Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome to Movie Crush. Friday Interview. A dish, Uh Annie,
Speaker 1: A dish? Hi Annie? Hi check. How are you? I'm great?
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good. I'm super excited to be here.
Speaker 1: Why you're dead? You're dead? Yes, it's really hard to
Speaker 1: get that song out of your head. It's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a weird combination of a cob like a pop tune. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, she just passed away like a
Speaker 1: month ago. Oh wow, I heard she They went and
Speaker 1: found her purposefully, and they discovered she'd become a painter.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, I think she Her name is Nora Tanega,
Speaker 1: and she was a folk singer, painter, experimental musician. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting. She she grew up in California, and
Speaker 1: I think kind of stayed there and I went to
Speaker 1: New York for a little while, and I got involved
Speaker 1: in the sixties village folk scene and like, yeah, put
Speaker 1: out just these killer songs. Went back to California and
Speaker 1: I think like spent the rest of her days and
Speaker 1: in Claremont, where she went to college. She went back
Speaker 1: there and I think taught painting and sort of lived
Speaker 1: this quiet life. Well it lives on in the TV show.
Speaker 1: That is one of the things that they kept for
Speaker 1: the f X TV show. Let's talk about the TV
Speaker 1: show real quick. Um, I saw and I think I
Speaker 1: might have told you this in one of the episodes
Speaker 1: I saw, like I think four episodes on a plane flight.
Speaker 1: I think I knew, or maybe I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was a TV show. I'm not sure how that would
Speaker 1: have gotten past me, or maybe I knew and it
Speaker 1: just you know, there's so much going on with TV
Speaker 1: these days. But I was on a flight, I was like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, I forgot about this. Yeah, And I immediately
Speaker 1: turned it on and just Emily was cracking up because
Speaker 1: I was like, people were literally looking at me. I
Speaker 1: was laughing. Was l O l ng so much on
Speaker 1: this flight. So it was really funny. Um, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's I missed the main guys, but I
Speaker 1: think they did a great job with the TV show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's excellent. I love how they incorporated um different types
Speaker 1: of vampires like emotional vampire, energy vampire. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: And the Cursed Hat episode. After I watched it, I thought,
Speaker 1: there's no awaken this possibly exist it is too great.
Speaker 1: Which one the Cursed Hat with Nick Curle? Yeah, yeah, perfect.
Speaker 1: I bet that that was so much fun to make.
Speaker 1: The department. It was so cool looking. Yes, And that's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things about the show and um
Speaker 1: this movie. What we do in the Shadows is that
Speaker 1: it's just so you can tell the creators love these
Speaker 1: stories we've grown up with. And it's like, here's a
Speaker 1: cursed hat. It's so apparently cursed, like immediately somebody dies
Speaker 1: and then he falls to the floor. Beautiful. It was great,
Speaker 1: and he refuses, you know, to acknowledge that into that
Speaker 1: he just has to wear. Even at the end, after
Speaker 1: all of this stuff has gone wrong, he still has
Speaker 1: that Oh man, I need to uh, I need to
Speaker 1: see all of it now. And I told myself when
Speaker 1: I came home, I was like, I gotta get right
Speaker 1: into that. Yes, I will say it's got one of
Speaker 1: the best extended universes. I won't spoil it, but basically
Speaker 1: they're saying all of these vampire universes exist within So
Speaker 1: how many seasons are there? There's only one. The second
Speaker 1: season comes out April, perfect timing. Yeah, I can catch
Speaker 1: up now, And it actually has a really solid Cliffhanger,
Speaker 1: I think, really, yeah, nice? Are there any I might
Speaker 1: want to be surprised? Now? Are there any visits from
Speaker 1: any of the movie cast members? Okay, yes, they are,
Speaker 1: all right, I don't want to, Yes, just a little teaser.
Speaker 1: It's excellent, highly recommended. I figured they would they would
Speaker 1: do that at some point, and you know there, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know all the stuff that I found out.
Speaker 1: But for the benefit of the listener, they have been
Speaker 1: talking about a werewolf movie. We're Wolves, Yeah, We're wolves.
Speaker 1: And the last thing I heard was um Tyka saying,
Speaker 1: we kind of feel bad because it's it's gonna take
Speaker 1: us forever, so I just don't expect anytime soon. He
Speaker 1: said something about like we're like two dads keep saying
Speaker 1: for Christmas and we're never coming home, but like eventually
Speaker 1: we'll come home for Christmas, I hope. So, I mean
Speaker 1: this movie took them forever as well, because I think
Speaker 1: they did. It's based on a short they did in
Speaker 1: two thousand five called What We Do in the Shadows
Speaker 1: Interviews with some Vampires. Have you seen it? It's clearly
Speaker 1: like it feels like you're watching a college movie, which
Speaker 1: it is. Um and it's a lot less polished, but
Speaker 1: it still has some gems in it, just gems. And
Speaker 1: how long is it It's about thirty minutes. It's on YouTube,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the scenes you can see you're
Speaker 1: pretty similar, but there's different things like they discuss how
Speaker 1: do you vampire just keep their clothes when they turn
Speaker 1: into bats? Things like that. Um and the actor plays
Speaker 1: Deacon was very clearly sick, like obviously sick, and they
Speaker 1: incorporated that into his character in the movie, that he's
Speaker 1: just kind of lazy and bored. That's funny. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: full disclosure. I should I should preface this by saying,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I came up with what we
Speaker 1: do in the Shadows and I was copied. But yes,
Speaker 1: my friend Mike and I Mike is a previous guest
Speaker 1: on the show with the running Ford episode. We used
Speaker 1: to make short films and stuff in the nineties around
Speaker 1: Atlanta and have these guerrilla screenings before YouTube and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, And we made a about a forty five
Speaker 1: minute documentary called Redneck Vampire that he had this. Mike
Speaker 1: does all these characters. He's got a bunch of him.
Speaker 1: He's always done um just for friends, and little short
Speaker 1: films and stuff, and one of them was RV. This
Speaker 1: guy Michael Van Meter, who was supposedly like a hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy something years old. He was from South Georgia.
Speaker 1: We did this recreated re enactment footage that looks a
Speaker 1: lot like the one in the movie. We used all
Speaker 1: these uh and it's on YouTube. People can watch it.
Speaker 1: They're all these uh archival images, like these creepy h
Speaker 1: middle ages stuff that they use the same thing. And
Speaker 1: when I saw what we do and I play the
Speaker 1: straight man, the interviewer, and we play it straight and
Speaker 1: we interview him about the nuts and bolts of being
Speaker 1: a vampire, and like it's very dead pan. And when
Speaker 1: I saw what we do in The Shadows, because I
Speaker 1: was a little late to it, I saw it, I
Speaker 1: think a couple of years after it came out, or
Speaker 1: maybe a year after it came out. I texted Mike
Speaker 1: immediately and I was like, dude, have you seen this?
Speaker 1: And he watched it and texted me the next day
Speaker 1: and he was like wow, and he's like, I don't
Speaker 1: think they saw the Redneck Vampire and ripped this off.
Speaker 1: He's like, but it's really really similar. Yeah, like, I
Speaker 1: think people should check out some of it at least
Speaker 1: it's it's really really similar. Uh, and let me put
Speaker 1: a button on that little conversation by saying, we also
Speaker 1: did a short years ago that was really really really
Speaker 1: really similar to Laser Cats on SNL, Like so similar.
Speaker 1: I was like, is someone watching this? I mean it
Speaker 1: looked exactly like it. We had cats shooting lasers, the
Speaker 1: same cutout style of animation, and I don't know, it
Speaker 1: just kind of made me wonder if there was some
Speaker 1: like underground Yeah, there's somebody minding for script idea. It's
Speaker 1: really weird. I don't think they copied us, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was so similar. It was like, yeah, it made
Speaker 1: me happy. It was like, clearly we had a fun idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because this is great. That's one of the things I
Speaker 1: I loved about this movie, and I think in my
Speaker 1: previous choice Spider Verse, it's the same where you can
Speaker 1: tell the people who made it love the genre, Like
Speaker 1: there's just this kind of honest, genuine love in it,
Speaker 1: and it reflects and it makes me appreciate it all
Speaker 1: the more. It's super goofy um, but they know all
Speaker 1: the chops, like the crucifix the bleeding of the eye.
Speaker 1: But they and I've read I've read them describe it
Speaker 1: as can you imagine. We like to think if you
Speaker 1: had immortality that you would better yourself. But what if
Speaker 1: you just get to like this age and you're that's
Speaker 1: just who you are, and every day you're lazy and
Speaker 1: you waste it Because at its heart, if you described
Speaker 1: to somebody without the vampire bit, it's very boring. Uh sure.
Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of the key to some
Speaker 1: of the best mocuments, especially with Christopher Guest, is sort
Speaker 1: of finding a window into the mundane and the ridiculous,
Speaker 1: whether it's dog shows, and this to me stands right
Speaker 1: up there with the best like Guest documentaries of all time.
Speaker 1: You know. I think the key for these is um
Speaker 1: keeping them short, keeping them like this is eight five minutes,
Speaker 1: and that's about right for for these documentaries. Christopher Guests
Speaker 1: keeps his pretty short too. It's a genre I think
Speaker 1: that has a I think it has a cap on
Speaker 1: how long you can take the joke and knowing when
Speaker 1: to get out of it. Yeah, yeah, it has to
Speaker 1: be really tight. I know we'll probably get into this later,
Speaker 1: but they filmed a hundred and fifty hours for this,
Speaker 1: and they had three edits of it that they said.
Speaker 1: They said jokingly that one day they might just put
Speaker 1: all the footage online. People I was wondering about that
Speaker 1: make their own. But then there's the fear that someone
Speaker 1: would make a superior product than you. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know though, because you can't make like, oh, well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to make the two and a half hour version,
Speaker 1: then like that's too long. You can't do that for
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Yeah, it's true, you and it
Speaker 1: just feels like they were so familiar with it. They
Speaker 1: had been working on it a long time there there.
Speaker 1: I love too that a lot of the people that
Speaker 1: are in this are not actors, so really, yes, it's
Speaker 1: not an actor. He's a real I T. Guy. They
Speaker 1: told him he was the I T. Support and he
Speaker 1: had no idea he was going to be in it
Speaker 1: that much. Amazing. Yeah, he was just a friend of
Speaker 1: Tayko with T T all right, And yeah, he did
Speaker 1: a great job. And he''s sort of one of the
Speaker 1: beloved characters in the movie. I love how they all
Speaker 1: just rally around him. They love they love him so much.
Speaker 1: It's so funny, and he's not even that fun or anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's just the novelty of a human friend. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and he comes in and he shows them all this
Speaker 1: new technology new to Acknology. It's been around forever. They're
Speaker 1: crowded around the laptop. It's so funny. They watched the
Speaker 1: sunrise and that was amazing. So I guess the ideas
Speaker 1: they could watch the sunrise on a video, but not
Speaker 1: for real because again, as vampires, they will burst into flame.
Speaker 1: There are so many small moments that they are almost like.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing with these mocumentaries. It's about the
Speaker 1: small moments I think. I mean, they're the jokey jokes,
Speaker 1: but the small moments like uh, with with the dead
Speaker 1: vampire Hunter and they get out the steak and he's like,
Speaker 1: it looks like a sanded down chair leg, did you
Speaker 1: do that by hand? That's one of my favorite scenes.
Speaker 1: I can't wait till we get to that part. Well,
Speaker 1: we can jump all around too. Um. But the three
Speaker 1: versions you mentioned, Uh, they did like a really super
Speaker 1: jokey version, one that was way more story focused, and
Speaker 1: then they decided that the right and mix was the
Speaker 1: one they should release of the two. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: would agree. I haven't seen the others obviously, but you
Speaker 1: know how much funny ship is waiting out there. I
Speaker 1: know if there's a funny I know. They had to
Speaker 1: lease so many great bits, I bet, just to get
Speaker 1: it down to eighty five minutes and to get the
Speaker 1: right story mix. Yeah, and they um. One interesting thing
Speaker 1: about this movie is Um, jimmin Clement and Tacho t
Speaker 1: t they wrote I think a hundred fifty page scripts,
Speaker 1: like they had a script, but they didn't show it
Speaker 1: to the cast or crew saw that. That's amazing. They
Speaker 1: just tried to lead them. It was their little secret, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is an amazing and kind of frightening way I
Speaker 1: would imagine to approach it, but also really fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, I know that's how guest works.
Speaker 1: He'd um. They don't write scripts, they right, They hand
Speaker 1: people scenes of like kind of outlined scenes, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and maybe if there's a line or joke or something
Speaker 1: they thought of, but otherwise it's just here's what we
Speaker 1: want to do in the scene. Is where you want
Speaker 1: to get in and get out? Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: go have fun. Yeah. I acted in a movie like
Speaker 1: that once, and it's probably a really bad movie. I've
Speaker 1: never seen it, but it was super fun. They were
Speaker 1: just like, you're gonna start here, you're gonna end here,
Speaker 1: here the beats we want to hit, and it was
Speaker 1: like a delight. Was it comedy now it was a horror.
Speaker 1: I guess it was kind of a mixture, um, but
Speaker 1: it was definitely more horror than comedy. As an actor,
Speaker 1: is that intimidating or just super freeing and fun or
Speaker 1: a bit of both. I think some actors find it
Speaker 1: really intimidating. I loved it. I thought it was really
Speaker 1: really fun because then you get to kind of just
Speaker 1: be in the moment and react to things, and you're
Speaker 1: not super worried about what's my next line and how
Speaker 1: do I make it look natural? And I have to
Speaker 1: read this mark and all those things. So I found
Speaker 1: it really liberating. But I know some actors who hate it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I probably is a different muscle. Um. Some
Speaker 1: actors are like, no, I need preparation and I need
Speaker 1: my lines and I need to really practice and do
Speaker 1: the method or whatever. Yeah, it's those those are two
Speaker 1: very different beasts, yes, for sure. But I I feel
Speaker 1: like this movie sin since they have the script, but
Speaker 1: they just didn't give it anybody? Is that mostly improv
Speaker 1: which makes me appreciate it all the more. Well, before
Speaker 1: we dive into some of the specifics, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the look of it. Um, you know what, the budget
Speaker 1: was one point six million. I think, Okay, not a
Speaker 1: lot of money. It looks great, Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 1: The production design is awesome, The costumes are amazing. I
Speaker 1: think they they hit just the right mark with the
Speaker 1: special effects, like it's enough. Yeah, um, but it's not reliant.
Speaker 1: You can tell they don't have a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but it gives it a little charm. I think. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The most expensive special effects shot in the movie, most
Speaker 1: people don't even notice. That's when they matted the table
Speaker 1: when they are out at the diner so that they
Speaker 1: don't have reflections in the table. Really yeah, and then
Speaker 1: to spend the most money on that, that's so I
Speaker 1: bet that pissed them off so much. Yes, but do
Speaker 1: you know we would have noticed if they hadn't done yet.
Speaker 1: Like some of those things you don't notice, but if
Speaker 1: they had done it, you would be like yeah. And
Speaker 1: they don't overdo it with the special effects eggs, so
Speaker 1: when they happen, they're really funny, like the first time
Speaker 1: early on when they're having the dishwashing argument when they
Speaker 1: both you know, soar up to the it's sort of
Speaker 1: out of nowhere and you're not expecting it yet the
Speaker 1: first time. But every time I've seen it, I laugh at,
Speaker 1: like really loud at that part. It just gets me
Speaker 1: every time. Every time I watched this movie, and I've
Speaker 1: seen it a lot, I still regularly laugh through it still, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and probably notice new things. Yeah. I think that's the
Speaker 1: deal with these ducks too. Are these mocks like I
Speaker 1: saw Spinal Tap? Are you big on that movie? Is
Speaker 1: that one of yours? Oh my god, I gotta see it? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean do you like the Christopher gues stuff? Okay,
Speaker 1: you should start where it started then, okay, come yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I saw that movie probably thirty plus times, and
Speaker 1: every time I noticed new little jokes. Um. The good
Speaker 1: example is there's one scene here in Spinaltop where they
Speaker 1: have they release an album later and you know the
Speaker 1: idea though it's a rock band, uh, and they have
Speaker 1: a black album. It's all black, and they have a
Speaker 1: signing and they don't draw attention to it. They don't
Speaker 1: make a joke out of it, but very subtly you
Speaker 1: notice they're all holding black magic markers to sign a
Speaker 1: black album. And I noticed that on the thirtieth viewing.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, look they've got black
Speaker 1: markers with a black album. And it's just that stuff
Speaker 1: that makes these things so rich. I think, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: just it gives you such a joy for the depth
Speaker 1: they went into it and how much they clearly were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what if we did this little thing that probably no
Speaker 1: one will notice. It's the care there, right, because it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: for the ten people who noticed this, they're going to
Speaker 1: think it's the coolest, funniest detail and it's worth it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just knowing having that appreciation for what you're making.
Speaker 1: I think even if you didn't notice that, you could
Speaker 1: still feel it, and when you do eventually notice that,
Speaker 1: it just as you that rewatch value. Yeah. Absolutely. Were
Speaker 1: you a fly to the Concords fan? I came very
Speaker 1: late to that, um, but yes, yes, how about you? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I so this actually was my first take possibly Jammain
Speaker 1: clement Um experience. Yeah, it was. And then immediately after
Speaker 1: that I was like, okay, wait, I gotta go find
Speaker 1: everything else they've done. Yeah, I was late on this.
Speaker 1: I was trying to parse out if I had seen
Speaker 1: thor ragnar Rock. Really, yeah, I mean I was late.
Speaker 1: I don't know why this got passed me, or maybe
Speaker 1: it was the other way around, but I was definitely
Speaker 1: a year or two late on this. Well, that's one
Speaker 1: of the interesting things about this movie is the timing
Speaker 1: of it. It came out and it wasn't a hit
Speaker 1: in New Zealand, so they didn't get international distribution. So
Speaker 1: they started a kickstarter four hundred thousand dollars so that
Speaker 1: they could show it in the United States, a distribution kickstarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they got it in a month, and even at
Speaker 1: only a handful of theaters, they broke the twenty box
Speaker 1: office chart. It became the most pirated movie. And it
Speaker 1: just happened to coincide with internet culture of gifts and
Speaker 1: memes and this entire movie is giffable and memorable and
Speaker 1: so it I feel like a lot of people. I
Speaker 1: didn't see it in theaters, but it just sort of
Speaker 1: came to me love on the internet, social media. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot to be said for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I when I was writing out what I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. It's hard not to just quote
Speaker 1: the whole thing. I don't We'll induligent each other for sure.
Speaker 1: Hopefully there's some overlapping and it's not just entire episode
Speaker 1: of quotes. I did see and I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: this too, that Teko what Tit based his performance on
Speaker 1: his mother, Yes, and Jermaine Clement on Gary Oldman's Dracula. Yes,
Speaker 1: but t is. Emily and I were watching it again
Speaker 1: last night and both of us were like, he's so
Speaker 1: goddamn cute, adorable, Like we both have big crushes on him,
Speaker 1: and especially in this role, he's just so lovable and
Speaker 1: he's just adorable. He is. That's that's one of the best.
Speaker 1: The things I think works most about this movie is
Speaker 1: none of the vampires are frightening, except maybe Peter Um.
Speaker 1: He's great. I love Peter Peters excellent. He's like the
Speaker 1: noserrat straight up. But tycho A TC is sort of
Speaker 1: your your because they're living together. The plot is these
Speaker 1: vampires are living together and he's the one with the
Speaker 1: chore wheel. He's the one trying to get them to
Speaker 1: put the towels down before they drain their victims. What's
Speaker 1: the what's the line here? Sorry, because the line is
Speaker 1: so perfect. He hasn't done the dishes and five year
Speaker 1: because they're all sort of in the in the interview portions,
Speaker 1: they're all introducing one another kind of and uh and
Speaker 1: Jermaine Clement as Vladislaw says, uh, he was an eighteenth
Speaker 1: century dandy, so he could be a bit fussy. And
Speaker 1: it's a really clever opening bit where they basically um,
Speaker 1: viago ta t. He's going around waking up his platmates
Speaker 1: at six pm because that's when they wake up. I know.
Speaker 1: That was so cute. Yes, because the alarm goes off
Speaker 1: and rises out of his coffin. Um, he's sort of
Speaker 1: halfway rises though. He gives a little look and he's
Speaker 1: so awkward. Oh my god, it's the best. Yes. And
Speaker 1: then he goes around and he wakes up his flatmates,
Speaker 1: and each one just such a clear, quick Oh this
Speaker 1: is this character. Like deacon says, I, how's your night?
Speaker 1: And Deacon says, had sex with a dog? Okay, he's
Speaker 1: the bad boy rebel. One of my favorite lines from
Speaker 1: him is when you become a vampire, you become sexy.
Speaker 1: And then Vadislav is having like some orgy. Yeah, right, um,
Speaker 1: and then Peter is behind this sort of tomb thing
Speaker 1: and he's got all these bones at his feet. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, it's a spinal column. And then at the
Speaker 1: end of the at the end of the scene waking
Speaker 1: up Peter, he goes, I got you this chicken and
Speaker 1: just sort of closes it in and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to clean up in here, I can
Speaker 1: bring your room. And Peters well, and they're all kind
Speaker 1: of scared of Peter, which is great to how that
Speaker 1: works on another level is they're all vampires. But Peters,
Speaker 1: you know, eight hundred and something. You're eight hundred seventy
Speaker 1: six years old. Oh no, no, no no, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of slav Peters like eight thousand years and so he's
Speaker 1: just so like deteriorated and scary and oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's great. And Vladislav he says he was sixteen when
Speaker 1: he was bidden, but life was rough for sixteen year
Speaker 1: old pack it's clearly not sixteen. So yeah, Vladislav is
Speaker 1: the next he's eight hundred and seventy six. He's a
Speaker 1: really great guy, a bit of a pervert. He has
Speaker 1: some pretty old ideas about things and of course that
Speaker 1: smash cush is cuts to uh, we should have slaves. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's one thing I love about them is they're so
Speaker 1: clearly out of their time. The way they speak and
Speaker 1: the way they dress. It's just like doesn't fit at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a trophy thing the person time traveler,
Speaker 1: like not fitting in in society. But the way they
Speaker 1: do it is because you know, you got the the
Speaker 1: great stuff at home, the domestic story. Um, and then
Speaker 1: it takes on a whole new life when they go
Speaker 1: out in modern Wellington, modern Wellington maybe like bar hopping
Speaker 1: and club hopping in Wellington. Yes, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: there is a tour video for Wellington that techo with
Speaker 1: t did As and it's beautiful. Just do everything with
Speaker 1: that character, I mean right, and they have it's it's
Speaker 1: it's really cute. They turned the Wellington into Wellington and
Speaker 1: it has a lot of dripping off of it. They
Speaker 1: had the best wars and videos in New Zealand, so
Speaker 1: now they have embraced it even though it didn't do well.
Speaker 1: They're interesting. Yeah, well, I mean I'm sure. Um, just
Speaker 1: the that's the amazing thing. Like it has a TV show,
Speaker 1: it didn't do that. Well, yeah, but that's just the
Speaker 1: pop larity it gained on the internet. A true cult
Speaker 1: cult film. Oh yeah for sure. Well, and he's become
Speaker 1: New Zealand's like favorite son. Yes, yes, for a good reason. Um.
Speaker 1: And we both worship him, so we do adore him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's just he can do it all. It's it's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his talent is just like intimidating. He's got a million
Speaker 1: projects coming up. Oh, I'm sure, super busy. Yeah. Um
Speaker 1: but yeah, the the so, the whole plot of it
Speaker 1: is they're getting ready for the Unholy Masquerade and they've
Speaker 1: invited this documentary crew who wearing crucifixes to come, yes,
Speaker 1: coming document it and what the flatting situation of living
Speaker 1: with other vampires? Um. And along with this, when you're
Speaker 1: introduced to Vladislav, you're also introduced to the Beast, which
Speaker 1: is a recurring character. You don't know, no, but this beast,
Speaker 1: like Vladislav, used to be really terrifying and powerful, and he,
Speaker 1: after battles with the Beasts, is kind of having performance issues,
Speaker 1: can't transform into animals like he used to. That line
Speaker 1: is great too, he said he used to be able
Speaker 1: to turn into animals, but now he can never get
Speaker 1: the faces right, which comes back later when he's a
Speaker 1: cat still there. That was a great payoff of that joke.
Speaker 1: I thought, Yes, that's the thing I didn't notice until
Speaker 1: a multiple viewing the cat. Yeah. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. Well, I mean they don't focus
Speaker 1: on it. It's kind of a passing shot, but very funny,
Speaker 1: very very worth it. Um. As far as the plot
Speaker 1: set up though, I mean, if you want to call
Speaker 1: it that, I think that's the other key to these mocumentaries.
Speaker 1: It's got to be super clean and simple. Um dog show,
Speaker 1: uh performance, um, you know, community theater performance. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: This is the Unholy Masquerade two days before New Zealand
Speaker 1: documentary board. That's kind of the key though these, I think,
Speaker 1: is to keep it really simple. You don't want to
Speaker 1: get bogged down and plot points in details, but it's
Speaker 1: still has to have some story and character development, yes,
Speaker 1: which they do that. The stuff with with Takowa Tits
Speaker 1: Vampire is really sweet, you know, with his his lost love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of them. I think it's funny that they're trying
Speaker 1: to answer this question that you maybe didn't even know
Speaker 1: you have is how did all of them end up
Speaker 1: in New Zealand? And welling to New Zealand, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is kind of funny, and he was. He had his
Speaker 1: familiar send him in a coffin after his love moved
Speaker 1: to New Zealand, but his familiar accidentally sent him the
Speaker 1: wrong place. It took him forever to get to New Zealand,
Speaker 1: and by the time he arrived, she had found someone
Speaker 1: else and moved on. He still harbors feelings for her,
Speaker 1: right and masterbates in his coffin. Yes, which apparently it
Speaker 1: was just a joke for the crew, but they decided
Speaker 1: that was the one joke that was a little like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it didn't quite fit in to me.
Speaker 1: It was fine, but it was like the interesting that
Speaker 1: didn't quite fit with with the rest. Well now you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was great. There later in the movie
Speaker 1: when he gets on the video chat with the yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, uh and then he ends up he
Speaker 1: flips it and it's like, you were supposed to turn
Speaker 1: me into a vampire and now I'm really old, What
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? I was waiting my whole life
Speaker 1: wasting and he's just going Okay, that's so great. I
Speaker 1: think Viago is three D seventy six and Deacon is
Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty three, so he's the youngest. He's
Speaker 1: the young bad boy, and he's sort of modeled after
Speaker 1: the Twilight. They all sort of took these classic vampires,
Speaker 1: even though Nick comes by later as well, thinking he's Twilight. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is the whole point of tension. Yeah, exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I love the flat scene. Meeting is excellent.
Speaker 1: They're arguing of the dishes, are arguing over for towels
Speaker 1: were vampiles. We don't put down towels. Some vampires to
Speaker 1: the sticky notes on the plates, like there's a shot
Speaker 1: of that later on Please clean me. It's just funny
Speaker 1: seeing these vampires who were once so powerful in this
Speaker 1: flatting situation where they have to have a budget, Like
Speaker 1: we've all had roommates. It's like, I know something you
Speaker 1: can identify with, you can all connect to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I guess one of the big things going
Speaker 1: back to that blood thing is they need to feast
Speaker 1: on human floods, right, which is the one downside he
Speaker 1: says at one point, yes, of being a vampire. Yes,
Speaker 1: so then it moves to they're getting ready to go
Speaker 1: out on the town and they've got to find their
Speaker 1: clothes and they can't see each other. They can't see
Speaker 1: their reflections, so they like draw sketches some what each other.
Speaker 1: It looks like, oh man, and the clothing choices they
Speaker 1: go with. Yeah, it's funny. I mean they've never seen
Speaker 1: their image. I mean that's a very funny little detail
Speaker 1: that like, I don't know if anyone had ever talked about, Like,
Speaker 1: we didn't do that in Reddick Vampire. We didn't think
Speaker 1: about that one thing. You miss, Jackie, do a redo
Speaker 1: of it? Um. I Vladislav says he's going for dead
Speaker 1: but delicious. Um he's uh. Jim and Clement is so
Speaker 1: lovable too. There's something about him. He's got this uh
Speaker 1: he looks cool as hell. He's got a good look,
Speaker 1: he's very handsome, and he's got that killer voice. The
Speaker 1: new the Kiwi accent, to me is just probably my
Speaker 1: favorite in the world. Um, it's not Australian, it's different.
Speaker 1: I like the Aussie accent, but there's something about that
Speaker 1: Kiwi accent that just is funny to me. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Well and It's also one
Speaker 1: of the funny things about it being in New Zealand
Speaker 1: is it's just the way they speak and some of
Speaker 1: their idioms and sayings are so polite. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: just sound, at least to me nice, um, So to
Speaker 1: have these vampires and werewolves later, um, just kind of
Speaker 1: being you know, it's funny the Flight of the Concords
Speaker 1: thing too, Like I don't know if this is just
Speaker 1: a New Zealand thing, but the way they play it
Speaker 1: is all very kind of dead pan. It's not very broad.
Speaker 1: It's just funny situational things. Yeah, yeah, dead pan. Is
Speaker 1: that's a good point, Like they would in Flight of
Speaker 1: the Concords a a band band meeting like that would
Speaker 1: be funny, just the three of them sitting around talking
Speaker 1: about the next tour and you know, Mary treating it like,
Speaker 1: you know, calling role with him right there in front
Speaker 1: of them. Like all of that stuff sort of carries over.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's their sense of humor
Speaker 1: or it's just sort of how it is over there
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm curious. Yeah, I'm curious too if
Speaker 1: any anyone wants to write in infemos on that, because
Speaker 1: Mary obviously turns up here is the alpha werewolf. I
Speaker 1: love him. Yeah, he's great. I love him so much.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of wondering if I would love a werewolf
Speaker 1: version as much, because I don't. I definitely love the
Speaker 1: vampires more in this movie. Yeah, they're funnier, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it would be. I think so, um because
Speaker 1: they kind of do the similar thing where they're like
Speaker 1: werewolves not swear wolves. And um, the scene where they're
Speaker 1: all transforming at the end, the directors told everybody in
Speaker 1: that scene to just go annoy the alpha wolf, yeah,
Speaker 1: because they kept coming up to him with questions like
Speaker 1: like the combination. Yeah, he's like try Zero's hero zero
Speaker 1: factory setting. So it's funny to see the alpha wolf
Speaker 1: just be so not traditionally what we would think the
Speaker 1: alpha male would be. Yeah. I definitely would be into it.
Speaker 1: And they're all dressed normally and yeah, and they got
Speaker 1: the track Well, he has the track pants, and if
Speaker 1: you notice in the re enactment, he's the only one
Speaker 1: wearing pants. Everyone else that's right there naked and blurred
Speaker 1: out everyone else. Dion listened to him, Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: because the track pants. They expand back to deacon. His
Speaker 1: intro is that he was it's pretty great that he
Speaker 1: was a Nazi vampire. Yes, which was a pretty funny scene. Yes,
Speaker 1: what does he say? No way? They had to get
Speaker 1: out of there. The creators have said that that line
Speaker 1: always gets a really big laugh in New Zealand, but
Speaker 1: not in America. They know why oh really? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just means like, I don't know, if you know, the
Speaker 1: Nazis lost. It's not as big as the Lapline in
Speaker 1: the United States. Yeah. Interesting, I did too. I did
Speaker 1: love the picture montage too. Did you freeze frame on
Speaker 1: that stuff? Some of it? Yeah? And I looked up,
Speaker 1: like where some of those photos came from. Um, I
Speaker 1: know one of them is some big election or something.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, yeah, but I like all the throwback
Speaker 1: photos they did of them, and they're like quote unquote
Speaker 1: younger years in different eras, which is kind of fun too.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, And it makes me wonder because it's
Speaker 1: later when it Stu comes in and kind of transforms
Speaker 1: their whole world. Um. I'm assuming that they were able
Speaker 1: to get these photos via a familiar because they can't
Speaker 1: go out during the days, so it's hard to process
Speaker 1: them and back then you know, you had to take
Speaker 1: it and they get a process. Yeah. Yeah, I've put
Speaker 1: a lot of thought into the details of this, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they have to kind of to make it through this world.
Speaker 1: They have to have a familiar, which is basically a
Speaker 1: human that does everything that they ask usually with the understanding. Eventually,
Speaker 1: with the day that is always moving, they will be
Speaker 1: turned into a vampire. Yeah, which becomes sort of a
Speaker 1: recurring plot point with all the familiars. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: because on one hand, the vampires want to have this
Speaker 1: slave master relationship, but and they would lose that when
Speaker 1: they turn them into a vampire. But they want immortality.
Speaker 1: Who was the woman who was what's her character's name, Jackie? Yeah, Jackie, huh.
Speaker 1: You know she's like, I'm getting older, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like the best version of me I can
Speaker 1: be right now. She wants to be locked in time, right,
Speaker 1: and uh, he won't do it, right. He keeps fishing
Speaker 1: the date back. That's right, but he did he Nick
Speaker 1: betrays him later on, Yes, Nick does betray him. But yeah, Jackie, Jackie,
Speaker 1: she self directed some of the scenes she's in, um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she I guess a big part of her job
Speaker 1: is finding victims for them. They're really bad at it, honestly, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just very good, and they have to get invited
Speaker 1: into places, which there was a real wrench into things. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So a lot of times they're trying to get into
Speaker 1: a club or something and the bouncers like no, no,
Speaker 1: So they frequently end up at a vampire club, the
Speaker 1: only vampire club in Wellington's, which has like maybe five
Speaker 1: six people. It was pretty fun to Yeah, so Jackie
Speaker 1: is integral in helping them find victims, which they prefer virgins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was that was funny when they brought in
Speaker 1: the two Uh, well, I guess it was Nick, wasn't
Speaker 1: it Nick? And yeah, Josephine, And it's two people. Jackie
Speaker 1: has not like them, so it's two people. Nick was
Speaker 1: her ex boyfriend and then Josephine had like made fun
Speaker 1: of her in primary school. Okay, I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: that was the same person. Yes, um, and that's when
Speaker 1: i'd Probably the most well known lines of the movie
Speaker 1: is when they're asked, why do you want virgins? And
Speaker 1: a lot of sauces. I think of it like a sandwich.
Speaker 1: You just enjoy it more if you knew no one
Speaker 1: had sucked it. It's so good. Uh yeah, so she
Speaker 1: brings in the Yeah they both turned out not to
Speaker 1: be virgins. Yeah yeah, and then a very awkward chase
Speaker 1: scene and sees yeah and some of that stuff is uh,
Speaker 1: it's also funny. It's but it does get it borders
Speaker 1: on scary a couple of times, not truly scary because
Speaker 1: your your brain is not there. You're in so in
Speaker 1: like comedy mode. But I think they do a good
Speaker 1: job of like kind of bringing a little thrill to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the music helps with that, and there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of little gags where fallows off as the cat
Speaker 1: whether it's it's funny but freaky at the same time.
Speaker 1: And then Deacons like in a backpack and reaches out.
Speaker 1: That was kind of creepy. Yeah, and it's it's cute
Speaker 1: because there's an earlier scene where Viago says he likes
Speaker 1: to make their last night nice. So he's like putting
Speaker 1: down newspapers and asking this woman about her what she's doing,
Speaker 1: and she's talking about this whole big future she has.
Speaker 1: Playing mean kind of apologetically bites her and then it
Speaker 1: just goes every year. That's when he hits the vein. Yes,
Speaker 1: just gruesome everywhere, right, he's like trying to catch it
Speaker 1: in his mouth everywhere. There's a couple of those with him. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the idea is that he's he's
Speaker 1: not great at being a vampire, but he's really good
Speaker 1: at being a den mother to his his flatmates. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's like some of the cutest stuff is the caretaking
Speaker 1: he does with everyone, like with the waking up scene
Speaker 1: and trying to keep the kitchen clean and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: which it's not as a disaster. Yeah, rolling out the
Speaker 1: chores wheel which vacuums misspelled on that by the way,
Speaker 1: Oh is it really yes, said he just didn't know
Speaker 1: how to spell. I think it's too us right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one I never get right either. Yeah. I did
Speaker 1: think the locket scene was very cute and sweet, and
Speaker 1: then you know, you get the when it starts searing
Speaker 1: a skin. That was a nice little note I thought silver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but again, it can't just be jokes. There has to
Speaker 1: be some sort of character stuff there that you can
Speaker 1: latch onto. Yeah, and he's definitely I would say, the
Speaker 1: heart of the film. Sure. Um. And then there are
Speaker 1: other things that maybe aren't as sweet, but we can
Speaker 1: still all relate to, like Nick when he becomes a vampire,
Speaker 1: which he becomes a vampire in this Peter bites him
Speaker 1: at the last moment. Oh no, Peter got him. Um.
Speaker 1: There there's the kind of tension between Deacon and Nick,
Speaker 1: with Deacon feeling threatened by like the new cool vampire,
Speaker 1: the new young vampire. We can relate to that stuff.
Speaker 1: There's an emotional thread there, um, so that those little
Speaker 1: and again the roommate thing, we can connect to these. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and Jamaine Clements sort of character arc is both
Speaker 1: losing like I was once, you know, a great torturer
Speaker 1: of people and and had so many more powers and
Speaker 1: he's getting weaker, and then his through line with the
Speaker 1: Beast you know that comes full circle to which works. Yes, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love his his storyline Ladislav the Poker. I don't
Speaker 1: remember if he said, but that was his whole thing.
Speaker 1: Because one of my favorite lines and the whole movie
Speaker 1: is when Stu is showing him how to use the
Speaker 1: poke function on Facebook and the way he's like, do
Speaker 1: you want to poke? And La says, and he communicates
Speaker 1: so much with one word. It's great. Yeah, It's like,
Speaker 1: it's just what you've been waiting for the digital version
Speaker 1: of poking. Oh my god, what am my ever? Other
Speaker 1: favorite um sort of recurring bits is the Lost Boys
Speaker 1: food thing with the buscati right right, which Stu what
Speaker 1: does he later saying, I only got it this last
Speaker 1: time I watched it. The Scotty offered me, Yeah, just
Speaker 1: the word bosketti made me laugh every single time he
Speaker 1: said it. Yeah. And you know the old joke from
Speaker 1: obviously listeners if you don't know the joke from The
Speaker 1: Lost Boys was there was one scene where they were
Speaker 1: eating spaghetti and one of them said, you know, take
Speaker 1: a look at what you're eating or something like that,
Speaker 1: and it was worms. And so they bring that up
Speaker 1: a few different times in this movie as a recurring
Speaker 1: bit where they're trying to do the Lost Boys thing,
Speaker 1: and one time later it wasn't I think it was.
Speaker 1: Was it Nick that was trying to do it, and
Speaker 1: he said, no, it has to look like the original
Speaker 1: food right. It's it's a scene where Nick is feeling
Speaker 1: like down on being a vampire and he's trying to
Speaker 1: make himself feel better and it totally fails. Totally fails.
Speaker 1: Would you like some I'm just going to say that
Speaker 1: from now on Spaghetti I um so Nick when he
Speaker 1: gets turned into a vampire, well you don't know, and
Speaker 1: so you think he's dead. But then it's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite reveals in the movie because it cuts to
Speaker 1: Deacon doing this what he calls an erotic dance for
Speaker 1: what feels like while they did, he is oh man,
Speaker 1: and then there's like a little knock at the window.
Speaker 1: It was one of my favorite bits, and Nick kind
Speaker 1: of awkwardly flies in. It takes too long, you can't
Speaker 1: manage it, and then deconsis like I was doing an
Speaker 1: arotic dance with my friends. I was in the zone.
Speaker 1: They were really joining it, yeah, and they were kind
Speaker 1: of just watching it, like yeah, come in the front door.
Speaker 1: And he's like, but I can fly, like not really
Speaker 1: quite yet, right, And that's probably one of the other
Speaker 1: few scary ish scenes is his transformation scene. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's both funny and scary. But yeah, he's like, eyes
Speaker 1: are bleeding, He's doing all kinds of like convulsion things. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They added enough of that stuff, I think to kind
Speaker 1: of keep it interesting. Yeah, yeah, because I mean it
Speaker 1: will funny. Certainly, vampires are still pretty freaky out of
Speaker 1: the things that they do. Yeah, you can't ignore all
Speaker 1: that stuff. You gotta, even if it's not truly scary
Speaker 1: like them. I mean, I didn't think it was gross
Speaker 1: because it was just so over the top. But the
Speaker 1: great scene where Nick eats um he's a French fry chip,
Speaker 1: he's a human, human food and the one chip like
Speaker 1: the projectile blood it's going on. It's so good. It's
Speaker 1: so like, way way too much super powerful. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah that comes back on the show. I won't say
Speaker 1: more than that, but oh yeah, well, and that's the
Speaker 1: scene where again they all have their little character arcs,
Speaker 1: like Nick as he really loved being a vampire and
Speaker 1: then he was bombed. He's like, I can't eat chips.
Speaker 1: I can't eat my favorite food. I can't watch daytime TV.
Speaker 1: I love that Steward will get him a DVR. I think,
Speaker 1: I think I think he'd be okay. And that is
Speaker 1: so the vampires. He kind of like they accept Nick,
Speaker 1: except for Deacons not really into him. But they really
Speaker 1: love Ste the human friend of Nick. I think that's
Speaker 1: why they kind of accept Nick. Ste comes along for
Speaker 1: the party. They love Ste like Stu Nick goes down
Speaker 1: to talk to Peter's like, look that everybody loves him
Speaker 1: up there. They love him more than me. Please don't
Speaker 1: tear him. He's a vegetarian. He really wouldn't be into it.
Speaker 1: And Peter's just nodded like, um, and yeah. Nick tells
Speaker 1: Stu that they're all vampires and it opens this entire,
Speaker 1: entire world for them because he's yeah, he is a
Speaker 1: real life. Whatever he says in that movie Geo Cashing,
Speaker 1: that is what he really does. That is him. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. And he's like, we take systems and we
Speaker 1: we analyzed and needs of those systems. Oh man, anytime
Speaker 1: someone's talking about like optimizing systems, I just like my
Speaker 1: brain checks out. And they they knew that was true,
Speaker 1: so that's something that they put that in there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he totally wasn't really an actor. He'd done something before that,
Speaker 1: but um, apparently y T T sent him an email
Speaker 1: do not take any acting courses in all caps because
Speaker 1: he just wanted don't do it. Oh my gosh. I
Speaker 1: wonder if he's been anything since. I know he's no.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I wonder if that's a one
Speaker 1: and done situation. I mean it's a pretty good one
Speaker 1: and done. Yeah, I mean he probably can't act. If
Speaker 1: he took the acting classes, I bet it would ruin it.
Speaker 1: It would totally ruin it. Yeah. Yes, stew has just
Speaker 1: gotta be Stu because he's like, if anyone hasn't seen it,
Speaker 1: he's boring in the most endearing kind of way. He's
Speaker 1: just yeah, he doesn't over I think the instinct would
Speaker 1: be to even try and do something like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta be funny or I gotta you know,
Speaker 1: they really love me, so I've got to be endearing.
Speaker 1: But he just he manages to play it just right right,
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that elevates the humor
Speaker 1: of it is as we're watching it, we're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy's pretty boring, dull, but the to the vampires,
Speaker 1: the superstar, he's the most exciting thing. And it's just
Speaker 1: seeing that kind of play out that is wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he sort of is part pet, part connection to the
Speaker 1: human world which they've never had, and they all, you know,
Speaker 1: they all abide by the pact, you know, to not
Speaker 1: kill him. Yeah, which is just great. And Deacon, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, is what I find a very lovable
Speaker 1: thing where he knits. He's knitting stew swe It's so cute.
Speaker 1: That was great at the end when the werewolves come
Speaker 1: in and he they're commenting on a sweater. I want
Speaker 1: that sweater. It is a very like bright moon, yeah,
Speaker 1: sort of Halloween even. Yeah, and I wonder if it's
Speaker 1: a play on that the infamous Amazon shirt, the howling
Speaker 1: moon shirt. That's what I always thought. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that. It's just you know, the um kind of
Speaker 1: wonderful internet thing where people will be really funny reviews
Speaker 1: for certain products. There's this shirt that's just like a
Speaker 1: big full moon and a wolf howling at it, and
Speaker 1: that was one of the Yeah. Yeah, So I wondered
Speaker 1: if because it has a moon on it and it's
Speaker 1: kind of a werewolf joke, that was maybe particip it.
Speaker 1: But it's cute. I love it. And it's it's funny
Speaker 1: too because he's the rebel bad boy but he's like
Speaker 1: making his own sweaters. Yeah. Um with the werewolf stuff.
Speaker 1: The way they intro that is great because it's like
Speaker 1: it's sort of they really dive into that outsiders, you know,
Speaker 1: two rival gangs bumping into each other in the park,
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and like they kind of want to
Speaker 1: diffuse it, but they don't want to seem like they're
Speaker 1: not tough, so they all have to walk that line
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, we could destroy you if we wanted to,
Speaker 1: but like it's not worth it right now, kind of
Speaker 1: the supernatural version of hold me back. Yeah. I love
Speaker 1: when they the vampires all hit at them and then
Speaker 1: the world's all start howling. It is so silly. Ah,
Speaker 1: And that's yeah, it's a it's the first time you
Speaker 1: see it. That's a really fun reveal too, because you
Speaker 1: don't really know they're going to be were wolves in it,
Speaker 1: like there might have been mentioned of them earlier, but
Speaker 1: it's just like, oh, and they're equally kind of not
Speaker 1: what you would expect. They're sort of just like grunge
Speaker 1: like flannel shirt dudes. Yes, And as as we said earlier,
Speaker 1: the main character, the alpha male, says, were wolves not swear. Wolves,
Speaker 1: Like he's always chiding them for swearing, so like they're
Speaker 1: trying to get in this fight and he keeps telling
Speaker 1: them not to swear. Yeah, it's a really interesting juxtaposition
Speaker 1: because the vampires are all there. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: flourish and there are dandies and they dress up and
Speaker 1: they you know, they're all like perverts and you know,
Speaker 1: to use their language. And the werewolves just seem like
Speaker 1: like regular guys, kind of regular nice guys almost. It's
Speaker 1: weird because they're not intimidating or or like big and muscular. Right.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's kind of due to the mythology
Speaker 1: of where wolves versus vampires, because were wolves, unless I'm
Speaker 1: remembering incorrectly, don't live for it, whereas vampires do. So
Speaker 1: they sort of had all this weird historical anachronism attacked
Speaker 1: to them. Well these guys hundreds of years old exactly
Speaker 1: that these werewolves might have just been Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think werewolves forever, do they? I don't think so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because well what happens is they killed Stew and disembowel
Speaker 1: him that scene with it, oh man, and you've really
Speaker 1: like have grown to love Stew at this point, so
Speaker 1: he kinda like it works from the movie. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely, especially at that point he's riding high on
Speaker 1: like the Victory Um at the Unholy Masquerade and they're
Speaker 1: they're literally chanting his name and then this happened. So
Speaker 1: he's at his highest point. Yeah, so he saves the
Speaker 1: day of the Unholy Masquerade by killing um Beast's boyfriend. Yeah, Julian,
Speaker 1: that guy was great because he sounded like straight up,
Speaker 1: like working class his accent, he's just so put off.
Speaker 1: Got the camera crew in here, what's that? And it
Speaker 1: could be texting their friends all we know exactly sending
Speaker 1: vampire yes, uh and we did forget to talk about
Speaker 1: um the bat fight. Oh yeah, and I love Votosov
Speaker 1: like drunkenly shouts like it's your favorite thing, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's Another part of this is that Nick is
Speaker 1: a new recent vampire, which means he can get them
Speaker 1: into clubs because he actually knows people, that's right, So
Speaker 1: he's like another bouncer, right. So they actually go out
Speaker 1: having a sort of successful night out on the town
Speaker 1: to get a little drunk. But then Deacon there's just
Speaker 1: a simmering thing where he's like he look, he's dressed
Speaker 1: even dressed like me. It's just they're the whole time
Speaker 1: and it breaks out into a bat fight. It keeps
Speaker 1: telling everybody their vampires. He keeps saying, I'm Twilight. Have
Speaker 1: you seen Twilight on Twilight Vampire? Yep? Um and importantly
Speaker 1: one of them says, oh really, I'm a vampire Hunters, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, which is the guy. Yes, it comes back,
Speaker 1: and I love how he says, I'll skype you, I'll
Speaker 1: stype you. Yeah. So it results in a bat fight,
Speaker 1: a drunken bat fight. Yeah. And the bat fight starts
Speaker 1: because Nick is trying to get away, um like because
Speaker 1: he's not the great at fighting yet either, right, so
Speaker 1: he launches into bat mode and flies away and then
Speaker 1: immediately Deacon does and that's when it's bad black time.
Speaker 1: And I think they did that. I read they did
Speaker 1: that because they it was least it was less expensive
Speaker 1: than if they had tried to do like fight, so
Speaker 1: they're like, let's just do bad and it worked out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it makes for a good joke, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it happens a few times in the movie where
Speaker 1: they turned into bats, and it's always kind of funny.
Speaker 1: And I have seen some of the few TV episodes
Speaker 1: I've seen have some good bad stuff. Yeah. One of
Speaker 1: the characters in that show, Lazlow, when he turns into
Speaker 1: a bat, he always shouts back, yeah, so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start watching that tonight. Definitely definitely do. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna start over. So, yeah, the Unholy Masquerade is
Speaker 1: when we finally see Beast as well. Yes, who turns
Speaker 1: out is not it's an ext girlfriend, it's not some
Speaker 1: you know, it's built up that big, horrible beast, right,
Speaker 1: And one of the hilarious parts of that is every
Speaker 1: time he says the beast, he says it was such
Speaker 1: a weight, with such a heaviness, and it cuts to
Speaker 1: like a medieval drawing of a monster and the music
Speaker 1: there's like an ominous tone that rings, and it's revealed
Speaker 1: to be Pallen, his ex girlfriend, and he just calls
Speaker 1: her beast. She's not the beast to anyone else but him, yes,
Speaker 1: and she is the honored guest at the Unholy Masquerade,
Speaker 1: to which vot Asov completely flips out. Um, And you
Speaker 1: get this really funny kind of montage of their relationship
Speaker 1: and how it's like vampire asked but still just a
Speaker 1: bad like fighting between boyfriend and girlfriend exactly. And that's
Speaker 1: it's that grounding and all the mundane like with the
Speaker 1: roommate stuff that makes it work so well. I think, right, oh,
Speaker 1: that is such a great part, and that's one of
Speaker 1: my other favorite lines. As they're getting ready for the
Speaker 1: Unholy Masquerade. Um, they're trying to get Vladislav to like comedy,
Speaker 1: so I don't think I'm gonna go. And he finally
Speaker 1: turns around. It looks horrendous. It looks like he's like turning,
Speaker 1: turning into stone or something. And he says, leave me
Speaker 1: to do my doc bidding on the internet and he's
Speaker 1: on evay. It's bidding for a table that I start
Speaker 1: bidding on the internet. That's so good. What why did
Speaker 1: he look that way? What was going on there? I
Speaker 1: think he was just having a weird like because I
Speaker 1: know vampires can do glamours, um to make themselves look
Speaker 1: a certain way. I think he just is that it.
Speaker 1: I think I could quite forget that. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: funny either way. Yeah. Um and one of my other
Speaker 1: favorite parts of any of my friends are listening. They're
Speaker 1: gonna roll their eyes because every time I watch this party,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, this, I have to talk about this.
Speaker 1: And it's when Peter dies. So it's kind of cuts
Speaker 1: to from the previous scene where they're all at partying too.
Speaker 1: You're hearing the screaming and they opened the door to
Speaker 1: Peter's basement and he's on fire, and yeah, goes like
Speaker 1: get some water, and Botislav runs down the hall and
Speaker 1: then he comes back and he has like this tiny
Speaker 1: little thing of water and he's like ah, and he
Speaker 1: throws it. It gets nowhere near him down stairs, and
Speaker 1: it's not enough anyway. And the way he says Peter dies,
Speaker 1: the way he says, our friend has just been killed
Speaker 1: in a tragic sunlight. Accept this. He's not trying to
Speaker 1: be funny. That's the beauty of it. It's sad what's
Speaker 1: just happened, but it's it's the way he delivers it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what had happened. It was the vampire hunter, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. He broke in and Peter heard it and
Speaker 1: started to attack him. But then the sun rose and
Speaker 1: the sunlight came in and he burst into flames frost,
Speaker 1: and this is fun scene with the cops. Oh that
Speaker 1: seems so good too. So one of them, um O'Leary,
Speaker 1: who's the woman. She is a kindergarten tea shirt, not
Speaker 1: an actor, and she did amazing. Yeah I would have
Speaker 1: figured it was a cop. Nope. Yeah, yeah, So two
Speaker 1: cops show up that they heard like a sound complaints
Speaker 1: they heard shrieking and yes, so Viago hypnotizes them so
Speaker 1: they won't notice anything that's wrong. And like a fight
Speaker 1: is broken out between Nick and Deacon, so they're levitating
Speaker 1: fighting and there's just a series of really hilarious tension building.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh hold on, and they shine a flashlight
Speaker 1: on them flying and the music is building. Not a
Speaker 1: smoke detector in sight, right, so good. Yeah, all that
Speaker 1: stuff is really funny. They do eventually make their way
Speaker 1: to the basement with like a dead two dead bodies
Speaker 1: on the floor, like one is which been it's been
Speaker 1: charred to a Chris And they say, look at this guy,
Speaker 1: he's not having a good time. He's gonna feel terrible
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. You can just leave him there, get him
Speaker 1: a blanket. It's excellent. And then um, Deacon I think
Speaker 1: it's Deacon is like, should we just kill them? Let's
Speaker 1: see what other safety tips they have. Then we'll see
Speaker 1: just so silly. Yeah, I didn't want to lose Peter. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you somehow get attached to him a little bit, yea,
Speaker 1: even though he's like this scary and like non speaking,
Speaker 1: you know, no sparato, but there was I don't know,
Speaker 1: there was something about losing him. It was kind of like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, apparently there's a scene that got cut
Speaker 1: where um, there was a funeral scene and he threw
Speaker 1: his body in the river, and then they accidentally loo
Speaker 1: us the fake corpse and they had to release suppress
Speaker 1: oppress state if you find a charred course, that's pretty good. Yes,
Speaker 1: So then Nick goes on trial, which is pretty funny too.
Speaker 1: That's a good scene. Yeah. They kind of have a
Speaker 1: list of grievances against Nick, and they of course start
Speaker 1: with like a really silly one. Um, and then they're
Speaker 1: like you told stu Oh but we love Stuard, right right,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but then you held compete or killed um yeah,
Speaker 1: And they decided to do the processing of shame that's right,
Speaker 1: which is very funny and silly. Basically they just walk
Speaker 1: around a shouting shame bad vampire and then the kind
Speaker 1: of wanders off sadly. Yeah, that was a funny smash
Speaker 1: cut and he's barred from the house. Yeah, but stud
Speaker 1: is allowed to come whenever, right, And I thought that
Speaker 1: scene was funny too because they have the debate over
Speaker 1: what indefinitely means. And then and Deacon is like, you know,
Speaker 1: it definitely means forever, and they're all like, no, technically
Speaker 1: it means like we're just not a definite period a
Speaker 1: long time and Nick is like, so it could be tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and then they say no, like at least six months,
Speaker 1: but still of course can come and visit. Of course
Speaker 1: I love ste he is welcome. And then yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess it does. The next thing is the Holy Masquerade,
Speaker 1: the Revelation of the Beasts Pollen, and then they go
Speaker 1: and it's just this really silly part. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I like this set up early on when when what
Speaker 1: t is talking about what it is and it's like,
Speaker 1: it's great. You know they're there's zombies and you can
Speaker 1: tell there's like a class system within this thing, and
Speaker 1: the zombies are like fall pretty low on the list, right,
Speaker 1: they were one of the zombies. They was talking about
Speaker 1: the stereotype that they walk off there just moan and
Speaker 1: how he's so tired of it. It looks like it's
Speaker 1: in a gym, like a don't know, communities there and
Speaker 1: they just found some cheap place, which I adore as well. Um,
Speaker 1: and then and you that's when you learned that Jackie,
Speaker 1: Nick has made Jackie a vampire, that's right, which was
Speaker 1: a pretty good reveal. Yes, all the little character arcs
Speaker 1: and they really all come full circle, right, which works
Speaker 1: out really well, I think, Yeah, yeah, for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's fun because the teeth. Yeah, she's so excited
Speaker 1: about it. It's really fun because you I guess you
Speaker 1: don't expect all of these things to pay off. Well,
Speaker 1: or maybe you didn't even you forgot about a certain thing,
Speaker 1: but it all does kind of come together, and a
Speaker 1: lot of it comes together at this party because Pauline, Uh,
Speaker 1: they discover stew as human because Nick bought a plus
Speaker 1: one st um and there's kind of this ruma where
Speaker 1: we got to eat the human beast is interested, yes,
Speaker 1: and you know, and everyone's else was like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't, you don't need stew right right,
Speaker 1: And then Vladislav shows up like such a dramatic entrance
Speaker 1: and then has the silliest little slap fight which he
Speaker 1: loses with Pauline's now boyfriend Julian and Stu Impales. Julian,
Speaker 1: that was a nice reveal to because you don't know
Speaker 1: who did it at first. Yeah, yeah, I wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: it turns in there Stu. Yeah, I think I thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be Uh. I think I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be Nick for some reason. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: a little redemption for him. Yeah, I could have seen that.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of perfect that it was ste Yes,
Speaker 1: the human, Yeah, and the the kind of boring I
Speaker 1: T human. I love when he's they like, tell us
Speaker 1: what you do, Stu, tell us what you do, and
Speaker 1: he's like, oh system, dido cashing and listen, He's agin immediately. Well,
Speaker 1: they managed to get him out of there, though, which
Speaker 1: I thought was kind of funny. I would have thought
Speaker 1: he would have just been descended upon. But it's sort
Speaker 1: of like the fight starts at the club and you're
Speaker 1: you know, you exit out the back door really quickly,
Speaker 1: right right, And this is where it cuts to them
Speaker 1: chanting Stu's name and riding high. Yeah. Voisla was like,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad we both equally contributed to that. You're like, well,
Speaker 1: it really was stupid, and then says, I hope this
Speaker 1: doesn't make things awkward between you and the beasts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's open new possibilities. That's right, because they
Speaker 1: kind of try to get together again. They do that
Speaker 1: even pays off. They do. But what does he say, like,
Speaker 1: so when you you can remember why you broke up
Speaker 1: in the first our soul. Yes, I saw such a
Speaker 1: good cosplay of them at dragon Con one year and
Speaker 1: the Beast. It was so good. Man, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Oh they looked they looked exactly like really that was great. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: And and and so they're walking home they run into the Werewolves. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That whole second Werewolves scene is really good. I love it.
Speaker 1: It's it's very sweet. I there's just something about how
Speaker 1: they're like trying to there's this camaraderie there. They're trying
Speaker 1: to change each other up so they won't hurt anybody.
Speaker 1: But there's just again the boring, like I can't remember
Speaker 1: the combination lock, why didn't you wear tracksue pants? And
Speaker 1: all you you lost all those clothes guys, And he
Speaker 1: keeps the leader of the alpha male. He's trying to
Speaker 1: get the like go away, we're transplate. Can't you say
Speaker 1: we're about to transf? Yeah, like they don't wanna they're
Speaker 1: nice guy. Yeah, it's really funny they are. But unfortunately, uh,
Speaker 1: they didn't manage because of all these questions and distractions.
Speaker 1: They did not manage to change themselves up. And I
Speaker 1: love how the alpha male as they're transforming these points
Speaker 1: like points at stus, like that guy in the boat
Speaker 1: tie is gonna go first, then the camera guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, And they do get the camera. They do
Speaker 1: they get one of the camera guys, right, That was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, they really do a good job in
Speaker 1: that scene though it gets a little scary, and as
Speaker 1: much as this movie can and for not much money,
Speaker 1: they did the right thing. I think they were super
Speaker 1: creative and how they shot it quick gimpses of things,
Speaker 1: a little campy, like a little Sam Raimi Evil Dead campy,
Speaker 1: but it worked. You know. They used a little bit
Speaker 1: of special effects and the key with that stuff. And
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of money. It's just not
Speaker 1: focusing for too long on it, I think. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I feel like that's you see that time and time again,
Speaker 1: especially in horror um, which this is kind of a
Speaker 1: horror comedy. Realm is the second they try to show
Speaker 1: you the thing, your imagination is more powerful than whatever
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to create. Yeah, you just
Speaker 1: get little glimpses, very fast glimpses you're right, right, because
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's a comedy, but it could have
Speaker 1: veered into oh, this just looks really bad, and that
Speaker 1: that's not the kind of laugh they were trying to get. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a tight rope sometimes with these mockumentaries, because you've
Speaker 1: got to get that tone just right. Beers too far
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, you've you've lost them for a
Speaker 1: scene exactly. Yea. And if they had done a poor
Speaker 1: job there, then I feel like it would have you
Speaker 1: would have been laughing for the wrong reasons. Yeah, instead
Speaker 1: of Oh Nick is very awkwardly trying to fight them
Speaker 1: as he likes and trying to save Stew like Stew
Speaker 1: dies such a long death yea, and Nick just keeps
Speaker 1: you like Stu. Well, Nick feels like he's just at
Speaker 1: the end. He's just kind of levitating to stay out
Speaker 1: of the fray. He's like, I'll just be a here
Speaker 1: right right, um, And poor Stew gets mauled. Um. And
Speaker 1: this is one of my I think this is my
Speaker 1: last quote all includes. That's one of my favorites. Is
Speaker 1: when Nick and Deacon are having a bonding thing. Nick
Speaker 1: is very upset this to his died and so deacons
Speaker 1: trying to comfort him, and he's talking about how that's
Speaker 1: the problem with humans and friends is that they die.
Speaker 1: He says, whether it's slipping and falling onto a spike,
Speaker 1: or falling asleep in a pile of leaves and having
Speaker 1: some of them block your windpipe, on making the simple
Speaker 1: mistake of fashioning a mask out of crackers and being
Speaker 1: attacked by ducks and b and Keith. I love this
Speaker 1: show out there, The simple Mistake Cracker. It's so funny.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's excellent. Like to think that someone
Speaker 1: improved that. It's just ridiculous, Yes, because it's like it
Speaker 1: starts silly and it just veers off into it. It
Speaker 1: just gets ridiculous because every time you think, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: falling asleep in a pile of leaves, oh, the simple
Speaker 1: mistake up pots of Cocker. It was so funny, but
Speaker 1: you know, you can't. It would have been a crime
Speaker 1: if they had lost Stew forever. They had to bring
Speaker 1: him back, and that was kind of the perfect way
Speaker 1: to get to in this movie, was bringing stewback. He's
Speaker 1: a werewolf. Now he's got these cool scars on his face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he shows up at their house. He's got a whole
Speaker 1: post the whole Possea Werewolves with Um and it's kind
Speaker 1: of this tense moment at first, and they're they're sessing
Speaker 1: each other out, but then Stu was able to bring
Speaker 1: them together and the Alpha male compliments, do you get
Speaker 1: on his sweater? That's so great? It's sort of like
Speaker 1: that moment and um, did you see Swingers? M you
Speaker 1: know the movie though, Yeah, Well there's a scene in
Speaker 1: Swingers where these guys all getting a big fight in
Speaker 1: a parking lot or or don't get into fight and
Speaker 1: almost do. And then later on they end up together
Speaker 1: at a party and you know, sit down and like
Speaker 1: start playing video games together and stuff, and one of
Speaker 1: the guys comes in. He's like, what's going on here? Like,
Speaker 1: you know, is everything okay? Yeah? It turns out there
Speaker 1: really cool. But it's sort of that same thing where
Speaker 1: the enemies finally get in a room together and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we're kind of the same at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. Yeah, Iago has this whole sort of
Speaker 1: scene where he's like, well, the smell is bad at first,
Speaker 1: we just opened some windows. Gamey dog smell. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I love the Alpha male. The conversation he's having like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I alphabalehever, I say it goes the call
Speaker 1: still here said we should try to do this, and
Speaker 1: I thought, all right, maybe leading it over there too,
Speaker 1: like the deal. Yeah, yeah, there's kind of in the credits,
Speaker 1: there's a scene where the Alpha male is calling them
Speaker 1: out for like why are you laughing? You just laugh
Speaker 1: because you're afraid you're And he asked Stu, why are
Speaker 1: you laughing? And Stu said, I'm just laughing with the group.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh yeah, it checks out. Okay, I
Speaker 1: love it too. At the end where he puts Deak
Speaker 1: into bed Um and you get that family picture of
Speaker 1: them all out there, it's just I think they knew
Speaker 1: that Um having a lot of heart was a big
Speaker 1: key as well. Yes, you know you gotta really love
Speaker 1: these vampires. Yes, you know, get route for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and speaking of Um, Yago decided to turn his
Speaker 1: his long lost lever into a vampire and they're together
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's like, some people might make fun of
Speaker 1: the age difference because I'm robbing the quad And they
Speaker 1: found um Ethel Robinson played her and she was actually
Speaker 1: from a nursing home and I um, they put the
Speaker 1: teeth on her tent shirts. Oh my god, that is adorable.
Speaker 1: They're very cute. That was a very sweet scene. And
Speaker 1: the shot of him outside the apartment when he floats
Speaker 1: across the room this yeah, and he comes around the
Speaker 1: other side of the window and he's got the flowers
Speaker 1: and everything. Again, just using just bits of that floating
Speaker 1: and some of the supernatural stuff like for comic effect
Speaker 1: was so perfect. Yeah. Um. And that's the cops show
Speaker 1: up again and they after this werewolf attack has happened
Speaker 1: and they're trying to figure out what did it and
Speaker 1: they bring in like this cute dog and they're like,
Speaker 1: now he's gonna have to be put down so clearly
Speaker 1: not Oh that god, that's right. That part. They have
Speaker 1: their own TV show, those two cops wagging tail. He
Speaker 1: looks so sweet. See what you did? Him over to
Speaker 1: the body and I was just like, oh my god, no,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. Yes, yes, um, but yeah, it's
Speaker 1: super sweet. Ending theago, it kind of starts with Iago
Speaker 1: giving the camera really awkward smile and it ends with
Speaker 1: him giving a really smile to the camera. Yeah. He's
Speaker 1: such a sweetheart of a character. Yeah. Um, he just
Speaker 1: wants to be friends. Mainly he wants to help take
Speaker 1: care of his friends. He doesn't want anyone to get
Speaker 1: in trouble. Uh, He's just he could be. They could
Speaker 1: do fifty of these movies and I would like watch
Speaker 1: every single one of them. Yeah, they're just everything they say.
Speaker 1: It's I'm always so impressed with the movies where it's
Speaker 1: just consistently very funny throughout and but also that heartfelt
Speaker 1: tone underneath. And I think that goes to show that
Speaker 1: the creators having what we discussed earlier, that kind of
Speaker 1: authentic love of the thing, but also putting in all
Speaker 1: of this hard work and fine tuning it and seeing
Speaker 1: people and just recognizing Okay, that's that's what we need
Speaker 1: and the yeah, that's what people will connect to. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad he did this then, before they had
Speaker 1: a lot of money and before he had blown up
Speaker 1: as a director, because it wouldn't have been as good,
Speaker 1: or maybe it would have been as good because they're
Speaker 1: all super talented and funny. But there's something about the
Speaker 1: sort of on the budget d I y thing that
Speaker 1: really worked for this. Yeah, And I think it would
Speaker 1: have felt out of place because the gag is that
Speaker 1: it's sponsored by The New Zealand as a documentary board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think it would have just it works that
Speaker 1: it's sort of low rise. It's yeah, it's it still
Speaker 1: looks great, but it just it has that kind of
Speaker 1: vibe of, Yeah, all the nighttime stuff it's clearly lit
Speaker 1: by just like a single flashlight spotlight that all really works.
Speaker 1: All the night shoots those are tough. Yeah, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: really hardly anything during the day for obvious reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is one interesting fact I read that they because
Speaker 1: they shot the maybe it wasn't two five two night
Speaker 1: a long time ago when they shot the first short
Speaker 1: film that this is based on that scene where they
Speaker 1: go out on the town um people are shouting homophobic
Speaker 1: slurs at them and that was all people did that,
Speaker 1: But this time they wanted something like that happened. They
Speaker 1: couldn't convince anyone to do so because the times had changed.
Speaker 1: It interesting. Yeah, and it looked like, I don't know
Speaker 1: the details of their permitting and their extras quote unquote,
Speaker 1: most of this looks like they just like went into clubs,
Speaker 1: Like you can see that looks on some of these
Speaker 1: people's faces, like what is going on in Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if they just did that or if
Speaker 1: they just got really convincing extras. Something tells me they
Speaker 1: just kind of, I think, so set it up. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they set it up at the club at
Speaker 1: data like complete gorilla filmmaking, but you can tell some
Speaker 1: of those extras are like what the fund is this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's definitely a scene where they come into I think
Speaker 1: the club Nick got them to the first inner and
Speaker 1: kind of the light is really bright on people's faces
Speaker 1: and they're all looking at Yeah, I'm sure this camera
Speaker 1: crew comes into the club. You're driving a party with
Speaker 1: those four Peter. Yes. It's funny though, because with I
Speaker 1: don't know, with some clubs, some of that stuff might
Speaker 1: be like you got a club in New York City
Speaker 1: and someone was dressed like that, They're probably like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: look at that cool cost playing club club goer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons they chose Um because they
Speaker 1: were debating on where they're going to set a TV show.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons they chose New York is specifically
Speaker 1: Staten Island because they can be out of place there,
Speaker 1: but Manhattan so good. It's a great recurring joke. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited Mark Hamilson be in season two crash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, yes, amazing, Yes, very excited. Um, I
Speaker 1: did want to put in here. There is an end
Speaker 1: credit scene that most people don't know about. I saw
Speaker 1: it because I had a feeling. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let this run. The credits aren't very long, so
Speaker 1: I don't think I never would have imagined it had one,
Speaker 1: but I think I just sort of stumbled on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was Deacon. Yes, right, he's trying to hypnotize you
Speaker 1: that you've never seen it before, right right, right, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: because that was kind of one of the funny jokes
Speaker 1: they would do. Even when Nick early On was introducing
Speaker 1: Stu and he's standing there with him, he just sort
Speaker 1: of temporarily hypnotizes him so he can talk about him,
Speaker 1: and then you know, it goes right back I was
Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah, yeah, and none of them are great
Speaker 1: at hypnotizing, which is also really funny. Yeah, they're just
Speaker 1: not good vampires. That hilarious part of it. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: couldn't be, even the one that, even Jermaine that was
Speaker 1: once so powerful, you know, he's he's losing his edge,
Speaker 1: which can be mine for lots of comedy. I want
Speaker 1: to see the whole his whole Facebook. He seems like
Speaker 1: he's really into the internet. He's not. He's on Facebook.
Speaker 1: I want to know he's up to absolutely see it
Speaker 1: in the digital world. So great, you got anything else? No?
Speaker 1: I mean I could keep going, but I think we
Speaker 1: hit the high point. Yeah, so great. If you haven't
Speaker 1: seen what we do in the Shadows, check out the movie.
Speaker 1: I saw some people because I announced this is coming soon,
Speaker 1: A couple of people were like, oh, that's a movie.
Speaker 1: I just I watched the TV show really oh man like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to treat yourself. Yes, that's awesome, and the
Speaker 1: other way around. If you haven't seen the TV show, Yes,
Speaker 1: get into it. Yeah it's excellent. I went into it
Speaker 1: nervous that could because it's ten episodes and like, how
Speaker 1: are they going to maintain? They do? They really succeeded.
Speaker 1: It's sharp, it's quick. Yeah, it's the Office meets, you know,
Speaker 1: Oh and yeah and Rice. People will love Colin Robinson
Speaker 1: the Energy Vampire because we can all relate to Ye.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Yes, I can't wait to Uh, I
Speaker 1: can't remember if I don't know if it was the
Speaker 1: first three. Maybe I'll watched the first three. Surely they
Speaker 1: had I feel like three on a plane because I
Speaker 1: think the third one, the third or fourth one, is
Speaker 1: the hat one the first one, which so you're you're
Speaker 1: you're near three or four. I would love to hear
Speaker 1: your thoughts when you get to when these characters show
Speaker 1: up at the show. I can't wait. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get back into it. Okay, So watch the TV show.
Speaker 1: Check out Redneck Vampire on YouTube. Everyone. There's a trailer
Speaker 1: that I put together and then I kind of just
Speaker 1: served as the straight man slash actor improviser. Um, my
Speaker 1: friend Mike Is who really like put the project together
Speaker 1: and edited it and everything, and we kind of ran
Speaker 1: out of time. We wanted to make it a full,
Speaker 1: like ninety minute thing, but we did this over the
Speaker 1: course of a couple of years, you know the deal. Yeah, certainly. Uh,
Speaker 1: and so he ended up just kind of cobbling together
Speaker 1: like a forty five minute thing. So it doesn't have
Speaker 1: the the full arcs and storylines that we really wanted,
Speaker 1: but it was fun. The heart of it's there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the heart of it. I can't wait to check ye
Speaker 1: check it out. So thank you Annie, Um, I know
Speaker 1: you've claimed a couple of movies I have. I'm just
Speaker 1: I came on one and I'm already asserting my my request. No,
Speaker 1: that's great. You just put your flag in whatever movie
Speaker 1: you want and we'll just reserve it. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know you claimed Empire strikes back barring like George Lucas
Speaker 1: want him to come on, I will understand. I will
Speaker 1: allow if someone cooler comes on wants to talk about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mark Camill said, I want to talk about Empire. Well,
Speaker 1: as long as I get to sit in on that, yes,
Speaker 1: I will be quiet, just an observer. No, you could
Speaker 1: come in that, um to ever tell you about when
Speaker 1: I saw him at by accident at Dragon Con or
Speaker 1: at at Comic Con. We were at the San Diego
Speaker 1: Comic Con, Josh and I and a golf cart pulls
Speaker 1: up and Stanley was in the front seat, and I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, oh my god, Stanley and I put
Speaker 1: my camera up and took a quick picture and was
Speaker 1: showing people, and they went, dude, Mark Camill's in the
Speaker 1: back seat, and I zoomed in and sure enough it
Speaker 1: was Stanley and Mark Hamill in a golf cart to together. Like,
Speaker 1: this is like comic comic con magic, and I was
Speaker 1: lucky enough to witness it, and they're just being dropped
Speaker 1: off at the same auditorium. But I'm like, man, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of stower and that very powerful. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: send that to you please. All Right, everyone, thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and thank you Annie, and we'll see you back sometime
Speaker 1: in a month or so. All right. Movie Crushes produced, edited,
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