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Movie/TV news and reviews of Willy's wonderland, Psycho goreman, Wolf of Snow Hollow, Wrong Turn reboot, Blood Red Sky, Escape room 2, Forever Purge, Old, and the Green Knight
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Introduction and Welcome
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome. For real. All right. Welcome back to Fright Central. I'm Kevin Duck and I'm back here again with Keck. How you doing, buddy?
00:00:22
Speaker
I'm doing all right, buddy. I'm feeling a little bit better. I was just like kind of sick today. Yeah, that's good.
Predator Prequel: 'Skull' News
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Speaker
I'll talk a little bit more about how that affected my viewing of one of the films. But what's going on with you, man? Not much. I've got some news, some American horror story, the news from Lovecraft Country news, Predator news. Where would you like to start on that? Well, obviously, let's go with Predator first.
00:00:50
Speaker
Well, Predator right now is going to be called Skull. I don't know if that's going to be, I don't know if it's going to be called Predator Skull or just Skull, but it's an origin story about the first time the Predator comes to Earth. And it's directed by Dan Trackenberg, who did the 10 Cloverfield Lane, you know, the one with John Goodman in the bunker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's doing it and that's almost filming is almost complete. I'm not sure if it's going to get a theatrical release because the rumor is that's going to go straight to Hulu.
00:01:18
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was, I don't know. I feel like one of the comics, because the Predator comics started almost directly after the first movie, they started making Predator comics. And I feel like one of the comics was called Skull. It had the Predator skull on it. I wonder if it's based off of one of the comics that they did, one of the early Predator comics. I don't know.
00:01:46
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the producer or they else just says Davis. I'm not sure. Oh, John Davis. Yeah, one of the producers. He said he sculls more akin to the revenant than it is to any predator film. And he says, you'll know what I mean when you see it is his direct quote. So I really like the revenant, especially when DiCaprio got mauled by that bear.
00:02:08
Speaker
Dude, I watched the Revenant literally a week ago. For the first time? Yeah. Well, I found when I first saw the Revenant, I had realized I only had watched the screener copy of it. Like, yeah, just come out. And I I was at a buddy's house and he's like, yo, I got the shit on 4K. When's the last time you saw us? It's been years. I actually could use another viewing of it. And like, I don't know. I'm like real pumped about movies with animal attacks.
00:02:38
Speaker
like in theyville 92 it's about time like i watch that dog attack scene all the time i have it favorite it on my youtube like i've really i don't know i like animal packs especially if like i feel like the people kind of deserve it like i don't know i like animal packs
00:02:55
Speaker
You know, I mean, we did do a man hunting man episode. We should do a. I said I wanted to do that. And you're like, yeah, dude, we're only focusing on man hunting men. And I was like, yeah, that's a complete. Yeah. That's completely separate episode. Yeah. Ghost in the darkness. Like there's actual precedent. Like there are stories of like lions, like straight up hunting men for sport. Like it's a thing. It happens. So maybe
COVID-19 Impacts on Horror Events
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we'll have to do that at some point. I don't know.
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Speaker
Yeah, definitely. The next piece of news I got, I'll go with the rate our horror speak easy, which is supposed to happen this month, canceled because of rising covid cases. Hopefully it'll they'll do something in October, maybe, which will be great. That's an L.A. thing only. Sorry, East Coasters and everywhere else. Like like a lot of it is only in L.A. Yeah.
00:03:53
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The sad news for me.
Lovecraft Country's Emmy Nominations
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Yeah. But the next thing I got, Lovecraft Country, which was canceled, was nominated for. Hold on. Let me get this number right. I believe it was. I thought it was renewed. I thought you said it was renewed. Well, no, no. Lovecraft Country got canceled. But she, Misha Green had
00:04:15
Speaker
Um, a whole plan for a second season, even though there's no book or anything, like there's only one book that they've covered pretty much everything in the, in the first book. So like, she, but she had a plan to go somewhere else. She'd be releasing some of it online, but, uh, yeah, it got canceled. And then like shortly after it received 18 Emmy nominations. Wow. Well, I mean, a lot of people obviously felt differently than I did.
00:04:42
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Yeah, I watched it twice and read the book, so I loved it. Yeah, dude, like, don't get me wrong. Like, I'm happy that people liked it. Like, I didn't want people to hate it because like I'd like to see like more like Lovecraftian material come to life. Like, I'd like to see it like, you know, on other networks, like, you know, different creatures, different stories that he told, you know, I mean, maybe taking place at like different times and stuff like that.
00:05:11
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Um, you know, like something like sort of like in the mouth of madness, like would be like really cool if they did like a series like that where you're like hunting and yeah, that would be really, that'd be really cool. Yeah, I would like to see like a, yeah, I would like to see like a castle rock type of Lovecraft series. That's what I was trying to describe.
00:05:31
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yeah you know so like yeah I wasn't I didn't like the show but like I'm definitely I wasn't like I was hoping that other people would like it because I want there to be more content available yeah I would still love to see Guillermo del Toro's mountain of madness but I don't think we're ever gonna get that because no studio wants to put all the money in on that
00:05:53
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Because that's an expensive project. Yeah. And especially now, it's more than logistics. It's more expensive to do it now. And it's also so risky because we just don't know what the future holds. Yeah. Maybe at some point in the future when we get through this whole ricker maroon that's going on now.
00:06:13
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There's just so much doubt, you know what I mean? They were talking like to like, I think like Canada, like so many movies are filmed up in Canada. And like, there was an article I saw about the Canadian government, and I'm not going to sidebar, but like, they were concerned about all the like Hollywood people coming in.
00:06:34
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from like California and from the United States filming in Canada, you know, staying at local hotels, eating at restaurants and stuff like that and then going back, they were worried about like the transmission so like it's just a whole fucking scene like you know locations that you might want to film that are not going to be available because
00:06:55
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COVID you know this is like if I was a director or especially if I was a producer handling the money like this would be like such an anxiety ridden time for me you know what I mean like special side shit I was like real passionate about producing I'd be like
00:07:12
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Yeah let's push that back a couple of years. Yeah unless you know you can sell it to like a streaming service like yeah and make your money back yeah it is kind of like questionable whether you want to put in theaters or yourself. Yeah I don't mean to like suggest that I feel bad for big rich producers but like I definitely like understand like why people would be like
00:07:34
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reluctant to like, you know, boldly and ambitiously embark on like a project that would, you know, possibly be very expensive.
00:07:44
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Yeah, I know some shoots that were happening in Canada, they were requiring like a two week. They'd have to go up there like two weeks ahead of time to quarantine before they can start. I've heard recently that some productions are making like all the cast and crew have to be vaccinated. Yeah. Well, I've heard that as well. But I mean, that's going to be a problem for people like actor John Voight.
00:08:07
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has apparently lost his fucking mind yeah he has lost his mind a long time ago but yeah i still i still like seeing him and things though because he's so fucking eccentric yeah but anyway um where was i yeah next thing i got is uh oh uh nickels holt has been cast in that um dracula spin-off that was just like you know about
Dracula Spin-off: Renfield
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um
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with a Renfield, you know, like Dracula's like main guy. Yeah, I definitely know who Renfield is. Yeah. Yeah. So Nicholas Hall is Renfield. Ryan Ridley, who I guess is one of the creators of Rick and Morty, because I don't know how, there's like three or four of those guys. He might be one of the writers on there, but he wrote the script. I'm not sure who's directing it.
00:09:01
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But, oh, Chris McKay, who's the director of the Lego Batman movie is gonna do it. So that's a weird like cross of like comedy, like that's two comedy guys doing a horror film. So I mean- Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know like- It's just a weird choice. Like Chris Rock, like trying to do like serious shit recently. I think we all kind of agreed that like,
00:09:28
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Chris Rock is a great comedian and a great performer, but like not the best at like serious acting, like drama roles. And yeah, it just doesn't really work out. Because he just has that natural instinct to like be funny. So like, even when he's being serious, you're just like, yeah, he's funny. But here is stand up. Here is like raspy voice, you know.
00:09:51
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it's just, I mean, he's j that it's hard to pictur else. But you mentioned re just my favorite like ta
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I'm not sure but I think Renfield might have been played by Tom Waits and it was when he was like locked in the insane asylum and he was eating bugs and he kept talking about like the young lives. He was like eating cockroaches and stuff like that.
00:10:21
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and he kept talking about how the master was going to come from. That's always a theme in all the Dracula. Dracula kind of uses Runfield and tells him, I'm going to make you one of us at some point. But that was a really interesting take to see him locked up in a mental hospital eating cockroaches and shit like that. I love that take. That was fucking great. I think it was Tom Waits that played him.
00:10:47
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yeah it's been a while since I've seen that movie yeah yeah it's um you know it had Keanu Reeves in it who I gotta tell you he was
00:10:57
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poorly cast it. Why on the rider? Also, very poorly cast it when you match them up with guys like Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. Yeah, especially that was still like early in the Keanu's. I think it was 1992 when it when it came out with theatrical release. So, yeah, it was let's post point break pretty speed, maybe.
00:11:25
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I'm not sure. It's still like still early in Keanu's career. So I think now it's pre matrix. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I think he would fit now in like that type of universe. Like now he could pull it off, you know, the grizzled old fucking like Keanu with the with the child wick look. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I mean, but not as that character, though. I don't think he'd be able to play that character. Yeah, I don't think he really ever should be. Yeah, I don't think he. No, no, no.
00:11:56
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But anyway, yeah, speaking of comedic actors, I mean, Jordan Peele, I mean, you know, he did great with.
Jordan Peele's 'Nope' Announcement
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you know, get out. He released a poster and the title for his next movie, which is just called Nope. And I feel like, I feel like it could be the shortest movie ever. It's gonna be like, Hey, you guys want to go in this creepy old house? And people just be like, Nope, that's just credits. Yeah. That's a meme when, when there was that, um, the clip of, um,
00:12:29
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When the first it remake came out, there was someone put up the scene before it hit theaters. Someone put up the scene of when Billy goes down the basement and finds Georgie walking around in the basement and like on. I just thought the YouTube comments were real funny because there were just pages and pages of people saying, nope,
00:12:55
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Yeah, it became like a thing people would go on there and they would just write nope and like put on there like there was like 10,000 comments and like 3000 just had the word no, I thought that was really fucking funny. No, I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm definitely interested in it. I mean, us wasn't great and had some good aspects to it. But I thought the story didn't quite come together.
00:13:17
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but i am looking forward to know in grindhouse remember when they just made the trailers the grindhouse trailers like they made the machete trailer and there wasn't actually supposed to be a movie and then they made that movie though and then they end up well i think that was a mistake that they did that but not at all because that was called don't
00:13:39
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Yeah, it was like, don't go upstairs. Don't go in that room.
00:13:50
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No, but the the machete, that apparently was something I was listening to Danny Trejo on Mark Maron podcast. And that was apparently something that like him and I believe Rodriguez had like an idea for like a long time ago. So I like the movie. Like I think better if it was just like the trailer. That's just me.
00:14:13
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Yeah, but I mean, I still I still like the movie. It's still fun. I like the first action score. The title for the next American Horror Story season is double feature. And it looks like it's what number are they up to on American Horror Story? They got to be up to like what, six or seven. It might be more than that. Oh, really?
00:14:36
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Yeah, I'm not even sure anymore. Oh, yeah. I remember the first season came out. I first found out about when we were playing spades at Sierra's house when she lived with her mom and I still lived on Tina Drive. So that was in like 2006. Wow. Yes. So American Horror Story has been on there for about 15 years.
00:15:05
Speaker
Hasn't been 15 years? Maybe, I wouldn't even say.
00:15:08
Speaker
I stopped living on Tina Drive in 2007 and season one was out. I remembered seeing the French maid. I was watching it. I was like, yeah, they're definitely not up to 15 seasons, though. No, I'm saying like the first American horror story. It had to be 2006 or 2007. Oh, 12 seasons, 12 seasons coming out. It's been on there. It's been on. It's been active for about 15 years.
00:15:37
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Yeah. 14 years. Yeah, this one looks like it's going to be like an aquatic horror plus a alien horror. I wish it was I don't know how they're going to do it, but I kind of wish it was like half season was just the aquatic and half the season was just aliens. Yeah. And not like the mix, because it seems like to me anyway, when I watch the one I've been watching the past few seasons, it's like it either like starts out great and ends poorly or like starts out poorly.
00:16:04
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It's great in the middle and then it's poorly. Like I don't, I don't care. Remember the last one that's ended really
American Horror Stories Spin-off
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Speaker
well. You know what I mean? Like they've all been kind of a big mixed bag of like stuff. So it's like, it kind of would work better as like a shorter series. And speaking of that, like the American horror stories, which is a spin-off of American horror story does that. It's like each episode, except for the first two episodes, each episode has been a different short film.
00:16:30
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So it's more it's more of an anthology series so I really like the third episode, which was like a zombie drive in theater one. It was like people watch this movie and they go fucking crazy. So like I thought that one was cool. And the one after that was but I haven't watched that one yet but uh, it's got Danny Trejo playing Santa Claus apparently. So really.
00:16:53
Speaker
Yeah, I only actually saw that one episode of American Horror Story. That's all I ever like. I like saw bits and pieces of a couple other ones, but like I had only really seen like I only had watched like from being young to end one episode of it.
00:17:09
Speaker
Yeah, like the second season season, the asylum, but the only the only part I didn't like about it was like the alien story of that. So, yeah, I mean, I got to tell I'm pretty certain that like television and movie is going to start like being like I think sci fi is going to start focusing
00:17:30
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hardcore on like the alien and UFO phenomena with all the talk there is in the news and stuff and I know we're going to do a future like two-part cast on that but like yeah it's like good material I hope it like doesn't turn into like this zombie
00:17:46
Speaker
where like everything just starts like there's like 20 different alien spinoff series. Like I hope like I know it's going to come and I welcome it coming. I think it's appropriate. I just hope it's like good, well written content. Yeah, I hope they're all like sort of different and not bad of the same type of alien. Like the Alien TV series has already been in the works before like this has come out. That's the only one I'm looking forward to right now. So we'll see how that goes.
Netflix UFO Docuseries Release
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But yeah, the
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Speaker
The Alien Netflix documentary just came out today, August 3rd. I'll be checking that out before we do our cast. I know there's one on Showtime coming out soon, but I can't remember when that was. Is that Jeremy Corbyn that's doing the Alien Netflix series? Who directed that?
00:18:42
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I don't know. I just saw like a trailer for it. And then like I saw it was coming out today. I'm wondering, you know, what I'm talking about. He's the guy that did the the documentary. I mean, I actually thought that the best I thought the best was the Joe Rogan Bob Lazar podcast where Bob Lazar just talked for like two and a half hours.
00:19:05
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Yeah, after listening to that, I watched his documentary on Netflix. Yeah, he made something called Bob Lazar Area 51 and like flying saucers or something like that. I think the director's name is Jeremy Corbin. I think that's his name. He's been on like Joe Rogan like every time that like there's somebody talking about like UFOs. He's on there. I was wondering if he also had something to do with the Netflix series. But yeah, yeah, it does. It doesn't matter either way. It just came out today.
00:19:34
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Yeah, it's called top secret UFO projects declassified. That's all. That's all I know. I don't know. It doesn't just on the Netflix page. It doesn't show like how many episodes this. Yes, I do. It is one, two, three, six episodes.
00:19:52
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Oh, wow. So it's like that's like almost like a full season. It's like, oh, yeah, in between like a full season and miniseries. Yeah, they're like 45, 43 minute episodes. So, yeah, that's definitely something off to check out. We could talk about that when we do the UFO cast. Cool. Yeah, definitely. I would like to wait almost wait until the.
00:20:15
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the Showtime one comes out as well to talk about it. So we can kind of... When does that come out? Did they ever release date on that? That's a good question.
J.J. Abrams' Showtime UFO Series
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I'm not sure. Showtime Alien series. Don't worry. I'll just Google this as we talk. Oh, I just typed in Showtime series. Yeah, that'll help. Yeah, I was looking for like an exact, like an approximation, like just like... I thought it was this month. Yeah.
00:20:43
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I don't know. Like, uh, suddenly it was August. Oh, it's a JJ Abrams, uh, bad robot. It's his production company. It's a four part series. Let me see. Oh, Sunday, August 8th, it looks like. So it's going to come out this week. So yeah, by the time we do a next, uh, cast, we should have it. Interesting.
00:21:05
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Yeah, I just I feel like if these are successful, it's just going to take off and like everything's going to be like new series about aliens. There's going to be like seven new movies or something like that. I had heard something about there maybe being like a remake of Fire in the Sky. But when I looked it up, I couldn't find any information about it.
00:21:27
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And it turns out the rumor got started because Travis Walton was on Joe Rogan and he was like talking about like how he wanted there to be a remake. He said that he had been in touch with people that were interested in making a remake. However, I haven't been able to find anything that validates that at all. Like in terms of like Googling and searching around, I haven't seen anything about it. So I think it was just a rumor.
00:21:57
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OK, you know, the JJ Abrams production company, one is just called the UFO and all four episodes drop on August 8th at midnight ahead of its linear T X at nine p.m. I don't know what T X means. So it might be another channel or something. Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, it's going to be on a show time this Sunday. So, yeah, we'll be able to talk about that very soon.
00:22:26
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Yeah, that's sick. I don't like to two huge series to watch them. I'll be able to I don't suck. Yeah, me too.
00:22:35
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Well, there's just there's so much material out there. Like, you know, I mean, like, hopefully if they like make it like it's like good content, you know, I mean, sure, they're about like, you know, the shit in Congress that that's what's so fucking cool is that there's been like two congressional reports. I don't like I could like I could start getting side barred into like making this a UFO episode. So just keep on going.
00:22:57
Speaker
Yeah, well, that's all the news I had, or at least that's that's what I had up and I clicked away
Nicolas Cage in 'Willy's Wonderland'
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for a bit. So, yeah, I talked about a couple of movies that I had not seen yet that you recommended. There were two that were like, you know, these are like muskies. I really want you down. One was Willy's Wonderland, which I saw
00:23:18
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like a week ago and I really, really liked it. I mean, from your description, I figured that like there was no way I wasn't going to like it. When you told me that Nicolas Cage like played like a silent character that just like did all this like weird shit and like nothing fazed him. Like that was like a really solid description because that's pretty much like they lock him in that place.
00:23:44
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basically as like a sacrificial lamb, knowing that he's going to be like, you know, dead by dawn, you know, and yeah, he not only doesn't he die, he just doesn't really seem like he thinks it's a really big deal that he's there.
00:24:00
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Like it seems that he figures out pretty quickly that he's been locked in to a, you know, a sacrificial situation. Yeah. Then he's like, okay, whatever. Like I'm just going to clean this place anyway, just cause like that was the deal we made. Yeah. He sort of had like almost like Geralt Witcher emotions, which are like no emotions. Like he just doesn't speak. Like he sees that there's like great danger that there's terrible violence