Speaker 1: Hey they're folks. It is Sunday, October the twelfth, and
Speaker 1: the next movie on our list will have you rethinking
Speaker 1: your next dinner party invite. And with that, welcome to
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ's Halloween Horror hit List.
Speaker 1: As we continue to go through our deep cut movies,
Speaker 1: we're on number what.
Speaker 2: Now Rold twenty.
Speaker 1: This was not for the for the faint of heart.
Speaker 2: No, you have to be in a mood to watch this,
Speaker 2: but once you're in that mood, it is gripping from
Speaker 2: start to finish. The movie is would you rather?
Speaker 1: Did you play this game as a kid? I'm still
Speaker 1: as an adult?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely. This was more of a It wasn't as
Speaker 2: a kid. It was more of like a drinking game
Speaker 2: in college.
Speaker 1: How do you play that? Would you rather? As a drink?
Speaker 2: Would you rather it? Just you would kind of do
Speaker 2: a Truther or dare version of it? Basically, there's all
Speaker 2: sorts of twists and turns, but yes, play and it's
Speaker 2: usually like two terrible choices and you have to pick
Speaker 2: which one you'd rather do?
Speaker 1: And yes, that's exactly what the movie, and sometimes.
Speaker 2: The dare would be to do one or the other.
Speaker 2: It was not diabolical like it gets in this movie.
Speaker 2: It would be like, would you rather kiss Jimmy or
Speaker 2: sit on Billy's lap? Like that kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 2: I mean, I just made up a total Why I
Speaker 2: made it all up?
Speaker 1: Baby? When was this though?
Speaker 2: You're hilarious? Oh you're so funny. Anyway, we all know
Speaker 2: the game. We all might love the game, but you
Speaker 2: might not love it so much after you see this
Speaker 2: movie because whoa, this gets this gets evil.
Speaker 1: This is an intense once you figure out what's happening,
Speaker 1: you are on edge. There is no relief in this
Speaker 1: movie once that dinner starts.
Speaker 2: There's so much tension in your body when you're watching this.
Speaker 2: So I actually wanted to put this in someone else's
Speaker 2: words because I laughed when I was looking at some
Speaker 2: of the critics reviews. One critic put it like this
Speaker 2: and said, this is not a criticism, but this movie
Speaker 2: is a contender for the feel bad movie of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one stings, man, because it The other gripping
Speaker 1: part about it, Erobes, is that it puts you. You
Speaker 1: put yourself in the position that many of these people
Speaker 1: are in, and you ask yourself, what would I do?
Speaker 1: In that position, and you're asking yourself these questions. So
Speaker 1: you're having moral questions, well they're having moral questions. You're
Speaker 1: asking yourself how much you could take, how much money
Speaker 1: is worth for it? It is. It's kind of awful
Speaker 1: at times. And the main I was about to call him
Speaker 1: the protagon is he's a star, but he is definitely
Speaker 1: the antagonist, the guy who runs this dinner. He is
Speaker 1: as he is almost you don't take them seriously, like
Speaker 1: he seems like such a caricature of the guy he's playing.
Speaker 1: He's so over the top that you.
Speaker 2: Love it, right because you know no one could actually
Speaker 2: be that horrific, right, He's miles to hope not. The
Speaker 2: release date was twenty twelve. The runtime sweet spot our
Speaker 2: thirty three minutes. Of course, it's rated R and it's
Speaker 2: a horror mystery thriller. Here is the synopsis to the movie.
Speaker 2: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman unknowingly
Speaker 2: agrees to compete in a deadly game of would you Rather?
Speaker 2: Hosted by a sadistic aristocrat that absolutely reads now the
Speaker 2: box office. I didn't realize this. This was out in
Speaker 2: limited release and video on demand, so there are no
Speaker 2: numbers about how well it did, because for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: it just went almost straight to video on demand back
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. But it has a stellar cast, some
Speaker 2: of our absolute favorites. Britney Snow. You know and love her.
Speaker 2: I always think of pitch Perfect, but she does a
Speaker 2: lot of horror movies too.
Speaker 1: She is so solid in her Oh she was, she
Speaker 1: wasn't she?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, I mean she's in a lot of movie
Speaker 2: if you look her up and you'll know her face immediately.
Speaker 2: But love Britney Snow, Jeffrey Combs, who's so good in this,
Speaker 2: Jonathan Coyne, Lawrence Gilliard, Junior, John Hurd, you know his
Speaker 2: face so so well, Sasha Gray, Charlie Hoffheimer, you've known
Speaker 2: him too. Like I'm telling you, a lot of these
Speaker 2: folks might not be household names, but once you see
Speaker 2: their faces, you know them. June squibb Eddie Steeples. It's
Speaker 2: a big cast. They're all seated around this table and
Speaker 2: all directed by David guy Levy. But this movie is
Speaker 2: I guess sadistic and diabolical is the best way I
Speaker 2: could describe it.
Speaker 1: And that is probably why the audience score is so
Speaker 1: low and rutten to me. This is not an indictment
Speaker 1: of acting. No, but for some people roll stuff like this,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say I enjoyed that movie.
Speaker 2: This is one that you kind of have to say.
Speaker 2: Now hear me out, I love this movie. Don't judge
Speaker 2: me for loving this movie because it is evil. So
Speaker 2: the Rotten to score sixty one percent, but the audience score,
Speaker 2: and this is usually a movie I would completely shy
Speaker 2: away from and stay away from because this would tell me, nah,
Speaker 2: thirty seven percent. But you again, and no indictment on you,
Speaker 2: because I loved it. You're the one who told me
Speaker 2: about this movie. I did not see this movie. I
Speaker 2: think I really do look at audience scores. I don't
Speaker 2: necessarily look at critics scores. But this one wasn't a
Speaker 2: big theatrical release. There was no big box office or
Speaker 2: no big promotion for it, so this would be one
Speaker 2: of those movies you would actually see and decide whether
Speaker 2: or not you want to watch. And a lot of
Speaker 2: times I do base it on reviews.
Speaker 1: She I think it might have been her that caught
Speaker 1: my attention. I don't know why this one came to
Speaker 1: my attention, but there's just certain actors and actresses we
Speaker 1: were talking about justin long not long ago as well.
Speaker 1: You know you're in good hands. He's in a horror movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm in this young late Britney Snow she's in a
Speaker 1: horror movie. I think that's how it came about. But
Speaker 1: the premise itself in so much of it. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some blood and guts and gore, and it is horror,
Speaker 1: but there are It makes you have so many questions,
Speaker 1: so many moral questions that I enjoy having a conversation
Speaker 1: after the fact about a movie that's just kind of
Speaker 1: a throwaway, silly, ridiculous, disgusting at times thing you ask
Speaker 1: yourself some questions. What would I do? We finished watching
Speaker 1: it earlier and I said, do you have anything in
Speaker 1: your life that you would do blank blank blank for
Speaker 1: like we just saw them do in the movie.
Speaker 2: And we said no, No, there was nothing I said
Speaker 2: short of my child's life being on the line. And
Speaker 2: even then, I still don't think I could do what
Speaker 2: these folks were.
Speaker 1: Forced to do.
Speaker 2: Yes or yes forrest is the right word, because once
Speaker 2: they were there, that was the Hotel California. They could
Speaker 2: check in, but they could never leave. Right, So the
Speaker 2: critics consensus can you explain this to me, I actually
Speaker 2: didn't totally understand this. Though restrained by most torture porn standards,
Speaker 2: would you rather brilliant premise is ultimately harmed by its
Speaker 2: tendency towards blood and guts.
Speaker 1: True that there are some movies we've seen. First thing
Speaker 1: came to mind was hostile. There are some movies that
Speaker 1: have this torture in them. Uh, you know what, even
Speaker 1: Saw I shoy it.
Speaker 2: So that's what I think this is. If I had
Speaker 2: to liken this movie to any other movie that most
Speaker 2: people who like horror movies have seen, it would be Saw.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So by those standards, it's just a bit under that.
Speaker 1: It's not that it's not that cruesome, but so much
Speaker 1: of the gruesomeness here deals in the build up and
Speaker 1: that they're this enclosed, this confined space where you are
Speaker 1: forced to perform these acts or you're gonna die, to
Speaker 1: where there's an intensity of sitting across the table from
Speaker 1: people you're having to make a decision about what type
Speaker 1: of pain you're gonna put them in or put yourself through,
Speaker 1: and what decisions are they gonna make. That intensity stays
Speaker 1: for the entirety of the movie.
Speaker 2: Right, So you're not facing some unknown evil. It's nothing supernatural.
Speaker 2: There is no masked man. In fact, all of the
Speaker 2: people who are orchestrating this atrocity are right there in
Speaker 2: front of you, smiling and watching and showing their faces.
Speaker 2: So it's a very different twist on horror.
Speaker 1: And even in some of the moments that they're having
Speaker 1: at dinner, wouldn't you say? You don't agree completely, You'll
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. The scariest moment of this movie
Speaker 1: happens happened several times when the lead bad guy says
Speaker 1: would you rather? And you're like, what's it going to be?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Those are the moments would you And they say would
Speaker 1: you rather? Do this horrible thing? Or this horrible thing?
Speaker 1: And then you have thirty seconds Oh that's right the.
Speaker 2: Car They have a timer that adds to the tension. Yes,
Speaker 2: So here are some of the critic reviews. Would You
Speaker 2: Rather is a horror film in the tree truest sense,
Speaker 2: opening up frightening doors in our minds and making us
Speaker 2: look at parts of ourselves. It's not easy, but it
Speaker 2: is well done and extremely compelling.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yes, I agree with that wholeheart.
Speaker 1: The compelling part of it. It is you find that
Speaker 1: thirty second clock is a big deal. You got thirty
Speaker 1: seconds to make a decision, so you don't have time
Speaker 1: to contemplate and real you have to make a split
Speaker 1: second decision.
Speaker 2: Yep, I think you're gonna like, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: two more critic reviews that I think you're really going
Speaker 2: to fall in line with and entertaining an incredibly demented
Speaker 2: commentary on how easily our wills can break when given
Speaker 2: the proper price.
Speaker 1: Tag Man got heavy on us there. That is, it
Speaker 1: is a little insight into desperation, what you are willing
Speaker 1: to do and willing to do to somebody else. And
Speaker 1: look all those these folks weren't there for selfish reasons.
Speaker 1: They were there to try to say the lives of
Speaker 1: somebody else. So yeah, it does add a very a
Speaker 1: very interesting piece of humanity to this story.
Speaker 2: This is a movie when you watch it, there will
Speaker 2: be conversations afterwards and maybe even throughout, like you would
Speaker 2: maybe even pause the movie and have a conversation like
Speaker 2: this is something where it does it is thought provoking. Yeah,
Speaker 2: with the moral dilemmas.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it doesn't your thought and your conversation
Speaker 1: isn't that profound? You're at least going to turn to
Speaker 1: somebody and say, what did you do? Right? It's just
Speaker 1: fun in that way. What would you do? What would
Speaker 1: you do? Which one would you take?
Speaker 2: Because some of the characters make selfless choices.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it.
Speaker 2: Doesn't end well, but yes, that's very okay. Here's another one.
Speaker 2: It's smart, slick and delightfully sick, with a horrific but
Speaker 2: compelling game of survival that manages to give audiences a
Speaker 2: little food for thought along with their horror.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, we do feel valid. Okay, we can do that.
Speaker 1: We need to Okay, we need to do need to
Speaker 1: be horror movie critics.
Speaker 2: Exactly, I think so. We like all of those, but
Speaker 2: here is one of the bad reviews. An ungainly horror
Speaker 2: film that tries to twist the genre in a new
Speaker 2: direction but fails utterly. There are some truly horrific scenes,
Speaker 2: but nothing worth remembering afterwards. Really disagree when they brought
Speaker 2: the tub in, Oh my, I remember a lot. Some
Speaker 2: of the things I wish I could not remember that
Speaker 2: are still with me. So I would love to be
Speaker 2: this critic where I could forget what I saw because
Speaker 2: there are really tough moments that are still in my head. Okay,
Speaker 2: some audience reviews, I always think these are really interesting
Speaker 2: because these are folks like us who just are lovers
Speaker 2: of horror movies and have their genuine reactions. I thought this.
Speaker 2: These were pretty cool. Despite a downer of an ending,
Speaker 2: This is a great horror flick with despicable characters and
Speaker 2: some gnarly moments without showing too much. I agree the
Speaker 2: gore didn't go over the top.
Speaker 1: That is true. The scenario sounded worst and they end
Speaker 1: up executing them. That is a very good point. It is.
Speaker 1: There was a couple killing and some blood and some
Speaker 1: shocking this and that, but it is not a body
Speaker 1: horror or a gore type movie at all. That's a
Speaker 1: good point to make.
Speaker 2: And here's here's another one I heard I saw from
Speaker 2: an audience review. It was kind of a med review,
Speaker 2: but it still made me laugh. Okay, this wasn't an
Speaker 2: amazing movie by any means. There were a lot of
Speaker 2: dumb decisions and that certain characters made, but overall I
Speaker 2: actually enjoyed watching it. It was a fun movie. Exclamation point,
Speaker 2: and again, it's one of those things where you take
Speaker 2: it for what it is, which is I thought it
Speaker 2: was innovative. I thought it was clever. It's a game.
Speaker 2: We all know. It's a game we've all played, but
Speaker 2: never like this, and I think that's what made it intriguing.
Speaker 2: And yes it did. I felt like I was squirming.
Speaker 2: I was uncomfortable. And again, if you don't like being uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: this movie isn't for you, because I was uncomfortable from
Speaker 2: start to finish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, soon as you realize what this thing is, what
Speaker 1: this game is, then you have another hour plus of
Speaker 1: the movie that they're at this dinner playing this game. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is the doozy. This is a good one. And
Speaker 1: I understand I can't necessarily disagree with a lot of
Speaker 1: what you read. The one there was a little harsh,
Speaker 1: but I get the criticism. All right.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to talk about why
Speaker 2: it's on the list, who it's for, who it's not for,
Speaker 2: the food, drink, atmosphere pairing, where to watch it, and
Speaker 2: of course it t ease for our next movie on
Speaker 2: the list, continuing our number twenty on our horror hit list.
Speaker 2: Would you rather? All right, We're going to talk about
Speaker 2: why this made our list. We feel like we've made
Speaker 2: the case, but just to be on record, this is
Speaker 2: an edge of your seat, what's going to happen next movie?
Speaker 2: It is tense. It is intense, and you have to
Speaker 2: be in that mindset to want to be in that place,
Speaker 2: because this is not something you sit back, enjoy and
Speaker 2: have fun and watch popforn You are invested and you
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's thrilling and sickening all at once.
Speaker 2: Is that a good way to put it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it'll make you think I'm okay with that?
Speaker 1: Is this one horror movie? One of the few on
Speaker 1: the lists. I cannot remember a single jump scare, no,
Speaker 1: and you know what movie.
Speaker 2: It's all set in one room. I can imagine the
Speaker 2: budget must have been almost nothing. That's why they were
Speaker 2: able to just limit release and put it on video
Speaker 2: on demand, because I can't imagine this costs much to
Speaker 2: make other than perhaps the amazing actors' salaries, because there
Speaker 2: is a stellar cast associated with this. The acting is phenomenal,
Speaker 2: The script is great, but it is uncomfortable. So who
Speaker 2: is it not for? Not for the faint of heart.
Speaker 2: It's not that gory, so it's interesting. It's not there's
Speaker 2: no there's not a lot of blood and gouts. I
Speaker 2: mean there's some, but it's not point where that would
Speaker 2: be a turnoff. It's just difficult to watch because of
Speaker 2: the moral dilemmas, and you just feel this sense of like, no, oh, God,
Speaker 2: don't tell me they're gonna do that. It's and that's
Speaker 2: where I say it's similar to Saw because you're anticipating
Speaker 2: horror in a way that your whole body is involved.
Speaker 2: So if you don't like that, and I get that,
Speaker 2: because some people are like, look, I don't really like torture,
Speaker 2: and Saw is on the edge from me. You mentioned hostile.
Speaker 2: I don't like hostele. I don't like extended torture. This
Speaker 2: was right on the line for me in terms of
Speaker 2: movies that I can that I can enjoy and barely tolerate,
Speaker 2: this would be right on the line for me.
Speaker 1: So probably again we said there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: blood and guts and gore and too much torture. The
Speaker 1: problem is you're tortured the whole movie because you never
Speaker 1: get a break. You actually know as soon as the
Speaker 1: game starts that person's got thirty seconds. Then when that's over,
Speaker 1: the next person has to it just continues. You never
Speaker 1: get a beat to do anything.
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about it like that, but you're right,
Speaker 2: that's that's part of it. There is no relief. Oftentimes
Speaker 2: you have comedic relief. You have a break. I think
Speaker 2: we've mentioned before when it's nighttime and you know, the
Speaker 2: the zombies or the vampires are out. You know, when
Speaker 2: it's daylight, you get a break. This movie, there is
Speaker 2: no break.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think even if for a moment of levity,
Speaker 1: was there even a joke cracked.
Speaker 2: Honestly, if there was, I don't remember it because it
Speaker 2: was so intense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the guy was so diabolical in everything he
Speaker 1: did and how he said it. Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: well it seems like like, gee, Amy TJ, y'all really
Speaker 1: are recommending this, y'all. Don't make it sound great, right,
Speaker 1: It's a great experience, and it's.
Speaker 2: Again, you have to be a certain kind of horror
Speaker 2: movie lover to like this movie. And we won't get
Speaker 2: into why and how, because I I'm not gonna judge
Speaker 2: myself or you on this one, babe, But we do
Speaker 2: like this movie. Obviously it made our list. Now in
Speaker 2: terms of food, drink, atmosphere pairing. You have to watch
Speaker 2: the movie to know why. This might be kind of
Speaker 2: funny because if you like, well, like a brandy or
Speaker 2: a steak, well, they become a part of the story
Speaker 2: in a couple of different ways. There's a vegetarian and
Speaker 2: somebody who has recovered from alcoholism as a part of
Speaker 2: the game itself. Would you rather But that is just
Speaker 2: the beginning. So I just suggested wine and steak or
Speaker 2: brandy and steak or some sort of whatever you want
Speaker 2: to indulge yourself in. And again, just understand that your
Speaker 2: stomach might be a knots so not sure how hungry
Speaker 2: you would be.
Speaker 1: Scotch scotch. This is a scotch movie, Like you need
Speaker 1: This is one where something stress will happen. You go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I need a drink. This is that movie. After every
Speaker 1: one of those scenarios, you go, you're almost breathing hard.
Speaker 1: Relieve that you just have moment, but the intensity, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need a.
Speaker 2: Scotch sipping scotch. I actually could get totally behind that.
Speaker 2: That is this kind of movie. And you are the
Speaker 2: diabolical lead of this is, as we mentioned, an aristocrat.
Speaker 2: It's set in a gorgeous dining room, it's opulent, there's
Speaker 2: and and for sport. This man is offering you know
Speaker 2: how much money it was. It was it was life
Speaker 2: changing money to whoever wins. So there is wealth all around.
Speaker 2: And these folks who are desperate and they need the
Speaker 2: money for specific reasons. A lot of them have very
Speaker 2: altruistic reasons why they're sitting around this table trying to
Speaker 2: win this money at all costs. So yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that works. Scotch works. Where to watch it, well, you
Speaker 2: can watch it on Hulu, you can watch it on
Speaker 2: Disney Plus, AMC Plus, and of course you can just
Speaker 2: get it on demand, but if you have any of
Speaker 2: those services, it will be free along with your subscription.
Speaker 2: So check it out. Ooh would you rather? And we
Speaker 2: hope you have a really interesting conversation with the folks
Speaker 2: you watch it with. And I do think this is
Speaker 2: fun to watch in a group setting because it does
Speaker 2: create conversation. Our next movie, our next episode. It will
Speaker 2: be number nineteen, reading into the teens. We're counting down.
Speaker 2: And a little tease. I'm hoping I don't give this
Speaker 2: away too much by teasing the next movie. But it
Speaker 2: is a movie that was made during the pandemic, and
Speaker 2: any movie that was made during the pandemic has a
Speaker 2: slightly different look to this, But man, it's a movie
Speaker 2: about making a movie, and it's not just scary, it's
Speaker 2: really really funny. All right. With that, we hope you'll
Speaker 2: continue to listen to our deep cuts for now. I'm
Speaker 2: Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.