Speaker 1: It is Saturday, October the eighteenth, and we have got
Speaker 1: a movie for you. It is a foreign language coming
Speaker 1: of age teen horror film that isn't rated very well
Speaker 1: on Rotten Tomatoes, but trust us, there's a reason it's
Speaker 1: number fourteen on our list. And welcome to this horror
Speaker 1: hit List episode of Amy and TJ. We are getting
Speaker 1: into the top fifteen. And this was one. In the
Speaker 1: last episode at Least Rose, we warned everybody, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is the one. If y'all didn't think we were crazy before,
Speaker 1: you might question us on this one.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was actually surprised.
Speaker 3: I remember exactly where we were when we watched this,
Speaker 3: and we were both it was exactly what we needed.
Speaker 3: It was a morning horror movie and we were kind
Speaker 3: of our own horror at the time, and so this
Speaker 3: was just such a fun departure from real life that
Speaker 3: also fit the bill of the type of movie we like.
Speaker 2: And I was surprised. You know what, I've just kind of.
Speaker 3: Come to realize. Do you and I ever disagree about
Speaker 3: whether we like a horror movie. We've almost always had
Speaker 3: the same reaction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we might have to find one. Okay, we
Speaker 1: might have to find one. I don't have one that
Speaker 1: I disagree. There's some we enjoyed mine.
Speaker 2: You know what substance, Yes, okay, that is the one.
Speaker 2: I liked it. You hated it.
Speaker 3: That's rare, though, and this could have been one where
Speaker 3: I could see, even people who are of like mind
Speaker 3: and love horror movies. One person might love it, the
Speaker 3: other person might not. I was actually, I think this
Speaker 3: is the moment when I looked at you and I
Speaker 3: thought he's the one. We both get this movie the
Speaker 3: mom I'm kidding, but it was one of many. But no, seriously,
Speaker 3: I don't think this movie is for everyone. And the
Speaker 3: fact that we both loved it. I just liked it,
Speaker 3: but loved it spoke volume.
Speaker 1: But it's for some folks. They're very specific reasons, like
Speaker 1: there are some people don't look like some demonic possession
Speaker 1: and creeps them out. Others don't want to see the
Speaker 1: gore and the guts. I am a body. Horror is
Speaker 1: the thing I do not handle and don't ever want
Speaker 1: to see. And that's why the substance, as awesome as
Speaker 1: everybody was in that movie, and even the story and
Speaker 1: the idea of it.
Speaker 3: Excuse you, you couldn't, but it's funny you like. This
Speaker 3: one has body horror in it for sure.
Speaker 1: But it's it's just violence, like like I could take
Speaker 1: a brutal death. Don't give me the sounds and these slow.
Speaker 3: Sewing up a cut like with stitches and needles.
Speaker 2: I get that things.
Speaker 1: Get did, things get deformed and all that. I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of that. So this is I didn't
Speaker 1: know and we didn't know what to expect. But I
Speaker 1: see the release date on It was October fourteenth of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and that is about two months before
Speaker 1: shit hit the fang with us at ABC. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: this might have been a thing that we had had
Speaker 1: Netflix on and go oh there was a new something
Speaker 1: and we turned it on.
Speaker 2: That's exactly I remember.
Speaker 3: It was in the early days of us not knowing
Speaker 3: what our lives were going to look like, everything was
Speaker 3: turned upside down. We just happened upon this movie on
Speaker 3: Netflix a few months after its release, I believe, and
Speaker 3: we were transfixed by it.
Speaker 1: So a few Japanese teenagers really helped us through it all.
Speaker 1: So thank you to the cast of Remember. And it's
Speaker 1: not just the word remember, it's actually spelled out a
Speaker 1: very specific way.
Speaker 3: Here, like as in Remembering a Body Yes re slash member.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, if you go looking for it, that is
Speaker 1: what it looks like. And it is number fourteen on
Speaker 1: our list. Released as we mentioned in October of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, one hour and forty two minutes long. It
Speaker 1: didn't come with a rating. But the genre is horror,
Speaker 1: drama and sci fi. I thought that was a good
Speaker 1: way to put it. And we have two. I've never
Speaker 1: had to say it in plural synopsis, synopsis synopsis, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I never had to say it before. We
Speaker 1: got two different one and I liked them both, so
Speaker 1: I included them both. The first one here the synopsis
Speaker 1: for this movie. Six high schoolers stuck in a murderous
Speaker 1: time loop must find these scattered remains of an unknown
Speaker 1: victim to break the curse and finally see another day.
Speaker 2: That's well said.
Speaker 1: Couldn't come up with that better recepts, all right? There
Speaker 1: was another.
Speaker 2: There's an alternative.
Speaker 3: A high school student and her friends are trapped in
Speaker 3: a time loop by a ghost, and the only way
Speaker 3: to escape is to find the corpse of the ghost's
Speaker 3: previous victim.
Speaker 1: Also good, more specific, Yes, it is a more confusing
Speaker 1: in that second one. Now, this one was not released
Speaker 1: here in the US. Again a Japanese film, but it
Speaker 1: did make eight point one million dollars at the box office. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of these you don't the names of a
Speaker 1: lot of these, the cast here, but the director is
Speaker 1: Ichiro Hasumi. I think he has a couple of other
Speaker 1: horror credits to his name, some TV stuff as well.
Speaker 1: But again, this is not a huge movie, not a
Speaker 1: huge cast, and not a huge director necessarily attached to it.
Speaker 1: Ron Tomatoes score here fifty seven percent. That ain't great.
Speaker 1: The audience score fifty percent. Now you seeing that, would
Speaker 1: you have been turned off immediately by now?
Speaker 3: Really no, I would not, because actually fifty percent, I'm like,
Speaker 3: all right, half the people who watched it loved it.
Speaker 3: I could be in that half, So that would not
Speaker 3: have scared me away at all.
Speaker 1: That's funny, are you the logic you put behind a
Speaker 1: ron Tomatoes score. Some sample critic reviews here. The critics said,
Speaker 1: this a pleasant surprise for viewers without prejudices towards the
Speaker 1: tropes of juvenile cinema. They're saying, you got to be
Speaker 1: able to deal with some teeny bopper stuff.
Speaker 3: Correct, There was almost a little bit of a rom
Speaker 3: com in the middle of the horror, so at one
Speaker 3: point we just burst out laughing.
Speaker 2: I actually thought it was welcome comedic relief.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was. It wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: funny that they're showing you, but it's so silly that
Speaker 1: it's happening in that moment you had to last.
Speaker 2: It might even be cultural. I mean, yes, that's what.
Speaker 3: We were thinking, like it could be that in Japanese movies,
Speaker 3: this is just something that happens. Because it seemed ridiculous
Speaker 3: and we were watching it. This band of teenagers, unlikely
Speaker 3: friends who were actually not friends in high school were
Speaker 3: thrust together trying to solve this mystery where they were
Speaker 3: all kind of in this nightmarish loop. But then in
Speaker 3: the middle of it all, they're enjoying volleyball on the beach,
Speaker 3: and it was like, wait, is this Japanese version of
Speaker 3: nine O two one zero? Or am I still watching
Speaker 3: a horror movie? But it actually was hilarious and we
Speaker 3: loved it.
Speaker 1: But I did places and looking this up that yes,
Speaker 1: this there were culture moments that played to the Japanese
Speaker 1: culture and books and art and things that they were into.
Speaker 1: It absolutely says, so with that in mind, it does
Speaker 1: make more sense. Another review here from a critic saying
Speaker 1: that Remember is, in short, a pleasant experience that succeeds
Speaker 1: in offering both the thrills of a horror slasher as
Speaker 1: well as a touching exploration of romantic and amical amical feelings.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, so there is a little wrong comment.
Speaker 1: There supposed to But I had not. I loved some
Speaker 1: people don't want it, and this is not what I
Speaker 1: should have been into. I love the friendship story.
Speaker 2: I loved that you loved it.
Speaker 1: I actually did it. This one.
Speaker 3: It had heart, you know, in a almost in a
Speaker 3: silly way. But again, because of the different culture, you
Speaker 3: could almost accept it. I feel like if this were
Speaker 3: an American made movie, it wouldn't have it. It wouldn't
Speaker 3: have landed the way it did.
Speaker 2: The fact that it was Japanese.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, edwould No, I don't know that. And if
Speaker 1: we had someone here in this country doing this movie,
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't have played well probably in a different
Speaker 1: culture as well, if we did it the way we.
Speaker 2: Do it here in America.
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm really curious to see what the audience
Speaker 3: reviews were like with the fifty to fifty you had
Speaker 3: to have some bad and some good.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for many, by the time the big monster
Speaker 1: shows up, the film will have already devolved into an
Speaker 1: illogical and silly exercise, and for some the final third
Speaker 1: will be laughably goofy. I agree, and that would have
Speaker 1: been in my positive view, all of that sounds about.
Speaker 2: Right, agreed. I don't.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think that is a fair depiction of what happens.
Speaker 3: And so this, like we have talked about in this list,
Speaker 3: we have genuinely scary, horrifying, creepy, awful, but also funny, comedic, heartwarming.
Speaker 3: There are so many different types of horror stories, and
Speaker 3: I do think it depends on the mood you're in,
Speaker 3: the person you're with, the time of day, what you're
Speaker 3: experiencing in your life. They can all have a place
Speaker 3: as long as they're well executed. And I think this
Speaker 3: one knows what it is and leaned right into it,
Speaker 3: and we appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You know, for us as well, maybe we did find
Speaker 1: it at the right time, not just time in our lives,
Speaker 1: but also right time of day. We were just in
Speaker 1: the morning, turn the TV on and see it there
Speaker 1: and it gave us an hour and a half of
Speaker 1: not thinking about anything else, and it was a good time.
Speaker 2: It was right, truly this.
Speaker 3: We watched this movie in the first few weeks of
Speaker 3: not having a job and not knowing if we were
Speaker 3: gonna have a job, and feeling so stressed and lost
Speaker 3: about all of that and what we should do with
Speaker 3: our lives and our time and where our heads.
Speaker 2: So this was just the perfect escape.
Speaker 1: Yes, to see Japanese teenagers killed repeatedly, Yes, that's what
Speaker 1: we needed. Also another review here, I haven't seen this
Speaker 1: word before and enjoyable ish horror. That was okay, but
Speaker 1: I probably won't watch it again. The film starts off
Speaker 1: good with a gory murder, but afterwards it gets quite
Speaker 1: slow for a bit, and after a while there are
Speaker 1: some more gory murders in quite a horrific monster, But
Speaker 1: then the film goes back to trying to be a
Speaker 1: drama and gets a bit boring.
Speaker 2: I never thought it was boring. No, I never thought
Speaker 2: it was boring.
Speaker 3: I did think it was hilarious and funny and entertaining.
Speaker 3: For it to flip back and forth to different genres, Yes, you.
Speaker 1: Know what we should add It did add to this
Speaker 1: movie being funny is again it's his foreign language in Japanese,
Speaker 1: so you can choose to read along with the subtitles,
Speaker 1: or you could do like we did.
Speaker 2: With the dub.
Speaker 3: And we love the dub because the dub actors, I
Speaker 3: don't know who you are, but it's always comical.
Speaker 1: It gives us life every time because you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be some Japanese teenager twirling around on a beach and
Speaker 1: you're actually some twenty year old white guy in a
Speaker 1: booth in La trying to voice it. It's hard to
Speaker 1: put yourself in.
Speaker 3: That it makes it even funnier. I love Dove movie.
Speaker 3: It's great, and especially when it's horror, because somehow it's
Speaker 3: I don't know. It just adds a whole other layer
Speaker 3: to the entertainment when you're watching and hearing the dub voice.
Speaker 1: So we highly recommend the dubbing. Now one more for
Speaker 1: you here someone here saying I like Asian cinema in
Speaker 1: general because I finally find it pleasantly weird perfect. The
Speaker 1: plot sounds intriguing, the idea nothing new, but if you're
Speaker 1: a fan of Time Loop, it could be worth a watch,
Speaker 1: or at least that's what I thought. Unfortunately, After a
Speaker 1: good beginning, the movie turns from a horror with potential
Speaker 1: to a weird friendship trip where the movie completely loses
Speaker 1: its way. Kind of agree with that too, Yeah, but we.
Speaker 2: Were okay, we were willing to get lost.
Speaker 1: It was a friendship trip. It was funny, these sweet
Speaker 1: tender moments that I'm seeing these again Japanese actors with
Speaker 1: very American sounding dubbing. It's made for a bizarre movie
Speaker 1: to watch. I enjoyed it. Why this one? I think
Speaker 1: we made it pretty clear here why this one's on
Speaker 1: our list rose that meant a lot to us at
Speaker 1: the time. We didn't realize, but it gave us an
Speaker 1: escape and it is. It's a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we just recently rewatched it and it held.
Speaker 3: Just wanted to say, so when we come back, we're
Speaker 3: going to talk about why it made our list, who
Speaker 3: it's for, who it's not for, what to pair it with,
Speaker 3: and to tease.
Speaker 2: For our next movie on the list. To stay with.
Speaker 3: Us continuing our episode on remember Ree with a backslash,
Speaker 3: member number fourteen on our Halloween Horror hit list. And
Speaker 3: this is a departure from a lot of the other
Speaker 3: movies we have on our list. First of all, it's
Speaker 3: a foreign film. It's we watched it dubbed, it's a
Speaker 3: Japanese film, and it blends a lot of genres and
Speaker 3: is abrupt in some ways where suddenly you're in the
Speaker 3: middle of some gory horror shot and then you have
Speaker 3: kids coming of age playing volleyball on a beach. But
Speaker 3: that relief and that back and forth was actually a
Speaker 3: huge part of the reason why we loved it and
Speaker 3: thought it was hilarious and interesting and fascinating and fun
Speaker 3: to watch period for a horror movie.
Speaker 2: So we went through some of the reviews. They are
Speaker 2: certainly mixed.
Speaker 3: But why it made our list it just I think
Speaker 3: I love the way some movies make you feel, and
Speaker 3: this movie, I remember how I felt when I watched it.
Speaker 3: I felt I was laughing, I was entertained. I felt
Speaker 3: I was in the moment. I wasn't thinking about anything
Speaker 3: else that was going on in my life. I was
Speaker 3: there for it, and I was immersed and invested in
Speaker 3: the story. And I feel like any movie they can
Speaker 3: do that that can pull you in is worth watching
Speaker 3: and worth recommending.
Speaker 1: And again this is me. I enjoyed the friendship story.
Speaker 1: I appreciate. There was a kind of a loaner. Then
Speaker 1: they got the cool kids here, You've got the athlete
Speaker 1: over here, you've got the cute guy over here, and
Speaker 1: all these people are not really mixing together until they
Speaker 1: were forced together and had to form their own family
Speaker 1: and their own love and their own structure based on circumstances.
Speaker 1: I loved how it showed us what they were and
Speaker 1: what they became, and what they found out is that
Speaker 1: we are actually the same, and it took a monster
Speaker 1: chasing us to realize we're not different at all.
Speaker 3: What's more uniting than a common foe, right, And that
Speaker 3: is kind of the premise of the movie. I feel
Speaker 3: like it was a little bit like sixteen Candles meets
Speaker 3: a ghost story. And I know you don't necessarily know
Speaker 3: what sixteen Candles is all about, but for me, that
Speaker 3: was a coming of age or breakfast club something where
Speaker 3: you have an unlikely group of people coming together again,
Speaker 3: another white coming of age movie that you did not see.
Speaker 1: I love when you start giving me cultural references to
Speaker 1: help me understand another cultural reference, and all of them
Speaker 1: I've never heard of.
Speaker 3: What's a black coming of age movie that you think
Speaker 3: about and you say that that reminds me of coming
Speaker 3: up coming.
Speaker 1: Of age movie for black folks. Yeah, yeah, we don't
Speaker 1: have that's usually just the beginning and an end. We
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to go through. Who wants to
Speaker 1: sit and look at a black life on the big screen?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: This is another I'm sorry I asked, all right, who's
Speaker 2: it for?
Speaker 3: This movie is for anybody who wants to be entertained
Speaker 3: and who is not going to Who's again? I think
Speaker 3: I've said this for Sometimes you're looking for an elevated
Speaker 3: horror movie experience, this is not for you. You don't
Speaker 3: if you are looking for something to scare you, to
Speaker 3: make you think deeper, this is not your movie.
Speaker 2: This is just.
Speaker 3: Fun, laughable, laugh out loud, but still in the horror
Speaker 3: genre kind of a movie. And I just think you
Speaker 3: definitely need to be in that mindset when you sit
Speaker 3: down to watch it.
Speaker 1: Illogical, I think said in that word was using one
Speaker 1: of the reviews. It's illogical. I won't trying to make
Speaker 1: sense of what's happening. It's kids in a time loop,
Speaker 1: for God's sake, They're waking up every day living the
Speaker 1: same damn day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's groundhog Day.
Speaker 3: As well, there's another movie that it could be, like
Speaker 3: groundhog Day meets a ghost story?
Speaker 1: A ghost story? Is that a movie? Or you just
Speaker 1: saying anything.
Speaker 3: Ghost like a haunting, some sort of a haunting story
Speaker 3: with a groundhog Day and a sixteen candles all mixed
Speaker 3: in one.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I was missing another cultural reference of yours.
Speaker 2: Yes, so anyone? Yes, I like who it's not for you?
Speaker 2: Wrote anyone who needs things to make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not your movie?
Speaker 2: But isn't that We've talked about this before.
Speaker 3: In horror movies, you just really do have to suspend
Speaker 3: logic and judgment.
Speaker 2: And often most movies that is the case, even.
Speaker 1: The High bra Ones, right, who didn't people love get Out?
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a horror movie?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah? How much of that made sense?
Speaker 3: Like almost none of it? But it was just a fun,
Speaker 3: watch wild movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're all a logical.
Speaker 3: I remember when we watched it, we had we were
Speaker 3: so surprised. We did not think it was going to
Speaker 3: be good. Look, a lot of times, we let's be honest,
Speaker 3: we will deliver pick bad, campy, horribly active movies just
Speaker 3: to laugh.
Speaker 2: We actually thought this was gonna be one of them.
Speaker 3: It's not far from it, but we can't tell how
Speaker 3: well it was acted because of the dubbing.
Speaker 1: And you know that I'm usually an immediate no. If
Speaker 1: I see there's a foreign language subtitle, don't want to
Speaker 1: do it. I don't know why we did this.
Speaker 3: For some reason, you were like, all right, let it rip.
Speaker 3: Maybe we didn't know it was dubbed. And then we
Speaker 3: started watching it, and I remember you looked at me,
Speaker 3: you said, all right, you picked a good one, and
Speaker 3: we just knew we were in for a fun ride.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3: Food drink pairing. Look her mom is constantly making her,
Speaker 3: isn't it? Was it potstickers? Was it dumplings? Like I
Speaker 3: would say, go ahead, lean in dumpling sushi, have some fun,
Speaker 3: like a good opportunity to have a beautiful, wonderful Japanese meal.
Speaker 3: You go, bachi sushi, Just lean into the culture. See saki,
Speaker 3: some good Japanese beer.
Speaker 1: See how's going with the I didn't even put a
Speaker 1: Japanese twist on it. I was gonna say anything that
Speaker 1: fits in a lunch box, because all these kids has
Speaker 1: allow a lunch room and the library. He puts you
Speaker 1: in the back to school mood. So I was gonna say, grab.
Speaker 3: An apple, maybe a banana in there a little Well,
Speaker 3: the mom was making like extra Japanese treats for her
Speaker 3: to bring to her friends, which she didn't have in
Speaker 3: the movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, in her lunch box, so yes, you could either way.
Speaker 1: It's well she got friends at the end, and then.
Speaker 3: And then her mom after well, I don't want to
Speaker 3: give away the ending, but when her mom gave her
Speaker 3: some snacks to take to school, she actually had friends.
Speaker 2: It was very sweet.
Speaker 1: You only had to watch them die over fifty nights.
Speaker 2: And over and over again.
Speaker 3: All right, you can watch this on Netflix, so it's
Speaker 3: easy if you've got that subscription, free and fun and again,
Speaker 3: just suspend judgment, have a blast, order some sushi.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a perfect night.
Speaker 1: Sushi's a good call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: So all right, our next movie on the list, this
Speaker 3: will be number thirteen. This is one of your all
Speaker 3: time favorites, is it?
Speaker 1: Yes? We did, oh, number thirteen. It is the blackest
Speaker 1: movie on our list, one hundred percent, absolutely, and it
Speaker 1: would actually be higher up on our list except for
Speaker 1: it's such a new movie. We didn't think we could
Speaker 1: call it a classic. Just yet but it is knocking
Speaker 1: on the door. Yes, this is a favorite for sure,
Speaker 1: so don't miss that. Number thirteen will be coming your
Speaker 1: way tomorrow, but for now, we always appreciate you having
Speaker 1: a good horror fest with us. I'm TJ. Holmes. I
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