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Just a Minute: Our Horror Movie Recommendations
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This week the guys debate and put together a watchlist of horror movies you should check out for Halloween.
Hold up just a minute. This is Chase, Kyle, and Andrew bringing you another short episode. Today, we're going to be looking at horror recommendations for this Halloween season. You guys ready? , . I'm so ready. Yeah, , I think I'll get there. Why don't you, can you be a little bit more enthusiastic?
Today, no. A little less apathetic? Today, no. Don't you get amped to watch people get fucking biffed? No, it's dark and moody. Okay Really? Yeah, . , I listened to evanescence still you know if I could find you now things would get better. All right, we're not gonna go down this road, all right, so here's how it's gonna work we're gonna pull some horror sub genres here And go around the room and give a recommendation.
These recommendations are from us to you So we hope that you end up watching these movies and enjoying them. So Andrew, we're starting with the zombie category. Zombie. Yeah. Okay. That's one of your favorites, isn't it?
Sure. , I actually watched this like five days ago. Okay. It's animated. Oh, , it comes from classic lore. It's Scooby Doo on zombie Island. Ooh, that is a good one. It is. I hadn't seen that in a long time. It gets pretty dark for a Scooby Doo movie, I don't need for me to give it a little blurb about it But like just it's on max actually there's if you want to dive deep into Scooby Doo in general Everything is on max right now, but go watch it.
It's like an hour and a half. It's an easy watch it's comforting in many ways. You are a big Scooby Doo fan. I am. I, nostalgically, , I could watch it all the time. I could just have it on the background.
That was , my show as a kid. So, but, Scooby Doo. Zombie Island. Watch it. It's easy, and I think you will not feel like you've wasted your time. Did not see that one coming, but it's a good recommendation. Zoinks! Ha, ha, ha. Kyle, what about yours? Hard, hard left. The series of 28 days slash 28 weeks later, , those two films in that franchise together are very good.
If you're like the zombie thing, like the whole meandering zombie doesn't really make sense and you're a little bit more realistic like I am. And you're like, well, I could just never see that happening. , I don't want to ruin things if you've never seen it before, obviously, but it takes a certain virus.
That's quite common. In our world and take to the next level as it gets weaponized and Really fuck shit up it's quite terrifying , especially the second film. The first film is more Existentially terrifying the second film , Chase and I were talking about it.
, it is quite scary. With Cillian Murphy in it too. Yeah, Cillian Murphy's in the first one. , it's directed by Danny Boyle, one of his best films in my opinion, , , incredible cinematography, some of the shots they got for that movie were very hard to get at the time, , they shot down certain streets of London for some of those shots during some of the busiest times of the year, which was incredible.
They're supposed to be doing , the third one soon. That's what I've heard. They were supposed to be on hold for like 28 years later.
Mine is, , Trained Abuse On. I don't think, I don't know if either one of you have seen this. Sure have not. South Korean film. It's more modern. It's a father and a daughter on a train and a zombie outbreak happens And you can just imagine these zombies are not just shambling zombies. They run and sprint and you're in this confined tube going at the speed of sound Yeah, so it's like there's nowhere to go. So it adds a lot of tension.
It's a great movie. , I don't think i've seen that one i'm gonna have to watch that i haven't even heard of that one until now So there's a lot of korean films andrew that you I know you haven't seen that we got it I mean, I have one in my list somewhere too, but like are you familiar with a lot of korean films?
Not a lot. No, but a couple. , south korea is doing horror really well right now. They've been doing it well for a while. Yeah They did parasite that came prepared Yep, parasite. Yeah,
, they're knocking it out of the park. , So next category, we're gonna start with Kyle this time. We're going paranormal. Paranormal. So we gave ourselves each one that you could do a tie with because we, if we were gonna do a tie for all of them, we'd be here forever. So I have it. This is my tie.
And I think you'll, I think you'll understand. An originator of the genre, The Exorcist, , is one of my favorite. It is terrifying the stuff that happened during that movie while shooting that movie. Coincidence, maybe, but there were some deaths. There were some not so great stuff that happened during the production of that movie.
If you've never seen the Exorcist and you're looking for a horror film this I mean Stop what you're doing.
Stop listening to us. Yeah, go watch that. Go watch it from beginning to the end. It is genuinely scary like unsettling scary , some of the visuals, yes, might be dated. You might laugh at them. , It's hard to dismiss and it's a little girl, too We're talking about and this stuff was based on real stuff.
It's not like this is a true story It's just it's based on stuff that they found out through the grapevine from the Catholic Church and Andrew and I both grew up Catholic how much do we talk about exorcism in the Catholic Church? Did my grandma used to sit down on exorcisms and she's told me some stuff and like it's just something that hits home and there's a level of truth to it or a level of like You Realness that just I can't argue against and it just it rattles me to my core we had brought that up in Catholic grade school Like exorcism somebody mentioned it and then like that person went to the principal's office like you don't talk about it It's not something that's talked about Swept under the rug.
It's not a thing. That's like popularized Like it would be like you think it would be like, oh They're just trying to make stuff up to get people to be believers or they're faking it You It's definitely not like that, and this is kind of one of those things that really just like, you know, bolsters that, like, how could that happen?
. It's deeply unsettling. The demonic portion How real they got with that? I think that was the first movie that took it to that realistic level and because I think a lot of things like especially paranormal the 70s had so many game changers. It reinvented the golden age of horror Yeah, the stuff we're watching now comes from most of this stuff So you can't dismiss It is an originator.
You must it is a must watch. So what's your second or your tie if you will? I'd be surprised if you had this veronica. Oh, i'd thought about it. But now yeah, veronica is truly this is one that andrew I talked about recently, which is like I watched it. I literally watched it with we did when we I was like I don't think we saw this and then you're like no we did because we were in chicago in chicago And I had started watching this and then because I was alone by myself in my chicago apartment, which very old apartment And I was just like, I can't watch this right now.
It's very intense. And , it's Spanish. Yeah. So , it's subtitles. So you don't really need to watch subtitles to understand what's going on though. Um, it's very, very, very, very in your face. Don't fuck around with Ouija boards, is the moral of the story. Yeah, don't do that.
, I'm very much a horror movie person, I can watch most things, like, no problem. , that one gave me pause.
I had to stop watching it. It was pretty intense. So those are my two. I do have two for this one, but, Andrew, go ahead. Got one, and again, it's not a favorite, but it's one that kind of opened me to the realm of the paranormal. , The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I thought you were going to pick that one.
Yeah, that was like the first one when I was a kid. , watched it at a birthday party sleepover. I was like 11, 12 years old. We, , Stayed up till 3 a. m. After 3 a. m. Just to go to sleep and that was I mean you watch the movie You'll know what I'm talking about, but you know again based on Real occurrences.
They have the real audio in there too. They have the real audio You know the whole idea you know, lawyer who's a skeptic, who is representing the priest who is on trial, , it's just dark, and it goes places, watch it at night watch it by yourself do something.
. I chose it follows I good movie. I love it follows. The theming of stds and just being a teenager in this world was, it's really good. It's very unsettling, especially not knowing, you never know anybody could be this creature in this movie, it just inflicts people and, and just, you pass it on. , it hit me hard. I've watched this movie like three or four times and it's gotten me every time. So that's why I had to pick it. But my backup to that one would have been, , when evil lurks, which is a new film from Argentina.
What was he called? , when evil lurks. , basically takes place in a town where someone possessed. Can infect an entire town So they have to do a ritual to get rid of this person before he passes away and this demon Enters the world.
So the demon's using him as a portal. It's like a combination of exorcist and insidious. It's it's very Unique so definitely put that on your list. , what's our next category? Kyle slasher you go first slasher Yeah, okay Um, , , this movie is not one I can recommend to everyone out there, , you have to be a real sicko to love this one, but there's probably some sickos listening.
, Terrifier 2. I think a lot of people talk about it like being graphic and gory in which it is it's over the top but the second movie has a lot of Love letters to 80s horror in there the soundtrack is incredible. The character dynamics are Surprisingly strong.
I I think there's just more than just This clown maiming people. . Can I piggyback off that now? Yeah. You picked terrifier too. I'm picking clown or the cloyne. I mean, it's one that I watched years ago.
Was that Eli Roth? Yes. Oh, wow. , it's about this. I saw that movie like one time and we were not in the headspace and I think it was me and Tyler, if he's listening, I think he'll remember this, but like we fucking hated it. Anyways, it's about this, , dad who puts on this clown costume for his son's birthday and it turns out this clown costume is like cursed by some like evil demon from like Scandinavia, like back in medieval ages and like, he can't get off the costume and like his hair becomes. The clown hair and his face but he becomes this evil entity and just like brutally murders people so I was trying to remember wasn't he like just a loser in this movie, too?
Yeah, he was a normal dude. It wasn't anything spectacular and Half the time like he would get he would go on these rampages and after it was done. He'd come back down He's like what just happened? Like what did I do? But Just like terrifier 2 in some ways.
It's just incredibly gory and over the top. See this is what we included categories because Yeah, I think we can all agree slashers are not for everybody. I think andrew hates slasher I'm, not a huge fan of slashers either really not really for me , I think some of those like really over the top 80s slasher movies can be so much fun to watch in a group setting. So Kyle, what about your slasher?
What are you looking at? , I saw The Devil, a Korean movie. That's a good one. It's a very good and it's on the borders between like Slasher and thriller trigger warning if violence against women is like not a thing for you , this is pretty hard to watch , the ending of it is incredible.
I'm a very big person like the villain never gets what they truly deserve , and they figure out a way around that in this one that's very well done has a little bit of a deeper element in there about revenge and what that does to a person and what it actually is supposed to do Versus what we think it does , and what you could actually, , gain from revenge, which is spoiler alert, not a lot.
Don't sleep on Korean films, folks.
They got korean horror is on a different level to even expand on that don't sleep on international horror period if you're out there and you're watching these Conjurings and stuff and which i'm not shedding on those movies are good movies, but hates the country.
He really does He's such a hipster But i'm saying Expand your horizons with this international horror because they do some things that get under your skin. And yeah Yeah And really, really take you there. Next category is sci fi. Andrew, lead the way on this one. So I'm gonna go with, , Annihilation.
Oh, that was a good one. I wasn't expecting you to do that one. Yeah, that was. That's Alex Garland, uh, that he did Ex Machina. Yeah. , this one's Natalie Portman, , Oscar Isaac and it's about this zone they go into that completely defies the of nature. I'll leave it at that. And , it's dark. , I love the soundtrack to it. Wild ending. It's a wild. Yeah. I loved it.
Highly recommended. One of the better, , sci fi movies of the past, like 10, 15 years. I, I would agree. Kyle, what about you? I don't think a lot of people have seen this. I don't even think you guys have seen this.
Sunshine, another Danny Boyle movie that makes it on my list. This is one that was made, I think, in 2006, 2007. Was this about the sun burning out? Yes, it's about the sun burning out. . Essentially, not necessarily, but essentially won my mission because the team that had been sent out before them, they lost contact with them.
So they have to reignite the dying star that is our sun. , there's quite a few very good performances turned in by a lot of Danny Boyle's favorite actors. . And you know who wrote it? Who? Alex Garland. Oh, there you go. Another good sci fi writer. I mean, that was the way he kept, he did Annihilation, so like, before it.
Um, but you're not really gonna see where it goes. , you have an idea. The horror aspect I don't think you would get until, , you get deep into the movie. , aside from that, it's, it, there's a lot of, like, just them dealing with the, the cold harshness that is space.
, the surprises and the twists in there are, woohoo, yeah, kind of stressful to watch.
Speaking of harshness and coldness of space?
We're just doing the harshest and coldness of The earth because I picked the thing which is one of my favorite movies of all time I'm a huge john carpenter fan. Anybody close to me knows i'm a huge john carpenter fan This movie was not well received when it first came out took it about 15 years for people to start Grabbing the fanfare with it and it is a remake You Of the 1940s the thing from another world , just incredible job with suspense and tension, i'm sure a lot of people have seen in the scene With the flamethrower and the petri dishes it gets me every time i'm just on the edge of my seat it's a great movie , definitely want to catch that one if you've never seen that , what's our next category? B movies, baby. Oh, B movies. We'll make this one quick.
. Alright, so B movies next. Again, I don't think you guys are going to agree with this. I think I'm going to get a lot of pushback that this is not a real B movie. But, I think it is just based on how bad the CGI is. It's really shitty. , The Mist. .
I think a Stephen King adaptation. I think to be fair that probably had a lower budget. Definitely had a low budget. And they were trying some things that were ahead of its time , that was one of those movies where they failed. Because everything looked terrible.
, the premise is scary. The ending is scary. Whoa, ending is tough. I mean, that's a tough ending. But that's what makes it worth watching, in my opinion. If it wasn't for that ending, it's just kind of shitty. It's it's pretty brutal enjoyable. Yeah, andrew, what about you b movie? I selected creep creep's a good one mark duplass.
, it's just it's very unsettling. It's three people. There's only three people that are you know build in that but it feels very real So it feels incredibly real. It's about a guy who hires this dude Dude to like film him and it just becomes creepier and weirder and , that's all you need to know That's all you need to know don't watch it by yourself either I really don't think that's well in this day and age of like craigslist and people bringing you food to your door You don't know what weirdos are out there But big fan of de plas brothers and that's one that you know, it's worth the watch , I chose night of the creeps and I know no one out.
There's gonna know. Nope Um night of the creeps is a great You 80s zombie movie. It's a cult classic. It kind of does that invaders from Mars style with the night of the living dead and prom night. It like mixes a lot of different. Genres in it and that's why I like it so much.
Characters are surprisingly good for one of those movies in the eight because most of the time It's just a bunch of kids that , you want to see murdered and Truly loathsome you you actually care for some of these characters and you hate others And so you you like to see The comeuppance and you also like to see the triumph, which is good movie.
So check it out. It's a lot of fun. It's there's a lot of comedy to it too. So it's not super spooky. So now we got the classic category. So let's start with you, Andrew. You look like you're a classic kind of guy. So this might be a little
, I'm going with Halloween 3, The Season of the Witch. I love 3. I love it, I absolutely love it. People hate on that shit, and I'm like, Why? Are you just mad that it deviated from Michael Myers? People have not re evaluated Halloween 3. I can sing that Silver Shamrock song, like, in a day of the week. Great soundtrack from John Carpenter, great idea to try to take the Halloween nostalgia, into different anthology series.
Kind of make it episodic, if you will. Yeah, just the idea as a whole is, I don't know, I think it's a unique idea, , watch it. I think you'll like it. And I don't listen to the noise from the outside. It's a solid movie. And Tom Atkins that's in Halloween 3, he's in Night of the Creeps.
He plays a detective in Night of the Creeps. So he's phenomenal in both movies. Great, great choice there. What about you, Kyle? Basic bitch. I chose The Shining. It's my favorite classic horror movie, I would say, that if we're talking about , an originator of the genre, it just hits all the spots for me, don't go into that movie expecting to be like, oh, jump scare!
Or there's a demon hiding around the corner. I don't want to call it a slow burn But it's stanley kubrick. So you already know it is a slower paced movie by design it's not to the point where it's boring by any means If but if you were looking to get jump scared if all you know is the Annabelle movies if all you know is like the Americanized japanese horror movies andrew just rolled his eyes You're gonna you're not gonna you're not gonna have a great time if you're expecting that.
It is high art. The set design is incredible cinematography is incredible the soundtrack Very well done. The acting in that movie is top tier acting from jack nicholson
He fucked with those actors. He fucked with Shelley Duvall's career. She deserved it. I mean, Shelley Duvall was a prima donna when it came to that kind of stuff. She was still great in that movie.
She did great because, , at that point he was depriving them of sleep and like, and certain things on set. And they really, really, like they, they live parts of those movies, which makes it so unsettling , Robin Williams really wanted the part.
He wanted Jack Nicholson's part. I remember reading this, yeah. And like he, he went out for that and like really set himself up for disappointment. , but can you imagine The Shining with Robin Williams as Jack Nicholson? , If robin williams takes that role And gets it.
I think he I do think he nails it. I think he would be great now. He has a different career Yeah, his career changes and we don't have what comes later. Well, he's dead. So All right, chase your classic My classic is The Invisible Man with Claude Rains. Okay. , that's a true classic. That's a true classic. True classic. I didn't quite go down that alley, but, you know.
Yeah, because when Kyle said classic, I was thinking Universal Monsters, Golden Age Horror. Those kind of things I thought about the creature from the black lagoon. That was my favorite when I was a kid , but When you watch invisible man, you see claude reigns just put this like one of the best performances in horror out there And create this unsettling environment of this man who has gone Absolutely crazy and you can't see him and he can do whatever he wants It is it is truly like just horrific to think about and he's a womanizer all bets are off at that point and they made a Kind of a follow up a sequel with hollow man.
Yeah, and and that movie's really good. That's very good terrifying and they read and they redid the invisible man recently You Yeah, but I think that was more of like an invisible woman kind of thing, and I think there was like more overtones of certain societal elements in it. They were using some of the original overtones that they were in the original Invisible Man,
and they were using, they just kind of, you know, modernized everything, and it was good. Being invisible, being able to do whatever the fuck you want can go to someone's head pretty quickly.
Yeah. Just walk into a bank vault. . Yeah. Last category here, we're going found footage. I'll lead this one off. , I actually struggled with this one.
, I had a couple movies I was going to put in there. , I landed on One Cut of the Dead. Cause it Is in my top five horror films of all time And it's not I don't know if I would classify it as found footage more or less. It is a found footage film But me giving away anything in this movie would give away the movie It is more fun Than you think and it is way different than you think and that's the japanese movie Yeah, okay.
, I will say this if you are an actor actress Director producer writer any of those things You have to watch this movie. This movie will give you the feels for filmmaking it's absolutely beautiful in in ways and it's terrifying and others and it's funny And it's just great.
It's great overall movie. It's like one of my rare movies. I give it like a five stars out of five Hey Wow Alright Kyle, found footage time. , again, another basic bitch. , Paranormal Activity 3.
Which I think is, I think it's, I think it's truly scary. , I don't know if it's better than the first, but it puts up an argument. I don't disagree with you that, but like, I think it's scarier than the first one. I actually, I don't know, there are moments of the first that, but, I don't know, three really, that really got under my skin.
And I remember just watching that with some of our friends in college, Drew Blakeman is one of them. And we just, I mean, fuck, that's just, It was tough, tough to watch that and like the fact that you can't do anything like there's nothing those characters could have done To escape their fates. No, and that just that was done the very the ending of that is brutal as fuck sad as hell So yeah, it's not gonna be as a deep cut of as chases Which is you know, very creative good movie that really kind of flips the genre on its head this I think just personifies the epitome Of what this genre of found footage could be based on like what you know Blair Witch and others Before it had laid the groundwork for I and I i'm not a fan of sequels But I I do enjoy the paranormal activity sequel.
I think I stopped after three. I don't think I want Nothing good happened after the but those those those three movies were all very solid I the first one scared the shit out of me. I saw that in theaters twice and I was I watched that in my dorm room at night, off, on a, um, a pirated website,
not a good idea. Bad idea. Bad idea. , just fucking scary. Oof. Where are we going, Andrew? I will say this, Andrew, your choices here have been, , knocked out of the park. Like I've been Thank you. I've enjoyed You've surprised me with some of them. I appreciate that. I'm gonna sleep well tonight now that you have given me that phrase , this isn't exactly found footage But, , there is footage that is found that is a huge part of, the movie in itself, and that is Sinister, with Ethan Hawke.
Terrifying. It is so dark, and he finds footage that literally makes the movie that, It puts it together. It's old film reels. , I'm not gonna tell you what is in those reels. You just gotta go see it for yourself. , , it's very unsettling. It's dark. I'm not sure I feel about the ending. , but it will take you to places that, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's dark. You know that You don't necessarily want to go but you seek out during this season.
I want to put an honorable mention in here We don't have to talk too much about it But I think quarantine deserves to be put in the found footage pile if you're gonna go quarantine i'd say do rec You The original, which is the original.
The original. But I think, but I don't think you've seen Rec, have you? , no, I don't think that's, I have not myself. , we should do Shining rec doubleheader one night. Okay. The premise of quarantine and how it's shot on either, either platform of, whether it's the Spanish or the American version, very stressful and pretty, pretty well done.
So to finish thing everything off just very quickly We don't have to get into it. I do want to know everybody's favorite favorite Just favorite and just maybe a sentence about it.
Okay, Andrew. Well, there's a tie. You had said my original favorite It's the Shining. Shining, yeah. I think that's one that's nostalgically. I remember falling asleep to that movie as a kid , I've watched it so many times the intro, the ambiance, the ending It it's up there, but we've already thrown that one out there.
So The next, , movie I'll throw out there is Hereditary. I think it's the fucking scariest movie I've ever seen in my life to this day. And I don't get scared that easily, but this one, it fucked me up for a week or so. . I watched this one night alone in my bedroom. And like I said, for the next seven, eight days, I was scared to sleep in my room. And tony colletti is just phenomenal. That's great Phenomenal acting job. She should have been nominated. I'm not even kidding you. I do. I agree as well Oh my god, just like the how she flips the switch and some of those scenes is just I don't I don't understand how you can Get And that headspace so quickly and just be able to perform like that Yeah, and it's not even performing.
She's living it. But you're what's yours? , so There's just no way around it. It's halloween That is one of my least favorite movies of all time.
I know probably now people watching it probably would like, like on it, this movie was The first horror movie I can remember like I watched it as a kid about the same time that I was watching alien So aliens up there too But with halloween, I just remember me and my dad watching it It was his favorite and it's just kind of like that bonding moment And halloween just also just creates that atmosphere that a lot of horror movies just do not create or that halloween October atmosphere where the actual like ambiance right it's been a minute since i've watched the original I should go back and Take a trip down memory lane because I wouldn't say it's my favorite But I have major respect for it and I obviously enjoy the original halloween and the soundtrack makes that movie because I think there was , A producer watched a cut of the movie without The music in john carpenter sent him an early cut and she was like this is absolutely awful.
This is not scary at all And john carpenter's like wait till I put the music in it and then he did the soundtrack and she was like this terrified Me it shows how much the soundtrack really elevates something Halloween was made like on a budget of like 40 They were picking up leaves and reusing them.
I love that. But that's again let me the Terminator is one of the same things like Terminator was done in like a I mean what we call a Schuster Brothers a couple million, but like For what it is and what other movies are given. Yeah. Like, the fact that they can do that much with it is, it earns my respect.
This is how I feel about that genre and what they, what that spawned. That's how you feel about the Conjuring universe is how I feel about that. No, I feel like it just like there was some good stuff in there, but it just spiraled into like who fucking cares. They're just killing people. I will say I do feel the same way about like that genre now.
There's a lot of just the one thing that that genre has that the conjuring doesn't have with me In that like I call it the paranormal kick? Sure, because they just were spitting out all these like ghost movies, but same thing in the 80s They were spitting out all these slasher movies Is there's a lot of nostalgia to the those 80s movies.
I saw when I was a kid that I think like according to our podcast Carries you through and I can't recommend those movies because no one's gonna I have a ton of friends that see them the same way as I do or be in a special mood for them But somebody who's not truly into horror and go hey watch Friday the 13th part 4 With Corey Feldman in it Yeah, so it's like I'm not gonna do that.
I am I going to enjoy it? Yes, but do I enjoy watching these new slashers? Absolutely not. I think Andrew already knows this You You're not gonna be surprised, Chase. You might not, but you won't be surprised either, , Insidious.
Is I think my favorite Halloween movie that gets me in the mood for Halloween because like It truly terrified me . We went to go see this twice in movie theaters. I was pissed. Scared. The first time I was even scared 'cause I saw things I didn't see the first time.
That was one of the first ones that had like actual Easter eggs in it that I was like, fuck yeah. The people standing. Yes. Like that. That's, that got me so hard. , but Insidious was also like Peak James Juan too.
It was, that was when he was at like that in the con, the first couple con dreams was like. The wave and now we're seeing the tail end of that wave now Insidious kind of started, talk about kickstarting a genre, that kickstarted that genre again, that would have been kind of petered out for a long time.
It's not James Wan that I think he's a Talented horror filmmaker the system in the in the business. He became the roger korman Yeah of horror real fast like this modern age. It's just like I i'd rather him do what ari aster does the reason I like ari aster is because He just has three films in the last 10 years , you don't have to release a movie every year.
I think that just waters down your product. And, the Conjuring films are good. I would never say they're shitty movies. I would say the third one's not very good. I haven't seen the third one because of what you said. I would not recommend that movie to people. Is that The Devil Made Me Do It or whatever?
Yeah, because they're dancing around Amityville and I just want them to get I just want them to do a fucking You've touched upon Amityville multiple times. Just fucking do it. They did a new Amityville horror movie and it's called Amityville in Space. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. That's great. Oh, fuck. Yeah, that's what we needed.
What an awesome, what an awesome way to end that off.
We have to delineate and like, and discern, mostly, that he's producing. Executive producer. He's not necessarily directing these movies or coming up with the IP. Yeah, He's there like this is the direction it needs to go if you want to make it scary We got to do this gotta do this So like again when we're talking about this We need to be very clear that like, you know These directors might not be directing the movies in the IP that they've created.
Absolutely I think Jordan Peele is the best horror director right now Mm hmm I'm going to disagree with you, but something you said, I'd say Fetty Alvarez is. If Fetty Alvarez didn't like help write that awful Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.
Yeah, but like I'm gonna say like hit the the one thing that he did right though alien Romulus Completely supersedes everything else and kind of just like throws it down the shitter I will say with Jordan Peele's movies, though, they are very deep with the, the Very socially conscious, very, a lot of commentary on today's, , climate.
Yeah, and Which is cool, but again, I'm gonna say this, is that gonna hold up in another 20, is this, what this podcast is about? Is that It's going to be relevant, but like, You make a point, you make a point. Are people going to understand the itch that we felt when we saw that movie and were like, that scratched that itch.
The things he's talking about are systemic. And about where people came from, . Us is an incredible movie about being tethered to your past. And are we tethered to the past in bad ways or good ways? It depends on who's tethered.
I think we nailed three great directors here. Ari Aster, Fetty Alvarez. Love Fetty Alvarez.
I love Jordan Peele. I think those three right there, you can make a case for either one are up and coming. Well that wraps it up Let us know in the comments dm us send a carrier pigeon Let us know if you watched any of these movies if you liked them if you hate them What's your thoughts on james wan we want to know we'll see you next time for one of our bigger episodes the blair witch project See you for halloween
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