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He Never Left: A Spine-Chilling Triumph | Streamin' Demons Horror Review
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Join Jim on Streamin' Demons as he dives into the terrifying world of 'He Never Left.' Discover why this horror flick is keeping viewers up at night and earning rave reviews. From bone-chilling scares to masterful storytelling, find out what makes this movie a must-watch for every horror fan. Tune in for a devilishly good time and get ready to add a new favorite to your fright night playlist! 🎬👻🔥 #StreaminDemons #HorrorReview #HeNeverLeft
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Transcript
Introduction and Upcoming Topics
00:00:01
Jim Phoenix
Hey, everyone, Jim Phoenix here. And no, I don't record all these in a row. I've always just wear the same things over and over again. Shh. Today we've got he never left on a stream and demon solo shop. but i um All this and more. And next, whatever this is, hit my music. Still drinking my coffee.
00:00:29
Jim Phoenix
and long
00:00:37
Jim Phoenix
Baby Yoda, special guest of Baby Yoda. Oh no.
00:00:45
Jim Phoenix
All right, good enough, good enough. Stop it, stop it, stop it. Ah, it's not good of hubratic. All right, but this show is great for your money back. Unless you pay for it, then fuck you. I mean, hey, everyone. Hey, kids. Hey, how you doing? Damn it. I ripped off Daybird Lever my first show and now my second solo show. Must be telling me something.
00:01:06
Jim Phoenix
so I've been sitting on this streamer as well. I got them back to back. I got a bunch of great movies back to back to back to back to back. And I got some out with Brannock. And then we have some leftover that are not going to fit our MST
Film Review: 'He Never Left'
00:01:22
Jim Phoenix
3K. Oh, by the way, I can announce, depending when you listen to this, we have a mystery science three to three thousand best of coming out on Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, motherfuckers.
00:01:33
Jim Phoenix
And of course a ah little bit a bit of a special, special later on after that, we're done for a year. But today I'm talking about, he never left. He never, ever left that bastard drink all my Kool-Aid. He never left Jimbo ever. Now this movie came to me as a screener. Thank you much Epic. I love you guys.
00:02:00
Jim Phoenix
And I watched this and could not wait to talk about it. But I had to, because they have embargoes and they are out in public, yeah and we have to wait in front of whatever's. And now I can finally talk about this. I've had this thing for a while, sitting on it, almost literally. I'm like, oh, God, my butt cheeks.
00:02:24
Jim Phoenix
If anyone saw the Tyson fight, you know exactly what I'm talking about. His best hit when he mooned the entire fucking planet. Like this to you. All right. He never left. Came out technically last year. At least according to IMDB, but I couldn't talk about it it. Must be going through different, you know, releases and stuff like that.
00:02:56
Jim Phoenix
It is almost entirely one person carrying the entire thing. Not because other actors are bad. They're great. The other actors are are brilliant, but Colin Cunningham carries the entire film because it's mostly him. It's mostly him.
00:03:22
Jim Phoenix
And I'll read off, I'll read off the tagline. After hearing disturbing noises from the next motel room, a fugitive on the run and his girlfriend become prey to an notoriously brutal pale face killer whose legend has haunted the local communities for decades. After hearing strange, you know, that's actually James Morris putting that up on IMDB. And that is the writer and director. And I love that he did this.
00:03:53
Jim Phoenix
I love that he did it because we've seen so many times where I made fun of some of Netflix's stuff. Including that fucking fight. Are you shitting me? How many of us just saw buffering the entire fucking time? Brought to you by Michael Buffer. No, for real. What the actual fuck Netflix?
00:04:13
Jim Phoenix
you know ah Tangent. Tangential today. All right. But we have this where I will look at IMDB and it looks like Netflix is in turn de jour because they got other their fucking departments out and there's like any random person right for them for a half minute. Before they get on their own way and like the the tagline doesn't work or like the tags that self are just like, oh, this is tagged underneath a. Buddy comedy. Well, not really or rope like your keywords rope.
00:04:51
Jim Phoenix
So I love that the writer and director wrote the tagline. It's better that way. It's his vision. ah So he should write to fucking tagline. And it works. It doesn't give things away. It makes me want to see it. Pale face killer. No idea who the fuck that is. i I mean, I watched a movie, but you don't need to read that and want to see it.
00:05:18
Jim Phoenix
It is a really well done psychodrama.
Film Analysis and Comparisons
00:05:25
Jim Phoenix
Yes, it's horror. It's horror in this tense that like Dexter's horror, you know. This is like Dexter on acid. Oh, there you go. There's your fucking quote line. There's your bio. There's your song by Dexter on acid. We have.
00:05:44
Jim Phoenix
a guy who did some horrific things. This is not giving away anything of the he's a fugitive, but he wasn't a fugitive because he wrote Rob the candy store. He did some fucked up things, but he's a complicated character. He's he's a character that if you grew up in a small town, you probably know someone like him. You know, you probably know someone who's doing the best they can. And sometimes the law just fucking life won't give him a break.
00:06:11
Jim Phoenix
And then you try to do the best you can with what you got. And sometimes that just means bad things can happen. Poor decisions happen. Poor decisions because he doesn't want to struggle through life. You know, he fucked up before and then he fucked up again. Bit of a fuck up, right? And you have his girlfriend whose relationship may or may not be strong.
00:06:39
Jim Phoenix
And at the same time, it's a buddy cop. Film kind of, you know, there's like a this kind of like competing B story you there. But most of it happens. In a hotel room. With one do Collins fucking just taking it all on himself.
00:07:00
Jim Phoenix
So you could probably get this movie down. The movie is like an hour and a half. Yeah. Oh, 29 minutes. You could probably remove everything else except for him and his hotel room. And the movie still works. That's how amazing that this film can be just based upon the psychological drama. Right. It's not quite the John Cusack movie, but it would work akin to it.
00:07:26
Jim Phoenix
And this is like the one time where the bad guy tries to do something right in his life. He doesn't want to get involved. He's like, fuck man, I have i had to figure this shit out. And it fucks him hard. Like this guy really can't get a break. So you have this, you have the setup. IMDB is giving us seven out of 10. I think that's a little low.
00:07:49
Jim Phoenix
But fair, it's a little bit fair. And by the way, 20 wins and 33 nominations, this took the fucking circuit. This took the circuit for best leading male performers, Colin Cunningham. Best director, James Morris. Best actor, Colin Cunningham. Best horror. I said horror, fuckers, I enunciated. James Morris. Best director.
00:08:17
Jim Phoenix
ah us nominees. So he fuck you. um Sorry, my bad. Nevermore festival. Okay. Let's go for wins wins wins wins wins wins. These are all nominees. I want the winner James Morris best horror winner first glance film festival. A lot of nominations. Again, best film or horror night International Film Festival. Audience Award best slasher splatter feature.
00:08:46
Jim Phoenix
I'm at a Hole in the Head genre festival. FilmQuest, a lot of noms. Utah Film Festival, which is actually, as much as I give Utah, it's actually pretty good. 20,024, best narrative feature, James Morris. Best director, James Morris. Best supporting actor, David McMahon. And David E. McMahon does a great job. He fucking deserves that shit.
00:09:10
Jim Phoenix
Best Supporting Actress, Jessica Staples. She should have won. I'm sorry. She was brilliant. So was Colin Cunningham. And then you get a blood-stained indie, like it goes on. Winner, Best Actor, Colin Cunningham. Winner, horror feature. Winner this. Winner, but Supporting Actor. Winner that. Winner, winner. Best Actress in the Cannonfield Festival, Jessica Staples.
00:09:34
Jim Phoenix
It fucking cleans up. And that's basically everyone in the cast winning an award. The cast got three fucking people in it, you know? And they all win. It's well deserved. It's really well deserved. So this cleaned up on indie circuits everywhere. If you love indie genre horror, this is your
Streaming Info and Final Recommendations
00:09:53
Jim Phoenix
jam. This is your jam. I had to Google where the hell you could stream this because I don't know, man. I got it from Epic Pictures and thank you so much again for this epic pictures. I love it. You can get on Google, Amazon, YouTube. It's like six bucks, seven bucks right now. You have to think of this taping. It's worth it. It's worth it. See where else streams, man. It's called streaming. Demon is not do your fucking Google research where it streams that bitches. Damn it. You got a computer in front of you. Type it out now.
00:10:28
Jim Phoenix
Not a lot of CGI in this. It's practical. It's done with. This is where editing. we I talked about a Nick Frost movie last time where I'm not sure if the editing just jumps the fucking shark. John Heim, thank you for that one. In act three, this is where editing is brilliant. You want to see great cuts.
00:10:51
Jim Phoenix
And movement, like story movement through editing, he never left. He never left that fucking editing table because this shit is fucking for real. And I can't stress this enough. It's like an acting class. You can just go, there I want to be a horror actor, fucking watch this movie. I want to be a horror writer.
00:11:14
Jim Phoenix
watch this fucking film. I wanna be a director, I don't know, and maybe watch this film, man, what the fuck, directors do a bunch of shit. I wanna know by editing, fucking watch this film. Like all those little things that people miss for a half second on TV or whatever, it builds into this film. And all those things that people who are doing independent and even bigger productions will fuck up and it drinks the movie down, not in this film.
00:11:42
Jim Phoenix
Like they do a lot of the little things correct. And that adds up to apparently award-winning fucking film with, what was it? 20 wins and 33 nominations? Jesus Christ. I wish I had that fucking track record. You kidding me? I'm like 0 for 4. The Pulitzer Prize is my last hope. Yeah, bitches. So if you have an hour and a half and got some dole ray me,
00:12:05
Jim Phoenix
Go check out He Never Left. You will not be disappointed. I really hope someone like Shutter's going to pick this up up because I think it deserves a broad-based, just plug-and-play audience. It really does well. And I'll say this from YeDudeImSure. Yeah, dude, I'm sure. From IMDB. Kind of says it well.
00:12:34
Jim Phoenix
Not only the actors give a solid performance that helps sell it all, the color grading, yeah, color grading as well as Halloween and athletic, like everything, they take everything and for the minute detail and really just dial it in.
00:12:48
Jim Phoenix
So do yourself a favor. Go rent it. Rent over friends. Rent it at night. I mean, you rented a deep night. You know you want to. You're going to see some friends, whether you're not. And then maybe it's a lot to coming out. Oh, by the way, reviewing those rot to Iran. But yeah, there you go. Thirteen minutes gone too long. But I get four point five out of five cuthoos. Why a point five off? um Well,
00:13:19
Jim Phoenix
That's why no kidding. Why point five. off there There's some things that I'm like. ah Through it and maybe you'll avoid it. Maybe you won't. But I'm like, oh my God, I didn't see someone like there's one logic leap I had to do. The tagline is some legend refuses to die. I bet it's all fine. But there's one logic leap. I'm like, fuck, you know, I just don't. I'm just not prepared to take that myself. So that's why four point five out of five. Great fucking movie, though. Check it out.
Teasers and Anecdotes
00:13:48
Jim Phoenix
All right, that's it for my shorts. Oh, my God. And also my pants. Now, next up, next up, we're going to do the. And mystery trick. Yeah, MST 3K, motherfuckers. All that and more. The next human demons for Thanksgiving. It's a charity special. So check the shit out and until then. Those is. Dreaming demons, Jimbo. I had a dream pain overdose and made it up here like it was fucking possible.
00:14:21
Jim Phoenix
I'm also writing a comedy bit where instead of using guns, someone cut me off in the parking lot. I'm like, oh, if I had my gun, I'm like, well, if I had my gun, what the fuck am I talking about, man? I don't know, I'm bringing a gun. But you know what would be even more scarier? Whipping out like a Mr. Hankey sex toy. I mean, hey, a gun by stopping in tracks, but getting fucked by a Mr. Hankey sex toy in front of everyone, that's going to be fucking scary. Oh, hey, we're almost done.
00:14:52
Jim Phoenix
Yeah, motherfucker.