Dummies of Horror Ep.275- Tribute to Tony Todd

be my victim be my victim I am the writing on the wall whisper in the classroom without these things I am nothing so now I must shed innocent blood come with me This is my own show, not a script or flip could make me stop. So just behave, I mean there's no escape. Let's hope you make that drop, because you really don't want to take me off and oh. What? Welcome one and all to the Dummies of Horror podcast. The Beef Wellington of horror podcasts.

Take that, Heather and Scott, you motherfuckers. We are the show that comes to you bi-weekly that teaches a thing or two to the dumbest little guy about the genre we love. I'm your host, Tim. And with me is my hetero life partner, my ride or die, Daniel Kalouf, a.k.a. The Mushroom. How is it, brother? Hello, I'm the Duxon in the Beef Wellington.

That is this show. I'm so glad that I wrote down Beef Wellington or Horror Podcast because I would have forgotten that for sure. What is that in reference to? We were talking last episode. I don't know how. This fucking show always goes back to talking about food. So you would have brought up food. I vaguely remember. And because Heather and Scott...

from the Friday Nightmares podcast, always talk about them being the premium podcasters. Oh, yeah. So we're just like, nah, we're the Beef Wellington of horror podcasts. Last week was just like a stream of consciousness. last week was a fucking shit show it was great though I had fun I don't know if it was a good show but I had fun yeah cause it wasn't structured like a normal show it was just you and me talking the shit yeah um

Probably not the greatest listening thing, but fuck it. I had fun. If you like a more loosey-goosey episode, then go back and listen to that one. Do it. This one is going to be so much more structured because we actually have a theme for this episode. Yeah. It's a shit theme. It is. And not like in the way like... We didn't, like, think about it shit. It's a sad thing because unless you're living under a rock, horror royalty passed away in the past few weeks.

He passed away before last week's show was even up. So, we're talking about Tony Todd here. from Candyman fame and so much more, we're going to do a complete episode tribute to him talking about different roles he's been in and talking about different facts and all that stuff. I mean, it's going to be an intro. I learned a lot about Tony Todd this episode. Just researching facts about him and different things. I learned, like...

I really like him as an actor, actually watching different things from him besides Candyman. Okay. I mean, I haven't seen a lot. He's in a lot of stuff just kind of you don't even realize he was in. Yeah, but the thing is, he's in a lot of stuff, but it's like a 10-minute cameo here and there. Yeah. And I was trying to research. I don't think he... I could be wrong, and I...

I think I'm wrong, but I searched Google for so long, like, lead roles, where he's like the lead actor. And I couldn't really find it. Like, Candyman, he's not really the lead in it. Like, he's... Supporting cast, I guess. Like, The Crow, he's not the lead. Like, so many movies where he's, like, built, like, first up. He's almost there. Yeah, yeah. He's never, like, the...

Like the lead guy, it seems to be. Or even like movies where he's like literally on the thumbnail and he's in it for like four minutes. Yeah. Yeah. See, and that's the thing. I spoke to Mushroom and I said, look, we're going to do a Tony Todd tribute episode. I don't want to review Candyman because that's the obvious choice. Everyone wants to talk about his role in Candyman.

Let's talk about something else he's been in. And I was trying to go for like a hidden gem type of thing. So I told Mushroom, let's watch Hellblazers, which is a Tubi original movie. Because, and I've seen the movie. I didn't remember how little he was in it. But yeah, he's on the fucking thumbnail of like the cover of the movie. It's Tony Todd when he's barely in it. Yep.

But hey, I did actually, funny enough, I watched a movie today. He's in it for a very large portion of the movie. And it is a hidden gem for sure. We'll talk about it later. But we'll get to Tony Todd later. We've still got the usual shit to do. We've got a lot of movies to speak about. This is episode 275, and it's going to be fun. I've got a concert to talk about.

You do? Dude, I've got a fucking concert. Holy shit. Okay. Actually, do you want to do that now? I'm already fucking jealous. I'll just... Okay. What horrors have you done? Let's get into it. Yeah, let's do it. Because, all right, so straight up, I was considering it, but this band, to bury the, like, lead a little bit.

uh is a band that i i also fucking love like a lot i i really like this band but i didn't want to go see them supporting another band who i don't really care for and it's it's not don't care for it's just i don't know them i've never i've never really listened to them so i didn't want to pay over a hundred bucks to go see them in a supporting slot because i feel like i wouldn't have got my money's worth sort of thing

Whereas you did. Yeah. So wait, before we continue, the band is Ice Nine Kills. Just before anyone was like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah, the band is Ice Nine Kills. If you don't know who they are, they're a heavy metal band that sings about horror movies. Every song is about a different horror movie. I feel like if you're in that fairly big Venn diagram of, like, horror and Metalhead, you'd sort of know who they are. I mean, yeah.

Yes, but at the same time, I'm sure there's people out there that don't listen to... Yeah, yeah. Like, take Slasher Radio. For example, good friends of ours, they got to interview Spencer, the singer of Ice Nine Kills, and they weren't overly too familiar with their music. And that's fine, like... Mikey from Slasher Radio doesn't listen to heavy metal. Apparently he knows no bands, according to Robin Kat from Slasher Radio. But anyway, look.

Ice Nine Kills are a band that you and me are both big fans of. Huge. And every time they came to Australia, something would happen, and I couldn't go to the show, or they were playing at a festival where tickets were like $300, and I'm not paying $300 to see one band. Anyway, they finally came out, and they were like the supporting act to an Australian band called the Amity Affliction. And look, no disrespect to the Amity Affliction, but...

It's not my thing. And I stayed and watched two songs and I'm like, yeah, it's not my thing. I don't. I don't. I coined the term bogan metal because the way they were dressed. Anyway. So, Einstein Kills. Dude, the venue was packed. Where was it? Horton Pavilion. At the Horton? Yeah, okay, nice. I love the Horton. Big venue, not like our biggest venue in Australia, not by a long shot, but it's a large venue. This is the negative of the whole show. It was that pact that there was no mosh pits.

It just was a mosh pit? No, there was no mosh pit. Like everyone was just, you just jammed. Everyone was just standing there. Yeah. Okay. So here's the thing. Ice nine kills are like the modern day Alice Cooper.

they're very theatrical on stage so i get why there was no mosh pits because everyone was watching the show because shit was happening like the first song they played a song called rainy day uh which is like um their resident evil song they opened up with that and the first thing this girl comes running off the stage and then like a zombie was chasing after her just running around on stage trying to get and then eventually the zombie got her and ripped her to shreds um

Before that, I should mention before that, they had like a big like projector there showing like videos. And they did like a Tales from the Crypt intro. That's cool. Which was fucking amazing. And yeah, it was so packed that... Let me go back a bit. There was four bands playing.

that night i didn't care for anyone besides ice nine kills so the the first two bands were playing me and me and my wife and friends of ours we went to the bar um outside of the venue we were there for a couple hours just drinking and then we went into the venue because i wanted to go get some merch t-shirts and and but the merch line was huge

Oh, really? And I was so worried. I'm like, if I don't get in this line now, I'm going to miss out on shit. So I got in the line. It took me over an hour. Was the merch reasonably priced? Let's just say I spent close to $400 on merch for Ice Nine Kills. Very nice. Yeah. Like, that's between me and my wife. But yeah, we both got...

I got two shirts, she got one shirt, and we both got a hoodie each. What did you get for your best friend Luffy? Sorry, mushroom. I was going to message you, and I'm like, dude, what size are you? But I was... Fat. Next time they come out, I'll buy you something, all right? Yeah, get me one in fat, please. Anyway, we were like three people at...

like behind the front of the line to get in the merch. Yeah. And it was like 10 minutes until the band is on stage. So I'm stressing the fuck out. I got my shit. And the people serving at the merch were these old people that just took forever. Right? So I got my shirt and just ran into the venue. And by then, like, all the good parts, all the good seats and areas were taken. Oh, no. Yeah. And...

Yeah, so I stood off to the side. You could tell that there was many people that didn't know Einstein kills. Yeah, they were just here for the affliction. Yeah, exactly. So they were just standing around. I had a cool... group of people around me that were rocking out. Um, my wife and the friends who are shorter than I, uh, went and stood up in the stands. So as you can see, um, yeah, but dude,

Dude, fucking, like, I said this to my wife, I'm like, that's probably the best live show I've ever seen. Like, my favourite live acts were Kiss, Insane Clown Posse, and Aelstorm, and now Ice Nine Kills is on that list. So, yeah. Oh, they did the cover of Walking on Sunshine. as well, you know, I'm walking on sunshine, which I didn't really care for that song, but the projector behind the band was just showing clips of summer horror movies.

So there was, like, straight up, I was watching, they started playing the song, and I'm like, eh, I wish they played one of their originals. And then I noticed there was fucking clips of Jaws of Revenge. Playing behind him, I'm like, what the fuck? And then Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out. The Burning. Like, just clips of just summer horror movies. Okay. And it was fucking epic. They did their new Terrifier song.

Yeah. I've seen like the TikToks with the fucking baby getting whipped around and shit. Yeah, yeah. Art the Clown came out on stage and there was the pregnant lady. Yeah, he pulled out the baby. Dude, it was fucking epic, man. I'm sorry to... I really thought they would have cut it back for an opening slot. No.

I really hope... Did they get a good reception? You think they'll come back? Yeah, I think they will. I think they will. If they're coming back and you fucking get tickets and you don't fucking take me... I'll get you one. Yeah, for sure. We're going. I swear to fuck. It was, dude, it was that good. Like, just seeing them live bumped them up in my favorite bands list. I don't want a word. He sounds good, right? Like, everything I've heard, he doesn't sound like shit. Look, the audio...

Had some flaws. Yeah, had some issues. Nothing against the band. Yeah, got it. That was just the audio. But yeah, he sounded great, exactly like he would on the albums. Fuck. But yeah, they finished their set and the headlining...

band came on. I watched two songs and I'm like, I'm going. I'm going to get chicken wings. So I've got chicken wings. I won't get chicken wings. Yeah, I left the venue to go get chicken wings while everyone's still rocking out. Fair enough. And the coolest thing about... So I dropped the kids off to my in-laws who were looking after them and came home while the wife got ready. And it was just because the wife takes like...

an hour to two hours to get ready where it takes me 10 minutes. Yeah. Um, so I'm just sitting in the lounge watching something on TV, scrolling through fucking Facebook. And I see the news that Tony Todd's passed away. I'm like, fuck, what the fuck, man? That's brutal.

So I said to, I said to, I said to Joe, I'm like, I wonder if they'll play the Candyman song tonight. Like in all, they'll do anything like in his honor. And before anything happened, like the big projector had like a rest in peace, Tony Todd. before they even played. Yeah, shit. So shout out to Ice Nine Kills for actually giving tribute to Tony Todd. But yeah, awesome. Probably the highlight of my whole Halloween. That's sick. Yeah.

But let's talk about some movies. Okay. What you got? Well, I got a lot. A lot. Okay. Let's get rid of some of the shitty ones, by the way. Do it. All right. So I watched All My Friends Are Dead, which you watched the other week. Yep. Yeah, it's fucking garbage. It's just, like, influences, badly made, CGI. It's, like, I'm giving it a 3 out of 10 just because...

Some of the kills were sort of okay. Yeah, yeah. But all in all, it's a fucking terrible movie. Agreed. Get out of my face. What else was fucking garbage to watch this week? Um... Oh, I do want to go a little bit more into that, but I also watch Hellhole as well. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. From the Addams Family. What? Hellhole? Yeah, not the... Not the Adam's family, but... They did, um... Oh, hell. Fuck. It's the family that made the movie. Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah. That did Hellbender. Hellbender, yes. Yeah, no, this is trash. I didn't like this very much at all. I just thought it was really boring. The characters were stupid. The CGI felt rubbish. I'm giving this one a three and a half too. It sucks, because I do like them, but... A lot of nothing happened, and then... Shitty CGI. The shitty CGI that happened was sort of cool, but it was just...

How is that other movie so good and this so bad? This just felt like another just cheap shitty movie. It felt rushed. It felt like it wasn't made by anyone who's made movies before. Like it was bad. So for you to remind me that it was from those same people is a bummer. Yeah, I agree. But yeah, like three and a half fucking trash. Don't watch it. I do have another bad, bad one on here, but again, we'll talk about that later. Interesting. Why can't we talk about it now? Because it's The Crow. Oh.

Well, no, talk about it now. Do you want to get it out of the way now? Yeah, yeah, do it. All right. So, because I didn't... I gave... I was like, I knew this movie was going to be bad. And literally I had no intention of watching this movie. If I wasn't doing the thing I was doing, like where I'm watching everything that you're watching, which I just copies you.

I had no intention of watching this. I didn't want to watch this. I didn't want this to exist. I was happy not knowing. But I did watch it. And it does exist. I fucking hate it. I fucking hate it so much. And he's getting angry. I just, it just wasn't good. Like, it was so stupid. I want to spoil the shit out of it. And I feel like I should, because I feel like people won't enjoy it. But apparently there's like 3,000 people that think it's a 10 out of 10 fucking movie.

Those 3,000 people are clearly generation... What are we in now? Generation Zs? Yeah, and drink battery acid. But, like... It was like... It was a weekend. They knew each other for two days. Yeah. For two days. They met in rehab, pink prison rehab. whatever it was yeah right and then and then they left and then it was just about these two little fucking uh nepo babies

A little rich fuckwits who fell so hard in life. And, like, it was just, like, the first half felt like a worse twilight somehow. Oh, wow. Okay. Where he's just like all whispers and things. Why don't you sing your song? Shit. Why does he sound European? Because it's fucking Bill Skarsgård. They're from fucking the Norwegian shit.

Yeah, but he had like an American accent. No, he did not. Not a good one. Maybe, yeah, maybe I can't remember it that well. It sounded bad. And then, yeah, Fakar Twigs was not great either. That's the girl. That's Shelly. Yeah, just so much. Nothing happens. And... And then they die and then they add all this extra lore for no reason. Yeah, man. Yeah. Where they just go to this fucking train yard and then he's like, oh, I'm sort of the crow now.

But I'm not really the crow until, oh, now I'm the crow. But the difference is I can heal now. But you could heal before. The difference is literally only that... But then they even did the thing where, like, he bleeds black blood out of his eyes. Yeah. And that's, like, his makeup. Yeah. But then, when he comes back into the world... He then puts on makeup. With tattoo ink. Because he's so edgy. Right? Yeah. And then, like...

So the opera scene was cool, right? But let me pose this to you. What did they do? That's a good point. What did those guys have to do? He hasn't killed anybody, and then he's killing random guards. Yeah, because... Because, yeah. I don't know why I'm defending it. They're trying to stop him? Yeah, basically. He can't die. They could shoot him all he wants. Yeah, but they can hold him down. They could, but he's supposed to be all nimble and shit.

True. He could put them down without, like, murdering the fuck out of them. I also find it ironic that he uses a sword considering, like, in the first one, the bad guy has the sword. that's true so it's like yeah what what what can his weapon be and it's like anyway like so i i mean i guess we'll talk about the crow later as well, but I do want to make the comparisons. Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it, but let me just say this. So, the remake of The Crow, like...

I spoke about it a few weeks back and I was like, it's fine. It's got some weird moments. It's not really a movie I'd rewatch, but it was fine. I rewatched the original Crow for Tony Todd. Yeah. And... Fuck me, man. Like, I did not remember the original Crow watching the remake. And now that I do remember the original Crow, it dampers the movie so much. Thank you. Like, the whole... I think that's what...

Like, I think you hadn't watched... See, I've watched it so many times. It's one of those movies I can watch in my head when I close my eyes. Like, so I know what happens in The Crow. Maybe not... like frame for frame, but like I sort of get the beats and this just doesn't do that at all. And I know it's a remake and a re-imagining and all that shit, but it's like, it was... The Crow is a 10 out of 10 movie for me. I fucking love that movie. Yeah. He's like goth Batman or gother Batman.

Yeah, pretty much, yeah. He's kind of a clown. He's like the Batman and Joker smushed together. He's like charming and a rock star and a goth, and he's like a good person. Like... He just had some fucked shit happen. And it's so simple. It's like sometimes a fucked up thing happens and the dead can't rest. He literally comes out of the ground. Back in his old body. He's exhumed. He's the crow now. Yeah. He can heal. How does he figure out all this shit? He's got a crow with him that helps him.

And where the crow can't help him, he goes and talks to people that were relevant to the thing. He doesn't just go to his mate's house and he's like, I need a gun. Like, and everything's like so... like, weirdly, like, poetic and gothy. Like, he does, like, fucking Edgar Allan Poe quotes, and he does jokes, and he compares himself to Jesus, and he, uh, like, he, he, the makeup is, like, the tragedy clown makeup.

Right? Like, it's all for a reason. Whereas, like, this movie felt so fucking stupid. Yeah. Like, it felt like, let's not do that because the original did it. Yeah, and the remake also has that weird supernatural element to it that I really was puzzled why they put that in. Like it felt like they watched like John Wick or some shit and they were like, let's do this. Yeah, yeah, exactly. For the last little bit.

But again, like, everybody the Crow kills in the Crow. In the first one, anyway. Let's not worry about the rest of them. But in the first one, he kills them because they were involved in the fucking murder and rape of Chalet. and like why is it Shelley Shelley because I watched that I've been re-watching South Park and and I don't know if that's I think it's Kelly

The lice episode? I can't remember it. You know, it's like basically like a Nick Cage lice and he's like, you gotta take the baby killer. So I just say, Shelly. Anyway. Yeah, like, he, like, goes through and systematically fucking murders them in, like, all these weird, ironic ways. And leaves a big crow symbol. Right? In this one, he's just like...

Why is he even the crow? Like... There's not even a crow. Other than when they, like, one goes in him. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense. You're right. You're right. Look. And I was like, maybe I'm just remembering it wrong. And then we immediately watched The Crow after. And I was like, nah, this is a fucking masterpiece. That was garbage. I was like, I'm fucking, I felt so vindicated.

Yeah, we'll speak about the original Crow later. Yeah. But I get where you're coming from. This is a two. This is a two. And the one star? Is the opera scene. And might I remind you, the context for the opera scene is fucked. Because it's just the gore that you like. Because he doesn't kill people. That's not, like, he doesn't, like, massacre innocent people. So that, it shouldn't have happened.

But visually, it was cool. I'll give it that. Plus it had Enya playing in the background, which I liked. Yeah, but I thought Skarsgård and Twigs had no chemistry. At all. Yeah. Yeah. That's what Scott was saying too. And I, I got to agree with him. Um, but yeah, it just, it, it, it made me, you know, want to just put on my leather duster and just sulk around the house.

Actually, funny you say that because re-watching The Crow last night, I just kept giggling to myself because I was just singing about you wearing the crow outfit. Don't talk to me. I watched that episode of South Park too where it was like where Satan wants to dress up as the crow. Yeah, no one else is allowed. It's like, all the boys are going to just dress up and want to be hot and be the crow. No one's allowed to dress up as a crow.

Oh, shit. Welcome to South Park. Oh, I mean, dummies of South Park. Don't get sued. All right. Anything else you got? Nah, it's bad. It's stupid. I don't like it. It turns out there is a bad Crow sequel. It's most of them, but it's also this one as well. This is a remake, not a sequel. Oh, sorry. Reimagining. Remake. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, two. I hate it. I hate it. You'll be hearing about this movie in a couple months.

Also... I guess that... Is it horror? I'd say this is... I guess so. But whatever. Do you class the original Crow as horror? I didn't. Really? But I guess it's like, you know, supernaturally comes back from the dead and shit. Yeah. Yeah. I guess in that case, the Bible's horror, which, you know, it's order. It's order, right? It's order. I mean, yeah. There's shit in the Bible that you're like, wait, what? Sort of. You know, in the Bible, it says that if you find out your new wife is a virgin...

You must take her to the steps of her father and stone her to death. Is or isn't a virgin, right? Isn't. Isn't a virgin. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm like, I thought we liked virgins over here in the Bible. No, if she isn't a virgin, you must take her to the steps of her father and stone her to death. Fuck. It's like, what? Yeah.

Also, apparently, according to the Bible, this part I haven't read, but I've been told by people, you're not allowed to eat prawns. Or shrimp, as people call them. I mean, technically, you've got to eat kosher. I don't give a fuck. I love prawns. You do you, boo. Yeah. If I go to hell, I'm like, why am I in hell? I've been pretty good. Like, oh, you ate prawns?

Like so? All those combination chow mains. Yeah, exactly. I like my shrimp on a barbie, alright? Yeah, well you eat pig too, so. That, yeah, that's true. Uh, okay. So I watched a few movies here, and like you, I'm just going to give a two-word answer to it. Time Cut. This one is streaming on... Netflix right now. Basically a teen is a teenager's time travels back to the year 2003.

And there's a serial killer. Do you remember that movie Totally Killer from last year? Yes. Yeah, watch that. It's basically the same movie, except they were transported back to the 80s, where this one is 2003, and it's pretty much the same story. Okay. Yeah. Look, I gave it a five. I thought it was fine, but yeah, I would never ever watch it again. Um... Apocalypse Z, the beginning of the end. This is a new one on Prime. It's a zombie movie from Spain, I believe. I could be wrong.

Yeah. Look, it has its moments. It's not as action-packed of a zombie movie as I would have liked to have. I did have a problem with lighting and editing in this movie. A lot of quick... cuts with the action that pulled me out um and the ending kind of ends on a cliffhanger i mean it's called The beginning of the end. So I'm assuming they're making this into like a trilogy or something like that. But yeah, I gave it a six. I thought it was fine at best. Okay.

Um, this next one called Shark Warning. Um, I saw the trailer of this and like, you look at the poster and you're like, okay, that's just gonna be a fucking... shitty cgi shark movie which i tend to avoid those types of things yeah but i watched the trailer and i'm like oh this actually looks decent um there is like two scenes where the shark actually like kind of resembles

Jaws, like Jaws of Revenge Shark. So I'm like, oh, cool. All right. And then the rest of it's pretty CGI. It's an Asylum movie and it's the Asylum version. It's the Asylum version of Jaws. Okay. And it's not great, but I did expect less. I didn't hate this movie. I had some fun with it. I gave it a 6 out of 10, but that's because I'm a shark fan. Yeah, yeah. Okay, my next one I watched is a movie called Beezle. This is a witch movie.

And it's pretty decent, it's got some twists and turns in there. It starts off strong, but becomes... predictable by the end and ultimately i didn't the movie didn't wow me with the ending of it so i gave it a six and a half out of ten yeah um and the two last ones i want to talk about

I'll start with Smile 2. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Look, okay. I'm not going to go into this too much because I feel like I didn't give it a... a good chance um i watched it after like i did a double feature of the crow and smile 2 yep and when i got to smile 2 i was feeling a little groggy and a little tired um Overall, like, first initial reactions was like, it's okay. It didn't hit with me. But that's funny because I had similar feelings to the original smile.

and it ended up being in my top 10 after a re-watch. And now, like I watched this last night, now thinking about it, I think I liked it a little more than what I gave it credit for, so I am going to re-watch it and give it a second opinion. Um, but at the moment it's sitting at a six. Okay. But I can see it going up. And the last one I watched is a new movie called Your Monster. And...

i'll go in a little more in depth with this one because i quite enjoyed this um After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying yet weirdly charming monster living in her closet. romance movie first a drama second and it's sprinkled with horror elements at the end um and it stars melissa blur it melissa Barrera. Barrera. There we go. Yeah, from Scream fame. Yeah, I enjoyed this movie. It is a romance movie.

And funny enough, it's kind of a true story. Not in the sense that a monster happened, but... Watch the movie and you'll understand how it's a true story if you read up what happened. And it's a pretty... cunty true story which i found out um but yeah i actually quite enjoyed this one man um i am a sucker for

romance movies especially when there's a horror i mean look at my like like spontaneous yeah it's my number one for that year love and monsters was my number two for that year same um i like romance horror movies

So yeah, this one, it hit for me. It didn't pack the punch I was hoping for. But once again, I think I watched this in the wrong space, the wrong frame time of... time of night you know i think i was a little tired watching it so i might have to re-watch this but i gave it a 7.5 out of 10 i think that will go higher okay so yeah that's called your monster so your monster

Yeah. And that's it, man. That's all I watched this time. Okay. I got heaps more. Oh, I thought you were done. No, I was just done with the shitty ones. I just wanted to rattle off. Okay. Go. Okay, so I watched Low Lives from 2024. The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead.

Look, honestly, the best, the lesser about this one, the better. I keep hearing that. I really enjoyed it. I had no idea about it. It's very much best. watched blind. So I won't say anything, but I will say... Where did you watch it? I acquired it from places. Okay. Um, but it might be on TV. I'm not too sure. Right. Um, but yeah, I'm going to search that up. You keep talking. I'm going to search that up. I gave it an eight out of 10. Oh shit. Okay. Well, all right. All right.

All right, all right, all right. All right, next one. Mr. Crockett. Okay. Do you want to do the spiel? You can if you like. A single mother thinks she's found the key to calming her children down a VHS copy of a strange children's program named Miss Crockett's World. However, a darker bloody secret wants to invade their home from inside the tape. It's like a Mr. Rogers type thing, which we never really had here, but very like I saw the TV glowy. Yeah. I thought.

Almost like a Pee Wee's Playhouse sort of thing, which I thought you'd like. But apparently you didn't. Yeah, I don't know. It just didn't really hit for me. Well, it hit for me. I enjoyed it. I liked all the weird puppety monsters, and I liked the creative kills and stuff. And I kind of liked the story. I'm really... I actually... do dig these, like, shit coming out of the TV stuff. So... Yeah. I'll give this another one. An eight.

holy shit as well okay i actually had a pretty fun time at the movies this one i'm not too sure about because it's saying it's from 2022 but maybe it just took forever to come out but i thought it was 2024 uh it's called kill her Uh... Maddie and her friends go on a weekend trip to the woods to plan Maddie's wedding, settled near the camp of Mr. Rogers with no phone signal, and their road trip starts to turn into a bad idea when they start dying and a secret is revealed.

Cool, fun little twist on a slasher movie. I don't want to spoil it too much. I also don't know if it's a 2024, but I'm going to add it to my 2024 list because fuck it. Let me have a look because I'm sure I've seen it. You haven't rated it. Oh, no, I watched Kill Her Goats. That's why. Ah, okay. Yep, again, never mind. This one's fun. It's got a crazy girl in it. That's always fun. Yep.

Look, I gave this one another 8 out of 10. Wow, okay. Yeah, I was just really digging fucking movies this week, dude. Fuck you. I'm jealous. Yeah. Okay. This one, you already know about. This is a movie called Spake No Evil. Oh, okay. So. Yep. I sort of got what was going on more in this one in the first part of the movie. Right. Okay. Which was kind of like I was in the original, like in the foreign one.

I was always a little like, what's going on? Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was a lot more subtle and, and pulled a lot more punches and stuff. Whereas this one I kind of immediately got, so it hit a little harder. And also, like, James McAvoy. Right? Yeah, look, he does a good job. He's just so good. He's just so good. Yeah. Now. Okay, good. There's a now. If it ended where it was supposed to end. Like, if it had the same ending.

Yeah. Because it was almost shot by shot for a lot of it, right? Like, it was pretty close. Pretty much, yeah, up until the ending. Right? If it had ended properly and... Let's say the people who won in the first one, in the original, won again. Yep. Probably a 9 out of 10. I really liked it. But the last 30, 20, whatever it is. Yep. Fuck, it sucked. You think? Fuck. Okay, good. It sucked. It sucked. I really wanted to like this movie more because I did. I really enjoyed it, but...

having watched the original and remembering the subtleties and all that stuff. And yes, this one helped, you know, emphasize things a little bit more for me. Yeah. Because I know the first one hit you hard, right? Like you liked the original. No, I didn't. Oh, you didn't? I mean, I really liked it up until the ending of the first one, and then it pissed me the fuck off so much. Because they won in the first one, right? Let's say.

Yeah. And then you got mad at that. It wasn't the fact that they won in the original. It was the fact... I don't want to give spoilers away. It was the lack of... Action from the protagonist. Yes, yes, yes. I get you. Yeah. Well, I mean, this one had a lot of action from the protagonist. Yeah, but the ending just felt so... America? Yeah, it just felt so Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Look, I'm giving it a seven minus. Unfortunately, it just kind of made it nothing special. Okay.

Like, so as in minus for Speak New Evil remake or American version. Okay. But I think it's well worth a watch, honestly. Like, I'm not ragging on it too much. But, yeah, that ending just, it sucked. It sucked. Yeah. Like I said, if they ended it how the other one ended, but maybe with a little more tension, it would have been good. But alas, it's not the world we live in. No. All right. I watched We Are Zombies.

Oh, okay. Yeah, it was fun. It's a little bit silly, a little bit fucking cartoony. Not every joke lands. I really liked the art piece. Let's say that. Um, but yeah, just, just goofy kind of teen kind of gave me like, uh, what was that New Zealand one? Um, the vampire one. Nah, where they're like a metal band. Oh, Death Chasm. Yeah, it gave me Death Chasm vibes. Not as good as Death Chasm, don't get me wrong. Yeah. But yeah, I like a schlocky fucking movie like this.

Yeah. I gave this one another 8 out of 10. Well, well, well. Yeah, wah, wah, wee, woo. Alright, two more, two more, two more. I'm getting there. All right. Lovely, dark and deep. Oh, I haven't seen this one. Lennon, a new backcountry ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child.

I think I was just in the mood for a spooky movie after all those schlocky funny ones. Uh, and this was, this was pretty spooky. Um. it is a little confusing. It's a little convoluted. It's, it's very like, I don't know. It's just that horror tropey thing of like, Oh, but we're making it so confusing and shit.

where it's like you don't really know what's happening and yeah which i'm kind of getting a little tired of but uh it was still really well made really well acted and uh i enjoyed myself but i'm gonna just give it a A seven on this one. Seven plus. Wow, okay. Jesus. Yeah, I just had a good time. I mean, last fucking show, I fucking hated everything I watched, so. Shit. It's nice. It's nice. I was actually having fun.

Um, alright, and my last one, which apparently I'm the outlier, uh, because everyone else seems to not like this movie very much, but, uh, Never Let Go. Oh. Okay, the one with Halle Berry. Yes, yeah. This is the last one I watched before I went to bed, so it was like all lights out. You know? Big day of watching movies. By the way, I watched all this shit like two days. Fuck me, man. How aren't you burnt out? I don't know. Because I had a good run. I had a good run. Okay.

It wasn't like watching like 20 whole holes, you know? That's fair. This one just hit good. I liked this one. I thought it was real creepy. Yeah. And it was really fun trying to work things out without spoiling things. I was like, is it? Isn't it? Is it? Oh, it is. Oh, it isn't. I'm like, what is, you know? I had super fun with the story. Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I was confused as all pissed by the end. Yeah. Yeah, that's the problem I had with it. But I really enjoyed the ride.

And I chose to believe that it's real. Okay. That's the fun of it because you don't actually know. Yeah, and I think that's maybe where I had a fun time. I feel like, yeah, because there was just bits, so many parts of this where it was just like, what are you doing? You know? Yeah. I wish they lent more into that. I could never pick which way it was going to go, so I was kind of having fun with it. Anyway, I gave this one like an eight and a half.

Okay. So I really quite liked it. All right. And apparently you and Rob, who doesn't really count. Because Rob hates everything? Yeah, because he gave it a five, so he pretty much sucked its dick. But... Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know this director, so... But I had fun with it. Okay. Fair enough, men. To each their own. Oh, this is the guy who did horns. I really like horns. Wait, no, this is Alexandria Aja. Yeah, he did Haunt. Yeah, he's done fucking Piranha. He did High Tension. Crawl.

Okay. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, I don't really... I was just sick. I really like him. This is, like, just his one that didn't hit for me as much. Yeah, I liked it. I liked, uh, homely-looking Barry. Yeah. Um... All right. Anything else? That's it. That's it. Is that not enough? No. You should have done like 11. Okay. I'll watch one right now. Okay, good. Well, while you're watching one, we have to do question of the week. Okay. So do you want to do that? Yeah, let's do that.

Okay, fine. Fuck you. All right, don't worry about it. Question of the week. Question of the week. Here we are. Question of the week for last time. The question was, what is a horror book you would recommend? And the reason I ask this is because I myself have started reading books.

Congratulations. The reason being is because I spent too much of my lunch break at work scrolling on Instagram and I realized the other day that I just waste so much time watching stupid dumb shit that pisses me off. So I... So I decided to read my first book, which was Jaws. I finally read Jaws. And quick little review. The movie is so much better than the novel. I'm being perfectly honest, man. I just didn't really care how the book ended. And now I'm reading my second book, which is...

Fuck me. What's it called? It's your book, dude. I don't know. Oh, man. Do you remember the movie Bird Box? Yes. Yeah, so I'm reading like... Fucking hell. Actually, I know how I can pick it up. I'm reading the sequel to Bird Box. And it is called... Fuck-ing-hell. I apologise for this. Mallory.

That's the one. I apologize. Yeah, I'm reading Mallory right now, which is the sequel, like, what happened after Bird Box. Okay. Because I really liked Bird Box, and everyone else seems to hate it, but whatever. I hate it. No, I didn't mind it. No, you don't. So, yeah. And now I'm just starting to get into books. And I just wanted to know what I should check out. So...

We'll start with the man, Scott Crawford from the Friday Nightmares podcast. I got to mention too, Friday Nightmares podcast, great show, great friends of ours. They just celebrated their 100th episode. Happy birthday. Which is, yeah, massive achievement. Guys, well done. Yeah. Congratulations. One day you'll be just as good as us doing your 275th episode. Yeah. It's a milestone, really. What, 275? Whatever you said. Yeah.

Oh man, where to begin? American Psycho, it is so much more brutal and vicious than the movie. The Troop by Nick Cutter, which has a lot of body horror. The Deep by Nick Cutter. Episode 13 by Craig DeLuis. Slash tag by John Conn. In the Tall Trees by Angela Van Atta. Beta, A Technological Nightmare by Sammy Scott. Fuck me, he's got heaps here. Yeah.

Scott's got heaps. Thank you, Scott, for so many recommendations. Tim's been struggling to read a list of books. How long do you think it's going to take him to get through all those books? Susie Renee says The Swarm. A lot of sci-fi, but some ecological horror mixed in. Best read of the year. Don't watch the TV series before reading the book.

Thunder Twonk says, the ones that everyone else has listed are all great books. So I'll go back to an older classic with At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft. It's really more of a novella, so it's a quick read. oh, hello, but it pulls you in and sets you up for a great story. It's one that helps put down the foundations of cosmic horror, and it's often cited by other great writers and horror directors as a favourite source of inspiration. Sounds good. I like...

You had me at Quick Raid. Sexy Sexy Matt Wood says... I'm not a big reader these days, but American Psycho stands out. Anything by Richard Laman or Dean Kuntz. Richard Lehman. Fucking mad. I think I said that last time. Samantha Day says, I like good old Stephen King. Pet Sematary, Christine, Misery, he writes so well you can see it so clear. Very nice. Adam the Blade. The Blade.

He says, I absolutely loved Max Brooks' World War Z. It was like reading a documentary. That's one I do want to check out. I read that in, like, high school. I love the idea of seeing the zombie apocalypse from so many different people's perspectives. It's about a journalist.

recording stories from different types of people from all over the world. It was a travesty that the movie only really took the title and completely shit on the format from the book. I couldn't recommend anything more. Also, there was a book I read like 25 years ago called City Infernal by Edward Lee about a teenager going to hell and finding it to be like a big city the descriptions of all horrific things happening to people were awesome that sounds cool

City Infernal. I like that. Michelle Pfeiffer says, titles that became movies. Midwitch Cuckoos. Frankenstein. Picture of Dorian Gray. Pet Sematary. Something Wicked This Way Comes. But personally, the short story of Stephen King's The Boogeyman is one of my favorites to read. It's in the Night Shift collection. Okay. Okay. Grumpy Rob Humphrey. Yes. Rob the Hump says...

Rob the Croft. That's good. Grady Hendrix is one of my favorites. I would recommend starting with We Sold Our Souls. All right. Sounds fun. Massey Papandria says, Most things by King and Lovecraft. Zim Vader says, even though I haven't read it, it's Jaws the Revenge. Apparently he explains some questions that the film doesn't, which will either destroy my life or enhance it.

Horror books specifically for Tim? Well, let's just say it rhymes with Gatral Namist. What the fuck? Wait, that sounds like... Yeah, it's a... Natural... Harvest? Yeah, it's funny. Fucking funny. Oh, that's that cum book. Yeah. Thank you for putting it in my fucking head again. And then you gotta put it in your mouth, Tim. Lacey Lou says, go old school and read a, yeah, Christopher Pike book. Okay. I don't know what that is.

And Kevin Nez. Oh, like young adult. Oh. Oh, I gotcha. Okay. Stephen King, Cycle of the Werewolf by Kevin Nez. Very nice. Okay. All right. That is some good, good recommendations. Um, yeah. The problem is like, I want to read like the actual book. I don't want to read it online, like on my laptop. So you have to go to a bookshop and seek these out. Hey, I've got a question for you. Yeah. What? All right.

Question of the week for this time is what is a fictional character's death that you have not gotten over? Oh. And it doesn't have to be horror, okay? I got one straight up for you. You ready? This kind of coincides with next week's episode. Littlefoot's mum from Land Before Time. Oh, shit. That's a good one. Fuck the shark tooth. That still fucks me, man. That movie. Holy shit. If I hear that song, I'll start crying.

Fuck, I'm trying to think. I'm like, what's fucking... I know everyone's going to say Glenn from The Walking Dead, but I thought that was marvelous. Nothing's come to mind, honestly. I'll give you a week to think about it. Yeah, give me a week. Or two weeks even. So many weeks. Nothing? You got nothing? I got nothing. I'm sorry.

Oh, that's okay. That's okay. Alright, so that's your question for next time. Now, it is time to talk about the man, the legend, may he rest in peace, Tony fucking Todd. Let's do it. Feature presentation. And now for our feature presentation. Alright man, we are here to pay our respects to a true horror icon, Tony Todd. Famous for many different things, most people would recognise him of course.

as the titular character of the Candyman movies. Well, the first three, anyway. Yeah. But yeah, dude, he passed away on my fucking birthday. Brutal. November 6, Tony Todd passed away, which is the worst birthday present I can get. Happy birthday. This one just fucking came out of the blue. You didn't hear anything about him being sick or anything like that? Because he passed away from stomach cancer. Yeah, fuck. That sucks. Yeah. That's got to be some painful shit. Right?

Oh, like that. That's funny. Was that a joke? It wasn't a joke, Mr. Mushroom. It was fully serious, but you know what? That is funny. That is funny. This is a sad episode. We're not throwing jokes around. Okay, my bad. I'll shut up. Yeah. I knew nothing about him being ill or anything like that. So when I saw it on Facebook, like, you know when, like, you see, like, a celebrity dying?

and, like, your heart stops for a second, you're like, oh, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what this was like. Yeah. You know, that happened when Wes Craven died, George Romero died, you know, people like that, like... uh odorous from guar yeah odorous sucked yeah that was hard um but yeah really sad that he passed away so we wanted to take this episode to go back

on his filmography and talk about the man as the actor and in his roles that he played. So, first things first, raise your glasses. Here's to you, Tony Todd. who was born December 4th, 1954. He was an American actor, and he liked Buck and Mozart. and was best known for playing the titular character Candyman in the film series from 1992 to 2021, which isn't actually true because he kind of didn't really play the Candyman in the new one. He wasn't actually the Candyman. He was in it.

Yeah, he was like for a second, but anyway. He also played William Bloodworth in the Final Destination franchise. I continued watching those. Yeah, I wanted to, but I think next year we're going to do a Final Destination franchise review. Yeah, nice deal. Just for Rob hungry, Rob the Grump. For all the former, he was nominated at the Critics' Choice and Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. So how cool is that? Um...

Todd's films include Platoon from 1986, Night of the Living Dead from 1990, The Crow from 94, The Rock from 96, Wishmaster Hatchet and Minotaur from 2006. The Man from Earth, 2007. Frankenstein, 2015. Death House, 2017. And Hellfest from 2018. That's just... Like, if you go on his IMDb, it's, like, over 100 credits. Yeah, fuck. On television, he played Kern in Space Trek The Next Generation from 1990 to 91, and...

Did I say Space Trek? You did. I was like, are you having a go at the nerds? I'm like, should I correct? I don't know why I said Space Trek. Star Trek. Space Wars. And Star Trek Deep Space Nine from 1996. And he also appeared in the MTV series Scream from 2019. Which I liked. I liked that series. I haven't watched it. Was it good? I really enjoyed it. If you liked Scream movies, I enjoyed it. Actually, one of the best deaths that I've seen in the Scream series. Really? Okay, that's interesting.

Yeah. Tony Todd was also, get this, you would not believe this, but he was also a prolific voice actor. Was he? That makes sense. Do you believe that? Yeah. I believe it. notably voicing the fallen in michael bay's transformers revenge of the fallen from 2009 okay uh he was zoom in the flash from 2014 to 2023 dark seed Dark side. Why can't they just spell it normally? I don't know, because it's comics, man. Just let it do it.

So Darkseid in the DC Animated Movie universe. And Venom in the 2023 video game Marvel's Spider-Man 2. Did you play that? Yes. Did you? hear Venom talk in that? No, I'm not up to it yet. Oh, okay. Sorry. It's one of those games I've got to finish. Did you know Venom was in it? Yeah, he's on the fucking cover. Okay. Oh, cool. All right. He received a British Academy Games Award nomination for Spider-Man 2. And look, I've never met the man. Mushroom hasn't either. Yeah, I did.

When? When the fuck did you meet Tony Todd? That one time at the Kmart. He was just walking around in Kmart, just randomly? Yeah, he's like, hey, do you know where the lollies are? And I was like, that's funny from you, Tony Todd. And then we went out separate ways. I told you this is a sad episode. I was like, you know, where's the candy man? You're a fuck. Anyway, this is a fact about him. Okay, just one? That I just got off Google. Okay. But according to Google... Okay. Only one of the few.

Yeah. According to Google. Because there's not too many celebrities that would do that, you know? No. Not in these shoes. But in all seriousness, from... a lot of people i'm friends with on facebook who did get a chance to meet him they all said the same thing that he was just a really down-to-earth person really nice and did take the time to talk to them so yeah that's cool that's admirable

It is. They don't fucking have to. They really don't have to. No. No, of course not. And I wish I did get the chance to meet him. Like, there was people, like, I think, like, maybe last year or the year previous to that.

There was, like, somewhere in America where he was doing photo ops with him dressed as Candyman. Okay. That's pretty cool. Dude, I would have been all over that. Yeah, I know you would have been. Oh. i'm a fucking nerd um but yeah man so like what's your opinion on tony todd like were you a massive fan of him or were you just like yeah i know who he is

I think I was more along the lines of I know who he is, but he was always really good at everything. If you need a big foreboding dude, he's your guy. Yeah. He always gives off a really... intimidating presence. I was reading a comic. Like, it's just like, if you want to cast someone as like, that guy shouldn't be fucked with. Yeah. You know, he's a guy.

Yeah, exactly. But I was reading a comment that someone left on one of his posts or one of the posts about him passing away. And they were saying that when they had a chance to meet him, that they found him to come off really... Creepy. Okay. I think that maybe he could just turn that on and just do that. Maybe he's just doing it for just like for shits and giggles. Yeah. Yeah.

Watching, like I watched three of these movies this week. The Crow, Hellblazers, which we'll get to in a second. And another one called The Man from Earth. and i noticed something and now and now i'm like i was thinking about it like thinking about all the roles i've seen him in is he's always believable You know how there's some actors where they make their money off one character and they're kind of that character? For example, The Rock. He's always kind of the one character.

Or Ryan Reynolds. He's always the same character. Yep, definitely. Tony Tobler's not. No. Like, in The Candyman, he played The Candyman perfectly. And then in The Crow, he played... Like, what was he? Like, a henchman? Like, the main henchman? Basically, he was, like, the... Yeah, the main, like... What do you call it? Like, second-in-command kind of thing. Yeah. But he, like...

he was believable in that. Um, in this movie I'll talk about in a second called the man from earth. He was, he was like a kind of like a professor type character. Okay. But I believed that he was. And it got me thinking, I'm like, I didn't give him as much credit as I should have, but watching him now and really thinking about it, he was so good at, like, such a good actor. Yeah.

Like, even in Hellblazer. Yeah, like, you truly believe him in everything he does. Yeah. Which is rare. Yeah, I agree. Really rare. So... And, like, obviously his voice work, like... We spoke about Transformers. I haven't seen Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. I'm assuming you have. Yeah. Do you remember his voice in that? Like, he played the Fallen?

Yeah, it's just like a deep, foreboding voice. Like, surprise, surprise. I didn't know it was him. I mean, let's just talk about the Candyman character for a second, because... Did you hear about like the original plans for the Candyman? Like who they actually were going to cast before choosing Tony Todd? No, who are they going to do? Eddie Murphy. No. He's like, oh, no, it's the candy man. He's coming at the shadows and shit. He's big fucking.

That was gold. I'm not even going to try to one-up that. That was fucking gold. But yeah, now think about it. Now that we've got Tony Todd and we've seen Candyman, there's no one else. that could have done it. And I think it comes down to the voice. Like, you know when the Candyman comes out of the shadows and goes, Helen. Yeah. Like, I can't do that voice.

But it's so fucking perfect. Just that baritone-esque voice that he has. Yeah, it just scares the shit out of you. It does, man. It sends chills down your spine. It's fucking gnarly. So, yeah, like, obviously his role in Candyman is the one that most people instantly thought about when he passed. I was very much the same. But I do have a list here. Okay. Of Tony Todd's top 10 best roles according to Collider magazine. Okay. And I haven't seen all these movies.

I've seen most of them, but you can agree or disagree if you like. Okay. So according to Collider, his number 10 best role was Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen. Okay. Number nine was Hellfest from 2018. You watched that recently, didn't you? Hellfest? I don't remember. I've watched so much, my brain is smush. Yeah, I get that. It's the one where they go to the Halloween haunt and there's an actual serial killer. I think I meant to watch that, but I watched something else. Oh, okay.

Okay. Yeah. I don't remember. I'm guessing this is one of the roles where he was just like a short cameo in it. But yeah. Number eight, we've got Hatchet. From 2006. You haven't seen any of the Hatchet movies, have you? No. Alright, that's another franchise I want to do next year too. Okay.

I think you're going to love it. But his role in Hatchet, in the first Hatchet anyway, is really, really small. It's only like a 10 or even like a 5 minute role. But he fucking kills it. He plays like this voodoo... kind of shopkeeper where he turns people away for taking them on like a haunted boat ride. Okay, that sounds cool. He's fucking hilarious in it. He has a much bigger role in part two.

In Hatchet 2. Okay. So number seven, we've got Final Destination. Yeah. Yeah. Which I mean, like, yeah, he was great in that. And he played like a caretaker kind of character in that, who just had insight on what's happening. Yeah, he was kind of like your exposition man. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. But once again, I think it comes down to the voice. He just owned that role. Did you know that... Do you remember Final Destination 3? That's the one with the roller coaster? Yes.

Do you remember the big devil at the start of the, like, it's like the thing on the roller coaster and the dude's taking the photo in front of it? Uh, no. It's like... It's like the roller coaster is called like the devil or something like that. And there's this big like figure of the devil that speaks. It's like, welcome to hell or whatever it says. That's Tony Todd's voice. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, which is cool. Oh, shit. Are they, like, implying that he's, like, death? Fuck.

Like, he's the devil and he's death and shit? Fuck, I don't know. That'd be cool if they were doing that. That's why I'm keen to re-watch the Final Destination movies. I fucking love those movies. Fuck you, Rob. I do too. I really enjoy the Final Destination movies and I can't wait for the new one to come out. Me too. Number six is a movie I haven't seen. It is Platoon from 1986. Oh, I saw that a long time ago. A long time ago. Number five, we've got The Crow, which we'll talk about shortly.

Number four, we've got The Rock. I've never seen The Rock from 1996. I've also never seen The Rock, and I felt like you were going to, like, gasp at it. At me not seeing it, so. Yeah. No, like, not really. I don't know. It's an action movie, I think. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I have no idea what it's even about. It's got Nicolas Cage in it. They're trying to stop a disease or some shit. Oh, okay. Like a chemical weapon disease sort of thing. Right.

That doesn't really interest me, to be perfectly honest. Yeah, I didn't think it would, but yeah. I thought it might have been one of those action movies you grew up watching or some shit. No, no. All the action movies I grew up watching had to have a horror spin to it, like Terminator, Predator, Aliens, things like that. All right, number three, we've got Night of the Living Dead.

The remake, where he played Ben. Another perfect role for him. Not only does he look like Ben from the original, but... Like, do you remember watching that? Vaguely, but I remember not enjoying it as much as the original. Yeah, I mean, the original's a classic. Yeah. But I quite enjoy the remake too. But yeah, he played Ben in that movie and was awesome at it. Really good. Number two. What do you think number two is?

What do you think number one is? I feel like number one is Candyman, right? It's not. What? Number two is Candyman? Number two is Candyman. Okay. What have we got? Number one. A movie called The Man from Earth from 2007. Okay. So, okay. I kept seeing this movie, The Man from Earth, is like Tony Todd's, like, one of his best roles. And I'm like, what the fuck is this movie? So I clicked on IMDB and I searched it up. It's not a horror movie at all. It's like a sci-fi drama mystery. Okay.

But the story is an impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has... He has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine. Basically, so I watched this. It was on Amazon Prime, I think. It is a low budget movie, like really low budget, but it has a score of 7.8 out of 10. And basically the story is that there's this gentleman who decides that he's leaving, leaving town for good.

Okay, bye. We don't really get an explanation as to why, but all his friends come to his house and they're like, why are you leaving? And one of those friends is Tony Todd, right? Now, this gentleman who's leaving is a professor, and all of his friends are either well-educated people. So they're either teachers, psychologists, professors, whatever.

All his friends come to his house and they're like, why are you leaving? And this guy leaving says, I'm much older than you realize. I'm from the Stone Age. Okay. And the movie is basically like a stage play where it's set in a single location. And it goes for like an hour and 27 minutes, the movie. But... It's basically this gentleman who's saying that he's from the Stone Age, he's basically a caveman, trying to convince his group of friends that I am a caveman and I'm over... What did he say?

14,000 years old or something like that. Okay. And it's just this story of him trying to convince them that this is true. I am that old. And it's just like a big talking movie? Yeah. Yeah, so I watched the trailer, and the trailer's just like clips of them talking. I'm like, what is this? It did not interest me in the slightest, the trailer. But I kept seeing the movie on lists, and I kept saying that Tony Todd...

one of his best roles. And I'm like, I had like an hour and a half free this afternoon. And I'm like, you know what? Fuck it. I've got some bills to pay. I'll just play my phone. I'll have it on the background. So I press play. And I was doing my shit on my phone, but the movie captivated me. I'm like, what the fuck is this movie? And I put my phone down and I was just like engrossed with the movie. It's basically a stage play.

On film. That's actually so interesting. It has, of course, Tony Todd in it. It's got other people that you know. William Catt is in it. Okay. Oh, what's that TV show he was in? I know him from House and Kerry. Oh, yeah. I think I know who. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, The Greatest American Hero. Yeah. That's what he was from. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it also has a guy that I really like, an actor, called... I can never pronounce his name. Richard... Really?

i don't know he's one of those guys that like when you see him you know he was in like casino and deuce bigelow i know him from hatchet okay okay and different like things but yeah um but yeah The whole movie is just like, it's a mystery because you're like, is this guy telling the truth? Is he full of shit or is he actually a caveman that's just grown with the times and learned?

Throughout the years. And become this fucking professor. That is now like. Literally the smartest man. Pretty interesting. But the ending hits. And. It kind of. Hit like.

hit a nerve I'm like holy shit this movie's kind of emotional at the end and yeah it was fucking like like I'm not gonna sit here and say it's the best thing I've ever seen at all it just it just sounds really interesting like it doesn't seem like your kind of movie at all like no that's the weirdest thing because it's not because it's the the dialogue spoken in it is really

intelligent dialogue that would just go over my head. Cause I'm a fucking dumb ass. Yeah. But thanks. But I don't know. I was just really captivated and I just wanted to know where the movie was leading me. And yeah, I highly suggest checking it out. But yeah, the ending happens and I'm like, fuck, it kind of hit a nerve in my heart there. Yeah, okay. But Tony Todd's like the main friend who plays...

I don't know what he is, like if he's a professor or something like that, but he's an intelligent, educated man. Okay. But I fucking believed every line that came out of his mouth. as if he was the smartest man alive, you know? Like you were saying at the start, he's just convincing, dude. Dude, man, like this movie, like...

All credit to this list for putting this movie number one. My number one would, of course, be Candyman. Yeah. But the man from Earth, dude, like, if you want... Don't sleep on it, right? Yeah, it's definitely a hidden gem. That's worth watching. If you've got a spare hour and 27 minutes and you're just in the mood for an intellectual movie that keeps your brain active, then give it a go, dude. It's on Amazon Prime.

Oh, I have Prime. Yeah. And then, like, after the credits were rolling, like, Amazon Prime plays a trailer for, like, another movie and there's a sequel to this movie. Interesting. And it looks fucking horrible. It's like, it's kind of like similar thing, but instead of like psychiatrists and teachers, it's teenagers. I'm like, nah, I'm out. It's like teenagers thinking they're smart. I'm like, nah, I'm done. Yeah. But yeah. And look, you do get an answer.

At the end. That's one thing. It's not one of those. Oh, I love that. Yes. It's not left up to your own opinions. Yeah. You do get an answer. Yeah. So yeah, I highly suggest it, man. Okay. But look, okay. We've got two movies to talk about here. We both watched The Crow, the original, and we both watched a Tubi original called Hell... Blazers. Blazers. Fuck, I was going to say Hellbender then. Well, just because it's as memorable as the title.

Come on, man. All right, well, let's start with Hellblazers. Sure. So here we go. We have a close-knit community here. It's been that way for 50 years. Hey, Sheriff! I get it. You big-town folk aren't too keen on small-town living. I like the quiet, actually, Rick. Because we got plenty of that. Anything new to report? There might be a rabbit coon up in Foxtail Canyon.

Really? I hate to tell you, Joe, but nothing too exciting happens around here. Yeah, that's what they keep telling me. Morning, Bill. I want to make a complaint. About what, exactly? On my property last night, I had trespassers. They were dressed in sheets. Then they started chanting in a gibberish kind of a language. The earth. started to open hey bud look at me all hell's about to break loose

What the hell's going on here, Joe? Some asshole said some fancy words and raised a goddamn demon out of hell! What are you gonna do? We're speaking about Hellblazers from 2022. And this, of course, is on Tubi if you do want to check it out. The story is... to the task of feeding it to feeding feeding it the populace of a nearby southwestern town yes it's a very simple story um it stars it stars

Look, it's actually saw some people. It's actually got a bit of a horror royalty cast to it. We've, of course, got Tony Todd. Yep. We've got Adrian Barbeau. We've got Meg Foster. We've got Courtney Gaines. Who is from... Fuck. Children of the Corn. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. Yeah, he's the one that screams, Outlander! That's a lot. Okay. We've also got John Kassir in this movie, who's the voice of the Crypt Keeper. Okay. And, funny enough, I can't... Oh, Bruce Dern, who's...

Easily, in my opinion, the best character of this whole movie. He's the old man in the fucking wheelchair. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was alright. He was like, I'm gonna shoot you. Yeah. And then for a brief period, we've got Billy Zane. Very brief at the start. Yeah. Longer than The Candyman. Yeah, I guess so. Ish. Yeah. I, look, okay.

This is my second time watching this movie and I don't hate this movie. I feel like you're... I'm just butting in right now because I feel like you're going to be the negative Nancy on this movie. Sure am. I'm... I'm not. I'm like, I kind of dig this movie just a little bit. I think it's got some redeeming qualities to it. Okay. But go on, Negative Mushroom. It's...

It's only negative in that I have really nothing to say about it. It's just like a meh movie. Like, it wasn't of bad movies. It's on the more amusing side. Can I remember what happened? Vaguely? Do I ever want to watch this again? Not even a little bit. Would I recommend it to anybody? Probably not. Like... That's fair. It... It slightly felt like I wasted my time. How's that? Okay. Like, it was not worth...

the time it took to watch it. I'll say that. Look, look, that's fair. Has that. I get that. Has that. I get that. But as far as like, I've seen worse. It was amusing. A bit of a derp story, but whatever. Was it better than The Crow? The, like, yeah, because it didn't make me mad. Like, I can give you my score now. It's not...

Yeah. Do it. It's five. It's five. It's middle of the road. It's all right. Okay. So not as bad as I thought. No, I don't, I don't hate it, but just like for, I was watching it for a Tony Todd tribute, you know, and, and it just wasn't that much Tony Todd. Yeah. That's what bummed me out. I was like, if he was in it more, I probably would have liked it a bit more, but I was watching it specifically for him and he's on the frigging cover. Yeah. And I was like, I felt gypped is what I felt.

Yeah, I get that. I get that. And that's the thing with Tony Todd. In his later years, he was very much a cameo type actor. Yeah, and that's fine, but just don't put him on the fucking cover. Yeah. Like... That's what I mean. Billy Zane got more screen time than he did. Yeah. You know, so... I get it. I fell. Look, I...

For a to-be original movie, I enjoy this for different aspects. I like the cast. I really like the cast. Like all characters in this movie, I find them likeable. Also, this is a Christmas movie, which I'm very, very... much in the season right now. I'm watching as many Christmas movies as I can, which is another thing that I'm doing. Also, Tony Tog, Tony Tog, Tony Todd likes eggnog, which...

Made me like him much more because eggnog fucking rules. You're a nog boy? Yeah, I fucking love eggnog, man. Oh, so good. It's my favourite Christmas drink. Okay, do you like booze it up or... Yeah, dude, I fucking... I put like a shot and a half of...

of vodka and a shot and a half of Bailey's and then pour eggnog over that, over some ice. Holy fuck. Put some cinnamon sugar with that sumbitch and god damn, that's Christmas for me. Do you have like, is there an actual good variation of... eggnog uh for us here in australia there's like two bottles there's just like normal original or you can get the bunderberg rum which is

not rum, but it's got like a flavor. I think it's like a more of a smoky flavor. I go with that one. Okay. Yeah. I was going to say, is the Bundy rum flavor worth getting? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you should get it. Put some cinnamon, like get some cinnamon sticks and use that as like a stirrer. I'll just like proper cinnamon. Okay. Yeah, dude. Yeah. That's, that's Christmas in a glass. Um, I don't actually know how.

how they make eggnog like traditionally i just get the bottles at the supermarket just fill it with alcohol and yeah yeah fair it makes look it makes me merry so yeah i'm sure it does The scene in this movie with Bruce Dern describing what he saw to the sheriff cracks me the fuck up, man. The whole dialogue exchange between the two characters is so funny to me. Because, yeah, Bruce Dern's just this entitled veteran who doesn't take shit from anyone. Yeah.

And he's talking shit to the sheriff. And I just find it hilarious. Look, the biggest problem with this film is... The setup takes forever. Yeah. And then when we finally get some action, it's literally over in a flash. Some of that bad CGI stuff. And then, like I said, Tony Todd kind of goes out like a bitch.

I mean, he goes out like a hero, but yeah, he gets taken out pretty quickly. Yeah. I was just like, oh, that's really what we're doing with him? Okay. Pretty much. So look, we can't really speak about a Tony Todd tribute week. with this movie since he's only in it for five minutes. Yeah. So, look, I gave this movie a six. I gave it a five. Yeah, look, that's fair. I think as a Tubi movie, I think it's serviceable. Yeah. So...

I've watched more angering things on Tubi before, so for sure. For sure, for sure. All right, well, let's talk about one that Tony Todd is in for a good chunk, and that is, of course, the original Better Crow. People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back. To put the wrong things right. Is that gasoline I smell? Victims, aren't we all?

from 1994. The night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven and his fiance are brutally murdered by members of a violent gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the mantle of the crow, a supernatural avenger. Yeah, boy. yeah i don't know what to say i i just i just love this movie i i gathered that by the start of this episode yeah like i i could just use this whole review to just like rip more shit on number two

We're doing a Tony Todd tribute right now. But I'll put it aside. Look, this movie's fantastic. And Tony Todd is fucking fantastic casting. in it like watching this sort of with my my tony todd goggles on yeah i was just like fucking he's badass dude like he's just like you fucking you're like hey man i need this done and you like believe he's gonna get that shit done Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Like, he is, like, top henchman. He fucking smashes his role. Yeah. Look, I agree.

And he's definitely one, like, you said this earlier, he's like a character where you don't want to fuck with. Yep. And he's believable in that. Even though he dresses in a suit and wears glasses and stuff, he's still... looks like um because it's just like they find out they find out the crows the connection to the like the supernatural under like whatever it is like yeah and he's like okay cool I'll get a fucking sniper

Fuck you, bud. Yeah. Yeah, true. True. I just want to say my piece on The Crow, since I haven't seen this movie in probably over 20 years. Okay, yeah. And watching it this time, it was like watching it for the first time, because I really remembered nothing of it, besides obviously the main scenes of what he looks like and all that stuff.

Obviously, because you used to dress up as him all the time. Yeah, like every weekend. Yeah, yeah. I will say this first and foremost. This movie is dated. Sure. I agree. Which isn't a knock to the movie because I got over that. There were some random parts in the movie that I'm like, okay, where like, why does he put on face paint?

I never really understood that fact. It's not really a point that I'm critiquing because it's fucking cool. I can tell you. Yeah, tell me why. He looked at the tragedy and the comedy thing. I get that. But then he thought, oh, I'm going to paint my face. Yeah. I've got time to kill. Let me just paint my face. Everything he does is sort of poetic and artsy and it's all for aesthetic.

Right. He's got time to paint his face, but he's also got time to do guitar solos. Yeah, that's the other point that I'm like, okay, I'm guessing he just really misses playing guitar. So... I think what it's supposed to... It's supposed to show, I mean, like, look, I think at the end of the day, it was like, let's have him play some cool guitar solos. But like in the terms of the story and Eric Draven, I think it's supposed to show him.

processing things okay like he's suffering he's hurt how does he express himself through poetry and art and guitar Yeah. Do you know what I mean? It's the first thing he grabs. It's how he's processing all that trauma is what I took it as.

Yeah, okay. It's like, he can't say it in person. He doesn't need to, but he can play it. Yeah. Look, it's not a knock on the movie. I thought the movie, like... almost like a first time watch I fucking had a blast with it I really enjoyed it and that's like I think that's where like you know it was also the time of Batman and super villains and

not superheroes and stuff, like early that kind of shit, where it's just like, I want to scare these dudes. What would scare them? You know what I mean? Like, how do I make myself look freakier? I will... I will become the face of tragedy. I will confront them to their faces with the tragedy they cause to me. Yeah. Is how I... is what I think the reason for his makeup is. I get it. I get it. You know, like watching this movie, like every time like Brandon Lee...

was on screen and you could see like, especially him in the trench coat. Yeah. I just, I just wanted to go back and watch sting in WCW. I bet. I was like, I was like, I bet. I said it to Mrs. Mushroom. I was like, I bet Tim's watching this and being like, man, I'm going to watch WCW. Yeah. Because I was watching WCW. Guess what, Tim?

If it wasn't for this movie, Sting would still be fucking hanging ten, bro. I know. That's why they call him Crow Sting. Yeah, I know. That's what I mean. Like, fucking... If this movie didn't happen, Sting wouldn't have been Sting. Do you know how, like, the character of Sting the Wrestler became the Crow? Nah, go on. Because Scott Hall said, like...

He was, Sting, like, the wrestler was like, oh, I think I need a change. Ew. Yeah. He's like, hey, yo, have you seen The Crow? That's exactly how it went down. They're like, have you seen The Crow? So it is a direct ripoff of the movie. WCW were just like not scared. No. To just do fucking like... uh what do you call it like ip stuff dude if you if you listen to like the old um theme musics from wcw yeah most of them are just ripped off versions of real songs like ddp was um

Smells like teen spirit. Just ripped off. Yeah. It's fucking crazy, man. Like, it's amazing how they got away with it. But yeah, like... Yeah, the movie was... Like, while I was watching it, I was thinking about the remake, and I'm like, this movie is just cool. Where, like, it's so, it's very, like... goth rock all that shit where the new one is like they kind of made it like electro i'm like it doesn't work it really doesn't and also just like i think

Brandon Lee's so fucking magic right out the gate. Yeah. You know what I mean? He's just like, he's got the fucking looks. He's just charming. He fucking nails his role. Like, the crow has fucking charisma. Yeah, for sure. And I feel like Eric Draven in the other one was just like a mopey little rich bitch. He was, definitely. And just like everything, it was like really quiet. He didn't... And like I said, he wasn't like...

going after anybody in particular, he was just going after one dude and killing everybody in his way. Yeah. Whereas, like... This one, he's like, it was you, it was you, it was you, it was you, and you're all motherfuckers that led to this city being this way, and... had a hand directly or indirectly in her death. Mm-hmm. So, yeah. Yeah. And, like, I was researching, like, facts of the movie while I was watching it, and there was a fact where they're like...

It said exactly where Brandon Lee was shot. And then, like, the scenes where he was already dead that they filmed after his passing. Yeah. Like, the scene where the kid... goes to the apartment and you see the crow there and it gives the kid a hug, that's not obviously Brandon Lee, that's a stunt double.

It's fucking, it's, it's crazy that they like still completed the movie and did such a great job. Like with everything that happened. Yep. Yeah. So, and like right at the end when it's like for Brandon. I said for Brandon and Eliza. Who's Eliza? I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, but either way, man, it was kind of like... It was still impactful when you remember what happened. Like, this was his fucking, like... Like, I don't know if it was his only movie, but, like...

You know, it was his last movie. Yeah. Yeah. And it was... Maybe it's just because of that, why I like it so much, but... And all the story behind it and stuff, but... It just makes it hit harder for me. Oh, for sure. For sure. It says here on IMDB he's got another credit on the year 2000. Okay. I don't have time to really look into it. But anyway, I'm guessing it's something that the director filmed like years ago and then just put it in the movie.

Like, as a tribute? Yeah, yeah. Something like that, I don't know. But yeah, no, the movie's great. Tony Todd fucking kills it as he's... I honestly, like... The big bad of the crow was cool and all, but I don't know. I kind of thought that Tony Todd was a better antagonist. Like you think they should have switched? A little bit, yeah.

I don't know why. I don't know. He's more intimidating than the actual bad guy. Yeah, I feel that. But, I don't know. That's just me. Overall, the movie's fucking great. I really had a fun time re-watching it. There was a little inkling of me that I'm like, I kind of wouldn't mind watching the sequels to The Crow. You can. It doesn't get as good as the original. Yeah. But you can if you really want to see Edward Furlong be The Crow.

I just want, I want to know the story of like, is it just a different person? From memory, I believe so. It's not, it's not Eric Draven again, is it? No, I don't, I don't think so. Correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. Well, anything more to say about the crow before we wrap up? I don't know. I just love it. It's all good. I guessed. And that's it.

Did you watch this while dressed as the crow? Yeah. Yeah, of course. You know what? You have your fucking Tom Cruise jokes. I'm going to have my... you dressing up as the crow joke yeah i was jerking it i was just wearing the i was just wearing the blazer right i did like a little like crow like the eye Yeah. On my like cock eye. Painted it white with fucking makeup and shit.

Little fucking smile across my balls. So you give this movie a 10 out of 10? I was like, look at him. He's crying. Shelly's dead. Anyway, yeah, 10 out of 10. What was her name? Shelly. Alright, so you give it a 10. I'm giving it an 8.5. Nice. Respectable. Yeah, like, it's not like a movie I fucking... cream my pants over. I didn't go through my teenage years dressed as a crow.

All right. Either way, man, like Tony Todd's fucking killer. Yeah, dude. And I think this is where we're going to wrap up the show, man. But rest in peace, Tony Todd. It was a sad fucking day. And now... My birthday is fucking ruined now because I'm just going to be thinking about Tony Todd dying on my birthday. Thanks, Tony Todd. It was your last gift that you left us with. Yeah, thanks. My birthday is ruined now. Thanks. I appreciate it. Bye.

But here's to Tony Todd, man. May he rest in peace. Cheers. Sad days. Anyway, look. That concludes the Dummies of Horror podcast for this week. We want to thank each and every one of you guys for joining us. Go and support our friends on the Pattern Room podcast. They can be found anywhere. This show can be found. We do have a Patreon page open and running. Got it. What's funny? I popped, but too late.

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Yeah, we really, really would. Right. Next episode. Let's discuss that quickly. Because next episode will be in December. Yes. And me and Mushroom were brainstorming some ideas, and I think we came to an interesting idea. And since it is the month of Christmas, and, uh... Christmas is best when you're a kid. Me and Mushroom are going to go back into our childhoods and talk about TV shows and movies that we used to watch that are...

Kind of creepy now when you think about it. So we've got a lot to discuss because we've been talking about Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark, shit like that. All that good 90s kids horror shit. Yeah. Yeah, and like movies I used to watch that were creepy or had some form of horror to them. I've got a few movies that I'm going to suggest. Yeah. Or a movie that looks sweet and innocent and then you...

And then you read up facts about it and it's completely fucking disturbing. Like a movie we're going to be watching next week called Milo and Otis. Okay. And if you know, you know. And if you don't know. But. You me. If you don't know, strap in and get ready. Why strap in? But until then. My crow straps. Mushroom. Mushroom, go back and have fun dressing as the crow. I will. You're meant to say, don't talk to me. Shut up, leave me alone. Alright guys, here's to Tony Todd.

We'll see you on the next episode. DIP! I'm trying to be mysterious.