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Also discussed: Late Night with the Devil, Stop Motion, Parasyte: The Grey.

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Oh I'm sorry did I break your concentration somewhere between science and superstition such sites to show you strange aeons. Welcome to strange aeons radio. That's Eric over there. Hello. That's Vanessa over there. Hello. I'm Kelly. Hey guys. So glad that we are doing this in person again. This is nice. i This will all make more sense when we get to my pick for the film. But I had a very strange Cronenberg, Ian thing happen. And I ran out of peanut butter. Okay, I don't know how that's Cronenberg. And yet well take me on a journey. Do you know how a story works? I started the beginning. And I give you more information. All right, you've really hyped that though. So I'm watching this Cronenberg movie, lots of body horror and all this stuff. And I'm like, I need something to munch on. But the problem is I keep no munchies in the house, otherwise, I will just eat them right? Yeah, so I'm like, What am I gonna eat? I don't want to make a burger or anything like that. peanut butter sandwich is particularly toast peanut butter on toast. I can eat my entire loaf of bread if I do this. But I don't have peanut butter. And I remember Hey, you know, my mom gave me a gift for Christmas that consisted of a lot of little funny things. And and one of those things you guys was was Skippy in a squeeze tube squeezed him now I know. The listeners are probably saying Kelly choosy moms choose Jeff. But I don't think that my mom really picked this out for me as a real president. My mom likes to give kind of goofy presents. Anyway, I was like, Okay, this is all I've got. So I'm going to pop it open and use it. Now as you can see, it's in this little package here with a very small nozzle. Yeah, you you you put out on your bread. Vanessa this would probably look very familiar to you right now because it is a tiny little thin thing. It looks nothing less like it looks like nothing more than a turd that you are curling out onto. onto your toast. Oh my god. I will say this Skippy. Not very good lot of sugar in this peanut butter. He's very sweet tasting peanut butter did the job for me. But after watching the Cronenberg stuff and putting this on I was kind of like you know that I went out and bought Jeff peanut butter you know what can I almost if it's gonna say too cheap I use Skippy because there's that big recall on Jeff and you can buy it for like months and months and months at one point this and I didn't want to make this all about peanut butter. But what is the problem with Jeff comes in I like the creamy because I'm old I don't need something to break my my teeth. What's wrong? Crunchy is by far the of course when you're a young person like yourself. I tend towards the creamy as well. So but here's the thing. GIF crunchy in a big jar. Yes. GIF creamy only in the small jar. Depends on what story you're at. I don't believe that's true. I've never been able to find a GIF creamy in a big jar. I think Costco Oh, I know what I'm gonna get you for your next birthday or Christmas celebration. I'll take it certainly better than a DVD in my freezer. What kind of gift that keeps on giving anyway mom thanks it I've only saved the last of this as a talking point this goes right in the trash. Oh, but it was there when you needed it most. I mean it was as as I'm squeezing it out every the Edit makes a sound to me and all kinds of body horror. Yeah, yeah. Next time she should get you those crystals. Just put him in a butter. Oh, I've never I've never had them but I've seen them a lot in the store. People love them. People absolutely love them their freezer peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. So you just pop in the toaster and you're ready to go. Well, I shift out of the peanut butter people give us money please. Oh you guys I am in a lovely mood and I just Want to say thanks for coming out? The next one? This is fun. I can't tell if there's sarcasm, there's no sarcasm. Yay, life is good. Life is good. I've seen some pretty cool stuff. So I've got a couple of things that I actually liked to talk about today. And one of them is a movie called stop motion. Oh, yeah. Okay, I saw an ad for it. And I was like, this looks too much for me. Have you seen the I've seen things on it. My first thought was, there was a documentary about no stop motion. No, it's about a woman whose mother was kind of a famous stop motion animator, okay. And, but she was also a real shitty mother and made her daughter help with all this up motion stuff in a very demanding way. And everything. Well, when the mom she's got like, arthritis or something, so she can't do it anymore. And the woman decides she's going to finish her film. But then, I don't know if this is a 24 feels like an A 24. It's got kind of a slow build to it. But it is very, very creepy. Stop motion in itself is just very creepy medium. Yeah. And her, her life starts to kind of take on this stop motion feel as she's animating this film. And she's got this little girl who's feeding her ideas of how she can make this thing better. It's very creepy. And I ended up liking it quite a bit. It was a rental. But I think I saw the shutter logo on it. So I think it's got to be coming to shudder very quickly. And I just really, really loved it slaps motion. That sounds good. Yeah, sounds incredible. Well, I finally checked out late night with the devil. And I want to see that. So I spent so much time and 2023 trying to find a place to watch that because I wanted to do it for the year, the end of the year. But what did you think? Well, first of all, the way I found it was by going to the theater. Yeah. Because they actually had a limited run. So yeah, I felt really, really lucky. And it's yeah, it's really excellent. Especially if you like go swatch or as you guys know, I love W and UF Halloween Special. That by interesting combination of source material you're getting there. It's like, Jeff, and Ghostwatch Oh, not UHF or whatever that Yeah, yeah. No, it's just got that kind of live TV special vibe about it. And it's just, yeah, it's it was really, really fun. I think they did an incredible job with a very limited budget, and it definitely has a pretty spectacular third act. I'm looking forward to seeing it. I think it's coming out on shutter very soon believe it's April 17 or 14th 22nd. Was it that? I think it is? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking forward to that one a lot, too. I've heard a lot about it. Yeah. Well, I will say that the hype is real. I think that you guys will enjoy it. Cool. Guess what I want whose directories movies anyway? Oh, God. It's gotta be Walter. Yes, Brewster's millions. Oh. Yeah. It's like, I was looking at his IMDb and got really Brewster's millions. Hmm. Really frustrating film to watch, in a lot of ways not because it's not good. But because Richard Pryor is such a likable guy on screen. And he's going through so much misery and shit in this movie. You want him to just tell like, if you can take the storyline as he's going to give him $3 million. I think he has to spend in a month and if he does that, he inherits $30 million. But he can't tell anyone about it can't and he can't have anything to show for himself by the end of the 30 days. So he has to just burn through $3 million and or 30 million I don't remember anyways but just tell John Candy or somebody this just pull him aside. He won't. He won't. It's just so frustrating. And then in the grand Aedes fashion, you hit that end, and it just ends and I was like I want to just a few moments after that ending to experience what happened for the end and said Oh, and done it's like, Well, shit, but that was that's a very 80s thing. Like no no post thing unless they do the flashback so and so like Animal House, so and so went on. But nope, not even that. But how's the humor hold up? Pretty good. It's not. It's surprisingly lacking in any kind of racist jokes. Okay. There's a very high She has a very, very relevant storyline in the middle of it where he figures out the best way to burn through money and have nothing to show for it is to run for mayor of New York. Oh my God, and he runs as vote for nobody. Right? And the whole thing is, both candidates suck. Just vote for nobody. And of course, that makes him unbelievably popular. Oh, no. Just to that I that aspect of the movie enjoyed quite a bit that was really well done and a lot of fun to watch. But it's just like, a he just him being so likable you just went for guys just go into the shed man. And it's for such a good reason. That's based on an old movie that is very similar. And I bet you that's why there's so little racist humor is because the old movie was two white guys. And I think this movie follows some of the dialogue even right to the original. I remember very little I saw this in theater. Oh, I remember liking that vote for nobody. And I remember at one point, the thing is he can buy all sorts of stuff with his money, but he can't own any kind of anything to show for it. Right. So he, he buys that super valuable stamp. And they think that they've got him because he's invested in. And then he sends them a postcard and he's sent this million dollar stamp as the postage. That was crazy. That's so good. Brewster's millions. Okay. The other thing that I watched that I just started watching, I'm on episode four of six, and it is called parasite, the gray on Netflix. Oh, no, this one parasite p a RASYTE. And it is this kind of alien invasion movie where aliens have been among us. And they have been kind of taking us over. I hope that it's going to be a little bit more detailed than what they say their plan is, which is to infiltrate the human race and then eat us. And I kind of want it to be a little more than that. Because these creatures, they, they look like humans and everything. But when they reveal themselves, their heads just kind of split open and turn into these huge tentacles and start whipping around. And it's really really cool looking some very Lovecraftian imagery, but no real cosmic horror, unless it becomes something more than they just want to eat us. But really, really watchable Korean, and I'm just loving it. The effects are great. There's some really interesting stuff I saw in this that I imagined we're going to be seeing a lot of as drone camera operators get better. Because there is a couple of scenes where there's a motorcycle chase through a crowded market area. And you can tell there's a drone doing the footage and whipping around and every once in a while it wobbles a little bit and you're like, Oh, this is a real camera. This is really interesting. Yeah, I wonder how many takes something like that as but yeah, parasite, the gray on Netflix with the drone stuff. You ever seen that stuff? It's probably in YouTube or something with drone races? Yeah. Shit. They put cameras on them for that. And it just whipping through like abandoned malls. Yeah. Really cool. So fun. I want to check that out. Well, I've been watching a lot of random stuff on the Disney app. Just to keep myself awake. My child has noticed the TV now. And she's like obsessed, like truly obsessed with it. So I'm trying to utilize this as little as possible other than trying to like keep her awake at times. But the other day I put on into the woods, which I'd never seen and said Disney Music Galway? Is it the player, the movie version? It's the movie version. Yeah, it's the adaptation because I really enjoyed Chris Pine and I was like, I just want to see what he does in here. And I've never actually seen this thing before. Okay, sucks, man. The Broadway plays. I haven't seen the movie version. The Broadway play was released on video years ago, and it was pretty good. That's why people like this thing is like horrible. It's like a horrible I mean, like, the journey is fine. And then like, it takes a really big swerve part when that feels odd. And then the ending just sucks. I was like, What the? Why? I don't know if it's completely different from the Broadway one or what's the premise? The premise is you have a bunch of those like storybook characters Jack in the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood. There's a couple that want a baby, but they can't because there's a curse on them. And the way to lift the curse is to gather four items for this witch and they're all from these classic stories, so they have to get a little red riding hood. Like red cloak, they have to get Rapunzel golden hair they have to gather all these things within a certain period of time. And then they'll be able to have a child. So you end up running into all these different characters and they're all starting with the Irish song and then you know you break in and they're running around trying to get you know Cinderella's slipper and you know fighting these different people for and trying to trick them into it and and finally they get the items but other bad things happen and then really, it's about family I guess. I don't know. I'm not really sure what it's about in the end. I it's about a sad crappy ending is what it's about in the end. Wow. I was just like, What? What? I don't know. I watched it to the end and was like, I don't fucking get it man. Like I do not like you get a lot of celebrities who can sing Okay. Meryl Streep looks incredible in it. She's the witch. She's great job. Lots of great actors. You got Anna Anna Kendricks in there, but fuck man. Why? I don't know. Well, the Broadway people could sing fairly well. No, that was it was yeah, the Broadway I can imagine the Broadway version being better. But that gives me very little hope for when they do that wicked adaptation, which should be coming up in not too long. So I'm very weird with wicked. I didn't really know what it's about when it came out in the book was giant. Yeah. So is this just basically they're pretending like the Wicked Witch is nice. And so I read like 40 pages gone? I don't care. Right. But I know a lot of people really, really love that story. Yeah. Yeah. I've read the book and saw the play and it's fine. Totally fine. And another while their cellphone? Oh, no. Why? Dead for$1? Not familiar with this one. This was a Western he did a few years ago. And it's even more frustrating than Brewster's millions. Because there are moments that it feels like, this is going to be really good. And I'm like, Oh, I'm enjoying this. Oh, this is cool movie. And then two or three minutes later, I'm gone. And this kind of sucks. And that happened throughout the whole film. It was really weird. And I think it's during the guy who played with the Nazi and Quinn Tarantino's film. Really great actor. Yeah. Christopher faults, you stuff. Yeah. So the performances are all good. Everything's good, but I don't it's just it's just weird. And it shot almost beyond like Godfather yellow. It is really really a yellow. Like, sepia tone, almost heavy film, which is fine. It's a Western but yeah, it was very frustrating because that that wave just kept going God. Okay, cool. Now I'm liking this ask gonna get better. No, no. All right. Oh, cool. shits happening. This is fun. Okay, no. Really, really weird. That's so frustrating. It's very weird watching experience. And I could imagine because of that, there are people that love this film, people that hate this film, there's probably not a lot of odd people like me that's in the middle going. Well, I liked half of it. And I hate it. Yeah. Is this the end of your Walter Hill viewing or, you know, you committed to watching every single Hill film now i'll probably finish it out. Right now. You know, with the festival going on festival prep going on and stuff. I'm not watching much of anything. So we'll see how this goes. For our next. Next few things. I'll see what I can pull off. Yeah, well, Trypticon coming out very quickly. Yeah. So you know, you send out the things Oh, man. Okay, I'm way behind. But things are going well. And that's like, I gotta wait for filmmakers to respond to me now. And there's that initial wave where it's more than half responded. And then it's like goodbye. bugging you guys this year, then another email. Next day, send another one send another one. But other than that good stuff there. Maybe I'll talk about what helps if I can't talk about anything else. mysterious ways. Maybe. I think that's a good choice. Yeah, very, very cool. Yeah, come out and see us if you're going to crypto con because we'll be doing another live show there. And this time we are doing a deep dive Saturday afternoon. Yeah, yeah, we're talking about the howling very very off brand for us. It'll be the first year that we don't talk about John Carpenter maybe. I know I had Star Man all lined up. So Oh, showed up to North Star Man. We'll have to make that a special Episode of the regular show. Very good. I mean, that's one of my favorite movies of all time. So, yeah, but John Carpenter is not going to be it. I know that is the difference. Joe Dante is going to be a cryptic con. Seattle there'll be some Joe Dante but that'd be cool if corporator showed up but I don't think he doesn't do a lot of them no Texas Frightmare thinks the only one I remember I'm doing you have to give him a lot of money for him to do anyway there's got to be some good incentive Yeah, yeah. Well All right gang. Why don't we take a little break and then when we come back we're talking about films with broadcasts in them see these two portable radios well watch this Sorry friend, you Oh file portable tap to go. But look at our new RCA Victor portable radio came through without a chip. Here's the world's first and only portable radio in the non breakable impact case. So rugged. It's the only radio case with a five year guarantee against chipping, cracking or breaking in normal use. Course. A to my giant lose, but that's easily fixed. The important thing is RCA Victor's non breakable impact case means no chipping. No cracking no breaking and hear that tone. It's RCA Victor's break golden throat found the the world's only part of both with a non breakable impact and low at 2795 at your IPA victory. And we're back Eric, because this was your genre. Pika. You want to tell us what you're thinking? Yeah, the idea is a movie that has broadcast significance is that TV radio, aliens signal something needs to be a prominent part of it sort of like poltergeist or Independence Day. So I went with a very recent film 2023 Nope, that's not it. 2023 Lola. Ms Tabori, you will your sister is our mysterious invention loader. There is a system of electrical processes which allows us to observe forecast for the future this is magnificent it's beautiful. Let's go into change history this is the true magic movies world weddings a musical rebellion signals beamed around the world because of this pioneering work this marks a huge turning point in the war against Nazi Germany even more dangerous attack six Java described earlier this morning catastrophe struck Britain Why is it suddenly changed that just meant a variables could lead to a new set of consequences I don't understand maliciously false Intel resulted in this country being invaded we have to leave was never meant to be an instrument of violence either here to this I don't think I've seen this one. It did the festival thing last year won some awards and that kind of stuff. Really is here. 2023 Rotten Tomatoes score of 97 for critics and 65 for crowd. Oh, sure. Which is oddly similar to the Robertson Caruso, where if you subtract I think what? Three from each or four from each yet 94 and 62 for Robinson and this one's 9765 Bow wow this is real on Mars give us your pick from last week. Yep. Which is you know, stupid shit that occurs in your brain for no reason at times. Yep. couldn't really find anything budget or box office is currently available from seven and I believe it's coming out lot of seven films show up on shutter and other streamings out For it's been out on disk for a month or so. So I'd watch for it there if you're interested. Directed by Andrew leg, spelled L E, GG E. So I pulled up the audio commentary to hear him say zoning first I was just like, Okay, this is his first feature. He's done a bunch of short films. But this first feature is done. We also had Anjali MacFarlane as the one of the writers, Andrew also wrote it, but he had first feature writing credit but produced over 49 projects. So probably part of why they came on board starring Emma Appleton, who you probably don't know from the nuns, lots of TV, Stephanie, or Stephanie martini, the last kingdom might have seen that one. And also lots of TV, and Theodore, but Azaan, like, whom I'm assuming is related to the director. The film opens with this line. This film appears to be a broadcast from 1941. So the whole movie is broadcast to sisters. Thomasina who goes by Tom and Martha who goes by Mars grow up in isolation as orphans in a small house in the English countryside. This was shot in Ireland, I believe. Tom is a talented writer creating machines and also creating machines that she calls this one is Lola. And the capability of this machine is to see radio and television signals from the future. Oh shit. Okay, yes, this now rings a bell. Yeah. It's pretty cool. The first time they turn, turn it on and tune it in, they get David Bowie singing Major Tom, which they both enjoy thoroughly. So that's pretty cool. The music in this movie is really, really well done really good. After that, they just keep watching things. And of course, they come across the rise of Hitler. And beside the world needs to know about not so much about this machine, but that they're seeing things so they secretly set up a way to broadcast flights, when bombing raids are going to happen. And things along those nature's the bombing raids that can't be seen like tonight, tonight heavy, or tomorrow night's heavy cloud cover is going to make it so we cannot see these are coming. But I promise you there's going to be a bombing tomorrow night. Since they're accurate, they really start to get noticed and things brought up a lot about and of course, can't just leave that alone, somebody's got to go find out who's doing this. And now it's happening. And of course that's military. The soldier sees one of the sisters doing something with a tower, putting up some kind of a device and just thinks it's suspicious. Overall, the writing and this is pretty solid. This one's a little like, I guess we'll jump to conclusions here a little bit. But he follows her and kind of not too violently but threateningly gets her to admit what's going on and brings him back to the house. Instead of arresting him and trying to take over the machine, he works it out to where he will stay with them and report back to his higher ups who are not thrilled with this idea, but go along with it. Because they don't understand the technology. That's kind of what they want to figure out is to have him report back to them how it works. So then they can kick them out and take it over. They start with we're just gonna you'd have to prove us what you're doing is real. And it shows up. It's like okay, we need to come up with something that happens in the future that's not so big that anybody can always happen but not so small that it feels very little. So they actually are picking and choosing through broadcasts that they've heard and say okay, this is a good small medium sized military operation to let them know about and they do when it all works out and everybody's like yay. Movie then was formed with three of the trio getting to know each other a little bit and one of the women becoming interested in the guy does not hit on too long. So that's not doesn't become a major plot point. They also decide to borrow some future music. So the when there was as they start to become a little bit more celebrity because everybody knows who they are now, they're at at an event and one of the women's things You Really Got Me by the kinks now my car in a kind of altered version, but it's really good. And they that then becomes a slogan so there's A bunch of shots of propaganda posters with you really got me going. It's in the production in this film is amazing the posters they made and the little things they do. And they it is so period looking, it's weird. You know, of course, as they become fans of Bob Dylan started singing Bob Dylan stuff a little bit, they didn't do too much of that. But then the movie turns. And they start to realize that these actions have consequences. And I've seen a few changes going on. But the first change that really sends, at least the martyr sister over the edge, is realizing David Bowie is no longer there when they go to watch that broadcast again. So they don't know if something happened to him, or if he just never became much of a singer. And the other big, big plot point is England finds out about an attack that's going to involve the US. But in order to make it happen, the US has to get attacked. And then England could do what they can do to protect themselves afterwards. So not warning the us about this ship that gets shut down, or gets sunk, keeps the us from going into the war effort. Oh, and so it gets dark after that. It gets really interesting to see how Nazi comes into kind of take things over and alter stuff. They even have kind of a Nazi David Bowie. He doesn't look like companies sort of singing a song like him. But it's filled with propaganda lyrics now and things like it's really this is a I liked this film a lot. Wow, really smart. It has a couple of tech problems that they sort of dealt with, because it's kind of a found footage. But it doesn't even really feel like I found footage. But it kind of is. But the there weren't cameras that had sound. Sure. So there's one line like your camera has sound and it's like this small handheld like 16 millimeter. Yeah, camera. And it's like, that's pretty small. And this has sound Yeah, I put the sound in the sprocket like, Okay, I mean, we know that's actually how it is done, was created. But it's nice that you're able to do that for your own private sector in your home. It does a really good job of combining time travel alternate history into kind of a well worn story that's been told a lot. But with a really interesting twist. It's just different than the other ones in a lot, a lot of fun ways. It was shot in Ireland during the lockdown, which is interesting, because they must have not shot in entirely in the lockdown, because there's some big ass crowd scenes and in parts of this film, but most of it is the three people in the house. That makes sense. The scenes with the sister shooting is they are the ones operating in the cameras most of the time. That's a 16 millimeter Bolex and Airflex cameras, but they just put lenses from that time period on them. So it looks it looks like something shot then. And the they did also did some new newsreels that they used a 35 millimeter camera and Kodak film to make it look that looks different. And it does it looks different. It's very cool. Instead of hiring camera people, they just trained the two women to be their own camera operator. So they really are the ones operating the cameras during the stuff so that was really smart, interesting way and it I don't know it just makes it feel more like they're both involved. Let's see here a couple of quick notes. The film was processed using a Soviet era 16 millimeter developing tank in their home. Oh, wow, Jesus. And Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy band, wrote the soundtrack and also read mixed the Space Oddity and you really got me highly recommended if you're interested in either one of those subjects. Or if you're a found footage fan. This is a really interesting take on that kind of movie. And Which country did you say this was set in again? It was seen it was set more in like it felt kind of like they're doing London in London, but it was shot in Ireland. Okay, gotcha. Hmm. I heard about this film last year, and then I completely forgot the name and it's called Lola. Yeah, that's why that does not sound like this movie should be called Clapton song isn't it? Look for you know weird elevate what did you What did you see this on seven second desk I picked up they do these things where they just the discs and whatever they're releasing so you don't get some of the weird if you don't want any extra you just buy the disc so interesting it was in the one of three or four dissents I don't want all of those sounds cool much better blind by than the one I talked about a couple of weeks ago wow that sounds awesome definitely want to check that out hopefully it will show up on shutter so the movie that I went with is a movie that I think we all checked out a couple years ago when it came out the vast of night from a 2019 number place this is wo TW radio when you can New Mexico and this is the news for the seminar what flux tells you like some big science girl tell me about science evidence fairy I'm the sound came for the board dinner because your radios and what's going on 718 Here WW gotta sound we'd like to play that seems to be bouncing around the valley and I guess I have a story that might be I can tell you what's going on. We heard it was coming from town to be higher than anything they've come here before they've liked this place they always have is important that pm we might have some copious coverage slip smelling or what's he doing here? Helping me Stop smiling target there's something in the sky Yeah, this was like an Amazon exclusive like VOD hit that got got a lot of love. It's 92% from critics and 66% from audience which is weird, almost the same. And I also feel like it's really low from the audience considering I thought that everybody really enjoyed this. I think it's a little too high brow for most people. That might be it. There's a lot of talking and movie, because the budget is 700k. So yeah, it's actually just, they do a lot with a little I'm sort of shocked because it is a period piece. But they it feels great. It feels like they did a good job, but they definitely spent their money in very specific ways. The director, writer and editor is Andrew Patterson, who has two credits to his name, just this and an upcoming film called the rivals of Messiah King. The writer Craig W singer, who's a co writer on this, this is his only credit. So definitely a couple of a couple of no names, striking out and seeing what they could do. Starring Sierra McCormick as Faye, she has 40 credits. She was kind of like a kid. Big Time Kid actor. She did a ton of stuff like Hannah Montana and supernatural and then she was a leading character and 62 episodes of Disney's ant farm since then. I remember having to do some of these for Technicolor. Since then, she's been in VFW, American Horror Story. Edge of everything and last stop and Yuma County plus for upcoming films. So she's doing just fine. Jake Horowitz who plays the character Everett in this is doing a little less well. He's got 15 credits. And he's doing smaller roles and things like bones and all and Agnes and updated Castle freak which I did not see and did not realize it happened. Not good. There you go. And he has a lot of short films that he's kind of dabbled into So the story of this is sometime in the 1950s, they don't really specify when, in a little New Mexican town called a Cayuga. There's this teenage whiz kid and disc jockey named Everett, who we start off by saying, he walks into a high school where they're prepping for a big game. And everybody needs his help. There's kind of a whirlwind follow behind camera shot sequence where people are asking him questions, and hey, Everett, we got this electrical issue happening, hey, we've got this recording thing. We've got this. This one guy says he's having trouble with his trombone, and the trombone, and you're like, What is going on? And then this girl who's up in the stand, says, Hey, I just got this new tape recorder, do you mind helping me with it? And he says, Sure, sure. And he just kind of walk and talk with her. So he's on his way to W OTW. The station in which he's DJing that night. And Faye is on her way to her job as a switchboard operator. And on the way he teaches her all about her tape recorder and how to use it. And they just start interviewing random people and cars, people on the street, just so she gets a sense of it. And as they walk, we also learn a lot about these two characters. So phase a big science nerd. Now since this is the 50s, she doesn't have a lot of prospects of doing anything with this science nerdery. She just hopes to become get out of this town and go to a larger city where she can get on a larger switchboard operator scene. He also wants to get out of town. But it's you start to see this really cute interaction happening between the two and a friendship kind of blossoming. So when fee gets to the switchboard, she noticed that she keeps getting these dropped calls. And then she finds one line that has just a strange signal that's happening. She calls up Everett, who offers to broadcast it on air to see if anyone has an idea of where it's coming from. And once he does that, things start to get a little weird. A man named Billy calls who has a military background, and he talks about a classified mission involving some large vessel that made a lot of people very sick. And he had to build like a secret base thing for and he said that that same sound was coming from that vessel. They also get a call from Mabel and elderly shut in, who says she knows a lot more about what's going on. So they've got a jet on over there and hear her story, which is very long. It's very, very, very long story. You're like Mabel, get it together. Come on. We we can't be here all day. But essentially, Mabel had a kid who was hearing things and eventually got abducted, but people thought that she killed him. And she asks, Please, please, for them to help take her to see the vessels that are potentially going to be showing up. And sure enough, there are more and more phone calls coming into the switchboard about something if some lights in the sky, something happening out there. And so they grab for some totally unknown reason. I think they grabbed phase little sister who sitter seems to have gone missing, they get a lift from some people towards somewhere I couldn't quite work out where they were going or why. And then every recites this strange incantation that neighbor had given them. And the couple goes into this trance and they start looking at the sky, and they nearly get into an accident. So Faye runs out of the car into the woods efforts following her they find a bunch of singe marks in the woods and he thinks that maybe something landed and is lurking there, they go into a clearing and get taken. So this film, um I really really liked it the first time I saw it the second time through there's definitely a lot more problems that I saw in it and didn't quite realize the first time there's a lot of like, why are they doing this? What is the purpose behind it that that's really doesn't make a lot of sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense why they're abducted. They both want to get out of town but it feels like this might have been a stronger theme if they wanted to leave or it just feels like there's a strange in like, why does she have her little sister with her? It just feels at times like I'm not really sure why they're choosing to go the direction they're going aside from just aesthetic reasons and and trying to force an ending. However, the ending is pretty chilling when they get into the clearing and they just see a lurking UFO there. It's creepy. Then we go to the basketball game and come back and and all we see are their footprints and nothing else. With a bunch of like, sort of dirt over the side of the recording device. So pretty cool ending there other than I don't love that they have the kid there, I feel like that's just trying to make it extra creepy. And I just I don't I don't get that. I do however love the fast paced Gilmore Girl Style dialog, they talk a million miles a minute, I definitely got a lot more by watching it a second time. They also set this up as a sort of alternative Twilight Zone opening, where it's sort of dipping in and out of this idea that maybe this is all a show or an episode of a show. And that's pretty fun. Other than occasionally they do cut between we're in a movie world and then go back into the aesthetics of like watching it through TV screen. And I'm like, I don't know that that works as well as I don't know, maybe they're trying to get around some budgetary concerns. They have a really long winner, which is super, super fun to see. I think that was something a lot of people were talking about when they first watched this movie. And that's really, really cool. So some trivia. Director Andrew Patterson financed the film himself with earnings from his work producing commercials and shorts for the Oklahoma City Thunder. They redid the gym that we see at the beginning of the film for 20k. And mostly they got rid of the three point line and the volleyball markings on the floor to make it more back the 1950s. They also found a working switchboard, which the he used for this it does feel very authentic the way that it's like she pulls the the little wire out and this snaps down and it just feels really good. The radio station call letters are W O TW as an homage to War of the Worlds The town's name Cayuga is borrowed from Cayuga productions rod Sterling's production company that produced Twilight Zone. There is no such town name. This is filmed in 17 days, the long take sequence. When face sends ever at the mysterious signal consists of four practical shots with CGI used to create transitions between them. Production Assistant Nathan price drove the Go Karts to emphasize the small scale of the town at night, which is pretty cool because I wasn't sure if it was a drone. And the first time the first time I watched it through a really I was like all of us GAVI like drone technology, but second time through I was like no, there's like definitely like handheld movements. And you can almost feel somebody like walking with it. And it doesn't have that drone feel of smoothness and tilts that we we now see. So they they really did something neat with that. So yeah, that was oh, yeah, one one final thing. Last night premiered at slam slam dance in January 2019. It won the best audience award for narrative feature. Amazon picked it up. And it was actually released in Drive in theaters may 15. Before it went out on prime on May 29. So pretty cool. That's cool. I am surprised this was a $700,000 but I know the costumes alone the number of people they have in this movie is a it's a really big number for all the people who they walk between the crowd for the basketball game is pretty filled. Yeah, that's cool. Bring in a small town you can get them to come out and be in your movie. Totally. I must events something along those lines. I know a shot in Texas, but I yeah, a lot of I'm guessing a lot of favorites went into this movie. I remember thinking that it felt almost like a family film and then the ending was way darker than it should have been for the rest of the film. Yes, yeah. 100% If you're so quirky, and you know phase just, you know just curious and spunky and Everett is the kind of the straight man and but also, you know, fun and smart and whatever and then all of a sudden you're like, What the hell? Okay, bye. Enjoy space I guess. Okay, then 10 minutes on the buzzer. I chose for my broadcast film from 1983 Video drum. Why would anybody watch us come show like video drone? Why didn't you watch it Max? business reasons. Sure, are about the other reasons. Max rent is a victim. I woke up with a headache. He has been exposed to video DRO I've been hallucinating for a while ever since. Since I first saw video drum. His brain is already receiving video images. I think massive doses of video drum signal will ultimately produce and control hallucination to the point that it will change human reality. Soon, his visions will coalesce and become uncontrollable flash. Video drove me seducing Max REM to me now and Max REM can do nothing to stop it. Or makes you think I need help. And of our test subjects has returned to normality. Television can change your mind. Video drove will change your body long with the new flash. It will shatter your reality. With your drone video drone, starring Deborah Harry and James Woods, A shocking new vision from the creator of scanners coming soon to a theater near you from Universal Pictures. Oh with nap budget of $6 million box office of $2 million. Wow, Rotten Tomato critics have it at 83% and the audience has it at 80% Written and directed by David Cronenberg, who has 40 credits, including scanners, the dead zone, the fly Dead Ringers, and it stars James Woods who has 148 credits, including cop vampires Hercules and the Virgin Suicides, also includes Debbie Harry who has 71 credits, including rockin woul hairspray Tales from the dark side the movie, John Carpenter's bodybags she's also the lead singer of the band blondie. Also stars Sonia Smits, who has 57 credits including the pit, the rings of Saturn and better days. I'm going to assume you've both seen the glory of video drone indeed. Okay, so James Woods is a petty and annoying man that likes to shoot off his mouth. But in this movie, plays Max ran petty and annoying precedent of a UHF television station in Toronto. And they specialize in sensationalist programming, think live leak, but as a TV show movies of war footage, car accidents, people getting attacked by animals, that kind of stuff. But Harland who's the operator of the station shows Max something called Videodrome, a broadcast from Malaysia. It is a plotless show that just shows people being violently tortured and even murdered. Basically, it's a snuff TV show. Max is enthralled with video DRO mostly because he doesn't believe the people in the show or anything but actors, and he thinks the effects are just super realistic. What he's mostly enthralled with though is that it's all shot in one studio, which means it must be very cheap to produce. While being interviewed on another TV show, Max meets Nikki, who has a radio personality and he starts up a relationship with her. She's fine and kinky, but when she sees Max's copy of video drum, she becomes super aroused, and super interested in it. And they have a sex scene with video drew drove going on in the background and he's like cutting her very lightly on her behind her ear and stuff like this. It's a pretty interesting scene. She tells max that for her business, she's going to Pittsburgh. Oh wait, I'm sorry. She becomes super interested. And then they find out that it's not coming from Malaysia. It's coming from Pittsburgh. Oh snap. So she tells me that she's going to Pittsburgh for business but she's also going to audition for video drum against this. But he's starting to get affected by video drum himself. He's having hallucinations and stuff and the best part of it is as it starts happening to him, it's it's all clearly in his head. But at some point it becomes real. And after seeing this movie several times I still can't tell where it becomes real. You know what where the line is? Anyway, he's, he's just obsessed with finding out who's creating video drama and he tracks it down to this elusive media personality called Brian oblivion. And that's Oblivion like a Irish name. Oh, apostrophe living Oh, wow. He thinks Oblivion or he tracks Oblivion down to his homeless shelter called the cathode ray mission, where vagrants engage in marathon sessions of television viewing so it looks like a homeless shelter with all these tiny makeshift cute wasn't everything but instead of like a little bed in a table, it is a chair at a television set. And there's just hundreds of these homeless people watching TV. Here he meets oblivions daughter, Bianca. And it's difficult to tell what's going on with her on the surface, she seems to be wanting to fulfill her father's vision, which was a world where television replaces every aspect of your life. But this is a movie where no one can be trusted. And I don't think everybody knows what their own motivation is, through a lot of this film. Or at least, that's how it's played. So you don't know who's in on this and who's not and what side they're on. So I just watching this, I was like, holy cow. This really is so cool. It's social satire and commentary. And it's from 83, where we thought, you know, all we had to do to get away from the TV was leave the house. And 40 years later, we're all carrying around a tiny TV in our back pocket. So I'm watching this again. And I'm just blown away by how onpoint a lot of the plans of some of the people in this movie have come to fruition. So Max finds out that he's being changed by video drum, his brain is definitely being changed because of the hallucinations, which are becoming pretty crazy. At one point, he sees Bianca who had disappeared in Pittsburgh, and he sees her on video drum and she talks to him through the TV set. And her her lips fill the entire screen and he just kind of pushes his head into the screen. It's a really crazy effect because it's not digital or anything. It's a it's a rubber TV screen that they have projected the TV on and he's pushing his face into his really, really cool looking. And in another hallucination Max, who is now paranoid enough to be wearing a shoulder holster in his home. While he's fiddling around with the gun, a slit opens in his stomach, and he slides the gun inside of himself. Then the slit closes up and the gun is God. It's a really great scene because he knows he's hallucinating. But when the slit closes up, he's freaking out and jumping all over the place, you know, lifting up pillows, because he's like, Where's the fucking gun? It's can't be inside of him. Or can it? Oh, from here to the movie just goes off on this fantastic paranoid body horror journey where Max is getting pulled deeper into video drum. But he's also being used by Bianca and oblivion to go after and kill the creators of video drone. Will Max go back to the TV station and turn Harlands handle into a bloody flesh grenade. Whoa. Well Max them head to a trade show at the convention center and attack the creator of video drum with his gun now that it has become an organic part of his hand. And will you be able to understand what these two battling factions of organic television are actually trying to accomplish? This question is kinda left up to you but I will leave you with this that death to video drawn flash this movie is so freakin good. You guys. Every time I see it. I am completely blown away by the sheer filmmaking brilliance of this young director. I don't want to say it's the best horror movie of the 80s because that's an impossible thing to say. I don't even want to say it's the best Cronenberg film of the 80s because scanners, the dead zone, the fly. It's just just an amazing film by a brilliant filmmaker a tough is game taglines. First it controls your mind that it destroys your body. whoo that's good. Some trivia. David Cronenberg himself has said that everything that happens in the film is really taking place until Max meets Barry convex at the spectacular optical front. After that, the director has stated that things become more complicated. Thanks, understatement. During filming of the cathode ray mission sequence, the film's gaffer Jack Brandis walked in and casually informed the crew that the power lines to the building were smoking because of the load imposed on them by all the TV sets they were using, oops. is revealed in the movie that once you have seen the video drum signal that the brain tumor begins to form and you begin to hallucinate Maxis the video signal early on in the movie, so it could be implied that most of the movie is max hallucinating, taking it one step further. The first thing the audience sees is the video drums. Therefore it has already affected the audience and the entire movie is the viewers hallucination. If you haven't seen video drum, you have to see video drum. It is spectacular. I agree with you. It's hard to call it as what best worse whatever but it feels like this is the movie that made Cronenberg's kind of style. More so than just about anything else. It's certainly the movie that I think turned his name into a agitative Yeah, exactly. You say Cronenberg. Ian, this is what you're this is what you mean. Yes, our body horror. There's parts where the slit which looks like a vagina in his stomach is also a VHS player of type, oh, they put organic VHS tapes, actually their beta max states. And they put that into his stomach. And that's how they kind of program him with what they need Him to do. And there's a scene where he is deprogrammed very violently by a hand coming out of the television set and shooting him. And that he's given his new program. And it's just such a bizarre film. And you know that there's nobody. So Cronenberg wrote this and directed. You know, it could not have been any other combination, right? He could have written this for somebody else. And nobody would have written this and been able to, I'm dying to see what this script actually looks like. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah. I also heard that. So the way the Canadian filmmaking board worked back then, you know, they fund the movies. And he was given these grants, but because of the way it works, he had to have, he had to be working on the film, by the end of the year to accept this grant. The script wasn't finished. So they started shooting on a script that was very bare bones, and he was writing it as they were shooting to make sure they could all still work. It's just amazing that it all came together as well as it did. I need to rewatch this but I also am like, I might give it a minute. You kill on television now? Yeah. Good distributor right on video. Baby. So she learns that don't pay too much attention to you would think but I know she would just be so enamored, she would just be in love with it. It'd be interesting to James Woods has turned into such an angry old man, I love reading his Twitter stuff, because he's, he's just an asshole. But he's very funny. He says these horrible things, but it's always a really funny thing. I often wonder if it's our reading of it. That makes it funny, as opposed to him trying to be funny if he's just or you read it back. That was a joke, right? I think he is. I mean, I think he knows he's an asshole. And he has embraced it. And he's always been a very interesting actor, smart guy and everything. And he's just like, I'm old. I'm not getting roles anymore, so I don't have to pretend to like it. I don't need to worry about a paycheck, right? Yeah, well, I just had such a good time with this. This is available to rent. It's not streaming anywhere. I own a coffee as I'm sure everybody in this room does. Everybody out there should. Incredible. Okay, guys, I guess this means it's my pick for the next version. Yeah, okay. I had a wild idea. And I'm not sure how well this is going to work. But the sub genre will be blank in space. So it could be as simple as taking one of the franchises that has gone into space, like Friday the 13th or leprechaun or something like that. Or do yourself a favor and don't grab one of those movies. Probably a good idea. And and take the idea of this is this movie in space, for example, alien has always been called a haunted house movie in space. And so you can do that kind of stuff. Having looked at the the options for the franchises that have gone to space, you might want to go the other way find something else or sort of like Steven Seagal is career post diehard. It's diehard undertray right diehard on a boat. Exactly. Exactly. Right. Yeah. That I think that's why I was thinking of this stills. I think it was because of I saw under siege for the first time. i Oh, I don't. It's probably his best film. I was like, Why did I sleep on this film? It's amazing. Watching some of his others they don't like okay, yeah, this is painfully bad martial arts 80s. But under siege is a decent film. Yeah. Yeah. So I was thinking of something like that. And I decided to keep it a genre. So that's why we're doing it in space. Awesome. I'm excited to attempt to even think about Googling something on like, I'm gonna get the worst results. Okay, so that brings us to the point where I say thank you to everyone who is liking and sharing posts who's participating in the value for value model, which is very simple. If you get some kind of value out of this and I will assume if you're watching this, you have gotten some kind of value out of this, turn around and give it back. 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