left this house from her grandmother, and her grandmother was into some weird shit. And I don't quite get if her grandmother wanted, like, what her grandmother, if it was like, you know, purposefully.

Yes, I think it was. I think her name was, I think the main character's name was even on the book she found.

Okay. I don't know why her grandmother targeted her. Right. I'm not quite sure. But I will say there's a really good kill in this. Yes. Even though you don't see the kill happen, I thought the aftermath was good.

I don't know.

As a low budget, I think that it was interesting. And I think it takes a lot of guts to make a movie. I think they did a pretty decent job with it. I think the concept was there. There was just some, I think it dragged out a little too long as well. Like, how long was this runtime? 88 minutes. This time it should have been 60 minutes.

Yeah, like 60 to 70, I think would have been good.

Right.

I don't know.

What do you think? You saw more recently than I did.

Yeah, I'll say the acting is decent. It's the whole social media influencer thing because she's making yoga training videos. Just some very dumb decisions. The found footage aspect, I don't remember anything jumping out of me that they did wrong with it. But it was just the dumb decisions this character made like, oh, a creepy old book with my name written in it, and these weird cantations and things in it. Oh, this must be some yoga exercises I'm going to use. Yeah, it's like, huh?

What? Yeah, yeah, that I didn't like, I didn't quite get the whole like, I'm going to use this as part of my yoga.

It's like, I don't know. What?

It was kind of, I don't know, I thought it was making funny yoga, which is fine. Like, I don't know, but like.

It just didn't make any sense to me.

Yeah. And like her friend continuously showing up, or maybe her friend.

Yeah. They were friends. It didn't seem like they were, but they were like they didn't have any chemistry at all. Yeah.

And there was supposed to be some kind of like social, like social media part of it, I think. But I didn't quite get the social media part of it.

Yeah, because I think she was supposed to be like making videos to be an influencer, but she hadn't uploaded a single one of the videos yet or something.

Yeah.

But I don't know how this footage was found, and how any of that part takes place in the found footage part. But sure. Okay. Yeah. It was just okay. I haven't forgotten anything in it. It wasn't good. It wasn't bad. It was just okay. So I gave it a three out of five. Like, okay, if this was on TV, I'd probably stop and watch a few minutes of it. It was just there.

You know, I think that's a fair rating for it. It is available to rent. I don't know how much I think about paying for this. This seems like a to-be watch to me. Yes. But, you know, I think out of all the low budgets we've seen, it's definitely one of the better ones when it comes to utilizing your budget with what you have and making it simple and effective. Like, in that sense, you know, not using like...

Oh, I completely agree.

You're not making it overly cheesy. But yeah, I don't know if you're interested in watching it. It is on Apple TV, Google Play, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Amazon Video. again, if I'm saying I think it's a Tubi watch, you can imagine how much I think this is worth renting. So I'll just leave it at that. Yeah, if you're interested, right?

But the next one, you and I both watched, right?

Yes, we did. The horror in the high desert.

Yes. So yeah, horror in the high desert 3. Desert Heather.

Firewatch.

Runtime of 88 minutes. Tagline, just because you can't see them doesn't mean they can't see you. Synopsis, as a wildfire bears down on the opposite side of the state, Oscar Mendoza, armed with a secret, takes advantage of the distraction and journeys to northeastern Nevada in search of missing outdoorsman Gary Hinge's last known whereabouts. So I really loved the first Horror in the High Desert. I thought that was a really good, like found footage, documentary style film.

But what did you think? I just remember a lot of walking, and a lot of videoing of nothing, and a lot of build up to nothing. And like there was some okay payouts, but I'll be honest, these have progressively gone down for me.

Yeah, same.

I thought the first one was really well done and really clever. I thought the second one was okay. This I found boring. I did not care. And I felt bad. But why does all of a sudden Oscar care? I'm sure they explained it, but I really didn't care about Oscar. I didn't have any, like, I don't know. I don't really have any engagement in this. And maybe it's because I didn't watch it carefully enough. But I just really, I don't know. I feel like this is a situation.

Yeah, sometimes building on the lore without actually really building on the lore doesn't do much.

Right. Sometimes one movie is better.

Sometimes dead is better.

Sometimes one movie is better. Like, yeah, like Mongo. We don't have sequels to Lake Mongo. We don't need to have a sequel. Yes, Cabin in Woods. We don't need to have a sequel to Cabin in Woods. I hope we don't have a sequel to A Violent Nature in A Violent Nature.

Oh, there's going to be one. They already announced it.

Like, I feel like there's times where you just have to let the movie be and let that be the movie.

Yes.

Right. And I think that this is one where they should have done that.

Yeah, because I got excited when I seen it was a part three. I'm like, oh, hell yeah, I'm going to watch. And then I'm like, I thought it was decent. But then as time has gone on, I've already forgotten any key elements of it. So I'm going, well, that's not a good sign.

Right. And I think it's on Tubi, right?

No, that was on Amazon. Yeah, it's on Amazon to rent. And yeah, it should be a Tubi watch. Yeah, I'd say it's Tubi watch or $1.99 rental if you are wanting to watch another one in the horror and the high desert franchise.

Or high dessert.

Or high dessert, as Heather likes to call it.

Every time I see it, I'm like, hmm, dessert. Horror and the high dessert. And I catch it like this horror cupcake tray of yumminess that I'm going to eat. The next one was one that started, It's Funny, because Scott liked the beginning, disliked the end. Yes. I am flip it down and reverse it, disliked the beginning, didn't mind the ending. So do you want to lead this in or do you want me to lead it in?

Sure, I'll lead this one in.

Okay.

So this one is called Visher, V-I-S-H-E-R, 65-minute runtime. So very nice and short. It is, I guess you would call this kind of like a online social media type. We counted in that area of found footage, because it's not really found footage, but it's done through the found footage style online.

Yes. Yes.

The synopsis is, an online scammer's obsession with women takes a nightmarish turn when he witnesses a haunting series of events within her home, all through the lens of her webcam. So, yeah, this is basically one of those skit guys that basically will call you up and be like, hey, I need your bank account information. This is, you know, this is the bank. We need your account because there is something going on, something that's gone wrong. I need your account information so I can fix it.

Asking you for your account number.

But people do fall for it, and he's one of those types that does the scamming. Sounds like he's only doing it trying to make money on his end, and not really worrying about the repercussions of what it's doing to everybody else. But as the movie progresses, he starts kind of gaining the conscience, if you will.

Yes, yes, yes.

But yeah, he ends up talking to this woman, and he ends up being kind of attracted to her. And then, like, you know, it starts. At first, I was like, God, this movie is kind of dumb. What the fuck? Then it got to this point where I'm going, okay, I'm a little more invested, because, like, there seems to be, like, this interesting chemistry between the two of them that's kind of got me intrigued to see how this plays out. And then a supernatural element comes into it.

It was random.

And also just kind of unbelievable, but that she would have been able to find this information, find this specific person so easily. And then the very ending with what the guy ends up doing. What the fuck happened? This movie went from, you know, this is generic to, you know, let's stop making this generic and make this what the fuck. And then let's stop making this what the fuck to make it depraved. Where is this going movie?

Yeah, it was like it just kept going in this like kamikaze circle, you know what I mean? It was like, oh, yeah.

Yeah, it was like, what the fuck?

It was weird. I don't know. I did appreciate the twist. I was like, ah, yeah, I get it. Okay. Yeah. Conduptance, you know? And but I was like this. And then it got, I was like, what? Yeah. I was like, what the fuck is happening?

You know, first, the twist made it take a left turn, and then it did a complete 180, and then took a right turn, then a sharp left turn, then another left turn, and you're just like, where are you? What?

Yeah. By that point, you're like, I don't even understand what happened in the last hour. I will say it was, you know what, props to the person that wrote this. I feel like the person that wrote it starred in it, I feel like. It seems like one of those films, right? Hey, you know what? You put effort into something. It was creative. I'm glad it's on Tubi. Thank you for being on Tubi because that's where you should be. Hey, you know what?

Yeah, like, no, like, I would have given this movie originally like a two and a half with the way it was going two and a half to three. Like, OK, you know, actually probably three because I was remembering bits of it. It dropped down to a two by the end, two out of five. Like it was just what the fuck did you do movie?

Well, I have another what the fuck. The Mouse Trap, it's... This is not the Fun House. It's Alice's 21st birthday. Yay. But she stuck at the amusement arcade on her late shift. So her friends decide to surprise her. Yay. But a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them, which she must survive. First off, the guys from The Butchers were in this. Shout out to the dudes from The Butchers.

Oh, really?

Yeah. One was the cop and one was the killer.

Oh, no shit. Yeah.

So, Negative Nelly, Matt Wood, wrote...

I want to read what he's...

You want to read it?

Well, I mean, I want to hear what he has to say.

This isn't the worst thing I've seen this year, but it's up there. You don't know what the worst thing is, Matt. The worst thing you're going to see me is at your door and in September when I come visit you. Following on from the Winnie the Pooh theme, you'll get this Mickey Mouse. Some dude randomly decides to put on the mouse mask and goes on killing kids around an arcade hall.

Ketamine, yeah. Special K.

The best thing about the whole film was the intro and the rest sucked. I don't know. I didn't agree with that. I was here for it. It was great.

Yeah. I remember you said like, you were like, oh my God, this is fun. You got to watch it. So I watched it. I gave this a two and a half out of five. Like it was.

What's wrong with you all?

The character, like I had so many issues. Like, for one, this felt like just because Steamboat Willie copyright has become public domain. This just felt like they already had a movie made and they went, Oh, Steamboat Willie is now available? Okay. Let's kind of just show Steamboat Willie cartoon in the very beginning. Him put on a mouse mask. That's it.

Because he was called by the demons. Make total sense to me.

What demons?

You know what I mean? So he has a makeshift movie theater, idolizing all the movies that have become out of copyright this year. And while he's watching this amazing movie from the 1920s, he goes crazy. Like I would, too, if I had to watch some shitty movie. And I don't know, if you work in a kids arcade, Chuck EG shit for long enough, you go crazy, you know, and you got to fuck shit up. And I think this movie is number one of the year. I think this is the best, actually.

I was going to say that was the, I was like, OK, good job there, movie that caught me by, caught me by surprise.

I didn't know there was a roller coaster in this arcade though. That was kind of cool. A little mini indoor roller coaster.

I will say that arcade looked fun. Had a VR.

You don't want to go hang out there?

Yeah. But this definitely has the thing that I did not have an issue with, with Geek Camp 86 where I'm looking at this group of people going, none of y'all would be real friends.

These are all just people they got together to make this movie. This is not a good movie, despite what I said. I know this may strike you. It's not a good movie, but I love this movie. Like last year when I was injured and I told Scott how much I loved Killer Book Club. I'm not injured, but I will stand by that I love The Mousetrap. I also loved Mary Had a Little Lamb, and I am fucking here for it. I am here for all this shit.

I mean, you know me. I'm going to watch all these movies just because I'm here for the copyright public domain shit. But fuck yeah. I'm waiting for the better Steamboat Willie movie to come out, which they just released a teaser trailer for that Screamboat, where David Howard Thornton, who plays Art the Clown, is playing Mickey Mouse. And I'm like, OK, I'm here for that.

I was here for this Mousetrap movie, though. I loved it. I'd watch it again. That's how much I liked it. And I respect the one star ratings on here. I respect your two and a half star ratings. Like, if I'm real, this is a one star. But in my heart, it's a five star. And I've gone through some shit, so no one can argue with me on this because I'm sad. So if this makes me happy, fuck all you. But it's bravo, right? But yeah, it's I don't know. You're right.

I mean, and I can't really fault you or anything like that. You know, I respect it. I respect the game because I mean, you know me, I see the dumb drug-fueled animal movies like Coke, like the ripoff cocaine bear movies. And I'm here for them. Whether they're good or not, I'm here for them.

But no, this is not a good movie. But I feel like they knew that making it though. I feel like, yeah, this is a piece of shit. Right.

We can probably make a quick buck off this.

This should be on Tubi, but it's not. It's on Apple. It's on Google Play, YouTube, Microsoft Store, Fang, Dango. I don't know. Unless you really like cheesy shit and really bad shit. Don't rent this. But if you're like me and I don't know, you do, then.

Like, I didn't hate my time with it. That's why I was a two and a half.

What did Erica think?

She tuned out halfway through. She was like, yep, I'm good.

She's like, this shit is dumb. These people are like, Erica, shush, shush. Tell her that's what I'm going to do for my birthday when she comes up. That's what we're going to do. And then it's going to be me, though, in the Mickey Mouse mask running around chasing you guys. Tell her that's what I'm wearing to their wedding.

I like these movies.

Oh yeah. I'm like, like it.

Ignore the plot. All right.

So what's the next one that we have here? Oh, it's me.

Yep. This one I have not seen yet.

All right. So.

Oh, wow. So yeah, the next four I have not seen.

I'll stop chewing my gum. It's time for me to get serious. All right. So M Night Song Along a Ding Dong is back in the ring again with another movie that everyone's going to love to hate, and it's called Trap. I don't know. I feel like there's two types of M Night Song Along a Ding Dong. There's the Village Sixth Sense Split. And then there's the Visit. Then there's old glass, glass trap. Knock on a cabin goes either way for people. I like that. I like all this stuff.

Yeah, because I'll watch pretty much anything of his because he is very hit or miss. But I will watch anything is because it's when he hits, he hits hard. When he misses, he just kind of more or less stumbles. I wouldn't say miss is horrible.

Yeah, I would say we're like old was universally disliked. Though I did not hate old, I thought it was okay. Yeah, I would say we're knock on the cabin was more liked. I would say trap falls between those two.

Okay, I've been curious about this one.

I liked it. I think Josh Hartnett steals the show. I think he pulls off this character extremely well. Probably didn't hurt that the entire thing was filmed down the street from my house in a stadium that I've been in many, many, many, many, many, many, many times.

Yeah, say, well, then you didn't watch it. No, for sure.

Right. So it doesn't. Does it give certain parts of it away? Yeah. But to be honest with you, you kind of figure out the just right at the beginning. So what the little snatch synopsis is, is a father and teen daughter attend a pop concert where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event. That's a very good tagline for no one who's seen the movie or seen the trailer or anything like that. I think the daughter is really well played. And they shun along daughter is in this.

I gotta say, she's the pop star, isn't she?

She is the pop star. I thought she did a great job.

I was saying, this is the same daughter, I think, that directed The Watchers.

I think so, yeah. So she's very good, but Josh Hartnett steals the show. He carries this film very, very well. And I think that it was nice to see him in a role where he could flex that acting muscle. But this is going to be a real divider for fans. I would say if you like majority of NEACE. Shamalonga Ding Dong films, you'll probably be lukewarm on this. I liked it a lot. I thought it was good. I thought it was entertaining.

I know she was curious about it, because I know she's like me with M.

Night.

She likes to watch everything that he makes, and not all of it will be good, but we're always curious.

I would say watch it. I would say it's better than old. I think people like it more than they liked old. People say things like I hate old, and I'm like, well, I hate? I don't know. That's a strong word.

I rolled my eyes at old, but it wasn't horrible. I was just like, okay.

Well, and there were some things where I was like, yeah, I get that. It's about taking for granted your life, and taking for granted stuff, right? But I don't know. I think this is an interesting film. I would say watch it. It's out of theaters now, so it's on Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft Store. I don't know. If this is something, if you are a nice Chang'e Lunga Ding Dong fan, then I would say definitely check it out.

Right. All right. So yeah, it looks like you got the next couple, and then all right, where are we together and then a bunch more.

Dead Sea. All right, Scott. Do you remember the movie Taken?

Yes. Eric and I have seen the trailer to this one, and we're like, yeah, we're good.

What if it was taken on a boat? But only it's a different kind of harvest that they're taking people for.

Oh, no.

So these these two chicks go, their boyfriends, to an island. They live in Florida Keys and they get on some fucking jet skis and they go out to some fucking island. And the boys are being idiots and trying to impress the girls. There's an accident and shit happens and they get saved. But they get saved by someone who had devious intentions to continue. I liked it. It was interesting, easy to watch again. We watch a lot of movies here on Friday Nightmares. Well, you watch a lot of movies.

Me, not as much anymore.

As premium professional podcasters. This made my little Heather Hart entertained. It's a paint by numbers movie. If I was chilling on a Saturday afternoon and it came on and I just needed something easy to watch, I'd watch it again. It's not going to rock anyone's world, but it moved quickly enough. It's an 88-minute runtime. The main character is endearing enough. She makes decisions that are pretty good for the situation she's in.

Oh, okay.

I would say that, and that's just teenagers being teenagers, right? Like I could see young people getting into this kind of accident. Her choices, especially when she finds out what is happening, I think are pretty brave and to be honest with you, pretty smart. So I won't criticize that. I think the amount that the characters go through and either survive or don't are a little silly.

Is this one of the shark films, right?

This is Julian Sands' last. I feel like we've been watching a lot of Julian Sands since he died in January of 2023. Like this is his last, last film. Like Four Realties.

He did Rest In Peace Julian Sands.

Rest In Peace Julian Sands.

Horrible way, too.

Yeah, he was hiking, wasn't he?

Yeah, he was hiking and just was never found again. And then like they came across his body, like at some point, like his remains.

Wild.

Yeah, that is crazy to me.

And it's a shame because he really was a pretty cool actor.

Yeah, really nice dude. I got to meet him at a convention.

Oh, did you?

Yeah, years and years and years ago, he actually did like a quick intro for the Horror Drunks Podcast back when that was a thing.

Wow, that's really cool. I didn't know that.

Yeah, really nice job.

Wow. Well, unfortunately, the movie that he went out on, well, not unfortunately, this movie isn't horrible, was the last breath, and he was good in it. He was good in everything he was in, though. So rest in peace, Julian Sands. But this is a sharky film.

Yeah.

Like, oh, and then ghosting and then jerky. It's a shark fucking film.

Good.

It's like so what you see is what you get here. Compared to the one about the Bachelet where the girls go out on the boat and come back and slowly all perish or whatever the fuck they do.

The movie is painful.

This is a lot better. OK. But if you've seen a shark movie, you've seen them all. You can predict what's going to happen here. Friends are going to go out, shit goes down. Now, these friends all know how to scuba dive and have some kind of water knowledge. So the choices that are made make a little bit more sense. And you can kind of get the cockiness of some of them because they've obviously been in situations before. And there's a level of confidence.

Good to know, because this is definitely one I want to watch just because it's Julie and Sans. I usually like to try to watch all the shark films, too.

Yeah, you should watch it, especially because we do have an awards, I think, for shark films, don't we? And we've had enough this year that we actually could. So the next one is Lore.

This is one I'm looking forward to checking out.

This is a British film.

Oh, God, here we go.

So Matt Wood was in it. Just kidding. Richard Drake was in it, though.

Giving everything like two stars.

Matt was drunk the whole time. He was like, Oh, Lord, what time is it at the pub? Richard Drake's in this movie. He's in a big role. But any time Richard Drake shows up on TV, I'm like, no, I love Richard Drake.

Was he a sleazeball?

Yes, kind of like he was kind of the storyteller. So the synopsis is these people go on this like immersive horror experience. And they OK, you don't kind of remind me of Campfire Tales minus the fucking drinking and driving fucking TSA. That's not one.

So it's an anthology.

It's an anthology. So they show up at this campground and the friends all take turns telling stories. All the stories are entertaining. Some stories are better than others. I really enjoyed the last one. I thought the last one was really cool. The ending was confusing. I feel like they either like I don't know how they filmed this, but I feel like the ending kind of left things a little.

Um, I can't even think of one. Let me see. I just got scrolled down.

Yeah.

I've only gotten two so far.

What are the two?

Midnight Peep Show and All Hollows Eve Trickster.

Okay. I'm going to go on a limb that this is better than both of those. I remember Midnight Peep Show.

Yeah.

This is definitely better than Midnight Peep Show. So this may be the best anthology of the year that we've seen.

We do have VHS Beyond coming out, I think, in October.

So VHS are hits and misses for me. Hits and misses for me. We'll see.

I'll say they're always at least entertaining, whether they're good or debatable.

So this is a 92-minute runtime. If you like anthologies, I definitely think it's entertaining. All of the stories are decent. It's available to rent on Google, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Fandango, and Amazon. again, if you like anthologies, it's definitely worth checking out, and you like the UK, and you've been there like me, because then you'll really understand it, because you're just so much more cultured.

Of course.

It's a premium podcaster. Actually, Matt and I and Kate and my friend Mark, we're going to make the sequel to this. We're all going to be drunk, so...

Oh, God.

None of the stories are going to make sense. It's going to be like Drunk History. You know the TV show Drunk History?

Uh-huh.

Yeah, we're all just going to forget names of shit, and it's going to just be chaos, so it'll be great. Coming to theaters 2026. Who am I getting? Coming for an addition to a huge, crazier price on Google Play, because no one will want to watch it. Coming for $300 on Google Play, because no one will want to rent it. Hellhole.

All right.

You can talk to this one, because this was an awkward one, where they talk in a really weird way, Scotty, and it's a really odd way to deliver lines.

So, yes, Hellhole. Most recent release on Shudder was a 92-minute runtime. This was made by the Adams family. No, not the TV series Adams family. This is made by the people that did The Deeper You Dig. Your mama. Hold on a second. Let me pull up the...

I'm pulling it up.

Crew.

Actors. John. So Hellbender. The Deeper You Dig. The Devil You Know. Or Where the Devil Roams.

Yes, there we go. Where the Devil Roams. We have Hellbender in that one. Okay, so this is their fourth movie, and I was thinking I had only seen three of their films, or this would have been my third film of theirs I've seen. I did not realize they did Deeper You Dig. But, as it seems to be a running thing with the Adams family, none of their movies have connected with me. They all were just kind of weird and didn't keep me invested.

Like a hole in the ground.

Yeah, like a hole in my head. This is far away in the desolate Serbian wilderness, a US led fracking crew uncover a dormant monster just dating inside a centuries old French soldier. Now awakened and exposed in its most dangerously fragile state, it tears through the men on the grounds in search of a new womb. Yeah, so this is kind of like the Addams Family's version of the thing. Just not done as well. It's got some cool gory explody bits, which cool.

It's how they think people would talk. I think they're actual aliens that are just in people form. And they're trying to tell us through these movies.

Because it's not like it's like they don't really show emotion.

No, there is some scenes where there is some emotion.

Yeah, but not a lot.

One of the characters that's there temporarily will say, I thought showed some emotion. The one that you meet at the beginning. Oh, yes. But I think that some of the other people, I don't know, they're all digging this oil rig thing and they're all odd. But I will say, as odd as it was, I did find it quite endearing. And I enjoyed the awkwardness. I don't know why. I did enjoy the awkward dialogue. And I feel like this will hit people differently. It is awkward dialogue. You are 100% right.

And I think you just like the Adams family, they have a style and they've stuck with it through every one of their films. And I think that for me, that style just doesn't get me invested.

It doesn't hit you in your in your yes, yes spot. It hits you in your no, no spot.

Or it hits me in the, what am I watching spot?

Which is even a worse spot. You know what I mean?

Yeah, because I was like, OK, I like a lot of the concepts of this movie. I am intrigued and it just didn't do it for me, which is disappointing.

It is going to be on the Shuddy. It is on the Shuddy.

Yeah.

So if for some reason you have Shudder and you're a fan or not a fan, I would say check it out. It's only a 92 minute runtime. We're not looking at like a two and a half hour film here. You got Shudder and you're a Shudder. You watch the new releases. I do always recommend watching the new releases from Shudder because I do think that they pick up interesting shit. And this is at least interesting, right? So the next one is Consume.

The next few are going to be all you again till the M type milk one.

Oh yeah, milk. All right, Consume. Relationship Horror, Scott. Here we go, here we go, here we go again. What's the problem? Love.

Okay, then.

Married couple Jay and Beth take a celebratory camping trip a year after Beth's cancer remission. All right, I'm going to make this clear. That was me. I'd be going to fucking Bahamas and getting fucking hammed. It would not be going camping. But hey, we all got what we probably did in the States, and they can't afford anything now because of all the health care bills. And find themselves trapped between a wild madman and a skin-stealing monster.

Oh boy.

A lot that has to do with cancer and consuming the body. That's this movie. So, you know, I'm going to give like a trigger warning to anyone who's had cancer, or maybe has a loved one that's had cancer. This may be something that you want to be aware of, and something that you may not want to have people watch. It's very dialogue heavy. It's interesting enough when it comes to the special effects and stuff. Like, it's not bad. But I don't know.

Would you recommend it for me?

By yourself, yes.

Okay.

At work. Don't make Erika watch this film. She's going to be like, what the fuck is these people doing? I think you may find it interesting by yourself.

Okay. Yeah.

This one, this next one, watch with Erika. So this for me is in contention for horror comedy of the year. We Are Zombies. In a city infested with the living impaired, aka non-cannibal zombies, three slackers after easy money must fight small time crooks and an evil mega corporation to save their kidnapped grandma. I was fucking here for this. All you out there that like Psycho Gorman, all you out there that like Kids vs. Aliens, this shit's for you.

Oh, hell yeah.

Welcome to this year's We Are Zombies, because if you liked any of those movies I suggested, you're fucking going to like this, I can assure you. I don't know why Shuddy didn't pick this up.

I mean, they still might. Shudder Watch.

Yeah, they probably will next year, because it is pretty fucking fun. It is a hair flip Canadian film. I did not know that going into it, just so we're clear. But it is definitely a horror comedy. It is a comedy horror. I don't know. It's kind of mixed up both. It's about zombies and shit. I'm going to get some pushback from this, but I'm going to say it. I found this as funny as Shonda the Dead.

Oh, those are some big words there.

I didn't say funnier, but when I think of funny zombie films, this would be up there for me.

Wow. Okay. That's some high praise.

For me. Other people may not agree, and that's okay. Not shitting on Shonda the Dead, just so we're clear.

Better not be.

Of course not. It's a classic. But this is a lot of fun. I definitely think you should watch it with Erica. It doesn't take itself seriously. It's meant to be silly. It's meant to be gory and fucking... Oh, man, I was fucking here for it. The living impaired shit is really funny. They're kind of winking nods at woke-ism and how we treat people or people that are, I don't know, considered less than in society. There was definitely some comparisons here.

Fuck yeah. Okay. I will definitely check this out.

Right. So these guys also did Summer of 84 and Turbo Kid.

Oh, really? Oh, shit. Okay.

Right. So Summer of 84, Turbo Kid. Let's see. Wake Up, which I don't know what that one is. I know some other random low-budget films, but Summer of 84 is probably their biggest well-known one.

And Turbo Kid, Summer of 84, I thought was good. Turbo Kid, I thought was fucking great.

Yeah. So if you like that, you will definitely enjoy this. It's a lot of fun. It is available on Apple TV, Google Play, Hoopla, Microsoft Store. Honestly, this is worth whatever you spend. If you like what I said, you will like this film. You will enjoy it.

Awesome. All right. I'll definitely check this out.

All right. Let's see here. And then Audity. So this is a film from Ireland. And I will say, when the Irish put out a fucking horror film, they put out a fucking horror film. They don't do a lot, but when they do it, they do it right. They're always good or entertaining. Yeah. Or at least some of the ones I've seen. And I know people have different views on them, but they're always interesting and well done.

Wow, okay.

This movie will probably not get a lot of people watching it, because it is a slow burn. It's heavy on character development, it's heavy on conversation. You have to be focused watching it. This is something Erica would enjoy.

Okay, perfect, because this is one that I've been wanting to watch.

This is definitely one that you need to watch before the end of this year.

Yeah, because I've been hearing really good things about this.

Yeah. There's not much I can say because I can't give spoilers. All I will say is I want to watch it again. And Scott knows I want to watch it more than once. I think it's a waste of time. So the fact that I want to watch it a second time, I actually even rewind it to rewatch the ending.

Oh, wow. That says a lot.

I think it's a really, really well-made. again, an example of films that can come out of the UK that are good is this film right here. Fuck Underground. This is an example of a very, very good movie. It's available for renting on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon, YouTube, Microsoft Store. It's worth whatever you pay for it. As long as you understand that you need to be focused watching this movie, there's a lot of dialogue. It is a slow burn, but it's not like IFC Midnight Slow Burn.

Fuck yeah.

And movie you don't need to watch. Mira, Mira. Did you know that crypt television is this thing that exists? Crypt television. It's like Tales of the Crypt, but only for teenagers. So this is, this generation is what I assume goosebumps and Are You afraid of the Dark as a movie.

Okay.

All right. So Mira, Mira, Fear the Monster Inside. A strange sisters, Lizzie and Joe, are you reunited with their eccentric mother after witnessing their father's mysterious death? A traumatized Lizzie becomes entranced by the haunted Mira, whose sinister role in tearing this family apart is just beginning. This is made for teenagers, very much so, who are just getting into horror. Think Goose Bump level. It's that.

It's true.

What was the character from Halloween ends? The guy?

Cory.

Cory. He say Cory's name three times. Anyway, back to Mirror Mirror. As you can tell, it was really good. I want to talk about Tim instead.

I mean, who doesn't want to talk about that?

This is a fucking Goosebumps episode. You know what I mean? Like this was that's why I was like, you don't need to watch this. It was if you have a young person in your life, let's just get into the horror genre. This is a pretty safe watch for them. There's some creepy shit to it that happens for a teenage level of or young kid liking of this film, but it is definitely meant for young adults. You know, I felt like I was reading an Arl Stein cheesy novel kind of thing, right?

I don't think Connor minds. I don't know about Jaden.

So Connor might like this. It moves quick. It's, you know, entertaining. It's about a bunch of killer docs. Fucking shit up.

All right.

Some good suspensual scenes. It definitely was sweet in some comparisons that they did. The special effects are great just as South Korean can do. I don't know. It is what it is. This is an average South Korean film. It's not the best. It's not the worst. It's just kind of there. And I had fun enough watching it. It's not going to be on my top 10 or anything like that, but I had a good time with it. It's not available yet. So I did watch a screener.

Yeah, this one. Because I remember you were telling me about this one. So I am curious. I'll try checking that one out at some point. All right. So now I'll give you a little break from talking because I got four films to talk about. So I'll just go in order of not good to best. So to start off, Erica and I did a To Be Tuesday, I think it was last week, and we watched the found the wonderful found footage film, Tahoe Joe, which is about a Bigfoot in the Woods type movie. And it wasn't good.

Yeah, definitely.

I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And but then because these people end up going missing, because these people kept going to the location, the filmmakers from the first movie felt responsible. So they go back, try to figure out what's going on, where the first movie was not good. The second movie goes and somehow makes it fucking worse.

And if it could only get worse.

Oh, like the budget for the first one was not damn near nonexistent. They somehow have that budget. It was bad and bad.

It was why do they make it sequel? Like this is times where you're like, there's no way there is enough people that watch this fucking movie.

No. And Eric and I are just like, this is so bad, but we just kind of want to let this train wreck continue. And holy shit, it just got worse and worse and worse as it continued to the point where I'm like, it's maybe one of the worst movies I've seen this year.

That says something. Yeah, that was because we watch bad movies.

Yeah. And I purposely watch bad movies.

Right. And you're even like, you know, yeah, no.

Yeah. But yeah. So that one I will say avoid, but it is on Tubi. So the next one, this one has been blowing up in popularity. Like it's I heard about it because really, yeah, like I've been hearing a lot.

Oh, I have. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen this on advertised.

Yeah. I was going to say, bloody disgusting, advertised at first saying found for horror film, and it's all free on YouTube. I'm going, oh, shit. Okay. I'm found footage junkie. I will definitely check this out. So this one is called Milk and Cereal, and Cereal spelled S-E-R-I-A-L. This can be found in its entirety on YouTube for free. So go ahead. You have no... Whether my thoughts on it intrigue you or not, go ahead. I still say it's 62 minute runtime. It's free on YouTube.

That's not a lot of money.

Yeah. Okay. So I didn't know that when I first watched it. So my score went up a little bit just because, okay, I'm impressed with that. But the synopsis is, a surprise birthday prank takes a turn for the worst when a popular social media duo must face the reality of the terrifying aftermath. So basically, these guys are like YouTube pranksters. They like to pull pranks on each other and like their friends.

Yeah.

One of them for his friend's birthday pulls a prank on him that started to seem like it would go too far. So revenge ensues. Definitely not bad. Like I would say for a movie itself, not bad. You know, these guys made this movie for only $800. The acting is subpar, but it's I think it's the filmmakers themselves that are acting it as well and just had their friends doing it.

Yeah.

My biggest, like, and it goes by quick being only an hour and two minutes long.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah. So my only gripe, though, is they did this in found footage. And this is just me being nitpicky because I'm such a stickler to the found footage rules when it comes to found footage films that they screwed up in a scene where there's three characters in the scene. No one else. There's no one else around. It's just these three characters.

Yep.

No one is holding a camera, but yet no one also set up a camera on a tripod either because the camera is moving around and jumping to face to face to face. And it's like, there's no one there holding that camera. How is that working there? I like.

Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

Yeah, that completely took me out of it because I was like, OK, if it was a supernatural thing, OK, I could imagine that some supernatural invisible entity picked up the camera and moved around. But there isn't. It's all human stuff. So it kind of took me out. And I forgive it a little more now that I know it was only an $800 micro budget.

Like true low budget.

Yeah, like this is indie beyond indie. Yeah, yeah. And so I told Heather, I was like, no, they broke one of the found footage rules. In fact, I'm going to write down these rules so I can just kind of explain my thoughts.

Yeah, story time.

There's only three major rules here, I think, is what I wrote down.

It's like gremlins.

Exactly. These are the rules. You can't eat after midnight when you make a found footage film. Can't get the film wet. All right. So my number one, the number one rule for found footage, this is for me to make it believable. Always have a reason to why you are filming. So in an event that's horrifying, make sure the characters say, we're getting this on camera so people can believe us what's happening.

Yeah, agreed.

Rule number two, if there is music or editing or both, make sure to give a brief explanation why it's there. Because in a found footage film, you should not have music or editing because it's found footage. Unless I'll use Deadstream as an example, because Deadstream kind of nailed all these rules. The main character, while he's filming, says, oh, just to let you guys know, there's going to be music playing in the background.

I agree. Makes sense to me.

Yeah. Just because it's just add to the reality of this. And then number three, this is the rule milk and cereal failed. If you are making a found footage film, always make sure someone is holding a camera or using something to keep the camera stationary. Don't have unexplained shots that just all of us, that no one would be there to control the camera. That just does not make any sense.

That's just being a silly C word.

Yeah, exactly. Like, and for people that are curious, that have watched the movie and maybe didn't catch it, if you go to Letterboxd and there's obviously the poster image, but then right above that is an image from the movie.

Yeah.

You see what I'm looking at? Oh, yeah.

The chicks, right?

Nope. Those are two guys.

Oh, there are?

Yep. If you were able to zoom in on it, you'd be able to see.

Oh, okay. Oh, no. I'm looking at another image, where it's a guy in the kitchen with two girls who I assume are girls. So there's two images here. So I see the one where they're sitting at the table. Yes. And there's no one in the kitchen.

Where are you looking at? Are you in Letterbox?

Yeah. No, I was in IMDB.

Okay. And Letterbox is where I'm seeing this image.

Yeah. I see the one you're talking about. It's like a table, right? No, there's two boys.

There's two guys in the desert.

Oh, okay.

But that specific image is where that incident happens with the camera. Because there's three people in that scene, but where the third person is, is not where the camera is actually at. And the camera is moving.

That's silly. Yeah, we can't... It's like, yeah, I hear you. You can't be doing that. It's not following the rules, and it doesn't make any sense if you're going to do found footage, right?

Yeah. Like, it's my own little nitpick with found footage, but it's something that I just like, okay, yep, you're not found footage anymore. But even still, like I say, that is my biggest gripe about it. Like, the story was decent.

Okay.

Like, I got to give respect to, you know, being an $800 micro-budget film. I think this should at least be watched this year by everybody that's in the podcast community, just to have it under their 2024 belt, too. Because it is a movie that's being talked about, and a lot of people seem to really love it. Let me see. I'm trying to find the... wait, there it is. I want to get to, I think it was Matt Wood reviewed it.

Oh, Matt saw it?

Oh. Yeah, but I think he reviewed it. Yeah, he gave it three and a half. I gave it three, but he goes, yeah, this is a decent budget, found footage movie, simple story, yet effectively told. It's nice and short and gets the job done. It's not perfect by any means, but a director to keep an eye on for sure. 6.5 glugs of milk, too many out of 10.

That's funny. Hey, you know what? And you got to start somewhere.

Yeah, exactly. I agree. That's definitely someone to keep an eye on, to see what they do next.

Even the dogs agree. Yeah, that's a foster dog.

So then we'll continue down with my next film. The next film is The Beast Within. It's got a 97-minute runtime protector, provider, predator. 10-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing their father ungo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal. This stars Kit Harrington and James Cosmo, who both played in Game of Thrones.

So is it just supposed to be this is the one they had the beef of like messages in movies kind of thing.

He hasn't watched it yet, but this is the one. This is the type of message he's talking about.

OK.

Whereas it's like, OK, he's like, I'm tired of these being in movies where they're trying to be an allegory for something else type of deal.

Yeah, I get that. I feel like with werewolf movies, I don't know.

There's not many.

I get it. Yeah, like I feel like the one on the train a couple of years ago was really good. It's I can't remember the name of it, but you know, how or something like that. There's a hand, ginger snaps, of course. There's some that are like American werewolf in London. There's certain ones that are ingrained. Yeah. And then there's ones that are just, I don't know.

Yeah, like I think they try too hard to focus on the message more than the actual monster. And people don't realize people that want a werewolf movie want a werewolf.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I get it. Making a werewolf is difficult for budget wise, especially because that's a lot of money to go into either A, practical effects and transformations for that stuff, or B, might cost a lot of money to make a good looking CGI werewolf. I get it. But once again, like I get what you're trying to do here. This is a well-made movie, well acted and all that. But it just, I don't see why it had to be a werewolf. It could have been just, could have been a drama, basically.

Could have been a drama. Could have just been a drama.

But so that one was, like I say, it wasn't a waste of my time, but it was just mediocre. And, but then I'll get to the very last one that I have on this list.

Woo!

And Erica and I went to go see this in the IMAX screening, and that is Alien Romulus.

Fuck yeah.

Directed by good old Fetty Alvarez. It's got a 119 minute runtime, because why not? Every Alien movie seems to be about two hours or longer.

Yeah.

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. So this takes place between Alien and Aliens.

Okay.

So it just kind of bridges like a little bit of time.

So it's a sandwich.

Yeah.

It's a piece of bologna.

Yep. It's not pulling the whole fucking Halloween thing where these sequels don't exist. It's going, nope, we squeeze this in right here in the timeline. It's still part of the-

Fuck yeah. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. I like what you're putting down.

Storyline, I thought this was really good. It's basically like these people living on this planet controlled by Weyland-Yutani. And of course, they're treated like shit. They're dying working for this company and the shitty things that Weyland is known for in the alien universe. And then they get off the planet because they hear of this derelict spaceship. It's kind of like in orbit that no one has went to and scavenged yet.

Yeah.

Using lines like that and just the placement of them just felt off.

But yeah, it felt cheesy, right? It felt cheesy.

But I have to say, this may this may be my number one film of the year. Like, wow, I fucking love this movie. It was tense as shit. It was everything I wanted from an alien movie.

That's pretty that's pretty impressive.

Yeah. Where Ridley Scott kind of gets up his own ass with Prometheus and Alien Covenant and tries to go deep with other meanings and things like this. This was straight up just alien horror movie.

Aliens. We fucked shit up.

And they fucked shit up. Oh, they fucked shit up.

I love it.

It's they definitely they definitely lead into the whole HR. Giger phallicness and vaginal shape of things. Like they lead into that a little more. And I was like, yep, yep, that's definitely a Giger would be proud.

Well, you know what? And that's a sequel that should not that again, I don't like saying that things shouldn't be made, but it sounds like it at least makes sense. You know what I mean?

Yeah, it does. Like, right. It kind of just adds more to the alien lore. Like, yeah, yeah, personally. And I'm one of those that's a fan of the entire alien franchise. I love everything, even the cheesy one, Alien Resurrection. I rewatched Covenant and enjoyed that one more than I thought I did. Alien vs. Predator. I have a lot of bitching and moaning about that film, but I still enjoy it. AVP Requiem. Even that one, I have a soft spot for, even though it's terrible.

Fuck yeah.

You know, I recommend this is a perfect bridge.

So first of all, is this still in theaters?

Yes.

OK, so theaters are the only place you can watch it right now.

Right now it is.

OK, OK. I'll try to get out to see it. It's funny that you bring up Aliens because Aliens bridge between science fiction and horror.

Yes, they do. I see where you're going with this. Right.

And there's a lot of movies that we claim as horror fans and that claim to science fiction fans. And I like to say are both. And I watched a great documentary that talked all about that. And it's in search of tomorrow. And if you liked the horror series, in search of darkness, in search of darkness, you will like this. It's a 301 minute runtime.

I was saying this is done by the same guys.

Same guys.

In search of darkness.

And they go over a nostalgic journey through the 80s science fiction films, exploring their impact and relevancy. So you have movies like Predator and Aliens that float back and forth between the science fiction realm and horror realm. And we continue to have that today. We even have a category, Scott, that I have. Is it science fiction? Is it horror? Does it matter? It's good. Because a lot of times, it does blend. So this goes over some pure science fiction.

Right. I don't think that's going to be theirs.

Right. But I would say as science fiction-y, you want to find out some history about science fiction, it's worth the rental cost, and it is In Search of Tomorrow.

Nice. Yeah, that is one I've always wanted to watch, just the time, because it's a-

Yeah, it's sittings, right? It's an investment. Yes.

Yes. And yet, it's kind of funny because we both brought a documentary to the table.

We did.

For our older watches, and mine, let me grab the thing here. Mine is Lost Soul, The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. This was, let's see, I got to bring up the information for it. This was a documentary that was released in 2014. Erica and I had watched The Island of Dr. Moreau from the 90s because we're like, this movie is just a train wreck, but it's just, it's entertaining.

I didn't realize it was that short of a time.

Yeah, like he was not on set for his own movie for more than four days before getting fired, and being escorted to an airport to get on the plane, because they were worried he would somehow destroy, purposely sabotage the filmmaking of the rest of the movie, because New Line already invested so much money that they were going to bring on a different director.

Wow.

This new director came on and was changing things left and right, refused to do anything like that. Richard Stanley had already talked about, was really confusing the actors like Farrouza Balk, and she was like, I guess, she was still a new actress at the time, so she was wanting to learn from the greats like Marlon Brando. So she went to Marlon Brando at one time and said, could I run my dialogue with you? Because I just want to get this done correctly, and I want to make a good impression.

Val Kilmer is a complete asshole though. You know what I mean?

Like it got it got to his head apparently and being Batman and Batman forever. So he was like one of those AAA stars at the time.

Oh, for fuck sakes.

So he refused to do certain things with fighting with the director, would do his own thing. Marlon Brando came in and changed things on his character because he felt the character should be doing this.

Because he's Marlon Brando and he's like, this is how I'm going to do it.

Yeah, like the whole scene where there's like this big old bucket of ice on his face and he's covered in white sunscreen. That was all Marlon Brando's idea, because he's like, oh, he's, I picture he is pale and allergic to the sun, so he's always doused in so much sunscreen. And because it's so hot on the island, he's got this giant bucket on his head that's constantly getting filled with ice. It's like, what the fuck? And like, yeah, it was a complete shit show.

What?

Yeah.

That's wild.

There is so much. This is just nitpick stuff that I'm bringing out. There is so much more. Just this is one of the most like what the fuck documentaries I have ever seen about a movie. I'm like, this is a complete fucking shit show. Holy God. How does this move? That's wild.

That's wild.

But yeah, if you want to watch a movie, a documentary about a train wreck of filmmaking trim train wreck of a movie, I highly recommend this because this is just going to make you go. No fucking way is this real. And it is. It's legit.

That's wild, man. That's wild.

Yeah, like it was it was just as fascinating as the movie.

And that sounds better. Yeah, sounds better than the fucking movie.

Like I love the movie. The movie is a complete train wreck, but I love it.

I do kind of love how Marlon Brando was like, you don't need to practice this movie is a piece of shit. I kind of find that funny. I'm sorry. I find that like, you know, like, I understand how like demeaning that is to a young actress. I get it. But I find it hilarious that this old Martin Brando is like, fuck this shit, man, this ain't good. Right.

He I mean, he's been around. He knows.

You know what I mean? He was like, this is garbage. I'm just going to put fucking sunscreen on my face and pretend that it's I think that's funny.

Yeah. Like it was it was fascinating hearing from all these actors that are still around and alive. And of course, Val Kilmer refused to be interviewed.

He was like, Val Kilmer.

Like, you know, I mean, yeah, he's got cancer and he's not doing the greatest. But still, it's like, yeah, he probably still.

Yeah, he's still alive, right? Yes. Is he alive? OK.

Yeah, I knew he was he had like some type of like esophagus cancer or something crazy.

Oh, yeah, I don't really really bad. Although he was in Top Gun Maverick. Yeah. And I think that's all I remember him being in as of late.

Yeah, he's not done much because he his health has declined terribly.

Well, that's too bad. Well, poor Valney. But yeah. Oh, he was reluctant to seek medical attention. When he first got diagnosed. Oh my. It took away his natural speaking voice. That explains why when he was in the movie for Top Gun, he didn't really talk.

Oh, OK. I never did watch that movie. So I did.

Oh, yeah. I watched Top Gun Maverick. It's not great. It's OK. You can hard pass on that. Well, two good documentaries, two good documentaries.

And I do have a horror book recommended.

I know I'm excited.

This is kind of running the long episode, but I'll be kind of quick.

That's fine.

But this is called In the Tall Trees, because I've been doing that indie book brawl. And this is one of the indie authors. Her name is Angel and Angel and Van Etta.

Very nice.

Or yeah, it's in the yeah, in the tall shit. Let me make sure I got the title right on the documents. Yeah, in the tall grass. Sorry, not in the tall grass.

Well, tall grass trees.

Yeah, pretty much. But I found this to be very fascinating because this entire story is told through the perspective of like a five or six year old girl. Oh, like it's it's spoken like she would speak. So like sticky, itchy, gross things and like the way she described things would be a way a child describes things like everything.

Or me, or me.

Yeah, everything is written like in the perspective of this child, like the dialogue, like there are the thoughts that she's having in her own head, how she's visioning things. But she lives with her little baby brother and her mother. Her mother is chained to the floor and cannot leave the house. And her father only seems to appear every two weeks to three weeks to drop off groceries. And you find out, yeah, this father is not really a father, but someone that kidnapped the mother and daughter.

I find that I'm tearing up all the time now, and I don't know if it's just because I'm in a state of sadness or something is actually sad.

Right, no, I get that.

It's actually sad because when I was watching Project Silence, there's a scene with a father and a daughter, which probably had a lot to do with what I'm going through personally.

Yep.

And I was crying. I'm like, I feel like the scene is not emotional. But I'm not emotional about the scene. So, but if it brought you to tears, that to me tells me it's an emotional book.

Yeah, it's a very emotional story.

I may skip something like that right now.

It's very heavy, very heavy. But it is like beautifully done, well written, like and just like being in the perspective of the little girl the entire time. And you literally feel like you are this little girl the way like the story is being told. And this author did such an amazing job bringing the story to life. Like this is probably one of my favorite books from the indie horror book Brawl. I've read 14 out of the 36 in the Brawl starts next week.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want to vote on something that you don't have any knowledge of. Yeah, yeah.

But out of the 14 I've read, this is probably my all time favorite book out of them. This was this is indie author done right like this. She's got a sequel to the story called In the Tall World, which I cannot wait to read.

I love it. I love it. I'll share my audiobook even though it's not, well, I don't know. It's kind of horror. I like to listen to horrors of society.

Yes, you do.

And this current one I'm listening to is Conspiratiality, how New Age conspiracy theorists became a health threat. And let me tell you, yoga is fucking dark. Did you know that Nazis use yoga as a form of control of other Nazis? Yeah, man.

What the hell?

Yeah. So obviously, I'm not saying that yoga is a bad thing. Obviously, yoga is about breathing and movements, but it has been manipulized for evil, very much so. And I've been learning all about QAnon. I didn't know much about QAnon. Oh, God.

That's a deep well to dive into.

And it's basically these three authors who are taking conspiracy theories and analyzing them and providing, okay, this is where people believe this, but that's not actually factual, or here is where this came from. This part is true, but this part is not true. Or the truth about yoga. Honestly, the truth about yoga is layered. It's not to be like, oh, yoga is bad or anything, but not everything that we perceive as good has been always used for good.

Right. That's fascinating.

Yeah. Like it was interesting in how it's been used as like a form of control and other things. again, like anything though, like anything. You know, if we look at religion, religion can be something beautiful. It can give people hope. It can give them comfort. It can give them purpose, but it can also be used in a way that is negative.

Or evil.

Evil, right? So, you know, it's fascinating. And I'm also trying to read 20 Minutes a Day now. I was reading this Toronto Crime Novel, but I got into Chapter 2, and it was just about these rich people that went missing in the desert. And when like I found out how annoying their rich family was, I was like, I can't read the rest of this. So I returned it virtually, because I'm just doing like stuff over my little library app.

Oh, okay.

I'm going to go to the library. I know that sounds so lazy, but like I don't want to...

That's my favorite part, going to the library and just browsing.

I know I do like doing that, but then like if you take a book and you don't like it and you get into it and you're stuck, you have to go take it back.

True.

Instead of just returning it over. I want to get an e-reader.

Oh yeah, like a Kindle or something like that.

Hope or whatever, knock off. I don't care.

You know, whatever, just to make it just be like me and just start buying books randomly.

Or that whatever I used to, I used to do that more, but I tend to always, I don't, I don't really get into fiction. Like even on my podcast, it's all true crime shit, right? It's true crime or I'm listening to one about the rise of steroids in the 80s and that's super fascinating. So I tend to either like that, like I'm not great at the story. You know what I mean? I don't know.

Yeah, I say I'm like, I'm total nonfiction and fiction reader, but I definitely more towards fiction. Like I do love my horror and fantasy novels.

Yeah. Yeah. Like I think more than anything reading. Oh man, did you see the Reading rainbow documentary?

No, not yet.

Dude, watch the Reading rainbow doc. That doc is awesome. Rock on the Barberton. Rock on.

Yeah, I definitely want to see that one.

Yeah, it's worth it. Well, it will be interesting as more AI scary movies come out. I can't wait to see the shit show that afraid is.

Yeah.

Honestly, fucking AI is going to get us. It's going to get us all. It's definitely in me. That in pregnancy horror and pregnant nuns and I don't know. There's so many cliches.

Finally be out of the COVID horror.

Oh, yeah. So far, so far, so far.

It'll come back down the down the road when they need to use it as a storyline.

Oh, man. What was that movie we watched with it this year or last year where it was about a dystopian future in the south that tied in slavery? That was also about COVID. That was also about anti Trump. It was like it was like all this grew up into this one film and it was on shutter.

Yeah, I forget what the fuck that was called.

I remember that. It was basically like this ghost of the cotton fields and shit like that. And like, I don't know, there's some films like Safer at Home was good. Yeah, that was good. And then there's just Host was good. You know, there's certain ones that came out there like unique and good. And then like there is something that's trying to do too much in your film. Yeah, like there is such a thing as going over the top and just too many things.

Yes, 100 percent.

Wanting to be too and too many plot twists. Like there's only so much plot twists.

When you're not M Night Shyamalan.

You're not on Shyamalan Ding Dong. You're not we're not plot twist all fucking day all night. Look at this cat. This cat's just like totally on your chest. It is like love me Scotty.

Yep. This is poof. She says, wherever I can fit, I sit.

I fit, I sit. Well, tonight I'm going to see the Paranormal Circus. So that should be fun. Oh, I look forward to talking about that later. Scotty's been such a great friend. Thank you, Scotty, for all you've done over the last couple of weeks. It's been rough, but I'm happy to be back doing this. You know, it's hard, as you know. You've lost your brother and other people in your life. And though it's a natural part of life, it is always hard, but it is a lot of fun spending time with you.

I'm glad I was there.

Thank you, Scotty. Even away. Even away, it's... You know, thank God, Scott was able to watch my dad's funeral online. So I guess AI is not that scary.

I'd say technology is a good thing for some stuff.

Right? For some stuff, it can be quite useful. We actually had people in Australia, England, and across Canada watch the funeral, and in the United States. So I think that's nice. You know, it does allow people to come together and celebrate life and all that kind of good jazz. And I still have such respect for people that work at a funeral home. I don't know how they do it. Right?

It's a little too real.

It is, right? And the prepping of the bodies and stuff like that. And yeah, though I will say, when I did walk into the funeral home, I thought of every single horror movie that has a funeral home in it. Because it's just like ingrained in you. I don't know if you do that either. Like if you go through a graveyard or something like that, you're like, oh yeah, yep, yep, yep. There's this tunnel that I walk through in the mornings sometimes. It's on this path.

100 percent.

Right. But nothing was as honestly the underground movie that I talked about. The phone footage of those chicks was worse than the mousetrap. Yeah. Like at least the mousetrap you could follow.

Yeah, exactly.

Right.

And it was it was bad, but it was entertaining stuff.

And they knew it was bad. Like they weren't really taking themselves seriously. Right. But yeah, fuck. Anyway, we'll see more movies to be coming, more movies to be coming.

Yeah. But I think I'll pick up the pace myself and have even more next time, because, yep, I think I just kind of needed to take a little break. And then, you know, spooky, spooky season is coming up.

So, oh, Scotty, everyone's about to get real annoying real quick.

Oh, they already are. They already are.

The only spooky season I care about is October twenty twenty five, because that is when you and Erica finally stop living in sin.

It will be living in sin together.

I'm glad that you have withheld from sex until you're married.

Yes, I don't. I'm still a virgin. I don't want to pop my chair.

Erica goes to touch you. You're like, no touchy toe ring. No touchy toe ring.

No touchy. Yuck.

Yuck.

Gross. What would God think?

You're like, only Tim Davis gets to touchy touchy until dead. Because that's a sin no matter how we dice it. But you and I, baby, you know, we have to do the right thing. Exactly. Legally, man and wife. Hopefully, you two fuckers will come up here for the convention in Niagara Falls because fucking all of a sudden, it became a real convention.

Right? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, hopefully. I was like, because financially, things might be difficult to pull off now because of the bullshit I'm dealing with. But I'm going to try. I still want to try.

Only fans, this is it. Time for you to start showing off the goods.

Time to do that reverse only fans where you have to pay me to put clothes back on.

Now, I bet you, I bet you there'd be a lot of like there'd be a lot of people. Yeah, they'd be like, hey, hey, man, you know what I mean? We got to do what we got to do. We're not good enough like Dummies of Horror to have a Patreon. So premium podcasters.

On time.

Yeah, premium podcasters don't do that. Premium podcasters, the listeners, all five of them come to you.

They do. Right.

But we.

wait, what?

Oh, they sure do. Actually, next time you probably hear from Scott and I, I don't know, depending what Scott edits this episode. Well, either be before I go away. I am. My mom has insisted I keep with the trip that I have lined up at the end of September. So I will be going and she will be taking care of Mickey, which I think is something that she's looking forward to. She's getting out and doing stuff, which is good.

Yeah, that's like get all of us back together again. And I don't think we're going to have anything in particular to talk about. I think we're just going to keep the shit and just kind of record it.

We're just going to make Rob mad. I'm going to go on and say things like, I really wish we had another Final Destination movie this year. Or I really wish-

Or the Texas chainsaw Massacre 2022 was such a masterpiece.

And I really love the direction they took with Wrong Turn 2021. You know, I thought it was something different. You know, it was something out of the box. I guess if you can't handle that, you can't handle the truth. It would be a lot for somebody who wasn't able to get the message behind that Wrong Turn 2021 movie.

Oh, it'll be fun.

No, I'm going to say Halloween Ends is my favorite Halloween movie of all time.

God, then we'll never get Tim to shut up.

I'll be like, Cory's my role model. I understand, Cory. I know he brought it up too. I think he did an episode and somehow Halloween Ends came up. What was the Blumhouse episode?

Oh, and he brought it up again this episode, the anime episode there.

Yeah. You know why Halloween's come in and he's remembering. He's like, I remember that trail.

I mean, I mean, you know, it's either Jaws or Halloween Ends with him. I mean, Tim, we know Halloween Ends is your favorite movie. Don't have to talk about it every episode of Jaws.

Just like I secretly love the Quiet Place movies is that they're so good because I love talking. I'm like, fuck, I can't handle the Quiet Place. There's no Quiet Place. But yeah, it's just never quiet, but yes, hopefully we will be back again before I go away to talk about more amazing 2024 horror films. We're slowly inching towards that episode 100. We're really making you work for it here on Friday Nightmares.

We are. We're making you beg.

Look, we're just trying to get through, okay? We're just two simple little horror premium podcasters with a large amount of talent, just doing our best trying to.

It's huge talent, very huge.

If you remember Tim, I'm sad. You can't say anything right now, can you, Tim? Right now. Remember when his grandfather died and he kept saying his grandfather died on the episode? Remember that one? If you would say something, it'd hit me like my grandfather died.

Yeah.

I'm not quite ready to make that joke, but I do find that joke funny sometimes when I think back on it. That was quite funny.

That was fun. At the same time, I'm like, oh, this is awkward. Okay, Tim's having fun with it. Okay.

Oh, yeah, he definitely made it work. So anyway, we are proud members of the Legion Podcasts Network. You can find us on their Patreon because Scott and I are too lazy to have our own. Please feel free to join and donate and support us. And there's lots of different content on there. Different shows post really great content that we don't. I recommend checking them out.

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Quiet Place, shut the fuck up. Oh my God.

I hate fucking Quiet Place films. Anyway, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts Thank you as always for listening and supporting our show and for being there to give us an outlet when things get hard to talk about and to enjoy and allowing Scott and I to fill your ears with goodness like The Mouse Trap and other great films.

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Absolute experts of the craft.

You know, when we're coming out with things like Killer Book Club and The Mouse Trap and what else was the other one?

cocaine Cougar.

Cancun Cougar.

Slaughterhouse.

Slaughterhouse. Like, this is premium shit here, right? Do you have anything else to say to the good people, Scotty?

No, just thank you as always for listening and supporting us. And yeah, we'll hopefully get this episode out fairly quick, just because it has been a long time since the episode has dropped. So I will be a little more vigilant on trying to get this one done and released. And yeah, thank you all and unpleasant dreams.