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Murder Party (2007) – Pumpkin Bread, Pretentious Artists, and the Perils of Showing Up · Two Cents: We See Scary Movies

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  Welcome to Two Cents. We see Scary Movies, the podcast
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  where you find horror in the strangest corners, from VHS
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  rentals to cats who refuse to give up the good chair.
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  I'm Talon, the one who would walk straight into a murder
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  party because honestly, I'd rather deal with axe wielding
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  art students than small talk at a real 1.
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  And I'm here with Dan, who thinks the scariest part of any
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  horror movie isn't the blood or the bodies, it's the fact that
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  there are people in it. Because EW, people, this week
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  we're talking about Murder Party, a film that proves
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  Halloween is the perfect night to get killed, ignored, or
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  mistaken for performance art. So grab your candy corn, maybe a
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  pink panty dropper, and let's dive in.
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  So the movie opens with this really long credit scene, and
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  while the names are rolling, you're just kind of drifting
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  through Halloween suburbia. It's early evening, the sun's
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  going down. Kids are running around in
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  costumes with their parents. Porches are decked out with
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  pumpkins and decorations. One kid runs up to a pumpkin
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  sitting on a stoop, picks it up and just smashes it.
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  You know, kids shit. So during all of this, we also
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  get this shot of a guy. You don't see him at first, you
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  just see what he's doing. He's picking out three horror
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  movies VHS tapes at a video rental store, which made me
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  wonder, is this movie in the 80s?
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  Later on, I think maybe it's early 90s, I.
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  Think it's like later 90s early 2000s just because of the cell
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  phone that they were using. Yeah, when they popped out the
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  cell phones, I was like, shit, this can't be 80s.
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  Yeah, no, I think it, I think it was like late 90s, early 2000s
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  because that looks like the type of phone that they were using.
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  So it's like one of those older flip phones, not not quite a
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  razor, but around that time frame.
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  Yeah, well, some of them are using flip flums, Flip flums,
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  flip phones, except. Flums.
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  Except for William Bill, he was his, he had his phone turned
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  sideways and was playing I I think they just probably, I
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  don't know, I don't know what the budget was for this movie,
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  but maybe they just like, I don't give a shit, just use
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  whatever phone you have. There, there was no budget to
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  the movie. They couldn't get a lot of
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  people to participate and they couldn't get financial backers.
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  So it's completely done independently and the actors are
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  also the crew. Wow, this is a fantastic job.
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  So they paid everything out of pocket and they did everything
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  like completely by themselves with no studio backing.
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  Wow, I'm impressed. Yeah, Yeah, well, maybe this guy
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  was just super nostalgic and still into VHS.
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  But then again, are there still video rental stores back at that
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  time? If it were in the 90s, late 90s.
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  Or in the thousands. Yeah, Blockbuster hasn't gone
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  under yet. Oh, OK.
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  Yeah. It seemed very 80s, but it could
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  have been. It had to be by the flip bones
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  and stuff, somewhere in the late 90s, early 2000s.
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  So then we're back out on the streets with all the trick or
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  treat and chaos, and the camera zooms in on this black envelope
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  just skimming along the sidewalk, and the wind is
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  pushing it. And I got to say, it actually
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  takes a corner really well. Like, it turned that corner on
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  that sidewalk perfectly. It was impressive.
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  It's as if it was supernatural. Yeah, it was pretty impressive.
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  Envelope choreography it was. Trained.
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  Yeah, I looked at the second time I watched, I looked to see
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  if maybe there was a string attached to it somehow.
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  But it if it was, they took it out and did a really good job of
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  getting rid of it. But they did a really good job
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  of with no fucking money, they did a really good job of
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  training this envelope. So.
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  So then suddenly we see someone's footsteps down on it
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  and the bag of movie drops and Yep, it's that same guy, which I
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  figured was very distinct, that little bit with a VHS store.
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  So I was like, this guy has to be somebody that's in the movie.
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  He picks up the envelope and right then his watch beeps.
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  He casually pulls out some pills from his jacket pocket and takes
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  1. I have no idea if that's going
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  to matter later, but the movie made it a point of showing it so
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  I figured I should too. Anyway, this guy looks like he's
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  maybe in his early to mid 30s somewhere in there.
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  The envelope itself is really ornate.
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  It's black with this interesting squiggle.
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  Like it has that. I don't know how you describe
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  that look, but it has a look. It also has like, this red wax
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  style seal on the front. He opens it up and it reads, you
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  were invited to a murder party. It gives an address.
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  I think it was 110 or maybe 210 Shore St.
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  It says come alone. He stares at it, looks up and
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  around like he's half expecting someone to be watching him or
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  maybe it's someone else's. So then with the guy, he gets
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  home and, of course, realizes that that pumpkin of that kid
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  smashed was his, which I kind of figured anyway.
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  God damn it. Yeah, he goes into his little
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  apartment and there are a few details here that still really
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  kind of made me think it was the 80s.
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  Like he had that key chain and on the key chain he had one of
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  those old Oval shaped coin pouches.
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  You remember those, the rubbery ones, and you squeeze it and
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  that slit in the middle would open up and you'd put your coins
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  inside it. Do you remember those?
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  Yes. OK, so that was made me think,
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  OK, this is still the this is the 80s.
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  And there's the TV and he had one of those big boxy old tube
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  style TV's. It had an antenna plus AVCR.
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  It definitely seemed old school. So again, either he just didn't
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  really have a lot of money to upgrade his shit, or he was
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  nostalgic for the 80s, but it had a very 80s vibe to it.
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  Early 90s. So he stops in the kitchen and
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  dumps 2 whole bags of candy corn into a bowl, then heads to the
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  living room to put on a movie. Out of the three movies that he
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  has, I did happen to notice that he chose Scare Wolf.
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  And for the record, the other two titles were Zombie Versus
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  Unicorn's Horn and Xanthocroid XANTHACHROID.
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  But anyway, he settles on Scare Wolf.
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  Before he sits down, he grabs his candy corn and looks over at
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  his chair where his cat, Sir Lancelot has made himself
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  comfortable. He politely asks Sir Lancelot,
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  could you please get down? And they just stare at each
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  other for what feels like forever.
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  The cat does not budget. Like a typical cat.
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  Right, finally he just gives up and Sir Lancelot wins.
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  So instead he sits down at his very old computer.
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  He gives up watching TV altogether.
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  He sits down at a very old computer.
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  But this is where I started feeling like, well, maybe it is
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  the 90s because he pulls up. Even though it's an ancient
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  looking computer, he does pull up a MapQuest style mapping
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  thing, GPS thing on his computer.
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  So that had to be. Well, MapQuest was a thing back
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  then. In the 80s.
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  Well, no, not the 80s. I'm talking like if we're, if
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  we're placing it like in the nineties, 2000s map bus.
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  And that's what I'm saying, when he pulled up map bus, I was
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  like, oh, well, this has got to be the 90s then, because it was
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  map search or something like that, but very similar type of
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  thing. I was like, well this has got to
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  be at least the 90s then. Is is that the mystery of the
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  movie is trying to figure out what what time frame it was in?
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  I was very all into it right at the beginning of this movie.
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  Like, what year is this? So he's using map search to look
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  up the address on the invitation.
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  After that, he goes outside, scoops up the pieces of his
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  smashed pumpkin, and apparently decides to bake with it.
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  We later see him pull a pumpkin Raisin loaf out of the oven, so
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  that's where that went. Then he digs into some boxes
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  labeled Halloween and pulls out a giant troll mask, but just
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  tosses it away because what he really wants are the boxes.
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  He decides that he's going to use these boxes to put together
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  this DIY night costume, which made sense because his cat's
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  name is Sir Lancelot, and now he's dressing up like some
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  cardboard duct tape version of a knight from that same era.
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  And it's. See, it kind of reminded me the
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  Black Knight from Monty Python. Yeah, when when I was just
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  trying to tell you which movie this was, I was like I said, I
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  was like the guy on the front looks like he's from Monty
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  Python because he had that look. So he must be into this whole
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  time frame because he's got a cat named Sir Lancelot and he
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  wants to dress like a knight. So he's he's way back decades or
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  the 80s and or 90s. So once his pumpkin loaf is
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  finished, he wraps it in plastic, says goodbye and happy
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  Halloween to Sir Lancelot, grabs his candy corn, his keys and the
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  printed map search directions and heads off to this mysterious
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  party. So he leaves his apartment, sets
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  the bowl of candy corn on the stoop with a little handwritten
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  note that says, please help yourself.
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  And I was like, yeah, good luck with that.
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  He'll be like, get your bowl back.
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  Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, just take one.
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  Yeah, if you're not there. Could you imagine taking one
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  candy corn? You know I mean.
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  I know, but that would be funny. You know, I would tell my kids
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  to only take one, but I'd be there like loading my bag.
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  Although it is weird to just set out a whole bowl of just
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  individual candy corns not bagged up like, you know, 10 or
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  15 pieces to a bag. Just everybody's reaching in and
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  grabbing. Although this is pre COVID so we
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  had nothing to worry about. Yeah, yeah, This is this is back
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  in the 90s. Nobody still cared about most
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  shit anyway, So there was still, like, eating dirt, right?
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  OK. So then he heads off to the
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  party. Next scene, he's on the subway.
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  The camera's just locked on his face, and he looks absolutely
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  terrified. His eyes are huge, like he's
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  wondering what on earth has he just signed himself up for.
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  Off screen, you can hear someone talking, almost like rapping.
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  And then the shot widens and Yep, there's a guy sitting next
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  to him staring right at him, just full on rapping at him.
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  So our guy just sits there wide eyed like he doesn't know what
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  to do and he's very uncomfortable looking.
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  He finally gets off the subway, comes up the steps, and now he's
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  in this bustling city. I wasn't sure what it was at the
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  time, but then later on that they do talk about where they
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  are because he mentions where he works and they are in New York
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  City. Yes.
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  And it's, of course, he gets off the subway, and it's chaos.
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  There's people everywhere. It's very busy.
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  Music's blasting. Everybody's dressed in costumes.
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  There's a lot of, you know, high energy going on.
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  He starts weaving through the crowd and eventually makes his
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  way out of the city and into a quieter suburban neighborhood.
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  At first, when he hits the neighborhood streets, he
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  actually looks excited. Like, OK, this might be fun.
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  But the further he walks, the emptier it gets.
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  Streetlights are still on and everything, but there's no one
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  around. It's completely dead, like a
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  ghost town. And you can see the shift in his
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  face. He keeps glancing at his mat,
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  double checking like he's not like am I going the right way?
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  Then suddenly he just takes off running for whatever reason.
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  And then for a second. When you start, when you start
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  feeling that way, of course you're going to continue on.
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  Yeah, you're going to keep running in the direction you're
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  not sure you're supposed to be going.
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  Let's get further lost. So for a second there I thought
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  maybe someone was chasing him though, but that.
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  But no, he was just running. Random, random run, panic,
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  silence. Almost, because he looked a
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  little panicked. It's like when an animal gets
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  the zoomies at night. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Running. Finally, he makes it to a street
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  sign that says Shore St. He stops, looks relieved, but
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  also completely exhausted. That walk was a journey.
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  Instead of the bustling city, now he's surrounded by
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  warehouses and empty buildings. It feels totally deserted, like
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  he left the world behind and stepped into nothingness.
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  I mean, it is really just quiet and dead out here on these
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  streets. So Chris, though we don't
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  actually know his name yet, we do find it out later.
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  So I'm just going to go ahead and use it.
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  He shows up at the address and sure enough, it's a warehouse.
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  He double checks the number, makes sure he's in the right
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  place, and then pushes the door open.
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  He calls out hello, but nobody answers.
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  He walks down this long corridor that's kind of lined with boxes
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  of random metal junk, and the overhead fluorescent lights are
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  flickering, you know, very horror cliche.
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  Somewhere in the distance, loud music is blasting, so he of
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  course naturally follows the sound.
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  He finally reaches A doorway and he peeks in.
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  There are several people inside, but nobody's really interacting
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  with each other or him. One guy is in regular clothes,
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  like a hoodie and Jean jacket, but he's got a werewolf mask
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  pushed up on his head. He's smoking a cigarette and
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  throwing some darts at a dartboard.
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  The second he notice his Chris, his eyes open really wide and
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  he's like oh crap. And he Yanks the cigarette out
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  of his mouth and pulls the mask down and pretends like nothing
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  happened. Like, oh.
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  Can't see me. Then the camera pans around the
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  room. There's a guy dressed kind of
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  like some Colonial era horseman. At the time, this is what I
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  thought he was. And so for a while I'm going to
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  be calling him the Colonial Horseman.
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  And he's carving a pumpkin. A girl in a zombie cheerleader
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  outfit is sitting there with earbuds in, scrolling through
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  her iPod. So that again made me figure
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  early 2000 vibes, I guess. But she's obviously the one in
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  charge of the music. Next, there's a guy dressed like
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  an old timey baseball player, kind of at a like a Field of
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  Dreams look to him. It was a character from the
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  Warriors. I don't know the movie The
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  Warriors. I haven't seen it you've.
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  Come out to play. I have not seen that movie.
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  God, you're unintelligent. I'll have to check that one out.
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  You'll have to text that to me to so I can remember to look at
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  it, look it up. But his face was painted with
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  that strange muted yellow with the blacks around his mouth and
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  one eye, I think. But so he's somebody, a baseball
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  player from the Warriors, OK. And before we get to this one,
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  there's also a young girl there that's dressed like somebody
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  from the Road Warriors. Right.
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  Yeah, the Lexi is. Yeah, yes, yeah.
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  So then the camera shifted, shifts again and you see a girl
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  sitting on the floor in front of a table with dominoes all set
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  up. Except alongside the dominoes,
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  she's also got three neat little lines of coke laid out.
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  She snorts 1 throws her head back and when she stop, spots
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  Chris standing in the doorway. She laughs, like, really loud.
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  And then she's like, super excited.
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  This makes the zombie cheerleader suddenly look up
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  from her iPod like, oh, wait, who's this guy?
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  Somebody's here. Somebody actually came here.
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  And then she immediately cuts off the music.
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  And that girl that was on the floor is the one you're talking
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  about. At that point, everyone finally
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  notices him. They all start getting up and
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  moving toward him. Chris, still standing there
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  awkwardly, goes, hi, I think I made a mistake.
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  The girl who was doing coke and the werewolf mask guy walk over.
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  And this is when he finally introduces himself and he's
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  like, hi, I'm. I'm Chris.
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  He's still holding the invitation in his hand and the
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  werewolf guy snatches it from him.
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  He looks it over and goes, no, you didn't make a mistake.
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  Then the Colonial Horseman guy steps in, takes the envelope and
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  says, you're not in the wrong place, you're just a little
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  early. Chris trying to play it cool is
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  like, oh, OK, sorry. But as he glances around the
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  room, his eyes land on the chainsaw, the sledgehammer, the
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  axe of duct tape, a plastic, plastic sheeting everywhere, a
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  chair with a rope on it. You can tell he's just realized
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  that maybe it's a little something, a little weird might
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  be going down. What kind of party is this?
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  Well, those those aren't typical party favors.
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  I thought they were. I have them at every party.
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  I don't care what the parties for.
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  I. Mean if that's the case, I've
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  been going to the wrong parties. I have them at birthday parties,
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  Christmas parties, baby showers. Bar mitzvahs, yeah.
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  Any party doesn't matter. Any.
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  Celebration. Yeah, this is how you celebrate.
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  So Coke Girl slams the door shut behind Chris and he awkwardly
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  pulls out the pumpkin bread, like, hey, I made some pumpkin
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  bread. The zombie cheerleader actually
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  takes it and says, oh, thanks, that's really sweet.
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  Meanwhile, we see werewolf guy in the background and there's
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  this close up of his hands slowly reaching for an axe.
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  Then the Colonial Horseman dude takes the invitation and lights
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  it on fire and then starts waving it back and forth in
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  front of Chris like some half fake magician or wannabe
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  hypnotist or something. That's what I felt too.
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  For a second it looks like zombie cheerleader is shaking
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  her head no. It looked like she like she's
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  shaking her head no. I thought maybe it was like to
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  the werewolf guy because she would occasionally like see her,
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  she fries, would get big, shake her head.
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  Maybe it was a twitch, I don't know.
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  It looks suspicious. So as the flaming envelope waves
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  around, we keep getting these glimpses of Werewolf Guy
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  sneaking up behind Chris, raising the axe higher and
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  higher. Just when the envelope burns
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  down to nothing and Colonial Dude drops it on the floor,
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  Chris glances down at it. At that exact moment, Werewolf
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  Guy swings the axe. The axe gets caught in this
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  dangling chain attached to a light, which turns the light on.
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  Instead of spitting, spitting, splitting Chris in half, he just
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  Yanks the light on. Chris, already looking down,
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  sees the shadow of the axe over him, spins around, and then
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  chaos breaks loose. So werewolf guy yells fucking
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  get him and suddenly it's a dogpile.
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  Chris takes off for the door. The werewolf colonial horseman
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  and coke girl. I'll rush him.
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  As Chris tries to bolt out, they drag him back in and and they're
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  yelling. I have the the subtitles on and
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  the subtitles for this movie were shit.
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  By the way, did you have subtitles on?
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  Not on this one, no. I only have subtitles on when
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  I'm actually. OK, so the subtitles half the
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  time were not correct. So I don't know if this is right
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  because at one point the subtitles said that the
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  cheerleader girl said how did you find us?
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  And I'm like, what? He had an envelope with an
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  invitation. Like what do you mean?
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  How did he find you had the address?
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  You guys sent this out. After a messy scuffle, they
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  finally pin him down. The camera goes low, looking up
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  from the floor like it's like you're looking from Chris's
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  point of view at werewolf guy, and he leans in and says welcome
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  to your murder before slamming something down hard on him.
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  I thought he got him with the axe, but he did not.
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  So you cut to a close up of a camera being turned on.
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  We hear the group talking. A werewolf guy is grumbling.
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  I don't know where the that fucking light chain came from.
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  And then he looks at one of the girls and says, but you were
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  super sexy screaming like that. She just shrugs like, yeah, I
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  know. Then she adds, That cardboard
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  outfit really freaked me out. I think he might be retarded.
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  He. Personally liked the cardboard
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  costume, he did a good job with it.
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  He did in the short amount of time, but he did it in, he did
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  it quick, and he did a pretty good job.
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  Meanwhile, Zombie cheerleader is munching on the pumpkin bread
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  and actually making a face like this is pretty good.
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  Coke Girl is scrolling on her phone, which tells us this has
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  to be, this is where I'm like, again, still obsessed.
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  It has to be like the early 2000s, not the 80s.
• 17:43
  This is the big. Mystery.
• 17:45
  So far we've gone from the 80s to the 90s to the early 2000s.
• 17:49
  Right. The movie is set somewhere
• 17:52
  within those decades. Right, right.
• 17:55
  Colonial Horseman guy. He who now may be a vampire
• 17:59
  because he's a vampire teeth. This is where I'm like, oh,
• 18:01
  maybe he's not a horseman at all.
• 18:02
  I couldn't tell. He's he's setting up a camera to
• 18:05
  take pictures. He warns her.
• 18:07
  Lexie, I don't think it's smart to be on your cell phone in the
• 18:10
  middle of a crime. So now we know her name is Lexie
• 18:12
  and she fires back. Well, I don't think it's smart
• 18:14
  to take pictures either, basically.
• 18:16
  So the zombie cheerleader whose name we learned is Sky, suggests
• 18:20
  they ditch all this and go to Cicero's party instead.
• 18:23
  But werewolf guy shuts that down immediately.
• 18:25
  He's like, this is the party and besides, Cicero's an asshole.
• 18:28
  Then cokehead girl Lexie gets off the phone and says, you know
• 18:32
  what the fuck is going on? Alexander is on his way.
• 18:34
  That name clearly matters to them because everyone suddenly
• 18:37
  seems nervous. Sky's like, look, I don't think
• 18:39
  any of us really thought someone was dumb enough to actually show
• 18:42
  up to this, and she's not wrong. Yeah, I mean, it's just some
• 18:48
  random friggin piece of paper, you know, strategically flying
• 18:52
  around the city and here comes some random guy.
• 18:56
  OK, so werewolf guy even double s down like hey, the invitation
• 18:59
  literally said murder party if some Jackass shows up then he
• 19:02
  deserves to die. Lexi chimes in.
• 19:04
  He's a white male, he's perfect. And then he said she looks at
• 19:07
  him and he's like, are you a Republican?
• 19:08
  And then Colonial horseman. Colonial Horseman who we now
• 19:12
  learn is named Paul, snaps at her, don't make this political.
• 19:16
  This is about art. To which she replies, there's
• 19:18
  nothing more political than art. So then this all made me think,
• 19:21
  Oh my God, maybe it's right now. Maybe it's 2025.
• 19:27
  Actually, they didn't make this movie in 2025 S the 20 twenties.
• 19:31
  But anyway, so he says there's nothing more political than art.
• 19:34
  So clearly we're not just dealing with psychos, we're
• 19:37
  dealing with pretentious psychos.
• 19:39
  Then Sky says this is about impressing Alexander and you
• 19:42
  know that Paul and Paul fires back.
• 19:44
  Oh fuck you Sky. This is about getting a grant.
• 19:46
  Now we we see the real motive. There are artists trying to kill
• 19:50
  this guy as some kind of art project, hoping to score money
• 19:53
  and credibility. I guess.
• 19:54
  At this point Chris is tied to a chair with some rope, just
• 19:57
  awkwardly sitting there like what the hell is happening?
• 20:00
  Skye tries to steer the group back by suggesting they vote on
• 20:02
  whether to keep going or just bail and hit Cicero's party.
• 20:06
  She turns to Bill, the baseball player guy who I had completely
• 20:09
  forgot about. I forgot he was even in the room
• 20:11
  until now because. He's he's pretty quiet and he
• 20:14
  was just playing on his phone. Right.
• 20:16
  So he just looks up and says I didn't sign up for a second
• 20:18
  degree assault party. Right.
• 20:22
  Which is fair. I thought that was kind of
• 20:23
  funny. So Sky, still eating Chris's
• 20:25
  pumpkin bread, suddenly pitches an idea.
• 20:27
  She's like, OK, I've got a way we can make both sides happy.
• 20:30
  It'll be violent enough to count, but nobody has to die,
• 20:33
  and we'll still rule the scene when it's done.
• 20:36
  Just as she's laying this out, she makes a face, pulls
• 20:39
  something out of her mouth, and goes, right, Are there raisins
• 20:42
  in this? Chris nods yes.
• 20:44
  She's like, are they organic? He shakes his head no and then
• 20:47
  she freaks out. Oh my God I'm allergic.
• 20:49
  I was like apparently she's only allergic to non organic raises.
• 20:54
  Like right. It's like what?
• 20:56
  Like it's still a Raisin. Just a very random thing.
• 21:01
  Time. She hadn't explained anything
• 21:02
  yet and I was like what? So anyway she starts saying
• 21:06
  she'll be fine, it's the preservatives that she's
• 21:08
  allergic to. I was like OK just makes her
• 21:11
  dizzy. So someone suggests calling 911.
• 21:14
  Chris is nodding like yes, yes, yes please call 911.
• 21:18
  She definitely. Wants 911.
• 21:20
  Yeah, two birds with one stone, right?
• 21:21
  But she insists that she doesn't need help.
• 21:23
  Werewolf guy drags over some boxes for her to sit on.
• 21:26
  She sits down, but he immediately falls over and and
• 21:31
  smacks her head on a metal pipe or something that's sticking
• 21:33
  out. She pops back up, laughing it
• 21:35
  off Oops, I'm fine. But there's blood trickling down
• 21:39
  the side of her face. Then she says it smells like cut
• 21:41
  grass. She turns her head and there's
• 21:43
  this huge gash wide open on the side of her skull.
• 21:47
  Everyone freezes, staring at her in shock, especially Chris.
• 21:50
  There's this beat of silence. She looks around and goes what?
• 21:54
  And then collapses face first on the floor.
• 21:56
  We're all going to presume she's dead at this point.
• 21:59
  Chris is just like looking around, like he's not squirming,
• 22:02
  he's not trying to fight, he's just like looking around at all
• 22:05
  the stuff that's going on. Right, Yeah, he does.
• 22:08
  His facial expressions are he does a pretty good job
• 22:10
  considering you can only basically see his eyes in most
• 22:13
  of this part. And he he does look a little
• 22:16
  confused. Of course he's probably scared,
• 22:18
  but he's also looking confused. Like what's up with these
• 22:20
  people? Because they're so weird and
• 22:22
  flaky and and self absorbed and quirky and they get into all
• 22:27
  these weird conversations throughout the movie and he's
• 22:30
  just like, what the fuck is going on?
• 22:32
  But he does it, does it really well with his eyes.
• 22:34
  So Lexi says Skye just died. Right and.
• 22:39
  Plain. Yeah, like no one's upset.
• 22:41
  About it just like, oh, she died.
• 22:43
  Like, oh, bummer. I mean, that's faster than
• 22:45
  regular movie, you know, grieving.
• 22:48
  Yeah. Because usually it's like, Oh my
• 22:50
  God, they died. And then it's like, you know,
• 22:52
  next scene everybody's like, having a grand time and party
• 22:55
  and yeah, their friend just died, but everything's great.
• 22:58
  Yeah. They just was like, there was no
• 23:00
  time whatsoever. It's like, oh, she's dead.
• 23:02
  OK, let's go do this now. Skipped all the bullshit.
• 23:05
  They're like, yeah, we'll just go to we don't care.
• 23:07
  So you can hear Chris breathing really hard, like he's starting
• 23:09
  to get on full on panic mode now that she's dead.
• 23:12
  Everyone freezes again for a second, then werewolf guy that
• 23:15
  goes shit and then Colonial Horseman points at Chris and
• 23:17
  accuses him. You killed her.
• 23:19
  Chris is babbling. Chris tied up in the chair.
• 23:21
  Chris is trying to talk. You know, he's got a gag in his
• 23:24
  mouth, so he's like, you know, freaking out.
• 23:25
  Werewolf guy totally loses it. He grabs a chunk of the smashed
• 23:29
  pumpkin bread off the floor and tries to shove it into Chris's
• 23:31
  mouth while yelling I'm going to kill this motherfucker now, and
• 23:35
  he's yelling it was you. It's your bread.
• 23:37
  He's like, everybody lock it down.
• 23:39
  So then he's still yelling at your bread when he he's yelling
• 23:43
  you're bread. The subtitles have it spelled
• 23:47
  out YOU apostrophe RE you. Are.
• 23:51
  Bread. It made me laugh.
• 23:55
  I had to rewind it to just make sure I read it right.
• 23:57
  But yeah, instead of just YOUR, you are bread.
• 24:00
  It's Facebook grammar. Right.
• 24:03
  Then things start to escalate. Escalate, escalate.
• 24:06
  Werewolf Guy finds a big jug, something they'd earlier called
• 24:10
  acid. He starts pouring it all over
• 24:12
  Chris while screaming. Chris is pleading.
• 24:14
  No, don't kill me. You can kind of make out what
• 24:16
  he's saying. I don't know what happened.
• 24:17
  And then suddenly, Werewolf Guy stops.
• 24:19
  He looks stunned, like he realizes what he's just done,
• 24:22
  backs up, and then literally falls over and he's yelling.
• 24:24
  Oh, my God, I'm sorry. I don't.
• 24:25
  I didn't mean to do that. I don't know why I did that.
• 24:27
  Then we cut to Lexi. Yeah.
• 24:29
  It was such a weird change. Yeah, it was such a, it really
• 24:33
  was because I mean, like all the screaming here was doing.
• 24:35
  And then also, Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
• 24:38
  Yeah. What?
• 24:41
  It literally was a dead stop and then right into, Oh my God,
• 24:44
  total repentance. So then we cut to Lexi and Paul
• 24:47
  behind cameras. Paul is behind regular photo
• 24:51
  taken camera and then Lexi's behind him further with a
• 24:54
  camcorder and they're both set up on tripods and because, you
• 24:57
  know, they're all fancy and shit with their art, they're behind
• 25:00
  there. But Lexi's like, what's going
• 25:02
  on? Because nothing's happening to
• 25:04
  Chris, who's had this acid poured all over him, but he's
• 25:07
  like screaming and screaming. Lexi and Paul go up to Chris and
• 25:11
  she sniffs him and says he smells like vinegar.
• 25:13
  Paul checks the bottle and it's labeled acetic acid, which
• 25:17
  smells like vinegar. Lexi decides to look it up on
• 25:19
  the Internet. Fucking years.
• 25:21
  That's so she's looking it up on the Internet.
• 25:28
  Paul watches Werewolf Guy nursing a drink from a brown
• 25:30
  paper bag. Paul scolds him.
• 25:32
  I thought we agreed no alcohol until the deed was done.
• 25:34
  Werewolf guy shrugs. I just did the deed.
• 25:37
  So now he's back to yeah. Right now, he's all pissed off
• 25:41
  again. Right.
• 25:42
  And then he's like, and there's also a pile of coke on the table
• 25:44
  and Sky is dead. He's got some, you know, good
• 25:47
  points. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:49
  I mean. We're, we're, we're beyond, you
• 25:51
  know, not drinking. Right.
• 25:52
  Fuck it at this point. So Paul is sticking to the
• 25:54
  rules. No alcohol and no weed, but Bill
• 25:57
  the baseball guy calmly lights a joint while he's saying this.
• 26:00
  Meanwhile, Lexi realizes it is vinegar.
• 26:03
  Paul deadpans. Great, we can pickle him to
• 26:05
  death. Then Lexi's phone rings.
• 26:09
  It's Alexander. Panic spikes because Alexander's
• 26:12
  there. They start scrambling to hide
• 26:14
  Sky's body, decide to wrap her up in the plastic.
• 26:17
  Werewolf guy suggests chopping her up first and taking her
• 26:20
  teeth, because of course he does.
• 26:23
  Like let's do all this before this guy walks in.
• 26:25
  We got to RIP all her teeth out and chop her up.
• 26:27
  Like what? Yeah, that that makes a lot of
• 26:30
  sense. And you know you have plenty of
• 26:32
  time to do that. No problem.
• 26:34
  But Lexi says no, just roll her up in the plastic and hide her.
• 26:36
  So Paul points out the plastic was meant for Chris.
• 26:40
  Like does this matter anymore? Lexi shrugs and starts shoving
• 26:42
  Chris further back in the chair. They wrap Skye up in plastic,
• 26:46
  they hoist her up and these two guys can barely carry her And
• 26:51
  and and the wolf guy, wolf man guy, he's a pretty big guy and
• 26:57
  and he's like all bent over. He could barely pick her up and
• 26:59
  she was tiny. She was a little little woman.
• 27:01
  They're pretty weak, but they carry over to this big chest
• 27:04
  style freezer and you know the kind of the you slipped up the
• 27:07
  lid and they shove her in there. They close it up, Lexi heads off
• 27:10
  to open the door for Alexander, and while she's gone, Bill
• 27:13
  finally gets up. He casually knocks over the
• 27:16
  boxes that Sky had been sitting on to cover up the puddle of
• 27:19
  blood that's now on the floor from Sky's head wound.
• 27:21
  Meanwhile, werewolf guy makes a big show of rechecking Chris's
• 27:25
  ropes, even though Chris is clearly not going anywhere.
• 27:28
  Lexi opens the door and then comes Alexander, immediately
• 27:30
  followed by another guy dressed in mobster St. wear.
• 27:35
  I'm sure you watch The Sopranos, right?
• 27:37
  Yes, he reminded me of like Polly, what Polly would wear.
• 27:40
  OK. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, that does make
• 27:42
  sense, Yeah. Yeah, so Alexander has plastic
• 27:45
  vampire teeth in, and he jumps in with a dramatic and like, she
• 27:49
  plays along. She's like, oh, that's so funny.
• 27:52
  That's not you look smashing. And then he rips the teeth out
• 27:55
  and throws them. You can tell this guy's pretty
• 27:57
  dramatic. He strolls into the warehouse
• 27:58
  with his entourage, which includes his dog.
• 28:01
  And he probably introduces as Hellhammer, who is part Dinko.
• 28:06
  Yeah, and the guy with him is his new best friend Zyko.
• 28:10
  From the second he walks in, Alexander has the room.
• 28:13
  Paul, who seemed like the leader before, but now you can tell
• 28:16
  everyone's intimidated, including Paul.
• 28:19
  Alexander shoots him this look and asks, what are you supposed
• 28:21
  to be, Paul? Paul mutters.
• 28:23
  A 19th century vampire. So I guess he was not a colonial
• 28:27
  horseman. This is when I figured that out.
• 28:28
  At this point Paul becomes a Sigma beta cuck.
• 28:32
  Oh yeah, totally. He went from leader of the pack
• 28:36
  to nobody in the second. Yeah.
• 28:38
  You wouldn't like this guy. Yeah, so Alexander, absolutely
• 28:42
  not. So Alexander just smirks and
• 28:44
  says, yeah, me too. Then he presses.
• 28:46
  Where'd you get those fangs? Paul admits awkwardly again from
• 28:50
  a goth store downtown. Then he flatly orders take them
• 28:53
  off. Paul hesitates.
• 28:54
  He's like, are you serious? And Alexander just gives Zico a
• 28:56
  nod. Psycho immediately pulls out a
• 28:58
  gun and aims it at Paul. And then you cut to Chris, whose
• 29:01
  face is like what the actual fuck is happening?
• 29:03
  It's like honestly same dude. Right.
• 29:07
  So now Lexi and Werewolf Guy, who were standing right next to
• 29:10
  Paul are instantly just casually move as far away from Paul as
• 29:14
  possible. They don't want to get anywhere
• 29:16
  near whatever is going on here. On their way, they pass Bill,
• 29:19
  who's still on the floor, completely unbothered.
• 29:21
  Like he doesn't give a shit at all about what's going on.
• 29:26
  He is totally into whatever game he's playing on his phone, or
• 29:29
  he's just above all of it, I don't know.
• 29:31
  But he's the only one who doesn't seem to care that
• 29:33
  Alexander's there. So Alexander starts the power
• 29:35
  trip immediately. Immediately he tells Paul to
• 29:37
  strip off the vampire costume. He's like, and he does it piece
• 29:40
  by piece. He's like after he tells him to
• 29:42
  take out the teeth, Paul does and he's like, I take off the
• 29:45
  vampire shirt. So he takes, he has a vest on.
• 29:48
  So he takes that off. Then he has the fluffy ruffled
• 29:51
  collar which he can just RIP off.
• 29:52
  And once he rips that off, it's really just a shirt at this
• 29:55
  point. So, but Alexander's like take
• 29:58
  off the vampire shirt and and he's like, OK, so he starts
• 30:01
  unbuttoning that and then he undoes.
• 30:02
  I mean, it's such a long process too.
• 30:04
  He takes, unbuttons the cuffs, takes that off.
• 30:06
  He's now in just AT shirt and some khaki fucking pants.
• 30:09
  And Alexander's like take off the vampire pants.
• 30:15
  They're just fucking regular pants at this point.
• 30:17
  He could work in Papa John's right now, so.
• 30:20
  Right, exactly. Yeah, Alexander takes everything
• 30:24
  off, including the pants, and he's got these lashy thong
• 30:28
  underwear on, and Alexander makes a little quip about how
• 30:31
  hairy he is. Alexander's just a bully,
• 30:34
  basically, and thinks he's the shit.
• 30:36
  So now we've got the dog again, and hell, Hammer, and he starts.
• 30:40
  He's gone over to where the chest freezer is, and he starts
• 30:43
  whining and sniffing at it and whining, you know, like a dog
• 30:46
  would. Like there's something going on
• 30:47
  in this freezer. So then Lexi fakes a sneeze and
• 30:50
  says I'm allergic and hustles out with the dog to take him
• 30:53
  outside. While she's gone, Zyko opens.
• 30:55
  That was quick thinking. Yeah.
• 30:57
  By the way, that was quick thinking, right?
• 30:59
  You know, we don't, we don't want them to see that, that
• 31:01
  there's a body in there. Yeah, no one pay attention to
• 31:03
  this freezer. There's nothing going on here.
• 31:05
  So while while she's gone, Zyko opens Chris's wallet, pockets
• 31:09
  the cash, throws the ID to Alexander.
• 31:11
  He reads out Christopher Hawley, which is that guy's real name,
• 31:14
  by the way. In real life, Alexander reads,
• 31:17
  glancing at a business card like, and says, oh, a dentist.
• 31:20
  I need a dentist. It's so casually, you know, he's
• 31:23
  very casual but kind of weird about it.
• 31:25
  Like what's the word I'm looking for?
• 31:26
  Nonchalant. He's not almost like he's
• 31:28
  teasing kind of in a way, like he's teasing Chris because it's
• 31:32
  some dentist card in Chris's wallet, so it's like he's kind
• 31:34
  of teasing him sort of and being just a Dick.
• 31:37
  Lexi comes back in and Alexander asks.
• 31:39
  So where's Sky? Chris Mumbles.
• 31:42
  He knows where she is. Right.
• 31:44
  Yeah, he knows. Lexi lies.
• 31:47
  She's a no show. I think she went to Cicero's.
• 31:49
  Alexander calls her a dirty whore and then barks for
• 31:52
  pictures. Lexi slides up to Macon, the
• 31:54
  werewolf guy, now we know his name, licks his face and says
• 31:58
  you better not fuck it up or something like that.
• 32:00
  He gets all brave and everything.
• 32:01
  Like she just gave him this bolt of brave energy and he's like,
• 32:04
  we're going to cut this guy in half and dump him in a vacant
• 32:07
  lot. Then he immediately stumbles
• 32:09
  into nonsense. I mean, there's a lot of this
• 32:11
  movie where they they do a lot of talk in this movie and I
• 32:13
  could not get down a lot of what they said.
• 32:15
  It's like it would be forever if I took down everything they
• 32:18
  said. And The thing is, is this movie
• 32:19
  wasn't a very long movie. No, it's about an hour and 15
• 32:23
  minutes maybe, Yeah. Yeah, I was shocked.
• 32:26
  It's funny because the first time I watched it, I felt like
• 32:28
  when you go down a road or you travel somewhere you've never
• 32:31
  been, how long it feels like it takes.
• 32:33
  Then when you go back, it's super fast.
• 32:35
  So my first watch through, it felt a lot, a lot longer than an
• 32:37
  hour and 15 minutes. And it felt like it took a long
• 32:39
  time to get to certain points, but then the second watch, I was
• 32:42
  like, it felt so fast, he Mumbles, then immediately
• 32:45
  stumbles into nonsense about multimedia installations and
• 32:48
  paper mache. Very random.
• 32:52
  You can tell that he felt like whatever he was saying wasn't
• 32:54
  impressive, wasn't impressive enough for Alexander, which is
• 32:58
  true because Alexander isn't impressed.
• 33:00
  So making this flailing for new ideas and he's like, we'll stick
• 33:03
  a pancake on his face and throw him in front of the G train and.
• 33:08
  Right. Like what the hell is that?
• 33:10
  What It's like the pancake is going to conceal his identity.
• 33:14
  Yeah, because he was like, nobody will know.
• 33:17
  Right. You know, I mean, I don't know
• 33:20
  what kind of world this is set in, but you know, if you can
• 33:24
  staple a pancake to someone's face and cover their identity,
• 33:28
  sign me up. Wherever.
• 33:31
  I mean, I'll wear a pancake every day, you know?
• 33:36
  Rob a bank, take the pancake off, nobody will know.
• 33:40
  I mean, hell, you could probably go into the bank, rob it, walk
• 33:43
  out, take the pancake off and nobody will know.
• 33:45
  Or you could do it either way. You could walk in like yourself
• 33:48
  and then leave and put the pancake on.
• 33:51
  That's right. That's right.
• 33:52
  Lexi finally says she's been working on a video installation
• 33:56
  and plugs a cassette into her camcorder.
• 33:59
  She flips the little thing out. So they can all watch it.
• 34:02
  She calls it validation in black and plays footage, plays footage
• 34:08
  of herself in a bathtub with hot dogs being thrown at her.
• 34:11
  Then there's like weird cutaways of ducks and a smug explanation
• 34:15
  that she's already has this venue, which we find out from
• 34:18
  Paula's just some juice bar downtown.
• 34:20
  So it's gloriously awful. So I.
• 34:23
  Mean it. It's still a venue.
• 34:25
  One way or the other, it's still a venue.
• 34:28
  Right, so Alexander calms the room with his theatrical charm.
• 34:32
  He drapes an arm around Paul, telling him his photography is
• 34:35
  Excelsior. Paul's looks at him and goes who
• 34:38
  is this? And Zyko whispers, It's my drug
• 34:41
  dealer. Alexander dismisses the gun as a
• 34:44
  prop and Pats Paul on the shoulder and then strolls the
• 34:47
  room like a director auditioning actors.
• 34:50
  He talks to Bill in French for a second.
• 34:52
  Bill, who has been totally unconcerned this whole time,
• 34:55
  actually says I'm going to cut his Dick off and set him on
• 34:57
  fire. Like the poor guy, I mean, he's
• 35:03
  done nothing to these people and they're just all cut off his
• 35:06
  Dick and set him on fire. It's like, what did the guy's
• 35:08
  Dick do to you? Then the music spikes and
• 35:13
  Chris's eyes go huge because nobody wants their Dick cut off
• 35:16
  or set on fire I guess either. But Dick part was probably the
• 35:20
  worst. This is where the scene tips
• 35:22
  from this weird theater. It has a whole overly dramatic
• 35:27
  these are like theater kids feeling to it.
• 35:30
  And then it gets a little more menacing.
• 35:31
  So then Alexander drops the real bait.
• 35:33
  He's like, since he's the source of the grant money, which is
• 35:36
  over $300,000, all this performance, he suggests it's
• 35:39
  supposed to be the thing that gets them funded.
• 35:42
  He goes in this whole speech and there's a he says a lot of words
• 35:45
  and it's part. They use words in this movie,
• 35:51
  and there's a lot of them too. A lot.
• 35:54
  Almost every scene has words in it.
• 35:57
  It's crazy. Gosh, I was like, what's with
• 35:59
  all these words? They even write them down on.
• 36:03
  Paper they do. And so his, his, his speech is
• 36:06
  pure art world nihilism. It's warehouses turning into
• 36:10
  condos and there's a Starbucks and Trader Trader Joe's moving
• 36:13
  in. There's Arter lofts.
• 36:15
  They're gonna be marketed to the very people who will be priced
• 36:18
  out of the area. And he's like, what we do
• 36:20
  tonight will change things forever.
• 36:24
  Dripping with pretension. So everyone's eating it up,
• 36:27
  except you can tell there's equal parts hubris and
• 36:30
  desperation under it all. It's it's just ridiculous.
• 36:33
  This whole speech, every time this guy talks, it's ridiculous.
• 36:36
  Right. So then Alexander gets very art
• 36:40
  world poetic, and he says, I want you to think of him not as
• 36:43
  your victim, but as your collaborator.
• 36:46
  When the coroner writes the cause of death, it will read
• 36:49
  art. And then we cue the slow clap,
• 36:52
  like, oh, right. So he pushes the group towards
• 36:55
  something avant-garde. They'll wait until the witching
• 36:58
  hour. And this is his plan.
• 36:59
  This is supposed to be avant-garde.
• 37:01
  This is what he decides. They're going to wait until the
• 37:03
  witching hour, and then they're all going to stab Chris until he
• 37:07
  dies. Wow.
• 37:09
  Not exactly ground breaking or out there.
• 37:15
  So for the four people in the room, they just like, nod, but
• 37:17
  you can also kind of tell that they're like, what?
• 37:20
  OK. Alexander insists that the ACT
• 37:22
  is the artwork itself, so there'll be no splatter of blood
• 37:25
  on canvases or anything like that.
• 37:27
  It's the murder is the performance.
• 37:30
  Like whatever, dude. So then Macon says he needs food
• 37:32
  before they do this. So they start arguing about
• 37:34
  dinner with an absurd montage of Alexander says, well, we need to
• 37:39
  get cake because you can't have a party without cake.
• 37:41
  And Macon says he wants pizza and Alexander's like, no, no
• 37:44
  pizza. Then you've got somebody with
• 37:46
  Thai and then sushi and and everybody's like back and forth,
• 37:50
  back and forth. Everybody wants something
• 37:52
  different. It's like when you have kids,
• 37:54
  you know, what do you want for dinner?
• 37:55
  I want macaroni and cheese. I want ramen, bitches.
• 38:00
  Just pick something. Just one thing.
• 38:02
  I want macaroni and cheese. I don't want that.
• 38:05
  I want ramen. So, but they're all standing in
• 38:08
  a circle looking at each other and the, the camera's like in
• 38:11
  the middle, basically going around the circle, going back
• 38:13
  and forth as everybody's saying what they want.
• 38:16
  And it's going through all these things.
• 38:17
  And eventually the funny part about it is it all gets back to
• 38:20
  where Alexander's like, let's just get pizza, which is where
• 38:22
  they started. And during all of this, Chris is
• 38:26
  quietly working his hands free from the rope ties, so
• 38:30
  eventually Paul notices the empty chairs and yells God damn
• 38:34
  it. Chaos flips into action.
• 38:36
  Everybody scrambles for weapons except Alexander, who just opens
• 38:40
  his flip phone, and Bill, who remains inexplicably chill on
• 38:43
  the floor, scrolling sideways on his phone.
• 38:45
  Bill is the least faced human being on Earth.
• 38:47
  Nothing bothers him. Lexi panics for a second, then
• 38:50
  spots Chris. He's trying to hide behind
• 38:52
  cardboard boxes and I'm assuming that's because he thinks his
• 38:55
  cardboard boxes night outfit will hide him behind these
• 38:59
  boxes. But of course it does not work.
• 39:02
  So he bolts down a corridor. Macon grabs an electric
• 39:05
  chainsaw, so he has to plug it in.
• 39:07
  So he's limited to the length of the power cord, even though he
• 39:11
  does find an extension cord, but he's still limited to whatever
• 39:14
  the length of this extension cord is as to how far he can go
• 39:17
  and if he can attack anybody for that matter.
• 39:20
  So he's but he's going down a it's not really a corridor, it's
• 39:23
  just where the shelves are lined up and they're all going in
• 39:26
  between where the shelves are lined up and the box is on the
• 39:29
  shelves. Yes, he's going through, he's
• 39:30
  taken this electric chainsaw and he's going cutting through all
• 39:34
  these boxes. Chris rounds the corner coming
• 39:37
  down this aisle towards him. But as soon as he gets close
• 39:41
  enough to him, of course the electrical cord pulls out and
• 39:43
  it's useless. So.
• 39:45
  Right and and you know, electric chainsaws are, are known for
• 39:50
  their durability and their power strength of cutting through
• 39:54
  things. Yes, the power of cut through.
• 39:55
  Things which we see later on every time it gets used.
• 39:59
  It's ridiculous. So Zyko has grabbed an axe and
• 40:02
  others are also grabbing any lethal looking props they can
• 40:05
  find. Bill finally sets his phone down
• 40:08
  and picks up a baseball bat. Like fine, whatever, I'll join
• 40:10
  in. The chase is sloppy, frantic,
• 40:13
  and kind of dumb, especially from this group.
• 40:15
  You can, it's kind of what you're going to expect.
• 40:17
  It's like the whole, you know, chainsaw thing and everything.
• 40:19
  But Chris manages to shove past him the werewolf Macon and bolts
• 40:24
  into a room, slams the door and you can hear Lexi yelling, There
• 40:28
  he is, there he is. Well actually before he even
• 40:30
  gets to the door, they're all kind of near him.
• 40:33
  Paul, who is like coming towards him and Lexi's standing there
• 40:37
  pointing at him as he goes to go into this room before he closes
• 40:40
  the door and she's like, there he is, there he is.
• 40:42
  Paul like takes just kind of big weird steps but doesn't like
• 40:45
  lunge or run towards him and he's got a knife.
• 40:47
  It's like he wasn't really trying that hard.
• 40:49
  But Chris gets in this room, closes the door and it locks it.
• 40:53
  He's in here and it's basically a storage unit, A tiny utility
• 40:57
  closet, something like that, and it has all this stuff in there.
• 40:59
  It has a dryer vent, that long silver dryer vent thing.
• 41:03
  It has some fire extinguishers. There's junk everywhere.
• 41:07
  And but he's looking around for anything he can use to get out
• 41:09
  of this room because he can't obviously stay in this room
• 41:11
  forever. Back outside the room,
• 41:13
  everybody's standing outside the door.
• 41:14
  Macon has a chainsaw and it's plugged in closer to him.
• 41:18
  Zyko has a Zyko has an axe, and the rest, you know, they're all
• 41:21
  circling the door. Suddenly the door flies open.
• 41:23
  Chris, who has just grabbed a bunch of stuff off that silver
• 41:26
  this. Random stuff.
• 41:28
  Yeah, that dryer vent thing, the fire extinguisher, I don't know,
• 41:31
  some other stuff. And he just heaves it out.
• 41:33
  He doesn't really throw it at anybody.
• 41:35
  He just kind of tosses it out and hit on the floor.
• 41:37
  And they all just look at it. Yes, just look at it and he gets
• 41:41
  by them it's. Like what?
• 41:43
  Well, I mean, in fairness, they were probably just all confused.
• 41:46
  Like what the hell did he just do with us?
• 41:49
  Like what do we do now, right? So for about two glorious
• 41:55
  seconds, it looks like he's made it.
• 41:57
  Then of course, they catch him. Like in no time they catch him.
• 41:59
  So it's very short lived. They drag him back this time
• 42:02
  they chain him to the chair to have big chains with padlocks,
• 42:06
  and they're back to business. After they've tied him back up
• 42:09
  to the chair with the chains. Everybody's off doing their own
• 42:11
  thing. So he Macon's gone to get the
• 42:13
  pizza and the cake and Bill is playing on his phone on the
• 42:17
  floor. Paul is fussing with his camera
• 42:19
  to try to figure out the right shot.
• 42:20
  And then we see Lexi. There's a wall with a looks like
• 42:24
  a picture window and she's up against it.
• 42:28
  First all you see is her face and she's like moving back and
• 42:30
  forth and you kind of get the idea of what's going on, but
• 42:32
  you're not sure who she's with. And then a little while you can
• 42:36
  see that it's Alexander and he's fucking her from behind and
• 42:39
  she's all up against the window. So then Macon shows back up with
• 42:43
  the pizza and cake as soon as he shows up and he's like, yeah,
• 42:46
  I'm here. Lexi runs up to him from back
• 42:48
  where she and Alexander were. She grabs the cake and takes it
• 42:52
  over to Chris because Alexander announces that the cake is for
• 42:55
  Chris. Lexi has a bunch of white makeup
• 42:58
  on her face because she's all done up and she's got this white
• 43:01
  cake and. Makeup that's that's kind of
• 43:04
  like what the character was. She's crying, so she's got like
• 43:07
  all kicked all over herself. Yeah.
• 43:08
  And so his face is partially like around his mouth and stuff
• 43:11
  and on his cheek. He's got that white makeup smear
• 43:13
  on his face. So he goes up to Macon and he
• 43:17
  says Lexi's vagina screamed at me.
• 43:20
  And yeah. So fucking weird.
• 43:26
  So then, and he says this to Macon and Macon's like what?
• 43:31
  And you can tell he's bummed out, like he's like totally
• 43:34
  upset about this because he obviously likes Lexi.
• 43:36
  And Alexander walks off and Zico tells Alexander he's bored.
• 43:40
  Alexander whispers in his ear. Go grab his nipples and I'll
• 43:45
  spike his guts. What like what right?
• 43:51
  You know, so random like. There's a lot of random weird
• 43:55
  things being said in this movie and it's awkward, but it also
• 43:59
  fits the characters that are saying it because they're weird
• 44:03
  and pretentious themselves. Right, yeah, it works.
• 44:07
  It's weird and quirky, but it does work with right who these
• 44:11
  people are. So Mikan, who's now gist about
• 44:14
  the whole Alexander fucking Lexi, walks over to where Lexi
• 44:18
  and Paul are and it's right in front of Chris and he just
• 44:21
  throws the pizza boxes on the floor.
• 44:23
  And that's not how you treat good pizza.
• 44:25
  No. Well, maybe it wasn't good
• 44:26
  pizza. True, true.
• 44:28
  So Paul quietly asks to borrow Lexi's phone, and she, of
• 44:31
  course, makes a comment about how, oh, you should be on your
• 44:34
  phone during a murder. And he's like this.
• 44:36
  He's just like, give me the phone.
• 44:37
  So he sneaks off and he calls someone and he's like, hey, can
• 44:39
  you come down here? These guys are idiots.
• 44:41
  He gives them the address. So now he's reaching out to
• 44:43
  somebody outside of this group to come in and help him with
• 44:46
  something. Meanwhile, Alexander kills the
• 44:48
  music and announces that Zyko has brought a treat.
• 44:50
  Everyone sits in a circle while Zyko pulls out a bag with a vial
• 44:53
  and a bunch of needles. Alexander declares they're going
• 44:56
  to play extreme truth or dare. The vial, it has truth serum, so
• 45:00
  everyone's supposed to get injected with this truth serum.
• 45:03
  Some of them aren't interested, like Lexie.
• 45:06
  She's like, I'm afraid of needles.
• 45:07
  They hurt, whatever. And it's like, I was like, you
• 45:11
  can't even feel this needle. She's like, yes, I can.
• 45:13
  And as he's saying this, he's, I guess putting it in her butt.
• 45:16
  She's. He's injecting her.
• 45:17
  There, Yeah. And he's like, yeah, you can't
• 45:19
  feel this. And she's like, you asshole.
• 45:22
  And then this stuff works fast. Fast.
• 45:27
  Like and it makes you like dopey high I guess.
• 45:30
  I don't know. Yeah, I don't know how that
• 45:31
  stuff works. Yeah, Macon had said, oh, I want
• 45:35
  to use the same needle that Lexi uses.
• 45:36
  And she's like, EW, that's gross.
• 45:38
  And but so Zico goes ahead and refills that needle and tosses
• 45:44
  it to him. He's like, here, this one's for
• 45:45
  you. So he goes and he shoots it up
• 45:47
  in his arm and Bill's like, yeah, I'm down for that.
• 45:50
  So he throws Bill, Bill, William.
• 45:52
  I interchange it in this whole movie because sometimes they
• 45:54
  call him William, sometimes they call him Bill.
• 45:55
  And I keep doing it too. So Bill takes it and he puts it
• 45:59
  between his fingers. And I was like but.
• 46:03
  Well, I mean that's where some injectable.
• 46:06
  Oh yeah, yeah, in between the toes, under the under the nails,
• 46:09
  which. Reduces reduces the nail, the
• 46:13
  needle tracks and. And then we see Alexander take
• 46:18
  his needle and instead of injecting himself, he makes it,
• 46:21
  even though it seems real obvious.
• 46:22
  He injects it into the crust of the pizza, which Chris notices
• 46:26
  and his eyes get wide but nobody else notices.
• 46:29
  But anyway, they all end up getting injected and Zyko, he
• 46:31
  ends up taking a pill and the girl and Lexi's like, what's
• 46:34
  that? He's like, oh, the same thing.
• 46:37
  Yeah, they put it in pill form. It makes everybody get injected
• 46:41
  and then they don't want to and he could just go into pills.
• 46:43
  This is kind of how this movie is.
• 46:45
  It's not like a spoof in the way that say, Scary Movie is a
• 46:49
  spoof, but they are definitely making fun of things.
• 46:53
  And there are these kind of, and actually, it's funny, I mean,
• 46:56
  because this whole next section is nothing but puns, but they
• 46:58
  basically do kind of have this whole pun kind of thing going
• 47:01
  on. Like when Paul was telling
• 47:04
  Macon, you know, we said no alcohol and no weed.
• 47:08
  And as soon as he says that, it scans over to Bill, lighting up
• 47:10
  a joint. I mean, they keep, they do this
• 47:13
  a lot throughout this movie. Yeah.
• 47:14
  Oh, Paul does hesitate and says he doesn't want to take it.
• 47:17
  And Alexander sneers and says, don't be such a dildo, Paul.
• 47:20
  And just so we know, they say dildo about 500 times in this
• 47:25
  movie. Almost everyone.
• 47:26
  They say dildo a lot. Well, it's because they were on
• 47:29
  a budget. They're kind of used so many
• 47:30
  words. Once the injections start
• 47:33
  kicking in, they all get loopy and start tossing around pun
• 47:36
  after pun after pun. Bill says.
• 47:39
  Paul puts the the bitch in barbiturate, barbiturate
• 47:43
  arbituate and they all laugh and they all crack a lot, but they
• 47:46
  all start doing all these puns and they all think it's
• 47:49
  hilarious. And every time someone does a
• 47:51
  really funny pun, Alexander says, you're my new best friend.
• 47:55
  And Chris, who's still tied to his chair and and gagged, starts
• 47:59
  tapping his feet together and stomping on the floor trying to
• 48:01
  get their attention. So they noticed, of course, they
• 48:03
  were like, you have something to say.
• 48:04
  And he nods and they're like, is it a pun?
• 48:06
  And he nods again. So Alexander gets up and goes
• 48:08
  over, pulls the gag from his mouth and at first Chris backs
• 48:12
  off of what he's going to. He's like, oh, forget it, I
• 48:13
  missed my moment. Alexander presses him and
• 48:16
  threatens him with a chainsaw. And he's like, OK, OK.
• 48:19
  And he said, I had a crazy night.
• 48:22
  They all looked at him. He's like, you know, but knight
• 48:25
  with AK, like, you know, with the armor.
• 48:28
  And they all stare at him blankly.
• 48:30
  And then he says, I don't think I should be punished.
• 48:34
  So then there's a bit of silence where they all crack up at that
• 48:37
  one. So now Alexander is like, oh,
• 48:40
  you're my new best friend. And he wheels him over to the
• 48:43
  group. And then they give him the truth
• 48:44
  serum. So now they're all hanging out
• 48:46
  in this circle with the truth serum.
• 48:48
  Then comes, you know, let's you know, let's all be real honest
• 48:51
  and making making kick making kicks it off.
• 48:55
  And he's like, who's the best artist here?
• 48:57
  And they all shout out me, of course, Bill says I don't want
• 49:01
  to be here. I just want to be home watching
• 49:04
  ADVD with my mom and dad, right. I was hilarious.
• 49:07
  This guy at this murder party, he wants to be home with his mom
• 49:10
  and dad, and they're probably all in their what, 30s, late
• 49:15
  20s, late. 20s, early 30s, yeah. And I think he said something
• 49:18
  like, not here with this whore or something like that.
• 49:21
  Lexi chimes in. She's like, OK, I'll be honest.
• 49:23
  And then she reaches into her shirt and she pulls out one of
• 49:25
  those silicone bra inserts. The group thinks it's fantastic.
• 49:29
  It's amazing. Apparently it's like some ground
• 49:31
  breaking artistic performance. Macon says.
• 49:34
  Oh, I love that you did that, and I love you.
• 49:39
  Far is low. Yeah, so Paul suddenly claims
• 49:42
  that he can lie even though he's on this truth serum.
• 49:45
  And to prove it he says just to Macon, ask me a question.
• 49:48
  So Macon says, what's your favorite color?
• 49:50
  And Paul says purple. Then everyone just stares at him
• 49:53
  and he smirks. See, my favorite color is blue.
• 50:00
  Bill says. Well, purple has a lot of blue
• 50:02
  in it. Yeah, not wrong.
• 50:04
  Then Lexi says we all know what your favorite food is, so tell
• 50:08
  us. So then Paul randomly blurts out
• 50:10
  I'm bisexual, right? And it's like, what?
• 50:14
  And again, just random. Like they get these weird random
• 50:17
  things. Now you could, I guess maybe
• 50:19
  blame it on them being high if truth serum makes you high.
• 50:22
  I I don't know. Yeah, again, I don't know much
• 50:25
  about it. I've never had any experience
• 50:28
  with it one way or the other. Right, yeah.
• 50:30
  So then Zyko, Zyko follows this, Paul saying I'm bisexual.
• 50:35
  Zyko follows it. I make sex with Pillow.
• 50:38
  And he's Russian, by the way. Yeah, So he says it that way.
• 50:41
  I make sex with Pillow. So making digs in necks, asking
• 50:44
  Lexie if she remembers watching the water towers get blown up a
• 50:47
  couple years ago with him. And they there was some other
• 50:50
  guy there with them. And she's like, yeah, maybe.
• 50:53
  He says we ate ice cream and this and that or whatever.
• 50:55
  So he pulls out this baggie and it has a popsicle stick that she
• 50:58
  had eaten from two years prior. He's been saving it all this
• 51:02
  time. Every kind of looks around.
• 51:04
  Nothing happens with it. You just find out that he's this
• 51:06
  is just pushing more, that he's obviously in love with Lexie.
• 51:09
  And then Paul confesses that as a kid he wants her to letter to
• 51:12
  Santa asking not to be Jewish then.
• 51:20
  Then Bill asks the group what they say about him when he's not
• 51:22
  around. Paul bluntly tells him they're
• 51:24
  kicking him out of the collective.
• 51:25
  Lexi softens it by saying it's because you're so talented and
• 51:28
  we're insecure. And then she admits how she
• 51:30
  hates good art because it proves that there's no room left for
• 51:33
  her. Paul then presses Alexander
• 51:35
  about the grant money, and Paul asks, do you really have
• 51:37
  $300,000 in grant money? And he smugly says no, it's more
• 51:41
  like half a million. Yeah, whatever.
• 51:43
  Yeah, we all know that. He, of course, has not taken
• 51:46
  this truth serum. Then Chris chimes in with his
• 51:49
  own truth. He says I dumped myself.
• 51:52
  And then he kind of stops. So everyone pushes back away
• 51:55
  from him because I think he's just, he's just done this.
• 51:58
  And they're like, EW. So then he leads into a story
• 52:02
  about where he got stuck in an elevator at his cousin's
• 52:04
  wedding, and he shit his pants when the doors finally open.
• 52:07
  He then had to walk through a model airplane convention, then
• 52:11
  climb six flights of stairs, and he could feel it down into his
• 52:15
  shoes. Now, he was also a Grossman.
• 52:17
  So now the group starts peppering him with questions.
• 52:19
  Are you gay? No.
• 52:21
  What's your favorite record? The Big chill soundtrack?
• 52:23
  What's your job? And then he admits that he works
• 52:25
  for the NYPD. So now they're all like, oh, my
• 52:28
  God, are you a cop? And it turns out, no, he's a
• 52:31
  traffic enforcement official. It's which is a civilian role.
• 52:35
  That is he just hands out parking tickets.
• 52:37
  Chris quietly admits he didn't tell anyone he was coming to
• 52:39
  this party, and no one would even miss him if he died.
• 52:42
  Then he just sort of slumps over, and I guess he passes out.
• 52:45
  Lexi then is like, let's do coke.
• 52:48
  Then we cut to this, another montage.
• 52:50
  There's loud music. Everyone's partying.
• 52:51
  Lexi and Alexander are dancing all over the place.
• 52:54
  Macon is pounding back more alcohol.
• 52:57
  Bill is painting. He's got this little easel, he's
• 53:00
  sitting on the floor with a small little easel and he's
• 53:02
  suddenly got all this paint stuff and he's painting.
• 53:04
  And then, because apparently this is a pattern, Alexander
• 53:08
  gets bored of Lexi. He shoots Paul a look and
• 53:11
  suddenly he's now hooking up with Paul in the exact same spot
• 53:15
  and in the exact same way he was with Lexi earlier.
• 53:17
  So the music finally calms down. Alexander, Paul and Lexie admire
• 53:20
  Bill's painting they all keep behind him.
• 53:23
  Alexander calls it fabulous. Then he hears Hellhammer barking
• 53:26
  outside. He tells Bill to go check on the
• 53:28
  dog, so Bill gets up and he heads out.
• 53:31
  Meanwhile, Macon stumbles over to Chris, who's gagged again and
• 53:34
  whispers, did you piss your pants?
• 53:36
  Chris shakes his head no. Macon says I won't tell anyone,
• 53:40
  then collapses to the floor and immediately starts snoring.
• 53:44
  He's out outside. We cut to Bill talking to the
• 53:46
  dog, calmly calling the dog a stupid, stupid dummy, and then
• 53:50
  says he kills fuzzy ones. Yeah.
• 53:53
  And, and there's no need to treat the dog that way.
• 53:56
  The dog did nothing wrong to anybody.
• 53:59
  He's just chilling outside. I mean, he's just doing what
• 54:02
  dogs do. They throw him outside and Bill
• 54:05
  goes out and he's treating him like shit.
• 54:07
  Leave the damn dog alone. He was being a really good dog
• 54:09
  for being out there for so long by himself.
• 54:11
  He was. Yeah.
• 54:12
  And he was tied up into just a short little leash.
• 54:14
  It wasn't like he had some long run.
• 54:16
  He could, you know, run around on.
• 54:17
  Right. Exactly.
• 54:19
  But Bill's a little weird, you know, the quiet ones.
• 54:22
  He said the quiet 1. So meanwhile, back inside,
• 54:24
  Alexander, Lexi and Paul are standing over Bill's painting,
• 54:27
  totally trashing it. And that smug art school way
• 54:30
  where they pretended they're. They're intellectuals.
• 54:33
  Alexander calls it jejune. They all oh and ah at the word
• 54:39
  like it's the first time they've ever heard it.
• 54:41
  They're like a nice word. So then we we see Bill from
• 54:44
  behind because he's walked in now as they're talking trash
• 54:48
  about his art and you can see his fists clenching and he can
• 54:52
  clearly hear them ripping it apart.
• 54:54
  Lexi casually sees him and then she's like oh how's the dog?
• 54:58
  Bill says it's fine then dryly says should we get on with the
• 55:02
  murder Zeiko who's bored out of his skull but they just jumps.
• 55:04
  He says yes let's do that. Bill silently takes his painting
• 55:08
  down and tosses it behind him because now he knows it's trash.
• 55:11
  Lexi snorts another line of coke.
• 55:12
  Alexander pulls Zeiko aside and says he needs crank before he
• 55:16
  can do this, go get some. So Zeiko heads out.
• 55:19
  Alexander utters that he'll stall these guys until he gets
• 55:21
  back. He tells everyone in the room
• 55:23
  that it's almost the witching hour and announces that he is
• 55:25
  going to recite Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven in its entirety
• 55:29
  before the ritual murder. And then he actually starts
• 55:32
  doing it. Up until this point, I was
• 55:35
  wondering why they were taking so long to, you know, kill this
• 55:39
  guy. Then when there's like, oh, the
• 55:41
  witching hour, it's like, oh, OK, it's going to be some sort
• 55:44
  of like ritualistic killing or something.
• 55:46
  Right. Yeah.
• 55:47
  You know, it's like you're taking way too damn long.
• 55:50
  I mean, this poor guy, you kidnapped him.
• 55:52
  He doesn't know what the Hell's going on.
• 55:54
  And you just keep pushing and pushing.
• 55:57
  It's like, just kill the guy already, you know?
• 56:00
  I mean I don't want to see Chris die because he seems like a nice
• 56:03
  guy, but at the same time like stop stringing him along.
• 56:06
  He did say that they were going to do it during the witching
• 56:08
  hour back during that weird speech he gave talking about,
• 56:12
  you know, how on Vanguard their art was going to be and blah,
• 56:15
  blah, blah, blah. But it was filled with a whole
• 56:18
  bunch of other bullshit so it would be easy to miss.
• 56:20
  I also thought the witching hour was 3:00 AM.
• 56:22
  It is. OK, well, they're they're going
• 56:24
  to do midnight, So what do they know?
• 56:26
  Losers. All right, so he does go through
• 56:29
  and actually starts reciting the Raven, but his performance gets
• 56:33
  interrupted by a knock at the door and it's you hear a woman's
• 56:36
  voice call. Hello, hello.
• 56:38
  So Paul runs over, answers the door, brings a young woman in,
• 56:41
  and this is the woman, the person he called earlier for
• 56:43
  backup. The group starts kind of
• 56:45
  freaking out, but quietly freaking out.
• 56:46
  They're like, what the fuck, Paul?
• 56:48
  He shrugs. He's like, I never do a photo
• 56:49
  shoot without an assistant please.
• 56:53
  I mean, come on. So Lexi runs up and she's like,
• 56:57
  what are you thinking, Paul? And Paul's like, you don't want
• 57:00
  to know what I'm thinking. Then Macon, who has finally
• 57:04
  gotten up from where he passed out before when he was talking
• 57:06
  to Chris, walks between them and says, I'm tired of listening to
• 57:08
  people bitch in a little room, I'm going outside to smoke.
• 57:11
  So he heads out. Paul tries to frame it as art,
• 57:14
  not just a stabbing. Someone hisses.
• 57:17
  Don't say stab in front of him like he doesn't know it's
• 57:19
  coming. But you already told him you
• 57:22
  were going to stab him. Alexander says This is a private
• 57:25
  party, Paul. She wasn't invited.
• 57:27
  Then we cut to Macon, who's outside with the dog.
• 57:29
  He has his mask pushed up. Then he's like, I'm going to
• 57:32
  tell you something I've never told anybody.
• 57:35
  And then he pulls the mask back down and puts the cigarette in
• 57:38
  his mouth, which is now way back behind the mask because there's
• 57:41
  this whole snout for the werewolf that's sticking out.
• 57:44
  So he has to put the cigarette way back in his mouth.
• 57:46
  And he goes. He lights his lighter.
• 57:49
  And I'm thinking, dude, you're going to, like, set yourself on
• 57:53
  fire. And sure enough, that's exactly
• 57:55
  what happened. He set himself on fire.
• 57:58
  It was a very quick foreshadowing.
• 58:00
  Yeah, right. And a quick flame of fire, like
• 58:03
  he went up fast. Yes, he did.
• 58:04
  Macon lights up. Flames shoot inside his mask.
• 58:07
  And from inside, you can see from Chris, his eyes get wide
• 58:11
  because he can see the fire flare up, and he hears Macon
• 58:14
  scream. Chris is looking at the
• 58:16
  assistant and she's, you know, who's busy checking his lighting
• 58:19
  to make sure the lighting's right on his face or whatever.
• 58:21
  And she doesn't realize anything's going on, but Chris
• 58:23
  is trying to signal to her, to her like, hey, hey, hey,
• 58:25
  something's happening. Meanwhile, Paul keeps justifying
• 58:28
  the assistant's presence. He's like, she's not staying.
• 58:31
  I just need one portrait. She'll be gone out before
• 58:33
  midnight. And then Alexander cuts in.
• 58:35
  Looks like Paul doesn't want to grant.
• 58:37
  Paul snaps. What grant?
• 58:39
  We've been submitting work to you for months.
• 58:41
  Do we have to do an application? I've never seen this so-called
• 58:44
  renowned work of yours. And he looks Lexi, he's like,
• 58:46
  have you seen it? And she's like, no.
• 58:48
  So now you can get the feeling that Paul's starting to doubt
• 58:50
  Alexander even has this money. So then we cut back to Chris.
• 58:53
  He's gagged, of course, but making frantic, oh, oh, oh
• 58:56
  noises until the assistant finally pulls A gag out.
• 58:59
  And he's like, run, you've got to run now.
• 59:01
  And she just shrugs. And she's like, oh, this kind of
• 59:03
  thing happens at every set. Clearly is, you know, assuming
• 59:05
  that he's talking about this artist drama.
• 59:07
  They're all upset and yelling at each other.
• 59:09
  So then we go back to Paul, and he's pressing harder.
• 59:12
  He's like, let's see your sketchbook, Alexander, show us
• 59:14
  what's in it. And Alexander bristles.
• 59:16
  He's like you're, you're crossing a line, Paul.
• 59:18
  But Paul won't back down. Just then Hellhammer starts
• 59:21
  barking outside like crazy. Alexander tells Lexie to go
• 59:24
  check it out. Then she comes running back in.
• 59:27
  She has the dog, and as she's walking through between
• 59:31
  Alexander and Paul, she's like, make it on fire.
• 59:36
  Yeah. Then just keeps walking.
• 59:37
  Nobody listens to her. That makin's on.
• 59:39
  Makin's on fire. She just walks over to where
• 59:42
  Chris is and she ties the dog up to the chair that Chris is tied
• 59:45
  up to. So then you can still hear Paul
• 59:48
  asking Alexander, why don't you invite us to your house in the
• 59:50
  Hamptons? Why is your cell phone Jersey
• 59:53
  area code? Why do we always pay for your
• 59:55
  dinner? And then Alexander's like the
• 59:57
  Hamptons aren't. You're seeing.
• 59:58
  New Jersey is where My business. I do a lot of business.
• 1:00:00
  And what about Coney Island? And Paul shoots back.
• 1:00:03
  Those were hot dogs. They're.
• 1:00:05
  Going back and forth and like she's not in a rush, like she's
• 1:00:08
  not moving super fast at all herself, but she goes over, she
• 1:00:11
  finds a fire extinguisher on the wall, she takes it down, she
• 1:00:14
  goes outside, she goes to use it.
• 1:00:16
  It doesn't work. So she goes back inside, very
• 1:00:18
  nonchalantly puts it down, goes over to the assistant, tells the
• 1:00:22
  assistant, come with me. And they go and they find two
• 1:00:25
  more extinguishers. They go back outside.
• 1:00:28
  They douse, make Mason. He's charred but still alive.
• 1:00:32
  Inside, Paul's argument with Alexander reaches full boil.
• 1:00:35
  He's basically calling him a fraud.
• 1:00:36
  Meanwhile, Chris is quietly inching his chair toward the
• 1:00:39
  dog. He's like turning his chair in a
• 1:00:41
  way to twist around so he can get the dog off the leash and
• 1:00:45
  unhook it. So when he does that, the dog
• 1:00:47
  immediately goes over to the freezer and starts sniffing
• 1:00:50
  around. And he's whining at it the same
• 1:00:51
  way he was before, but this time it snags Alexander's attention.
• 1:00:55
  So Alexander strolls over like he's like, well, let's see
• 1:00:59
  what's going on over here. And then Chris is, Chris is
• 1:01:02
  watching this happen, and Chris is getting excited.
• 1:01:04
  Like he's like, oh, now finally some shit's going to happen
• 1:01:08
  because he's going to find out that Sky is dead.
• 1:01:10
  So I'm sure he's thinking, why would they hide Sky from being
• 1:01:13
  dead from Alexander unless there's going to be some big
• 1:01:16
  trouble for it, right? So Chris is watching the group
• 1:01:18
  and he's like, yeah, this is going to be it.
• 1:01:20
  They're going to open the freezer and it's going to be all
• 1:01:22
  over. So Alexander flips the lid.
• 1:01:24
  Lexi and the assistant stagger in as they're dragging Macon
• 1:01:27
  back in, who is still smoking and half charred.
• 1:01:31
  Lexi freezes past. That presumed dead at that
• 1:01:35
  point. Yeah, I mean you would.
• 1:01:36
  Because he wasn't really moving, yeah.
• 1:01:38
  Yeah, So Lexi, as she's breezing past Alexander with the body,
• 1:01:42
  she deads pans and says that was an accident.
• 1:01:45
  She's talking about Sky being dead in the freezer.
• 1:01:47
  As this is going on, Paul notices the leftover vial and
• 1:01:50
  needles are still on the floor from the truth serum, so he
• 1:01:53
  picks one of the vials up and the truth serum in it.
• 1:01:56
  Alexander spins around, closes the freezer and says something
• 1:02:00
  like 1 down 3 to go. Paul moves up to him and stabs
• 1:02:04
  him in the neck with the truth serum.
• 1:02:05
  Lexi yelps What the fuck are you doing?
• 1:02:07
  Alexander goes. It's immediately all doped up
• 1:02:10
  and looks totally high, like instantaneously.
• 1:02:14
  So then he's like I'm a fry cook.
• 1:02:17
  And then Paul sneers and says see, he's full of shit and Lexi
• 1:02:21
  Berg's Ugg I let you fuck me. Everybody's feeling dejected at
• 1:02:25
  this point. She probably feels gross because
• 1:02:27
  she just let this nobody fry cook fucker.
• 1:02:30
  And everybody's like, he's been all this pretentious asshole all
• 1:02:33
  this time and and we're obviously better than he is
• 1:02:36
  because we're artistes. So Paul rifles through
• 1:02:39
  Alexander's sketchbook while he's out of it.
• 1:02:41
  It's basically got like a whole bunch of words.
• 1:02:43
  And then he's got these cut and paste colleges, like he cut
• 1:02:47
  pictures out of magazines or something.
• 1:02:48
  But Paul notices that he has jejune written in there.
• 1:02:52
  So he's like, are you seriously just writing down words that you
• 1:02:55
  can use on us later? And he's like, yeah.
• 1:02:57
  So then there's another page that has grocery style notes for
• 1:03:01
  his grandmother. It's his Centrum Silver
• 1:03:03
  Metamucil 6 pack Ensure arthritis meds and a reminder to
• 1:03:06
  watch CSI Miami. I paused that because I thought
• 1:03:12
  that was a little funny little page, because just this guy's
• 1:03:15
  just a regular dude. So Paul confronts him.
• 1:03:18
  He's like, where are my photographs?
• 1:03:19
  And then Alexander says that they're at his grandmother's
• 1:03:21
  house in New Jersey. And then Lexi's like, well, what
• 1:03:23
  about my art? What were you?
• 1:03:25
  What are you going to do with it?
• 1:03:26
  He's like, well, I was going to kill you and then sell it
• 1:03:28
  because art isn't worth anything until you're dead.
• 1:03:31
  So then the assistant zips up her bag and she's like, I'm
• 1:03:33
  leaving. And Paul says, yeah, we're all
• 1:03:35
  leaving after I take one last picture.
• 1:03:38
  Then Lexi snares at Alexander and says, I hate you.
• 1:03:40
  Is that even your real name? And he's like, no, it's Tim.
• 1:03:45
  Do you ever also notice with horror movies, it's always 01
• 1:03:48
  Last time, one last room, one more minute, right?
• 1:03:53
  It's like that. Just one more is usually what
• 1:03:55
  gets everybody killed. Oh, yeah, like, if he had just
• 1:03:57
  been like, OK, let's pack up and go, he still might have gotten
• 1:04:00
  killed, but he would have been paying attention, I guess.
• 1:04:03
  And maybe it could have saved him from being killed because
• 1:04:05
  now he's so focused on looking at his camera that he doesn't
• 1:04:07
  notice what's going on around him.
• 1:04:09
  At that moment, Zynko bursts back in with his huge bag of
• 1:04:12
  prank and pops the bag on the freezer.
• 1:04:15
  Alexander, He's still in his little, like, zoned out thing,
• 1:04:18
  but he knows what's going on. But he looks like he's like, hey
• 1:04:21
  man, shoot Paul in the face. He does.
• 1:04:24
  He shoots him. Lexi did scream to to make Paul
• 1:04:27
  aware, but Paul is not paying attention.
• 1:04:29
  He's just focused on getting this picture taken.
• 1:04:32
  So when Zyko, Zyko shoots him and he goes clean through his
• 1:04:35
  head, but Paul is still upright and he's he turns and he's like
• 1:04:39
  unbelievable. Like motherfucker, you shot me.
• 1:04:43
  This is unbelievable. He's still talking.
• 1:04:45
  Everything seems fine. Then you have Alexander who who
• 1:04:49
  says shoot him, shoot all of them.
• 1:04:51
  So then Echo fires again, hitting the assistant, and then
• 1:04:55
  Paul's still bizarrely aware and yells unbelievable.
• 1:04:58
  Will you just let me finish before Zyko puts two more rounds
• 1:05:02
  into him. Paul finally drops to his knees,
• 1:05:05
  but he's still aware and he's like, blood's dripping, like not
• 1:05:09
  even dripping. It's pouring from his head and
• 1:05:10
  he's got his hands out like he's trying to catch it.
• 1:05:12
  But then he finally drops to his knees and falls down the ground,
• 1:05:16
  and he's dead. Chris, who's still chained up,
• 1:05:18
  watches with wide eyes, and he's like, you can see.
• 1:05:21
  And he's like, don't shoot me, Don't shoot me.
• 1:05:22
  He's shaking his head. Then during all this, the dog
• 1:05:26
  gets kind of up on the freezer and he's nosing around, and he
• 1:05:29
  finds the big bag of crank and takes it down.
• 1:05:31
  So then on the ground one last time before Paul does die, he
• 1:05:34
  does look at his psycho's shoes and says look at your stupid
• 1:05:37
  shoes. Famous last.
• 1:05:40
  Words. Yeah.
• 1:05:41
  Lexi snaps and hurls herself onto Zyko's back and they
• 1:05:44
  wrestle and they're on the all over the ground and they're
• 1:05:46
  thrashing around. Then we go back to Alexander,
• 1:05:49
  who's still on top of the freezer, and he starts, you
• 1:05:51
  know, fumbling around on the freezer looking for his bag of
• 1:05:53
  crank. He's like, where's my crank?
• 1:05:55
  Meanwhile, we see Hellhammer, who is now torn into the crank
• 1:05:59
  and consumes some of it. So Macon, still alive,
• 1:06:02
  surprisingly, suddenly stirs. He sits up.
• 1:06:06
  He pulls off his mostly melted werewolf mask, which takes off
• 1:06:10
  the entire you know, all of his hair is gone.
• 1:06:13
  He's all bloody and charred. It peels off some of his skin
• 1:06:17
  and part of the mask stays stuck to his face.
• 1:06:19
  Yeah, the snout with the teeth and stuff are still stuck to his
• 1:06:22
  face, so he looks like, you know, 1/2 cooked half wolf so.
• 1:06:26
  But he is totally fixated on Lexi and he's fueled by anger
• 1:06:31
  that someone's attacking Lexi. So he staggers over to the
• 1:06:35
  electric chainsaw, even though there's plenty of other weapons
• 1:06:38
  he could use. He really loves that chainsaw.
• 1:06:42
  Well, I mean, everybody has their thing.
• 1:06:44
  Guess so. So he plugs it in, and then he
• 1:06:46
  lumbers towards them and we go back to Bill, who's still
• 1:06:50
  sitting on the floor playing a game on his phone.
• 1:06:51
  He glances up briefly and then just goes right back to the
• 1:06:55
  screen, completely unfazed. Like all this shit's going on,
• 1:06:58
  yeah. He doesn't care.
• 1:06:59
  Doesn't care. Macon Revs the chainsaw and
• 1:07:02
  starts hacking into Zeco's leg. It's slow, probably because it's
• 1:07:05
  electric, doesn't have a whole lot of power, but it takes him
• 1:07:08
  forever to saw into this leg. Zyko's howling and it's funny
• 1:07:13
  because at this point you can hear Bill's game say everybody
• 1:07:16
  dies. Then finally Zyko's grip on Lexi
• 1:07:20
  loosens enough for her to break free.
• 1:07:22
  She runs to the table, snatches her bag, grabs her phone and a
• 1:07:25
  set of keys, and shockingly considerate for this group.
• 1:07:30
  I was like wow. She runs straight to Chris and
• 1:07:33
  unlocks his padlocks, which I was shocked that she would even
• 1:07:36
  think about him because these people are so self absorbed.
• 1:07:40
  Yeah, it was. Kind of, yeah.
• 1:07:41
  It was definitely A twist that I wasn't expecting to see.
• 1:07:45
  Right. Yeah, because I would have
• 1:07:47
  thought they'd all try to run out of there and just leave him
• 1:07:49
  there and not even think about him.
• 1:07:51
  So she's unlocking all the padlocks, He's got an end of the
• 1:07:54
  chain, and she's running around him to untank, you know, get
• 1:07:58
  these this around him and around him around him.
• 1:08:00
  So she's going around in circles around him to take this chain
• 1:08:02
  off of him. At one point she's down in front
• 1:08:06
  of him and she's frantically trying to undo get the heavy
• 1:08:09
  chain around him. So for a second, it seems like
• 1:08:12
  there might be some hope because Zyko, who had the gun, he's down
• 1:08:15
  for the count. We don't think that Alexander's
• 1:08:18
  got a weapon, and he probably doesn't have the balls to do
• 1:08:19
  anything. And if he did, you think that
• 1:08:21
  it's all good. But then you hear in the
• 1:08:22
  background someone say everybody dies and an axe comes down on
• 1:08:26
  the back of Lexi's head and she's killed in one single
• 1:08:30
  brutal hit during all of this stuff that was going on.
• 1:08:34
  Also, Alexander decides he's going to leave, so he walks to
• 1:08:37
  go leave and the dog who's now all hopped up on crank, follows
• 1:08:40
  behind him. After Lexie gets hit with the
• 1:08:44
  axe, you see the dog come back in and you see Alexander
• 1:08:47
  crawling back in and his whole mouth area has been chewed up or
• 1:08:51
  whatever. So the dog obviously attacked
• 1:08:54
  his face but he's still alive. The room collapses into
• 1:08:57
  craziness because then we see Bill, who is just taking this
• 1:09:03
  axe and it looks like he's just barreling down on Alexander just
• 1:09:08
  over and over and over again. He's like, everybody dies.
• 1:09:11
  Everybody dies just constantly. It's all you hear is everybody
• 1:09:13
  dies. Everybody dies.
• 1:09:15
  Just get some anger issues. Yeah, it's like I said, it's the
• 1:09:18
  quiet ones you got to watch out for.
• 1:09:21
  So all this slaughter is going on.
• 1:09:23
  There's blood going everywhere. But Chris, she has freed him up
• 1:09:27
  enough that he can just yank the rest of these chains off over
• 1:09:29
  his head. And he slips away, hopefully
• 1:09:33
  thinking free at last. And he's, you know, bolting out
• 1:09:36
  and he's going back more into the warehouse.
• 1:09:38
  As Chris scrambles to the warehouse, he grabs his glasses.
• 1:09:41
  He found those somehow 'cause they did take his glasses off
• 1:09:42
  earlier and threw him what threw him somewhere.
• 1:09:44
  And he grabbed those 'cause he, he wears glasses.
• 1:09:47
  I don't even know if I brought that up.
• 1:09:48
  William is still full berserk mode with the axe and and, you
• 1:09:51
  know, die, die, die. He's, you know, yelling all this
• 1:09:54
  stuff. Then they do a shot and you
• 1:09:56
  realize he's actually attacking the cake.
• 1:09:59
  So all this time, all this time we think he's been doing this to
• 1:10:02
  Alexander. He's actually been just taking
• 1:10:05
  the axe to this stupid cake. It was probably gross, yeah.
• 1:10:09
  Well, it was a white cake. It was probably blah.
• 1:10:11
  So Chris is running out and he's following all the exit signs,
• 1:10:15
  only to find that once he gets to the exit, it's locked.
• 1:10:18
  So then he runs back and he's leaping up on all these things.
• 1:10:21
  I guess he's leaping on junk, like up on junk.
• 1:10:24
  And I guess he's looking for a way out, maybe in the ceiling, I
• 1:10:27
  don't know. But he finds a conveyor belt
• 1:10:29
  that runs to an upper floor. So he flips it on, climbs in and
• 1:10:32
  starts going up the conveyor belt.
• 1:10:34
  He can still hear William down below losing his mind, but
• 1:10:38
  eventually William is chasing him.
• 1:10:40
  He's following wherever Chris went.
• 1:10:42
  So Chris gets to the to the top floor where this conveyor belt
• 1:10:46
  stops, looks down and he can see William down below getting ready
• 1:10:51
  to get in and get on the conveyor belt, which he does and
• 1:10:53
  he starts moving up. So Chris flips the switch to
• 1:10:55
  send him back down, which he does go back down and then and.
• 1:10:59
  It was kind of funny when that happened.
• 1:11:01
  It was funny. And then Chris, this is like
• 1:11:03
  this whole movie is like almost like a calamity like.
• 1:11:06
  Yeah, it's a, it's a horror. It's, I don't think it presented
• 1:11:09
  itself as such, but it's kind of a horror comedy.
• 1:11:12
  Oh, yeah, yeah. It's totally a horror comedy.
• 1:11:14
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 1:11:15
  After he has it going reverse so that Bill goes back down, he
• 1:11:19
  takes off running. So then of course, when he gets
• 1:11:22
  to the bottom, he just hits the up button and he gets on and
• 1:11:24
  goes back up, yelling this whole time that Chris is going to die.
• 1:11:28
  Now everybody is chasing everybody because we've got Bill
• 1:11:31
  chasing Chris, but we also have Macon, who is back up and
• 1:11:34
  realizes that Bill killed Lexi. So he grabs the electric
• 1:11:39
  chainsaw. Naturally, he starts running
• 1:11:41
  after William and he gets on the Bayer belt and goes up and you
• 1:11:46
  and he's, you can see the long electric cord behind him.
• 1:11:49
  I thought the electric cord was going to get stuck and something
• 1:11:50
  weird was going to happen, but it didn't.
• 1:11:51
  Chris gets outside on the rooftop.
• 1:11:54
  He feels like, OK, I don't know why he thought he had a moment
• 1:11:56
  because he knew that Bill was coming.
• 1:11:59
  I mean, he had to have known that Bill could have just turned
• 1:12:01
  the escalator back the other way to come back up.
• 1:12:04
  But he's like, he takes a minute, whips it out and starts
• 1:12:08
  peeing. And he seems very relieved by
• 1:12:11
  this. And he pees and pees and pees.
• 1:12:13
  He probably had, you know, hours of piss in there that he'd been
• 1:12:15
  holding on to. I'm surprised he didn't pee his
• 1:12:17
  fans. I would have, as we all know,
• 1:12:19
  I'm very good at that. So he's peeing and he thinks
• 1:12:21
  he's momentarily, I guess he thinks he's safe.
• 1:12:24
  But then of course, William strolls out.
• 1:12:26
  They lock eyes. Chris zips back up and bolts for
• 1:12:29
  higher roof via ladder, which I'm like what the fuck?
• 1:12:33
  Why are we going up? Where are you going to go?
• 1:12:35
  Like what the hell again? And now you're on a roof.
• 1:12:37
  OK. William follows, making lumbers
• 1:12:39
  up to the roof, sees where everybody's going.
• 1:12:42
  He's following William and the rooftop area is massive.
• 1:12:47
  I at one point thought they were actually on the street, which I
• 1:12:50
  didn't understand. I was like, how did you go up a
• 1:12:52
  ladder to the street? That doesn't make any sense
• 1:12:55
  because it just it, it was so vast.
• 1:12:57
  So they're just running across this rooftop and they're going
• 1:13:00
  from rooftop to rooftop. These buildings are obviously
• 1:13:03
  really close together. Chris is running and he goes
• 1:13:05
  down a rooftop onto a lower rooftop.
• 1:13:07
  He he's got a good bit of distance between him and
• 1:13:09
  William, but it's weird because he's running.
• 1:13:12
  He's not running super fast, but William's not running at all.
• 1:13:14
  William is just walking with authority is basically all he's
• 1:13:18
  doing. Then of course, Mason, who's all
• 1:13:20
  fucked up, is just kind of lumbering along.
• 1:13:22
  At one point, Chris goes down onto a lower roof.
• 1:13:25
  He finds a ledge and he hides down on this ledge.
• 1:13:29
  We see Bill walk across in the distance.
• 1:13:31
  Bill makes it almost all the way across and we're like, oh, he's
• 1:13:33
  going to go right by him and Chris is going to get away.
• 1:13:35
  But Chris's watch beeps because it's time to take a pill.
• 1:13:38
  And he's like, shit. So then Bill, of course was
• 1:13:41
  like, you're going to die. Everybody dies.
• 1:13:45
  And of course, it's just at that moment that the alarm goes off.
• 1:13:47
  Yeah, of course, perfect timing, and it's an old ass what looks
• 1:13:51
  like an 80s watch to me, but whatever.
• 1:13:56
  Maybe this guy is just really nostalgic for the 80s.
• 1:13:59
  I don't know. So he finally gets the watch to
• 1:14:02
  turn off, the beeping to turn off, and he jumps up almost as
• 1:14:06
  Bill is about to bring the axe down on him, but he manages to
• 1:14:09
  get away somehow. As he's running across these
• 1:14:11
  rooftops, he hears some rock music.
• 1:14:13
  He realizes there's a party on the next roof.
• 1:14:16
  So he leaps across, stumbles into the group of people who are
• 1:14:19
  drinking and dancing, and he starts screaming.
• 1:14:20
  Murderer. He's a murderer.
• 1:14:22
  Call 911. Then he falls down, spills
• 1:14:24
  somebody's drink or something, they call him an asshole and
• 1:14:27
  nobody's taking him seriously because it is Halloween.
• 1:14:31
  So this is probably the perfect time to kill somebody is on
• 1:14:35
  Halloween because no one's going to believe it because you're if
• 1:14:37
  you're covered in blood. Well, yeah, of course it's
• 1:14:38
  Halloween, right? It's.
• 1:14:39
  Halloween, it's the best time to kill somebody.
• 1:14:42
  Absolutely the best time. So then he runs inside and he's
• 1:14:45
  yelling, I need a phone call, 911, call 911.
• 1:14:49
  And he goes down the stairwell. He pauses on the landing, looks
• 1:14:52
  at the next set of stairs, and he comes face to face with a guy
• 1:14:55
  who is dressed like a giant cell phone, which I thought is they
• 1:14:58
  do. This is just that thing, the
• 1:14:59
  thing that they do in this movie.
• 1:15:01
  Like, it's almost like the whole movie's got these puns that are
• 1:15:04
  in there. He needs a cell phone.
• 1:15:06
  And there's a guy that's dressed like a cell phone.
• 1:15:07
  So they're just very committed to being weird and quirky, I
• 1:15:10
  guess. William eventually crashes the
• 1:15:12
  same rooftop, rooftop party. He scans the crowd, sees that
• 1:15:16
  he's not there. He goes inside, and Chris is
• 1:15:18
  already downstairs in the middle of a huge party, maybe kind of
• 1:15:22
  like a rave, but not as crazy, I guess.
• 1:15:24
  But there's lights, there's music, people everywhere.
• 1:15:27
  Chris hides behind this paper wall and he ducks down and he
• 1:15:31
  takes a breather, like you can tell he's like, and he takes a
• 1:15:34
  break. Then we see William and he comes
• 1:15:36
  in. He's looking around.
• 1:15:37
  He can't see Chris, but he sees a bartender.
• 1:15:40
  So he goes over and he orders a pink panty dropper.
• 1:15:43
  While he's drinking it, he sees where Chris stands up because
• 1:15:46
  this paper wall has a light behind it and giving it this
• 1:15:49
  kind of glow. And there's painted spooky
• 1:15:52
  trees, but you can see the shadow of Chris walking behind
• 1:15:56
  this paper wall. So William downs the rest of his
• 1:15:59
  drink and goes after Chris. And he just bursts through the
• 1:16:02
  paper wall. He starts swinging his axe.
• 1:16:04
  And Chris is able to slip, slip away.
• 1:16:07
  And he sprints out of the area. He runs down the hallway.
• 1:16:10
  He stumbles next to a line of people who are waiting for an
• 1:16:13
  interactive human installation called The Bus People, which is
• 1:16:17
  supposed to start at 1:00 AM. He's yelling at everybody.
• 1:16:19
  Call 911. Call 911.
• 1:16:22
  Nobody cares. Nobody's listening.
• 1:16:23
  Nobody cares. He pushes past them.
• 1:16:26
  Then there's a a staffer at the head of the line who's keeping
• 1:16:29
  people back until it's starting. And the staffer stops him.
• 1:16:33
  He's like, hey, are are you part of the show?
• 1:16:35
  And then the staffer gets on his headset to talk to somebody
• 1:16:38
  about this guy. And then Chris runs past him.
• 1:16:42
  So he ends up running past a couple other rooms.
• 1:16:44
  He opens the door and ends up in a room where there's, like, I
• 1:16:47
  don't know, 5 or 6 naked people, and they're all, but they're all
• 1:16:50
  painted up as art in some way. And then there's a sign.
• 1:16:54
  Yeah. And then there's a sign on the
• 1:16:55
  wall that says art with a question mark.
• 1:16:58
  And then Chris says, sorry, I just need to hide.
• 1:17:02
  Anyone got a cell phone? And then he crouches behind a
• 1:17:04
  stand with a pumpkin on it. He's completely visible.
• 1:17:08
  I mean, he's not in at all. You could see the hat.
• 1:17:11
  Yeah, the hat is a huge giveaway.
• 1:17:13
  Like even when he was trying to hide behind the boxes, the hat
• 1:17:16
  is a giveaway, right? So meanwhile, Williams, William
• 1:17:21
  freezes right through security and runs into Cicero.
• 1:17:23
  So Cicero, who was in one of the little room areas that Chris
• 1:17:27
  just went right by to get to the room that had these people in
• 1:17:31
  it, Cicero is there and he's got a headset on and this is his
• 1:17:34
  party, his place. He is obviously the big shot
• 1:17:37
  host there. He sees William and, you know,
• 1:17:40
  his whole costume and the blood and everything.
• 1:17:42
  He's like William Bill and he's like finally an artiste.
• 1:17:50
  So then he's, you know, gushing with at at William talking
• 1:17:54
  about, you know, how great he is.
• 1:17:55
  And he mentions some guy that, I don't know, maybe he was a
• 1:17:58
  professor and how that guy loved his murals back in the day.
• 1:18:01
  He's really just, you know, they all kind of feed each other a
• 1:18:04
  whole bunch of shit. There's a whole lot of smoke
• 1:18:05
  blowing up asses in this group of people.
• 1:18:07
  He mentions he's like, Hey, do you know if Alexander's coming?
• 1:18:12
  And this, of course, now you get this weird shot of Bill where
• 1:18:16
  he's because he broke out of the craziness while he was talking
• 1:18:19
  to Cicero. He was like, he seemed just like
• 1:18:21
  a normal young guy when he started talking to him.
• 1:18:24
  But then once he mentioned Alexander, he goes, he gets this
• 1:18:27
  screeching weird music and he has that face of, oh,
• 1:18:30
  everybody's going to die. So but Cicero's like, I've been
• 1:18:35
  talking to him about a grant. So Alexander's talking to
• 1:18:37
  everybody about a grant. Although I don't know, this guy
• 1:18:39
  doesn't seem like he needs a grant.
• 1:18:40
  This place seems pretty cool. So he's like, here, let me get
• 1:18:44
  you a drink. Then Bill says something about
• 1:18:48
  coming in. At one point Cicero was like,
• 1:18:50
  they're already letting people in and he's like, they're just a
• 1:18:53
  bunch of dildos. So again, he's like, everybody's
• 1:18:55
  saying dildo in this movie, everybody.
• 1:18:57
  And and I really can't express enough how many times they said
• 1:19:01
  dildo in this movie. Again, they were on a tight
• 1:19:04
  budget. They could only use so many
• 1:19:06
  words. It, it does kind of remind me
• 1:19:09
  though, because back in the late 80s, early 90s ish area, and I
• 1:19:13
  think it was in the 80s, because I remember people were
• 1:19:16
  constantly calling people dildo all the time.
• 1:19:18
  But I didn't, I was younger and I didn't know exactly what that
• 1:19:22
  meant. So I was a kid just running
• 1:19:24
  around saying dildo all the time.
• 1:19:26
  Like you're such a dildo. And then somebody, maybe my mom
• 1:19:29
  asked me why I keep saying that. And I was like, this is what
• 1:19:31
  everybody's saying. And she's like, do you know what
• 1:19:33
  that is? And I was like, yeah, it's like
• 1:19:34
  a bird or something. Like a dodo, but a dildo.
• 1:19:43
  Who is the dodo? I was the dodo.
• 1:19:47
  So then my mom told me to stop saying it.
• 1:19:49
  So I was like, OK, I was like, let's talk with this bird.
• 1:19:52
  Why can't I talk about this bird?
• 1:19:53
  I understand. Cicero walks off to go make a
• 1:19:57
  drink for William, and then William takes that opportunity
• 1:20:01
  to go and find Chris. He's back into the thing but he
• 1:20:05
  and as he's walking away he's like fuck this whole scene.
• 1:20:07
  Everybody dies. He storms off, and he ends up
• 1:20:10
  going right to the room where Chris is hiding behind the sad
• 1:20:14
  little pumpkin display. He opens the door.
• 1:20:16
  He takes the axe. He smashes the pumpkin.
• 1:20:19
  Chris is like, like, really? Did you think he wasn't going to
• 1:20:23
  see you? Chris looked at all the other
• 1:20:25
  people in the room that were there for the art exhibit that
• 1:20:28
  were all painted up and naked, and he said we're going to all
• 1:20:30
  have to fight him or he'll kill us.
• 1:20:32
  The one guy that was right there in the front who was closest to
• 1:20:35
  William said, I have a lover, not a fighter.
• 1:20:37
  And William takes the axe and just right into his shoulder.
• 1:20:40
  So he and then he just goes to town and everybody, I mean, it's
• 1:20:43
  complete massacre. He's just going absolutely
• 1:20:46
  crazy. He's losing his shit, he's
• 1:20:49
  screaming, everybody's dies. Chris is over the corner with
• 1:20:51
  his hands over his ears and he's screaming.
• 1:20:53
  He's like, why are you doing this?
• 1:20:54
  Why are you killing everybody? Why are you doing this?
• 1:20:56
  And I'm thinking, why are you not moving while he's going
• 1:20:59
  crazy killing everybody? Why aren't you leaving this
• 1:21:02
  room? But he just stood there and
• 1:21:04
  frozen screaming. They're making, they're making
• 1:21:06
  all this noise. So there's all this noise
• 1:21:07
  coming. So Cicero, who's outside the
• 1:21:09
  door, he hears the screams and he thinks the show has started
• 1:21:12
  already. So he yells over the inner his
• 1:21:15
  his headset. Let people in, It's go time.
• 1:21:18
  Meanwhile, Macon he finally makes his way to the rooftop
• 1:21:22
  party. Everybody assumes he's a charred
• 1:21:24
  wolf, but they're really like wow.
• 1:21:26
  Because it's, if this were a natural costume, it would be
• 1:21:29
  incredibly impressive, He mutters.
• 1:21:32
  All he can do is say he killed Lexie, right?
• 1:21:37
  But then he sees the lights that are hanging.
• 1:21:40
  It's like angels. He's like, 'cause he's like
• 1:21:43
  lights. That means electricity.
• 1:21:45
  I can hook in my electric chainsaw.
• 1:21:48
  Chainsaw. He follows the electrical cord,
• 1:21:50
  follows it all over, all the way around until he gets to the
• 1:21:54
  outlet. We go back to the room with Bill
• 1:21:57
  and Chris. Everything's done.
• 1:21:59
  He's killed everybody except for Chris.
• 1:22:01
  Chris is like, why? Why are you killing everybody?
• 1:22:04
  Then Bill, Bill said something, I can't remember exactly what it
• 1:22:07
  was. He probably just said everybody
• 1:22:09
  dies. I mean, that's what all he said
• 1:22:10
  this whole time, the rest of this movie.
• 1:22:11
  So then you you can see on Chris's face that he looks like
• 1:22:14
  he's about to accept his fate because he kind of closes his
• 1:22:17
  eyes, takes a breath and starts walking towards William.
• 1:22:20
  But as that happens, we get the shot back upstairs where Macon
• 1:22:24
  plugs in the chainsaw. He's all excited.
• 1:22:26
  Yes, I've got electricity. And he raises his arms up with
• 1:22:30
  the chainsaw, but he's right there at the edge of the roof,
• 1:22:32
  so he tumbles backwards and falls off the roof.
• 1:22:35
  It just so happens that he's falling directly in line with
• 1:22:38
  the window that's behind Chris in the big bloody massacre room.
• 1:22:42
  So when this happens, he immediately knows what's what
• 1:22:46
  this is. He knows that there's an
• 1:22:47
  electric chainsaw attached to the end of this electrical cord.
• 1:22:50
  So he turns around quickly grabs it, turns back around to Bill,
• 1:22:55
  comes to lunge at him with the axe and totally misses Chris,
• 1:22:58
  barely even moved out of the way.
• 1:23:00
  The dude totally missed him, so when he turns around, Chris
• 1:23:04
  turns around, faces him and puts the electric chainsaw right into
• 1:23:10
  his head. But it's like part in his face
• 1:23:12
  and on the top of his head. And this goes on for quite some
• 1:23:15
  time because again, this electric chainsaw has no oomph
• 1:23:18
  and it takes forever to cut into bone apparently.
• 1:23:22
  So finally, after what seems like forever, he kills Bill
• 1:23:26
  before we before we give the part where he kills Bill, where
• 1:23:27
  Bill finally dies. William is screaming and there's
• 1:23:30
  blood going everywhere. And Chris grow goes this is
• 1:23:33
  gross, but he keeps doing it until the job's done.
• 1:23:39
  Finally, he slaps a pumpkin over William's megalo's head and
• 1:23:42
  mutters. You just ruined the party,
• 1:23:45
  right? You know that.
• 1:23:46
  That's the concern. It's not that you killed
• 1:23:48
  somebody, it's you ruined the party.
• 1:23:51
  Although The funny thing is, is if he hadn't ruined the party,
• 1:23:54
  Chris would be dead, right? Yeah.
• 1:23:56
  So I'm not sure what he's getting at.
• 1:23:59
  Did you notice when Chris put the pumpkin on Bill's head that
• 1:24:04
  the the his eye movement and the misplacement of the eye?
• 1:24:08
  Yeah, yeah. I was like, oh, I didn't, I
• 1:24:10
  didn't see it the first time, but I did see it the second
• 1:24:12
  time. And I was like, oh, his eye
• 1:24:14
  moved and he kind of flinched a little.
• 1:24:16
  Yes. And the pumpkin, when he picked
• 1:24:18
  that pumpkin up, it didn't look like it had a hole in the bottom
• 1:24:20
  of it either. And then it but it fit right on
• 1:24:23
  his head like no problem. So he then stumbles out of the
• 1:24:27
  room just as the audience that had been waiting in line starts
• 1:24:30
  to filter into the doorway. And those people are obviously,
• 1:24:34
  you know, know it all artsy people.
• 1:24:35
  They're like, all fancy and whatever.
• 1:24:38
  They see the carnage. And they're like, oh, still life
• 1:24:42
  as performance art. So then Chris goes past them.
• 1:24:47
  He grabs the doorman again. He takes his phone.
• 1:24:49
  He dials 911, hands it back and says it's real from there and
• 1:24:54
  he's basically in survival hangover.
• 1:24:56
  He gets in the elevator, you can tell he's dazed, He's drenched
• 1:24:59
  in blood, thought. He goes down, he gets out of the
• 1:25:01
  building, he goes to the subway. I thought, I thought this was a
• 1:25:03
  little funny part because it's just he's gone through all this
• 1:25:07
  shit and he gets to the subway and he's feeling around in his
• 1:25:10
  pockets and he can't find his money or his subway card or
• 1:25:14
  whatever he's looking for. So he can't ride the subway,
• 1:25:16
  which is such a silly kind of little thing, but it's just kind
• 1:25:21
  of to add in there. But I just it's kind of funny
• 1:25:22
  that they added that just because, you know, the whole
• 1:25:25
  night, it's not going his way. So now he has to obviously walk
• 1:25:28
  home. As he's walking, the sun's
• 1:25:30
  starting to come up. It's starting to be daylight.
• 1:25:31
  He's passing the harbour and you can hear, you know, orange and
• 1:25:35
  stuff going from boats. His watch beeps.
• 1:25:37
  So he now needs to take another pill.
• 1:25:39
  He pulls his pills out. I tried to stop it to where I
• 1:25:42
  can read what those pills were for because I wanted to know why
• 1:25:45
  he needs to take this many pills.
• 1:25:46
  Like it's wake up and waking in the middle of the light and pick
• 1:25:49
  a pill I mean. Yeah, it was hard to read.
• 1:25:52
  Yeah, So he just stares at them, and then he tosses them.
• 1:25:54
  Maybe he doesn't eat them. I don't know.
• 1:25:56
  So now it's completely daylight, and he's walking down the
• 1:25:59
  street. You see the remnants of the
• 1:26:01
  Halloween aftermath is everywhere.
• 1:26:04
  There's eggs and shaving cream, balloons, trash all over the
• 1:26:08
  place. He gets to his apartment on his
• 1:26:10
  stoop. The bowl is still there.
• 1:26:13
  It still does have a few sad candy corn pieces in there, so.
• 1:26:16
  About 10 all together maybe? Yeah, so he gets, he picks that
• 1:26:20
  up. He goes inside, he throws his
• 1:26:22
  keys down, opens the fridge, grabs the milk, takes a swig
• 1:26:25
  straight from the carton, picks up the bowl of candy corn,
• 1:26:28
  shuffles into the living room where he then puts on his
• 1:26:31
  slippers. Still a bloody fucking mess,
• 1:26:34
  though. I mean just an absolute mess.
• 1:26:36
  Well, he had a hard day. I mean, you don't always want to
• 1:26:39
  take a shower right away. That when you're bloody and
• 1:26:45
  brains all over you, of course not.
• 1:26:47
  You want to sit down in your furniture with all that shit on?
• 1:26:50
  Right, you want to relax a little bit.
• 1:26:52
  Yeah, so he trots over, looks at his chair.
• 1:26:56
  Sir Lancelot is still curled up in it.
• 1:26:58
  Chris politely asks the cat to move, and after a long stare
• 1:27:01
  down, the cat actually hops down.
• 1:27:04
  I guess he's like, this guy's been through some shit, I better
• 1:27:07
  get down. Chris politely thanks him, sits
• 1:27:10
  down, pulls off the cardboard night helmet, and pops a candy
• 1:27:14
  corn into his mouth. He's still covered in blood,
• 1:27:16
  exhausted but alive. And then he picks up his remote
• 1:27:19
  and he presses play on his VHS Scare Wolf that he was going to
• 1:27:23
  watch before. And that's the end of Murder
• 1:27:25
  Party. What are your thoughts?
• 1:27:27
  There we are. Yeah.
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  Honestly, I was surprised that I actually liked it, especially
• 1:27:33
  after reading the fact that it was done on pretty much no
• 1:27:37
  budget. Right.
• 1:27:38
  Yeah. And knowing that, I mean, it
• 1:27:40
  looked better than a lot of movies that do have a budget.
• 1:27:44
  It was one of those types of movies where it was awkward, but
• 1:27:48
  it wasn't bad, you know, like it was weird, you know, because
• 1:27:53
  like, I don't know, like I almost didn't like it, but I
• 1:27:57
  liked it at the same time. Like I loved Chris''s character.
• 1:28:02
  I thought his facial expressions were perfect when he was tied up
• 1:28:06
  and he couldn't quote UN quote talk, even though like it was
• 1:28:09
  loosely tied, but his expressions like it just put me
• 1:28:13
  away about how calm he was through everything, you know,
• 1:28:18
  And and I think that's what added to the to the humor of it
• 1:28:22
  for me, because I think if this if was if this was done as a
• 1:28:27
  straight horror movie, I don't think it would have worked.
• 1:28:30
  So I'm glad it had the comedic aspects to it.
• 1:28:34
  So it was more of a dark comedy than it was straight up horror.
• 1:28:37
  Because then it made, like, all the silly little things that
• 1:28:39
  happened make sense. Like when the axe gets caught up
• 1:28:42
  in the light switch and when Skye falls over and hits her
• 1:28:46
  head, and then she's just like, but I smell grass.
• 1:28:49
  But yeah, I mean, I thought it was really well done considering
• 1:28:51
  everything that they went through to get it made.
• 1:28:54
  I mean, honestly, I would probably give this $0.07.
• 1:28:57
  Yeah, yeah, I agree. When I first started watching
• 1:29:00
  it, I in the first scene, I was like, Oh my God, this is
• 1:29:03
  something that somebody just made from home.
• 1:29:05
  Like this is going to suck. You just had that feel to it at
• 1:29:09
  the beginning. Then as it went along, I was
• 1:29:11
  like, oh, OK, this is professionally done.
• 1:29:13
  So it, it felt professionally done.
• 1:29:15
  I mean, it really did. I mean, I didn't know the whole
• 1:29:17
  thing about the budget. I so you told me.
• 1:29:19
  So I'm super impressed. I didn't know until I read about
• 1:29:22
  it. Yeah, and this movie also won
• 1:29:25
  some award at some Film Festival.
• 1:29:28
  Oh, that's cool. You know, I don't care what kind
• 1:29:30
  of Film Festival it was. I mean for or to win an award
• 1:29:34
  for considering. Yeah.
• 1:29:37
  Yeah, it was pretty awesome. But yeah, I thought I loved
• 1:29:40
  Chris's character too, because. And yeah, he was crazy calm,
• 1:29:44
  which, and it's funny because of course, the second time when I
• 1:29:46
  went back and watched it, right when you know certain things is
• 1:29:49
  in the opening scenes when they're showing the credits and
• 1:29:53
  they're showing all the Halloween stuff going on, all
• 1:29:55
  the kids running around. There's this one small bit where
• 1:29:58
  there's this woman who gets a parking ticket.
• 1:30:01
  When you first watch it, you don't really pay attention.
• 1:30:03
  You just, I mean, you can see that she's mad and she's pissed
• 1:30:06
  off. She's like, I'm not paying this.
• 1:30:07
  And she throws the ticket at the guy that the cop there.
• 1:30:10
  And you don't pay attention to who the cop is, the parking
• 1:30:13
  ticket guy. But now second time I watched, I
• 1:30:15
  knew I was like, oh, I bet that was Chris.
• 1:30:18
  And you could see right then in that scene that he's a very
• 1:30:22
  'cause she's yelling and screaming at him and throwing
• 1:30:23
  shit at him. He's just a very calm, meek,
• 1:30:26
  mild mannered guy. So obviously that plays through
• 1:30:29
  even when you're tied up and about to die.
• 1:30:31
  And I'm wondering if the meds that he was on was like an anti
• 1:30:34
  anxiety Med? Yeah, I like that's true.
• 1:30:37
  It it probably, maybe it was maybe now he's going to go ahead
• 1:30:39
  and be anxious, like, right. I'm just going to go ahead and
• 1:30:43
  be anxious. I'm I'm good with that.
• 1:30:44
  I feel they all did really well. I'm going to have to look up
• 1:30:47
  that one guy who played ball because I he looks so familiar.
• 1:30:50
  Or maybe you can do it while I'm talking.
• 1:30:52
  I don't know. But see if he's been anything
• 1:30:53
  else. But they all, I thought they all
• 1:30:55
  did really well. I liked how they really played
• 1:30:58
  on how obnoxious the artsy people were and just all the
• 1:31:02
  dumb shit they were saying. But it also felt like, and I
• 1:31:06
  wonder how much of it was scripted and how much of it was
• 1:31:10
  just ad libbed because some of that stuff they were talking
• 1:31:13
  about was just crazy. Just the stuff back and forth
• 1:31:16
  and back and forth. And some of those scenes where
• 1:31:18
  it was just the non-stop talking and, and it was just, it's like,
• 1:31:21
  did somebody really write all this shit?
• 1:31:23
  Like, what the fuck? I really liked it.
• 1:31:24
  I thought it was really good. It was, it wasn't scary.
• 1:31:29
  It was not a horror in the same sense, you know, it goes in that
• 1:31:32
  category of not really horror like some other movie we know.
• 1:31:39
  But there is a bunch of guts and gore and stuff that at least
• 1:31:43
  make it seem like it should be in the genre.
• 1:31:46
  But like, more so than some other music movie that shall not
• 1:31:49
  be named. But yeah, I would say I would.
• 1:31:51
  And especially knowing that the constraints they had with the
• 1:31:55
  budget and all that and that they all paid it out of pocket
• 1:31:58
  and they were all their own said people like, all right, that's
• 1:32:02
  cool. I would give it like, like at
• 1:32:03
  least a 7, seven and a half cents.
• 1:32:05
  Totally. I thought it was.
• 1:32:06
  It was very entertaining. It had the same kind of vibe to
• 1:32:09
  me me in terms of just energy and fun that villains had for
• 1:32:13
  me, that kind of high energy feel to it.
• 1:32:17
  All right, So do you have anything to add?
• 1:32:19
  We can put a sock on it. All right, let's put a sock on
• 1:32:21
  it. And that's Murder Party, a night
• 1:32:24
  full of blood, pumpkin bread, and more uses of the word dildo
• 1:32:27
  than I ever thought possible outside of a sex shop there and
• 1:32:30
  sale. So Dan, what do you have in
• 1:32:32
  store for us next week? We will watch the Hunt, it is on
• 1:32:37
  AMC Plus. All right, we'll be back to tear
• 1:32:40
  that one apart too. Until then, be scared, be
• 1:32:43
  prepared, and don't get caught in the dark.