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Creature Features, 4K Dreams & Riggi Realness | Ep. 3
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This month on The Dread Broadcast, we’re joined by special guest Chris Riggi—actor in Abduct, American Crime Story, Vampires Suck, Gossip Girl, and (according to the internet) possibly the new Superman AND an F1 driver. We get into it. 🏎️🦸♂️ Our incredible panel includes: 🩸 Shawn from @thehorrorvision 🌕 Travis from @thenightclubpodcast 👻 Katie from @katieafraidy 🔪 Jillian from @ratedhorror 💀 Kelsi from @superkickingit 📼 Will from @onegoodscare 🎃 Jeffrey from @johndoejuggalo 🧠 Josh from @horrorblyopinionated 🎥 GC from @facethemovies Together, we cover: 📚 The rise of Creature Feature novels 🎬 Must-see indie and under-the-radar horror releases 👀 Early reactions to Hell House LLC: Lineage 💿 That Nightmare on Elm Street 4K box set announcement …and plenty more horror hot takes, laughs, and recommendations. 💀 Make sure to LIKE, FOLLOW, and SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of The Dread Broadcast—where horror creators and fans come together to celebrate the genre we love.
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Welcome & Introduction
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Welcome back horror freaks, creeps, and cinephile misfits. You're watching the Dread broadcast.
Episode Overview
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And this is episode three, our July recap.
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I'm Tim. And I'm Jonathan. And whether you're tuning in for the news, the nonsense, or just to see who's drinking wine out of a skull goblet this time, you're in the right place. If you're new here, the Dread Broadcast is your monthly horror roundtable where creators, collectors, critics, and chaos goblins come together to dissect the blood-soaked state of horror.
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We talk movies, shows, games, Blu-rays, books, toys. If it's spooky, strange, or straight-up cursed, we're covering it. And what makes it special? This isn't some stiff review show. We do that in our other giant channel.
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This is a celebration. We hype up the good, we drag the bag the bad, and spotlight the creators, the fans, and weirdos who keep the horror community alive and absolutely thriving.
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So whether you're an indie filmmaker, a TikTok scream queen, a Fangoria subscriber since 89, or just here for the unhinged opinions, this is the horror hangout you didn't know you needed.
Meet the Panel
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Tonight, we're recapping all the weird, wild, and wonderfully bloody moments from horror in July, plus giving some love to the voices and creators keeping the genre undead and unapologetic.
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And we've got a seriously stacked panel tonight, some returning legends, some fresh faces, and a guest who is in one of the best vampire movies of the early 2010s. But first, let's meet our panel.
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From the horror vision, it's Sean back for another episode with some deep cuts, deep thoughts and bringing us something new tonight. Hey guys, super happy to be back. um Yeah, really excited to have Chris here and talk about his movie and I got a bunch of really cool horror comics to recommend the people that are out right now. So happy to be here.
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Awesome. Nice. And then from the nightclub podcast, we've got Ricky coming back, bringing you horror with a side of chaos and always keeping it cosmic. cu Hey, what's going on, guys? i'm from I'm from the nightclub podcast and we do stuff and stuff.
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That was a great, great intro. Very informative. Yeah, you can find us places.
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And we do have Katie Heidenbach, the host of Katie Afraidy, having some technical issues, but she should be joining us tonight and we're looking forward to that. And then we've got Jillian from Rated Horror serving realness with razor sharp reviews.
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Awesome. Thanks for having me. Super excited. I do a lot of horror movie reviews and recommendations, mostly on Instagram and TikTok. I'm excited to chat about the upcoming Hill House LLC movie today.
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Super excited to have you with us. And from Slime and Slashers returning again, we have Kelsey with her signature energy and enthusiasm. We can't wait to see what she has for us.
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Thank you. Signature energy. That's pretty nice. i appreciate that. That's a very nice compliment. I am Kelsey, as you said, and I'm going to be talking about flipping animal attack books today because nothing screams summer like some cheesy, corny freaking animal attacks. so That's going to be fun. but If you're looking where you can find me, you could find me at the channel Simon Slashers on YouTube.
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I do talk mostly horror books. However, I do talk movies every now and then. And if you are a fan of 80s and 90s, that's my jam. That's like my whole life. so And it's been my whole life since like the year 2000. So I was like, I miss Literally 2000, the first day.
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but um so if you're like me and love nostalgia, please come on over and see me and become a cult member of mine. no Nice. Up next, we've got Will from One Good Scare, keeping the spooky season alive Hey, guys.
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guys I'm Will, and I am the host of a relatively new horror review show, One Good Scare. Solo hosted, so that's a little little weird. Most shows are like multiple hosts, more than one. Not me. I'm going at it solo, for better, for worse. And Jonathan, Tim, I'm really glad to be here, and I appreciate the invite.
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glad thank you so Thank you so much. You also do another one red tree, right? I do. So I actually also host a story, a scary story telling podcast, uh, fully scripted, um, sort of a mixed bag of fiction stories, listener submitted stories. And, uh,
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just the scariest stories to keep you up at night. That show is the red tree house about to hit two years and 200 episodes. So we got that is awesome. That is awesome. yeah We have Jeff from your Instagram handle John Doe juggalo. Is that right? Yeah, that's also my YouTube channel and everything all the way back to aim.
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All right. yeah Pretty much been my internet name forever. i basically just talk physical media of all kinds, whether it's video games, movies, music, ah very thick underline of horror.
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um Of course, if you were a 90s kid, and you had an uncle that grew up in the 80s, you probably were raised on lots of horror like I was. So Right on. Well, we are so grateful that you're stepping in to fill the vacancy for Frank.
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Thank you so much for being willing to do that. Nice. so then we've got Josh from Horribly Opinionated, a new voice this month and ready to stir the pot. Yeah, I hope so. I'm realizing that i might I need to convince my wife to get me a cool room. like Everyone, I feel like I am way behind here. I need spare bedroom. But no, thanks for having me on, guys. I really appreciate it.
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Yeah, horribly opinionated on social media. I also run The Grave Podcast, which is my own podcast where I talk to folks about their paranormal experiences. So season four is coming out in October. if anyone here knows or has paranormal experiences of their own, feel free to reach out. I'd love to have you guys on.
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All right. And then think I'm going to go ahead. And last but certainly not least, he's the anchor of our relay, ah staple of the show from Face the Movies, GC, dropping knowledge in killer Blu-ray pics.
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dude like it's awesome man i'm so happy to be here tim like i'm you you don't have to sweet talk me anymore because you already got me for next month and for god knows how long but again guys i'm excited to be here with you i am the host of face the movies youtube channel and instagram and also the host of the podcast friday night fright night and like tim said i'm very excited to be here there's already a spoiler i'm actually wearing the shirt my name is blocking it but We're going to talking about that coming up. So very excited.
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All right. I have to I need to message Ricky because he keeps trying to pop in as Chris. And every time he does that, it kicks Chris off. So that's what's happening. god Yes. They're having this back and forth. They can't have two people with the same name.
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i yeah we Can I just I can change my name if that's easier for him. You should change his name. You should change his name.
Special Guest: Chris Riege
Special Guest: Chris Riege
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So our special guest tonight, ah he is the first actor slash director to grace the show with their presence, a man of many talents, and even more genre credits to his name.
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You know him from Vampire Suck, American Crime Story, Gossip Girl, and about a dozen movies where you probably leaned over and whispered, wait, is that? Yeah, that is that is definitely him.
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But what's got us especially fired up is his latest product ah project, Abduct, a sci-fi horror thriller that he co-wrote and directed. It's getting seriously strong reactions online, and if you've seen it, you know why.
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Fans have been raving about the tension, the mood, the what the hell is happening intensity, and the humor. It's the kind of indie horror that reminds you why we love this genre.
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It's original, it's fun, and it's dripping with just good energy, good time. So grab your tinfoil hats, your bug out bags, and maybe a flashlight. You're going to want to check this one out.
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We are beyond hyped to welcome the multi-talented Chris Riege to the Dread broadcast. Chris, it's awesome to have you here. Oh, thank you guys so much. This is awesome. Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you, Tim.
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And Jillian, thank you for the review. I really appreciate it. And obviously, Josh, thank you so much. Oh, God. So this is, I hope I don't get kicked off again. Hope that, hope we can have that guy join us.
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I am messaging him now. I'm sorry. look about him I don't want to talk about a duck. I want to talk about this guy. Get him in here. let's go you You want to talk about Ricky from the nightclub?
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All right. So I told you I was going to get you a nice softball question to kind of get. I have the answer. have the answer. Okay. So the question is, if you got the opportunity to play any iconic horror villain or horror character, I should say,
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Who would you want to play? Well, I went with, I was, it's funny because I went for the horror villain immediately, even though I reread your message and it wasn't specifically horror villain.
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It wasn't. but i but But then I decided I'm going to go with, MacReady from The Thing, if that still counts, if we're all still counting this as yes as just a horror icon, MacReady from The Thing. If we're going count that as a horror movie, which I kind of do.
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So hope we all agree with that one. Oh, we definitely count that one. We definitely count that one. You're like, that's just sci-fi. That's not horror. What are you talking Nope, it counts. It counts. It's a good choice. It's a life-second choice.
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You have a second choice? and that was That was the last second choice. i was like, I'm like, McCready, the thing, done. That's it. Okay. I like that it's also kind of a deeper cut. It's not like you didn't come out and be like, oh, Freddie, you know?
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No, yeah, yeah. Yep, yep. I like that. I like that. ah So I know couple members of the panel have some questions for you. Give them to me. going to go.
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Who wanted to kick us off? Jillian, do you want to kick us off or should we have Sean? can kick us off. Dying, burning question. Okay, Jillian. No, really awesome movie. I had so much fun with it. um It was just a blast.
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And i loved like how it ended. and I felt like it could have really gone in any direction. I had a hard time guessing what direction it was going to go in. So I was curious while you're writing it, you know, ending you went with is what you're planning to do all along or if you had any other ideas.
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That is a very good question. And honestly, the what I'm really proud of with this movie is that not one person, even the people who don't like it, are like, this is crap. It's so indie.
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um None of no one has guessed the ending, like never has guessed the twist. Not one person, not even my family members have guessed the twist. Oh, nice. I kept it pretty quiet. So it's always been that way. The ending, like the end, end, end of the movie, there was a version of it where there was,
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way more supernatural stuff happening, happening ah and then you know but budgetary restrictions. But the the basically the the climax was always that that was going to happen the way it was going to happen.
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Since day one, i was ah yeah I was driving in a car with with my ah girlfriend at the time, now my wife, Stephanie. And I just turned to her going, i was going like 102. ah hundred and two where I was going insane and way too fast in in ah in the mountains. and i was like And I just pitched her the pitch.
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and and And I said the ending in the pitch. And she goes, that's the movie. And so we just made that and wrote it. And Ken Kirby helped us write it. And yeah, so basically, it's always it's never changed. Yeah. ah that Since five years ago. i mean, we wrote it over five years ago.
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yeah Awesome. Yeah. Thanks for the question. You have follow up, Jillian? Sure. we Go to Sean. Oh, you can to Sean. Sean. So first of all, Chris, I loved your movie and I think it's really telling that you just picked McCready because the first thing that made an impression is, I mean, the thing, there's a thing referenced like early in the movie, right?
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Like very early. And that immediately warmed me up to it, because at that point, I still didn't really know. You know, you don't have the lay of the land. And I i like that. But I'm curious. So is this an idea? And you kind of just maybe touched on the answer. You said you were driving in the mountains when you kind of pitch it to your then girlfriend, now wife.
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But it seems like this is a place that you know, like the location and that that was kind of the impetus for the story. Is that accurate? Like it was the house or that area like a place that inspired the ah story?
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Absolutely. Yeah, we were in i was driving in Lake Placid off exit 30. So it's very desolate up there by a lake. And it was it was snowing. Actually, this is before this was exit 26 where the Don't don't speed exit 26 on the way to Lake Placid because the cops will find you.
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ah But that's that's the road we took. And and it's in Lake Placid in the winter is magical, which made me think of the thing, which is one of my all time favorite movies. And so that's that landscape specifically because the movie has changed so much. I mean, the movie that that you saw, it takes place in Santa Clarita for various reasons. One, I wanted my actors to be able to drive to and from. sit So I was like, where can I find a mountain house that's You know, um we found it last minute because cost an arm and a leg, but it was in Santa Clarita. So we originally the first version was in the snow. Because like so movies in the snow are incredible. I mean, even like something like Dreamcatcher, which is all over the place, is still a lot of fun because of that environment. And the snow is just...
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is I wish we had the budget for snow. I really do. But yes, to answer your question, it was totally even though the movie changed so much, I got it. I was really wanted to be shoot in the snow. So we kept it in our head that it would be in the snow at some point. But yeah, you don't want to you don't to make actors cold when you're paying them very little and you're shooting You're shooting for, you know, eight to 12 hours and it's all favors. It's like, let's just keep And, you know, even though we had some cold nights, you know, we just didn't, we just didn't have the time or resources to like fly to Big Bear and so sorry, drive to Big Bear and hold everybody up and shoot it there in the winter, which was the original plan it was to shoot at some like log cabin in Big Bear.
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yeah, long winded answer. you You still had a lot of the magic, even though there wasn't snow. But, you know, that that like the desert or in Santa Clarita is interesting because there's kind of desert and it's there's elements that are kind of forest, too. So you kind of get it's a very unique look and it added a lot. So, yeah, very like area. if Maybe if you think about it, like subliminally, like Area 51 or something like that.
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I just love, I love the desert. You know, my, my friend made a movie called Jethika, uh, directed by Pitos and that was in the desert. And I was I just want to shoot in the desert, rip them off a little bit and just she shoot it in the desert ish area landscape. So, yeah.
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All right. Who had another question?
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Katie had some questions. Okay, Katie had some. She really wanted to pick your brain about Vampire Suck. Please do. me she She can't get connected right now. So she just sent my message. Let's see if she gets in here.
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Katie, let me tell you. No, I can hear her. It's not even on. Okay, okay.
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Jillian, you got another one? Yeah, and i do want to say, too, I'm glad it ended up being a desert movie because I just love ah desert movies more than the snow. I feel like we don't get enough of them. Oh, good.
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I like that really worked out. Yeah. um but my second question, when I was researching the movie, I saw you did so much for this movie. You had so many different roles on top of acting in the movie.
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And that always impresses me for these indie movies, right? Where people have a lot of hats, but how did you really balance that between everything else you were doing and acting?
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but Like a lot of practice, a lot of practice with, um, shooting sketches and shooting ah my wife's film. Shout out to a spy movie um and shooting my other friend's stuff and like doing videography gigs and just being like so comfortable behind the camera making shorts. And I made a feature before this, but like I just knew I knew I'm like, I i know how to use the camera. I'm so comfortable with it I know how to work with actors and the camera's on my shoulder.
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I know I can shoot so fast and and just i knew I knew the Sony because I saw out i shot on a Sony A7S III and then A7S IV. So I knew that camera like the back of my hand.
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um Sold it after we shot it. Oh, wow. But yeah, I mean, come on. I'm like, you got to make some money. um But yeah, I think... That just excites me. When you have your... When you're working with your like friends like and they drive up to set and like they're all like kind of like groggy coming out of the car like, what are we shooting? And you're like, you're like I got you.
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So come over here. We're going to this. We're going do this. Just being in control and like kind of like... impressing them with how um organized I am and like the collaborative effort between just me and my, my hilarious actress who are all like comedians in their own way.
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um it wasn't that hard. I can only think of just, just, um, trying to, uh, shoot at night is always hard when you're like, you have like, I mean, i don't I didn't have actually explain this is that I really didn't have a crew. There was just like maybe I had a PA or two PAs who are just favors who I'm giving gas money and food to to like show up and like rig up a huge light and then maybe shine a green light for the you know, so it's like that that is a little tricky.
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But um yeah, just being like cognizant of everyone's time because it's such a it was such a small movie and it was such a favor that everyone showed up. um Yeah, that was that's it's it's it's mostly about just like making everybody everybody feel really, really comfortable and and having a good time. So how do I do that without like crashing, being the DP, the sound? I'm the sound person, too.
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So I use on this one as my as well as my first one, I ever all the actors have iPhones on their chest for sound. And I'm like putting a bandages for the guys with iPhones. The girls put them here in their shirt and I'm running sound while I have the camera. I'm like turning them on turning them on and just like a madman. I look crazy when I'm doing it.
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And it's all handheld, so it's like main, it's, it's, it's, my actors are freaking I think I just went so far away from the question, but basically like have a zoom lens and I'm like shooting like a wide, but then I'll like run into my actor's face and like shoot their close-ups. They're like where did you go?
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What are we shooting? And I'm like, that's how I shoot, man. I got to pick this up, pick this up, this up. I got to make sure I get all your improvs in. And like, yeah, I mean, I don't I don't um find it to be hard at all. If I will say anything is hard.
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It's why i don't shoot on a tripod, which I need to do more of um the tripod. No one likes a tripod. I hate carrying gear. That's the hardest part. I hate it I hate rigging up lights. I hate ending windows. That that that stuff sucks. That's blessed to all the gaffers and the assistant camera and everyone is like holding gear and stuff because that's the worst part of making a movie. But Besides that, it's the it's a gift.
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It's a gift. I didn't answer the question. ah well Super impressive that you could do all that. And I loved how you shot it too. It kind of felt like you were there freaking out with everyone at the house.
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ah Very true. Awesome. Thank you. you actually mentioned You actually mentioned something that leads into my big question that I had. ah I have a weird sense of humor. I talk about it all the time when we review movies on my shows. What most people find funny, I don't.
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What I find funny is usually very abstract. I loved the sense of humor in this movie. So I wondered, you mentioned some of your actors did improv. How much of it was written in the script? How much of it was them improvising?
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Because I found moments of it very humorous and funny, and i liked how it balanced throughout the film, but it never once took me out of it. I was like, that seemed very genuine and funny.
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Yes. Yes. I mean, honestly, knee jerk reaction. My favorite stuff in the movie is improv. That's, that's all like Nicole saying, just throw up or shit out whatever you fucking took.
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And I was like, I was like, da I'm crying. that she make a like Trying to keep her in focus. But honestly, like, you know, it's it didn't start that way.
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So it it was a much goofier movie. Not to take the air out of the room. It was a goofier movie and a big bigger budget. And I like I'm get down to this like $20,000 movie and made it so serious and showed up and like, honestly, there was some like things going on, like personally.
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ah And I needed to, and my dog, this is, I always talk about this, like don't bring down the room. i had I had to put my dog down like three days into shooting and we had we had shot like We had shot like a few like simple stuff.
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The cop station, which was which was much different. um and like because we're just That was like one of the first things we shot was the cop station, which was like, mind you, there was nothing there. That room was empty. My my wife and I like and my beautiful PA's rigged that up to kind of look like a police station. Anyway, long story short, you know i i I needed my actors to like make me laugh and Steph encouraged me to like,
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let them improv, let's go, let's have fun, let's just like fucking take the shackles off. like Because like there was, remember doing my first take in the basement and mind you, obviously, like that was a hard day. The basement day was the day we had to both put but our dog down, but we had to shoot this movie as a therapy.
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um And I treated the my first scene with them when they come down the stairs like, who the fuck are you? And I was like being super dramatic. And then Steph's like, talk faster, make it more funny.
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And then so we turn the camera around and let Nicole do her brilliance of just improv and Tim Stanton being hilarious and Chris Eckert being so funny. He's a groundlings guy. and like you know it was it was you know i i say sometimes like maybe it came out of like needing some kind of release and making it funny but i'm not it i know who i hired her like i know i asked to be with me they're all comedic geniuses in my opinion like crystal chris chris daughtry who plays patrick is so funny um you know there i just knew that they would bring
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Because going off on a tangent, my first film was a 19 page scriptment. And um I personally don't like hearing lines. Like I don't like hearing scripts. It drives me crazy. It's like I want to hear stuff I've never heard before. And you can only do that if you just give your actors like room.
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So, you know, a lot of stuff is improv in this movie. I wish I had more examples. Like, definitely, like, throw up or shit out. Whatever you fucking talk is crazy. i Chris is Asian.
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You're white. Tim says that, which just kills me. And, like, um yeah, there's just so many, so many, many many moments that were improv. Again, probably didn't answer your question. I just went so far off again.
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ah yeah No, you did you did. That answered my question because I wondered where that sense of humor came from. Yeah. Just them being funny. Yeah. I totally get the, if I had to put my dogs down, I'd be a wreck. I don't know that I could return to sex. So kudos to you doing that.
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So. yeah How's everyone feel? ah Just holding back tears. Give me a second. um but But honestly, like there's also a thing with, with genre movies and, and, and,
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I mean, Cabin in the Woods did it perfectly, I think. But sometimes when you don't have a budget and you lean into the camp, camp, camp, camp camp it's like, boy, you know can but you can get into trouble because your actors maybe not be able... don't know.
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i don't know i just got very lucky that like we could push it a little more funny in points. and And because of the good acting, I feel like it was solid and it wasn't like... it wasn't like the movie, the fine, it wasn't like the, the movie was making fun of these movies, but the final, I think it's called the final girl was kind of making fun of these movies. Like that are like, so can't be like, like bad acting and Jason or stuff like that. And I was very, very aware. Like, can we not like, please let's not just make this corny and like, make this like what's happening.
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And like, and like, like freak out and like, say like kind of like corny, like stock, like ah campy dialogue but my actors never did it was like always like grounded and re real and it's so good to get like really good actors that are funny and put them in a life or death situation and like see what they do it's yeah it worked out it worked out really well okay before i ask another anybody else gots I've got a question.
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I've got a question. So because you were talking about Chris having a ah very, you know, that's to having a small budget, right? um I've found that when it comes to certain films, and I'll bring an example like The Man from Earth.
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um This film is low budget. It takes place in one room, eight to nine characters, and just him having a conversation the entire film. um I found that sometimes having a low and I mean, a lot of times having a low budget and having the the right dialogue and the right story goes miles compared
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to having a big budget. I mean, we see that in this day and age in 2025, all these big budget multimillion dollar movies, and they're just bombing left and right.
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right um so So I did want to say that as far as for the low budget. But I wanted to ask you because. having a low budget obviously makes you have to be kind of a MacGyver. Like you were saying, having the phones attached to them, using that to record audio.
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Do you feel like that helped keep the integrity of the film and keep you more appreciative of the creative process compared to having ah big budget, sort of like a chain restaurant where they all just follow the same recipe compared to like a mom and pop shop that come up with their own recipes and stuff like that?
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Yes. I mean, there's like having the actors like hold their iPhones and like label it. I'm like, all right, guys, scene one, take one, say, so do abduct scene one, take one and their last name. and like everyone writes in their last and it feels like everyone's like in control of their voice and like handing you the phones. But besides that, like the low budget nature, like I don't know. That's just how we work. It worked that way for a while, but I don't think, and I have to be careful with this because like because I just don't think there's any excuse for like,
00:28:08
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my movie's bad because they had no money. It's like people have made primer. butma ah actually Like, like, there's no excuse for a bad, there's no excuse for lazy filmmaking stuff. Like my movie is not perfect by any stretch of imagination. It is taped together with duct tape and staples and, and, and reshoots and, and, and ADR all over the place. Like it's a messy movie. It doesn't have, it has like one steady cam shot. Actually, I don't even think there is one.
00:28:32
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Um, you know, so anyway, I just think that like keeping it small um and almost like hiding the camp. There's no crew. There's no lights like this. So like they they're there. They're there. They're stage actors, like improv comedian genius people. So they they're at home.
00:28:48
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So like and not having that there. like excites them. They're like, this isn't like, I have more time to like riff. And like this isn't like any project I work on. I love working with you guys because it's free and it's not, we're not waiting seven hours for one day scene. Like it's, it's all happening so fast and there's so much energy and love and we're all doing it because it's like, this is a, this like summer camp. It's making a movie at this level is like summer camp, especially with the beautiful, beautiful, kind people that I worked with. So Yeah, I'll get all gushy in a second, I don't stop. so But yeah yeah, it makes it way more personal. per Way personal, especially like when I had to walk on to set that day. Set that day.
00:29:28
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A Glendale base in basement I got on Gigster. And be like, so my godda what's up, guys? How you doing? ah Everyone was just so sweet. Yeah, yeah so Oh my God. And like asking my actors to like fall on things with no stunt choreography. There was some stunt choreography we did a little bit, but like, man, there were some there were some traded blows in this movie. I got knocked...
00:29:53
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and And I'm not going to say who did it because I to anything, but this person doesn't, I didn't think this person punched that very, that hard in real life, but he clocked, I got clocked pretty hard. And then I returned it by accident. So in the same like span of, anyway, small movies, good friends.
00:30:09
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Great. i love I love that answer, man, because that's ah that's one thing i I always look for. And I'll bring up another example. There's a movie called As Above, So Below. i love it. man Dude, I'm glad, man, because it's it's it takes place in the same situation where you have a small group, a small cast.
00:30:26
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They're all on the ground. They're all cold. They're all wet. And it just brings that like that bond to that point that it really shows on screen. Because... You could be the best actor, right? And be able to portray anxiety and panic and anger and all that stuff.
00:30:42
Speaker
But when yeah when you're able to portray it naturally just because of that bond and because of kind of going through that bootcamp, through the suck, so to speak, um it just, like, I love that, man. And that's awesome. Like, I commend you for being able to, you know, put that together. And not to mention what you said perfectly.
00:31:00
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There's no excuse not to be able to create something. I mean, all you got to do is think outside the box. You know, I'm... You know, if you have like a lighter, some matches, you know you have a camera and you have like a little microphone. I mean, just you can make something.
00:31:13
Speaker
But that's awesome, man. That made me want to cry. ah The way you describe the movie making process, it sounds it's something that I want to be a part of. It sounds awesome. I want to see it. I want to experience it. Come and hang.
00:31:28
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is I would love to. I originally went to school for. digital film and video production because I wanted to direct movies and then life throws curveballs at you. Where'd you go? I'm here instead.
00:31:39
Speaker
ah Asbury University as in Kentucky. But yeah. Love Kentucky. So before i don't want to leave, but i know you guys have have to talk. Well, I have I have one more that I can send it, send you off with.
00:31:53
Speaker
We appreciate you making time for us today. Katie did message me. She's still trying. But ah she she sent me her question for you. Yes, Katie. Yes. She said,
00:32:04
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she said If I miss Chris, tell him he's the shit and to ask what his favorite memory of shooting Vampire Suck was. ah um Let's see.
00:32:18
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oh God. It was only a couple of years ago. Yeah. It was only, yeah um Oh geez. don I think the wire work was fun. I had to do some like light wire work and like jump and turn into a Chihuahua. That was fun. What?
00:32:36
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Honestly, you know, um I was so lucky to book that. I sent in a tape and then I sent in another tape and then I got the call and I was like, yeah, I'm doing a spoof. And and because I'm obsessed with Naked Gun and Airplane and all the scary movie movies.
00:32:50
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Can't wait to see the one. Yes, I can't wait to see it. i can't wait to see it. All right. No, no, please, please. I also want to talk about all the movies I want to see, like together and Ohio and all these other movies.
00:33:02
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but Anyway, spoof movies. Yes. So I was so excited to get it. But um it was hard because of the the the I was pretty like thin then. And it actually changed my life because I got into like I've always worked out. But I kind of took a break when I was in New York City. And then long way of saying it was nonstop working out. I was ah I don't care. This is a long time ago.
00:33:25
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i I hurt my back because I was dancing at a club. I can't hear you. Oh no. Did it stop? No, no. Okay. So I was, I was, i was drinking a lot of water that night.
00:33:37
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Um, stay hydrated. Yes. Thanks. It's staying hydrated as you, as you are. like, Hey, want to see a front flip? I hurt. i I herniated my disc. So the whole, and that was I was, didn't even shot yet, but I had to be in insane shape to compete with Taylor Lautner.
00:33:51
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And, um, oh man, I was in pain the whole time. I was in so much pain. but I was working out all the time. So all I remember is that i did not eat like food. and just ate protein in like really small meals and ate like just steel cut oatmeal and protein and just try to stay in shape and keep up with...
00:34:08
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Diedrich Bader and and everyone else in that movie. So I don't know. I was a little out of my element in that movie. I was so i was pretty young and and tried to stay is as in shape as possible. But I met some really good friends on that movie. like So that's that's what I take away is the people that I met that I'm still friends with on that film.
00:34:26
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That's awesome. So boring of an answer. So boring. Nothing there. Nothing there. No, I don't think staying hydrated and doing the flip is a boring answer at all. So thank you so much. We know you're traveling. You got places be. Thank you for taking time out of that schedule to join us tonight.
00:34:44
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Guys, thank you. I'm sorry I have to leave. like This was this is really amazing. and i thank you Thank you guys for like hearing me jabber on about stuff. We're glad to have you, dude. We have people who want to catch your movie in the comments.
00:34:58
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Where can they catch it? what is it Plug that movie. Let's do it. Abduct 2025.
00:35:05
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Directed by me. it it is on um Amazon Prime in the UK, Amazon Rent or Buy in the US. It's free on Fawesome.
00:35:16
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And the links are in my Instagram bio, at Chris Riggi. And cool news, it just got licensed to Apple TV and Roku. that's pretty cool. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, I i self distributed this thing through Film Hub. And, you you know, I just was like, I'm just I'm like, is anyone going to pick this up? And finally, people are coming and Roku picked it up, hopefully ah to be down the line or something like that. So but right now, awesome. Amazon.
00:35:43
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Chris, quick question. Are you going to have a physical media release for it? Yes. You guys want to message me and tell me how to do it? I'll do it. Because honestly, that's that is ah I've looked into it, and it just got put on the back burner. But i I would love that. How cool is it, like a movie you made to be on a VHS cover? like I go into like antique stores, and i see all these VHSs and snap photos of them. I'm like, God, that'd be so cool to have a dog to be on a VHS tape or DVD.
00:36:10
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So I would love that. Any ideas how to do it? Let me know. I should know. I don't. If we can figure it out. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you so much. Guys. Amazing. Thank you.
00:36:21
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I'll see you guys. Have fun. Take care. Thank you so much. Bye. Let me see How do I get out of here? I'm just going to do this. Bye guys. Bye guys.
00:36:32
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See ya. Walk off. There we go.
00:36:40
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He takes the escalator. i
00:36:51
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just yes i no Just close the browser. and Just shut the computer. There you go. See ya. All right. So on to, that was awesome of him to join us.
00:37:06
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He messaged me before that he's traveling and was worried he wouldn't be able to stay. So we totally understand. Awesome conversation. Definitely go check out abduct. We're going to move in to the reviews. So actually our first review will, how do you feel about kicking us off tonight?
00:37:26
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Oh man. It doesn't have to be you. No, no, no. It's you. arei It's good. Okay. it's All right. but Will is going to kick off, kick us off with a review tonight. All right. So I'm going to spotlight you. Will is that all right?
00:37:42
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Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great. Um, so I, I've had vampires on the brain for couple weeks now. Okay. Um, And it's sort of this like weird conversion, like convergence kind like, combination of things. Today is ah the 38th anniversary of the release of The Lost Boys, which is one of my favorite vampire movies ever. One of my favorite horror movies ever.
00:38:05
Speaker
And in... About a week and a half on the August 11th, I'm releasing One Good Scare episode on Sinners, which is one of my favorite horror releases of 2025. So I've just had vampires on the brain for weeks and weeks and weeks.
00:38:22
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Now, I always check at the end of a month, I always check to see what new horror movies are streaming elsewhere, right? Just want to see what's out there, what's coming, what's leaving, that kind of thing. And I noticed but My least favorite vampire movie of all time. I hate this movie, guys.
00:38:39
Speaker
I hate it. It's now streaming and available on Canopy, which is connected to the local library. So if you have a library card, you can sign up for canopies Canopy with a K. And you can stream movies for free. Whatever they have accessible and available is yours to stream. And so as I who was as i was looking at this website, I thought,
00:39:01
Speaker
damn, I want to talk about my least favorite vampire movie ever. And I'm a little nervous because I feel like it might be slightly controversial and I don't love controversy for its own sake, but I think it might be a good conversation. So I'm just going to, well, let me preface it by also saying this.
00:39:19
Speaker
I love vampire movies. Okay. I feel like I need to just bear my soul there and say, There's like six or seven vampire movies on my top 25 horror movies ever. So it's not that I hate vampires.
00:39:32
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It's just that I really hate this movie. Okay. So I really, really hate Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula from 1992. I'm hoping at least one other person on the panel hates it so I feel so then feel a little better.
00:39:53
Speaker
But damn, this movie sucks. Will, I've never been able to finish it, so I'm right there with you. i'm right there with you I'm not a big fan of it either, honestly, but I'm not huge in the vampire movies, so I guess I'm not the right person to chime in, but I'm kind of with you.
00:40:10
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um I'll take whatever support I can get, though, because this this movie is like it was big when it came out. right It's got an all-star cast, and I think that's part of my problem is that it feels like a waste of so much damn talent.
00:40:24
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You know, you've got Anthony Hopkins at the height of his powers, Gary Oldman with his like usual cocaine energy. You've got like, well, Keanu Reeves before the matrix, he was still in like that bill and Ted, like what's up dude. Kind of, you know, kind of persona.
00:40:40
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And i guess maybe second controversy, Winona Ryder kind of is a dud in the movie. And so like, Oh, I hate, I love to hate it.
00:40:51
Speaker
Like, uh, years ago I did an episode on Dracula for another show. And, um, I think I spent the whole hour and a half just laughing because I couldn't, I just couldn't take the movie seriously. And, um, I did watch it today just in prep, just to make sure I was like making sure that I, you know, was getting this thing right.
00:41:13
Speaker
And, um, It was as shitty then, now as it was then. So that that's where I'm at. Does anybody love this movie though? like And I've just offended you and now.
00:41:24
Speaker
Yeah. And I actually, I watched it for the first time like I think in December after Nosferatu. So I watched it like like very recently, but you can't like do my girl like that.
00:41:38
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I thought Winona killed it. I know, i know. i But i think I think generally I struggle with her. um You know, I think she just has, she has a certain energy on screen.
00:41:51
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And I thought, at least in my brain, right, the the role of of Mina Murray is such such a big role. And it's such a big role in the novels. that I think I was expecting just a little bit more life, which is weird to say for a Dracula movie, just a little more energy. And so I felt like it just came up short.
00:42:11
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But hers wasn't even the worst. I thought Keanu was like a surfer who got like transported to Transylvania. He's so miscast in that movie. yeah he's still miss I used to know a guy that did he would do a scene the scene where he's talking to Dracula and he would do it with a slam man which was this old boxing dummy and it was so spot on because i I love that movie so much but I think both of them were miscast they shouldn't have been in the movie I think so and I think it's probably because they're they're sort of stacked between heavyweights right Anthony Hopkins Gary Oldman and it it just felt like there was this weird ebb and flow in some scenes that
00:42:51
Speaker
i don't I don't know. Maybe it was a chemistry thing, but I don't know. Jill, I'm sorry. no No offense intended. It's okay. I understand. it's ah It's a trip of a movie.
00:43:03
Speaker
I feel like I'm just like a lover girl. So even though the love interest was gross, I was just like, yeah, love it. Definitely was gross. yeah i think that's I think that's the other thing too. think of i think of like certain horror gothic horror movies that I really, really love, um like the others, ah maybe the original and the more recent Nosferatu, The Lighthouse, The Orphanage, Woman in Black, Interview with the Vampire, which came out right around that same time, The Devil's Battle. like There's so many gothic horror movies that I i absolutely love.
00:43:37
Speaker
And I think what they all seem to have in common for me is that they're really subtle with the horror elements, right? They're not so like overt or in your face. And so you're forced to almost... sit with the dread and the anxiety a little bit even the witch from you know 2015 these are all movies that they're the horror is there but you almost have to think about it a little bit and i felt like with dracula was like i don't know if it felt like it was dracula on broadway everything was bright and loud and boisterous and it just that's fair it sort of hit me upside the head in this weird way that
00:44:12
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If I ever review it on One Good Scare, will probably need a co-host for that episode or a guest host because i i don't want to spend 45 minutes just chuckling my way through it.
00:44:26
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Do you want someone who loves it so that you can throw down? you can throw what i do. Yeah, because I feel like it would be a really good counter for me to be like, okay, I really shouldn't say that. Let me not say that.
00:44:40
Speaker
And so it will help put the filter in place for me to get my notes across in a more tactful kind of way. So, yeah, I think so.
00:44:52
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Will, I'll join you on that. started it. I started it after the recent Nosferatu and it's just not my, it's just not my vampire vibe. Like it's not, I, and I should say kind of similar what Kelsey said earlier, vampires are not one of my favorites in horror and hot take vampires and zombies are my two least favorite, but you do either of them really well and I'm here for it.
00:45:21
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So, uh, Is it like Nosferatu? I love that movie just because it's gorgeous and gothic and dripping in atmosphere. Every version of it, like every version of it is that.
00:45:34
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And so when I go to watch the Dracula you're talking about, i'm like, yeah, this is not my, this is not what I was looking for. Not what I wanted. Yeah, I think, you know, vampires in general are such a, it's such a, yeah like a flexible subgenre, right? You can have vampires in the hood. You could have vampires in the country.
00:45:53
Speaker
You can have vampires in Transylvania. There's so many different iterations of vampires that you could come up with. And I think the my favorite movies sort of cross that spectrum. like you know The Lost Boys is you know surfer-style vampires, right? and In California. And you've got like Abigail, who's like a a ballerina. a ballerina. viv like You've got so many vampire movies out there. But then realized...
00:46:19
Speaker
but then like and i realized Francis Ford Coppola was going for like this this faithful adaptation of the movie, of the ah the the book. But I wish someone like Robert Eggers would do it.
00:46:35
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but so And I realized like Robert Eggers was a you know ah ah teenager when when this movie came out. But still, if he ever did and adaptation of Dracula, which I realized he did Nosferatu, which was a ripoff of Dracula, I feel like it would be, or Guillermo del Toro, right? He's doing Frankenstein. Why not do Why not do Dracula and so save us?
00:46:56
Speaker
Save me. I'd pay money to see it. And I would get the 4K steelbook when it came out. For sure. oh yeah Oh, yeah. The thing we can look forward to is werewolf movie. Oh, I know.
00:47:08
Speaker
I love rubber diggers. I think he's a genius. Yeah. I'm really looking forward to that one. Well, I've got a question for you. Do you feel like The Lost Boys, it's pretty much like Point Break, but vampires? Yeah.
00:47:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, if you put Patrick Swayze could fit into Kiefer Sutherland's role flawlessly, and he might actually even elevate the role just because of how charismatic he is on screen. Right.
00:47:34
Speaker
So I feel like, yeah, absolutely. The Lost Boys is point break. Nice. Just with vampires. you You won me over, man. You got me back. All right. Let me ask you one more question. How do you feel about 30 days of night?
00:47:48
Speaker
Oh, one of my favorites, you know, and I have it on a list of my favorite vampire movies. So ah again, just for posterity sake, I feel like I need to tell you what they are. It's a, in no order, the lost boys, the original Salem's lot, uh, directed by Toby Hooper, uh, right night, 30 days of night, John Carpenter's vampires only because yes, James Woods is just a fucking nut.
00:48:12
Speaker
It's like all his nuttiness and all its glory in one 90 minute segment. Um, Obviously Nosferatu. I actually prefer the 22 and the 24 version. i've I've not really made it all the way through ah Klaus Kinski's version. i feel like it's a little little slow, maybe a little too slow for me.
00:48:30
Speaker
um And then I love Abigail and Sinners, obviously. so Abigail's a kind of fun too. That movie is Yeah, it's ah it's so good. Near Dark? I haven't seen it Yeah, it's because it's it hasn't been available physically, or and it pops up for a month here or there on streaming and disappears.
00:48:48
Speaker
Okay. reason it just Yeah, know, but it's great. I'm going to throw it on my ah um my list here. Have you seen Vampyr, the Criterion release?
00:48:58
Speaker
I was talking to Sean about it. No, I haven't. Dude, if you love Atmosphere, yeah. yeah right Now, i have I have read the short story that the the movie is based on um and actually covered it on ah The Red Tree House.
00:49:15
Speaker
Oh, I don't know, six, seven months ago. And so I'm familiar with the story, but I haven't actually watched the movie yet. dude It's so good, man. The atmosphere, especially for that time, like they did such a phenomenal job. And then the physical release, it comes with the book.
00:49:30
Speaker
And it's just beautiful. And you have, will you have the voice for those spooky story stories? I just got to tell you, can, I throw them on when we're traveling, especially at fall time.
00:49:42
Speaker
It is perfect. So I love it. I appreciate it My, uh, know, my family, my wife and kids, they, they don't listen to my shows, which I used to lament. And then I started talking to other like podcast hosts and they're like, yeah, my family doesn't either.
00:49:55
Speaker
yeah So I feel like we're a a sorority. Yeah. But they They're constantly like, but they lit when they do listen, when I do throw it on and like subject them to it, it's like, that doesn't sound like you.
00:50:08
Speaker
And it's like, yeah, because I'm talking lower in a microphone, slower. like there's a little bit of vocal fry at times. you know like you So I appreciate that, Tim, for sure. Yeah. You know, my wife is not downstairs watching this live on YouTube. She's watching something else and she will never catch this. So she calls you all my internet friends. That's your internet friends. Yep. That's them. That is them.
00:50:35
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All right. Thank you so much for that, Will. We are going to jump. So a little bit different structure. We normally do our three reviews at the front, three recommends in the middle, and then our physical media at the end.
00:50:47
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Today, I want to throw curveball in it, see how it goes. But we're going to jump to some recommendations now. So Josh, Kelsey, who wants to fight for that? who who want kelsey Kelsey, you're returning.
00:51:02
Speaker
ah feel like you can kick us off. Are you sure? I mean, I wouldn't mind if Josh wanted to go first, but I take a long time sometimes, so maybe we should just get me over with. I'm on from the clock. I'm on from the clock. Oh, God, the timer's on. I better start going.
00:51:17
Speaker
but Okay. You're You're good. you're good I do have quite a few books to talk about today, but um in total, 10. Most of them are creature feature, animal attack books, whatever you want to call them.
00:51:29
Speaker
um I'm a sucker for animal attack, animal attack movies, animal attack books. You might think, how the heck is this going to translate to a f freaking book format? It does. It does. If it's done right, it's freaking a bootload of fun.
00:51:44
Speaker
And I'm pretty picky. i mean, I've read a lot of them. For instance, I'll give you a good gauge of if you can trust my opinion or not. Have I read Jaws? Yes. Does it kind of suck? Yes.
00:51:55
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You will never hear me say that Jaws the book is great. I actually don't think it's great. um If you want to imagine Hooper having sex with Chief Brody's vi wife, then yeah, sure.
00:52:07
Speaker
That's the only thing I really remember about the book and some mafia subplot stuff, but... Other than that, i with the course yeah of course, I hope that wasn't a deleted scene. That would make me starve. But um I do love the movie. So I think you can mostly trust me. I think I can determine what's good and what's not good. But thank you, Andrew. He likes animal attack books quite a lot, too.
00:52:31
Speaker
um But when we're talking about books, I just think you got to pick and choose and you got to kind of shop around. But even some trashy, not great ones I like. So let's start off with one that i love, that I talk about all the time.
00:52:45
Speaker
So this is The Nest. The Nest, of course, there is a movie based on this. The movie is not as good. However, at the end, like the practical effects, there is some great stuff at the very end of The Nest, the movie.
00:52:57
Speaker
The book is great from page one all the way to the end. There is a little bit of scientific mumbo jumbo, and that kind of slows it down at parts. But for the most part, this has everything you could want. It's got killer cockroaches and nobody is safe.
00:53:15
Speaker
Freaking pets aren't safe. Freaking women aren't safe. Children aren't safe. And freaking... men's peens aren't safe. Because, yeah, they eat every single part of a dude, of a lady. Yes, the peen. And um if you're not already sold by this description of the nest, then maybe I could sell you by saying that...
00:53:42
Speaker
A man has sex with some leaves. You heard me. How is this possible? What the hell? It's real. Leaves deserve love too. so And they get love in this freaking book. So anyway, um it it actually is in this book.
00:54:01
Speaker
um but But to be serious though, this is really fun. And the part that I love about it is it has this over-the-top poetic language But um the subject matter is killer roaches. So it's kind of like this yin and yang, but it works together really, really well. And I just think if you're you're know looking for some trashy reads to close out the summer, this one's a fun one.
00:54:25
Speaker
And again, you just kind got to get through that sciencey part. But this has also been released or re-released by Valant Court Books. You don't have to have a vintage copy like this because this is rare. This is considered a paperback from hell.
00:54:36
Speaker
But again, you can get a new edition from Valant Court Books. It's labeled, as you'll see, It has this little tag here. It says paperback from hell or paperbacks from hell. And um also there's an audio book for this now. So I read this physically a couple of years ago, but now there's an audio book.
00:54:51
Speaker
Oh, I love audio books. I'll check that out. See, I gotta say, ah this is by Gregory A. Douglas. Okay. And he didn't really write a lot of books, but I really enjoyed this one.
00:55:01
Speaker
But I will say, um last time I was on, I did this whole spiel about, guys, I know a lot of horror movie people are like, but reading, I don't read, what the hell? Why are you even talking about books here?
00:55:13
Speaker
But trust me, like if you give books a chance, yeah they can be really, really fun and a really great addition to a horror lover's life because I didn't think I was a reader until like the pandemic where I just tried different books out that I never thought of reading before.
00:55:28
Speaker
There's more out there. This is going to be my little tagline. There's more out there than Stephen King. Give freaking horror books a chance, especially sometimes you could find some like vintage gems sometimes like this one, in my opinion. But audio books can help.
00:55:43
Speaker
So if you're wanting to dip your toe into horror books, audio books, think of them like podcasts, but with a book. i You can multitask. It might be the key to getting you guys who might be listening, who might not be fans of reading, might get you into reading. You never know. I didn't think I was a reader for the majority of my life. So don't give up hope just because you think you're not a reader.
00:56:04
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Another re-release by Valant Court Books that is a publisher. This is Hellhound by Ken Greenhall. He also wrote a book under the name Jessica Hamilton, but it's Ken Greenhall.
00:56:15
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ah That one's called Elizabeth. That one's good too, but this one's an animal attack and we're in the mind of the animal. So we get this perspective of the animal and animal is named Baxter. And this freaking dog, he's like, he's an asshole. Pardon my French, but he's, he's a pretty sinister pooch.
00:56:36
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So this is not your typical friendly, like, Oh, I love you kind of dog. He's very manipulative. He, um, he may or may not be responsible for some human deaths and we get a glimpse into his psyche and how he kills his humans and he thinks, you know, he's the top dog, but then he meets a fellow human who might match the sinister level like of his like diabolical freaking personality. Because there's a kid who kind of ah adopts him eventually
00:57:07
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And this kid's pretty terrible. So what I love about Ken Greenhall is he does have a very stylistic way of writing. It's very simple, very terse, but for some reason it really, really works. And you actually do feel like you're reading the thoughts of a dog.
00:57:24
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You would think that'd be kind of hard, but he pulls it off. So this is kind of bleak, but... um It's not super funny like most animal attacks, but I do think it's short, it's sweet, I think it's worth reading. And um this author, he really should have had a lot bigger fan base. I'm glad that with his books being republished, he's getting a little bit more attention. But Ken Greenhall, great old school vintage writer.
00:57:49
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Hopefully more people discover him because I think he's great. Or he was great. All right, now for a more modern book, we've got Clowns Versus Spiders. And and this one's a lot of fun. This is by Jeff Strand. And if you like horror comedy, Jeff Strand's really great at writing horror comedy. But this is my favorite of all his like comedy books.
00:58:10
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And of course, you do have a group of clowns who want to be taken seriously. They don't want to be ah part of the problem that... are is you know scary clowns. They hate clowns that perpetuate that view that clowns are scary. They want clowns to be viewed as innocent and good.
00:58:28
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So when they lose their jobs at a circus and have to start working at a haunted house, they are appalled. They are really down in the dumps. So this is very humorous, tongue in cheek, really, really fun, outrageous, absurd.
00:58:41
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And eventually some giant spiders come around and they got to fight against these spiders and craziness, silliness ensues. This is top tier animal attack, in my opinion, with some like carnival clown references, which I love. So, and haunted houses references. This could be a good kind of a September read. If you're trying to switch gears from summer to fall, this could be the book that gets you there.
00:59:05
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don't know. It's like eight legged freaks meets killer clowns from outer space. Yes. Yes. Exactly. That that sounds awesome. Yeah. And truly, don't laugh out loud at books a lot, but I laughed out loud during that book. It was so funny.
00:59:21
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Jeff Strand, not lot of the horror authors can can do horror comedy, but I feel like Jeff Strand can do it pretty, pretty well. ah Another person who's in our chat right now, Jessica Lacey, she can do horror comedy very well in books.
00:59:34
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Oh. Last month's featured guest is hanging out in the comments this month. Yeah, she's great. She's one who can do horror comedy. Her books have like a ah comedic undertone at times. Oh, Her bubblegum horror, as it were.
00:59:47
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Yes, yes. So another funny book and more modern book is The Rue by Alan Baxter. And this will give you summer vibes because we are in Australia and it's hot as hell.
00:59:58
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The descriptions, they definitely kind of nail the heat. It's like, oh, it's freaking, it doesn't say that it's like Satan's butthole, but you just imagine that. Pardon me, but it's like Satan.
01:00:10
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Sounds like Texas right now. Yeah, in Louisiana. So you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm swamby, hot, and nasty. Wow. It's yucky. Yeah, it's very yucky. And it's yucky when you're reading this book. You just feel the heat from the pages. But I do think that this one is fun. It's kind of absurd and ridiculous. And it's supposed to be. If you read the – I believe there's a foreword, or is it an afterword?
01:00:32
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But there's something in the beginning of this book where the author says why he decided to write this. They were joking around him and some other authors in a chat and they were like, want to write like a vintage cheesy, you know, animal attack book, but now.
01:00:46
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And so he wrote The Rue. He actually has like name drops of other horror indie authors in here just because it was kind of like a project of fun. Not everyone I know has liked this book, but I loved it. It's really short, quick little novella.
01:01:00
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I don't know, if you're looking for something to read at the beach. Killer kangaroos ripping off people freaking, they're ripping off humans' heads. Yeah, come on. Let's go. absolutely ah Sharky gal with a bloom and onion pairing. That was hilarious. bloom and onion. That would be a great a great pairing, Kristen, for sure. um What I actually do love Bloomin' Onions as well. Those are really... I have to go to Outback. i mean, that's... I don't know how to make one, so maybe I'll just go get one there soon. I swear I'm almost was done. So this is my last... Well, no, i've got two. I've got one more after this. One Animal Attack book after this. So this is Rats by Paul Zindel.
01:01:44
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ah This is an early YA book.
01:01:48
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Don't be fooled by the YA label. The reason I put it on here is because of the YA label, because it freaking goes ham at this one part. These rats go into this tractor and freaking go into this person's brain and stuff and like eat through their eyeballs. It's magnificent.
01:02:04
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And you're like, how the hell was this a YA book? And actually, when I first picked it up, I thought it was a middle grade book. i was like, there's no way this is a middle book. but It kind of reads middle grade, but the violence doesn't read middle grade, which what you're looking for. That's awesome. Sassy.
01:02:20
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And don't be confused, because there is a book, a very famous animal attack book called The Rats by James Herbert. I have read it. I don't love it um because I wanted more rat action. Some of the animal attack books that I've read just don't have enough attack action. To me, that's one of the flaws of Jaws the book.
01:02:36
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um Also one of, I mean, I kind of liked The Meg, but it wasn't my favorite. The Meg, the book. um I liked the movie well enough. But the book itself, was like, I want more shark action.
01:02:47
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So if you're looking for a book with more shark attack action, I feel like this really trashy book called Scar by Michael Cole could do you just fine. That one, very little explanation, very little setup.
01:03:01
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You kind of get into the tacks right away. And not only do you have animal on human attacks. You also have human on human gunfight attacks and you have freaking orca versus shark attack scenes.
01:03:16
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So you got eight animal versus animal. Hell yeah. So, you know, if you were a little disappointed by ah shark attack book recently, try that one. i i like that one quite a bit. And those are all of my animal attack books I have read.
01:03:30
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a new one that I have my eye on that I want to put on you guys' radar. No, yeah no.
01:03:52
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Picks, yes. Picks, yes. Picks, yes. Picks, yes. Picks, Picks, yes. Picks, yes. yes. Picks, yes. Picks, Picks, yes. Picks, Picks, yes. Picks, yes. Picks, yes. Picks, Picks, yes. Picks, yes. yes. Picks, Picks, And then to close out- The cover was fantastic, though. I'll give you that.
01:04:03
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The cover was fantastic. The cover is definitely, you can tell they're going for like a vintage like B-movie vibe. Like look at that. Look at that. That fifties look. Yes, exactly. That's not your fallout giant tick action.
01:04:15
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Yeah. As more hate it. Do you want to read Yeah. it I think it does have giant ticks, yes. I don't know if it's one or multiple. Oh, it says the giant bugs are back with a gruesome vengeance.
01:04:27
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So yes. Nice. Yeah, the queen tick in her nest. So yes. I hate that so much. I want to read it. oh You should read it with me. Bubby, read it.
01:04:39
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All right. And I swear. go ahead. Sorry. oh go Oh, you got one more. Oh, you got a quick click. Don't worry. These are super quick. I know I'm over, but other summer reads. If you want summer camp mixed with creature feature, Kill Hill Carnage by Tim Meyer. Can't go wrong with that.
01:04:56
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If you want island shenanigans, might also have spiders and weird people involved, The Forgotten Island by David Sodegrin. I don't agree with his movie ratings, but I do love his books.
01:05:10
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It's going to be my spiel. I always kind of bash his movie ratings, but... His books, I can't bash those. And finally, we were talking about vampires earlier. If you're looking for a coming of age mixed with vampires, we've got the trashiest horror author ever, Richard Layman, who I have read a lot of books by. This one's the most tame. So if you want to tip your toe into Richard Layman, maybe start with this one if you like vampies.
01:05:34
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But most of it's coming of age. But the last two pages, they're pretty damn good. did a video about him, correct? I did today, I released i I would call him the king of trash and I would warn, if you read them, don't say it was because of me. Please don't say it was because of me. Don't blame me.
01:05:54
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Don't come after me. And ah not a horror book, but if you like coming of age, it's It's amazing. There is a little murder mystery element at the core of it, but it's really about so much more.
01:06:05
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My favorite book of all time. I can't be me and not mention it. So just a quick plug, Robert McCammon, best author of all time. Not really a horror author anymore, but boy's life.
01:06:15
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Boy's life. It's beautiful. It's amazing. It'll make you cry. That's where that was like the Boy Scout magazine name, boy's life. Yeah. And that is my segment. I'm sorry for going on and on forever, but read. You should read. It's fun. It's fun.
01:06:31
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Robert McCammon is such a poetic and beautiful writer. He is. I love his work. Recently, he's been doing, I read his mysteries.
01:06:43
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Oh, Michael Corbett. Yeah, Matthew, I'm sorry, Matthew Corbett. Yeah, those are so good. Speaks the Nightbird. Yeah, those are great. Speaks Nightbird. It's set in like 17 whatever. whatever pre-america or early america early america yeah yeah and he's investigating like a witch so there's elements of horror in there but early period drama mystery with just incredibly beautiful poetic prose.
01:07:14
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Yes. Highly really recommend Robert McCammon. just He's my favorite. I mean, he's not even a horror anymore, but like he did get his start writing paperbacks from hell, but Robert McCammon, I will never stop shouting his name from the rooftop.
01:07:26
Speaker
Even though he's not pure horror, I swear guys, if you read a Robert McCammon and hate it, We can battle. Oh, no, we don't battle. I'll fight you. like We must do battle. I think most people will kill. Literature fight. It is so good. All right.
01:07:42
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So moving to physical media, Jeff, do you want to see GC go first? Since you're you're filling in, you want to? Yeah. GC, we're spotlighting you early, man.
01:07:54
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i don't know I don't even know how to compete with ah peens that have been eaten off by bugs.
01:08:03
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All I got to say is... All I'm going to say is, first of all, guys, read the books. For the love of God, read the books, read the booklets that come with your movies. I mean, come on, man. Like... Look at this.
01:08:14
Speaker
You know, anyway, I want to talk about the release of the year. hasn' It hasn't come out yet. It's going to be out September 29th. And I mean, man, like the the dark clouds are over.
01:08:27
Speaker
We finally have this figure that's getting the love that he deserves because we have Michael Myers. We have Jason. We have Chucky. We have every horror icon that has box sets and has every release known to man.
01:08:37
Speaker
But somehow Freddy Krueger got left on the sideline. And to me, that's my my favorite franchise. Mine too. like Mine too. There we go. You see? Come on, guys. Jump on board, please.
01:08:48
Speaker
But Tim, go ahead and pull up the link that I sent you for Amazon. I'm a Jason man. Sorry. No. See, he's sabotaging already. Freddie is so
Horror Collection Announcements
01:08:59
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witty. so much you love Freddie. love Freddie, but I also love Jason.
01:09:05
Speaker
peace jason Jason's awesome, man. But I mean, the humor with Freddy and every single movie. I mean, I know some of them are not great, but it's it's really hard not to just love the franchise for what it is.
01:09:16
Speaker
Not to mention, what killer out there could be scarier than the guy that could get you in your dreams? I mean, think about it. and You got to sleep at some point. yeah And this is it right here, guys. I mean, this Steelbook box set is coming out. This is an Amazon exclusive.
01:09:32
Speaker
So you can get the UK version anywhere else. But this one, it's only... This is the US version. doesn't come with the Blu-ray. But we have that crappy Blu-ray release that they did um um quite a while back for like $18, $20 you could get.
01:09:46
Speaker
But $167 and you get every single movie. The first and I believe the fifth movie are unrated. And then you get the 3D glasses. I mean, look at that. Like, what better way than to watch Freddy in 3D, even though it it might not be so much three d but...
01:10:01
Speaker
you know, you get the point with the nostalgia. I watch it. Dude, it's it's fantastic. And not too much in 4K. Finally, we get to watch this movie in 4K. It's a masterpiece. um So, yeah. So, guys, this is one of the ones I wanted to highlight right off the bat. That's i was wearing the shirt today. I was like, you know what? We got to do it.
01:10:18
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And now we have another one that it's also super exciting for any comic book fans out there. um If you like Marvel and all that stuff, then we're just going to shift gears and go to spawn for a second.
01:10:29
Speaker
Oh, that's Because Arrow's releasing Spawn on 4K finally. And I mean, i know the CGI is not going to be that great, but we got John Leguizamo in there and he's going to be hilarious as the crazy clown guy.
01:10:44
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ah good. John's back.
01:10:48
Speaker
Which one? I was saying John's back for that. That's awesome. Oh, dude. And I mean, I'm hoping the release should be good and there shouldn't be any issues or anything like that. But they did a pretty good job as far as for like the packaging. They use like the original looking kind of image and it just looks so cool, man. I mean, I'm sure they're going to have a ton of special features in there for everybody.
01:11:10
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And one thing I'll say that if you love cinema, like look at the special features and they're going to make you appreciate and love the movies so much more when you see what goes into the making of these films. um But yeah, that's the one right there. at spawn.
01:11:23
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ah should It should be coming out fairly soon. um i think within with the next maybe month or two. Right, Jeff? It comes out in October. Oh, okay. So yeah, we're right around the corner there. But I mean, you have the director's cut. You have a ton of beefy special features. You have a cool poster.
01:11:38
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So again, if you're a fan of like superhero stuff, this is kind of like anti-superhero guy. And it's just badass, man. It's Spawn. I mean, i don't read i don't I don't care how bad it is. I'll give that movie a nine out of ten all day, every day.
01:11:52
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Masterpiece. It's amazing. it's amazing And now I want to jump on to another Arrow release, which is actually people are getting it now. It's called Zombie. Some of you guys might recognize this film from the iconic scene of a zombie fighting a shark.
01:12:06
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Just to tell us what you were talking about, the whole animal thing. that I mean, there we go. And it's awesome. They have an Arrow exclusive, but then you can also get the regular version, which to me, the regular version...
01:12:18
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um The cover looks so much better and it's so much more intense, especially if you have a fear of stuff going in your eyeball. and you're know Yeah, thanks. I love eye violence, man. It's the thing. Faulty fault is my ride or die, man.
01:12:33
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yeah And this is, in this release, this is I believe this is the Arrow exclusive, which looks cool. I mean, it kind of looks like a video game to me, but the the other version that they have, it just has the girl's face there and it looks kind of like, um I think it was like almost looks like a needle or something going touching her eyeball.
01:12:47
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And yeah, man I don't know about you guys. I love movies. So anything that has to do with me seeing anything, it just kind of makes me a little bit uncomfortable. And he has an obsession for eyeballs. Apparently. she does oh yeah Oh my God. Yeah. yeah they like di balls I don't like eyeball stuff, but Fulci does it like all the time. i love him. He's one of my favorite directors period, but ah yeah, I might have to get that one.
01:13:14
Speaker
Damn it. What are you doing to me? he's a who um He's a horror guy compared to, um what's his name? The one has the fetish with feet. um Tarantino.
01:13:24
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Tarantino, yeah. He's a Tarantino horror. One of them likes feet, the other one likes eyeballs. I mean, you know what? Whatever does it for you. I love Tarantino. three things that make me squirm, like eyeball gore and just Fulci is full of that.
01:13:37
Speaker
So, yeah. Now, as far as those releases, obviously, I don't have those yet. I wish I had the Freddy. I'd be sitting here just putting it right in front of the camera the majority of the time. You wouldn't see my face. You just see the Freddy Steelbook collector set. I do have an awesome release, which is on sale right now on Amazon. I'm not sponsored by them, guys. You know, I'm not the biggest fan. Support small business. But, you know, sometimes they do have good deals. You know, we can't fight it.
01:14:03
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When you're on a budget, you got to do what you got to Exactly. And if you like cannibal stuff and you like all this type of crazy stuff, there's a release for like $22. I think it's still on Amazon.
01:14:14
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And it's a Blu-ray release. it's made It's released by Grindhouse. And it's called Cannibal Holocaust. Apparently one of the most controversial movies ever. So the director almost went to jail because they thought that he legit cannibalized these people.
01:14:31
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Oh, damn. Now, I'm to try to cover, like, let me see. Let me just cover this part. Oh, good idea. Yeah. Yeah, so just in case for for the squeamish and in the back of it. Yeah, the back of it's fine. Okay, so the back of it's fine.
01:14:49
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um This release is fantastic, and I chose the Blu-ray over the 4K. And I'll tell you why. Because for one, I don't need to see certain things on here on 4K. I think Blu-ray is more than enough for me.
01:14:59
Speaker
Yeah. But then also... i Yeah. VHS. Yeah. This is one of those movies. I think you know, know like, like the Blair witch, you have to watch it on VHS. You have to own VHS, but this comes with not just the film. It comes with a ton of extras, documentaries, commentaries, but it also comes with the soundtrack, which is just amazing. And unfortunately, let me see if I could, uh, yeah, there we go. I guess we could do that kind of, uh, But I swear they just they they went all out with this. Like I actually had to flip the cover of the case just because it was there's two different options. But yeah, here's kind of like the case that you get, which is really nice.
01:15:43
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And again, I mean, they they went all out. I mean, it even comes with like a nice booklet. Once again, read your books. not Wait, and make sure. Okay. But yeah, you got the cool booklet and like you have some information on there.
01:15:59
Speaker
But now we're going to go more to a not so horror. Like it like it it is because obviously... It has the name of the movie itself called the tragedy of man. And this film was released by deaf crocodile.
01:16:12
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um They just put this out not too long ago. I got myself a copy. And it's supposed to be an animated film. It's about 160 minutes or so. And it took about, I believe, what was it? 23 years in the making.
01:16:25
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So it's by a Hungarian animator named Marcel Djankovic. And it pretty much, like, it speaks for itself, the tragedy of man. It goes through every every generation of man from, like, the very beginning up until modern times.
01:16:39
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And each section in civilization, it's a different type of animation. Now, it's, again, it's highly recommended. if you're if you If you're able to be into any type of animation, this is obviously an adult film.
01:16:53
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but highly recommend picking it up. It's beautiful. I mean, you're just going to suck you right in. I mean, one of the descriptions here alone, and it's a spiraling telescopic master masterpiece. So, I mean, make sure to check that out. has a ton of special features. This one is a Blu-ray, but it is gorgeous, especially if you have one of those cool OLED TVs.
01:17:13
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I don't, but LED OLEDs, I mean, you're going to be able to enjoy this. And then the last one that I have to kind of showcase I don't know if I talked about it last time or not, but either way, it's worth bringing it up again, if just in case if I already did.
01:17:28
Speaker
But I want to introduce you guys to Enter the Void. Oh, I believe you did, but let's talk about it again. Okay, so let's do it. Enter the void. This was released by vinegar syndrome.
01:17:41
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And let me tell you, arrow did a release as well and did not do this movie justice. I wish like my cameras 4k. I wish it was like a case so you guys could almost like feel this like box.
01:17:52
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But I mean, it is so beautiful. Like everything they did when it comes to like the design aspect, there's so much love went into it. And I'm going to take you into the slipcover alone because I mean, just incredible.
01:18:08
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It's incredible. And obviously you're seeing the big director, Gaspar Noe. um That's the only movie that I've seen of his. I know he's done quite a few others are supposed to be phenomenal. um But this film is just it's so beautiful. It has to the story takes place pretty much. It's if you've read the book, the Tibetan book of the living and the dying or the Tibetan book of the dead.
01:18:28
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And that belief where when you die, your soul stays around for about 30 days or so. I'm not sure how they got to that specific number, but you know it stays around to kind of make sure to keep an eye on things.
01:18:39
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um If you had to complete anything that you kind of left incomplete, you have that opportunity. Now, it's and it's it's not even just that, but also the belief of if you want to be on Earth like bad enough, like if you want to stay alive bad enough,
01:18:55
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you You have that time to figure out a way to kind of be reborn. So that that's kind of what this movie is about. It follows the journey of of this main character. He's in Tokyo. Film highlights the city pretty beautifully.
01:19:07
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And he's there. he And it's no spoiler. I mean, right off the bat, within the first 10, 15 minutes this happened happens that where he gets gets killed. He gets killed by police. and the rest of the film is just following him it's following him again floating around through the movie you don't see him but it's it's almost like it's you just flying through the film and the camera angles used in this are just incredible i've never seen um certain scenes in this film like anywhere else and this there's just this one specific scene it has nothing to do with the story but this character is looking at himself in the bathroom mirror
01:19:43
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And when he's blinking, like the camera does the same thing. And then when he's washing his face, it's like a first person type situation. But it's so perfectly done because of the fact that he's looking in the mirror and you see no camera.
01:19:56
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It was flawless. Absolutely flawless. But yeah, here's ah I mean, look at that. And this actually, yeah you'll you once you see the movie, this will all make sense.
01:20:07
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um And I will warn you ahead of time, there's there's not just nudity in this. it's There's things you're watching this movie you're like, were they really doing that in this movie? Like, damn, this was like the like, what the hell just happened?
01:20:18
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um I guess partner Will's got a lot of that going on. Yeah. yeah yeah and Yeah. There was a specific scene where where I was just, I did it like a double take. And i was like, did I just see what I think I just saw? man.
01:20:33
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But yeah, and this movie comes with the unrated director's cut. I think it's like an extra 15-20 minutes. I highly recommend checking it out. Yeah, 155 minutes in total running time.
01:20:44
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And it has it's stacked with special features. I mean, it's again, if you love understanding the history of so of certain films, if you understand... want to understand how the film was made how it was filmed even the music that went behind it the idea of it um so here the actors speak of what this masterpiece you have that option and again it's on vit i don't know if this set itself is available still vinegar syndrome but they still have the standard cut so highly recommend it here are the discs so it's two blu-rays and last but not least it has the booklet
01:21:18
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which read your book, read your booklets, guys. Come on. I mean, that's the theme. Like if you and it's art, right? You have cinema, you have music, you have film, you have literature. They all go hand in hand together.
01:21:31
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And yeah, I mean, just that, like, it's incredible. And the reason, the reason it's so trippy too, it's because um obviously the character takes DMT in the film. Like he's kind of experimenting with different drugs, but he takes DMT, the spirit molecule from what they call it.
01:21:46
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Wouldn't know. But yeah, so that so that's why it's so trippy. But yeah, that's what I've got for you guys. um Yeah, I wish I had a lot more, but then we'd probably be here all night. And and i I would love to see Jeff showcase some stuff because um he's my buddy and he's just freaking awesome.
01:22:04
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We will get to him, but next, actually, somebody on this panel got a screener of one of the biggest like indie franchises that's out there right now.
Film Previews & Reviews
01:22:16
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And i' I'd still call it indie franchise. So Jillian is going to talk a little bit about the Hell House movie coming out. o Yes. yeah Has anyone anyone seen it yet on the panel?
01:22:31
Speaker
Nope. Josh? Oh, okay. Well, Josh, you got to chime in. ah um how I Everyone's seen like the Hell House LLC. I've seen the other four. Yeah. Right. Right. Okay.
01:22:45
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Okay. So you kind of know what I'm talking about. um But Hell House LLC Lineage is coming out August 20th in theaters, which is very exciting. I believe it's the only Hell House LLC movie that will be in theaters.
01:22:59
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And it is the fifth and final installment of the Hell House LLC series. um which is a bummer because I love the franchise so much. I do have the IMDb synopsis so we can know a little more about it because I'm not going to get into any spoilers.
01:23:16
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um But it is, ah um for those that don't know about the franchise, it's, know, this found footage franchise that follows people looking into the Avedon Hotel and the Carmichael Manor and these deadly supernatural forces behind and everything.
01:23:34
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And then in Lineage, the synopsis is after near-death experience, Vanessa Shepard faces nightmares in Abaddon as mysterious deaths occur around her. She discovers her connection to the Abaddon Hotel, Carmichael Manor, and decades of unexplained murders.
01:23:50
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So those who are fans of the franchise, we get to see Vanessa again, who is the documentarian from Hell House LLC, Like a Fire. um She comes back as her main character, which is pretty exciting. And the movie is directed by Steven Cognetti, who has done all the other Hell House LLC movies as well.
01:24:09
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um And where lineage kind of fits into the Hell House LLC universe, it's both like a prequel sequel um And it really just expands more on the lore of the franchise.
01:24:22
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um I think it' would be very confusing if you've never seen any of the Hell House LLC movies, so just jump in and watch it. So I highly recommend, you know, you have 20 days to catch up and watch the Hell House LLC movies, and then you can get your butt to the theater to see Lineage.
01:24:40
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um What most people are talking about for this movie is that they ended up ditching the found footage format that all the other movies have, and this movie is not found footage.
01:24:52
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Personally, i felt like it made sense. At first was really bummed because I'm huge found footage fan. It made sense because I don't think they really could have wrapped up the story or told it in the way they did if they went with the found footage format.
01:25:05
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don't know, Josh, you have any thoughts on how they switched up the format. Yeah, no, I've been actually sitting on this review. I watched it, I think three or four days ago and I missed it. I missed the found footage aspect. To your point, i understand why they didn't do it for this film, but I really wish that they had thought of a way to like make that still the style because, you know, i it was good for what it was, but for me, like, I just wanted more of that, you know, turn the corner, there's something creepy as opposed to just the, you know, the more standard style of of filming horror. So,
01:25:40
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its I don't want to say, I'm still thinking on it. I honestly, it may be my least favorite of the, of the films so far, honestly. And I don't, oh yeah, I know it's a hot take. Cause a lot of people did like it. I don't know. it's it's, that's just me, but I'm still, I'm still pondering it over. may have to watch it again to, to be sure, but.
01:25:58
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Yeah, that's so fair. i think on my um review of it, I did. I said, like, it's definitely probably not going to be anyone's favorite of the franchise, but it does just give us more of that backstory.
01:26:11
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um But I totally understand and missing the found footage format. If only they would give us like a second one. as the fan footage format, that'd be great. um But I do feel like they did a great job at having this more like atmospheric, moody cinematography.
01:26:26
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I thought it was shot in a way that still felt a little more like raw and real without that fan footage format. So that was nice. um Overall, I didn't think it was like too, too scary. It's more tension building and more like just building that mood. But the ending genuinely terrified me. um i was on the edge of my seat and we do get to see all of our clown friends again.
01:26:50
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I really thought, you know, fifth movie, we're probably going to be desensitized by them, but they were even more terrifying. So you have that to look forward to.
01:27:02
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um And it was fun throughout the movie. They bring back some of the other characters we have previously seen. Like I mentioned, followed Vanessa, who's our main character. So that's nice how they tied it back to the other movies. And feel like the way they wrapped everything up, it didn't feel to me like, you know, they, like it felt like everything was planned out. There were no like scenes in previous movies that, you know, were super random and out of place. It really just tied everything together, which is nice.
01:27:30
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Um, And then I don't think it could really work as like a standalone movie. um Again, it's definitely like not the best of the entire franchise, that's for sure. So I think if you're going to watch it, you're probably going to be doing like a Hell House LLC marathon on and just getting through all of them.
01:27:51
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So in it requires some homework. You should probably see the other yeah before you watch this one. Seriously. And there's just like so many pieces of the Hell House LLC story that I even watched them all recently and then watched Lineage and I'm like, I need to go back and rewatch them all again because there's just like so much that's connected.
01:28:11
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um You definitely have a better experience if you do your homework. um But yeah, that's the final installment. So I'm sad to see the end of the franchise, but I am excited to see what all Stephen Cognetti does. Um,
01:28:26
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I feel like he is really great at that found footage format though. So I'd love to see him go back to that. I know he also did 8254 Horse Road recently, um which the story didn't really resonate with me, but I really liked how they filmed it, like the cinematography of it. But I feel like he is just so good at the found footage format. So hopefully we get to see that again.
01:28:48
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I liked Jessica's question that popped up. i don't know if you saw it. Why would someone who hasn't seen the first four movies, why, why would they want to see this one?
01:28:58
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Like, is there something to hook that first time viewer in this film or are they going to be lost? Is it like, I do. Yeah. yeah I do feel like you'd be a little lost.
01:29:10
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Um, I think you could still watch it if you're in the mood for, like again, like a more moody, atmospheric movie, small town vibe all vibes,
01:29:23
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And it did have some pretty good scares, especially like beginning and end. ah um So I feel like that could be really interesting, but I highly recommend watching the previous movies first. I don't think I'd recommend just jumping in and watching this because you'll probably have a not great time.
01:29:43
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I recommend the other ones. The first Hell House is fantastic. I really enjoyed that one. Yeah, you can't beat that. It's like legit scary. It was. was i I had heard people trash it, and when when I watched it, like my girlfriend and I were both like, this is actually scary. That doesn't happen very often.
01:29:59
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Right, right, same. That thing had me turning on the lights like all the way to the bathroom and shit. when he he like He does the thing where he pulls the covers over his head instead of getting out of the situation. It's just like, oh no. For me, it's the mannequins. like When stuff's not supposed to move and it starts moving around like that, and you're going to find it in the hall looking at you, I can't deal with that.
01:30:23
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You can see it coming, and it still works. It still gets me every time. Every time. ah Well, there's more of that in the fifth one for sure. There's some creepy hallways, creepy things staring at you. so I did enjoy the fourth one recently. the Carmichael Manor. Carmichael Manor, yeah. It reminded me the most of the first one, honestly.
01:30:47
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Yeah. Does anyone know where the fourth – Where's the fourth one living? Because the first three are on Shudder along with like a director's cut of the first one.
01:30:57
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But I didn't see... like I thought they had the fourth one, but it's not on there. Really? that' Yeah, that's where i saw last with Shudder. Yeah, it premiered there, I thought. That's where I watched it when it first came out, but I haven't looked for it recently. but don't worry yeah Don't worry, guys. I believe it's on A&C. Oh, it is.
01:31:14
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It is there, actually. I'm sorry. It is there. Oh, I've got you covered. You've got the box set. Guys, this is why streaming doesn't work. Physical media, guys. Streaming is great to preview.
01:31:26
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But look at this. like beautiful Own your content. Entire collection. and You know what? He doesn't have to find what service it's streaming on to go watch it. No, listen. One time payment.
01:31:39
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Get it on sale. Just wait for those beautiful sales. And not to mention, not only do you have all the movies, you have the poster, you have all the cool behind the scenes pictures, you have the cool holographic. Look at that. ah to me That's amazing.
01:31:50
Speaker
But you have a hardcover book with like every detail that went into making this. You don't get that on Netflix. But see, I got to argue with you there. There's one reason why I didn't pick that one up because there was another movie coming out.
01:32:04
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So now there's going to be another box set. yep have to tea bitgar all of Or Tim, I'm going to upgrade you here for a second because um I'm going to take care of you as soon as I'm able ah There we go. So they have a slot, empty slot for it.
01:32:18
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It doesn't have an empty slot, but if you read your books, you know, you're a good boy or girl and you, you, you know, you read your books and all that good stuff. You have a nice little library. You simply take this beautiful hardcover book, which i'm gonna do a little for the people that enjoy the book sounds.
01:32:34
Speaker
You take the, you take this out and then you just slide the fifth one in and there's a perfect slot for it. So, oh yeah. All right. All right. All right. So you for me, rock you know that's good. I like that. I like that.
01:32:46
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You got to improvise, man, because like you can't go buying box sets all the time like a crazy person. but But I will say, keep an eye out for these sales because I got this, I think, for like $35 or $30 for all the movies and the book and the whole deal, brand new from my brother.
01:33:04
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Wow, I've seen it like $100 online. Yeah, now wait for the sales, man. I'm telling you, you could do physical media, but wait for the sales. That's a nice deal. All right, Jillian, thank you so much for that preview of the next Hell House film.
01:33:19
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Sean, you ready to highlight some recommendations? Yeah, man. Definitely. ah I'm a big comic fan. I do another show other than the Horror Vision called Drinking with Comics, where we just drink beer and talk about comics.
01:33:32
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I love that. On that show, we used it used to be a live show when I lived in L.A., but it's not anymore, obviously. But... ah On that show, it's hard to do any horror comics because my co-host doesn't really like horror comics.
01:33:45
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And so man we're in like a renaissance. but I feel like there's always been good horror comics, but right now it it's like off the chart. so I got to try to be quiet and let you run this because I want to chime in so much because you're right. We are.
01:34:00
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Oh, we totally are. Topics right now. Just only press like I keep saying 2025 is it's the year for only press. They everything they've released. Most of it's been horror or horror Jason and all of it has been good.
01:34:14
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so I'm going to touch on a couple of things with that. I'm going to kick it off first, though. This is so Jeff Lemire, who for horror fans, he did Gideon Falls, which is I mean, it's just.
01:34:29
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it's excellent. i don't even It's like Twin Peaks, Jacob's Ladder, and like a gallon of LSD put together. um And he also did the Bone Orchard series over the last couple years.
01:34:41
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He's got a book going called Phantom Road. So this is issue 14. It just came out. Issue 15 comes out next month. It'll wrap the current storyline, and then he'll take a hiatus. So he does seasons.
01:34:54
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And this book is like, it's got...
01:34:59
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it has the most goddesses of any book right now. Like there's so many things where it's like, to see what that is. I got to see what that is. I got see what that is. And it basically it starts and the trades are all available. You can get the first two trades, which are the first two arcs anywhere. And I think they're both under 15 bucks. um But it's basically a truck driver,
01:35:23
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picks up a woman that's obviously like in some kind of distress on the road and they're somewhere in like the Southwest. So it's just nothing. And they end up, ah they they end up acquiring this object and they don't know what it is, but when they acquire it, it, it shifts them between the world that we know and some like weird, it looks the same, like the same world, but it's not. And it's populated by these,
01:35:50
Speaker
I'll say zombies, but that's like an oversimplification. And there's tons of them. And then they learn, like, they there's a series of truck stops that are obviously based on Buc-ee's.
01:36:04
Speaker
It has a different name, though. but Love Buc-ee's. oh you Right. So it's it's a lot like that. And they start to realize that the truck stops are somehow tied in. And then you start to learn that, like, the truck stops were were made by this billionaire and he franchised them and put them at key points on ley line.
01:36:25
Speaker
And that's all I'll say, but there there's like a grindhouse element. It's not super gory or anything, but there's just something about the tone and the texture. ah Gabriel H. Walta and Jordi Belair do the art and it's very simple and just very like synergized with the writing. So you get one of these. It reminds me of, was a big fan of the walking dead comic, not the show, the comic. And I love comics where,
01:36:51
Speaker
You can read them in five minutes, not because they're bad, but because the artist and the writer are working together in such a way that like it just pulls you through. Is that a Jenny Frisson cover?
01:37:03
Speaker
Say it again? Is that Jenny Frisson on cover? ah She did the Revival comic book comic? Oh, no, this is Gabriel H. Walton, I believe. and That's Gabriel? oh Okay. so Man, I know I read the first trade for Revival at some point, but I don't remember what it looks like.
01:37:20
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The compendium is out and highly, highly worth it. i love that book. Okay. The show is nothing. This is so good. And I just say like, so it'll wrap the the new season. The current season will wrap next month and then there'll be a hiatus. And then the trade will come out, I think at the beginning of the year. And it'll all, all three so far will are so far will be in trade.
01:37:44
Speaker
Totally worth your time. Jeff Lemire is just fantastic. Okay. Next, so this is like a giallo adjacent. This is You'll Do Bad Things. Look at that cover.
01:37:58
Speaker
Nice. um like that. That is gorgeous. And, man, so this is Tyler Boss is the writer, and he's known for doing the art on, like, what's the furthest place from here? Five kids walk into a bank.
01:38:11
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There's another book that i'm blanking on the title of, but I love his art, and so this is him writing. Great writer. And this is basically like, okay, so you've got You've got a writer in New York that had one true crime book that actually was about this. They call him it was like something like the lu Lullaby Killer. That's not exactly right. But he he killed a bunch of children. And this guy wrote this book that actually helped catch him.
01:38:36
Speaker
And then he's been struggling for years to make another book. He's gotten an advance. And, you know, like it's one of those situations that we see so often with, you know, writers as the protagonist in horror story, like, you know, what am I going to tell the publisher? Have you written anything? Oh yeah. And you know, there's nothing.
01:38:52
Speaker
And he starts writing, he starts to get inspiration. And as he starts writing, murders start taking place that are adjacent to the original crime. And there's,
01:39:04
Speaker
I don't want to say too much, but there's deep implications that like, he's not a reliable narrator or that like, we're not seeing everything. And it's Sharky girl. It's, it's so worth your time. And it's, it's short. Like ah five just came out six is next month is over.
01:39:23
Speaker
So it'll be collected in like another month or two and just really great art by Adriano Tortolici. and just creepy. And there's an image in the, in, in the fourth book that ends it that, Oh my God, it's just, it's like stayed with me since.
01:39:41
Speaker
So that that's always key. Cause I read a lot and to have like one image, just kind of lock in my mind and always kind of be there. Absolutely. Outstanding. ah Sleep.
01:39:55
Speaker
I don't know how long this is going. The third issue came out two weeks ago. This is Xander cannon is writing and drawing it. It's, I thought the art was going to like break it for me. It's, it's very stylized and almost like comic strip ish.
01:40:10
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And it's, it's all gray tones, but there's a lot of red and the red is kind of, um, Canon has said like, pay attention to the red. It's telling you stuff about the story. And this is kind of a mystery. And it's basically this guy, works at a coffee shop in a small town. He's, he's got a ah girlfriend that he likes, but he doesn't, you know, she doesn't really think of him that way. And,
01:40:32
Speaker
he wakes up and the town is starting to like something is killing animals and destroying property and they don't know what it is. And then something is killing people. And he's, and we don't know. and like, it's not really a spoiler because we don't know, but it's suggested from the first issue that it's him and he's blacking out and turning into a werewolf or something, but you don't know. And it's another one where like,
01:40:57
Speaker
The mystery is so abundant and and just thrilling. And you see this guy, he's starting to spiral. In this issue, hes he's convinced it's him, which makes me think it's not him. But like, oh man, the the art and just the characters really...
01:41:15
Speaker
It's just unique. It it is it kind of has a comic strip feel, but then like when it's violent or terrible, it's violent and terrible, which kind of is a nice contrast to the art style and what it ah you know initially looked like.
01:41:28
Speaker
So again, ah third issue came out two weeks ago. I don't know how long it's running. I'm hoping for a while. Image puts it out, and i think it's doing really good. I think the first issue went to a second printing, so that's always a good sign.
01:41:40
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, then this is kind of like one last one, but it comes with like kind of hangers-on. So and mentioned Oni Press.
01:41:51
Speaker
So last year, they resurrected Comics. And... oh yeah, Kaiju Max. So Kaiju Max, I have to check that out. That's Xander Cannon's previous book, and it it looks and sounds amazing. I and i would had no awareness of him before this.
01:42:09
Speaker
So with EC Comics... Now, Tim, I know you mentioned like the Creepshow anthology comics, right? and Are you still reading those? The which anthology? The Creepshow?
01:42:20
Speaker
Yeah, the Creepshow anthologies are a ton of fun. Oh, okay. So i I need to go back because like I feel like I love Creepshow, okay? Mm-hmm. And I liked the first season of the comic, but just like the first season of the show when it came back to Shudder, I felt like it hits real big up front and then kind of loses steam near the end. And forget which, I think it was the second or third season of the comic was the last one that I read where I was like, don't think I'm going to read this anymore. It just kind of was disappointing. They had some big names and even that didn't really thrill me. Like Clayman Cloud Chapman is big name that I remember.
01:43:00
Speaker
Okay. I know, like, there was one Garth Dennis did. David Lapham is always in it. And I noticed David Lapham is now on a lot of these. So, Oni brings back EC, and at first they started with Epitaphs from the Abyss.
01:43:15
Speaker
And they said that kind their mission statement with EC was like, we're not going to bring back the original anthologies, the names, or whatever, because we want this to be EC Comics as if it never went away, and like these would be titles they'd be launching now.
01:43:29
Speaker
And I feel like everything I want the creep show books to be, this is okay. Like I've not been let down. So epitaphs went 12 issues and like, they're just gorgeous.
01:43:42
Speaker
Uh, like I said, David Lapham, I'm huge stray bullets fan. So he's involved a lot, a lot of big names, uh, Stephanie Phillips, Greg talk, um,
01:43:54
Speaker
um I'm blanking on other ones, and I only brought this one issue here, but every story is great, you know, and they vary in length. So you'll have some that a little bit longer, and then you'll have you have to have a shorter one in the back of the issue or whatever. And there's never a dip in quality.
01:44:09
Speaker
I always read them straight through and love every story. They ended that. I was like, wait, what are you doing when you're gonna end that? And the first thing they did was they launched to one of the short stories that had been in it.
01:44:21
Speaker
um I forget what issue it was of Epitaphs. They spun out a miniseries called Blood Type, and it's about a female vampire that ends up on like a resort island. And it's fantastic. And the cool thing about this miniseries is it's the writer that wrote the short, which is Corianna Bettsco, but Andrea Sorrentino was doing the art, and he did the art for Jeff Lemire's Gideon Falls, and I just loved his art.
01:44:46
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It's crazy.
01:44:50
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And... Along with that, they launched a new anthology, horror anthology called Catacomb Storm. First issue came out last month, and it's ah it's just tons of fun.
01:45:02
Speaker
There's a lot of like social, political... kind It's not preachy, and it picks on everybody. So, like, if... you get a little bit hurt, like your feelings hurt by the first story. Then you turn the page. You're like, Oh, they're okay. They're picking on everyone. That's cool.
01:45:18
Speaker
Right. Well, no need to feel alienated. Exactly. Like that's not their intent. They're just like, this is the world of humans and they are stupid and they die in terrible ways because they are stupid. So let's explore that. And like love it there is just some gnarly, gnarly shit in these books.
01:45:37
Speaker
And it's so much fun. And again, Short stories, you know, every one of them has been great. So that's it. That's what I brought for y'all.
01:45:49
Speaker
Awesome. ah i want to piggyback real quick on the comic books because I read one this week that I think I talked to you about the Hyde Street books that have come out recently.
01:46:02
Speaker
They're a little bit more mainstream. Geoff Johns is known for major superhero stories, but he also has been dabbling in horror and he's created this world of Hyde Street.
01:46:15
Speaker
which is somewhere between, it's very much written like a Twilight Zone, it's got a narrator, welcome to Hyde Street, this kind of setup. But it's also got this mix of like Cabin in the Woods where there's a there's a board with different characters on it and they're keeping track of how many souls people can get and all these different little monsters on there.
01:46:38
Speaker
But then they have spinoffs of what happens on Hyde Street. And because big fan of Jessica Lacey, she was on the last show. But this book is called Sisterhood.
01:46:51
Speaker
Only the first issue is out right now. It came out this month. I mentioned Jessica Lacey because this is bubblegum horror. It's two girls who are best friends grew up together going off to college. And one of them is drawn to some fraternity hazing. Okay. I'm basically going to give you the first book here, but dies dies in the hazing.
01:47:22
Speaker
And so her best friend makes some sort of deal with a witch and they bring her, they bring her back and they're, she's basically like all these bitches who kill me gotta die.
01:47:36
Speaker
And definite that's the hook for the book. And I'm like, yeah, you sold me. I'm in like, this is going to be a good one. ah Give me the rest of it.
01:47:47
Speaker
It is written by Maytow shoot. And highly recommend that so far. It's a ton of fun. It's a ton of fun. But from recommendations to physical media, Jeff, we're on to you now. you ready?
01:48:04
Speaker
That cover art was sick also. It was good. All right, Jeff, this is your moment, man. Thank you for being here tonight. Yeah.
01:48:15
Speaker
Yeah, thanks for having me. I do appreciate it. So I kind of mess with ah old school stuff too, but this is kind of like old and new. But Terrifier came out on VHS and in the United States finally.
01:48:30
Speaker
Of course, Umbrella had it on VHS a little while ago, but this matches the but Walmart editions from last summer of two and three. it's made by the vhs yeah and it's a it's it's a brand new brand new pressed vhs so i don't believe we're planning on putting it in stores because there's no barcode to sell it but what's neat about the about this particular these particular cuts is that these are actually all in four by three format so if you really like it old school and you're going to watch it on a tube tv these are perfect for watching one
01:49:03
Speaker
um and they even squeeze some special features in there at the end of the tape since the movie is not that long um and they put it's it's i don't haven't opened it yet um but it's actually on like the longest tape you can get i guess so and then uh of course this is one that lots of people have been talking about um in the physical media game. And then just in general.
01:49:29
Speaker
Now, I don't really particularly care so much about steelbooks, so I was just happy to get the slipcover. But this is one that I just think everybody should just own. um This is like basically our generations from Dusk Till Dawn. Oh, okay yeah. So like I said, I was really glad to find this one. Me and my wife actually watched it on demand.
01:49:52
Speaker
And then I told her, I said, hey, on your way home tomorrow, go by Walmart. And if they haven't demolished all the slipcovers yet, go ahead and grab it and bring it home. Because it's just one of those ones that if they pull up from streaming, that'll be the moment that I want to go watch it.
01:50:08
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Michael B. Jordan did excellent in this. um You know, he play he plays two different characters, but you wouldn't know it's him. um and And that's pretty much all I really got for July. um i spend most of my July like getting Criterion movies.
01:50:25
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um But I did get something that comes out in a couple weeks. I got them a little early. And that's the that's the Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3. Yeah.
01:50:36
Speaker
yeah Hell yeah, man. Love Sleepaway Camp. It's the best. These movies are Some of my favorites, I never had the Blu-rays. That was just, they came out on Screen Factory on Blu-ray around the time that I was, I didn't really know what a beauty label was and I was rolling more heavy collecting video games at the time. So I kind of missed them.
01:50:59
Speaker
And I love the movies, but not $300 piece. so These for about 30 a piece are great. Uh, between the two releases, you have about 45 minutes extra of new extra features for each movie.
01:51:15
Speaker
So if you love behind the scene features and new, um, documentaries, those are on there. Um, the cuts look amazing. Uh, they sound not about as good as they ever have sounded. They didn't do much with the sound on them.
01:51:30
Speaker
Um, and then there's some other releases for next uh for the next couple months that have been announced that uh gc did um did mention freddy getting his due respects but also leatherface is getting his due respects ah My Leatherface, which is the remake from the early thousands, both of those are getting Arrow releases in the next like two or three weeks. So I'm glad that I got these early because when those come out, I'll be spending my time watching those.
01:52:05
Speaker
We also are getting Night of the Living Dead 90 finally released on something better than a DVD. Wow. And we're getting the Tom Savini director's cut for the first time ever on Home Relief.
01:52:20
Speaker
Nice. So that's very exciting for that to me. Who's putting that out? That is a Sony that's actually putting that out. wow So it it is going to be a studio release.
01:52:31
Speaker
So I believe it's about a $40 steelbook, but you get a Blu-ray and a 4k in there. And like I said, you get a cut that has never been sold to us before. So it's not the same wash and rinse repeat that we tend to get. We're actually getting some new stuff in this and it's very exciting for longtime fans.
01:52:50
Speaker
Quick question, Jeff. ah Did you ever, did you or anyone else in the panel, did any of you guys ever watch the fourth Sleepaway Camp movie? Yes. I actually really enjoy that one.
01:53:01
Speaker
Okay. You're talking Return to Sleepaway Camp, correct? Yeah, where they brought the back the dude from like the first one. yeah like One of the main characters. i thought it was awesome. was... um if I'm not mistaken, it was the first original Netflix movie.
01:53:15
Speaker
like it was the first thing that they were trying to sell as this is an exclusive to our streaming service. Come here. because I remember signing up for Netflix on my three 60 just, just took to watch it.
01:53:28
Speaker
I have a, a homebrew release here. I'm hoping for a real blu-ray someday because it's awesome. It's fun.
01:53:39
Speaker
yeah id like to see all four packed together. yeah Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if we'll ever get that because they didn't even give us the first one this time. So, but they, but you know, Screen Factory, they'll release it next year after they've said they can't release it. They'll, they'll give us a 4k. They'll, they'll figure out a way.
01:53:54
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Those teasers. Yeah.
01:54:01
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Awesome. Was that, was that what you had? Yeah, that's pretty much what I got. yeah Awesome. Thank you so much for stepping in, filling in for us tonight. All right. Thanks for having me i appreciate it.
01:54:12
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Yeah. And we're on to Josh. Oh, boy. All right. which ah I just got to say, I love your Instagram handle. Oh, thank you. My wife actually came up with it. I was like, oh, that's a good idea.
01:54:25
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is I think it's his Instagram handle. Those of you who don't know is at horribly opinionated. Like or think it's brilliant. I love it. But anyways, thank you. andrisy I'm not even that opinionated. Honestly, I've got to go with the flow.
01:54:41
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um No, this is this has been great, guys. It's been an education, actually, because I don't do physical media. i don't do comics. I don't do books. I like I should have been taking notes. But what I do know is kind of more recent ah horror. So I have a few things. I might have actually over-prepared, so I go over, please just cut me off.
01:54:58
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um we We're down two of our regular people, so i I'm keeping a somewhat eye on it. We're fine. Okay. um But yeah, I've got a few things. i so I'm going to start off with three YouTube shorts for July. my like poor appetizers if i'm you know working and just need like a break like a five ten minute thing um i'll jump on youtube and try and find like a scary short so the first one is from high strange tv and it's called things the door can do now high strange um has a three-part uh i guess series called doors and the first one's a little bit like informational i guess in like five minutes but the two and three are some of the scariest like analog found footage i've seen on youtube
01:55:40
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um So definitely check those out. But the things the door can do is basically just like the first three things are just showing you weird things like there will be candles, the door will shut by itself and the candles will be lit when it opens. And it kind of goes on like that.
01:55:54
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um But it goes on to the point where there's a girl there on her knees and the door shuts and it opens back up and her face is all blurry. She's basically like featureless. And the door shuts again, she disappears and that in this kid's bedroom.
01:56:06
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And I'm not gonna give the rest of it away, but it's a pretty like wild ending. I posted it actually recently, a clip of it. So if you're into like analog horror, it's definitely a solid one to check out. um The next one is one that I saw a few weeks back. It's called Sweet Molly and it features or stars Rebecca Kennedy, who was in Two Witches and the upcoming Trabatica, which i don't know if you've seen the trailer, but it looks absolutely terrifying. I've heard crazy things about it.
01:56:31
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um And Two Witches, one of my favorite witch films ever. But ah she plays this 16 year old daughter of this. She's in like an LDS family. And she's got two moms, but apparently she can also astral project.
01:56:43
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So she she's sleeping one night, she does her astral projection thing and finds out that her father is going to marry her off to the elder of the church. And so she's like i'm not going to do that. She tries to escape her house and and ends up coming face to face with the elder and she has to make a pretty drastic decision.
01:57:00
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um So it's it's a little more on like the thriller drama side, but it's definitely got that you know horror horror accents to it. um That's about 16 minutes, so if you're looking for just like another quick little watch,
01:57:11
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Highly recommend. And then the last one I have is called Degenerative, which is by White Cape Productions. And I never even heard of them, but it's ah it's four minutes long, real quick. But basically, this guy's like fiddling around with like AI on like a search engine and it's popping up different images. But he types in this one prompt and there's like a woman, like a very skeletal creepy woman. But you can't see your face. She's like facing a window down a hallway.
01:57:35
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But he keeps typing in prompts to like refresh. But it just keeps popping up with this woman. And each time it's getting closer and closer, she's turning. And eventually he types in like car just to like see if it'll come off and it does.
01:57:47
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then he realizes that something is terribly amiss in his apartment. And i again, not going to give you any of the rest, but it's a great little short. The ending is a little bit letdown because I feel like it could have been such a gut punch if they just added like an extra 10 seconds to it.
01:58:02
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But definitely one worth checking out if you just, you know, quick little horror shot for you. I love that premise so much. I'm in. Oh yeah, no, it's it it's so solid. Again, so like I just wish there was more at the end.
01:58:15
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um But it was definitely just a fun watch. um then Then I'm going to jump into, this isn't a TV series yet, or like a streaming series, but I got to check out a rough cut of for this potential show called Final Transmissions, which I swear to God, I'm not paid to say any of this, but they have an Indiegogo page.
01:58:33
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um They're trying to reach a goal of $20,000. They're close. They're at like $19,000 or something like that. So they're almost there. um But it's ah it's a really cool project. It's supposed to be like a six-part anthology series, found footage, analog style.
01:58:47
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um And they wanted to be out on like you know something something like Shudder or Screen Box or Found TV. But ah the one I watch is called Dr. Midnight and this guy, it felt like a mix of like the last broadcast and Brave Encounters. like You basically follow guy into this haunted hospital. And it's just got it's that you know grainy, low-budget feel, but it's definitely super creepy.
01:59:11
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um He has to go through this ritual in there. So if you guys are interested, obviously go check it. They have a whole bunch of information on the Indiegogo as well. So if you just want to just get some more information on it, it's called Final Transmissions.
01:59:22
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and I think it's going to be really awesome. So definitely check that out if you are interested. um The next one i have is called, this is the only one that's not actually from July. It's a one i I recently watched because I had no idea it existed.
01:59:35
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But I don't know if any of you have seen The Pact. Any fans? Oh my dear. Folks, all right, here we go.
01:59:44
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that's it The Pact is like one of my, as far as like haunted house mysteries go, um it's really solid. And ah the director of that came out with this film called The Prodigy, which is 2019. It stars Taylor Schilling from Orange is the New Black. And I've never seen her in anything else.
02:00:02
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But ah she absolutely kills it in this. And it's not necessarily like outright horror. It's more like it's like like it's more thriller drama with a little horror added. But there are a couple scenes in there where like something happens and your jaw is going to drop because it's it's shot so well.
02:00:21
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And yeah the the special effects are done are done so well. um It was really rather impressive. And it's it's got like a mediocre score on like tomatoes. But ah for me, it was it was a great, great film to check out. So The Prodigy, 2019, definitely worth a watch.
02:00:37
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Next one I'm going to go with is Push. It's a shutter film that came out recently. um It's basically this woman loses her husband in a... tragic accident, but she's pregnant and left with a baby.
02:00:50
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She, you know months later, she is showing she's a realtor and she's showing this massive mansion that's been, you know, no one's lived in it for years, which is massive red flag and horror, but she's doing it.
02:01:01
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And This one guy shows up, he's very, very odd, but basically he turns out to just be this absolute psychopath. He's like, I have to kill you and and your baby. So it becomes like this game of cat and mouse, but she also goes into labor while he's chasing her. So it has just this element of like she's going to give birth any minute and she's also trying to save herself and this guy's trying to kill her. and He's got some connection to the house like that can keep him alive.
02:01:26
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They don't really explain um it actually was a fairly divisive film. A lot of people were like, oh, it was just bland and like nu didn't add anything to the genre. But for me, it was it was super like stressful and exciting to watch.
02:01:38
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So, you know, to each their own. I found it to be a fun watch, but definitely something I would check out if if you're into that type of film. I got two more and hesitate to bring this one up because I'm not a big fan of the Pooniverse at all. For those of you who don't know, the Pooniverse is like, they're making these films based on like the kids' characters, so Winnie the Pooh, your pan, Mickey Mouse. Yeah, Mickey Mouse, yeah. So, yeah, I'm not sure they need to exist, but I was offered a character of Bambi, The Reckoning, which was interesting to say the least, but was never going to watch it otherwise, so I threw it on.
02:02:21
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And basically, Bambi is... Bambi is this mutant deer and he attacks this family in their home and the rest of the film is them just trying to escape being killed by Bambi, but also trying to figure out like why Bambi is a mutant in the first place. And you get you get an answer. um There's also other animals who are mutants, which again, you get an answer to.
02:02:40
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lot of people die. The kills are actually, if if you're into blood and gore and like kind of wacky kills, um I can understand why it would be something you'd enjoy. ah it didn't do anything to move the needle for me, personally, on the Pooniverse. I still think they could just kill monsters and do their own thing.
02:02:58
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But yeah, Bambi was, a has know has anyone seen Bambi? I have the screener too, that's probably the only reason why I'll watch it also. But I've heard a lot of people say they actually really enjoyed it out of like all of the Pooniverse movies.
02:03:15
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um I've heard it's the better of them. I couldn't even finish The second Poot movie. I turned it off. That was a rough watch. Saying Pootiverse just sounds pornographic.
02:03:28
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But yeah, that's my thing too. I've heard a lot of people say like, oh, it's the best of the of them yet. And I'm like, that's a very low bar. Like, I don't understand why. So yeah, I was like, I don't know. But you know i i do understand the allure for some, I guess, is what I'll say for that.
02:03:44
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um And my my last film that I um need to bring up, I just did a ah review about this the other day, but it's called The Undertone. It's not out yet. um It's premiered at Fantasia Film Festival recently. um But the long and short of it is this girl moves into her mother's home. she's Her mother's dying and basically in a coma. like She doesn't open her eyes. She basically just like gets water through like a tube and that like that's it. She's she's she's dying.
02:04:10
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But while she's there taking care of her mother, she's doing this podcast with her co-host and they get this email with 10 audio clips.
02:04:21
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And so they're the like the narrator, the narrative of the story is they're listening to these clips and like they they just get progressively worse. It's about a couple and they're they're going like the wife has some sleep issues, but so they're recording things that are happening during the night. And as they go through each clip, it's just it gets more and more sinister.
02:04:38
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But as they listen to the clip or to each clip, things get wild in her mother's house. And this isn't a film that's like, it's not a bunch of jump scares, but I said this in the video, it's some of the best framing I've ever seen in a film, period. Like there's there's a scene where there's a tea kettle facing a window. So you can see, like, that's the only thing that's in focus.
02:05:02
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And you can see the reflection of the window. The girl standing in the kitchen, like at the sink, there's a door behind her that's open and there's a door to her. like down like little down frame that's open and literally something scary could happen from any one of those points.
02:05:16
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And in that scene, nothing happens. But the tension that it built, like like it's like that the entire film. So the entire film is so stressful. um And like when they do decide to give you a scare, it's ah it's effective as hell. Like it's such a, in the sound design, um obviously a lot of it deals with audio. So it had to be good and it's it's phenomenal.
02:05:35
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So ah again, it's not out yet, but rest assured, like I want to be pumping this film up as best I can. And when I know the release date, going to let everyone know because it's that good. it's It's one of the scariest films I've seen in 2025 and probably my entire life. like It's that good. And I'm not just like smoke.
02:05:52
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mo Yeah, it's it's entire life. Yeah, top 10 at least. top ten at least Oh, wow. Yeah. I recently added that to my watch list, so I'm glad to hear that. out Yeah, no, it's it's super solid. Like I i was, i'm I'm still in awe at how much I enjoyed it. Honestly, it's that good.
02:06:11
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Sorry. um But that's that's that's my spiel for now. All right. That's awesome. Thanks, Josh. Thank you so much. Great recommendations. We're As we said, people are already adding them to the list.
02:06:23
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So we're down. Katie was unable to get her technical difficulties figured out. She's been messaging me on the side here. She feels really bad. So she was planning to join us, but not working out tonight.
02:06:36
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We'll try for the future. So that means we're going to close out Ricky from the nightclub podcast. We've had Travis on before. We're both part of the same show. Ricky's going to close us out. He was kind of a last minute when Travis couldn't get here and work.
02:06:51
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from work in time so ricky is gonna fill us in on some last minute uh schlocky recommendations to wrap us up and then that is it for our july recap episode ricky take it away bring it on cool yeah so um i got uh i was that we were having our little technical difficulties earlier i was
02:07:16
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cut off in the middle of making a joke about the podcast. You can find us anywhere. like It's not just places. Anywhere you catch pods. We're the Nightclub Podcast. I'm a co-host.
02:07:28
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We talk about movies and stuff and we laugh and we drink and stuff. It's it's fun. It's a good time. Where horror comes to party. That's our little tagline.
02:07:39
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so Anyway, oh I gotta tell you, though, we did learn that no two people can use the same name a live from you. don't know why the link did that, man. Like, I tried changing it, like, every single time, and it still put me in as Chris, and I'm like, what the fuck? you're trolling. man.
02:08:02
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I didn't realize that's what was... Yeah, anyway. i didn't even realize I was taking him off. Every time. That's why I kept coming in. Yeah. So anyway, I actually have some physical media and I'm actually not a physical media guy because I play Warhammer.
02:08:22
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So that's like too expensive. That's that's my money pit. But I do have this because I love... um I love shitty, schlocky, bad movies. they're they're It's one of my favorite things to do is to just eat some edibles and watch a badly made movie and laugh, and it's the best.
02:08:47
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But I've actually got two Indonesian movies from the 80s and an American movie from the 80s. um I'll start with this one. It is Mystics in Bali.
02:09:01
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And I'm sure that that is not coming out great on frame, but there it is. um There's actually some ah really cool Indonesian folk elements in there. You've got this...
02:09:18
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vampiric head with the entrails hanging and it flies around and it attacks people and since it's like micro budget um indonesian 80s horror this considered the first indonesian horror film by the way oh um since it's so shitty, it's like obviously a mannequin head on a line and it's spinning around for no reason sometimes and it bumps into shit and the dubbing is horrible.
02:09:49
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The dialogue is horrible. The characters are written poorly. Everything is bad, but it's so much fun. And some of the effects are surprisingly good. um There is a transformation scene because the movie's very witchy. You've got a lot of Indonesian black magic and whatnot.
02:10:14
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Yeah, it's it's crazy. You get like a werepig transformation and they turn into snakes and It's wild. At one point, the movie goes like full Tron mode with the graphics drawn onto the screen, and they have a wizard duel.
02:10:31
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it's It's the best. 10 out of 10. Highly recommend this. ah Yeah, I love this. And by the same director, his name, by the way, let me butcher it right quick because I'm ah not cultured. I'm a piece of shit.
02:10:48
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So the director's name is Tajut Jalil. And this is one of my favorite directors because all his movies are this caliber.
02:11:00
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Well, actually, let me I think some of them might be porn, so don't quote me on that. you So but next I have, oh, that's DVD, by the way. They don't make a Blu-ray or none of that for this. ah I managed to find these ah from him on Amazon for like 15 bucks a piece.
02:11:22
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theyre They're, yeah. Yes, they are worth it. They're worth all the money in the world. So this is Lady Terminator. OK.
02:11:34
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ah Again, the camera is not doing a great job, but it's directed by Tajit Jalil. It came out in 1988. And. and and ah should i Should I read some of these like taglines or something? Here.
02:11:50
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Here's a tagline. it. An outrageous tale of blood, babes, and black magic. So a freaking anthropologist gets possessed by um and ancient Indonesian evil goddess.
02:12:06
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And then she becomes like the Terminator. She gets a gun. She puts on sunglasses. in a jacket and runs around and shoots everyone in the dick throughout the whole movie. They recreate... Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, pain violence. The pain violence episode.
02:12:25
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They recreate the Terminator scene where he shows up at the jail. like They recreate that perfectly, but it's just her with a fucking Uzi shooting it into the air like all showboaty and then she kicks a dude in the dick and shoots him and it's It's the best. This movie's great.
02:12:46
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I need to watch this immediately. The teen violence calls to her. you contain viets balls to her I think you can find both of these on YouTube. I should have checked before I did this, but ah just kind of last minute.
02:13:01
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So sorry about that. But I think you can watch them both for free on YouTube, honestly. um Yeah, lots of lots of sleazy, fun, schlocky shit.
02:13:13
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The last thing I have is actually a Severin release. And I don't know if you guys know about Night of the Demon from 1980. Not Night of the Demons.
02:13:26
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No. no one may qui No. This is, in my opinion, the best Bigfoot movie of all time.
02:13:37
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It is a combination of two movies that were not the same, not made by the same people, but they took them, added more shot, more stuff. So they shot a bunch of kills to turn these two movies into like a slasher.
02:13:55
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Okay. ah This is the goriest piece of shit Bigfoot movie. ah Speaking of penis violence, you get a direct ah direct dick ripping. He rips it right off.
02:14:10
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He just reaches out of the bushes and pulls it right off the man. Poor guy. This was the first movie I watched on your guys' recommendation. travis recommended this movie to me I'd never heard of it before i was physically queasy I was about damn ah the gore is surprisingly phenomenal um yeah it's good everything else is I feel like no one had any idea I feel like the cinematographer had never picked up a camera I feel like the music composer never
02:14:46
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in their life had an instrument. Like there's this amazing slow motion scene where they're where they're trapped in this cabin with the Bigfoot. And I'm guessing they shot it in slow motion to pad it a little bit.
02:15:03
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But you have this horrific sounding like spacey jazz music going on that makes no sense. And Bigfoot's just swinging entrails around and pitchforking people. And ah I will say this one does have check Check your trigger warnings. There is some essay, ah some weird culty incest stuff. it's it's It's kind of yucky. But other than that, it's a lot of fun and it's it's it's really easy to laugh at because just the the acting, the dialogue, everything is horrible.
02:15:42
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it None of it. It barely makes sense. And it's a good time. do it Rick. Yo. Hell yeah, brother. Severin released the, I bought the movie and the novelization and you know what? The novelization is way better. It's so much more in depth with the cult shit. It's insane. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. It's crazy. There's so much stuff where I'm like, cause this was written like Severin, Severin when they found that movie, they commissioned this book. So this didn't exist. Oh, wow.
02:16:11
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Yeah. So this is like fairly recent. It's, it's, if you, if you dig the movie, the I really liked the book. man when i first saw this movie it blew my socks off i was like this is the silliest funnest thing i've ever seen uh it's the benchmark for like if your big bigfoot movie doesn't have a dick ripping in it i just you know i'll watch it like i'll watch it but In the back of my mind, I'm just like, man, they could have done so much better. You could have ripped the whole penis off or something, you know? like I didn't know this was like a horror subgenre, like dick violence. Apparently. I appreciate it.
02:16:54
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I really do. It's in a lot of books, horror books, too. Quite a lot. too be anyway I'm pretty sure we could do a psychological study on why that's there. but right yeah No doubt, no doubt.
02:17:07
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I'm not educated enough for that.
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02:17:10
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But as aside from that, like the the physical here, I know y'all y'all are physical media people like like this. I mean, it's beautiful. The art's beautiful. You can't really see it worth the crap on here.
02:17:22
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But... uh you know and the slip cover is really nice yeah i love the slip cover the slip cover is awesome that's that's the bigfoot by the way his costume is atrocious in this movie like it's it's so bad it's the best i love it 10 out of 10. highly recommend just you know maybe don't watch it with your kids or your grandma during mean thanksgiving or christmas no pain violence for the children right wait till they get thanks for the children not pain violence oh
02:17:54
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All right. I think that does it.
02:17:58
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I think that wraps us up. Jonathan, you ready to read us out of here? ah Before Oh my gosh. Can I say, can i can I go off real quick about something? Yeah. Are you going off script?
02:18:09
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Yeah. Yeah. ill Off script. So Kelsey, with all these bug books you were recommending earlier, apparently my wife got a whole bunch of fake cockroaches and has been putting them all over all over our house.
02:18:27
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And now she's at work. And every time we open a drawer or reach for something and we can't see, there's a goddamn little plastic roach. And so I just thought that was a really fun coincidence. And I'm about to bring some to work tomorrow.
02:18:44
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And yeah I'm gonna put them in people's toolboxes. I'm gonna put them in the fridge in the break room. It's gonna be the best. Nice. I'm glad they're fake and not real.
02:18:55
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No, no doubt. yeah yeah I can't take real ones. I mean, I can read about them eating people's peens off, but I don't want to experience seeing them, even just chilling there on the floor. Get out of here. We hate you roaches, real ones. so peen violence is not a normal topic of conversation on this sorry it is for me i'm sorry i brought it up yeah another another um so another beautiful coincidence right maybe it's something in the water in louisiana yeah you know we're all about cockroaches and violence
02:19:30
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so three the pe violence so check it out ah oh Make sure to put the hashtag to like everywhere. pe Hashtag Pee Violence. I'm just like known for unhinged stuff. So like, yeah ah sorry, i mentioned it.
02:19:45
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But that's me, I guess. I need a t-shirt. pun laughs yeah Love it. yeah Shirts for everybody. Yeah, folks, the the year of the pain violence.
02:20:00
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Yeah, we we found out last month was the month of hp Lovecraft. This month was the month of pain violence, apparently. So that's unfortunate.
02:20:14
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and Can't wait to see what next month brings. Geez. Well, folks, that's a wrap on episode three of the Dread broadcast. Huge thanks to every horror loving maniac who hung out with us tonight.
02:20:28
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Let's give it up for our amazing panel. Ricky, you just want
02:20:34
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thank you. Thank you. yeah Kelsey, thank you for being here again. Thanks for having me. Thanks for letting me shout about peen destruction. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry again. I'm having nightmares.
02:20:46
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But I really love hanging with you guys and i appreciate you. And thank you to my corns, my corn cult in the chat. Thank you again. They're awesome. GC, thank you. Dude, thank you so much for having me again, guys. Looking forward to next month.
02:20:59
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Yeah. Yeah. just ah Just save it. Don't destroy all the peens. that well We're going to have so much fun. Jeff, thanks for coming out for the first time. Awesome job tonight, man. Thank you.
02:21:12
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to Thank you for having me. It was a lot of fun. You guys ah are all very like-minded. i have I feel like I have a lot of common interests with all of you.
02:21:22
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So it was a lot of fun. Thank you. Awesome. Glad to hear that. That's what we want here. That's what we want. Sean, thank you for coming back again. of course. Thanks for having me. Josh, first time. I've been trying for a while. i'm glad we can make it work this time. i'm glad you're here.
02:21:39
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Yeah, me too. I really appreciate you guys having me on. Like I said, learned a lot, but definitely i look forward to being back at some point in the future. Awesome. And Jillian, thank you. Yeah, thank you for having me. So nice to meet all of you. And it was a lot of fun. i didn't think it would be as funny as it was, but.
02:21:55
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A lot of times we try to keep it relaxed around here, but thank you so much for being here. And we lost a couple due to internet issues and whatever along the way. But thank you to all the panel members who are out here.
02:22:07
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Thank you for bringing the chaos, the insights and the passion for horror. And of course, biggest shout out to our guest of honor, the actor, director and co-writer of abduct, Mr. Chris Riggie.
02:22:23
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He was a total blast. So excited to see what's next for him. Yeah.
02:22:31
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All right. So next month's panel is already locked and loaded with killer creators. But if you're horror podcaster, filmmaker, critic collector, or just a fan with something say, we're booking for September now.
02:22:41
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02:22:57
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02:23:13
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