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Speaker 2: I had to check mister Lobo because for some reason,
Speaker 2: I thought at one point you and I had chatted,
Speaker 2: But I find no record of.
Speaker 3: It at all, So I think I think we did too,
Speaker 3: but it must have been in like a news feature
Speaker 3: or something.
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Speaker 2: Uh. Mister Lobo is a regular guest here on Coast
Speaker 2: to Coast AM.
Speaker 3: I feel like I know him.
Speaker 2: He's the host of Cinema Insomnia. I was looking at
Speaker 2: some of your YouTube videos getting ready for our conversation tonight.
Speaker 2: Well honored for being not just a fan of the
Speaker 2: horror genre, but also one of those people that keeps
Speaker 2: it alive with the humor zine and underground on comics
Speaker 2: he's done, and with radio, theater and other things that
Speaker 2: that I also obsess over.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, but I look down your page. I looked everywhere.
Speaker 2: Everybody seems to be ripping off the same the same lines.
Speaker 2: Everybody's doing the same. But you know, I go for
Speaker 2: word economy. I could write a haiku.
Speaker 4: Uh your I want to hear I want to hear
Speaker 4: this haiku.
Speaker 3: Well before the end of the night. I will do that.
Speaker 2: And I I take my haiku very seriously, so I
Speaker 2: don't I could write a dirty limerick off the top
Speaker 2: of my head that I don't think I would get
Speaker 2: anybody anywhere.
Speaker 4: Standards and practices, Ian standards in practices.
Speaker 3: It is one of those been around. We don't we
Speaker 3: don't have those coast to coast.
Speaker 4: Never let me on it broadcast. Is we have a
Speaker 4: higher standard.
Speaker 3: That's true. So anyway, really like your work, and and
Speaker 3: thank you for joining to come with us.
Speaker 2: As we talk about and I think this is really important,
Speaker 2: is as you are a fan of the of both
Speaker 2: the cinema of horror.
Speaker 3: But also just kind of the genre as a whold.
Speaker 2: I know that you're probably very saddened by the fact
Speaker 2: that so many great movies which were slated to be
Speaker 2: released before the end of summer, which is typically when
Speaker 2: a lot of the popcorn you know, drive in type
Speaker 2: movies come out, are on hold and may you know,
Speaker 2: wait until the end of the So I like to
Speaker 2: supplement that by going into my you know, contour at
Speaker 2: I have the cock system where I can I can
Speaker 2: go back and I can watch all.
Speaker 3: These old movies.
Speaker 2: So I'd love a top ten before we're done of
Speaker 2: your movies that we could pull up and we could
Speaker 2: watch which might be able to satisfy our need for
Speaker 2: something fun and new.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well there are I guess talk about
Speaker 4: a lot of different things as far as uh tonight,
Speaker 4: as far as some streaming and on Netflix, and that's
Speaker 4: sort of And.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of different genres too, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's the there's.
Speaker 4: My particular reb like, even though I'm best known as
Speaker 4: a horror host, I like to what I like to
Speaker 4: my category are like late night misunderstood movies, you know,
Speaker 4: at the bottom of the barrel kind of stuff, plan
Speaker 4: from out of Space. That's that's my bag.
Speaker 3: I totally get it.
Speaker 4: I love those movies that uh uh, well, we like
Speaker 4: to say they're not bad movies, just misunderstood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or they're so bad they're good you just can't
Speaker 2: stop watching them.
Speaker 4: You know. I mean, like The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
Speaker 4: I think I some thousand times and every time it's on,
Speaker 4: I have to stop everything I'm doing.
Speaker 2: And City of the Dead another great. A lot of
Speaker 2: these movies, A lot of these movies are in the
Speaker 2: public domain too, which is also fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so those a lot of those we
Speaker 4: can can find. And what's interesting, you know, this is
Speaker 4: sort of a side thing, but I mean my show
Speaker 4: is now back pretty on broadcast on a lot of
Speaker 4: public and PBS and community and educational channels. For whatever reason,
Speaker 4: I've had another resurgence in broadcasts. I've got thirty two
Speaker 4: stations that have kind of picked the show up out
Speaker 4: of nowhere. And we have a footprint of seven million homes.
Speaker 4: So there's a whole bunch of people who were who
Speaker 4: were discovering this the you know, these these these movies. Again,
Speaker 4: I'm getting these younger viewers now. And sure, you know,
Speaker 4: not that I'm hoping for Hollywood to fall apart, but
Speaker 4: during the pandemic that a lot of people found the
Speaker 4: cinema and Zombia during the pandemic, and I would assume
Speaker 4: that during the during the strike, a lot of people
Speaker 4: are going to be finding independent content, more obscure movies.
Speaker 4: You know, I think people are going to be widening
Speaker 4: their palette of what are gonna enjoy.
Speaker 2: You know, well, I think there's some obviously, there's some
Speaker 2: telling reasons for why those movies, the ones that aren't bad,
Speaker 2: they're just misunderstood.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're so much fun for the right person to be
Speaker 2: if you don't take it too seriously, if you're not
Speaker 2: looking for uh, if you don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many of these movies.
Speaker 2: I think they're just kind of like horror porn, and
Speaker 2: I don't get anything out of that at all, you know.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't like crying in my horror movies.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: If if I wanted holding hands and crying, I just
Speaker 4: watch a Lifetime Orion, right.
Speaker 2: But I like crying when it's really faky and when
Speaker 2: the people's when they got their hands in front of
Speaker 2: their face and they're you know, I like that's kind
Speaker 2: of you know, but not like yeah, not like Brad
Speaker 2: Pitt in the.
Speaker 3: River Runs through It or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know not or Legends of the Fall. What I
Speaker 2: want is and this is what you deliver on. And
Speaker 2: I think you're are you now? You're on Roku too,
Speaker 2: is the.
Speaker 4: F I seventy four on Roku and Fossom also is
Speaker 4: on many platforms. Uh also, so I'm I'm kind of
Speaker 4: fe on a lot of different platforms.
Speaker 2: But this is you're the there's the perfect host for
Speaker 2: films that don't take themselves too seriously.
Speaker 4: That's preferred actually, because you know, I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: Hamburger Helper.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 4: And I got something, I've got something to say about them,
Speaker 4: and then when I get too boring, it goes back
Speaker 4: into the and so I feel like it's a very
Speaker 4: symbiotic relationship. But the movie's too good, I get jealous,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't want competing with the movie something.
Speaker 2: No, And I think a lot of the movies, maybe to.
Speaker 3: To Helper is really more Helper, it's really more I.
Speaker 4: Think like Devil Bat's Daughter, that's definitely too to Helper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that movie.
Speaker 4: We did that movie recently, and they totally try to
Speaker 4: gaslight you into thinking a totally different thing happens in
Speaker 4: the first movie. And it's like, no, Bell Lagosi was
Speaker 4: a bad guy in that first movie. You can't write
Speaker 4: eleven hour ago he actually was a nice man. No, true,
Speaker 4: you can't change that. We all saw what he did
Speaker 4: in the first have a twit like that.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's the retcon.
Speaker 2: It's the classic sequel retcon where you got to make
Speaker 2: the second one work and you figure out probably only
Speaker 2: forty percent of the audience saw.
Speaker 3: The first one anyway, So let's just roll the U.
Speaker 4: I think it's the worst sequelist where it was really
Speaker 4: another movie that at the last minute they said, hey,
Speaker 4: let's just make it, you know, the sequel to this movie, right,
Speaker 4: and then they'll make a couple of changes to the
Speaker 4: script and it doesn't really match up. And that happens
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 2: No, it does, and there's and so again I say,
Speaker 2: there are certain types of horror suspense that work for me.
Speaker 3: I wasn't into the cannibal movies.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: One of my kids was heavily into like that type
Speaker 3: of stuff. He thought that was very funny.
Speaker 4: Didn't wear from me, Like what cannibal fair rock kind
Speaker 4: of thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, or even what was the movie the more recent
Speaker 2: version of the Eli Roth version that they did.
Speaker 4: In screen the Hell or something, Yeah, whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just I don't know.
Speaker 2: But the the other stuff kind of does you know,
Speaker 2: or body horror, even to a certain degree, kind of
Speaker 2: works for me because I kind of relate to.
Speaker 4: That maybe every morning. I kind of related to yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: As I'm getting older and older, body horror is kind
Speaker 2: of becoming a thing and of.
Speaker 4: Course we're talking about movies like most of the Kronenberg movies, right,
Speaker 4: We're talking about like a Scanners and Shippers, and I
Speaker 4: mean those are the Fly.
Speaker 3: Right was the Fly?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I love the remake of The Fly. Yeah, Goldblue's The
Speaker 2: Fly is such a great movie. I just I could
Speaker 2: watch it over and over again. But but there are
Speaker 2: others that are like that too, right, So then there's
Speaker 2: the the Mysterious Visitor. There's I mean, there's all these
Speaker 2: different genres. Which one is your favorite? As a host
Speaker 2: of cinema insomnia.
Speaker 4: Boy, That's that's like picking a favorite child. I mean,
Speaker 4: my my favorite genre, to be honest, I I I
Speaker 4: love a good cheesy sci fi movie. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 4: you know, anything with with with guys in monster suits
Speaker 4: or you know, uh, model flying saucers. I just I
Speaker 4: just love that kind of thing. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 4: uh Invasion of the Saucermen or god whatever that that's
Speaker 4: you know, I have a real soft spot in my
Speaker 4: heart for that. And it's amazing that Godzilla is still going, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: Shin Godzilla and then maybe Shin Shin Cayman Writer and
Speaker 4: Shin Ultraman and and uh, you know, I love. You know,
Speaker 4: those are modern ones that I really like. And it's
Speaker 4: interesting to see that that that lineage of you know,
Speaker 4: going all the way to nineteen fifty four. Today it's like, wow,
Speaker 4: that's a robusts at the rope ran well.
Speaker 2: And you know what's really interesting about that is how
Speaker 2: many of those movies, the universal monsters, let's go back
Speaker 2: to the thirties, that are still behind a paywall, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean that that says a lot. I mean, you
Speaker 2: got classic Academy Award winning movies that you.
Speaker 3: Can call up and watch for free. But you can't
Speaker 3: do that with The Wolfman.
Speaker 4: Oh you can't. And it's really interesting because like you know,
Speaker 4: we'll show We'll show The Wolfman or even Abin Costello
Speaker 4: Mee Frankenstein. You can show that to an audience today.
Speaker 4: That's an eighty year old movie, you know, seventy five
Speaker 4: year old movie, and people are still laughing and still
Speaker 4: enjoying it. And it's like, you know, and even with
Speaker 4: the lesser ones like Plan nine from Out of Space,
Speaker 4: you show that in the seat, you can show that
Speaker 4: in the theater. It's like, you know, the A list
Speaker 4: movies from that time period aren't showing in theaters a list.
Speaker 4: Movies of a aren't aren't either as celebrated as some
Speaker 4: of them are. People don't want to watch them. But
Speaker 4: these things that were considered kitty fair, these things that
Speaker 4: were considered pot boilers, these things that were considered trash cinema,
Speaker 4: they have this lighte like you know, I mean, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, Blockbuster's Fade cult Last.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I do think we should
Speaker 2: take a moment to recognize that what we think of
Speaker 2: is kitty fair today was not at the on the
Speaker 2: weekend of its release, and it was fairly. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: call it literature, but they were artful films that carried
Speaker 2: important themes which seem to have been lost to history.
Speaker 2: For example, the theme of anti Semitism, which is rife
Speaker 2: in The Wolfman and and I don't mean, I don't
Speaker 2: mean as a promoting anti Semitism, but fighting anti semitism.
Speaker 4: Made those movies had very serious themes in them, right.
Speaker 4: Horror movies as a general in general had a stigma
Speaker 4: as being juvenile in that in that ten of the
Speaker 4: time period that they came out. But yeah, the people
Speaker 4: who made those movies were making serious movies. I mean
Speaker 4: a lot of the horrors of World War One are
Speaker 4: reflected in the original Frankenstein's to James Whale, So you know,
Speaker 4: and obviously you know, I think there was always this
Speaker 4: sort of pressure to put this legitimacy into everything because
Speaker 4: they were always being criticized for being illegitimate. But to
Speaker 4: be honest, horror films had had a bad rap until
Speaker 4: like the seventies, you know, and from movies from my
Speaker 4: standpoint where it was, they were not thought of as
Speaker 4: material for you know, uh upright adults.
Speaker 2: Right, But I think that I mean to speak to
Speaker 2: a previous general of creature features. I think that that
Speaker 2: is also part of how television reframed these movies.
Speaker 3: And the idea of a late night horror, which is fun.
Speaker 3: But it did.
Speaker 2: It did it did to throw out the Baby with
Speaker 2: the bathwater on that because you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: these movies, I mean they did. They followed the Marvel model,
Speaker 2: which I think is interesting to consider today. Is the
Speaker 2: model Well that's what I mean if you really look
Speaker 2: at it, they parallel and they hired very very good
Speaker 2: actors to be in these situations, which carries it as
Speaker 2: opposed to schlock actors which would have made the movie schlockier,
Speaker 2: instead of taking it up a level, which is what
Speaker 2: the Boris Karlovsabel Legosis, the Lon Chaney juniors.
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, it's a lot smarter. And even with
Speaker 4: Roger Corman stuff, they almost had. They always had the
Speaker 4: best people with the lowest budgets. They get the most
Speaker 4: out of it that way. You can't you know, it's
Speaker 4: you can't afford to make mistakes, you know, on that level.
Speaker 4: So you know, you you get the best actors you
Speaker 4: can get and the best cinematographers you can get because
Speaker 4: they can shoot a movie in two weeks. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: it's amazing.
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