Kane, The Rock & Piper Slams – A Horror Wrestling Triple Threat

This week on the podcast, we're diving headfirst into a bloody triple feature of muscle, mayhem, and the undead! We kick things off with See No Evil (2006), where a hulking, sadistic killer with a penchant for eyeballs turns a rundown hotel into a slaughterhouse. Then we load up with Doom (2005), the video game adaptation that brings first-person hell to Mars as a squad of marines (including Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) battles demonic hordes in a pulse-pounding, gore-soaked sci-fi nightmare.

We close out the carnage with Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies (2014), the gloriously ridiculous B-movie where faded wrestling legends face off against a zombie outbreak at an abandoned arena — complete with chair shots, suplexes, and brain-eating action.

Expect over-the-top violence, questionable decisions, and plenty of "what were they thinking?" moments. Grab your popcorn (and maybe a chainsaw), because this episode is pure horror trash gold.

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Welcome to season one, episode 14 of Dad Bot of Horror. I am your host, Butch Barr. No real guest host today, although I have to say that my dog has joined me in the recording area in case you hear anything in the background that is not a new co-host. It is just my dog. So, just some housekeeping here for episode 14. I am located on X or Twitter as Dad Bot of Horror. I'm also on Instagram at Dad Bot of Horror. So, since last recording, I have seen a few movies. So I will give you my review of them real quick. The first one is 1,000 Women in Horror, which is on AMC Plus through Prime. The movie was not really what I expected, but it is based off of a book of the same name. Had I known that, I guess my expectations would have changed. It doesn't go, it doesn't talk about a thousand different women that are in horror. It is actually women filmmakers discussing discussing the role of women in horror movies, how they're portrayed, how times have changed. It's actually pretty good. I would give it a seven out of ten. The next movie is Night of the Reaper, which is on AMC Plus on Prime. The beginning of the movie is a little confusing. It gets a little confusing. But watch the whole thing. It is a pretty good movie. Again, 7 out of 10. Then Five Nights at Freddy's 2, which is on Peacock. So I actually didn't like the first Five Nights at Freddy. It seemed more of a drama than it did a horror movie. This one is definitely more of a horror movie. So I would give this uh also a 7 out of 10. Wow. A lot of seven out of tens today. And the last one, now this one I didn't see between my last two recordings. I saw it at some other point and just forgot to tell you guys about it. So it's Coyotes, which is on MGM Plus, which is also on Prime. It's not a bad movie. There are some really dumb decisions that were made by characters that lead to even worse things happening. Um, so some so-so writing, I guess. So I give this one a six out of ten. So let's get started with the movies. So the first movie in season one, episode 14, is See No Evil. And that's from 2006. You can find it on Fossum, Plex, Tubi, Pluto, Roku Channel, and VIX. So just about anywhere. Production company, companies, WWE, Ice Cream Man Productions, and Ice Cream Productions. There's kind of a reason for that, which I'll get to later. Their director is Gregory Dark, the writer is Dan Madigan. It stars Glenn Jacobs, who in the WWE is Kane, Christina Vidal, and Michael J. Pagan. The plot. A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwall Hotel. Little do they know, reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens has captured those who remain, a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago, band together to survive against the brutal killer. So why this movie? So WrestleMania is coming up, and I thought I wanted to do a show with movies that had professional wrestlers in them. How did I see it? Somewhere at some time, I remember seeing that Kane was going to be in a horror movie. Um, and I just had to see it. I really love Kane. I especially loved him when he was the big red machine when he was starting out in the WWE. My favorite kill, and I'm gonna put up a spoiler alert here. There is a point in the movie when Jacob Goodnight, Kane's character, is arguing with his mother. He eventually gets mad and picks her up and throws her at a wall that has a bunch of pipes sticking out of it, and gets like impaled in like three, four places. It is really cool. So let's see. So I like the concept of the movie, uh, the idea that uh these juvenile delinquents are trapped in this building. Because so these delinquent these these guys are coming out of juvie. So they're young. And I mean it says juvie. I mean, it treats so excuse me, treatsmen like their juvenile delinquents, but god, you they're in their 20s. So I don't understand this program. It makes more sense for it to be juvenile delinquents now that I think about it. But for these guys to be the age, which I think they probably are in their 20s, it doesn't make as much sense that you would bring whatever it was, four or five girls and four or five guys together and put them in a put him in a hotel with a cop, um, I think retired policeman, truthfully, because he had his arm cut off by Jacob Goodnight four years earlier. So, anyway, so they're put in this this hotel and they're locked in. I mean, I guess that's a good way to prevent them from escaping when there's only one cop because they're there like three nights or something. So they're locked in this place. So I think this, like, to me, this is a great idea because you have people trapped in an area with a killer, and these people shouldn't be pushovers because they're all juvenile well, they're all criminals. Now they say never to pause when you're talking, but uh yeah, I pause. Big pause. Sorry about that. So Glenn Jacobs Kane, who's plays the serial killer in this, is great. I think he does a tremendous job. I'm not gonna say he did the best acting job. He didn't have a lot of chops, he didn't have a lot of lines, just big brute killing things, which I guess can't be that hard, you know. And and let's face it, wrestlers should be good actors because their job as wrestlers is to be acting. I mean, that's why if you go on IMDB and look these guys up, like all the wrestling shows and pay-per-views are usually listed there because they're actors, it's a role. Glenn Jacobs, who is now like the mayor of some city, his role was Kane. And I have seen Kane in roles where he does a lot more speaking and is like called on to act, and they're not either he's not very good at it. As I said earlier, so these these these these 20-somethings are in there, and they're they're criminals. And going into it, so you know, like I said, I thought it'd be great because he they should be tougher. Well, they're not, they're not tough, tough kids at all. They are, I mean, there are probably some cities in this country where 11-year-olds would beat the crap out of these people, and they all look like they are all supermodels. Uh, the girls look like they're supermodels, their hairs are all done, they have perfect makeup and stuff. You're coming out of prison, man. Just like the boys. I mean, some of the boys are prettier than girls I know. So, yeah, I don't know what kind of prison they were in. I thought it was Juvie, but it wasn't his prison. So I don't know what kind of prison they were in. And they were all in street clothes, too. They weren't in like prison guard. So again, uh, I don't know what kind of prison they were in, but whatever. Um, it's also in the movie, there's a jerk character. So, like basically, he was a pimp and a drug dealer, and one of the girls that's there with him is a girl that he pimped out and got hooked on drugs. But somehow, he lives at the end. Like, why would you why would you do that? They set up a perfect death for him. There is a point in the movie where they're eating lunch in the lobby of this place, and a stray dog comes in through a little hole in the wall that they figure leads out to the street, must have, anyway. And this dog comes in and a girl starts giving part of her sandwich to this stray dog. Now, that was one of the cleanest-looking stray dogs I've ever seen in my life, regardless. She starts feeding a sandwich, and the jerk character throws uh a drink at the dog, hits the dog in the head, and the dog runs away. You know, and she says something like, you know, I hope that dog eats you, or something like that. So there's a part in the movie where one of the characters is being lowered down from a higher window to get away from Glenn Jacobs. From uh Jacob Goodnight is this character's name. She gets tangled up in the ropes, and Jacob Goodnight stabs her a couple of times, and then is lowering her, is dropping her to the ground, and then lowers her, and she's just hanging there like two feet off the ground, if that, and she's bleeding, and she's kind of like out of it, and the stray dog comes back and just rips her apart. That should have been where the jerk was killed. You know, he was the one that was a jerk to the dog, so that would have been a much place to have him kill. That that would have been like the perfect, perfect kill for him. But he survived. The jerk character shouldn't survive. So Kane's character, Jacob Goodnight, was really abused by his mother when he was growing up, which you know is weird in a movie where you see what happened to the guy, and you you can't help but just feel bad for him. So even though he's, you know, ripping people's eyes out of their skulls and killing them like that, you kind of feel bad for him because well, it wasn't not really his fault. So earlier I talked about the production companies, one of them being Ice Scream Man, I E Y E Scream Man, and I Scream Productions. So the title of this was Cino Evil. He rips eyes out of people. Two other possible titles were titles were I Scream Man and also Goodnight Man, because his last name is Goodnight in this. So apparently Kane really liked making this movie because he was still working for the WWE at the time, and um, because he was making this movie, it was like one of the few times where he woke up in the same bed two months in a row. So he really did like making the movie because of that. You know, WWE was one of the production companies behind this, so of course they did their best to try to incorporate the movie into the storyline for Kane, but not as Jacob Goodnight, but as Kane, and they had some of the actresses come out and he acted weird around him, and it's just the whole weird storyline. So, movie number two is Doom from 2000. You can rent or buy it on Prime. That's it. There's no place to get it free. Production company is John Wells Productions, D Bonaventure Pictures, and Doom Productions. The director is, I hope it's Andre is A N D R Z E J. Andre? I don't know. Bart Kowiak. Bart Kowiak, sure. Writer Dave Callahan and Wesley Strick Strict? Yeah, Strick Strick. Starring Carl Urban, Rosamund Pike, and the rock Dwayne Johnson. The plot. Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars, but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines. Yeah, I guess that's it. I guess that's the plot. So why this movie? So the rock's in this one. He's a wrestler, and it follows with my wrestling theme. How did I see it? Okay. Well, I never played the game Doom. Doom was a video game that this is based off of. I'm pretty sure it was a first-person shooter game. So when this movie came out in the theater, I had no interest in seeing it myself. I'm pretty sure my friend Jamie, who did play the game, saw it in the theater and he thought it was pretty good, but I have learned to question his judgment. He thinks that Indiana Jones, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or whatever the hell that was, the uh fourth movie, he thought that was pretty good. He's like freaking butters. Um, so I didn't see it in the theater, but you know, when it came out, I'm sure it was on HBO or something. I just watched it. My favorite kill, there aren't a lot of good kills, but there's like one powerful kill at the end, and I'm gonna say spoiler alert. So if you haven't seen it, you plan on seeing it. Like, seriously. So the rock's character, who goes by the moniker of Sarge, ends up shooting the new kid on his team, the new the newest soldier. So the rock is under orders to kill all the civilians, and he orders the kid to do it. The kid is actually the the soldier's moniker or code name, and the kid won't do it. So he orders, he has a gun, puts a gun up to the kid's head, and he still doesn't do it, so the rock shoots him. So, as I said, the movie is based on a first-person shooter game called Doom, which I never played. And and because of this, there's actually at one point in the movie, they make it look like you're in a first-person shooter. It's weirdly set up. I mean, I know why they did it. To me, I don't think it really worked like they wanted it to. Uh, but apparently it took 14 days to shoot the sequence, which was just a few minutes long. I'm gonna tell you, it was not time well spent. So again, I never played the game because I'm not a I'm not good at first-person shooters, and maybe the movie sits better, like if you played the game. You know, like uh the TV show Fallout that's out right now. Like, I enjoy that TV show maybe more than my wife does because I played the video games, so it makes a little more sense of some of the little funny things in there. Catch some of the little eggs and whatnot in there. So, and that could be. This is a movie that feels more of an action than a horror. Actually, at some points, it feels like a bad version of the movie Aliens. So, sorry, going back. I'm just going through my notes here, and and so one of the things made me laugh. So, you know, again, I did play video game, but there's a part towards the beginning where the uh these space marines are loading up and getting ready to go, and uh, as they're grabbing the weapons, there's a computer in the background because apparently the weapons have to read the genetics of the person grabbing them. I don't know if that's part of the game or not. And then when they do it, it's like, you know, code read. And they give the characters the uh the Space Marines, you know, code name, like Sarge, the kid. Um, I'm gonna tell you one later. One's called GOAT, and I haven't figured that one out. He's really religious. I still don't get GOAT. Maybe if someone you know why, pop me a message, just so I know. To me, this movie is pretty confusing. I think there's a lot of things going on that aren't described well. It's either bad writing or they expected the person seeing it to have played the video game. So maybe had I played the video game, it would make more sense to me. I've watched this movie three three times, and there's still some things in it that confuse me. Again, maybe if I'd played the game. So Carl Urban probably at the time may have been the biggest name in the movie as an actor. I think right now Carl might be less well known than The Rock right now, as Dwayne Johnson, and and right around the same as Rosamond Pike. I'm not sure. So Carl plays John Grimm, his uh code name is Reaper. Grimm Reaper. Apparently, the role was originally offered to Vin Diesel, and he passed on it, and then the role was offered to The Rock, and he passed on it because he wanted to play Sarge, who was the antagonist of the movie. Um again, Carl was probably the big name of the time. Um, by the time this movie had been made, he had been in the Lord of the Rings movies. He'd also been a main character in The Chronicles Erritic, and really now you can't spit without you know hitting a project that he's a part of. Rosamund Pike before this movie, she was probably best known for playing Miranda Frost and Die Another Day. I actually loved her in that movie. She has been in a ton of good projects since then, and then Dwayne Johnson. They were obviously trying to push The Rock as an action star. I don't know how, but this movie apparently did not hurt that. So, again, you know, I don't know. I didn't like it, but I wouldn't say it's unwatchable. If you're in kind of like if you like the aliens and you want to see one that didn't really do as well, I'd see that. See Doom. So the last movie, the third movie, the third movie, the last movie that I'm gonna discuss season one, episode 14, is Pro Wrestlers versus Zombies from 2014. And yes, it is as bad as you would think it is. No, I shouldn't say that. I take that back. So where can you find it? On Foslem, Plex and Toopy Toobie Production Company is Principalities of Darkness, which is an awesome name for production company. Just so you know, the CEO of that is Cody Knot Knotts, like Don Knotts, but Cody Knotts. I have no idea if they're related. So the producer basically is Cody Knotz. The director, Cody Knotz. The writer, Cody Knotts. And he does actually play a role in this movie. So again, we go back to my rule of director, writer, and producer should not be the same person. Now it stars Rowdy Roddy Piper, Shane Douglas, and Jim Duggan. Uh, the plot, famous wrestlers are pitted against hordes of undead when they unknowingly walk into a death trap. And again, I did this movie because WrestleMania is coming up. I wanted to do a movie with wrestlers in it. So, how did I see it? So the first time I saw it, I was at my buddy Jamie's house. So, for years, and Jamie and I are both single, you know, when that I guess there was a stretch where that was so, or maybe maybe we weren't single, but he has been in relationships where he didn't see the girl that often. Usually Friday or Saturday night, I'd go over to his place and he had Comcast. And this is before like a lot of streaming services. Probably the only streaming service at the time was maybe Netflix or something. So you had your regular cable TV, and maybe you had Netflix. Um, but Comcast had this on-demand thing, which had movies you could watch, you know, all different types of movies, and there was a horror section. And Jamie, Jamie knew I like bad horror movies, so I'd go over on a Saturday night and we'd try to find a bad horror movie and we'd watch it. And you're gonna hear some movies on here that again I watch with Jamie first. This is definitely one of them. We're browsing through, we see pro wrestlers versus zombies. I'm pretty sure we saw Roddy Piper was in it, and we were in full on in. Favorite kill. Most of the kills are people getting bit, so nothing really stuck out to me like that. This is great. So this is both this both is and isn't a bad movie, and I really mean that. Like, this is a watchable movie. It is. There's a lot of things bad about it. So here's just some names everybody knows from the rest of the world that's in it. Rowdy, Roddy Piper, Shane Douglas, who I didn't know that well. I really usually only watch the WWE or WWF pro uh, you know, back when Roddy was in it. And uh Shane Douglas wrestled under a different name, like Dave Douglas or Dan Douglas or something. I don't know why. So I didn't know him that well. Uh Hacksaw Jim Duggan's in it. Matt Hardy is in it, and his wife, who I didn't really know, and Kurt Engel. They also have oh gosh, Kevin Sullivan. Kevin Sullivan's in it a little bit for all of you like guys that really know wrestling. He's just in the background, and if you Of the scenes, but he's in it. Quite frankly, I don't know how they roped all of them into this movie. I know it's filmed in the Pittsburgh area, and I know Angle is from the Pittsburgh area, but I'm I have no idea how they got the other ones in. I mean, I can't imagine that they paid that much. So you know a movie's bad when the wrestlers are the best actors in the film. You know, as I said before, I think wrestlers should be and are normally good actors to an extent. I mean, you do have wrestlers that crossed over, you know, and did a good job, but they are usually action, you know, stuff like that. You have, you know, Hulk Hogan that did it, you have, you know, well, The Rock, you have uh, yeah, everything's just slipping out of my head. I can't remember anybody's name. Rowdy, Roddy Piper did a great job, and they live. Come on, head, think. Yeah, I mean Kevin Ashley's been in a bunch of movies. I mean, it happens. Jesse the Body Ventura. I mean, they can. They in a niche role, they can do a good job. But they shouldn't be the person that you are relying on for acting chops. And unfortunately, this movie does. The concept in the movie is that Shane Douglas accidentally, or possibly not accidentally, because it kind of goes back and forth on that, kill the guy in a ring, which you don't see. At some point later, the dead guy's brother decide to create zombies to kill Shane Douglas, you know, as one does. Uh, so probably not a good story or good writing, but it is what it is. There is a pretty funny scene that I liked in this movie. So, while in the deaf, what it was what it was called at the time, Roddy Piper was interviewing one of the wrestlers, uh, Jimmy Superfly Snooker. And he has them on, they're on a like a talk show type thing. I'm not sure if it was Piper's Pit. It probably was. And he's and he's kind of blasting Jimmy, making fun of Jimmy for being a dumb islander and whatnot. And eventually, Piper gets just frustrated and he grabs a coconut which sitting there and he smacks it into Snook's skull. And this was something that like Piper after that was known for. And in this movie, he's taking on zombies and he's hitting him with everything, and he happens to be in a kitchen. And somehow, in this kitchen, in a prison that isn't used anymore, is laying a coconut. And Piper grabs a coconut and breaks it over the head of the zombie, which is funny if you watched wrestling and understand. This movie, I have to tell you, it was awesome to see Rowdy Rowdy Piper. You know, like when I really started wrestling, he was like the bad guy. You know, he was taking on Hulk Hogan, you know, the the all-American, and he did such a good job. Like, my I'm getting to get into this anyway, but my wife and I, we we against her will sometimes, we go see this wrestling, independent wrestling outfit near us called AXW. And I enjoy it. I enjoy supporting independent wrestling programs as much as I enjoy supporting independent horror movies. There are two things I like, so I like to support them as I can. So, anyway. Um, one of the things, sorry about the pause. Gosh, I'm getting old, my mind was wandering where I was going with that. So, my wife, there's a there's a there's there's a couple of wrestlers my wife does not like. Uh one of them is called Johnny Vex. And the other one's just called Security Inc., they're a tag team, and she really does not like them. In fact, like she Tommy Vex isn't gonna be at the the the show coming up, so she's happy about that. And I said, what I appreciate about Tommy Vex, what I appreciate about Security Inc. and you know, other guys that are really good at being heels, is that they are good at it. Like, if you don't like them, like if you really don't like them, they have done their job, and I appreciate that, and that makes me like them. So Rowdy Roddy Piper was kind of like that. He did such a good job of making you dislike him, and I appreciate that. And it was always great to see Piper when he came back to the WWE, and it was a shame, you know, we lost him so early, but it was nice to see him in this movie. One other wrestler that was in this movie, which made it awesome for me, I just spoke about AXW, and uh, you know, you know, AXW independent wrestling programs, there's a chance a guy you're gonna see there makes it into like an outfit on television, AEW, WWE, anything like that. Because it's happened. Right now, two of the wrestlers from AXW are in the like WWE's, like, I forget what the program's called, but basically you're in this program to help build you up and help you get to the next level in their outfit. So it's kind of like it's kind of like double A ball, and then NXT is kind of like triple A. And then for WWE, you know, when you get to the WWE, then you're when you're doing their shows, and all of a sudden you're in the big leagues or in the majors. So anyway, there's a guy that we've seen at a couple of AXW shows called Facade, and he's actually in this movie, which is really exciting to see. So this movie's hell uh 12 years old, and we just saw him within the last year. So it's still it was great to see him in that. I don't know if he's in the Pittsburgh area, and that's how they just got him in there, but it was neat to see Facade in this thing, the neon ninja. Again, it just brought a little extra amount of joyment to me for this movie. So if you enjoy professional rest professional wrestling and you watched in the 80s and 90s, I'd see it. I really would. It's not terrible, it's watchable, it's fun. So that is everything I have. So uh spring weather is coming, so everybody have fun.