So, we're live. Hi, everyone and welcome to the Nelly of North podcast. It's a Nelly podcast and it's hosted by Northern nerds. I am one of your hosts Sam.
And I'm the host Paul and we are joined tonight by the lovely ladies of Beymore Geek, the lovely Gwyneth and the lovely Keir, who have been very kind and generous to give us a few bits of their time because they are very busy ladies as well. So, they've been working today and actually have joined us to have a chat and basically tell us a little bit about themselves and about what they do as well. So, again, I'll throw it over to one of you ladies. Do you want to introduce yourselves a little bit?
Yeah, should I go first? Yes, I'll go first. I'm going to the manager at the never set of store. Also, with any castle as well.
I've been there since the very beginning. No one else can say that apart from the owner. So, I'll let you just, you know. So, did you start in the never set of new castle ones?
No, it was a new castle that was the first one. It was just a random like, do you want to job and I was like, yes. It's crazy how it's like, it's just tiny little shop full of like, it's what we get in and then crazy how you're going to put your Toronto ready. Yeah, it was on a little corner, wasn't it?
I'd say at the Green Jumarker. I remember, because I say, we've come to get these stores and stuff like in the North East. It's always go through its fears as well, we'll have one or two. And the tender like, there's a lot of don't grow too much, but this has been like a bit of a sensation as well, because he's constantly expanding to the point where he's a pretty much everywhere now in the North East, which is like, it's amazing for us, especially me who likes to watch these very stores.
Yeah, and what about you, Kate? Hello, yes, I'm Kate. I am the assistant manager at the Sunland Store, and I also dabble around in a bit of the social stuff so you might see me pop up on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, that is me. I'm the only one.
Yeah, that's my face. Yeah, he's been getting more of a presence on the online and social media side of things as well. It's great to see all the different stores and the members of staff getting involved as well, because I know it's not just put on with you, like I think there was a video or so around Christmas time of when it's doing the Wandavision, which is doing the Wandavision, like, give bag special and stuff, but I like how he started doing like little mini movies as well to go with the launches with everything. I'm starting to sound like a complete fanboy now, so I was like, you have no idea what I just want to scream right now in the microphone, because the girl who is on my phone is sitting right in front of me right now.
Sorry, Kate, I'll stop, I promise. So how did you get started? And how did you get started in like, BMOK? Was it Donten in the Sunland Store that, like, did you join over here in the old beforehand?
So, before I came to BMOK, I was involved in some other peaky stores, not even names. I think I was scrolling through, indeed, and I think it was like one o'clock in the morning. I saw this ad for BMOK, and I was like, that is it, that is the job, that is the dream job, because they had all the cool horror stuff, and I'd been a repeat customer, sort of buying the fame, chucky dolls, not the life size one, because I was cool, but I'm a chucky doll. And when I saw that ad, I just kind of, you know, threw myself out there, I thought, I'll try and go for it.
And yeah, thankfully got the job, and here we are today. Very cool, but it's quite interesting as well, because you've got a little bit of history as well with Nodia North, with Ngo back as well. Kia was actually at our first gathering, she was working behind the bar at EFC. You were not.
She was a bar staff, yes. I didn't know that until the stage. Yes, I was working at AFK, only just recently left AFK, because I was working at AFK, I was also working as a manager at EMOK, and I was completing my master's at the same time, so very hectic, but we graduated, so that's okay. Oh, well, well, congratulations.
I remember going to the VMOK after, I think you went, oh yeah, you were at the party, I was like, oh God, you're doing anything. But unfortunately, I think you were the only person who actually recognized me on that tier, because even though we organized the gathering of the nerds from Nodia North, no one had a fucking clue who I was. I was almost obsessed with all the girls, all the people who post-lords, but no one had a few people come up and say, oh, you're part of the group. I was like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
My cousins and my ego went there to their pretty sharp issues. I was actually in BMOK before I went over to AFK, I bought the Jason purse, the lounge by Jason purse, yeah, that was a deal. I did have no idea who behind the bar. I actually don't drink, so I think good will bought me a drink, and I never walked even over the bar.
I was just at the corner. It was a very, very busy night, and I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sure there was a dog there that night, so all this attention was just on the dog. That is actually Donna's dog, I think she's in the chat at the moment, she's called Bear. But yeah, I think the dog got passed around more than anyone else.
So what have you been there from day one there, Gwyneth? So what kind of things have you noticed since the start of BMOK? I just started in the little store, a corner shop, and now you're in New Castle, Middlesbrough, Washington, the metal center in the middle of the summer now. So it's expanded, and it's only been, I think there's been three, four years, because it was just before lockdown, wasn't it?
I think it's all, yeah. I think it's all, yeah. I feel like I've blinked and there's massive companies, and it's like, it's been crazy. I wish I had a photo of the first day because there was hardly any stock, it was like white wall in just a few weeks, tiny little bays, and now we've got like pops.
The pop bear was like a little Ikea shelf, which had like maybe 10 pops, and that was like that one. I know a lot of people do look at it and think of it as the pop star, but you do sell more stuff than just pops, you know, like, say the probably, well, I was like it as well, because like the trading values and also, I think it's always the hard to get pops you get. I think when I popped into the big bang theory, and that was the last one to finish me set as well. So I was over the moon, I was able to pick up because it's just impossible to get anywhere else.
I know when I popped in, this is where I'm sounding like a purestoq now when I'm popping the sun in the blue. I picked up JN, a sun and bulb, so yeah, so my collection is always growing and always getting bigger. I mean, wife is starting to get a little bit worried because the gig room is starting to expand outside of the room and taking over the other areas of the house as well. So with your work on the store as well, is that your favourite merchandise or anything that you use, gravitate towards, like yourselves, I know, obviously people are fans, like, what's your favourite areas?
I love launch lag, like that's one of that. Like, we're going in there every day, it's dangerous because I just want to spend, like, a period and then half a bit of it pretty much goes back straight away. But I love the neck of figures as well, I love one of them and a few pops here and there, but I quite like props at the moment. Like, I like the other one, that's kind of one of my big areas I like.
So what kind of props have you picked up? I've got the new Toohama. I've bought recently the Boca Time helmet, which would be cool. Light sabers, just the Freddy glove, I love that.
I've got some of the props out. I've got a lot of them. I do have a new room, but it's not got any Wi-Fi anymore. So you can just imagine.
You're with NERDY fork there, so don't worry. I wish I had a rhyme and reason for the collection. I've had the moment I'm like, oh, that shiny, I want to take the magpie effect. Anything that looks like new, but, yes, but like, NERDY is one of my stuff spots or anything as well.
But I'm going through a big, strange things, trying to get all the all the strange things pops and stuff, which is becoming a very expensive habit to have now. So I'm kind of weaning myself off, but I'm not going to do things out with the box. So yeah, I don't keep them in any boxes, unfortunately. I'm just going to show you this is terrible a little bit there.
So there's obviously into things pops. Oh, no. I do see. I can't wait.
I think those I don't mind. I think those have a place out of a box, but anything that's on cards or the neck of a box, no, you do not know. You do not take them out. We did a live event in SonneCon last year where he brought Gordon, Judge Abingx, on cards, and I nearly had half earlier.
All right, Misa was all here. Yeah, in front of a room full of nerds in all the hoods of the gasps and the room turned really bad. He thought he was being big and clever and everyone would be on his side. No.
I'm very much like, I think the toys need to be played with and the toys need to do their functions as well. But no. So what about you? I know you mentioned that you were like a horror fan.
So what kind of like the net or anything else that you just gravitate was? Pretty much everything horror. Like I say, I was buying the Chubby Dolls. One of my favorite things, honestly, it was a wind-up Jack in the box really, the puppet from Soul.
Oh, it's so cool. I love it so much. It's fantastic. But also the Five Nights at Freddy's Pops in particular because they're quite rare.
They're quite hard to get hold of. Some of them. So I'm always on the look of one of them coming into other stores. So when's bringing the second hand ones into the same way?
This one's going over the desk there. That's cool space behind you, K. Is that signed? It is.
I find it for the love of horror. I don't know if you can see the picture, but it's there. It's fantastic. I'm so jealous.
Is that the year we were meant to be there? Yeah, that was the year we went to go over. We couldn't. But it's fine.
It's fine. It's one called, Bridget. It's okay. It was a very good reason we couldn't go.
I know. I've wondered what you're talking about the love of horror as well. So was that the first convention you used to be in as Beymock-e? You used were there in 2019, weren't you?
We were there. We'd been twice. So again, the call with my year. The broken.
This was the second year last year. So what was it like actually working the event as well? Because I know I saw some of the videos and you dressed up as Beymock-ejus was one of the highlights that I've seen. It was hilarious.
You're wondering, have you been in people with you as well? Yeah, I'm just not going to take a mic. That's right. The first time we went to the Metraevas, we couldn't move because it was so busy.
We didn't expect it to be that crazy. So the show took some extra people with us. I'm not surprised. It wasn't 2019.
It was the comeback after lockdown. Because I wasn't there last year. I was there the year before. And the table was heaven.
And we went on Sunday. When you were expected to be like a dwindle down a bit? No, you did not. You were incredibly busy.
I didn't get a chance to have a proper look at what was there. I was like a big giant chucky. It was a big giant chucky. It was about eight people everywhere.
I was wearing a full dress. I was thinking, I'll just prance around. And within the first 20 minutes I had to take it off. It was no fun.
I went. We went to go at the love in the last year. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a big one. It's not the one.
It's not the one. It's the one that's not the one that's not the event. So what was it like this year with the whole team? Not the whole team.
You got to enjoy the event a bit more rather than just work on it and not like things as you brought, what you think. We managed to do it. We got it. Every stall I think was quite dangerous.
I think it took us a while to get around the whole event. It was too many changes. The stall side of things is not the biggest because there's a lot kind of group in there. But the floor where everyone is, that is so big.
So big. I think when we went in 2019, it was the year of Lost Boys. It was fun. I only saw the autograph stall.
Me neither. I am really like current movie veterans. we were like, who are you going to see? And I'm like, absolutely nobody.
Because I'm far too shy. I cannot. I'm so awkward as well. I don't really know how to approach people.
But we got to stand with our brother because he was getting, he had this limited edition, lost voice comic just for them all to sign. And so we got to stand in line with him. So we met all of them. And I just stood there smiling just.
I'm standing up for an event right now. I think we were really fortunate when we went though because we had the amazing opportunity to talk to Corey Taylor and all his band. And he was so, it's weird because I mean, I'm sure we were all like, red band being a nice guy and something. And he talks to you like, he's just your average Joe.
And we were all starstruck just staring at him. I was like, oh my god, I love that so much. He took pictures with us. He signed stuff for us.
It was great. I've got to see more of his ass. I've got like the four months, my night before. Oh, yes, I'm sure.
He was hilarious because she was just like, fun girl and like, internally so badly. I just stood laughing like so. So, it's all a bit funny. I'm so jealous.
I saw him live years ago. It was still on South Africa. Not like a million million times. I was going to say something but I completely forget him because I just completely sidetracked us.
I think there are a few cons down the years, not recently. I feel like an old man in this situation. The last one, big one I went towards, I think was Manchester few years, but was one Simon and Peg and Nick for us were promoting hardfuzz. So they had a whole big event, like a panel where they were meant to be talking about hardfuzz and promoted.
But literally, the spend about now I've talked about who were the hoot of more ninjas of pirates. So, I was always like one of my big con highlights. I know we've been trying to get involved with cons and we did a panel at Silicon where we just talked about who would win, what was the better decade for movies, skates and nineties. Unfortunately, I was double team.
So, I'm too fair, Charlotte, she's the most argument of her. So, she was never going to win that fight. Yeah. Everything he had, she just had another one ready for him.
I wasn't allowed to participate. I just had to horse it because I've not seen anything. He just keeps saying, go, supposed to. That's the only reference.
That is going to be a fun issue with the headset there, Blisha. Oh, can't hear your blessing now. I think we've lost it. We've lost Gwyneth for a little bit.
It's fine. It's fine. So, what's next for you guys now with Beymoke, or you've got any more events coming up or like the level over there? So, I think that you're allowed to tell us.
Yeah, yeah. There's some stuff in the works. Trust us on that. But we can't quite say what out of the end.
Take a scene, Tram. It's always the same though. Don't worry. What you're saying earlier as well, that you, I said before, you came on, that you did a degree in horror and EMs, is that correct?
Is that the right or is it a master's? So, I did an undergraduate in media and communications, and then I progressed to postgraduate study, which is my master's. And that technically is just a master of research in the art. I specifically focus on horror and its prominence within transmedia, so specifically things like virtual reality and video games.
And I'm now, I've just applied for a PhD. And for a PhD, you have to make a significant contribution to the field that is original. So, I'm essentially pouring all of my research now into figuring out how we can merge theoretical paradigms like narratology and genealogy and phenomenology, lots of ologies. So, this is the most integral in the podcast ever been.
I don't like my jaw just dropped it. Holy shit, that is so exciting. I find it very exciting. I know a lot of people think it's boring, or when you tell people that you've essentially got this degree in horror.
It's difficult. It's great. In this case, when I'm back with, can you hear us now? Yeah, all you've just gone to, like we can hear what you've just said, that we all just gone just slightly, but we can hear you.
Sorry. That's fine. Go away. It happens all the time.
So, I'm interested in what you mentioned with the horror studies and so what elements like, as a specific movies or specific genre of horror, or is it just all in comments? It is sort of all encompassing. I sort of found my foot in, originally, in cinema and film studies. So, a lot of it was just around, but it was anything that I like.
Basically, that's the beauty of focusing on something that you like. You can just cherry pick what you want to focus on. And I sort of built up my understanding on a lot of my favorite films. So, one of the main ones was the episode.
This is where Sam's going to create a totally good world topic, because it is her favorite movie of all time. I love it so much. I was torn between me, Exorcisty, or me, I live in Dead One. And I chose the other one.
But that tattoo is absolutely unreal. That is amazing. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, shout out to my lovely tattoo artist, Peter Allen, that's in the needles in the middle. He's fantastic. Ah, that's pretty cool. I've never been, I've never been, I've never been, I've never been a photo, because I've got friends in the North East, especially of quite a few tattoo artists.
Beth's normally does. I was, I don't know, got to wear she works and I've changed that many places. I don't know why you didn't have to be there a long time. Every single one of mine that are good, Beth did them.
All the rest of them are shite she did not. So, can you go here us now? Is she back? I can't hear her.
Well, Beth, you look lovely though, if that helps. Well, keep going, don't worry. Hopefully we'll get something sorted for you. Um, so what about the access?
Cause I know you mentioned like, what the answer to, why is that one such an important or like, same big influence for yourself? This is why the conversation is going to be real. That's fine. No, it's fine.
Cause we are actually going to review of the access because like, we do sometimes do like a whole movie and some got to wear. Um, I have to admit, I have a big horror fan, but the access isn't one of my favorites, uh, for reasons. I understand. I understand.
I understand. I do. I do. Honestly, it's not even the film for me.
I actually prefer the book over the film. We get to come through there. We heard a person. It's tech support.
I think that you're hearing. Hi tech support. Thank you. It's awesome.
You're alive. Right? We'll try that again. No.
Yes. Oh, blessing. I did not do it because I've never done that ever. So, obviously.
So, tell you what, you smiled all the way throughout that. Sam would have cried. So you don't really want that. I would have had an absolute breakdown.
I was just enjoying the conversation. Oh, it's okay. So, came with the cover. Why are they accessed?
We're so good. Yes. Okay. So, I'm not sure if people are going to call me crazy after I share this.
Don't worry. I'm really fucked up things. Okay. Okay.
So, I'll try and give you the short version. Essentially, my lovely mother, she's a medium. And growing up as a kid, I didn't believe in any of it. I thought it was all stupid.
It was all fake. Smoking mirrors. And we moved into this house. And from day one, my mum had said she hated the house.
She didn't want us to move in, but I was really pushing for it. It's a little sexual like, yes, mum. That's how I want to move out. And we moved in and everything just went south very quick.
Things like drawers and cupboards would just get flowing open. We had a cutlery climbing on the floor. There was a cupboard in my room at night that would unlock itself and open and there was no way to open that door without force. The worst part, I would be sat in my room and I would just end up sort of covered in like, bruises and cuts.
It was horrible. It was freezing cold in my room all the time. You could see the pipes. I gave a single watch.
All right. You are in this retreat. All the way up and sorry. That's your me edge now again.
Sorry. Yeah, like the bed used to shake and I always used to say it to my mum, but I could see this like this black shadowy figure in the corner of my room. And I used to absolutely hate it. And I had this awful experience.
It went on for ages. We had a priest come to the house. We had other mediums. That's what we wanted.
So you actually lived through the existence of the nature? Yeah, it lived through it. I lived through it. This is a self-portrait.
This is a right. It was absolutely horrific. But for some reason, my sick and twisted mind read the exorcist. And it was like, oh, that's nice.
So... It's not scary. When you have an empting zone, you're like, okay, it's like reminiscent now. It's the system about the stories of the story.
Yeah, this is nothing. I lived through bedtime, sorry. But you know, I'm not sorry though. As you said, we don't think it's crazy at all.
We do actually do it on Halloween. We'll try and do like an annual ghost story episode. Well, last year we had a few people on an odona, like an Beth basically. It was like the battle of the skeptics versus the skeptics and the believers as well.
So me and Graham were like, oh, minded skeptics. And they were like, some of the stories and stuff. It was a quite nice discussion. Like hearing all these different things.
We did mock-dory coribate, but that's just standard with any type of thing. But if you've got any of them all ghost stories, we might just have to grab you back for the Halloween special as well. Yeah, plenty. I love that you bet.
That's how you draw your lovely exeses over real life events. I wish I could say it that was the same for me, but it's not at all. Oh, I like the exeseses. I can't even remember the first time I watched it.
I know it wasn't as a child and I know it wasn't accessible. It was one of those movies that was not easily accessible. Because I've been watching Horris since I was about it. And Dolly Dearest was the first thing that ever scared everybody.
Like the daylight, I've never owned dolls because of that doll. So my love of Horris goes from her upwards. But honestly, I think the exeses was a teen, maybe even early 20s thing, and just instantly fell in love with the cinematography, the whole thing itself. I think I came un-banned when we were about 15-16.
So that's probably showing our age again there. But when we had it from when it was younger, the exes was always like cold about these stories and build up that it was a forbidden film to watch that was always so scary and it was going to terrify. And all the legends of people passing out in the cinema and stuff like that. Then we've actually got to say it, unfortunately it was a cut down version.
So the first DVD had brawn out. It was one where there was like a, the paper DVD so he used to call the side and used to slide like open like a book. I've never had that one. And when you've got to put it, I think it probably was about 30 minutes or the movie was going out within the Spider scene and stuff like that in the Spider Walk.
My DVDs are in the B side. That was what that hurt. I think that's why I don't, I think visually and like story-wise, it is a good thing. But I love what you mentioned before the book.
The book is so interesting and tells a better story as well. I know Grant basically whacks the riggle about when he came on and talked to it as well. But the book is as a lot for me a lot better. But yeah, I was always a little bit wanted more from the access.
And I know that's saying a bit strange when you get like Reagan doing the things she did. But it's kind of like when it's built up, it doesn't kind of hit that market. So I was going to leave him that little bit of like this point. But that's just my opinion.
I know a lot of people do love it and stuff like that. I'm sorry. I didn't let I made my husband watch it for the first time like a few years ago. Because he'd never seen it.
And he never being interested to watch it. And I said, come on. Just I watch it every Halloween without fail. Even I got married on Halloween.
I still watched it midnight on Halloween the day before like leading up to me when. And he laughed all the way through it. He thought it was hilarious when she I think it's when my mother slaps her when she's in full possession mode. And he just bested into fits of life.
I was like, that's not funny. He's like, oh, it was absolutely hilarious. I was like, you're not ruining this far as I'm sorry. You're not.
You're not going to get possessed around him because of the slap. I know he's just listening to you seriously. But the first installment of the three part reboot is coming out this year. Friday 13th, very soon.
I've been mind the day be sure. Like, what's your name? I thought I was actually okay. And so good until it wasn't right at the end of the.
I don't even think I've seen the last episode. Because it was that big reveal. And then I was like, oh, you're going to go listen. Yes.
So now we've got your background, Kenneth. And I thought I'd ask you a few questions about your cosplay as well. Because I know we did touch on it. So how did you get started?
What started your in cosplay? What made you go in? Because I know we had the cosplay girls on last week. And some of them started at different ages or different things.
And I know for a lot of people it was like a conferencing where they thought they could never do cosplay. And so when they got all the thought, why not? So have you always been in a cosplay? Is it something that you got in the points?
No, I didn't really get it until I've always liked fancy dress, I think. But I got probably a lot of cosplayers that have a bit of body issues. So I feel like I got in the way because it helped with that. And I did actually swivel Gage.
No, the end station and I remember that shock. Yes. So no people do it already. But you switched then.
And there was a volume came to you saying you can dress up for the new Lara Crockian. And I was like, I'm going to do it. I just did it. And since then, that was like 2007 for me.
Yes, it was. I just I just became obsessed. Yeah, it's a bit of an expensive, but I think I used to be very good at talking to people. And I feel like it's really helped build my confidence like in just many ways.
No, that's such a great thing that here as well, cos I know I'm doing this. I know I used to laugh and kill probably just a test list. I am not the most sociable people as well. So when I go into stores, I'll go, hi, I'm from Nurio North, I'm a staker, I'm running away.
I am the awkward person in the conversation. But I think when you get taught in something about Nurio North, it puts in front of the screen, I can have this conversation and hold conversations with pretty much anyone. But no, it's lovely to hear that form, give you that confidence to try and build on as well. So what's your favourite so far, like the cosplay you've done?
I know it's going to be a hard question to ask now. I do love Lara Croft, but I'm happy with that. Also Harley Quinn. Yeah, I just think Harley is not like me, like, too much energy.
So do you fully amaze the character when you're in it? Oh, I love that. I can't get so much. I'm obsessed with obsessed and I have to be in character the whole time.
I was in awful American accent. I can only do it if I'm in costume. That's fantastic. That's fantastic.
How long is on to the edge of it? No, but because again, it's not very small comedy. But yeah, be sure to yourself and agree it later. No, no, I'm not.
No, I'm not. Like, your Lara Croft, like, seeing your face is absolutely flawless. Like, the underwater scene was just absolutely as a photograph, it's breathtaking. It is absolutely beautiful.
But probably my soft spot is one I used actually for the cover was the Rogue. I did love your night. Yeah, because I love the old X-Men cartoons and being an X-Men comic fan as well. And you pulled it off so well, because it's not an easy one to do as well.
As we were talking about, Liza from the cover in the show, she didn't grow up as well. And, like, say, both on par, like, up there was a mason. But that one probably is my favourite one from what I've seen so far. Even though I did like the big one, I thought it was quite hilarious.
Absolutely flawless. It really is. I loved it. You probably should be at my next stage of my cosplay.
It was going to be focused on eighties and 90 movies. What was interesting? I was going to do one of the big ops characters. Well, we're going to do one of the big ops characters.
I remember the E-man movie. Yes. I remember the game. I was like, I was like, I'm the greatest disappointment ever.
It was like, I know, it's awful, but like, I kind of love it also. We're going to do some costumes from that. I've already been in science and stuff like that. Ripley, I've been here.
I'll do it again. That's all. My first crush was Kelly from the end now. I've never seen it.
I've never seen it. I just love the film. Like, when you read about the main way of science, the script was wrote in 24 hours. Well, the science.
The way of science, the script was wrote. And it was one of John Robert Downey Jr's first ever role as well. Yeah, I didn't know that he was in it. I miss all of them saying it though.
Just not. Just a long list of 80s films to watch as well. Yeah, I'm just a lot of catch up on. So I know, because you mentioned before as well, that you're only horror as well.
So is it, because I'm such a wide variety these years now. So is it just all horror or is it something like specifically towards any type of area? Like, just a good slashing movie, really. Can I find like thrillers as well?
Where it's got a bit more like, frying the waste? I like that. But yeah, I like the just the generic, like, nightmare and obviously hell razor. I can't get to the new horrors.
I've tried, well, I've had a little before. Brings. Oh, sorry. It's a domestic now, what we said.
I like them. But I just don't like them as much as I can. I don't know. I think that's one of the best horror icons of having a long time.
So yeah, I think it's true that long time. Oh, what? Okay, it's not because of comedy. Also, I'm going to bring you with your own name.
Don't say it. Don't say it. And I thought that terrifying the clown art looked amazing. Oh, it's fantastic.
But then it just goes to the realms of like, the first one I kind of enjoyed because it's a slasher and it's just a mad clown killing people. But done in the way, it's like, I'm not a go find fan. My wife is she loves anything that's messy. Where I like a bit, I think we've had discussion before.
Like the things that you don't say, like Halloween, the original Halloween was immediately done because you never find out why Michael does it. And it makes you think more and it's to me that's scarier. But if you show us something happening, it's like, that's not scary. That's just, I mean, it's feel a bit sick.
And I think that's what the terrify, but the same terrify, just bamboozled. I did not have a fucking clue what was going on after that. With the same one, where this imaginary little girl clown was there, then she wasn't there, was art magical. Was he super, super powered?
Then this woman would become an angel. What the fuck was going on? Oh, I'm so good. That's so good.
We all have different tastes. Yeah, we don't shit like we try not to shit on anything. That's the thing. Well, I always have like the discussion, but I'm very old school when it comes to her is like, I love like, Jaws, Halloween, like the slashes.
Like even the, we made the mistake of trying to watch all the old ones again and trying to talk about them. And we went through and watched all the Friday night, nine ounce rates. And some of the night, nine ounce rates are get hard to watch when it gets like to the little ones. But the early ones, like say, they were cleverly done.
And again, I'm like, like nine, nine ounce rate too, which is probably just one of the ones that a lot of people do give a lot of here too. But I think again, they try to take a chance with Freddie and make it a little bit different. The best one is probably, Dream Warriors are free free from mine, but the best soundtrack as well. Dream Warriors.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know it's fine. I was probably going to ask the same question, you with the same slasher movies.
Slashes. So what, like, is there a big slasher that careers or is it just like, oh, it's got a new slasher coming out in two weeks? That we've got a lot of hope for, especially after the last one. We've got a lot of hope for her.
We just go with, it's a scream movie. Let's just see. No, I'm excited for this one. Yeah.
Because it looks different. I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued as well. I do believe I'm excited for this one.
I thought I'd do a cosplay for that. Would you go with cosplay to go and see it? Well, I'll wait for this in a minute, if you're already still there, but I'm going to go along in there and get some balls. I'll get a cosplay for you.
I might just go, I'll just get a Cheers. That's an interesting thing. That's an interesting thing. There's so many people that want to see me getting stabbed, so it's fine.
Yes. But, you know, I am quite optimistic about the new one from what I'm saying, because they're not showing too much. Like, say, with the last scream, they showed a lot of things in the trailers. I'm not really much.
And then you kind of guessed what was happening. But this one, I'm intrigued by the music of the screen. I still stand by, Stu is still alive. And he's coming back.
I said the last one, I had all laid out. But when the witness to his house at the end, I was like, here it is. This is where it's going to pull out. And I still hold none, so the fact that Stu is still alive.
I agree. I think maybe one of the killers at least. And they'll be so like, I think that's my theory. I think the horror community would lose their mind.
I generally think that there would lose their mind if Stu came back in the screen. And I mentioned, and I've hugged him in real life. The most nice news in the world. We had done from Blaten Marvelous.
She does the conventions. Like I said, she said she did the one where Stu was there. And he was over the moon because he could use the C word. So because in America, it's very frowned upon and looked down upon.
But in the UK, he could see it all the way. So he was one round. He was calling everyone and saying, oh, I have an idea. You're seasoned.
And people just looking out like, weird, but he was just over the moon. Because she had some good stuff. I don't know if you've ever seen her stand at the conventions. And also on Facebook, as well.
But because she's big on the horror community, she's a lot of different horror stuff as well. But very lovely lady as well. She came on to do a supposed review as a first of the episodes. She's absolutely fantastic.
But she does a lot of custom work as well. I think she says. And the amount of the day. So it's just custom one of the kind horror items, which is sometimes a bit of a rarity.
Especially when there's a lot on the convention floor. Sometimes you look like you turn in a corner and all this is the same stall. Everywhere. So I like the fact that there's some custom stuff.
I know. Oh my god. I've just noticed your t-shirt. He's sharing moon t-shirt.
No, it's because he's awesome. This cast me like money because it's a replica from the movie. So it's exactly the same as the one she wore. But it's the same company because it's on a TV company.
I remember. I do think. Yeah. And I'm going to get all the stuff out.
Free from hell came out. Oh my god. I'm so jealous. I didn't.
Because your hair was covering it. I know. I don't wait to have excited about the future. And I'm so sorry.
I'm not. I want to appreciate it. Like everyone's a big fan. So it's more my films.
I think I love them. Right. I think like say when he keeps doing stuff like House of Thousand Corps is Devil's Regents. He does well.
Just keep them away from the Halloween franchise, please. That's all I ask. I haven't seen them. Did you have that?
I'm scared too. It was not going to be. It was not going to be really good. It's not like a B movie.
But I think that's what it kind of is. But we because we made a joke is when the trailer came out on the Nodial North Group, everyone lost the shit for the trailer and just starts like an off before KML. And it was like, we're kind of you. You've always got to give it a chance.
So we made a brief decision once it got released that all of us were going to watch it. So we made everyone watch it because we used to do a vote on the group to pick movies to watch. And I stopped that when the show was all Gasmore. So we had to watch them guys one and try and see nice and wonderful things about all Gasmore.
It was the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life. But anyway, so we said we reviewed the monsters. And it was good. It wasn't as bad.
The Hudson and I know showing them it was never going to be Lily as well as Lily. Never. But the other cast members were actually got the guy who played at home in Monster was actually perfect. He stole, absolutely stole the show.
I was texting Charlotte. Charlotte, I was showing the Sunday night after the podcast. Charlotte was watching on the Monday morning and I was at work and I'm texting Charlotte Gordon. It really isn't that bad.
It's just really, it actually isn't. Like I'm meant to be like in this. I thought it was so much fun. I'm definitely watching you.
Yeah, I definitely recommend it. It's one of them ones not to be scared of to watch. I don't like that on this. Yes, that sounds ever growing this piece on getting bigger.
As you mentioned as well, it's not just horror that you were doing your degree on as well. It was a computer games as well. Virtual reality for your games. Yeah.
It's the most terrifying of the video games. Well, that is essentially a big part of why I do my research because one of the big questions that I set out to answer was well, humans really, theoretically speaking, we shouldn't enjoy virtual reality horror because it's a very realistic simulation in some cases of horrific horrible events that no human would want to put themselves through. But for some reason, we seek it out and like I'm going to enjoy it. I did stop people in Resident Evil 6 on it, but it did terrify the like out of it.
I still did it. Yeah, like a big part of my dissertation was on a Resident Evil 7 biohazard. That was the one. Sorry.
That was the one. That was the one that was the biohazard. I tried it in at last weekend and it turned it off after an hour. I got to scared me in the dark.
Honestly, the one that I tell everyone to try and everyone looks at me funny when I say this is 100% five nights at Freddy's help wanted. Because I think the franchise has that label of being that kids franchise. But a lot of the law in Five Nights at Friends is pretty horrific. If you really get into it, it's pretty gross.
And help wonders, it's the only game that I've sort of, I've got a lot of friends that I game as and I'll always tell them to try it. And we'll put the headset on them and they'll do it. They'll be like, oh, this isn't scary. I've played it before or I've seen people play it.
And within two to five minutes, they're taking it off. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it.
The shig. And like, I don't want to do that. It was a horrible experience. It is the scariest VR experience.
I swear down. I don't want to do it. It calls me free. Yeah, I do like me horror in games.
I'm a big softy special. I'm a big softy special. But I tried streaming it on a Twitch channel on the last Saturday because I was a semi wife. So we're in Australia for seven weeks.
So I'm trying to get as much stuff in my content wise and just keep yourself busy. So I'm not sitting there telling me from sport at my brains. And so I know I've got to start the afternoon. What can I do?