Latest / Frightmares / Ep. 357 - The Haunting (1963)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The following podcast will contain spoilers, tangents, hot takes, and
- 0:05Speaker 1: excessive foul language. Viewer discretion is advised enjoy the show.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Welcome back to Frightmar's podcast. I'm your host Austin Proctor
- 0:52Speaker 2: and joining me today for episode three point fifty seven
- 0:55Speaker 2: is my lovely wife, Gabrielle Proctor.
- 0:57Speaker 1: I'm here.
- 0:58Speaker 2: You're here today. We are discussing the Haunting from nineteen
- 1:03Speaker 2: sixty three. Where the real villain here is Victorian architecture,
- 1:07Speaker 2: a texture art What did I say architecture? Is that right?
- 1:11Speaker 3: You said textureture, architecture, architecture?
- 1:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I said architecture.
- 1:18Speaker 1: You added an exit there.
- 1:19Speaker 2: First episode of the year off to a great start.
- 1:21Speaker 1: It's already how a building feels?
- 1:24Speaker 2: Did you hear the punchline? Though? Where there the real
- 1:28Speaker 2: villain here is the Victorian architecture.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Fuck, it's how a building just like you know, textually?
- 1:37Speaker 1: Does it feel smooth? Rough? Does it feel homophobic?
- 1:40Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, we'll get into that, more about that later. Uh,
- 1:43Speaker 2: this episode is already homophobic feeling of a building that
- 1:49Speaker 2: the episode is already late because it's supposed to drop
- 1:52Speaker 2: on Wednesday, and it is Wednesday. We're doing it so
- 1:55Speaker 2: far behind on everything, so new year, kind of new format,
- 1:59Speaker 2: same excellent conversation. I wanted to get into some I
- 2:03Speaker 2: don't know, housekeeping things. I guess just wanted to go
- 2:05Speaker 2: over some small changes. One, we're gonna be loosening up
- 2:08Speaker 2: on the rule that I completely made up. As Lacey
- 2:10Speaker 2: pointed out to me, she like, my eyes have been
- 2:14Speaker 2: opened ever since she said, it's a rule that you
- 2:16Speaker 2: made up. And it is very true that a movie
- 2:18Speaker 2: must be listed horror on IMDb, just to kind of
- 2:21Speaker 2: broaden our scope of what we review. What.
- 2:24Speaker 3: I like that I've said that to you, but apparently
- 2:26Speaker 3: you needed a completely different person to say it to
- 2:29Speaker 3: you for that too.
- 2:31Speaker 2: I don't ever remember you saying that to me, or
- 2:34Speaker 2: maybe I do, and then someone else validating you made
- 2:37Speaker 2: me be like, well, shit, maybe maybe we should. So
- 2:40Speaker 2: we're gonna make that. It's not like we're gonna be
- 2:42Speaker 2: reviewing fucking rom coms or like westerns at okay, but
- 2:47Speaker 2: you know, like an example horror movie or a horror
- 2:51Speaker 2: adjacent movie like Close Encounters are the third kind. Yeah,
- 2:55Speaker 2: I don't think it's necessarily listed horror on IMDb, but
- 2:58Speaker 2: any alien invasion to me, horrifying. We're also going to
- 3:02Speaker 2: be dialing back the segmented format we normally do, where
- 3:05Speaker 2: we hit all these specific fucking points just to give
- 3:08Speaker 2: the episode a more natural flows, as opposed to me
- 3:12Speaker 2: stopping a conversation sometimes, you know, to talk about a
- 3:15Speaker 2: fucking favorite character. And last, but not least, we are
- 3:19Speaker 2: introducing the Nightmare Index. Let me explain from here on out,
- 3:23Speaker 2: I'm going to make a running list based on our ratings,
- 3:25Speaker 2: IMDb's ratings, and letterbox ratings to determine a score for
- 3:28Speaker 2: each movie. Then they'll get added to the list, and
- 3:31Speaker 2: I'll tell you where that movie falls. Obviously, since this
- 3:33Speaker 2: is the first episode, you know, like the first few
- 3:36Speaker 2: episodes are going to be like this is where it is.
- 3:37Speaker 2: There's not much to compare it to, but as time
- 3:39Speaker 2: goes on, there will be more and more. So Let's
- 3:42Speaker 2: say I give a movie a four, you give it
- 3:44Speaker 2: a three point five. It has a three point two
- 3:46Speaker 2: on Letterbox and a six point nine and IMDb obviously
- 3:49Speaker 2: you have to have the IMDb score because out of
- 3:52Speaker 2: ten is fucking stupid. And then you add them all up,
- 3:55Speaker 2: you know, divide it by four. So the example in
- 3:57Speaker 2: this instance would be a three point five to four
- 3:59Speaker 2: out of five. We're gonna do two decimal points to
- 4:01Speaker 2: you know, get a really good list going here. So
- 4:04Speaker 2: what he's saying is, ah, here we go.
- 4:07Speaker 1: We're taking out the format and we're adding in math.
- 4:11Speaker 2: No one has to do math.
- 4:13Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have to, Yeah.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Very simply. I've already I've already just sh okay, it's
- 4:18Speaker 2: very very very simple. Anyways, math math.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Uh.
- 4:22Speaker 2: And we do have a theme for the entire year,
- 4:25Speaker 2: which we have dubbed the Monsters of the Month Club,
- 4:28Speaker 2: where we're gonna be tackling a different monster, entity being
- 4:31Speaker 2: or antagonist in horror movies. Obviously, this month Hauntuary manner
- 4:36Speaker 2: not necessarily a monster, but you know, it's an entity.
- 4:39Speaker 2: It is an entity. It's just it was just easier
- 4:42Speaker 2: to say Monsters of the Month Club than the Air
- 4:44Speaker 2: Welcome than the Entity of the Month Club. So yeah,
- 4:48Speaker 2: so it might not be necessarily a physical monster, but
- 4:51Speaker 2: like I said, we have I think I said it's
- 4:52Speaker 2: already with vampires and werewolves and ghosts. Oh my, so
- 4:58Speaker 2: wait till we get to the O. I know, oh my,
- 5:01Speaker 2: this is gonna be a lot of fun. So yes,
- 5:02Speaker 2: I do present to you for January contrary manner where
- 5:06Speaker 2: every door creaks, every shadow whispers, and the rent is
- 5:08Speaker 2: paid in screams. Oh, without further ado, let's jump into
- 5:15Speaker 2: the cold open. This is gonna be where we talk
- 5:23Speaker 2: about what we've recently watched, and we're gonna be talking
- 5:26Speaker 2: spoilers about things. So if you don't want to hear spoilers,
- 5:30Speaker 2: I'm gonna have There's always time stamps in the comments,
- 5:33Speaker 2: but we have to talk about it. Welcome to Darry
- 5:35Speaker 2: because Jesus Christ, what a fucking show.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Yeah, that was.
- 5:40Speaker 3: I mean from the get go that first episode. You
- 5:42Speaker 3: and I were just like jaws dropped and were.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Like, I don't know what's gonna happen after this.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Can you talk about that for the rest of the episode. Yeah.
- 5:51Speaker 2: You don't even fucking see Pennywise until like episode four.
- 5:55Speaker 2: I think he doesn't even pop like as the as
- 5:58Speaker 2: you know Pennywise.
- 5:58Speaker 1: It was like five or six. It was way back
- 6:00Speaker 1: in there, mane. It was it was.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Deep in there and then he pops up in here,
- 6:04Speaker 2: Like I hate this so much more than I like
- 6:07Speaker 2: in horror way. Obviously, I thought it was an I
- 6:09Speaker 2: think it's one of the strongest seasons first seasons to
- 6:12Speaker 2: any show ever. That's my hot take on that. It's
- 6:15Speaker 2: so goddamn good.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, so stressful.
- 6:18Speaker 3: It's like, you know, you already kind of knew what
- 6:22Speaker 3: to expect with the first two movies, and you're like, Okay,
- 6:27Speaker 3: I know what I'm kind of getting into, and they're like, no,
- 6:30Speaker 3: you fucking don't.
- 6:32Speaker 1: How about that? On crack best of luck?
- 6:36Speaker 2: And while the CG at many times is very wonky,
- 6:39Speaker 2: the imagery that's on screen is so horrifying. Yeah, yeah,
- 6:43Speaker 2: I forgive it. Honestly, they're having way too much fucking
- 6:45Speaker 2: fun with all these crazy monsters, and I'm here for it.
- 6:49Speaker 2: And they're gonna be doing season two and three, and
- 6:52Speaker 2: like I speculated to I don't know if I speculated
- 6:54Speaker 2: to you, but I know I speculated to Spenser that
- 6:57Speaker 2: because this one took place in nineteen sixty three, and
- 6:59Speaker 2: they like one or two scenes from nineteen oh eight,
- 7:02Speaker 2: and I was like, Okay, my prediction is that season
- 7:04Speaker 2: two is gonna go to thirty five and season three
- 7:06Speaker 2: is nineteen o eight, And they confirm that that is
- 7:08Speaker 2: exactly what's happening. It makes sense, which is it? Well, yeah,
- 7:11Speaker 2: but I just I was like, why would they introduce
- 7:13Speaker 2: me to something in nineteen oh eight because there's only
- 7:16Speaker 2: that they have that one scene where he walks into
- 7:18Speaker 2: the woods with that kid, never go back to that again.
- 7:21Speaker 2: And I'm like, are they gonna fucking are they gonna
- 7:23Speaker 2: wait till season three to expand on that, because like
- 7:26Speaker 2: that'd be crazy talk about a setup. But man, it's
- 7:30Speaker 2: such a great show. So many strong performances too, from
- 7:33Speaker 2: all the child actors. I don't think there's one like
- 7:35Speaker 2: weak performance from the kids.
- 7:38Speaker 1: No, they did.
- 7:39Speaker 3: They did excellent work, and with some of the most
- 7:42Speaker 3: heartbreaking scenes, parts of those were improvised by the kids,
- 7:45Speaker 3: and you're like, Jesus, what are you gonna do as adults?
- 7:47Speaker 2: All Right, all right, p Richie sweet.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Freaky Ricky, No Richie, because it is Richie. She names
- 7:53Speaker 3: her son Richie.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Time is Someone's like, that's his father, like bro, no.
- 7:59Speaker 2: No, yeah. Time is not linear for old Pennywise there
- 8:03Speaker 2: it's very much a lah arrival where the at the
- 8:07Speaker 2: end of towards the end of that movie spoilers on that.
- 8:09Speaker 2: I guess they were, you know, they reveal that time
- 8:10Speaker 2: isn't linear for the aliens or whatever.
- 8:13Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more like the good Place where it looks
- 8:15Speaker 3: like Jeremy Blaramy written in cursive.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think they I know they said they're
- 8:21Speaker 2: not going to do like crank out a season every year,
- 8:24Speaker 2: but they're also not gonna pull a Stranger Things and
- 8:26Speaker 2: wait fifteen years to release seasons because it's just ridiculous.
- 8:30Speaker 3: So I max two years between seasons honestly makes the
- 8:34Speaker 3: most sense because you want to make sure people are
- 8:36Speaker 3: still interested, right, but not, you know, take do it
- 8:41Speaker 3: so quick that it's rushed and.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Exactly like Yellowjackets has been almost a two year gap,
- 8:45Speaker 2: been every season and it's a very strong show.
- 8:48Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe there was a two year gap for
- 8:51Speaker 3: House of the Dragon, which I actually bothered didn't I
- 8:54Speaker 3: didn't watch Game of Thrones. I watched part of Game
- 8:56Speaker 3: of Thrones, but I'm like House of the Dragon, I'm
- 8:58Speaker 3: in for that.
- 8:59Speaker 2: For some re you just read spoilers for everything in
- 9:03Speaker 2: Game of Thrones instead of watching the show, And that
- 9:05Speaker 2: actually sounds like a great idea because I tried, I
- 9:07Speaker 2: have tried.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Oh, I followed along.
- 9:10Speaker 3: I got to the point where two of the characters
- 9:13Speaker 3: met up, and then I was just getting it was
- 9:15Speaker 3: too distracting and I couldn't focus on anything else I
- 9:17Speaker 3: was doing. So I was like, I give up, I
- 9:18Speaker 3: have to stop watching this.
- 9:19Speaker 2: Done.
- 9:20Speaker 3: But I had already read all the spoilers for everything,
- 9:23Speaker 3: So there's some stuff I don't know, but.
- 9:24Speaker 1: I know all the important stuff.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Good Ford, if you want to check out it. Welcome
- 9:29Speaker 2: to Darry It is on Max. And I have to
- 9:32Speaker 2: say the Ritchie giving Pennywise the middle Finger was one
- 9:36Speaker 2: of the greatest greatest shots yep from twenty twenty five.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Oh yes, so great.
- 9:41Speaker 1: MVP move What do you do to me now? I'm
- 9:43Speaker 1: a ghost bitch?
- 9:44Speaker 2: Yeah. And also I have to say that I did
- 9:47Speaker 2: not expect to get this much of like Dick Henlan
- 9:49Speaker 2: Hanlan's story Handlin. Who am I thinking of Handlin? The
- 9:55Speaker 2: fuck is Handlin? It's a different book Dick Hallerin it's
- 10:00Speaker 2: a lot of like just the continuity between his story
- 10:03Speaker 2: in The Shining Doctor Sleep and this. Apparently we need
- 10:07Speaker 2: to watch Castle Rock because if you go, like, it's
- 10:11Speaker 2: really good apparently, and I've always wanted to watch it.
- 10:13Speaker 2: But if you go watch Castle Rock, it'll like some
- 10:16Speaker 2: of the things in Welcome to Dary will just like
- 10:18Speaker 2: blow your mind.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I don't know. I want to see it.
- 10:21Speaker 2: I did not expect to get this much information on
- 10:24Speaker 2: the character from the Shining and I love it and
- 10:26Speaker 2: it's so it's so consistent, and I'm here for it
- 10:29Speaker 2: because how much trouble can a hotel be? Next Stranger Things?
- 10:34Speaker 2: The hot button issue issue? I don't know a hot
- 10:36Speaker 2: button thing right now is Stranger Things? Love it or
- 10:39Speaker 2: hate it? It's back. I don't know. It was fun.
- 10:45Speaker 2: I don't like it. I'm fine with it. I didn't
- 10:46Speaker 2: hate it. I didn't love it. I'm just I don't know.
- 10:48Speaker 2: I gave the finale and I specifically rated the finale
- 10:52Speaker 2: episode like a three point five on letterbox because you
- 10:55Speaker 2: can rate it weirdly. You can rate the finale.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Because it was in theaters.
- 10:59Speaker 2: Remember, Oh yeah, true. I don't know. I mean parts
- 11:03Speaker 2: of a lot of me liked the things they were doing,
- 11:06Speaker 2: Like I particularly liked the wormhole explanation. I thought that
- 11:09Speaker 2: was fun. Apparently a lot of people hated that. I
- 11:11Speaker 2: thought it was stupid. Kind of took everything the upside
- 11:14Speaker 2: Down was and made it different. But we really never
- 11:17Speaker 2: knew what the upside down was.
- 11:18Speaker 3: Never mystical they just used it only felt mystical because
- 11:23Speaker 3: they were using D and D to make it make sense. Yeah,
- 11:28Speaker 3: but Hawkins had a science lab.
- 11:32Speaker 1: It was all science science.
- 11:35Speaker 3: Now, there's some mystical elements to it, like you know,
- 11:38Speaker 3: how the hell there was this magic stone thing, Like,
- 11:42Speaker 3: there's some elements of wonder to it. But there's a
- 11:45Speaker 3: lot of signs involved, and I feel like people kind
- 11:48Speaker 3: of forgot that.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Well when you take three years in between each fucking season.
- 11:53Speaker 2: I mean when they were showing clips from the first
- 11:55Speaker 2: season and the finale, I was like, Christ, are those
- 11:58Speaker 2: even the same people? Yeah? I mean it spend ten
- 12:00Speaker 2: years of this show twenty six well okay, nine, I
- 12:03Speaker 2: guess because it started in twenty sixteen. I was still
- 12:07Speaker 2: working at Ikea then. Yeah, my god, I don't know.
- 12:10Speaker 2: It's fine. I still have one question, though, why vekna
- 12:14Speaker 2: I don't get it. World domination? Okay, what's the next
- 12:17Speaker 2: step after that? You enslaved the entire human population to
- 12:21Speaker 2: do what? What's the end goal? Like that was my
- 12:24Speaker 2: biggest thing. I just didn't like, Okay, you want to
- 12:27Speaker 2: merge these worlds, that's great. Why I don't understand there's
- 12:33Speaker 2: really I don't know maybe they explained it and I
- 12:34Speaker 2: missed it. Fucking I don't know. But and then I
- 12:38Speaker 2: have to say that Will stopping everything in the midst
- 12:41Speaker 2: of the world ending just to come out. It was
- 12:42Speaker 2: like timing Will, like, well, we all knew it, and
- 12:46Speaker 2: we're all okay with it. It's fine. Maybe tell us that,
- 12:49Speaker 2: you know, after the world's not in like right in
- 12:51Speaker 2: the middle of their planning.
- 12:52Speaker 3: Is like, by the way, I just thought it was.
- 12:55Speaker 3: And granted, I've never had to come out.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Now with that attitude.
- 13:01Speaker 1: Any day now. I don't know that experience.
- 13:05Speaker 3: But to say the phrase he showed me just unimaginable horrible,
- 13:11Speaker 3: awful things sounds a lot more like body mutilating horror,
- 13:17Speaker 3: watching all your friends die in front of your face.
- 13:19Speaker 3: And then it was what he showed me was that
- 13:22Speaker 3: I told you guys that I was gay, and then
- 13:25Speaker 3: we never spoke again. Yeah, And I was like, I
- 13:27Speaker 3: can understand why personally that would feel absolutely devastating and heartbreaking,
- 13:33Speaker 3: unimaginable horrible things.
- 13:35Speaker 1: That scale felt a little skewed. I like, I don't
- 13:39Speaker 1: know that i'd.
- 13:39Speaker 3: Phrase it like that, but you know, I've never lived
- 13:41Speaker 3: that experience. Maybe that is the most horrific thing will
- 13:44Speaker 3: could possibly think of, which is weird given everything they've
- 13:47Speaker 3: been through, but not my place to judge, but yeah,
- 13:53Speaker 3: he did spend an inordinate amount of time getting to
- 13:56Speaker 3: the point in that conversation. Yeah, those shout out to
- 14:02Speaker 3: Finnwillheart's face the entire time. He's like, yeah, so I
- 14:05Speaker 3: liked somebody just side.
- 14:07Speaker 1: I like, yeah, who was that?
- 14:10Speaker 2: Also? I don't know what happened to the demo bats
- 14:12Speaker 2: in season four, but those fucking they introduced those to
- 14:16Speaker 2: kill Eddie and then they were gone. That was very strange.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, because Vecna.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Had been kind of ever laying low, nobody could find him.
- 14:26Speaker 3: The theory is that most of those creatures had been
- 14:29Speaker 3: absorbed into that giant physical because remember when Vecna meets
- 14:33Speaker 3: the mind Flare, it is just a big cloud of smoke.
- 14:36Speaker 3: So now he's got a giant, fleshy body in that
- 14:39Speaker 3: other world. So the idea is that maybe they were
- 14:43Speaker 3: growing them to absorb into that giant body, because that
- 14:47Speaker 3: giant body had to come from somewhere. Shit all on
- 14:51Speaker 3: that planet and people are like, ah, if he likes
- 14:55Speaker 3: the cold, and why is he on that Mars?
- 14:57Speaker 1: Like planet Mars is cold.
- 14:59Speaker 2: It's cold. Fun fact, everything beyond Earth it is much colder.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Yeah. And fun fact, a desert doesn't equal hot.
- 15:06Speaker 2: No, quite literally, there are desert like a Antarctica is
- 15:11Speaker 2: considered a desert. Yeah. Fun fact. There you go, so
- 15:15Speaker 2: stranger things. It's fine. It could have been so much worse.
- 15:20Speaker 2: It really could have. But I feel like it could
- 15:22Speaker 2: have been better in some ways. But I'm not gonna
- 15:24Speaker 2: sit here and say it was terrible. It sucks because
- 15:26Speaker 2: I couldn't come up with anything better. And I love
- 15:28Speaker 2: when people are online saying it sucked, and I'm always like,
- 15:30Speaker 2: give me a better ending, then let's hear your thoughts.
- 15:32Speaker 2: If it was so terrible, then you have to have
- 15:34Speaker 2: something that you would have wanted to see lay it out.
- 15:38Speaker 2: I get nothing other than that. I saw a few
- 15:42Speaker 2: new movies that I just want to briefly touch on.
- 15:44Speaker 2: I saw something called we Bury the Dead. It was
- 15:46Speaker 2: a screener sent over from Pixel Scene Media. It is
- 15:48Speaker 2: a new kind of zombie esque movie with Daisy Ridley.
- 15:51Speaker 2: I quite enjoyed it. It had a very interesting storyline.
- 15:54Speaker 2: It was nice to see Daisy Ridley and something again,
- 15:57Speaker 2: even though she's done seven things between the last Star
- 15:59Speaker 2: Wars movie in this movie, nah, I haven't heard of
- 16:02Speaker 2: any of them except for one thing, So that's weird.
- 16:04Speaker 2: Watch a movie called Sorority of the Damned sense over
- 16:07Speaker 2: by Avy Entertainments, starring Felyssa Rose. It is a horror
- 16:10Speaker 2: comedy and if you couldn't tell by the title, yes,
- 16:13Speaker 2: it is a very much a B movie, very much
- 16:16Speaker 2: Night of the Demons meets like, hmm, Sorority row maybe
- 16:21Speaker 2: seems likely? Seems likely? And then we watched Mutilator too.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Let me tell you, I don't usually say don't bother
- 16:29Speaker 2: with movies. My thing is everyone should check out a
- 16:32Speaker 2: movie and I like it. Just because it didn't work
- 16:36Speaker 2: for me doesn't mean it won't work for you.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Maybe we didn't get.
- 16:39Speaker 2: It, maybe I didn't get it, maybe I missed the bit.
- 16:43Speaker 2: But it's not gonna be something that I recommend. I
- 16:46Speaker 2: won't be like, hey, you need to watch this, because
- 16:49Speaker 2: boy it was. It's like Buddy Cooper tried to capture
- 16:52Speaker 2: the magic twice because the original Mutilator very camp be,
- 16:55Speaker 2: very cheesy, great practical effects, and you pointed out something
- 16:58Speaker 2: very interesting. It's like when you have a polished movie
- 17:01Speaker 2: with a crystal clear image and like nice sound design
- 17:03Speaker 2: and lighting, and you have that acting that's from the
- 17:06Speaker 2: eighties doesn't fit. It just feels weird.
- 17:10Speaker 3: When you have low budget acting with high uh. And
- 17:13Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's like high budget, but when when
- 17:16Speaker 3: the film looks good yeah quality, Yeah, the production quality
- 17:19Speaker 3: it's pretty decent, but you're acting and your storyline isn't there.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Everything kind of needs to be on the same level
- 17:29Speaker 1: level to a certain.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Extent, Like if I have a absolutely insane, like Christopher
- 17:38Speaker 3: Nolan looking film, but I got the people who are
- 17:43Speaker 3: who've never done anything but commercial work their whole life,
- 17:47Speaker 3: and it shows I don't care how nice the film looks. Now,
- 17:51Speaker 3: I'm really I'm really struggling to believe these are real
- 17:55Speaker 3: people and that they're not reading que cards.
- 17:59Speaker 2: Yeah. I think we're in this weird period of time
- 18:02Speaker 2: where it's incredibly not easy. I don't and I don't
- 18:05Speaker 2: mean easy, I just mean it's it's very easy to
- 18:08Speaker 2: make a movie look pretty high quality these days. Yeah,
- 18:11Speaker 2: because we have literally, I mean people you can film
- 18:13Speaker 2: something on your.
- 18:14Speaker 3: Phone, and quality of cameras has gone up while the
- 18:17Speaker 3: cost has gone down exponentially.
- 18:19Speaker 2: Yeah, and while we both know lighting isn't easy if
- 18:23Speaker 2: you have someone who knows how to light a scene.
- 18:24Speaker 2: I mean, it's very easy to make a I'd say,
- 18:26Speaker 2: I say easy in air quotes to make a movie
- 18:28Speaker 2: look good, just because we have so much more stuff
- 18:30Speaker 2: readily available. So we're in this weird period where things
- 18:33Speaker 2: look great. But for example, like the Popeye the what
- 18:36Speaker 2: was it Popeye's Revenge looks pretty good terrible movies, so
- 18:40Speaker 2: we're in this very weird period, at least in the eighties.
- 18:43Speaker 2: If a movie wasn't good, you're like, well, I can tell,
- 18:46Speaker 2: because you know, the quality is not that great on
- 18:49Speaker 2: some of them.
- 18:49Speaker 3: But anyways, yeah, what I need to do is there's
- 18:52Speaker 3: this guy who reviews these awful like Christian movies that are.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Like Christian horror movies.
- 19:00Speaker 1: No, not Christian horror movies.
- 19:01Speaker 3: They're just these Christian movies that just have really silly plots,
- 19:06Speaker 3: Like one is the Christian version of Fifty Shades of Gray,
- 19:09Speaker 3: which is kind of just creepy stalking minus the sex.
- 19:14Speaker 1: And I'm gonna show you a clip of one of
- 19:16Speaker 1: those later.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Okay, it was like.
- 19:18Speaker 1: Watching that, that's fun. Yeah, but there's a guy who
- 19:21Speaker 1: used how terrible they are?
- 19:23Speaker 2: Oh, I love that. Okay, I'll have to check that out. Yeah,
- 19:25Speaker 2: all right, Well, well enough of that, I suppose let's
- 19:28Speaker 2: move on to the body count. There it is, coming
- 19:34Speaker 2: in with all hot new sound effects. This is the
- 19:37Speaker 2: IMDb round up. We're just naming it more fun Things.
- 19:40Speaker 2: This is The Haunting from nineteen sixty three, release on
- 19:43Speaker 2: September eighteenth of that year in the US. Rated G
- 19:47Speaker 2: no sex and nudity, mild violence and gore, mild profanity,
- 19:50Speaker 2: mild alcohol, drugs and smoking, and moderate frightening and intense scenes,
- 19:53Speaker 2: coming in at an hour and fifty two minutes. Listed
- 19:55Speaker 2: as a straight up horror movie. Directed by Robert Wise,
- 19:59Speaker 2: who also directed The Daily Yar Stood Still nineteen fifty one,
- 20:02Speaker 2: West Side Story nineteen sixty one. And The Sound of Music.
- 20:06Speaker 2: Oh that's why I didn't want you to look him up. Well,
- 20:08Speaker 2: there you go, because the sound of music, I thought
- 20:10Speaker 2: was like, that's everything. That's a wild difference from the
- 20:13Speaker 2: sound of music to what nothing.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Go ahead, finish your sentence.
- 20:19Speaker 2: That was done.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Oh.
- 20:20Speaker 3: I just think it's funny that when we were watching
- 20:22Speaker 3: this movie, yeah, certainly wouldn't have picked sound of music.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Guy.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Yeah, But what I think is funny here is when
- 20:30Speaker 3: one of the characters walked up on screen. I've seen
- 20:33Speaker 3: West Side Story once. I looked over looked at him
- 20:38Speaker 3: and like that guy.
- 20:39Speaker 1: I know that guy.
- 20:40Speaker 3: Well, he's in that musical, and for the life of me,
- 20:43Speaker 3: West Side Story just would not enter my head.
- 20:45Speaker 1: I just had guys and dolls in there.
- 20:46Speaker 2: But if you said it was remade and then I
- 20:48Speaker 2: took me a second, I was like, west that'd sorry.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 20:50Speaker 3: So eventually you've helped me figure out what the hell
- 20:52Speaker 3: movie I was thinking of because I go to sung
- 20:54Speaker 3: you bits of the songs.
- 20:56Speaker 1: But it was like, yeah, see that movie.
- 20:57Speaker 3: Once clocked that guy immediately West Side Story and same director,
- 21:01Speaker 3: so obviously they're like working together.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Oh I see. I was like, what's the point of sorry?
- 21:07Speaker 2: I was like, are we getting somewhere with this?
- 21:09Speaker 1: Because he was in West Side Story?
- 21:11Speaker 2: Lost in the Sauce. This is written by Nelson Gidding,
- 21:13Speaker 2: who also wrote The Andromeda Strain. This is based on
- 21:16Speaker 2: the Haunting of Hill House written by Shirley Jackson. Composed
- 21:19Speaker 2: by Humphrey Searle, who also did four episodes of Doctor
- 21:23Speaker 2: Who in nineteen sixty five. Cinematography by Davis Bolton. He
- 21:27Speaker 2: also did the cinematography for a movie called Children of
- 21:30Speaker 2: the Damned. Nice, edited by Ernest Walter, who did not
- 21:34Speaker 2: do anything else I recognized, but he was the visual
- 21:36Speaker 2: coordinator on Superman nineteen seventy eight, which is really cool,
- 21:41Speaker 2: starring Julie Harris as Eleanor Lance. She was in one
- 21:44Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five episodes of Whatever the fuck knots
- 21:47Speaker 2: Landing Is as Lily May Clements. Then we have Claire
- 21:51Speaker 2: Bloom as Theodora. She was in Clash of the Titans
- 21:53Speaker 2: as Hera.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Nineteen yeah one, I haven't seen that forever.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Richard Johnson as doctor John Mark Away who was who
- 21:59Speaker 2: played another doctor, and Lucy Alfulci Zombie as doctor Minard,
- 22:04Speaker 2: Russ Tamblin as Luke Sanderson. He was in West Side
- 22:08Speaker 2: Story as Riff. And then I don't know why I
- 22:11Speaker 2: put many more people on here, because that's really it.
- 22:14Speaker 2: I mean, you do have Russ Tamblin as Sorry, Fay
- 22:17Speaker 2: Compton as Missus Sanderson, who was also an Othella as
- 22:19Speaker 2: Amelia estimated Othello Sorry, estimated budget of one point four
- 22:26Speaker 2: million dollars, apparently only grossing eight hundred and forty seven dollars.
- 22:31Speaker 2: I don't think that's accurate. But that's that is not
- 22:33Speaker 2: a typo. Not a typo. This was filmed in various
- 22:39Speaker 2: cities around England in the UK, and you can watch
- 22:42Speaker 2: this on Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango at Home for
- 22:45Speaker 2: a three ninety nine rental movies that came out around
- 22:47Speaker 2: the same time. Let me blow your mind with a
- 22:50Speaker 2: whole bunch of shit you've never heard of. Come blow
- 22:52Speaker 2: your horn, Cleopatra, I've heard of that. I think Blood Feast,
- 22:57Speaker 2: a Great Escape. It's a mad, mad, mad mad world.
- 23:00Speaker 2: And the Sword and the Stone I've seen too. Sorry,
- 23:02Speaker 2: I didn't mean stuff you haven't heard. I mean very
- 23:05Speaker 2: little things. Those are two different. You've seen the Sword
- 23:07Speaker 2: in the Stone and you've seen the Great Escape.
- 23:09Speaker 1: Oh I have?
- 23:10Speaker 2: Yeah? Whatever the fuck? Cume blow your horn? Is it
- 23:12Speaker 2: sounds fun? IMDb summary. Hillhouse has stood for ninety years
- 23:16Speaker 2: and appears haunted. Its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now,
- 23:20Speaker 2: doctor John Markaway has assembled a team of people who
- 23:22Speaker 2: he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
- 23:26Speaker 2: This is the Haunting from nineteen sixty three. I don't
- 23:29Speaker 2: know if I'm gonna play the trailer anymore because I've
- 23:32Speaker 2: been hit with copyright, like where it partially blocks it
- 23:35Speaker 2: on YouTube. So I'm like, you know, in an attempt
- 23:38Speaker 2: to not have a Spotify deal with, you know, do that,
- 23:42Speaker 2: because they've done that on like the Rocky Horror Picture episode.
- 23:44Speaker 2: I had to take out all the music from that
- 23:45Speaker 2: episode because they're like it was copyright. I'm like, I'm
- 23:47Speaker 2: the fucking what the thing you can use tontize? I'm
- 23:51Speaker 2: not monetized. Isn't this fair use? So I think, in
- 23:55Speaker 2: an attempt to not deal with that later because that
- 23:57Speaker 2: episode was three years ago and I got hit with
- 23:59Speaker 2: that six months ago, I think we're just gonna skip
- 24:01Speaker 2: the trailer. So let's hop into the autopsy. Yeah, blood
- 24:08Speaker 2: gut sounds, we're gonna start. We're still gonna start with
- 24:11Speaker 2: overall thoughts. So hit me with your overall thoughts on
- 24:15Speaker 2: the haunting.
- 24:16Speaker 3: Well, let's see, I only have my movie related knowledge
- 24:21Speaker 3: of the story. They all break it down, don't worry,
- 24:25Speaker 3: they all differ from each other. So kind of going
- 24:27Speaker 3: in vaguely blind, you kind of gotta wait to see
- 24:30Speaker 3: what the characters are going that they're gonna do, to
- 24:32Speaker 3: get an idea of where you're headed. I already knew
- 24:36Speaker 3: Mike Flanagans was his own creation around that story, so
- 24:39Speaker 3: that that kind of eliminated that. But I thought this
- 24:43Speaker 3: had a lot of really cool and interesting things, especially
- 24:46Speaker 3: for the time how they decided to tell the story.
- 24:50Speaker 3: I was briefly distracted by the fact that it was
- 24:53Speaker 3: in black and white, given the year, but then you
- 24:55Speaker 3: explained to me that that was an intentional choice.
- 24:57Speaker 2: Yep, Director, I thought it just was a better choice. Yeah,
- 25:01Speaker 2: I agree, gotcha.
- 25:03Speaker 1: I'm like the movies were full on in color at
- 25:05Speaker 1: this point, so what happened.
- 25:09Speaker 3: But the overall story felt really thin to me, Like
- 25:14Speaker 3: it didn't feel like there was way too much that
- 25:16Speaker 3: just didn't get explained. A lot of stuff you just
- 25:19Speaker 3: had to kind of make assumptions on if you even
- 25:22Speaker 3: got to a point where you.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Could make assumptions.
- 25:24Speaker 3: A lot of unsaid things, which to a certain extent
- 25:28Speaker 3: I'm totally cool with, but after a certain number of them,
- 25:32Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, you're gonna have to explain, like, like
- 25:34Speaker 3: maybe one thing so I know what's going on too,
- 25:38Speaker 3: And that did not happen.
- 25:40Speaker 2: All right, Well, my over our thoughts are I think this,
- 25:43Speaker 2: See I'm kind of the opposite. I think this is
- 25:45Speaker 2: a masterfully told story with some of the wildest camera
- 25:48Speaker 2: work for the time I've ever seen, and not in
- 25:51Speaker 2: a bad way by any means, because they were really
- 25:53Speaker 2: having fun with it. I'm still torn on the ending though.
- 25:56Speaker 2: I felt like there was a lot of tension that
- 25:58Speaker 2: filled like they built up so much tension that kind
- 26:00Speaker 2: of just fizzled out. But maybe we'll get down to
- 26:04Speaker 2: I don't maybe we'll maybe we'll figure it out as
- 26:06Speaker 2: we go along. So the story itself, let's kind of
- 26:10Speaker 2: tell you about it, because I don't know how many
- 26:12Speaker 2: people know this. I didn't know this, You didn't know this.
- 26:14Speaker 2: So this has nothing to do with the House Unhaunted
- 26:19Speaker 2: Hill that is a film by William Castle. Shirley Jackson
- 26:23Speaker 2: wrote the Haunting of Hillhouse, so those two movies have
- 26:27Speaker 2: nothing in common, even though they have very similar titles. Yes,
- 26:30Speaker 2: because there is a nineteen fifty nine House on Hunt
- 26:32Speaker 2: and Hill and the remake, which we've talked about on
- 26:33Speaker 2: this show, those are separate from the Haunting of Hillhouse.
- 26:36Speaker 2: This is the actual first adaptation of Shirley Jackson's book.
- 26:40Speaker 2: Because the book is written in nineteen fifty nine and
- 26:43Speaker 2: the movie was nineteen sixty three. So the Hillhouse book
- 26:46Speaker 2: is about four people, and this one it's John Montague,
- 26:50Speaker 2: Eleanor Vance, Theodora, and Luke Sanderson, so very minor changes
- 26:58Speaker 2: to the names. There. They are investigating a famously haunted
- 27:01Speaker 2: mansion Hillhouse, who experience increasingly terrifying supernatural events that blur
- 27:05Speaker 2: the lines between psychological horror and genuine ghosts, focusing heavily
- 27:09Speaker 2: on the fragile perspective of protagonist Eleanor Vance, as the
- 27:12Speaker 2: house seems to target her. So that makes the movie
- 27:15Speaker 2: make so much more sense because I was thinking it
- 27:18Speaker 2: was going to be something similar to what Mike Flanagan did,
- 27:22Speaker 2: which is a very loose adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel,
- 27:27Speaker 2: shifting focus from paranormal investigators to the Crane's family multi
- 27:32Speaker 2: generational trauma haunted by the infamous house. Though they both
- 27:37Speaker 2: explore psychological horror, mental health, and ambiguity around literal versus
- 27:41Speaker 2: metaphorical ghosts. While the novel features strangers studying the house,
- 27:46Speaker 2: the serious centers on siblings and their parents, using the
- 27:49Speaker 2: house as a backdrop for family drama and individual struggles
- 27:52Speaker 2: with grief, addiction, anxiety. So That was the very confusing
- 27:57Speaker 2: thing for me when we started this, because I'm like, Okay,
- 28:01Speaker 2: Nell and THEO, they don't know each other. They were
- 28:05Speaker 2: sisters in Mike, What's happening here? So I had to
- 28:08Speaker 2: look it up. So I hope that all made sense.
- 28:13Speaker 2: So when you went into this, you said you knew
- 28:16Speaker 2: Mike Flannagan kind of did his own thing.
- 28:18Speaker 3: Yeah. I was aware that he had pulled focus from
- 28:21Speaker 3: the original source material to the Crane Family. I was
- 28:25Speaker 3: also aware that he took a lot of liberties with
- 28:30Speaker 3: who was in the Crane family because obviously the Crane
- 28:33Speaker 3: Family was a lot smaller.
- 28:35Speaker 2: And but oh that's true. Yeah, there was only like
- 28:39Speaker 2: four of them total.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 28:41Speaker 3: And the thing is is, I think, you know, Mike
- 28:45Speaker 3: is absolutely capable of making a faithful adaptation, but he
- 28:50Speaker 3: also is really skilled at recognizing what's important. Like when
- 28:57Speaker 3: he made Doctor Sleep and he's you know, he said,
- 28:59Speaker 3: you know, we cannot ignore the movie.
- 29:03Speaker 1: We can't ignore it. That's what the people know, right, And.
- 29:06Speaker 2: The people know. I feel like the people know the
- 29:08Speaker 2: movie more than the book exactly.
- 29:10Speaker 3: So in this case, I feel like, instead of focusing
- 29:15Speaker 3: on the people investigating the house after in the aftermath
- 29:19Speaker 3: of all the things that have happened there. He chose
- 29:22Speaker 3: to focus on what happens to a family trying to
- 29:26Speaker 3: live in this house with all that weight and all
- 29:28Speaker 3: that energy and whatnot. Like, he chose to focus on
- 29:33Speaker 3: a stronger point while still keeping that what power does
- 29:38Speaker 3: that house hold? Integrity live because they all have that
- 29:42Speaker 3: that what power is in that house? What can it
- 29:46Speaker 3: make you do? What control does it have? What lies there?
- 29:50Speaker 3: What makes it so strong? Because the first it's just
- 29:53Speaker 3: a house. Yeah, every house is just a house. This
- 29:55Speaker 3: house was evil from the get go.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Well let's be specific, this is a fucking like Victorian man.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Well yeah, but I'm saying just just in kise people. Yeah, yeah,
- 30:04Speaker 2: every house is a house.
- 30:05Speaker 3: This house was made and is somehow evil from day one.
- 30:09Speaker 2: Right because because the very beginning of the movie, it
- 30:11Speaker 2: starts out and I really like that too. I feel
- 30:13Speaker 2: like I didn't look this up and it probably should have,
- 30:16Speaker 2: But the opening narration feels like like it had to
- 30:19Speaker 2: have been like the first chapter, like the first couple
- 30:21Speaker 2: sentences out of the book, because the way it's being
- 30:23Speaker 2: read makes me feel like it was something that was
- 30:26Speaker 2: written by Shirley Jackson. Because it's like this house was
- 30:28Speaker 2: built ninety years ago and we'll stand for ninety more
- 30:31Speaker 2: and it's just been evil since it was made, and
- 30:33Speaker 2: you're like, all right, yeah, I feel like it sets
- 30:36Speaker 2: up the movie though, very well, because I don't know,
- 30:40Speaker 2: I just I guess I expected to see something in
- 30:43Speaker 2: this movie, but it was very much like the house
- 30:46Speaker 2: is alive and the house is doing this. There aren't
- 30:49Speaker 2: ghosts in this house. This house is just fucking crazy
- 30:52Speaker 2: evil I don't know.
- 30:53Speaker 3: And even then, what the house does is limited to
- 30:57Speaker 3: mostly doors for some reason, and noises specifically noises and doors,
- 31:04Speaker 3: and you don't really see anything, but everyone's afraid. It's
- 31:11Speaker 3: like a looming presence in the house. And it's funny
- 31:14Speaker 3: because like one of their biggest proofs that they're haunted
- 31:20Speaker 3: is cold spots. Fun fact, those houses aren't like Hella insulated,
- 31:25Speaker 3: so a cold spot in a mansion would not be
- 31:29Speaker 3: that weird. I mean, Jesus, this is a brand new
- 31:34Speaker 3: house we live in. There's fucking cold spots in here.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Okay.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Our room is arctic cold, my office will be arctic
- 31:43Speaker 3: cold one day, burning hot the next day.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense for house. Well, like, I know,
- 31:50Speaker 1: our house.
- 31:51Speaker 3: It's really about where the sun is and whether or
- 31:53Speaker 3: not it has a chance to warm up during the day.
- 31:55Speaker 3: But you know, Victorian houses, they're made of wood. They're
- 31:59Speaker 3: not like super crazy insulated. They're not filled with fiberglass
- 32:04Speaker 3: and brick. Fucking man like their brick and wood and
- 32:06Speaker 3: you know they're not They're not insulated, don't.
- 32:10Speaker 2: I don't think homes were like foam insulated like.
- 32:12Speaker 3: Fun fact, Again, a lot of those houses would be
- 32:18Speaker 3: insulated with like I don't know specifically Torrian, but older
- 32:21Speaker 3: houses would be insulated with like straw, sometimes newspaper, or
- 32:28Speaker 3: sometimes they just hang shit on the walls, like tapestries,
- 32:31Speaker 3: because you why not hang a big carpet on the
- 32:34Speaker 3: wall that'll.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Keep the colds from coming through. Cold spots are just
- 32:37Speaker 1: not unusual, That's what I'm saying.
- 32:38Speaker 2: Be a great place to record a podcast with all
- 32:40Speaker 2: those carpets on the wall, great for deadening sound You've got.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Of taking all this down and just getting some really big.
- 32:47Speaker 2: Tapestries, I could just hang up four carpets around us
- 32:50Speaker 2: and box us in real nice yeah, just.
- 32:52Speaker 3: Right around the room, but leave everything on the walls.
- 32:55Speaker 3: So yeah, it wouldn't be weird.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Or hot.
- 32:58Speaker 3: But yeah, really, the biggest evidence you see that the
- 33:03Speaker 3: place is haunted is the breathing door.
- 33:06Speaker 1: That's it. That was I mean, it was so cool.
- 33:09Speaker 2: That was so impressive for nineteen sixty three, and I
- 33:12Speaker 2: can clearly tell that the haunted mansion definitely stole that
- 33:15Speaker 2: idea for the ride.
- 33:16Speaker 3: Yeah, so cool, that's it. That's that's your strongest evidence.
- 33:21Speaker 3: You don't see ghosts. Someone writes something in chalk that
- 33:24Speaker 3: could have been anybody. You hear loud banging noises that
- 33:28Speaker 3: could have been anybody. Nothing moves, there's no nothing moves
- 33:32Speaker 3: aside from that door breathing. And they're like, well, this
- 33:34Speaker 3: door closed itself. Nobody saw that.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Shit, Well there's a there's a door that swings open
- 33:38Speaker 2: when they're in the atrium or whatever wherever. The fucking
- 33:43Speaker 2: statue of the Cranes is. Yeah, door like swings open.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Who goes? Probably the wind?
- 33:47Speaker 1: Yeah, which who knows? Totally possible. Like nothing is concrete.
- 33:51Speaker 3: You have to decide if you believe, because most of
- 33:55Speaker 3: your this is definitely happening stuff is coming from Nell's
- 33:58Speaker 3: inner monologue.
- 33:59Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I didn't understand at first, because at
- 34:03Speaker 2: first you hear narration, which I believe is Mark Away
- 34:06Speaker 2: because he mentioned something about I wanted to meet missus
- 34:08Speaker 2: Sanderson and then he popped up on screen and then
- 34:11Speaker 2: you don't have any narration until the end. But then
- 34:14Speaker 2: you get inner monologues from Nell, and I was wondering, Okay,
- 34:16Speaker 2: it's like everyone gonna have an inner monologue, But until
- 34:20Speaker 2: I read the synopsis myself, it is the story is
- 34:23Speaker 2: centered around Nell, who as a character. I what is
- 34:27Speaker 2: the fucking deal with this lady? Zero to one hundred
- 34:31Speaker 2: like insanely quick?
- 34:33Speaker 1: Oh, someone said her gay panic was off the charts.
- 34:37Speaker 3: Oh, I mean no, probably not that, but it just
- 34:40Speaker 3: literally and I don't want to really say hysterical because
- 34:43Speaker 3: it is sexist, but.
- 34:45Speaker 2: I don't feel she was being hysterical.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Because she'd be totally fine and then in a panic
- 34:50Speaker 3: and we're freaking out why is everybody doing this?
- 34:52Speaker 1: And then now I'm fine again? Like girl.
- 34:54Speaker 2: See, I didn't find it. Usually when i'm when like
- 34:56Speaker 2: women are called hysterical and movies there she just was
- 35:00Speaker 2: getting so animated. I look at that as being animated,
- 35:04Speaker 2: not hysterical, because usually hysterical is like, oh woe is me?
- 35:07Speaker 2: She just got so quickly.
- 35:10Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's there's like scales on that.
- 35:12Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean there was a fainting couch that
- 35:15Speaker 2: she didn't even faint onto.
- 35:17Speaker 3: Come on, she did wake up there the Yeah, but
- 35:22Speaker 3: she would go from strong assertive to panicked and just
- 35:26Speaker 3: really animated and really nervous and why is everybody acting
- 35:28Speaker 3: this way? And then she'd get defensive and she'd get upset,
- 35:30Speaker 3: then she'd come back down again. I'm like, girl, I
- 35:33Speaker 3: think you need medication, because, like, I'm tired watching you
- 35:37Speaker 3: go through this like whirlwind of emotion every ten seconds.
- 35:41Speaker 3: I think when we were watching it, I was like,
- 35:43Speaker 3: I bet she has whiplash.
- 35:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you need some mood balancers there, because
- 35:48Speaker 2: you seem just off all the time. Maybe Edith snickers,
- 35:51Speaker 2: you'll you'll act more like yourself, but you and you
- 35:55Speaker 2: kind of get a good look at her character, but
- 35:59Speaker 2: not really, we don't really get much explanation other than
- 36:02Speaker 2: the fact that she's clearly not respected in her family,
- 36:06Speaker 2: her sister and I guess her brother and their kid,
- 36:10Speaker 2: who was a very fuck that kid is so annoying.
- 36:13Speaker 2: And they never explained the blinking either. When she's like,
- 36:15Speaker 2: god damn it, Auntie nell is blinking and what was
- 36:19Speaker 2: with the blinking?
- 36:20Speaker 3: But she was blinking so much in the beginning that
- 36:23Speaker 3: we were just like you, I gotta stop looking at
- 36:25Speaker 3: her because she's making me blink too much, and I
- 36:27Speaker 3: don't like it.
- 36:28Speaker 2: I thought it was maybe a nervous tick or something.
- 36:30Speaker 2: But then it doesn't really happen ever, gets mentioned, never
- 36:33Speaker 2: gets mentioned. She's just extremely keyed up. And I guess
- 36:37Speaker 2: it's from her family who were just kind of rude
- 36:40Speaker 2: to her. They kind of demean her. But her temperament
- 36:42Speaker 2: was stressing me out. I was like, pick a lane, lady,
- 36:46Speaker 2: can you just be more in the middle because these
- 36:48Speaker 2: two extremes are just too much for me to handle.
- 36:50Speaker 2: And she did have some sort of Poulter guest experience
- 36:53Speaker 2: when she was ten. I wouldn't call this a Poulter
- 36:55Speaker 2: guest experience. I would call this a fucking act of
- 36:58Speaker 2: God where it rained on her house. Sounds like Stephen
- 37:02Speaker 2: King kind of ripped that idea off for Kerry if
- 37:04Speaker 2: you ask me anyways, And she just refuses to acknowledge
- 37:07Speaker 2: that it happened. It gets brought up by doctor Mark
- 37:09Speaker 2: Away and she's like, Nope, didn't happen. Didn't happen, So
- 37:12Speaker 2: it's like I don't never mentioned and then never mentioned again.
- 37:15Speaker 3: Yeah, the only supernatural stuff that you get from is
- 37:22Speaker 3: from THEO because she's got some esp and that was interesting.
- 37:26Speaker 3: They don't overuse it, but sometimes they it feels like
- 37:32Speaker 3: it gets picked up and put down at random exactly.
- 37:36Speaker 3: But she's the only one who really shows any kind
- 37:39Speaker 3: of indication because if you think about, oh, this is
- 37:42Speaker 3: set up, it's so odd. So this this doctor, he's
- 37:46Speaker 3: an anthropologist. Yeah, an anthropologist decides to get two psychic women,
- 37:52Speaker 3: one who's proven she has some uh gifts and then
- 37:56Speaker 3: one who had an experience when she was ten that
- 37:58Speaker 3: somehow he found out about out and then the dude
- 38:03Speaker 3: who owns the house all get together.
- 38:05Speaker 2: So they can the air of that house loose.
- 38:09Speaker 1: Find out if the house is haunted.
- 38:11Speaker 3: So, bro, you just picked two random ass women, brought
- 38:14Speaker 3: them out to the middle of nowhere with no with
- 38:17Speaker 3: a random other guy to lock them in this big
- 38:19Speaker 3: ass house where you can't find anything, and that was
- 38:22Speaker 3: your scientific study.
- 38:23Speaker 1: You're a terrible anthropologies.
- 38:25Speaker 2: Well remember he had the no I think it was
- 38:27Speaker 2: not a one point setter. Were the only people here.
- 38:30Speaker 2: It's like well, there was a few others, but they never,
- 38:32Speaker 2: you know, they they didn't show up.
- 38:34Speaker 1: Yeah never, where'd they go?
- 38:36Speaker 2: Yeah? Where'd they go? What happened with them?
- 38:38Speaker 3: And he brings no equipment. He conducts literally no studies.
- 38:43Speaker 2: God, he really doesn't.
- 38:44Speaker 1: He doesn't.
- 38:45Speaker 3: He doesn't run any tests. They're literally just chilling out
- 38:48Speaker 3: in the house to see if anything happens. He is
- 38:51Speaker 3: conducting absolutely no studies on this house. And he bro
- 38:56Speaker 3: doesn't bring so much as a fucking Ouiji board or
- 38:59Speaker 3: tarot deck in there. He literally just the one scientific
- 39:03Speaker 3: thing he does is, hey, did everyone notice this cold spot?
- 39:06Speaker 1: Come stand here? That's very terrible answer, very accurate.
- 39:11Speaker 2: Now, terrible anthropologist, Now that you're saying this out loud,
- 39:14Speaker 2: it's so accurate. I really wasn't. I guess I was
- 39:17Speaker 2: intrigued by the story because throughout the whole runtime, I
- 39:22Speaker 2: was constantly looking around the camera for something. And I
- 39:25Speaker 2: think that's what this movie does very well, is you're
- 39:28Speaker 2: constantly looking for something and then you don't get it,
- 39:31Speaker 2: so you never stop looking. But then by the end
- 39:34Speaker 2: it feels kind of like a slap in the face,
- 39:36Speaker 2: Like God, I spent all this time being anxious and
- 39:39Speaker 2: I didn't even get like a payoff for it. So
- 39:40Speaker 2: it's like part of me likes the ambiguity of is
- 39:43Speaker 2: this home haunted or is it just all in their heads?
- 39:47Speaker 2: But then it's like it's almost too much ambiguity. What
- 39:51Speaker 2: are we doing here?
- 39:52Speaker 1: And fuck?
- 39:53Speaker 3: His wife shows up midway through their thing and is like, hey,
- 39:58Speaker 3: the reporters have sniffed you out, snitched out that he's
- 40:00Speaker 3: sitting in this house because he's not doing shit in here,
- 40:04Speaker 3: and so then she goes out there, but he's immediately
- 40:06Speaker 3: annoyed she's there. She's clearly so far over his bullshit
- 40:11Speaker 3: because she's like, all right, let's see this haunted house.
- 40:14Speaker 2: She was such a throwaway character though there was no
- 40:17Speaker 2: reason for.
- 40:18Speaker 3: Her, and it was so funny because if you think
- 40:20Speaker 3: about it from her perspective, if this is the kind
- 40:22Speaker 3: of study, if this is the kind of quality of
- 40:25Speaker 3: work he's doing, and he is balancing his whole career
- 40:30Speaker 3: on proving that ghosts exist, and he's not actually doing
- 40:34Speaker 3: any work. He's just you know, thrown it out there
- 40:37Speaker 3: for everybody with no evidence and no effort to actually
- 40:41Speaker 3: collect the evidence. Just well, if the fact that he
- 40:45Speaker 3: says that Nell might have to leave because if she
- 40:48Speaker 3: is having delusions, it'll ruin the study. What fucking study, bro, Like,
- 40:52Speaker 3: I'm sorry, You've got psychics in a house, no real witnesses,
- 40:57Speaker 3: and no equipment. You're recording nothing. So when his wife
- 41:01Speaker 3: shows up and she's like, yeah, let's go see this
- 41:04Speaker 3: haunted fucking house, put me in the spookiest room, I
- 41:07Speaker 3: mean to me, she like comes off as this, oh,
- 41:10Speaker 3: his nagging wife shit up. Uh, But really she's all right,
- 41:14Speaker 3: let's see this shit you're constantly talking about and ruining
- 41:18Speaker 3: your career over. Oh.
- 41:19Speaker 2: I didn't take her as a nagging wife at all.
- 41:20Speaker 2: I took her exactly.
- 41:22Speaker 3: No, I thought you said, who okay, I think that's
- 41:25Speaker 3: how she's meant to be.
- 41:26Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I didn't take her like that at all.
- 41:28Speaker 2: I would be doing the same thing, because you're right,
- 41:30Speaker 2: if if this is the caliber of study he's bringing
- 41:33Speaker 2: to the table with no real equipment or really not
- 41:36Speaker 2: doing anything, I'd probably be very annoyed too. But I mean,
- 41:39Speaker 2: what what do I don't even know what they had
- 41:40Speaker 2: access to. He was in the nineteen sixties in terms
- 41:43Speaker 2: of like paranormal investigative resources.
- 41:47Speaker 3: Even on the base level of we're talking like to
- 41:51Speaker 3: ask sleep with microphones and shit.
- 41:53Speaker 1: You could be you could have recording equipment.
- 41:57Speaker 3: You could I mean you need to log things like
- 42:01Speaker 3: log experiences, document them. You could be checking temperatures in
- 42:05Speaker 3: the house because thermometers still exists, bro, you know they
- 42:11Speaker 3: could Yeah, they could absolutely be doing recordings. They could
- 42:14Speaker 3: be holding seances to see if they make any contact,
- 42:19Speaker 3: taking film or photographs.
- 42:22Speaker 2: True spirit photography.
- 42:23Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, they they have. Oh what the hell are
- 42:29Speaker 3: those the rods you know that you hold in your hand.
- 42:31Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the two like brass rods you and you
- 42:33Speaker 2: ask the Yeah. I don't know, but I know I
- 42:35Speaker 2: know what you're talking about.
- 42:36Speaker 1: Yeah, cross and don't cross. They have those. Yeah, so
- 42:41Speaker 1: many different ways, bro.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Braught cigarettes, he did bring cigarettes.
- 42:45Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're worried about table service. And but at
- 42:50Speaker 3: no point do they actually get to conducting a study.
- 42:53Speaker 3: As soon as Nell starts freaking out, which he wants
- 42:56Speaker 3: to see something spooky, someone experiences something hmm and needs
- 43:01Speaker 3: immediate like, well we got to send her home.
- 43:03Speaker 2: Yeah that was kind of strange.
- 43:05Speaker 1: Ah what yeah, but go ahead, Oh.
- 43:07Speaker 2: No, I was gonna say. According to a quick Google search,
- 43:10Speaker 2: apparently nineteen fifty nine is when the modern in is
- 43:16Speaker 2: when EVPs like that was, Like the first recorded EVP
- 43:20Speaker 2: was nineteen fifty nine, Frederick Jurgensen's pivotal discovery of voices
- 43:25Speaker 2: on his recordings. So there you go. I don't know
- 43:28Speaker 2: how accurate that is, but this is nineteen sixty three,
- 43:30Speaker 2: so I'm sure. I just that's the thing. It's like,
- 43:33Speaker 2: I don't know, that's so long ago. I don't know
- 43:36Speaker 2: exactly what was known back then about hunting ghosts per se.
- 43:42Speaker 2: I got a lot of haunted house movies around that time.
- 43:44Speaker 2: I mean Haunting of Hill House was I mean that
- 43:46Speaker 2: was also, like I said, or sorry House on Haunted Hill,
- 43:49Speaker 2: but that was the ending of that movie.
- 43:51Speaker 1: Is there was a certain point that like holding sandces
- 43:55Speaker 1: and stuff and doing that was trendy and like the
- 43:57Speaker 1: Victorian era, those were spooky bitches.
- 44:01Speaker 3: Okay, they love doing that shit. So it's not like
- 44:03Speaker 3: that stuff didn't exist. And it's divining ruds.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Oh yeah, those, I got there. It's fine, nailed it.
- 44:08Speaker 3: So and she also like to shoot out the one
- 44:12Speaker 3: person who's experiencing something and to adamantly be opposed to
- 44:16Speaker 3: anyone going in the room that is marked to be
- 44:19Speaker 3: the most haunted. Why would you not go in the
- 44:22Speaker 3: most haunted room if you're trying to prove anything. And also, yeah,
- 44:26Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, he's gonna have
- 44:27Speaker 3: word of mouth, which in fact does nothing.
- 44:31Speaker 2: I mean, wasn't that the thing back then in ninety
- 44:33Speaker 2: sixty three, that's all you had was word of mouth? Yeah,
- 44:36Speaker 2: my word for it. Yeah, those are some strong points
- 44:41Speaker 2: that I really didn't think about until now.
- 44:44Speaker 1: You're very focused on the camera work. I think it's
- 44:48Speaker 1: such good camera work.
- 44:49Speaker 2: It was some of the most unique camera work I
- 44:52Speaker 2: have ever seen. And it's a movie that is sixty
- 44:56Speaker 2: three years old. That's crazy to me.
- 44:58Speaker 3: I just want to point out that the at the
- 45:00Speaker 3: time this movie came out, my dad was our daughter's age.
- 45:05Speaker 1: Yeah, almost to the month.
- 45:06Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's weird, isn't it weird? It's weird. Yeah. Also,
- 45:10Speaker 2: you know, because every so every movie this year, I've
- 45:12Speaker 2: been buying physical copies for so I have a physical
- 45:15Speaker 2: copy of this and we watched it on Blu Ray
- 45:16Speaker 2: and it looks great, yeah, being for being sixty seven
- 45:19Speaker 2: years old. Yeah, Like, the quality of film is great,
- 45:23Speaker 2: and the camera work is just so looney tunes, but
- 45:27Speaker 2: in a good way. And I really feel like they
- 45:30Speaker 2: made that house. It's like the conjuring. Remember when you
- 45:33Speaker 2: said that opening shot, it feels like the house is
- 45:35Speaker 2: watching them. Yeah, I feel like James Want had to
- 45:37Speaker 2: have seen the Haunting and kind of drew inspiration from that,
- 45:40Speaker 2: because it's not just the opening scene with the Haunting,
- 45:43Speaker 2: it is the entire time that they're at the house.
- 45:47Speaker 2: This house feels like it is watching them, just based
- 45:49Speaker 2: on the camera and how it moves and how things
- 45:52Speaker 2: are placed. It feels like a character of its own,
- 45:56Speaker 2: this house. Oh yeah, for sure, it's the main It's like,
- 45:58Speaker 2: even though Nell's the main character, like now, that house
- 46:01Speaker 2: is the main character of this movie.
- 46:03Speaker 3: Respectfully, if they hadn't given her an inner monologue, Nell
- 46:07Speaker 3: would be the least interesting character.
- 46:10Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm wondering why I would have. Honestly, I
- 46:13Speaker 2: would have loved to see it from Theo's point of
- 46:15Speaker 2: view so much more.
- 46:16Speaker 1: Actually, I'm glad they didn't do it from Theo's perspective
- 46:19Speaker 1: because she, like I said when we were watching it,
- 46:20Speaker 1: she has such a black cat energy. She holds things
- 46:24Speaker 1: back and but also says anything she feels like she
- 46:27Speaker 1: wants to.
- 46:28Speaker 3: She she knows what to give and take. She has
- 46:32Speaker 3: a lot of confidence. But when I really like her character.
- 46:37Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And of course in Mike Flanagan's that's played
- 46:40Speaker 2: by his wife Kate Siegel, who does an incredible job.
- 46:44Speaker 2: And I love the addition that because really her psychic
- 46:47Speaker 2: abilities in the mini series are much more explored than
- 46:52Speaker 2: in this movie. And the whole glove thing I thought
- 46:54Speaker 2: was fascinating, Like she has to wear gloves. She has
- 46:57Speaker 2: to wear gloves because if she doesn't, then she can.
- 46:59Speaker 2: It's just too much. It's like sensory overload. Yep. Yeah.
- 47:02Speaker 2: But I did love that scene with THEO in this
- 47:04Speaker 2: movie where someone mentions to nell I believe, like to
- 47:09Speaker 2: not or doctor mark Away, like don't play cards with
- 47:11Speaker 2: Luke because he's a card sharp. And then you see
- 47:14Speaker 2: THEO playing with Luke and she beats him five times
- 47:17Speaker 2: and he's like there's no way, and You're like, that's
- 47:19Speaker 2: there's her Clairvoyability's all right, cool.
- 47:21Speaker 3: Which I think is funny because you stay straight up,
- 47:23Speaker 3: said she identified. When she was given a test, she
- 47:25Speaker 3: identified nineteen out of twenty cards that were I don't
- 47:28Speaker 3: know why I out of sound specifically, but out of
- 47:31Speaker 3: sight and sound, right, and I'm like, yeah, if someone
- 47:33Speaker 3: said that, I don't want to play cards with you either,
- 47:38Speaker 3: especially for money. But theo is really the most supernatural
- 47:44Speaker 3: thing about the entire film.
- 47:46Speaker 2: I mean, she was more supernatural, yeah, than the movie,
- 47:49Speaker 2: but I think it really does. Like my biggest takeaway
- 47:51Speaker 2: from this movie is is this all psychological or is
- 47:55Speaker 2: this supernatural like such? You know? And I think the
- 47:58Speaker 2: ambiguity is key because you can literally go either way
- 48:01Speaker 2: with this one. It can all be psychological like in
- 48:05Speaker 2: their heads, or it can be like this house is alive.
- 48:08Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of my biggest takeaway is
- 48:09Speaker 2: how do you determine, Like, if you watch this movie,
- 48:12Speaker 2: what what do you get from it to determine whether
- 48:15Speaker 2: this is actually happening or not happening?
- 48:17Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think digging into some other parts of it,
- 48:22Speaker 3: even if you kept ambiguous, would have made the film stronger.
- 48:25Speaker 1: Like, you know, I remember in The Haunting, the remake
- 48:29Speaker 1: of The Haunting.
- 48:31Speaker 2: Waiting for that one to come up, which we've reviewed
- 48:32Speaker 2: on this show. Go check it out.
- 48:34Speaker 3: Yeah, she Nell's character, if I recall correctly, the way
- 48:40Speaker 3: they bring her in, she thinks she's going for a
- 48:43Speaker 3: sleep study, you know, they lie and get those people
- 48:45Speaker 3: there and say it's for a sleep study and the
- 48:48Speaker 3: weirdest house to sleep study in, but she kind of
- 48:52Speaker 3: they I feel like it's kind of insinuated very lightly
- 48:56Speaker 3: that Nell kind of has this attracting presence to supernatural.
- 49:00Speaker 3: That's that's why the doctor wants her there, because she
- 49:05Speaker 3: had this supernatural thing happened to her, and maybe more
- 49:09Speaker 3: supernatural things, but honestly, rocks landing on your house and
- 49:13Speaker 3: that's the end of that context. Is such a weird
- 49:15Speaker 3: pick to be like supernatural? Yeah, because that's weird.
- 49:19Speaker 1: Shit like that happens. Sometimes the earth is weird, Okay.
- 49:24Speaker 3: But you know, I think it's if it had been
- 49:27Speaker 3: more explicitly stated she has this tendency to bring out
- 49:30Speaker 3: the supernatural that might have like made her presence there
- 49:34Speaker 3: make more sense. And also if we had at any
- 49:38Speaker 3: point gotten an explanation for why, because then you because
- 49:42Speaker 3: without that information, Okay, she had rocks fall in her
- 49:45Speaker 3: house when she was ten, and now she's obsessed with
- 49:48Speaker 3: this house but also hates the house but also wants
- 49:51Speaker 3: to stay. But also this house is awful, and then
- 49:56Speaker 3: stuff seems to be specifically happening to her. But why
- 50:00Speaker 3: And then they kind of make it seem like Crane
- 50:03Speaker 3: is haunting her, but is he or does she just
- 50:07Speaker 3: think it's Crane right, So like if they'd given a
- 50:11Speaker 3: couple more pieces to her, different pieces than the case,
- 50:15Speaker 3: I think that would have made sense. And a side note,
- 50:17Speaker 3: I think it was an absolute waste not to let
- 50:21Speaker 3: her fall.
- 50:21Speaker 1: Right off that fucking railing.
- 50:23Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that the way the film ended to me
- 50:27Speaker 3: was so much weaker than if she had looked at him,
- 50:32Speaker 3: tilted back and whipped herself right off the back of
- 50:35Speaker 3: that railing and been like, yeah, I know you're up
- 50:38Speaker 3: here to save me, but I'm out.
- 50:40Speaker 2: Well, especially with that really wicked shot when she's looking
- 50:43Speaker 2: at that exact spot of the house and the camera
- 50:46Speaker 2: is up there and it does this jarring. I don't
- 50:48Speaker 2: know how they did this, but it's like a quick
- 50:51Speaker 2: edit is like rushed down to her. And I thought
- 50:54Speaker 2: that was foreshadowing, like the foreshadowing of her possibly falling
- 50:57Speaker 2: out of the windows. So when we got to that point,
- 50:59Speaker 2: I was like, oh fuck, they're actually gonna throw her
- 51:01Speaker 2: off this roof or whatever, and to just drive away
- 51:05Speaker 2: with the steering wheel going back and forth, because the
- 51:07Speaker 2: ghosts don't want you to leave, and then you crash
- 51:09Speaker 2: into a tree, which somehow equivalates to you tilting the
- 51:13Speaker 2: car on its side. It just was okay, and then
- 51:17Speaker 2: the then Grace is out there too.
- 51:19Speaker 1: Well, now, Grace, what happened to Grace?
- 51:20Speaker 3: I would also be more interested in what the hell's
- 51:22Speaker 3: going on with Grace?
- 51:23Speaker 2: But she pops out of a it's like a heidie hole.
- 51:26Speaker 1: So if you look at that room therein it's a
- 51:29Speaker 1: tower with a pointed roof.
- 51:31Speaker 2: Uh huh.
- 51:32Speaker 1: It goes that tower goes all the way up.
- 51:33Speaker 3: But somehow she's in a hidie hole on in that
- 51:37Speaker 3: technically I think would go out to the outside of
- 51:39Speaker 3: that wall. And somehow, despite the hidie hole being between
- 51:45Speaker 3: Nell and the doctor, he doesn't see his wife. It
- 51:48Speaker 3: is a it's a big ass hidie hole. It's not
- 51:51Speaker 3: like she poked a little hole out. It is a
- 51:53Speaker 3: straight up door to the top door. It's like a
- 51:56Speaker 3: trap door, and it's a couple of feet wide. So
- 51:59Speaker 3: if he, like, does he have vision problems on the
- 52:02Speaker 3: left side? Uh?
- 52:03Speaker 2: I thought that was a strange choice to just have
- 52:05Speaker 2: her like it was like a jump scare.
- 52:07Speaker 1: But not jump scare. If you were Nell.
- 52:10Speaker 2: Yeah, I just was like, what the hell? I was like,
- 52:13Speaker 2: is that Grace?
- 52:13Speaker 1: Yeah? Fucking going through it?
- 52:18Speaker 2: Apparently got Who's the only person in the movie to
- 52:20Speaker 2: get lost in the house. No one else got lost?
- 52:22Speaker 1: No, remember THEO and Nell did a little bit in
- 52:24Speaker 1: the beginning.
- 52:25Speaker 2: Well, the doctor and Luke heard a dog outside and
- 52:29Speaker 2: they went, you know, there, they saw a dog, so
- 52:31Speaker 2: they went to chase the dog, and then THEO and
- 52:33Speaker 2: Nell were together. But I don't getting lost to the
- 52:35Speaker 2: point of looking like that. Yeah, no one else seemed
- 52:38Speaker 2: to get lost, and it.
- 52:41Speaker 3: Felt like a waste not to let Nell die there.
- 52:43Speaker 3: Like the tragedy. There would have been more tragedy to her,
- 52:47Speaker 3: not the house wanting her to stay, her accepting that,
- 52:52Speaker 3: and her dying in the house than it was that
- 52:56Speaker 3: she crashed her car directly into the tree that the
- 53:01Speaker 3: original Miss craned missus Crane died. It was symbolic, but
- 53:05Speaker 3: it was not as powerful as if she had fallen off,
- 53:08Speaker 3: especially since she was the caretaker. If she died where
- 53:11Speaker 3: the caretaker for the last Crane Woman died, that would
- 53:16Speaker 3: have been more powerful. Now I don't know what the
- 53:17Speaker 3: fuck happens in the book though, Okay, so that's true.
- 53:20Speaker 2: I have not read the book or she did state that.
- 53:22Speaker 2: It just it really did just feel like a waste
- 53:24Speaker 2: to have her drive into a tree. I don't know.
- 53:26Speaker 2: I get the symbolism, I understand it. It's fine, but
- 53:30Speaker 2: it's not very impactful. Plus, she was not going near
- 53:35Speaker 2: fast enough down.
- 53:36Speaker 1: There, way too strong for that down.
- 53:39Speaker 2: A dirt fucking road with a car from the sixties
- 53:43Speaker 2: that's made out of just solid steel. There's no way.
- 53:46Speaker 2: It just didn't make sense if she had like driven
- 53:49Speaker 2: off a cliff or something. Oh sure, but she hid
- 53:51Speaker 2: a tree yet probably twenty miles an hour and the
- 53:54Speaker 2: car was destroyed. I'm not and I don't get it.
- 53:59Speaker 2: I feel like, God, I like this movie so much
- 54:02Speaker 2: more before we started diaceticly. But that's what I like
- 54:06Speaker 2: about talking about movies because you bring up a lot
- 54:07Speaker 2: of good points. Because there was a terrible study on
- 54:10Speaker 2: what was going on. I guess he was just relying
- 54:13Speaker 2: on people to do kind of the work for him.
- 54:17Speaker 1: That's the thing.
- 54:17Speaker 3: There was, Like there was a lot of strong interest
- 54:20Speaker 3: things in the movie. It just wasn't the plot like
- 54:24Speaker 3: theo interesting character. Would love to hear.
- 54:26Speaker 2: More about that, right, love her and Mike Flannigan's.
- 54:30Speaker 1: Right, THEO very interesting character.
- 54:32Speaker 3: The gay panic in that between her and Nell was
- 54:36Speaker 3: ridiculous because the second THEO walks on the screen and
- 54:39Speaker 3: starts talking to know lesbian one hundred percent of lesbian.
- 54:43Speaker 1: There's no way she's not gay and what.
- 54:46Speaker 2: Oh no, I was just gonna say something quickly on that,
- 54:48Speaker 2: and they there is obviously the queer subtext there, and
- 54:52Speaker 2: they had to keep it very subtle because it was
- 54:54Speaker 2: nineteen sixties. Yeah, it was the sixties and censorship back then,
- 54:59Speaker 2: so it was it was there for sure, but it
- 55:02Speaker 2: had to be subtle to get which is crazy to
- 55:04Speaker 2: think that lesbian couple wouldn't get past censors. That's a
- 55:09Speaker 2: wild time.
- 55:10Speaker 1: They couldn't get lesbians kissing on TV until bust.
- 55:13Speaker 2: I know, I know, it's just crazy to think so,
- 55:15Speaker 2: but you're right, it's totally there.
- 55:17Speaker 3: Continue Yeah, I mean, and Nell kind of being into it,
- 55:21Speaker 3: but then backing up really hard.
- 55:23Speaker 1: She was, you know, on her own tilt, a whirl
- 55:25Speaker 1: of feelings.
- 55:26Speaker 2: Did you notice though, that every time she backed away
- 55:28Speaker 2: it was because of the house, like the house started
- 55:30Speaker 2: doing something. Yeah, it's almost like some want them don't
- 55:34Speaker 2: be lesbians? And also the house is very misogynistic because
- 55:38Speaker 2: not one fucking man has died at this house. Called
- 55:41Speaker 2: back to the thing you said at the beginning of
- 55:43Speaker 2: the episode all women, because you said that mister Crane
- 55:47Speaker 2: died there, but no, he left his daughter and his
- 55:50Speaker 2: wife to go to England and died in a pond
- 55:53Speaker 2: in England. So this house has not killed one man.
- 55:56Speaker 2: Very weird. Yeah, very strange. Sorry, I totally cut you
- 55:59Speaker 2: often interrupted you. I apologize.
- 56:01Speaker 1: I was just talking about gay people here, guys trying
- 56:03Speaker 1: to silence the gays.
- 56:05Speaker 2: Talking about the symbolism between them.
- 56:08Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of tension between them. THEO
- 56:12Speaker 3: is a very strong personality and very unabashed, and I
- 56:18Speaker 3: think that if this were made today, I mean obviously
- 56:21Speaker 3: that we did do one, but if this movie had
- 56:23Speaker 3: been made today, they would have it would have been
- 56:25Speaker 3: a lot stronger, would have their relationship felt really similar
- 56:30Speaker 3: to the girls in Blind manner.
- 56:33Speaker 2: Yeah, well, THEO is a lesbian.
- 56:35Speaker 1: I'm not talking about hunting Viilla.
- 56:37Speaker 3: No, no, no, I know, well, I know that I'm
- 56:39Speaker 3: saying I know that they made or lesbian. I'm saying
- 56:41Speaker 3: that the way that that played out, where like there's
- 56:43Speaker 3: a lot of tension and then they kiss. I feel
- 56:46Speaker 3: like their relationship would have played out more that way
- 56:49Speaker 3: had it been allowed at the time.
- 56:50Speaker 2: Well, shout out to Mike Flanning again for just fully
- 56:53Speaker 2: establishing that Theo is a gay character, because it's true
- 56:58Speaker 2: to the book or at least the queer subtext of
- 57:00Speaker 2: the book in the movie. So to just make her
- 57:03Speaker 2: outright gay was I thought that was That's a that
- 57:06Speaker 2: makes me respect the choice of that much more because first,
- 57:09Speaker 2: so you know, when I when I watch it, I
- 57:11Speaker 2: was like, oh, she's gay, Okay, cool, But now there's
- 57:13Speaker 2: actually actually a reason behind it because of the sorts material.
- 57:16Speaker 2: So that's like makes me appreciate my plan again even more.
- 57:19Speaker 1: Oh Jesus.
- 57:20Speaker 3: Even in the remake of The Haunting, Catherine Zada Jones
- 57:24Speaker 3: is given strong lesbian vibes, and I think they straight
- 57:27Speaker 3: up say she has a girlfriend and a boyfriend or
- 57:30Speaker 3: something like that.
- 57:30Speaker 2: Oh my, now we have to rewatch that.
- 57:34Speaker 1: Sure. Oh no, I'll watch a cheese fest any day
- 57:36Speaker 1: of the week. Every time that came out in sci fi, like, hell, yeah,
- 57:39Speaker 1: what time is that?
- 57:40Speaker 2: Some of the most terrible cg'll.
- 57:42Speaker 1: Oh, it's just oh god, it's awful.
- 57:45Speaker 2: It's terrible.
- 57:45Speaker 3: But you know they also were like, yeah, no, there's
- 57:49Speaker 3: no way Theo's not gay the way she's assertively gay
- 57:55Speaker 3: as much as she could be at that time.
- 57:57Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. I mean, yeah, so part of me
- 58:01Speaker 2: really enjoys like I don't even know anymore. Well, I
- 58:06Speaker 2: don't even know if I like this movie anymore. I
- 58:07Speaker 2: don't understand so much of it from how the style
- 58:12Speaker 2: of the movie is great, but really, when you break
- 58:14Speaker 2: it down, I don't and I don't even have any answers,
- 58:17Speaker 2: And that's the whole point is the is the you
- 58:20Speaker 2: you know that he's leaving it for the audience to
- 58:22Speaker 2: make their minds up. Sometimes I like ambiguity, sometimes I don't.
- 58:25Speaker 2: I don't know where I said with this one. I
- 58:27Speaker 2: just wish certain events would have played out differently. I'm
- 58:30Speaker 2: okay with not seeing a ghost because it kept me
- 58:32Speaker 2: on edge the entire time because I can't That's fine.
- 58:35Speaker 2: I kept searching for a fucking ghost. And I really
- 58:38Speaker 2: think Flannagan was pulling from this movie obviously, because did
- 58:42Speaker 2: you notice in a lot of the shots that there
- 58:44Speaker 2: was a statue and frame?
- 58:46Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we were talking about.
- 58:47Speaker 3: It feels like it felt like the house was watching them,
- 58:49Speaker 3: and the statues felt like the eyes.
- 58:53Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I mean, I'm specifically what you're talking about,
- 58:55Speaker 2: specifically from Flannagan's because of all of those hidden ghosts.
- 58:59Speaker 2: It's it's like he saw the movie and it was like, Ooh,
- 59:01Speaker 2: I could make this fun and have ghosts that were
- 59:05Speaker 2: just not talking about in the background of like forty
- 59:07Speaker 2: two different shots.
- 59:09Speaker 3: Oh, there's so many more ghosts that every time someone's like,
- 59:11Speaker 3: here's some more ghosts, you didn't notice. Like Jesus Christ
- 59:13Speaker 3: was just like an army of extras, like all right,
- 59:16Speaker 3: ghost people.
- 59:17Speaker 1: Hi.
- 59:18Speaker 2: I feel like Flannagan was like, all right, this is
- 59:19Speaker 2: where the SHOT's gonna be. Fucking get the best hiding
- 59:22Speaker 2: spot you possibly can.
- 59:24Speaker 3: Just put your fingertips right here. Yeah, you don't even
- 59:27Speaker 3: need to be all the way, just just a little
- 59:29Speaker 3: bit right there, all right, ghost.
- 59:32Speaker 2: Yeah, ghosts. So I think I think he definitely pulled
- 59:34Speaker 2: from the statues of this movie and did that. And
- 59:37Speaker 2: then of course that brilliant moment when we both looked
- 59:40Speaker 2: at each other and you were like, Flanagin, you brilliant bastard.
- 59:43Speaker 2: When Nell was dancing around the atrium or whatever the
- 59:45Speaker 2: fuck that thing's called. That's exactly what Nell did in
- 59:49Speaker 2: the miniseries when she's convinced she's dancing with her husband
- 59:54Speaker 2: that died right.
- 59:55Speaker 1: In the h in the miniseries.
- 59:56Speaker 2: Yeah, and for the longest not for the longest time,
- 59:59Speaker 2: but for quite some time. You know, if you've seen
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: the miniseries, you know the correlation between because I don't
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: want to spoil it, you know the correlation between the
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: who the Bent Neck Lady is. And I really thought
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: at one point we were gonna get that from this
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: movie because of how many like that one girl who
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: hung or the one yeah who hung herself. I was like,
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: holy shit, are we gonna get like Bent Neck Lady?
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: And we don't. And I was like, damn it. So
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: that's entirely Mike Flanagan's own like stuff going on. So
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: I was I don't So, I don't know. I expected
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: certain things even though I didn't know the source material.
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: And it's just I'm kind of in the middle with
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: this movie. I don't know. Yeah, I feel like it
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: has a lot of good but it has equally as
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: much questions.
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I said, there's a lot of great stuff
- 1:00:41Speaker 3: about this there's just stuff that's not that wasn't that strong,
- 1:00:44Speaker 3: that could have been stronger.
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well I don't really have much else here.
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: I would talk about the tropes of Haunted House movies,
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: but I mean, really, at this point, I don't I
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: don't think there's established tropes in sixty three. I don't know.
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: This movie's a little bit hass my knowledge of when
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: tropes were established. I think that's probably a good stopping point.
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: Is there anything that you didn't get to mention that
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: you wanted to mention before we wrap up here?
- 1:01:10Speaker 3: No?
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: I don't think so.
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: Okay, So that is the Haunting from nineteen sixty three.
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: Let's move on to the final cut post review stuff
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: here taglines that is way too long of a tagline.
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: I don't know why I even put that on here.
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: At Hillhouse, the dead don't stay quiet. You may not
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: believe in ghosts, but you can't deny terror and scream.
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: No one will hear you run and the footsteps will
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: follow you. For in Hillhouse, the dead are restless? But
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: are they? But are than that?
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: Really?
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: Because at one point you hear fucking baby crying? Did
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: a baby die? That I was unaware of I don't
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: remember a baby does.
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: I don't remember that either.
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: Anyways. Trivia director Robert Wise read a review of Shirley
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hillhouse in Time magazine and
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: decided to get the rights to the novel. He later
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: met the writer herself to talk about ideas for the film.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: He asked her if she had thought of other titles
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: for the novel, because the title would not work for
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: the film. She told him that the only other title
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: she'd considered was simply the Haunting, So that's what why
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: is decided to use. Most of the film was shot
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: through lens that added curvature to the walls, making the
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: house seem even more strange. This is what you call
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: a Oh my god, it just left my head.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: That's a long name for Lynz.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: What fucking h Carpenter used in Halloween. Oh my god,
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: Michael is going to be so pissed at me when
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: he hears this. What the fuck is the name of
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: that lens? Aperture said, I said it last night, and
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: when I was like, ooh.
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: This lens, Oh my god, Dialapa, that's a dinosaur.
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: I think a diameter anamorphic.
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: Oh got it.
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: God, anamorphic lens. You said dados or something. Oh my god,
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: anamorphic lens. Holy cow. Anyways, its Ana morphs. We talked
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: about this. Robert Wise the film in black and white
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: because he loved the He loved the depth and rich
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: atmospheric quality of black and white, and it just felt
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: suitable for the genre. Director Martin Scorceas he named this
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: his favorite horror film, and that just make that tracks.
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: For some of the scenes in which characters are tormented
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: by loud, ghostly sounds coming from the house, Robert Wise
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: had the sounds on playback so that the actors could
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: react to them authentically. It was a technique they found
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: especially useful and effective for creating just the right mood
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: of terror. And listening to the audio commentary on the Haunting,
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: I can tell you he talks exactly about that. So
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: this is one hundred percent true, because some of these
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: I'm like, act no goose that I could find interesting.
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: Rated seven point four out of ten on IMDb. For
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: our purposes, it will be a three point seven out
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: of five, three point eight out of five on Letterbox,
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: has a an eighty seven percent on the Tomatometer and
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: an eighty two percent audience score, What did you give
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: this movie?
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: And a half?
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: Three and a half. That's where I'm at. Like usually
- 1:03:59Speaker 2: when I say I'm in the middle on movies, it's
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: usually a two and a half. But I can't deny
- 1:04:04Speaker 2: how good the movie was shot. So with that, we
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: have a frightmare index, a nightmare index of three point
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: six three. We're gonna round up because it's three point
- 1:04:14Speaker 2: sixty five, so we'll say three point sixty three for
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: the nightmare index. This is the first movie on that,
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: so it falls right at number one. Yay for now,
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: It's not gonna get interesting until you know, we get
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: later into the year. Two movies in similar movies according
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: to IMDb, we have The Innocence nineteen sixty one, The
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: Changeling from nineteen eighty, The Haunting of Course, the remake
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine, House on Haunted Hill from nineteen fifty nine,
- 1:04:38Speaker 2: and Carnival of Souls. Similar movies according to Letterbox, you
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: would not believe it when I tell you, but The
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: Haunting from nineteen ninety nine, fourteen oh eight, The Changeling,
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: The Woman in Black, and the others. Let's do some
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: funny reviews. Did you get any yes? Ah shit, I'll
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: let's use well, how many do you have? Four? All right,
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: I'll go first. Then four stars from Ashton Eleanor really
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: walked into Hill House and not even one second later
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: said I love my new forever home. Yeah what was
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: with that? She was?
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: I love, That's what I'm saying. They don't explain it.
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: She just expected when she was on her way there
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: to like, maybe I won't have to leave. This isn't permanent.
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: It's a study.
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: Like missing some chunk information about now.
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: Go ahead. Uh.
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: Three and a half stars from Lexi Ribbon. Let's get
- 1:05:26Speaker 3: one thing straight.
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: THEO is not Yeah, I had that one. That's great.
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: Three and a half from Cinema Void A House that
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: was born bad and each trauma for Breakfast faces its
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: biggest challenge yet. Loud lesbian Lodgers.
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: Three and a half stars from Horror Syndrome.
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: God damn it, Hukraine really didn't want these two women
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: scissoring in his house.
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: Yep, bad that one too. Four stars from Slayer in Salem.
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: I don't like that name. It's too hard to say.
- 1:05:58Speaker 2: Aunty ellis blinking. Aunty Elli's blinking. What a punishable kid.
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: Five stars from fell At last, something is really really
- 1:06:07Speaker 3: really happening to me, really cool documentary documentary about how
- 1:06:12Speaker 3: lesbians have eesp uh?
- 1:06:17Speaker 2: Is that all four? Did you do? Oh? Okay, that's right,
- 1:06:21Speaker 2: you took two of mine? That's why? Yeah, go ahead?
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: Four stars from Lee Gay Gay Gay gay.
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- 1:06:55Speaker 2: out the Shameless Pictures Show, The Dead Eyed Millennial Film Club,
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: and one week as well. Next week, Michael and I
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: will be doing something called the Nesting. Oh my god,
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: I forgot an explanation, so real quick, real quick, I'm
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: so sorry. We have five movies a month. We have
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: an Essential Viewing, a Deep Cut, a Modern, a International,
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: and a wild Card. These are all curated by me
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: and what I am deeming to be these choices. It's
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: not necessarily like this I felt was essential because most
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: people have probably seen Mike Flanigan's The Hunting of Hill House,
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: and I bet you those people haven't seen this. So anyways,
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: long story short, that's what we're doing. Totally forgot to
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: say that up top. Next week, Michael and I will
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: be doing the nesting from nineteen eighty one, So until then,
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: stay tuned and stay spooky
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: To