You're listening to the survival podcast for zombie nerds everywhere is zombies ate my podcast hello and welcome to zombies ate my podcast i'm your host ryan murphy and joining me as always is the busy zombie lord lou page how's it going lou It's going. It's going better than our hero in the movie we're about to talk about. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to be talking about The Crow, 1994, the original.
I guess it's not an original movie. It's based on a comic book, but it's the first movie that they did for the comic book or graphic novel. I believe it's a graphic novel, not a... I mean, they're all comic books, right? I don't want to upset anybody by using... You're not going to upset anybody. I don't read comics. The movie's 30 years old, dude. Trust me. More people know this from the movie than they know from the comic.
Yeah, and obviously The Crow 1994 has this huge history behind it, both as a cult classic film, but also the unfortunate death of Brandon Lee. during filming and the whole, uh, story behind that. And, and, uh, the, the reason we've returned to the crow, uh, because we've both seen it before. is we haven't talked about it on the show though but uh is because tony todd passed away last month and we
covered a night of the living dead 1990 pretty recently, which would have been our go-to. Um, but he, uh, he's in this film. Yep. He's in this film, and he's more than... I wouldn't say he's a main character, but he's in the movie more than I remember him being in the movie. Yeah, yeah. And the other thing about it, too, is...
One of the reasons we picked this is we looked at Tony Todd's library of movies and there's lots of slashers. There's lots of action movies. There really isn't anything else zombie related except for like three movies. And two of them had like.
two stars on on on imdb and uh rotten tomatoes they were like both of them were like some of the lowest scores i've ever set seen and i was like i really don't want to sit through another trashy movie like that that i know is going to be bad i know it's if we're going to talk about tony todd i want to talk about him in a good light so this was the closest to a zombie movie with tony todd besides the ones we've already covered the one we already covered so yeah
And I do have, I pulled the clips back from Night of the Living Dead 1990. So we'll play a couple of those. uh in tribute to tony todd and we'll talk a little bit about his career and of course the crow um and uh yeah um We're gonna miss him. I think that he had a bright future ahead. I mean, I know he was gonna be super present going forward within the Spider-Man sort of PlayStation universe.
He still had quite the career. I mean, there's still like five movies listed on his IMDb that are not out yet. Yeah, I think there'll be plenty of films that come out. After his death, because honestly, actors are always working and they're working like years, you know, years behind. Right. So a project that they wrapped years ago is still going through post production. So.
We'll see him in more stuff down the road. But we'll get to that in a little bit when we talk about our movie. And before we get to the news, it is December. We're heading into the final stretch. Let's talk about Extra Life, Bit.ly. slash Extra Life Ryan. You'll find all the links in the show notes as well. But if you donate $25, you can suggest a zombie film for us to discuss. Donate $50 and suggest three zombie films for us to discuss that will take us through.
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I believe there's zombies. There's infected people in it. And it's like part zombie movie. Part Mad Max. Doomsday. If you've ever seen that. It stars one of the actresses from, what's those vampire movies that they made a bunch of? Twilight? Kate Beckinsale's. Kate Beckinsale's. I know. Underworld. Underworld. Thank you. One of the side actresses from Underworld stars in it. And it's got Bob Hoskins and. So familiar.
It's a pretty wild ride. I think I've seen this before. I bet you have. When it came out, it was kind of like not a big deal. But like in the DVD market, it was a big hit. But the movie begins with a zombie outbreak and people having to get behind a wall because there's people that are infected and they're supposed to be locking out the people that are infected.
There's other people that survived on the other side of the wall and they became like Mad Max people. All right. Well, Doomsday, not the comic book character, but the film from 2008 starring Bob Hoskins. So there you go. Bit.ly slash Extra Life Ryan if you want to donate. It's a great cause. 100% of your donation goes to Sick Kids Foundation into Toronto.
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And then heading into the new year, we'll have World War Z. There's a Ryan's Choice, so I'm going to go with Shaun of the Dead. And then a couple more slots that we have to fill from our Extra Life donations. So still plenty of fun. to come very soon. But until then, let's get to news. The virus has completely devastated over 150 of the world's major regions and is spreading rapidly. Lou?
This is something we've talked about before, but the upcoming Resident Evil documentary that will spill the, as Eurogamer has put it, Zombians. I think that's a new one. Not heard that one before. on George A. Romero's unreleased movie adaptation. Coming soon. Actually launching in, this is going to be going on the list, but U.S. and Canada, January 7th, 2025. I assume streaming.
I don't think this is going to theaters. No offense. If it does do theaters, it'll be an independent run. Yeah. The independent theaters might get it. But. My guess is that this is going to get snagged by Shudder. That makes sense. Shudder tends to grab stuff like this. I wouldn't be surprised if closer to release date, we're going to hear that this got snagged by Shudder.
I'm really excited for this one. I remember when there was a more rougher trailer that we talked about, I think, either earlier this year or even last year. Yeah. But yeah, it looks... It looks like a lot of fun and it looks like they've kind of mixed in like footage from the original games, live action stuff, interviews and newly shot live action stuff to kind of like give it some edge.
This was a big deal back in the day. Capcom approached him and there was a whole bunch of things. News talked about it left and right, how Romero was going to make a Resident Evil movie. Romero's going to make a Resident Evil movie. And then... it was kind of like his script kind of got tossed to the way tossed aside. And I remember I was a resident evil nut and I was a zombie nut. And I remember there being like,
like leaks of the script online so people could read Romero's script. And I remember it, it, it, it was very divisive. It was, there was people that loved it and there were people that hated it, the script. Um, there were people that thought it borrowed too much from the games. Like there was literally like them wandering around a mansion with secret passages and stuff. Yeah. I remember reading the script too. We might've actually read it or talked about it on the show.
We might have, but it would have been a long, long time ago. And now that this is coming out, my only hope is that maybe we get... We probably won't. We get a trailer talking about his other unreleased zombie movie that was originally titled Diamond Dead that never came out. Oh, what's that? I hadn't heard of that. Most people haven't.
It was on his IMDb for years. Fangoria talked about it a whole bunch. And it was apparently supposed to be a zombie movie where the lead characters were all members of a metal band. dirty secret was is that they were all zombies and that the producer was just sticking them on stage and that eventually a fan was going to realize that they were zombies and get bit and there was going to be like an outbreak in like a rock concert.
Or something along that lines. Like that was kind of the premise of the movie. Interesting. Okay. Well, there you go. This documentary will be out January 7th. rest assured it'll be on our list to watch as soon as we can get our hands on it and we will talk about details of uh of how you can actually watch it because right now there's there's not a lot of details just that it is it has finally got a release date it's been picked up for publishing so
Look forward to that in the new year. And now, Lou, let's head into our main topic. I thought the police always said freeze. Well, I am the police. And I say don't move, Snow White. You move, you're dead. And I say I'm dead. And I move. That's right. We're talking about the crow. You heard there, Brandon Lee, as well as Ernie Hudson. Yep. From Ghostbusters fame. Rocking it in this movie. Oh, man, he's so good.
I mean, he has not changed. I mean, this is a 30 year old film and seeing him in this movie and then seeing him in the newer Ghostbusters films, which are only like a couple of years old. Hudson still looks great. Yeah.
He was awesome in this. I mean, in all honesty, this movie has a bunch of people who... you would recognize like our villain top dollar is played by michael michael wincott and you should know his voice because he's always a bad guy in everything uh he was in robin hood prince of thieves as guy of gisbon
He was in Three Musketeers as a bad guy, I believe. The thing my wife always remembers him from is he's in The Count of Monte Cristo as the guy who's in charge of the prison and has him locked in the prison. Oh, yeah. Interesting. He has a very distinct voice. I don't think there's many people in Hollywood that have a voice like him. So he's our villain. We have Ernie Hudson.
T-Bird is played by David Patrick Kelly, who if you've seen The Warriors, you've heard him clinking bottles and shouting warriors. David Patrick Kelly is an interesting cast in this movie because he almost feels like he might. They make him look younger than he actually is. He's kind of too old to be the role he is, but that's okay. There's another actor in this that I recognize right away. I don't know his name, but again, you know his voice, which is the shopkeeper.
He's like a classic sort of smirmy. Yep. Yep. And he almost, he almost always, he was almost always that role in every TV show in the eighties and nineties. I believe at one point he was on the show Perfect Strangers. I think he was their boss in the first season. And then they got rid of... that character in that setting for the show, but he was the, he, he, he's always this kind of like gruff run a shopkeeper runs his mouth kind of role. Yeah. So, uh, well, let's go over the,
the description of the film here, but we have the night before his wedding musician, Eric Draven and his fiance are brutally murdered by members of a violent gang on the anniversary of their death. Eric rises from the grave. and assumes the mantle of the crow, a supernatural avenger. And when we say rises from his grave, this puts it right as a zombie adjacent, because he's not like craving blood or brains.
He's there to avenge the murder of himself and his fiancee. Yep. Shelly, I think her name is. And. But he has a rise from the grave moment where he is clawing himself out of the dirt. And, yeah. And I actually forgot all about that until this viewing of the movie. And I was like, oh, we really are getting into zombie territory here. Yeah.
It's like, I remember when we originally discussed it, you know, doing this movie and I, and I thought, well, we could watch night of the living dead 1990 again, or watch one of Tony Todd's like not as great zombie films. We'll talk about Tony Todd and his career and how he was in a lot of, you know, a lot of horror films, including the Candyman series. But with The Crow, it.
Not only is it a great film, as you said, like it is a film. I got to say it holds up and usually movies that are made in the early 90s and are 30 years old at this point do not hold up. Unless you have nostalgia. And this movie holds up, I think. Yeah, I mean, some of the special effects with the flying bird and some of the digital effects, those look of the era, but still.
Like, you blink and, like, it looks real enough that you can suspend your disbelief. Yeah. Compared to what we get now. Yeah. And there's a lot of history for this film, too, which we'll go over, of course. I like to think that this movie's popularity is what gave us a bunch of the comic book movies that came after it. like spawn and uh i think it led us into getting like the original spider-man movie because of the popularity of this movie this movie has a cult very big cult following yeah
Yeah. And you can understand why. I mean, it's I remember, you know, I never watched it when it originally came out. I watched it maybe 10 years ago. And as soon as I was watching it actually today. Wrapping it up on lunch break, I was transported back to 10 years ago when my roommate in university, a good friend of mine, Matt, big movie buff, loves movies.
he would often have these movies that would pop up like you've never seen the this like we gotta watch it and then and then we would we would get a hold of it either rented a blockbuster and we would watch it uh that evening we'd have like a movie night you know us and the roommates and the crow was one of those films like i just had not seen it before um and yeah it was like one of those moments of like you have to watch it and
it holds up like i said it holds up that it held up then um i ended up watching there's a remaster that came out pretty recently or maybe it was the 20th anniversary uh remaster i can't remember when it came out. But it's really good. The remaster they did helps bring it and keep it relevant, I think. Absolutely. Again, I think this movie gave us Blade.
I mean, Blade only came, what, three, four more, four years later. I think the popularity of this dark comic book horror type of thing gave us some of the things that would lead us into getting. brighter more marvel-y movies you know what i mean yeah and and everything about this from the director to the writers to the fact that this is brandon lee's last film you know There's so much tied to this movie that it's just really good from beginning to end.
There's a couple of scenes after Brandon Lee was killed that they filmed with another actor. And you can tell that they're another actor because they never show you Brandon Lee's face. They used his stunt double, if I remember right. Yeah. Do you know who his stunt double was? No. So it's the guy who directs. What are the movies? Now I'm losing it. The movies that Keanu Reeves in where he plays an assassin.
Why am I not remembering the name? John Wick? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's Chad something. I had it all. I went through the whole Wikipedia article, read it all, because Chad... uh stahelski i think is how you say his name but that's the guy who uh as far as i understand he was yeah he was the stunt double for keanu reason the matrix and he is the current like he was the director of um
uh uh john wick yeah he's the he's the john wick guy and i mean like he had a stunt double and like this probably is a good point to talk about like what happened to brandon lee and it is a It's one of those things that you look back in hindsight is like it's this it's a series of unfortunate events where I know because of this incident, there have been more.
you know strict rules put in place when working with firearms and and you and you learn a lot on how they shoot films with with these firearms and how they get those effects to the point where they are using real weapons but they're not they're not they don't have all the components required to shoot a bullet but in the case of what happened they did a test firing and the bullet
got lodged in the barrel, then the person who was supposed to inspect the gun, because you're supposed to inspect the weapon before every firing while you're filming to double check, that person wasn't there. There was an assistant. They didn't check it. And because the bullet was lodged in the barrel, when they fired the blank, it actually propelled the obstruction in the barrel. And it shot...
As if it was firing a weapon and – Yeah, even blanks can be dangerous even with the barrel clear. There's a distance range where if you're standing too close to the gun, it can actually – severely damage you like break skin possibly kill somebody yeah and it is uh like it's one of those things where this moment happened
Brandon had three days left of filming. So there was a little bit of stuff. They had to do some rewrites for the beginning of the film. Um, and, and they finished the film, they put it out. And I understand like from. The perspective like someone died on set while they were filming. It's just this tragic event. And I think from a creative perspective, all the people who are making the film.
wanted to release it for Brandon because he did such a fantastic job. Like his star was rising. Like after this, he was supposed to go and do. Uh, they were writing the matrix with him in mind, like he was going to be Neo, uh, essentially. So like his, his star was on the rise and because of this tragic accident, like he was. He was taken far too soon. He'd still be around today, probably in John Wick. I don't know. I don't I don't think it's a timeline where he like replaces Keanu Reeves, but.
You know, there's a timeline where he's in the movie. I can tell you that. But again, and the actor who fired the gun, you know, he took it. He took time off and apparently it messed him up for basic of the rest of his acting career is my understanding. Yeah. Oh, 100%. Like... I think and there there's been some recent stuff lately. I think there was another with a recent incident that where someone got killed. And now Hollywood is using rubber guns and they're inserting the.
They're using rubber or plastic guns and they're now inserting the firing sounds and the actual shooting in post-production with CGI. That's actually something that, believe it or not, what's his name, that did Desperado. He's done that for years now. Oh, Rodriguez. Rodriguez.
All of Once Upon a Time in Mexico, none of those were real guns. They couldn't get permission to use real guns on set. There was an error. There was some kind of mix-up or something where the guns got misshipped someplace. It was some kind of confusion. I listen to a director's commentary. That's the only reason I know this. And apparently, when you watch the movie, the bullet holes hitting the walls and stuff, those are squibs. They're not actually damaging any building. Those are all CGI.
effects added in post and until someone tells you you don't notice it and then when someone tells you it you watch it once upon a time in mexico again you go oh whoa i notice it now but it's only because somebody told you yeah Yeah, it's like it's interesting how things have evolved. And obviously CGI has really taken things to the next level. And I understand there are going to be.
creatives out there that like no we're gonna do it the old way we want practical effects we want like when you look at this film as a whole all the effects all of the action everything that takes place beginning middle end It's top-notch stuff, and it's probably some of the better stuff that was served up in the 90s. The fact that this was supposed to be a straight-to-DVD movie or straight-to-video movie and then got a wider...
theatrical release closer to when it was supposed to come out. It's kind of crazy. I'm honestly surprised that this was supposed to be categorized as a direct-to-video because this is... Got a lot of pedigree. That's crazy to me. I still remember, I saw this when it came out. I didn't see it in theaters, but I remember being at a friend's house and this had just come out.
And everybody was like, oh, we have to see this. Brandon Lee died on set. And that was kind of us kids. That was kind of our thing is we wanted to see like what happened and happened to be. An excellent movie. So all of us afterwards were like, that movie's awesome. Let's watch it again. I mean, I've seen this movie probably 30 or 40 times at this point. Yeah.
I like as soon as I started watching it and I'm like, oh, yeah, now I remember this was really good. And the movie is is is basically a giant revenge film where, you know. Draven comes back from the dead to avenge the murders that took place a year ago and take out this crew of bad folks, which extends to... like a larger gang outfit. Like there's some, and this is what I like about this movie. Like it's definitely a based on a graphic novel in like this weird, you know,
Noir setting of like, it's always raining and there's weird fires. They never tell you the city. Yeah. But because it's dark, it could be like Chicago or it could be LA. Or it could be New York. You never really get an explanation of what city it's supposed to be. Right. But it's kind of like a lot of weird London Victorian architecture with like the tall houses with the with the yeah, the brick ceiling or brick roofing, you know.
and the big arched windows and stuff. Like it's, it's really interesting. It kind of feels like this fictional, it really does feel like this fictional world straight out of the comics. over-the-top villains that are being extra violent they they talk about the devil's night which is the night before halloween i believe um where they're just setting fires to everything and it's like this well it's devil's night And there's this whole like subplot near the end where like the big bad's like.
What if we just don't do it for Devil's Night because like they've kind of ruined it. They have Devil's Night cards now, you know, like Hallmark cards for this event. Like it's almost been marketed and the people responsible for it being such a terrible. night are sitting there like they've taken all the fun out of their essentially their Christmas and
There's a lot of interesting stuff going through the film. At first, you're like, oh, this is just going to be a straight-up revenge movie where he just kills all the bad guys and it's done. But it doesn't get a whole lot more depth.
But it does add a little bit more than I was anticipating. The first time I watched it, I've seen it before, so I knew what I was in for this episode. But I appreciated that, that it wasn't just like... just about revenge there was there was a bit more you know like yeah i mean i i one of the things that's always stuck with me since i was a kid was there's a kid in the movie and i think that's supposed to be the
The movie's very rated R, but back in the 90s, movies that were rated R, they knew kids were going to watch them. Yes. So there was a kid character so that any kid that watched the movie could identify with the kid character. That's the way I always view it. And there's a kid character and she's got a parent that's neglecting and this, that, and the other thing.
And again, Crow shows up, kills the boyfriend because it's one of the guys that killed his girlfriend and him. And he doesn't hurt her ever, but he grabs her and he points her in the mirror and he says, look at you and in in in literally like within within like
The next scene, it shows – it's one of the only daytime shots in the movie. The kid is in the kitchen, and you can see the sunlight coming through the window. And the mom is trying to cook her breakfast. And it's like she's trying to turn it around and – He scared the crap out of her and maybe he scared her straight. Well, there's actually like a scene, too, where he like wills the morphine out of her veins. Yeah. Yeah. Like the drug or whatever, whatever she took.
Which which does lead to him being he's it's definitely supernatural because he comes back from the dead. He heals his wounds and all that. There's several scenes where you see his wounds sort of like healing themselves. And. There's these moments like that where he sort of portrays this superhero, angelic sort of stuff where he... He is saving people connected to his mission of revenge. And he takes no shit from bad people. But he doesn't kill...
He doesn't kill folks who, like that shopkeep I was talking about, the classic character. Yeah, he doesn't kill him. No, he doesn't. He goes out of his way to make his life miserable. Right. But he doesn't. Or I kill him. The bad guy takes care of him later on in the film. But yeah, like he's got this, he knows he's got, he's there for revenge to avenge what happened, but he's not there to like.
he's not the Terminator. Right. Um, and he does have some like sweet moves with, you know, all the, all the choreograph craft work is, is amazing in the movie. They did a lot of work on that. Um, And and yeah, like I think it does have that classic 90s end where like, you know, the cop who was told to hand in his badge is there to save the day.
Uh, and goes off on a stretcher of like, you know, I showed you captain and, you know, happy ending. Everybody's like, this movie didn't need sequels. I know there, as you said, Lou, pre-show there's what, how many are there? There are four. Yeah. Plus a reboot, right? Or a remake, I guess. With the reboot, there's four more movies. Oh, okay. But yeah, that didn't bug me. And if I remember right, just so we can cover this.
It's always a different guy brought back by the crow. It's never. Oh, it's not not always Eric Draven. Right. OK, interesting. I didn't know that. So let me look at this. So the sequel. Is called The Crow City of Angels, which is do do mechanic Ash Corvin. So it's yeah, as you said, not the same guy. And then the Crow Salvation, which actually stars Kirsten Dunst. Yep. 2000. You're right. And this is a different person. Alexander Corvus. So that's interesting. I mean.
I wonder if, so this is where it kind of loses me. Like I understand that the comic they adapted from is Eric. Eric Draven. Draven, thank you. And I believe the comic does have other people come back, brought back by the crow. Like, I think that that's a theme, but again, we only needed one movie. We don't need more. Yeah. Yeah. And I guess the, the story behind the crow comic book is, uh, the series creator, James O'Barr, uh, wrote.
and and produce the comic after his wife was killed by a drunk driver sort of as as a process of of grieving um and then to and then to go through what happened uh with your creation and what happened to brandon lee like that's that's a lot uh it's but i mean honestly like it was a really really good film um It's sad that the reboot or the remake that they've done for, you know, with I think it's one of the scars guards, I believe. Can't remember.
Yes, it's the new one. The remake is with Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård. Bill. Yeah, Bill. And it's not doing so well. It did not light the world on fire. which is unfortunate. It was in theaters for about a week and then went straight to, you can buy on streaming. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, This is a good opportunity to talk a little bit about Tony Todd because he is in the film. He's kind of scattered throughout in the first two acts. And then he has a bigger role in the last act.
Yes, he does. I thought you I thought we talked about he was like an assassin, but he's kind of more like a second in command. He's like the yeah, he's like the second in command. The main character, main villain, top dollar relies on him to like. push people around. He's the guy that stands at the door and lets people in or doesn't let people in. He's the guy that shoots the crow so that Brandon Lee can die at the end of the movie. Oh, okay. You mean when he says this?
Bye-bye, Bernie. Yes. I had to cap that. I knew he was in the movie, but I forgot how much he was in the movie. He was way in the movie, way more than I was expecting. Every time I turned around, he was standing in a background shot. Or every time the bad guys were getting together, he was in the scene or had a line of dialogue. And I was like, he's in this movie more.
than i thought he was i'm really glad we picked this movie because he's in this more than i expected yeah he's an imposing force throughout the film as the second in command sort of the the The door guy as well. Like when he first popped up. He's so big. Yeah. I mean, he's a tall dude, right? Yep. Yeah. Very imposing. And.
And it's funny, like when we talk about clips, I really just pulled the intro clip, which we already played. There was a lot of like, there's a lot of dialogue that was like kind of snappy and well-written and, and.
comedic even yeah even one of the other things i'll say that makes tony todd look even more imposing is he's a tall guy in general i think he was like 6'3 and they have david patrick kelly who's only five six and he's one of the bad guys and he's at the door trying to talk to tony todd and you can see him tony todd looking down at him and you're like Yep. And then later on, when the shopkeeper guy talks to him, you can see him looking down and he's.
He's a tiny guy too. And so it almost feels like they intentionally cast shorter guys to be in the scenes with Tony Todd. So Tony Todd looks even bigger than he is. Yeah. Yeah. He also had this line when he was talking about seeing the crow. Yeah, I saw him too. He had a guitar. He winked at me before he jumped out a four-floor window like he had wings. Little lines like that throughout the film where they... The film...
the film isn't completely serious. It definitely has some like nineties cheese to it, but it's not so cheesy that it, that is unable to hold up. Like I really felt like this was. The script for this film was definitely set in the 90s, written in the 90s, but written in a way that it could stand the test of time. It wasn't...
Like there were moments, don't get me wrong, and I did not clip them, but there were moments that was like, yeah, I don't think it would have been written that way these days. That's too cheesy or just flat out no good. very rare i'd say like maybe 10 of the dialogue kind of falls flat the rest is really i really liked it you know um and uh i am kind of curious about that reboot
But I imagine they probably maybe tried too hard if it didn't land very well. I'm waiting for it to be on streaming somewhere, and I'll give it a shot. But it has like a one on Rotten Tomatoes. And usually when they get scores that low, it's usually not a good sign. Yeah. Well, let's let's travel back in time for years to the year 1990 when Tony Todd played the lead role in Night of the Living Dead, the remake.
um i went through the clips we had from when we did that film and uh here are uh here are a couple of tony tots Maybe that's a good example of like some some it's excellent delivery, but some odd timing and probably probably a direction issue. I don't know. It just felt a little weird. Yeah. Yeah. But I like this one. This one's really good. God damn you! God damn all of you! Very upset, Tony Todd. He was very upset that I critiqued his last line. I'm sorry. I love that scene in the movie.
Because he's so fed up with the fact that nobody's listening to him and they're all going to die. He played that lead role in that film. so well i i remember loving it and i and looking back at our clips we actually watched both we watched the original i believe we watched the original after the 90s version yes yes um and It's just looking at like, as you said, Tony Todd, very busy. He's got 10 upcoming roles that.
that he's actually going to be speaking of upcoming roles in video games. He's going to be playing the main, I think he's the main bad guy in the new Indiana Jones film or sorry, video game. Yeah. Indiana Jones and the great circle. Looks really good. He's back. He's rumored to be back in a Final Destination film. He was in the Final Destination series. I guess I'd ever placed that, but I guess he's like a reoccurring character.
I think he's not in the first one, or he is in the first one. Eventually, there's a couple without him in it, but he's in every single one, and they almost hint that he's actually death. Like he, like they, like, I believe that if I, it's been forever since I've seen those movies, but my understanding is, is that at some point all of them is at all of the, the characters of defiled this nation evade.
And then death comes for them one by one. And at some point, they always run into Tony Todd and they always end up having a conversation with him or he says something. And there's a nod to the fact that he might be death just. saying hi before they die. Oh, interesting. I mean, he's definitely like, if you look at his IMDB credits, he's got 246 completed roles.
and 10 upcoming like that includes obviously like tv movies video games shorts animated films that sort of thing but it's just like he had such a a wide range of offerings. And obviously he was big in... Was Candyman sort of like his big debut? Or was that later on, like after? No, Candyman was where I think he got cult popularity. But he'd been in stuff prior to that.
Um, but Candyman was the thing that like made, I think it's the thing that put him on the map. Yeah. And he was in the reboot as well, right? Like, uh, or re is a sequel. I never saw it. I've never seen it either, but he's not the same character. Oh. He's not the Candyman as far as I know. Somebody else is the Candyman. But he has a cameo where it's implied like he knows more about what he's going on. Or that's my understanding. I haven't seen the film. But no, he did the 1990...
uh, Night of the Living Dead. And then it was like, it was like two years later he did Candyman. And that was when I started seeing him in everything. Yeah. I remember watching those original. the original candy man again we've talked about this before like my brother we would go to blockbuster and they'd have like the genre deal where it was like a stack of nine
horror films for 10 bucks or whatever. And just like, Oh, Candyman series. Let's put all three of these on our, uh, in our list here. And it's like, it's funny like you have an actor who's just so prevalent throughout everything like i said i think the last time i saw him would have been or heard him would have been when he played venom in the spider-man 2 video game and he is
As I mentioned, he's going to be in the Indiana Jones video game coming out at the end of this week. Like a very well-known voice actor. He's got such an iconic voice too, right? Like you heard it in just those few clips. He's even I'm looking for it now on his IMDb while we talk, but he's in The Flash, the TV show. Oh, yeah. They eventually meet like an evil Flash who's almost always CG.
And he's always running super fast. And then they find out, I think he's like an alternative reality Barry Allen that's trying to kill everybody. But whenever he's in the dark suit and he's chasing and he's threatening them, it's always Tony Todd's voice. Oh, that's cool. Like he did a lot of voice work, you know, like masters of the universe. He was a busy, busy, busy, busy, busy guy. I actually want to see something that is.
that just came out of his is there's a movie called stream and it takes place in a, um, a hotel and a bunch of people go there for what they think is a vacation, but come to find out they're all locked in and a bunch of mass murderers are being brought in. And it's like a, it's like a, it's like a bet on who's going to live kind of thing. It's like. I only just saw trailers for this recently, but it's got Tony Todd, it's got Jeffrey Combs from Reanimator, it's got Tim Curry is in it.
Bill Mosley from Texas Chainsaw Massacres in it. The guy who... plays the terrifier clown he's got a role in it like it's everybody it is tons of bit part people in this that in tony todd's in it and one of the things that's funny about it is As I believe that it was filmed at a convention, because it seems like they were all at a hotel and someone came up with the idea for filming this at a convention. It gives me vibes like this was a thrown together thing.
Yeah. The only reason all these people would be together at once is because they were in a convention together. I'm watching the trailer now. It does look very... slapped together but a lot of fun uh man looks like it looks like it could be a good time uh yeah yeah like i said very busy guy uh very unfortunate i know when we learned of his passing we were very
you know, we're very upset by that. Cause again, like he had a lot more to offer and in his roles going forward. And as we know, he's going to have 10 more. projects launching. I'm going to play that Indiana Jones game. I'm looking forward. I remember when they announced he was going to be the villain. I'm like, yes, he was amazing as Venom. Let's get him into a role where he can, you know, he's not a.
alien goop. He can just kind of hang out and have a fun villain conversation with our hero, Indiana Jones. But yeah, that's that's the crow. That's our chat about Tony Todd. We had some clips from Night of the Living Dead 1990 as well as the crow 1994. So keeping it 90s here on Zamp.
But coming up on ZAMP, I guess we're going to keep it 90s for a little bit more because on our next episode, we're going to do a double feature discussion with the two Scooby-Doo zombie films. So you have Scooby-Doo. Zombie Island and Scooby-Doo return to zombie Island. I think are the two, uh, ones from the nineties, ones from 2019. So we're going to do a double feature. Thanks to Molly's generous extra life donation.
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