The Friday Nightmares Podcast

SA hello,

everyone, and welcome to episode number 101

of the Friday Nightmares podcast. I am

one half of your hosting team this evening.

Part of the, you know, premium podcasters.

Not like that trashy beef Wellington of podcasters that

Tim Davis keeps bringing up on the Horror for Dummies,

but I am one half of your hosting team, Mr.

Smoke Show Crawford, coming to you from the town of Schwartz

Creek in the county of Genesee in the state of Michigan,

in the United States of America, in the North American continent, in the Western

hemisphere, on the planet Earth, in the Milky Way galaxy,

fully vaccine boosted and waxed and ready to climax. And if

you can, please get me wet and feed me after midnight.

I'm the man with the glorious beard, aka the mother

of cats, aka the man with the humongous ego,

aka Scott Housing, aka Scotty2Hottie,

aka Spanky, aka hey,

Scott. And you know, with me, as always,

is the other truly premium podcaster on.

This team, Heather Powell, coming to you

today from Waterdown, Ontario, Canada, not Australia,

because that's where trashy podcasters live, right? Let's be real.

They're the colony that Britain forgot about there.

They keep saying they're the beef Wellington of the podcast community.

They're the beef Wellington that Gordon ramsay watches on

YouTube and reacts to terrible Americans. So, like the baloney

beef Wellingtons of. The pony Keith Wellington.

That's really funny. Oh, my goodness.

We're at the, well, almost the end of 2024.

By the time you hear this, we probably. Yeah, actually by the time you hear

this is 2026, but this was recorded in December,

to be exact, December 8th of 2024.

I, I kind of figured with Scott, besides no Furatu,

I couldn't really see anything else that was coming out

that was going to be a contender for end of the year list.

So I figured we might as well just get her done because

it's, it's slowing down quite intensely.

So. Yeah, and I've, I think I've been just burnt out on like the

ones that I've watched over this last year. So I've been taking

a break and doing a lot of Christmas horror films and

some older horror films. And. Yeah, just kind of just

wrapping up. I got a couple big ones or at least fairly big ones

I still gotta watch. But yeah, I'm thinking I thought I was

gonna be at close to 121, 25. I think I'm gonna be closer to

110 to 115. Hey, you know, this is my lowest year

at 160. Yeah. One year I

was like last year I was 189. In 2022,

I was 205. And then in 2021, I was

208. So I'm. I'm okay with it.

I. You know, especially now as we slow down,

it was. It's been hard. Some. I. I watched some that I just thought were

silly for fun. For funsies.

But I figured we ended off. The last one we're going to talk

about is probably the. The prize pig, to be honest.

Um, so we'll talk about that. But, yeah, it's been.

It's been a year. It's been a year of

up and downs for me. Some real good ups of

going away and seeing my friends in England, going to France,

all the podcasting I've done with Scotty, many a nights

out with friends, and of course, the down of my dad passing away this year.

Yeah, but. But, you know,

we continue on and I'm forever grateful for a brother

like Scotty who got me through even, you know,

miles. Miles and miles away. The love was very transparent.

So thank you again, Scotty, for all you do. And I'm excited for

2025 to celebrate yourself and Erica's wedding. That's something that I'm looking forward

to. Yeah. Saying thank you for being such a good friend. You've helped me out

through so much over the years as well. So it's, you know, that's what brothers

and sisters, or as close friends like we are do. We.

That's true. We're there for each other and like premium podcasters do.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. You know, we're like the.

We're like the Tomahawks stake of podcasters. We're gonna go food

route. I love it. I love it.

I haven't listened to the most recent Horror for Dummies, and I need to.

Yeah, I. I always. They always make me

laugh, especially when they make fun of me, because I'm sure people listen to that

show. They'd be like, oh, man, this Heather Girls are real. See you next Tuesday.

And I. I think I do definitely present a specific

Persona on this show that's super sized to who I actually am.

But that's okay. That's what we do here. And we made it over to.

We made it over a hundred episodes, so congratulations to us.

We're 101 Dalmatians, 101 episodes in,

and we'll. We'll wrap up this very mediocre year,

I guess, in horror with. With some standouts.

Yeah, I think so. Like. Right, yeah. The. The 2024 awards show

shall be interesting to say the least. I think this will be the first

year where our lists will be very, very opposite. Um,

I can't actually even predict, actually. I have an idea of some of them.

I think Scott and I might have some crossover, but I think

overall, there might be some very different thoughts on the year.

Like, for example, obviously, that Mickey Mouse movie that came out this year is my

number one film of the year. What was that called? Dead Mouse or something like

that. Mousetrap. Mousetrap. The Mousetrap.

Yes. Clearly that's the best film of the year. So I.

It's. And it's as well put together as the board game Mousetrap.

It is. It's. It's about the same quality,

though Haunt season sure did give it a run for its money.

Yeah. Fortunately. And this

is also the year of folklore in terms of bags. Bake Head.

Bag man. There's been a lot of bags this year.

And in the one that I still just don't want to watch,

just because the title. Daddy's Head. Oh, yes,

yes, Daddy's Head. Yes, I saw Daddy's Head. I. The whole

time was like. I know,

because I showed Connor the title, and he's like, what the hell?

I'm like, yeah, it's a terrible title. It's so good.

We should all watch it together.

Oh, he'd probably lose his damn mind. You know what I really

hope is that for Sakes Blumhouse, can you do better next year,

please? For the love of God, can you please just.

God damn it. Can you just pull something out of your ass?

Oh, actually, 824 is dropping. That kind of New Year's

22,000 movie. That looks pretty. Oh, yeah. Y2K that. Yeah.

Say, that looks fun. I don't know if that's being dropped before the. Of the

year or not. I think it is. Is it?

So that might be the only other one besides Offeratu that we are, I don't

know, gonna ever talk about again.

And hopefully I'll see both of them before we do

our award show. But we shall see. Right?

Anyway, we'll get into our 2024s, so we'll start off with this first

one. I've been saying this name incorrectly. Is this Heretic?

Heretic. Okay. This is a 2024 film.

It was a theater watch. Hugh Grant is in this

as the vil was quite a pleasant surprise.

The question. Question everything. Two young missionaries

are forced to prove their fate when they knock on the wrong door

and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed becoming ensnared

in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

This is a really, really great religious themed

horror film. Hugh Grant, I, like, I could take

or leave Hugh Grant. Like, I think he's a decent actor, but there's nothing that

I've seen him in that I'm like, oh, man, Hugh Grant's in this movie.

I can't wait to watch it. Right, right. But I

think, you know, as a. As a villain here, I think he really

portrayed a strong antagonist.

Really, really strong antagonist who you, you know,

start, like, just is creepy the entire time and is

unnerving and as only Hugh Grant can be.

And I think the reviews echo that. Like, we're looking

at. Duncan McLeish gave it four and a half stars.

Rob the Hump gave it four and a half stars.

I don't. Dave Bailey gave it four stars. Or Sandra Kane is his

stripper name. Gave it four stars.

And Sander recently found out that I would definitely pay

to have him as a stripper. That's why he's not listening to

the show anymore. He's like,

heather's a creep anyway. But, yeah, this is

good. I don't think you've watched it yet, have you, Scotty? No, because it's only

been in the theater and I have and have not had a chance to go

to the theater recently because, you know, Erica had her hysterectomy

and, you know, the. For theater seats and everything like that and car drives,

it would have been uncomfortable for. But yeah, we just been

busy, you know, with holiday stuff going on and. Because we had

Thanksgiving and Christmas in full force now, and we

already got our Christmas tree up, our presents wrapped, all that stuff. All I'm hearing

is excuses. Except. And I thought I was podcasting with Premium Podcaster,

not Daniel and Tim. No, you're. For you. You're dealing with the

Kraft Mac and Cheese of podcasting.

That's funny. No, this is one I really want to

see, though. I think you'll enjoy it. I think Erica will enjoy it too.

It's very much a game of cat and mouse. And the less you know about

going into it, the better. All I can say is that there's three main characters.

Sophie Thatcher, Cleo east, and Hugh Grant. And they put together

an incredible performance. Like, I am nothing but praise

for the three of them. Whoever did the hiring and the casting for this movie

knew exactly what they were fucking talking about. But it is dialect heavy,

so be prepared for a Lot of talking. This isn't a movie that you can

play on your phone. You know, there's some movies out there, like,

I'll talk about them, where you could go on your phone for 20 minutes,

come back and you know, generally get what's going on. Right. This is not one

of them. You do have to stay focused for the 111 minutes.

And I will say it was unpredictable and

I really, really did enjoy this, so recommend it.

We may see this again at the end of the year. So the

next one here. Did you watch this one? No, you. At first

you were selling me on it and then it didn't sound like it

would have been worth it. Yeah, this, this got weird

real quickly. So this is called rumors. It's a 2024 film.

It was released at TIFF this year, which is Toronto International Film Festival.

I can just hear Rob the Hump now. Find me a real 2024.

Anyway, the official motion picture of the G7.

So en route to the annual G7 summit, seven leaders of the world's

wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods

and facing increasing peril while attempting to drop a provisional

statement regarding a global crisis. So Cate Blanchett

and Roy Dupreece are some of the most recognizable names here.

Though as you go through the other characters that play world leaders,

you will have definitely seen them in other things.

This kind of starts off as a mystery

and it gets really weird.

I will say that the first half is very engaging

with the situation that these political leaders find themselves

in regarding a global crisis and how they're trying

to manage it. Then it gets kind of odd, like, then it

just. It kind of goes off the rocker like only a film that's shown

at a film festival can do. And I'm not quite sure if I got

the point of the ending. I will say the acting is

out of this world. The set design is amazing.

And the first half of it, we're looking at a runtime. What is it

here? Why does it not say the runtime? Oh, 104 minutes.

I would say just about 70 to 80% of it's really solid.

And then it gets really weird. And I don't. I don't know who to recommend

this to. I think the first half is really

great for a lot of people. And then it kind of goes this weird kind

of sci fi, but not sci fi vibe

to it. Either way, if you like film festival stuff and you

like things that are unique and different, I think this

may be a film for you. There's really no one else that's watched it

in our little community? Just me, because I'm a premium

podcaster. But if anyone's interested,

is available on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon,

YouTube and Microsoft Store. I would say you gotta

really like kind of like political horror, really heavy dialogue

and that typical kind of film festival, artsy out

there kind of plot. If that's what you like, this will be a movie for

you. If not, I don't think anyone needs to watch it for their

end of year list. So good to know because, yeah, this one did have me

curious. And as you kept talking to me about it, I'm just like, okay,

I'm interested. Okay, yeah. This next one

I'm thinking you probably have not seen. No. All right, so this is one

I watched last night. It's called he sees you when you're

sleeping, directed by Charles Steed and has an 83 minute runtime.

Chester returns to the home of his estranged and hideously overprivileged

family at Christmas, only to find an unknown killer disguised

in a Santa outfit is stalking and killing family members one

by one in order to claim the huge family fortune.

Which one of them is the killer? Well, that's kind

of a weird synopsis because it starts off that this character,

Chester, as a kid in 1963

or so, has wakes up on

like, Christmas Day to a stage Santa killer killing

his mom and dad, and then it jumps into the future like another

horror movie. It's been in a couple. Yeah, like, that's been

a theme of a couple different. Yeah, okay, I thought so.

But this one that jumps into, like the 80s and

then he go. Then he goes back to his estranged family. So there's like that

piece that's missing from the synopsis, but this kid or this guy,

you know, meets up with his family and he is such an

like for a main character. Like, he is a dick to everybody.

That's not even like his family, just people that are being friendly to

him, like old neighbors. And he's just a dick to him going, okay,

So I can see where this is going. There's not going to be a single

likable character in this film. All right? And Caroline Williams

is in this. Oh, okay. So I was like, okay, this could be good

or could be bad. Yeah, she has hit her best.

And yeah, this was not good.

It was dumb. How you say that.

Not good, not good. It was dumb.

I didn't care about the reveal at the end about the killer

Santa. I didn't care that anyone was getting Killed.

Because you don't like any of these characters. So there was no sense

of. Oh, no. It was more. Oh, okay. Anyways,

moving on. Enough. Oh, no. The United Healthcare

CEO died. Oh, Anyways, moving that type of.

So that's pretty much how this movie felt. Oh, this. It just. There was

nothing good about it. The Christmas atmosphere was okay.

Terrifier 3 did a better Christmas atmosphere than this

movie did. And, yeah, they just. Yeah. I've been watching

a lot of questionable Christmas horror

films, and yet this falls in that category of questionable.

Yeah. Not one I'd recommend. Unless you're just needing a.

You're in the mood for a Christmas horror movie. I would agree,

though. I think terrifier 3, even though I did not enjoy it as

much as the original, and I do feel it's getting a little slapstick still at

this point. That being said, I do think it does Christmas well.

Like, I definitely think it nails the Christmas vibe.

And I. I don't think it'll be on my top 10,

though. I don't think it will get there for me. It's just

too, you know. And again, I respect the film. I think it's great. It's just

getting too fucking silly. Like, when I'm like, there's certain scenes

where the music that's being played is so silly with what's happening. I love it.

It's just. I don't know. The first one is so dark. It's terrifying.

Christmas. That song has been stuck in my head. I love it.

I've been looking for it on Spotify and I can't find it anywhere. I'm just

so glad that it's done well, you know, at the end of the day,

I would never say it's not good. It's absolutely good. It's just.

I find that my dislike of them is increasing with each one.

Like, I even like the anthology that art is in more

than I like Terrifier two and three. Wow. I do

like. Well, this is the subway scene. The subway story I like.

Yeah. Which I gotta say, I do kind of find it funny that you're not

into the slapstickiness of this. I know it is weird.

But then you look at the name of our podcast and you are Nightmare

on Elm street part of the podcast name. I know, it's really weird,

isn't it? Like, to be honest, you would think that.

And I don't know if maybe. Because with the Nightmare on Elm

street movies, I think I saw three first. And I wonder

if my opinion had been different. Have you Seen

one of these sequels. Yeah, right. If I had seen the original

and then, like, done it, like what I did with the Terrifier films.

Right, right. Okay. And again, like, this isn't me on the films.

I think the films are awesome. It's just for me,

I. I have my preference. Right. But again,

I think you're right. That. That nailed the Christmas. Like, nailed it.

And I'm by their. Their practical facts.

Sorry. Go ahead, Scotty. Oh, yeah, absolutely. But I was gonna say. And as you

can tell, we've veered off from he sees you when you're sleeping to talk about

Terrifier 3, which isn't even on our list today, just. No,

I did watch it and you mentioned it, so I thought, well, there's a perfect

bridge to bring it in. Yeah, Well, I was gonna say that just goes to

show, like, yeah, that's how good. This one movie. I was gonna talk about.

Something else. Go watch this other movie. So if some

reason someone needs to, like, I don't know, they're watching all the Christmas horror films.

Where can they find this? He sees you when you're sleeping. This is on

Google play, Amazon video, YouTube,

Fandango at home. Buy it or rent it. I wouldn't

recommend either, but apparently it is streaming

on hoopla. So I believe that is like the. If you have a

library card, you can stream movies from their website. Oh,

there you go. So if you can stream it for free, do it that way.

Don't bother paying money for this. This was not good. Like,

only three people have watched it that I follow. And Doninelli

is the only one that people here would recognize, I think, and that he gave

it four out of five stars, which is why I love Donanelli. He has a.

He has a love for these independent films that. He sees something in him that

I don't, which is awesome. Yeah. And everyone has different. Different strokes that

they like. Exactly. I watched half of

this next one, and I thought it was very Spanish,

so it was very much an international Spanish film.

I'm like, oh, yeah, this is fucking Spanish. So I look

forward to hearing. Was there no subtitles or something? Oh, did you not. Have you

seen this one yet? Okay, we could take it off then. It's Rita. I'm halfway

through on Shudder. And it's just, like, the vibe, you know, the vibe

of Spanish movies where they're, like, dark and everything's fucked.

And it, like, puts, let's say, children or other vulnerable

people in shitty situations. Like, there's no happy

ending. Yeah, that's that's. That's. That's Spanish movies. It feels like Rita

has that vibe. But I haven't fully watched it yet. I am halfway

through. But if anyone does want to see it, it's the most recent drop on

Shudder. I would say even only being halfway

through, if you like Spanish movies, it's worth it. If you

do not like Spanish movies, I don't recommend it. You got

to be a real international Spanish movie

fan. Connoisseur. Yes. To. To get into it.

It is. It is very artsy. And. And you know, that's the

thing with Shutter. They always pick up the variety. Right. They. You never know what

you're going to see on the shutty. This next one I

thought was absolutely hilarious. I knew you would love

this one. Oh,

man. Do you want me to bring it in or do you want to bring

it in? You go ahead because I think I may have mentioned

it. Did you already? I can't remember, but because I know I did watch

it before our last recording. Okay. Okay. I may have forgotten to add

it, but okay. I won't be long. It's not like it's deep, Rippy.

It's about a kangaroo. It's actually

just him in the kangaroo outfit. I was just good. No, no. Tim is.

Tim is the protagonist fighting Rippy. Oh, yeah, Definitely punch him

in the face. Yeah. Tim just punches wildlife in Australia.

Rippy's gone rogue is the tagline. Young police

officer Maddie is determined to live up to her deceased father's legacy,

who ended up being a drunk. That was so funny. Anyway,

her courage is put to the test when locals are found brutally ripped

to shreds by a zombie kangaroo. As the

undead beast leaves a trail of carnage, Maddie, with the help of her

eccentric uncle, Uncle Schmitty, and resilient Aunt

Donna. Donna must remark on must

embark on a high stake battle to save the town.

This movie is exactly what it sounds like.

Oh, 100.

A creature feature about a really angry

kangaroo that looks like it's undead from the pet cemetery.

It's like they were like, oh, pet cemetery, zombie pets.

You know what we should do?

Kangaroo. Yeah. I wouldn't say

it's overly great, but I wouldn't say it's overly bad either. I had a lot

of fun with it and I thought it was easy to watch.

These cheesy little creature features are a good time.

I. I enjoyed the kangaroo effects for

what it was. I. I accepted it for what it was. I would say this

is middle of the road, this. There's no Crackoon. But this

is also. No, no, the Meg. Right. So know your expectations

going into it. But Tim, you should

watch this. I want to know if this is what your life is like.

I think he did watch it. Did he? Okay. I think him and Luffy both

have seen it. They haven't recorded it on letterbox. Didn't happen on

letterbox. It didn't happen. That's all I know. Oh, yeah. I guess not,

huh? Yeah. But yeah, this one was. The CGI was

really bad for the kangaroo, but I think it kind of added to the

charm of just being entertaining because I was just laughing throughout

the entire thing. It was just so silly and starring or

having Michael Bean in it. So I was like, oh, wow, he's actually gonna.

I guess that makes sense now. His career hasn't really been much of anything lately,

so. But yeah, in the ending when like towards

the end, towards the credits, like, the question that Eric and I

had were like, well, is it infecting anything else? And then the credits

are all the. Ah, that's great. Who matters? Who cares?

83 minutes they were in and out. Yeah, it was fun. It was

great. Got in, got dirty, got in and out. I. I respect the game.

So, yeah, if you want to watch this, I don't know if you want to

watch something really stupid at the end of the year. That's a fun little creature

feature. I would say this is. This is up your tree. If.

If it's not like. If this does not sound like you would enjoy it,

you could skip over it. It's on Apple TV, Google Play,

YouTube, Microsoft Store, and Amazon Video for

the US and again link. Know your rental price for this. Like,

think about it. How much do you want cheesy CGI kangaroos

shit up? Personally, I was here for it, but yeah,

yeah, not everyone would be there for it, so. Yeah, exactly. I had

fun with it. It was exactly what it was showing that it

would be. Right. This is. You tell that we're getting to the end of the

year. We're back to Scrape the Barrel,

which this next Academy Award winning film you need to take discuss.

Oh yeah, this one kind of falls in the line of Rippy.

So this is. This is called Werewolf Santa with

a. It's got a

71 minute run time. This can be found on tubi.

Oh. So yeah, when I. Like I said, we've been watching a lot of Christmas

horror films for free on Tubi. Right. For free on T.

And there's. We've been watching a lot of Christmas horror films. We Came across this

one. We're going, oh my God. Let's watch this.

The tagline is Seasons Eatings.

Lucy has a social media channel where she huns evidence of

actual monsters. But it's not doing great with just a few viewers following her

disappointing posts. Everything changes on Christmas Eve when

her camera witnesses Santa getting bitten by a werewolf before he

turns the cancer lycanthrope himself.

Jesus Christ. As werewolf Santa starts wreaking

bloody havoc in their seaside town, Lucy and her

bickering family set off on a madcap adventure.

Armed with a rusty skate and a vague understanding

of how to kill werewolves gained from her collection of horror comics.

The me the Beast must die to save Christmas.

This. This is where Rob's gonna. Rob the hump is gonna

give us cause letterbox says 2023. I looked

it up and I think I had a Release like on December 30th

last year.

I'm throwing this in 2024. It just, it's not. I don't

think it's going to get any of my awards but this one is

exactly how you hear it. Werewolf Santa. It is

dumb, but it is fun. It is low budget. It's got a short

runtime so it doesn't overstay its welcome. It's got

pretty good werewolf effect of like Santa.

Werewolf Santa in a Santa outfit. He looks more like

the, I would say like a lower budget version of the Wolfman.

Okay. So it's. But like you don't see much, you don't see any

transformation, you don't see any kills on screen. It all kind of happens off

screen. Okay. Because obviously low budget. But yeah,

this was just done with a. They knew what they were making and they just

had fun with it and I was here for it. I was laughing,

I was just smiling. It was just a fun little lowbudget horror Christmas

film that just made like I was like okay, there can be

some good Christmas horror films out there. Basically like Friday Nightmares.

We're just exactly fan a little low budget podcast.

Just. Just watches shitty movies. Movies about werewolf Santa and

killer kangaroos. That's what we bring here on Friday Nightmares.

Exactly. We bring you the primo content and. Then some like

tiff films that are random to throw in there just so we can look a

little high trash. Oh, sorry,

where's available this Tubi? This is. Yeah, this is available to stream on

Tubi and it looks like Amazon Prime. Okay. And it can be

bought or rented on Google Play, Amazon Video and Apple tv.

And yeah, I'd say give this A watch, if you're into, like, the low budget

like this does a better werewolf than half the, like,

werewolf movies that have came out over the last couple of years. Well, hey,

you know what? They got that going for them then. Good for them. Good for

you, Werewolf Santa. Good for you. Don't. Don't let anyone put

you down for your transitions. You know, sometimes we

bring a lot of trash here on Friday. Nightmares.

And, you know, sometimes we watch a movie

and it's a remake. And I, at least with the

Strangers remake that came out this year, I got what was going on.

Not a great movie, but I got what was going on. I watched Street Trash

2024 and I'm still not sure what the point of the movie was.

And I failed you because I was. Because you need me to watch it to

hopefully explain it to you. I have not got to it yet. I am going

to watch it and I will see if I can help. I did hear this

is also considered a sequel to the original. Not as

much a remake. Okay, so maybe that could be part of the

questioning. Like, maybe just don't remember a lot of what happened the original.

Because, I mean, honestly, this may piss off some listeners. I can't

really stand the original Street. Trash either, can I?

I like the effects, but that's about it. I don't need to be

seeing, like, rapey crap with bums and things

like that that are going on in this movie. And the way it was,

the way it was handled, I'm like, not for me. So they've cut that out.

I'll give them credit. They've. They've definitely 2024 eyes

it. The tag is Melt the Rich. A group

of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover

a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city. A remake of

the 1987 cult classic is what it says here on Letterbox.

I don't know. I think you're probably right. I have no fucking idea. So here's

the good news. It wasn't just me who didn't get it. Tim Davis

from Horror for Dummies or Dummies of Horror. Oh, wait,

Horror for Dummies. Yeah, Horror for Dummies. Right?

Is it Dummy to Horror, right? Yeah, that's his old name here. Yeah,

he gave it two stars. This was dumb. I'm sorry. It didn't

work for me at all. It's just dumb humor that I don't connect with.

Some practical effects are cool and the score was neat, but the consistent

jokes made it look like they were trying way too hard. Just like me trying

to hit on Tim. So yeah, this. That sums

it up. And then Matt Wood,

I listened to his DJ set the other day. It was really good. Oh,

nice. Yeah, I'm a friend. That's why I'm a friend too. I just sent

him a friend request on the PlayStation. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Yeah. Even across oceans, bringing people together.

Him and I are docking across the ocean.

Yeah. This didn't hit with me, even though I was looking forward to it.

The multi color gore and special effects are cool. I like the score.

However, aside, the jokes didn't land for me. The chat in between was all a

bit dull. And there's some types I couldn't understand what they were saying due to

the South African dialect. I won't give

his like rating because he always does really colorful, funny ones that yeah

spoil. But I'm. I'm with these two. They gave it

two stars, two and a half. I think two stars is fair. I think

the special effects in this movie are great. The practical effects are

awesome. I will give that. There were some characters

that were. Did have a couple of funny jokes, but overall I found

the movie boring. I didn't really understand the point of

it. I. I felt like it was.

The acting was very wooden and not really

enjoyable. And I don't really get why this was remade sequel,

whatever it is, which is going to be similar to something we

talk after this. I feel like this was the year of

unnecessary sequels and remakes. Like, you know

what I mean? And I'm kind of there, I'll say. Because yeah, there's quite

a few this year. Right. And it's. And again, like, hey man,

enjoy what you enjoy. Like, you know, but I just really

don't get the purpose of remaking this. And let's just get out like

the really gross sexual assault shit from the first one. But Anyway,

this is 85 minutes long. It's available on all the renting

services, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Amazon. I would say

watch this. If for some reason you really like the first one and you

want to see the second one or the, or the remake or the sequel,

whatever it is, that would be about it. I would say

if you're like me and you were lukewarm on the first one or didn't like

it, I don't know if you really. This is gonna. I was hoping this was

gonna make me like it and. Right. And it did not. It did not

do that. No, that's. That's the kind of the consensus I've been getting

from it too. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I'll bring in the next one because I

watched this last night and I know you've seen it. Yes, I have.

No, I think this is what you were hinting at with unnecessary.

Yeah, we'll get into that. Yeah. But this one

is smile two. 127 minute run

time. And it's tagline is it's the last thing you'll

see. About to embark on a new world tour,

global pop sensation Sky Riley begins experiencing

increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events.

Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame,

sky is forced to face her dark past. Regained control over life

before it spirals out of control. That is a weird synopsis to not

even like if someone did not know this was Smile 2,

that synopsis doesn't tell you anything about it being a sequel. Right? That's weird.

But yeah, I absolutely loved the

first movie. It was in my top 10 that year.

I think I went into it expecting it to be just kind

of mediocre and was kind of blown away by the

way they covered the trauma and the curse and

all this stuff that was involved in this on the lore building up to this

Smile Demon. And so I was, I was looking forward to

seeing this one because I'm like, oh, famous pop star.

Which I called exactly how it was gonna end. I knew

it was gonna end the way it did, but I was like,

oh, pop star. Getting the Smile curse put upon her.

Okay, this could be really interesting. And for the most part, yeah,

it was a very interesting movie. Very entertaining,

some really good gore and the moments that it showed gore.

The two hour and nine minute run time,

that was my bit much. Yeah. And the

biggest gripe I really had about this because I thought everybody's acting was

great, thought the story was intriguing. My biggest gripe though is

this did not build on the lore of the Smile Demon

at all. Like he. I figured, you know, it's a sequel, figured it would

have been more, a little bit more lore added, but they didn't

add anything new to it. It was more of

the same, but with a pop star instead of therapist.

Yeah, but like I think what's her name?

Naomi Scott. Yes, Naomi Scott. I thought she did an amazing job

as like a Lady Gaga like style pop star. Totally thought

she was amazing in it. And yeah, like I still really enjoyed it,

but it's. I don't think where Smile one was like instantly

top ten. One of my favorite movies of that year. This will probably

not make my top 10. It missed the mark by just being a

little too long and not really adding anything new to the

lore of the Smile Demon and just kind of giving me more of the same.

And then the kind of reveal when she's on

stage at the end pissed me off. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

I. I think you echoed exactly what I thought. 1. I thought the filming of

this was incredible. I thought Naomi Scott was incredible.

But I felt like the first one. The beginning of this movie

tries to loosely tie in the end of the first. Yes. In a

very silly way, to be quite honest.

And I'm gonna give somewhat of a spoiler here. So people

fast forward if you need to for the next minute. So my. My thing is

she, she, you know, this is spoiler. Again, fast forward a

minute if you have not seen this movie. So she has a traumatic event

happened to her earlier in her life. How did the demon not find

her earlier? The reason why she's has some of the issues she has

is because of the things she witnessed which would have been traumatic. So why didn't

it find her then? See what I'm saying? Well, that's not kind of how the

demon works though. It's whoever witnesses

them getting killed. So it's not anybody that witnesses any kind of trauma.

It's just the. Okay, that specific trauma. It's kind of like it

follows. Yes, it follows in Ringu where it's like the person

that is infected with the Smile Demon parasite or whatever you want to call it,

when they kill themselves, they got to kill them. They're being forced to kill themselves

in front of somebody. Got it. And that person that

sees that happening is now cursed. And it's

a big situation. Okay. Yes. Spoiler part ended. So I.

Yeah, like, I think my thoughts are right with you, Scotty. I think the two

hour runtime was a little much. I don't know why they thought that was

needed. It seems to be the new way with horror films. There's so

many two hours, something runtime. Yeah. And like there's some movies where you

can get away with that. And then there's other ones where I'm like, this is

an hour and a half film. This is not a. A two hour film.

Like Matt. Matt said it decently here. Yeah, this was decent,

but not as good as the first one. I thought it did its own thing

in new direction, which was interesting. I just don't think it had

the same impact as the first. And I didn't find it scary either.

Yeah, well, put together and well act. And I agree. And I,

and I think the thing is they relied a lot on jump scares here.

Like a lot. That's actually funny because Connor was,

Connor wasn't watching it but he was in the kitchen making something to eat

and he kept hearing the jump scare noise

happening. He's going, good God. He's like, I've been in here for three minutes,

three minutes. I've heard the jump scare noise six different times

already. I'm like, yeah, like that's relying way

too much on that. But hey, you know what? Good acting,

interesting story. Not the worst film I've seen this year. Not the

worst sequel I've seen this year. So yeah, sorry, I still

Give this an 8 out of 10. It's still good but it's just nowhere near

the level of the first one for me which was after a

couple re watches has become a 10 out of 10 for me. I loved it.

Yeah, agreed. I'm probably more at a seven and that's fine. Like it's

still decent if people want to watch it. It is available on Apple TV,

Google Play, Amazon Video, YouTube and again

it's. If you like the first one and you would like that kind of theme,

a movie, then I think you'll enjoy this. It's worth whatever rental you pay.

But I haven't seen anyone yet go way better than the first one.

So know that going into it and set your expectations

accordingly. Now, have you seen this gem?

New and it sounds like. I'm glad I missed it because

I think Tim Davis watched it and talked about it and,

and you know, he's our shark expert for our little group.

He is so Shark Warning 2024 After 20 years,

a man returns to the town where his brother was killed by a shark.

When it resurfaces and kills again, the man goes on a mission to hunt down

the predator, making unlikely alliances along the way in order to stop it once

and for all. The acting in is in. This is painful.

It's very painful. And sitting at a 94

minute runtime. I will say that it focuses on the shark story. Like it,

it, it's based around shark. So Tim said the Asylums

version of Jaws and I think that that's pretty much funny. I think that's very

complimentary to compare it to Jaws more than this film

deserves. It's probably one of the worst shark movies

that came out this year. I, I think I even enjoy the

Chicks on the Boat a little bit more because at least like it kind of

like had some anticipation to it and a little bit of

dread. This didn't have anything right. But I watch

these movies because I need a worse of for the other podcasts that I

do. And I look forward to torturing the ladies with something. And this may

be a contender. So we'll see. Because it's pretty.

Cheese. Cheese. And I love it when you. I love it when

you bring your worst of to the table for them ladies because you put them

through hell. I do. Well, they'll be like, oh, worst one

is like some theater release. I'm like, you haven't seen worse one.

Yes. Though I may choose the Mousetrap

because I do think it's hilarious. So, yeah.

Shark warning. I don't know. My warning is you could skip it unless

you're really, really into shark films. It is available on Apple tv,

Google Play, Microsoft Store. I don't know, man. If you're really

into this shit, rent it. If not, I would say skip over that bad boy.

Now. Have you seen this other one? This is one another one you told me

I have to watch. Have not got to it. Okay. So this was recommended

to me from Matt woods because he knows of my. My love

for a certain part that men have attached to them. It's their

brains. I. I really love a good personality in a

man. Scott knows that I'm always talking about how personalities are

the most important thing to me. Oh, 100 just like to ride those

personalities, you know? This movie

is called Members Club and it's very British.

Old members welcome, wet dreams and middle age.

Middle aged male strip group takes one last gig at

a rural working men's club only to discover

that they are to become sacrificial in a

plot to raise somebody. This movie

is really fucking funny. I. I had a really good

time with this film. It's. It's nothing

over the top or special. It has the occasional funny parts

in it, but it's just. It's these old

guys. It's like. It's like the full Monty horror film. That's the best way to

describe it. And it doesn't take itself seriously.

It's meant to be silly. The ending

is Chef's kiss. There's a scene at the end that is just so funny.

I can't wait for you to watch it, Scott, because you're gonna die.

Like there's a scene that I know when you get to it that you're gonna

be playing, like of course. Like just. It's funny. It's. It's just

silly, silly, silly. I can't wait yeah,

it's. It's not really streaming anywhere. Hopefully it drops before the

end of the year. We did watch a screener.

It. It has a bunch of like British soap stars

in it and it's great. And it's 90 minutes. Thank you for

being 90 minutes as a horror film and not dragging

this out for right hours on end. It has a

3.2 star rating and I 10 out

of 10 recommend. You do see a lot of penis

in this film, which. Oh, they hang dong. Nice. Oh, yeah,

there's a lot of dongs, which, you know, I was here for it.

That's why Matt recommended it. He's like, Heather, there's a lot of what you

like in this film. And Matt knows me. Matt knows.

And I appreciate that. Matt. It is. It is what I like. It's true.

I think all our listeners know at this point. I know,

right? You know, if you don't, you haven't

been listening, right? We like what we like, man. And I.

There's certain things, let's just say that I enjoy the finer things in life and

that's one of the finer things. So.

So yeah, I would say it's worth it if, if you get access

to this and you want something short, swim, simple. But you

know, be aware if you're watching this with kids, I'm thinking about you, Tim.

Like, there is dong in it. There's a lot of dong in it. So I

don't know. And maybe this is something to watch around the kids, but Jaleesa

might be interested. You know, she might want to see some dong.

I don't know. I'm sure she's also a connoisseur as well. So.

Yeah, you would think. You would think, right? And now let's

bring in the big. The big bang.

Yes. So we were lucky enough to

have access to this documentary that I

don't believe is officially out yet. I think think

it's out to the people who supported

it through Kickstarter, Indiegogo or wherever it was. But this is

In Search of Darkness,

1990-1994.

It's 383 minute runtime.

So it's a good, I think six hours. If I was.

Yeah, about six hours. Six hours. And it's tagline,

a journey into iconic 90s horror film icons.

Genre experts share observations, experiences and analysis to help

reframe, deconstruct and recontextualize the lost decade

of horror, the 1990s. So, yep, this just covers

just like all the other In Search of Darkness. These. This covers

1990 to 1994 and

covers a lot of well known and very

well hidden gems and once again made me wax

nostalgic on a lot of these movies and made me

go, shit, I need to start writing down a list of movies I need to

watch from this decade that I have not seen before. You guys have just brought

up because. Holy shit. Yeah. Like this brought

back a lot of just nostalgic feelings that I just not have not had in

a while because of movies I just forgot about. Right. There was a lot on

here that I had never even really heard of. A lot

of straight to video that I was not familiar with, which is weird for a

premium podcaster such as myself and you,

Scotty. Um, but this is a great doc.

It's. I watched it over a couple of nights and I love.

I just think the In Search of Darkness. I've also watched In Search

of the Future. Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow as well. And I just think

these filmmakers really hit it out of the park when it comes

to documentaries. Yeah, I, I also watched the Chucky doc

as well. I still need to see that. It's. It's very good as well.

I really enjoyed that too. I just, just. I just

think these documentaries are such a nice way to explore,

you know, in a Child's play. One things you didn't know about Child's Play franchise.

But In Search of Darkness to really pull out movies that perhaps you

aren't aware of or don't realize the impact that they had. They brought

up two Nightmare on Elm street movies in this. They brought up the

Freddy's Dead and the New Nightmare. And I really do think the New Nightmare doesn't

get as much love as it should. I think the New Nightmare is actually quite

clever. It's a really, really good film. And it was just. I mean,

it's. It did scream before Scream, right? Yeah, and it

did. It did. So, yeah, I, I recommend this

when it drops. If you liked the other ones, there's no reason why you won't

like this. And it's great. You can watch it over a

series of nights or days. And it's a great way to kind of end off

the year. It's a nice. Oh, a nice 100 chef's kiss to the year.

Yeah. Because this even covered a lot of the Stephen King TV movie

adaptations, which that has kickstarted a new marathon. Erica and

I are going to be starting in that Stephen King movie adaptation or

Stephen King adaptations, whether it be movies or TV

movies. We're gonna watch all the ones that we have not seen in a very

long time and kind of starting from the beginning and working our way up and

it's gonna be a long marathon because there's a lot of Stephen King films.

But that thanks to In Search of Darkness. That's why we got

into it and I think we might eventually do a Full moon one as well

because they covered a lot of of Full moon movies as well in that In

Search of Darkness. And that's where I learned a lot about Erica,

who apparently was a Full moon girl growing up.

Because she's like, she's like, oh yeah, this movie is amazing. She's like.

And I was like, I've never even heard of this one. And she was talking

all this love about this. I'm going, okay, this, this is a

whole new light upon you that I did not see before. Like, I thought

I was a premium podcaster. Erica, know your role.

Go back and make brownies. Hell no. I ain't saying that.

She. She'd kick my ass. Yeah, she probably. Yes, you should be. So I

might like it though. That's part of the role play, right, so.

Exactly right. Well, I think again, thank you

for drop. Hopefully this drops this year. Thank you everyone. That crowd funded

it and supported it. I look forward to 95

to 2000 if that's what they do. I think it's.

I don't know, they just nailed these docs and I look forward to them doing

more of it. We already mentioned the two other films that we're

looking at watching towards the end of the year and I don't know, maybe some

other like trash films that we watch, but I don't think there's going to be

anything else that's really going to jump out to our fancy by the end of

the year. Yeah, I don't think so either. And yeah, because like I say,

I'm going to be kind of just playing catch up on the few that I

missed that are kind of more highly regarded just to kind of

fill out my list and help me get kind of a better idea

of what my top 10 and awards will be. Yeah, yeah,

we shall see. We'll see about that. But yeah, so, so we'll do other watches.

So I put other watches because this kind of falls into older or newer.

I was watching on Netflix, Terror Tuesday Extreme. I think it's the same

people that made the doc, the Thai doc Extreme. So it's

basically 45 minute episodes of Thai

short horror films. And they're quite good. All of

them have been fucking excellent. That I have watched.

I 10 out of 10 recommend it. So they have come out

I think this year, but they're not really a movie. It's more of like a

TV series that's on the Netflix. So you like time movies.

You, you like short little episodes of 45 minutes.

Then this is for you. You can watch it either subtitled or dubbed.

And it is Terror Tuesday Extreme and it is available on Netflix.

Nice. Yeah. This is one that I remember you telling me about, so try watching

it at some point. Yeah. But I got some gems for

you. Our Christmas movie marathon. I'm excited for this.

So the first one I'm gonna talk about is probably one of our most

recent ones we've watched and that is Killer Raccoons 2.

Dark Christmas in the Dark. Dark Christmas in the

Dark is my favorite part of that. It got released in

2019 and has 96 minute runtime. Only one of

my one other person has seen this on my friends list on letterboxd

and that is our good buddy Jason Gray who gave it a four out of

five. Very nice. But I'm gonna, I, I do have

to ask Jason, is there a Killer Raccoons one

or is this one of those goofy things where they made a killer raccoons

2 but there was no actual sequel because I looked up killer raccoons

and this is the only one that pops up on letterbox. So I just not,

I'm just curious, but the synopsis for this one.

Just when you thought it was safe to say Merry Christmas again.

On a snowy Christmas Eve, former mild mannered college student Casey

Smallwood is released from prison after serving 10 years for

underage drinking. Eager to get out of town,

he hops on the express train to Washington D.C. but after the holiday

express takes off into the winter wilderness, it's hijacked by

an angry gang of domestic terrorists and highly intelligent

government trained raccoons. Not one to be.

Not one to back down from raccoon fight. Casey joins forces

with a porter on the train to fight the terrorists. Help bring down

a top secret raccoon controlled military laser satellite

and show those raccoons who's in charge.

This was so God damn stupid.

But at the same time I think this movie broke

my brain because whenever the raccoons

were on screen, they were just like stiff raccoon

puppets that had no move, like they couldn't move.

And they were shooting what they were shooting

machine guns or AKs or whatever, but they were

looking, looking away from where they were shooting. So the head was here

and the guns are pointing this way. And the noises these raccoons make were.

Like, oh my God, that's too funny.

Anytime they were on screen, I literally just started bursting out

laughing, giggling like I was stoned off my ass. Like I just

couldn't stop to the point where I had a hard time breathing.

I love it. I love it. And Connor even comes out

going, what the hell is wrong with him? And Erica's going, I think we've

watched one one too many bad Christmas movies and we've broken Scott

because I was just. I will probably never watch this again,

but God damn, did I just have a dumb

fun time laughing my ass off at this. I'm glad

you enjoyed it. And it sounds like, I hope you can't hear my dog sparking

in the background. We can, but it's not too bad. Okay, what's the next

one? The next one is. These are all on tubi,

by the way. Okay, the next one is Sleigh Bells.

And this is bells as in beauties

B E L L E S type Bells, babes,

babes. It's 2018 release,

77 minute run time. While urban exploring in an abandoned amusement park,

cosplaying girls accidentally unleash the vicious holiday beast known

as Krampus. With the help of Santa Claus, can these girls stop

Krampus from his killing spree? Yeah, this was just a

silly, low budget, over the top acting,

boobs, gore. Just ridiculous.

But also kind of entertaining Christmas movie. Nice. There's not a

lot to say about it. Like, it's just low budget. It is what it is.

Sleigh bell says it all. Now this one, the next

one I'm going to talk about. This one actually was a nice

surprise. Now bring up the name

of it on Litter Box real quick. This one is Amityville

Christmas Vacation. Oh yeah. An Amityville

movie from 2022 with a beautifully

sweet, like, know what? They've got runtime of 50 minutes.

Fuck yeah. Wally has won a vacation to sunny Amityville.

While there he met a woman. A ghost woman. Can spirit of Christmas

bring these two opposites together? That is the synopsis.

I love it. I love it. This was actually quite

cute and charming and funny. Like, I was shocked because I'm going,

oh God, Amityville. This is going to be terrible because there has not

been a good Amityville movie since. Like, I don't even.

Yeah, like everything is just trash.

But whatever the director did with this, like he knew what he had. The actors

knew what they were doing. Like they knew that what type of movie they were

portraying. It was silly, it was ridiculous,

it was super low budget. But it was also just very cute and

charming. Where I actually adored the two main leads

in this film a lot. And I actually would buy this movie. It was like,

this one could be a Christmas tradition. Like for me now. Like, this was a

really just fun little film that just surprised

the hell out of me. That's sweet. And that's on Tubi as well. Yes.

Well, there we go. We have Terror Tuesday, Thai Extreme,

and three,

this really is scraping the bottle of the barrel 2024

December show. I love it.

For the first time in a long time, we're going to talk about a podcast.

It's been very long time. Besides, don't use a horror.

Oh yeah, besides, like all the podcasts that we usually talk

about, but one that's different. So for any of

those who live in Canada or visited Canada and believe in ghosts

and supernatural, there is a podcast called

Haunted Canada. It is a do it yourself podcast and it

is run by a woman who does ghost walks in British

Columbia. So she has traveled all around Canada and

has done different ghost walks and stayed at haunted places. So a lot of the

places she talks about, she's actually stayed at. She chooses

two hauntings per or, sorry, three hauntings per episode

and she tells the story. So it's a little history, a little folklore,

all wrapped up in a nice 45 minute less or less

episode. So if you're into ghosties and you're looking for kind

of someone who I would say is a step above Scott and I when it

comes to production value and just doing a pretty

good podcast in general, but you're looking for more of that supernatural

true stories in Canada. And she does a real good mix. Some of

them I'm familiar with them, some of them I'm not. It's, it's a

really good little podcast. It's called Haunted Canada. You can find it on Spotify,

Apple podcasts, basically anywhere where you listen. And I

would say go give it a. Go give it a listen if you're into that

kind of thing. Nice. I'll say. That sounds familiar.

Haunted Canada. Yeah. There's a TV show. Okay. And for

some reason she's doing a podcast. I hope she doesn't get in trouble because there's

a TV show. But anyway, I don't think

it's by the same person either. Oh, gotcha. That's why I, I.

But hey, you know what? It's Canadian and no one watches it.

So, you know, she's probably fine. So.

But yeah, that's why it sounds familiar is because there's a

TV show that I probably talked about on here before that's probably.

And now it's a podcast. So she was doing a couple

episodes, she stopped and then she came back.

So I'm. Yeah. Anyway, if you're interested into ghost stories,

check it out. Nice. Yeah, I, like,

I promised I came back with some book talk because

last episode I did not finish either of the books

I was listening to or listening or reading. And I

finished both of them. One of them is a re.

Listen slash reread. And that is under the Dome by

Stephen King. This one is about a

little like just a tiny little town that all

of a sudden a dome that shapes the

border of this town just appears out of nowhere. Just like slams

over the top of the town. Sounds like the typical starting of a Stephen

King novel. A tiny little town. And bullshit happens in

Maine. In Maine. And bullshit goes down.

But yeah, like this dome just comes crashing down like

slices animals in half that were like walking across the line.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Cars going

full speed into this dome and crashing and dying. Because it's just like, you know,

it's like a solid material but it's invisible and planes crashing in

the air because it's reaching way up in the sky and stuff. So it's,

you know, it's a horrific little opening segment for this book.

And then it's just basically the story of what

would you. What would these townsfolk do if they were cut off

from the rest of the world, only had like

a limited amount of supplies in their stores, had a corrupt

councilman of the city running the show and basically

trying to be a dictator during all of this.

And basically just showing the breakdown of civilization

in this town within less than a week.

And I read, I listened to this book probably 10 to

10 or so years ago, fell in love with it. This is. And re listening

to it. I think I have to say this, like not a lot of people

are fans of the ending. I don't mind the ending of this one, but I'm

also the known quantity that Stephen King has a

hard time making a good ending for his books. Majority of

the time he has amazing stories, just has

a hard time figuring out a good ending. This one though, this is probably one

of my favorite. This is if not my all time favorite,

Stephen King. Not okay. Like, I just love the.

All the characters because in a Stephen King novel you got like 30

or so characters that you're following and getting to know really

well. And. And it's. You know, he's great at that and great at the details

and just building up these characters and the stuff that happens in the

story. It's just like horrific, but also just fascinating where I was gripped

the entire time. So this is one of my favorite Stephen King books

of all time. Recommend it to anybody if they haven't read or listen

to it. But it is a really long book. I think this was like a

36 hour read on Audible. That is long.

Okay. Yeah. But the next one is a

book that I covered the. Another movie or I covered another

of this author's books before. And the author is Nick Cutter. And the

book that I talked about before was the Troop. Yeah, Throwback to

Body Horror. Yeah. Yeah. He had another book that

I kept seeing people talking about called the Deep. And this

one also dives into a bit of the body horror,

which is awesome. But it starts off with the world

has been infected by this disease called the

GETs. And what it is is this disease

that has like a insanely severe

case of Alzheimer's where,

okay, you. Where the people, you know, like, they start forgetting

little things here and there, forgetting their name, start forgetting who

you are, you know, typical, like, unfortunate Alzheimer's effects. Yeah.

Then it gets worse to the point where they can't even remember how to do

normal functions like eating or breathing, until they

basically die because they can't do any of these things. And that is dark.

Yeah, I'll say. That's the start of this book where it's like this disease is

ongoing and the main character gets called upon

by the military because his brother is like, they're super smart

scientists that's trying to figure out a cure for this disease. He believe

the brother believes he found a cure deep down in the Mariana Trench.

So they have this submarine base set up down in the Mariana Trench.

So the brother, the main character, gets shipped over

to this sea bunker and they go down

in this submarine to get to the space station or underwater

station. And that is where the true horror begins.

Because they have found what could possibly be the cure called

ambrosia. And for some people that may not know, ambrosia is also

the nickname of food of the gods, which is

something in like, old ancient Greek, I believe.

But yeah, it's this like, weird algae that seems to

reconstruct and rebuild, like,

wounds and can kind of bring people's memory

back and stuff like that. But of course, there is

a much darker, sinister thing taking hold with this

ambrosia. And it's actually more like a Lovecraftian

nightmare beast in a way. Your thing completely.

Yeah. And it starts taking over the body and kind of gives me the thing

vibes. Nice, nice. And yeah, it's like the Thing meets

that Leviathan movie that Erica introduced me to a couple years back.

And this gets really claustrophobic and

horror centric and made me just like go, ooh,

this is creepy as fuck. This is. Yeah.

Nick Cutter is becoming one of my new new favorite modern

day authors. Like, I'm loving his work. He kind of hits

that 80s horror feel. I love it. I love it. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad

that you brought two more books by the end of the year. You know,

you did start that this year and I'm glad we were able to kind of

knock it off. Kind of like how we usually would. Some older watches or other

watches, a podcast, books, a handful of

2024 that we dug out with standouts.

Got two more books that I'm doing right now that I might have for next

episode, but I'm doing Damnation Game by Clive Barker. Oh, nice.

And I'm listening to Stephen King's Misery for the first time.

Oh, awesome. Yeah, very nice. But the amount we record that will be in 2026.

That we'll talk about. Exactly. Skip over 2025.

2025 is just this. That year doesn't happen. We're like too much

going on. I wonder. Yeah. Like Scott and I will give

the heads up before we stop recording. Like we're not going to just break up

with you guys and go stone silent. We'll do a final episode

and say this is it. Yeah. And I think we're gonna have to

really look at after we do our top 100. Our end of the

year. Our top ones from 23,

24 or what? No, 20. 2024. Right.

How much we want to do in 2025. I think it will. We'll have

to have a really big conversation about that because I know

I will be traveling a lot coming up next year and Scott

is getting married. So come. It could be a lot of business. Summer,

you're going to be very busy. So I think we may have to make

some. We're not saying that we're going anywhere. We're just saying that I think

we're not saying it's you as us, but we'll see.

We want to definitely though do our 24. 2024 awards.

The thing that we wanted to do with our. Our top movies from the years

that we watched that Will probably be split into two episodes,

and then we'll see where we go from there. Yeah. And we'll see what 2025

brings. We'll see. Yeah. I was like, yeah, we're definitely not done. We'll, we have,

we still have the bottom of the barrel, 2025 to scrape up.

It just, we made. To end up being. We have been a monthly podcast,

and I feel as though if we continue, it will be a monthly podcast.

Yeah. And probably just because it just makes it easier on us now with

a lot of our lives, like, just our lives are changing. It happens, right?

It is. And, and Scott's getting married, and that's a really big deal, and we

need to, like, spend a lot of time preparing for that beautiful day,

the shenanigans that will occur. Well. And just making

sure that Erica still really wants to do this.

I, I, I keep, I keep asking her, are you sure?

Are you feeling okay? Right? It's like misery.

She's, like, chained to the bed. You're like, are you sure? She's like, I don't

really have a choice, Scott. You, you cock a duty.

Do you do well, thank you, as always,

for supporting us over this year. It's been,

it's been an adventure and a half, good and bad and everything

in between. Off Bloom House with your dumb movies.

Please, for the love of God, stop making stupid movies.

And, yeah, we'll see what. We'll see what our awards bring.

It will be a very good, colorful list. Yeah.

Should be very interesting. I may have to, like, really scrape

the dregs to find some for some of the categories, but we shall

see. You will see. As always, we are proud members of

the Legion Podcasts network. Have been for many years now. Couldn't have done this

without them. Thank you, thank you, thank you. If you are not a

Patreon yet, please, please join them. Even if not for all the free stuff,

for all the things they do for little podcasters like Scott and I and

giving us an avenue and, you know,

it's been many years now. We're going on four years, five years.

Scotty, if someone hasn't joined the Legion patreon yet

for $2 a month, what would you. What would you say

to that person? They're right in front of you. What would you say? Look,

you haven't joined yet. What the wrong with you? What are

you waiting for? What are you waiting for?

What are. What are you waiting for? Do it. Do it now.

Join us. Join. Join us.

What are you waiting for? Are you waiting

for what are you waiting for? Join us.

Yes, join us today. There's so many good creators on Patreon too.

I know. I'm members of a couple of different Patreons and,

you know, people do a lot of work and we really do

appreciate all the support that we've gotten over the years. Oh, yeah,

yeah. Thank you. It's been a wonderful journey and I'm

looking forward to what the next year brings. And, you know, we. We shall see

what all the fun shenanigans we get up to. And as always, you know,

thank you everybody for supporting us and giving us the feedback

and correcting us when we're wrong or if there's some opinion. Here's the

thing, we're never wrong, though. Oh, oh, true, true, true, true. Right?

Like, we are premium. We are. We are premium. It's, it's, it's.

We. We are the Tomahawk suckstakes of podcasting,

right? Like, there's everyone else and then there's us.

That's true. Like the low budget beef Wellington horror guys over there,

Dummies of horror, right? Like, they only have one movie

theater that they all go to to watch a movie. That's. I know. They're just

getting to watch Jurassic park for the first time. I know they're really excited.

Just wait till we tell them that there's been like 18 billion sequels afterwards.

Oh, man. And Terminator 2. Tim, you're going to love it.

It's really great special effects. State of the art, actually.

You know, it will be interesting to see if they make another Jurassic park film

or world or whatever. Oh, they are. Jesus Christ. Scarlett Johansson

apparently is signed on with this one as well. Oh, my God. Fuck.

You know, we don't need another fucking Jurassic World film.

Really, truly don't. But hey, you know what? It makes money.

It does. Somehow. Somehow.

Well, thank you everybody for listening. We will see you again for our

end of the year award show. And I

forget what I usually say. Thank you very much for listening, blah,

blah, blah. And then I'll say something like, scotty, do you have anything

to say to the good? Yeah, There we go. There we go. Yeah. So,

yeah, thank you as always, and we will see you on the flip side.

So until next time, kitties. Unpleasant dreams.

See ya. Sa.

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