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Exploring the Eerie Realm of Classic and Rebooted Horror - EP 235

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Prepare to feel goosebumps as we bring you a Halloween treat on the Motor City Hypnotist podcast. Our spine-chilling discussion on the supernaturally eerie world of the top 10 scariest TV shows ever is certain to thrill you. We're not alone, accompanied by the master of the mind, clinical director David R Wright, whose insights will add a new perspective to our gruesome chat. Strap in for a journey into the dread-filled depths of shows like 'Ash vs. Evil Dead' and popular series 'Stranger Things'. Don't miss out on the Halloween fun as we also announce our spooky winner of the week and offer listeners a chance to win some exciting free stuff!

We continue our nerve-racking countdown, delving into the realm of classic horror. Prepare for a terrifying trip down memory lane as we up the fear factor with 'Tales from the Crypt', 'The Outsider', and the hair-raising 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker'. Ever thought about introducing children to 'Lord of the Rings'? We've got that covered too. Plus, we discuss the seismic shifts in the horror genre due to modern horror films. So, join us as we unravel the horror behind these TV shows and movies.

The fear doesn't end there! We bring you discussions on chilling reboots of classic horror movies and TV shows. From the reimagined 'Salem's Lot' and 'The Haunting of Hill House' to 'The Fall of the House of Usher', we've got it all. Big fan of Mike Flanagan? Hear about his interest in creating a 'Dark Tower' series. And of course, we don't forget to pay homage to those that have pushed the boundaries of horror, shows like 'The Twilight Zone', 'Outer Limits', and 'Twin Peaks'. So, join us as we take a thrilling plunge into horror reboots and the lasting impact they've had on the genre. Get your popcorn ready, sit back, and let the fear in!

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The Motor City Hypnotist

David R, Wright:

In this episode of the Motor City Hypnotist podcast. This is our Halloween spooky special. It's not the Treehouse of Horror, it's the podcast of horror.

Matt Fox:

Okay, well that's about every episode and in.

David R, Wright:

Celebration of Halloween, which is in a couple of weeks, we're going to do something special and we're going to count down. Last year, we counted down our top 10 scariest movies of all time. This year, we're going to count down our top 10 scariest TV shows of all time.

Matt Fox:

All right, so I'm looking forward to that, but I we started watching something yesterday.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, I'm going to share, but OK, yeah we'll share and as usual, you know we give away a bunch of free crap. Just just tune in, stick around, stick around, have fun with our spooky spectacular.

Announcer:

Get ready for the Motor City Hypnotist, david R Wright. Originating from the suburbs of Detroit, ichigan, he has hypnotized thousands of people from all over the United States. David R Wright has been featured on news outlets all across the country and is the clinical director of an outpatient mental health and hypnosis clinic located just south of Detroit, where he helps people daily using the power of hypnosis.

David R, Wright:

Boom Woo, all right you, ok over there, it's the demon coming out. Wow, what is going on? My friends, it is David Wright. We are here. Welcome to the Motor City Hypnotist podcast, our Halloween spooky spectacular.

Announcer:

I'm already frightened about the next 30 minutes.

Matt Fox:

OK yeah, if you listen to the intro, that was my yeah, yeah just my Do me a favor I don't know what that is Don't ever do that again.

David R, Wright:

No, no, no, yeah, yeah my wife tells me that all the time I don't get it. But so welcome folks. We're here for another episode. Welcome to the podcast your voice, southfield Studios. With me, as always, is Matt Fox. That's me, I was Matt, or Matthew as he prefers to be called. Not so much, not so much. Yeah, I know I know people always ask me I need to catch up. I had my 40th class reunion a couple of weekends ago. We didn't record last week. So how young did you feel? I felt pretty young, I have to say, comparatively.

David R, Wright:

Yeah see, that's the thing it was. It was a mix you know in not to smirch anyone, but I felt pretty good.

Announcer:

You said smirch.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to be to smirch any of my fellow classmates, but I feel like I was looking pretty good.

Matt Fox:

Everybody ages at their own pace. Yes, you still have a full head of hair Well kind of Wow. You know, if you don't come, you know it's still there, yeah it is still there for the moment.

David R, Wright:

So so welcome folks. Let me tell you first where you can find me. My website is MotorCityHitMintestcom. Check it out. All kinds of good stuff on there. Podcast show notes are going up slowly but surely, so check those out, you can get, you know, go back Well, some, some number of episodes. Eventually they will all be up there, right? But if you want show notes, definitely go to whatever podcast platform you're listening on iTunes, spotify, stitcher, whatever. There's a hundred of them now, I don't even know. Yeah, there's wherever that is Connect, join, subscribe, give blood, whatever you have to do to connect to us, get paid for it.

David R, Wright:

And that way, you'll get it whenever they drop and then you don't have to look for it. And, as usual, as I always say, please leave a review. That would help tremendously. Find me on social media Facebook and YouTube, which are both MotorCityHitMintest, and on Instagram and the Snapchat at MotorCityHipno. That's the.

Announcer:

Snapchat.

David R, Wright:

Snapchat, snapchat.

Announcer:

That's my machine.

David R, Wright:

And as usual, we always give away a free hypnosis guide that's available. On every show Text, the word hypnosis to 313-800-8510. And if you need that number later, just check it out. It's all in the show notes. That'd be fantastic, do it. It is time. Here we go.

Announcer:

That's how winning is done.

Matt Fox:

All right. So before you get into this good, news my news.

David R, Wright:

Matt's got four drinks lined up in front of him. I don't know where to start what's in the cup there.

Matt Fox:

In here. Yeah, that is Watered Down. Maker's Mark.

David R, Wright:

Oh, okay, so you had ice.

Matt Fox:

And this is the phone cocktail.

David R, Wright:

The phone cocktail. This is the other cocktail that we had. So those of you who, many times before we record man Gave Happy Hour records.

Announcer:

Man Gave.

David R, Wright:

Happy Hour podcast yeah, and this is O-Gray Tea yes, so check them out because we did last episode. I jumped in for the last half and they did Shaker and Spoon. Shaker and Spoon was on the show with their representative, Anna, who was a beautiful, lovely lady. She's the one of the co-founders Girl woman, one of the co-founders of Shaker and Spoon, and it's a subscription box for cocktails.

David R, Wright:

It is yeah absolutely so we tried Mascall cocktails tonight and they were good. I'm surprised, because I wouldn't think of that. I put it this way I don't have Mascall in my house, right?

Matt Fox:

I just it's just not something.

David R, Wright:

I've ever searched for or tried to get, but these were good.

Matt Fox:

No, there was very interesting cocktails.

David R, Wright:

No, absolutely so. Matt's got four lined up. Hopefully he'll make it to the end here. Yes, I will. Yes, it's because he's scared. That's why I'm the first one. This is spooky. So who is our spooky winner of the week? I'm going to tell you who our spooky winner of the week is, and this could be kind of spooky. I'll start with the article Rough seas are no place for the uninitiated Nope, and it couldn't get more uninitiated than a pair of hooves. Okay.

Matt Fox:

It's not Satan, no, trying to think of hooves paddling water.

David R, Wright:

From New Jersey comes the story of a good Samaritan rescuing a deer that has somehow found itself battling the surf off the coast of Belmar.

Matt Fox:

Serves up.

David R, Wright:

Adrian Tully was on the scene taking pictures with a nice camera which he had just picked up again An amateur photographer. Tully had gone there to snap some shots of the sunset but spotted the deer attempting to make its way onto a jetty. Do you know what jetty is? It's like an outcrop of rock that sits out in the water. At first she told News 12 she thought it was a bird and left it at that, but later she spotted a crowd of onlookers coalescing around the sea at 15th Avenue, pointing at the same jetty she had seen the bird on. Okay, that's when she realized it was a buck, not a bird. What gave it away? The orange.

Matt Fox:

The big antlers, the antlers.

David R, Wright:

Well, you know, I always see the birds flying with antlers around my house. Do you know? I thought there were robins at first, but not with horns. No bats.

David R, Wright:

No yeah yeah, yeah, it could be. He was swimming through the ocean and then he decided a couple of times to climb on the jetty and then he went back in the water and we were a little bit worried, said Tully, after taking a few pictures. The crowd cheered when it saw a friendly surfer pass by and coaxed the buck out of the confusing eddying water and toward the shore. How do you do that? Come here.

Announcer:

Come here, come on, come on, you can do it, come on.

David R, Wright:

There was a nice surfer. I don't know his name, but he eventually tried to guide the deer out. The deer came off the eddy and then just came out of the water and ran north on the beach, you know, far away from any people, and he was perfectly fine, said Tully, wow. Other surfers said the water was pretty turbulent and they doubted whether the buck could have made it alone, but unanimously admitted they didn't know that the surfer had rescued it. News 12, new Jersey is still seeking the identity of the Good Samaritan, I think we don't know who the guy is, sure, but I'm sure his name was Buck.

Matt Fox:

He's a surfer like oh dude, did you see the deer Dude?

David R, Wright:

see those waves. Wow, man, check out the horns on that one. So yeah, this unidentified surfer paddles out and coaxes this deer off of this rock formation and gets it to kind of swim towards shore. So it wasn't a mountain goat, it was a deer. No, it was a deer, it was a big buck.

David R, Wright:

All right, yeah, good Samaritan is, but whoever the Good Samaritan is, yay, hey. I mean, who knows, maybe the deer wouldn't have made it, maybe not, but maybe not. You made it Good Samaritan surfer and that's why it's a good story there it is and that's why it's Winner of the Week. Thank you.

Announcer:

That's how winning is done.

Matt Fox:

So, david, I'm all smiles, you are all smiles. Not because I have drinks lined up in front of me, that's. I was going to say you have four drinks, so you should be smiling, because the past couple of weeks, because it's been a couple of weeks since I've seen you yeah two weeks. Yeah, they've been incredibly busy, but they've been thoroughly just. You know everything that you put your mind to. You get through it.

David R, Wright:

You succeed and you move on to the next project.

Matt Fox:

There's been so many great things that have happened over the past couple of weeks Nice. And just just mentally, you know physically, emotionally, you know just relationship wise. To go back to what we had been going over for the whole relationship series that we were going through. Yeah, there was so much that we talked about. I just took all that to heart. I've had nothing but great success, Absolutely Personally, because of not because of the episodes, just because of you know, just living day to day and feeling like you're doing the right thing.

David R, Wright:

Well, here's and here's the thing you say living day to day, and I'm going to funnel that down even further. Okay, it's in people who've heard this term. It's practicing mindfulness, it's taking, it's enjoying the moment, it's noticing what's around you and your interactions with people and making yourself present. Those sound like very psycho-battlish terms, but these things, but really put you in the moment.

Matt Fox:

But also I got to tell you I feel relevant because you put yourself in the moment, because you know you want to feel relevant. But I feel relevant, but everyone around me is making me feel that way as well. Nice I feel relevant because of choices, because of decisions, mm-hmm, I just think it's been great the past couple of weeks. Fantastic, I'm just looking forward to the next number of years, you know.

David R, Wright:

Absolutely.

Matt Fox:

The rest of my life, forgot six, but you know my middle daughter got engaged. Oh, congratulations.

David R, Wright:

In Sedona, italy, in Italy, she got engaged. She sure held it. Wow, and don't tell my wife that She'll punch me in the face.

Matt Fox:

But you know just so many great things have happened over the past couple of years, nice, I'm very, very proud of my kiddos and just looking forward to watching them continue to blossom and become who they want to be, absolutely Watch them grow in a relationship, whichever way it may go. You know what I'm there for them, so I'm just.

Announcer:

I'm very, very happy, fantastic.

David R, Wright:

I'm glad to hear it.

Matt Fox:

But so you're going to scare the shit out of me now.

David R, Wright:

I am All right. So back to it, bring it. So it's our Halloween spooktacular, our podcast of horror, if you'd like to call it. And as I said in the intro, last year we counted down for Halloween. We counted down the top 10 scariest movies of all time. You want to recap it? Do you have them? I don't have them right off hand.

Matt Fox:

No worries, no worries, we'll go back and see you later.

David R, Wright:

I'm just even trying to remember what was number one on that list. Wasn't it the Exorcist.

Matt Fox:

It could have been. I think it was that, or the thing, the thing was pretty scary.

David R, Wright:

Oh, wait a minute.

Matt Fox:

Or is it Adventure, do I?

David R, Wright:

have it Hold on, I might.

Matt Fox:

Hold on, was it Adventures in babysitting? No worries.

David R, Wright:

No worries. No, I don't have it here. Sorry, I thought I might have it on the laptop.

Matt Fox:

I'm pretty sure that it was. The Exorcist was right up there, probably, number one or two.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, the Exorcist was right up there. I think Psycho was right up there as well.

Matt Fox:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, jaws was up there, yeah yeah.

David R, Wright:

So instead of rehashing the movie thing, I thought, well, let's do TV shows, all right. I mean, you know TV's been around since the 1950s and you know 50s or whatever, 40s whatever you know. I'm talking about color TV.

Announcer:

Oh, I thought you're talking about digital.

David R, Wright:

Well, yeah, you know you can you know, count the count, the commercial time with your advocacy, there you go. So where are we?

Matt Fox:

going to start what's the scariest? Number 10 TV show Number 10.

David R, Wright:

Let's start with that and this is a fairly recent one, not now, but maybe in the last six, five, six, seven years. Okay, ash versus Evil Dead. Oh, did you?

Announcer:

watch Ash Ash versus Evil Dead.

David R, Wright:

Of course I did yes.

Matt Fox:

Because I am a big fan of the Evil Dead movie.

David R, Wright:

I am too. Bruce Campbell is fantastic.

Matt Fox:

You know, the first movie, the first Evil Dead, took place in Flint Michigan, yep.

Announcer:

Right, and that's Raimi directed. Raimi directed it.

Matt Fox:

And you know those movies are so much fun to watch because it's so campy and it's so out there for the time that it was made.

David R, Wright:

Yes.

Matt Fox:

Absolutely. I just started watching Arby in Darkness a couple weeks ago. I'm still working myself through it. You know just time, yep, but you know I enjoy revisiting those movies, so I'm glad.

David R, Wright:

Oh, absolutely In the series. I was kind of bummed when it, when it kind of ended because I don't. I don't know that it's going to do anymore, but the series, even though it kept that campy feel it got a lot more dark it got darker. It did, and it got more gory.

Matt Fox:

Yes, and they tried to reboot. You know I'm going to go back to the movie. Yeah, they tried to reboot the movie franchise and Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi were a part of that and it just it didn't have the campiness that the originals did.

David R, Wright:

And you know, I was kind of not mortified, I was just kind of disappointed, disappointed, yeah, because you would hope it would be something that that would succeed. You would hope anyway, right, so anyway, that's my number 10.

Matt Fox:

You know that's a good pick because it's fun, it's campy, it's a little bit scary, it's dark.

David R, Wright:

It's all the characters and the development. It's pretty dark. Yep, oh, the girl I can't remember the actress's name From the show From Ash versus Evil. Dat the girl, the dark-haired girl.

Announcer:

I can't remember her name.

David R, Wright:

But she played. If you ever watched Craig Ferguson's late night show, no, oh, okay. Well, she played the CBS exec who was the censor. She would always censor him for things. I got it. She played this role Again. I like Loveder as an actress. All right, yeah, okay. Number nine All right Again, a little bit, a little bit more current, and and and I almost didn't include this just because of the popularity, because sometimes popularity doesn't, popularity doesn't indicate success or that it's good Sure, that makes sense. So I'll just say it's stranger things.

Announcer:

Okay.

Matt Fox:

Nostalgia, mm, hmm, that that that show was all about the nostalgia. That's what got folks our age Right To enjoy the shows. Yes, For the nostalgia, absolutely. But then the writers took it in a direction that one brought us into it and kept us there because of the nostalgia, because of the kids and them growing up and facing these Well and the character development and and and it is scary.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a scary TV show and again as popular as, like I said, I kind of struggled with this one because it's it's so popular that sometimes it's like Well season five doesn't drop until 2025.

Matt Fox:

Right Right, yeah Right, and they started. They dropped a teaser, if you will, but it was just rehashing everything they've already done. But you know, I I have actually enjoyed stranger things I have too.

Announcer:

My kids have enjoyed it.

Matt Fox:

My partner has enjoyed it as well, and when I saw for season five 2025, I'm like, wow, Millie Bobby Brown's gonna look like she's 40.

David R, Wright:

Well, yeah, that's what I mean there. They're all going to be way into adulthood, yeah, so, um. But yeah, number nine is stranger things. Number eight, another fairly recent one, and I don't know if you've seen any of Mike Flanagan's series, if you say, fall of the house of Usher, nope, okay, because I have not watched that yet. Okay, midnight Mass.

Matt Fox:

Did I see that? I don't think I've seen that just yet.

David R, Wright:

Okay, that's a good one to watch, is it? Yes, okay.

Matt Fox:

Because I see it's come up on our, you know, recommendations, mm. Hmm.

David R, Wright:

So so Mike Flanagan, well, well, we'll get to him in a minute, but uh, uh, it's. It's one of those. It's a streaming show, like it's not on network.

Announcer:

So it's a lot more. It's a Netflix, or yeah, it's on Netflix and it just has.

David R, Wright:

You know it's. It's a lot of the same actors that were in another one that we're going to get to in a little bit. One is somebody who loves TV. I know that's without, without spoiling later on down the list.

Matt Fox:

All right, yeah, that's kind of the whole point of it.

David R, Wright:

If you want to, midnight mass was. It was about a priest. I'm just getting very basic overview is about a priest in the small town and things aren't really what they seem and kind of like Scarlet Witches, where she like had off like not really even that, but but it's like there are creatures but you don't know that. There that's. I don't again, don't want to spoil it, but again for me, I love the show. I thought it was very creepy, is it?

Matt Fox:

is a Catholic, you know. You say midnight mass. I kind of think of Catholicism, right.

David R, Wright:

Yes, yes, so it's Catholic priest, right, fair enough. Yep, that is number eight. All right, ok, number seven. We're going back a ways. Tales from the Crypt. I think that you know when that came out 1986,.

Matt Fox:

I want to say 87., 89. I'm close.

David R, Wright:

You are close, you were close.

Matt Fox:

The Crypt Keeper. The theme song.

David R, Wright:

Yes.

Matt Fox:

That goes through my head every once in a while. Actually, it goes through my head just about every Christmas. Yeah, I'll walk around singing the Tales from the Crypt, but but then they had these movies afterwards, right.

David R, Wright:

So that's all. I'm going back to the series because that in and I did watch it at the time and I remember that there was some and I saw I'm going to go way back. I'm going back to junior high. So I and one of my junior high classes they would have like this like end of the semester or end of the year party, where we they they bring a movie in for us to watch, ok, and the movie was the movie Tales from the Crypt. That's great, and but which one?

David R, Wright:

Burdello a blood or no, no, the original, the original.

Matt Fox:

Yes, oh, my goodness.

David R, Wright:

The one with the killer, santa Claus, and the one where the guy was dead and the woman had tried to chop him up to kill him because he wished he could be alive forever.

Announcer:

Yeah.

David R, Wright:

You know when, and we're like I'm going to say 1213 at the time.

Matt Fox:

You know what I mean. You do some something. I mean just, it was just so you're going to grow here on your chest Eventually.

David R, Wright:

I thought could you imagine that going? You mentioned people doing that today. Oh my God they'd be fired. Oh there'd be such an uproar. But again, I went to school 100 years ago.

Matt Fox:

Listen, I was all good. I introduced my child to Lord of the Rings, you know, and she was like seven or eight years old and you got these things getting their heads chopped off like it's all make believe, don't believe it at all. My son was watching that from when he was a toddler, right you know you got to introduce them slowly, but at the same time let them understand that it's not real Well.

David R, Wright:

Sure, but the table point is from the Crips series. There was a lot of good one of the creepy episodes.

Matt Fox:

One of the creepiest episodes I remember is two guys playing cards and every time they lost they had to cut off a limb. Oh, I think I remember that one, Right, yes, and you know they were ended up being two stubs at the end of it.

David R, Wright:

It is so weird Now.

David R, Wright:

I don't know if it was that one and this one that there was one episode that sticks in my mind and I I could be wrong. I thought it was tales from the crypt. It might have been one of those other and those other shows, like like Night Gallery or one of those other ones, sure, sure, but it was this one where this, this creep show, was a creep show, could have been creep show, but it's this old guy sitting in a rocker and this woman is just laying bricks. He's in this tiny little little cubby hole.

Matt Fox:

Sounds very from the camera it sounds very Edgar. Allen Poe.

David R, Wright:

And they're having this conversation and he's saying don't do this, don't do this. And she keeps putting brick by brick by brick, until that's the rooms, that's sealed. It sounds like the Raven, I'm telling you. And the camera pulls back. The guy walks out of the room and out the front door. She sealed herself in.

David R, Wright:

Just stuck in my head that it was such a like whoa, I'll learn you, I totally, totally missed the thing on that. But yeah, all right, good, that's a good. Yeah. Tales from the crypt is number seven. Okay, number six, probably a little more obscure. Maybe a lot of people have not seen it. It was a Stephen King adaptation. Okay, it was a series. Okay, believe it was on Netflix. Could have been. Hulu Was under the dome.

Matt Fox:

The outsider, oh the outsider, mm hmm, Do you know?

David R, Wright:

did you see that?

Matt Fox:

one, not the outsider.

David R, Wright:

Okay.

Matt Fox:

Maybe I did. Yes, I did see the outsider.

David R, Wright:

Okay, it's about a guy, justin Bateman plays the plays this father of a daughter who's coach. He's a literally coach and he gets blamed for this murder of this young boy. Yes, yes.

Matt Fox:

I did remember seeing that.

David R, Wright:

Yes, and the whole thing is that it was somebody who looked like him, right? Yes, and it was there there. There are a lot of super creepy parts in that that you know, because it's this being that took form.

Matt Fox:

Yes, that's right, it was a cave somewhere. Yes, yes.

David R, Wright:

Yes, he lived in a cave down by the river Spoilers, but okay, this from 2018. Right, that's recent. Right, it's fairly recent, but but, like great series, a great adaptation. You know, I've read everything Stephen King has done, right, and it's very true to the book.

Matt Fox:

The detective in that show was the same guy that played the alien. Yes, In, in, in, in uh, yes, in um um the recent Samuel Jackson series uh secret wars not secret wars but, uh Ben Mendelsohn, yes Ben thank you, yes, the guy's name yes.

David R, Wright:

God, he, he, just he's a great. Yeah, he's a great actor, great Plus he's got this, he's got the accent. But he's also got the sound of his voice. That's, that's very unique. Yes, it's not an impediment by any means, but but, but it's got a very unique sound.

Announcer:

It's a raspy kind of yeah.

David R, Wright:

Yes. So again, if you've not watched this, I highly recommend watching that. All right, it's a great creepy the outside, creepy the outsider. All right. Number five this is going way back. One of my favorites, tron Colchak, the night stalker. What is it called? Colchak, cold Colchak, colchak? I don't know Colchak, I don't know Colchak, matt, oh boy, we got to get you on, we got to get you caught up.

Announcer:

All right.

Matt Fox:

All right.

David R, Wright:

So Colchak, the night stalker, there there's. So let me, let me tell you the quick story. There was a TV movie called the Night Stalker, right, it's about a vampire, okay, and this, this news reporter puts together the pieces that that people are being killed by a vampire. But nobody believes him, of course, because that's ridiculous, right. So he, he, you know, he ends up. Anyway, it was a movie and it got one of the highest like TV movie ratings of the week, for, for, like all time, people loved it. And then they did a sequel called the Night Strangler. Again, the same Darren McAvon played the reporter. Okay, so they did a sequel movie and then they came out with the series, which was on weekly Huh, I believe it was like Friday or Saturday nights, and it had I don't know how many seasons there are. There might have been two to three seasons, I'm not quite sure on that.

Matt Fox:

I'm surprised. I don't know.

David R, Wright:

But it was always dealing with you know, the supernatural or supernatural or the occult, and it was. It was a really as a kid. Well, again, I'm talking. You know I was probably 10, 11, 12, 13 in there and it it was a. Some of the shows are really creepy, my partner and I really do like good spookers. You need to go back because I know it's dated but it holds up because I've, because I've watched episodes since then. In fact, I got the box set. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Matt Fox:

Of the whole series On VHS or DVD. It's on Betamax. I don't got one of those.

David R, Wright:

But again that that that was a great episodic television about this reporter and Colt the the, the guy who, darren McAvon, played a great role. As far as Colt Jack goes, oh yeah, kendra, oh, kendra said Alan recommended Midnight Mass, our number one fan, alan. All right, yes, thanks Alan.

Matt Fox:

And then we watched it after that and we loved it All right, yeah, fantastic, that's a.

David R, Wright:

TV show yes, all right, yes, on, it's a streaming streaming somewhere.

Matt Fox:

It's on Netflix. I know it's on Netflix, okay.

David R, Wright:

Okay, there you go. So number five was Colt Jack the Night Stalker. All right, I'll have to check that out.

Matt Fox:

Number four again going back a ways, the X files, Of course you can't. You have to give David DeCovity his right when it comes to the supernatural and what potentially is actually out there.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, and do you know the X files creator, chris Carter, took that model from Colchak the night stalker really to develop into X-Files. Then I know I would probably like Colchak Absolutely.

David R, Wright:

I'm a big X-Files fan, joe, and inner salinity to come in they just you know Mulder Fox Mulder is one of the most iconic characters ever in television and I know there were some running storylines that went throughout, like the whole arc of the character development, but there were some really standalone episodes that were scary and creepy and freaky and you know whatever else you want to call it. Game on, yeah, so that was number four. Okay, okay, so number three. I don't think it's a cheat, because it was a TV series, although it was a limited series. Okay, salem's Lot from 1979. Who was in Salem's Lot? David Soul.

Matt Fox:

David Soul. That's so funny, the guy from.

David R, Wright:

Starsky and Hutch. Oh, my goodness, yeah, uh-huh. Wow, was it the blonde or the brunette? The blonde guy, the blonde guy with the small cans.

Matt Fox:

Jesus.

David R, Wright:

No, no, don't shut me up. All right, yeah, so yeah, it was. Well, you know, you've never seen Salem's Lot. I have not, really, really.

Matt Fox:

That's what that I need to make you a list. Is that the Stephen King spin-off? It is the Stephen King.

David R, Wright:

It was based on the Stephen King novel. It was one of those. Back in the late 70s, early 80s they would have these episodic series that would be like five nights a week for two hours or whatever. Remember.

Matt Fox:

I was born in the 70s Right, and I was probably, you know, five or six. I could watch this when you're nine. All right, you're good.

David R, Wright:

All right, yeah, but no, look that up Again. A little dated but again well done. And I hear just the reading of my because I'm a big fan of Stephen King that they are in works to do a Salem's Lot reboot either a movie or another series.

Matt Fox:

Hey, why does well reboot? Something else that's already been done.

David R, Wright:

Well, you know, the reboots are terrible though. I mean, did you see the Pet Cemetery reboot?

Matt Fox:

Don't get me started oh terrible, terrible, okay, number two.

David R, Wright:

Already down to number two. We are, we're down to number two. Okay, number two the haunting of Hill House.

Matt Fox:

Okay, so let's talk about the haunting of Hill House. That's a Mike Flanagan.

David R, Wright:

Mike Flanagan, who also did Midnight Mass, and it was the gentleman who was Elliot in ET.

Matt Fox:

Uh-huh Right, what was the name? I can't remember his name. I can't remember. I can't pick his name off the top of my head. Anyways, I believe one of the other actresses in that show was Elizabeth Reiser, I believe so. She was the doctor of the siblings and I went to high school with her.

David R, Wright:

You did, yeah, oh. Matt has a claim to fame here. No, I do not. No, did you know her Like, did you? Oh yeah, but she's doing her own thing.

Matt Fox:

You know she's successful in her own right, but yeah.

David R, Wright:

I can't wish she. She's not nice Just. I gotta know more about this.

Matt Fox:

You went to school with somebody famous. No, she's not famous?

David R, Wright:

Well, I mean, she's she's. If she's starring in Haunting a Hill House, I'd call her fairly famous. Whatever, Go on. Okay, All right. So anyway, that is Mike Flanagan, who's done a number of these types of limited series shows that are all excellent. Segway geek sidebar. Mike Flanagan just did an interview in the past few months with one of the geek magazines or sites. Okay, he is chomping at the bit to do a Dark Tower series.

Announcer:

Oh wow, One of the streaming services I can see that he has the rights.

David R, Wright:

He says he wants these lining up writers and he said as soon as this actor strike was over, they were going to get working on this card.

Matt Fox:

Right, so we just started watching the fall of the house of usher this past week because I just dropped this week, right, and Mike Flanagan directed. Yes, the first episode. Yes, it is very well done. It is very well scripted, yep, and it's actually the main character, is one of my favorite actors out there and if you'd asked me his name, I know his face.

Matt Fox:

He was he's been in a lot but because I don't focus on him as an actor, I focus on him as the character right, and he does such a phenomenal job of telling the story before the story actually goes back, you know into yes right. And when you watch it, just remember what happens when life gives you gives you lemons. That's all I'm going to say. Yep, because the response is just out of control, mind blowing. Yeah, and when? When life gives you lemons.

David R, Wright:

So I'm excited that Flanagan has the rights to the Dark Tower because he in an interview said he that movie that came out a few years ago with Matthew McConaughey and Idris Alba. He said I was, I was embarrassed that they would attach even name that the story that I love, sure, and he knows exactly what that means to fans of the Dark Tower series. So here's hoping that he stays with this and makes it worth watching, because this plan is to like five, five, five seasons Wow Series. And what number two was? That was number two haunting of Hill House. Yeah, mike Flanagan. Okay, before we get to number one, let's talk about some honorable mentions.

Matt Fox:

All right.

David R, Wright:

Again going back a ways, but these were shows that always freaked me out.

Announcer:

The gallery with Rod Serling Okay.

David R, Wright:

Remember that show I do Used to come on like at 1130 or after the news or like at midnight. The one that freaked me out the most on that one was I'll tell you a quick story. Woman's home. She hears a sink dripping, drip, drip in the bathroom. So she goes in, plays with a knob and stops dripping. She comes back out. Here's it again. Goes in the bathroom. There's a tiny little spider in the sink. She washes it down. It keeps going on. Every time she goes back it gets bigger and bigger.

Matt Fox:

The spider does. Yes, yeah, yeah, that's what says in my head. She kept watering it.

David R, Wright:

That's what I mean.

Matt Fox:

So can I bring up an honorable mention? Yes, twilight Zone.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, it's here.

Matt Fox:

From the night, like the original 1960s.

David R, Wright:

Yes, the original Twilight Zone. So I put night gallery, outer limits and Twilight Zone kind of grouped together. That's because those, those, were all good ones.

Matt Fox:

The outer limits was like the redheaded stepchild of the Twilight Zone.

David R, Wright:

Yes, and the outer limits? Because of the intro it always seems like it was sci-fi, right? Not Super natural Like horror, right, right, yes, again, going back a ways, and I didn't watch this show, but when I was looking up information as far as putting this together, this came up over and over again Twin Peaks.

Matt Fox:

Oh my God, really yeah, david.

David R, Wright:

I'm going to have to put a list together for you. Yes, I know, I I know of the show. I know kind of what it was Kyle McLaughlin.

Matt Fox:

Kyle McLaughlin just was, just because it was right, after this debacle of a movie called Dune, yes, and he got put into, he got casted in this show called Twin Peaks yeah, you know, come walk with me, or fire walk with me, yep, and it, the entire show, just put the the entire TV watching community on its toes. Yes, because it was so bizarre. It was so bizarre, yes, and that you know it was. But that didn't happen again until lost. Right, it was the same kind of like thought, same kind of Wasn't it, wasn't it.

David R, Wright:

What was the director? What was the creator's name? Was it David Lynch?

Matt Fox:

May have been, but yeah, twin Peaks.

David R, Wright:

Yes.

Matt Fox:

Is the pinnacle of TV shows that gets people talking around the water. Yes, absolutely yeah, and again a creepy very creepy and bizarre at times, and the characters in there were all creepy, every single one of them.

David R, Wright:

This one? I don't know, but again, I've done a lot of reading Black Mirror.

Matt Fox:

Okay, Kendra's trying to trying to get American Horror Asylum. You ever watched the American?

David R, Wright:

Horror. Yes, yes, absolutely. Hey, hold your horses, kendra. We're not even to number one yet.

Matt Fox:

But what you just mentioned, black Mirror, black Mirror. All right, if you can get past the first episode of season one, you're going to be okay throughout the rest of it, because the first episode of season one is disturbing. Okay, and what this gentleman actually decides to do?

David R, Wright:

But the probably which makes it very scary and horror, it's not scary, it's just yeah, yeah, anyway, terrible.

Announcer:

Yeah.

Matt Fox:

One of my most favorite episodes in the whole Black Mirror universe is called San Junipero. Okay, it is a fantastic show.

Announcer:

It's an episode.

Matt Fox:

But there are Easter eggs in each one where they'll bring something out from an episode, two or three, whether it be music, whether it be a picture, or just they're all somewhat tied together. Okay, and you know as much as the world, you know, is intertwined with celebrity. Miley Cyrus was in an episode of Black Mirror.

David R, Wright:

Oh nice, I didn't know that.

Matt Fox:

And she had to get the okay to parody head like a hole by Ninus Nails.

Announcer:

Trent Reznor for an episode of Black.

Matt Fox:

Mirror. It's just there. It's actually.

David R, Wright:

that's a pretty good episode too, right, but I have watched the Black Mirror episode a number of times, so this is one that's on my list to watch. Please watch it. I've read great things about it and that's why it's on my honorable mentions, if you can get past the first episode of the first season.

Matt Fox:

You'll be fine.

David R, Wright:

Yep. Another honorable mention before we get to number one is Supernatural.

Matt Fox:

Well, I'm still in season seven.

David R, Wright:

And there's like a hundred seasons, there's, there's.

Matt Fox:

I think there's 15 seasons. Yeah, my partner had never seen it, right, I had already seen it with my daughter, all the way through, all the way through Okay. And. I'm watching it again because my partner has not seen it, but we're in season seven. That's one of the toughest seasons to get through, okay, but after that it just kind of takes right back.

David R, Wright:

Okay, good.

Matt Fox:

The first six seasons are great. It's a lot of character development.

David R, Wright:

Okay, yeah, I felt like. So. Here's the thing. I started this a couple of times and and I can't tell you, I've watched three, four, five, six, seven episodes maybe, and I just kind of you got to say it kind of loses me.

Matt Fox:

They're kind of like Star Trek episodes. Yeah, of the next generation, where it builds, it builds, it builds, it concludes and it's over. Right, right, that's pretty much you know how these episodes go, but okay, you got to stick with it, because season two, season four, season six, it's just it builds and it's building, but there are 15 seasons.

David R, Wright:

Yes, that's a lot.

Matt Fox:

If something happened, you're like what the hell? How are they going to do this now?

David R, Wright:

Right, right. So again, that was a my honorable mention, so let's go to number one. That's a good pick, though that's a good honorable mention. Okay, back to Kendra. It's American Horror Story. Oh, really, yes, the original, the first season. Well, they, I'm just say I'm grouping that as one because again, it's the same creator, ryan Murphy, and and they're they're different. They're 11 seasons so far. There's a 12th coming out in November.

Matt Fox:

But aren't they all like from different timelines they are.

David R, Wright:

They're different, but there's. There is a theory that these are all connected somehow, that they haven't shown yet, Just saying what, what? Some theories are out there, All right, so, but but they, they all involve many. Most of that are are the same actors over and actresses, actors and actresses over and over again in different roles. But there have been some. Yeah, it's again different subject matter, but it's all horror, it's all creepy, it's all scary.

Matt Fox:

The biggest thing that's burned into my brain about American Horror Story is the latex leather outfit. Oh, the GIMP, the. Gimp outfit from the first season you know just kind of sticks in my, it's burned into my brain.

Announcer:

I mean please, is that you talking about?

David R, Wright:

Yeah, you know, I know, I know fiction, you know.

Matt Fox:

Bring up the GIMP. Gimp Wakes, wake the GIMP up, wake up the.

Announcer:

GIMP.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, but I think again, certain certain, certain seasons were better than others, but as a whole, like Asylum Kendra mentioned that one that was one of my favorite ones Freak Show was another one that was a good one. Freak Show, creep Show all the same kind of Well Freak Show was about these crazy circus performers in this killer clown. Not that that's original, but it was done creepily.

Matt Fox:

Speaking of killer clowns. Killer Clowns from outer space. It's a movie.

David R, Wright:

Oh yes, I know. Yeah, it's fun, it's different. Yeah, it is, it's a fun thing.

Matt Fox:

If you want your kids to never go to the circus, make them watch them.

David R, Wright:

Right, absolutely so. As I said, American Horror Story Ryan Murphy created it. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk those are the two creators Started in 2011,. So it's been around for 12 years. It has been. It's been around a long time, yes, it has. So I would say, overall, that comes in at number one. All right, and, of course, these are just mine. You disagree whatever? Put comments, give me or give me something. If I miss something, you know, go to the Facebook page where this is going to be, where it's going to be sitting for a while and let me know what.

David R, Wright:

What did I miss? What do you think should have been included? That wasn't. What do you agree with? I will?

Matt Fox:

recommend though yes, follow the House of Usher, because of just the way I actually that is something I've been looking to watch. Yes, it's actually we're three episodes into it and it's, it's. I have a theory already after the first episode and I want that theory to be right, and I'm actually almost, I think I'm right.

David R, Wright:

So does it? Do we know? Does it follow the novel? It's based on Edgar Allen pose right the rate, because I've read that right, I've read the novel, so the follow the House of Usher, yes, so I'm wondering if it's you know it.

Matt Fox:

I'm sure, I'm sure they took their liberties, liberties and the great of liberties if you will, but I actually have to go back and read the novel because I don't remember too much about it, right. And it's been a long time since I've read it so, but it's actually just the script, the way that they wrote it and the way it's acted by the main character. And just as you know the dad, he just go. What happens when the world gives you lemons? And the response is just awesome, Nice.

David R, Wright:

Nice. So that, folks, is our Halloween spooktacular. Top 10 countdown of the top 10 scariest TV shows of all time. Bring it again. If you have other ideas, let me know. That'll be great. Let me know I'll consider your requests. They have a brain like a chicken. Maybe not, but but yeah, let's talk about it. So before we go, let me tell you Detroit dog rescue. Who was it? You know who needs a home? Who, kevin. Look at Kevin, kevin. Kevin needs a home.

Matt Fox:

Kevin looks like a. That's not a, it's a lab.

David R, Wright:

It's a lab, yeah Right.

Matt Fox:

Lab, mix of lab. And I want to say it just says lab mix.

David R, Wright:

He was born 2023. So he's a puppy, oh my goodness. He's got. He's 30 pounds already. He's got big paws, he does Big ears. He's dog friendly. He's kid friendly, cat friendly unknown. Most labs do pretty well with cats, but Kevin is. Look at that, look at that face.

Matt Fox:

All black with that white, with the white in the front.

David R, Wright:

Yeah, it's a beautiful dog, wow, and his name is Kevin. That's when I saw him, I thought I would adopt him, just for his name. Kevin, kevin, get over here, come here, kev. Come on, kev. Kevin, don't crap in the carpet, so he's going to hate you if you yell at him. Anyway, kevin needs a home. Greatdogrescuecom. Check it out, kevin. Kevin, I'll be waiting for you, oh with that face.

David R, Wright:

Come on, there you go. Perfect. All right, folks, that is it for this episode. Join us next time next Monday. We record every Monday from 8 pm Eastern Standard Time till 9 pm. Have a great Halloween if we're not on and we'll be on I don't know if the episodes will drop before then, but yeah, I have a good and safe Halloween and we will see you next time. Change your thinking, change your life, laugh hard, run fast, be kind. We'll see you next time.