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What We Do in the Shadows
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We discuss both the movie and series spinoffs
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Introduction and Film Overview
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for real all right welcome back to fright central i'm doc he's kec and today we're going to throw back to what we do in the shadows i want to the doctor
00:00:36
Speaker
I have a I can be funny. Yeah, I thought you might. Like I said before, I have full blown. It's now I have COVID. I just want to throw that out there. How you doing, buddy? Good. Yes. So we want to do a throwback to 2014 is what we do in the shadows. The movie directed by Jermaine Clemente and Taco Akiti. I'm pretty sure I go both of those. Taco Akiti. Yeah.
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I have AIDS.
00:01:04
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That's his first name's Taco. Taco. T-A-I-K-A. Oh, all right. I don't know what you said. I thought you said Taco. Taco. Taco. His first name's Taco. That'd be fucking awesome, dude.
00:01:27
Speaker
I don't know if it's a New Zealand film. It was pretty low budget. You might have, if for anyone that like wants an idea, there was a great show. Well, if you're into this type of thing, it was like a comedy musical show on HBO. Well, it was a new first New Zealand. It was a New Zealand like only thing. And then HBO picked it up to like bring it
00:01:51
Speaker
to audiences around the globe.
Spotlight on Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
00:01:53
Speaker
It was called Flight of the Conchords. And same guy. And it's a very interesting, very funny show. And yeah, it had two seasons back in, I think it was the project he did shortly before releasing that movie. I think Flight of the Conchords was like 2006, 2007 maybe.
00:02:20
Speaker
Well, that would be several years. Several years. Yeah. Many years before the movie. But anyway, that's what I know him from. I knew him from that show. So when I saw him, I was like, oh, dude, it's a guy from Florida Concord. And he also started a rather meaningful role in Legion.
00:02:41
Speaker
Yeah, something that we've discussed a few times on this cast before. And he's a great singer. And he does like, in season, I think three of Legion, he does like a rap battle where he goes and sings with somebody else. But um, yeah, very funny guy, very dynamic actor and what you take it from here.
00:03:06
Speaker
Well, you know, Taka, he's directed movies like Jojo Rabbit, Thor, Ragnarok and Love and Thunder. And We Are the Wilder People, I believe is another one. I'm sure. No, it's it's like Welcome to the or We Are the Wilder, We Are the Wilder People. It's with Sam Neill. It's pretty good. That one's on Netflix as well.
00:03:37
Speaker
Oh, sorry, Hunt for the Wilderpeople is what it's called. And Sam Neal and the kid from who's in, I believe he's in Jojo Rabbit. He plays the- Jojo Rabbit was the one with Scarlett Johansson and Hitler. Yeah, the Nazi comedy. Yeah, Nazi comedy. Yeah. I guess it's-
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Speaker
If you ask me, it's too soon. But, you know, he's he's also acted in and some things he was most recently in in free guy. He shows up in other things here and there. Oh, yeah, I just I just know him best for a fly of the concords. No, not not. Jimin Clemente. I'm talking about. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. You're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker
Talk about Taco, man. Taco, man. Taco. Taco.
Genre Debate: Horror or Comedy?
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But yeah, so Jermaine's a big vampire fan, and he got together with Taco, and they created this movie basically about a group of vampires living together in a house as flatmates in New Zealand.
00:04:49
Speaker
And I don't really see this as hard. I just wanted to say like, I know it states like on like, it's categorized as like comedy or, but like, we talked a little bit before the cast about like the Addams family, which it kind of like reminded me of like, that was a good comparison. Yeah. Yeah. And like, I never saw those shows as horror before.
00:05:14
Speaker
And, uh, well, I say show because there is a movie and then the movie was successful and it branched off. I think the movie wasn't 2014, right? And then the show started up in 2019, I believe. Are you talking about what we do in the shadows or? Yeah. Yeah. I thought you were talking about Adam's family. I'll take that thing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The movie was very successful.
00:05:40
Speaker
And then it branched into a show five years later. Yeah, that's on now. Yeah. I was just saying that, um, like, um, family and the monsters, like, I always saw that as like family comedy. Like, I just, I never saw it as like horror at all. I guess for me, horror has to have like a little bit of like an element of like,
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Speaker
scariness or suspense or something. For me, this was just comedy. There was just no horror in it. I've realized, yeah, they're vampires. So like that's obviously, and there's werewolves and shit like that. And the werewolves actually have like a much larger role from what I understand. I haven't seen too much of the show, but what I have
00:06:32
Speaker
you know the show like I understand the werewolves have like a larger backstory and stuff like that in the movie they're just kind of like a couple like brief encounters they don't really get into but like I don't know I guess I just saw this as like total comedy
00:06:50
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like just no real horror element so like for me like I was kind of debating like is this like on our purview or not like this is fit like within the criteria but like I guess most people would agree that horror comedy is still horror nonetheless yeah well there's movies like Tucker and Dale or Shaun of the Dead that are horror comedies
00:07:16
Speaker
Yeah, or even Evil Dead 2 that are horror comedies, and this is definitely a comedy first. Evil Dead scared. Evil Dead, the first one's a straight-up horror, but the second one is a horror comedy, and then the third one, Army of Darkness, is probably more comedy horror.
00:07:34
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, I would say this is straight comedy horror and it's yeah, it's very in line with monsters and now his family. But I think the fact that it's based on horror monsters, yeah, makes it fall into this category. Just getting into the movie first, I mean, like I said, like, I have a very high opinion of the actors, and, you know, the producer's director of this movie, like,
00:08:00
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I really dig these guys. I mean, I think they're all from New Zealand,
Filmmaking Style and Parody Elements
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right? Yes. Yeah. This was all done originally on scene in New Zealand. That was flight of concourse. That was always seen in New Zealand. But anyway, I think all these guys are fucking brilliant. I just want to point that out. It seemed like it was done extremely well budget.
00:08:29
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like extremely low budget and they pulled it off and it's also purposely done that way too because it's a documentary crew filming vampires living together so it's a real ridiculous story yeah i mean i like how they go and make fun of like all the all the vampire tropes and stuff like that so they make sure they go through and make fun of every single uh vampire trope i think they even touch in
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They mentioned Twilight too, don't they? Do they get into Twilight? I think they do mention Twilight. I saw something recently, I was watching something that was making fun of Twilight, and I wasn't sure if I'm thinking of something else, but I'm pretty sure
00:09:17
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They make fun of Twilight in the film, what we do. Yeah. At one point, one of the the guys who had came to the dinner, remember, they were the dinner he turned into a vampire by their Nosferatu type character, whose name is Peter. Yeah, there is Peter. The Nosferatu character named Peter. He kills him, but turns him into a vampire.
00:09:47
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And I, when they go out on town like that they can't get into clubs they have to be like invited into clubs. So they're having trouble with that. And but the new guy I think his name was, was it Deacon no Nick.
00:10:05
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Yeah, he turns into a vampire. He goes around, starts telling everybody he's a vampire. And he's like, yeah, you know that guy for Twilight? Yeah, that's me. I'm a vampire. And then he runs into the group of vampire hunters. And then he's like, yeah, that's funny. And he just walks by and then like that goes back to bite.
00:10:22
Speaker
It's all just pure comedy. It's great, it's well done, but it's all just comedy. You take vampires, you take every parody that you could ever think to do about vampires. Any comical spin you could take from any of the vampire tropes, anything
00:10:45
Speaker
They fit it in there and they do it like very effectively. And like, I highly recommend like people check it out. And most people probably have because, you know, this is a throwback. But like when you had first told me about like, I thought that there was going to be like some element of like suspenseful horror, like shit was going to get real at some point and start popping off where things got like really serious. And like I was waiting for it because there were a few times where I was like, all right,
00:11:15
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now we're gonna see like you know a good 15 minutes of some like terror like really deep shit here it comes peter died um no it never came it was just all fucking comedy so like i'm sort of confused as to like
00:11:32
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how to really categorize this and fit this into like our narrative at like fright central but like yeah i guess i can't really do it i just see it as comedy yeah i mean it's fine we could just talk about your favorite part on the movie
00:11:50
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But I mean, yeah, I mean, it's just, yeah, I don't know. It's hard for it. I just, my struggle, what my only dislike about it is being able to like quantify it as like it being something that merit is mentioning on this platform, but is your platform so we can talk about it all you want. Yeah. So what were your favorite parts then from this comedy?
00:12:17
Speaker
I liked, um, well, I liked the references to the lost boys with the worms. Yeah. Uh, when they were having dinner, when, before they made Nick, uh, a vampire, when they did the whole thing with worms, uh, you know, he says eat the Bischetti, like, you know, all these guys are
00:12:39
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Uh, you know, eat the biscuit and he's like, look, you're eating worms. And he's like, Oh, we just took it from lost boys. And then they did, you know, a bunch of like other stuff like that. And, um,
Memorable Scenes and References
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yeah, I mean, I guess the references to stuff like from lost boys and like vampire, like, um,
00:12:59
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in movies that I was like very familiar with that, like I thought were like really scary vampire movies. Like when I was young, like that's what I probably enjoyed the most was them making fun of the stuff that actually like really fucking scared me as a kid. Because like I saw Lost Boys when I was like real young and like that scene where Jason Patrick is eating the fucking eating the low main
00:13:27
Speaker
and Kiefer Sutherland and says worms and he walks down at that. I remember that shit freaking me the fuck out for a long time whenever I ate.
00:13:40
Speaker
I think I went to a point where I was not eating lo mein for a while. Like after that, like my mom's spaghetti, like stuff like that, like the worms and the eating maggots and stuff like that. Cause I think, don't they mention like, Oh, we forgot the rice because like we couldn't do the maggots thing. They want to do the worms and the maggots.
00:14:02
Speaker
And he was like, oh, do the magazine. He's like, we can't do that. It doesn't look like it at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they were, yeah, that was probably like my favorite part was like when they referenced the Lost Boys. And then they also referenced that again in the show. Which we'll get into in a minute. Yeah, we'll get into it in a minute. But that was my favorite part probably.
00:14:31
Speaker
Yeah, I think one of my favorite parts is when they run into the werewolves and they're like, we're werewolves, not swear wolves. Yeah, that line has always stuck with me. I'll quote that a lot.
00:14:42
Speaker
In the werewolf battle, their friend gets killed. I can't remember the guy's name, but he was like the only human that they were like whole hanging out with. Yeah. Like one of their servants, because I liked he introduces them to like TV and the Internet. What were they called? What were the vampire servants called? Because I'm like, what was it? Familiars. Familiars.
00:15:10
Speaker
The one vampires familiar. The woman who's complaining that like she hasn't been made a vampire yet because like the vampire club is.
00:15:23
Speaker
a male club and she's like, you know, if I had a dick, she's like, if I had a dick, I would have been a vampire, you know, decades ago or something like that, you know, talking about being a sexist organization and stuff. I really liked her character, you know, I mean, she was very funny. I don't know the actress, but, you know, she was great in it.
00:15:48
Speaker
And so I like that. And then there was a moment where other than the familiar, they had like one other friend and he got killed by the werewolves and there was a line in there and he's like.
00:16:04
Speaker
I can't remember the characters that gets ripped by the werewolf. Was that his name in there? Yeah. He's like, well, Stewart died the way he would want to die being ripped apart and screaming. He gets back as a werewolf. Yeah. Yeah. He comes back as a werewolf. But like he's like, you know, he got ripped apart. His face got totally like eaten off. Like, you know, he got totally torn in the shreds.
00:16:34
Speaker
It's the way she would have wanted to die. He's trying to comfort Nick and he's telling them like, you know, it's the way anyone would want to go. You know what I mean? Screaming, being ripped apart by dogs.
00:16:48
Speaker
My other favorite line was when they were talking about why they eat virgin versions and they were like, well, if you knew you're if you're going to eat a sandwich, you'd feel more comfortable knowing no one fucked it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that that is I got to say, yeah, I would.
00:17:07
Speaker
that's a good point yeah yeah oh and when they run into the uh the nf police uh the police show up and they're real fucking like dumb and shit yeah that was actually the first show uh to spin off from uh this movie it was called wellington paranormal
Spin-offs and TV Series Expansion
00:17:27
Speaker
Oh, so there was like a spin off of the police department like a Reno 911 type thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like but that follows those two cops in New Zealand investigating different like paranormal things.
00:17:44
Speaker
and everything they so it's like kind of like a new zealand axe files comedy type thing yeah yeah that's that's drive it yeah i think it's worth checking i believe that's on hbo um oh it got picked up i got picked up to hbl what is it called uh wellington paranormal
00:18:01
Speaker
Wellington Paranormal. Yeah, it's worth it's worth looking. It's definitely in that same, you know, documentary style. I don't think it's as good as the what we do in the shadows spin off TV series. But it's still it's still funny like that. And it follows the same two characters like, you know, going around investigating
00:18:19
Speaker
Well, I was totally ignorant to this movie and I was also ignorant to the television show, but it seems like the television show is what's really taken off for that. Yeah, I think it's even funner than the movie, honestly. How many how many seasons are there in the show right now? There's at least four seasons, right? Currently three or four. I think.
00:18:47
Speaker
There was no, I think there are like five or six now. Well, it started in 2019. Did it not? Yeah. So they already have five seasons. Five season is the fourth season just finished. So they're already reviewed for two more. Yeah. So yeah, there's going to be at least six seasons. Yes.
00:19:12
Speaker
So I mean, it's obviously like kicking ass and well, I know this the show all takes place in New Zealand as well. No, the show takes place on Staten Island. Oh, the show takes place in Staten Island, New York. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, see, here's the thing.
00:19:31
Speaker
Other than the first episode, which I watched a while back, the only episode I saw was season one, episode seven. Yes, I told you to watch that one because that one directly links to the movie.
00:19:48
Speaker
Yeah, and we knew like there's no way I was going to be able to watch like fucking four or five seasons in a matter of like a week or two. So you had told me like, you know, watch that link back. And I got to say, like, I wasn't feeling like I wasn't feeling like watching the show. I don't think like I don't know if I could just get into that as like a show.
00:20:15
Speaker
It just wasn't really for me. Like I liked the movie. I don't think I could have gotten into the whole, not a big fan of copies. I'm just not on the down there that way. But I was really happy when you told me to watch this episode and I was wondering why. And you told me, well, this is a must because it all ties back into the movie. And it was fucking great because they had all the vampires
00:20:44
Speaker
that have played vampires playing themselves as vampires that they could possibly get.
00:20:55
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And I realize that might sound like a little bit confusing what I just said, but like, for example, like, till this...
Celebrity Cameos and Guest Appearances
00:21:03
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I can go in all the... I have all the cameos like written down. Busted into it. Get into it. The Baron, who is actually in like nine episodes throughout the series, is played by Doug Jones, who is, you know, famous for hiding under the makeup.
00:21:18
Speaker
And wait, the Baron was the one that was killed, correct? Yeah, yes. He was killed. In this episode, all the original characters from the movie and from other vampire genres and movies come back because the vampires kill another vampire.
00:21:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's like a real no no in the vampire community that we all know. And it turns out that Guillermo the familiar is the one that killed him accidentally. Yeah. When he like opened or they had gone out the episode before that, they take the Baron out on a night out on the town and then they come back and like they're real drunk from drinking, you know, drunk people's blood.
00:22:04
Speaker
Yeah, they get fucked up because they can't eat human or drink human food and make some like a projectile vomit. Yeah. Well, they should. I believe that they should that a little bit in the movie. Didn't that happen to Nick? Yeah. I mean, like, pretty nice. Yeah.
00:22:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's a word that wasn't really I would say that would probably be one of my favorite parts just to mention back when you asked me because just the way they filmed it like he had to have like a fucking hose that he was holding up next to his mouth like it was just like he was fire like projectile vomit dude. He was shooting vomit like fucking a good 30 to 40 feet.
00:22:52
Speaker
Yeah, in the show, the Baron goes flying back up and hits like a shed behind him and stuff. What, from vomiting? Yeah, and then he pukes again and goes flying across the barn.
00:23:10
Speaker
yeah these like the uh yeah and it's like they just go to like a story and he looks fucking gross as hell too like worse than the nosferatu uh one from the movie like they he goes out wearing a uh like
00:23:25
Speaker
something Colin Robinson, the energy vampire, who's one of my favorite characters of the show. Like they do a whole like office episode where like he starts getting too much power at the office from drain and everyone's because he gets that. That was a concept that was like somewhat new to like the I was reading a little bit about that, how they got
00:23:50
Speaker
They got the whole thing from like vampires like drinking energy instead of drinking people's energy instead of drinking their blood. I think it's from like life force. Yeah. That movie. I think that that was more of a drinking somebody's like energy. That was.
00:24:06
Speaker
so stealing someone's essence or something yeah and there's like all types of like weird creatures that show up later on as well in the show but uh back to this particular that's what i was all about for this
00:24:23
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, Doug Jones is the Baron. Kristin Shawl shows up. She ends up having a larger role later on as well too, so she comes back up again. Then the first two vampires they meet that are like locked in the room for one for turning a baby into a vampire.
00:24:46
Speaker
and then it was fucking Laszlo who did it because he was bored and uh the one vampire gets blamed for it and that's why he's been sitting in that room for what they think is like thousands of years it's only been like 90 years
00:25:01
Speaker
that's still a lot yeah but the fact that you thought it was either you thought it was thousands years but it's only like 90 yeah that'd be pretty fucking terrible but uh the one vampire is alexandra hendrickson i'm not really familiar with her she's pretty new but the other vampire who gets blamed for the baby is dave batista
00:25:20
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, you
00:25:41
Speaker
Oh, we're ready. They're like, wait, you're ready for them now. They've been locked in that room for 90 years awaiting their hearing. That was like their imprisonment. I think so. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying, like, if you haven't seen the show and you don't know the episode we're describing, the woman that or the female vampire that he's been locked in there with, like, I'm just saying, like, I was going to be
00:26:10
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locked in the room for 90 years with someone, it wouldn't be all bad because I'd be with her. And she doesn't seem like she's really that upset with it. She was like, I got into too much defiling. Yeah.
00:26:30
Speaker
She just got into the filing like she thinks she's been there for a thousand years. It's only been 90, but like it's still a long time. Yeah. She's been waiting trial for 90 years and she doesn't really seem like it's that big of a deal or whatever.
00:26:52
Speaker
Oh I like when Kristen Schall first shows up and then and she brings all the five we sent we sent a raven we sent 500 ravens like yeah you just use the phone he was like you could just send us a raven back yeah
00:27:08
Speaker
She was like, yeah, but you could have just called us. And yeah, and the first, when she leads them into the room, the first taste of you get out of the characters, like returning characters. When I first watched the episode, I had no idea like they were coming back at all. And like, there's like a dance sequence that they've been practicing for decades that they want the show off.
00:27:31
Speaker
And it's real ridiculous. They're even like, what the fuck is going on? But you start to see their faces pop up with the original three from from the movie. And that's what I then like the next vampire you reveal is Tilda Swinton, who is a vampire and only lovers left alive, which is I didn't know I had to look up.
00:27:51
Speaker
I had the who actually shows, he shows up, uh, I think in the most recent episode, most recent season. Anyway, uh, I think he was in like the first one first couple episodes. I know I can't remember when he showed up, but he's definitely in this past season.
00:28:08
Speaker
And he plays himself. So I thought that was pretty good that they not only got Tilda from that. And I was reading an interview in like Tilda's movie. I think it was that movie. And the What We Do in the Shadows came out around the same time. And they were both at a film festival. And that's how Jermaine Clemente and Tilda Swinton met. And she was like, oh, I loved your movie. Our vampires should meet up at some point. And that's oh, interesting.
00:28:38
Speaker
So they got her and then everybody else is kind of like, all right, let's just start calling people and see who can get. So they got, uh, Evan Rachel would from a true blood. I had no idea. Like, as soon as I saw that, I walked up to find out who Rachel Evan would. I like said it in the mind. Evan Rachel would. Yeah. And yes, I love her. And I was like, wait, what the fuck movie was she a vampire? And then I saw true blood because I was going to launch it.
00:29:07
Speaker
And I was like, oh, mother fuck, it's true. All right. Never mind. You could just go and watch her scenes. So I figured it was like her throughout the entire season. No, I thought she had like a large role in True Blood. No, I think she was just in a single episode. She's in like nine episodes, I think. Oh, yeah. Fucking season. Yeah. But she's not in like she's like sporadically throughout the series. She's not in like season. Yeah.
00:29:37
Speaker
Then you got Danny Trejo. Austin from Dustled On. From Dustled On. You got, was it Paul Reuben? Yes. Yeah, you know, Pee Wee, but he was a vampire in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the movie, not the TV side. Then they mentioned Rob Patterson, and they were like, wait, Rob's out here? And they're like, no, he didn't want to come. And she's like, Evan Rachel, it's like, yeah, it's awesome. He kind of wanted to put that behind him.
00:30:06
Speaker
And they were like, uh, yeah, he's like, yeah, he's trying to put that behind them. Then, uh, Kiefer Sullivan wanted to come, but he was, uh, busy. And they were like, Tom and, uh, Brad, uh, you know, there's a Brad Pitt and they were like, yeah, they weren't interested. They were like, you know, I'm scheduling conflicts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:28
Speaker
You know, Tom Cruise didn't know he was in that vampire movie. But then, of course, they got Wesley Snipes. Wesley Snipes, they got him on a Skype call, which was actually written in the script to get him on Skype because they were. Oh, was it? Yeah, they were like, it would it wouldn't be as funny if it was anybody else that we got on Skype. It had it would only work with Wesley. But yeah. And they're like, well, what's this guy in? Oh, somebody in the background just goes, oh, God, not this fucking guy. Yeah.
00:30:57
Speaker
Yeah. And they were like, well, he's only a half a vampire and Danny Trejo's like, well, I'm only listening to half his opinion. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. And they, they talk, uh, it's daytime and they talk about how he's showing off and stuff like that. They're like, your wife sucks. Leslie, get better. He's calling on the Skype. But I mean, of course.
00:31:22
Speaker
Of course Wesley Snipe had nothing else better to do than do that.
Plot Twists and Future Speculations
00:31:27
Speaker
I don't see that motherfucker doing anything anymore. So like that shit was like, that was like a fucking years paycheck.
00:31:38
Speaker
And then the roommate, Colin Robinson, rounds out the crew and they get put on trial for the murder and they get found guilty even though Guillermo came and confessed. They were like, we don't believe you. They were like, look at this guy. This guy? No, we don't believe you.
00:31:56
Speaker
And, uh, calling around says like, what the fuck can I do? He ends up saving them from being burned, uh, later on. And then like, when they're walking away, he's like, oh yeah, you guys should probably get that, uh, camera crew out of the well down there. Like they're in real trouble. Like, yeah, they're real. Yeah. Well, there's sentence to death and like the sun is going to like, you know, um, it's reminiscent of the scene, um, in the interview with the vampire where they killed, um,
00:32:25
Speaker
Kirsten Dunst's character with the girl that she turns where they put him in the well, and they wait for the sun to come out. And it's a real brutal death for vampires, I guess, because they're like fried alive by the sun. You see it all starting to happen, and then dude just shows up with an umbrella. And yeah, and then they just leave the camera crew down there. They're like, you guys should get them out.
00:32:52
Speaker
Yeah, they rescued the vampires, but like for some reason they were just they just left the camera crew down.
00:33:00
Speaker
The camera crew and the audio crew get fucking killed a lot in this show, too. Oh, do that show. It's like a game that happens. Baron kills the audio guy in the previous episode. And then the audio starts glitching. And while they're apologizing, they're like, oh, sorry, your audio guy got killed and shit. And it's like the audio is glitching. So they made it a part of the show. It was really cool. Oh, god. Yeah. But yeah, sometimes a camera guy will get eaten.
00:33:28
Speaker
And, you know, the camera will be sitting on the ground. Yeah, it's so so like they go through like multiple camera people per season. I'm not necessarily all the time, but like I think at least like three or four throughout the four seasons have been ripped. You know what I mean?
00:33:48
Speaker
But in terms of like being like a New Zealand like documentary filmmaker slash like you know biographers. Well it's Staten Island. I'm sorry yeah Staten Island. It has this particular position has like
00:34:07
Speaker
a very high mortality rate. They should, they do explain that they have like protection. Like, yeah, it's a very, it's like one of the most risky things you could do in film.
00:34:21
Speaker
Yeah, some of this season two and beyond cameos that you haven't gotten there yet. But Jim Jarmusch, like I said, Craig Robertson, Hallie, Joe Osment, Benedict, Juan, Nick Kroll, David Cross and Mark Hamill all show up. Oh, they got him along. Yeah. I think. Well, there's Mark Hamill of empire.
00:34:51
Speaker
No, none of these were necessarily vampires. Oh, he was just doing the cameo and he played himself? No, he plays a vampire. Oh, he plays Jim, the vampire. Oh, OK. And I thought he was just on there as Mark Hamill. No, no, no, no. No, these all they all I think Jim Jarmusch is the only one that shows up as himself. All the other actors like play like a show. Well, yeah, it's still like really fucking really good.
00:35:20
Speaker
Uh, I hope they get, um, like, I don't know who else they could get. I mean, besides the big ones that they mentioned in the show, I feel like there's some other actors that should show up. Well, I mean, Mary Feldman should show up or like Kate Beckinsale or, uh, Hugh Jackman from that shitty Van Helsing. Well, I mean, there's a lot. Well, you know, they have a lot of, I mean, if it were me.
00:35:50
Speaker
Ideally, if I was going to do it, I would try to go all out and try to get everybody's schedule to come together. Like I would like, even if you can just shoot, like you, you know, all of them work. I'm just saying, like in terms of like for the audience though. Yeah. I mean, you could also do something like that where you get them to individually come.
00:36:12
Speaker
you could film like little bits and then edit it all in. Like, I think you were like, Hey, we'll come to you and we'll fucking do this like at your house real quick. Couple hours. Yeah, that would be cool. I'm just saying for the audience to get the greatest thrill, I think it'd be cool if they could get as many people together as humanly possible. And you would think over the pandemic would have been the best time to do that. Yeah. You know what I mean?
00:36:40
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, hey, like I said, it's not really like for me, this wasn't really horror, but like it was definitely very, very enjoyable. And, you know, if you're a big horror fan and you've been watching like Hellraiser and Saul and like all this like brutally fucking violent, like serious intense horror and you want to take a break from it all. But yet still live in that. Yeah, but still live in that world.
00:37:08
Speaker
Yeah, this might be something that's up your alley if you're trying to switch things up or take things down a peg or tail.
Final Thoughts and Recommendations
00:37:19
Speaker
Now, do you think you would go back and continue watching the show or?
00:37:23
Speaker
Ah, I don't think I mean, they're short, like 30 minute episodes, you know, when you need to kill so much content that's out right now that I'm pumped about both horror and beyond.
00:37:39
Speaker
That I, I guess if like, I wasn't watching anything else, if there was nothing else that I was pumped about, like I would go back and check this out. And I probably am going to at least finish the first season, but like, is this like something that I'm real pumped about right now? Not so much, but like, I do plan on at least finishing the first season and, you know, go from there. Yeah. I want, I want updates on like, like when you do go back.
00:38:07
Speaker
Yeah, no, I'm definitely going to finish the first season, but will I go beyond that? I can't really tell you, but I'm definitely, I'm definitely happy that I got to check it out. And yeah, like I said, try and take it down the peg or two. What are we doing Shouse for you?
00:38:25
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, yeah. I really, uh, like, love this movie and love this show. So I really, I'm glad you enjoyed it. And, uh, and I hope everyone listening watches it and enjoys it for your end of the mood for something light. Like we said, all right. Well, thanks for joining me. And, uh, we'll talk to you soon. All right. Lay around buddy. Peace.