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Demon Knight (1995)
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate the 30th scareiversary of 1995's Demon Knight, the first feature film from the cult favorite HBO series Tales from the Crypt.
William Sadler stars as Brayker, the protector of a powerful key that keeps the Earth from falling into a demon-filled apocalypse. Billy Zane is The Collector, a high-level demon sent from Hell to kill Brayker and anyone else in his way to possess the key. Brayker and a group of eccentric characters are trapped in a New Mexico boarding house as The Collector unleashes a horde of demons and tries to manipulate the minds of the humans to turn them to the dark side. Zach and Chris discuss how unnerving it is to see The Cryptkeeper (John Kassir) walking, how much fun Billy Zane seems to have, the extremely 90s soundtrack and aesthetic, the trademark Tales from the Crypt sex and gore, and more.
You can rent or buy Demon Knight on platforms like Apple TV, Prime Video, or Fandango at Home. Next week, we're getting ready for a villainous turn from Mark Wahlberg in Flight Risk by revisiting his previous bad guy role, 1996's Fear.
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com.
00:00:18
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the podcast for the week of January 13th, 25.
30th Scareversary of Demon Knight
00:00:24
Speaker
I'm your I'm your co-host Chris. And this week, kitties, we are celebrating the 30th, uh, scareversary of Demon Knight, the Tales from the Crypt movie, uh, which came out January 13th, 1995.
Tales from the Crypt Movies Discussion
00:00:41
Speaker
And the first of three sort of Tales from the Crypt movies, there was, uh, Demon Knight, Bordello Blood, and then there was a movie called Ritual that came out in 2002 that was sort of Tales from the Crypt. They made it Tales from the Crypt afterwards. It wasn't originally Tales from the Crypt.
00:00:58
Speaker
but there was a whole- Guys, they didn't throw in, why not a Tales from the Hood, like just attach that series to this.
Impact of Tales from the Crypt on Pop Culture
00:01:04
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, there was all kinds of spin-offs and attempts to copy Tales from the Crypt, because I think because it's not really streaming anywhere, or um you know it's so it's not easily accessible for people, I think a lot of people forget how huge Tales from the Crypt was. like It was a like pop culture juggernaut.
00:01:25
Speaker
like it had seven seasons of the show, it had, um, ah a kid version, like an animated kid version. Uh, it didn't also have a toy line. The toy line was from the animated series. That's how, that's how they finally got like yeah
Merchandise and Spin-offs
00:01:41
Speaker
toys. I think there was some like Crip keeper, like dolls and stuff from the actual, like the main show, but the anime shows really, really got into like, they had like the whole line of like monsters and the Crip keeper and all kinds of stuff. And.
00:01:54
Speaker
They were able like, do merch for kids, finally, officially.
00:02:00
Speaker
And, yeah, like, I think the year after demonite came out was the probably the jump to shark moment where there was a CBS Saturday morning game show, ah Secrets of the Good People's Haunted Mansion, that was like a Nick Arcade Nickelodeon style game show where kids competed to like,
00:02:17
Speaker
ah find hidden treasures in the Cryptkeeper's house and they would like battle CG skulls and CG demons. Yeah, you could see where they were unstoppable until they probably were blowing through budgets.
Cryptkeeper as a Pop Culture Icon
00:02:35
Speaker
And then like the Cryptkeeper was such like a pop culture icon. like He was like showing up in like other like just other random events or I'm sure I was searching. I couldn't find anybody. I feel like he had to be in like commercials to like, like, just like, not like not tell, just like, something like Bud Light or something. I have to imagine like he was that big to be like, like, I don't think you want the Crip Keeper, Crip Keeper associated with food.
Cryptkeeper in Advertisements
00:03:03
Speaker
So I think that's out. I think you might make cameo appearances in the background of things or like if
00:03:09
Speaker
If they're promoting like a blockbuster or something like, you know, he would be in the background. I think I see that. Yeah.
Nature of the Cryptkeeper
00:03:15
Speaker
He seems like a party dude, though. He does. But I don't know if the brands would work with him and say like, hey, like this is something you want to associate with food because it's I mean, this is a ride of the time when animals were like sort of being phased out as like mascots for food.
00:03:36
Speaker
Yeah, for especially like drinks. I just think Krip Keeper Krip Keeper is not someone that you you like put like a suntan lotion or or you put um like a car yeah just because yeah you associate him with so much like death.
00:03:57
Speaker
yeah i mean i mean he I mean, he's a corpse, I guess, right? Yeah, I'm like, is he more of a ghoul? Well, it's weird because the demonite demons kind of look like the Cryptkeeper. So it's like it's like it's like it's the Cryptkeeper demon. I think he's a demon. I think he's like a reanimated corpse. Which is a ghoul. Yeah. Which is like you can't. You're like rotting flesh, I guess, but you have like no master so that we we did a panel about this. Mm hmm.
00:04:25
Speaker
and we try to figure out if the Cryptkeeper has a master. He kind of doesn't, because he has a job. No, I think I think it's like I don't know if the the house from the intro is like his house and he just like he died. But now he hangs out in the basement now. Like I live in the crypt now. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of questions about that. I mean, in the comics, you you mentioned ah before the podcast where like the original EC Comics have to have like a war about why these people know these stories and such. And yeah, the crypt keeper is in the like the EC Comics, the original e comics is just like a dude in like a hood.
00:05:01
Speaker
He's not like a walking corpse. And then there's the other, there was like Haunt ah haunt of Fear, Vault of Horror. They also had like, it was like the old hag, the Vault Keeper. They were like also ah like like comics hosts. But then, yeah, the didn't the actual HBO show turned him into like a, you know, the wisecracking punny corpse puppet, so.
00:05:28
Speaker
But yeah, let's's let's, let's, let's, let's jump into demonite. So yeah, the identity five, um, right between the six and seventh season of the shows, which is 17. It was the final season of the tales of the crypt. So we're kind of toward the tail end of that's a crypt. They were making the jump to movies. And, um, Jeff, I earnest Dickerson, who we actually, we talked about last year because I think the movie he directed. Shortly before this was, uh, surviving the game.
00:05:55
Speaker
The i so ice tea move? Yeah. He directed that. He directed um ah Juice right before this, too, I think. um
Director Ernest Dickerson's Style
00:06:10
Speaker
And then afterwards, he directed um ah but like bulletproof Bulletproof, like the Adam Sandler, David Wayans movie.
00:06:24
Speaker
Yeah, I was seeing a certain like tone. There's like a certain camera work and lighting this guy likes to use that you could see like his style get more and more like aggressive as his directoring gets popular. um Yeah, because I start picking on that when they do a lot of like not Dutch angle camera work, but just like interesting camera shots and then
Plot and Vibe of Demon Knight
00:06:52
Speaker
like lighting that you normally don't see, like it almost has a sci fi lighting to this movie at times. Yeah. And I don't know, like. it's It's kind of like, even though it's demon demonic things, there's still there's still like a zombie vibe to this movie. Yeah, I mean, it's it's a classic horror set up of like people are trapped in a building and there's monsters trying to break and attack them and kill them all. Yep.
00:07:22
Speaker
So it's like, you know, it's Night of the Living Dead. It's like all all that kind of stuff.
00:07:28
Speaker
But do I do appreciate that they keep the Tesla script intro. So you get to see the full intro. You can see like you get to hear like the the the iconic Danielle theme. So it definitely makes it seem like it's like a supersized episode of the show.
00:07:47
Speaker
And then you get the ah the open like the cold open, which is, I guess it's the Crypt Keeper's directing Demon Knight, but the Bi-Sini's directing has nothing to do with Demon Knight. It's just like it's like a random, like, and look it's kind of like it seems it it feels like the end of like a Tales of the Crypt episode. Yeah. It sort of gets to that climax and then it tricks you. Where like the horrible person is getting like, their like you know, they're more old,
00:08:16
Speaker
like the carbs come up onto them. Yeah. Uh, it's a classic, uh, like EC comic thing where a, um, a lover murders their husband or boyfriend and then, I don't know, like relaxes after. Yeah. So yeah, I definitely read so many comics that just had that formula, but I like that, uh, you know, this movie,
00:08:46
Speaker
What was it, 10 minutes in? Straight up like, here's some nudity. Here's here's what you know and love from Tales of the Crypt. Like sex and and gore and violence. Yep. I mean, this is also your first Tales of the Crypt thing ever. You're just not gonna understand what the hell's going on. There's no like introduction of what the Crypt Keeper is. There's no like explanation of the story, the meta. yeah It's just straight in, hey, this is a higher production episode.
00:09:16
Speaker
And we we are aware of it. Mm hmm. And I'm pretty sure they just filmed the same way they filmed on like HBO. Probably. Also, you mentioned not streaming, but is this not on HBO? I don't think so. No, no. The entire season like show. Tellscript is not streaming anywhere because there's some sort of labyrinthian rights issues. They haven't played it for since the 90s where It's something with the EC Comics characters or some sort of rights. It's never been streaming. It's never been at any store. It wasn't even like HBO Go or anything, those early ones. It's just never been available. You can't buy the show digitally. You can only buy the DVD. There's only DVDs if you want to get Tales of the Crypt.
00:10:05
Speaker
But demon, like Demon Knight, Bordella Blood, because I think Universal put them out. So those are available. You can like rent them digitally. I don't think they're streaming anywhere, but you can like buy, you know, buy or rent them digitally. Because that was a, that's a different rights situation.
00:10:23
Speaker
And I think, and Tales of the Kirkkeeper, I think is on 2B. That was also like a different, like kind of rights thing. But you know the the main show that everyone want would want to like revisit is ah unavailable officially. there's there's a lot of There's a lot of YouTube. If you search on YouTube, a lot of people are trying to like, there's unofficial remasters and stuff. So there's and like quite a few episodes on YouTube if you want to watch it. But yeah, hopefully hopefully someday, whenever those rights are, it gets worked out and they'll be on Max or something in 4K or something.
00:10:59
Speaker
but um Yeah, but I have to call it open for Demon Knight. It's very unnerving to see the Crypt Keeper walking.
00:11:09
Speaker
Oh yeah, it's not all the way there yet. I think that was like like a big deal of like, oh man, you you can just see the Crypt Keeper walk around because normally the Crypt Keeper is just like a puppet on ah like a stick basically. like he's just in front like He's behind like a desk or behind a table or something.
00:11:23
Speaker
But like there's a flaunt. He like walks from like behind his like from his director's chair over to like the set. And it's very unnerving and weird. They do it really sparsely. So that's that's good. But it's like really early green screen, really early puppeteering with, I guess, like the floating green head.
00:11:47
Speaker
Yeah, I think what the idea is they had an actor wear a green mask and then they like impose like the creeper's head onto it, like using like whatever CG or whatever effects they had 1995 screen at the time. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just thinking that probably cost them a good amount of money and time to hire whatever studio. Do you think you think ah Lucas Art did it for them? Yeah. I mean, I mean, they had like like powerhouse people like Walter Hill, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, like we're all like executive producers on Tales of Crypt and this movie. So they had like, they had the juice that Richard Donner was like, ah was a producer on this. Yeah. ah But I don't know, they they just couldn't like, afford a little bit more budget for that.
00:12:35
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's literally the only time you ever see the curfew or like walk around like that and like it was like, oh no, we can do it again. Cause like, you know, it's rough. When you get to the end, like when he's walking down the red carpet, like it's it's the normal puppet. Like it's just like a puppet, like bouncing on ah like a stick or something. So totally fine. They just give us the Yoda treatment. I don't know why they decided to try this like flimsy CGI.
00:13:00
Speaker
And I'm a CG just like like that like just looks horrible on a high-res like monitor I do I do us like in that cold open the ah The random ass John Larrick at the camp, you know, like he's like the like anime corpse that's coming to kill like the woman that killed him and Then he's just like like completely like like it was just like you suck at acting what you learn to act like Go back to night court. Yeah
00:13:30
Speaker
But like computer like obviously, like he it's it's just like the movie proper, um which, again, like he's directing, but then it's also it's done. So I don't know how the interior lore works, but we we sit then we we jump into like the actual like story. ah do you but The meta's confusing, because it should have been him sitting and then reading the script to the movie. But he's premiering the movie that is filmed. But then, OK, not to spoil much, the movie's real?
00:13:59
Speaker
Yeah, he's he's the the the first, the cold open is he's shooting a scene from Demon Knight, apparently, but it it hasn't it's no characters, nothing to do with Demon Knight. But then the, the like epi like, the final scene is he's going to the premiere of Demon Knight.
00:14:15
Speaker
But, like, none of the actors are there that are in Demon Knight. No. So... Yeah, it and don't I don't know, yeah, the the internal lore of... ah the computer segments are ah questionable. But the actual the actual proper story is we have William Sadler and Billy Zane up against each other. Billy Zane is the collector who's like a demon. And William Sadler is a character named Breaker who is the latest in a long line of people who have to protect like this special key.
00:14:55
Speaker
that was ah like created like when the Earth was formed, basically. And the demons, when I get, there's like seven of them, and and the demons get all seven of them, then they can like unleash the the darkness that we like engulfed the Earth originally again.
00:15:11
Speaker
I think the same thing that really bogs down the movie a little bit is like just the crazy lore. like There's a lot of like concepts they have to like get across, which is, Tales of Crypt is, I think, most of the episodes are pretty straightforward, like simple like morality tales of like this person killed this person, but then they come back and kill them, or you know they're they get a power, and then but then the power like kills them because they use it to like for like evil purposes.
00:15:38
Speaker
Yeah, it mostly things always happen to people who are in a stressful situation. It's never just people who like just stumble upon something and then it's like, oh, you shouldn't have done that. It's or like, you know, it's it's never like an ordinary person who just sits at home and then something bad happens to them. They always have to be in a situation that brings trouble to them because of wherever there are. And ah Demon Knight takes place in already like a haunted mansion. Like it's before the demons show up. It already looks cursed as shit. So I'm not even sure like what the problem of this town was, but I'm also trying to figure out where there are in this town. Like there there seem to be like in Texas or something.
00:16:31
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, I think I think it's New Mexico. Oh, this is like wood. I think it's like woodworm New Mexico or something. I see. ah So I say that because it's supposed to be like most of the tales are crypt stories I've seen always take place in suburban towns and like just like the Northeast or or sometimes California. But it's again, another town or city.
00:16:58
Speaker
ah I didn't watch a lot growing up so I know the ones I always watch has always been like jolted lovers killing each other or Things that was yeah like jolted lovers I know the one it says it to me is like the one I think it's the Tom Hanks one where he's like he kills women that like answer he answers like ah Like lonely hearts newspaper ads and you get like for it all like rich widows and he kills them all See that that makes sense those Those horror stories, I think the best ones always been like monsters, like people who are terrible, trying to do more terrible things and then getting the comeuppance. Those have been solid stories. Demon Knight is something that's different because I don't think this is based on anything. This is just like an original story. Yeah, because a lot of the Tales of the Crypt episodes are based on like easy comic stories. This is an an original, there's no easy comic that's Demon Knight. This is a totally original story that they came up with.
00:17:54
Speaker
So that's a hard sell because it's not like they're combining a bunch of stories. They're not doing like a goosebumps movie homage where it's all the different monsters and and characters you've read about like somehow living together. I think that was another formula. Let me yeah like, do you think that it would have been better if they did just like an anthology movie, like a three, like three episodes as a movie? See, I don't know because I know like,
00:18:24
Speaker
As a movie person, it's it always implies higher production and and like they can get away with things because it's the movie version compared to the TV show. But. Nowadays, we really think it's like test scripts already like high production. Like it already looked like it was like. So it's already an anthology. It's a very high production. It's already it already had like crazy violence, crazy sex, crazy gore. So. you yeah So what makes it a movie?
00:18:52
Speaker
Besides, this is maybe like two episodes put together. It's an hour and a half. so' despite it's fine I would say like I think each episode was like 30 minutes. So it's probably like like like three episodes, basically. And there's like two beats to this movie. and there's like just There's like a third act that gets kind of like maybe sort of like a 2.5 act, where it looks like a 90s music video.
00:19:19
Speaker
yes hard for the fantasy scene it's all it's all just like fog and like lights like burst like light beams coming through like dark places I'll talk about like the the Billy Zane ah like oh the Janus Smith like that's where it's like it's like same it's all just like it's like giant sheets and like giant pitchers Yeah, I'm trying to think of what the 90s equivalent, like what's the band that had like shitty music videos that was like this where they would have just like a beat play in the background, it'd be black and white, and then it'd be like some guy wearing a vest walking through a window or something. You know, I'm just thinking like it looks just like that. Yeah, it looks like those kind of music videos.
00:20:01
Speaker
Well, that set looks like Boyz II Metal Girl and I start like walking through it or something. Yeah, yeah. That's um um like some dude with a chain that's like too gaudy. um that That's where that screams. But otherwise, the first act and the set middle act, it's pretty awesome.
00:20:19
Speaker
like at least like Uh, they, they throw so much in the beginning because they don't know if it can carry, but they like don't explain the Lord. They don't explain like anyone's name for a while. I don't think, I think one time they called Billy Zane the collector, like once. Right. I think, I think he calls himself like I'm a collector. Okay. No one says anything. I think, um, barely the, the rich, the William Sattler character, like,
00:20:51
Speaker
He gives a fake name and even then it turns out he is like hundreds of years old and ah or at least at this point, like 70. Yeah. On World War One. So it's like 1920. Because he became like, I don't know, the key keeper or whatever in World War One. Yeah. So that was 1917. But it also makes it seem like the the blood thing, the demon fighting blood ah It's only been like three, or like two Guardians so far, because it's the same flashbacks they always get. Yeah. well that's I mean, that's that's that's why yeah all the lore is like, I think it's like too convoluted or a little bit too convoluted for like a Telstra Crypt thing.
00:21:36
Speaker
um Cause it's like it originally had like Jesus's blood in it, but then like the keepers are are filling it with their own blood and that works as well, just as well as Jesus's blood somehow. You get, you get the powers of Jesus blood when you, when you, look yeah. So then your blood gets to be Jesus blood. When it when it like burns the stars into your hand. Well, it's also like destiny because the stars also let you know when your time's up.
00:22:04
Speaker
Yes. but so like that's what said there's like so many like There's so many rules and steps and stuff. and then But then the yeah like based the actual like basic premise is that demons are attacking this hotel and then killing the people inside of it. but so it's like i know's I don't even know why the demons want the bottle. I i think i think William Taylor says they have the rest they had the other six. So this is the last one. If they get if they get this one, then they can you know return the Earth to like a an apocalyptic demon scape or whatever.
00:22:42
Speaker
Because there's there's a point, where it's like, it's like probably like two thirds of the way in, like William Sandler finally, it's like, you guys what, you you want to know what the hell is going on here? I'll tell you, Jesus. It's such a exciting like Genesis.
00:22:59
Speaker
But yeah, I i like the like the opening car chase, where it's like so 90s, they like filter playing, where it's just like, youre you're oh yeah, we're back in that we're definitely in the 90s. Like, hey man, nice shots playing.
00:23:16
Speaker
which is I feel like it's also kind of jarring to hear like licensed music in Tesla Crypt. I don't remember them having like a lot of like licensed music. Oh, ah yeah, I do not know the soundtrack. But this is definitely the soundtrack of the 90s. It's got like industrial like gar grunge metal.
00:23:31
Speaker
um And it's tastefully done. and It's not like it's a music-heavy music video movie. you know It doesn't suddenly break into a montage. Yeah.
00:23:51
Speaker
And I do like that the they also kind of like keep it it it kind of has like a terminator two thing going on where you're not really sure which guy is the like like who you can trust because oh yeah yeah because Billy Billy Zane I kind of wish they made Billy Zane like like if he was pretending to be like a like a US Marshal or something like having to be like a law enforcement person then like oh hey by the way I'm the bad guy like I would have liked that twist in the first act, at the end of the first act. But I mean, have you seen the poster of this? I think Billy Zane's on it, and he does not look like a good guy. And then it doesn't help that, basically, his introduction is his car's on fire, and crashes, and he walks out unscathed. At that point, you'd know he's up to no good. Yeah. But I get what you mean. like There is a Terminator vibe about it.
00:24:41
Speaker
Like, I haven't been more like like the T-1000, where he's like, oh, um yeah, i'm like I'm a U.S. Marshal, I'm gonna track this criminal, like, I gotta to get hit, like, he stole something powerful, like, I gotta get back, like, he has that kind of like, ah you know, like, railing givens kind of like Southern, like, um i'm and I'm the Charmian Southern Lawman, like, yeah. And then, what he was saying there seems like the, like,
00:25:02
Speaker
you know, whacked out criminal like he is he escaped from like a jail or so he just escaped from jail or something or he's on the run. Well, it's the more realistic where if you've been doing this for years and you're stressed out and there's no breaks and you're constantly on the run to hide this bottle for 70 years.
00:25:26
Speaker
and's so You get a little edgy. It's always been Billy Zane chasing him, I guess. I don't think it's always been Billy Zane. I think Billy Zane's the latest collector.
00:25:36
Speaker
Yeah, because you find out like if if if you manage to defeat a collector, then another one just shows up. I think some other lesser demon rises up and then gets promoted. Because that's what um I think Billy Zane mentions that. He goes, yeah, I got promoted to do this.
00:25:53
Speaker
killing, getting the thing would definitely make me even like higher. But the big man. Yeah. I like that idea. Like a lot of the story is cleverly told through just the it's like the simple and interactions that just seem like nonsense. But I like how the world builds and how quickly it does. But yeah, I could see like I like this. I saw this movie when I was young. I saw this movie when I was like too young. I think I was like. Seven. Oh, boy.
00:26:26
Speaker
No, I think it was like six. Like, yeah, I saw this. Because it's like, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, no, it was like I saw it on HBO and I was like too young to understand what's going on. Yeah. How about you? When did you see this movie? I mean, a lot later, like after I after I like watched a bunch of like the actual show, I like kind of like got I watched the movies. Wow. No, I definitely saw this when I was like seven. I just did a math in my head. Yeah, we did in the year.
00:26:55
Speaker
We didn't have HBO when I was a kid, so I never had HBO growing up. I see. My parents didn't watch me a lot, so just catch it. um But yeah know i this reminded me a lot of like just like the humor I have now, just because I saw this exposed to it. But it didn't make me go nuts. I just understood that this is a lot of adult context, and um maybe one day I'll like it.
00:27:23
Speaker
well that That's, I mean, that's always like the strength of the Tales of Crypt is it's, it's the humor, the crazy gore, crazy, like, like practical effects, and then like tons of like boobs and sex. Yeah. Like I said, a lot of things too early, but ah processing it and then like getting exposed to it did help like understand a lot more about movies when I was younger and then being a fan of things.
00:27:52
Speaker
but I don't recommend, like there's a reason why Tales of Crypt like was for adults. And then I have no idea why they made it for kids. Cause the kids are going to eventually try to hunt down where the source came from. It's like, Oh, Tales of Crypt was like, what am I like? You, you watch the TV show, the kid version and they're like, wow, what is this from? Same thing with the Guy Dan police Academy. um That was not doubt was the trend of time. Just like turned Aria things into kid friendly, toxic, toxic Avengers.
00:28:19
Speaker
Oh my god. That's what I'm saying. like There's a like degree of like it backfired on my generation, a little bit with YouTube. But I mean, you've got a first half cable. And you've got to have like a TV schedule to catch this. But um but like I definitely never caught it all the way. I've seen it in bits growing up. And then later on, I caught it like all the way through.
00:28:46
Speaker
and then you know i I understand where the negativity comes from because the movie sort of like has these lols and it also has um like the pacing doesn't keep up with it. There's a lot of like breaks and then there's a lot of interesting camera work that if you don't appreciate that for the cinematic views, like you're just going to be like, OK, like just like why can't why is everyone just taking monologues now or doing dumb things?
00:29:12
Speaker
Yeah, I think I think the premise doesn't quite have enough juice to make it to like a full length. Like there is a point where it could escalate. ah You know, you know, these characters turns out like a few of them have some secrets, but not a lot of them, but just like a few.
00:29:32
Speaker
And it's, um it's like, it's like the wackiest group of characters. There's like a, yeah, it's like a crazy mailman, uh, a hooker, Dick Miller. Is this like didner me Dick Miller, Willy, Gina Pinkett Smith, who is the janitor. She's like on a work release and she is a repairman for the hotel. Or it's like, it's a, it's a hotel or it's a boarding house. I think it's, I think it's a hotel. It's a boarding house, but then it says like the mission hotel or something. So, but.
00:30:00
Speaker
You can, it's like a long-term motel. I guess you can pay for like the week pay by the week. And then, and it's, it's, I'll run my CCH powder as I read the, the sassy motel owner who takes those. Well, I do like that. They, they trust the cops enough to call the police. It's like, Hey, this guy showed up. I know this is like a boarding house, but this guy, we need the cops here now.
00:30:27
Speaker
Yeah. Well, they I mean, they're like, they're like friendly small town cops. True, but they were so eager to show their guns and wave it around and drop that hooker with the battery. Oh my God. You know what? That's, that's what Thomas A. Church pays for. They get his like nipple rings zapped. Which Thomas A. Church is one of the biggest scumbags in the history of this movie. I'm surprised he didn't push someone into a demon.
00:30:57
Speaker
Yeah. That would have been the like, okay, no, he's the asshole. Watch out for him. Him making a deal for the demons sort of makes sense, but then he didn't do that thing where he tries to get someone killed on purpose. You think he's going to do that to the guy that played Roger Rabbit, but that doesn't go through. Oh yeah. Like Charles Fleischer, like the Wally, the Wally, the, Wally, the mailman.
00:31:26
Speaker
who ah and like in classic 90s fashion is going to go and like shoot up the postal service because he has like an arsenal of guns. And a manifesto. yeah ah But the problem is is that he's in love with like the local prostitute and then he also has no bullets.
00:31:47
Speaker
I do like that twist, it's like, unnecessary to throw it in there, but a fun, like, re- like, makes you re-evaluate all the scenes with him now. But he has active grenades. That is different, yeah. Did not know where that was gonna come from. But it's like a, he also had like a dead man, like, grenade vest. Yeah, he he made like a, he made like a, a suicide bomber vest. So, what?
00:32:13
Speaker
yeah
00:32:16
Speaker
and bill And Billy Zane's turn like whatever looks like so like they're the police that show up and They're gonna like arrest William Sadler and then but then the heap like you're like well We got to get up. We take you both out of station cuz both those cars are stolen and then I love these ages like fuck this just he punches the shirt to the head Yeah, and then at point the movie tells you exactly where it's gonna go next Yeah, and the humor is really fun. Like the fact that Billy Zane's hand gets stuck. Everyone's freaking out you know, it's the The effects are goofy. And I'm fine with that. like i don't i didn't expect like No one should expect it to taste like a crip and think, like oh, it should be like super realistic. it's like If anything, this is the best b-horror movie. The movie's coherent. So I didn't dock it. because ah Have you read reviews about this and and some of the criticism back then?
00:33:13
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was not good. They were comparing it to like almost like a Halloween slasher movie. it's like It's not supposed to be that. It's supposed to be just like fun, silly escapism. So having Billy Zane punch some dude's face like is a pretty much like you know that's the tone. It's not supposed to be serious.
00:33:36
Speaker
And then like going outside, having a freak out. And then the rest of the movie, he's just like smarmily taunting them outside. Having costume changes. Yep. Well, he I got really um big, random flag from the stand. Because the stand of me series from the 90s came out like the year before this came out. And there's a lot there's a lot of random flag stuff where he's like, you know, manipulating people to come to his side.
00:34:03
Speaker
Yeah, but if I remember correctly, like that was just a lot of like sweet talking and promises. It wasn't having big like fantasies and then like naked women.
00:34:17
Speaker
Yeah, I think Billy Zane definitely uses more fantasy sequences. Although the first one is just like he just stands outside the window and like I feel like he should have had a boombox or something. He's telepathically talking to Cordelia, and he's like,
00:34:32
Speaker
Man, you're so beautiful. like You should but come to my side. And she's like, all right.
00:34:41
Speaker
But then if you if you join a side, you turn into like a horrific like demon monster.
00:34:49
Speaker
Which all all the practical effects are like are so great. All the monsters are great. like the like The demon army that Billy Zane conjures up are all like super cool looking. And they all all their they all kind of look like the Crypt peeper. They all look like similar to the Crypt peeper face. But like, almost thinning, hollowed out look. Yeah. But then everyone turns in like everyone who like kind of succumbs to Billy Zane turns into like ah like a much more like horrific monster.
00:35:20
Speaker
like Cordelia and then like the kid Danny late later on, like his transformation's insane. and Yeah, his is more complicated. like i like to go yeah but Okay, so the most of the demons that you see in the beginning are from Billy Zane's spit. He cuts his hand and throws his demon blood everywhere that like grows demons, I guess. And then the rest of the time it's just possessions?
00:35:53
Speaker
Yeah, like he yeah gives them what they desire, shows them what they desire, which it's like, I love, Dick Miller is just like, I want to see a bunch of naked ladies and have some beer. That's all it takes. But I also don't think the demons control what's happening after that, right? Like once you convert, you're just like, yeah, your soul's gone, your demon. Yeah.
00:36:20
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's what it is. You have to be tempted. And so a lot of them were tempted.
00:36:27
Speaker
Though I'm thinking the kid. ah He just what did he want? We never got to see. We never see it like he's he's reading. He's reading. It tells the comic. And then next thing we know he's a demon.
00:36:41
Speaker
Which I was kind of fine with, because ah it in and how they introduce all these extra people that show up near the third act, the beginning, where it's just a whole bunch of like people in a mine for some weird reason. Yeah, yeah I guess Billie Zane went to the rest of the town and like possessed people in town. like like the People who run the gas station or something. And then they like walk there, because I'm i'm pretty sure that's miles away.
00:37:04
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it's really the only thing that town is the gas station and this hotel. It's like the only two buildings this town. And and the hotel is like so isolated and separate for everything. It's just like in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. ah New Mexico sucks for, I guess, like walkability.
00:37:28
Speaker
And like we said, like Jada Peggy has like that, like yeah like the 90s music video. ah Uh, like please, he's trying to like manipulat manipulate her. Like you want to travel, don't you? You want to go see the world? And also like, you'll totally won't turn into like a nasty demon. If you join me, i'll I'll keep you pretty.
00:37:50
Speaker
Yeah. all All of, all of Billy Zane's, like every, all of his like manipulations and all of his like stuff, like he's it's, it's so clear. He's having just like an absolute fucking blast. Right.
00:38:04
Speaker
Oh, hold on. I just read real quick what the bottles were. So. The whole thing is about like the creation of of like power that spreads these keys. So those bottles are keys.
00:38:25
Speaker
Like the like the like though that William Sanders protecting, right? Yeah, that's one of them. The demons have like the six of them. Yeah, that's what I'm saying before. Yeah. So this is the last key. Yeah. And then there's also, there's supposed to be like a kind of like a plan for like these Telstra movies was going to be the key shows up in play. There's like this overarching mythology with like the key. Right. Right. Which I mean, it does show up in Brinella blood, but it's only kind of like just like a normal, it's like a cross basically just kind of like her stuff vampires. It doesn't, but it's not, I don't think they keep like the demonic key that keeps the apocalypse from happening kind of thing. you See, I would have been fine with this move. Like every movie is sort of within the same universe and it's demons fucking around. And then um like you might see a cameo by another character.
00:39:17
Speaker
Yeah, it seems like that was the plan. But then everything goes like, I don't know if you read, but there's also there's originally two totally different movie sequels. They're supposed to like follow this. There's actually there's a there's an end credits scene like if you watch all the way through credits, like your computer comes back and says, hey, kiddies, come back for my next movie, which is ah dead, like dead easy. now new orleans one It's especially like a zombie New Orleans movie. And then there's like ah a different third one. But both of those got canceled. They made a bordello blood and then they then Like I said, this is like ritual, which came out like years afterwards. They like. yeah you like i I don't mind if they continue this storyline. It would have been interesting to see a tales of encrypting that had like a continuation because they never did that. Mm hmm. A lot of them were all these stories that just don't take place. There's nothing connecting them. If anything. They all that most of them all take place in America, I think all of them took place in America, I think.
00:40:16
Speaker
I think the last last season because they moved the production over to England. So a lot like a lot of like the final season was like British actors and British situations. Really? Yeah. Which I guess was i this is cheaper to film over there. Maybe something. I don't know. Yeah, because they don't have. I guess they don't have their own version of like a Crip Keeper.
00:40:41
Speaker
But. Yeah, no, I could see pretty much like this. This ah like this like production being like a fun time ah just because like they probably have more of a budget, more of a relaxed pace compared to an episode they have to crank out like what like. 20 episodes a year like they did back then. Yeah, it looks like Look, the second season was the longest one. That was 18 episodes. The rest of them were kind of like 14, 15 episodes. Which is definitely short because like most shows back in the 90s were like 24 episodes or something. It was like crazy long seasons. The rules of syndication were just bizarre. Plus, I don't think this was on every channel. I think it was just HBO only. It was on HBO, and then they I guess they edited them, and they didn't make it like a syndicated version that was like toned down.
00:41:40
Speaker
for like Fox and like, like your, your local Fox. Oh yeah. i They did do tales of the crypt for like Fox and also like late night in CBS. I guess they also like aired it sometimes too. I'm wondering if they had to do like select episodes just because they were just like, no, this without the nudity, it doesn't make no sense. Yeah. Like we've we've cut everything out. It's there's five minutes left.
00:42:08
Speaker
I mean, they're I mean, there's they're also there's like, you know, obviously there's like TV edits of like demonite to which I which I mean, I guess it's like like you'd like cut certain things out more. You could make this a PG-13. You just you don't feature the battery thing. You pretty much edit the opening. I think I read they hit the shot like like Uncle Willie's like fantasy. They basically had like all the girls like wearing bikini tops instead of being like topless man to be like.
00:42:39
Speaker
What's his face? Dick? Dick Miller. Dick Miller. Just like, oh, I do a Swice? Yeah, OK.
00:42:47
Speaker
He's just like, I'm not feeling that one. Could we do that one again? Hang around here. Like Billy Zane in that scene as the bartender? Is he trying to like a? Like a Hunter S. Thompson? Hunter S. Thompson thing, yeah. He's got, that vibe is so weird. But he makes a good Hunter S. Thompson.
00:43:06
Speaker
If you had to make another Hunter S. Thompson movie, like, I'd vote Billie Zane now. Like, why is Billie Zane not Hunter S. Thompson now? Yeah, but he's just like, try try this one. It's ah it's long and hard. it' like the It's like either is this like this the beer or something. But it's also obviously like the of the cry like double dandruff. Because all the girls are like, i want a long I want something long and hard, Uncle Willie. Like, so weird.
00:43:33
Speaker
It's so uncomfortable if if someone walks in and doesn't understand what's going on. You just see that one scene.
00:43:41
Speaker
And then like in reality, Uncle Willy's just like sitting on like a bed. No, he's standing. and's just He's standing at the corner, yeah, and Danny's also in the room, and Uncle Willy. Yeah, that's weird to watch. like like just watch this old guy trip out and then you're staring at me and probably this guy's going, oh yeah, baby. Yeah. Ooh, we're like, what? Yep.
00:44:10
Speaker
And then he, yeah, he has great, like, uh, we hear it turns into deep when he turns the demons. That's, that's a great. So you do, and then they have to like, do like, they really have to like, uh, go to extended lengths, like take out his eyes. because that's this' the whole The demon's weakness is you have to like kill take out both their eyes, and then like that releases like the soul that's inside them.
00:44:31
Speaker
So there's a lot. You have to shoot out their like their eyes, which I kind of wish they had come up with like a couple more like creative ways to do that. like They do, like ah they shoot like arrows into people's eyes a couple times, but it's mostly just like people with guns, they shoot the demon's eyes out.
00:44:50
Speaker
Yeah, I do like that it's creative. It's not just a simple shoot the monster or throw some holy water. It's like go for the eyes because apparently that's their weakness. And also like the blood the blood from the key also like burns them. It hurts them. And it's the whole thing where like you can use the blood to ah drop on openings and they'll like create a portal that seals that opening from the demons getting in. Oh, barrier.
00:45:17
Speaker
buts a barrier yeah so i um it's like portal i don'm heard that part But I also feel like you should coat your bullets in the blood. That'll probably speed up things. Well, Jenna Pickett comes up with a great idea at the end where she covers her, totally covers herself in blood. And then like when she grabs her, like he burns her his hand off. So it's like,
00:45:37
Speaker
But I guess you waste all the blood, but then she just refills it with the blood. So it's like... But I think the blood is not unlimited. I think it's just how much blood you care from the last guy.
00:45:51
Speaker
Well, she's if she's like the key keeper now, wouldn't her blood be magical? But it's only when you're dying too, because it's like... they got it when like Jesus was on the cross dying and then like William Sederger got it from his like buddy that was like dying on the battlefield and I don't maybe maybe it's like a passing of the torch and I feel like that's the implied thing which I don't mind I mean yeah as we analyze it we want a little more context but I like that there is a little bit of you know you could kind of put your own spit on it. You can fill in the blank. um Does Jada Pickett's gonna just keep bleeding herself and then filling the jar or, or you only get like two pints and you have to use that as best you can. Cause that seems like, like if you're, if you're the key keeper and your man and your blood can like, you know, be used, like make those barriers and kill the demons. Like once you just be like, I'm going to start like,
00:46:48
Speaker
cutting myself and making you like, I'm just gonna have like jars of my blood around. Well, yeah, you would need like, I guess, to know how to do your own blood banking. But yeah,
00:47:00
Speaker
yeah like, yeah, it's kind of messy. Because then it's like, do you need to refrigerate that blood? Can you just have has it have to be blood? Can it be something else? No, I like the ambiguous thing about it.
00:47:17
Speaker
Again, more questions because if I were like a demon spawning thing, I'd keep more blood besides the one jar. I'd get like another thing to keep as a companion with the jar. Mm hmm. Because it doesn't seem like the but does the blood have to go in the jar to make it powerful? Can it just be your blood? We don't know. yeah um It's got to have something to do with the key must like charge the the blood to make it like the the magic blood or something.
00:47:46
Speaker
whatever whatever whatever powers are in the key. I think they definitely kind of like, like Bordella Blood definitely does not have the same like mythology building. It's just like, oh, there's this like whorehouse full of vampires. Like that's it. Yeah. It just becomes like from dust to dawn.
00:48:07
Speaker
And that one in Bordella Blood did like so much worse than this one. Like this one was like actually it made so like was a moderate hit. And then Bordella Blood was like a kind of a bomb.
00:48:18
Speaker
Which is a shame, because like that killed any eye momentum for any more like horror anthology things for a while. um But yeah, I know it's weird to watch like Dennis Miller be a vampire hunter in that one, because he's essentially like Dennis Miller vampire hunter. But in this, though, I didn't mind Jada Pinkett Smith being the, like oh, she's the chosen one.
00:48:47
Speaker
She has a destiny. Though we don't know, like, if you know, she's just she's on parole. So New Mexico was going to come after her. She'll think like a new idea or something. And well, like she'll have to live with this William Sandler life.
00:49:09
Speaker
it's so It's also weird like because she like she has a kind of like dual like she doesn't really come like the action hero to the third act because it's all it's all William Sandler to that point. Yeah, but then i I didn't mind that because William Sandler does a good job. but i mean yeah he's I mean, William Sandler's the best at everything. He was actually he was actually the star of like the very first Tales of the Crypt episode ever.
00:49:33
Speaker
I think and then Billy Zane was also in an episode before being a demonite too. So they were both like tells a cut veterans.
00:49:43
Speaker
Yeah, I do. yeah I do. I do like the whole like end with like, please Angie to pick like weird like dance dance scene. Well, I like how h it it becomes almost like a Looney Tunes skit where he's dragging her body. Oh, actually, before that, he washes her. Yeah, because he can't touch. He can't touch her because he's covered in the blood. And then, yeah, he
Climax and Looney Tunes Skit
00:50:09
Speaker
washes her clean. cause It's like a whole new white shirt on her. Oh, yes. I was like, oh, OK. So they're we're going to go with that.
00:50:19
Speaker
And then they have like ah yeah like this weird like tango scene. And him ranting. I like that. I like how like how like oh almost like a good joker he is, just ranting. You feel the tension. You don't know where it's going to go. And then he starts confessing his love. And it's so unsincere. And it's just...
00:50:40
Speaker
So like fun to see. Oh, she didn't really think like I've tried to mention like one of the best gags is like when he like spits the sponge out of his mouth. but The time saved church is like is is a roach like the world to be a scumbag is going to is giving him the key so that he can get out and let leave everyone else to be killed. And then they need like wipe out the barriers and like he just like like spits a sponge out of his mouth and it's like, here you go.
00:51:11
Speaker
Uh, do you think Billy Zane actually put like a full sponge in his mouth and then had it like practice that spit move? Probably. I want to put it past him. It's such a cartoon move. Yeah. And then he's just like, oh, by the way, like I lied. We're going to be in the shreds. like
00:51:36
Speaker
And then ah the enemy gets finally gets defeated and then you see like his true form, which is like this crazy giant demon thing with like this winged demon.
00:51:49
Speaker
ah I guess I mean, some parts are like you could sort of see, I don't know what its head looks like. Yeah, the head is kind kind of weird. Yeah, it's like it's like it's kind of like it looks like a skull, but then um like a Minotaur head. Yeah, kind kind of Minotaur esque.
00:52:10
Speaker
It's a cool puppet, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a cool puppet just for the effect. But it's like we have no time to admire it because there's so much like like climax things going on. The whole building explodes. Yeah. ah How did Jada Pig is going to survive that explosion?
00:52:28
Speaker
i and Is it because if like the key keeper, like, no, that wouldn't make sense because then ultimately say I don't want to be like, wouldn't be immortal, and ah um un akillable like, like, I was gonna say, like, maybe the the key makes you like, invulnerable, but then it just, no, it's not because like, you get killed. Yeah. you' just hear You're just immortal until you, until it's your time to like pass on the key.
00:52:54
Speaker
I think you're moral until you get injured because everyone, everyone that has died has bled out. So I think the blood thing doesn't count. But then you can't pass it on until it's the, the, the stars align the proper way and the seven people are gathered in a certain spot. and Seven people. That's what, that's what he was saying.
00:53:14
Speaker
Because he it's the stars were aligned, but then it's like, there weren't enough people until like the cops showed up. Because there's five people on the there's five people that'll tell and in the and then the cops showed up in seven. So it's like, oh shit, now it's the seven people that are like like start this whole like thing going on. OK, so you always need like seven people left, and then that's when that happens. And then one of those seven is the like the the chosen one that's going to kind of be the new keeper of the key.
00:53:44
Speaker
Yeah, no, see, this would have been cool as an anthology of just this concept where like you follow like, OK, again, this sounds like an advance, but. It's almost like Wolverine Origins, where you see different like keepers throughout the history. I would see that. Just don't make it like a MCU thing, but just make it like a horror thing that essentially each movie is following a different keeper.
00:54:13
Speaker
keep it consistent just that's it you need the seven people you need the key maybe each movie you explore a little bit of the lore where like oh did you know Jesus also was a keeper and like what well he wouldn't be able to because he's like his his blood like had to cross like certain whole thing but well we don't know that we don't know basically he was fighting demons before that when he when he when he was like resurrected it's like I'm back and I'm killing demons now Yeah, I don't watch that movie. I would, I would, I would definitely watch like a Wayne Sandler in World War One fighting demons movie. Hell yeah. And just keep going, ah good like go in the future, have like a weird sci-fi one. Or it's like, Oh, we we were on a space. Cyber demons. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, okay, there's only four of us, but then a spaceship docks and three people get off and they're like, Oh shit. I'm thinking, was it Hellraiser?
00:55:04
Speaker
three is the one that takes place in space. No, I think it was, I think it was later. It was like five or six or something. The one where like he uses like a spaceship to manipulate the box. That was such a weird, that was such a weird trend of like, it was leprechaun, fried your teeth and hell razors. Like where should you go to space? I think hell razor went to space before Jason X. Yeah. And then leprechaun would be, I think it was leprechaun four was when we were in space, right? Three.
00:55:35
Speaker
Three was it back to the hood? Or to the hood? That was four. i mean just Weird. So you to space before you went to the hood? If I'm correct.
00:55:51
Speaker
Oh yeah, four four was in space. So three was in the hood? I i believe so. or or with three Three might have been Las Vegas. Yeah, I think three was meeting with Las Vegas. Two was Las Vegas.
00:56:04
Speaker
I'm looking, on I'm looking at an ID meter now. Three, three says he begins a killing spree in Las Vegas. Really? Two is the one where he's trying to find a wife and it was still like in kind of a small town. Cause he had to find like a, he had to marry like a human woman to be like a mortal or whatever he was trying to do. Huh. Well, okay. I think three is my favorite just because I grew up watching that more. But it's crazy. I, I own like four of them. I bought like a leprechaun, like,
00:56:34
Speaker
four pack. Or I bought like three of them. Oh, it was back when like coconuts were still around, Zach, if you remember that. Yep. Yeah, I bought like all the leprechaun ones that before the hood one, but. Yeah, I always confused two and three. I would like to see a rap battle between the leprechaun and the crypt keeper because they both had like crazy rap songs.
00:57:01
Speaker
Like, have have you heard Crypt Jam, Chris? No, I have not. Oh, my God. Yeah. You you do you need to go. ever You and everyone else needs to go like go on YouTube or go on Spotify. Listen to the Crypt Jam by the Crypt Keeper. It's a full crazy 90s rap song by John Cassier as the Crypt Keeper, just like making like horrible rap puns is one of the greatest things ever made.
00:57:24
Speaker
It was on like the it was on the like the first because there was three different soundtracks for Tales of the Crypt. they They had like a Christmas album. They had like a metal album, but then the first one was like all of like the Danny Elfman songs or like, oh, like to kind of like the, just the scores from episodes. But then the last track was Crip Jam. That's the, that's the Moneymaker song, huh? Yes. It's, it's so good. This is the Crip Jam.
00:57:53
Speaker
It's just, it's all the lyrics are just like, if you love the puns of the cook keeper, every lyric is just a pun.
00:58:01
Speaker
Oh, I know what I'm putting on for like the next Halloween. Yes, that is a Halloween staple jam if you want to like yeah up your Halloween party. soset that's like That's why like, that's why it was so crazy. It's just like the creepier headed rap song. Like, that's how big it was. Well, to be fair, everything in the 90s eventually had a rap thing. Yeah. Like, I think it died after Space Jam.
00:58:29
Speaker
Maybe, yeah. When Bugs Bunny hit rap. Bugs Bunny rap. And then they're like, all right, it's 1996. Time to close up shop for this. Mm-hmm.
00:58:42
Speaker
I think by 1997, no more rap songs. No more kid-friendly raps. Characters from the movie or the TV show, the character from the thing doing a rap. About the thing. Yeah.
00:58:57
Speaker
Actually, no, I think, well, Space Jam, yes. 1996. But I think what killed it eventually completely was like 97 Godzilla or 98. Like one maybe when they did that, like P Diddy rap. And then they're like, all right, we're done with this. I mean, it came back in waves like I'm not saying the genre never went because I still remember the venom soundtrack.
00:59:24
Speaker
Yeah. I'm trying to think, when was when was the Joe Pesci rap? Like 93. It's like right after Home Alone. Why this guy? Like who's in character? here's yeah Was he in character as like Vinnie for Michael? Or like is character from Goodfell or something? it was like That was like... Oh no, that was 1998. Jesus, that might have killed it. That prop probably, yeah. See, now I'm thinking, yeah, no, it was...
00:59:52
Speaker
The wise guy, Joe Vinny. Yeah, he was in he was in character as Vinny.
00:59:59
Speaker
It's like they did want to make another, my cousin Vinny. He just wanted to do another bizarre music video. I think the rest of that album was like just like him doing like Frank Sinatra songs, but it's just like, I'm going to rap too. Yeah. I was going to do a rap. That's what the kids like, right? Uh-huh.
01:00:22
Speaker
Are you sure it was like Vinny or Heat? This is like his character from like Goodfellas. No, I think I think the album was called like it was like so if something like there's like, oh near right if you think Vincent LaGuardia, Gampini or whatever his name is. Yeah.
01:00:38
Speaker
But the music video looks like he does from Goodfellas.
01:00:44
Speaker
But yeah, that's what they're missing in this one. For Demon Knight, I think, besides the grunge metal, there should have been an early um like new metal. Well, there was a rap song by Grave Diggers called 1-800-SUICIDE that was on the album. Wait, the Monster Truck? Diggers with an AZ at the end. Ah.
01:01:13
Speaker
And then Pantera did like a, ah like a, it was like Cemetery Gates, but like the Demon Knight edit. So I don't, I think that might have like, might have had like the Cryptkeeper popping up in it maybe or something. I don't, I don't have to like figure out what that is.
01:01:28
Speaker
It's mostly, it's mostly like, yeah, it's like mostly metal. It's like Rollins Band, Megadeath, Biohazard, Machine Head. That's like the Demon Knight soundtrack. That sounds about right.
01:01:42
Speaker
no No songs for the Crippeeper though on that on that album.
01:01:53
Speaker
And then, um but get you game back to the The end scene is it is its really funny where like the Crippeeper shows up to the premiere and then like the producers have a guillotine ready for him. And he makes like yeah a classic Crippeeper pun of like,
01:02:11
Speaker
I asked for final cuts. Yeah, it's such a like TV show way to end it. And they didn't bring back the ah horrifying like blue screen walk. No, he doesn't he walks he walks on the carpet, but it's a it's a p it's a more palatable puppet bouncing kind of down my carpet.
01:02:43
Speaker
And yeah, i like we so like said, he's yeah he's at the premiere for Demon Knight. But we just saw Demon Knight. Well, they're seeing it again. I guess. Or like maybe or maybe maybe this this whole movie was in the creepers' head. like This is just like him like imagining what Demon Knight the movie will be. But then he but they finished shooting it for the end scene. And he cut out that ah John Larrickette scene.
01:03:08
Speaker
I would have liked in a funny way where like you see the not exact actors like demon knight actually inspired the movie that he made so you see like the knockoff versions of everyone oh my god yeah that'd be great you see like uh like i'm trying to think who was like another billy zane like Well, they kind of do that because like because the Cryptkeeper has like two ladies with him. And then you think I think that the one lady is like it's not like you think it's like the like like the starlet from like the opening cold open, but it's not. It's a very close. It's a very close. I thought that was the same one. Yeah. But then you look at the credits. It's like the Cryptkeeper's ladies. It's like a different actress.
01:04:00
Speaker
Yeah, one of them is actually like a, she wasn't Baywatch. Yeah, Tracy Bingham was ah is one of like the Uncle Willie party girls. Really? Okay. Yeah. One of them also was like a porn star.
01:04:18
Speaker
Yeah. a And then I think a lot of like a lot of them were also like so like Skidimax actresses. Yeah. Like they were in like the movies were like like carnal desire or like erotic confessions or like late night Skidimax. Yeah. No, no. there There was like a niche for that. And it's a lost art of those kind of actresses because it's not like It's not like they were in some like camcorder video, kind of like questionable production, like Showtime, sit up ah was it Cinemax and HBO? Like they had like good quality studios and like a little bit of regulation, but you know, all these stories behind it. Yeah. um I mean, they were shot, they were shot in a film probably. Yeah. that That's something that's what they like, it had they had quote unquote, plots. Yeah.
01:05:16
Speaker
I mean, even Tails of the Crypt growing up, I also thought it was like a porn thing sometimes just because if you just flip it on without any context before murder scenes, you're just like, what's going on? Oh, man, like it's it sort of just sets it up in a cheesy porn situation where it's like, why are these two people alone in a room? And then it's like, oh, no, now she has a knife.
01:05:41
Speaker
Or it's like, it's a love potion, but it's got horribly wrong. like She's obsessed with it now. like And now she can only be satisfied if she murders him.
01:05:57
Speaker
But yeah, Demon Knight, still super fun. like like like it's ah If you're a fan of TikTok's Recrypt, and you haven't watched it in a while, I'd say go check it out again. it's It's it's kind of the it's one of the only Telstra good things you can officially watch something like the current era and It does make it I haven't seen we're don't blood in a such a long time I've I'm kind of like kind of wanted like what rewatched portola blood too just to just like see how that compares again Listen all the parts inside the bordello are great I've got the main actress's name, but she's great in it. Um, isn't it ah Angie ever hurt
01:06:37
Speaker
she was joe That was Joe Pesci's like fiance.
01:06:46
Speaker
I'm not even joking about that, that happened. And man, Joe Pesci was like smooth talker. They were married or like were dating for like eight years.
01:07:01
Speaker
i got look ah I just remember that and that stood out. um um um I'm just not on my edge ever. It's like, what can we repeat? It's like she, and she gets to lower, her like engaged in like 25. And then she was engaged to Joe Pesci. How did these people all meet? You know, it just was the dating pool, like 10 people back then. I don't know. Yeah.
01:07:24
Speaker
I mean, it could have been like, I mean, tells her that it's like so many, like, you know, superstars on it. Yeah. like like yeah Everyone was on that show. it's up boy It's like, like Star Trek. It's like you're not Star Trek. You're on tells the crypt. That's true. I'm not sure there's any crossover. Like, was there one actor that was on both? Well, I mean, if you go, if you go on like the Wikipedia page of tells the crypt, there's a whole section just like, here's like, here's all the famous people that have been on tells the crypt. It's like, it's like three giant columns.
01:07:50
Speaker
wow It's like Tom Hanks, Malcolm McDowell, Judd Nelson, Jonathan Banks, Jon Lovitz. Wait, wait. Tom Hanks was on Star Trek? Oh, no, no. Tell us in the crypt. I got you. so so I'm sure Star Trek list is like a whole separate i by his own separate Wikipedia page. I'm just like, yeah, everyone everyone who's ever appeared on Star Trek.
Podcast Wrap-up
01:08:20
Speaker
But ah yeah, so I think they'll wrap things up. ah Definitely, definitely a fun time. Definitely check out some. There's, if you search, if you want more tales on Crypt, like definitely check out YouTube. Just search for tales on Crypt. Like people, there's, I think there's multiple channels that I'm putting up like re, kind of remastered or using AI to like upscale them to 4K and stuff. So there's there's episodes out there unofficially, if you want to like watch them more.
01:08:43
Speaker
And way back next week, ah we're diving into Fear, the 1996 Mark Wahlberg movie, because he is, after almost 20 years, he's a villain again next week in Flight Risk. So we're going to jump back to his original villain role. That seems crazy that Mark Wahlberg hasn't been a villain since Fear. Yeah, you figured he would be like a few more evil guy roles sprinkled in there now and then.
01:09:13
Speaker
Um, cause he's got great, intense eyes for that.
01:09:19
Speaker
So yeah, we'll, we'll jump into all that next week and head over to all of our usual news reviews, trailers. I got a review of Denna thieves spent tear up there. If you want to read my thoughts about that movie, which, you know, also jump back last week's episode of podcasts. You can listen to Denna thieves us talking about the first one.
01:09:37
Speaker
Um, and there was tons of shows, like, I don't, I guess maybe cause Wolfman's coming out or just finally there's big movies, but there's just been like, just tons of trailers dropping, uh, like until dawn and but the monkey and, um, like a bunch of Netflix stuff. So you have to check all that stuff out. And, uh, yes, I'm Chris, I'm Zach and we will see you next week. For more from Everything Action, head to www.everythingaction.com. You can also find us on Facebook. at facebook dot.com slash everything dot.action and follow us on x at evaction we're also on instagram and threads at everything.action find more episodes of the podcast on apple a podcast spotify or your at podcast apple choice and be sure to rate and subscribe