Eye On Horror
Eye On Horror
Pre-Holiday Reviews
This Week the boys are back reviewing recent release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Strange Darling, The Front Room, Megalopolis, Nosferatu with Radiohead: A Silents Synced Film, Eight Eyes, Speak No Evil, Salem's Lot 2024, A Different Man, and The Stepford Children.
Also this episode Jay has dreams about The 100, Correia kicks off his Hooptober with a Critters marathon (Critters 2 rules!!!), Jacob attends the opening Ceremonies for Beyond Fest, and the guys debate what silent films should be set to Charlie XCX. Its all New on EYE ON HORROR!!
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Welcome to eye on horror, the official podcast of ihorror.com. This is episode 133 otherwise known as season seven, Episode 14. I think we have those numbers right. I don't know. It's gets a little difficult to keep track these days. I am your host, James Jay Edwards, and with me, as always, is your other host, Jacob Davison, how you doing? Jacob? Doing
Jacob Davidson:good. Happy that it's, once again, overcasts in the city.
James Jay Edwards:Oh yeah, it's, I actually had to put a sweater on. It's a little cold today, which it has been in the
Jacob Davidson:actually feels like fall for one does
James Jay Edwards:also with us, as always, is your other, other host, Jon Correia, how you doing Correia?
Jonathan Correia:Oh, I'm doing fantastic. Just, you know, getting over my, my, my, this year's bout of covid, which was, which was real fun. Yeah, that it's, it's, it's great being immunocompromised, and like, getting covid On the one day you leave the house that week. So,
James Jay Edwards:yeah, it sounds like it hit you hard when, when I got it earlier this year, it just kind of felt like a bad cold, yeah, but it sound like it knocked you on your ass,
Jonathan Correia:yeah? The first time I got it, it was like two days of me on my ass, and then, you know, was downgraded to a cold. Second time I had, like, no symptoms. But this time, I don't know what it is, because I'm up on everything. We were actually just planning our next bout of vaccines. Anyways, yeah, it knocked me on my ass. I was, like, went Sunday through Wednesday. I was like, on the floor of my office, full on, like in Trainspotting when he's getting sober and the baby scrolling across the screen. Except my fever dreams were mostly around the movie Bottoms. For some reason, I think it's because I wanted to watch Bottoms, and I kept like kind of fever tripping that I was watching Bottoms, but I wasn't. It was really weird, but I did rewatch Bottoms once I got better. And God damn, that movie still so fucking good.
James Jay Edwards:You know, I've been having, I mentioned last time that I've been binging through The 100 and I just, I'm in the middle of the fourth season, and let me tell you it. Or excuse me, I'm in the middle of the fifth season. And the beginning of the fifth season, FONSI put on his skis. It is getting real, real close with this show, but it's gone now to more like a lost meets Game of Thrones kind of thing. And I actually have dreams about this damn show. You know when because I watch it, generally I watch a few episodes before I go to sleep at night, and it, it embeds in my subconscious, I think because I start dreaming about it. But we're not going to talk about the 100 or bottoms. We're going to talk about movies. It's been a while since we talked, but I think the big release that we've all seen is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, right? Yeah, probably, yeah. This is it was a while ago, but what do you guys think?
Jacob Davidson:I thought it was great. You know, I wouldn't have expected a Beetlejuice sequel after 30 something years. Would have been as good as it was. But Tim Burton got his groove back with this. It was a lot of fun, and Michael Keaton was on point. Of course, he also loved how practical effects heavy it was. You know, they really kind of went back to the source, not
James Jay Edwards:just Michael Keaton, but Catherine O'Hara. Oh yes, she is. She kind of steals the movie for me. So awesome. And it's funny because there's a what is, I don't even remember the guy's name, the guy that they didn't invite back the dad. Oh, Jeff. Jeffrey Jones, yeah, yeah, because of personal life stuff. Well, crime, yeah. Well, yeah, that's true more than just personal life stuff, um, but the way they dealt with him, with his the way they explained his character's death, was actually pretty hilarious.
Jonathan Correia:Well, actually, I found out that the explanation for his death because they did a whole They not only avoided him, they did, like a whole stop motion claymation thing with him. And the whole point, the whole plot of like, what they did to off his character, I guess, is reference or leftovers from back with the Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script that was around in the 90s and whatnot, and like, that was supposed to be, like, the kind of setup for that sequel. So I thought that was, that was really fun. But, yeah, I was a little worried about, like, then possibly doing too much with that. But I it was, it was some great bit. Because, like, how you have to address the elephant in the room. And yeah, Jeffrey Jones is a piece of shit. So, like, who got arrested for piece of shit crime? So yeah, you can't, you can't have him back. But like
James Jay Edwards:you said, they have to, they have to address the fact that he's not there. And rather than just kind of make it a oh, he died, and then not mention it again, like you said, they did this whole little stop motion thing. It's kind of funny that they didn't even, they did do a stop motion that was obviously him. They didn't, they didn't invite him back to shoot any they did it animation, rather than, rather than have the real guy there, which, you know, oh, that's the best case scenario,
Jonathan Correia:and they show him in the afterlife, but he just, like, doesn't have a head, so it's just like a headless body walking around the whole time.
James Jay Edwards:I don't know if it's been long enough that we could spoil that, but basically he gets bitten half by a shark, and all you see is his body with no head, with like the shark mouth, which is
Jonathan Correia:great,
Unknown:which is pretty and
Jacob Davidson:he speaks for, like, his esophageal tube just poking out,
Jonathan Correia:yeah, no, I really like Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, I had a lot of fun with it. I especially really like that. It focused on, like, you know, three generations of women, and it was weird. It felt like it was there was too much plot, but there was also not enough plot, but it also like it was just setting up set piece for set piece. But like, you know what they it was a lot of fun, so I forgive the shit out of it. And I think the main thing that I had issues with was because one of the plot, one of the many plots in it is that Winona Ryder's character's husband, who's the father of her her daughter, died years ago, and that's something that they're trying to work through. And like, they don't really do anything. Like, it's such an important plot point, and then they don't really do anything with him. Like, there's no real catharsis. There's no real thing. There's no, I don't know. It just kind of felt like they dropped the ball on that one.
Jacob Davidson:Well, he saves them, yeah, although I think it's just there was too much going on and, like, the payoffs didn't really pay off as well as they could have, because there, yeah, Is this too much going on and not enough time to really delve into every plot line. That's what
James Jay Edwards:it was. It felt like, it felt like the next three Beetlejuice sequels all in one movie, because there was just so much going on. And that was actually my issue with it is similar to what you're talking about. There was so many subplots that I don't think any of them really got adequately resolved. And the one thing that bothers me is, like, is that the stepdad, like
Jonathan Correia:Justin Thoreau's character? Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:I don't really want to go to too much detail for people who haven't seen it, but at one point, like, something happens to him and nobody cares. Like, wait a minute, this is like, this is her. They actually weren't married. Part of the, one of the plots is they're gonna get married on Halloween. He was her fiance. He was Winona Ryder's character's fiance. But, um, it was like, okay, nobody's bummed about this, all right. I mean, he was kind of a douche, but okay,
Jonathan Correia:yeah, I will say, though, there are some people that say Monica Bellucci didn't really have anything and that she's just in it because she's with Tim Burton. And I will fight anyone on that, because Monica Bellucci, first of all, her whole scene coming back and the cameo with her putting herself together was amazing because I didn't know he was in the movie. She she came to serve, she just came in, she served mother, she served face, she did her thing and got out. And I fucking loved it.
James Jay Edwards:That was one of the plots that I was like, okay, you know what you could have, and this is what I think people mean by, you know, I don't think it's anything against her, but it's the writing. You could have pulled that whole subplot out of the movie, and it wouldn't have mattered. And I think that that would have made, like, a good that would have made another sequel. You know, I think that was just one of the issues with, like, too many subplots crammed into one movie, because that one, and that was one of the ones I feel like didn't really, didn't really pay off.
Jonathan Correia:But then again, yeah, it's still a lot of fun that she
James Jay Edwards:was great. Yeah, she was, she was great. And, like you said, I love the part. You know, she's stapling herself back together. I mean, it was, you know, it was great visually, and it's a great character. I just didn't think they did what they should have. I don't think they did enough with her. I think that I would rather have seen a third movie with that being the main plot.
Jacob Davidson:So, yeah, also, I hope that Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, get. More kids in
Jonathan Correia:the Mario Bava, yeah. So I lost it when they had the poster for Kill, Baby...Kill in the background. That was great. So good. Another
James Jay Edwards:thing that I think all three of us have seen and this, I really want to talk about this, because this might be my new favorite movie of the year. Strange Darling, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:oh, yeah. That was a blast. This
James Jay Edwards:movie goes hard. This is so and it's kind of a funny story about how I saw it, because they didn't screen it for press at all, and it was on my radar because it's getting kind of a lot of a lot of chug on the internet. And one of my friends and colleagues in the Film Critics Society, he actually called me when he's getting out of it, and he said he's all, dude, this is up your alley. You have to see this movie. You have to see it. And I'm like, Well, yeah, it's on my radar. I'll see it eventually. I'll see it eventually. Well, couple of days later, he texts me, and this was Labor Day, so he's like, look, it's playing at 320 today. And I was like, Well, you know, I can't do it, you know, I can't do it, you know this afternoon, well, he texts me a few hours later and goes 820 tonight. Let's do he basically made me go see this movie, and I went and saw it with him, and he was 100% right. He was and I think part of it why he wanted me to go see it with him is because he wanted the same reason that I saw hereditary on opening night after seeing the press screening, he wanted to see my reaction to it. With him, he was known what was gonna happen, and he wanted to see my reaction. And he was 100% right. This movie is like, Don't research anything about it if you haven't already, and just go see it, because it's gonna it'll knock your socks off. It is so here's kind of what you're in for. It says at the beginning, it'll say it's a strange darlings, a thriller in six chapters. And then the next title card says chapter three. That's how you know what you're in. It kind of pulp fictions around the timeline a little bit, and that's the only way it works, because there are things that happen in chapter two that are that are better. If you've already seen chapter five, you know it's, oh my god. It's insane, though,
Jacob Davidson:and it was shot on 35 millimeter, and I was lucky enough to be able to see it play on 35 millimeter at the Hollywood Vista theater while it had its run there, and it is just a beautifully shot and colorful movie. So it was definitely best to see it theatrically if you had the chance.
James Jay Edwards:It almost feels like it's like a spiritual soulmate to In A Violent Nature, in some ways, because it has that, like Oregon woods. You know thing happening for it?
Jacob Davidson:Was it Oregon or Oklahoma? I can't remember it. Oregon
James Jay Edwards:is where strange darling is. I don't remember if Ryland nature was Oregon, but because there's like a title card at the beginning that says, you know, this is the serial killer who went up through, I think they started in Oklahoma, went up through Idaho, and ended Oregon. Yeah, that's what they said, Yeah. So it does tell you that they end what you're watching happens in Oregon.
Jonathan Correia:It's really dope. And I gotta say, the the Out Of Order Chapter thing made me kind of not iral, but may put me on caution, because I'm like, oh, man, is this another? Because remember in the 90s when there was all those Pulp Fiction knockoffs and like, so a bunch were good, but a bunch were just like, us, just stop already. And so I was a little, I was a little on edge of just like, oh no. Is this going to be like that? But I thought it was so well executed. And the reason why it's it works so well is because of the performances of Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallener, especially, will, if it's shown, who absolutely blew me away in Fall of the House of Usher last year. And she's just so phenomenal in this movie, like it really was came down to like, if she couldn't pull off the nuances of this final girl, Lady character, then this film would not have worked, and she was just so fucking good. Yeah, this movie,
James Jay Edwards:it, it's, I almost don't want to talk about it, because people need to. The less you know, the better Exactly, exactly, yeah. But again, I want to talk about it because it's so damn good, yeah,
Jonathan Correia:so go see it. Maybe, maybe, maybe Minisode. At some point, I don't,
James Jay Edwards:I was gonna say we might need to do a spoilery minisode, just so we can, just so we could talk about some of the fun stuff that happens in it. But, yeah, versus So, yeah,
Jonathan Correia:well, another new one that just came out. I don't know. Have you guys seen The Front Room? No, no,
James Jay Edwards:I did see a trailer for it when I was at Strange Darling with Josh the front room. That's the only time I see trailers, is when I accidentally see them like that. So I did see a trailer for it, and it looks like, it looks like some pretty good hagsploitation.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, let me tell you, I love y'all know me. I love hagsploitation. Yeah, Give me. Give me all your hags, Whatever Happened to Baby Janes and all the other movies that are like long sentences that are question marks at the end. Oh, absolutely love it. But The Front Room is directed by Max and Sam Edgars, who is Robert Eggers. Eggers half brothers. So, so you get two Eggers for the price of one, and it stars Brandy as as like the as the lead wife who, who has her mother in law, played by Catherine Hunter. Who, Catherine Hunter is incredible. I still need to see The Tragedy of Macbeth, because I hear she plays an amazing witch in that 100
Jacob Davidson:that's what she was from. Yeah. No, yeah. She, you know, those were some great witches in that movie. Oh
Jonathan Correia:yeah. I just saw that one clip where she's, like, laying down on the sand and is doing a lot of this that. And I was like, oh, I need to see this fucking movie. But she is incredible in The Front Room. And let me tell you the film itself. It's, it's, I it's one of those, I want to say it's an actor's movie, because her and brandy are just carry that entire film and their interactions, and Catherine and Hunter just like, Absolutely, like, bringing such dimensions to her CAG or her hag character, while also serving some of the best one liners in it. Like, there's, there's whole bits where, because it's about the guy's father dies and he had a very rough childhood with his stepmother, and like, the contingency of like them getting the inherent is letting her move in, and as soon as she moves in, she's like, you know, pressuring, uh, religion on them. There's like, subtle hints of, like, racism with her. I
James Jay Edwards:was gonna say it sounds like she's racist towards brandy too. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:there's no like overt. It's all like subtle things. So there's a lot of like things where it's just like, I shoot fucking with them, and then, like, yeah, it, of course, continues to escalate to
James Jay Edwards:trailer. Doesn't make it look subtle at all. It
Jonathan Correia:starts subtle and then it doesn't, but it's really good. There's a but it's, it's very grounded. It doesn't. I feel like the trailer makes it seem like it's going to become some, like, Rosemary's Baby finale or something. But it really is. It's really just like, you know, if you've ever had to deal with, like, elderly, uh, folks with, you know, declining health, uh, both mental and physical. It takes those to the extremes, but like, it's just really good. I highly recommend it as, like, you know when it comes to because I think it went to theaters and then bailed out pretty quick, because not a lot of people are seeing it, but it's
James Jay Edwards:already on VOD. It's you can already see it at home. So, yeah, they didn't put it in, and it's A24, right? Yes, yeah. So it's, it's interesting that they didn't really give it much of a theatrical shot. But yeah, better for those of us who don't like to leave the house, I guess,
Jonathan Correia:yeah, especially as since our our crowd for it sucked, like there was people in our road non stop talking and giving commentary. I did not need an MST3K style commentaries throughout that movie, but I was given it against my will. But yes, I do, I do highly recommend it, and I just can't wait to see what drag show performances come out of this, because there's some iconic stuff of like, Catherine hunter with like, two crutches, just like doing a don't dunk across the room, and then she's like, I made a mess, M, E, Double S, mass, and she's got shit piss all over. Oh, drag queens will eat that up.
James Jay Edwards:Speaking of Catherine Hunter, and this isn't really horror, so I don't want to take a whole lot of time, but it's definitely something people should keep an eye on. Megalopolis. Have you guys seen Megalopolis? not
Jacob Davidson:yet, but I do want to make my way out to see it. This is
James Jay Edwards:see it on the biggest climax screen you can find. Because here's the thing with Megalopolis, if you're not familiar, it's Francis Ford Coppola's new movie, and he has been making this movie, developing and writing this movie, since the early 80s. This is like a 40 year project for him. And the thing is, with it, it is Catherine Hunter is actually, is in it. She's one of the central figures mother. But everybody and their mothers in this. But Jon Voight is in it. Shia LaBeouf is in it, with the most amazing mullet wig, I mean, you thought the Love Lies Bleeding mullets were awesome. Oh, wait until you see Shia LaBeouf in Megalopolis. But Aubrey Plaza, our girl is in it, and also Grace Vanderwall is in it. Their characters. Aubrey plaza's character is Wow Platinum and Grace Van der Paul. This is Vesta Sweetwater. It's Oh, it's insane, but Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito and Natalie Emmanuel are the three main leads. And it's kind of a telling of the fall of Rome, kind of a thing. It's actually set in New Rome, which is a thinly veiled New York City. And this is just this massively ambitious movie. Story wise, it gets a little messy at times, but visually, it is a feast, and that's why you need to see it on a huge screen. I mean, the sets are just grandiose and the costumes are lavish and the visual effects are, I mean, it's a it's, it feels like a superhero movie without any superhero scenes. I mean, it's just this, you know, massively surreal. It's eye candy. It's, you know, and the cast is something that only Coppola could throw together. I mean, for this thing, I mean, like Dustin Hoffman has a bit part. You're like, what is that Dustin Hoffman? So anyway, but yeah, megalopolis. It's a Not, not really horror, but and very of its time, considering it's been in the cooker for 40 years, it is. There's a lot of what's going on today that you can see in this movie. There's something weird that happened at the screening I was at. I was at a screening that there was like a Q&A with Coppola De Niro and Spike Lee at the beginning. And I don't know, I don't know if they're gonna do this at every screening of it in theaters, but it was like a, like a preview screening, and at one point, about halfway through the movie, there's like a press conference in the movie, and they had an actor stand up in the audience and use a mic and ask the question, and then Adam Driver, on screen answered it. So it was like, like, a multimedia kind of thing, and, you know? And it was kind of interesting, because where the actor was standing, Adam driver was like, looking at him, like he was looking at him through the screen. It was really interesting. And I'm wondering how they're going to do that, if they're going to do that for every screening. I mean, do they have the budget to hire an actor to sit into every single screening of this damn movie everywhere, or is there like, a different cut that they're going to show? But it was really, it was, it was kind of interesting. And it was about the halfway point of the movie where you're kind of and not really losing interest, but settling in, and all of a sudden you're like, oh, okay, now you got my attention again. It
Jonathan Correia:was kind of cool. That's what I love about this era of Coppola, because Coppola is with his wine business and everything. He's at the point where he's like, You know what? I'm going to continue experimenting. Like, remember twist, yeah, Twixt, or Twixt, and how, how he traveled with that and would do live editing while Dan Deacon was live scoring that like, I love I got to respect the shit out of Coppola for still trying to push the envelope on like, what the theatrical experience is. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:and he, he talked about in the Q&A, he sold one of his wine businesses to finance Megalopolis, which he said that he got lucky because he sold he basically sold it because his kids didn't want to run it and he wanted it to keep running, so he sold it in order for it to keep running. But he ended up getting enough money to make Megalopolis out of the deal. So it ended up good on both fronts. The wine business keeps going, and he got to make his passion project,
Jonathan Correia:which good for him, because I do remember that they were going to do Megalopolis in the early 2000s and then 9/11 happened, and that kind of, like, threw it, shut it down. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:this movie has been being developed through some major life events. It's, you know, it's gone through, like you said, 9/11 it's gone through covid. It's gone through the Trump presidency. I mean, this, this, and you can see all these influences in what goes on. But it is a retelling of the catalinarian rebellion of the Roman Empire, kind of a thing like the the main characters are named Cicero and Catalina. So you can tell, you know, if you know your Roman history, okay, this is where they're going with this, you know. But it's also very Shakespearean. In places, it's, it's, it's just a really ambitious and, in some places, indulgent movie. But, I mean, he's Coppola. He can get as ambitious and indulgent as he wants. You know, it's his opus. Yeah, he's one of the few filmmakers that will take you know. I mean, think how ambitious and indulgent Scorsese's been his last few movies. You know, again, they deserve it. Yeah, exactly. They're one of the few that can pull it off Absolutely.
Jacob Davidson:And on my end, I saw a very unique theatrical screening. There is a new cut of Nosferatu going on, where it's said entirely to the music of RadioHead. Have you guys heard about this? Is this the original Nosferatu, the 19 the original knows FW murna knows farazu, with a all Radiohead soundtrack. Okay, it's amazing.
James Jay Edwards:Is this existing Radiohead songs or radio Yes, it is existing Radiohead songs. So Johnny Greenwood and Tom York didn't come out of retirement or, you know, or come out. They didn't bring the band back to do this.
Jacob Davidson:No, no, no, no. It's made from two of their albums. Kid A and Amnesiac.
Jonathan Correia:That's awesome. That sounds like how in the 80s there was that cut
Jacob Davidson:Metropolis score set to like Queen and Freddie Mercury. Yeah. That was
Jonathan Correia:produced by Giorgio Moroders. It's
James Jay Edwards:gonna say, didn't, didn't Marauder do that. I guess maybe he just picked the songs. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:he, he produced it, and they did, they did a bunch of, like, coloring and things of that nature. It's a fun cut. I love when those type of projects come about. Is Radiohead actually like involved with it, or is it somebody else on the rights or,
Jacob Davidson:I'm not entirely sure, but there it is, like I said, from their albums, Kidd a and amnesiac, and it's this new company, silent synced, where they're going to do like silent movies set to more modern music. And I think we'll focus on kind of alternate rock, like Radiohead. I forget some of the other stuff they said they were going to have lined up, but, yeah, no, the but Nosferatu set to Radiohead was really mesmerizing, like, it really drew me in. And, yeah, and, and, yeah, no, it's those albums. Kid, amnesiac, so unfortunately, no creep, although that would have been perfect.
James Jay Edwards:No, that's, that's Pablo honey. We so you're saying we're going to get a Battleship Potemkin set to Rage Against the Machine. I'd watch that. I would watch the hell out of that. Or, even better, Strike set to Rage Against the Machine. It
Jonathan Correia:could happen. I just can't wait to hear see some like Buster Keaton set to like Billy Eilish or Charlie XCX or something. Think that would be pretty fucking great.
Jacob Davidson:I'd like to see Buster Keaton set to weird. Al, Jacob, I was
James Jay Edwards:just gonna say weird. Al,
Jonathan Correia:oh, The General set to Dare to Be Stupid. I mean, come on,
Jacob Davidson:that would be, it's right there.
Jonathan Correia:Remember how in Transformers, the animate, the animated movie, there's like a big action set piece, set to Dare to Be Stupid.
Jacob Davidson:Oh yeah,
Jonathan Correia:Autobot, like this big epic battle, fight scene, and you just hear to be stupid. It's like, what is happening?
Jacob Davidson:What it was a choice,
Jonathan Correia:Jacob, I know you said you were thinking about participating, but Did you are you participating in Hooptober this year?
Jacob Davidson:Did it already start?
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, it starts September 15. Oh, well, then I missed it. Well, it's still well, if you guys don't know, Hooptober is a 31 movies in 31 days for Halloween. But because, you know, we're all adults that have schedules, it starts. It can, you can start September 15, so you still have time Jacob, because you can technically start it october 1 or wherever. But they have a really great set of rules with it that include, like, you know, eight different countries, different decades, things of that nature. And so I started a bit earlier, and my covid about, kind of helped out a little bit and getting a good rush. But, you know, one of the requirements was to watch an entire franchise that had more than four movies. And so I went, you know what? This is a great opportunity to finally watch Critters, because I never watched the Critters movies. And
James Jay Edwards:you know what's funny? There's, well, not me, my dog on Instagram. My dog follows this influencer in Canada who is also doing Hooptober and and she chose Critters as well. So it's kind of funny that Critters is like the franchise to choose. Sorry, didn't mean interrupt you. Oh
Jonathan Correia:no, you're golden. I had so much fun with the Critters movies. I gotta say, though, Critters 2, direct by Mick Garris, is the best of the franchise. It truly is the Gremlins 2 or Ghoulies 2 of the Critters franchise grant, basically, if you have little if your entire movie revolves around little shit creatures that are just, like, causing chaos, the second one is always going to be the best of the franchise, I think. And it's really good. The first four, I love. I had so much fun with them. There's such little shits. But, yeah, that's, there's, there's been a lot of, like, good revelations with that. And timing wise, it worked out really well because two of my requirements, uh, ended up involving Michelle Saovi films, The Sect and The Church, which are, oh, yeah, those
Jacob Davidson:are bangers. Oh,
Jonathan Correia:they're such bangers. I mean, he really was, like, the last. Soldier On the island that's still fighting a war that ended a decade prior. When it comes to Italian horror films in the 90s, like he those films, they I have to admit, especially with those two, he really knows how to start a movie, usually with some form of a massacre, and then he knows how to end it, and then in between, that is just weird, and choices are made, and there's, there's so much fun. But those were perfect leads into watching Eight Eyes. Have you guys seen Eight Eyes?
Jacob Davidson:Yeah, Eight Eyes, yeah, not yet, but I've been mean to I saw they just added it to Shudder. Yeah.
James Jay Edwards:Eight eyes is, is the culmination of two of our podcast friends, the Justin's, Martell and La liberty. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:yeah. It's based on a concept by Martell, who also produced it. It was one of like three or four films he produced out in Serbia.
James Jay Edwards:I was gonna say he hangs out. He hangs out in Serbia a lot, because this one, yeah, does he know Serbian?
Jonathan Correia:I you'll have to ask him. I just know he knows how to get into all the countries that we don't know much about
James Jay Edwards:but, but it seemed like this one the the entire crew and some of the cast were all Serbian. And I'm like, oh yeah. How does he communicate? I mean, maybe they all know English. I would imagine that it's more likely that other countries would know English than we would know Serbian. But this is also Justin. I can see him known Serbian.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, dude. I mean, he's told me some stories, and it's always great hearing whenever he comes from, like, some Western European country, or that was at one point under the iron curtains, and hearing like the stories of like, generationals. And anyways, it's really phenomenal. Like I said, he produced it. But it's also CO production with vinegar syndrome, so it's their first, like, in house, original production. Original exactly, and it really, it's, it's, it's just so much fun. It's bright in those veins of those, like 70s Italian horror films.
James Jay Edwards:It's a complete 70s Italian horror film. It not really a rip an homage, because it is, I mean, it's an original story. It does, it's not, I mean, it's, it doesn't like, rip off the stories, but it rips off the look right down to the rotoscoping. It's it's, oh, it's insane, Yeah, completely
Jonathan Correia:shot on film on 16 and 35 and all these other formats. But it's about an American couple that is vacationing in Serbia, and they meet this very charming but very menacing character named St Peter.
James Jay Edwards:Was he really charming. He was kind of creepy, but he charmed them.
Jonathan Correia:I'll admit Justin. Justin sent me a cut of it about a year ago or so, and I watched it, and in the second viewing, like I really was mesmerized by Bruno, who played, my apologies, I will butcher if I try his last name, but the actor, Bruno, who played St Peter, by his performance, because he really was, like, there was there was charm. He really was charming. At times. He really was, like, had this underlying menacingness to him. He just like, yeah, was very captivating. And I can see it because oftentimes when you watch movies where it's like, couple in a foreign land that it's hard to believe that they would put themselves in this situation. But he's just so like, he does have this charm, but he's very persistent as well. And so like, you understand how, like, they could kind of get dragged into this very weird weird, because it really does go like, very weird family, like Texas Chainsaw, and it
James Jay Edwards:goes into Hostel territory in places too. You're like, Yeah, I mean, yeah, but yeah, The Texas Chainsaw family thing falls into it too. It's
Jonathan Correia:that whole last act is very, very influenced, like, if you like The Beyond. It's very in that way, if you like a lot of like Fulci's work. And the score is phenomenal. It's by this group called Mariconne Youth. I
James Jay Edwards:hard. I kind of know that one of the dudes from I don't know him super well, but this composer is Devin Goldberg, who he was in a band down here called creedal and, and when I saw his name pop up, I'm like, oh, fuck yeah, he's still doing movie scores, because I hadn't seen one, but yet, the group he composes for is Moriconne Youth and, and I was waiting to see if, like, maybe some of the other creedal guys, or anybody else was in it. So I waited for the end credits. And I don't know any of the other guys who played on it, but the guy who recorded it, I went to college with, his name's Ben Moore, and he he's an engineer and a producer now, but he's also a badass keyboard player. But anyway, yeah, so I kind of know the some of the music people behind that, but you're right, the score is like, it has all these weird. Vocalization, looping and, and it's almost like at times, it almost seems like Morricone. Like, like, like, Western, it's very
Jonathan Correia:heavily influenced by Morricone and Goblin, which, you know, those are two of my favorites. So, like, Yeah, you had me when that Synth went hard in certain places. So, yeah, if you love films like The Sect, The Church, you know, the The Beyond eight eyes. And
James Jay Edwards:if you love movies with good scores, is this, I wonder if the score is gonna hit. I mean, it
Jacob Davidson:just got released on vinyl today. Actually, really,
James Jay Edwards:what? Who did it? I was gonna say it won't be shipped to shore rip, but, um, it's not wax work, though. Is it?
Jacob Davidson:No, hold. Hold on. I just saw it posted Morricone youth. They're selling it off of the website.
James Jay Edwards:Okay, so did they press it themselves?
Jacob Davidson:I guess. Okay, well, yeah, right. Well,
James Jay Edwards:that's, hey, that's that. That's awesome because they because the score is great, I need to track that down. Yeah, well,
Jacob Davidson:it's available now, or rather, available for pre order. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:go get the score. Watch it on shudder. Vinegar Syndrome also put out a gorgeous blu ray with slip cover case, all that fun jazz, all those features that you would expect from Vi Vinegar Syndrome. And, yeah, check it out. And also, don't keep an eye out, because the next Martell Vinegar Syndrome collaboration Black Eyed Susan is coming soon as well. They just announced and released a trailer for that. So yeah, did
James Jay Edwards:you guys see the new Speak No Evil?
Jacob Davidson:No, not yet.
Jonathan Correia:I feel like I have, because that trailer has been playing before every fucking movie over the last seven months,
Jacob Davidson:I think I've seen at least 25 times. I
James Jay Edwards:don't watch trailers, but just the number of times I've accidentally seen it because of movies that I've had to go see in the theater. Like, they played it for Strange Darling, they played it before Trap. They played it before In a Violent Nature. You know, I've seen that trailer so many times. It is a remake of the Danish movie that is on Shudder from just a few years ago. But this is like an English language version. This isn't just like Michael hanaki remaking his movie with an A list cast in English, though the first two acts is pretty straight forward with the Danish one, and this is James McAvoy and blank on McKenzie Davis, this one is so it does have, like an A list cast, and it is in English, but it is the first two acts follow pretty, pretty straight. It's about these two families that meet while they're on vacation, and one of them invites the other to their farm, and they go and of course, you know it nothing goes it goes bad. Yeah, it really goes bad. The third act is completely different. It's complete and it's the guy, I think his name's James Watkins. He did that Daniel Radcliffe movie from like, 10 years ago, The Woman in Black. He did the woman in black. I think he purposely wanted to make, he basically Hollywoodized the ending of this movie. Because, whereas the original is just real nihilistic and and just depressing, this one is a little more like there's a little more fight in the the quote victims is so it becomes more of like a typical it's almost like a home invasion movie, but the people being invaded are the ones. Are the guests. It's that kind of a thing, but it's it's really interesting. It's pretty well done. I was glad that they didn't just do a straight remake of it, because, I mean, who needs that if it's just, I mean, unless you're Michael Hanaki doing it, no one wants to see that, but it is different enough that it's cool. Yeah, I
Jacob Davidson:was interested in checking it out, because, honestly, I wasn't even really a big fan of the original. See No Evil. But I've had friends who said this version was more interesting, so I'd like to give it a chance. It
James Jay Edwards:was, if your problem with the original Speak No Evil was the third act, definitely see this because, yeah, because it
Jacob Davidson:wasn't even that. It was nihilistic or brutal. It's just, I felt like the characters were undeveloped and, you know, just the theme was off point what they were going for in the original finished version. So I'd like to see you have another go with this American version.
James Jay Edwards:You might, you might like this one better, because it does delve into the characters, especially the guests who in this one. They're Americans that moved to London, but, but, yeah, those ones that they are more well developed. And I was, I was bummed when in the trailer, it looks like the trailer, knowing the original one, it looks like the trailer gives away a massive spoiler, but it's not really. Really, it's not as massive of a spoiler in this one as it would have been in the original. So even if you've seen the trailer 20 times, you it won't really spoil what the the fun stuff. And James McAvoy, holy cow, that guy. Ah, there's nothing he can't do. He looks like he even bulked up for this, even more than, well, even more than for Split. He looks like, like, there's points where he's running around and just a tank top, and you're like, is that CG? He looks like the freaking Hulk, but yeah, it's, it's pretty crazy. And
Jacob Davidson:also, on my end, the best time of year has finally begun. It's beyond fest one and all. Yeah, oh yes. For those who don't know, Beyond Fest is the annual genre based Film Festival that the American Cinematheque does, and it's going to be, quite literally, the biggest one ever, because we've got the Aero Egyptian and Los Feliz theaters screening movies every day for over two weeks straight. What
James Jay Edwards:is because? Because I feel like almost every screening you go to, you say, is a Beyond Fest screening. Do they do screenings throughout the year? But then, yeah, they do screenings
Jacob Davidson:throughout the year. They just, this is the actual festival. Like Beyond Fest as an organization, does do okay screenings basically at least once or twice a month, give or take, especially with newer releases. But Beyond Fest, the actual festival is like always late September and early October, and they kick things off with a hell of a bang, like we did a screening of RRR on Tuesday with the one of the lead stars, NTR there, because we're also screening his new movie,
Devara:Part 1 last night. And things really kicked off last night at the Aero with the world premiere, and I think only theatrical screening of the brand new Salem's Lot adaptation. How was it? Did
Jonathan Correia:you watch it? I
Jacob Davidson:did watch it, and actually I thought it was pretty solid. I was surprised that they were able to fit it into one hour and 55 minute movie.
James Jay Edwards:That's my question, is, because the the original, it was like a mini series, wasn't it?
Jacob Davidson:Yeah, well, the original two parties, and then it was the 2000s mini series. And yeah, so it's a lot to do, but they did, I will say they did take some creative changes to the to the story, especially in the second half. But they were, they were, they were fun. And, you know, kept me on my toes, because, again, it's been adapted twice, and there was a sequel to the original by Larry Cohen. And the books, the books been out forever. Oh, that was the other cool thing, like the first 100 people to go to the screening God a free copy of Stephen King's Salem's Lot the novel. That's awesome, yeah, and I'm glad I got one, because I've always wanted to read it. So finally I can sit down and do it. But, yeah, yeah, no, it's just, it's a damn shame that it's only going to be streaming, because, you know, it's a Max thing, you know, WB, Max, because originally was supposed to be theatrical, and then, like, there was. So it got shelfed for God knows how many years, and people were afraid it was going to get axed for a tax break. So at the very least, you know, it's hitting streaming october 3, so you can see it, which, you know, thank God for that.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, I will, don't you, don't you worry. I fucking love Salem's Lot, and I'm so excited for beyond Fest this year. We before we got before we got sick, we were like, first in line online to get tickets. And unfortunately, the screening of Speed with the original director and Keanu Reeves and Sandy Bullock sold out like immediately, but we were able to get tickets to tomorrow's screening of the new Shush, cut of Hush, oh, I'm
Jacob Davidson:going to that too.
Jonathan Correia:Oh yeah, with Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel there. Oh yes, yeah, that's going to be a lot of fun. I already have the 4k pre ordered, but very excited for that screening. And then on Sunday, I didn't even realize these screenings were happening at the same place on the same day, so it's going to be a long ass day, but we got tickets to the Sam Raimi triple feature, which is probably the best triple feature of Sam Raimi you could do. You got Darkman, you
Jacob Davidson:got The Quick and The Dead. You got Drag Me To Hell, exactly. And
Jonathan Correia:I rarely ever see screenings of any of those movies, let alone all three together. So I'm excited. And
Jacob Davidson:Sam Raimi himself is going to be there, and they're going to play a short film by his daughter.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, really, I didn't know about the short film. That's also, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:it's gonna be, I think either before, in between the movies,
Jonathan Correia:that's a good way to get people to see your daughter's films. Put three of your bangers out. Look.
Jacob Davidson:Sam Raimi is a good dad. You know, hey, I
Jonathan Correia:this is the year of good dad filmmakers. But. Between him and Shyamalan, like, just promoting the shit out of their daughters. I
James Jay Edwards:was gonna say Shyamalan basically making a movie so his daughter can have a concert film. Sure. Love
Jonathan Correia:it. Oh, love it. You'll
Jacob Davidson:love to see it. Yeah. And then also, you're doing The Fall that night too, with the new, yeah,
Jonathan Correia:yeah, the new 4k restoration of The Fall. So that's going to be four movie or five with the short film, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:and I'm doing that full run myself. You are, yeah, I will be there.
Jonathan Correia:Can you help keep me awake? Because, like, I can't really have energy drinks right now. Do
Jacob Davidson:I? Can I have permission to poke you with a stick? Uh,
Jonathan Correia:small, yeah. Sure,
Jacob Davidson:okay, because I'll be, I'll be poking you. Okay, just
Jonathan Correia:no tender spots. No tender spots. All right, wouldn't be the first time. Let's, let's not forget the Beyond Fest screening where I got shot in the nards at a Monster Squad screen. You
Jacob Davidson:sure did with, with a T shirt cannon. Of course, it's
Jonathan Correia:beyond fest. Of course it was a t shirt cannon.
Jacob Davidson:Oh yeah. Well, for listeners, we got to give context, because you just said you were shot in the nards like, oh yeah. We need to tell them beyond we're shot with. Beyond
Jonathan Correia:fest is more obsessed with T shirt cannons than a fucking hockey rink. They love their T shirt cannons. They love shooting T shirts and yeah, at a screening of Wolf Mans Got nards and Monster the documentary about Monster Squad and Monster Squad, they asked if anyone wanted to get shot in the nards with the t shirt cannon. And I think I was not only the first to raise my hand, but the most enthusiastic. And so, yeah, got Sean shot me in the in the nards with a T shirt cannon. And it was great. And I still have that Cronenberg For President shirt to this day. Me too. I
Jacob Davidson:was wearing it last night, mine last night too. Also, Jonathan's got. Nards I had,
Jonathan Correia:I don't know about anymore after that, one
James Jay Edwards:more thing that I saw that isn't quite horror, but I still think people really need to see it. You guys heard about A Different man?
Jacob Davidson:Uh, yes, I've heard about it. I've been interested in seeing it. It
James Jay Edwards:is. It's really interesting. It and it kind of walks the line of horror, because, because it, it kind of walks a lot of lines. It's sort of a black comedy and like an intellectual drama. But it also does kind of go into psychological horror. It's about a guy who has this facial deformity. He's played by Sebastian Stan, and he he's like a struggling actor, and then he goes in for this, this experimental medical procedure that basically fixes his face, and he starts looking like Sebastian Stan, and his neighbor is a struggling playwright, and she, when he gets his new face, he basically starts a new life, and he changes his name, and he starts selling real estate instead of, you know, acting. And his neighbor, the playwright, misses her friend, so she writes a play about the old him, and he goes and auditions for the part of himself. And his big competition for it is another, another actor who has that facial bee formation. It's played by Adam Pearson, who is, he was the guy in under the skin who escaped from Scarlett Johansson, initially, who has the facial D formations, but he's also been in a couple of other movies, but the director, Adam schimberg, he Adam Pearson, is now his his muse, kind of because he wrote this movie for him. And it's weird, because there's, there's even a little discussion in it about exploitation. And where do you draw the line? You know, because it's ostensibly about this woman's play. Her name's Ingrid, and she's played by the woman from the worst person in the world, and she's discussing, she's all, you know. Do I Find somebody with this condition to play the part of this person, or do I use makeup? You know, she's all because would it be exploitational to use a person with that condition you know, or hire the most talented actor you know that can pull it off with makeup, kind of a thing. And that discussion kind of parallels what is going on in the movie, too. But honestly, the Adam Pearson character, his name's Oswald, he's probably the most redeemable character in the movie. And I'm really glad that that they've given this actor a role he can chew on, because the character is, like, super intelligent, super charming, super talented. And the only thing is he's got this weird, this face thing going on. But you when you see beyond that, you're like, Oh, this guy has it going on, you know, and, and that's kind of the point of the whole movie, is, like, you know, the this quote, Monster is really the only relatable character in the movie. But it, it's a it, honestly, Adam Pearson there, there are two front runners for Oscars in my. Opinion, Best Supporting Adam Pearson for a different man and Best Actor, Coleman Domingo and Sing, sing, those are the front runners. You heard it here first.
Jacob Davidson:Oh, yeah, no, Coleman Domingo was amazing in Sing, sing, so I'd be interested in
James Jay Edwards:comparing. Well, they'll be in different categories, because Sebastian Stan is the is the lead in a different man, right? Adam Pearson. Adam Pearson steer steals the movie, though.
Jonathan Correia:Well, before we head out, I just want to let everyone know it's okay. I did it so you don't have to. And I watched all the Stepford Wives sequels this past except for Husbands. I cannot track down a copy of Husbands outside of paying $40 for a VHS tape. But I did, for whatever reason, a found out that there are made for TV sequels to the original Stepford Wives. There's three of them. There's Revenge Of, The Stepford children, and then The Stepford Husbands. And you don't need to watch them. It's fine. It's base, like, Revenge Of The Stepford Wives is basically a made for TV rehash of the first movie with, like, maybe a little bit of continuation. It's fine. It does kind of end with a lot of The Stepford Wives kind of just beating the shit out of people, which is fun, but that's about it. But that's not what we're here to talk about. We're here to talk about The Stepford Children, because that film you need to track down and watch. I believe there's a copy on the Internet Archive, not to promote that type of viewing. But there is, seek it out. It's amazing. It opens, it's, it's, it's the same plot that you've seen a bajillion times with The Stepford Wives. But there it's the teenagers, and the writing for the teenagers at the beginning of this movie, they're, you know, typical angsty teenagers. The dialog is clearly written by someone who's middle aged to sound like a teenager played by a 20 something year old, and it is incredible. It is after school special this. This isn't a costume. It's a lifestyle, but way worse type of angst. But the real highlight is towards the end, it just goes off the rails, because the separate wives always had that weird like, wait, are they fully replacing people with robots? Are they cloning them? Are they just reprogramming the bodies? It's a little confusing. And they kind of like show in the first movie that it is, but definitely in the sequels, they lost their way of, like, explaining what the fuck are the Stepford Wives. But in the third one, they fully show you what they were doing, and it's they don't fully explain if it's like full robot or full clone, because there's some weirdness. But the fact that I did go into some like, body horror stuff in this 87 made for TV movie. It's just really cool. And then it just abruptly ends. It's, it's great. It's a fun watch. So yes, highly recommend The Stepford Children
James Jay Edwards:Cool. Well, with that, let's, let's call this one an episode. Sorry we lied dia about saying we were going to come back in two weeks with a topic, because it was a month and we had no topic. But maybe next time, I don't know, you can't trust me. We, except you can trust me when I say that our theme music is by restless spirit, so go give them a listen, and our artwork is by Chris Fisher, so go give him a like, and that you can find us on all of the socials under eye on horror, or at ihorror.com, which is the site we all call home. And yeah, that's gonna do it for this episode. So I hope you like hearing us talk, because that was a lot of what this was. And we'll see you. We'll see you next time. I'm just gonna say that to not make a liar out of me. So for me, James J Edwards,
Jacob Davidson:I'm Jacob Davison And I'm Jonathan Correia.
James Jay Edwards:Keep your eye on horror.
