Oct. 26, 2024

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Last Shift (2014)

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Last Shift (2014)
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Cutting Deep Into Horror

In this episode of Cutting Deep Into Horror, we dive into the intricacies and terrors of the 2014 film "Last Shift," directed by Anthony de Blasi. Co-hosts Henrique and Rachael unpack the story of Officer Loren, a rookie cop assigned to her first shift at an abandoned police station as it prepares to close its doors for good. The discussion explores various horror tropes while delving into profound themes of family legacy, trauma, and the impact of the past on the present.

We begin with introductions, setting the eerie tone and encouraging listeners to remain alert as we dissect the film's chilling narrative. Henrique recounts his experience watching the film for the first time, discussing its gradual build-up of tension and the heart-pounding scares that punctuate the silence. Rachael thoughtfully emphasizes the importance of acting and atmosphere in horror, sharing how Loren's relatable character helps ground us in the unfolding supernatural events.

As the plot progresses, we examine key interactions between Loren and her commanding officer, Sergeant Cohen, who introduces a mix of gruffness and dark humor amidst the unsettling environment. The two discuss how the film establishes its eerie rules early on, highlighting how the unknown looms larger when untrusted elements fill the frame. The exploration of visual storytelling techniques reveals how these choices amplify the film's sense of dread.

The hosts unpack pivotal moments in the film, including the discovery of supernatural phenomena and the haunting implications of the station's dark history tied to the Payman family—infamous for their murderous past. The discussions touch on the larger themes of legacy and expectation, particularly how Lauren grapples with her father's shadow as a former law enforcement officer. We analyze how the film unravels these elements, showcasing the psychological and emotional pressures on Lauren as she navigates a night filled with supernatural horrors.

Henrique and Rachael highlight the film's minimalist approach, noting how budget constraints did not hinder its ability to instill fear. They examine the stark imagery of blood and ghostly apparitions, influenced by traditional horror filmmaking where restraint often results in a more profound impact. Each scare is dissected, showcasing the effectiveness of sound and silence in creating an immersive viewing experience.

As our hosts reach the film’s climax, they discuss Lauren’s realization that the horrors she faces are intertwined with her family history, leading to a tragic and haunting conclusion. The conversation eventually turns to the implications of her journey and the film's commentary on facing one’s fears—both seen and unseen. The episode wraps up with reflections on “Last Shift” as a masterclass in suspense and an exploration of how trauma shapes our lives.

Listeners are advised to tune in for future episodes, with a promise of more chilling discussions during the spooky season. Next month, Rachael will introduce Henrique to "A Killing of a Sacred Deer," setting the stage for even more insightful critiques on horror cinema.



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All right, so that's pretty much the place. Here are

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the keys, and yeah, it's just a simple late night

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shift the last one. And yeah, any questions.

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For you several? Why are all the doors locked? And

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could you possibly explain why there's blood everywhere?

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all about well not to reference and get ahead of

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myself with your second question, but it seems like you're

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kind of a safety minded person. So all the doors

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are locked. It's really it's really just that simple.

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Okay. The blood though, and you know, general human, it's dry,

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it's all dry. Well okay, yeah.

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I assure you it's dry.

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Yeah, okay, good, good.

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Yeah, So any other questions that is great, don't even

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worry about a thing. And because we know you like

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to focus on your work. You're very talented. The phone

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lines don't work, they don't go anywhere. Cell phones don't

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work here either, But just to be safe, I actually

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already have your phone in my How did you get that?

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If you need anything at wait, just stick it out

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to the end and then it'll go very very well.

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Oh me too.

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This podcast is about why horror scares us, What deep,

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dark secret scary cinema shines a light on The discussions

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are frank and involve conversations about abuse, trauma, and mental health.

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There are also spoilers, so keep that in mind too. Now,

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sharpen your machetes and straight raisers, because this is Cutting

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Deep into Horror.

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Hello, my spookies, and welcome back to Cutting Deep into Horror.

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We took a little bit of a of a i'll

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call it a siesta.

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We took a hot inte off. Well, life got awfully

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complicated for both of us for quite a while.

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Yeah, so after the Christmas season, we just every time

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we wanted to do an episode. My response, well, every

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time you wanted to do an episode, Rachel. By the way,

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this is Rachel Rudolphie, my good friend, my partner in crime,

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and my co host right here on Cutting Deep into Horror.

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Yeah, still here. You can't get rid of me that easy.

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Not easily at all. But no, every time you would

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be like, hey, we should do a Cutting Deep I'd

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be like, I just want to relax.

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you know, if we schedule it like three weeks out

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and then we could we could record one, and you're like,

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or we could not do that and.

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Rest or at least I could rest. You could run

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on a hamster wheel for all I care. That's that's

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your business. But I needed some nappy naps.

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So but we are back as promised for the Halloween season,

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and with full intent to keep it rolling and rolling.

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season as well.

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the hollow weekend. Ah, if you will, and we will,

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We definitely will. And I'm so excited because tonight we're

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talking about a film I discovered kind of totally randomly

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on at the time Netflix, a little film called Last

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Shift from twenty fourteen. And I've been singing this film's

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praises for years, ever since I first watched it, and

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I'd been bringing up wanting to show you it since

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earlier this year. In fact, the Blu Ray, which turned

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out to be scratched to shit, that I bought on Amazon,

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so we had we had to rent it or buy

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it on Amazon to watch it through digital streaming. I

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had bought that in March, so that's how long I'd

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been thinking. I really wanted to show you it. So,

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but this is a film not quite like any other.

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While borrowing many interesting tropes and concepts from films, you know,

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ranging from you know, alone late at night kind of

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films to haunting and exorcism type films, it borrows a

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lot in a good way. It borrows great stuff from

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other films. It also really kind of set itself apart

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in my opinion. This is again, like I said from

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twenty fourteen, it is directed and co written by Anthony

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de Blossi, who I don't believe had done anything I

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had seen prior to that, but now I should double

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check he had directed. Oh no, actually that is a lie.

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I forgot about this. No, this is going to make

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things even more interesting. He directed a little film in

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two thousand and nine called Dread, which I hated. That's

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why I got a smirk on my face when I

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looked at this thing. I'm like, oh, because I'm going

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to be singing his praises this entire show. He did

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an amazing job in this movie. Did not care for Dread,

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did not like it very much. If I remember correctly,

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it was based loosely on a Clive Barker story. Yeah,

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it was based on a short story by Clive Barker.

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It was well made and well directed. It had a

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really dour ending that I felt like wasn't earned. I'm

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very it is very hard to make me happy with

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a downbeat ending, because there's a very big difference. There

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was a time when it was novel. Yeah, you never

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saw an unhappy ending, or if you did, you'd be

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like whoa. But now it's cliche. So a lot of

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times if I see a really great movie and it

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has a downbeat ending that wasn't even hard to get to,

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my first thought is like, oh, so you're too lazy

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to figure out how the good guys could win, huh,

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or how they could at least place. Yeah, you know,

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and unfortunately with dread and maybe I'd like it if

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I revisited it. That's how I felt. The moment it ended,

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I went, oh, I hate this movie. But he also

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directed a movie called The Profane Exhibit. No, he did

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a segment in The Profane Exhibit which I really liked.

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The horror anthology that one was really good. He did

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a movie called Missionary. I had not seen Last Shift

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which I obviously loved, Most Likely to Die in twenty fifteen,

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which I really liked, Wuthering High School, which I had

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not seen, in a movie called Extremity, which I have

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been meaning to see, and then of course Mallem, which

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we'll talk about a little bit more later, which is

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a remake of Last Shift, which he did just shy

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of ten years later. Okay, so I consider him a

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very talented director, but Last Shift is my favorite thing

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he's done, without a doubt. And it stars Julianna Harcavey

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or hark Cavey. I'm not sure you'd say it, but

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she is damn near the whole show.

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Oh yeah, well, and she carries it so well.

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She is easily sixty percent of what makes the movie great,

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oh yeah, because she's so so good.

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and reactions to the spooky that is happening around her.

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lacking in any way, then the movie would not have worked.

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But because it was all these slow burned close ups

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of her just looking around and like glancing, and you're like, man,

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I like I'm right there with her, I'm I'm you know,

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really getting into it.

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Yeah, it's important to have a character that is kind

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of the audience's perspective. It makes a very big difference

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in horror films in particular. I remember when I read

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Lloyd Coffin the you know, creator of the Toxic Avenger.

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When I read his book as a teenager, Lloyd even

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mentioned that when the special effects don't work out the

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way you want them to, which is often the case

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with his films, he said that one of the greatest

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things was if an actor was good and they saw

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the monster and react legitimately scared. It helped the audience

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believe enough to stay on board, as opposed to if

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the actors had walked on set on stage and just

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like looked when the camera roll just went what is that?

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scare people, get people invested. So before we dive into

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this and start spoiling the ever loving hell out of it.

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For those who've never heard Cutting Deep into Horror, this

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is a show where Rachel and I sit down and

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we just dissect heavily horror films that scare us legitimately,

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especially as I mean, I wouldn't call myself a jaded

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horror movie fan, but I'm certainly experienced in horror movies.

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So when a horror movie makes me uneasy or nervous

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or makes me jump a lot, it stands out and

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rightfully so. And I think that there isn't enough focus

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on the movies that really scare us, because in the

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horror realm there's so much fun too, you know, like

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This Friday the Thirteenth Part two really scare me, really,

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but is it a blast ll Yes, And there's plenty

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of movies like that that I love. But when a

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movie kind of gets into your brain and creeps you

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out and makes you think about it afterward, that is

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where it gets fun. So if you've never heard us before,

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you can head to Weeklyspooky dot com and under episodes

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there's actually a playlist that has just all of the

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cutting deep into horror episodes. We cover a lot of

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great films. This one, again before we spoil the hell

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out of it, is not available to stream anywhere for free. Unfortunately,

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I usually try to pick films that are, but I

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really wanted to talk about this one, and frankly, after

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doing thirty one shows in October, I have earned the

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right to just bs about one of my favorite films.

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But it is available to rent, whether on Amazon Prime

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or Fandango, Voodoo or wherever you rent movies. For three

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ninety nine, you can rent it. I highly recommend you do.

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But with that all being said, Rachel's one of my

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favorite people to dissect the undertones of films, because when

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we first started watching a lot of movies together, you

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would write these Facebook posts after you'd left my house

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and I would read them intently and be like woo,

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things to me? And then one day I was like,

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I'm gonna put a microphone in front of your face

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and get some labor out of you.

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Yeah, apparently that's the secret, is just put the microphone

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in front of me and then I won't shut up.

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So that I mean, I mean, it works on me.

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So we're gonna dive deep and talk all about the

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last shift after these quick words and we're back. Now

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we're gonna head into the last shift. So I want

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to tell you. I told you a little bit about

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this before, but I want to tell you the story

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of how I first saw this movie because it'll give

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you a nice chuckle. People think, you know, hey, Marique Kuto,

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he's the guy. He's directed all these horror movies. He

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watches horror movies all the time. Now I've had Weekly

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Spooky for six years. You know, nothing must scare him.

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That is so far from the truth. I am such

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an easy audience for scares. I get scared so so easily,

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deeply easily. I and that's why. But I love to

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be scared. In fact, I've even leaned into going to

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haunts and stuff because I'm like, no, I do like

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the way that scared me. When I was younger, I

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thought I didn't like it, and now I'm like, nah,

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I want I want to go be chased by the

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guy with a chainsaw. You know, it's making eighty dollars

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a night. So but when I first saw Last Shift,

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somebody on Facebook had said like, wow, I just watched

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this movie on Netflix and it really blew my mind.

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I really enjoyed it, and I was like, ooh, I

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have Netflix and I have nothing to do. It was

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like a Thursday night or something, so I put it

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on and I was laying on my couch and I

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started getting drowsy. This is maybe a year after the

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film came outs maybe twenty fifteen twenty sixteen. Started getting drowsy,

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so I nodded off. And the movie does have a

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slow build. It's very quiet in the beginning, which really works.

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But I didn't know that, so I just started dozing

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and I woke back up right at one of the

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biggest scares the in the first half of the film.

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It was such a big scare that I paused the movie,

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got up and did a thing I do when movies

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scare me really bad when I'm watching them by myself.

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When I'm with other people, you can kind of spread

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the fear out and kind of, you know, like you

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kind of like it's pretty scary, right, and then somebody goes, yeah,

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you go, okay, we'll just keep watching. But when I'm

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by myself, I'll be like, well, I'm gonna pause. I'm

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just gonna walk around the house a minute, maybe turn

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on some lights. I turned on most of the lights,

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like all the lights in the living room and the

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kitchen and the hallway, and then I sat back down

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and I put it back on, and I actually actually

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I rewound it maybe fifteen minutes because I was like,

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I must I missed some stuff and yeah, loved it. Yeah,

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but I'll never forget that scene because it scared me

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out of a dead sleep and just my heart was racing.

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So but yeah, So take it away, Rach. Where do

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you want to Where do you want to start with

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the last shift?

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Well, I guess we'll start at the beginning. That's generally

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a good place to start.

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Sure.

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Well, the first thing that I like is the the

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amount of visual storytelling and showing not telling that they

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give you. Just straight off to bat yea. So it

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opens up. We see a police station, we see a

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cop car, and then we see a woman in the

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cop car and she's getting a call on her cell phone,

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and so that just sets it up perfectly. Woman picks

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up up the phone and it's her mom, and we

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kind of get through the conversation that her mom is

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especially worried because this is her very first shift on

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duty as a like act of duty cop, and even worse,

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her father had just last year been involved in something

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we don't know, but involved in something as a police officer,

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and now her mom is extract or worried for her.

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I don't know if they actually make it clear. I

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think they intentionally leave it murky as to when her father.

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Yeah, they don't say like, oh, it was exactly, but

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we do know like it was recent enough that they're

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both still shaken up by it.

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I mean, she literally says, like most police officers never

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see any action at all, and she goes, you know,

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except your father, and she's like mom, and she's like,

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I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, and where are

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my manners? It's been a while since I've done this.

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The basic, very basic storyline is a young woman on

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her first first day as a cop, has to take

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care of the last shift at a d at a

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nearly decommissioned police station. It's the last night that that

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police station will legally be considered a police station. But

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there's a brand new station down the block, and all

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she's supposed to do is just guard it because she's

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a cop and they need someone to guard it. And

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that's I mean, that really is the long and the

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short of it. Yeah, so it is a recipe for eerie,

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eerie shit exactly. So anyway, so, yeah, she's in the car.

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And in the car talking with her mom, and you know,

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she goes into the station and at first it seems

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like the station's totally empty, and then we hear like

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a ruckus down the hall, and you know, she's on

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edge because it's late. It well you know, not super late,

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but it's dark and she is alone in a station is.

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Empty building, and big empty buildings are creepy.

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Definitely, they're super creepy. So she she hears this ruckus

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and then she sees someone down the hall and he's

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like screaming and hollering and banging on the walls, and uh,

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he kind of comes out. He's still in the shadows,

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but he starts yelling at her, like really gruff, like

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what are you doing? What are you doing here? And

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she's like, you know, I'm just here for my first shift.

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And he says, turn around, and so she does and

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she starts to walk away and he says, no, I

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didn't tell you to walk away. I said turn around.

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Yeah, And so.

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That I loved that because it was the movie giving

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you the rules of the game. And I think we've

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we've kind of discussed this a little bit here and

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there with with other movies, but with horror movies, they

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always they have set rules. Yeah, and a good horror movie,

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the ones that we try to cover will kind of

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give you the rules within the first act, so that

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the last two acts you know exactly what rules they're

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working with, and you also know what rules they're going

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to be breaking if they do ever break those rules.

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So the rule that they are setting up is that

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there's stuff happening in the backgrounds, you need to pay attention. Yes, yes, definitely,

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and never trust it when the camera pans away and

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then PAMs back.

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Yeah, yeah, the camera is a lying son of a bitches.

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Do not trust that camera in.

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The best way possible. Yeah. Well, And one of the

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things that it establishes that's really smart is we're we're

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we're learning who the main character is as a person.

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So obviously she's close with her mother. We learn very

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quickly that she's not the first person in law enforcement

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in her family, and that there may have been a

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lot of strife involved in her decision to become law enforcement.

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But now we're seeing that she's got that uniform on.

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But she's absolutely not ready, No, because what does she

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do when a stranger starts giving her orders? She takes them.

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She's a cop, she shouldn't be doing that. But of

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course she is a rookie cop and I'm not saying

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that she's not built for it, but she's certainly not ready. Yeah,

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and luckily we find out that this guy is a

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cop yees, a commanding officer.

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It's Sergeant Cohen.

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Yeah, Sergeant Cohen.

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So's he's there to kind of like brief her on

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what her what her shift is going to be like.

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And it's such a it's I love Sergeant Cohen because

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whatever you expect out of him, he's going to do

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the exact opposite. So at first, you know, we're introduced

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to him and he's gruff, and he's mean, and he's

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violent because he's like slamming doors and like punching the walls.

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And then he's like really mean to Officer Lauren. But

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then he immediately like starts cracking jokes like the very

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next thing. So he starts showing her around, and one

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thing he said is you know where back there, that

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end of the hall that's the containment cells. You don't

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need to go there. Don't go there.

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He's showing her the few places she'll need to be. Yeah,

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he's like, you won't have to go back there because

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you're not going to arrest anybody tonight, so don't even

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worry about it.

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So and he's like, you know, there's the room where

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you break room, so when you get bored, you can

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go microwave something and then you know, have a break

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and you know there's where we keep you know, all

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of the records and everything. And then he takes her

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to the room where they have all the evidence and

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you see, like everything's in the plastic bags with you know,

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the biohazard signs, and this is where like you start

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to see a bit more of what a weird person

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that he is, because he gets dead serious again and

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he says, you know, well, everything that's left in the

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evidence locker, like this is all like the most dangerous

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biohazard like in this state, like and every crime lord

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in the city.

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Criminal city. This guy's gonna want to get access to

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this to bring the town to its knees. And her

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eyes are so.

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Wide, like she is eating it whole kline and sinker

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like this is just old.

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This is just old, gross evidence of like every purpse

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shit stained pants, and the main reason we need you

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to guard it, and he's like even joking, he's like,

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the main reason we usually guard it is that they

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didn't come and clean it. Up yesterday.

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Yeah, so we've got the biohazard guys coming. They're probably

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gonna be here between midnight and four am, so don't leave.

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Which I love that too, because it's like I identify. It's

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like the cable guy. It's like there's a window. If

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you miss it, we might have to wait more time

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for them to finally come, and.

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Then we're gonna have to get another rookie to come tomorrow. Yeah,

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it's just gonna be you.

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So I love that because he hammers that home, like,

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do not leave until they do their job.

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And well, and she even asks, She's like, well, why

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don't we just like hire an outside.

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Like security for a security guard.

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And he's like oh and then and then he just

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laughs it off. He's like, yeah, it's actually against our

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policy here at this precinct. We don't hire outside contractors

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for guard work.

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And it's like, well, he said, we don't hire outside

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contractors because we have somebody he says to so many

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blue bloods, blue bloods already on the payroll, which makes

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perfect sense. It's like, why would we hire security when

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we are cops, like just put and it makes sense,

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so we'll just put the least experience cop that we

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would that wouldn't accomplish anything on our first day anyway. Yeah,

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she'd just be watching and trying to figure out her

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place in this. But in a way, his gruffness makes

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sense with the kind of levity you'd expect from a

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job that is often so serious, you know, him just

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kind of shining her on and and as as toxic

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as hazing and stuff can get very quickly, hazing is

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also a very good way to break a lot of

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the tension in jobs that are high stress, high risk. So,

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you know, for him scaring the cravit or going, I'm

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just kidding, Oh my gosh, how bad do you think

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this job is? Kid? You know, it's pretty it's pretty great.

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So he's like he's kind of likable. Yeah, when she

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asks too many questions, he gets very annoyed very quickly.

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He's like, how complicated is it? You sit here in

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this building for five hours? That is your job? She's

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like what about what? He's like, five hour?

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Just yeah, well, and she even asks like, well, what

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do I do if I get any nine one one calls?

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He's like, did you not hear that there's another station.

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That's just been opened?

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All the nine one walls nine one one calls, they're

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all getting re routed. You're not gonna hear a peep

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from a soul. Just sit your happy ass down and wait.

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Yeah, he was like, you might get a walk up

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if somebody doesn't know that there's a new police station.

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But that is really that's it.

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That's it.

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So as he exits, and he gives her his phone

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number in case of a severe emergency. As he exits,

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we now have our officer left all alone to her

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own well hopefully own devices, in this abandoned police precinct.

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What happens next, you'll just have to wait till after

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this to find out. All right, we're back and Officer

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Lauren is now on the last shift. Bomb And I

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don't know, have you ever worked the graveyard shift at

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a job? Have you ever worked a really late night

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shift at a job.

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Well, since I worked retail, generally, the latest I ever

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had to work would be, you know, like midnight or

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so like cleaning.

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Up, oh yeah, or doing inventory?

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Yeah, doing inventory. Sometimes I would sometimes when I worked

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at the pet store, like when we did inventory, I

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have to get there super early, so it would be like, Okay,

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everybody's got to be up and be at the store

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by four am so we can get inventory done, you know,

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by the time we open at nine.

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Sure.

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So thankfully I've never had to work a graveyard shift.

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I I've worked some late hours at jobby jobs. When

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I worked at the mall at Spencer's Gifts, one time

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we had to do inventory till like two thirty in

450
00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:07.759
the morning. The mall is a creepy place when it's empty.

451
00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:10.680
And I know liminal space has become a really popular

452
00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:14.559
thing with horror and video games and stuff like that.

453
00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:18.200
There is something weird about spaces that are clearly supposed

454
00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:23.039
to be full of people just being completely empty. But

455
00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:26.599
the mall wasn't that scary. I mean, the scariest part

456
00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:29.119
is like it's a little darker, you know, because they

457
00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:31.680
don't have all the main lights. It's never fully pitch

458
00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:33.680
black though you know the lights up, you know, their

459
00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:38.440
security and stuff like that. But it was a little eerie.

460
00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:42.119
But my favorite memories of how eerie spaces like that

461
00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:44.839
can get were there were a few times when I

462
00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.160
was little that I had to go with my mother

463
00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.519
to the office building. So she used to work at

464
00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.119
Reynolds and Reynolds which is which has been for a

465
00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:58.039
very long time, one of the biggest corporations in Dayton, Ohio.

466
00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.440
And they used to own a mas massive building downtown

467
00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:03.920
with a clock tower on top, which was kind of

468
00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:06.279
which was so legendary that when they tore the building down,

469
00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:08.319
they kept the clock tower and put it at a park.

470
00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.400
They put it on top of a regular tower at

471
00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:13.480
a park, so that clock tower is still whatever. But

472
00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:16.240
so it was one of those very typical office buildings.

473
00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:19.240
It had a ton of floors and at night there's

474
00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:22.119
like all the lights are dimmed. There's one guy at

475
00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:26.200
the desk. That's all you get. And I just remember,

476
00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:28.799
and I'm a little kid too, so everything's scarier anyway.

477
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:31.039
I just remember, like walking with my mom down the

478
00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.599
like the dimmed hallways, getting to the you know, to

479
00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.839
rooms and having to dig through all the keys and

480
00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:39.920
unlock things. I don't remember why we were there at all.

481
00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:41.680
It may have only happened once. I remember it being

482
00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:43.920
a few times, but who knows. I might also be

483
00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:46.279
confusing with times we went in on the weekend and it

484
00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:48.319
was just empty, but it made been during the daytime.

485
00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:52.160
Who knows, But I just remember, like the impression that

486
00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:55.279
that left on me of like, uh, it's weird that

487
00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:58.599
there's no people. So I just want to mention that

488
00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:01.519
because I feel that this film captures that very well,

489
00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:06.079
because she's in an office building basically, you know that

490
00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:09.960
is it's not totally empty. There's some furniture left over,

491
00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:13.359
there's some flotsam and jetsam on the floor or whatever,

492
00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:17.079
but it's mostly empty. All the important shit is gone,

493
00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:21.880
and it's all lit with fluorescent lights, and it's just

494
00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:26.079
kind of sitting there and now she's supposed to oversee

495
00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.559
a whole lot of nothing. And nothing makes you more

496
00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:33.319
on edge, I feel, than having to be somewhere where

497
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:36.920
you're pretty much guaranteed, Hey, don't worry. Literally nothing is

498
00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:41.839
going to happen, so just hang out, yeah, because nothing

499
00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:44.599
will happen. So then you're like, oh cool, so literally,

500
00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.640
if anything happens, I'll be surprised and startled. Sounds like

501
00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:49.279
a good plan.

502
00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:54.000
Yeah, well that's exactly what happens to Officer Lauren, because

503
00:26:54.119 --> 00:26:57.279
you know, as soon as a Sergeant Cohen leaves, she

504
00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:59.079
just kind of sits down at the desk and she's

505
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:01.720
got her law book. Because again, she's a rookie she's

506
00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:05.599
still learning, and she like kind of dozes off.

507
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.359
Which which would make sense. Yeah, I don't even think

508
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.519
that the commanding officer would have been mad as long

509
00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:11.400
as she was at the desk.

510
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:14.480
Yeah, he totally gave the vibe like you can set

511
00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:16.519
up a hammock, just don't leave the building.

512
00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:18.880
Yeah, you need to be here when the hazmat people come.

513
00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:20.839
That's really your whole job.

514
00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:25.279
So, you know, she kind of dozes off, and that's

515
00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:29.119
when we start speaking of fluorescent lights. We start hearing

516
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:32.000
like one of the fluorescent lights in the hallway like flickering.

517
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.519
You know, might be a defective bulb. Maybe the bulb's

518
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:37.079
going bad.

519
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:39.039
So and who would care to change it if it

520
00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:40.759
went bad in the last couple of weeks since they've

521
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:43.599
been moving out, No one's no one, Yeah change it

522
00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:46.039
for what? Yeah? Yeah, there's no maintenance people here anywhere.

523
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:48.279
The maintenance people are at the real building. Yeah yeah.

524
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.200
So you know she kind of goes out to like

525
00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:54.880
see what's going on, and and again, so much of

526
00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:57.680
this movie is just the atmosphere. So you know, the

527
00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:02.079
camera is slowly in on her face as she's looking

528
00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:04.720
at this flickering bulb, and you can hear it. I

529
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:07.200
hate fluorescent light buzz, but they did a great job

530
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:10.440
of like making it louder and louder and louder. Yeah,

531
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:14.759
and then when it stops, the light fixes itself. And

532
00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:16.359
then immediately the phone rings.

533
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:21.079
Yes, and it's this old school phone with the four lines,

534
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:24.200
and as she goes to answer it, she's just kind

535
00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:26.480
of like, huh, but then she jumps into like, I'm

536
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.920
a cop, so she answers it. And this is where

537
00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:32.000
things start to get weird.

538
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:35.519
So on the other line is a woman or a

539
00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:42.079
little girl clearly panicking a little bit, and Officer Lauren

540
00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:46.039
like tries to get some information out of her. Really,

541
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:51.240
all that she can get is that there's other girls.

542
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:54.319
They're all trapped and some people are coming, and.

543
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.880
She keeps saying I need to get out. I need

544
00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:56.319
to get out.

545
00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:58.880
Yeah, And that's that's about it, and then the call

546
00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:02.839
cuts out. Officer Lauren calls the other station and says, Hey,

547
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:04.920
what's going on? I just got a nine one one

548
00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:08.359
call and they said, well, that's not possible because all

549
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:10.200
of the nine one one calls are being rerouted.

550
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.759
He says it in that perfectly casual like I work

551
00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:14.319
here way where he's like, you didn't get at nine

552
00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:16.880
one calls because they're all being rerouted. Yeah, but I

553
00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:19.759
just got When he's like, you couldn't happen. You couldn't

554
00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:21.720
have because we're getting them all. Well, then he even

555
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:23.599
says he was like, are you being flooded with nine

556
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:25.720
one one calls? And she's like, no, I just got one,

557
00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:29.599
and he's like, yeah, you're not getting nine one one calls? Yeah,

558
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:31.319
which I love that too, because is that is just

559
00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:33.279
kind of like a lady, you have no idea how

560
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:35.960
much the phone rings. Yeah, you wouldn't know if you

561
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:37.079
were getting nine one one calls.

562
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:40.279
Please trust me on this. So she kind of lets

563
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:45.079
it go, especially because she starts hearing more noises coming

564
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:50.039
from down the hall and she investigates, thinking that it's

565
00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:54.400
Sergeant Cohen, and when she gets to like the front lobby,

566
00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:57.680
oh no, I'm jumping ahddle a little bit. So she

567
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:02.119
just hears noises and then nah, nothing comes of it.

568
00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:04.839
So she decides, well, I'm bored, and she does what

569
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:06.839
I do when I'm bored at work and eats her

570
00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:08.119
lunch way too early.

571
00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:11.799
Well, that's what I do, and I'm bored in general,

572
00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:13.559
just period. Yeah.

573
00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:17.000
Yeah, so this was cool because this was a nice

574
00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:20.559
little gross out moment that just got me. So she's

575
00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:24.160
sitting there eating a sandwich. We can hear like buzzing

576
00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:26.440
and flickering of lights and everything, and then she gets

577
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.000
a look on her face and she starts to pull

578
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.200
a hair out of her mouth, which is gross enough

579
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:31.880
in and of.

580
00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:34.200
Itself, although it got the sense that she made the

581
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:37.960
sandwich herself, Yeah, which makes me want to home made sandwich.

582
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:39.960
Where would the hair come from?

583
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:43.440
Well, but maybe you know who knows? Until as she pulls,

584
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.359
the hair is more than six inches long, then more

585
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:48.519
than a foot long.

586
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:53.640
It's it's like a good eighteen inch long, and it's good.

587
00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:56.400
So she spits it out. I gotta get past that part.

588
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.799
She spits it out and just throws all her food

589
00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:04.279
away because like, her hair is not eighteen inches long. No,

590
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:06.559
and it did not look like her hair.

591
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:09.000
So she's like light brown hair and a ponytail.

592
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:12.039
Yeah, and this was dark jet black hair like this.

593
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:15.440
Oh, it was coarse. She had a coarse long hair.

594
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:17.759
So she throws everything away.

595
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.039
I would I would too. You probably set it all

596
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:21.759
on fire.

597
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:25.720
Yeah, yeah, I probably would have been out by that welfare.

598
00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:30.279
So she gets grossed out. But then she hears like

599
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:34.480
something happening in the lobby, so she goes up to

600
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:41.039
the lobby to investigate, and outside she thinks she sees something,

601
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:43.880
so she opens the door. She walks out to the

602
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:46.240
front of the building, and then when she turns around,

603
00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:49.680
without even noticing, someone slipped into the door.

604
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:52.720
Yeah, there's a figure in a coat and pants with

605
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.960
long hair and no shoes on, no shoes, And as

606
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.599
she calls out to him, he does what any vagrant

607
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:03.319
would do, just starts urinating on the floor.

608
00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:04.920
Yeah, because why wouldn't you.

609
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:07.720
Because yeah, because why not. Now he's and he's unresponsive

610
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:11.279
to her speaking to him, and so she goes around

611
00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:17.200
and has her her retractable baton out and basically one

612
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:21.160
of the first really good scares, you know. She she's like, sir, sir,

613
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.000
And then finally he just kind of barks shut up,

614
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:27.119
like we're like out of nowhere, like very very schizophrenic style,

615
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.079
and startles her. But then at the moment he's a responsor,

616
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.200
he's like she starts pokings like get.

617
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:35.839
Out, yeah, like right now, go go go. Now that

618
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:37.240
I know you're not gonna die.

619
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.279
Yeah, now that I know you're not like, you don't

620
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:42.279
need medical attention, get the hell out of here. Yeah.

621
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:48.559
So she gets him out the door, and then she

622
00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:51.559
goes to clean up. So she goes into you know,

623
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.319
the room to get like a mop bucket and whatever.

624
00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:58.440
And as she's cleaning up, she notices an old pair

625
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:02.200
of leather work boots. And I thought this was great storytelling.

626
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.519
She finds this old pair of work boots and she

627
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.720
takes him out front and she leaves him on the

628
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.279
front steps. She doesn't see the homeless man anywhere, but

629
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.640
she leaves him on the front steps for him. And

630
00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:17.680
it's interesting because after that we always see that he's

631
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:18.640
wearing those boots.

632
00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:22.160
Well, maybe he was Japanese.

633
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:23.279
He was trying to be.

634
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:26.720
He was like, I would never enter someone's place of

635
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:29.000
business or home. And you're ainate on the floor leaving

636
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:29.799
my shoes on.

637
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:31.240
No, that's just wrong.

638
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:34.000
How rude. But things are about to get a lot

639
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:50.519
more rude when we get back after this. So now

640
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:54.960
our hero, if you will, Officer Lauren, has kicked the

641
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:58.039
homeless guy out. But of course there is that question,

642
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.279
how the hell did he get in? We didn't see

643
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:05.039
Now there was a period in time that the door

644
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:08.840
was unlocked, but as far as the door being unwatched,

645
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:11.880
it was a matter of seconds, yeah, that the door

646
00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:17.320
was unwatched, And that pretty much sets the standard for

647
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:21.199
the whole film because anything that anything out of sight

648
00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.880
is in play. The moment you're not looking directly at

649
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:30.840
something entirely bathed in light, there's no guarantee that there

650
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:34.840
won't or will be anything there, and that works so

651
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:38.079
well because, hmm, while this film, I'm sure I don't

652
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:40.800
I couldn't find an actual budget for it, but I'm

653
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:43.880
positive the film was done on the lower end, maybe

654
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:47.480
one hundred thousand dollars, maybe a little less, or maybe

655
00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:50.119
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Maybe it wasn't quite

656
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:55.760
as small. But they had basically this office building and

657
00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:01.079
a very minimal amount of time and money to really

658
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:02.519
do much with it. I mean, there are a few

659
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:05.599
moments later on where you know, she goes into the

660
00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:09.960
bathroom and it's completely been destroyed and covered in gross stuff,

661
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:12.440
But for the most part, the building is just the building.

662
00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:15.960
And that's one of the things I love about the

663
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.519
movie is they do so much with incredibly little, and

664
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:23.480
they really don't start doing a lot until the end,

665
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:29.079
and even then it's relatively simple. But I always thought,

666
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:32.000
I've always felt that simplicity is king when it comes

667
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:35.880
to to scares, because the more complex things are, the

668
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.639
more you're thinking, and the more you're thinking. Sometimes that

669
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:42.239
can be good because it distracts you, but sometimes it

670
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.840
can be bad because it distracts you. So you know

671
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.280
the idea that at any moment when you're watching the film,

672
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.719
she could the camera could pan away because she looks

673
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.920
at something and when she looks back there may be

674
00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:59.760
something totally different. I love I love that so much.

675
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.239
So now she's a bit on edge because she had

676
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:06.159
the lol homeless guy peede in the whatever, I better

677
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:09.360
go clean it up. We're starting to realize that things

678
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:10.840
are getting a little bit.

679
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:11.920
Getting a little weird.

680
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:13.960
Yeah, they're getting a little concerning.

681
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:16.960
Yeah, well, and you mentioned the next thing that happened

682
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:20.840
is you know, she's she's cleaned up, left the shoes

683
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.119
out for the homeless man, and she starts investigating around

684
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:27.119
and when she goes into the bathroom, it is destroyed.

685
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:31.599
Yeah, And I mean, like beyond beyond anything that makes sense.

686
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.559
It's not just a little dirty or a little grimy

687
00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:37.320
or a little run down. It is. It is covered

688
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:42.440
in filth of varying concepts. I think that's a good

689
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:43.000
way to put it.

690
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:43.800
That's a good way put it.

691
00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.119
Yeah, Like you could be like, is this shit? Is

692
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:48.199
this blood? Is this piss? And it would just be

693
00:36:48.239 --> 00:36:50.920
shrug emoji. Yeah you don't want it, That's all I

694
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:54.400
can tell you for sure, Which is you know which?

695
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:56.760
It seemed to me like she tries to play off

696
00:36:56.800 --> 00:37:00.000
as like, oh, this place is just really disgusting. Yeah,

697
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.360
we're leaving it, but it's kind of beyond the pale.

698
00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:09.320
It's off putting. It is unsettling, to say the least. Yes,

699
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.280
And so as she's as she's wandering, investigating, and this

700
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.639
goes plays into you can't trust it if you're not

701
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:21.559
looking directly at it. So she walks into the locker

702
00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:25.440
room and all of the lockers are slightly a jar

703
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:28.960
except one. She opens it up and it.

704
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:30.960
Has a key, and it has a key when all

705
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:33.400
the other ones have don't have a key. This locker

706
00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:36.440
is closed with a key sticking out of the keyhole.

707
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.119
Oh.

708
00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:41.519
So she opens it up and tucked in one of

709
00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:45.960
the upper corners is a picture childhood picture of her

710
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:46.519
and her.

711
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:49.079
Dad, which will we find that out later? Yeah? Yeah,

712
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:51.960
At first it's just a picture of a father and daughter.

713
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:56.320
The reason I kind of gathered pretty quickly that it

714
00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:59.559
was a picture of her and her dad sure was

715
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:03.079
first off, the writing on the back. I felt like,

716
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:05.679
if it was just some random throwaway character, the writing

717
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:07.360
wouldn't have played as much into it.

718
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:07.599
Yeah.

719
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:09.920
Yeah, but they did make sure to focus on it,

720
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:12.639
and it says Daddy and Cuttlebug at the park.

721
00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:13.079
Yes.

722
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:16.320
But the other reason that I assumed that it had

723
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:18.480
to be connected to her in some way is because

724
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.280
the way she considered it, and she was gonna take

725
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.079
the picture, she was gonna slide it into her pocket,

726
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:27.400
but then she took a moment, looked at it again,

727
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:30.599
and put it back in the locker, which to me

728
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.159
was kind of like her way of saying, like, I

729
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:36.199
have the memory in my heart, I don't need to

730
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:38.280
take the picture from where dad left it.

731
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:42.159
See. I get that, But as a first time viewer,

732
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:47.880
I felt her almost keeping it might have been more

733
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.199
the wit they were trying to get across, I mean,

734
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.599
because obviously it turns out to be her opinion or

735
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:56.079
her father, her almost keeping it and then putting it

736
00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:59.000
back was like them trying to fake us out into

737
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:01.239
thinking like, oh, she almost kept this just because it

738
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:03.679
was cute, and then realized like, somebody's probably gonna come

739
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:07.239
back for this, and it's not mine. That was at

740
00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:09.320
first the thought. But I mean, like, like you said,

741
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.000
it does turn out to be a photograph of her

742
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:15.239
and her father, which seems weird because again, we never

743
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:21.079
really get a major idea of when the incident that

744
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.519
we're going that's going to unravel in front of us.

745
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:25.199
We never really get an idea of when it happens,

746
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.119
but there are hints that it was a little while

747
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.280
ago the technology at the time. We also don't know

748
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:33.920
when the movie takes place. We have hints because she

749
00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:36.519
has a flip phone, but it was shot in twenty fourteen.

750
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:40.440
Flip phones were still a thing in twenty fourteen. But

751
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:44.039
this could have been two thousand and six. Yeah, it

752
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.800
could have been two thousand and eight. It doesn't really,

753
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:48.840
it doesn't matter enough that it needs to be spelled

754
00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:50.920
out in the movie. It's just that there is a

755
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.719
consistent argument. There's a way to make an argument. There's

756
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:57.719
consistently no flat screen TVs there's consistently no smartphones, there's

757
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:02.280
consistently no you know, kindle books. Yeah, there's there's nothing

758
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:05.639
to tell us exactly when it is, So it could

759
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:07.159
have been twenty fourteen, or it could have been as

760
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.599
early as like two thousand and three or four. Yeah,

761
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:13.039
we don't really see anything. It's very timeless in that way,

762
00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:17.000
which makes it even even more offset off putting in

763
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:17.559
a way.

764
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.400
Yeah, because then you can kind of imagine it happening

765
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:21.280
to yourself.

766
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:21.719
Yeah.

767
00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:25.880
Yeah, it's easier, easier to insert yourself into the story

768
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:29.400
that way. But so, so she considers the picture, she

769
00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:34.920
puts it back, and then the camera zooms out and

770
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:41.599
now all of the lockers are wide open, every single one.

771
00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:46.159
And she's a little freaked out because she is literally

772
00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:47.079
the only person there.

773
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:49.400
And it made no sound. None of the lockers been

774
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.039
sound opening up. The only sound we hear as an

775
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:57.199
audience is the the musical thud, the musical sting, letting

776
00:40:57.239 --> 00:40:59.320
us know something just happened. As it cuts to the

777
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.280
wide shot, I realize all of the lockers are open,

778
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:03.639
all of them.

779
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:09.400
So then she gets another nine one one call yes,

780
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.000
and it's the girl again, and this time Officer Lauren

781
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.559
is able to get her name out of her. She

782
00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:20.039
learns that her name has Monica, and Monica explains she's

783
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:24.159
on a ranch, but really the only landmark at all

784
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:26.400
that she can think to describe is I think there

785
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:30.599
are pigs. That's the only thing she can really give away.

786
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:35.159
The calls disconnects again and again. She calls the new

787
00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:39.360
station and explains like, hey, I just got I just

788
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:42.119
got that call. And the guy's a little annoyed. He's like,

789
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:45.360
I don't know what to tell you. He says, if

790
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:48.239
they're calling you, they have to be calling that station

791
00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:50.599
directly because nine to one one is going to go

792
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:51.840
to US and US only.

793
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.039
Yeah, and so we can't track that call coming in.

794
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:55.519
And of course I're responsible. Then what do I do?

795
00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:57.039
He is like, tell her to hang up and call

796
00:41:57.119 --> 00:41:58.559
nine one one.

797
00:41:58.719 --> 00:41:59.599
That's all you can do.

798
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:00.440
Yeah.

799
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:09.559
So oh so another bit of beautiful visual storytelling is

800
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:13.159
you know, she's in the office room and there's those big,

801
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:17.840
the big vault bookshelves that they use to keep all

802
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:20.159
of the records and everything O.

803
00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:23.079
The record shelves, and they're so big they're on tracks

804
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.239
with a Pulley system, so they're easy to move.

805
00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:28.239
Exact cause you wouldn't be able to move them easily

806
00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:30.679
by hand, so they've got a pulley system. So we

807
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:34.840
start hearing those like rattling. So she goes to investigate

808
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:39.480
and kind of holds everything steady and the rattling dies down,

809
00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:41.800
and she's thinking, oh, well, I'm just getting a little

810
00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.000
you know, a little rough of uh, just a little,

811
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:48.880
and then all of them just slam to one side,

812
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.360
which again, they're on a track, so you would have

813
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.320
to exert an incredible amount of force to move all

814
00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:55.960
of them.

815
00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:58.880
And you would have to be seen doing it. Yeah,

816
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:02.480
Because when she looks around, there's no one, nothing, there's

817
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:06.559
nothing even unusual, yeah, other than that happening.

818
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:13.679
So she's she's getting a little panicky. So she tries

819
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:18.039
using the radio on her on her lapel, and all

820
00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:20.679
she gets is like crackling. She can't get through on

821
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:25.199
the radio. Then all of the lights cut out and

822
00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:25.639
we hear.

823
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:28.199
An alarm sound yeah, and red lights kick on.

824
00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:32.199
And so this is real bad. And and again this

825
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:34.280
is where we get to learn a little bit more

826
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.920
about who she is as a person, not just as

827
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:41.280
a police officer, but as a person. So this is

828
00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:47.000
a very panic inducing moment to calm herself down. As

829
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.119
she draws her weapon and has her flashlight out and

830
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:55.639
she's looking around, she's reciting to herself the oath that

831
00:43:55.679 --> 00:43:58.519
she took as a police officer that she's here to

832
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:02.199
you know, guard and uphold old with you know, liberty

833
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:04.159
and justice and fairness or something.

834
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:04.440
Yeah.

835
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.679
Yeah, So that's that was interesting to me because you

836
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:15.199
start to see that she's one of those cops who like,

837
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.920
this is who she wants to be. This isn't just

838
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:20.559
a job for her. She wants to be that force

839
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:21.880
in the community.

840
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:23.960
Well and in a way being a cop to her,

841
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:27.719
she's treating it like being a Catholic priest. Yeah, because

842
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:31.960
she's reciting her oath to give her strength and calmness,

843
00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:36.719
which I mean, like, I'm not a religious man, but

844
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:39.400
I think I get that I'd bet on a priest

845
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:43.039
before I bet on a precinct, you know. But things

846
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.280
are going to get even weirder as we continue to

847
00:44:46.320 --> 00:45:03.760
dive in right after this. So now that we've had

848
00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:07.480
the alarms go off and we've had Officer Lauren walking

849
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:11.960
along in the dark basically preaching to herself about her

850
00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:16.199
oath as an officer, what happens next.

851
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:20.199
So she opens up a door to go to like

852
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.239
the breaker room, because again it's an office building, so

853
00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:25.800
it doesn't have like a normal homebreaker. It's got the

854
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.840
big switch things, right. So she goes in there, and

855
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.360
first we see the shoes, we see the boots, and

856
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:35.119
then we see the homeless people in them, yeah, which

857
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:37.880
was very unsettling. And then we see the homeless man

858
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:41.400
and he's just like digging through stuff and like throwing

859
00:45:41.400 --> 00:45:42.239
things around.

860
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:46.639
Doing like the the I guess discarded records, the records

861
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:49.760
that weren't worth keeping. He's just throwing them around. He's

862
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.159
just going nuts on top of a of a like

863
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:53.400
five foot high shelf.

864
00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:58.559
Yeah, So she gets the breaker and then she's like

865
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:03.159
trying to argue with him and finally like tases him

866
00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:06.920
and apprehends him and is dragging him to a cell,

867
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.480
to a holding cell, and she has a little rough

868
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:11.599
with him getting into him into the holding cell, but

869
00:46:11.719 --> 00:46:15.840
in her defense, he is not being cooperative, no at all.

870
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:19.159
So she gets him into the cell and she's in

871
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:21.159
the cell with him and like tases him so that

872
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:26.880
she can keep him subdued. And then all the child

873
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.599
all the lights shut off again. The door slams close

874
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:31.519
on its own and she can't open it.

875
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:33.760
Yeah, so now she's stuck in the holding cell with

876
00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:38.000
this homeless perp guy whose hands are handcuffed behind his back.

877
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:42.880
But then all we hear is like scuffling and him

878
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.599
breathing and her breathing, and she's not even even really

879
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:49.280
saying anything. But we don't see anything because she's like

880
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:53.960
dropped the flashlight, and so all we can all we

881
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.760
can really do is for a good like fifteen twenty

882
00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:59.800
twenty five seconds, it's all we hear is breathing in

883
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:02.280
a little bit of moving and rustling. We don't see

884
00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:05.360
anything except blackness, which is even blacker because of your

885
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:11.960
new TV. And then we see the light. And at

886
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.599
first it looks like the homeless man is holding the light.

887
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:17.239
To her him.

888
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:20.079
She's like, yeah, give give it back, give it back,

889
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:24.840
and then the light moves and points at him.

890
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:28.360
He's from directly next to her, and he's completely unconscious.

891
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:30.199
He's way he's just.

892
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:34.519
Out like a light. So the light keeps moving as

893
00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:37.440
she's you know, trying to argue with whomever or whatever

894
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:39.920
is there, like you need to give me my flashlight back,

895
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.320
and as she's maneuvering around the room trying to grab

896
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.239
this disembodied flashlight. She's standing in front of the door

897
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:55.960
and we see this bloody, ghostly face just pop up

898
00:47:56.199 --> 00:47:58.480
in the window of the door and then disappear the

899
00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:00.239
moment she looks away.

900
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:01.760
Which was the moment that woke me up when I

901
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:03.400
was watching the movie the first time, and it was

902
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:05.239
one of the biggest scares in the film, and it

903
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:05.639
got me.

904
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:09.440
And that's talk about less is more. The build up

905
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:13.320
for that was perfect. The tension, you know, was perfectly executed,

906
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:18.280
and they didn't need, you know, like huge blockbuster special

907
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:21.360
effects to like totally get us hooked on this. It

908
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:24.639
was just some fake blood and somebody in a creepy mask.

909
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:25.320
That's it.

910
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:26.800
Yeah.

911
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:32.239
Uh So she finally she finally gets the gets the flashlight,

912
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:36.400
the lights turned back on, and the door opens and

913
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:39.519
she just books it out, locks the door behind her

914
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:42.800
and like, sorry, homeless man, you're gonna have to stand

915
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:43.719
there by yourself.

916
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.239
Well he would be there by himself anyway anyway, But yeah,

917
00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:49.880
have you been arrested by a cop nice enough to

918
00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:55.440
hang out with you in holding? Life is different for women,

919
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:55.960
I swear.

920
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:05.800
So now she's really thinks are beyond this is just

921
00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:11.199
a little weird. This is like really starting to freak

922
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:16.320
her out. Everything's starting to go back to normal, the

923
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:20.679
lights aren't flickering, but like you can tell that she's

924
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:25.280
really on edge. So she manages to calm herself down

925
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:28.440
by reciting her oath again, and then she goes to

926
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:33.199
call Sergeant Cohen, and you can tell, and again amazing acting.

927
00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:36.039
You can tell as she calls Sergeant Cohen that she's

928
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.039
gonna tell him like I can't do this, and she

929
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:45.519
gets his voicemail, and so she kind of collects herself

930
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:47.880
and she's like a sergeant, I just wanted to call.

931
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.360
I had to tell you. I'm so thankful to be here.

932
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:55.400
I'm so thankful on this chance to be on the force.

933
00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.000
And you're like, oh man, she is. She is in

934
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:00.199
it to win it well.

935
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:04.000
And and expectation is a curse, you know, yeah, the

936
00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:07.280
only the only curse worse than expectation of a loved

937
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:10.440
one or expectation of oneself is expectation of a loved

938
00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:13.119
one who is no longer with you. Because you can

939
00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:16.039
never get well, You'll it'll never be good enough because

940
00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:17.039
you'll never get.

941
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:20.480
Any any positive affirmation whatsoever.

942
00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:23.800
Or any affirmation at all, and if you do get affirmation,

943
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:25.960
that's even more worrisome.

944
00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:30.960
Yes, so yeah, So she she hangs up, and she's

945
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.679
still a little shaken, but you know, she made her

946
00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:36.119
phone call, and you know she's feeling a little bitter,

947
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:39.599
but you can see on her face that things don't

948
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:44.199
feel quite right. So she looks around and then she

949
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:49.320
looks up and there's blood on the ceilings. Something is

950
00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:54.239
written in blood on the ceiling. And she turns because

951
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:57.639
she's on one of those you know turning chairs, like

952
00:50:57.719 --> 00:50:59.199
a chair, yeah, dust chair.

953
00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:02.199
Yeah, Like I am like, we're both in right now. Yeah. Yeah,

954
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:03.880
So she turns. It looks like it looks like it

955
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:06.119
says w O s whoas or something.

956
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:09.400
And you're like, what's that? Yeah, And then when she turns,

957
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:11.400
you realize soo.

958
00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:14.679
Sao, which some people might not know what sao means.

959
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:17.159
So Sao is a female pig.

960
00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:20.760
See oh yeah, okay, I didn't even know it was

961
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:21.320
a female pig.

962
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:24.719
I just do was Yeah, we're specifically a female pig more.

963
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:29.000
Popular on farms and in the old dialect to call

964
00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:32.480
a pig of sal because I think it's too confusing

965
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:37.239
because it sounds like cow you know what, I'm just saying.

966
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.079
Some of those fart and people have thick accents so

967
00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:41.719
that you know, you think you're going to you're going

968
00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:43.320
to a sou field and like what.

969
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:51.719
So that obviously puts her off more so she kind

970
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:54.920
of just books it out of that office room, like, Okay,

971
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.159
we're not going to hang out where the phone is

972
00:51:57.239 --> 00:52:03.800
anymore correct. She goes to like lock everything up because

973
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.440
now it's clear that not only has the homeless man

974
00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:11.039
gotten him twice, but now someone else is in there,

975
00:52:11.360 --> 00:52:14.039
riding in blood on the ceiling. So she goes to

976
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:16.360
lock everything up, but when she gets to the back door,

977
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:20.960
she sees a woman just back there, chief on a cigarette.

978
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:24.400
And a relatively normal looking woman. She's you know, blonde

979
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:30.679
hair with a ponytail. She looks like she's probably a

980
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:37.320
long traveled lady of the night because she's wearing high

981
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.639
heels and a short skirt. And yeah, she's just smoking.

982
00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:43.159
She's just sucking a button. She's just smoking a cigarette

983
00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:44.679
out front.

984
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:50.039
And uh so, Officer Lauren's like, you can't do that here.

985
00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:52.360
This is a police station. Like, you can't just hang

986
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:54.719
out in the back of the police station smoking cigarettes,

987
00:52:54.760 --> 00:52:57.079
and the lady's like, please just let me finish this one.

988
00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:00.119
Or her responsible, Yeah, it kills me because she's like, no,

989
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:03.039
it's not police station's down the road on the corner

990
00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:07.440
or whatever. And she's like you, ma'am, please.

991
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:11.039
I'm having a hard night. So they sit like they

992
00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:13.320
have a really good conversation.

993
00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:15.960
A few times that she has a conversation face to

994
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:18.599
face with another person, because every time that there's a

995
00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:20.920
phone call, we never see the other person and we

996
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:24.239
always stay with Officer Lauren. In fact, that's almost the

997
00:53:24.360 --> 00:53:27.079
law of the whole movie, is we actually, yeah, we

998
00:53:27.159 --> 00:53:28.960
never we never leave ever.

999
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:32.679
So as they're sitting there talking and you know, kind

1000
00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:35.840
of breaking the ice. At first, Officer Lauren's kind of

1001
00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:39.360
gruff with her, but after the lady like cracks that

1002
00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:42.920
joke and you know kind of it's kind of like, please,

1003
00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:45.000
this is like gonna be way safer for me to

1004
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.599
smoke a cigarette here than to go and smoke it

1005
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:50.639
on the corner somewhere. She's like, okay, fair enough, just

1006
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.199
you know, leave when you're done. And then the lady start,

1007
00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:56.880
you know, starts talking about like, well, I was there

1008
00:53:56.920 --> 00:54:02.159
that night, and as the audience were like, oh good,

1009
00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:03.239
there's a that night.

1010
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:05.679
Yeah. Yeah. Whenever you hear that Night, you know, it's

1011
00:54:05.719 --> 00:54:06.320
a good time.

1012
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:12.079
And she starts explaining she was there when the Payman

1013
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:13.719
family was arrested.

1014
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:18.480
And she refers to them specifically as Manson, which is

1015
00:54:18.719 --> 00:54:22.079
which is an excellent bit of self awareness, because otherwise

1016
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:23.719
it would be like, wow, they really just took the

1017
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:26.679
Manson story and ran with it, but.

1018
00:54:26.760 --> 00:54:28.079
They at least acknowledged like that.

1019
00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:31.320
Yeah, and to be Manson family, Oh, absolutely sure that

1020
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:32.039
for decades.

1021
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:36.079
Yeah. So you know, she says she was there when

1022
00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.239
they were arrested. An officer Laurence says, well, that's can't

1023
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:43.480
be because they did not apprehend them alive, and she says, oh, no,

1024
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:48.440
they did. They were very much alive when they came

1025
00:54:48.639 --> 00:54:55.000
to the station, and they sang all night this creepy,

1026
00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:55.960
creepy song.

1027
00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:58.639
And we've been hearing it a little bit throughout the film.

1028
00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:00.800
It's a little tiny.

1029
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:02.639
Bits and pieces, and you don't really notice it until

1030
00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:06.840
this lady sings the whole song. And then as she

1031
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:12.960
finishes the song, like she starts crying just a little bit,

1032
00:55:13.039 --> 00:55:17.320
just not like but just a good one, good tear

1033
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:20.480
and you know, she says, and then in the morning

1034
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:24.920
they'd all hung themselves and in the cell behind them,

1035
00:55:25.079 --> 00:55:26.639
pure evil.

1036
00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:31.119
Of course, it makes you wonder why she said she

1037
00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:32.519
felt safer smoking there.

1038
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:35.159
Well, there's a lot of questions.

1039
00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:37.679
Yeah, there are a lot of questions in this movie entirely.

1040
00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:38.920
It's one of the best parts of it.

1041
00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:42.039
But we kind of I got as an audience member,

1042
00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:43.880
I got kind of the vibe like this is the

1043
00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:47.320
kind of evil that you never recover from. So maybe

1044
00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:49.800
maybe she felt safer because at least it's like, well,

1045
00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:51.280
at least there's one person here.

1046
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:53.760
Yeah, yeah, I could agree with that, which is much.

1047
00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:56.079
Better than the empty, cold, barren, empty street.

1048
00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:57.199
Yeah.

1049
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:02.639
But things get even more intriguing when this random lady

1050
00:56:03.320 --> 00:56:08.320
mentions that Officer Lauren's father was on duty that night

1051
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:17.599
and he was there when they apprehended the family. So

1052
00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:20.599
the lady kind of says her goodbyes, leaving Officer Lauren

1053
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:23.360
with far more questions than she had to begin with.

1054
00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:28.519
But now she's got a little tiny bit of the story,

1055
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:33.840
and so when Officer Lauren goes back inside.

1056
00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:50.320
Oh, we're gonna find out right after this break and

1057
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:53.840
we're back as Officer Lauren's about to find out a

1058
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:56.800
little bit more about the history of not only the

1059
00:56:57.719 --> 00:56:59.960
precinct but her own family.

1060
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:06.079
So she walks back in and as she's walking down

1061
00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:09.840
the hall, she notices that one of the doors is opened.

1062
00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:14.079
She opens it further and there's TV screen in like

1063
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:16.559
their meeting room, and.

1064
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:20.079
This is like old school hospital style mounted in the corner.

1065
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:25.679
Yeah, yeah, so staticky. But then it just starts showing

1066
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:32.119
different footage of these very unsavory characters kind of rambling

1067
00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:33.079
a little bit.

1068
00:57:33.280 --> 00:57:37.320
Well, not just rambling, like psychotic rambling. I think the

1069
00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:39.920
leader of the group kept saying like I am the

1070
00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:42.440
flame of a candle. He just keeps saying like I

1071
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.320
am the flame of a candle, Like the flame of

1072
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.000
a candle, I serve and blah blah blah. It's very

1073
00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:51.480
very great pole. And then it cuts to the women

1074
00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:54.079
who are very much kind of like the devotees of

1075
00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:57.480
Charles Manson exactly, and they're ranting, but they're but they're

1076
00:57:57.639 --> 00:57:59.920
very much like the devotees of Charles Manson, because manson

1077
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:05.039
devotees were not the flowery speakers that he was. They

1078
00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:08.519
were a lot of them in interviews were just straight

1079
00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:11.320
up drooling killers. I mean, so when the one girl

1080
00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:12.960
at one point you catch a little snippet of her

1081
00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:15.519
saying like like, uh, I bashed her head in with

1082
00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:17.639
a baseball bat and then bounces around and what comes back.

1083
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:19.639
She says like she didn't even look like a person

1084
00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:22.079
no more, and it bounce around. She's like, I loved it,

1085
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:22.599
and he.

1086
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:25.559
Turned me on, you know, and the one the other

1087
00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:28.880
girl's like, I killed one girl. She squealed like a pig.

1088
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:34.199
And then she starts like and yeah, yeah, it's it's it's.

1089
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.960
Very and unsettling. So at first it's just on the screen,

1090
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:43.320
but then in the room there's a a dropped down

1091
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.840
sheet and it's being projected from behind the sheet kind

1092
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:51.199
of showing that like, now Officer Lauren is like has

1093
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:57.800
been submerged in, you know, the visuals of what's going

1094
00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:03.639
on with this these interrogations, and you know it, the

1095
00:59:03.639 --> 00:59:06.679
whole thing kind of ends snaps out of it when

1096
00:59:06.679 --> 00:59:10.679
there's another call on the phone, and now Officer Lauren

1097
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:13.000
like really wants to get to the bottom of this

1098
00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:18.440
of who is calling her, so she runs and answers

1099
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:21.199
the phone and she's like Monica, Monica, what's your last name,

1100
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:26.079
so Monica gives her her last name and kind of

1101
00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:29.320
gives some more information. Officer Lauren you knows, like, hey, look,

1102
00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:32.639
look you need to hang up call nine one one,

1103
00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:35.199
and Monica says, I can't call nine one one from

1104
00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:37.039
my phone, which is weird.

1105
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:39.519
It is very strange.

1106
00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:46.599
And then she says they're coming and they won't stop singing,

1107
00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:53.960
and so Officer Lauren asks if anyone there has mentioned

1108
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:58.719
John Michael Payman, the man who the of the Payman family,

1109
00:59:59.239 --> 01:00:03.360
and they have, they've been talking about John Michael Payman.

1110
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.679
And then the phone cuts out again, of course conveniently,

1111
01:00:06.760 --> 01:00:08.840
so she calls the new station and she gives them

1112
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:12.559
the information and explains that she thinks Monica is being

1113
01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:16.400
held hostage by the Payman family and the other remaining

1114
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:19.400
the remaining because because they only got three, but it

1115
01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:22.119
was well known that there was other family members that

1116
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:25.000
were able to get away. And the officer says, like

1117
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:28.679
that that is really not possible.

1118
01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:30.880
Yeah. He even mentions that the few members of the

1119
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:33.880
Payman family are still around are like constantly scrutinized and

1120
01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:37.400
watched by law enforcement because they were never caught doing

1121
01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:40.320
anything wrong, but they're they're here on the list, they're

1122
01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:41.960
heavily watched. Yeah.

1123
01:00:42.239 --> 01:00:45.920
So after she hangs up, she starts hearing someone whistling

1124
01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:51.079
from down the hallway. When she goes to investigate, there's

1125
01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:54.119
a room. She opens the door. There's a room full

1126
01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:57.400
of furniture on the floor. Like that's the staging room

1127
01:00:57.480 --> 01:00:59.559
for like getting all of the chairs and stuff out

1128
01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:00.519
of the office.

1129
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:01.679
Crap office chairs.

1130
01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:08.119
Basically nothing, no big deal. So she hears something behind her,

1131
01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:11.039
she turns and looks, and then when she turns.

1132
01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:13.480
Back, which is literally in a matter of seconds.

1133
01:01:13.119 --> 01:01:16.719
Yeah, one and a half two seconds, turns, looks, turns back,

1134
01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:22.760
all of the furniture is stacked up ceiling high, straight

1135
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:26.480
out of Poltergeist, which is great, great little homage to Poltergeist.

1136
01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:29.440
But it was super effective again because like we were

1137
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:32.159
not looking and the ending again it's reinforcing, like if

1138
01:01:32.159 --> 01:01:36.159
you are not looking somewhere, don't trust it. It will change.

1139
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:42.679
So that to her, something flips a switch and she's like,

1140
01:01:42.719 --> 01:01:46.280
I'm being haste. That's that's the only that's the only

1141
01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:50.960
logical explanation. So she, you know, like holds up her arms. Okay, guys,

1142
01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:54.840
you got you got me. It's great, great, you're gonna

1143
01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:57.119
haze the rookie. I get it.

1144
01:01:57.440 --> 01:01:59.360
I even give you credit. You had me go in.

1145
01:02:01.079 --> 01:02:02.840
But no one's coming out.

1146
01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:05.119
Yeah, And then she gets mad. She's like, Okay, it's

1147
01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.599
really fucked up that you guys aren't gonna just let

1148
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:08.079
this go.

1149
01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:12.119
Yeah, like you got you got, you got your laughs, kid,

1150
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.079
just let's end this. So then she hears the buzzer

1151
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:17.760
out front go off. She goes to see who it is,

1152
01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:22.360
and it's another police officer. It's a police officer from

1153
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:25.639
the new building. So he's, you know, he's been moved,

1154
01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:27.760
he's been working over there. And he says that he's

1155
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:30.239
come to check on her because they've gotten several car

1156
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:32.559
calls from her. So he just wants to make sure that,

1157
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:35.920
you know, she's okay. And they you know, they kind

1158
01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:38.280
of laugh and you know, they have they have a

1159
01:02:38.280 --> 01:02:41.400
good time and he and he says that he was

1160
01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:47.039
actually there on duty with her father when the payments

1161
01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:47.800
were being arrested.

1162
01:02:48.039 --> 01:02:50.039
He admits that the real reason he came was that

1163
01:02:50.119 --> 01:02:53.639
he wanted to see her because he respected her father.

1164
01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:58.960
In fact, he suggests that during the shootout that while

1165
01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:01.320
he was saving Bob, he's her father was the one

1166
01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:05.280
literally in the midst of a firefight and that's when

1167
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:07.079
he died. And she even mentions like, they never gave

1168
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.519
me details. You know, they told us, they told us

1169
01:03:09.519 --> 01:03:12.840
he passed, but they never give us any details. And so,

1170
01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.800
and this guy is extremely earnest. He's constantly trying to

1171
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:19.199
get her to relax because she's when she first sees him,

1172
01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:21.119
she's just like, oh, you're you're, you know, here to

1173
01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:24.440
laugh about it. And he's like, I what, I don't

1174
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:28.119
know what you're talking about. Yeah, so he's he definitely

1175
01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:31.039
is trying to, you know, cool her down a little bit.

1176
01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:33.880
He's not the oldest guy. He's probably maybe ten years

1177
01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:36.880
older than her at most, and he's very friendly and

1178
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:38.960
he's trying to you know, but as soon as he

1179
01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:41.880
starts talking about that, he's very serious about like, I

1180
01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.760
just you know, want you to know that we're happy

1181
01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:46.960
to have you on the foreshear, Dad would be would

1182
01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:49.960
be very proud because he believed in what we do.

1183
01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:54.199
And it's actually a very touching moment after all of

1184
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:59.199
the hardship that she's gone through so far, yeah, so far.

1185
01:03:59.480 --> 01:04:02.320
So far, And he even says to her, he says,

1186
01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:04.920
you know, if you do need anything, if just like

1187
01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:09.199
I'm right down the street, just call and ask for

1188
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:11.760
officer Price and I'll be there in just a minute,

1189
01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:13.480
you know, I'll walk down and I'll take care of you.

1190
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:16.039
And he says, you know, well, I've got to go,

1191
01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:19.239
and she's like, I wouldn't be mad. She wanted to stay.

1192
01:04:18.679 --> 01:04:21.079
He believe me, I wish I could.

1193
01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:25.519
But I've got to go. Yes, So he turns to

1194
01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:28.920
walk away, and the entire back of his head is

1195
01:04:29.719 --> 01:04:30.880
just gone.

1196
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:35.000
And we don't mean like it's bloody. We mean you

1197
01:04:35.039 --> 01:04:38.559
can see that there is a hole in the back

1198
01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:43.880
of his head, flat out. You can see that it's gone,

1199
01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.360
and it's not focused on it's not in a close up.

1200
01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:48.840
As he walks away, you just see it. And then

1201
01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:52.760
we see her reaction, yeah, which is obviously startled. But

1202
01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:55.519
then even worse, as he leaves the doorway and walks

1203
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:59.480
past one window, he doesn't walk past the other window,

1204
01:04:59.800 --> 01:05:00.400
Like there's.

1205
01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:04.320
A wall with an adjoining window, and he doesn't walk past.

1206
01:05:04.199 --> 01:05:06.079
And when she goes to catch up with him, he's

1207
01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:08.960
not there at all. Yeah, which makes us realize that

1208
01:05:09.199 --> 01:05:15.039
possibly the nicest and friendliest character so far was most

1209
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:21.559
certainly a spooky a ghost and that is one of

1210
01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:24.039
those moments in the movie that really kind of makes

1211
01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:27.320
you go, Okay, the tone is about to shift substantially,

1212
01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:31.679
and we'll talk all about that substantial tone shift after this,

1213
01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:49.880
and we are back talking all about Last Shift. So

1214
01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:52.000
what's happening next.

1215
01:05:52.519 --> 01:05:58.719
So after Officer Price disappears, after that really unsettling reveal, well.

1216
01:05:59.559 --> 01:06:04.239
A a representation of Officer Price. But that's one of

1217
01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:09.320
the things I love about this. I love ambiguity, Yeah.

1218
01:06:09.400 --> 01:06:12.960
I I I'm one of those people like if you

1219
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:18.960
if you did three more Last Shift movies or two

1220
01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:21.280
or even two more or whatever, I would start to go,

1221
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:24.400
all right, guys, you gotta start answering some goddamn questions

1222
01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:27.760
because like we got to evolve where we're at.

1223
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:30.880
But for a one off, yeah, I love not knowing

1224
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.840
what's going on entirely. That's the fun of it. That's

1225
01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:36.159
what makes my brain spin. And then I end up

1226
01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:38.079
talking to you about it on a microphone. You know,

1227
01:06:38.119 --> 01:06:39.519
that's that's a good shit.

1228
01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:41.679
It's the good stuff. Yeah, it's the good stuff.

1229
01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:43.320
So but but one of the things that's kind of

1230
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:48.039
ambiguous is now that we know we're seeing ghosts, or

1231
01:06:48.079 --> 01:06:52.440
manifestations or something are Was that actually the ghost of

1232
01:06:52.440 --> 01:06:56.199
Officer Price or was that a manifestation of the evil

1233
01:06:56.400 --> 01:07:01.159
in this building just fucking with her for fun. That's

1234
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:04.960
up to us to interpret. I lean toward it was

1235
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:07.760
actually his ghost, because there were things he said that

1236
01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:12.679
seemed so legitimate. Like one part that really clicks with me, after,

1237
01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:15.920
you know, seeing his brains have been blown out, was

1238
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:17.519
when she says, like you can hang out, and he

1239
01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:20.760
seems to really mean it. Way's like I wish I could. Yeah,

1240
01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:22.559
Like yeah, Like he's almost like I wish I could,

1241
01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:25.159
But like this is the most I am able to

1242
01:07:26.159 --> 01:07:28.960
try to help you, yeah, or warn you. Yeah. But

1243
01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:30.840
at the same time, he doesn't really help her warn

1244
01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:34.760
her that much. So maybe he's just setting her up.

1245
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:38.280
Yeah, maybe he is just there to get her to

1246
01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:39.199
lower her guard.

1247
01:07:39.559 --> 01:07:40.719
That could be.

1248
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:43.639
Because immediately after he leaves, while she's standing in there

1249
01:07:43.719 --> 01:07:46.039
there in the hallway, we start hearing whispering, and then

1250
01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:49.840
we hear screaming. We hear the voices of the Payman family.

1251
01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:53.239
We hear a little bit of that singing intermingled, and

1252
01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:58.880
she's like freaking out, and then we see we see

1253
01:07:58.880 --> 01:08:01.639
something in the lobby. Oh, and it creeped me out

1254
01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:04.760
so much. We see something in the lobby and it

1255
01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:09.760
starts dragging across the floor, and it's a dead body

1256
01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:14.760
with a bloody sack over the head, and it's being

1257
01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:18.239
dragged across the floor without anything dragging it.

1258
01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:22.000
But it becomes apparent as like on the second pole,

1259
01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:25.359
that it's being pulled by something. You just can't see, yeah,

1260
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:27.319
because at first you're like, oh, it's being pushed, but

1261
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:28.960
then you start to notice that it's kind of like

1262
01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:31.800
if you're pulling somebody by their shoulders. Yeah, like the

1263
01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:34.520
body is going that way, it's going up a little bit,

1264
01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:36.039
but then it goes.

1265
01:08:35.920 --> 01:08:41.000
Even more because then it starts being lifted again. Something

1266
01:08:41.159 --> 01:08:45.239
is lifting up this apparition of a dead body and

1267
01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:48.359
lifting it up off the ground, and then it's just

1268
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:53.119
kind of like hanging there in the air, just hanging out.

1269
01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:56.159
And it's effective. It was definitely wire work. There was

1270
01:08:56.239 --> 01:08:58.439
no Yeah, there's no way that that was I mean,

1271
01:08:58.479 --> 01:09:00.279
I guess there is some way, but I just don't

1272
01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:01.960
buy that it was done with CGI. I think that

1273
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:05.199
it was because it just looked so legitimate. The weight

1274
01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:08.119
was too real, the way it was hanging and everything exactly. Yeah,

1275
01:09:08.119 --> 01:09:12.720
and also like it just yeah, it just felt like

1276
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:16.079
wire work to me, which is not impossible to do.

1277
01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:18.600
Like if it was a harnet. I'm just a little

1278
01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:21.640
inside baseball with the filmmaking stuff. But like if it's

1279
01:09:21.720 --> 01:09:24.560
just a harness like wirework, that's dangerous as stuff like

1280
01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:27.399
faking somebody being hung by a rope, right because there's

1281
01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:29.640
some kind of a connection to their neck. It could whatever,

1282
01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:32.199
although there are plenty of safeguards to make sure it doesn't

1283
01:09:32.199 --> 01:09:35.000
hurt anybody. But you know, wirework where it's literally somebody

1284
01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:38.760
being lifted under their shoulders, that's pretty relatively easy to do.

1285
01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:42.479
And then in post you would just digitally remove the wires.

1286
01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:43.119
It's pretty simple.

1287
01:09:43.199 --> 01:09:47.359
Well, and it was beautifully shot too because the lobby

1288
01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:49.159
was all in shadows, so it would have been so

1289
01:09:49.279 --> 01:09:53.239
much easier to hide the wires anyway. And again because

1290
01:09:53.279 --> 01:09:55.520
of the way the camera was facing, the camera's facing

1291
01:09:55.560 --> 01:09:59.279
through the hallway into just one tiny corner of the lobby,

1292
01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:03.479
so it would be so easy to hide crew doing wirework.

1293
01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:07.119
So again, this this movie just kind of goes to

1294
01:10:07.159 --> 01:10:08.479
show that less is more.

1295
01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:11.800
Less is so much more With this story and this.

1296
01:10:11.720 --> 01:10:17.399
Film so so this body's hanging there, and clearly now

1297
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:20.479
it is a representation of one of the family members

1298
01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:22.920
who hung themselves, because it's just hanging in the air,

1299
01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:24.680
just kind of there by.

1300
01:10:24.600 --> 01:10:26.640
An invisible rope. We would assume, we.

1301
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:29.439
Would, I mean, that's all that it could be. Right,

1302
01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:33.039
So then she starts hearing screaming from down the hall,

1303
01:10:33.079 --> 01:10:36.279
and it's the homeless man, right, she books it down

1304
01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:40.039
the hall. There's blood all over the inside of the cell,

1305
01:10:40.159 --> 01:10:43.600
inside the window, you know. And and at first like

1306
01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:45.760
she sees him like banging on the door, like let

1307
01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.600
me out, let me out, And then he turns and

1308
01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:52.800
turns back, and his face is mutilated. He doesn't have

1309
01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:56.079
eyelids anymore, they've been cut out, and his face is

1310
01:10:56.119 --> 01:11:00.199
all pale. She swings open the door. Well that it's

1311
01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:04.039
not there anymore, but the homeless man has hung himself

1312
01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:04.920
in the cell.

1313
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:07.439
You confuse this gag just a little bit. I No,

1314
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:09.800
this was the one where he was standing in the hallway.

1315
01:11:10.399 --> 01:11:13.399
And no, because and the only reason I can, I'm well,

1316
01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:16.680
actually is because this was such a great shocker moment. No,

1317
01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:19.479
he is facing away from her in the hallway. She

1318
01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:21.800
demands he gets down on the ground. He does, and

1319
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:24.239
when she gets on his back to handcuff him, the

1320
01:11:24.319 --> 01:11:26.520
lights cut out, and when they cut back on, he's

1321
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:28.760
facing her and his eyelids are gone.

1322
01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:31.479
That's what it was, and it's so so crazy.

1323
01:11:32.399 --> 01:11:34.520
But then the light's cut off again and he's gone.

1324
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:37.159
She runs to the room because earlier he was begging

1325
01:11:37.199 --> 01:11:40.479
to be let out. She was like, no, yeah, but

1326
01:11:40.720 --> 01:11:42.279
she goes back to the room opens up, and yeah,

1327
01:11:42.279 --> 01:11:44.720
he's hanging in the cell, dead as a door nail,

1328
01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:48.039
I mean letting. His eyes are open and he's just

1329
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:50.680
dead in his hands, and I love that they as

1330
01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:52.359
they show his body kind of hanging in there, kind

1331
01:11:52.359 --> 01:11:54.640
of slowly turning, they cut to behind him and you

1332
01:11:54.680 --> 01:11:57.840
see his hands are still handcuffed behind his back. So

1333
01:11:57.920 --> 01:11:59.960
he could not have hung himself. There's no way.

1334
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:00.520
Mm hmm.

1335
01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:03.000
You know, he's basically I mean, he's Epstein at that point.

1336
01:12:06.279 --> 01:12:10.920
So things continue to escalate. That's that's what I like

1337
01:12:11.039 --> 01:12:14.880
is every time I thought like, oh, this is this

1338
01:12:14.920 --> 01:12:18.000
is the batshit crazy part of the movie, then it

1339
01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:20.359
would get batshit crazier and I'm like, okay, wait.

1340
01:12:20.479 --> 01:12:23.079
What it's scary what just happened?

1341
01:12:23.079 --> 01:12:23.239
Though?

1342
01:12:23.760 --> 01:12:30.760
So she she she sees that, and then she starts

1343
01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:34.880
hearing more singing down the hallway, and it's all women's

1344
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:38.039
voices now, and it's kind of you know that sing song.

1345
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:42.960
Church like yeah, yeah, like like not like like Sunday school,

1346
01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:45.399
Like is it better way to put it? Yeah? Yeah.

1347
01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:48.039
So she she walks down the hall she opens a

1348
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:51.239
door and there's another room, and at the end of

1349
01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:55.079
the room is like one of those big room length mirrors,

1350
01:12:55.560 --> 01:12:59.279
and there's a semicircle of women all sitting around singing,

1351
01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:04.880
you know, holding hands, and in the mirror they look

1352
01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:09.039
totally normal. But as she walks through the room, they

1353
01:13:09.119 --> 01:13:11.800
all slowly one by one turn to look at her,

1354
01:13:11.840 --> 01:13:15.640
and all of them are wearing bags over their faces,

1355
01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:18.640
with faces painted in blood.

1356
01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:22.520
Yes, And meanwhile theirselves in the mirror are just still.

1357
01:13:22.319 --> 01:13:25.560
Just sitting they're singing. It's it's just another day in

1358
01:13:25.640 --> 01:13:26.560
paradise for them.

1359
01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:29.600
But then when the lights cut out, they're all gone.

1360
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:32.600
Yeah, lights cut out, him back on and they're all gone.

1361
01:13:32.680 --> 01:13:35.319
So she finally runs and she's like, Okay, I can't

1362
01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:39.279
do this anymore. So she calls Sergeant Cohen again and

1363
01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:42.319
actually gets through to him this time, and he's back

1364
01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:44.840
to being his kind of like gruff, mean self, and

1365
01:13:44.880 --> 01:13:46.960
she's like, look, I can't I can't do this. I

1366
01:13:47.000 --> 01:13:49.319
just can't do this. I can't do this shift and

1367
01:13:49.359 --> 01:13:51.039
he's like, well, what's going on?

1368
01:13:51.319 --> 01:13:53.199
The first is the place on fire?

1369
01:13:53.920 --> 01:13:53.960
No?

1370
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:55.640
Are you going to die?

1371
01:13:56.319 --> 01:13:56.760
No?

1372
01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:01.159
No? Then you calling? You know, I wish I hope

1373
01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:03.439
to live my whole life with the level of confidence

1374
01:14:03.479 --> 01:14:06.520
she had, she wasn't going to die because answer.

1375
01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:08.840
Would have been yes, yes, the place is on fire,

1376
01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:10.479
and yes I am going to die right, I.

1377
01:14:10.399 --> 01:14:13.920
Am currently on fire as well as the building, and

1378
01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:16.359
I have Osama bin lad he's not dead.

1379
01:14:16.880 --> 01:14:19.119
Yeah. Whatever, What do I have to say to get

1380
01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:19.479
you here?

1381
01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:21.800
Yeah? No shit, yeah but yeah. So he's just like

1382
01:14:22.479 --> 01:14:25.159
he's just like, do you want me to call the

1383
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:28.319
chief and give him your resignation because you can't do

1384
01:14:28.399 --> 01:14:33.600
this job. And she's just immediately totally beat down. Yeah, brutal,

1385
01:14:34.159 --> 01:14:36.520
and then she says no, and he's like, don't call

1386
01:14:36.600 --> 01:14:38.319
me again. He just hangs up.

1387
01:14:38.399 --> 01:14:41.640
Ye, and he's he's like, the hazmat team is coming,

1388
01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:47.600
Do not leave until they get here. Hang up? So done.

1389
01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:50.279
The phone rings as soon as she hangs up and

1390
01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:54.760
it's Monica again, and Monica saying like I was able

1391
01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:58.000
to escape. I was able to get out. I'm free.

1392
01:14:58.079 --> 01:14:58.439
I'm free.

1393
01:14:58.479 --> 01:14:59.840
I don't know what happened to the other girls. I'

1394
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:03.119
I'm free. And so Officer Lauren's like, okay, you need

1395
01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:04.840
to find something something.

1396
01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:07.199
Is there a weapon to protect yourself?

1397
01:15:07.279 --> 01:15:09.640
Like can you find somewhere safe? I need you to

1398
01:15:09.720 --> 01:15:14.960
get to safety, defend yourself and then call cuts out.

1399
01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:18.199
So she calls the other officers.

1400
01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:20.399
Again, dispatch this time not not the not the.

1401
01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:24.079
She calls dispatch again and she's like, look, I keep

1402
01:15:24.159 --> 01:15:27.600
getting this girl. She says she's escaped. She said that

1403
01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:32.159
she's being pursued by members of the Payment family, and

1404
01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:34.600
the guy gives her a reference number. He's like, Okay, look,

1405
01:15:34.680 --> 01:15:38.640
I don't this is not happening. One two, I'm gonna

1406
01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:41.479
humor you if this is happening. Here's the case number

1407
01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:43.119
that you can call in reference to.

1408
01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:46.399
Yeah, And he says like the the you know this

1409
01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:48.760
is not happening or maybe it's some kind of a

1410
01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:52.560
weird yeah, but I don't think.

1411
01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:54.880
So she.

1412
01:15:56.399 --> 01:16:00.399
Kind of she kind of buys it that may this

1413
01:16:00.439 --> 01:16:04.079
is a trick, but now things have been happening so much,

1414
01:16:04.119 --> 01:16:06.840
so frequently. There's so much going on that she really

1415
01:16:07.159 --> 01:16:13.399
she's having a hard time letting it go. And then

1416
01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:15.800
he says, well, it's possible that this is a sick

1417
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:22.680
joke or it could be something else, and she's like, okay,

1418
01:16:22.760 --> 01:16:27.640
what what kind of something else? And he explains that

1419
01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:31.880
the Payment family, you know, the story that everyone's been

1420
01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:34.560
told is that they were killed before they were even

1421
01:16:35.039 --> 01:16:41.399
brought into custody, and that's not true. They were apprehended alive,

1422
01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:48.720
came to this station and committed suicide, and ever since then,

1423
01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:50.479
weird things have been happening.

1424
01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:53.479
Yeah, he said it wasn't He says something like, you know,

1425
01:16:53.600 --> 01:16:56.439
you don't think it was rust and and and you

1426
01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:58.560
know asbestos that made us move out of there. It

1427
01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:02.960
was with something else. Ever since then, lights would turn

1428
01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:06.319
on and off on their own, and we'd hear things

1429
01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:07.119
over the voices.

1430
01:17:07.199 --> 01:17:10.279
And then he says, people who were kept in that

1431
01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:15.359
cell would kill themselves, so we had to get out.

1432
01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:22.520
And then she sees a paper just float across the.

1433
01:17:22.479 --> 01:17:25.039
Floor coming from the open doorway.

1434
01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:27.199
Coming from the open door, like someone just kind of

1435
01:17:27.359 --> 01:17:30.960
threw it through it flipped through the door, and so

1436
01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:32.560
she's like, Okay, look, I can't.

1437
01:17:33.039 --> 01:17:36.399
She's mesmerized by it. Oh I have to, and she

1438
01:17:36.439 --> 01:17:38.359
hangs up on It's the one time that somebody was

1439
01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:41.600
giving her something useful and she can't focus on it

1440
01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:46.760
because this strange photograph. But what is on that photograph,

1441
01:17:46.840 --> 01:17:49.399
Well you'll have to wait until after this break to

1442
01:17:49.479 --> 01:18:05.000
find out. So now Officer Lauren has found a strange

1443
01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:08.159
photograph by the door.

1444
01:18:08.840 --> 01:18:12.199
And so she picks it up, and it's a crime

1445
01:18:12.239 --> 01:18:17.680
scene photo of someone who's been shot. She looks closer

1446
01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:19.640
and it's the same man that we saw in the

1447
01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:26.079
photograph with the child. It's her father, yes, And then

1448
01:18:26.119 --> 01:18:29.560
she looks further in the hall and there are crime

1449
01:18:29.640 --> 01:18:34.520
scene photos i'd say about a dozen and a half

1450
01:18:34.960 --> 01:18:38.560
all over, scattered around, just scattered around, and she looks

1451
01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:42.239
closer at one and it's Officer Price.

1452
01:18:42.640 --> 01:18:49.079
Among many dead women and their faces are bashed in unrecutilizable, horrific.

1453
01:18:49.159 --> 01:18:51.399
But yeah, the big one is Officer Price. And not

1454
01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:54.920
only is he there, but he looks like he'd been

1455
01:18:55.039 --> 01:18:58.119
shot through the mouth, out the back of his head

1456
01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:00.479
again and the wall has his brain matter on it,

1457
01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:05.119
which you know that fits with the.

1458
01:19:05.439 --> 01:19:10.680
It's that tracks that tracks. So she's sitting there looking

1459
01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:13.479
and kind of shaking at the picture of her dad,

1460
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:15.600
and then she looks back in the hall and now

1461
01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:21.600
there's hundreds of pictures and they're perfect yea perfectly down

1462
01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:27.279
the entire hall. She starts hearing more voices and then

1463
01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:32.199
she just passes out. And when she comes too, we

1464
01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:36.439
can hear the phone in the office bringing off the hook,

1465
01:19:36.560 --> 01:19:40.359
and we can hear buzzing, and then buzzing gets louder

1466
01:19:40.439 --> 01:19:42.880
and louder and louder, and we realize it's her cell phone.

1467
01:19:42.920 --> 01:19:46.239
She picks up. It's her mom, and her mom, in

1468
01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:49.600
typical mom fashion, now wants to apologize and have a

1469
01:19:49.640 --> 01:19:52.760
heartfelt conversation at the exact moment when you do not

1470
01:19:52.960 --> 01:19:57.079
want to be emotionally distracted or distraught at all. And

1471
01:19:57.159 --> 01:19:59.399
her mom's, oh, no, I just I feel bad about

1472
01:19:59.439 --> 01:20:02.000
earlier how we ended the conversation, and she's trying to

1473
01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:04.600
be like, Mom, I can't talk right now at all.

1474
01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:08.199
Some things are going on. It's oh, well, I just

1475
01:20:08.600 --> 01:20:10.800
I see you know, I see where you're coming from,

1476
01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:13.039
and you want to make your dad proud, and Mom,

1477
01:20:13.079 --> 01:20:17.000
I have to go, So she hangs up. She gets up,

1478
01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:21.840
and then she realizes her gun, her taser, her nightstick,

1479
01:20:22.159 --> 01:20:23.960
everything on her belt.

1480
01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:26.880
Her whole belt is gone. The belt has gone entirely.

1481
01:20:27.199 --> 01:20:30.600
So where is it? So she starts looking around. She's

1482
01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:34.760
walking down the hallway, and we see a shadow retreat

1483
01:20:34.880 --> 01:20:38.880
into a partially closed door, and then a hand with

1484
01:20:38.960 --> 01:20:41.520
the nightstick just whammer right across the head.

1485
01:20:41.680 --> 01:20:48.119
It's a retractable betime, but still whatever it is.

1486
01:20:49.840 --> 01:20:53.359
So then she comes to again and there's a woman

1487
01:20:53.640 --> 01:20:56.680
dragging her, has her hands, you know, kind of tied up,

1488
01:20:56.920 --> 01:20:59.199
woman dragging her, and as it has her gun to

1489
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:04.479
her head. And now Officer Lauren doesn't know is this

1490
01:21:04.600 --> 01:21:08.000
really happening? Is this not happening? Is she just dreaming

1491
01:21:08.039 --> 01:21:08.479
it is?

1492
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:11.880
She actually feels pretty confident it's not happening.

1493
01:21:12.079 --> 01:21:15.079
She's like, this is I'm just going crazy. This is

1494
01:21:15.199 --> 01:21:18.399
just a crazy hour right now. And so the lady

1495
01:21:18.439 --> 01:21:23.079
sits her down and starts explaining that she was in

1496
01:21:23.119 --> 01:21:27.199
love with John Michael Payman and she hates the fact

1497
01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:30.640
that that night he took those two bitches with him

1498
01:21:30.920 --> 01:21:34.079
instead of bringing her, and she's been waiting to be

1499
01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:39.119
reunited with him, and tonight's the one year anniversary of

1500
01:21:39.199 --> 01:21:41.199
when he was apprehended and he killed himself.

1501
01:21:41.279 --> 01:21:42.199
Did she say one year?

1502
01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:43.119
She said one year?

1503
01:21:43.319 --> 01:21:47.439
Huh okay, because when they show them being interviewed, they're

1504
01:21:47.479 --> 01:21:50.399
like being interviewed on like ancient videos, yeah and stuff.

1505
01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:53.039
But maybe that's on purpose to just keep us on

1506
01:21:53.079 --> 01:21:53.600
our toes.

1507
01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:57.079
I think it was to just muddy the waters. Hey,

1508
01:21:57.119 --> 01:21:58.800
I like it, and you know what, to be fair,

1509
01:21:58.920 --> 01:22:01.800
this woman is so insane, maybe ten years feels like

1510
01:22:01.960 --> 01:22:02.640
just one year term.

1511
01:22:02.680 --> 01:22:06.199
We also don't know if she's a ghost or not,

1512
01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:09.159
because yeah, we don't know, Like that's one of my

1513
01:22:09.159 --> 01:22:12.880
favorite things. I don't have the confidence to say anything

1514
01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:13.760
is for certain.

1515
01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:18.279
And here's why, here's why it gets even more confusing

1516
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:21.279
because now Officer Lauren's feeling a little cocky. She's like,

1517
01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:23.439
I don't even think you're here. How do I know

1518
01:22:23.479 --> 01:22:26.840
that I'm not actually holding my own gun right now?

1519
01:22:27.479 --> 01:22:30.199
And the lady says, well, I'm pretty confident about it,

1520
01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:32.039
turns the gun and blows her own bright out.

1521
01:22:32.359 --> 01:22:35.359
Well, she says that that's how she's gonna celebrate his uh,

1522
01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:39.800
celebrate his return or whatever, and yeah, she just boom,

1523
01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:41.359
I mean all.

1524
01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:44.439
Over the wall. Yeah, I feel really bad that they

1525
01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:47.880
did not keep the janitors on staff because or feel

1526
01:22:47.880 --> 01:22:50.960
good for the janitor. I felt they weren't that they

1527
01:22:50.960 --> 01:22:56.760
weren't on call. So as Officer Lawrence just kind of

1528
01:22:57.600 --> 01:23:01.279
kind of they're like, okay, that just happened. Yeah, the

1529
01:23:01.319 --> 01:23:06.319
phone rings again. She runs to the office and it's Monica.

1530
01:23:06.760 --> 01:23:09.159
She takes her gun back from the dead hand of

1531
01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:12.560
the woman and grabs her belt and then goes, which

1532
01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:14.960
I just want to mention because in the realm of

1533
01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:20.880
horror movie choices, that is the wisest one except what

1534
01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:23.800
we'll get accept Except so.

1535
01:23:25.239 --> 01:23:28.600
She goes and picks up the phone call. It's Monica again,

1536
01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:33.920
and now Monica's sounding like devious, yeah, like not herself.

1537
01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:38.079
Like before she was panicky, and now she almost seems

1538
01:23:38.119 --> 01:23:41.680
like she's the one toying with Lauren. And then the

1539
01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:46.000
desk starts to shake and rattle, and like some of

1540
01:23:46.039 --> 01:23:49.359
the drawers are like coming loose and moving on their own,

1541
01:23:50.239 --> 01:23:57.319
and as Officer Lauren leans back, this ghoule that's the

1542
01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:01.159
only way I can describe it. They just scuttles out

1543
01:24:01.199 --> 01:24:04.159
from under the desk and Officer Lauren, you know, she

1544
01:24:04.319 --> 01:24:08.720
leaps back, she leaps into a corner and this creature, uh,

1545
01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:11.479
you know, used to be a girl, but its face

1546
01:24:11.600 --> 01:24:17.279
is all distorted and everything starts climbing around the office

1547
01:24:17.720 --> 01:24:21.159
and doing the cool contortionists stuff that I just I

1548
01:24:21.279 --> 01:24:25.520
love when contortionists do that to make monsters even scary,

1549
01:24:26.159 --> 01:24:30.760
even scarier. And Officer Lauren's cowering in the corner as

1550
01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:33.600
this creature kind of reaches out to her and then

1551
01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:39.720
the lights flash and she's hearing voices, but the thing's gone.

1552
01:24:40.199 --> 01:24:42.000
So this was the moment where, you know, all the

1553
01:24:42.039 --> 01:24:43.600
other moments, I was like, oh, this is where shit

1554
01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:45.399
has the fan, Like, this is where it gets real

1555
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:48.640
bat shit crazy. This is where it got so crazy

1556
01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:52.520
that I just stopped taking notes because so much was happening.

1557
01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:56.800
Sure, mean, what more could you note at that point?

1558
01:24:57.159 --> 01:25:04.359
So from there after, Lauren starts hearing voices. She starts

1559
01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:10.159
hearing people like break into the building. And now she's

1560
01:25:10.239 --> 01:25:15.399
actually seeing people, more people, not just the ghostly operations,

1561
01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:20.079
but she's seeing people taunt her. And they're clearly, you know,

1562
01:25:20.359 --> 01:25:22.720
almost like a Scooby Doo chase. They're walking down the

1563
01:25:22.720 --> 01:25:25.000
hall and they'll book it into one room. She'll follow

1564
01:25:25.039 --> 01:25:26.880
them and then they'll come out the other door, and

1565
01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:32.640
she'll keep following and so finally she's able to get

1566
01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:34.920
a good beat on one.

1567
01:25:35.119 --> 01:25:38.840
Well that's after her phone rings and it's her father.

1568
01:25:39.359 --> 01:25:41.119
Oh to see. That's the part that I forgot to

1569
01:25:41.119 --> 01:25:41.439
write it.

1570
01:25:41.439 --> 01:25:45.960
Down, which is the part that I think is really telling,

1571
01:25:46.600 --> 01:25:50.039
because he calls her when she's trying to escape. That

1572
01:25:50.079 --> 01:25:53.039
happens right before everything goes berserk. She can't get the

1573
01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:55.159
door to unlock. She tries shooting the door and the

1574
01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:57.960
bullets don't do anything to the door, and then the

1575
01:25:58.039 --> 01:25:59.560
phone rings and he's like, I'm really proud of you,

1576
01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:01.279
and she's like, you know yeah, And he's like, so

1577
01:26:01.359 --> 01:26:05.560
why do you try to leave. You're supposed to do

1578
01:26:05.680 --> 01:26:08.119
your job. You know, I died in the line of duty.

1579
01:26:08.319 --> 01:26:10.359
I expect you to do the same if you have to.

1580
01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:14.279
So now she's like yeah, dad, and she goes back

1581
01:26:14.319 --> 01:26:17.800
in as things are getting crazy. Phone rings again. It's

1582
01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:21.600
Dad again, and Dad's like, the people who killed me

1583
01:26:22.000 --> 01:26:24.199
are in the building right now. I need you to

1584
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:28.359
take care of it. And she's just kind of like

1585
01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:33.880
all right, And now we have this crazed almost and

1586
01:26:33.960 --> 01:26:37.039
I don't mean this to be funny, but almost a

1587
01:26:37.159 --> 01:26:41.000
laser tag like experience. Yeah, because lights are coming and

1588
01:26:41.039 --> 01:26:43.680
going and people are running by and coming back again,

1589
01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:47.319
and they're also firing guns back at her, which I'm

1590
01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:50.960
assuming is kind of like a repeat of the firefight

1591
01:26:51.399 --> 01:26:55.159
that was referenced that had happened, and she's trying to

1592
01:26:55.199 --> 01:26:59.199
get these sons of bitches and it is It is nuts.

1593
01:26:59.199 --> 01:27:01.439
They're running around, they of bags, they have the bags

1594
01:27:01.479 --> 01:27:07.039
on their heads, and eventually she gets one boom, blood

1595
01:27:07.079 --> 01:27:10.439
splatters the wall, their bodies down. Now she's getting brave,

1596
01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:15.840
she's getting confident, she's really going after them, and things

1597
01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:18.960
are about to get a lot harrier right after this,

1598
01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:37.159
as she's running through and having this epic gunfight with ghosts.

1599
01:27:39.159 --> 01:27:42.159
It's a hell of a sequence. And the whole time

1600
01:27:42.239 --> 01:27:45.439
you're kind of wondering, like what is happening, Like is

1601
01:27:45.479 --> 01:27:52.520
she reliving the nightmare for a purpose or is there

1602
01:27:52.840 --> 01:27:58.079
more to come? And at one point I can't I

1603
01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:00.199
can't remember if this was after this or before, but

1604
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:03.479
there's a part where she is in the holding cell

1605
01:28:04.239 --> 01:28:10.199
and we basically see on a sheet projected what happened.

1606
01:28:11.039 --> 01:28:13.199
We see them putting the bags on their heads and

1607
01:28:13.279 --> 01:28:17.920
drawing pentagrams on their their own sheets with their hands,

1608
01:28:17.960 --> 01:28:21.840
which they bit till they bled, and hanging themselves. But

1609
01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:24.199
as we watch this sheet and we see her reactions

1610
01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:27.039
that we watched the sheet, the guy what was his name,

1611
01:28:27.159 --> 01:28:31.199
the John Michael Payment, John Michael Payman, we realize that

1612
01:28:31.279 --> 01:28:33.479
he has the sackle on his head and he's actually

1613
01:28:33.520 --> 01:28:38.720
in the room and not on this sheet. And as

1614
01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:40.520
he takes the sheet off, we get what is the

1615
01:28:40.640 --> 01:28:43.560
artwork on the front cover of the movie, this terrifying

1616
01:28:44.039 --> 01:28:50.079
face with with yellow eyes, needlelike teeth, and a pentagram

1617
01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:55.479
carved into his face. He screams and and and shit

1618
01:28:55.640 --> 01:28:57.640
just gets crazier and crazier from there. As she is

1619
01:28:57.840 --> 01:29:00.520
in this gunfight trying to to survive.

1620
01:29:00.920 --> 01:29:03.600
Yeah, so she I mean she is, she is fighting

1621
01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:06.079
for her life. But again her confidence is up, especially

1622
01:29:06.159 --> 01:29:10.239
after she hit that first guy. She sees that apparition

1623
01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:15.520
and that is her confirmation that it's the Payment family

1624
01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:19.560
come back. Yes, And so she just starts shooting even

1625
01:29:19.600 --> 01:29:22.640
harder because like now she knows, like the Payment families

1626
01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:26.439
come back. They're trying to do whatever with this building

1627
01:29:26.640 --> 01:29:29.479
or with you know who knows well.

1628
01:29:29.520 --> 01:29:31.880
And the incident with the psycho lady who shot herself

1629
01:29:31.960 --> 01:29:32.880
would lean.

1630
01:29:32.920 --> 01:29:36.439
Yeah, you'd be like, okay, well, clearly it's all them.

1631
01:29:37.760 --> 01:29:41.840
So she shoots the second guy, and then we start

1632
01:29:41.880 --> 01:29:48.520
getting these flashes of something else. It's her shooting, but

1633
01:29:48.600 --> 01:29:51.840
it's someone screaming out help, why did you shoot me?

1634
01:29:52.479 --> 01:29:55.840
It's me Joe, I called about this earlier. And then

1635
01:29:55.960 --> 01:29:58.760
it goes back. Maybe I'm mixing it up a little bit,

1636
01:29:58.800 --> 01:30:02.920
but then we start seeing her fire at the last

1637
01:30:03.039 --> 01:30:06.560
guy and it's not one of the family members. It's

1638
01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:09.279
somebody in a hazmat suit. And then it flashes back

1639
01:30:09.319 --> 01:30:10.600
to what she was seeing.

1640
01:30:11.039 --> 01:30:14.159
Uh, well that's after. That's the big reveal, after she

1641
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:17.720
kills them. Yeah, yeah, you just got it slightly mixed up. Basically,

1642
01:30:17.800 --> 01:30:20.199
she she shoots a guy that's trying to get out

1643
01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:23.000
the back door who has a gun and he's saying

1644
01:30:23.119 --> 01:30:27.279
like he's he's saying mean things. He's just like, oh whatever, whatever,

1645
01:30:27.439 --> 01:30:30.479
So he shoots him dead, and then as she's standing there,

1646
01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:34.159
she turns around, she gets shot, and then we it's

1647
01:30:34.199 --> 01:30:38.359
revealed that it's her commanding officer, he who just shot her,

1648
01:30:38.720 --> 01:30:42.479
and then we see the events again, and that's when

1649
01:30:42.479 --> 01:30:45.439
we see that she's killing all the hazmat people and

1650
01:30:45.479 --> 01:30:47.920
the last guy she shot. The reason there was that

1651
01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:50.039
long stretch before he shot him again was he was saying,

1652
01:30:50.159 --> 01:30:52.479
I'm the guy I talked to on the phone, and

1653
01:30:52.520 --> 01:30:54.359
she says, drop the gun. He's like, please don't do this.

1654
01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:56.479
Imagine how terrifying him if you've been shot once and

1655
01:30:56.520 --> 01:30:58.760
your hands are empty and you here drop the gun,

1656
01:30:58.920 --> 01:31:01.359
you know. Yeah, and she it's him dead. So now

1657
01:31:01.399 --> 01:31:05.680
she's she's laying there against this wall, bleeding out. The

1658
01:31:05.720 --> 01:31:07.239
cop is looking at her and he just has this

1659
01:31:07.319 --> 01:31:09.800
look of like, God, damn it. I should have known

1660
01:31:09.880 --> 01:31:12.800
she was gonna like just break like I can't believe this,

1661
01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:15.399
you know, I trust the rookie, yeah, you know, or

1662
01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:17.880
whatever it may be. And then he calls in his

1663
01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:20.039
radio says, we have an officer down, and we have

1664
01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:23.399
and he starts, you know, giving off cop number things

1665
01:31:23.399 --> 01:31:25.880
that I don't know exactly what they what they mean.

1666
01:31:26.399 --> 01:31:29.279
And as she's laying there bleeding out, it becomes clear

1667
01:31:29.319 --> 01:31:31.680
she's probably not gonna make it because he shot her

1668
01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:36.079
center masts. And as we see her perspective of the

1669
01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:38.760
cop shining the light of her commanding officer shine the

1670
01:31:38.800 --> 01:31:43.319
light in her face, the two girls and the the

1671
01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:46.159
cult leader step in front of that light and they

1672
01:31:46.159 --> 01:31:48.760
look at her and they kind of look around and

1673
01:31:48.840 --> 01:31:52.039
his eyes are are are yellow and his teeth are

1674
01:31:52.159 --> 01:31:57.880
needlelike and he puts a sack over her head. Credits.

1675
01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:02.920
So and that is that is the last shift or

1676
01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:05.600
last shift. That is the film. Yeah, I mean it

1677
01:32:05.680 --> 01:32:11.560
is about as impactful as you can get, very very much.

1678
01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:15.600
So yeah, and I I yeah, So, I mean this

1679
01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:17.079
is your first time seeing the film.

1680
01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:20.399
It was and I I did not know what to

1681
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:22.880
expect going into it. I think all you told me

1682
01:32:23.039 --> 01:32:26.680
was it's just a ghost story. Yeah, which is true,

1683
01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:31.479
like you it is. But what I what I really

1684
01:32:31.560 --> 01:32:36.920
enjoyed it was, well, one the less is more. There

1685
01:32:37.000 --> 01:32:40.039
is so much going on in this movie, but there's

1686
01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:44.239
they put so little into it, not like low effort,

1687
01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:47.079
but just like they weren't saying like, hey, let's use

1688
01:32:47.119 --> 01:32:50.359
you know all this all these cgi effects and everything.

1689
01:32:50.399 --> 01:32:52.680
It's like, oh, well, how scary can it? Can it

1690
01:32:52.680 --> 01:32:58.159
be if we just make sure that some dark colored uh,

1691
01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:02.760
some dark colored colored liquid comes out of the microphone

1692
01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:04.800
receiver of the phone while she's talking to the Like

1693
01:33:06.399 --> 01:33:08.800
that was super duper creepy. I even turned to you

1694
01:33:08.840 --> 01:33:11.039
and I was like, oh, I know that's hersh syrup,

1695
01:33:11.479 --> 01:33:15.439
But it's so much creepier because of the anticipation and

1696
01:33:15.479 --> 01:33:19.159
the build up of it. And again, like, how scary

1697
01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:22.359
can it be if the ghosts are just people in,

1698
01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:25.800
you know, with a mask on their head and just

1699
01:33:25.840 --> 01:33:27.800
a little you know, throw a little bit of blood around,

1700
01:33:27.840 --> 01:33:30.800
but you make sure the lighting is poor, and suddenly

1701
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:32.359
it's really really creepy.

1702
01:33:32.520 --> 01:33:35.640
We're very afraid of what we can't see. Yeah, very

1703
01:33:35.680 --> 01:33:37.479
consistent human experience for sure.

1704
01:33:38.520 --> 01:33:42.600
So and again her acting was just spot on. It

1705
01:33:42.720 --> 01:33:44.840
kept me in it because again, if it would have

1706
01:33:44.880 --> 01:33:48.399
been way too over the top, way too overreacted, then

1707
01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:50.720
I would have totally lost it because it's like, I

1708
01:33:50.800 --> 01:33:52.800
can't feel like, why would you even want to be

1709
01:33:52.840 --> 01:33:55.560
a cop if you are that scared of everything all

1710
01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:55.960
the time.

1711
01:33:56.159 --> 01:34:00.520
One of the hardest parts of writing horror films is

1712
01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:05.760
how do you keep your main character from just running

1713
01:34:05.920 --> 01:34:09.880
to the hills, heading directly into a police station or whatever,

1714
01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:12.680
or just getting on a plane to Albuquerque, Like, how

1715
01:34:12.720 --> 01:34:16.159
do you how do you keep them in? Because that's

1716
01:34:16.159 --> 01:34:19.119
a very that's a big question, that's a big challenge.

1717
01:34:19.479 --> 01:34:22.119
How do you keep them in mhm. It's it's not

1718
01:34:22.319 --> 01:34:25.359
easy at all, and a lot of times you have

1719
01:34:25.439 --> 01:34:29.640
to come up with things like this character constantly gaslighting herself,

1720
01:34:29.680 --> 01:34:33.119
which I thought was brilliant, that she's she thinks that

1721
01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:35.720
she's the problem and that she just needs to nut

1722
01:34:35.800 --> 01:34:38.840
up because she wants to be strong enough for this job.

1723
01:34:38.840 --> 01:34:42.159
It doesn't believe she is. That's a really smart way

1724
01:34:42.880 --> 01:34:46.119
to keep her invested, to keep her going and going

1725
01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:50.000
and going. M So I thought that that was very

1726
01:34:50.039 --> 01:34:51.600
masterfully thought out.

1727
01:34:51.760 --> 01:34:54.880
Oh absolutely. And the other thing is, you know, you

1728
01:34:54.920 --> 01:34:59.479
had mentioned at the start of the show that you know,

1729
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:03.079
kind of Downer Dower endings, you feel like they have

1730
01:35:03.199 --> 01:35:06.079
to be earned, and I feel like this movie definitely

1731
01:35:06.079 --> 01:35:09.840
earned it in Space because it was it was around

1732
01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:13.720
about the middle of the third act where I was

1733
01:35:13.800 --> 01:35:17.359
kind of realizing, like, I don't think there's a happy

1734
01:35:17.560 --> 01:35:20.199
ending for Officer Lauren.

1735
01:35:20.439 --> 01:35:20.640
No.

1736
01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:25.079
I don't think there could be, because I don't think

1737
01:35:25.119 --> 01:35:29.439
the story was about redemption or you know, saving herself

1738
01:35:29.560 --> 01:35:32.840
or saving anyone else as much as it was her

1739
01:35:35.119 --> 01:35:41.119
totally losing herself to the expectations of her father that

1740
01:35:41.359 --> 01:35:43.520
you know, in the end, if she could, if she

1741
01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:45.680
could have been like, you know what, screw it, dad,

1742
01:35:47.039 --> 01:35:52.000
I don't want to die. Well, one, she probably would

1743
01:35:52.039 --> 01:35:54.600
not have put herself in that situation in the first place.

1744
01:35:55.319 --> 01:36:00.680
And two that would have made the ending different, you know.

1745
01:36:00.760 --> 01:36:03.800
And I think that her being so absorbed in what

1746
01:36:04.039 --> 01:36:07.960
her deceased father thought of her, just like you were saying,

1747
01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:11.960
you know, it's kind of a hell when you want

1748
01:36:12.000 --> 01:36:14.840
to live up to the expectations of someone who is

1749
01:36:14.920 --> 01:36:17.000
no longer with us, because you are never going to

1750
01:36:17.039 --> 01:36:20.920
get any kind of satisfaction out of it. Yeah, and

1751
01:36:20.520 --> 01:36:24.319
she's you know, living that, and she died due to that.

1752
01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:27.600
So I thought that it was a very well earned

1753
01:36:28.279 --> 01:36:28.920
dark ending.

1754
01:36:29.239 --> 01:36:31.560
Yeah, I would agree, and I'm gonna talk I have

1755
01:36:31.600 --> 01:36:35.039
some theories, little theories and thoughts about the ending, and

1756
01:36:35.079 --> 01:36:36.720
I'm going to talk about those. But we got to

1757
01:36:36.720 --> 01:36:38.680
take a real quick break and we'll be right back.

1758
01:36:51.520 --> 01:36:54.479
So now that we've reached the end of last Shift

1759
01:36:55.359 --> 01:36:59.439
and the dour ending that it is, I agree. One

1760
01:36:59.479 --> 01:37:04.680
of the big themes I think is kind of expectation

1761
01:37:06.279 --> 01:37:09.399
of like you living up to expectations of family members

1762
01:37:09.399 --> 01:37:12.520
and stuff like that. But I think that one of

1763
01:37:12.520 --> 01:37:14.680
the big things I took from it was that it's

1764
01:37:14.680 --> 01:37:20.640
about the kind of echo that hauntings are supposed to be.

1765
01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:24.359
They're not supposed to be something new. There's supposed to

1766
01:37:24.359 --> 01:37:29.760
be something that happened that that was so evil or

1767
01:37:31.159 --> 01:37:36.720
tragic or sad that it can't go away. It can't

1768
01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:39.239
just go away, it has to exist again, which I

1769
01:37:39.279 --> 01:37:42.039
feel like because when you look at like the long

1770
01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:46.239
history of storytelling, of human storytelling as opposed to animal

1771
01:37:46.399 --> 01:37:49.680
dog storytelling or dolphin storytelling. When you look at the

1772
01:37:49.760 --> 01:37:54.800
long history of storytelling, there are all kinds of concepts

1773
01:37:54.800 --> 01:37:57.319
where it's just something happened so bad that it can't

1774
01:37:57.319 --> 01:38:01.199
be forgotten even if nobody knows about it. Yeah, yeah,

1775
01:38:01.239 --> 01:38:04.039
that's and I think that's an element of us as

1776
01:38:04.119 --> 01:38:07.880
humans wanting to live forever, or wanting to believe that

1777
01:38:08.279 --> 01:38:10.760
if something is truly tragic, it just it will never

1778
01:38:10.800 --> 01:38:14.000
be forgotten, even though in reality, I mean the truth

1779
01:38:14.039 --> 01:38:17.920
is many things are forgotten. Like there were always those

1780
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:19.680
old stories, you know, were like and then the mother

1781
01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:23.000
lost her child and she cried and cried until it

1782
01:38:23.079 --> 01:38:26.880
overflowed the banks of rivers, and you know, things like that.

1783
01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:30.840
That's a similar concept, although a different kind of artful

1784
01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:36.800
telling of it. So the idea to me was that

1785
01:38:38.079 --> 01:38:41.760
the suicide of this cult was a part of the

1786
01:38:41.760 --> 01:38:48.640
plan to create some kind of a hell world of sorts,

1787
01:38:48.680 --> 01:38:51.840
to create a and it had to be there because

1788
01:38:51.880 --> 01:38:54.199
the cops got them, so that was like the ultimate

1789
01:38:54.239 --> 01:38:56.159
fuck you was like, well, then we're going to open

1790
01:38:56.239 --> 01:39:00.000
this portal to a hell that you couldn't even imagine.

1791
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:02.560
And there's a part earlier where they're talking about it

1792
01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:05.880
a little bit and basically saying like, we don't worship

1793
01:39:05.920 --> 01:39:08.720
the devil. The devil was just one of God's lackey's,

1794
01:39:09.039 --> 01:39:11.359
Like this is who do you think ran hell before

1795
01:39:11.479 --> 01:39:14.840
the devil? Like, you know, stuff like that. They're like,

1796
01:39:15.159 --> 01:39:18.680
so in the weeds with the worship of evil, you know,

1797
01:39:19.760 --> 01:39:22.680
I think that that what they did was they just

1798
01:39:22.760 --> 01:39:26.399
kind of made a hole, a hole where everybody gets

1799
01:39:26.439 --> 01:39:30.159
sucked up if it gets one chance to get into

1800
01:39:30.159 --> 01:39:34.600
your mind and with her. And they also made reference

1801
01:39:34.640 --> 01:39:38.560
to like like I'm gonna hurt every everyone you love

1802
01:39:38.680 --> 01:39:45.960
will will experience this too. So I feel like basically

1803
01:39:46.319 --> 01:39:52.680
that space exists to get you to die there as well.

1804
01:39:52.720 --> 01:39:57.039
It's actually very similar to Haunting of Hill House because

1805
01:39:57.039 --> 01:39:59.439
when you have you read Haunting of Hillhouse. Oh well,

1806
01:39:59.439 --> 01:40:01.319
I don't want to oil too much of it, even

1807
01:40:01.319 --> 01:40:04.079
though it's a very old book, but there it kind

1808
01:40:04.119 --> 01:40:09.119
of established this cliche that there are places where whatever

1809
01:40:09.199 --> 01:40:13.680
haunting is going on wants more more people to die

1810
01:40:14.760 --> 01:40:17.520
there so that their spirits are trapped there as well,

1811
01:40:17.840 --> 01:40:21.760
like almost like it's lonely in a bizarre and cruel way.

1812
01:40:22.520 --> 01:40:25.479
And I felt like that was kind of the vibe

1813
01:40:25.520 --> 01:40:28.520
I was getting from the haunting of this place was

1814
01:40:28.520 --> 01:40:33.479
that it wants more, It wants you, it wants whoever

1815
01:40:33.560 --> 01:40:36.840
it can get. But now that it was being closed down,

1816
01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:41.279
it was like its last gasp was to take the

1817
01:40:41.399 --> 01:40:45.039
daughter of the person who helped apprehend them and do

1818
01:40:45.119 --> 01:40:47.399
all these things to it. And it's kept, Like I said,

1819
01:40:47.399 --> 01:40:50.319
it's very we don't get a lot of backstory. Yeah,

1820
01:40:50.399 --> 01:40:51.840
you know, we don't get a ton of it. We

1821
01:40:51.880 --> 01:40:54.560
get just enough to appreciate what we're seeing, which I

1822
01:40:54.560 --> 01:40:57.439
think works great. Yeah, I really do. So that was

1823
01:40:57.479 --> 01:40:59.640
kind of my sense was that, like, it's the echoes

1824
01:40:59.680 --> 01:41:02.840
of thisus thing that happened, but unlike a lot of

1825
01:41:02.920 --> 01:41:05.600
haunting stories where the heinous thing that happened was kind

1826
01:41:05.600 --> 01:41:11.600
of like an injustice or cruel. In this case, it

1827
01:41:11.640 --> 01:41:15.279
was just purely evil. So it was the echo of

1828
01:41:15.800 --> 01:41:20.000
such an evil sacrifice that it just kind of made

1829
01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:24.760
this place wrong, Yeah know, deeply wrong. And that's why

1830
01:41:24.760 --> 01:41:27.479
the police eventually moved out, because you know, maybe nobody

1831
01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:29.920
was Maybe it sounded like the only people who got

1832
01:41:30.000 --> 01:41:32.760
hurt from the place where people who were there alone, Yeah,

1833
01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:36.079
people in solitary confinement or not soltary, but you know,

1834
01:41:36.279 --> 01:41:39.680
and holding or whatever would turn up dead. It sounds like,

1835
01:41:39.720 --> 01:41:41.479
you know, but it also sounds like some of those

1836
01:41:41.520 --> 01:41:45.119
cops when they were like maybe just alone in the urinal,

1837
01:41:45.159 --> 01:41:48.199
they'd be like, I hear things when I'm by myself.

1838
01:41:50.239 --> 01:41:52.840
Well, and we don't even get an explanation of what

1839
01:41:54.600 --> 01:41:58.039
Sergeant Cohen was yelling at and you know, beating up

1840
01:41:58.079 --> 01:42:00.920
in the wall and everything when she gets there, Like

1841
01:42:01.439 --> 01:42:07.039
we clearly through his tone and behavior something was going on.

1842
01:42:08.159 --> 01:42:13.600
But the fact that his demeanor changes so drastically the

1843
01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:16.840
moment she's in the room with him leads us to

1844
01:42:16.880 --> 01:42:20.079
believe that being alone in this place is probably one

1845
01:42:20.079 --> 01:42:21.760
of the worst ideas well.

1846
01:42:21.800 --> 01:42:25.199
And if we want to go really deep in those weeds,

1847
01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:28.439
he could be like everybody else and think that it's

1848
01:42:28.600 --> 01:42:32.079
just a story that freaks you out and you gotta

1849
01:42:32.079 --> 01:42:34.640
get over it. Maybe he wanted somebody who didn't know

1850
01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:36.880
about it there because he was like, well, she won't

1851
01:42:37.199 --> 01:42:39.840
she won't get freaked out because she doesn't know what happened.

1852
01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:43.359
She wasn't here when the shit went down, so maybe

1853
01:42:43.359 --> 01:42:45.760
it'll just pass right by her. But like I am

1854
01:42:45.800 --> 01:42:49.359
full of you know, trauma and fear from what we

1855
01:42:49.439 --> 01:42:53.920
saw and what we continue to seem that that could

1856
01:42:54.000 --> 01:42:56.479
be a part of it. Maybe maybe the benefit was

1857
01:42:56.520 --> 01:43:00.760
that she was a rookie to him, yeah, or baby

1858
01:43:00.840 --> 01:43:03.119
it wanted her. Maybe it was like, give me someone

1859
01:43:03.119 --> 01:43:05.439
else and I'll let you go. I mean, because he

1860
01:43:05.479 --> 01:43:09.239
could have been yelling at apparitions in the back room

1861
01:43:09.279 --> 01:43:12.600
because clearly they in holding is where they're the most powerful.

1862
01:43:13.479 --> 01:43:16.399
But we don't really get that. I mean, we don't

1863
01:43:16.399 --> 01:43:17.479
really get that explained.

1864
01:43:17.640 --> 01:43:18.079
Mhmm.

1865
01:43:18.840 --> 01:43:21.560
So I'd be remiss if I didn't mention there is

1866
01:43:21.600 --> 01:43:25.239
a remake of this film. Yeah, it's called Malam m

1867
01:43:25.279 --> 01:43:28.279
A L l Um. I believe it's two l's Mallam,

1868
01:43:28.640 --> 01:43:33.000
which is the name of an evil entity. It is

1869
01:43:33.079 --> 01:43:36.239
a much bigger film, probably in the two to three

1870
01:43:36.279 --> 01:43:39.039
million dollar budget range, I would guess maybe even more.

1871
01:43:39.720 --> 01:43:42.840
It was shot in Kentucky. They had a giant abandoned

1872
01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:46.039
building that they used as the location. It's literally remake.

1873
01:43:46.279 --> 01:43:49.960
Oh wow, Okay, I didn't love it. I would be

1874
01:43:50.039 --> 01:43:52.840
willing to rewatch it and give it another chance. But

1875
01:43:52.960 --> 01:43:55.720
my biggest problem was that it is not simple, it

1876
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is not small. I didn't find it very scary. Entirely

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about deeply explaining the evil entity, and it's way more

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about lore and way more about that whole element than

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it is about just being a scary movie about somebody

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working alone. So I often say that if if there

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had never been a Last Shift, Mallam would have been

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pretty good. But when I compare them, I'm like, there's

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no comparison. Mallam is just this like really big, kind

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of daunting, occasionally confusing movie, horror film, and the Last

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Shift is this simple and starkly scary film. It's the

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exact same director, of the exact same writers, so a

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much bigger budget, and you could tell, because I mean, like,

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every every element is bigger, and I don't think that

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that makes it scarier, unfortunately, but I kind of see

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where they were coming from. Making it because I get

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that they were trying to they were trying to expand

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on that lore that I think he was really into

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after writing the first film, And I get that because

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the lore is really interesting. But as a remake, it

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just I think if I were him, although maybe it was,

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you know, the only way you get the money was

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for it to be a remake. But I would have

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rather made a movie that was just like a spiritual sequel. Yeah,

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you know, just a movie in the same universe but

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in a but like a different element because having it

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it's literally I mean a last shift at a closed

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down police station. There's one female guard there, her dad

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was a cop there. But everything is spelled out like

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very directly immediately. Oh, Like the first person she meets

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is like, oh, I knew your dad. Like it's so

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just put out there really quickly. But I think the

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thing I hold against it the most is that I

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simply found the original so painfully scary. Yeah that when

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this one was just kind of not that scary, I

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was kind of like, okay, But I, like I said,

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I would like to rewatch it because I I do

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worry that maybe I was in a bad mood with it. Too,

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because I have rewatched some movies and been like, man,

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I don't know what I was on what like tear,

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I was on about like being grumpy or some shit

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when I watched it the first time. But this is

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way way better. So but that's my thought. But I yeah,

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you just say the word, I'll we'll watch mallam oh.

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I'd be curious.

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I'd be very curious your thoughts.

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Yeah, but last shift, I just think it just hits

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so hard. So well, great ending, great beginning, great middle,

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great location use because that building's really not big, Like

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01:46:34.760 --> 01:46:37.960
when you film enough, you know, and I can tell

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01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:40.560
that building's not big. I can tell they reused some

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hallways because it's what we all do. It's not like

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even on big budget movies they make everything that's small

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look big. That's the way it works. So, I mean,

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most famously, the most famous example of that would be

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Tom Cruise. He's a he's a very short man. He's like,

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oh really, he's like five foot eight, five foot nine.

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Yeah that was that was a joke, but you didn't laugh,

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Which means we're gonna take a quick break and then

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we'll wrap up our conversation about this and talk a

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little bit more about what we love about horror and

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Halloween right after this You're so mean, all right, So

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as we wind down the return of cutting deep into horror,

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I really do think this was a great film to

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jump back in, especially because you were totally blind to

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this film. I just told you. I was like, it's

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pretty scary.

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Yeah, yeah, That's all you said was it's pretty scary.

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It's a ghost story.

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And I was like, okay, yeah, I mean it. And

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that's the thing. I really have always loved simple. I've

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always felt simple is generally the scariest, the scariest thing,

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so especially in movies in particular.

1948
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Well that's that's and I can't stated enough, but that's

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what really drew me into it was within the first

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twenty minutes I realized that it's going to be one

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person in one location with very little else going on

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other than spook. And I'm so into that because you know,

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don't get me wrong, I love big budget movies. I

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love you know, big budget horror movies. But to me,

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the meat and potatoes is how much can you do

1956
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with a bucket of blood and some bad lighting? And

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that's probably all your fault.

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I mean, that could be that very well could be.

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I mean, lighting is everything. Like we on Boggie Creek

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the series, A fortune was spent on that bigfoot costume,

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and then I was like, I am never throwing light

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at that thing? Are you kidding me? It's always going

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to be underlt that is. And then and then our

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producer praised me for he was a good job never

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lighting the suit, and I was like, thank you. So yeah,

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it's it's that's just kind of my thing. But I

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will say one last point about Mallam. Maybe the goal

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I would really like to rewatch it, actually, but maybe

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the goal just wasn't to be that scary of a

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horror movie, but to be more of an expansive horror story.

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And maybe that's maybe it just didn't connect with me

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because I'm like, oh man, it's a remake of one

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of the spoopiest movies. And then I'm like, it's not

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so spoop.

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Give me more spool.

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I need spoop. It's one of the reasons I love

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doing Weekly Spooky is because I love a short horror

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story that just leaves you going shit. Yeah. I love

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that because I enjoy a long book too, But like

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there's something about you know, getting in and getting out,

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and you're spooked. You're scared, you know. I think it's.

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A maximum spook efficiency.

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Damn right. So well, before we get out of here,

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do you want to tell the audience what we're going

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to be talking about in November around about the Thanksgiving time?

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01:49:53.920 --> 01:49:57.439
Well, so you got to show me a movie I'd

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01:49:57.479 --> 01:50:00.079
never seen before. So next I'm going to show you

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you a movie you haven't seen and you've been wanting

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to see for a while.

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Yeah. I just kind of missed it when it came

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out and then I never got around to it.

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So I'm going to be showing you a Killing of

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a Sacred Deer.

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Ah. That's uh. I can never remember that that director's name,

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because he did the Lobster? Right? Was see that the same?

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I rememberd thinking of somebody.

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Else, to be honest, I can't remember.

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This is the worst I know.

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I don't know why you even brought me back on

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the show.

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Uh I didn't you just showed up?

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Yeah?

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So uh no, because I know that I love this

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director's work. So let me pull up the Killing the

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Sacred Deer. Yeah, your ghost lethemos he did the lobster.

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He did that. Poor things Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's

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a very talented director and I've never seen him do horror,

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so I'm really excited to check it out because I've

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heard nothing but horrific things about that movie.

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Oh it just yeah.

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That means I have to make you watch The Lobster.

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But it won't be for the show because it's not

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a horror movie. I love The Lobster. So you're agreeing

2014
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that if you do not find the love of your

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life in the next nine weeks or whatever it is,

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or the next four weeks, you will be turned into

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a lobster, it says here. Is that confirm a lobster? Yes,

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a lobster will be fine. I guess it's the weirdest,

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01:51:15.880 --> 01:51:19.479
funnest movie. But no, I'm looking forward to that and

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I think it'll be perfect for the Thanksgiving season.

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I think so.

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And we might cook up a couple well, we're gonna

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01:51:27.439 --> 01:51:30.000
cook up maybe one or two surprises for the Christmas season.

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We'll see, we'll see how it goes, but we'll definitely

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be back and we're going to do our best to

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01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:36.640
keep this a bit more consistent now that life has

2027
01:51:36.680 --> 01:51:39.920
not been so crazy. I last year it was like

2028
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with the dogs and being sick and everything. It was

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just like very hard to make the time. But I

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do love talking about horror movies, and I love talking

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about horror movies with you, Rachel. You are so much

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fun to talk about any movie with really.

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So don't you don't have to lie?

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Okay, I hate you get out of my house, but

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now we're gonna I guess there's not much more to say.

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You know, we had a good time, and we hope

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Weekly Spooky. We hope you'll go to Weeklyspooky dot com

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tell me about my own show. So anyway, anything else

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you want to say before we get out of here.

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H Happy Halloween.

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Happy Halloween indeed, and make sure you tune in this

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Monday for a very special Halloween monthly Spooky. So now

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we'll leave you with our theme song by Ray Mattis,

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and an extra special thank you to our executive producers

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Mark Shields, Robfields and bob Altopia dot Com and my

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producer Dan Wilder. We'll see you next time, kids, Audios