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More strike news, projects still being filmed, annouced projects, video game news, Halloween haunts and brief reviews on things we seen recently
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Impact of AI on Film and TV Industry
00:00:18
Speaker
All right, welcome back to fright central i'm doc back here again with my co-host kec. How's it going? It is going That's good. So I do have some more uh, you know, uh strike union, uh type of news
00:00:34
Speaker
I remember how we were talking about that. That's still going on. Yeah. So you know how when you go to different states, they have different like tax breaks and, uh, and stuff for like, you know, filming there. Well, uh, in New York, New York state legislation, legislation.
00:00:59
Speaker
Thank you, thank you. They're trying to pass a law that if you use AI there, you will not be getting the tax break. You know, for that state. So it's like, basically them saying like, you can do this, but like, you're gonna pay.
00:01:20
Speaker
Yeah, or you're not going to get, you know, these huge tax breaks, which we usually give you, uh, right now you're going to pay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. NBC and Disney are monitoring that bill right now. So, uh, cause they obviously don't want it to pass. So yeah.
00:01:38
Speaker
If they want to replace actors and get the tax breaks.
00:02:08
Speaker
that's why a lot
00:02:26
Speaker
That's why at least like a lot of the CW shows were filming in Vancouver because it was cheaper to film up there. So yeah, I mean I see like almost like every movie now I always see like at the bottom like you know filmed here and you know somewhere in Canada special thanks to the people of Quebec or Montreal or you know, whatever British Columbia and so like if Canada like the country were to do that then that would
00:02:54
Speaker
Yeah, the companies would definitely be looking into that. Yeah, but you see why like, this is something that these the unions need to do themselves. They can't like, because you never know where the technology is going to be. It's not a matter of if it's a matter of when. Yeah, you know, so it's like the they need to take action now, because you don't know where that technology is going to be in the next three years.
00:03:21
Speaker
So if you don't take that action now, you wait three years for your next contract to be up and you're hoping that the government does something, then you're going to screw yourself over. And in that sense, it is still a matter of if, because technically, if Congress were to come together and move its lazy collective ass and do something, then they could still make it.
00:03:50
Speaker
a matter of if, but yes, at the current trajectory, you're correct. If things keep going as they are, then it's a matter of when. Yeah, I agree completely.
00:04:06
Speaker
necessarily banning AI, at least they're not talking about it yet. They're just like, Hey, if you use it, we're not going to give you tax breaks. Like, so they're trying to encourage people. That's just the state of New York, correct? Yeah. And I'm bought like, you know, depending upon how that goes, there's other states that might file suit. So, yeah, watch that carefully. Absolutely. Another thing with unions,
Unionization Efforts in Animation and VFX
00:04:35
Speaker
cartoon network and Warner Brothers animation workers are organizing to form a union within the animation guild. Oh, so that that whole anime thing, like, they're, they're moving on that they're, they're forming. Well, there's already an animation guild, they're just not as strong as like the sag or writers guild, which the
00:04:58
Speaker
East Coast, you know, chapter of the Writers Guild did say that once this writer strike is over, they were going to fold in a lot of the writers that were in the Animation Guild into the Writers Guild. So that will get better pay. Yeah, I did hear that. What I meant to say was, is that like, you know, now are the, you know, animators, like, are they poised to try to get in on this action now too?
00:05:24
Speaker
Are they getting ready to do a strike of their own? Are there more strikes to come? I don't know. It all depends on when the Animation Guild contracts are up. I haven't heard anything about when that is, so probably not anytime soon. Because I know the other one, the IATSE, the line workers,
00:05:50
Speaker
their contract's not up till next year. So when they have to renegotiate for that. So this is just like 66 production workers, staff of different managers, assistants, IT specialists, and coordinators who work on this. They are going to form a union within the animation guild. So that's what they're looking to do.
00:06:17
Speaker
group of people that are looking to unionize are onset VFX workers at Marvel. They're also unionizing as well. I believe there's about... What is VFX?
00:06:33
Speaker
Visual effects. Okay, but it's not like the it's not like practical effects. It's the visual effects like Supervisors and stuff like that who are on set to make sure that you know people that kind of wear like
00:06:47
Speaker
I guess the motion capture people I wanna say. It's mostly them. They oversee everything to make sure everything's captured right so they can use it in post so they can actually capture what they want. Are they in charge of editing video and stuff like that?
00:07:05
Speaker
Not necessarily they're more in charge of making like hey if you want this a shot We have to do this on set to capture that so they should Make sure that things are gonna look the way the director intended them to look. Yes stuff like that. Okay, okay, and People it like actually sitting at the computer is making effects because they're usually third-party companies. Oh Yeah
00:07:35
Speaker
turned out, these big companies will send out, be like, hey, who wants to bid on doing this project for, and then people just bid on, like studios, FX companies bid on it to try to, you know, get it. And then they have, then they usually end up getting rushed and overworked and everything. And that's why like a lot of CGI hasn't been up to standards recently.
00:07:57
Speaker
Well, is there a counterpart to that that's on the audio side? Like, you know, like the fully artist and things like that. They would fall under, um, the below the line workers, the I a S T E, uh, contract, I believe. Yeah. Cause yeah, like I said, that contract doesn't go up to the next year. The, uh, then, uh, on the actual what's filming side of things.
Alien Franchise and Union Actors
00:08:28
Speaker
FX series Alien is you know the by Noah Haley who did a Legion and God what's the other one the show the show or the movie the show yeah, I see yeah working on the FX show But they're allegedly to set to film without union actors the no cast has been announced yet They're still in pre-production, but they're filming over in Thailand right now and apparently there's only like two sag actors and
00:08:57
Speaker
So they're going to try to film as much as they can without those actors. Huh. Interesting. Yeah. And then speaking of AI them in. Can't do that now. And then speaking of alien, the, you know, the dead by daylight game. Yes.
00:09:19
Speaker
That's kind of the one that, um, I think it's like, uh, I think, uh, it was on game. I know it's on game pass and I think it was also like available free. If you add, uh, an X box subscription, you could just download and the, uh, games for gold package. Well, they've announced a, an alien chapter with a little teaser. So you're going to be like on the ship being chased. Yeah.
00:09:49
Speaker
Interesting. I'm not sure what the release date is on that, but they just put out a little teaser for that. So I thought that was pretty cool. I was like, well, now I might have to get to this game because I never played that or the Friday, the 13th game, which is ending because the rights for that came up. So there that's going to be going away soon. You never played the Friday, the 13th game? No, I've watched people play it.
00:10:15
Speaker
Well, I've never played it myself. What do you mean? You mean the servers are shutting down? Like the multiplayer function? Oh, all right. So the game will still exist, but it just won't be like it won't have a multiplayer thing. Yeah, which is not I mean, the whole thing. Yeah, which is essentially like the whole thing. I mean, I don't know. Like personally, I didn't think that the multiplayer was fun. I mean, there is like
00:10:43
Speaker
Like there was a ridiculous achievement for that game where it said, play multiplayer as Jason 1000 times. And that was an achievement and the way the game is set up just very briefly.
00:11:02
Speaker
is I think that there's like six counselors or something like that so you have like a half a dozen counselors and then you have Jay I think it's six counselors and then you have Jason so every multiplayer session you'd have a one in seven chance of being Jason who the fuck is playing who the fuck is gonna play multiplayer a thousand times alone
00:11:28
Speaker
let alone play multiplayer that many times. So I mean, you know, roughly like your average would you have to play like 7000 times to hopefully get to be. So yeah, that's a lot of multiplayer sessions.
00:11:50
Speaker
Well, they, uh, they updated the, uh, the database server cause it's still, uh, it's going to be set to delisted storefronts in December, but you still have a good year before, uh, the servers go offline. Yeah. Some of the updates they're, um, putting out there. Is this for both Microsoft and Sony?
00:12:07
Speaker
I believe it's for all systems. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Well, yeah, like I said, I was never that impressive. I did like, I did like the game single player just to play through it once because I did think that like a lot of the story cut scene kills were pretty cool. So like I played through like some of that, but like,
00:12:28
Speaker
Then they would have like a they tried to add replay value by like giving you a challenge like you know go through all this but this time only come in by going through the back door or You have to do the whole thing without getting discovered or you had to you know kill one person with a chair and roast another person alive and the stove pot you know boiling water or something like that
00:12:58
Speaker
and do it in this order like kill this person and then kill this person and then kill this person it was just like sort of cheesy shit but I did like the cutscenes I thought some of the kills were really cool yeah some of the updates they put out for the next year anyways the 30 legendary perks awarded to everyone most popular perks no negative effects all the best role possible all players level 150 all kills unlocked
00:13:27
Speaker
That does not count the DLC kills that they released, but all challenge skulls unlocked, no experience CP earned, and no matchmaking functionality lost either.
00:13:43
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They've updated a lot of things. I think it's just that studios kind of like lost the rights or like they've only had the rights for so long because I hear somebody was in the works with another game coming out at some point. So I'll keep you informed on that as well. Just speaking real quick on Friday the 13th, any news that you've heard on the Friday the 13th movie or series front?
00:14:12
Speaker
Uh, no, not, not since, uh, yeah. Um, I'm sure that was in the works at least up to the, uh, writer's strike, but yeah, there's supposedly a new Friday 13th game, uh, coming out. So we'll see, uh, what happens with that or when, when that happens, you know, whenever that happens.
Reboots and Remakes in Horror Genre
00:14:35
Speaker
But, uh, speaking of reboots return, living dead reboot in the works.
00:14:41
Speaker
It's not a remake, so it will be set in the same world as the original classic and its sequel. So it's going to expand the existing world created by the original five films. So I didn't even know they went into five.
00:15:00
Speaker
Oh, I thought you just meant Return of the Living Dead, you know, with the punk rockers, Joel Shepard. Yeah, yeah. It's, it's gonna be like a reboot of that. So we'll see. A reboot of just that movie? No, it's set in that world of all. Oh, okay. It's set in the world of Return of the Living Dead, but it's gonna have elements of all the Living Dead movies in it.
00:15:26
Speaker
Yeah, so it's not going to be like a straight remake or anything like that. Yeah, gotcha. I wonder, hopefully you'll see Joel Shepherd and what's her name? Lara Quigley in it or something like McCamias or something like that. That'd be really cool. Yeah, maybe. But there is a remake of Street Trash. I don't know if you've ever seen this movie. It's like an 87 body melt classic. Yeah, it doesn't ring a bell.
00:15:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's about like, basically like, I think this one's gonna be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, but it's about like, growing to buy between the rich and poor. And like, you know, they kind of South Africa would be a good place to do that. Yeah, it follows a group of like homeless misfits as they fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city. Yeah, that's definitely a good location.
00:16:25
Speaker
Yeah, and it's going to be directed by the guy who did fried berry, Ryan Kruger. Oh, yeah. Oh, dude. Nice. Nice. Oh, that's yeah. I'll have to check that out. Wait, what was that called again? Street trash. Street trash. I was thinking savage streets. Okay. That was actually maybe I watched recently. Street trash.
00:16:54
Speaker
Yeah, I saw some people be like, why do we need this remake? Blah, blah, blah. And it's like, hey, it's 1987 low budget, you know, horror movie. But it's also I was also like, hey.
00:17:07
Speaker
go watch fried berry and then come back to me and tell me you're not excited for this. I mean, it was low budget. But I mean, it wasn't like it was like a shoestring budget or anything like that. Like, you know, I mean, like it was low budget. But like, I mean, it wasn't like, you know, like fucking, you know, people working for free budget just for passion. You know what I mean? Yeah, maybe. I don't know.
00:17:35
Speaker
I don't know what the budget was on that, but, uh, yeah, let's see. Yeah. So I'm excited for that. I don't know about you, uh, just cause it's, no, I liked fried berry. No, I didn't know. I thought that was awesome. So, you know, but I was, I was just pointing out. Yeah. I know it was like a low budget, but like, it wasn't like, it wasn't like no budget. You know what I mean? Yeah.
00:18:03
Speaker
Then we're on to the Scream 7, has found a new director with Christopher Landon, who did Happy Death Day 1 and 2. Scream 7, Jesus fuck. Yeah. I don't know how I feel about that as a concept. I know you don't like the Scream movies, but yeah. No, I mean Scream 7. Yeah. But yeah, so it's by the director who did Happy Death Day, which is kind of like Groundhog Day horror.
00:18:33
Speaker
And then he also did freaky, which is like a body switching horror. And I think they're both great. And I hope he gets a chance to do like freaky Friday. No, it's just called freaky freaky. But it's it's like a freaky Friday situation. OK, but like what like a horror twist? Yeah, it's Vince Vaughn. And I forget who the chick is. And they and they switch and Vince Vaughn's like the killer. And he switches with like a teenage girl. Oh, God. Oh, oh.
00:19:09
Speaker
Moving on.
Halloween Attractions at Universal and Six Flags
00:19:12
Speaker
Couple announcements for the upcoming Halloween season for Halloween haunts. The Exorcist Believer, which is based on the new Exorcist movie, which is called Exorcist Believer.
00:19:27
Speaker
Oh, I'm sorry to cut in, but just speaking of exorcist, we should note we just had a passing. Oh yes, William Freakin just passed away. Yeah, I just wanted to interject real quick.
00:19:43
Speaker
I mean, he was known for other things than The Exorcist. He went on to have a pretty successful career, but I think that's probably what he's best known for. Yeah. I think he was in his early 80s. I'm not 100% certain, but I think he was also in the French connection movies.
00:20:08
Speaker
Well, he directed. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And to live and die in L.A. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. I love I love that fucking Al Pacino is cruising. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I just wanted to mention, you know, he he was kind of a legend. So. Yeah, absolutely. But yes.
00:20:34
Speaker
What was I talking about? Oh, yes, the haunts for Universal is going to be the new Exorcist movie and Chucky are going to be two of the new mazes. They haven't announced any of the other mazes, but they always get big names. But it seems like Six Flags Magic Mountain is finally going to dip into that Warner Brothers IP because they're going to do a Conjuring maze and a Sol X maze.
00:21:01
Speaker
So normally their mazes are named just random things, but it looks like they're finally gonna get some licensing.
00:21:08
Speaker
What is that? Do you know anything about that haunt that you went to like a couple years ago that like you basically like came to me in tears afterwards because you were like so disappointed about like how fucking hard we budget it was and You tried to like give them constructive criticism then they like ban you on Facebook Yeah, I didn't see them last year
00:21:38
Speaker
do you remember the name or I remember it was I think it was the venture of fear grounds which is at the fairgrounds which is out by like near Magic Mountain but
00:21:51
Speaker
Yeah, they weren't even like initially being a prick. You were just giving them criticism. You're like, look, I, you know, I was very unhappy with like, you know, what I saw when I went there. Like I paid good money and like, didn't they like not even like respond? Like they just tried to like delete comments and blocked me. It was like, I had bought a VIP ticket for like, it was like nine o'clock or something like that. And the part, and they closed at 10.
00:22:20
Speaker
And when I got there at nine, like the parking people were like, hey, we're closing soon. And I was like, well, I paid for this VIP ticket or whatever. And then like all the like the beer garden, everything was already shut down. And like, like, I remember you being fucking. Yeah.
00:22:38
Speaker
mazes and shit. We had to like rush to do to make sure we were able to do everything. And it was like the weakest haunt I'd ever been to. On top of that, it was really budget, right? Yeah. And like it made me like that night, I was like, I need to like, cleanse my pla
00:22:54
Speaker
palette and I ended up going to Universal like the next day. Fucking do something you know I went to like seven haunts that year. I just thought that it was so crazy because like I think you had read to me like the criticism you gave them and it was like it wasn't like you like wrote fuck you you motherfucking sons and bitches you back like you know I mean you were just like you know
00:23:20
Speaker
you know saying like you were disappointed and like you know i mean like a normal human being would have been like oh you know mr doggery like we're sorry that you were uh displeased we hope to do better in the future and like blah blah blah just you know write you something back and say like you know something like that but instead nope though we comment block
00:23:42
Speaker
Yeah, if you're gonna like acts like that, like that's so unprofessional. Don't sell like 9 p.m. VIP tickets if you're gonna close 10 o'clock and not have anything open. Like, yeah, it wasn't like you got that. I mean, you bought a ticket for a specific time slot. You got there and then they're like, oh, yeah, we're closing soon and you should just go and you know,
00:24:10
Speaker
Take your little dog too But oh there's a remember that you watched 30 coins on HBO, right?
Amityville Films and Their Reputation
00:24:22
Speaker
Uh I skim through it. I I did not get into it that much
00:24:28
Speaker
when I say I didn't get into it much I'm not saying like I started watching it and like wasn't feeling it I just had skimmed through it and didn't get into it much in terms of like I just didn't watch that much of it
00:24:46
Speaker
I'm not saying like I start watching it and was like, oh, this isn't for me. When I say I didn't get into it much, I mean, I just like literally didn't get into it much. Okay. Like I had like other things going on at the time, or I was like watching other stuff. And I just never really explored it fully. I do plan on getting into it because there's another how many seasons or was it just the one season?
00:25:15
Speaker
They just announced season two. For some reason I thought there were 30 seasons. No, they just announced season two. They put a trailer out and it's supposed to come out in October. Yeah. We still have a lot to look forward to. I do plan on checking out. It's Spanish, right? I'm thinking of the right thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I thought the first season kind of, you know, kind of got a little buck wild towards the end.
00:25:43
Speaker
But I'm still looking forward to the second season. Yeah, I love that reviews. The reviews were sort of a mixed bag, but I still plan to check it out. Yeah, I thought it was pretty strong for the first, well, for most of the episodes. I just thought the last two were just a little crazy. The people that did 30 coins, were they the same people or affiliate with the people that also did?
00:26:11
Speaker
the show Money Heist? No. No, I think it was too complete. They were just both Spanish shows, that's all.
00:26:21
Speaker
Yeah, no, I thought that they were. Oh, wait, I think Money Heist actually took place in Spain and 30 coins was in Latin America. No, 30 coins was in Spain. Oh, 30 coins was in Spain as well. Oh, OK. For some reason, I thought that they were affiliate, but I must have been mistaken. No. Oh, remember when we did our the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards?
00:27:08
Speaker
the Amityville movies of 2022, or was that the Amity? Yeah, it was of 2022, right? I think there's only how many Amityville titles have been in 2023. All right, well, I'll tell you. Amityville Death Toilet? You don't have to read them all out if it's that ridiculous. I was just wondering, okay, go ahead. Well, I'm going to read about. The subtitle for that is
00:27:09
Speaker
the anime film.
00:27:35
Speaker
Or, you know, the tagline for that is, uh, for God's sake, call a plumber. The next are going to be shoestring budget movies. I have to think like, oh, a lot of them are just like, you know, Hey, you want to be in the movie? It's like they made a movie and then just through the Amityville like title on there just to get, you know, get that click or whatever. The next one's called Amityville Bigfoot.
00:28:05
Speaker
He felt Bigfoot. Is there any is there a subtitle to that? The Bigfoot is isn't the way we were talking about like copyright a while ago. Like I guess Amityville is just like open to use. Like they just you know, I mean, like the studio has like no rights to it. They just said Amityville is like free game. Like we're just like throwing out there. Anybody could use. So me and you could like make an Amityville movie like
00:28:32
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you know, in the next couple of weeks if we want to get together and do it. Yeah, absolutely. I think there's like there might be some like parts of like the story that you can't necessarily use, but like the title is free use. So yeah. Yeah. The next one's called Amityville Elevator. Then this guy just clicked on this Amityville shark house. Then Amityville backpack.
00:29:02
Speaker
So those are things to look forward to, I guess. How many is that? Was that five or six? That was five. Yeah. Okay. Moving on. Yeah, that's.
00:29:17
Speaker
Pretty much all. You know what? The curiosity has gotten to that. I am gonna skim through this. I mean, I'm gonna look. There were six in 2022? Or were there 10? There were like nine or 10 last year.
00:29:33
Speaker
Alright well I'm gonna just do a skim throw and say I mean I'm assuming that they're probably free to watch somewhere I mean I can't I don't think that this is gonna be premium content you could probably go to like voodoo or the other one
00:29:50
Speaker
to be yeah like they're probably on there like you know uh maybe maybe we'll maybe we'll uh both uh see if we can find some time and skim through them a little bit and then one of our casts will just uh do a review of just what we saw maybe maybe there will be like a stand out or something like that but i can't
00:30:16
Speaker
I would say with movies like those, I would sit down. Ideally, I'd have someone with me. So at the very least, we could start mystery science there. I would just basically say, I'm going to give it five minutes. Yeah. Those seem like movies that you would throw on in the background at a party while everyone was hanging out.
00:30:42
Speaker
you know, not really paying attention. But yeah, I mean, I'm talking a lot of shit here. I will I should before I talk all this shit, I guess give like one or two of them a try. But like, that would be my thing. I'd be like, I'm going to give this five minutes, or maybe three minutes.
00:31:02
Speaker
Let's say maybe start with like the winner of the chainsaw award from last year. I'd rather start like I'd rather just like go in order and you know what I mean like that way so if I watch like if there were ten last year and there's five so far this year so that would be 15 movies to watch and if I say I'm going to give it no more than five minutes I mean that's you know what
00:31:30
Speaker
I don't know, around the hour of my time top. So, you know, and I'm saying like, I'm going to give it like a maximum of five minutes. So, you know, it shouldn't be too bad. Yeah. So what else have you been watching recently?
The Witcher and Concerns Over Cast Changes
00:31:48
Speaker
Well, I just finished about a week ago. I finished watching the third season of The Witcher. I don't want to get too into it because I know you haven't seen it yet. Yeah, we'll do a whole cast on that. Yeah, I found it enjoyable.
00:32:11
Speaker
I was very sad at the end just because I realized that the last scene I saw Henry Cavill as the Witcher for the last time. And that bothered me because I enjoyed, I really enjoyed the last scene. And at least the last scene where he was shown and I just was like,
00:32:39
Speaker
fuck like that's it and you know I looked at the gentleman that's replacing him and looking at the picture I saw of him specifically I was like alright you know he's going to look like a good girl like I could see like I was just picturing him like after they did the makeup and you know the costume and all that
00:33:04
Speaker
And I was like, yeah, you know, I definitely think that he will look like a good girl, like far better than the guy that took over for the dude that played Spartacus when, what's his name, died of cancer, you know, unfortunately. But, uh, which McCall, I was like, all right, you know, he's going to look like a good girl, but like, is he going to be able to pull it off?
00:33:27
Speaker
And I also did know this in this season, I kind of understood a little bit more because they were really starting to delve a we- well not-
00:33:40
Speaker
tremendously but you could tell that they were starting to depart from the books which is I know one of the main reasons he was unhappy to you know continue with the project and just also on another note just while I mentioned I was watching The Witcher I should say I did watch
00:34:04
Speaker
the first episode and then about 15 minutes of the second episode of Witcher Blood Origin as well. And I don't ever plan on watching any.
00:34:19
Speaker
that bad. I mean, hey, you know, if you want to check it out, that's up to you. I would recommend staying away from it completely. But just to give you perspective, I think that there were at the time I looked, there were 72,000 people that had voted and it did not even break five on IMDB.
00:34:43
Speaker
And the Witcher has been hugely successful. So, you know, people really like the show. And that worried me too, because I was just like, wow, are we in for like a real intense quality decline for, you know, Witcher season four? I sure as fuck hope not. I hope everything works out. And, you know, what's his name?
00:35:09
Speaker
who's taking over as- William Hemsworth? William Hemsworth, yeah. So, you know, hey, I hope, I wish them all the best. I hope that it continues good, even if they decide to go in like a little bit of a different direction. But, you know, yeah, I mean, I'm more, I'm just gonna say I'm worried about it. Other than that, I watch- Well, hold on. Before you move on,
00:35:37
Speaker
Did you ever, I mean, I remember seeing the trailer for Witcher Blood Origin. I thought it looked interesting, but did you ever watch it? I also thought that the trailer looked interesting. Did you ever watch the animated movie that they made? I did not. I did not. Okay. I haven't watched that either. I was curious to see how that was. I think the best thing about Witcher Blood Origin that I saw in the episode and then the 15 minutes into the second episode I watched,
00:36:05
Speaker
I thought the best thing about it was the two minute trailer I saw. That's just my opinion. Otherwise, I recently saw a gem that I had missed before called the autopsy of Jane Doe with Brian Cox, who's one of my favorite actors of all time.
Hidden Gems and Unique Horror Films
00:36:31
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And he was alongside, I can't think of the name of the actor that played his son, but it was him. Yeah, and it was the actor that played
00:36:50
Speaker
Bruce Bolton in Game of Thrones. He's been on a lot of things. British actor. Michael McElhaugh Hatton or something like that. He's either British or Irish or Scottish or, you know, he's from the United Kingdom.
00:37:09
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He didn't have like a particularly large role in it, but I just really liked him as an actor. And yeah, I mean, I was like quite impressed with that. I mean, that was a fucking scary movie. Yeah, I really enjoyed that movie. So he also did scary stories to tell in the dark. Yeah. And he did a Troll Hunter. I don't know if you've ever seen that, but that was really good too.
00:37:37
Speaker
It's almost like a found footage film, but when you actually see the trolls, it looks really fucking good, and it was awesome. Yeah. I mean, what impressed me was she didn't move. She didn't change expressions. She just laid there naked the entire time. And that just really freaked me out.
00:38:04
Speaker
Yeah. That girl, because she didn't look dead. She was just there and it was probably the most impressive performance I've ever seen by a corpse.
00:38:21
Speaker
That literally didn't change at all the entire time, you know The only thing that changed is like when they start like cutting into her to do the autopsy Which was a terrible mistake to anybody that's seen the film but you know
00:38:39
Speaker
It was just like really freak out talking to somebody else that said the same thing they were like, you know, I've never been like more frightened of you know a You know villain that like literally had no lines No, nothing was just like laying there bare naked on a fucking, you know table the entire time
00:39:01
Speaker
and yeah I don't know like somehow like it was the direction you know it was the camera angles they put on her like you know like when they would like open her eyes and they saw it she was great like you know and they kind of described what happened to her and like
00:39:20
Speaker
I don't know it was just the sudden camera angles that they would put on her face and uh you know it just yeah it was like the best performance by somebody that like literally did nothing at all that I've never seen so she should get like the award for I mean yeah that was like very unique in that but I mean obviously it was just you know the direction and uh
00:39:46
Speaker
you know, the cinematography and all that. But yeah, it was really well done.
00:39:53
Speaker
Yeah, there were a few twists that kind of unfolded at the end. I specifically liked the part where he axed his girlfriend who had come back. Remember, they were in the elevator shaft. Yeah. They ended up killing his girlfriend. And you could only think back as to what the fuck must have happened.
00:40:19
Speaker
in that house in the very intro when they find their like half buried in you know the soil in the basement and yeah i mean i would just found it like really like spooky early on like
00:40:36
Speaker
because the son wanted to the son knew there was something wrong like very on because like literally like she was like half buried naked and like she looked alive the entire time like her skin had like no blemishes to it like you know she was supposed to be dead like for all this time like it was really well done it was very eerie it was really spooky i jumped a couple times during it and
00:41:05
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I don't have like too much more to get into. Is there anything you want to add about that?
00:41:12
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About that movie. No, I thought it was really good. I mean, it's yeah. Well, I watched it but yeah Yeah, I just saw it probably like maybe two months ago, I think and But yeah, it left an impact and I was just thinking like how the fuck did I you know not see this or even hear about it because
00:41:35
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I don't know if you had mentioned it to me. I think it was my friend Jacob that mentioned it to me, actually. I watched it with him and it freaked both of us out.
00:41:51
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Yeah, it was sort of like a hidden gem I had not heard of before, and I was really glad to see that because, you know, Brian Cox, I mean, he pretty much can do anything. Like, he can act in horror, he can act, I mean, he's a great actor for drama, seen him in, like, period pieces, historical stuff. I mean, he's just great. So anything he's in, like, I'll automatically be down for checking out.
00:42:20
Speaker
but uh otherwise for me the only other thing i saw recently was well actually i watched this afternoon because i um uh i was confused and uh i was i mistook it for another movie i had recently seen that was a german movie that was like
00:42:46
Speaker
very similar to this but it was called the taking of Deborah Logan and yeah it was it was it was decent I won't go into any spoilers because you haven't seen it I mean it was all right like I I mean
00:43:05
Speaker
I could have taken it or leave it because the one thing about it that you know I'll just tell you just because you'll find out immediately going in it was one of those movies that was filmed like
00:43:19
Speaker
Lot of it was filmed with like a handheld camera kind of like the paranormal activity movies, you know I mean where there's just like a lot of like camera tricks jump scares and stuff like that Like they're in the woods where which project style type stuff you know, but obviously this one had like a bit of a higher budget and like
00:43:46
Speaker
I can't think of any named actors that were in it. I recognized maybe one or two of them, but otherwise I didn't really see any stars in it or anything. I would say it was worth watching. It's about Deborah Logan. She is an elderly woman who is
00:44:12
Speaker
starting to enter the later stages of dimension Alzheimer's. And there is a group of students who are doing a research project.
00:44:28
Speaker
they want to do a documentary sort of about her in particular, and they want to also do a documentary about how Alzheimer's and dementia, the impact it has on not just the individual that's suffering from the disease, but everyone around them. Because I mean, it's just a terrible way to die.
00:44:57
Speaker
you know i mean because you know you just forget everything you start forgetting your family and you know just to see your loved one go through that i mean my goodness gracious like
00:45:11
Speaker
I can't think of much more of an argument for youth in Asia to be a viable option in this country than I can from somebody that starts to suffer from Alzheimer's of which we luckily were starting to develop drugs that apparently they believe are going to be able to treat it better but like
00:45:36
Speaker
right now it's pretty much like a slow death and it's not only like I mean there's some physical pain involved but like it is mostly like psychological pain and you know it's a psychological pain for the person with the disease and it is intense psychological torment for everyone around them but this
00:46:06
Speaker
then ended up taking like you know there was cult and like satanic rituals and all types of shit like that so without spoiling too much more I definitely would recommend it to give it a gander especially if you are
00:46:26
Speaker
a fan of movies that are shot in that way where like half of it's like shot like a normal movie and then half of it's shot as like you know camcorder you know blair witch style documentary if you're a fan of those types of movies and especially if you're into you know them in a horror context like Cloverfield for example this might be something that you really like
00:46:54
Speaker
some of the special effects were pretty cool. And overall, I thought the acting was really well, but I'm just personally not a really big fan of that type of filmmaking. So, and I thought that the story was going in like a cool direction. And then I was like, I don't know, but the way it ended, I thought was pretty decent.
00:47:24
Speaker
But other than that, I don't really have too much more to say about it. There were some specific things I'd get into, but given you haven't seen it yet, I don't want to spoil. But I would say check it out if I were you. What about you? Anything interesting you've seen recently? I mean, I've seen a bunch in the past.
00:47:45
Speaker
couple months or you have my god you know I try to stretch my content as long as I can like you know you could probably go on for a couple hours yeah I won't go into too deep of some of the things I watch everything you've seen you have 30 seconds per per content I watched the the new Hornet mansion movie based on the Disney ride it's a
00:48:10
Speaker
family movie, good for kids, Gateway Horror. It's got a great cast. I mean, it's got... Well, I like family horror movies, you know what I mean? Because generally horror is something you think of the parents watching after the kids have gone to bed. Yeah. I mean, you can watch this with the kids, you know what I mean? Yeah. No, that's what I mean. Yeah. It's got Lakeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Hadish, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis.
00:48:39
Speaker
You know, it's got a pretty good cast, so, but... Yeah, it's the opposite of what I just saw. Yeah. But, you know, it's not as good as, like, you know, Goosebumps or House of the Clock and the Walls, you know, but honestly, those are both Jack Black movies, so maybe this movie was just missed in Jack Black. Don't diss anything about Cocks and the Walls. I gotta tell you, it's going back to Amityville. Amityville 92, it's about time, subtitle.
00:49:08
Speaker
Cock-in-the-wall belly cock in the fuck no house with the clock in the wall. I thought was a good family one Yeah, it was with Jack Black. So I was just saying maybe that was what this movie was missing was Jack Black But uh, then I'll also on the horror comedy side, uh back in June I watched the blackening the horror comedy about a group of friends who go to a cabin to celebrate Juneteenth and
00:49:36
Speaker
And, uh, they find like this game room with like this real racist game that makes them play like who's the blackest. That sounds pretty interesting. Yeah. It's like, uh, yeah, like there's a, and there's like a killer who has like a vendetta and they have to use their like street smarts and knowledge of like horror movies to stay alive. And it was, well, that's been done before, but what, what was the name of it?
00:50:05
Speaker
the blackening the blackening yeah it is you know it's like a comedy uh horror take on it with an all-black cast so yeah i mean yeah there's there have been like movies similar there's a lot you'll see a lot of like you know the the tropes in this as well but like i thought it was i thought it was fucking hilarious and i definitely recommend that then i saw uh the boogeyman based on uh steven king short story
00:50:34
Speaker
I saw a movie called The Bogeyman many years ago when I watched it with my roommates. I remember I was living in Miami so it would have been like 2006 or 2007. I'm assuming that it was a totally different thing. It was called The Bogeyman and it was
00:50:57
Speaker
a horror movie where the boogeyman, as a man who was boogying, was killing people. That was the plot. The boogeyman was ripping people. This is like, basically, this family is like still reeling from the tragic death of their mother. And like the younger sister kind of, you know, is seeing something in the shadows.
00:51:28
Speaker
and they're trying to like and then like the older sister you know like sees it as well eventually and then like they're trying to get the father to pay attention before it's too late i thought it was uh pretty i mean it's definitely like a little generic but i thought it was pretty well done and like the creature
00:51:45
Speaker
Well, it was cool because the creature was kind of like feeding on their grief and shit. So like, yeah, very Stephen King ish, the outsider, same type of premise, feeding on grief, looks for pain. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it did a pretty good job with like, you know, shadows and lighting and stuff in this movie. And like, and then when you actually see like, the boogeyman itself, I thought looked pretty fucking cool, too. So right on.
00:52:15
Speaker
And then I saw Cobweb with Lizzie Chaplin and Anthony Starr. You had mentioned, I mean, I'll watch anything with Lizzie Chaplin. It's just because she's, you know, she's a fucking fantasy of mine. I love, I've always loved Lizzie Chaplin. So, you know, but, you know, obviously, was it like, was it a good movie? Yeah, I enjoyed it. I mean, it's worth it just for their two performances alone.
00:52:44
Speaker
that basically it's like about this eight-year-old boy who like he kind of gets bullied at school and like so he like starts hearing something in the walls and like the parents just you know are just like dismissing him and like they're real kind of like strict and mean too and so then like the presence in the wall starts like talking to him so he's kind of like befriending this thing in the wall
00:53:09
Speaker
And then it kind of takes like, uh, it's always, I don't know. I feel like it's always a bad idea to befriend voices on the wall. Yeah. Yeah. It takes a pretty good, uh, pretty good turn on it. And then, uh, but at the end, it felt like they kind of ran out of ideas or something because it's just sort of like after 90 or so minutes, it just sort of ended. You know what I mean? Like, and you're kind of like, Oh, that's, that's, that's what you're doing. That's how you're ending this. Okay. But like.
00:53:38
Speaker
Still give it a watch like I thought their performances are really good and it was check it out from I'll check it out for Lizzie. Yeah, then I think my favorite of the few that I watched recently was a talk to me
00:53:53
Speaker
It's an Australian film that was made for like four point five million dollars. Yeah, I heard about this movie I don't know anything with anything that it was about Don't spoil too much because I plan to check this one out Okay, yeah, I won't but it's basically like a group of friends like it's like these It takes place in Australia and like Adelaide I believe
00:54:19
Speaker
Uh, so if you're not used to the, uh, Australian accent, you might want to like throw on some subtitles. Hey, I'm used to it. I like the Australian accent. Yeah, me too. But it's basically like these group of friends who like discover that they can like conjure spirits through like this hand. That's like a severed hand. That's like ceramic. Uh, like Ash's hand.
00:54:47
Speaker
Yeah, kind of, but it's like, it's, it's, it's been like solidified or like it's solid. And then like, yeah, you grab the hand and you say like, talk to me. And then like, the, like a spirit appears, but only you can see it and no one else in the room can. And then if you let it in it, but like, do this by talking to a fossilized hand, you're not talking to the hand. You're like grabbing the hand and like they explain it in the movie, but like, luckily they don't get like too into it, which I liked.
00:55:16
Speaker
It was like they don't try to like over explain things. Hold your hand. They kind of like.
00:55:22
Speaker
Yeah, you have to. I mean, it's kind of a similar device to like, you know, Ouija board in a way. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's that's what I was thinking. Like the kids are like kind of getting off on like letting these spirits possess them and like, you know, they're like videotape. They were enjoying the demonic possessions. Yeah. Yeah. Were they all demonic or were like some of the spirits like like friendly spirits or were they all pretty much like, you know,
00:55:50
Speaker
when dealing with dark powers of this nature. Yeah, it wasn't all like, there were some definitely like weird like sexual ones and like, you know, there was like a nice one and, you know, like, yeah, it's, it's kind of hard to like, talk more. I mean, all the kids are like, like, they're filming it on their phones and stuff for like, you know, it's like,
00:56:14
Speaker
Oh, try it, you know, it's kind of like, you know, all these viral videos that are going around, it's kind of like, Oh, like, that's how the kids are getting into it. Like, like some of this stuff, like what I was talking about, and the taking of Deborah Logan, like that type of stuff where they're like filming stuff like on
00:56:31
Speaker
their phones where you know you you have like you know some of the handheld stuff going on that you like video taping everyone but it's kind of like what that technique is called sorry I would I would describe it better I'm not sure I know it's called something but uh uh I'm not exactly sure what it's called but uh all right so it did not include that
00:56:58
Speaker
No, but apparently, like the directors did film all that stuff as well, like, you know, through the cameras. So like, they are pretty cool, like they could put out if they want to. Oh, all right. All right. Yeah. That on like the DVD or something like that. But they've already talked about people. So I think they've already announced it because it's already made like maybe 30 million on like a
00:57:21
Speaker
on like a 4.5 million budget. Oh, cool. Well, you know, it's interesting you mentioned that because it just made me think of something I forgot.
Interest in Horror Series and Films
00:57:31
Speaker
I had never seen the Insidious movies. And I actually recently saw Insidious 1 and Insidious 2.
00:57:40
Speaker
And I thoroughly enjoyed both of them. I thought Insidious 2 was going to drop off a lot, but I didn't think so. I might have liked the second Insidious a little bit more just because of how fucked up it was. Well, I don't know. It's close. I think I liked them both about equally.
00:57:59
Speaker
But I know, didn't you recently see the fourth one? Isn't that something you watched recently? No, that'd be the fifth one. Oh, it's the fifth one? Yeah, because there's three. That's a prequel. Oh, I thought this was the fourth. Because the, well, no, the first, the second one is a sort of like a sequel and prequel combined. It's sort of like weird.
00:58:29
Speaker
because like it goes back to like past events and so time is a little convoluted in the second one but um you know I don't want to get too into them but yeah that's something that I did watch you recently saw the fifth one no I haven't yet the third is a prequel to the first then the fourth is like called the lost key
00:58:54
Speaker
And that's also a prequel to the, it's a sequel to the third, but they're both prequels.
00:59:00
Speaker
And then this one's supposed to be a sequel to the second one. So like the kids all grown up. Wait. All right. So wait. Uh, the first one is just the start of it. And then the second one is a sequel, but has like goes back in time and gives you some prequel information. And then the third one is a prequel to the first one.
00:59:25
Speaker
Yeah, because it follows the psychic that they follow. Yeah, because at the end of the second one, she's like, oh my God. So, you know, she obviously sees something fucked up. So, all right. So that's a prequel to the first one. And then the fourth one you said is a sequel to the second one. No, it is a sequel to the prequel. So we go three, four, one, two. Okay. Okay. Got it. Three, four, one, two.
00:59:56
Speaker
I get that. All right, right on. Kind of like the new Saul X movie, it takes place between one and two. Yeah, I get it. So the first two more focus on the psychic lady and her early life. Yeah, well, the third and fourth one, yes. Yeah. And then the newest one is the kids growing up and it goes back to the family from the first two.
01:00:21
Speaker
So the fifth one is going to be like a sequel to the second one. Yes. Yes. Gotcha. Very, very confusing. And they did not make that. Yeah. I think you did a pretty good job explaining it. That's why I wanted to like break it down. But so the fifth one, is that out in theaters now or is it OK?
01:00:42
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know for how long but uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, some that's something that I want to check out. Next, we'll probably see the last voyage of Demeter as well, because that looks really good. The baseball that just a little short part of Bram Stoker's Dracula, about them shipping the you know, a Dracula from Romania to England.
01:01:07
Speaker
Yeah, take place on the whole ship. I mean, they they did it before in that Netflix series, Dracula. Yeah. The second episode, which I remember being pretty good, but it's been a while. But yeah, this one looks really good, too. And then, oh, the best thing I've watched recently is the first two seasons of this show called From is on Epics. And I think the first season's on Amazon. It may still be on there. Oh, no, it's on MGM Plus.
01:01:37
Speaker
Uh, the show, I think it was originally on epics, but you know, then they bought it. So streaming services, man. Yeah, but I think the first season was on, um, yeah, the first season was on Amazon. I don't know if it's still on Amazon for free, but, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's really good show. It's kind of like if the best way to describe it is if Stephen King wrote lost.
01:02:05
Speaker
So it's basically about like this group of people who get stuck in this town and there's no way out because if they drive down the road, they end up like just back at the other side of town. So it's like Mouth of Madness when Samuel Neal is trying to get out of Hobbs End and he just keeps ending up back in and seeing the villagers waxes and shit. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like that.
01:02:33
Speaker
the at night they have to all like hide indoors because at night these like creatures come out and like if you let them in they'll just fucking murder you and shit real brutally and they all kind of like and they kind of walk like you have to like invite them in or like do art at night they're just like real quiet and they just try to like not draw on the attention like they like rip into the house they'll they'll like walk around like real slow like jason's like so they look like humans
01:03:03
Speaker
and they walk around real slow and they all have smiles on their faces. They're all like super friendly. So they try to get you to like invite them in. So you have to like invite them in. So as long as like at night you just stay in your house, go about your own business. Like will they knock at the door and shut like that? Yeah, I don't know if they'll knock, but they'll definitely like be talking if they like see you in there or whatever. But if you're not in like, cause they have like, you know, protections that they have found.
01:03:32
Speaker
to protect you if you're inside. But if you're outside, you kind of just have to hide and be quiet online, because if they find you, they'll tear into you.
01:03:40
Speaker
Oh, so basically the way to be safe is to be in your house at night and don't let anybody in and just don't talk to fucking anybody that you don't know. Just stay in your house. And if you are outside of your house, it's fair game. If you're outside, you better hide and hope they don't find you. And just go back. This was called From? Yeah. It's really good.
01:04:10
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I'm going to check that out. And this was this was a series. Yes, it's a TV series that was on. It was on Epic's originally, and then it went to and plus with them when they changed.
01:04:29
Speaker
Um, and yeah, this is, uh, season one. I've watched both seasons like within two seasons. Okay. They are. I mean, they're already announced a season three, like the second season just came out like February, March, I think. Uh, I just got into both seasons like recently within the past like month or two. And like, or the second season even finished airing, uh, they had already announced, uh, a third season.
01:04:57
Speaker
good. So it's doing well. Yeah, it sounds like a really cool premise. Yeah, I'm like, I don't care that much about like, I mean, you know, the interpersonal relationships and like their growth and stuff. I mean, there is a little bit of that, but it keeps you hooked enough where you're like invested into like the story of it all. And so they're like, they don't
01:05:20
Speaker
there isn't that much like lag. You know what I mean? There isn't like, oh, oh great. They're doing this. Like it kind of keeps the pace up enough. Uh, you'll recognize the, uh, main actor, uh, Harold Pernoe. I think he was, he actually was in lost as a Michael Dawson, but he was also in Oz. Yeah, I never really watched lost or, uh, so, yeah, I'm definitely going to check this out.
01:05:50
Speaker
Yeah, he was in like, I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure I'll probably know him. I mean, I knew most of the actors in Lost and most of the actors in Oz. I just never really watched either. You'll definitely recognize when you're like, Oh, that guy, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool. Yeah, that's definitely recommend the most would be from and talk to me.
01:06:12
Speaker
And what told me real quick, it was like at first, like the first like, I mean, it doesn't, it's only like 90 minutes and it doesn't take that long to get into the premise of it. But I'll at first, like maybe like 30, 45 minutes, I was like, all right, it had some good scenes in it. But I was like, is this just going to be like another overhyped horror movie? Because I've heard a lot of talk about it. And I'm like,
01:06:33
Speaker
By the last 45 minutes, I was like, oh yeah, I'm in. This is kind of fucking cool. I like where they're going with this. I like the story and everything. All right. Well, that's definitely on my list. Yeah, that and I'm going to try to watch the other Insidious movies. Yeah. All right, cool.
01:06:54
Speaker
I'm going to try a lot. So, but yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, well, you know, the Witcher also did like a weird thing too, where, you know, usually Netflix drops the entire thing at once, but for some reason they decided to only drop like the first five episodes, I believe. And they waited like, I think three, I think they did this in the beginning of July.
01:07:17
Speaker
And then they waited till July 27th to drop the last three episodes. I have no idea why they decided to do it that way. That's really strange for Netflix, but hey, that's the way they did it. So yeah, that's all I got. So, uh, thanks for joining me and, uh, I will talk to you soon. Yeah. Uh, it's been real man. Uh, take care and, uh, yeah, we will see you next time.
01:07:47
Speaker
Alright, peace. That was such...