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Everything Action Commentary: Primal Rage (1988)
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With 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple coming out this month, Zach and Chris checked out another movie that features a "rage virus", 1988's Primal Rage, for the first Everything Action Commentary of 2026.
A joint Italian-American production, Primal Rage stars Patrick Lowe as Sam Nash, a Florida International University student and reporter/photographer for the school paper, alongside his friend Frank Duffy (Mitch Watson). While investigating Dr. Ethridge's (Bo Svenson) lab, Duffy is bitten by a baboon that Ethridge was experimenting on, and slowly turns into a rage-fueled zombie. Spreading the virus to his date, Debbie (Sarah Buxton), Sam and his girlfriend, Lauren (Cheryl Arutt), have to track them down and work with Dr. Ethridge to find a cure before the school's Halloween Bash becomes a massacre. While watching the movie, Zach and Chris discuss the 80s sitcom-style opening, the insane trio of school bullies, the elaborate Halloween costumes, the crazy soundtrack, and more.
You can watch Primal Rage on Tubi, Philo, The Roku Channel, and more. You can also watch the version below from YouTube and sync it up with our commentary to watch along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLCN2AHxnnA
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Transcript
Intro
Introduction to EveryNational Commentary
00:00:36
Zach Sheets
Hello and welcome to another EveryNational Commentary. It's a commentary for January 2026. I'm your host, Zach.
00:00:42
Chris Prime
And I'm co-host Chris.
00:00:44
Zach Sheets
And yeah, first commentary of
Discussion of 'Primal Rage' and its Availability
00:00:46
Zach Sheets
the new year. And we're kicking things off with an 80s, think cult classic, Primal Rage, which features ah a rage virus. And, know, obviously this some month we got 28 years later, The Bone Temple, which also was like, you know the result of a rage virus.
00:01:05
Zach Sheets
And also, um I guess it kind of ties into, we also got Primate this month as well, which was a monkey horror movie.
00:01:15
Zach Sheets
The monkey is kind of like, well, guys will find out. like It's sort of just like the inciting incident for this one, and then kind of turns into, it goes from there. But um definitely it definitely lead leads into like the 28 Days Later style of things.
00:01:29
Zach Sheets
And also all sorts of other just like insanity happening in it.
Copyright and Streaming Platforms
00:01:32
Zach Sheets
It's like an Italian-American co-production. So there's a lot of like weird Italian stuff going on.
00:01:40
Zach Sheets
But yeah, it's it's's it's all it's available all over the place. It's on Tubi. i think it's on like ah Pluto TV, like all all like the prime video, like all the free places. And also it's just ah it' on YouTube, multiple places. But lot people just have uploaded on YouTube. no No one apparently cares.
00:01:57
Chris Prime
I'm wondering if the copyright for this is so like lost to time that no one knows who actually owns the rights anymore.
00:02:05
Zach Sheets
Well, did I mean, it got a Vinegar Syndrome 4K within like last year or two. So somewhat Vinegar Syndrome found the rights somewhere.
00:02:11
Chris Prime
That's weird then.
00:02:16
Zach Sheets
But yeah, whatever version you're watching, there's no production companies. There's no intro setup stuff. It's just you push play and the movie starts.
Opening Scene and Film's Nonsensical Elements
00:02:28
Zach Sheets
So if you want to pause your copy right before the movie starts, and then as soon as you play, you should see, I guess, I think it's like banyan tree. It's like, should see a tree and then the movie should start. So I'll give a countdown. We can start here.
00:02:42
Zach Sheets
ah Five, four, three, two, one, play.
00:02:59
Zach Sheets
Oh, yeah.
00:03:03
Chris Prime
Are we seeing like a car commercial?
00:03:05
Zach Sheets
Well, so I watched this Shudder like a year or two ago. And when I first saw it, I was is this like a TGIF? Is this like a sitcom? but i mean, this is literally like an sitcom intro.
00:03:19
Chris Prime
these people
00:03:29
Zach Sheets
Primal Rage is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Soundtrack and Horror Elements
00:03:43
Chris Prime
The music, the title, and everything that's going on does not make sense at all.
00:03:49
Zach Sheets
Yep. It's so good. Also...
00:03:52
Chris Prime
I'm surprised they're not starting with a song called Primal Rage or something like that.
00:03:56
Zach Sheets
Like a heavier song. It's
00:03:58
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:04:01
Zach Sheets
just like, right? Like a guy's playing a trombone. There's aerobics happening. It's like, the horror! Are you ready for the horror?
00:04:10
Chris Prime
Yeah, does this feel like a horror movie? It does not.
00:04:20
Zach Sheets
Are you ready for some college fun?
00:04:23
Chris Prime
Why does this song have like a breakdown section where it becomes like a duet?
00:04:31
Zach Sheets
Also, if you like the song, get ready for to hear it at least one more time in this movie.
00:04:36
Chris Prime
Well, in fact, the song gets credit for
00:04:37
Zach Sheets
maybe i see yes The Vasad band, who i tried to find any information on them, except for the song up on the site for like our musical montage feature on
Real College Locations and Events
00:04:46
Zach Sheets
Mondays. I could find no information about them at all.
00:04:49
Zach Sheets
They don't exist.
00:04:54
Chris Prime
So I get there's certain things that people don't want on the internet. You know, there's like, okay, for whatever reason they are like let's just destroy the information so no one can know but this has so many questions because they went in a full production to film all this that you think someone wants someone to remember like look at this this tug of war challenge has nothing to do with the movie but they had to get extras to be like do you guys want to be in a tug of war scene like look this guy's going to a college fair
00:05:18
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:05:23
Zach Sheets
Do you, well, do you think this is just for the movie or do you think this is a, like a red-lighting media shooting the rodeo thing where this is all just happening at a random college? or Like, let's just shoot stuff.
00:05:35
Zach Sheets
This college is having weird events.
00:05:35
Chris Prime
It is. This is legit like a college event that they just filmed things because you could see everyone look into the camera.
00:05:39
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:05:42
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:05:43
Chris Prime
And then there are events that's like, okay, well, this movie is not the only thing here. Like there's probably like a local newspaper. There's other people filming.
00:06:06
Zach Sheets
a red-ass world.
00:06:19
Chris Prime
I'm the hero.
00:06:21
Zach Sheets
Vespa Man is here! He's he's a block of truck with a Vespa.
00:06:32
Chris Prime
Does this guy feel like he's the hero? Because I feel like the tow truck guy literally is just like, I'm a tow truck worker. I... the The college pays me to tow your truck, your car.
00:07:00
Zach Sheets
You're going to strongly word article in this college paper.
00:07:15
Zach Sheets
We know each other.
00:07:21
Chris Prime
Sam, do you even go to school here?
Character Dynamics and College Antics
00:07:27
Zach Sheets
Say the word! I'll be there!
00:07:33
Chris Prime
this This movie should be about the school, right?
00:08:42
Chris Prime
This is relaxed college. They're just like indoor smoking, writing columns like.
00:08:43
Zach Sheets
right
00:08:47
Zach Sheets
Like, bad-mouthing the school, like, they're, like, using hookers to draw athletes.
00:08:52
Chris Prime
Yep. Meanwhile, it's written by a reporter who looks like he has rabies already.
00:09:00
Zach Sheets
He definitely thinks of of himself as, like, a, uh... Oh, why would they... Like, fear loathing...
00:09:07
Chris Prime
Like a God's over reporter.
00:09:08
Zach Sheets
ah Yeah, mm-hmm.
00:09:11
Chris Prime
I mean, it was in fashion.
Bizarre Experiments and Safety Issues
00:09:26
Chris Prime
You know, I thought that was like a like stern scientist, then saw his rat tail.
00:09:30
Zach Sheets
He's a cool college scientist.
00:09:34
Chris Prime
Why even grow a rat tail when it's like that small, and you you do this?
00:09:41
Zach Sheets
where Where are these colleges in these movies that get these the funding to do these like insane experiments in a college?
00:09:46
Chris Prime
It's all West Coast colleges. No, like very few East Coast colleges have like a laboratory big enough or like a funding to just get like bring a bamboo, like a like a monkey here, you know?
00:09:58
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:10
Chris Prime
right. So we put Drano and to the monkey to see what would happen.
00:10:14
Zach Sheets
A most strange drink.
00:10:20
Chris Prime
This is actually Monster how it was made. Because it's like still 1988. eighty eight Like Monster wasn't an energy drink yet.
00:10:28
Zach Sheets
We
00:10:29
Chris Prime
So this is just what were they studying? They were trying to make energy drinks.
00:10:35
Zach Sheets
gotta see how it stimulates the monkey's brain.
00:10:42
Chris Prime
wait Wait, so there're they're making like like a life serum?
00:10:48
Zach Sheets
Yeah, there is it's it it was dead monkey i think it was Dead Monkey, or like it had like severe brain damage, and they're like revitalizing the brain.
00:10:55
Chris Prime
I see.
00:10:57
Zach Sheets
Which is always a good idea.
00:11:07
Zach Sheets
puppet's going crazy!
00:11:11
Chris Prime
How come there's no, like, a third scientist with a gun, like, ready?
00:11:18
Zach Sheets
They have no containment protocols. It's just like, it's in a glass box. It's fine.
00:11:24
Zach Sheets
Baboons and monkeys don't have freakish strength they can break a glass box open.
00:11:36
Chris Prime
wait, two years of research, they were able to revitalize a dead body. I mean, all I did was scream, but... He's just like, alright, well, I'm sorry I just insulted you guys about hill pushing.
00:12:09
Chris Prime
It's weird that the pharmacy company outsourced their research to a college instead of in-housing it.
00:12:15
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:12:18
Chris Prime
Because they're a pharmacy company. only have their own like labs and their own monkey budget to do all this.
00:12:21
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Oh, this college is in Florida? License display said Florida.
00:12:28
Chris Prime
Oh, Florida International University.
00:12:30
Zach Sheets
and
00:12:31
Chris Prime
Is that a real school?
00:12:32
Zach Sheets
yo
00:12:52
Zach Sheets
Yeah,
00:12:52
Chris Prime
yep this is This is filmed, I think, on location in Florida International U. FIU.
00:13:00
Chris Prime
I wonder if the school was like, hey, we filmed this Primal Ridge movie. It's like, did they still talk about it?
00:13:07
Zach Sheets
Probably. Or it's like ah Miami Connection. like They ended that one college, like the Orlando College.
00:13:18
Chris Prime
they're like filmed heavily there, right?
00:13:19
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:13:24
Zach Sheets
Elf!
00:13:37
Chris Prime
you're broken to my room
00:13:47
Zach Sheets
I was going to say, when is this happening in college? That Sam Nash guy that feels like he's never been here before. This girl's showing up like halfway through.
00:14:03
Chris Prime
Ooh, see, like, is this match the beginning of this the movie?
00:14:04
Zach Sheets
boy. the word!
00:14:08
Zach Sheets
Say the word!
00:14:17
Zach Sheets
It's almost the 90s girl.
00:14:19
Chris Prime
Everyone talks about their abortion.
00:14:25
Zach Sheets
Meanwhile, at the bar...
00:14:51
Zach Sheets
Is this guy just a real drunk that showed up? Mm-hmm.
00:15:01
Chris Prime
um maybe like FIU is just like fine. It's just the college bar.
00:15:07
Zach Sheets
a
00:15:20
Chris Prime
Well, time to roofie this guy.
00:15:21
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:15:29
Zach Sheets
Could they probably like kill someone if you put too much in there?
00:15:32
Chris Prime
What's like Vaseline?
00:15:34
Zach Sheets
Well, it's like eye drops.
00:15:34
Chris Prime
Or... Eyedropped, yeah.
00:15:35
Zach Sheets
It's just it's supposed to make you like... Like, I think...
00:15:38
Chris Prime
Diuretic.
00:15:39
Zach Sheets
i write it Yeah, but like too much. it's like... It also is mixed with alcohol.
00:15:53
Chris Prime
This is a villain, right? This this like reporter guy...
00:15:56
Zach Sheets
Yeah, mm-hmm.
00:16:19
Zach Sheets
ah We almost killed that guy.
00:16:22
Chris Prime
He has internal damage.
00:16:39
Chris Prime
It is weird that like this is the second movie or third movie I've seen where using eye drops to poison someone is just like, oh yeah, like you can just conveniently like poison someone.
00:16:53
Chris Prime
And that's not like its own plot where this guy's been doing this for so long. like He just, hey, you annoy me, you get poisoned.
00:16:59
Zach Sheets
Yep. Mm-hmm.
Chaos from Escaped Monkey
00:17:38
Chris Prime
Look at that antenna.
00:17:39
Zach Sheets
Oh my He use that like a baton.
00:17:39
Chris Prime
I'm surprised that's not that's not picking up like a drive-through window radio at some point.
00:19:24
Zach Sheets
Yeah, baboons love flashes their face.
00:19:26
Chris Prime
Like right in their eyes.
00:19:31
Chris Prime
why do you Why do you have just like a thing of peanuts?
00:19:35
Zach Sheets
Want smoke?
00:19:38
Chris Prime
Wow, this pissed off ah baboon. What if I just keep doing what it doesn't like?
00:19:45
Zach Sheets
I think you probably mentioned this before, but like it's never a good idea like break into a lab in a movie and try to free the monkeys. Yeah.
00:19:53
Chris Prime
think he was trying to free the monkey, right? He was just trying to take photo evidence?
00:19:55
Zach Sheets
Yeah. just like Just entering a lab like by itself is always a bad idea.
00:20:03
Chris Prime
Yeah, you released Shockma, like, into this college campus.
00:20:06
Zach Sheets
Yep.
00:20:08
Chris Prime
Shockma!
00:20:09
Zach Sheets
um
00:20:16
Chris Prime
Wow, this sounds like a TMNT, like, video game song.
00:20:19
Zach Sheets
you
00:20:27
Zach Sheets
Stop! Stop!
00:20:30
Chris Prime
Whoa. woa
00:20:38
Zach Sheets
We gotta find threw this monkey pup at us.
00:20:50
Zach Sheets
only covered it up.
00:21:02
Zach Sheets
Rest now, Shakma.
00:21:15
Chris Prime
Like, is everyone on the campus sad because of the dead monkey?
00:21:19
Zach Sheets
I know we're all super upset about the death of Shakma, but... but
00:21:25
Chris Prime
I need to teach you guys about geometry and shapes.
00:21:45
Zach Sheets
You idiot.
00:21:59
Zach Sheets
Oh no.
00:22:01
Chris Prime
Uh oh, that's the like pervert math professor?
00:22:54
Zach Sheets
Man, what everyone wants to see in their 80s horror movie, math.
00:22:58
Chris Prime
Like pretty girl doing math? Whoa.
00:23:08
Chris Prime
you supposed to do that in your office, not on the hallway? Like...
00:23:11
Zach Sheets
and bill off Yeah, of the hall, yeah.
00:23:27
Chris Prime
These are the Karate Kid rejects, aren't they? Like all the blue characters.
00:23:29
Zach Sheets
you a
00:23:39
Zach Sheets
Go get a bro.
00:24:24
Chris Prime
Okay, there's like so much sexual tension between those two right now between Nash and him like scorn lovers
00:24:29
Zach Sheets
a
00:24:37
Zach Sheets
Oh, at once. It wasn't really for me.
00:24:52
Chris Prime
They've got more mysterious girl things to do.
00:25:01
Chris Prime
Ivy walls. What?
00:25:03
Zach Sheets
its not an Ivy League school.
00:25:06
Chris Prime
I mean, it might be, but this is Florida Ivy League.
80s College Life and Antics
00:25:10
Chris Prime
Maybe we're not familiar with Florida education. This might be like a very prestigious.
00:25:13
Zach Sheets
The best school in Florida.
00:25:14
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:25:17
Chris Prime
In the 80s, like this is just 80s equivalent.
00:25:19
Zach Sheets
Hmm.
00:27:07
Zach Sheets
I feel like, like, they raided, like, a poster store just, like, bought every poster they had. Just put them up randomly. There was, like, James Bond poster in, like, the the girls' apartment.
00:27:18
Chris Prime
Yep, I saw that. it was like, what, living daylights?
00:27:21
Zach Sheets
Yep. No, it's, like, at Marilyn Monroe. Also, Duffy tried to, like, clean his, like, ah bite with beer. don't think that's, like, i mean, alcohol, maybe.
00:27:32
Chris Prime
Maybe, but it's like...
00:27:32
Zach Sheets
I don't know if beer is as sterile as vodka something. like vodka or something
00:27:36
Chris Prime
He thinks. Yeah, yeah it's very like impure.
00:27:43
Chris Prime
But he's a gonzo medic.
00:28:49
Zach Sheets
Give me the school paper.
00:29:00
Chris Prime
I think the doctor was like, let's just arrest this kid.
00:29:03
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:29:06
Chris Prime
It's not like, alright, let's get it like some other evil
College Party and Military Themes
00:29:09
Chris Prime
plan. It's like, give me the cops.
00:29:17
Chris Prime
Yeah, 80s partying.
00:29:20
Zach Sheets
some fat 80s rap going on right now.
00:29:25
Chris Prime
Do you think that's what they're listening to? Like, whatever, the as they're filming?
00:29:31
Zach Sheets
feel like it's more of like ah it's like a slow jam because they're all slow dancing. But there's this 80s Fat Boys song on it.
00:29:35
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:30:26
Zach Sheets
He said it.
00:30:28
Chris Prime
It did it.
00:30:51
Zach Sheets
i guess so
00:31:09
Zach Sheets
Oh no, shenanigans.
00:31:27
Zach Sheets
Sword fight!
00:31:29
Chris Prime
ah Again, Primal Rage, I think, is ah more like the hidden desires between all these guys.
00:31:47
Zach Sheets
Wait, is this a, I want to be a Marine? Is that what saying?
00:31:50
Chris Prime
Sounds like it, right?
00:31:52
Zach Sheets
rhapsody about being a Marine?
00:32:21
Zach Sheets
He's getting freakish monkey strength.
00:32:37
Chris Prime
The soundtrack just makes sense to anything that goes on in this movie.
00:32:40
Zach Sheets
No, it does not. And there was an army post...
00:32:45
Zach Sheets
Is this like a weird like pro like join like it's like subtle like join the art army is propaganda going on in the background. It's like that Simpsons episode.
00:32:54
Chris Prime
Like, join the armed forces?
00:32:55
Zach Sheets
Join the Navy.
00:32:55
Chris Prime
Yeah, I mean... I mean, so far, it's like... Listen, you you can go join... you can be in college where, you know... you You might get bit by a zombie monkey or just fight in Desert Storm.
00:33:13
Zach Sheets
a few years.
00:33:15
Chris Prime
No, it's like now. This is Desert Storm now.
00:33:17
Zach Sheets
Well, it was 88. The Death Storm was like the early ninety s right? Because this is 88. Yeah,
00:33:23
Chris Prime
No, this is the bush Desert Storm.
00:33:25
Zach Sheets
yeah but it was still a couple years away.
00:33:27
Chris Prime
Was it?
00:33:28
Zach Sheets
yeah so it it was like early ninety
00:33:47
Chris Prime
What the conflict in the 80s then?
00:33:52
Chris Prime
Nicaragua?
00:33:53
Zach Sheets
Yeah, it's weird, the Cold War. but
00:33:59
Zach Sheets
Panama.
00:34:28
Chris Prime
Heh.
00:34:45
Zach Sheets
I just spill cigarette. always There's chairs all over the pool. Let's just sit on this super low concrete by the pool.
00:35:20
Zach Sheets
Debbie has like the craziest backstory in the history of movies.
00:35:24
Chris Prime
I know, just sort of like every interaction with her, you learn more and more crazy stuff about her.
00:36:37
Chris Prime
Oh, now you get the rabies.
00:37:33
Chris Prime
Okay, that's more special effects than I thought we would have in this movie.
00:37:38
Zach Sheets
what seems to be happening to you problem? like, have a pulsing mass on my arm.
00:37:45
Chris Prime
I mean, again, up until the actual medical part, this could have just been like ah a college movie about like
00:37:52
Zach Sheets
Like a Revenge of the Nerds kind of thing.
00:37:54
Chris Prime
Yeah, where it's like the jocks versus the free press reporters.
00:38:04
Zach Sheets
Rage!
00:38:13
Chris Prime
Whoa.
00:38:13
Zach Sheets
Oh my god!
00:38:18
Chris Prime
Yeah, you weigh about 180. Here you go. Here's enough sedative.
00:38:27
Chris Prime
you
00:38:33
Zach Sheets
I'm freaking out, man!
00:38:56
Chris Prime
Not a bad effect for the eye, like, blood explosion.
00:38:58
Zach Sheets
Okay.
Influence of College Press
00:39:32
Zach Sheets
What was the point of that? wasn't even like a press conference.
00:39:35
Chris Prime
No idea.
00:39:36
Zach Sheets
It was just like, hey, you want you want to like just like hear but about the Halloween dance?
00:39:48
Zach Sheets
Also, does Sam have like a badge that he keeps showing people? He's like, he's like familiar like a cop. He's like, hey, I'm Sam Nash, Florida International University newspaper. They're like, oh, okay, sir, go in.
00:40:00
Chris Prime
Wow, didn't know is that like all access to be a college reporter?
00:40:03
Zach Sheets
Well, he keeps moving on his wallet like ah like a police badge.
00:40:10
Chris Prime
Did this writer not know what a photographer is able to get?
00:40:18
Chris Prime
yeah like, press all press. Yeah, they have full access.
00:40:51
Chris Prime
We're friends!
00:40:53
Zach Sheets
but I want to pick these guys like racquetball players.
00:40:57
Chris Prime
Yeah, like, wouldn't they be more football or
00:41:02
Zach Sheets
so Frisbee?
00:41:02
Chris Prime
golf
00:41:03
Zach Sheets
like
00:41:20
Chris Prime
Hey girls, be careful who you kiss.
00:41:23
Zach Sheets
Or let but bite your neck.
00:41:31
Chris Prime
That's not a hickey, that looks like goddamn like, he but an infection.
00:41:35
Zach Sheets
Like, yeah, like bit like a chunk of your neck out.
00:41:40
Chris Prime
And she's like, oh that's so cute, a love bite. Like, do you not know what bites look like? That's not a bite. And your friend is obviously going through like, something.
00:41:59
Chris Prime
she gonna get rage and destroy something?
00:42:22
Chris Prime
Nope, I- just killing time.
00:42:24
Zach Sheets
yeah It's extremely important we see you drink that water.
00:42:30
Chris Prime
Is that water going to come back as a checkoffs gun?
00:43:02
Zach Sheets
I can't tell if Dovee's house is trashed or not.
00:43:05
Chris Prime
Duffy just lives in like a, uh, yeah, a squatter.
00:43:07
Zach Sheets
Filth.
00:43:16
Chris Prime
Duffy became a dog!
00:43:17
Zach Sheets
Oh no! The rage virus!
00:43:20
Chris Prime
Also, is that Duffy's dog, or did all break into Duffy's house?
00:43:24
Zach Sheets
I think his door was open.
00:43:30
Chris Prime
That is a choice.
00:43:34
Chris Prime
Also, it's not easy to rip signs out of the ground.
00:43:37
Zach Sheets
This
00:44:00
Zach Sheets
kid's stripping his balls off.
00:44:06
Chris Prime
Alright, who's trust, fun, parent? We need a call.
00:44:14
Chris Prime
Wait, why did that close like a dungeon?
00:44:26
Chris Prime
who's learning in here? No after dark learning.
00:44:38
Zach Sheets
but my guy's a fun zombie now
00:44:49
Zach Sheets
um me with a gun
00:45:04
Chris Prime
So it's weird because like it doesn't seem like Duffy is running on pure rage. Like he's thinking, you know, like he's he he's strategizing.
00:45:12
Zach Sheets
Cool.
00:45:14
Chris Prime
He had to hide and then he was like, surprise,
00:45:40
Zach Sheets
cool
00:46:04
Zach Sheets
See? He showed his badge. just It's like, alright, go right in
00:46:07
Chris Prime
Wow. This badge just says, like, I get to do what I want
00:46:22
Chris Prime
Who is the doctor? I feel like I've seen him in other things.
00:46:25
Zach Sheets
It's it's it's boat Bo Svensson.
00:46:28
Zach Sheets
He's been in just like a ton a ton of B-movies.
00:46:43
Chris Prime
He was also the bodyguard for the King of Sweden at one point in his life.
00:46:47
Zach Sheets
crazy
00:46:50
Chris Prime
He's a fourth degree black belt in judo. and
00:46:57
Chris Prime
Shodun karate.
00:47:00
Chris Prime
He was also a marine.
00:47:03
Zach Sheets
man now he's primal rage with a with a ponytail yep
00:47:04
Chris Prime
yeah
00:47:07
Chris Prime
But then but like he decided that yeah he's the one who's like, I want a rat tail. like That's a design choice by him.
00:47:15
Zach Sheets
Well, he's he's the and Bo Svensson in the credits. They're like, oh man, we got Bo Svensson, guys. Say, Mr. Svensson, you can do whatever you want.
00:47:36
Chris Prime
We're gonna have 80s party, getting ready.
00:47:40
Zach Sheets
You're just our type, feverish and covered in boils.
00:47:49
Chris Prime
She's not enjoying her 80s party.
00:47:55
Chris Prime
Thank
00:49:23
Chris Prime
Oh, great. They're like group rapists.
00:49:24
Zach Sheets
Oh boy.
00:49:24
Chris Prime
This is so weird.
00:49:26
Zach Sheets
they're like their one room apartment that they all live in.
00:49:31
Chris Prime
I'll share it like they did.
00:49:31
Zach Sheets
all see the same
00:49:32
Chris Prime
Oh, oh, no, they're doing like they are tire.
00:49:35
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:49:38
Chris Prime
Wait, he put on a glove one glove and then a shrobe. What is going on? and what
00:49:45
Zach Sheets
Catcher. Yeah.
00:49:57
Zach Sheets
Primal Rage!
00:50:00
Chris Prime
To be fair, like, they deserve this. Like,
00:50:02
Zach Sheets
Yes.
00:50:39
Chris Prime
and that was... Okay, then this is another, like, predator thing going on.
00:50:42
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:51:29
Zach Sheets
Well, here we are the swamp.
00:51:58
Chris Prime
I thought he was butting up her clothes. He was like...
00:52:07
Zach Sheets
Hey, alligator.
00:52:16
Chris Prime
I know he's a sleaze, but like, he at least protects her?
00:52:26
Chris Prime
But it's weird that Duffy's just like targeting this pervert math teacher. like he He's like out for justice.
00:52:40
Chris Prime
Do you remember that video where the guy teaches people how to gamble the VHS?
00:52:44
Zach Sheets
Yep.
00:52:45
Chris Prime
He looks like that guy.
00:52:45
Zach Sheets
Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:49
Chris Prime
I've got the winning tips to beat slots.
Medical Experiments and Antigen Development
00:52:53
Chris Prime
I'm the wizard of gambling.
00:53:16
Chris Prime
What did I do that for? don't know.
00:54:33
Zach Sheets
I mean he is infected with a weird virus, but he couldn't kill anybody.
00:54:38
Chris Prime
Wait, does he know exactly? Because did he see Duffy's bite?
00:54:44
Zach Sheets
Well, I think i i think ah he thinks something's... It's turning right into the monkey because like yo he talked to Bo Svensson and he's like, yeah, I'm going to give him this antigen.
00:54:55
Chris Prime
Oh, I see.
00:54:55
Zach Sheets
i don't i don't know if he knows he's like a full-on like rage zombie, but...
00:55:25
Chris Prime
Thank
00:56:12
Chris Prime
Okay, is she like sneaking to steal like data? What? It's not a stealth section in this movie.
00:56:20
Zach Sheets
I think she'ss she's been to the library this entire time.
00:56:23
Chris Prime
This whole night? that like three movies where the plots have happened?
00:56:24
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:56:32
Chris Prime
This is the kind of music you play at like a mall. It's like, it's the mall chase scene.
00:56:38
Zach Sheets
But like no no one's chasing her right now? Or she just thinks someone's chasing her?
00:56:42
Chris Prime
Robert Englund.
00:56:43
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:56:52
Zach Sheets
What?
Halloween Party Chaos
00:57:21
Zach Sheets
Why are they bundled up like it's winter out? He like Nash is wearing a scarf.
00:57:24
Chris Prime
It's the amazing Florida winters that happen at night.
00:57:27
Zach Sheets
I mean, I think it's October because there's the Halloween batch is coming up, but I don't think it gets like that cold in October.
00:57:30
Chris Prime
I mean, it's like... In October, it'd be like... 60s, yeah. But maybe the Vespa goes so fast, you need to bundle up.
00:57:40
Zach Sheets
ah He's a leather jacket and a scarf.
00:57:44
Chris Prime
I mean, for all we know, it's they say it's October, for this is filmed in like the off-season. Think about it. They filmed this during like the downtime in a college, so it's like December. So it's probably like 50.
00:57:55
Chris Prime
Because
00:57:58
Chris Prime
because they're probably filming this like at the not peak times.
00:58:05
Chris Prime
Because they filmed like on location, which is surprising for this movie. I did not think it would be mostly about filming in Florida International University. Because it sounds like a fake college name.
00:58:17
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:24
Chris Prime
But now kind of want to visit it in Miami. Like, it's one of those things where I'll stop by and just fondly go like, huh.
00:58:28
Zach Sheets
It's like, just take pictures, just like, see pictures like, I'm at school, f phrase just filmed that.
00:58:35
Chris Prime
this is I'm standing where that monkey got puppy got hit.
00:58:38
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:58:43
Zach Sheets
yes Spuds McKenzie poster at the back of the bathroom door.
00:58:49
Chris Prime
Are we going to see a little bit of skin in this undeserving movie?
00:58:55
Zach Sheets
is this Is this like a public bathroom? Because it has like the the like bathroom sign on the door.
00:59:01
Chris Prime
No, it's her dorm.
00:59:03
Zach Sheets
dorm has its own bathroom? Okay. It had male-female bathroom door sign on it.
00:59:08
Zach Sheets
like side audit it
00:59:09
Chris Prime
you think they, like, share
00:59:13
Chris Prime
this with the next unit?
00:59:31
Chris Prime
She showered makeup and her jewelry on.
00:59:48
Zach Sheets
I just gotta sleep it off. I'm fine.
01:00:11
Zach Sheets
Well, back home after a wild night.
01:00:25
Zach Sheets
how long do you think Sam was sitting there in the dark just waiting for Tuffy to come home?
01:00:31
Chris Prime
everything happens very fast or not at all.
01:00:54
Chris Prime
going to kill move.
01:00:55
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:00:55
Chris Prime
The jaw.
01:00:57
Zach Sheets
The jaw snap.
01:01:23
Chris Prime
Wow, that...
01:01:23
Zach Sheets
The food store.
01:01:24
Chris Prime
Why did the finale happen already?
01:01:26
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Well, Debbie's still out there, and then like the the the bully jocks are also like infected now.
01:01:33
Chris Prime
The, like, sex-like predators?
01:01:35
Zach Sheets
Sex pass. yeah
01:01:53
Chris Prime
Who is this?
01:02:23
Zach Sheets
I must do an autopsy. I must do an autopsy.
01:02:25
Chris Prime
See, is He-Lo still a zombie?
01:02:29
Zach Sheets
Avoid annoyed yeah the the poster production design is like out of control on this.
01:03:20
Zach Sheets
Let me get my gun.
01:03:22
Chris Prime
Yeah, let me get my my cure.
Nostalgic 80s References
01:03:41
Zach Sheets
ah why do they have like the the wine guys? You see those guys in the background? Like the wine cooler guys?
01:03:46
Chris Prime
They're from what?
01:03:47
Zach Sheets
There's like there's like an old 80s commercial.
01:03:50
Chris Prime
Man, you remember that one I do not remember that.
01:03:55
Zach Sheets
It wasn't Boone Farm. It was a different, like, maybe something.
01:03:59
Chris Prime
Seagrams?
01:03:59
Zach Sheets
maybe or so
01:04:23
Zach Sheets
Oh, Bartles and James. That's what those guys are from.
01:05:14
Zach Sheets
Primal Rage.
01:06:11
Chris Prime
So one thing about sedatives is that like you need to know what they're allergic to. You just can't like inject someone with a sedative without knowing their history.
01:06:16
Zach Sheets
really
01:06:36
Zach Sheets
If anyone asks us the old rug.
01:07:03
Zach Sheets
She's going full into Blair.
01:07:05
Chris Prime
Yeah, it's getting really close with the makeup like that.........................
01:07:40
Zach Sheets
That's not creepy.
01:07:43
Chris Prime
It's weird choice phrasing.
01:07:44
Zach Sheets
I'd like to... i like to inject her with a bunch of weird chemicals and just see what what happens.
01:09:02
Chris Prime
I mean...
01:09:05
Chris Prime
What?
01:09:07
Zach Sheets
I wish I was infected with the rage virus.
01:09:11
Chris Prime
I should have broke into that monkey lab.
01:09:31
Chris Prime
Hi, I'm Duffy number two.
01:09:33
Zach Sheets
yeah I'm here to replace it Duffy.
Impact of Rage Virus on Relationships
01:10:40
Chris Prime
Why tell her this? Because all it is is gonna make her more mad.
01:10:52
Chris Prime
Anyway, post, like, predator hangout wasn't good. Now they're all, like, working out and drinking.
01:11:05
Chris Prime
These guys are, like, rapist idiots.
01:11:11
Zach Sheets
We gotta go beat up that LaRusso kid.
01:11:14
Chris Prime
and The skeleton thing is a giveaway.
01:11:59
Zach Sheets
Meanwhile, it's Halloween!
01:12:18
Zach Sheets
yeah, this this might be the craziest part the because like just look at the the costumes coming up in this Halloween party. like Where are where these college kids coming up with the the ideas for these costumes? And where are they buying them?
01:12:31
Chris Prime
Yeah, they're hand-making these, aren't they? Let's see if I recognize anything anything from like another movie.
01:13:10
Zach Sheets
Oh, never mind. There
01:13:20
Chris Prime
I remember the when Southern Bell became Bell Company and then Bell Atlantic and then AT&T. Or no, they split like that into two. was like one became Verizon. and The other one became being like AT&T absorbed the other.
01:14:06
Chris Prime
Are we not going to focus on the Nel have like super strength?
01:14:09
Zach Sheets
yeah it's like The worst dudes on the campus have monkey strength and rage-fueled insanity.
01:14:15
Chris Prime
And they're drunk.
01:14:16
Zach Sheets
e
01:14:42
Chris Prime
You know, why is this guy making fun of their costume? Like, they look almost the same of, like, quality.
01:14:45
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:15:19
Zach Sheets
Hey, Debbie, cool zombie costume.
01:15:22
Chris Prime
Did she win the contest like costume contest or something?
01:15:42
Chris Prime
Now, Zach, do you remember when our college did a Halloween party?
01:15:45
Zach Sheets
no
01:15:46
Chris Prime
Yeah. It did not look at all this.
01:15:58
Chris Prime
Or maybe the West Coast is just different.
01:16:00
Zach Sheets
Well, Simon, it's not the West Coast, it's Florida.
01:16:02
Chris Prime
Oh yeah, I always forget. This is the Florida partying scene. So they're competing against like Universal Studios down the road.
01:16:20
Zach Sheets
Ha ha ha!
01:17:12
Chris Prime
What is she grabbing?
01:17:17
Zach Sheets
she rip his balls off?
01:17:36
Chris Prime
they're gonna rip off his arms, aren't they?
01:17:39
Zach Sheets
Something bad's gonna happen.
01:17:46
Zach Sheets
Oh, they're Roadhouse Tim.
01:17:47
Chris Prime
Roadhouse them.
01:17:57
Zach Sheets
Ladies and gentlemen, the facade band!
01:18:05
Chris Prime
I feel like it is, right?
01:18:06
Zach Sheets
It is, yeah.
01:18:24
Zach Sheets
Were they trying to like make them like a s thing? It's like, oh man, the facade band's gonna blow up at this movie.
01:18:31
Chris Prime
I mean, they should have like had a sign in the back. It's like tonight the facade or something, you know?
01:18:37
Zach Sheets
They had to be like friends with the director or like the producer or something. It was like, my kid's got a band. I want to put him in the movie.
01:19:17
Chris Prime
I mean, I give some of these costumes are imaginative and some are not.
01:19:22
Zach Sheets
it's It's such a weird mix. like Some of them are just like... found the Rite Aid like devil costume, and some of like... made it super elaborate. like make like It's like a Hollywood-style suit.
01:19:34
Chris Prime
Yep. This was like one made that.
01:19:38
Zach Sheets
Yeah, look see look at look look that.
01:19:41
Chris Prime
This is a Mardi Gras nightmare.
01:19:56
Chris Prime
There's Darth Vader.
01:20:00
Zach Sheets
that's what you expect more of is like, you know, like like pop culture ah costumes.
01:20:05
Chris Prime
Yeah, but then like
01:20:05
Zach Sheets
But like, everyone here is like an original kind creation.
01:20:11
Chris Prime
I think like you can't film costume like pop culture all the time.
01:20:15
Zach Sheets
Yeah. at that. Like giant nose. Yeah.
01:20:45
Chris Prime
So why are they at the party now? Like they just think like the girl ran here?
01:20:47
Zach Sheets
They're trying find Debbie, yeah.
01:20:51
Chris Prime
And Debbie definitely went to a concert?
01:20:55
Zach Sheets
She loves the facade band.
01:21:11
Chris Prime
That guy even scream?
01:21:13
Zach Sheets
he's like... just ripped his the skin off his hand.
01:21:23
Chris Prime
If that guy would be screaming, people would stop dancing.
01:21:29
Chris Prime
That's how good this song is.
01:21:31
Zach Sheets
yep
01:21:32
Chris Prime
There's like murder and all this like death happening and then they're just like, nah.
01:21:42
Zach Sheets
see that one is really good like he's the guy's got like faucets in his nose it's like blood's coming out of it now
01:21:49
Chris Prime
It's clever.
01:21:55
Zach Sheets
But also, like who comes up with an idea of, like, I'm going have a mask that has three faces with faucets of their nose.
01:22:20
Zach Sheets
Zoppy fight!
01:22:27
Zach Sheets
yeah Let them fight.
01:22:32
Chris Prime
Rage monster fight.
01:22:55
Zach Sheets
ah long How long did you say the word?
01:22:58
Chris Prime
feel like it's like a six minute song.
01:23:01
Zach Sheets
it's it's like ah It's like a, te it's not a jam band song.
01:24:23
Chris Prime
Wait, why does like the the person have like a monster roar?
01:24:28
Zach Sheets
Blah!
01:26:05
Zach Sheets
where Where is this in the college? so They were just in like the like gym storage room.
01:26:11
Chris Prime
I think they're in another lab.
01:26:13
Zach Sheets
It's like a training room or something. Yeah. is like a training room or something
01:26:17
Chris Prime
Or it's like the fitness like coaching room.
01:26:20
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:26:25
Chris Prime
There's like a ice bath or a sauna thing there that we know.
01:26:39
Chris Prime
Yep, there it is. there's
01:26:40
Zach Sheets
you know
01:26:41
Chris Prime
There's the ice bath thing.
01:26:46
Chris Prime
It's just an extensive locker room. yeah f FIU has an amazing sports program besides its state-of-the-art medical zombie program.
01:26:53
Zach Sheets
Yep.
01:27:02
Zach Sheets
Yep.
01:27:02
Chris Prime
I mean,
01:27:02
Zach Sheets
It's the two things. Sports sports and bizarre medical experiments. Those are two claims of aim.
01:27:07
Chris Prime
But then it also has like terrible students that like ignore massacres and then also like are these jocks.
01:27:56
Chris Prime
Is that just like a random axe in the gym?
01:28:02
Zach Sheets
It's the gym fire axe.
01:28:09
Chris Prime
Whoa.
01:28:10
Zach Sheets
Damn.
01:28:13
Chris Prime
This guy's really good at killing for some like odd reason.
01:28:16
Zach Sheets
Yup.
01:28:26
Zach Sheets
Either that axe was like super sharp or Nash is like insanely strong.
01:28:53
Chris Prime
The movie's over with like super anticlimactic.
01:28:56
Zach Sheets
yeah Yo, overall, not the worst Halloween bash.
01:29:01
Chris Prime
this This actually had less fatalities than the last year.
01:29:04
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:29:11
Chris Prime
ah she died?
01:29:13
Zach Sheets
yeah Yeah, she got killed. She lost her kaiju battle against the bully guy.
01:29:24
Chris Prime
I thought was to resurrected like one more time or something.
01:29:30
Chris Prime
And do they graduate or is this like months later?
01:29:33
Zach Sheets
Spring break or...
01:29:33
Chris Prime
Yeah,
01:29:38
Chris Prime
yeah it's like college policy. If your roommate gets zombified and dies, ah you just graduate with an A.
01:30:26
Chris Prime
What?
01:30:41
Zach Sheets
Right. but drug
01:30:43
Chris Prime
Oh, Steve, this is the final boss.
01:30:48
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:30:55
Chris Prime
See, it is it trying to be a comedy? That's not good for the rabies virus, right?
01:31:09
Zach Sheets
Spreading into like the the ground.
01:31:11
Chris Prime
Yeah.
01:31:21
Chris Prime
You're going to call the cops about that?
01:31:24
Zach Sheets
Nope. So I'll just take care of it. And for the third time, the facade band!
01:31:37
Chris Prime
Are we gonna talk about, like, the gym massacre that happened and then it's like... No?
01:31:44
Chris Prime
There's at least, like, three dead kids on that party.
01:31:47
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:31:49
Chris Prime
Don't the end the movie.
01:31:49
Zach Sheets
The someone else's problem.
01:31:50
Chris Prime
Like, gotta go back and explain what happened to that party.
01:31:55
Zach Sheets
We're on spring break. Yeah,
01:32:01
Chris Prime
is this why the fa where Is this why the facade didn't take off?
01:32:01
Zach Sheets
yeah because the bully...
01:32:04
Chris Prime
Because their first major concert at at ah at a college it was a massacre?
01:32:07
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:32:11
Zach Sheets
But yeah, the bully has killed like at least, what, four people?
01:32:15
Chris Prime
it was... it
01:32:16
Zach Sheets
They hung the one guy, the faucet guy, the vampire guy, and then they... don't know if they killed like the army guy. They stripped his hand off, but...
01:32:24
Chris Prime
Or it's like the skin?
01:32:26
Zach Sheets
And then Debbie killed like the baby guy. Debbie died.
01:32:31
Zach Sheets
All the villains are dead. It's it's like almost 10 bodies at the Halloween bash.
01:32:31
Chris Prime
I
01:32:38
Chris Prime
and like how they they freeze-frame this and you can see those people like at the background that nothing to do with the movie like just frozen.
01:32:44
Zach Sheets
Yeah...
01:32:49
Zach Sheets
i want yeah it was I want to be a Marine. That was the rap song.
01:33:02
Chris Prime
See, this is like one of those warnings about movie creations that like you you can have all this music and bands and it just does not make the movie.
01:33:20
Chris Prime
They went hard on the soundtrack that just did not make sense.
01:33:22
Zach Sheets
Yep.
01:33:26
Zach Sheets
The no dragon sound.
01:33:28
Chris Prime
I mean, this has a lot of production value for what it is.
01:33:39
Zach Sheets
Yeah, for like a weird Italian 80s horror movie or like Italian American horror movie.
01:33:46
Chris Prime
You know that he said it's an Italian horror. It kind of makes sense.
01:33:59
Zach Sheets
Yeah, like, um, director directors Italian, the writers are Italian, but then they filmed it in Florida.
01:34:07
Chris Prime
But i'm I'm assuming like they wanted to make a a so like a horror movie, you know? But, like, they should have leaned into, like, a comedy horror.
01:34:21
Chris Prime
Because I think like it it would have been more fun.
01:34:21
Zach Sheets
yeah because there Yeah, because there's, mm-hmm.
01:34:28
Zach Sheets
I mean, there's kind of like, there's little glimpses of it. Like, you know, like the, there's there's some like wacky desks. Like a rock desk, like the faucet guy or like both fences falling out of sprinkler.
01:34:41
Chris Prime
But like there could have been more. It felt very serious, especially with some of the themes they got. And I feel like they could have. ah They could have like done more of those kind of funny kills, like sprinkled through the movie instead of like the last act.
01:35:05
Zach Sheets
And also, that starting at like an sitcom.
01:35:09
Chris Prime
Yeah, that that totally ruins it.
01:35:11
Zach Sheets
that that like The way that we it kicks off is like you're just like total whiplap. You're like, wait, what is this?
01:35:17
Chris Prime
You forget that it's going to be like a zombie horror weird um like I don't know, like like bad times movie. Because the beginning seems like it's going to be like this great fun time and you know it's going to be like height wacky hijinks.
01:35:46
Zach Sheets
But yeah, but it's it's fun. i think it's like a just like ah it's it's it's a fun, wacky 80s insanity.
01:35:54
Zach Sheets
Yeah, the the crazy costumes, like some good like gore kills, the soundtrack.
Reflections on Cult Classic Potential
01:36:04
Zach Sheets
I don't know. like i feel I feel like it should be like a bigger cult classic than it is. like People should be like, oh man, Pearl Rage.
01:36:11
Zach Sheets
they movie with That movie that song they play three times.
01:36:16
Zach Sheets
And the skele the the zombie skeleton bullies.
01:36:23
Chris Prime
Yeah, the I didn't expect this movie to have like an antagonist group that if you don't give them zombie powers, they still would have been like a problem.
01:36:34
Chris Prime
And then they just happened to be like ultra bullies by the end.
01:36:38
Zach Sheets
Yeah. You get them like like ra rage virus and like freakish strength.
01:36:51
Zach Sheets
But yeah, that was Primal Rage. um I think we'll we'll be back next month with another movie for another commentary. Head over to the set, we all have our usual stuff there. We got news, reviews, trailers, all kinds of stuff on everythingaction.com.
Conclusion and Sign-Off
01:37:02
Chris Prime
Thank you.
01:37:03
Zach Sheets
And yeah, so for Chris, I'm Zach, and we will see you next time.