Speaker 1: It is Thursday, October second. Welcome everyone to this episode
Speaker 1: of Amy and TJ. This is a big episode for
Speaker 1: us because this is our first, I guess, first entrance
Speaker 1: into our list leading up to Halloween for our favorite
Speaker 1: Halloween movies that you might not have heard of or
Speaker 1: you might not have watched. We didn't want to do
Speaker 1: a countdown a series of our favorite horror movies that
Speaker 1: most people have watched. We were trying to find some
Speaker 1: movies that maybe you've looked at, you've passed by, you thought,
Speaker 1: I wonder what that is, and these are some of
Speaker 1: the best of the best to get you right into
Speaker 1: the Halloween spirit. We were trying to come up with
Speaker 1: a name for our series and I don't know, Teach,
Speaker 1: you weren't so into it.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, yeah, we're trying too hard. It was that
Speaker 2: didn't like it.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so we went. So we went. It was
Speaker 1: all women against one man full disclosure. But I happened
Speaker 1: to just say we're kind of going into the deep
Speaker 1: cuts of horror, and our producer Amy Sugarman was like,
Speaker 1: I love it. You get it the double on Tandra
Speaker 1: deep cuts cuts like cuts like a knife, and I
Speaker 1: loved it. She loved it. We all loved it. On
Speaker 1: the phone, the couple like, how many women were on
Speaker 1: the phone five You were like, eh, yeah, but anyway
Speaker 1: you lost I lost. It's called deep Cuts. The Amy
Speaker 1: and DJ's countdown to the best Halloween horror movies you
Speaker 1: might not have seen.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what where she lost me? Amy Sugarman
Speaker 2: lost me when she when she said get it. Anytime
Speaker 2: somebody says something and he has to said get it
Speaker 2: because it's like that dad, get it, then if you
Speaker 2: have to explain it, then it is probably not have
Speaker 2: the way to go. She lost me?
Speaker 1: All right, Well it's it's called deep cuts, all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so fine, drum roll coming in at number thirty. Hush.
Speaker 2: Now, how many people you think immediately horror movie Hush
Speaker 2: would say, oh yeah, I know that one. Even if
Speaker 2: you're a horror movie fan. Do you think a lot
Speaker 2: of people would know this movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know that many people have seen it, because
Speaker 1: if if you look at what it did in the
Speaker 1: box office, what its budget was, it's one of those
Speaker 1: sleeper hits that if you do see it, you think
Speaker 1: to yourself, where has this been all my life? This
Speaker 1: actually was produced and released in twenty sixteen. It's a
Speaker 1: horror slash drama rated are an hour and twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 1: I love horror movies because they almost always come in
Speaker 1: at under an hour and a half. It's such an easy,
Speaker 1: quick burst of fun. I love it. They're not they
Speaker 1: don't drag out usually.
Speaker 2: You know, it's some of these new ones. I remember
Speaker 2: Ciners for whatever reason, was two hours and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: We were nervous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great movie, obviously great movie. But yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: some of these are. And even sometimes we see ones
Speaker 2: that are our fifteen hour twenty like, oh, perfect perfectly.
Speaker 1: That Justifootball doesn't have an hour and fifteen minutes to
Speaker 1: just take a fun roller coaster ride. That's how I
Speaker 1: look at it. But this actually, this movie, it might
Speaker 1: not be well known, it might not have been widely released,
Speaker 1: but it was highly reviewed ninety one percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1: And as we go through these lists, by the way,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a horror movie for you each day.
Speaker 1: Not all of them are highly reviewed. This one happens
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: And also we should know. I mean I didn't I'm
Speaker 2: looking at this note you put together. I didn't know
Speaker 2: the score there until now this is a rarity for
Speaker 2: horror movies, especially a low budget one, not well known
Speaker 2: some not some big blockbuster. That is an incredible score
Speaker 2: for any movie. Yes, for a horror movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know. I actually felt validated. Oh yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: I don't feel validated. I'm like, what did they Why
Speaker 1: would they say that this one? Actually, the consensus was
Speaker 1: pretty it was pretty uniform.
Speaker 2: The heart. You gotta help me one more time with
Speaker 2: the Rotten Tomatoes saying there's a critics score and an
Speaker 2: audience score.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like a popcorn meter and then there's a
Speaker 1: critics meter.
Speaker 2: So what does that mean When I see a ninety
Speaker 2: one percent rotten?
Speaker 1: To me, that's the critics' Those are the critics. Yes,
Speaker 1: those are the critics. And I often like, if the
Speaker 1: critics score is really low, if I look and see that,
Speaker 1: the I think it's the popcorn meter or the audience
Speaker 1: review is much higher. I know it's probably a movie
Speaker 1: I'm going to like because they were looking at it too,
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, what was the cudamantography? Like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I don't need it to be as high brow as
Speaker 1: sometimes critics were. And sometimes when critics really like a
Speaker 1: horror movie. I'm like, they tried too hard. I'm not
Speaker 1: into it. I want your basic thrills, scares, jump, scares, tension,
Speaker 1: I love all of that, but this one has all
Speaker 1: of that. The budget was just one million, the box
Speaker 1: office thirteen point six million, so hey, they were profitable. Yep.
Speaker 1: And the cast Kate Siegel, she plays Maddie, and then
Speaker 1: John Gallagher Junior plays the man, the serial killer in
Speaker 1: this And actually it was directed by Mike Flanagan, but
Speaker 1: he and Kate Siegel actually wrote it together, I believe.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're still together, but they were together.
Speaker 1: So it was again a low budget kind of indie film,
Speaker 1: but my god, is it good. So we've got the
Speaker 1: synopsis for you. A deaf writer who retreated into the
Speaker 1: woods to live a solitary life must now fight for
Speaker 1: her life in silence when a masked killer appears in
Speaker 1: her window.
Speaker 2: Now that's I mean, that description is what it is.
Speaker 2: But folks, what you're seeing is a bizarre The whole
Speaker 2: time is a very tense cat and mouse game because
Speaker 2: you know that the woman can't hear anything happening around here,
Speaker 2: but you are the one who can't so you're screaming
Speaker 2: at the television or the movie screen at a woman
Speaker 2: who obviously can't hear you because it's just a movie.
Speaker 2: But then she can't hear you because she can't.
Speaker 1: Hear It's so funny you just said that, because I
Speaker 1: wrote we have a yat made the list, and what
Speaker 1: I wrote out almost directly actually mimics what you just said.
Speaker 1: I wrote it has all the elements of a great
Speaker 1: Cabin in the Woods thriller, complete with jump scares. You
Speaker 1: find yourself, I said, screaming at the TV because she
Speaker 1: can't the main character can't hear what's going on, but
Speaker 1: you can. You can hear it, you can see it,
Speaker 1: and you can see what the main character can't. And
Speaker 1: so it's so good at Bill creating and building real
Speaker 1: tension that continues throughout the entire movie. I would say,
Speaker 1: when I watched this movie, I could feel the tension
Speaker 1: in my body. And I believe I have seen this
Speaker 1: movie at least five times.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, at least. So we had it on again
Speaker 2: yesterday the past couple days and watching it again. And
Speaker 2: another cool element they have is that they actually put
Speaker 2: you in. They give you these little moments of experiencing
Speaker 2: what she's experiencing. By turning down the volume in the
Speaker 2: middle of the movie while something still action is going on,
Speaker 2: you get no audio, so you see and you feel
Speaker 2: what she's kind of experiencing. And even that we talked
Speaker 2: about this in the previous episode and setting this up
Speaker 2: in the classics, and while we love horror movies, you're
Speaker 2: immersed like this is an immersive experience, I would say,
Speaker 2: because those notes, you can see it, you can hear it,
Speaker 2: but then what you can't hear comes a part of
Speaker 2: the outport and the drama as well.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen a movie like this. They took the
Speaker 1: genre of Cabin in the Woods and this massed serial
Speaker 1: killer coming after you, and they upped it with that
Speaker 1: element of it. I thought it was really really cool
Speaker 1: cool the critics, this is the consensus. Rotten Tomatoes has
Speaker 1: like a critics consensus, and I loved what they said.
Speaker 1: Hush navigates the bloody waters of home invasion thrillers and
Speaker 1: incisive slashers for a contemporary horror puree. I thought that
Speaker 1: was so well written, and so that is why it
Speaker 1: made the list, because this is for us, It's become
Speaker 1: a classic. Twenty sixteen. I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: say it's a classic, but this is one of our
Speaker 1: go to horror movies when we don't know what to
Speaker 1: put on and we want to have a certain feel.
Speaker 1: But it's just this, It gives you this, this excitement.
Speaker 1: I love this movie. Nikki, my best friend, this is
Speaker 1: her favorite horror movie. She this is like her go
Speaker 1: to number one favorite horror movie that a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know about it, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, now that takes away from it a little bit
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: She plays it so much. I'm like, Nicky, we cannot watch,
Speaker 1: we cannot watch. Hush again, You're funny.
Speaker 2: Haha, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: So we also want to go through and talk about
Speaker 1: who it's for, because not all horror movies are for everyone.
Speaker 1: Like certain ones you might not like certain ones you do.
Speaker 1: So this is who I think. We think this movie
Speaker 1: is for someone who loves being on the edge of
Speaker 1: their seats, anyone who likes that masked serial killer. This
Speaker 1: is a scenario that it feels like could happen in
Speaker 1: real life. So therefore it makes it extra scary, you know,
Speaker 1: because this is something that you could see any Honestly,
Speaker 1: the mask itself is unique. I haven't seen a mask
Speaker 1: like this one. It almost looks human like. You can
Speaker 1: see his expressions through the It's a white.
Speaker 2: Mask, and it's not by design scary. It's by use scary, right,
Speaker 2: It's not just as like a scary face there is
Speaker 2: just looks so plain and emotionless. As you see this
Speaker 2: guy doing some really horrific stuff, the face doesn't change
Speaker 2: from this emotionless, blank thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm not We're not going to give away any
Speaker 1: of the plots or any of the twists in any
Speaker 1: of these movies, but I will say one of the
Speaker 1: scariest moments for me is when she is trying to
Speaker 1: communicate with him through the window, saying you can leave.
Speaker 1: I can't see your face, you know, so you can leave,
Speaker 1: And she's riding it on the window, I believe, with lipstick,
Speaker 1: and he then looks at her and takes off the
Speaker 1: mask slowly. For me, that was one of the scariest moments.
Speaker 2: Okay, that will be the last thing we give away,
Speaker 2: is what she meant to say.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not saying or who dies or any of that,
Speaker 1: because the deaths are pretty spectacular, but that was.
Speaker 2: A wonderful high tension moment just ruined it for everybody.
Speaker 2: Nobody's going to listen to the rest of our episode
Speaker 2: if we're just gonna get.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the last time. But I just would like
Speaker 1: to give you the idea of just how well this
Speaker 1: movie is. Crapper they know, they know how to scare
Speaker 1: that crap out of you. This one is just so scary.
Speaker 1: So who is this movie not for? What do you think, TJ?
Speaker 2: There is limited Gore's there's a couple of bad killings,
Speaker 2: a little violence, but in terms of horror movies, this
Speaker 2: one is not on the on the higher end, I
Speaker 2: guess of that type of violence. I think this is
Speaker 2: for folks who I think this is a nice dip
Speaker 2: into the water of people who want who like horror movies,
Speaker 2: not quite convinced of them, who are convinced that they
Speaker 2: are a certain thing or a certain way. This is
Speaker 2: a nice balance between a drama, a thriller, and a
Speaker 2: slasher because most of the time there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of dialogue. The moment is deaf, so there's just so
Speaker 2: much suspense in drama that's built up instead of just
Speaker 2: raw violence and attacking and death. I think this is
Speaker 2: one for folks who who don't want the gore, but
Speaker 2: you want the thrills, you want the scare, you want
Speaker 2: to be on the edge of your seat. This is
Speaker 2: a good stepping stone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horror, that's a really good way to put it.
Speaker 1: This is a good entry movie. Like if you have
Speaker 1: dipped your toes in horror, you think you might not
Speaker 1: like it, This is a really good one. If you
Speaker 1: don't like all of that blood guts, I really that's
Speaker 1: a because you still get some killings which are fun
Speaker 1: and a little gory, but it's not too much. I
Speaker 1: definitely get turned off by too much blood and guts
Speaker 1: unless it's completely campy and it's funny. If it's not
Speaker 1: that I get, I don't like a lot of that.
Speaker 1: So this is actually perfect if you just like a
Speaker 1: thriller with a little bit of horror thrown in. I
Speaker 1: think this is a This is a good entry level
Speaker 1: horror movie if you'd like to start seeing if maybe
Speaker 1: this could be something you might like.
Speaker 2: These are masterful and I always give credit to these
Speaker 2: movie makers. There is masterful terror built with silence, doors opening,
Speaker 2: just him walking behind her and she can't hear, but
Speaker 2: we can see what's happening. There are creepy moments like
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, you can't They build tension in this
Speaker 2: movie really really yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like I almost exercised after I see this movie,
Speaker 1: because my whole body is like, oh on the like
Speaker 1: just absolutely flenched. Yes, okay, so when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell you who this movie is not for,
Speaker 1: what mood you should be in, and we actually even
Speaker 1: offer some do's and don'ts with food and snack and
Speaker 1: drink pairings with some of our movies, and we'll tell
Speaker 1: you where you can watch Hush. Welcome back to our
Speaker 1: new series Deep Cuts, TJ's favorite favorite name of the series.
Speaker 2: Ever, It's gonna grow me all right.
Speaker 1: Coming in at number thirty, we are talking about the
Speaker 1: movie Hush, and we told you who should watch this movie,
Speaker 1: what kind of movie it is, and who might like it.
Speaker 1: But we also have some warnings for who this might
Speaker 1: not be for. And here's what I think, and I'll
Speaker 1: get your take too, Babe. I think that if you're
Speaker 1: in a cabin or a home alone in the woods,
Speaker 1: or if you don't own blinds or curtains, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: suggest you watch this movie by yourself.
Speaker 2: This is not for someone in isolation. It's not you shouldn't.
Speaker 2: It'll creep you out. I don't like being alone in
Speaker 2: the woods kind of a thing. I hate that set
Speaker 2: up anyway. But if this will make you, every little
Speaker 2: click you here around the house, every little noise, every
Speaker 2: little wind, you're gonna think something's up. And this is not.
Speaker 2: And again, generally horror movies, I think you should watch
Speaker 2: with someone. This one is specific. You should not be
Speaker 2: alone with this one.
Speaker 1: I agree, because I actually so I have. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anyone has had a home where you feel
Speaker 1: like you're isolated enough that you don't need blinds or curtains,
Speaker 1: which is an amazing thing. But if you have one
Speaker 1: of those setups, I'm telling you this movie is going
Speaker 1: to perpetually freak you out. It will stay with you. You
Speaker 1: will look at night outside and you'll see your own reflection,
Speaker 1: and you'll think, maybe you see a masked man. You
Speaker 1: might see the man. I guess that's what he's called
Speaker 1: in this movie. He's referenced as a serial killer. I
Speaker 1: believe that people who have done deep studies on this
Speaker 1: movie say he had thirteen notches on his crossbow. That
Speaker 1: is his weapon of choice, just in case you needed
Speaker 1: to know. So he's just I guess they don't really
Speaker 1: make specific reference to him, but people who have studied
Speaker 1: the movie believe that he had thirteen kills before he
Speaker 1: went and then tried to and attempts to get in
Speaker 1: and murder Maddie, who is the star of the show.
Speaker 1: And wow, it's just it the tension. It's a cat
Speaker 1: and mouse game. It's so so good. So yes, if
Speaker 1: you're alone, if you don't have blinds or windows, please
Speaker 1: please don't watch this movie. What mood should you be
Speaker 1: in to watch this movie? Because you know, we get
Speaker 1: you know, we have movis we want a horror comedy?
Speaker 1: Do we want a rom com horror? Do we want
Speaker 1: a thriller or a slasher? What mood should you be
Speaker 1: in to watch this one?
Speaker 2: I think this is You should treat it as an event.
Speaker 2: You should treat it as not just something I'm going
Speaker 2: to have on in the background or something on a try.
Speaker 2: You should say, hey, tonight, let's check out this movie.
Speaker 2: We have a plan be here at this time. We're
Speaker 2: going to order this food and get set up to
Speaker 2: pay attention to it. It's that kind of it's an
Speaker 2: event movie, and that you need to turn the lights off,
Speaker 2: You need to cuddle up, you need to have the blanket,
Speaker 2: you need to do all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think you just need to be ready to
Speaker 1: be scared, if you want to be scared, if you
Speaker 1: want to be thrilled, if you want to be in
Speaker 1: that high adrenaline Oh my god, what's going to happen
Speaker 1: next mood? This is your movie? Hush all right, food snack,
Speaker 1: drink pairing. Here's what I think I want to get
Speaker 1: your take. My suggestion would be don't have a drink
Speaker 1: in your hand because there are several jump scares, and
Speaker 1: you have been with me. When I've had a drink
Speaker 1: in my hand and I get scared, I will actually,
Speaker 1: unfortunately toss the drink and it will go everywhere that
Speaker 1: has happened. So that would be one warning for you.
Speaker 1: I also think nothing fizzy and nothing spicy, because you'll
Speaker 1: get acid free flux from the anxiety that's already building
Speaker 1: in your body. You should keep it like simple, have
Speaker 1: a coaster for your drink, drink sparingly, and maybe just
Speaker 1: keep the food to just something nice and easy on
Speaker 1: your stomach.
Speaker 2: Can you eat while watching this movie because some people
Speaker 2: like to dine and watch movie. Even theaters, you can
Speaker 2: get dinner while you're watching a movie. Is this a
Speaker 2: movie you want to be eating? Probably not, okay.
Speaker 1: I actually think you won't want to eat because you'll
Speaker 1: be so nervous the whole time.
Speaker 2: This for me, is a popcorn movie. This is one
Speaker 2: that yes, you can eat, but this is a snack
Speaker 2: movie and enjoy. Obviously popcorn goes with most movies, but
Speaker 2: this is one in particular. You want that. You want
Speaker 2: to be settled, and you want to hang onto every
Speaker 2: single thing that happens because there's a lot of texting.
Speaker 2: You need to read what's happening. You have to feel attention.
Speaker 2: You need to sit down and pay attention to this movie.
Speaker 2: Get everything in front of you gives what you want
Speaker 2: right next to you, use the bathroom, get your favorite throw.
Speaker 1: I love that because you know what, I can't stand
Speaker 1: when people and look we all get into it. But
Speaker 1: I would say, please put your phone down because, like
Speaker 1: you pointed out, you don't have as much dialogue. So
Speaker 1: watching this movie is really important that you're paying attention
Speaker 1: to everything on the screen because you will miss really
Speaker 1: awesome parts about this movie. If you're just trying to listen,
Speaker 1: you know, people kind of are you know, they're they're texting,
Speaker 1: they're looking at Instagram whatever, TikTok, and they're not and
Speaker 1: they're kind of looking up when the action happens. Don't
Speaker 1: do that with this movie. Put the phone down, cuddle
Speaker 1: up with your favorite person and watch and you will enjoy.
Speaker 1: And where can you watch? Amazon Prime? Right now? It
Speaker 1: switched around. It was on Netflix for the longest time
Speaker 1: and then when it went away, and that was like
Speaker 1: my go to to put it on. I was like,
Speaker 1: where did it go? Where did it go? Right now,
Speaker 1: it's on Amazon Prime. We just actually rewatched it again yesterday.
Speaker 2: Well, Prime users, you don't have to purchase it.
Speaker 1: Well no, yeah, but I think you would maybe if
Speaker 1: you're not an Amazon Prime member.
Speaker 2: Okay, but Prime.
Speaker 1: If you are an Amazon Prime member, it's free. It
Speaker 1: comes with your subscription. But there are plenty of other
Speaker 1: places you can purchase it, obviously Apple TV.
Speaker 2: And it's worth it. We are recommending, and it is
Speaker 2: worth it. We are telling you to purchase it if
Speaker 2: you have to.
Speaker 1: Wow, you are telling people to do that because you
Speaker 1: are not a big purchase movie person.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm not purchased. I'm I'm still my sting
Speaker 2: three ninety nine is too much. No, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2: All this stuff streaming, we're going okay, let's not get
Speaker 2: into that. But yes, folks, you need to check this
Speaker 2: one out. We highly recommend it, all right.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to hear what you think about Hush.
Speaker 1: We love it. It's number thirty on our list. We
Speaker 1: will have a movie for you every single day leading
Speaker 1: up to Halloween, just so that you can hopefully enjoy
Speaker 1: these horror movies as much as we have. And with that,
Speaker 1: I made roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. Thanks for listening.