Speaker 1: Hey, there're folks. It is Tuesday, October the twenty eight.
Speaker 1: We are in our top five on our horror hit list.
Speaker 1: Today's movie is number four. It is a classic. It
Speaker 1: is scary, it is goofy, it is silly, it is gross,
Speaker 1: and it's PG thirteen. Welcome to this episode of Amy
Speaker 1: and TJ as we continue our deep cuts giving you
Speaker 1: our countdown to some of the best horror movies. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've never heard of Roll. This is absolutely one of
Speaker 1: our most endearing yes horror movies and it's PG thirteen.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it's PG thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And honestly, we've rewatched it, and I am standing
Speaker 3: by that statement.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it's PG thirteen. I'm shocked by it.
Speaker 3: This thing is scary and it's fun, and those two
Speaker 3: things don't always go together because it's never deliberately campy
Speaker 3: or ridiculous. It's just good entertainment and it's just scary
Speaker 3: enough that you keep going back to it.
Speaker 1: We have been watching this movie for years and years
Speaker 1: and years and years and years, and we did not
Speaker 1: realize it was PG thirteen until we started putting this together.
Speaker 1: So yesterday essentially, and I said it to you, and
Speaker 1: you said, what the hell? Because we have you announced.
Speaker 1: Very early on we started doing this list. TJ completely
Speaker 1: checks out. If you tell him a movie is PG thirteen,
Speaker 1: he will not watch a PG thirteen horror movie. And
Speaker 1: here we are.
Speaker 2: Here, we are two in our top five.
Speaker 4: I'm embarrassed, all right.
Speaker 3: So number four is Drag Me to Hell. And I
Speaker 3: have to tell you. When this first came out, the
Speaker 3: name of it turned me off. I thought this is
Speaker 3: going to be stupid. I thought it was going to
Speaker 3: be over the top, ridiculous, not anything I'd want to watch.
Speaker 2: This movie is amazing. It just I think it nails
Speaker 2: it in.
Speaker 3: Terms of course how scary it is, how fun it is,
Speaker 3: how entertaining it is, how much I love the main characters,
Speaker 3: and of course we love us some justin long long.
Speaker 1: This one came out in May of two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: It's an hour and thirty nine minutes again, this one
Speaker 1: PG thirteen, But it is strictly in that horror genre.
Speaker 4: So what is this one about?
Speaker 3: Christine Brown has a loving boyfriend and a good job
Speaker 3: at an LA bank. Her heavenly life becomes hellish when,
Speaker 3: in an effort to impress her boss, she denies an
Speaker 3: old woman's request for an extension on her home loan.
Speaker 3: In retaliation, the crone places a curse on Christine, threatening
Speaker 3: her soul with eternal damnation. Christine seeks a psychic's help
Speaker 3: to break the curse, but the price to save her
Speaker 3: soul may be more than she can pay. This movie
Speaker 3: is so damn good. It changed how I feel in
Speaker 3: a park garage. It changed how I feel about even
Speaker 3: turning someone down or upsetting someone. And you and I
Speaker 3: actually had a moment in our relationship that was a
Speaker 3: game changer based on this movie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yes, I remember. There are some things in
Speaker 1: references you can make in your life that are so
Speaker 1: subtle that they are only a handful of people anywhere
Speaker 1: that would get it. And I, yes made a reference
Speaker 1: and you completely. I didn't have to explain anything. And
Speaker 1: when you all see this movie, you will understand what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. There is an opening scene that will
Speaker 1: stay with you that essentially sets up the entire movie.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're talking about. This one rolls I
Speaker 1: did not realize did this well at the box office
Speaker 1: forty two million dollars domestically another forty eight point seven
Speaker 1: million Internationally. This thing made ninety one million dollars on
Speaker 1: a reportedly thirty million dollar budget. Wow, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a hit of a movie.
Speaker 2: And in two thousand and nine too.
Speaker 3: I don't know how Look, obviously, horror movies have been
Speaker 3: around since as long as I can remember, right, But
Speaker 3: I do feel like this type of horror movie this
Speaker 3: was unique at that time. I think people are now directors, producers,
Speaker 3: writers understanding the multifaceted genres that horror can take, including
Speaker 3: entertaining and being kind of funny or this. I felt
Speaker 3: like it was almost ahead of its time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was over the top at times to
Speaker 1: a way that you still appreciate it and you seem
Speaker 1: to be in on the gag as long. Now, of
Speaker 1: course we talked about our guy, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: we have to go back into account of how many
Speaker 1: movies justin Long is in in our top thirty.
Speaker 2: I had that same thought.
Speaker 1: I had no idea that he was in as many
Speaker 1: that we love asiot.
Speaker 3: We weren't using that as a factor, But it turns
Speaker 3: out it could have been an algorithm.
Speaker 1: But he is once again, and you know what he is.
Speaker 1: We anytime we were discussing this. Anytime we see Justin
Speaker 1: Long and he's not the boy next door being a
Speaker 1: little self deprecating, being the charming guy, it upsets us.
Speaker 4: He is all of that in this one.
Speaker 3: He's like the Knight, the Knight in shining armor who
Speaker 3: comes to the rescue and you're just so rooting for
Speaker 3: him and them. Alison Lohman, I don't know if you
Speaker 3: know her name, but you definitely know her face. She's
Speaker 3: the the Angenu. She's the female lead in this and
Speaker 3: the girlfriend to Justin Long, the director of Sam Raimi
Speaker 3: and Rotten Tomato score?
Speaker 1: Is this the biggest disparity I think on our list
Speaker 1: in terms of critics versus audience score?
Speaker 2: I am shocked by this.
Speaker 3: I would have thought that the Rotten Tomato score, what
Speaker 3: we're going to read to you would be flipped in
Speaker 3: the direction that it is. So. The critics gave this
Speaker 3: a ninety two percent on Rotten Tomatoes. That's about as
Speaker 3: good as it gets. Audience score sixty two percent. Why
Speaker 3: did there there was some group of people get together
Speaker 3: to try and bring this score down. I don't understand.
Speaker 2: How could you what this is such a.
Speaker 3: Great audience pleaser That's why I could see how the
Speaker 3: critics might not have taken it as seriously, or maybe
Speaker 3: took it too seriously.
Speaker 2: So I'm shocked.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts in reading through it? A lot
Speaker 1: of folks, and I find this and I stop including
Speaker 1: a lot of negative reviews because so many of them
Speaker 1: are seem personal and contrariant, like my only reaction. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the thing is to just oppose and to be outraged,
Speaker 1: and so it's not even a good criticism. It just
Speaker 1: I don't know why people are so crazy about this movie.
Speaker 1: You almost be crazy. You got caught like just attacking
Speaker 1: people for liking it. You know, that's not that's not
Speaker 1: a criategic criticism. But the critics, at least their consensus
Speaker 1: on this one is Sam Raimi. Now, the director, Sam
Speaker 1: Raimi actually mentioned he has some big credits to his name,
Speaker 1: Evil Dead, a couple of Evil Dead movies. He did
Speaker 1: a couple of Spider Man movies. This is a big
Speaker 1: time director that knows what he's doing. But the critic consensus.
Speaker 1: Sam Raimi returns to top form with Drag Me to Hell,
Speaker 1: a frightening, hilarious, delightfully can't be throwright.
Speaker 4: That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 3: I agree with that, and we have some critic reviews,
Speaker 3: and again ninety two percent did really really well. Drag
Speaker 3: Me to Hell is sometimes funny and often startling horror movie.
Speaker 2: That is what it wants to be, and that is
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 4: It does.
Speaker 1: It throws you off, like you're yelling at the screen
Speaker 1: what they have to do that. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: those in This.
Speaker 3: Movie stands as the latest in a line of occasional,
Speaker 3: much needed reminders that the horror genre isn't going completely
Speaker 3: downhill anytime soon.
Speaker 4: That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1: Yep, the next one here a gooey, frenetic, raucous and
Speaker 1: mind meltingly clever delight. That's a that's okay, very descriptive,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of right. It is frenetic. This fabulously
Speaker 1: compacked little morality tale is the most fun you'll ever have.
Speaker 1: Analyzing our economic collapse, yeah, that comes into it as well,
Speaker 1: But the morality part of it, you do ask yourselves
Speaker 1: some questions. Good people getting caught up and sometimes in
Speaker 1: their own world and their own ambitions, and you leave
Speaker 1: some of your morals at the door. And it does
Speaker 1: have some of those questions.
Speaker 3: I do agree, you do ask yourself what would I
Speaker 3: have done? She's trying in the storyline, she's trying to
Speaker 3: get a big raise at her bank, and so she's
Speaker 3: basically incentivized, or she assumes she's being incentivized to turn
Speaker 3: down risky loans basically.
Speaker 2: So, Yes, there is a.
Speaker 3: Big moral dilemma in the central part of this story.
Speaker 1: She goes against what she knows to be the right
Speaker 1: thing for the sake of career. Yes, and hey, who
Speaker 1: hasn't had some question or something like it?
Speaker 4: Does? It's a core moral question.
Speaker 3: It's almost as if she unknowingly made a deal with
Speaker 3: the devil. Yes, Drag me to Hell is the most
Speaker 3: fun you'll have being scared for a long time.
Speaker 2: Agreed, That is a really good way to put it.
Speaker 4: The next one is good.
Speaker 3: Not only is it genuinely scary, it's also outrageously funny,
Speaker 3: and for once, it's intentional.
Speaker 1: Put it this negative one here, this next one. I
Speaker 1: just threw this in here for you because I knew
Speaker 1: you'd like it. It's background mythology is both totally ridiculous
Speaker 1: and almost impossible to understand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously demonology isn't some serious scientific cause like we
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, an old woman who wants a loan puts
Speaker 1: a curse on the young loan officer, and you want
Speaker 1: an understanding of the background mythology.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's someone who doesn't watch enough horror movies.
Speaker 1: Hey, you do your thing. Some of the audience reviews
Speaker 1: we'll get into here. A lighthearted take on horror that
Speaker 1: hits the features of the genre and has a few
Speaker 1: camp moments that make it an homage to horror films.
Speaker 2: That's so true.
Speaker 3: Great half half horror, thriller, dark comedy, must watch. Just
Speaker 3: keep your keep an open mind. Basically, yes, a.
Speaker 1: Nothing one said, it's so messed up and I absolutely
Speaker 1: love it. Another one here, extremely comedic and extremely scary
Speaker 1: at the same time. But then this last one here,
Speaker 1: you could take this negative one. I just want to
Speaker 1: throw in there again. I can't make a lot of
Speaker 1: sense out of the negative one.
Speaker 3: Silly, completely unhinged, disgusting, bad special effects.
Speaker 2: In short, a lot of fun if you're in the
Speaker 2: right mood.
Speaker 1: What I mean, all of those for us, silly check,
Speaker 1: completely unhinged, check disgusting, check bad special effeense. Those are
Speaker 1: all in the pro column for us.
Speaker 2: Yes, right. They did it on purpose. It is so deliberate, but.
Speaker 3: It is a lot of fun if you're in and
Speaker 3: it's hard to not be in the right mood.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I would say you could watch this.
Speaker 3: Movie going into any mood you're in, and you will
Speaker 3: come out in a better mood.
Speaker 1: That is a very good This is a if there
Speaker 1: ever is one. This is a mood boosting horror film.
Speaker 3: There is a reason why I cannot count how many times, personally, individually,
Speaker 3: on my own I have turned this movie on and
Speaker 3: it immediately puts you in a lighthearted mood. You laugh
Speaker 3: and are scared at the same time, and genuinely scary
Speaker 3: like genuinely scary like.
Speaker 4: But you know what we have to say, and we'll
Speaker 4: get into this a little more. But we have to say.
Speaker 1: Scary without being violent and gory, hence the PG thirteen.
Speaker 1: So exactly who is this movie made for, who is
Speaker 1: it not for? And why it made our list. We'll
Speaker 1: get into all that when we come back. And I
Speaker 1: know the moment you all are anticipating most Robock puts
Speaker 1: all of a heart and soul into coming up with
Speaker 1: a food and drink pairing for all of our movies.
Speaker 1: What goes with a movie called Drag Me the Hell?
Speaker 3: Stay here, welcome back, as we talk about number four
Speaker 3: on our Halloween Horror hit list, drag Me to Hell.
Speaker 3: But it is a fun ride on your way down.
Speaker 3: We love this movie why it made our list. It's
Speaker 3: just an unforgettably good time that we revisit and have
Speaker 3: continued to over the years. It's never a bad time
Speaker 3: to put this movie on. The opening scene, basically where
Speaker 3: everything goes wrong for this young woman in the movie,
Speaker 3: is just so damn good. Again, the parking garage scene
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite scenes ever in a horror movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, the bank scene, at the open, there's a funeral scene.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: to this movie, and you're right, roes it. This is
Speaker 1: a even the parts that are uncomfortable or meant to
Speaker 1: be scary, you still find yourself almost laughing at the joke.
Speaker 4: But oh, come on.
Speaker 2: You've gotta smile on your face while you're horrified.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 1: And the woman, there's an older lady that plays central
Speaker 1: to this even in death. She's funny. She plays such
Speaker 1: a central role in getting you to react.
Speaker 2: Even is it missus Goodush? Is that her name? I
Speaker 2: believe missus Goodness.
Speaker 4: It's her. Everything about her is just perfect.
Speaker 1: So again another reason it's on our list, even though
Speaker 1: we didn't think about it, it does when we see
Speaker 1: justin Long, we are put at ease about whether or
Speaker 1: not this is going to be a good film. We
Speaker 1: know we're in good hounds, but also we know at
Speaker 1: this point he doesn't do a lot of bullshit now
Speaker 1: like he does quality. You can argue about jeepers, creepers
Speaker 1: or whatever else. It's not Oscar worthy stuff, but these
Speaker 1: are quality horror movies and some even are cult classics.
Speaker 2: Correct. All right, So who's this for?
Speaker 3: Anyone who is looking for fun, anyone who's looking to
Speaker 3: have a good, entertaining and scary movie. I really think
Speaker 3: this is the movie that has it all. There's something
Speaker 3: in it for everyone.
Speaker 1: I agree, and this is a can we recommend this
Speaker 1: one for Kisses pg. Thirteen But I wouldn't be worried.
Speaker 1: You know, it has a lot of the almost Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: type grossness.
Speaker 2: I would also make sense.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, there is that one hundred percent, but there's
Speaker 3: also the only thing I would caution about younger kids
Speaker 3: is that there is there is some scary enough imagery
Speaker 3: that it would stay with you, like in terms of
Speaker 3: a nightmare, like seeing some of what you see in
Speaker 3: that movie is a little scary. But you know, I
Speaker 3: mean my kids are watching horror movies starting at eight,
Speaker 3: so they were fine with this, but I would.
Speaker 2: Just there it is scary, like it's scared me.
Speaker 1: And there's a witchcraft element that could creep some folks,
Speaker 1: some adults.
Speaker 3: Out, yes, so and who it's not for if if
Speaker 3: you want some traditional horror movie, if you don't want
Speaker 3: to if you just want to be scared, uncomfortable and
Speaker 3: uneasy and you don't want to laugh, which seems weird
Speaker 3: to me because I love doing both.
Speaker 2: It's nice when you can do both.
Speaker 3: But if you're looking for a traditional horror movie, this
Speaker 3: might not be for you.
Speaker 4: Go ah, have right.
Speaker 1: I don't think this one's classified as a horror comedy.
Speaker 2: I think it's just a horror.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it does have camping moment, but it's not
Speaker 1: meant to be a goofy, throat away silly even throw
Speaker 1: away cliche lines are necessarily throughout this movie.
Speaker 2: It's it hits the right note, it really does.
Speaker 3: I have not met anyone who doesn't love this movie,
Speaker 3: so it's hard for I can't think of who it
Speaker 3: wouldn't be for like truly.
Speaker 1: As long as you are open minded and accept it
Speaker 1: for what it is. It is a fun rise start
Speaker 1: to finish, and it is a fun horror movie that's
Speaker 1: not meant to be funny, but it is fun.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly all right, food drink pairing.
Speaker 3: Obviously, this is a great movie to watch in a
Speaker 3: party with a party with a group, but I also
Speaker 3: think you can watch it by yourself. I have watched
Speaker 3: it in group settings with you, just the two of us,
Speaker 3: and certainly on my own, and I've enjoyed it each
Speaker 3: and every time for different reasons.
Speaker 2: Now, what's a parrot with duh? There is?
Speaker 3: We talked about all of the wonderful scenes in this movie.
Speaker 3: One of my favorites that we haven't mentioned yet is
Speaker 3: her meeting her potential future in laws. What does she
Speaker 3: bring the harvest cake? And it plays a role at
Speaker 3: the family dinner? And what is a harvest cake? So
Speaker 3: some folks who have actually had dragged Me to Hell
Speaker 3: parties have talked about putting together the harvest cake it's
Speaker 3: a rustic style cake filled with fruit and nuts.
Speaker 4: Rustic cakes, so.
Speaker 2: You can add like an apple cake.
Speaker 3: Bas you can add pecans and cranberries, but you can
Speaker 3: really make it your own with walnuts and currants, chopped
Speaker 3: up dried figs. What can personalize it. But it's an
Speaker 3: autumnal cake. It's called a harvest cake. You don't remember
Speaker 3: the scene when she brings the cake.
Speaker 4: Or the seams.
Speaker 1: I'm back on a cultural issue now. I have never
Speaker 1: heard of a harvest cake. And the ingredients you described,
Speaker 1: I've never had in one cake before you said pecans
Speaker 1: and cranberries.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And it's like an apple cake basically, and
Speaker 3: you can put some dried fruits and nuts in it.
Speaker 3: It's basically what people would put together with whatever they
Speaker 3: had left over from the harvest and put it in
Speaker 3: a like an apple based cake.
Speaker 4: What's the Christmas cake? Fruitcake?
Speaker 3: Thinking about similar different, I mean, it's a it's a variant,
Speaker 3: but it's a it's an apple cake bas as much better.
Speaker 3: But yes, she brings it much to the discuss of
Speaker 3: her potential future mother.
Speaker 4: I learned so much from you.
Speaker 3: But it's a central part in the movie. So if
Speaker 3: you watch the movie and you have the cake. It
Speaker 3: would be a fun pairing.
Speaker 4: Are the raisins in there as well?
Speaker 3: You can put them in there if you choose. I'm
Speaker 3: not a big fan of raisins other than I do
Speaker 3: like a carrot cake. You know that's kind of a
Speaker 3: version of an autumnal cake.
Speaker 4: A carrot cake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It's a Yes, a carrot cake is a similar part
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 4: Okay, this was not supposed to be a big part.
Speaker 4: Please continue.
Speaker 2: No, So where do you watch Drag Me to Hell?
Speaker 2: Right now? You can find it?
Speaker 4: What you're done with the food picke just the harvest cake?
Speaker 2: What do you drink the harvest cake?
Speaker 3: Uh? You could do a mold like you do, like
Speaker 3: like a mold wine or an apple cider drink.
Speaker 2: Yes, keep it with the theme.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: What would you watch with Drag Me to Hell?
Speaker 1: None of that stuff because it was never in my
Speaker 1: household growing up. I'm not familiar with mold mold wine. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's so good, given from right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mold wine is is a German tradition in October
Speaker 3: Fest alongside some beer. So you could add some fun
Speaker 3: beer to it as well. Okay, you want to move
Speaker 3: on to where you can watch it. Yes, okay, we
Speaker 3: can watch it on HBO Max or on Peacock, so
Speaker 3: two different options for you.
Speaker 2: And of course this is one that I prefer. I
Speaker 2: think we should purchase this.
Speaker 4: You know, I.
Speaker 1: Highly, highly highly recommend all the ones in our top five.
Speaker 1: But I love that we are actually presenting something that's
Speaker 1: not so.
Speaker 4: They're not.
Speaker 1: No brainers, right, there's like disagreement on the one that
Speaker 1: we love. I like that they called a little debate,
Speaker 1: but I like that we are actually picked some that
Speaker 1: are really good, not so obvious movies.
Speaker 3: Yes, and this one is one of our all time favorites.
Speaker 3: We hope you love it as much as we do
Speaker 3: our next movie it'll be number three on the list.
Speaker 3: We've been watching this in the background and actually watched
Speaker 3: it through. It's the shortest movie on our list and
Speaker 3: one of the best. And you said this is going
Speaker 3: to be so good. You actually asked me not to
Speaker 3: read all of the prep material you did for this one.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: I learned so much about this and this one, including
Speaker 1: why the performances from these actors are as real and
Speaker 1: authentic as they seem to be, and also this movie
Speaker 1: out of the top five. This is the only other
Speaker 1: one I think Robes that's not number one that I
Speaker 1: would make a legitimate argument for being number one. This
Speaker 1: one I could make an argument. Hmm, maybe this should
Speaker 1: have been at the top. This is a special movie.
Speaker 2: It really is, all right. And with that, thank you
Speaker 2: for listening everyone. I'm Ade Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We
Speaker 2: will be talking to you soon.