Fright Night (2011)

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And that means that for the first time ever, Fright Night is officially in our unwritten rule of 10 year gap between release. Obviously, there's been exceptions, but we've tried to stick within it. I want to say something real quick. And Brian and Scott can say that I'm completely in the wrong with this statement.

But I want to clarify right out the gate that all three of us, as far as I understand, are in fact fans of the original Fright Night. But we also all believe that if you were to take off your nostalgia goggles for a second, that Fright Night 2011 is actually a better movie in almost every single way. Yeah. And we're going to spend the next 25 minutes telling you why.

Yeah. And I think that's it. Like, I'm going to be coming down hard on Fright Night, the original, not because I hate the movie, but to make the comparisons of like where this movie succeeds, where that film only goes like half the distance to me. First and foremost, no Lisa Loeb in the original one.

Hell yeah. So, already gets points for me right out the gate. No. So, there is one thing that I think Fright Night does better than the 2011 Fright Night.

There's some questionable things with the Peter Vincent thing. I get it. I don't love it. I like Peter Vincent as like a late night TV show host, but also there wasn't any of those in 2011.

So I get having to change it. But the weird like Chris Angel magician thing. Come on, man. I'm going to let you say your piece.

And then I'm going to tell you your wrong. Yeah. Just because of where the location is it makes so much more sense. That's true.

That is true. Because I guess it makes way less sense that in the original movie they live right where they're taping this late night horror show host that was a former actors movie. Yeah. It makes way more sense to be in Vegas where there's a magician.

But actually I'm getting way ahead of ourselves. Scott, you picked this. Can you tell us why you picked it? Yeah, it's been on my to-do list for a fucking year.

I literally could go back. We won't if we had all the time in the world and no real lives, less real lives than we currently already do. We could go back into our group chat and I am pretty sure last January, February was like next year I'm going to pick Fright Night 2011. Yeah.

I love this movie. I mean, I don't think it's a perfect movie at all. Let me get ahead of myself there. Like the CGI is bad.

Oh, it's very bad. Yeah. That's okay. That is okay by me because I think that the characterizations are better in this movie.

It's one of those great remakes where they do fan service, but they also don't break your suspension of disbelief on why the characters are acting the same way 30 years apart or 25 years apart or whatever it is. Oh, I mean, I think that we could almost do 25 minutes just on how the evil ed character is improved. Oh, he's so much. He's so much.

I've hated evil ed in the original Fright Night since the first time I saw that movie, which was, you know, I think I was sophomore and high school or something like that. I never understood why people thought that he was fun or cool or quotable because the real takeaway from evil ed, first of all, is his, your so cool Brewster line, which when you, like Matt said, if you take off your nostalgia goggles and rewatch the original Fright Night evil ed's cadence of that line, his delivery is wrong. And then when you see McLove and do it, it's right. It's the whole point of that line.

It's him being like, he's spitting out this like, you're so cool. Like that, that's the whole point. And it's, it's absolutely mind-numbing to me when people will shit on this movie and be like, well, that's just fan service. No, they were basically taking something that was wrong in the first movie and making it right.

That's my take on it. Do you remember when Bill Hader was doing Al Pacino auditioning for Back to the Future? That that's how it was in the original when he's like, 80 miles an hour. Great, Scott.

Yeah, it's, I mean, evil ed has so many good lines throughout the movie. The remake, right? In the remake, the two lines that I wrote down that made me just kind of chuckle was when he's like, I didn't name him. I just report the facts when they're like talking about his name being Jerry.

And then the other one is like, he's yelling at Brewster about something and he just ends it with. And I'm like, seriously, so mad that you think I read that. That was pretty funny. That was pretty funny.

I don't like, I don't know. I feel like you take some of my only issue with that character and it's not even the character. So some fair, it's like you take someone who's just so authentically themselves, right? Not a bad guy.

His friend gets cool, leaves him behind. He ends up getting killed, but then he gets, he gets killed again. So he doesn't even get a happy ending. Like evil ed just gets a shtick.

No, but he's getting a happy ending in the first movie. I know. I'm not saying the character is a whole, you know? Here's the other big thing.

In both movies, evil ed is supposed to be a tragic figure. But in 20 minutes of this movie, they make me care more about ed than the whole 90 minutes of the original movie. Like, you actually relate to him. Because I think all of us have had an experience where one of our friends became too cool for us and it was kind of devastating.

But in this one, it's even deeper than that. It's not just like, hey, you abandoned us. But it's like, yo, one of our friends is probably dead and you don't give a fucking shit about it right now. And like, that's upsetting.

And then like, I love when he actually has to get killed. He's telling Charlie it's okay. Like, that is like a heartbreaking death scene to me. But also, you're missing the other best line in this movie right before.

Well, the scene before that he goes, we could rock this evil shit together. Which like, it's such a better character. That's what I think. The charisma of the actors is so different in both movies.

Like there are charismatic characters. There are charismatic actors in both, right? Like I think Jerry is great in both. And I actually love that Chris Sarandon got to do a cameo and get fucking murdered by a new Jerry in this.

But like, here's the interesting thing kind of as a cultural microcosm of vampirism in the original versus the remake that I noticed this time around. And I didn't really thought too heavily about it because it was like my third or fourth watch of this version. But like Jerry Dandridge in the original is kind of a Victorian vampire, you know, like the seducer, the incubus. And that wouldn't necessarily fly as much in, you know, 2011 when also like in the grand scheme of what horror was right around the 2010s, you know, like we were getting tortured porn, new French extremes, stuff like that.

And so they had to, and also we had 30 days of night. We had, you know, almost in a sense, 28 days later. I know that's zombies. But it's similar in like this kind of rabid monster concept.

And I think that that really is important because to make this movie work, they had to have someone who had sex appeal, but also was incredibly menacing because I never thought Chris Sarandon was menacing in the original. I mean, it's like a steel girl kind of guy, but like I love, I absolutely love a vampire that is going to like just kind of give you, they truncate the story of finding out that he's a vampire because they're like, this is a remake. We don't need to retread that too much. Like the people that make the Spider-Man movies need to take a note from this movie because we don't need to see Uncle Ben die again.

So here's something that's exciting news. So the director of this movie, Craig Gillespie, who made this movie, this is his second film. His first film is the reason why so many people agreed to do this movie because they were all fans of it, which was Lars and the Real Girl. Oh my God.

Seriously? Yeah. So when he was like pitching people like the Lars and the Real Girl guy, absolutely. And then he followed this movie with Itanya, which was also a very good movie.

So the new movie he's making, which I'm very excited for, it's going to be dropping on Disney Plus is Cruella, sorry, Emma Stone, which is like the origin story of Cruella Deville becoming who Cruella Deville is by the time we get to 101 Dalmatians. Now that is sick. I did not know about that. Yeah.

And I'm like, that is a fucking movie. Like that's a movie where it's like, oh great. So we're doing Maleficent with Cruella Deville. And I'm like, okay, well I'm interested now.

Like that thing's going to be, he's got this thing where it's like, I want to say that he's got a visual style, but it's almost like his visual style is that he just lets the scene play out the way the scene needs to play out. So like there's never, like that's like the complaint that you would have with someone like on two ends of the spectrum, right? Like with a Tim Burton, he's trying so much to have the Tim Burton flair that it's a distraction or like on the flip side like a Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith's so focused on just focusing on the dialogue that nothing happens. That was before.

Now it's just the remember lens. That's all he's focused on. Yeah. That's all he's got is remember lens now.

And so I think Craig Gillespie in four film or three films has proven to be a guy who's just like, you don't need to do anything too flashy unless it calls for it. And that's why I like about this movie is that like there are those flashy moments. Like the scene in the car is fantastic. It's a constantly moving camera and it's flashy and it's energetic.

But then like you don't need to put that exact same energy into like Ed and Charlie walking around the house. You know, like you just let him walk around the house. I don't know if he's got the final say. Like I don't know if the director has the final say in casting.

I think he does. But that's another strong suit. Like I feel like in 2010, if it was 2010 and we did a draft of like Van Pyre cast, none of us would pick Colin Farrell, but he's such a perfect choice. You know what I mean?

Like when you think about it now, you're like, wow dude, he's got like the perfect. This will not have worked out without the casting. Like recasting Jerry Dandridge is so important. Like from the writing to the casting of this movie and the direction obviously, but like, I mean, I'm missing Anton Yolchen more than I really should.

Me too. No, I wrote that too. That was my first note was like, because I think we've said this on the show before, but I think it was Megan. You said said he could have been our generation's Tom Hanks.

He was actually like, if he hadn't died and it's a tragic death, like he could do it all. Yeah. And then before he did drama, he did some comedy. Like he was, he was a powerhouse and it just, and also he's like so likable.

Yeah. He's an actual average looking person. Like he's, he's more attractive than the average person, but like in that same Tom Hanks way in the 80s, like he doesn't look like a superstar. He looks like the guy next door who's just a little bit more attractive than the regular person.

And he's, he's an actor. Like he's, he's like treated to artwork. He's like, he's like, all right, I'm going to do Star Trek to pay my bills and then I will just do indie films for the artifacting. Like I feel like that was, that's how he did like the one.

I don't know. I would do star, I would do high sci fi because it's fucking high sci fi, you know? And I think he was also a big Star Trek fan. Yeah.

Yeah. I think he was also a geek. True. True.

I'm just saying he did like a lot of like his independent movies are like the best. I mean, Charlie Bartley was the first thing I ever saw. Oh, Charlie Bartley was amazing. Yeah.

Yeah. No, I miss Anton real bad. The other thing that we do have to talk about and the way I worded it was like the pieces of the plot all fall into place so beautifully. Like even something as small as like the very first time that you see Tony Collette, she's loading in those for sale songs.

Check out his wooden sticks. Yeah. Like it's like, it sets up the wooden sticks. So is like setting up the plot, the plot point of like people keep leaving town.

Like so much more sense in Vegas than instead of suburbia. Like it's so much smarter. Like I think this movie, what I said earlier, what they did was they were like, how do we ground this a little bit more? And they were like, okay, where can we put this where people are out all night, sleep all day?

You know, people are, we have a transient population and it was just, and also you could have that Chris Angel, douchebag character because like that David Tennant, we haven't even said his name yet, but David Tennant steals every scene. He just shoots that scene. It's so good. Yeah.

And it's kind of a bummer that, I mean, I could be wrong, but I think that it's a bummer that this movie really didn't do amazing at the box office because I feel like this was like the attempt to get David Tennant into like American audiences outside of just being the Doctor Who guy. And I guess because the movie didn't do well, I don't really see him in anything else. He killed David Tennant. Yeah, no, but I mean, like he should be a movie star.

You know, I mean, like he's got the like ability to be like, hear me out on this weird casting and he probably wouldn't do it because it's too close to Doctor Who. But like if for any reason Benedict Cumberbatch was like, I don't want to do Doctor Strange anymore, I'd be like fucking David Tennant would crush it as Doctor Strange to me. Like he would just be so weird and eccentric and that's kind of what I want. I need David Tennant to play some type of Marvel villain, I think.

I think that's why we get him to be like, I know that Mordo was already taken in the Doctor Strange universe, but I'm sure that they can find some other dark magician to fight him. It would be the shit because like I see what you're saying about David Tennant killing it as, you know, the Sorcerer Supreme, but at the same time I'm like, I can't say but accept Cumberbatch in that role now. And like I remember years ago when they announced that I was like, no fucking way. Like that's not, it was also, here's the thing is that Kevin Feige, I assume he kind of has executive say on all of the major castings.

And so like when he picked RDJ instead of Giant Up for Iron Man, first of all, like Giant Up is- Yeah, retrospectively great call. Yeah, and Robert Dine Jr. is Tony Stark. I mean he's the linchpin of the entire MCU.

Like if Iron Man had not done so well, I mean that was Jon Faufrauil probably, like who made that casting decision, not Kevin Feige. But like at the end of the day, once the character is so perfectly matched, there's no way for someone to see them otherwise. And that's I think better to Cumberbatch because I've said it many times on the show, Dr. Strange is my favorite MCU movie.

And it is the one that, I mean like the first one is the movie that I go back and watch the most, I know that that is controversial for most people because they're like eh, but I love it because I love it. I can't wait for the sequel. The sequel's gonna be like, the sequel's gonna be one of those movies where we're not out of the pandemic and they announce that they're releasing that in theaters. I'm like am I about to risk my life to see this?

Well, that is where the few movies that I would be like, yes I need to see this theater. This is such a brain twister and I like, I, I, I, banquet. I guess it's like, it's a visual banquet because I mean you need to see it on a big screen because there's gonna be so much going on, they're gonna ramp up with the craziness 100 fold. I mean it's called the multiverse of madness.

And speaking of multiverse of madness, we're recording this just what, five days before WandaVision troupes? Do you not remind me? I'm so stoked. I saw this in theaters actually.

This is one of the movies I saw when I was living in LA. And it was actually one of the cooler movie theaters I'd ever been to. But I saw it in 3D and it's probably one of the better usages of 3D. I didn't even know this movie was 3D.

Yeah, it was released specifically as a 3D movie. But again, when you do the 3D properly, it can transfer to a 2D movie without it being noticeable. So first of all, just setting up the place. So it was a normal movie theater, but their whole theme was like Old Hollywood under the stars inside the theater.

So when you sat down in the seats, the walls were painted to look like old landmarks in Hollywood. But the really cool part was that the ceiling, instead of lights, like normal lights, was actually a series of very small lights, so it looked like stars. Oh, that's cool. So when they dim the lights, it felt like you were outside watching it underneath the stars for a couple of seconds before they shut those lights off.

But the way that the 3D would work, and the biggest one that I remember is when Doris explodes out of nowhere, is that it was built to that it felt like all the dust particles were floating around you every time that someone exploded. And it was just like cool shit like that. That was how they would utilize the 3D was making you feel like you were there witnessing it as it happened and not so much just like, here's a yo-yo. That's what I was about to say is like maybe that's the hallmark of a really good 3D movie is that when it transfers to 2D, the effects are not in your face.

You know, like I think that that maybe, you know, if you're augmenting reality in such a way, maybe don't. Well, the car scene felt awesome because the way the camera moved, you felt like you were in the passenger seat of the car while it was happening. Fuck the vampire hand. Now do you believe me?

I love that car scene. Like I think that car scene is like one of the best suspenseful action pieces in a horror movie in like a decade. You know what else I love? Tony fucking Collette.

So I read Anantane Yalchin and someone else are the only people that didn't have to put on fake American accents. Like so many of the stars in this movie are British actors or actors from other parts of Europe having to throw on fake accents. Did you guys ever see that movie where he's like in a phone booth or something like that? That movie sucked.

Yeah, it was a phone booth. That wasn't a bit, guys. Like I seriously. So, so the one thing I will say about the CGI because I agree with you that for the most part the CGI looks pretty bad.

There's like a couple of moments where you can tell that it's enhancing what's already a practical effect. But one of the pieces of CGI that I actually really do like is when Jerry gets impaled by the four-sale sign and he's like all twisted up trying to crawl away. It's like a very unsettling usage. Yeah.

And you know, I also really love that you get to see how understated Jerry's vampire strength is. Like yeah, he fucking throws a car door into the back of there or no, it's a wheel is a wheel. I mean, yeah, like that's that's showing just how strong a vampire is. But what's really cool is that it's world building in that they like when the first time you actually see him in action, if I remember correctly, is when he just walks straight into the backyard while they're all watching him and he just starts digging up clots of dirt.

Like that's superhuman strength. And I love that. And then he just he pulls up the gas line and he just likes it and they're like, oh fuck, you know, like it's such a such a clever way to do it. I absolutely love it.

So two things from the IMDB trivia about Colin Farrell, both that one is just like man, Colin Farrell rules and the other one is just the wording of it is really funny. So read the funny one first. It says Colin Farrell expressed concern that his character was too much like a sexual predator and requested that the script have some changes made. No changes were made.

But then the other one says Colin Farrell requested that he do a monologue in Latin saying that it would be more menacing. He obtained a Latin tutor to teach him the monologue and studied the language on set. The monologue never made it to the screen. However, the Latin tutor was so fascinated by Farrell's ability to pick up Latin that she wrote a scholarly article detailing her time on the movies.

Holy shit, that's wild. God love Tony Collette. You know, she's given us so many iconic horror movies. She was in the sixth sense of the mom.

You know, that's taken us back to what's at ninety six or ninety seven whenever that movie came out. That movie is iconic. It's dumb as fuck now. But like at the time, world's changing for middle America, all right?

And she gave us and just bookend it. Her commentary, you know, like those two, I mean, she's done a lot of other shit. Don't get me wrong. It's two super, super important, super like culturally significant horror movies.

She's awesome. Fuckin' love Tony Collette. Yeah, she's like most of my favorite movies. So the other thing that is here that was interesting.

I guess Steven Spielberg had some type of producer credit in some way. But it says Steven Spielberg only made two contributions to the film. First was that he wanted to insert the shot of the crucifix falling in the pool directly in front of the camera after Jerry attacks Ed. The other was that Jerry's four stage of makeup when previewed.

He said that it wasn't scary enough and insisted that the original concept of a shark-like jaw be put back into the movie. It's fair. I don't love the effect, but it's, I really can look past it honestly. The effect looks better on image and poops when she has like the throwback to the original movie.

Yeah, you know what's funny? If we're talking about vampire superpowers, did you notice that becoming a vampire makes your boobs grow exponentially? Crazy guys, it's crazy. I wasn't aware.

I'll have to re-watch the page. I've been thinking about this line a lot lately and we won't get into politics, but yes we will. There's a scene where Anton is trying desperately to convince Peter Vincent that the vampires exist and he's showing him all this evidence and he says a line where he goes, do you think that I want to know this shit? And the way he says it is so pained and it's like, it makes me think of, on the Patreon episode with Croll, when it's like, if you could have one wish, what would you wish for and the Cyclops that sees the future says ignorance.

Like he is so pained by knowing this knowledge and it would be so much easier for him to live a happy life just never knowing that Jerry was a vampire. But it's one of those things where once the bottle's open you can't put that shit back. I love that line. And I think it's the most justifiable piece of character development of Charlie in either movie.

And you get that kind of like that skepticism which is weird because it's I don't know how I feel. I'm not going to criticize this part of the storyline but the fact that Peter Vincent's parents were murdered by Jerry and that's what made him kind of like obsessed with the occult. I don't know if I love that. I think that it's a bit too coincidental.

That's a little rough. I do like in the original movie that it's just like, dude I'm a fucking actor. Like I think that it's more entertaining when it's like someone who really doesn't know shit. Like they just been in their own bullshit.

Yeah I get that but I'm saying like you could still have David Tennant's character have had his parents killed by vampires and that's what led him to the occult right? Yeah it's a little bit of like the Joker the Joker killed Batman's parents in the first Batman movie. Yeah that's fucking stupid. It was never the Joker.

If we're going to be comic book nerds you know it never was. It never was. It never was. It's in Burton invention.

Well yeah if we're talking we brought a temperant twice in this episode and can we just say it's a ship bag and move on. So we have any other last thoughts on Fright Night Beyond go check it out if you've been putting it off because you're like eh like remakes and if you want to know about a couple other like decent remakes hit up our patreon where we're going to start the conversation there but probably go into God knows how many other tinge hits. They joined our comeback such a jam and podcast. We're making an ad.

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That's the end. That's the end. Well since this is my week this is my pick I'm gonna I get the illustrious first double feature and I'm gonna go with Evil Dead 2012 is that what it is? 2013 I think.

2013 yeah because if I was a triple feature of Evil Dead 2012 so like those are there they're all right around this I mean you can do right now 2011. Main Act 2012 Evil Dead 2013 and do this like you know litany. In order in order of rate remakes year by year. Brian do you want to go?

Yeah I'm just gonna follow in Scott's what steps and do town the trade at Sundown remake. I'm going to not pick a remake but I'm going to pick another movie that paired up Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots. Green Room. Such a great movie.

The Lightful Movie. Is that the one? Not the Lightful. Is Green Room where they sing Nazi punks fuck off?

Yes. Yes. Patrick Stewart plays the head of a Nazi cult. Yeah.

Yeah I do it's the whole thing but I definitely watch Anton Yelchin sing fuck and Nazi punks fuck off with maybe and I was like I think I saw everything I need to see from this film. Have you seen Blue Room and Scott? I don't know if you would like it. I haven't even seen Blue Room.

It's awesome. It's the movie he made before Green Room. Right. It's like a more realistic revenge movie which makes it more fun.

It's like not like hey cause you know how it's like hey look at Straw Dogs. Perfect example. Like hey here's like a pushover but like all of a sudden you know revenge gives him the strength to like kick ass. Like it's a guy trying to get revenge for his family but is an average guy so he doesn't have like this like martial arts badass semester to alone fucking strength.

He's like doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. You know I can't cock a gun. It's but it's like really really it's really well done. Nice.

I know I want to check it out but Scott what did you watch this week that you want to tell people about? Right so I just want to talk for a second about how hilarious Megan and I our Netflix algorithm must be how fucking it must be because we bingeed Bridgerton in about three days and it was great. Have you guys watched Bridgerton? Not yet.

Everything I've been seeing about it I know I need to check it out. My friend Brooke texted me at work the other day and was like because I watched Bridgerton I am now weirdly obsessed with the Vitamin String Quartet and listening to a bunch of their covers. So I know that there's a bunch of Vitamin String Quartets that I've covered. Super super cool.

Their cover of Thank You Next is absolutely perfect. So yeah Bridgerton's fun. It's fun because it's a period piece and it's just rich people being naughty. The costumes aren't great because Megan and I when we watch shit we watch to look at the costumes and Megan is a huge madman aficionado and so she's always honed in on whether or not the costuming is good and the costume is not good but it doesn't matter because it's kind of like this oh you know in Hollywood that the Netflix show right?

Yes. It's kind of like an alternate reality where people of color actually have a say in life. Bridgerton isn't either. Bridgerton was produced by a black woman I can't remember her name or name for a company but Megan knew some of the stuff that she'd already done and so there are black nobles in it and that's obviously not something that would have truly been in you know like I think it's 1800s like that but like there would be no nobles like the Duke would not be black.

Yeah. It's just not that it's cool. It's like a reimagining. Nice.

I know that I want to watch it and I want to watch it soon. Yeah you should watch it soon. Like the stakes are low you know and they'll do another season it's fun but we immediately jumped from there to Sabrina season 4 and I feel like Netflix is like why you know because they could not be more dissimilar. Bridgerton is basically for the 30 plus crowd and Sabrina has gone from being kind of like an all ages war to basically being Riverdale with shitty demons in it and season 4 or 3 episodes to where episodes in I may finish it on my own just like slog through it because it's not as bad as season 3 so far but it's bad.

It's just Riverdale. Nobody's likeable you know like they've muted all the fun characters over in Blackwood doesn't even get to be crazy and over the top anymore you know what Ryan said months ago he was like Netflix can't not take a good show and ruin it. Yeah like I didn't even know if season 4 was good or bad unfortunately because I put on the first episode I didn't care you know what I mean. I want to see the Eldridge Terrors and I'm like waiting I'm waiting for them to be good and there are so many choices like stylistic choices like the uninvited who's like the second Eldridge horror that you see like why does he just talk like a dude why wouldn't he talk like an otherworldly being like the darkness in the first episode why did it just sound like a dude's voice why wouldn't they have put some sort of vocoder on it or made it basically sound like whispers or like there are a million ways that you could do little world building things to make these shows not fucking suck but yeah and also you're in ship can't act to save your fucking life or say and we have to watch you do both these things.

Fun fact about Bridgesten let him in string quartet had a role in my wedding but don't tell them because we didn't pay them. I'll let that sit. Ryan can be on that weird fun fact is there anything you want to say hey check it out. Yeah and that's all I'm gonna say I'm just gonna say hey check it out and I'm gonna wait for you two to say it because it's very rare non-har I will say it's very rare non-har that the three of us all would really like a movie I think and promising young women is definitely one of us would really like to wait for you guys.

Where's that available at because that was something I was like super stoked to see in theaters when I was in. It's not available. I went to iPad. Oh yeah yeah let's just leave it leave it it's not.

Okay well then just trying to get sued by them and the vitamin string quartet got it. No no it's me being an asshole not me being a criminal. So I have two documentaries that I watched and one is on shutter so everybody can watch it and the other one I only was able to get through ordering a disc in the mail from Netflix. But the one that's on the shutter that everyone can see is Blood and Flesh the real life and guestly death of L.

Adamson which is a fascinating combination of two of our favorite documentaries because on one hand it's a true crime documentary about this film director who got murdered. But for the first hour of it it's also just the story of him as a filmmaker making all of these weird B-level exploitation films in the 60s, 70s and 80s and as I'm watching I'm like man Brian would watch this movie and have such a long list of movies that he would want us to watch. Oh no why are you suggesting this dude. So a few of the ones that I actually heard of he did like Psycho a go go he did Dracula versus Frankenstein in 1971.

I'm going to read some of these names because man exploitation in the 60s and 70s. Blood of Dracula's Castle the fiend with an electric brain the female bunch. St. St.

St. Hell's Bloody Devils the brain of blood the blood of the ghastly horror angels wild women the dynamite brothers I spit on your corpse the blazing stewardesses black heat black samurai dr. Dracula death dimension carnival magic and then just lost. So those were some of the classic titles that Al Adamson made but then the other documentary that I was looking captivated by was called resurrect dead the mystery of the tomb be tiles which I heard about through the colors of the dark podcast which is Elric and Becca of shock waves fame their new podcast and Becca recommended this and it was so weird because it all takes place in Philadelphia and it's about these tiles that if you walk around the city of Philadelphia you will see on the street.

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. That's a like resurrect dead movie 2001 resurrect dead on planet Jupiter and it basically is these three art students from Philly who kept seeing these tiles and became obsessed with the history of the tiles and like them going crazy trying to figure out who is making these tiles what's the message she's trying to send to people and it's just a really captivating watch and it's like a quick 80 minute documentary if you can find it it's it's definitely low budget it's like a documentary that's made out of like seven people interviews total but you're so hooked on the mystery you're like I need to figure out what's going on. You want to know something funny about my pics you guys got saved because I didn't feel like doing a bit for two hours because it was a two hour movie but you should avoid those documentaries just to get inside the mind for the listeners. I almost picked a 70s horror called the Mephisto Waltz and it's a two hour cult movie but I almost only picked it because Alan Alda is the star and I just I just am so interested in being like oh hey yeah Satan's yeah oh hey.

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