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Everything Action Commentary: Demons (1985)
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For the latest Everything Action Commentary, inspired by this month's Evil Dead Burn, Zach and Chris enter the cursed movie theater of the 1985 Italian cult classic, Demons.
Directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by Dario Argento, Demons follows a group of moviegoers attending a mysterious free screening of a horror movie. When the horror spills off the screen and into real life, the group tries to survive and avoid being possessed by evil demons. While watching the movie, Zach and Chris discuss the surprising leadership abilities of the pimp Tony (Bobby Rhodes), the rocking licensed soundtrack, the insane practical effects, why we keep cutting back to a group of cokeheads just driving around West Germany, and more.
You can watch the version of Demons we watched on YouTube below or watch it on Shudder, PlutoTV, Tubi, and more and sync it up with our commentary track to watch along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Io8k0X3168
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Transcript
Intro
Introduction and Movie Overview
00:00:27
Zach Sheets
Hello and welcome to another Every National Commentary for July 2026. I'm your host, Zach.
00:00:32
Chris Prime
And I'm your co-host, Chris.
00:00:34
Zach Sheets
And yeah, this month we got a new Evil Dead movie, Evil Dead Burn, and we talked about Evil Dead 2 on the podcast. um So we're still kind in that demon demonic mode, I guess. So we're going to be watching the 1985 cult Italian classic, Demons.
00:00:50
Zach Sheets
which is directed by Liberto Bava and presented by Dario
1985 Film 'Demons' Details
00:00:54
Zach Sheets
Argento. And this is like a um definite like an 80s cult classic. It's got like a crazy soundtrack with like Billy Idol and Motley Crue and stuff on it. And it's got um crazy, crazy special effects.
00:01:12
Zach Sheets
it's it's so it's It's always featured in like a lot of like horror specials. Shudder has been doing like a bunch of like specials about like horror movie moments, and it shows up on there. it's It's actually on Shudder right now. things are like the That's like the main official way to watch Demons, but it is all over the internet. It's on like pretty much every like free service as well. And also just YouTube. like it is just like there's like I think there's like a dozen versions. If you search for Demons on YouTube, there's like a million versions of there. just You can just like watch one of those.
00:01:43
Zach Sheets
which is where we're actually watching. We're watching a a version on youtube YouTube, but it's the, it's the, uh, any, any, any version of it, you could just find it. And then we are paused at the beginning, right before it says, Dario Argento Presenta.
00:01:58
Zach Sheets
And Chris,
00:01:58
Chris Prime
How's that not a cheese?
Creative Forces Behind 'Demons'
00:02:02
Zach Sheets
and Chris, you, you've never seen demons before, right?
00:02:04
Chris Prime
Never seen it. miss I mean, from the the the take of what it's sort of related to, it's like demon possessions.
00:02:05
Zach Sheets
you have any, do you have any idea about it at all or?
00:02:12
Chris Prime
But other than that, like it's definitely like on my Miss Dario Argento movies to watch. To get like his films. his films I don't think like I'm going to see how it ranks in the other like movies he's done like Suspiria and.
00:02:31
Zach Sheets
well well He just produced this. He did direct it.
00:02:33
Chris Prime
OK, OK, so OK, see, it's one of those like, is it him or he just sort of like slapped his name on it because he gave him money when that's something I would have made maybe and then like walked away.
00:02:44
Zach Sheets
yeah he He co-wrote it and produced it. but yeah It's Liberto Bava who directed... directed ah like Cannibal Holocaust and Blast Fighter and Monster Shark.
00:02:56
Chris Prime
Okay, so this was like, after this, this went downhill. Well, not downhill, but like a different path, because those movies are more cult, like horror, and not like blockbuster or like easy to put on TV movies.
00:03:07
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:03:17
Chris Prime
At least that, I mean, we're in the day and age where like that that doesn't need be a thing anymore. Like you can make this movie now, and it's like a great like video on demand movie. so I'm hoping for that. I'm hoping that like it's just a lost movie that um for me, it's like, oh, i actually like seen it and I recommend it to other people.
00:03:39
Chris Prime
yeah The fact that it's like ah ah like on like so many cult lists that appears, I'm excited for that.
Live Watch Begins
00:03:48
Zach Sheets
All right. Yeah. So I'll give a countdown. get started here. ah So five, four, three, two, One, play. Dario, check the presenta.
00:04:02
Chris Prime
Like behind you.
00:04:09
Zach Sheets
Demony! Or Demony.
00:04:30
Chris Prime
I thought that was like the location.
00:04:32
Zach Sheets
um
00:04:38
Zach Sheets
Are we going to get like a Demon's Wrap?
00:04:53
Chris Prime
You know, for like a punk scene, this is pretty quiet. Like the punks aren't boomboxing and like there's there's no graffitiing.
00:04:58
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:05:01
Chris Prime
It's just they're just taking public transit.
00:05:11
Zach Sheets
Somebody's like sampled a song before, right? And used it in a rap or something. They had to.
00:05:15
Chris Prime
Yeah, it's it's got like such a funky beat that you need lyrics.
00:05:16
Zach Sheets
here we go. this is This is like, you know how Dario Argento has like Goblin and then there was like that Suspiria like witch song and stuff like that, the Suspiria soundtrack?
00:05:33
Zach Sheets
this is like This is like the 80s hip hop version of like Suspiria soundtrack.
00:05:38
Chris Prime
Yeah, i I like that um the horror music kind of was like, oh, it's 85. You know, like it it evolved with the time.
00:05:48
Chris Prime
So this is the gothic, I guess, hip hop. Because now it's like Cassavania music style now.
00:06:11
Chris Prime
Why is she freaking out now? From, like, the people on the train. She's like, oh my god.
00:06:17
Zach Sheets
I just noticed all punks.
00:06:19
Chris Prime
Like, how would she not freak out while in the tunnel?
00:07:05
Zach Sheets
What time of day is it that like this subway station is abandoned? It seems like it's like in the middle of the day.
00:07:12
Chris Prime
Yeah, it's like the afternoon and no one's here. and This is just like an unpopular train stop.
00:07:19
Chris Prime
Last stop, the dump. like
00:07:25
Zach Sheets
Demonville.
00:07:38
Chris Prime
Yeah, but this lady was afraid of, like, the people on the train, too.
00:07:41
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:07:42
Chris Prime
right Like, it's it's not like this was other things setting her off.
00:07:42
Zach Sheets
okay
00:07:46
Zach Sheets
It's Destro!
00:07:50
Chris Prime
but That was just an early industrial cosplayer.
00:07:55
Chris Prime
He can only afford like half the mask.
00:08:02
Chris Prime
But I think this is already like she has like anxiety issues.
00:08:06
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:08:07
Chris Prime
It's already it's not like she's a normal girl that sees like is used to it. It's like did the punk scene just invade today?
00:08:30
Chris Prime
Hey, I've got a concert.
00:08:34
Zach Sheets
Come see our show.
00:08:35
Chris Prime
Ciao.
00:08:41
Zach Sheets
And now it goes back.
00:09:00
Zach Sheets
like not telling anyone what it is. He's just like, here. Here.
00:09:05
Chris Prime
I got really into sticks. Mr. Roboto. I don't understand flyers that need, like, two flyers. Are you going to the same place?
00:09:18
Zach Sheets
is it is it Is that the actual ticket?
00:09:21
Chris Prime
I don't know. Because it's not, like a like, show proof, you know? There's no, like, fine print.
00:09:27
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:09:30
Chris Prime
it just It's a flyer.
00:09:35
Zach Sheets
And she has no idea what it is either. Like, he didn't explain anything. He's just like, here.
00:09:38
Chris Prime
Can I have two? like ah Okay, you know what this is? No, I just want two of them.
00:10:03
Chris Prime
I met Mr. Roboto.
00:10:29
Chris Prime
Man, this is also the age where it's super vague theyre like look things up. So it's just, okay, what here's the time. Where is this? like
00:10:39
Zach Sheets
Well, apparently this is like an actual ah like nightclub in West Berlin.
00:10:39
Chris Prime
You're going to have to look up a book.
00:10:49
Chris Prime
I thought this an Italian movie.
00:10:53
Zach Sheets
Well, i think I think they shot it in West Berlin, or at least so part of it.
00:10:56
Chris Prime
Okay. Okay.
00:11:04
Chris Prime
You know, it's funny, it's like, this is the time when Bowie also, like, came out of Berlin when he was, like, detoxing, and then he relapsed a thin white duke in this era.
00:11:11
Zach Sheets
I feel
00:11:16
Chris Prime
And then, ah what, the Berlin fell in 82?
00:11:24
Zach Sheets
like it was wasn't it later when it fell so this is it is still yeah peak like ah West Berlin is the cool part and East Berlin is like the communist like restricted part
00:11:32
Chris Prime
um so this is still peak, like,
00:11:42
Zach Sheets
So they're they're cool, like, Western western like rock music, West Berlin.
00:11:44
Chris Prime
West Berlin. Okay.
00:11:47
Zach Sheets
Hmm.
00:11:53
Chris Prime
I'm trying to piece together like where the error takes place in like this 80s version of Berlin that i didn't realize was super 80s compared to other errors. I'm like, man, ease Berlin was awesome.
00:12:05
Chris Prime
This is why I get why it's like error perfect everything. Every kind of cliche and lighting and
00:12:11
Zach Sheets
Hmm.
00:12:14
Chris Prime
And just the people. But then it's like, why she freaking out the punk scene? This is a like peak. You know, like it's get 89 was like, all right, well, you know, new Coke failed. So.
00:12:38
Chris Prime
OK, so those were like invite tickets.
00:12:41
Zach Sheets
Must be, yeah.
00:12:46
Chris Prime
Hey, you have one ticket, you have two of them. if
00:12:56
Zach Sheets
Be awesome someone wrote it later.
00:13:16
Chris Prime
Do you need some 80s guy attention?
00:13:18
Zach Sheets
you mean fancy it?
00:13:50
Chris Prime
Matt Murdock.
00:14:21
Chris Prime
How did she outmaneuver the blind guy and just like take that?
00:14:32
Zach Sheets
It's got a taste for blood!
00:14:46
Chris Prime
I think that was an 80s pimp.
00:14:50
Zach Sheets
going out on a movie night with his, like, two of his ladies.
00:14:53
Chris Prime
I think so. Like, this is an era of just stereotypes and cliches, so it wouldn't be surprised that's just like an 80s pimp.
00:15:13
Chris Prime
Yep. If you heard in the back, you already called her like a bitch.
00:15:16
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:15:33
Chris Prime
like Thank you for coming. We're going show you an hour of like car commercials and automobile footage to see if you would buy one of these products.
00:15:47
Chris Prime
There will be a questionnaire at the end to fill in your intent.
00:15:54
Zach Sheets
i do want I do wonder how they got like all these like like actual like bands to be this movie.
00:16:01
Chris Prime
I mean, Darragento was known, so I could see him asking.
00:16:03
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:16:06
Chris Prime
It's like, okay, I'll use my influence to see if anyone wants to give a song. Because I don't think like they appear, right?
00:16:14
Zach Sheets
No, it's just their songs.
00:16:18
Chris Prime
Also, this the era where a lot of those rock stars would be in the movie.
00:16:22
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:16:22
Chris Prime
But...
00:16:25
Zach Sheets
yeah It's Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Rick Springfield, Go West. Except...
00:16:33
Chris Prime
I think they just like wanted to get their songs into a movie.
00:17:04
Chris Prime
You gotta appreciate how far we've come in dubbing.
00:17:09
Chris Prime
But that's the thing. I don't know if in this context the dubbing is supposed to be cheesy because this...
00:17:15
Zach Sheets
it yeah Is this movie supposed to be bad like in this universe?
00:17:18
Chris Prime
Yeah, yeah. like that's That's like the... the like The nuance that I don't
Is 'Demons' Intentionally Cheesy?
00:17:25
Chris Prime
know.
00:17:33
Chris Prime
Is it?
00:17:43
Chris Prime
Hey, man, stop flirting.
00:18:04
Zach Sheets
Also, like I don't know if Nushadamus was like like... They're making him seem like a vampire or something
00:18:12
Zach Sheets
something. We've got Nushadamus' tomb!
00:18:21
Chris Prime
I mean, it's a twist. It's like maybe he was just a evil wizard. I don't know what the vampire part comes out of.
00:18:53
Zach Sheets
I mean, now you can just... you It's nice for, like, visually impaired people that you can just get, like, headphones now it'd like, give you, like, the closed captioning and all the scroll descriptions and movies.
00:18:58
Chris Prime
audio description. Yeah. They've come a long way.
00:19:01
Zach Sheets
So I'm just having something whisper at you.
00:19:15
Chris Prime
It's the 80s. It's loud everywhere.
00:19:17
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:19:35
Zach Sheets
Worst anniversary ever...
00:19:39
Chris Prime
Man, they're ruining my free movie.
00:19:41
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:20:24
Chris Prime
Hello, I'm a Michael Ironside impersonator.
00:20:40
Zach Sheets
Liz? What's going on, Liz?
00:20:51
Zach Sheets
Are the characters making out?
00:20:54
Chris Prime
What's that smell, Liz?
00:21:00
Chris Prime
Was that, like, Liz's boyfriend, or was that just a person that just, like, misunderstood?
00:21:04
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:21:04
Chris Prime
Well, like, that that tells me that... Was this, like, a porn theater in the past? Because, like, a pimp brought his women here. Teens are hooking up.
00:21:16
Chris Prime
um
00:21:16
Zach Sheets
A couple's here on an anniversary, like their 40th anniversary, or whatever it is.
00:21:19
Chris Prime
Yeah, and this was a movie theater. Also, like back in the 80s, porn theaters and regular movie theaters sort of like blended together.
00:21:27
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:21:31
Chris Prime
mean, granted, yeah, there's more cinema stuff in the lobby, but that could be just the renovation.
00:21:58
Zach Sheets
Do you think they can fuse Dracula with Nostradamus?
00:22:02
Chris Prime
Maybe.
00:22:11
Zach Sheets
Maybe it's more the meta thing, where it's like, oh, this this stupid movie doesn't know know who Nostradamus was. It's like a vampire.
00:22:52
Zach Sheets
It's the Dectronomicon!
00:23:06
Chris Prime
Okay, that guy looks like a Berlin Ash. Right? like you yeah Yeah, yeah.
00:23:13
Zach Sheets
He's wearing the same shirt!
00:23:15
Chris Prime
It's almost similar haircut.
00:23:48
Zach Sheets
I see you.
00:23:52
Chris Prime
Watch me find out this is just one elaborate like cologne commercial.
00:24:00
Chris Prime
Demon.
00:24:00
Zach Sheets
say it's it's it's like It's like a big like, um, was was the guy back in the day?
00:24:01
Chris Prime
Oh, demon.
00:24:05
Zach Sheets
Like, uh, like a tingler guy. was like a elaborate, like, like in theater, like Marshall stud.
00:24:14
Chris Prime
Oh, the gimmick guy.
00:24:15
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:24:15
Chris Prime
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:16
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:24:27
Zach Sheets
yeah William Castle.
The Theater's Mystifying Size
00:25:00
Zach Sheets
I feel like the size of the theater is constantly shifting too, where it's like it seems like it's only one like one row, then there's an entire balcony section that sometimes.
00:25:09
Chris Prime
Yeah, it's giant. Well, it's a metropoplex, so I guess this is only like one screen.
00:25:13
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:25:15
Chris Prime
So they combine all that space.
00:25:16
Zach Sheets
It's like a movie palace. Yeah.
00:25:18
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:25:50
Chris Prime
no,
00:25:53
Zach Sheets
I need clear a cell.
00:26:02
Chris Prime
ah no ash
00:26:36
Chris Prime
Oh, the woman's name was Rosemary. Oh.
00:26:59
Zach Sheets
I'm so into this.
00:27:03
Chris Prime
It's weird that he's like taking his jacket off.
00:27:05
Zach Sheets
like I'm getting so hot.
00:27:18
Chris Prime
yellow is an interesting color for a bathroom.
00:27:34
Chris Prime
prison toilet? Like, why is there no seat?
00:27:48
Zach Sheets
Here we go.
00:28:03
Chris Prime
It sounds like a Billy Idol song.
00:28:10
Chris Prime
Oh, not anymore.
00:28:16
Chris Prime
But it is a like a Casio sound coming in.
00:28:20
Zach Sheets
I think this is like a ah Claudio Simonetti original.
00:28:34
Chris Prime
You worked in a movie theater. Where is she? like what what back room did she enter that was, like, just the curtains?
00:28:40
Zach Sheets
Yeah, we didn't we didn't really have a back room behind the screens.
00:29:02
Zach Sheets
Is the guy in the movie a demon or is he just like a ah turned into like ah a slasher?
00:29:07
Chris Prime
I don't know. Because... Is the mask turned that guy? Yeah, I don't... The demon just had claws, and...
00:29:15
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:29:21
Chris Prime
Okay, is this also one of those, like, meta things where the movie's based on a real mask, and then, like, they didn't know that it will actually do this? So that they didn't, you know what Like, it's just not lore accurate from the movie to this.
00:29:44
Zach Sheets
It's like, oh, everyone who made the movie died mysteriously, but we have the mask from the movie.
00:29:52
Zach Sheets
See, where where's the blind guy? He's like all alone, like in like the balcony.
00:29:55
Chris Prime
I think he's on the atrium. Yeah, yeah, he's he's on the balcony level.
00:29:56
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:30:16
Chris Prime
Are you with that Michael Ironside guy again?
00:30:18
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:30:29
Zach Sheets
I am working.
00:30:40
Chris Prime
i mean, so far I'm into it, you know, like it.
00:30:45
Chris Prime
With the premise, it's pretty simple and it's not like some complicated thing where the main hero we've been introduced to is like. Anything that's like prophesized. So far, you know, I don't want that to be like the twist where it's like, you know i have this magical book like what?
00:31:21
Zach Sheets
Who's this character in the movie?
00:31:22
Chris Prime
laughter
00:32:08
Zach Sheets
Is this part of the movie?
00:32:14
Chris Prime
You know, for a free event, this is pretty good.
00:32:22
Chris Prime
So, one of my fears when I went to, like, big kind of, like, con, can like, you know, comic cons is when you do those free, like, activations or immersion experiences that's like, oh, this is not part of the show.
00:32:31
Zach Sheets
who
00:32:34
Chris Prime
You're like, oh no.
00:32:34
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:32:40
Chris Prime
I was waiting in line for the Dune experience, and it's like, okay, like you're going to be touched by a whole bunch of screaming witches, and was like, ah excuse me? Because you have to do that like trial to see if you're like one of the prophesized people.
00:32:55
Zach Sheets
hey Or it's like all those movies that are like, Oh, it's it's a haunted it's a haunted house, but there's a real killer in there.
00:33:02
Chris Prime
Yeah, it's like, wait, what?
00:33:06
Chris Prime
So like this, this is still Berlin. Like it's all like expressionism and like, you know, taking the art, elevating the art. It's like, for all we know, this was like part of the show.
00:33:24
Zach Sheets
quote-unquote friend.
00:33:25
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:33:47
Zach Sheets
This movie just got real.
00:34:02
Zach Sheets
Is it?
00:34:04
Chris Prime
Yeah, where's the knife?
00:34:05
Zach Sheets
Yeah, there's no knife guy running around yet.
Effective Horror Elements
00:34:31
Chris Prime
That's a cool shot. like the slow, like... possession look. It's a little opposite to the Sam Raimi that we we're used to it so far, where it's just like instant and then, ba ah you know, like it.
00:34:39
Zach Sheets
Yep.
00:34:44
Chris Prime
This is a like, oh, God, it's like seeing an animal.
00:34:50
Zach Sheets
ah
00:34:51
Chris Prime
Up until that point, see, that now I got that Sam Raimi influence.
00:34:56
Chris Prime
but Imagine that's how it started.
00:35:21
Chris Prime
Oof. Yeah,
00:35:28
Zach Sheets
Let's see how this plays out.
00:35:32
Chris Prime
yeah this is taking like a long transformation. Like, you could run now.
00:35:35
Zach Sheets
You can run, yes.
00:35:39
Zach Sheets
This is like the Power Rangers storage transformer. like You can attack them while it's happening. It's taking so long.
00:35:44
Chris Prime
Also, why is the pimp guy the one who's like, we gotta go?
00:35:47
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:35:54
Chris Prime
I expect the husband to get attacked first.
00:35:58
Chris Prime
I figured he'd be the character that's just like the bad plan guy who forces everyone to follow it.
00:36:03
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Listen to me.
00:36:06
Chris Prime
What we gotta do is lock all the doors and we'll wrestle the demon.
00:36:15
Chris Prime
Martha.
00:36:18
Zach Sheets
Pearls.
00:36:19
Chris Prime
Yeah, see, you got the reference.
00:36:35
Zach Sheets
I mean, he couldn't see anyway. so so
00:36:39
Chris Prime
I mean, it's still painful as hell.
00:36:40
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:36:41
Chris Prime
I mean.
00:36:41
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:36:48
Zach Sheets
Rock and roll riot!
00:36:51
Chris Prime
Oh crap, it's Revolution X.
00:37:02
Chris Prime
It does sound more close to, like, Ace of Spades.
00:37:08
Zach Sheets
Yeah, since Motorhead isn't in the soundtrack, feel like they would be like, hell yeah! oh hell yeah
00:37:16
Chris Prime
Let me, like, weird movies and then, like, metal and death things, so this would be up the alley.
00:37:24
Chris Prime
Alright, they tore that door really easily, like,
00:37:36
Zach Sheets
rip these cardboard doors off.
00:37:41
Chris Prime
when When do they like get masoned in?
00:37:48
Zach Sheets
It's the demons.
00:38:05
Zach Sheets
It's crazy that the pimp guy is like the voice of reason and and like the leadership.
00:38:08
Chris Prime
Yeah, he's like very calm.
00:38:09
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Alright, everyone, please proceed come to the emergency exit.
00:38:26
Chris Prime
Because I feel like there should have been another character that he like ignores. And then like the pimp guy is just sort of like, okay. like You know, kind of like that dad character or like the the the dude that got mauled. like You need that counter voice.
00:38:55
Chris Prime
Well, they, like, got too close. Meanwhile, like, Bill and Ted here just, like...
00:38:59
Zach Sheets
Yep.
00:39:24
Zach Sheets
Grab this not Coke machine.
00:39:26
Chris Prime
The Coke Dad no want to be associated with this.
00:39:59
Chris Prime
Who is this character?
00:40:09
Zach Sheets
like He instantly knows what's going on.
00:40:19
Chris Prime
have to finish the movie to figure out they stop it?
00:40:29
Chris Prime
Oh my god, this woman's like melting.
00:40:31
Zach Sheets
ah no
00:40:40
Chris Prime
See what I mean? Like, it's weird that he, you're right, like, he it's weird that he's very competent.
00:40:45
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:40:56
Chris Prime
He just joins them.
00:41:06
Chris Prime
So I don't think the movie and the curse are the same. Like you activate the curse from the movie. I think like you just get the curse.
00:41:21
Zach Sheets
I mean, the mask is clearly evil.
00:41:23
Chris Prime
Right. But I don't think it knows that you played the movie.
00:41:27
Zach Sheets
It's like, who provides this movie? It's like, I don't know. This guy named Seitan?
00:41:56
Zach Sheets
Like, bust a soap or two.
00:42:03
Chris Prime
Oh, that was the best friend. I kind of forgot, like, she wasn't, like, she's not into it, but she looked like a different character.
00:42:10
Chris Prime
Right? was Was that the best friend?
00:42:14
Zach Sheets
Probably, yeah.
00:42:33
Zach Sheets
that's That's how they work now. this is war this is ahead of the ahead of its time.
00:43:12
Zach Sheets
Welp, everything worked out fine.
00:43:13
Chris Prime
The end!
00:43:17
Chris Prime
Okay, this is like happy music. What's going on?
00:43:19
Zach Sheets
Yep.
00:43:22
Chris Prime
Are the Ninja Turtles coming into Berlin?
00:43:23
Zach Sheets
me Yeah, this is Go West.
00:43:23
Chris Prime
What's going on now?
00:43:33
Chris Prime
Wait, is Pet Shop Boys?
00:43:35
Zach Sheets
No, I think i it's Go West.
00:43:37
Chris Prime
Okay.
00:43:38
Zach Sheets
It did, like, ah King Wishful Thinking.
Music and New Characters
00:43:42
Chris Prime
Because get like 80s Robert Patterson driving into the movie.
00:43:44
Zach Sheets
you know
00:43:49
Chris Prime
Like the late addition to the movie. Like we we had so many characters in that theater that like we didn't need more.
00:44:07
Zach Sheets
Did you guys hear what happened to that movie theater like a couple months ago?
00:44:14
Chris Prime
Almost a brand like promo.
00:44:27
Chris Prime
That's a weird edit.
00:44:31
Zach Sheets
Hopefully those characters will be back, and that was just some random, like, filler thing.
00:44:34
Chris Prime
Filler.
00:44:38
Chris Prime
Wow, this is like one group banded together really quickly.
00:44:41
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:44:46
Chris Prime
is He's still alive.
00:44:49
Zach Sheets
Where were we going? We don't need eyes.
00:45:02
Chris Prime
Oh, Denise.
00:45:12
Chris Prime
See? I don't know if this movie should be called Demons or it should be called like Killerplex or something.
00:45:18
Zach Sheets
yeah Cineplex, but it's S-I-N. Come
00:45:23
Chris Prime
Oh, that's actually not bad.
00:45:32
Zach Sheets
um boy, blind man! Come get me here,
00:46:07
Chris Prime
about you, like, Edie's Ezra Miller?
00:46:09
Zach Sheets
Oh god! Happy anniversary!
00:46:19
Chris Prime
See, like, the pimp guy's the best character.
00:46:22
Zach Sheets
Yeah. he's He's like so prepared.
00:46:28
Chris Prime
ah you think we forgot about her? Don't worry.
00:46:32
Zach Sheets
You think you could hide?
00:46:34
Chris Prime
Is she eating? Is he just throwing up blood? What's... Okay.
00:46:49
Chris Prime
Oh, is he still choking? It's been like hours.
00:46:51
Zach Sheets
yeah I know. well these These guys are just having a ah great night out.
00:46:56
Chris Prime
Alright, see, this is where I can see this having some issues of just pacing, of introducing, like, this, you know?
00:47:02
Zach Sheets
They're driving to the movie. They're not there yet.
00:47:07
Chris Prime
This better pay off.
00:47:11
Chris Prime
I have to drink my coke. What?
00:47:13
Zach Sheets
Wait.
00:47:14
Chris Prime
Oh, I think it literally is just a can of coke.
00:47:15
Zach Sheets
It literally has there's coke in a coke can.
00:47:21
Chris Prime
So they're coke heads.
00:48:03
Zach Sheets
Oh no! Their leader!
00:48:11
Chris Prime
yeah He's been right, like, all the time, and now it's like...
00:49:01
Zach Sheets
Let's make out.
00:49:25
Chris Prime
Weird.
00:49:31
Zach Sheets
Did they have to like figure out, what's like oh man, we got five we have four songs, we can't fit anywhere else the movie. Let's have like the shot of them just driving through the city.
00:49:38
Chris Prime
I think so, right?
00:49:39
Zach Sheets
And they'll start listening to the radio.
00:49:41
Chris Prime
And it's like, didn't really of all the songs?
00:49:42
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:49:48
Chris Prime
But it's not... Is it the full song? Okay. Just White Wedding and Coke.
00:50:23
Zach Sheets
You spilled a Coke!
00:50:26
Zach Sheets
Ripper.
00:50:31
Chris Prime
Is this like Night of the Living Dead happening? What...
00:50:35
Zach Sheets
There's an own movie.
00:50:54
Zach Sheets
I want to see at the end of the movie, like the owner of the theater comes in. It's like, what the hell did you people do?
00:50:58
Chris Prime
yeah
00:51:00
Zach Sheets
um i spent millions of dollars just throwing his theater.
00:51:35
Zach Sheets
you feel Are they supposed to be like ah like from New York or something?
00:51:42
Chris Prime
Yeah, it's weird.
00:51:54
Chris Prime
See, they're like a rough edit out of the movie.
00:51:55
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:04
Chris Prime
this is what was like, I think this is like a cult movie because it's not like, ah it doesn't hold up as a movie... Like a fluid movie.
00:52:44
Zach Sheets
Man, they're in trouble if those two are like in charge now.
00:52:46
Chris Prime
Yeah, I know, like the 80s bros.
00:52:52
Zach Sheets
Already telling me why, huh? you.
00:53:14
Chris Prime
Boob.
Genre Blending in Italian Horror
00:53:22
Chris Prime
Okay, this is like a different movie, man.
00:53:24
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:53:27
Chris Prime
But I get why this is like an Italian horror because they like this.
00:53:45
Chris Prime
See what I mean?
00:53:49
Chris Prime
Like, oh, it's going to get weird at some point, not just like lovingly.
00:53:54
Zach Sheets
I mean, I guess they are outside the movie theater, so I'll be able to go in.
00:54:18
Chris Prime
Thank you.
00:55:25
Zach Sheets
How has he not turned into demon yet?
00:55:27
Chris Prime
I guess the nails in the eyes don't count.
00:55:34
Zach Sheets
Well, there don't have to be any rules.
00:55:36
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:55:40
Chris Prime
Well, if you go and based on Evil Dead rules, it's maybe like...
00:55:45
Zach Sheets
but if you If you get scratched or injured by them, then you turn into demon. But then also people are getting stripped, killed by them, but they're coming back as demons.
00:55:48
Chris Prime
It's like...
00:55:51
Zach Sheets
So it's more like zombies, but then...
00:55:52
Chris Prime
Yeah. But maybe it's like also... Close. I was gonna say, it's like, if you're weak, like mentally, you get zombified.
00:56:01
Zach Sheets
and the original But the original one was ah scratched by an evil mask. And then the theater and in the theater is what's causing it all.
00:56:05
Chris Prime
Yeah, then it...
00:56:14
Chris Prime
So it's like the the mass is just secondary. Like it's no longer about the mass. So I had a feeling this movie had like some logic falling apart.
00:56:24
Chris Prime
Visually, it's great. I just wish like connectively it would tie together.
00:57:01
Zach Sheets
is Is this still the theater or they like break into like the building next door?
00:57:04
Chris Prime
The next, to yeah they're just like in a meat factory.
00:57:07
Zach Sheets
is it an a abandoned building?
00:57:50
Chris Prime
Okay, this reminds me of that Windows screensaver with the bricks, the brick maze.
00:57:53
Zach Sheets
ah
00:57:55
Chris Prime
Are we ever going to dress the worker who actually works in cinema the cinema? The woman in the green dress?
00:58:00
Zach Sheets
who who has no like is not telling him where to go at all, like, oh, here's where the exit is. like We should go this way.
00:58:30
Chris Prime
Thank
00:58:46
Zach Sheets
shut you
00:58:59
Chris Prime
Meanwhile, on another Dario Argento movie.
00:59:07
Zach Sheets
Come on in.
Plot Twists and Surprises
00:59:56
Zach Sheets
Oh, finally.
00:59:59
Chris Prime
So do you just turn by um like ah by time? Because wasn't he crawling on the ground and then?
01:00:06
Zach Sheets
guess so.
01:00:09
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:00:12
Zach Sheets
He like scooted out when the coke heads went in.
01:00:15
Chris Prime
I saw that, but I just thought you just you found a way out.
01:00:29
Chris Prime
Thank
01:01:15
Zach Sheets
Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.
01:01:59
Chris Prime
you
01:02:23
Zach Sheets
impossible.
01:02:53
Chris Prime
Wait, is that his girl? That was like...
01:02:54
Zach Sheets
I think so. Give me a kiss!
01:02:57
Chris Prime
That was kind of weird.
01:03:01
Zach Sheets
is it because she got blood dripped on her or something?
01:03:06
Chris Prime
Maybe?
01:03:42
Chris Prime
How did the building somehow get more decrepit?
01:03:45
Zach Sheets
There's like ah like a concrete dripping area under it.
01:03:52
Chris Prime
It's got like flood damage.
01:03:56
Chris Prime
Was this place never fixed? And that's like the the magic of the the the thing, you know, it's like.
01:04:02
Zach Sheets
Is it like a sentient theater where it's like evil and it like made just like it's like makes like the important parts good like look good and then rest of it's just like horrible.
01:04:11
Chris Prime
I think so. It's like, remember we mentioned the toilet, how it looked bad? So the illusion's breaking.
01:04:38
Chris Prime
Wait, one of them has a gun?
01:04:40
Zach Sheets
Oh, man, here we go. here This is the shot.
01:05:36
Zach Sheets
It's probably just a bunch of coke heads.
01:05:43
Chris Prime
Well, they are dismantling us like super quickly.
01:05:45
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:06:20
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:06:55
Chris Prime
So do you think that Barricade actually did anything or it was just like it was time?
01:06:59
Zach Sheets
I mean, it looks like something that burst through the floor. So, like...
01:07:28
Chris Prime
Okay, so all these people that are dying are all the characters we've never seen before.
01:07:34
Zach Sheets
but it's weird because some of them look like other characters. You're like, wait, is that is that that girl? no it's not.
01:07:50
Chris Prime
We never got to know her!
01:07:56
Zach Sheets
like she was in on it.
01:08:11
Chris Prime
Yeah, think the projector room was probably like the safest room.
01:08:14
Zach Sheets
Probably.
01:08:23
Chris Prime
How many like barricades did they build or like where are they like Beaver Dam did they crawl through?
01:08:45
Chris Prime
Do we ever learn about this guy's name?
01:08:48
Zach Sheets
Uh...
01:08:56
Chris Prime
George.
01:09:16
Chris Prime
Thank
01:09:43
Zach Sheets
I'm sure no one's tried that before it got killed.
01:10:12
Chris Prime
She turning or.
01:10:26
Chris Prime
She got like 10 times greasier, guys. Come on.
01:10:58
Zach Sheets
you You guys had like lots of time to run away. knew what was happening to her.
01:11:34
Zach Sheets
what
01:11:42
Chris Prime
What? Yeah, this is new.
01:11:44
Zach Sheets
ah
01:11:47
Zach Sheets
My true form.
01:11:50
Chris Prime
Why is like the king demon in Kathy and not like in the first girl?
01:11:55
Zach Sheets
you do all the does everyone have that inside them? Like they're like ah demon's got burst out of them.
01:12:09
Zach Sheets
alone!
01:12:21
Chris Prime
Okay, so what what did you want to do? like We have to watch him turn. Then we beat him with a great.
01:12:40
Zach Sheets
Is anybody gonna ride that motorcycle?
01:12:42
Chris Prime
I've been waiting for that.
01:12:44
Zach Sheets
It's Chekhov's ninja suit on a motorcycle.
01:12:52
Chris Prime
you know, fight it somehow.
01:13:32
Zach Sheets
There we go.
01:13:39
Zach Sheets
Give me the most awesome death ever. Yeah.
01:13:42
Chris Prime
Is this even real? Like who? It's just like a rubber sword.
01:13:48
Zach Sheets
Ken, it's plastic.
01:13:53
Chris Prime
Yeah, why would the evil theater like make a real samurai sword?
01:13:58
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:14:00
Chris Prime
Okay, this is turning into like another genre because now it's a samurai movie now.
01:14:07
Zach Sheets
it It has nothing to do with the like the fake movie that was playing.
01:14:11
Chris Prime
Nope.
01:14:12
Zach Sheets
love
01:14:47
Chris Prime
Yeah, why was that censored?
01:14:53
Zach Sheets
There we go.
01:15:05
Chris Prime
He is oddly competent for like a dirt bike.
01:15:09
Zach Sheets
be able to ride on like seats at a theater?
01:15:12
Chris Prime
Yeah, with a sword.
01:15:14
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:15:18
Chris Prime
see like it has that evil dead energy where it just gets like ramped up for no reason.
01:15:25
Zach Sheets
This is his chainsaw.
01:15:47
Chris Prime
So, oh, there's like some of the cokeheads.
01:15:53
Zach Sheets
There's so much just buildup for them, and they just, like, got turned to demons, like, instantly.
01:16:00
Chris Prime
Like they didn't really add anything.
01:16:06
Zach Sheets
yeah you think they'd be kind of like, like oh we're in charge now! ah got a gun!
01:16:14
Chris Prime
Or they, like, unleashed the second wave by accident.
01:16:18
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:16:19
Chris Prime
But they didn't.
01:16:25
Chris Prime
Okay, so I think, like, eventually the humans will turn into the demons. But for whatever reason, their friend and Kathy, yeah, Kathy, like, changed dramatically.
01:16:32
Zach Sheets
Just one, yeah.
01:16:37
Chris Prime
Like, if anything, the first girl should already have that demon form.
01:16:41
Zach Sheets
Or was it because, did she get, like, too injured from, like, the grate of the air conditioner unit, like, slamming your into her back head or something? It's like, your body and this body's injured, i have like, burst out?
01:16:49
Chris Prime
It, like, forced her? Okay, he is literally just doing, like, a Dead Rising kind of mission over here.
01:17:01
Zach Sheets
yep
01:17:03
Chris Prime
I get how influential this is for some people. Like, if you so if you haven't seen this before, and you're like, wow, I want to recreate this in a game.
01:17:13
Zach Sheets
but I think Silent Hill has like, ah like ah the movie theater is called is called the Metropole.
01:17:22
Chris Prime
And it's very video game-like now.
01:17:27
Chris Prime
For a guy that had no samurai training, but he has, like, a ton of sword experience now.
01:17:29
Zach Sheets
Yep. Yeah,
01:17:33
Zach Sheets
yeah he's like a full-on ninja.
01:17:35
Chris Prime
Yeah, he's doing, like, the ninja puzzle. It's the 80s where the ninja thing was in, so
01:17:38
Zach Sheets
know
01:17:42
Zach Sheets
You're the coolest guy I've ever met.
01:17:55
Zach Sheets
so turned over now.
01:17:58
Chris Prime
and the music It just cuts. So much rough editing has happened in this movie.
01:18:08
Chris Prime
It's the boss fight.
01:18:10
Zach Sheets
The king demon.
01:18:34
Zach Sheets
What?
01:18:36
Chris Prime
Yeah, what?
01:18:37
Zach Sheets
helicopter just crashes into the theater?
01:18:54
Chris Prime
So this is like where the curse is from? Like,
01:18:57
Zach Sheets
You know how fly one of these things?
01:19:00
Chris Prime
But it's like an ancient helicopter.
01:19:04
Chris Prime
Oh no, it's not. Because I thought it was dirty, like dusty from like age. But...
01:19:15
Chris Prime
Yeah, that looks like a demon attack.
01:19:21
Chris Prime
Somehow like ah the air above the theater isn't safe.
01:19:22
Zach Sheets
look Well, I guess it's spread it spread because like the blanket got out and like and like killed those cops. none then So it's like a zombie movie now where it's like the city is infected.
01:19:32
Chris Prime
That makes sense.
01:20:04
Chris Prime
Get in the box with me!
01:20:13
Chris Prime
What- is he really gonna try to fly it?
01:20:24
Chris Prime
Okay.
01:20:37
Chris Prime
You know, I did not predict the air, like, helicopter weapon.
01:20:45
Zach Sheets
It didn't seem like it was going fast enough to like do like that much damage, though.
01:20:53
Chris Prime
Wait, what is... but Why do they have a harpoon gun?
01:21:10
Zach Sheets
like how George is going to become like a like a full-on like ease action hero now.
01:21:15
Chris Prime
He's not even like, oh, a soldier, you know, or anything. it just, okay, I'm very confident at putting all these problem skills together.
George's Action Hero Transformation
01:21:23
Zach Sheets
Where's this for the entire movie?
01:21:26
Chris Prime
Because he seemed scared from, like, when the pimp told him to, like, throw the body, and now it's like...
01:21:30
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:21:33
Chris Prime
He just assembled a grappling hook.
01:21:33
Zach Sheets
says He's showing. Yeah. Yeah. armor showing
01:21:40
Chris Prime
He perfectly landed his first grappling hook, like...
01:21:43
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:21:45
Chris Prime
He knows how to tie the equipment. What what is happening? Like, this seems like the movie in the movie.
01:22:10
Chris Prime
See what I mean? Like...
01:22:18
Chris Prime
It's cool, don't get me wrong. I just, like, can't escape the reality now.
01:22:35
Chris Prime
think should have kept the sword. That was super effective.
01:22:37
Zach Sheets
probably
01:23:06
Zach Sheets
Remember me?
01:23:16
Zach Sheets
You wrecked my theater!
01:23:18
Chris Prime
Yeah, who was this guy again? We're going to find out.
01:23:31
Chris Prime
Was he the guy in the movie?
01:23:38
Zach Sheets
Maybe? maybe it was documentary. It was a snuff film.
01:23:54
Chris Prime
I never got to talk about my tragic backstory.
01:23:58
Zach Sheets
i was going to reveal my whole plot to you.
01:24:04
Chris Prime
Like, was this just like a worker that got turned two?
01:24:14
Chris Prime
dude. This is a very complicated kill they're trying to pull off here.
01:24:18
Zach Sheets
okay
01:24:39
Zach Sheets
so So that metal wasn't very like thick or anything.
01:24:41
Chris Prime
It's
01:24:42
Zach Sheets
it was like it was like aluminum foil.
01:24:47
Chris Prime
like he had other exposed skin, right? You didn't have to go for like the eye hole?
01:24:59
Chris Prime
Peter Jackson.
01:25:01
Zach Sheets
Are you afraid of rock?
01:25:36
Zach Sheets
You would make more sense for this movie with all rock music in it? If it was like a concert and not of like a movie?
01:25:41
Chris Prime
That would make sense. that I like that idea way more. And the band is called Nostradamus or something if they want to keep that theme going.
01:25:48
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:25:50
Chris Prime
But don't think Nostradamus predicted this.
01:25:54
Zach Sheets
Oh, they actually get like one of these bands? Like they get like Molly Crew to show up as themselves?
01:25:58
Chris Prime
you see, that that makes sense in that era when you have the band in it and they need to work it in.
01:26:02
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:26:03
Chris Prime
This just seems like sort of vague music clips. Like, you know, they they try to make a music video. So it's like a rock opera, but not quite.
01:26:17
Chris Prime
feel like they should turn this into a rock opera. Just like the scenes and the the the music kind of match better and get rid of the coke head parts. Because the coke didn't really matter. Like it didn't add to the thing. I got a sneaking suspicion. I know how this movie is going to end.
01:26:46
Chris Prime
Okay, I know we mentioned this is how like the Berlin Wall fell in 89, but are you sure it was not this?
01:26:51
Zach Sheets
Yeah. Yeah. Demons cost it.
01:26:56
Chris Prime
In 85? This
01:27:05
Chris Prime
is when the West Berlin was the uncool demonic Berlin, so East Berlin was better. They built that wall for a reason.
01:27:15
Zach Sheets
Sylvia, you knew, was like, bet you're glad about that. We have that wall now.
01:27:24
Chris Prime
ah We're here to take ya out of the movie! George is like more and more movie star, like movie action guy now.
01:27:47
Chris Prime
He's like the normal guy. I wasn't a demon! Ah!
01:27:52
Zach Sheets
I like like the last five minutes where it's just these like these awesome new characters.
01:27:55
Chris Prime
Mm-hmm.
01:28:36
Chris Prime
A new life.
01:28:43
Chris Prime
But what about my old life? Oh my god.
01:28:52
Chris Prime
thought I thought it would end on a more of a downer.
01:28:54
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:29:04
Zach Sheets
Well, there's there's a sequel, but as I don't think has anything to do with this movie.
01:29:08
Chris Prime
Is it a sequel in another movie theater thing, or is it just
01:29:14
Zach Sheets
is Is it going to be the thriller movie?
01:29:23
Zach Sheets
Frilla!
01:29:35
Chris Prime
Yeah, okay. I'm okay with that.
01:29:42
Chris Prime
George was the hero all along................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
01:29:44
Zach Sheets
Yep. he's He's the John Connor.
01:30:10
Chris Prime
with that like As soon as it started getting off the rails, it's like, all right, all bets are off on rules and like anything.
01:30:27
Chris Prime
thought George was going to turn.
01:30:37
Zach Sheets
Oh yeah. So the sequel is, it does, it does kind of continue think where it's like, it's the, it's like years after like this outbreak is ah of demons and it's like Humane is coming back, but then like a horror movie on a TV is broadcast and that causes like demons to come back.
01:30:54
Chris Prime
Oh, like a horror movie based on the events of this or just.
01:31:03
Chris Prime
You know, i mean, like, is it. A deeper meaning.
01:31:15
Zach Sheets
Yeah, think I think it's like... They've walled up they've like walllo they sealed off like the area where demons were, but then these like teenagers go into like the area and ah get like infected, and then start moving back to like the safe area.
01:31:28
Chris Prime
ah That sounds like 28 days later.
01:31:30
Zach Sheets
and pretty i Pretty much. Yeah.
01:31:32
Chris Prime
28 weeks later. It's like a direct reference. But I feel like they did this first, right?
01:31:40
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:31:42
Zach Sheets
And The Church is like the like unofficial like third movie.
01:32:07
Chris Prime
But yeah, I didn't mind this. This was,
01:32:12
Chris Prime
again, just say interesting yeah like an interesting Dead formula.
01:32:14
Zach Sheets
killing killer.
01:32:17
Chris Prime
like take on an evil dead formula
01:32:22
Chris Prime
But they're like, it's not it's not zombies. The demons should be more zombie-like, but then it's like they keep introducing new rules of like what happens.
01:32:32
Zach Sheets
I feel like they definitely saw Evil Dead and were like, oh, let's do that. Because that was like a very Italian thing of like, we we see an American movie and we're going to make our own version of it. Like,
01:32:41
Chris Prime
Yeah, yeah. And I get it.
01:32:42
Zach Sheets
all all all All the Italian Rambo knockoffs and like, like, Lumberto Bava did like Monster Shark, which i think was the Jaws ripoff.
80s Aesthetics and Entertainment Value
01:32:54
Zach Sheets
So yeah, so they're like, oh yeah, let's let's do our own like, uh, Evil Dead with rock and roll.
01:33:08
Zach Sheets
Yeah, it's it's fun. like i like It's got lots lots of like crazy kills and ah special effects and then just the soundtrack element of it.
01:33:17
Chris Prime
Yeah, i like the music, but I mean, regardless of the movie, the music was good. It's just when it blends together, it just sometimes makes sense. um I mean, for me, it's just like the the bits that have nothing to do with the like moment. They're just like filler scenes and you feel them.
01:33:38
Chris Prime
Especially when like again, the coke heads. Why? It's to put more music so it's like, okay, we i give them things to do.
01:33:44
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:33:47
Zach Sheets
why Why was there such build-up to them just have them me like get like immediately get like killed by demons?
01:33:52
Chris Prime
I think also it was a show that like outside of the theater, it's still like the real world going on.
01:34:00
Chris Prime
You know, it's like, oh, it's it's it hasn't spread here yet. But...
01:34:04
Zach Sheets
yeah yeah you like The only important element of their like storyline is like like the blind guy escaped when they got in, so then the like the infection got spread out to the city.
01:34:13
Chris Prime
But you see, it's effective enough to just show me that. If anything, the girl should have seen more of the city before going straight to the movie theater. You know, like that that would have done the same job.
01:34:24
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:34:25
Chris Prime
of showing that the berlin West Berlin area is completely like normal, but when you get to the movie theater and it spreads out of control, you know then it's like, okay, hey, this is a this is crazy.
01:34:43
Chris Prime
But, yeah, like it just kind of jumps right into that, and
01:34:51
Chris Prime
I'm like... I take it out of following the characters because of now we follow like other characters that had nothing to do with anybody for a while.
01:35:00
Zach Sheets
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01:35:02
Chris Prime
And we never got like of the robot face guy. i think it's to assume that he was a worker because.
01:35:12
Zach Sheets
i yeah or like he like the theater like he's like the servant to the theater because like the blind guy said the theater is like the cause or everything the theater is evil yeah
01:35:19
Chris Prime
Why does the blind guy know that?
01:35:23
Chris Prime
blonde guy should have said something where it's like I've been trying to hunt down the mass for something like it you know okay see that's all like it has to do something
01:35:31
Zach Sheets
Oh, the guy in the mask was the like the the main character in the movie, too.
01:35:38
Zach Sheets
Yeah, it was like was like a like... It wasn't a movie, it was like an actual like it was actual footage.
01:35:45
Chris Prime
like they did it for them yeah like he filmed it like he edited it together
01:35:48
Zach Sheets
He was like... He was like... He was shooting... They were shooting a film, and then he got every like he yet turned into like a demonic... like get possessed by that mask or whatever and then then to the theater like the theater's like go film a movie go film a fake movie and kill all your cast members
01:36:08
Chris Prime
No idea. But I am confused too. But okay. If anything, it should be that there's a guy that was documenting the mask. Something happened. He came back, wanted to show his docu-documentary to like the people and be like, hey, check this out.
01:36:27
Chris Prime
My doc, you know, this great art piece and stuff.
01:36:27
Zach Sheets
I think
01:36:31
Chris Prime
It's like, I want to show you how crazy it is. And with like ED's flair. And then during the thing, it's like, you know, they've been kind of hinting at like, hey, people go touch the mask, put it on. And then that's what happens. Right.
01:36:46
Chris Prime
ah Because like the girl, the the like lady who puts it on first and cuts herself, it seems like the worker knew because she looked at and goes like on like, all right, like everything everything's on cue.
01:36:58
Zach Sheets
yeah She seemed like she was in on everything. like She was like so like mysterious and kind of like like had an evil vibe to her and then she just got like the killed like toward the end.
01:37:08
Chris Prime
Yeah, so that's where I'm like, oh, i don't think she knew to the full extent what was going to happen.
01:37:19
Chris Prime
But yeah, that's why I'm like, I don't get how her plan, how she fell into the plan.
01:37:28
Zach Sheets
I think it's kind of a thing of like a lot of Italian movies. is this like it's more It's more about the vibes.
01:37:34
Chris Prime
Yeah, I could see that. I could definitely see that now.
01:37:38
Zach Sheets
It's like, what what kind of crazy special effects can we come up with? And then like cool lighting and like cool music.
01:37:48
Zach Sheets
And then the plot is kind of like secondary.
01:37:55
Zach Sheets
but guess I guess this was originally supposed to be like a part of like an anthology movie, but then Lamberto Bada was like, i like this is I like this more than like the other two stories we're coming up with. So like, we're just make this into a full movie.
01:38:11
Chris Prime
I mean, it also feels like two different movies came together.
01:38:18
Chris Prime
Right? It's just like, you could do the cokehead plot for something and then tie it into, ah like, you know, they stumble upon the connection, but it's like a stretch. It's stretch that, like, it crosses over.
01:38:41
Chris Prime
I don't know. I get why it's influential. I don't know where on that list that you saw this that it was, uh, like, I guess high up there, but...
01:38:50
Zach Sheets
It was 53 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments countdown.
01:38:57
Chris Prime
I can see that. I can see, like, it's in the middle.
01:39:04
Chris Prime
Definitely, like, it plays it safe at certain parts, and then otherwise it takes really big dares and leaps. Um... But it it's not like you're bored, you know, you're just like, why is this happening? OK, payoff. OK, what's this now? OK, payoff.
01:39:20
Chris Prime
But then it's like crazy one offs that really stick out, you know, like. What's up with Mr. Roboto or. or Or um how did like, you know, what's her face's friend turn into like King Demon?
01:39:37
Zach Sheets
Yeah, why why why did only one like actual demon burst out somebody?
01:39:43
Zach Sheets
Because everyone else seems like they're zombies, but then it's like, oh no, there actually is like a demon in them that burst like bursts out of them at any time.
01:40:00
Zach Sheets
Yeah, it was it was fun, fun eighty ridiculous 80s Italian horror.
01:40:06
Chris Prime
Yeah. if you're't really If you're not really caring for plot, it's got great vibes, great 80s aesthetics. ah It definitely wears the Evil Dead kind of motifs, like, you know, inspiration on its sleeve pretty well.
01:40:21
Chris Prime
Don't mind that you don't really have to know a lot about these characters. It's just sort of like they're here. That's it.
01:40:28
Zach Sheets
all all Literally all of them are going to die at some point. So it doesn't really matter.
01:40:33
Chris Prime
The pimp character, surprisingly, was our favorite because he was like the most competent.
01:40:41
Zach Sheets
Yeah. RIP Tony.
01:40:48
Zach Sheets
But yeah. So I think that'll do it for this month's commentary. We'll be next month with another one. And head over the main site. Check out like your podcast. All our other stuff up there. ah regular features and reviews and ah trailers and all kinds of stuff up there.
01:41:03
Zach Sheets
And yeah, so for Chris, I am Zach and we will see you next time.