317 MONSTER ATOMIC!

317 MONSTER ATOMIC!
We're remote again for this one, and we're talking 1950's atomic monsters!
Also discussed:BoneBat Comedy of Horrors Film Festival, The Studio, Presence.

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It's like you have to find those things around you that you can look at and feel positive. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration somewhere between science and superstition. You we have such sights to show you. Strange eons. Welcome to strange eons. Radio that is Eric over there, hello, and that is Vanessa over there. Hello, and I am Kelly gang. We are doing a remote episode because Vanessa, what is going on with your kid? Just teething, getting older, growing pains? Oh, I thought the teething was real last time, and I was so wrong. It is so bad. It was like four days of, like, crying, constant pain. She wouldn't even let me touch the side of her cheeks. And then she spiked 102 fever for several days that I had to, like, manage. Yikes, so, and then I felt unwell. So I just, you know, sometimes, every once in a while, every other week, make us record from our beautiful remote stations. Well, it got so bad that I know we were going to record yesterday, which is when we would normally record in person. Then that got pushed to a remote, and then that remote got just pushed. And then, Eric, you had some stuff going on too. I was like, boy, yesterday was, you know what I did yesterday? I drank two bottles of wine by myself. That seems like a better option. Way better option. Way more pleasant way to spend the day. I would have traded you in a heartbeat. Well, it's, it's called a disease. You guys, I some, I've seen some stuff. I am, I am in a, in a mood. You guys, I am going to move through it. I am going through it. Let me see. Okay, got that all right? I started watching a show that you would think was tailor made for me, and I've made it two episodes, and I don't think I will continue. And it is called the studio on Apple, plus bizarrely negative things about, oh, have you okay? Yeah, it does not looked like crap to me, but I don't think I don't nothing's funny, so it's not for me. It started out the first episode, I was like, Oh, this is kind of cute, and they're short episodes, and Seth Rogen, who has, who has been promoted to kind of like the head of this small studio, and he loves film more than anything in his life, and wants to make amazing, big budget art house films, but he's not going to be allowed to do that. The thing that he has been put on is, they have gotten the IP for Kool Aid, and he has been put on the Kool Aid movie. Oh, you're, you're selling. It's, it's kind of funny. But then the second episode, and the thing is, this is a series of just wonders, I mean, long shots where they're following people through, and I'm, I'm like, wow, this is pretty amazing. But the second episode is called the wonder, and it is all one shot, and it's Wow, it's impressive. And it's all about him visiting the set of a movie where they're trying to get this one, or at the golden hour, just as the sun is going to set, and all of this stuff. But he is so neurotic and out of touch with himself, that he keeps fucking up the shot just by being there. And it was really amping up my own anxiety, because I was just like, Hey, dude, fucking leave. I mean, I get it. You're the guy running the entire thing, and you really want to be here and everything, but the director is is, you know, furious with him, and everybody around is just like, Oh Christ, this guy. And I guess I think that if I was getting any of that energy anywhere, I'd be like, Hey you guys, good luck. I'll see you tomorrow, or something like that. And the fact that he's so clueless just started to really wear on me. I think it's worse, because you know what a set is like and how stressful and how important it is to get those shots when you're on that time constraint. So I feel like that, like doubles up your anxiety because you're aware the common viewer is not going to understand that. I don't. I think the common viewer is a lot more savvy. Than they used to be as far as movie production movies go. Otherwise they wouldn't keep making these kind of shows. But I don't know so you guys no interest in it, or nothing I did originally, but your comments followed with everything else I've read about it. It seems kind of like soured me out and gone around maybe sometime, but, but it's on Apple. It's on Apple. And, man, talk about a stacked cast, because everybody, yeah, is showing up as themselves. So, you know, you've got all these big actors and directors and everything. He'll just do a cameo and have a little scene, and then they'll move on. And I'm just like, wow, that is really impressive. So I was, I just thought I would absolutely love this show, but I don't know, I'm dragging my heels on watching the third episode, but it is called the studio, and it is on Apple. Wow. Well, you had a film that you talked about before that. I finally checked out heart eyes. Yeah, I love this movie. So much good. Oh, my god. It's so cute. You're like, I don't know, like the way they advertised it, it looked like it was just gonna be a kind of crummy slasher, and instead, it's just a meet cute that happens to have like a serial killer in the background. And it just, I, I was so charmed by it. I just absolutely enjoyed, wow, every moment of it. I thought, yeah, it's like a, it's like a Hallmark movie, yes, some serious gore. Of fact, yeah, every time somebody went into a confined space, I was like, Don't, don't, don't do that. Why are you in there? Now, okay, I guess so. I'm gonna close my eyes in a second here, slowly back away. Is that, is that streaming for free now? Or no, I paid, I paid a rental for it, but it wasn't, I don't think it was full price. So, yeah, definitely, definitely worth checking out. I've, I've tried to spread the word amongst people already and just say no, no, no, no, you don't understand. It's really cute, like, it's really sweet. It's really lovely. It has a great plot. It's funny. Takes place in Seattle. Oh, yes, I've never seen so many palm trees in my like, when they went to the rooftop bar, I was like, That's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life, right there you think Seattle would have a rooftop bar downtown, but I thought at them five days out of the year, and the rest of the time, they have to haul out those fucking like, heaters and umbrellas, and you're listening, you're like, trying not to get wet, and you're listening to the wind whip through the umbrellas. You're like, cool, I'm glad I'm having this experience with this expensive alcohol. It's so weird that you've lived in Seattle as long as you have, and that's still your impression city, yes, well, certainly in February it would be like the rooftop bar. I thought more more telling was the the massive drive in theater with the Space Needle in the background. Yeah, that was, that was so cool in theory, and yet, yeah, hell of a location. Great. I would love to be there, though. And that was a really good scene as well. Like, I really love kind of what they did in there. So that's me, yeah, in my heart, that's what Seattle can be, sure palm trees and all malignant Adam, they've got them, you know, keep them coming. Well, yesterday, as we're recording this, yesterday, was one of my favorite film festival events of the year. Excuse me, the bone back comedy of horrors Film Festival. There was it 14th year, and pretty usually at a fun musical guest, the Phantom ad, who's kind of a rockabilly sort of like 60s, sort of horror host as a band leader. Pretty good, very good band fun to listen to at least two shorts. I think Vanessa will need to avoid, oh God, make me a pizza and pizza panic party make me a pizza is borderline fetish of if of a spin off of the classic delivery guy delivering to a woman with a pizza. The porn. It goes places that are like, oh shit. It's very, very weird. So I would that one comes across here. You might want to just skip that. The panic pizza party is a little more fun, but, but yeah, it was pretty usual, really good, a great short about a giant mosquito guy and Nightmare Freddy gums, which is more accurate than it you might initially think. And what he does really well with the festival is it's a comedy, comedy horror Festival, and a lot of people don't necessarily realize that. That means he shows some flat horror stuff too, and they get so much more intense because you've been watching this comedy, comedy comedy, and then this one starts to go, am I supposed to be laughing at? Oh god no, not this one. The Dark Ones were so dark and so uncomfortable, but some really, really good stuff. And, man, I wish we'd been in this year, because they're at the Cinerama. I was just gonna say, weren't they at the Cinerama this year? Yeah, big, giant theater. It looked fantastic, although the poor folks running around trying to deliver the they do a drawing every year and give away a lot of stuff, 3040, items or more. So they people are running around all over the place, bringing it to people's chairs and stuff. So there's a lot of movement for some few people there. But I tell you, it was, as always, really good, nice, highly recommended if you're in the Seattle area to come by for the bone back comedy of horror. Cinerama is a big place that they have a big audience. The problem with the Cinerama, they had a very good, big audience. I think they said they sold more tickets than they ever had. The problem is, as you know, from like doing myth, we had a 400 seat theater for one of our festivals that like 40 people showed up for. But the layout of the room made it look like there was a lot of people there. Yeah, the layout of the Cinerama is huge, with these giant aisles all over the place. So you get three or 400 people in there, and it looks kind of light, but they had a great, great turnout. There was a plenty of people there, and had great time. Lot of a lot of good like good shorts. And, you know, it's like, it seems like half the people that go to cryptocon Come to this so much old friends can't, yeah, can't everybody we know. And so it was fun. Well, that's very cool. Well, good. Uh, everybody mark your calendars. Bone bat next year around this time. That's right. Let's see. I will start with, I guess I will continue with a another TV show that I was looking forward to that was horribly disappointing, the bondsman with Kevin Bacon. Oh, I haven't heard anything about this. It looks okay. Yeah, it is, do you remember boy, probably 10 or 15 years ago now, a fox show called Brimstone is about a guy who it was about a guy who was in hell, and he was like a police detective, and he was sent to get these demons that had escaped from hell. Well, that's this exact same story, and only they're trying to throw in kind of a, kind of a white trash humor element to it, because Kevin Bacon is kind of a white trash dude. He's not exactly your, your stand up kind of guy who committed murder or something like that, is, it's a bunch of little things that has ended him in hell. And I don't know, I really, really want to like it. It's not shot very well, and it's not quite funny enough, and the effects are not quite good enough. So everything in it, I was like, I don't know. I love me some getting bacon, but, yeah, but not here. Sounds too bad. That is called the bondsman that's on prime, and all the episodes are out. Wow, oh, that's a bummer. Well, on the opposite side of that spectrum, I checked out presents, which, that's the Steven Soderbergh ghost movie, oh, where the whole thing's from the ghost POV. And, like, I didn't end up seeing it in theaters because I'd started hearing mixed things about it, where it's like. Like, not the kind of movie you think it's going to be. And like it, you know, some something awkward happens in it, and the ghost doesn't do anything. And so I just kind of avoided it. And I have to say, it was, I really liked it. I thought it was a really good little ghost movie. It's mostly with a sort of fisheye lens, handheld POV from the ghost perspective. A new family moves into a house, and the family has all kinds of difficult dynamics going on. The daughter, her friend, had recently died, and she's going through a lot of depression. The Son is under a lot of pressure to like, do well in swim team. And his mom basically moved them to this house so he could get into this one school to do, like, the best swim team he can the marriages have has some tensions in there, and you're kind of like, lifted in and out of these scenes. And then you can kind of tell when the ghost is like, uninterested. It kind of like pieces out or it's like, it's, I don't know, there's a lot of personality that's coming out just through the camera work. And the ending may or may not end up being obvious, but I just like the ride a lot. I thought that I felt like, I don't know, I thought about it for a long time afterwards, so I recommend checking it out. It was a rental, but it wasn't as expensive as normal. So I think I got it for like 10 bucks on Prime was so was the ghost character, or just kind of a point of view. Both, it starts off mostly as a point of view, and then you start to unravel this mystery behind, like, Who is this ghost? Why are they there? And that becomes like a pivotal point of the plot. So the ghost actually does have some interactions. It's not completely like a point of view, and nothing else like it does slowly weave itself into the plot pretty heavily. Huh? Interesting. Yeah, I heard about this, and I was, was mildly interested. But wasn't he the one that did the the movie on his cell phone last Eric, that I hated so much. I don't know if that was last film, but he did that a while ago, like the asylum or something like that. Yeah, Lady in an asylum or treatment center or something, yeah, it was all, I guess it was like borderline horror, yeah, because I can't remember what it was, if she was being haunted or something like that, but, or if they were making her out to be insane and she wasn't. Oh, but I remember just really, really disliking that it had a similar curve to it. It sounds like you're describing, that really made it hard for me to watch, because I just don't like that look. Yeah, yeah. I think he's been trying a lot of stuff because, like, I saw Kimmy, and then I might talk about another time black bag as well. Those are more of his recent things. And I think he's really dipping into all kinds of different things. But, I mean, he also did contagion, oceans, 11. He's actually one of my favorite directors, and has done some stuff I really love, but he's also, well, he's experimental enough, which I respect, but doesn't mean I always like, what is experimental? Yeah, yeah. I love a lot of the stuff he's done, though. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's called presence. Oh, Kelly, you want to take the headphones off? I'll just leave the room. I recently completed this book you might have heard of, called thorns, written by this KL young guy, he sounds and third in his ongoing series of writing outside of scripts, and it's pretty fantastic. The hardest thing I think right for a writer to do is to create a physical kind of response in you make you laugh out loud or cry. Or what happened to me while reading this book where there's this scene where two of the people are just having this fun, great little night, getting to know each other and getting drunk and high, and then one line is set, and it changed the tone of the entire thing. And I physically felt that as I'm reading it going, and she said that line, and everything in me just went, oh shit. And it was wild, because that, you know, that just doesn't happen in books very often. You. Is a messed up book in the best ways. If you like uncomfortable stuff, you're going to get some of it, which is a compliment. That is a good thing and but I found it thoroughly interesting and wildly readable. I had a very strange habit when I was a younger kid and starting to discover Stephen King, where if I really, really liked the book, I would slow read it. I would hit to a point where the tension really got high, and I'd stop reading, come back to it again, like I read every night, so I come back again next night and start reading it again. And that's what I did with this book. It took me way longer than it should have to read it or read this book, but that's because I kept doing that as I go, come back later. So I I think it's, I think it's the best thing you've written, and it's, it's cool to see that you're progressing in the writing. And it's fun to you know knowing you well enough to get all the little messages like the the rotting corpse line and stuff like that. So that adds a little something that other people, not some other people are definitely going to know. But yeah, just wanted to say, really good. Marth, has it set aside? Oh no, he's going to, he's taking a trip. He's going to read it on the plane. So I'm very curious what he's going to think. Oh no, it's a few seeds every going, Oh, they should be interested to see what Mark thinks. It has been getting nice reviews, but one of the reviews was from a woman was like, I really enjoyed this book, but there were a couple of times I put it down and I was like, that was fucked up. There is some fucked up stuff in it, yeah? Well, I'm really, I'm really glad that you liked it. Yeah, thanks, man, I appreciate that horns, and it's available. Extra fun though, to pick it up go to your Barnes and Noble or whatever, and local thing and order it from a bookstore and pick it up at a bookstore, because that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's available wherever you can order your books. So if you don't like the evil corporation of Amazon, whatever evil corporation you do like, it is available through them as well. So Thanks, Eric. That was really kind of you. Okay, well, let me go and wash my brain of all of this stuff, and then when we come back, we're going to be talking about atomic monsters. You here's the GI Joe adventure team line with new Mike power, atomic man. Here's the commander. Trouble is in our business. Mission to rescue a secret message. Atomic man's eye starts flashing. With your help, atomic man lowers Joe. No time to lose. You help Joe grab the message with his kung fu grip you put on atomic man's propeller. He's got the message, and he's off to headquarters. New mice power, atomic man. We have returned, guys. This was my sub genre pick, and I wanted to do atomic monsters, so some kind of creature feature that that was a result of, you know, atomic radiation. I don't know about you guys, I figured that most of these movies probably would come from the 50s, and mine Sure did. From 1958 oh, hang on. A second, five minutes, five minutes almost forgot, from 1958 I chose fiend without a face. Oh, the brain, it's gone. That's not all. The entire spinal cord is missing. It's incredible. It's as if some mental vampire at work. Does it come from another country or another world? This terrifying menace that g2 must destroy before it's too late. Image is fading, sir. There it goes again. Same trouble. How can they stop this invisible force? Boss whose only warning is a weird, blood chilling sound. Only two people still alive can help this agent find the answers, the girl who could be a spy and the scientist who could be the destroyer of the entire human race. We're facing a new form of life that nobody understands. I believe it feeds on the radiation from your atomic blood, and that it's evil. You've got to stop them. There's only one way shut down your atomic plant. If I can get through I can blow up the control room. You directed by Arthur Crabtree, who has 22 credits, including horrors of the black museum death over my shoulder and The Adventures of Robin Hood, written by Herbert J leader, who has eight credits, including it and Doomsday machine and the frozen dead. And this was based on an original story by Amelia Reynolds, long starring Marshall Thompson, 118 credits, including mcbang lure of the swamp and east of Kilimanjaro, also starring Kim Parker, who has 13 credits, including fire maidens of outer space, undercover girl and the man without a body. And in here is also kiness and Reeves, who has 154 credits, tons and tons of television, including or not that, but also including shadow the cat go to blazes. And here's my favorite. If there weren't any blacks, you'd have to invent them. Wozer. There's a lot of subjects that could be loser. You guys familiar with fiend without a face. No, yeah, well, this will probably turn you off everyone to see it, fantastic, fair, what you guys this movie is something else. It is ostensibly an atomic monster, Creature Feature. However, the monsters are fucking invisible. It starts with a local farmer being discovered in the woods on the outskirts of a US Air Force Base in Manitoba, up in Canada, his face is frozen in an expression of pure horror. Back at the base, the higher ups are discussing the death, and even though it's not really their jurisdiction, major Jeff Cummings decides he wants to be personally involved in the investigation. Cummings thinks the man might have been up to something nefarious, and he ends up talking to the man's sister, Barbara Grisel, who is quite lovely. She assures him that the notes her brother was taking on the flights in and out of the base were because his herd of cow's milk production was being disrupted by the Air Force's jets Cummings in Brazil seem to have a little connection going on here, even though she is way out of his Lake. But chicks dig a man in uniform, right? Vanessa, yeah, yes, oh, yes. Okay, sure. Later, we learned that the base is actually performing tests at the we learned that the base is performing tests on experimental radar so that they can increase their spying in Soviet airspace. But the test goes wrong. They seem to get enough power from a small atomic reactor they had built, but each time they use it, the atomic power is being drained by something else. Meanwhile, at another farm in the area, a woman is attacked by an invisible monster and killed, and when her husband tries to defend himself with a pitchfork, he is also killed, and it looks like something is grabbing them and strangling them, although we do not get to see what it is well. So the town is getting upset, and they think it has something to do with the atomic power being used at the base. And when an autopsy is finally performed, it is discovered that each of the dead people is missing their brains and spinal cords. Ah, so Cummings and Grisel are on the case, which leads them to a strange scientist who may have the answers they are searching for. You guys, this movie is only 74 minutes long, and an hour of that is invisible monsters and bad acting by everyone except Grisel. But if you hang on, you are rewarded in the last 14 minutes when the creatures are revealed to be crawling brains that use spinal cords to move like inchworms, and they are done in glorious stop motion. Oh, that's good. Yeah, there's a nice. Siege at the end, with all these creatures and a small cabin, and the officers are shooting brains left and right, and they hit the brains, and they're all kind of bubble. It's pretty good. I got some trivia on this, although I might run out of time. In an interview, Star Marshall Thompson recalled that director Arthur Crabtree didn't really want to direct the film. He thought sci fi was beneath him. Crabtree turned up on set on the first day of filming, took one look at the script and informed the cast and crew that he refused to do the film. He walked off set, and the producers needed several days to convince him to return, citing contractual obligations. Thompson says that during those days, Thompson directed the film himself. The British production was based on the thought monster by Amelia Reynolds long which was published, published in the classic American pulp magazine weird tales in 1930 the story was originally submitted by Forrest J Ackerman in the late 50s to American International pictures, which turned it down. I thought this was interesting. AIP producer Alex Gordon thought that his brother, producer Richard Gordon might be interested in it, and Richard Gordon took it, and his company amalgamated productions, eventually produced it in England. And then finally, this one is impossible to believe. The film created a public uproar after its premiere at the Ritz Theater in lachester Square. The British Board of Film sensors had already demanded a number of cuts before granting it the X certificate. There's nothing in here that would be scary or, quite honestly, even interesting. I'm just like, wow. Okay, this film, making it up, I would say that you guys could probably pass on fiend without a face. Good to know. Good to know. Watch the last 14 minutes. The Stop Motion brings they move like inch worms. So the spinal cord is doing this thing and the brain is at the beginning. I was like, Okay, this is fun. This is a lot of fun. Nice. Vanessa, you want to go next? Sure another. All right? Five minutes. All right. I went with H man. I don't touch it. You from the gaze in spots of a great city for the last desperate refuge of millions underground the incredible, monstrous H man strikes terror to every heart, disintegrates everyone it touches, it kills, but can't be killed. The most incredible man you never saw, deadly byproduct of the H bomb blasts, dooming mankind to oblivion. We are facing a situation which cannot be minimized, complete externation. Did you start yet? Yes, Masada went into the sur where? Right there. See a great city fight back COVID operations to stop the deadliest killer the world has yet encountered you. A 1958 on Tubi available, directed by Ishiro Honda, 78 credits, including Godzilla, Mothra, gyrora, etc, starring Yumi shirekawa, who was in Rodan the mysterians and the princess badger Palace, Kenji Sahara, who is in space amoeba, which I've talked about before, and ultra Q and A she Ikki Aki Hoko, sorry, rata, who had the recurring Godzilla role of Dr Shinzo na. Fauci This story begins on a rainy day. A man is hiding from the cops, sitting in his car waiting for a passenger in nisaki, a drug smuggler emerges from a sewer grate to the getaway car, and as he opens the truck, he is hit with a wave of pain, and all that is left behind are his clothes. The rest of him is goo, and it goes down into a sewer. His bag is full of drugs and, of course, left behind. And the police show up immediately. They start to question various sketchy people around town to try and find out where this Misaki went to because they don't think he's goo. They just think he left his clothes, and they check in with his incredibly beautiful girlfriend, Arya Chikako. She has not seen him for several days, and she is a popular singer at a cabaret. While performing, a mysterious man passes her a note saying he wants to talk about Misaki. And it turns out he is, of course, a university professor studying radiation effects, and want to know if Misaki was out at sea or traveling anytime recently. Oh, the scientist, the mafia are super mad at Misaki and go to Chicago's apartment to threaten her, only to be attacked by a goo monster that turns them into empty clothing. From then on, we've got Chicago being bothered by the police, the mob and the scientists, only for this scientist to ultimately believe that she saw this goo man. Situation, the goo strikes again, this time at a club, and many, many people are murdered, including a dancer. The secret is out, and the city is terrified of the H man. We learn from the scientists that there was an empty ship discovered with only clothing left behind from many of its onboard people. It was boarded by another ship who saw the goo creature and took several of their own people and killed them. So will Misaki ever re materialize into his own self, or will he be left as a goo creature for all of time? Will Chicago have to spend an inordinate amount of time in her underwear, in the sewer, held hostage by a monster? Will the creature finally meet its demise in the form of fire, without any explanation or reasoning in a scene so confusing I rewound it several times trying to figure out what I'd missed. Find out by watching H man. This is a weird movie. It is sad. It does not know its genre. It is a mix of horror, monster movie, gangster, noir and occasional 1960s psychedelic dance numbers, very, very boring, an incredibly boring film. The gangster and cop stuff is so dull, but the monster effects are amazing. I love the goo turning into like it like turns into this green ghost, and then it turns into like jello mold people, although it's never really clear if it's just Misaki or if it's like everybody who got turned into the goo. So that's a little confusing to me. So yeah, and the scene where they go to the fishing boat is genuinely creepy, and it reminds me a lot of the fog, like, there's just something really eerie and weird about them being on this fishing boat and trying to see, like all these empty clothing. It is very unsettling. A little bit about it. Tagline, all h breaks loose in all caps, nice. Like the original gajira 1954 story. It was based on the fate of the lucky dragon number five, a Japanese fishing boat that sailed into an atomic test area instead of confronting a giant creature. The story has the crew transformed by radiation into a race of liquid creatures that subsist on humans. The dissolving effect was created by deflating life sized inflatable human figures, filming them in fast motion and then running the film at normal speed. And on the lobby floor in some theaters, there were H man coming. Was a coming attraction, and a melted victim was on display. It consisted of a pair of shoes with a shirt, consisted of a pair of shoes with a shirt and pants and a toupee piled on top. Um, yeah, this is really castle. Yes. They really went full and they had, like, little h man, like figures they passed out to some people, but I don't know what that would have looked like. It's, it's crazy, but yeah, is the is the H for hydrogen? Or why is the H man? It's, yeah, I was trying to figure this out too. Like I googled it a couple times. I think it's for God. I. Man, I don't have a good explanation on here. I think because, like, yes, yes. H, everything, hydrogen, humanoid, helium, everything, all the H words. Man, the way you were describing this, as I've never seen this, and I have to see this and then you were, like, boring. You might like it more than I did. I mean, I don't think I have as much patience for this, this genre, so just just because it wasn't something that I was really exposed to until, like, the last three years or four years while being on the show, yeah, it's only I never watched any of this stuff until I was here. And it's interesting to me, but it's also, I mean, the blob, the original blob, I fucking hate I'm like, I had to spend an entire scene watching a man tie his shoes, tie his goddamn shoes. He gets out of bed, ties his shoes, then climbs out a window. So many minutes pass, so I it's probably down to me. I think you guys would get a lot more out of this than I did. And I also don't like noir that much, and I don't like mobster stuff that much. So there's a lot of things working against it, but the effects were really, really fun. So meanwhile, the blobs over here, going, the fuck I do is great. That is pretty good remake, yeah, okay. H man, Eric, you want to go? Alrighty, let's see here. So I went with also into the 50s. Thank you. 1957 the black scorpion. Most terrifying news of all at nightfall, monstrous animals crawl out of crater of volcano. Great herds of cattle stampede before this living Inferno, vast area devastated by appalling new horror, a creature named the black scorpion. By panic stricken people of San Lorenzo, entire population prays for deliverance. For miles around cowboys came upon one dead steer after another. One of them had heard the tale of the demon Bull of the Maricopa, having lost family or friends something absolutely unknown. It could be in another world, nation's leaders confer as news received a possible threat to capital. This is a city of 4 million people, if word of these leaks out, the panic of the population could be worse than The Scorpions. The black Scorpion destroys communications. Hundreds annihilated. The produced on a scale never achieved before by any science fiction picture 1000s in the cast. You Oh, which almost sounds like a come out of a Hong Kong film, but it is not. It's available to rent several places. It's on Pluto TV, directed by Edward Ludwig, who's did 50 episodes of the restless gun a bunch of Swiss Family Robinson the gun hawk. He's got 107 directing credits spanning a career from 1920 to 1966 Wow. Dude directed a long time, written by David Duncan, best known for a few sci fi things like the time machine, 1960 Fantastic Voyage and outer limits, also written by Robert blees, who's got an interesting, but maybe not quite as prestigious, writing history, frogs, screaming, maybe Dr fives, rides again. And finally, Paul yawitz, who is best known for unmasked and maids day from 1938 Donna, starring Richard Denny, 7774 episodes of Hawaii, five, oh, it's also in Grand Jury secrets. 113 credits, lots of work. Mara Corday, who's on the gauntlet. So. Sudden Impact, and like two or three other Clint Eastwood movies and tarantula and Carlos Rivas, who was in Duck Savage, the man of bronze, and so many TV episodes from the 50s into the 90s, so another guy, just a lot of lot of work for the people that worked on this movie starts as a reel about not an atomic creature. Another time of year, I might have picked the new movie and got it for a full one the black scorpions come from an active volcano. Oh, so you know that's as much as a 10 megaton bomb. I like your reasoning here. There's this takes place in Mexico, and, of course, the lead investigators and white dude, but his partner is actually a German, Mexican actor, and he's the guy that's in every TV show you've ever seen. They travel to the the storyline is they're going to the volcano to find out what the impact has been on the area around it, to see why it's gone off and how the people that are close to it are able to deal with it, and so they can send in aid and help it get better. As they're traveling up there, they come across a strangely crushed car with an abandoned baby in it and a man that seems to have been scared to death travel a little bit more. Finally arrive at their destination. Start the investigation. There. They discovered a woman riding a horse. Of course, the men go look. It's a woman riding a horse. She falls off the horse, thereby having to be rescued, sort of she's actually an incredibly strong female character for a 1950s film. They rescue her and then bring her back to a ranch, or something that her husband used to run, who has died, where she then chastises all the men there for not having the guts to come back to the ranch and do their work. And they discover a big chunk of obsidian with a live Scorpion inside. This is just a little Scorpion, though. And then the giant scorpions start to appear. Stop Motion. Oh, nice. Really fun, although they've got extensive close ups of the Scorpion face, which is very weird looking and constantly drooling, I think this is very Scorpion ask, but when it's the full creature running around, it's a lot of fun. And they do wonderfully 50s things like they Well, we need to show you, there's a lot of scorpions. So they just repeat the film run and run and run and run into like 50 scorpions instead of the probably two. They had nice shots of Mexico City with art exhibits and great hotels and stuff, although, like, I think that was just the area. They did not shoot Mexico. Let's see. The creator of the stop motion was wells O'Brien, whose original role was stop motion for King Kong. Oh, there is a spider in the movie that is rumored to have been the spider that was in the original King Kong, and he used it in here as well. And he also worked with Pete Peterson, who is the stop motion guy for Mighty Joe Young and giant behemoth. So the stop motion is really good. It is a lot of fun. There's great scenes with a scorpion and train and all this kind of stuff used. And What else was there came out with mixed reviews, praised for special effects, and I would say, rightfully included in a arrow release of Mystery Science Theater 3000 because it is, it is not a great film, but it is a lot of fun to watch. And the the people are so ridiculous at times, so much fun. And the Hero Guy is so hero, and it's just, it was pretty damn good for, you know what it is. What did you watch this on? This was, I think, rental, okay, but Pluto TV as well. It's like a $3 rental or something. You know, it's not a big one, and it's on a lot of different places. Could probably find it on YouTube, depending on how long ago that arrow release came out. But, yeah, this would be a good fun. It is. I mean, you know, not an atomic movie, but it felt like one. It could have been them very easily, just scorpions instead of. Spider. Or, I think I looked at this movie and I think that there is a tie to the volcano is erupting because of some atomic testing in the area. That could be. They did an intro at the beginning that was sort of convoluted, and it's on lists of atomic movies. So that's, that's what I found, is there's atomic era movies, monster movies. So I had to weed out a lot because I was like, Oh, this felt, Oh, wait, that's not actually atomic it's just of the era. So that makes sense. Yeah, cool. I suppose I could have made this easier on everybody by just saying atomic era monsters. But you know, what's funny? Mentioned that my movie was a, is part of the Criterion Collection? Oh, really, yes, it's got a criterion number and everything. I was just like, how the fuck this movie is bad. I think sometimes criterion was like, low hanging fruit, easy rights, like, we will get this one and it will represent this rainbow of movies, yeah, criterions got a lot of represent movies, kind of like, you know, who would think criterion to put off a giant box set of Godzilla films, yeah, but what Godzilla represents in film is pretty important, even if the movies are hit or miss, being very kind. And you know how Eric, I think that you have the pick for our next sub genre. I do, I will go nice and wide, because I have things I'm doing this month. How about we talk about a movie that's got animals in it? Whoa, you know, it could be somebody who's got a pet dog, or it could be somebody, something where animals are running wild. You could do frogs, from the writer of black Scorpion here, but it is if you want to do that to yourself. As a fan of sports movies, I have not seen those. And dogs. I like dogs too. I love this idea. Okay, so we're talking about movies with animals in them. Talk about some of the things you got going on this month, Eric, because we are mere weeks away from Yes, the first, the first weekend in May is cryptic. Con Seattle film cryptocon Seattle with cryptocurrency Film Festival, yeah. And just announced the day we record, we got Maria servino, that's going to be a guest. It's like, Oh, wow. Mira Cervino, yeah, I was kind of blown away by the Oscar winning actor, yep, but a lot of lot of fun guests, you know, Doug Bradley and Eugene Clark and a bunch of people, panels, film festivals, all kinds of stuff going on. Yeah, if you're in the area, check it out. Yeah, definitely. So we're all going to be there for that. We'll do like we usually do a live show and and then we'll be bouncing around. Vanessa, you're gonna hang out with us afterwards. I'm gonna try. I I've been put onto a panel immediately after hours, so if you want to hang out after after, then, yes, we do. We'll be there. Okay? I figured, yeah, we'll sit in the audience. No no, no, just go drink something, and I'll come find you. We can do both. Okay, that's true. Only come to my panel if you are actively drinking challenge. Except, All right, guys, this is the part where we thank everybody for liking, sharing posts on Facebook, making comments on the YouTube channel, all of that kind of stuff. It's called value for value, and one of the ways you can give some value back is with actual cash, like our buddy Micah did this last time. And to do that, there's a number of ways they can do that, right? Eric, yep, pay palace. You can buy us a coffee or buy us pizzas with as we call it, and feel free, or, you know, and recommend movies. Send us a little donation and say, watch these movies. We'll probably even go that far, depending on you know what's going on. I am just I am just now reminded that I think that Jamie sent money in and wanted us to do something. And do we ever get to that? 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