303 SACRILICIOUS!

303 SACRILICIOUS!
Happy New year! Kelly has a cold and the gang is talking about horror movies with religious themes.
Also discussed: Hot Frosty, Secret Levels, What If..?

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Yay, oh, I just like the Yay. 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 strange eons radio that is Eric somewhere over there in the wilderness. Hello, God. It's beer time. What are those days? Holy I'm looking inside your beer can right now. Holy shit. Oh man, speaking of right here Eric's beer can. That's Vanessa over there. Hello. Happy holidays. And I am Kelly, yeah, gang, as we record this, we're only a couple of days before Christmas, and as you hear this, it must be the day after Christmas, so I hope everybody has a wonderful holiday. Yeah, Merry close to Christmas. Merry Christmas. Eric, you have a lovely background going on. Yeah, we just moved into the the new place, and my current background is a blank wall that is very close to me, so it just looked Stark and disturbing. So I went with outside of Vanessa's cabin three days, right? And Vanessa, you have a creepy background on yours as well. What's going on here? Yes. So I am visiting my the home in which I grew up, this fine log cabin, and I will not go outside, for the love of Chris, you know, Kelly in the beginning of one of your books, where the whole town is just like shotgun with, like spider webbing. Yes, that is the outside of this house. I looked a little too closely at the rafters and I saw spiders so big, it just, I can't. Oh, fuck, it's anyways, it seems okay in here now, so, but if I run away from the screen for a moment, just know I'm probably murdering something. Okay, it's spider season. Yeah, so because of the proximity of the holiday, we're doing a zoom call here, but I think our next episode will be in person again. Yay. Yes. So, yes, yes, yes. That's cool. You know what? I didn't really even think about anything to vamp about today. I am kind of excited to I told you that I that I bought a master class. Actually, I didn't buy a master class. I I got a BBC Maestro Class. Oh, okay, which is the BBC version of a master class. And I was looking for, you know, some writers to go with, and ironically, both Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman are on the master class site, but not on the BBC master class site. And the author I went with is an American author on the BBC master class site, of course, but named Ken Follett, who I don't write like him, but I think that he writes beautifully, and I was hoping that maybe a little of that would rub off on me, along with the best seller, sales of his novels. There you go. That'd be the thing to go for. That would be nice. That would be nice. Well, I do have something I wanted to talk about. Have either of you watched the Superman trailer? Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, all right. Um, what the hell is wrong with people? Like, in general, I'm very confused. So I watched this trailer, and I was like, oh, that's, that's kind of sweet. That's cute. Like, I like the things I'm seeing in here. Seems good, man. The number of people who are just losing their goddamn minds over like, the costume fucking sucks. I'm like, You're watching movies for the wrong reasons. My friends, the dog has the wrong kind of hair. I'm like, really taking shots at our listeners. Here I see, well, no, it was not just our listeners. I do know that on the talk there was, there's been some back and forth, and I totally get why people are like, let's see. But I do want people to actually see the film before completely shitting on it, you know, like, how about we watch the thing and then decide that ever been the case? When has that ever been the case with nerds? This is why I hate watching trailers, man. I just fucking I don't want to know anything about it. I don't want to hear anybody's shit. I just want to watch the movie myself. I think it looks great. I think it looks for years and years, Superman or. Or Superman's been people are trying to turn Superman into Batman. Yeah, that's dark and brooding. It's like bullshit. Superman should be optimistic and filled with hope. And, yeah, I don't know you're the biggest Superman fan. I know Kelly, so what did you think that's not saying a lot, because I don't I'm not a huge Superman fan, but I thought the trailer looked cool. I thought that the last two movies spent a lot of time treating Superman like a god, and this trailer felt very much like James Gunn and showed him as a son and a boyfriend. And, you know, right off the bat, the first image we see is Superman beat up, you know, unable to move, and calling for a dog to help him. So I was like, Okay, we're going in a different direction with this, which is what James Gunn is known for. And then the rest of the trailer was like, almost like a, let's look at his his support system. He's got friends and superheroes and all of this stuff. I was like, this looks like a James Gunn movie to me. Now, if you don't like James Gunn, I could see why you're not going to like this, because it sure looks like a James Gunn movie. It's true, but it looks like a pretty, like even keel gym, like I wasn't seeing a lot of like silly jokes and like it didn't have that Guardian flavor to it, where it was just black humor. But I, yeah, no, I, I really liked it. I think the one shot that really got me the most excited is where he jumps in front of the girl, when all the like roadside stuff is, I was like, yeah, he's just saving a citizen, yes, instead of killing 1000s, 1000s of people, just knock buildings over and not worry about it. It's like, no, he's like, some little boy out in some country has a little Superman flag, and it's like, Superman help like, I feel like that's the Superman I tend to read in comics, but Christopher Reeve, Superman definitely hits that tone far more than the more recent ones. Yeah, yeah. The kid putting up the flag reminded me of a scene in one of the newer iterations of Superman where he's before he hits the Daily Planet. He's, like, off reporting in some country that's, you know, got a revolution going on in the middle of it. And I was wondering if they were going to do that with him in this one and kind of update him a little bit stuff like that. I don't know. I mean, obviously I'll watch it. I think it looks like a lot of fun. Yeah, agreed, very cool, yeah, well, yeah, let's get into what I actually did watch and man, I am gonna go against the grain on this one, because I just about hated this. I saw a heretic. Oh, I thought it was awful. Oh, you didn't like it. I thought Hugh Grant was a fantastic actor, but, yeah, we already knew that, so that didn't surprise me. Him playing against type is fine, but the premise just goes wildly bonkers and gets even weirder. Have you guys seen this movie yet? Yes, I haven't, but I understand it's like, I'm curious to see it because I thought I saw something that referenced that Mormon religion is part of what it is about. Yes, that should be interesting. I remember watching that Trey and Parker musical Book of Mormon, and finding it far less funny than most people did, because I'm like, this is actually Mormon, and this, this could have been Christians he was talking to the religion doesn't matter what. What he's trying to prove is that there is no God, and he's going to convince these girls, or at least make, make them say it so that they can escape. But Vanessa, as it got further into the house and underneath the house and everything underneath the house, you didn't start going, this is getting very hard to believe. Oh, I mean, yeah, absolutely like, I think I loved watching Hugh Grant having the time of his life as like, such an oddball bad guy that it was just really refreshing. And of course, I'm going to enjoy seeing Sophie Thatcher in anything, because I'm like, hey, yeah, you go. You like, I played your wrist watch in a movie one time. I feel connected. She never responded to my friend request on Facebook. But that's right. But you know, like, I think that the initial premise and idea was pretty neat, and that kind of initial bit where they're being polite to the point of putting themselves in mortal. Lander was kind of cool. I like that exploration. But yeah, once they get down into the belly of the beast, and he's got the different elements down there, I don't even, I don't want to give anything away, but listen, if you listen to this show. You know that we give some things away. He's got a whole fucking dungeon maze under his house somehow, yes, and I mean, it looks like it's, you know, it looks like it's hundreds and hundreds of feet of underground tunnels and stuff like, that's what I like. When he starts talking about miracles. I was a little like, what? And then there's a moment where the film. I was a little confused by a part of the ending, and I think, I think it's open to interpretation, and I wasn't sure if it was trying to suggest that they're all in a simulation. I think that's just me, though. I think I was just reading that because I, I think about, sometimes the this theory about simulation, so I don't, yeah, that definitely, definitely comes up. I don't think that that's what they were trying to imply. And in fact, I think she says something like, you know, you're grasping at straws, or something like that. No, Oh, for sure. But when she's when we're when you see a butterfly is one target, yeah, yeah. So I don't know, I just, I just watched it, and just was like, and then again, I'm online, and I'm like, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Wow. Everyone loves it, but you this is not the movie I watched. 6% 824, you know, it just kind of instantly has its winning audience. Yeah, that's true. Well anyway, heretic is available to rent now, so if that's what you want to see, is Hugh Grant be a bad guy, I would say, watch the last Dungeons and Dragons movie, and Paddington two. And Paddington two, very good. Those are great examples of Hugh Grant being a bad guy, speaking of 824, films, yes, I checked out y, 2k, because it looked neat. I liked the trailer. I was like, Cool. I remember this happening. I remember it being a big deal. I was, like, a freshman in high school, and I'm really dating myself, but, like, it was such a big deal, and I remember being afraid, like genuinely a little afraid right before midnight. So this whole film is really constructed with other people who are my exact same age, wearing my exact same clothes with exact same music and cultural references. And then this movie sucks fucking ass. So I haven't even heard of this. What is the I mean, I remember going through it. But what is the premise of this, that it actually happens? Yeah, so it actually happens. But what occurs is you get these, all the electronics sort of come alive and band together, and there's this virus slash evil, AI, that's like assembling itself out of, like Tamagotchis and like, you know, Turkey cutters and whatever. And like running around murdering kids and like trying to take over time you're making this sound awesome. Look, the practical effects in this are great. Um, there's something about the writing and the tone that is just so whiplash and, like, inconsistent, and it's just so hard to get from scene to scene. And there are times where you're like, that's not fucking funny, man. Like, I don't know why you got it. Just it feels like it's the basis possible joke sometimes, and then other times, it's trying to be elevated. And then they got, I don't, of course, they got some cultural shit wrong, but I was like, But Billy, Billy banks the workout videos I did those in high school, and they were referenced. And I was, I appreciated that. So thanks for that, guys. So they did not give me a good workout. I was not any more fit by the end of them. Is, is this in theaters? It is, yeah, yeah, and it's a horror movie, yeah. It's a horror comedy. It's starring the boy who is the main kid in it. The most recent, it movie, as well as the Taiko ytts beast of the Wilder people slash Deadpool to kid, yeah, they're like best friends. Your description of the way the movie moves, I think, is kind of where a lot of movies are headed, because it sounded like you're next one that I talked about last week or a couple weeks ago, with the same age group of people, the same kind of frenetic movement and weirdness and everything, with the brain switching, okay, yeah, no, that's, it's, yeah, it's not your night or something. Yeah, that's like, what's inside? Or no, I mean, like, well, the oh, sorry, what is your next is, like, ages ago, yeah, no, it's a new one called your next. Oh, came out in 2023 Oh, okay, but yeah, sorry, the but that, that frenetic energy and weirdness, and I've seen in several films over the recently been made, it just feels like they need more drafts. It just feels like it, I don't know this one, I think was produced by Jonah Hill, and it's got that. It's got his like spirit behind it, but like, it feels like somebody else needs to come in the room and be like, I know it's a little budget hidden. I don't know we were gonna film really soon, but maybe, maybe draft two or three might be worth just taking a little whack. Um, yeah, it's it's pretty rough. It's pretty hard to get through. So, okay, well, I saw another one that was honestly stupidly entertaining. It was so much fun. Netflix is carry on about carry on luggage. Yeah, it has a very solid 80s, 90s action move esthetic, where it's really fun, moves at a great pace. Has logic leaps that are surprisingly long, but I don't know. It just worked. It was a lot of fun. It was to the point where, at the end of going, You know what, I would have been perfectly fine if I'd seen that in a theater. It just had a big movie feel to it. That kind of act like they kind of action movies. They don't make anymore, because they all have to look like Marvel. But this, is fun. Is it? I keep seeing this show up in Christmas list. Is it actually Christmas movie? Like, is it set during Christmas? Set during Christmas? Because he's a, like, a teacher, yeah, TSA guy. And there's the busiest day of the year kind of thing. And, okay, and somebody's trying to check something through that they shouldn't, and they're being very imaginative and how they're going to get it through. And it's, it's fun. It was a lot of fun to watch and but, yeah, it's like the old action movies where I say, Well, you know, kind of got to turn your brain off to enjoy. It. Has a little bit of that, but I don't care, because you just don't see action movies this much fun, made very often. So I'm so glad to hear that, because the trailer made it look really like, I don't know if it's stale or dark or I there was just, it just didn't feel like something worthy. But then it popped up in the top 10, and it's been there for a while. So yeah, and we watched to do is the number one movie on Netflix, sure. Okay, but I would, I would definitely recommend it if you want to just sit back and enjoy your self action movie for to get away from your family, or to have your family join in watching, oh, nice, nice. That's got that Taryn Edgerton kid in it, right? Yeah, yeah. Really good. That's part of what makes it is. He is just solid on screen. So, okay, I've watched a bunch of stuff here. Yeah, excited about well, some of it quite bad. You guys. I rented Venom three the last Hey, I didn't hate, I didn't hate this movie. Oh, okay, I don't think it was horrible. I mean, I don't think it was good, but I don't think it was horrible. I thought it was a hell of a lot better than the last one. But for the most part, I just sat there going, Tom Hardy, what the fuck man gave me the shit. Yeah, pay me. He's like an executive producer. He's basically one of the writers, or something, a story by CO writer. I was like, Why are you so invested in this horrible fucking franchise, and we can't get another Mad Max movie with you in it. Jesus Christ, he's behind. He's driving the whole thing like he's so invested and so excited about venom and carrying it through that he's been the one really pushing and pushing and pushing on it. So this is like his baby. Not everybody needs to produce and write their movies. He was true, incredibly strong actor, so I don't know he does such a good job, though, with Venom's voice as well as himself, like I love, like hearing his conversations with himself. It's just so, so good. I well, so then I I looked that up and saw that it was him doing Venom's voice also, and the dialog in this is so fucking bad, and the dialog between him and Venom is so bad, and it sounds like he's genuinely having a fantastic. Time with it. And I was like, Is this, like, Is this, like, that Steven Seagal story where, you know, whoever it was, you know, Steven Seagal came out of his dressing room, and he's like, I just read the best script I have ever read. And the guy was like, Oh yeah, who wrote it? He was like, I did. I read it. And I wondered if Tom Hardy for best fucking shit ever, because he's clearly having a very good time with it, and it is really, really bad. Yes, yes. All of those things are true and also so enjoyable, at least when those two are on screen, like when I'm watching venom in Venom three, I'm like, yeah. And then when I'm watching anyone else, I'm like, let's go back. Let's go back to Yeah, so Venom three is a is a rental house. Not a Christmas movie. Well, I did see many, many, many, many Christmas movies. But the one I will talk about my I saw it pop up. I don't know if it was last year or the year before. And I just was like, you know, it looks cute, but I don't know. And then I didn't get around to it. And then my brother was like, you gotta see this movie. So fucking good. I was like, All right, fine. I'll watch this movie, which is eight bit Christmas, and it's so good, nice animated. No, it's a live action film that's about the story of a kid getting his first Nintendo in the in 1988 and it's Neil Patrick Harris telling his daughter, who desperately wants a cell phone, the story of the Christmas where he got a Nintendo. And it is so like crazy. It just, it feels really weirdly authentic to the time, even though it's just weird. I mean, it's like a Christmas story, but 1988 you know, like, instead of being the 50s, it feels like kind of irreverent and silly and like over the top. And in the end, I was like, You guys stuck the landing on this really well, like, too well for a film, film that disappeared into the realms of the max catalog. So I've never even heard of this. It when did this come out? It was either last year or the year before. It's pretty recent. It's a weird title that probably doesn't help it much. Yeah, it's really hard to because it is literally the number eight day Christmas so, yeah, I remember it popping up a couple times, and I was like, oh, it looks kind of fun. And then it disappeared. And I was like, Oh, it must have been not that good. But no, it's fucking it's good. It's a nice little Christmas movie. I'll definitely add it to the ranks of because I don't, I don't like a Christmas story. So I'd much rather watch this. What did you watch that on max? Oh, okay, so I watched a Christmas movie as well. Terrifier Three. It popped up on, I think Amazon on a discount, it's like more than half off my What the hell I'll watch that. It's fine. It's I think it's a better realized movie than two was. So they keep getting a little better at making the movie itself. I think I figured out why I find them less compelling than I think they could be. Because you don't get Jason, you get all those other guys, and they just stock and stock and kill stock and kill stock and kill with pinhead. You got a little bit of I'm going to play with my food before I kill it. But that was part of the story, that was what you called for when you called them. This one, he plays with his food a lot, way too long. And if and he always kills them, I think if just once during the movie, he lets someone go, it would ratchet up the tension in the film and make it a lot more interesting to watch, because at this point, it's like there's a scene where he goes into a bar and there's a guy dressed to Santa Claus, and they start messing around, and you know, he's going to kill all three of them, which, of course, he does. And I think if just one of those people had gone that next scene when he starts screwing with people would be more interesting. But, I mean, I know that's not what the movie is. It's just, what is the terrifier creature like? Is it some spiritual Yeah, it seems like they're going forward to being a being a demon and a demon, another demon with him. There's the girl in the second one. This one, she's really messed up, looking fairly uncomfortable makeup, with the destroyed face. And the the main hero is has a magic blade. And at one point in the second movie, at least, was dressed up kind of and. Jellically. So they've, they've made him supernatural, which helps. And it's, why does it want to kill people? I don't know. That's part of it too. It's, I don't maybe there's a motivation in something I missed. But the motivation seems to be, I've come from hell, and I'm just going to kill everyone I can and try to continue my reign through whatever supernatural means he has to do. And it's is a little funnier than the previous ones, and it didn't have, at least, I didn't feel there's one scene in the second one that's just so gory and goes on for so long, it becomes like, Thanks, please. They, they didn't do that this time, although, yes, ridiculously gory. But I of the this might be the one I like the most of the three of them. But you know, what are you gonna do? Is he? Is he the main character, or are we given a group of kids who have accidentally caught his eye and he and we'll get a final girl, or something like that, and the second one, they introduce a boy and his sister, and she's supposed to be like some kind of a the only person that can destroy terrifier forgot his name, but anyways, only one that can destroy him, and that is carried on in the second one art The clown. No, that's right. Thank you. That's right. So that continues, so there's a little bit of a follow through with that. But other than that, everybody's just, he just walks from set piece to set piece, killing people, until he finally runs into her. So it's like, man, these guys know how to make a low budget gore fest, they are and they know how to give what the terrifier audience expects really well, I got no bones with the filmmakers, because they figured out a way to make this ridiculously, comparatively speaking, ridiculously low budget film make bank at the box office, and, man, cool, keep doing whatever works for you. I'll appreciate your success more than your movies. So yeah, that's kind of how I feel. I'm glad that this exists, and it certainly seems to have its fan base, but I just don't think this movie franchises for me. No, yeah, that's kind of how I'm feeling too. I think eventually I'll, I'll watch one of them, just to know, but I don't know. There's nothing that's been like, really, like, I gotta see this movie. He started off in those short films, or he's kind of like an anthology. If you watch those, you can get a much shorter taste of what he's about. And if you're intrigued, you might go from there, because I watched those earlier this year. I watched one of them, and it's actually pretty good filmmaking over those on YouTube or Amazon or whoever has maybe maybe even shutter. Somebody has, like, everything, but three, okay, that sounds right, but, well, okay, that's uh terrifying three. And you said that was still a rental. Yes, I don't know if it's still discounted, but it was like eight or nine bucks down from 25 I think so. I was like, Sure, cool. Okay, well, why don't we take a little bit excuse me, why don't we take a little break, and when we return, we're just going to be talking about holiday movies. I'm sure we all picked something nice and fluffy. Yay. Yay. Yay. According to legends, little boat no hills is where the toys are. Bill's toy layaway to send me some down a small service card. Lays away toys, little and large, hundreds of toys Express lay away too. So lay away is even easier for you. Remember, don't toy lay away one reason they're different and why they say Hills is where the toys are at low prices every day. Hello. Let's see who's called the strange eons radio hotline. Congratulations on 300 episodes. This is the strange eons. Oh, gee. Jamie pence from coming, coming at you from the south. Sound. I call myself. And g on og strangee Eons OG, because I was in the room when Kelly and Eric first met, I count myself as the original soldier in the strangee army. I can believe it's been 300 episodes. You fools can talk about anything for any amount of time, and I've watched it happen over the years either way. And the addition of Vanessa has been a wonderful has been a wonderful part to it, because that keeps Kelly from talking the whole time. Katie, who I am just offering my congratulations on 300 fantabulous episodes. Y'all kept name stitches and kept people around me looking at me strange while I'm at the gym, person breaking out into hysterics over something random that Kelly has said or Vanessa has responded. So y'all keep up the good work. Love to all of you and peace. If you'd like to call the strange eons radio hotline, dial, 253-237-4266, nobody hangs up on the we have returned. Hello. Hey guys. This was my sub genre pick, and I chose just holiday movies, since it's the holidays. And so I, I picked Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer. No, I picked from 2007 p2 I remember really liking this one. Oh, I've not seen it yet. I just been on my list forever. So I'm so excited to hear if you like it or not. It's actually called the full title is p2 a new level of fear, which I think is quite stupid. Yeah, it is directed, Ah, shit, I didn't pick the timer in. Hold on. Please hold let's see Jingle Bells. Jingle Bells. My God, I had a big debate with Austin about the music of the like the snowman will pretend that he is Parson Brown. He'll say, are you married? Will someone? I was like, Who? He was like, what? Who's Parson Brown? I was like, I don't know. Like, is it religious dude? Like, why? Why are they getting married? I'm like, I don't I don't know. Anyways, we talked about this for like, half an hour, and then had to look up the historical references to the song. Okay, we have returned again. Sorry about that, guys. I had to run out and grab the timer. This was my topic, and I chose holiday movies, and the idea being that it's the holidays, is it? Yeah, thinking I'm gonna put five minutes on the buzzer and I'm gonna talk about a little movie from 2007 called p2 Hi Mom, you're not gonna believe what happened? Angela, are you calling me from work? Believe me, I can't wait to get out of here and see you Guys. Please don't be any later. I promise won't you. What am I gonna do? No, no, no, hello, you. Angela, you okay? I didn't mean to scare you. What happened to my clothes? Yeah. What do you want? I've seen you drive out of here so many times. Strange being with you. It's great, actually you. Please. If anyone can hear me, someone's trying to kill me. Merry. Christmas. You. The full title of this movie is p2 a new level of fear. That's what actually pulls up on the title credits for p2 a new level of beer. That's a commitment, sure, directed by Frank Cal foon, who has nine credits, including Knight of the hunted, Amityville, the awakening and pray. But not that one, not the good praise. Okay, it's like what was written by Frank, but it was also written by Alexandra Aha, who wrote and directed high tension, horns and crawl, and also written by Greg Gregory Levi, who was a co writer, co writer on high tension the Hills Have Eyes And maniac. It stars Rachel Nichols, who has 52 credits, including the Ryan Reynolds Amityville Horror. GI Joe, The Rise of Cobra, and five episodes of Titans, as I think she was ravens mom on Titans. It also stars Wes Bentley, who has 50 credits. You would know him from interstellar ghostwriter, The Hunger Games, and also 53 episodes of Yellowstone as Jamie Dutton. I don't watch Yellowstone, but I hear it's a very good show. Okay, let's see you guys have or have not seen p2 I have not, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's pretty good, but we are on the in the minority of people liking it. Okay? Vanessa, I think this would scare you, because it's kind of a terrifying movie. Yes, let me tell you why. Okay, our protagonist is Angela, and she is stuck working late on Christmas Eve in a large corporate building, and then, as they have shut down the building and everything, she goes down to the basement, her car won't start, so the parking attendant, Thomas talks her into letting him try to jump the car, even though she just wants to get outside and get a cab. And he's like, no, no, no. This will take just a minute, but he can't seem to figure out what's the problem is, it's not the battery, so he's at a loss. This has taken like, 10 minutes of her time, and she's like, she's got a Christmas party she's supposed to get to. And as she leaves the basement to try and get a cab, Thomas makes a awkward pass at her, making her super uncomfortable. When she gets up to the lobby, she is locked into the building, however, and when the cab shows up, she can't get out the door to the street, so she's like, wave into the cab, and he's just like, you know? So she goes back down to talk to the parking attendant so he can let her out, but she can't find him, and the cab driver leaves, and then all the lights go out in the parking garage. She is attacked in the dark and chloroformed. And when she wakes up, she is tied to a chair in the parking office, and Thomas is dressed like Santa and has made them a romantic little dinner. As you can imagine, she is. She is not cool with this, but he has a very vicious Rottweiler there, and he makes her call the family that's waiting for her at Christmas and tell them that she's not feeling good and not to wait for her to show up. So basically, she is now fucked. The rest of the movie is a pretty taut little thriller, with her train to escape and almost making it. And this guy gets a little more unhinged every time she almost makes it. And man, this guy is unhinged. He's got some very creepy ideas for what passes as Christmas presents because he's very in love with her, and one of them involves kidnapping a guy that made a pass at her an office party and then repeatedly running into him with a car in the garage. Oh, god, yeah. So when Angela does escape him, she's still trapped in the garage with him, so she needs to get out somehow. And it turns into a predator slash prey film throughout the parking garage. I thought this was a really solid little thriller in the vein of the late 90s, early 2000 thrillers that, like you were saying, Eric, we just don't get anymore trigger warning. I guess there is some violence to a dog, but in her defense, it was trying to eat her. Accompanying the closing credits are a few stills from the film presented as if the movie had been a comedy. Oh, my God, no. I. Oh, you guys. Tagline, the only thing more terrifying than being alone is discovering that you are not. Oh, trivia, according to an interview, I'm going to run out of time, according to an interview Wes Bentley gave to the New York Times in 2010 this movie was made during the middle of his decade long Oh, oh, this movie was made during the middle of his decade long, extremely serious addiction to cocaine and heroin. Bentley admitted in that interview that he only accepted the few movie roles he had during that time so that he would have money to buy drugs in Spanish, phonetically, the title p2 sounds exactly like pedos. That means farts. So Spanish distributors opted for the more generic parking too. And finally, the film cost $3.5 million and was a box office bomb averaging only $977 per theater from 11, making it the time one of the worst opening weekends for a film released on over 2000 screens. The Run continued in the US through December, concluding with a domestic growth of almost 4 million and a worldwide gross of a little over$7 million and the run to rotten tomatoes on this is really low too. So what? For whatever reason, people do not like this movie, but I thought it was really good. Yeah. I remember really liking it. Yeah, I remember liking it enough that I was a little surprised how old it is. And he said, it's like, wow, it was that long ago. Yeah, well, you know, I didn't see it for the first time until like, five years ago. I think I just it just got such bad reviews and and it was in and out of the theater and everything. So I thought it was bad. And then I just popped up on something several years ago, and I watched it, and I was like, Oh, this is not bad, and it's terrifying if you're a woman. So, yeah, I was gonna say it does sound pretty uncomfortable, especially once the lights go out. That sounds Vanessa, you want to go next? I would love to go next. I am putting five minutes on your buzzer. Excellent. So I went with adult swims. Yule Log from 2022 You Hey, Marla, my cleaning service flakes, so I can't make it. Yeah, it's been a big old shit show. I had people checking into units that weren't cleaned, and now I'm here with a vacuum. No, no, you stay. I'm fine. You know, I got my music. It's, it's kind of relaxing, which I had never seen. So I heard it was crazy, and I just was like, I don't have time for this shit. So I did not watch it. I should have. So I. Written and directed by Casper Kelly. He is 12 directing credits and 31 writing credits. He's behind too many cooks. Your pretty face is going to hell. He also wrote the sequel, which is Adult Swim, mule log two branching out. He did some Star Trek shorts. He also wrote the Mandy section of the film with the cheddar Goblin and a lot of adults home stuff. This is filled with a bunch of actors who have basically just done bit parts and stuff like pretty much, I don't think anybody in it is famous. The main stars are Andrea Lang, who was in the game pain hustlers and lots of small roles and Justin Miles, who is in let's be cops, old dads, 13 episodes of the gates, and then six episodes of Eastbound and Down. So the plot I'm going to do my best, and I do my best. We open with two minutes of yule log, perfectly fine, crackling wood. Then we see something kind of coming in and out of focus, and it is a cleaning lady who's like walking through frame. She's cleaning up, when all of a sudden, a some people get into the it's like a cabin. It's like a rental cabin, a guy who looks like leather face, but he's not. He's pleather head in the credits, and his mom, who are just exactly what you think they are, mom, encourages him to, you know, make nice with this girl, and maybe she's gonna get some grand babies. That's her big goal. But he, of course, proceeds to kill her, because it turns out she just wasn't the one, so just anyway. So then as they finish the crime and they're trying to figure out how to, like, bury the body, a couple arrives at the cabin. They hear them coming, so they take the body, they go into one of the downstairs rooms and they hide. A couple arrive, and the camera is still going. It's the cabin that they have rented, and the camera is going, because this guy is a professional yule log or fire photographer, camera guy. This is his job. He goes around the world creating log burning videos. But actually what he's going to do is propose to his girlfriend. So but then the police show up and they're like, hey, there's some killers on the loose. You guys be careful. And they're like, Oh, okay. And they're like, Oh, also, you're burning a sacred log from a tree that hung black people, hanged black people many years ago. And need to put that out, because that is cursed. And before the police go, they sprinkle something on the on the Fiery don't really know when. So then the couple is alone. Guy proposes a girl. Girl says no, because she has gone through a series of misfortunate events and is worried she's cursed. Before they can get into it, another group arrives in the cabin. This is all the same, locked off shot. Another group arrives at the cabin, and the cabin is double booked. These guys are all from a podcast where they've come to I know, right? I feel really, yes, they do a podcast on UFO sightings, and this is a hotbed for UFO activities. They refuse to leave and say that they're just going to have to work it out with the owner. So everybody's there, and the podcasters start to get into the drugs when one of them notices a tiny man in the fire who beckons him to come. He crawls towards the firewall on drugs and ends up with a Southern gentleman having a nice conversation about opportunities that perhaps would change his fortune. So all the pieces are set up. The rest of the film devolves into a cursed flying killer log, a backwater killer and his mom, a tiny man in the fire granting God wishes and aliens, nice one after another, sometimes combined. Mostly the Lula is going around exploding people in horrific ways while spouting stuff that you cannot understand. The aliens, of course, freaked me out a good deal. The mom and son, I could care less about the characters. Mostly, you want to all to die, but ding, I'm so off my game right now, guys. So just a little bit of trivia. This was conceived by Kelly when he was watching a youth other Kelly, the director, writer, when he was watching a long video and wondering what would occur if somebody's legs appeared out of focus walking through the frame. He then pitched the initial concept to Adult Swim directly, giving their work history together and. Uh, was basically green lit. They had a slush fund which was allowed to basically throw on anything without requiring corporate approval, um, and because it was kept to a relatively low budget, they could avoid any scrutiny from the higher ups, and thus kind of allowed to do what they wanted. So the first Adult Swim feature film project as well as first horror film project for them. Um, initially they wanted the film to open up with two hours of the fireplace yule log sequence, but a higher profile time slot caused Kelly to cut the segment down to just two minutes before the subsequent home invasion and murder sequence, which I think is a shame, because that would have been terrific. I mean, imagine being the person who was like, I stayed up till midnight and a whole fucking film occurred that would have been so good. Post production was done by a special effects company out of Brazil that specializes in digital fire effects. There's a lot about slavery going on in this film. And that's because Kelly discovered that he had, his family has a history of slave ownership, and he really wanted to delve into that. And his kind of personal responsibilities as a white dude in modern day awoke white dude. And modern day times, um, there's equal adult like I mentioned. Um, branching out is produced in 2024 released in 2024 the star does show back up in it. All of this is available on max. That was my movie. Yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, it was good. I would definitely recommend checking it out. I didn't love the ending, but it's Adult Swim. So I feel like they were like, We gotta be fucking brutal. Crazy man. Was like, Oh, do we? Do we? This is a stupid ending, but All right, that's fine. I I thought this is kind of a brilliant idea, and really loved the first one. I have watched the second one. Did you watch the sequel? I did not. I did not, not, not nearly as good. Doesn't have that doesn't have the gimmick of the Yule Log, yeah, at all. It's just a straight movie. It's supposed to be, like, based off of the, like, Christmas rom com stuff, the Hallmark movies that she gets into. There's a couple of there's a couple of chuckles in it, but it's just nowhere near as fun. Oh, I'm glad that you like that. Yeah, I had a good time at that, and I probably will end up watching the sequel eventually, but I was gonna watch it back to back, and I was like, that's fine. I'm good, yeah, the ending killed you for you. All right, Eric, you ready? Yep, yep. Are you five minutes? Thank you. All right, so I went with a more recent film, but not really 2020. Ones, red snow. Do you like vampires? No, not really. Why? I just noticed that you have a vampire book on death, vampire ornaments on your tree. You know, I've seen a gang of perhaps rip a man's head off then kick it round in a circle Like a hacky sack. Oh. There vampires aren't real. Oh yes, they are. And you know, they are. Readily available to be rentals it gets in the 80s for Rotten Tomatoes. And I go, Well, this might be interesting. Part of my reason for checking it out was my brother and sister in law go to Lake Tahoe, like every year, and this was entirely shot in Lake Tahoe, but not so as you notice, because it's pretty much all a cabin in the woods. So I was like, Oh, well. But. But this is directed by Sean Nicholas Lynch, who directed the ceremonies about to begin in five short films early on in his career. This is written by Sean Nicholas Lynch. Can you guess what he wrote? Yeah, you're right. Actors are Denise cineros, who was in a movie called Who Killed Santa a murder, murderville, murder mystery, eight episodes of dating casually and NCIS, also Nick Nico Bellamy, who is in seven episodes of boy and girl I don't know, Laura Keenan, who's the voice of many NBA video games, and it was in Ted Bundy serial monster. She does have a very cool voice movie breakdown. This starts out with a vampire attack, Okay, nice little setup, quick, kind of blurtle the then we introduced the main character, who is a woman writing vampire stories and doing the way to not get published, sending unsolicited submissions to places so she keeps getting turned down, which you will Whoa. Kelly blinked out during that evening after she's drinking over another failed submission, a bat runs into her window, and she takes it in and decides to nurture sit back to health. As you can probably imagine, it's a little bit more than a regular bat. The bat in the next morning is now a naked man lying in the garage where she left the bat. Super low budget film, but I can tell you, the heart in this movie is deep, the care the filmmakers put into making it is evident even through all the weaknesses that come with a movie as low budget as this, I would not be surprised if the budget was under 30,000 I mean, it looks real low. I did like that the there's a group of vampire hunters in the group called the Severin group, like probably just me. They did an interesting adjustment to vampire lore, though, when she's interviewing him, you know, so she can write a book about what's going on, he says, Now holy water will work unless the priest who blessed it had been involved in touching little boys, and then the holy water won't work nice. Okay, sure, it's this is a super light vampire rom com. It's fairly cute. There's some violence, but nothing. I guess there's some pretty grizzly stuff, but it just works. It was fine. It was the kind of movie like I've talked about with film festivals, right? Man, somebody loved putting this together, and it shows I thought it was it's hard to say, you have to watch it, but it's the hearts where it should be interesting note on red snow, also known as pink snow, or blood snow, and most commonly referred to as watermelon snow. I know this because back in my backpacking days, when my dad and I used to climb mountains and stuff, it is a pink snow that appears largely in higher elevation snow. It's edible in small amounts because I'm still here. But it smells really sweet. It smells very interesting, pretty much just tastes like snow, but it can be used as a laxative, and thankfully, I never had that problem in the deep woods. Maybe one of our listeners, Jason, I know, does a lot of hiking in the woods, maybe he might just run into it. Why is it pink? It's an algae. Okay, it's not some like some animal having to, Oh God no, no, okay, just check in. Just one that clarification. Side note, this was shot entirely in Lake Tahoe in 12 days. Wow. And all stuff is practical, and they use taxidermy bike bats because they didn't like the appearance of the synthetic props. And it won the best horror comedy feature at the New York City horror film festival in 2021 nice. If you love the low budget stuff, you're gonna like it. I liked this one also. I thought it was pretty cute. And, yeah, when you only have like, $30,000 this is the type of movie you should be aiming to make. Yeah, it's almost all one location about. And the other locations, like outside the cabin and what, like five people, Max, really, only two. Now, when you say the Severin group, were you thinking of the Severin video? Yeah, like, it's close. It's sever on, I think it's pronounced slightly different. Oh, okay, because I remember thinking that it was named after because that was Lance henriksens character in near dark was seven. Oh, that's probably what it is, because there's another, I thought it was nods like that in the movie. Yeah, cool. Well, all right, nice. I blinked out there, and you guys had, like, frozen completely, and I was like, oh boy, so But apparently that was all on my end, so hopefully whatever faces I was making while I was trying to understand what you were saying aren't too hideous to behold. Nope, you're good. Eric, I believe it is your choice for the next sub genre pick. Yes, yeah. Well, too bad you've already done heretic, because I think we should do religious themes, and this could be exorcism or demon stuff. Make it as broad as you like. It doesn't have to have a religious artifact in it, or something very specific. So enjoy, like, I like this idea a lot. What a way to what a way to bring in the new year. Okay, well, that sounds great. This is the part then where we say thank you to everybody who's been with us, especially if you've been with us for 302 episodes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Go step beyond if you've even been with us 100 episodes. Good Lord, people, five episodes. 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