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Don’t Log Off & Frankie Freako: Zoom Horrors, Goblin Puppets, and 80s Nostalgia Mayhem!

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Jo’s watched TWO movies—mark your calendars, haters! In this episode, he and Amelie deep-dive into “Don’t Log Off” (2025), a sleek virtual mystery wrapped in COVID-era anxiety and starring Ariel Winter, and “Frankie Freako” (2024), a bonkers horror-comedy drenched in 80s nostalgia, Muppet madness, and goblin party lines. From pandemic memories to puppet passion, this one’s got it all. Grab your mask and your VHS—let’s get weird.

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🔥 KEY MOMENTS:

  • 01:12 – Jo confesses: YES, he did watch the movies!
  • 02:13 – Breakdown of Don’t Log Off: mystery, horror, and COVID realism
  • 05:53 – Mask-wearing, trailer confusion, and Ariel Winter's transformation
  • 13:20 – Jo and Amelie’s personal COVID test horror stories
  • 26:14 – Switch-up to Frankie Freako: goblin puppets, retro magic
  • 30:52 – Praise for the 80s aesthetic and Muppet energy
  • 38:08 – Cult-classic potential and comparison to Psycho Goreman
  • 43:26 – Final verdicts: Watch both, but Frankie Freako is REWATCH GOLD

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Transcript

Intro

00:00:06
Amelie
Hello.
00:00:07
Jo
and everyone, Joe here, and today I've got my special guest all the way from Prague, the way of France, Amelie. Say hello.
00:00:16
Amelie
hello
00:00:18
Jo
Today we're doing two movies that I watched. So fuck y'all motherfuckers who say I don't watch movies. I do. I watched two of them so far. That's all you need to know. Don't Log Off, 2025, and Frankie Frico, 2024. All this more right now.
00:00:33
Jo
all was more right now
00:00:37
Jo
The music's back because we got dancers.
00:00:38
Amelie
And the dense too, yes.
00:00:42
Jo
And done. Yeah, it it's a quick music day. So if you don't know anything about Screaming Demons, this is like season 15 for us or actually a season four. I'm pretty sure.
00:00:53
Jo
Whatever. We'll stay at season four. And we used to do a formula and Cthulhu's and all sorts of madness, bro. Madness. We had special guests. And now we're just talking about movies because that's what we should be doing.
00:01:07
Jo
ah ah Streaming demons not talk about special whatevers. Anyways, today I've watched both movies. She has not. Correct?
00:01:17
Jo
You have not?
00:01:18
Amelie
Correct, I did not.
00:01:20
Jo
and Okay, so I'm going talk to, I'm going to talk about this movie as if I'm talking to a friend, because I am.
00:01:29
Amelie
Yes, you are.
00:01:29
Jo
And i know, see, we're friends.
00:01:32
Amelie
Ah.
00:01:32
Jo
Don't tell no one else, though. Just the people who listen.
00:01:35
Amelie
Shh. Yes.
00:01:35
Jo
It's a secret.
00:01:36
Amelie
It's script.
00:01:37
Jo
We actually hate each other off screen. It's just a fucking kayfabe thing.
00:01:39
Amelie
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:01:41
Jo
And I like talking movies up if I like them. And if I don't like them, I will let you know. i mean, there's some movies we disagreed on. like, dog shit. And there's some movies we liked.
00:01:52
Amelie
Correct, yes.
00:01:53
Jo
Like the one with Brad Pitt, where like the elephant scene, like we had to get past that. And after we got past that, it was actually a fucking good movie.
00:01:58
Amelie
Yes.
00:02:00
Jo
I'm like, God damn, it's actually a good movie.
00:02:02
Amelie
Correct.
00:02:03
Jo
Yes. So the first one I'm going to talk about is we were just talking about before shooting. was don't log off. The 2025 don't log off of horror, mysteries, thrillers, all in between.
00:02:18
Jo
and I'm going to read you the log line from IMDb. During a virtual birthday party, Sam vanishes. Her friends investigate via calls and social media, but start disappearing when they check her apartment.
00:02:25
Amelie
Correct.
00:02:29
Jo
They must face a menacing figure from her past to save her and survive. Directed and written by Brandon and Garrett Bear. And starring the person from, I almost said Home Improvement, no, Modern Family.
00:02:45
Amelie
correct
00:02:46
Jo
Ariel Winter. I'm so sorry. I knew her.
00:02:47
Amelie
yeah
00:02:47
Jo
I'm sorry, Ariel. I had a brain fart for a half second. So you only saw a bit of the trailer, right?
00:02:56
Amelie
I watched the whole trailer.
00:02:57
Jo
Okay. I will tell you, did you realize who she was just by watching the trailer? Like, oh, that that's the girl from... Okay.
00:03:05
Amelie
No, no. and know That's really interesting because followed this actress since the beginning. She has an interesting career, she's an interesting person, she gave different point of view about career as a child actress.
00:03:13
Jo
Right.
00:03:18
Jo
Yeah.
00:03:18
Amelie
She's an excellent actress and she's very independent.
00:03:20
Jo
She is. Yeah. Really?
00:03:23
Amelie
she, I think, will have a bright future in cinema. And I think she's the kind of person who will touch a different kind of movie, not just the main, you know, commercial movies.
00:03:35
Amelie
I did not recognize her. However, a lot of fans in the comment section of the video did recognize her and said, oh, she is taking the risk of an horror movie.
00:03:42
Jo
really
00:03:46
Amelie
That's interesting. Plus, she's blonde. She's not brunette. And she has a complete different set.
00:03:50
Jo
Yeah, she's blind in this one.
00:03:52
Amelie
I did not recognize I watched the trailer and I think she's going to do good in this movie. She's a good actress. She is a character.
00:03:59
Jo
Oh, she's a brilliant actress. And the funny thing is I i seen Ariel Winter and I know watched all of Modern Family.
00:04:01
Amelie
Correct, yeah.
00:04:07
Jo
I know who it is going to be. And when i started to play the movie, I completely forgot. And when I first started watching it, it opens up with like the the scary movie.
00:04:22
Jo
There's not scary movie, the scream opening where they they do a kill right away.
00:04:27
Amelie
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:04:27
Jo
and That's not a big spoiler. happened in two minutes. They do a kill right away, right? I'm like, is that Lily from Modern Family? Is that the person? Is this? I'm like, oh should be okay. I'm like, or not. And I couldn't remember. I knew someone from Modern Family was in it, but I couldn't remember the actress. I just feel like, you know, one of those long days I had.
00:04:44
Jo
And I thought like, wow, they did a Jackie Chan where some Jackie Chan movies came out and they killed him right away. Because at that time, he was just like a stunt guy. and But when he became famous, they put his name on big title, like he was a star of the film.
00:04:59
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:05:00
Jo
And he was not. So he's like, oh, he comes back, right? i remember watching a Beanwon movie. He gets like skewered. like, no, he'll be back. He's Jackie Chan. 12 minutes later, 20, 30. twenty thirty Like, oh my God, it's just... Yeah, he gets killed in the first five minutes. What the hell?
00:05:15
Jo
Yeah, it's repurposing. So this one, Ariel Winter, Luke Benoit, and Sterling Beaumont. I will say... The acting is mostly spawn-on. I'm saying mostly spawn-on.
00:05:31
Jo
She is a great actor. Ariel Winters fantastic actors. They're all fantastic actors and actresses here. There's parts where you don't like some people, and not because you don't probably like the actor, because they're doing a great job of not being likable.
00:05:46
Jo
Now, what the trailer leaves out, maybe...
00:05:50
Amelie
hu
00:05:51
Jo
And what the IMDB tagline leaves out is this happens during COVID.
00:05:59
Jo
That's why it is a virtual birthday party.
00:06:02
Amelie
Okay. I'm going to give my point of view as someone who never watched the movie, who just based my point of view on watching the trailer.
00:06:16
Jo
huh.
00:06:16
Amelie
That's what I do, right?
00:06:17
Jo
Really? Yep.
00:06:18
Amelie
I like to watch the trailer and based on that say, maybe good, maybe not good, etc. I watch it. And I don't feel it's COVID.
00:06:30
Amelie
Nothing is said about COVID or anything. For me, it's normal to see people. I just had the idea of other three. It's strange. Everyone is is all together and camera on because nowadays people are camera off, right?
00:06:43
Jo
Yeah.
00:06:45
Amelie
And it's a birthday and they say happy birthday. day And I was like, oh, maybe she'll leave abroad and all her friends from university or friends from home sometimes must say happy birthday.
00:06:53
Jo
No.
00:06:56
Amelie
Because I find really strange in the trailers, like, oh my God, oh my God, she got kidnapped and nobody called 911 and nobody goes to a place. You see what I mean? So I'm like, maybe she's far away in America or something like that.
00:07:06
Jo
Well...
00:07:08
Amelie
Like, it they do call 911 in the trailer, but I'm like, yeah, really weird, you know. Nothing indicates they're saying COVID in the thing.
00:07:18
Amelie
And I don't know if people want to watch a movie anymore. about a birthday party during COVID. You see what I mean?
00:07:29
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:07:30
Jo
Well, you'd say that because maybe the trailer is cut poorly.
00:07:34
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:07:34
Jo
How do you, can you still hear me?
00:07:36
Amelie
Yeah.
00:07:37
Jo
Can hear me okay? Okay. I'm starting to fog up a bit. I haven't worn one of these in a while. let me take my hands off.
00:07:49
Jo
But one of the first giveaways that is on COVID, everyone's wearing a goddamn mask outside.
00:07:49
Amelie
Thank you, dear.
00:07:55
Jo
Not some people, not a few fucking people.
00:07:55
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:07:57
Jo
Everyone is.
00:07:57
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:07:59
Jo
If they didn't do that. And by the way, this is one of the things I, if am I sounding different? I'm guessing I am. So my voice is rebounding back to me.
00:08:07
Amelie
Mm-hmm. Yes.
00:08:10
Jo
Oh my God. Take that off.
00:08:11
Amelie
You sound different, but we can hear you.
00:08:12
Jo
That's one of the things the movie does not do well.
00:08:15
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:08:16
Jo
It shows COVID.
00:08:18
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:08:18
Jo
Can't hear myself. It shows COVID, but God damn it.
00:08:19
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:08:22
Jo
Everyone sounds crystal clear with their fucking masks on.
00:08:25
Amelie
yeah
00:08:25
Jo
Like they're on social media, they're doing a FaceTime and everyone sounds crystal clear with a mask on? Fuck you. No one can understand anyone saying with their mask on. I get it.
00:08:37
Jo
It's a movie. If everything was said like this, you know, you want to watch fucking subtitles. But they could at least play it up a little bit. And anyone who's missed COVID, here's a COVID strip, test strip.
00:08:52
Amelie
Oh, God. oh
00:08:54
Jo
It looks like a syphilis test. Pick it it is. But for your brain. Yeah, you shove this, you take it out. Let me see. Shit, you know what? let me see.
00:09:05
Jo
I have the old Quebec ones with me. But ah ah we all became scientists during COVID. All of us.
00:09:14
Amelie
Yeah.
00:09:15
Jo
Because Quebec stopped doing testing because they're cheap cunts. And you would take this liquid. You would put the liquid into the small vial, the test tube.
00:09:22
Amelie
Yes.
00:09:25
Amelie
Yeah.
00:09:25
Jo
You put the test tube in this fucking test tube holder.
00:09:27
Amelie
Yeah.
00:09:28
Jo
You would then take your your actual test kit here. This is the actual test kit.
00:09:31
Amelie
Yeah.
00:09:32
Jo
you have to pipe that into it. And then but the first thing is you have to get a sample. And the samples for the old test, you put it back and you keep shoving the Q-tip up until you touch your brain.
00:09:38
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:09:42
Amelie
Loboto me, dude.
00:09:44
Jo
Yes.
00:09:45
Amelie
Did you have to do that every time you go in class? Because i had to do that every time I was going to the office. So first we would go in the first floor. was doing it pregnant. And go to the room and there was was a guy called Bogdan.
00:09:54
Jo
Really?
00:09:58
Amelie
I will never forget. So you took, with his accent, so you took the formula, you put the formula here, you know, and you had to datadata put in your nose, thatda hoping to not have COVID to be able to work.
00:10:12
Amelie
like Nick, ha la la la la.
00:10:12
Jo
Where was that?
00:10:14
Jo
Where were you?
00:10:14
Amelie
la
00:10:15
Jo
I forgot.
00:10:16
Amelie
Czech Republic Prague for, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:17
Jo
Chuck, well you're still in progress. Okay.
00:10:20
Amelie
and When I came back in March, 2021, we were mandatory to do so and we had to send an SMS to HR to say, I did my test and I can't come for those who wanted to come to the office.
00:10:23
Jo
Okay. Yeah. in
00:10:35
Amelie
And because I was pregnant, yeah.
00:10:35
Jo
Oh, no. In Quebec, it was is was actually just show showmanship. It was, they put, you could, you know, if you were sick, especially the first beginning of the you went into the COVID test center, but then test centers became just swamped with people.
00:10:51
Jo
And so that became, if you're a first responder, if you had to work with the public, then you can use a test center. So I would go to my test center, like, almost every time. And then the home kits came and then the test centers started going away.
00:11:05
Jo
But when the first, the first couple of things on test center, they would like do the whole brain thinking thing. And it would just like tears come out of your eyes. It's not just like jab, it's like you jab and you rotate.
00:11:14
Jo
It really reminded me of a syphilis test where they put it inside your penis and start going so to like fucking corking a bottle and then became a spit test for just spitting this
00:11:15
Amelie
Yep.
00:11:18
Amelie
Yeah.
00:11:23
Amelie
Yes, yes, yes. it's It's like you did, you did, you needed to spit in a fjol like this.
00:11:30
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:31
Amelie
And then you need, oh la la.
00:11:33
Jo
Yeah.
00:11:33
Amelie
When I was in Australia to leave Australia, I needed did to do the COVID test. I was like, hi, my name is Kimberly. I'm going to place this inside your nose. So you're going to feel a little tingling. One, two, three.
00:11:45
Amelie
One, two, three.
00:11:45
Jo
Oh.
00:11:45
Amelie
Here we You did it. And Jacob is like, Good morning, Mrs. Delfry, please. Good morning, thank you.
00:11:51
Jo
Double-goal.
00:11:52
Amelie
Wait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. nobody nico like no um like ah
00:11:58
Jo
it was like, i usually try to everyone anyone who knows me knows no and you will absolutely go like yeah that's him i usually try to pick up the doctors or nurses who treat
00:12:10
Amelie
yeah
00:12:10
Jo
see mean naked anyways why not
00:12:12
Amelie
yeah
00:12:12
Jo
the the job's halfway there you know it's halfway done for me But it's hard to pick up on a nurse when you're crying because once they hit the the nose, i mean it just keeps you're not crying out of pain. It's just your your your eyes water.
00:12:28
Amelie
Yeah.
00:12:29
Jo
Your eyes water. You're like, what the fuck? It's like, you little bitch. Go back home. God damn, I can't pick up on you. You just fucking saw me crying for a while. fuck's wrong?
00:12:40
Amelie
I didn't take
00:12:40
Jo
Yeah, it wasn't fun. And you had to wait a couple days. It wasn't instant responses like, we we'll tell you.
00:12:43
Amelie
Yeah.
00:12:46
Jo
okay And we all had like fucking apps on our phone to get in anywhere.
00:12:51
Amelie
Oh God, I went on a date for a cup of coffee and had a problem with my my phone. And it was like, so what are you looking for? and and and and And excuse me, yes, can I see your pass?
00:13:05
Amelie
And I'm like, I have a problem with my... So for the five, 15 minutes, you're trying to unblock your thing for a simple cappuccino.
00:13:12
Jo
Yeah.
00:13:14
Jo
Yeah.
00:13:14
Amelie
And I'm like, oh...
00:13:15
Jo
Especially if they use this shit. We all learned that like Apple had to make a new configuration for their opening for your face because a lot of phones are open to a face for Apple's and they're like, shit, no one's being recognized.
00:13:23
Amelie
i
00:13:28
Jo
So now you have a second configuration with a mask on.
00:13:33
Amelie
Do you remember? Okay, so you need to go out on the street with a mask, but once you're sitting, you can take off your mask.
00:13:41
Jo
Oh, I'll do you one better. I'll do you one better. In Quebec, because the government is assholes. Sorry, was I coughing when I said that? My bad.
00:13:51
Amelie
At this way.
00:13:51
Jo
I meant to say they're assholes.
00:13:52
Amelie
Bless you. Bless you.
00:13:53
Jo
yeah Yeah, I'll say it straight out. What are you going to Kick me out? Take my birth away? Fuck y'all. Motherfuckers and SMBD.
00:13:59
Amelie
Not giving you a middle name?
00:14:01
Jo
Yeah, right? So, you could look. that We had a curfew, which was fine, I guess, whatever. It didn't it wasn't medically... valid but they use them the doctor here's like oh we must do a curfew then he later on resigns because he wouldn't push the next curfew through and so they hire someone who would so you always know medicine's on point when they say no to politicians and then politician replaces them sure but the curfew was ridiculously early was like a fuck man at like 8 p.m or something there 7 p.m whatever and only for montreal
00:14:34
Amelie
For us 10.000. Mm-hmm.
00:14:38
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:14:38
Jo
Where I lived across a bridge, we actually got an extra hour. So it must have been 8 p.m. for one and 9 p.m. for other. It was like, I called it the vampire virus because after sundown, the virus comes out and haunts you.
00:14:49
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:14:50
Jo
But it can't cross water. That's why the bridge people get an extra hour.
00:14:52
Amelie
Oh,
00:14:55
Amelie
Oh God, us friends, we did better. When we found out as French, we had a curfew at 10 p.m. People find the old Nazi French German curfew at 10 p.m.
00:15:05
Amelie
from the Second World War and they place it everywhere their hometown next to the thing.
00:15:07
Jo
Yeah.
00:15:10
Jo
That's fun.
00:15:11
Amelie
So you had to be careful 10 p.m., be careful past 10 p.m., you know, and people got fined for not having a mask.
00:15:12
Jo
Absolutely.
00:15:19
Jo
Yeah.
00:15:19
Amelie
1,000 euros on spots. And sometimes people didn't have the time to get the correct mask. So there is a lady, very famous, and unfortunately, nowadays.
00:15:25
Jo
Yeah.
00:15:30
Amelie
She has a father who has dementia, Alzheimer's. And he was found naked in a garden of a neighbor. So he got fined.
00:15:39
Jo
Right.
00:15:40
Amelie
So the family got fined. she's like, how can I look after my father knowing I need to work? And I need to have a nurse. And we cannot have a nurse. And da, da, da, with COVID.
00:15:49
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:50
Amelie
And she sent a letter to Macron. She explained the situation. It was a complete show in France. My parents were telling me to go to the market, you need to have a pass. You need to have your mask.
00:16:01
Amelie
And in Australia, it was completely different.
00:16:01
Jo
yeah
00:16:04
Amelie
It was state by state. Christmas 2020. I will never forget. People come to New South Wales when I am.
00:16:15
Amelie
I am with my family and a lot of people are from Victoria. So you Victoria State and New South Wales.
00:16:21
Jo
Yeah.
00:16:21
Amelie
Two morons went to a shopping mall center with COVID, knowing they had COVID, and they gave COVID to everyone in the shopping center, apparently.
00:16:29
Jo
Wow.
00:16:30
Amelie
They, in 24 hours, gave a warning to people who were on holiday in New South Wales to say, you have 24 hours to come back. Once it's midnight, we close the state of Victoria.
00:16:43
Amelie
People were rushing out. I never saw ah ah long traffic like that. And my mother-in-law was like, i was seeing people on the on TV, like we come for New Year's Eve and Christmas to spend with your family.
00:16:43
Jo
Yeah.
00:16:49
Jo
Shit, man.
00:16:56
Amelie
We have 24 hours. Some people need to 48 hours to go back. And if they close, everything can be closed for two weeks or whatever. And that was crazy.
00:17:06
Amelie
It's just like, We had a lot of freedom in Australia, but at the same time, it's just a snap of a finger. They could close everything.
00:17:15
Jo
Well, yeah, it's a state of emergency.
00:17:15
Amelie
Melbourne was closed.
00:17:17
Amelie
Melbourne was closed. That's just crazy. like It's crazy and frightening during COVID. it It's how, also to them, you have a new law, like, for example, the mask.
00:17:17
Jo
That's literally the definition of a state of emergency.
00:17:29
Amelie
If you don't wear your mask, you can be fine.
00:17:29
Jo
I
00:17:32
Amelie
If you can be fine, you can go to prison. You can go this, you can go that. you can
00:17:36
Jo
i don't think anyone went for fucking prison, though.
00:17:37
Amelie
and
00:17:38
Jo
I think you're extrapolating a little bit too much here. They got fined.
00:17:41
Amelie
trial and fight and stuff like it's crazy it's crazy
00:17:42
Jo
Did someone went to prison for a mask? No. No, no, fuck off. No, you better, got back your data up, man. Sorry.
00:17:54
Amelie
it's crazy to see how the law can change from Monday to Friday and people who called the police to talk on you a lot a lot
00:18:02
Jo
Yes. Oh, that happened a lot.
00:18:04
Amelie
oh
00:18:06
Jo
I had a girlfriend who lived downtown, well, in Verdun, which is near downtown Montreal at the time. And her neighbors were the reporting type.
00:18:16
Jo
And because the law was, if you were a family, you could have stayed your family. If you're a single person for a long time was fuck you, single people. And because we weren't married, I had to sneak in through her back door. No pun intended.
00:18:31
Jo
Yeah, I had to sneak in to fucking house and then sneak back out from her fucking house because her neighbors would call out the fucking cops.
00:18:41
Jo
It's amazing. It's amazing. But we're doing all this stuff. reliving the bad times right now. This is not what this podcast is about. but But Don't Log Off is about this. This is what's missing from the trailers. This is what's missing from the IMDb.
00:18:54
Jo
It's during COVID.
00:18:55
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:18:56
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:18:56
Jo
it's
00:18:56
Jo
you know They didn't film it during in COVID, but maybe they don't. fucking But they produced it during COVID, but they did it as a glam shot. Like, they they hit the high points of the wackiness of the internet being forced on everyone all at once to do virtual birthday parties and shit like that. And people being bad at FaceTime calls and stuff like that.
00:19:17
Jo
But it's all still glam. Like, you know, it's the Hollywood... Ariel Winter is an attractive person.
00:19:29
Jo
Kara Roster is a attractive person. Kylan Rambo is... that They're all... they're all Basically fucking models that act. They all have model looks. Like Lou Benoit. Like Jack Riffle. they're These are sterling.
00:19:42
Jo
They all have. Brielle. Right. Ash. I'll just name all the entire goddamn cast. I'll name you all. One by one. You know you look good. Just saying. And no one's like suffering from hygiene.
00:19:54
Jo
Of like. Because. Truth. Did I shave every day with COVID? Fuck no. I had masks on. Did I wear, like, sometimes brush my teeth? Probably not. Why?
00:20:04
Jo
I had a fucking mask on most. Well, I was going outside like, fuck this shit. I look like shit. I don't give a fuck.
00:20:08
Amelie
I remember your hair, dude.
00:20:09
Jo
It's like, yeah, we can see fucking barbers.
00:20:09
Amelie
I remember your hair. And they're not in pajamas. We were in pajamas. Do you remember?
00:20:16
Jo
Most of the time.
00:20:16
Amelie
We were all in pajamas, like the long T-shirt.
00:20:18
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:20
Amelie
And have a half picture on my Instagram with me and my nephews. And we are in pajamas. Pijamas, my friend. And what did we do? Well, as we couldn't go to the supermarket, we would eat KFC, McDonald's.
00:20:36
Amelie
with a lot of boxes everywhere, you know, delivery.
00:20:39
Jo
Yeah.
00:20:40
Amelie
Do you remember your delivery in Amazon?
00:20:41
Jo
Delivery. Oh, way too much. I remember washing my groceries and fucking bleach. that That's how weird we got for while. But that they do hit that well. Like, don't log off.
00:20:52
Jo
does hit the the deliveries, the weirdness, that with the isolation, but still trying to do some kind of human connection.
00:20:55
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:20:59
Jo
It does that really well.
00:21:01
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:21:01
Jo
It does it really well. It does little too polished. That's saying. It's a little bit too polished for its own good. And I get it. You have to make an aesthetic choice between do you want the reality of what COVID was versus the polish of telling a fucking story.
00:21:10
Amelie
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:21:12
Jo
And they erred on the side of telling a fucking story, which is fine. It's a fucking movie. They should err on that side. you but not It's not a goddamn documentary. No one thought like, oh, don't lock off. It's a documentary. Can't wait.
00:21:23
Jo
No, it's terror has entered the chat. It's got a good premise. It's decent. It's suspenseful. I do have some problems with the movie, but the acting ain't one of them.
00:21:35
Jo
I think the scenes are beautifully done. I think the writing for the most part works. It is suspenseful. It is something I enjoyed. what i owned I enjoyed it.
00:21:46
Jo
I liked watching this one. I had a I won't mention the movie, but I had a shit screener. The one before. And it was just fucking abysmal. Fucking abysmal. So the watch don't log off.
00:21:58
Jo
I was like, thank fuck a good movie. You know, and it was nice to see Ariel Winter. I don't think she took a gamble on horror. I think she did the smart move.
00:22:13
Jo
I think the gamble would be to play ah another character looked just like the one in a modern family. That's the gamble. that means you're typecasting yourself. So switching blonde and going more bubbly.
00:22:26
Jo
Not quite dumb, but more like that. the Almost a party girl thing. And it is suspenseful. It's suspenseful. And they did the camera shots really well. They set up the direction well. And everything kind of flows together from chat ends. And I even learned stuff about chat. I'm like, shit, we could we could have done that?
00:22:45
Jo
ah ah damnmit I got to know. He's breaking it down like Scooby-Doo. like, fuck. That's some smart-ass shit, my dad. you do have a story where they do piece things together.
00:22:59
Jo
It is also a mystery. It's not just straight horror. It wouldn't work as straight horror. It's been done. It's been done during the fucking pandemic as straight horror. Where people were getting yanked from the chats and stuff like that, right? Yeah.
00:23:11
Jo
The mystery part is what makes this a good movie. And because the actors and actresses can actually act, the mystery part is believable. I'm not gonna spoil the mystery because it's a fucking mousetrap. You can't give away the play.
00:23:26
Jo
Now, without saying how it ends,
00:23:33
Jo
I understand the direction they were going with the ending. However, I wish they didn't.
00:23:44
Amelie
Oh.
00:23:45
Jo
i I won't say how it ends it fucking spoils everything. I understand the direction they were going. I understand it. Just like I understand the choice of making more realistic COVID versus movie land COVID.
00:24:00
Jo
I don't agree. But it's nothing, I mean, fuck it, you know. I don't have to agree with everything. It is a good movie. If you were affected heavily by COVID, you could probably still watch this and it won't give you probably, touch wood, anything as a flashback because I think they play it up enough, but it's not always in your face like a pandemic.
00:24:25
Jo
But i think you can still enjoy this. It's an enjoyable movie. And especially if you just want to get into a small mystery that's not a bunch of Not a bunch of R-rated garbage. you know I think this... I'm not saying it's family friendly.
00:24:43
Jo
But i I think this is a good pickup. It is a good pickup. Now, I know you're trying to compare it to... What was that movie that came out in 20?
00:24:51
Amelie
Unfriended. Unfriended.
00:24:52
Jo
Unfriended. Not like that at all.
00:24:55
Amelie
Oh, interesting.
00:24:55
Jo
Two different movies. I think the trailer fucks it.
00:24:57
Amelie
OK.
00:24:58
Jo
That's what happens.
00:24:58
Amelie
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:24:59
Jo
The trailer makes it look like Unfriended does not. And sometimes the trailer can make and break movie like... Kevin Smith was talking about a trailer he didn't do. And they the the water protection company put it out was like, this makes the movie look like nonsense. What the fuck you doing?
00:25:15
Jo
It's like, can we kill this trailer before people don't want to see the movie?
00:25:15
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:25:19
Jo
Yeah, I didn't watch the trailer because I got the movie. And thanks, everyone, for giving me the screener. I really do appreciate you guys. I think you would like it. Honestly, i knowing you, I think you would like it.
00:25:34
Jo
I think you would like it. And it comes out July 15th to streaming everywhere or movies or something like that I don't know. Don't quote me. Shit. I'm not the PR guy.
00:25:45
Jo
I am. Maybe. Shit. Okay. But anyways, it comes out in three days. We're taping this on the 12th. We're releasing it on the 12th because why not?
00:25:56
Jo
It comes out in three days. Go watch it. Check it out. Don't log off. It is a decent cast doing great things.
00:26:01
Amelie
Yes. Mm-hmm.
00:26:03
Jo
And Brandon and Garrett Bear, I can't wait to see what's next. Can't wait to see us next. Now, you know what movie's coming now, right?
00:26:15
Amelie
yes
00:26:16
Jo
Okay. I watch these back to back. In this order, I watched Don't Log Off first. And then I was like, I know just in case Don't Log Off was going to be shit.
00:26:27
Jo
I don't know. like jessica i was i was like fucking disappointed one of them before.
00:26:33
Jo
I know Frankie Frico, 2024, will be at the very least entertaining as fuck.
00:26:35
Amelie
Yes.
00:26:41
Jo
And it's from Stephen Kostansky. As a Polak, I'm so sorry for saying your name wrong, Stephen. So written and directed by Stephen Kostansky.
00:26:53
Jo
Here it is. It's a comedy horror.
00:26:56
Amelie
Yes.
00:26:56
Jo
And
00:26:58
Jo
It's so fucking well done. I can't wait. Workaholic yuppie Conner is an existential rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline.
00:27:02
Amelie
yeah
00:27:09
Jo
Remember party hotlines? I sure do. I never used them, but remember the goddamn ads because they played all the fucking time. Call 1-900-857-da-da-da. The first minute is 25 cents.
00:27:20
Jo
After that is for your fucking bank account per second. Yeah. It's like basically a sex lines. Hosted by a strange dancing goblin, Frankie Frico.
00:27:31
Jo
Could this be the just a recipe? Who wrote this copy? Hey, Steven, if you wrote this copy, not working for everybody. Wait, I'm just spilling all these words.
00:27:41
Jo
Could this be the recipe? No, wow. Could this be just the recipe to splice? See, you can't use just there. Watch. Could this be just a recipe? Which means it's only just the recipe.
00:27:54
Amelie
yeah
00:27:55
Jo
But it's, na fuck those words, man. Should this be the recipe to spice up his boring life? Period. at The end. Less is more, my friend. I hope Steven Union didn't write that one because you wrote a great movie.
00:28:08
Jo
Someone fucked your tagline on IMDb. Now, this movie, you watched the premiere, the premiere, the promo too, right?
00:28:17
Amelie
Yeah.
00:28:18
Jo
Like the little trailer. What did you think from the trailer?
00:28:19
Amelie
Yeah. I loved it. I loved it. and I like this little bit of nostalgia because the character is not in a present day. He's in the 80s, I guess. And I really like the old-fashioned voice in a world where the character is us so a perfect girlfriend, a perfect life, but like like oh ah professor a a perfect job.
00:28:40
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:43
Amelie
But one day, he found an advertising so freaky something fig and he calls and you see the Muppets and it's really 80s, you know, Muppet thing and it's this really funny world and it's very 80s vintage, you know, and I really, really like it because it reminds me of the good old age when we would watch movies who last 90 minutes with characters, with a presentation, problematic, a resolution and the end and I like that.
00:28:52
Jo
yeah
00:29:08
Jo
yeah
00:29:12
Jo
yeah
00:29:16
Amelie
It's golden one.
00:29:17
Jo
no You know what?
00:29:18
Amelie
It's really good.
00:29:18
Jo
This one, I didn't watch the trailer because, again, I had the movie. Thank you thank you guys for giving the movie, by way. I appreciate it, especially this one. I needed this. I think I told the press guy, I'm like, God damn, I needed this one. Thank you so much for one. The week was just shit. I'm like, oh, I need something to fucking cleanse my mind a bit.
00:29:36
Jo
And Frankie Frico, My God Delivers. yeah Funny see yourself with the trailers. Golden Trailer Awards actually nominates the trailer for the trashiest trailer. 2025 nominee.
00:29:47
Jo
And also the the movie itself. But the the trailer is nominated for shit. So I will go into like Connor Sweeney's, ah ah Adam Brooks, Christy Walsworth, Rob Schraub.
00:30:01
Jo
you You have all of these great people. And the puppets. The puppets really make it. no I can't remember the last time I was worried for a puppet's life before.
00:30:15
Jo
But was like, oh my god, not that puppet? No, I like that one.
00:30:19
Amelie
It's just presentation with the puppet.
00:30:19
Jo
Hey, I that one. yeah
00:30:21
Amelie
So it's Jézlice Conn with the puppet I saw on internet. They were presenting the puppet to different festivals.
00:30:29
Jo
but They should. it's The puppet, it's like Clone Cop. There you go. This reminds me of last year's Clone Cops, where the premise is good, it's simple, the acting is phenomenal, and just like Clone Cops, it's got the funny moments, it's got the tender moments, and it's got the what-the-fuck moments.
00:30:52
Jo
I think this will clean up at a lot of the... the contest contest. I'm fucking blowing my mind away. A lot of the areas for screenings and they're filmed in Hamilton, Ontario.
00:31:06
Jo
Motherfucker. I can throw a baseball and hit where they filmed this shit.
00:31:07
Amelie
Ooh!
00:31:10
Jo
Yeah. It's an hour 25. So yeah it's not taxing.
00:31:13
Amelie
Ça va? Yay!
00:31:14
Jo
It's just fucking in and out.
00:31:15
Amelie
90 minutes! minutes! I like it!
00:31:17
Jo
Yeah.
00:31:18
Amelie
What I really like in the trailer, it's when you look at the trailer, everything is beige.
00:31:18
Jo
Yeah. If you, yeah.
00:31:24
Amelie
Everything is really like we how it was in the 80s. When you watch some series, sometimes people say, yes, okay, the series great, there is nostalgia, but it's too colorful.
00:31:28
Jo
yeah
00:31:34
Amelie
We used to live in beige houses. And there is a scene when there is a printer who prints, you know, white and green paper. And I remember this white and green paper that's completely 80s.
00:31:47
Amelie
So yes, it's a Muppet horror funny funny haha story.
00:31:47
Jo
you
00:31:51
Amelie
But there is work behind that. Like you can really see they went to people who really like the 80s. Got the copy machine, how people dressed, how people... and brush themselves. And there is also the TV, who is very used for the advertising. That's top-notch.
00:32:08
Amelie
There is a work behind it. It's really, really well done. And it's it's not perfectly beautiful. So it's little bit of the, which is like the patine. It's war, the clothes wear war and everything.
00:32:19
Amelie
I really like that.
00:32:20
Jo
Yeah.
00:32:20
Amelie
Like, it's really touched in the nostalgia. I like it.
00:32:22
Jo
it It does. It does. And it's it's they say it's an homage to these movies. I'll read the movies off. Troll from 86. Ghoulies, 84.
00:32:31
Amelie
Yes.
00:32:31
Jo
Dynamic Toys from 92. Yeah. So it does fit in that. It fits in that. And they're like, more like this. Street trash. You know, i'm like... These are great things. Psycho Gorman. Yeah, it reminds me of Psycho Gorman.
00:32:43
Jo
It really does. Like the whole fucking 80s vibe. And it's really... The most unbelievable thing here is not the puppets. It's not the puppets.
00:32:54
Jo
It's how the fuck did that guy get that girlfriend? That's the most unbelievable thing. It's like, this dude's with her?
00:33:00
Amelie
yes yeah
00:33:02
Jo
What the fuck? What's wrong with me? It's like, what the fuck? Fuck all this shit, man. I'm fucking out.
00:33:09
Amelie
But don't you think it's mint, like, for homage to the AT movie where the guy is just average and the girlfriend is always really, really hot?
00:33:16
Jo
It's smoking fucking hot.
00:33:18
Amelie
It's a blonde with long legs and stuff, typically American.
00:33:20
Jo
Yeah. It's like if i was dating you. No offense to Stefan, but like, you know, the guy as average as fuck the and, you know, the girl is you.
00:33:30
Jo
But did I make you blush, motherfucker? Yes, I did. Good for me.
00:33:35
Amelie
Yep.
00:33:36
Jo
Frankie Freakle, the...
00:33:37
Amelie
Let me play with your puppet.
00:33:39
Jo
I'll make you my puppet. I love my Muppet. I don't know. it tough it baby No, Frankie Fricke, the poster. How did describe it? I think I said, holy shit, this is like if Joe Piscopo made a horror comedy.
00:33:55
Jo
Like if you take Joe Piscopo from the late 80s, early 90s, Johnny Dangerously type, and you made him a fucking horror comedy, that's Frankie Fricke. Like they channeled that. Like even the the way the puppet's wearing the leather jackets, like the dice clay look.
00:34:12
Jo
It's fucking fun. It's fun. I believe if you look at like Connor, sweetie, if you look at Connor's role in this,
00:34:25
Jo
And Connor Sweeney's role is fucking the guy named Connor. I love it. I love, I'll read out to these things. Watch. Connor Sweeney plays Connor. Christy Wordsworth plays Christina.
00:34:33
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:34:36
Jo
Rob Schraub plays Rob Delaney.
00:34:41
Jo
It's like a big like, fucking don't care. All good. You know, it's like, oh, we're doing this. I think this works because it reminds me of weird science.
00:34:54
Jo
It's like that the Michael Anthony Hall kid, he gets the girls, but when he makes that the goddess in Weird Science, it's like that kid grew up and still had the hot girlfriend, but became so boring just because he had to produce. I was like, I my job. I have to do all this stuff.
00:35:18
Jo
And he was... kind of worried about losing his girlfriend. I'll tell you how old this movie is. They saw the fucking yellow pages and dial row dial phones in the house.
00:35:28
Amelie
I I I you you know pg test all thinking a piece is try to explain to Gen Z
00:35:34
Jo
Yeah.
00:35:36
Amelie
We used to receive once a year a big boot yellow pages called the yellow page.
00:35:40
Jo
Yeah.
00:35:41
Amelie
It's it's big, like bigger.
00:35:41
Jo
Like that fucking, the small ones were this thick.
00:35:43
Amelie
Do you remember? It was so easy.
00:35:44
Jo
I know.
00:35:44
Amelie
We would do things with it. And we would find the telephone number of everyone.
00:35:46
Jo
It's like,
00:35:49
Amelie
And if you didn't want it to have your telephone on the book, you had to pay to be in the red line.
00:35:50
Jo
yeah.
00:35:54
Jo
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:56
Amelie
Like crazy.
00:35:56
Jo
I remember we... oh God. I'm telling a story now. Okay. Did I ever tell you about Laura?
00:36:05
Amelie
Maybe. Mm-hmm.
00:36:06
Jo
Maybe, maybe not. I don't really speak about her often. But our first date, Laura and I's first date, she was doing a guest... She was doing a guest spot with John Lydon from, at that time, Pill, formerly Sex Pistols.
00:36:23
Jo
And she was supposed to dress like the dominatrix, which is like a leather one-seat, a leather piece with the whips and shit like that.
00:36:26
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:36:31
Jo
I mean, just for for the, but I don't know, for the show, right? And our first date was going from adult bookstore to adult bookstore.
00:36:42
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:36:42
Jo
When I say bookstore, it's basically sex shops. I guess you call them now.
00:36:45
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:36:45
Jo
We call them adult bookstore back in the Sex shops, sex shop. Looking for the perfect outfit for
00:36:50
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:36:52
Jo
And that wasn't the whole day, but you know, we did other things later on. But the way we found all these adult bookstores or adult sex shops, to adult versus the kids sex shops. No, Joe, come on.
00:37:03
Jo
The adult shop to go to was we went to a fucking phone booth, looked up adult stores and tore, you know, I guess I can tell it's some randomism, tore out those fucking pages because they had not only the phone number, but the address.
00:37:15
Amelie
Yeah.
00:37:19
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:37:20
Jo
They had people's address. They wouldn't, the white pages had the individual person, the yellow person, the yellow pages had the the businesses, right?
00:37:24
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:37:28
Jo
So yeah, this is the thing we used to do. was, you know, you find them without things ripped out because we would then look at this and then yes, kids, without fucking phones, we found what their streets are by either knowing the city because we had to or getting a fucking paper map out going, okay, we're now, we're here.
00:37:46
Jo
Where did it go now? Boom. Yeah, that's back in the day. And it does it well. Frankie Freakold brings that back so fucking well. And that is just act one and act two A. Act two B and act three somewhere else entirely.
00:38:06
Amelie
Thank you.
00:38:07
Jo
It gets fucking freakier. It's brilliant. If you liked gremlins, ghoulies, trolls, like these were all appropriate, psycho goremen.
00:38:20
Jo
If liked any of these movies, you're going to love Frankie Franco. It is well done. It's smart. It's got a fucking ton of Easter eggs in it.
00:38:35
Jo
And... I think this is the perfect movie to watch if you're like, just like, fuck my life type thing. This will get you up.
00:38:46
Jo
It really will. I would watch this movie again. Like, don't log off. I loved it. One undone. Sorry.
00:38:54
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:38:54
Jo
I ain't got time for two. Frankie Frico, I can watch this multiple fucking times. I could watch this probably several fucking times. Maybe once a year, like a fucking thing. I would love to see this on Joe Bob Briggs.
00:39:06
Jo
The Last Drive-In to Draw Bob Briggs. I think Frankie Freako would be a perfect fucking film for that. The Drive-In would never die. So if you think you would like this.
00:39:22
Jo
Yeah, I don't even have to sell it. You just liked it from the trailer. I didn't have to sell it to you, right?
00:39:25
Amelie
Oh, definitely. Yes, definitely.
00:39:27
Jo
Yeah.
00:39:27
Amelie
Because it's, as you said, not long, 90 minutes.
00:39:31
Jo
Yeah.
00:39:31
Amelie
There's this bit of nostalgia. And you can really see the people having fun making the movie.
00:39:36
Jo
Yeah. Oh my god, they're having fun making a movie.
00:39:37
Amelie
Like, just you naming Chris and Christiana, Robert and Rob Ziss.
00:39:40
Jo
Yeah.
00:39:42
Amelie
Like, it's really cool. It's puppetry. It's more than, like, the low budget. There's a work behind. And it just gets each, you know, like,
00:39:55
Amelie
I want to watch that. Like, that's funny. If you say to me, okay, I want you to select between Log Off and that movie, which one would you do?
00:40:04
Jo
This one.
00:40:04
Amelie
Number two, this one, definitely.
00:40:06
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:07
Amelie
I'll bring the M&M's, I'll bring the hot dog. We sit on your sofa and we watch the movie and we laugh and we have Pepsi Cola and we're really, really cool. 90 minutes, bim, balda, boom, done.
00:40:17
Jo
Yeah. I think so.
00:40:18
Amelie
Ha ha, hee hee, ho ho, and voila.
00:40:21
Jo
I think so. And I think this might be down generational lines. I think X and millennials are going to love the shit out this show.
00:40:29
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:40:29
Jo
And Z is going to find
00:40:29
Amelie
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:40:30
Jo
is this yeah But, you know, fuck you guys. Get your own fucking show. I think, ah ah so i'm not im being I'm trashing disease today, I shouldn't do that because I'd be taking care of me in a nursing home. But I think this is the show that you can take ah ah date.
00:40:47
Jo
It's a good date show because you can watch it can talk through it, laugh. It's a decent, I'm not depending on your family, you can sit down and watch it. It's a decent entryway into horror. People who don't quite like horror, you can watch it with them.
00:41:01
Jo
you know And this is absolutely the bring the M&Ms, have a drink, do whatever pharmaceuticals you want, and you'll still have a fun time.
00:41:12
Amelie
And it's not serious.
00:41:13
Jo
Yeah, I agree.
00:41:15
Amelie
The problem, you know, with the movie we were talking about, Logo, it's beautiful.
00:41:16
Jo
Yeah.
00:41:20
Amelie
Everybody's well-dressed, well-makeup and everything.
00:41:22
Jo
Yes.
00:41:23
Amelie
It stressed me out. I want to be a Gremlins.
00:41:26
Jo
And that's the reason, okay, I'm going to...
00:41:26
Amelie
I want to be a Gremlins, you know, like...
00:41:29
Jo
jump into that movie for one second again that's why the if you ever watch it tell me what you think about the ending because you're like fuck he's right frankie freako you know what it is through and through and by no means is is is connor sweeney a bad looking dude good looking dude it says in no world does he get christy wordsworth you know that's the whole thing like
00:41:32
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:41:37
Amelie
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:41:54
Amelie
Maybe he's got a big one. Maybe he's got a big one and you don't know.
00:41:58
Jo
No, I can, while spoiling it, he's bad in bed.
00:42:02
Amelie
Oh, okay.
00:42:03
Jo
While spoiling it, he's bad in bed. But the way they do it is so fun. It's such a fun, I want to, Frankie Frico, much like Clone Cops, is one of the movies I'm looking at going, damn it, I wish I was in this fucking film.
00:42:17
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:42:17
Jo
Not even an actor, just give me a fucking, like, let me put the puppet in the case.
00:42:22
Amelie
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:42:22
Jo
like I'll be the puppet master just like, oh, that's a good movie title. David Schmoller. Call me. No, I will be like the person who just puts the fucking puppies away. I don't give a shit. It seems like it was a fun set. It seems like it was a fun time.
00:42:36
Jo
And they all do great. They don't blow their lines and shit like that. It all fucking pops out. But damn, this looks like a fun fucking movie. I would love to see.
00:42:48
Jo
Let's see what else Steven did. Oh, fuck. It reminds me of Psycho Gorman because he fucking did Psycho Gorman. Oh, my God. Okay. yeah Yeah. If you like Psycho Gorman, you're going to love Frankie Freakle. If you didn't love Psycho Gorman, fuck you. You have no soul.
00:43:05
Amelie
this
00:43:05
Jo
You it here first, folks. didn't like Psycho Gorman, suck it.
00:43:09
Amelie
And you doomed.
00:43:10
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:10
Amelie
Doom forever.
00:43:12
Jo
Yeah, basically. All right. So that was it. Don't Log Off and Frankie Frico, both worthy of watching. I think Frankie Frico is worthy of repeat cult status.
00:43:24
Jo
And I think Frankie Frico will clean up at the critic awards. If you take it to different screenings and different award shows, I think they're clean up. I will. I actually do.
00:43:36
Jo
Oh my gosh. So next up we're doing Barry season two, episode two, number two. As they say, all this and more like, and subscribe Barry deep dives next time.
00:43:48
Jo
But this time for myself, Joe and Amelie, bid you good day. Bye y'all.
00:43:57
Jo
And then plate.
00:44:00
Jo
ah hear a cat. Meow motherfucker.

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