The podcast on Haunted Hill will contain spoilers and swearing. I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work. One of us. Hello and welcome to the podcast on Haunted Hill, episode 179. Boom! Mic drop. That's the end of the show because I got the number right. That's not in the show. It's the beginning. It's not the end. It's just the beginning. It's just the beginning.
As I said, my name is Gav. My name is Dan. I'm talking over you. I'm sitting remotely with Dan. Just jump straight in there. I was excited. Waiting for no man. Straight in there. Aren't you, Dan? Well, that's kind of the theme of the episode, I think. You just get straight in and you dunk it right in. That's what you do. So this might be a filthy episode. This might be a greasy episode. I'll just turn you down a bit. You just went very loud. Oh, I do apologise. Yeah. It's because I got excited.
This is a patron. And our patron, Don Collier, is the king for the day. The king of the show for this episode. King. of the day. King Don. King Don. King Don. Not Dong. Don. Don, yes. Let's get this crane out. Let's go. Polish it up. Pop it in his...
virtual head for this episode. If someone's like, guys, do you reckon you could do all the sound effects for this feature film? Absolutely. Like, if Sony comes to us and, like, the new Spider-Man movie, it's me and you just... you've got a budget of 20 pounds whatever is lying around your house off to pound land with you guys off you go get some stuff okay uh we could do all right we do all right but
But they want us to do it with our mouths, not actual stuff. Because I can do the sound effects like that. That would make us actually sound... We could do that legit. No, like walking up the steps. When I was a kid... My friend had a top loader of VHS. Oh, sweet. You could plug a microphone into. So we used to record things off the TV and then dub over them. Oh, shit.
And the one we did the best was, in our opinion, is nine-year-olds, was Knight Rider, the movie, the pilot. And we went to town talking over that. We talked to the whole movie. Commentary tracks on the VHS. Well, it wasn't even commentary. It was just like, hey, have you seen my underwear? Yeah, it's over here. See, that's a shit you want to have when you're older.
And now we used to watch that every weekend. We used to be like, put our Knight Rider film on and we'd watch it and just be cracking up at our Knight Rider film. It's like you listen to your own podcast. Yeah, but I was nine. Cracking up to yourself. But anyway, Dom. Thank you so much, Dom, for your support. Greasy, naughty man.
yes thank you for your support and this is what you get for your support and everybody else who supports us thank you very kindly thank you very much so every one of you as in the description thumbnail you might need a bath after this episode because the two movies that Don has selected. It's going to get greasy. Not going to make you feel good in some ways. They will make you laugh. One of them certainly will make you laugh. So he's selected Gaspar No's Climax.
Yeah. Sorry. Climax from 2018. That was my climax noise. I saw your O face. That was my vinegar face. That has got a lot of writhing bodies in it. Lots of LSD dancing and constricting. It's got all sorts going on in that. Also very violent. So that's already...
going to make you feel a little bit grubby. But he also made me watch for the first time ever The Greasy Strangler in 2016. Now, I've been putting off watching this. It's not one that I've... really wanted to watch not because i'm a squeamish i just thought i don't know if i'll enjoy it i'll hold off on my thoughts until we get to our review later on in the show but it's certainly an experience and i'll hold off on my thoughts
for now but the greasy strangler from 2016 in climax from 2018 don has selected he sent us an email which i'll read out just at the end of the intro
so that we know why he selected those and what they mean to him. We've also got a surprise which me and Dan only surprised ourselves with this afternoon by spontaneously doing this. We have a guest speaker for... the greasy strangler because the person in mind loves the film and I was just like well they should because they're also a podcaster and here we are they're going to come on and that is my lovely Sarah
she's gonna come on and chat with us about the film because she's a massive fan of it um her ideal night is that then the fly amazing she actually sat and ate popcorn while watch this with me because we remotely did it together and then just throw the substance in at the end of that for a triple bill of oily greasy squelchy slimy horror and you're away aren't you really pretty much yeah it's yeah
uh anyway so uh we don't normally do that but um she's coming on to join us chat about the greasy strangler so hope that's okay don you don't mind that we're not hijacking it in any way um she will bring something to it rather than take away if
If anything, it makes Don's special episode even more special. It is. Because we don't often have guests. We don't do stuff like that. We don't actually. We did one. I did an interview once upon a time, very early on, but we... kind of decided not to do interviews because i've had people i'd literally a couple weeks ago so i would say oh do you do interviews and like and i was like no we've had a few guests on over the years we found our friend kate
And we've had a couple of our other friends, Andy and John, come on. But yeah, it's so difficult just to get... ourselves organized let alone a third or fourth person it is very tricky i'm happy to guest on other shows which i've done quite a few times but again it's just it's trying to get
schedules lined up with children and jobs and everything else yeah you and I have been doing this for so long we're kind of like in tune that we know we need to podcast once a month twice a month whatever it is uh or three times a month sometimes um we know we need to do that um so i think we both kind of
kind of it kind of it's our lifestyle it's a part of our lives do you know what i mean so when you get a guest on someone else's it's sometimes hard to arrange that like you say well as i always say to you gav and although you do all the technical behind the scenes bits for this show i do a lot of the writing and research so it's a collaborative effort when i guest on somebody else's show and you feel the same
Oh, when you don't have to do anything. I just sit back and talk shit and it's brilliant, you know. Particularly, and I'll give a shout out to Eternal Darkness of the Not-So-Spotless Mind. I've been on their show twice now. That's Kate and Matt.
um i'm hoping for um a third invitation i believe sometime in the future i'll be coming back on that show again when i get get on with those guys because i know kate especially and me and matt seem to just gel just put my feet up just get a bit more sweary than i normally would i don't know why and i just sort of take the piss you know i just have a great time relax don't have to worry about it just freestyle it yeah i'm like a freestyle rapper in the booth freestyle podcaster yeah
Yeah, baby. Goes, goes, goes, goes. Oh, he's bringing it up. So let's get this elephant in the room out of the way. Don, we're going to be talking about Will Smith now, I'm afraid. He's got a new song out. You know, any 50-year-old married man who should really be still apologising for his antics at the Oscars three years ago. Of course, what sort of song would they release? Is that three years? They'd release a song. Wow.
they'd release a song they probably would have released and should have released when they were 16 in their band DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince but instead he's released it now and it's a song that's called Girls Girls Girls I Like Pretty Girls Ain't no girl ain't too pretty for me.
and it's just terrible and then he he performed it i say performed it he half-arsely wrapped it in the middle of london london loads of people around him just kind of stand there and everyone just kind of looking the odd head nodding but for such a big crowd that must have been quite embarrassing he must have been like I'm just going to go with it you know you want him to do the classics you don't want a new song I don't know it's weird but it seemed like it was like oh please like me
Yep. So there we go. So Gavin, my friend, I hope you're well. I know you are. You look well. Thank you. Let's talk about what we've been watching. You also look well. Oh, thanks. Thanks, my friend. I've got a very shiny hair because I shaved it today. Look at that. It's that time of year again where we've not got much clothes on. I've got no top on.
I'm wearing a string vest and you've got nothing on. That's just how we rock it, Don, for the greasy strangler. He doesn't look like Rabsy Ness, but he actually looks more like a basketball player because it's more like a basketball vest. It's not a string vest. Well, you know what I mean. But you've been watching some TV shows, you said. Anything you want to mention? No, not really. I've just been watching stuff. No, I've been watching...
The normal my go-to's is sunny in Philadelphia. There's a new season of that coming out soon. yep um but i um yeah that's that's a go-to for me at night times that or family guy be rocking that um i haven't really been watching i did watch a few things with sarah last time i was with her but i don't know if
It's been quite a while ago now. When did we last podcast? It feels like ages ago. It probably wasn't, though. No, not really. I don't think I've seen Sarah then. So I've not got much to talk about. I've been following the P. Diddy trial every day of law.
order or something not normal that's a program law and something on youtube a channel which follows it completely and i've just been doing that really and being creative writing music and uh i pulled out the old pop album the other day that i started oh yeah
like four years ago and uh a few trucks in there pretty good i was like i might just do a little bit music so i've been touring with music a little bit because we're just we're slightly halted with deadbolt films at the moment trying to make a feature film Unless anyone out there wants to give us... 100,000 pounds? Well, no, it's probably like 300,000 to 400,000.
That'd be great. Yeah, thanks. That's what we're looking for. We'll take a hundred. We'll take a hundred to start with. I've been working on The Tell-In, which is Ben's film, which is really fantastic. A little short film. We've got the other ones we're going to do. We're working out. One's going to be in Mexico.
and one set in Japan. So we're going to cheat that, obviously, because we can't afford to go there. We're going to cut some trailers up for those ones. And that's nearly finished, been doing that, but... yeah but trying to get a 2.5 second shot of a chainsaw going through some guts
Last Monday, we set it up for ages, this whole body with all these. We even got sausage skin and packed it with spam and stuff. And we did all this stuff and made all these effects, all this elaborate stuff. And I had to hold the body with a chainsaw next to me going, at 11 o'clock at night in the front garden.
laughs for sure neighbors loved it smoke machine everything a massive light to be the moonlight changed all through and it all fucked up it's like this two and a half second shot we've spent hours setting this up and it hasn't worked all right okay let's try again another day Shit like that, you know, and it's like, for fuck's sake. It's so hard to make films, it really is at times. There's so many things against you to make a film.
if Jackie Chan can throw himself through a window 50 times to get one perfect two second shot then you can do it I believe in you yeah we get it it's just an issue I've gone through numerous chainsaws that just kept breaking on us. I went and bought one brand new chainsaw and the blade was too small. It doesn't match.
the shot before, which is a massive chainsaw blade. And then we tried to change the blades and it jammed. And I was like, just, this is not good. So yeah, I've just been doing that stuff.
When you buy a chainsaw, make sure you go in covered in blood and dirt. Well, we finished doing it, and because we had so much fake blood that Ben and I made, we made buckets of... fake blood it all went out onto the street and this car came by this mini it's quite late at night with these teenagers in it and they're like what are you guys doing like well we're making like a something for a tv show oh oh can we can we
we watch can we come on it's like no you know you can't carry on you know like but there's men just at that point there's blood pouring down his drive which is a down slope goes into the road and it just it kept making like a lake of blood at the end of his road like fucking hell so i had to get the hose out like one o'clock in the morning
brushing it down with moonlight on it so I sent you some pictures but we never got the fucking shot the two and a half second shot one shot we need and the film's finished like the 20 minute film So, yeah, it's just bullshit. But anyway, I've been doing that stuff. I haven't had a chance to watch movies, really. Yeah, you? Have you watched stuff? I've watched quite a few things I'll talk about before I do. Quick update on The Shadow Man.
Mr. Nobody is. My daughter calls him. Oh, yeah. I was about to say, what's that? Mr. Nobody is a great name. No, Nobody is that Bob Odenkirk movie. Not Mr. Nobody.
Yeah, I messaged Gab the other night because I went to bed at 11pm. I was the only one up. Went to the bathroom, came out of the bathroom to walk past the top of the stairs, across the landing and... who stood at the bottom of the stairs there was about a six foot figure stood at the bottom my stairs just his head was back so i know it was looking at me
And I just carried on going into my bedroom, shut the door. Well, you didn't look down, but you could see in your peripheral. As I walked past, as I moved my head, I could see it. And it wasn't a shadow because nothing down there makes a shadow like that. Yeah.
It was just, like I described in the last episode, it was just this, like, blacker than black shape. I think, take it, like, if it were me, I'd be like, camera. I'm just going to bed. No, just get the camera. Come back around the corner. Even just your phone. video film it just put it out there then come back and look at your phone that's what that makes it super creepy maybe next time but that's the update on him but what have i been watching well i've watched
Quite a good found footage movie that's been on my list for a long time and I finally got around to it. I'm sure you've seen it, The Cleansing Hour. Have you seen this? It's 2019. It's about an online exorcist. He's got a show called The Cleansing Hour where he exercises different people. And obviously for one of the episodes...
there's a real demon and they don't realise that and they think that they're doing their usual thing. They've got this guy behind the scenes that does all the effects and everything and they've got millions of subscribers and then a real demon comes on. It's a bit like...
An early version of Late Night with the Devil. I was just thinking that when you were saying it. It was quite good. I quite enjoyed it. For a found footage movie, it's not often. And I know Don, our main patron for the episode. He's a found footage fan. Is it because he's got a shit? he has got a show yeah he's got his own frame footage um podcast um so yeah don uh i'd love to know what you think of the cleansing hour and if anybody hasn't seen it's definitely worth checking out um
It's not going to blow your doors off, but it certainly had some good stuff in it and some good effects, particularly towards the end. I was like, oh, the budget is quite good in this. Where is it? Yeah, that was good. Where is it streaming? Prime. Okay. also don uh have you checked out amanda just out of wondering um
Yeah, he has. He has checked it out. Oh, good. Oh, wicked. I mentioned his thoughts on it, I think. I'm not sure if it was on the show, but I mentioned to you he was a fan of it. I do apologise. I forgot. My brain is... Terrible. As in memory wise. I don't have a terrible brain like it's evil or something. Evil maniac. The evil brain.
I also watched a film that Gav went to the cinema with his mum to watch a couple of years back. I finally got around to watching Elvis. I know it's not horror, but it was really good. It's good, isn't it?
didn't expect that me and alice were well into it considering it's almost three hours long when he comes out of stage it just oh man it's so cool they just made it really cool makes you realize because i'll be honest i'm quite naive about elvis i didn't realize he was actually a proper artist as well i thought he was just a bit of a get the cash kind of guy you know no no that was the colonel yeah oh
God, Tom Hanks was brilliant in it. That was who was making the money and doing that. He was just, yeah, he wanted to just be an artist, but he wasn't allowed, was he, at times? Like, to go overseas. Probably my favourite buzz through them. He never came to England or anything, you know?
Yeah, great. And we've been listening to Elvis now for the last couple of weeks in the house. So that's what that's done to us. So yeah, I just wanted to quickly mention that. And then the other night it was very, very hot. Oh yeah, it is a hot season. Yeah, so I watched a movie that I've never seen before, a Fulci movie, because sometimes you want a bit of Fulci when it's hot. Yeah, you said that, didn't you, in your post? I like that. Yeah.
And I watched Manhattan Baby. I love that you're faulty when it's hot, like New York Ripper. I know, but he does like films that are like, you know, just make you feel like the temperature's up. But I watched Manhattan Baby for the first time. Yeah, I don't know. It's my first watch. So it's about a little girl who gets given... She's in Egypt with her family. She's in Egypt? She's in Egypt, the country. You didn't say she's in Egypt. She's in Egypt. In Egypt it's an idiot.
She gets given a medallion, a magical medallion, that basically allows her and her brothers to teleport and open portals. in back into the desert whenever she wants so they start yay back to the desert what's it nothing Well, they basically, if someone bullies them or people in their lives that they don't like, they just send them away to the desert to fry. And it's pretty good, actually. But it's all based in New York.
obviously hence the title manhattan baby it's very thoughty to be honest with you doesn't really make any sense and all the reviews i read of it afterwards were like it wasn't really it doesn't really make much sense but it just looks great and it does it looks great it's 1982 manhattan baby yeah okay and And then, while we're on that subject, the following night, just so happened to be hot, but it also just so happened to be, and this is a point I wanted to bring up with you. Hot and sexy.
The 50th anniversary to the day that Jules was released. I know. So I watched it that night. Yeah, I watched it recently. You said then, I was like, oh shit, yeah, I should do, but I didn't. But yeah. First of all, fuck me, that is still an absolutely perfect film in every way. There's a new documentary which I'm looking forward to. It'll come out on Disney. I don't know when a date is it's coming out.
uh maybe july or the four possibly um yeah uh that looks quite good spielberg's in it talking all about it and stuff Well, yeah, firstly, it's perfect. Secondly, my wife normally hates it when I quote films while I'm watching them, but she was laughing at me quoting along, particularly Tiger Shark. A what? A what? Some of the bits in it, you know, it's brilliant. Did you see the AI Kid version I sent over on our Facebook page? Yeah. That was great, wasn't it? But thirdly...
It's 50 years old, Gav, so happy 50th to Jules because that's crazy that that film, because that film is part of my childhood, you know, I saw that at probably too young an age, it was on TV. It was a big event, you know, BBC One is showing Jaws tonight, probably in the early 80s. Yeah, because we just didn't have the access to films we do now, so we relied on TV at times.
and the fact that it's 50 now is pretty crazy really um i saw yeah that was the i saw a bit in a few jaws fan groups on facebook and someone put a still picture of hooper and he's just kind of turns up or when he's out telling them to like don't get in the boat or wherever you're going to drown
And one of the guys is behind him, it's just after... What? This guy behind him is blowing on his neck. Ah, that's strange. And someone said, I've never realised this. All the times I've watched it, look at the guy on the back part going... it looks like so i don't know i'm gonna watch that again at some point but i'm gutted like twice now i've brought brand new blu-ray copies of jaws
and the first time the same as this time i think really i didn't get around to watching it for a while so wherever i bought it from or whatever i'm not gonna be able to take it back and the moment when he just sees the shark come up when he's putting the bait in the water and he's Roy's looking at kind of up to the boat up towards the camera that fucks up and so I bought another I was like for fuck's sake but the disc is fine But another one still does it. Must be that print.
Yeah, so I'm waiting. I don't really want to have to buy 4K because I haven't got a 4K TV for a start. I'm waiting for, I don't know, there is a 50th one, but it's all 4K and shit. But I want to get a different version of it because I'm gutted. I'm just like... What the fuck? You know. That's a shame. Yes. Well, the last one I've watched, last thing to watch. Happy birthday, Jaws. Yeah, happy birthday to that big bad Jaws. If you've never seen Jaws, go and watch it.
Well, our most popular episode ever has been the Spielberg episode that we did a long time ago where we covered Jules and Dress Park. But... our most popular episode in the last two years is now our kevin bacon episode and the numbers on that just keep going up um so that was only a couple of months ago we covered it's the bacon sandwich isn't it it's the bacon sandwich and talking of which the last
film i watched only this afternoon i really wanted to revisit cop car and i had it on tivo recorded from a while back so i watched cop car that was kind of fun that movie yeah it's good it's really good um yeah he plays a piece of in it as always and he does it really well oh yeah that's true yeah and i was thinking also let's be cops as well it's a totally different film
that's a different from cop cars where he's got a guy in the trunk of his cop car two kids steal it go for a joyride and then he's also got a stash of cocaine heroin Gold, bullion, money, guns, and he's like, these kids are going to unravel my entire scheme. I did watch a movie. Yes. Ride the eagle.
sexy uh it's a movie i think it was shot in uh lockdown so there's only a few actors in it but they're quite like not with other people it's a lot of more of like one guy doing monologues now the guy i'm gonna have to look it up because i can't remember i don't know what his name is but i like him so that's why i watched it and it's about him
uh he plays a guy called uh leaf and his mum's susan sarandon who's passed away and she sent him a video saying uh i was never there for you because she joined a cult when she was when he was 12 and abandoned her him
so she left all these video tapes for him a cabin um and says like uh you do these tasks and then you can have the cabin sort of thing and it's quite a sweet thing goes up there and opens up all the cupboards it's all full of weed it's what the mum stuff but um it's quite a fun movie um I find the actor, it was quite pleasant. Now, I was thinking of you, but I don't know, it might make you sad because of your mum and stuff. Well, no, but I like to watch stuff like that, though.
at the same time i think actually you would like it in a way yeah yeah so it's on prime ride the eagle 2021 and it stars jack johnson is the guy See, I don't even know his name, but I really like him. And if you look up, you go, oh, I know that guy. And I think he's in Let's Be Cops. And that's why I'm saying it. Ah. Yeah. And it's a really, really nice sort of film, really.
Yeah, just quite nice. I'm just adding it to my watch list now. I think so, but I think you'll have a little tear, you will, Daniel. Oh, that's all right, though. Yeah, I know Jack Johnson, yeah. Yeah, it's definitely worth a watch for you. I think it's a pleasant movie. I wanted a pleasant thing to watch.
I want something pleasant. Yeah, it's nice to watch stuff like that sometimes. Sometimes, because I'm weird. I have these roles. You know what I'm like. I want seasonal. I'm going to have to watch seasonal movies and all this stuff. I have these weird things because I'm weird like that. Probably slightly autistic, I assume. And now you've forgotten where you're going. So sometimes you like to watch a nice movie.
i always used to think um like late at night i'll have to watch horror movies do you know what i mean it's like oh it's because it's so i can get rid of it i think it's probably from being a parent and when you couldn't watch them when it's day early in the day nowadays i have an 18 year old i watch horror movies with my kids it's not even a thing
so but it's sort of in my head but so it was nice the other night to go to bed late at night and watch a pleasant movie it was quite nice and some and i know my brain well enough now same with you After 46, 47 years now, Jesus, I'm 47. I know what I'm in the mood for. That's normally horror, but sometimes I'll just want an 80s classic. Yeah, yeah. I want something like... even a rom-com or a comedy it's it's like being an artist
like even a traditional artist painting a picture you kind of need to know what that picture is you're going to paint because otherwise you're going to sit there streaming looking for what all all these movies on the streaming devices you're never going to find something to watch i did this the other night and i was like
fuck's sake what's the point me and Sarah did it recently we could not find anything to watch we ended up going back to shit that we know like we actually watched load of family guys over the weekend because we know we know that and it's you know But that felt really good for me watching Jules the other night because I've seen it a million times. It's comfort. It's just so comforting and I was laughing, still laughing at it. I was thinking I wouldn't mind actually going to Martha's Vineyard.
one day for a holiday oh yeah that would be amazing wouldn't it it would yeah we should go Listeners, can you fund Dan and I to go to Martha's Vineyard? We can do a live podcast from there. Anyway, should we get on with the film? Yeah, well, let's first of all, let's read Don's email because it is his episode and why he's picked these two films. Climax.
And the greasy strangler. I've never seen the title of Climax, and at the end it says, ooh. Well, that's how it goes in my head. Ooh la la! Thinking of Commando. Ooh la la! Ooh la la! I had to let him go. So here is Don's email. He says, okay, here we go. Here we go. I like the way he's bracing me. At least it's not Serbian, Phil.
oh jesus thank god never ever pick that patrons please or gav pick that yes he says okay here we go so as i mentioned i was going to go in a few directions with my picks Favourites from my childhood, maybe some Asian horror that I love, found footage which you know I'm a big fan of, or a couple of series that my daughter and I always enjoy like Saw or Final Destination. Those are my options. But I have one more idea.
and it was this wonderful little double feature of climax and the greasy strangler good good wholesome cinema for the whole family um i showed both of these movies to my girlfriend and my daughter during covid and believe it or not they hit I mean, Climax is a legitimately good movie by brilliant director, Gaspar Noir, who's made some other brilliant films like Irreversible and Enter the Void.
The guy just has a trippy and dreamlike style that feels wrong and uncomfortable while also being beautiful. The movie was made with mostly dancers and a few recognisable actors outside of Sofia Boutella. The dancing and the music are wild. I'm not much of a dancer. Oh, he says in brackets, oh, I've got a couple of moves for my breakdancing days. Yeah, Dom. Nice, man. I used to try. I always won a windmill. I could never do it. Breakdancing days. And don't watch a lot of dance-themed films.
But I did love the Suspiria remake, and I liked Black Swan. But this one just gets me. We rewatched the dance scenes over and over, and to this day, my daughter's at a club or a show, and music from this film comes on. She sends me a video. I just love it. It's a dark movie too. I mean, I've done my share of acid and mushrooms over the years. I've been dosed before too. So this just hits.
where it goes with the sex and the violence and the kid yikes it's all pure nightmare fuel agreed agreed but we'll get into that take a breath larry talks about the greasy strangler he says now talking classics The Greasy Strangler. I don't know exactly why or how, but this movie just hit right at the right time, and it's a cult classic in my household. We see lines from it all the time, like, Bullshit artist!
Just saying that makes me laugh. And he says, I've received a Greasy Strangler themed birthday card in the past. Who are these characters? What world do they live in? Where did they get these amazing outfits and the music? talk about music it just gets in your brain it's all just so odd but the strangest dialogue gav's laughing don as i'm reading this out maybe even got to the main review yet
He says, needless to say, it's a bit of a polarizing film, but it would always be a classic to me. And it has that perfect nostalgia slash cult classic feel that just made me want to share it with my good buddies, Dan and Gav. I kind of figured these might be fun to talk about too. um yeah i wanted to write i wanted to write more and i have plenty to say but the people are here for you guys not me i do want to add that i really enjoyed watching amanda on the devil films youtube channel
He says, I had no idea my man Gav was the star. I've never seen either of you before, but I knew that voice right away, and well done, sir. You know I love my found footage, and if I ever record again, I'll give it a mention for sure. Oh, thanks, dude. He says that'll really give you a boost. Ha! He's being sarcastic there. Thank you. Appreciate it.
It's cool watching something made by people I consider friends of a sort, and in our own way, in this little horror movie podcasting world, we are friends. So I'm really impressed and proud of you guys, and I don't think I've missed your excellent performance. Dan, he says, Dan, I don't think I've missed your excellent performance as...
guy on the radio you know you nailed it seriously i so hope to watch more and we'd love to support or help in the future i'm not on social media but let us your fans and friends know how we can support lastly as i mentioned to dan Just don't get too big for us and stop podcasting. Don't forget the little guys.
And he finishes up with, as usual, you guys have helped me keep sane as life has its ups and downs. Both of you sharing openly and transparently is part of why I love the show. Hearing your successes, failures, losses and gains and all the embarrassing real moments. make this show what it is so as i've said before keep it up and cheers to both of you and your family and loved ones your buddy from across the pond in new jersey don c
And he says, he's Donnie Darko 11 on Letterboxd. And I'm still trying to get you guys on there because he said that last time. Yeah, well, I did join, didn't I? And I just didn't understand it. I just didn't. I was just an old man with it. It's too much. I appreciate everything you're saying there, dude. I imagine that we could all hang out if we were ever in person because we could talk breakdancing, which means you like hip-hop.
And old school hip hop, presumably as well. All sort of New York stuff and that, I imagine. So that'd be cool. And then we can chat found footage as well. So I appreciate you watching Amanda. Thank you. And if I remember rightly, he lives very close to the original Friday the 30th. Oh, wow. locations as well. We just need to go on tour, don't we? We just need to go. Let's do a tour of our patrons. Go visit them all around the world. Martha's Vineyard at the same time.
Yeah, and thanks for that. The only reason I was in Amanda is because it's the easiest, cheapest person to get. Yeah. no um funny enough i did speak to dan about this i was like if we go into production on a proper film next year i'm gonna have a like a moment where i'm gonna have to be like i can't record so we'd have to either bank episodes or have a slight hiatus um but you know wait and see I've got to get the money to make a movie, yeah. Any dentists out there?
with credit cards. Sam Raimi, can you let us know your dentist's name? I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for your lead on the films and the film choices. Yes, there could be interesting conversations on both. films so indeed so we're going to kick off with climax weirdly we're going to start with climax
Yeah, a greasy strangle is a little bit more fun and I think it's a little bit more fun at the end of the show. We'll go heavy and then we'll go lighter, I think. Heavy than greasy. We'll get the sort of start. dark lsd rape and child death out of the way and then we'll end up with you know dipping dipping it in all the way dipping in all the way big ronnie
So, yeah, brace yourselves, guys. Dipping in all the way with Big Ronnie. Anyway, yes, brace yourselves. This is going to be an interesting episode, guys. Here's a trailer for Climax. Here's a trailer for Climax. If you couldn't dance, what would you do? So sad. What does dance mean for you? It's all for me. La danse, c'est tout pour moi. C'est que ça. Est-ce que t'es... T'es prêt à beaucoup de choses pour réussir ? C'est-à-dire ? You're so good. I'm so happy. I'm gonna be happier
Trucant. Qu'est-ce que t'as ? Tu sais qu'il y a un secret. climax from 2018 rated 18 an hour and 37 minutes french dancers gather in a remote empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that sangria is laced with LSD. Acid. um just i was just mentioning down before we started recording i don't really know uh gasper knows films i haven't seen i don't know what i've seen let me look
My favourite of his is Irreversible, although it's a really tough watch. But it really hits you emotionally. And there's another film he did, which is really great, called... enter the void um which is just he's so experimental um but he has done a whole bunch of movies not quite a few he's very well known So I think this is probably our first of his films we've ever covered. Very arty, experimental, out there.
He's Argentinian, I believe. Or, yeah, he is Argentinian. It's just, it does some very crazy stuff. I think one of his films is called Sodomites as well. That kind of says a little bit there about him. um so don this is the first movie of yours that we're covering um this is my second watch of this i only actually watched this for the first time about a year ago it was on netflix uk i'd want to check it out
I'd heard it was good. I'd had it recommended by another podcaster. So I checked it out. And yeah, I did enjoy it. But it is a tough watch, like a lot of his films are. It is a tough watch. And if you're not into that kind of... arty style experimental style it might not be for everybody um i understand why it might be a lot of people's favorites and it's obviously one of yours as well
But there's a lot to take away from it. Part of the reason it's a hard watch is because there's some really long extended dance routines. With some crazy dancing going on, contemporary dancing and almost break dancing at times as well. But also, there's some really dark elements to it as well. Essentially, as the synopsis says...
This group of French dancers, mostly French dancers, there's a German in there and a couple of others, they get their drink spiked at a party and it just gets worse and darker and darker, more sexual, more violent and more sexually violent. And it makes you feel like you're having a really bad trip. He does an amazing job of capturing that. I've never done acid or LSD myself, but I have had my drink spiked with not one, but two ecstasy tubs, I found out.
so i was double tripping my balls off not quite knowing what was going on and the people that did it thought it would be really fun to with me uh it was a really bad experience that stuck with me for months Because I didn't know what was going on at the time. I just thought, is this my life now? Is this what's happening to me? I've also had a really bad experience with mushrooms. I've had a good experience, but I don't generally get on well with hallucinogenics.
I tried mushrooms a few times and the last couple of times I've done them really didn't gel with me. I had a very nightmarish experience where I was talking to inanimate objects because I thought they were real and they were turning into cartoon characters.
a lot of the scenes in this film especially when they go away from the main party and you can hear the thumping bass in the background and the people screaming and laughing really does hit and strike a nerve with me and probably other viewers who've been at these situations where you've been on another plane as it were and
you know you can hear all this other stuff you want to be back at the party but you're also too paranoid you don't trust anyone but you want a hug and all these kind of weird feelings that you feel it it's a film quite unlike any other but it's also a very Gaspar Noir film as well. This was your first watch, Gav, I believe. Yeah, I haven't seen it. I've not really seen much of his films, like I said, but I can understand the sort of films he makes.
without seeing them so i'm not really the best qualifier to watch this in some senses uh i'll be watching this from face value um so i'm possibly not going to get what i think don sees because you know um
I can understand, though, as a film, as the filmmaker, I can understand where he wants to... He's like, I'd love to... go maybe he's experienced a bad trip himself or something one time and he's just gone you know what as an artist and a creative person you pull from experiences and you're all the time i'm always coming up with ideas for films and things it might be shit and that gonna not go anywhere but it's always you know buzzing so like um
coming up this again you know i could make this film but make it like how it feels to have that experience i've not myself done acid because i've never wanted to be uh out of my mind in that sense i never ever really I liked being too drunk, to be honest with you. I liked to be in control of my mind.
be worried i don't want to lose my mind so um i never did that so much um acid or anything really so like i say and at three parties there should always be three parties and stuff and i never went to them because it's not my scene um so i'm not the best qualifier like i said for this tell you one thing though i did work i have worked a lot with dancers filming them um a lot with dancers i've made documentaries about dancers and all sorts um and um going on journeys with kids troubled kids
um uh who've got come from bad backgrounds and then go on a journey using dance as a release and using their emotion to whatever they've got going on inside them to release and do this strange weird dance or whatever um the dots in this is phenomenal um the the choreography because you've got these massive long runners with some of this stuff the dance choreography for them to set that up
because the camera doesn't do too much because you don't want the camera to do much because it's very subtle initially very subtle initially camera movement yeah yeah you don't it slowly goes up then comes back down it stays static but that's what you want because
dance choreography would have taken a long time to get all that correct and the energy that oh all those dancers have you they'd have to be dancers you couldn't get actors to learn dancing you'd have to have dancers that are gonna have to act and the chemistry those not chemistry the energy those dancers have is is crazy it's incredible um so i'm gonna say this to my friend rachel shout out rachel um um who's a dance teacher as well used to be anymore
um but tell her to watch this and i was gonna watch it for many years ago but we never did when this first came out it uh it was at frightfest i think it might have shut frightfest one year um when it came out i was gonna watch it um I don't think I'd have got along with it very well in the cinema. I'm glad I didn't. I'm too ADHD with stuff, especially nowadays in my older age. I need things to keep going.
I appreciate the dance sequences in this a bit. And I can understand whether the director wanted to make this film, and he has made this film, but at times you're like... get to the point, because obviously you're trying to make a point, with birth, death, abortion, children, life, life sex, life sex squisit, death sex squisit, all this stuff, you're trying to make a point, can you fucking get to it?
It's just like, for Christ's sake, it just... it still feels like it dawdles a bit and i don't know i actually thought it could be more shocking than it was it wasn't actually shocking or i'm just too desensitized nowadays um but i appreciate the film for why it is what the director's doing he's achieved what he wanted to do I think it's not for me though this film isn't for me I think for all the violence in this film and some of the dark stuff
um and some of the conversations that are had around you know sexual violence and stuff like that there's a very uncomfortable scene which we'll get to at one point i think the thing i take away from this film even on my second viewing is I remember the dancing. And that probably should be what it is, because it is essentially a story about a group of dancers. And quite rightly, as you said, Gav, they're phenomenal.
And there's one scene in particular which I absolutely love, which is where they're all just coming up on their LSD a little bit and they're in a circle where the camera is... Like a B-boy circle. Yeah, and it's a bird's eye view down and you've never really seen it.
dancers from above like that and the way they're doing their moves and throwing themselves it looked incredible it looked like they were defying gravity when i was watching it i used to always struggle when filming dancers sometimes i would get in there and
end up kind of doing a dance with them with my camera i'd become like one with them and i'd have to always use a wide camera lens like when you're filming skateboarding you get a big wide lens so you get close to the action it looks a little better like fight sequences in action movies you want to go
big wide and close and uh i'd always have to find it with this but when i was watching it i was like fuck i wish i could have done that there was all wooden beams and most of the studios that i shot in we could have got up there with a ladder and attached the camera having it coming down i started thinking about it all and i was like
But then the memory card's going to run out. You have to kick out there, press record, come down. But I did really like the bird's eye view. It's such a simple shot. But with the breaking circle, so to speak, with the bird's eye shot, it just worked really well. And then later on when they started getting a bit more fucked up, that same shot is there, but the camera now starts rotating. Yeah.
He's very clever with his use of cameras, particularly the end reel, which is upside down. The whole reel is almost upside down. like everybody's on the ceiling and because the lights are all red because they've had a power cut and we will get into the film in a moment to me that was like watching a 15 minute like hell it was basically like hell
Because everything is red. Everyone was screaming and riding around. Yeah, this for me is like, it's not a fun film. It's not a fun movie. It's not a movie I'd want to watch again. Obviously, I know, Don, you really like it. Your household likes it.
in your family and you watch it over repeatedly i just for me i just don't want to spend my time watching something like this because it's just a little bit too bleak really there's just no fun to it i'm not getting anything out of it i'm definitely not getting a message about how much i should be appreciating life it's okay if you die
Because you can appreciate death as well, because that's actually a good experience as well. Not that you know this, I could guess. So, I don't know. But I appreciate... the how hard it is to make a fucking film and i appreciate a director whose vision they can just go ahead and do that because i struggle
to do that myself a little bit and i really appreciate someone who could just go do that getting made and again out there um and it's definitely what the director wanted to make for sure and i think another thing that might have been inspiration for him as well is
Towards the end, when everybody's really tripping out and we're really focusing on Selva, who's our main character in a way, Sofia Patella plays her. With all the contortionism that's going on, it just adds to that hellish... visual that you know when you've got people whose arms are around the wrong way and their heads are upside down you're definitely correct with the saying it's like hell it's basically the location is like one building and it you're
definitely correct saying when that sort of goes down it's it's now hell it's like imagine you're just endless corridors walking around around and just seeing just weird things almost like uh as above so below the found footage french film yeah where they're just going around the catacombs round around the corner that sort of thing just for endless like it's hell it's lost it's never gonna end this is eternity now you know
because we follow characters around these corridors don't we as they approach different rooms and there's people crying there's just different shit going on and just not fun stuff at all I thought it was going to be more full-on. I thought there was going to be full-on sexual scenes for some reason. I thought it was going to be full-on violence and stuff. And there isn't, really.
um i guess in some senses if you're using dancers rather than actors and getting dancers to acts yeah i'm sure you've got them who could they pro i'm not saying that they're not acts as well they might also have been actors as well but uh maybe it was just you just didn't want to go that far of it i don't know it's really strange i feel like if you're doing this you can take it to this to 11. do you know i mean i agree but i also like that um because
The violence is very much there, but it's not so in your face. It is like you're just walking past the scene, but you're not... It's like you're there yourself walking past a room, and this movie happens to be the room.
yeah yeah um and the stuff with the child is like quite dark isn't it and the way that plays into it to talk about abortion and all that kind of stuff as you know becoming a parent you look at the child stuff in films and you can sort of go a little bit like oh no not interested sometimes and stuff a little bit more than you would before
being a parent and this didn't face me too much i tell you the sort of scene like this which is which sticks have been haunts me and i've got it on blu-ray and i've not seen it again but i need to is under the skin when the Dad's been killed. The little kids on the beach. Yeah, because the tide's coming in.
that's just how horrible that scene is and the baby's left on the beach looking around him crying and the tide's coming in that that's just absolutely just devastating to me well even in jules watching that the other night the little kid crying on the beach when all the chaos is going on that kind of pulls at my heart but this that but the other scene though you know the water's coming in and that baby's gonna die and that's just fucking horrible
this scene you know the kid is gonna electrocute himself we'll get into it guys um but for whatever reason didn't really affect me too much it's a bit like meh Which I was very surprised with. I don't know why, but I feel like this movie was going to go further than it did. But let's start talking about it, Daniel. Yeah, well, one final bit of trivia, being the clever director he is, it snowed.
by chance so they added in all the bits with snow because they suddenly had some snow to play with so any scenes with snow particularly the intro not a lot yeah Not a lot, but he threw in a few scenes, you know, just to add to it because they had suddenly had some snow. So he took what nature gave him and threw it in the film. Like we did with Nothing Hurt. I was just about to say that. We had a major snowstorm to the point...
I couldn't even make it to set because all my trains were cancelled. I know, gutted. But I was on set and I was just like, right, the next day go back and all the snow's gone. It's like, well, that's okay because we filmed the intro and the outro yesterday because we used that for snow and now it's not going to be snow and it works perfectly. And it actually worked better than I expected. So, we start in the snow with a girl bleeding and stumbling through the snow.
she collapses and screams and cries bird eye shot actually shots like this is quite nice it's that whole sort of someone you've seen it many a time in a movie especially slasher films that opening like someone being chased or them crawling along sort of thing but this is nice snow crawling along a little bit of trail of blood behind them just nice snow works well for stuff like this
And it does say, based on real events, which clearly isn't true. No, of course not. Well, yeah, probably the director getting fucked up and just imagining this shit, yeah. She does the crappiest dead snow angel I've ever seen.
she does do a dead snow angel and then we get some end credits 45 seconds in okay i've got to say though we do i find this slightly pretentious and it's like why why well we get the end credits now because it's different and then later on in the film we get the all the actor credits come up and all the music credits and then we get the title of the film is the last thing we see climax right at the end of the film yeah it says and i get that
I think it just adds to the trippy nature of what you're watching. I guess it, but I don't know. It's... i guess it's not pretentious but it does i guess you're right it's trying to go with that but i just feel it's i feel less is more i feel that this is an instance of not that and this is more trying to be more
Yeah, I've never really been on board, I'll be honest with you. It doesn't bother me, but I've never been on board when the title card comes up an hour into a film. Yeah, I'd rather just go straight into that film. You don't need that. I don't mind a really long extended intro scene. Yeah. Ugh.
Well, back in the day, films like, you know, your 40s, 50s, whatever, you had every credit at the beginning. And when the film ends, the last picture of the shot of film, you might just get the end and that is it. And then it just stops.
um maybe a copyright scene but that's it because it was all at the beginning so yeah i don't know anyway yes they started saying a good cast is worth repeating sometimes and then they would quickly not tell you again who was in it um so that's our opening scene is this girl we're going to find out more about her um what she's escaped from later on but um we do start off with a very quick
Well, I say quick. It's a long scene. It's a long scene. It's a quick interview with everybody all patched together. So basically every dancer in this has like a little interview about... what they like about dancing, what they're hoping to get out of dancing, why they dance. Some people are like, I would die if I couldn't dance. Some are like...
It's like having sex for me. Some of them are gay. Some of them are straight. Some of them are bi. There's a brother and sister. There's some cousins. They talk about violence. They talk about... drugs and being on drugs and taking drugs and um hopes and dreams it's all discussed over about a 10 minute scene and you see the which is displayed
yeah yes it's displayed on vhs it's display it's basically it's saying that these auditions have been recorded like on a camcorder vhs tape camcorder if it was like almost and then they're just being played on a Old square telly. Next you've got, though, it's really funny, you've got DVDs that have been photoshopped.
compressed into vhs they've been smirk it looks like they're like it looks like tape cassettes they don't look like video tapes they look like tape cassettes because it's just been so squashed in format it's really weird I think it's just the way the films come out afterwards. But yeah, you've got Suspiria, Zombie, Salo. The Inauguration of the Pleasure is one of them. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of films.
on either side of the TV. And is that supposed to symbolise what this film has inspiration from or something? Well, I would say so, yeah, because clearly Suspiria is one of the ones which I think would have inspired him because at one point... when they start realizing that this this place is weird and they're all feeling funny a couple of the guys start talking about
what are all these crosses on the wall these flags it's like a weird cult that we're in and that really reminded me of Suspiria because obviously that is a cult that is like a witch's school um which what you call it a witch's um coven um So, to me, there's a lot of spirit in this. And Don mentioned that in his email, you know, and I can see...
Why, if he likes this, he would definitely like the new Suspiria, which I did enjoy the new Suspiria. Not enough Salo in this, though, that's for sure. Because you get the guys, like, you keep cutting to, like, especially two dudes who just keep talking about sex.
constantly and everyone's talking about sex xx but there's hard there's not really any sex in it i found that really weird there's quite a bit towards the end a little bit humping on the floor not so much i thought yeah i don't know but then again towards the end the whole shot is like the scene what we've had the low camera along the dance floor not to jump to the end but i am but it's the camera just...
oh we're turning it 180 in editing we'll just flip it upside down okay and so the camera's just going on so you can't actually see what's going on the geography is just like i don't know what's going on it's just all red and dark i can't really see what's going on i guess it's supposed to be the nightmare
it is you're having but we'll get to that but i don't know well we start off with just before the party there's one more rehearsal by this dance troupe and we've got the dj whose name is daddy um And he starts playing some tunes. And we get this incredible... His hair later on. Well, his wig that he's wearing, yeah. We get this incredible routine, which is a wanner.
where everybody gets to strut their stuff and we get some crazy moves. Really, really impressive dancing. It goes on and on and on, but not in a bad way. That's why it's so impressive, because that would have taken a long time to sort out. but it feels very natural as well like almost like now it's shorter what moves are you going to do but they've been rehearsing this because we find out this is a rehearsal um and this is where we get
Probably the most subtle camera work, most gentle camera work. It's just in one place, like you said, wide. And we just get to see. Because when one dancer goes off to the side, they remain in the lens, in the screen. And then the next dancer steps. into the middle and sometimes there's two people sometimes there's one and they're doing all these amazing dances
It's at times quite a fairly good soundtrack. It's very four to the floor. House music. Oh, yeah. A lot of sort of French house. At one point in the movie, it just cuts into loads of logos. from loads of bands that they like. Well, that's when the credits kick in. Yeah, which is very strange. So that's all the actors and then all the bands that are in it. Yeah, like Daft Punk, et cetera, et cetera. And there's that sort of music in it. So the music...
parallels what's going on with this. So the music starts off very light and happy, hardcore, happy house. Happy hardcore. But every time it gets a bit darker and a bit darker, the music and the bass gets deeper and the dark, we get some dark house.
on and then it gets to this almost sort of I don't even know how to describe some of the genre of music playing towards the end it's just like industrial bassy 4am peeled up to your eyeballs big warehouse party music because there's a moment in the middle where they start playing like pop up the volume dance dance bomb the bass you get a load of decent tracks and that wasn't bomb the bass that was mars
It was Mars, sorry, yeah. There's one dance move I really like where it's a guy on the floor and they all move his arms and legs. Yeah, that looked really cool. I was like, oh, that's really cool. I want to do that. like like he's a big puppet yeah um well they finish up their routine And they're like clapping. Oh, yeah, great. Right. Now we can party because they've worked hard on this dance routine. And they're apparently going up against some Americans in a big dance competition.
and they got a table laid out with loads of food on it loads of drinks and a big bowl of punch which is laced with lsd but they don't know that yet and there's absolutely no real way that a child should be in this in this environment But there is. There's a little boy there. No, there's people smoking weed. To be fair, he's got fairly old and she hasn't killed him yet. So, you know. His mum is part of this dance troupe.
um and she's done she's made the punch and everything else she's not the one that's laced it that we know of but um everybody's drinking you don't actually know because everyone a few people blamed we don't actually know who did it do we Well, I couldn't figure it out. This is my second viewing. It's like a murder mystery. So I don't know who. And more importantly, I don't know why someone's done this either.
i'm wondering this time around because the final one of the final shots is of a girl dropping lsd into her eyeballs yeah and i'm wondering if someone accidentally if it was her or if someone accidentally dropped it in there well there's a lot of fucking lsd in there earlier on though in the thing
that that's a reference back to earlier on they're talking about someone's talking about asking putting it into eyeballs yeah she then goes and does that exact thing yeah they yeah this kid's there and some of them comment like why is he here and it's like well his mum you know wants him here she looks after him very quickly still impressively they're still a wanna we're still at a wanna they've all of a sudden
like and they act fine i earlier on i hope i wasn't insulting saying there's dancers not actors but they act absolutely fine i love the fact as soon as they've come out that dancing which would have been a lot of work to get right and make you out of breath they go straight into acting and the camera keeps going doesn't seem to be a cut there might be a cut but i believe it's a 45 minute one no it's not no it's not is it not not at all
maybe i misread that uh yeah it's definitely not because i remember when it cut as the point it cuts uh i've i think i've got it actually i've got i i kept up so we get to that it's quite a long one or anyway i know when it cuts it all right come in my notes So everybody's there getting merry and there's a guy called David or David.
I should say, who is really encouraging people to drink. So there's a few red herrings because now we know there's LSD in the punch, which they don't yet. And it's not revealed in the plot yet. He's really like, have a drink, have a drink, have a drink, have a drink. And everyone's like, I am. Some people are. Some people are happy to just sip.
a beer there's one guy called omar who doesn't drink i guess for religious purposes and there's everybody's sort of getting involved in their own way people are smoking weed To be really boring and technical here, one thing I thought was, how the fuck do they manage to shoot all that with memory cards with enough space? Because they're probably shooting like 6K or something.
memory cards needs to be nowadays ridiculously big so i figured they must be sending their firelight you know a bluetooth type system to a hard drive and stuff and that's really boring and doesn't know reflection upon the story or anything but i was just so confused because this the camera is still going
You know, I was just like, wow, it's still going. Because in my notes, the camera's still going. Well, now there's films out there that are just an entire one, aren't they? I mean, you've got to look at adolescence, you know, which is... for one hour yeah i need to get i need to get technical with the the camera department i just want to know how they do that shit you know hey gav there is something i want to ask you about here as a dj
I know this will annoy you. There's two girls sitting on the deck table while he's DJing. I didn't really notice, actually. They were just on the desk, though, yeah. They're not actually on his decks. No, but his decks are there and he's spinning tunes and they're just sat up on there smoking cigarettes and drinking. I've had all sorts when I've DJed. That would annoy you, wouldn't it? I've had drinks spilt.
a lot more decks all sorts man i've had an ashtray come flying past me hit one of my turntables and just go flying off make the record jump actually record playing a glass ashtray Somebody I know once smashed my CD deck because I was playing a Justin Timberlake song at a party. And someone came up to me and smashed their fist down on the... the um lid of my cd decks and broke it it was still worked but i just didn't have a lid on that deck anymore oh shit
So we sent him to bed. He actually lived with me. I was like, you better go off to bed, mate. You're going to get knocked out. Then I put back on Justin Timberlake. I thought, I'm playing Sexy Back. Let me play it. Come on. Everyone was enjoying it. I love the fact, though, that he wanted to express his feelings for Justin Timberlake. He didn't like it. Which I think is brilliant. That was Rob, by the way. Was it?
Yeah. He was so drunk. He's not a violent man, but he was so drunk and so pissed off. Justin Timberlake was just not making him happy. That was what pushed him over the edge. And in the morning, because me and him lived together. In the morning, we lived together, you see. So it was just me and him. So in the morning, he came in the living room.
And I went, you owe me an apology. And he went, what for? And I went, you smashed my fucking decks last night. He didn't even remember doing it. He said, sorry. You think he bought me a bottle of rum or something? Did you tell him why? Yeah. What did he say? We both laughed about it because in the morning when you've got a hangover and you're just like, Justin Timberlake provoked you to smash your fist down through my deck lid. I think he had a cut on his hand as well. That makes sense, yeah.
Love you, Rob. One of my best friends. Yes, so the DJ daddy is spinning all these tunes and the girl, everybody knows each other. They're so comfortable. We have a flash up of being born is a unique opportunity. We do. It just flashes up. We get these messages. And the little boy is there, Tito. And he's like, I want to try the punch.
And they've also already been speaking of abortion, two ladies were. So there's a thing going on here with birth and abortion. Should you be alive? Should you not? But life is amazing. Death is also amazing. And even when Tito is there, they say, well, she... didn't have bought him and he's turned out all right yeah so it's just very blase about it yeah um the kid wants to try the punch and obviously quite rightly uh this is um
The end of the one take. Okay. Maybe it's a 14-minute one, and then I thought. It's something like that, I would have thought. But they take the punch away from him and she says, it's not juice, Tito, it's for adults. And he's like, oh, but then Selva, played by Sofia Boutel, comes over and...
she grabs him and she has a little dance with him. And this is where pump up the volume comes on. Great tune. Yeah. No, the camera is still going. Okay. Yep. A lot of racking, um, uh, samples in that song. I absolutely love it. Um, and eventually the kid goes up to bed. And this is where the two girls are really discussing abortion now. Secretly, one of the characters, we'll find out, is secretly pregnant later on, which is brutal when she's kicked in the stomach later on. Fucking hell.
And upstairs we see mum saying goodnight to her son. Yeah, so the camera's stopped there. She says, I love you very much. I'm going to go back downstairs now and just make sure everyone's happy at the party and got all the food and drinks they need. But... Close your eyes and I'll come back and see you later on. When you're grown up, you can be a dancer as well if you want, because you really love dancing as well, don't you, Tito? And she leaves him upstairs. For now.
uh people start slightly getting a bit more more paranoid because again on my second viewing now i realize how much lsd is in that punch and you can start seeing people being a little bit more paranoid but also conversations are getting deeper we've all been at parties where substances are around conversations start getting a lot deeper um and there's a slight agitation in the air now at the party
um we get basically we find out that pretty much everybody there has either fucked some or all of them or wants to fuck most of the people in that dance troupe. So it's quite an incestuous dance troupe. David is telling his friend Omar, who doesn't drink...
I really want a threesome with the two blondes. I just want a threesome with them. They're all just talking about shagging. That's why I'm saying that. I guess at the end there might be, but you just can't see it because it's just not clear enough. The two guys who are cousins...
are discussing that they think this whole place is haunted or could have had like a cult or a sect in it because of all the crucifixes and crosses and flags that are up and everybody's mentioned this at some point and they all get a weird vibe from the dance center on a technical
vibe again because i can't help it because with this movie i just noticed it especially as an editor each clip that goes back and forwards the people talking there's a slight gap of black so it's almost like you're blinking a little bit
There's a slight gap, a little bit fade out and fade in, just a little bit. What is the point? There is no point of this at all. It doesn't do any... I want to know, please tell me, why is your choice to do that? It doesn't... i don't know is this something happens when you have acid you have like these kind of going in and out or something do you know what i mean i don't know why that choice is there and i just i find it a little frustrating
Well, everybody's inhibitions are dropping as the discussions of sex are happening or in the room. Obviously, there's loud music playing, so you can only hear the only conversation you're in. Those two cousins, they start having... what is for me the most uncomfortable moment of the film which is especially in light of like everything we know now and how we should be treating other people
The way they're talking about the women and what they're going to do to all the women with their big long dicks, it's just really uncomfortable. I started finding it a bit boring. It was just the same sort of thing over and over, really. Back and forth, cut. up back forth talk about sex okay come on let's get to it then not really the sex but the film now as we enter a new level of people coming up
On their LSD. Very quickly, one guy says, you up for some filthy shit? And the other guy says, yeah. It's like, oh. I know, they discuss licking buttholes and everything. Is this a P. Diddy party or something?
So as now the mood is slightly getting a bit more loosey-goosey and it's getting a bit darker, the tone in the music changes and we get a slightly... darker house mix come on now yeah we've got this we've got a sudden sort of build up definitely going on here especially that flashes back and forwards uh it's definitely building up to something's going to happen well building up to the climax i suppose isn't it really
And we get the dancing circle now, which we talked about, which is basically a bird's eye view looking down. Everybody's taking it in turns to go crazy in this middle of this dance circle. It looks amazing. It goes on for ages, but... it is one of my favorite scenes to be honest with you absolutely love this again i've never seen dancing look like that only because it
normally you just see it from side on to see it from above it's a whole other thing you know what i mean when they're riding you can't tell when they're on the floor or when they're jumping in the air because you're above them your sense of perspective is out yeah it's good it looks it just adds to it indeed I wish it's such a simple thing and I wish I'd done it before. There you go, Don. You've inspired Gab to maybe go back. One thing I did do is I stood on a ladder.
And I had dancers all round me in a circle and I span round and I turned round and twisted like I was coming down a spiral staircase and they all danced around me as I got to it. I did do that though once. That sounds like some kind of weird, deranged, poor man's wicker man. It didn't come out very well, though. The tempo of the music starts to speed up now, so the BPMs are up.
And we get crazier and more stranger dancing. People are a bit more erratic, almost a bit violent with their dancing. People start... a record has changed on a turntable and funny enough because it's a turntable the camera actually all of a sudden just does like a 360 turn as well just for no reason
And we get people now, the dancing is now a lot of riding around on the floor, quite sexual. And this is where we get our opening credits. We're quite a way into the film now, we get our opening credits.
45 minutes into the film and we get all of the actors' names, well, the dancers' and actors' names and all of the music and the artists, Daft Punk, etc. mars than everybody else um come up so again it's 45 minutes in it feels like this movie feels more like it's not a feature film this film film more like it should have been
a dance piece which is like a film or a dance film you know what i mean it should have been more like that in a sense it feels like it just the way things like that choice there is such a style choice to have that come up especially all the names different fonts stuff of different music that's liked it's just like okay it doesn't
Do you know what I mean? It doesn't feel like a regular feature. But then again, I've not watched a lot of this dude's films. Maybe he decided to break it up because it would be too intense if we just had all of this without any breaks. And I appreciate that the guy is breaking the mould. doing stuff like this. You don't see it very often, so it's nice to do that. So I totally appreciate that as a filmmaker. We get a punch POV now, and this is where we see a cup of punch.
filled up and then we follow that along as it's passed between people And we now hear people start saying, I feel a bit weird. Yeah, I'm feeling a bit strange as well. And it's really starting to kick in with everybody now. And we kind of just have really one location of this film as well. It is one building of different rooms and corridors, but it is pretty much...
Yeah, kind of refers to what dogs are such. And people are now asking, has anybody got any coke? Because they want a bit of a straightener. They want to sharpen up a bit because they're all starting to feel a little bit... One of them's starting to feel quite bad. One of the women is just pissing on the floor. So that's her first instinct of something's not correct.
and yeah there's one lady's walking along she sort of says don't you want to clean it up and gives her a towel like what are you doing and she's like this is not right and so she keeps going up to different people saying i don't feel correct i think something's wrong eventually deciphers the fact that i think we've been spiked and they get that round they tell daddy the dj so it starts to be a conversation had and they all start going who's done this then it turns into anarchy very quickly
yeah and to highlight that everyone's now feeling wonky the camera angles are all quite diagonal and keep flipping from side to side giving you almost a seasick vibe um that girl pees on the floor like you say which is quite a strange moment I guess it happens at parties sometimes. Some of them are enjoying it. Some of them are enjoying the vibe. They've obviously used Acid before and they're loving it. You definitely get people there who are just having a great old time.
Now, because the mum of Tito is the one that prepared the punch, Selva, Sofia Boutella, approaches her and says, What did you do? Have you spiked the drink? There's something in the sangria. And they all start to realise now that they've been spiked. And initially, they start blaming the mum of Tito. But then... They're like, hang on a minute, only one person here hasn't had a drink, and that's Omar. And he's like, but I've told you what, I don't drink. It's almost very nice like The Mist.
being stuck in the supermarket, and then just the different arguments happening inside and different camps starting up and that sort of thing. And it's so easy for a group of them to be like, you're da-da-da, then someone else comes and says, yeah, then someone else comes and says, oh, really? And just follow. the sheep so easy for this to happen in these moments
You've got to remember, all the people in this, the guys, they're all fucked, but all of the people in this dance troupe are very strong, powerful people that can do these dances. Oh, yeah, dance is super strong. You've got all the guys and all the girls. who are really powerful there's one black woman with a shaved head who looks amazonian she's so athletic and the guys all grab omar and between them all they blame him and they throw him out in the snow
We later find out he dies in the snow. Curled up in a ball. We'll see that later on towards the end. So throwing him out in the snow. And then the music changes again. It gets more and more sinister. Kids on acid.
well people start to get really violent and edgy and then they look around and it's just this shot of tito the kid dancing around drinking away this punch that's obviously full of acid as well and his mum quite rightly freaks out because she's feeling the effects now her little boy who shouldn't be drinking let alone doing acid he's just been necking it so she drags him off what's the most sensible thing for her to do do you think to like look after him
Lock him in a cupboard with a big electrical system in there. Lock him in an electrical cupboard. Okay. Fire with a key. There's no chance she'll lose a key, is there? No, no, that's not going to happen. Well, then that's a good thing. And then the kids on acid. So being an electrical cupboard locked in on acid is a good idea.
It's really harrowing, the boy, because we don't see it and we don't need to. We can hear him screaming, Mummy, Mummy, I'm scared, I'm scared. That is the only thing that gets me a little bit like the under the skin scene. It's just, I think, as each time someone passes the corridor, you hear the kids scream.
out yeah mummy mummy particularly when like the pregnant woman is walking by later on after being kicked in the stomach she hears mummy mummy and it's like almost like her psyche and the baby in her tummy is calling her um So one of the girls follows Selva to the bathroom and says, I feel really sick. This is the pregnant girl. I think her name's Lou. She's like, what's wrong with you? She's like, I've got a secret to tell you. I'm pregnant. I don't know who the father is.
And while they're having this discussion, the big tall Amazonian woman I mentioned, who's called Dom, shows up. And she says, well, you weren't drinking either, so it must have been you. um that did this and she pushes her and knocks her on the ground he kicks her in the stomach and she starts screaming call me an ambulance call me an ambulance i'm pregnant um one of the
One of the girls gets bashed into a flame while she's freebasing. Someone just says, give me that Coke. Well, you get with this. It sort of goes into this now where the camera makes... you just drift along like it's a nightmare so the camera then just follows one person then someone else walks past then the camera just reaches i i appreciate this the camera then just
grabs and gravitates that person and turns and goes as follows that person who gets pushed to the side of whatever and set on fire which you were just saying about which is just like oh okay it's like she's on fire going oh my god oh my god We find her later on in the shower trying to dose her bad burdens. So that's going on. The cameraman follows her. Now a woman goes back into the main hall where we've got, I remember from the first Daft Punk album.
very first album homework i think it is there's a track on it which is just really i always really liked it myself but because it was kind of dark And it's the track which is playing here when they go back in and it's quite well suited for it. And it's just weird dancing. It's like a scene from a zombie film because they're all sort of stood on their own.
like the Shaun of the Dead zombies, sort of moaning and groaning, and some of them are really energetic, but most of them are quite lethargic, and this track is playing.
um dom tells everyone lou is pregnant she spiked our drinks so they all gang up on her and start abort yourself abort yourself they're saying to her and it's fucking horrible so she grabs a knife and you think what's she gonna do here and she cuts her own arm in two places then she cuts her face because she's obviously tripping balls as well
And um, yeah, she just kind of cuts herself a bit as well. She punches herself in the stomach she starts punching herself start it's i i i am just confused with the relationship here of why is this whole dance thing going on with all these dancers and choreography what has this got to do with life and death and abortion and children dying and should you
have children or not have children but life is great but death is also good etc etc why then dancers it's it's a strange connection why not why not just have this as actors i don't know it's I find it really weird, but then again, it's okay, I suppose.
And you've got to remember every time, you know, we're having these conversations about self-abortion and all this stuff that they're shouting at her, now and again, you just hear, mommy, mommy, from the cupboard. I'm scared. Let me out. It's fucking dark, man. The gay guy, there's a gay guy that keeps coming on to David, who doesn't want anything to do with him. Although David, I think, is bisexual, he's not interested in him. So David tries it on with Salva, Sofia Boutella.
and uh tries to kiss her and she she walks away she lies down um and we get the muted sounds which i mentioned earlier now so we hear the party but from quite far away that muted and people obviously there's a girl who's been burnt there's a girl who's been cut Omar's been thrown out in the snow
And she's lying there. She goes, there's amazing acting for this scene now from Sofia Batella. She goes out of her mind, almost like she's doing one of her dances. She flips upside down like a... possessed person and then she puts her hands down her um tights and you're like is she gonna masturbate what's she gonna do she doesn't she's just really hot really itchy really uncomfortable and just freaking out and she sees
The wallpaper in front of her on the wall is like a forest picture, and that just sends her into this demonic laugh. She just starts laughing at it. It's just incredible acting. And then after she's had her moment, the camera follows her back into the main room, but this time it spins upside down. And she's burning up. She tries to run cold water on herself. And then she comes across the mum trying to get in the electrical cupboard who says, I've lost the key. I've lost the fucking key. And...
She's like, there's loads of electrical stuff in there and I've lost the key. And the kid's going crazy in there. And the other woman that's come along seeing this is the one that's been sober, hasn't drank the pint. Well, not be sober.
But if she's pregnant, that's why she didn't drink the punch. So she's not on acid. So she's saying to go find the key then, you idiot, sort of thing. But she's still in pain herself. Obviously, she's got a lot of distress, obviously, with what's going on with her stomach, obviously.
And then the kid in there, she must be understanding and appreciating what's happening around her. Like, I'm fucked up, but this situation here is really fucked up. This kid's fucked up. What the fuck's going on? It must have been absolutely... You're not going to come out of this...
The next day with a regular hangover. Coming out of this with PTSD if you make it. This whole film reminds me of... a very small scene in dead man's shoes and you know the scene i'm talking about where they are all on mushrooms it's like someone took that and turned it into a really long hellish nightmare
Because that's one of the only other times where I felt what it might be like to take that much. I mean, again, I've done mushrooms in the past, you know, but I've never done LSD or acid, which I think are probably more.
that are stronger than mushrooms. I don't even know if the mushrooms I did really did that much for me, but maybe recap it and that was it. But yeah, it reminds me of that scene because that scene was so uncomfortable, the way that the other guys are acting with Paddy Constantine. Yeah, it's brilliant. It's just, yeah. So Selvan walks back into the main room now. Yeah, it's lots of walking. So lots of walking around corridors with a camera on it.
did start to find it then again it just might be me but i did find it a tad bit boring it was just like come on it's like actually gonna happen it seems to be yeah i know it's quite nightmarish whatever but it seems to be just extended going on on and maybe that's the trip that he wants the viewer to go down yeah because it's a short film but it doesn't feel like it because they drag it kind of really gets dragged out a bit so I don't know
Well, she goes back into the main dance room now where everybody's having their individual little freak out. Some of them are still dancing. David eventually gets beaten up by four guys. Some of them are black guys and they... get it in their head in some way that he might be racist so they grab a lipstick and draw a swastika on his forehead lots of people are half naked now the dj is wearing a wig
um david is unconscious from getting beaten up with a swastika drawn on his head people are writhing moaning screaming and there's one girl dom the tall Amazonian guru, just keeps on drinking the punch. She keeps going back for more. She's going to be on another planet. And then the power goes out. And we know what's happened.
yeah and i did it's funny i didn't care it's like so i went oh and i was like oh she's oh oh the kid's dead well it's just it's like it's a matter of time with that mum that that kid was gonna die I think their reaction to it which is Tito's fried and they all start laughing and cheering and then they're like oh my god we haven't got any music but one of the guys is like
Don't worry, I've got my ghetto blaster. Let me get it set up. Oh, I did wonder. I won my notes later on. I was like, hang on, have they got music still? Yeah, okay. Yeah. So the mum's still trying to break the door down to get to her dead fried child. And then we get... Which comes on, which just feels dirty and dark now, based on this scene. It's a bit of a dark song anyway, isn't it? Yeah.
And that song starts playing. Selva gets taken off by one of the girls and they end up having a little bit of a kiss and almost getting it on on the bed. There's a woman in the shower trying to wipe blood off her as well. They passed before they did that. She's the woman who got burned, I believe. Oh.
David walks in and his dream of two girls is like, oh great, Selva and this other girl are getting it on, I'll just join in with them. So they kick him out of the room and he starts crying. The DJ in the wig... DJ Wig, as I like to call him, starts... DJ Daddy Wig, that's what I'm going to call him. That's one of Puff Daddies mates. He starts stumbling through the corridor and he finds the little gay guy from earlier and comforts him. David tries to...
David just keeps trying to join couples having sex and no one wants him in their threesome. They don't want threesomes with him. I've known people like this. Have you? They're not trying to have sex with me. But again, I feel this movie, it just feels like, I know you're trying to make a point, so get to that point. It's such Miranda-ing, even though you say it's not even a long movie.
it just feels like it's more people's walking along and then someone else we're gonna follow them walking along corridor walk along yeah i once um was at a party not long ago actually only about five years ago
I went into the downstairs loo to have a wee. And when I came out, there was a girl there, a girlfriend of a guy that I know. And she said, oh, Dan, I think you and Alice are... really hot and i was like oh my god she must be so high i said oh yeah and she went yeah i was wondering if i you would ever want to like you know do a bit of a group thing and i was like
uh oh with you she went well with me and i won't say his name and i was like oh you mean a foursome and she was like yeah and i was like um Probably not. I mean, me and Alice only got married a few months ago. Not really our bag, really. But, I mean, I'll... Because I was drunk and a bit wonky. I said, well, I'll speak to Alice and sort of let you know. Alice, I was down at a pub earlier.
Well, apparently she then went up to Alice earlier and said the same thing. So me and Alice later on in the night were like, oh, my God. What did Alice respond to? No, as well. We were like, no way. Thank you very much. How awkward would that be?
Yeah, I did have a friend's sister I met her down didn't meet her I was down the pub drunk and she was there with her other half and they're both there I had had previously had a experience with her and a friend of mine was there as well we were both very drunk so essentially
guess i kind of a threesome but not really anyway so i'm down the pub years later it's drunk and she's there more even better husband and just like all right how you doing like yeah i'm right then they're just like oh what you did now what you did now and he's like yeah what you up to now and i was just like oh no son i'm standing talking to him i'm like oh no she's gone and told him that she had like a kind of not really a reason with me once upon a time and uh she's now
going like, oh yeah, let's get him back to our sort of thing. And he was like, yeah, what are you up to? Do you want to come back to our sort of thing? And I was just like, oh no, because I was really drunk. And I was like, oh, I definitely said, no way. No way, no way, no way.
funny enough this next story involves your ex-wife but when she came down to bristol to see me years ago we me and her went out to a club um oh yeah i think i remember i think you know this story and we were dancing away having a great time it was like a punk pop night and um towards the end of the night this
couple sort of came up to us and said oh we've been watching you dance for the last half an hour we'd really like to you to come back to us for for more party and if you know what we mean and we both looked at each other like absolutely fucking not see you later and we just
ditched it got in a cab and went it's like what the fuck i know it's a weird situation it does happen doesn't it yeah um i always remember that last scene in one of the episodes of the office the british office where gareth is proposition by a couple oh is it and then and then in the background that couple are driving off on a motorbike and you see gareth in the side look and he's like looking at the camera and like what am i up to he just goes off i remember i have to watch it again
Yeah, it's funny. Anyway, so yeah. Brother and sister. Yeah, brother and sister seem to be getting it on. David tries to join him with quite a few couples, including the brother and sister. um i didn't really notice that and so i said oh and i said what happens i was promised i said i didn't really figure it out because the trouble is with this film also
The problem is obviously the geography of the building. You don't really know what's what because it hasn't been marked out properly. But there's also a lot of cast. There's a lot of people in this film. It's very hard to know who's who. Very hard.
downward gets beaten up again and this is where the lights come on red now because obviously we've got the emergency lights on because we've lost power because of poor tito and this is where it turns into hell because it's red there's horrible industrial house me playing people are really doing their best contortionist dancing now there's people having sex on the floor it's like a bunch of savages going crazy and um
One of the girls starts convulsing and spitting up white fluid and her eyes are rolling back in her head. Some people are laughing at her, other people are writhing around crying on the floor. um and it's it's like like i said earlier it's like they're all on the ceiling now and they can't get down off the ceiling and i guess that's to represent for me anyway that they're so high they feel like they're on the ceiling and they just can't they want to come back down and they can't and i get that
I do totally get that. One of the guys seems to break his own arm, one of the contortionists. He bends it so much that it snaps. And the guy that he does it in front of goes... I didn't even notice that. I think he's broken or dislocated his own arm. You probably need to watch this film a few times, I guess, to be able to clarify everything.
and david is then i believe killed because they smash his head back on the ground and it seems like he's dead then with the swastika on him and that's kind of the end really now because the camera remains upside down and then The door opens and it's daylight and we get some cops coming with a dog. With a guard dog or security. I don't know. I don't know if it's security people. And they come in and numb.
They look at the aftermath and there's just bodies everywhere. Some of them are still, some people are still dancing. Some of them are crying, passed out or dead. And they're going around looking at all the bodies. They find the burnt girl in the bathroom screaming. Bird's eye view of the kid lying down dead in the cupboard. And then the mum dead. She killed herself. He looks up and he says she's gone. And...
Omar that you see Omar out in the snow he's the first one to die and he's just curled up in the fetal position and I guess that brings us back to the whole birth thing we have death is an extraordinary experience comes up on the screen as well And then we get the brother and sister who are like, oh, we better not tell dad about this. It's like, yeah, you better fucking not. Jesus Christ.
And then we cut to a girl putting in eye drops, which we can only assume is more LSD because she was talking about her housemate doing that earlier. And then it fades to white. And then the word climax comes up. Wow. It's a film. It is an experience. It's one of those films, and I don't want to sound... arty farty but it is it's not a film it's an experience yeah it doesn't feel like it was definitely not a traditional film it's not really a start middle and then type thing
every scene that you expect to happen. Like you say, it's more of an experience. That's why I say it feels more like it could be a dance video or something. But that's why I feel...
That's his style because, I mean, going back to Irreversible, that film obviously starts at the end and finishes at the beginning with some brutal rape and... people getting really get their heads caved in and stuff like that and it ends in such a lovely way but you've got to remember with that film that end scene which is so beautiful is the beginning and
that day is going to get terrible because we've watched the day backwards almost and then into the void you follow this guy who dies as a spirit sort of going through all this drug-induced terrible stuff that's going on
And the camera work on that is incredible. And I think that's Gaspar North's style, is he puts you, it's almost like... his version of virtual reality but in film yeah because you do feel like you're at this party stumbling around following people around from corridor to corridor not really sticking with one character it's also as myself as creative and a filmmaker it's actually influential it influences me into inspires me into like trying to do some stuff I find
I really appreciate a lot of the artistry into it, actually, as a film. I just didn't like the non-story. It felt like... Look, cards on the table here. I knew you wouldn't like this very much. I knew you might appreciate some of it, which you do. I do the style, yeah. This is my second watch. I gave it a 6 out of 10 the first time around. I'm still keeping it as a 6 out of 10 because...
It does move me, not in an emotional way, in a sort of, it makes me feel a certain way, which I think films should, particularly when they're trying to. Yeah, of course. And I think Gaspar Noor does this very well. I agree. This time around, I got more out of it, I guess, because I knew from the get-go that there was LSD and I knew from the get-go I could remember some of the characters were going to die. I remembered something terrible happened with the kid.
So as soon as she locked him in that cupboard, it all came flooding back to me like a bad trip. So I still... Give this a 6 out of 10. And I still give this a thumbs up. If you've not seen it. If you're a fan of Gaspar Naught. Or you're a fan of experimental film. Or Incredible Dancing.
or you just want a trippy experience, check it out. If you want something linear with a... a to b plot well no you're not gonna get really get that now if you want to say linear which is grubby and a bit yucky i'd say watch the original train spot in film For the same sort of thing at times. Yeah, that's true. And the same sort of plays on life and death and drug addiction and different things. And abortion and everything else. Yeah.
Yeah, I would watch that over this again. But, like, Dom, I do appreciate this, though. I do appreciate the style. I do appreciate a director, a filmmaker that is doing what... film should be done with film like being able to do like you say just just not doing the mold just doing something different and just doing what they want to do and getting that across and i think it's done very well
uh yeah i almost wish though like someone else came in and said actually hang on let's chuck a little bit of a story in here let's actually have some more scenes with dollar let's have do you know what i mean and then actually made this more than this is That's what I would like for this film. No, I get that. But I do think that we wouldn't have... It's great that we've got patrons like Don who... Yeah, we probably wouldn't have thought of doing this film, actually.
exactly yeah we'd never have covered this and it's amazing for us reviewers because I've said this to you patrons before there's going to be a chance Dan and I won't like the stuff that you say so don't be upset by that it just happens to be where it is We can't be a good podcast if we don't say our actual truths. of what we think of films um but yeah i love the fact that we can do stuff like this because it's great and for me as a reviewer and a filmmaker it's good to see all sorts of films
I have to see all sorts of films. I have to to make me able to make better films and to review films better as well. Yeah. So thank you. Yeah, thank you, Don. Thank you very much. Well, that's Climax. It's a thumbs up from me. And look, it's a wavy thumb up from me. If you want to watch a film, if you know... what you're going into, like Dan's just said, all those things, and you want that film, this is that film for you. Don't take acid when you watch it though. Or do if you're a nihilist.
But if you just want a traditional film, definitely don't watch this. You're not going to have a good time. It's not a fun film. Don and his family seems to feel like it's a fun film. I can imagine the dancing and sort of reenacting that. It's Christmas Day, come on, let's put the family Christmas movie on. So, you know, I appreciate it all though, but it's a wavy thumb up for me. If you want this sort of thing, you get it.
if you wanted something like this with a bit more story go original train spotting there you go well talking of dancing look who's just danced their way into my living room covered in greece it's just disgusting and what is that between your legs is it a long mouse Ferret Mouse, what is it? He is leading us into World of the Strange. He says it's going to be very kinky and perverted. So, greasy Bill Murray.
If you could lead us into World of the Strange, please. Dripping all the way over to us. Here we go. Hi, welcome back to World of the Strange. Well... Thanks, Bill. Thanks, Bill. He's getting grease all over my living room. Stop dripping it everywhere. In light of our next film, The Greasy Strangler... Which is about a perverted crime spree. I thought we'd take a look at some real life perverted kinky crime sprees. If you're into that kind of thing. Yeah, of course.
I've got a few of them here. I'll start off with something quite light. This happened in 1993. There was a man called Ronald who first stole... This was his first run-in with the law. He stole three mannequins from a department store in Detroit. They were all dressed in lingerie. He was arrested for doing that. And over the next 14 years...
He was arrested seven more times for crimes involving stealing mannequins. Why can't he just go and buy some mannequins? He has something called statuophilia, where he's into... Mannequins. I bet he loves that Kim Cattrall movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mannequin. His last arrest was in October 2006. He smashed the window of a cleaning supply store and stole a mannequin that was dressed like a maid. He'd only been out of prison for a week.
He must have been in there going, fuck me, I need one of them mannequins. The judge has said, I could put you away for up to 30 years because you've never actually hurt anyone. go away for 18 months and we'll review it in 18 months time and see how it goes he's going to come out and just steal another mannequin isn't he yeah
But if he re-offends, he'll get a longer sentence. So I guess he hasn't re-offended. Just not. But yeah, that's a nice light one just to start things off. It's a weird one though, isn't it? Let me tell you about Edwin Tobrichter from Ohio. Okay. He was first arrested in 2002 for having sex with an inflatable pumpkin that was part of a Halloween display. In the display? Yeah, it's part of a Halloween display. Was he doing it in the display as people walk past shoppers? Yeah.
oh fuck yeah but did you see it was like fuck yeah the the bounce came on just as he saw a pumpkin and his eyes lit up and he got a boner and i'm fucking me some inflatable pumpkin right now Right fucking now. Let's go. Six years later he was convicted again of public indecency for another crime that wasn't revealed to the public.
But whatever it was, he got five years community control, which is also known as house arrest. So five years house arrest. Five years house arrest? What did he do? But then things got worse because in 2011, he stole an inflatable pink pool. wrapped from his neighbour took it into the alley between their houses and started to shag it the neighbour saw this you dirty dog
They arrested him. I can imagine them from a window looking down at the alley and throwing boots like it's a cat screaming and it's actually this dude on this inflatable fucking bed going at it. For some reason, the neighbour...
demanded the pool raft back give me my raft back even though he banged it put it back where you found it but two years later he stole the same pink raft from his neighbor oh man that's some justice right there and again and again he made sweet sweet love to it in the same alleyway but
He did it in the middle of the day while children were nearby. So again, he was arrested. It's obviously a mental situation where all of a sudden it's like a mental breakdown where he just doesn't see clearly and just like, right, I need to go hump that. fucking inflatable bed in an alleyway right now so weird he got put away for 12 months and apparently hasn't committed any crime since so there we go
Let's move on to a serial pooper. What do you say in your prison? What you in here for? Humping inflatables. I had sex in an inflatable. Bed. And a pumpkin. And a pumpkin. So this again is in Ohio, the serial pooper. Police got reports in 2012 that someone had pooped on people's cars.
Sometimes the faeces were smeared on their bonnet or their hood. Other times the pooper did his business all over the door handle so they couldn't get into their cars. If they'd left their car unlocked he'd go in and poop all over the seat. There were 19 different reports made to police over a few weeks. 19 occasions of pooping in cars and on cars. But the reports were mostly always made after the victim's car had been targeted repeatedly. So they were like, look.
the first time i didn't report it to the police but this is the third time someone's on my door handle of my car now one woman's car was actually on six times in a couple of weeks police believe there were many more incidents that weren't even reported so in March 2015 one of the victims who had it happen to them several times set up a camera which would take a picture every 12 seconds
And he finally got a picture of a man with his bare buttocks crouching on the top of his car, pooping onto the hood. So weird. And the police are now analysing this picture.
to try they still haven't caught whoever it is but they've got enough evidence that if he does it again they'll probably be able to start piecing together who this is why are you pooping on cars why it is a bit of a why isn't it we had that uh where the kids live on the wall we jump over the wall going to the park and uh there's occasionally there's a shit there it's like a turd there and uh it's an animal turd and it's like i'm assuming it's a fox turd Um...
And it's quite weird. Every once in a while there's a fox turd there. Why is it a fox turd? It's quite a high wall as well right next to the house. What is it doing there? Pinky fox. But apparently the other day Daisy said to me that they saw a fox up there and just didn't... his shit and got off. So what is a fox getting up on a high wall and doing his shit and getting down? So weird. His foxmen are like, oh my god. Freddy's fox is up there again and shitting on a wall. Shitting on a wall.
Well, I think we've covered this next one many years ago in one of our World of the Strange, but it's worth bringing up again. And this is the serial toe sucker in South Carolina. This is a guy called Joey Leffart who's got a foot fetish. And he goes up to women in public places like McDonald's, gas stations, Walmarts. And he says, please can I kiss your feet or suck your toes? And if he's got money, he offers to give them money for it.
If the women say no, he just moves on. However, sometimes he would try and trick people to get their toes in his mouth. How do you trick someone? He told one woman in a walmart in georgia that he was part of america's funniest home movies television show and he says if you pay i'll pay for all your clothes in the store if you let me suck your toes there's hidden cameras all around here
so she was like oh go on then so he started doing it but he said i'm gonna hide in this clothing rack so just put your toes in there she's like okay Apparently he whispered from the clothing rack, this tastes so good. And then he ran out of the store and was arrested a short time after. Fucking hell. It gets dark though. Oh no.
Because he was then arrested in 2015 for sucking the toes of an 11-year-old girl. He got put away for five years and put on the sex offender register for that one. That is crazy. Weird, isn't it? Imagine just being in a McDonald's, chowing down on your big mat, and you feel you've got flip-flops on, you've got thongs on, and you feel something. You think, why is my toe wet? And you look down, and there's just a man there, going...
It's just not great, is it? You're not going to enjoy your Big Mac. No, not really. Well, this is a great one, Gavin. This would make a great title of a film, this next one. The Butt Slasher. Nice. Charles Branson. The post slasher. So the first report that a man had slashed at the buttocks of a woman was in a Virginia shopping centre in February 2011.
by august that same year nine women had reported that a man had slashed at their bottoms with what they thought was some kind of knife or razor or box cutter Each time there was some kind of distraction where something would be knocked over in a shot, they'd look one way, feel a pain in their bottom, and they would be bleeding.
It was becoming a real problem. So the police formed a task force. Basically, you're going to have to go out there just as a woman and to get your boss for your bottom slashed. don't worry though it's like a body like bulletproof vest we've got you bullet slash proof pants so using images from various surveillance cameras they were able to identify johnny as the slasher. He was later spotted in his home country of Peru, so they tracked him all the way to Peru and arrested him by Interpol.
in 2012 brought back to the united states where he pleaded guilty to malicious wounding and two counts of unlawful wounding and was given 20 years sentence but only served seven of them That's quite dangerous, though, like, slashing someone's bottom with a knife. Do you know what I mean? It's a lot of, like, meat. But it's weird, though. It's not like you actually intend to kill them, but you obviously want the thrill. Yeah.
Bottom slashers. Yeah. Well, here's another headline grabber for you. The manure masturbator. Okay. David Truscott. It loves cow manure. Okay. Starting in 2005. This is Cornwall in the UK, by the way. So this is near me. He was in his mid-30s in 2005 and he began visiting a farm in Redruth in Cornwall. At first he would just take some of the manure home with him. The farmer didn't think much of it, he probably just thought, you want to put it on your garden.
But that didn't fulfil his burning desire, so he then was found rolling around in cow poos, smearing it all over himself while masturbating. He was arrested three times between 2005 and 2011 for this act. The people at the farm tried to stop him from coming back by cleaning all the manure as soon as the cows and the horses had done it, but this just made him angrier.
He then threatened to kill everybody on the farm and said, I'm going to do this. And then he set the farm on fire. He needed mental help. One cow was killed in the fire. Shit. it turns out he's on the autism spectrum right and was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison where he will receive psychiatric treatment yeah when he's released there'll be a strict restraining order
And he'll need to stay away from every farm in the United Kingdom. Don't go to a farm ever again. So weird, but bless him. He needed help, though. Someone needed to acknowledge that he needed help early on. that is nuts isn't it yeah the masturbating in the manure is just probably not the crux of the issue that was just like a thing that he's gone weird thing that he's gone with
Astrobatum of cow poop. That's a strange one. But you don't want to get that down your urethra, Franklin, do you? You're going to get some kind of infection, aren't you? Yeah. I've got two more for you. One of them is about a DIY hairdresser. Okay. So the first account was New Year's Eve in 2009 in Portland. Police responded to a strange emergency call. A woman had been sat on a bus when a man had just cut off some of her hair from behind her. Jared Walter, not Jared Leto.
was arrested and after news of the arrest was released and three other women decided to come forward and say they'd even had their hair cut by him one of the women said he cut my hair and then poured super glue into it as well this increased his sentence just over two years He got out of prison and two months after being released things took a darker turn. He was sat on the bus again but instead of cutting a woman's hair he masturbated and ejaculated.
into the hair of three different women on the bus he sounds of lambs them spider-man them he then got another two years straight back in two more years He was released in 2014 and was banned from using any buses in that state. In that state? We don't want you, but I don't care if you go to another state because we wouldn't be able to go wank on those buses.
It's not a jurisdiction. Yeah. But that didn't stop him, Gav. One month after he got out of prison, again on another New Year's Eve, 2014, he was in a dollar store. when he grabbed a woman and tried to cut her hair. He was arrested on the spot and is currently awaiting trial. That was back in 2014. This is an older article. So, yeah, super blue jizz and haircuts. Interesting. Is that a new album name? The last one is called The Dart Man. Darts. Okay.
So the first assault in this strange crime spree happened in 1990 in New York City. A woman reported she'd been assaulted in a very strange manner. Somebody shot her in the buttocks with a small homemade needle dart. Wow. Like a trank, like... No, she wasn't the only victim. Of this man who had a blowgun. So he's blowing them. Like a tribal. You know. 55 women. Have come forward.
over the course of several years saying um and they were all women who were well dressed business suits so he's obviously got a thing for these women who are like dressed in certain ways on the new york subway and they've all had blow darts shot at them and stabbed into them so they arrested this man but what it's a dark god it's not laced with anything and it's just a well i think they were worried that it was yeah exactly but
Essentially they've arrested him, Jerome his name was, he was picked out of a line up by three of the women who recognised him and he was at charge for secondary reckless endangerment and harassment. um so they could only actually charge him with three because only three women could sort of identify him he got seven years in prison so again you're in prison
Hey, mate, what did you do? Oh, it was fucking inflatable. So what about you? Blow dart. That wouldn't work, actually. Those both would cancel each other out. They would. That's like rock, paper, scissors. It is. You dart my inflatable. What about him down there? He just has a wank with cow shit. Yeah. Great. That's not the trio you want to be stuck in a lift with. No, the smell would be terrible and you'd be stabbed. Yeah.
So there's your kinky chrome spree list. I humped. Yep. Well, all right. Well, thank you, kinky. Well, talking of kinky, I think it's time that Bill took us out of here and... We got greased up for the greasy, greasy strangler. Oh, boy. Oh, it's going to get greasy, I imagine. Bullshit. Oh, bullshit. Well, let's get a trailer for the greasy, greasy strangler. Let's do it. That's all the time we've got for this week on World of Strange. Next week, though, give me Ira. Hairless pets. Weird.
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the greasy strangler from 2016 unrated a nice tidy one hour and 33 minutes ronnie runs a disco walking tour with his son When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night. And this is directed by Jim Hosking. And we are joined for this one by the lovely Sarah. Hello. You may recognise from the High Strangeness podcast. Yeah. And Gab's better half as well. Yep.
or equal half if i'm being nice to gav um welcome sarah you're here because thank you this is one of your favorite films of recent years it is And you were so excited that we were talking about it. We were like, just come on the show and talk about it with us.
Thank you. Yes, I did consider becoming a Patreon. Obviously, I love you guys, but that would have been my first pick, was the greasy strangler. Because me, being Gav's other half... could not get him to watch it i asked him to watch it with me and he didn't want to watch it with me so now he's had to watch it and i love it so much so this is your first watch as well gav um all the way through i think isn't it yeah um the first time
i was in a bad place though um that was where i went through sort of depression so i was living above the funeral parlor by myself feeling pretty sad for myself and i tried watching this movie and i gave up halfway through because i was like that's no It's not working for me. And I don't know, it was also real greasy. Even this time around, I watched it with Sarah.
It just makes me feel a bit yucky and a bit sick more than any I could like Sarah's best night for Sarah is fucking this and the fly as a double bill. Bundle fly. With the fly, it's some yucky shit. I could...
I can look at that stuff better than I can look at the greasy sausages being cooked in a frying pan in this. I don't know if that's just a health thing of mine. Like, oh my God, which makes me feel sick. This was my first viewing of it as a... full uh featured film all the way yeah um funny though funny thing was i was saying to you on the weekend i was with sarah because we're sarah and i we don't live with each other um distance apart um and
we were together and I was like, do you know what the next films are for Patreon? And you're like, I don't know what they are just yet. And I was like, that's a shame. That same day, Sarah said to me, can we watch Grease Strangler? And I said, no, we can't. He refused me. I generally won't.
don't even well i don't know i am quite fussy sarah's a lot more forgiving with my choices of films but um uh i wouldn't really refuse right out but i was like no i don't watch it and what and look here we are And here we are. It's amazing. I had to fucking watch it. But you'll see what I think about it. It came out better. The grass was greener than I thought it was going to be. I thought it was just going to be all brown.
Yeah. I'm so glad about that. And this was my first watch too. I've actively not avoided it. I just haven't bothered to watch it. I thought I knew what it was going to be like. um so i don't often not watch a film but everyone's been like oh you're either gonna love it or hate it i thought well time isn't i haven't got that much time at the moment so
If I ever get around to it, I get around to it. But obviously, Don has bumped it up the list and there we are. I've watched it now. And, you know, cards on the table. I had a lot of fun with this. I... went into it cynical quite cynical thinking i thought it was going to be very similar to a show which i'm about to say something which is going to make some of our listeners go what
But I don't really like the League of Gentlemen that much and some of that stuff. I've watched it all, but it's not like my favourite stuff. So I thought this was going to be, and in some ways it is a bit like that. Yeah.
but obviously it's got the american spin on it which i wasn't expecting for some reason i expected it to be british and it just is this really weirdly self-contained world of napoleon dynamite like yeah yeah necessary you described it just before we started recording you said someone once said it was like napoleon dynamite what was it you said it's going up twin twin peaks twin peaks um so
Off the bat, yeah, I enjoyed this and this is going to be a fun conversation. But it's not a film I'll be going back to too often. But I would definitely watch this again. Oh, that's great. Yay.
um sarah it's a greasy win you must have watched this dozens of times then tell us why i have it's all true i love it i love that it's just so weird i love that you can get to the end of it and just be like what the fuck did i just watch like it's all so crazy and watching it again even though i wasn't reviewing it i was watching it with gav we whatsapp video called each other
And we watched it together and I thought it moves along at such a good pace as well. There's always something going on, you know, there's always a scene, which was really nice. But yeah, I love it. I just think it's so great. i was a little bit late to it because i think it's 2016 isn't it i think i saw it in about 2020. But as soon as I, just every minute of the film, I love it. It's so out there. It's so weird. It is just my sense of humour.
Going back to what you were saying, Dan, I love the League of Gentlemen. I think it's amazing. I watch it on a regular basis. I think it's so good. So it's just my kind of humour. I love that kind of growth. disgusting gab's right gross it's very abstract it is really out there i'm a massive fan of like the mighty bush and stuff like that as well so it is really my sense of humor
It's just crazy, weird shit for no reason or no apparent reason, you know. That's why it surprised me that I really liked it because I didn't think I was going to. But, yeah, it's... It's very abstract, as we say. And something that surprised me as well is that two of the producers are Ben Wheatley and Elijah Wood.
But that kind of makes sense because Elijah Wood loves weird, obscure stuff and he's done a lot of British productions recently. I didn't know Ben Wheatley. Yeah. And Ben Wheatley as well, you know, we've covered Kill List many years ago. Yeah, because is he part of SpectreVision?
elijah woods yeah i don't know but elijah woods aren't quite out there they sort of they do sort of look and do the sort of slight odd films don't they recently was it come to daddy he did recently where he goes goes home to see his dad and there's loads of weird shit going on it's such a mad film yeah
So, yeah, it's going to take only some studios that are going to make a film like this, obviously, and then getting the money to do a film like this. I think Elijah Wood obviously being Elijah Wood.
you know lord of the rings you just have to say lord of the rings gives it clout i think probably helps them acquire budgets for films like this because you know yeah it's quite out there where it's a very niche it's it they know it's going to be niche when you make something like this and it's going to be quite culty but that doesn't necessarily say bring in money so it's interesting film as well oh wow
must be a short film he did before yeah i think he did do a short film first and then he did this one okay and then i think the next one was the one that i watched the other night which wasn't An Evening with Beverly Loughlin. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's called, yeah, which is great as well. I recommend that. It's good. And this sort of film, oh, sorry, Gav. I was just going to say very quickly, I think with this film, it's the casting. has to be correct.
And Michael St. Michaels is our lead. He's amazing. He was John Travolta's hairdresser. Let's just for a moment, is that his real name or his parents were there one day? and went so who called St Michael's or what did she call him? Did she call him Mike? Michael St Michael's yeah yeah fuck it makes him grow into who the greasy strangler is the perfect perfect fitting I went to school with a boy called Scott Scott
Oh, no way. American boy joined our school for like half a year and then moved on. Scott Scott. That's crazy. That's crazy. Oh, my God. Lazy. Super lazy. Lazy naming. One thing I wanted to say as well is going back to what you said about pacing, Sarah, before we jump into it. This also has a blueprint. The reason we love it, I think, and like it.
is it has a blueprint of the slasher movies and that's that's tied in with the pacing because stuff happens and then there's a kill stuff happens and then there's a kill yeah yeah you get a little backstory on each of them Just like you would with Friday the 13th. Not enough to go down rabbit holes. Just enough that you find out a little bit about them, then they're killed off. And I like that. I like that that works. It keeps it moving.
Yeah, definitely. But you find out this film is kind of like, you watch it, you actually kind of forget the whole fact that there's a Greasy Strangler because you're so like, the fuck? And you kind of go into this... dirty brown musty world and of all yellow or whatever it is all you know mustard and and you just don't you say like that then all of a sudden it's just the greasy strangler this is basically our lead covered in a greasy slop of paste type stuff going around strangling people
but you kind of forget that so when it comes up it isn't as like oh fuck it's the killer or do you know what i mean it's not a standard film you're just like it just kind of just absorbs like the grease does into the other scenes and such but you're so in there of the first thing it doesn't it's not do you know what I mean for me it's not you don't look at it as a horror each scene is so weird
yeah i think it all kind of it's just a weird thing all the scenes are a surprise i think rather than that being like normal life and then a surprise of the killer have you guys it's normal for them i know but it's every scene is weird that comes up so it's all like what the fuck have you guys ever seen welcome to whoop whoop no no
all right we watched we watched welcome it's an american american dude and he gets he gets uh he's fleeing some uh uh gangsters owed some money to and he goes to australia meets up with a woman of great thanks shags her and then she knocks him out and takes her to his little village where she her dad runs the village
And it's in the middle of fucking, what, mate? Where the fuck do you think you're going? And it's all just real, like, they've made their own little place in the middle of Australia. And he's stuck there and he can't get out. We'll have to watch it. Oh, my God. And they eat fried up breakfast. They eat fried up breakfast.
Breakfast in a pint glass. Oh, my God. Well, this film also takes another... It's a bit like this, it feels. This film also takes another podcast on Haunted Hill Bingo Square because it's been a while since I've been able to say this. The old man cock. Oh, my God. Come on, Sarah. Boy, oh, boy. It's so big. Sarah, come on. Say old man cock. Old man cock. Episode one. We've been repping the old man cock.
there's even a mic for a penis in this which I don't see in a film if that's his son surely he should be endowed with his pointed weasel penis like his dad rather than just the little It's like a massive mouse's head. It's so weird and pointed. It's dad's massive, long, pointed, weird dick. Why is it pointed? Oh, God. So many good scenes with that dick. Let's get into the film. Daniel?
Sarah? Let's get into it, shall we? Go on then, let's get crazy. Okay, so just to set this up, we've got the two main characters, the big Ronnie and big Brayden. ronnie the dad brayden the son and then there's a bunch of other characters throughout some tourists big paul who is the blind guy who runs the car wash
Janet, the girlfriend that they're fighting over, and a couple of other people in there as well. There's even a character called Oinker. There's no explanation for why he wears a pig's nose. He doesn't have a nose underneath it, but we'll get to him. He's got some fancy shoes, though. He has. Those are pretty fancy shoes. And before we get into it, I just love the fact that I was thinking about it then. It's like, yeah, but I would possibly do something like that myself. Disco tour.
to make money for a job. And then I was like, Gav, you would probably, if you knew disco spots, you might well do a disco tour. Sarah, would I do a disco tour? I could imagine you. I could imagine you. When we were watching it, I was like, I can imagine you in some of those clothes as well.
little pink shorts Dan me and you man me and you dudes we could do the disco tours this is where the Bee Gees wrote staying alive all just all pink pink shorts and pink tops fucking their choice as well pink like yeah this film has a look doesn't it uh yeah definitely the clouds of a choice there's no sort of sense of when it's set or anything really it is very unique and that's what makes it stand out um
we've got this sort of old house haven't we and um we start off with this guy in bed and another guy comes in it's just our lead both our lead actors um and he kind of in his pants with his belly sticking out with a cup of tea for his dad who's asleep in bed and it's kind of Feels a bit like Nicolas Cage. standing there in his pants, it could very easily be Nicolas Cage. I can imagine him doing this role. Absolutely, 100%. Yeah. So, you know, I thought that straight away, but...
He brings his dad a coffee in bed, and like you said, they're all pretty much just in their underwear. And it's just a very disgusting house.
And there are elements all the way through this of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre family, you know, because they live in this scummy, disgusting world where they just do disgusting things. Not to the same level almost as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre family, but... but they still well apart from the dad killing people but they are still really weird and dirty and to them that's just normal
and he's bringing him a cup of coffee isn't he and and he says he's not happy is he well he ain't got enough grease i've got coffee now grease in my coffee i've got no grease i'm just checking and he's just not happy he ain't got enough grease this coffee so straight away it's a bit like what do you mean do you mean greasing your coffee at what point though did he get to the point where he's is like oh accidentally did grease fall into something he went
that's really nice and to get into it it's like where did this come from you almost need a backstory but no no backstory straight away there's a a love of Greece. We're pretty much told from this scene who the greasy strangler is because he says to his son...
His son says, you want grease in everything, Dad. I've told you, you know, people like a milky coffee. They don't like a greasy coffee. You want grease on everything. And he says, you probably think I'm the greasy strangler, don't you? Well, I'm not. And he says, then he says, well, I am.
bullshit artist and we get this backwards and forwards which comes up multiple times where they call each other bullshit artist and it goes on and it almost too long but it's funny throughout this you have got that almost family guy where like keep a joke going for a long long long time and there's one bit almost too long there's a bit with the portal um
comes up which is very Monty Python but we'll get to that so if dad says I'm not the greasy strangler you got it so they get ready I love the title inside the building yeah it's so simple but i always love shit like that and we get our first taste of the score for this film which is this nightmare induced high-speed voice singing i don't know they're singing about like have you seen my butter where's my butter and my grease but it's sped up by alvin and the chipmunks played with like electronic
I don't know. As a composer myself, I don't know when you get the assignment, you look at it and go... okay like how did they come up with that score it's just i don't know it's so out there and then it gets these high-pitched voices and it's almost like at one point it's like a chipmunk's really dark chipmunk song at some stage
so what is going on with this it just it just makes this a signature for this film it's just everything about it just makes this film the cult what i knew this film would be a cult is a cult whatever It's another layer of it. Self-contained, isn't it? Self-contained weirdness. Some of this stuff reminds me of early Taika Waititi movies, before he got Hollywood, when he was making his movies in New Zealand.
Even before what we do in the shadows, where he had strange music playing and, you know, very odd characters and that kind of stuff. And there's an element even of that era of Hollywood comedies like Superbad. where you had these strange characters doing and saying strange things for no reason but this just takes it to that napoleon dynamite level and then way beyond that yeah definitely it's a greasy version of the hollywood
When you get to Hollywood, they're like, don't go down there. Why? That's the greasy area. Don't go down there. We know now they're father and son and then we cut to them on their day at work. Let's not cut to them. Let's not cut to them. Oh, God. Oh, no, no, no, no. We can cut to them.
They're giving their disco tour. So their job is they get paid by tourists to be shown around various spots where apparently... disco artists wrote or came up with ideas for songs or important things in their life happened you know the first time somebody's met somebody or whatever you know and they're showing these tourists around in their disco fact side side disco fact
I don't ever do side disco facts. Do you know how the song Freak Out came about? Somebody having a freak out? The guys who were doing it were trying to get into Studio 54. and they wouldn't let him in because they weren't attractive enough or whatever. So they went, fuck off! And they went off to, fuck off! And they went back home and wrote, freak out. Yeah. Wow.
Disco facts would give. So you could do a disco tour. Disco facts would give. You could do it. A few more of them, you'll be away. Every time. So the running theme will be every time we see them giving a tour, they'll give a different series of facts about an artist and this first group, they're talking about the Bee Gees, but they are questioned by the tourists.
uh there's an indian tourist a senegalese tourist and a scandinavian tourist the three wise men these guys man if you're having trouble hopefully it's them if you're ever stuck in a lift hopefully it's them guys you know and they're saying what can you Confirm. Can you, how do you prove that the Bee Gees came up with staying alive in this doorway? You know, and they're really pushing it. And then one of them says, we were told.
on the flyer that there's free drinks on this. They just basically really want to get their money's worth. Prove to me that your disco fact is correct. You don't do that. Me and Sarah, we did the Ripper tour. I didn't at any point go, prove to me that this person was killed here.
confirmation did we we didn't need to do that we trusted that lady we trusted the person was slaughtered there where we stood well we get our first um extended joke now which is which does work because they say we want our free drinks and he says stop it with the free drinks crap and you get a backwards and forwards if free drinks there are no free drinks free drinks then they all start chanting very family guy extended yeah and then he calls them all
cunts and um they all say we're going we're we're done with this tour we do see this lovely trio again in a bit though We do. I'm gutted they die so soon. I would rather have those guys throughout the film, actually. There is a lone lady on the tour as well called Janet. Now, she is one of our main cast because she comes back up to Brayden.
the sun and they start having a bit of a flirt don't they before this has happened before he before he sends them off by saying cunt well it's just after cunt he turns around and just shows him here's their old man arse he tells them to check his cheeks
And I didn't look. I've got bits here where I go, I didn't look. There's bits at times, there's times I don't look. I braved it. Michael St. Michael said his only criticism of this film is that they held the shot of his mooning for too long, he felt. his arse.
hole was on display for just a little bit too long because they didn't hold it for quite a while and it doesn't look very clean obviously they would have like put makeup on it but it looks like he hasn't wiped properly either it's just not a great butt i didn't look that detail i was just like those are some saggy man cheeks i was like i'm not looking but this is the start of brayden and janet's relationship because there is some flirting going on here and
She calls him a cornball. And he's like, yeah, I guess I am a cheesy old cornball. He's got some moves with the ladies. He's got some, you know, some lines to lay down. So we go home now. And at home, Gav will be pleased that we're frying up some big, fat, greasy sausages now, aren't we? In our pants. They're in their pants. Just before that, we had the synth score because it was a quite old symphony instrument.
instrumentations of the music and the film theme which is a that is i sound like family god i sound like peter didn't i um uh that is that is the actual sort of thing we get reoccurring through it uh which is an odd thing but yes we're in a pan of sausages right now in a way in a...
poor of Greece which I didn't look at he says to make these sausages as greasy as you made that Thanksgiving dinner a couple of years ago and I was there saying that Sarah said like I can watch the worst horror I can watch the hardest horror I can watch Serbian film it's not a problem the baby scene i don't like but i can watch that no problem i don't want to see this pan of grease i can't do it and brayden announces to his dad at this point yeah i've got a date
She likes me, Dad. With a lady. She likes me. She likes me. And he says, you're a bullshit artist. And we get the backwards and forwards again of the bullshit artist. Interestingly, this film, sorry, carry on. No, no, no. interesting this film is a theme we've not seen that often at all which if you want to put a serious spin on this it's uh about a man a dad and his son meeting someone else and his son leaving him and dad being alone
You see that with the other way around. You see that with a woman and a son or daughter. But you don't generally see it as a man because I guess it's acquainted with a man. They don't need that sort of stuff. Oh, we do.
We are sensitive. We do need our little munchkins, even if they're big, long-haired, greasy weirdos in mustard clothing. And it's an interesting theme that we don't see often. I found that quite... quite interesting also interesting yeah because it's interesting in among in amongst all the comedy and the silliness of this scene his dad's anger does tell us as an audience
he's worried that his son's going to leave him someone's going to take him or you know this is somebody who could potentially get in the way of his son living with him and serving him greasy sausages all the time so he doesn't want his son to leave him and he eats the greasy sausages and yeah that's that's mine now the tourists guys photo
This is brilliant. These guys are basically, they are on holiday. I'm presuming those dudes are touring the USA or some shit because they're together at a hotel all at the same vending machine. But how do they meet? Because one of them is Senegalese. I don't know.
one of them is indian but they have at some point but you do do that at youth at youth hostels you meet up with other people and you end up going off and doing things it happens so maybe uh so they're at the vending machine as us moaning about things and just chatting about stuff um and it's this bit they're speaking about potato chips and what what they're made of basically and one of the guy he just he's saying potato but he says poto um so you have a guy say what poto can you repeat that
bottle and this goes on and on and on and on it's very monty python it's very monty python and i i was to be honest i was happy with it sometimes the family guy ones you're like yeah okay we get it's funny yeah but this i was quite happy because i was enjoying the word and i quite like that so i was happy with this I think there's something about those characters as well, like they're each, even though you only see them at the tour and then you see them obviously outside the motel.
i think there's something about them like that asian guy i just love him his over explanation of the potato chips as well you know and why he wanted those particular ones Because they're paprika flavour. Yeah, and he goes on explaining all about it, and obviously you're going to get to it, but his murder as well is kind of over-explaining all that kind of stuff when he's trying to reason with the greasy strangler.
It's just so funny, you know. I think they're all little characters on their own, aren't they? Even though you don't really see them that much, you can still be like, oh, well, yeah. Because they're the Scandinavian guy. Less is more of those guys, absolutely. Scandinavian guy just says, look, he's saying the word potato. Yeah, he just says it to him. Look, he's saying potato. But he let him do that.
like after the fifth time and saying he didn't say look look dude he's saying potato like what the fuck i was enjoying it for a moment but he just he just goes with it and it's just like but it's kind of this film this film is very much just go with it film and then they see the greasy strength
just comes along so they say is that the boogie woogie i love the set of the big i want to make a movie now called the boogie woogie and it's basically a disco monster oh isn't that the name of the character in um uh a nightmare before christmas is he called the boogie boogie oh yeah we can still we can still make the boogie boogie so yeah let's describe this figure that approaches them so it's clearly it's obviously michael st mike
called Big Ronnie but he's he's about six foot maybe maybe a bit shorter and he is fully pasted up it's not even grease it's like I think in the film they would like to make it they use tapioca pudding oh I hate tapioca he just stumbles out of the darkness and it's just like what the fuck and he doesn't speak does he he just goes yeah he grabs one guy
fucking frozen to the floor I know smashed his head into the fender machine then the other guy he just implants and his face turns into a bold dome shape inwards his whole face it's really good effects I really enjoyed that And then he strangles the Indian guy. He follows him along with that Indian guy trying to get away from his death by saying, do you want to join my timeshare? You can do. We could actually make good money from this.
No, he offers to make him a director of his company, doesn't he? As he's walking backwards, like about to be killed. And then he says, I do have a lady in my room and we were making love earlier. And, you know, I think I really like her. yeah i couldn't get a stiffy and my balls went up inside my abdomen
And all of this as he slowly reaches his throat. It's like he just can't stop talking. He has to speak. And that's something that happens with a lot of characters in this. Their deaths go on for quite a while because in films...
The characters generally die quite quickly, but in this film, quite a lot of the characters, you know, is this it? Am I dying? Oh, my God. There's a character later on. Yeah. Oh, my God, it feels fantastic, one of the guys says, which is like, okay, Michael Hutchins. Oh, where's he strangled? Yeah. That's the hot dogs vendor. No, it's Oinka. Oh yeah, it's Oinka.
Oinker's definitely got a super version going on. Something we keep seeing is a static shot of a car wash and it's just Big Ronnie just standing there naked going... And we just have that every time it's happened to Killer because that's how he... gets cleaned but it's okay because the person that owns a the car wash is blind and um it's like kind of some old school blind disco dude and uh is that you big runny and uh he's just like
unaware that he's standing there naked and he's the greasy strangler. And he gives him fake money. He gives him just money he's made up. Well, they have these conversations every time because every murder he commits... Oh, and we saw the point in Dick for the first time. Oh, yeah, that's right. He's always a big, long dick. Every murder he commits, he then goes to the car wash and gets clean. But obviously, Big Paul...
just thinks he's washing his car again. So they have these conversations like, your car must have been greasy. Were you driving through some oily puddles this time? And he's like, yeah, my car was greasy. He doesn't realise he's just been stood there butt naked. Gav, it's interesting you said about the money. I actually think that that is just the money in this world because later on he pays the hot dog vendor in that type of money as well. And any money you see is just this weird fake money.
I think so. It's not placing it anywhere. It's just like an autonomous place. But Sarah, where does he keep the movie? It's an interesting touch. Oh, yeah. For sure. But a crack. Definitely. I didn't think about that. Pulls it out of his butt crack, slaps it in Big Paul's hands. He says, thanks very much. Oh, I didn't realise that. So the next morning again, we've got a son with a coffee and he's got a massive boner in bed.
well just before that just before that um he says see you later big paul and big paul says hey we should go disco dancing again sometime it's been a while and he says Well, the problem is my son's a manic-depressant. He craps in his bed. He craps all over the house, even crapped on the TV once. Oh, I can't leave him for too long. This is the trouble, you know. He's just insane.
like all right no worries so it's kind of like putting off go disco dancing because of his son he says so he's spreading the word to everybody my son craps everywhere he's a man of depressant but yes morning gov morning boner why but it's like in the morning gav morning boner How are you doing? Yeah. He's got a massive bonus. His son's got a cup of coffee. So it's the same. So this is a daily routine, basically.
Yeah, he's bringing in this coffee. He must have seen his dad's boda before and thought, why have I got this micropenis? Yeah, well, we don't know that yet. This is where we get the guilt trip. being put on like you're gonna leave me and run off with her and all this yeah and he starts to cry or pretend to cry doesn't he dad that goes back on his bed
Paul fucking pulls his legs back and just shows his arsehole and shit again. Again, I didn't look. That's the world's biggest cheese. I was like, no, and looked away. I'm not watching this shit. Don't need this. Don't need this in my life. It's like Sarah and I were watching a movie one time and it had a horse's vagina.
oh my god we still haven't watched that film so what the fuck is this immediately scrambled to turn it off oh my god it was just the worst thing and i couldn't get out my head for like three days it was horrible that put us both off everything didn't it we're like just get that off get that off what was the movie uh was it the beast yeah the beast that filmed like a big monster kind of like a modern day
beauty and the bees type situation for grown-ups is french or something i don't know do you remember when i recommended that film about that island where the guy fucks a goat in the the bushes Oh, I think I watched that. What was it called? Because I recommended it to you both. Yeah. I can't remember what it's called now, Death Island or something like that. We watched it. That's a really good film. I just didn't expect them to go in the bushes and start fucking a goat.
Oh, my God. Yeah, you don't see it, though. Not the worst, I've seen it. You didn't see it, though. I think... Well, this scene ends with them both laughing after the big fight, and he says, don't worry, Dad. I'll never leave you. I could never leave you, could I? And so he's trapped, isn't he? And that morning he cooks a really greasy breakfast and it is just perfect for daddy. He loves the greasy breakfast.
And we're on another tour. And this time the subject is calling the gang. And he's explaining some trivia about calling the gang to these tourists. And Janet shows up, sexy Janet shows up, to discuss their date. Sexy Janet, is that what you think, is it? Yeah, yeah. In real life, have you seen what she's like in real life? She's really pretty. Yeah. It's crazy, really. They just said to her, I must say. Her hair looks like a bunch of flowers. Her and all the actors in this.
Don't give a shit. They just go for it because they're butt naked all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And obviously it's prosthetic penises. I love her massive muff as well. It's so funny. Yeah. She's got a massive bush. when she's walking away from her dad at this point he imagines her naked and she just looks back at him and stuff yeah he says to himself
Feast on that queen's ass for days. Feast on that ass all night. So he's now thinking about... hmm maybe i'll steal this woman off my son firstly because i'm attracted to her but secondly because then he won't leave me so basically he's a cunt isn't he he is a bit of a cunt dad well he's a murderer as well um date night but it's like a werewolf the moon comes out for him it's when he's consumed a massive amount of grease
Then he just turns into the greasy strangler, which is weird. When did this first happen? If you bite someone else, do they also, after grease consumption, become the strangler? I don't know. I think they've just got to go and get in the vat of grease, haven't they? Oh, yeah, because the sun does. Just have the will to do it and go and get in the grease. His dad must have discovered this just because of his love of grease.
Yeah. Not the John Travolta film, although John Travolta gets brought up later on. So in the restaurant, we get a little bit of backstory here because it's their date. And they're sort of flirting with each other and in their own way, they're being charming with each other. Ricky Prickles. Yes. So Janet asks him about his mum. He gets a little bit sad and says, look, my mum left my dad. for a man called Ricky Brickles. He's got an incredible six pack.
He molested me when I was 18. No, he goes off saying he molested me. Then he says, I was 18. It seems like he's saying he's a lot younger. I was 18. Oh, okay. And he describes his physique, he's really muscular. And he made me do abdominal crunches. And it made me be sick because I'm not very good at abdominal crunches. And it's just like, what the fuck is coming out of your mouth?
all orange and fizzy and then he punched me because i threw up ricky prickles ricky prickles and then sexiness biting into that sausage yeah well yeah he does he does normally it'd be a woman doing this but he picks the sausage up and sort of looks at her like she's like oh you old cornball and uh she then says oh by the way I've got some news for you, Raiden. Did you know that those three tourists from the other day have been murdered? And he says, what?
And says, yeah, they were all dead and killed outside their motel. And he's like, oh, OK, maybe it was the greasy strangler. Hmm, interesting. That's the end of their date. And we are now at the hot dog vendor. this dude this guy where did they get this guy for the hot dog again idle casting i could lose my license it's just the way he It's just like, right, we want you to overact and chew the shit out of the scenery, like overact this stuff, like over the top. It's so good.
He's such a perfect hot dog render. Not enthusiasm. Move my actions, man. I can't, man. I repeat. I could lose my license. It's so funny. It's so kind of wooden. in a brilliantly unwooden way. So Big Ronnie basically... He's like a cartoon character. as you'd expect he complained to this hot dog vendor that the hot dog isn't greasy enough and he says dip it dip it all the way in and he's like i can't do that it's dangerous and Ronnie's like
I'll do it myself. And he pushes him out the way. And he says, Big Ronnie's going to dip it all the way in. And he dips his dog right in the grease. All the way in. And then he says, that is... Just oily enough for me now. And he munches on it. It's just this little dog completely fur of grease in the grease trap. Oh. And the poor hot dog vendor's just left stunned. He's worried about his license. He is. It's not good. So, Brayden brings Janet home, back to his house after the date.
and takes her into his bedroom and explains to her, this is very Napoleon Dynamite now, I want to be a fantasy writer. he shows you all these sort of like i don't know you've got like the rasta spaceman and you know all these sort of different characters that he's created really childlike drawings and stuff but she's like really into it like wow this is great
and she flashes her boobs to him. He's like, oh, and he tries to lick them, suck them, but he does something. She says, I didn't say you could do that yet. So she's a real lady, you know, she's not. not that easy straight away it's the way she just exposes them though and just sits there just be like you can't do anything about them there's just sits there just have a look
And while that's going on, we cut back to dad who's eating a hot dog on a bench. There's a really odd synth song playing here. I love his knitted suits as well. His top and trousers are all knitted. Well, there's one outfit we're going to get to soon, which is Jeff. Oh, yeah, that's incredible. I've never seen anything like it. chaps used quite like that before um so he then greases up and because he's been he's pissed off with that hot dog bender yeah he goes
And kills the hot dog vendor who's in his little camper van. He's in a camper van with a big window right behind him open taking his shit. And the greasy strangler comes along and just gets him from behind. Did you see what the hot dog store was called though? Doggy style.
Oh, come on. How did I not see that? That's so good. You see it in the bit where they're holding like a little vigil. His family are holding a little vigil for him at the hot dog stall and they're both standing with candles. I saw it then. It's got doggy style written on the side of it. Love that. Maybe he listens to quite a lot of Snoop Dogg as well, maybe. I was going to say that, yeah. Yeah, and so he strangled, as you say, Gav, and what happens to his eyes, Sarah?
They pop right out of his head. Right out of his fucking head. And he cooks them up with grease and eats them. Yeah. He batters them up in some lovely greasy batter and crunches on them. That was quite sickly when he bit into the eyeball, wasn't it? Yeah, it's not very nice. So he's a slight cannibal then, this grief. Yeah. It's changed the serial killer into now a cannibal. Yes, it has. Yeah.
And as is the pattern, he then goes to see Big Paul in the car wash and gets clean again. And he says, this is where he sort of questions him, this is the second time you've been in this suite. He must be driving through some really greasy, oily roads.
And he says, oh, I know what you're thinking, Big Paul. You probably think I'm the greasy strangler, don't you? But I'm not. I'm not the greasy strangler. Big Paul's like, what the fuck? I'm going to go for a car wash tomorrow, actually. I'll think of this. Oh, do. I'm not just making that old man cock. No, I'll be with Elijah for a start. I'll just be me and him going for the car wash. My car's all sticky and greasy. Oh, are you the greasy strangler? I am.
I won't deny it. I've got a real long pointed dick. Wow. When I was very young, I once had a blowjob in a car wash. In a car? We were in a car, of course. I'm not the only person. Thank you, Sarah. Backing me up on this. Thank you. No, my mind went to the brush. It was like danger. Danger. My girlfriend at the time thought it would be dangerous fun because you only get like... two minutes or three minutes when you're in there yeah go go go i was like go go there we go um yeah so
He said, I never said you were the greasy strength. And that's the end of their conversation. And now we meet Brayden's best friend. Poinker. Oh. This is like a fever dream, I'm describing. It's fucking weird. It's just like... okay you just go with it because you have to yeah so he's got a little cardboard pig nose that he wears on his face
And later on, we find out he doesn't have a nose. We'd never know the backstory about that. But he doesn't have a nose. But he wears a little cardboard pig nose, which is why everyone calls him Winker. And he's dressed up in a very fancy outfit. And he meets Braden and Big Ronnie. And Big Ronny says, those are very fancy shoes you've got there, winker. And they all go... He's renting them. Yeah, I'm renting these shoes. Little party shoes.
I'm renting these shoes. And he says to Brayden, are you still ready to go to the house of horror tonight with me? Brayden's like, of course. It's our little thing that we do as best friends. And Big Ronnie's like... i'll be joining you tonight okay and he's like no dad this is our thing we do this and he says if you don't let me come along with you i'm going to evict you
So he threatens his son with eviction if he doesn't let him come along to the house of horrors with him. He does that quite a few times as well. He does threaten the eviction quite a few times. One of the horror movies is In Bed With Mama. I didn't catch you. I think it was Cold Banana. Okay. I think it was gold banana, the other one, in bed with mummy. Oh, and the popcorn grease.
In the popcorn. Of course, he complains the popcorn isn't greasy enough, so he goes behind the counter and pours loads of grease in it. They all seem to be enjoying it, though. They steal the grease from the hot dog vendor, don't they? Yeah.
who as you said earlier Sarah his family are holding a little candlelight vigil because their dad was murdered whilst taking a shit and now they're sort of standing at doggy style bendings vending cart and thinking about their dad and then someone steals his grease yeah strangled on the shitter imagine that there's some ways to go but that it's not a great one it's not you wouldn't want it would you for your end no
Cut to the next day and he says, Dad, Janet is coming over today, okay? She's coming over to cook dinner. We're having baguettes. And if you don't know what baguettes are, Dad, they're toasted French long. red and he's like i know what baguettes are and they have these like little backwards and forwards and uh they all sit down and have dinner and i think is this where sarah where he first says look
Just try not to be too much of a smoothie with her dad because I know what you're like. No, I don't think it's here, is it? I think she comes over for dinner and they eat baguettes. Is this where Big Ronnie says to her I've been making my own olive oil? I've been making my own olive oil in my room and then I think after Janet's been once or twice
I think Big Ronnie says he needs to take her out for a date, doesn't he, when they're on one of their walk-ins. That's right. I think maybe after this. And then he says he needs to take her out and make sure she's going to be okay for him.
Well, we get our sex scene now, proper sex scene. After Big Ronnie's licks at the baguette, yeah. Our sex scene... it's just him lying there with her on top and here because he's a virgin and obviously we find out later he's got a very micro penis but he's there just the whole time saying am i doing it right janet am i doing it right janet am i doing I love that scene so much. Oh, my God. It's so funny. She's just riding away, isn't she? She's just like, you know, don't worry about it.
There's no way her arms... She ain't Mr. Tickle. There's no way her arms are long enough that she's going to finger up his arse. I'm assuring that. But she somehow does. She gets back there, doesn't she? Now, talking of this, quick side note. Sacha Baron Cohen he's in trouble another one oh no apparently on the set of one of the films he was with Rebel Wilson he said to her
why don't you stick your finger up my ass in this scene? She was like, it's not in the script. And he's like, no, really stick your finger up my butt in this scene. It'd be brilliant. so she's got him up on sexual assault charges now and other women are now starting to come forward Oh, God. I know Jared Leto's in trouble, isn't he? I think he's been investigated. Quick side note, because Gav mentioned this on our last episode.
I'm happy to report that the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe movie has finished production. Oh yeah, of course. It's wrapped production, so no matter what Gerald Leto may or may not have done... I love the fact that they brought that out very quickly. As soon as it was out of vacation. So like, it's wrapped. Tell them it's wrapped. There's nothing we can do about it. Sorry, guys.
it was the timing i think it was just good timing but all the actors idris elba and everybody and it was like we've wrapped now it's all done so it's just all the special effects were okay for the next year because it comes out next summer
We'll be talking more about that next summer. But still, there's a thing, though. If he goes down with something, if he does, it might just be a payday for these people. It might not be true. I don't know. But if he does next year, that could be an issue for the film. Yeah, definitely. Everyone's going to be like, Skeletor, oh dear. Yeah. Because even Skeletor's not that evil. Oh.
It's going to ruin the spell it all. Oh, in the morning. Finger in the burp. And I was about to say, finger in the oily grapefruit in the morning. Why should I be so disgusted by someone figuring some fruit by Adam? Well, this is Big Money's first go at trying to seduce Janet, isn't it? He's got this open half a grapefruit, which he basically... yeah and it basically looks like a vagina with a clitoris and he is going to turn on this he's all over it he's feasted
Have you ever feasted on an oily grapefruit, Janet? I could eat them all day long. I've never said that to someone. He just starts cunnilinguizing this.
grapefruit and fingering it and she's sat there going yeah she's like you can tell she's thinking this guy's got some skills um he then she then goes for a pee what happened this is great so good well she's sitting there taking a pee in the bathroom and he knocks on the door and she says you know someone in the end he's like yeah but i've got to brush my teeth or whatever it is she's like well can't you wait he's like no i've got to do it now for whatever reason and just
Goes in there. I won't look. Goes in there. Starts brushing teeth. And then blatantly looks. Just stares at her. Also, he's butt naked. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's naked too. So his big long. Long is swinging. it's just the way he cleans his teeth as well though because he's like just bare ass like grimacing and cleaning his teeth really badly while he's like really intently looking at her and gives her that real comedy wink big dick out like just standing there blatantly staring at her it's so weird
And we get a little bit of tension there between Braden and... janet because in the garden she's having a cigarette and he comes out and he says my dad says mustard yellow outfit take a piss mustard yellow that's a stunner that is what a stunning outfit i imagine That's what you'll be getting me for Christmas. She says to him, he didn't really watch me pee like that. It wasn't like I really invited him in. He just kind of came in. And then Braden says, well, look, are we exclusive?
and she says yeah we are and he's like oh okay great they haven't said they love you yet but you can tell that's on the cards but while they're having this lovely exchange the camera pans up And we can see Big Ronnie and he's just glaring at them with his teeth gritted so angry that his son is happy. That's incredible. It's brilliant. Good stuff.
night time when we get some more sex just another little bit of extra sex thrown in there sex you know it's greasy it's greasy am i doing it right janet this is okay um and then Someone sneaks into Oinka's house and it's the Greasy Strangler. no one ever i've got a note here that says no one ever puts up a fight they just kind of accept their doom don't they yeah this greasy thing is going towards you oh well i'm gonna die now welcome it even
Sometimes they're like this one, you know. Pleasure ball. He gets a bit of a fixation wanky ear for it, doesn't he? Yeah, he really enjoys it. This one's quite a disgusting one because... Once he's killed him, he removes the little cardboard. nose and then he fingers the nose hole, the real nose hole underneath. Talking of Skeletor, it's like a skull nose, isn't it? Yeah. Red and mushy. This reminds me of a bit of Serbian film with a skull fucking at the end.
So he fingers the hole. Doesn't he then taste what was in the hole as well? And then he goes and has another car wash. And we cut to another tour. I'm trying to remember what the band was for this one. I can't remember now. Was it the earth, the wind, the fire? That's right. You've heard of the earth, the wind, and the fire? Not earth, wind, and fire. It's the earth. It's the wind. It's the fire. It's the elements.
and while they're on the tour he says to his son this is what you were saying just now sir he says you know something I should spend more time with Janet to make sure that she's the right one for you. Oh, yeah, dad. To make sure she's not a skeezer. Absolutely, with your big dong. Absolutely. Yeah. And this is when he says to him, don't be a smoothie with her.
He's like, I'm not a smoothie. He's like, bullshit artist. He's like, you're a bullshit artist. And he's like, no, you're a bullshit artist. And he says, but dad, you're always a smoothie with the ladies. He's like, I am a bit of a smoothie, aren't I? Okay, you're all right. But I won't be a smoothie with Janet. But I will take her out on a date. Imagine that. I'm going to take your girlfriend out on a date, son, to make sure that she's all right. How weird is that?
about as weird about as weird as his outfit that he wears do you want to go out on a date with my dad Sarah no no And again, this is another eviction threat, isn't it? Will he forget if he's going to have a starter? He says, you're not going to live with me anymore and you'll be homeless if you don't let me take her out on a date. And he says, all right, Dad, I trust you, Dad. So it's night time. And Big Ronnie... He cries out as well, doesn't he? He does cry, yeah.
Sad, poor Graydon. Don't want Dad to be a smoothie. Don't be a smoothie with her. The disco location, just the way it's the set. it's brilliant i think that looks amazing it's like a long shot of just like the guys just stand there dancing not many of them three people disco ball and just the way it's set out it just looks so good
Before that, when he's getting ready, though, and you see his outfit, you don't see it fully. Oh, God, yeah, of course. When he's talking to Brayden as he's getting ready to go out. My description of this outfit is, if Nick Jagger wore... it's like a Mick Jagger 70s purple outfit but instead of normal trousers he's got
chaps crotchless chaps not assless crotchless chaps and his massive penis is tucked into the right hand one and you don't notice it at first and then you're like am i looking at pubic hair and then you realize that is a giant don tucked and he's just walking the streets. I think it's got, like, tights material over that middle bit where his dick is, and then he's got the same up here. It's like the material that tights are made up. Maybe he's got tights pulling right up in the suit.
Wow. No, it's actually sewed in the suit. Wow. You can see it around the neck and stuff. It's like actually part of his suit. It's a whole... that's one piece thing but just that crock bit is better someone's obviously made it do you find that in a shop or yeah wow and the yeah you're right gov um the dancing now
Which to them seductive. Right. And she's like this. I love that old guy behind them. He's like really peering at him. He's just right behind Ronnie. And then he just fits right behind him. In sync with Ronnie being forward like he's bumming him. So good. He just pays him no mind at all. He just carries on doing it to Janet. But his moves are winning her over. And then as if that's not enough, he then starts giving her up.
a story for the ages oh my god Michael Jackson oh my god he tells her he tells her that he knew Michael Jackson back in the day back in the day him and Michael Jackson partied in this disco together and they they got some hot twins i think they were yeah thanks and they took them up to the office
uh they did loads of cocaine with them and drank with them like michael jackson you can't imagine him doing any of these i wasn't aware especially when he says when he said at first i wasn't where he actually meant michael jack i just thought something there it's like oh no as i'm going through it's like oh no it is actually Michael Jackson he's supposed to be saying you know the pop star
And he says, and we finished up by spraying them with hot honey, milky cum. Hot milky cum. All over them. And the room was covered in it. And then me and Michael laughed about it. Pete diddy. And then he... And then something happened to his hair, didn't it?
I can't remember what it was now he said he had an accident and they tried to play it off as the Pepsi commercial but really it was to do with the orgy that I was having with him and she's like this is incredible you've got some amazing stories and then he throws in the extra bite the way brayden craps the bed just to let you know that he then leans in to try and kiss her she declines
And this is where you get a full shot of him just sat there with his legs open. She says, I'm in love with your son, she says. He's not really taking no for an answer, but... I want this. As any person wants a theme tune when they're walking along the street, I want the spotlight to come on me when I'm walking down the street so I can just start freestyle dancing. And you know, Sarah, you know I would. Because I'd dance to everything.
Any song, even if it's shit, I just have to start dancing. I want the spotlight. I want it. Explain. What Gav's referring to, listeners, is this basically is... the Greasy Stranglers version of the Billie Jean video.
where Michael Jackson's walking down the street, and as every step he takes, the floor lights up. But instead, there's just a spotlight on him. It's also a bit Gene Kelly singing in the rain. Really strange music. Weird music. He's doing these weird dance moves. He's swinging around. lampposts he's thrust in and then at the end of the street the spotlight just goes off and he looks around and then just carries on walking and you're like did that happen in his head
Because he's happy? Or did that just happen in this weird world they live in? It doesn't matter. It just happened. That's the main thing. If this was made in the 80s, it was written, fuelled on cocaine. Now, at this point, I wrote... This is the weirdest scene in the film. At this point, I agree with that. Okay. It's going to get weirder. She talks to his son again.
And he actually says that that was all made up and Michael Jackson was actually a male sex worker who recently shot himself. Yeah. He was a Michael Jackson... So, you know, so she's basically saying, you know, my dad's telling his shit, you know, he's trying to be a smoothie, but he's not, you know, what the hell. Yeah. Yeah.
Now, this next bit is so weird. And again, you don't question it. He gets a phone call to say Oinka's dead. And rather than go to the morgue to identify the body or anything like that, they just go to his house where his body is still there. Yeah. Oh, my God. Why does he go there? I don't know. They just sit at the kitchen table then, don't they? With an oinker dead in the background. Eat some giant wotsits. Yeah, some poto.
and they've got some lucky charms in a bowl as well i think um but obviously he's very very upset he says i'm going to investigate the stranglings myself so don't they what is this where they find some grease on the floor as well
He takes a little sample of Greece. Well, this is where I like, generally, well, it's okay for this as well, but generally I like it in a film when this happens, because it's like, boom, we've got a new thing, a new aim for the movie. I am now investigating the deaths of these...
people well he also says i'm going to kill him he says i'm going to investigate him i'm going to find who it is i'm going to kill him because obviously his best friend has been killed now not just some tourists that he barely knows So yeah, he collects the grease off the floor and Janet is so excited that for no reason at all, she howls like a dog. We don't know why.
um and he takes the he's so he's already suspicious of his dad because he takes the grease home which is in a cigarette packet by the way yeah weird and he pops it into the dinner that his dad's eating and his dad says where did you get this grease it's delicious and he's like oh you know dad it's just the same old grease and he's like this is succulent and delicious and so and he thinks
Okay, so maybe my dad is the greasy strangler because he seems to really like this grease that I fed him from a cigarette packet. So he phones Janet and he says, this is a rollercoaster of a phone call. I think my dad is the greasy strangler. I've got to get a bit more proof before I can find it out, but I fed him the grease and he liked it. Now, let's quickly have phone sex. All right, then. And then the phone sex is him.
First time we've really seen this micropenis, rubbing this micropenis for about 10 seconds before he sort of cry-cums himself. doesn't he say to imagine i'm tickling your clitoris with a pink feather and i'll imagine you're cradling in my sack i'm glad you remembered yeah and she makes noises down the phone and And that's that. It just gets crazier and crazier. Micropenis masturbation. I never thought I'd have to write down. Yeah, definitely. Nub Robbins. Yeah, Nub Robbins.
Nub Robbins was a person. It was actually a person, wasn't it? I think, was it Buzz Nubbins or something? Oh, okay. We changed it to Nub Rubbins. I think it was something like that. But yeah, you just swapped it for Nub Rubbins. And what are your two alter egos when you're on your show sometimes? Oh, I'm Spooky Quackenbush. That's right.
Gav, have you got one? You've got one, I'm sure. I can't remember what yours is now. Is it Dick? Dick whore is enough, isn't it? I don't know. I can't remember anymore. It's been a while. Dick whore and dick bone investigate. Jesus. He goes to face his dad, but his dad's not at home, is he? No. Because he's at a car wash, having just killed someone. And he says to Big Paul...
Let's go disco. Well, they say they go to disco. What do you reckon? Because the sun's there and he goes, I want to go to disco. Well, he brings him home. He brings Big Paul home, doesn't he? Yeah, and he says, what do you think, Paul? And Paul's like, no way, man! So they don't want the son to come along because he might have shit himself, is what they think. And, yeah, they're laughing. He's still in his purple disco dick-out suit.
Yeah. I've never ever said purple disco dick-out suit, but it sounds good. Everybody say purple disco dick-out suit. But it's good for Braden because they go out disco partying now, and Braden has the opportunity to search his dad's room. And he finds very crude childlike drawings of Janet. Those pictures are amazing. Being rogered in all sorts of positions. Things, yes. So good.
Isn't he on a unicorn or something? In one picture and the unicorn's jizzing on Janet or something. It's kind of like Wallace and Gromit if it was actual drawings. Yeah, it's so good. These drawings really do remind me of Napoleon. dynamite drawings as well yeah yeah those are amazing those dick pictures
So he calls Janet. And again, we've got a roller coaster. He says, you've got to come over. I find some evidence in my dad's room. And then we cut immediately to him fingering her from behind. Oh, God. That's so good. Imagine if I fired right now. I just didn't expect the scene to end like that. Imagine if I find it right now. And there's the squelching sounds that they've got. Foley for it. Yep.
So Janet leaves. Little does she know Ronnie's waiting outside for a big Ronnie and he says, you look very sexy tonight, Janet. She's like, I can't talk to you. And he's like, come back inside. so he does persuade her to come back in the house with her and this is where he seduces her yeah and um we hear some squelching sounds he says do you want to come in and do something sensual and the scene starts with some as the camera pans down to them on the bed some squelching scenes
And he's covering her. Wait, wait. Before it goes down, it takes so long to go down. I'm like, I don't know what's going to happen. It could be anything we're about to see. If you hear the squelching, what are we going to see? He's pouring olive oil all over her vagina, and he's going to town on it, chowing down. A massive mouth.
Prankton is next door and he can hear all these noises coming from his room. He suspects what is possibly happening. But when he says that, it feels good, yeah? For no reason. I don't know why he says it. morning comes and Ronnie and Janet are in their bed and he flashes his cock this is racist close up on his shit weird dick yeah
And it says, look at that. It looks like a little mouse's head poking out there. It does, yeah. It looks like a fucking finger mouse. And later on, he goes up to his son. He says, well, I've got something to tell you, son. I'm officially dating Janet now. We sealed the deal last night with a kiss. And this is where we get the bullshit artist times hundred. It just goes on and on. They talk dog shit.
cat or you name it every time i think originally this scene actually went on for about another 20 minutes but it got cut thankfully Because, yeah, it's funny, but it could now say it's welcome if it had gone on for too long. No, I don't know. It's a bit too much myself. He says, Dad, she was my first love. And he says, well, I fucked her last night.
And he's devastated obviously Later on Janet is feeding Big Ronnie I think she's sitting on his lap Yeah she's sitting on his lap In front of Brayden Yeah. Her ex-boyfriend. And they're just sort of like rubbing it in his face, really, at this point. Yeah. Then sex. We get another sex scene with Johnny and Ronnie. Spider-Man of Come Town. He's talking about ropes that he shoots. So good. And this is where they start the chant of, you're a cutie, you're a hootie, tootie, disco cutie.
and they start chanting it and this is where Braden loses it because he can hear them chanting that but they're naked though she's like standing naked just going back and forth doing a little disco dance I love it such a weird movement such a weird movement popping back and forth it's so good And Braden comes in and they just continue singing it and smiling at him. And he's just like, ah. She starts doing it with her bum, doesn't she? Dan, Dan, weeble bobbles don't fall down.
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. Well I think at this point she shows her butt and basically insinuates that her dad has done her up the bum as well. And he's like, no. I think she's doing the hootie-tootie disco cutie with her bum cheeks. She says, not your ass, Janet. Oh, my God. He cries. He runs outside. He screams.
And then miraculously, they're working together again in the next scene because they're doing another tour, my father and son, even though all this has gone on. And there's just a seething silence between Brayden and his dad.
it's tense it's sexual it's oily then dan's kind of watching tv so they're still like hanging yeah he says um uh well again braden's in the kitchen janet walks in the kitchen butt naked and says you know i can't believe you're my dad's girlfriend now and it's like well you know and he says i miss you do you miss me and she's she's then
He says, I love you. And now you can see she's confused. She thinks, God, Brayden really does love me. Yet his dance is so incredible in bed. I'm so torn between them. Micropenis or giant penis? Which do I choose? And she finds some grease on the bedroom floor. And for some godly unknown reason, she tastes the grease, the pulpy, lumpy grease.
on the bedroom floor i don't know what she's hoping that's going to achieve she's going to recognize it it's not a dog but she can sniff it out you know and poor big paul in the car wash now he's been there he's starting to suspect too much And he gets strangled by the greasy stranglers. He saws his head off, dances with it for a bit, and then throws it through a basketball hoop. Yep. yeah and then as i wash in the car wash so he's gone now as well big pool and now we get to meet detective jody
What is this all about, though? He's my favourite. I love him so much. The thing is, though... It's absolutely great. But you don't know... But I didn't know in the world what it was. Is it the actual actor? playing a different role because it could be because we don't know this movie or is it the is it big ronnie pretending to be this person i wasn't sure i know it is but at first when it's initially there you don't know because of this movie it could be any
thinks you're like i'll just go with it i guess i don't know yeah i love him so to describe this character he's got very long fake fingernails they're like four four inches each well i could describe climbs out of a bush go on describe it perfectly it's basically the female gremlin from gremlins 2.
crossed crossed with it looks like nicholas cage's daddy long legs it's like a mix of those two and he climbs out of a bush and taps on the door he's like i'm detective jody you called me i'm here to investigate the greasy strangler and he basically says you need to drop the investigation um it's nothing you know you don't need to be looking into this anymore and tells him that's the end of it he keeps saying yeah it keeps saying like um it just keeps repeating over and over and over
Well, before that, he gets down in the grease, doesn't he, and starts wiping his long fingers in it, and then he wipes it on these sunglasses that he's wearing. And just keeps saying, Jodie needs to grease his glasses. But then there's another weird bit where he goes, Jodie needs to wash his face now. And then he looks in the mirror.
And his reflection takes the glasses off, don't they? When he's looking at him and he says, God, he needs to leave now. And that's when he sits down at a table and keeps going, end all inquiries here. And it's so Twin Peaks. It's like, what the fuck? And he describes the grease as scrumptious. And he does say to him, so he's admitting to him through this character of Jodie, he says...
You may well be the son of the greasy strangler, but there's no evidence to stop your inquiry. So again, Braden's like, oh my God, even this detective who I'm so dumb, I can't see that it's my own dad. Even this detective is almost... confirming it as well um so he says to janet look we'll have to expose him on our own whoever this greasy strangler is we'll find out and we'll expose him on our own so janet and brady and i back together they're in bed
But what's going on under the bed, guys? Big Ronnie's going on under the bed. So they've just obviously finished having a bonk and Big Ronnie crawls out from under the bed. And he says, Dad, were you under there the whole time? He goes, yeah. And you're evicted. Get out. You're evicted now. And he says, you can't evict me because we're moving in together. So they taunt him.
um uh he comes back in the room fully greased up and this is the big reveal now big ronnie is indeed the big greasy strangler and uh he knocks out brayden he drags janet off into another room. Brayden decides if you can't beat them, join them. So he steps into the giant vat of grease.
and goes chasing after his dad but they go to the cinema and his dad's basically kidnapped her and taken her to the cinema um at first you think he's going to get in there and be the greasy strangler because he wants to be the werewolf and attack the other werewolf like it's his dad because this is like the werewolf it's like the werewolf story like the dad and the son
Do you know what I mean? The classic wolfman. Or like a superhero that injects himself with the same serum to defeat that person to save the maiden. Unfortunately, he doesn't save the maiden whatsoever. Ends up joining in, pushing him out of the way and She says, I'm going to strangle, and just strangles her and pops her eyes out. Yep, and then they eat an IH. They do. And they both go to the car wash. They have joined forces.
They've finally got their little thing together. We're getting close to the end now. Sitting at the beach talking about John Travolta. Yeah. so they bond start bonding on the beach sarah you talked about this earlier um it's the person that does says you were a really cute baby you know i loved holding you in fact
John Travolta held you as well. He said you were a cute baby. But Michael St. Michael's was legit John Travolta's hairdresser back in the day. Which is true. He was like a hairdresser to the stars back in the 70s and stuff. And he tells his son that they were going to open up a club called Johnny and Ronnie's Big Disco Dance Pad or something like that. But it never really worked out. You know, John got big in Hollywood and I went my way and he went his way. And then he says...
Janet was never any good anyway was she Brayden? Brayden's like no she was a sleaze and he's like yeah we don't need her no we don't need her this is that whole dad not wanting his son to leave him thing, and he's completely brainwashed him now. And that, in fact, turned him into a greasy strangler as well. Then his dad draws a heart in the sand, and then they both come up with the idea, and Braden says...
Let's kill Ricky Prickles, who is his stepdad. Cut to. And you think, ah, OK, that's actually quite a good little thing. And I thought that was going to be the end. But no. Because we get this scene that I've had to research and figure out what the fucking end scene of this film is. Well we first cut to them chasing Ricky Prickles.
Through the woods, through the forest. Then after that we have this scene, which you're talking of. So they kill Ricky Prickle. He says, do you want to ever catch me? But they do catch him and they eat his brains. Then they bury him. And then... they have a campfire and they're laughing and you think oh that's wrapped up now they they've killed
finally killed the last person and then we get this really meta weird scene of them seeing themselves being executed by a firing squad in the woods and their brains their heads explode and champagne and glitter bursts out of there It's so weird. Exploded heads. Yeah. And then my last comment is Bigfoot because they seem to kind of come across something in the woods that sort of growls at them and they go...
back to it and I'm like are they going to kill Bigfoot next? It's odd it's like their physical bodies have been killed but the spiritual greasy stranglers of them but still alive, somehow watching their actual bodies be killed. It's just like, what? Yeah. It's such a weird ending. Yeah, I think it's probably something along those lines, but yeah, it's very strange. Very strange. And that's the film.
But yeah, the rest of the film wasn't strange. Yeah, and I wouldn't have any other ending, to be honest with you, although the ending doesn't really make any sense. To be honest with you, did the film? I mean, yes, it did. It had a plot. uh it was just done in a very greasy way but like i said earlier and i'll say it again now i really enjoyed this and i wasn't expecting to go into this and enjoy this but it
It is a really fun watch. You know, it's one of those films, to me anyway, like Napoleon Dynamite or one of those more obscure comedy films. that i'll go back to every couple of years and i'll enjoy it for its obscurity and its abstractness but it's not it's not like you sarah where i watch it every weekend but i can understand why
And Don summed it up in his email and you've summed it up, Sarah. I think you're either going to really like this or you're going to really hate it. And I lean on the side of I really like this. I'm not in love with it, but it's a great... fun strange bizarre film and they've done a fantastic job of creating this weird world you know yeah
Yeah, definitely. I think it is a whole, like you say, it is a world of its own, isn't it? You can't relate it to any time or period or country or anything like that. You know, it's so of its own thing. Yep. Yeah, I think it's done really well. I enjoyed it. I did enjoy it this time around. Good. Happy to know, Sarah. And if you ever, one day in the future when you're sitting there and you're like, years to come, can we watch Strangler? I'll say, go on then, you can put it on. Yay!
first time I was just not in a good place to watch it so I do give it a thumbs up but it's a weird film you've got to know you're going into a weird film yeah and you can never be prepared for just how weird it's going to get it's an odd one it's always a surprise yeah but i actually would recommend this um yeah if you don't think you're going to like it then you're probably not and i'd say don't worry about it but if any of what we've talked about is intriguing
It's worth checking out. It's only an hour and a half. Yeah. If you like your Napoleon Dynamites and your League of Gentlemen and Mighty Boosh and anything else like that. Mighty Boosh, definitely, yeah. Because that character, Detective Jodie, reminded me of something out of the Mighty Boosh, you know. Oh, yeah, for sure. I don't like the Mighty Boosh.
Similar humor. Yeah, I'm not a massive mighty British fan, but... It's funny. But again, like this film, just for some reason, Don summed it up in his email. It just hits right for me. Yeah, definitely. I think the effort they put into making it, it shows. in a lot of ways well so it's a big greasy thumbs up from all three of us definitely very much yeah and watch this thank you sarah for joining us on this one
Yeah, thank you for having me. You're welcome. And we're going to end out the show now and do the outro, aren't we, Dan? We are indeed. So, yeah. Bye-bye, Sarah. Bye-bye. We'll be back soon for the outro. And we're back again. We're back again. Well, I feel very dirty. Well, I had a little wash, actually. I had a quick flannel wash.
between breaks there, because I just had to get some of that grease off. Yeah, I've been LSD'd and danced my ass off, and then I dipped straight headfirst into Big Ronnie's vat. Dunk it straight in. But Don, thank you so much for that, especially for introducing me to the Greasy Strangler, because like I said, I enjoyed it. It was brilliant.
brand new best friend so there you go but it's time to remove that crown back off your head and pop that away for the next time we have a patron pick thank you ever so much don for your email and your support but gav that was episode 179 do you want to hear about what's coming up next please So next episode is episode 118. And to mark, although it's been very hot already here in the UK, to mark summer really kicking in, we are going back to Camp Crystal Lake.
yeah continuing our annual um reviews of jason movies we will be covering friday the 13th part 7 the new blood and friday the 13th part 8 Jason Takes Manhattan. Indeed. Coming out in 1988 and 89, respectively. So, one per year, as always, with the Jasons. Love that. So that's our next episode. After that, there'll be another franchise going back to, and that's the Chucky franchise. We'll be covering Seed of Chucky, where Chucky gets a little baby boy.
Interesting. From 2004. That fucking doll is so annoying. He's as annoying as Franklin in Texas Jamesville Massacre. He's not that annoying. No, it's close. and we'll be pairing that up with the follow-up the curse of chucky from 2013 which is one of my favorites from the later entries in the franchise girl in the wheelchair in the hospital so
That'll be a good one. Yeah, that is a good one. And then after that, there'll be another... And our newest patron, Sheila, steps up to the gate and she's picked a couple of... doozies she's picked one of gab's favorites starring mr johnny depp himself yeah um 1999's the ninth gate so um That'll be fun. And she's paired it up with a brand new movie, for the most part, The Pope's Exorcist in 2023. Yeah.
which I watched recently and really enjoyed, and you've seen as well, but we'll revisit that. Yeah, yeah, I love Night of Gate. It is Polanski, but we shall keep his name out of it. Yeah, we won't really talk about him too much.
And, yeah, we'll do our very best for you, Sheila, again in that episode, because for anyone who doesn't know, Sheila is blind or vision impaired, and we're going to really... describe this shit out of those two films for her um i mean we do generally anyway that's kind of our thing but she does get a kick out of us it won't be that it won't be like there's five buttons
On the paisley jacket. There's a bit of stitching off the shoulder. It might be audio descriptive. No, it won't be closed. Amber Heard has taken a shit in his bed. it's a little turd could be a small dog so that's what's coming up in the next three episodes we've got um Cramp Crystal Lake double bill. We've got a Chucky double bill. And then we've got our patron pick from Sheila with the Ninth Gate and the Pope's Exorcist. Yeah. So, good stuff coming up. I love a bit of Jason. Can't, can't.
Can't be it. So which Jason's? Sorry, I know you said them. Part seven and part eight. Oh, eight, obviously Manhattan. Seven, what's the crux of seven? What's the standout point for seven? It's Carrie, the girl with the powers. Okay, it's the fake Friday 13th, isn't it? No, no, no, it's not. Oh, it's not. It's where she accidentally resurrects him. She tries to resurrect her dad using her psychic powers, but she accidentally resurrects Jason instead. It's brilliant stuff. Oh, great.
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My kids think Facebook's for old people. I mean, it kind of is now. I know. I'm getting Facebook memories come out that are 17 years old now. That's how long I've been on that. I was 30 when I joined Facebook. Exactly. My kids are literally on Facebook. No, that's for old people. And I was like, oh, okay.
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which is our production company, Deadbolt Films. Deadboltfilms.com is the website, and you can go there to find out all about our features that we've made, our short films. things that were broken on like music videos comic books this podcast and that other podcast that you do with the lovely sarah who we spoke to just now high strangers podcast high strangers podcast thank you again sarah for joining us so
Short notice for this episode. Yeah, thanks for it. And it's not that I wouldn't respond to people because I'm a bastard. It's just because I'm useless at responding to people. It's fine. I'm happy to do the most of the responding. You do the talking. Yeah. You do the walking and I do the talking. If I meet you in real life, though, I'll probably nat your head off. You'll be like, oh, I can't get you out of here. How can I tell him to go away?
And if you meet both of us, we'll give you a big sweaty hug. Only if you consent. Actually, what we like to do with people who are fans of the show, we like to go up to them, stand either side of them and recite the episode. Hello and welcome to the podcast.
and just freak them out. We did that with Rachel once, didn't we? We did, and she just went... Finally, we are... on patreon which means you can support us financially if you wish to yes um for as little as a pound or a dollar a month you can become a patron supporter it's hugely appreciated it is hugely appreciated the perks you get from that are not only
do you get a free t-shirt and sheila i'm so glad you got your t-shirt i will respond to your email but i'm glad you got your t-shirt and it's very cool that you live in salem by the way i hope you don't mind me mentioning that but it's very cool um
yeah you'll get a free t-shirt you'll get a mention at the end of every episode you get exclusive access to early episodes if we drop them early any additional content that we release our entire back catalogue is now also on patreon and you will get to become a patron
so which means every three episodes one of our patrons gets to tell us which two films we will be viewing just like don did this episode just like sheila's doing in three episodes time it's fun it means we get to review films that we wouldn't normally review um and yeah
You get to tell us and send us an email about why you want us to watch it, what that film means to you, et cetera, et cetera. And you heard Don's email in the intro. So you don't have to do that. But the more the merrier, the more you write, the better it is. It gives us a bit of an idea about who you are. And it's a good way for us.
to connect with our patrons um and make them feel like part of the family make them feel like friends you know because you're doing so much for us by supporting us in that way and we really really appreciate it we do um so yeah if you can't find us on patreon just drop us an email at the podcast on haunted hill at outlook.com or message me again on facebook messenger and i will now thank all of our
patrons name by name so i'll start off with what who was the king of the episode don don collier thank you very much uh thank you very much to the greasy dante matthew greasy godly Greasy Jamie Jenkins. Kevin S. Grease Fife. Sarah K. Fife. Greasy... Sorry, Sarah K5? Sarah K Greasy, I meant that. I'm getting my Greasy's muddled up here. Greasy Rachel, RJ McGreasy, and Lex Grease. Oh.
Thank you ever so much, you wonderful, greasy patrons. Pretty greasy. And now, because of Don, I'm kind of obsessed with the Greasy Strangler, to be honest with you. The bullshit artist. Amazing. I actually, you know, when you first said about it, I was like, oh, God's sake, I don't want to, do you know what I mean? I was having kitty tantrum over it. And it was fine.
It was good. Yes. Yeah, totally. Beauty, fruity, disco beauty. Disco beauty. Whatever it is. Well, it's a good night from a massive penis covered in grease. It's a good night from Big Ronnie. Dunking it all the way in. And it's a good night from Tito, who's been locked in the electrical cupboard and cannot get out while he trips balls on LSD. Oh, my God. Poor little boy.
yeah I think they could actually push that scene a lot more of that made that a lot more hardcore anyway it's a good night from um uh but just all the grease and remember guys when you're having sex with Janet in your bed, check that Big Ronnie's not underneath there, because he'll probably be under there watching. And make sure that you're doing it right by asking continuously. And if you eat sausages.
Make sure they're really greasy. And make sure that when you say potato, you say poto. Poto. Poto. Poto. Poto. Good night, poto. Good night, everybody. Good night. Poto. Poto. thank you for listening to the podcast on haunted hill we will be back again real soon Yes, please.