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This episode, the boys attend the 2024 Screamfest Festival. From World premieres to legacy screenings. The boys review a truly stunner of a lineup of new horror films showcased at Screamfest including Carved, Mr. Crocket, In the Name of God, Scared Shitless, Anthropophagus Legacy, The Witch. Revenge, The Complex Forms, Witte Wieven (Heresy), and BA!
The boys also review new releases with Terrifier 3, Smile 2, Rebel Ridge, Venom The Last Dance, Rumours, Street Trash 2024, AfAId, and Correia attends his first Gwar Show! 2024 is truly the year cinemas became goopy again. Its all new on Eye on Horror!
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Welcome to eye on horror, the official podcast of eyehorror.com this is episode 135 otherwise known as season seven. Episode 16, with a question mark. I am your host, James Jay Edwards, and with me, as always, is your other host, Jacob Davison, how you doing? Jacob,
Jacob Davidson:exhausted. I've been I've been just at screenings almost every day this month, and been trying to Halloween it up constantly. So I have just been going 110% this October.
James Jay Edwards:Well, that's the best time to do it. I guess also with us, as always, is your other other host, Jon Correia, how you doing? Correia,
Jonathan Correia:oh, doing great. Super, great. This is definitely not the busiest time of the year at all for lots of things to be popping off. In addition, fantastic. So you know, just Yeah, I have a lot of energy drinks, and I'll be consuming all of them.
James Jay Edwards:You know what hasn't been, uh, busy this year. Where's our Halloween movie this year? There's the closest we've got, Terrifier 3. Yeah, terrifier Three. Did either you guys see terrifier Three?
Jacob Davidson:Oh, yeah, I saw three.
James Jay Edwards:Ah. How is it? As if we need to ask, I mean, those terrifying movies, just one out, I
Jacob Davidson:will say it lived up to the hype. Although, what does it say about me that I ate an entire buffalo chicken pizza while watching it?
Jonathan Correia:Oh, not just a not just a big slice, but like a whole ass pizza. Yes, nice.
Jacob Davidson:I mean, it was Alamo, so it was like, you know, like a mini pizza. But yeah, so I ate and ate a pizza while watching Terrifier 3.
Jonathan Correia:That's fine. I was eating the entire time during The Substance. The only time I paused was Dennis Quaid eating shrimp.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah, that was, that was gross. But yeah,
Jonathan Correia:Terrifier 3 my biggest question, oh, I have two. Does it continue having a plot? Because that was one of the things I really enjoyed about the second one was that there was lore building, and it wasn't just kill after kill, and it doesn't, you don't have to get into spoilery with it. But does Art kill someone that isn't a woman? Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:no, he kills a lot of dudes in this one. Okay, cool, because that listen to the greatest criticism. That's one of the
Jonathan Correia:things I really appreciate about what Damien and the team are doing, is it does feel like every movie, they are not only building upon what's already been established, but like, there's you see improvements, you see it building. So even if like the first one wasn't really my cup of tea, I did enjoy the second one a lot. So I do want to see the third one.
James Jay Edwards:Yep, I just haven't gotten around to it yet, but I will, because I, I mean, believe it or not, I enjoyed the terrifier movies.
Jacob Davidson:Well, I do feel like they keep getting better because I did not like the first one. And I, yeah, I did not like the first one, but I do feel like they progressively get better and better, like I like to a bit more and then, yeah, third might be my favorite so far.
James Jay Edwards:All right, do you guys get to Smile 2? Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:I saw smile too.
James Jay Edwards:What'd you think? Um,
Jacob Davidson:you know, I thought the first one was okay. And again, you know, it's another instance of a horror sequel improving on the first one. Because I do think that this one stood out a lot more and was more interesting than the first
James Jay Edwards:one. I thought that this was pretty much a rehash of the first one. I really, really liked the first one. And Smile two, I think, is, I mean, it's a well made movie. It, it really kind of raises the bar Gore wise, even though there isn't a there's nothing as traumatizing as the cat scene from the first one. And if you've seen it, you know what I mean. But you know, it just seemed like, kind of like a rehash, just, it's a different character in a different profession, but all the same things happen. I did like the scene. Basically what it is. It's the same as Smile one, except the main character, instead of being a psychologist, is a teen pop star, and maybe not teen, early 20 she's like, this is Smile Taylor's version. Like, if Trap was American Psycho Taylor version. And there's one scene where all of her backup dancers come after her with, like the smile. And I really liked that scene a lot. But the pop scenes,
Jonathan Correia:because that's the thing that I mainly want from Smile 2. Did they? Did they bop? Were they great? I. Yeah. What
James Jay Edwards:do you mean the music scenes?
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, that,
James Jay Edwards:Oh yeah, yeah. Actually,
Jacob Davidson:I did have a pretty good soundtrack.
James Jay Edwards:The music is way better than Trap. I thought, yeah, Sky
Jacob Davidson:Riley is better than Lady Raven. You say, yeah, yes,
James Jay Edwards:I'm a Yeah, I'm Team Sky Riley.
Jacob Davidson:Oh, that's gonna get us some controversial comments,
James Jay Edwards:hey. But you know what? I I love Shyamalan as a filmmaker, though. So just because, you know, I think that Sky's music is better than Lady Ravens. You know, I don't know, although I do, here's my take on it. I want Parker Finn to make a movie that's not a Smile movie, because I don't know that the concept can support as big of a franchise as they want to make this. But I think he's an amazing director. He the dude knows how to make a movie, which he's proven with the two Smile movies. So, yeah, yeah. Give us something else.
Jacob Davidson:No, I agree, like a lot of it was kind of rehashing, and the premise itself is kind of confining. So, yeah, I mean, they're definitely going to do another one, because, you know, just with how these movies go and how successful it was, so we'll probably get a Smile three, which probably be like smile, but the E and Smile is a three I'm calling that now. Look mark this.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, absolutely. Smile in space. In space, no one can hear you Smile.
Jacob Davidson:There you go.
James Jay Edwards:Smile goes to college.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah, that is the traditional part threes.
Jonathan Correia:You got it? Have you guys seen Rebel Ridge?
Jacob Davidson:Oh, I did. I was at the big theatricals, and I think like only theatrical screening at the Egyptian back in September, that's
James Jay Edwards:the new Jeremy Saulnier, right? Yes, it is. Yep.
Jonathan Correia:I hate you so much for seeing that on the big screen, Jacob, because I knew I was gonna like the movie. Because, I mean, he it's the same director who did green room and Blue Ruin as well as Murder Party, which is finally getting a Blu ray release. Yes, I can looking forward to that blu ray, but Rebel Ridge was so fucking good. It was the basic the basic premise is its First Blood. It's modern First Blood. It's this former Marine confronts corrupt Sheriff Department led by Don Johnson. The main character is played by Aaron Pierre, and holy shit is he, not only really good, but that is a very attractive man. That is a very he's gonna play Jon Stewart in the Green Lanterns teen TV show. And those eyes man piercing. But his whole thing was that he was a he trained the Marines in close combat, and so the parallels to First Blood are amazing, because the body count is similar to first blood, ie, he just takes people down, and it leads to some of the most intense butt clenching suspense, because you don't know how others are gonna react and how he's gonna get out of the situation. And it just in the build ups are always there. And Don Johnson, my God, I love it when that man plays a villain, because he he just chews it all up. And really, really, just like, makes a morsel of the of the moment. And, yeah, I can't stress how good Rebel Ridge is. It is absolutely phenomenal. What do you think, Jacob?
Jacob Davidson:I think it's going to radicalize a swaff of audiences who didn't know about civil asset forfeiture before.
Jonathan Correia:That is the big thing in the movie, it's Yeah, because these corrupt sheriffs are basically, they're like, Oh, we're not getting funded because we got we got sued. And so they try to make up their budgets for police brutality. Yeah, they Yeah, they got sued for police brutality. So they create a system where they're just collecting the shit out of civil forfeiture, and they cover their tracks by only by, like, giving insane sentences and then having them dropped at the 90 day mark, basically, so that the dash cam footage and everything gets erased before their their thing, it's, it's so, Like, the whole movie is basically like trying to get that dash cam footage, and it's, it's, there's so many great one liners. I won't spoil the scene too much, but there is one bit where the main character he he just has a line where he goes. But then I was like, nah. And when I. Said in the trailer, oh yeah, they use it in the trailer, but in the movie, when you see the scene play out, especially when it does by that point, it is, I bruised the palms of my hands. I was clapping so fucking hard because I was just like,
Jacob Davidson:yeah, that's why I should have played theatrically. When I saw it in theaters, like everybody lost their goddamn shit. How
Jonathan Correia:could you not? He's got the best one liners. And that one was just like, it wasn't just a great one liner, the timing, the editing with it was just Oh, chef's kiss. Where
James Jay Edwards:can you see it? Is it somewhere other than theaters? Yes,
Jonathan Correia:it is available on Netflix. Is
James Jay Edwards:it on Netflix? Okay, cool. Yeah, I will. I will get to see it that way. Then
Jonathan Correia:it is a Netflix Original. Now,
James Jay Edwards:the big release this week, which will be out by the time this airs, is Venom: The Last Dance. They don't play that song. What they do, but they do play you can dance that Abba song. You see dancing queen, yeah. Dancing Queen, yeah. Their worst song. I know least they could have thrown Waterloo in there. You guys know I
Jonathan Correia:love Abba. I'm a big Abba fan, and I fucking hate that song with such a passion.
James Jay Edwards:It's, well, if it makes you feel better, it's the eighteens, not the Abba version. But anyway, oh, okay,
Unknown:I can Jon. It's,
James Jay Edwards:it's basically, it's a Venom movie. I mean, it was exactly what I expected it to be. It's like a Buddy Monster flick with, you know, there is about 20 minutes of story, and, you know, an hour and a half of Tom Hardy arguing with venom or not arguing. But, you know, discussing. There's one funny scene where, um, they meet this hippie family that, um, the whole thing is, is, uh, they're gonna decommission area 51 but area 55 is still going, and it's underground and and Venom is, is he's he's there on the run from the law because they got framed for the for the murder of that detective. So they meet up with this hippie family who they who is driving them somewhere, and they're doing, the hippie family, of course, has a guitar, and they're doing the ground control, the Major Tom Bowie song, and the whole family is singing. And Tom Hart, the Eddie Brock, is having none of it, but venom is inside his head singing along. He's like, this is ground control. To me, the venom is, it's really funny. But anyway, yeah, it's a venom movie. I feel like I would have appreciated it more if I knew more about venom, because it gets to a point kind of like in let there be carnage where, you know, there's a red venom, well, there are other symbiotes, and there's like a purple one and a green one and a blue one. And I feel like I if I had known who the I felt like I should have known who these other symbiotes were and who they were morphing with, yeah, um, to create these other characters, and I didn't. So that might have, that might be on me, but basically, it's a venom movie, and it has like, a 15 minute credit sequence. I mean, like, like, literally, all three Venom movies have had, like, you know, they should make a super cut of the venom credits, and it would be, like, an hour long, and it would just be credits.
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, I was, I was not surprised, but I am curious on how audiences are gonna react to Knull, the king of the symbiotes or whatever. Because, like, that is some like, if you haven't been following Venom lore for like, the last 20 years or so, you it'll be like, Wait, who's No, what's this it? Who
James Jay Edwards:I I saw the movie, and I don't know who it is. Is that? Like, the main King monster guy, Yep,
Jonathan Correia:yeah. He's king of the symbiotes.
James Jay Edwards:He doesn't actually seem like a symbiote in this. He seems like a monster that, um is hunting the symbiotes, almost.
Jonathan Correia:That's what I mean. It's like, it's like,
Jacob Davidson:there's a lot of lore, mythos about all that business.
James Jay Edwards:It's actually kind of cool in this. Because I don't know if this is how it is in the comics or anything, but he'll when, when the monster, the big baddie, eats people. He's, it's like a wood chipper. He eats them, and then, and then their guts spit out the back of his head. It's actually kind of a cool it's kind of a cool way for to kill people off.
Jonathan Correia:Here's my biggest question, because the main reason why, because I, you know, the Phenom movies are fun. You know, I'm not gonna they're not said it's okay, but I have fun with them because I go, it's a big budget Venom movie. Just have fun with it. Ride with it. And so I do appreciate them, but the thing that I'm super hyped on is the Dan Deacon score.
James Jay Edwards:You know what? Yeah, it's, well, not just the Dan Deacon score. The Dan Deacon score is awesome, okay, but also the the other music that they put into it, um, the the needle drops are all kind of note perfect. They're like, they're and, you know, I won't spoil what songs they use, but I really, really, really want Tom Morello to do a film score. But anyway, yeah, the music is good. You won't be disappointed with with Deacon score,
Jonathan Correia:awesome. Can't wait to It'll be weird because it'll be the only, because usually I get, like, all of a franchises score. So it'll be weird to just have venom
James Jay Edwards:three you don't care about the others. I collect
Jonathan Correia:all of Dan deacons music on vinyl, so it's, it's gonna be added when it's released.
Jacob Davidson:Let's see. And did either you guys see that new movie? Rumours?
Jonathan Correia:No, I've heard wispers about it. Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:no, it's the new guy Madden movie. And it was very interesting, because it's basically about, you know, the g7 where the heads of the top seven democracies and other leaders like meet up and wherever to discuss world issues. And it's just really funny how they went about with this one, because they got like Cate Blanchett as the prime minister of Germany, but also prominently Charles Dance as the President of the United States, and the British accent is never acknowledged. And
James Jay Edwards:wait, he's president of the United States, but he still has his British accent. Yes. Love it.
Jacob Davidson:It's kind of like Donald Pleasants an escape from New York.
Jonathan Correia:You know, no notes, no, no.
Jacob Davidson:Just nobody acknowledges that the President has a British accent. You know, it's, it is what it is, but it's, it's a very, it's very weird and wild movie. And it was a very interesting so kind of social satire, because it's like, they go to this gazebo in Germany to, like, talk the issues. It's like, the heads of, yeah, United States, Germany, France, Italy, so on and that. And, you know, when they sit down, when the night falls, like everybody else in the compound has disappeared, and they're all alone, and all this weird stuff starts happening, like these bog people start crawling out of the graves, like, you know, the European peat bog people were, like, mummified, and there's Yeah, and, and this is featured in the trailer, and like the poster, there's a giant brain in the forest for some reason. And, yeah, there's just this other crazy stuff. And it's but it's just funny, because, like, all this weird horror stuff happens, and the survivor group are the heads of the free world, and just kind of getting into their own issues and neuroses, like the Prime Minister of Canada had a fling with Cate blanchett's Prime Minister Germany, and that keeps on coming up. And, yeah, no, it's, it's just very wild and out there, I'm not as familiar with Guy man's work, but it seems to be fairly surrealist, and it shows, but it it was an interesting premise, and as wild movie. Hell
Jonathan Correia:yeah, is that available in theaters or somewhere?
Jacob Davidson:Destroy Yeah, it's at Alamo Drafthouse right now. I may be playing at a couple other theaters, but probably coming digital VOD soon. I don't know exactly one.
Jonathan Correia:Hell yeah. I'm not even gonna ask the question, because I know you guys haven't seen it, but have you heard about the new street trash movie?
Jacob Davidson:Yes, it. I did. I wanted to see it. It was playing that new 35 millimeter print at the new Bev, but I was unavailable that night, although I do want to see it.
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, that Thursday screening, they they marked it as the LA premiere, but it was actually the world premiere of Street Trash. And let me tell you, it is a blast. Street Trash is the new Street Trash is direct, written and directed by Ryan Kruger, who did Fried Berry, and it was produced by good friend of the podcast, Justin Martell, and it you guys have seen the original Street Trash, right? Yeah. So if, if you pictured the original Street Trash, how goopy that movie is and how outrageous that movie is, this new literation keeps all of that, all the good stuff of street because that original Street Trash is fun, but it doesn't say anything. It always felt like it was about to make some commentary on a social issue, and then instead, went with, like, a fart joke or something, you know, kind of that, kind of like pull back. But Ryan Kruger's Street Trash is phenomenal. It not only keeps the goopiness, keeps the outrageousness, it dials it to 11 while doing social commentary on like how governments treat the homeless like the the main plot of this new one is the government, the South African government, because it takes place in Cape Town, is using. Um takes the liquor that turned that melts people in the first movie and turns it into a vapor so that they can eradicate and melt the homeless in Cape Town using drones. And so this ragtag team of hobos led by Sean Sean Cameron fight back, and it is a lot of fun. Before anyone gets super concerned. There is penis decapitations in the movie, within like the first five minutes, setting the tone high. There's what the actor from Fried Berry, who I found out from Ryan, is not an actor. He just acts in Ryan's movies. He has this, what you think is an imaginary friend named sucko, who's this little like blue creature, who his dialog, I can't say on the podcast, and I get away with a lot here, but his name is sucko so you can imagine the type of humor this little blue fucker has. But yeah, street trash is absolutely phenomenal. I The characters are actually, like, really charming, and so you really feel for them. There's genuine, like emotional beats. I never thought I would cry or not get teary eyed over a someone trying to resuscitate a headless body. But, you know, street trash did it and it did it well. So yeah, street trash is doing a because it's, it's, it's presented by Screenbox and Vinegar Syndrome. So vinegar syndrome made sure that it was shot on 35 so it looks great. They're doing a limited city run showing it on 35 you know, as in as many places as possible. And then it's going to come to a Screenbox later this year. So I highly recommend going to one of the theater screenings, because the audience reactions to the goopy bits are amazing. It was great seeing people's faces.
James Jay Edwards:Here's my only question about it, knowing Justin and his globe trotting ways, did they shoot it in Cape Town?
Jonathan Correia:Oh, fuck yeah, they shot it in Cape Town. That's Cape Town as shit, yeah, no, oh yeah. It was great. Because, like, you know, because, like, Sean Mike. Sean Sean Cameron is from Cape Town and lives in South Africa, even though he's in a lot of you know, bigger, big projects, big, dramatic product projects out here as well. Ryan's out there. So yeah, they shot it there. They shot it on 35 and it's, it's just a hell of a good time. You know,
James Jay Edwards:have have either you guys seen afAId? That John Cho movie afraid, but it's AI in the middle. Are
Jonathan Correia:you trying to? Are you trying to pronounce it like how people pronounce Fan4tastic? Yeah.
James Jay Edwards:Or AmbuLAnce or M3gan. A fray eyed is the new one? Have you guys seen it?
Jacob Davidson:No. Also ironic, because did you hear that news that, like Jason Blum was saying that now Blumhouse wants to experiment with AI for their movies?
James Jay Edwards:Yeah, I did hear that. Well, the thing is, AfrAId is, and it's a Blumhouse movie, so you think that they're kind of warning against that. It's, you know, what it reminded me of is that movie from a few years ago, Margaux. I think it's called, though, the one about the smart house that kind of goes crazy. This one's a little more grounded in reality. It it's a This one feels a little more real. Basically, they get, like, this, Amazon Echo, kind of a thing that it basically invades their life. But it can do things like, you know, it can, like, pay their bills. It researches this, this issue with their medical insurance for them, like, all this stuff. And at one point, the daughter's boyfriend makes this deep fake video of her. And the thing's name is Aya, which is, you know, AI with a at the end, Aya, it basically, basically proves her innocence. It, it makes a video where, where? It shows the porn movie that he got this from and how. And then it shows, like the cuts around the edges, where the deep fake is flawed and stuff. So he it basically gets her her reputation back, and then it uses deep fake technology to get revenge on the boyfriend. And, you know, that's just one of the subplots, but it, it's, it's pretty crazy. I mean, it's not a great movie. It's not, you know, it's as far, especially as far as Blumhouse stuff goes, you know, it's not super good, but it is. It does kind of warn you at how, how? Out of control. AI can get when you give it too much access to I mean, if AI gets too powerful, I can see this being like a warning. So it's kind of curious that Blumhouse wants to experiment with what this is doing.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, yeah. Well, you know, exploit, exploit the dangers of it for entertainment, but exploit the dangers as well for business, you know,
James Jay Edwards:yeah, well, yeah. Well, it's funny because the opening scene shows one of the kids watching an AI generated video, and the faces are all fucked up like they are, yes. So it does. It also kind of makes fun of AI a little bit, but it's, it's, you know, it's entertaining, and it's short. It's like 84 minutes, 83 minutes, so it's good like that. But, yeah, it, it was, I mean, it's worth watching, but it's not, you know, it's not going to make any top 10 lists, or at least not mine. Who knows if it'll make anyone elses Well,
Jonathan Correia:it wasn't a horror movie, but Correia went to his first Gwar show this week. Oh, hell
Jacob Davidson:yeah. Oh, man, Gwar. It was some of the best concerts I ever been to. How'd you enjoy it?
Jonathan Correia:Oh, I loved it. I was ready. I spent the week watching GWAR videos. So I watched, you know, Phallus in Wonderland. Yeah, This is Gwar. And I got a little bit into, like, some of their other videos. Love, love the especially the stuff they were putting out in the 90s. Just the Gonzoness of it. But, yeah, Gwar was great. The opening bands were awesome. But because we're still masking these days, I ended up, because we ended up somewhere. We were, like, three people back from the front, and I got slammed in the face with so much blood. And yes, whatever else they were shooting the splash zone.
James Jay Edwards:That's what I was gonna say. That close, how soaked in blood did you get? Oh, I
Jonathan Correia:was the splash zone. I was off to the right, so I actually wasn't getting hit the most, but like, they hit me directly in the face, so much that I had to take my mask off because I couldn't breathe. It just got I was basically waterboarded by Gwar. Well, there's a review. Yeah, it was, it was fantastic. And the plot for the show, this is why I bring it up, is they, they're pissed off about the election because, of course, they're Gwar. They hate all the politicians. So they're like, let's we have a time machine. Let's go back and find a great American president to lead. And so it basically became Gwar's Hall of Presidents. And of course, because it's Gwar, they decapitate and tear apart every president. So to Lincoln. They did it to W they did it to Biden Kamala Trump. Like no one was safe from guars carnage. And it was, yeah, it was a bloody good time. I still need to wash out a lot of the blood out of my battle armor, as well as my ears. I'm still every time I Q tip like it's just starting to thin out, but there's still blood in my ears.
James Jay Edwards:Tell me that the president they settled on for being the best was Jimmy Carter.
Jonathan Correia:The president they settled on being the best was Gwar Yeah.
Jacob Davidson:That makes sense. Yeah. I vote for Gwar.
Jonathan Correia:There was one point where they, I think they, they like, tried to go back to the founding fathers, and they ended up fucking up and tried and pulled too many at once, and so they all combined into one giant president. And so GWAR had to send out their own T Rex to fight it. So there was, like, a kaiju battle happening on the stage while they were playing. Yeah, I Jay, I'll send you the I got a really good clip of them playing, Sick of You. And then, like, right at the end of the clip, you see them shoot my phone directly with I'd like
Jacob Davidson:to see that footage as well. And, yeah, no, oh, man, I'll never forget when I saw them at Rock and shock horror con 2012 in Worcester, Massachusetts. And yeah, they tore apart Justin Bieber on stage, and they also killed a bunch of horror guest stars because it was the horror convention like they killed Adam green, Joe Lynch, Tony Todd, Bill Mosley, Danny Trejo. So it was, it was a fun time, and they were actually there, like, well, not not just in Bieber, that was, that was a stand in dummy, but the actual, but the horror, actors and directors of filmmakers were actually guests on stage, and they were slaughtered. And although I made sure to stand outside the mosh pit so I wasn't doused in the hosings of blood, although they were nice enough, they were nice enough to give out free white t shirts so that you didn't actually get your actual clothes messed up if you went into the blood zone. See,
Jonathan Correia:we brought our own white t shirts. I made my own Gwar shirt, and I spray painted Gwar on it and made it, made sure it was the whitest shirt we could find at Michaels. And that's dedication. Well, because you got it, if you go to a Gwar show, you got to wear a white shirt. Well, now
James Jay Edwards:let's get into the the meat of the episode here we all check out the Screamfest Film Festival titles. Correia. Can you tell us a little bit about Screamfest before we get into the the the movies we saw?
Jonathan Correia:Absolutely yes, we were cordially invited to Screamfest 2024 which is an annual film festival in the heart of Hollywood that happens in October, where great premiers and great retro watches happen. This year, they were was it was a big one. There's a lot of really good titles. So I'm really stoked we were able to get access this year. And the man of the hour of this year's festival, receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screamfest festival, was Dean Cundy, who, in this household at least, is the man of every hour, having been the cinematographer for all the classics, all the great thing. Back to the Future Jurassic Park. John Carpenter's The Thing. John Carpenter's Halloween. Back to the Future Part Three. I mean, come Who Framed Roger Rabbit like the the instant sanity. Actually just saw the the thing last night at the Egyptian for the Stranger Things, thing. And God damn it, that movie still looks so fucking good. It just does not stop, like perfection. But yes, but yeah. So scream fest, the job the genre festival. There's like three or four around this time of year, so it's really cool to be able to experience Screamfest. Finally, for me, at least, because I usually am only able to attend one festival this time of year, but yeah, lot of great stuff premiered and were shown there, outside of Dean Cundy's work, including a couple of the Huluween titles that are Now Playing on who on Hulu? I don't know who else got to see it, but I went and saw Carved.
Jacob Davidson:Oh, yeah, I watched carve too. I really dug it. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:Carved was a lot of fun. It was. It's about this small town in 1990 it takes place in 1993 and the small town had a train accident that led to, like, some chemical spillage, and it leads to a mutated pumpkin attacking this small like New England
Jacob Davidson:Pioneer Village, Pioneer
Jonathan Correia:Village. There we go. We don't have those out here in LA, so I always forget those. But yeah, it was a lot of fun. It's a, it's a mutated monsters thing. It kind of, it felt like, it felt like good, like transitional horror for kids, right? Like, if you're if your kids are really young, you watch Hocus Pocus when they start to get a little older, you can get into Carved because it's fun. It's goopy, but it's not overtly violent. I'd say, What do you think? No,
Jacob Davidson:I think carved was pretty violent. I mean, there was a lot of gore,
Jonathan Correia:yeah, transitional. So, like, when you know, when you're transitioning from Hocus Pocus to John Carpenter's The Thing you know, carved?
Jacob Davidson:Yeah? I mean, I guess that makes sense, just in that it's, yeah. I mean, it's very much a horror comedy in camp, because it's, it's a movie about a killer pumpkin, so you can't really take it all that seriously,
Jonathan Correia:but it's a lot of fun. That pumpkin looks great. DJ Quails is in and it's always great seeing and
Jacob Davidson:the great Chris Elliot of everyone's favorite movie, cabin boy.
Jonathan Correia:You love cabin boy. Yes, I
Jacob Davidson:do. And more people should.
Jonathan Correia:I need to. I need to watch that one. That one's been on the list.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah? Do it. I
Jonathan Correia:almost didn't recognize him because his voice was so different, yeah. And
Jacob Davidson:also, he was dressed up like old timey farmer, yeah?
Jonathan Correia:But it, it's, it's great. There's, there's good creative kills. Again, the creature design is a lot of fun, and he's seeking revenge against those that participated. Or she, sorry,
Jacob Davidson:she's a mama, mama pumpkin.
Jonathan Correia:It's a mama pumpkin. She is seeking revenge against those who participated in the pumpkin carving contest.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah? Who who carved up her fellow pumpkins? Yeah. And then the other Hulu. We actually before, before we move on, though, I think it's fun that a lot of these halloween titles were originally short films, like carved was originally a short film made by the same director Justin Harding, back in 2018 and they were made into features. Ah, I
Jonathan Correia:didn't know that. That's awesome. Yeah, I'm gonna have to seek out those originals. I. Love seeing the original shorts that features are based on. I did that with street trash the other day, and it was cool seeing, like the entirety of the original Street trash movie just done in 15 minutes. The other Huluween title was Mr. Crockett. Yes, love that one, which is also a lot of fun, you know what? I would also say that's a nice transitional one. You know, you want to get your kids into some like, kind of goopy stuff. You want to get your kids into like, scary stuff. Mr. Crockett was genuinely pretty fucking creepy. It was like, well, Jacob, do you want to tell us what the film was about? Okay,
Jacob Davidson:this is another 90s period set movie about a VHS tape of this children's show called Mr. Crockett, then hosted by a kind of Pee Wee Herman, Mr. Rogers type guy named Mr. Crockett, played brilliantly by Elvis Nolasco. And basically the kids watch the tapes, and whenever their parents are abusive or neglectful or just mean to their kids, Mister Crockett actually shows up and kills their parents and kidnaps the kids to take them to his magical like TV show world. And, oh, man, I love this one because, well, for one thing, it was jam packed with monsters made and designed by the very talented artist Alex party with if he didn't recognize the style. And, yeah, no, it just, is just a solid kind of supernatural slasher movie. It's like if Freddy Krueger was Mr. Rogers.
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, the entire movie was its prime time bitch as a, as, like a as as a plot. But he was genuinely creepy. It was, I don't understand, like, how those kids, because the kids would get hyper, hypnotized by the VHS tape and what was going on. But even before the killing, I don't know how they got into it, because he was creepy before it even started.
Jacob Davidson:Uh, yeah, kind of building up all night. I guess
Jonathan Correia:it's also fun, because Elvis Nolasco was also in Carved, so it was like a double feature of him. He played the reporter that meets his demise early in the film.
Jacob Davidson:Well, well, it was kind of a time jump thing, because, yeah, he he dies in the movie, but then you see him in the regular timeline for the rest of the movie. But either way, uh, yeah, no, I really dug Mr. Crockett, and it does feel like the kind of slasher movie character that should be getting several direct to video sequels. So we should eventually get Mr. Crockett three, Mr. Crockett goes to college and Mr. Crockett X, Mr. Crockett in space.
Jonathan Correia:Well, I mean, his his reach is going to get much smaller because it's all transported on a VHS tape. So he's going to have to upgrade to a DVD or Blu Ray at some point. Oh, if he goes to streaming,
Jacob Davidson:yeah, it's all I should do, like Mr. Crockett takes over Hulu or something.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, there you go. There you go. But yeah, Marved in uh Mr. Crockett are both available on Hulu Now, if you're interested at all and watching, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:Mr. Crockett also was originally a short for, let's see, as the Hulu bite sized horror, you know, Halloween stuff that they did a couple years back. Yeah, and it is funny because, yeah, it was basically just a scene from that that was upgraded and used in Mr. Crocket proper. Because, like when the TV knocks over, Mr. Crockett crawls out with his face full of glass. Ah, so good. So yeah, no song.
James Jay Edwards:One of the scream fest titles that I saw that I'm actually really excited about it, it's probably going to make my top 10. It's a Swedish movie that the translation of the title is In the Name of God. And, you know, I'm not even going to try to pronounce the Swedish title, but um, it actually stars a couple of the people from Midsommar. The guy who plays Pele is in it, um, as well as the girl that, the girl that, the that the cult forces Christian to have sex with, she's in it as well. And what it's basically about, it has, it has big killing of a sacred deer vibes. It's about this, this priest who he's kind of losing his congregation, and his his wife gets sick and and she's like about to die, and his old priest mentor basically tells him, you have to do this sacrifice and and he doesn't believe him, so his mentor does the sacrifice for him, and he kills this guy who is he's, I don't know what the sentencing laws are like in Sweden, but he's this serial rapist who gets released from prison. And so that, you know, they're basically ridden the world of these bad. People, but his mentor kills the guy and his wife. The guy's wife gets better, and his congregation sees this is a miracle, so they start bringing their sick people and people who are, you know, gonna die, to him to see if he can perform this miracle again. And of course, to perform this miracle again, he needs more sacrifices. So it kind of turns into to one of those kind of movies. But it's really, really, just really, really well done. It's just nutso. I loved it so much.
Jonathan Correia:It's like Little Shop of horror meets, but instead of a mess. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's, it's pretty religion based, because there's a lot of philosophy in the, you know. And the the people that they're going after for these sacrifices are people who, you know, they're, they're pedophiles that somehow got out of jail, kind of a thing. And you're, you know? And that's what makes me question I'm all you know, because I know Canada is kind of you hear about that, that guy who cut off the the fellow bus passengers head on the bus in Canada? Yeah, well, that dudes out of jail already. You know? It's like the sentencing laws in other countries for things like that are not as strict as America. And forget about the death penalty, you know.
Jacob Davidson:Well, I mean, that's a whole other conversation. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:yeah, but, um, but it's just weird because, you know, because these guys are, they're basically ridding the world of filth. And say, you know, it's getting these miracles performed at the same time. But of course, you know, it takes some turns into a few places. Another thing, I don't know if you got to it, Correia, but I'm positive Jacob did Scared Shitless.
Jacob Davidson:Yes, I was going to bring
Unknown:that up. Did you see it? Korea?
James Jay Edwards:Did you get shared? Skillless
Jacob Davidson:show up? No, scared. Scared shitless. That's
James Jay Edwards:hard to say, scared skills.
Jacob Davidson:The tagline is even, don't forget to flush.
Jonathan Correia:No, I missed it, but now I'm super, incredibly missing it.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah. No, it was, it was good.
James Jay Edwards:I knew as soon as the opening credits were going, I knew that Jacob was going to be all over it, because the visual effects were done by our buddy, Steve kostanski and ski, yeah, it
Jacob Davidson:was directed by Vivieno Caldinelli, who I looked it up. And, you know, I didn't even realize this connection. He did that short film, Portal to Hell with Rodney Piper, like back in 2015 and I feel like it, it wasn't entirely based off of it, but I do see some similarities, because, like in portal to hell, it's about Roddy Piper is a janitor who walks in on like a cult, raising like a tentacle kafu monster, and this movie is about Stephen Ogg and Daniel Doheny is a father son plumbing team who have to fight a genetically modified tentacle evil monster thing going for the pipes of the building. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:it is. It's exactly what you'd expect from a Canadian movie with kystan ski doing visual effects. I mean, it's like, it's goopy. It is. It's downright gross in places, especially because it is in the plumbing. So there's some, there's some grossness that happens there. But yeah, it's, it's a lot of fun.
Jonathan Correia:There's some poo involved. I'm assuming
James Jay Edwards:there's as much as you'd think. Yeah, no, no, it's, it's, it's mostly like blood and slime and stuff. But yeah,
Jacob Davidson:guts. Yeah. Also, I have to point out that I was also pleasantly surprised to see kids in the halls. Mark McKinney in the movie as the mad scientist who made the monster, and is very awkward and goofy. And, yeah, he plays Dr Robert. And you know, he has some fun scenes where he he's, he's, like, this is very pathetic guy living, living an apartment, but made this horrible monstrosity, and he keeps attacking him, but he he's, I guess he's a brilliant geneticist, but he's dumb and common sense because he keeps trying to, you know, like, deal with it, until it, like, tries to bite his Face Off.
Jonathan Correia:Man, we are getting real goopy this episode, aren't we? With Oh yeah,
Jacob Davidson:maximum goopage,
James Jay Edwards:speaking of goop, another, another movie that I saw from Scream fest is, let me get this title right, Anthropophagus Legacy.
Jacob Davidson:Oh, wow.
James Jay Edwards:Do you guys see that one?
Jacob Davidson:Well, no, but I have seen the original anthropophagus. And for some reason I've seen anthropophagus 2000 the German remake.
Jonathan Correia:And then there's an anthropophagus too, as well. I think. I think there's, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:I think so
James Jay Edwards:I'm not sure if this is related to those, or if it's just Correia and I were having this discussion, and I'm not sure if this is related to those, or if anthropophagus, basically, it means cannibal, yeah, which, honestly, I mean, you guys know, I don't really watch trailers, I just like, go in blind everything. And that's a little bit of a spoiler, because this anthropophagus legacy, it starts out about this woman whose husband is murdered while sleeping in the bed next to her and and she's pregnant, and she basically goes on the land because she's accused of this murder. But she, you know, she doesn't remember anything. So she, you know, there's, there's this mystery, like, Well, did she do it? You know? Because she goes in the lamb and she goes and visits her cousin in in another part of the country, and he's a cannibal. Is basically what, you know. That's where the anthropophagus comes into it. There's, you know, people eating and goopage and stuff like that. And it goes into, like, his history of how he became a cannibal, which is, I believe, he was in Belgium and and basically him, him and his, his little group of friends. They, they basically just started. They were really poor and hungry, and they started, it's they started killing, like soldiers and eating them, and then they just started killing anybody, anything. But, yeah, that so it is, I mean, if you know what anthropopics, the word means, you know, it's obvious that it's a cannibal movie, but I didn't at first. I only looked it up when Korea and I were talking about it,
Jonathan Correia:Bones and All, all over again. You had no idea that was a cannibal movie either?
James Jay Edwards:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Another goopage movie is The Witch. Revenge. This is like, God, this movie is I Spit on Your Grave, set during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Because basically, there's another it's another married couple and and they're Ukrainian, and they're trying to escape, you know, the the occupied section of of Ukraine, and they get stopped at a roadblock by these Russian soldiers who are just total dicks. You know, they're, you know, they're just, basically, they end up killing her, her husband and, or might be a fiance, I don't know if they're married yet, but, um, they end up killing him, and she gets away. But what they don't know is that she is, she's a witch that actually, kind of, you know, set aside her witch ways to marry this, this normal dude, and now that he's gone, she goes back to her, her witch ways and does these curses and stuff. And this movie is, I mean, it is just, there's just buckets and buckets of blood and guts and gore. And it's just, you know, these Russian soldiers, you know, one by one with these, like, um, with this curse that she puts on them. And they slowly go crazy and they just go, you know, doing like, you know, crazy stuff, to kill each other and themselves. It's a, it's basically a revenge movie in the
Jacob Davidson:title, yeah, and you and you liked it, yeah,
James Jay Edwards:I did. I mean, yeah, I, I did like it. There wasn't really anything I saw at Screamfest that that I didn't like, you know, in some way, there's different levels of like, I mean, like I loved in the name of God, you know, but anthropophagus and the witch, those ones, those ones were pretty good. There's another movie called The Complex Forms. Did you guys get to that? I did not that one is that one's kind of weird. It's about this. At the beginning, there's this guy who's making this deal to get paid to spend some time. They say he'll be possessed for this amount of time. But he goes into this little villa, and every so often in this villa they hear thunder, and you know what happens is these monsters come, and then he starts figuring out what being possessed actually means. And you know, the more time you spend in this villa, the more time, the more chance you have of getting taken by one of these monsters, is what is so it's basically a monster movie, and it, it's, it's pretty it's pretty crazy. The monsters kind of remind me of what we were talking about earlier, the the symbiote King from venom. The monsters kind of, kind of remind me of him. But, yeah, that was another. Sure that was another good one? Hell yeah. And then there's one that I don't know. And again, I'm not sure if I'm going to say the the title correctly. It translates to Heresy, but it is Witte Wieven. Am I saying that right? Correia, I feel like, you know, you act like
Jonathan Correia:I'm much better with other languages, like I struggle with my English.
James Jay Edwards:Well, the in full disclosure, you actually know the director, Didier tonings, yeah,
Jonathan Correia:yeah. That's my buddy, Didier. So I recused myself from reviewing it so that I could be impartial, which
James Jay Edwards:the thing is, you really need to see it, because this is very much your jam, ideally.
Jonathan Correia:So he's, I sorry, he's a buddy, but I love everything he does. So I am really stoked to see it. But this
James Jay Edwards:is like folk horror, and it's about this woman who, who she's having trouble getting pregnant, but then she goes off into this forest and she gets pregnant. So of course, everybody's like, Oh, you're a witch, you know? And the actress, the lead actress. Her name is Annika Sluders. I'm probably saying that wrong because, you know, languages, but she was incredible. She, you know, she deserved to win Best Actress at this thing, you know, at least out of the movies that I saw. Because, yeah, it was, she's really good. And, IA, Korea, yeah, this is definitely your jam. You need to, you need to check this out.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, you know, I love folk horrot. I I'm, I'm trying to watch all of my full core box set before Volume Two comes in, which, any day now, any day.
Jacob Davidson:I'm very tempted on that box set. And I mean, just like I have the first one, I still feel like I haven't quite explored everything, just because it was so expansive
Jonathan Correia:I it, Oh, dude, especially once you start getting into this, into the shorts and other things that are on that box, and you can, you can waste many days in there, glory, gloriously, if you haven't watched it yet. Jacob, sorry for divulging or ADHD, but Tilbury, you gotta watch Tilbury, that one that's a strange one. I
Jacob Davidson:can't remember if I've seen Tilbury, and
Jonathan Correia:it's only an hour. Uh, that's the one where it's like, the creature that runs off and then, like, brings back milk and regurgitates it for the woman with thing and she and she feeds it with the via nipple on the on the inner thigh, I'd say, Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:I don't think I've seen that.
James Jay Edwards:Speaking of that, that's the, the really good thing about, um, about heresy, yeah, it is, it's, it's 61 minutes. Um, so perfect run time. There's always time to watch Heresy. So yeah, Korea, you definitely need to check that one out.
Jonathan Correia:That needs to be normalized again, because they used to know I, like, I watch a lot of, like, Mai West movies, and they were just a little over an hour, and it's like, hell, yeah, my ADHD brain can handle this. And
James Jay Edwards:then also, you go back to, like, some of those older universal, you know, the ones that were meant to be half of a double feature, you know, Isle of the Dead, or, you know, the Black Cat, you know, things like that. It's like, yeah, an hour this. I mean, you could watch three of those and still go to lunch in the time it takes for you to watch killers the flower moon, you know,
Jonathan Correia:but hey, that one didn't feel like three hours for the most part. I did
James Jay Edwards:to be that's what I always tell people. They asked me about I'm all the first two and a half hours was really good. The last hour drag, the last thing I saw for Screamfest. And this is probably, you know, I'm, I'm I'm kind of saving the least for last, because this is probably my least favorite. I still didn't hate it, but it just wasn't the most engaging. It's called BA, B, A good and it's basically about a guy who he becomes death. He and his daughter are, they're down in their luck, and they're, they're they need money, so they come up, there's this situation, he basically finds a bunch of money. And the caveat is that he becomes death when he takes his money, and he has to take souls and then turn in this token. And once his debts paid, he stops being death. But he can't touch anybody like he cannot touch his daughter anymore, or she'll die. Anything he touches dies and, and he has to, like, wear, like, kind of, like he wears sunglasses and a face mask, or people will see that he's death, you know. And he gets assignments so he knows who to take, but he but anybody he touches will die. And, you know, and it's, I mean, it's an interesting concept. I don't know that they pulled it off as well as they could have, but it was, you know, it was, it was interesting. It was, it's interesting that you can, you know, buy your way into becoming death, or death can buy its, its way into becoming you, I guess is what, what? It's meant for. But what if someone
Jonathan Correia:touched? This is one of those stupid things, when something establishes rules, and then I start going, but what about this? What if someone touches you? Is it just when you touch people? Or, you know,
James Jay Edwards:I think that anytime anybody touches him, because people would come contact, yeah, people would come close to him, and he'd like, back off. That's like one of those questions, like, if a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire?
Jacob Davidson:If a gremlin switches time zones, can it eat at a certain midnight, or is it a specific time zone midnight?
Jonathan Correia:Questions that were asked in Gremlins 2, because it's that amazing of a movie.
James Jay Edwards:These are the kind of questions people come up with when they get stoned and, you know, but
Jonathan Correia:I'm gonna squash the zombie vampire thing. They're they're both already dead, so it doesn't matter. Well,
James Jay Edwards:yeah,
Jonathan Correia:they're already dead.
James Jay Edwards:Okay, so you can't have zombie vampires.
Jonathan Correia:Well, also, how can there be a definite answer? Because they don't fucking exist. So it doesn't matter. You can create whatever fucking rules you want, isn't it? Isn't that what Jon Landis said he's like, how do you kill a vampire? No, you kill however you fucking want. They don't exist.
Jacob Davidson:Yeah, no. I mean, there you go.
Jonathan Correia:What was the one where they blew up a vampire? I'm trying to remember what movie that was. Ah, well, they
Jacob Davidson:blew up a wolf man in Monster Squad, and that didn't work. That's
Jonathan Correia:what it was. I got it confused, yeah, but Dracula blew up the tree house with a stick of dynamite, which I still say is the most bad ass thing ever. And that's why he's the most terrifying Dracula, because dude straight up threw a fucking stick of dynamite in a tree house, hoping there was children in there. Come on, Monster
Jacob Davidson:Squad. Dracula is petty, and Man he hated those kids.
James Jay Edwards:That's that's come and see level evil. I don't know if you guys have gotten to Come and See yet, but alright, well, that was our our Screamfest experiences. Yeah, the big takeaway from me is go see in the name of God, Swedish movie. It was amazing, and it's probably going to be on my top 10. And go see scared shitless, because, you know, oh yes, support Canadian goop and Steve costansky and
Jacob Davidson:and all the movies we talked about. They're all good. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:yeah, yeah. Search. Search them all. I've got go see heresy as well, because, you know, hey, 61 minutes and you'll see an amazing performance from from the lead actress.
Jonathan Correia:Thank you for having us Screamfest. We'll definitely be back next year, absolutely.
James Jay Edwards:Yeah. Thank you for introducing me in the name of God. I'm really high and in the name of God, in case you can't tell, it's awesome. Yeah. So yeah, we'll, we'll call this one an episode. Then let's stick a fork in this. We have some pretty cool episodes coming up, though, so make sure you're listening in the next the next few episodes, we got some good stuff, but I don't want to tip my hand too early on it, because
Jonathan Correia:I'm still working on it.
James Jay Edwards:Yeah, things might go wrong, and then I look like it like when I said, we promise. We'll be back in a topic for two weeks a couple episodes ago. Yeah, right. So let's get out of here this time, and we'll see you in a couple of weeks. Our theme song is by restless spirits, so go give them a listen. And our artwork is by Chris Fisher, so go give him a like. You can find us on any of the socials under Eye on Horror or at ihorror.com which is the site we all call home. And yeah, stay tuned eye on horror for some really cool episodes coming up, some cool interviews. And until next time, I'm James Jay Edwards. I'm
Jacob Davidson:Jacob Davison
Jonathan Correia:and I'm Jonathan Correia.
James Jay Edwards:Keep your eye on horror.
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