WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Bloodbeat 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:08.080 Hey, Welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. This is Rob 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.520 Lamb and this is Joe McCormick, and we are out 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.400 this week for a holiday break, but we've got some 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.400 great vault episodes for you. This today is going to 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:21.520 be a Weird House Cinema rewind for a for a 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.440 holiday episode from previous years. This is going to be 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:30.080 about blood Beat, the Samurai Christmas slasher film. This episode 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:36.040 originally published on December ten. Uh, enjoy if you can. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.559 You know, there's if this is your type of of 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.640 holiday experience that I think you enjoyed. If it's not 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.040 your thing, yeah, yeah, let's skip this one because this 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.240 week is the rare week where we're doing I think 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.080 two Weird House Cinema rewind So if you're not crazy 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.440 about this selection, well then tune in tomorrow when we 0:00:53.479 --> 0:01:01.080 really run another holiday selection from the previous year. Welcome 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.080 to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of My 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:13.240 Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.319 Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And this is 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.119 Weird House Cinema's second holiday season, but this is gonna 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.600 be the first time we're actually going to be talking 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:28.000 about a holiday film. I don't Robot Jocks is a 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.200 holiday film. Well it Robot Jocks feels like Christmas. And 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.240 we've we've had a few films like that that feel 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.760 like Christmas, but they're not really a Christmas movie. They're 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.160 not set at Christmas. And I mean, and to be clear, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.160 like this movie is not about Christmas, but it is. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.160 It is. It is a film that takes place during 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.680 the holidays. Um. Now, and now I should well wait, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.760 does the does the die hard logic apply? I know 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.200 people like arguing about this on the internet. I've never 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.720 actually gotten into it about that, but yeah, I mean, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.680 I don't have a strong opinion about that, but I 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.840 guess it depends on what the holiday is doing in 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.560 the film, right and um and and I don't even 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.000 care whether people decide to label this that or the 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.840 other a holiday film. But of course you have you 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.000 have films that are very much about the holiday things 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.480 like you know, adaptations of the Christmas Carol, Miracle on 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.280 thirty four Street, all that that kind of stuff, And 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.959 of course those are holiday films. And I should say 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.639 that some of some of my favorite holiday movies are 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.680 are certainly weird and prime contenders for the weird House treatment. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.440 But but I thought we might go with an entry 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:40.680 this week from that surprisingly large subgenre of holiday horror, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.600 with a strong emphasis on Christmas time horror films in 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:49.800 American cinema. You know, I would have assumed, because Halloween 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.800 is one of the most copied movies of all time, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:59.040 that the Christmas horror slasher film arose as one of 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.720 the many how Queen copycats like Friday thirteen. I mean, 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.760 I think that was pretty clearly an inspiration behind Friday 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.040 the thirteenth. It was like, hey, here's a real you know, 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.040 here was a successful movie about a guy with a knife, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.600 and it's named after a day. Let's do another movie 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.040 about a knife wheelder running around named after a day. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.080 So you would think that was true for Christmas films. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:25.840 But actually, the first Christmas slasher film predates Halloween, um 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:27.960 or at least as far as I know, right, because 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.679 Black Christmas came out in nineteen four. Yeah. Yeah, it's 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.800 one of those early days slasher films. I think that's 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.839 considered it sort of almost a proto slasher film things 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.280 were just getting started. Um, I gotta say, I don't 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.520 love it, though, I watched it years ago and just 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.560 found it kind of boring and unpleasant. I much prefer Halloween, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.360 even if it came later. It's it's the real uh, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.960 it's the true progenitor here right in Halloween. It makes 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.760 sense at Halloween, right, And and that's that's when we 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.000 get into the kind of the enigma of the Christmas 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.720 horror film. Um. I think that just the the just 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.960 the idea of it even fascinates me because I have 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.600 a very strong memory of being a child wandering the 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.400 halls of the local VHS rental store and seeing the 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.080 posters and box art for various Christmas horror films, especially 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.400 stuff like Black Christmas and Silent Night Deadly Nine, but 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.840 even stuff like Grimlin's um and seeing that stuff and 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.880 just feeling like, well, this, this is wrong. This these 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.760 films should not be because even though my family made 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.280 a big deal about, uh, you know, about Halloween, we 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.400 did all sorts of Halloween stuff. But then when you know, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.159 we got into Christmas, and as a child especially, you know, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.359 Christmas is a special time and I just I wanted 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.600 it to be this, like, you know, this pure good thing, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.480 and it just felt wrong that there were these movies 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.040 jumping in there and trying to make it grim or nasty. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.520 You know. Oh wow, I don't remember having that feeling 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.160 at all. I definitely remember being both intrigued and actually, 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.960 I think I could be wrong and having this memory, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.039 but I sort of recall finding it humorous, like looking 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.000 at the cover of Silent Night, Deadly Night and seeing 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.720 like the Santa suit arm with the acts and thinking 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.840 that is funny. My my little seven year old brain 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.720 doesn't quite know why it's funny. But I'm prowling through 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.640 the R rated section of the Turtles video or I'm 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.880 probably not supposed to be, and this this is funny. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.760 I wonder if part of it for me anyway, maybe 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.360 for other folks out there, is that at Christmas time, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.760 you know, sort of the typical American holiday season, you 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.719 have this um you know, there's this this increased um 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:41.159 emphasis on the mythology and the fiction of the holiday, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.560 and in this uh, this idea that especially children should 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.760 be allowed and encouraged to believe in it, and even 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.680 past the point where their reason has actually kicked in 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.560 and they're seeing the truth for what it is. And 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:58.400 and so you know, therefore, perhaps these these these obvious 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.360 horror inventions, they kind of mess with it, you know, 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.440 because you're already having this crisis of belief in your 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.320 own little head about the existence of Santa Claus. And 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.560 if Santa Claus is perhaps not real, then then what 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.839 about the baby Jesus? What about the rest of it? 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.800 Is only half of it fake? You know, So you're 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.000 going out, You're having this big crisis of belief, and 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.479 then here's somebody else's is making up this, uh, this 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.560 story about killer Santa's or whatnot. Well, the other way 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.760 to frame it is, when you're seven years old, you 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.400 still believe in Santa Claus. Seeing the concept of a 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.719 horror movie where Santa Claus is wielding a bloody axe 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.360 seems vaguely blasphemous or at least carries some kind of 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.240 blasphemic weight. Yeah, I would definitely say so that that 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.000 was exactly how I felt about these films growing up, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.599 is that these these this just blasphemy. It should not be. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.560 I mean, they didn't try and like you know, destroy 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.000 the boxes or anything, but I was like, Nope, not 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.839 for me. And I have to say, some of these 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.800 films are still not from me. But I've gone back 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.280 and watch some of them, and I appreciate. I mean, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.240 it's the interest thing about it is that it has 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.040 not stopped, and when it will not stop, you're gonna 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:09.880 keep having horror related uh, Christmas movies and holiday films 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.160 coming out. And I I think maybe we've gotten better 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.440 at it because I think we've had maybe an awakening 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.480 in American culture anyway regarding like how are Christmas stories 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.160 and wintertime traditions work? That you know, the realization that 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.880 that the sort of department store Santa Claus vision of 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.520 the holidays is one that was highly sanitized, and it 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.760 had you had things like you know, child eating trolls 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.000 and crampus removed from it. You had you'd removed the 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.800 hostile winter aspects of the of these holiday traditions. And 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.440 so the more that you realize that, yes, this is 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.680 supposed to be a time in which there is darkness 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.040 and the promise of light, uh, it makes more room 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.240 for and in a way almost more honest explorations of 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.040 that and sometimes and I think more fun. You know, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.760 things like what's the Santa Claus monster film Rare Exports 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.280 that came out several years ago. That's a great one. Yeah, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.680 Like like that's that's that's fun. And yeah. Yeah, and 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.559 watching that didn't like trigger any like Childhood Santa Claus 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.800 blasphemy warnings for me. You know, it just felt like 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.320 a fun monster flick. Yeah, I see what you're saying. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.400 And I will say, of that early crop of Christmas 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.320 or you know, any general Solstice horror themed movies, the 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.679 only one I really love is Gremlins. Like Black Christmas, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.240 Silent Silent Night, Deadly Night, all that stuff didn't really 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.319 do it for me. Yeah, I mean, Gremlins has its 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:40.080 own problems, but but at least it was trying on 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.200 the whole to be fun, whereas I think some of 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.560 these earlier films were just kind of like like here 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.920 here it comes nasty Christmas, it comes here, here comes 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.079 your horror Christmas. You like your Christmas? Will how about 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.240 some murder in your Christmas? You know? Um. And I 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.520 think it's just it's progressed as a as an art 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.360 form since those days. And part of that might be that, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:08:59.960 you know, we can look back on those films as 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.120 being kind of like a almost kind of you know, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.440 an anti establishment statement, you know, sort of striking against 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:12.280 the the corporate purity of the traditional American holiday season. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.840 And uh, and I think that's that kind of leads 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.280 into another reason why we keep having these films Because 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.200 on one hand, yes, the darkness has always been a 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.440 part of our winter festivals, and therefore there's a desire 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.120 I think in us to have it in our our 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.280 modern festivities. But on the other end of things, I 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.480 feel like, if if Christmas and the holidays, if it's 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:36.000 all feeling too fake, too purified, too forced upon you, um, 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.000 a Christmas horror film is a way of sort of 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.160 releasing the pressure. It feels like a way to rebalance everything, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.960 you know, a ninety minute hot topic t shirt of 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:52.400 rebellion against norms and society. Yeah, and that's also like 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.840 a huge reason I think that you see the Christmas 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.559 thrown into the movies like this, you know, because the 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:02.600 juxtaposition of Christmas alongside monster or Mayhem, blood or even 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.679 you know, in an action movie situation like die Hard. Um, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.120 you know, it can it can just be a way 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.839 to get a reaction out of the audience and to 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.400 make everything a little more novel. Now. I feel like 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.320 that's especially the case of the more I don't know, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:20.720 irreverent or maybe at least latently satirical Christmas horror films. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.719 I guess it's a kind of different beast altogether. If 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.520 you make a Christmas horror movie that itself take is 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.720 very serious or takes itself very seriously. Well, this brings 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.760 to mind Ridley Scott's Prometheus movie, which had some very 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.839 uh you know, serious minded themes in it that it 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.400 was trying to to bring across and then also had 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.400 Christmas stuff in it, and they seem to be genuinely 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.240 trying to like make a connection there. You know, it's like, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.600 um and maybe trying a bit too hard. I totally 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.600 forgot about Christmas being in there. What what? What's Christmas 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.760 about it? It's just it is Christmas on the spaceship 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.959 and they have like a Christmas tree or something. What 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:04.280 rains this misremembering that I believe that Prometheus is a 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.840 Christmas movie. Let's go to the tape Consus shapes with 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:19.640 high colorion. M hmm, what the hell is that? It's Christmas? 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.000 Need Holidays? So time is still moving. Mission briefing is 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.560 about to start. Captain, I want to make your way down. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.559 Well I haven't had a breakfaste yet, but but we're 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.440 not talking about Prometheus. Today we're talking about a different 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.199 film entirely. We had a number of holiday horror films 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.079 to consider, but we ended up going with the one 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.280 that neither of us had seen before but had built 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:47.160 up something of a reputation for weirdness, and that's Three's 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.839 blood Beat. Where did you find this thing? This? This 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.520 movie is so weird it made my toenails curl. What 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.680 where did you find this? I believe earlier in the year, 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.960 I was looking through just like a database. Maybe it 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.280 was it was on Internet movie database, of course, but 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.360 it might have been something like a Wikipedia. I was 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.240 just looking at different genre films from different decades, and 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.240 I noted that this one had been flagged as being 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.000 a holiday or Christmas movie. Uh. So I was like, okay, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.040 holiday Christmas slasher, I'll put it in and uh, and 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.199 maybe we'll come back to it when we get closer 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.800 to the holidays themselves. And then when I started looking 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:25.960 into a little bit more, I well, I watched the trailer, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.080 which we'll get to and that that kind of sold me. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.480 And uh. And then also Michael Weldon, in one of 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.679 his psychotronic books, he had it listed. He was one 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.920 of the sort of neutral listings where he didn't. He 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.400 didn't passionately promoted, But he also didn't say it was bad. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.440 He just said it was a confusing movie with quote 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.600 dream sequences, magical powers, nudity, and blood. Well, I'd say 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.800 that's a mostly correct description, especially on the confusing part, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.480 because I paid close attention to this film and I 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.040 do not understand what it was about. Yeah, yeah, I 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.240 have a feeling you and I thought longer and harder 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.480 about the meaning, the true meaning of this film, more 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.720 than than most people. But but blood Beat one word, 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.080 by the way, blood Beat, uh has a lot of 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.720 things going for it for starters. It's it's not nearly 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.600 as all in and on holiday sacrilege as most Christmas 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.360 films are. So this one's not about making you feel 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.719 bad about the about the holidays or anything. So I 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.640 don't know, I liked it a little more for that. Uh. Secondly, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.280 it's a Wisconsin movie, and I think that makes for 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:34.640 our first Wisconsin movie. Yeah, this movie has a fair 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.880 quotient of of dub Bears type guys wearing flannel and 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.520 trucker hats and and having uh you know, good mustaches. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.280 It's uh, it's this movie it's it's got bratt Verst 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.000 and uh and you know cheese kurd just kind of 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.880 flowing through its veins and it's enough to make you think, wow, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.000 this must be you know, Wisconsin indie film everybody, and 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.360 it's from Wisconsin. The director, who will get to in 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.720 a bit though, uh is French. But I'm not going 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.160 to allow this to be considered our first French movie 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.320 that we've watched on Weird how Cinema. We've got there 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:10.679 are better choices to to to really represent French weird cinema. Okay, 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.080 so what we've established so far is this is a 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:19.320 Franco Wisconsinite indie Christmas horror film that what subgenre of 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:24.480 horror would you put it in? Maybe? Um, uh, psychic slashers, Yes, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.360 I think psychic slasher would be Uh, it would be 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.160 accurate and uh and I'll tell you another fun thing 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.560 about this is that, in similar to films like Troll 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.800 two and Spooky's that we've we've looked at on the 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.760 show before, uh, it involves mostly people who really didn't 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.240 do anything or at all, or or or anything else 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.960 besides this picture in terms of you know, other film appearances, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.760 which which can be in a way it can be 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.920 um kind of liberating, like I love, you know, making 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.120 these connections to other films and you know, thinking about, oh, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.760 what were they in? What were they And you go 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.000 in to it too at times and you're like, well, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.080 if nothing else, I know, well Peter laure is in it, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.800 so he's going to do something interesting. That that sort 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.720 of thing. But with a movie like this, it can 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.920 feel like it just came from another universe. Or maybe 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.400 that's like it's not a film at all, but something real, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.920 you know. In keeping with the psychic theme, I would 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.800 say this movie feels like a dream somebody had about 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.200 a movie that didn't exist, except they managed to project it, 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.880 like psychic photography or that. What was that we talked. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.240 We did an episode on the supposed a phenomenon like 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.360 projected thermography, people just printing their dreams and imagery on 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.200 on on photographic plates. Um. I don't think people can 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:38.880 actually do that, by the way, but but yeah, I 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.280 just imagine that happened for somebody's dream, and it was 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.480 the kind of thing where while you're watching it, you 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.920 just accept because it's a dream that oh, yeah, these 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.960 are actors I would know. But then of course when 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.480 you wake up, you're like, oh, wait a minute, those 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:55.080 aren't people that they came out of my subconscious Yeah, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.800 and you know, this would probably be worth looking at 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.000 even if it was just like a just a whole 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.040 much of non sequitors. It was just like one weird 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.360 dream sequence after the other. You know, their films like 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.800 that that I have enjoyed over the years. But this 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.640 movie does have a plot, and even better than that, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.640 it seems weirdly ambitious. It's it's kind of punching above 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.600 its weight a little bit and trying to say something, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.200 which is always the kuda gras with a good D film, Right. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:27.520 I mean, so most slasher films, you know, the people involved, No, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.200 they're making trash. And and so the question is are 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.200 do they know how to make fun trash or do 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.920 they end up making just boring, miserable trash. But no, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.040 in this case, you can it's quite clear that somebody 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:44.600 involved at least thought they were making art. Yes, all right, well, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.640 let's let's talk elevator pitch for this film. I was 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.520 thinking holidays with family are rough, especially when mom is 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.440 psychic and your girlfriend is possessed by a samurai. Yeah, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.080 holiday family gatherings can be awkward enough already. Uh, it 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:03.160 just gets worse when they're just like a psychically projected 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.399 ghost samurai running around slashing everybody's throat. Yeah. Yeah, and 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.119 Mom's constantly eavesdropping on you through her psychic paintings that 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.520 are hung all over the house. Yes, all right, Well, 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.359 let's go ahead and listen to the trailer here, and 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.679 I think we're gonna we may be playing the trailer 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:23.360 in full because it has a wonderful grindhalcy like echo 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:37.240 vibe to it. A devil, a devil, I'm torning what 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:46.280 you worn, what you lives, lives, breaves held, paralyzed with fears, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:51.720 with fears, it kills as skill as mutilates, mutila anyone, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:18:01.680 and it's us one, and it's tormented by a psychic house. Bloody, bloody, 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:21.720 horrileful press is blood blood ready, blood lunch blood set. Yeah, 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.040 just sounds grimy. Was this the one that everything it 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.359 says it says twice? Yes, at least twice. There's like 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.640 this weird echo thing, And it's like, even even though 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.119 you're you're out there listening to this podcast and you 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.520 could not see the footage, you probably had like audible 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.159 cigarette burns inside your your skull, you know, like you 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.000 can imagine that sort of gritty uh you know it 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.160 made eighty three film, but still that you would get 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.920 that kind of like nineteen seventies grit on the footage 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.359 this trailer has the sound of somebody getting a like 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.520 beer that they snuck in in their boot out and 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:08.639 cracking it open in the dark. Absolutely. All right, Well 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.240 let's talk about the people. And again I'm just gonna 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.440 remind everyone that the connections on this are not gonna 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.359 be as robust as some of our other films, but 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.359 it's still worth looking at at who these folks were, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.680 uhland or are. Uh So let's start at the top. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.720 The director, the writer. Also credits for music, film editing, 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:34.520 and camera operation go to Fabrice on Gay Zafaratos. Um 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.960 This is a French director who prior to this, made 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:42.800 the nineteen seventy seven film La Grand Freman The Large Farm. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.639 I believe that translates to which may or may not 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.160 involve a motorcycle based on the cover art. Blood Beat 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.920 was his second film and his last film. He has 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:59.920 some connection to um Ri Zafaratos, who produced and directed 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.560 and Road and was very active in the reasonably active 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.359 in the six season seventies. But this is a figure 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:10.280 that I could not find any English translations regarding like. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.760 There seems to be like a French Wikipedia article about him, 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.399 but I don't know that he's widely known outside of that. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:18.840 And I'm not even sure that this is in fact 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.960 our director of Blood Beats Father. But there seems to 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.920 be some family connection there matter. Maybe it's an uncle. 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:29.800 I don't know. Um, But anyway, this film Blood Beat, 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.440 for better or Worse is Zapharatos the younger's vision, and 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.640 his vision is weird. The film is certainly confusing. Um, 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.560 it's ambitious, it's kind of it's all over the place 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.639 in some respects. But he was trying to say something, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:45.879 or at least was trying to rope all this together 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.679 into a narrative that made sense and said something. Uh, 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.600 though with varying degrees of success. Now I mentioned that 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.639 he has a music credit, so I just want to 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.240 add quick note on the music. The score here varies 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:00.960 from works of classical music, including very well known pieces 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:05.919 like Karl Orff's Carmina burana Is is used during the 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:10.200 finale for example. Uh, And I just have to say 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.960 that the use especially of classical music, but of all 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.440 the music is actually one of the funniest and weirdest 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.600 things about this movie. There are a number of scenes 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.800 that are already strange, but they're pushed over the line 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.880 by having music that feels like nobody else would select 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.760 this this music to go with this scene. So like 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.439 a scene of characters sitting around on a couch just 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.719 sort of being awkward, but it's playing these like fast 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:43.159 classical strings, like all these glassondi. It's like, what is 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.600 going on? Just the music frequently does not match the 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.120 tone of the scene, or to the extent that it does, 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.960 it's just heightening something, uh that that feels kind of 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.200 off about the scene. Yeah, and then they'll other times 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.880 they'll throw in Gregorian chant. There's definitely a bit that, uh. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.639 But then other times it gives you exactly what you 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.320 might expect and hope for with the film of this caliber, 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:12.600 and that is kind of amateur esque electronic music um, 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:16.239 which at times I think worked pretty well, especially when 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.800 you've got this kind of pulse pounding electronic vibe going um. 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.600 At least in a few scenes that it worked pretty well. 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:25.520 A lot of the electronic music in this movie is 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.240 what I would refer to. Maybe there's another name for 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.439 this that already exists, but what I would call boying 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.120 boying music. Uh. This movie, actually it contains a lot 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:38.919 of synthesizers that sound like cartoons, spring sound effects, you know, 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:43.280 bl blont blant and then uh and then of course 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.360 usually offset with the sound of heartbeats, which are used 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.639 frequently in the soundtrack throughout the whole film. Now you 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.560 said heartbeats, I think you'll find that those are blood beats. 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:57.199 Oh excuse me, yes, I stand corrected. All right. So 0:22:57.280 --> 0:22:59.359 we we have a limited cast in this because it 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:05.240 basically a cerns a boyfriend bringing his girlfriend home to 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:09.040 meet his family at Christmas. Let's start with the mom. 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.560 The mom is Kathie and she is played by Helen 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:15.480 bent Tone Uh. Dates unknown for her. This is her 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.360 only film role, but I thought she was mostly pretty good. 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:21.760