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Anomaly Festival Preview 2026 — Vampires, Crab Pirates, and So Much More · Anomaly Presents:

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  The following footage is certified pg.
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  Pretty great.
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  It's Anomaly Presents with your friends, the Podcastronauts.
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  Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me.
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  Supernatural, perhaps baloney, perhaps not.
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  Ho ho ho.
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  It's the most wonderful time of the year.
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  It's the Anomaly Preview show for 2026.
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  My name is Matt Austin.
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  I am joined by the Podcastronauts.
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  We've got Megan Murphy.
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  Aha.
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  I'm here.
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  Can't get rid of me.
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  We've got Kristen Pelk Pacheco, also known as kp.
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  Hey, everybody.
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  And the man of the hour, the man with all the power.
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  Yeah.
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  No, I don't.
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  Know if I like that.
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  Your favorite film programmer's favorite film programmer, it's Adam Lubito.
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  Adam,.
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  Yay.
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  Excited to be here,.
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  Talking about.
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  Anomaly films.
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  Excited to have you here, man.
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  You are.
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  I'm gonna give you your flowers.
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  As I do every year, Adam spends an inordinate amount of time not only finding the films that you see on the screen, but working with everybody in the industry to make sure that he can show them to you.
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  It is an unbelievable undertaking and he does it with grace.
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  And the man's a fucking genius is what I'm trying to say.
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  Adam Lubito is a genius and you're about to see his work on screen along with all the filmmakers.
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  But.
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  Well, I don't know how to respond to any of that, but thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  You have to accept it.
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  Yeah.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  Sorry, I don't mean to.
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  Yeah, I do.
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  I do.
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  Lock the door.
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  He's gonna run.
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  Adam's amazing and he's ours, so.
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  That's right.
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  It's the.
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  It's that time of year.
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  It's the Anomaly preview show.
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  We are mere days away from the anomaly Film Festival, November 11th through 15th at the Little Theater at the Dryden Theater.
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  Both historic places.
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  We've said that before.
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  We'll say it again.
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  Yeah.
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  So get your tickets and passes now.
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  They are all on sale@anomalyfilmfest.com and I know what you're asking.
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  You're saying, Matt Podcastronauts.
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  What am I buying tickets for?
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  What am I buying a pass for?
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  Just so happens we're gonna tell you.
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  You don't trust us.
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  I mean,.
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  Just come in blind.
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  It's fine.
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  When have we.
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  When have we.
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  Multiple times.
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  Listen, listen.
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  New here news site.
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  Don't even worry about it.
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  I feel like over the last seven years, we have earned trust.
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  Yeah.
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  Respect.
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  Yes.
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  Caution, as far as what we hand out to people as they walk into the theater, which Is perfectly fair.
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  Perfectly reasonable.
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  What?
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  That's.
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  Not.
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  It's true.
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  And we'll do it again.
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  It's all Megan's fault.
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  Thank you.
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  So let's get right to it.
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  Let's cut to the chase.
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  We're going to talk about kind of the highlights of this year.
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  The things that you are not going to want to miss in the Anomaly Film Festival.
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  And where shall we start?
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  You're asking me?
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  We should start at the very beginning.
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  Why not?
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  Let's say Kung Fu Deadly.
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  Kung Fu Deadly.
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  I love that idea.
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  So Kung Fu Deadly is so much fun.
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  Horror, action comedy, Irish whole conceit is two exterminators, two best friends kind of stumble upon.
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  Nefarious plots.
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  Nefarious plots.
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  Nefarious.
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  Ancient plots.
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  Nefarious.
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  Possibly vampire adjacent plots.
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  A recurring theme this year.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  We.
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  May be saying vampire quite a bit.
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  You'll be.
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  Seeing many vampires.
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  This.
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  Year.
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  I think these are fair.
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  Vampire adjacent.
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  Yeah.
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  I would say take a drink every time you hear vampire, but I can't be responsible for your actions at that point.
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  Just could be water.
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  You could be so hydrated and in.
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  Time.
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  To come and watch the wonderful films that we have.
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  For you.
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  Will never be more hydrated if you drink every time you hear an vampire.
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  Yeah.
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  So it is the perfect movie to kind of start with.
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  It is fun, it is funny, full of, of action, a little bit of goo.
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  Don't worry, we got, we got goo for you.
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  I made sure, I make sure I make a note of every screener and I, I do a little goo levels because it's, it's important.
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  Okay.
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  We know, we know what you like.
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  I know what I like.
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  And.
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  It's hashtag gorgoo.
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  But it's kind of, I, I, I'm trying to think of what it would put me in the mind of if, if, if you're an Anomaly veteran.
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  It's got some extraordinary, I was gonna say.
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  Extraordinary I feel like is the obvious, you know, comparison with the Irish sense of humor.
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  And goo.
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  And goo.
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  So much goo.
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  Jars full.
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  Yeah.
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  Wistful look.
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  Yeah.
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  So it's a great way to open up, open up the festival and open up what we're doing this year.
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  It kind of sets a nice tone for it.
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  It's, it's fun.
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  I highly recommend, if you're looking for one, that you just want to come out and have a good time.
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  Not that you're not going to have a good time at all of our movies, but this one is a real light, fun, fun movie to hang out and eat popcorn and get the anomaly.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I mean, and technically, if it's our first film, you will get potato.
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  If you're a.
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  Pass holder.
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  If you are a pass holder, you will get potato, which is a fantastic snack.
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  As you go into the.
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  That.
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  Not gonna finish.
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  Oh, my God.
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  Take off headphones.
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  Like, I've had enough of this.
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  I'm taking my Murphy.
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  Butt out of here.
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  I'm back.
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  Don't take your Murphy.
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  Butt out of here.
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  Terrible.
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  Yeah.
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  Does that fall out from the wall?
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  That would be so much better.
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  Right where you just.
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  It was just in when you don't need it, out when you do.
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  Yeah.
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  Next try again.
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  Nature.
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  And as always, we.
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  We.
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  Every feature is preceded by a short, and the short is ends giving.
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  It's.
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  It's.
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  It's the perfect one to get you in the holiday spirit, you know, because, like, we're all going through hard times, and it's about a friend group that's going through hard times.
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  You know, end of the world zombie kind of.
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  But you still take the time out, and.
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  And the rituals are important, and you still have as much of a Thanksgiving as you can have, which might involve, like, spam you found in.
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  In.
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  In a destroyed grocery store, or it might involve having a timer in case one of your friends get bit.
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  And you only have a little bit of time to celebrate, but you want to get every second,.
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  Like I say.
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  You want to bring every moment.
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  You can with it.
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  It's just beautiful.
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  It's not, like, out.
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  It's like, okay, let's set the timer.
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  And if you start getting bitey, you have to go.
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  I feel like, you know, and is a very funny short, but also it has that, like, hey, you know, sometimes you just, like, just ride it out with the people you love.
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  You can't control the big things, but you can control your table and who you invite and what you eat to make it shape like a turkey to hold on.
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  So speaking of biting,.
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  We.
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  Have a couple different ways to jump into here.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Let's keep it kind of thematically appropriate.
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  I love Paris.
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  We'll go from beginning to yeah.
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  And I love Paris.
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  I do.
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  Me.
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  Too.
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  I see you all.
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  And she will insist upon it.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  French found.
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  Footage.
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  Yeah.
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  It's a documentary.
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  Don't worry.
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  It's not real, everybody.
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  As far as I know, there's not vampires in Paris.
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  It's.
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  If there was a place where there's vampires, though, it's probably.
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  There.
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  That's.
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  A.
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  Safe bet.
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  Believe that 100%.
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  We meet a young musician named Paris.
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  And she's ambitious.
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  She's hungry for fame, but early on in the film, not really a spoiler, something else happens, and she becomes hungry for something more.
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  Like blood.
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  So then what do you do?
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  No, you're not going to stop your career.
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  You're going to keep your ambitions.
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  And now you just have a little extra complication.
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  But that's okay.
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  Maybe you find out about yourself and what you're willing to trade is your humanity worth, like, fame and fortune and also vampirism as a metaphor.
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  But also.
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  No, she's really a vampire in this, though.
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  Like, this isn't just a metaphor.
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  She is a vampire.
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  Full on vampire.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah, it's.
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  It's fun.
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  It is very clever.
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  I like that it has a protagonist.
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  That maybe she's not likable all the time.
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  Maybe Paris isn't making decisions that you're, like, cool, but you're still very much engaged and you want to figure out, like, maybe she's young.
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  She's got to figure out what's important to her.
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  Will she take a bite of the apple?
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  Well, I guess.
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  Neck of fame and reject any family or friends, or does she maybe, you know, grow a bit of a conscience after he becomes.
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  After she becomes a monster?
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  Who knows?
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  Everybody.
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  Who could tell.
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  You could.
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  After you watch I Love Paris.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's for folks that are, I guess, the closest analog, if you're thinking.
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  Oh, I.
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  This sounds interesting.
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  Closest analog, I guess, and it's an easy one to say, is what we do in the shadows.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I guess man bites dog, but way less nihilistic.
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  Man bites dog, but yes, it's.
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  Way less ni.
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  I promise you, this one gets a little dicey, but it's not that.
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  Well,.
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  I appreciate that.
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  This one doesn't.
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  Shy away from the darkness of.
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  Vampire.
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  Existence.
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  There's one shot I promise you want to be in the theater for, because I think we're all going to gasp.
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  I am.
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  I'm looking forward to that.
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  It's one of the ones that.
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  Yeah.
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  You might see a little bit light leaking in as we peek in.
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  For those of you that get motion.
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  Sick.
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  I would say just prepare.
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  Maybe bring some, you know, take some Dramamine or something.
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  Yeah, it's worth it, but it.
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  The.
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  Yeah.
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  That camera never stops moving.
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  That's okay, because never.
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  Paris doesn't either.
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  That's right.
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  Yep.
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  That's right.
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  Moving on.
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  Who wants to take the next feature?
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  Well, I just talked.
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  It's on you.
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  Yeah,.
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  Kp, I'm Gonna put you on the spot.
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  Okay.
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  Let me look at my.
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  Not.
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  Because.
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  I saw many things.
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  Meanwhile.
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  Meanwhile, we'll vamp by talking about KP being.
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  Yeah.
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  The best.
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  A superhero.
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  Oh, please.
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  Like human spreadsheet.
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  And I mean that as a compliment.
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  As something that is impossible for me to do.
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  Look at my notes, which are not legible, which is great.
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  The superpower of organization.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm astounded.
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  Every year playing Drive kp,.
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  The reason anything runs on time for Anomaly is escaping.
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  Sure.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  I would say no rest for the wicked.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, just.
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  Keep on that theme.
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  It's gonna be hard to escape.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  So what?
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  It's a kind of folklore romance involving a whaler.
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  And it is so beautiful.
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  I will say that, like, on this isolated island.
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  It's absolutely gorgeous.
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  The Pharaoh Islands.
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  Do you know that there are 18 volcanic islands and it's off the coast of Denmark?
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  There are no trees and no mountains and they have their own language.
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  Faroese.
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  Yeah.
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  Because that becomes a part of the film where they have our little romance there has somewhat of a language barrier.
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  Brought to you by the Faroe Islands Vacation Club.
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  Come to the Faroe Islands.
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  Nothing bad will happen to you while you're here.
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  I.
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  Was sold.
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  I mean,.
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  Yeah.
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  Beautiful.
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  Yeah.
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  Attractive men.
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  Hot.
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  The siren song is calling out.
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  If you're into hot, wet sailors.
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  Who isn't?
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  I am watching our ticket sales right now, and they are going through the roof in this movie after that.
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  Hey, would you like wicker?
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  But it's in Danish.
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  Have at it.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm starving.
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  We got any Danish left?
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  Oh, God, we should have given up.
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  You should have gotten Danish.
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  I mean, it's probably kind of offensive, but also.
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  I want some Danish.
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  Yeah,.
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  Please.
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  Yeah.
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  Sorry.
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  Oh, no, you're good.
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  Did I do a little research on the Faroe Islands?
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  It was very.
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  Good.
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  Yes.
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  No,.
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  I'm sold.
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  I would like to.
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  Go on vacation there.
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  But.
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  Yeah.
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  No, so you've.
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  You've got your romance.
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  You have your little societal pressures involved there, and family drama.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, do you leave home and make your own way and start your own things, or do you, you know, take care of your mom and stay in this very, very, very small village and all you've known,.
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  Just damp sweaters and sheep and fish.
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  Yes,.
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  But it's beautiful.
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  And you're doing every job in this village.
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  They all do everything together.
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  It seemed like.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  There's no privacy on this damn island.
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  Oh, my God.
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  Also.
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  Hey, the whaler.
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  I've forgotten the actor's name.
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  I feel bad, but I realized he was Euron Greyjoy in Game of Thrones.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Is that a nice character?
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  No, he's a Greyjoy.
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  They mostly suck.
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  But, like, if you want to see him, like, hotter.
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  Yeah.
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  And, like, more.
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  Yeah.
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  More approachable.
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  Even when the supernatural happens.
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  Still way more approachable.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I.
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  Did often ask myself, I wish I could see a hotter grade Joy.
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  Yeah, That's.
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  That's what I'm saying.
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  We're all watching it, going, man, I hope these.
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  What if.
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  They're damp?
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  Angry island people, as opposed to.
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  These were damp, but, like, I guess, resigned island people.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  Bring a sweater.
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  Yeah,.
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  Bring a sweater.
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  Indeed.
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  It's preceded by the Bones Exist, which I think, of the folks that caught that one.
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  It is a fan favorite.
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  It's almost a feature in its own right.
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  So it's really kind of a double bang for your buck.
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  The Bones Exist is a wonderful short.
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  I don't want to ruin anything about it because it's kind of a mystery box, but when you get into it, you feel like, oh, boy, that was awesome.
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  Just like a whaler.
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  Don't know where you're gonna get to.
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  Get in there.
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  There are.
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  There are creatures involved.
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  Yeah.
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  So I.
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  That's.
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  It's gonna be a really fun time.
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  Oh,.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm looking forward to that.
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  I definitely think this is gonna be one of the ones that people are talking about.
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  When it kind of has a wider release, it's gonna be one of those kind of.
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  It is a slow burn, and the movie itself, it's a slow burn, but when you're part, like, when it finds its audience, it's like one of those, like, you should go see that.
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  See that damp.
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  See the.
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  Damp movie.
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  Yeah.
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  Multiple reasons.
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  Wink,.
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  Follow, follow Greyjoy to,.
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  You know, all of his adventures.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm trying to see.
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  Do we have anything drier that we could go with after the damp movie.
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  If we went the other way?
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  There are things that are wetter.
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  There are.
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  I was like.
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  I was like, yeah.
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  Looking at the list, you said, wait a minute.
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  I have wetter or colder.
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  Oh, that's a good point.
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  We could go either direction.
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  Why don't we go wetter and then go colder?
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  Okay, well, here's the thing.
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  I'm going to talk a lot about the peril of pincer point, but I don't want to take that from someone because I've been talking a lot.
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  But also.
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  Okay, everybody, if you like.
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  If you want to know what the most Megan movie of the festival is, it's very much the peril at Pincer Point.
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  Yes.
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  If you, I, I feel like if you followed us for long enough, you know that Meg and I have, have similar aesthetics and I, I believe that she and I both had like the weird Charlie Brown smiles after
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  we watched Pincer Point.
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  It's, it's, you know, I don't know.
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  Do you like Guy Madden films?
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  Do you like artistically, like it looks like it comes from another, another time period, even though it's taking place in the present day.
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  So do you like movies about making movies?
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  Do you like movies that end up involving nautical folklore and pirate tales and a main character who will never take a warning no matter how beautifully or ethically it is given to him.
• 17:54
  Hey, do you like crabs?
• 17:56
  Regular sized crabs, dog sized crabs, Crabs that are also pirates that are on a haunted ship that you can be cursed to be a part of when you get bit by one of them and say if you got
• 18:07
  bit by one of them and you kept hearing that like, hey, you're cursed now, you would probably take it seriously at a certain point.
• 18:12
  Hey, our main character never does and the movie's all the better for it.
• 18:17
  Just endlessly delightful.
• 18:19
  I.
• 18:19
  Mean,.
• 18:19
  Calling it Guy Madden by way of Hundreds of Beavers.
• 18:22
  Oh my God, yes.
• 18:23
  Which.
• 18:23
  Is, yeah, it's got that handcrafted inventiveness.
• 18:27
  It's gorgeous.
• 18:28
  Like when you get little clips of this movie that's being made, it feels like this like silent film out of space and time.
• 18:35
  Also from understand.
• 18:36
  Except for a few exceptions, most of the dialogue is improvised and it has that kind of shaggy feeling of like, hey everybody.
• 18:44
  Okay, so here's the deal.
• 18:45
  You live on this island.
• 18:47
  You're a sound engineer guy who's not aware of stuff.
• 18:51
  Talk and talk about getting a crab bucket and how expensive and awesome this crab bucket is.
• 18:57
  Because you need a crab bucket because of.
• 19:00
  I didn't know if I mentioned it.
• 19:01
  Crabs,.
• 19:01
  Crabs,.
• 19:02
  Crabs.
• 19:03
  All the crabs you could want more.
• 19:04
  Yeah.
• 19:05
  And yeah, I agree, it's very much Guy Madden's Hundreds of Beavers.
• 19:09
  Also Toast of London in there too.
• 19:11
  Yeah, yeah.
• 19:11
  I feel.
• 19:12
  Like there's.
• 19:12
  Yeah, there's wit to it.
• 19:14
  It's a delight.
• 19:15
  But also doesn't take itself too seriously.
• 19:17
  Even though there are scenes that are being epic.
• 19:19
  Our main character doesn't realize that he's epically cursed.
• 19:22
  It never really seems to dawn on him in a way that matters, but we know and we enjoy it.
• 19:28
  I'm going to focus in on one very specific genre of person right now.
• 19:32
  If you watched all the sitcoms that came on before Doctor who on WXXI on Saturday nights back in the late 80s, early 90s, and you don't show up to Peril at Pincer Point, I don't know what you're doing
• 19:47
  with your life.
• 19:47
  Mr.
• 19:48
  Humphries would be disappointed.
• 19:49
  Mr.
• 19:49
  Humphries would be very disappointed.
• 19:51
  Along with Mrs.
• 19:52
  Bouquet.
• 19:53
  She'd be offended.
• 19:56
  I.
• 19:56
  I do love that they're supposedly working on a sequel to it.
• 19:59
  What?
• 19:59
  Oh, I would love.
• 20:01
  To.
• 20:01
  See more of this world.
• 20:03
  There.
• 20:03
  Is nothing I want more than that.
• 20:05
  I want that sequel right now.
• 20:06
  Crab pirates.
• 20:07
  Crab pirates.
• 20:08
  And they play cards.
• 20:09
  Crab holding cards.
• 20:10
  Okay.
• 20:11
  So adorable.
• 20:14
  So do we want to go.
• 20:15
  Go colder now, or do we want to warm up?
• 20:21
  It's.
• 20:21
  It's.
• 20:21
  No,.
• 20:24
  Let's go colder.
• 20:25
  Colder.
• 20:26
  All right, if that's the case, we're gonna go with avalanche.
• 20:28
  The avalanche.
• 20:30
  So cold.
• 20:32
  We're also sticking with the aesthetic here because it's also black and white.
• 20:37
  Oh, yeah.
• 20:38
  Yeah, it is.
• 20:40
  It's.
• 20:40
  I think the easiest way to describe the avalanche is it's like a Twilight zone episode.
• 20:44
  Yeah,.
• 20:44
  100%.
• 20:45
  It is a.
• 20:48
  A couple who.
• 20:49
  Wait, well, they're not a couple.
• 20:50
  They're exes.
• 20:50
  And they wake up in a bed together in.
• 20:53
  And honestly, this is a beautiful cabin.
• 20:55
  If I had to be stuck here with all my regrets, Impossible Purgatory.
• 20:59
  It would be here.
• 21:00
  But they wake up in this bed, and they don't remember how they got there, what's happening.
• 21:05
  And then all of a sudden, avalanche happens.
• 21:07
  But instead of the movie becoming, like a survival story, they realize they haven't really eaten, and time's passing weird, and they start celebrating holidays, and they start trying to remember things.
• 21:18
  Okay, we were in a relationship, but, like, what happened?
• 21:21
  Why are we here?
• 21:22
  And it becomes very much a.
• 21:23
  Why are we stuck in this cabin?
• 21:26
  What does it mean?
• 21:27
  And one of the things I enjoy the most about it is it's kind of the audio by our friend of the fest and lover of zebra cakes, Andrew Scott Bell.
• 21:36
  Yes.
• 21:38
  You're gonna want a good sound system for it, because it's really playing around with, like, a surround sound and being surrounded by something that is keeping you in.
• 21:45
  Right.
• 21:46
  But also the mystery of.
• 21:47
  But now you're in this, like, little purgatory womb.
• 21:50
  What's.
• 21:51
  What's going on?
• 21:52
  What's.
• 21:53
  What up?
• 21:55
  And, yeah, it's dealing with the feeling of being trapped.
• 21:59
  But, like, the avalanche isn't what you're trapped by.
• 22:02
  Yeah, I was gonna say yeah.
• 22:04
  Twilight Zone is.
• 22:05
  Yeah.
• 22:05
  Immediately what comes to mind.
• 22:06
  But yeah, I love that it's just the two of them, pretty much only the two of them for the entire running time.
• 22:14
  And you're just watching them work through some things.
• 22:16
  Yeah.
• 22:17
  Work through stuff.
• 22:18
  Do they.
• 22:19
  Work through it or do they just go back around?
• 22:22
  I would say there is a process.
• 22:24
  Attempting.
• 22:26
  Eventually.
• 22:27
  They have all the time in the world.
• 22:28
  I'd say time enough at last.
• 22:31
  Yeah.
• 22:31
  And Megan brings up a great point.
• 22:33
  It's a film, but all of our films are great to watch in a theater.
• 22:37
  But this is.
• 22:38
  One that really lends itself well to a theater.
• 22:41
  The sound design is incredible.
• 22:44
  And also visually, it plays.
• 22:47
  With aspect ratio and.
• 22:50
  And things kind of move around as it goes.
• 22:53
  Like the actual structure of the film changes as it goes.
• 22:56
  And it's such a.
• 22:58
  Watching it at home made me really get excited for seeing it in the theater and watching it kind of.
• 23:04
  Experiential.
• 23:05
  Because.
• 23:06
  Yeah.
• 23:07
  Exists in a theater.
• 23:08
  It's very much an experience as much as it is that Twilight Zone episode.
• 23:13
  It's definitely going to be, I think, hopefully one of the ones that folks will really talk about.
• 23:19
  Oh, yeah.
• 23:19
  Yeah.
• 23:20
  I mean, afterwards I have opinions and theories and let's trade them.
• 23:24
  Yes.
• 23:25
  Yes, please.
• 23:26
  We don't just show you movies.
• 23:27
  We like talking about them with.
• 23:29
  You.
• 23:30
  Try to shut us up.
• 23:33
  You can probably hear that from us now.
• 23:34
  And how excited we are talking about these.
• 23:36
  But that's kind of a cornerstone of Anomaly.
• 23:39
  If you haven't been yet, folks.
• 23:41
  That you have.
• 23:41
  Thank you so much.
• 23:42
  And you know what I'm about to say.
• 23:44
  The festival is just as much about folks getting together and talking about what they've seen as what we're putting up on the screen.
• 23:52
  So it's a very social experience if you want it to be.
• 23:55
  It doesn't have to be, but if you want it to be.
• 23:58
  It's a very social experience.
• 24:00
  You're among friends and the whole thing is watch cool stuff and talk about it.
• 24:05
  Yeah.
• 24:05
  And that's kind of a highlight for me about our festival.
• 24:10
  And we have multiple nooks.
• 24:11
  We make sure there's plenty of little places that you can like, go with a couple people and sit down and talk.
• 24:18
  Yeah.
• 24:19
  And I mean, Magnus always brings the whiteboard and.
• 24:22
  I.
• 24:22
  Like to see, like that grow over the course of the festival.
• 24:25
  And everyone's doodles and little thoughts on there is great.
• 24:29
  Love it.
• 24:30
  Yeah.
• 24:30
  It's one of the highlights for me, watching people that didn't know each other on Wednesday walk out together.
• 24:36
  On Sunday Friends.
• 24:37
  Like, it's, it's a fun experience.
• 24:39
  I don't, I don't want to say that, you know, you're good.
• 24:41
  You might, you might come and find your, your soulmate or whatever, but,.
• 24:44
  Or at least trauma bond,.
• 24:45
  Or at least trauma bonds,.
• 24:47
  But in a good way.
• 24:48
  Be like, anomaly got me again.
• 24:52
  Oh, we just smile.
• 24:53
  Yeah,.
• 24:53
  We did.
• 24:55
  So I.
• 24:57
  Trauma bonding.
• 24:58
  I guess we'll go with little doors next.
• 25:01
  I, I, I make that noise because I loved it and it, and like, I will think about this one for a very long time.
• 25:07
  Like, I think I will just be.
• 25:09
  Like.
• 25:09
  My own business.
• 25:10
  And.
• 25:10
  Then think about this film.
• 25:11
  Like, yeah, all the conversations after this one.
• 25:15
  Complimentary.
• 25:16
  I mean this, like, this is definitely a talk about it after the film.
• 25:18
  There's much to dig into.
• 25:20
  Yeah,.
• 25:21
  Yeah.
• 25:22
  I, it's hard to get into plot for this one because you don't want to.
• 25:26
  Again, it's, it's one of those things where you want to let it unfold on its own.
• 25:31
  I can get this to a point.
• 25:32
  Right.
• 25:33
  This is kind of in the basic thing.
• 25:35
  It's some sort of post apocalyptic end of the world situation, though some people still have to go to jobs.
• 25:41
  Don't worry.
• 25:42
  You don't have to worry about definitive world building.
• 25:43
  This is a vibe, this is a movie's vibe.
• 25:45
  Right.
• 25:46
  And we have our main character and she's a very closed off person.
• 25:50
  Whether this is how she's always been, whether like the end of the world will do it to you, I don't know.
• 25:55
  But she ends up connected to this optimistic lock Smith and it becomes them.
• 26:03
  Like, are they gonna have a relationship?
• 26:05
  They're two different people.
• 26:06
  They seem to work out.
• 26:07
  But.
• 26:07
  And here's the, this is the hook.
• 26:10
  At one point, the woman wakes up and besides having a rash, the rash on her admin has turned into a little door and something wants out.
• 26:19
  And it goes from there.
• 26:23
  Yeah.
• 26:23
  What would you do?
• 26:25
  Do you open the door that showed up on your abdomen?
• 26:28
  I don't know.
• 26:29
  You said, let me drywall right over this.
• 26:33
  And is it a meta, Is it metaphors in there?
• 26:35
  Yes, of course.
• 26:35
  Also, it's really interesting world building.
• 26:39
  It is an interesting take on like when the world ends, but you still keep going.
• 26:43
  Like, what does that look like?
• 26:45
  What does that look like?
• 26:46
  And what's worth building?
• 26:47
  No.
• 26:48
  Yeah, a.
• 26:50
  Lot of smoking.
• 26:52
  So much smoking.
• 26:54
  So much smoking.
• 26:54
  And I guess trying to make rocks electric.
• 26:56
  Yeah.
• 26:57
  Yeah.
• 26:59
  That never stopped making me chuckle.
• 27:03
  Art.
• 27:04
  Just to be funny.
• 27:07
  And overalls.
• 27:07
  And overalls.
• 27:08
  Cigarettes.
• 27:09
  Rocks and overalls,.
• 27:10
  Cigarettes, rocks and overalls for our folks that I guess we'll give everybody a touch point on this one.
• 27:16
  For our Albert Bernie fans among us, this would be a good one for you to check out for sure.
• 27:21
  Also, he's literally in it.
• 27:23
  For multiple reasons, including.
• 27:25
  He's in it.
• 27:27
  Oh.
• 27:27
  My God, that's him.
• 27:28
  I had already thought, gosh, this feels very elder, Bernie.
• 27:31
  And then I'm like, oh look.
• 27:33
  Oh my God, did I manifest him?
• 27:35
  Oh, we're too powerful guy.
• 27:36
  By the way,.
• 27:37
  Chris Lindstrom on the ones.
• 27:38
  And twos here tonight.
• 27:40
  Howdy.
• 27:40
  Howdy.
• 27:41
  It's a beautiful day.
• 27:42
  Thanks, Chris.
• 27:44
  So positive.
• 27:44
  So little.
• 27:45
  Doors is preceded by Megan.
• 27:48
  Is this our favorite short for the year?
• 27:50
  Oh, I don't know.
• 27:53
  That's involved reading.
• 27:56
  Okay, I know it's my favorite one.
• 27:58
  Here's the thing.
• 27:59
  I don't know if I have.
• 27:59
  You know what I'm gonna do?
• 28:00
  I'm not gonna explain anything about this.
• 28:02
  All I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say the title and you'll know it's a very anomaly short.
• 28:08
  I'll never stop laughing when I think about it.
• 28:11
  It's fantastic.
• 28:11
  It's weird.
• 28:13
  It's called Wall utter and you will get both of those in this short, I promise you.
• 28:20
  It is not a lie.
• 28:21
  That is not a metaphor.
• 28:23
  It's very real and it's on a wall.
• 28:26
  The title does say it all.
• 28:28
  Yeah, it does.
• 28:29
  What it says on the tin.
• 28:30
  Or.
• 28:31
  The carton.
• 28:31
  Or.
• 28:32
  The carton.
• 28:34
  I wasn't gonna say it was my favorite, but I feel like it is the most, most anomaly possibly.
• 28:40
  Shorts that we have 100% that although in terms of favorites it is up there.
• 28:44
  But yeah, I feel like if you distill anomaly down to its purest essence, I feel like it would resemble wall Utter.
• 28:50
  There are.
• 28:51
  I.
• 28:51
  I think I can probably count on a hand how many in a year as we're screening stuff that I immediately finish and text Megan.
• 28:58
  Yeah, Yep.
• 28:59
  Drop everything right now and watch this.
• 29:02
  Get the mat text.
• 29:03
  I'm like, oh, here we go.
• 29:04
  This was one of maybe two or three this year where I was like, hey, you're as weird as I am.
• 29:11
  Watch this now.
• 29:12
  Watch.
• 29:12
  This.
• 29:12
  I gotta talk about it.
• 29:13
  I need someone to talk to.
• 29:14
  I can't go out in public and scream wall iron.
• 29:17
  No.
• 29:18
  One will understand.
• 29:19
  I.
• 29:20
  I can't afford another weekend away.
• 29:22
  So I really.
• 29:25
  Starting to get a record.
• 29:27
  Is it a punch card?
• 29:29
  Yeah,.
• 29:30
  I'm here again.
• 29:31
  What I scream out this time.
• 29:32
  Wall Utter.
• 29:33
  Oh, My God.
• 29:34
  Two punches,.
• 29:35
  Five grippy socks.
• 29:36
  Get the six one free and I'm just not ready for that.
• 29:39
  So.
• 29:39
  Yeah, so wall letter.
• 29:41
  Yeah, that, that precedes little doors.
• 29:44
  Let's see.
• 29:45
  Oh man, there's so much good stuff.
• 29:46
  Do we want to do.
• 29:47
  Do we want to take a short film interlude and talk about some shorts that we have in our shorts programs?
• 29:52
  Sure, let's do it.
• 29:54
  Where do we want to start?
• 29:55
  Kp.
• 29:56
  So we've got Zola was at the top of my mind.
• 30:01
  Bring your tissues because if you're not crying at the end of this one, I, I will be side eyeing you.
• 30:08
  Making notes for the back psychopath.
• 30:10
  Yeah, you.
• 30:11
  Okay, okay.
• 30:13
  Just you know, very great interpretation with you know, the cutest slash ugliest dog you've ever seen and you know what happens in the afterlife kind of and it's just I want a whole fleet of that dog.
• 30:29
  That dog is so adorable.
• 30:31
  And yeah, I, it had me on my couch crying too.
• 30:35
  Oh yeah, it'll get you.
• 30:37
  It'll get you for sure.
• 30:39
  I have our, I think it's our shortest short, Bootstrapped, which I can't even tell you what it's about because I me telling you about it would be longer than the short.
• 30:49
  But if you want to see something delightful, you know like we like to put in sprinkle little bites like you're like wait, what was that?
• 30:55
  It was called Bootstrapped and.
• 30:58
  Like.
• 30:59
  A delight like a sci fi movie in like two and a half minutes just after going.
• 31:04
  Yeah, that's how I would react.
• 31:06
  I think that would be me.
• 31:13
  So I'm going to come off the back of that and tell you the good news about the shorts.
• 31:17
  This year we have another one from Chris McEnroy, folks.
• 31:20
  Yeah,.
• 31:22
  We forgot about the zombies.
• 31:24
  We joined a cult, right?
• 31:26
  Yeah, we've had one like consecutive years for I don't even know now.
• 31:31
  There's been past like three or.
• 31:32
  Four.
• 31:33
  Yeah,.
• 31:33
  It feels like it's not anomaly without Chris McEnroy.
• 31:37
  So he's kind of our good luck charm this year it's.
• 31:39
  It's Cher, Cher, cher with an umlaut over the A as it should be.
• 31:49
  And for anyone that's ever had, I mean we live in Rochester, we don't have taskrabbits.
• 31:54
  So for anyone that's had the unique experience of trying to put together some Scandinavian furniture on your own, just you and an allen wrench.
• 32:05
  Even a mallet.
• 32:06
  Or even maybe a mallet, it'll.
• 32:10
  It'll go right to your heart and.
• 32:13
  It.
• 32:13
  Kind of went to his too, a little bit, so.
• 32:17
  Shame.
• 32:19
  I still.
• 32:20
  All I want is the printable version of the instruction manual.
• 32:24
  Oh, yeah,.
• 32:25
  The instructions are so good.
• 32:29
  We should make those and hand them out afterwards.
• 32:33
  Yeah.
• 32:34
  Also, how many shorts programs do we have this year?
• 32:37
  Is it just one?
• 32:39
  Why?
• 32:39
  No, it's not.
• 32:40
  No.
• 32:40
  What?
• 32:41
  Not.
• 32:41
  Did we do it again?
• 32:43
  We.
• 32:43
  We did.
• 32:44
  We did it again.
• 32:44
  We.
• 32:45
  Had so many good.
• 32:46
  We couldn't.
• 32:46
  We couldn't.
• 32:47
  We were fist fighting.
• 32:48
  I mean,.
• 32:49
  Almost literally fist fighting for a lot of you.
• 32:51
  This is a mercy for us.
• 32:52
  We have two shorts programs because even then, at least a couple of them got a fight at the Applebee's parking lot.
• 32:59
  That's.
• 33:00
  True.
• 33:00
  We all have our favorites.
• 33:01
  Like.
• 33:01
  No, no.
• 33:02
  Oh, I'm leaving.
• 33:03
  It has to be this one.
• 33:04
  It has to be.
• 33:04
  This one,.
• 33:05
  Or I will blow up this entire festival.
• 33:07
  It's over.
• 33:09
  This prevents that.
• 33:10
  For the sake of anomaly, we had to make two.
• 33:12
  Short.
• 33:12
  Programs.
• 33:13
  Otherwise.
• 33:13
  Yeah.
• 33:13
  We couldn't sustain.
• 33:15
  That's.
• 33:15
  True.
• 33:15
  For the sake of anomaly, for the sake of our health insurances.
• 33:19
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:20
  We're getting older.
• 33:21
  I was like, listen, I'll do it.
• 33:22
  I know it'll hurt me as much as it hurts you.
• 33:25
  I love the shorts so much.
• 33:26
  Yeah.
• 33:27
  So this is.
• 33:28
  Comes from a place of love, everybody.
• 33:29
  It is.
• 33:30
  Yeah.
• 33:30
  We love the shorts and we love you, and that's why they're so nice.
• 33:33
  We did it twice.
• 33:35
  Yeah.
• 33:36
  That was smooth, right?
• 33:37
  Yeah.
• 33:39
  And then I ruined it by pointing it out.
• 33:40
  How smooth.
• 33:43
  Let's see.
• 33:44
  Do we want to do a couple more before we move back to the features?
• 33:48
  Check, please.
• 33:51
  It's.
• 33:52
  Few and far between that.
• 33:53
  We get action.
• 33:53
  I.
• 33:53
  Was gonna say it's always a treat when we get an action short film.
• 33:58
  Yeah.
• 33:59
  And.
• 34:00
  This is a great one.
• 34:00
  Yes.
• 34:01
  Just, you know, from the name.
• 34:03
  Fighting over the check and who's gonna pay.
• 34:07
  And it doesn't stop.
• 34:09
  It's like one of the best action films I've seen.
• 34:12
  And like, how long is it?
• 34:13
  Like 10 minutes.
• 34:14
  And it's just like, boom.
• 34:15
  Yeah.
• 34:16
  You know when the choreography is joyful, when you're enjoying the fight choreography, like, oh, that's.
• 34:20
  Oh, look at that.
• 34:21
  And I love when they use what's available in the environment as part of the fight.
• 34:27
  I'm like, oh, there you.
• 34:28
  Go.
• 34:28
  There you go.
• 34:29
  What would I do if I was in the restaurant?
• 34:30
  Oh, I wouldn't even think to use it.
• 34:32
  Now I.
• 34:32
  Now I will, though.
• 34:33
  You're.
• 34:34
  Ready.
• 34:34
  I'm right.
• 34:34
  I'm ready.
• 34:35
  Just so, you know,.
• 34:37
  It very much puts you in the mind of like old school, heyday, Jackie Chan style environmental fight scenes.
• 34:43
  It's a blast.
• 34:44
  And it's got a little bit of a message there.
• 34:46
  It's.
• 34:46
  Yeah,.
• 34:47
  It's, it's.
• 34:47
  It's one of my favorite parts of this year.
• 34:50
  I shouldn't say one of my favorites because they're all really.
• 34:52
  Freaking good.
• 34:53
  There's not, there's not any that we're mid on.
• 34:56
  These were all tough choices.
• 34:59
  Top of the top.
• 35:00
  Yeah.
• 35:01
  I love all my shorts equally.
• 35:03
  As we.
• 35:03
  Said, we couldn't even narrow it down to one shorts program.
• 35:06
  No, we.
• 35:06
  Yeah, we had to give you as many as we could possibly fit in because the filmmakers this year, every year, were just so good at what they do and we couldn't, we couldn't justify not doing.
• 35:16
  It.
• 35:17
  Yeah.
• 35:20
  Speaking of action sequence.
• 35:22
  Oh.
• 35:22
  Oh, no.
• 35:22
  Okay.
• 35:23
  I don't know where we're going.
• 35:23
  I don't know where.
• 35:24
  We're going.
• 35:24
  What's next?
• 35:25
  Where are we going?
• 35:26
  We're gonna jump back into features real quick just.
• 35:28
  Cause it's a nice.
• 35:28
  Yeah,.
• 35:29
  It's a nice segue.
• 35:32
  So every year we go to the Dryden.
• 35:35
  Our friends at the Dryden, possibly against their better judgment, let us come and invade the theater for an evening.
• 35:46
  I say that against our better judgment, but they are our co conspirators with us.
• 35:49
  They go and find some cool stuff in the basement.
• 35:52
  This year is no exception.
• 35:54
  And we were talking about it before the show and it's kind of the.
• 35:59
  The most bang for your buck, I think we have in the entire festival.
• 36:03
  You've got.
• 36:03
  Oh.
• 36:04
  Oh, absolutely.
• 36:05
  Two shorts and a feature.
• 36:07
  The first short, Dagon.
• 36:09
  Yeah.
• 36:10
  You like weird eldritch stuff, but it's animated.
• 36:14
  It's beautiful.
• 36:15
  Oh, you're like.
• 36:16
  It's.
• 36:16
  Gorgeous.
• 36:17
  It's.
• 36:17
  It's good stuff.
• 36:18
  And to see it like not just on the big screen, but the Dryden, I mean, you're probably more of a chance of getting cursed, but it's.
• 36:24
  It's worth it.
• 36:25
  Okay.
• 36:25
  I'm just saying it's worth it.
• 36:26
  You just have to cheer loud enough when the curtain raises.
• 36:28
  And then that's your charm.
• 36:30
  Okay.
• 36:30
  Yeah.
• 36:30
  Everybody listen.
• 36:31
  KP is right.
• 36:32
  You.
• 36:32
  You clap like you've never clapped before and it'll protect you.
• 36:35
  That and the crab charms.
• 36:37
  Yes.
• 36:38
  You'll know what I mean later.
• 36:39
  Don't.
• 36:39
  Well, you probably have an idea.
• 36:43
  Yeah.
• 36:43
  Thank you.
• 36:45
  Just like that, everybody.
• 36:46
  Yeah.
• 36:47
  And then from Dagon, we go to Rainbow War, which is a short that Imprinted on both Jared Case from the Dryden and our anomal dad, Matt Duterque.
• 37:01
  Equally, I would say.
• 37:01
  Adam.
• 37:02
  I wasn't there to see how the.
• 37:03
  Two of them.
• 37:04
  I saw his face afterwards.
• 37:05
  It was a lit with joy.
• 37:09
  Jared has just been biding his time looking for any excuse to show this.
• 37:12
  And we finally, as soon as we got to a moment in the feature, he was like, oh, perfect.
• 37:19
  We can't not.
• 37:20
  Play it.
• 37:20
  I was gonna say.
• 37:21
  And this is the opposite of blame.
• 37:23
  Canada.
• 37:23
  We're gonna thank Canada.
• 37:25
  Because this was created for Expo 86.
• 37:28
  It's a visual smorgasbor board from what I'm told.
• 37:31
  I have not seen it yet.
• 37:32
  I'm very much looking forward to it.
• 37:33
  Yeah.
• 37:34
  Oh, it's a delight.
• 37:36
  Yes.
• 37:37
  Colors are great, everybody.
• 37:39
  Yeah.
• 37:39
  Oh, I can't wait.
• 37:41
  If you have a grudge against the rainbow.
• 37:43
  Yeah.
• 37:43
  I think you'll watch this.
• 37:44
  You'll work through it.
• 37:45
  Yeah.
• 37:46
  And if you've ever wondered what Jared Case wants you to see.
• 37:50
  Rainbow War.
• 37:52
  And then our feature, which I am over the moon for Zoo warriors from the Magic Mountain.
• 37:59
  It's a classic.
• 38:00
  It's a Tsui Hark film which legendary director and it's.
• 38:08
  It's action film is wuxia.
• 38:11
  It holds the.
• 38:13
  The distinction of being the film that inspired not only Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but also Big Trouble in Little China.
• 38:19
  And that will give you an idea of tonally.
• 38:22
  Yes.
• 38:23
  What you're going to see.
• 38:24
  It is unlike anything I've ever seen.
• 38:26
  I think I read a review.
• 38:28
  I think it was Justin Declue from the Important Cinema podcast that described it as the movie that you described to your friends that you saw on TV when you were 12 or the one you tried to act out
• 38:44
  in your bedroom.
• 38:46
  And it's just so completely over the top in how it operates.
• 38:50
  And it's unlike anything you've ever seen before.
• 38:52
  And I'm so excited to see it in a room full of people.
• 38:54
  It's going to be such a blast.
• 38:56
  Oh, yeah.
• 38:57
  I love the fact that the director brought in special effects people who worked on both Star wars and Tron, and you see both of those.
• 39:06
  I feel like there's more laser effects than you would expect for a period piece in Tron.
• 39:12
  It's.
• 39:12
  All the better for it.
• 39:13
  It's all the better.
• 39:14
  Oh,.
• 39:15
  Y' all are selling me on this because I have not had the chance to see it yet, but I'm like, what?
• 39:20
  Lasers fighting?
• 39:22
  Yeah.
• 39:22
  And I feel like, okay.
• 39:23
  And here's the thing.
• 39:24
  Like, it also and this is, this is a.
• 39:26
  More of a compliment.
• 40:08
  Anything.
• 40:09
  Don't worry about the plot.
• 40:11
  There's.
• 40:11
  There's the good guys versus the bad guys.
• 40:13
  That's really all you need.
• 40:15
  And you can pretty much tell who's who visually, you know,.
• 40:19
  Perfect.
• 40:19
  So you just go and you watch like the good guys fight the bad guys in ever increasingly, like frenetically edited, bright colors, lasers flying.
• 40:28
  I love stuff where like scarves or weapons.
• 40:31
  That's good.
• 40:32
  Also Sammo hunger.
• 40:33
  Yeah.
• 40:34
  Also, eyebrows are weapons.
• 40:36
  This is gonna sound wild, but if you ever wonder, like, how could eyebrows be weapons?
• 40:40
  This movie shows you.
• 40:42
  Oh.
• 40:42
  Oh, yeah.
• 40:42
  Oh, I can't wait to know.
• 40:45
  You never expect eyebrows.
• 40:46
  Pure.
• 40:47
  Spectacle.
• 40:47
  Yeah, I'll be suspicious of scarves forever.
• 40:49
  Eyebrows, it'll get me every time.
• 40:53
  Pure spectacle.
• 40:54
  I think cast wise, it's probably the equivalent of Ocean's 11 as far as pure star power and.
• 41:01
  Yeah, like martial arts kind.
• 41:02
  Of.
• 41:04
  You'll watch it and go, oh, I've seen him.
• 41:06
  I've seen, you know, y bow.
• 41:08
  I've seen.
• 41:09
  If.
• 41:09
  You don't know the name, you'll be like, oh, I.
• 41:11
  I know that face.
• 41:11
  Cory Yen's in it.
• 41:13
  Who?
• 41:13
  We, we love Corey Yen here because DOA.
• 41:19
  Was like, yeah, yeah,.
• 41:21
  Yeah.
• 41:21
  It is a.
• 41:22
  A who's who cast.
• 41:23
  It's visually just stunning.
• 41:27
  God.
• 41:27
  Plus, it's like an everyman story.
• 41:29
  Like all this epic stuff.
• 41:30
  Stuff is happening, but it's just a dude who's like trying to escape.
• 41:33
  Escape a conflict, ends up stumbling into this fantasy conflict in a mountain.
• 41:38
  Like, what.
• 41:39
  What would you do?
• 41:40
  You know?
• 41:41
  And you know, you hope it would be like, you know what?
• 41:43
  Yeah, yeah, you know what?
• 41:44
  I'm gonna.
• 41:45
  I'm gonna matter and I'm gonna look cool doing it.
• 41:50
  Yeah, I'm.
• 41:51
  I'm stoked to see this with an audience and to see it on film.
• 41:54
  It's gonna be, it's gonna.
• 41:55
  I mean, that's.
• 41:56
  When's the chance you're gonna get to see it like this?
• 41:58
  Like, genuinely.
• 41:59
  If you're like kind of a martial arts person, just see if.
• 42:03
  If nothing else.
• 42:04
  Right.
• 42:05
  Make a trip.
• 42:05
  Come here.
• 42:06
  See this on the big screen.
• 42:07
  And then you get to brag.
• 42:09
  Exactly.
• 42:09
  That.
• 42:09
  That's the thing I was remiss with.
• 42:11
  And I apologize for that because universally, if we're showing something at the Dryden, it's going to be something from the library at the Dryden.
• 42:20
  So it's a 35 millimeter print and original from when it was released back in 83.
• 42:24
  Yeah.
• 42:24
  So it's really something special.
• 42:26
  And it's probably a once in a lifetime opportunity for you.
• 42:32
  Definitely.
• 42:33
  With that program.
• 42:34
  It's a once in a lifetime experience.
• 42:36
  If you get cursed by Dagon, you'll be blessed by Zoo.
• 42:39
  So it actually evens out.
• 42:40
  You'll be fine.
• 42:41
  Yes.
• 42:45
  We only have a little bit left here, guys.
• 42:50
  I can't believe we packed four days into what, like 40ish minutes.
• 42:53
  Yeah.
• 42:54
  Which.
• 42:54
  Is.
• 42:55
  So.
• 42:55
  Efficient.
• 42:55
  That's what people say.
• 42:56
  They go Anomaly Efficiency.
• 42:58
  Efficiency.
• 42:59
  Yeah.
• 43:00
  We are often in the same breath.
• 43:02
  I feel like.
• 43:03
  Yes.
• 43:04
  That actually is something that we are good at.
• 43:06
  It would just be way down the list.
• 43:09
  We have a lot more silly things.
• 43:11
  Oh yeah.
• 43:12
  We're efficient about the silliness.
• 43:14
  Yes.
• 43:14
  And maybe that's it.
• 43:15
  Yes.
• 43:16
  Yes.
• 43:17
  I'll take that.
• 43:17
  Yeah.
• 43:18
  Yeah.
• 43:19
  Where do we want to go from here?
• 43:21
  Because we have so many options left.
• 43:22
  So we, we.
• 43:23
  I think we've probably got time for maybe two more features in a short before we have to say goodbye until we see everybody at the festival.
• 43:31
  Well, I mean, I think one thing we'd probably definitely want to include because we are Anomaly and Thanksgiving are the bridge between Halloween and the holidays.
• 43:41
  You know, we like to throw in some like, you know, little Christmas horror or, or, or even this, this year, Hanukkah horror.
• 43:50
  So I think we have a pretty good setup with our feature Red Snow, which will be preceded by the short Gimme.
• 43:57
  So we're gonna a good chunk of the holidays covered with horror.
• 44:02
  But thus is the holidays.
• 44:04
  Get in the festive spirit in a way that only Anomaly can prepare you for.
• 44:08
  As a warning.
• 44:09
  Yes,.
• 44:10
  They're all warnings.
• 44:13
  Are we doing it in holiday order?
• 44:14
  This just occurs to me now.
• 44:16
  I don't.
• 44:17
  Know.
• 44:18
  Yeah.
• 44:18
  Because it's.
• 44:19
  At the ends.
• 44:19
  Giving.
• 44:21
  Oh.
• 44:21
  Yeah.
• 44:21
  Oh my God.
• 44:22
  Then Gimme would come before.
• 44:24
  Oh,.
• 44:24
  That was on purpose, everybody.
• 44:26
  Yes.
• 44:26
  Totally.
• 44:27
  Planned.
• 44:27
  Good job, Adam.
• 44:28
  Oh my God,.
• 44:28
  Best.
• 44:29
  Programming.
• 44:29
  Ever.
• 44:30
  This is why I opened the show the way I did.
• 44:33
  Talking about the genius of Adam Lubito.
• 44:36
  He specifically studiously planned on having the holidays.
• 44:43
  Insisted upon it.
• 44:44
  Yeah.
• 44:44
  Order.
• 44:44
  Insisted upon it.
• 44:46
  Secretly it didn't tell anybody about it and let it bloom on us like he's JJ Fucking Abrams.
• 44:53
  Yeah.
• 44:53
  From now on, you're the Damon Lindelof of festival programming.
• 44:59
  You're like, do I accept this?
• 45:02
  Processing.
• 45:03
  Processing.
• 45:04
  Yep.
• 45:04
  Yeah.
• 45:05
  Well, I guess Red Snow is our.
• 45:08
  And it seems every decade, at least, starting last decade, we get a Finnish horror about Christmas.
• 45:16
  About 10 years ago there was rare exports.
• 45:18
  Also beware of Santa because This is another beware of Santa.
• 45:22
  But.
• 45:22
  But this year it's not a giant fake creature buried under with lots of little naked other Santas.
• 45:30
  Um, don't worry.
• 45:31
  That's.
• 45:32
  You don't have to worry about this.
• 45:32
  What you do have to worry about, though, is what if Santa is instead a middle aged vampire who still needs to be invited in, but he's dressed as Santa.
• 45:42
  The perfect con.
• 45:44
  And it's a story of a.
• 45:46
  Kind of like a kind of a young teen girl.
• 45:48
  She loves Twilight.
• 45:50
  She.
• 45:51
  She really loves.
• 45:53
  Yeah, yeah, she loves, she loves the fantasy of vampires.
• 45:56
  And her family is kind of like they're going through changes, so this is kind of a thing she holds on to.
• 46:01
  And she has to go to Christmas dinner at her elderly grandma's house.
• 46:04
  Oh, man.
• 46:05
  Oh, I know.
• 46:06
  I gotta go with my, my, my, my, my sad dad and, and his girlfriend.
• 46:09
  I don't understand.
• 46:10
  And my little brother.
• 46:11
  What a bummer.
• 46:13
  It's a bummer, but in a different way.
• 46:16
  When the Santa comes up and he's hungry and it just gets wild there.
• 46:20
  Their creature design is wild.
• 46:23
  Yes.
• 46:23
  The characters are fascinating because as a family we have a vampire hunter who is also toxic and his gothic home care aide who I guess is kind of like Elizabeth Slander.
• 46:35
  Was.
• 46:36
  Was your nurse.
• 46:40
  Right.
• 46:40
  So.
• 46:41
  And then it's just all these characters get smashing together.
• 46:43
  How do you survive this?
• 46:45
  Do you, you know, do.
• 46:46
  You want to survive?
• 46:47
  You want to survive this?
• 46:48
  And then the whole idea, like, maybe the vampire fantasy isn't.
• 46:52
  Isn't the fantasy and also, you know, toxic masculinity.
• 46:56
  Okay, everybody, I'm just saying, like, this comes up a couple times and maybe that's one of the biggest problems at the heart of this issue.
• 47:03
  It's underlying horror of a lot of these films.
• 47:05
  Go.
• 47:06
  To therapy, everybody.
• 47:07
  Go family therapy.
• 47:08
  Let go of some of that toxicity.
• 47:10
  Don't.
• 47:11
  Don't be a vampire.
• 47:13
  There's also goo.
• 47:15
  Yeah,.
• 47:16
  Yeah.
• 47:18
  I'm trying to remember.
• 47:18
  My brain blocked out.
• 47:19
  The goo.
• 47:21
  I think the.
• 47:21
  Creature.
• 47:22
  Design just.
• 47:22
  Ties.
• 47:23
  Over the goo.
• 47:23
  Creature design is what.
• 47:25
  Really stands out, which is amazing.
• 47:26
  Yeah.
• 47:27
  They're not.
• 47:28
  Vampires in a way that you, I would say, have not seen before.
• 47:31
  No, no.
• 47:32
  Del Toro is the closest.
• 47:34
  Yeah.
• 47:35
  But it takes it a couple steps further.
• 47:38
  Yeah, it's, you know, I mean, it's not nihilistic.
• 47:41
  It is a bit of a, like, shadowy tail, but, you know, it's, it's got stuff to say and it's kind of a hoot.
• 47:52
  Yeah.
• 47:53
  Oh, hoot.
• 47:54
  Would you say a hoot and a half.
• 47:56
  Ooh, yeah, yeah.
• 47:58
  Tell them that Megan said you add that half.
• 48:00
  The Megan Murphy guarantee.
• 48:03
  And a half.
• 48:03
  It's just me.
• 48:07
  All right.
• 48:07
  What's that last feature?
• 48:08
  Last feature.
• 48:09
  We have a couple options left.
• 48:10
  Where do we want to go?
• 48:13
  I.
• 48:13
  Defer to you.
• 48:14
  I feel like we have to mention Blood and Guts just because it is.
• 48:18
  Yeah.
• 48:19
  I always like to work in a documentary when we can.
• 48:21
  And this is one on a subject that is, I feel like, near and dear to anomalies hearts.
• 48:26
  Yes.
• 48:27
  About the first.
• 48:29
  First family, for sure.
• 48:30
  Why not?
• 48:30
  100%.
• 48:30
  Let's give them the title.
• 48:31
  The Addams Family of Hellbender and Mother of Flies last year.
• 48:36
  This is a documentary about their family and their filmmaking process as their.
• 48:42
  Their family goes through some changes and puts together their next project.
• 48:46
  It is.
• 48:47
  It's a unique documentary because, I mean, we kind of have a small connection to them.
• 48:54
  Like, we've met them, they've been at the festival.
• 48:57
  We.
• 48:57
  We really enjoy the Addams Family.
• 48:59
  They're all very delightful people.
• 49:02
  We really enjoyed their movies.
• 49:03
  That's why we screened two of them.
• 49:05
  All that to say, if you don't know the Addams Family from Morticia and Gomez, that's fine.
• 49:12
  That's perfectly fine.
• 49:14
  Because this is an engaging documentary.
• 49:16
  Beyond that, it's such a fascinating family dynamic.
• 49:19
  It's unique enough that even if you don't have a connection to the family and the films they've made, it's still so interesting to see how they.
• 49:28
  What their creative process is.
• 49:30
  If you're somebody who likes to see how the sausage is made, this is a great movie for you.
• 49:34
  Also their Blood and Guts titular.
• 49:37
  Blood and Guts.
• 49:38
  Yeah, exactly.
• 49:39
  But also, if you enjoy documentaries about a family dynamic, it's got something for everybody.
• 49:47
  You don't have to be a horror fan.
• 49:49
  You don't have to know chapter and verse about Hellbender or whatever.
• 49:54
  This is just a great documentary about a family who loves each other, supports each other, and.
• 50:01
  And is passionate about making cool shit.
• 50:05
  Yeah.
• 50:07
  And we're passionate about the people that make cool shit.
• 50:10
  Yes.
• 50:11
  And that's why we do the Anomaly Film Festival.
• 50:13
  Again, I don't want to speak for everybody, so if anybody wants to disagree with what I just said, you're more than welcome to it.
• 50:18
  I don't know that you will, but.
• 50:21
  So that's what the Anomaly Film Festival is annually.
• 50:24
  You've just heard what we're programming this year.
• 50:27
  Is this an inclusive list?
• 50:28
  It is not.
• 50:30
  If you want the inclusive list, check out anomalyfilmfest.com.
• 50:35
  While you're there, if you haven't already, you can purchase your tickets and passes, which I highly recommend, because if you've sat through this last now 50 minutes or so, and you're like, oh, well, I should maybe go do
• 50:50
  that.
• 50:50
  Don't do the Rochester thing of waiting two minutes before the movie starts to come out.
• 50:55
  I mean, we'll be there.
• 50:56
  We'll be there yesterday.
• 50:57
  At.
• 50:57
  The box office waiting for.
• 50:58
  You.
• 51:00
  But I'm going to tell you, you're going to be disappointed because how many times has it happened to you?
• 51:05
  Because it happens to me all the time.
• 51:06
  You're like, oh, I'm going to go do that thing.
• 51:08
  And then it's, you know, 15 minutes into the thing, you're like, damn, I missed that.
• 51:13
  Don't do that to yourself.
• 51:14
  There's so much cool stuff that we're doing in Anomaly this year.
• 51:17
  It's not just the films.
• 51:18
  It's not just the short films.
• 51:20
  It's not just the features.
• 51:21
  It's the community.
• 51:22
  It's the fact that we do a lot to make it more than a film festival.
• 51:27
  We've got.
• 51:29
  We've got a crew of artists that have been working on stuff almost year round since our last festival to create stuff for the lobby.
• 51:38
  Matt and Adam have taken road trips to buy thousands of videotapes for the eyeball video store that you're going to find at the Little.
• 51:48
  Not to mention whatever Dan is doing.
• 51:52
  And, you know, Magnus is in that workshop.
• 51:54
  So we don't even know sometimes until it shows up.
• 51:58
  Yeah, they're like, oh, put this together.
• 51:59
  What?
• 52:00
  That's a shoot.
• 52:01
  That's a.
• 52:01
  Magnus will just show up with bits and pieces and say, this one goes here, this one goes here, and.
• 52:05
  It's.
• 52:06
  The coolest puzzle that's ever happened.
• 52:08
  And.
• 52:08
  He gets on here like, oh, people are gonna go apeshit for.
• 52:11
  That.
• 52:12
  So, yeah, it's a labor of love.
• 52:15
  It's community, it's fun.
• 52:17
  It's anomaly film fest.
• 52:18
  Anomalyfilmfest.com tickets and passes on sale now.
• 52:22
  Come hang out with us.
• 52:24
  Catch some movies.
• 52:25
  Be our friends.
• 52:27
  Also, it's my birthday.
• 52:28
  Okay?
• 52:28
  11Th is my birthday.
• 52:29
  We don't have to make this parasocial, but, like, you know, if no one shows up and I'm sad, I'll just be sad on my birthday.
• 52:36
  And that's just kind of on you.
• 52:37
  That's kind of on you.
• 52:38
  Rochester.
• 52:39
  Does that mean we have to put a candle on a potato?
• 52:42
  I'll start.
• 52:43
  We should start now.
• 52:44
  I'm gonna be a thrill.
• 52:45
  Yes, that's what I'm hearing.
• 52:47
  So.
• 52:48
  So come.
• 52:48
  Come for.
• 52:49
  For.
• 52:50
  For.
• 52:50
  For Meg's birthday.
• 52:51
  Stay for the rest of the festival.
• 52:53
  Uh, it's Anomaly Film Fest.
• 52:55
  We love you and we can't wait to see you in just a few precious days.
• 53:01
  It's fine.
• 53:02
  We're not stressed.
• 53:02
  It's great.
• 53:03
  Don't worry.
• 53:04
  We got this handled.
• 53:04
  We got it.
• 53:05
  Breathe.
• 53:06
  Breathe.
• 53:06
  Everything is under his control.
• 53:08
  The only thing we need now is you.
• 53:10
  Anomalyfilmfest.com.
• 53:11
  We'll see you there.
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  This has been a presentation of the Lunchador Podcast Network.