287 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

287 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
To celebrate Vanessa's birthday, Kelly insists that the gang adopt the new Popcornmeter for film ratings.
Also discussed: The Crow, Oddity, The Vourdalak.

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Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration somewhere between science and superstition. We have such sights to show you strange eons. Welcome to strange eons radio that is Eric somewhere either above me or below me or next to me. And that is Vanessa, also in that general area. Hello. I was like, I'm glad you guys are talking. I'll say hello too, since I just waved and pointed. That's right, it's the radio, yes, and I am Kelly. We're doing this on Labor Day weekend. So we did a zoom thing. I don't know about you guys. Anybody do anything fun? I went up and shot the shit out of some guns. And what, like, America, fuck yeah, on Labor Day weekend. Is that what? This one every holiday is an American holiday. To me, where we are and all Spoken like a true patriot. I don't think I really did anything. I had a lot of plans, and they all fell through. So, um, I've been on some walks, and that's about it. Yeah. I mean, it cooled off at least a little bit today. Thank God. Thank God for that. It was I did not like the September when I first moved here years ago, and I'm still really not used to it, the Idaho weather was at the time, at least normal. It's September. It cools down. It stays cool. October gets colder, etc. But here it's like, September is always up in second summer, second summer. It didn't used to be like, this is globally warming kind of thing, if I'm allowed to say that. But like, it's not always done like this. This is I did not grow up with. Like, my birthday is always start of September, so like, the cusp of it getting cold as fuck, and it's around my birthday that I can no longer wear anything, like with short sleeves or so to me, it's like, oh my god. Why is this so hot and it's fucking September. What is going on in some years? It rains ash on my birthday, and that's fun, too. You got a birthday coming up? Vanessa. Happened at least twice. At least twice. I don't get snow, but I get some, if you don't mind me asking, what's the date on that birthday? Just so I know I when I can say happy birthday. The fourth of September. The fourth of September. Do you remember the fourth of September? Hey guys, I don't know if you noticed this. So one of the gimmicks that we do on this show, when we're talking about the films that we have picked, we talk about the Rotten Tomatoes scores, right? Yeah, yeah, and, and it's either the critics or no matter that Eric has never once said it correctly, it's either the critics or the audience. But that has changed. I don't know if you guys noticed that. No, and I will be holding you to the new names. I Oh, and what is it the audience and the people that annoy us with their weird rating bombs worse. So the critics will be something familiar. It is called the tomato meter, which I thought was always the entire thing, yeah, but tomato meter is now the critics, the audience, the popcorn meter. Boo, because why would you want to keep it very clear what these scores represent? Do they want to no longer use critics for critics and audience for audience? Like, I don't know the hell dude. Well, we know that fuck. We've always kind of taken these scores with a grain of salt, because they can be, you know, gimmicked and everything, and we knew that, that what we were saying was just part of the shit that we list off. It doesn't really mean anything, right? But at least it was clear what it didn't mean. Can we just speak in emojis from now on? Is that what's happening to our society? Well, yeah, under 50% porcupine ballooned my way into the school building today i i run out, but you know what I mean? Okay, the tomato is either fresh or rotten. What is the popcorn? Is it burning? Oh, wait, or is it, well, fresh or oh, they don't. They have tossed all of that out. It is just a tomato meter. In a popcorn meter, and it is just all on this sliding scale of and if you don't know, and you're listening, you're like, I don't really understand what that means anyway. It means that if every if every critic gave this at least a D rating on their film, it's still going to be a positive review, because they just grab all of the ratings, and as long as it got a passing grade, it will get up there into the 70s. I don't like that. This is stupid. Well, that's why it's always been a stupid thing. And I just kind of thought we all understood that it was a stupid thing, and it's just one of the things we add on to our list of bullshit to talk about, yes, wow. I'm guessing this is, you know, they also own, like, what theater? Some theater owns Rotten Tomatoes. It's owned by Fandango. And I think that's AMC, right, yeah. Oh, okay, where? Okay, random question, though, where did they get the audience numbers from? Like, that's from the people who, in the case of something like, say, Captain Marvel, that's from all the nerds who got on there and said how horrible it was constantly. So if you just have everybody giving it a failing grade, then you're going to be getting into those load single, go to Rotten Tomatoes website and vote there. That's how it right? So, that's how, okay, that's how audience works. And so they're not scooping it from IMDb or anything from like the popular responses, okay, no. And then I don't get me started. I am IMDB. I can't understand how that is rated algorithm. Whatever they do crap is really weird. It's like a ship that is going down and that guy is on the in the band, like playing the trumpet as it's been going down. And it's been doing that since 1997 it's just like one guy still playing the trumpet as it's sinking. There's nobody there, like, aside from advertisers, there's like, it got bought by Amazon, and everyone's like, Oh, you're gonna fix the site. No, even fewer people are gonna work on it. So IMDb is, like, it's 100% dependent on people putting their own information in. So you can just put over whatever the hell you want in, so long as you have a subscription. So it's, it's stupid. IMDB is stupid, but it's also helpful. Specifically, I was talking about, I don't understand how their ratings work, because you can get, like, the godfather and jaws and, you know, Star Wars, whatever, the highest rated films. And they're, they're not nine something. They're 7.6 is their rating. And I'm like, it seems like there's nothing over a 7.6 in this site. It feels like I think it was like, started by some super cynical ass hat, who's like, well, if somebody's giving it a five, it must because they watched or worked on the movie, or a 10. So anything above a nine, I just don't think counts, and anything below a three doesn't really count. So everything's just going to be this weird mash between seven and four. Yeah, maybe seven and three, and they just figure it out in there, and just toss out the top ones and toss out the bottom ones. So okay, as much of a mess as that is, even more frustratingly is like, how does Netflix say? Like, we recommend this at a 76% to you. It's like, how, how do you know on earth that I would want to watch this or not, and it's always wrong. So do you ever, do you ever thumbs up or thumbs down the movies that you've watched since I got Netflix, I was all into the star system, and then the star system went away, and I have thumbs up and thumbs down things, but like, it's still wrong. So I don't know what it's if it's not 95 or above, it's probably not that good. I mean, I think it's probably just telling me I should watch everything on its program well. And it's also a cross pollination of other people who've watched the movie and bothered to give it a thumbs up. And then they go and look at what you guys might have in common that you have thumbs up or thumbs down. So that's how it's given you those I'm a breathing human, and it's in their top 10 carousel, and they would like to have their numbers look good. I think that's how they decide if I want to see this movie or not. It sucks. I've noticed anything in the 70s as far as what I would rate something, it's more like something I'd rate in the 30s. So I don't know what their rating level is, but it is. It is definitely leaning towards high. So if it's not 9697 I'm thinking it's probably not something I'm going to be interested in. Oh, interesting, interesting. I have not looked at it that way. I've been like, oh, okay, it's like 70 so it must be pretty much a good one for me. The entire point of this was that when we talk about our films today, you will be required. You call it the tomato meter gives it this, and the popcorn meter gives it this. Or I will just fucking throw everything down and leave no. Eric will come out with something else. He'll be like, in the popcorn bucket is this, and I'm this time. I'm gonna be like, it's the popcorn meter. The alien. And popcorn bucket says, All right, guys, I watched some stuff, and I'm going to try and pick stuff that I don't think you guys have watched, but maybe want to hear about. For example, I went and saw the crow. Oh, my God. Okay. Oh, you went now theater to see the crow. Not going to just talk about the crow. I'm gonna talk about the entire crow series because I gave it all a watch and I hadn't seen anything past the second sequel. So, or, yeah, anyway, right? So, you know, we all know the crow. Pretty fucking great movie. Brandon Lee, based on the comic book by James abar. And pretty dang close to that story he wrote. The stuff that they couldn't get into the movie was most of the stuff that they had to edit out to try and make what they had of Brandon Lee fit. And by some magic and sorcery, they actually, actually came up with a halfway decent movie, right? So then I watched the first sequel, which was city of angels, and I had forgotten about this, except for the fact that I knew I didn't like it, and I watched it, and I was like, this is not as bad as I thought it was. This is not too shabby. They moved it to LA and they flipped their color scheme to be this kind of sick yellow, and the crow looked cool, and he still had a little bit of that energy, and it still followed that kind of kind of weird structure, if you remember, the original crow opens with the death of Eric and Shelly. The cops are all around. And then the only thing we get about them as humans before this is flashbacks from from Brandon Lee, Eric Draven, so in the second film, same thing, this guy and his son are killed by gangsters and thrown off of a pier, and the crow resurrects him. And it's really cool, because the little girl from the first one, she's now an adult, and she's living in LA, so she kind of sees this happen. And when, when the guy comes back, she's there to kind of guide him and tell him, Hey, this is what has happened to you, and and all this stuff. This is a gift that has been given to you the third one then, oh shit. I can't say too much about the third one. Let's just say that I watched the third one. It was not as bad as it could have been. It could have been much, much better, though, if they had just chosen a different person for the crow and and then the fourth one actually has, what's the Who am I trying to offend? What's the druggie? Edward Furlong as the crow. David boyanas as the bad guy, Satanist, the the girl from, oh God, anyway, quite bad, okay, but a lot of a lot of things that I was like, okay, Edward Furlong didn't look horrible as the crow. If they had had a couple more bucks, they kind of made this look better. But they knew what their budget was, and they set it in the desert, and they shot mostly during the day. And I was like, Okay, you guys had whatever. You had a million bucks. And you were like, well, we're not doing any fancy lighting or anything like that. So that brings us to the crow, which they're calling not a remake, but a new adaptation of the original The reason I went to see this in the theater is because a couple of people that I respect said that this film does not deserve all the hate it's getting, and that they enjoyed it a lot. And I will now say I don't respect those people anymore. This movie is quite, quite bad. And if, if there's something to like about it, it's the last 20 minutes of it where he fully embraces being the crow, and then it turns into this spectacular gore fest where he is killing everybody who has killed him and Shelley. And the effects in that are wild. I mean, I was covering my eyes through most of it. I just like, Good Lord, that is a sword through the eye, and now he's going to fight with that guy connected to his sword, other people and shit like that. I was like, this thing fucking went balls out at the end. Where was any of that energy in the first? Hour 20 minutes. Wow, nowhere to be seen. The characters, there's nobody to like in this. The you remember how much you like Eric and Shelley in the first one, because they're good people caught in a bad situation, in a bad neighborhood and all that stuff. Eric and Shelley and this are dirtbags who are caught in a bad situation. And you're just like, okay, that's one way to do it. I guess I'm not sure how many people you're going to connect with this way, it has a really neat supernatural twist to it, in that the villain in this is like a fucking demon who can whisper in people's ears and then their eyes turn white, and they kill themselves. And I was like, Oh, this is cool. And what he really wants, because he's sucking their souls out, what he really wants is the soul of Eric, who's come back from the dead and all this. And, you know, the lighting is great. This clearly costs a ton of money. It is a shit, shit movie. And I would even say to the people who are defending this, the lead actor, Skarsgard, started badmouthing the film before it came out, and how disappointed he was with it and the direction they took with it. And I would say, fucking get on his side. There's no need to defend the shitty fucking corporation that made this movie. Get on the artist's side. Who was there and thought he was probably going to make a much cooler movie. So by all means, go out and see this giant turd. It should be on Tubi in two weeks. It is fucking awful, but the last 20 minutes are great. Oh my god, it's called the crow, wow. Okey doke Lee, okay, well, I will not be checking out the crew anytime soon. It was already pretty far down on my list. Anyway, it was like a vague interest. And then as I got closer, I was like, yeah. However, I did see a movie that a lot of people said was shit, and that was very interesting. I checked out the rebel Moon Director's Cut, which is worse, had you seen the original? Okay, no, I had not seen the original, so I really don't know what it was, because they added like, an hour of content. Um, wow, it's actually pretty good. It's not great, but it was, like, there is, it is a fucked up film. They do a lot of very fucked up Gore in it. So I believe that was most of what was cut in the previous version. But I was just like, fuck. Okay, there goes that guy's hand, okay, there goes that person's face. Okay, you're gonna melt cool. Like, it was pretty intense. Um, I don't know, like, I would say, I don't think it was good. It was clearly constantly stealing from other materials, like, just wall to wall, constantly like, oh, that's from Blade Runner. Oh, that's from Lord of the Rings. Oh, that's from Star Wars. Oh, like, the whole time, but at the same time, like, I never was bored, and like the characters were slightly interesting. I I guess I have to watch the second half now. But, yeah, this is the second half out. I don't know if the director's cut of the second half is out. I'm not going to watch the original. I'm only going to watch the director's cut because I'm like, if I have to waste time, I might as well waste time on the best version of the thing. I'm wasting time on. I can't, I can't watch the shitty version of, the shitty version of the thing. So I watched the shitty version of it, and I was able to finish it, but I couldn't finish the part two, and that was enough for me to not go back and watch the Director's Cut of part one. Yeah, yeah. I'm glad I didn't watch the original. It was just like, it had been in the carousel for a long time, and I just ran out of things, I guess. And was like, why not? Okay, let's see what this is. And I don't know it was. It was totally fine. It's like, better than a lot of bullshit sci fi I've seen, and definitely had a lot of gore. Yeah, any of that right? Is that correct? It? It had Gore, but it was definitely a PG 13 thing. And in interviews, I heard with him, he was saying, basically, Did this have also have a bunch of sex and nudity? And yeah, he was saying his pitch was he wanted to make heavy metal magazine as a movie. It feels most closer to that. And they told him, you know, well, how about something that we can also show in theaters? And he was like, I will do that, if you allow me to do this version, and then we can take. It for that. Did it show in theaters? I guess it showed for, you know, whatever, two nights, or something like that, and then the next weekend it showed, that's how Netflix does it, if they think that it's going to get awards, eligible for an award or something like that, yeah, it's the Yeah. I think the only thing that really bugged me was that robot who just, like, wanders around forever. I was like, Where are you going, bud? Like, what are you what are you learning about? Why did we pay what's his name for this fucking voice? English, bro, sir, whatever, whatever. It's too much money. Too much fucking money. Don't like you. Can they save so much money by just having this robot look longingly into the cornfields all the time. I was like, I don't care anymore. You're nothing. Jesus, you are selling the hell out of this. She started with, it's pretty good, and now it's like the one thing that irritated me the most every time we cut back to him, because I love robots. I fucking love robots. I was so excited for this robot. I swear every single time we cut to him, I was like, they just want this to be a poster. This is supposed to be somebody's like, screensaver, just like robot, robot looking this way, like it just anyways, what'd you see? Eric, anyway, I've been pleasantly surprised is doing this 100 days that the amount of 2023 and 24 movies that are 90 minutes or less? Oh, a couple years ago, it's like all these freaking horror films are two hours long. Same cat man they've learned. So I checked out a movie called oddity. Yes, fucking great. Holy shit. This is on my, top of my list so far of what I've watched in the 100 days. It's a story of a medium that attempts to uncover the truth behind her sister's murder at at the scene of the crime. And there's, there's relationships, things going on between the people. There's really three people, three to four people, maybe that are a big part of the film. It's a very small cast. It's a very tight location. It's a neat location, a really, really weird, creepy way. Wooden guy that's in it. The acting is incredible. It's from the guy, what's his name, Damien McCarthy, who did caveat, yeah, which was really good and really uncomfortable to watch. Do you notice the caveat bunny background of that one scene? Yeah. Like, well done. I did not know it was him until I saw that. I'm going, Okay, I gotta double check. But have you seen this one then? Kelly, yeah. I also like this. My only complaint would be that there was nothing in it that surprised me. I feel like I knew everything that was going to happen. Going to happen, yeah, before it happened, but it was so well done that I was like, Well, I can't be upset by this is what I thought was going to happen, and it's pretty good. And some really honest, scarce, yeah, some real solid ones, so, but yeah, oddity. What did you watch that on? Is that on shutter? Now, I think it's a I think it is shutting or I watched on Amazon, but I think it's no it's coming to shutter, or the end of this month, it was on that thing I posted on our Facebook page, but I think I rented it on Amazon. That was oddity. Okay, what do I want to talk about I saw new stuff, but I don't have a lot of nice things to say about it, and I don't know if I want to go back. Well, I'm just going to go back. So, Vanessa, you talked about the last three episodes of evil being available. So I watched them. And now I should preface this by saying I had taken some mushroom gummies earlier in the day, and that may have been why I felt so fucking invested in the stories of the last three episodes where I was just like, David, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna work for the entity? But God dang Eric, have you finished it yet? No, still had a couple days of not watching a lot and then stuck 100 days thing. But God, I hope they're this week this series. I mean, this is what you hope for any series if it's going to get canceled, is they get notice so they can wrap up their storylines. And they just did a phenomenal job in making me very satisfied with our three protagonist storylines, and even the priests and the nun who helped them, you know, and a couple of side characters and the daughters and all of that stuff. So I. I just probably one of my favorite TV series ever. I think it was, it was just so good, yeah, I totally agree. And I think they did a great job with those extra episodes that they were kind of gifted, yeah, yeah. They, they were really solid. I don't know if I've seen the very, very, very last one or not. What? Oh, well, you gotta, no kidding, I don't know if it was out when I was watching. Well, hard to say it's, it's called evil. The first two seasons are on Netflix and prime, I think. But you can only watch the last two seasons on Paramount plus, right? And those are the best seasons, to be honest. Actually, no two on is great, yeah, I think, though, I mean, obviously them winding up on a streaming service that allowed them to get a little more R rated with their material was really helpful for a show like this, and it was also good that kind of like when David Lynch got fire walk with me, he just went crazy with content because, you know, he'd been strangled by TV for so long that he really went over the top with firewalk with me. I'd like that paramount. Plus, didn't the creators of evil didn't do that. They added elements. They added some sex, some violence, the swearing, but they didn't do a scene where everybody says some something extreme just to say that shit. It worked in the story. Yeah, they didn't change the feel of the show, which was really nice. Yeah, I have one more episode, so I'm excited now, Kelly, I know what I'm gonna do tonight. Nice, yeah. Although, okay, so the reason why I didn't finish watching evil, I guess, is because I got very distracted by a show that just showed up on Netflix. Maybe and I somehow missed it. Been on my list for a couple years, and it's called the terror. Did either of you guys watch it? Is this the one based on Dan Simmons's story about Crozier? Daniel Crozier and his faded expedition to the North. Oh yeah, yes, oh yeah, the ship that's that'll, that'll, that's a good one to get drawn into. Oh, my God, it was so good. Yeah, oh fuck. Like every episode I was like, God damn, this is a great show, yeah. Just, I totally fell in love with it. Every episode I was just I went from like, hating certain characters to then just loving them and then being horrified if they perhaps did not make it, and then watching people, like, try to survive and fight off various things that might be in the show. And like, watching which ones are like, just basically die and other people who, like, really, like, get a bite out of it before they go. It was, God damn, it was so good. I was only sad because it was done. So I'm gonna try to watch terror season two, which I know is a totally new story, but I'm hoping it doesn't suck. I couldn't finish Season Two. Yes, I don't think I watched two. And season three is coming out, I think at the end of this year. Oh, weird. Okay, so is it all going to be via a and, I mean, I know shutter has season two, Netflix has season one, so, yeah, it'll be an AMC show. Again, that story. So I read that book many, many years ago when it first came out, and I was so captivated by it and and I was like, boy, he's done a lot of research on this that I wanted to then, you know, I bought a bunch of books on Daniel Crozier and the expedition and all of this stuff. And at that time, the ship had never been found. They had no idea what had happened to the terror. And when I was reading all of the research books, they were clearly the books that Simmons had read too, because they were exactly what had happened in his book, minus the supernatural parts. Oh, weird. So I thought that they did a really neat job of adapting that. It's not perfect to the book, but it's really close. And since then, they have found the terror. I don't know was that the one they pulled a bottle of alcohol or something off of, and I don't think that was the one. I think that was from Shackleton's expedition. That's right, Shackleton, but the terror really had just disappeared, and they they could not find it at all. And they finally found it, you know, because we can find everything now. This is why we know, gosh, satellites, damn it, lock Loch Ness Monster, or anything like that. They just fucking pointed this thing down around as know, where they thought it would be. And then they were like, oh shit, there it is. Oh. So did they know what happened now? Well, it happened like it happened in the series. They, you know, they ran into ice that they could not break through, and then their food stores were all bad and all of that stuff. And they slowly started dining on each other. Fantastic, guys. Yeah, it happens, plane crashes, boat crashes. I mean, look, if it has any kind of crashing, ideally natural, but you know, if it's man made, I'll take it. I'm I'm excited. I mean, this is coming from the girl whose favorite book as a kid was like hatchet. So how did they survive? My God, what'd they do? I must know, alive. Well, I went a different route. I took another suggestion from Mike debranzo. Oh, our phone in specialist, and it was an amazing film. It's not a guy pulling off a wiener. Kind of strange Sasquatch film by any means. It's called the, I believe it's come out vorderlock. Oh French film, yeah, brand new, yes. And really, really good. Oh shit, okay. It is definitely for the art house, leaning thinker. I know if you don't like it's, I wouldn't say it's slow, it's just strange you don't like pacing that is a little off and a little different. The characters are pretty much all interesting, if incredibly weird. There's a thing or two that goes on that, if you're interested, I'm going to leave off talking about because it's such a surprise. I didn't know about it. I read nothing about this. I didn't watch trailers. And know what you're not talking about yes. And when that happened on screen, I was like, Holy shit, what a weird way to do this. And at first it takes a little getting used to, because it is so bizarre. But once you're used to it, man, it really works. It really, really works. So I this is on Amazon right now for rent. I think it's just on prime and it is boy. The story is a French envoy to the King of France gets lost in an area that they don't really say. But I guess the original book was Serbia, and he's got a map that they kind of hint at that it looks like it's still that area. And he goes to a house where someone said this, The House of this can help you. And he shows up, and they are not really in the situation to be helpful, but they try. And it's, it's just very interesting, and the acting is so on point and fitting for each character, as odd as that sounds, because they don't, they don't act the same. You know, you don't have a bunch of actors living in a shared world sometimes even so, I don't know I really liked it. It just really surprised me. So yeah, are you looking at it right now? Yeah, can you spell that? Yeah, it's the T, H, E, V, o, u, r, d, a, l, a, k. Vortillac, okay, yeah. I remember seeing a trailer for it and thinking, wow, that looks amazing. And then I saw it went straight to streaming, and I was like, Oh, it must have sucked. So it's an RV, French movie. So, you know, I didn't have a chance in hell of Yeah. US theaters. Yeah. I think I just my brain has not been great at, like, parsing out, like, how to tell if a movie's actually worth watching or not. But I'm like, Oh, well, I guess if it went straight to streaming and it sounded like it was going to do theater, and then it didn't, it must be a pile of garbage, which is not right in this day and age. So I'm really sorry, yeah, I'm glad you saw it and that it was good. That's great. And I could, I could understand why some people have a completely different reaction to this film. There, there's, there's a few things that if you go with you'll love it, and if they grade on you, you are going to not like this movie at all. So, but I thought it's great. France, yeah, there's that to start with. Wow. Okay, well, why don't we take a little break and we can all badmouth France, and then when we come back, I know that we are talking about birthdays, because Vanessa's birthday is coming up. Matter, order a hamburger at some places, chances are it's been sitting around getting old. Wendy's believes no hamburger should grow old. At Wendy's, your hamburger is always served immediately, fresh, hot off the grill. The other guys can't promise that. Choose fresh, choose Wendy's. You and we are back. Vanessa, this was your sub genre pick. Remind us what we're talking about. We're talking about birthdays. Because despite the fact that across the years, we've all had birthdays, some, some. Not even that long ago, I decided that I'm going to go ahead and use the topic, so yay. Yeah, my birthday is coming up this I think it was yesterday, my birthday. So I'm listening to this on release day. What a great day I had. Woo so I want to talk about a film that has has a bunch of birthdays in it, as in there are a bunch of births. And that is the 1990 film. 1995 film, Village of the Damned. I At precisely 10am in a quiet seaside village, something happened, something unexplainable, something unbelievable. There's a lot of pregnancies, much more than would normally be expected. All the pregnancies seem to date from the day of the plan now this town is about to discover that looks can kill. There been a few casualties, I should say, accidents that might be related to contact with the children. My daughter was involved. Who are they? They have one mind that they share between them. Father, let us pray you've been discussing us with Dr V What did she tell you, you're hiding something the police can't do anything to stop the children. Get out where you can, something so much more powerful than we'll ever be. The only thing that we can do. You You can't stop us, you know, don't try. You uh, John Carpenter. I was like, I have to take advantage of John Carpenter for my birthday. Like, sure. Uh, so run tomato score of 30% from tomato meter and 27% from popcorn meter, I would say, on the popcorn meter, on the popcorn on the popcorn meter. That's how the nomenclature will be. Got it. So, budget of 22 million, box office of 9.4 Ouch. Oh yeah. Ouch, yeah, directed by John Carpenter, of course. 33 directing credits, 60 writing, including things that we have talked about, like the fog, and also cryptocon episodes, including the thing big trouble, Little China Prince of Darkness, and also other films. You guys might know him from mouth of madness, Christine, Dark Star skip from New York, LA, etc, etc, etc. It's great, right? Written by it's based on the John Wyndham book, The Midwich Cuckoos, which I have not read, and I have not seen the original film, and I'm in trouble for that. Um, co written by David Himmelstein and John Carpenter, David Himmelstein, only has like six credits, so don't worry about him. Starring Christopher Reeve, 49 credits, including, yeah, this has a crazy cast. 49 credits, including Superman, Anna Crenn in his TV movie. The Great Escape to the TV movie, this was actually. His last film before his accident, and he has since passed away in 2004 Christy Ali, 77 credits, including 148 episodes of cheers, 67 episodes of Veronica's closet. Drop dead, gorgeous. Star Trek two as Savic, she's very good. Luke, who's talking, and she died in 2022 Mark Hamill, 380 credits. Luke Skywalker, I know Jesus. It always it just goes up and up and up. Luke Skywalker, tons of voice work, including the Joker and the Batman animated series and games. Chucky in the recent Child's Play, Skeletor Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar, Last Airbender. And skips in the regular show. Also in this Thomas Decker, who plays David the run to the litter. He has 79 credits, including John Connor in Terminator, the Sarah chronic Sarah Connor Chronicles. Also Lindsay Hahn, who plays the evil child, evil leader. Child, 50 credits, including seven episodes of True Blood, three episodes of Voyager, and a lot of very low budget horror films that I've never heard of. And of course, Buck flowers in this which we would know from other John Carpenter movies. And John Carpenter himself, man at gas station phone, has a lot of hair. I was like, That's John Carpenter. I could see, I know his weird hair at that era from anywhere, his back fully turned in the corner screen on the phone, I was like, I know who the fuck that is. Also Seth Meyers as an uncredited trooper. So story, some aerial shots of some islands. We start off with some deer scattering through the woods and this weird, low, strange sound. We meet a series of families in the small town of Midwich. We begin by following a doctor, Christopher Reeves and his real estate wife. He wakes up and asks if she's noticed anything strange, but she hasn't. Then we meet the local elementary school principal, Jill and her loving teasing husband, Frank. They joke about having kids one day relevant. They're on their way to a local fair at the school for a harvest festival where they're raising money to pay for a new school bus. There we meet a stressed out priest paid played by Mark Hamill, and a woman who is excited for her husband to come back from Japan in six weeks. Relevant, it's bustling with games and food, etc, when suddenly everyone falls unconscious where they stand. Most people fall safely, but a few get horrific deaths, including a volunteer at the fair who falls on his barbecue bar, barbecue grill, and lights on fire, a motorcyclist who falls asleep and is dragged across concrete and crank who falls asleep at his car and crashes, slash, explodes six hours later, that guy is BBQ, the police, the military, government agents, all. They're all at the border of the town of Midwich, where they've drawn a giant line. And they every time they send someone off into the town, the person immediately falls unconscious. So something is going up, and they all know it, but then they see the cows rise, and they're like, oh shit, we should go in. Everybody in the town starts to wake up, and government scientist Dr Susan Verner is leading the team to figure out the investigation. But of course, after checking over the carnage and the confusion, there is nothing obvious that has happened, except for a little while later, women begin to discover they are pregnant. In fact, 10 women, and Dr Verner says she will give them money, $3,000 a month, if they decide to have the babies, because they would like to see what's up, including all the medical expenses. But if they want to abort them, they will pay for that too. Some women consider boarding, but they all have a dream, a strange dream about how happy they are pregnant that they all decide to keep them. They all go into labor the exact same day. And of course, unfortunately, one of the babies dies when the umbilical cord wraps around its neck. Years later, the children develop this into these, like weird, overly smart, overly cold kids. They all have white hair and a really strange demeanor. They have telekinetic powers, allowing them to make people harm themselves if they feel threatened. And they've also paired up together and kind of made it up, except for David, the youngest, who has no mate because she died in childbirth. This is Jill's son, and he definitely feels like the right the litter. He's the youngest. He's the only one who has like, slightly like, must up hair. And Jill asks Alan, the doctor, Christopher Reece, to see if he can teach them about humanity, since they kind of respect him. And he's like, I don't, I can't teach them anything. These kids are evil. And she's like try and tries for all of five minutes before he gives up. They also respect Dr Verner, who continues to test them, but not for long, because they start to feel more and more threatened and begin to isolate and tear down the town any adult that they see as a threat they force to basically kill. Themselves, including the priest who tries to shoot them from afar and a nice little like on the mound moment, but instead they make him shoot himself. So will David find his humanity and peel away from the group, but still kind of wander around complicitly While they kill the towns? Will we discover these kids are not at all children, but cold hearted aliens. When it is revealed that the remains of one of the that miscarried baby is floating around in a tube and it has an alien head and body, well, Dr Allen and Julie end up starting a romance for literally two seconds in one scene, before he takes matters into his own hands and tries to resolve the issue. Will the world be saved by the steadfast image of a brick wall versus laser eyes? Watch on Blu ray to find out. Yeah, this film, it sucks. It is a better version of the happening than the happening. If you're going to compare it to something that feels tonally equivalent. It's way better than happening. There are some super strong scenes the beginning, there's a mom that's forced to put her arm into boiling soup, and it's fucking crazy, and you're just into it. They have an ET style jump scare when a guy in a BioSuit shows up in a woman's house who just wakes up. There's the birth scene, and then the also the scene of everybody passing out, which I love. But the kid actors are not great. They're just really they're like, the whole film hangs on them, and the adults are acting their asses off around them, but like, you can't make these kids not be kids like they're all these 10 year olds and younger. They just can't do that good. The third act is also mega truncated. The children agree that it's time to be on their own, and they go up to the barn, and the film is like, over. It's like, okay, Reeves is meant to teach them about humanity. And he literally tries for five minutes in one class, and then something happens, and he's over it. I'm like, of course, they don't know humanity. You didn't even try. He kisses that principal lady out of nowhere. And you're like, what is happening? There's also not a lot of gore violence for an R film. There's like, a couple of really big moments, but a lot of them's not and they also leave on this weird, ominous ending where they spend all the film trying to build up David as being this sort of kid who's got a little bit of humanity in him. And at the very last shot, they're like, ominous music, slow, pan and zoom into David's space as they leave the town. It's like, what the fuck also, the special effects kind of aren't great. Aside from the actual physical stuff, all the eye effects are really terrible, I think, and they're done by ilm, so it sucks that it didn't work. I only have a little bit of trivia. Tagline, beware the children. The white hair was actually dyed on the children. It was not wigs, even though it looks like wigs the child, the child actors, remember chunks of their hair falling out from the bleach, and then when one critic panned the wigs, they were like, No, was not wigs. I had my scalp burning, and just one other, I guess. Piece of interesting trivia, the film was shot in western Marin County, California, which is where director, John Carpenter had a house for several years, the location essentially seemed perfect. However, the locals were not happy to see a film crew in the area, and they made the shoot very difficult by harassing them and causing vandalism while they were shooting a sound take a neighbor would usually start a mowing, start mowing his lawn, or start up a chainsaw until they paid him to stop. Some of the people even tried to break the equipment truck. The whole experience essentially soured John Carpenter on living in the area, even though he also had filmed his parts of the fog over there too. So it's too bad universal. The reason why it doesn't make any sense is universal. Cut out huge chunks of it. It was like the whole film is about two thirds the length of what it originally was, and universal at that time, was very known for coming in and just cutting the shadow films. And so there's apparently a ton of stuff missing. And a lot of the actors talked about how they were, like, I don't know why anyone would care about these characters. Like, all the scenes that make them interesting and give you context are gone. So that would explain a lot about it. I saw this in the theater. I too, am a John Carpenter fan. Yeah, no, yeah, I don't, I don't hate this movie, but I like the original a lot more. The original is just creepier. I was just kind of scratching my head at the casting through most of this film. Yeah, I feel like there could have been a lot of different choices. Yeah. I mean, I like Mark Hamill, I like Christopher Reeve. I like Kirsty alley. I just didn't think they were right at all in this movie, Mark Hamill is like a surly like. Cast out priest who then randomly is like, I'm gonna kill them all, and then he's gone. And I was like, this is the biggest waste of Mark Hamill I've ever Mark camel. Mark Hamill I've ever seen this is crazy. Why would you do like it was such a waste of him and Reeves was fine. Chrissy alley. I thought could have been a different role. I don't know. It's, it was a little strange, yeah, I wonder, I wonder why he felt like he wanted to do this. Uh, why carpenter wanted to do this, yeah? Um, I think it was one of those, like I did. He said he did one for them, and then, or no, he did one for him. So he owed one for them kind of thing. There was something along those lines. So he felt like he was contractually obligated to do it. But, but, you know, he's so like, impossible to say, because he'll say one thing, and then later he'll say something else. So he'll be like, I had a great time working with universal. And then he'll be like, universal, you know, I felt like I had to do it. I'm like, Yeah, did you have a good time, right? Didn't you, um, somebody give him more money and weed? And, I mean, $22 million budget is nothing to sneeze at for something that had pretty minimal special effects. I know they there were more special effects. I watched an interview with the SFX guy, and there were more they did, but they cut it out because it has some of them look fucking stupid. Man, the babies all look stupid. I'm glad they cut it. I was like, all the babies apparently rose up at the same time in their little cribs. And I was like, this is awful. Thank God you cut this garbage. I know they spent a lot of time making robot babies, but we Eric, if you don't mind, I'll go next dive in. I'm gonna put 10 minutes on the strange eons radio buzzer. I probably will not need 10 minutes to talk about Book of Monsters from 2018 so what have you three? Got planned for this evening? Oh, you know, just quiet nighting with the girls by midnight. Okay, see Party Central? Wow, these people didn't go to our school. Relax. Wait. Love her bedroom. This was a bad idea. Why do you hang around with them? Smile. Sophie, you might find you like it. Are you a virgin? A Hey guys, I'm a late for a party. A monster, fucking monster, big fucking monster. You get a lap down, some full frontal. You didn't pay me for this. For this shit. You Any, any, any knowledge of this film. You guys. Okay, budget of about $76,000 no box office numbers, obviously the Rotten Tomato meter or no wait, I guess it's just the tomato meter gives it 75% and the popcorn meter has it at 43% I have thoughts on That. Directed by Stuart Spark, who has 17 credits, mostly short films, but also the features the creature below and how to kill monsters, which is the sequel to this that was just made in 2023 it was written by Stuart Spark, the director and Paul Butler, who has 13 credits, mostly short films, but also the creature below and how to kill monsters. And it stars Lindsey crane, who has 20 credits, including the creature below, how to kill monsters run from hell and zomb blog, ellipse, perplexing. Also, Michaela Longden, who has 42 credits, including When darkness falls, eating Miss Campbell, the ghosts within, and also creature below and how to kill monsters. And then Lizzie, Aaron standon, who has 23 credits, including the others I've mentioned, and Satan's grotto love online, and the Good Neighbor also in this is Daniel. Race rose Moyer head and Nicholas Vince. Okay, Book of Monsters. I watched on to be this is a very, very low budget film. We open on a young girl in bed, and her mother is reading what seems to be a bedtime story, but then becomes very clear it is some kind of supernatural book she's reading from. It's like it's a book of monsters. Anyway, they suddenly hear a noise coming from under the bed, and the mom is yanked underneath. And then we see these demonic hands coming from the edge of the bed. And then we meet Sophie waking up from a nightmare about her past. It turns out, Sophie is turning 18 today, and she's planning a birthday party. Yay for her friends. I understood the assignment. So she is very nerdy and obviously an outcast, and the only two friends she has are Mona and Beth. Also, her father has gifted her the ancient book her mom was reading in the flashback and then left them all alone for their little party. Of course, Sophie has a school bully in the form of Arya, who has decided to show up with a bunch of friends to disrupt the party. It is a typical 80s group of people that includes hot chicks, nerdy but cute boys, and Jess, a girl that Sophie has had a crush on for forever. Also, there's a mysterious woman named Pandora who has shown up and she seduces one of the dudes to come upstairs to Sophie's bedroom, where they proceed to start making out. Arya humiliates Sophie by having a stripper named Carl show up and give her a lap dance in front of everyone. Carl is not attractive, and he has a vibrating dildo with attachments hanging off of his work belt, as you do, yeah. Meanwhile, upstairs, Pandora bites the boy's neck and then starts transforming, ripping and tearing out of her human skin and becoming a horrible monster. It's actually a fairly decent effect, not horrible. The boy she had seduced was a virgin, and his blood splashes all over the Book of Monsters, thereby releasing the monsters within so literally, for the next 50 minutes, which is way too fucking long, we get a monster attack on the party. There is a plague doctor monster that shows up and kills a few people, and he unleashes these large sentient slugs. There is a scene of possessed garden gnomes coming to life and attacking the party. Various other things happen, but Sophie is able to dispatch most of these monsters because she recognizes them from the stories her mom told her. Also, the stripper dude kills one of the gnomes with the vibrator, of course, set on high. So when you show a vibrator the beginning of a movie. Police show up, but they are dispatched quickly enough by these monsters. There is a gin from the painting that comes to life and then starts possessing people. All of this is in this 15 minute chunk where I'm just like, I sure would like to have just a couple of people talking to each other. How many times you sitting there dying for some kind of exposition? Finally, after all this settles down in our survivors regroup. Sophie consults the book and finds a map inside to a hidden vault in the house. Inside the vault, we find all sorts of weapons, and we find out that Sophie's mom was a monster hunter, and Sophie was also born to be one kind of a Buffy, the Vampire Slayer type thing. Also, we find out that Pandora, the woman who had killed the Virgin, she was the monster that killed Sophie's mother. And then the third act evolves into a gore fest as all the kids fight back now, armed with weapons and information and tons of Moxie the end, I will just say this. The the movie is very, very low budget. The effects are quite bad, and the acting is pretty am church, however, and Eric and Vanessa, you will appreciate it. There is a ton of heart in this film, these guys were trying to make a good movie. They were not trying to make a bad movie. And so I actually enjoyed it for what it was. I have some trivia. This was a Kickstarter movie. During the film's crowdfunding campaign, backers were able to vote on the design of each monster, and the winning choices were used in the movies. Wow, that's clever. Yeah, the chainsaw prop used by Sophie was non functional and even lacked a starting chord whenever actor Lindsey crane pulls on the cord to start the chainsaw, she is actually miming the action. Sound design and visual effects were used to make it seem like the blade is spinning. I. According to director Stewart Spark, each of the six monsters in the movie is inspired by a different monster archetype from the horror genre. The slasher is Jason from Friday the 13th. The beast is a werewolf from an American Werewolf in London. There's a critter from critters, and there's a shapeshifter which looks suspiciously like the Xenomorph aliens. And there's something called the abomination, which is basically something from the thing, all sorts of tentacles and stuff like that. And then something called paranormal, which is Samara from Ringu. And there's various little homages to these movies, especially aliens, a lot of homages to aliens. Tons of homages to aliens. Some of the guests are cocooned up and stuck against the wall. The sentient slugs act like chess bursters. And there's a final battle that's obviously inspired by the power loader versus the alien queen scene. And aliens, I have some reviews. D dr Googie, 2810, gives this one out of 10 stars. He says, absolute crap of the movie. One star only for the idea and the movie and gore effects. All the rest can be flushed in the toilet. Actors, what a laugh. You can't even call that acting that fat redhead chick who tried to act as a seductress. Wahaha, OMFG. So lame, so sad. Acting so slow, so bad. Dear Director, please don't make movies anymore over and out. Wow, so Dr Googie, 2810, sounds like a fun guy to sit next to at a party. Steph Mossman, 21 gives it 10 out of 10. She says, a lot of heart has gone into this film. That's obvious. It's made from the passion of 80s B movie horror films. It's hilarious, gory, action packed and well written, and the characters are great. I would fall somewhere between a one and a 10 on this movie. It. It is really low budget. It is hard to get past that, but yeah, I mean, the camera angles, everything was done just well enough that they have made a sequel to it last year. So now I'm not going to check out the sequel, but still, this is called Book of Monsters, and it is available on Tubi If you so desire. One minute left, guys, sure, I looked like you were gonna ask me something, so I was waiting. No, no, I'm pretty sure I've seen this, and my reaction is very similar to yours. Like, I love it when indie filmmakers aren't afraid to show how much it matters to them that they're making this film. And yeah, do that really? Well, yeah. Well, put okay. So 10 minutes, buddy. Thank you. I have a movie that's just all about birthday, the banana splits movie. We are going to the banana splits. Sometimes at night, I see the splits riding around in my little cars, laughing and singing. Who's excited to see the banana split? Rebecca, I'm canceling the show. What Hi kids, put on your happiest faces because the banana split show is about to begin. Where are the children? Well, get out of here. Time's almost up. Waters. Now the show can go on forever and ever. Come on, you Fuzzy sunbu, I just really want your brother's birthday to be perfect. Oh, we're gonna have so much fun. Yeah, no, not see this. The tomato scores are gonna surprise you. You know what? I'm not gonna bother with saying the proper ones, because they're what's the tomato meter? They're both 60 the same. This is what, how you know that these scores mean shit. This is available to rent all over the place. Directed by danaski Esther hazy. Esther hazy, who did. It infectious. I was Lorena Bobbitt and killer body count. The writer was Jed Elon Hoff, who wrote Malibu rescue movies and TV show. Worst period, prom period, ever period and my super psycho Sweet 16, one and two. Also Scott Thomas, kind of a writing team. They pretty much wrote all the same things. Let's see. This is stars, Danny, kind who you might know from the movie I talked about, I think, couple weeks ago, humane working moms. 83 episodes, flower shot, mystery, dearly departed, and summer's moon. Also Steve Lund, who's it was in Baby it's cold outside. Five episodes of shit Greek. 33 shits Greek. 33 episodes of bitten. And the short film, The Dunwich Horror, which we've seen, I think it looked familiar Selena Martin, who is in adventures in public school on the imperfects, alrighty. So my opinion is not really colored in any way by the original show, because I never watched it. I have no knowledge of them at all. I did go back after watching this and watch, like a 15 minute some odd clip on YouTube of highlights from the show, so I'll get to that later. The movie starts, and it's on a kid's birthday where he's wondering what they're going to do to celebrate, because he doesn't know. He's got a dickish stepdad who is obviously going to be a problem nice mother, and a brother who seems on the edge of being a really cool older brother, but also kind of he's a teen boy. The movie makes it looks the one weird thing in this film as they're doing stuff. A lot of people talk like it's not popular anymore, but as the movie goes on, you find out that seems like still pretty popular, but they this is the kid's favorite show. The lead guy's favorite show is the banana splits. So in secret, his mother acquired five tickets to go see a live taping of the show on his birthday. So it's the family and a friend of his who has the flu, so he has to call up another kid to go with them, who they barely know each other. And the guy's like, he's weird, you know what his favorite show is. But mom's like, you're going no matter what. So he goes with them. And as they show up at the studio, the security guard is kind of the harbinger of the the the old man at the gas station of this movie where he kind of hints, oh, it's way back in the back. You turn left, right, right, right, right, left. Left is the last studio in the lot. And you know what the humor and stuff so far is working fairly well. It's decently written and works just fine. Now this show that supposedly isn't liked very much, they show up to and there's a massive line for it. Huge chunk of people waiting to get in, all talking about how excited they are to see it and how what a big deal is going to be to tell their friends they went and saw it live. And they do a nice job of setting up a bunch of characters that you're okay if they get killed. There's, of course, the douchebag dad. We already have him. There's the helicopter father who wants to make sure his daughter gets seen by the producers, because he knows, once they see him, they'll pick her for the show, because she's just that perfectly talented and the kind of this movie's maybe just a little bit before, when was this 20? What I say 2022 I think it was 2019 so it's right on that edge of where influencers really started to take off. So they have a couple of those kind of folks who are in it for getting their scenes on that we were backstage at this place. So again, I'm going really seems like it's still a popular show people, but the new VP is on set, and he's canceling it. This is the last show that will ever be shown, even though it's already booked for several weeks in advance, and the studio's set up, and they've all the things ready to go. Nope, we're done. This is it? It's out. Okay. Now the characters finally show up, and they look awesome. They look really good. A setup is kind of given, because they're the guy who controls them. Or who operates them is a little left of center, little, not quite all there, shall we say? He's got the few cards full of shit, full deck, and he is upgrading one of the characters. So wonder about something might go wrong here, and the they start the show, and there's Stevie, who's the real character on the show, who one of the kid leans over to the guy that his friend who came said, nobody likes Stevie. And that seems kind of indicated. Not only is the character a little lame, the guy playing him is drunk and hitting on all the women in really, really over the top million somebody's ready for their sexual harassment firing. There are great little moments where they just show the critters, one of the banana splits, just standing there, not doing anything, just standing there looking and it's creepy. It kind of gives you a nice little like, oh, okay, what's going on? And of course, in the nice way, the way this should work, the biggest fan kid whose birth date is starts to notice Something's off. Something's a little wrong with the way they're acting on the show, but he's not quite sure what. And a group of them win a prize based on like stars on their tickets that they get to go backstage to meet the banana splits. Oh, about the birthday boy didn't have a star, so his older brother goes Hero Mode, goes backstage to the lady he was hitting on, on the line, who thought he was kind of charming, and convinces her to let let the boy stay. So the brother becomes, you know, definitely one of the good guys of the show. The brother, the mom and the little kid are the heroes of this show by a long, long shot. The in a wonderfully cliche horror movie moment as the action starts and people start getting quite graphically killed. This is not a bloodless movie by any means. The mom, of course, has to take off her sweater and reveal a tank top underneath. It's battling time for the horror movie lady, and they figure out the ways to take them out. And is one of them good. There's a great bit where they've got this little car that bananas drive in, and they use it to run over the Father. And a lot of it is done with tongue in cheek and is quite funny, and then other little creepy, nice little moments. And like I said, it's really pretty violent. So it's kind of like, who will survive the attack of the demons they sort of hint at will they even kill the little kids, maybe because they got a whole shitload of them tied up at one point. Taglines, tralala, terror, lights, camera terror, and the show must go on. So in the pantheon of the three movies along this way that came out. I will put five nights at Freddy's at the bottom, pretty far at the bottom, and be honest, the banana splits a close, actually a fairly close, second in Nicolas Cage's Willie Wonderland. I found this fairly entertaining, if you expect anything more than what you what you think it should be. You're not going to get it. Go in knowing exactly what you get and you're going to get that. You know, Jean Michael Vincent was in the original show, some character named link, and after watching the original show, yes, drugs were prevalent when this thing was created. Quick rundown. Michael Vincent, yeah. Jim, okay, yes, I don't know that quick rundown, though. Before we roll, this is a variety show produced by Hanna barber productions. And if you're of a certain age, you remember that there was a crapload of these weird live action kids shows in the 70s, like the Sigmund and the sea Moss, I believe was my favorite at the time. And of course, land of the loss was the the big one, the most popular by far. You know, I believe I haven't revisited any of these to see if I want I'll just let them sit in my little five year old's brain. It's being good. The reason, one of the reasons the people gave for making this movie, nobody else is doing anything with the problem. Property, and we had the rights. Okay? So that was the banana splits movie. Yeah, I I guess if you have to do something with this IP, then turning it into a horror film is probably the most interesting, because this show is just garbage. Even as a kid, as a kid, I was like, I'm not watching this. This is garbage. This was one that never appealed to me, and I'm guessing Sigmund and the sea monster was simply because of that last word, ooh, monster. Yeah, that show is trash. All of those Sid and Marty Croft shows are trash. We were we were fucking abused as children. They don't have they don't have any idea how good they've got it right now. Yep. So it's like, almost like a Willy Wonka. Feel to it, like all these kids are going in and they're expecting certain things, and then we see them get like, punishments that are equivalent to their personalities. Or like, is it really? It was more akin to a slasher film, okay, and that, here's your characters going into the woods, but in this case, the studio, and you know which ones are going to gotten rid of, and they, they use that star trick as a clever way to get rid of a bunch of people and not have to kill off like 50 people. Yes, sure, four minutes or something so the story could go forward. Did it feel like it was like a mid budget film? Did it feel high budget like it? I mean, I know the director never say this, but it felt like it had the budget it needed. All the banana splits. Characters looked really good. The kills were good. Graphics, I don't recall any, I don't think there are any CGI, or if they were, they're well done or subtle, but and all the actors were quality enough, everything it's, you know, 60% sounds high, but I actually don't think that's off too far for What the film is, if you're expecting you know some amazing creation of artistic merit, it might fall short, but if you've even seen a commercial of the original guy, you know what you're in store for, and this does that justice. So all of the banana splits are supposed to be robots. Then, is that what's going on? Yep, yeah. I feel like this. So the Five Nights at Freddy became huge, and then they started talking about a movie, and I feel like these guys were just like, Oh, we've already got characters like this. We can make our own movie Exactly, okay? And I think that's why they're like, well, we've got this property. Let's make it like that show. I think it's a better realized film than five nights at freddy that was, yeah, awful, okay, Eric, that means that this next sub genre is yours. All right. Let's keep it wide open spaces here, graveyards, cemeteries areas with at least a few people buried, not like, uh, maybe try to avoid like, I buried my cat and backyard. It's gotta be like, actual cemetery with actual headstone. Pet Cemetery. Yeah, there you go. Yes, okay, I like that idea that seems to fall into the general genre that we talk about. Yeah, getting a nice and less, less stressful to Google, getting near October. Let's ratchet up the horror. Sounds awesome. I can dig it. 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