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And now you know. Was that enough references? Merry Christmas, I guess. So this year, we went back to normal our Christmas movies, and we went with Krampus 2015, yay!
A quick question, because people love this movie, but I think all three of us kind of felt the same way. Has there been a more disappointing, sophomore film release from a director that you can think of in recent time? Yes, the Inkeepers. See, I actually have to find the Inkeepers.
I'll defend the Inkeepers over this. No, here's the thing, is that the Inkeepers is a much less watchable movie. I'm not saying a fuckload because Krampus was so painful. But the Inkeepers was so bad because there was no script.
They were just riffing for two fucking hours, and you're like, what? And there are no monsters. At least with this, there are some cool characters like creature designs. So that's where I think it's OK.
So let's dive into it. One of the things that I read early on is that Michael Doherty was really pushing to use the 80s universal logo at the start of the movie, and that request was denied. But the reason that he wanted it to start that way was because he felt like the movie was a throwback to the 80s horror movie. And I feel like I get what he means to an extent.
But the big difference is that this leans so hard on CGI for creatures that don't need to be CGI, that it bothers me. Because it's probably my least favorite monster in the whole movie. But I would like this so much more if there was more practical effects like the man eating Jack in the box and less CGI gingerbread man in the movie. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. Because the CGI gingerbread man just make me think of the fucking creatures and sausage party. And I didn't even watch that movie. I just watched the previews.
No, I think the movie starts off OK. I actually really like the opening credits of the Black Friday and Sanity or whatever Christmas even Sanity. That's my first note. It says that the Christmas slum on Sanity at the beginning is the best part of the film.
It literally, that's the worst thing that your film can do. Is it a climax is in the first two minutes. It's also the worst thing your boyfriend can do. Oh.
The other thing that I learned was that, and this kind of answers a couple questions, but Universal only greenlit this movie if they would make it a PG-13 film. That's what killed it. Yeah, which like. No, no, I don't think so.
That's not what killed it because we literally just discussed PG-13 horror. Like, you can do it. But what this movie's problem is is the pacing. It's insufferably slow.
And there are certain things that they could have done. Now, I think about it. I don't understand why they didn't do it. And it still could have been PG-13.
Like, it's that type of movie that when the sister gets killed under the car, we just need to see the blood splatter when the car's shaking. Yeah, well, that's the thing. It's almost a bloodless movie. Which is not the problem.
That's literally not the problem with it. It's not the problem, but it's one of the things where like, because the first time that that jumped out at me is like, the delivery guy should have been more brutal even by PG-13 standards. Like, he doesn't even look that frozen in the car. Like, it literally just looks like they told the actor like, Stan Still.
And he just stood there. And then like, they digitally added some shit. When it's like, last year we did Scrooge. And I know Scott didn't like Scrooge, but even in Scrooge, you had the frozen homeless guy in the sewer.
And that was like an actually upsetting shot of a frozen guy. I just feel like it's a PG-13 movie, but it really, really could be just a PG movie if you're basing it just on like the mayhem. Because it's all just kind of tame. Make me not say this over and over again for the rest of this episode, but it could have been done well.
No, that's a thing. I don't like this movie. That's when it sucks. It's like I want to like this movie so much.
And I've given it, I feel like every year or every other year, I give it a shot. And I'm just like, maybe this will be the year that I watch and see something different. I've been like, this is my second and last watch, because the first time I watched it, I was so disappointed. Because like, the reason people like this movie is because they love Trick Archery.
That's the reason why they love this movie. They are completely blinded by how good that movie is and how fun it is. And they're like, it's got to be as good as it is. Or else my life has no meaning.
It's OK. You can just accept that this is a loss. I think he works better. Some people work better with budget constraints.
And I think that Trick or Treat is such an impressive movie because it was done still fairly cheap. It had a backing to it. I'm not saying that it was like, we've got actual indie film friends that have to be due with a couple of thousand. But it's different than a couple million.
I mean, having to work within a $500,000 range is a massive difference between having to work with a million dollar budget. I think that when you have all of that money, it also becomes easier to want to throw some bigger names in your movie, but then also feel like, well, let's spurge on some CGI. And it just didn't work. Is he just director?
Did he write this? He wrote and directed both this and Godzilla, King of the Monsters. Because I think that's where the issue primarily falls. It feels like he tried to write a Christmas movie.
Like, it had all the formula to a typical Christmas movie, like a family drama and shit that just didn't work. The first 30 minutes is like a mixed tape of Christmas movies. Because it's got elements of Home Alone and Elements of Christmas Vacation all just like smashed together. Oh, and they're terrible.
Yeah. It's absolutely derivative. And so I feel like the people that like this are making themselves ignore the fact that it's, maybe it's the warm blanket analogy that we talk about. But it's not the warm blanket for us.
I just feel like I love what you're talking about, Matt, with the fact that he works better with a lower budget. Because what I think is that once you get that kind of money, you are dealing with a committee and producers, and not real producers, but executive producers that are saying like, why don't you do this? Or why don't you add CGI here? I mean, maybe his hands are tied a little bit differently than we think.
Yeah, no. And I think that that's possible. We've watched bad movies before. I mean, let's talk about one of our favorites.
Something like serial and same clown killer. You know what I mean? Like, damn it. There's not a better version of that movie.
You know what I mean? I'm glad that you brought it into my life though. That's the thing. But that's the thing with that movie.
Is that what you're watching is the best that they could ever hope for with what they made. And that is kind of fun. I mean, same goes with a demon wind or an uninvited. There's not a better take on what you got from that.
But there's something so frustrating about watching a movie that you know that all of the elements make sense. Since Everything Works, it's got a competent director. But it's just not gelling, right? And like, that's almost like, it's kind of why we talked about this briefly before, and I won't dive too deep into it.
But it's the same reason why I didn't like the most recent Ghostbusters movie. Wasn't that it was a bad movie? But the whole time I was imagining how it could be better. And that will pull you right out of a movie if the whole time you're watching, you're just like, man, it'd be so much better if they did this instead.
Or if they did this instead. And then you're like, you're not even paying attention to the film at that point. Like, you were completely checked out by that point. Yeah, and I agree.
It frustrates me how Sweet Max's letter is to Santa Claus and how much I relate to him just wanting to have a nice family Christmas. I was hoping your hatred for this movie was spares, but it turns out it didn't. But yeah, I mean, I think that that's the other thing that kind of bugs me with this movie. Yeah, like, is Max's family an asshole, for sure?
Does Max deserve to go through all of this because he ripped up a Christmas letter to Santa after getting shit on by everybody? So here's the thing about that, though, is that I guess that they're trying to say that Krampus is super mean-spirited. And there's no real sense of rhyme or reason with why he kills and why he imprisons people forever in his noble which is so. Yeah, so let's almost say let's stop right there.
Because did you know that there are two different interpretations about that ending? What do you mean? So how do you guys interpret the end of the movie? Because Scott said the way that I've always seen the end of this movie.
Yeah, they get in the skate, they're in a snowball forever. No, apparently. And Mike Doherty says that he won't say which is the true ending, but hence that he's an optimist at heart is that what everyone else is interpretation of is that all that means is that Krampus has given them a second chance, but he's keeping a watchful eye on them to make sure that they continue to be good people after the events. That doesn't really matter at all because they know that they're stuck.
But at the end, it is not an upbeat ending of this movie. It is a downer ending where they're all stuck in this no-glob and they fucking know it. Well, and here's the other thing with the happy ending, they have released a Krampus comic book that's supposed to be Italian that in fact does state that they are perfectly fine and safe and that it was a happy ending. So it's like they're even fucking up the dark ending retrospectively.
But the things that the dark ending doesn't isn't something that I particularly like about it. No, I hate it the dark. I mean, we'll mention this briefly because someone emailed us about it and I gave them the nicest response. Oh, yeah.
If we would ever do better off a better watch out. Better watch out. It's kind of in the same reason why I'm always hesitant to even do the original Silent Night Deadly Night for this is that I enjoy Christmas horror movies to a certain extent. But for the most part, it's like go goofy, go big.
Don't make me have to be invested in anything. So yes, something like elves or even the Silent Night Deadly Night sequels that are just so off the wall goofy, it's like whatever. But I don't dig dark ending Christmas movies. It's like it's why I can't get into Christmas evil.
I mean, the one big exception is that obviously Black Christmas is a fucking masterpiece. The original Black Christmas is so good. But that barely even feels like a Christmas movie at times. It's just a slasher movie with a Christmas aesthetic the whole time.
But that's like saying that Halloween's only a slasher. That's true. I guess what I mean by that is Black Christmas didn't set the precedent for someone having to be dressed up like Santa Claus or every way that they're able to be tied to Christmas. They're going to step on the candy cane.
They're going to do it very much was just, hey, it's Christmas time. And that's the set up for why these people are slowly leaving school and why people going missing is going undetected. That's also why it's a perfect movie. Oh, it's so good.
It is one of the best slasher films ever made period end of sentence. Krampus is, yeah, I think I'm with you, Scott. I don't know if I'm ever going to revisit this again. Like if we got like maybe, who knows?
Maybe if Mike suddenly was like, hey, surprise motherfuckers, we did shoot an R-rated version. And here's the director's cut. Like, here he is. He's not watching the same movie though.
I mean, like, curiosity, I'd be like, all right, let's see what this director's cut is. But even Brian has been fooled by a Halloween 6 producers cut in four. And he's going to hate me in October. I'm going to hate myself.
Kind of bouncing back to what we were saying, though, about like when you watch these movies, and you know that there's a better movie or there could be a better movie, one of the ones that really bugs me and it's this CGI flashback. It's like people cut out, right? Yeah, well, that's trying to be stop motion. I mean, but I don't understand why they made that decision.
No, and I agree, because I was like, this whole scene would be better if they either went all in on stop motion or did all in on like shadow puppet. But like they're trying to use CGI to do a blend of both and it just doesn't work. It doesn't work at all. I don't disagree with you.
I mean, that's the problem with this movie is that it really feels like they were just trying everything they could to make it interesting. And it's also super weird to have the gingerbread men that are like super CGI and then have legit good practical effects in it because if I was a producer, and this is also my aesthetic talking, but if I was a producer and somebody was like, well, we're going to do this sweet Jack in the Box that's practical, but we're also going to do these gingerbread men and they may not look as good. I would probably be like, why do you need the killer gingerbread men? Because in this movie, you have so many monsters, you have the owl doll, you have the Jack in the Box, the actual Krampus elves, Krampus itself, the gingerbread men, and you have something else too.
I think I'm blanking a little bit, but like that's a lot of shit thrown at the wall. And you could get rid of the gingerbread men, and it would be fine because it's not adding anything. It's so frustrating because even the cast is so good. You know what I mean?
Like it's like, is it cast is strong? They're like, Tony Collette couldn't even save this. Yeah. What I mean is not like, oh, they cast it on for the right parts, but it's like, it's not like they just grabbed a bunch of nobodies who don't know how to do this.
No, no, that's what made the disappointment, like, even more was knowing the lineup in it. But what I don't get across the board, not even just this movie, I feel like producer, director, anyone, like, now I'm not a filmmaker, so take what I say with the grain of salt, but like, I don't care what year it is, we're never going to see the peak of technology. So anytime you rely on CGI, you're basically putting an expiration date on your movie. Like in 10 years, it's going to look terrible, you know?
Like, no matter what. Well, no, here's the caveat to that, because I watched Jurassic Park for the first time in maybe a decade or so, this summer, it was like August, and that CGI still holds up, which is crazy, but it's because it was a blend. That's a big thing though, it's like, if you're using CGI to enhance the practical, then it's not as noticeable. But when you're just leaning all in on CGI, that's when it's like, oof, you got nothing, you got no safety net.
Well, I also, here's the caveat to the caveat, is the thing prequel that they did in 2011, I want to say it was, they did all practical, and then, committee game, and it was like, just put CG on top of all that practical. And so it's like, even when they do blend, it's sometimes it's not the right decision. But I think that it was completely a rate, like, because I watched that thing. That featurette is so frustrating.
It is the most frustrating featurette of all time for me. Because it's almost like they said, erase the practical and replace it with CGI. Like, it was even like an enhancement. It was like a band-aid or a cover.
I don't even know why they did it because the practical looks so fucking good. But also, even more frustrating thing about that is that the people that made that movie, the practical effects department, I can't remember the name of the company, I think, maybe it was Spectral. They got shit on by everybody that didn't know this one. Right, and then, because of that, they were like, we're going to make our own quote unquote thing movie.
And they made Harbinger Down. And Harbinger Down is obviously a movie made by practical effects people, because it sucks. It looks like the movie is not good. Well, it's like, you know, there's a certain enjoyment out of it.
I think it's called Action USA. I still haven't watched it, but I want to watch it. But it's like, it's literally a bunch of stuntmen decided to make an action. Oh, yeah.
Oh, you know who always posts that shit on Instagram is VCR world? You follow that? Yeah, yeah. And they're always driving through the house in the house.
Yeah. Yeah. Like, it's like, this movie is such a mess, because like, best intentions. It was like a group of stuntmen that were like, you know, who's going to make a dope-ass action?
Maybe a bunch of stuntmen. You know, who can't write a screenplay? A bunch of stuntmen. Yeah, we should do that for one of our first pick of the year.
Action USA? I want, listen, the big one that I can't believe I haven't picked for a Patreon. Maybe that'll happen in 2021 is fucking hard ticket to Hawaii. Oh, God.
No, please don't. I don't even know what it is. We have any other thoughts about Krampus. I feel like we've officially gotten into the let's talk about anything about Krampus.
Well, because it's not only is it not a good movie, but it's not a good movie from someone that like, we want to succeed that made us happy at one point. So it's like hard to talk about because I don't want to shit on the guy. No, man. He's just fucking shut on him.
All right. OK. Yeah. That's true.
Although I do feel bad, I wonder if he's like, just scrolling through the internet. And he's like, I hope someone's talking about Krampus. And he's like, oh, hard movie night. That'll be kind.
Yeah. Look at these notes. Yeah. Go check out our Trick or Treat episode for a couple months.
Yeah, well, that's the hand job that you need, Michael. Sorry. Are you a fan of Young Adult Novels? Have you ever wondered the stories behind the people who wrote your favorite Young Adult Novels?
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Was that enough references? All right, so let's talk double features. Who wants to go first? Because this was by committee, essentially.
This was a committee one. Yeah. Well, Brian, do you have one? I feel like we need to give you this off ball here today.
Yeah, surprisingly, I do have one. I would care this with Sint, also known as Sint. Sint, yeah. Never saw it, but I use a lot of clips for an upcoming live stream.
I know that's ridiculous. Yeah, for a live stream that passed. Scott, do you want to go? Because I don't think you'll have mine.
And if you do, I have a backup. So I'm pretty sure, and I've been meaning to, I actually had to Google a second time, and I did not get the answer that I wanted. But demonic toys is a Christmas movie, right? It's not a Christmas movie.
It's a Halloween movie, but that was one of my double features, because this movie feels like it was inspired by demonic toys, between the Jack in the Box and the Baby Doll and all of the other shit. Who would win in a fight? Who would win? Baby of C.
Daisy or the Owl Baby of Doll? Oh, well, it's easy. The Owl got all about scaring you. Baby of C.
Daisy will fuck you up. It's smart as a car. Well, since you took demonic toys, I'll lean on my plan B, which I'm afraid I don't think I said this already, but maybe I did. But if I did, it's two weeks in a row, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part Five, The Toy Maker.
Oh, goddamn it. I re-watched it as I do every December, and I still, I mean, I really fucking love that movie. You know what? I'm going to watch, because I still have to wrap some Christmas presents for Megan, and so I stopped to watch Silent Night, Deadly Night, and Black Christmas.
I might try and squeeze in Silent Night, Deadly Night 3. Better watch out. Sorry, Bill Mosley. Yeah, but it's been.
One week since you looked at me. I think that's the one that I watched the longest time ago, because I actually watched Stupid Ass Toy Maker after you picked it for the show, you son of a bitch. I love that one. I don't know what's wrong with you.
The Killer Toys are delightful in it. Brian, I know that this is usually the question that you don't have an answer for, but have you watched anything you want to talk about? Yeah, I want to talk about the most ridiculous show in the world. 90 Day Fiancé?
No, no, no. It's called Doesn't It? I literally started watching that this week. What, 90 Day Fiancé?
Yeah, it's a train wreck. It is very depressing. This is called Doesn't It Is Survivor. It is got Jack Bauer, key for Sutherland.
And it's basically he is in HUD. He gets chosen as a designated survivor, and the entire, like, the Congress building gets blown up, and everyone in politics is basically dead, so now he's the acting president. But the show is written by cocaine. It is the funniest fucking thing.
This is one episode. I'm going to tell you guys the basis for one episode, and so far I've told so many people about this episode. So he gets a call because the head coach of the Olympics team got stopped in Russia, and they found a bunch of steroids on him. So now he's in a Russia prison looking at life and prison.
But it turns out that he's actually a CIA operative that went undercover in Russia. So now they have to go through all this stuff. They have to pull in these other countries, make a bunch of deals just to get this guy released. They get him released.
He doesn't make it on the plane. Then the CIA finds pictures of him walking with a KGB member because he's a double agent. That is one episode. It is like everything.
Everything. It's such a great dumb show to watch. All right. This is the episode that's coming out right before Christmas.
Last year, and for the 12 months following it, I chocked up, let it snow as the best new Christmas movie of 2019. Well, 2020's best new Christmas movie is available on Hulu. I've watched it twice already, and it's called The Happiest Season. And it is phenomenal.
It is written and directed by Cleo DeValle, and it is starring Kristen Stewart, Dan Levy, Allison Brie, Mackenzie Davis. It's a fantastic cast. And it's about a girl who is in a long-term relationship with her girlfriend. And she's going to meet their family for the first time.
And she's planning to propose at Christmas, just as they're about to arrive at her parents' house. Her girlfriend looks at her and just says, I probably should have told you this earlier, but my dad's a conservative senator, and he doesn't know that I'm gay, and he can't know that you're gay either. And it is the awkward Christmas of her trying to deal with that week. But it is so funny, so heartfelt.
It is top-notch Christmas dramedy. Highly recommended for everybody and anybody. Has one of the most powerful speeches about coming out I've ever seen in a movie. So boom, that's my recommendation.
Well, and so that's funny that you mentioned, let us know because that wasn't what I was going to talk about. But I just remember that Megan and I watched it. I hated it. Dude, I couldn't get a new idea.
No, I'm like, so Matt talked it up so much. I was like, this is going to be so good. And Megan was like, didn't you say that Matt said this was really good? I'm like, yeah, let's fucking watch it.
And I hated every person in it. Every single person. And I was like, this has nothing. This is nothing like Can't Hard They Wait.
OK, I do like the two characters, but they're also the sappiest, most stupid, unrealistic characters, which is the pop singer and the girl with the mom who's dying of cancer. But I thought that they were the best actors, and they were both very attractive. And so that was cool. But the bitchy girl that is treating all of her friends and shit, and she's the one who's with Joan Cusack the whole time.
And then she buys her best friend, a baby pig, which I think is a really bad decision, just because pigs don't stay small. I love pigs, and they're not pets. That's just not how it works. So that really bothered me.
And I hated the gay angle. I hated the way that they just made it like, you know how Matt bitches about Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and says that there's no stakes? There are no stakes in let it snow.
Like, she's like, oh, I'm not out. And then all of her friends are cool with it. They're all cheerleader. They're not going to be cool with it.
OK, that became on 2019. That's fine. Not even in 2025, or cheerleader's going to be totally cool with their best friend coming out and be like, yeah, if we knew you were gay, when she's closeted, like, it's just dumb. It's so dumb.
But anyway, that's not what I wanted to talk about. So let us know, don't watch it. What I want to talk about was reading and watching Lovecraft Country. I finished it all.
And I liked it. But I was really disappointed by the ending of the show. Have you guys watched it? I just watched it recently.
Yeah, but the weird thing about it is it's a good show. Like, there's nothing about it that I didn't like. But we fell off watching it. And then I just haven't had the motivation to go back.
I just haven't been in the mood to watch it. I don't know what it is. Nothing bad about it. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I can just. It's definitely a show that, let me say it like this, the Mandalorian this season, I feel like, has been a show that has been just increasingly better as every episode comes up. Anybody who has a toilet and just started at a peak and just kind of slowly stepped down every episode? Maybe that's it.
It's true. But I think that I will say this. As much as we're shitting on the CGI and how dated it looks in Krampus and five years later, every moment that happens in Lovecraft Country that was supposed to make me feel a specific way from the violence or the gross out standpoint, succeed it. It definitely tapped into like, and it's funny because I am curious to hear what you have to say because my experience with Lovecraft isn't from reading any of his stuff, but it's from seeing movies that were adapted from it.
So as I was watching it, I kept thinking of Necronomicon specifically. So certain elements would come up and I'd be like, oh, that reminds me of this part Necronomicon. I could feel where the influence was being pulled from in it. Whether you love it or hate it or just feel indifferent about it.
The idea of taking such an infamously racist person's mythology and transforming it into a very important story about racism is awesome. Like I'm all about that. And that's kind of one of the, you said something on One Hit Thunder about Lit where you were like, whether I like the album or dislike the album, I'm going to champion it anyway. And that's kind of how I feel about Lovecraft Country, where it's like, I enjoy it, but I will champion the shit out of the show because I like what the show is trying to do.
Yeah, and I don't necessarily think the show is like for us. You know, like, oh, we can appreciate some layers of it. But it really is like, when Black Panther came out, the Afro-futurism angle of it isn't really for us. And that's fine.
Like we can appreciate it and understand it and like learn about Afro-futurism. But it's not really like we're not going to get the same feeling and the same level of understanding out of it as someone who knows about Afro-futurism or people that have experienced racism and things like that for Lovecraft Country. So I mean, the thing that really chaps my hide about Lovecraft Country, the book, first of all, is because I read the, so I watched the first four episodes, stopped because I was stoked about it. And I was like, I need to read the book to see how it lines up.
So I read the book and then I went back and finished the series. And the book, first of all, is written by a white guy. And I don't want to gatekeep and say that a white person can't write about Jim Crow, but it also is something like, it's touching, you know? But the book in particular loses the Lovecraftian vibe a lot for me.
And they reference a lot in the show, how the book and the show are different. They actually specifically point things out later on in the show. Matt, you watch the whole series then? Yes.
OK, so when they talk about him getting the copy of Lovecraft Country through the portal, right? In the book, they're basically saying that George Atticus's son wrote our copy of Lovecraft Country in a way because there are multiple Earths and it's like a multi-verse kind of thing. But that also is weird because there's revisionism saying that Matt Ruff, a white man, didn't write Lovecraft Country in our Earth. It's a really weird, I just don't know how I feel about that.
I have no problem with them changing things for the show because I also like the fact that they made the show in such a way that it doesn't, it's got a nice book end for this season but it's not going to be the last season that they do. So it does kind of take a little bit away from it. I don't know how I feel about a Camillejo being in it. I like the fact that they were saying monsters exist outside of American culture.
But Camillejo doesn't exist in Lovecraft as far as I know them doing multi-verse stuff instead of doing space travel, like they did in the book. The space travel felt way more Lovecraftian to me than the way that they handled it in the show. But then they had Shoggoths in the show and they didn't have them in the book. They have a much different kind of deal with the ghosts in the show.
I don't know how I feel. I think that they did a good job on using the ghosts in both, but then they had a siren in the show. And I really liked the siren. But then getting to the sirens felt like an Indiana Jones kind of thing.
And so I don't know how I feel about that. And so it's a very mixed bag of how I feel about the show in the book. I mean, I would recommend the show to anybody. I don't necessarily think I'd recommend the book to just anybody.
I feel like you'd have to hardcore love the show. So really want to read the book. It was a snappy read. It wasn't hard to read.
But just didn't leave me feeling satisfied. And neither of them left me feeling fully satisfied. Like when I read John Dies at the end, I mean, that book comes to mind as one of those recent horror books where I just felt super, super satisfied when I finished reading it. And I haven't had a lot of horror novels that come out after that that have made me feel that way.
And so maybe I'm just jaded. I don't know. All right. So that was Krampus and a bunch of other stuff.
Merry Christmas, everybody. Or I'm going to steal this from Josh, because I do love that he says this. Scary, crypt-miss, everybody. So that was our Krampus episode.
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