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Happy Hour #192: Of the Beaten Path Horror Movies · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: it is the day before Halloween twenty twenty five as
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  Speaker 1: we record this, so this one is pretty timely. It
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  Speaker 1: is a happy hour. I am enjoying a hot tidy
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  Speaker 1: because it's cold. It is cold. I had to actually
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  Speaker 1: turn on my radiator. I hate doing that. I've put
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  Speaker 1: this will be a shorter one. I just was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this because a couple of you have written into
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  Speaker 1: me about horror movies suggestions, and especially during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: I just had a list. I had a spreadsheet, and
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  Speaker 1: I should honestly share that with more people because I
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  Speaker 1: would write in like if you don't like this, don't
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  Speaker 1: watch this swamp like I had all these notes about
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  Speaker 1: every movie. So what I'm going to say about this is,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to give you a really quick hit,
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  Speaker 1: but look into it before you watch it, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to go into the otherwise this would take forever.
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  Speaker 2: And already advised me not to watch The Good Boy
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  Speaker 2: because I had a feeling I shouldn't. But that's I'm
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  Speaker 2: bypassing what you're going to say.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to start with Good Boy. So basically
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing today is when I'm calling off the
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  Speaker 1: off the beaten path horror movies, although some of them
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  Speaker 1: are mainstream, but because we did this last year where
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  Speaker 1: I just went over, here's some horror movies I've been watching,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to start with Good Boy. I did watch
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  Speaker 1: it listeners. You might remember we mentioned it uh in
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  Speaker 1: a previous episode who knows which one? But and it's
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  Speaker 1: a horror movie told from the point of view of
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  Speaker 1: the dog, UH. And they knew, like everybody is going
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  Speaker 1: to be so worried about this dog dying that they
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  Speaker 1: released a trailer that was like, no, it'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: So I go into that with that mindset and forgetting
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  Speaker 1: that any number of other things could go wrong, and
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  Speaker 1: I cried very hard. A dog does die in it,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, just not that dog, and it's off screen.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dog does die it, but it's off screen.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like the yeah, yeah, but the funny then
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  Speaker 1: slash really tragic. Thing is I love I actually really
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  Speaker 1: liked that movie. I thought it was great. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting that Dog was a really good actor.
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  Speaker 1: But the interesting thing is that I had a group
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  Speaker 1: of friends come hang out with me the day after
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  Speaker 1: Samantha and I had hung out and gone to a
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  Speaker 1: Halloween party. So the next day, so I was tired
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  Speaker 1: and we were talking about horror movies and I bought
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  Speaker 1: this horror movie up and I start crying telling them
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  Speaker 1: the plot, just telling them the plot because they like,
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna watch it. So I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well this is what happened. And I started just sobbing,
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  Speaker 1: and then they started crying too, and we had like
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  Speaker 1: this crew crying session. And it was at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the hangout too, So I was like, we've really
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  Speaker 1: set a toe.
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  Speaker 2: Well for listeners who was wondering whether or not to
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  Speaker 2: watch this movie. I feel like you got a good
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  Speaker 2: heads up about what's going down with this movie? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to. I don't want to build
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  Speaker 1: it up too much because you know, like I watched
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  Speaker 1: it to get I've watched it more than once, and
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  Speaker 1: now that I know what it is, it's still sad.
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  Speaker 1: But I think because I was so like focused on
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  Speaker 1: you know, the dog doesn't die, so I don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about that, that I just was ignoring other possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the question is, because they've done this, they I guess,
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  Speaker 2: campaign to try to get the dog to get an Oscar.
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  Speaker 2: Does the dogs a Yeah, I don't know, but it
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  Speaker 2: ind his name is Dy is a really good actor
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  Speaker 2: and I know him last year?
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  Speaker 1: Was it last year? Recently that the dog from Anatomy
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  Speaker 1: of a fall? Also, he was at the Oscars, That's right,
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  Speaker 1: he was. I do think, I mean, there's something to
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  Speaker 1: be said, and especially I don't know. I know they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to add new Oscar categories. I don't know how.
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  Speaker 1: It's like animal training is in there. But I that
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  Speaker 1: dog I was like completely sold me. Great acting, perfect, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it was the creator's dog, So I'm assuming they
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  Speaker 1: have a good they had a good relationship.
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  Speaker 2: But he talked about it was he had had that
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  Speaker 2: movie in mine for a while, but I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: if he said he'd actually trained the dog the entire time,
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  Speaker 2: but he had had that like plot for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's basically like, how do dogs receive the world?
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  Speaker 1: And you know all the videos of you see a
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  Speaker 1: dog marking it nothing? What is it? What is that thing?
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  Speaker 1: If there is anything? But it was a really interesting premise.
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  Speaker 1: I say, go in. I recommend it, go in for
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  Speaker 1: warn I'm show me certain people know. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: for you, Samantha. But I did really really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: But I was surprised. I mean, I've never it's been
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  Speaker 1: a long time since I've started crying talking about the
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  Speaker 1: plot of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good like it's obviously a well made movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who uh huh. So there's that. There's my review
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  Speaker 1: of that. Okay, So I'm just gonna run through these
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  Speaker 1: real quick. These are horror movies that I watched usually
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  Speaker 1: during a Halloween season. They're not really related to Halloween, though,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, horror movie. I love a good time
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  Speaker 1: travel horror movie. I love time travel. I love trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out. It's like a fun puzzle. So
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  Speaker 1: One of the ones I really like is Triangle. This
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  Speaker 1: movie does have some abuse in it, so again like,
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  Speaker 1: look up all these movies before you watch them. But
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  Speaker 1: I like the puzzle of the time travel in it
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  Speaker 1: and I really enjoy figuring it out. And it's a
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  Speaker 1: small you probably not.
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  Speaker 2: Is this the one with the same woman from Amiteville
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  Speaker 2: with Ryan?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it's got me Hinsworth in it, That's what
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I think that it's the safe because she's in so
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  Speaker 2: role like horror movies, weirdly or actually movies.
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  Speaker 1: Probably, uh, but it's one that I kind of just
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  Speaker 1: stumbled upon and really like. Another one like oh, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Thirty Days Later or u oh Throwback.
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  Speaker 2: Days of Night thirty Days of Night Oma. Yeah, she's
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  Speaker 2: like she's in several horror movies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well this is one and I liked it. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Coherence is also a time travel slash weird science fiction movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's not scary, but it's it's unsettling and it's like
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  Speaker 1: a dinner party gone wrong. You know. I'm into dinner
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  Speaker 1: parties going wrong these days. So that one's one I like. Uh. Oddity,
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  Speaker 1: which is a new one. That one that one did
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of traction amongst a certain group of
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  Speaker 1: horror people. But I really like it, and it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of twins and one of the can you touch something
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  Speaker 1: and see what's going on? Red rooms? This one is
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  Speaker 1: a French movie about true crime podcast, but it delves
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  Speaker 1: into the really disturbing side when people get obsessed with it,
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  Speaker 1: which we have discussed before on the show. So it
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  Speaker 1: is upsetting. That one's upsetting, but I liked it. Presence
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  Speaker 1: is a horror movie told from the ghost point of
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  Speaker 1: view and it's one shot, I believe. Yeah, yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was a big one, and it has Lucy Lewin. It
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  Speaker 1: just a family breaking apart, you know how you know
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  Speaker 1: how it goes. Companion which is also kind of a
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  Speaker 1: big newer one, but that one is about AI and
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  Speaker 1: robots and bad dudes. Honestly, uh not great dating scenarios,
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  Speaker 1: but I liked it. The New Final Destination actually really
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  Speaker 1: liked I thought it was kind of funny in a
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  Speaker 1: weird way. It was very meta, like very like, surely
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  Speaker 1: this would never happen, and then you know, of course
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  Speaker 1: it does. But it did make I'm glad we went
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  Speaker 1: to Seattle the Seattle Space Needle before I saw that
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  Speaker 1: I have to say I would have been nervous. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: I would have been so nervous. That's those movies are
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  Speaker 1: so effective. I mean that there's like I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it was a study officially, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people didn't even see the second one and still are
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  Speaker 1: afraid to go behind log chucks because they saw the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: They're just that effective. But yeah, yeah, it was that.
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  Speaker 1: If I had gone up the Seattle Space, you'll after
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  Speaker 1: saying that, I wouldn't have been on edge the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing they do is they play on people's fears.
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  Speaker 2: They know you already have this fear, let's actually actualize it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very effective. Stop motion is another. This
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  Speaker 1: is a strange one, but it's it's about a woman
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  Speaker 1: whose mom was like really renowned for making stop motion
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  Speaker 1: movies and was very abusive towards her. And after her
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  Speaker 1: mom dies, she gets really caught up in finishing her
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  Speaker 1: last project and it, as you imagine, goes out, it
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  Speaker 1: gets out of hand, it kind of comes to life. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Another French movie, Climax. This one's also very strange. I
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of an experience watching it. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know how to describe it really, but basically, some drugs
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  Speaker 1: were ingested that weren't meant to be ingested, and things gone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I should say, no, these are sponsors. These
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  Speaker 1: are just random, random movies I've found. I did like Cuckoo.
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  Speaker 1: That one got a lot of traction too, and that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of about like a bird species, a humanoid bird species. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's just wow. That's hard not to spoil. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of like creepy ski loarge vibes and then
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  Speaker 1: this bird humanoid bird species that you were trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. I did like the new
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  Speaker 1: Alien Romulus Isabelle mercead, isn't it? I watched Alien Earth
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  Speaker 1: and I like it, but it makes me want to
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  Speaker 1: break everything in my apartment, which I think is purposeful.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to be mad. It's because it's like Elon
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  Speaker 1: Musk is just there's a character based on Musk essentially,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, isn't this a great idea? And you're like, no,
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  Speaker 1: that sounds right, terrible fact. I love this movie. This
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  Speaker 1: is a Japanese movie. One cut from the dead. I
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  Speaker 1: can't really talk about it without fooling the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I have to tell you watch If you're getting
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  Speaker 1: like annoyed halfway in, just watch the end because like
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  Speaker 1: the end makes it work. But if you don't watch
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  Speaker 1: the end, because I remember being like, what is this?
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  Speaker 1: You have to commit, You have to commit, but trust me,
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  Speaker 1: it's worth it if you do commit. And that's like
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  Speaker 1: a horror comedy. Mind Body Spirit. This is a found
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  Speaker 1: footage film of a yoga influencer and you slowly watch
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  Speaker 1: her just make a horrible decision because you're like, no,
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  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't go in and mess with all these things
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  Speaker 1: you're rest with. Yeah, uh huh okay, perfect yep yep,
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  Speaker 1: yep yep. She's like in this big creepy house and
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  Speaker 1: that she inherited from her grandmother and it's just becomes
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  Speaker 1: clear that her grandmother was maybe involved in something she
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have been evolved. But I enjoyed it. Uh disappear completely.
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  Speaker 1: That movie is really upsetting. That does have a death
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  Speaker 1: of a dog in it, so I wouldn't recommend it
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  Speaker 1: for you. That is a Spanish movie and it's very creepy.
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  Speaker 1: It's very very creepy, and it's like got one of
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  Speaker 1: the ah, it's just one of my biggest fears that
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  Speaker 1: I hope is irrational, but it's of you. Basically, he's
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  Speaker 1: losing all of his senses one by one and then
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  Speaker 1: essentially becomes a dead body, but he's still alive. It's
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  Speaker 1: worth the journey, even though I've just boiled the hell
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  Speaker 1: of it for you. It's like worth the like horror
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  Speaker 1: of how it happens. Oh, and they do it with
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  Speaker 1: the effects so like you start losing your hearing, are
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  Speaker 1: used to losing your vision, Like yeah, here are the
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  Speaker 1: two Australian ones I mentioned in our recent episode on
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  Speaker 1: Dangerous Animals, So Hotel Reale, that's the one I said
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  Speaker 1: where they're like in the middle of nowhere, these two
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  Speaker 1: women who are travelers and it's just like a really
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  Speaker 1: misogynistic place and they kind of accept it because that's just,
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately the reality. But it becomes apparent there's something much
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  Speaker 1: more sinister going on, and then you'll never find me.
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  Speaker 1: Is like a horror movie set in a mobile home
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  Speaker 1: and it's just all moody and atmospheric and dark, and
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  Speaker 1: it's lighting's all red and you don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know who's the villain. If there is one,
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  Speaker 1: So that one's fun. Taking of Deborah Logan is a
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  Speaker 1: good found footage. I love that One's a good one. No,
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  Speaker 1: that was my two. Okay, okay, yeah, we're moving out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh but this next one is Lake Mungo. I really
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  Speaker 1: like that one too because it has a fun twist.
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  Speaker 1: We're in like quotation yea very strong quotation. It gives me.
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  Speaker 1: It gives me chills every time I see it. But
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  Speaker 1: if you watch that movie, watch the credits because that's
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  Speaker 1: when the answer kind of comes out. So those are
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  Speaker 1: some of mine. I actually have a huge list in
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  Speaker 1: front of me, but these are I can't go into
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  Speaker 1: all of them, but like I said, if you want them.
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  Speaker 1: I used to just send this to people during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: and I would love to hear from listeners you're off
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  Speaker 1: the beaten path horror movies or any any that you
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  Speaker 1: thought were interesting that you've seen lately, because obviously some
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  Speaker 1: of these were pretty new and pretty big. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we love good suggestions. So happy Halloween, if you celebrate
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  Speaker 1: a happy horror movie times always if that's something that
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  Speaker 1: you're into, and I'm very happy to give you, like
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  Speaker 1: the honest tell me more about any of you like,
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  Speaker 1: how sad will I be if I watch Good Boy?
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  Speaker 1: Like if you I will, I will write it out
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're on my level, don't watch it.
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  Speaker 1: No, don't, don't, don't don't. Even if you know the
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  Speaker 1: dog doesn't die, it feels like he's a mortal peril
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. Yeah, which is a stressor stressor enough,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I would love to hear from you. Listeners.
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