WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Uninvited (1988) 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:08.719 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.680 Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.040 And this is Joe McCormick. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.919 And in this episode, our Cat Week festivities conclude. We're 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.960 following up core episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:31.400 as well as a midweek Monster Fact that all revolved 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.600 around cats, and so we of course had to choose 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.279 a cat film for Weird House Cinema this week. We 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.279 ultimately had had quite a few to consider, like are 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.920 we going to go with cat as ally, cat as Enemy? 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.800 But we ultimately went with a B cinema favorite and 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.480 one that multiple listeners have recommended to us over the years, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.960 the direct to video nineteen eighty eight or eighty seven 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:58.040 mutant cat sci fi thriller Uninvited. Not to be confused 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.240 with the many other films that are tiedled the Uninvited. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:02.720 This is just uninvited. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.160 What is it that's uninvited? There are many things uninvited 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.600 in this film. There, I guess there's a cat that 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.400 was not invited. There are also lots of people who 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.479 were not invited, and none of the boyfriends were invited. Yeah, 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.240 and there is there's an extra thing inside the cat 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.880 that maybe you could interpret us the thing that's uninvited, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.480 like one of the people at least wanted to invite 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.800 the cat but didn't realize it had a mutant thing 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:28.679 inside of it. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.240 Yeah, but then again, all cats are uninvited. They invite themselves. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.440 They're calling the shots here. 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.960 Cats are not like vampires. They will not catch fire 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.559 coming into a house uninvited. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.000 You may invite them, but they may not accept it. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.600 It's all up to them. So we selected this film 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.880 before we recorded our core stuff to blow your mind 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.640 episodes this week on the Folklora Cats of the British 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.640 Isles and the Cats of Cyprus, And I have to 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.280 say that I'm pleasantly surprised that this film managed to 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.840 line up at all with anything we talked about core episodes. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.040 But you know, we have the idea here of a 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.520 cat is a kind of vengeful demon, and we have 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:09.160 cats on a boat. We spent the Cypress episode talking 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:10.919 a good bit about cats on boats. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.639 That's right, trying to imagine Stone Age farmers getting all 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.760 different kinds of animals on boats to take them across 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.639 the sea to Cypress, and one of those animals would 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.920 have been the cat. I guess maybe you know, despite 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.400 how difficult it is known to be to herd cats, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.800 I'd imagine it's easier to herd cats than to herd foxes. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.840 Now, now, don't be confused, though, this is not a 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:38.200 movie you're going to learn a lot from. Uninvited is 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.000 not a movie with lofty, dramatic or thematic ambitions. It 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.960 is a creature feature, first and foremost, and one that 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.799 subjectively misses the mark in several ways, while also succeeding 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.080 in being just an amazingly fun and weird ninety one 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.080 minutes of cinema. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.680 I don't know who would say this thing misses the mark. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.600 I think this is this is like what creature features 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.839 were invented for was become this. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.320 Well, when I say missed the mark, imagine that there's 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.880 there's like an archery target set up. Okay, the arrow 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.240 is is fired, and perhaps this arrow we can call 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.880 this arrow effective and horrifying creature design. Oh Okay, it 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.640 misses the entire target. But then it's a bullseye on 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.600 an adjacent target. Okay, and that's where we are, Like, Yeah, 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.480 the creature in this film is not the xenomorph from 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.720 Ridley Scott's Alien, I understand, but it is amazing in 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.000 its own right. I wouldn't change a thing about it. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.000 It's it's it's a total gromblin picture like this. This 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.120 creature is on the same level as some of the 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.920 creatures from I don't Know, Goolies and so forth. It 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.560 has a triumph, the insult, comic dog, the energy to it. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.200 So every time it's on screen, you're going to giggle, 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.680 You're going to laugh. And is that what the filmmakers intended? 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.160 Maybe not, but that is people loved. One of the 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.680 reasons people love this film. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.640 I think I am starting to get a feeling of 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:11.040 Graydon Clark's sensibilities, and I think this was maybe supposed 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.760 to be funny in the ways that it is. I 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:19.600 think the moist puppet that appears repeatedly is it just 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.640 seems impossible to me that Clark did not recognize that 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.520 he had struck gold here with the potential comedic value. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.520 But that does bring up something I wanted to get 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.240 into at the beginning. Uninvited is often described as a 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.360 killer cat movie, but I have to flag that the 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:42.560 actual creature that kills people is not the fluffy, cute 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.520 kitty cat that we see in most shots. You know, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.160 so there is a cute kitty cat in the movie. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.760 You know that people pet and hold and it runs 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.760 around and stuff, beautiful tabby cat. Yes, whenever it is 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.479 time for the beast to vomit death upon humankind, what 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.000 happened is that this cute kitty cat, the external cat, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.360 opens its mouth and then we cut to an effect 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:12.760 shot where a wet, screaming secondary animal emerges from inside 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:17.600 the cat mouth. And this interior beast is represented by 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.240 a puppet that looks like a cross between a damp 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:25.640 weasel and pumpkinhead. And it is this creature that leaps 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.400 out and bites and scratches and kills and deposits poison 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.240 on the humans. So what is this beast inside the 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.360 cute cat? Is it also a cat? And I was 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.640 also wondering how does it turn back into the cute 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.080 fluffy cat after each attack is finished? Does it climb 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.279 back into the mouth? It does? 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.599 There is you might have missed it, but there is 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.919 one scene where we see it beginning to crawl back in. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.240 Oh, okay, I'm just forgotten that. Yeah, So I was 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.920 wondering though, are the interior beast and the exterior beast, like, 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.760 are they necessarily attached or can they fully separate? And 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.920 if they separate, can they both be independently alive? Or 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.719 can the exterior cat not live without the interior cat 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.720 or the interior whatever it is? 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.000 These are questions we cannot fully answer. Yeah, the outer 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.840 shell cat of cat thing seems to be dormant while 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.479 it is killing and rampaging, and then it crawled into 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.400 it like it's a cat suit, but dey sock just 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.760 sitting there. Yeah, but yeah, is that part of the cat. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.279 Is it a host for this parasite? 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:36.160 We don't know. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.480 I mean, the only other major bit of evidence I 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.279 might turn to is the ending to the picture or 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.599 the ending to the main cut of the picture, But 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:44.839 we'll have to come back to that one. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.520 So I want to mention I found online the Dutch 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.760 VHS cover which has a couple of good taglines, one 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.159 especially good one. I don't know if these would have 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.960 appeared on other national packaging as well, but at least 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.880 on this box. It has one tagline, which is cats 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:06.599 have nine lives, you only have one. Nice ends with 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.520 the ellipses and then exclamation one of the most cryptic 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.880 punctuation combinations. Then the other tagline, not quite as good, 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.680 is they paid for the holiday of a lifetime with 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:19.800 their lives. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.000 Hmmm, that's rather inaccurate. I don't think anybody's paying for 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.240 a holiday of a lifetime in this No. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.320 No, well, I mean I think that the Yeah, the 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.640 spring Breaker characters are initially looking for a good time, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.120 but they it quickly goes off the rails. Like It's 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.440 not like one of these movies where everybody's just They 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.800 still think they're partying until Jason. The moment Jason shows 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.119 up and wax him with an axe. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.360 Yeah, this is not the cat thing meets love boat, 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.680 as we'll get into when we discuss the plot. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.679 Though there is some Jason similarity. Like I was thinking 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:59.720 about how the cat often attacks and punishes people right 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.640 after they have sinned or done wrong. It does sort 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.400 of follow some slasher movie logic there where with the 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:10.280 cat as moral executioner. Not in every single case. Sometimes 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.320 some rather innocent people catch it, but it's mostly you 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.240 do evil and then the cat kills you, right, and 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.920 the cat is the judge. Okay, so my elevator pitch 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:25.400 for Uninvited is Garfield meets basket Case versus Gordon Gecko 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.360 all wrapped up in some Jason takes Manhattan. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.040 Yep, that sounds accurate. Yeah, all right, Well, let's listen 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.680 to just a little bit of one of the trailers 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.800 for this picture, because there's, as you might expect, there's 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.719 gonna be a lot of screaming and cat gowling, and 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.560 we can only take so much of that. But just 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:42.480 a little taste here. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:51.800 They say cats have nine lives, you have only one. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:09:13.280 A poisonous can. Now, how is that possible? Thing's gonna 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.599 invite us? And we're gonna dialogue. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.920 Uninvited, starring George Kennedy and Alex Cord. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.840 You'll never look at a cant in the same way again, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:32.559 all right. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.920 So if you want to watch Uninvited for yourself again, 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.240 that's Uninvited from nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty eight, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.240 depending on who's classifying it. Well, you can stream this 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.679 one in a number of places. But the vinegar syndrome 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.280 blu ray that we mentioned already is the ideal physical 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.360 media choice for this picture. The footage is scanned and 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.720 restored in four K from its thirty five millimeters original 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.840 camera negative, and it features a nice smattering of extras, 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:01.280 including the ninety three minute alternate internation rational edit, which 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.400 is quite hard to find elsewhere. I wasn't able to 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.280 find it streaming anywhere, and so forth. It features an 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.480 alternate intro and outro, as well as the horrendous uninvited 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.839 theme song by Chili Charles and Tom. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:17.320 Gunn oh Man. It's so funny, absolutely terrible. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.199 This is one of those cases where it's like, yes, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.200 you were right to cut this theme song for the 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.200 American audience. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.840 It sounds like the theme music to a one season 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.920 running sitcom from the eighties. 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.240 Yes, it's terrible, like kat Thing was going to have 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.760 his own his or her own TV show. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.680 Yeah boom, but doo do do so? 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.600 Yeah, this is a great disc. I like yourself many 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.720 years ago, rented this from Video Drome, the video rental 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.000 store here in Atlanta, and you know, as I was 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.840 returning it just yesterday, I ran into a couple of 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.839 listeners and had a delightful little conversation. They were from 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.200 out of town. I'm not going to name them here 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.240 because I didn't clear that with them when I was 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.319 chatting with them, but it was nice to run into 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.839 a couple of listeners at Video Drome. We've heard from 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.679 a few different listeners from out of town who while 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.680 visiting Atlanta have made the journey, the pilgrimage to the Drum. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.000 That's a beautiful thing. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.960 Yeah, so there's a non zero chance you'll run into 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.719 me there, but you know, don't count on it. You 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:23.640 might catch me. All right, Let's talk about the people 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.120 behind this film, starting with the director, the writer, and 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.280 one of the producers. It's great And Clark. Sometimes I 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.120 have pronounced his name Grayton Clark, and I think that's 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.640 because he frequently casts Jodn Baker, and so I kind 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.760 of I kind of take the Jodon energy and create 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.800 the great On So I may refer to him as 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.360 great On Clark at some point here as well. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.000 I think I hear it with the cadence of Raydon Chong. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.280 Yes, yes, that too is probably influencing it. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:50.640 So. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.800 Grayton Clark was born in nineteen forty three American director 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.679 and writer that you might remember from past Weird House 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.679 Cinema episodes because we've covered two of his pick before, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.240 both from nineteen eighty Without Warning, which was our first 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.120 episode of Weird House Cinema. And then we subsequently talked 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.640 subsequently talked about the return, so we talked about a 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.000 Graydon Clark proto Predator film as well as a cattle 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:13.960 mutilation thriller. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:18.200 I think both of those movies have some ironic sensibility, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.880 but they were both more straightforward attempts at horror than Uninvited. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.360 I think Uninvited is he's cutting loose a little bit 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.079 more than in the other two. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.720 Yeah, and I think it may be attempting to check 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.080 off some extra boxes, especially for international distribution, Like this 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.240 one has a certain certain amount of, I would say, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.640 especially in the US cut kind of a PG sexploitation 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.520 quality to it, but in a weird way, like it 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.840 was like it was written and conceived for the most 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.880 part by like a twelve year old, a. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.520 Lot of bathing suit antics. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.760 Yeah, bathing suit antics, and like, yeah, well we'll get 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.400 into it. But it has this kind of weird PG 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.880 quality that I really like. I mean, yeah, it's seen 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.880 plenty of exploitation films that are a whole lot sleazier, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.640 and it's nice to encounter one that has pulled back somewhat. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.319 So Graydon's Clark. Other film credits included let's se a 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.160 pair of black exploitation films. Seventy three's Tom and seventy 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:22.360 six is Black Shampoo, some horror comedy. There's seventy seven 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.200 Satan's Cheerleaders, and not one but two films featured on 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.040 Mystery Science Theater three thousand, seventy nine's Angels Brigade and 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.520 the nineteen eighty four jo Don Baker international cop film 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:34.560 Final Justice. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.320 I had forgotten that Graydon Clark did Final Justice, especially 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.000 since we just recently rewatched the Mystery Science Theater of 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.319 this one man. Final Justice is so much it is 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.959 not anywhere near as fun of a movie as the 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.719 three Graydon Clark movies we've done on Weird House. It 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.079 is a step or two below. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.439 There's no speciative elopment to that one. As I recall, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.079 it's just an international cop film starring. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.439 It's just Jodn Baker running around Malta in a sheriff 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.840 suit that almost looks like one of those old Nashville 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:12.200 country music kind of outfits. Yeah, and just shooting bad guys. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.800 And I remember he gets into prison like twelve times 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.160 in the movie. Yeah, that one. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.360 And there's as I remember, the main thing I remember 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.520 from Final Justice, of course, is there's this great shot 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.440 like through Jodan's arm, Like you're behind him and he 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.880 has his hands on his hips and we're shooting through 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.000 the gap between his arm and his side. It's ridiculous. Yeah, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.440 it's a little thing sometimes. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.320 Unfortunately I had to remember it's not from Final Justice. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.680 It's from Mitchell that has that great rift in the 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.840 in the mst where he's like digging around in the 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.240 shower in his apartment and there they go, what does 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:47.760 this thing do? 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.400 Jodn rest in Peace, Yeah, recently passed, but yeah, he was. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.720 He was always a fun screen presence. All right, Let's 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.240 see other films worth noting from from Graydon Clark. He 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.120 did a couple of films that were made in post 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.360 Soviet Russia ninety two's Dance Macabre and ninety three's Russian Holiday, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.480 nineteen eighty three video game sex comedy named title Joysticks, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.440 a nineteen eighty nine skinhead movie, ninety four is Dark Future, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.160 and his last film, Star Games. In nineteen eighty eight. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.200 He worked with Joe Don Baker on three pictures, and 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.040 he did tend to gravitate toward using a fair number 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.320 of older established actors who were working in B cinema 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.240 at the time, something we definitely see in today's film 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.680 and in general worked with a lot of notable B 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.640 movie actors of the seventies and eighties, including Wingshauser, Jack Palance, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.720 Robert England, and John Kerodin. Not everybody gets to work 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:43.760 with John Garritty. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:49.480 Most to oh weird that John Kedyin wasn't in the 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.440 movie we watched today, since he is in. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.160 Most films, he was shooting three other films at the 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:59.200 same time simultaneously. I say so great and Clark films 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.720 are generally not consider good movies by most people. Virtually 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.480 none of his films crack five stars are above out 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.760 of ten on Internet movie Database. Not that that means 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.320 anything really, but these are B movies, often with a 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.160 certain and exploitive air to them in one way or another, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.880 but they often strike that perfect cheesy movie balance. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:18.160 You know. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.400 It's a film that's for the most part competently made 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.320 in involving talented professionals, but a film that also makes 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.040 wild swings and doesn't land every punch, or at least 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.560 not in the way they were intended, but still results 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.480 in a very watchable and entertaining ride. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:39.440 If I have a technical critique of Uninvited, the biggest 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.560 one is that too many shots are taking place outside 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.000 on a boat and it is so windy it is 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:47.280 hard to hear the dialogue. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.400 Yeah, apparently this was a tough shoot because on one hand, 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.080 there it's like NonStop cats. So they had a number 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.040 of cats playing the one cat in the picture and cats. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.440 If you've ever if you know anything about animals and film, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.760 you know that cats are notoriously difficult to shoot. Everyone 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:07.800 generally is like, yes, bring me a dog. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:08.280 Any day. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.280 A dog will hit its mark and do what you 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:10.920 want it to do. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.760 You know. Horses are also a known commodity. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.600 Cats you can try, you can see what you can 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.920 get out of them, but it's a wilder element, you know, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.000 like cats. With cats, it's like working with you know, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.959 I don't know one of the more difficult actors and 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.720 out there, I didn't even know if there's a proper analogy, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.159 like it's cats. Not only your cat's going to do 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.120 their own thing, but cats often look like they are 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.600 doing their own thing in movies, even like a really 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:40.879 you can think of like really good movies that have 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.720 cats in them and the scenes in which you see 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.240 the cats or that lean to heavily on cats doing stuff. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.000 It almost kind of throws you out of the picture 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.120 a little bit sometimes because like you can just look 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:53.560 at that cat and you're like, yeah, that cat is 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.080 just checked out. That cat's doing its own thing. It 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:57.879 is not in the moment, it's not in the scene. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:17:59.479 It didn't even read the script. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.239 I wonder if longtime directors could do a comparison, like 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.800 what is more difficult cat versus the most notoriously difficult 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.159 actor is like Lawrence Tierney or something like that. You 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:16.159 know which one is more stressful on set? I don't know. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.480 There's probably some crossover there in the experiences. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:18.960 Oh. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.560 The other difficult thing about the film thost Courses. Most 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.960 of it is shot on a boat. And I didn't 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.240 even think about this, but this is something the cinematographer 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.679 pointed out in one of the Vinegar Syndrome extras. Like 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.760 that meant that when they're out on the boat, they 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.760 only have so much power, and that limits how much 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.480 lighting they can use. Yeah, and cats don't necessarily like 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.800 being on a boat either, so that also constrains their performance. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.960 But cats, they was a this was a decision by 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.520 grade and to have cats in this picture. Apparently he 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.679 was thinking about it being rats, which that would have 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.560 been scary. That would have made for a ridiculous puppet 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.080 and rats on a boat, you know. That's that also 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.760 has a lot of a lot to back it up. 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:01.720 But they said, no, it's going to be cats. It's 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.920 going to be a killer mutant cat. Obvious John Carpenter's 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.040 the thing vibes to a certain extent here. Oh yeah, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.960 but yeah, they went with the cat. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:15.440 Now this makes me wonder what was the thematic seed 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.520 of the film, Like, what is the core element that 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.679 they were trying to get down to. Is it boat? 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.280 Is it like this has to be a boat movie 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.560 and everything else was around that or was it obviously 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.480 you're saying it's not cat, but I guess it would 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:33.520 have been maybe a mutant creature from a lab. Is 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:34.760 that the core? Yeah? 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.480 I think the core was we're going to shoot it 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.439 on a boat, and we need a mutant creature. We 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.160 want to hit that sci fi horror zone. Okay, and yeah, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.160 everything else they just kind of figured out from there, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.879 including you know, first finding the boat, then finding people 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.560 to wrangle the cats, and they did use them to understand, 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.119 like a proficional professional cat wranglers here, this is not 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.080 just getting me a boat, give me some cats. So 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.320 you know, supposedly everything here is above board. But again, 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.720 even cat pros are going to only get you so far. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.600 The exterior killer cat is very cute, and if they 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.840 were switching them out with lookalikes, I couldn't tell. It 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:10.320 always looked like the same cat to me. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.320 I want to mention really quickly that the individuals involved 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.520 with the puppet cats that we see it's it's Jim 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.880 Bolden born fifty six and Debbie Bolden. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:26.400 And these two. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.399 Did like animal artificial animal effects on a number of 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.000 other films, including Loaded Weapon one from ninety three, Aceventurro 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.720 When Nature Calls from ninety five, and a ninety one 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:37.920 White Fang film. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.440 So did they do the rhinoceros that gives birth to 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.560 Jim Carrey one hopes? 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.600 Yeah, yeah, they were animal makers inc. I don't know 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.840 if they're still around, but they were active for a 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.840 little bit there in the late eighties and into the 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.080 mid nineties. All right, let's get into the human actors 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.199 a bit here. So I want to divide things up 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.840 into factions here, Okay, because essentially we have two main 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.320 factions and then an individual suspended between the two. We 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.760 have our corporate creepers, and then we also have our 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:07.600 spring Breakers. 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.120 That is pretty much it. You've got your I guess 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.080 the Springburger is supposed to be like early twenties. I 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.800 think a couple of them mentioned being in graduate school, 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.560 so like grad students and adjacent friends who are just 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.520 looking to party, looking to go to the beach and 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.080 have a good time. And then yeah, you've got these 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.800 Gordon Gecko types who are out there just trying to 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.359 run some greasy deals and get away to the Cayman 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.200 Islands with the suitcases full of cash. Yeah. 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.439