Halloween Edition: Episode 1 - X

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Welcome to watch these. [00:00:08] Speaker B: Halloween edition. [00:00:18] Speaker C: LAUGHTER. [00:00:36] Speaker A: Welcome to watch this, the movie review and discussion podcast. We are starting today with Fleetwood Max Landslide because we are discussing the film X. And you know what's really weird? That she saw her reflection in the snow. What's really weird? Actually, I'm going to turn her down. Are we. Are we all sufficiently in the mood? [00:00:56] Speaker C: Yes. [00:00:56] Speaker A: Okay. Stephanie is vibing out completely. All right, hold on one second. Okay, so we're actually starting our Halloween season, or what should we say? Halloween mini arc. [00:01:11] Speaker C: Mini arc. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Mini arc, I think is a good one. What were you going to say, Stephanie? [00:01:14] Speaker B: Season. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I said season and you just said season again. [00:01:17] Speaker C: No, you didn't. [00:01:17] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:01:18] Speaker C: I think you said. [00:01:19] Speaker A: No, she said. She said season. [00:01:21] Speaker C: Spooky. [00:01:22] Speaker B: They said special. [00:01:23] Speaker A: No, I said season. [00:01:24] Speaker B: Oh, they said our Halloween special. [00:01:25] Speaker A: It's good that your ears are working. [00:01:27] Speaker B: My ears are. My brain isn't. [00:01:31] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think we were supposed to start with, like, ghost sounds and stuff, so we're gonna have to. Thank you. Thank you. [00:01:37] Speaker C: I'm a ghost. [00:01:40] Speaker A: I'm a loser. So we are starting our Halloween mini arc and we have our own special instead of a bowl. Sorry, Bo. We have a pink cauldron of all things, which I wonder, of the three of us, who supplied the pink cauldron? [00:01:55] Speaker C: Paul, obviously. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Obviously was Paul. So. And we're picking out horror movies just for this month of October, as these episodes are going to be releasing. And we each put two horror movies in there. I guess we will not discuss which ones we put in there. We'll find out as we pick them. Stephanie put X in there, and that's the one that came out. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Yay. [00:02:11] Speaker A: Yay. So. So we watched X and today we will. We will be discussing X. I have no notes today. It's been a weird day. I just didn't have time. I didn't have time. I wrote notes on my phone as I was watching, but there weren't too much and I have no notes. I did minimal research and I'm eating a yogurt during the podcast. So it's going to be a weird podcast, I think. Where shall we start? Stephanie's on her phone looking at something and laughing. [00:02:35] Speaker C: Stephanie has notes. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Are you looking at your notes? [00:02:37] Speaker B: I forgot the name of the. The director, I think Ty West. Ty West. [00:02:40] Speaker A: I thought you going to say you forgot the name of the movie. [00:02:43] Speaker B: I couldn't remember if it was West Tai or Ty West. [00:02:46] Speaker A: Who would be called. [00:02:47] Speaker B: I don't. They both are not names. [00:02:51] Speaker A: That's true. Yeah. TI Is not a name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Tell it to T.I. the rapper. [00:02:56] Speaker A: The rapper. [00:02:56] Speaker B: And west could be a first name. [00:02:58] Speaker A: There is a rapper in this movie. [00:03:00] Speaker C: There is Kid Cudi. [00:03:02] Speaker A: Thank you. Kid Cudi is in this, in this movie. I, I want to go. Yeah. Because I have to reveal every embarrassing thing that I do or say. I was telling Jessica about the movie yesterday and I was like, kid Cooties in the movie. And she's like, Paul. [00:03:13] Speaker C: Wow. That's insane. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Paul, Paul. Kid Cudi. She's like, don't say it on the podcast that way. It's not. I said it's that way on the podcast. It's one of those things where like, I reckon, like I didn't recognize it because he uses like his given name. I think in this one it's not, he's not credited as Kid Cudi, but I know Cudi is like part of his name. Can you look at the IMDb and. [00:03:31] Speaker C: I'm working on it. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you. As Alex is working on it. Yeah. So. So I can't say that I recognized him. I read. I recognized the name when I saw it in trivia, but I don't know any songs from kid Cudi. [00:03:43] Speaker C: Scott. Ms. Cudi. I do know many songs by Kid Cudi. I was a big fan. Oh, you know what? I was trying to contribute. [00:03:50] Speaker A: Wow. Wow. Alex knows a bunch of songs from Kid Cudi. Why don't you sing a few for him? Oh, you can't sing them. You gotta rap em for us. Why don't you wrap the socks for us, Alex? [00:04:02] Speaker B: What is this? [00:04:06] Speaker A: Speaking of what this is, we didn't introduce ourselves. I'm your host, Paul Klein. I'm sitting next to me is Alex Bello. Alex Bello, who is our Kid Cudi expert. And sitting in front of us is Stephanie. Stephanie Caplano. [00:04:25] Speaker B: It's rude. [00:04:29] Speaker A: Maybe it's just what you tell us to do. Yeah, yeah. Why'd you assume I'm telling you to Kaya? [00:04:34] Speaker B: Because you put it in my name. [00:04:35] Speaker A: That's true. Yeah. After the last three movies where, which we have past lives, Materialists, Train Spotting and Gayate across from Me didn't like either of these three. Some excellent movies and. And one good movie. So two excellent movies and one good movie and Gaote did not like it. We are here. Well, we hope so because you picked it. The question is, did Paul like it? We'll see. Let's tell the audience. So you already kind of gave away his name. West Tye is the director who also wrote It. So Wes. Ty directed it. Ty west wrote it. [00:05:14] Speaker B: You said it. And I still couldn't figure out what was wrong. [00:05:19] Speaker C: At least this wasn't as bad as Mungee. [00:05:23] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, I forgot we put Burning in there. Yeah, we talked about Burning. And good old Mungee from Burning. Okay, I was gonna step away from the mic while you're laughing. [00:05:36] Speaker B: So this is his first of three movies in this trilogy. Okay, so we have X and then Pearl and then Maxine. So we're focusing on the first movie, which is my personal favorite of the trilogy. [00:05:48] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, really? I. I forgot which ones were your guys's favorites. Is Pearl. Because I thought one of you guys said Pearl was your favorite. Is that right? [00:05:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:56] Speaker C: Pearls, Pearl. Pearl's my favorite, but I might have changed that after rewatching. [00:05:59] Speaker A: After watching X. Re Watching X. So first time for me, I have not seen it. I've been meaning to see it. And I was really upset that the fact that for years, I think now it was for free on Amazon. For free on Netflix. And then the moment we decided to watch it, I had to pay for it. [00:06:13] Speaker C: As these things happen. [00:06:14] Speaker A: As these things happen. So I don't know if I'm going to go back and watch Pearl and Maxine until they are free again. [00:06:21] Speaker B: Definitely need to watch Pearl. If you like this movie at all. [00:06:26] Speaker A: Well, let's see if Paul needs to watch Cruel. [00:06:28] Speaker C: Who says he liked it? [00:06:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:30] Speaker B: So if you like this movie at all, you, Pearl, will be fantastic for you. [00:06:34] Speaker C: But you know, Paul, even if you didn't like it, I still hope you found it exciting. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Exactly. The whole episode. We're gonna do this. Come on. Come on, Stephanie. A third. Come on. [00:06:45] Speaker C: We need a third one. [00:06:46] Speaker B: I'm exhausted of you guys. [00:06:47] Speaker C: Oh, fuck. That was good. [00:06:50] Speaker A: That was good. Ah, but can you be exhausted of someone? I'm exhausted with you guys. No, I'm exhausted with you. You exhaust me. Don't put coals in your junk. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Holes. [00:07:05] Speaker A: What is don't put coals in your junk? Is that what you told Santa Claus? This is spooky season, Stephanie. It's not Christmas. And whatever weird things you say to Santa, no wonder he doesn't give you presents. [00:07:17] Speaker C: What the. [00:07:20] Speaker B: We are having some serious miscommunication today. [00:07:24] Speaker A: Today, every day. What's the difference? [00:07:26] Speaker C: Carrying on, carrying on. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Okay, so it's part of a trilogy, which was not actually started as a trilogy. It was going to be a standalone movie. And then. Do you want to tell that story, Stephanie? Okay, I'll tell the story. As. As they were filming the movie Ty west, or West Ty, as you like to call him because he's Asian. [00:07:43] Speaker C: He is not. [00:07:45] Speaker A: The last thing comes first. [00:07:46] Speaker B: He's an extremely white man. [00:07:48] Speaker A: He revealed to A24, which was producing the film, that. That he had a script for Pearl. And they were like, oh. And they were liking what they were seeing from the production and they were like, well, do you want to go ahead and stay in? Well, I'm going to give it away. This movie was filmed in New Zealand. As I. I could not tell, actually, I thought that was really well done because. Was it. Jane Campion did the Power of the Dog. Was that what it was? [00:08:09] Speaker C: Yeah, Power of the Dog. [00:08:10] Speaker A: And that was filmed in. In New Zealand. You could tell that was not really. Yeah, yeah. I really thought it was obvious it was New Zealand. And I think she sort of did it on purpose. I think she was saying that she was trying to sort of kind of play with the imagery of the West. I never noticed, and not have it be like the traditional imagery. So it felt more obvious that it was New Zealand. I didn't know here until I read the trivia after. And I was like, whoa. Like, I really was convinced this was Texas we're supposed to be taking place. [00:08:35] Speaker B: I knew that Pearl came out unusually. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Quick the same year, actually, after the. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Movie, I was like. I was like, I guess they just really worked really hard. [00:08:44] Speaker A: So when they were filming it, they saw the script and they were like, hey, this is looking good. Do you want to go ahead and just do. Stay in New Zealand and do Pearl? And so he asked Mia Goth, who is. Is the. The main character in. In X, hey, do you want to stay here in New Zealand, just do another movie? And she's like, sure. And so that's when Pearl came out. So Pearl came out the same year as X. And I think it wasn't. When I rented it, it wasn't there. But my understanding was when. When the movie came out, when X came out in theaters, that they actually had the trailer at the end of the credits. So. And it was like a. It was like a surprise. You know how, like, Marvel has like its little end credit sequence. This one suddenly had a trailer for the prequel for Pearl. And then. And so that was kind of a cool little gift for the audiences who like the movie. Super cool. I fast forwarded my. When I rented it from Amazon and I did not see. I did not see a trailer for the movie. [00:09:35] Speaker C: What are these miscommunications today? [00:09:38] Speaker A: It's been a weird day. It's been a weird. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Miscommunicated with himself. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Um, so let's get into it. Do you want to set up the. Who wants to set up the. Alex hasn't said much. Even though it's Stephanie, it's your movie. Set up the story, please. [00:09:54] Speaker B: Okay, so we. The movie starts with this group of people from about 40 to early 20s. The main guy that we see, Wayne, that's the leader, right? Yes, Wayne. See, he's supposed to be in about his 40s. He's a film student that decided to. [00:10:16] Speaker C: Know the film students. [00:10:17] Speaker A: Rj. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Rj don't listen to me, guys. I don't know. [00:10:24] Speaker A: I think you're getting too technical and too specific. It's a slasher movie. [00:10:28] Speaker B: I've never done this before. [00:10:30] Speaker A: Okay, I'll take over. [00:10:31] Speaker B: You drop this on me because it's your movie. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Alex, do you want to. Do you want to give us the. Just a sort of. Do you want me to do it? [00:10:38] Speaker C: I can do it. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Okay. Thank you. [00:10:40] Speaker C: You want me to do it? [00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, give us a synopsis. It doesn't take two hours. [00:10:43] Speaker C: The year is 1979. [00:10:47] Speaker A: This guy called Wayne, he had a piece of toast. [00:10:52] Speaker B: I've literally never been told to do a synopsis before. [00:10:55] Speaker C: You know what? [00:10:55] Speaker A: You. I do synopses every episode. [00:10:57] Speaker C: All right? [00:10:57] Speaker B: No, I don't. [00:10:58] Speaker A: No, no, I say I do them and so I. I like to spread. [00:11:00] Speaker B: The wealth and it's your experienced in this. [00:11:03] Speaker C: All right, all right. You know what? I don't think. I think we should not give Stephanie now. I think she should do it. I think we should edit the first point, the first one out and let her do it. I could do it, but she needs to learn someday. [00:11:15] Speaker A: Stephanie, can you give us a like a one paragraph overview of what the film is? [00:11:21] Speaker B: Okay. Well, now I'm nervous. [00:11:24] Speaker A: Why, Stephanie? Why are you nervous? [00:11:26] Speaker B: This is a lot of pressure. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Why is there pressure? Stephanie, what's wrong? Give us a synopsis, Stephanie. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:38] Speaker A: And scene. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Okay, you asked the question again. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Stephanie, could you give us the synopsis of X? [00:11:46] Speaker B: Okay, so basically the movie is. We're following this group of film students. People in their early 20s. Most of them are film students. I'm not wrong about that one. [00:12:00] Speaker A: Film student. We don't. Do we know Jenna Ortega? She's just his girlfriend. Yeah, she's just a girlfriend. [00:12:04] Speaker B: Wayne is a film student. [00:12:06] Speaker C: No, he's not. He's a porn director. [00:12:07] Speaker B: He is? [00:12:08] Speaker C: Yes. [00:12:08] Speaker A: He runs the strip club. [00:12:09] Speaker B: Yeah, in my research it said he was a film director. [00:12:12] Speaker A: I got wrong but why wouldn't he be directing them? Why would the other guy be directing rj, right? Yeah. [00:12:18] Speaker B: What do you mean? [00:12:19] Speaker A: RJ was the director. The guy with the long stringy hair. The first one to get killed. [00:12:23] Speaker C: The boyfriend? [00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, the. The camera guy. [00:12:25] Speaker A: That's rj. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:26] Speaker A: You said Wayne. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Wayne is like the leader. [00:12:29] Speaker C: Yeah, but he's not a film student. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah, wayne is the 40. You're. You're. It's the way you've been describing it. It sounds like you've been conflating Wayne and RJ when they are characters. [00:12:39] Speaker B: I know that, but I thought he was also like. He studied film. [00:12:43] Speaker A: No. Did any that. I don't. I didn't. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Unless I got shitty information. [00:12:47] Speaker A: Where did you go? Tick tock. [00:12:48] Speaker B: No, no. [00:12:49] Speaker A: It's pretty good, right? Yeah. Yeah. You. [00:12:54] Speaker B: So he's not. He didn't study film at all? [00:12:56] Speaker A: I mean, not as far as what was revealed in the movie. There were no clues to that. [00:13:00] Speaker B: That's what I get for trust in the Internet. [00:13:01] Speaker A: You've seen the movie how many times you. You. You thought he was a director? You thought he studied film? Was there a. A missing scene, something that was edited that you saw on the. Did you get the 4K Blu Ray? And you saw it on there and. And you were trying to hit us with some new information? Is that what's going on here or what did you just up and. [00:13:18] Speaker B: I actually genuinely thought he studied film. [00:13:21] Speaker A: Wow. Okay. And this is one of your favorite movies, you said. [00:13:24] Speaker B: Well, me, I guess. [00:13:26] Speaker C: All right, you know what? I'll do the synopsis and then we'll throw it back to Stephanie. [00:13:32] Speaker A: Oh, good. All right, good. I want to hear more of that. [00:13:34] Speaker B: For the next movie we choose, I'll practice my synopsis. My synopsis. [00:13:38] Speaker C: Synopsis. [00:13:39] Speaker A: Synopses. [00:13:41] Speaker C: All right, synopsis. [00:13:42] Speaker A: Okay, here we go. Silence. It's only been 10 minutes. Let's do it. [00:13:44] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:13:47] Speaker A: Alex, could you tell us. Okay, hold on now. I got to say, not laughing. Alex, could you give us a synopsis of X? [00:13:54] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely, Paul. So X takes place in 1979. We follow a group, a ragtag group, led by a strip club owner and entrepreneur, director, wannabe entrepreneur, visionary producer, guy named Wayne. And Wayne has assembled his crew of three porn misfits and rogues. Yes. And has recruited a wannabe films film director, film school student named RJ and RJ's girlfriend who follows him around with the boom mic, helping him make his movies. And they are going from Houston to Dallas to. [00:14:38] Speaker A: Was it Dallas? I thought it Was just like, they had to get away from Houston to film their porn. [00:14:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Anyway, they just kind of go, like, in the backwoods. Yeah. [00:14:44] Speaker C: They go into some backwoods place in the middle of the sticks to film. [00:14:49] Speaker A: A porno, and they basically end up in the house from a Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which should have been, like, the first clue that you shouldn't go there. [00:14:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Who owns the house? [00:14:59] Speaker C: An old angry man by the name of Howard. Howard, who greets him at the door with a shotgun in his face. In his face. And his wife, who stands in the window and looks out at people creepily. [00:15:11] Speaker A: Very psycho. [00:15:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Which is also name checked in the movie. [00:15:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:15] Speaker A: What is her name? [00:15:16] Speaker C: Horn. [00:15:18] Speaker A: Whoa, whoa. [00:15:20] Speaker B: The name is. [00:15:22] Speaker C: Her name is. [00:15:23] Speaker A: You think she's a. [00:15:24] Speaker C: Don't put words in my mouth, Paul. [00:15:26] Speaker A: The. The words you just spoke. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Well, I mean, what is her name? [00:15:28] Speaker A: Alex. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Is she. [00:15:29] Speaker A: What is the name? [00:15:30] Speaker C: Her name is. [00:15:30] Speaker A: I don't know. I didn't see Pearl. Huh? What's her name? [00:15:32] Speaker B: Well, I mean, in this movie, she. A little bit. [00:15:34] Speaker C: Her name is Pearl. [00:15:35] Speaker A: Her name is Pearl. [00:15:36] Speaker C: Stephanie. What else happens? [00:15:39] Speaker A: Her sister Diamonds shows up, and then Prince comes out dancing. Diamonds and pearls. I just shut down the podcast. It's good. We were throwing it back to Stephanie. It's funny. Right now everybody's holding their. Their faces in their hands except for me. It's really. It's a prototypical slasher in many ways. It is. It is definitely throwing a lot of. Wait, I just had the word and it came out good in my head. Yeah. I mean, like. Like, it's. It's. It's putting a lot of. Yeah, okay. It's filled with tropes as we. As we mentioned the Texas Chainsaw House, the psy stuff. What else was there? There's even, like, alligator horror. And so, you know, it's a Slow Burn kind of a movie. I mean, the first half of the movie is just sort of setting things up. Things get creepier and weirder as they get along. And then. [00:16:26] Speaker B: This actually isn't my, like, my idea of Slow Burn, which is interesting that you say that. [00:16:31] Speaker A: Wait, I wanted to make fun of you. Now that sounds a bit too mean. [00:16:34] Speaker B: No, go ahead. [00:16:35] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know what your. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Drag Me down. [00:16:37] Speaker A: What do you think is your. Is a Slow Burn movie? Because we. We talked about this recently. What do we think Burning was a Slow Burn movie? [00:16:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, like, I imagine, like, it's a. Like a longer setup than this. I know. [00:16:54] Speaker A: I like, remember, I mean, the murders don't start until 45 minutes left in the movie. [00:16:58] Speaker B: That's true. But, like, whenever I've watched it, that first setup never felt very. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Remember, slow burn doesn't mean boring, but like. Or. Or even, as the name suggests, slow necessarily. But it's. It's not, like, in a rush to get anywhere. Like, it's just. It's very kind of patiently setting things up. [00:17:13] Speaker B: That's true. [00:17:14] Speaker A: You know, you have the whole thing with. With Maxine going into. Into the pond and swimming and, like. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Gorgeous scene. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Yeah, well, that pond is a great little overhead shot. [00:17:23] Speaker B: That shot, like, sticks with me, like, even after I watch the movie. Like, that's the. That's the scene that I think of. [00:17:29] Speaker A: So they're kind of setting up that as an alligator in the pond. Then it's hungry and it's being teased without knowing and just kind of also kind of giving pro. What I would sort of say the movie, a little bit of depth there. There's a lot of themes of outcasts and. And miscommunication between the sexes, I think is in there, too. I didn't want to get to this one. Yes. But I. I say let's just go to it now. So. So Jenny Ortega, like, her sort of arc is. What did I say? What did I say wrong? [00:17:58] Speaker C: He said Jenny. [00:17:59] Speaker A: And what is it? [00:17:59] Speaker C: Jenna gives a. [00:18:02] Speaker A: So Wednesday. Wednesday is sort of like the kind of. I guess she's kind of Prud. Down on. On. Or they feel that she's looking down on them. The. The. The two porn actors in the mov. Well, the two female porn actors. Britney Snow and. And. [00:18:18] Speaker C: And Mia. Goth. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Mia. Goth. Maxine and what's her name? [00:18:24] Speaker C: Bobby Lynn. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Bobby Lynn. Okay. [00:18:25] Speaker C: Burna. [00:18:26] Speaker A: Yeah. She's friends with Monji, Burnout Mungie. So she kind of looks down on them. Or they feel that she's looking down on them. Right. Like, she's always kind of staring at them. [00:18:36] Speaker B: And then RJ has that line where he says, I never knew you were such a prude. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:18:42] Speaker B: So just thrown back in his face later on. Remind me, can we get to this part? [00:18:49] Speaker A: Yeah. There's no rules anymore. [00:18:51] Speaker B: So there's. There's a scene further in the movie where Jenna Ortega gets interested. [00:18:58] Speaker A: Jenny Ortega. [00:18:59] Speaker B: In the. In what they're filming. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:02] Speaker B: So she decides after, like, talking to the actor that she wants to try it out. Like, doing porn. [00:19:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:08] Speaker B: And RJ is, like, validly very upset about this and kind of forbids her. [00:19:13] Speaker A: From doing it again. That's. [00:19:15] Speaker B: Throws it back at him. I never knew you were such a prude. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Nice. Nice. That is the scene I was thinking of as far as the miscommunication thing, because what happens after that is that this is a time where RJ really should speak to his girlfriend and find out what's, like, why do you want to do this? What are you looking for? What do you hope to, you know, get out of it? What brought your interest here? Instead, he shuts it down and calls her names and basically says, you know, you're. Even though he's just filmed these two women and he's part of this production, he still holds himself higher than he's. Than the. The. Than the talent. Right. The. The. Yeah. The actors. And. And then what happens after that is that Wayne takes him outside and talks to him, and they're talking to each other, and it's two guys talking to each other about the woman when. And it's. The. To me, it was just funny as I'm looking at it going, you shouldn't be talking to each other. You should be talking to your girlfriend, you know, and there. And. And the. And Wayne. I like Wayne, actually, a lot. Like, he's. He is sort of that carnival huckster. But, like, I think. Well, meaning, like, he's probably full of. [00:20:17] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, definitely. [00:20:18] Speaker A: But. But kind of harmless and. And kind of has that. That Southern charm and. And sort of seems like, you know, trying to always get, like, get rich quick, but it's always taking a really long time. [00:20:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:27] Speaker A: And. And even though he means well, I don't think he knows about the situation. And, like, the advice he gives him is pretty crappy. Like, he's just like, well, you're gonna have to. If you don't. What. What does he tell her? [00:20:36] Speaker C: Don't let her do it now. She's just gonna go and do it anyway with other guys. [00:20:39] Speaker A: Yeah. So here you're in control of it. At least I think it was something. [00:20:42] Speaker B: Where, like, if you. If you tell her not to do it, it's gonna p. Push her further into doing it, which he's not wrong. [00:20:49] Speaker A: But the whole thing is that it's not about. It's not RJ's choice to tell her what to do. It's that he should be talking to her, and Andre's trying to understand. [00:20:57] Speaker B: I have a question. Did you feel bad for rj? [00:21:01] Speaker A: Look, if I were in the same situation, it would be kind of dropped on me that my girlfriend would suddenly be like, I want to sleep with a guy on camera. Like, of course I'd Be shocked. Right. And so I'm not. I'm not. You know, RJ's reaction is not. It's understandable. Right. What's very 70s about his reaction is, or sadly probably still today, is that he just tried. He just straight out tries to forbid her, but then he's. He's enough of a punk to like, he won't even admit why he's forbidding her. Like, he's more like, well, we're. We can't mess up the continuity of the story. Like, it's. Yeah, it's like the stupidest excuse. [00:21:34] Speaker B: Well, the other like 70s ish trope was like the free love thing. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Well, like the leftover of it. Right. Because, I mean, like, that the free love would have been the hippies in the 60s. Right. But there's always still a little bit of that hanging around. [00:21:45] Speaker B: I think it was also like Jen Ortega and rj, like, they felt like above that. [00:21:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Like hippie, like, free love type of thing. Well, when she wanted to do it, like, I think he was just like you. [00:21:57] Speaker A: I don't. [00:21:57] Speaker B: Better than that. [00:21:58] Speaker A: I think that still exists today. Right. Like. Like, I think porn subculture has gotten more mainstream, but. But at the same time, we all still look down on them. Right. Like, we still are like, you know, like, the joke always is. It's like, oh, we all watch it, but then we're always going to denigrate them as much as possible. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Even like right now on social media, you constantly see the. The comment of detected opinion rejected. [00:22:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Oh, no, I never heard that. [00:22:25] Speaker B: That's like a thing that people constantly on. Like, anyone says anything and it's like, oh, she's in the. [00:22:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, she's a. She's a sex worker. [00:22:33] Speaker B: She's a sex worker. [00:22:34] Speaker A: Yeah. So. So she's trash. Yeah. [00:22:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:36] Speaker A: And I. And I. That is if you. What I really liked about the movie was how it. It humanized the sex workers. Did, but didn't also make them sort of like, none of the characters are like, likable. Well, they're likable. [00:22:50] Speaker B: They're not angels. [00:22:50] Speaker A: They're not like good people in the sense that they save a cat or anything. You know what I mean? But like, you like being around them. [00:22:56] Speaker B: They're kind of cool because they're just people. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Exact. [00:22:59] Speaker B: Not trying to persuade you that sex workers are either good or bad people. [00:23:03] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:23:04] Speaker B: It's just these are people. They're doing this. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:07] Speaker B: And I think it's so difficult for me to talk about this movie without mentioning Pearl Or Maxine, because the. [00:23:14] Speaker A: It wasn't in the bowl. Sorry, can't mention it. [00:23:15] Speaker B: I know, but it's like, the. The stuff that I learned from both of those movies helps me to appreciate X so much more. [00:23:21] Speaker A: But X needs to stand on its own. [00:23:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:23] Speaker A: And that's where I come in, as. [00:23:25] Speaker B: I'm trying not to mention it. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:26] Speaker B: Because I don't want to be like, oh, well, you need to watch the other movies to appreciate this movie. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Because there were moments when I was watching it where I was like. I was like, yeah. I kind of feel like this is going to make more sense if I see Pearl. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, it adds that background knowledge of why, like, what the motivations of the people are in X and why they're doing the things that they do. But I can't. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Not the characters who are killed, I assume. No, they couldn't be in Pearl because. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Maxine, Pearl, and Howard, like, those characters. [00:23:53] Speaker A: We learned more from about Maxine and Pearl in Maxine. Oh, in Maxine. Yes. Okay. Because Pearl takes place, like, I mean, 50 years before. [00:24:01] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's. It's like the. [00:24:03] Speaker A: It's a prequel. [00:24:03] Speaker B: Prequel, and then Maxine's a sequel. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:24:07] Speaker C: I want to backtrack, though, just to the whole thing with Jenna Ortega's character where Steph was asking, like, would you feel bad for art? Like, did you feel bad for rj and, like, what I was telling Stephanie, like, we were trying, like, to tiptoe around the topic earlier this morning when we were. Before you got to work today. [00:24:22] Speaker A: But not because I was sleeping in or anything. I was at a doctor's office. [00:24:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:25] Speaker A: Just so. [00:24:26] Speaker C: But understand. But, like, honestly, like, I almost. Like, I do. I get, like, I kind of feel bad for him, but at the same time, I'm like, He's also, like. You could tell that he's into the idea that he's, like, around porn stars and, like, watching porn being made. He's like, no, no, I'm just for the art, man. Like, dirty movies can be arts. [00:24:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:48] Speaker C: And he didn't tell her that he was filming a dirty movie. Right hand. So she kind of got swept into this whole thing. And now he wants to be like, no, no, no. It's the art, man. It's the art. And, like, he's just kind of full of. [00:24:58] Speaker A: He's a little bit full of. Yeah. [00:24:59] Speaker B: The part where I felt bad for him was when he was, like, crying in the shower. [00:25:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. [00:25:04] Speaker B: And I was like, I Was like, man, he just had to film his girlfriend in, like, a straight up threesome. Like, that's. [00:25:10] Speaker A: And. And again, the. The. The best sight gag in the movies when you see Kid Cudi in the doorway. [00:25:15] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Remember when you said you were saying, oh, my God, like in train spotting, like, every time something weird happened or something gross happen. Saw it, like, touching his knees, I was just like, what the. [00:25:28] Speaker C: But then also, like, he's. RJ's such a. To, like, it's so sad that he gets in a van and he's gonna leave. Everybody's gonna leave his girlfriend, like, and he starts to fear the reaper. [00:25:41] Speaker A: I thought it was funny when you were saying, I felt sor. Sorry for him when. And I thought you're gonna say I felt sorry for him when he got stabbed in the neck. [00:25:48] Speaker B: No, no, no, not that. When you cry. [00:25:51] Speaker A: I have to give credit to the movie also for having nonagenarian. Are the murderers. You know what I mean? They're, like, in their 90s probably, and like, it. It's. You know, I'm not gonna throw the word realistic around. Around, but it does it good enough that you don't question. [00:26:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:05] Speaker A: These old people who are hobbling around everywhere, getting a drop on everybody and killing them. [00:26:10] Speaker B: I totally know what that word used was. But for our audience, can you explain. [00:26:14] Speaker A: Someone who's in their 90s? [00:26:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:15] Speaker B: Cool. Thanks. [00:26:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:18] Speaker A: Stephanie obviously thinks our audience is made up of morons. [00:26:21] Speaker B: I totally knew. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Send your hate mail to Stephanie Caplano. [00:26:26] Speaker C: Oh, rj, he dies. [00:26:28] Speaker A: And that's a really good observation, Alex. That rj. [00:26:32] Speaker C: I forgot where I was. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:33] Speaker B: Well, actually, what you were saying about how, like, these feeble old people get the drop on everybody. I. I had read something that was talking about how weird it was that it felt like they were teleporting everywhere. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Slashers always do. I didn't think it was that bad in this one. I mean, there's. There's some of that. I'm just used to it. [00:26:49] Speaker B: I think it's bad. But it was. It was definitely funny that these, like. [00:26:53] Speaker A: I think considering how much I can barely walk. [00:26:55] Speaker B: We're, like, showing up everywhere. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Victims were. [00:26:59] Speaker A: And because. It's also because when they. When they set it up, they really kind of show, like, Howard, like, limping and then he has to stop when he's. When he's walking and, you know, Wayne's again trying to be nice and try to help him out, and he's like, get away from me. Yeah, it. It. Yeah. I'm Used to it in slasher films, so I just kind of thought it was funny, but, like, it wasn't that bad, I thought. [00:27:19] Speaker B: I actually have a theory I wanted to run by you. Would you believe that Howard rented out that farmhouse to them so that Pearl could kill them? [00:27:30] Speaker A: Probably because, I mean, he was surprised there was more than one person. So he was expecting only one person. But considering they did it before and considering that from the person that was there before we find him in the. In the basement, we assume that's him. [00:27:48] Speaker C: That was rj. [00:27:49] Speaker A: No, it wasn't. [00:27:50] Speaker C: Yeah, it was. [00:27:51] Speaker A: No. Nope. Nope. I thought so too. I thought so too. [00:27:54] Speaker C: What? [00:27:54] Speaker A: It was not rj. That was the hippie that the, the one that they mentioned and the one that. That Kid Cudi comes across. The car that's half sunk in the lake. Oh, because remember also at the end when Maxine comes out, she sees RJ's body still in front of the house. Whoa. And I. Because I wrote in my. So just so you don't feel like, you know, I'm. I wrote in my notes, I was like, how did they drag RJ in and. Yeah. And, and handcuff him up and everything under these old ass people? And no, it wasn't rj. It was the hippie that was there before. Which is why I think, I think that may have happened by accident. I think he was trying to recreate that possibly. [00:28:25] Speaker C: Idiot. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:28:26] Speaker C: And he even tells. He even tells Kid Cudi's character. Oh, you know, the last bohemian that was. [00:28:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:30] Speaker C: That tried to seduce my wife. [00:28:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that was him. Yeah. [00:28:34] Speaker B: I think Howard's just a very supportive husband. [00:28:36] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I, I mean, he's, he's into. Okay, I don't necessarily. No, we don't love Howard and his one tooth, you know, the one tooth in the front. It's cute on Patrick Starfish, but not on Howard. [00:28:48] Speaker B: Patrick Star. [00:28:49] Speaker C: Patrick Star. [00:28:51] Speaker B: His full government name. [00:28:55] Speaker C: I will not accept the life I do not deserve. [00:28:58] Speaker A: Another theme also is the sort of like aging. Right. Is another theme in there. And also sort of. I mean, it is the main. You know, it's the main. Not subplot, but a subtext or, or actually the main text is about living your life in a way you didn't want to and then looking back. Back at it with regret, which is kind of what. Which is exactly what Pearl is. Is doing. And then she sees so much of herself in, In Maxine. I have to say, you know, the, the, the old age makeup was really good. [00:29:29] Speaker B: I have seen this movie so many times. And I didn't realize until I did research on it for this that I did not know fair. [00:29:37] Speaker A: I would, I would have, I would not have known that. [00:29:39] Speaker B: Incredibly good. [00:29:40] Speaker A: But not just the makeup. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Her performance in her, like, I think. [00:29:43] Speaker A: The performance really, what does was insane. [00:29:46] Speaker B: Like, I had to research it to be like, no, I came across the. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Information before I saw it. So I, I knew it, like, going in so like that. But I, I, I will tell you honestly, if I had not known that, I would not have guessed it was her. I would have known it's a person in makeup. I wouldn't have guessed it was Mia Goth. [00:30:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. She did amazing. I love Mia Goth. [00:30:05] Speaker C: It was, it was really cool how. [00:30:07] Speaker A: First me Goth movie. Go ahead. Sorry. [00:30:08] Speaker C: Oh, sorry. It was really cool how they sort of built up, like, the first scene where Howard is in the, in the boarding house with Wayne and the rest of the crew, and he's staring down Mia Goth. Wayne sort of gets defensive and he's like, hey, old timer, that's my future fiance you're checking out. And then you kind of start to connect the dots later on when they're in the house that he's looking at her because she looks just like his wife when she was younger. [00:30:29] Speaker A: She was younger. [00:30:30] Speaker C: And there's this awesome scene when they're standing in the mirror, when Pearl, like, walks over to the mirror and the, the banister of the stairs is in between them, and they're, like, each standing on each side, and you, you kind of, like, see them side by side in the mirror, like, right before she goes to touch her. And it just looks so cool when she touches her. It's so gross, dude. It's so gross. Her, like, hand, like, her crooked. [00:30:52] Speaker A: Just that weird touch. [00:30:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:55] Speaker A: It's so wrong, you know? Yeah. It's just on the side, she's just like, it'll be our secret. And I love Maxine's just like, what will be? [00:31:03] Speaker C: And then the callback later on at the end when she, you know, runs her head over and she speeds off and she goes, it'll be our secret. [00:31:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. It's funny because Maxine is kind of the. She's the most mysterious still of all the characters, in a sense. It feels like the other ones that they all have the same amount of screen time and Maxine has a little bit more. But it's almost like, I guess Maxine disappears a little bit towards the end because she's sleeping through most of it. [00:31:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:30] Speaker A: Probably because they didn't want to do a whole bunch of. Since Mia Goth's playing both characters, they didn't want to do a bunch of, you know, process shots of putting them together as special effects shots. But she kind of remains the most mysterious of them all. Like. Like, she doesn't. She makes her sort of her life goal very clear. She says it many times. We already quoted it here. I will not accept the life I do not, do not deserve. Right. [00:31:54] Speaker C: She goes, I'm going to be a fudgeing star. [00:31:56] Speaker A: And I'm going to be a fudgeing star. Which is. Which is. Yeah. Sorry, Stephanie, you want to say something? [00:32:01] Speaker B: Reference in Pearl, but I can't bring it up. [00:32:04] Speaker A: It doesn't matter. [00:32:05] Speaker B: I know, but it's such a good line. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Well, you know, you didn't put Pearl in the bag. In the bag, in the cold again. The movie needs to stand on its own feet. [00:32:16] Speaker B: I know. [00:32:17] Speaker A: And. But, but, yeah, like, I find it interesting that, like, the other ones, like, you can tell who they are and you can tell who Maxine is, but there. There sort of seems to be a lot more mystery to her still underneath. I wonder, does Maxine, the movie Maxine kind of delve into that a little bit more? [00:32:33] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:32:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Also. [00:32:34] Speaker C: Oh, go ahead. Please, go ahead. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Okay. I was gonna say that on the TV in the house, it shows, like, the TV pastor talking about, like, sins of the flesh, of lust will be your damnation, which is a huge theme in the movie. But also, that pastor is Maxine's father. [00:32:52] Speaker A: What? Yeah, we know. It's. It's a showed at the end of the movie. Yeah, yeah, but I mean. Yeah, that's. That's like the review. Why did you say it as if we. You were, like, gonna blow our mind? Really? [00:33:02] Speaker B: Cool. And I like it. And you have to watch Maxine, and. [00:33:04] Speaker C: You'Ll get more of a taste of that in Maxine. [00:33:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I did like that. He's on TV whenever they need him to be. [00:33:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:10] Speaker A: Whenever the TV turns on, his show is on there. And it's always on the same passages like that. [00:33:14] Speaker B: That whole thing is the entire plot of Maxine. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:33:19] Speaker B: It's like that relationship. [00:33:20] Speaker C: And he's also playing in the gas station before they get there. [00:33:23] Speaker A: He's always on the tv. Yeah. In that part of Texas, they just have one channel, and that's his show. Yeah. [00:33:29] Speaker B: But it's also like, her father is basically following her around, telling her that she's going to go to hell throughout this entire part of her life while she's doing this well, yeah. She's literally like the sin that. [00:33:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:41] Speaker B: Will be, like, damned out that he's. [00:33:43] Speaker A: Well, if she doesn't, you know, repent and come back to him. [00:33:47] Speaker C: And he keeps talking about how, you know, all these, like, sexual deviants are. [00:33:51] Speaker A: They're the ones that took her. [00:33:51] Speaker C: They're the ones that took her. And what I think is. Is a sort of really cool, too, is I. I know, like, one of the big tropes in horror is like, you know, the final girl. You know, but, like, she had, like, the. The, you know, she had her final girl arc, but it wasn't like the typical no final girl arc that you get in, like, every movie where, like, from the very beginning, you know, oh, she's gonna be like. Like the one that's gonna save everybody. Like, you. You get to spend a lot of time with the cast. [00:34:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:19] Speaker C: Where, like, it feels like anybody could be, like, the saving grace until you kind of sort of get, like, you could tell she's the main character. [00:34:27] Speaker A: And that's, again, that's like Mia Goth's casting. [00:34:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:29] Speaker A: Like, there's just something about her that's. That's really. [00:34:32] Speaker C: It's her eyebrows, man. [00:34:33] Speaker A: The lack of them. [00:34:34] Speaker C: Well, they're just dyed, right? They're bleached. I think she bleaches her eyebrows. [00:34:38] Speaker A: Possibly. Yeah. I don't know. I. I don't like no eyebrows. [00:34:40] Speaker C: She's so cool looking. [00:34:42] Speaker A: Don't, Stephanie. Don't look at my eyebrows and then laugh like that. Because I know what you're gonna say. I know. Everybody when I said that, just their eyes went to my eyebrows. I'm sorry. I have blonde eyebrows. I don't bleach them, but it doesn't look like I don't have them. Does it look like I don't have them? You know what, Stephanie? [00:35:02] Speaker B: Especially in this lighting. [00:35:04] Speaker A: So I look, like, weird. [00:35:06] Speaker B: Like, Mia Goth doesn't look weird. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Okay, fine. [00:35:09] Speaker C: No, she's super pretty. She's not weird looking. [00:35:11] Speaker A: Am I super pretty? Okay. [00:35:14] Speaker C: You're gonna be a star. [00:35:15] Speaker A: I'm gonna be a star. [00:35:16] Speaker B: It was just funny you saying that and then, like, the light shining, like. [00:35:21] Speaker A: Making your eyebrows look nice. My eyebrows felt violated. They. All my eyebrows were like, why are they all looking at me? [00:35:26] Speaker B: Your eyebrow hair stood up. [00:35:27] Speaker A: They stood up. It's really weird looking. [00:35:29] Speaker C: So according to Google, her eyebrows are just like that. I don't think they're. I don't think she bleaches them. [00:35:36] Speaker B: She's just blonde. [00:35:37] Speaker A: Yes, I guess so. [00:35:39] Speaker C: Yep. [00:35:41] Speaker A: Yeah. She's not kind of the typical. And, and also usually this is what I liked about the movie also was that even though it follows the trope of the people who have sex are killed, it again, it's not judgmental of them and there isn't this sense of like they were killed because they had sex or I mean they did. But it wasn't like, like karma or supernatural punishment. It was, it was the, the up psyches of the people around them. [00:36:05] Speaker B: But it also, it wasn't, it wasn't typical where it's sexuality and then negative or positive. [00:36:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:13] Speaker B: The whole thing is literally surrounding the fact that there's a balance of morality surrounding lust. Because we see Pearl and her husband and they're like weird sexual relationship, bro. [00:36:26] Speaker A: When they have sex. Dude in his big leprous ass that. [00:36:34] Speaker C: Was crawling out under the bed while they're. [00:36:37] Speaker A: And she's so disgusted. Like, we are like, it is so, so funny. I wish I could have seen that like in a packed theater because then people would have gone crazy. I was like, what the am I seeing? [00:36:47] Speaker C: And it was like any other movie would just kind of like cut away. [00:36:50] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:50] Speaker C: And just focus on me and Goth with the fact. [00:36:52] Speaker A: But he's ramming her, dude. And like. And again. And I'm like, poor Howard. And his heart. [00:37:00] Speaker C: Get my heart. [00:37:01] Speaker B: Same choice of words. [00:37:02] Speaker C: Yeah. For real. [00:37:03] Speaker A: It is the perfect choice of word. It's what he's doing. Not expecting that to be said what he was doing. [00:37:12] Speaker B: I mean, besides how like gross and shocking it is, it also fits perfectly into the themes of age in the movie. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Yes. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Of like when you get like she. Okay. [00:37:25] Speaker A: There's an expectation when you get old that you lose, that you lose your sex drive. Clearly Pearl and Howard have not. [00:37:30] Speaker B: But it's also like Pearl sees herself in Maxine, not only her youth, but her like sensuality. [00:37:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:38] Speaker B: And like I feel like for everybody, like even if you're not 90, if you're like 50. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Sure. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Like you start to feel that lack of like 20 year old sensuality that like starts to deter your self esteem. [00:37:51] Speaker A: I'm familiar with it. [00:37:54] Speaker C: Okay. [00:37:56] Speaker B: I didn't need to know that about you, but all right. [00:37:59] Speaker A: I didn't say, I didn't say it was me. I said I'm familiar with it. [00:38:02] Speaker C: I've heard, I've been told. [00:38:05] Speaker A: I've been told. [00:38:06] Speaker C: Okay. [00:38:07] Speaker A: By many 50 year olds. Continue. I don't know. As I said, I just heard what. [00:38:17] Speaker B: It'S. It's a really intriguing theme of the movie that I really like that like they dive into Stuff that's that deep in a horror slasher movie. [00:38:27] Speaker A: Yeah, right, exactly. [00:38:29] Speaker B: Which exactly, I think is. What makes me like it so much, is that it's not purely just, ooh, fun, spooky, scary slasher movie. No, it's like scary slasher movie with this whole, like, philosophical what's what? [00:38:41] Speaker A: I mean, like, there is thought to it. There is. They are discussing things, they are bringing up ideas, and that's why it was kind of shocking. Or not. It actually wasn't shocking. I went to IMDb and the one reviews I saw, the headline was like, yeah, it's a fine slasher movie, but there's not much thought to it. And I was like, bro, you were sleeping. I don't know what you're talking. Talking about, because that's really the opposite of what the movie is. [00:39:02] Speaker C: I think it might, like. It's almost like, distracting. Like, the fact that it preserves. It's like, feeling of a. Of a. Like a classic slasher. Maybe, like, deters people from catching, like, the undertones. And maybe that's a shame, though, but it's there. It really is a shame because it feels like a real classic, like, nostalgic slasher. Well, there was, like, scenes even, like, the. The way that the. No, the. The sound design was. [00:39:26] Speaker A: Friday the 13th was very Friday the 13th. [00:39:28] Speaker C: Exactly. Like, whenever stuff would, like, pop up in the background and it just goes. [00:39:31] Speaker A: Yeah, like the woman sort of. Or like the. [00:39:34] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. And like. [00:39:36] Speaker A: And again, guys, if you want to hear that again, there you go. [00:39:39] Speaker C: And like, when they're first arriving to the house, like the, you know, the. Through the bushes shots of the car pulling in, and you always feel like. [00:39:45] Speaker A: You'Re watching someone's watching them. [00:39:46] Speaker C: And the cut, the. The editing was just so good. Like, the cutting between the actual film that they were cutting. Nice. [00:39:53] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:39:54] Speaker C: The cutting between the. The film that they were making and real life, it was just like so sort of. I don't know, it had that. That feeling. But then, yeah, there's those underlying themes, and they're there. [00:40:04] Speaker A: No, I mean, it does a good job of balancing both. Like, it is a thoughtful movie. It's bringing up a lot of ideas and. And things that we have to deal with, things that we would rather not deal with. But it is still a very satisfying slasher film once it gets to the gory bits. Yeah. You know, it doesn't hold back on that. It doesn't. It doesn't pull its punches on that. We have some nice, gory kills. [00:40:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:28] Speaker A: And. And some really disturbing Imagery. It is funny though that we find the, the, the nonagenarians having sex so disgusting. Partially it's because of the makeup, because they really make them look emaciated and bony and, and, and you know, with liver spots and things like that and the noises. But it is, I mean, like, it shouldn't be that on the one hand, you know that. On the other hand it shouldn't be that disgusting. Well, it's also because we hate them because they're these murderous bastards. [00:40:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:57] Speaker A: But like, but at the same time we are laughing because it is a 90 year old woman screaming. But we shouldn't really be laughing at that. I think we should only be laughing in the context of this movie. [00:41:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Let the old people have sex. [00:41:10] Speaker A: Let the old people have sex. [00:41:12] Speaker B: They got nothing else to do. [00:41:13] Speaker A: They got nothing else to do. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Statistically, old people have the most STDs. [00:41:18] Speaker C: Really? [00:41:18] Speaker B: Yep. Because in old folks home. [00:41:20] Speaker C: Well, they're. [00:41:21] Speaker B: Oh yeah, they don't, they don't use protection because they can't get pregnant. [00:41:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:26] Speaker A: Right. [00:41:26] Speaker B: So when the old folks home, they got nothing else to do but go after it. [00:41:31] Speaker A: Get it on pile driving. What I was going to say the opening of the movie. [00:41:41] Speaker C: Yes. [00:41:41] Speaker A: The opening shot. First of all, really cool opening shot because it's through the barn doors. It kind of. You kind of look at it going, is this the matting of the film? Is this like. Is this like this movie gonna be shot in four by three square? And then it kind of. And you're seeing the farm. Yeah. And it looks like a calm, you know, like, like a serene farm. And then the cop car drives in and you're like, oh, intrigue. Like, well, what's happening here? [00:42:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:07] Speaker A: And then when the camera pulls through or pushes forward, you see there were other cop cars sitting there already. [00:42:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:13] Speaker A: You know what I mean? Just wait. So it's kind of like, like depending on the way you see it, it looks kind of like calm. And Serena, it's like, no, but these cop cars were in the shot. You just didn't see them. And they're all. Terrible has happened. [00:42:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:24] Speaker A: What did you guys think about the. That whole opening sequence of sort of showing the aftermath before you get into the movie? Do you feel there's like a purpose behind it or, or did it sort of. Did you feel it kind of gave things away too much or like 50, 50 on it? [00:42:41] Speaker B: Because I feel like it's. It's pretty common for like movies and books to use that technique that they'll show you like the end before they get into the beginning to try and capture your intrigue in what's going on. [00:42:54] Speaker A: Right. [00:42:55] Speaker B: But I don't think it was super necessary for this movie because, like, we know it's, it's a horror movie. Like, we know something bad is going to happen. Like, you don't, you don't pick up this movie and you're like, oh, this is gonna be fun. So I, I don't think it was super necessary for them to do it, but I don't mind it. [00:43:13] Speaker A: Okay. [00:43:14] Speaker C: I kind of disagree. I, I, I see where you're coming from. But I, I actually was a big fan of it because it sets up, like you were saying, like, this really serene, like, beautiful farm. And then you're just seeing, like this guy walking through, like seeing all these dead bodies and everywhere. And he, you could tell that it's like very out of his element because it seems like a small town and he's just like walking around this farm. And then. Yes. It kind of gave everything away. Like, you kind of got the idea of that people are gonna die and you, but you already kind of know that going into the movie. But then the final sort of shot where he's like, oh, you could come down here and see this. And then he goes down the stairs and he sees like something in the basement and he's like, oh. So like the whole movie, I was like thinking about, wait, this guy is gonna. Like, there's something crazy down there in that basement. What's it gonna be? [00:43:58] Speaker A: Was a little bit of an anti climax. Right. Like that. I mean, obviously it was, it was the bohemian guy. [00:44:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:05] Speaker A: That they saw. [00:44:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:06] Speaker A: But it seemed if I thought we're gonna see something else on, like, I, I forgot about that until after. [00:44:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:13] Speaker A: And I was sort, I was like, oh, wait, what did he find in the. Oh, it was just the guy. Okay. Well, we got to see that. [00:44:18] Speaker B: I think it's good at building tension, which is usually why they use that technique. [00:44:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Is to build some type of tension before the movie even starts. [00:44:26] Speaker A: And I think it's also definitely builds the tension. And I think it's also a promise, you know, for the people who are like, well, is this going to go where I want it to? You know, to be like, relax, you know, it will go where you want it to, but we're going to set things up first. [00:44:40] Speaker C: And it did like some nice sort of world building where it's like, okay, like you get a vibe of like, who's the law enforcement in this town? Like, you get that, like, because you don't. Other than that you don't really explore the area around. [00:44:50] Speaker A: No, the farm. [00:44:51] Speaker C: You're kind of just like isolated on the farm, which a lot of movies, horror movies will isolate you in that place. [00:44:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:57] Speaker C: That. That they're in, like, whether it's a camp or whether it's, you know, like the house. [00:45:01] Speaker A: Farm. [00:45:01] Speaker C: Yeah, the farm. But it was cool because then later, like in other points of the movie, when. When we go back to that same sheriff or cop guy, it's like, okay, he's. He's still hanging around or rather. [00:45:13] Speaker A: And when you see him, when they, when they drive past. [00:45:15] Speaker C: When they drive past the dead cow. [00:45:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:17] Speaker C: And I just thought it was funny when the. The guy was like, oh, what do you think happened here? It happened here. And he's like, what the am I supposed to do? [00:45:23] Speaker A: That made me laugh. At the end, when he was like, what do you suppose happened? He was like, how the would I know? And like, when you see it, it's true. Like, how would you put together with the. The happened there? [00:45:34] Speaker B: I don't know. If someone died. [00:45:40] Speaker A: They were. She was the guy in. In the basement, right? [00:45:43] Speaker C: Who, the old lady? [00:45:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:45] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:45:45] Speaker A: Maybe. I mean, how the would I know? Okay. I'm asking because I wanted to know if that was just something that was like, that I missed because it, like, was it something obvious that I'm like. Because, I mean, his pants are down and. And the camera, like, they show him and then they actually do an extra close up, tilting up and down on his body that I was sort of like, was there something we were supposed to catch there? [00:46:06] Speaker C: I don't know. I just kind of took it as like, he's just dead down there. [00:46:08] Speaker A: But why are his pants down? [00:46:10] Speaker B: Maybe she did. Maybe. [00:46:12] Speaker A: I think that's. Maybe that's what I was thinking. [00:46:14] Speaker B: The last one who tried to seduce my wife. [00:46:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:16] Speaker A: Is because he was like, I can't have sex with. Because of my heart. [00:46:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:19] Speaker A: And so I. I think this happened by accident. And then he was just after that happened, kind of going into your theory that he was then like, oh, let me solicit, you know, someone else. Oh, you can stay at my house. That's why he was upset. It was more than one person because it's gonna make it harder. And. And yeah, I think he was. They were sort of like kidnapping him as sex toys. [00:46:36] Speaker C: Yeah. Maybe. [00:46:38] Speaker A: Which makes the movie more. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Maybe that's why Pearl tried to feel up Maxine. [00:46:43] Speaker C: Yeah. She feels everybody. [00:46:45] Speaker A: She feels of everybody. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Which hypersexual freak she is. [00:46:50] Speaker C: Which. That kind of takes me to, like, my whole thing. Well, you were talking about how, like, they don't really, like, make the sex workers or the porn stars or anybody, like, seem like bad people. [00:46:58] Speaker A: Yep. [00:46:59] Speaker C: Like, if you notice, every single one of them dies trying to do something selfless. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Yes. [00:47:04] Speaker C: So, like, Wayne dies trying to help Jenna Ortega's character find rj. RJ dies. Well, he. Obviously. He was trying to run away. [00:47:13] Speaker A: He was being an asshole. [00:47:13] Speaker C: Well, he was being an asshole. But then when. When Pearl appeared on this. On the road, he gets out of the car and he's like, oh, let's go find your husband. [00:47:20] Speaker A: I would have driven around her. [00:47:21] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, he was trying to help her. I would have fucking ran her ass over. [00:47:25] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. [00:47:29] Speaker C: But, yeah, so he's trying to help her. He gets stabbed in the neck. Wayne is trying to help Jenna Ortega. She gets. [00:47:36] Speaker A: Well, and then Britney Snow or Bernie. Yeah. [00:47:42] Speaker C: You called her Burna. [00:47:43] Speaker A: She's trying to. Especially. Was so nice. [00:47:45] Speaker C: And then she was like. [00:47:47] Speaker B: No, she called her a. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:47:49] Speaker A: But when she. When she throws her in the water and she looks at her and she. [00:47:51] Speaker C: Goes, yeah, what's it called? Kid Cudi's character was trying to help him find his. His wife. [00:47:58] Speaker A: I liked his character so much. I thought he was the coolest guy. And when he was helping him, just. It was so, like, I. Is it too much to say selfless? Like, it just seemed like he was. He's going. He's going through these swamps in the. In the dark. You know, he did the. What guy won't give him a flashlight? Well, I don't have a flashlight. Yeah. And he's helping him out. And, you know, even when. Oh, when he. When he thought Howard had fallen in the water, when he saw the. The flashlight. Right. And he's kind of, like, desperately searching for him. [00:48:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:25] Speaker A: I almost feel like that's why, like, his death doesn't get gore. Like, his actually kind of happens off camera, you know, that it was just sort of like, he's too nice of a guy. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Yeah, well, did. Did Jenna Ortega's death happen? Because she was so. I thought she was just. [00:48:38] Speaker A: She. No, that. Okay, that's. That. That was a great part. [00:48:41] Speaker B: So that was like an outlier, I think. [00:48:43] Speaker A: Well, no, because. Exactly, because, like, Maxine rescues her from. From the. [00:48:48] Speaker B: The basement. [00:48:49] Speaker A: The basement. And then Maxine tells her we have to stick together. And what does Jenna Ortega say? But not only that. She's like, this is all Your fault. [00:48:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:56] Speaker A: She right away gets the high horse. Like, you're a whore. This is your fault. You brought this on us. And so rather than sort of like, sticking together, like, again, I thought it was sort of like a metaphor for how. How women, you know, or. Well, in this case, women, how they kind of shit on each other where, you know, like, where it's like, you're a whore, and I look down on you, and it's like. It's like you guys are in a situation together. You've even done a scene for a porno. Why are you putting yourself above this person who just saved you from the basement? And she's telling you, we got to stick together, and she's like, no, you're not, you know, not worthy. And then the moment she does that, she gets shot in the face with a shotgun. [00:49:33] Speaker B: Well, even Pearl did that. Like, Pearl was, like, super, like, oh, like, I need to have sex. Like, Howard, me. And, like. And, like, touching up Maxine and then calling. [00:49:44] Speaker C: He called her a. [00:49:44] Speaker B: And then called the other girl a. Yeah. And was looking down on them for what they were doing. [00:49:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Like, exactly. [00:49:51] Speaker B: Also kind of wanted to do what they were doing. [00:49:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:53] Speaker C: It was all super hypocritical. [00:49:54] Speaker A: I think that's sort of the subtext is this sort of idea of like, everybody's like. [00:49:58] Speaker B: Like the hypocritical. [00:49:59] Speaker A: Hypocritical morality. Yeah, exactly. [00:50:02] Speaker B: Like a huge theme, and I love it. [00:50:03] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was really cool. [00:50:06] Speaker C: The two people who were. Who were sort of looking down on the porn and weren't taking part of it, who tried to run away, both died. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Yes. [00:50:14] Speaker C: Like, in a violent nature. In a violent nature. [00:50:18] Speaker A: One of the movies in the bowl. Yes. [00:50:20] Speaker C: Maybe. [00:50:21] Speaker A: No, it's in the bowl. [00:50:23] Speaker C: No, but maybe it won't get picked. [00:50:25] Speaker A: No, it's not in a Halloween bowl. It's in. It's in bow. [00:50:27] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:50:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Don't around with Bobo. [00:50:36] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. When Jenna Ortega died, she just got blasted and flew off the screen. That was so good. [00:50:41] Speaker A: That was good. [00:50:42] Speaker B: When Pearl shot the. The. The gun and, like, my hip. [00:50:49] Speaker C: And it was so good because Howard, like, mentions that she has a bad hip earlier in the movie. All right, can we go through the kills and pick our favorite kill? [00:50:57] Speaker A: Sure. [00:50:58] Speaker C: My favorite kill was the gator death roll. [00:51:01] Speaker A: The gator was great because of the way that the gator came out and bit her head immediately. [00:51:06] Speaker C: Like, sideways. [00:51:07] Speaker A: Sideways. Yeah. I don't think I'd seen that before. And I was just, like, cool. And then I was like, poor, poor Birgie, but cool. [00:51:12] Speaker C: It did the death roll that alligators do when they. [00:51:15] Speaker B: I think I have to agree just because the alligator was one of my favorite characters. [00:51:19] Speaker C: Your favorite character? Dude, that was. I was like, actually, like, that was one of the most scared that. One of the most scary moments in the movie was when Maxine was being followed by the alligator. I was watching it on my tv, and, like, I was so worried for her that I closed one eye and I measured how many finger lengths there was between the guy, the gator, and her. And then you were between. Between her and the bridge or not. The bridge is the dock. I was like, okay, she has. She has more. Less distance she's gonna get. And then she stands on the edge of the thing for, like, a minute. I was like, you. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I was, like, gritting my teeth. [00:51:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:51] Speaker B: I was like, that was so good. [00:51:54] Speaker A: Which is great setup. There's a lot of setting up in the movie. I mean, you, of course, have the classic, you know, the Hitchcock. The. You know, if you have a bomb in act one, it better go off by act three. [00:52:03] Speaker B: Alligator. [00:52:04] Speaker A: No. Well, the alligator, in a sense, yes. And then the one that. That's actually sort of. They don't do it is the gun. You know, they. They. When. When Wayne gets the shotgun put in his face. Remember, Maxine grabs the gun from the. The glove compartment. [00:52:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:18] Speaker A: And so you're setting up in the first act that there is a gun in the glove. In the glove compartment. She gets the gun, and then, of course, it doesn't have bullets in it, or it doesn't. Or it misfires. I'm not sure what happened. [00:52:26] Speaker B: That's such a smart way to use that. That trope, though. It has to go off, which, like. Like, they tried. [00:52:34] Speaker A: I mean, it does, in a sense. She pulled the trigger, but it didn't actually go off, in a sense. [00:52:38] Speaker B: It just doesn't work. [00:52:39] Speaker C: And we also find out that Howard completely lied about the gun never being loaded. [00:52:43] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:52:44] Speaker C: He's like, I never loaded. [00:52:46] Speaker A: You'll be fine. Yeah, you, Howard and I. I do love Howard's death. That, like, Jenna Ortega kind of does, like, a death gasp, and it scares him. [00:52:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:56] Speaker A: So he has a heart attack. Like you, Howard. I will say I was mad. I thought. I was hoping someone would actually tear Howard apart and do something to him. I thought, oh, I. Maxine would do to him what they've been doing to everybody else. [00:53:07] Speaker B: I was hoping Howard, though, he's such a good husband. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Not true. [00:53:10] Speaker C: I was hoping Howard would Have a heart attack while they were having sex. I was like, you've been hyping this up. I know you haven't been giving your wife what she wants. You might as well die. [00:53:17] Speaker A: If you're. [00:53:18] Speaker C: If you're promising this, you got to die on that hill. [00:53:20] Speaker A: And it was so funny how, like, they were. They were like this happy couple afterwards, like, killing together after he. Her. I was just like, this movie is. [00:53:28] Speaker B: So that's what it takes to have a happy. [00:53:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:30] Speaker B: A long, happy marriage. Killed together. [00:53:32] Speaker A: I love it. The couple that kills together stays together. [00:53:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Yeah. I. I kind of almost don't want to bring it up, but it's because I didn't notice it myself. I. I read it, of course, in IMDb trivia, and so, like, I cannot take credit for it. And I normally wouldn't because I'm like, I gotta come up with my own shit. But it was so good, I can't not mention it. And maybe you guys just noticed it already. So Britney Snow is killed by the alligator. What's on the painting on the mural in a strip. In a strip club is an alligator. It's her. It's the blonde woman with the alligator pulling her. Her clothes off. [00:54:07] Speaker C: No way. [00:54:07] Speaker A: I didn't even notice that. Somebody mentioned. I was like, damn it. Why didn't I notice that? Yeah. [00:54:12] Speaker B: That is so cool. [00:54:14] Speaker A: Yeah. So there was a lot of setup and a lot of thought put into how they were sort of putting things into it and then paying it off at the end. [00:54:19] Speaker C: That's very cool. [00:54:21] Speaker A: And I did, like, Pearl getting her head driven over twice. [00:54:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:25] Speaker A: A nice, nice moment of gore. [00:54:26] Speaker C: She backed up and then. And it was, like, such a good line at the end when she's. When she's driving off and she just does a bump and she goes, praise the Lord. [00:54:37] Speaker A: It's fit very much in character for her. And it was interesting again, having someone who's kind of like. Like, you get the sense without knowing what her backstory is completely. We only get the reveal. But you get the sense that she's tough and that she's probably gone through a lot of. Because even though everybody got killed around her, it doesn't feel like. Like she wasn't affected by it. But she's not the screaming, begging, final girl. [00:55:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:01] Speaker A: You know, like, she's. I mean, her. Her fiance was killed, you know, like. And. And she sees them all dead and. And of course, she has for cocaine to. To fall back on, but the fact that she's not. It's almost like. Like she dries off, like, defiantly. Right. Like, she's like you to. To all of them and just kind of dries off, and I kind. That. And interesting. And so a nice subversion of the. The typical final girl. [00:55:29] Speaker B: I also thought it was. This isn't, like, a super big thing. This is just something that I like that they added another attention to detail that the porn that they were shooting was like farmer's daughter. And Pearl literally is a farmer's daughter. [00:55:42] Speaker A: You just cannot leave your Pearl. [00:55:44] Speaker B: I can't. [00:55:44] Speaker A: Your. Your Pearl prequel. [00:55:47] Speaker B: But it's. It's a good. Good. It. [00:55:48] Speaker A: Well, I mean, judging from the Pearl cover. Right. Like, Maxine, when she dresses up like, the farmer's daughter looks like Pearl. Is that. Is that. Am I correct in that? Like, I think she also. [00:55:57] Speaker C: Because the overalls. [00:55:58] Speaker A: The overalls and the. And the hair thing. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:56:02] Speaker C: And. Sorry. [00:56:03] Speaker A: No, no, go ahead. [00:56:04] Speaker C: No, the. To kind of go back to what you were saying about, like, rewriting the common tropes. I think it's In Friday the 13th, like, the first one when, like, one of, like, the opening kills the two camp counselors having sex. [00:56:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:17] Speaker C: And then. And then. And it all starts there. And, like, I thought that somebody was gonna get killed, like, while having sex. Like, I. Because I. I was like, oh, this is such an easy. You know, they're filming a porn. Somebody's gonna die while they're having sex, and it doesn't happen. [00:56:30] Speaker A: And, like, it's weird. Yeah. The porn is almost the most wholesome thing in the movie. Yeah, like. Like, they're just, like. They're just. These are just, like, cool people just getting together and filming a movie. Like, they're not hard. They're not hurting anybody. [00:56:41] Speaker B: You know, it's filming a movie. [00:56:42] Speaker A: They're just filming a porno. Big deal. And. Which is just a movie. Like, a big deal. And I. I like. I like that sort of morality of the movie where it's like, they're, you know, they're sexually liberated. They're free. So, like, cool. Yeah. Like, you know, we probably just all. You know, the people who are most upset by it are probably the ones who are just most want to be that way and can't. Which is. Which is Howard and Pearl. [00:57:05] Speaker B: I feel like you're trying to tell us something. I don't know. That was, like, a long speech about being sexually liberated, because I was like, okay, Paul, you want to be liberated. [00:57:22] Speaker A: I have no problem about talking about people being railed and plowed here on the podcast. So it's not like I am bundled up. I'm talking about the two faced people who, who, who on porn stars. And. And you know what, Stephanie? [00:57:40] Speaker C: Your yogurt. [00:57:41] Speaker A: No, I'm not the one talking here. That didn't come out so good. [00:57:49] Speaker C: Anyway. [00:57:52] Speaker B: Did we touch on everything? [00:57:54] Speaker A: Well, there was a lot of touching in the mood, you know. [00:57:56] Speaker C: You know, honestly, today that was good though. [00:58:00] Speaker A: No, no. No more goods to Stephanie. [00:58:04] Speaker C: Dude, if I woke up up and Pearl was in my bed touching up on me, I would actually kill myself. And I love the cutaway to Maxine wiping off like the blood from her. From her body from when Maxine was rubbing up on her. And she goes, disgusting, disgusting or like gross? [00:58:22] Speaker A: I was like, yes, because I am a sexually liber. Liberated person. I would turn around and have sex with Pearl. [00:58:28] Speaker B: No. [00:58:32] Speaker A: Yes, thank you. And guess what would happen then? Nobody would be killed because I would have given Pearl what she needs. And I'm going to add to this. I've decided that our skeleton that I brought into work today for Halloween. Their name shall be Pearl from now on. Because he's just as bony as Pearl. [00:58:52] Speaker B: Or Howard. [00:58:54] Speaker A: Pearl's bonier. I noticed. I looked because Pearl, I would say. [00:59:01] Speaker B: I don't know, Howard seemed pretty bony. [00:59:05] Speaker A: What are you. No, he was just boning her. Doesn't mean he was bony. [00:59:12] Speaker C: Oh my gosh. [00:59:14] Speaker A: You all got what you deserved. [00:59:15] Speaker C: She's gone too far. [00:59:18] Speaker A: That's what you get. So do we have anything else? I think the book is closed on X. I think we covered everything. [00:59:31] Speaker C: I don't want to see the book anymore. [00:59:33] Speaker A: It's because you guys are prudes and you look down on everybody. Okay, so. Wow. That's way too many ums. Let's. Any final thoughts? [00:59:47] Speaker B: Watch Pearl after this. You need to. [00:59:50] Speaker C: Yeah, Paul. [00:59:50] Speaker A: I mean, it's the plan. But I have to pay for it. I don't want to pay for it. I want to see all three. [00:59:54] Speaker C: If you're gonna watch it, watch it, watch. [00:59:56] Speaker A: You want to watch it, watch it any. Should we? No, I think now is the time. Everything has gone completely off the river. Yeah, exactly. So the cauldron is in my office. Shall I go get it? Please. Okay. Stephanie, can you go? Because you're closer. Can you get up and get my cauldron? [01:00:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I also don't. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Why do you look so suspicious? Do you think there's like an alligator in my office? [01:00:19] Speaker C: If we locked the door behind Stephanie, like. Yeah. Ortega in the basement. [01:00:22] Speaker A: There's no naked people chained to my office. [01:00:25] Speaker C: I hope not. I'M worried for the skeleton now after what you said. [01:00:32] Speaker A: There's, like, blonde hair on him. Suddenly. [01:00:36] Speaker C: Gross. [01:00:37] Speaker A: You're the one who came up with the idea that I'm the skeleton that we brought in. [01:00:44] Speaker C: Pearl's, like, design and her voice reminded me a lot of Jason's mom. [01:00:48] Speaker A: And Friday, There are a lot of callbacks to Friday the 13th. I mean, like we said with the sounds and then. Yeah, yeah, I kind of thought of her. Wait, you just took a move. Oh, okay. Okay. Is Bo just. Just. Bo has no pardon. This. Because it's the Cauldron. [01:01:04] Speaker C: Bo is a hoe. [01:01:06] Speaker A: Oh, you do not insult Bo. [01:01:09] Speaker B: What's the Cauldron's name game gonna be? [01:01:11] Speaker A: Who just called me a hoe? [01:01:13] Speaker C: No one, dude. What are you talking about? [01:01:14] Speaker B: Oh, you're not supposed to be here. [01:01:16] Speaker A: Wait, I hold. What do you mean? I'm not. I'm not part of this? No, I sound scary. [01:01:23] Speaker C: We'll see you on. You're going on vacation, Bo. [01:01:26] Speaker B: Where am I going? Horror Nights. [01:01:29] Speaker C: Horror Nights? [01:01:31] Speaker A: Wait a minute. [01:01:31] Speaker C: No Horror Nights or Horror Nights. [01:01:34] Speaker B: Whichever one you want. [01:01:38] Speaker C: But we're gonna send you on a. An all expenses paid trip to Boland instead of Poland. [01:01:44] Speaker A: You watch your backs, all right? You watch your back. Bellow. I have a song I want to sing. Okay, okay, Give me a second. Since I won't be on the show for another month. [01:01:55] Speaker C: It's riveting stuff. [01:01:59] Speaker A: I am Beau the bull? And I am in control of the movies that you see? And if you don't like the quality? You can put the blame on me? Cause I am Beau the bull? And I don't have a soul. Bo, that was. That was kind of dark there. [01:02:24] Speaker C: Yeah, that was kind of impressive. [01:02:26] Speaker A: Did you poor. [01:02:27] Speaker C: Did Bo write that? [01:02:28] Speaker A: He wrote that. [01:02:28] Speaker B: I feel like that's the song you hear before you drink the purple Kool Aid. [01:02:32] Speaker A: Oh, what is the purple Kool Aid? [01:02:33] Speaker B: What is the purple Kool? Occult Death. [01:02:37] Speaker A: All right, guys, I'll see you in a month. [01:02:40] Speaker B: Purple Kool Aid of Jamestown. [01:02:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:42] Speaker C: Was it purple? I thought it was red. [01:02:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought it was red. [01:02:44] Speaker B: I always thought it was purple. You drink the purple Kool Aid. [01:02:47] Speaker A: Okay. All right. Oh, do we have to name the cauldron now? [01:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. [01:02:55] Speaker A: It's pink. And I know that we're not supposed to necessarily connect gender to colors anymore, but I still think pink is female, so we should give it a female name. [01:03:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's Dirt to the Sea. [01:03:08] Speaker C: What the. [01:03:08] Speaker A: What. [01:03:12] Speaker B: Was that the first word that came to your head? [01:03:16] Speaker A: We're talking about porn. Don't put that on me. [01:03:22] Speaker C: Cauldron. What's a female? [01:03:26] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:03:26] Speaker A: No, no. [01:03:29] Speaker B: Chloe. [01:03:30] Speaker C: Clodron. [01:03:32] Speaker A: Oh, that's awful. Okay, we'll think of a bowl by between now. Name for the bowl. [01:03:36] Speaker C: Bolette. [01:03:36] Speaker A: Bolette. No, because she's not a bowl. She's a cauldron. We'll think of a name between now and next week. Yeah, I think you've been. You've been fondling. [01:03:45] Speaker B: You guys haven't done the drum roll. [01:03:46] Speaker C: Now that you assigned a female name to the bowl, I don't want to touch it. [01:03:52] Speaker B: Okay. [01:03:53] Speaker A: Yay. [01:03:54] Speaker C: Let's see what it. [01:03:55] Speaker B: Terrifier. [01:03:56] Speaker A: Oh. Oh. I didn't know it was gonna come that soon. All right. That was my. Oh. I kind of feel we should watch that together. [01:04:06] Speaker C: They're not at work. [01:04:08] Speaker A: They watch Slumber Party Massacre here. Once. Once that happened. I think everything is. Is fair. Did you start. Oh, no. You didn't throw that. Okay. [01:04:16] Speaker C: All right. [01:04:17] Speaker A: All right. So we're watching Terrifier for next week. Was my pick. I am. How do I feel about that? I don't feel like we should watch it alone. Because it's one of those things that I think will be funnier if we watch it together. [01:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Yay. I think so. [01:04:29] Speaker B: I think we should watch together. I also feel like it's a little too soon in the season for a movie of this magnitude. [01:04:36] Speaker A: No. I don't know. I think it's kind. You're right. But I kind of am like it. Let's just, you know. You know, like. Like Howard. [01:04:42] Speaker C: What the Was that? [01:04:43] Speaker A: Like Howard Badang. Just do it. Just do it. Don't worry about our hearts. Let's. Let's. Hey, that's good. If we're going to do it, we're going to do it. We're going to watch this movie. We're not going to worry about our hearts like Howard did. We're gonna be good. This is a weird fucking episode, But I refuse to regret anything I said. [01:05:03] Speaker C: No, don't regret anything. It's been done. [01:05:06] Speaker A: I'm committing to it. That's. That's me, 100. Sorry if you don't like it. Okay, let's do our final thoughts. What was it? What was that? [01:05:14] Speaker B: Thinking about Pearl the skeleton. [01:05:18] Speaker A: You think I'm gonna. Pearl. Why did I say I'm gonna. [01:05:22] Speaker C: On audio? That you would. [01:05:24] Speaker A: There's. [01:05:24] Speaker C: There's recordings of you saying, no, I would. [01:05:27] Speaker A: Pearl from the movie. [01:05:27] Speaker C: All right, you know what? [01:05:28] Speaker A: Wait, did I. Did we. Was that not clear. [01:05:30] Speaker C: No, that was clear. But then you said you're gonna name this one Pearl, so I don't know. [01:05:33] Speaker A: What you're capable of. But didn't I name her Pearl? No, I named her Pearl after I said that. [01:05:37] Speaker C: She's bony. [01:05:37] Speaker A: Oh. Yeah. So that's why I thought of it. Well, excuse me. Got a little close to my microphone. Wait, what do you. [01:05:44] Speaker C: You know what? [01:05:45] Speaker B: What? She's like a poor substitute for the real Pearl. [01:05:48] Speaker A: Oh, I dream about the real Pearl. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Anyway, we've learned a lot about today. [01:05:56] Speaker A: More than you want to know. More than I wanted to know. Let's get our final thoughts on the movie. What? How many Pauls? [01:06:03] Speaker B: Four Pauls out of four. [01:06:04] Speaker A: Alejandro, how many Pauls? [01:06:05] Speaker C: Four Pauls out of four Paul. [01:06:07] Speaker A: We'll also give it four Pauls out. [01:06:08] Speaker C: Of all we do four ghost Pauls since it's Halloween. [01:06:11] Speaker A: I don't like ghost Pauls. [01:06:12] Speaker C: Four spooky. [01:06:13] Speaker B: You're afraid of death? [01:06:14] Speaker A: Yes, 100%. [01:06:15] Speaker C: Four Paul Perkins. Pumpkins. Paul Pumpkins, pins. [01:06:20] Speaker A: How much is Spooky Paul's? [01:06:21] Speaker C: Four Spooky balls. [01:06:23] Speaker A: I think I've been pretty spooky today. I scared you guys this. You think I'm gonna. The skeleton? [01:06:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:27] Speaker B: That's a pretty scary thought. [01:06:29] Speaker A: Scary thought. You know, whatever. Anyway, four Spooky Pauls. So we all in agreement for spooky Pauls out of four Spooky Pauls. This is a very good movie. You should see it. And any final thoughts? Anything you guys want to say before we wrap it up? [01:06:47] Speaker C: I will not accept a life I do not deserve. [01:06:49] Speaker A: Excellent. Good way to do it. Shall we go through and do our. Watch this is. [01:06:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:52] Speaker B: Yes. [01:06:52] Speaker A: Okay, Stephanie, watch this. Alexandro, watch this. Watch this. That's supposed to be Southern, but it's hard to do with just two words. Watch this. I was born in Dallas. I can. You cannot tell me my fucking Southern accent is terrible. You can't do it. [01:07:11] Speaker B: Born in Dallas. [01:07:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:13] Speaker A: What world do you live in? I have said this in front of you so many times while you were driving. I was even saying I said it twice because you weren't listening. [01:07:20] Speaker C: Watch this. [01:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah, watch this. And you. And now you sit here and go, you were born in Dallas. Wait, wait. What are you gonna tell me next? That the pastor was Pearl's father? [01:07:34] Speaker C: All right, guys, thank you for joining us. [01:07:36] Speaker A: How did I not guess that? [01:07:38] Speaker B: I always made fun of for being a hick when he was born in Dallas. [01:07:42] Speaker A: Yeah, good question. Life is not fair. We're going back to the landslide we were supposed to end with fear to Reaper. But I don't. I don't have it. All right, Alex, sing us up. That's enough. Oh, that was my microphone. I'm an idiot. All right, there we go. Bye, guys.