Need a little Bauhaus to get the party started. Padded Room Radio is back on the air. My name is Darian. I am the guy that does the thing that you listen to on a regular basis about horror stuff. I'm having a beer with my main man, Dusty. What's up, Dusty? Oh, nothing much. Been a couple weeks. Yeah, been a couple weeks, buddy. Just one. Just one. Was it?
It felt like forever. There was a gap there. I came back for a week and left for a week. That's right, yeah. I'm trying to tease you along and make you realize that you do need me. Okay, yeah, you're playing hard to get is what you're doing. Exactly. Okay, okay. Can't give up the goods too easy because, you know. Bit of a whorey, you know. You have a reputation. That's what you got. What's going on, big dog? Oh, nothing. Just happy to be home. Yeah, buddy.
Been traveling. Been traveling. Went out to Texas. Went out to Texas. Dallas, Texas. I heard you got almost stuck in a tornado situation. Oh, yeah. Yeah. we first show up and it's raining all right and uh look at the local news and they're talking about wednesday we have tornado warnings in effect and i'm like oh All right. We don't have those in Nevada. What do I do? Yes. So I told the Red Queen, and she says...
You better go down there to the lobby and ask them, what the fuck do you do if that tornado comes? I was like, I'm not going to do that. I'll just ask around the locals. They didn't seem to be too concerned about it, so I kind of just played it cool. But I was really kind of...
you know, watching the weather real fucking close. I would imagine so, yeah. So what happens if the tornado comes close what exactly what are you gonna do you know like i'll just follow you what do you chain yourself to a tree is that the plan or just get under underneath a car right what's the protocol if you're
in a car, per se, and you're running, and there's a tornado around. I don't know. You want to drive towards the tornado? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. Right on, man. Well, I'm glad you're back. You had fun in Texas, I assume? Yeah. A lot of cool shit. Right on, right on. Never been there before, so it was good. Okay, very cool. What did you miss here? Absolutely nothing. Typical Nevada weather.
which I was happy to get back to. Bright and sunny during the work week. As soon as the weekend hits, rain, cold, a little bit of snow and sleet and hail, horse shit. Just enough to ruin your days off, is what it is. That's not as bad as hot, sultry... Sweating nuts, you know. Yeah, I get that. If you're used to hot, sultry, sweaty nuts. If I lived in Texas or anywhere that's humid, I'd have to probably own stock in Gold Bond nut powder. Sure.
Just keep them caked. Just keep them caked all the time. You get out of the shower and powder them up and then midday powder. You get like a swamp ass callus or something like that. You build up a tolerance. I wonder if dudes in human climates have a regular nut sex than we do because, you know, your fingers... Somewhere there is a college study. Some poor intern is counting the wrinkles on purpose balls. That is disgusting. You're out of line, dude.
All right, well, all that notwithstanding, we've got some horror business to get into. We've got a brand new segment we're rolling out tonight, Dusty. All right, I'm super excited. Me too. So let's get ready for that. But first, we've got some horror news and some listener mail and some other. Here comes some horror news straight at your face. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Horror news.
What you got there, big fella? All right, so Kit Conner and Will Poulter. I'm not quite sure who Kit Conner is, but Will Poulter has been in a few things. He was in, what's that? Oh, gosh, I can't remember. But he was in Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Okay. And anyway, they are going to be... acting or starring in a medieval zombie horror movie called Rapture. Okay. So filming for this project will take place in Hungary and is set to begin later this year.
So what the tagline says is set in medieval England in the year 1348. The story alights on Lansbury Abbey, a remote stone masonry in Yorkshire, which houses ten monks bound by a life of strict routine and devotion their fragile peace is disrupted by the arrival of a messenger a man with haunting news from outside world who rapidly shows symptoms of mysterious illness
A virulent plague is spreading through the land. Marked initially by hemorrhagic fever, it turns its victims into revenants, restless undead beings. As the contagion closes in, Lansley Abbey becomes the battleground. Desperate outsiders beg for refuge, while the infected threaten to overrun its walls. The monks are torn apart by a moral rift between those who believe they must care for the sick and those who want to protect the centuries of knowledge safeguarded by the monastery.
As death is fully unleashed, so too is a brother's capacity for an extraordinary act of altruism and ruthless betrayal, forcing them to confront the ultimate question, what does it mean to be human? So we're getting a medieval zombie movie. I don't think we've had one of those yet. It's kind of a new twist on the genre. I like it. Yeah, might be pretty cool. Did you ever read World War Z, the book? I didn't read the book, but I know I've read about it, that it was basically a...
A series of news clips and interviews. There's a spinoff called World War Z... I think it's like... case studies or something like that. And it's like different zombie outbreaks throughout history leading up to World War Z. It might be a graphic novel now that I think about it. But one of them was like a medieval zombie outbreak thing. It's pretty cool. Yeah, I like the idea. Yeah, me too. time frames and stuff. When I was a kid into the comic book realm, Spawn was always
One of my guys, and when they went in a medieval spawn, it was always pretty kick-ass, and they had a Viking spawn, and it was cool. They went through all the different eras of shit. Might be pretty cool. Yeah, I'm into it. Alright, so the next one I've got is the sound release date set for a rock climbing horror movie. So basically what it says is the sound. Project hails from the Candyland's director, Brendan Devine, who also is serving as a director, writer, and producer.
In the film, a world-class group of climbers is granted access to the Forbidden Wall, a mysterious rock wall previously closed for decades. Among the climbers is Sean, whose grandfather made an ill-fated attempt 63 years earlier. During the group's ascent, they come face to face with a malevolent force that quickly turns their expedition into a harrowing battle for survival, hundreds of feet above the ground.
Yeah. We'll see about that one. Get down from there. Yeah. That's what I say. The whole thing about climbing and that kind of shit, just don't go. Get down from there. What are you doing? What are you, seven years old? Get off the monkey bars. Yeah, as high as I go. Yeah, I'm good with that. You got a lot? No, I'm good. Wife needs a picture hung? I can do that? Right. Get down. I don't even hang Christmas lights on the top story. I try not to. They'll pressure me into it, but I try not to.
And that's it. All right. I got some good news for Jason Harrell. Alamo Drafthouse is offering limited edition Jaws 50th anniversary popcorn buckets. Okay. They're pretty silly looking. Is it a big mouth? It is. You put the popcorn in the mouth and you eat it out of the shark's mouth. All right.
I don't know how much actual popcorn you can fit in that thing. Probably not a lot, but that's how all these novelty popcorn buckets are, right? You get basically a small popcorn with your $15 bucket. Yeah. Maybe it's more expensive. I don't know. You have to ask Jason. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the going rate is these days. Speaking of things I don't care about, Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock are confirmed for Practical Magic 2.
Okay. I... Never saw the first one. I know it involves witchcraft. Yep. And I think they get somebody to fall in love. Alright. Or something. I don't know. Maybe this time around they're going to be... I don't know. I'm going to put you on the spot right now. Okay. Nicole Kidman. Alright. Sandra Bullock. Alright. Still hot or not? I haven't seen them. Well, Nicole Kidman I think I've seen on something. Yeah, they held up. I'd still...
I don't know. I haven't seen Sandra Book in a while. Bird Box, I think, is the last thing I saw her in. Okay. She has had some work done. Not that that's a bad thing. You know what I really don't like is when these aging actresses do that cheek thing. They put those cheek implants in. The fillers? Yeah. No, they put boob implants in their cheeks, but it freezes their face. Yeah. It changes their whole look of their face.
It's very unsettling to me for some reason. It gives them like a mongoose kind of a thing. Right, like they can't, their eyes are stuck open. Yeah, it's terrible. It's terrible. I don't know. I'll have to investigate that further. Images are out for The Conjuring Last Rite. It's just images and it really just shows Patrick. What's his name? Wilson and Vera Farmiga on a stage doing some kind of lecture.
That's all you get so far. It's going to be the last one. I was not mad at The Devil Made Me Do It. I kind of like the idea of them actually having a living adversary. Yes. Because remember in that one, there was like that witch character. Right. But, you know, the guy was supposed to be possessed, or he wasn't possessed. Yeah, but the witch character. Yeah, I agree. I'm into it. I'll see what's going on there. Here's something I am kind of excited about.
Event Horizon prequel comic series. Oh, that should be cool. Dark Descent launches in August from IDW. So is that supposed to take place on the original crew? I would imagine so, yeah. Okay, that'd be cool. Yeah. That'd be really cool. I'm into that. Hopefully they can make something out of it.
Lastly, this is kind of depressing, something very near and dear to my heart. Mixtape Massacre and Float from the Deep product lines end June 13th. Oh, no. Yeah. How many add-ons do they have to mixtape? Oh. We've got one. I got them all. I think like nine. Oh, crap. Yeah, there's quite a few. I've got the one. She bought me that for Christmas. I think last year or the year before. Yeah. And it's got the werewolf chick in it. Oh, yeah. It came with the little Nintendo cartridges.
Nope, I didn't get that one. Oh, okay. It was the original set, but it had the one kind of bonus content in it with the werewolf. Yeah. What do you call it? The Heroes, and if you get too far, if they hear you too much, they'll cheat in your werewolf. Yeah, yeah. So that's the one I've got. All right, well. What do the Nintendo cartridge ones do? It's a different thing. It's like...
I don't even remember. Oh, but that's another one. Yeah, it comes with like little cards or like Nintendo cartridges. And I think they're like town events or something like lynch mobs rise up against you and stuff like that. It's pretty cool. But you've got until the 13th to get on that if you're interested in that, my friend. Speaking of which, we've got a little listener mail headed at us.
Listener mail. Yes, sir. Let's kick things off with our main man in Alabama. Alan's in the house. What's going on, Alan? What's going on, dude? I see Mr. Darian, you're the Ravens. You got me. I see the shitty families. Yeah. A lot of shitty families in horror, like I said. Honestly, I gotta go with the... The Firefly family, it's hard to say. Even though they gather pretty dysfunctional and will kill you. Yeah. the family from there next and tough one I don't know I think Barbara and uh
That's a kid sister though. You gotta fuck with her. I'm gonna go Roddy Piper and they live is number one. Kane and uh... Well, I'm going to be Joshi Ventura and Predator is number two and Xenia is number three. There's a lot of them. There is. And that movie you're talking about was Rey Mysterio Senior. Oh. He was the... I haven't seen it. I can't find it now. Anyway, I didn't get around to watching Immersion Therapy, but it's definitely on the list.
I tried to watch that movie called Spookies. That was stupid. Anyway, that's all I got. I'll talk to you later. Bye. Have you ever heard of the Spookies? I've seen it. I haven't seen the movie, but I've seen the tag or the thumbnail or whatnot. It's on Shudder. You can watch it with the Joe Bob Brigg commentary. You can watch it as many times as you want. That movie's not going to make a lick of sense to anybody. Is that like Mexican...
Is it El Spooky? No. Okay. No, it's just Spooky. I think it's The Spookies. Okay. Bananas, a couple of people are looking like a group of, I guess, party goers get kicked out of a nightclub. So, like, the leader of the partygoers just takes them to an abandoned house, and they're going to continue the party there. Well, of course, there's like a... some kind of undead necromancer living underneath it, and a weird werewolf kid running around. We got, what do you want? What do you want?
They're dusty. I got a snake woman. I got an exploding Grim Reaper. I got a... They kind of look like... Frogs, but with like razorback things on them. Little gremlin things running around. Try to make sense of this movie. You cannot. I defy you to do it. It's impossible. It is ridiculous. I agree with you, Alan. It's stupid. But, uh...
No, I don't think there was even any boobs in it, which is strange. Well, there might have been now that I think about it. All right, anyway, here comes Tom Hardy. What's going on, Tom Hardy? Heyo! Heyo! Petted Room, how's my favorite degenerate this week? What's up, big dog? I hope everyone is doing good. Hey, gotta get in real quick. Yeah. Don't know who you are in the education department. I feel like it's going to be one of those ones where I'm like,
I should have fucking got that one. It's pretty absurd. But as far as the meat hooks, the shitty family, as soon as you said that, my initial thought was the loved ones. Like you had mentioned before, that was my initial idea. That was my number one. Fucked up family. I'm going to give you some other ones. Just, you know, I'll give you three on Mika. Okay.
For number three, the family from the people under the stairs. I can't remember the name of that family. That's some fucked up shit right there. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Sawyer's, of course. Backbite, remember, they're always beating, uh, Leatherface there and stuff. And then for number one, how about the family from fucking Rob Zombie's remake of the house? How about any family? Rob Zombie remade The Howling?
Halloween. Oh, Halloween. I just had my fucking knee surgery. So I get laid up. I got to catch some shit. So let me get into that. Let's go. House by the Cemetery by Lucho Fulci. Another one doesn't make sense. We've all seen it. A little fucking batty crazy, but fun. Then I decided, you know what, I gotta dive into... Black Sunday.
That's a good one. It's also known as, I guess, Mask of Satan or The Mask of Satan. Okay. It seems to me to be a much better title for the flick because it really is about, like, the mask of Satan that's pounded on... Anyway, this is the first time viewing for me. It was alright. I want to say it's like 1960 or 59. It's very early. Still black and white.
And then I got to catch Don't Torture a Duckling. One of those movies I've always kind of danced around and never could find it when I wanted to see it or forgot about it when I was looking for something. Yeah, so, uh, uh, Lucio Falci, um, Giallo. Not bad, you know, as far as giallos go. A little convoluted. I had to do a little research on it on the interwebs there and kind of found it.
I guess a much deeper theme than the flick. Really? Okay. All in all, I'd say it's okay. It's an early giallo, so you kind of know what you're getting into with that. You know, a lot of... JP! You knew it. You knew it was coming. Oh, no, I didn't. Never mind. That car was a lot of... A lot of inappropriate stuff. Commentary, I guess, about maybe a talent culture that...
Didn't quite land for us here, especially now, you know, like 40, 50 years fucking later. Yeah. And then, you know, I went on to catch Inferno, you know, part two of the three murders. Yeah. Okay, now we got you, Paige. All right. Have you seen Inferno? I have not. It's pretty... It's not as good as Suspiria. But it's very... You could tell that he had a serious budget on that one. Really ramped it up.
Gee mother Oh, well, yeah, yeah Anyway, I was saying yeah second in the three mothers trilogy I say man I remember liking this one a lot more. I remember it being more streamlined, more consistent, more having a straight kind of... But, uh, still enjoyable. Still fun. And then, you know, no dive into Dario Argento flicks is complete without getting into fucking his most batshit crazy of all. Phenomenon. Fucking phenomenon. Yeah, buddy. Still, I gotta say.
It's got everything you fucking want and you don't even know, man. I know, I know. It's got every fucking... What do you want? A homicidal monkey? You got it. She can control fucking insects. Mugs? You know, you've got a fucking mass killer. You've got Supernatural. You've got a monkey with a straight razor. You've got a fucking doll. It's got fucking everything, man. That movie, every time I watch it, goes a little higher on my fucking top of Darry Argento flick.
That's fair. That's fair. Hope all is well. Love you, like family. Bye now. Love you too, Tom Hardy. That movie is bananas. And the best part about it is you could tell that they had finished making the movie. but they still had like probably $20,000 left in their budget. So, like, the last ten minutes of the movie is nothing but explosions. Explosions. Just explosions. Another one. Make it go boom. Boom. Boom. And another monkey running around with a scalpel and a diaper. Dario, I love ya.
That's great, man. Right on, Tom Hardy. He sure went down the rabbit hole of Italian horror the last couple weeks, hadn't he? Since he came back from Italy, he's like, I'm going full force. Full on. Italian horror. Let's go. It's really... I've got to really be in the mood for Italian horror. I've got to be in the mood for wanting to read something. Because I, like you...
I've spent many times in the past reading the third grade level. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm constantly trying to go fast. Yeah. And then... Look what's going on on the screen. No, that's me. Trying to get through this week's feature. Pause. Wait. Oh, shit. And then he said, okay, unpause. Okay, no, it's like pause. God damn it. All right.
Right on, dude. You got anything for Alan or Tom Hardy? Thanks for calling in, guys. Absolutely. Love you guys. Stay Italian, man. If that's your jam, you can watch most of these movies with subtitles. But the voice acting isn't always up to par. Right.
That kind of is another thing. The only thing that doesn't bother me watching it dubbed is like a Godzilla movie because it just makes me laugh. Oh, yeah. It's hilarious. It's just funny. It's hilarious. Really, any kung fu movie I think is pretty good. I agree. I agree. Alright, let's get ourselves into a movie here, Dusty. Sounds good. Gracias. As I'm sure you can figure out by that trailer.
We're doing the Devil's Backbone from 2001. Those Spaniards are a chatty bunch, aren't they? I tell you what, they don't have a lot to say these days. They got 7.4 stars on IMDb, Dusty. Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Marissa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, and Federico Lupe. Lupe. This one's rated R. Not sure why. Probably just for violence, I imagine. Yeah, I can't think of anything else that was... I mean... There's no boobs. No. There's a lot of... A lot of...
questionable language. Yeah, I mean, they talk about facts and stuff. Yeah, well, we'll get into it. Yeah, anyway. I guess we're right back at the Spanish Civil War, where most of Guillermo's stuff takes place. Must be a very influential time in Spanish history. I don't think he was even alive. No, because I was in like, I don't know, 40s. 40s, yeah. Alright, well anyway. Maybe 30s, I don't know. Something like that. But we got a
bomb being dropped in the middle of the night and it comes right out of the bomb bay doors and plummets to the ground and it lands right in the middle of a orphanage school situation and one kid happens to be standing pretty close to the impact zone but the bomb doesn't detonate So the kid gets knocked on his ass, but everything else is okay. And the bomb is just sticking right out of the ground. Oh, yeah. The whole time. Um...
Good news, didn't detonate. Bad news, one kid got knocked on his ass, and he's got, like, blood on his face, so that's pretty scary stuff. While all that's going on, we get a very windy kind of romantic monologue about a ghost is a moment in time trapped to repeat itself. That's what a ghost is. So, much out there. Very, uh... What do you call it? Poetic, I guess. I don't know. I feel like somebody's trying to get in my pants with this stuff. Dusty.
Now we're going to cut to, I guess that was a flashback, now we're going to cut to present day, which is still 1930s Spain during the Spanish Civil War. We got a young man being dropped off at this orphanage. We're going to find out it's an orphanage. Bomb is still sticking up right there in the middle of the courtyard. But don't worry. They defused it. It's been defused.
Whatever that means with 19s, 30s, 40s technology. I don't know. I think they just came and tied some ribbons to it from the looks of it. But, yeah, it's been diffused, so it's good to go. But I guess nobody... wants to be bothered to move the damn thing or maybe the kids like playing around it or something. I don't know. It's a Spanish orphanage, dude. and this guy drops his kid off uh his name the kids i'm gonna say probably nine years old nine ten somewhere in there name is carlos um
The guy dropping him off is his quote-unquote tutor, which I guess means his teacher. And via some dialogue, we're going to find out that Carlos' dad was just killed in the Civil War. Carlos doesn't know that yet, which is particularly nasty. and basically the tutor is dropping him off here with the headmistress and he's wanting to just kind of Alright, you worry about him now. I'm on my way. He did pick up some gold. Yeah, he got some gold from her. Now, I am not too...
dialed in on the Spanish Civil War. I was going to look it up and get more knowledge about it, but it seemed to me that it was the Civil Wars between De... People that wanted to remain a democracy and communists, right? So...
And it seems like the communists were winning because they kept calling them the Reds are coming and that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah. And I think that the orphanage lady was running a resistance cell. Sure. You know, a rebel cell, basically. And they were funding their efforts. with this gold that she has. That's what I gather. That sounds good to me. That's farther than I got, so we'll go with that. Now, the lady that runs the orphanage, her name is Vera. She's old.
Um, not a lot of actual, like... Adults here. We have Vera. We have her one of her teachers. Dr. Casares
We have Hasito. I thought he was like the headmaster. He was the doctor. He taught classes, too. Did he teach classes? I think so. I thought he was like just the doctor and the so-called... the dad of the place like basically i don't know i don't know he does something he serves a purpose there yeah uh and then we have uh conchita who is like a teacher's aid we have her boyfriend jacinto who's kind of like a handyman Um...
Another teacher with the glasses. What was her name? I don't remember what her name was. The portly lady. Yeah. We see her like three times in the movie. We got people coming in and out of here. Jacinto's friends are a couple of ne'er-do-wells. They show up and... Just help out with odd jobs around the place, and everything's running pretty smoothly so far.
The tutor abandons Carlos and just hauls ass out of there. Carlos in a very sad scene tries to haul tries to chase him down as he's leaving in his car dropping all of his comic books and everything and then dr casaras comes out and kind of consoles carlos uh this is A horror film, but it's much more of a... i assume it was kind of like a more drama yeah maybe coming of age kind of a deal but we're gonna get into the horror side here very quickly because as soon as we get carlos back inside
He's standing in the courtyard, and he looks to his left, and he looks inside of one of the buildings, and what he sees, staring back at him, is a ghost kit, basically. skeletal kind of decaying a little bit has like a constant cloud of like embers or something floating around him you know what i i was wondering about that too and then you I don't want to jump ahead, but the blood keeps flowing out of his head. And I think
When we found out where the body is, that makes a lot more sense. I first thought he was on fire the whole time, but that's not the truth. I think I did too, yeah. Okay, so that's kind of creepy. He looks, and he doesn't get quite freaked out, but he's like, eh, it's a ghost kid. Then he turns, and the guy's gone, so he's not too worried. From there, we get our first encounter with the rest of the kids.
We're going to meet Galvez and Owl. They're a couple of cool dudes and they're wanting to check out Carlos' comic books and see what he brought with them. But then we're going to meet the neighborhood prick. Yep. A guy by the name of Jaime. Jaime the prick. Jaime the prick. And he just jumps right out there and...
You know, starts calling Carlos a fag and go fuck yourself and all this stuff. Takes the comic book. Takes the comic book. Typical bully behavior. It's what it is. And he's one of the bigger kids, so it makes sense. And he's got a couple of lackeys that follow them around like they're going to do something. Carlos stands his ground, gets roughed up a little bit, but he doesn't give up Jaime.
When Dr. Casares questions like, what happened to your face? He's like, no, I just fell down. I had an accident. Carlos is getting a little cred with the boys. We get him tucked in for the night. Unfortunately, he gets bed number 12 there at the dormitory. The dead man's bed. Right. Oh, shit, man. Apparently, bed 12 is where a previous kid had been, and said kid has since disappeared. Now, there's a lot of speculation as to what could have happened to this kid.
He might be, quote unquote, the one who sighs, which is the local ghost that haunts this place. Or he might have just ran off. Ever since the night that the bomb hit, he was never seen again. A lot of people think he just got scared and hauled ass out of there. A lot of people think he might be under the bomb. That's what I was going to say. Like the bomb. Direct hit. Just smushed him down. Right into the ground. But again.
The bomb's been defused. Why don't we get the fucking bomb out of here? I don't know how heavy this son of a bitch is. It's pretty damn heavy. Do something with it, man. You know what I mean? You're right, I'm sure it weighs a couple hundred pounds at least, but... Didn't look like they had access to a skid steer back there. This is going to sound racist, I know, but I'm sure there's a donkey around there somewhere. Gotta be. Maybe even wearing a sombrero. I don't know.
That's pretty nice. Don't be a racist. I'm just laughing at what you said, sir. It's all good. Now we get to our first night here at the orphanage. Lights out. Apparently, everybody gets a pitcher of water, or there's one every third or fourth bed, something like that.
Carlos wakes up in the middle of the night because he thinks he hears something walking up and down the aisle. So he pops up. He's like, what the hell? And then as he's walking around trying to figure out what's going on, the pitchers of water are just falling as he's walking, like poltergeisty stuff. Uh, Jaime and a couple of the other dudes wake up and they're like, bro, what are you doing with all the water?
He's like, you're just falling down, man. I don't know anything. So Jaime is like, okay, well, you've got to go refill the water then. Otherwise, they're going to think that we just had ourselves a water fight in here. So he's like, all right, I'll go refill them. You've got to sneak down across the courtyard into the kitchen where the water... Pump thing is fill up the water things and then bring it back
And watch out for the one who sighs. The ghost kid. Because he's out there. And he'll find you. Get a switch if he gets caught by. Yeah. I'm more worried about getting beat up again. Carlos, though, stands his ground again. He's like, yeah, I'll do it. I ain't scared, but you're coming with me. I can only carry one pitcher. So Jaime's like... Okay, fine. I'm not scared either. Yeah, we'll both go. So they get very tactical with it. They sneak out of the dorm, heading across the...
courtyard there, past the unexploded bomb. They have to hide from somebody. And this is where Jaime says, look, if you put your ear to the bomb, you can hear it ticking still. They stopped to do a little tit lurking because Jacinto and Conchita are about to get done. They're doing a lot of face licking.
In there. Yeah. That must be a Spanish thing. Must be a Spanish thing, yeah. I don't know. I don't want to know what my wife's face tastes like. Yeah, especially with the makeup and such. God damn it. No. They stop, they check them out, then they make their way into the kitchen. They get into the kitchen, they fill up Jaime's water pitcher, they fill up Carlos's
Jaime's on his way out, and then he kind of like fucks Carlos up. Now we can hear somebody coming down the stairs because they're making a lot of noise. Jaime Halls asks, abandoning Carlos in the kitchen Carlos can't get out unless somebody kind of pries the door open for him like because it's chained shut So it's kind of a two-man job to get in and out of there. Jaime, like, hauls ass on him. Carlos has to go hide somewhere in the kitchen until this mysterious figure fucks off.
I'm a little confused as to the architecture of this place, but apparently underneath the kitchen is like a weird... catacomb area yeah and so what i was trying to figure out what it was it looked like kind of a a cistern where you'd catch water okay to use it maybe and that's what they're pumping okay If that's the water you're drinking, that's fucking disgusting.
Especially after we find out what goes on. But I think that's where they're getting the water. They're out in the middle of the fucking desert. I'm thinking they're getting the water out of the cistern so they catch the rainwater and it fills up that. Or a well or whatever it is. And that's what they're drinking. It kind of looked like a dilapidated swimming pool. It did. It was all brown. Nasty. But it looked like it was built for that purpose.
uh he has to hide down there and then he has another encounter with the ghost kid um he kind of whispers his name and then he says something about there's a lot of people are gonna die and then he kind of vanishes into air The mysterious footsteps upstairs vanish, which is cool, so Carlos is thinking he's going to make a break for it. He gets out back to the kitchen, gets through the door, but then he has to reach back in and pry the water pitcher out.
Checks his perif. The coast is clear. He's making his way across the courtyard. And then from the second floor, that motherfucking Jaime. Motherfucking Jaime. With his slingshot. And his posse. And his posse. Open fire with their slingshots. and shatter the water pitcher, and out comes Jacinto to kick the shit out of Carlos. Fucking assholes. Big time. You really should have seen that one coming. Oh yeah. You know. Don't. Don't. Yeah. No. Go fill it up yourself. Fuck boy.
Yeah, Sinto comes out, kicks the shit out of Carlos, and then he gives him a big speech about how anything happens to you and I get blamed for it, you motherfuckers. Get your ass back to bed. So he goes back to bed. Next day, everything's kind of cool for a little while. Again, Carlos is getting fucked with by Jacinto and his boys. We're going to realize that Uh...
Jaime has like a major league crush on Conchita. And there's a lot of kid drama going on here. And this goes on for probably a good hour of the movie. We got kids cheating on their homework. We got kids sneaking peeks at Conchita. We got weird late night hazing rituals where we all get up and smoke cigarettes. Don't just hide me. Well, Jaime's this budding artist. Yeah, and he wants to trade a picture of a naked girl that he drew, which is absolutely different.
Dog shit. And it has the vagina going the wrong way, which is something that somebody pointed out. I was getting a chuckle on that one. The pussy's the wrong way. How would you know? You've never seen it. Stupid. But the kids are kind of forming this impromptu family, and Jaime is slowly growing to respect Carlos, so they're not fucking with him as much. Excellent. While that's going on, we have...
Jacinto and his ne'er-do-wells are kind of plotting and scheming. Jacinto knows that there's like a stash of gold. Yeah. And he wants it because he has this wet dream of, well, Conchita has a wet dream of moving to Granada with Jacinto and buying a farm. and they just need to figure out how to get the gold and get the fuck out of there. And Jacinto's disgusting friends are hanging around, and they're kind of in on it, but they don't want to make a move until they know where the gold is.
I don't think they really particularly believe him. That's a possibility. You know what I'm saying? They're like, you motherfucking bullshitter. There's no gold here. Because it is on the down. It's like... They're hiding the gold. Oh, yeah. We find out that later, I think, to fund the war effort. Yeah. So they don't really fucking believe this guy either. Right.
But at the same time... But it's kind of too hard to not try. And there's a lot of people coming in and out of this. Talking about supplies and things like that. While that's going on, we have a...
strange relationship between Dr. Casares and Vera. They have bedrooms that back up to each other. And they are secretly in love. Well, Dr. Casares is in love with Vera I would say so like he comes in every night and he like reads poems loudly Because he knows that she can hear it on the other side, and she kind of swoons over it a little bit. We also find out that Vera has a prosthetic leg. Yes.
And it's a very 1940s-style prosthetic leg. It looks like it's made out of solid lead. Yeah, the top part for sure. Fucking shit, man. And the calf is made out of, like, hickory. Yeah. How do you... Dude, that's got to add, like, 90 pounds. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? holy she's got to be in great shape get around with that thing uh and on top of that she's having a bit of a thing with Jacinto uh he's like a young buck and she's an older um She's in her sexual prime. I don't know.
She had to be in the late 50s or 60s. Yeah, but she still needs a dickin', I suppose. And I don't think that Dr., what's his name? Casares. Casares could have... Can't get it up. Remember when he was talking to the boys about the devil's backbone? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get to that in a second. But she's getting dicked down on a regular basis by Jacinto. He's kind of a prick about it.
She's like, hey, be quiet while we're fucking. I don't want Casares to hear it. And he's like, why? He can't do it. He knows that I come here every night. And I don't know why he would do that. He's laying it to Conchita, right? He's doing it to... Steal a new key every night. That's what it was. That's right. He helps her with her leg. Put her leg back on. And then he swipes a key to go look for the goal. That's right. Because she's got this big key ring that has the...
50s janitor style key ring. Every key to the freaking school. Yeah, like a medieval battle weapon. Exactly. That's what it was. And then he goes and scours whichever area he's got a key to that night. Very cool. In the meantime, the boys, or at least Carlos for that matter, is learning more about the ghost kid, He Who Sighs. At one point, he breaks into Jaime's locker, and because Jaime is such an artist,
He breaks in and pulls Jaime's sketchbook slash diary thing and starts flipping through it. And towards the middle there's a picture of what appears to be a kid with a hole in his head and some red stuff. So he's like, oh, okay, this is he who sighs. Jaime obviously knows more about what happened to this dude than he's letting on, so we've got to get to the bottom of that somehow.
And there's a lot more drama here between Jaime and Carlos as they kind of overcome the bully bullied relationship and kind of all the other kids kind of like they start to rely on each other more than they do um like uh the adults because there's not that many adults and you know There's a fucking war going on, too. Now, about this time, Dr. Casares, and I'm jumping over a lot of plot points here because a lot of it is completely inconsequential.
Dr. Casares makes a supply run to the local town and when he gets there he finds that the local I think the local communist, the Red Army. So... whatever faction was opposing... I think it's the commies. Okay, so the commies are there, and they're questioning the local townspeople. And the ones that they find to be sympathizers, they're lining up against a wall and summarily... At this particular occasion, one of the guys that gets executed happens to be the tutor that dropped Carlos off.
So now Dr. Casares is like, oh, fuck. This shit's getting real here, boys. I think we need to think about doing something. So he hauls ass back to the orphanage. Lays it all out. He's like, bro. We have got to get the fuck out of here right now, because they just questioned a bunch of people at the nearby town. They're probably going to be headed this way. Who knows what those assholes gave up? Probably us, so...
Let's just pack up as much shit as we can and we'll get the fuck right out of here. At this point Jacinto kind of loses his shit. It starts with actually... well actually like he overhears this and he's like hey what about me what about Jacinto and we kind of learn a little bit more about Jacinto via some like
backstory and dialogue he was one of the boys and he never had like he never like no nobody ever came and got him so he just stayed on once he got became of age he just started doing work and then he just never left That kind of puts a whole new paint job on that weird sexual thing. Right. Because she had to have been his teacher when he's
12, 13 years old, yeah. Exactly. Hello, Mrs. Robinson. Guillermo, you can't be doing that shit. Well, that's not even the most disgusting part of the movie. What about the... Why the movie's called Devil's Backbone. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean... That's what he was selling in the town. Did you realize that?
No, I did. Oh, you were selling the... Yeah, you were selling the fetus rum. Oh, gross. No, I thought it was just that... Oh, God. Oh, God, that was disgusting. So, am I to assume then that, like... So they bring shipments of stuff in, and they take shipments of stuff out. So he's just putting... alcohol in the fetus jars letting it like
Past your eyes. Yeah. Because he was telling the kids, he said, or I think he was telling Carlos, he says, you know, people think that this, explain what the devil's backbone was. Basically, these babies that were born with their spine on the outside of their bodies. Yeah. And then he keeps them. Yeah. These fetuses. Stillborn fetuses. Stillborn fetuses. He puts them in the jars.
fills it with rum, and then he sells the rum for medicinal purposes. Oh, that's so gross. He poured himself a shot. And he says it helps with impotence, hair growth, other bullshit. So he's trying to take a slug of it because it helps you keep your pencil straight. Not so much there. Disgusting. Ew, I didn't realize that's what he was selling. Yeah, he says, I take this to town and I sell it to people for medicinal purposes. Ugh, gross. What is he doing with a bunch of fetuses to begin with?
What are you doing? You're running a sideshow or something? He's a doctor. Okay. He's a doctor. No, you're right. You're right. I don't know. So, you're not going to need this. Well... Can I take this? I mean, you got plans for that dead baby with the backbone on the outside? Yeah. Gross. That's so nasty. I mean, you've got six other kids. Do you really need this one? I'll take the dead one. You don't need it, right? Okay, I'll take it. And chances are...
Three or four of them are going to die during the Civil War anyway. I'll come back for those. Gross. Gross!
There it is, dude. That's how we're going to make our first million. Exactly. Dead baby boobs. Dead baby boobs. Wildly inappropriate. Anyway, yeah, so... that's what's happening they're packing up uh Jacinto loses his shit he's like oh are you just gonna leave me you're just gonna take all these little kids and you're just gonna leave me and fuck me huh and then uh he like starts getting in Vera's face and she wraps him across the face with uh her cane
He comes back and he's like, I know there's gold here and I want it. I'm not leaving without the gold. So this is when Kassaris comes down with a shotgun and he's like, no, fuckface, you're leaving right now. And then he walks him out the front door. And it's worth mentioning that this orphanage is basically right smack in the middle of a giant fucking desert. And I think the nearest town is like...
10, 12 miles away. Yeah, the girl said that if she started walking now, I mean, after all this stuff happens, she started walking now, she would be able to get to town by tomorrow afternoon. So it's got to be... Like a day away. So however long that is. Yeah, so maybe even like 20 miles for that matter. But yeah, bad business. Off goes Jacinto. Everybody gets back into kind of fight or flight mode. Everybody's packing up whatever they can. They got this big plan about...
We're going to load the truck. There's much stuff in the back. We'll put as many kids as we can in the front. We don't know exactly where we're going, but we can't stay here kind of a thing. While that's going on, Jacinto has come back. and has taken the gas cans and is basically getting ready to blow the place up. He's putting gas all over the place. Conchita catches him.
and she's like, what are you fucking doing, you asshole? Because he knows where the safe is, though. That's why he filed him up there, because he's trying to blow the safe out of the wall. There is a safe, and he's assuming that's where the gold is, which is probably a safe assumption. No pun intended. Get out of here. So that's the plan, and I think he just wants to hurt as many people as he can. Conchita tries to stop him. They get into a little bit of a tussle.
She roughs her up a little bit, but then he manages to throw the cigarette down, which starts the fire. She held him at gunpoint, remember? Yeah. You're not going to shoot me, bitch. Yeah. He kind of gets in her face, and then the gun goes off. and kind of wings him on his shoulder, and then he drops a cigarette, and the fire starts. This starts the fire, which ignites the gas cans. Unfortunately, the portly teacher with the glasses comes in, and...
Trying to fan it with her. With a blanket? Yeah. Sweetie. Come on now. Vera's like just trying to keep everybody out of there because she knows it's about to go.
Casares and the kids are running around what's going on I don't know Jacinto goes hauling ass and about that time kaboom but then not only this fucking asshole not only was he trying to blow the safe but he took made like a line of gas going back to the car so the car blew up also and killed probably six or eight of the kids easily on top of that killed uh uh the fat lady um wound well it mortally wounded basically killed vera yeah um but uh Everybody got pretty fucked up by this big black.
Um, everybody's fucked up. Uh, Casares is... Knocked out for a while. Bleeding profusely, but he's up and he's like, this motherfucker, he gets a shotgun. In the meantime Jacinto has hauled ass back to the town and gotten his two ne'er-do-well friends and they're pretty sure that there's gold somewhere in this wreck. So at this point we're down to Casares. Al's in grave danger because he's been mortally wounded.
Jaime's okay. A bunch of the little kids. Yeah, the little kids are okay. Carlos is okay. His first buddy, whatever his name was. Galvez. He traded the comic book to. Yeah. He's okay. But there's dead bodies everywhere. Everybody's hurt. Casares is trying to, like...
He's hurt just as bad as everybody else, but he's trying to walk people through the medical procedure. At the same time, he's got a shotgun, and he's fully expecting Jacinto to come back. So, yeah, just wreckage everywhere. At this point... Jaime finally comes clean with Carlos. And he's like, look, here's what actually happened to he who sighed. His name was Santi. Me and him snuck down to the kitchen one night. Santi got caught, but I didn't. They snuck down to the underground. Yeah, the...
catacomb where the well thing is. Santee got caught but I managed to hide. Jacinto came down and started pushing Santee around and then Santee Kind of accidentally, but kind of not on accident. Like hit his head on a brick. Stone pillar. Just kind of like. put a big fucking hole in his head basically killed him yeah uh he spasmed around a little bit then Jaime watched as Jacinto panicked, tied up Santee and dumped him in that cistern or whatever that was that well.
So that's gross. But now we know that Santee is still here. We know where his body is. And this is where Carlos kind of grows apparently. He's like, okay. Okay, I'm going to go down there and I'm going to talk to Santee. And I'm going to find out what he wants and maybe he can help us, you know, something, anything. So he grows a pear and he goes down to the cistern and he has kind of like a man-to-man, well...
Amanda goes. Yeah, but he kind of pusses out a little bit. Like, you see Santee, and the blood is kind of floating out of his head. That's what I was cool, like, when you find out that the body's down in the well. And why the blood is... And it's cool that it's like... Yeah. The water effects that the blood's going through. Yeah. It is physical. It makes sense why the embers are floating around him and stuff, which is kind of cool.
It was a cool look of ghosts. It was. Guillermo del Toro does a lot of cool creature effects. Yeah, yeah. Uh, Especially with kids. Yeah. I noticed. His eyes, at one point the eyes were, one was pointing the other way. Yeah. And you've got the contacts that make him look very creepy. Very creepy. Yeah. Uh, So eventually he goes down, he grows a pair, he goes down there, he talks to Santee, and Santee's like, I need Jacinto. Bring him to me.
So he's like, oh, well, okay, I'll try. So he goes back up. He tells the other kids what's going on. At this point, Jacinto and his two clown friends come back, and they just start rummaging through the place trying to find the goal. Kids try to hide from him. Unfortunately, at this point, Dr. Casares expires. He's been internally bleeding this whole time. He missed the part where... What's her name? Casita? Oh, Conchita. Conchita. Yeah, she goes... Went walking off. Yeah. You know?
She was going to walk to the nearest town to get help. And remember Jaime gave her that little cigar ring as a little token of his affection. And then she went walking off. Here comes Jacinto. Coming the other way. A real dick move. He's like, look. Just say you're sorry and get in the car. And she's like, fuck you, asshole. And he's like, say you're sorry and get in the car. And she's like, nope. And he's like, my friends are watching. You're making me look like a bitch.
Just say you're sorry and get in the car. And she's like, no. And then he stabs her to death. And then he takes the little cigar ring off her, which is a real dick move. so they come back they're looking for the gold they can't find it anywhere they find the kids though and they round them up and put them in what looks like a closet or something like that like a pantry or something lock them in there
It's now nightfall. They still haven't found the gold. They got the safe open. They know where the safe is. Yeah, they got it open. It's just a bunch of papers and pictures and shit. This is where Jacinto finds pictures of him and his family when he was a kid. And I think we're supposed to feel sorry for Jacinto. Fuck him. That's pretty nasty. See, this is where things get really ooky spooky. Now, dead Dr. Casares, who is up in the attic area,
is now a ghost, and he also haunts this place. So after Jacinto locks all the kids in the pantry, the ghost of Dr. Casares comes down and unlocks the pantry and lets the kids out. Well, his buddy, remember they squeezed him out the window? Yeah, but he broke his ankle. He broke his ankle, so he couldn't unlock the door for him. Yeah.
But then Dr. Casares goes, unlocks the door. Comes and opens it up, and he tells his buddy. After they were making their spears. Yeah. I remember that. Tells his buddy, you guys, get all the boys together. You guys gotta be super brave, and you guys gotta... take care of this there's like okay well okay let's do this so they get this big idea now they know that Santee Juan Sucinto down at the pool area there.
So they kind of come out. They go down to the pool area, and they make a bunch of hasty weapons out of, like, broomsticks. Broomsticks, yeah. And they sharpen them into pikes, which is pretty cool. Yeah, they make some spears. And it was kind of rough.
That one teacher was giving them a lesson about basically Neanderthal killing a man. And they said they all have to work together because it's such a big creature. When they work together as a team then that's how they hunt the man. Not one guy can give up. Right. So they're all down there and then at this point Jacinto's two friends just haul ass on them because
They've had enough of looking at dead kids and shit. So they're like, fuck you, asshole. And they go all an ass out of town. And this is when Jacinto finds the fucking gold. It was in Vera's wooden leg. Son of a bitch. he takes it he wraps it all up in a like a rag and ties it to his belt and he fills his pockets with it and he's ready to go and then out pops uh carlos and jaime and they're like hey
You son of a bitch. And he's like, you little shits. And he goes chasing him down to the cistern area. And then they all pop out and stab him with their... Spears and then Jaime well eventually they push him into the water and then Santee is down at the bottom, and he, like, grabs him and holds him down there until he returns. Yeah, he's trying to unlock, or he's trying to untie the gold. Untie the gold. Just hold him down. Yeah. And then Santee holds him. Grabs him. Yeah.
And then the next day, once the sun comes up, all the boys... start walking towards town and the ghost of dr casaras kind of walks him out and then that
Kind of sad, but it's the end of your movie there, Dusty. Yeah. What did you think of The Devil's Backbone? I liked it. It was a good show, right? Yeah. It's one of those sad ghost movies. Right. It's a coming-of-age type thing, like you said. Kind of remind me of, you know what, Stephen King asked with... you know it and everything when they're all together as kids you know work together you know so that was good i liked it if you want to see this in modern day with like a mexican drug cartel
We were talking about that a couple weeks ago. Tigers Are Not Afraid. Tigers Are Not Afraid, okay. Very good show. But prepare to maybe... Maybe chop some onions while you watch it. I'm not getting emotional. I just gotta chop these onions. Leave me alone. Pretty good show. I watched it on Prime. I think I have it on Blu-ray around here somewhere. Yeah, I got it on Prime too. Right on. Check it out, inmates. That's going to start us off here on Guillermo del Toro Month.
We're going to keep it going with the weird sex stuff next week, so prepare for that. It's only going to get ickier and stickier from here, boys. Let's take us a little break, Dusty. All right. Hey, inmates. If you like what you hear, head over to the Padded Room Facebook group and support us through the patron link with a small monthly donation. Check out the T-Bellon link at paddedroom.podbean.com and grab some t-shirts. Thanks for listening and enjoy the rest of the show.
And we're back, Dusty. Yep. Are you ready for a brand new segment? I'm so excited. I can feel. I can hardly contain myself. I can feel it's brimming in the air. It's going to burst at any second now. Here we go. All right. Rotary. This segment is now called Road Reads. Now here's something you didn't know about Dusty and I. We both have Audible accounts.
And we both have jobs that require us to be on the road quite a bit of the day. And in doing so, we both listen to a lot of audiobooks. Truth. So, this isn't going to be an every week segment. It's going to be more of a... whenever we have something to talk about kind of a segment. I'm going to start it off this week, my friend. I finished a book called Chaos from 2019. Okay. Chaos. Charles Manson, The CIA, and The Secret History of the 60s by Tom O'Neill and Dan Pippenbringer.
Okay, so let's put our tinfoil hats on. So is this fiction or non-fiction? This is non-fiction. Okay. This is non-fiction. Let's put our tinfoil hats on here for a second. Just for a second, Dusty. All right. Here are a couple of things that I learned from reading this book. Number one, the house on Cielo Drive, where the Tate murders took place, was quite the hedonistic party spot. Oh, yeah. And the LAPD and LASO...
recovered quite a few tapes that were never made public and have since been destroyed. Now, what was on those tapes is speculative at this point, but the consensus seems to be some kind of a Sharon Tate sex extravaganza yeah they kind of alluded that in uh once upon a time in hollywood you ever see that i did yeah so these are the facts now let's get back to charles manson and the murders um
Okay, so this is where it gets a little weird. Manson had a very strange... relationship with his parole officer because he had been paroled many times and this time, the time he got out that left him free in order to start the Manson family, he had a parole officer out of Mendocino County. And this guy was like, he was basically a member of the Manson family. Okay. Manson had been picked up many times on weapons charges. Um.
reckless endangerment, DUIs, parole violations, every single time they let him walk. Now, Here's where it gets a little, we're going to go off the deep end a little bit. At one point during this myriad of parole violations, his parole officer recommends to him that he move to San Francisco. This is the summer of 1969, the summer of love. And it all boils down to a place called the HAFMC, the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic.
So basically what you have here is a medical clinic that opened in the Haight-Ashbury district during the summer of life. You're basically treating non-stop STDs because kids are just fucking the shit out of each other. People coming down from various psychedelic drugs. people having all kinds of crazy Other shit that they just can't deal with. It was basically started by a couple of Berkeley medical students and one actual doctor, and they did it as a non-profit thing, right? Okay.
Okay, now at this This H-H-A-F-M-C, there was a study taking place. Excuse me. that we now know was being funded by the CIA groups that were like shell companies. Is this the LSD thing? Part of it, yes. So that wasn't actually at the HFAMC. That was at a crash pad that was right around the corner.
where they were basically paying grad students to just be there and hang out, and anybody that needed a place to crash, let them in there, and they had a bunch of cameras and two-way mirrors and stuff, and just document every single thing that happened there i have heard about that okay now we're now we're getting into the meat and the potatoes here so but what it really boils down to is we're not i'm not
Nobody's insinuating that Charles Manson was in any way affiliated with the CIA, or that anybody that quote-unquote handled Manson was affiliated with the CIA, but there is definitely a possibility. And what we do know is that the helter-skelter motive for the Tate-LaBianca murders was basically concocted by Vincent Bugliosi, who was the prosecutor against me.
okay manson being the nutbag that he was just kind of went along with it because it was ooky spooky and you know nobody ever said it wasn't why they did it but at the same time there's a lot of reasons why they could have did it that didn't involve any of that not For example... The house on Cielo Drive. The Sharon Tate murders was formerly owned by a guy named Terry Melcher, who was a record executive at a big record company who had promised to produce Charles Manson's music.
Now, I've heard his music. It ain't that good. But it ain't that bad, either. It's very... waiting room music you know it's just kind of times yeah there's a lot of hippie music that was like that yeah it's it's not bad but i mean he had a decent singing voice and he could play a guitar but I don't know. The thing was is that Terry Melcher kind of... And then you get into Dennis Wilson, who was the drummer for the Beach Boys.
who kind of took Manson under his wing for a little while, and they were staying at his house for a long time. But Melcher promised to produce a Manson record, went back on it when Charles Manson refused to be produced. This is my song. You record it as I did it. You put it out as I did it. And that's what needs to be on the record. And everybody's saying, it's okay, but we can make it a lot better. But he's saying, no, this is what it has to be. And they're saying, no, we can make it better.
So to make a long story short, Melcher backs out of his deal with Manson. Melcher was living at the CLO house. Since moved out, Unbeknownst to him? Unbeknownst to Charles. Charles then sends his cronies there, conceivably to kill Melcher, but instead finds Abigail Folger, Wojciech Wieckowski, Jay Sebring, and Sharon Tate. But unfortunately, they went a little...
They went a little batshit crazy with all the pig and the fuck the police and all that shit and blood all over the place. There is evidence now to suggest that the bodies were moved after the murders. And it's possible. I'm not saying Manson didn't do it. Or that his family didn't do it. All I'm saying, and this is where things get really interesting. That series of events, the Tate-LaBianca murders, kind of threw water on the whole psychedelic movie.
Like, kids were really into psychedelics in the summer of 69. And then all of a sudden, everybody was fucking each other. Because they blamed it all on the LSD. They blamed it all on the drugs. And all of a sudden, all that good times became very, very dangerous. Now, that could have been a CIA op. I'm not saying it is. Oh, so you're saying that they did that and they started blaming it on it so they could get a handle on the drug thing? It's a very real possibility.
So they set it up so they'd have a reason to come down hard on the drug thing. Well, they didn't really come down hard on the drug thing, but that kind of made everybody... Like, if you look at the Manson family, You got a prom queen.
You got a Texas A&M hopeful football stud you got a bunch of just regular Midwestern kids that are like you know on their way to college and all of a sudden they get doped into this fucking cult thing and now they're out killing people That is splashed all over the news. And drugs is right in the middle of it. Now all of a sudden, all the kids that were on their way to hate Ashbury are like, whoa, maybe this isn't what we thought it was.
And that kind of just peeled back the entire psychedelic movement right there. Um, Just something to bake your noodle, man. Yeah, it seems possible. It is possible. There's also a couple of CIA operatives that were operating inside of the HFMAC. conducting studies of their own. There's a lot of very coincidental things that happen within this series of crimes. So if you want to have your noodle baked the way that mine has been for the last week and a half,
Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the 60s. You can get it on Audible for one credit, or I think if you don't have any credits, you can pay $12 for it. I think it was about eight and a half hours. That's not very long. No, but it'll take you a while though. Yeah, it takes me a minute to get through them. Yeah.
Half hour each way at work and that kind of shit, you know. I can usually rock it through them when I go on my around-the-world trips out to Dayton and Fernley. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was definitely interesting. Definitely kept my interest. If you're at all curious about the Tate LaBianca murders, they were fucking gruesome. I like the twist they threw in in the movie. They didn't occur because Yeah, you know, right.
They intervene with the blowtorch. If only it was that easy. Yeah, there's a lot of variables in that equation, dudes. But it's a good read if you feel like putting your conspiracy theory hat on for a minute. Or if you're just curious about the Manson murders. I did at one point read Helter Skelter also, which is Vincent Bugliosi's book. According to Tom O'Neill and Dan Pippenberger,
He did a lot of self-aggrandizing in that and really blew some things out of proportion that didn't need to be... Just to make it more shocking? Yeah, just to make it more dramatic and sell more books, probably, I would say. Anyway, if you guys have Audible subscriptions and want to tell us what books you got to read, we would love to hear about it.
Or give us some recommendations if you're interested. I was looking for recommendations. Yeah, me too. I'm always asking, did you read anything good lately? Yeah, I've been kind of on this true crime kick lately. I went through one of those. Yeah? I went through one of those. a couple years or maybe about a year ago yeah a year and a half uh whenever mindhunter ended right so then i went on these
true crime things and read the books by the guy, what's his name, the guy that the Miner is about. He wrote a couple books about real life cases he worked and serial killers and stuff like that. google and all these things yeah he'd talk about these serial killers i'd google them and and i talked to the wife i said
You know, hon, I'm really hoping that the government isn't monitoring my Google searches lately. I've been doing a lot of serial killer Googling lately. I'm pretty sure I'm flagged. I'm flagged for something. I don't know what it is, but it's not good.
But I did go through a true crime thing a while back. I like that stuff. Yeah, me too. Either way, inmates, let us know what you think of that. In the meantime, we're going to tell you what movies we got to watch this week in a segment called What Are You Looking At? What are you looking at? So I'm trying to get caught up on this season of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs. It's daunting because he takes an hour and a half movie and makes it almost four hours.
I did watch Phantom of the Opera from 1925 with Joe Bob commentary. There's a lot going on there, dude. A lot. Like, First off a lot of the props that were I guess this is how they did it back then but a lot of the props were just furniture and stuff that the actors and actresses owned. So they would just bring him from their house and use him in the movie. Sorry, honey, I got him on the couch for a couple weeks. Exactly right. What are we supposed to sit on? The floor. You're not.
But Joe Bob breaks it down. We did the full scoop on it, I think, about a year ago. Phantom of the Opera, but he breaks it down the way he always does. It's still a good show. Lon Chaney's makeup in that, I think, is still pretty gnarly, especially considering he didn't have like Liquid latex. He just had to contort his own face. Yeah, he taped his nose up. He put hooks in his eyes and wires and shit. Nasty.
Nasty business. But that's all I've had time to watch this week, Dusty. What do you got? That's understandable. Four hours. I had to watch it. The Phantom of the Opera. Yeah, I had to watch it in installments. Oh, I'm sure. What do you got, man? Got a couple things in. We finished Happy Face, the series about the Happy Face Killer. Okay. It was pretty good. They obviously set it up for a second season.
It got some slow parts, but I wouldn't even consider it really horror. It was more like a true crime kind of thing. Okay. i mean they talk about horrendous things but they never kind of show anything so it was it was decent um Then I got to check out Dead Mail that you were talking about a couple weeks ago. What do you think? It was alright. It was pretty good. I mean, it was neat. The, uh,
The camera work and stuff looking like it was from the 70s or 80s, I guess it was. The synthesizers. I had no idea the synthesizers was such a big deal. A big deal. A real big deal. So that was pretty good. The Red Queen and I went and watched Until Dawn Friday. What'd you think of that? I liked it. It was entertaining. I agree with you guys about the water. It seemed kind of lazy writing. A little bit more lazy writing about not really explaining...
I mean, it gave a kind of a half-assed backstory about the town falling down into the mine or whatever. I don't know. Like I said, it was entertaining for... for uh action slash horror movie it's a cool concept um We could have fleshed a little... Some good kills. Yeah, definitely. I think we could have fleshed a little bit more of it out, though. Yeah. Because there's some things that happen very quick, and you're like, oh, that was cool. But then it's gone, and it never comes back. Yeah.
No, I agree. So it was worthwhile. Yeah, it was a good show. And then we watched, I guess, what episode? I don't know how long it's been since I met. Two weeks old. 2, 3, and 4 of The Last of Us. Oh, cool. So, Last of Us Season 2. It's been a pretty good season so far. Episode 2 was batshit. Fucking bananas. Right on. So, yeah. It's been nuts. There are some absolutely horrendous memes flying around about that little girl and the size of her.
her head and her face. Oh, that's just mean. It's just mean and it's unnecessary but it's pretty funny. I'll tell you what, she's a hell of a little actress. I mean, she's British and she plays American to a T. Yeah. She's a good actress for sure. Right on, yeah. Alrighty, how about some immersion therapy then, big dog? Immersion Therapy Here for blood. This was silly. It is very silly. I mean, I love the creepy wrestling gimmicks.
Yeah. Oh, my God. Undertaker was great, right? Who else? Sting, I guess, for a little while. Sting was the one guy, yeah. He kind of did his crow thing. But this one... Oh, boy. It was kind of the writing and the dialogue seems like something that you could write better dialogue. Of course, but if you're watching this, you're not watching it for a cinematic experience.
No. You're watching it because it's a goddamn wrestling horror movie. And I'm telling you, they probably spent a third of the budget on fake blood. Yeah. And then ridiculous. Stupid skull thing. That was ridiculous. It's stupid, man. It's fun, though. It's a fun movie. I watched it all the way through. So did I. I sat through it. So congratulations there. I think Tom Hardy recommended this one. Yeah, it was silly. Congratulations, Tom Hardy. You got us on this one.
Without Buddy here, we don't have anybody to pick immersion therapy, so... I am still on restriction from that tranny moment. Oh yeah, you are on restriction for the next couple months. Okay, I deserve it. I fully deserve it. Dusty, what do you think? Well, let's check out Hard Eyes. Just dropped on Netflix. When a killer who targets romantic partners
Every Valentine's Day mistakes them as a couple. Coworkers, Allie and Jay, have a deadly date with Destiny. Very cool. You can catch it on Netflix. Just dropped, I think. Oh, no. Sorry. It will be out Thursday. Okay. Coming Thursday. After Thursday, you can check it out. We'll do the same and we can compare notes next week. And now it's time for a round of Who is Daddy? Who is Daddy? you First my clues from last week.
I am a wizard, and me and my lovely daughter have kind of retired to our castle here by the sea. Unfortunately, one of my friends got turned into a bird and is now looking at me for help. Sure, I can help him out, but more to the point, who the fuck turned my friend into a bird and what's his goddamn problem? I'll be damned if there isn't a new wizard in town and now his son is talking to my daughter and I don't appreciate that one bit.
I am, of course, The Raven, starring Vincent Price and Boris Karloff, Dusty. And a 19-year-old Jack Nicholson in there. Oh, my God. I haven't seen it in a while. It's silly. It's more of a comedy than anything else. Who might I be this week, you ask? Well... Dusty, I am an old man.
Yes, you are. Yes, I am. I feel every minute of it. Don't worry, buddy. Me too. I know. I live on a very creepy castle on a very creepy hill, and I'm very lonely. My wife died a long time ago. I never had kids, so I thought to myself,
you know what, why don't I just build myself a kid and I'll do that and I'll start putting them together and I've got his legs and his arms and his hands while his arms and his head and i was getting to the point of fixing his hands when i happened to die and now unfortunately this poor This individual is stuck here in my creepy old house with his malformed hands, and he's just waiting on the right Avon lady to come and...
I guess either adopt him or get him a haircutting business is what we're going for. It's what I would appreciate anyway if somebody could. Who might I be, you ask. Tune in next week, inmates, and I will drop some knowledge on you. It's easy, right? Easy one. Like, comment, subscribe wherever you found this show. That helps our visibility quite a bit. Join us next week for Crimson Peak.
here in creepy old Guillermo del Toro month. We do have a Patreon campaign running, if anybody cares. Just go to paddedroompodcast.com. You'll find all the info you need there. Um, in the meantime, Dusty, you got anything else on the week? I'm good. For our buddy in absentia, he who sighs, weird things they do in Spain during a civil war. Um, Charles Manson.
And the, uh... hate ashbury free medical clinic and whatever the fuck was actually going on there you know that place is still in operation today is it really it is all right i imagine now they do more abortions than anything else or sex changes you know That's probably not on the free side. Lots. That's worth a couple shekels. Yeah, I think so. These days. And the Padded Room Podcast. I'm a visiting hours are over