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THE DREAD BROADCAST | Horror’s Biggest May Headlines, Deep Cuts & Physical Media Obsessions!
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🎙️ Welcome to the first episode of The Dread Broadcast — your new horror roundtable bringing together critics, collectors, and curators to dissect the biggest news, overlooked gems, and physical media drops in the genre we love. In this debut livestream, host Tim from @theaveragereviews welcomes an incredible panel of creators to explore what haunted the horror world in May. 👻 Special Guest: Horror Author Nick Roberts (@spookywv) Nick joins us to talk about his upcoming projects, answer panel questions, and drop an exclusive announcement you won’t want to miss. 🔪 Segment 1: The Cutting Room – Reviews & Analysis • Travis (@thenightclubpodcast) breaks down Final Destination: Bloodlines • David (@journeywithacinephile) explores Drop • Tim dives into Fear Street: The Prom Queen 🦴 Segment 2: The Curio Cabinet – Hidden Gems & Streaming Picks • Aaron (@abhorrormovies / Aaron’s Movie Page) spotlights must-see indie horror • Tim shares what’s coming to (and leaving) major horror streaming platforms 🕯️ Segment 3: The Crypt – Physical Media Deep Dives • Steven (@afterhrsvideo) unearths Jason X, Jason Goes to Hell, and Re-Animator • Chris (@beardedfilmguy) spotlights The Coffee Table, Girls Without Shame, and The Brood • Jordan (@The_Movie_Den) brings a surprise pick from the vault ⸻ 🩸 Are you a horror creator who wants to join a future broadcast? Comment below or message us on Instagram! We’re always looking to expand the table. 📌 Subscribe for more roundtables, horror headlines, and unholy recommendations. 🔁 Share this stream. Help us grow the dread. #TheDreadBroadcast #HorrorNews #HorrorCreators #PhysicalMedia #HorrorReviews #IndieHorror #HorrorCommunity #NickRoberts #VHSRevival #FinalDestination #FearStreet #HorrorPanel
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Introduction to The Dread Broadcast
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Good evening horror fans and welcome to the very first ever Dread Broadcast.
Space for Horror Creators and Fans
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A live horror roundtable where we cut into the headlines, resurrect the forgotten, and crawl deep into the crypts of physical media.
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We're your hosts. I'm Jonathan. And I'm Tim. And together we run the Average Reviews podcast where we laugh, scream, and argue our way through a variety of movies, new and old.
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But this is something new. The Dread Broadcast is our way of building a space where horror creators, critics, collectors, and curators can come together and talk about what's happening right now in the horror world.
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Each month we'll be joined by a rotating panel of voices from across the horror community to dissect the month's biggest headlines, spotlight hidden gems, and obsess over the physical media we can't live without.
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Think of it as part news desk, part seance, and part celebration of everything dark and weird that we love.
Current Events in Horror
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We're diving into everything from box office numbers to festival buzz, trailer drops, surprise streaming hits, and the physical releases that are making collectors foam with the mouth.
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That's why you'll hear us talk about movies that are still in theaters or just hit streaming. Because if horror is a living and breathing thing, then every new release is part of that heartbeat, whether it's a tentpole franchise or a micro budget slasher that dropped on Tubi at 3 If it's part of the conversation, it's part of the Dread broadcast.
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We're grateful to have you watching, whether you're you're here live or catching the replay. And we'd love for you to share the stream, drop a comment, and tag a horror friend who needs to hear this. We're building a space for horror fans by horror fans.
Introducing Panelists and Guests
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Each month, we'll bring back a few familiar faces, our mainstays who help anchor the show, and we'll also rotate in new voices from across the horror creator community.
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So if you're out there and you love horror like we do, you've got something to say, reach out. We'd love to have you on. As someone on this very panel tonight once said, and I'm going to paraphrase this here,
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the things we love keep getting more expensive but community is free and that's the heart of the whole thing horror brings us together let's keep that door open now with that said let's meet tonight's panel of fellow dreadheads we've got a killer lineup of creators joining us for this debut episode of the dread broadcast so when i say your name you can Plug your show, plug what you do, plug the things that you love.
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It's your moment. So in the cutting room where the critics dissect latest horror films and series, we have Travis, are you there?
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We have David from Journey with Cinephile. David. Yeah, glad to be here. My podcast, you can find pretty much anywhere you find podcasts. um I have a few different shows that are underneath that kind of umbrella. And then I also do a blog where I do written reviews. And that is horror review.webnode.com.
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Awesome. And then filling in tonight, we have Evan from the Kilt and the Redneck. So Evan. Yeah, we me and my co-host Ian, we just talk about movies every other week or sometimes we talk about music, just everything all around. And horror is something we are getting into for the next couple weeks. So we're excited to talk about some horror tonight.
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Awesome. Thank you for joining us. The Curio Cabinet is where we talk about hidden gems and indie horror deep dives. Aaron is heading up our curio cabinet tonight. Aaron.
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Yes. Hey, Tim, Jonathan, thank you for having me on. So I'm the co-host of A&B Horror Movies on YouTube. You can find us on Instagram at A&B Horror Movies. And I'm also at Aaron's Movies 8587.
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um So yeah, I've got some indie films I plan to share. So this is going to be a lot of fun. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I can't wait to hear you always have an amazing stack of mostly things I haven't heard of. So I'm excited to see what you brought for us tonight.
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The Crypt is our vault of physical media lovers and collectors. We have Steven from After Hours Video. What's going on, everyone? ah You guys can find me at After Hours Video on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, you name it. And then I'm one of the hosts on Beyond the Blood podcast as well.
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And speaking of Beyond the Blood, we have
Special Guest: Author Nick
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Chris. Hey, so I go by Bearded Film Guy on the internet. I'm a horror writer and physical media writer. I guess you can consider that podcaster founder and host on the Beyond the Blood podcast on someone's favorite productions network. And i'm stoked to be here. Thank you, Tim.
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Yeah, excited to have you. And then filling in tonight, we advertised that the movie den would be here. But life happens. And we have GC from Face the Movies filling in in that spot. Thank you so much for stepping up and being here tonight.
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Dude, thank you so much for having me, guys. It's awesome to be able to hang out with you guys tonight. And for me, you can find me on YouTube and Instagram at Face the Movies. I have an X slash Twitter as well. Don't use it too much, but Instagram and YouTube's the way to go. And I do have a podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. It's called Friday Night Fright Night.
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I'm on season two right now, episode three. um So that's where you could find me. Awesome. And but Travis, are you back?
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Okay, Travis is not back. So we'll we'll let him introduce himself when he gets here. Well, either way, hooray for episode one and for all you guys being here. Super awesome.
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We're glad for it. So stick around. We've got a packed episode ahead. Got a lot of stuff to talk about. And before we get on into all of that, we have a special treat. Our very first guest is one of the rising names in modern horror fiction.
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He's the mind behind Mean Spirited, The Exorcist House and Anathema. I got your two right here. ye And more.
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So, Nick, thank you so much for being here tonight. Thank you for having me. um thrilled to be here. There's like really nothing I like more than talking about horror, talking about horror movies, books, whatever. So the the pleasure is all mine.
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Awesome. So I'm excited to have you. i reached out. Your book, The Exorcist House, um is one of my favorite.
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I don't know what you would classify it as. It's one of my favorite haunted house paranormal books that I have ever read. ah often times sticking the landing on those I think is extremely challenging and this book nailed the landing on it and I love it.
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So we are honored to have you here for our very first episode.
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Thank you. Um, yeah yeah, I have to completely credit, um, my editor. at Crystal Lake Publishing for that for helping me stick the landing because that that final scene would not be there had this editor not requested more of a story.
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They wanted an extra scene. So I think I give all the credit to whichever editor that was. I'm blanking out, but yeah.
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All right, so your books, going ask you a couple of questions here. Feel free to answer however you want. Talk about as much as you want or as little as you want. ah But before we get into your books and your process, you had a big week, some big announcements on your own social media. Do you want to highlight any of those?
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I know there is a comic book coming out soon. ah You dropped a chapter of your serial novel.
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Yeah. Uh, so, well, before I get into that and the biggest thing that's happened this week is, is, uh, going to, I've had a great theater week.
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I've, I got to see some cool movies and i got completely wrecked by Bring Her Back. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That is on the schedule later. We will be diving into that. Yep.
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I'm just that's just I'm just still recovering from it. But and I literally just finished writing the novel I'm currently writing. Like I just finished the session before I jumped on here. So my brain is still somewhat in that world.
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But yeah, so the comic book that that ah I announced, I was asked a little over two years ago, if I was interested in writing a comic book script for this project called the Darkest Depths through Crystal Lake.
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And my my buddy, James Aquilon, he's the one who reached out. He was ah but putting together this collection.
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And the first thing I said was, i have no idea how to write a comic book. um like Like, what does a comic book script look like? Like, I know what screenplays look like. I've read
Nick's Writing Process and Inspirations
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screenplays, I've um written screenplays, but I didn't know, like, exactly how I would write a comic book. So he just sent me sample samples of other comic books, scripts.
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And once I saw that you write it by panel, you how to write sound effects, how to write the dialogue, and then and it was it just came naturally.
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It was like like, I'm a visual storyteller. I think, um, more so than anything else. So being able to write around an image was, was perfect for me.
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So I'm, I'm thrilled that this collection is finally coming out. It's like I said, it was like two years ago, but the guy who was spearheading it, um, Taylor grant, he, um, got diagnosed with cancer and actually passed away that, in that time.
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so That obviously put a halt on the project and, um, you know, James Aquilon picked it up. Um, Crystal Lake publishing, have had to yeah jump in and help out.
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And the cool thing with this Kickstarter for this comic book is that all of the proceeds are going to Taylor's family because he yeah had a son, believe at least one son.
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But yeah, it's the money, any of the extra money is going to his family. So not only are you going to get a killer lineup of authors.
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Some are seasoned comic book writers, and some are like me who have never written comic before. But yeah, you'll get that and you can, you're supporting a good cause.
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And like I said, it is a Kickstarter. So there are like lots of other tiers and perks that you can get along with the the comic. That is awesome. That is awesome. I definitely need to check that out more. I saw that you posted the first two two pages of art and the art looks incredible. so i I read a lot of comics and I'm an artist myself.
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I'm very picky on art and your artist nailed it. It looks really, really good. So I'm excited to get into that. Thank you. Thank you. It's, it's surreal to, to write a scene and then look down and see on that page that he captured exactly what was in my head.
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That's awesome. It's bizarre. And I can't wait to see the rest. Like I've only seen those first two pages. So I'm, I'm thrilled. All right. And so you also teased, I'm not even sure it was a tease, it was the synopsis for the third third book in this series, correct?
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Yes. That came out this week. Yeah, well, I posted it on my Patreon little before that, but I got the approval and the go-ahead from Crystal Lake that I could post the official synopsis for the Exorcist House Resurrection, and it comes out September of this year. And like so many people were asking me what this third one was going to be about.
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and guys it The series kind of has a sister series called Anathema, and they kind of weave together. So readers of both of those readers of that universe were kind of curious, like, at what point in this timeline are you going to focus on?
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And there's really only one missing link right now, and it takes place after the events of The Exorcist House Genesis and before the events of Anathema.
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Okay, I just finished anathema on it was Thursday. I've read the two Exorcist House books already. i loved anathema. I was on the edge of my seat.
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One of the things you do writing that I really, really love is that I don't want to say you're slow burn, but you really establish the characters and get me connected to what feels like very human people. They feel real. They feel familiar, like I know them or in many ways relate to them on multiple levels.
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How do you go about writing those characters? Where do your ideas come? for these characters and what they're about to the horrific events they're about to go through well thank you um for for saying that i anathema more than any of my other books gets referred to as a slow burn it was my first novel like i had no idea what i was doing i ah didn't have a structure i didn't have an outline I was literally writing it like I was watching a movie in my mind. So I would just write, okay, this is what's going to happen in this scene.
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And then I would just keep writing scenes. And then I ended up with the story. And um so with regarding character,
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i always just try to get two people talking. um that reveals more about the character than any like descriptions i could provide like i don't like to even talk that much about physical characteristics with the with characters um i've learned a lot about showing and not just telling when it comes to characters so horror works at its best when you care about the characters.
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like like I think it's truly frightening whenever you're invested in a character and then they go through ah scary experience.
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Now, of course, you have like your slashers that are where the monster... the Jason, the Freddy, they're the stars, and you don't really have to care about the characters.
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um But like, I think genuinely scary horror, it starts with character. I um
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ah i honestly don't know that I have like a specific method for like developing a character other than okay, here's a name. I'm going to write the name on the paper and but let's see what this name does. Let's see how old it is. and and that but Like I said, dialogue in that first draft is just where the characters come alive for me, especially if I put like a like a dia certain dialect.
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Yeah, so... Which... Most of your books, uh, cause I haven't read all of them yet. They take place in a similar location.
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Yes. So how does the, does the location and
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Well, does the location affect your writing? How do you come about? So you said anathema, you wrote scene by scene. Has your writing process changed? Do you outline a little bit more now? Is there more that goes into it planning wise now?
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Has that process
Evolving Writing Process
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changed for you over time?
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it's It's been different with each book. After I wrote anathema, I learned that like anathema is like heavier themes it's it's darker and i was heavily influenced by like clive barker on this interview that he gave where he said be unapologetic in your horror and i really had some things that i needed to get off my chest in that first book so with the exorcist house i was like i just want to have a good time like i just want to have a non-stop thrill ride scare fest
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But like I said, I want, also want it to be about this family that you either, i mean, you ask, you're going to have some sort of reaction to this family. Like some people love the characters. Some people hate them because they think they're stupid for making certain decisions. um so with the exorcist house, it was just about entertaining myself more than anything.
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And then ah with, with mean spirited,
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that came about because of fan and reader reaction to the exorcist house in particular how they related to the dog buck in the exorcist house and i got like i was mad about clark in anathema by the way so i'm still a little upset about that one but spoiler alert sorry sorry Yeah, so I didn't know any better when when I wrote anathema. And in my defense, this was Clark, the German shepherd in anathema.
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his His ending happens off screen, if you will. you You just hear an absence of barking. And then...
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and then like i said i didn't do that arbitrarily i didn't do that to just make this villain seem more vile that dog was that kid's protector and it was his his confidant his friend and by villain in anathema ending that he now had to fully rely on that that villain um so i believe I believe nothing is off limits in fiction as long as it services the narrative. that That's just my personal belief.
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You know, ah I'll write about anything and explore any topic if it's if it is warranted in the narrative. and
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i don't know. What was the original question?
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ah You started ah where your characters come from. Are there real life inspiration for how you craft your characters? okay There's a strong family bond in your books.
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And usually it's and i say strong and what i mean by that is even sometimes it's a broken family bond issue where not everybody is perfect but they're going through this as a family and that's one thing that really draws me in that's a hook for me that i care about because we're all flawed human beings trying to make our way through life and so that is something that i grasp onto in your books pretty quickly
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Oh, there you are. Sorry. but Somebody just tried to call me on my phone. I didn't i't hear the tail your tell into your question. I just said the characters are something that I grasp onto pretty quickly. So is there inspiration, your inspiration for the characters?
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like Like in relation to why I write like family dynamics? Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I tried to explore like different types of, of dynamics that interest me with anathema. It was a very personal book.
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Um, it, it has semi autobiography elements to it. Um, It's ah you know a young couple with a rocky past trying to get their life back together and have a fresh start.
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The character, when I wrote that character, Brian, he was around my age. When I wrote The Exorcist House and I wrote Daniel, he's he's older than me.
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He has a daughter who's older than than my daughter. I have an eight year old daughter. ah think Alice is almost 17 and the exorcist house and the daughter, that relationship in the exorcist house is what kind of drew me into that family because I was like, I thought it would be interesting to think about how I would interact with my daughter when she's that age.
Themes and Emotional Connections
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Like if she was doing these things, how would I handle it as as a parent? So that was fun to explore. Also with the the Hill family dynamic, I wanted Daniel and Nora so like, like dig each other, you know? um There's lots of, lots of movies and and books where the married couple either just, you know, at odds or boring or whatever, but I wanted them to go through this discovery of what's going on in this house together, like as a team.
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And ah wanted to do the opposite of that with mean spirited. So I, and mean spirited, it's a completely different family dynamic. It's a couple that's separated and they're sharing custody of, of, of a young spirit.
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their young son. And
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i wanted to explore that side of the, I guess, traditional family dynamic of shared custody and having this main character, matt having to having him watch his ex-wife, Lucy, move on with her life while he is still stuck in his alcoholism and still fixated on her.
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So that's kind of what drew me into that. Um, when I was talking with, uh, a film studio about being spirited,
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the big, the best compliment I got from this producer was that he said, you can take, a take the dog, you can take all the scares out of this book. And it's still a compelling family drama.
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It's still, it's still, you know, a compelling narrative. And, you know, that's, if I can achieve that with with my books, then, then I've, I think I've done a good job with the characters.
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Yeah, so now I need to pick up Mean Spirited. I have not picked that one up yet, but now I'm now i'm sold on it So that's the one that my readers, they pretty much across the board prefer that.
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Even though The Exorcist House is the most popular one and the best-selling one that I've released,
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the the readers who have discovered Mean Spirited are like like I see this a lot in in different Facebook groups. They're like, well, if you like The Exorcist House and you were scared by that, wait till you read Mean Spirited.
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And I intentionally like set out to write the scariest book I possibly could. um Because at the time when The Exorcist House came out in this one group in particular on Facebook called Books of Horror, they were comparing it to Stolen Tongues.
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And Stolen Tongues scared me in a way that few books do. And the fact that I got compared to that book was was flattering.
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But it also made me realize i have to step my game up with the next book so when i started mean spirited literally the title the working title was the book that has to be scarier than the exorcist's house and stolen tongues and i i just started with a girl brushing her teeth at midnight and someone knocks on the door downstairs and it just goes from there a dog was never meant to be involved
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So are you a dog person because you have a dog in every book? um Yeah. Or at least the ones I've read. Yeah. I, um, uh, I've, I've had dogs in my whole life. I worked at a no kill animal rescue for a while. It's awesome.
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Yeah. It's so my thing is i just, um,
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I had that dog in in anathema, like I said, for for a reason. The child needed ah protector because he had witnessed his parents go through some tumultuous shit.
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And his dog was like who he could sleep with, who he could cuddle with.
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So by the time I wrote The Exorcist House and I wrote about Buck, this bloodhound that's loyal to the man who lives on the farm. It's a good boy.
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Yeah. And I saw the fan reaction to that. I was just like... okay uh people really care about dogs so um it's true yeah ah yep that that yeah that helped me with mean spirited and i don't have a dog in uh anathema legacy i don't think and i i don't have one i don't have one in the book i'm writing now so
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okay so we get we get a brief brief break from dogs for a little bit so in september exorcist house three comes back so buck will be back in september okay i'm looking forward to it so i do believe i am the only person on the panel that's actually read your books uh how would you sell it Two, I mean, we have the synopsis, but from your perspective, what's the hook to your books that makes them different?
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I mean, I've already talked for me. i I draw onto your characters. I also think your type of horror that you're writing is difficult to accomplish and accomplish well, and you do that.
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That's why I keep coming back for more. It's very different than the slasher horror novels that ah I also read and thoroughly enjoy for very different reasons.
Influences and Writing Style
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So how would you sell your brand of horror and what you're accomplishing in your books?
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Well, thank you for that. i I want my name, my... quote unquote brand of horror to be synonymous with scary, unsettling, creepy, and and haunting.
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And for it to have some heart. like yeah Like you said, I love reading books about, I love reading extreme horror. I love reading just classic ghost stories. I love every every subgenre out there.
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However, the books that affect me and the ones I enjoy reading the most are the ones that unsettle me or get under my skin that make me question my the way I look at things.
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And so yeah some, some examples of those are like the exorcist house of leaves, pet cemetery. Um, even like American psycho, even though that's not meant to be like, like creep out scary,
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it messed my mind up in a way because it made me hold my thoughts accountable and made me realize, wow, I have some pretty disgusting thoughts as as well.
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how many other people are like this so everyone's twisted there's no doubt about that we're all messed up in the head yeah but yeah so bottom line this the short and sweet answer is i want people to pick up a nick roberts book and be like okay this is going to be scary i'm what this is one of those books i'm going to have to keep in the freezer in between chapters
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Awesome. So panel, any other questions? Just listening to Nick, any, any comments? Um, I mean, so I was thinking about this.
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Uh, I once heard eli Roth say in a podcast that when he went back and he rewatched cabin fever after so many years, he never realized how much influence he brought into that directly.
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Do you ever find as a horror fan, yourself bringing in what you love that other horror creators have done? And when you do, do you ride with it?
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Because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Or do you try to twist it enough that way nobody can connect the two? that's that's a That's a good question. So there are certain times when I'll directly um reference things like the exorcist in the exorcist's house. His name is Merle Blatty and the author of The Exorcist is William Peter Blatty.
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I mean, that's pretty on the nose. as As far as like tropes and things like that, I love playing with tropes. They're tropes for a reason, but I like to subvert them.
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As far as like other authors and other works, it can be very easy for me to be reading a book by an author with a very distinct voice and then i'll be I'll be writing because I write every day.
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I'll be writing and suddenly like just that tone or that cadence of that author's voice I'll find coming out. Sometimes that's good.
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Sometimes it's bad. But I'll say this. one I got asked to contribute to a an anthology about horror westerns.
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And ah I started to write, I wrote the first page and I sent it to one of my friends who, who likes Westerns. I was like, what do you think about this? He says, it sounds like you're trying to write a fucking Western and it does not re it does not sound authentic whatsoever.
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And I said, okay. And I went and I took no country for old men. And I read the opening. monologue by ship by the sheriff. And I had Cormac McCarthy's voice in my head. I had that the cadence of that sheriff.
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It was no longer about describing the scenery or the horse or the the guy riding the horse. It was just a total mood and vibe change.
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And so. Yeah, like like there I had to like directly go and seek help from like one of the masters, but, uh, and I, and I've admitted to this before, like, like I said about stolen tongues and how much that book affected me.
00:35:27
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Um, there's a, in the prologue to that book, it features a parrot that a lot of people say is one of the scariest prologues ever written. So after I wrote the exorcist house and I was writing mean spirited,
00:35:42
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And I had it in my mind. i was like, I'm going to out scare stolen tongues. I i put i put a parakeet in this kid's bedroom. So yeah. And I told Felix Blackwell, the author, I said, I said, Hey, just so you know, I directly stole your prologue parrot factor. I just used the parakeet instead. And so he was like, a he's one of my friends, so he doesn't care.
00:36:11
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okay Nick, can I ask you, were there certain like, I guess, like early on when in your writing experience, were there certain movies or directors that you felt like um you drew influence from or have kind of helped guide your your writing style as time has gone on?
00:36:29
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Oh, absolutely. Like, I grew up as a cinephile. First and foremost, I was I was reading screenplays. and writing screenplays and watching movies nonstop. I had so much physical media that my um mom had to keep on buying VHS towers to throw in my room.
00:36:49
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And but yeah, the so the biggest influences from cinema that impact my writing would be
00:37:02
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Definitely Quentin Tarantino. call tom Paul Thomas Anderson. um
00:37:13
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ah like As far as specific movies, the x know what it's about to say the extrace in texas the Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
00:37:24
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has in some way that movie comes out in my work in one way or another. That movie is ingrained in my psyche. So yeah, and trying to think.
00:37:44
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I really liked ah I was really blown away when I watched Creepshow as a kid. Oh, yeah. Classic. Yeah. Good one.
00:38:04
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we lost We lost him there for no man down. Oh, I had a good question. Come back. It's like, I've had enough. i'm doing We can hear you, but we can't see you. Yeah, we can hear you, but I see you.
00:38:20
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Hello. Hello. We can hear you. Hello. Hello. Oh,
00:38:30
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too bad.
Personal Anecdotes and Aspirations
00:38:31
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ah too bad Mama, can you hear me? There we go. Okay, back in. Nice. my Okay,
00:38:42
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last we heard was Creepshow.
00:38:49
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I cannot hear you guys if you can hear me. ah and We can. We can hear you. yeah
00:38:56
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Check your audio settings, I guess, maybe. Parade technology. Never fails. yeah Absolutely.
00:39:06
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Unless the AirPods.
00:39:11
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See any. And Travis just jumped back in too. I don't know if we can. ah feel bad for him. man He's been popping in and out. in out in Yeah. yeah Oh, we can hear you.
00:39:25
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Finally back. Can't see it, but we can certainly hear you.
00:39:36
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the my stupidity and the malfunctions Tim but I think I've got it going on but hey we got everybody back you're here though and we got Nick back we got Nick back too so can you hear us now
00:39:49
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I can I'm on a delay right now because I'm seeing myself like five seconds into the future so as long as y'all can hear me yeah that's fine so we lost were talking about Creepshow yes
00:40:07
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no Every time we say that word, like his his thing just freezes.
00:40:16
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No more. Don't say the C word. I'm not going to bring up that show anymore.
00:40:25
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Hopefully nobody has it on their list. i workre reliable that has Exactly. exactly and Don't mention the third one. That's even worse. Yeah, right.
00:40:37
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He just full froze this time. Oh, that's like a signal. Okay.
00:40:46
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Signals low.
00:40:48
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I'm going to give them give them another shot. If not, we will dive in. Travis, you're all good. You're hearing us. You're communicating. I'm here. Okay, so if Nick doesn't hop back on in a second, we'll jump into Travis, did you want to kick off the reviews? Or you want me to do that?
00:41:08
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Do your thing. I'm going to follow your lead. Nick's back. Okay. Well, there Nick is back. So um we're not going to mention that show again. Nick, before I lose you, man, I got a question for you. What show?
00:41:24
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yeah so Yeah, exactly. like So for for your writing process, right? I know there's certain writers out there that have kind of like this superstitious...
00:41:35
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routines like there's people out there that have to have like a certain drink before writing or people that usually have to have like a nap before like just random stuff um i know for me is a re like i like i like one of my things for hop did we lose people
00:41:53
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no we're good bud okay oh i feel like somebody's missing on the thing oh but uh But yeah, so for me, it's like ah I need to write on a typewriter, like on an old school typewriter. There's something about it that really just influences me and gets the creative juices flowing.
00:42:13
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Just because whenever I get on a computer, like I have a mechanical keyboard just trying to mimic it. But even then, it's just something about just knowing that if I mess up and on the typewriter, it's like there and and just being fully disconnected. Do you have anything like that that you do before writing that gets you, I guess, gets you warmed up or gets going?
00:42:42
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Is he thinking super hard or did he hear?
00:42:47
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He said he was on a delay. He's on a delay. The long late Nick. Can you hear us? Who? You. I'm back now. Oh, yeah that that question was directed to you.
00:42:59
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I didn't even hear a question. yeah sorry I've just been sitting in silence. Oh, no. Oh, I was thinking for a second. i was like, oh, man, i hope my mic's not on mute.
00:43:11
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No, it was just a man pretty much like, do you have any like routine that kind of gets you warmed up for like writing? questions The what? I don't think he can hear GC for some reason.
00:43:24
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Yeah. Can he not hear? you hear GC? I can hear everybody else. Okay. So he is asking, that is wild and random. He is asking if you have any routines that you go through to write, is there a ritual of sorts that you do?
00:43:49
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um Yes, there is there is a a discipline that I maintain because it hasn't really failed me yet. I try to write a certain word count every day.
00:44:05
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And I'll write in the, ideally I'll write like a thousand words in the morning. I'll get out and and go to the gym and do like like business stuff um where I, you know, anything related to like packaging and signing books or, you know, working out.
00:44:30
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and All the boring aspects of being an author I'll do and in the afternoon. And then I'll go pick up my kids and have family time in the in the evening. And then once everybody's asleep, I'll try to knock out another thousand words.
00:44:45
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So... on an ideal day it's it's a minimum 2 000 words and my my novels are about 80 to 100 000 words so um yeah i can as long as i stay stay on track i can i can crank them out fairly quick okay awesome uh one more before before we dive into the news portion of the show anybody else got a question have a quick question.
00:45:16
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Do you have a Holy grail of a book that you have like the first edition? So I love the collector by John Fowles. I've assigned first American edition. Do you have something similar?
00:45:27
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If somebody asking you a question, I can't hear. You can't hear. oh no Aaron is asking if you have a Holy grail book, a collector's edition book.
00:45:39
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Yes. I have, uh, I'd have to go upstairs to grab it, but I, any chance I have to show it off, I want to do it but it's, um, it's a centipede press limited numbered edition of American psycho signed by Brett Easton Ellis and, and, um, Ben Baldwin, the, the, ah the cover artist for this edition and John Langdon who wrote a forward in it, I believe.
00:46:10
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Um, I was just randomly on eBay one night and i typed in American Psycho first edition. And then i saw all these first editions and then I saw this one book that I covered that I had never seen.
00:46:28
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And I clicked on it and it was a ah limited run. So there were only, i believe, 600 of these books made. If that, it may be maybe less than that.
00:46:42
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But yeah, so it's a and it's a big book with illustrations. You open it up and like the inside flaps are like our chainsaws.
00:46:55
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Oh, i Fantastic. Yeah. I almost got divorced over impulse buying that book. Damn. That's relatable.
00:47:05
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you yeah Yeah. Especially on eBay. When my wife saw how much that thing cost. But yeah, that was that was my holy grail. Now I have a white whale that I'm chasing. And if if this movie deal goes through, i am going to get it. It is a first edition signed copy of Blood Meridian for Mac McCarthy. Oh, yeah, dude. hey Oh, my fucking God.
00:47:33
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It cost $21,000. shit. Yeah, I have a rare book dealer that I that I get all my stuff from.
00:47:44
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And he actually connected with a guy who writes books about Cormac McCarthy. And these these first edition first printings of Blood Meridian rarely come up for sale, let alone autographed.
00:47:58
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So and like like a signed for an unsigned first edition of Blood Meridian can go for like eight thousand dollars. So to have a signed first edition, first printing in that good good of condition is like finding a Picasso painting. i mean, yeah.
00:48:19
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So when I asked him how much it was and he said $21,000, okay, well, um, ah said okay well Yeah, but if if I get a movie deal, that's my first – that's my Ferrari that I'm going to play. It's good to have personal goals like that. Yeah. yeah That's so cool. but I love – I just reread that book, Nick.
00:48:41
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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. Like that's one of the best lines. that That is such a beautiful – even though ah I don't understand everything that he writes in that book because of – his pros like the words he chooses um i had to look up what ah what the jacks were i'm like oh it's an outhouse nice um but yeah it's so beautiful and that's that's a great ferrari to to have in your uh as a goal when you when you you know blow up with that that hollywood money cuz yeah that um that that book that book is
00:49:17
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is like to, to recommend it to someone, you, ah you also have to recommend, um, reading the old Testament, reading, um, William Faulkner, reading Hemingway.
00:49:32
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And yeah once you, once you have all that, and then you go into blood Meridian and you see that he's using all of their techniques and he's referencing all of these things and doing it better. It's like, um, I,
00:49:48
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Cormac is just a master of literature. Oh yeah. there There will never be another one like him. Yeah.
Final Destination Movie Discussion
00:49:57
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Well, thank you so much for answering our questions, hanging out with us and talking about your work. and now we're going to dive into the news portion of the show, starting with the cutting room and Travis, you're kicking us off. Are you not?
00:50:14
Speaker
You ready? yeah um there was two things i wanted to to cover real quick oh wow nice okay well we'll cover it real quick but then you're talking final destination bloodlines oh well never mind i'll talk final destination bloodlines oh the legacy this this is kind of like a legacy franchise at this point because it started when we were all I mean we were all probably in middle school high school something like that and it's it had been I think 14 or 16 years since the last one and honestly i was kind of expecting uh a ho-hum sort of revisit to the franchise something like it's basically the template of what the previous Final Destination films had given us well
00:51:02
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seeing this in theaters was a complete surprise. i want I want to argue, and I'm not going to go into spoilers for any any of the movie, but the opening, like every Final Destination film has to have that great big opening that sets off you know the the chain of events for the plot.
00:51:20
Speaker
And it's always with the premonition. So you you at least know that walking in. And i want to I want to say that this opening for Bloodlines is... maybe the best if not at rivals part two which a lot of people have you know fondness for nostalgia for fear for like no one's driving behind logging trucks anymore yeah that's true grew up in a mill town so like when that came out and like everyone's know traffic there's lots everywhere and you're just like dude i don't want to be here anymore yeah Down here in Louisiana, we got like sugar cane trucks. So the the worst you're going to get is just like a little bit of vegetation flying against your windshield. But ah get a little sweet yeah, but no, the opening of this movie definitely sets the stage and lets you know that this is going to be a blockbuster horror film.
00:52:10
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And so far, the movie is the highest grossing in the franchise. It's still in theaters right now. So that's after like what, two weeks? Wow. Yeah, something like that. i Yeah. That's impressive.
00:52:21
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Very much so. And what I like about this movie is that it turns death into this cosmic force where, and if listeners of the Nightclub podcast know we like to shoehorn everything into cosmic.
00:52:36
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Yeah, you do. But I think this movie does a really good job setting up how the entity of death is kind of like, they almost make it to where it's like,
00:52:51
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death is sort of a bookkeeper or like an accountant of souls. So it's like, it's indifferent to humanity or like whatever your, your goals are in life, whatever your strife is.
00:53:03
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It's not worried about that. It's just like, you're, you were supposed to die. I'm going to make sure that you die. It's going to be a Rube Goldberg effect and it's going to look awesome. That's what I love about the movies.
00:53:15
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Rube Goldberg stuff. Yeah. Agreed. And i think I think we all, as as horror fans, come to these movies for the... the amazing kills like that's pretty much what these movies have set up for what's expected you know uh what the story is going to give you this new movie this new entry I think kind of elevates it because instead of just some random group of people it's an actual family that's involved I agree and I would say it has some of the most likable and endearing characters in the franchise especially the character Eric um the one of the brothers
00:53:53
Speaker
uh one of the cousins brothers i don't know it's a family um but he he was great i think everybody in this movie was was really awesome i i guess i was just blown away by how many how many of you guys had uh seen seen the film this month i have yes all yeah i saw it yeah yeah great yep Wow. So everyone has seen it. See, there you go. no i have not. Oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:54:16
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oh yeahll oh oh negative no it was joe so the other ones in her film share was between final destination or bring her back wowy night and mid the right choice might bring her back so but i can't hate on you for that but oh yeah I don't know. This movie was just like a breath of fresh air on a bigger scale. I also saw that on um Instagram they were posting because a lot of people kind of complain about the CGI aspect of some of the kills. And I'm like, I i hear you, but
00:54:49
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for a long time that's kind of what they've been doing yeah but on instagram they were posting videos of behind the scenes footage of how they pulled off the practical parts of some of the kills in the film and i thought that was awesome i'm like so they did a good blend of cg and and and practical and i will say seeing it on the big screen i i didn't notice the the cg like that i i thought it was i thought it was blended very well um um So the the folks that did see it, I mean, what what did you think of of the new Final Destination movie? does it
00:55:22
Speaker
Does it rank up there with like maybe one of the best ones or were you a little let down by it? i I want to say, man, I put it under under two. um I loved it and I think it had.
00:55:36
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tony todd's farewell performance going for it dude i got teary-eyed during that scene and when i at the end of the when it has the in memory of tony scott or tony todd tim cover your ears i lost it you know he was the first celebrity to ever interact with me on social media oh wow oh that's amazing yeah yeah Yeah, I loved it too. i didn't I didn't mind the CGI. thought it was fantastic. it was very entertaining. And seeing some of the behind the scenes of how they created it, like it was a garbage truck scene. I don't want to spoil it for anybody.
00:56:13
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But I saw a clip of how they made it look like something really bad happens to one of the characters. I'm trying to be spoiler free. um I don't know. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun in the theater. It was a fun night out.
00:56:25
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Popcorn was great. I had a good time. I thought it was, it felt like a very refreshing take on, on like the series, especially after revisiting after what would, would we say like 14 years since the last century? on Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:38
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So, I mean, I thought it was like refreshing. i felt like i would, kind of giving it some time to kind of digest. I mean, i would I would definitely put it up there, you know, and I think the family dynamic was an interesting take on it. So I'm happy to hear that it's doing really well. And like Nick was saying, I felt like it was very sweet with Tony Todd. It's just kind of, I don't know, just kind tough to see him like that, you know.
00:57:03
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I thought, man, I thought like for me, it was interesting because no matter what, like i even if people would have said it was the worst movie ever, i would have still watched it just because, you know, like you said, that in Travis, that we all kind of grew up with that movie. I mean, for me, I was just I believe I was just getting into high school when the first one came out and owning it on VHS and all that.
00:57:25
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um I went into it with. Honestly, I try to go in with you know an open mind because I was very afraid that they were going to do something where there was going to be an agenda with that movie or just pretty much just ruin it. you know um But you know being surprised at the fact that I was expecting it to be so much worse, especially the fact that what they were putting on the trailers, right? like I felt like, man, they're spoiling a lot of it And then you watch the movie and it's kind of like they played that mind game where certain things in the trailer didn't plan out like you think they were going to. Totally. And to touch with the CGI, man, the only thing I was the reason I was a bit disappointed was because of the fact that I thought, you know what, after 14 to 16 years, I would have figured, you know, the catastrophe of Final Destination four with the whole NASCAR and all that.
00:58:16
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I figured, you know, maybe they learned with the whole CGI to make it better. But then, yeah you know, just kind of like after dropping that and um really embracing it for what it is. And after rewatching the franchise and realizing, okay, you know, this is definitely better than, you know, a few of the releases.
Movie Reviews: 'Drop' and 'Bring Her Back'
00:58:35
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It just, it felt good. It felt, it was like comfort food. I mean, and with the whole thing with Tony Todd, same thing. Like, I mean, man, like it was beautiful what they did. And as more, and and I want to, and I want to paraphrase on something because, know,
00:58:48
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ah Chris always talks about this. He talks about reading the booklets, you know, going behind like the people you know going behind the movie, the people that made the movie and the love that they shared for it.
00:58:59
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And after I did that with this final destination, it just it opened up a whole new like like set of eyes for it, because the fact that these people let Tony Todd save what he wanted for the movie. And the fact that these guys were fans of the franchise besides just making a movie and the fact that they did show those videos of you know the practical effects, it just goes to show how much love there was for it.
00:59:26
Speaker
And it's just it's like getting a home cooked meal, man. like it It felt just like that. It was just Like I respected it. I appreciated it. i pre-ordered it. And um yeah, it's i definitely it's something that needs a chance. And it it earned it, man. Like it really earned that box office like money.
00:59:44
Speaker
That's beautifully said, like a home cooked meal. I like that. That's exactly the vibe I got. And you know what this movie makes me want to do? Watch it again. Oh, yeah. That's what I was going to and they made It makes me want to shout, throw my head. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And one one quick thing I want to throw in there. I love the fact that they kind of threw some so some subtle jabs at the new generation.
01:00:10
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which was nice because they did it in a way where they did have an agenda, but it was a great positive agenda um you know you know with the whole family thing, but also just those subtle jabs with what we saw in the trailer there with the Spotify playlist and all that stuff. That was that was funny.
01:00:27
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I really enjoyed that movie a lot. um um I'm glad some of you guys that saw it I hope the guys that didn't see it get to get to watch it. but um Oh, I plan to. I plan to. agree So Nick did message me. He's trying to get set up on his computer so that he can hop back in. So he is working on that. All right. So Travis, thanks for bringing. us Can I just say, for those who haven't seen it, you got to see it on the big screen. Like the ending of the film, it was fantastic. The intro with the restaurant, high-rise restaurant. Oh, yeah. you've got to You've got to see it in the theater. Fuck that penny. absolutelyly
01:01:02
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you know i i gotta ask you guys i want to i want to ask the panel real quick um because i mean again everybody's seen it we're not going to spoil it or nothing but the the ending i don't know i guess for me i that's the one thing i absolutely hated and it was i felt like i felt like i felt like it was kind of like they i felt like the la the ending was lazy like i felt like it could have been something a little bit more creative and it felt kind of like a cop out to reach like well kind of use nostalgia without spoiling it well i see what you're saying especially the nostalgia part and i know what you're talking about but so the movie opens on a certain location and it ends with a certain thing happening so to me the movie tied all the way well not not the premonition part but
01:01:49
Speaker
um the actual opening in present day that tied the whole movie back in for me and i thought that that was actually kind of really cool so i got really excited whenever ah yeah without spoiling i got excited about the ending to be honest with you i kind of like how it ended i also love the um the ending credits and and how they how they do that i thought that was really neat yeah man that was really cool did that meet Did you guys feel like the movie met your expectations? Or like do you guys want to see sequels after this? Or do you feel like it kind of works on its own?
01:02:24
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I think it exceeded mine. Yeah, me too. I want more. It exceeded mine, but they better bring their A-game next time. Yeah, sure yeah absolutely. For sure.
01:02:37
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Awesome. Okay, David, did you still bring a the same movie you told me ahead of time? Yes. Yep. Okay, well, let's pull that one up here. And David talking about drop, are you not? Yes, that is correct.
01:02:53
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um Normally, Travis would know that I would go to the theater to see something, but I had to catch something on VOD because I have a newborn and oh I do not want to i leave my way. Thank you. I do not want to leave my wife too long without having a little bit of help.
01:03:08
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So I did catch this movie here. Now, this isn't necessarily horror, but it's definitely a Hitchcockian thriller that goes a little bit dark. And plus, this is a Blumhouse film that also is directed by Christopher Landon, who did the Happy Death Day films.
01:03:21
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So. I will say here is that I think this is probably something I like the first happy death day. The second one, not necessarily horror. That one kind of goes more into the sci-fi. This one, he does well at capturing that Hitchcockian thriller vibe though.
01:03:36
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Cause this one, we have a widowed mother who the reason that she's a widow is definitely kind of very dark and what happens there. But she goes on a first date that she met a guy through a dating app and then they go to a restaurant. And while they're here,
01:03:51
Speaker
She starts getting that program they have or an app they have called Digi Drop, it's pretty much Air Drop where they start sending her like creepy memes and they end up forcing her to do some things where if she doesn't, they she can check out her like nanny cam at home and sees that there is a masked man in the house with her son and her sister who is watching her son. And this kind of goes a little bit political thriller in what they're doing here because the guy she is with is a photographer for the local mayor.
01:04:21
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But what I kind of liked here is that they give us a whole bunch of, they figure out that the range of this has to be somebody in the restaurant with them. And they set up so many characters where they have a motive.
01:04:33
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And I thought that really kind of keeps your interest. And they actually do some interesting things with the cinematography and with reading the text messages. So you're not like looking down at her phone, they'll like display it on like the wall it's only for us as a viewer.
01:04:46
Speaker
I thought it was kind of interesting to be a way where you can be creative without kind of going back to the same well over and over again. And the acting here was I thought really solid to kind of make these people be red herrings. And I did feel at the end that the reveal it ended up being one of those ones where i was like, oh I guess I wasn't really thinking about it. And i was like, Okay, it makes sense.
01:05:07
Speaker
But this still plays pretty well. And I enjoyed my time with this one. yeah Did anybody else see this one? I haven't seen it, but I remember seeing the trailer in the theaters when I went to see the monkey. right And it looked pretty intense. And I was like, you know what? I'd be down to watch that.
01:05:21
Speaker
I wanted to catch this in the theater because it did look like it would be a nice big theater watch. Like the crowd could be into it maybe. I'll say the cinematography would have helped to see this one in the theater just because of like, they do these like tracking shots and stuff where they spin around the restaurant because it's um in a high rise building. So they're like, 30 floors up or something along those lines.
01:05:43
Speaker
And they do stuff like that. But I do think this would work better if you could see it on the big screen. mean, obviously now it's gone, but this would have been benefited by that for sure. Yeah. I will say, um, Christopher Landon is Owen three for me.
01:05:56
Speaker
I, i can't stand either happy death date with me i thought freaky was stupid as all hell um this finally felt and i'm really happy that he did not get to do a scream movie that's fair oh i forgot about that i was super happy that that did not go through um but i read the vangoria magazine article on this and it got me excited so it's on my it's on my list it's in it's on my radar This one looks a little more serious than any of his previous work.
01:06:28
Speaker
Yes. yeah when there's There's a little bit of comedy in it, but yeah, this definitely is I can see what you're saying. If you didn't like the Happy Death Day films, this one I think you might possibly like, but I wouldn't necessarily rush to it though either.
01:06:41
Speaker
Yeah. yeah there would There was a scene in the – I actually – okay, so I like Happy Death Day 2 more than the first. Okay. I still don't like that movie. Yeah. um I remember the first time I put on Happy Death Day, I stopped at the farting scene in the restaurant. Oh, I was like, I'm shocked now. shocked.
01:07:00
Speaker
And then I went back and I finally finished it. I don't know about you guys. I have kind of like an allergy to Blumhouse where they every time they put something out, it just makes me cringe in my seat and I want to run away from it as fast as I can.
01:07:15
Speaker
i don't know if that's just me, but... ah i More recent output, it feels like that. Yeah, they're kind of like... i theyre love what they're doing. they're They're like the um so like the tween Yes.
01:07:29
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yeah yeah yeah i ah kind of feel i kind of feel that, though. like I will say Blumhouse is – they're not – I don't think they're geared towards hardcore – not all the time.
01:07:40
Speaker
Hardcore horror fans, but I think what they're doing is getting people interested in the genre, and I think that that's a great thing. So I support i support what they do mostly. ah Like there's some movies that I kind of, you know, I watched Annabelle. That's kind of the one that I go back to and I say, look, the cinematography is great.
01:07:57
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the score The score is moody. The movie overall didn't work for me, but maybe there was a 14-year-old that snuck into the theater and now they're gonna now they're hooked and now they're going to go watch, you know, like Nightmare on Elm Street or something or or or the others from 2001. Like they're going to get into like the supernatural stuff or whatever.
01:08:17
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i'm kind of I'm kind of behind it. and you know look it is what it is this is this is now they've become a big Hollywood component um they they just paired up with Universal yeah yeah like it is but they are fans of the genre they all grew up watching the same movie so I always give them the benefit of the doubt and it's also I'm a big fan of the Conjuring series um unapologetically I love Vera Farmiga and goddamn patrick wilson they are my bays and i can't wait for last rights that shit looks dope to me um i know it's popcorn munching but you know what i also feel it in my heart well you know
01:08:58
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What you said right there, it's popcorn munching. yeah I love what they're doing because they're this corner of the horror world. Like you were saying, it's a a a it way for a lot of people. yeah So it will bring more people to the genre by them making some more campier films. And, you know, most of the time I'm not going to tell you that every Blumhouse movie is a fantastic horror film. You need to go see it.
01:09:26
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But most of the time, I'm entertained. Yeah. yeah ah good plus no it's a Did Blumhouse make Malignant? No, they did not. No. ah Okay. Damn. No, I will say, though, to give their credit, they did help make Halloween Ends, which is one of the best in the Halloween franchise. And now I'll go on mute.
01:09:46
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No, you don't have to for me. I'm with you. yeah I love Halloween ends and kills. I love the comment section is blowing. at No, I'm kidding. It's not. Hashtag Corey Cunningham rocks. Yeah. i I actually enjoyed Halloween ends, so I can't yeah save that critique it.
01:10:06
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David, did you have anything else for us? um Nope. That was... ah I didn't have enough time to kind of knock anything else out, but yeah, that was a, that was my review. have a quick question about drop. So I haven't seen it yet.
01:10:19
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I'm watching the trailer. It looks really stressful and I can be stressed out. That's probably something should said. only reason why I haven't gone to see it. Cause it looks like it would drive me crazy. That's probably what made me like it.
01:10:31
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the most is it made me anxious start to finish because I've been on like dates like this where like she's on her phone this whole time. like I've not done that, but I've been on bad first dates and that alone just made me be in like, Oh my God, like how is this guy still sitting here and dealing with this? And then just, it was very stressful in the best way possible. And that kept me engaged at least.
01:10:52
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you see yeah Okay. Fair enough. Sandler. I have not yet. Oh, my God. No, no, Aaron. What was that? You don't know anxiety, man, if you haven't seen Levi Gems.
01:11:04
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That's the most anxious movie ever. Oh, man. Yes, yes, that is true. Okay. I just want to watch it in the theater, right? You can do it oh because that That movie is stress inducing out the wazoo.
01:11:19
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That was an experience. Yeah. So speaking speaking of stressful and anxiety inducing films.
01:11:31
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Let's talk about Bring Her Back. So this is the newest film. from the philippo brothers you might remember them from talk to me another three word three syllable horror title this film has been making waves since its early screenings that left audiences visibly shaking the attendees at recent viewings stating that they had to look away during certain scenes due to the intense visuals and emotional weight and take that with a grain of salt but
01:12:03
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Critics have largely praised the film, highlighting the atmospheric tension and standout performances. Sally Hawkins, known for her roles in The Shape of Water and Paddington, delivers a chilling portrayal of a grieving foster mother, marking a significant departure for her usual roles.
01:12:24
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Adding to the film's intrigue is the breakout performance, and it is incredible, of Sora Wong, a 14-year-old Australian newcomer with no prior professional acting experience.
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She was discovered through a Facebook casting call. She brings her own experiences as a person with visual impairment to the screen.
01:12:51
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And it is incredible to see from a production standpoint, the Phillipo brothers returned to their roots filming in South Australia over a 41 day shoot.
01:13:02
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Their commitment to the practical effects is evident painfully. So achieving innovative techniques to ins ensure actors' safety.
01:13:13
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And as for its reception, it opened this weekend. Bring Her Back has garnered strong critical response, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes if you believe anything the people in there say.
01:13:24
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With all this buzz, it's clear that Bring Her Back is more than just a typical horror flick. So for me, i liked Talk To Me, but I did not love Talk To Me.
01:13:38
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I thought the first two acts were rock solid, but the third act left me, yeah, on talk to me. So I'll be honest. I walked in to bring her back with some apprehension.
01:13:49
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My expectations weren't low, but they weren't exactly sky high either. So.
01:14:01
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i lost my i lost my spot. ah But here's the thing. I started seeing the reactions from many of you, many other horror Instagram people online, especially horror veterans, people who've been in the genre for years, including Nick's post about this movie was one of the ones I used to convince my wife to go see it.
01:14:22
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ah they weren't just impressed they were moved and that caught my attention because more than anything when i sit down to watch a horror movie i want to feel something and the suspense the terror the dread and did this movie succeed I think it nailed all three.
01:14:42
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And I mean this as a compliment when I say that the first hour felt like two, not because it's slow, but because it is so full.
01:14:53
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It is thick with emotion. It is thick with tension and it is thick with that character. We mentioned talking to Nick earlier. I got a feel for these characters before they go through hell.
01:15:05
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And this movie made me feel for just about every single character on the screen. The last 45 minutes are gone in a blink. It's 10 minutes in my brain. It gets that intense.
01:15:18
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So the things I love, the Phillip house know how to balance light and dark and not just visually, which I love in a horror movie.
01:15:28
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Give me sunshine. Not everybody lives in a super gray, dark, dingy world. We need sunshine. Uh, They balance that with lighting and their direction, but they also give us light and dark emotionally. There are moments in this film that are filled with joy and glimmers of hope.
01:15:50
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And it's, makes it so much harder because when the darkness hits they earned that by giving us these bright spots it makes the darkness that much harder to swallow they don't start bleak they don't just beat us over the head with tragedy they chip away at us slowly and carefully until all sunshine is gone and you don't even realize when it disappeared.
01:16:16
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So I went in mostly blind and honestly, I'd recommend that. The title itself gives you the basic framework. You know what the story is about, but it's not the goal that matters.
01:16:27
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It's who's pursuing it. And that's where the movie shines. The character dynamics here actually reminded me of hereditary, that raw, grounded and brutal portrayal of family.
01:16:40
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It's real, it's flawed, and it's beautiful. And at its core, the film is about grief. We've seen that. It's about loss. And what we do with that pain, do we rise from the pain of grief and and make ourselves better?
01:16:54
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Do we grow from it? Or do we crumble haunted by memories becoming shadows of who we once were? good Good
01:17:05
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on our show, we break things down using a scorecard into a bunch of different categories. We score the story, which I gave this movie a five. We score the character arc. I also gave this movie a five.
01:17:19
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Everybody has an arc that is incredible. The music and sound design I gave a four. The sound design is incredible, but the music serves the purpose of the movie. It's not really ah memorable score.
01:17:30
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The editing and special effects, I wanted to give this a five because the special effects are You have to see it. um The editing, there are some things that I spotted immediately.
01:17:46
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It's in the trailer. There's a scene where the boy is pounding on the door that has blood on it. The next time we see that door, there's no blood on it. So little things like that that I did notice in the film. And so I have to dock it on the editing for that.
01:17:58
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The script is for it's great. The acting is a five. amazing the direction is a five i love the philip house use of longer tracking shots balanced with some we get some ultra close-ups we get some focus play moving things in and out of focus that is fantastic uh our cultural it factor uh cultural significance and it factor i gave it a four because there's a lot of buzz about this movie but i won't know
01:18:30
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for now, if it's truly a five. ah But my overall entertainment value is a nine. And if you've listened to my show, you know the difference between a nine and a 10 is a 10 means I will watch it again immediately.
01:18:42
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i do not want to watch this movie again immediately. So it's a nine. i do not want to turn around and sit through that experience again. I will see it again, but that gives bring her back a grand total of 45 out of 50 for me, which would translate to four and a half stars out of five.
01:19:04
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So how many of the rest of us saw that? Oh man. I want to say real quick, I'm going to see it tomorrow morning and your review of it. made me so i have a thing with kids and horror movies i i've only seen one t trailer months ago i don't even remember what was in it all i know now is what tim showed a second ago was the poster and the title so i get it it's a movie and there's a kid involved kids in horror are the only thing that makes me know upset um i can i
01:19:39
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Well, brother, I can hang with the best of them with everything, but like this, um' ah so I'm going to see it tomorrow morning. Your review made me excited and even more, um dread it's dread inducing what you said.
01:19:54
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um And that was a great little little review that you did of it without spoiling fucking anything, man. yeah I can't wait to go see it. So I'm going to, I'll have to get back to you on that one. I'm going to text you after I watch it.
01:20:06
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Yeah, you you better do that.
01:20:11
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I felt like, yeah, i was going to say, I i felt like it felt like the perfect companion piece to talk to me. um i would agree, like, talk to me. I really like the movie, but I think, I don't know if it's just like the recency bias or I'm curious to find out what you guys think about it, but I felt like that this was a little bit more fleshed out.
01:20:32
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I agree with you on the hereditary vibes. There's definitely, there's definitely like, Oh my gosh, the the amount of anxiety that you have sitting through this movie, very, very like dread-inducing over the course of the film.
01:20:47
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ah And there's some there's some scenes that happen in there, the way that they play out, it made me so uncomfortable. I'm just sitting there in my seat and it's just like... well You're just like wondering when when some of these sequences are over. like I'm like, how far are they going to take it for this? But I don't know.
01:21:05
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I think it's very, very promising like what these directors are doing and everything that they're doing for the horror genre.
01:21:14
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So i am I confess all the time on my show, I'm a crier when it comes to movies. I cry at dumb shit all the time. It's just just me. Yeah. um This movie had me crying for multiple reasons. Like, and I'm not sobbing in my chair. i shed a tear i twice from sheer stress.
01:21:36
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Like, Oh my God. And then also from a story. Like it was one of those experiences for me. Yeah.
01:21:46
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And it's definitely tragic. I saw it last night, and I hadn't seen the trailer. I knew nothing about it. I went in completely blind, and I rarely do that. um I did love Talk to Me.
01:21:57
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I'd say it's probably on par with Talk to Me if you liked it. I'm still processing it, though, so I can't say if I absolutely loved it just yet. But it's definitely one to see.
01:22:07
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um They did a fantastic job. And there
Indie Horror Film Picks
01:22:10
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are a lot of my God moments, so prepare to be yeah there are some shocking moments for sure i'm so nervous based on what y'all are all saying about this i'm stoked yeah and you'll value your teeth i'm just gonna say that whoa i'll leave it at that be thankful you have yep you saw it you saw it too you don't wanna get in yeah put on the spot yeah No spoilers. Don't talk about the teeth. I didn't give anything away really, really.
01:22:43
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i hate I hate spoilers, so don't worry about that. um So I actually share a manager with the Filippo brothers and i it's been um kind of i've so i went I went into the theater with a different experience. like I intentionally told like told him, my manager, that I'm not watching any of the trailers.
01:23:12
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i love I love talk to me, and I want to go in as blindly as possible. And I love that we keep saying blindly and it's kind of like a a dark very dark pun, but I can't get it out. Every time I say it, I
01:23:30
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have to think of a different way to say that. I didn't even think about that, but yes. Yeah. so So the one thing I was told beforehand, the only thing I knew about this movie, my manager said, yes, it's scary.
01:23:47
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but he said I wasn't prepared for how emotional it is. So, so I, I said, okay. And I also know that they wrote, talk to me and bring her back, like back to back.
01:24:01
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Um, the, the studio one, one them to jump directly into talk to me too, but, um, they were kind of working through the death, ah a death in their family.
01:24:12
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And they did it with these two films and, uh, you know bring her back. Boy, like you all said, that first the first the first i I guess the first act, like you said, i did it it wasn't slow, but I'm sitting there as a as a film watcher, as a fan, but I'm also sitting there as a person who is managed by the same
01:24:47
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person who manages the directors so i'm like please don't suck please don't suck and once it picked up i realized how they played me like a fucking piano i mean it's i rode that roller coaster the whole way through The theater was so quiet once it ended and everyone was just kind of like, we we went through this shared experience and we we need a support group. now Yeah. just same Same experience in my theater, dead silent when the credits roll, just kind of like, oh, oh, wow.
01:25:27
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Yeah. Okay, that wraps up our talk on Bring Her Back. So we are moving into the Curio cabinet portion of the show, which tonight is held down. i think that's me. By Aaron.
01:25:43
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That's all you, Aaron. That's all you. I'm so excited. So you gave me ah a little bit of a heads up, and I thought, what if I... think back to some of the independent lesser known films that I've watched in the last few months.
01:25:56
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So it's not specifically just May, um mostly 2025, but a few leading up to it as well. I do have some physical copies here that I'm going to share, but basically I'm just going to talk through these movies.
01:26:09
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yeah I think I'm in good company. So I know I'm in good company, so I wouldn't be surprised if you've seen some of these movies. So jump in if you have. Do you want spotlighted nice and big so we can see what you're holding up? I don't know. That's a lot of pressure. but It's up to you, whatever you think.
01:26:26
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So the first one I want to be looking Lou. don't know if anyone here has seen this. There we go Lookie Lou. This one is screen team releasing. It's directed by Jason Zink and written by Nolan. My hail.
01:26:40
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This movie really took me by surprise. Has anyone seen it? and i I have not. I haven't yet. no So it's about a lawyer who gets a camera. I'm getting chills just thinking about it.
01:26:52
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Gets a camera and starts spying on people and then realizes he really likes spying on people. He starts breaking into their homes, spying on them. And then, and mean, you're probably getting maniac vibes because there are definitely a lot of maniac vibes here because that's a mannequin and he keeps it in his basement. um He decides he's going to become a serial killer.
01:27:15
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And what's fantastic about this movie is that it starts out slow. He just follows people down like alleys, just people walking down ah sidewalk, for example. And you're right there with them as as they're walking and they don't know that they're being filmed.
01:27:29
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um It's disturbing and there's very little dialogue. It's all just voyeuristic. That's some creepy shit. yeah I'm in, that sounds good yeah good. Yeah, yeah. So I got this from Scream Team releasing and you can see it's signed by the guys behind it.
01:27:46
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yeah I think they still have copies. This was probably the most shocking unexpected film I've seen in a while. Looky Lou. um i intended yeah Check that out. Definitely. If you guys say let me know what you think because I'm a huge fan.
01:28:00
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um I've got another Scream team releasing here. This is Cannibal Comedian. um Sean Heights directed this. You did an interview with him, right? I did interview these guys. yes yeah It's basically about a cannibal who has a dream of becoming a stand stand up comedian.
01:28:18
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exactly That's exactly what he does. if you are If you're in the moods for some cannibal jokes, like what's been eating you lately, it's probably me. Things like that.
01:28:31
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Cannibal comedian. I had a lot of fun with this one. it's I mean, go in with lower expectations, and it pretty much the title kind of sums it up. Hell yeah. Yes, so that's a good one Next I've got He Never Left.
01:28:45
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um I did interview the director behind this as well, James Morris, and this is about the Paleface Killer. said It's set on Halloween, but it's not...
01:28:56
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um mean, you can watch it in October, you can watch it around Halloween, but i think it's also a film you can watch at any time of year. It has some psycho vibes to it. I really like this one. The cover art on that is fantastic. I love it. I look at that. art on That's really cool.
01:29:10
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You see the motel? That's why I said like ah psycho vibes. um He Never Left, I recommend that one as well. I've got Invited here. is he kisses Is he never left the the prequel to bring her back?
01:29:25
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wouldn't it Wouldn't that be She Never Left? That's a incredible good one. I like it. I like it. um Next up, I've got Invited. This was directed by Navin Wermaswaran. I did chat with this guy as well.
01:29:41
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It's streaming on Found TV, if you guys are familiar with that. Very low budget, but it's it's done so well. And the premise behind this is about a family tubes in on a Zoom meeting just like this to watch their daughter's elopement somewhere in Russia.
01:29:57
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And they gradually realize that she's marrying into a cult. And things go very badly. Has anyone seen this one? No. That's a good one. Let's see.
01:30:10
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check out that's a good one let's see besel yeah you guys see this one yeah yeah it looks cool we talked we talked to the director on the nightclub with that movie um yeah aaron fradkin yes i talked to him as well this is cool uh a really smart horror anthology that sort of pat covers multiple decades i really like that one another one to check out um I think that might be it for physical copies, but I do have a list. So let me just run through my list quickly.
01:30:42
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How I doing on time? How am I doing on time? You you have the whole segment. So i don't know but I'm going to cancel my segment because I went over.
01:30:53
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I'm not really watching the time too too closely, too closely. So. Go for it. Well, I can go through this pretty quickly. um Let's see.
Film Previews and Discussions
01:31:01
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Next up, I have Blood Star by Lawrence Giacomelli.
01:31:04
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I don't think this is streaming yet. I got a ah screener link. But be on the lookout for it. It's basically about a young woman who's traveling across the desert and starts to get stalked by a serial killer policeman.
01:31:21
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Mm-hmm. OK. Very good. Blood Star is good. prove ah That gives me some um beginning of Stephen King's... Desperation?
01:31:33
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah Yes, yes. Well, it goes to some very dark places. Bloodstar, Little Bites on Shudder.
01:31:44
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guys may have seen that one. Yep, it's good one. Spider-1 directed that. Yes. That's a great one too. The Conjuring Tapes, if you liked the Christmas tapes. The Conjuring Tapes is a new anthology um by Wolfcat Films.
01:31:58
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Robert Living's and Randy Nunn-Law directed that one. think have five more. um The Winemaker by Emil Strom. It's a found footage film about a documentarian who goes out to the countryside with a winemaker to learn about how he makes wine.
01:32:18
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And let's say there let's just say there are some very dark secrets to his process. That's called The Winemaker. And that that's also streaming on found TV. So you guys can check that out there. I picture in my mind, I picture someone jumping into those like those big vats, the wooden barrels of the grapes, but it's not grapes.
01:32:39
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might have Yeah, there's some secret ingredients. Leave it at that, I guess. um Next up, Uncontained by Morley Nelson. yep Kind of a smart take on the zombie subgenre.
01:32:56
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I really liked that one. If you are a fan of Uncle Peckerhead, check out Bloody Axe Wound on Shudder by John. I've seen some buzz about that one.
01:33:06
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Yeah, it' it's good. It's funny. Horror comedy very much and in the vein of Uncle Peckerhead. And he he does a really nice job with the score, with the music he brings into his films.
01:33:18
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um It's kind of a meta take on the slasher genre, but it's really smart coming of age. And there's some love in the mix too. um Three more. Project MK Hex by Gerald Waddell.
01:33:32
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know if you guys have seen that. yeah That's a good one. I was blown away. It was fantastic, right? Yes. I don't know how you guys have all the time to watch these movies. I wish. I'm so jealous, man. I want to.
01:33:45
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I'm lucky to get like three in a week. You and David are always like, here's the seven movies I watched. like yeah I do a lot of cardio at the gym. There go.
01:33:58
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Okay, ah Stop Motion by Robert Morgan. I think this came out last year. yeah it was fantastic. bit one Crazy art there. Azrael by E.L. Katz, which I think is another Shudder film.
01:34:10
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But I love that there's no dialogue. And going into a movie without dialogue, kind of like Looky Lou, I'm always hesitant. But I think they did a fantastic job with that. Actually, i lied. Two more. Dark Secrets, Game of Death, Chapter 2. Check that one out. Timo Rose directed Friyaka. have no fucking clue. ats I have no idea how to say that.
01:34:32
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But if you like folk horror, check out Friyaka. Oh, yeah. And lastly, I guess, Grafted. You may have seen this. Directed by Sasha Rainbow.
01:34:44
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24 hours. fucking Uncontained. But Morley Nelson, the guy behind that, is a super sweet, super awesome guy. And um yes steve we we also talked to him on the nightclub. And and joe blow horror show uh another show i'm on but like that that guy will talk to you watch his movie it's so awesome and it's very cool is good yeah he used his family and his own house to make this movie like yes yes so Go ahead.
01:35:16
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No, go ahead, Aaron. I interviewed him too. I just haven't aired the video yet, but it was like, oh my God, it's like we're on set because he was in his house. I was like this looks familiar. And there's an element in the movie where the windows are bulletproof.
01:35:29
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And so I had to ask him, are they actually bulletproof windows? Did you know that he was a Chippendales dancer?
01:35:36
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that did not come up we actually have footage of that are you ready to see no i'm kidding is that true is he really had no um it's it's alleged and and he doesn't confirm nor deny it but if you watch the movie you won't want to deny it i can see could he see he stars in it as well as writing directions so yeah uncontained is dope yes Awesome. It was cool.
01:36:02
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Aaron, thank you so much for that. I yeah thank very invited you because you always have a stack of movies with at least three that I've never seen and at least two that I want to see so so that I haven't already.
01:36:17
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So that's why I invited for you. I knew you would have a stack of stuff that we needed to add to our list and get to as soon as we could. So thank you so much for that segment.
Physical Media and Collectibles
01:36:28
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We are Headed to the physical media. This is covering the guys who collect those beautiful box sets have already convinced me to spend more money than I should.
01:36:41
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Left me on the verge of divorce. My wife told me it only costs $200 and that's less than some of the things I've purchased recently. So these guys are going to talk to you about recent 4K drops and not just what movies you can get, but what incredible features they come with.
01:37:01
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So, Steven, you're kicking off the portion. What do you have for us? Okay. So just to kick it off, I've got for the first title. you want spotlighted too? um It doesn't matter. how close swear. it. Yeah, whatever. it.
01:37:16
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do yeah now whatever do it Okay, so the first title I got, Jason Goes to Hell. be Nice. Yes.
01:37:27
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That is dick looking. Yeah, I felt like when Arrow Video initially put out the remake, What was it like late last year?
01:37:38
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But I kind of figured that that was to coming down the pipeline. They started doing announcements for this. And then once we actually had an official announcement for both of these films, this and I'll talk about the other one after this. But ah I'm not goingnna lie. Like I didn't really have a strong need to have these films in 4K necessarily because I felt like the box set from Screen Factory was just like it's like a crown jewel i feel like in my collection but holy hell these 4ks look so good um but with this one i was really impressed like this is definitely a film that i feel like has grown on me over time when i first started getting into these movies i was not a big fan of of this or jason goes to hell and i like that it's kind of i've warmed up to it a little bit more and i would say that this one is
01:38:29
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I mean, I feel like the remake just maybe because it's a little bit more recent that that film came out, but the remake was probably the best looking out of these three. And this one is like just trailing just shortly behind.
01:38:42
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um but it's like loaded with special features on it. I mean, there's just so much love that was put into this release. I'm just curious, i have any of you guys picked up the this 4K? Oh yeah. That was a gift. Oh yeah, i mean sure.
01:38:55
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It was a gift for me. That was one that, I'm a big Friday. Friday's probably my favorite franchise. I know like- Same. Same. i can get in i can get into fights over nightmare on elm street but i'm not i'm not a dream sequence dude so nightmare on elm street kind of loses me just a little bit i love freddy more than i love his movies um take that back but
01:39:21
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i like freddy more than his films the friday movies does anybody know are they going to do all of them are we working backwards? I'm going to buy them all if they do, especially Jason lives because I, it's probably, it's going to be tough with the, yeah, with the who who owns what.
01:39:45
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Yeah. it's I think that arrow video, I believe has the rights at least to these three films and then kind of up in the air with Freddie versus Jason. um but I mean,
01:39:56
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Yeah, I think it's just a matter of time, I'm sure, before they start releasing the other ones on 4K through, through so like, ah as studio releases. But, um yeah. Yeah, the latest I heard was that they owned these three because of a deal with the New Line.
01:40:10
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They cannot get Freddy vs. Jason because and um New Line is considering the Nightmare on Street franchise to be an active franchise. So they will not license out the rights to anything. but How about they do something with it?
01:40:26
Speaker
Yeah. Wait, you didn't see the 4th day box that was titled The Freddy 7 Film Collection? Oh boy. The steel bucket. Why is it $280?
01:40:38
Speaker
and because they know we'll pay for it they money yes has anyone has anyone pre-ordered it no i'd love to i want to i just so much yeah that that one i feel like is i don't know that that one's kind of uh i want it but i'm curious to see what the steelbook box that has to offer and just a little bit more info on it um So I was really impressed with that one. And then naturally, obviously within the same order, got Jason goes to hell.
01:41:10
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So I think that this one, it's not that I think necessarily like the quality isn't there. Like it's an overall, like a really great release.
01:41:21
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I just think compared to the other two films, like, uh, with like the 4k presentation, like the transfer that they did, I just don't know if the source material is quite there where they can really elevate much more considering where like the film came from essentially.
01:41:36
Speaker
ah yeah. but Does the, but does that release contain the Adam Marcus documentary, the new one, heart of darkness? no i believe i if i recall correctly i didn't go deep dive into this just yet like as far as the special features but i don't believe i think that that's like separate yeah it's gonna be a separate release yeah hearts of darkness is actually gonna be ah like a full-blown theatrical release so he's promoting that isn't he um was supposed to see it at texas frightmare this year but unfortunately funds didn't allow me to go um but they did so they did screen the movie there and i really wanted to watch it i i don't
01:42:14
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particularly love in my heart. um Jason goes to hell, but I love the background. on yeah It's just batshit crazy. Like there's no way.
01:42:26
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there's There's no way other way to put it. I'm like, man, this yeah it's it's a cool concept. It's just so like you're just taking such a big swing on this and body horror, man. Yep.
01:42:37
Speaker
Yep. I hated it the first time I saw it. I hated it because I'm a Friday. I want this. I want the camp. I want people dying at summer camp. ah That's even ah Manhattan is that's that's a rough.
01:42:52
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film. or ah ah love great I got soft one. But it's a rough one um but goes to hell has grown on me every time I watch it I like it more than the previous time i love the concept the new idea that it brings like oh he's just like possessing these people so he can get back to his body I'm like yeah I'm kind of here for that I'm kind of here for that my only complaint is how many times do you have to shoot something before you realize it doesn't work
01:43:24
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I just watched it. I'm like, they have fired thousands of rounds into this guy and he's still coming. When are you just going to put the gun down and run? But that's my too I do want to add Steve, not to jump on, not to jump on you here, but no, oh go for it.
01:43:40
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Get both of those Friday. 13th releases have incredible commentaries with Steve Barton, Uncle Creepy, who was one of founders of Dress Central. Also, too, in particular, I want to shout out there's a little write up in the Jason goes to help booklet written by Matt Donato, which I think is worth the the the purchase alone to read his three page write up. I think that's in Jason X. I think that one's in ah that write up, but it's an incredible, incredible little like piece of writing.
01:44:10
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Yeah, I think Michael, Michael Felser's the other the other one with Uncle Creepy on the commentary for it looks like I just know it's but Jason X. Yep. Yep. Founder of Redshirt Pictures. Yep.
01:44:23
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But I highly recommend both of them. um i I mean, i was just curious, like, have you guys had like, if you guys watched either of them? What was your guys' thoughts on them? I saw Jason goes to hell. um I thought it was fantastic. The 4K transfer.
01:44:38
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I mean, that like the intro alone, man, was awesome and so nostalgic. I haven't seen that movie since VHS. So was a massive upgrade for me. Yeah. But I haven't touched Jason X just yet.
01:44:50
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And I cannot wait because same thing. I haven't seen that movie since VHS. So um'm I'm excited to see that 4K crispiness. yeah Space titties. so Yeah. Yeah, yep yeahp I think Jason, my Jason actually just arrived. So I'm excited for that one. Let's go. It's yeah me. It's really hard to compare to hell because Jason X, most of the movie was shot digitally, but some was shot on film. So most of the 4k was restored from it from a digital part of the movie. So it doesn't have
01:45:24
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as big a difference, as big an improvement as I think Jason Goes to Hell does. yeah I also think Jason Goes to Hell like looks and feels like an actual movie. Jason X doesn't. So Jason X to me is sort of like the the Robin in it You know mean you have Batman, Jason Goes to Hell, he's a big guy. Jason is kind of like the Robin in the collection. It was great, but your money you're getting your money's worth with Go to Hell.
01:45:47
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For sure, for sure.
Reanimator 4K Release
01:45:49
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um And then the last one I want to save the best one for last. So this last one that I am going to talk about has like my highest recommendation. This I would consider probably so far, i mean, we're we're almost halfway through the year, but um easily one of my favorite releases so far.
01:46:07
Speaker
and that is Ignite. Oh, Jesus Christ. Hold on. Almost lost the whole box set. Reanimator. cold Yeah. Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah. From Ignite Films. So uh man box just looks like it feels good it it um almost ended up on the floor just now describe the texture of it dude it's yeah oh man that's beautiful wow damn bad box i'm gonna have to get that i bet that's holding on the back uh no i believe for the like the deluxe box set that's still available last time i checked but um
01:46:45
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Listen, I'll tell you what, like i was so surprised that Arrow wasn't the one who ended up doing this release because they did like those nice Blu-ray box sets previously and Ignite Films like hats off to them because they knocked this out of the park.
01:47:01
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um it A lot of the legacy special features are carried over with this one as well as they have like a booklet that's in here. So lots of like different interviews that they did. and specifically for this release.
01:47:17
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Overall, i was I was so impressed with how nice this transfer looked. It's like, I would say, like, almost a night and day difference compared to the Blu-ray set.
01:47:29
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i'm Not sure if you guys have had a chance to check it out, but this this is definitely up there for me so far, I swear. Yeah, I mean, I think that release alone is worth picking up if you're a Stuart Gordon fan, because there is a 1977 produced documentary on there about the Organic Theater Company, which was Stuart Gordon's theater company before he started directing.
01:47:51
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And it's incredible because what he did in theater is just as provocative as what he ended up doing in film. And I think that documentary alone for film buffs you know cinephiles is worth price of purpose alone for sure well i just got to um watch this in the theater for the 40th anniversary um oh it was it was so cool seeing and and we had a crowd um they they and they were all into like obviously the people going to the 40th anniversary are going to be into it but everyone was into it it was it was one of the most perfect experiences that uh
01:48:30
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how do you think it looked overall or sound? Uh, it, it, it looked and sounded just fine. it I don't, I don't know. It's, I think it was supposed to be like a, like a restored version. Um, but you know, it, it looked, it looked good. It didn't have, it wasn't blurry or anything like it didn't look like I was watching it on a, a tube TV on a VHS cause you know, cause it, so it was good.
01:48:56
Speaker
Um, I really enjoyed it. I was kind of hoping they would have had like a, uh, special introduction or maybe like an ending to the movie, but no, it was just straight up the movie played and that was that, but that's fine.
01:49:09
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It's cool to see it on the big screen. Yeah. I think, uh, it's, it just, my impression, it sounds like ignite films. I believe they have the rights for obviously brighter for animator and then maybe society.
01:49:22
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But if, if that's the case, well I mean, man, it's, it's in good hands. Like i just, i I can't recommend this one enough. Like if you guys are, um, big on reanimator, this is like, this gets my highest recommendation.
01:49:36
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Awesome. So Chris, you've already been doing what I asked you. The reason why I asked you to be part of this is highlighting those write-ups and the commentaries and that extra bonus stuff that comes with these movies that people spend time and effort putting together and you highlight that so well on your stuff what have you brought Alright, so this is really tough because physical media is funny what what is considered may releases what is considered June, you know, it's stuff that some people got in April. So I had to figure out what was recent that I felt was impactful and had something that I needed to tell everybody to watch.
01:50:22
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um So first, I want to highlight a small, smaller label now. Um, so I want to chat about celluloid dreams and their release of 1971's short night of glass dolls.
01:50:34
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Let's go. So let so me get you. This is highlighted. Yeah, wild. ah pull all that up there Yeah, put it on the jumbotron. Don't be shy, Chris. This is a thick hard box.
01:50:48
Speaker
The booklet doesn't fit in perfectly, but it is in Yeah, this is a i love it the card box. So directed by auto lotto, who probably most people would know for night train murders.
01:51:03
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This was kind of ah heavily underseen jello for a long time. And what's really funny about this movie is especially if you want to compare it to night train murders or the first celluloid dreams release, which was case of the bloody iris.
01:51:16
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um This is a totally different ballpark. There is barely any violence in this movie. And it's slow as a turtle, man. it is This movie is like an absolute crawl to get through, but it's worth every bit of it. The payoff is so good.
01:51:35
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It feels... Almost like in a league of its own. Like if you compare this to other late 60s, early 70s, yellow films, it feels just completely separate from it. And I think um Celluloid Dreams absolutely gave this thing the dream treatment. The restoration is beautiful.
01:51:51
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a lot of people don't know that the restoration team at Celluloid Dreams is only two people. So two people put this entire package together. um You have, I believe, two brand new commentary tracks on here.
01:52:04
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There's also a bunch of interviews, some of the last interviews with Otto Lotto. And then the booklet in here has a beautiful write-up just kind of exploring his career and I think it's worth reading because it's interesting to hear about a director whose goal was to not exploit violence or nudity and how he told how he explored the genre of filmmaking by not doing that.
01:52:30
Speaker
This comes with a little bit of a price tag. I mean, this is like a $55 release, but I promise you guys. totally worth it worth the investment it's worth it alone just to continue spreading the word about this movie this is how they trap you guys does it does it does it also have like a jazzy rock crazy italian horror movie from the 60s 70s soundtrack it is it is funky it's not as funky you would expect yeah not Not as funky as you'd expect. But I will say, this has... um any Anybody on here remember the Stephen King anthology series Nightmares and Dreamscapes? There is a story in that that's very similar to the overarching plot of this movie that involved somebody... I'm not going to spoil it I'm going to leave it at that. Yeah.
01:53:18
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move But yeah, that's Celluloid Dreams. That's still available, that limited edition. I think if you get it directly through their web store, you get these massive lobby cards.
Grindhouse Releasing and 'The Beyond'
01:53:29
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They're gigantic. I don't have them in front of me because they're like the size of my Day of the Dead poster in front of me, but you get those. um this next release is technically the street date still isn't there yet but everybody has it and i can't highlight physical media without bringing this one up i'd be a psychopath not to um this is from grindhouse releasing this is full cheese the beyond you hell yeah let's go ah that's beautiful yeah i got that one and hold on ready i i'll show uh let's slide this out that louisiana cosmic horror swamp donkey madness
01:54:08
Speaker
This is your disc holder right here. oh So the book of Ivan disc holder. Let me flip this around. I bet it smells great too. I love that. Dude, I can't even like begin to list off in in my opinion, the importance of this. I mean, the 4K restoration looks absolutely incredible. Grindhouse Releasing was touring this thing for what felt like years before it actually- Too long.
01:54:34
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This is six discs. So it is her one- Ooh, Lord. Yep, you got one 4K, three Blu-rays, a DVD, and a soundtrack CD. so yeah ah So, believe it or not, on my podcast, I was able to list off everything that was on this without looking. I have now forgotten.
01:54:55
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So you get um the theatrical version of the Beyond and the composer's cut on 4K, which the composer's cut is the same movie, just with a reworked score. You also get though that same release on the Blu-ray.
01:55:09
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There is a solid extras disc on here with a ton of interviews. I would bet there's probably 15 hours of interviews on this. Oh, wow. it's out of control good lord and there's a fourth desk of just archival extras so all extras that have been done least before um you do have the dvd release of the original cut of the movie called seven doors of death that is available on here and then you have the composer's cut on cd which cd over vinyl for me when it comes to listening to movie scores i don't know if i'm alone in that boat but uh the the vinyl um
01:55:46
Speaker
explosion can go fucking self if we're allowed to curse on here i've been cursing so i hope we are yeah i'm not paying 80 for a 10 uh you know a 10 song soundtrack of ah of a 1970s movie just to have it on vinyl i'm sorry um no the people the people are vinyl but same so grindhouse releasing looked at the lord of the rings box sets from back in the day and said hold my beer yeah Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, look, while the behind the scenes on here is not as comprehensive as that, I think how many discs did the Lord the Rings trilogy
Soundtrack Formats Debate
01:56:22
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span? Nine discs of just behind the scenes, right? Right. Yeah, it was massive. It was ridiculous. And I loved every minute of it.
01:56:28
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Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, this is incredible. The initial launch price for this was $66.66, which was very fair. Yes. Ooh. The movie looks incredible. I think you have plenty to get into. I think there's like six commentary tracks.
01:56:43
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ah across the sky. um So this is one that I have to shout out. It is, I think, still available. I'd have to double check. But yeah, Grindhouse releasing. And this is the first time they've ever done a big box release like this. So this was incredible. And hopefully more to come. I'm hoping for a Cannibal Holocaust big box. for Give me pieces.
01:57:05
Speaker
I want pieces. Give me Hollywood 9028. Give me cat in the brain. Yeah, that's true. I mean, I'm i'm here for all it. I wish there would be a Evil Dead 81 release like that.
01:57:16
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yeah Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So a friend of ours commented on Grindhouse Releasing's post about them touring Evil Dead on four k And he said, you know, are you guys teasing a potential 4K disc release by doing this?
Demand for 'Evil Dead' 4K Release
01:57:31
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And they flat out just said no.
01:57:33
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They did that to me too, dude. I was commenting the same thing and they just like cat all caps. No. Yeah. That's hilarious. um So final.
01:57:44
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um I do have one in particular reason I think you need to buy this. I mean, there's a bunch, but I want to talk about Second Sight's release of The Brood on Love this movie. um Dude, clearly, I mean, if you've seen The Shrouds, this is arguably his most personal film.
01:58:02
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I think The Shrouds probably... is is more personal, but um the brood is incredible. This 4K looks fantastic. But I have to say in this there for anybody who collects Second Sight there, these aren't booklets.
01:58:17
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These are flat out like books. They're like 100 That's a novella. but' an um There is a write-up in this book. I'm going to find it right now. um That runs for 12 pages called Loving the Children of my of My Rage, My Personal Response to David Cronenberg's The Brood by Jen Adams.
01:58:37
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which tells a story of, for those who have seen the brood would be able to connect the tissue here. um It tells her personal story of divorce and of her position in her relationship as, you know, the woman and in the relation, of what she went through.
01:58:56
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I never expected to read an essay that actually kind of made me put this down that I had to just kind of sit back with. Mm-hmm.
01:59:06
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um I absolutely admire it. I've been trying to find her on social media just so I could reach out and be like, hey, look, you know, I campaign my friends, specifically GC like to call me the bearded booklet guy because always out there like telling people to read your booklets, you know, um for the $50 price tag.
01:59:26
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Second site gives you a ton of interviews. You get a brand new commentary. It's a beautiful release. But this book alone. worth the price of admission, just have to say. So this is still available.
01:59:38
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um I know places like the movie room and Diabolic still have this
'The Brood' and 'Girls Without Shame'
01:59:42
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available. I think it's like $48 on average, worth every bit. And I'm not going highlight this one too much. I just want to tell people to buy it.
01:59:51
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um Indicator did put out Jean Rolland's or Jean Rolland. Girls Without Shame. This was originally on the stack for me to talk about. um This is one of my favorite pulpy horror films ever. It's kind of combined with the soft core movie. It's it's fantastic.
02:00:07
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And if you want history on the French sex film movement in ah in a nutshell, this release from Indicator gives you all of that. So I just had to shout that out. Nice.
02:00:20
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Awesome. Thank you, Chris. Good choices. Thank you. Yeah. ah love that insight in the way you highlight stuff i'm i love the brood uh i made my siblings sit through the brood a long time ago and i will still send my sister photos from the end of that movie and she sends me all kinds of hateful messages back but i do it just to mess with her and it's a great time because it's a great film it's so good
02:00:52
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I mean, right if you haven't sent that to her, and like, if you ever get mad at her, just send her the photo of the external sack and say, like, just as a reminder, this was how you were born. Frequently, i get I mean, I'm not going to take the time to go back to the messages, but I've sent it probably two weeks ago.
02:01:08
Speaker
And I was like, hey, I hate you. But the movie is so good. So originally we advertised that the movie den was going to be joining us tonight.
02:01:19
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Life happens and GC from face the movies is filling in for that spot today and did so with an hour of notice. Thank you so much for being here. Excited that you're here.
02:01:32
Speaker
What goodies have you brought? Well, I just want to start off by saying that to have to follow up after the Wolf of Wall Street in the movies you know over here, like it's going to be hard.
02:01:44
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um But I'm going to do my best. So some of the movies that I'm talking about, i they're not new releases, but they are new to me. And the reason why is because I am finally region region unlocked.
02:01:59
Speaker
So I've been able to partake in. Yeah, thank you. It's it's it's been amazing. Like it opens up a whole new world for for film, but also a whole new world for being broke.
02:02:13
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um
02:02:17
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And obviously, Chris and Steven have done an excellent job at getting me to buy. any i mean, it's just literally like I've said before, and i'll so I'll always say that these guys, you know, put them in a room or in a group chat.
02:02:29
Speaker
And they just mention just the first two or three words that come out out of their mouth. It's like, all right, I'll
Psychological Horror Films
02:02:33
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buy it. Like, you know, you know, ah but I want to talk about a release that unfortunately I couldn't get the chunky box set, ah but I was able to get this one on sale at this website called Monster Mall.
02:02:47
Speaker
And I was just so excited because at the time I didn't even realize that it there was available and it's my second site and it's called The Sacrament. And... uh, Thai West.
02:02:59
Speaker
Yes, it is. It is. Okay. And I, was I, I want to say this movie. So for me, I could watch any type of horror. And the only thing that scares absolute crap out of me is the human psyche.
02:03:13
Speaker
Um, I mean the fact that this is based, like it's, it's not, it's loosely based. It's inspired by the Jonestown massacre from 1978. Pretty much, you know, the running joke where they say don't drink the Kool-Aid.
02:03:26
Speaker
And this this is something when I saw this was available, i was just like, man, I want to see behind the scenes. I want to and want to hear what their thought process into making this movie because It's so fascinating to me the fact that like so ah so people could just get sucked into this type cult mentality and they could see things going wrong. like As you'll see in this movie, you start noticing certain things that are very suspicious, but yet people kind of turn a blind eye. And to me, I've always found the psychology behind that so just incredibly fascinating.
02:04:01
Speaker
um or Also, like the movie like the Stanford experiment. right based on true story how within just a few days they were to convince these people that they were in a real prison and i mean again there's a book based on this and it's just and i'm not going to go too much into it just because of the of the time but it's highly recommended movie called das experiment that covers that and it's very disturbing I got to check that out. haven't seen it, man. That was 20 years ago. go ahead.
02:04:31
Speaker
Sorry to jump in. No, no, not at all. I mean, I mean i i love talking to people that share this type of mentality with these type of films because it's always it's scary, man. It's scary the fact that these things have actually happened.
02:04:42
Speaker
compared to like um Tim was saying about for for Freddy Krueger. Right. Like that's it's scary because somebody get you in your dreams, by but at the same time it's a fictitious character. So it's not as plausible.
02:04:54
Speaker
And another movie I'm going to jump into is by Wes Craven. This one I haven't seen since back in the VHS days.
'The People Under the Stairs' Discussion
02:05:01
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And it is the people under the stairs. Yeah, man, you're doing a remake for that.
02:05:08
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This I heard I heard about that. And I'm scared. gared yeah about the But this cover alone, when I saw this, I got this on sale too. I think I got it for like $8.99 on that website.
02:05:20
Speaker
And I mean, i was just like, oh my god, I haven't seen this since forever. And one of the special features that has me extremely excited is pretty much talking about underneath the floorboards. Jeffrey Reddick, which is the creator of the Final Decision series, and he recalls the lasting impact of the people under the stairs.
02:05:39
Speaker
and that's so cool like to me it's like i love the final destination franchise so to be able to hear him talk about how this movie like influenced them it's such a treat and again i haven't seen this since vhs days so to be able to see it on blu-ray i mean i'm sure i'm gonna hopefully be blown away dude you're gonna enjoy that what's the reverse are on that i haven't seen that covered well um one i'm gonna go ahead and Oh yeah, pull that beauty out. OG, OG. ge oh ge yeah.
02:06:09
Speaker
And then. I love that artwork. haven't seen that. like that. Like they crushed it, man. I see they caught my eye. And before I even saw the title, i was like, wait a minute, no way. And yeah, I'm so excited for some rest in peace, Wes Craven. I mean, this is something exciting. This is by arrow.
02:06:28
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and I know probably didn't mention it, but and then the last remake is supposed to be Jordan Peele, by the way. So I think I know how you feel about Jordan Peele. like your stuff so far.
02:06:41
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Yeah, he's a he's a talented filmmaker. So I haven't lost all hope for the remake like I normally would. But we'll see. Yeah. yeah yeah I mean, it's a kind of like the whole Batman thing with um what was his name?
02:06:56
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ah The guy from Twilight where where they were saying over and exactly like people were upset or with the same thing with Joaquin Phoenix being Joker. We were all kind of freaking out. And then these two movies came out and we're like, wow, like, all right. Yeah.
02:07:10
Speaker
yep but last but not least this is a ah grail for me this is one of the grails and i'll admit and i'm a little embarrassed to admit this but i hadn't seen the original up until last year when i started my youtube channel and i made a whole video on it talking in depth on this
Rare Blu-ray and Deluxe Editions
02:07:28
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movie and this is by a gentleman i'm sure you guys may or may not know know him but it's george a romero and who's that the hell yeah yeah that's i mean amazing yeah lord this fatty there's you i know it it's heavy it's heavy uh you know i'm i'm in this group chat with chris and stephen and a few other dudes and they were helping me out try to track this down whenever they saw anything come up you know they would send me information
02:07:59
Speaker
And honestly, i could just I couldn't justify paying like the $300 that was price tag on eBay. And then this came up on Facebook and somebody was selling it at such a low price brand new that I couldn't. I honestly i thought it was fake at first, but I received it. And this is the Blu-ray.
02:08:18
Speaker
um It's a 4K transfer on the Blu-ray. But the guys gave me the idea where I could just get the 4K discs and swap them out and I'm still saving a ton of money. Now with this, I mean, I'm just going to go ahead and open it because this is incredible. um First of all, I want to start off with the booklet. I mean, the two books, this is a novel and I mean, ah just fresh booklet smells amazing.
02:08:48
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oh yeah. It smells like it just got printed out. And then we have, i mean, talking about booklets, I mean, Chris is going to be proud. Look at this. Which I was I've read that cover to cover.
02:08:59
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So this is like this is I mean, incredible, like the detail like this is just I'm excited to dive into this. I just got this a week ago and then I already listened to the soundtrack. I was making a joke, but I was like serious about it behind the scenes.
02:09:16
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So yesterday I was playing the soundtrack and one of the songs that comes up when the zombies first come out, I was playing with my dog yesterday. And as soon as the song starts playing, my dog just kept getting more and more aggressive.
02:09:27
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Okay. It was hilarious, but definitely exciting. And I mean, yeah, this is I this is here. This is a for the four discs where you have like the Blu Ray that has special features and then the other three discs are the cut.
02:09:44
Speaker
So i already dived into the special features and they were phenomenal. I was watching the behind the scenes footage of the making, like the people, you know, that were the zombies and they recorded with their, I believe it was a, what was it? I think it's eight millimeter or something like that.
02:10:00
Speaker
Do they have the mall cut in there? Um, that's a good question. I know it has the let me see here. It has a theatrical cut, the extended Keynes cut and the Argento cut.
02:10:12
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um I've only seen the theater cut, so I haven't seen the other ones just yet. The Argento cut is a lot shorter and a lot quicker. The mall cut is the longest, most comprehensive.
02:10:24
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they, but that also might be a fan edit. So they might not. Yeah. So that's a, the longest cut on there is the, the can cut, which in my opinion is the definitive and that runs, I think 131 minutes, think.
02:10:38
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Uh, okay But last but not least, which is, oh, damn it. Of course I leave the soundtrack inside my CD player.
02:10:49
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but But yeah, this ah um just imagine one of the discs over here. anybody Yeah. yeah But yeah, the other yeah the other three soundtracks, compilations and stuff. And um I was listening to the Goblin Cut.
02:11:07
Speaker
So I mean, just I guess I got to say, guys, I mean, yeah, it's it's been an absolute treat being able to get these releases and add start adding to the collection, these box sets, because I mean, the love and care that people put into them behind the scenes, these books,
02:11:21
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I mean, going back and interviewing ah these you know these directors and cast members and all that, it's just I just recently did a podcast episode on Demon Knight.
Impact of 'Demon Knight'
02:11:33
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I'm sure you guys remember. Oh, yeah. Tales from the Crypt. And watching. yeah I highly recommend if you haven't pick up that Blu-ray and watch the behind the scenes in the making of it because I learned so much about it.
02:11:48
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And this is kind of just me throwing in the fourth movie into this as my my bonus. Sneaking it in there. They're just my bonus oned but one. I'm one of the key takeaways that I learned was that that movie pretty much is what even the director said got Billy Zane the role for the Titanic.
02:12:07
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And also the role that, yeah, they were they were talking about it. Even Billy Zane says it behind the scenes. He said how because he played that villain so well in Demon Knight is what inspired for him to be in the Titanic.
02:12:22
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And not to mention, it was his first debut as being bald. Nobody knew that Billy Zane was bald and he would wear wigs all the time, especially in the Titanic. And when he showed up for the casting for Demon Knight,
02:12:35
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ah The directors, he showed up with a suitcase with three wigs and the directors were like, what? Are you kidding me right now? We're seeing Billy Zane bald. And he's like, yeah, which wig do you guys want me to wear? And they were like, nope, no wig. We want you to be in all your bald glory.
02:12:50
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And that's what helped sell his character. ah But yeah, that's that's my i love my stuff. So thanks guys for letting me be on the jumbotron over here.
02:13:01
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Thank you. No, thank you so much. Literally an hour before we go live, we are messaging, hey, you're in? Yeah, awesome. And you're here.
Community Engagement and Pranks
02:13:11
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You're prepared.
02:13:11
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ah love it. Thank you so much for being willing to do that. Dude, are you kidding? Like the opportunity to be able to jump on and hang out with you guys. Some of you guys I've never met before. probably never seen your channel and I'm just excited to delve in. um nick I've never read any of your books and now I'm pumped, dude, to like read some of your books. i don't know if you could hear me, but just just in case.
02:13:34
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Okay, good, good. Yeah. I love how that's been a running gag throughout the whole episode. I was like, I wish I knew sign that language or something. we Just be like... But yeah, i'm just I'm grateful to be here, guys. Thank you so much for letting me in, especially last minute. And let let me ramble in. Can I have a quick Dawn of the Dead thing?
02:13:52
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Yes, yes. So I have a fellow author named Duncan Ralston. And we like to troll each other on social media by going to Cameo, which if you don't know what Cameo is, it's all these celebrities from the top you know A-list celebrities will sometimes go on there, all the way to like just random people on YouTube.
02:14:14
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So it's a goldmine for actors from the golden age of horror. And you can pay them to say anything. So yeah my friend, I got Bill Moseley to insult Duncan and trash his books.
02:14:31
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What? And then and then he comes back and hires Ken for a and i I was sick with norovirus. at time So he he has Ken for a fucking do a video and say, I hope you die from norovirus.
02:14:47
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That is awesome. Wow. That's my connection to the dawn of the dead. That's hilarious. So on that note, GC pumped to buy next books, Nick.
02:15:01
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Where can people find your books? Where's the best place for them to grab your stuff?
Accessing Nick Roberts' Books
02:15:09
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Well, the collectors who want, who like signed first editions can go to my website.
02:15:14
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It's www.nickrobertsauthor.com. I sell them. I have my my inventory and you can get them at any, and of course they're all on Amazon, Audible, in every format.
02:15:28
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They're in, bookstores, wherever you prefer to get your books. So the audio books are top quality too, that I have anathema on Kindle and audio book and read them simultaneously.
Closing Remarks and Gratitude
02:15:44
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So definitely go check out his books, excellent books. And that wraps up our very first episode of the dread broadcast.
02:15:56
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So we want to sincerely thank each and every one of you for tuning in, whether you're watching live or catching the replay. This is something new, something experimental, and it means the world that you spent your evening with us.
02:16:11
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We especially want to give a massive thank you to our special guest tonight, Nick Roberts, author of The Exorcist House, Mean Spirited, NFMA series, and so much more. Nick, your work continues to terrify, and having you with us for this first episode was a true honor.
02:16:24
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ah You set the bar pretty high.
02:16:28
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Thank each and every member of the panel for being here. And you we, if you're not behind the scenes, you don't know each was invited for, to do what they do best.
Community Support in Horror
02:16:41
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Come on here, show you a little bit about what they do on their channels and talk about horror with the rest of the community. So thank each and every member ah you on the panel for being here.
02:16:55
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seriously if you're watching this and you enjoyed it please share this post it tag your horror loving friends and send it in your group chat word of mouth is everything this community grows because of people like you and we'll be back at the end of june for episode two with another incredible lineup including a special guest known for slasher novels that makes brutal horror with mean girls energy yeah you're gonna want to be there for that episode So this is just the beginning. The Dread broadcast is meant to be a space where horror lovers, creators, collectors, writers, and fans come together each month to celebrate, critique, and dig into what makes this genre so damn addictive.
02:17:37
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And if you're a horror creator who wants to be a part of the future panel, reach out. We're building a rotating cast with some monthly mainstays, and there's always room at the table. Because... Like someone on this panel wisely said, the things we love keep getting more expensive, but community is free.
02:17:54
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And that's the soul of what's going on here. Thanks again for watching. Share the love, stay spooky, and we'll see you next time on the Dread Broadcast.