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The Great August Catch Up!
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This week, after a bit of a hiatus, the boys return reviewing SO MANY RELEASES to come out in August including Alien Romulus, Cuckoo (completing the Dan Stevens 2024 Trifecta), Trap, Blink Twice, Midnight Vampire, The 100, Sting, Hundreds of Beavers (for the 4th time), Grand Piano, Borderlands, and the New Crow movie!
Plus, Jacob goes on a New England Adventure, Jay teases new episodes of Cryto-Zoo, and Correia will not stop saying inappropriate things about Alien Romulus. It's all New on Eye On Horror!
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Welcome to eye on horror, the official podcast of ihorror.com. This is episode 132, otherwise known as season seven. Episode 13. I'm your host, James Jay Edwards, and with me, as always, is your other host, Jacob Davison, how you doing, Jacob?
Jacob Davidson:I'm doing quite well. I've been on vacation in New England, visiting family and friends and getting into some spooky New England stuff.
James Jay Edwards:Are you in Gloucester?
Jacob Davidson:No, actually, I'm in Connecticut.
James Jay Edwards:Okay, I saw you posted somewhere from Gloucester. And the number of times I have said the word Gloucester, because the new cryptozoo is about the Gloucester sea serpent. And yes, I googled it to see how to pronounce it, because it looks like it's glauchester. No,
Jacob Davidson:no, never, never say that. You will anger the townspeople.
James Jay Edwards:I knew better than that. I Googled it, and the little, the little AI woman with the lips, told me Gloucester. And I'm like, okay, cool. I just let's get Correia in here before we get to talking about New England. Yeah. Also with us is your other, other host, Jon, Correia, how you doing Correia?
Jonathan Correia:Doing? Well, that reminds me of the of that. I think it's a Reddit post where someone said, What's the hardest thing to say? And the first post was saying goodbye to a loved one, and then under it was warchester. Oh no, no, it's Worcester. I think they were they, they meant, like, warchester, sauce, uh, as is what they meant. But yeah, no, in New England, it's not warchester. It's Worcester.
Jacob Davidson:I was at rocking shock and at a Q&A like, somebody called it warchester, and the audience booed them,
Jonathan Correia:man. And if you're super New England, it's like, Wooster, that's
James Jay Edwards:the other thing. Even regionally within New England is different, because I was even afraid that the that the little AI woman with the lips was going to be wrong, and it's actually going to be Glaston. But I'm like, Nope, I'm I'm going to pick one and stick with it. Gloucester. Hey, man,
Jonathan Correia:at least we don't, at least it's not as bad as, like, what should be our Kansas is Arkansas. Like, how the how does that make any sense? Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:I've heard podcasts that talk about, I live just a little west of El Cajon, which is, it's kind of a suburb of San Diego, and I hear podcasts all the time. Say in El Cajun California, I'm like no, or La Jolla, no. Anyway, it's been a while since we talked. What's been happening with you guys? Quite
Jacob Davidson:a lot. Speaking of New England, while I was in Gloucester, there was a Vincent Price and horror Art Gallery at the Cape and community theater. It was like a small independent cinema, but yeah, Victoria price herself actually christened it had all this amazing art of Vincent Price and like Christopher Lee and Classic Monsters and they did have a bunch of art of the Gloucester sea serpent, both classical and new.
James Jay Edwards:I was going to ask if you saw the statue that they've seen that statue? Yeah. They unveiled a statue in 2017 200 years after the initial rash of sightings in 1817, listen to the crypto zoo for more there. Sorry,
Jacob Davidson:I gotta listen to that, because, yeah, I got, I got family in Gloucester, and my stepmom actually painted a mural of the Gloucester sea serpent for the town.
James Jay Edwards:Oh, there was a guy in 1955 who painted a mural, but he claimed it was quite a quadtle. But now I'm just giving away all of the goods on the podcast. Go listen to the grip position,
Jonathan Correia:not a shameless plug, but really do listen to it. Jay. Jay did a really good work of like, boiling down to like, the the basics of knowing, like, what these creatures are. And no, I've been thoroughly enjoying it. And
James Jay Edwards:also these episodes The Jersey Devil. One gets a little long. It's like 25 minutes, but most of these are between 10 and 15 minutes. So they're little bite sized things. There's always time for an episode of cryptozoo. Okay, this is not a five minute commercial for the cryptus,
Jacob Davidson:yeah. But James, check out, check out the pictures I posted from the gallery. I think you'd like the art of the cluster C server. Cool.
James Jay Edwards:Yeah. I will. I totally will. What have you guys been seeing? I think the big release since we talked that, I know we've all seen Alien Romulus. Yes,
Jacob Davidson:yes. What do you guys think of alien Romulus? Well, I saw it in the best environment possible, because the American Cinematheque did a premiere screening at the Egyptian theater playing the original. Uh, Ridley Scott Alien, before Alien Romulus. So they did as a double feature. And since, you know, Romulus takes place after Alien, it just, you know, directly leads into it. So it was so much fun to see it like that. Nice.
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely the summer of the R rated Disney fan service hits, because between Deadpool and Wolverine and Alien Romulus, we're just, they're just giving the fans everything that's familiar, really. Uh, I do have to say I think Romulus did it better in that like it. It was very fan servicey. You know, it had all the moments that you've that you've seen before, that you've had before, but it did its own spin on it. So not
James Jay Edwards:all that landed with me. I'll get into it. Go ahead, but yeah, some of the fan service didn't quite hit with me, yeah,
Jonathan Correia:but I really had a lot of fun with it. Man, that was just a fun movie.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah, no, I'm kind of with Jay that some of this fan service felt too tacked on. I also kind of felt almost like they were Studio, you know, additions, you know, just to make the point home. But overall, though, you know, just people have to separate that from the movie itself, because the movie itself is awesome. You know, you got a bunch of struggling 20 somethings on a space station that's filled to the guild of aliens, what's not to love?
James Jay Edwards:I didn't love it. I liked it just fine. I actually watched all the Alien movies leading up to it. And I mean, it's a topic for another time, but Covenant is really underrated. I think Covenant is a pretty solid movie, but thank you. I think Romulus kind of is. It's middle of the road. I mean, it clearly isn't as bad as, you know, Resurrection or three, but it's kind of middle of the road. And my issue with it is, I really like the first half, like the setup of the thing, you know, the reason they're getting up there, basically the, like Jacob said, these 20 somethings, they want to go up to this ship because they want to steal the cryo pads, or, you know, whatever they sleep in, because they want to get to another world. And of course, the ship that they go to is overrun by aliens. And I really like the first probably half, and then it felt like they were just throwing everything they could into this movie. And this is some of the fan service that we were talking about. It didn't all stick with me. It just felt it. It just felt like it was like a kitchen sink movie. And then I, I'm, it's probably an unpopular opinion, but the big baddie that they fight, I thought was just ridiculous. I'm like, come on, you guys, really anyway,
Jacob Davidson:although I do also appreciate all the practical effects, like the animatronic alien, it did look cool as that.
Jonathan Correia:I really appreciated the world building and leaning more into Wayland enterprises, showing the mining world, showing like, oh yeah, yes, yeah. Because at the end of the day, the real villain of the Alien franchise all the movies has been Waylon. Waylon Yutani. Whelan Yutani. There we go. It's, it's the xenomorphs have always just been an ID. It's been just a creature that's kind of caught in it. You know, if Waylon utani wasn't, you know, messing with them, we wouldn't be having these issues. So I really enjoyed, like, seeing, like the actual real world, like economic outside of just like people on ships, effects of it more so like seeing, you know, people's like contracts being extended and dying in the mines. I enjoyed that evil corporation, Waylon
Jacob Davidson:Yutani, Building Better worlds, baby. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:it was, it was really, it was really good. And, you know, and especially once they and then when they get to the ship, I really, really, really, really appreciated, to no ends, just going for the genitalia horror that is the Alien franchise. Like they really, like they really made genitalia disgusting again. And I appreciated that especially well my partner did not appreciate me referring to the Xenomorph egg as the coocussy, but I said it about five or six times on the drive home excitedly, and I'm now banned from saying that word in the house, so this is probably the last time I'm able to say coocussy, so I'm going to say it one more time. coocussy, okay,
Jacob Davidson:but let's see, did you guys see Cuckoo?
James Jay Edwards:I did not. No, they didn't screen that for press, which is usually a bad sign, but neon has been doing that this year. I was lucky. We got a Longlegs screening. But is did you see cuckoo Korea?
Jonathan Correia:Did I see the third Dan Stevens movie to come out this
James Jay Edwards:year? Worse. Now, don't spoil anything about it.
Jonathan Correia:No about it. Or Dan Stevens, about
James Jay Edwards:cuckoo. You could spoil all you want about Dan Stevens. I will say this
Jonathan Correia:is probably the least sexiest role. Of Dan Stevens to come out this year. Um, but then again, how do you top Ace Ventura, uh, kaiju veterinarian from Godzilla.
James Jay Edwards:So wait, this is least less sexy than Abigail, because he wasn't that sexy in Abigail. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:he's less sexy than when he's playing a cop. And that's he's
Jacob Davidson:very euro in this movie, like both accent Ed demeanor.
Jonathan Correia:It's not so much that he's European as, like, a German, I
Jacob Davidson:mean, and I mean, like European, I mean, like, stylistically, Euro, you know, like, like Abba, but, yeah. But anyway, the Cuckoo, I thought was a lot of fun. And also got to give big props to Hunter Schaefer, because she was amazing in this movie. And I really loved how dimensional her character was. And there's some real creepiness to cuckoo, just like it does so much of a good job in building the tension. And it's like this, like she moves into with her estranged father and stepmother and stepsister to this resort in the Swiss Alps, and there's some weird shit going down, because you're not supposed to be out at night, and there's all these rules. And yeah, Dan Stevens, with his extremely Euro accent, is acting really creepy. So I thought, I thought it was a lot of fun. I really, really dug it. And I really hope Hunter Schaefer does more horror. Is like, she really goes for it in this movie, like, because she starts out fine, and then she gets injury after injury after injury. And it's kind of like Ash, where it just shows throughout the whole movie, like she's got a she's got a cast, she's got like, a head bandage she has on for most of the movie. So, yeah, she she goes through and again, don't want to spoil anything, but when they do go into why the movie's called cuckoo, it just, it's a really twisted meaning to the movie. And I dug it also. I love that people are comparing it to Dario argentos Phenomena, which I get because, yeah, it is. It does kind of feel like a spiritual sequel, or kind of connection there, just kind of like Hunter Schaefer to Jennifer Connolly. But, yeah, no, I you know, I guess this wasn't Dan Stephen sexiest movie this year, but he did get to do some cool stuff, and he got to be a real creep. So what was down for that?
Jonathan Correia:Well, I don't want to say that cuckoo wasn't sexy at times. I'm just saying Dan Stevens's role wasn't that he was, he was no, no. That's
Jacob Davidson:what I was thinking about him. That's what I was saying. Yeah. I
Jonathan Correia:mean, no, I loved cuckoo. I thought it was really solid. I think my only gripe with cuckoo isn't really with cuckoo. It's just the the worry I we went and saw it opening night because I had that fear where the trailers and the hype and everything was, this is this movie's batshit bonkers. This movie's crazy. Oh my god. It was like a similar type of like, verbiage and hyperbole that was happening with Immaculate and I waited too long for immaculate, so I had it built up in my head that how insane Immaculate was going to be, and it, of course, didn't live up to that insane image I had in my mind. So I think that cuckoo is another example of that where it's like you just got to kind of go in as blind as possible and just enjoy the ride, because it's really good movie, but some of those reviews made it sound way more insane than it really was. It's still pretty crazy. And some of the stuff they pull off and some of the things they do in it are really effective and and pretty crazy, but like, yeah, it's, it's, it's not, you're not gonna be hit in the face with insanity the entire time, like, it's just a really solid film, you know. But Hunter Schaefer, yeah, I give, give, give her all the role she I never watched euphoria, so I didn't know about Hunter Schaefer until this movie, and she was phenomenal at it isn't
James Jay Edwards:Sydney Sweeney, also from euphoria,
Jonathan Correia:yeah, the euphoria kids are all growing. It's
James Jay Edwards:gonna say that's a that's a pretty impressive little cast there.
Jonathan Correia:Well, Sidney Sweeney's not in in this wood, but yeah, euphoria.
James Jay Edwards:I mean euphoria, Yeah, cuz Sidney Sweeney's busting out.
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, well, and that Zendaya is in a couple of movies too.
James Jay Edwards:I didn't know Zendaya was in euphoria as well. Oh,
Jonathan Correia:I was being sarcastic. But yes, she is, yeah, she's the lead in it. Yeah, yeah, okay.
James Jay Edwards:I haven't watched euphoria and
Jonathan Correia:and that guy from Saltburn, Jacob
James Jay Edwards:Davison, guy, Jacob Laurie, yeah, yeah, he's
Jonathan Correia:in euphoria as well. There's a bunch of people. The guy who is in Abigail, the one who passed, he was euphoria as well the young one. Anyways, yeah, I haven't watched euphoria so. But anyway,
Jacob Davidson:what we're saying is that more euphoria actors should do more horror. And also Hunter Schaefer is doing that new mysterious horror game by hodeo Kojima with Udo Kier.
Jonathan Correia:So we got something, Ooh, that sounds dope.
James Jay Edwards:What about we're going way back, kind of right now. Did you guys see Trap? Fuck yeah, I saw Trap. Okay,
Jonathan Correia:I saw a trap.
James Jay Edwards:You guys know that I'm a Shyamalan fanboy, and so I loved Trap. I thought the trap was awesome it. Um, I think that if it was not a Shyamalan movie, I wouldn't think it was as awesome. You know, it, it definitely had the Shyamalan stamp. Um, I think I liked it more when they were actually at the concert, because it gets to a point. I mean, it's been out long enough I'm going to spoil a little bit. They do get away from the concert for for the end of the movie. And I think it kind of loses steam there. And shamelines daughter cannot act, and she takes on a bigger role towards the end of the movie. But Josh Hartnett knows exactly the kind of movie he's in, and he is so he's such a delicious villain in this movie. I mean, I'm kind of spoiled saying he's a villain, but
Jacob Davidson:oh yeah, pretty well implied in the trailer. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:yeah. My God, trap Shyamalan. Will I ever not love a movie? Well, Asterix for The Last Airbender. But,
Jacob Davidson:yeah, no, I saw it too, and I really dug it for the most part, although I felt like the third act kind of lost steam toward the end. Yep, could have, could have been tightened up a bit more, maybe cut down a bit. But, I mean, all the stuff with the concert was great, like it was very Brian De Palma. I mean, hell, there was so many split diopter shots. Oh, split diopter shots. Oh, you,
Jonathan Correia:you, you know, I love the split diopter shot. So, you know, every time those popped up, Lindsay even said on the drive home, she was like, they did that too much. I was like, No, they didn't do it enough. Not enough movies these days do that. So thank you, M Night for just like, overloading with
Jacob Davidson:it. Yeah, and I was going to say that you love split diopter shots almost as much as you love Josh Hartnett. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:I was waiting for a shot with Josh Hartnett in one side and an owl in the other.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, man, I had so much fun with trap. Just so much it was I think Jacob did a good comparison of like 70s DePalma, because in the 70s there was a lot of Hitchcockian copycats, or Hitchcockian thrillers that were coming up. Brian De Paul, obviously, putting out some of the best of them. And it felt very of that energy, very of that style. It was that kind of setup. But there were so many aspects of it, because M Night has been on ever since The Visit, been on a real kick of doing comedy with his horror and with his thrillers, and it doesn't always work. And I think when we left, I said he didn't always make good choices with this movie, but he always made the right choices. And that there's there's some things in this movie that just should not have worked, but because they didn't work, it did. It was, it was a weird mental jump of like, this isn't a so bad, it's good movie. It's just a fun movie, a happy miss with, like, a lot of happy mistakes for me. And just remind me of a lot of films that were used to come out back in the day, like the 80s. You know, where you're like, man, that thing was ridiculous, but
James Jay Edwards:it was a lot of fun. That's what I'm saying. If this was not a Shyamalan movie, if this was just some random director, you'd be all, what is this crap? But because we ex, we know what to expect from Shyamalan. I loved it. I thought it was so much fun. Oh, I get what you're saying about the comedy, mainly the what was the guy's name? The merch salesman that he befriends, Jamie. Oh yeah, his name, that guy was hilarious.
Jonathan Correia:There was so I didn't loving checking in every now and then to see letterbox reviews on this one, because there's been so many good ones. Like someone said, Why couldn't this take place at a Weird Al concert? You know. But there's just like, so much, like little little thing, or American Psycho Taylor's version, you know, stuff like that. But it's, I just had so much fun. There's just so many weird moments that, like, feed into it. A lot of people have been questioning if M Night has ever had a conversation with an actual human being? Because, especially with this movie, the conversations between people do not feel real at all and feel very alien. But it kind of works with Hartnett being a psycho killer and not and like having those separate lives where, like him being a human isn't really his thing. So it's like a front so there's this really weird, like, when he's doing it, it makes sense, where it's like, oh, this kind of sounds like what a person would or a not human being would think a human being talks, but then other people are doing it. So it just adds to this weird world of like, wait, what's going on? And then, like, you're, you're. Questioning things. And again, I don't know if that was intentional with some of it, but it worked really well for me. And you know what, I'm just also really glad he only had three endings to this movie, as opposed to, like Old that had 20 endings, and one of one of the things, because it kept going. I was just really happy, because I got worried, because in the opening credits, I didn't realize the Allison Pill was in the movie. And when they got to, like, the end of the concert, I was like, Where the fuck is Allison Pill? You don't get to promise me Allison pill and not deliver. And they delivered. She was fantastic. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:she doesn't show up until the third that third act. But yeah, it I love that, calling it American Psycho Taylor's version. That's that's the great way to put it. Cooper
Jonathan Correia:is now the voice of my, of my ADHD inner thoughts. Just that whole scene, when the the rapper comes out of the floorboards and he turns to his daughter's like, hey, why don't we go? What's down there? Let's go down into the basement. She's like, No, no, Dad, we're not going come on. It'll be fun. We won't get in trouble. I was like, No,
Jacob Davidson:I will say though, one of the funniest scenes in the movie to me was when he was with the merch guy isolated in the stock room, and he's like, Hey, thanks for helping out here. Hold this exacto knife while I turn my back around and completely unassuming.
Jonathan Correia:Like, come on, you can't tell me that that wasn't done like, stuff like, that wasn't done for comedy. Like, yeah, take it too serious. But like, I also am really glad, because at least amongst my friends, I'm seeing a lot of people just they seem to get it. You know that it's, and that's not one of those like, Oh, you just don't get the film. It's, it's how you it's one of those things. Again, you can go into a movie with expectations, but you really should allow yourself to just go for the ride. And that film, almost like, very quickly, just established this weird world, this weird way of talking, this weird, like, environment where it's, like, you kind of just have to let it wash over you, and it's, it's, it's just a blast. And also, Ariel Donahue was really good as
Jacob Davidson:the as the daughter Riley, oh, yeah, no, she's, she stood up and, and, yeah, I
Jonathan Correia:just, also just inherently, it's, it's, it's hilarious that M Night was like, I he has flat out said I wanted to do a concert film for my daughter. So I made, so I made a thriller based around and it's like, yeah, dude, that's, that's a that's a dad knowing, hey, I can do this if we if I do it through, like, what my branding is. And, yeah, he killed it, man, like that was, yeah, I had a lot of fun with it. Oh, def, that's gonna be a midnight watch for me for a long time. Did you
James Jay Edwards:do you guys see blink twice? Not yet. Not yet. Okay, blink twice is I really liked it. But the thing is, leaving the theater after blink and they're they're being kind of weird about it. They don't want us pushing it as a horror movie. They want to go more like a thriller. Um, but it's pretty horrific in places. And leaving the theater, I wasn't sure what to think about it, but on the way home, my wife and I just could not stop talking about it. And even into the next day we were talking about it, and I still, you know, it's been a couple weeks since I've seen it, and it, it still is stuck in my head. It's, it's kind of, it's Zoe Kravitz wrote and directed it, and it's basically about this woman who meets like a like, this tech billionaire dude, and he invites her to his private island where all of his buddies are partying. And, you know, stuff happens. And I thought it was going to go in like a Get Out direction, but it turned out going more like, Don't worry, darling. And that's all, that's all I want to say, because it there are a lot of fun twists in it that are, that are just better experienced. You know yourself, but it is. It's really, it's a thinker. It really like, I need to see it again, because there are little things that I think you'll pick up on a second time through that make sense toward the because it's one of those movies where the whole time I'm like, please make this make sense. Please make this make sense. And they pretty much make it make sense. In the end, I think it went one scene too long, meaning like the very last scene, to me, felt a little tacked on. And when you see it, you'll you'll know what I mean by that, but it's, it's a pretty impressive movie. I'm a little bummed that it hasn't been getting, I mean, it's not been doing super well at the box office, but it's, it's, if you like, that kind of Get Out kind of thing, although they don't go full Get Out, you know, like I thought they. We're gonna do. There's a point in the movie where I'm like, Okay, this is get out. And then about 10 minutes later I'm like, oh, okay, it's not get out.
Jonathan Correia:I'm just disappointed they didn't release it under its original title of pussy Island.
James Jay Edwards:I think is that really what the original title was? Yeah, that's true. Oh, I didn't. Oh, wow. Okay.
Jonathan Correia:That is what Zoe Kravitz called the movie. That is what she was shopping it around as, and the studios, well, frankly, pussyed out and said, No, we can't release it as pussy Island. And it's like, no, yes, you can. Yes you can. We just had a hard hitting genitalia horror hat like slap us in the face and wiggle around. Or a few weeks ago, we could handle that word in a title, come on, but also marketability, whatever. Yeah, no, I do really want to see it. I just was too preoccupied this week, and unfortunately,
James Jay Edwards:honestly, calling it pussy island would have, would have kind of cheapened it, because it's not a like pussy. Calling a pussy island would make it sound like a freaking Porky's kind of a, you know it. But calling it blink twice is actually a pretty, a pretty app name for it, because there's parts where they like joke about they're like a blink twice if you're in danger, you know, kind of a thing. So
Jonathan Correia:I like the idea, though, of something sounding like a Porky's adventure, and it being like a horror thriller, where it's like not that at all. It's like the opposite. That's great, yeah.
Jacob Davidson:Also, I want to give a shout out to this short movie I found a few days ago. It's this new release from a prolific Japanese stop motion artist named to Kenan negau, who's got his own YouTube channel. It's called Midnight Vampire, and it's pretty basic. It's just about this vampire woman that is awakes from her slumber to feed on some people. But there's some twists, because it turns out that the guy she's drinking blood from is a part of a group of even worse guys, and it goes even crazy from there. And I'm just a sucker for stop motion horror. So there's ample amounts of claymation blood and gore. It's good stuff. Look it up on YouTube, Midnight vampire. It's a good it's good watch.
James Jay Edwards:Have either you guys watched that show that was on like, a few years back the 100
Jacob Davidson:No, I missed that one. It
James Jay Edwards:was on one of those flash deals on voodoo where you get like, the whole series for like 10 bucks or something. And I've been burning my way through it. I'm only, I guess there's like seven seasons and there, and I'm only halfway through season two, and it's funny, but basically what it is is there's a nuclear war destroys the earth, and the only people alive are on all of the space stations in orbit. And they all kind of come together, and they join it together, and they call it the ark, and then they send they're, they're basically child prisoners, because when people break the law, they execute them, except if they're under 18, so the only prisoners they have are children. So they send them down and they're the 100 in to see if the Earth is habitable again. And of course, you know stuff happens. And during the first season. I was like, how are they going to get seven seasons out of this? But then you realize, as stuff happens, you're like, okay, yeah, they're going to get seven seasons out of this. But it's, um, it's kind of, it's part like, life. Remember that movie life, the alien Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:the the alien one, yeah, yeah. It's
James Jay Edwards:part, like life and part Lord of the Flies, because it turns out they're not alone on the ground. Even when they go down there, there are survivors from the war, and that's, you know, that's where the thing's going. But it's a pretty interesting little watch. I've been getting kind of into
Jonathan Correia:it. Well, speaking of voodoo deals, Voodoo had a $5 deal for the film Sting that came out earlier this year. I
Jacob Davidson:love to watch that, oh, five bucks on voodoo.
Jonathan Correia:Oh man, it is so much fun. It's from the director and creator of the wormwood series. We also did Necrotronic. So it's and it's so much fun. Wait, Jacob, I thought you did see Sting? No, I know
Jacob Davidson:I saw infested. You know that other spider one? Oh,
Jonathan Correia:that's right, with so many good spider movies coming up
James Jay Edwards:this year, oh, infested and sting came out about the same time. So yeah, we were because we joked about what a good year it is for for mutant spider movies. Well,
Jonathan Correia:I also had a moment because I was like, Wait, yeah, isn't this director going to go do an Evil Dead spin off? Because apparently there's like, three Evil Dead projects in the works right now. So I got real excited about that, but that's not this director that was infested. Anyways, Sting is so much fun. Yeah? As in. Jay said before, like with the mute spider, is from outer space. It's, I mean, just so much of it, there was a lot of evil, dead influence with it as, like a horror comedy, but it reminded me also a lot of of Unknown Origin. Ooh, that's
Jacob Davidson:a good one. Yeah. I
Jonathan Correia:When the movie ended, I was like, these would make a great double feature of just people going nuts in an apartment building with like a creature. But it was just so much fun, so funny and like, it's one of those rare examples where the child character was actually really well written and wasn't annoying. We've been encountering that too much lately with various things where I'm like, yeah, it was good, but the kid was not written well, but Aaliyah Brown as Charlotte was just because, of course, Charlotte, it was just phenomenal. And the practical effects were awesome. The setup was great. There's a really great bit with the family's grandmother having amnesia. And so the movie opens up, or Alzheimer's, so she keeps forgetting. But the movie opens up setting up like she calls an exterminator and a cut, and the exterminator comes and gets eaten by, or attacked by the spider. And then she sits down and hears a noise on the wall and gets back up and calls another exterminator. And it's like, is she just, like, bringing exterminators to this house or to this apartment, and they're getting killed by spiders? And it like, just establishes, establishes like the horror and the comedy of the movie. So Well, they go on to explain it and do more with that, but, yeah, it's just, it's such a fun movie, like, if five bucks, it's well worth the price of admission.
James Jay Edwards:Alila Brown, the the actress, she was young Furiosa in Furioso, she she was the young before she became Anya Taylor joy, which
Jonathan Correia:Lindsay pointed that out. I was like, oh, oh. And Lindsey's like, Oh, you didn't recognize how much No, because they CG didn't Hey eyed around her face. She got older. They like, helped make it look more like on a tailor. I think it was the older, older actress they did that with. But, yeah, no. Sting is a blast. Highly recommend.
James Jay Edwards:The the spider is named after the sword and The Hobbit, yeah, oh yeah. Sting, not after the wrestler or the rock star, the sword and The Hobbit. More things need
Jonathan Correia:to be named. Sting,
Jacob Davidson:yeah, we're we need more. Sting, uh, names in the public conscious again. And
Jonathan Correia:Did you guys ever see grand piano?
James Jay Edwards:Oh yeah, yeah, with Elijah Wood, right?
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, so yeah, yeah, that's
James Jay Edwards:it's Phone Booth on a stage. Yes,
Jonathan Correia:thank you, because I just recently watched Phone Booth, and absolutely fucking loved it. And was just like, this movie is awesome, and Larry Cohen should have sold more scripts, because, damn, yeah, phone booth was, oh man, oh man. The both of those movies were on my pile of you've owned the blu ray for two years. What? Either watch it or get rid of it. And so I watched him, and instead of selling him, I'm keeping him, because I loved him so much. But grand piano, especially, uh, grand
James Jay Edwards:piano, it's taken a step further than phone booth, because, like, there's this concert pianist, which is Elijah Wood, and he's performing this piece that he has. It's like, his big comeback. And basically there's a sniper who's like, if you make a mistake, I'm shooting you. There's like, an added level, you know, it's not just like, you know, you're in this phone booth and a sniper is, you know, trained on you. It's like, you can't fuck this piece up that you fucked up before. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:it's, it's a nice, I've said it a couple of times this podcast. It's a nice kind of hitch, a cocky and thriller that takes place in just mainly the opera house where he's performing. So a lot of the film rests on Elijah Wood selling a him not only playing the piano, but also just like being terrified and trying to follow the commands of this mysterious sniper, who's played by John Cusack to not get shot or have his wife shot too. That was, does the other part of it, and I don't want to spoil on why they're doing all of it, but it's, it's really solid. It's a lot of fun. And it was written by Damien Chazelle before he did went on to do whiplash. And so yeah, he loves torturing musicians. I don't know what he has against musicians, but he loves putting them in rough situations, whether it's whiplash or Babylon. You know, Elijah
James Jay Edwards:Wood and Miles Teller should form a band. Damien Chazelle will will write their music,
Jacob Davidson:and they'll spend millions of dollars to make it. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:I. But it's really solid. I highly recommend finding it somewhere. It came out in like 2013 so, you know, it was during that Magnolia magnet era of like them, just putting out a lot of genre films. And I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was going to be a fun background movie while I was working on stuff, and I ended up putting down all my projects to watch it.
James Jay Edwards:Yeah, it's pretty engaging. I mean, surprisingly, so, I mean, it's, it's not just him sitting at a piano, you know, the whole time. You know, there are parts where it goes to different parts of the of the theater. So it's not, I mean, it sounds boring to say, oh, you know, this guy is playing a piano with a sniper on him, you know. No, there's a lot more to it than that, but
Jonathan Correia:even so, like the camera work in kind of taking on that challenge of it, of it being so centered around him. Playing the piano was done really well, and John Cusack does a really good job, and Alex winter too. It was just so great seeing him pop up. Like every time he popped up, a huge smile went on my face, and I was like, You know what? I think I do need to rewatch the trilogy again, which, by the way, in my in my house, I referred to the trilogy as the Bill and Ted trilogy. I know some people might be like, Oh, is it Star Wars? Is it Lord of rings? No, it's Bill and Ted.
Jacob Davidson:On my end, I watched Hundreds of Beavers for the fourth time this year, introducing it to some friends of mine from high school,
Jonathan Correia:they are single handedly getting their budget back due to your viewings.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah, no, I'm I'm the hundreds of beavers preacher. I'm introducing the word of hundreds of beavers to all my friends and family. The people must know you're
Jonathan Correia:just going door to door. Have you heard the good word of hundreds of beavers? Exactly,
Jacob Davidson:but no, I mean, it was, it was just so good, like we were just hanging out at my friend's place having some drinks, and during the scene where he's got that one beaver tied to a boulder, and then he goes, oh shit, and the beaver starts swinging the boulder around. We lost our we lost it so badly. We left so hard, like, one of my friends was rolling on the couch. It's, it's just such a fun group movie.
James Jay Edwards:It's a ridiculous movie which is so good, yeah, that's what makes it fun, I think in a group probably all right, it's, it's just so just this mixture of, like, have you? Have you not seen it Korea? No,
Jonathan Correia:and I've heard so many things, and I just looked it up on voodoo, and it's$8 so I was like, All right, we'll do it because dude, yeah,
James Jay Edwards:no, you, you absolutely have to see it. Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:we rented it for$3 off of Amazon,
Jonathan Correia:yeah, but now I can own it for eight oh yeah, no,
Jacob Davidson:there you go.
James Jay Edwards:It's worth owning.
Jacob Davidson:Oh yeah,
Jonathan Correia:I was, I was waiting for it to be available to own, because it has been available to rent for like, 15 and things of that nature. And, you know, I'm just like, ah, yeah, you know, when it when it's available to own? Like, I'll pay $15 to own, you know, but it going for eight on voodoo right now. Oh, yeah. So I will be watching it soon I'll, who knows, maybe I'll become a convert and be a disciple of hundreds of beavers soon.
James Jay Edwards:It's just the perfect mix of Looney Tunes and freaking Mario Brothers and like
Jacob Davidson:Buster Keaton, yeah, silent era slapstick. And, yeah, no, just, just watch it. And, you know, get sent. Send me a review. You will not be disappointed.
Jonathan Correia:I'm curious, has anyone watched Borderlands?
Jacob Davidson:I did. Oh, I did.
Jonathan Correia:Jay, did you see I did
James Jay Edwards:not. No, no,
Jonathan Correia:Jacob, what did you think of Borderlands?
Jacob Davidson:Well, did you see Borderlands?
Jonathan Correia:I did not. I've been curious on what other people have I was waiting for. The reviews the game series never appealed to me, and that's mainly just because, like, RPGs are really hard for me to get into.
Jacob Davidson:It's not even really an RPG. It's a first person shooter with, like, loot mechanics, yeah,
Jonathan Correia:it's a massive customization and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm very I, I'm an old man when it comes to video games, I kind of need to, like, be set on a, like, a specific path. I think, like, I they need to be able to full ADHD out, or not at all, and and so stuff like Skyrim or things like that, where there's too much customization, my ADHD goes too hard, and I will spend like, days just like, customizing one stupid thing, and I can't, I can't do that with my life. It's, it's, I know me too well, but, yeah, no, the game's just never really appealed. But you know, I mean, an action, you know, comedy with Cate Blanchett, you know I'm, you know, my interest
James Jay Edwards:the cast is incredible,
Jacob Davidson:yeah, even with the cast, though, this movie was awful. Sorry, this was not a good movie, man. It's a mess. It just feels because the problem is, is that it just felt like such a paint by the numbers, like test audience churned out. Film, and, like, I played the games, and it just boggles the mind, because there was a lot of material they could have mined from in order to make a pretty fun action sci fi adventure movie. But yeah, no, they whiffed it. They whiffed it hard. And, you know, I'm usually pretty forgiving, especially with these types of movies, but oh man, it was, it was not that good. And not gonna lie, I even talked up before the movie to help with that. But yeah, no, it just didn't really do it for me. Very poorly written. And I mean, yeah, it has an amazing cast, but it just really didn't have a lot of material to work with. And yeah, like all the characters aren't really developed or written that. And even though, like in the games, they have better development than in this movie, and yeah, there's so much they could have done to make it fun or just really go to town with the effects. And the other thing is that it was downgraded PG 13. I think it was originally supposed to be, are down to PG 13. So they had to tone down the violence, which is ridiculous for a movie like this based on Borderlands, but on the plus side, I got that sweet claptrap popcorn bucket. So
James Jay Edwards:it makes me wonder if Cate Blanchett and Eli Roth are drinking buddies. And you know, because she clearly lost a bar bet to him.
Jacob Davidson:Well she did at the house with the clock in its walls before. So, yeah, her and Jack Black had prior experience with them. And also, that's the other thing too. I heard that, uh, Eli Roth dropped out, or, like, left early to do Thanksgiving, and Tim Miller, you know, from Deadpool, had to ghost direct the rest of the movie. Really,
James Jay Edwards:I didn't know that. Okay.
Jacob Davidson:I mean, that's what I heard, yeah, because Eli Roth's name is still on it. Yeah, no, he's still the credited director. But, yeah, I heard that like somebody has to do a deep dive on the production, because it sounded like there was a lot of trouble production in this production that that
James Jay Edwards:the documentary about the behind the scenes is probably more interesting than it would be, yeah,
Jonathan Correia:which, speaking of troubled productions and trouble getting off the grounds, I can finally talk about a movie I saw earlier.
James Jay Edwards:Embargo lifted from three months ago.
Jonathan Correia:I don't know, but you know, so you can talk about it. Now it's out, so I guess I can admit that I saw the new crow movie. And oh yeah, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy. Things I liked about it. There's some really great action scenes, because, as we all know, what the story of the crow? He's a musician who's in love, and him and his lover get killed, and so he comes back because of magic and crows and, you know, get it becomes a spirit of vengeance. I really liked that in this new crow movie by Rupert Sanders with Bill scazgard, that they really leaned into with the revenge that he's not a trained killer, he's not he's not a fighter, he's not anything. He's just, you know, a machine gun, Kelly Jared, Leto Joker looking motherfucker, and so he doesn't really know how to fight. So there's some really good fight sequences that like the setup and like how it's playing out. Feels like a John Wick type fight scene, but he has no idea what he's doing, so he's just getting the shit beaten out of him and shot up, and he's kind of almost winning, because he just can't die. And I really appreciated those aspects.
James Jay Edwards:It's the Homer Simpson just let him punch you until they get too tired.
Jonathan Correia:That's, that's kind of, there's a fight sequence that takes place in a moving car where he just kind of like jumps in and they and they all start going, and they like shoot him a few dozen times throughout it, and it's just, and it's really great on how bad he was doing, but because they're just like, What the fuck? And run out of bullets, and then he's able to hit them after is really good. The final, the finale, had some good action in it, but there's just something still inherently doesn't sit right about someone in a black trench coat showing up to a packed theater with guns that in America still doesn't feel great. He comes off more Columbine shooting than like anti hero. With that, the action is still really good. There's a lot more of, you know, the you know, getting fucked up and then not being able to die, so coming back. But like, outside of that, the mythos is very muddied. The love story is very rough, like it, it just felt like it was like a the timeline felt weird, like it didn't feel like these were lifetime lovers. They felt like they had a really great week together, and then tragedy struck type deal, and so that the impact there wasn't great. But I think its biggest crime is, and I hate this when they when people do gritty reboots of things where they don't allow certain i. Iconographies of the material to come out. So the crow is very iconic for its white and black makeup. They don't really do that in this it's it comes off more like nu-metal makeup or or black metal makeup without the white, where it's just like, you know, the shadow and stuff, which, like, Fine, you know, okay. I mean, it's a little disappointing. It's kind of like how every Punisher movie, except for warzone, shies away from the skull icon, looking at you, 80s. Dolph loggin, which is a solid action film, I will defend that, but they don't use the skull. But how he gets the makeup is the stupidest thing. And I have to shout this from the rooftops, because it's he his the woman he's in love with has a tattoo that says, laugh now, cry later. And he has a stupid line where he goes, my life is more like cry now, cry later. And it's like, Fuck you for that line. But then, while, during their whole love week, he gets a he starts to get a tattoo on his hand that says, you know, laugh now, cry later on his thing. But they get they interrupt halfway of him getting the tattoo and start making out for some reason. So later on, before the so right before the finale, he's sitting there and he's looking at his unfinished tattoo, and he like, fills it in. And while after he fills it in, he goes, ink. Oh, and that's the makeup. He takes black tattoo ink, it rubs it on his face. And that's the crow makeup. And that made me want to, like, scream in the middle of that theater. I that that was just, like, just so it was just so much, yeah, dude, like it, and it's disappointing, especially when you hear about, like, all the different developments with it over the years. But I also don't think that movie's getting being given any chance. I think Lionsgate is putting absolutely no money into the marketing. Because who who remembered that that the crow remake was coming up after 20 years of development, basically, you know, I think there's some like, behind the scenes stuff going on that it is, it doesn't sound fun, but it's, it's, it's a mess. I do think that it'll, it will find its audience. I do think that it hits a very specific tone. I know at the screening where I was at, a lot of people liked it, which baffled me, but it was super not made for me, and that's okay. I hope that the audience who would like this movie finds it and enjoys it. But for me, I just yeah, I'm gonna stick with my my new 4k of Alex pro Yes, masterpiece for the time being. And maybe you know what? I'll revisit wicked prayer and City of Angels and all the other sequels that were fine but fun. Remember how there was a a crow movie with David boreanis and Edward Furlong and Tara Reid like wicked wicked prayer was a weird movie, especially for a crow film, straight to video. All
James Jay Edwards:right, well, let's end with the crow, and let's call this. I hope you guys bear with us for the during this catch up episode, but you know, we missed an episode, so you get a whole lot of us talking. Our theme music is by restless spirits. Go give them a listen. And our artwork is by Chris Fisher, so go give him a like. And you can find us on all the socials under @eyeonhorror, or at ihorror.com, which is the site we all call home. And we'll be back in a couple weeks with a real topic, we promise, and we will see you then. 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.
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