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Strange Journey & Scurry Breakdown: Cult Classics, Bugs & Claustrophobia | Streamin’ Demons

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Jo and Amélie go full cult-core in this episode of Streamin’ Demons, diving into Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror and the tunnel-crawling, bug-infested thriller Scurry. From Amélie’s late-in-life first watch to Jo’s full tattoo dedication, they unpack the generational, cultural, and queer legacy of Rocky Horror — and why the doc Strange Journey hits hard. Then they tackle Scurry, a single-shot survival flick where the real terror isn’t monsters — it’s trust, confinement, and sloppy writing. Plus: ghost hauntings, musicals in France, and Susan Sarandon’s underwear.


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KEY MOMENTS

  • Opening chaos – Jo forgets what show they’re on, Amélie has a chill day
  • Rocky Horror flashbacks – Amélie watches it late in life, Jo hated it until Susan Sarandon’s underwear changed everything
  • Doc loveStrange Journey reveals the real cult phenomenon 
  • Scurry’s one-shot flex – Amélie likes the bugs, Jo calls out the lazy writing
  • Jo’s big take – “It’s not horror. It’s claustrophobia with bugs and trust issues”
  • Amélie’s reflection – Musicals in France? Meh. But the vibe shift in settler countries hits different
  • WTF moment – Jo gets stiffed for an interview with Richard O'Brien
  • Why it matters – Culture clash, fan legacy, and why small films sometimes hit harder on VR than big screens
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00:00:01
Speaker
Hey everyone, Joe and Amelie here, and today's What's Crackin'? Streaming Demons! ah Who knows this? Let the right one in. Club Misery, whatever pain, Dr. Payne the doctor is in, whatever podcast is actually is today.
00:00:15
Speaker
Streaming Demons, right? Welcome to Streaming Demons, where we talk about shows, TV, movies, theatricals, games, who knows? All that and more now.
00:00:26
Speaker
So we've been talking for like and a half hour, but pretend, how was your day today? I had chill day. I did absolutely nothing.
00:00:37
Speaker
Nice. I think everyone needs a chill day to do absolutely nothing. I encourage this. we we We race through the world doing way too many things all at once. And then at the end, it all leads to shit anyways.
00:00:53
Speaker
Oh, wait, that's depressing. But you know what I mean. Yeah. I'm glad you're doing a chill day. I'm glad you're spending it with me. i feel honored. I do. Yeah. So today we have two movies, Scurry, directed by Luke Sparky, and Strange Journey, the story the Rocky Horror, directed by, I should know this, Linus O'Brien.
00:01:14
Speaker
God, I know, i just watched it, bloody thing. I watch Strange Journey, the story of Rocky Horror. Both of us watch Scurry. So we're going to talk about Rocky Horror Picture Show first.
00:01:29
Speaker
I do not know if you ever watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show. ah Yes, I did. and I did. I watched it with my mother-in-law back in Australia.
00:01:39
Speaker
Apparently, it's very, very famous in the English-speaking world. Like something really funny, really special for the time when they created the movie. However, in France, nothing.
00:01:52
Speaker
Bluff.
00:01:55
Speaker
Not known, nothing gives a fuck about the movie. It's not funny. We never watched it on TV. Like, no, no, no. And Evan's the one who are cinephiles.
00:02:07
Speaker
Still zipped it. Yeah. yes I can see that. I can see that. So what, how old were you when you watched it? So you must've been like 30. thirty Very old actually, I was 28 years old. twenty eight 28, very old 28.
00:02:21
Speaker
So I heard about the movie because I watch a lot of documentary and also I watch, oh, your arthritis is good. Yeah, my arthritis popped up my finger. your arthritis is good too. Oh no, ah no my arthritis so... I had to pop it up. ah yeah Yeah. Everyone else is listening to our podcast like what the fuck they're doing arthritis.
00:02:41
Speaker
I just gave her finger, that's all. ah and for saying twenty eight grand I was really old. i was twenty eight I was 28. was ancient yeah over the hill. No, I've heard about the movie several times because I watch a lot of documentary. I'm a big cinephile. So there's few actors that play there. You know what I mean?
00:02:59
Speaker
I'm also interested in to the history of American movie. What is good? What is bad? The good, bad, and ugly. And this movie didn't i do very well on theater, but it very well later on.
00:03:15
Speaker
It's a cult. I mean, and okay. I will ask you, did you enjoy it when you saw it the first time?
00:03:29
Speaker
It's okay what you were saying. Is it your opinion? and My mother-in-law was laughing a hassle. Right. She found it really funny. The scene I really liked was when you see the guy in, we call it Port Jartel, in underwear, like sexy underwear.
00:03:46
Speaker
Yeah. Like with his smile. I'm like, fuck, he reminds me of Freddie Mercury. I like it. I like the guy, but it's five seconds of the movie from all the movie. I watch the movie. I'm like, haha, you know, like I didn't got hooked.
00:04:03
Speaker
My mother-in-law, she was laughing at herself. She was explaining to me what she was a big movie. You didn need to understand when it came out in the seventies, no one could wear a port jartel as a man. And you know, it's very gay and it's very funny and it's very sexual.
00:04:20
Speaker
And here in Australia, it was very, very Christian. and when it came out, it was a big thing. and that Remember, we did an unroad outside of the house. but but but bla bla So she was very, very excited, like a big, big fan.
00:04:34
Speaker
Yeah, it might the generational thing. And honestly, I saw it when I was a kid. i probably... I want to say like 12 or 13 years old because the box, the cover box is like this little vampire. i don't have it.
00:04:51
Speaker
I don't have it all. but But the lips and the vampire lips and they misplaced it as a horror show because it says rock your picture horror show. So whatever small town grocery store that got it for their VHS section, put it in the horror.
00:05:07
Speaker
And I was just going through every horror movie. I'm like, oh, this is interesting. I look at the back. I'm like, oh, maybe not. Put it back later on. And then I just ran out of anything else to watch. I'm like, fuck it. Whatever. 99 cents.
00:05:18
Speaker
Here we go. Back in the day, you can rent movies for three days for 99 cents. Oh, no. I know. You take the VHS tape. Fucking put it in. I started watching it. I'm like, oh, it's a fucking musical.
00:05:29
Speaker
God. me What the fuck am I watching a musical for? I'm very small town, by the way, in Wisconsin. And I hated it.
00:05:40
Speaker
I could not get fucking into it at all, at all. But I had three days of nothing else. Again, small town, we had NBC. That was it. Sometimes PBS.
00:05:51
Speaker
No other channels. Nothing else to do. My nearest friend lived 45 minutes away by car. Like there's shit else to do. i got to read. I read all my fucking books.
00:06:03
Speaker
You know, there's only so much time I can work. And there's, fuck, man. So I watched it again. Still shit. Watched it again.
00:06:14
Speaker
got a little further this time. Absolute fucking shit. Watched it again. Saw Susan Sarandon in her underwear. Stopped for a minute. I thought, this is the best movie ever. Holy shit.
00:06:25
Speaker
didn't know that Susan Sarandon in her fucking underwear. God damn it. So Frankenfer and go, whoa, Tim Curry, all the makeup and the thing. I'm like, that's fucking great take on like either Dracula or Frankenstein creation of it. Like, my God, it's a fucking great take of it.
00:06:47
Speaker
And then I watched the entire thing, most because, again, Susan Sarandon in her underwear. And meatloaf's in I'm like, oh, fuck, meatloaf's in this. And then you've got these people who are doing all these things. And it shows no, maybe a bit of side boob, maybe a nipple, but mostly eyes. And it's so weird.
00:07:06
Speaker
And by the time you're done with it, it took me like six or seven times to actually watch it once. I'm like, that was actually pretty good. So your mother-in-law might've seen it once and said, this is amazing because it did the stage cast, you know, it was a theatrical release first, or not theatrical, but actually in the theater.
00:07:24
Speaker
And then they did the movie and then it became a whole phenomena. And fast forward, 2025, I'm watching Strange Journey, the story of Rocky Horror done by Linus O'Brien, which is going to be Richard O'Brien's kid.
00:07:44
Speaker
And it's a documentary. It is an hour and a half. And i learned. Like, I've never seen a live show. i've wanted to take I wanted to take groups when I was in Las Vegas, but they the the theater that showed it kept fucking with the schedule, so I could never do it.
00:08:02
Speaker
And the ones in Montreal usually sell out. Like, they'll play it on October 31st. The minute tickets are sold, they sell out. boom it's October fifth right now it's already sold out like shit you know it's all sold out so it's a big cultural phenomenon but maybe just in the English speaking world Maybe.
00:08:25
Speaker
Weird. Because in France, we are not into musical. We don't watch musical. Happy for me. The few movies who have musical and people like it, it's... Paint Your Wagon.
00:08:43
Speaker
Clint Eastwood. That was fucking awful. you never seen Paint Your Wagon with Clint Eastwood? The Western musical where he basically fucking kills everyone as he sings.
00:08:55
Speaker
Oh, that's fucking key. You know? Yeah. Okay. New movie for everyone. Paint your wagon with Clint Eastwood. He's in the musical. The end. That's all you need to know. So France doesn't have that one. Yeah, not even musical like, uh, except I sing under the rain.
00:09:12
Speaker
Oh, one of those? Under the rain. That's the only movie in France we really love. Every generation. Lovely, amazing, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah blah And Moulin Rouge. Oh, yes, fucking course. Moulin Rouge.
00:09:27
Speaker
Voilà. Moulin Rouge. I mean, it's it's literally in Paris. Yeah. It's like saying, oh, didn't like the Hunchback Mordame. Yeah, we we like that. It's a Moulin Rouge and I sing under the rain.
00:09:43
Speaker
I sing under the rain. Na na na na i'll i'll let you go all day and then ah no and now we're getting sued by whoever wrote the fucking song bad dad anyway yeah we don't like musicals that's why there are some actors for example who are shocked to know they they know how to sing or they're really good at musicals like Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin like Clint Eastwood now yes if it's true he actually won a ah and a grammy
00:10:17
Speaker
or not no Yeah, he won a Grammy? or an Oscar? Whatever for the number one soundtrack for the for his movie, Gran Torino, against Bruce Springsteen, who was up for The Wrestler.
00:10:33
Speaker
I mean, he didn't deserve it at all. Bruce Springsteen had a far better song. But they kind of gave it to Clint because who he was. He deserved it for Paint Your Wagon, though.
00:10:44
Speaker
If you haven't watched it, 1969. It's Western musical. it's a western musical Check it out. Big, big, big disappointment for French people. Misérables.
00:10:55
Speaker
Les Mélez. I didn't know it was a musical. um I watched it. I watched the movie. I'm like, great. There is Russell Crowe and there is this actress and this actor. Fantastic. louis miserableab Yeah. You didn't know Les Mis was a mystical?
00:11:11
Speaker
I'm like, what the fuck? Why is he singing? No, no, no, no. and You didn't know Les Mis? knew Les Misérables was a musical. i know need theb i come on you need need go was a musical But you didn't think the film version would be. But didn't know the movie. I thought they were taking the movie and turning it into a movie, not a musical. Got it.
00:11:33
Speaker
Yes, maybe one song of Anna Toei. Maybe it's a moon. And I'm like, yeah, sure, why not? You know what I mean? I had a... Dude, have to tell you that. I had a conversation with an American at the reception.
00:11:47
Speaker
Oh, no. oh yeah ah I think you would have committed suicide if you had that conversation with me. I tried it. So disappointed. So reception.
00:11:58
Speaker
Hi, my name is John. How are you? My name is Amélie. Nice to meet you. Oh, Amélie, tell me, are you from France? Yeah. Oh, I have to tell you, I really like the story from Victor Hugo.
00:12:09
Speaker
Les Misérables. Oh, me too. Why do you like it? Look, Les Thénardiers. What very interesting characters, they're so evil, i like them.
00:12:21
Speaker
And I'm like, really? I'm like, this is really interesting, let's have a cappuccino and talk about it. So I take the guy to a cafe, we have a cappuccino and I'm like, I really want to hear your point of view as an American from Les Ténardiers because you know, it's interesting to see and listen people who like French literature and have a different opinion about characters.
00:12:41
Speaker
So you say the character of Les Ténardiers who are really hating France, who are even part of the vocabulary, like bad step parents are late in the day, you say late in the day are horrifically bad and you like it. Yes, because he's saying this and that and the other. So for 20 minutes, we have a conversation is like, I have to show you a video. I have to show you a video. And I'm like, yeah, sure.
00:13:04
Speaker
And he showed me the video of Les Miserables song, you know, when I get like, ta, ta, ta, ta. And I'm like, yeah, sure. Great. And what about the book? I never read the book. I've never read the book.
00:13:16
Speaker
There's a book? you Dude, do you never read the book Les Miserables from Victor Hugo? Oh, no, no, no, no. The musical. So you can meet a lot of Americans are like, oh, I really like Les Miserables and I would like to visit north of France, the city where, but butda which I always went with fantastic.
00:13:39
Speaker
ah There is every year a big flea market. like kilometers and kilometers and the city of Les Miserables it's a fortress all around and you can visit and inside you have the city it's very beautiful and you meet millions of people in one day because of the book Les Miserables there is a musical of Les Miserables organized by La Merie but it's more historical so people are dressed like ah the French people from that time and there is canon and stuff and it's very beautiful and
00:14:14
Speaker
But it's more like the book, not like in America. Right. And yeah, was disappointed because I'm like, yeah, great. You have an interesting part of your but later and you never never read the book. and Never, never read the book. You know, like, come on, dude.
00:14:30
Speaker
Come on. Today I learned there's a book. No, I'm kidding. My ex is got a class. So. so That's your reaction to musicals then? Yeah.
00:14:44
Speaker
However, however, I still think if you just like ah be a cinephile as you are, you would actually like Strange Journey, the story of the Rocky Horror, because you can see how that piece went from the theater, the actual on stage to a movie theater, to the home theater, back out to the actual theater.
00:15:06
Speaker
where people perform it themselves in Shadowcast and like the whole history of it and why things were made and how things can just go this way or that way and what it all kind of entails.
00:15:17
Speaker
I think you would actually like the strange journey, the story of Rocky Horror as a film unto itself. I think you would. Yeah, but it's really good for, I cannot say I would say it, the settlers because was the thematic was discussed and talked in the European culture for years and years on, right?
00:15:43
Speaker
Like there is no taboo while in the settlers world, Australian, Canadian, American, which is very Christian, very religious, very men and men in that side part, women in this part, we are all separated, we all needed family, but but but but but but and that movie would just shake everything.
00:16:03
Speaker
Yes, I understand why he makes so much money in America, for example, or what culture is speaking, it's very important. That movie is very important. Like my mother and I was telling me, like, oh, you don't understand. It's a ah cultural shock. And they do this and do that. And they're talking about this and that. I mean, do you understand? I'm like, yeah, yeah. But in France, it's common. Like ah we have fair like fighters of fear talking about that. So it's not shocking. It's also could be a generational thing.
00:16:32
Speaker
Because who knows, because you know, it's, again, this came out and God, about 50 years ago now. I don't think so. Because there's people of my generation who love playing this character in high school.
00:16:46
Speaker
You are always a guy who's going to wear the port jartel. They like that movie. They play it around. There's a lot of people who have a poster of the movie.
00:16:57
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no. When I spoke with other cinephiles of my age and younger, the movie is still, you know, present. Right, no I'm saying, like, you're saying it's commonplace in France, maybe now. Like, it's almost commonplace in the United States. We have RuPaul.
00:17:12
Speaker
We have RuPaul. We also have the Boulay Brothers' Dragular show, as I was trying to say. Yeah, and so... We all these other things that come out from it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the LGBTQ community really likes that movie. Like, there is no problem. Like, uh...
00:17:25
Speaker
I heard a lot of bisexuals were like, yeah, when you're bisexual, you like that movie. like, tell me. This is the first time. Yeah, because Frank is bisexual. Frank, well, I believe, don't know, maybe it's a spoiler.
00:17:38
Speaker
But yeah yeah, I think your mother-in-law would really like Strange Journey, to the story of Rocket Horror. It's a documentary, hour, 29 minutes. Definitely check it out. is well worth it. learned some stuff.
00:17:49
Speaker
And like did say started out not liking the show, but I actually have on my thigh, almost the entire right thigh, is a tattoo of Frankenfur.
00:18:02
Speaker
Yes, you do. Yeah. Lizzie made it for me a while ago. Thank you, Lizzie, if you're listening. Or thank you even if you're not listening. So yeah, that's how we go. Now, I watched that movie. You did not.
00:18:15
Speaker
I still think you'll like it because just the documentary of it. However, we both watched a movie that we might disagree on a little bit. Scurry. Scurry, 2024 Or listed as 2024 on IMDb.
00:18:27
Speaker
or list it two thousand and twenty four and i'm the b It's out now. And it goes, two strangers who find themselves trapped underground when the city's attacked by a monstrous threat. Badly injured with limited resources, they must navigate a treacherous narrowing tunnel in hopes of finding an exit.
00:18:43
Speaker
Director by dr to director by like god directed by Luke Sparky. w writtent Written by Tom Evans, stars Jamie Costa, Amalia, and Peter Ohanian.
00:18:55
Speaker
And Jet Tranter. That is it. There's only four fucking people in this point. There's actually more people. i've Well, maybe just Corporal Zoe Wasp. Maybe she's one that got killed.
00:19:06
Speaker
There's really like two people for most of this film. Just two.
00:19:12
Speaker
That's it. That's all get.
00:19:17
Speaker
But the CGI is good. You like the CGI. I didn't. hello I didn't like the CGI. However, I like... I don't know if we can say it Can we say it uh are you gonna spoil the ending of it or talk about the monsters no just the monsters yeah the monsters are fine yeah they're the monsters are great in cgi you like the monsters i saw some of the monsters i was like yeah whatever like they they could have just like taken if anyone doesn't know they're basically insects
00:19:51
Speaker
Yeah, that grow like gremlins in the fucking sunlight. No, but gremlins die in the sunlight. The insects grow in the sunlight. as ram hot That movie basically it's
00:20:05
Speaker
I didn't get scared. It's always the same troops, a man and a woman. They hurt. They need to get out of the tunnel. So they just.
00:20:16
Speaker
me and her and they go and they try to get out. And yeah we see the sound of the monster was like, and there is a lot and a lot of sci-fi movie with the monster who say, and I'm like, yeah, didn't make me scared or put tension because I just imagine my friends like, yeah, went to the cinema and I saw the beast and you know, the beast.
00:20:44
Speaker
And I'm like, yeah, shut up. Like, ah stop doing the with your, with your phone, with your throat. Like, no, stop. Like, so you wait, you watch the screen and they're like in the dark. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. And you hear the, ah, Gucci roll. And you see the monster and like, ah, it's a monster. Yes. The monster is great.
00:21:02
Speaker
Oh, are they going to die? Oh, are they going to have a car falling on the them? Oh, like I was not entertained. I was like, yeah and in five four three two one she's going to hurt herself she has all said in five four three two one we're going to have scene when we see the monster coming from the dark and we will see the sun behind and we'll see the form and slowly see their eyes and beams that's what happened i'm like ya
00:21:34
Speaker
as usual you know what i mean yeah it's this is what i'm seeing I don't find it as a horror movie. I don't. Because I find the monster the least entertaining part of the film. The the monsters are secondary.
00:21:50
Speaker
It starts off with, anyone doesn't know, it it starts off with a man trapped in kind of like an earthquake. the The city starts collapsing, whatever it's going be. He's trapped. He's trapped. And he finds another survivor.
00:22:04
Speaker
And that's the only survivor they really find. The entire fucking movie. That's it. It's just those two. No spoilers there because it's a two thing. to i Just look in IMDB. That's the cast. You're done. You got four people.
00:22:17
Speaker
The monsters are secondary. And then we see like it's a confinement movie. It is a confinement movie, meaning it's trying to make a claustrophobic, it's trying to make everything, every inch of ground that they cover seems like five hours to cover it.
00:22:34
Speaker
It is a movie, as Joe Bob Briggs would probably say, have we seen this before? Sure we have. Sure we've seen this. We've seen this in the telephone movie or the coffin buried alive or some shit like that where it's just claustrophobia.
00:22:48
Speaker
the The bad guy is not the monster, it's claustrophobia. And it's a trust movie. Can these two strangers trust each other? And the answer is probably no. Paranoia hits hard.
00:23:00
Speaker
It's the old joke. how fast If you and i are going through the woods and there's a bear, how fast do I have to run to get away from the bear? Faster than you.
00:23:13
Speaker
That's it. Don't to outrun the bear. Just got outrun you. That's it. And it's one of those things. Like if the monster's going to kill us. Run and go different direction. Like it it depends. Like for example, if I do dead. No, and bad I would make sure I would like stab, stab, stab you and go, this is Mr. Bear. Look, bleeding.
00:23:35
Speaker
I'll throw you into the bear. I'll run away. Later. Call me. If you don't have apopties. And then i once that happens, I would go to your funeral going, I'm so sorry.
00:23:49
Speaker
i tried to save your mother, but she sacrificed herself for me. and you would go bullshit you fucking close the funeral thing funeral thing that the castle again does it no more best like you would say that as a funeral she was a great french sacrifice herself for me loving mother loving life but then you would go and ghost hunting and i would fucking ghost you friend come and say purple in the machine
00:24:21
Speaker
take Dick head. You know, he's a I'll be with Lee Hatfield and the SIPA crowd. I'll be one of their little Oculus box or little things going.
00:24:34
Speaker
Okay. What do you hear? I don't hear anything at all. Uh, nothing at all. I guess there's no ghost here. and Like Dick. and I don't know. Things are flying around. not No, no ghost in this room.
00:24:49
Speaker
That's okay. Do you smell? i smell. smell something. Wait. I smell a fart. Do you fart? I smell a fart. I see a color. The color purple.
00:24:59
Speaker
Yes. The color purple. I see a W, but I see a J also. Yeah, I feel somebody not happy. Yes. I feel really somebody really not happy.
00:25:12
Speaker
yeah well that's kind of like i can do that now i guess but that's kind of the point i get it but that's the whole point of this movie you don't have to run faster than a monster you only have to run faster than the person in front or behind you and that's part of the paranoia do i want to lead or do i want to be from behind if the monster i think the monster is behind me then i want the other guy behind me because he's gonna eat in first if i think the monster is in front of me then I want the guy in front of me because he's going to be eaten first.
00:25:42
Speaker
And there's kind of that that trade-off. And then we find out that we kind of know more about the guy than the woman. but We see it mostly through his point of view.
00:25:54
Speaker
and The camera follows close on him. So you know he's the he's a family man that did something bad. It's a redemption story whatever it's to be. We know the woman doesn't tell the truth.
00:26:07
Speaker
She's holding back. We don't know how much or whatever it is, but it's a bit awkward there. I will say this.
00:26:17
Speaker
I agree with your synopsis of the writing. It is formulaic. This happened, and of course this going to happen. Of course this is going to happen. Like there's a scene, I won't all won't spoil it.
00:26:30
Speaker
Let's say you get to see one other person for a half second. Like, oh yeah, they're dead. Exactly. The movie's only like halfway through. They're they're not going to like zig now. And you just know the person is going to die in about five, four, three, two, dead.
00:26:47
Speaker
You know. And then they keep going. I said the writer's name and the director's name separately because I do not enjoy the writing in this.
00:27:03
Speaker
I think there's parts that were just lazy. Of course. again Once again, you your movie is out and mine's not. Fucking congratulations on that. I'm just... i don't give stars enough of that.
00:27:17
Speaker
But I believe the writing does drag this down a bit. Because youre just you said it yourself, it's like you can count. Yeah, you can almost count down exactly what the next thing is going to happen before it happens.
00:27:31
Speaker
Because you've seen this a thousand fucking times before.
00:27:36
Speaker
The unique aspect of this, or maybe not the unique aspect, but the thing I really like about this is the directing. It's one continuous shot.
00:27:49
Speaker
Yeah. Like, I would be honest with you. I like the first five seconds when the guy just turn up, grab his phone, his screen is blocked. You see the family on the phone.
00:28:00
Speaker
He called his wife. He's like, Hey, I'm okay. And stuff. And, but, uh, I didn't get to the family. I want to know if you got to the family, I'm fine. that I really liked that. Like he's in, um, he called his wife and.
00:28:16
Speaker
He's got the messagerie and he leave a message. Okay, cool. Great. Then you see the helicopter is like, okay, it's going to be fine. it's going to be okay. And bam, the helicopter just explodes. You're like, okay, cool.
00:28:28
Speaker
Let's watch the movie. Let's see what happened. And then.
00:28:32
Speaker
But okay. But for the movie shooting itself, as I'm trying and get through, it that tunnel scene, they say action. And then the entire fucking movie happens in front of you.
00:28:45
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And then he sets cut. That is one shot. Yeah. They're, they're not doing sets. They're not doing screenings or not setting anything up. They're doing this in one press play, press record and doing the entire fucking movie yeah and stopping.
00:28:59
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Yeah. It's like the movie 1917. It's a continuous shot. There is never any, any break. And that's really good because it's a real time, one hour and 40 minutes.
00:29:11
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Yeah, it's they do some take some liberties, I think, because of some of the CGI and whatnot. We've seen this with Adolescence, the TV show on Netflix right now that like the kid won the awards for.
00:29:22
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And you can see where the acting really starts to spike. i was talking to my friend Nadia about this. and Thanks again for dinner, by the way, Nadia. And how it goes from the cameras right here, but the kid can't look at it.
00:29:40
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because he knows that this is just one continuous fucking shot. He can't fuck up. And so all the energy is very much paranoia on the watchers part because you're like oh my god this kid gonna up i hope this kid doesn't fuck up he's like a little kid man what the fuck man and he doesn't he does brilliant and fucking all the acting's bazongo in adolescence and then you see some people who are in the couple episodes later they'll have someone keep going back to one thing going back to one thing was like oh that actor is trying to either play for time
00:30:15
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or he's trying to signpost back to where his line his next line's coming. Da-da-da, signpost. Da-da-da, signpost. So I'm not sure if he's forgetting his line or he's just trying to play for time.
00:30:29
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And he's got to go back to this line so he can say the next line later on. So he'll say this line and then say some things, didn't work, snaps back. Says the other line, doesn't work, snaps back until it's time for to say the next line.
00:30:43
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ah actually in sequence to start the other actress into her next thing, then he goes forward with it. So you see some of that like time stretching technique, maybe they're trying to make the scene longer, I don't know, maybe it's just something else, I don't know.
00:30:56
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You see some of that in Scurry as well, where it looks like the writing is written, you know, and that looks like the dialogue's written for them, but there's sometimes they'll snap back to a line And it kind of like for the character, the like what the fuck, you know, as you're watching it.
00:31:14
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Well, in adolescence, they knew the text, the rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal, and then they played, but forget about the camera. So it was more lively in a sense, like, for example, the car ride when the father goes during his birthday with his wife and his daughter to the restaurant, they drove and they were just the actor alone with the cameras all hidden and they had a lovely conversation is a very they were very natural. like they are Yeah, so whatever mean yes and it's a beautiful, beautiful scene.
00:31:47
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So when you do ah long scene without cuts, it allows the actor to play more like a to play more like, ah, we have an intruder.
00:32:00
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Hello. Hello. Hello. are you? how are you You just woke up from your nap. Yes. We shoot these live vat editing, by the way.
00:32:12
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And now you all know. And now you all know. yeah But that's actually it. much like the tv Much like the movie, we do one long shot.
00:32:23
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But I agree. And I think... the comparison is fair. That car ride in adolescence versus the tunnel crawl in scurry, I think the comparison is fair.
00:32:37
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And I think that we get some things out of the actors that we might not have seen otherwise. How much is written, how much is signposted. I keep using a milestone or signpost.
00:32:48
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And, oh, we're having a whole festival now. Yeah. We've also did these and everything. yeah Just a moment, I'm going to give them some water. That's okay. You give them some water.
00:32:59
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um I'm going to carry it for a minute. As we have technical difficulties, life happens, folks. And if you have triplets, honestly, if you can record a 30 to 60 minute video in peace, like we've recorded so many series, so many, so many.
00:33:21
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And did you hear people? No, they're a quiet little guy. So there you go. For Scurry, I believe that the strength is in the directing and in the acting.
00:33:34
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I think it sets up great claustrophobic movie. I think that the one continuous take thing works well for it. And if there's anything that kind of drags the movie down a bit, again, is going to be the writing.
00:33:52
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As a writer, come at me, bro. Whatever. Say what you want about my writing. Everyone else has. But I think the written is formulaic. This is not even like Blake Snyder formula.
00:34:04
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This is just like fucking AI the shit formula. Oh, that's unfair. Sorry, I'll take that one back. No, I won't. Fuck it. I just, again, sorry. Writing wasn't for me.
00:34:16
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The pacing was fine. It is a hour 30 minute movie. And it seems like an hour 30 minute movie. It doesn't like drag on. It doesn't go anything like that. There's some fun parts in it.
00:34:27
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It's an interesting psychological movie. They list it as horror. I wouldn't say a horror. Thriller? Yeah, I think it's a thriller. I would go with a thriller. And if you have an hour 30 minutes, Scurry is an intriguing movie. And if you're class or public, don't watch it, by the way. It's going to drive you nuts.
00:34:48
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but if welcome back but if you got like an hour and a half why not if if anything if you can watch scurry from the point of view of just the cinematics just the director ability like luke's ability as director i think it's worth watching we talked about this versus row before and you're like we both thought row was amazing and we're like we have to see row in the in the biggest screen like imax right you'd see row in imax I wouldn't see a Scurry at IMAX.
00:35:18
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I wouldn't see Scurry in the theater. I would see Scurry on VR. If I had my headset on and I had to be that all tunneled in, no pun intended, with Scurry, that would make it a horror movie for me.
00:35:31
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It's a good thriller. It's a drama. it's so It's a thriller drama. It's not horror for me. Was it horror for you? No, no, no, no. Not at all. good Yeah.
00:35:44
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But would you watch it in the theater?
00:35:50
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I mean, I so i gave my answer though. No, I don't think so. Yeah, I would watch it. i would watch this on Joe Bob Briggs' Last Drive-In. I would watch it on Shudder.
00:36:02
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I would watch it on Arrow, on Prime Video, whatever. I would watch it whatever streaming service it is. I would watch it then. T&E channel. T&E channel. I would watch it there. And i I love the director's works, Operation Rainfall. I mean, he's a great director.
00:36:19
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He's got great vision. And I think the saving grace of this movie is the director, is the vision for it. I would watch this. If this came out as a VR...
00:36:31
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Like not even doesn't have to be the the whole immersive 3D. It could just be like a flat screen VR where it's kind of up close to you. I would watch it as a horror thing. I think it' be interesting.
00:36:43
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as a whole I think it'd be scary as hell as a game. In yes. In VR, yes. Why not? like Because you're just right here. e Yes. Yeah, it immerses you. But it's almost the further away, like the bigger the screen, it works against the movie.
00:36:58
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Because now you don't feel the claustrophobia. The closer the screen, the more claustrophobic it is. If it's like a fucking Viewmaster, would be claustrophobic shit. But on a big screen, I don't i don't know if it works.
00:37:10
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I don't. um I'd probably, you know, maybe I'll spend 10 bucks seeing it and find out. But that's scurry. Makeup, it's an hour 30 minutes. It doesn't drag. It's cut to fit. I mean, because it can't. It's one continuous shot, really.
00:37:24
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And I think it's well edited. Check it out. 2024, Scurry, director Luke Sparkey. As I say his name right or wrong 15 times in a row. So that's our show.
00:37:35
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Not bad, short show. We said Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Strange Journey, the story of Rocky Horror. And then we've got Scurry 2024. i think they're both worthy of watching for different reasons. And if you're Rocky Horror Picture Show fan, you need to see Strange Journey. That's just a no-brainer. I learned stuff about it and I was a fan. Like i have a tattoo about it and I was a big fan. And you see Tim Curry comes back for it, which is nice.
00:38:03
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ah This is one of the bigger, longer appearances in anything. and And it's family done, right? And then Scurry is going to be the horror movie that's not really a horror movie, but more of a thriller slash drama. Very claustrophobic.
00:38:17
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Check it out. Cool, cool, cool. Now, next week, a by the way, if you haven't liked to subscribe now, she has like 12 kids. Like and subscribe so so we can get money for her. They can't put themselves through fucking college or university or school or I don't know.
00:38:34
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00:38:50
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You want to see Tron and Aries in the theater.
00:38:54
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Yeah. Tron really Tron Aries. Oh yeah I think that's your jam okay. We will probably, depending on when we get back, when Tron Ares comes out, I know it's coming out soon, one of our episodes coming up will be a total spoiler-filled episode of Tron.
00:39:16
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Tron, Tron 2, Tron Ares, Tron the video game, the guy named Tron, Tracer on, Tracer off, Tron trough, all good. After that, we'll find out.
00:39:27
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But until next time, and there will be a next time, probably, we bid you Good day. behalf of myself, Joe and Emily, bye-byes. Nice Oxford shirt, by the way. Where you just steal that from? I know.
00:39:41
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I know. i know. She's laughing with mic off. She's pointing and giving me both fingers. There's a point, point fingers.
00:39:52
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Before she flicks the floor off. Bye, everyone. Oh, now they come out. Goodbye, everyone.