290 MODERN B&W!

290 MODERN B&W!
What's up with that reveal of the wolfman design from the upcoming Wolfman? That's on the gang's hivemind before they get into their picks for contemporary black and white flicks.
Also discussed: The Uglies, Aquaslash, Watchmen Chapter 1.

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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 over there. Hello. That is Vanessa over there. Hello. You know, I gotta do this. You're killing Yes, yes, moving right along, making sure that we are actually recording. Thank you for that. Eric, fantastic. I don't have a lot to talk about at the beginning here, but I do have one thing that maybe will spark a discussion. Cool. The Wolfman trailer came out. LEWIN Ellis, new movie, yes, universal, yeah. And that looks really cool, right? Yeah, big step up from the mummy. But then they did a kind of wolfman reveal of what the Wolfman looked like. Oh, that's supposed to be the final Well, I don't know. I don't think it can be. Right now, is this gonna be Sonic all over then all over again? They're gonna have to redo it now. Well, so that picture we saw, I guess, is from the Universal Studios. Oh, what's their big hunt, Halloween, Horror Nights? Yeah, I read an article about that, and that has is nothing to do with quite what it's gonna be in the movie. Okay, that's what I was thinking. Was like, oh, okay, so maybe this isn't that, or maybe this is the thing that bites the person. And I hope that we get something that is either, you know, I'd love to see some kind of dog, soldiers, type werewolf, or something that harkens back to that original Lon Chaney werewolf makeup. Do the cut and paste. Yeah, put on cut back. So beautiful. Well, I mean, I'm really looking forward to this, not just because I think Lee is an amazing filmmaker, but also you guys remember whatever it was 10 years ago with Benicio Del Toro's Wolfman. And what a fucking missed opportunity you get Benicio Del Toro and and what's his name, from Silence of the Lambs, and then just this shit CGI werewolf movie that was, I mean, Benicio I love, and he fucking snooze his way through that entire look, absolutely bored. That was a real, but dumb film. So that was I actually thought, you know, our topic today is black and white films. And I was like, wasn't that black and white? And I went back to look at it again, and it was not, but turn the color off on my TV. No, because I kind of was like, Oh, give this a shot again. I started watching it like, Oh no, I forgot this movie. Sucks. It's too Yeah, it really has been a while since there's been some good I mean, I guess there was the Disney werewolf buying Oh werewolf by night, yeah. And that was probably the most recent and most interesting werewolf thing in a while. But, yeah, we don't get to see werewolves very often anymore, so I have a werewolf book coming out. Okay, cool. Yeah, let's do that one. That one is coming out on october 17, and it is called the distant silver melody. But look at this little thing that I'm giving you guys all a sneak peek at. This is called Anna Carcosa, coming out in November with Rob Corliss, a very slim volume. I think you would call it a chap a book, but it is fully illustrated throughout, and it is really cool. I can't wait for everybody to see that if you think the cover is at least remotely abusing the inside is even cooler. It is really, really neat. Well, the really cool thing. So when I start pushing this hard, Rob Corliss has become an award winning animator whose films show at con Film Festival and stuff like that, and he took his artwork from this and animated it into a trailer. It is really cool. I'm excited for everybody to get a look at that. That's incredible. Speaking of animation, I saw something that I don't know why it exists, but you're glad it does. Well, I don't know. Okay, Watchmen, chapter one is the latest animated DC movie. Wow. And this is an brand new animated version of the watchmen comic, huh. Okay, is it? I thought closer. Okay, so here we go. I was like, Well, what is this? Is this like a new take on it? It is the comic book, but animated, sort of like the Dark Knight one several years ago, where it's like, it's like the panels were used as so basically, the only difference between this and the Zack Snyder is that they finally include that, like ship story. Well, in this there is a version of Zacks that has the comic book. Is there the pirate? Oh, I did not realize that special edition blu ray or something, yeah? And you can say what you want about Zack Snyder. I love Watchmen. Amazing film is so visual, yeah? But this is just like, you know, the DC animated movies you're used to seeing, this is the next one. And as I was watching, I was like, But why? It was really good. It's only chapter one, so I know, I imagine they will finish out the story. But why? So it's like, is it going to be? What was it? 12 issues or whatever? Like 1x is what issue one, Issue two or no, this was about half the story. Oh, okay. And I assume they will finish it in either the next one or maybe a third one. They really screwed the pooch on that Crisis on Infinite Earth. So there's three movies of that out now, and I watched them all, and I was like, this is awful. Oh no. But this is really neat. It just seems incredibly unnecessary. So that is a rental right now. It is watchman chapter one. Well, I checked out on Netflix. They've been teasing I'm such a sucker for ya sci fi. So they were teasing out this movie called The uglies, and it's starring. You guys remember the film not that long ago, with the princess who escapes or who has to fight her way down the entire tower. I can't remember the name of. It's going to be something dumb, like Princess, but, yeah, it's that same actress, yeah, Danzel, maybe. No, that's the anyway, some damn thing. And the plot is just such a YA novel plot. It's a world in which when you get to a certain age, you're kept sort of separate while you're a kid and you're a young adult. But when you get to a certain age, you get to become pretty and until they then you're considered to be ugly. But in order to get rid of all strife and war and jealousy and all the things that are wrong with humanity, everyone gets to go and undergo this operation and look like and be the best versions of themselves. But of course, there's something darker afoot. So one girl who is desperate to become pretty, she thinks she's super ugly. Her best friend goes through the procedure first and comes out the other side being very, very, very different. And then she's still eager for the operation, but maybe she knows something, and they won't let her. And then she goes to like, a remote place where a bunch of uglies live, and finds out that maybe there's something else happening in the world. Anyways, it was it was dumb. It's fun, it's stupid. It's like such a I've seen this movie 1000 times before, and the there's like, this futuristic skateboarding that looks so bad and it's so cheesy, but it was fine. They will have a second film. They could have wrapped up the entire film in like one scene at the end with like five more minutes, maybe, no, no, they were like, we're gonna end on a cliffhanger. So I have been sitting here going, Is this even English? What is this movie? This sounds ridiculous, yeah. What are these words coming out of your mouth? What is this on Netflix? Gonna hate watch this tonight. There you go. Wait for the skateboarding you will hate. Watch the shit out of that skateboard, and it's called uglies. It's called uglies, the uglies, it's probably in the top 10 carousel by now. I sometimes wonder why you do this to yourself. This sounds like a movie you should look at. Well, no, absolutely not. I'm not watching this. It's the same reason I watch really bad romance movies that I know I'm gonna hate, like there's something wrong there. I think it's the I think it's the hormones that exist because I'm a girl. I know I don't want to, but somehow I made it all the way through One Tree Hill. And I cannot tell you how that happened. It's like a zombie took over my body, and all of a sudden I was buying the eighth season box set or whatever it just there's something so trashy and so easy about it that, yeah, sure, the uglies. The uglies, hurry up and get out of my house, put this trash on. If you've seen diverging, you've seen the uglies. If you've seen the Hunger Games, you've seen the ugly. Is it that kind of looking film, too? The. It looks a little bit, maybe slightly similar, but maybe a little worse, because they don't have the budget. Yes, budget films are, yeah, okay, yeah, okay. Anyways, so if you are in the mood for really shitty stuff that nonetheless has, Hey, man, a moment of wow, if you like sci fi and you are just desperate, check out the uglies on Netflix. No, no, you want to watch Aqua slash, Oh, I saw you. This is terrible, terrible movie for about 40 minutes. Boring people, boring, strange. I mean, boring characters. People are probably fine. I don't know, boring characters. Very, very strange. Where are another movie like The bowling one I watched and I go, we're closing down our waterslide Park forever. But no, there's a killer who's coming back 30 years. I don't know who cares. The only thing that works in this film that makes it unbelievably amusing was something I was kind of hiding because I thought it was a spoiler. But every place you pull this movie Up, it's one of the stills that shows up at some point in the film. The killer takes two giant slices of sharpened metal and sticks an x into one of the slides. And the big, the big thing that happens in this water park is the slide speed race. Oh, no. So they've got three active slides, and you don't know, as a watcher, which one they're in. So they all go down. And it's such a long slide that when shit goes wrong, the people at the bottom can't let the people the top know what's going on. I mean, I don't know this was like 2019 but apparently nobody had cell phones. It's probably based in the 80s or something. But so they're running up, more people are going down, and they're just piling up. Oh no, it like cuts them into force. The first one is a group of people, and it cuts like the first person, then the other people get stuck, and then other people come and hit him for me. Oh, my God, this is available on free V or, I think, Prime Video without a rent. And it's not great, but that last half, it's almost like 20 minutes too. This goes on forever, and it's got that annoying noise. Whenever there's an explosion in movies, you hear that kind of sound that's also going over the top. So it makes no sense why that's there, who's got this PTSD, the one person who made it alive through it. But I if it that that made worth watching. I watch this movie. Okay, well, I'm halfway through. It's another 100 days movie, and this starts happening. I'm not watching this fucking fun. This is awful slash Ivy. That is a really dumb title, but, oh no, I'm suddenly interested. Yep, it is. I think, I think we know from our internet posts and enter back and forth, there are definitely certain listeners that will truly, truly appreciate this. Wow. Okay, well, and now for something completely different, please. I took advantage of the Night Flight app, which was like, they dropped their thing down to, like, $4 a month for if you bought a year, you know, so for 36 bucks, I was like, Oh, I'll try Night Flight, which is, if you're too young to know or don't remember, Night Flight was a a program on the USA channel, and it was just, it was fucking weird. It was movies and music videos and interviews and documentaries and and bizarre things. That was the first time I ever saw the Power Rangers only. It was dubbed completely different, and it was very funny. So I decided to give this a try, and they have this crazy now you can either watch night flight and just let it roll, or you can go through and pick and choose. They have this. Unfortunately, you can't pick this. I was just lucky enough to be watching it when this came on. It is something called uncanny valley, and it is a short film. It is stop motion with live actors. Oh, wild. And it's, it's long. I was like, This must have fucking taken four years to film. And it is a it is about these soldiers in World War One and this battle that goes on, and these, these two guys who are trying to hide and everything. And I just sat there with my. Mouth hanging open, going, This is so crazy and cool and weird and impressive, and then the way it ends is like one of those, Whoa, what the fuck. So I immediately got online and looked up this director's name, and, you know, very little since then, I'm like this. This should have been an Academy Award winning short, and this guy should be directing Marvel movies or something, but it was just really, really cool. So I would say, if you can search this out somehow, uncanny valley. I found it on night flight, but again, it was only on their, their actual streaming channel, so I couldn't pause it and and go back to the beginning and watch it again, or anything like that. So anyway, it was, it just blew me away. Sounds uncanny valley, one of the filmmakers that's had a short at crypto several times where that's what he does. His shorts are like still photos all progressed together, like the first one he did, I think you saw, was with the Ruby cube. Oh, yeah, where a guy thought everything was Ruby cubes, and it comes very, very violent, yeah, but it's so unique, that'd be cool. Yeah. I really want to see that, because it sounds like he might have seen that when he was much younger, and was inspired, because it sounds like, well, and this. So one of the things knife like does is not just stuff from that time period. So this is from, I think, 2017 Wow. So my crazy, very cool. That's very nice, very nice. Well, I've seen like, the first 20 minutes of a lot of movies, but unfortunately, my daughter doesn't let me get all the way through them. So instead, I'm going to talk about this weird thing that I ended up signing up for, which is I had my birthday not that long ago, and I noticed it's called Amway, almost. So I was on a 24 website. For some reason, I wanted to get the I Know Why the TV glows, album, and I noticed that if you signed up for their, like, paid membership, you got a a free birthday gift, and it was my birthday, and b a percentage off of your purchases. And I went, Hmm, well, for five bucks or whatever it was, I can't remember, like, I'm gonna go ahead and sign up for this. And not only did they send me, let me choose a free gift, which turned out to be like the special edition green night copy blu ray, which was one, yeah. So they have good gifts on there, which I was like, holy shit. But on top of that, they sent me the first, like zine that they will start sending me. And it was like, Get behind Me, Satan. And I think it's done by the guy who did Maxine, but it was a really cool, weird little zine about, like, kind of anti satanist culture from the 80s. And it's silly, like it's a little art piece, but yeah, it was really fun. So I just wanted to let people know about this weird thing. I signed up for that for a little while too. Let me go back and do it again. But one of the ones I got with a little zine was when everything everywhere, all at once, was big. It was how to do your taxes properly. Oh, raised by the guys who wrote that movie. Oh, my God. And it's actual stuff intermixed with some weird craps of they, they do some neat stuff, some of this stuff there. If you go to their catalog page, it's not just like, here's our movies. By there's some weird shit on there. Yeah, yeah, no. So I was, it was kind of like a weird, interesting thing to come across, and I just, I'm letting my Fandango, Fandango, no Fangoria subscription lapse. So I was like, I need something new. Yeah, that's a lot more expensive. Yeah, it's a lot more expensive, and I never read them. And I was like, I need to stop paying for this. But thank you, Fangoria for what you do, but we're still existing. I like your newsletters a lot. I just can't I just don't get my way through your magazines. Well, anyway, I watched a movie because I don't have a six month old. Hey, man, when every day they do something very slightly different, it gets very exciting. Let me tell you. Then you remember it. You do remember I was not there. That's okay. That's okay. You are forgiven. I know Kelly likes this one, another one I posted about from a 100 days, from 1988 to paper house. Oh, yeah, which is another one I had heard nothing about. That is also free v prime all over the place. Holy shit. This is an AMAZING film. Yeah, it's the story of a fairly sick girl. They're not quite sure what's wrong with her, and an even sicker kid, but when she draws art. And falls asleep. She goes to the world of her art. Oh, so the paper house is a paper house that she had drawn and all the things inside it. And if she draws something, when she gets out, the guy's like, well, something would be cool, or which I do. So she draws stuff and goes back in and it appears, but it's a really dark story. Yeah, in the long run, it is a very, very dark story, but it is really well done. It's a little more fantasy than horror, but it definitely has some creepy stuff going on, and the performances by the little kids are really good so, and it's what I know you liked it. What did you Yeah, I haven't seen it. It played at the Neptune in like, 1989 and so I got to see it there, and then I could never find it as a rental or anything. And I kept telling people about this amazing movie, and then I was like, can't wait for us to rent it or see it on HBO or something like that. And it just never showed up. So when you posted that, I was like, Oh, this is something that I thought was kind of like a forgotten or lost film, yeah? So that it's available to stream now is just amazing. I gotta sit down and watch it again. Yeah? It, it's another one that, I guess, before last episode said nightmare weekends of the movie that's rendered syndrome could pick up like seven needs to grab paper house and do some of their stuff with it. It needs a remastering. And it is so interesting and so unique that I think it definitely deserves a lot more love from filmmakers. So you said this was on free V, or, yeah, free V, which is, like, inside Amazon Prime, like, if you don't, I think it's like to be, but if you don't have Prime video, you can watch, still, watch some movies. Oh, with commercials in there. I'm not I've watched some stuff there. I don't know exactly what it is, but it is on Prime Video and Roku and a few other places. Yeah, that's a cool one. I'm glad you. I'm glad you like that. Sounds awesome. Okay, well, how about we take a little break, guys, and then when we come back, we're going to be talking about contemporary horror films black and white. Was that better? That were black and white and white? Oh, we'll be right back. Snap. What a happy sound. Snap is the happiest sound I've found you. Me, clap, wrap, tap, slap, butt. Snap makes the world go round. Snap, crackle, hot rice krispies. I say it's crackle, the crispy sound you gotta have crackle, or the clock's not wound. Peace, crackle, feather stickle, belts, buckle, beats pickle, butt. Crackle makes the world go round. Snap, crackle, pop, Rice Krispies, I insist that pops the sound the best is, Mr. Less, pops around. You can't stop poppin the cereals. Poppin. Pop makes the world go round. Snap, crackle, pop, Rice Krispies. Let's go for Kellogg's rice crispy Hop makes the world go round. You and we are back, Vanessa, this was your sub genre pick. Yes, about black and white films, films, but modern, modern, so with a bit of a twist. And I want to talk about something that maybe is a little bit of a cheat on this, but it's also, I think, a solid pick, which is 2007 the mist, but the black and white version. Whoa, mom, dad, you gotta come see the butt house so fast you just got it come. Come on, whoa. Having spoken, let him say, your departs. Why don't you get Billy dressed? I'll take him into town with him at the store where it gets all bought out. How do you folks hold up in the store? Big insurance. Dave, sorry to hear that. What's going on? It's death, something. In the mist, shut the doors, shut the doors. The only way we're gonna help ourselves is to seek rescue. Tie this around your waist. You're full. Let us know you got at least 300 feet. There's nothing out there, nothing in the midst. What if you're wrong? I guess that Chuck would be on me. You it is time to take sides. Read the good book. It calls for blood, guys. I hear something. Are those bugs? The entire front of the store is playing class to watch. Are you guys messing with up there? I thought there were other dimensions they wanted to try and make a window. Well, maybe your window turned out to be a door. Who she's gonna sacrifice to make it all better? We want the board try it. Up, right. Yes, which I had not seen. I've seen the Miss twice before, but never had checked out this. Anyone who is curious, this was a big hit. This is not a little known film. It's a well known film. Budget, 18 million box office, 57.3 it's written and directed by Frank Darabont, who has 21 writing credits in 11, directing. He wrote Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile adventure of young Indiana Jones, the blob from the 80s, and Nightmare on Elm Street three. He also created the Walking Dead. So of course, it's based on a novella by Stephen K Yes, not just the people, not just me, after I get very little sleep, you know, starring a ensemble cast, starring Thomas Jean, who has 91 credits, you would know him from deep blue sea, the Punisher, the predator, or I kind of know him best from the expanse Marcia Gay Harden is in this she has 126 credits. She is almost always a biatch. She's in a lot of TV, Mystic River, and most recently, I saw her in the morning show as the asshole journalist who's writing the book expose. And Lori Holden, who plays Andrea Harrison in Walking Dead. Slash is the crimson, crimson Countess in the boys. We also have Andre broher, who was recently in something we talked about City of Angels, I believe, Toby Jones, British actor, and Alexa Davalos, who's in man and High Castle. William Sadler, Grim Reaper and Bill and Ted spoke his journey, and Jeffrey Damon. Laura Holden, it's just, Oh, I haven't already talked about it. There's a lot of people in this, a lot of recognizable faces. The story follows David Drayton, a Hollywood movie poster artist, who lives in a small New England town, shocking with his wife and son, a horrible thunderstorm rolls through, causing a tree to crash through his window and destroy his art. And there's also a giant power outage, which makes all their groceries spoil. So he decides to take his son to the grocery store to get supplies, when, of course, a mist rolls in. Now, the mist is not an ordinary mist. It constraint. It contains a strange, horrible creature that will murder them. In fact, it contains many strange, horrible creatures that will murder them. Him and his son end up holed up in the supermarket, along with the townspeople, who end up fighting off the creatures, but also developing into factions in the store. And of course, humanity's darkest nature takes hold of the fearful residents. This film is, you know, I didn't remember a lot of it when I watched it this time through, and I'm kind of glad about that, because I felt like I was watching it with fresh eyes. It feels very much like a stage play, and watching it in black and white, you really see that Twilight Zone element that is very present. It just it feels so much like a Twilight Zone episode, but in a good way, I'm not. There was a lot of great stuff going on in the. I loved the acting. I loved the creatures, even though the CGI is pretty rough looking at it nowadays, but I think again, the black and white actually helped to an extent. Like the spider creatures look way worse and more rough. The tentacles don't have like the weird artificial shine on them, so that's really working for them. I don't fully, I still don't understand the message or the moral in this, other than don't take the gun or maybe always keep hope. I'm not sure it has a rough ending. That is the thing it's known for. And now that I have a tiny it is so much heart. I was like, I know the ending. It'll be fine. I won't feel anything. I cried. I cried a lot. I was like, you fucker Yeah, you just yeah, oh, that's rough. Anyway, a little bit of trivia. Frank Darabont originally wanted the film shown in black and white, and so of course, this was finally his way of getting it when it came out in blue, right? Stephen King said that he was genuinely frightened by this adaptation of his novella, which made Frank daremont describe that as the happiest moment of his career. Frank daremont agreed to make the film with dimension only under the condition that, no matter what, they wouldn't change the scripted ending. And they agreed. He had actually been offered twice the budget from a different producer, but he would have had to have changed the ending. So he said, No. Stephen King got the idea for this novella when he was in the main market, and he noticed the front window was made of plate glass, and he thought, what would happen if a giant insect flew into it? Splat, yeah, yeah. This is a feel bad movie of the year. Sure is, for those of you that know the ending, I saw a meme the other day that from this, which is like, well, timely, no kidding. It was a picture of them all together in the car. Yeah, and, and it was captioned something like, the least patient husband and his husband, dad ever darn right? Oh my god, you're just like, just wait. I mean, I guess just wait till the creature you see it. Wait until, like, the thing wraps around you. I don't know. Man, I'm not it. Just the only way I could get through it, which I couldn't, was to think of it like Twilight Zone, like, Oh no, my glasses broke, and I'm surrounded with books and time, you know. Like, that's the only way I could really stomach it. But I think this is a really, really good film. Yeah, they showed this at the Lovecraft Film Festival. When you festival one year, and gladly watch this again. But my biggest memory I saw this in the theater when it came out with my girlfriend at the time. She didn't know anything about it, and it was very lightly attended. It was like opening night, and there were maybe 10 of us in the theater. And I was like, Oh no, this is not going to do well. But the weirdest part was when we left the theater, there was somebody there with a clipboard asking questions about the film. How did you feel about the film and everything? I was like, boy in Everett, Washington, why would you be doing this? But I said, my girlfriend was like, not for me. And I said I kind of loved it, but that ending is really grim. And the lady was like, Yeah, we're getting that a lot, yeah. And it's weird, because I had the same thing when I saw it. I came out of theater asking, this was in one of the downtown Seattle theaters, they would think this would be the market that they needed to I mean, test audiences on why do a test audience when you've already put the movie out? I don't understand that well. Maybe he was fighting with the still fighting with the studios about the it could be, could very well being, yeah, that's, it's kind of crazy to think that was only a$18 million film. Yes, yeah, he did a lot with, yeah, I mean, it's one location really. I mean, a little bit, there's a yard, and then it's really just one location. There's, you know, you you're working off of a lot of talent. The camera work is almost entirely handheld and implied stuff like the bit where the guy goes out and he's got the rope tied around him. It's not like you see the guy floating off in the sky. You just see the rope go up to the top of the door, like they're doing a lot with very little. The CGI is definitely the most expensive part about it, but I do remember the last time I saw this. It was for I was doing the 31 horror Halloween, whatever, and my mom had decided to watch them all with me. I was staying with her, and this was the only one out of all the films. And we watched some rough films. She was like, This is the worst movie. I. I have ever seen in my life. She was very mad about it. So, yeah, I do think that the black and white really helps the effects, yeah, yeah. And it just helps you focus, I think, more on some of the character development. Like I was way angrier at that religious lady in this round and it was just like, really hurt and was frustrating me to know. And I was like, yes. Toby Jones, yes, fucker, you are incredible, sir, you are incredible. Brava, this, this is a thing that I don't know how I feel about modern films that want to do a black and white version of this, because, like, like, the black and chrome version of Fury Road, I think is far inferior, so gorgeous the colors. But then there's like, Bram soakers Dracula that Coppola directed. I was like, Can we please get a black and white version of this? I think it would be spectacular. That'd be so interesting. Well, maybe it would work well too, because so much of the Kashmiri thing is textural. It's not. It wouldn't it would pop in black and white. That's a good idea. Eric, did you want to go next? Or you want me to go next? Oh, why don't you? I will do this. I'm putting five minutes on the strange eons radio branded egg timer, soon to be available on our website, and I am talking about a movie called November. Scala, Mr. Nagy in him. Karakana, but to say, Eh, yeah, Very i So Long. Okay, wait You. He died, it is from, depending on where you look, 2017 or 2018 it is an Estonian film. It was directed by Rainer sarnot, who has 10 credits, something called the idiot, something called the bank and something called the invisible fight. Written by Andres caverach, who has 23 credits. Rainier also wrote this. This guy's credits include Lottie and the moonstone secret, Lottie and the Lost dragons. Poop, one of my favorites, spring and others, starring rayst. She's got 12 credits, including Azrael, dark paradise, Scandinavian silence. Jorgen leak is in this he's got 10 credits, including Portugal the end of the chain and the polar boy and Arvo cucamaggi. 39 credits, including revolution of pigs, Kara Suda and something I can't read. Let's. Like Paraguay, but who knows? Okay, you guys haven't seen the movie? November, no, you guys want to see this. Film is a delight, but you have to be in the right frame of mind for it. It is slow and weird and rambling, but the ideas are just super cool. So it opens with this wild scene where a cow is tied up in a barn. And this time frame is kind of hard to nail down, before the 1900s I would say. But beyond that, I can't really tell anyway, this, this thing comes out and steals the cow. What is this thing, you may ask? Well, it is an animated automaton, I suppose you would call it. It looks like it's made out of three long tools, like scythes or something, and it has a cow skull as its head, but that is literally it. And it just kind of stumbles towards this thing, gets a chain around the cow, drags it out, and then it takes its three limbs, and starts helicoptering and rises up into the air while it's carrying this cow. And it brings the cow to a different village, where it drops it off to a peasant who is waiting for it. So that is the opening scene. Wow. It is fucking wild. After a bit of exploring this very poor village, you start realizing that these automatons are pretty normal. A lot of people have them, and they all kind of look like this weird thing that has been jumbled together with odds and ends and farm tools, and they are called Kratts. And they use these Kratts to just generally steal stuff. This whole village is dirt poor, and they are all stealing from each other, and it is a pretty grim existence. The film will mostly follow a young girl and boy who are trying to navigate this world where everyone is starving and a harsh winter is coming, and on top of that, the plague is coming as well. The plague, by the way, shows up first in the form of a girl crossing the river and then in the form of a white goat, but the villagers are able to fool it by wearing pants over their heads to make it think that they all have two asses, and it leaves them alone. Whoa. Now, if you're an ass man like myself, this would not deter you at all. You'd be like, hello. They're also regularly visited by their family ghosts who require bread and are all quite miserable. You're doing all right over there, trying to wrap my head around what the fuck is going on anyway. While this is going on, the girl is in love with this boy, but he's infatuated with someone else, so she's using mystical means to try and entrance him. Oh, by the way, she is also kind of a werewolf. I mean, she could turn into a wolf, which is apparently not that big of a deal in this village, but that makes her a werewolf in my book. Wow, literally, my next book, which is, hey, that's a werewolf story. Anyway, what a crazy movie. It is. So gorgeous and weird and just like fantastical, that I fell in love with it all over again. I think I might have mentioned watching this movie many years ago, and then when you decided to do the sub genre of contemporary black and white, I knew I had a winner. You can watch this on Apple or you can rent it on prime. A little bit of trivia, this was Estonia's submission to the Foreign Language Film Award of the 90th Annual Academy Awards. It was not picked for a nomination, but it did win a number of accolades, including the Spotlight Award by the American Society of cinematographers, the International fantasy film award at fantasporto, Best Cinematography, and an international narrative feature at Tribeca Film Festival, Best Film and Best Cinematography at least a pad and best Estonian film at Tallinn Black Knights Film Festival. If this means anything to anybody, it is 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. I only mention that because that is a really high percentage of positive reviews for a very, very strange film. It's just, I don't want to say it's feel good, because it's so depressing, but it's every, every new idea they introduce, you're just like, What? What is happening? This is so wild, and the ghosts when they show up, aren't like, see through ghosts, but everybody has shown up at the graveyard to pick up their ghost family member and take them back to the house, where they feed them bread. And then the ghosts, they ask the ghosts, how are things? And the ghosts are like, Oh, they're great, you know? And the people are like, Yeah, that sounds wonderful. Not not here on Earth. They're not great. Everything Sucks here, and the ghosts are like, more bread, please. This is actually going to be in severance all the haunts. BRS Compendium, Volume Two, coming out along with psycho mania. Oh, but yeah, big old thing. Are 13 discs, 24 movies, and this will be one of them. I know another one's kind of worth it for this movie alone, but psycho mania is also amazing. Yeah, this is called November, and I urge everybody to give it a try, especially if you've got Apple TV. It's free on Apple TV. So cool, really, really neat movie. Nice. Eric, already think we're traveling down despite the ending of the mist, down into the depths of depression for film watching, oh dear. I watched a film from 1993 called anchor us. I Why do you think you're pure enough to enter the wall? It is her house. You must understand the truth of this. Nothing is spell external. The more your senses, the less they are able to function. You have sworn perpetual chastity and perpetual constancy of abode for As long as God grants you breath. You many? Part they feel the spirit of Sanctus and you, Mr. Scarpenter, have you nothing to bless you? Got my daughter already. What more do you want? You What do I tell her? Ladyship? I'll show you now. I that's on canopy, so you know, if you want to give yourself a feel bad experience, it won't cost you anything. Directed by Chris Newby, who's not done a lot. He's done Dickens in London, flicker and a lot of shorts starring or written by Judith Stanley Smith, Tales from the underground, but did a lot more production design for like 15 films, and Christine Watkins was this is her only film starring Natalie Morse, who was in The Jungle Book 1994 the power of one, right the other stuff. Jean bourvot, who is in the vanishing, the 1988 Dutch version, far superior to the remake. Big Bad Belgium actually saw that at the Neptune to the vanishing. The 121 credits overall for gene here Toya Wilcox is in Jubilee, the Tempest and Teletubbies. Wow. Christopher Eccleston, who you know from 13 episodes of Doctor, who Thor The doc, Dark World, bunch other stuff. And Pete puzzlethwaite, who, if you don't know the name, you will definitely recognize that man. He's an unusual suspect the town inceptions and tons of other stuff. My first note as of watching the movie and it starts this looks arty. Boy is it? The storyline is a woman sees a vision of the Virgin Mary. And there's other storylines going on with kind of a village leader, I think, kind of a royalty, maybe, who's trying to seduce, I think another woman story's really kind of convoluted, but the main storyline of the woman who sees a Virgin Mary, and then what do you think happens? Well. The priest goes my church isn't very popular. I think I'll exploit the hell out of this woman so largely on her wanting to she kind of locks herself up in this cage, which has a slot for food being delivered and like a little window on the side where people come and visit her to get asked questions of what the Virgin Mary might be saying, or why am I going to have a happy life, kind of things like that. To start asking her all kinds of weird questions, things along those lines and the like a odd circus area builds up around them where they're doing things they're decidedly unreligious looking. But you know, got to get in that got to get that cash in there for the miracle woman that's in the boy, as you can imagine, things start to go a little wrong. And of course, the priest is totally supportive and works with her wonderfully. No, no, no, she's a witch. This woman's a witch. So that's where and it gets dark. This is a uncomfortable, hard to watch film. The mother of the woman and the priest clash quite a bit because she really hates him. Of course, she's a witch too, and they do some witch trial stuff, which is uncomfortable to watch. There, I will confess to there is a lot of religious iconography and imagery going on here that I know I'm not getting just because of the way things are said and shot and some of the way things are done. It's beautiful looking. It was inspired by the the original silent Joan of Arc movie from many, many years ago, and it looks a lot like that. It has that era look to the way it's shot. It is based loosely on a historical female Christine carpenter who was walled into her in a village church in the 1329, so this had happened to someone, it's hard to recommend. If you are really in the mood for good acting, but slow story and strange story and convoluted delivery of that story, you might like it. And you know me, I am not in any way against art films. Some of the stuff I've talked about is really artsy, but this was just a little much, and it's also not a happy film. Doesn't sound like it, no, like hey Saint Maude, but a little likes blood, like the scene with the one of the when they start to test her. It's the it took me a second to figure out what's going on. It's this shot of a wood area, and you see the woods moving, which I Oh, I guess that's somebody walking on it. And then water just starts to flow and flow and flow for like, maybe two minutes. I was like, Oh, they're doing the water test on the witch here. Oh, so it's a well made film, but it's definitely not for everyone. The anchors canopy, if you're interested. Wow, that sounds I think I'm not. Yeah, watch Aqua slash. I think I'd rather watch the anchors, but maybe at some point when I'm in the mood. I don't have a lot to say about this, but it brings to mind me. Are you saying something that I kind of wanted to discuss, about immaculate and and you were comparing it, because it has to be compared against the first omen. And you liked immaculate better. I liked a little bit more. You. I know you've, you're a big Omen fan. Yeah, I like the Omen, but it's really fucking good. And I don't I just thought this was her turn. I thought was really interesting. Yeah, I wouldn't even push back against it being a better film than the first omen. I was just so scarred by her screaming and all of the torture they did to her that I was like, I am having a real hard time watching this woman get tortured. Yeah, yes, it's a it's a harder film to watch. Yeah, the omen is definitely a little more i. For lack of a better term, her Hollywood, yeah, but yeah, it's, it's a rough watch. Why do you hate women? I don't think she she goes through some shit, but I think she comes out strongly. I don't think she gets, yeah, destroyed or anything like that. I think because a woman, she handles what goes on to her fairly well, yeah. I mean, that's like, the only thing you can say is, at the end, at least she's taken control, but, but I was just like, boy, this poor girl, I can't, man, I feel like our show has become like the feel bad, November, yeah, return. Actually, this has a sad ending too, but it's kind of a good ending. It's more just, it sounds like it's just really weird and interesting. It is just really weird and interesting. I mean, I talk about not, you know, the icon, the iconograph iconography that you were saying you missed. I'm sure that everything in this is part of, like, the Estonian culture folklore and everything. I didn't get any of it, but I was fascinated the entire time. Yeah, that's part of what I love about that's what I do like about folk horror from other countries, when it's stuff, there's like, wow, okay, that's interesting. Like, that puppet one the starts with the V that I watch recently, you know, which is definitely going on to some different folk from it. And it's like, oh, this is so weird, yeah. Or, like, early Japanese, not early Japanese horror, but modern Japanese, early whatever the Japanese horror, like the use of white and the ghost thing and, like, you gotta leave the shoes, and the way they use paper pieces, long hair, yeah, all this stuff. It's like, I don't know what this means, but it means something, just somebody. So that is definitely very interesting. It's like they're people too. Oh, my God, Jesus. Okay. Anyway, what a great discussion we've had. Crack myself up movies. How about movies with clueless protagonists? It's your turn for picking this up genre. Okay, let's keep the let's keep it light and fun. Body horror. Oh God, and body or body modification horror like that. The movie that D Snyder did would be body modification. Oh, that strange land or something. Yeah, I've never seen that. Maybe American Mary or snake, something like that. Okay, this sounds cool, right? Now, just about anything by Cronenberg, right? Of course. Okay, well, then this is the part of the show where we say thank you to everyone who's out there liking and sharing posts, Who's spreading the bandwidth, who's getting on the strange eons radio talk page and having discussions with us, who's calling in the Bronzo show at the strange eons radio hotline, which is 253-237-4266, and especially anyone participating in the value for value model, which is, if you get anything out of this, give something back. We can't decide what that is to you. You get to decide what this show is worth. Sure, anything else, I've got a book coming out called distant silver melody. It is a werewolf novella, kind of fun. And of course, this guy coming out in November. This is Anno Carcosa one year under twin suns. It is really cool. On a couple episodes, I'll start showing stuff from inside. 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