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Woo! We're back with another episode of Horror Movie Night. And it is my favorite time of the year, summer time, because it's the time that I remind people time and time again, that you've got to stay out of goddamn water! Now this became, because I've never learned how to swim, actually.
It's because Matt has scared me into not being able to learn as an adult now. Hey Kyle, as a chance. As a dad, you should be like, Hunter, you're going to learn how to swim, because I didn't do anything. I've already asked about Jaws quite a few times, and he sort of does this bastardized version of the theme, because it's just crazy how early something like that permeates a child's mind, something like Jaws.
Because it's a thing that's real. You know what I mean? It's not a daily, it's just a shark doing a shark shit. It's a shark.
And in some senses, you might have to be careful of a shark. Like there is a world in which you have to be mindful of a shark. It's not right now. That wasn't my childhood.
My childhood was really literally like, watch out for these imaginary monsters. Yeah. What does that say about me? Well, speaking of Jaws real quick, catch me on Monster Rally Podcast with the Geekscape Network talking about Jaws too.
This episode should be out by now. Anyway, yes, every year I try to remind people to stay out of the water. Now, this became increasingly more difficult this year with the anniversary caveat that really limited what I had queued up for for year 10. This will just be the picks for year 11.
But this was on my long, long, long list. And I said, oh, this will be fun. We haven't, it's been a hot minute since we did like a sci-fi stop motion monster movie over on Heart Moving Niles. Oh my God, I got a room on Niles.
Hi, I'm moving Niles. Hey, Matt, you know, all this Jaws talk makes me have to laugh because, you know, Jaws is an anniversary this year. I know, but I don't think you would even want us to do Jaws as an episode of this book. I would have been fine.
I think that people would have listened to because they're like, oh, this is a movie I know. And we would just rip the jokes. Well, we'll see. I mean, I do.
I listen, I need no excuses to watch Jaws. Like, is that right? Well, you do need an excuse. But you know what I need an excuse for was to pull out a Tox Brewing Company, Arathron.
Nice. Oh, you've got one. Oh, really? It's just kind of a fucking shark and a puffer fish on the front of it.
And I was like, well, this is one that I haven't done on the show yet. Oh, that's incredible. Well, cheers. I just went with a cone of Big Wave mostly because I got it for free.
But we are in the Pacific. You taste better when it's free. Yeah, we are in the Pacific and is liquid aloha. Aren't they listening to like a lot of whole...
There's a lot of wine music in the sub. And that's turning them real horny. Yeah. That is one of the few notes that I have is literally them talking about, oh, good old iron lung, I think, as we said.
And then he's like, turn off this music. It's getting us in the mood. And I'm like, and that's the most Navy joke I've ever heard. I have an incredible picture.
It seems to ring true. My grandfather didn't talk about his time in the Navy all that much, but I do have a picture of him shirtless and his bunk is just covered in topless women. Like, and I was like, okay, so like they are true horn dogs in this submarine. Are you saying that they are pictures or they are human bodies?
Pictures. Pictures of topless women. He just has his grandpa surrounded by scuzz. Yeah, yeah.
It was the first female sub. And that didn't work out well. It was just like a, some like a hot, but on the submarine. Sub like it hot.
Sub like it hot. No. Well, there's another shirt that no one will buy. We can be.
Sub like it hot. Well, I'm just speaking of plays on names. I do know the porn parody for this and it's just called it came. Yeah.
Anyway, cheers to this. Oh, my question. Quick question before I dive into the plot summary portion of the show. How did you guys watch this?
I had this on DVD. I wasn't sure what route you guys took to watch. Did you link RICO to be? Yeah, I went to be.
Was to be the black and white or the colorized version? Black and white. Okay. The DVD that I had gave me both options and I actually went with the colorized because while I'm kind of against the colorization of black and white movies, I usually make an exception on the Harry house in films because you do just get such a cooler addition of like the creature look having even more color to make it pop.
What color was it in there? I went with green. It was a green octopi. So I'm going to try to do the summary.
The Wikipedia has a summary that's way more detailed than what I'm going to give you guys because the Wikipedia things that you need so much more information on this. Oh my God. I don't know if this is any of these people. Yeah, I both it down to the bare essentials.
All right. It's stopped by an unexpected large sonar signal, keeping them stuck. Eventually, they're able to free themselves, but it remains a mystery of what attacked them. So some marine biologists are brought in to examine the sub and find tissues from what they believe is a giant octopus.
The military is unconvinced of this at first, but eventually they can no longer deny the reports of swears and ships being pulled under the water by some sort of large creature. Scientists conclude the creature originally was from the deepest part of the ocean, but was forced to the surface by hydrogen bomb testing in the water, which made this octopus radioactive and also drove away its main food supply. As the scientists and military officials begin to investigate, they are attacked and nearly escaped. This is when we get a nice shot of this stop motion tentacles coming out of the water for the first time.
The octopus eventually attacks the Golden Gate Bridge and probably one of the more iconic moments of early sci-fi horror. The octopus wreaks havoc across San Francisco, but using flames, they were able to drive the octopus back to the sea and are able to swim up and place explosives all over its body and then shoot a torpedo at it to blow them up. They really had to do like 10 different things to kill this guy. Yeah.
At the end of this movie, by the way, I'm watching the very last couple minutes of it in color and it was literally the last five minutes of it as in color. And it looks great. It looks so much better in color. I really wish that I would have watched it in color.
Yeah. I mean, but this is one of those ones where we talk about this sometimes. There are these classic movies where Kyle, I feel like you remember this too. We've talked about those tiny little books that you can't at the very first.
Yeah. Like, and not even the orange ones. The orange ones are a whole different piece. Oh, yeah.
These are like pocket size and there's one called monsters and I am positive that I still image similar to what Kyle has behind him of this octopus attacking the bridge was like an image inside the monsters book that I have examined and looked at many a times in my life. Kyle has ran off and ran back with a pen and mouth and it looks like he's trying to find the exact page for the people who watch the video version of the show on our Patreon. Yeah. So I'm backslash HMM podcast.
This is the book that I recall and I'm pretty sure there is a picture of this monster in this book. If not, it is in a different monsters book that I, ah ha, there we go. Yeah. And distinctly, this is, this was my favorite one of the series and because it also includes cryptids.
It's monsters, it's monsters abroad. And I distinctly remember that picture of this octopus. So when you pick this movie, I was, I just remember that still so vividly. I love this book.
Now, now this is one of those books or is that a series like the bigger swear ones? This is a series of at least six. I think it's only six. There was ghosts.
There was zombies. I don't have monsters. And I've never seen. I've never seen.
I've never seen the Mummy's one, but I had the vampires one. Hunter is looking at the werewolves one and that's upstairs. I remember the most one. So I never had the Mummy's one, but I had the other five.
Yeah. There was this beautiful moment that like maybe one day it'll come back. This is where I feel hopeful is like, Scott, I don't know if you also remember this, but it sounds like Kyle does. Those books came out in the 90s.
Like there was this way in the 90s where everything was like, Hey, here's a reminder of how awesome the 50s horror movies were. Like there was a full push of like those orange book covers that we're talking about, these little pocket books. I remember I still have some of them. We've been trying to find the set because I'm sure there were a lot of money.
My parents misplaced them that were like at Walmart, little animatronic figures of like Frankenstein, Dracula, creature, Wolfman and Mummy that you would like hit buttons and they would make different noises and like move their arms. They were like, yay. Hi, like tiny little guys, but there was this huge 90s push for the universal stuff and the black and white stuff. They like re-released all the movies on VHS and they had matching VHS box art.
And what I'm saying is that I hope that those same way that stuff that was like 40 years old was being like, not just represented, but like also like kind of re-appreciated by a very specific kid of the 90s that like the stuff that we grew up with will find its way into like the new generations. Where they're going to be like, fuck yeah, Dr. Giggles like hell yeah, Scream sequels. Yeah, there's an interesting thing to be said.
There's like all these sort of like retro action figures that there seems to be an overabundance of there are re-frags is reprinting like trading cards in that way. But I think that the weird thing is that they're all in the same market, right? They're just marketed to pre-existing horror fans or like pre- like there's not that entry level thing that this feels like this was, at least when we discovered it. And I just don't know if it is going to be in a physical form.
I hope so because I think that'd be really fun. But I don't know what that is now for. Yeah. Hey, maybe it's something that we got to do.
Maybe the immediate follow up, the immediate follow up to if we ever finished this horror movie night book is trying to push like a school-esque level kids book about appreciating 80s and 90s slasher movies. Dude, maybe you're selling it to Kyle already. Maybe. But you'll notice that we're not really talking about the movie that much because this movie I would say sometimes you have these late 50s mid to late 50s big monster movies and they're like a lot of fun, right?
Deadly Mantis comes to mind. The Mantis was an absolute treasure from front to back and it had a really cool practical effect of Mantis. But like even without the practical effect Mantis it was like a fast paced movie. This movie's only really exciting when Ray Harryhausen is like allowed to shine with this octopus.
And a large chunk of it is like military stuff. And I mean- And I hope I'm not someone's level feature when I say this. But like another pick of mine from years ago was Reptilicus that has similar pacing. But like Reptilicus also was way more fun to even watch the human character interaction pieces even when Reptilicus wasn't on screen.
This is just not one of those movies. Where do you care about any character? Let's be fair though. Reptilicus was boring too.
Like this is just a new level of boring. Now this movie isn't without its merits. Like let's get that clear as well. Like I wasn't mad watching this but I was definitely like pretty checked out for 90% of the movie.
And the movie isn't in the past- 79 minutes long. I know. I paid attention for 10 of those minutes. It's actually more than 10%.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. That's math baby.
That's like the eighth of the movie you paid attention. I do think there's like a couple of things that I found interesting but then it just gets- They're just but they're book ending a thing that is so not fun which is this military approach and this woman scientist and these things that we've been talking about. Oh, a lady scientist? We can't trust her opinion.
Well that's always the thing, right? All of these movies that we've watched whether it's just tired. Deadly Mantis, Reptilicus, even like a creature for the Black Lagoon. Any of these films from a specific time period, they all have the same basic gist of there is a female scientist that in one hand feels mildly progressive for the 50s.
Very mildly. Until you're like, oh but this character is literally just there to give some sex appeal, to give a love story to the movie and almost every one of those circumstances. Although I think that this is probably my favorite way that it's presented her. She uses her womanhood to get more information than the guys can get.
When they can't get that one sailor to talk and then she's just like, let me handle it. It is really funny her interrogation. She's like, now let a woman interrogate. It takes off her fucking sweater and is like light me up with cigarette.
It's really- The other doctor is named John Carter. So anytime that they say Dr. John Carter, I just went of Mars. Which is why I totally- The same.
No sold me the whole time, mostly because she doesn't know what it is and she knows what it is, so she's not going to laugh at my joke. I need to make sure that I sit here so that people can hear it. But I do think that I appreciated it. I just want to point out was I really do think that there's something interesting.
This is not just like in this movie, but it's in various radioactive sci-fi horror movies, but there's something really interesting in man not believing that there's something in nature that could be more powerful than the thing that they have just developed and made. You know, like they're talking about the state of the art, nuclear sub and the narrator, who like only helps in the beginning of the movie, maybe the first third, and then we never hear from this narrator ever again. He pops up when necessary and apparently he was not crucial for most of the rest of the video. We just need somebody to explain how we get to this point and then we're good.
But I like this pridefulness and arrogance of man that I think is like really, really fun. And then all I can think about during this last 10 minutes, which is basically if anybody needs to like is interested in this movie, the last 10 minutes is just truly the best part of it is the octopus attacking the Golden Gate Bridge. But all I can think about were the prisoners on Alcatraz just going absolutely- Watching the octopus attacking the Golden Gate Bridge. Yeah, I got 10 bucks on.
Now come here. Come on. They're trying to like coax it over to take down one of the walls. It's so fucking funny.
Yeah, I mean that Golden Gate Bridge attack scene, especially for like early early, I mean still early instead of using like green screen effects or however it was done, it looks really, really good. Yeah. So I mean, I, all in all it's worth the watch, but it's definitely worth the watch with like the remote firmly in hand for like some fast forwards or 10 second skip aheads depending on how you're watching it. I was too, we might not be the way to go because Tubi can make an 80 minute movie into a 100 minute movie real fast.
Unless you're smart like me and you use an ad blocker. So there's that. I know, but I watch on my television set while watching a child. So that doesn't, there's that doesn't give me that much advantage there.
Yeah, this is a weirdly short one. I apologize. But you know what? The movie was weirdly short.
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So Marissa, what talking points do you want to hit on in this week's episode? Well Jackie, let's talk about how the film addresses the patriarchy. Ooh, and representation of marginalized people. Ooh, ooh, and even philosophical ramifications of good versus evil and horror.
We can point out the triangle boobs, talk about the blood splatter and ugh, the practical effects. And also the male gaze? My gaze at the males. Hi-oh!
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A more recent film that we'll probably talk about in a year or two, The Meg. Nice. Dude, that would be a fun. First of all, I can't wait to discuss The Meg.
And two, I think it would be a really fun night. And now it's really funny because I thought that you were going to backload the night by taking the 70 minute movie and combining it with Titanic. Just like a long way. Yeah, let's just strap in.
We're going to go to both the HS tapes that get us there. That's right. But how about one of you guys? Well, I'm going to go.
I feel like this is almost unfair. But I was thinking about the kind of the giant monster, there's the trench of the deep. I can remember what the name of it is. And then there's a lot of military battle at the end and explosions.
And I'm like, well, Pacific Rim is just too obvious. So I'm going with Pacific Rim. All right, very nice. Very nice.
I'm going to stick with our creature of choice here. But we're going to flip coasts. We're going to go Octopus 2, River of Fear, which is one that I want to talk about on the show eventually. So that's just a little taste.
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I'm feeling it. So that's going to be my double feature. Well, you know what I'm also feeling? The shirts that Scott and I are wearing in this video.
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And now the final part of the show, what did we watch this week, listen to, et cetera. I'm going to go real quick on this one, but I was delighted to find out that the Black King had dropped on, I believe it was Peacock. And that movie is fun as fuck. So I highly recommend giving the Black King a watch.
It's a very fun tongue in cheek. All I think the entire crew end cast is African American. I'll spoil one joke of the movie that I think really sells the rest of what the movie is about. They are playing a, it's basically like Saul meets scream.
They're playing, they're playing Black trivia. And if they are not black enough, then they will be taken away and tortured. I'll assault and I got a big laugh out of one of the questions was name the four black characters that appeared on the show, Friends. And they, and they name the four characters.
And then the game has to go incorrect. The correct answer was bitch, I don't watch that. I was watching living single during that. So I'm like, all right, this really does just like check some boxes for me of like someone who loved Chappelle's show back in the day.
And it really captures all of that right humor. And it's just fun. The kills are fun to watch. It's just a good time.
And it's 87 minutes or something. So like check to every Mac Kelly box. Highly recommend. I'll go next.
And I'm going to go with a very quick negative thing and even a nice long positive thing. OK? So I'm just going to keep a real short with a negative because I'm trying to be positive on the show. I watched Hard Eyes and it fucking sucked.
I really, really hated that watch. I thought that it was so bland. And I thought that it was terrible character design. I hated the twist.
I thought that the meatcute shit was so unnose and terrible. I wanted my hour and a half back. All right. So something that is worth your time is a great book called The Husbands by Holly Grama Zio.
I think it's how you pronounce her last name. And it is not a horror book. It is kind of just speculative fiction. I don't know how you want to call it.
The concept is that this woman owns a flat in London. She comes home drunk from her best friends, bachelor party. They're called hand parties in the UK. And when she comes home, there's a strange man standing in her flat.
And she's like, what are you doing? And he goes, honey, are you OK? And so she goes to sleep and she wakes up the next day. And she finds out that she has a husband who came down from the attic.
She didn't have an even boyfriend before she came home badly. So it comes to be that she realizes that every time she sends a man or the husband up the stairs of the attic, a different husband comes down, completely different man. And the world changes with it. And then she basically, but she time continues forward.
So it's not a time loop, which I think is a really cool kind of like world building something about it. And she's actually not a good person. She's not like a cheater. She's not a bad person.
She's like selfish and kind of shitty because if she doesn't like a husband, she's like, oh, he has a mustache. I don't like a mustache. She sends him right back up. Now they don't die.
It's just like basically she's hopping through parallel lives. And she's going through thousands of them, or how many men it was. But she went through all these husbands. She's going through all these husbands.
And some she keeps for an hour. Some she keeps for a week. Some she keeps for a month. She doesn't even talk to.
She's just like, go back up the stairs. Really great concept. Really fun. I just thought that it was charming.
So I found out about it. I told Megan to read it. She read it and she immediately handed it over to me so that we could discuss it. And it was a fun little, I feel like it had enough humor and it had enough fictiony odd.
I don't want to call it weird because weird is an entire genre in and of itself. But I don't have enough odd fiction in it that it scratched the itch for me because I like supernatural shit. I don't like just a regular drama. But it's still at its core kind of like a romantic drama.
So anyway, I recommend it. The husbands. Love it. Alright.
How about you Kyle? I watched Quicksilver Highway, which was made for TV anthology by Mick Garris. It's only two stories. I picked it up on a DVD sale.
I don't remember if it was the FYE sale or something from another book slash movie store that I go to. So I can't remember. Somebody who reads the newsletters left to tell me. But Quicksilver Highway is one Stephen King story and one Clive Barker story.
And it's fine. Mick Garris has this really strange tone when it comes to these things, particularly King, but then to see him tackle a Clive Barker story was really insane. What stories did he do? So he had done and the Clive Barker one was, oh no, it wasn't Sons of Selya Laid.
What was it called? I mean, it's a bit of Son of Selya Laid. That would have been... No, it was the one about the mutiny of a doctor's hands and getting the hands to...
Oh yeah, the body public? Yes. Thank you. Yes.
The body... You know, I've seen that. I didn't even realize that was Mick Garris. It's made for TV.
Yeah, I'm the body politic. And then Chattery Teeth by Stephen King, which is from 92. Chattery Teeth is... Wow.
It's so strange to me. I don't know why it exists. Quick Silver Highway. Quick Silver Highway.
Because I've seen ghosts of those separately. I didn't know that they were one. Mick Garris too. I didn't know that they were...
I don't even remember seeing them like how I saw them, but that's so funny. Yeah. I have a DVD of it. Christopher Lloyd plays this sort of like narrator character.
It's more of just like a point of interest. I don't think that it's very... It's not super successful. I think that Nick's approach to Clive Barker is weird.
And his approach to Stephen King is successful but weird. And that's a weird story to like bring into the world visually. So I don't know. It's just a curiosity more than anything.
I watched it. Two and a half stars. It's probably more of like a three star thing. I just...
I don't know. I wanted more from the Clive Barker story and it wasn't quite there. But there's some... I mean, listen, the body politic, at least this version of it ends with hands all jumping off of a rooftop and killing those windows.
So it's a really great sequence of hands just flopping onto the ground in this big dramatic like suicide pact. It's funny. But Christopher Lloyd is a weird person to have as the central anthology character. It's a weird one worth checking out if you're into diving into made for TV.
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