Eye On Horror
Eye On Horror
Halloween Hangover 2024
This week, the boys are feeling rough post Halloween. Between all night marathons, live shows, trick or treaters, Correia meeting Dan Stevens, and many screenings, they come crashing down from their sugar highs. But before the post Halloween Seasonal Depression kicks in, they come together to chat on a recorded line.
Looking back on their holiday celebrations the boys review Smile 2, Anora, Here, Azrael, Heretic, Watch Them Come Blood, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Over the Garden Wall celebrating 10 years, Woman of the Hour, The Guest 10 Year Celebration, Cuckoo, and Street Trash. Also, Jay takes over the Book Nook to review X: The Novelization, MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious, and Bad Man!
It's all new on Eye On Horror!
Movies mentioned on this week's episode:
https://letterboxd.com/correianbbq/list/eye-on-horror-podcast-sn-7-ep-17/
Follow us on the socials: @EyeOnHorror or check out https://linktr.ee/EyeOnHorror
Get more horror movie news at: https://ihorror.com
Welcome to eye on horror, the official podcast of eye horror.com this is episode 136 otherwise known as season seven. Episode 17. I am your host, James J Edwards, and with me, as always, is your other host. Jacob Davison, how you doing? Jacob,
Jacob Davidson:not amazing. Been a rough week.
James Jay Edwards:I don't think any of us are doing amazing. It's, yeah, it's, it's rough. But we don't want to go into that, because, you know, we're just the liberal left Grifters. Uh, also with us, as always, is your other other host, Jon Correia, how you doing Correia? As if I need to ask,
Jonathan Correia:I was about to say, we don't get those comments anymore of our thought this was a horror podcast because I think, I think we drove them all away. But it's fine. We also
Jacob Davidson:don't want to worry about
James Jay Edwards:well, we also may have toned down the liberal grifting.
Jonathan Correia:Listen and my politics are the same as Divine. My politics are filth. Kill everyone now. No, not really. Yeah, doing great on just genuine. I know our topic today is Halloween hangover, but I'm genuinely feeling hung over from Halloween, even though I don't drink anymore. So that's fun.
Jacob Davidson:Hey, you
James Jay Edwards:don't drink anymore. I didn't know that you hopped on the wagon.
Jonathan Correia:I mean, like, I it's, it's gone, it's, it's just kind of like, let it go. You know, I used to binge drink in my 20s and teens and all that stuff. And then was like, I don't want to binge drink anymore. And then, like, it's less and less. So it's like, once every few months, maybe, but like, for the most part, not
James Jay Edwards:really good on you. I'm at almost 12 and a half years.
Jonathan Correia:It's definitely not a, not a quit situation. It's just a, what's it? I don't know, but congrats on the 12 years, bud.
James Jay Edwards:That's fun. Oh, it was, yeah, that was back in August, but so not quite 12 and a half years, but a long time. Yeah. Fuck yeah, bud. Anyway, what you guys
Jacob Davidson:been doing? Well, I celebrated Halloween in a pretty fun way. I went to the VISTA theater video archive, you know, kind of the little side theater outside of the or inside of the VISTA, and they did a Halloween triple mystery feature where they played like three movies on VHS that we didn't know what we were gonna get and it was HauntedWeen, Jack-O and Hack-O-Lantern all on VHS,
James Jay Edwards:wait, what's the first one HauntedWeen?
Jacob Davidson:HauntedWeen. It was a regional horror, regional Halloween, horror movie from Kentucky. I've
James Jay Edwards:seen Jack-O and Hack-O-Lantern, but I don't know that I've ever heard of Haunted, HauntedWeen.
Jacob Davidson:Is that wean haunted? HauntedWeen
James Jay Edwards:What is? What is that telling us? I'm interested in that I've seen the other two, but yeah, it's
Jacob Davidson:about this old is about this fraternity that's running low on money. So decide to renovate this old mansion on the outskirts of town into a Halloween Haunt fundraiser. And it's the same place where, like, this guy killed somebody during the last time somebody did a haunt there. And of course, the guy comes back to start killing people in the haunt. It was a lot of fun, though. I'm a big fan of regional horror movies with a lot of heart and is fun setup, and it even had its own rock and roll theme song.
James Jay Edwards:What? What year is it from?
Jacob Davidson:I think 1992
James Jay Edwards:Okay, so, so from early 90s. Okay, cool. 9191 so about the same time as the other two then,
Jacob Davidson:yeah, like late 80s, early 90s, yeah and yeah. Jacko is such a bizarre movie, basically being kind of like a pumpkin head slasher thing. And I love Hack-O-Lantern, especially because it's got Gregory Scott Cummins, aka Mac's dad from always Sony Philadelphia and high pike as the satanic grandpa who's always hamming it up and saying stuff like, the power is in the blood
Jonathan Correia:Jesus. I have never seen any of these movies, but that sounds amazing. Just young Mac's Dad as a satanist, yeah,
James Jay Edwards:when I used to do my cinema Fear Day column for film factor. I used every Halloween I used to try to find a Halloween Horror movie to do, and after you do it for long enough, you start scraping the Hack-O-Lanterns. Jacko has Linnea Quigley in it, we need to mention
Jacob Davidson:also Jon Carridine in stock footage.
Jonathan Correia:Sorry. Jon Carrodine, stock footage,
Jacob Davidson:pretty much, yeah.
James Jay Edwards:I think he was dead when they he was right, yeah. So they had,
Jacob Davidson:they used, like, some footage that I guess they shot of him several years ago from another move and just kind
Jonathan Correia:of stuck it in. Didn't work together as well as a Mute Witness. When they inserted use the because they shot the footage with, I think it
Jacob Davidson:was alleged, allegedness.
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, they shot that years prior. Yeah. I didn't realize that until I went into the special features on the arrow disc, and I was like, wait, that was from years prior. Hell, yeah. Okay, yeah. Funny enough. I
Jacob Davidson:was at a screening of Mute Witness a couple weeks ago, and the director mentioned that in his introduction, yeah, yeah. It is always funny when they do stuff like that, or like, famously, Edward Wood putting the footage of Bell legosi in plan Nine from Outer Space after he died, and then having chiropractor just stand around with the cape. So good.
Jonathan Correia:I mean, I mean, they did a much better job Mute Witness with it.
Jacob Davidson:Oh, yeah, yeah, no, it's pretty seamless. But yeah, and Jacob, not so much, because, like, he is, like, There's shots where John Carradine is, like, sitting somewhere, and he's like, a in a robe as a wizard. And then, like, I think they just have a John Carradine impersonator in some shots,
Jonathan Correia:amazing.
James Jay Edwards:But this is from the late 80s, so it's not like Tarkin in Rogue One. It's, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:no, it's not CGI. It's just some guy in a robe.
James Jay Edwards:Oh, man, speaking of CGI, and we This isn't horror at all, but it might be. It's horrible because it's the, probably the worst movie of the year. Here, Zemeckis's Here.
Jacob Davidson:Oh yeah.
James Jay Edwards:Oh my god. Okay, so the, basically, the crux of this movie, and I don't want to go into it too much, because it's not horror at all, but it's, it goes. It's this one piece of land that they build this house on, and it literally goes from the dinosaurs up until current day. But most of it is, is on this family that Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are in and whenever they showed the de aged Tom Hanks, I can't help but think, Bosom Buddies, Bosom Buddies. Oh yeah, it but no, Here is bad. It's really bad. Like, I love the concept, because basically it's one shot of this one room. And I was joking as we were leaving that, you know, best supporting actor to this bay window that's in the room because you're looking out this. But anyway, something new that I did see that, I think it comes out tomorrow, which by the time this post will have been like a few days ago. Heretic, oh, the new A24 Yeah, really excited
Jacob Davidson:for that. This. It's
James Jay Edwards:pretty good. It's in a year full of like, you know, The First Omen, and The Exorcism, you know, and Immaculate, this is a refreshing religious horror movie. The crux of it is on these two Latter Day Saints missionaries. One of them is Sophie Thatcher, and the other is Chloe East. They knock on the door of this guy who is Hugh Grant, and he invites them in, you know, let's talk about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And he's like this religious scholar, so he's basically questioning their whole belief system and throwing things back at them. And they're kind of on the defensive. But there's other stuff going on there as well. And it's, it's, it's pretty I think the scariest part is how he is basically getting them to question their whole belief system. And the girls this, the Sophie Thatcher one was converted into Mormonism, but the Chloe East one was born into it. So they they have different levels of commitment to the religion. But there's, there is, I mean, it's a real wordy movie. There's a lot of conversation, but there is actual horror movie that does happen. Horror movie stuff that does happen later on, but it's it Oh, it's and Hugh Grant, oh my gosh, dude, this is the most villainous since Paddington 2 that we've gotten from. He's Oh, he's so good in it, all three of them. It's like a three person play, kind of, although one of the Mormon elders, and I didn't even recognize him until the credits at the end, is Topher Grace. That's awesome. It's a real small part. He basically comes looking for these girls because, you know? Oh, they didn't check back in, you know. But, yeah, I didn't even recognize them. But yeah, Heretic, it's, it's not what you think it is, but it's really good. So
Jonathan Correia:hell yeah, for For New Movies, I went out and saw Smile 2, which prompt me to finally watch the first Smile.
James Jay Edwards:You hadn't seen the first one. No, it just,
Jonathan Correia:it never interested me. I just, it was always like, I'm all set.
James Jay Edwards:So when I mentioned the cat scene, you had no idea what you were in for.
Jonathan Correia:No, and I got to say my they're not my vibe I like because I again, I don't want to trash. Movies, just because it's not my vibe, because they are well made. The first one definitely had a lot of faults. The cat scene was great. You know, I enjoyed that one quite a bit. The first movie just had that did that thing where there's, like, one thing that just irks the shit out of you, story wise, and then it like you can't stop, like, looping on it the rest of the movie. And it's early ish in the movie after, you know, the smile curses put on her and all that. It's like the day after. And she, you know, has a hallucination, and she accuses one of the patients of being aggressive. And then the doctors, like this man, has never shown any sign of aggression, ever, and whenever he's been here, listen, I know you. I know you've, uh, been pulling 80 hour work weeks for the last few months and witness someone slit their own throat in front of you yesterday. But you accusing this man of being aggressive today is a bit too much. Maybe you should take some time off. I was just sitting there going giving that girl a break. Man
Jacob Davidson:like that is and her fiance is a dick. Her fiance everyone
Jonathan Correia:just like, everyone's just like, yeah, someone slit their throat in front of you. It's fine, quit being so weird. Okay? And it's like, Guys, come on this. You need to be buying her vacation. Okay, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:yeah, no. It does kind of lean pretty hard into like, even though this person seen some crazy shit, everybody just blows her off about like, all the stuff that's happening to her,
Jonathan Correia:that being said, I like Smile 2, a lot more. Yeah, that kind of stuff wasn't going on at the end of the day. I like all both movies are about, like, women not being listened to, and, you know, trauma and all that Smile 2
James Jay Edwards:had a different reason for for that, because she was a recovering addict and alcoholic, so that people were like, oh, did you relapse? You know, kind of a thing.
Jonathan Correia:But also, she hid the fact that she witnessed the guy, yeah, die in front of her. No one knew about it. So it's not like, everyone was like, Yeah, we know you saw this terrible thing. And it's like, no, no, no. Like, it's there's legit. Like, why are you acting so like no one knew. So, like, it made sense, and I like, she was
James Jay Edwards:at a drug dealer's house when it happened. So exactly, you know it, she had a reason to hide it, because she was, yeah, didn't want people to know that she was buying Ambien. But, yeah.
Jonathan Correia:But also, that whole opening with with Kyle Gallagher was just so good,
James Jay Edwards:you know what? I saw him in the in the credit list for Smile 2. I'm like, okay, he's either gonna die in the first scene or he's gonna be the guy in the cabin that they go to. How do we break this curse? You've lived through it. And sure enough, there he is dying. And see, spoiler alert, but not really. Yeah,
Jonathan Correia:I had a lot of fun with it. Naomi Scott absolutely ate it. I just, I think, at the end of it, because I don't know, like, at the end I was, like, it was a good movie. I just, I wasn't, like, super. I was, I was tired by the end of it, like I do, like, if I felt long
James Jay Edwards:for me, it is a long movie. And also, when I re watched Smile before smile two, yeah, I didn't realize that. I think that one's an hour 50, and to me, Smile feels like a 90 minute movie. Whereas Smile 2, it feels longer than it is, whereas Smile I think, felt shorter to me at least. Yeah, smile two is 127
Jonathan Correia:minutes, so it's a little over two hours. I mean, again, they're, they're good movies. I'm gonna say they're, they're, they're not my vibe. But Naomi Scott absolutely ate it, especially when she's like, full Sky Riley and is like, doing the moves and stuff. She was absolutely serving and I loved every minute of it.
James Jay Edwards:So are you Team Sky Riley or team Lady Raven. Listen,
Jonathan Correia:I need them to go on tour together. What was it on letterboxd? Someone said, Yeah, Lady Raven and Sky Riley cunty World Tour, when
James Jay Edwards:I know they're the Taylor Swift Paramore tour.
Jonathan Correia:My main takeaway from it was, Oh, great. Drag Queens can finally put away their Pearl costumes, because now they have a new screaming queen to emulate. Because, boy, she, she must have burst like a throat vessel with the screaming on that one. But, yeah, it was, it was fun. Yeah, I'll watch a Smile 3, but I want to see Parker fan do a non smile movies. Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:that's, that's exactly what I was about to say. I'm like, you know, I, I like the smile movies, but I really do want to see him come up with another idea. Or, you know, because, because the dude can make a movie, yeah, I just don't know if the Smile franchise has the kind of legs, you know, to support many more movies after this.
Jonathan Correia:Well, it's like a ROB Savage, you know, where? It's like, All right, cool. Can you lean away from the found footage stuff, host guy, yeah, where, yeah, the Host and Dashccam. It's like, all right, you can, you can do about footage stuff. Can you do non and then he did The Boogeyman, which was great, you know? And it's like, awesome. So I'm hoping, cool. Something similar. He does a third and it's
James Jay Edwards:something you can work outside of screening horror Exactly, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:and yeah, I haven't seen a lot of other new stuff, although I have seen, like, some pre screening and independent stuff, like there was this movie, Watch Them Come Blood that was made by some co workers of mine at the Cinematheque, Mike Cuenca and Joaquin Dominguez. And
James Jay Edwards:what is it? Watch Them Come Blood. Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:watch them come blood. It's like a kind of a grind house exploitation throwback.
James Jay Edwards:It sounds like, it sounds like a horror porn movie. Well,
Jacob Davidson:it is set at a brothel. Oh yeah, because it's about, yeah, it's about this group of friends are going on road trip, and they discover this kind of underground sex club at a brothel, and they go there, and, of course, shit goes sideways. I don't want to get too into it, because it, it goes into some pretty crazy places. But, yeah, it's just like an independent horror movie made for pretty minimal budget. And, yeah, I got this. I got to see it at the Los Feliz theater a couple weeks back, and it's a lot of fun. Like, it has, it has kind of a ensemble cast so like there's a lot of intersecting character, plot lines and arcs. Yeah, it does kind of feel like a lost, like 70s, grimy, dry drive in movie. And I think it's going to be getting a release sometime next year through Vinegar Syndrome.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, yeah, awesome. I It's not particularly horror, but, you know, it's genre related, but I saw Sean Baker's Anora this past weekend. Have you guys watched that
Jacob Davidson:yet? No, it's, it's, it's, it's
Jonathan Correia:going to be in the running for Best Picture. It's really, really good. Mickey Madison as the title character Anora is absolutely phenomenal. Sean Baker just continues to tell really great stories about sex workers and shedding light and humanity on them.
James Jay Edwards:Sean Baker, the Florida Project guy, right, yeah. Florida
Jonathan Correia:project,
James Jay Edwards:marine, yeah.
Jonathan Correia:Red Rocket, yeah.
James Jay Edwards:Oh yeah, he did. Red Rocket, yeah, okay,
Jonathan Correia:this one's very much more in in the vibe of Red Rocket. But it's because the whole point is, you know, this rich Russian teenager whose parents get money from nefarious dealings goes to this sex club, yeah, this stripper club where he meets Ani, Anora and she it's one of those, like, whirlwind wet love affairs where it's like, oh, we're, you want to be my exclusive? Yeah, it's gonna cut, you know, like, almost Pretty Woman But then, like, you know, it goes kind of through the ropes, but it doesn't do anything similar. Like, it's, it's hard to describe without spoiling a whole lot, but essentially, every single person in this movie is charming as fuck it to some degree. It's, it's, it's really good, really funny. And I got a shout out respect to Mickey Madison, who, I guess they did a screening before it came out for sex workers in New York, and at the end of the movie, they all lifted up their legs and started clapping with their heels. So I highly recommend looking up that footage, because it's just a bunch of like, really high heels with like, neon, clear shoes, just like clacking real fucking loud with the legs over the seats. It's so good.
James Jay Edwards:I love these specialized screenings they do, because there was a screening, and this wasn't the one that I was at, but of Sing, sing, where they had all of these ex cons in the audience. And then The Bikerider screen that I was at, they invited a real motorcycle club to it, yeah, and that was really funny, because they laughed at all the right places, and it made it really enjoyable. Like, you could, like, there's, there's a line in the movie where, where they say something like, so you take these guys who don't follow rules, and you give them a bunch of rules, and the MC just all started cracking up. And it was really funny. But then there was room at my screening of Kneecap, and I didn't know this at the time, but I did hear people speaking Irish all around me. There was some Irish coalition that they invited. So those specialized screenings can be really fun. If you are in the you're immersed in this audience of people who are going to relate to this movie a lot harder than you do. You know,
Jonathan Correia:I wish I was at that Anoro screening, because that would have been just such immaculate vibes and just ours. Our screening was really great. We sat at the AMC prime and city walk in, like midday on a Sunday or something, and no one else was in it. So we had like these tall balcony seats, essentially had the whole theater to ourselves. It was great. I
James Jay Edwards:had a screening of First Reformed to myself once, these were the movie past days and and this screening started, it was like the last screening of the day, and I'm sitting in there, and then they start the movie, and it's just me, and I'm like, Oh, this, these theater workers hate me because, you know, I'm the reason they're staying. Yeah, no, I
Jacob Davidson:love when I got an entire theater and myself at like, Alamo Drafthouse, like I the last time that happened was I was the only person in the audience for, like, an early screening of quiet place. Well, the new one. What was it called again? Oh, day one, day one. Yeah, the day day one. I was the only one there. So it was real quiet, the
James Jay Edwards:first quiet place. I saw it twice, and it was a packed theater both times. And I think you needed a packed theater for that, because a packed theater just completely dead silent. There's just this energy to it, but, but day one was a little different. It was, it was not as it was not as dependent, yeah, it wasn't as dependent on that silence, like speaking of silence, have you guys seen Azrael? Yes,
Jacob Davidson:I saw an Alamo draft house last month. Yeah, it's on
James Jay Edwards:shudder now. It kind of has A Quiet Place concept to it, because what do they say at the at the very beginning, something like, there's, like, some kind of apocalypse. And they're like, people have the rapture, yeah, the rapture. There was a rapture. And they're like, people have, have foregone their, you know, the sin of speech, or something like that. They have some dramatic way of putting it. They have, you know, given up talking. And Samara Weaving is the main character. And, um, oh, man. It's another movie where she ends up soaked in blood. If you like, Samara Weaving, drenched in blood. Azrael is your bag.
Jacob Davidson:We all do, yeah, we Yeah,
James Jay Edwards:exactly. She basically there. There's, like, some kind of it. The thing is, the lack of dialog makes it not difficult to follow. But you really have to pay attention, because it's the opposite of, you know, show, don't tell. They, I mean, they are definitely showing, not telling, but it's the kind of thing like, oh, okay, wait a minute. And plus, there's, there's basically the crux of it is there's this cult that that is after her, and it alternates between her running from them and her getting revenge on them, you know, at points, and there's one of the cult members who, especially when she's covered in blood, you're like, Okay, wait, you know, from behind, you're like, is that, you know, is that the cult member, or is that tomorrow weaving, you know, there's kind of that kind of a deal. But it's, it's, it's pretty good, though. I mean, the way it's, it's real, it has that quiet place tension. Because, I mean, the most dialog you have is there's a guy that's speaking some other language without subtitles, so you don't know what he's saying. But then he puts on sniffing the tears driver's seat when they're driving. So you're like, Oh, all right, hell yeah.
Jacob Davidson:In terms of new stuff, I was fortunate enough to see pre screening of the new Wallace and Gromit movie,
Wallace & Gromit:Vengeance Most Fowl, ah, featuring the return of the greatest villain in cinematic history, Feathers McGraw,
Jonathan Correia:I'm so jealous you got to see that in theaters. Yeah,
Jacob Davidson:no, because the thing is, it's a Netflix movie. So I mean, maybe they'll do a limited run, you know, so they can, you know, go for awards. But, ya know, as lucky, they were doing a pre screening over at USC. And, I mean, it's a lot of fun because, you know, it's like just taking a lot of those techniques from all the other previous Walt and Gromit movies, and it just looks so seamless, and had, like, even bigger stunts and misadventures. And, yeah, no, it's funny too, because, like, the wrong trousers, the one with feathers McGraw was like, 30 years ago. Yeah, so it's wild to see kind of a sequel to that after all this time. But yeah, I love that evil penguin
Jonathan Correia:the Wallace and Gromit movies are just absolute clutch greatest. Yeah, well, Curse of the Were-Rabbit was absolutely phenomenal. And all the shorts, I mean, you can't beat Wallace and Gromit. That's just, fact
James Jay Edwards:is that the same guy who did Creature Comforts, yes, Hardman, yeah, it's the same style animation. Yeah, I remember that from the old sick and twisted the mic and spikes sick and twisted the creature comforts that would just, they would show that, it seemed like every year, and it would always slay. I
Jonathan Correia:love creature comforts. It's just them rambling stuff going on in the background, but
James Jay Edwards:also like, like, the lions laying on a on a branch that you could see, it's bolted the wall, and he's like, oh, I need the blue skies and the water to swim.
Jacob Davidson:It's funny. I just saw Curse of the Were-Rabbit for the first time at the out at the new Beverly last month, too. So. So I've seen both theatrical Wallace and Gromits, and I do have fond memories of Wallace and Gromit too, because, like, when I was a kid, you know, like they toured those movie those shorts, and, like, I'd see them at, think it was the Boston Children's Museum or Museum of Science, where they do stuff about claymation and that, and that stuff just blew my mind as a kid.
Jonathan Correia:As a kid, it was the Wallace and Gromit tapes and any Eyewitness VHS tapes my local library had, were constantly on loan for me. Remember eyewitness? Ah, they have all those on YouTube now. But speaking of Aardman, Aardman also, they're having a good year because they had their Chicken Run sequel come out. They Oh yes, they had this, and they just premiered earlier this month, a two minute short celebrating the 10th anniversary of Over the Garden Wall as well. Oh
Jacob Davidson:yeah, yeah. That was really good. It
Jonathan Correia:was phenomenal. I love that. Patrick. Michael was like, yeah, the original show should have been all stop motion. And it's like, well, yeah, yeah, you know, Captain hindsight, 10 years later, you know, but Over the Garden Wall is still a masterpiece. And before Halloween, we got to attend a The Blasting Company is the band that did all the music for it. So for the first time ever, they had the entirety of the people who performed on that soundtrack perform it live. And they also had an orchestra, and it was incredible. It was interesting seeing people jam out to that style of like jazz live. So that was interesting. But yeah, special guests through the wazoo, including Elijah Wood, came out and read some bad poetry for everybody. Over the Garden Wall 10 years still strong of being the best cozy fall watch you could possibly do. God, I just want those comics to go back in print. They're so expensive.
James Jay Edwards:Did either you guys watch Woman of the Hour? No, Netflix it. It is pretty good. It's interesting. It's Anna Kendrick. She stars in it, but she also directed it. And it is, you know, the story, it's the, it's the story of Rodney Alcala, the The Dating Game killer, yeah, and Anna Kendrick plays the, the the Bachelorette, who is on the the dating game with him. But it also goes back, and it's more about him than her, because it goes back and it shows some of his killings. And I did a little bit of research, and it looks like it looks like that part of it seems kind of real. There's one thing in it that it that see, that seems like it was dramatized, and that's in the audience the dating game. There is a woman who recognizes him as the guy who she thinks raped and killed her friend, you know. So there's that little subplot, but it's a, it's a pretty well made little, I mean, it's a, it's a compact little movie, you know. I mean, I think it's like an hour 35 so it's not like super short, but it is. It's real. It's an easy watch. I mean, anything with Anna Kendrick is an easy watch, really, but the guy who plays Rodney Alcala is pretty creepy. He's like, he's and it goes through a few of his victims, including one who got away from him, and it was like his undoing was this one that run away, that got away from him, yeah? But, um, it's a pretty cool little, I think it's her directorial debut. I don't know maybe she's done something in the past, but it's, I
Jonathan Correia:think it's her feature, yeah, maybe
James Jay Edwards:the feature, yeah, it's a pretty strong little, little movie, though. I mean, it's, it's cool. It's on Netflix.
Jonathan Correia:I'm very interested in it because, you know, especially growing up and hearing the stories and then finding the clips of the of the episode where he's on. It's, it's always creepy to watch, because he is very like, the actual guy on The Dating Show is pretty charming. But there is this, like, little like, yeah, you know. And they
James Jay Edwards:show that because, because they go into sections where, like, where they're not taping, like, commercials and stuff, where he's interacting with the other two bachelors and, and you're like, Okay, something is totally off about this dude, you know. And, but his answers to her questions are all the right answers, you know. You can see why he won it. It's, yeah, he, he turns it on and off pretty effortlessly. It's, it's, it's pretty crazy. But yeah, there's, there's some Ted Bundy in there where he's just, like, super charming. And you can see the audience, you know, falling in love with him, just, you know, although you know. And this in in real life, too. The woman who won it, she, she didn't go on the date with him because she thought that he was creepy. So it's like, and it shows like, them kind of getting a drink after the show, and you could see where she's getting creeped out by him, you know, it kind of goes into that more. It's like, okay, this is why, you know, this is why she's not going on the date. With him, because he, because he's a creeper. Yeah, no, I'll
Jonathan Correia:definitely have to check that one out. Let's,
James Jay Edwards:let's take a trip into Correia's Book Nook. Correia's Book Nook. Oh, man, yeah, because, because, because, with guest star Jay, because, I have a couple of a couple things I read. One of them is the novelization of X. A24 is doing vintage horror novelizations of the X trilogy, and the first X is out, and it, you know, it has like the vintage, you know, cover and stuff like that. And it is, it's pretty much the story of X, but there's more of Pearl in it. And it makes me wonder, because they say that this was novelized from is that a word novelized? It was, it was written off of the original script. And it makes me wonder if there was more of Pearl in the original script that they kind of cut because it, I mean, I like the movie the way it is, because it leaves Pearl as more mysterious. But this one the book, it tells more about her and like and it shows a little more about her obsession with Maxine and, you know, and some of the killings it does from her point of view, instead of just, you know, from the victims point of view. It's pretty interesting though. It's a, it's a, it's a cool little read and a another book nook entry, I think I've mentioned in the past. One of my favorite podcasts is the Mr. Ballen podcast, he put out a it's called MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious the graphic stories. And it's like a graphic it's a graphic novel of, you know, five or six of the stories he's told on the podcast, but then he had an artist, you know, draw it out and, and it's a graphic novel about him, and that is a lot of fun to see the these stories, you know, brought to life. I mean, on the page, not, you know, it's not like a movie, it's, you know, a comic. But that's, that's really fun to see that. And the final Correia's Book Nook from guest star Jay is I've been reading, and I'm only about maybe a third of the way through it. It's called Bad Man. It's by Dathan Auerbach. Is his name, and you'll know him better as 1000 vultures who wrote that pen pal creepy pasta that then got published as a book. Remember pen pal?
Jonathan Correia:I think so. Yeah, yeah, pen pal, I
James Jay Edwards:loved. And a Bad Man is it's basically about this dude whose little brother goes missing, and he's looking for his little brother. And, you know, nefarious things happen, and I'm only about a third of the way through, so you know, I'll keep you posted on how that one goes, but so far so good. It's, it's shaping up to be a pretty good there's a cardboard baler that they keep focusing on that I'm positive is going to come back to literally bite someone. Well, it's
Jonathan Correia:the classic, you know, theater line. You introduce a cardboard baler in the first act. It's got to be used in the third right?
James Jay Edwards:Well, it's also a film school thing. It's like, if you show a phone in this scene, it better ring,
Jonathan Correia:right? Exactly. No, no. I plan on bringing back Correia's Book Nook more frequently. I'm just, I have this problem of buying books and then starting to read them. So I'm like, a quarter of the way of, like, five or six books, and my ADHD won't let me finish anything, but manhunt is getting a television adaptation from Lily Wachowski, which previously recommended Correia's Book Nook entry Gretchen Felker Martin's manhunt, the post apocalyptic trans story. That's amazing. I've been saying from the since I started reading that I need a Last of Us level adaptation of this book. I never thought it would happen. So it's, it's, I'm so pumped for it. I'm so excited. The other thing that I'm still excited over is the day before Halloween, Halloween eve, to eat because devils night, yeah, devils night went to a 10 year anniversary screening of The Guest nice, which is amazing, because the guests never really had a theatrical run. So I'm really glad that it's getting more I think it played. They said it was 54 screens when it first came out, and
Jacob Davidson:I was at one of them. I was at the Cinefamily premiere.
Jonathan Correia:Oh, that's awesome. But seeing that with like, a crowd was so amazing, because I've gone through so many different phases with that movie and and viewing it as, like, when I first saw it, I was, I was sitting there, like, this is a serious movie. It's a It's Captain America slasher, you know, and I almost got none of the humor of it. And then, like subsequent viewings, got more and more of the humor, and seeing it with a crowd and everyone laughing at all the ridiculousness was amazing. But, yeah, it's funny. But what made this screening special? It was over at Vidiots, and their theater was they had two of the producers there who have come to previous screenings, as well as Jay is already smiling. He knows what I'm about to say. My man, Dan Stevens,
Jacob Davidson:oh yeah, your idol.
Jonathan Correia:Oh idol. That's putting it lightly. Get at awesome
James Jay Edwards:picture out there. You should post it to our socials of Correia in his skeleton sweat suit with Dan Stevens, Yes,
Jacob Davidson:Dan Stevens wearing a hoodie.
Jonathan Correia:No, he was wearing a Roswell t shirt. Yeah, it was. It was really funny, because I wear that skeleton, I will take any excuse to dress up as a skeleton, and so Dan loved it, by the way, just in case you thought, but no, immediately, I was like, I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna say to Dan, but he was wearing a Roswell t shirt. I was like, dude, have you ever heard of the alien Watchtower in Colorado? He's like, Well, I'm like, it's on the border of New Mexico and Colorado, and it's this weird spiritual place. He was like, Oh, shit, I have. I've been there. I was like, me too. So we geeked out over weird alien hot spots for a minute. And yeah, I also, in that photo, you'll notice I have a comically large fanny pack filled with candy. So gave him some candy and left. But yeah, no, it was a it was an amazing screening. And again, going back and revisiting that movie, it's fucking hilarious. Dan Stevens even said he's like, yeah, no, it's a comedy from the get go. First of all, casting me as a super soldier is inherently funny and ridiculous. But one thing I never really picked up on, because, again, I keep saying every time I watch it, it's something new to watch it, as he brought up that for him, and what him and Adam Windgard talked about was that it was a queer love story, because Dan Stevens character, you know, he went to war with their son, with the family's son, and so he was coming back to legitimately take care of them and make sure that they're all right after the death of their son. And it wasn't until his brain wash programming kicked in was he actually, like, you know, a killer. And it just brought a whole new perspective to the to the story, because there were a few parts, like, why did he help the dad, if it didn't help the mission? You know what I mean, things of that nature. So it's, it's such a great movie and so fun to go back to. And, God, I hope they do a sequel someday. It would be great.
Jacob Davidson:I was gonna say, I actually re watched the movie too at Alamo, because it was the new 4k restoration they were putting down. And, yeah, well, I mean, technically, there is a sequel, because they put out the sequel soundtrack, where they made us soundtrack for the hypothetical guest two. And there's some kind of hints and pieces for what they would go for. Like, I think it would be like David fighting some kind of fundamentalist religious cult. So, you know, we can, we can imagine,
Jonathan Correia:I know I have, I have that vinyl, and I sit there and I just imagine what's happening. Mostly it's just imagining a shirtless which those scenes killed. Let me tell you, if you, if you're a listener of the podcast, if you think I'm thirsty for Dan Stevens, Nah, dude. Half that crowd at the screening were women who were thirsty. Let me the lady next to me was was so funny. She had a bunch of things for Dan to sign. And as soon as he came out of that shirtless scene, was just like you would have thought the Beatles came out, and it was the 60s, and when he was carrying the kegs, everybody fucking lost it. Oh yeah, it was great. Yeah, that's
James Jay Edwards:funny. Speaking of Dan Stevens, I actually caught up with Cuckoo,
Jonathan Correia:his least sexiest role of the year.
James Jay Edwards:You know, it's funny. I and I even texted you guys, or, you know, when it was happening, I was getting huge Human Centipede vibes from it. And Dan Stevens was the freaking creepy Doctor dude. I was like, this is this is going Human Centipede, um, cuckoo was not what I thought it would be. I mean, you guys know me, I don't watch trailers or, you know, look at stuff. So it was not what I thought it would be. It was, I loved Hunter Schaefer. She's note perfect in this. Oh yeah, and it is. It's just Yeah. I mean, I think that you already talked enough about it. I can. I'm just gonna give you know, my my thumbs up to it. I thought Cuckoo is was great. And
Jacob Davidson:I'm actually going to another screening of Cuckoo at the new Beverly next week, as they're doing as a double feature with Creepers, aka Phenomena, the Dario Argento movie, also in the Swiss Alps with Jennifer Connelly. But
Jonathan Correia:are they showing the the Creepers version, the American version of it. It's
Jacob Davidson:the Creepers version because I think it's the only 35 millimeter prints, and I think the only like English print, which, yeah, I mean, I prefer the Phenomenal cut. But still, I've seen the Creepers cut a couple times, and it's truncated, but still fun. Yeah.
Jonathan Correia:I was gonna say as a double feature with that, I'm sure it'll be fun, especially if you already have seen phenomenon a bunch of time. I just recently, yeah, phenomenon for the first time, so I can't imagine what the creepers version is, but as a double feature like that, that sounds like a great time. Oh
Jacob Davidson:yeah, no, I'm very excited for that. It's also my favorite Argentina movie, and I love cuckoo and yeah, just swiss alps are creepy. What's up with Switzerland?
James Jay Edwards:Let's wrap this one up with this episode up with this. In case you couldn't tell, this has just been our Halloween hangover episode, because we had a guest fall through. So you have to deal with us just talking, and not to tip our hand, because we still want to try to get this guest on there. But Jacob and I both saw Street Trash, the remake of street trash. So let's end with that. What do you think the sequel? Is it a sequel or, yeah, I guess it is. It's
Jonathan Correia:a sequel. Yeah, it's
James Jay Edwards:it's not a very faithful remake of it is. So yeah, let's call it a C, what do you think, Jacob,
Jacob Davidson:Oh, I loved it.
James Jay Edwards:It is so
Jacob Davidson:I thought it was so much. Yeah, it was so bizarre and brutal and, oh, is it gooey? It's totally
James Jay Edwards:your thing. I remember, as I was watching it, I'm like, I'll do this is up. Jacob zali, this is, like, this is like, Astron six, you know, style, you know, squirting ladder, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:yeah. And I do appreciate them elevating the story, because I've seen the original Street Trash and, I mean, it's fun. It's just, it's not, not a whole lot of plot, except, you know, like all these homeless people drinking 10 to five Viper and melting down and all this weird stuff in New York, but this, it's like, it's like a social satire, because it's set in South Africa, when the homeless population is reaching all time high, and the government basically makes this bio weapon to melt down the homeless for ecological purposes.
James Jay Edwards:They're getting rid of the homeless problem. Yeah, by melting them, yeah,
Jacob Davidson:it's a war on poverty, and they're gonna kill the powers the impoverished.
James Jay Edwards:I love what Correia talked about him when, when he did, like the full review on it. Um, Sucko little blue guy. He had one of the best line. And this is actually Director Ryan Krueger did the voice. He had one of the best lines. He's high is a giraffe's pussy. And that's high
Jonathan Correia:I said in my review. I can't say what he was saying. And here's Jay,
James Jay Edwards:yeah, that's one of the cleaner lines of this guy's
Jacob Davidson:dialog. So much foul language that
James Jay Edwards:is now in my my everyday vernacular, higher than a giraffe's pussy.
Jonathan Correia:I clipped out my review and sent it to Ryan and Justin, and I got a note back from Justin that just said, great review. Thanks for mentioning the penis decapitation.
Jacob Davidson:Oh yeah, slammed in a gate door.
Jonathan Correia:That's probably my favorite note I've gotten from someone about a review. But yeah, no, it's definitely a sequel, because they, they take the booze from the first movie, and that's how they make the weapon. They vaporize it so that it could be inhaled. But again, yeah, it's it's incredible, because original Street Trash, yeah, it's fun. It's gooey, but there's a lot to be desired when it comes to like, character development and story. And this, Ryan Kruger's Street Trash just makes up for that. And tenfold, what like the most charming group of hobos you'll ever see. I know.
James Jay Edwards:I know. And what is it? What's the girl's name? Alex, yeah, yeah. She was, she was way too clean to be a real homeless person. I'm like, no, no, yeah. That was pretty funny. The the little hobo tribe they had,
Jonathan Correia:but did you guys expect to tear up because I teared up during the attempt at resuscitation scene?
James Jay Edwards:Yeah, it was funny, because you would, you would prep me for it. He's doing CPR, do I?
Jonathan Correia:Yeah, so funny. But like, also, I'm like,
James Jay Edwards:This is so sad. Well, I I kind of got teary eyed during the last guardians of Galaxy movie with when they're trying to save rocket. I'm like, I did not have getting all emotionally attached to a CG raccoon on my bingo card. But here I am, you know,
Jonathan Correia:and then 2024 it's getting teary eyed over, uh, decapitated
James Jay Edwards:corpse, yep, which was not CG, which is beautiful,
Jonathan Correia:full practical, yeah. And, oh
James Jay Edwards:my gosh, and there is so many the effects alone are worth it, you know, just like splattering faces and, oh, let's call this one an episode, mainly because I have, I have a heart out here in a second. So this one's all this short episode is because of me. It's all good, but we, yeah, if the Street Trash review, we're still trying to get a guest in that. I'm gonna blow the whistle on it. We're trying to get Ryan Kruger.
Jonathan Correia:Sure. Oh, we're gonna get Ryan. Ryan's coming on. It's gonna happen. I don't care when. There you go. So she's decided we're getting them.
James Jay Edwards:You have that to look forward to sometime in the next few episodes. But for now, this is our Halloween hangover. Hope you guys like hearing us talk, because that's what you got. Our theme song is by restless spirits to go check them out. And our artwork is by Chris Fisher, so go check him out. And you can check us out on all the socials, under@eyeonhorror, or at ihorror.com which is the website we all call home. And we'll see in a couple weeks, possibly with Ryan Kruger or some other fun guest that we have coming up that I also don't want to jinx, but one that I'm really excited about.
Jonathan Correia:It's gonna be fun. Yeah, we have a fun few episodes. Yeah, we
James Jay Edwards:do. We have a few good episodes lined up, but you'll have to wait for that. So we'll see you in a couple weeks. So for me, James, Jay Edwards,
Jacob Davidson:I'm Jacob Davison,
Jonathan Correia:And I'm Jonathan Correia.
James Jay Edwards:Keep your eye on horror.
