295 NO TOHO!

295 NO TOHO!

The gang kicks off NoTOHOvember with a candid and frankly quite concerning discussion of Vanessa's hallucinations.

Also discussed: Caddo Lake, The Manhattan Alien Abduction, Venom: The Last Dance.

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Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? Somewhere between science and superstition. We have such sites to show you, strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons radio. That is Eric over there somewhere. Hello. That is Vanessa over there somewhere. Hello, and I am Kelly. You guys. You know, I like to always start off the episode just chatting about something, and I realized I don't have anything to really talk about this week. And then Vanessa was like, I have hallucinations. So I was like, Well, fuck, let's talk about your mental illness. Yeah, I'm pretty stoked about it. So, yeah, okay, so I've been occasionally, not very often, but occasionally having weird things that I see when I first wake up. I don't know if you guys have ever had this before, but when you first open your eyes, it happened a couple years ago that I saw the entire room was covered in spiders and spider webs, to the point where I grabbed Austin and I told him, Stay low, and I walked him out of the room, like trying to, and every time he tried to put a setup, I shoved it down, because I was like, Oh my God, you're gonna walk into all these spiders that have, like, manifested. Yeah, wow. So that I was like, okay, that's weird. Maybe I just, like, had a weird dream that, like, bled over or something. Well, there's been, of course, because Halloween time, there's been a lot of like, different alien stuff that's been popping up. And of course, my brain is just constantly like, Oh, okay. I really hope I don't get abducted tonight. I hope no aliens are like, you know, peer in my room, and I woke up and I saw in the corner of the room by the curtain, this large black, Inky blob floating and it had these like kind of pieces that were coming off of it, and it was just floating there, and I saw it, and I just made eye contact, because I was like, if you fuckers are watching me, I'm gonna I know you're doing it. So I just kept my eye on it. And then it sort of shifted into this like giant scribble, and then it shifted into a big spider, like a huge spider. And I was like, I know you're still a probe. You can't just shape shift and try to trick me. It's too late. I've seen what you've done. And so it like, crawled across the ceiling and then disappeared. And I was like, You assholes. And then I fell back asleep. But I was telling Austin about this later, and he was like, you probably should have woken me up. And I was like, Yeah, but what do you just say? Like, Hey, I saw this thing that was there, and then it went invisible, and then I wake you up and freak you out, and there's nothing there. Like, what do you want me to that that doesn't help. So I just decided, you know, I'm going to look this up. I just want to know if there are other people who've seen alien probes that are giant ink balls, because I'm just curious. And nothing. The internet was a blank, wow. But what I did find was something called Hypno pomic hallucinations, which has something to do with like, a specific thing in your eyeball where it's missing a little piece of information, and so your brain fills in the blank. And this often happens to people when they're waking up and they will see things like spiders, webs, all kinds of stuff, and it's, yeah, it's not anything for actual concerns. So this is why I'm telling the story at all, because otherwise I'd be too embarrassed. But like, my brain is filling in the gaps and trying to form things that are that make some kind of sense. So that was, that was my morning a couple days ago. Good Lord, how long has this happened? So this started in early 2020. Was the first time I had it, and then I've had it a couple times since, but not a lot, just like a few times, and it's almost always spiders, and it's just like, ridiculous, I mean, and I've learned to not freak out about it, because they're not real. And the you know, the first time, I thought it was real, and I thought I was doing a good thing, and then Austin turned on the lights, and there was nothing there. And. Was like, I am weird and stupid, and I feel very dumb for did he propose to you before or after this long after? Oh, my God, this was when we first started dating. Like, first, yeah, if some chick had woken me up and said, you know, get out of bed, keep your head low, spiders, and then I found out there were no spiders, that would have been a hard conversation the next day, like, like, what drugs are you on that I should know about? Or, I mean, look, I am just so quirky and fun and cute that it just it blows all that away. People are willing to look past a lot when I have such an amazing, shining personality. So I will also throw in as a husband, wake him up. He the unless he's unless your husband's a dickhead, which I really don't think he is. There's care and concern when something bad happens to your wife, and whether he can do anything or not, beside the point. But he, you know, he'll want to be your champion in some form or another, even if it's just to reassure you. So I would say, go ahead and wake him up. Yes, that is one thing I'm learning, is it's okay to tell people that stuff is happening. I'll take devil's advocate on this. Eric and say, maybe, say, maybe keep that to yourself. I don't know, but I've been woken up a couple of times just because I was snoring. And I'd be like, what? What's going on? You were snoring? And I was like, Yeah, I was fucking asleep. Thanks. Okay, that's a little different, but yeah, okay, that's fair. Yeah, if you're snoring, Don't wake him up. Oh, I wake him up. But that's that's for other reasons. I make him go on his side. I'm like, I'm not listening to this. No way, no how. Just a, just a light touch. I usually that'll do, yeah, that's terrifying. Vanessa, I don't think I could handle that. Yeah, I mean, I think I've always had, like, as a kid, I had a lot of nightmares, so I'm kind of used to weird, scary stuff going on in that realm between being awake and being asleep, so I guess it did freak me out, and I haven't had a very peaceful night's sleep the last couple nights because of it, but like, it's also it's in my head, you know, yeah, or if it's real, it didn't, I mean, they were just looking at me, and then they peaced out. And now they know that I know, and now they're, like, ashamed of it. They're not going to come bug me for a minute because that house. She knows that's right. Leave her alone. Now she's aware. I like that. You made uncomfortable eye contact with the thing that is living in the corner of your bedroom, and it finally slunk away, creeped out by you. Yeah, and all of this happened in my head, the entire conversation with it like I wasn't talking out loud. I wasn't like, I see you. I was just like, daring, deep staring. Eric, any weird dream stuff you want to admit to? No, I guess my sleep, I did have that weird sleep thing. I don't know if I think we've talked about it here before, and maybe this all up with you, Vanessa, that you know a little bit more about it. I used to get the was it called Head explosion or some shit like that? Oh yeah, where when you're falling asleep, it would sound the comparable sounds I can think of, are smacking two, two by fours together, or hitting a junk with a bat, and it's it's not just like what you're talking about. It's not anything bad. But then I listened to a podcast on it, and I've never had one since, really, yeah, I used to get one every couple months, and since I learned more about it, they've just gone away. Wow, that's incredible. They and they haven't been replaced by something else, nothing, I believe, frustrating. That is so funny, because I had never experienced that, and then you told me about it, and it happened to me, like two weeks later, it sounded like somebody had slammed the house door really well, you passed it on, like, the ring, yeah. And I was just like, and, you know, I walked around, looked around for a minute, and I realized fucking Eric, I did get visited when I was, like, 14 or 15. I did get visited by the hat, man, are you familiar? Here with this urban legend. Well, you know the the sleep paralysis, yeah, and that is sometimes accompanied by a dark figure standing at the foot of the bed, or something like that. Well, I had that happen when I was about 15, and mine, he had, he was sitting next to the bed, and he was either whispering to me or writing something down, but he had a hat on, and I just, I remember waking my parents up, because I would just, you know, screamed myself, or screamed them awake, and they had to come in and kind of wake me up, wow, and I couldn't move, and all of that stuff. So had all that stuff, but then, like, this year, or maybe last year, I read about this phenomenon called the hat man, where it is, a lot of people who see that figure he is wearing a kind of tall hat and sitting close to the bed. And I was like, wow. That is so crazy that that we all share these kind of weird fucking psychosis every once a while. Wow. That sounds so much worse than mine. At least I could move like food. Paralysis. Sounds so freaking terrifying, so bad. Only had it the one time, but it was, I mean, memorable, memorable 40 years ago, and I could remember it very, very well, right? Well, welcome to our new podcast, which is, how well do you sleep? I watched a movie, you guys. And I watched a movie because Vanessa, your friend Tom, who hates when we talk about Marvel movies, he threw a little donation towards us and asked me to watch a movie. And so I did, and I will say this, he asked me to watch a movie called Lady on a train, which he described as noir and kind of a mystery. I think it is not really either of those things. It's black and white. It's almost a screwball comedy. It's got Deanna Durbin, who I love her voice, but I've never loved her movies. And it is about it's a very common kind of movie idea, especially back then. It's rear window, basically on a train. She is on a train, and at the train stop, looking out over a bunch of buildings, she sees a murder occur, and then she decides she's going to have to solve this murder, which is, you know, it's either going to be a thriller, like an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, or, in this case, almost a almost a Lauren Alan Hardy type movie, where she decides that she's going to enlist a writer, a famous writer of mysteries, who's struggling, and he decides to help her, because he needs a new idea for his Mystery. And it's, it's really cute and very entertaining. But Tom, why was this? The suggestion for me is this just a movie you really enjoyed and you wanted to hear somebody else talk about it, or what about me made you think, oh, Kelly is gonna fucking love this. Oh, oh, geez, I just got a your internet connection is unstable. You your video pause, but your audio kept going. So, yeah, yeah, I was trying to work out it if it was me or if it was what was going to me. It's clearly me. Zoom has singled me up and said, anyway, the name of the movie is lady on a train. It is on prime I believe Deanna Durbin 1945 quite enjoyable, kind of a Christmas movie, even. And, yeah, I'm not sure what else to say about it. Tom, if you want to elaborate why you wanted me to talk about this film, I will continue to pontificate about this movie in the direction you were hoping I would go. But other than that, I'm glad that he brought it to my attention, because I have heard the guys on pure cinema talk about this film a number of times, and they really, really enjoy it. Oh, nice. Yeah, lady on a train. Excellent. So I guess I should talk about something I watched. The show works. Is this what we do on this show? Just out of curiosity. Episode, 294 you know what ifs? Um, yeah, I know that they're so I wanted to talk to you guys about a game that I have been watching slash, kind of helping Austin play through, and I'd never played before, and it's a horror game, and it's taken up a fair chunk of. October, I did not make my 31 horror films of the month because the stupid game is so big and long as a remastering of Silent Hill two, which heard about that. Oh my God, it is the scariest most like frustrating shit, because you're just like, okay, cool, I'm in a town that's foggy and filled with horrible monsters, and then I'm gonna go into, like, I don't know, a hospital, of course, and the hospital is terrible and filled with monsters, and then at some point you go through something, like you fall through a wall, or you open a door or whatever, and then it's 100 times worse, and like the walls are covered in garbage bags, and there's like goose seeping and like the monsters are Even worse, and it's darker, and it's like, I didn't think it could get worse, and it just keeps doing that. So every giant location you go through, it happens where you do it once you do the whole location, and then you do basically the whole location a second time, through this horrible hellscape where there's like, voids where there shouldn't be and there's just missing roads and, like you just hear stuff all the time. It's crazy. Now I'm hoping nobody spoils the ending for me, because I know it has some kind of spoilable ending, but it's been quite, quite a mind fuck of an experience. So if anybody is looking for a really freaky horror game, I highly recommend Silent Hill, too. I I think Silent Hill, the original, was the only video game that actually, like, was scary, yeah. And so I believe, like, they did that thing with the radio. That's right, yeah, you couldn't see anything, but you knew something was there. And yeah, so I could, I, I may have to get this one that is that Xbox available. I don't know what it is out on, but it probably is. I don't know that it's tied to a specific console, but I will say if it's not yet, it will be. And you should really check it out. If you're willing, it will fuck you up hard. Sounds like a very different game, but All right, okay, it will scare you a lot. Okay, all right. Well, I did hit my 100 movies, and I was very happy because I had like, Okay, what's gonna be my 100th movie? Wake up on Halloween, and the substance is available. Streaming, nice, nice, like, well, I got my number 100 and, yeah, it's a pretty damn good film. It's wild to think it's the same person who did revenge, not because revenge wasn't good. It was amazing, but substantially, incredibly different stories, and both really, really well told. And I'll keep you know being nice and not doing any spoiler stuff, just because that last half hour is totally worth not knowing what's going to happen. But the the the acting, the performances, everything was it's not an I wouldn't say it's a super original story. We've seen versions of this story in a lot of different ways, but Jesus, it was told so well and so disturbing. We've all seen it now, right? Yeah, yeah, party here. Oh man, yeah, so glad you checked this out like it's it's hard to talk about honestly, but it's an incredible, weird watch. Yeah, yeah, you, you ended your 100 movies with a bang, that's for sure. Yeah, there's some really good ones, and there are some not so good ones. It's nice to end it with this, right? And some real clunkers there. Near the end, I was like, God, bang it are you going to put out, like a top 10 of your 100 movies? I think early part of the end of this year, the early part of next year, I certainly will there. Stay tuned. Well, the reason we got Vanessa's hallucinations, I think, is because I reached out the other night, like Saturday night, and said, I am watching a movie that was made for Vanessa. By made, I mean, will absolutely terrify her. Listeners. You're not aware, Vanessa has a real fear of alien abductions, so she tends to stay away from that. And on Netflix is this three part documentary called Manhattan alien. Alien abduction, and it is documentary about the most credible alien abduction account ever. 23 witnesses claim they saw this woman float out of her apartment window and up into the sky in a beam of light, and she claims that she came back with a implant in her nose. She's got an x ray of it. And there's all sorts of stuff that's going on here, twists and turns in this because then her her son, who was 10 at the time, starts talking about the fact that he has been visited by people in the middle of the night, and they they make him do weird things and stuff like this. This takes a wild twist that I was not expecting in the third episode, and leaves everything kind of up in the air on whether this actually happened or not. It is floated out there that this is probably a hoax, but if so, it is the most elaborate hoax ever created, and would have to have been done by the woman who claims this happened to her. And quite frankly, she didn't seem smart enough to have put it all together to me, but it is pretty interesting, and it happened in 1989 Wow. So, yeah, so this is really cool. The thing that I thought was really cool about this is the photography in this is amazing. It's a lot of really gorgeous drone photography through New York, and just looks really, really cool. But then they do reenactment segments, and they look like they're right out of, you know, the new JJ Abrams film. It looks really, really cool, and if any of it is true, very, very scary, yeah, man, aliens don't give up. They'll do whatever. That is called Manhattan alien abduction on Netflix. I even, even with that wild twist at the end, I was highly entertained throughout the entire thing, definitely worth watching. Also, there are no aliens. Vanessa, there are aliens, but there's no aliens that have visited Earth. We're getting visited by time travelers, human time travelers, human though, well, who knows? Maybe their atmosphere is so fucked up, they're wearing these weird spaces to help them breathe. There you go, Back to the Future style. Regardless, it is alien to us, and they are doing weird shit to us, and that's not okay. And, yeah, I do kind of wish, like we would, as a people come together and be like, Hey, we have proof that this is happening. Could we like, address it on any level? Could we like, send a, you know, I don't know, satellite or just somebody just listen with a big, like, one of those big curly, like headphone things, just trying to have proof. Do we have proof? Vanessa, yes, no, we don't do we don't. We do have all those things, though. We do have listening devices and satellites that have been, no, not satellites, but I don't know what you'd call them, little spaceship kind of things that have been sent to go out of our galaxy. And yeah, let people hear our classical music. I know the fucking Voyager records or whatever, like, really, this feels so weird out of all the things we could be, send out a big invitation and let them know what a bunch of wussies we are. Okay? This address here. The lady's name is Vanessa. This is her address. If you're real, come visit her. Heck, no, I don't want that shit. Good. No, good. There you go. Now it won't happen. Okay, Vanessa, what else did you play or watch? Good Lord, I'm wondering which, which alien things should I talk about next? How about we would go with venom, the last dance? Oh, boy. Yeah. You know what? I have very low expectations for all things Venom I have since the first one, which is why it entered, entertained me a lot. I just thought it was going to be garbage, and it was garbage, but entertaining garbage. And the second one was less entertaining garbage, and the third one is mildly entertaining garbage. So it was fine, you know, I got a little emotional at one point, and I was like, Oh, this really is the end. Is it really? Though? No, of course not. But, you know, but I've read a lot of the comics too, so I'm like, that isn't even the main guy who's, like, inhabited by venom. So, like. You know that there's like four more dudes who can easily be like, I'm the new venom, because I'm the other comic guy that got written about you talking about Flash Thompson, when he becomes Asian venom? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Flash Thompson, the fucking nerd. Is Flash Thompson, the character that they went with more recently and had him be like a war, yes, yeah. He had, he had lost the use of his legs, yes, from Yeah. That would be like a really interesting story to do. I agree that that could be really cool. I might watch that one. I didn't even know there were three of them. There are the second one is very bad. You can skip it all right. Well, my other movie is also, did come out this year? I do watch new movies too, but Caddo Lake, which is one thing, is real interesting, because it's like, there aren't a lot of movies that take place in, like Southern Comfort or something like that, in the deep Bayou of swamp land. So that's always neat to say. I like that. It's a story of a eight year old kid goes missing on the lake, and series of deaths and disappearances start to link together, and is messing with a the way family views their history. And yes, it is. It's leaning little more sci fi, I guess, but it's definitely got some creepy stuff really well done, written and directed by Logan George and Celine held they both directed and wrote together, and well worth checking out. I really don't want to talk about it's one of those. I don't, I didn't, I didn't watch the trailer, so I have no idea. It popped up from somebody else's 100 days with a pretty good it's a small enough group, and there's enough regulars that there's people's stuff that pops up. Go, yeah, I'm definitely going to want to check up one that they're recommending. And so that this definitely fell into that and well worth checking out. Just smartly done. I saw on the strange eons radio talk page that you were listing off your movies, and this was one of the ones you listed off, and you gave it a pretty solid review. And I was like, Wait a second, is this the same cattle lake that says from the mind of M Night Shyamalan? So he must just be a producer or something of this? Yeah, I don't see his name anywhere in the main stuff. Let's see if he's, yeah, I don't Yep, there he is. He's like the very bottom producer. So okay, I can tell the way you're talking about this that there must be some some twists and turns that you don't want to talk about some weird shit going on in this film. And it's not just, it's not an M Night Shyamalan kind of thing, though, necessarily, where it goes one direction and ends up totally different, but it's just a well stitched together story of interesting depth. And and a sci fi premise, or a little bit, little bit sci fi little horror. I could see it's one of those that if you don't go with the premise, maybe you would fall apart. But it's not, it's not nearly as weird as like the vampire one I talked about, where there's something strange that happens, that if you don't go with the movie, doesn't work at all, and a lot of people didn't go with it. I think this one's a little much easier than that, but it's definitely some interesting elements throughout the film cattle Lake. This is HBO. I think so maybe on a variety of stuff. I don't have the listing at the moment, I will have to put that on my list then, because it's got, it looks like it's got that kid I like so much from that monster, Dylan O'Brien, yeah, yeah. Monster love or whatever, love monsters. He's one of the CO leads. There's two leads. He's one of them. Okay, yeah, yeah, oh, just before we take a break, did? Did either of you watch Agatha all along? I didn't watch it all along. I gave up. Back to about four episodes. Oh, my God, Helly, no, don't tell me that this got good. It is so good. I think it's the best one. I genuinely think it's the best one. Are you saying the best one post Disney takeover? Okay, the best of the Marvel shows. There's some pretty good stuff in there with the dare No, no, no, no, yeah, as out of all of those, like, I'm torn, if you, I mean, if you enjoy wandavision, which I did, I wandavision was kind of my top then this is my, it's, it's competing because one division really fucked up the ending. And this, it sticks the landing so well that you're just like, What the did? I just if so, for anybody out there who was like, Man Agatha along, looks like trash, which is me. I thought it looked like trash. And I was like, I guess I'm gonna watch it, because it's spooky season. I need something. And it was so stupidly good. In the end, just French bread thing. It's my it's my wrist pad. It's clouds. Did you just wake a fluffy baguette at us? Very nice. Okay, that's cool. It's all along. Well, okay, I will maybe give this another shot, but yourself a little just, and if you hate it, and I'm sorry, but like, it is so well put together that I was like, Fuck you guys. Good, yeah, seriously, I didn't expect it to actually not be terrible. I mean, Catherine Hans awesome and, like, there's so many cool outfits and costumes and moments, and I don't know, like she's been really fun to watch all the things I base a good movie on. I'm it's story, it's story. That is what I appreciated about it. So, okay, well, can we take a break now? Vanessa, Eric, did you want to come more input considering another movie? Sorry about that, Tom, yeah, we did mention Tom at the top. So I thought this really needed to happen in this episode. God, well, I did watch all of Fox mocking. If you want to talk about I'm just about to start list. So good it is. So, yeah, good. Oh god, yeah. Really, really good. Speaking of Vox Mach, Vanessa then said, Hey, Kelly, did you bother to check out any other critical role stuff? And so I was like, You know what I'm gonna and, no, I hate it all. I cannot listen to three and a half hour episodes of guys playing Dungeons and Dragons no matter how cool their voices are. Okay, it's I had a feeling. I was like, Really, you're into the critical world dudes show. But like I, I mean, I didn't watch it, so I, I will check it out. It sounds awesome, but I will not be watching critical role the web version. There you go. No, I'm a little surprised that it has the audience it has, because I'm like, wow, you've got to be a real fucking nerd to get into this shit. People. It has opened up so many people to D and D, it's huge. It's huge. People, fucking damn it. Can we? Can we take a break? You guys, yes. And then when we come back, we're into November, so no toho, yeah, we'll be right back. It again, young, stop you. Hello. Let's see who's called the strange eons radio hotline. Hey guys, it's Mike an happy post Halloween. Just thought I'd warn you that if you go down the ring rabbit hole, there i. That series gets progressively crazier as it goes on. And I think there's a Sega Dreamcast game that's actually Canon to it where, like sadaqo ends up turning into a virus at some point in the future. And I think in one movie, you find out she's like a hermaphrodite. It gets it goes places. So, yeah, there's, there's, well, there you go. Thanks, if you'd like to call the strange eons radio hotline, dial, 253-237-4266, nobody hangs up on the and we have returned you guys as we record this. It is just before the end of the world, the day before Election Day, which means we are no longer in October. We are in no Toho vember, which means that we're going to be talking about Asian cinemas still, but it can't be from Toho and because, because Toho is such a huge part of Japanese cinema. I opened this up to all Asian cinema. That being said, I went with a Japanese company. Oh, wow, cool. But I don't remember the name of the company. Anyway, I'm going to put five minutes on my buzzer here. I'm going to talk about a film That's not from Toho called Tag. Smash, Star to this 2015, directed by Seon sono, who has 65 credits, including Tokyo vampire Hotel. Why don't you play in hell and Suicide Club? And it was written by Seon and based on the novel by usuka Amada, starring rayana trendel. 43 credits, almost exclusively Japanese television, with 10 or 12 episodes of everything she's been in, such as sugarless lost days and Tokyo Alice, also starring Mariko Shinoda. 41 credits, also mostly Japanese TV, also 10 or 12 episodes of everything she's been in, including CHRO, smartphone in the brain and you taught me all the precious things, and also starring elino mano. 56 credits, including Kai Ki, Tales of Terror from Tokyo, Shinjuku, Swan and bleach. Have you guys heard of tag? I haven't seen it, but I heard of it. Yeah. Okay, well, the story starts with an opening segment that you have probably seen, whether you've seen the movie or not. There are two busses full of high school girls heading down a country road. They're all chattering and gasping and even kind of fighting with each other and teasing each other. And we meet Mitsuko, who is quiet and writing poetry and a little notebook. And when she is jostled by one of the girls. She drops her pen and bends down to pick it up, just as a razor sharp wind shears the top of her bus off, including the top halfs of everyone else in the bus. It is a very surreal scene. It is like the bus had driven through a cable that sliced everything perfectly in half. So that scene has been all over YouTube and all that stuff, and that was why I decided I wanted to actually watch this film. Matsuko is terrified, as you may guess, and she starts running down the road, realizing that the wind is trying to get her. There's all sorts of evil, dead, floaty camera shots. Nuts with that is supposed to signify the wind, and it has a some leaves blowing in front of it, and it is, as it is, zooming in on her and everything. She meets some other girls on the road, on the road, and she tries to warn them, and they're all cut in half as well. She escapes to school and tries to tell everyone what had just happened, but they are able to calm her down and convince her she was just dreaming. Of course, right after that, the teachers in the school suddenly start brandishing machine guns and killing all of the students. So matsuko and a few of her friends run and escape. One of her friends is making a big point of begging her to think beyond what is happening and find out why this is happening. So at this point, I'm fairly certain this young girl is just caught up in a horrible nightmare, and I'm wondering, you know, when is this going to end? I'm kind of interested, but I'm like this. This nightmare is lasting already, you know, 15 minutes of the movie, and I'd like to get the story going so it really doesn't end until the very end of the movie, when we find out what is really happening. And it is a pretty bleak fucking ending. I will give the movie credit for some pretty wild swings. About halfway through, the actor that plays the main character is swapped with another actor playing that character instead, which I thought was very confusing and crazy, but it goes in such a wild direction from there, I assume the lesson I was going to learn from this movie was that life is surreal and we shouldn't be taking it so seriously. To make things weirder, the character goes through a third actor change a little later, before coming back to the original actor that we started the film with trigger warning on this film for suicide, which seems to be the message that this film wants to push. If you don't like life, you can always kill yourself. Jesus, you can. This film, you guys, fucking affected me. I have been in a kind of dark place for the last month or so anyway, and I was fucking gutted after watching this movie, I was just like, Holy fucking shit. This was rough. Luckily, I tried Vanessa's Over the Garden Wall series as a palette cleanser, and it was delightful. Nice. Trivia tag has a 92% approval on Rotten Tomatoes. No men up here until an hour and five minutes into the film, and it is very feminist heavy film. It's got a lot of lessons. Well, no, it doesn't have a lot of lessons. It just shows men being really shitty to women in this I'm not sure what the lesson is. The lesson is that sucks to be a woman, apparently. I mean, it does. But finally, to add to the surreal nature, the same background actresses appear in all three scenarios as students, wedding guests and marathon attendees, which was kind of confusing and kind of weird and kind of cool. There was a lot I kind of liked about this. A lot I kind of liked about this movie. But fuck, man. It was. It was pretty bleak throughout, and then when the ending comes, it's like much worse than you think. Oh, Jesus. I was just like, fucking Christ. I've seen the suicide one you mentioned, suicide, suicide club, club. I've seen that one that was pretty damn grim, too, but this one seemed sounds even worse. It's kind of, it's kind of, I saw one reviewer call it grind house meets art house. And it is kind of that. But there was just something at the end, I wanted, I would like to have seen a happier ending, which is saying a lot for me, because, you know, I don't expect that or need that from a horror movie. This isn't even really a horror movie. It's, it's a it's got some very gory scenes in it and some weird shit and everything. But it's not horror. There's a lot of girls running, just either No, no, like there's a marathon segment, and then there's the girls who are running away from their teachers, and then they just kind of run and continue running, and they end up at a lake and and then a crocodile. Sure it's, uh, it's a movie. It's called tag, and it is available on something. I think I watched it, oh, YouTube. I watched it for free on YouTube. So, okay, I've definitely seen the beginning segment for sure, because I remember thinking like, Oh, that looks awesome. I need to check this film out. And I just had to curiosity, does the title give anything about the film away or not really, like it's explained in the end? Okay. It gets explained in the end, but it it was something that I was wondering about the entire time, because I was wondering, I was like, Is this an Asian word that I don't know the meaning of, that just hasn't been translated to English? Or is this the English translation of what the title is for this film? Yeah, and it turns out to be a thing, not necessarily, not necessarily the thing you think of when you think of tag, but it does have a meaning in the film. So, okay, yeah, interesting. Vanessa, you want to go next? Yeah, I guess it's my turn. Huh? Five minutes. All right, so I went with a film that has very little information on it. Out there, no Rotten Tomatoes, no Wikipedia page. This is human lanterns from 1982 You're leisure media. Leader for you, this is a Hong Kong film. Original title is Ren pi dang long director slash co writer is Chung Sun, who has 39 credits, including the master Strikes Back dreams of eroticism and Revenge of the corpse. CO written by Wang ni, who has 234, credits. I should say this is a Shaw Brothers joint, so from one production house to another. So the people who are involved are going to be really involved. So he's clearly one of those writers starring Tony Liu as master lung. He was in the way of the dragon and Fist of Fury. We have one Tai Chen as master tan. He was in the man with iron fists and bloody monkey master and Lee low, who has two, 239 credits, including five figures of death, 36th Chamber of Shaolin. He was the first kung fu superstar before Bruce Lee. So kind of cool. Um, story, we're at a big party in a big house. Well, big air, big thing, big whatever. People used to live in, lung, shoe, eye, whatever, rich you know, Hong Kong, people lived in, in the, I don't know, long time ago. Anyway, it's a state with the anyway. This at a party. Lung shoe eye, a super rich asshole gets in a fight with the party host tan, another basically super rich asshole. The two seem to constantly need to one up one another, and tan pauses the celebration to do an early showcase of a lantern he had made for the big lantern festival competition. He's so confident he's going to win that he shows it to everybody. Of course, everyone loves it, except for lung. Then tan introduces his courtesan to the party and stops everybody and goes, and this lady is coming. Hey, come on in. And this infuriates tan, because he says it's disgusting and he won't be there in her presence. But actually it's because he used to be with her and she won't be exclusive to Dan tan, because he won't be exclusive to her. So he Harum leaves the party and goes straight to the lamp maker and asks for an incredible lamp to be made to outshine tans, but the lamp maker admits that actually his apprentice has been making them the whole time, Chun Fang lung is delighted, as he knows Chen Fang, and hires him right away. Chen Fang, however, hates lung because they have they had a duel many years ago that lung won, and since then, Cheng Fang has basically been living a life of poverty and gave up all hopes of being a master to get his revenge. Chung Chun, fan Fang begins to run around in a strange skull monkey mask and attack various women that are important to either tan or lung, steals them away to his lamb shack and then either. Kills, rapes and eventually skins them and uses their flesh to make lungs perfect lantern. As the women disappear, tan and lung suspect one another, and their feud explodes until they see the monkey mask guy and realize they've both been fooled. The two team up to try and take him down, but not before he finishes his gruesome lantern, which is great because lung sees it. And he's like, Oh, it's beautiful. Wait, because he already knows that all these people are ski knows what it is. And he's like, oh, so Oh, I shouldn't, I shouldn't like it, huh, huh. It's good, though. So this is very much Shaw Brothers meets Jason Voorhees. It's very big, very theatrical, very beautiful, but it's taking the art of the recent American slasher genre and inserting it into the weirdest way. For instance, it reveals who the killer is instantly, so there's no build up. It also uses camera shake, but randomly and with a fish eye lens, so every time you look on the corners of the screen, you're like, I'm gonna barf immediately. It kind of feels very Scooby Doo like, because there's a lot of like at the end, haha, I did it, and this is why. And you're just like, okay, cool. It is super funny. It's super silly, it's zany, but also gruesome as hell. I think the four lanterns are okay. I don't think they were the best ones in town. I think you could have done better. Personally, the dialog is insane, but I think that could I that could be a translation thing. And the way that I watched it was on DVD from a company called 88 films, which has been putting out these interesting Asian movies that weren't previously available. So cool. So you owned this? Austin owns this. Okay, yes, I am not the Asian part of the household. Was this his suggestion? Then, nice. We went through his shelf and went, which of these should we delve into? And I went, that one sounds like a winner. So amazing. I've never even heard of this film. No human interns. Sounds interesting, though. I would say it's entertaining. I mean, if you want to watch like a Shaw Brothers picture, that's very unusual. Then I would, I would check it out. What year do you say this was from? 8282 Yeah, and that the, the the actor in it was the biggest kung fu star before Bruce Lee came along. Um, yes, so the guy who plays the like the bad guy, essentially, he, he's an old man in this So, okay, I don't know. Okay, yeah, all right, Eric, I shall go next with the movie. Kelly will have no interest in five minutes, the Ganges haunted asylum out of South Korea, something you Want. Chicken. Chicken. Oh, God, so it's 2018 it is fairly well reviewed. At 92 for from the reviewers, won a bunch of like, almost like, South Korean level Oscar awards, not a bunch, but some editing and stuff like that. I. So let's see. This is available on peacock prime Apple, very, very well, well, available. Directed by Jung bone chic, who wrote or directed new normal, horror story and horror stories too, also written by Jung bone chic, who wrote horror stories, stories too, and the new normal also, sangmin Park wrote it. His only other credit. I haven't done anything like all right? Starring, oh yeah, Yin, what happened to our relationship? Heart blackened. So you know, happy shows we hajn, who's in bad guys always die. Squid game might know that one and shark the beginning, and yolin Yoon, who's in haunting hitchhiker, an extreme job. So as you might guess from my qualifier at the beginning, this is a found footage film. The opening scene is very common now, maybe a little less common in what 2018 but it's, let's get to know all the people. Hey, we're making a YouTube we're a YouTube series. We're going to make a lot of money doing this YouTube video. The nice part though, they're not a bunch of annoying people. They're largely a likable group. They're having fun. They're not being just over the top weird. Have personality. They actually have personalities. So the the intro is quite well done. So I was getting a little okay, this could be pretty good, because that's an important part of a workable found footage. Film is a bunch of people you don't want to get killed by the ghosts, but it starts off well, and it is a well done found footage, but it goes into what now feels kind of cliche territory, where some of the things that happens are, you know, are they setting it up? Is this actually happening? And maybe it is actually happening. So it gets a little it's well done. It's got some nice little scary moments. But the back story of how the movie was made is far more interesting. The idea for this film came from a CNN article in 2012 which the travel sections listed the seven freakiest places on the planet. And this hospital is a real place in South Korea. It was, I think it's been demolished since then, but the filmmakers weren't able to get permission from South Korea to shoot in this hospital, this abandoned hospital, so they found a an abandoned High School and planted it out. So if you watch the movie, the architecture matches the hospital. It's like, when they walk, is that important to them to make it look they want it to look like you're actually in the hospital. And apparently so was a very well known, or is a well known place in South Korea, it's like, whenever you go down a hall and you turn in the high school, they're setting it up. So it's exactly what you'd be doing if you were in that hospital, which I think is must have taken some effort. It did win, like I said, Best Editing South Korea award show the 55/5 Grand Ball Awards and the 39th Blue Dragon Film Awards. Best heading in both of those, it was a psychiatric hospital. According to legends, there's patients started dying mysterious at the hospital some 1010, years before this was shot, so fairly recent, as far as abandoned hospitals go and the so that eventually became why they closed it, because people kept dying, and they don't know why. And as far as they know, as far as I was able to find, they really never figured out why. It's got rusted wire fences distinguishing examination chair still remain in the hospital. Or, like I said, I think it's been destroyed since then, but it was South Korea's one of their three major haunted sites, and the other being Yoon duck haunted house roamed by ghosts from the Korean War. And then Nebulon garden is a former restaurant that still hear the sounds of dishes being washed in the kitchen. That sucks. You're ghosting. You still gotta do the dishes. Yep. Oh, awful. So did you say? What year? This was from Oh 28 Team. Well, power flickering, storm going up here. So, okay, 2015 I think I started this in it. And it starts with, like, a pretty strong scare, right? Yeah, and then I never finished the film. I couldn't get past the foul footages. Yeah, it gets I mean, 2018 you're still far into found footage, and they do some fairly cliched things, so, but it's not a bad movie. I'm sure. I enjoyed it to a point. I enjoyed a lot of it, and I can imagine if you really love found footage. This is a very good, very well done found footage film. So if you haven't seen it and you like that stuff, definitely check it out. Okay, that sounds cool, yeah. Well, good job, you guys. It sounds like you guys had good movies. He was okay. Just was very depressing. Well made. Yes, we are going to be doing this again next week, so I will be choosing a little more wisely. I think I will be looking at some reviews. Maybe I'll do a comedy, comedy hog Kong comedies, they're interesting, right, right. Okay, so this is the part then where we say thanks to everybody who is liking and sharing posts, who's leaving reviews for us, who's calling in on strangeeons radio hotline, which is 253-237-4266, we call this value for value. If you get something out of this, then give something back. And one of the ways that some people do that is with money, which is always welcome. It helps with new microphones. It helps with paying just the the site fees and stuff like that, yep, well appreciated. Yeah, very much. Also, check out strangeeons Radio talk on Facebook, which is a bunch of people just talking about this kind of stuff. And Eric and Vanessa and I are on there talking about it with it. So absolutely, and it's going to be very short notice, because this will come out the day the festival is actually happening. If you're in the Tacoma area, go check out dreadfest at the blue mouse theater. It's actually free to attend, but they do track tickets. It currently lists is sold out, but you're, if you're in the area, you may check out and see maybe somebody didn't show up, and you can get in. It's a good festival. I like it, awesome, very cool. That's, of course, the connoisseur, which Eric directed and I wrote and Vanessa edited, also coming out on it's out already. I was down on the revs geek out podcast show, which is the Reverend Fuego, a radio personality from the Seattle area. And we talked about all sorts of stuff, but we really talked about this guy, my novella, a distant silver melody, which is available on Amazon. And the rev just really, really loved it. It is a werewolf novella, and it's getting very nice reviews. Thank you for that. And we also talked about, I dropped off one of these for him. Anna Carcosa, one year younger twin sons. This is really cool. It is very hard to explain to people. It is a end of the world story. It's very short, but it's told month by month. And I think that you're going to like this, especially if you're a fan of the king and yellow. It is a king and yellow story. Anything else we've got to talk about guys? No, I don't think so. I don't think so either. So, yeah, well, good. I'll just tell you guys this two weeks sober. Wow, no, no, but two shows in a row that I didn't drink during, and that's got to count for something tomorrow. You may be drinking. Tomorrow, I will be drinking. Yes, having a drinking game. By the time we have people listening to this, we'll have a new president who knows that's that's awfully optimistic, optimistic that we will have known in only two days. Yeah, it's going to take a week, and it's going to be contested, and the world might end by then. So yeah, there you go. Maybe the windstorm tonight will take us all out. We can only hope, but if we are forced to do. Again, then we will do it in seven short days, see you next Thursday. Transportation and other considerations for strange eons, radio produced by Pan Am airlines. When you think of traveling, think of Pan Am. You can't beat the experience. Guests of strange eons radio stay at econo lodge Everett. It's an easy stop on the road. Strangeeons radio is recorded live in front of a studio audience. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a positive review on your favorite podcast, sit Ubu sit Bucha are watching me?