Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.
Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick.
Speaker 2: And in this episode, our Cat Week festivities conclude. We're
Speaker 2: following up core episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Speaker 2: as well as a midweek Monster Fact that all revolved
Speaker 2: around cats, and so we of course had to choose
Speaker 2: a cat film for Weird House Cinema this week. We
Speaker 2: ultimately had had quite a few to consider, like are
Speaker 2: we going to go with cat as ally, cat as Enemy?
Speaker 2: But we ultimately went with a B cinema favorite and
Speaker 2: one that multiple listeners have recommended to us over the years,
Speaker 2: the direct to video nineteen eighty eight or eighty seven
Speaker 2: mutant cat sci fi thriller Uninvited. Not to be confused
Speaker 2: with the many other films that are tiedled the Uninvited.
Speaker 2: This is just uninvited.
Speaker 3: What is it that's uninvited? There are many things uninvited
Speaker 3: in this film. There, I guess there's a cat that
Speaker 3: was not invited. There are also lots of people who
Speaker 3: were not invited, and none of the boyfriends were invited. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and there is there's an extra thing inside the cat
Speaker 3: that maybe you could interpret us the thing that's uninvited,
Speaker 3: like one of the people at least wanted to invite
Speaker 3: the cat but didn't realize it had a mutant thing
Speaker 3: inside of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then again, all cats are uninvited. They invite themselves.
Speaker 2: They're calling the shots here.
Speaker 3: Cats are not like vampires. They will not catch fire
Speaker 3: coming into a house uninvited.
Speaker 2: You may invite them, but they may not accept it.
Speaker 2: It's all up to them. So we selected this film
Speaker 2: before we recorded our core stuff to blow your mind
Speaker 2: episodes this week on the Folklora Cats of the British
Speaker 2: Isles and the Cats of Cyprus, And I have to
Speaker 2: say that I'm pleasantly surprised that this film managed to
Speaker 2: line up at all with anything we talked about core episodes.
Speaker 2: But you know, we have the idea here of a
Speaker 2: cat is a kind of vengeful demon, and we have
Speaker 2: cats on a boat. We spent the Cypress episode talking
Speaker 2: a good bit about cats on boats.
Speaker 3: That's right, trying to imagine Stone Age farmers getting all
Speaker 3: different kinds of animals on boats to take them across
Speaker 3: the sea to Cypress, and one of those animals would
Speaker 3: have been the cat. I guess maybe you know, despite
Speaker 3: how difficult it is known to be to herd cats,
Speaker 3: I'd imagine it's easier to herd cats than to herd foxes.
Speaker 2: Now, now, don't be confused, though, this is not a
Speaker 2: movie you're going to learn a lot from. Uninvited is
Speaker 2: not a movie with lofty, dramatic or thematic ambitions. It
Speaker 2: is a creature feature, first and foremost, and one that
Speaker 2: subjectively misses the mark in several ways, while also succeeding
Speaker 2: in being just an amazingly fun and weird ninety one
Speaker 2: minutes of cinema.
Speaker 3: I don't know who would say this thing misses the mark.
Speaker 3: I think this is this is like what creature features
Speaker 3: were invented for was become this.
Speaker 2: Well, when I say missed the mark, imagine that there's
Speaker 2: there's like an archery target set up. Okay, the arrow
Speaker 2: is is fired, and perhaps this arrow we can call
Speaker 2: this arrow effective and horrifying creature design. Oh Okay, it
Speaker 2: misses the entire target. But then it's a bullseye on
Speaker 2: an adjacent target. Okay, and that's where we are, Like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the creature in this film is not the xenomorph from
Speaker 2: Ridley Scott's Alien, I understand, but it is amazing in
Speaker 2: its own right. I wouldn't change a thing about it.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a total gromblin picture like this. This
Speaker 2: creature is on the same level as some of the
Speaker 2: creatures from I don't Know, Goolies and so forth. It
Speaker 2: has a triumph, the insult, comic dog, the energy to it.
Speaker 2: So every time it's on screen, you're going to giggle,
Speaker 2: You're going to laugh. And is that what the filmmakers intended?
Speaker 2: Maybe not, but that is people loved. One of the
Speaker 2: reasons people love this film.
Speaker 3: I think I am starting to get a feeling of
Speaker 3: Graydon Clark's sensibilities, and I think this was maybe supposed
Speaker 3: to be funny in the ways that it is. I
Speaker 3: think the moist puppet that appears repeatedly is it just
Speaker 3: seems impossible to me that Clark did not recognize that
Speaker 3: he had struck gold here with the potential comedic value.
Speaker 3: But that does bring up something I wanted to get
Speaker 3: into at the beginning. Uninvited is often described as a
Speaker 3: killer cat movie, but I have to flag that the
Speaker 3: actual creature that kills people is not the fluffy, cute
Speaker 3: kitty cat that we see in most shots. You know,
Speaker 3: so there is a cute kitty cat in the movie.
Speaker 3: You know that people pet and hold and it runs
Speaker 3: around and stuff, beautiful tabby cat. Yes, whenever it is
Speaker 3: time for the beast to vomit death upon humankind, what
Speaker 3: happened is that this cute kitty cat, the external cat,
Speaker 3: opens its mouth and then we cut to an effect
Speaker 3: shot where a wet, screaming secondary animal emerges from inside
Speaker 3: the cat mouth. And this interior beast is represented by
Speaker 3: a puppet that looks like a cross between a damp
Speaker 3: weasel and pumpkinhead. And it is this creature that leaps
Speaker 3: out and bites and scratches and kills and deposits poison
Speaker 3: on the humans. So what is this beast inside the
Speaker 3: cute cat? Is it also a cat? And I was
Speaker 3: also wondering how does it turn back into the cute
Speaker 3: fluffy cat after each attack is finished? Does it climb
Speaker 3: back into the mouth? It does?
Speaker 2: There is you might have missed it, but there is
Speaker 2: one scene where we see it beginning to crawl back in.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, I'm just forgotten that. Yeah, So I was
Speaker 3: wondering though, are the interior beast and the exterior beast, like,
Speaker 3: are they necessarily attached or can they fully separate? And
Speaker 3: if they separate, can they both be independently alive? Or
Speaker 3: can the exterior cat not live without the interior cat
Speaker 3: or the interior whatever it is?
Speaker 2: These are questions we cannot fully answer. Yeah, the outer
Speaker 2: shell cat of cat thing seems to be dormant while
Speaker 2: it is killing and rampaging, and then it crawled into
Speaker 2: it like it's a cat suit, but dey sock just
Speaker 2: sitting there. Yeah, but yeah, is that part of the cat.
Speaker 2: Is it a host for this parasite?
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, the only other major bit of evidence I
Speaker 2: might turn to is the ending to the picture or
Speaker 2: the ending to the main cut of the picture, But
Speaker 2: we'll have to come back to that one.
Speaker 3: So I want to mention I found online the Dutch
Speaker 3: VHS cover which has a couple of good taglines, one
Speaker 3: especially good one. I don't know if these would have
Speaker 3: appeared on other national packaging as well, but at least
Speaker 3: on this box. It has one tagline, which is cats
Speaker 3: have nine lives, you only have one. Nice ends with
Speaker 3: the ellipses and then exclamation one of the most cryptic
Speaker 3: punctuation combinations. Then the other tagline, not quite as good,
Speaker 3: is they paid for the holiday of a lifetime with
Speaker 3: their lives.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, that's rather inaccurate. I don't think anybody's paying for
Speaker 2: a holiday of a lifetime in this No.
Speaker 3: No, well, I mean I think that the Yeah, the
Speaker 3: spring Breaker characters are initially looking for a good time,
Speaker 3: but they it quickly goes off the rails. Like It's
Speaker 3: not like one of these movies where everybody's just They
Speaker 3: still think they're partying until Jason. The moment Jason shows
Speaker 3: up and wax him with an axe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not the cat thing meets love boat,
Speaker 2: as we'll get into when we discuss the plot.
Speaker 3: Though there is some Jason similarity. Like I was thinking
Speaker 3: about how the cat often attacks and punishes people right
Speaker 3: after they have sinned or done wrong. It does sort
Speaker 3: of follow some slasher movie logic there where with the
Speaker 3: cat as moral executioner. Not in every single case. Sometimes
Speaker 3: some rather innocent people catch it, but it's mostly you
Speaker 3: do evil and then the cat kills you, right, and
Speaker 3: the cat is the judge. Okay, so my elevator pitch
Speaker 3: for Uninvited is Garfield meets basket Case versus Gordon Gecko
Speaker 3: all wrapped up in some Jason takes Manhattan.
Speaker 2: Yep, that sounds accurate. Yeah, all right, Well, let's listen
Speaker 2: to just a little bit of one of the trailers
Speaker 2: for this picture, because there's, as you might expect, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of screaming and cat gowling, and
Speaker 2: we can only take so much of that. But just
Speaker 2: a little taste here.
Speaker 3: They say cats have nine lives, you have only one.
Speaker 3: A poisonous can. Now, how is that possible? Thing's gonna
Speaker 3: invite us? And we're gonna dialogue.
Speaker 1: Uninvited, starring George Kennedy and Alex Cord.
Speaker 3: You'll never look at a cant in the same way again,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: So if you want to watch Uninvited for yourself again,
Speaker 2: that's Uninvited from nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 2: depending on who's classifying it. Well, you can stream this
Speaker 2: one in a number of places. But the vinegar syndrome
Speaker 2: blu ray that we mentioned already is the ideal physical
Speaker 2: media choice for this picture. The footage is scanned and
Speaker 2: restored in four K from its thirty five millimeters original
Speaker 2: camera negative, and it features a nice smattering of extras,
Speaker 2: including the ninety three minute alternate internation rational edit, which
Speaker 2: is quite hard to find elsewhere. I wasn't able to
Speaker 2: find it streaming anywhere, and so forth. It features an
Speaker 2: alternate intro and outro, as well as the horrendous uninvited
Speaker 2: theme song by Chili Charles and Tom.
Speaker 3: Gunn oh Man. It's so funny, absolutely terrible.
Speaker 2: This is one of those cases where it's like, yes,
Speaker 2: you were right to cut this theme song for the
Speaker 2: American audience.
Speaker 3: It sounds like the theme music to a one season
Speaker 3: running sitcom from the eighties.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's terrible, like kat Thing was going to have
Speaker 2: his own his or her own TV show.
Speaker 3: Yeah boom, but doo do do so?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a great disc. I like yourself many
Speaker 2: years ago, rented this from Video Drome, the video rental
Speaker 2: store here in Atlanta, and you know, as I was
Speaker 2: returning it just yesterday, I ran into a couple of
Speaker 2: listeners and had a delightful little conversation. They were from
Speaker 2: out of town. I'm not going to name them here
Speaker 2: because I didn't clear that with them when I was
Speaker 2: chatting with them, but it was nice to run into
Speaker 2: a couple of listeners at Video Drome. We've heard from
Speaker 2: a few different listeners from out of town who while
Speaker 2: visiting Atlanta have made the journey, the pilgrimage to the Drum.
Speaker 3: That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's a non zero chance you'll run into
Speaker 2: me there, but you know, don't count on it. You
Speaker 2: might catch me. All right, Let's talk about the people
Speaker 2: behind this film, starting with the director, the writer, and
Speaker 2: one of the producers. It's great And Clark. Sometimes I
Speaker 2: have pronounced his name Grayton Clark, and I think that's
Speaker 2: because he frequently casts Jodn Baker, and so I kind
Speaker 2: of I kind of take the Jodon energy and create
Speaker 2: the great On So I may refer to him as
Speaker 2: great On Clark at some point here as well.
Speaker 3: I think I hear it with the cadence of Raydon Chong.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that too is probably influencing it.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: Grayton Clark was born in nineteen forty three American director
Speaker 2: and writer that you might remember from past Weird House
Speaker 2: Cinema episodes because we've covered two of his pick before,
Speaker 2: both from nineteen eighty Without Warning, which was our first
Speaker 2: episode of Weird House Cinema. And then we subsequently talked
Speaker 2: subsequently talked about the return, so we talked about a
Speaker 2: Graydon Clark proto Predator film as well as a cattle
Speaker 2: mutilation thriller.
Speaker 3: I think both of those movies have some ironic sensibility,
Speaker 3: but they were both more straightforward attempts at horror than Uninvited.
Speaker 3: I think Uninvited is he's cutting loose a little bit
Speaker 3: more than in the other two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it may be attempting to check
Speaker 2: off some extra boxes, especially for international distribution, Like this
Speaker 2: one has a certain certain amount of, I would say,
Speaker 2: especially in the US cut kind of a PG sexploitation
Speaker 2: quality to it, but in a weird way, like it
Speaker 2: was like it was written and conceived for the most
Speaker 2: part by like a twelve year old, a.
Speaker 3: Lot of bathing suit antics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bathing suit antics, and like, yeah, well we'll get
Speaker 2: into it. But it has this kind of weird PG
Speaker 2: quality that I really like. I mean, yeah, it's seen
Speaker 2: plenty of exploitation films that are a whole lot sleazier,
Speaker 2: and it's nice to encounter one that has pulled back somewhat.
Speaker 2: So Graydon's Clark. Other film credits included let's se a
Speaker 2: pair of black exploitation films. Seventy three's Tom and seventy
Speaker 2: six is Black Shampoo, some horror comedy. There's seventy seven
Speaker 2: Satan's Cheerleaders, and not one but two films featured on
Speaker 2: Mystery Science Theater three thousand, seventy nine's Angels Brigade and
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty four jo Don Baker international cop film
Speaker 2: Final Justice.
Speaker 3: I had forgotten that Graydon Clark did Final Justice, especially
Speaker 3: since we just recently rewatched the Mystery Science Theater of
Speaker 3: this one man. Final Justice is so much it is
Speaker 3: not anywhere near as fun of a movie as the
Speaker 3: three Graydon Clark movies we've done on Weird House. It
Speaker 3: is a step or two below.
Speaker 2: There's no speciative elopment to that one. As I recall,
Speaker 2: it's just an international cop film starring.
Speaker 3: It's just Jodn Baker running around Malta in a sheriff
Speaker 3: suit that almost looks like one of those old Nashville
Speaker 3: country music kind of outfits. Yeah, and just shooting bad guys.
Speaker 3: And I remember he gets into prison like twelve times
Speaker 3: in the movie. Yeah, that one.
Speaker 2: And there's as I remember, the main thing I remember
Speaker 2: from Final Justice, of course, is there's this great shot
Speaker 2: like through Jodan's arm, Like you're behind him and he
Speaker 2: has his hands on his hips and we're shooting through
Speaker 2: the gap between his arm and his side. It's ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a little thing sometimes.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately I had to remember it's not from Final Justice.
Speaker 3: It's from Mitchell that has that great rift in the
Speaker 3: in the mst where he's like digging around in the
Speaker 3: shower in his apartment and there they go, what does
Speaker 3: this thing do?
Speaker 2: Jodn rest in Peace, Yeah, recently passed, but yeah, he was.
Speaker 2: He was always a fun screen presence. All right, Let's
Speaker 2: see other films worth noting from from Graydon Clark. He
Speaker 2: did a couple of films that were made in post
Speaker 2: Soviet Russia ninety two's Dance Macabre and ninety three's Russian Holiday,
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three video game sex comedy named title Joysticks,
Speaker 2: a nineteen eighty nine skinhead movie, ninety four is Dark Future,
Speaker 2: and his last film, Star Games. In nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: He worked with Joe Don Baker on three pictures, and
Speaker 2: he did tend to gravitate toward using a fair number
Speaker 2: of older established actors who were working in B cinema
Speaker 2: at the time, something we definitely see in today's film
Speaker 2: and in general worked with a lot of notable B
Speaker 2: movie actors of the seventies and eighties, including Wingshauser, Jack Palance,
Speaker 2: Robert England, and John Kerodin. Not everybody gets to work
Speaker 2: with John Garritty.
Speaker 3: Most to oh weird that John Kedyin wasn't in the
Speaker 3: movie we watched today, since he is in.
Speaker 2: Most films, he was shooting three other films at the
Speaker 2: same time simultaneously. I say so great and Clark films
Speaker 2: are generally not consider good movies by most people. Virtually
Speaker 2: none of his films crack five stars are above out
Speaker 2: of ten on Internet movie Database. Not that that means
Speaker 2: anything really, but these are B movies, often with a
Speaker 2: certain and exploitive air to them in one way or another,
Speaker 2: but they often strike that perfect cheesy movie balance.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's a film that's for the most part competently made
Speaker 2: in involving talented professionals, but a film that also makes
Speaker 2: wild swings and doesn't land every punch, or at least
Speaker 2: not in the way they were intended, but still results
Speaker 2: in a very watchable and entertaining ride.
Speaker 3: If I have a technical critique of Uninvited, the biggest
Speaker 3: one is that too many shots are taking place outside
Speaker 3: on a boat and it is so windy it is
Speaker 3: hard to hear the dialogue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently this was a tough shoot because on one hand,
Speaker 2: there it's like NonStop cats. So they had a number
Speaker 2: of cats playing the one cat in the picture and cats.
Speaker 2: If you've ever if you know anything about animals and film,
Speaker 2: you know that cats are notoriously difficult to shoot. Everyone
Speaker 2: generally is like, yes, bring me a dog.
Speaker 3: Any day.
Speaker 2: A dog will hit its mark and do what you
Speaker 2: want it to do.
Speaker 3: You know. Horses are also a known commodity.
Speaker 2: Cats you can try, you can see what you can
Speaker 2: get out of them, but it's a wilder element, you know,
Speaker 2: like cats. With cats, it's like working with you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know one of the more difficult actors and
Speaker 2: out there, I didn't even know if there's a proper analogy,
Speaker 2: like it's cats. Not only your cat's going to do
Speaker 2: their own thing, but cats often look like they are
Speaker 2: doing their own thing in movies, even like a really
Speaker 2: you can think of like really good movies that have
Speaker 2: cats in them and the scenes in which you see
Speaker 2: the cats or that lean to heavily on cats doing stuff.
Speaker 2: It almost kind of throws you out of the picture
Speaker 2: a little bit sometimes because like you can just look
Speaker 2: at that cat and you're like, yeah, that cat is
Speaker 2: just checked out. That cat's doing its own thing. It
Speaker 2: is not in the moment, it's not in the scene.
Speaker 2: It didn't even read the script.
Speaker 3: I wonder if longtime directors could do a comparison, like
Speaker 3: what is more difficult cat versus the most notoriously difficult
Speaker 3: actor is like Lawrence Tierney or something like that. You
Speaker 3: know which one is more stressful on set? I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's probably some crossover there in the experiences.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: The other difficult thing about the film thost Courses. Most
Speaker 2: of it is shot on a boat. And I didn't
Speaker 2: even think about this, but this is something the cinematographer
Speaker 2: pointed out in one of the Vinegar Syndrome extras. Like
Speaker 2: that meant that when they're out on the boat, they
Speaker 2: only have so much power, and that limits how much
Speaker 2: lighting they can use. Yeah, and cats don't necessarily like
Speaker 2: being on a boat either, so that also constrains their performance.
Speaker 2: But cats, they was a this was a decision by
Speaker 2: grade and to have cats in this picture. Apparently he
Speaker 2: was thinking about it being rats, which that would have
Speaker 2: been scary. That would have made for a ridiculous puppet
Speaker 2: and rats on a boat, you know. That's that also
Speaker 2: has a lot of a lot to back it up.
Speaker 2: But they said, no, it's going to be cats. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a killer mutant cat. Obvious John Carpenter's
Speaker 2: the thing vibes to a certain extent here. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, they went with the cat.
Speaker 3: Now this makes me wonder what was the thematic seed
Speaker 3: of the film, Like, what is the core element that
Speaker 3: they were trying to get down to. Is it boat?
Speaker 3: Is it like this has to be a boat movie
Speaker 3: and everything else was around that or was it obviously
Speaker 3: you're saying it's not cat, but I guess it would
Speaker 3: have been maybe a mutant creature from a lab. Is
Speaker 3: that the core? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think the core was we're going to shoot it
Speaker 2: on a boat, and we need a mutant creature. We
Speaker 2: want to hit that sci fi horror zone. Okay, and yeah,
Speaker 2: everything else they just kind of figured out from there,
Speaker 2: including you know, first finding the boat, then finding people
Speaker 2: to wrangle the cats, and they did use them to understand,
Speaker 2: like a proficional professional cat wranglers here, this is not
Speaker 2: just getting me a boat, give me some cats. So
Speaker 2: you know, supposedly everything here is above board. But again,
Speaker 2: even cat pros are going to only get you so far.
Speaker 3: The exterior killer cat is very cute, and if they
Speaker 3: were switching them out with lookalikes, I couldn't tell. It
Speaker 3: always looked like the same cat to me.
Speaker 2: I want to mention really quickly that the individuals involved
Speaker 2: with the puppet cats that we see it's it's Jim
Speaker 2: Bolden born fifty six and Debbie Bolden.
Speaker 3: And these two.
Speaker 2: Did like animal artificial animal effects on a number of
Speaker 2: other films, including Loaded Weapon one from ninety three, Aceventurro
Speaker 2: When Nature Calls from ninety five, and a ninety one
Speaker 2: White Fang film.
Speaker 3: So did they do the rhinoceros that gives birth to
Speaker 3: Jim Carrey one hopes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they were animal makers inc. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're still around, but they were active for a
Speaker 2: little bit there in the late eighties and into the
Speaker 2: mid nineties. All right, let's get into the human actors
Speaker 2: a bit here. So I want to divide things up
Speaker 2: into factions here, Okay, because essentially we have two main
Speaker 2: factions and then an individual suspended between the two. We
Speaker 2: have our corporate creepers, and then we also have our
Speaker 2: spring Breakers.
Speaker 3: That is pretty much it. You've got your I guess
Speaker 3: the Springburger is supposed to be like early twenties. I
Speaker 3: think a couple of them mentioned being in graduate school,
Speaker 3: so like grad students and adjacent friends who are just
Speaker 3: looking to party, looking to go to the beach and
Speaker 3: have a good time. And then yeah, you've got these
Speaker 3: Gordon Gecko types who are out there just trying to
Speaker 3: run some greasy deals and get away to the Cayman
Speaker 3: Islands with the suitcases full of cash. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the leader of this faction is wall Street Walter Graham.
Speaker 2: This is our sleazy, yacht owning, womanizing, money laundering employee, abusing,
Speaker 2: charismatic millionaire dirt bag. Compare him to any contemporary figures
Speaker 2: you like. And he is played here by Alex Kord,
Speaker 2: who lived nineteen thirty three through twenty twenty one, probably
Speaker 2: best remembered by many for his main cast role on
Speaker 2: TV's Airwolf from eighty five through eighty six, but it's
Speaker 2: credits go back to nineteen sixty one, did a lot
Speaker 2: of TV, including episodes of Night Gallery, Mission Impossible, and Murder.
Speaker 3: She wrote.
Speaker 2: His film credits include sixty nine Stiletto, seventy two Is
Speaker 2: the Dead Or Alive, eighty one's Goliatha Waits, eighty four's
Speaker 2: Jungle Warriors with John Vernon and Sybil Danning, and ninety
Speaker 2: five's Hologram Man.
Speaker 3: I have several thoughts about, well, all of the corporate characters,
Speaker 3: but especially Wall Street. Walter Graham here is the big
Speaker 3: boss of the corporate schemers, and he he has a
Speaker 3: great look. For one thing, he has this just really
Speaker 3: iconic mustache. Yes, But another thing I was thinking about
Speaker 3: Robert I holed up a picture for you to look
Speaker 3: at here. So this is supposed to be set on
Speaker 3: a yacht in the Caribbean. Yeah right, it's in the
Speaker 3: you know, it's in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean,
Speaker 3: and so you and it's supposed to be warm outside.
Speaker 3: But our corporate characters, this guy dresses in like a
Speaker 3: wool sweat on his yacht. Are you seeing this?
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yep, He's wearing a sweater. George gets kind
Speaker 2: of windy at night.
Speaker 3: I guess so George Kennedy, who will get to in
Speaker 3: a minute. He wears a suit jacket like the whole time.
Speaker 3: Everybody else is just wearing bathing suits. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's he it's what he's comfortable in.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, Yeah, maybe he's cold blooded, you know,
Speaker 2: he's the whole cold bloody Wall Street type.
Speaker 3: Yes, he is reptilian.
Speaker 2: Well I think a cord. Yeah, just completely nails it here.
Speaker 2: He's believably charismatic and sleeezy. It's a fun performance. And
Speaker 2: you can't wait for this guy to get killed by
Speaker 2: the cat thing. Yeah, and they save that for toward
Speaker 2: the end. Yeah, it's good, all right.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: His right hand man and muscle is Mike Harvey, and
Speaker 2: he is played by the legendary George Kennedy, who lived
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty five through twenty sixteen. George Kennedy, of course,
Speaker 2: won the nineteen sixty eight Best Supporting Actor Oscar for
Speaker 2: his role in Cool Hand Luke memorable performance there. His
Speaker 2: TV credits go back to fifty six and he did
Speaker 2: a lot of it, including seventy five episodes of Dallas.
Speaker 3: Movie Wise.
Speaker 2: Many of you might remember him from nineteen eighty eight's
Speaker 2: The Naked Gun and its sequel, but he appeared in
Speaker 2: all manner of projects big and small, prestige and schlock. So,
Speaker 2: for instance, you'll find him in sixty three Charade, sixty
Speaker 2: five's The Sons of Katie Elder, sixty seven's The Dirty Dozen,
Speaker 2: seventy five is The Eiger Sanction, and eighty one's Modern Romance.
Speaker 2: But he's also in the Likes of eighty ones, Just
Speaker 2: Before Dawn, eighty seven's Creep Show, two eighty eight's Demon Warp,
Speaker 2: and just in multiple disaster films, especially from like the
Speaker 2: seventies and maybe the early eighties. Always a fun screen presence,
Speaker 2: he tended to play like blunt, straightforward characters, but could
Speaker 2: go like tough guy with a heart of gold like
Speaker 2: in Cool Hand Luke, or like a solid heavy villain
Speaker 2: role as in this film This one.
Speaker 3: I was a little confused about what his power level
Speaker 3: relationship is to Wall Street Walter Graham. There's another guy
Speaker 3: we'll get to in a second who's definitely a henchman
Speaker 3: like Albert, who we're about to talk about, is definitely
Speaker 3: Graham's henchman. Can't quite tell with the Mike character here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because at times he's speaking to Wall Street Walter
Speaker 2: Graham almost like they're equal, like their partners, you know,
Speaker 2: bossing him a little bit and reminding him about what's important.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah, right.
Speaker 2: Hand man or partner. I think you could maybe push
Speaker 2: it in either direction.
Speaker 3: There's a good scene where he it doesn't quite get
Speaker 3: fully bitten off, but it looks like for a second
Speaker 3: his leg is getting bitten off by a cat.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he gets he gets a pretty early attack,
Speaker 2: all right. And then yeah, Albert, this other character, who,
Speaker 2: as you said, is definitely a hinchman of some sort.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe he was like a money man, like
Speaker 2: he's something. Maybe it's the glasses through me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird, strange character. So this is Albert, played
Speaker 3: by klu Gooliger who lived nineteen twenty eight to twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. I love klue Gooliger and a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: He's the boss of the warehouse in Return of the
Speaker 3: Living Dead. Yeah, if you remember that, he's got a
Speaker 3: funny role where he gets called in by his employees
Speaker 3: because oops, they accidentally got a zombie in the warehouse.
Speaker 3: And you know, there's one scene where he's having him
Speaker 3: open the door. He's like, you open the door, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go stand back over here. But in this movie,
Speaker 3: it's an unusual kind of role because he is a hinchman.
Speaker 3: That is his role in the plot. He's like the
Speaker 3: button Man, but he is Wall Street Walter's weird, neurotic
Speaker 3: button man. He's like a cross between Gary Busey and
Speaker 3: Lethal Weapon and George Costanza.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Yeah, Yeah, there's some definite comic
Speaker 2: wrinkles to this character. So Klute Gooliger lived nineteen twenty
Speaker 2: eight through twenty twenty two, and his career can essentially
Speaker 2: be divided into two distinct phases. So his initial TV
Speaker 2: heavy career this included a co starring role on as
Speaker 2: Billy the Kid on The Tall Man from nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: through sixty one opposite Barry Sullivan from Planet to the.
Speaker 3: Van Okay, one of the Spacemen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did one hundred and four episodes of The
Speaker 2: Virginian plus he did all sorts of other TV shows
Speaker 2: during this time period. But then later in life he
Speaker 2: essentially became a horror movie staple in his own right, actually,
Speaker 2: beginning with seventy three's The Mystery in Drachioa's Castle, but
Speaker 2: really kicking into high gear in eighty five with both
Speaker 2: a Nightmare on Elm Street Part two and as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: the Return of the Living Dead.
Speaker 3: In Nightmare on Elm Street Part two, he is either
Speaker 3: the main character or the main character's friend's dad. I
Speaker 3: think he's the main character's dad, And there's a funny scene,
Speaker 3: if I'm remembering correctly, where he is attacked by a
Speaker 3: possessed parakeet.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I don't often see that in these Nightmare
Speaker 2: on Elm Street highlight videos that people put together online.
Speaker 3: Not a lot of highlights come from part two. That's
Speaker 3: not no, I don't know. I think that one has
Speaker 3: been maybe assessed a little bit more favorably in recent years.
Speaker 3: It does have a cool scene where Freddy like cuts
Speaker 3: open his own scalp and peels it back to reveal
Speaker 3: his brain.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, Yeah, that's why I don't think I
Speaker 2: ever saw that one. Yeah, I think I've mainly seen
Speaker 2: the original from Wes Craven, parts of some of like
Speaker 2: the Dream Warrior era films and What New night Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe I've seen I've seen New Nightmare, and then I've
Speaker 2: seen the remake.
Speaker 3: They did several years back. Nightmare two is has been
Speaker 3: notable for a long time for having pretty overwhelming homo
Speaker 3: erootic themes, which for a long time I think was
Speaker 3: sort of treated in the fan community as more a
Speaker 3: source of comedy because they were seen as unintentional, kind
Speaker 3: of unintentional, almost taken as like a kind of Freudian
Speaker 3: slip thing. But I think more recently it's been read
Speaker 3: a different way that maybe like, oh, this is just
Speaker 3: sort of like what the thematic content of the movie is,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of.
Speaker 2: Interesting, interesting, Maybe I should check it out, all right,
Speaker 2: So after a Return of the Living Dead, Gooliger here
Speaker 2: and Let's see eighty six is Hunter's Blood eighty sevens
Speaker 2: From a Whisper to a Scream, as well as The
Speaker 2: Hidden eighty nine's Teen Vamp nineteen nineties, The Willies ninety
Speaker 2: four's puppet Master five. His son, actor and director John Gouliger,
Speaker 2: also cast him in his two thousand and five film Feast,
Speaker 2: as well as its two sequels. He also pops up
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve's Piranha three Double D. I did not
Speaker 2: say this one and then A couple of his final
Speaker 2: credits were kind of a return to non genre work.
Speaker 2: He's in twenty sixteen's Blue Jay, written by and starring
Speaker 2: Mark Deplau, as well as a cameo in twenty nineteen's
Speaker 2: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Oh, didn't catch him in the Tarantino movie I.
Speaker 2: Helped, Yeah, he's I think it's just a very small
Speaker 2: role cameo. It was like in a bookstore or something.
Speaker 2: I do not remember spotting him, but he was in there.
Speaker 3: Okay. So those are all the bad guys, all the
Speaker 3: corporate creeps, but we also have a cast of more
Speaker 3: likable characters, the characters of varying likability, the spring Breakers,
Speaker 3: the twenties things that were just out looking to have
Speaker 3: a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'd say out of the spring Breakers, we ultimately only
Speaker 2: have like one really likable character. Yeah, and that is
Speaker 2: going to be Martin. Martin is a biology major or
Speaker 2: I forget where he is in his schooling, but he
Speaker 2: is a future biologist.
Speaker 3: They say he's a grad student.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, he's a grad student. Played by Eric Larson
Speaker 2: born in nineteen sixty seven, an American actor who also
Speaker 2: appeared in the nineteen ninety film Demon Wind and pops
Speaker 2: up in one episode of TV's Angel.
Speaker 3: At first, the main characters of this movie are some
Speaker 3: of the last characters introduced. Did you notice that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because initially we meet Bobby and Suzanne, who are
Speaker 2: a couple of really almost interchangeable spring breakers who are
Speaker 2: wearing just like what just like basically just their swimsuits
Speaker 2: and parts of an airbrush T shirt like they are
Speaker 2: spring spring spring breaking. They are spring breaking hard here.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're in I think the starts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Speaker 3: They say they're in fl to look into party and
Speaker 3: they are the ones who initially make contact with wall
Speaker 3: Street Walter Graham and are invited aboard his yacht to
Speaker 3: party some more, and that's how the whole thing gets going.
Speaker 3: But then they also end up meeting some random spring
Speaker 3: breakers grad student dudes on a like in a marina somewhere,
Speaker 3: and then they're like, hey, come on this boat with us.
Speaker 3: And obviously Wall Street Walter does not want all these.
Speaker 2: Dudes, right, but he also for plot reasons, is like, Okay,
Speaker 2: all your brand new boyfriends can come aboard my sex
Speaker 2: shot as well. So Bobby and Suzanne here. Bobby is
Speaker 2: the curly blonde spring breaker and she is played by
Speaker 2: Claire Carey born sixty seven. Her first TV and film
Speaker 2: credit was eighty seven's Zombie High, and in nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: eight she appeared in both this and the horror movie Waxwork.
Speaker 2: She pops up as a skater in two thousand and
Speaker 2: one's Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. Remained active in TV
Speaker 2: through at least twenty nineteen, and then Suzanne, the straight haired,
Speaker 2: blonde spring Breaker is played by Sherry Shattuck born nineteen sixty,
Speaker 2: Atlanta born actress whose other credits include eighty eight Death
Speaker 2: Spa and Desert Warrior, as well as nineteen eighty nine's Arena,
Speaker 2: which we've previously covered on the show.
Speaker 3: That sort of arena was sort of a creature effects showcase.
Speaker 2: Yeah, creature effects like boxing movie. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 2: She's also in ninety four, is on Deadly Ground, and
Speaker 2: did one hundred and forty six episodes of The Young
Speaker 2: and the Restless from ninety six through ninety nine.
Speaker 3: All Right, so they initially are going to go on
Speaker 3: the OD, but then they also find some some cool
Speaker 3: boys to bring with.
Speaker 2: Them, right, and that includes Martin, who we already mentioned,
Speaker 2: but it also includes Lance. Lance is the wrestler. That's
Speaker 2: his whole thing is he's a little beefier than the
Speaker 2: other two, you know, has like a lower center of
Speaker 2: gravity and is there to grapple. He is played by
Speaker 2: Bo Dremmond born nineteen sixty three. His other credits include
Speaker 2: eighty five's My Science Project and ninety one's for Linkenstein
Speaker 2: The College Years, which I don't know much about, but
Speaker 2: it looks oh, it looks horrendous. This is the jock
Speaker 2: of the group. Yeah, yeah, he's the jock. And then
Speaker 2: we also have the preppy. This is the character Corey,
Speaker 2: played by Rob Estes. Corey is a huge Walter Graham family.
Speaker 2: He knows who this guy is. He's like, Oh, I
Speaker 2: can't believe we're about to meet Wall Street Walter Graham.
Speaker 3: He says he's been on the cover of Forbes magazine
Speaker 3: twice twice. Wow.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Corey here is one of the least likable
Speaker 2: of the bunch. But the actor who plays in Rob
Speaker 2: Estas appeared on eighty nine episodes of Days of Our
Speaker 2: Lives in eighty six and eighty seven prior to this film.
Speaker 2: He went on to do one hundred episodes of Silk
Speaker 2: Stalk Stalkings in the early nineties, ninety six episodes of
Speaker 2: melrose Place in forty six episodes of nine oh two
Speaker 2: one Oho, and has continued to work in TV and film.
Speaker 2: It looks like he was nominated for a twenty ten
Speaker 2: teen Choice Award. They apparently had a parental Unit Award
Speaker 2: category for like mom and dad characters. He was nominated
Speaker 2: alongside co star Lori Laughlin, didn't win. I don't know
Speaker 2: whose parents beat beat beat beat them out that year.
Speaker 2: I like the idea of this award though, best parents,
Speaker 2: like the parents in movies don't don't get enough love.
Speaker 2: This needs to be an oscar category as well.
Speaker 3: I think they should have an actor categories for best jock,
Speaker 3: best biology, major, best best Preppy.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, absolutely, this would be great. If slasher movies
Speaker 2: were more in style, you could have you could have
Speaker 2: the Slashies. Maybe there is is there an award called
Speaker 2: the Slashies.
Speaker 3: If not, there should be. Yeah, oh, I see where
Speaker 3: you could have like best nerd, best punk Rocker, best
Speaker 3: best jock, yeah all that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right. So those are our two main factions,
Speaker 2: and then we have a character that is kind of
Speaker 2: suspended between the two because she's also young and so
Speaker 2: she has a lot in common with the spring Breakers,
Speaker 2: but she works for for wall Street Walter Graham because
Speaker 2: she is the captain of the boat. And this is
Speaker 2: Rachel played by Tony Hudson born nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is the other main good character along
Speaker 3: with Martin the biology guy. She's I would say the
Speaker 3: movie actually does a pretty good job at making her
Speaker 3: a sympathetic protagonist, especially since we meet her so late.
Speaker 3: As I was saying earlier, like the characters that we
Speaker 3: end up liking the most and are the survivors at
Speaker 3: the end are the ones we meet last.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the film is like, we have one more blonde
Speaker 2: lady to introduce you to, and she's going to be
Speaker 2: the main one. So you can get a little confusing.
Speaker 2: Tony Hudson's credits include supporting roles in nineteen eighty four's
Speaker 2: Places in the Heart, as well as leather Face, Texas
Speaker 2: Chainsaw Massacre three. This is the one that featured Vigo
Speaker 2: Mortensen as one of the Sawyer Klan.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, you know, I think I've never seen
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 2: I have, but it has been it's been a long
Speaker 2: time it was. I think this one was in many
Speaker 2: ways kind of like a rehash of the first one,
Speaker 2: kind of a a sort of a remake of the
Speaker 2: original Texas Chainsaw Massacre with some you know, with some
Speaker 2: updated vibes. And yeah, that about the only thing I
Speaker 2: remember is Vigo popping up as a cannibal redneck.
Speaker 3: This character is another reason Uninvited reminds me of Jason
Speaker 3: Takes Manhattan, because you may recall in Jason Takes Manhattan,
Speaker 3: of course it's like it's a slasher movie on a boat,
Speaker 3: but one of the main characters is the son of
Speaker 3: a boat captain who is being like prepared to be
Speaker 3: a boat captain himself. That's the same thing with Tony
Speaker 3: Hudson's character here. She is the daughter of a boat
Speaker 3: captain who has like inherited the family boat captain ship,
Speaker 3: and she's you know, and like there's a lot of
Speaker 3: drama about the fact that she's a boat captain and
Speaker 3: wanting to be a boat captain on her own terms. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say this character is more fleshed
Speaker 2: out than most of the others, and it's a decent performance.
Speaker 2: I like Rachel in this picture. You're rooting for her, Yeah,
Speaker 2: even though she is forced to make some ethical compromises
Speaker 2: at top.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the multiple times they're like, yes, somebody did fall overboard,
Speaker 3: but we can't go back and look for them. And
Speaker 3: here are the reasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Two more credits I want to mention.
Speaker 2: These are behind the scenes. Nicholas Joseph von Sternberg. It
Speaker 2: was the cinematographer born nineteen fifty one, son of Silent
Speaker 2: and Sound Era Academy Award nominated director Joseph von Sternberg.
Speaker 2: He did thirty one's Morocco, in nineteen thirty two Shanghai Express,
Speaker 2: those were the nominated pictures. So the son here, Nicholas
Speaker 2: Joseph von Sternberg grew up in the filmmaking business, and
Speaker 2: among his best mainstream films are probably Let's See Texasville
Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and Crime and
Speaker 2: Punishment from two thousand and two. This was one was
Speaker 2: directed by Menahem Golan who directed The Apple. But it
Speaker 2: had a great cast. They had like Vanessa Redgraves and
Speaker 2: John Hurt and so forth. But Sternberg von Sternberg, the
Speaker 2: the younger here, also worked on a load of B movies,
Speaker 2: seventy five's Dolomite, seventy nine's Tourist Trap, Graydon Clark's Wacko
Speaker 2: from eighty two Joysticks, eighty four's Jungle Warriors, Final Justice,
Speaker 2: Dark Future, Star Games, and more, and then finally, the
Speaker 2: score for this picture is by Dan Slider. Dates not
Speaker 2: public record as far as I could tell. He also
Speaker 2: scored eighty eight's Demonwarp, which also starred George Kennedy. This
Speaker 2: was his first Grade and Clark picture, but he'd work
Speaker 2: with him several more times, and even has a story
Speaker 2: credit on ninety four's Dark Future.
Speaker 3: I think I have not seen Demon Warp, but have
Speaker 3: been been circling it for a while. One night that'll happen.
Speaker 2: So the score here, I thought it was fun and effective.
Speaker 2: The main thing that really struck me is they keep
Speaker 2: using that labyrinth style synth cascade effect. We've talked about
Speaker 2: this before, it's popped up in other pictures. Did we
Speaker 2: ever determine what the name for this is?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Were you talking about the whole tone scale? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's it. Okay, that did come up, and
Speaker 3: the listener contributed to our trying to find the name
Speaker 3: for that but yes, where it's like it's not really
Speaker 3: any actual key in music, so it produces this kind
Speaker 3: of weird, ambiguous feeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I generally associate with any time Jarth is doing
Speaker 2: something in Labyrinth, we get that effect, and anytime the
Speaker 2: cat is doing anything suspicious in this picture, we also
Speaker 2: get that effect.
Speaker 3: All right, you ready to look at the plot? Let's
Speaker 3: do it. Well. You always want to begin a movie
Speaker 3: with a strong image at the top to establish themes.
Speaker 3: You know, what should people be thinking about? And here
Speaker 3: they chose an office building? You know, there you go, Yeah,
Speaker 3: a cat office building?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean this is the last movie
Speaker 2: we discussed in Weird House Cinema also had an evil
Speaker 2: in this office building, so you know it lets us
Speaker 2: know that corporations are up to no good right off
Speaker 2: the bat.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I guess that's true. Yeah we have we
Speaker 3: have a theme of business malfeasans. Sure. But so after this,
Speaker 3: we go inside and there are a couple of doctors
Speaker 3: examining an X ray. The bones in the image do
Speaker 3: not look human, so maybe this is some kind of animal.
Speaker 3: What animal could it be? And one of the doctors
Speaker 3: says there is a mass growing inside the subject maybe
Speaker 3: a tumor maybe a teratoma. The other the other doctor
Speaker 3: seems perplexed. He says he's never seen anything like this,
Speaker 3: and he's like, well, we got to just bring the
Speaker 3: subject in. We'll cut it open and we'll see what's
Speaker 3: what's growing in there. And I was looking at this doctor.
Speaker 3: I was like, is this Gradon Clark.
Speaker 2: It totally is Gradon Clark. Yeah, okay, yeah, he's now.
Speaker 2: He's only present in the intro for the US cut
Speaker 2: of the film. The international cut has a shortened intro
Speaker 2: where we don't we don't get this particular scene, but
Speaker 2: in the international version of the film, he does factor
Speaker 2: in to the outro, presumably playing a different character.
Speaker 3: So we see a guy in a lab coat go
Speaker 3: into a room full of cages and retrieve a cat
Speaker 3: from one of the cages and bring it into an
Speaker 3: operating room. Do we need any description for our main
Speaker 3: cat other than I think this is the variety we'd
Speaker 3: call an orange tabby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just an absolutely adorable orange tabby. I mean, I
Speaker 2: believe multiple orange tabbies playing this one cat character, multiple
Speaker 2: feline actors. Yeah, it is an orange tabby cat. Likely male.
Speaker 2: I'm to understand most tabbies are male, though we used
Speaker 2: to have a female one. Memes would have us know
Speaker 2: that all male orange tabbies share a single brain cell,
Speaker 2: and when it's not their turn to have the brain cell,
Speaker 2: they do dumb things. I see, but beautiful cat, to
Speaker 2: be sure on the outside. On the inside, as we're
Speaker 2: going to see, there's something else going on.
Speaker 3: Right, So the doctors get out the hypodermic needle. Seems
Speaker 3: like they're about to sedate the cat for surgery to
Speaker 3: figure out what is that growing inside it. But suddenly
Speaker 3: it just scampers off the edge of the operating table
Speaker 3: and down the hall. There really were no precautions here,
Speaker 3: and the guy's holding it and then it just runs away,
Speaker 3: and they're like, oops.
Speaker 2: They've never done like. They didn't even have the door shut,
Speaker 2: no doors open. Cat to the vat. They usually have
Speaker 2: the door shut.
Speaker 3: Yes, so one of the doctors. But it then seemingly
Speaker 3: disproportionate to the level of lack of care. We just saw.
Speaker 3: One of the doctors sprints after it. The other one
Speaker 3: gets on the phone. This is a great and Clark
Speaker 3: he's on the phone going code red, code red.
Speaker 1: U.
Speaker 3: He calls it by like a serial number has just escaped,
Speaker 3: and he's saying, use extreme caution radiation, security radiation. What.
Speaker 3: So the cat runs down a bunch of metal stairs
Speaker 3: in what looks like a cinderblock bunker, and we see
Speaker 3: dudes in hazard suits chasing after it, the red lights flashing,
Speaker 3: sirens going off, and what do you make of this
Speaker 3: hazard suit? It looks I don't know, it looks like
Speaker 3: a hood that's silvery, like a hood made out of
Speaker 3: aluminum foil with eye holes and just like a big open,
Speaker 3: frowning mouth hole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like it. We're it's kind of like
Speaker 2: a saggy el santo. It's kind of the overall feel
Speaker 2: that I get from this, but it's frightening, and the
Speaker 2: shot we get it feels like it's the cat's point
Speaker 2: of view, like this is a terrifying image this would bring.
Speaker 2: It makes sense that this brings the monster out of
Speaker 2: the cat.
Speaker 3: Right, So the hazarmat guy's corner the cat. One of
Speaker 3: them shoots it with a dart gun, and then the
Speaker 3: cat seems at first effectively sedated. It falls down and
Speaker 3: it's like it's going to sleep. But then as the
Speaker 3: handlers approach with a carrying case, the unconscious cat's mouth
Speaker 3: opens and a weird, smaller, much moister cat like puppet
Speaker 3: emerges from the bigger cat's mouth. And then you see
Speaker 3: blood splatter on the wall, splatter across all of the
Speaker 3: safety signs mounted on the cinder blocks. You hear screams,
Speaker 3: and this is our first cat attack. Yep, yeah again.
Speaker 2: Kind of kind of looks like a newborn cat, kind
Speaker 2: of like a hairball, kind of like a lion. Definitely
Speaker 2: a gromlin. Yeah, it's it's a delightfully hideous looking puppet here.
Speaker 2: And you know, maybe the hairball thing, maybe that's what
Speaker 2: they were working on at this lab. They were trying
Speaker 2: to genetically engineer a hairball free cat, and they created
Speaker 2: a cat that has like a living hairball cat inside it.
Speaker 3: Right, the hairball becomes its own organism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I can't help but suspect maybe this was
Speaker 2: subconsciously even a part of the monster's genesis and Grayton
Speaker 2: Clark's imagination. Like cats are always grow always puking up
Speaker 2: gross stuff, and so and so it's it's it's a
Speaker 2: natural step to imagine them puking up some sort of
Speaker 2: a killer cat.
Speaker 3: So anyway, the cat once again in fluffy mode. Once again,
Speaker 3: qu scampers out into the parking garage, and here we
Speaker 3: see the two doctors pursue it, and the security guard
Speaker 3: also they run out there and they proceed with a
Speaker 3: cat hunt among the cars while the cat scampers from
Speaker 3: place to place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's gonna be a lot of the cat
Speaker 2: scampering from place to place in this film. Something one
Speaker 2: of the things that I instantly loved about it because
Speaker 2: here's the thing, like, if you've ever been around cats,
Speaker 2: you know that they have different sorts of movements and
Speaker 2: walks depending on what their aims are, you know, such
Speaker 2: as the way they'll creep while hunting something. You only
Speaker 2: ever see the cat move one way in this picture,
Speaker 2: like clearly that's the only way that the trainers can
Speaker 2: get the cat to go from point A to point
Speaker 2: B for the shot.
Speaker 3: I think I think all shots are of the cat
Speaker 3: scampering to an out of view food bowl. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: There's also a good exchange where the other doctor says, doctor, oh, well,
Speaker 3: the Graydon Clark doctor's name is doctor Gray. He says,
Speaker 3: doctor Gray, you saw what just happened in that stairwell,
Speaker 3: and doctor Gray is like, shut up, about that. Just
Speaker 3: shut up about that. We've got to kill that cat.
Speaker 3: So it's like they're trying to keep something secret here.
Speaker 3: I think maybe they're doing some unethical experiments. Who knows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, Green and Clark pretty good here
Speaker 2: in this little director's cameo. Oh yeah, he did other
Speaker 2: acting roles, you know, outside of pictures that he directed,
Speaker 2: so it makes sense. But yeah, I kind of liked
Speaker 2: him here.
Speaker 3: We should sometime on the show do a list or
Speaker 3: a ranking of our favor of our directors who make
Speaker 3: the best director cameos. I, for one, really love when
Speaker 3: David Cronenberg goes goes in front of the camera. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cronenberg has had some really fun ones, including Jason
Speaker 2: X where he is killed by Jason Boy.
Speaker 3: He's very good, but also is like the creepiest character
Speaker 3: ever in Night Breed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Night Breed. That's what we might come back to.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, occasionally you'll get a you know a
Speaker 2: lot of directors that have fun cameos.
Speaker 3: We're most recently talking about Corsese and oh, that's right.
Speaker 3: In Dreams first I was Dreams. Yeah, have there, But anyway, so, yeah,
Speaker 3: the doctors and the security guards are running around. The
Speaker 3: Graydon Clark doctor yanks the security guard's gun out of
Speaker 3: its whole story. He's like, give me that. He's just
Speaker 3: taking charge. But these these slobs are no match for
Speaker 3: cat thing. It picks them off one at a time,
Speaker 3: and I was truly laughing out loud at just the
Speaker 3: random meow sounds as they're running around in the parking garage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a build tension.
Speaker 3: There's one cool shot when when it's attacking one of
Speaker 3: them where we just see a shadow, a shadow of
Speaker 3: like a cat head opening two wide, the mouth opening
Speaker 3: too wide, and then the wet puppet wriggling out in silhouette.
Speaker 3: But of it kills them all. It kills Greyton Clark
Speaker 3: as well, and eventually the cat gets outside and it
Speaker 3: runs out into the night. All right, So the next
Speaker 3: thing is we're going to meet some of our main characters.
Speaker 3: This time it is Bobby and Suzanne. These are are
Speaker 3: like early twenties spring breakers in Florida looking for where
Speaker 3: the party's at. They're here to have a good time,
Speaker 3: but it seems like the problem is they don't have
Speaker 3: any money and they don't have any hotel reservations. So
Speaker 3: they're in town and they're just flying by the seat
Speaker 3: of their bikinis trying to figure out what to do.
Speaker 3: So they like go into a fancy hotel lobby to
Speaker 3: hang out, and then the manager tries to kick them
Speaker 3: out because they're not staying at the hotel. But here
Speaker 3: in this fancy hotel, they happen to meet wall Street Walter,
Speaker 3: the rich sleeze bag and I would say, the human
Speaker 3: antagonist of the film, who offers to help them out.
Speaker 3: Why don't they just go join him for dinner?
Speaker 2: And yeah, and again they are just dressed in skimpy
Speaker 2: swimwear and shredded airbrush t shirts at this point, it's
Speaker 2: not even clear from the context. No, they do have
Speaker 2: some luggage. They do have some luggage. I have some bags.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But wall Street Walter tells them to leave the
Speaker 3: bags in the lobby while they go go get dinner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I love that he invites them in to
Speaker 2: just dine with him at this fancy hotel with them
Speaker 2: just wearing their spring break get up, and you know,
Speaker 2: walking past all the other swells.
Speaker 3: It just kind of like give him a little side
Speaker 3: eye over this.
Speaker 2: So it's like he's a pig. Everyone knows he's a pig,
Speaker 2: and he seems really comfortable in that. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just grabbed a couple of young ladies, just you know, basic,
Speaker 2: off the beach, and I'm going to dine with them here.
Speaker 3: But I also like the kind of mental shortcuts this
Speaker 3: movie is making when it has characters arriving in town
Speaker 3: for spring break and they're wearing bathing suits, like seemingly
Speaker 3: for the travel to get there. It's not like they
Speaker 3: would wear normal clothes to travel and then put on
Speaker 3: the bathing suits when they go down to the beach.
Speaker 2: Well, the spring break bus just lets you out directly
Speaker 2: onto the beach, So you gotta be good. You gotta
Speaker 2: be ready to go right right when it arrives.
Speaker 3: So let's see. The next scene is the part where
Speaker 3: George Kennedy include Gooliger show up in a chauffeured car.
Speaker 3: And then I had to put in a screen shop
Speaker 3: for you to look at here, Rob, what is the
Speaker 3: deal with the guy who opens the car door for
Speaker 3: them at the hotel? I guess this is a footman
Speaker 3: or a hotel worker of some companies, dressed like Midwest Dracula.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's got the big top hat. I don't
Speaker 2: know it definitely looked goofy. Though maybe it's accurate. Maybe
Speaker 2: this is exactly what was going on at fancy hotels
Speaker 2: in Florida at the time.
Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale Hotel doormen like they wear a big red
Speaker 3: k top hat. Yeah. Anyway, these characters here are Mike
Speaker 3: and Albert. Mike and Albert head into the restaurant to
Speaker 3: meet with wall Street Walter, and they are annoyed that
Speaker 3: he is he is getting distracted from their important crime
Speaker 3: business by trying to creep on these two women. So
Speaker 3: Walter departs with his associates, but he invites Bobby and
Speaker 3: Suzanne to join him on his yacht for a party
Speaker 3: later on. So what's the business on the yacht? Well,
Speaker 3: our crime fraud exception trio. Here they have to meet
Speaker 3: with some other business guy to do some shady deals.
Speaker 3: It's never really specified exactly what they're doing, just general,
Speaker 3: you know, corrupt illegal business stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some sort of illegal money stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The guy they meet with, he's more or less like, Hey,
Speaker 3: i enjoy doing corrupt, illegal things with you, but now
Speaker 3: I'm worried about the SEC And they don't like the
Speaker 3: other guys don't like that this guy is worried about
Speaker 3: the sec He's like, what if they send me to jail?
Speaker 3: And the other guys are like, uh oh. So they
Speaker 3: get suspicious of Frankie the squealer here, and they decide
Speaker 3: that there's only one way to be sure that he
Speaker 3: never squeals. They've got to shut him up for good.
Speaker 3: And so Albert klu Goolger here he holds the squeally
Speaker 3: guy down and drowns him in the hot tub on
Speaker 3: the yacht.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean the thing that I was thinking
Speaker 2: is like, they've got to use this hot tub later,
Speaker 2: like having a party. I've never owned a hot tub,
Speaker 2: but it's my understanding that they're a little bit sensitive
Speaker 2: and you can set them off by doing normal things
Speaker 2: that don't involve murdering people in them. So I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe they's some They have a really good handle on
Speaker 2: the chemicals here.
Speaker 3: Also, after out he makes Albert murder this guy wall Street,
Speaker 3: Walter is like, Albert, the party is in half an hour,
Speaker 3: So after you've cleaned up this mess here, get everything ready,
Speaker 3: will you? Like? Wow, I really hope Albert washes his
Speaker 3: hands before he puts out the crew to tay. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is.
Speaker 2: Why you really need a larger criminal organization so that
Speaker 2: you don't have goons that are having to do double
Speaker 2: duty both cleaning up your murders and also putting out
Speaker 2: your food.
Speaker 3: I was only hired to kill Frankie the Squealer. It
Speaker 3: was not in the job description to put out party trays.
Speaker 3: Oh somewhere in here, there's also a random scene just
Speaker 3: where we got a check in with the cat. See
Speaker 3: what the Cat's up to? So a guy robs a
Speaker 3: gas station attendant who the gas station attendant was being
Speaker 3: nice to the cat thing. It was the guy was
Speaker 3: putting out a saucer of milk for cat thing. Cat
Speaker 3: Thing was lapping it up. And while he's doing that,
Speaker 3: some dude runs up and like beats him up and
Speaker 3: steals from the gas station register and drives away in
Speaker 3: a pickup truck, and cat Thing jumps into the truck
Speaker 3: after the thief. It's like the vengeful pull of justice.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah. At this point, really we have no
Speaker 2: reason to be against cat Thing. He seems to be
Speaker 2: following his own moral compass.
Speaker 3: So while the thieves are driving away, he's got an
Speaker 3: accomplice too. The thieves are driving away, the cat Thing
Speaker 3: pukes up itself and then attacks the driver through the
Speaker 3: back windscreen, causing the truck to crash. And this was
Speaker 3: a laugh out loud scene for me because of the
Speaker 3: sound effects in the truck scene. They had one glass
Speaker 3: breaking sound effect, you know, like a crash tinkle tinkle,
Speaker 3: which they just played on a loop multiple times as
Speaker 3: the cars the truck is rolling down a hill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because otherwise it's very impressive looking wreck. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: roll this truck.
Speaker 3: So now we're going to have our spring Breakers combined.
Speaker 3: We're getting to a scene that has some of the
Speaker 3: funniest dialogue developments I think in the movie. So there's
Speaker 3: like a scene at a restaurant patio overlooking a bunch
Speaker 3: of docks with boats tied up, where we're going to
Speaker 3: meet our boy spring Breakers. These are Lance and Corey,
Speaker 3: and they're hanging out together edge a table. Cory is
Speaker 3: of course reading the Wall Street Journal, and Corey says
Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale at spring Break, no place like it? Agree,
Speaker 3: And Lance says, no contest, haha, and they high five.
Speaker 3: They high five for that, and then Lance says, you know,
Speaker 3: let's go down to the beach and check out the action.
Speaker 3: But Corey says, my friend, the beach is for riff raff.
Speaker 3: You want to find a classy chick, you go to
Speaker 3: the marina. That's where the money is. Come on, everybody
Speaker 3: knows that. And meanwhile, Bobby and Suzanne are wandering up.
Speaker 3: I guess they already went to the yacht party the
Speaker 3: night before, but we never see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, scene missing on the party. We'll see the aftermath
Speaker 2: of the party later, but the big it seems like
Speaker 2: it just consisted of them going out drinking and dancing
Speaker 2: while I guess Walter and maybe his men like watch.
Speaker 3: On unclear, Yeah, unclear. Yeah, So the ladies walk up
Speaker 3: to the boy's table and they ask if they can
Speaker 3: sit down, and the spring Breaker boys are thrilled, but
Speaker 3: then uh oh, here comes the drag. Their friend Martin
Speaker 3: comes to join the four of them, and Martin is
Speaker 3: the biology major. He's like, hey, guys, yeah, I can't
Speaker 3: find any place to stay. The whole town's booked. And
Speaker 3: Corey's like, not now Hedgeworth. I guess that's Martin's last name,
Speaker 3: not now Hedgeworth. We're busy. So his friends here think
Speaker 3: this guy is a real loser, but why'd they go
Speaker 3: with him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this isn't one of those classic why are these
Speaker 2: people friends?
Speaker 3: Moments? Yeah, yeah, exactly, the jock, the Wall Street journal guy,
Speaker 3: and the biology major who only two of them seem
Speaker 3: to like each other. Yeah, but anyway, after this, okay,
Speaker 3: so literally, I've told you everything that has transpired between
Speaker 3: these people, so I didn't eve anything out. Yea. So
Speaker 3: the girls they sat down. The boys are like, hey,
Speaker 3: this other guy is sitting with us. They have not
Speaker 3: introduced themselves to each other, they've not traded names or
Speaker 3: anything yet. Just the ladies arrive at the table, they
Speaker 3: ask if they can sit down. They sit down, and
Speaker 3: then Bobby says, last night we met this guy, Walter Graham.
Speaker 3: He's got this great yacht. And then Corey says, wait
Speaker 3: are you talking about Wall Street Walter? I mean, this
Speaker 3: guy is the best arbitrageur in the world. I mean
Speaker 3: he's made million He's made more millions than anybody. And
Speaker 3: then Suzanne says, must be the same guy. You should
Speaker 3: see his boat. Bobby says, well, anyway, we're supposed to
Speaker 3: set sail this morning on a cruise for the Caribbean.
Speaker 3: Be gone a couple of days, maybe more. Why don't
Speaker 3: you guys come with us. They have not traded names yet.
Speaker 3: They just they just sat down at the table.
Speaker 2: And they're just like, Hey, we're going out to sea
Speaker 2: with this guy, who you know up clearly doesn't have
Speaker 2: any ulterior motives, so come along with us. He'll surely
Speaker 2: totally accept just three additional random dudes coming as well.
Speaker 3: Well. Suzanne introduces a logic here though. So clearly Bobby
Speaker 3: and Suzanne are interested in this guy because he's rich,
Speaker 3: he's got a yacht, he can take them on a vacation.
Speaker 3: But they're also not sure about him, so they are
Speaker 3: recruiting some help here from these guys. Suzanne says, you
Speaker 3: can help us handle this guy if he gets out
Speaker 3: of hand. But then I was like, but why would
Speaker 3: they have any more reason to trust these guys than
Speaker 3: Wall Street where they just met it. They just met them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but Bobby says, besides, I hear the Caribbean's perfect this
Speaker 3: time of year for swimming in the raw, and she's
Speaker 3: grabbing Lance's leg though she does not know his name
Speaker 3: is Lance.
Speaker 2: I guess is that what they call it swimming in
Speaker 2: the raw?
Speaker 3: I think that means skinny dipping. Yeah, so obviously Bobby
Speaker 3: is interested in swimming in the raw with Lance and
Speaker 3: he's like, oh yo, and Corey dreamily. You know, he's
Speaker 3: got Wall Street journals in his eye and he goes,
Speaker 3: I am really going to meet Walter Graham. So our
Speaker 3: spring breakers make their way out to the yacht. On
Speaker 3: the way, they hear some meowing coming from inside this
Speaker 3: big storage bin on the docks. They go over and
Speaker 3: open it up and there's the cat Yeah yeahs in
Speaker 3: this box.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't get every leg of cat Thing's incredible journey,
Speaker 2: but it managed to wind up here just as this
Speaker 2: crew is about to board the yacht.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, but there is a thing I forgot to
Speaker 3: mention from earlier when the cat was watching Wall Street
Speaker 3: Walter's limo pull away from the hotel, almost like it
Speaker 3: was scoping him out. M you remember that? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why though? Yeah, it's well, so we've established that the
Speaker 3: cat thing not always but usually attacks people who are sinful,
Speaker 3: and so because Wall Street Walter is a particularly awful
Speaker 3: and odious human being, maybe it's like drawn to him
Speaker 3: like a magnet. So that's why it's watching his car
Speaker 3: and also how it ends up on the dock beside
Speaker 3: his yacht.
Speaker 2: Mm. Yeah, or maybe he knows even more, maybe he
Speaker 2: knows that Wall Street Walter is a majority stakeholder in
Speaker 2: the pharmaceutical corporation that created Cat Thing before.
Speaker 3: Wants to destroy him. That's a good theory.
Speaker 2: I'm basing it on absolutely nothing, but that's what I'm
Speaker 2: pulling out here.
Speaker 3: Well, wait a minute, this is a time for a
Speaker 3: good sidebar. Actually, what do you think is the intelligence
Speaker 3: level or sentience of the cat Thing? There are many
Speaker 3: things it does throughout the movie that almost feel strategic,
Speaker 3: but the way they're filmed, it never makes it really clear.
Speaker 3: Like at one point, the cat Thing sabotages the boat engine,
Speaker 3: but it makes it look like that could be an accident,
Speaker 3: Like the boat just kind of it shakes because somebody
Speaker 3: shakes the wheel, and then it kind of raw like
Speaker 3: jumps out of the cat's mouth and scratches a wire,
Speaker 3: and then the engine is sabotage, and there's other stuff
Speaker 3: like that, but it's never quite clear.
Speaker 2: Well, my answer, which is also going to be a
Speaker 2: little vague, is that it clearly has Grimlin level intelligence,
Speaker 2: so it can do things that are smart and clever,
Speaker 2: but it will also do things that are sneaky, even
Speaker 2: if they're stupid. So it's just it's just straight up
Speaker 2: Grimlin level intelligence, like standard Grimlin, not brainy Grimlin from
Speaker 2: Grimlin's too, but just like standard Grimlin intelligence.
Speaker 3: Maybe this actually comes back to they all share one
Speaker 3: brain cell between them, and then the cat thing is
Speaker 3: in possession of the of the universal orange tabby brain cell.
Speaker 3: Then it quickly becomes sentient and it can strategize like this,
Speaker 3: but then it again disappears. There you go again.
Speaker 2: The memes tell us this, so it must be true.
Speaker 3: So our spring breakers. They pull the cat out of
Speaker 3: the box. Martin removes a collar from its neck that
Speaker 3: says genetic laboratory, and he reasons from this that it
Speaker 3: may have come from a genetic laboratory. Then Suzanne fall
Speaker 3: in love with the kitty cat. She's hugging it, and
Speaker 3: she insists they've got to bring it with them on
Speaker 3: the boat. But like, what if this is somebody's cat?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, I guess the collar makes
Speaker 3: it look like it's a lab animal, but still so yeah,
Speaker 3: they just bring it on the boat. Oh and there's
Speaker 3: a funny thing here where at first Lance the jock
Speaker 3: is really worried about getting seasick, and then about four
Speaker 3: seconds after he steps onto a boat, he vomits a
Speaker 3: bunch of mellow yellow yeah, almost immediate barf gag, Yeah,
Speaker 3: translucent yellow liquid. So oh, next thing is we meet
Speaker 3: our the main last character we haven't met yet, Captain Rachel.
Speaker 3: We're on the yacht and there's a scene where Captain
Speaker 3: Rachel is arguing with wall Street Walter. Walter wants them
Speaker 3: to leave immediately. There's kind of a sense that the
Speaker 3: law could be closing in on him soon, but she
Speaker 3: doesn't know that, and she protests. She's like, well, we
Speaker 3: don't have any crew right now. I'm the only one here.
Speaker 3: And the reason they don't have any crew is that
Speaker 3: Walter harshly insulted and mistreated the previous crew. So they
Speaker 3: all quit. And then Walter is like, come on, let
Speaker 3: you know, come on, I yeah, just you can do it.
Speaker 2: And so this is why he is cool with these
Speaker 2: guys coming on board, because they're going to serve as
Speaker 2: the crew as they make their escape fleeing the SEC
Speaker 2: on their way to the they went down on their
Speaker 2: way to the Cayman Islands, that's right.
Speaker 3: So Rachel is sort of stuck here in the in
Speaker 3: the boat, captaining the situation, because does tell me if
Speaker 3: I'm getting some details wrong here. I think the way
Speaker 3: they explain it is it used to be her father's boat,
Speaker 3: but her father got in debt or something and lost
Speaker 3: the boat, and then he died, and she is now
Speaker 3: working as captain of this boat until she can buy
Speaker 3: the boat back from wall Street. Walter is that that's
Speaker 3: how I understood it. Yeah, and he like wall Street.
Speaker 3: Walter insults her. She clearly hates Walter, but she's kind
Speaker 3: of being a team player for now so that she
Speaker 3: can achieve her own boat related goals. That's right. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So our spring breakers arrive, Walter is like, oh, I
Speaker 3: didn't tell you could bring a bunch of random boyfriends
Speaker 3: you just met at the marina. So he's trying to
Speaker 3: send the boys back to shore. But while they're in
Speaker 3: the middle of this, klue Gooliger arrives with news that
Speaker 3: the SEC is looking for Walter. They want to search
Speaker 3: his boat. So this light's a fire under Walter and
Speaker 3: it's like, we got to go now, and Bobby convinces
Speaker 3: Walter that, yeah, like you mentioned, they can let their
Speaker 3: new boyfriends stay on board so they can serve as
Speaker 3: the boat's crew genius.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun plot hook, you know. I could
Speaker 2: see he's working in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign easily.
Speaker 3: So it's anchors away, and of course the cat is
Speaker 3: coming along. Walter also does not want to take the
Speaker 3: cat with him, but Suzanne is like, but he's so cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're like, it's good luck to have a
Speaker 2: cat on board, which that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is basically the end of the first act.
Speaker 3: The pieces are all in place, and for the rest
Speaker 3: of the movie, the cat will begin to gradually pick
Speaker 3: off the characters on the boat while the humans try
Speaker 3: to figure out what's going on and react. So maybe
Speaker 3: we'll now go a little bit less chronological and just
Speaker 3: pick some scenes to focus on. The first night there
Speaker 3: on the boat is kind of party night where everybody's
Speaker 3: drinking and dancing, and there's a scene where everybody's gathered
Speaker 3: around while wall Street. Walter regales the group with wonderful
Speaker 3: stories about times that he was great at doing deals
Speaker 3: and about times that he really showed somebody else whose boss.
Speaker 3: He's eating a banana throughout this, by the way, and
Speaker 3: Corey just adores him. He's like, Wow, wall Street Walter
Speaker 3: tell us another. Meanwhile, off to the side, Rachel and Martin,
Speaker 3: the two basically good characters, are playing backgammon and they're
Speaker 3: quietly getting to know each other and they're talking about
Speaker 3: their backstories. And Suzanne is cuddling the cat, which, by
Speaker 3: the way, we have already seen vomit itself and sabotaged
Speaker 3: the engine earlier than this. That happened at some point,
Speaker 3: and wall Street Walter drunkenly comes over to insult both
Speaker 3: Rachel and Martin, and you know, Rachel just kind of
Speaker 3: tells him off. But there's also a dancing scene here
Speaker 3: that reminds me almost to Friday the Thirteenth Part four
Speaker 3: with Crispin Glover dancing. The dancing itself is nowhere near
Speaker 3: as weird as Crispin Glover's dance, but the framing and
Speaker 3: the feel of the scene is quite similar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is completely unbelievable, Like what is dancing?
Speaker 2: Like what do people do when they hang out? Let's
Speaker 2: try and create it here for the camera.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about the death of Albert, the clue
Speaker 3: Goolager character. So Albert is supposed to be steering the boat.
Speaker 3: Rachel gives him instructions and leaves him there. But Albert, well,
Speaker 3: he's steering the boat. I think he gets bored, and
Speaker 3: so he gets a bottle of wine out of a
Speaker 3: cabinet and he's supposed to be driving, but he's getting drunk.
Speaker 3: He's talking to himself a lot. He's like, oh, Albert,
Speaker 3: you're the captain now, You're the captain now. And he's
Speaker 3: also singing the battle hymn of the report. But why
Speaker 3: why that? Maybe because it was public domain, they couldn't
Speaker 3: think of anything else. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I got the sense that the old clue here is
Speaker 2: just hamming it up as much as possible before his
Speaker 2: inevitable death scene.
Speaker 3: Just having a belt of wine and singing Twinkle Twinkle
Speaker 3: Little Star. Then Rachel comes in and relieves him, after
Speaker 3: realizing that he has steered them far off course. He's like,
Speaker 3: get out of here. So clue Gooliger goes out wandering
Speaker 3: around on the ship and he I think he's looking
Speaker 3: for a storage box that has more booze in it.
Speaker 3: He opens one up and the cat's in the box.
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, cat, get out of the way, that's
Speaker 3: my wine. It gets the wine out and then he
Speaker 3: uncorks it and has a bunch and spits it on
Speaker 3: the cat. Oh wow, that was a mistake. Kitty cat
Speaker 3: doesn't like that. Kitty cat does not like that at all.
Speaker 3: And then we get the vomit self up vomit self
Speaker 3: up reaction and it attacks klue Gooliger and what a
Speaker 3: weird attext. So it goes for the throat. There's blood everywhere.
Speaker 3: But after the attack we see klue Gooliger's neck like
Speaker 3: his veins throbbing under his skin in this makeup effect,
Speaker 3: and I was like, whoa, what's happening here? We about
Speaker 3: to get some kind of transformation. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Same, I was like, he is about to mutate into
Speaker 2: some sort of abomination and now we're gonna have like
Speaker 2: zombies on board and a killer cat or is he
Speaker 2: going to turn into some sort of like wear cat
Speaker 2: thing or something. But as we'll find out, this is
Speaker 2: just the cat thing. Then I'm doing its work. It's
Speaker 2: like a high speed lethal cat scratch fever that drives
Speaker 2: you mad with pain and then the only solution to
Speaker 2: your pain is to leap into the sea and die.
Speaker 3: That's right. So unfortunately, klue Googliger does not turn into
Speaker 3: a cat person instead, it's just like his veins explode
Speaker 3: and he falls into the water splash. Yep. Now, in
Speaker 3: the aftermath of this, Mike and wall Street Walter find
Speaker 3: the blood everywhere, but they cover up Albert's death because
Speaker 3: Walter just wants to get back to the party and
Speaker 3: he's like, we don't have time for this. We'll sort
Speaker 3: this out after we're free. And then the next day
Speaker 3: Mike and Walter act all surprised when it's discovered that
Speaker 3: Albert is missing and there's blood everywhere. Also, by this point,
Speaker 3: the ship's engine is fully malfunctioning due to the cat
Speaker 3: things sabotage, and wall Street Walter convinces Rachel to keep
Speaker 3: sailing ahead instead of turning back to look for Albert.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm just trying to remember. How does
Speaker 3: he convince her? I think it's just more boat related
Speaker 3: lever boat ownership.
Speaker 2: He's kind of like, like, you get us to the Caymans,
Speaker 2: I'm going to have so much money. I can just
Speaker 2: basically sign this boat over to you. And you know,
Speaker 2: if she she knows that this isn't right. I mean,
Speaker 2: Albert is missing and they should turn back and look
Speaker 2: for him. But she she is, you know, seduced by
Speaker 2: money here and by by the boat ownership. So Walter
Speaker 2: is able to sway her to his side and she's like,
Speaker 2: all right, we'll keep going.
Speaker 3: They also, I just remember this. They also convince her
Speaker 3: by dying and say that saying that Albert couldn't swim,
Speaker 3: so there is zero chance that he's still alive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So she factors that into it and still sides
Speaker 2: with money over going back and looking for him.
Speaker 3: But Martin and Rachel are more inquisitive about what's going
Speaker 3: on here. So Martin takes a sample of the blood
Speaker 3: do they find on the deck, and he examines it
Speaker 3: with what equipment a sextant, A sextant, you know, for navigation.
Speaker 3: He uses like a lens on the sextent in combination
Speaker 3: with a magnifying glass to look at the blood and
Speaker 3: he's like, my god, this blood is at least five
Speaker 3: hundred times more bloody than any blood I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: It could only be a mutation. And she's like, what,
Speaker 3: but you're a biology major and he's like, no, I know,
Speaker 3: I've never seen any mutated blood as mutated as this,
Speaker 3: So some weird doings are afoot. So next seeing things
Speaker 3: on board start getting more violent between the people on
Speaker 3: the ship. So there's a scene where wall Street Walter
Speaker 3: is creeping on Bobby while she's doing aerobics, and then
Speaker 3: he gets creepier and creepier until it seems that he
Speaker 3: is about to rape her. But then Lance shows up
Speaker 3: and beats him up, but unfortunately, then Mike shows up
Speaker 3: and shoots Lance in the arm. So now things have
Speaker 3: sort of openly turned hostile between the corporate creeps and
Speaker 3: the spring Breakers, and Mike has all the spring Breakers
Speaker 3: at gunpoint, but there is a cat attack while he's
Speaker 3: like standing there with the gun pointed at them. The
Speaker 3: cat bites Mike on the leg. This is George Kennedy
Speaker 3: bites him on the bites Dragline on the leg in
Speaker 3: a way that it looks like it nearly bites his
Speaker 3: leg off. At first, Yeah, not quite, but it's like
Speaker 3: digging in there, and they're later talking about it like, wow,
Speaker 3: it bit right through his shoe.
Speaker 2: So set, Yes, sever's right through the achilles tendon. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of screaming. Yeah, he's hitting the floor. And now,
Speaker 2: at first, what I was watching this, I couldn't tell
Speaker 2: if the other characters were supposed to see that cat
Speaker 2: thing did it because cat thing kind of comes out
Speaker 2: underneath the furniture and attacks. Which I have to say
Speaker 2: is this is a very unbrand.
Speaker 3: For a household, reaching out from under furniture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, reaching out from underneath something and attacking the feet.
Speaker 2: My feet are attacked on a near daily basis by
Speaker 2: my own cat, but never gets me quite this hard.
Speaker 2: There's never splurting blood and screaming. And of course my cat,
Speaker 2: not being a mutant, also doesn't have venom that makes
Speaker 2: my veins explode.
Speaker 3: That's right. So what happens here is the bite seems
Speaker 3: a lot worse than a cat bite could normally be
Speaker 3: for some reason. They're I mean, I guess it's just
Speaker 3: duty to treat whoever. But they're trying to help out
Speaker 3: Mike after he was just pointing a gun at them,
Speaker 3: and they're like, what's going on, Mike, And he's like, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I've been bitten by a mutated cat. So
Speaker 3: all this venom is coursing through his veins and his
Speaker 3: veins are sort of popping up under the scan and exploding,
Speaker 3: and Martin is explaining, like, wow, the blood was mutating
Speaker 3: like nothing I've ever seen before, and it makes Mike's
Speaker 3: arteries explode and he dies. For a minute, it looks
Speaker 3: like he's gonna go full cane and alien. I think
Speaker 3: like something pops up out of his gut like a head,
Speaker 3: but then it doesn't. Nothing emerges.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought again, this is gonna be another cat
Speaker 2: thing bursting out of George Kennedy's chest.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't happen. I think that was just another
Speaker 3: vein exploding. Maybe that was his heart exploding or something,
Speaker 3: I guess. So at this point, Rachel and Suzanne try
Speaker 3: to go radio for help, but wall Street Walter pulls
Speaker 3: a quint in Jaws. Here he shoots the communications equipment
Speaker 3: and he's like, you won't be getting in touch with anybody.
Speaker 3: But fortunately Rachel and Suzanne get the upper hand. They
Speaker 3: like blast him with a fire extinguisher and they get
Speaker 3: control of the gun and subdue Walter. So after this,
Speaker 3: the spring Breakers take charge. Now they are in control
Speaker 3: of the vessel.
Speaker 2: That's right, Walter is captive and they've just got to
Speaker 2: steer this ship to safety and justice.
Speaker 3: Now what other scenes should be mentioned? As things things
Speaker 3: go on, the cat will continue to attack various members
Speaker 3: of the I was gonna say the crew people on
Speaker 3: board the ship here, there's one weird subplot where the
Speaker 3: cat infects all of the food on the yacht with
Speaker 3: cat with like vein explosion venom. Yeah, and this kind
Speaker 3: of reminded me of the like the scenes in the
Speaker 3: Thing or like the Thing is getting to the blood
Speaker 3: to taint all the blood so they can't test for it.
Speaker 3: Mm yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think there was a scene in Alien where
Speaker 2: the Xenomorph gets into their food. Maybe it was a
Speaker 2: deleted scene, but it's one that I've seen mentioned time
Speaker 2: and time again when when fans are debating how quickly
Speaker 2: as Xenomorph grows and what it may or may not
Speaker 2: have to eat to get to that point.
Speaker 3: There's one scene eventually that was an amazing, like laugh
Speaker 3: out loud moment, and it's the it's the Lance makeout
Speaker 3: arm scare scene.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh god, this is so good. This is a
Speaker 2: scene that, as we describe it here, it may sound
Speaker 2: grotesque and and uh and I would say in bad
Speaker 2: taste maybe with a with a with a touch of
Speaker 2: cruelty to it, but the way, but that's just not
Speaker 2: the nature of this film. Like it ends up just
Speaker 2: being laugh out loud, funny and just so over the
Speaker 2: top ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So what happened, Like Lance and Bobby are making.
Speaker 2: Lance was the one who was shot by Mike, so he's,
Speaker 2: you know, he's still recovering. He's he's maybe recovering from
Speaker 2: that that gunshot wound. He's in bad he's in bad place.
Speaker 3: They're kissing and he's like, I can't feel anything in
Speaker 3: my arm.
Speaker 2: Yes, like my arm's really numb, and so she moves
Speaker 2: a towel off of the hand of that arm, and
Speaker 2: then we see that cat Thing is just munching on
Speaker 2: his fingers. It's like munched all his fingers off, and
Speaker 2: there's just blood everywhere, and of course Lance screams and
Speaker 2: from there, I mean again, this is a very fast
Speaker 2: acting mutant cat Thing venom. Lance very quickly like loses
Speaker 2: his mind and is convinced that his only hope is
Speaker 2: to jump off the ship to his death.
Speaker 3: And I think Bobby goes with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bobby's like no, and then goes with him, and
Speaker 2: then she's dead too.
Speaker 3: So that's the end of them there.
Speaker 2: We should note that, you know, the girls were nice
Speaker 2: to cat Thing, and so far cat Thing has not
Speaker 2: directly attacked either of the girls.
Speaker 3: That's right. It has only bitten the boys. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: corporate creeps and the boys. Yeah. Though I will say
Speaker 3: to comment on whether the cat punishes immorality or not,
Speaker 3: Lance has been a little bit mean to the cat.
Speaker 3: But Lance actually hasn't been that bad in terms of
Speaker 3: human behavior. You can imagine a jock in the spring
Speaker 3: Break movie being a much more terrible and obnoxious character.
Speaker 3: He's just a little bit annoying to the other humans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Now,
Speaker 2: in the in the midst of all of this, what
Speaker 2: we also have Corey, the preppy character he like is
Speaker 2: he's running a side deal with Walter. There's like a
Speaker 2: scene where Walter the prisoner now kind of seduces Corey
Speaker 2: back over to his side let me show you something
Speaker 2: like that, but I don't remember the details of their deal.
Speaker 3: He invites Corey into Corey's in there like, wow, you know,
Speaker 3: I thought you were great Wall Street Walter, but it
Speaker 3: turns out you're You're a real joke that like you
Speaker 3: at all. And while Street Walter is like, let me
Speaker 3: change your mind. Come look at my wall safe. I've
Speaker 3: got money and Corey's like, oh, money, but I don't
Speaker 3: I don't think now I've forgotten this detail. Is Corey
Speaker 3: gonna go for the deal? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: But doesn't Corey then agree to a plan where they're
Speaker 2: going to put out poison for the cat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to try to kill the cat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that's in his interest too, that's in everybody's interest
Speaker 3: on the boat. I mean, so he's going to put
Speaker 3: out poisoned food around the boat so that the cat
Speaker 3: will eat it and die. That's his plan, though he
Speaker 3: actually Lance is not killed by the cat. Lance is
Speaker 3: killed by his own clumsiness because he's like carrying a
Speaker 3: gun around and he's in the engine room and he
Speaker 3: shoots something that blasts a bunch of steam on it.
Speaker 2: He's trying to shoot the cat, hits a steam pipe
Speaker 2: and the steam just blasts them. By the way, from
Speaker 2: the effects, it's clear that this is like like fire
Speaker 2: extinguisher or something and not steam. But then but then
Speaker 2: we cut to this like horrific makeup effect on Corey
Speaker 2: where he's just been completely scalded to death, and it's
Speaker 2: pretty horrific. After seeing all these all these shots of
Speaker 2: the cat thing puppet emerging from the fake cat head.
Speaker 2: This one was kind of it was a little alarming
Speaker 2: to see, you know, some I don't know how believable
Speaker 2: they are from a you know, an anatomical level, but
Speaker 2: the horror movie wise, it was very effective.
Speaker 3: So eventually the only passengers left alive on the yacht
Speaker 3: are Rachel the captain, Martin the biologist, and wall Street Walter.
Speaker 2: Oh, we forgot about Suzanne. Susan and still on board,
Speaker 2: eats poisoned cat food, yes, and then her veins explode.
Speaker 3: She thinks that the cat food is not poisoned. She
Speaker 3: like breaks into the pantry and eats a piece of
Speaker 3: bread and she's like, they were lying to me, it's
Speaker 3: not poisoned. It's fine. But then Hugh and yeah, her
Speaker 3: veins explode.
Speaker 2: But again not directly killed by the cat.
Speaker 3: The cat is watching her when it happens. They do
Speaker 3: like to watch. Yeah, so there is then there's a storm.
Speaker 3: There's a storm, and the boat basically starts sinking. There
Speaker 3: was another part where it's hard to explain why this
Speaker 3: was so funny, but Rachel is like, there, you know,
Speaker 3: the hull is damaged. We're taking on water and then
Speaker 3: it just cuts to a wall with like a clean,
Speaker 3: sort of softball sized round hole in the wood, and
Speaker 3: there's like clearly a hose on the other side of it,
Speaker 3: just gushing through.
Speaker 2: Like, how did did the cat do this? How did
Speaker 2: this happen?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's really funny. And so the
Speaker 3: boats sink and Rachel and Martin they get away to
Speaker 3: a lifeboat. I guess they're trying. Walter is going to
Speaker 3: come with them, but he tries to save his money.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, I got to get all my briefcases
Speaker 3: of cash, the silver briefcases. Yeah, loading up these silver
Speaker 3: briefcases full of wads of cash, and he's like, gotta
Speaker 3: go back for another briefcase of cash, and you know what,
Speaker 3: He's going to be killed by greed. It's like it's
Speaker 3: like Ilsa at the end of the Last Crusade. You know,
Speaker 3: you let it go, but he can't let it go.
Speaker 3: The cat gets him. And then Rachel and Martin are
Speaker 3: in the lifeboat, and since they're now drifting away from
Speaker 3: the sinking yacht, you'd think they'd be okay, but no,
Speaker 3: there is a coda. There is one last conflict, and
Speaker 3: it is magnifico.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It is amazing. If you decide to watch Uninvited
Speaker 2: and you find yourself becoming a little bored and you're
Speaker 2: tempted to turn it off, don't turn it off. I
Speaker 2: would recommend just watching it, but if you must, at
Speaker 2: least fast forward to the end and watch this final
Speaker 2: sequence in the lifeboat, because it is it is just
Speaker 2: absolutely inspired B cinema.
Speaker 3: So they're in the lifeboat and then the the killer
Speaker 3: cat thing puppet starts popping up out of the water
Speaker 3: and attacking them on the boat. So like grabs Martin
Speaker 3: and he's like ah ah and wrestling it away, and
Speaker 3: then Rachel's like, oh no, did it bite you? No,
Speaker 3: I'm okay.
Speaker 2: Oh there it is again and is back in the
Speaker 2: boat coming at them. It's like, oh, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just troll. Two levels of awesteness. And it reminds Actually,
Speaker 2: my wife made this connection first because I had to
Speaker 2: show where this ending.
Speaker 3: She didn't watch the whole film, but I'm like, you
Speaker 3: gotta watch the ending.
Speaker 2: And she said, it's just like the moment in the
Speaker 2: Simpsons Treehouse of Horror where Homer gets his hands stuck
Speaker 2: in the toaster.
Speaker 3: Again. Yes, like Dad, it's stuck in there again. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's one of my favorites. It is. It's exactly that energy.
Speaker 3: And then the way that they defeat the cat is
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 2: Well, the whole logic ground. So they're like, the cat
Speaker 2: is only jumping in here after us, because this is
Speaker 2: the only thing floating in the area. We should throw
Speaker 2: the suitcase full of millions of dollars out into the
Speaker 2: water and then the cat will be forced to float
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 3: But first they dump out the millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: They well, let's get the money, let's get the money
Speaker 2: out first. They did have that moment of clarity, I guess.
Speaker 2: But then yeah, they throw the briefcase out and the
Speaker 2: cat puppet cat thing is just setting on the floating briefcase.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he couldn't jump into the boat
Speaker 2: and attack them a third time and a fourth time.
Speaker 2: At this point they're able to leave it behind again
Speaker 2: in a lifeboat that is not propelled by anything except
Speaker 2: for the storm all around them. So we get this
Speaker 2: shot of there they're going to safety, and there their
Speaker 2: lifeboat and there is cat thing floating on the silver
Speaker 2: briefcase in the ocean.
Speaker 3: So evil wall Street Walter got his Comeuppins and his
Speaker 3: co conspirators. Unfortunately, many innocent people perished along the way
Speaker 3: as well. But our two heroes in the end, they
Speaker 3: drift to the Cayman Islands, I guess, and they get
Speaker 3: to walk away with a Duffel bag full of money,
Speaker 3: and there's like a scene of them to talking to
Speaker 3: the authorities, like explaining what happened, and the authorities are like,
Speaker 3: I don't know about this cat monster story, but they're
Speaker 3: both just like looking at the Duffel bag, like can
Speaker 3: we take this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're like, yeah, sure, go for it. You
Speaker 2: two need a vacation after all that. So it seems
Speaker 2: like our heroes, our survivors, are are on track for
Speaker 2: a happy ending here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Though I guess Captain Rachel is not going to
Speaker 3: get the boat she wanted. Maybe she's going to get
Speaker 3: a different boat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she'd want a different boat after all this,
Speaker 2: you know what a blood bath boat that's I'm probably
Speaker 2: still poisoned by the cat, the mutant cat that was
Speaker 2: running them up and boarded.
Speaker 3: I guess they're competing interests there, Like it has sentimental
Speaker 3: family values kind of a legacy yacht, but also it
Speaker 3: was where the cat Thing killed all those people.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but you, even though we have a
Speaker 2: essentially a happy ending here, you need something a little
Speaker 2: more on a sci fi horror movie like this, you
Speaker 2: need a little like bump bump bump action. You maybe
Speaker 2: setting up for a sequel, but at least leaving you
Speaker 2: with an uneasy feeling that things are not going to
Speaker 2: be okay.
Speaker 3: Two twist ending. Now there's the theatrical twist ending. The
Speaker 3: one I know is the one on the beach. Is
Speaker 3: that the same one that was in your version in
Speaker 3: the theatrical yet? Okay? Yeah, so wait, well why don't
Speaker 3: you narry what happens here?
Speaker 2: Okay, so we get a nice beach scene. I believe
Speaker 2: what is the name of this beach? This is actually
Speaker 2: a California beach that a lot of stuff has been
Speaker 2: shot on. This is not Florida, but on this beach
Speaker 2: we see, oh here washed up is the silver briefcase
Speaker 2: again that used to have cash in it, that was
Speaker 2: emptied and it was the last place that we saw
Speaker 2: cat Thing. And then here is a little boy walking
Speaker 2: along on the beach. This is actually Graydon Clark's son,
Speaker 2: by the way, and he finds a cat now. Of note,
Speaker 2: this is not the same cat we've been seeing the
Speaker 2: whole time. This is like a dark cat, This is
Speaker 2: not an orange tabby. But we are to assume, I
Speaker 2: guess that this cat is cat thing or has cat
Speaker 2: thing inside it, because the child picks up cat thing
Speaker 2: is holding him, and then we get an ominous freeze
Speaker 2: frame and then a zoom in on.
Speaker 3: The child holding the cat. Well, the cat was more
Speaker 3: mutated than anything Martin the biologist had ever seen, so
Speaker 3: clearly he could mutate its coat too. So yeah, that's
Speaker 3: why it looks different now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or it is a parasite that found a new
Speaker 2: cat to occupy it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Either interpretation I guess is valid.
Speaker 3: But what was the deal with the alternate ending? Was
Speaker 3: there like a European cut?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a different twist ending. And remember in
Speaker 2: this version, we don't see Gray and Clark at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the film as a doctor. Instead we see
Speaker 2: him here at the end. We're at the marina there
Speaker 2: on the dock, and the child brings this suitcase to
Speaker 2: the father or assuming it's the father played by Graydon Clark,
Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, what's his suitcase? Let's open it up.
Speaker 3: Put it up.
Speaker 2: They put it up there on a table. Open it up,
Speaker 2: and then we get a jump scare of cat thing,
Speaker 2: the puppet version, jumping out of the briefcase at us
Speaker 2: the audience, and we get this you know, awesome like
Speaker 2: snarl growl sound that it makes throughout the picture, and
Speaker 2: then freeze frame and then we cut to the credits
Speaker 2: with that horrible theme song playing over it. The theatrical
Speaker 2: version has just you know, the scary score from the picture.
Speaker 2: International version gets that horrible uninvited theme music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's uninvited. That is.
Speaker 2: Yes, it gives us a lot to think about about
Speaker 2: about humanity's relationship with cats. No, it doesn't really give
Speaker 2: anything to think about it. It is a but it
Speaker 2: is an alarmingly good B movie, this one. This one
Speaker 2: has a well deserved following among B movie and Schlot fans.
Speaker 2: So if you like quote unquote bad movies, if you
Speaker 2: like cheesy movies, this one's worth picking up. It's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's again, it's got some fun performances in it, it's
Speaker 2: competently made. On the whole, It's very watchable. I don't
Speaker 2: think it ever has a dull moment. It's just a
Speaker 2: lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I just remembered I think I rented this in the
Speaker 3: same batch where I rented Night Beast. Oh, that all
Speaker 3: comes together as like a really good, really really good
Speaker 3: video drome hole for me.
Speaker 2: Yes, Night Beast is incredible. And by the way, if
Speaker 2: anyone out there, if you happen to be in the
Speaker 2: Atlanta area and you're going to Monster Rama this weekend,
Speaker 2: there's going to be a showing of Night Beast as
Speaker 2: part of the track there. Yeah, they're also gonna there
Speaker 2: has shown some other films, including some that we've talked
Speaker 2: about on the show. Here, Queen of Blood is gonna
Speaker 2: be be presented. So hey, yeah, if you like monster movies,
Speaker 2: I feel like some of the weird house movies we've
Speaker 2: talked about that that's worth checking out if you're in
Speaker 2: the area.
Speaker 3: All right, I guess we got to wrap it up
Speaker 3: for today.
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