Eye On Horror

100 Episodes Later, Academy Still Snubs Horror

February 13, 2023 iHorror Season 6 Episode 1
Eye On Horror
100 Episodes Later, Academy Still Snubs Horror
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Welcome to Season 6 of Eye On Horror! The boys celebrate their 100th episode by revisiting their first ever topic, The Oscars Snubbing Horror, BOOO! But before that, the boys review recent hits like M3GAN, Skinamarink, Knock at the Cabin, discuss good nun movies (Benedetta), not so good nun movies (Pray for the Devil), have a TV Party with White Lotus and Last of Us and more! Its all new on EYE ON HORROR!

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James Jay Edwards:

Welcome to Eye On Horror, the official podcast of iHorror.com. This is episode 100. Otherwise known as season six, episode one. We made it to triple digits guys How exciting. This is. This is a big day for us. Yeah, it only took us six seasons but hey, here we are. I am your host James Jay Edwards and with me as always is your other host, Jacob Davison, how you doing Jacob?

Jacob Davidson:

Doing good and can't believe we made it a full century. Century 100 years of iHorror

James Jay Edwards:

in dog years, maybe I don't know.

Jacob Davidson:

Either way.

James Jay Edwards:

Also with us yet again, as always is your other other host Jon Correia How you doing Correia?

Jonathan Correia:

Doing great. It's our sin cheryan episode,

James Jay Edwards:

Centennial episode

Jonathan Correia:

since cheryan. Cinterion we're not good at math or English. We're proving right now. I made a social media posting. This is our season five premiere. Apparently we've already done five seasons. I don't know. This is our sixth.

James Jay Edwards:

Unless we were wrong all last season. Did we skip a season somewhere?

Jacob Davidson:

It's easy. It was easy to lose some time space continuum.

James Jay Edwards:

Time is but a construct

Jonathan Correia:

Time flies when you're having fun. Yeah,

James Jay Edwards:

we haven't done we haven't talked in a while we took our little season hiatus. And we have a lot to talk about. So if you like the part of the show, where we just kind of shoot the shit before we get to a topic. I think you're gonna love today's episode, because there's going to be a whole lot of that. And I want to start with something that's kind of old news by now. But I know all three of us have seen it.

Jacob Davidson:

M3GAN, oh, M3GAN.

James Jay Edwards:

I let me go first. I freaking love M3GAN I had so much fun with M3GAN and a lot of people are saying it's like Chucky or Annabelle it's like no this is Deadly Friend. This is Cravens Deadly Friend. But updated with you know, it was? Sure the ending is pretty much telegraphed. And kind of the way that the ending of Aliens is telegraph, actually exactly the way that the ending of Aliens is telegraph. Um, I just had so much but it's not real scary. It's just just a fun throwback.

Jonathan Correia:

And that's the thing. I saw some complaints where people are like, Oh, this isn't original killer robot, sentient thing has been done. It's Childsplay it's this it's, it's like, yeah, that's fine. Like, I'm all game for redoing something, but like putting your own spin on it. And I think M3GAN was very successful with that. I really dug a lot of the themes of fear of like technology and privacy and like the unkeptness I mean, we had the recent Child's Play remake a reboot that Did you know, the making it a robot and had that, and I liked that. With M3GAN, it's the reason why she's the AI is doing that it's just because of pure negligence on the part of the Creator. Like she knew. Oh, yeah, I probably I should have put up these parameters. And M3GAN even calls her out on it. Like, you just threw me together and expected me to like, know what to do.

James Jay Edwards:

Here your problem, this doll set to evil.

Jonathan Correia:

Yeah. And then and then on top of all that, it just, it had this like nice campiness to it Yeah. That had like those those hints of like Hagploitation type humor that I just adore. So I had a lot of fun with it. For like, almost no complaints. I mean, it was it wasn't a scary movie. There were some parts that were like pretty gnarly. Like she's chasing that kid.

Jacob Davidson:

Yeah. And, and also, M3GAN, M3GAN is kind of scary, because I feel like they really nailed down the uncanny valley. Aesthetic with fur, you know, because it's like, she's this living doll. And I love that, you know, even the movie. People are freaked out by her the first time they see her like that camp counselors like, Oh, holy shit.

Jonathan Correia:

Oh, you're a robot. You're not another child. Yeah, I think you're I think you bring up a good point. They really use the uncanny valley to their advantage. Like they knew like Alright, cool. Like, we're just gonna lean into it a bit. And effective. Yeah, and

Jacob Davidson:

M3GAN also is just a compelling horror character. As she has some pretty funny bits, like I still can't get over, you know, just like the, the creator scientist is saying, you know, just how she killed all those people. And M3GAN literally says, oh, big whoop, yeah.

James Jay Edwards:

And then the dance that kind of gone viral. Yeah.

Jacob Davidson:

Yeah, no, that went on Tik Tok.

Jonathan Correia:

It went viral it went on Tik Tok, and then even, but when the scene came up, I recognized the hallway from all those bits. And I was not expecting it to be used that way. Like I thought it was gonna be like something else. And then like, so the fact that she just did it to freak the fuck out of that guy was phenomenal. And the needle drops the music choices in it. She just started singing Titanium. Oh, dude, when she started seeing titanium, I was like, there's gonna be so many drag queens, and WeHo dancing as M3GAN over the next few months. It's gonna be gorgeous. This is gonna be beautiful. I love it. And she started playing toy soldiers at the end of the year. No, come on.

James Jay Edwards:

One of the fun things about it. And I know that Jacob and I both saw pre screenings of it. And they always for these pre screens, they put a slide up, which is usually a static slide.

Jacob Davidson:

Yeah. It's like the title card.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, it's like a title card. So this one and when when we were all sitting around chatting, wait for the movie to start. And one of the other critics that was there. She says, did that did that doll just blink? And we're all No, no, you're you're You're imagining things. And then a few minutes later, M3GAN on screen says thank you for coming to my movie and scared the crap out of the whole theater. And right. And then every five minutes she says something I remember to turn off your phone, you know, or your stuff like that. So the new batch of people that come in afterwards, we get scared nobody could watch them get. It was so funny.

Jacob Davidson:

Ya know, and also she even did the keep your phone's silent and don't talk during the movie, or else.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, well, she got nastier, nastier as I got closer to zero. I'm serious turn your damn phone. Kind of. It was funny.

Jonathan Correia:

I before we leave M3GAN though, I want to talk about the most horrific scene in that movie. And that is when I'm blanking on the character's name, but the person who creates her she opens collector's toy box and they're like, oh, just play with the toy. She could have easily just like you know, broken the seal open it nicely kept the box intact. No, she fucking cares it to shreds. What would why? Why she's like, Oh, I'm a collector. I don't want this kid playing with my collector toys. And then she proceeds to shred the box like that. That was the gnarliest kill of the movie. I really was

James Jay Edwards:

gnarliest kill

Jonathan Correia:

gnarliest kill that I almost screamed.

James Jay Edwards:

Another thing that we've all seen that I think I think we're gonna have things to say about is Knock at the Cabin.

Jonathan Correia:

Oh, yeah. Yeah, just saw that one last I smell a minisode. night.

James Jay Edwards:

I have made no bones about being a Shama It, maybe, well at the center of it. And I fan. I mean, I, everybody knows I'm a big Shyamalan fan. And was talking with another critic before we went in who was trying here's my take on Knock at the Cabin. I absolutely loved it until I didn't. And what that means is I was a little let down by the ending, I think it might be that I expect a little more to explain to me the center of it, without spoiling anything, from Shyamalan and his endings. And granted this was based on a novel. So he may have been a little more true to the source because he had I don't watch trailers really, unless it's one material than it would have been if it hadn't been an original story that he had written. But I kind of as the movie is going on there are trying to be vague, because I think movies are better if you don't know what's going on with them. that everyone's talking about, and I have to see it. But he was the way he explained it is there's this ethical dilemma, similar to the if you could go back and kill baby Hitler, would you? And then his wife took it a step further. And she said, it's not even that it's like, Would you kill baby Hitler if he was in a room of five babies, and you didn't know which one was baby Hitler. So you had to kill all five of them? It's, and I'm like, okay, you know, and after seeing the movie, it's not quite that drastic, but that is the ethical dilemma at the middle of it. And as it's playing out, you can it can go one of two ways. And if you've seen it, you know, the two ways that can go and I think that it went the wrong way. I would like to have seen it go the other way. And I'm being vague, and maybe we'll get some spoilers with your guys's assessment of it. But the thing is, I was on the edge of my seat for the whole damn movie. I think Batista is amazing. And I'm glad I finally see him in a role where he got something to chew on. And also really good is the little girl. Actually, I thought the whole cast was amazing. But mainly Batista and the little girl I don't know her name. And, more importantly, the way that they interact like the very first scene is where Batista meets the little girl. And, and that scene is just like so competitive. It's the perfect rope you in scene, because, you know, he knows why he's there. And he's struggling with it. I don't know. It's, uh, I like I said, I loved it until the ending and then I was kinda like, you know, I wasn't, I didn't hate the ending in and I don't hate the movie. I really liked the movie, but I thought it should have gone another way. What about you guys?

Jonathan Correia:

I gotta say I, honestly, because I messaged you guys saying I have a lot of opinions about this movie. And so I gotta say, I think it's probably the best thing that he's put out in the last like, 15 years.

James Jay Edwards:

Really better than Split?

Jonathan Correia:

I like it. I kind of like it. I yeah, I think it's more solid than Split. Mostly because I have issues with Split. Though the acting is phenomenal. I thought Batista was great. All the characters. It was, it was an interesting take on the home invasion story, because it was home invaders that were reluctant, but like needed to be there. Like they had a cause they had a purpose of being there. But they were very reluctant about it. So so much of the movie is just them trying to appeal on an emotional level for this family to make this decision.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, they're struggling with themselves and with the family that they're tormenting.

Jonathan Correia:

Right. And I thought they did a really good job of, because if you've seen the trailers, you know what the dilemma is we're trying to avoid, you know, talking about it too, too much, in case you haven't seen anything. But there's this particular dilemma, and essentially, the family kind of splits. And, you know, there's the is this real is this not and I thought they made some really compelling points on whether or not but one of the, because the family that is being attacked is a same same, gender, parents, you know, they're both gay men. And I think that's my only real, like critique of it is that they do a really good job of showing that this family is full of love, that there's a lot of like, thriving in it that you know, in the daughter has this great moment where in the very first scene with Batista, where she's like, you know, she says, Oh, yeah, you know, daddy, Eric, daddy, Andrew, I have to do that to differentiate them. So I know, so they know who I'm talking about. And he's like, Oh, how does that feel? She's like, it's good. Except my guidance counselor says how great that is a bit too much. So I kind of get the feeling that it might not be is how she

James Jay Edwards:

that she doesn't think it is. Yeah, yeah, that was a great line.

Jonathan Correia:

There were so many great moments with that. But one of the things that I it just a there was so much thriving and showing the family I was a little little disappointed that one of the reasons why one of them is so doubtful that, you know, the dilemma is real is that it's based in trauma of him being attacked. In Boston, I was I was a little disappointed with that. In that it was just like, ah, like, there's some, you know, when it comes to portraying groups that have so much that have had so much trauma have had so much it's, it's, we're at a point where it's just too almost too much. You know, it's kind of like, what Orange is the New Black, where it's just like, every week, it's the it's another story of trauma, and we're not seeing stories of thriving, so I was just, like, I understand why it was included. And I honestly don't know how you could cut it out, you know, but I was I was just hoping that that wasn't an element of it.

James Jay Edwards:

The home invaders went out of their way. They even said at one point, they're like, you know, we didn't know the people who would be here we're going to be a same sex couple. They said that that was a big surprise that was out of left field. This has nothing to do with that. So they even know how what they're doing could be portrayed.

Jonathan Correia:

And, and I liked that the couple were like, well, how do we know? Oh, I guess we're gonna have to take your fucking word on it. Yeah, so like that's and that's totally understandable with all that and I do like how especially Batista has character is that you can see him navigating his verbiage, you know, because he says that he's a second grade school teacher. And so he knows how to pick his words and even says at one point how important it is because children believe everything that you say. And so you have to use you only have to speak in truths and stuff that you know as fact and things of that nature. And you can see that that line comes very later in the movie, but in looking back on the rest of the movie, you can see that he's been doing that this whole time and just trying to speak as like straightforward and with as much fat as he as he believes and knows so

James Jay Edwards:

he's this big like wrestler type, you know, he's Batista, but you can tell from the first scene I mean, it didn't surprise me at all that he was a teacher it that his profession was a teacher because he's so good with her and part of it, it you're kind of going okay, what's his angle? This is kind of creepy, but part of it is he genuinely cares about what he called his new friend. You know, the little girl

Jacob Davidson:

regardless of how people felt about the movie, I have not seen one complaint about Batista, his performance and personally having just seen it. I forget maybe his his best performance yet. Like it was very, very solid and just very against type and just as compelling throughout the entire story as it unfolds, also, he only raises his voice like, once during the movie, like he is very, very relaxed and trained through, you know, every fan. And on my perspective, I gotta say, I haven't seen you know, a lot of Shyamalan's, more recent work, but this is probably one of his best movies yet.

Jonathan Correia:

No, it's really solid. I really dug that. If I know Jay says he hasn't seen the trailers, but the trailers really do try to make it play up a bit. Like it's a bit more action a bit more thriller II, but I really liked the idea. The I always love the concept of like, a home invasion story that's more philosophical than it is about, like the violence at but still include the violence, you know, of course,

James Jay Edwards:

but it kind of reminded me of The Strangers a little bit except not set at night. Because a lot of it, it's in basically the broad light of day to I mean, they even, you know, I mean, it takes place over a couple of days. And they even, you know, go to sleep, you know, they're like, you know, that everything happens during the day. So it's not like a dark movie. It I mean, literally dark. But it reminded me a lot of The Strangers, you know, especially the whole, you know, why are you doing this? Because you were home, you know, I mean, that whole, you know, that whole deal

Jacob Davidson:

had a bit of that. It is interesting, because it is kind of genre disguised as another genre, because, you know, again, can't really get into it that much. But, you know, it's not just a typical home invasion movie. I mean, it is, but it turns into much more than that. And I feel it did it in an interesting way that kind of plays into being a home invasion movie, because it doesn't stop being a home invasion movie once you find out what else is going on. But it does just kind of add add to the effect even. And I agree with Jonathan that yeah, just does such a good way of portraying it without falling into a lot of the cliches but also giving what people want, which, yeah, violence.

James Jay Edwards:

Like you're, you're saying that, you know, the whole movie, along with the victims, the audience is wondering, you know, is this real? Is this not? Is this real? Is this not? And I think what I was struggling with with the ending is I kind of wish that they went the other way. You know, when it's finally revealed, as to the answer to that question. I was thinking it might. I wanted it to explore the other choice. And hopefully, we have piqued your interest enough for you to go see it, because it is a great movie.

Jonathan Correia:

Well, and I think the one of the first of all with that, the whole dilemma, no matter how you end it, people are always going to want the other one, aren't they, right, yeah. But I also, there's also the other side of the coin, where you're that you're always thinking, man, what if it did end the other way? How would that have played out? And I think that this movie does that successfully, where it kind of gives you kind of like, there's some aspects of The Omen where if you think about the film in a certain way, where it's just a bunch of, you know, that he isn't actually the son of the day, we know what the sequence that he is, but that leaves just enough ambiguity that it's like, Fuck, what if Damien wasn't the son of the devil, and Gregory Peck is just trying to murder his kid? Like, yeah, when you think of it that way? You know, there is that movie leaves a little bit of the ambiguity. This one doesn't, you know, with its decision, you know, it's very concrete at the end. But I always liked that, that the idea of like, man, that would have been cool. It would have been cool. It would be cool DVD feature, you know, to have like, Oh, what if it went the other way?

James Jay Edwards:

Maybe that's my gripe about it. Maybe it's if it had gone the other way I would want to see this way. I don't know. Because, again, I'm a huge Shyamalan fan. I genuinely enjoy his movies. I can't really defend the Last Airbender, but the rest of his movies I've really enjoyed. I've actually gone up against a friend of mine who I always say that I'll put Shamel and movies up against PTAs movies, and the only one I think that that would win on PTA side is Boogie Nights, but we've had that discussion too. But yeah, maybe what you're saying is why I maybe if it had gone the other way, I would have wanted to see the way that it had gone. Who knows. Let's move on to another big hit that the three of us have all seen. This one was kind of a viral hit. We've all watched Skinamarink

Jonathan Correia:

Skidamarink a dink a dink a doo, I didn't know that it was based on that song until Lindsey told me after we watched it.

Jacob Davidson:

Yeah, no, I didn't either. In fact, like just hearing that song through like clips on Twitter just gave me like flashbacks to PBS or something because of that. that TV show, you know,

James Jay Edwards:

what did you guys think of Skinamarink,

Jonathan Correia:

Endurance test

James Jay Edwards:

It very much is yeah, if you look up slowburn in the dictionary, it's the poster for Skinamarink. If you don't have patience, don't bother.

Jacob Davidson:

It does take a bit to kind of draw you in. But I saw it theatrically at Alamo. And I think, you know, there's a couple of different ways to appropriately watch this movie. And theatrically is one of them. Because, you know, we were in the dark, and I have never heard an audience. So silent aside from screaming, because yeah, just you know, as soon as it starts, just everybody just kind of quiets down. And we get hooked into seeing what's unfolding. And, you know, the tension is building just people could barely, you know, make it sound like I could have heard a pin drop in there. And it was so quiet.

James Jay Edwards:

That's the thing. It's, it's not, I mean, like, it's a slow burn, but that doesn't mean that you're bored with it. It is like, I mean, I watched it on Shudder. But I did have all the lights out. And it was late at night. It was after I had finished working. So I'm watching this at like, 11pm. And it is, you know, you it's, it's It's engaging. I mean, you're the entire time, you're like, Okay, what the hell's going on? And then you're, like, 45 minutes into it, and you're like, Oh, I still don't know what the hell's going on. But I'm still invested enough that I want to find out what the hell's going on. And it's weird, because if it's, it's almost like a student film that just like trods along, and it's the kind of movie where you look at it, you're like, Oh, I could have done this, you know, it's like, oh, yeah, but that guy thought of it first. But you know, you're like, you're all this is one of those movies that like, it's creative. It's increativity. You know, if that makes any sense. It's like that, that, who would have thought to shoot this movie, like the way he did? You know, like, if you were going to take the concept of, you know, these two kids, you know, in a house alone, essentially, would you have made that movie? It's it? I don't know, it's, it's almost like an experiment, I would say,

Jonathan Correia:

oh, it's definitely experimental. I mean, and when I say that, it's an endurence test. I realized I just shouted out some words, with no context. And it's a positive I, it's, I thought it was phenomenal. That was telling Lindsey that these aren't the type of films, these type of experimental films, I don't really seek out too often. But I am always happy to experience them. Because it does, it's it's different. It challenges me as a viewer. And it really is an endurance test because of the atmosphere, it almost immediately builds. And it doesn't, there's not a lot of like, peaks and valleys with it. It just kind of stays constant. So you're just constantly in the state of like, Fuck what's there and you're constantly it forces you to constantly look in the dark to constantly look at these, like the grains of like, the, of the film and to you're just always looking for something.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, totally. And the thing is, I don't know it was my imagination, or if a filmmaker actually digitally manipulated the images, but yeah, you're right. You're like, the camera will just be in it's almost like a sitting on the ground or something. I mean, it is, and then you'll start seeing, you'll start seeing things. And you're like, Okay, is that me? Or is that the movie? Yeah, it's really, it's a creepy movie.

Jonathan Correia:

I think you only see one face, the entire movie, like the entire movie is shot. Looking in corners, it's looking at objects in the thing. It's always a different angle than what you it's not shot, how you would normally think something, a movie would be shot and it doesn't play out. Like there's long takes where it's just sitting there. And then the camera moves to reveal nothing. And then but you hear a voice. And then it goes the other way. And yeah, there's just, there's so many interesting choices. And I had this weird thought and saying there because when a new movie comes out, there's always that person is like, when's the soundtrack going on? Vinyl? There's no fucking soundtrack to this. But Skinamarink would make for a fantastic haunted house album. You just put that entire fucking audio play on a vinyl? Could you imagine that? Just like that playing in someone's house. I'd also those kids. Wow. Though, I would not have handled that long. With whatever the fuck was going on. We're freaking out that first night would not be building Legos.

James Jay Edwards:

About halfway through, I realized I'm like, oh, you know what, this is what it feels like to be a kid and to be scared. You know? Like, it brings you back you're like, Okay, you know, this is you know, that's what makes it scary. Is the fact that it takes like childhood trauma. It's basically you know, childhood nightmare. The movie, you know, is

Jacob Davidson:

Yeah, no, I think just rewatching it reawakened some kind of kindred trauma of you know, like waking up before everybody else and watching TV by myself in the dark and seeing weird shit. I don't know what to put into context and just getting freaked out by the dark like it just just really kind of unlocked those memories and just kind of has that style that really brings you back like that is kind of creepy. You know how nightmarish it is for people.

James Jay Edwards:

And it has one amazing scare that you guys both probably know what I'm talking about. It's a cheap one. But it is so effective

Jonathan Correia:

the telephone not spoiling it because there's there's a bunch of telephone stuff.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, there's a bunch of it. But ya know, that got me. It was so funny. Because like, yeah,

Jonathan Correia:

that that got me because we tried watching it the other night. And because of my work days and stuff, I fell asleep. Never a sign of quality me falling asleep during a movie, by the way for people out there. Oh, you fell asleep. It's bad movie. No, that's not a factor. I'm just a sleepy boy. So I woke up super early for work the next day, yesterday. And so I was watching it in the dark at like, 5:30 in the morning. And when that happened, I fucking jumped in my office chair was just like, okay, yeah, you bastards. You got me. But yeah, I really, I really enjoy how much of that film is up to interpretation. But there were like, some really concrete themes. They're playing with Kinder drama playing with themes of, you know, the house is supposed to be a safe space for children. And this isn't so there were Hints and themes of abuse in there of power of like, the or even divorce and that effect on children and them trying to create that space. But yeah, I mean, who hasn't been like a kid up late and you're trying to be quiet trying to not wake your parents and so you have the lights off, or you have the TV very low? Or you're trying to play with your toys very quietly, and you're just like, listening for sounds like oh, no, if I woke them up, they're gonna be upset or, or even just like, What was that sound, you know, and over there, and you start seeing things in the dark corner, you start hearing things in the absence of sound, and I thought that movie was phenomenal and playing with that. Would I watch it again? I not not for time, probably, you know, because again, it is an endurance test. But I I I didn't see it in theaters. I waited for the Shudder for the sheer fact that I knew it was gonna be a quiet movie. And the last thing I wanted was to be watching it and hearing fucking, you know, Tom and all the Fast and Furious people next door or whatever big action film or an Avatar coming from the theater next door ruining it, you know, but that's just me.

Jacob Davidson:

Yeah, again, I was fortunate and I think that's why Alamo was such a great choice because they're very careful about noise control. Because ya know, that the audience I saw with, you know, just got dead quiet while we were watching and they were just as enthralled as I was. So it was pretty good experience

James Jay Edwards:

of either you guys seen Sick, then?

Jonathan Correia:

Is that Kevin Williamson? Yeah, the Kevin Williamson one. It's on peacock.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, I was gonna say it might be on Hulu, but yeah, I guess peacock. It is. Basically it's about these two girls who quarantine hits and they have to, you know, lock down hits and they have to quarantine so they got to this cabin to quarantine. And it's and then it just becomes a slasher from there. And the motives of the slasher are, you know, they're well defined at the by the time you get to the end, but it's pretty much a typical slasher movie, it doesn't have a super high body count. But it leans real hard into the whole mask up vaccine, you know, it leans hard into the COVID thing, which is probably why it's called Sick. I mean, you could have made this movie. And, you know, it could have been called, you know, summer at the lake or whatever, you know, and, you know, but, I mean, it's okay, I'm not loving it as much as everyone else, because I think I've seen so many slashers that there was really nothing new about this one, except the fact that it was set in COVID times but you know,

Jonathan Correia:

Are we over COVID movies?

James Jay Edwards:

I'm not I mean, I if they're done. The problem with them is and actually at this point three years in, maybe this isn't a problem. But um, what I think about is when as soon as This Is Us the TV show which yes, I watch take my horror card away if you want that's fine, do they? They would have like masks and Vax and stuff, you know, as part of their show, and watching reruns that might look like a time capsule rather than you know, rather than time less. But now that it looks like you know COVID may be here to stay. Maybe it's not going to look as dated as I think it is.

Jonathan Correia:

I just feel because like I was interested in seeing Sick but I you know, you guys know me. I've been working as a COVID admin and film and television for the last few years. And definitely for me, it was just like, I don't want to spend my off time thinking about work and like the second it's mentioned suddenly it's it's in the head of just like you're not none And then he get upset about, you know, oh, your character is not practicing good protocols or whatever, you know, stuff like that. And I, I don't I understand that it's definitely a big part of the ethos, it's definitely a big part of like, what's going on, you know, and understandable but like also a, I think I'm just exhausted from all of it. And it's more so just that whole time of it not being addressed. And then like it being addressed not being addressed. Well, I mean, In the Earth was phenomenal. I think that's the best movie to about COVID to come out during COVID. But I mean,

James Jay Edwards:

I think Host is, yeah, I liked I liked Host but I like to think about Sick. It's funny, because at one point, the girl is running from the slasher guy, and she finds a car. And she goes to the goes, goes come on let me in let me in. And the woman driving the cars like, where's your mask? Where's your skin? And she won't rescue without a mask? It's kind of I thought that was kind of funny. I'm like, oh, yeah,

Jacob Davidson:

yeah, but I don't want to check it out. I just haven't had the chance to watch it on peacock. And in terms of COVID movies, you know, I feel like it's still something that well, you know, just well, like, yeah, of course, the pandemic is still something people are grappling with, I just mean, you know, especially because the this movie is set during, like, the early parts of the COVID pandemic. And I feel like we're still reckoning with what happened in 2020. So I feel like if anything, you know, like the arts are kind of the unconscious of pop culture. So I feel like we'll be seeing more kind of period pieces that during that time as we still kind of deal with everything that happened since I think you'll make

James Jay Edwards:

as you're getting more creative with it, because you know, like we mentioned Host but also Skinamarink was probably a product of that kind of filmmaking as well where you know, you basically you're, you know, you can use a single location and a single camera to do this kind of a thing. But you know, like, like Dashcam was another you know, I think they're getting more creative with how they make movies. Because they have to you know, in order to get your movie made

Jacob Davidson:

and also Pearl kind of dealt with it to since it was set during the 1910s flu pandemic and was and you know, was made during pandemic corn quarantine in New Zealand.

James Jay Edwards:

The whole reason Pearl exists is because of quarantine because Mia Goth, and Ti West for like, let's write a movie,

Jonathan Correia:

which don't get me wrong. I'm not against like, the, the, like technical sides of like things getting made or how they're getting made because of it or even just like a film being used as a way to process what's been happening with COVID I think it's more just a gimmick, the gimmick of it, and that's and I think that's why I haven't watched Sick yet as it felt like exactly like, Oh, it's a slasher, but it takes place during COVID and it's just like, you know, rather than it being a process it's just yeah, I think I'm over the gimmick of it, you know, because remember how we had like songbird or even that like heist movie with Anne Hathaway where it's just like, oh, its this but during COVID It's I think I think I'm I'm exhausted those movies or or the thought of those movies I don't want to like pigeonhole Sick or any other movie as Oh, it says, But with COVID But there are definitely those movies and I'm just Yeah, but on the other side of it like you want to talk about processing Last of Us have you guys been watching Last of Us? Oh,

Jacob Davidson:

yeah. No, it's been Oh,

Jonathan Correia:

that's been a that's been processing first of all fucking phenomenal. Holy shit. I think only episodes one through three are out. So that's yeah, fourth

Jacob Davidson:

episode airs tonight.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, cool. So I am not too far behind. I just caught up on White Lotus. I don't know if you guys watch that. But

Jonathan Correia:

we watched the first season that in one sitting and so we're spacing out Season Two as much as we can with White Lotus is

James Jay Edwards:

season two's got your girl Aubrey Plaza in it. Oh,

Jonathan Correia:

yeah, does well it's also got it's also got my main Queen Jennifer Coolidge in it

James Jay Edwards:

Shes in both.

Jonathan Correia:

Yeah, she is fucking love Jennifer. Coolidge. She

James Jay Edwards:

might be the only carryover Is she the only one who's in Both Yeah,

Jacob Davidson:

she's the only one is in both seasons. And

Jonathan Correia:

actually Last of Us does have Armand from season one of White Lotus to give you more. Oh

Jacob Davidson:

yeah, that's true. That's true. Connection.

Jonathan Correia:

Jesus Christ last episode was so fucking good. I cried so much during that show. God damn.

James Jay Edwards:

Do you have to be familiar with the video game to watch it because I don't know anything about the video. Okay, no,

Jacob Davidson:

I played the games and like they really established it on their own. And since it's Craig Maslin, the guy that did Chernobyl, he does a few things that you may kind of notice similar to how we handle the disaster in that show with this, like there's a couple of cold opens that kind of examine and display kind of the sheer scope of what a disaster they're in because of the quarter sips infection. So it's basically you know, just This fungus manages to adapt to humans, and it spreads in such a viral manner that it's able to infect millions of people simultaneously. And that's what kind of kick starts the collapse of society. And the other thing is, it's a period piece too, because it's, well, the outbreak starts in 2003. And it's set in modern 2023. But in a post apocalyptic version of our world,

Jonathan Correia:

yeah. And what what I really love about it, first of all, the game is phenomenal. I have never beaten that game, I always get to, I don't think I've left quarantine it, because I would always play and then something would happen. Like I have to return the the disk or I had to, I got distracted with work. So I only ever got so far, four different times across two different consoles with it. And so by the end of Episode Two, I turned Lindsey I was like, and that's as far as I got in the game. But what's great about it is the game is phenomenal. The game is so focused on character, and so focused on story. So it is already very cinematic, it's very episodic, the game and they respect the shit out of the game. They have one of the creators of the game be an EP on the show, and he's very involved with it. And the EPs even said is I've been watching the after shows that when they're talking about adapting the game, if they can do if it's, if it's this if when they deviate from what the game does story wise, if it's the same or worse, they don't do it. But if they can improve on a bit and likely change one of the characters, like his story is involved in in the overall story drastically in the show, but it's in service of telling a much better story and yes, I am referring to episode three which is a real fucking tear jerker. But it's yeah, it's been Oh, Jay, you got to catch up, man. Because Episode Four premieres tonight. It's so good.

James Jay Edwards:

Yeah, I definitely need to get into that I just been. I've been busy with stuff but yeah, we got what else? You guys have been seeing anything else? Cool.

Jacob Davidson:

Well, I did see the new Brandon Cronenberg movie Infinity Pool ah,

Jonathan Correia:

ah, White Lotus for the Videodrome fans ey?

James Jay Edwards:

is that what it is?

Jonathan Correia:

Is it because I said that and I want to I haven't seen but

Jacob Davidson:

it kind of is because it is about like Alexander Skarsgard and Mia Goth and all these others like ridiculously wealthy white like millionaires vacationing in this third world country resorts and then getting into trouble. And that's and a I don't want to spoil the I don't want to spoil kind of the Sci Fi twist to it. But ya know, they, let's just say there's a way they could avoid consequences with their massive amount of wealth, and they start getting addicted to it. And yeah, if I'm Brandon Cronenberg did a fantastic job of you know, kind of building this world and kind of it's not really a body horror movie, but it is a very dark science fiction kind of moral examination type of movie. And he's he's very good with kind of the lore and world building of it and also, I just really love seeing Mia Goth just go 110% Because like she goes as hard as she possibly can in this role.

Jonathan Correia:

I finally saw Holy Spider I know reviewed it a few episodes ago and I gotta say believe the hype that Holy Spider is fucking phenomenal if he can find it in a local theater go see it it's Wow, wow, just blew me away. That I will watch anything that director does now after Border and that and Holy Spider binominal

James Jay Edwards:

Have you guys seen Pray for the Devil?

Jacob Davidson:

No.

Jonathan Correia:

It is that the one about like the they treat like exorcists like soldiers of the Vatican and

James Jay Edwards:

little bit like yeah,

Jonathan Correia:

she's the first female exorcist or something. But the devil is drydock that trailer is so hokey.

James Jay Edwards:

The movie is hokey too ya.

Jonathan Correia:

Is it fun hokey?

James Jay Edwards:

No, no, no, it's just kind of bad hook. And it's weird because, I mean, not I don't feel bad because, you know, I supported horror, but I it was offered to me as one of my offers on Vudu. And, and I don't remember what I think it might have been like, $9.99 and I think I got ripped off but but it was. Yeah, it's I mean, maybe on a second watch. It'll be fun. hokey, but it was just Yeah, it's, you know, it's one of those. You can't be an exorcist. You're a nun. You know, and, and then there's, there's kind of a fun little twist that you see coming a mile away. About, you know why this woman has to be the exorcist. For this, you know, particular case and it's yeah, it's not it's not worth talking about too much because it's not really a good meat. I was expecting it to be better because it was kind of hyped. There was a lot of hype around it but

Jonathan Correia:

if you do want to watch a good nun movie I just watched Benedetta for the first time I've seen it Yeah. Oh my god, I finally popped in like my import 4K of it on Thursday night and um, Paul Verhoeven goes hard man, Paul Verhoeven bud,

James Jay Edwards:

I was gonna say all you need to say about it is Verhoeven.

Jonathan Correia:

Oh my god you know that I finally there was something that like would work as with as a double feature with The Devils I think that's the highest compliment I can give that fucking movie

Jacob Davidson:

Yes, Greatest Nunsploitation double feature of all

Jonathan Correia:

Yeah, oh, my goodness, like, ah, the what a phenomenal performances the this the cinematography and the writing that just phenomenal

Jacob Davidson:

master that farts fire. There's, there's

Jonathan Correia:

a part of there's the Jesus scenes Oh, my goodness, it's blasphemous, but also not as, what a what a what a feast. That film was a feast. And I gotta say, like, one of my favorite things was readings, like little factoids, and like the original screenwriter, put a lot of like, themes about women in getting power and all this stuff and like, took out a lot of the lesbian aspects of it. And Paul Verhoeven put it right back in and she's like, Yeah, there's a second title to that book, and it's called the the lesbian nun of Italy or something like that. And he's like, I'm not going to do that second title, a disservice. And boy, did he not like, damn, like, it's not horror, but like Benedetta like, if you're disappointed with your recent nun watching, it's because you're not watching that movie.

Jacob Davidson:

And in terms of recent releases, Jason Eisenerz Kids vs. Aliens came out, and I saw it last year, but you know, I was such a fan. I had to see it again. So I saw it at Alamo. And, yeah, I'm just really hoping Eisner gets more work because it does such an amazing job of taking a concept and going as hard as he possibly can with it because Hobo with a Shotgun was like the ultimate Grindhouse throwback and Kids vs. Aliens is the modern day Monster Squad with kids fighting some freaky as fire in the sky aliens.

James Jay Edwards:

Speaking of kids, you guys see Spirit

Halloween:

The Movie this is basically it's what you think it is. It's it's a bunch of kids break into a Spirit Halloween store to like basically spend the night there they they're getting a little too old for trick or treating. And so they want to like have some real fun quotes so they break into this thing. And it's kind of a possession movie a little bit because the spirit of of the founder of the town or something like that he he basically jumps from item to item in the spirit Halloween store and it also can go into people it's it's a pretty fun little movie. It's it's definitely made for kids. It's like it's like a you know, it's a Monster Squad kind of a thing. So if you're in the mood for that kind of thing. Spirit Halloween the movie it's pretty much exactly what you think it is. They made a movie about a spirit Halloween store, but they found a good way to do it. Because you know, there are possessed, you know, possessed skeletons and possess monster dolls. And you know,

Jonathan Correia:

it's really fun?

James Jay Edwards:

It's fun. Yeah, I mean, hey, more fun than Pray for the Devil.

Jacob Davidson:

Fair enough.

Jonathan Correia:

Hey, there's there's so much space for just silly fun movies. And anyone who says that that is a mark against a movie. I will fight you in the back in the bar parking lot.

James Jay Edwards:

It's not quite as much fun as M3GAN but what is a high bar? Yeah, Megan is a high bar. So with that, let's move on to we're gonna throw it back to our first episode ever with this episode 100 And this is timely because the Oscar nominees were announced and it there's no horror not a single horror nominee and it's kind of disappointing so I thought for sure media got stood a chance and also but you would think that something like Nope would have gotten for visual effects or I'm shocked that Bones and All how did that not get? How did Bones And All not even get a nomination for adapted screenplay? I mean, that's like the Miss Congeniality of the Oscars. I mean Nightcrawler got adapted got nominated for that. And that got snubbed and everything but anyway. Yeah, disappointing.

Jonathan Correia:

It's all the more insulting because if you guys remember like a month or two ago, the academy shared on social media Mia Goth in Pearl the shot, so it really fired everyone up like oh shit, is Mia gonna get at least a nomination this year? And then nothing so like what? Like, you did? You done did us dirty, but I mean, yeah, this is it felt right to revisit. Well, it felt right, but it didn't feel good revisiting this topic for our 100th episode, we did talk about this six he sets five full seasons ago because this is our sixth one now. And that was what 2018 So it's been five years since we've been talking about this. So to have to revisit this topic of horror not getting the the, the the accolades that it needs, or even the recognition is is heartbreaking. Especially since again, though, how many times have I said that horror is just a category it's just a way of filing stuff away on the shelf? You know, you can still tell compelling stories, stories you can still give compelling performances. I mean, fucking look at anything Flanagan has done Jesus Christ like every single one of his projects has had insane performances insane writing and yeah, Where's where's the where's the Oscars the Emmys? You know, for that? And then yeah, this year, Mia Goth. We

James Jay Edwards:

we were making

Jacob Davidson:

headway as Shape of Water. And one best picture.

James Jay Edwards:

I mean, we we thought we were making headway with it, but it's like, I mean, there's all that controversy with Andrea Riseborough. basically forcing her nomination. I mean, they're not going to rescind her nomination, but supposedly she broke some rules about contacting Academy members directly, you know, and stuff like that. And people are saying that the real victim of that of her nomination is Danielle Deadwyler for Till or Viola Davis for Black Panther. But I kind of think it's Mia Goth. And people are making it a whole you know, Oscar, so white thing because the other two actresses that didn't get nominated a black and honestly, both of them, I think should have been nominated Danielle Deadwyler, particularly for Till, but Mia Goth. Absolutely. That's a huge snub, anybody who sees and the thing is, I don't think enough Oscar, voters saw Pearl. You know, I It's probably something that they just dismissed a slasher movie, you know, because Oscar voters have actually said that. They've said, Oh, no, I'm not going to even watch a horror movie.

Jonathan Correia:

Well, and I think one of the one of the big issues with, with what's what the controversy of her getting the nomination using a grassroots campaign because a lot of it was her friends were hosting screenings and getting people to watch and, and doing you know, it was a real grassroots campaign. And what it really comes down to is who's got the money to pay for I mean, let's not forget that Dr. Dolittle, the original Dr. Dolittle had like fucking 10 nominations. And that movie sucks. That's a terrible fucking movie. It did horribly at the box office. And it got that many nominations purely because the studios were pushing it. They were feed giving dinners, all that stuff. And that's what a lot of these nominations come from, is who can campaign the hardest with money? You know, that's

James Jay Edwards:

the thing, the it's not set up to be grassroots, it is set up. Like the rule she supposedly broke was contacting Academy members on her own rather than going through the academy. Well, to get the academy to contact them for you. I think it costs a 2000 bucks. So basically, I think she's skirted the rules to avoid paying the academy and she's got enough A list friends that it got the word out. And that's what I think the academy that's the rule that I think that she broke, but they're not going to rescind her nomination. I mean, that would just be a PR nightmare. Because, you know, as pissed off as some people are about the nominations. It'd be a worse black eye for them to say yeah, no, we messed up. And she's not nominated. And I haven't seen To Lesley I don't think a lot of people have seen to it. Well, maybe now they have because it got nominated. But I know that in either of my credit groups, they didn't send us screeners of it no one I know saw it until she got her nomination so it is an under the radar movie or at least was an under the radar movie that no one had seen. Except for her A-list friends, the hostess screenings I guess,

Jonathan Correia:

but also like the even then like I why not? Like why can't Why and that's the thing too is that we see all these other award ceremonies like you know, you have this Spirit Awards that focus more on these indie films and

Jacob Davidson:

Golden Globes

Jonathan Correia:

and or even the Golden Globes is a bit more. They have a lot of their own issues too. But I mean, even so like you know, you have to turn to other places in order to get these because the academy you have the whole gatekeeping of just the money to campaign for it. But then on top of that there's a certain mindset with a lot of voters where they're just like that. That's a lot of them. Don't even watch the nominees. Like I can't tell you how many times I've read articles where they're like, Yeah, I just guessed what short looked best or which you know, Short had the had the name attached to it you know and it's so it's so fucking ridiculous and so many

Jacob Davidson:

decisions are so arbitrary

James Jay Edwards:

especially things like shorts like you said that were you know that quote don't matter as much documentary is probably another one where they're like all I didn't watch all those I just thought Fire of Love look the best you know, which I'm trying to tell myself that's why Moonage Daydream and Good Night Oppy didn't get Nom'd,

Jonathan Correia:

but it's also but it also leads to other categories that people because you know everyone's thinking about best picture or the best actor but like, you can tell by the nominee by the nominees and how things vote, like, who's gonna get like Best Sound Editing and stuff because a lot of voters aren't paying attention to that when they're thinking of that category. They're just going oh, yeah, this was a really great movie. Overall, I'm just gonna check them on everything. You know,

James Jay Edwards:

the number of sound awards that Christopher Nolan's movies have won tells you that the academy knows nothing about. Yeah, and this is coming from a sound guy. Yeah,

Jacob Davidson:

and the Mia Goth even acknowledged kind of the

James Jay Edwards:

Even the ones that do get nominated. Like Academy's aversion to horror like she'd been doing some interviews and she knows even acknowledges that too. You know, that there's kind of a stigma against horror in the entertainment industry, and especially among kind of the critic than taste mais tastemakers and, you know, just the wildest thing though, is that this was not always the case. Like you look back in the history of the academy and of Hollywood, like horror was acknowledged and even won awards like Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, the head actor, Frederick March, one Best Actor for that one when that came out. And yeah, a lot of stuff was also pre Hays code. So I think, as I figured, you know, there was this kind of, you know, change over where, you know, it's like, especially post Hays code, like horror was really defanged, not acknowledged. So I feel like that's probably a factor but ya know, even today, and there's amazing horror movies and performances in horror movies, but there's still this stigma, there's still this just an overt aversion or by people because they considered themselves above it, or it's just, it doesn't fit that kind of mold. currently, like, like Shape of Water. It was kind of it was like subtle horror. I mean, it's it was it's a creature feature, but there's a bunch of other stuff involved that they had to sneak it by Silence of the Lambs. You know, it's it's about not one but two serial killers. But they had to make it a psychological thriller. In order to get it by didn't did Sigourney Weaver get an Oscar nom for Aliens? Um, I don't think so. Okay, I bet that that would have been the exception that proves the rule, though, because there's nothing subtle about Aliens. But it's,

Jonathan Correia:

it's just insane. And especially when you're thinking about one of the I mean, obviously Everyone's upset about Mia Goth, and rightfully so. But Nope, I really should have been nominated for a lot of technical awards as well. The technology and techniques that they did to pull off those shots of not just doing Day for Night with like, the lighting was insane in in the detail, but still keeping it dark on what they did. I I'm feel really bad. I'm blanking on how they did because I watched a video on how they did it. But it was insane. Like, just think seeing like the set it seeing like, holy shit. That's how you lit it. That's how you lit this huge space for the shots at night. And you can still it's still very dark, but you can I see everything that's insane. Like just thinking about it

Jacob Davidson:

on James, you were right. Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Best Actress for Aliens.

James Jay Edwards:

I was gonna say we were both we were both she was nominated. Which is a huge surprise because Aliens. I mean, yeah, there you go. So there that's the exception that proves the rule.

Jonathan Correia:

But going back to it, I think one of the it's an institution right in the academy. It's it's, there's gonna it's it's it's it's like politics, man. There's just there's just too much of the old way in the way of like, seeing much progress. And it's it's weird because there's always there's the sponsors. There's a television of it. There's the televised, there's so many factors on why it's just not working well anymore. And it unless there's a complete overhaul. I think we're gonna keep bitching about the Academy Awards for decades to come. Because I mean, I'm still forever pissed off that Do the Right Thing lost, you know, and that was before I was born. I'll always be mad that There Will Be Blood didn't win everything. And, you know, and so I think this temporary solution, or at least the thing that we can be doing as people who are pissed off at the Academy is support other awards. You know, the academy only has the procedure because we give it to it. So we need to participate and uplift other awards, I mean, we of course all have Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. It's one that's solely focused on our favorite genre. And they do awesome stuff. Their presentation last year was so much fun to watch and just as much fun to participate. And thank you Ama for having Jacob and I on set, we had a blast. There's other ones too. There's the RONDO Awards. I think we were talking earlier about the Saturn Awards, like these are all valid award systems that are giving recognition to the genre films that normally wouldn't get that at the Academy. And I think the more that people support those and the Spirit Awards, you know, with giving more focus on indies, I love that the Spirit Awards has a category where it's like movies made for X amount or less. That is, that's fucking great. That is it really is the spirit of it of indie to recognize, like, hey, they were able to pull this off for very little. So yeah, just support more awesome film fests film, you know, awards and bring them up, get them to a higher pedigree so that they can get more support and do more awesome work. Essionally

James Jay Edwards:

as a member of two critics groups support your local critics Guild Awards. Yeah. Because you have more of a chance of getting although I was unsuccessful in my bid to get Mia Goth a Nom in the San Diego Film Critics Awards, because, and this kind of pissed me off because the same guy that I was talking to at NACA, the Knock at the Cabin, he didn't even watch Pearl before nominees on the call, bro. Killing me killing me

Jonathan Correia:

there should be like, like a thing. I don't know how we do it. But they force all the critics to actually watch the movies that like are up for it. Understandably, that's a big task. There's a lot of fucking movies released in

James Jay Edwards:

one year. But here's my problem with that, is that we do these things called Think lists where you where you mentioned things you're excited about. And some people use this just to list all the movies they've watched in the year. You know, that's unreasonable. But if there's something that you that you're excited about, you put on this list, and then we compile it, send it out to everyone. And Mia Goth showed up. If it's mentioned by more than one person, we have the number of people it's mentioned that that person's mentioned by and Mia Goth had a had a bunch of people mentioned her. So everyone who hadn't seen it, at that point should have gone and seen it. But sometimes, sometimes they think oh a slasher. But we did nominate Danielle Deadwyler, which we did better than the Oscars. Alright, let's, let's, let's call this one and episode. Before we go. Let's, let's look back on 100 episodes. And I'm kind of putting you guys on the spot. Oh, so I'll go over my favorite moment from the 100 episodes. And I think you guys know what mine is. Well, our interview with Charlie Clauser.

Jonathan Correia:

You mentioned how much you liked? How much you liked doing that interview? Not

James Jay Edwards:

that I'm brought up. Not this episode. No, I just think it was. Honestly I've wondered about Nine Inch Nails broken equipment for like 30 years. And I finally got to ask a member of the band at that time about it. So what about you, Jacob,

Jacob Davidson:

I'd have to say when we had Steven Kostanski on both because it was fun to talk about Psycho Goreman. And it was fun to kind of do our tradition of surprisingly guest was saying and I'm blank. And that one was a particularly memorable instance.

Jonathan Correia:

I don't know if we've actually talked about it on the podcast on how that keeps happening. But we do keep failing to mention the sign off to our guests. And it's kind of become a bit where, like an unintentional bit where if so if you ever hear guests question who they are at the end, or it sounds weird, it's because we forget to mention it and kind of put them on the spot at the end

James Jay Edwards:

because that's what Steven Kostanski did. His was a question is I'm Steven Kostanski. What about you Correia

Jonathan Correia:

to pick a single moment is is really hard. It's like picking your favorite child because I mean, I'm involved in the pre of these episodes so much so I am seeking out people or interacting with people who reach out to us and I'm just always so happy when we get guests on and we click. So to pick a single moment is hard because we've been so fortunate as a podcast to click with just about every single one of our guests. I can't think of one where we didn't have an awesome back and forth. And, you know, this is a self five, you know, iHorror is our home, and they help they pay for the bills to keep it up on the site. But everything else about this is just the four of us. It's the three hosts, and Lindsey, it's our Lindsey are our silent partner in this. And to see it pay off. And we feel in the moment we're talking with people, it's just so gratifying. We get no money for this. We put what we can time and money into it. And it's it's really great. Feeling that and I, you know, we don't always see interactions with people who listen, when we get those interactions. That's great, too. But yeah, I mean, it's, you know, we've been doing this for five years now, and it doesn't feel like a job, and certainly feels more than a hobby. So, yeah, to pick a single moment. It's

James Jay Edwards:

gonna say, have you given us an answer?

Jonathan Correia:

Yeah. I can't. I won't. I refuse. I love doing this. I love chatting with everybody.

James Jay Edwards:

One fun moment we did have and you might know the guy's name cuz I don't because you pass it on to us. But the guy who said that he was late for work, because he was listening to our Heather Wixon interview. Because that one ran long. And, and the guy's like, Oh, I got so into it. I was late.

Jonathan Correia:

That that was one of the highest compliments and we need Heather back, she put out a second volume of work. Heather, I don't know if you're listening, but we're, I'm gonna be DM you real soon.

James Jay Edwards:

We need to have her back for that. We told her we'd have her back for every volume. Yeah, so we're behind.

Jonathan Correia:

But yeah, and if it yeah, if you're reflecting on these past five seasons are enjoying it. Remember to subscribe, reviews are huge. So please go out there and place your honest opinions on us. That'll help with our numbers. And again, you know, we we've gotten this we've gotten done five full seasons without sponsors or asking for money. So I mean, I think I think that's pretty cool. You know, I'm really I think that's my favorite moment. It's just how we've just been doing this no matter what.

Jacob Davidson:

Because we're friends we

James Jay Edwards:

generally Yeah, before we hit record, we generally will shoot the shit for usually like 20 minutes or so. And I always joke with these guys that if we ever do set up a Patreon, which you know, I don't know that's not really in the plans, but if we do, we just should release the bullshitting we do. What the people want that'll be a Patreon only just shooting the shit

Jonathan Correia:

and our commentary track to Rampage That's right. Yes, we're not going a full season without mentioning Rampage. Motherfuckers I just got a Japanese 4K of it and it is dope.

James Jay Edwards:

Okay, you

Jacob Davidson:

Rampage will never die

James Jay Edwards:

On the mention of Rampage. We're going to call this one and episode so thank you for joining us for five seasons if you have or thank you for joining us for this episode. If this is your first one and if if this is your first one go back to Charlie Clauser go back to Steven Kostanski. Go back to Heather Wixon Those are the those are the good ones. Those Those oh the fun ones.

Jonathan Correia:

And don't forget the Justins episode Martell and Laliberty were fantastic

James Jay Edwards:

episode that Ama is on we've had her twice any episode that Kelly and Bri are on I think as Kelly been three times now

Jonathan Correia:

she's up there are has been Waylon Yeah. Benji, come on. If we have a guest on you should check out those episodes because absolutely those every one we've had on has been great.

James Jay Edwards:

Our music is by Restless Spirits to go give them a listen and our artwork is by Chris Fisher. So go give him a like. You can find us on any of the socials under Eye On Horror or at ihorror.com. So we will see you in a couple of weeks with more horror. So for me James Jay Edwards.

Jacob Davidson:

I'm Jacob Davison

Jonathan Correia:

and I'm Jonathan Correia.

James Jay Edwards:

Keep your Eye On Horror.

Intros
The Boys Review M3GAN
The Boys Review Knock at the Cabin
The Boys Review Skinamarink
Jay Reviews Sick
TV Party with Last Of Us and White Lotus
Jacob Reviews Infinity Pool
Jay Reviews Pray for the Devil
Jay Mentioned Nuns, So Correia Has to Talk About Benedetta
Jacob Reviews Kids vs. Aliens
Jay Reviews Spirit Halloween: The Movie
Revisiting Our First Topic: Horror Being Snubbed By The Academy
A Look Back On 100 Episodes of Eye On Horror
Outros
Restless Spirit Goes Hard ASF