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The Cleansing Hour
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Jay is back!
This week, Captain, Wilson, and Jay dive into the 2019 supernatural horror film, "The Cleansing Hour." Directed by Damien LeVeck, this film stars Ryan Guzman, Kyle Gallner, Alix Angelis, and Chris Lew Kum Hoi. The Cleansing Hour centers around an exorcism, but with a fresh twist.
Jay also brings us another one of his famous commercials - be sure to check it out!
The film discussion begins around 23:04.
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Wilson:Yeah, all right, see you later. Goodbye, thanks for coming for coming.
Jay:Windows say goodbye to you. I think you've got malware in your system. Run that virus scan.
Captain:Who would say that? Somebody would say that.
Wilson:Somebody would say bye.
Captain:Yeah, goodbye.
Jay:Oh AOL, oh my gosh.
Captain:Man.
Wilson:I'm blasting the press. Yeah, sorry, yeah, it was AOL Date yourself. It's been 84 years.
Captain:Yeah, who is that?
Jay:The woman from the Titanic? Oh, no, oh, who's talking? Oh, that's AOL. Yeah, who's talking? Oh?
Wilson:we have Jay again this week. Yeah, oh.
Jay:We've got some little clapping noises.
Captain:What Are you Austin Powers? Over there, what's he say yeah, baby. Oh yeah, austin Powers mostly holds up.
Wilson:There are some things that are like ooh.
Captain:Yeah, but the movie, you know, is a comedy, so you kind of know they're leaning in.
Wilson:You have to look at it through a lens.
Captain:They're leaning in purposefully like austin powers is not supposed to be a guy you love they do some wonderfully goofy stuff yeah like when he's first, is it the first movie?
Jay:when he's on frozen, and he's like austin powers, the war is over. He's like oh yeah, hell yeah, let's show those capitalist pigs. And like the communist loss. He's like, oh, right on, yeah, but there's like um I think the third one or maybe the second one.
Wilson:There's like, there's like a joke. I was like I don't think you can do that anymore um, there's these two um asian twins and it's fook me and fook you. Oh yeah, I don't think that aged super well, but that's fair but I yeah, for me.
Captain:I remember I watched those movies way too young and I remember when I watched them and I and there was like fat bastard character and at school we were talking about like movies, whatever, and I was like, oh yeah, and the fat bastard character, and everyone was like and I was like what?
Jay:and like I?
Captain:didn't know bastard was a bad word. They were like bastard is like bitch, but like for boys, and I was like, oh yeah, and I I mean, I don't even know how old you were- 11 or something oatmeal just douses, I think I told this story on the shut up dude.
Captain:I think I told this story in the podcast already. But when we were even younger, when I was really little, I remember being like. I remember somebody in the bathroom was saying like oh man, the B word is so bad, and I was like what? But I was like you can say but like, but it's fine. You can say but but yeah, that's how how much I didn't know.
Wilson:I also got in trouble with that movie because I also watched it too young and I remember it was like the third one whenever Austin Powers' dad is in it and he's telling that story in like British, british and he says like shat on a turtle.
Captain:But at that age I didn't know shat was a bad word, I mean, you would never hear it.
Wilson:No, and I was going around saying it and, like my brother heard me say it and then his friend was over and they were laughing at me saying it and I was like what is wrong?
Captain:with saying Shadow and the Turtle.
Jay:Yeah, my parents only watched Speed when I was really. I watched a lot of action movies when I was a kid, but they're kind of talking about it, so I was like should we let them watch this? I, they're like kind of talking about stuff. Should we let them?
Captain:watch this. It's like, well, it's not too bad. What's Speed about? You haven't seen.
Jay:Speed oh man.
Captain:You're in for a treat. Tyler Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
Jay:You're in for a treat, I'm not going to say anything. It's so good.
Wilson:All right, but anyway.
Jay:There's a scene it's the bus and they're like ah, she, let him watch it, he's a little young. They're like it's fine, it's mostly an action movie and there's a scene where someone's getting run off the road and they're like oh shit, shit, shit, shit, and they crash the car and like. Immediately after I hear that, I'm like ha, ha, ha shit, shit, shit, shit. And I just keep saying and they're like oh god.
Captain:A lot of this sounds pretty good.
Wilson:Yeah, there's a bomb on the bus, and if they stop it, the bomb explodes. It's so good.
Captain:Yeah, you can't go below 50 miles per hour, keanu.
Jay:Reeves Sandra Bullock. Who's the oh man? I can't think of his name right now.
Captain:I love Sandy, the main bad guy.
Jay:It's also got From Dumb and Dumber and the newsroom.
Captain:The blonde guy.
Wilson:Yes, it was Dave Coulier.
Captain:Yeah, and that's fair, that's fair.
Jay:Oh yeah, not Jeff Bridges. No, isn't it Jeff? I think it is Jeff.
Captain:Not Jeff Goldblum. What is?
Wilson:that Jeff.
Jay:Jeff.
Captain:Jeffy Jeff.
Wilson:Come on, I'm going to be so mad. Okay, jim Carrey and Jeff, blank in Dumb and Dumber Buckley.
Captain:Bezos in Jeff Jeff.
Jay:Jeffers, it's Jeff Daniels, jeff Daniels.
Wilson:Yes, thank you, thank you.
Jay:Jeff Daniels. And the bad guy is also a famous Jeff Daniels. Jeff Daniels is a wide range, 95% of Rotten Tomatoes, by the way. Speed is a banger, just so good. Dennis Hopper. That's what I was thinking Dennis, just so good, dennis Hopper. That's what I was thinking, dennis, I know that name, hopper not Hoffman Dennis he does a couple villain roles in the 90s, I think.
Wilson:I mean I don't want to mitigate, he's probably been on this up too, but this guy oh yeah, he looks like a villain pop quiz hot shot that's from Speed. I've heard that before why are we here? Why are we oh? Yes, anyway, sorry the only the only discussion I was like we neither of us have.
Captain:None of us have seen weapons yet oh, we're gonna do a monthly thing where we like both talk about things that one of us have seen and the other person hasn't, and we're just like you should watch that we have, but neither of us have seen this yet.
Wilson:Neither one of us have seen weapons, but we, neither one of us have seen weapons, but we're going to see it tomorrow Or-ish maybe it was rocking 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, we're going to talk the shit out of it. Next episode.
Captain:And it's about Sorry, I know.
Jay:I, I don't hear what it's about. Yeah, don't, don't do that.
Captain:Well, I mean, how are we going it?
Wilson:You're going to have to fucking kill me. And also everyone's quoting her character from Fantastic Four.
Jay:Oh yeah, I held your end, or whatever. Yeah, I held your end. Oh yeah, she's Silver Surfer.
Captain:That was so good. I love her. Her, and what did you say? That guy's name was Housemaker.
Wilson:Oh, Paul. Paul Walter, paul Walter Hauser, yeah, did you see, wolfman, that was the other movie.
Captain:Yes, yeah, we did see that. How was that? I heard she carried the movie. She does, yeah, she does carry the movie. It was so it was fine, it was mid.
Wilson:That's with Kit Harington right. Or is that totally off base?
Captain:I'm thinking of another movie.
Wilson:I'm thinking of another movie, I guess.
Jay:He's in the Eternals, that's not what I'm thinking of.
Captain:He's in something called Game of Thrones. He's hairy like a wolf.
Wilson:What he looks like a wolf he is in a movie that has something to do with wolves.
Captain:Wolves are out. The side set Wolves are like out. Oh my gosh. Besides that, the Beast Within from 2024. Oh, you know, speaking of wolves. A couple of episodes ago I was telling you about an alien necromancer that raises children.
Jay:As one does and you were like what the fuck, that old chestnut? And I the Austin Powers line, an alien necromancer on an alien planet that's raising kids, and I, the awesome powers alien necromancer on an alien planet.
Captain:That's raising kids. Anyway, you were like blown and I was like I don't fucking know, and anyway it's called raised by wolves yeah if you want to watch it.
Wilson:It's not like a like a, an english class book. What am I thinking of?
Jay:it's probably some book, but it's you think of red riding hood.
Captain:No, there, what am I thinking of? It's probably some book, but it's You're thinking of Red Riding.
Wilson:Hood.
Jay:No, there's some English like ninth grade English class book about like wolves and pigs.
Captain:You have the three little pigs.
Wilson:He huffed and puffed. It was like a kid that was raised by wolves and it's like, oh, literary classic.
Jay:Oh yeah, I mean that's.
Captain:I mean the Jungle Book's based on a boy who was basically raised by baloo baloo?
Jay:no, it was a boy who was basically feral.
Captain:He was raised by wild animals um are you thinking of the childhood classic of like he cried?
Wilson:well, no, it was like a uh, I have.
Captain:I can't say I love that one um like walked no, no, I think of tarzan, I think of him.
Jay:There's a scene where he fights a gorilla. I'm like bruh never, a silverback. You're fighting a silverback for dominance in the group.
Wilson:Really Well. I tried to search high school book wolves. I think I'm gonna need to give it a little more information than that, probably.
Jay:Anyway, that's all I got 90s anime or early aughts anime called Wolf's Reign, with a bunch of boys that can turn into wolves.
Captain:Look at who you're talking to.
Wilson:And dystopian feet. It was on Adult Swim. Now I'm wondering if they were just like wolves that had sentient thoughts and there were no humans, I don't know. Are you just thinking of Twilight that?
Jay:sounds pretty good. Yeah, you know what you got me the skin of a killer. Bella I still haven't seen that movie. I feel bad. You should watch it.
Wilson:It's not good, like watch it. I still want to watch it. It's like a good fall movie. Okay, I'll do that.
Captain:Oh my gosh Sorry, I just Sorry.
Wilson:Where is this leading you? I just had a brain blast.
Captain:No, this is unrelated Entirely. I was thinking about Dexter.
Wilson:Okay, yeah.
Captain:And the Gemini Killer. Oh, what a great episode. I don't know, I mean by the time this comes out. Anyway, gemini, yeah you had your chance.
Wilson:Actually, the season might almost be done when this episode comes out, but I love Because I was upset. I love 9.5.
Captain:It's pretty good.
Wilson:Yeah, it was a pretty good episode. Do you know how many episodes we're getting?
Captain:Are we getting like 8, 10, 12? Anyway, I just realized. I, like the last time I saw the guy that plays a gemini killer. It's in a night of night with the devil.
Wilson:What's that called the the late night with the devil? Oh, that was a good movie. Yeah, and he does that role. He's got the meaty little eyes and yeah, he's good at those like skeevy looking he has a look, you know he does have a look he's getting roles.
Captain:It's not bad. Yeah, he can. No, it's not bad at all, but his face gives like a.
Wilson:I can really easily play a creepy character.
Jay:He plays into it, he knows his role.
Wilson:Oh yeah.
Captain:He's not going to tan salons, he's found his spot.
Wilson:Yeah, he's not tanning up.
Captain:Yeah, he's not getting bronze, he's like you also said, you saw 28 Days Later. I know I haven't seen it.
Jay:Oh yeah, how was that Weeks?
Captain:later, sorry, years later, years Nothing.
Jay:I mean, I did see it 28 Days, what's?
Wilson:that I mean we did the podcast episode two. Yeah seriously. But yeah, 28 Years Later, I won't give you any spoilers. I did like it. To me it felt like a Disney movie story with blood and guts.
Captain:What Did you re-watch the other movies?
Wilson:No, but I watched a 10-minute recap video See.
Captain:I think I need to re-watch the other movies. 28.
Jay:Weeks is kind of out there. It has really nothing to do with 28 Days. It really doesn't. And this one, neither you don't need to have seen the other.
Wilson:You just need to know they exist.
Jay:Okay to have seen the other. Like you just need to know they exist. Okay, but um, it is a good movie. It's just a weird vibe, interesting, the trailer's weird. I don't know if you've seen the trailer. Yeah, weird, yeah, so I would recommend it.
Wilson:I mean, they're gonna do like two more oh really yeah, they already have like 28 decades later letterbox. Like the titles are in there like oh my gosh, yeah, okay 28 decades later, it's just uh, the silo tv show that's it's
Captain:a prequel? Yeah, it's like, yeah, oh yeah, centuries later is alien and then I know that um, I mean we're seeing freak your fr Friday.
Wilson:I'm sure you're jelly.
Jay:I would rather see Weapons than Freak your Friday personally.
Wilson:Just do Double Feature tomorrow. Drive four hours, watch a Double Feature, go to work the next day. Jesus Christ, you can pull it off.
Captain:And then the one other thing I wanted to mention is Wednesday started Wednesday Season 2. You watched Wednesday Season 1. You could pull it off. And then the one other thing I wanted to mention is um, wednesday started wednesday season two oh, yeah, you watched wednesday season one I did.
Wilson:Okay, I did hear um there was a review that like this season. People are like, oh well, wednesday's not really the central character in this anymore and they're like, well, that's okay, it's like it's more of an adams family, right season rather than just like all Wednesday, which sure okay yeah these are mixed reviews.
Captain:How?
Jay:many episodes are out. There's only like four, right, I think they split it.
Captain:They almost do that now.
Jay:I think so I'm starting to appreciate that again, I'm watching weekly, but at the same time I hate it.
Wilson:I love it. I like watching Dexter weekly, but I also hate it.
Jay:I have noticed that, like Netflix, when they split seasons like the reviews are like this season split like Squid Games, they're like like oh they review bomb it yeah like Squid Games season another season, oh yeah, um, but like they get dinged for that because it like I mean, I also hate it.
Wilson:I don't I don't hold it against the show. I think I'm annoyed with um. Honestly, I'm most annoyed with stranger things. This final season they're doing three releases I, that's I'm like we have waited a decade. Just please provide all also what the last episode or whatever comes out on new year's day or something like that, or new year's eve and I'm like, wait, really, yeah, there's something stupid like that.
Captain:I mean, there are probably a lot of people that just sit at home and chill, which well, yeah, but like if you have stuff to do and then like the like the biggest episode everyone's waiting for, yeah and they're like okay, well, when you're busiest, we're gonna release it and then you can see spoilers. I think you read about Wednesday splitting, wednesday splitting. Well, I wasn't doubting him.
Wilson:Yeah, it's like four episodes.
Captain:Yeah, currently this season's ratings are a little bit lower than last season's ratings.
Wilson:It's also like this whole thing with like shows take forever now to get a second season and it's like you forget about the show you have to re-watch, like we started re-watching.
Jay:Yeah yeah, and I don't know if it's just because the actors are so busy that they have to like, plan around their schedule or if it's just the directors sometimes are busy.
Wilson:Um, I don't know I did see for um silo, like the actors pushed, like they already started filming.
Captain:Season four and season three is not out, yet they like finished and they're, just like you're caught up on silent I am caught up oh, love that show.
Jay:I wonder, if the studios have any part in that. They're like really slow to approve a new season of the show. I think they are more cautious these days of like approving stuff because they've lost a lot of money. I mean post-covid everything kind of changed, um.
Wilson:So I I get that, but I just you know there's just there's too long between seasons, like I don't want to wait two years for the next season.
Jay:So for Stranger Things, each episode's almost a movie yes, but it's like it needs to end now.
Wilson:Yeah, they can, I've loved every season, but like we need to, we need to close this up yeah, visually actually.
Jay:I kind of don't mind that. So the gap lets you like kind of forget about it, like like I forgot all about the show and they're like, hey, season five. So I'm like, oh yeah, stranger things, I really like that show. How much I like that show like it's like yeah almost game of thrones level.
Wilson:When you're watching it, you're like, oh damn, this is good, I'm gonna, I'm gonna restart it again, because I re-watched all of it whenever the last season came out, we might have to.
Jay:We haven done that, but we might do it because it's the last season we haven't re-watched anything. For the last I'm going to oh yeah, we haven't watched the first season since the first time we watched it.
Captain:Yeah, we never re-watched any of it. Almost like yeah, 10 years ago.
Jay:Because it's like such a commitment. I'm like, okay, it's a lot for.
Captain:Yeah, but that's easy.
Jay:I mean, the episodes are kind of long. It's a 10-episode season, the first one, I believe.
Wilson:I mean, if you're trying to watch Walking Dead or Lost, you can blow through Stranger Things, but that was months we were watching these things. Well, you have time. If you start now, you can just coast along with Stranger Things.
Jay:Walking Dead is good. In the beginning we were chewing through that, yeah, that tv.
Captain:Well, the first season sticks up at peace like we're gonna get through, yeah, yeah, um. One other thing, and this is just reminding me because you're not fully done watching it, but from season three you're almost done, almost yeah, I'm getting there love that show. They have started filming already, because I I followed them on instagram so I see when they start filming. They started filming back in June, so they're already filming season four.
Wilson:I'm curious how the show's gonna end yeah, I can see it getting you gotta go back, yeah, I don't?
Captain:yeah, very yeah, like I'm trying to figure out what story they're trying to tell like yeah all of them, it's like is this gonna keep going on forever. They're gonna end this thing some things you know, the fact that Michael's still in there and the fact that if they answer a question, six more questions pop up. It's giving Lost a little bit.
Jay:I don't mind that right now I mean the creators of Lost. We'll see how the next season goes.
Captain:It should come out in 2026, but they're already filming.
Wilson:It's in the works. It'll probably take me an extra year to even start on that. The main character, the sheriff, I still hate him from.
Captain:Lost.
Jay:Like I hated his character in Lost Well he's Walt.
Captain:No, no, his son was Walter.
Wilson:His son was Walt, yeah.
Captain:And he was Michael, but his new role? What's his name in this show?
Jay:Sheriff McStupidhead.
Wilson:Burr, Burr, Burba.
Captain:Boyd Boyd.
Wilson:Yeah, I got there.
Captain:He's giving Boyd honestly, he's despicable. He's giving Boyd.
Wilson:Oh my goodness. And again has like a weird relationship with his son. I mean I guess he's not stolen this time.
Captain:But yeah, but the estrangement. Yeah, they were like scoot in here. We'll just switch your name around.
Wilson:Overall.
Captain:I think I haven't watched other.
Wilson:So mgm shows I've only seen the institute. And from I don't know what the other ones are like. The acting is generally pretty good. And from yeah, besides, um, what's her face?
Captain:tabitha.
Jay:Yeah, you don't like she have an accent or not I feel like sometimes it's there and sometimes I don't know it's kind of giving like um Gadot.
Captain:Yes, oh, people do not like that lady's acting.
Wilson:No, it's not good it's really not good. It's very not good the Institute acting's not so good, I don't know.
Jay:I thought it was like halfway through the first season. I was like wait, does she have an accent or not? I can't tell which one she's trying, like she's either trying to have an, I'm trying not to have one, but either way it comes in and out, yeah.
Wilson:so I can't tell what what's the actual, but it's also just not like. Accent aside, her acting's not good. Yeah, I don't know if anyone's acting is that great like, like, I mean her boy's good and her husband's good well, boy doesn't have it.
Captain:He's basically michael. There's not a lot of range there.
Wilson:You think jim's good I think he's pretty good, the daughter's's good.
Captain:I like Jade the son is annoying Jade the guy that goes crazy. I like his acting.
Wilson:And the lady that runs the colony house?
Jay:Yeah, she's probably the best, oh, the older woman yeah, she's good.
Captain:What's her name? I feel like I've seen her in other stuff.
Jay:Colony house lady Donna in the show. Oh yeah.
Captain:But she's Elizabeth. Um great show the, the girl that does. I think it's the girl that runs the clinic that um kind of had a thing with the kenny um, before her actual wife came back into the picture. You know right um dude that girl's hot as fuck like dude.
Captain:Seriously, I went to from cast the blonde or the the short hair brunette, I forget who's the short-haired brunette okay yeah, um, I went to the cast and her photo is like her modeling like I can't really show these modeling like, but she's like a model I can kind of see that she's like a model um it's like when you're watching any korean show and you go to look at the cast oh my god, and they are like literally it's like are you guys professional models on the side, like basically
Wilson:the headshots are insane yeah, one of my gripes for that show is or maybe it's just they didn't provide a good recap, but they keep referencing things like oh, are you okay after what happened, and I'm like you gotta be more specific about that.
Jay:What?
Wilson:happened with you guys. Again, I don't yeah I you know.
Captain:One last thing at victor, who plays an uh old man that like stopped being around humans when he was he? He? He plays that role of like being a stunted child. So well, that's a really good he does.
Wilson:Yeah, I've like I was for a while I was like what is the age difference between him and the guy who plays his dad?
Jay:Because I'm like I kind of thought they were like yeah, they're kind of close in age.
Wilson:I thought Victor was kind of old, but maybe he's not as old as.
Captain:I thought. I just don't think he was taught grooming well, so I don't think.
Wilson:Victor, he just looks old and frail.
Captain:Yeah, I think.
Wilson:Do you recognize his dad? It's interesting because I'm watching the Institute and from at the same time His dad's in both shows.
Captain:Oh really, which one's his dad?
Wilson:His dad plays the doctor that Mary Louise Parker is like kind of hooking up with in the like.
Captain:Oh, ok, yeah, Wow Interesting.
Wilson:I was like I know that face.
Captain:Weird, weird to see them at that. I would hate to watch something where somebody's in both shows at the same time. Yeah, I was like that's weird, but at the same time I was like well, from's been out for a while.
Wilson:So yeah, no, I mean it's not their fault, it's yours. Okay, okay, all right. Well, let's go in.
Jay:Yeah, let's google henry's dad and from, and I got some interesting fan it's victor victor's dad and from, and I was like oops, some theories spoil myself.
Wilson:I don't want to hear it spoil that okay, give it to me. What do we got, uh, yeah uh, we're yeah, during a surf side, I'm drinking surf side. I'm not drinking surf sides. I love this.
Captain:I actually okay, we need to give this company money blueberry honey money prairie artisanal ales and they make blueberry boyfriend. Ah, love this beer so good does it give off blueberry boyfriend? It does and the artwork on the can is so fun it is a fun, fun. I don't think I've seen these in our living situation what we don't have, I have a raspberry girlfriend, but well, I have a blueberry boyfriend and um, it's really good good he's hot oh no wow, that's a great reference. Okay, give it to me, to me.
Wilson:Yeah, let's bop in here. So welcome to the 176th episode of the Red Rum Podcast, where we review horror movies while enjoying a little beverage or two.
Captain:And I'm Captain.
Wilson:And I'm Wilson and we also have Big Pod Energy, aka Jay.
Captain:I thought you were going to be like big boy.
Wilson:Jay and week we're reviewing the 2019 horror film the Cleansing.
Captain:Hour, I'm sorry, directed by Damien Levesque, yeah.
Wilson:So he also did. A Creature Was Stirring from 2023. I don't. I'm not familiar with that. It sounds intense.
Captain:Particular feature. Is that a Christmas movie?
Wilson:It sounds like a Christmas moviemas, oh it could be a good uh holiday film if you don't have one picked out yet yeah, I love. I think you already do a little holiday jingle dang, oh yeah and now I have them saved, so I can just slip them in there and like look every year um this movie started sorry. Oh yeah, yeah so, uh, this movie started as a short film in 2016, um, and it's a shutter original yeah, which is unusual um but and what I'm not?
Captain:I mean I don't really watch much of shutter, yeah unusual in the fact, like the fact, like the shutter has even had originals.
Wilson:Make them, yeah, okay, yeah because I kind of thought for a long I mean maybe it's true for the longest time they mostly just showed movies that already existed. I didn't know. This was like shutter network made this bitch existed.
Captain:I didn't know. This was like shutter network made this bitch made it didn't um. It was like shutter plus usaa, or sorry usaa did dexter nope, nope, sorry, chucky wasn't, it wasn't what happening Wasn't.
Wilson:Chucky like a Shudder and USA combined show.
Captain:That sounds like that. Oh, the actual TV show that is, oh yeah, the recent TV show. I thought you were talking about Child's Planet.
Jay:I was like man. No one of those existed, no I think you might be right.
Wilson:I never finished that show. Oh, apparently Shudder did. We didn't finish the second season.
Captain:Shudder did. Vhs Beyond Shudder did that.
Jay:I don't. I haven't seen VHS. I think I just saw VHS 1 and 2. I saw 1 and 2, yeah, it was the 2024 one.
Captain:I don't think it had good reviews.
Jay:Yeah, vhs 2 was, I think, the one I liked.
Wilson:It has that like did apparently that that was a shutter film. Oh oh, really well, it's pretty good quality. That was a pretty good.
Jay:I hate that movie it was very like goopy and like it was very, but it was very well executed. I thought oh yeah, it was.
Captain:I think that when they say, like I'm on the google, that or the wiki, that's like shutter original programming. I don't know how much they're involved, like I don't know what this means. Like it says shutter original films, but it doesn't really give like specifics about like did they goop?
Wilson:it was, I think they distributed. This says there's oh, the production company was scuba on scuba.
Captain:I don't know what that means yeah, like I don't know what this involvement means when it says original film shutter probably just like bought the rights okay, but this one actually like, said like shutter I don know what to tell you.
Jay:Was it Shudder Studios? That's the question you're probably asking.
Wilson:Do they have a development?
Jay:studio that actually produced it, versus just buying this from a different studio.
Wilson:I'm going to do a deep dive sometime and figure that out.
Jay:I think it was. It felt like a horror-y TV channel movie kind of In terms of the scale of it, um, but it was pretty good they have a lot of exclusives like a lot.
Captain:What does that mean like?
Wilson:I guess you can only watch the movie or show on oh on shutter, yes that's all I got um yep, so people about um. That brings us into the cast. So we have ryan guzman who plays max um. He was a martial art mixed martial arts fighter and a print model um he was in this step-up revolution. I didn't watch the step-up movies. Is that like a sequel?
Captain:okay, I didn't watch them either. I can't. I mean magic mike's the only dancing movie I've spent any time watching, and I don't know if I'd watch anything else.
Wilson:Okay uh, he was in pretty little liars and he was a main role in a 911. The show is called 911 yeah, the. Yeah, it's called 9-1 okay um, then we also have kyle, gallner, I think we know him.
Captain:He looks familiar. Yeah, he's in a lot of stuff we know he's like a scream king. Oh, I think um he's in a lot of stuff. We know him. He's like a.
Wilson:Scream King. Oh, I think he's in Wet, hot American Summer. Colin in Jennifer's Body. He was in the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street.
Captain:He's in the 2022 Scream.
Wilson:He's also in Both Smiles.
Captain:Yeah, he's the main boyfriend, I think to the girl, or.
Wilson:How is he in both? Was it like archived footage or?
Captain:what I don't know? He's Joel. I don't know.
Jay:I think the boyfriend survives, and that's how the second one starts.
Wilson:It's following him, oh, so he's like not really in the second one, or he's like in the second one, I don't know.
Jay:He's in it for a little bit, oh, okay.
Captain:I really like the Smile movies.
Wilson:They do them great that you had no business being as good as it was for a sequel.
Captain:They put way more money into.
Jay:When I saw this coming, I was like, oh, here we go. Did you send me the?
Captain:behind the scenes or I sent you the behind the scenes for that who knows it was creepy like I was.
Jay:Like they did a good job.
Wilson:Yeah, it's not like a lot of its practical effects for that, for that monster at the end, which I think is. But that entire movie is sponsored by boss water like yeah, she's chugging yeah but uh, yeah, so he's the most known person. He is yeah, um, we also have alex angelus as lane, also known as sabrina she they're called.
Captain:She calls. She's called sabrina for the cleansing hour youtube video, but her name is lane in the movie oh right, like she has two characters, they gave her a character name. Inside the movie she gets another character name.
Wilson:I have not watched Imaginary, but she's in Imaginary.
Captain:Yeah, the 2024 teddy bear movie.
Wilson:I don't think it did very well, but I do want to watch it.
Jay:It's like an evil imaginary friend or something Okay.
Wilson:And then we have Joanna David as Schoolmarm.
Captain:The older lady that is haunting them Schoolmm. The older lady that is haunting them School Marm? I don't know what's the name for it.
Wilson:Like a Catholic church teacher.
Captain:Marmy, oh yeah.
Wilson:Lots of theater and British stuff is what she's known for.
Captain:Okay, when I typed on her. There was so much on there and I didn't recognize any of it Is that what nun teachers are called School Marms, it seems derogatory.
Wilson:I've never. Is that what nun teachers are called School marms? It seems derogatory Marm, I don't know, oh, school marm.
Captain:It says school mistress in reference to a woman that's usually regarded as prim, strict and brisk in manner.
Jay:Yeah, that's not a compliment.
Captain:I guess it says alternatively school ma'am.
Wilson:School ma'am. Oh, marm is fine. School ma'am.
Captain:School ma'am. Oh, marm is fine. School ma'am. Yeah, like your whole, like who you identify as is like just school woman. School ma'am.
Jay:I love my plane.
Captain:Yeah, exactly, it was at Jurassic Park. This lady is plane. Yeah, he's just like that, but no one touch my plane. Okay so we got school marm. Uh, okay, I think that's the last of the. That's mostly a small cast. Yeah, it is very small cast. It was like the guy that the voice actor for sabrina was somebody, but I was like I don't recognize I saw that too.
Wilson:I was like they're in stuff. But yeah, but it's all voice acting yeah uh, but it was good voice acting um great so basically the premise of this movie is there is a, this guy runs a tv show a youtube show, basically that, um, he does possessions, um, I think the first scene of this, the thing you don't realize he's doing a show just yet but I love the way they did that.
Captain:You're in the middle of a scene where they're like throwing holy water on a vampire and he's like, ah, and it's like smoking um, and what a demon or this person oh, that was a oh. No, sorry you're right when I first saw that, I was like is this a vampire? No, you're right, it was this person. But um the the like, there's like some acting that's happening in there, with like the seat shoving around like oh yeah, shot up and yeah I don't know something about that action sequence was giving like the action you see in a steven seagal movie.
Captain:It was like very punchy, like very like choppy? I don't know um, but yeah, it like pans out and it'd be like it's like we're.
Wilson:You know it's like a computer screen yeah, video playing and the scene like kind of wraps and they're like oh, good job on the stunts.
Captain:Don't forget to like and subscribe. Yeah, punch that like button or whatever.
Wilson:Yeah yeah, so this father max guy is basically, he's like pretending to be like, oh, I'm doing these actual live exorcisms yeah, possessed, possessed people get exercorcised every week on their or whatever every episode.
Captain:And then we, I think shortly after that, we meet Drew, who's the guy behind the scenes, and they've been best friends for a little while and he, like, does all of the I don't know directing, scripting, I don't know all of that stuff.
Wilson:The editing, that kind of stuff, yeah, so they're like planning their next episode and they hired, like a, I guess, a drag queen to be the possessed person. Oh yeah, scarlett VanCock, yeah, and.
Captain:The thing is, max really wants to be verified. He doesn't have the blue check mark and they want to get more than 50. They've been like basically hitting 50K subscribers and they like they've been sitting still, so like they want to do something that is gonna like get them more and go viral max was like let's just hire my friend, this drag queen um drew.
Captain:On the other hand, was like no, we need to like branch out and do other stuff like ghost seances, um, but you know they don't agree. I, I don't agree on that and I feel like max has the final say because he's like the face of the yeah, it's like his show basically yeah, um, and.
Wilson:But the drag queen gets like killed in an alleyway by like some demon thing, yeah. So I mean, yeah, it's, I don't know, yeah, there's some criticism on this of, like they're like, why did they the whoever wrote this movie pick, like let's just pick a drag queen and then just kill them, oh, online. It was just like, why did you have a drag character and then choose to have, like, that character die a very miserable?
Captain:painful death.
Jay:I could see criticism for that, yeah, and the whole setup is kind of, you know, questionable because it's like, hey, let's get this drag queen on here so we can get a bunch of, you know, a bunch of more likes. It's like kind of I don't know, like I mean, they're not trying to, but it's a little dehumanizing and a little like I read that into like yeah, but he did it's entertainment. He's not. He's not portrayed as like some deep thinker or some like very socially conscious person.
Captain:He's just like max doesn't say him, he himself does not say anything no, no, he's like my friend, oh, yeah, yeah whatever you know their drag name, scarlet van cock.
Wilson:I you know we should bring him on, yeah, so um, obviously the drag queen does not show up because they are dead um so as a last-ditch effort they're like.
Jay:Drew asks his fiancee girlfriend to lane yeah, to be the possessed person it's like these creepy monsters are outside. I guess that's the same entity that ends up.
Captain:Yeah, they kind of talk about it in the later on in the movie, but it's basically like, um, what she's saying. You know you, you poke the bull, you eventually get the horns. So it's like you know the fact that they keep like pretending to exercise him. They're like, well, you're gonna get a demon if you keep like trying to get a demon yeah um, but so I think that's what I think it's kind of the same kind of entity but it's all one evil entity.
Captain:I think so, yeah, but um, we also get more personality, like, yeah, max is not a good, he not a priest, he's not a good guy Like we before this showing Well, he did go to divinity school.
Wilson:Yeah, exactly.
Captain:Before this showing he well, yeah, but he's like having one night stands with women pretending to be a priest.
Wilson:He did quit, or he got ousted or something.
Captain:Yeah, so we hear about that that he goes home with a woman named desiree and he taught he. She says, like you're not a priest, right, like they were fucking. And he was like, no, but I did want to be a priest. But they, he tells her I wanted to be a priest. I went to school but basically like I wanted to do exorcisms and they were like, nah, you can't do that, we're not doing that. So he quits to do exorcisms, so like I don't know, and he basically said like he taught himself how to do it. Then he also makes a weird reference that he wants to be like another archangel, like michael.
Captain:That's on the front line of like some religious war with it with like evil and I was like all right, sir you, literally just pretend to do exorcisms for money like relax, yeah, um, but yeah.
Wilson:So then, yeah, skylar vancocke rip, and then they go to taping the next production, but she's not there yeah, so so they bring lane in, and very quickly it turns out like she's not following the cues of the, the lines when they start recording, and then like very quickly you find out okay, lane's possessed yeah like this is a real possession and they're like you know what. What's going on? Why aren't you following the cues?
Captain:and then they start to realize it's like oh, this is uh and even like chris the boom guy, he's affected like he thinks that he just had like bad pills from the party night before.
Wilson:I don't know what's going on with him, but he's like vomiting.
Captain:He's ill. He like faints, he like sees some like a demon in the bathroom mirror that like chokes him out. At one point the sink water runs red. I think it's all like the same entity, but it's affecting him too and he's like missing in the bathroom for like half the movie.
Wilson:Yeah, oh yeah, he's like passed out in there, um. And then I think there's like another like sound guy. Well, basically, the demons like has these rules so it's like one you can't stop streaming, um you can't leave the stage or, like somebody else, can't come on, and um one of you can't enter the shot if you don't belong in the shot. Yeah, so one of the guys that works on the set like runs I think his name's max.
Captain:Yeah, no, that's the past. That's the priest, yeah oh sorry, no, you're right. Yeah, I can't remember what his name was.
Wilson:I don't know he runs off when he's not supposed to and he's just immediately killed.
Captain:Yeah, she does that cool thing where she burns. He has a phoenix tattoo and she basically starts burning it like a phoenix burning and he then just combusts into flames that guy. So that's the first death and they're all like, okay, this is real. I really like that scene that Drew grabs a fire extinguisher and the fire extinguisher just makes the flames worse. It's like a flamethrower, yeah, it's like literally he just put gasoline on the man and so this demon's having like fun this entire time and they can't call 911.
Wilson:They are getting more views while it's happening. Yeah, but yeah.
Captain:I think she, yeah. Then she yeah I don't know if she. I think she might have laid the rules down after that guy tried to run off. And she's like you cut the feed, I kill the girl. Max, you go off screen, I kill the girl, anyone runs, I kill you. And then she's like congratulations, you have 49 minutes to lift the veil of what's. You know what's happening. Yeah, oh yeah, because they also need to. They need to find the name of the demon because that's like the premise.
Wilson:You gotta find the name. You can like exercise it. Yeah, you gotta find the script that goes along with that demon for exorcism.
Captain:Yeah, yeah, so um, uh, I think it cuts to. I think around this scene yeah, you're right, the numbers go but it cuts to people from like all over the world watching like a little kid and like, uh, people, you know, police officers in korea.
Wilson:Yeah, I was very confused what they were doing with this.
Captain:It makes sense later, but yeah, yeah, that person that, like you know, she's like letting her boyfriend's, like fixing a car in the middle of the desert or something, and she's yeah, so it's just showing different perspectives of people watching the show it gets like 300k.
Wilson:Uh, like you know, people streaming, which is like a lot for them and so the demon starts like torturing the person that it's possessing, um like that she can't breathe or something like that, and they're realizing that like to stop the torture.
Captain:Um max the priest or drew have to confess something yeah, you get that scene where first the demon's just still fucking with them, or she was like you know, um, do something that the audience is telling you to do, and maybe I'll like let her breathe. So of course they're all like vulgar, disgusting things yeah, well no that's the lightest one, yeah, that like, like they got to choose, but the demons that you've got to pick something from this dream and you know, people know, people are like, yeah, you know fuck each other.
Wilson:Yeah, whatever the fuck yeah.
Captain:Just crazy shit. And like the least, like the most PG one was like get naked, so Max takes all his clothes off and then they do that thing with the light and the ceiling thing the fan falls.
Wilson:Yeah.
Captain:So they make him play hokey pokey.
Jay:Oh yeah, he has to stick his hand out into the fan. Yeah, into the fan. It's very.
Wilson:I mean the whole thing was like you have to play hokey pokey and like Well, yeah, but couldn't you back up and then play hokey pokey, like, do you have to do it just so your favorite? The demon is not gonna.
Captain:The whole thing is the demon wants you to hurt yourself and he's like stepping on glass. It's nasty, but they basically like regroup and they're like he gets to kind of clean up and then they yeah, then they I think he decides that he wants to really try to exercise, like I think he tries. Oh yeah, then the confession, yeah.
Wilson:Yeah, so they realize like, for example, Max decides to confess to the camera. Like look guys, guys, I'm not a real priest I've been telling you so prayer cloths, yeah, they don't do anything.
Captain:And then they're like, but then they realize, oh, that wasn't what they wanted you to confess yeah, because sabrina's still or whatever lane is still bleeding everywhere and like not being able to breathe um, and they realize at some point that the demon wants more views.
Wilson:Um, but then it comes out that max and uh lane had hooked up once before.
Captain:Uh lane and drew were together okay, but neither one of them said anything about it and max had like videos of them together yes, I do think that drew um Drew was a little too mad.
Wilson:I mean, yes, it's sleazy that he kept videos, but I feel like he was angry enough as if they had actually cheated.
Captain:Well, it's not that they cheated, but it does feel like your best friend and your loved one that you're going to marry lied to you Straight to your face.
Jay:Yeah, For a long time.
Wilson:And they're like in cahoots about it yeah, I mean I don't think they were like actively in cahoots, but it feels that it would feel that way, like it would feel that way I can see both sides of it.
Jay:I didn't like sometimes I I felt a little bit at first. I was like, oh, that seems kind of like no, he reacts a little too, but I mean the whole thing Stressful, I don't know.
Wilson:Yeah, but then the team's like I found a video and we're going to play it. Yeah.
Jay:Yeah, the video's great, yeah, the video's like great, and his excuse was just like I thought I deleted it. I was like oh my God, dude, yeah you know that man. You know that man knew he because it's such a flimsy, just like it was real fun, I thought I did it's like. Oh, and earlier in the movie it shows him filming his encounter with one of the groupies that set that up too, like he films her and he shows a video to people on set of like you remember that he like showed up.
Jay:Yeah, but he's hooked up with desiree and that like sets up the like oh, he keeps.
Captain:Oh, I didn't realize he. Yeah, he did so.
Jay:He like films, all of his encounters, and then it's like oh well then yeah, you definitely didn't delete this video I before they confess like some of the big stuff, like that.
Captain:Max also, um, like they don't, the demon doesn't like his commission so he like bites two of his fingers off. Max is so much more reluctant to admit that he is a big fat phony, like he cares so much more about not admitting that. And I'm like, sir, you lost two fingers.
Wilson:Yeah, your life's entirely changed forever you have a dead guy on the floor. You have eight fingers.
Jay:There's a dead guy on the floor and he's like it was like his index and middle finger, it's not like just some fingers on his dominant hand. Yeah, and he's not that worried about. Yeah, he really wasn.
Captain:He really wasn't, and I was like sir, I don't think you understand that matters so much, Aren't you?
Jay:in a band you can't count anymore.
Captain:Yeah, play instruments.
Jay:I can still count if I lose two of my fingers. This scene is not messing around. No, definitely not.
Wilson:And all this time the views are rising and rising. Yeah going crazy and they're the demon.
Captain:oh, it likes this yeah, and the guy that got caught on fire. He hired his niece to come intern. She also tries to run off the set and the demon chucks a mary statue and, like impales, her skull oh yeah, she's, she's also yeah and I think you're right. Yeah, they got like to a million views, um, and then like something about the bandwidth.
Wilson:I don't know, I don't hack into the mainframe like some people do, but something about how they can't yeah, but the demon was like actively dropping the yeah, but like, but like I think they hit a million, oh, with that little monster thing yeah, I don't know what that's about.
Captain:I don't know if they just wanted a temporary distraction or not I don't know, but drew, you know, hacks the mainframe and like fixes it because they're about to like. If they drop the stream, he knows that demon's gonna kill lane.
Wilson:Yeah so I think, through some context clues, they like do some searching, they find what they believe is the demon's name and they like there's this whole scene of like trying to recite the exorcism for that demon, um, and like you know, it's tough, they get through through it.
Captain:I think it's Amon is the demon.
Wilson:It seems like it was depossessed. It goes into the guy that got burned. Oh yeah, it does depossess the girl.
Captain:The biggest confession which I think happens before this is we get these cut scenes of Drew and Max's childhood and there's a school, marm, as we've talked about right then that like abuses them, especially max, like throughout their whole childhood. Like they guess they went to catholic school together and I don't know, maybe they both thought about going to seminary. They're both altar boys but um the I don't know if it says in the wiki, but Drew, at one point after long abuse he stabs the school mom in the eye with a pencil. I think.
Wilson:I think he accidentally did it, because a pencil fell off the table, but he was just pushing her away.
Captain:Oh, that's right, he just pushes her hard.
Wilson:And she happened to fall straight onto a pencil.
Captain:Okay, true, I forgot about that, but that woman's not dead, right?
Wilson:I mean, I think she's dead. I think she died.
Captain:So the biggest confession really was that he killed somebody.
Wilson:It was an accident, but yeah.
Captain:Okay, yeah, and while he's reluctant to confess that there's something happens in there about he's going to kill himself. I think when there was like 15 minutes left and this is before they figure out, the demon, sabrina or whatever, like the character says like you got 15 minutes If you unburden completely, 100%, you know, or you have to kill yourself at the end of this. So like the demon puts up the little counter circle that's like percent, and he just like keeps confessing until it's out.
Wilson:Yeah, I think the audience also has to. I guess in the comments be like don't oh, the audience is. I think there's an interaction well, no, I think like there's supposed to be audience interaction yeah, I thought the demon was like I think the demon was like the audience needs to collectively 100 agree that you shouldn't right kill yourself or something, right, yeah?
Captain:Oh, I thought the little counter was him confessing 100%, I think he was gaining their trust or something by confessing oh.
Wilson:Or like swaying their opinion.
Jay:Yeah, to not have him hang himself.
Captain:Well, he was almost going to kill himself At this point I wrote down. They had 11.5 million watching, which is crazy.
Wilson:Yeah, and he got to like 97% and then it wasn't enough.
Captain:That's when he confesses the non-killing, yeah, but yeah, I think he almost gets to 100, but that's when Lane and Max confess that they slept together and that gets them, I think, everywhere, yeah, and then I think so they do the exorcism or something, confess that they slept together, and that gets them, I think every, you know, everywhere, yeah, and then I think this, so they do the exorcism or something.
Wilson:But at some point they do realize that, oh, the demon wants to be watched. Yes, it was right around this.
Captain:They unplug drug yeah, drug drew cuts the feed. Basically to try to get the demon to interact. Because the demon stopped interacting. It basically was like about to kill lane and then like she's like passed out half it's like mostly dead my bluff yes and yeah. Cutting the feed.
Wilson:Yeah, she was mad as hell so then, after this like failed exorcism, it comes like it turns into this big horned lava demon and it's like, oh, that's not the right name. I am like lucifer, like I'm like the big bad, yeah, um, and this whole time they were trying to figure out like why, why does he want to be broadcasted? Um, so like the scene there is kind of solved, but then it cuts to like I guess well, so they try an incantation for amon, which doesn't work right, because it's lucifer, yeah, and then basically, lucifer gives his own incantation to the audience Because he's mic'd up?
Wilson:Yeah, because he now has like 11 million, I think he might have had more.
Captain:Yeah, he had 11.5 whenI was marking.
Wilson:Yeah, so that incantation anyone that was watching, like all these people we saw throughout the movie. They basically get these white eyes and then they kill whoever's closest yeah, they become the white eye crazies yeah and then I guess, after the world's fine, after all, these people die. But one of them one of them is a kid that's been watching this the whole time. He goes in and you find out his dad is actually the president and he you see him like, oh yeah, he kills the president ofs.
Captain:Yeah, um, I, I, I do like so. When the clock goes down to zero at the 60 minute mark, the lucifer disappears. He's gone, um, but obviously the people that were during this filming they don't really get possessed like, they don't get the incantation that lucifer gave I don't know.
Wilson:That's because, like it wasn't through a screen or whatever the fuck, I don't know yeah, and my take is everyone that got possessed, they did a kill or something and then they got deep.
Captain:Maybe they did a kill.
Wilson:Well, the people that killed all the people around them after they possessed. Do you think they stayed possessed and just kept killing, or they just did a kill.
Captain:Did you not watch the credits?
Wilson:There was a post-credits scene.
Captain:There was scenes kind of spliced into the credits.
Wilson:Maybe I didn't. Okay, fill me in.
Captain:Okay, so the people that are there don't get possessed, which I just said, because one of the last scenes of the movie is Max smiling at his phone because he finally got his blue verified checkmark.
Wilson:Okay, so I remember that scene.
Captain:Just like the least of yours.
Wilson:Oh yeah.
Captain:Like, sir, you have eight fingers. There's like multiple dead bodies in front of you. It's bad, but anyway, in the post-credit scenes it shows the mayhem that's caused from what what they have is. It's like there's news articles that say the white-eyed crazies are like out released or whatever, and it says that like um, you know it's causing like chaos everywhere, um, they declared martial, martial, martial law um, which is like, clearly from my understanding, is that, like you know, they just kept killing and they kept like, like, like zombies, like it's like here's.
Captain:Here's how the walking dead started. Okay, is what is what I was getting from that okay, yeah, yeah, I missed that then.
Wilson:Okay, so that answers that it says around the world.
Captain:You know, wiki says oh yeah, all those people that watch it like yeah yeah, yeah, and I think that's that's why they gave us those cut scenes of people watching, which is really helpful.
Wilson:Yeah, now it makes sense.
Captain:It was like when we were watching, I was like yeah, even those cops that you were saying Was that in Korea?
Wilson:you said yeah, Something like yeah.
Captain:Yeah, like that. One cop just points his gun and shoots at the guy next to him in the car. Yeah, the US president gets killed and yeah, all the other people we see watching, they just yeah, um, I really like this movie, yeah, so like I think the idea sounds really stupid, but like the ratings were really good. So when I watched it I was like, you know, I I was expecting a good movie, but I was not expecting how no, this movie was hard to find.
Wilson:It was a shutter original.
Captain:I was like this is not gonna be good, but they the execution, the, the story itself of like we're a youtube channel, but you know everything's fake, and like we're just, you know whatever gets us money. Like yeah I don't know. They did that well, they did the. I don't know. They explained the background of the main characters the effects were pretty good the special effects were great. The demon at the end or lucifer at the end, where he has like um, I don't know, he's got like those smoke wings that come out like.
Captain:It was really cool looking yeah um, actually, apparently a lot of that was, yeah, it wasn't special effects, like almost all of it was practical effects. But, um, yeah, I really yeah. And him, like coming out of the dead body of the fire, you know the charred body on the ground, like they go through that very slowly where I hit, like this human skin breaks apart and like a demon leg starts shooting out of it, like all the limbs it does them like slowly, individually, and then his, like you know his back opens up, like this carcass, you know a human body carcass like, yeah, spine like cracks open and like demon come out.
Wilson:You're like it had no business being this good, so good. I was like this is a sleeper, hit honestly.
Captain:Yeah, when the notes slow down, that's how you know it's a good. Yeah, it's a great movie. But yeah, it's a lot of goop. But they did that gooping scene really well, I don't know. What do you think, jay?
Jay:it was really good. I mean, I was. I don't know what I was expecting, I didn't really see any of the reviews beforehand, but um, it's just really fun. I mean, you've seen a lot of horror movies and it just they take an idea that's been done a lot and they do something new with it, which you wouldn't expect is really possible, but I haven't really seen anything like this, almost like it's.
Captain:It's similar to like our found footage, but it's not like shaky camera right, yeah, it's like we're watching a film of a like, a like something, something filmed in a movie. But you know, they just they execute really well yeah, I was like.
Wilson:You know, I feel like naturally, if I hear a movie's gonna be like about streaming, I'm like, but no, this was yeah I feel like we've done a few of those, but not too many the one where there's the time, something about we just did stream, yeah, so let's say oh yeah, hashtag horror um no, yeah, oh yeah.
Jay:Hashtag horror no.
Captain:Yeah, shame, hashtag horror. What a terrible film.
Jay:Oh man.
Wilson:That one that got a weirdly large amount of listens on our.
Captain:Oh yeah, I mean, it's bad, it's entertaining, but it's not so bad, it's good though. Yeah, it's just bad. It's like slime below a rama.
Jay:It's just bad.
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Captain:Okay, so there is some numbs and some goose. I don't know if you what.
Jay:Nothing. There's just so much slang. Eventually it's just going to be all jibbity jab Jibbity gab.
Captain:I mean, I do like the numbs and goose.
Wilson:Numbs and goose Numbs, goose jab, I mean I do like the num-nums and hot goose Num-nums and hot goose we have a mug. Yeah, I got myself one of those mugs too.
Captain:I kind of like it, I love it. So yeah, Wilson, what do we got? What do we got? Num-nums Rotten Tomatoes 73 critics 64 audience, which is pretty good. That's pretty good. That's kind of what I saw.
Wilson:Yeah, it's pretty good, um, uh what.
Captain:I don't think we have like box office, because it's like streaming no, I, I mean I just yeah, I all I really got was people talking about how it's they consider it refreshing. Take on a well-traveled concept is what they said okay, yeah, so.
Wilson:So what would you give it?
Captain:While we're talking about ratings I gave it a 4 out of 5. On Letterboxd, did you do the same?
Wilson:I think I did. Yeah, it was like a 75%.
Captain:Wait, you gave it a 75?. Yeah, I think I'm going to give this an 80. A solid 80.
Wilson:Jay, how about you?
Captain:Jay Day. Are you Loud Snack initiating?
Wilson:over there, it's the Loud Snack Initiative, qsi.
Captain:That's a LSI QSI. Are you giving me Uncle Impy again.
Jay:Well, I'd say this is about a real Vietnam. I would say 70s and 80s is right. Where you want it to be depends on what your bell curve is what is your rating? This genre of movie simple, fun horror, I would say like 80 this hits the spot. This does what it sets out to do and does it well and with a budget that's probably like crazy small, like yeah, like I, I like that's better than like some big budget horror movies that have come out recently.
Wilson:Yeah because it was like basically one set yes, like a small yeah for the most part yeah, um, the this movie's 2019 right.
Captain:And then, yeah, drew is the most famous person and he didn't.
Wilson:I don't really mostly know him from smile, which was after this, so like yeah, the cast didn't cost a lot of money yeah, which is nice for them, but oh yeah, I mean. So I think all the budget probably went into, like the special effects oh, definitely, but still yes yeah, yes, um, all right, well, so hot, hot goss. Oh yeah, throw some stuff in here.
Captain:Yeah, I just looked up Amen because that's who they thought it was Like. There's a lot of Like. Basically throughout the movie there's hints about who this demon is and about how like you know, I can't remember all the things she says Something about how she knows, you know, about like the bible, and she was like I was there when it was written the ancient laws, yeah, oh yeah, and there was something. There was like two or three other things they said about how, like that they used for amen. But anyway, I just looked up like amen or amman, I don't know it sounds like it says both.
Captain:it says also known as but in demonology, which is hysterical, he's a grand marquise of hell who governs 40 infernal legions and the seventh spirit of Gautier.
Jay:That's a good resume, so he's kind of a big deal. He's like a regional man you would hire him.
Captain:Not everybody's a grand marquise. You would hire him.
Wilson:I mean, I don't know what I'd hire him for. He's the king of Karens.
Captain:It says he's the demon of life and reproduction is what it says.
Wilson:We didn't actually meet him. He'd be fucking.
Captain:We don't meet him, but they talk about him a lot, the incantation that we hear how are you a?
Jay:demon of life.
Captain:And reproduction. What does?
Jay:that even mean Babies. Is he a gynecologist? I don't understand.
Wilson:Maybe he's the one that terrorizes humans most often he just deals with the life stuff. He's like a stork from hell. Yeah, there we go, okay.
Captain:And then, yeah, I cut in some questions here. So somebody that really likes this movie got this damon. What's his name?
Captain:levec I think damian damian levec on an interview and he just put some stuff in. I just put some stuff in here that I thought was interesting about like, um, you know, like is he critical of staged paranormal shows and and you know, is there anything you want to say about those? And he was like I've actually worked on unscripted TV, like reality TV, even working on opportunities of paranormal shows, and he's like I've never scripted them, but he knows a lot of them do Like they edit, they script it. You know it's a bunch of poppycock.
Captain:It's not real. And like he said you know I'm not saying haunted houses aren't a real thing, he said, in fact, I believe that they are, but we just live in an entertainment driven culture and the power of editing is just very, you know, it's just very powerful, um let's do a sequel where they do a haunted house show you know it's funny. He talks about a sequel, or not a sequel, but a movie he wanted to work on after this. I think it's kind of like that I would watch that um, and then he talks about some influences.
Captain:Like you know, obviously the evil dead and exorcism, he said, were big ones. Um, he said it's kind of a cop-out but the exorcist is his favorite exorcism film. He said the tropes really wouldn't be what they are today without that movie. So he was trying to do something different and I think he executes that. It's unique.
Wilson:Oh yeah, oh yeah definitely.
Captain:But that really was his favorite thing. And then, yes, he said he's really proud of the practical effects. He said we wanted to use more practical effects in the movie but you know they had a budget but a lot of people who were mistaken that the creature at the end was all CGI. It's not. He said 98% of it is practical. The only thing we couldn't do is like they went in and enhanced the glowing eyes and the mouth at the end.
Wilson:That is actually really cool.
Captain:That's like so cool.
Wilson:I want to see like behind the scenes for that.
Captain:Oh yeah, true. And then they asked him you know, what did you decide to keep? What did you change from the original 2016 short that this is based on? And he said overall, the plot is the same, the ending's the same, but he's expanding an 18-minute short movie into a 90-minute feature film. So he's like I had a lot more time to expand the characters, their relationships. We could just bring focus to different people at different parts of the movie. But the biggest thing is that the girl in the chair in the short movie is not like in a relationship with the other characters, so like picking lane as being like you know a fiance to drew.
Captain:He said that's how they could really expand. Why people would care so much about this.
Wilson:It changed the stakes are higher, basically Sure oh yeah, yeah.
Captain:But yeah, he said I think that's the most thing that they changed. And then, yeah, he could just expand a lot so he could really work on how he wanted the feature to look and feel compared to just a 15-minute short.
Wilson:Right, I just looked up the director's Instagram and I feel like there's probably some good stuff to see on there, because almost all of his posts have to do with the cleansing hour, so I'll have to dig through that later.
Captain:Damien Levesque. What a great name.
Jay:I know he sounds like a vampire.
Captain:He does sound. Yeah, irma Beth is what I'm getting, yeah.
Wilson:I really wanted to go in here to see if he had behind the scenes for the Lucifer character.
Captain:Wait is his thing, damien Levesque, because why is it not showing up?
Wilson:Yeah, did you spell it right.
Captain:Yeah, no, I probably didn't.
Wilson:I can send you his profile. Thanks, alright, I probably didn't. I can send you his profile. Thanks, all right. And then was that it for Hot Goose.
Captain:Yeah, that's what I found, Did you?
Wilson:I mean I don't have anything else, I didn't. You did all the research, so I always do all the research.
Jay:You already said he did. He directed a movie. A creature was starring.
Captain:Yes, that was in 2023.
Wilson:What's your razor glass for this one?
Captain:Wait, I'm clicking on this link that you sent me first.
Wilson:I mean, we don't have time to deep dive him right now.
Captain:I know, but I want to look.
Wilson:Yeah, that's fair. I want to follow, I want to look too.
Captain:Oh yeah, creature Starring is on here. It's like what he's got On there. Okay, what is my rag. What is my rag? I would like to raise my glass.
Wilson:Um.
Captain:I feel like this is such a cop out. But I mean, the devil showing himself morphing from a dead fire body to full lucifer was pretty, was pretty cool. Oh well, I can say that one, but if that one is like stupid, if that was somebody else's, I can have something else so you're gonna say something else that could be somebody else's okay, well, you go. What's yours?
Wilson:raise your glass clink, clink um I mean it's along the same lines like I, I expected there to be some hitch, like the exorcism's not going to go as planned or like something's going to happen. I didn't expect that and also I didn't expect like the mass, like possessions, at the end oh, I saw a couple of the reviews were like they love the twist of this movie yeah, so that was fresh.
Captain:I like that yeah, what about your razor glass? Are you loud stacks?
Wilson:no, everyone go back to their seats um, what's my razor glass?
Jay:so there's a lot of moments I liked in this movie. It's hard to pick just any one, um.
Captain:You said you, oh no, that was the other movie.
Jay:No, that was the slime polarama, that one. There's so few that.
Wilson:The highlights are shining, yeah, the highlights are very apparent.
Jay:Yeah, I mean there's. I mean this isn't like a huge moment, but very early in the movie it's pretty creepy where the Shayla Vancock Scarlett. Vancockcock, scarlett vancock vancock. She's going showing up to this like I don't know where they're filming, but it's like a crazy abandoned warehouse super sketchy alley. She's in the alley, are they're in the alley?
Jay:they're walking towards, I guess, where the filming is going on and there's like a lost unhoused person in the in a sleeping bag onto the side and they're like hello, hello, have you seen? This studio, okay, walks, a little bit more super shady. They're like man, fuck this. And they turn around and the unhoused person is gone. They're like start walking a lot faster.
Captain:They're like you get a crispy rice krispies treat person and the creepy crawly crawling around crunchy crispy.
Wilson:I like how she sees it the first time. She's like absolutely not person. The creepy crawly crunchy crispy. I like how she sees it the first time. She's like absolutely not. She's like it's wrong.
Captain:We do get a crispy crunchy, creepy crawly person. We get those a lot. It's actually been a while since, I feel like we've seen one.
Wilson:Yeah, I haven't seen one in a while.
Captain:The crispy crunchy crawly people are always creepy. Actually, that was the other one I was thinking about as well. So that was a good yeah, that was a good movie, a good moment, um, um, but yeah, scott van cox like reaction is pretty funny oh yeah great.
Jay:Huh, it's like that would have been great as a possessed person. Oh, scott van, oh my god uh watching a drag queen do a exercise.
Captain:I don't know if I could take it possessed person. It's like that would have been great as a possessed person. Oh, Skylar Vink. Oh my God, Watching a drag queen do an exercise.
Wilson:I don't know if I could take it seriously.
Captain:No, oh no, it would be so entertaining oh yeah, it would be so entertaining, Like you'd get the views you want. The verification check it's coming, you'd be like mother. Yes, Like pop. Yeah, exercise, she's mothering right now yeah, no, that's definitely what it would give, so I mean you'd get it.
Wilson:Max was on to something he was, he was serving possessed what else we got before we close out with the uh wait.
Captain:Do you know what you're doing next week? Uh, no, um, supposedly we're doing something called the commuter the commuter from 2018, next week. No, supposedly we're doing something called the Commuter.
Wilson:The Commuter.
Captain:From 2018.
Wilson:That sounds like a Jason Statham movie? It definitely does.
Jay:I think it's the Beekeeper.
Captain:I think it. Is it not the guy that does the Naked Gun?
Wilson:Sounds like a sequel to Speed, liam Neeson. We're watching a Liam Neeson movie. I think it's Liam Neeson. That's a horror movie. Yeah, it's like we're watching a liam neeson.
Captain:I think it's liam neeson that's a horror movie, it's a thriller.
Wilson:A thriller, oh, I mean, we can fuck it off if you want me to, but, uh, maybe I'll watch a trailer like if it's, if it's like just a thriller skills I mean that cast is good though, vera and patrick wilson, exactly, I mean it's a good, sam neill's in there.
Jay:Okay, I'll watch the trailer I'm gonna talk about this earlier.
Wilson:But also I know we're excited for like weapons, but like the final conjuring is coming out, I believe this year oh yes, I hope that's better than the devil made me do it, but we'll see what's that called last rights?
Captain:I think, wow, I really pulled that out of my ass. That sounds right wow this cast is like fantastic it's fire right, so like I mean we do.
Jay:Yes, really, it's liam I guess they use all the money. I mean, this is a stacked cast okay, so we could do it.
Wilson:Did it not do well?
Captain:What? No, I think it's our good movie. Oh wait, is it? That's a 55%, oh no no, this is not our good movie. No, no, this is bad.
Wilson:I mean it could be worse. That's sad, given how many people are in here.
Captain:It's not good, jesus. Okay, so that's what we're doing next time. Advice wise Is that me, that is you.
Wilson:But you can ask for. I can phone a friend.
Captain:Yeah, do you want to phone a friend? We?
Wilson:can phone a friend.
Captain:What do we got over there, jay?
Wilson:Um.
Captain:Well.
Jay:Based on this movie. Yeah, and the advice I need to gather from these people based on a different movie, based on any movie you give a fuck about no I would say if you happen to be filming a possession and it turns to a real possession and the demon's like if anyone leaves, we're gonna kill them, don't just immediately sprint towards the door, don't play around because immediately she was just like all right, I'm gonna instigate this person the statue mary statue impaled in the head.
Wilson:She probably had the most pleasant death out of. Yeah, it was quick.
Captain:Yeah, she probably didn't realize it unfortunately oh my god we didn't even talk about chris and the demon dogs that attacked him and he's box cutting his own nut, his own jugular open yeah, talk about brutal death. That and the guy that's lit on fire.
Wilson:Um, oh, my gosh sucks bruh, dude, I can't even do anything.
Captain:Dude, that scene dude, we totally forgot about that scene. Like, okay, a poor one out that the box cutter to the neck. Yeah, I hate it.
Captain:It was all him I hate it, yeah, and he's, yeah, he and he's, yeah, he's thinking that he's, he's cutting the dogs that are attacking him. He's like demon dogs, but he's just cutting himself and it's. You know, what's interesting is like he's like screaming because the demon dogs are like biting him in his head or like scratching him, but it's just him cutting himself with a box cutter, like really cool, like like I've never seen it, like I don't know.
Wilson:The movie really did do new stuff. It did that I haven't seen before everyone should watch it.
Captain:Sorry, yes, highly recommend is where I want to end that, but um so your advice?
Jay:we already gave it yeah um, don't run don't run from an evil possessed woman who tells you nothing, yeah yeah, it's like in a demon voice, Like don't run or I'll kill you. It's like it's dead. I'm like, what did you just say?
Captain:Oh yeah, listen to the demon. Yeah, okay.