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Oct. 13, 2026

60 Halloween Movie Picks for 2026 | Hidden Gems & Horror Classics

60 Halloween Movie Picks for 2026 | Hidden Gems & Horror Classics

Need Halloween movies to watch? Henrique Couto and David Denoyer build your 2026 Halloween watchlist with 60 picks, from nostalgic gateway horror to underrated discoveries and seasonal favorites. Revisit Coraline, Scream, and Creepshow, then dig into The Midnight Hour, Hell House LLC, WNUF Halloween Special, and Ghostwatch. Their four categories cover first scares, October rewatches, hidden gems, and films drenched in Halloween atmosphere. Trade endless scrolling for a movie night full of witches, slashers, haunted houses, and spooky-season nostalgia. Grab the candy and dim the lights.

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Woo! Don't woo. This is a solemn and serious occasion,

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David DeNoyer. Hey, my spookies! Enrique Couto here, bringing you

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another little extra here at Weekly Spooky as we are

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celebrating the 2026 Halloween season. Although, really, Weekly Spooky is

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one of the only places that truly celebrates the 2026

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Halloween season. From January 1st to December 31st. This is true.

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The real Halloween season. But I'm here with my good

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buddy and former Welcome to Primetime and Do You Even

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Movie co-host David DeNoyer.

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Hello.

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And David has put together a list, I think it

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was three years ago. 2023, yeah. Three years ago, David

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put together a quintessential Halloween time watch list. And it

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was very exhaustive, very solid, but I mean, it was,

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but it also didn't miss that much. But recently you

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came to me and said, Hey, what if we did

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another one?

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Another one. Indeed. I, it was one of those things where, uh,

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you had, you'd said, I'm, I'm into it, but can

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you do it? Because like you said, we covered a

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lot on that first.

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Yeah. I basically was like, I don't want you to

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like force it just because you're trying to like a.

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Shot on video horror film from 1986.

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Well that'd be impressive 86 is was a hard time

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to shoot on video that is that is uh well

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here's a shot of video horror from 1986 so you

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just mean video violence yeah that's right i'm pulling out

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the nerd i will say this is not.

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On my list but one that i watched recently that

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i really really liked uh because i've been participating in

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uh there's a woman named sarah who does a 100 horror.

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I don't want to hear about the women you're participating.

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100 horror films in 92 days challenge and i've been

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been watching a lot of deep cut stuff that I

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haven't seen because that's the challenge is it's 100 horror

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films you haven't seen in 92 days starting on August

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1st going all the way to the 31st of October.

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Okay.

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And The Night Brings Charlie, that's a really fun movie.

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You'd never seen The Night Brings Charlie?

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I had never seen The Night Brings Charlie.

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So The Night Brings Charlie was one of those, before

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we fully begin, I just want you guys to understand

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this is just movie nerd talk, but we will have

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some gems. of strange films to watch, but yeah, just

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be ready because this is about as a, as nerdy

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as it gets. This is the kind of stuff that

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usually we just talk about in the car. Yeah, basically. But, uh, okay.

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So the night brings Charlie. Oh man. I mean, that

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was one. There were a few of these kind of

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direct to video rarities from the nineties that they were

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just kind of, they weren't like legendary is not the

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right word, but they were almost like, like folklore.

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Cause you couldn't find them.

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Or you would, you know, you would know one guy

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who knew a guy. It was like an urban legend,

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except then you could like in the late nineties, you

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could go online and see like the worst screen grab

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ever from the night brings Charlie.

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Which would say, okay, so it exists.

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films you couldn't find anywhere. And I remember the first

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time I got my hands on a copy of it,

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I mean, it's been probably 15 years.

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slasher movie comfort food. Like, not even comfort food. Just, like,

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this is like a slasher movie bag of pork rinds. Yeah. No, 100%. But, like,

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that you like. You know, they're good. And, you know,

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of like, I'm glad that's over, but I'll do it again. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

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readily available that's been on there for X amount of years.

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Legitimately is the point. Yeah, it's there. It's there, but

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it's been there for enough time that I'm kind of like, ah,

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of print. Oh, yeah. Not public domain. No. But simply

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out of print. Yeah. So, The Night Brings Charlie's readily

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available as of the time that we're speaking. As we're recording, yes.

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Illegally on YouTube.

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available on YouTube from what I can find, but the

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fact that they're out there, I mean, I had to

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The list, so I mean. I have always had an

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attitude that If a film is impossible to get your

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hands on or damn near impossible, like the only way

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to get it is a, you know, $ 300 out of

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print DVD. You know, it's different if the people who

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made it are like, no, we're only selling this as

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a $ 90 steelbook or some crap.

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feel a little less bad about a basic bootleg. Yeah.

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Assuming nobody is like heavily profiting from the bootleg because

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they didn't. they didn't have the right, but it's also like, Hey,

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give us another option. If you don't want us to

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watch it for free, help us pay for it.

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We can't.

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I mean, and there's stuff you can obviously rent, which

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I mean, some of those I'll cover on this as well,

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but it's like, I was pretty shocked with what I

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could find on YouTube. So not necessarily advocating for that,

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but I mean, you might be surprised if you, if

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you haven't, if there's something on your list that you

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have like been wanting to see or whatnot, um, check

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YouTube first. Cause it's surprising the amount of stuff that's

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on there.

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And sometimes it's there legitimately. Yeah.

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There's actually a couple of my lists that are like that.

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I've had some really good luck with watching kind of

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random movie picks on YouTube that are legit. Yeah. But

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the options are, you know, to be Roku channel and

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then like maybe Fandango at home free with ads and

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then YouTube. And since I have YouTube pro or red

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or whatever, they renamed it this week.

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I don't have to watch ads. So it's the only

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way I can watch it. free without ads, you know,

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cause well, no, cause like if it was on Amazon prime,

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I would pick that first because I have it with

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no ads.

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Absolutely.

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But, uh, so I, that saved my butt a few times. Um,

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and with movies you wouldn't expect, like, I think that's

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where I rewatched, uh, it's not even a horror movie.

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Why am I talking about it? But, uh, I rewatched like, uh,

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Oh gosh, what was that movie about? The, uh, the,

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FBI operative who's actually helping the Russians?

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Oh, um, not. Oh, I almost gave a spoiler for

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a movie. It's not No Way Out. That's a Kevin

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Costner movie.

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No, no, no.

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Shit. Um.

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He takes in, like, a younger agent. Yeah. I can't

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think of the name right now. I can't think of

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the name either. But it was super good.

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And, yeah, it was on YouTube. Yeah. That's where I

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was able. And it was, like, you know, from MGM's

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channel or whatever company's channel. So there are some legitimate

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watches on YouTube and some illegitimate watches on YouTube.

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And I will point some of those out. But any

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of the movies that I'm going to name here, I'm

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going to give you the sources as to where they

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are available as of this recording. And some of them

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have multiple and some of them you have one option

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and one option only.

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That is the way it goes sometimes.

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How many is on this list again?

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So we are back to 60 again.

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Holy shit.

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We are back to 60 again, broken into four columns.

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So we've got.

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Man, I should have went with a double espresso.

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We've got Gateway Horror. We've got Seasonal Rewatches, Underrated Halloween,

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and This Is Halloween. So you ready to get into this?

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I better be.

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All right.

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That is... Wow. For some reason, I know you sent me...

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I know you sent me something, but one thing, anybody

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who's worked with me any amount will know, the moment I,

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and this is a horrible statement, the moment I trust you,

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I don't really check. I'm just like, no, as long

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as you show up prepared, and then you show up

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with 60 films.

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And this is exactly what we did last time. So

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let's roll into it. So we're starting with Gateway Horror.

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Last time I was here, I called this Family Scares.

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More so approach, I went with it this time, was...

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when we did it last time, it was more so

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kind of a Halloween based for kids horror film. This

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is just kind of gateway horror. Some of them might

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have Halloween. Some of it just might be good starters.

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Okay. Yeah. And, and, you know, for those who may

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not be familiar, I mean, gateway horror suggests that it's

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relatively accessible, both in content and availability. Yes. And therefore

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you might watch it and then be like, huh? You know,

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I really liked the witches of Eastwick. What's cannibal Holocaust about?

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Or like when I did the Christmas one where I,

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for some, I can reason put rare exports on the

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family list, not even thinking about the fact that there's

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a lot of Santa dong in that movie. Well, and

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reindeer like wipe out.

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You see, the actual phrase would be Santa dongs.

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Dongs, yeah, yeah.

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Because there are multiple Santas with multiple, well, each has

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a dong. Yes, yes. But they all look like Santa.

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But yeah, I remember when I put that on the list,

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I was like, oh yeah, I guess that's not a

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kid's movie.

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No. It is about a kid, though.

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It's about a kid.

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And it's not, I'll give you that, though. It's about

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a kid, and it is a kid's perception. It's just

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that the whole sticking point of the film is that

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it has a harder edge.

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Yes, very much so.

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But it does, like, especially if you're desensitized to, you know,

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serious violence and nudity, like you are.

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That's not wrong.

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Then you would go, oh, it's a kid's movie because

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it's about a kid, like, learning about, like, the evil

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creature at Christmas. It's like, no, I guess Elves is

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a kid's movie.

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Mikey's a kid movie. It has a kid in it.

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I mean, I did watch it when I was the

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age of Mikey in the movie. All right.

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So kicking us off, Gateway Horror. Let's go with 1986's

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The Worst Witch, directed by Robert Young. This is a

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1980s TV special that was over in the UK. The

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plot synopsis says Mildred is one of the young girls

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at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do

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anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers.

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The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle, has an evil

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twin sister who plans to destroy the school. Can Mildred

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foil the plans before the Grand Wizard comes to the

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academy for Halloween celebrations? You'll never forget.

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The Grand Wizard.

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Played by Tim Curry, because this is the Something Something Halloween.

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I mean, I've always found, I found that charming. So,

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because the first time I was exposed to that piece

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of media as its own piece of media where, where

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Tim Curry appears to be doing a music video at

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a cable access station. Basically. Yeah. I mean, just bad

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green screen and he's walking toward the camera and being

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like oddly serious, but you can tell he knows it's ridiculous. Um,

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that was the joke. Cause it went on so long.

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Yeah. The real songs, anything can happen on Halloween, but

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hen and I, uh, just an inside joke between us. Uh,

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cause they showed it at horror Rama once. Like that

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was the intermission.

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Out of context. Yeah. I just played.

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Yeah. And it's just, you know, the song is anything

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can happen on Halloween. It's really cheesy. Um, the reason

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I chose the worst, which, uh, you've got Diana rig

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in it. You've got a very young for use of bulk.

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And as I mentioned, Tim Curry, um, this is a

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movie that you had mentioned or that you had mentioned

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the thing about regards to, uh, you know, a $ 300 DVD. Um,

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This thing is out of print. It's been out of

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print for years. Desperately out of print, I would say.

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Readily available right now on YouTube. That's literally how I

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watched it for the first time a couple weeks ago, actually.

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I recently just watched this, actually, for the Horror Challenge.

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I wouldn't say it's not very good. Uh, it's more

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so it's just, this is definitely a kid's movie. There

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are songs in it. Um, the plot is kind of

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ham fisted together. There's not really much. No, but it's

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a really fun little, uh, kids horror film. That's perfect

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for Halloween time. And again, Tim Curry, uh, who we

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just recently lost, unfortunately is really fun in this movie,

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but it's cheesy. Uh, it's one that is not really

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on many lists because again, it's just not been available

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for a while. Um, So the fact that it is

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readily available to find on YouTube at this time, we're

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going to go ahead and put that on the gateway

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horror list. So that's The Worst Witch from 1986, directed

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by Robert Young.

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I think that's absolutely a kind of a gateway horror.

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I mean, it's literally any horror movie that's meant for

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kids or kids movie that's just a little too scary.

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Yeah.

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Which there are a lot of those from especially the

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70s and 80s where it's like, hey, here's a nightmare sequence.

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And then people remember it forever. Did I ever tell

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you this? I still have. A vivid memory of the

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first time I saw Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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Do tell.

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Because of.

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The boat ride? The boat ride.

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Everybody remembers the boat ride. Everybody remembers the flying monkeys

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in Wizard of Oz. Now, I was either in preschool

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or kindergarten. That's the part I don't remember is which

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one it was. But it was early. It was probably preschool. And...

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We watched it. They brought in the projector, the 16

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millimeter projector. I mean, this would have been, you gotta remember,

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this would have been like 89 or 90 or 91,

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somewhere in that. So I just remember us watching that

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and being all excited. And then me being like, holy crap,

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when the boat ride starts. So, and in a lot

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of ways, I would call that a gateway to horror,

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not a gateway horror film, but a gateway to horror.

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Yeah, absolutely. And moving on into another gateway, let's step

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it up a little bit. I was going to say

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more current, but I just realized this movie is 21

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years old. But that's 2005's Corpse Bride, directed by Tim

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Burton and Mike Johnson. In a 19th century European village,

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a young man about to be married is whisked away

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to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride

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while his real bride waits bereft in the land of

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the living. This has the voice talents of Johnny Depp,

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Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracy Allman, Christopher Lee, Albert Finney,

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Michael Goff, all the regular Tim Burton alum are here,

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including Danny Elfman, who does the music on it. This

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is one that kind of took me, I wouldn't say

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it took me a while to see. It was just

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one that when it came out in 05, I wasn't super,

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I was kind of moving into like actual horror at

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that point. So I wasn't really into the kiddie horror.

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But then that wasn't kiddie horror. That was 16 year

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old girl horror when it came out.

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No, no. Cause I, cause I was 15, 16 when

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it came out.

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Yeah.

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Do you ever tell you what we all used to

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call it?

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No.

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It like me and my movie buddies, we used to

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call corpse bride. And we'd always say, you mean Tim

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Burton's the nightmare before cash miss.

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That's that's great.

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Oh, wow. I thought I told you that before. That's

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what we used to call it because it was so

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clearly like a Hot Topic movie. I mean, it was

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made for like that generation of spike bracelets and things

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like that. But it's not a bad film.

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It's not. No, I mean, it's got some really good

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humor in it. The music's great. I mean, Danny Elfman,

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you know, as he did the score for Nightmare Before

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Christmas and, of course, all his other scores for like

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Batman and, of course, his work for Oingo Boingo. I mean,

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the dude's got... Worked for Oingo Boingo. I mean, he

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was Oingo Boingo. He is Oingo Boingo.

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I am Oingo Boingo.

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But it's a really fun movie. It's got that same

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feel as Nightmare Before Christmas. It's got a seriously decent

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plot as well, too. I was really impressed by the

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first time I watched it. Haven't been back to it

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in a while, so I need to go back to

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that one. But I had a lot of fun. I

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think it was about four or five years ago when

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I revisited it.

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I mean, it's definitely... They had that gothic vibe. I mean,

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at that point, down pat, because Nightmare Before Christmas was...

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A while before that. What, 10 years? Not quite 10 years?

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I want to say 94, so right about 10 years.

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I saw that as a kid when it came out.

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I was 8 when it came out in theaters, so

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I probably saw it when I was 10 on home video.

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And I always liked it.

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It's got one of my favorite lines in it. There's

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a scene where Johnny Depp accidentally almost sets the bride's

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mother on fire. And he goes into this forest and

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he's rehearsing. And he's like, with this candle, I will...

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I will set your mother on fire. He's just standing

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in the forest talking to himself.

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I think that's definitely a solid gateway horror.

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Yeah, absolutely is. So 2005 Corpse Bride currently available to

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rent on Fandango, Plex, Apple TV, not really streaming for

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quote unquote free anywhere, but it's readily accessible if you

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want to find it.

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Yeah. And all of those will not be the case

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within a week of us airing this.

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It'll all be lost. We'll see what happens. I did

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this list, like I said, out of season, so it

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could change. Moving on to another gateway, let's go back

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to the 80s with one that is, again, a little

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tough to find. But, man, if you can find it,

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you are in for a really good time. And this

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is at the era when there was one company that

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still made really good horror films, even though you don't

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expect them to. And that is Disney with 1980s The

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Watcher in the Woods, directed by John Hogue. This is

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the story of after an American family moves to an

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old country manor in rural England... One of the daughters

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is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long-lost daughter

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who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar eclipse.

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This has Betty Davis in it. Kyle Richards is in it.

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Carol Baker. It's got a pretty decent cast. This is

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genuinely a scary early Disney film that has become available

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again through YouTube recently, but otherwise you would have to

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find either a out-of-print DVD or even a more expensive

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Blu-ray through the Disney Club. But this is genuinely a

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scary movie.

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I would have to agree, but also, I mean, it's

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not an early Disney movie. It's 1980.

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Yeah, 1980, yeah.

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But it's older by today's standards. I mean, you know,

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like when you sit down and like, enjoy, you know,

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some frigging Evanescence song or something. That's like the same

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thing as your parents enjoying like the Doobie Brothers.

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You're not wrong.

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When you were a kid, like it's the same distance.

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I literally was thinking about Evanescence the other day because

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when the album Fallen came out, that was one of

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the two items that I was able to take on

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our trip to Florida. That was something that mom bought

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while we were at Walmart, while we were doing our

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last minute shopping. And I was like, when did that

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album come out? And I think it was like right

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around 2003, if I'm not mistaken.

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Oh yeah, that had to be. But I want to mention,

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so I've always liked Watcher in the Woods. It's been

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a while since I watched it. Disney had a string

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of surprisingly scary movies.

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Yeah.

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One thing I don't think people realize so easily is,

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you know that it was a flop.

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Oh, it was a huge flop.

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Yeah, the budget was $ 6 to $ 9 million, and it

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did $ 5 million at the box office, which was the

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beginning of what would be... simultaneously, which would, what would

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become Disney's greatest decline and then greatest rise.

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Yeah.

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Because the eighties were really bad for Walt Disney until

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they established touchstone pictures. And then eventually Hollywood pictures as well,

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which were studios geared toward making films for adults. And

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they really just opened their own little Roger Corman studio

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because it became a joke because of like good morning,

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Vietnam and stuff like that. People used to joke that,

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touchstone cast at the back door of the Betty Ford clinic.

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That was a real joke. People used to say, because,

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because it was like, because, uh, I think that was

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right after, uh, Robin Williams got out of rehab. He

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went right into doing good morning Vietnam. So it's, it's

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kind of funny, but touchstone really did kind of not

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only reestablish Disney by having these lower budget movies that

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were very big earners, but also by kind of establishing this,

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this middle level Hollywood that, That wasn't quite indie, but

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it felt a little indie, but it had big names

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in it and it was in theaters everywhere. They had

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a lot of hits. They had a lot of okay

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hits and a lot of big ones. And then, you know,

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and then it was what I think it was like

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right after it was Aladdin or beauty in the beast.

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One of those.

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Was when all of a sudden Disney was just like,

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we're back, bitches.

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Beauty and the Beast, because there's a great documentary I'll

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recommend if nobody has seen it called Waking Sleeping Beauty

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that is basically all about the lull of the 80s

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into the early 90s with Disney. So that's talking about

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like Rescuers Down Under and stuff like that. And for

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those who don't know, Beauty and the Beast was shown,

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if I remember... correctly at con um not finished it

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did not have any color in regards to like animation

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like it was basically just the sketching and they showed

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it just to see how the reaction was and it

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did fucking.

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Gangbusters they showed the animatic they showed the animatic that's

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bizarre yeah If you have not.

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Seen Waking Sleeping Beauty, phenomenal documentary, especially if you're a

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Disney fan. But yeah, Watcher in the Woods, 1980. It

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is one that, like I said, it's a little scarce

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right now, but you can find it if you look

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hard enough. It's still a pretty creepy movie. It's got

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a great cast in it. Betty Davis is really upsetting

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at times in it as well.

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Well, Betty Davis was a phenomenal actress, you know, and

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when she kind of, and I mean this with sincere appreciation,

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when she started getting like hag roles.

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Yeah.

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She did a really good job.

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She did.

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She did. She always gave her all.

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Even that one that Larry Cohen did. I'm blanking on

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the title. Is it Evil Stepmother or Stepmother?

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Not Stepmother.

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It's an alien.

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It might have a stepmother from hell.

477
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Stepmother from hell or something like that. Yeah, that's even

478
00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:49.829
a great one for her.

479
00:20:50.349 --> 00:20:51.390
Oh, she was great in that.

480
00:20:52.309 --> 00:20:54.829
But yeah, The Watcher in the Woods, 1980. Definitely, if

481
00:20:54.849 --> 00:20:56.789
you have not seen that one, that is one to

482
00:20:56.910 --> 00:20:59.869
seek out. So let's go a little bit more current

483
00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.769
and spring into 2022 with one that Hen and I really,

484
00:21:03.829 --> 00:21:05.970
really enjoyed. And it seems like we might be in

485
00:21:05.990 --> 00:21:09.410
the minority on that. That is Spirit Halloween, the movie

486
00:21:10.130 --> 00:21:11.299
directed by David Pogue.

487
00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:15.039
I liked the Spirit Halloween movie. I remember renting it

488
00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.380
so all of our buddies could watch it on like

489
00:21:18.500 --> 00:21:21.920
in October at some point. And, you know, it is,

490
00:21:22.180 --> 00:21:25.400
it is literally a movie about kids getting trapped in

491
00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.509
a spirit Halloween store and there's spirits and ghosts and

492
00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:33.089
all that stuff. But what do you want? You know,

493
00:21:33.170 --> 00:21:37.349
like it's literally meant for kids. It's meant to be fun.

494
00:21:37.569 --> 00:21:42.230
They had the perfect cast. I mean, I mean, Christopher Lloyd,

495
00:21:42.250 --> 00:21:45.289
Christopher Lloyd, Rachel Lee Cook was great in it. I

496
00:21:45.329 --> 00:21:48.960
don't know. I like sometimes. I just don't know what

497
00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:50.339
people want, more they want.

498
00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:52.240
I don't know what you expect from a movie called

499
00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:53.319
Spirit Halloween the movie.

500
00:21:53.380 --> 00:21:54.779
Yeah, it's like, what do you think? It's going to

501
00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:57.680
be like a gritty horror film? It's literally for children.

502
00:21:57.819 --> 00:22:01.349
A third of the store is not for you, me. Yeah.

503
00:22:01.750 --> 00:22:04.430
Because I'm middle-aged and not with kids.

504
00:22:04.490 --> 00:22:06.410
And it's got creepy moments in it. It's got some

505
00:22:06.450 --> 00:22:09.430
pretty fun humor to it. And also, the runtime was

506
00:22:09.690 --> 00:22:12.019
pretty consistent on it for it to fly by.

507
00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:14.660
It was brisk, 82 minutes. I enjoyed it. It had

508
00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:18.299
a Halloween-y vibe. which that alone is very important to me.

509
00:22:18.420 --> 00:22:21.529
Yeah, and that is currently available to stream on Shudder

510
00:22:21.730 --> 00:22:23.470
and Tubi as well as Fandango.

511
00:22:23.529 --> 00:22:23.970
It's free.

512
00:22:23.990 --> 00:22:25.410
You can also rent and buy it if you choose

513
00:22:25.430 --> 00:22:27.990
to as well. But readily available on Shudder and Tubi,

514
00:22:28.069 --> 00:22:31.470
Spirit Halloween the movie. It's exactly what the title suggests.

515
00:22:31.609 --> 00:22:33.750
So if you're into something like that, then maybe check

516
00:22:33.789 --> 00:22:34.089
that out.

517
00:22:34.470 --> 00:22:37.259
I love that it's on Shudder. I didn't even realize

518
00:22:37.299 --> 00:22:39.089
it went to Shudder. That's a perfect place for it.

519
00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:42.880
100%. So moving on into Gateway Horror, we still have...

520
00:22:43.390 --> 00:22:46.410
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island from 1998.

521
00:22:46.410 --> 00:22:50.309
That, you might not be able to top that for

522
00:22:50.349 --> 00:22:50.930
Gateway Horror.

523
00:22:50.990 --> 00:22:51.470
I think so.

524
00:22:51.789 --> 00:22:54.390
So I had not seen that since I was a kid.

525
00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:54.799
Yeah.

526
00:22:55.190 --> 00:23:00.279
And Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. So one of the problems

527
00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:02.940
with those Scooby-Doo movies, seeing them when you're a kid,

528
00:23:03.019 --> 00:23:06.019
is telling them apart. And every Scooby-Doo episode has at

529
00:23:06.059 --> 00:23:09.500
least a degree of Halloween feeling anyway, because they're all

530
00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:13.150
a little spooky, because they're all mysteries. But I put

531
00:23:13.170 --> 00:23:15.130
that on maybe two or three years ago. I think

532
00:23:15.150 --> 00:23:17.029
it was on HBO. They had all of them on there,

533
00:23:17.049 --> 00:23:20.750
I believe. So I put that on, and it has

534
00:23:20.849 --> 00:23:23.470
some scary stuff. It does.

535
00:23:23.730 --> 00:23:26.740
No, it really does. The plot involves, after going their

536
00:23:26.779 --> 00:23:30.299
separate ways, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred reunite to

537
00:23:30.339 --> 00:23:33.539
investigate the ghost of Moonscar, the pirate on a haunted

538
00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.019
bayou island. But it turns out the swashbuckler spirit isn't

539
00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:39.509
the only creepy character on the island. The Sleuths also

540
00:23:39.549 --> 00:23:42.190
meet up with cat creatures, zombies, and it looks like

541
00:23:42.210 --> 00:23:44.690
for the first time in their lives, these ghouls might

542
00:23:44.829 --> 00:23:45.730
actually be real.

543
00:23:46.190 --> 00:23:48.049
That's the thing that actually got to me the most

544
00:23:48.109 --> 00:23:52.009
was this idea that they were finally seeing real ghosts,

545
00:23:52.029 --> 00:23:56.289
real monsters, as opposed to yet another elderly white guy

546
00:23:56.509 --> 00:23:58.259
who would have gotten away with it if it weren't

547
00:23:58.279 --> 00:23:59.319
for you meddling kids.

548
00:23:59.700 --> 00:24:02.799
It was funny. About a year ago, my girlfriend and

549
00:24:02.940 --> 00:24:05.500
I had just finished John Carpenter's The Fog, and we

550
00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:08.420
wanted something... Just to kind of lull into, and we

551
00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.339
put on Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. That and John Carpenter's

552
00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:14.039
The Fog, phenomenal double feature. That actually kind of works

553
00:24:14.099 --> 00:24:14.859
really well together.

554
00:24:14.900 --> 00:24:17.200
See, last time I watched John Carpenter's The Fog, we

555
00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:22.450
had a really bad thunderstorm. And then an hour after

556
00:24:22.490 --> 00:24:25.009
that was over, the wind was blowing so bad, I

557
00:24:25.029 --> 00:24:26.910
had a window cracked to get the breeze. And all

558
00:24:26.930 --> 00:24:29.470
of a sudden, it was knocking things off of shelves.

559
00:24:29.509 --> 00:24:31.450
And I was like, oh, I guess it's pretty bad.

560
00:24:31.470 --> 00:24:33.230
And then the power was all messed up for half

561
00:24:33.369 --> 00:24:36.890
a week. So, I don't know. I'm worried that the

562
00:24:36.930 --> 00:24:37.690
film's cursed now.

563
00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:38.519
I mean, I get that.

564
00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:38.839
For me.

565
00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:40.799
But, I mean, you know what's not cursed is Scooby-Doo

566
00:24:40.859 --> 00:24:43.980
on Zombie Island. Currently available to rent or buy on

567
00:24:44.019 --> 00:24:47.230
Fandango as well as Apple TV. There also was a

568
00:24:47.349 --> 00:24:50.880
really good Blu-ray just put out recently. That includes not

569
00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:53.319
only Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, but Return to Zombie Island,

570
00:24:53.339 --> 00:24:56.119
which I haven't seen, haven't heard great things about, but

571
00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:56.859
I'm still curious.

572
00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:58.579
I don't think I ever got around to watching that

573
00:24:58.599 --> 00:24:59.599
because it's relatively new.

574
00:24:59.700 --> 00:25:02.950
Yeah, but 1998 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, readily available on

575
00:25:02.990 --> 00:25:06.349
Fandango and Apple. That is a awesome gateway horror flick.

576
00:25:06.809 --> 00:25:09.849
Moving back in to an older one and another Disney

577
00:25:09.890 --> 00:25:13.430
horror that has recently found its place on Disney +,

578
00:25:13.470 --> 00:25:17.359
and that is 1983's Something Wicked This Way Comes from

579
00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:21.210
Jack Clayton. In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives,

580
00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:24.019
granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the

581
00:25:24.059 --> 00:25:27.079
esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys

582
00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:30.779
overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out? This

583
00:25:30.859 --> 00:25:33.279
is basically diet needful things for kids.

584
00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:35.740
Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Without a doubt.

585
00:25:35.869 --> 00:25:38.630
I mean, and you have Jonathan Price, who plays Mr.

586
00:25:38.670 --> 00:25:43.390
Dark in this, up against Jason Robarbs. The two acting

587
00:25:43.470 --> 00:25:46.029
bodies in this movie going head to head is one

588
00:25:46.069 --> 00:25:48.359
of the best things about this movie. But on top

589
00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:52.299
of that, again, this is just another scary movie. It's

590
00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:55.940
got really creepy moments to it. It's got children in peril.

591
00:25:56.099 --> 00:25:59.640
It's got a whole theme basically going with getting older

592
00:25:59.660 --> 00:26:01.289
and the fear of that as well, too.

593
00:26:01.809 --> 00:26:04.910
No, this is one that is, in some ways, it's

594
00:26:04.950 --> 00:26:07.630
better than Scooby-Doo and Zombie Island. Except that Scooby-Doo on

595
00:26:07.670 --> 00:26:12.230
Zombie Island gives you Scooby-Doo. Yeah. Which makes it even

596
00:26:12.269 --> 00:26:14.390
more of a gateway because you know Scooby-Doo. Yeah. Everybody

597
00:26:14.430 --> 00:26:15.150
knows Scooby-Doo.

598
00:26:16.049 --> 00:26:16.250
But.

599
00:26:17.089 --> 00:26:21.869
yeah, no, that something wicked this way comes is yeah.

600
00:26:21.990 --> 00:26:23.529
They just added it to Disney plus like in the

601
00:26:23.569 --> 00:26:25.950
last six months, it had not been on there for, for,

602
00:26:26.029 --> 00:26:29.539
I think since honestly it's start and, uh, I'm happy

603
00:26:29.559 --> 00:26:31.299
that we're getting more of the older ones on there,

604
00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:33.700
but yeah, something wicked this way comes, you can find

605
00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:35.880
on Disney plus it's also available some other places. If

606
00:26:35.900 --> 00:26:38.559
you want to look, um, this is just one that

607
00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:40.519
really took me by surprise. I used to have the

608
00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:42.819
old anchor bay DVD and then I luckily upgraded to

609
00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:45.880
the Disney movie club Blu-ray before they went out of business. Um,

610
00:26:46.529 --> 00:26:49.390
It still holds up immaculately. Jason Robarbs and Jonathan Price

611
00:26:49.410 --> 00:26:51.269
together on this is just a lot of fun.

612
00:26:51.569 --> 00:26:54.259
I'm going to have to get that on my Halloween

613
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:57.619
watch list, which is starting off, by the way, on

614
00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:01.599
my Halloween season with a rewatch of Dead Like Me.

615
00:27:02.019 --> 00:27:02.980
Oh, that's a great series.

616
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:03.920
I know.

617
00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:04.559
Phenomenal series.

618
00:27:04.579 --> 00:27:07.779
I just finished the pilot showing it to Rachel, and

619
00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:08.660
I was crying.

620
00:27:08.779 --> 00:27:09.440
Is it her first time?

621
00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:10.970
Yeah, she's never seen it. She's never heard of it.

622
00:27:11.380 --> 00:27:12.440
Dead Like Me is so good.

623
00:27:12.500 --> 00:27:13.039
It's phenomenal.

624
00:27:13.259 --> 00:27:15.700
So good. Now, I do know this one is one

625
00:27:15.730 --> 00:27:18.769
that you like as we move into the 90s with

626
00:27:18.769 --> 00:27:24.529
1991 Halloween Essential, Ernest Scared Stupid by John Cherry. Yeah.

627
00:27:24.589 --> 00:27:29.210
Now, this is one that really got its due with

628
00:27:29.269 --> 00:27:33.009
my generation. Yeah. And more so once my generation were

629
00:27:33.029 --> 00:27:37.039
in their 20s and 30s. Mm-hmm. Because as time went on,

630
00:27:37.099 --> 00:27:38.779
people will be like, Oh crap. Have you seen Ernest

631
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:42.150
scared stupid? Cause it like, it like scarred me for

632
00:27:42.190 --> 00:27:46.289
life as a child because Ernest is so goofy. The

633
00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:48.720
Ernest movies are so goofy. They're so fun. I've always

634
00:27:48.779 --> 00:27:52.630
loved them. And, Scares Stupid, of course, was always my

635
00:27:52.690 --> 00:27:55.250
favorite because my favorite thing was spooky stuff at Halloween.

636
00:27:55.650 --> 00:27:59.079
But the monster is really scary. The Kyoto Brothers did

637
00:27:59.150 --> 00:28:00.019
the effects, right?

638
00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:03.700
They basically reused Killer Clown from Outer Space.

639
00:28:04.140 --> 00:28:04.660
Yeah.

640
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:07.049
I mean, once you see that, you can't unsee it.

641
00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:10.500
And that's their design style as well, anyway. Yeah, so

642
00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.779
the effects were done by the guys who made Killer

643
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:18.349
Clowns from Outer Space, legendary effects artists. There are real stakes...

644
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:22.799
Real evil enters the town and Ernest has to stop

645
00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:24.980
them and pardon the pun, in earnest.

646
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:25.319
Yes.

647
00:28:25.619 --> 00:28:29.869
He does. Because the stakes feel so real, even though

648
00:28:30.150 --> 00:28:32.190
Ernest P. Worrell is the lead.

649
00:28:32.250 --> 00:28:32.529
Yeah.

650
00:28:33.430 --> 00:28:35.309
It really works. Oh, it does. And it really makes

651
00:28:35.349 --> 00:28:39.490
you appreciate a scary movie where you have a satisfying ending. Yeah.

652
00:28:39.690 --> 00:28:41.710
And I mean, also like the one thing that surprised me,

653
00:28:41.710 --> 00:28:43.190
because I only saw it for the first time like

654
00:28:43.210 --> 00:28:46.009
five years ago. I did not grow up with this movie.

655
00:28:46.049 --> 00:28:46.440
How?

656
00:28:46.569 --> 00:28:47.140
I don't know.

657
00:28:47.269 --> 00:28:48.490
I feel like I would have forced you to watch

658
00:28:48.549 --> 00:28:49.150
it sooner than that.

659
00:28:49.170 --> 00:28:51.730
At some point, yeah. But I was more so surprised

660
00:28:51.789 --> 00:28:53.930
by the children in peril aspect of it, because they

661
00:28:53.970 --> 00:28:54.910
do not mess around.

662
00:28:55.130 --> 00:28:59.329
No, no, no. Well, and that was one of the first...

663
00:28:59.650 --> 00:29:01.730
First three? I think Ernest Goes to Camp was the

664
00:29:01.950 --> 00:29:04.390
first to be on, which was the first Ernest movie,

665
00:29:04.490 --> 00:29:07.589
was the first to be on Blue. Yeah. But Ernest

666
00:29:07.609 --> 00:29:10.049
Scared Stupid came to Blue really early on, and it

667
00:29:10.069 --> 00:29:11.769
was because, I think, it was because of all the

668
00:29:11.789 --> 00:29:14.180
millennials who... Yeah. Would collect it immediately.

669
00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:16.700
Because Camp, Scared Stupid, and Christmas are like the top

670
00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:18.220
three in most people's echelon.

671
00:29:18.339 --> 00:29:18.779
I would say so.

672
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.980
Yeah. But yeah, Ernest Scared Stupid, currently available on Fandango

673
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.119
to rent or buy, but also streaming right now on

674
00:29:25.180 --> 00:29:29.349
Amazon Prime in the U.S. But yeah, that is 1991's

675
00:29:29.380 --> 00:29:31.950
Ernest Scared Stupid. You can find it where I just

676
00:29:31.950 --> 00:29:34.720
said you can. This is just one that is really,

677
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:37.170
really fun and pretty twisted as well.

678
00:29:37.170 --> 00:29:39.220
I can't believe you Yeah, I can't believe you didn't

679
00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:39.559
see that.

680
00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:43.680
It was Ernest was always was was always there. One

681
00:29:43.700 --> 00:29:45.279
of the first Ernest movies I ever saw was Ernest

682
00:29:45.299 --> 00:29:47.180
in the Army because I always remember him eating the

683
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.990
fruit snacks and then puking on the sergeant.

684
00:29:50.549 --> 00:29:51.450
I mean, that sounds right.

685
00:29:51.549 --> 00:30:03.690
Yeah. into another cut from Disney that is absolutely terrifying

686
00:30:03.869 --> 00:30:07.009
and also readily available on Disney +. And we also

687
00:30:07.049 --> 00:30:09.349
mentioned Farooza Balk earlier, so let's mention her again in

688
00:30:09.369 --> 00:30:14.039
1985's Return to Oz. Because if you want to talk

689
00:30:14.059 --> 00:30:16.289
about gateway horror, this is just horror.

690
00:30:17.140 --> 00:30:19.730
No, Return to Oz. I mean, if you thought Wizard

691
00:30:19.769 --> 00:30:22.089
of Oz is a gateway to horror, Return to Oz

692
00:30:22.170 --> 00:30:23.390
is just a horror film.

693
00:30:23.430 --> 00:30:27.289
Horror film entirely. Dorothy, saved from the psychiatric experiment by

694
00:30:27.309 --> 00:30:29.470
a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of

695
00:30:29.490 --> 00:30:32.470
her dreams and makes delightful new friends and dangerous new enemies.

696
00:30:32.829 --> 00:30:35.630
This is her returning to Oz as Farooza Balk, and

697
00:30:36.049 --> 00:30:38.369
she finds out that Oz is really in shambles. A

698
00:30:38.509 --> 00:30:40.819
evil witch has moved in and really screwed things up.

699
00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:44.509
When I say an evil witch, I also should mention

700
00:30:44.569 --> 00:30:46.930
that she has multiple heads in this movie because that

701
00:30:46.970 --> 00:30:49.109
is one of the scariest things about her is she

702
00:30:49.170 --> 00:30:51.710
has a cabinet, a glass cabinet full of heads.

703
00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:52.690
Why would that be scary?

704
00:30:52.710 --> 00:30:55.059
Yeah, that she wears and also that her henchmen have

705
00:30:55.140 --> 00:30:59.339
wheels for hands and feet. This movie's terrifying.

706
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.119
And another great example of a massive Disney flop.

707
00:31:02.259 --> 00:31:02.799
Oh, how much?

708
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:07.069
$ 28 million budget. 11 million at the box office. Ouch.

709
00:31:07.329 --> 00:31:10.119
I know it played HBO like incessantly. That was one

710
00:31:10.140 --> 00:31:12.369
thing that had its claim to fame. This was one

711
00:31:12.410 --> 00:31:15.349
that I saw early on because for some reason in

712
00:31:15.390 --> 00:31:17.849
my family, we had a picture book of Return to

713
00:31:17.990 --> 00:31:21.029
Oz that was like an old ex-library copy. And I'm

714
00:31:21.490 --> 00:31:23.650
three or four years old flipping through this thing and

715
00:31:23.690 --> 00:31:27.289
seeing a glass case full of heads and wheelie people.

716
00:31:27.670 --> 00:31:30.670
And I'm just like, what the hell is this? It's

717
00:31:31.029 --> 00:31:35.029
Return to Oz, baby. Yeah, Return to Oz is definitely one.

718
00:31:35.069 --> 00:31:36.549
If you are a Wizard of Oz fan and you've

719
00:31:36.609 --> 00:31:38.529
never seen Return to Oz, this is the year to

720
00:31:38.569 --> 00:31:40.509
do it. And this is the time to do it because,

721
00:31:40.529 --> 00:31:42.809
like I said, this movie is unsettling, but also a

722
00:31:43.009 --> 00:31:45.210
genuinely good film on top of that as well. And

723
00:31:45.230 --> 00:31:47.670
I always love the tagline, all new adventure down the

724
00:31:47.710 --> 00:31:51.069
yellow brick road, because that just says that it just

725
00:31:51.109 --> 00:31:54.670
seems screaming kid friendly. And this movie is and isn't

726
00:31:54.710 --> 00:31:55.349
at the same time.

727
00:31:55.650 --> 00:31:57.849
Well, I mean, the books, it's based on our kids' books.

728
00:31:57.890 --> 00:32:00.390
They're just very scary kids' books, if I remember correctly.

729
00:32:00.450 --> 00:32:04.130
No, absolutely. So, yeah, Return to Oz, 1985, currently available

730
00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:06.599
on Disney +. You can also rent it from Fandango

731
00:32:06.630 --> 00:32:11.980
and Apple. Moving into the 2000s once again, let's go

732
00:32:12.220 --> 00:32:14.920
with another classic that has really, really found its audience

733
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:18.039
over the years, and that is 2009's Coraline, directed by

734
00:32:18.099 --> 00:32:18.819
Henry Selnick.

735
00:32:19.740 --> 00:32:21.309
Oh, okay. I was.

736
00:32:21.980 --> 00:32:24.200
not the biggest fan of Coraline for the longest time.

737
00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:26.359
I didn't really have necessarily anything against it. It was

738
00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:29.539
just one that I really hadn't latched onto. I'd seen

739
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:31.900
it once. I think I rented it when I was

740
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:35.500
in junior high or something like that. And the more

741
00:32:35.539 --> 00:32:37.480
that I've gone back to Coraline, A, it's a really

742
00:32:37.509 --> 00:32:42.549
good movie, but B, there are legitimately terrifying images in this,

743
00:32:42.769 --> 00:32:43.450
even for an adult.

744
00:32:44.130 --> 00:32:46.309
I mean, there's a reason. It's a pretty well-loved movie.

745
00:32:46.390 --> 00:32:46.990
I've not seen it.

746
00:32:46.990 --> 00:32:47.670
You've never seen Coraline?

747
00:32:47.690 --> 00:32:47.750
No.

748
00:32:48.289 --> 00:32:50.890
So the plot of Coraline is wandering her rambling old

749
00:32:50.910 --> 00:32:53.819
house in her boring new town. 11-year-old Coraline discovers the

750
00:32:53.859 --> 00:32:56.519
hidden door to a strangely idolized version of her life.

751
00:32:56.920 --> 00:32:58.960
In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make

752
00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:02.500
a frighteningly real sacrifice. If you have not seen the meme,

753
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:05.420
this is the movie that has the woman with buttons

754
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:09.200
for eyes and mouths sewn up and whatnot. I mean,

755
00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:11.299
this has, like I said, some terrifying imagery in it.

756
00:33:11.329 --> 00:33:15.049
But Coraline is a really, really good kids movie. It's

757
00:33:15.069 --> 00:33:18.359
a really good gateway horror film. And it has really

758
00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:21.059
taken off to a point of getting its cult fandom,

759
00:33:21.099 --> 00:33:21.660
I would say, too.

760
00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:25.240
I mean, I've never heard anything but good things about it.

761
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:27.009
And it's from the same director who did A Nightmare

762
00:33:27.049 --> 00:33:30.089
Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, which was a

763
00:33:30.630 --> 00:33:33.880
very big deal when I was a kid. So, yeah,

764
00:33:33.890 --> 00:33:36.529
I mean, that alone should tell you. you know, all

765
00:33:36.549 --> 00:33:37.109
you need to know.

766
00:33:37.289 --> 00:33:41.109
Voice talents of Dakota Fanning, Terry Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Don French,

767
00:33:41.190 --> 00:33:44.430
Keith David, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShane. I mean, the

768
00:33:44.450 --> 00:33:47.220
list goes on and on with this. Currently available right

769
00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:49.440
now to rent or buy on Fandango. You can also

770
00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:51.740
stream it on Hulu as well as the Roku channel.

771
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:55.140
So Coraline from 2009, you know, if you have not

772
00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:57.980
seen Coraline, definitely check that one out. And if you

773
00:33:58.019 --> 00:33:59.740
have kids, maybe put them in front of the TV

774
00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:01.039
too on that one. They might enjoy that.

775
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:02.440
Yeah, and it rhymed.

776
00:34:03.450 --> 00:34:06.230
So moving back into a little bit more current one,

777
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:11.739
let's go with Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween from 2018.

778
00:34:11.739 --> 00:34:15.760
Also rhymed. Yes, it did. I mean, anything with Goosebumps

779
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:21.179
is going to be a perfect gateway for kids. I mean,

780
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:25.539
I grew up on Fear Street and Goosebumps, and I

781
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:30.739
think they made a massive influence on everything about my life.

782
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:33.900
Yeah. Goosebumps 2 synopsis. Be careful what you wish for.

783
00:34:34.019 --> 00:34:36.880
With their after-school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam

784
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.980
hope to find treasure in other people's trash, but when

785
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:42.280
cleaning out an old stein house, they open a locked

786
00:34:42.340 --> 00:34:45.800
book that frees a supernatural nightmare, Slappy. Now, with the

787
00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:48.059
help of Sonny's sister, Sarah, they're in a race against

788
00:34:48.099 --> 00:34:50.179
time to find the sinister dummy and all the creatures

789
00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:52.980
he's brought back to life into the pages before he

790
00:34:53.019 --> 00:34:56.389
unleashes total pandemonium. Also includes probably one of our favorite

791
00:34:56.429 --> 00:34:59.750
jokes of all time for a Goosebumps movie, which is

792
00:34:59.969 --> 00:35:02.940
there's a scene... where Jack Black, as R.L. Stine, is

793
00:35:03.059 --> 00:35:05.679
wandering the streets, all the chaos is broken out, and

794
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:09.300
a red balloon floats past a sewer, and Jack Black goes,

795
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:10.380
I knew I wrote that!

796
00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:15.159
I knew I wrote that first. No, both of those

797
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.480
Goosebumps films are great, but yeah, the second one taking

798
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:19.000
place on Halloween.

799
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.119
Yeah, super, super fun. It has a lot of great

800
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:23.900
creatures in it, it's got a lot of great humor,

801
00:35:24.019 --> 00:35:26.079
and the cast, I mean, you got Jeremy Ray Taylor,

802
00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:29.900
you got Ken Jeong, Chris Parnell, Bryce Kast, a bunch

803
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.460
of people in this one, and the chaos that ensues

804
00:35:32.699 --> 00:35:34.909
actually occurs on Halloween night, if I'm not mistaken, as well.

805
00:35:35.070 --> 00:35:35.860
I'm pretty sure you're right.

806
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.809
And that's why it's called Haunted Halloween. So yeah, Goosebumps 2,

807
00:35:38.809 --> 00:35:41.949
Haunted Halloween, currently available to stream on Netflix as well

808
00:35:42.090 --> 00:35:44.769
as you can rent it on Plex, Fandango, and Apple TV.

809
00:35:45.190 --> 00:35:47.670
If you haven't seen any of the Goosebumps movies, definitely

810
00:35:47.789 --> 00:35:49.869
add those into your lineup this year. They are a

811
00:35:49.969 --> 00:35:52.289
lot of fun. Really, really like those movies. I really

812
00:35:52.309 --> 00:35:53.550
wish we could get a third one at this point.

813
00:35:53.769 --> 00:35:57.090
Yeah, really. I kind of assumed there'd be one, but... Well,

814
00:35:57.110 --> 00:35:59.570
didn't we get that weird Didn't we get a really

815
00:35:59.650 --> 00:36:00.690
weird Goosebumps series?

816
00:36:00.710 --> 00:36:03.090
Oh, we got the TV series with David Schwimmer and

817
00:36:03.449 --> 00:36:05.030
Justin Long, if I'm not mistaken.

818
00:36:05.250 --> 00:36:07.119
Yeah, which I feel bad I never finished it.

819
00:36:07.250 --> 00:36:07.849
It was good, though.

820
00:36:08.030 --> 00:36:10.809
I remember getting more and more fascinated the longer I

821
00:36:10.809 --> 00:36:11.650
went into it. Yeah, yeah.

822
00:36:12.130 --> 00:36:15.130
So let's go into another Netflix one that really, really

823
00:36:15.150 --> 00:36:16.800
took my storm. Not going to talk about this one long.

824
00:36:17.050 --> 00:36:20.820
That is 2025's K-Pop Demon Hunters, directed by Chris Applehans

825
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:24.659
and Maggie Kang. When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira, and Zoey

826
00:36:24.780 --> 00:36:27.090
aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to

827
00:36:27.130 --> 00:36:30.170
protect their fans from supernatural threats. 100%, this is a

828
00:36:30.230 --> 00:36:33.969
great gateway horror film, or in general, just a good film.

829
00:36:34.050 --> 00:36:36.409
It's got a great soundtrack, a lot of fun animation,

830
00:36:36.429 --> 00:36:40.010
a lot of fun monsters, and some really well-handled topics

831
00:36:40.070 --> 00:36:42.469
that are not what you expect in a kids' movie sometimes,

832
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:43.920
I would say. Have you seen it yet?

833
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:45.599
Oh, no, I haven't had a chance. It's actually a

834
00:36:45.619 --> 00:36:47.659
lot of fun. I don't doubt that it's not good.

835
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:48.039
Yeah.

836
00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:49.659
People are really, really into it.

837
00:36:49.780 --> 00:36:51.269
I mean, Criterion's putting it out on 4K.

838
00:36:52.210 --> 00:36:52.710
Good for them.

839
00:36:54.070 --> 00:36:56.730
But yeah, K-Pop Demon Hunters, that is another one that

840
00:36:56.750 --> 00:36:58.500
I would recommend. Like I said, a lot of fun,

841
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:00.980
a lot of great music in that one, and readily available,

842
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:02.980
of course, to stream on Netflix, because that's the only

843
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:04.679
place that has it until that 4K comes out.

844
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:06.539
That's how they do business.

845
00:37:07.090 --> 00:37:10.840
Let's move back a little bit into 1997 with another

846
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:14.519
Disney one that, again, was really, really hard to find

847
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:16.380
for a while. There was a very out of print

848
00:37:16.420 --> 00:37:19.119
DVD from Echo Bridge. Otherwise than that, this one was

849
00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:21.119
not even on Disney Plus, still not on Disney Plus

850
00:37:21.139 --> 00:37:24.219
to this day. And that is 1997's Under Wraps, directed

851
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:28.869
by Greg Beeman. A comedy adventure in which three 12

852
00:37:28.869 --> 00:37:30.429
year olds have a close encounter with a 3000 year

853
00:37:30.449 --> 00:37:34.579
old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert, and Amy accidentally set the mummy free,

854
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:36.500
but if they don't get him back to his resting

855
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.409
place by midnight on Halloween, he'll turn into dust and

856
00:37:39.449 --> 00:37:42.130
lose his only chance of being reunited with his long-lost love.

857
00:37:42.590 --> 00:37:45.389
This was a Disney Channel staple when I was a kid.

858
00:37:46.489 --> 00:37:47.420
You know what? I've seen it.

859
00:37:47.570 --> 00:37:47.989
Have you seen it?

860
00:37:47.989 --> 00:37:49.730
Yeah. I was going to say you had to have, yeah.

861
00:37:49.750 --> 00:37:52.809
It took me a second, but I watched it. They

862
00:37:52.849 --> 00:37:53.969
did a remake. Yeah, in 2021?

863
00:37:53.969 --> 00:37:55.650
Yeah, that is available on Disney +, but this is

864
00:37:55.690 --> 00:37:59.869
the original from 1997. currently available on YouTube and has

865
00:37:59.909 --> 00:38:01.789
been there for a bit, so I would recommend checking

866
00:38:01.829 --> 00:38:03.610
it out there. Otherwise, you want to spend, I think,

867
00:38:03.610 --> 00:38:08.309
$ 80 to $ 100 on the DVD now. But super fun movie.

868
00:38:08.429 --> 00:38:10.429
It's got a lot of play on horror. Marshall is

869
00:38:10.469 --> 00:38:12.380
a huge horror fan, so his room's decked out with

870
00:38:12.389 --> 00:38:14.360
a bunch of stuff. Even opens with a fake horror

871
00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:17.340
movie as well, too. The whole last half of the

872
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:20.079
movie takes place on Halloween. One of my favorite scenes

873
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:21.639
in this movie, as of recent, because I watched it

874
00:38:21.820 --> 00:38:24.300
about a year ago, is the mummy ends up stumbling

875
00:38:24.340 --> 00:38:26.679
into a drive-thru and orders a bunch of food. To

876
00:38:26.739 --> 00:38:30.019
get a total of like 24 bucks for like six cheeseburgers,

877
00:38:30.059 --> 00:38:32.340
a bunch of fries and soda. And I miss those days.

878
00:38:33.139 --> 00:38:34.599
I remember those days better than you.

879
00:38:35.139 --> 00:38:35.960
You probably do.

880
00:38:36.019 --> 00:38:38.050
I was driving a car when it was that cheap.

881
00:38:38.690 --> 00:38:42.389
But yeah. No, this one's super charming and I really

882
00:38:42.449 --> 00:38:42.800
loved it.

883
00:38:42.949 --> 00:38:43.750
No, it's very cute.

884
00:38:43.769 --> 00:38:46.789
Yeah, this one's a really great addition to your lineup.

885
00:38:46.929 --> 00:38:50.210
I cannot speak on the remake, mainly because I just

886
00:38:50.610 --> 00:38:53.199
haven't been able to make To get myself to push

887
00:38:53.219 --> 00:38:54.699
play on it because I love the original so much.

888
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:56.460
This was one that I grew up with as a kid.

889
00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:59.840
I mean, I would have been five when this came out.

890
00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:02.659
So I may have even caught the premiere on Disney Channel.

891
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:04.940
Who knows? Because my grandparents had Disney Channel at this point.

892
00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.119
That's how I saw this. My grandma had recorded it

893
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:09.380
on a VHS. So that's how this movie stuck with

894
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:13.280
me through years. But yeah, Under Wraps 1997, currently available

895
00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:15.739
on YouTube. Or if you want to pay extensively for

896
00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:16.960
a DVD, it is out there.

897
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:19.889
I like how it's like my grandma taped me Under Wraps.

898
00:39:20.409 --> 00:39:23.010
I'm like, my great aunt taped me Freddy's Dead. We're

899
00:39:23.050 --> 00:39:23.599
not the same.

900
00:39:23.619 --> 00:39:27.119
We're not the same. And speaking of we're not the same,

901
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.530
let's go with a sequel that is, in my opinion, opinion,

902
00:39:30.550 --> 00:39:33.190
I don't want to say it's better than the original,

903
00:39:33.590 --> 00:39:36.449
but damn, I love this movie. And that is 1990s

904
00:39:36.510 --> 00:39:39.530
Gremlins 2, the new batch directed by Joe Dante.

905
00:39:39.550 --> 00:39:43.699
I could see that one being more Halloween-y, but also

906
00:39:43.860 --> 00:39:46.650
it is... It is more kid-friendly.

907
00:39:46.650 --> 00:39:47.349
100%.

908
00:39:47.349 --> 00:39:48.010
In some way.

909
00:39:48.050 --> 00:39:49.809
In some ways, yeah. There's still some humor in there.

910
00:39:50.389 --> 00:39:53.070
Well, yeah. And because Gremlins 1 has a lot more

911
00:39:53.110 --> 00:39:54.539
big scare moments. Yeah.

912
00:39:54.940 --> 00:39:57.039
And I mean, there's still scary stuff in this one, obviously, too.

913
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.159
Here they grow again. Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move

914
00:40:00.179 --> 00:40:03.159
to the Big Apple, land jobs in high-tech office park,

915
00:40:03.260 --> 00:40:05.960
and soon reunite with a friendly and lovable gizmo. But

916
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:08.699
a series of accidents create a whole new generation of gremlins.

917
00:40:08.739 --> 00:40:11.460
The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a

918
00:40:11.539 --> 00:40:15.590
top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers. making them even

919
00:40:15.630 --> 00:40:19.110
harder to destroy. Once again, returning is Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates.

920
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:21.820
We've got a great performance by John Glover in this

921
00:40:22.059 --> 00:40:25.000
as a, as a tycoon. Uh, my God, I love,

922
00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:27.150
I love this movie.

923
00:40:27.250 --> 00:40:29.730
I love that. You also get, um, Robert Prosky.

924
00:40:29.929 --> 00:40:30.090
Yeah.

925
00:40:30.110 --> 00:40:32.449
And you get kind of like a, like a, Horror

926
00:40:32.489 --> 00:40:33.690
host kind of character.

927
00:40:33.750 --> 00:40:34.050
Yeah.

928
00:40:34.130 --> 00:40:35.489
Robert Picardo's in there.

929
00:40:35.610 --> 00:40:39.230
Christopher Lee, Dick Miller. I mean, this is just a really,

930
00:40:39.449 --> 00:40:42.300
really fun one that really is aimed more towards kids

931
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.219
with its humor. But there is some still scary stuff

932
00:40:44.260 --> 00:40:46.219
in it. It's got a lot of great jokes in it, though,

933
00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:48.059
and a lot of great cameos. I mean, even the

934
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:50.340
ones we haven't named yet, there's still there's still plenty

935
00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:51.760
of popping up in this movie. Yeah.

936
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:54.119
Gremlins 2 was the one I rewatched the most as

937
00:40:54.179 --> 00:40:57.699
a kid. And it definitely has that kind of frenetic

938
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:01.800
kids Halloween energy. Even though it doesn't take place on Halloween,

939
00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:04.929
it definitely has that vibe. So I think that's a

940
00:41:04.989 --> 00:41:06.710
really solid recommendation.

941
00:41:06.949 --> 00:41:09.769
Currently available to stream on HBO Max. You can also

942
00:41:09.909 --> 00:41:14.150
rent it from Fandango or Apple. If you are a fan,

943
00:41:14.210 --> 00:41:17.179
I would recommend there is a Blu-ray double feature of both.

944
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:18.679
So if you don't have either of the Gremlins movies,

945
00:41:18.699 --> 00:41:19.980
that's a great way to get it. I don't think

946
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.960
it's hit 4K yet, which actually kind of surprised me.

947
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:22.659
Yeah, I don't think so.

948
00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:24.539
But once it does, I'm going to definitely get that

949
00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:27.099
because I love Gremlins 2 New Batch 1990 directed by

950
00:41:27.139 --> 00:41:30.519
Joe Dante. Available, like I said, on Max and Fandango.

951
00:41:30.539 --> 00:41:32.980
So make sure you check that one out as we

952
00:41:33.019 --> 00:41:34.739
are beginning to wrap up Gateway. We'll go to the

953
00:41:34.780 --> 00:41:38.079
second to last one, which is another personal favorite of mine.

954
00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:41.909
And again, another great one. Let's go with 2002's live

955
00:41:42.070 --> 00:41:46.010
action Scooby Doo movie, because why the hell not?

956
00:41:46.989 --> 00:41:48.250
The one written by James Gunn?

957
00:41:48.409 --> 00:41:51.309
The one originally written by James Gunn, yes. Directed by

958
00:41:51.389 --> 00:41:54.530
Raja Gosnell. Be afraid, be kind of afraid, when the

959
00:41:54.550 --> 00:41:58.239
Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular

960
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:00.639
amusement park. They soon discover that the attractions aren't the

961
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:03.659
only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and

962
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:06.059
it's up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to

963
00:42:06.139 --> 00:42:08.599
uncover the truth behind the mysterious happenings. This is, of course,

964
00:42:08.619 --> 00:42:11.079
the live action with Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar,

965
00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:14.699
Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini. Rowan Atkinson in this one as

966
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:18.500
well as Ilsa Fisher and you've got a really fun

967
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:20.400
performance by Sugar Ray in this as well if you

968
00:42:20.420 --> 00:42:22.079
want to date this movie any further.

969
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.119
I mean as if it were possible yeah but Scooby Doo.

970
00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:27.440
Live action if you have not seen that or if

971
00:42:27.820 --> 00:42:30.500
your kids haven't seen it this is such a fun

972
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:34.360
movie that honestly even though it's got it's dated CGI

973
00:42:34.409 --> 00:42:36.329
moments it's still a lot of fun got a lot

974
00:42:36.349 --> 00:42:38.610
of great performances in it a really good soundtrack as

975
00:42:38.650 --> 00:42:40.789
well too and Spooky Island is still a place that

976
00:42:40.849 --> 00:42:43.219
I really want to fucking visit I.

977
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:47.110
Mean, it's literally a living cartoon. I mean, it's a

978
00:42:47.110 --> 00:42:49.389
cartoon movie, but it's live action. So, I mean, I

979
00:42:49.449 --> 00:42:52.929
think you can forgive the cheesy digital animation.

980
00:42:53.230 --> 00:42:55.829
I would say so. But yeah, Scooby-Doo and even Scooby-Doo

981
00:42:55.829 --> 00:42:58.829
2 Monsters Unleashed, both are phenomenal films. Of course, you know,

982
00:42:58.869 --> 00:43:00.730
Matthew Lillard really got his claim to fame in this

983
00:43:00.809 --> 00:43:03.320
one as Shaggy, and he's definitely earned it as the

984
00:43:03.429 --> 00:43:06.420
rest of the cast. So that is currently available to

985
00:43:06.539 --> 00:43:10.639
rent on Fandango, Plex, and Apple. But as we mentioned earlier,

986
00:43:10.900 --> 00:43:12.320
officially up on YouTube.

987
00:43:13.170 --> 00:43:14.570
Oh yeah, I mean, that doesn't shock me.

988
00:43:14.710 --> 00:43:18.199
Yeah, so that is Scooby-Doo from 2002. And rounding out

989
00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:21.400
the gateway horror, this is kind of a cheat because

990
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.780
of A, the runtime on it, and B, it's not

991
00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:28.619
technically a movie. That is from 1929, The Skeleton Dance

992
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:30.619
by Walt Disney, the five-minute short.

993
00:43:31.019 --> 00:43:32.260
Oh, okay, yeah, I remember.

994
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.630
This is one that I've basically started kicking off my

995
00:43:35.670 --> 00:43:38.309
Halloween season with, because again, A, five minutes, but it's

996
00:43:38.349 --> 00:43:41.030
just a lot of fun. It's just the clock strikes midnight,

997
00:43:41.090 --> 00:43:43.469
the bats fly from the belfry, A dog howls at

998
00:43:43.489 --> 00:43:45.889
the full moon and two black cats fight in the cemetery.

999
00:43:45.949 --> 00:43:48.530
A perfect time for four skeletons to come out and

1000
00:43:48.550 --> 00:43:51.650
dance a little bit. A really, really cute short available

1001
00:43:51.710 --> 00:43:54.190
on Disney +. It is kind of the perfect thing

1002
00:43:54.210 --> 00:43:55.900
if you're wanting to get in that spooky mood. I

1003
00:43:55.909 --> 00:43:57.619
would say while you decorate the house, but again, you

1004
00:43:57.639 --> 00:43:58.780
got five minutes and then it's done.

1005
00:43:59.179 --> 00:44:01.380
Well, you know, the skeleton dance is public domain as

1006
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:04.500
of January of last year, too. So you could probably

1007
00:44:04.539 --> 00:44:05.880
find it anywhere. Elsewhere.

1008
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.050
Yes, I would imagine so. But yeah, that is going

1009
00:44:08.090 --> 00:44:10.409
to round out the gateway horror. So skeleton dance, a

1010
00:44:10.449 --> 00:44:13.530
perfect one. to check out if you are wanting to

1011
00:44:13.610 --> 00:44:23.349
get the kids and yourself into the halloween season let

1012
00:44:23.469 --> 00:44:27.329
us move into seasonal rewatches so these are movies that

1013
00:44:27.429 --> 00:44:30.079
i've moved into my halloween rotation and i think you

1014
00:44:30.099 --> 00:44:32.239
should too both for their feel they may take place

1015
00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:34.530
on halloween or just have halloween vibes And so we're

1016
00:44:34.550 --> 00:44:37.710
going to kick that off with one that I like,

1017
00:44:37.909 --> 00:44:40.030
but man, a lot of people love this movie way more.

1018
00:44:40.369 --> 00:44:45.139
And that is 1998's Practical Magic, directed by Griffin Dunn. Oh, wow.

1019
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:48.500
Does it have to do with the sequel coming out?

1020
00:44:48.539 --> 00:44:50.940
The sequel that is out and apparently has people split

1021
00:44:50.980 --> 00:44:53.570
as well. I.

1022
00:44:53.670 --> 00:44:55.190
You know, I had that chance to keep up with

1023
00:44:55.230 --> 00:44:57.949
it because as spooky season was starting, I was very like,

1024
00:44:58.500 --> 00:44:59.099
you know, busy.

1025
00:44:59.199 --> 00:44:59.460
Yeah.

1026
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:03.500
But, uh, it looks like it's doing okay. $ 75 million budget,

1027
00:45:03.500 --> 00:45:05.440
93 million box office. It's not a massive hit.

1028
00:45:05.539 --> 00:45:07.440
No, but it's doing, yeah, it's definitely doing well. But yeah,

1029
00:45:07.460 --> 00:45:10.079
we're talking about the original from 1998, uh, with, uh,

1030
00:45:10.139 --> 00:45:13.889
Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stocker Channing, Diane Weiss says, uh,

1031
00:45:13.989 --> 00:45:16.849
Sally and Jillian Owens born into a magical family have

1032
00:45:16.909 --> 00:45:20.809
mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Jillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy

1033
00:45:20.909 --> 00:45:24.170
Angeloff dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash

1034
00:45:24.210 --> 00:45:27.380
course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallett growing suspicious,

1035
00:45:27.420 --> 00:45:30.360
the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov and unwittingly inject his

1036
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.639
corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their

1037
00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:34.679
family line. So the one thing that I'm going to

1038
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.170
say about Practical Magic is every time I go back

1039
00:45:37.190 --> 00:45:39.659
to this movie, I absolutely do have a blast with it.

1040
00:45:40.289 --> 00:45:42.969
But my God, you can see the studio interference in

1041
00:45:43.010 --> 00:45:45.710
this movie. The plot is an absolute mess.

1042
00:45:45.869 --> 00:45:48.750
Yeah? Yeah. It's been a while since I watched it.

1043
00:45:48.769 --> 00:45:51.840
This was what I would have called my sister's kind

1044
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:53.530
of movie because I had an older sister growing up.

1045
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:59.619
Practical Magic, Death Becomes Her, those were all very popular

1046
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:04.030
with teenage girls in the 90s. which my sister was one,

1047
00:46:04.050 --> 00:46:05.699
although actually she might've been in her twenties by then,

1048
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:08.659
but still, uh, but I've always, I've always had a

1049
00:46:08.699 --> 00:46:10.420
soft spot for those films, but I haven't seen the

1050
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:12.659
original practical magic in a very long time.

1051
00:46:12.780 --> 00:46:15.750
Still holds up really cute movie. Um, it's got Halloween

1052
00:46:15.789 --> 00:46:18.000
feel out the ass with just the witchy vibes. Uh,

1053
00:46:18.070 --> 00:46:19.730
I want to live in that house that her aunts

1054
00:46:19.769 --> 00:46:22.909
have for one. I mean, it's just a really fun movie.

1055
00:46:22.949 --> 00:46:26.030
That's pretty, that pretty, uh, enjoyable for the family. There's,

1056
00:46:26.110 --> 00:46:28.039
there's some content to it, but overall, I mean, it's

1057
00:46:28.059 --> 00:46:31.300
a PG 13, uh, I wouldn't say horror film. It's

1058
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:35.889
a scary-ish movie, but Practical Magic is a lot of fun,

1059
00:46:36.329 --> 00:46:38.650
regardless of the plot that's messed up in that movie.

1060
00:46:38.690 --> 00:46:41.789
My God, you cannot not tell anymore.

1061
00:46:42.289 --> 00:46:42.869
Fair enough.

1062
00:46:43.260 --> 00:46:46.329
But yeah, yeah, that is 1998's Griffin Dunn's Practical Magic

1063
00:46:46.650 --> 00:46:48.750
currently streaming on HBO Max. You can also rent it

1064
00:46:48.809 --> 00:46:51.530
on Fandango and Plex as well. And again, you can

1065
00:46:51.550 --> 00:46:54.159
get yourself ready for the sequel that my mom actually

1066
00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:56.139
really did enjoy, by the way, because I was afraid

1067
00:46:56.159 --> 00:46:59.000
it was going to have that Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to Beetlejuice

1068
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:01.539
Beetlejuice feel to it. And luckily, she said it wasn't

1069
00:47:01.579 --> 00:47:01.840
like that.

1070
00:47:02.329 --> 00:47:05.429
Okay, fair enough. I mean, I thought it wouldn't come

1071
00:47:05.510 --> 00:47:07.469
off as too chintzy. No.

1072
00:47:08.030 --> 00:47:10.889
So moving on into seasonal rewatches, another one that has

1073
00:47:10.929 --> 00:47:14.679
kind of fallen into my rotation over the years. Unexpected

1074
00:47:14.980 --> 00:47:16.539
one that I just didn't know if I was going

1075
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:18.440
to like, A, because I didn't know how this director

1076
00:47:18.460 --> 00:47:21.639
would handle a children's film, and that is 2018's The

1077
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:23.869
House with the Clock in Its Walls by Eli Roth.

1078
00:47:24.010 --> 00:47:26.190
I had a feeling when you said, when you built

1079
00:47:26.269 --> 00:47:27.010
up the director. Yeah.

1080
00:47:27.449 --> 00:47:30.190
So this is when 10-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned. He

1081
00:47:30.250 --> 00:47:32.070
is sent to live with his uncle Jonathan in a

1082
00:47:32.110 --> 00:47:35.869
creaky and creepy old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise

1083
00:47:35.909 --> 00:47:38.610
that emanates from the walls. Upon discovering that his uncle

1084
00:47:38.630 --> 00:47:41.010
was a warlock, Lewis begins learning magic, but when he

1085
00:47:41.070 --> 00:47:44.219
rebelliously resurrects an evil warlock, he must find the secret

1086
00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:46.559
of the house and save the world from destruction. This

1087
00:47:46.579 --> 00:47:48.679
has an amazing cast in it, such as Jack Black,

1088
00:47:48.699 --> 00:47:53.800
Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle McLaughlin, Colin Camp. This is

1089
00:47:54.059 --> 00:47:56.079
one that is, you know, like I said, it's a

1090
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:59.480
children's film, but Again, it has really, really good scares

1091
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:01.639
to it, has a really good story to it, and

1092
00:48:01.739 --> 00:48:04.489
is genuinely a lot of fun. It was a Black

1093
00:48:04.530 --> 00:48:06.489
Friday pickup of all things years ago. That's how I

1094
00:48:06.860 --> 00:48:09.170
found it in my life. But it was one that

1095
00:48:09.230 --> 00:48:10.960
really surprised me on how much I enjoyed it.

1096
00:48:11.650 --> 00:48:15.429
I mean, it's from the same writer as 2005's film Boogeyman.

1097
00:48:15.889 --> 00:48:17.050
Oh.

1098
00:48:17.170 --> 00:48:20.510
Kripke wrote a lot of interesting stuff. I've never seen

1099
00:48:20.550 --> 00:48:23.269
this one, unfortunately. I missed out on it, but I

1100
00:48:23.289 --> 00:48:26.099
have not heard a bad word about it. about the

1101
00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:28.800
film so I think it's a it's a solid pick.

1102
00:48:28.780 --> 00:48:30.940
Yeah 2018's House of the Clock on the Walls not

1103
00:48:30.980 --> 00:48:33.079
only does it have a really really fun Jack Black

1104
00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:34.800
performance because you know what movie does it for that

1105
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.610
matter but he's not in yeah I mean that's fair

1106
00:48:38.130 --> 00:48:41.369
okay Kyle MacLachlan is really really scary in this movie

1107
00:48:41.409 --> 00:48:43.170
I will say too and that is one thing that

1108
00:48:43.210 --> 00:48:45.070
I really have always stuck in my brain he's got

1109
00:48:45.250 --> 00:48:47.469
one scene where his face morphs and it is kind

1110
00:48:47.510 --> 00:48:52.789
of the stuff of nightmares fair enough currently available to

1111
00:48:52.809 --> 00:48:55.909
stream on netflix also rentable on apple tv and fandango

1112
00:48:56.210 --> 00:48:58.309
house of the clock on its walls from 2018 directed

1113
00:48:58.329 --> 00:49:00.639
by eli roth another great one if you are looking

1114
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:04.960
for a seasonal feel which moves us into a 90s

1115
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.019
film that i just saw for the first time this

1116
00:49:07.059 --> 00:49:09.940
year uh despite this film being a hundred percent uh

1117
00:49:09.980 --> 00:49:13.289
we'll just say my shit and that is 1992's demonic

1118
00:49:13.329 --> 00:49:16.349
toys directed by that.

1119
00:49:15.349 --> 00:49:17.389
You never saw demonic toys um it.

1120
00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:19.579
Was one that i was always aware of. Full moon

1121
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:21.400
is one of those companies that it's just like, I

1122
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:24.119
know of certain titles that I've enjoyed and I know

1123
00:49:24.179 --> 00:49:26.300
certain titles exist. I've just never really gotten to them

1124
00:49:26.449 --> 00:49:27.829
until this year and last year.

1125
00:49:27.869 --> 00:49:31.789
Honestly, I grew up in the heyday of full moon

1126
00:49:31.829 --> 00:49:35.769
being a home video company and just owning the shelves

1127
00:49:35.829 --> 00:49:38.809
of Hollywood video. Yeah. with full moon films. And that

1128
00:49:38.849 --> 00:49:40.550
went until like the early two thousands.

1129
00:49:40.710 --> 00:49:40.869
Yeah.

1130
00:49:41.369 --> 00:49:44.780
Um, and this was one that actually was hard to

1131
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:46.780
get ahold of for a minute because of the paramount

1132
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:51.099
era full moon movies. And I think the first time

1133
00:49:51.179 --> 00:49:55.469
I saw demonic toys from start to finish because it

1134
00:49:55.510 --> 00:49:58.150
had been on HBO and stuff for dozens of times

1135
00:49:58.750 --> 00:50:01.110
was when it was on William Shatner's full moon fright

1136
00:50:01.150 --> 00:50:05.659
night on sci-fi channel, which I, ah, That was a

1137
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:09.000
special time. My heart was so broken when it got canceled.

1138
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:13.119
Cause I, you know, just settled everything at a Saturday

1139
00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:16.409
night to watch William Shatner's full moon fright night. It

1140
00:50:16.449 --> 00:50:19.730
was so fun. It was so cheap. Um, and Bill

1141
00:50:19.769 --> 00:50:22.420
Shatner was clearly into it, but not that into it.

1142
00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:25.130
Like there were some of them where I swear they

1143
00:50:25.150 --> 00:50:26.849
would cut back. They would cut to him and he

1144
00:50:26.889 --> 00:50:30.409
would do like one gag. Like, I mean, like it'd

1145
00:50:30.429 --> 00:50:33.070
be like 18 seconds and then it would go to the, like,

1146
00:50:33.860 --> 00:50:37.119
I think that they just the production wasn't very well done.

1147
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.639
The one thing that I was surprised that it had

1148
00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:41.360
never gone on my radar is the movie takes place

1149
00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:42.360
entirely on Halloween.

1150
00:50:42.860 --> 00:50:43.099
What?

1151
00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:43.599
Yeah.

1152
00:50:43.989 --> 00:50:44.820
I didn't remember that.

1153
00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:47.809
Halloween night. So Halloween night is when the movie takes place.

1154
00:50:47.849 --> 00:50:50.429
The plot synopsis says while on a stakeout, Judith Gray,

1155
00:50:50.809 --> 00:50:53.269
a beautiful tough cop, is trapped inside a warehouse full

1156
00:50:53.289 --> 00:50:55.389
of toys that have been awakened to murderous life by

1157
00:50:55.429 --> 00:51:02.139
a strange child of darkness. It is extremely ridiculous. Demonic toys.

1158
00:51:02.579 --> 00:51:05.059
I mean, I think that's putting it pretty lightly. Yeah.

1159
00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:06.980
I mean, you've got a bunch of toys that are

1160
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.159
going after these people that have invaded this factory. There's

1161
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:11.760
a mob plot at the very beginning that gets them

1162
00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:15.300
into the factory. There's a possession story going on as

1163
00:51:15.340 --> 00:51:17.190
well with this. There is a lot of things to

1164
00:51:17.230 --> 00:51:20.409
happen in the... What runtime is it? It's like super

1165
00:51:20.449 --> 00:51:20.909
freaking quick.

1166
00:51:20.929 --> 00:51:23.469
It's got to be 80-some. 83.

1167
00:51:23.469 --> 00:51:26.329
Yeah, 83 minutes. Yeah, 83-minute runtime. A lot happens in

1168
00:51:26.349 --> 00:51:30.059
Demonic Toys. It is a wild movie. But also just

1169
00:51:30.099 --> 00:51:31.780
has those good scares to it. And like I said,

1170
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:34.159
it takes place on Halloween. So if you are looking

1171
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:38.829
for something and necessarily doesn't have a Halloween feel to it,

1172
00:51:38.829 --> 00:51:41.250
because I don't really think there's much like trick-or-treating or anything.

1173
00:51:41.769 --> 00:51:43.789
But no, it is in the plot of it. So

1174
00:51:43.809 --> 00:51:46.730
Demonic Toys from 1992, a lot of fun and a

1175
00:51:47.130 --> 00:51:49.730
very wild flick that is exactly the kind of thing

1176
00:51:49.750 --> 00:51:52.530
you'd expect from Full Moon. Currently streaming right now on

1177
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:55.119
Tubi Prime as well as the Roku channel. So it

1178
00:51:55.179 --> 00:51:57.059
is readily available out there. So if you haven't seen

1179
00:51:57.099 --> 00:52:00.019
Demonic Toys yet, Cannot recommend that one enough, just even

1180
00:52:00.059 --> 00:52:00.760
for its runtime.

1181
00:52:01.219 --> 00:52:05.940
And just so you can be fully prepared to watch

1182
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:08.179
Dollman versus Demonic Toys.

1183
00:52:08.510 --> 00:52:09.219
That movie's a mess.

1184
00:52:09.610 --> 00:52:10.269
Yeah, it is.

1185
00:52:10.309 --> 00:52:11.110
But Dollman's great.

1186
00:52:11.730 --> 00:52:12.789
Oh, yeah.

1187
00:52:12.809 --> 00:52:16.789
So let's move into one that everybody knows, but when's

1188
00:52:16.829 --> 00:52:19.530
the last time you watched it? And that is 1999's

1189
00:52:19.590 --> 00:52:23.289
The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. You know,

1190
00:52:23.510 --> 00:52:25.469
what is there to say about this movie, except that

1191
00:52:25.510 --> 00:52:26.460
it's kind of fucking perfect?

1192
00:52:27.469 --> 00:52:29.610
Yeah, I would have to say so. I mean, it's got,

1193
00:52:30.269 --> 00:52:34.670
it's got great, I mean, like industry establishing performances.

1194
00:52:34.730 --> 00:52:34.969
Yeah.

1195
00:52:35.429 --> 00:52:38.199
It's got the twist that everybody knows now, but at

1196
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:41.320
the time it was a heck of a, of a reveal. It's,

1197
00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:43.980
it's a solid film. It leaves you feeling creeped out.

1198
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:44.900
It works.

1199
00:52:45.099 --> 00:52:47.820
It works so well. It's a phenomenal ghost story. Uh,

1200
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:51.429
following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist, Malcolm Crow meets a

1201
00:52:51.469 --> 00:52:53.630
nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding

1202
00:52:53.650 --> 00:52:55.429
a dark secret, uh, spoilers.

1203
00:52:55.630 --> 00:52:58.099
He sees dead people. It's true.

1204
00:52:58.260 --> 00:53:00.789
It is true. But the reason I put this on

1205
00:53:00.829 --> 00:53:03.409
the list is not only is it a phenomenal ghost story,

1206
00:53:03.449 --> 00:53:06.110
but on top of that, even if you know the twist,

1207
00:53:06.429 --> 00:53:08.829
still going back to this movie, it has not lost

1208
00:53:08.889 --> 00:53:12.130
its effect at all. I would agree. There's so many

1209
00:53:12.170 --> 00:53:14.610
things you can pick up on that second, third watch,

1210
00:53:14.650 --> 00:53:17.469
whatever you want to call it. Bruce Willis, Haley Jo Osment,

1211
00:53:17.530 --> 00:53:21.420
Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Trevor Morgan, Donnie Wahlberg. Huge cast

1212
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:23.559
in this one, and this was the one that put M.

1213
00:53:23.579 --> 00:53:24.179
Night on the map.

1214
00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:27.719
Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, without a doubt. Yeah. It

1215
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:31.059
was one of the most influential horror films of a generation.

1216
00:53:31.380 --> 00:53:33.329
I don't know. I mean, you know, you and I

1217
00:53:33.369 --> 00:53:35.650
have seen multiple M. Night movies and theaters. I don't

1218
00:53:35.690 --> 00:53:39.510
know if he's ever hit this point again, but he's

1219
00:53:39.550 --> 00:53:41.829
definitely come close. I mean, Split is probably one that

1220
00:53:41.869 --> 00:53:45.570
I would say almost matches the veracity of this one.

1221
00:53:46.030 --> 00:53:48.110
Yeah. I mean, yeah. No, I would actually have to agree.

1222
00:53:48.130 --> 00:53:48.469
Yeah.

1223
00:53:48.530 --> 00:53:51.179
Because I keep forgetting. I mean, I love Split. I

1224
00:53:51.340 --> 00:53:53.500
keep forgetting what a solid horror film it is because

1225
00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:57.079
it all... heads toward the epic of glass.

1226
00:53:57.139 --> 00:53:57.420
Yeah.

1227
00:53:57.619 --> 00:53:59.400
Which is not so much a horror film as it

1228
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:02.139
is like an adventure fantasy.

1229
00:54:02.289 --> 00:54:02.489
Yeah.

1230
00:54:02.530 --> 00:54:06.610
But split really scary. And, but for different reasons.

1231
00:54:06.789 --> 00:54:09.289
For different reasons, I will be. Yeah. Six cents, 1999

1232
00:54:09.289 --> 00:54:13.170
currently available on Peacock as well as Fandango. Um, if

1233
00:54:13.210 --> 00:54:14.630
you have not seen it in a bit, or if

1234
00:54:14.650 --> 00:54:16.199
you've never seen it, there's people out there that just

1235
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:18.420
know the twist and then never saw it. This is

1236
00:54:18.460 --> 00:54:20.199
the time to check out the six cents. The movie

1237
00:54:20.219 --> 00:54:21.900
still has its impact to it. And it is just

1238
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:25.860
genuinely a great ghost story. Yeah. So moving on, let's

1239
00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:28.019
go into something a little bit more lighter, but one

1240
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:30.960
that I and you both had a blast with in theaters.

1241
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:35.619
That is Boo! A Madea Halloween from 2016, directed by

1242
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:36.320
Tyler Perry.

1243
00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:39.960
I love Boo! A Madea Halloween. I don't care what

1244
00:54:40.019 --> 00:54:44.500
anybody thinks. And I saw Boo! in the best possible way.

1245
00:54:44.619 --> 00:54:49.010
I saw it in a rural Georgia movie theater. And

1246
00:54:49.050 --> 00:54:52.119
it was awesome. I thought it was so funny. That's

1247
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:53.420
another good way to see it. But I got to

1248
00:54:53.460 --> 00:54:56.360
hear people chuckling. They had to hear me laughing, which

1249
00:54:56.420 --> 00:54:59.480
I'm sure was a lot of fun for them. But

1250
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:01.579
I think this one's hilarious. I know for a lot

1251
00:55:01.619 --> 00:55:05.429
of people, Medea is not their thing. But Boo, in particular,

1252
00:55:05.489 --> 00:55:07.969
is a very accessible Medea movie. You don't have to

1253
00:55:08.050 --> 00:55:11.829
know everything about Medea to think it's funny. The interactions

1254
00:55:11.849 --> 00:55:13.769
between all the characters are great. And also.

1255
00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:18.599
Honestly, with that film especially, I just would marvel in

1256
00:55:18.940 --> 00:55:22.989
awe at Tyler Perry playing all of these characters in

1257
00:55:23.170 --> 00:55:26.929
one scene. And the scenes would be long and feel improvised,

1258
00:55:26.949 --> 00:55:31.489
but there's no way to really improvise because he's playing

1259
00:55:31.550 --> 00:55:35.570
every character. which means at least four hours of makeup.

1260
00:55:35.710 --> 00:55:38.769
It just blew my mind when I realized how that

1261
00:55:38.789 --> 00:55:41.440
was going. But also just some legitimately funny things. Boo

1262
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:43.099
2 is pretty good as well. I like that they

1263
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:45.880
took a totally different direction. But Boo is just the

1264
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:46.480
one for me.

1265
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:49.420
Yeah, Boo Madea Halloween says, Madea winds up in the

1266
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:53.170
middle of mayhem when she spends a hilarious haunted Halloween

1267
00:55:53.510 --> 00:55:57.349
fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls, and zombies while

1268
00:55:57.369 --> 00:55:59.610
keeping a watchful eye on a group of misbehaving teens.

1269
00:56:00.190 --> 00:56:03.690
It is super funny. It's got so many references to

1270
00:56:04.139 --> 00:56:07.800
popular horror films, both Boo and Boo 2. So if

1271
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:10.159
you have not seen either of these movies, this is

1272
00:56:10.219 --> 00:56:12.300
definitely one to put on the list. Even if you're

1273
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:14.409
not a Tyler Perry fan, take a chance at this one.

1274
00:56:14.769 --> 00:56:16.750
You may find yourself really enjoying it.

1275
00:56:17.269 --> 00:56:19.050
Yeah, I think you'd be surprised.

1276
00:56:19.130 --> 00:56:22.159
Yeah. So that is currently available to rent on Fandango.

1277
00:56:22.179 --> 00:56:24.159
You can also rent it on Plex and play it

1278
00:56:24.340 --> 00:56:26.519
on the Roku channel as well, where it is streaming

1279
00:56:26.579 --> 00:56:28.059
for quote unquote free right now.

1280
00:56:28.380 --> 00:56:28.880
Yeah.

1281
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:32.539
So that is Boom! A Dia Halloween 2016. Moving on,

1282
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:35.349
let's go into one. This is a question I get

1283
00:56:35.809 --> 00:56:38.469
pretty common because people know me as the movie guy,

1284
00:56:38.489 --> 00:56:40.250
but also the horror guy. And they always ask me,

1285
00:56:40.289 --> 00:56:43.030
you know, what's the scariest movie that you've seen or

1286
00:56:43.070 --> 00:56:45.949
what's one you've seen recently? The first time I watched

1287
00:56:45.989 --> 00:56:49.849
this movie, I genuinely had to stop it halfway and

1288
00:56:49.889 --> 00:56:52.289
then watch it the rest in the morning. And that

1289
00:56:52.369 --> 00:56:54.179
is 2012's VHS.

1290
00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:56.119
Oh. Yes. Really?

1291
00:56:56.400 --> 00:56:59.659
I was in college, and it was late at night,

1292
00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:02.480
and it was shortly after the siren story, which I

1293
00:57:02.500 --> 00:57:04.719
think might even be the first story, that I just

1294
00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:06.360
was like, aye, this is too much.

1295
00:57:08.219 --> 00:57:09.130
That surprises me.

1296
00:57:09.139 --> 00:57:12.539
I know, yeah. So 2012's VHS, directed by David Bruckner,

1297
00:57:12.619 --> 00:57:15.949
Matt Benolpen, several other directors in this. This collection is killer,

1298
00:57:15.969 --> 00:57:18.710
says the tagline. When a group of misfits is hired

1299
00:57:18.789 --> 00:57:21.349
by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house

1300
00:57:21.409 --> 00:57:24.480
and acquire one rare VHS tape, They discover more found

1301
00:57:24.500 --> 00:57:27.940
footage than they had bargained for. You may be worn

1302
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:29.610
out on the VHS movies by this point. I think

1303
00:57:29.619 --> 00:57:31.219
we're up to like, what, eight?

1304
00:57:31.510 --> 00:57:33.769
I think the eighth one is coming out in October

1305
00:57:33.789 --> 00:57:34.150
of this year.

1306
00:57:34.309 --> 00:57:36.309
But if there is one thing that I can recommend

1307
00:57:36.329 --> 00:57:39.190
to you, go back to the original source. Because that

1308
00:57:39.269 --> 00:57:42.630
first VHS movie not only captures the feel of the VHS,

1309
00:57:42.889 --> 00:57:45.710
it doesn't feel like we're putting a widescreen movie on

1310
00:57:45.750 --> 00:57:47.989
a VHS tape like some of them have lately.

1311
00:57:48.590 --> 00:57:49.889
Yeah, I would agree with that.

1312
00:57:50.050 --> 00:57:52.969
But overall, the stories are great. And what people forget

1313
00:57:53.250 --> 00:57:55.829
is even though VHS Halloween has come out, which may

1314
00:57:55.849 --> 00:57:59.719
be on the list later, hint, hint, wink, wink, VHS

1315
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:03.260
ends with a Halloween story, which are the guys going

1316
00:58:03.300 --> 00:58:05.699
into the house during the Halloween party and thinking that

1317
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:08.969
the cult thing that's happening is part of the initiation.

1318
00:58:09.409 --> 00:58:12.449
And it's not. VHS is just a really well done

1319
00:58:12.869 --> 00:58:15.250
set of stories in this first one. Not only does

1320
00:58:15.269 --> 00:58:18.050
it have a great cast of up-and-comers at this point,

1321
00:58:18.090 --> 00:58:20.860
I mean, you've got Adam Weingart in it, you've got

1322
00:58:22.059 --> 00:58:24.239
Joe Swanberg is in this, a bunch of people in

1323
00:58:24.260 --> 00:58:26.699
this one. The siren story kicking it off is really scary.

1324
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:31.400
The couple on a trip through a Grand Canyon area

1325
00:58:31.420 --> 00:58:34.389
is fine, but overall, I think the first story and

1326
00:58:34.409 --> 00:58:36.289
the last story are the strongest in this, but it's

1327
00:58:36.389 --> 00:58:38.889
not a bad compilation at all. And it is a

1328
00:58:38.929 --> 00:58:41.650
good reminder of where it started versus where we are now,

1329
00:58:41.710 --> 00:58:44.980
which again, No complaints to the VHS series. I'm happy

1330
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.199
they're still going. I've enjoyed them for what they are.

1331
00:58:47.699 --> 00:58:51.539
But the first one from 2012 is a phenomenal addition

1332
00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:52.460
to your Halloween lineup.

1333
00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:54.519
I would have to say so. I mean, I think

1334
00:58:55.619 --> 00:58:57.949
the great thing, the thing that works really well with

1335
00:58:57.969 --> 00:59:01.670
the VHS movies is the anthology format. Because if one

1336
00:59:01.710 --> 00:59:03.590
or two of them don't connect with you, for the

1337
00:59:03.650 --> 00:59:06.719
most part, they're all very short. Yep. With some exceptions

1338
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:08.539
in the later series where you might be like, wow,

1339
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.119
this one's like 31 minutes long.

1340
00:59:10.159 --> 00:59:10.320
Yeah.

1341
00:59:10.519 --> 00:59:12.000
But for the most part, you know, if you're not

1342
00:59:12.139 --> 00:59:14.139
fully in love with it, it's like, well, just wait

1343
00:59:14.179 --> 00:59:16.420
a minute. It's like going to see the Ramones. It's like, oh,

1344
00:59:16.420 --> 00:59:17.659
if you don't like the song, don't worry. The next

1345
00:59:17.699 --> 00:59:18.369
one's coming right up.

1346
00:59:20.170 --> 00:59:22.750
Yeah. VHS also, uh, the first one has a really

1347
00:59:22.769 --> 00:59:24.750
good strong wraparound, I would say, which is one thing

1348
00:59:24.769 --> 00:59:26.789
that they really had a little lackluster on as the

1349
00:59:26.809 --> 00:59:29.150
series has gone. But the first one with them going

1350
00:59:29.170 --> 00:59:32.179
into the house, finding these mountains of VHS tapes, it's

1351
00:59:32.260 --> 00:59:34.380
a very eerie feel to it. It's got a lot

1352
00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:36.239
of good scares in it. It's got some humor to it.

1353
00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:41.139
So VHS 2012 currently available to you can currently stream

1354
00:59:41.179 --> 00:59:44.360
it on Amazon Prime, Fandango, Roku channel. It is out

1355
00:59:44.429 --> 00:59:46.590
there where you are looking. So make sure you add

1356
00:59:46.630 --> 00:59:47.809
that into your Halloween lineup.

1357
00:59:48.070 --> 00:59:49.769
Yeah, I think that's a very good addition.

1358
00:59:56.889 --> 01:00:01.179
Let's go into more seasonal rewatches with a absolute classic. Um,

1359
01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:05.119
and that is going to be 1989 pet cemetery directed

1360
01:00:05.179 --> 01:00:08.579
by Mary Lambert. I mean, what can you say? It's

1361
01:00:08.619 --> 01:00:09.199
pet cemetery.

1362
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:11.659
I would say hopefully a lot. Cause it's a podcast,

1363
01:00:11.719 --> 01:00:16.110
but no pet cemetery was in a lot of ways.

1364
01:00:16.250 --> 01:00:19.409
One of the first really scary movies I remember. Yeah.

1365
01:00:19.710 --> 01:00:23.750
As in, I had seen, you know, horror movies on

1366
01:00:23.789 --> 01:00:26.090
TV and, and things like that had been around a lot,

1367
01:00:26.110 --> 01:00:28.599
but I, I, I can't say exactly when, but I

1368
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:32.320
remember my memory of Pet Sematary was always like, that's

1369
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:35.380
a really scary movie. It doesn't have Jason or Freddy

1370
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:37.719
or Pinhead. It's just a really scary movie.

1371
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:40.980
And it felt almost wrong as a kid because it

1372
01:00:41.059 --> 01:00:45.800
was literally a killer kid. At the end. At the end, yeah.

1373
01:00:45.860 --> 01:00:46.380
Spoilers.

1374
01:00:46.619 --> 01:00:50.559
Shut up. But I would honestly even say, if you

1375
01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:53.929
haven't seen... The first three. So that would be Pet Sematary,

1376
01:00:53.969 --> 01:00:56.250
Pet Sematary 2, and even the remake. I think those

1377
01:00:56.409 --> 01:00:58.550
three are worth watching. I didn't see Bloodlines.

1378
01:00:58.730 --> 01:01:00.409
I didn't hear much about it. It was okay. It

1379
01:01:00.469 --> 01:01:04.889
wasn't great. But no, 2 I think is horribly underrated. Oh, yeah. Great,

1380
01:01:05.030 --> 01:01:08.329
great 90s vibe going on with it. But yeah, Pet

1381
01:01:08.349 --> 01:01:11.389
Sematary is a great one that just kind of. nails

1382
01:01:11.510 --> 01:01:12.909
to me it's kind of yeah like i said the

1383
01:01:12.969 --> 01:01:15.530
quintessential creepy horror film.

1384
01:01:15.429 --> 01:01:17.360
No absolutely i mean if you're not familiar with it

1385
01:01:17.380 --> 01:01:19.679
uh after the creeds family cat is accidentally killed a

1386
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:22.840
friendly neighbor advises his burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery

1387
01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:25.400
they may also bury some other things in that cemetery

1388
01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:27.300
as well so you got a family that's moved into

1389
01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.519
an area uh there's a cemetery that is around that

1390
01:01:30.619 --> 01:01:33.219
is an Indian burial ground and they are suggested not

1391
01:01:33.239 --> 01:01:35.110
to put anything in it, but something might go in it.

1392
01:01:35.420 --> 01:01:38.099
There's a lot of horrifying scenes in this one. There's

1393
01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:40.780
a lot of good tension and a lot of good

1394
01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:45.019
suspense and overall just unsettling vibes all throughout. I mean,

1395
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:47.119
even if you're not talking about Gage with the scalpel

1396
01:01:47.139 --> 01:01:51.440
at the end, you know, you've got Rachel's sister and whatnot.

1397
01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:53.780
I mean, there's a bunch of creepy things in Pet Sematary.

1398
01:01:54.820 --> 01:01:59.070
And honestly, it is one that surprisingly, it's out there,

1399
01:01:59.110 --> 01:02:00.369
but I would have thought it would have been streaming

1400
01:02:00.389 --> 01:02:02.769
at this point. You can rent it on Fandango, Plex,

1401
01:02:02.809 --> 01:02:05.400
or Apple TV, but there's a great 4K out there.

1402
01:02:05.420 --> 01:02:07.760
There's a great Blu-ray. So if you are looking for

1403
01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:10.719
some scary vibes, some classic scary vibes, some great Stephen King,

1404
01:02:11.150 --> 01:02:14.190
Pet Sematary from 1989 is one that you definitely want

1405
01:02:14.210 --> 01:02:14.630
to check out.

1406
01:02:14.789 --> 01:02:17.610
And a closing theme by the Ramones, which I was

1407
01:02:17.650 --> 01:02:18.349
just talking about.

1408
01:02:18.409 --> 01:02:21.780
Yes, you were. So Pet Sematary 1989, add that into

1409
01:02:21.820 --> 01:02:24.280
your lineup for a good scary time. Even more of

1410
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:27.539
a scary time, let's move into one that really, really

1411
01:02:27.579 --> 01:02:30.800
took people by storm. Has been voted, if I'm not mistaken,

1412
01:02:30.980 --> 01:02:34.679
by a... Oh my god, I can't think of what

1413
01:02:34.699 --> 01:02:36.960
the word is, but... I think it was a poll

1414
01:02:37.099 --> 01:02:39.800
that this is one of the most, if not the

1415
01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:44.010
most scariest. That is 2012's Sinister, directed by Scott Derrickson.

1416
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:48.750
This is, if you're not familiar, true crime writer Ellison

1417
01:02:48.829 --> 01:02:51.329
Oswalt is in a slump. He hasn't had a bestseller

1418
01:02:51.389 --> 01:02:53.409
in more than 10 years, and it is becoming increasingly

1419
01:02:53.449 --> 01:02:56.130
desperate for a hit. So when he discovers the existence

1420
01:02:56.170 --> 01:02:58.190
of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family,

1421
01:02:58.469 --> 01:03:00.530
he vows to solve the mystery. He moves into the

1422
01:03:00.550 --> 01:03:03.570
family home, into the victim's home, and gets to work. However,

1423
01:03:03.630 --> 01:03:06.119
when old film footage and other clues reveal Hint at

1424
01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:08.820
the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living

1425
01:03:08.860 --> 01:03:11.280
in the house may be fatal. This is, of course,

1426
01:03:11.320 --> 01:03:15.679
the Ethan Hawke horror film from 2012. Sinister not only

1427
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:17.840
has a great sequel, I think Sinister 2 is really

1428
01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:21.199
good too, but the first Sinister, genuinely really fucking scary.

1429
01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:26.869
Yeah, this is the tricky thing. I mean, number one,

1430
01:03:26.889 --> 01:03:32.829
any film that has a series that follows it, you

1431
01:03:32.889 --> 01:03:36.489
kind of will forget how strong that first movie was. Yeah.

1432
01:03:37.050 --> 01:03:40.090
Especially when they're more on the modern era, when they're,

1433
01:03:40.230 --> 01:03:43.789
you know, from the early 2000s. Yeah. Or even mid to,

1434
01:03:43.809 --> 01:03:49.650
you know, late 2000s. Because Sinister, the first Sinister, super scary. Yeah.

1435
01:03:49.929 --> 01:03:50.809
First Insidious.

1436
01:03:51.250 --> 01:03:52.030
Super scary.

1437
01:03:52.269 --> 01:03:56.329
First Saw. Yeah. Phenomenal. You know, but it's easy to

1438
01:03:56.389 --> 01:04:00.539
forget whether you love the, Direction the series took or don't,

1439
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:03.159
it doesn't really matter. You'll just kind of, it just

1440
01:04:03.179 --> 01:04:06.500
kind of becomes a conglomeration. And then you sit down

1441
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:10.260
and just watch sinister or just watch insidious, especially sinister.

1442
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:13.000
And you'll get creeped. I actually saw that one. The

1443
01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:15.840
first time I saw that was at the drive-in and it,

1444
01:04:16.110 --> 01:04:19.570
it got me several times with its. With its big

1445
01:04:19.829 --> 01:04:20.369
jump scares.

1446
01:04:20.530 --> 01:04:22.869
And if you're not familiar, this is also written by C.

1447
01:04:22.929 --> 01:04:25.769
Robert Cargill. He is the guy behind The Black Phone.

1448
01:04:25.869 --> 01:04:29.710
He has also done recently The Gorge, Doctor Strange. I mean,

1449
01:04:29.769 --> 01:04:34.250
he's a great writer. And Sinister is genuinely one of

1450
01:04:34.269 --> 01:04:36.650
those movies where it's the less you see is the

1451
01:04:36.670 --> 01:04:39.489
more scary it is. There's definitely scary moments and violent

1452
01:04:39.510 --> 01:04:43.440
moments in this. But overall, it's surprisingly tame for what

1453
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:45.179
you think you may be getting into with a movie

1454
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:45.969
about a snuff film.

1455
01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:48.809
Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, sure.

1456
01:04:49.110 --> 01:04:51.710
It has still one of the best scares of all

1457
01:04:51.730 --> 01:04:54.449
time from a trailer, which, you know, if you if

1458
01:04:54.489 --> 01:04:56.710
you've seen the trailer, remember it in theaters, you know

1459
01:04:56.750 --> 01:04:58.889
exactly what I'm talking about. There are so many great

1460
01:04:58.929 --> 01:05:01.309
moments that this is one that you really need to

1461
01:05:01.329 --> 01:05:03.250
put your phone down. You really need to focus on

1462
01:05:03.269 --> 01:05:04.889
this one to get the full experience of it. Turn

1463
01:05:04.909 --> 01:05:07.369
the lights off, maybe light a candle. Sinister will give

1464
01:05:07.409 --> 01:05:08.050
you some chills.

1465
01:05:08.449 --> 01:05:10.230
Yeah. No, it will. It'll get to you.

1466
01:05:10.530 --> 01:05:13.179
Currently streaming on Hulu as well as Peacock. You can

1467
01:05:13.219 --> 01:05:15.860
also rent it on Fandango and Apple. Definitely check out

1468
01:05:15.889 --> 01:05:18.519
Sinister if you have not. You are missing out on

1469
01:05:18.579 --> 01:05:20.420
one of the best movies in probably the last decade,

1470
01:05:20.460 --> 01:05:20.880
I would say.

1471
01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:22.420
Wow. Some big praise.

1472
01:05:22.579 --> 01:05:24.639
I would say so. And moving on to more bigger praise,

1473
01:05:24.659 --> 01:05:26.780
let's go with an absolute classic as well, and that

1474
01:05:26.920 --> 01:05:30.639
is 1982's, directed by Tobey Hooper, maybe Poltergeist.

1475
01:05:30.780 --> 01:05:35.929
Oh, why are you trying to tick me off? Poltergeist

1476
01:05:36.130 --> 01:05:39.750
is another film that growing up was kind of just

1477
01:05:39.849 --> 01:05:41.429
known as the scary movie.

1478
01:05:41.449 --> 01:05:41.679
Yeah.

1479
01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:45.599
Like it's a scary one. Everybody always remembers the, you know,

1480
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:48.800
they moved the graves, but they left the bodies and the, the,

1481
01:05:49.059 --> 01:05:52.199
you know, rotten corpses in the pool and clown, but,

1482
01:05:52.440 --> 01:05:55.469
and just, you gotta remember, you know, when I grew up,

1483
01:05:55.510 --> 01:05:57.550
it was the heyday of the tube television. The tube

1484
01:05:57.590 --> 01:06:00.829
TVs were on their way out in 2000, uh, as

1485
01:06:00.869 --> 01:06:04.039
weird as it is. to realize like actually watching dead,

1486
01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:06.199
like me rewatching it. I'm realizing like, Oh, this was

1487
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:08.179
an HD. It was an Oh three. So I'm like,

1488
01:06:08.260 --> 01:06:11.389
Oh yeah, that was when it started. It was more

1489
01:06:11.750 --> 01:06:13.050
further back than I realized.

1490
01:06:13.090 --> 01:06:13.250
Yeah.

1491
01:06:13.769 --> 01:06:22.059
So a TV that's on static was a normal thing. Sometimes. Uh,

1492
01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:25.280
I remember when I was a kid, I think it

1493
01:06:25.300 --> 01:06:29.199
was our VCR or maybe it was the Nintendo or something. Um,

1494
01:06:30.099 --> 01:06:31.840
There was something up with it where when you wanted

1495
01:06:31.860 --> 01:06:35.300
to switch it over, sometimes you would just get, and

1496
01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:38.619
it would be loud. Yeah. And it scared me like

1497
01:06:38.739 --> 01:06:41.239
so bad. I hated the sound of a static TV.

1498
01:06:41.860 --> 01:06:44.300
So that really freaked me out in Poltergeist. I always

1499
01:06:44.489 --> 01:06:47.769
liked Poltergeist, but also Toby Hooper directed Poltergeist. He did.

1500
01:06:47.929 --> 01:06:49.389
But I know you're saying that to needle me. Yeah.

1501
01:06:49.409 --> 01:06:51.449
Because I hate when people try to make the argument

1502
01:06:51.469 --> 01:06:55.670
that he didn't direct Poltergeist. He did. He did. spielberg's

1503
01:06:55.809 --> 01:06:58.289
influence was all over it but sure he produced it.

1504
01:06:58.369 --> 01:06:59.969
But i mean spielberg's influence is on a lot of

1505
01:07:00.010 --> 01:07:00.750
things but i mean it's.

1506
01:07:00.690 --> 01:07:02.949
All over gremlins too and nobody claims dante didn't direct

1507
01:07:02.969 --> 01:07:04.130
gremlins well.

1508
01:07:03.869 --> 01:07:06.269
Maybe joe would probably kick steven's ass at that point.

1509
01:07:06.889 --> 01:07:08.630
Yeah i want to i'd pay to watch that fight

1510
01:07:09.130 --> 01:07:11.710
especially now oh my god when they're both like taking

1511
01:07:11.789 --> 01:07:14.849
ibuprofen and ben gay and up before they fight.

1512
01:07:15.750 --> 01:07:18.340
But uh if you're not familiar with poltergeist The Freeling

1513
01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:21.440
suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity or opens

1514
01:07:21.480 --> 01:07:23.699
a portal to the other side. With the help, they

1515
01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:27.059
must cross over to get their daughter back. Poltergeist is

1516
01:07:27.159 --> 01:07:29.730
one of those movies, again, that the pop culture of

1517
01:07:29.769 --> 01:07:32.670
it means that you may think you know everything about it.

1518
01:07:32.750 --> 01:07:35.190
But one of the experiences that I have with Poltergeist

1519
01:07:35.230 --> 01:07:37.289
that really made me love this movie was one that

1520
01:07:37.309 --> 01:07:40.130
you were there for. When we went to you, we

1521
01:07:40.150 --> 01:07:42.260
went separately, but you and I went to Dixie Drive-In

1522
01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:45.519
for their triple feature that was Poltergeist, Evil Dead 2,

1523
01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:46.360
and Texas Chainsaw.

1524
01:07:46.500 --> 01:07:47.179
That was awesome.

1525
01:07:47.219 --> 01:07:48.409
That was an awesome one, yeah.

1526
01:07:48.469 --> 01:07:51.269
Yeah, they did a couple of those awesome three-fers. Yeah.

1527
01:07:51.309 --> 01:07:53.969
The only thing that stank about it was that eventually

1528
01:07:54.030 --> 01:07:56.320
the three-fers became kind of the same stuff all the time.

1529
01:07:56.360 --> 01:07:56.619
Yeah.

1530
01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:59.739
Which I get. I get it. Because... Back when film

1531
01:07:59.780 --> 01:08:02.539
prints were king, getting to go to the drive-in or

1532
01:08:02.579 --> 01:08:04.500
to the movie theater to see Nightmare on Elm Street

1533
01:08:04.579 --> 01:08:05.559
was like, whoa.

1534
01:08:05.579 --> 01:08:05.880
Oh, yeah.

1535
01:08:06.019 --> 01:08:08.539
Getting to see Friday the 13th, whoa, Halloween, any of

1536
01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:10.980
the Halloween movies, whoa, whoa. I remember for years, I

1537
01:08:11.119 --> 01:08:14.010
had only ever seen in the theater Halloween 5 because

1538
01:08:14.030 --> 01:08:15.650
that was the print that people could get.

1539
01:08:15.670 --> 01:08:16.310
Could get, yeah.

1540
01:08:16.649 --> 01:08:20.069
But now- You know, you just order it from the place,

1541
01:08:20.869 --> 01:08:21.390
the distributor.

1542
01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:23.340
I mean, literally last year on Halloween, I got to

1543
01:08:23.380 --> 01:08:27.359
see Halloween, Halloween 2 and Halloween 3 at Dixie Halloween night.

1544
01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:29.439
I mean, there was nothing better than that.

1545
01:08:29.819 --> 01:08:31.439
And that is epic. And I'm not saying that it's

1546
01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:34.399
not good. It's just like, but what you're talking about

1547
01:08:34.420 --> 01:08:36.600
when they were doing the three furs at the drive-in.

1548
01:08:36.649 --> 01:08:36.819
Yeah.

1549
01:08:36.979 --> 01:08:39.210
That was like the beginning era of that where they

1550
01:08:39.229 --> 01:08:42.189
were like, whoa, you know, tonight is Nightmare on Elm Street,

1551
01:08:42.210 --> 01:08:44.609
Friday the 13th and Halloween. And you're like, whoa. Yeah.

1552
01:08:45.029 --> 01:08:46.350
And then it's like, you know, next week it's Texas

1553
01:08:46.369 --> 01:08:48.210
Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, and something else will

1554
01:08:48.270 --> 01:08:50.869
be like, whoa. So that was like one of my

1555
01:08:50.909 --> 01:08:51.810
favorite eras. Yeah.

1556
01:08:52.029 --> 01:08:56.029
Poltergeist is genuinely a scary movie. It's got such a

1557
01:08:56.289 --> 01:08:59.130
fun throwback vibe to it, of course, because like you mentioned,

1558
01:08:59.149 --> 01:09:01.279
like with the tube television. and the snow and everything

1559
01:09:01.340 --> 01:09:03.840
i mean it's just this is a movie that again

1560
01:09:04.020 --> 01:09:06.300
pop culture may make you think that you think know

1561
01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:08.300
everything about this movie if you haven't seen in a

1562
01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:09.659
while poltergeist still holds up.

1563
01:09:09.659 --> 01:09:14.210
Immaculately yeah i would i would be inclined to agree yes.

1564
01:09:15.909 --> 01:09:18.829
So moving us back through seasonal rewatches, let's go with

1565
01:09:18.909 --> 01:09:20.390
one a little bit more recent.

1566
01:09:20.789 --> 01:09:21.369
Oh, okay.

1567
01:09:21.569 --> 01:09:23.329
This is kind of a cheat because this is three.

1568
01:09:23.350 --> 01:09:24.800
How many of these are a cheat, by the way?

1569
01:09:24.989 --> 01:09:25.300
Several.

1570
01:09:26.180 --> 01:09:29.640
Is it like 14% cheats by volume?

1571
01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:32.140
I think you'll appreciate this one, though, because you can't

1572
01:09:32.260 --> 01:09:33.840
pick one of these three. You have to just say

1573
01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:38.779
the entire trilogy. That is 2021's Fear Street trilogy through Netflix.

1574
01:09:39.100 --> 01:09:42.500
Okay. Yeah. I don't think you're saying it's cheap because

1575
01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:44.819
the three of them are the one are one pick.

1576
01:09:45.310 --> 01:09:48.100
I mean, that's not really a cheat. A cheat would

1577
01:09:48.140 --> 01:09:50.300
be being like, it's three, and that counts as three

1578
01:09:50.359 --> 01:09:53.520
from the list. You did the opposite. You're giving a threefer.

1579
01:09:53.699 --> 01:09:56.340
Threefer, yeah. So we were talking about Fear Street 1994, 1984,

1580
01:09:56.310 --> 01:10:05.029
and 1666. These are just really, really fun games. Young

1581
01:10:05.069 --> 01:10:07.829
adult slashers that are actually kind of pretty hardcore.

1582
01:10:07.869 --> 01:10:11.159
They're not young adult slashers. They're based on young adult slashers.

1583
01:10:11.180 --> 01:10:16.060
But no, they are gruesome, violent, gory, mean-spirited, but a

1584
01:10:16.220 --> 01:10:17.039
lot of fun.

1585
01:10:17.340 --> 01:10:20.380
Directed by Lee Janik is the first one. I think they're,

1586
01:10:20.420 --> 01:10:22.380
they might, are they all directed by Lee? I can't remember.

1587
01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:23.140
I think they are.

1588
01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:27.890
Yeah, but 1994, for example, says after a series of, oh,

1589
01:10:27.909 --> 01:10:29.010
security check. Okay, cool.

1590
01:10:29.050 --> 01:10:29.310
Thanks.

1591
01:10:29.850 --> 01:10:30.430
What are you doing?

1592
01:10:31.100 --> 01:10:31.439
I don't know.

1593
01:10:31.470 --> 01:10:34.489
There we go. After a series of brutal slayings, a

1594
01:10:34.630 --> 01:10:36.750
teen and her friends take on an evil force that's

1595
01:10:36.810 --> 01:10:41.350
plagued their notorious town for centuries, has one of the

1596
01:10:41.630 --> 01:10:46.229
most brutal kills with a bread slicer, I would say.

1597
01:10:46.810 --> 01:10:48.590
Do you remember that? It's in my top five of

1598
01:10:48.750 --> 01:10:50.850
bread slice killers. Oh, yeah, yeah.

1599
01:10:51.210 --> 01:10:52.310
No, I remember it, yeah.

1600
01:10:52.470 --> 01:10:56.560
So that's 1994. You also have, like I said, 1978,

1601
01:10:56.560 --> 01:10:59.600
which is in 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing

1602
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:01.979
must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors

1603
01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:05.159
from their town's history come alive. And then we wrap

1604
01:11:05.260 --> 01:11:09.460
up with 1666, which is 1666, a colonial town is

1605
01:11:09.539 --> 01:11:12.779
gripped by a hysterical witch hunt that has deadly consequences

1606
01:11:12.819 --> 01:11:15.630
for centuries to come. And it's up to teenagers in

1607
01:11:15.630 --> 01:11:18.069
1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse

1608
01:11:18.109 --> 01:11:19.989
before it's too late. All three of the movies are

1609
01:11:20.010 --> 01:11:21.970
tied together, even if they have different stories.

1610
01:11:22.289 --> 01:11:25.050
Yeah, they all bring one big piece together.

1611
01:11:25.090 --> 01:11:25.310
Yeah.

1612
01:11:25.369 --> 01:11:28.869
And they work super well. I remember being so excited

1613
01:11:28.890 --> 01:11:31.310
because I believe they released one every month. One every month, yeah.

1614
01:11:31.890 --> 01:11:32.369
In the summer.

1615
01:11:32.550 --> 01:11:35.350
Yeah, and this is 2021, so we're talking a year

1616
01:11:35.609 --> 01:11:38.880
into COVID, basically. We were all excited for these.

1617
01:11:39.720 --> 01:11:40.920
Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah.

1618
01:11:41.270 --> 01:11:44.609
So, Fear Street series currently available on Netflix, only available

1619
01:11:44.630 --> 01:11:47.010
on Netflix, if I'm not mistaken. We really need a

1620
01:11:47.050 --> 01:11:48.329
physical release of those, just so.

1621
01:11:48.329 --> 01:11:49.729
Yeah, that's Netflix, you know?

1622
01:11:49.850 --> 01:11:50.130
Yeah.

1623
01:11:50.350 --> 01:11:53.270
Like, if Criterion said they wanted to do it, they'd

1624
01:11:53.289 --> 01:11:54.609
let them, but otherwise.

1625
01:11:55.069 --> 01:11:57.729
So, sticking with the 90s theme, let's go with another

1626
01:11:57.890 --> 01:12:01.829
great rewatch, and again, another original that kind of, I

1627
01:12:01.850 --> 01:12:04.109
wouldn't say has been forgotten, because the series is still

1628
01:12:04.149 --> 01:12:06.880
going to this day, but that is 1996's Scream, directed

1629
01:12:06.909 --> 01:12:13.170
by Wes Craven. I mean, this movie still... Holds up 100%.

1630
01:12:13.170 --> 01:12:13.510
Scream?

1631
01:12:13.630 --> 01:12:13.829
Yeah.

1632
01:12:14.250 --> 01:12:16.869
Just a little bit. Just a little bit. There's a

1633
01:12:16.909 --> 01:12:17.989
reason it's a classic.

1634
01:12:18.109 --> 01:12:18.369
Yeah.

1635
01:12:18.750 --> 01:12:21.640
The guy reinvented the genre twice. He did it with

1636
01:12:21.649 --> 01:12:23.859
Nightmare on Elm Street. He did it with Scream. There's

1637
01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:28.479
a reason Scream connects with people. It really tapped into

1638
01:12:29.479 --> 01:12:33.899
what young people were into in 1996. Yeah. That's the thing.

1639
01:12:34.260 --> 01:12:36.399
But it's hard to know that if you weren't there.

1640
01:12:36.619 --> 01:12:36.760
Yeah.

1641
01:12:37.460 --> 01:12:39.600
But, like, I was there. My sister was the age

1642
01:12:39.640 --> 01:12:43.350
of the characters in Scream. And I don't know how

1643
01:12:43.409 --> 01:12:46.170
Wes Craven tapped into that so well, being a guy

1644
01:12:46.210 --> 01:12:48.750
in his, like, 40s or 50s at that point. Yeah.

1645
01:12:48.970 --> 01:12:53.689
But he sure did. And Scream deserves to be a classic.

1646
01:12:53.989 --> 01:12:55.109
I think that's inarguable.

1647
01:12:55.289 --> 01:12:57.989
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, so even more of a perfect

1648
01:12:58.029 --> 01:13:00.380
time to revisit it. If you're not mistaken, a year

1649
01:13:00.460 --> 01:13:02.300
after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is

1650
01:13:02.319 --> 01:13:04.380
terrorized by a mass killer who targets her and her

1651
01:13:04.420 --> 01:13:06.960
friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

1652
01:13:07.970 --> 01:13:10.810
I mean, it's Scream. You've either seen it or you haven't.

1653
01:13:10.909 --> 01:13:13.329
And if you haven't, you really have a treat to

1654
01:13:13.630 --> 01:13:16.500
unpack for this Halloween. I mean, the kills are still great.

1655
01:13:16.939 --> 01:13:20.560
The references are hilarious. The cast is phenomenal. I mean,

1656
01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:24.840
this movie just had its seventh entry this year. And

1657
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:27.329
like I said, we're talking 30 years later. It's still going. So,

1658
01:13:27.369 --> 01:13:29.630
I mean, there's got to be something worth watching for

1659
01:13:29.649 --> 01:13:30.770
this one. Yeah.

1660
01:13:31.430 --> 01:13:33.250
No, yeah. I couldn't agree more.

1661
01:13:33.430 --> 01:13:37.199
Scream available on Plex currently to rent. You can also

1662
01:13:37.260 --> 01:13:40.180
stream it on Paramount. So it is out there. If

1663
01:13:40.220 --> 01:13:42.640
you have not seen any of the 4K releases or

1664
01:13:42.699 --> 01:13:44.840
if you even can track down one of the original

1665
01:13:45.180 --> 01:13:47.319
box sets that was the, I think it was a

1666
01:13:47.359 --> 01:13:49.550
three-pack that was Scream 1 through 3 and plus two

1667
01:13:49.569 --> 01:13:51.989
documentaries that are on Blu-ray, that's a great pack too.

1668
01:13:52.029 --> 01:13:54.189
But if you haven't seen Scream in a while, make

1669
01:13:54.210 --> 01:13:55.949
sure you add that into the lineup. You will have

1670
01:13:55.989 --> 01:13:58.600
a great time with that. It still holds up. And

1671
01:13:58.819 --> 01:14:00.920
you may also find yourself watching the rest of the

1672
01:14:00.939 --> 01:14:03.859
series because, in my opinion, there's really not too many

1673
01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:04.560
bad ones in them.

1674
01:14:05.020 --> 01:14:07.779
Yeah. I'll give you that. Yeah. I'll give you that.

1675
01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:11.939
Not too many. Moving on through seasonal rewatches, let's go

1676
01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:13.939
into the one that Hen loves to make fun of

1677
01:14:13.979 --> 01:14:16.539
me for because I was a kid born under a

1678
01:14:16.619 --> 01:14:21.069
hot topic moon, so naturally I must love 2001's Donnie Darko,

1679
01:14:21.130 --> 01:14:22.470
directed by Richard Kelly.

1680
01:14:22.649 --> 01:14:23.789
Of course you do. Yeah, yeah.

1681
01:14:23.810 --> 01:14:26.609
Of course you do. I, to this day, still have

1682
01:14:26.630 --> 01:14:29.899
never seen a theatrical cut. I've only seen the director's cut.

1683
01:14:29.960 --> 01:14:31.539
So this year I'm actually going to fix that and

1684
01:14:31.579 --> 01:14:34.920
watch the theatrical. But Donnie Darko, after narrowly escaping a

1685
01:14:34.939 --> 01:14:37.880
bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of

1686
01:14:37.920 --> 01:14:40.300
a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a

1687
01:14:40.359 --> 01:14:44.000
series of crimes. This is Jake Gyllenhaal, Jenna Malone, James Duvall,

1688
01:14:44.020 --> 01:14:48.109
Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Noah Weil, even a young Seth

1689
01:14:48.149 --> 01:14:50.989
Rogen appearing in this as well. It's a weird movie.

1690
01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:53.319
I'm not going to deny that. I don't think anybody will.

1691
01:14:53.380 --> 01:14:55.520
Joe Bob had a great breakdown for this movie, and

1692
01:14:55.539 --> 01:14:58.939
he showed it a while back. But Donnie Darko is

1693
01:14:59.239 --> 01:15:01.560
really perfect for Halloween because not only does the ending

1694
01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:04.300
take place on Halloween, it just has a very eerie

1695
01:15:04.359 --> 01:15:08.949
feel to it. It is very universal in the sense

1696
01:15:09.189 --> 01:15:12.029
of you don't know what is happening, but there's a

1697
01:15:12.109 --> 01:15:12.810
lot going on.

1698
01:15:13.270 --> 01:15:15.189
Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

1699
01:15:15.310 --> 01:15:19.020
Yeah, and overall, it just really... Holds up, in my opinion.

1700
01:15:19.119 --> 01:15:21.970
I've probably seen this movie close to ten times at

1701
01:15:21.979 --> 01:15:24.689
this point in my life, if not more. Probably more, honestly.

1702
01:15:24.710 --> 01:15:26.689
I'm probably just not being honest at this point. But

1703
01:15:27.010 --> 01:15:30.090
Donnie Darko is a great Halloween pick. It is, again,

1704
01:15:30.149 --> 01:15:34.069
a time capsule piece, early 2000s, and this was actually

1705
01:15:34.109 --> 01:15:35.909
put out right before the towers went down, if I'm

1706
01:15:35.949 --> 01:15:38.350
not mistaken. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, which is kind of

1707
01:15:38.510 --> 01:15:40.109
interesting if you think about the subject content of it, too.

1708
01:15:41.649 --> 01:15:45.630
So Donnie Darko, 2001, currently streaming on Hulu as well

1709
01:15:45.670 --> 01:15:48.810
as Amazon Prime, Tubi, and you can also find it

1710
01:15:48.890 --> 01:15:51.170
any other places. There's a great 4K that's available from

1711
01:15:51.229 --> 01:15:53.399
Arrow of it now that has both cuts of it

1712
01:15:53.479 --> 01:15:55.539
on there. But if you haven't seen Donnie Darko, it's

1713
01:15:55.579 --> 01:15:57.949
a weird one, but you may find yourself really liking it.

1714
01:15:57.979 --> 01:16:00.340
There is a lot of feel to it for the

1715
01:16:00.380 --> 01:16:02.920
spooky season, so I cannot recommend it enough. I mean, hell,

1716
01:16:02.939 --> 01:16:06.140
you got a giant, really creepy-ass bunny rabbit in this movie.

1717
01:16:06.659 --> 01:16:07.140
And how.

1718
01:16:07.279 --> 01:16:08.380
And how indeed.

1719
01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:09.340
I think it's a good pick.

1720
01:16:17.189 --> 01:16:19.670
Go back into a classic for another seasonal rewatch. One

1721
01:16:19.710 --> 01:16:22.270
that I had the pleasure of revisiting this year that

1722
01:16:22.449 --> 01:16:25.590
I just was reminded again that Stephen King really does

1723
01:16:25.750 --> 01:16:27.500
have some great movies out there that kind of get

1724
01:16:27.539 --> 01:16:30.140
buried by some of the bad ones. That is 1985's

1725
01:16:30.340 --> 01:16:34.840
Silver Bullet, directed by Dan Atayas. Silver Bullet is just

1726
01:16:35.560 --> 01:16:38.060
one of the most underrated werewolf movies, if I'm being honest.

1727
01:16:38.279 --> 01:16:41.430
Yeah, no, I think that's a fair assessment. Silver Bullet is...

1728
01:16:42.189 --> 01:16:45.949
It's got a great atmosphere. It's 80s as all get out.

1729
01:16:46.130 --> 01:16:49.060
It kind of feels like a good companion almost to

1730
01:16:49.180 --> 01:16:53.340
The Lost Boys, even though it's much less in your face.

1731
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:54.020
And homoerotic.

1732
01:16:56.439 --> 01:16:57.000
Debatable.

1733
01:16:57.039 --> 01:16:59.140
Debatable. Especially that church scene with all the people.

1734
01:16:59.220 --> 01:17:00.199
And you got Gary Busey.

1735
01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:03.970
And Gary Busey. I mean, Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim,

1736
01:17:04.029 --> 01:17:08.189
Terry O'Quinn. Where is the one guy that is the priest?

1737
01:17:08.329 --> 01:17:10.029
I can never remember his name, but he is so

1738
01:17:10.090 --> 01:17:13.439
good in this movie. Small city of Tarker's Mills is

1739
01:17:13.539 --> 01:17:16.550
startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears

1740
01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:19.069
the work of a maniac, but sightings of mysterious hairy

1741
01:17:19.130 --> 01:17:21.930
creatures soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but

1742
01:17:21.949 --> 01:17:25.210
there's only one boy who's still outside. This is such

1743
01:17:25.270 --> 01:17:30.170
a wild movie, but is really, really scary still. The

1744
01:17:30.229 --> 01:17:33.189
opening attack, especially like the werewolf through the window, the

1745
01:17:33.229 --> 01:17:35.569
werewolf on the train tracks. There's a lot of memorable

1746
01:17:35.630 --> 01:17:37.890
scenes in this, and like Hen mentioned earlier, Gary Busey

1747
01:17:38.010 --> 01:17:39.479
is top Busey in this.

1748
01:17:39.850 --> 01:17:43.800
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I think it's a great werewolf movie.

1749
01:17:44.060 --> 01:17:46.579
It's got great lore behind it, great characters.

1750
01:17:46.600 --> 01:17:46.840
Yeah.

1751
01:17:47.319 --> 01:17:49.039
I've always thought that it worked really well.

1752
01:17:49.380 --> 01:17:51.460
Based on Stephen King's story, The Cycle of the Werewolf,

1753
01:17:51.479 --> 01:17:53.260
so if you're a Stephen King fan and haven't seen this,

1754
01:17:53.420 --> 01:17:56.039
Silver Bullet, currently readily available to stream on Paramount. You

1755
01:17:56.060 --> 01:17:58.739
can also rent it, once again, from Fandango and Apple TV.

1756
01:17:59.680 --> 01:18:02.800
It is one that I really have come back on.

1757
01:18:03.260 --> 01:18:05.359
I saw it a lot as a kid on TV

1758
01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:07.819
and getting to watch it uncut several times now, both

1759
01:18:07.859 --> 01:18:10.560
for my Blu-ray as well as my digital library. Just

1760
01:18:10.579 --> 01:18:11.500
a lot of fun in this movie.

1761
01:18:11.979 --> 01:18:13.270
Yeah, no, that's a very good pick.

1762
01:18:13.859 --> 01:18:17.550
So moving us into the last two of the seasonal rewatches,

1763
01:18:17.569 --> 01:18:20.090
let's go with another 80s classic. Not much needs to

1764
01:18:20.109 --> 01:18:23.529
be said about this one because everybody knows 1982's Creepshow

1765
01:18:23.569 --> 01:18:25.149
directed by George A. Romero.

1766
01:18:25.729 --> 01:18:29.090
That is probably the most Halloween movie that has no

1767
01:18:29.170 --> 01:18:30.770
Halloween reference.

1768
01:18:30.810 --> 01:18:32.329
Pumpkin in the Window at the very beginning.

1769
01:18:32.510 --> 01:18:33.409
Oh, no, you're right.

1770
01:18:33.489 --> 01:18:35.390
So it takes place around Halloween, but we don't get

1771
01:18:35.569 --> 01:18:37.109
anything else besides that.

1772
01:18:37.130 --> 01:18:39.890
Well, or at least the, you know, the wraparound takes

1773
01:18:39.949 --> 01:18:41.350
place around Halloween. Yeah, the wraparound. That's a fair point.

1774
01:18:41.430 --> 01:18:41.649
Yeah.

1775
01:18:41.710 --> 01:18:45.149
But it's just got that EC Comics vibe, that shock

1776
01:18:45.189 --> 01:18:49.109
horror vibe. Creepshow is a crowd pleaser.

1777
01:18:49.130 --> 01:18:49.989
Yeah, it is.

1778
01:18:50.140 --> 01:18:51.779
It's definitely, that's a great one to put on with

1779
01:18:51.819 --> 01:18:55.340
your buddies when you're, you know, having your Halloween pizza

1780
01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:58.319
movie fest. Like you're going to enjoy the hell out

1781
01:18:58.340 --> 01:19:00.720
of revisiting Creepshow. And if you have any friends who

1782
01:19:00.739 --> 01:19:02.380
haven't seen it before, go check it out. It makes

1783
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:04.000
it 30 times as exciting.

1784
01:19:04.260 --> 01:19:06.279
And just to make Hen happy, I'm also going to

1785
01:19:06.319 --> 01:19:09.560
give a shout out to Creepshow 2 because Creepshow 2

1786
01:19:09.560 --> 01:19:12.050
is a lot of fun as well and also has

1787
01:19:12.090 --> 01:19:13.350
a pretty Halloween feel to it too.

1788
01:19:13.550 --> 01:19:16.090
It does. I mean, they carry a similar vibe. It's

1789
01:19:16.130 --> 01:19:20.310
just that Creepshow... Honestly, Creepshow feels a little bit stodgier.

1790
01:19:20.510 --> 01:19:20.670
Yeah.

1791
01:19:20.989 --> 01:19:24.590
It's still better. Yeah. But Creepshow, you know, Creepshow has

1792
01:19:24.630 --> 01:19:27.050
that kind of that vibe. Creepshow 2 feels a little

1793
01:19:27.090 --> 01:19:30.229
bit more youthful, a little bit more B-movie. 100%. And

1794
01:19:30.270 --> 01:19:32.430
a little more sleazier. And a little more, yeah, and

1795
01:19:32.470 --> 01:19:35.689
more pulpy. Yeah. And that, I think, makes it a

1796
01:19:35.729 --> 01:19:38.079
little bit more of a fun time, especially if that's

1797
01:19:38.100 --> 01:19:39.720
the kind of thing you're into, if you're into kind

1798
01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:42.460
of a... More outsider horror space.

1799
01:19:42.640 --> 01:19:44.659
And if you're familiar with the Creepshow series that's on

1800
01:19:44.699 --> 01:19:47.020
Shudder and you've never seen the movie, make sure you

1801
01:19:47.050 --> 01:19:49.449
check it out. Luckily, they only made two Creepshow movies,

1802
01:19:49.529 --> 01:19:52.310
so once you see those two, you're done. Not another

1803
01:19:52.369 --> 01:19:52.850
one exists.

1804
01:19:52.949 --> 01:19:55.310
No, not a single Creepshow 3.

1805
01:19:55.310 --> 01:19:58.609
Not a single Creepshow 3, but Creepshow 1982, currently available

1806
01:19:58.710 --> 01:20:02.369
to rent or buy on Fandango or Apple. Once again,

1807
01:20:02.510 --> 01:20:05.170
also a great 4K recently put out by Shout that

1808
01:20:05.189 --> 01:20:08.149
I cannot recommend enough. It is out there and waiting

1809
01:20:08.189 --> 01:20:09.930
for you to find if you have not seen Creepshow.

1810
01:20:10.329 --> 01:20:13.109
That is probably one of the best Halloween picks on

1811
01:20:13.149 --> 01:20:15.220
this list that, again, has very little Halloween in it.

1812
01:20:15.470 --> 01:20:19.829
And I finally got my cake. And I got my cake, Bedelia.

1813
01:20:20.350 --> 01:20:23.810
So rounding out seasonal rewatches, I could think of no

1814
01:20:23.850 --> 01:20:26.770
better than one that really had an impact on me,

1815
01:20:27.390 --> 01:20:28.930
and I have not revisited it in a while, and

1816
01:20:28.949 --> 01:20:30.649
I'm definitely going to do it this year, but that

1817
01:20:30.909 --> 01:20:35.439
is The one, the only, 1999's The Blair Witch Project.

1818
01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:39.069
Yeah. You know what? I'm going to be visiting. No,

1819
01:20:39.090 --> 01:20:41.430
not revisiting. Visiting for the first time are the two

1820
01:20:41.569 --> 01:20:42.989
Showtime documentaries.

1821
01:20:43.369 --> 01:20:44.010
Oh, nice.

1822
01:20:44.069 --> 01:20:46.869
That were made later on. One's about, I think, about

1823
01:20:46.930 --> 01:20:47.810
Rustin Parr.

1824
01:20:47.890 --> 01:20:48.130
Yeah.

1825
01:20:48.930 --> 01:20:52.449
Which is all Blair Witch Project era. It's all Blair

1826
01:20:52.470 --> 01:20:54.989
Witch lore. Yeah. But I have them now, and I've

1827
01:20:55.029 --> 01:20:57.229
never seen them, and I've heard they're actually really creepy.

1828
01:20:57.250 --> 01:20:58.909
You've got the festival cut, too, now, I think, too,

1829
01:20:58.930 --> 01:20:59.609
with that box set.

1830
01:20:59.649 --> 01:21:00.289
I thought we watched it.

1831
01:21:00.710 --> 01:21:01.270
We did not.

1832
01:21:01.329 --> 01:21:02.350
Oh no, I watched it with Rachel.

1833
01:21:02.449 --> 01:21:02.710
Okay.

1834
01:21:02.949 --> 01:21:06.510
Yeah. It's, it's, I mean, it's, it's not better, but

1835
01:21:06.550 --> 01:21:09.289
it's definitely fascinating because you could see like the little

1836
01:21:09.869 --> 01:21:12.640
things they cut out and the music's different a little

1837
01:21:12.649 --> 01:21:15.640
bit and the sound mix is a little bit different. Um, no,

1838
01:21:15.659 --> 01:21:17.600
I was, I'm glad I imported that because it was

1839
01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:17.970
worth it.

1840
01:21:18.399 --> 01:21:20.479
But yeah, Blair Witch Project, for those who are not aware,

1841
01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:22.319
I don't know how you couldn't be, but anyway, in

1842
01:21:22.380 --> 01:21:25.579
October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods

1843
01:21:25.640 --> 01:21:28.819
near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later,

1844
01:21:28.859 --> 01:21:32.000
their footage was found. One of the most notorious found

1845
01:21:32.020 --> 01:21:35.850
footage films, this one, was breaking down, I mean, everybody's

1846
01:21:35.859 --> 01:21:38.350
door around the release of Halloween in 99. My mom

1847
01:21:38.390 --> 01:21:40.710
literally watched this while passing out candy. She had rented

1848
01:21:40.729 --> 01:21:44.109
it from Hollywood Video, watched it while passing out candy.

1849
01:21:44.550 --> 01:21:47.930
This movie was being so talked about, and the Curse

1850
01:21:47.970 --> 01:21:51.409
of the Blair Witch documentary was playing on SyFy Channel

1851
01:21:51.510 --> 01:21:54.069
so much, I convinced my mother to take us to

1852
01:21:54.109 --> 01:21:56.970
the theater, because I had to see it right away,

1853
01:21:57.289 --> 01:21:59.489
and I was so unsettled.

1854
01:21:59.720 --> 01:22:02.500
Yeah, no, I mean, it is one that still has

1855
01:22:02.539 --> 01:22:05.819
the impact to it. You know, I will give you

1856
01:22:05.899 --> 01:22:08.529
some some precursor to it that there is a lot

1857
01:22:08.569 --> 01:22:10.329
of shaky cam in this movie that I did not

1858
01:22:10.369 --> 01:22:11.489
remember the last time I watched it.

1859
01:22:12.029 --> 01:22:13.810
So I never had a problem with it. Some people

1860
01:22:13.850 --> 01:22:15.750
said they got like motion sick in the theater. I

1861
01:22:15.850 --> 01:22:16.670
did not have that issue.

1862
01:22:16.750 --> 01:22:19.579
No, I didn't either. Blair Witch Project. I mean, what

1863
01:22:19.640 --> 01:22:21.779
more can be said about it? It is iconic for

1864
01:22:21.880 --> 01:22:23.880
all the right reasons. It is still scary to this

1865
01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:27.680
day and has had two sequels or three. Two.

1866
01:22:27.689 --> 01:22:27.909
Two.

1867
01:22:27.939 --> 01:22:29.539
Because Book of Shadows and then Blair Witch.

1868
01:22:29.680 --> 01:22:29.819
Yep.

1869
01:22:30.140 --> 01:22:33.399
Which, not bad movies. I'm a defender of Blair Witch,

1870
01:22:33.420 --> 01:22:34.000
Book of Shadows.

1871
01:22:34.180 --> 01:22:34.880
Of course you are.

1872
01:22:35.619 --> 01:22:35.979
You know what?

1873
01:22:36.380 --> 01:22:38.199
I liked it when it came out. I didn't even

1874
01:22:38.260 --> 01:22:40.119
dislike it when it came out. But no, it's definitely

1875
01:22:40.140 --> 01:22:41.359
getting its due now. Yeah.

1876
01:22:41.539 --> 01:22:44.699
But Blair Witch Project 1999, currently available on HBO Max.

1877
01:22:44.729 --> 01:22:46.609
You can also rent or buy it where you normally

1878
01:22:46.670 --> 01:22:49.109
get your movies at. So make sure you check that out.

1879
01:22:49.149 --> 01:22:50.609
If you haven't seen it in a while or haven't

1880
01:22:50.630 --> 01:22:53.189
seen it at all, it is one that is absolutely

1881
01:22:53.229 --> 01:22:55.699
perfect for this time of year. That wraps us up

1882
01:22:55.880 --> 01:22:57.779
on seasonal rewatches. We are halfway through, Hen.

1883
01:22:58.340 --> 01:23:01.880
Oh, good. Only an hour and 20 minutes in.

1884
01:23:02.159 --> 01:23:05.279
So let's move into underrated Halloween movies, kicking us off

1885
01:23:05.739 --> 01:23:09.369
with one that I hear like no one talk about.

1886
01:23:09.409 --> 01:23:11.869
It kind of had a big, big stink when it

1887
01:23:11.930 --> 01:23:14.090
when it first released. But nobody's talked about this movie.

1888
01:23:14.729 --> 01:23:18.369
I personally enjoy it. And that is 2016's 31 directed

1889
01:23:18.430 --> 01:23:19.289
by Rob Zombie.

1890
01:23:19.510 --> 01:23:20.130
I have not seen it.

1891
01:23:20.229 --> 01:23:21.029
You've not seen it.

1892
01:23:21.050 --> 01:23:21.390
I have not.

1893
01:23:21.590 --> 01:23:24.840
So, yeah. 31 is the story of five carnival workers

1894
01:23:25.060 --> 01:23:27.939
are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned hell-like compound

1895
01:23:27.970 --> 01:23:29.970
where they are forced to participate in a violent game,

1896
01:23:30.289 --> 01:23:32.310
the goal of which is to survive 12 hours against

1897
01:23:32.369 --> 01:23:35.850
a gang of sadistic clowns. Featuring Sherry Moon Zombie, Richard Brake,

1898
01:23:35.909 --> 01:23:39.640
Meg Foster, Malcolm McDowell, Daniel Roebuck, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Ginger

1899
01:23:39.659 --> 01:23:42.020
Lynn Allen. The list goes on and on with this one.

1900
01:23:42.479 --> 01:23:46.100
This is the most Rob Zombie has ever zombied his

1901
01:23:46.140 --> 01:23:47.140
zombie little heart out.

1902
01:23:47.899 --> 01:23:49.579
Okay, I think I follow what you mean. And it

1903
01:23:49.659 --> 01:23:50.619
works because of that.

1904
01:23:50.659 --> 01:23:52.180
I mean, this is a Rob Zombie film to a

1905
01:23:52.220 --> 01:23:54.579
T from the overuse of the F word, as we

1906
01:23:54.640 --> 01:23:56.960
all come to know from those movies. The violence is

1907
01:23:57.079 --> 01:24:00.899
over the top. It is just a seriously wild and

1908
01:24:00.939 --> 01:24:05.220
deranged make of The Hunger Games, basically, on Halloween night.

1909
01:24:05.539 --> 01:24:06.039
Okay.

1910
01:24:06.119 --> 01:24:09.569
So, I mean, you're talking about carnage galore. It has

1911
01:24:09.630 --> 01:24:13.189
a really, really great Richard Brake performance as Doomhead in this.

1912
01:24:13.229 --> 01:24:17.220
He basically steals the show. Actually murders Deanna Roebuck in

1913
01:24:17.239 --> 01:24:18.300
the opening scene, by the way.

1914
01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:21.000
Yeah, Roebuck's good at getting killed at the start of things.

1915
01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:23.100
He is good in this one especially. So yeah, 31

1916
01:24:23.100 --> 01:24:25.000
from 2016. That is going to kick us off for

1917
01:24:25.020 --> 01:24:28.770
the underrated Halloween movies, which moves us into one that

1918
01:24:29.029 --> 01:24:30.750
you actually turned me on to, good sir.

1919
01:24:30.770 --> 01:24:31.149
Oh.

1920
01:24:31.550 --> 01:24:35.270
And that is one of 2025 releases that Shudder had

1921
01:24:35.390 --> 01:24:37.350
entitled Night of the Reaper.

1922
01:24:38.149 --> 01:24:40.550
Oh, yeah. I like Night of the Reaper a lot.

1923
01:24:40.710 --> 01:24:46.699
Directed by Brandon Christensen. This movie is wild because it's

1924
01:24:46.840 --> 01:24:49.060
not what you expect at all from the synopsis.

1925
01:24:49.260 --> 01:24:51.800
No. And Night of the Reaper, the reason that was

1926
01:24:52.479 --> 01:24:55.779
extra special for me was I watched it, I think

1927
01:24:55.819 --> 01:24:58.670
it was last Halloween season. Yeah. I watched it. I

1928
01:24:58.710 --> 01:25:02.130
just picked something random on Shudder because it was in October.

1929
01:25:02.149 --> 01:25:05.449
And I love doing our big shows for October for

1930
01:25:05.489 --> 01:25:08.340
Weekly Spooky, but I get burnt. out I mean I'm

1931
01:25:08.359 --> 01:25:11.140
recording every single day like six hours a day yeah

1932
01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:14.439
forever it feels like and I put that on just

1933
01:25:14.560 --> 01:25:18.810
praying I could get a little escapism and it grabbed

1934
01:25:18.859 --> 01:25:21.210
me and I was a few times I was like

1935
01:25:21.250 --> 01:25:22.909
I don't know I don't know and the ending was

1936
01:25:22.970 --> 01:25:27.130
just immaculate it was so well thought out so satisfying

1937
01:25:27.289 --> 01:25:29.949
just damn good feature film there's.

1938
01:25:29.850 --> 01:25:31.500
One thing that the ending does that I'm not going

1939
01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:33.460
to spoil but with a title of Night of the

1940
01:25:33.479 --> 01:25:36.399
Reaper you just kind of expect a certain song possibly

1941
01:25:36.439 --> 01:25:37.899
to be In the movie.

1942
01:25:37.930 --> 01:25:38.729
Not on that budget.

1943
01:25:39.329 --> 01:25:41.090
And oh, no, it's in there. Oh, yeah.

1944
01:25:41.250 --> 01:25:42.250
Yeah. No, you're right. Oh, yeah.

1945
01:25:42.409 --> 01:25:44.909
No. And it's used perfectly. But the story is college

1946
01:25:44.930 --> 01:25:48.310
student Deanna visits home and is roped into babysitting. The

1947
01:25:48.350 --> 01:25:50.750
local sheriff is mailed a piece of evidence and is

1948
01:25:50.829 --> 01:25:52.689
led on a scavenger hunt to reveal the killer of

1949
01:25:52.729 --> 01:25:55.770
another babysitter. So you've got a mass killer that's knocking

1950
01:25:55.810 --> 01:26:00.079
off babysitters in this town. That's just the first 20-ish minutes.

1951
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:02.000
Yeah, it's just getting warmed up.

1952
01:26:02.039 --> 01:26:05.159
Just getting warmed up. It is a great B-horror slasher

1953
01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:07.760
that really snuck out of there from Shudder last year.

1954
01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:10.979
It is Halloweeny AF, and if you're looking for one

1955
01:26:11.060 --> 01:26:13.560
that you have probably not seen or heard of, Night

1956
01:26:13.579 --> 01:26:16.979
of the Reaper from 2025, currently available on Shudder, is

1957
01:26:17.100 --> 01:26:19.359
one that I cannot recommend enough, and I'm so happy

1958
01:26:19.399 --> 01:26:20.859
that you texted me about that one.

1959
01:26:21.079 --> 01:26:23.579
Yeah, did you ever watch that rental one? Which one

1960
01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:25.300
was that? The one with the video rental store.

1961
01:26:25.319 --> 01:26:27.180
Oh, the last video store? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

1962
01:26:27.340 --> 01:26:29.119
I thought you did. Yeah, that's a great one, too.

1963
01:26:29.420 --> 01:26:31.149
And another one that we had a blast with is

1964
01:26:31.189 --> 01:26:35.550
our next pick in 1985, director Ruben Galindo Jr. 's

1965
01:26:35.810 --> 01:26:37.170
Cemetery of Terror.

1966
01:26:37.869 --> 01:26:39.750
Hell yeah. Yes.

1967
01:26:40.210 --> 01:26:42.670
On Halloween night, a group of bored teens decide to

1968
01:26:42.710 --> 01:26:44.569
steal a corpse from a local morgue and take it

1969
01:26:44.600 --> 01:26:47.239
to a nearby cemetery where they perform a satanic ritual,

1970
01:26:47.739 --> 01:26:52.229
unwittingly reviving a bloodthirsty serial killer. I mean, if you

1971
01:26:52.270 --> 01:26:54.250
listen to that synopsis and you're like, holy shit, how

1972
01:26:54.270 --> 01:26:57.270
I've not heard about this movie. Exactly. You you need

1973
01:26:57.310 --> 01:27:00.109
Cemetery of Terror in your life. You need two to

1974
01:27:00.149 --> 01:27:03.250
three Ruben Gallardo Jr. movies in your life. Cemetery of Terror,

1975
01:27:03.329 --> 01:27:04.569
Grave Robbers and Don't Panic.

1976
01:27:05.109 --> 01:27:09.270
Yeah. And I they all have a lot to like.

1977
01:27:09.350 --> 01:27:11.390
I mean, Don't Panic is kind of the most popular

1978
01:27:11.470 --> 01:27:13.609
one and it's kind of the lamest one, in my opinion. Yes.

1979
01:27:13.970 --> 01:27:16.670
But man, Cemetery of Terror.

1980
01:27:17.810 --> 01:27:21.890
It has carnage. It's got a beautifully done set for

1981
01:27:21.909 --> 01:27:24.529
the cemetery. There's at one point that basically the kids

1982
01:27:24.550 --> 01:27:26.930
have snuck into the cemetery, and as they're leaving, the

1983
01:27:27.050 --> 01:27:29.010
fence shoots out of the ground, locking them in.

1984
01:27:29.010 --> 01:27:30.369
Oh, that's one of those memorable things that made me go,

1985
01:27:30.409 --> 01:27:31.989
holy crap, this movie's awesome.

1986
01:27:32.149 --> 01:27:35.829
It is so good. Currently available on YouTube. You can

1987
01:27:35.909 --> 01:27:39.409
also get a beautiful, beautiful Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome as well.

1988
01:27:39.789 --> 01:27:41.640
They have put out the three movies that I mentioned

1989
01:27:41.649 --> 01:27:43.060
as well, and another one that I'm not going to

1990
01:27:43.100 --> 01:27:45.539
mention that Hannah and I watched recently. Yeah. Yeah, that's

1991
01:27:45.619 --> 01:27:46.000
a movie.

1992
01:27:46.039 --> 01:27:46.939
That's all I got to say about that.

1993
01:27:46.960 --> 01:27:48.520
That's all I got to say about that one, yeah.

1994
01:27:48.539 --> 01:27:52.060
Cemetery of Terror, Grave Robbers, Don't Panic. Any of his

1995
01:27:52.479 --> 01:27:54.760
80s horror films, Reuben Gelland Jr., you're going to have

1996
01:27:54.779 --> 01:27:56.939
a good time with. You've probably never heard of them,

1997
01:27:56.979 --> 01:27:58.439
or if you have, it may have been in passing.

1998
01:27:58.720 --> 01:28:01.550
Definitely check out Cemetery of Terror for your Halloween lineup.

1999
01:28:01.659 --> 01:28:05.449
It is so much fun, super cheesy, super violent, and

2000
01:28:05.489 --> 01:28:06.829
just a really, really good time.

2001
01:28:07.390 --> 01:28:09.229
Yeah, I could not agree more.

2002
01:28:09.710 --> 01:28:14.189
And another good time, let's talk about the one The

2003
01:28:14.310 --> 01:28:20.449
only 1995's Jacko, directed by Steve Latchaw. Oh, yeah.

2004
01:28:20.850 --> 01:28:25.239
No, this is one that deserves a lot of love,

2005
01:28:25.260 --> 01:28:27.500
and it's gotten a lot of love as it's aged,

2006
01:28:27.539 --> 01:28:30.869
and Riff Trax did it. It's so fun. It's not

2007
01:28:30.869 --> 01:28:36.750
meant to be silly. It's not meant to be particularly campy. Nope.

2008
01:28:36.750 --> 01:28:39.130
Uh, but it is, I mean, it's, uh, this is

2009
01:28:39.390 --> 01:28:42.210
a Halloween movie to a T you have a giant

2010
01:28:42.489 --> 01:28:46.020
jack-o'-lantern figure with a scythe that is knocking out people that, uh,

2011
01:28:46.079 --> 01:28:47.939
basically aren't respecting the night, honestly.

2012
01:28:48.220 --> 01:28:48.460
No.

2013
01:28:49.199 --> 01:28:51.859
And, the synopsis says a long, long time ago, a

2014
01:28:52.020 --> 01:28:54.159
wizard was put to death, but he swore vengeance on

2015
01:28:54.199 --> 01:28:57.109
the townsfolk that did him in particularly Arthur Kelly's family.

2016
01:28:57.529 --> 01:28:59.630
Arthur had done the final graces on him when he

2017
01:28:59.670 --> 01:29:02.229
came back to life as Mr. Jack, the pumpkin man.

2018
01:29:02.659 --> 01:29:06.600
The Kellys proliferated through the years, and when some devil-may-care

2019
01:29:06.619 --> 01:29:10.439
teens accidentally unleashed Jacko, young Sean Kelly must stop him

2020
01:29:10.510 --> 01:29:13.619
somehow as his suburban world is accosted and the attrition

2021
01:29:13.680 --> 01:29:16.079
rate climbs. What a hell of a synopsis you got there.

2022
01:29:16.220 --> 01:29:18.560
Yeah, well, Jacko deserves nothing less.

2023
01:29:18.640 --> 01:29:21.989
It does deserve nothing less, especially if you're a fan

2024
01:29:22.210 --> 01:29:24.470
of physical media and you want to have a piece

2025
01:29:24.789 --> 01:29:27.170
of physical media that is just one that you'll go

2026
01:29:27.210 --> 01:29:30.029
back to time and time again, Jacko has one of

2027
01:29:30.069 --> 01:29:32.380
the most infamous commentary tracks on it.

2028
01:29:32.609 --> 01:29:34.869
Yeah, even though it's a work. It is a work.

2029
01:29:34.890 --> 01:29:37.449
It's still very fun. People think that they're actually fighting,

2030
01:29:37.489 --> 01:29:41.079
but Fred Olin Ray, the producer, and Steve Latchaw, the

2031
01:29:41.119 --> 01:29:44.300
director- Or, like, going at it a bunch. And it's

2032
01:29:44.359 --> 01:29:47.899
very funny. Like, Steve gets mad and, like, storms out.

2033
01:29:48.020 --> 01:29:50.630
And then he gets locked out of the studio. Fred

2034
01:29:50.689 --> 01:29:53.649
goes over and lets him back in. But that may

2035
01:29:53.689 --> 01:29:55.649
have really happened. That part might have actually happened. It

2036
01:29:55.670 --> 01:29:59.829
might have. Knowing Fred pretty well and how close he

2037
01:29:59.869 --> 01:30:03.359
and Steve Latchaw are as buddies, I think they were

2038
01:30:03.380 --> 01:30:04.979
just having a good time with it.

2039
01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:07.979
But yeah, Jacko is a 100% Halloween movie. Takes place

2040
01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:08.880
on Halloween night.

2041
01:30:09.340 --> 01:30:10.840
Killer has a giant pumpkin head.

2042
01:30:11.039 --> 01:30:14.220
Giant pumpkin head. There's a who's who B-horror in it

2043
01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:15.619
as well in appearances.

2044
01:30:15.640 --> 01:30:18.189
Including people who've been dead for almost seven or eight years.

2045
01:30:18.210 --> 01:30:19.029
Even when the movie was made.

2046
01:30:19.170 --> 01:30:19.409
Yeah.

2047
01:30:21.649 --> 01:30:26.069
But Jacko currently streaming on Shudder. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

2048
01:30:27.600 --> 01:30:30.020
Joe Bob never showed that, did he? Yeah, he did.

2049
01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:32.359
I think that's when it first got on there. Last Halloween.

2050
01:30:32.579 --> 01:30:35.100
That and, god damn, what was the other one he

2051
01:30:35.119 --> 01:30:37.159
did after Jacko? I'm trying to remember. Was it Beyond

2052
01:30:37.420 --> 01:30:38.359
the Door 3, maybe?

2053
01:30:38.550 --> 01:30:39.600
I think so. That sounds right.

2054
01:30:39.859 --> 01:30:43.270
Yeah, but Jacko, 1995 Steve Latchaw, currently streaming on Shudder

2055
01:30:43.369 --> 01:30:46.369
as well as on Prime and on Plex, on Roku.

2056
01:30:46.810 --> 01:30:49.050
It is basically anywhere you're looking for it. And if

2057
01:30:49.069 --> 01:30:52.810
you haven't seen Jacko, absolutely add that into your lineup

2058
01:30:53.010 --> 01:30:55.270
for an underrated Halloween pick of this year.

2059
01:30:55.680 --> 01:30:59.520
And keep your eyes peeled for the bizarrely serious sequel.

2060
01:30:59.720 --> 01:31:00.760
It was bizarrely serious.

2061
01:31:01.560 --> 01:31:05.670
I really liked it. It was strange and fun. Yeah.

2062
01:31:06.229 --> 01:31:10.289
And a great way to see Sybil Danning come out

2063
01:31:10.310 --> 01:31:11.850
of retirement and act one more time.

2064
01:31:12.010 --> 01:31:15.319
Yeah, Jacko 2 is going to be coming out very soon,

2065
01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:17.600
and we do recommend that. So get ready for it

2066
01:31:17.619 --> 01:31:20.000
with Jacko. Once again, like I said, streaming on Shudder.

2067
01:31:27.340 --> 01:31:31.010
Moving into another underrated Halloween, another one that I think

2068
01:31:31.050 --> 01:31:35.399
you and I discovered last year or maybe two years ago. 1991,

2069
01:31:35.399 --> 01:31:37.680
directed by Doug Robertson's Haunted Ween.

2070
01:31:38.340 --> 01:31:40.789
Oh, yeah. Haunted Ween, baby.

2071
01:31:41.210 --> 01:31:44.189
One Halloween night, a little girl visiting the Berber Family

2072
01:31:44.229 --> 01:31:46.789
House of Horrors attraction is brutally hacked to pieces by

2073
01:31:46.810 --> 01:31:49.489
their young son, Eddie. Having fled the scene, Eddie is

2074
01:31:49.550 --> 01:31:51.640
taken away by his mother to live in solitude at

2075
01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:54.359
a remote cabin. 20 years later, the Top Hill State

2076
01:31:54.380 --> 01:31:58.079
College Sigma Pi fraternity are desperately trying to raise some cash,

2077
01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:00.859
so they decide to throw a raucous fundraiser party for

2078
01:32:00.880 --> 01:32:03.659
their peers. In the midst of festivities, a mysterious figure

2079
01:32:03.720 --> 01:32:07.000
arrives at the door. This is the story of what

2080
01:32:07.060 --> 01:32:09.079
happens if you and your friends are running a haunt

2081
01:32:09.159 --> 01:32:11.630
on Halloween night and a serial killer infiltrates it.

2082
01:32:11.880 --> 01:32:12.539
Damn right.

2083
01:32:12.960 --> 01:32:14.140
And it is a lot of fun.

2084
01:32:14.739 --> 01:32:15.640
Total blast.

2085
01:32:15.739 --> 01:32:18.520
Total blast. This one was put out by Vinegar Syndrome

2086
01:32:18.729 --> 01:32:22.310
in their Homegrown Horrors box, but it is actually available

2087
01:32:22.369 --> 01:32:25.390
right now on Tubi as well as on Fandango. Haunted

2088
01:32:25.409 --> 01:32:27.890
Ween is 100% a Halloween movie. It takes place on

2089
01:32:27.930 --> 01:32:30.260
Halloween with you being inside of a haunt, which may

2090
01:32:30.279 --> 01:32:32.020
be another theme that's coming up here in a little bit.

2091
01:32:32.500 --> 01:32:34.779
But this is one that is a lot of fun.

2092
01:32:34.800 --> 01:32:37.630
It's a decent little slasher. The only thing is the

2093
01:32:37.710 --> 01:32:39.909
ending really doesn't make much sense, but you still have

2094
01:32:39.949 --> 01:32:40.670
fun with it anyway.

2095
01:32:40.729 --> 01:32:41.989
Yeah, who cares about that?

2096
01:32:42.399 --> 01:32:45.119
But yeah, Haunted Ween, 1991, one that Hannah and I

2097
01:32:45.140 --> 01:32:47.060
just had an absolute blast with, and I'm sure you

2098
01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:50.479
will too. Moving us in to another one that was

2099
01:32:50.550 --> 01:32:51.989
a surprise. I don't know if you've seen this one,

2100
01:32:52.029 --> 01:32:53.569
but I need to show it to you if you haven't.

2101
01:32:53.590 --> 01:32:54.430
Is it Evil Dead?

2102
01:32:54.609 --> 01:32:56.909
No, it's not Evil Dead. No, it's not Baby Geniuses.

2103
01:32:57.890 --> 01:33:01.470
This is one that kind of caught me by surprise

2104
01:33:01.529 --> 01:33:04.970
because sometimes you see certain horror actors, we'll say, on

2105
01:33:04.989 --> 01:33:07.250
the covers of things, and you're like, oh, that could

2106
01:33:07.270 --> 01:33:08.829
be either really good or really bad.

2107
01:33:09.270 --> 01:33:09.569
Yes.

2108
01:33:09.789 --> 01:33:11.970
This has Bill Moseley and Kane Hodder on the cover

2109
01:33:12.010 --> 01:33:12.170
of it.

2110
01:33:13.180 --> 01:33:14.409
What year? 2023. Oh, it could go either way.

2111
01:33:14.449 --> 01:33:17.489
Directed by Dan Lance, this is Hayride to Hell.

2112
01:33:22.270 --> 01:33:24.079
Oh, I never got around to watching that one, I

2113
01:33:24.119 --> 01:33:24.439
don't think.

2114
01:33:24.500 --> 01:33:25.880
It is so much fun.

2115
01:33:26.119 --> 01:33:28.520
There was another haunt movie around that same time.

2116
01:33:28.579 --> 01:33:31.539
The one we all watched last year, Haunt Season. That's

2117
01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:34.479
all we'll say about Haunt Season. Hayride to Hell. A

2118
01:33:34.579 --> 01:33:37.750
small town farmer exacts his bloody revenge on unscrupulous town

2119
01:33:37.789 --> 01:33:39.949
folk who try to steal his land. This is the

2120
01:33:39.989 --> 01:33:43.189
story of Bill Mosley being a poor farmer who has

2121
01:33:43.250 --> 01:33:45.109
a hayride that's been in his family for years, a

2122
01:33:45.130 --> 01:33:48.310
whole haunted attraction. Kane Hodder plays the local sheriff along

2123
01:33:48.350 --> 01:33:50.079
with some people in real estate that are trying to

2124
01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:52.420
buy the land out from under him. And in a sense,

2125
01:33:52.460 --> 01:33:54.399
trying to steal it. So he decides to put on

2126
01:33:55.039 --> 01:33:58.859
one final hayride night and invites them all for just desserts.

2127
01:33:59.079 --> 01:34:00.500
It does sound pretty awesome.

2128
01:34:00.520 --> 01:34:03.720
Dude, it is so much fun. It is dark. It

2129
01:34:03.739 --> 01:34:08.140
is like black comedy Halloween horror right here that has

2130
01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:11.460
one of the most satisfying endings is all I can say.

2131
01:34:11.479 --> 01:34:14.159
It was one that I put on last year just

2132
01:34:14.239 --> 01:34:15.859
on a whim. I think I got it cheap off

2133
01:34:15.899 --> 01:34:19.279
of Fandango, actually, for like two bucks. But Hayride to Hell,

2134
01:34:19.770 --> 01:34:24.810
currently available on Tubi, Fandango, Plex, and all as well

2135
01:34:24.829 --> 01:34:27.130
as Apple. This is one that you may look at

2136
01:34:27.149 --> 01:34:28.989
the cover and be like, that can't be good. I'm

2137
01:34:29.029 --> 01:34:31.430
telling you here and now, this one is an absolute blast.

2138
01:34:31.470 --> 01:34:35.229
If you're looking for one of those fun slasher Halloween

2139
01:34:35.270 --> 01:34:37.670
horror films, literally takes place on a hayride during Halloween.

2140
01:34:37.729 --> 01:34:38.970
I mean, yeah, you can't beat that.

2141
01:34:39.069 --> 01:34:39.270
No.

2142
01:34:40.130 --> 01:34:41.649
I can't wait to go on a hayride or two.

2143
01:34:42.289 --> 01:34:43.130
I want to go with you.

2144
01:34:43.430 --> 01:34:46.170
Apparently, Dayton Screen Park has a hayride.

2145
01:34:46.409 --> 01:34:47.770
Yeah, I have heard that. It's supposed to be pretty good.

2146
01:34:48.720 --> 01:34:50.500
Yeah, I'm definitely going back to Brimstone.

2147
01:34:50.520 --> 01:34:52.000
Oh, Brimstone's a lot of fun.

2148
01:34:52.020 --> 01:34:54.260
Their hayride was so good.

2149
01:34:54.279 --> 01:34:55.840
So good. One of the best hayrides of all time,

2150
01:34:55.880 --> 01:34:59.159
for sure. So moving us into more underrated Halloween. I

2151
01:34:59.180 --> 01:35:01.319
had mentioned it earlier, and so let's get into it.

2152
01:35:01.739 --> 01:35:04.930
2025's VHS Halloween. This is the VHS entry with all

2153
01:35:04.939 --> 01:35:09.109
the stories taking place around Halloween. This is one that

2154
01:35:09.729 --> 01:35:12.329
I was ready to be lukewarm on, but then I

2155
01:35:12.350 --> 01:35:15.800
ended up having a real big blast with it. even

2156
01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:18.479
if there is one story that is extremely disturbing out

2157
01:35:18.500 --> 01:35:19.760
of the entire VHS series.

2158
01:35:19.939 --> 01:35:21.760
Yeah, I did enjoy this one a lot, though.

2159
01:35:22.279 --> 01:35:25.460
VHS Halloween, a collection of Halloween-themed videotapes, unleashes a series

2160
01:35:25.500 --> 01:35:29.100
of twisted, blood-soaked tales turning trick-or-treat into the struggle for survival.

2161
01:35:29.460 --> 01:35:31.819
You've got what happens if a haunted house came alive,

2162
01:35:32.060 --> 01:35:34.590
what happens if you steal candy from the wrong person

2163
01:35:34.859 --> 01:35:36.550
and end up in a factory where you may be

2164
01:35:36.590 --> 01:35:40.770
turned into the candy, what happens if you mess with

2165
01:35:40.869 --> 01:35:45.100
this woman who collects... people as their babies, basically.

2166
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:48.159
Yeah, no, it really runs the gamut and it does

2167
01:35:48.199 --> 01:35:52.789
a great job of, of just throwing that Halloween nostalgia

2168
01:35:52.909 --> 01:35:54.489
at you as hard as it can.

2169
01:35:54.529 --> 01:35:54.770
Yeah.

2170
01:35:55.270 --> 01:35:57.529
Uh, the only thing it throws harder than that is, uh,

2171
01:35:58.289 --> 01:35:59.539
children's bodies.

2172
01:35:59.260 --> 01:36:01.760
Children's bodies indeed there is one segment that I will

2173
01:36:01.779 --> 01:36:03.340
give you a fair warning on if you are a

2174
01:36:03.380 --> 01:36:07.520
parent there is a segment involving a workplace where they

2175
01:36:07.560 --> 01:36:10.850
have kids videos basically that one takes a pretty brutal

2176
01:36:10.890 --> 01:36:12.869
dark turn so you may want to be weary of

2177
01:36:12.890 --> 01:36:15.890
that one but otherwise VHS Halloween a lot of great

2178
01:36:15.930 --> 01:36:18.920
fun currently streaming right now on Shudder with all the

2179
01:36:18.939 --> 01:36:21.590
other VHS movies, if I'm not mistaken, the ones that

2180
01:36:21.609 --> 01:36:24.810
they've exclusively made. But that is one that I definitely

2181
01:36:24.829 --> 01:36:28.289
cannot recommend enough. So VHS Halloween 2025, add that into

2182
01:36:28.329 --> 01:36:31.750
your underrated Halloween watching. Next up is another one from

2183
01:36:31.789 --> 01:36:35.800
the 2020s, and 2020 exactly is Bad Candy, directed by

2184
01:36:35.880 --> 01:36:39.739
Scott Hansen and Desiree Connell. On Halloween night in New Salem,

2185
01:36:39.800 --> 01:36:43.000
radio DJs Chili Billy and Paul tell twisted anthology of

2186
01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:46.350
terrifying local myths residents of the small town experience horrifying

2187
01:36:46.369 --> 01:36:49.229
paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end. If

2188
01:36:49.270 --> 01:36:51.109
there is one thing that I can say about this movie,

2189
01:36:51.149 --> 01:36:53.199
when Hannah and I watched it on my porch several

2190
01:36:53.239 --> 01:36:57.479
years ago, stick with it. It may feel a little

2191
01:36:57.539 --> 01:36:59.899
sluggish in the middle, but the ending has a really,

2192
01:36:59.939 --> 01:37:02.460
really strong finish to it. Your radio DJs, by the way,

2193
01:37:02.500 --> 01:37:04.930
played by Zach Galligan and Corey Taylor of Slipknot.

2194
01:37:05.050 --> 01:37:10.810
Yes. Not to be confused with Zach Galligan of Slipknot. No,

2195
01:37:10.869 --> 01:37:13.649
that one's a really fun, You know, it's not perfect,

2196
01:37:13.689 --> 01:37:14.270
but what is?

2197
01:37:14.329 --> 01:37:15.130
Yeah.

2198
01:37:15.289 --> 01:37:17.609
Oh, Trick or Treat or whatever. There are a few,

2199
01:37:17.649 --> 01:37:20.199
but no, but it definitely scratches the itch. It does.

2200
01:37:20.220 --> 01:37:20.869
And I enjoyed it a lot.

2201
01:37:20.880 --> 01:37:22.939
No, I mean, it takes place entirely on Halloween. It's

2202
01:37:22.960 --> 01:37:26.239
an anthology on Halloween. It's got really good effects to it.

2203
01:37:26.300 --> 01:37:29.380
And like I said, the ending reveal makes it worth

2204
01:37:29.439 --> 01:37:34.899
watching alone. So Bad Candy from 2020, currently available on Tubi, Fandango,

2205
01:37:35.060 --> 01:37:38.079
and Plex to stream for free. So make sure you

2206
01:37:38.119 --> 01:37:40.340
check that one out. It is one that really stuck

2207
01:37:40.380 --> 01:37:42.989
by because it came out In 2020, so we were

2208
01:37:43.029 --> 01:37:45.510
at the height of COVID at that point. And it's

2209
01:37:45.649 --> 01:37:47.989
one that I've never really heard anybody else talk about.

2210
01:37:48.010 --> 01:37:49.189
Yeah, it kind of came and went.

2211
01:37:49.310 --> 01:37:52.270
Kind of came and went. So Bad Candy from 2020

2212
01:37:52.270 --> 01:37:56.119
rounding us up into more underrated. I'm curious how you're

2213
01:37:56.140 --> 01:37:57.439
going to react to this one because I bet you're

2214
01:37:57.460 --> 01:38:01.220
going to be surprised. And that is 1988's Flesh Eater,

2215
01:38:01.359 --> 01:38:02.760
Revenge of the Living Dead.

2216
01:38:03.079 --> 01:38:03.699
I'm not surprised.

2217
01:38:03.970 --> 01:38:04.510
You're not surprised?

2218
01:38:04.649 --> 01:38:06.109
No, that movie's so much fun.

2219
01:38:06.130 --> 01:38:07.090
That's still Halloween, too.

2220
01:38:07.189 --> 01:38:10.939
Yeah, that's a blast. That movie is so cheesy, it

2221
01:38:10.979 --> 01:38:13.239
has to remind you of Halloween. And it is on Halloween.

2222
01:38:13.279 --> 01:38:16.699
It is on Halloween, yeah. Directed by William Hinsman. He lived,

2223
01:38:16.720 --> 01:38:18.899
he died, he's back, and he's hungry. A group of

2224
01:38:18.939 --> 01:38:22.100
college students take a Halloween hayride into the countryside and

2225
01:38:22.159 --> 01:38:24.149
convince the driver to take them to a secluded area

2226
01:38:24.210 --> 01:38:26.630
for the night of debauchery. However, the fun turns to

2227
01:38:26.670 --> 01:38:29.390
terror when a local farmhand unearths a mysterious wooden box

2228
01:38:29.409 --> 01:38:32.579
that contains inscriptions. ancient zombie. This is the story of

2229
01:38:32.640 --> 01:38:35.500
a zombie making his rounds on Halloween night, making more

2230
01:38:35.520 --> 01:38:38.760
zombies and going into a Halloween party, going on a hayride.

2231
01:38:39.319 --> 01:38:41.460
A lot, a lot of carnage in this one, and

2232
01:38:41.619 --> 01:38:43.039
it is a lot of fun.

2233
01:38:43.140 --> 01:38:45.239
Hell of a lot of fun. It's just silly, dumb

2234
01:38:45.279 --> 01:38:46.020
zombie fun.

2235
01:38:46.300 --> 01:38:48.569
That recently had a Blu-ray released by, is it 4K?

2236
01:38:48.560 --> 01:38:51.210
Yeah. 4K or... I think it is 4K. I think

2237
01:38:51.229 --> 01:38:51.810
there is a 4K.

2238
01:38:51.829 --> 01:38:55.369
Yeah, by Vincent. But it is readily available right now

2239
01:38:55.550 --> 01:38:58.380
on Tubi and Plex to stream. If you haven't seen

2240
01:38:58.420 --> 01:39:00.239
Flesh Eater, if you're a zombie fan, or if you're

2241
01:39:00.260 --> 01:39:04.260
looking for a B-horror movie that is so Halloween-y it

2242
01:39:04.300 --> 01:39:06.689
will make you spew candy, Flesh Eater Revenge of the

2243
01:39:06.729 --> 01:39:07.170
Living Dead.

2244
01:39:08.170 --> 01:39:09.590
Make you spew candy.

2245
01:39:09.609 --> 01:39:10.569
Make you spew candy.

2246
01:39:10.609 --> 01:39:12.050
I don't disagree with that statement.

2247
01:39:12.250 --> 01:39:15.569
So moving into more of the underrated Halloweens, this is

2248
01:39:15.670 --> 01:39:17.899
one that I saw recently, and I think you had

2249
01:39:17.920 --> 01:39:22.680
seen it before me. 2023's Dark Harvest, directed by David Slade. Oh, yeah, yeah.

2250
01:39:22.720 --> 01:39:23.739
Dark Harvest is good.

2251
01:39:23.819 --> 01:39:26.899
It's really good. In a small Midwestern town... A deadly

2252
01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:30.710
annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare Sawtooth Jack rises

2253
01:39:30.750 --> 01:39:33.329
from the cornfields and challenges the town's teenage boys into

2254
01:39:33.369 --> 01:39:37.529
a bloody battle of survival. Literally, the families in regards

2255
01:39:37.569 --> 01:39:42.220
of this town submit their boys into fighting Sawtooth to

2256
01:39:42.300 --> 01:39:45.140
basically keep the town in flourish. I mean, it is

2257
01:39:45.140 --> 01:39:46.159
100% a crazy-ass movie.

2258
01:39:47.710 --> 01:39:49.850
Yeah, no, that one was a real surprise how much

2259
01:39:49.909 --> 01:39:50.649
I really loved it.

2260
01:39:50.770 --> 01:39:53.329
Yeah, and it's got some great effects to it. It's

2261
01:39:53.369 --> 01:39:57.050
got some magnificent lighting, especially in the chase sequences through

2262
01:39:57.069 --> 01:39:59.649
the cornfields and stuff. You are literally in a Midwest

2263
01:39:59.689 --> 01:40:01.729
town surrounded by cornfields. What is more Halloween?

2264
01:40:01.770 --> 01:40:02.970
Yeah, the vibe's perfect.

2265
01:40:03.130 --> 01:40:07.050
Yeah, so Dark Harvest in 2023, currently available to rent

2266
01:40:07.149 --> 01:40:09.609
or buy on Fandango and Apple TV. One that's not

2267
01:40:09.649 --> 01:40:12.289
streaming yet, but hopefully when this drops, it is out

2268
01:40:12.310 --> 01:40:14.449
there a little bit more because it's criminally underseen in

2269
01:40:14.489 --> 01:40:14.949
my opinion.

2270
01:40:15.850 --> 01:40:17.189
Yeah, I would have to agree with that.

2271
01:40:17.489 --> 01:40:19.649
And another one that, again, we didn't hear many people

2272
01:40:19.670 --> 01:40:23.020
talk about, but we sure as shit loved, is 2025's R.L.

2273
01:40:23.520 --> 01:40:26.840
Stine's Pumpkinhead, directed by Jim Garrard.

2274
01:40:27.000 --> 01:40:29.720
Hey, it must have been good enough because the sequel's

2275
01:40:29.739 --> 01:40:31.260
going to be dropping on the 16th, I think?

2276
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:32.199
I think so, yeah.

2277
01:40:32.579 --> 01:40:33.399
Yeah, I can't wait.

2278
01:40:33.420 --> 01:40:36.380
So do not confuse yourself with Pumpkinhead with Lance Henriksen.

2279
01:40:36.439 --> 01:40:39.670
This is R.L. Stine's original creation. When his brother disappears

2280
01:40:39.729 --> 01:40:42.689
and everyone forgets he existed, Sam must unravel the mystery

2281
01:40:42.750 --> 01:40:45.510
before Finn is gone forever. This is the story of

2282
01:40:45.550 --> 01:40:49.479
a family that moves into a town that is very Midwest.

2283
01:40:49.640 --> 01:40:53.619
It's very odd. And above all else, there are really

2284
01:40:53.720 --> 01:40:56.270
weird pumpkin patches or a really weird pumpkin patch in it.

2285
01:40:56.539 --> 01:40:59.180
Well, and for the record, the greatest mystery of the

2286
01:40:59.239 --> 01:41:01.720
film was as we were watching it because it's a

2287
01:41:01.760 --> 01:41:02.479
Tubi original.

2288
01:41:02.560 --> 01:41:02.739
Yeah.

2289
01:41:02.970 --> 01:41:05.409
So you can only watch it or at least mostly

2290
01:41:05.430 --> 01:41:06.409
you can only watch it on Tubi.

2291
01:41:06.470 --> 01:41:06.630
Yes.

2292
01:41:07.380 --> 01:41:09.359
During the commercials, I was like, what did R.L. Stine

2293
01:41:09.399 --> 01:41:11.270
have to do with this? It looks like he just

2294
01:41:11.310 --> 01:41:13.850
lended his name. I think he did. I couldn't find

2295
01:41:13.890 --> 01:41:15.670
him in the story credit. I couldn't find him in

2296
01:41:15.689 --> 01:41:20.630
the producing credit. But it definitely was a blast. That

2297
01:41:20.789 --> 01:41:23.369
ending was so much darker than I was ready for.

2298
01:41:23.390 --> 01:41:25.250
For a YA horror film, yeah.

2299
01:41:25.390 --> 01:41:27.689
But that really amped me up for a sequel because

2300
01:41:27.710 --> 01:41:29.710
they set up a really good, like, all I could

2301
01:41:29.729 --> 01:41:31.069
think was like, I want to know what they do.

2302
01:41:31.109 --> 01:41:31.350
Yeah.

2303
01:41:31.729 --> 01:41:35.779
So I'm so pumped to get to watch the new

2304
01:41:35.819 --> 01:41:36.539
Pumpkinhead 2.

2305
01:41:36.539 --> 01:41:39.510
It's scary. It's got a great creature design in it.

2306
01:41:39.619 --> 01:41:41.520
You are going to be wondering what the hell is

2307
01:41:41.560 --> 01:41:43.640
going on the entire time you're watching. And then once again,

2308
01:41:43.720 --> 01:41:45.500
once you get to that ending, you're going to be like, shit.

2309
01:41:45.789 --> 01:41:46.310
All right, then.

2310
01:41:46.569 --> 01:41:47.640
Well, okay.

2311
01:41:47.760 --> 01:41:51.800
But yeah, Pumpkinhead from R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead, 2025, like Hen said,

2312
01:41:51.859 --> 01:41:54.539
currently and only available on Tubi. And again, look for

2313
01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:57.619
the sequel coming October 16th. So that is one that

2314
01:41:57.659 --> 01:42:00.050
we cannot recommend enough. That was so much fun last year.

2315
01:42:00.060 --> 01:42:01.149
Yeah, that was a total blast.

2316
01:42:01.529 --> 01:42:03.909
One that I'm going to throw into the mix is

2317
01:42:04.029 --> 01:42:06.189
one that I've beat the drum for a little bit before.

2318
01:42:06.210 --> 01:42:08.310
I think I've mentioned it on past episodes of Do

2319
01:42:08.329 --> 01:42:12.149
You Even Movie. That is 2009's Scare Zone, directed by

2320
01:42:12.210 --> 01:42:15.510
John Pagowski. Um, the haunted attraction where terror is real

2321
01:42:15.569 --> 01:42:17.199
scare zone is Oliver pride and joy.

2322
01:42:17.579 --> 01:42:17.779
Sure.

2323
01:42:17.840 --> 01:42:20.619
It's just another strip mall Halloween horror house, but as always,

2324
01:42:20.659 --> 01:42:22.840
he puts his heart and soul into it. The attraction

2325
01:42:22.880 --> 01:42:24.890
is open for three nights only. And Oliver has brought

2326
01:42:24.930 --> 01:42:28.149
back his old staff, including ex-con spider, eager, uh, bride

2327
01:42:28.229 --> 01:42:31.470
to be summer and the, uh, ignite. Oh my God.

2328
01:42:31.489 --> 01:42:31.670
I can't.

2329
01:42:31.710 --> 01:42:31.930
Wow.

2330
01:42:32.609 --> 01:42:35.920
And the enigmatic goth princess Claire. A bunch of newbies

2331
01:42:35.960 --> 01:42:38.319
are also on board, including Ernest Young Daryl, who immediately

2332
01:42:38.359 --> 01:42:42.199
finds himself bewitched by the creepy Claire. The dysfunctional scream

2333
01:42:42.220 --> 01:42:45.079
team learns to work together while someone or something is

2334
01:42:45.140 --> 01:42:47.199
out to make the horror real. Once again, this is

2335
01:42:47.229 --> 01:42:50.710
the story of what happens when something sinister sneaks into

2336
01:42:50.750 --> 01:42:53.930
a haunt and starts making the carnage real. It is

2337
01:42:54.010 --> 01:42:57.130
a really, really good flick. Low budget. It was one

2338
01:42:57.149 --> 01:42:58.829
that I found on DVD when I was back in

2339
01:42:58.850 --> 01:43:01.640
my days of working as manager at FYE. It was

2340
01:43:02.079 --> 01:43:05.260
one that really took me by storm, and do not

2341
01:43:05.340 --> 01:43:07.560
sleep on this one. It is readily available right now

2342
01:43:07.739 --> 01:43:10.539
on Tubi and Fandango. You can also get a cheap

2343
01:43:10.560 --> 01:43:12.020
DVD as well if you want to, but that is

2344
01:43:12.189 --> 01:43:15.130
2009's Scare Zone. Cannot recommend it enough.

2345
01:43:15.569 --> 01:43:16.449
I've not seen that one.

2346
01:43:16.489 --> 01:43:17.159
I'll have to show that one to you.

2347
01:43:17.170 --> 01:43:18.109
I'd like to see that one. Yeah, please.

2348
01:43:18.130 --> 01:43:21.329
We'll definitely check that one out. Routing us out into

2349
01:43:21.369 --> 01:43:24.250
the near end of the underrated Halloweens, this is one

2350
01:43:24.270 --> 01:43:26.720
that I had the pleasure of revisiting recently and forgot

2351
01:43:26.779 --> 01:43:30.609
how Halloween-y it feels, and that is 2021's directed by

2352
01:43:30.710 --> 01:43:32.850
Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho.

2353
01:43:33.750 --> 01:43:36.229
Oh, that is a very, you know, that's one that

2354
01:43:36.250 --> 01:43:39.140
was great and everything, but I kind of forgot about it.

2355
01:43:39.430 --> 01:43:44.109
But it's really good, and it's got a great, gothic, creepy,

2356
01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:47.920
ghost-who-killed-me vibe that really works.

2357
01:43:48.100 --> 01:43:51.119
So the previous, the 2023, the previous list I had

2358
01:43:51.159 --> 01:43:53.659
put Suspiria on there for the colors of a Halloween

2359
01:43:53.680 --> 01:43:55.600
feel and just the movie in general. This is one

2360
01:43:55.640 --> 01:43:58.220
of those again. The color palette in this movie is

2361
01:43:58.539 --> 01:44:01.119
so eerie. There's one scene that literally takes place at

2362
01:44:01.159 --> 01:44:03.260
a Halloween dance where people are in costume as well.

2363
01:44:04.090 --> 01:44:06.750
It's a great little slasher film that is also just

2364
01:44:06.770 --> 01:44:09.250
a nice little thriller as well. A young girl passionate

2365
01:44:09.289 --> 01:44:12.449
about fashion design is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s

2366
01:44:12.489 --> 01:44:15.829
where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But

2367
01:44:15.869 --> 01:44:18.010
1960s London is not what it seems and the time

2368
01:44:18.029 --> 01:44:21.270
seems to be falling apart with shady consequences. Thomas McKenzie,

2369
01:44:21.289 --> 01:44:24.960
Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith. You've also got a great performance

2370
01:44:25.319 --> 01:44:29.300
by Terrence Stamp in this. This is one that Made

2371
01:44:29.319 --> 01:44:30.779
a splash when it came out, but also once again

2372
01:44:30.800 --> 01:44:33.220
during the COVID times. Have not heard many people talk

2373
01:44:33.260 --> 01:44:36.600
about it. Last Night in Soho is such an underrated

2374
01:44:36.659 --> 01:44:39.399
flick in regards to the terror that this movie can bring.

2375
01:44:40.079 --> 01:44:42.100
Yeah, I would agree. That one's one that you really

2376
01:44:42.140 --> 01:44:43.810
ought to put on your watch list if you've never

2377
01:44:43.850 --> 01:44:44.109
seen it.

2378
01:44:44.239 --> 01:44:47.470
Got incredible visual aesthetic to it. It's got a great

2379
01:44:47.829 --> 01:44:49.770
twist reveal at the end as well. So if you

2380
01:44:49.810 --> 01:44:52.109
are looking for something that is newer, that may have

2381
01:44:52.130 --> 01:44:54.689
slipped by you, definitely check out Last Night in Soho

2382
01:44:54.869 --> 01:44:57.420
by Edgar Wright. Currently available right now on Prime. You

2383
01:44:57.460 --> 01:44:59.979
can also rent it at Fandango as well as Apple TV.

2384
01:45:00.260 --> 01:45:02.560
There's also a really good 4K out. That's how I

2385
01:45:02.600 --> 01:45:14.289
watched it recently. Moving us further into underrated Halloween. This

2386
01:45:14.390 --> 01:45:16.470
is one that I really am going to beat the

2387
01:45:16.489 --> 01:45:19.399
drum for for a second. There have been so many

2388
01:45:19.409 --> 01:45:22.859
great horror releases this year. We've had Backrooms. We've had Obsession.

2389
01:45:22.939 --> 01:45:26.020
We've had Resident Evil, which you and I just recently saw. Yeah.

2390
01:45:26.359 --> 01:45:29.619
Literally before recording this. In regards to one that I

2391
01:45:29.699 --> 01:45:31.829
really wish more people would get on board with because

2392
01:45:31.890 --> 01:45:33.310
it feels like it came out at a time where

2393
01:45:33.329 --> 01:45:37.409
there was too much out there is 2026's Hocum, directed

2394
01:45:37.470 --> 01:45:38.609
by Damian McCarthy.

2395
01:45:38.890 --> 01:45:40.069
Yeah, it got overlooked.

2396
01:45:40.550 --> 01:45:41.689
It really got overlooked.

2397
01:45:41.789 --> 01:45:44.270
Because so many great titles came out, it just got

2398
01:45:44.310 --> 01:45:46.189
totally overlooked, and it's really good.

2399
01:45:46.300 --> 01:45:51.180
Really good, really Halloween-y, really folky. Actually, there's a scene

2400
01:45:51.220 --> 01:45:53.539
that takes place on Halloween, like a major scene. When

2401
01:45:53.579 --> 01:45:57.399
novelist Owen Baum retreats to a remote inn to scatter

2402
01:45:57.420 --> 01:45:59.960
his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of witch hunting,

2403
01:46:00.279 --> 01:46:03.590
the honeymoon suite, disturbing visions, and a shocking disappearance forces

2404
01:46:03.630 --> 01:46:06.109
him to confront dark corners of the past. This is

2405
01:46:06.149 --> 01:46:09.390
an isolated inn in a forest. There is a folksy

2406
01:46:09.430 --> 01:46:13.159
feel to it. And there is so many terrifying moments

2407
01:46:13.199 --> 01:46:15.539
of this from the visual styles that they have to

2408
01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:18.100
the reveals they have. And generally one of the most

2409
01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:21.420
terrifying bunny characters next to Donnie Darko, I would say.

2410
01:46:21.640 --> 01:46:23.899
Yeah, I think that's a very fair assessment. Jeez.

2411
01:46:24.039 --> 01:46:27.619
Yeah, it is Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wimmelt. This

2412
01:46:27.850 --> 01:46:30.210
is one that I cannot recommend enough. If you're looking

2413
01:46:30.270 --> 01:46:32.289
for a newer horror film that may have slipped past you,

2414
01:46:32.590 --> 01:46:34.109
you may have seen the previews for it. You may

2415
01:46:34.149 --> 01:46:38.470
have seen the creepy imagery. Hocum is genuinely a scary,

2416
01:46:38.869 --> 01:46:41.649
good movie. october movie for your lineup.

2417
01:46:41.470 --> 01:46:43.729
Yeah i'm gonna put that on mine actually yeah we

2418
01:46:43.750 --> 01:46:45.390
saw it in the theater i really want to watch

2419
01:46:45.409 --> 01:46:46.680
it again and i want to show it to rachel

2420
01:46:46.720 --> 01:46:48.979
who was already amped about it but it left the

2421
01:46:49.020 --> 01:46:49.720
theater too.

2422
01:46:49.619 --> 01:46:52.760
Quick yeah and as of this recording it's not streaming

2423
01:46:52.819 --> 01:46:55.380
anywhere in regards to quote-unquote free but you can rent

2424
01:46:55.420 --> 01:46:57.979
it of course really nowhere i would have.

2425
01:46:57.899 --> 01:47:00.050
Thought for sure it would have been on like one

2426
01:47:00.090 --> 01:47:01.050
of those you know one of the.

2427
01:47:01.850 --> 01:47:04.829
Peacock or something, yeah. But no, to my knowledge, the

2428
01:47:04.909 --> 01:47:06.710
only place you can get it is basically renting it

2429
01:47:06.729 --> 01:47:09.609
from your usual places. But hopefully with October coming, that

2430
01:47:09.630 --> 01:47:10.170
will change.

2431
01:47:10.590 --> 01:47:11.189
It would be nice.

2432
01:47:11.449 --> 01:47:14.890
It would be nice. And wrapping us up for the

2433
01:47:14.989 --> 01:47:18.369
underrated Halloween column, one that I just discovered this year

2434
01:47:18.470 --> 01:47:20.409
that I cannot believe it took me this long to

2435
01:47:20.449 --> 01:47:22.149
get to it. I was aware of this movie, but

2436
01:47:22.229 --> 01:47:25.069
once again, we're talking about one that is scarce in

2437
01:47:25.149 --> 01:47:27.729
regards to had a DVD release from Anchor Bay back

2438
01:47:27.770 --> 01:47:31.020
in the day. I'm guessing the licensing for music is

2439
01:47:31.079 --> 01:47:36.109
a fucking nightmare now. And that is 1985's The Midnight Hour,

2440
01:47:36.250 --> 01:47:37.409
directed by Jack Bender.

2441
01:47:37.550 --> 01:47:39.470
Oh, man. So I think I watched that for the

2442
01:47:39.510 --> 01:47:41.800
first time last year. Yeah. That's good.

2443
01:47:41.859 --> 01:47:42.260
It's great.

2444
01:47:42.279 --> 01:47:43.319
Really good one.

2445
01:47:43.600 --> 01:47:46.670
It is readily available on YouTube and multiple sources of it.

2446
01:47:46.680 --> 01:47:49.079
They've got a nice cleaned up print. They've got the

2447
01:47:49.140 --> 01:47:51.560
TV premiere print of it. This is a TV movie

2448
01:47:51.699 --> 01:47:55.560
from 1985. Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinny are high

2449
01:47:55.600 --> 01:47:58.180
school friends who unwittingly raised the dead on Halloween night.

2450
01:47:58.720 --> 01:48:01.500
Once the dead returned, Pittsburgh Cove will never be the same,

2451
01:48:01.699 --> 01:48:04.720
or will it? This is just a really fun 80s

2452
01:48:05.439 --> 01:48:08.340
TV movie. Has an incredible soundtrack, like I said, which

2453
01:48:08.399 --> 01:48:10.100
is probably the reason we haven't seen a release of

2454
01:48:10.140 --> 01:48:13.090
it with Depeche Mode, The Smiths. I mean, there's a

2455
01:48:13.159 --> 01:48:13.710
bunch of people.

2456
01:48:13.869 --> 01:48:16.829
With being a TV movie, they likely didn't get releases,

2457
01:48:17.189 --> 01:48:20.119
the music released for yeah that kind of thing uh

2458
01:48:20.300 --> 01:48:22.399
side note really quick i got curious i want to

2459
01:48:22.420 --> 01:48:24.199
check what hokum did at the bar it actually did

2460
01:48:24.220 --> 01:48:26.380
really well at the box office and 25 million against

2461
01:48:26.420 --> 01:48:29.510
five shit so it actually was a small hit like

2462
01:48:29.550 --> 01:48:31.430
not even a minor hit a small hit glad to

2463
01:48:31.470 --> 01:48:33.369
hear that um but yeah it just kind of came

2464
01:48:33.390 --> 01:48:35.720
away but anyway So, but the midnight hour. Yeah. When

2465
01:48:35.760 --> 01:48:38.699
it comes to TV movies, TV series, things like that, music,

2466
01:48:38.939 --> 01:48:41.859
music rights become a nightmare, uh, from that era.

2467
01:48:42.050 --> 01:48:42.199
Yeah.

2468
01:48:42.270 --> 01:48:45.229
Cause it wasn't until I think the early two thousands

2469
01:48:45.270 --> 01:48:47.710
that people were really thinking like, Oh, this TV thing

2470
01:48:47.770 --> 01:48:50.289
is going to end up on, you know, home video

2471
01:48:50.350 --> 01:48:52.810
or worse. There were examples where they had signed the

2472
01:48:52.850 --> 01:48:55.729
contracts and it said videotape. So then when videotape what

2473
01:48:55.750 --> 01:48:56.470
it was, DVD.

2474
01:48:56.689 --> 01:48:59.710
They didn't have a screwed. Yeah. But yeah, Midnight Hour

2475
01:48:59.829 --> 01:49:01.810
is a lot of fun. You've got pretty much every

2476
01:49:01.850 --> 01:49:03.979
single monster that you can think of. You've got a

2477
01:49:04.060 --> 01:49:07.659
great music number by the monsters at one point. And overall,

2478
01:49:07.699 --> 01:49:10.380
just a really fun little ghost story that also has

2479
01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:12.000
that family feel to it. This is one that the

2480
01:49:12.060 --> 01:49:14.899
kids can watch as well. It's a family-friendly one with

2481
01:49:14.939 --> 01:49:18.979
a great soundtrack, great monsters, and 100% Halloween vibes all

2482
01:49:19.010 --> 01:49:19.470
the way through.

2483
01:49:19.479 --> 01:49:19.869
Oh, yeah.

2484
01:49:20.069 --> 01:49:23.649
The Midnight Hour, 1985, currently available on YouTube. If you

2485
01:49:23.689 --> 01:49:26.289
have not seen it, Again, this is one of the

2486
01:49:26.329 --> 01:49:27.590
top ones that I'm going to put on this list

2487
01:49:27.609 --> 01:49:29.189
that you need to check out this year because I

2488
01:49:29.220 --> 01:49:31.340
was blown away by how much fun it is. And

2489
01:49:31.359 --> 01:49:32.979
I'm surprised that no one's grabbed it up yet.

2490
01:49:33.439 --> 01:49:36.220
Yeah, I mean, it must be it must be really

2491
01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:38.960
a mess. Yeah, it's got a situation must be a mess.

2492
01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:41.659
So that wraps us up for underrated Halloween picks, which

2493
01:49:41.720 --> 01:49:44.119
moves us into the last and final column, which is

2494
01:49:44.140 --> 01:49:47.970
this is Halloween. All these movies have Halloween in them

2495
01:49:48.029 --> 01:49:50.010
in one way or another, whether it takes place, whether

2496
01:49:50.050 --> 01:49:52.670
the vibes are there. Starting us off with one that

2497
01:49:52.869 --> 01:49:55.010
I'm a bit lukewarm on. You and I saw this

2498
01:49:55.069 --> 01:49:58.970
in theaters in my hometown. That is 2019's Candy Corn

2499
01:49:59.050 --> 01:50:00.170
by Josh Hastie.

2500
01:50:00.770 --> 01:50:03.510
It was fine. It was fine. I think I was

2501
01:50:03.550 --> 01:50:04.920
a little too amped up for it.

2502
01:50:05.289 --> 01:50:07.470
But it's got great Halloween vibes all the way through.

2503
01:50:07.630 --> 01:50:09.689
I mean, it's literally called Candy Corn, which is a

2504
01:50:09.750 --> 01:50:10.409
great title.

2505
01:50:10.449 --> 01:50:10.729
Yes.

2506
01:50:11.289 --> 01:50:14.369
And I think if you put that on expecting to

2507
01:50:14.430 --> 01:50:17.449
have some fun, you're not expecting something super scary, but

2508
01:50:17.489 --> 01:50:20.930
you're not expecting something... Super dumb. You know, you're expecting

2509
01:50:20.970 --> 01:50:22.850
just like a solid little flick that's going to make

2510
01:50:22.869 --> 01:50:25.390
you feel like it's Halloween time. Yeah. It totally works. Yeah.

2511
01:50:25.510 --> 01:50:29.029
This on Halloween Eve in 1980, local outcast Julian Cummings

2512
01:50:29.090 --> 01:50:32.569
is carelessly murdered. A vagabond with witch doctor, Dr. Death

2513
01:50:32.640 --> 01:50:35.039
takes matters into his own hands and brings Julian back

2514
01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:38.039
from the dead. to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.

2515
01:50:38.460 --> 01:50:40.520
This is a Halloween to a tea movie. You've got

2516
01:50:40.539 --> 01:50:42.680
your killer that looks exactly almost like a pumpkin at

2517
01:50:42.720 --> 01:50:45.800
times as well. You've got a really creepy, uh, outlook

2518
01:50:45.939 --> 01:50:47.909
of the town and just the style and just the

2519
01:50:47.949 --> 01:50:50.810
visuals that they have with it. Um, candy corn again,

2520
01:50:51.149 --> 01:50:52.770
not one that you're going to be blown away by,

2521
01:50:52.810 --> 01:50:55.289
but if you're looking for Halloweeny vibes, uh, And something

2522
01:50:55.310 --> 01:50:57.550
you haven't seen probably because I've never heard anybody talk

2523
01:50:57.569 --> 01:50:58.600
about Candy Corn, unfortunately.

2524
01:50:58.729 --> 01:51:01.739
Yeah, there was a big push promoting it. Yeah. And,

2525
01:51:01.840 --> 01:51:04.739
you know, hence we saw it at the screening up

2526
01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:05.600
in Troy, Ohio.

2527
01:51:05.619 --> 01:51:05.819
Yeah.

2528
01:51:06.140 --> 01:51:08.220
But yeah, it just kind of evaporated.

2529
01:51:08.579 --> 01:51:08.859
It did.

2530
01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:12.130
To some extent, which happens, unfortunately happens a lot. It does.

2531
01:51:12.229 --> 01:51:15.189
And this one is readily available on Prime, Tubi, Fandango,

2532
01:51:15.350 --> 01:51:17.149
all of those for free watches. So if you're looking

2533
01:51:17.170 --> 01:51:19.130
for something you haven't seen that's got the Halloween feel

2534
01:51:19.149 --> 01:51:23.550
to it, Josh Hasey's Candy Corn 2019. Currently available multiple places.

2535
01:51:24.149 --> 01:51:26.800
Next up, another cheat, as I have a one spot

2536
01:51:26.840 --> 01:51:29.659
for two movies, but the movies share the same title.

2537
01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:32.520
And that is, and they were both released the same year, too,

2538
01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:35.619
which is kind of hilarious. 2014's Mischief Nights.

2539
01:51:36.420 --> 01:51:37.000
Oh, yeah.

2540
01:51:37.079 --> 01:51:37.520
Yeah.

2541
01:51:37.600 --> 01:51:40.329
Both of those are great for totally different reasons, too.

2542
01:51:41.310 --> 01:51:43.529
Did I bring you the Blind Girl Mischief Night? Yeah,

2543
01:51:43.569 --> 01:51:44.590
you brought me Blind Girl one.

2544
01:51:45.050 --> 01:51:47.250
So I will talk about the first one that I

2545
01:51:47.310 --> 01:51:49.329
saw beforehand and brought me the one that we are discussing.

2546
01:51:49.369 --> 01:51:52.310
That is Travis Barker's Mischief Night, which is the nights

2547
01:51:52.350 --> 01:51:55.159
before Halloween. A teenage babysitter is stalked by a mass killer.

2548
01:51:55.520 --> 01:51:58.140
But in an unusual turn of events, victim and victimizer

2549
01:51:58.159 --> 01:52:01.279
become to develop romantic feelings for each other. Basically, a

2550
01:52:01.319 --> 01:52:04.600
babysitter is taking care of the kid. She is home

2551
01:52:05.279 --> 01:52:08.949
and she has Halloween vibes going on. She's watching Dementia

2552
01:52:08.949 --> 01:52:11.250
13 on TV. And then she starts hearing some funny

2553
01:52:11.289 --> 01:52:13.560
noises around. And it turns out there might be a

2554
01:52:13.600 --> 01:52:16.930
killer out there, but then it's not exactly what you expect.

2555
01:52:17.170 --> 01:52:20.890
This is a really twisted little movie that came from

2556
01:52:20.909 --> 01:52:23.010
the After Dark Horror series towards the tail end of

2557
01:52:23.050 --> 01:52:25.970
that series. It has Malcolm McDowell in it as a

2558
01:52:26.010 --> 01:52:29.680
great cameo, as the neighborhood watch guy.

2559
01:52:30.000 --> 01:52:31.199
Yes, yes.

2560
01:52:31.239 --> 01:52:34.199
Who really makes up for everything in the movie. This

2561
01:52:35.579 --> 01:52:38.470
is just a really twisted Halloween tale that takes place

2562
01:52:38.510 --> 01:52:42.229
on Halloween. Currently available on Amazon Prime and Tubi, so

2563
01:52:42.250 --> 01:52:44.649
you can find that Mischief Night 2. Moving us into

2564
01:52:44.670 --> 01:52:47.520
the other Mischief Night, this is one that is directed

2565
01:52:47.649 --> 01:52:51.180
by Richard Shankman. Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from

2566
01:52:51.199 --> 01:52:54.800
psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her

2567
01:52:54.819 --> 01:52:57.579
mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to

2568
01:52:57.619 --> 01:53:00.020
protect herself and her loved one from an intruder.

2569
01:53:00.500 --> 01:53:03.060
I have always, this one I believe is horribly underrated.

2570
01:53:03.100 --> 01:53:06.239
Talk about one people don't talk about very much. I

2571
01:53:06.300 --> 01:53:09.039
found this because I bought, like, a Blu-ray double feature

2572
01:53:09.079 --> 01:53:11.350
that had this and something else on it. All Hallows' Eve.

2573
01:53:11.369 --> 01:53:14.930
All Hallows' Eve, that's what it was. And I just

2574
01:53:14.970 --> 01:53:16.590
remember putting it on and thinking, like, oh, okay, this

2575
01:53:16.609 --> 01:53:19.340
looks like a pretty decent, like, thriller horror movie. And

2576
01:53:19.380 --> 01:53:23.279
then it just got... better well it did something that

2577
01:53:23.300 --> 01:53:26.560
i find very rare in kind of random discovery movies

2578
01:53:27.199 --> 01:53:31.369
it got better and then crazier yeah and then better

2579
01:53:31.649 --> 01:53:34.590
and then crazier brutal so by the time it ends

2580
01:53:35.270 --> 01:53:38.560
you don't feel like you watched a particularly ridiculous movie

2581
01:53:38.840 --> 01:53:41.079
but you did i mean like the ending is completely

2582
01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:43.939
bonkers but that has been like one of my secret

2583
01:53:43.979 --> 01:53:47.720
weapon showstoppers and for any like halloween party where you're

2584
01:53:47.739 --> 01:53:50.100
gonna watch a bunch of you know stuff for halloween

2585
01:53:50.199 --> 01:53:52.939
yeah that's that's without a doubt one of my my

2586
01:53:53.000 --> 01:53:55.220
best in that in that realm.

2587
01:53:55.220 --> 01:53:57.579
Currently available to stream on plex you can also rent

2588
01:53:57.600 --> 01:54:00.060
it on fandango and apple um if that blu-ray is

2589
01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:01.640
available i haven't looked at the price in a while

2590
01:54:01.659 --> 01:54:04.960
but i think it probably will because rlj um that

2591
01:54:05.000 --> 01:54:07.149
is a great double feature all hallows eve the original

2592
01:54:07.319 --> 01:54:10.550
and mischief night together you cannot get more Halloween-y than that.

2593
01:54:10.689 --> 01:54:13.659
Yeah, no, and yeah, I can't recommend that Mischief Night enough,

2594
01:54:13.859 --> 01:54:14.640
but there's two of them.

2595
01:54:14.720 --> 01:54:15.180
There's two of them.

2596
01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:15.819
So it gets confusing.

2597
01:54:15.859 --> 01:54:17.739
And they're both worth a watch, but yeah, Mischief Night,

2598
01:54:18.579 --> 01:54:22.140
both of them from 2014, they are excellent picks that, again,

2599
01:54:22.619 --> 01:54:25.500
underrated and perfect Halloween night picks. So if you're looking

2600
01:54:25.539 --> 01:54:28.300
for something to get into on the All Hallows' Eve,

2601
01:54:28.420 --> 01:54:30.810
then that is one to check out. Moving us through

2602
01:54:30.869 --> 01:54:33.670
This Is Halloween list, we move into 2018 with another

2603
01:54:33.729 --> 01:54:35.550
one that we got to see in theaters that has

2604
01:54:35.590 --> 01:54:40.319
Halloween out the ass, and that is 2018's Hellfest. On

2605
01:54:40.340 --> 01:54:43.060
Halloween night at a horror theme park, a costume killer

2606
01:54:43.100 --> 01:54:45.739
begins slaying innocent patrons who believe it is all part

2607
01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:51.069
of the festivities. This is a Halloween carnival where carnage

2608
01:54:51.130 --> 01:54:53.630
is ensuing and no one believes the one person who's

2609
01:54:53.649 --> 01:54:54.130
witnessing it.

2610
01:54:54.630 --> 01:55:00.210
Yeah, no, this one is a total blast. Really, really fun. Yeah. Obviously,

2611
01:55:00.390 --> 01:55:02.859
massive Halloween vibes because it's at a haunt.

2612
01:55:03.239 --> 01:55:05.420
And the late, great Tony Todd as the ringleader of

2613
01:55:05.439 --> 01:55:06.390
the Halloween festivities, too.

2614
01:55:06.399 --> 01:55:06.859
So good.

2615
01:55:07.000 --> 01:55:07.539
Yeah.

2616
01:55:07.600 --> 01:55:09.920
This one's one that, again, people don't talk about a ton,

2617
01:55:09.939 --> 01:55:11.779
but it was popular. I mean, it came out and

2618
01:55:11.800 --> 01:55:12.979
a lot of people went to see it. I believe

2619
01:55:13.020 --> 01:55:13.920
it was pretty successful.

2620
01:55:14.039 --> 01:55:17.279
No, it was definitely one to check out. It has

2621
01:55:17.359 --> 01:55:20.220
an extremely dark ending that I was not expecting.

2622
01:55:21.420 --> 01:55:23.420
Yeah, it's got a gut punch for you.

2623
01:55:23.579 --> 01:55:26.880
Definitely a gut punch. So Hellfest 2018, currently available to

2624
01:55:27.020 --> 01:55:29.619
rent or buy on Fandango and Apple TV. I think

2625
01:55:29.649 --> 01:55:32.050
the Blu-ray is still readily available as well. It is

2626
01:55:32.229 --> 01:55:34.229
one that if you haven't seen, definitely throw that on.

2627
01:55:34.270 --> 01:55:35.430
You will have a good time with it if you're

2628
01:55:35.449 --> 01:55:37.869
a slasher fan. And if you're a slasher fan, this

2629
01:55:37.930 --> 01:55:40.850
is one that I recently discovered that may not be

2630
01:55:40.850 --> 01:55:45.329
100% Halloween, but the finale is. And that is 1988's

2631
01:55:45.529 --> 01:55:48.350
Primal Rage, directed by Vittorio Rambaldi.

2632
01:55:48.859 --> 01:55:49.239
Okay.

2633
01:55:49.420 --> 01:55:52.699
A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a rage

2634
01:55:52.739 --> 01:55:56.210
virus while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue

2635
01:55:56.250 --> 01:55:58.989
in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks

2636
01:55:59.010 --> 01:56:00.710
into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the

2637
01:56:00.729 --> 01:56:03.729
infected baboons. The virus soon spreads to a trio of

2638
01:56:03.789 --> 01:56:05.649
rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on

2639
01:56:05.670 --> 01:56:08.930
a killing spree. Specifically with that part of the rapist

2640
01:56:08.989 --> 01:56:11.380
and the valley girl, that happens at a Halloween dance.

2641
01:56:11.640 --> 01:56:11.939
Yes.

2642
01:56:12.279 --> 01:56:17.319
And they are legitimately ripping throats out, taking heads off,

2643
01:56:17.539 --> 01:56:22.829
dismantling people. Oh my god. This movie's cuckoo bananas. Cuckoo bananas.

2644
01:56:23.409 --> 01:56:28.329
It is absolutely out of its gourd. And like I said,

2645
01:56:28.449 --> 01:56:30.649
that final 20 minutes takes place at a Halloween dance.

2646
01:56:30.670 --> 01:56:32.210
So you may be turning it on and being like, well,

2647
01:56:32.229 --> 01:56:35.310
where's the Halloween? Just wait. It will get very wild.

2648
01:56:35.369 --> 01:56:38.289
It is incredibly bad taste, but so, so much fun.

2649
01:56:39.109 --> 01:56:41.250
Of course, you know, you got to have Bo Svensson

2650
01:56:41.270 --> 01:56:42.229
in there somewhere as well.

2651
01:56:42.300 --> 01:56:43.319
Yeah, you have to by law.

2652
01:56:43.399 --> 01:56:44.340
Who plays the scientist?

2653
01:56:44.359 --> 01:56:45.420
It's international treaty.

2654
01:56:45.600 --> 01:56:49.560
International treaty. So Primal Rage currently available on Tubi to

2655
01:56:49.600 --> 01:56:51.979
stream as well as Plex. You can also find it

2656
01:56:52.020 --> 01:56:54.060
on Fandango and the Roku channel. So this one is

2657
01:56:54.189 --> 01:56:56.010
out there as well. If you are a fan of

2658
01:56:56.029 --> 01:56:58.350
physical media, once again, I will say that I believe

2659
01:56:58.369 --> 01:57:00.710
it is Vincent that recently put out a release of

2660
01:57:00.729 --> 01:57:02.630
this and recently in the last like two to three years. So,

2661
01:57:03.430 --> 01:57:05.380
but yeah, Primal Rage is one that really surprised me.

2662
01:57:05.449 --> 01:57:08.590
It is a lot of fun and, incredibly uh packed

2663
01:57:08.750 --> 01:57:12.890
core as well yeah so moving us into another more

2664
01:57:12.949 --> 01:57:16.439
recent one uh let's go with 2022's dead stream directed

2665
01:57:16.479 --> 01:57:18.819
by joseph winter and vanessa winter oh.

2666
01:57:18.800 --> 01:57:21.500
Man that's a that was a surprise that's a fun

2667
01:57:21.640 --> 01:57:23.319
wild thing evil.

2668
01:57:23.159 --> 01:57:27.399
Dead goes uh basically prank channel evil dead 2 evil

2669
01:57:27.420 --> 01:57:29.319
dead 2 yeah it goes to a prank channel so

2670
01:57:29.340 --> 01:57:32.119
you got a disgrace internet personality attempts to win back

2671
01:57:32.180 --> 01:57:34.739
its followers by live streaming one night alone in the

2672
01:57:34.779 --> 01:57:38.220
haunted house but he accidentally unleashes a vengeful spirit. His

2673
01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:40.829
big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.

2674
01:57:41.390 --> 01:57:43.109
You fucking hate this guy, for one. I just want

2675
01:57:43.130 --> 01:57:43.949
to be clear about that.

2676
01:57:43.970 --> 01:57:45.449
This dude is the worst. Oh, no, he's not likable

2677
01:57:45.489 --> 01:57:46.149
in any way.

2678
01:57:46.310 --> 01:57:49.060
Yeah, you get to see some of his history with

2679
01:57:49.100 --> 01:57:51.659
his prank channel. He almost killed a homeless man, or nearly.

2680
01:57:52.199 --> 01:57:55.000
did if I'm not mistaken if I can't remember he

2681
01:57:55.079 --> 01:57:57.399
is dying for followers to to come back to his

2682
01:57:57.420 --> 01:57:59.079
channel so he does the one thing that he thinks

2683
01:57:59.100 --> 01:58:01.939
will do in going into a creepy house that is

2684
01:58:02.159 --> 01:58:04.810
has a curse to it and accidentally reads from a

2685
01:58:04.810 --> 01:58:07.020
from a planchette that has the curse on it not

2686
01:58:07.020 --> 01:58:09.460
planchette uh, book book. Thank you.

2687
01:58:09.960 --> 01:58:11.159
It's a, it's a tough word. Yeah.

2688
01:58:11.180 --> 01:58:11.340
Yeah.

2689
01:58:11.399 --> 01:58:13.699
Four letters, one syllable, but yeah.

2690
01:58:13.920 --> 01:58:16.600
Dead stream, uh, was one that really, really surprised me.

2691
01:58:16.760 --> 01:58:19.409
I did not go in expecting to really like it.

2692
01:58:19.479 --> 01:58:22.199
I thought the premise was kind of lame, but, um,

2693
01:58:22.760 --> 01:58:26.250
the amount of chaos that breaks out in this movie

2694
01:58:26.770 --> 01:58:30.510
and the Halloweeny vibes of him doing this and everything, uh, so,

2695
01:58:30.569 --> 01:58:31.029
so much fun.

2696
01:58:31.109 --> 01:58:35.770
It's masterful. The level of wild special effects, the sense

2697
01:58:35.789 --> 01:58:39.500
of humor, the fun of it. That was one that

2698
01:58:39.539 --> 01:58:41.560
I really wasn't expecting. What got me to watch it

2699
01:58:41.600 --> 01:58:43.939
was somebody said, oh, no, it's like a found footage movie,

2700
01:58:44.260 --> 01:58:47.979
but it's like Evil Dead 2. And I was like, what?

2701
01:58:48.000 --> 01:58:49.079
So I had to watch it.

2702
01:58:49.359 --> 01:58:53.260
Currently available on Shudder and Netflix. Deadstream, one of the

2703
01:58:53.300 --> 01:58:55.560
more recent ones that I cannot recommend enough, also has

2704
01:58:55.619 --> 01:58:57.640
a very short runtime of 88 minutes, so you are

2705
01:58:57.720 --> 01:59:00.100
in and out of that one. And It really does

2706
01:59:00.159 --> 01:59:01.819
not stop once it starts.

2707
01:59:01.939 --> 01:59:04.470
No, no, that is a film where you're going to

2708
01:59:04.520 --> 01:59:05.369
test your bladder.

2709
01:59:05.949 --> 01:59:06.770
You will test your bladder.

2710
01:59:06.810 --> 01:59:08.130
Or you'll hit pause.

2711
01:59:08.430 --> 01:59:11.130
Moving through, this is Halloween. This is one that I

2712
01:59:11.149 --> 01:59:14.970
have mentioned before. I may have mentioned it on 2023's lineup,

2713
01:59:15.029 --> 01:59:16.369
and I may have mentioned it on Do You Even Movie.

2714
01:59:16.829 --> 01:59:18.529
A near and dear one that is close to my heart,

2715
01:59:18.689 --> 01:59:22.100
and that is 2004's The Hollow, directed by Kyle Newman.

2716
01:59:22.630 --> 01:59:26.750
This is a ABC original family that was actually shot

2717
01:59:26.829 --> 01:59:28.689
to be a R-rated horror film that they cut down

2718
01:59:28.729 --> 01:59:29.270
for TV.

2719
01:59:29.369 --> 01:59:30.149
Really? Yes.

2720
01:59:30.770 --> 01:59:34.079
So The Hollow is the story of Ichabod Crane's descendant

2721
01:59:34.119 --> 01:59:36.560
in Sleepy Hollow conjures the headless horseman to return and

2722
01:59:36.600 --> 01:59:40.640
resume his spooky slaughtering. This has a great acting lineup

2723
01:59:40.680 --> 01:59:43.520
of Kevin Zegers from the Air Bud movies, Nick Carter

2724
01:59:43.539 --> 01:59:46.489
of the Backstreet Boys. Kaley Cuco, A Big Bang Theory,

2725
01:59:46.529 --> 01:59:49.630
and of course the Harley Quinn series. Stacey Keech, Judge Reinhold,

2726
01:59:49.649 --> 01:59:53.220
Eileen Brennan. It is a really, really fun movie that

2727
01:59:53.529 --> 01:59:57.939
is a headless horseman story that takes place in Sleepy Hollow.

2728
01:59:58.000 --> 02:00:02.140
There's a hayride. There's multiple decapitations. You've got Stacey Keech

2729
02:00:02.159 --> 02:00:05.460
that is trying to basically keep the curse at bay

2730
02:00:05.479 --> 02:00:07.569
with the horseman, who is a descendant of the Cranes,

2731
02:00:07.609 --> 02:00:10.329
who is trying to impress on Kevin Zegers, that he

2732
02:00:10.369 --> 02:00:11.909
is basically going to be the next one to stop

2733
02:00:11.930 --> 02:00:14.770
the horseman. It is a really, really fun movie that

2734
02:00:14.989 --> 02:00:15.930
no one talks about.

2735
02:00:16.350 --> 02:00:19.210
I think I've seen it. I'm almost certain I've seen it, actually.

2736
02:00:19.250 --> 02:00:21.470
When it premiered, of course, it was like a TV cut.

2737
02:00:22.029 --> 02:00:24.359
Syfy picked it up sometime later, and that's where I

2738
02:00:24.399 --> 02:00:25.100
first saw it.

2739
02:00:25.140 --> 02:00:26.779
That must have been where I saw it.

2740
02:00:26.800 --> 02:00:28.000
Saw it uncut, I guess you could say.

2741
02:00:28.079 --> 02:00:30.659
I saw it. I recognized the poster instantly. Yes.

2742
02:00:30.800 --> 02:00:33.979
It is currently available on Plex as well as the

2743
02:00:34.020 --> 02:00:36.229
Roku channel. It is also available on YouTube. There is

2744
02:00:36.270 --> 02:00:38.090
a DVD out there that I think is still priced

2745
02:00:38.229 --> 02:00:41.430
pretty reasonable as well. The Hollow is a cheesy Sleepy

2746
02:00:41.449 --> 02:00:43.810
Hollow tale that I cannot get enough of. I basically

2747
02:00:43.850 --> 02:00:46.340
watch it every single year. One of my favorites of

2748
02:00:46.359 --> 02:00:48.039
my mom and I. So if you have not seen

2749
02:00:48.359 --> 02:00:49.979
The Hollow and you're a fan of Sleepy Hollow or

2750
02:00:50.060 --> 02:00:52.960
any of the Ichabod Crane stories, definitely check that one out.

2751
02:00:53.079 --> 02:00:55.779
It is one that you will not be upset about.

2752
02:00:56.739 --> 02:00:59.140
It's a good way to put it. You won't hate

2753
02:00:59.300 --> 02:01:01.159
Dave any more than you already do.

2754
02:01:09.890 --> 02:01:12.489
Moving through the This Is Halloween column, let's go into

2755
02:01:12.550 --> 02:01:14.850
another more recent one that, again, I feel like just

2756
02:01:14.970 --> 02:01:18.470
has not gotten its due. And that is actually a sequel,

2757
02:01:18.970 --> 02:01:21.399
the third in this series, which is a Haunting in

2758
02:01:21.479 --> 02:01:22.720
Venice from Kenneth Branagh.

2759
02:01:23.359 --> 02:01:23.979
Oh, yeah.

2760
02:01:24.020 --> 02:01:24.279
Yeah.

2761
02:01:24.399 --> 02:01:24.760
Okay.

2762
02:01:24.880 --> 02:01:28.819
This is the Hercule Poirot story that is the third

2763
02:01:28.899 --> 02:01:32.520
entry in Kenneth's series so far. This is one that really,

2764
02:01:32.560 --> 02:01:34.359
really was a blast in theaters. I have not been

2765
02:01:34.390 --> 02:01:35.630
back to it. I need to go back to it.

2766
02:01:36.149 --> 02:01:39.369
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in a

2767
02:01:39.409 --> 02:01:42.979
self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween seance at

2768
02:01:43.020 --> 02:01:46.699
a decaying haunted palace. When one of the guests is murdered,

2769
02:01:46.720 --> 02:01:49.180
the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows

2770
02:01:49.239 --> 02:01:56.189
and secrets. The supernatural element to this movie is executed... perfectly,

2771
02:01:56.350 --> 02:01:56.930
in my opinion.

2772
02:01:57.130 --> 02:01:58.750
No, they did a really good job with it. I've

2773
02:01:58.810 --> 02:02:01.060
actually read the book that that was based on.

2774
02:02:01.060 --> 02:02:01.939
Halloween Party, I think.

2775
02:02:02.039 --> 02:02:03.560
Yeah, I think it was, but it was back when

2776
02:02:03.579 --> 02:02:08.250
it was Halloween, W-E-apostrophe-E-N. And one of my favorite parts

2777
02:02:08.270 --> 02:02:11.510
about that book is that an immense amount of what

2778
02:02:11.569 --> 02:02:15.359
people are talking about is how to have a Halloween party.

2779
02:02:15.439 --> 02:02:15.779
Yes.

2780
02:02:15.840 --> 02:02:20.619
Because Halloween didn't exist in that literal form for, you know,

2781
02:02:20.640 --> 02:02:21.640
a long time.

2782
02:02:21.699 --> 02:02:21.920
Yeah.

2783
02:02:22.279 --> 02:02:25.270
So I found that book really charming, but I thought

2784
02:02:25.279 --> 02:02:27.720
that the way they did. It was kind of like

2785
02:02:28.039 --> 02:02:30.319
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, how it was like, this is

2786
02:02:30.340 --> 02:02:35.500
Hercule Poirot experiencing real ghosts, but probably not really. But

2787
02:02:35.800 --> 02:02:36.479
you never know.

2788
02:02:36.520 --> 02:02:37.239
You never know.

2789
02:02:37.260 --> 02:02:39.279
But no, I thought that one was freaking boss. So

2790
02:02:39.300 --> 02:02:42.039
much fun. And the vibe, the Halloween spooky vibe is

2791
02:02:42.159 --> 02:02:42.720
super strong.

2792
02:02:42.779 --> 02:02:45.579
Old-timey spooky vibe, too. So, I mean, it's very creepy.

2793
02:02:45.760 --> 02:02:49.729
And again, when it comes to the execution of Ken,

2794
02:02:49.739 --> 02:02:54.109
this character, portrayal of Hercule Poirot, I cannot state enough

2795
02:02:54.149 --> 02:02:55.729
that the man was made for that role.

2796
02:02:55.890 --> 02:02:56.750
Yeah, no, he's perfect.

2797
02:02:56.930 --> 02:02:58.930
Perfect for it. And this has a great cast of

2798
02:02:59.350 --> 02:03:03.149
Kyle Allen, Jamie Dorian, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ali Khan,

2799
02:03:03.220 --> 02:03:06.000
Emma Lard, Kelly Riley. A lot of great names in

2800
02:03:06.020 --> 02:03:08.479
this one. And again, with it being a sequel, I

2801
02:03:08.539 --> 02:03:10.699
think people were kind of tuned out after Death of

2802
02:03:10.720 --> 02:03:12.619
the Nile, which is why they didn't go see this one.

2803
02:03:12.739 --> 02:03:13.079
Yeah.

2804
02:03:13.880 --> 02:03:16.600
Haunting in Venice deserves a look. It is currently available

2805
02:03:16.779 --> 02:03:18.520
on Hulu right now. You can also rent it from

2806
02:03:18.539 --> 02:03:21.720
Fandango and Apple. If you're a fan of those movies

2807
02:03:21.819 --> 02:03:23.260
or if you've seen the first one, didn't see any

2808
02:03:23.279 --> 02:03:25.800
of the others, Haunting in Venice, throw it on. You

2809
02:03:25.819 --> 02:03:28.270
will not have a bad time with it. The ending

2810
02:03:28.390 --> 02:03:31.670
reveal of basically everything that's been going on really sold

2811
02:03:31.710 --> 02:03:32.050
it for me.

2812
02:03:32.050 --> 02:03:34.890
Yeah, no, that's a solid pick. Very solid.

2813
02:03:35.430 --> 02:03:38.430
So Haunting in Venice 2023 available on Hulu. Another new

2814
02:03:38.590 --> 02:03:41.560
one that took me a couple watches to really, really

2815
02:03:41.600 --> 02:03:43.579
latch onto of how much I enjoyed it, which is

2816
02:03:43.600 --> 02:03:44.380
2023's Late Night with the Devil.

2817
02:03:46.380 --> 02:03:48.239
Really? It took you a little bit to get into it?

2818
02:03:48.239 --> 02:03:52.390
The first time I watched it, I didn't dislike it.

2819
02:03:53.149 --> 02:03:56.750
I think it went a little bit more out there

2820
02:03:56.789 --> 02:03:57.649
than I was expecting.

2821
02:03:58.109 --> 02:04:02.060
I don't love the ending, but everything else I really enjoyed.

2822
02:04:02.100 --> 02:04:02.680
So much fun.

2823
02:04:03.819 --> 02:04:05.279
I remember the first time I watched it, I was like,

2824
02:04:05.300 --> 02:04:07.699
the most unrealistic part of this entire movie is that

2825
02:04:07.720 --> 02:04:11.239
they would do a live show at midnight. Yeah. Back then.

2826
02:04:11.550 --> 02:04:14.250
Yeah, so the synopsis, if you're not familiar, a live

2827
02:04:14.270 --> 02:04:17.390
broadcast of a late night talk show in 1977 goes

2828
02:04:17.510 --> 02:04:21.010
horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living room. This

2829
02:04:21.069 --> 02:04:23.210
is David Dasmalchian at his peak.

2830
02:04:23.569 --> 02:04:24.590
Yes, without a doubt.

2831
02:04:25.220 --> 02:04:28.979
Late Night with the Devil is a behind the scenes

2832
02:04:29.020 --> 02:04:30.640
of this talk show. So not only do you have

2833
02:04:30.680 --> 02:04:33.800
the actual... quote-unquote found footage of the VHS tape of

2834
02:04:33.819 --> 02:04:35.779
the show, you also get to see the behind the

2835
02:04:35.800 --> 02:04:37.659
scenes of what's going on with it, which adds an

2836
02:04:37.739 --> 02:04:39.479
element of real eeriness to it.

2837
02:04:39.560 --> 02:04:45.430
Yeah, it's like a love letter to 1970s television, but

2838
02:04:45.569 --> 02:04:48.010
with a hint of love toward Ghostwatch.

2839
02:04:48.109 --> 02:04:48.390
Yes.

2840
02:04:48.850 --> 02:04:51.989
With a hint of love towards, you know, the era

2841
02:04:52.050 --> 02:04:55.810
of James Randi. And with a little bit of a

2842
02:04:55.850 --> 02:04:59.479
love for an era way before this, which would have

2843
02:04:59.500 --> 02:05:03.579
been the spiritualism era in the United States where seances

2844
02:05:03.640 --> 02:05:06.239
and all that stuff was just happening all the time. Yeah.

2845
02:05:06.979 --> 02:05:11.739
So it's a fun one. It establishes a great vibe.

2846
02:05:11.760 --> 02:05:13.699
I keep saying vibe. I'm not trying to be hip.

2847
02:05:14.390 --> 02:05:16.850
But it's legit. I mean, Halloween is a vibe. It's

2848
02:05:16.890 --> 02:05:19.069
a feeling you get. That's why you can watch some

2849
02:05:19.109 --> 02:05:21.310
movies that have nothing to do with Halloween and and

2850
02:05:21.390 --> 02:05:23.930
feel like, oh, this makes me think of Halloween. It's

2851
02:05:23.970 --> 02:05:27.409
because it's kind of a vibe of a spookiness and

2852
02:05:27.430 --> 02:05:31.319
your surroundings being just eerie enough or building a world

2853
02:05:31.380 --> 02:05:34.199
that's kind of creepy or what have you. And that is,

2854
02:05:34.680 --> 02:05:37.060
without a doubt, what Late Night with the Devil does

2855
02:05:37.079 --> 02:05:37.720
very well.

2856
02:05:37.859 --> 02:05:40.350
Accomplishes, yeah, 100%. I mean, if you're looking for one

2857
02:05:40.399 --> 02:05:42.710
that you think you may know what the movie is

2858
02:05:42.750 --> 02:05:45.250
going to give you, you have no idea.

2859
02:05:45.479 --> 02:05:47.300
Yeah, I saw it in the theater, and I loved it.

2860
02:05:47.479 --> 02:05:48.399
It was a great experience.

2861
02:05:48.500 --> 02:05:50.890
Yeah, so Late Night with the Devil, currently available to

2862
02:05:50.949 --> 02:05:53.390
stream on Shudder, Hulu. You can also rent it from

2863
02:05:53.430 --> 02:05:58.310
Fandango and Apple. Moving us into the final... titles of

2864
02:05:58.350 --> 02:06:02.399
This is Halloween. Let's go into Hell House LLC from 2015.

2865
02:06:02.399 --> 02:06:06.279
Yes, a recent cutting deep into horror topic.

2866
02:06:06.420 --> 02:06:06.800
It was.

2867
02:06:06.939 --> 02:06:09.239
And one that holds up very well.

2868
02:06:09.520 --> 02:06:12.760
Really does. Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the

2869
02:06:12.800 --> 02:06:15.159
death of 15 tour goers and staff on the opening

2870
02:06:15.199 --> 02:06:17.979
night of Halloween Haunted House Tour, a documentary crew travels

2871
02:06:18.039 --> 02:06:19.699
back to the scene of the tragedy to find out

2872
02:06:19.720 --> 02:06:22.239
what really happened. I'm going to go ahead and state

2873
02:06:22.859 --> 02:06:26.239
that 90% of the Hell House films are actually really,

2874
02:06:26.260 --> 02:06:26.579
really good.

2875
02:06:27.119 --> 02:06:27.819
I would agree with that.

2876
02:06:27.840 --> 02:06:29.520
The only one that I was not a fan of

2877
02:06:29.539 --> 02:06:30.310
was the most recent one.

2878
02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:32.079
I haven't seen. That's the one I haven't seen. Yeah.

2879
02:06:32.119 --> 02:06:34.800
Lineage. Um, but the hell house series are great. This

2880
02:06:34.899 --> 02:06:38.520
first one is so fucking unsettling. I cannot state that enough.

2881
02:06:38.699 --> 02:06:42.600
The scenes where you have people trying to see if

2882
02:06:42.659 --> 02:06:44.800
the figures that are in the clown costumes are actually

2883
02:06:44.840 --> 02:06:46.739
people or not unsettling as hell.

2884
02:06:47.000 --> 02:06:49.479
Oh yeah. They get to you real easy and, and

2885
02:06:49.579 --> 02:06:51.159
it works very, very well. Yeah.

2886
02:06:51.220 --> 02:06:53.779
So it's a great found footage horror film. Uh, once again,

2887
02:06:53.819 --> 02:06:56.399
another short one that just around 90 minutes, uh, Currently

2888
02:06:56.439 --> 02:06:59.939
streaming on Shudder, Amazon Prime, Tubi, Roku, so you can

2889
02:07:00.000 --> 02:07:02.189
find this dude wherever you want to watch it. Hell

2890
02:07:02.199 --> 02:07:05.250
House series, Hell House LLC especially. Definitely check that out

2891
02:07:05.289 --> 02:07:07.310
if you haven't. And also listen to The Cutting Deep

2892
02:07:07.430 --> 02:07:08.630
because that is a great episode you guys did.

2893
02:07:08.670 --> 02:07:09.829
It was a pretty solid one.

2894
02:07:09.930 --> 02:07:12.909
It was. And going into an episode that you and

2895
02:07:12.949 --> 02:07:14.329
I did for Do You Have a Movie, one of

2896
02:07:14.409 --> 02:07:19.380
my favorite discoveries probably in the last couple years is Cobweb.

2897
02:07:20.199 --> 02:07:23.520
Yeah, Cobweb was one I wasn't expecting to like as

2898
02:07:23.579 --> 02:07:24.479
much as I did. I liked it.

2899
02:07:25.369 --> 02:07:28.720
Yeah, Cobweb is so much fun. This is one that

2900
02:07:28.810 --> 02:07:31.880
you probably didn't hear much about because it was in

2901
02:07:31.920 --> 02:07:33.760
theaters for like a week and then it was gone

2902
02:07:33.800 --> 02:07:36.899
from 2023. This is an eight year old boy tries

2903
02:07:36.939 --> 02:07:39.100
to investigate the mysterious knocking sounds that are coming from

2904
02:07:39.149 --> 02:07:41.930
the inside walls of his house, unveiling a dark secret

2905
02:07:41.949 --> 02:07:44.430
that his sinister parents have kept hidden from him. His parents,

2906
02:07:44.470 --> 02:07:47.750
by the way, played by Lizzie Kaplan and Anthony Starr. Yes.

2907
02:07:47.770 --> 02:07:50.470
So very popular at this point right now. But one

2908
02:07:50.510 --> 02:07:52.939
thing that I cannot say enough about Cobweb is the

2909
02:07:53.000 --> 02:07:57.289
Halloween vibes in the final 20 minutes are so strong

2910
02:07:57.350 --> 02:08:00.060
for this movie. Pretty much throughout the movie. you've got

2911
02:08:00.079 --> 02:08:02.810
a pumpkin patch and everything going on, but literally the

2912
02:08:03.010 --> 02:08:06.859
final attack sequence, I guess you could call it, happens

2913
02:08:06.979 --> 02:08:10.350
on Halloween night and is so, so delicious when it

2914
02:08:10.359 --> 02:08:13.189
comes to the carnage that ensues with that fucking movie.

2915
02:08:13.210 --> 02:08:14.989
A little creepy the way you said that, but I agree.

2916
02:08:15.010 --> 02:08:17.090
Yeah, you know, it is what it is. But Cobweb,

2917
02:08:17.409 --> 02:08:21.810
currently available on Moviesphere. You can also find it available on,

2918
02:08:23.090 --> 02:08:23.649
what is this one?

2919
02:08:24.189 --> 02:08:24.550
Who knows?

2920
02:08:24.750 --> 02:08:27.369
Fossum. Ah, yes. Yeah, but it's not out there so

2921
02:08:27.390 --> 02:08:29.649
much right now. The Blu-ray is pretty cheap. I cannot

2922
02:08:29.689 --> 02:08:31.489
recommend the Blu-ray enough. So if you are a fan

2923
02:08:31.510 --> 02:08:33.250
of Cobweb or if you haven't seen Cobweb and you

2924
02:08:33.289 --> 02:08:36.750
like blind buying good horror films... Cannot recommend cobweb enough.

2925
02:08:38.050 --> 02:08:42.630
Moving us towards the ending once again of the Halloween lineup.

2926
02:08:43.210 --> 02:08:45.319
2013's WNUF Halloween special.

2927
02:08:45.579 --> 02:08:50.199
A classic. Sincerely a classic. I mean, I saw WNUF

2928
02:08:51.060 --> 02:08:52.300
before anybody.

2929
02:08:52.460 --> 02:08:54.390
I bought it from you at Wasteland years ago.

2930
02:08:54.630 --> 02:09:00.380
But I mean, before that... Uh, the director, Chris LaMartina

2931
02:09:00.460 --> 02:09:04.140
sent me an MP4 of the finished film. I was,

2932
02:09:04.279 --> 02:09:06.659
I was very loosely involved in the making of that movie.

2933
02:09:06.920 --> 02:09:09.079
I did a voice on it. I did a voice

2934
02:09:09.239 --> 02:09:12.140
and I, uh, I loaned Chris a piece of equipment,

2935
02:09:12.220 --> 02:09:15.039
which without it making that film would have been very,

2936
02:09:15.100 --> 02:09:17.039
very difficult. I don't want to bore you. It's just,

2937
02:09:17.180 --> 02:09:19.189
it involves VHS, but I don't want to go into

2938
02:09:19.199 --> 02:09:21.649
all the tech details because it's not that interesting, but

2939
02:09:21.989 --> 02:09:24.689
I got to watch one of the first versions of

2940
02:09:24.729 --> 02:09:26.750
it that ever existed and the first thought i had

2941
02:09:26.789 --> 02:09:28.710
when i was done watching it was this is special

2942
02:09:28.789 --> 02:09:29.630
yes it.

2943
02:09:29.609 --> 02:09:31.550
Was one that um the first time i watched it

2944
02:09:31.989 --> 02:09:34.390
it wasn't a dislike i i've always liked this movie

2945
02:09:34.449 --> 02:09:36.529
but i just recently in the last couple years got

2946
02:09:36.569 --> 02:09:40.479
terror visions release of wnuf and uh out there halloween

2947
02:09:40.489 --> 02:09:45.119
special both by done by chris they are so halloweeny

2948
02:09:45.180 --> 02:09:47.739
feels not only with the nostalgia of just the way

2949
02:09:47.779 --> 02:09:49.500
that like the commercials used to be and the way

2950
02:09:49.560 --> 02:09:52.770
the tv broadcast used to be But they're also really

2951
02:09:52.789 --> 02:09:55.510
good horror films wrapped around all the nostalgia.

2952
02:09:55.810 --> 02:09:57.029
Yeah, I would have to agree.

2953
02:09:57.250 --> 02:10:00.869
So WNUF currently available on AMC Plus and Shudder. If

2954
02:10:00.909 --> 02:10:03.409
you have not seen it, it is 83 minutes of

2955
02:10:03.750 --> 02:10:06.949
super fun VHS cable nostalgia that I cannot recommend enough.

2956
02:10:06.989 --> 02:10:08.789
Has some great performances in it as well and a

2957
02:10:08.970 --> 02:10:10.789
really fucking twisted ending, I will say.

2958
02:10:10.829 --> 02:10:14.270
Yeah, it's a love letter to stuff like Ghostwatch and

2959
02:10:14.329 --> 02:10:18.189
Unsolved Mysteries. It's a real love letter to the 1980s

2960
02:10:18.260 --> 02:10:22.479
Halloween experience. It literally looks like it's a tape somebody

2961
02:10:22.520 --> 02:10:25.560
dubbed for you. There are commercials, and some of them

2962
02:10:25.600 --> 02:10:28.720
get fast-forwarded through. Some of them you actually witness. My

2963
02:10:28.760 --> 02:10:31.260
favorite aspect of it is that the first act is

2964
02:10:31.340 --> 02:10:34.439
the news before the actual feature.

2965
02:10:34.460 --> 02:10:35.279
Before the actual special.

2966
02:10:35.300 --> 02:10:38.279
So you get to establish everything that's going on, and

2967
02:10:38.479 --> 02:10:41.020
then they go into the haunted house live on TV.

2968
02:10:41.239 --> 02:10:41.439
Yeah.

2969
02:10:41.579 --> 02:10:42.100
Great stuff.

2970
02:10:42.220 --> 02:10:45.199
And out there, Mega Halloween Tape, which is the sequel

2971
02:10:45.220 --> 02:10:48.149
to that, also just as good. So recommending both of those.

2972
02:10:48.279 --> 02:10:51.029
AMC Plus and Shudder. You've already mentioned it, so we

2973
02:10:51.069 --> 02:10:52.449
might as well go ahead and put it out here.

2974
02:10:52.470 --> 02:10:54.899
1992's Ghostwatch, also on this list.

2975
02:10:54.920 --> 02:10:58.720
Ghostwatch is amazing. So the final episode of Terrifying and

2976
02:10:58.760 --> 02:11:03.340
True in October, I did a massive deep dive into,

2977
02:11:03.699 --> 02:11:05.920
you know, I mean, Ghostwatch went to the court.

2978
02:11:06.079 --> 02:11:08.890
Court, because it made people super afraid. And did it

2979
02:11:09.029 --> 02:11:09.729
kill someone?

2980
02:11:09.949 --> 02:11:12.810
Well, there were people who believed that it caused their

2981
02:11:12.829 --> 02:11:13.609
son to kill himself.

2982
02:11:13.850 --> 02:11:14.010
Yeah.

2983
02:11:14.279 --> 02:11:16.920
It's all in there. It, and the court found them

2984
02:11:17.039 --> 02:11:21.020
not liable legally, but found them liable morally. They said

2985
02:11:21.060 --> 02:11:23.729
that they should have considered the effect this could have

2986
02:11:23.810 --> 02:11:26.369
on people. But of course their argument was it had credits.

2987
02:11:27.289 --> 02:11:30.369
Like it was on, it was on, on TV during

2988
02:11:30.430 --> 02:11:34.390
a slot that's for dramas. So it's a, that's a

2989
02:11:34.489 --> 02:11:37.399
phenomenal watch. And I, but I did an entire hour and,

2990
02:11:37.390 --> 02:11:42.460
20 minute show with excerpts from, from store, like from

2991
02:11:42.500 --> 02:11:45.020
when they were on news programs and real ones.

2992
02:11:45.079 --> 02:11:45.279
Yeah.

2993
02:11:45.699 --> 02:11:46.420
It's wild.

2994
02:11:46.680 --> 02:11:49.039
Yeah. A live broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team

2995
02:11:49.060 --> 02:11:52.420
investigates a reported poltergeist in ordinary London home. Um, it

2996
02:11:52.500 --> 02:11:56.970
is super, super fun, super scary, and just a Halloween

2997
02:11:57.010 --> 02:11:57.689
vibes once again.

2998
02:11:57.970 --> 02:12:00.810
Yeah. The fact that everybody seems to be perfectly grown

2999
02:12:00.909 --> 02:12:03.670
up and responsible and British, and then everything goes the

3000
02:12:03.710 --> 02:12:05.850
way it does really ups the scare factor.

3001
02:12:05.890 --> 02:12:06.109
Yeah.

3002
02:12:06.630 --> 02:12:09.350
And yeah, Unlike a lot of these, it isn't a

3003
02:12:09.409 --> 02:12:13.529
love letter to old television. It is old television. It's

3004
02:12:13.609 --> 02:12:18.420
just literally trying to be as accurate to the day

3005
02:12:18.479 --> 02:12:20.880
that it was made as possible. And that made it

3006
02:12:21.079 --> 02:12:22.000
age beautifully.

3007
02:12:22.039 --> 02:12:24.560
Yes. And another one that has aged beautifully and is

3008
02:12:24.619 --> 02:12:27.659
a time capsule, 1991's Scary Movie.

3009
02:12:28.239 --> 02:12:31.850
Yes. Now, this is one I... I only love it

3010
02:12:31.979 --> 02:12:36.119
more every time I watch it. The fact that it's

3011
02:12:36.199 --> 02:12:39.340
a Halloween horror film about waiting in line... At a

3012
02:12:39.359 --> 02:12:43.350
haunted house. That's too good. Yes. Because that's exactly what the...

3013
02:12:43.359 --> 02:12:46.600
Especially before the fast passes and all this stuff, which,

3014
02:12:46.640 --> 02:12:48.739
of course, I shell out the money for because I

3015
02:12:48.739 --> 02:12:50.579
don't want to wait in line. But when I was

3016
02:12:50.640 --> 02:12:52.090
a kid growing up, when you went to a haunt,

3017
02:12:52.149 --> 02:12:53.890
you waited in line at least an hour, hour and

3018
02:12:53.909 --> 02:12:56.890
a half minimum. So I love that the movie is

3019
02:12:56.930 --> 02:12:59.430
about them waiting in line. And, yeah.

3020
02:12:59.850 --> 02:13:02.199
Carnage ensues. Uh, we talked about, we had a whole

3021
02:13:02.239 --> 02:13:04.399
episode on demon movie for scary movies. So go back

3022
02:13:04.439 --> 02:13:06.159
and listen to that. If you haven't, uh, it has

3023
02:13:06.229 --> 02:13:08.189
a really young John Hawks in it right before he

3024
02:13:08.229 --> 02:13:09.770
was probably going to land from dust till dawn and

3025
02:13:09.810 --> 02:13:10.609
a couple other things.

3026
02:13:10.670 --> 02:13:10.890
Yeah.

3027
02:13:11.329 --> 02:13:13.869
Um, The paranoid teenage nerd comes to believe that an

3028
02:13:13.909 --> 02:13:16.359
escaped lunatic may be hiding in the neighborhood Halloween house

3029
02:13:16.380 --> 02:13:18.979
of horrors and slowly starts to descend into madness. That

3030
02:13:19.000 --> 02:13:23.000
doesn't even cover everything in this movie because there's so

3031
02:13:23.060 --> 02:13:25.020
much surrounding it with the haunts and everything.

3032
02:13:25.079 --> 02:13:25.840
It's a start.

3033
02:13:26.020 --> 02:13:28.899
Yeah, it's a start. I would say so. Scary movie

3034
02:13:28.960 --> 02:13:31.590
currently available on Tubi. You can also get it on

3035
02:13:31.600 --> 02:13:33.930
Folsom as well. There is a great Blu-ray out there

3036
02:13:33.949 --> 02:13:35.270
from Agfa, which I still need to get.

3037
02:13:36.270 --> 02:13:37.310
Oh, you don't have the blue?

3038
02:13:37.350 --> 02:13:39.130
I have it digitally. I haven't bought the blue yet.

3039
02:13:39.210 --> 02:13:39.729
I need to.

3040
02:13:39.729 --> 02:13:42.050
Wow, that actually shocks me. Yeah, I know. Because you

3041
02:13:42.069 --> 02:13:43.170
bring it up a lot.

3042
02:13:43.189 --> 02:13:44.810
I love Scary Movie. It's so much good.

3043
02:13:44.829 --> 02:13:46.060
Yet you don't own it.

3044
02:13:46.229 --> 02:13:49.979
Scary Movie, 1991. Definitely check that out. Into the second

3045
02:13:50.020 --> 02:13:53.300
to last pick, this is one that I knew I

3046
02:13:53.319 --> 02:13:55.460
was going to like, and I'm still waiting on a

3047
02:13:55.619 --> 02:13:59.010
goddamn sequel, which is 2019's Scary Stories to Tell in

3048
02:13:59.050 --> 02:14:04.109
the Dark. Yeah, where is that sequel? Where is that sequel?

3049
02:14:04.130 --> 02:14:08.449
Because where this movie ends, you're waiting for that sequel. Pennsylvania, 1968,

3050
02:14:08.439 --> 02:14:10.539
after playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and

3051
02:14:10.579 --> 02:14:12.579
her friends decide to sneak into a haunted house that

3052
02:14:12.659 --> 02:14:15.880
once belonged to a powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces

3053
02:14:15.899 --> 02:14:18.460
that they will be unable to control. This is, of course,

3054
02:14:18.479 --> 02:14:19.800
the scary stories of Tell in the Dark that you

3055
02:14:19.840 --> 02:14:21.720
know from the books by Alvin Schwartz.

3056
02:14:21.819 --> 02:14:26.159
Yes, the legendary books that inspired a generation of weirdos

3057
02:14:26.199 --> 02:14:29.090
like me to do all kinds of weird, spooky things.

3058
02:14:29.789 --> 02:14:33.420
The movie does a really good job... in my opinion

3059
02:14:33.460 --> 02:14:34.600
of splitting the difference.

3060
02:14:34.819 --> 02:14:35.000
Yeah.

3061
02:14:35.359 --> 02:14:38.689
It, it, it feeds a lot of the hopes and

3062
02:14:39.229 --> 02:14:42.529
wants of the older fans of the book, but it

3063
02:14:42.590 --> 02:14:44.770
really is at the end of the day, a scary

3064
02:14:44.829 --> 02:14:46.310
movie for younger people.

3065
02:14:46.550 --> 02:14:46.789
Yes.

3066
02:14:47.050 --> 02:14:49.369
And that I think is important.

3067
02:14:49.569 --> 02:14:52.789
No, a hundred percent. This is a teen horror film

3068
02:14:52.890 --> 02:14:55.409
that really goes hard because the kids are not just

3069
02:14:55.529 --> 02:14:58.579
quote unquote disappearing. They're dying. Yes. Like they're getting murked.

3070
02:14:59.319 --> 02:15:01.560
Yeah, yeah, there's no coming back. Well, I mean, unless

3071
02:15:01.590 --> 02:15:03.130
we ever get a sequel to find out.

3072
02:15:03.149 --> 02:15:04.970
Yes, exactly. But the one thing that I do want

3073
02:15:04.989 --> 02:15:07.250
to state with this movie in particular is if you're

3074
02:15:07.270 --> 02:15:09.510
a fan of the opening of Halloween 4, which, of course,

3075
02:15:09.529 --> 02:15:10.710
you are if you're listening to this show.

3076
02:15:10.729 --> 02:15:11.529
Darn tootin'..

3077
02:15:12.649 --> 02:15:14.149
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark might up it

3078
02:15:14.180 --> 02:15:16.180
just a little bit because you are getting a tour

3079
02:15:16.220 --> 02:15:18.720
of this small town that's decked out for Halloween during

3080
02:15:19.340 --> 02:15:20.760
Season of the Witch by Donovan.

3081
02:15:21.000 --> 02:15:21.079
Yeah.

3082
02:15:21.100 --> 02:15:22.680
I mean, that's the opening of the movie. You know

3083
02:15:22.699 --> 02:15:24.840
what you're getting into. That is a feel that you

3084
02:15:24.920 --> 02:15:27.909
cannot master to that point that it does in this movie.

3085
02:15:27.930 --> 02:15:28.010
Yeah.

3086
02:15:35.510 --> 02:15:39.239
That brings us to the final. This is Halloween and

3087
02:15:39.260 --> 02:15:42.699
the final of this entire list. And I could think

3088
02:15:42.739 --> 02:15:45.180
of nothing else than one that has just become an

3089
02:15:45.560 --> 02:15:49.189
absolute staple for me as the years go on. She

3090
02:15:49.250 --> 02:15:51.909
hosted it herself. And that was when I was like, man,

3091
02:15:51.949 --> 02:15:54.510
I really like this movie. I am talking about none

3092
02:15:54.670 --> 02:15:57.670
other than Elvira's Mistress of the Dark.

3093
02:15:58.270 --> 02:15:59.420
Oh, OK. Not Haunted Hills.

3094
02:15:59.500 --> 02:16:00.239
Not Haunted Hills.

3095
02:16:00.340 --> 02:16:00.739
No, no, no.

3096
02:16:01.380 --> 02:16:04.079
Mistress of the Dark from 1988. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

3097
02:16:04.260 --> 02:16:07.039
This is such a fun Halloween movie.

3098
02:16:07.220 --> 02:16:10.659
Yeah. Yeah. It's got all of the campy nostalgia fun

3099
02:16:11.199 --> 02:16:14.640
that really does kind of bring that spooky vibe. I mean,

3100
02:16:14.680 --> 02:16:19.979
Elvira is one of the originators of that silly, spooky, campy,

3101
02:16:20.119 --> 02:16:21.300
nobody gets hurt vibe.

3102
02:16:21.319 --> 02:16:24.810
Yeah. Upon arriving in a small town where Elvira has

3103
02:16:24.850 --> 02:16:27.670
inherited a rundown mansion, the famous horror host must battle

3104
02:16:27.710 --> 02:16:29.810
an evil uncle and townspeople who want her to be

3105
02:16:29.850 --> 02:16:31.739
burned at the stake. That is one of the things

3106
02:16:32.360 --> 02:16:34.600
that I don't want to undersell with this movie. The

3107
02:16:34.700 --> 02:16:36.760
humor is so top tier.

3108
02:16:37.000 --> 02:16:37.610
Oh, yeah, yeah.

3109
02:16:37.829 --> 02:16:40.069
Like, it is so much fun. You've got a great

3110
02:16:40.110 --> 02:16:43.090
cast of Cassandra Peterson, of course, as Elvira. You've got

3111
02:16:43.409 --> 02:16:47.930
Edie McClurg. You've got her uncle that is played by, oh, man,

3112
02:16:47.950 --> 02:16:50.459
where's his name at? I just lost it. Damn it.

3113
02:16:50.500 --> 02:16:51.059
Typical.

3114
02:16:51.079 --> 02:16:54.209
That's fine. Anyway, the cast is great. The story is

3115
02:16:54.250 --> 02:16:56.069
a lot of fun. It is one that you can

3116
02:16:56.110 --> 02:16:57.629
watch with the whole family. There's a little bit of

3117
02:16:57.670 --> 02:16:59.530
risque content, but I mean, it's Elvira. You kind of

3118
02:16:59.590 --> 02:17:03.340
expect that. But this is such a fun Halloween movie

3119
02:17:03.420 --> 02:17:07.020
that goes absolutely off the rails in its final 15 minutes.

3120
02:17:07.760 --> 02:17:10.079
No, it's a blast. I mean, it's pure 80s fun.

3121
02:17:11.059 --> 02:17:14.129
And Elvira is I mean, there's a reason reason she's

3122
02:17:14.250 --> 02:17:16.290
like the ambassador of Halloween.

3123
02:17:16.170 --> 02:17:21.090
Haunted houses, monsters, appreciation for bad monster movies. Everything can

3124
02:17:21.129 --> 02:17:23.920
be found in 1988 Elvira, Mrs. of the Dark currently

3125
02:17:23.959 --> 02:17:26.920
available on Prime. I will also say that the 4K

3126
02:17:27.000 --> 02:17:29.760
and Blu-rays from Arrow are absolutely worth grabbing if you're

3127
02:17:29.780 --> 02:17:32.600
a fan. And as you mentioned, Elvira's Haunted Hills is

3128
02:17:32.729 --> 02:17:35.659
also available currently right now and streaming online. Both of

3129
02:17:35.719 --> 02:17:37.100
those movies are great Halloween picks.

3130
02:17:37.120 --> 02:17:40.440
Well, Dave used to hate Haunted Hills until I convinced

3131
02:17:40.459 --> 02:17:42.020
him to really watch it again.

3132
02:17:42.250 --> 02:17:44.030
I think you and Joe Bob both did it.

3133
02:17:44.389 --> 02:17:46.950
Well, I mean, it was me, though. No, I think. No, no. Remember,

3134
02:17:47.090 --> 02:17:49.209
I showed it. I made you rewatch it. Oh, yeah.

3135
02:17:49.229 --> 02:17:49.469
Yeah.

3136
02:17:50.139 --> 02:17:52.670
Two later that Joe Bob showed it. So you were

3137
02:17:52.700 --> 02:17:53.930
already back on board.

3138
02:17:53.969 --> 02:17:55.090
And then I had to watch it again just to

3139
02:17:55.129 --> 02:17:58.889
confirm I was. But that is the end of the

3140
02:17:58.889 --> 02:18:01.819
2026 Ultimate Halloween lineup. I don't believe you.

3141
02:18:03.139 --> 02:18:05.979
Well, I really appreciate you sharing this with the audience.

3142
02:18:06.219 --> 02:18:07.879
I hope you all were taking notes.

3143
02:18:08.299 --> 02:18:08.520
Yes.

3144
02:18:08.760 --> 02:18:09.200
Good luck.

3145
02:18:09.659 --> 02:18:11.459
I will tell you, if you want to find me

3146
02:18:11.600 --> 02:18:15.149
on Letterboxd, I am at DavidSMWA, which stands for David's

3147
02:18:15.190 --> 02:18:17.809
Watching Movies. Again, you can also find both of these

3148
02:18:17.870 --> 02:18:20.090
Letterboxd lists on there as well for all these titles.

3149
02:18:20.290 --> 02:18:21.510
So if you follow me on there, you'll be able

3150
02:18:21.530 --> 02:18:23.409
to get access to these titles as well. And also

3151
02:18:23.450 --> 02:18:25.670
keep up with me as I move through. I think

3152
02:18:25.709 --> 02:18:27.920
I'm about to hit my 700th movie for the year.

3153
02:18:28.579 --> 02:18:28.959
Wow.

3154
02:18:29.059 --> 02:18:30.500
Yeah, it's been a pretty crazy year.

3155
02:18:31.569 --> 02:18:32.920
It doesn't sound like it. It sounds like you've been

3156
02:18:32.940 --> 02:18:38.250
watching movies, but... Well, I do appreciate it, Dave.

3157
02:18:38.389 --> 02:18:38.909
Yeah.

3158
02:18:39.270 --> 02:18:42.250
And tell people what you're working on lately, because I

3159
02:18:42.270 --> 02:18:43.809
know you've been doing a lot of work with This

3160
02:18:43.850 --> 02:18:44.430
Week in Geek.

3161
02:18:44.469 --> 02:18:46.399
Yes, I am over on This Week in Geek with

3162
02:18:46.620 --> 02:18:49.260
our buddy Mike Askewie and my buddy Ken Reels and

3163
02:18:49.319 --> 02:18:53.059
also Adam A. Donaldson. We have been, as of this recording,

3164
02:18:53.120 --> 02:18:55.420
we've been doing a lot of Halloween content. I know

3165
02:18:55.620 --> 02:18:57.520
as of this drop, we may have our From Dusk

3166
02:18:57.540 --> 02:18:58.959
Till Dawn trilogy episode out there.

3167
02:18:58.979 --> 02:18:59.700
Nice.

3168
02:18:59.760 --> 02:19:02.239
We will also be covering the Scanners films, which includes

3169
02:19:02.299 --> 02:19:05.010
Scanners 1 through 3 and Scanner Cop 1 and 2

3170
02:19:05.010 --> 02:19:05.309
as well.

3171
02:19:05.590 --> 02:19:09.549
Well, you have to cover the best scanners films. Yes.

3172
02:19:10.030 --> 02:19:13.110
And, uh, one of my favorites, uh, that, that again, uh,

3173
02:19:13.250 --> 02:19:15.569
honorable mention, I guess we'll put in is the original

3174
02:19:15.649 --> 02:19:18.690
dark castle, uh, entertainment releases. So we're talking about the

3175
02:19:18.809 --> 02:19:21.120
remakes of the William castle movies, such as haunted, uh,

3176
02:19:21.149 --> 02:19:24.219
house on hill. Uh, you've got, um, wow. Why am

3177
02:19:24.239 --> 02:19:25.879
I blanking? All of a sudden a ghost ship is

3178
02:19:25.920 --> 02:19:28.909
in there, which isn't one, but, uh, House of Wax.

3179
02:19:29.489 --> 02:19:30.280
Blanking on the other one.

3180
02:19:30.290 --> 02:19:31.450
I don't know what your problem is, man.

3181
02:19:31.530 --> 02:19:34.209
I don't know. Gothica is one that I watched recently

3182
02:19:34.250 --> 02:19:35.850
that I also really like. Why can I not think

3183
02:19:35.889 --> 02:19:37.069
of the other one? 13 Ghosts.

3184
02:19:37.450 --> 02:19:38.149
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

3185
02:19:38.329 --> 02:19:41.069
Yeah, so we talked about, we're talking about House on

3186
02:19:41.090 --> 02:19:43.870
a Hill, 13 Ghosts, House of Wax, and Ghost Ship,

3187
02:19:43.930 --> 02:19:46.209
so that's going to be an episode dropping. We do

3188
02:19:46.270 --> 02:19:49.649
episodes such as Loose Cannon and Random Access Memories, so

3189
02:19:49.770 --> 02:19:51.290
if you want to find all that information, you can

3190
02:19:51.309 --> 02:19:54.329
go to thisweekengeek.net. You can also find us wherever you

3191
02:19:54.350 --> 02:19:57.799
get your podcasts. So we are releasing episodes weekly over there.

3192
02:19:58.319 --> 02:20:01.180
Awesome. Yeah, and I'll be popping on over there at

3193
02:20:01.239 --> 02:20:04.260
some point in the month with a special episode I

3194
02:20:04.280 --> 02:20:08.700
did with Birdman and James Rolfe, the Angry Video Game Nerd.

3195
02:20:08.739 --> 02:20:13.319
It's our fourth, I think, or fifth? Fourth year in

3196
02:20:13.340 --> 02:20:15.120
a row that the three of us have done a

3197
02:20:15.399 --> 02:20:18.500
Halloween topic, and we had a lot of fun with it.

3198
02:20:18.639 --> 02:20:19.340
Always great episodes.

3199
02:20:19.399 --> 02:20:21.459
Make sure to check them out at This Week in

3200
02:20:21.520 --> 02:20:25.260
Geek on your favorite podcast app. And now I'll leave

3201
02:20:25.280 --> 02:20:27.840
you with this. Well, what more can I leave you with?

3202
02:20:27.860 --> 02:20:30.739
You have a giant pile of movies. This is your homework.

3203
02:20:30.840 --> 02:20:33.579
There will be a test. If you want to send

3204
02:20:33.639 --> 02:20:36.020
us an email, if you want to get a hold

3205
02:20:36.040 --> 02:20:37.780
of us or, you know, get a hold of Dave,

3206
02:20:37.819 --> 02:20:40.479
I'll forward any abuse you have toward him. He will

3207
02:20:40.760 --> 02:20:45.620
send an email to weekly spooky at gmail.com. And all

3208
02:20:45.659 --> 02:20:49.159
I could say is everything that weekly spooky about is

3209
02:20:49.200 --> 02:20:53.829
about beyond just Halloween all year long. is making the

3210
02:20:53.860 --> 02:20:56.809
most out of your spooky season because as a grown man,

3211
02:20:56.850 --> 02:20:58.809
and I know Dave has had this experience as well.

3212
02:20:59.829 --> 02:21:02.950
Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're losing the spirit

3213
02:21:03.149 --> 02:21:07.110
or losing the, the excitement. And to an extent, you know,

3214
02:21:07.229 --> 02:21:08.270
you're not a kid anymore.

3215
02:21:08.370 --> 02:21:08.530
Yeah.

3216
02:21:08.889 --> 02:21:12.450
But one of the things I always hope that weekly

3217
02:21:12.469 --> 02:21:15.629
spooky can help you do is start your spooky season,

3218
02:21:15.670 --> 02:21:20.670
your Christmas season, whatever, whatever you celebrate while living in

3219
02:21:20.709 --> 02:21:23.170
the spookier side of life, I'm hoping we can help

3220
02:21:23.209 --> 02:21:26.309
you celebrate it more thoroughly and find things that will

3221
02:21:26.350 --> 02:21:29.270
bring that joy back into your life. So thank you

3222
02:21:29.290 --> 02:21:32.450
all for joining us. And you'll be hearing from me

3223
02:21:32.489 --> 02:21:34.450
in no time, I'm sure, because this is probably like

3224
02:21:34.500 --> 02:21:38.040
the second show that's dropped that day. What an October

3225
02:21:38.260 --> 02:21:41.959
it has been. And it hasn't even technically started. Well,

3226
02:21:42.139 --> 02:21:44.420
it has, but not when we're sitting here. We're like

3227
02:21:44.440 --> 02:21:44.860
a day away.

3228
02:21:45.559 --> 02:21:47.399
It's Halloween. Everyone's entitled to one good scare.

3229
02:21:48.020 --> 02:21:50.149
Exactly. Six times. Six times.

3230
02:21:51.280 --> 02:21:52.879
Or seven if you're watching Halloween 2.

3231
02:21:52.860 --> 02:21:55.399
Well, there you go. Thanks, guys.