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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is

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Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And Hey, folks,

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Speaker 1: if I sound a little bit different than usual today,

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Speaker 1: that is because I am recording not from my usual location,

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Speaker 1: but from a top secret secondary location that may or

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Speaker 1: may not be uh the dungeon underneath a German monastery

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Speaker 1: some reason. Or it also may or may not be

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Speaker 1: the basement of my parents house. Well, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: sound fine online, so I imagine it's going to sound

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Speaker 1: fine for the listener as well. Here. Okay, I just

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Speaker 1: didn't want anybody thrown off or or thinking I've made

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Speaker 1: a permanent switch to a different microphone or room or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But before we got going here, we were indeed talking

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Speaker 1: about the room I'm in is just covered in the

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Speaker 1: posters that I thought were cool in high school, a

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Speaker 1: solid majority of which have Jim Morrison on them. Well,

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Speaker 1: you also have the uh the Monty Python um poster

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Speaker 1: holds up and which Rob initially thought was a family portrait. Well,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't see all of it. Your head was blocking

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Speaker 1: of Eric Idol's face, the big mustache, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: could be as like seventies early eighties family photo. Could

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Speaker 1: be an album cover I'm not recognizing. But then yeah,

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Speaker 1: when you moved your head, it was clear it was

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Speaker 1: Monty Python. I could see it. Yes, Eric Idle could

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Speaker 1: well be my um my wild West outlaw grandpa. Well,

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Speaker 1: we we have a pretty fun movie to talk about

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Speaker 1: this week. We're returning once more to the exciting world

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Speaker 1: of Spanish B movies, and this one's also a true

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Speaker 1: monster fest or real real monster slabber knocker here, except

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Speaker 1: you're not getting the universal monsters of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman,

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Speaker 1: and the Mummy. No, you're getting Count Janos. You're getting

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Speaker 1: the monster of Frankle. I Gains. I'm not even sure

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Speaker 1: if I'm saying this right for wrong Salon. I think yes,

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Speaker 1: for wrong Salon's monster you don't want You can't call

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Speaker 1: him for wrong Salon. He's for Salon. You can call

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Speaker 1: him for Salon. It's okay. But there's more. There's Taletet

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Speaker 1: the Mummy, and then there is the Werewolf, Count Valdemar Danyinsky.

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Speaker 1: What a cast this is? Now? How could you fit

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Speaker 1: all of these classic monsters into a film unless it

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Speaker 1: also had Abbott and Costello in it. Well, yeah, the

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Speaker 1: the alchemy of this film is going to be kind

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Speaker 1: of fun to discuss. But the result is Assignment Terror,

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Speaker 1: which comes out in nineteen seventy also known as The

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Speaker 1: Monster Years of Terror. That's the direct translation of the

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Speaker 1: original Spanish title Los Monstros Still Terror. It's a Spanish, German,

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Speaker 1: Italian co production. It came out under various names. I

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Speaker 1: heard that the original screenplay had the title Operation Terror,

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Speaker 1: and I think in Mexico was released as as the

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Speaker 1: Spanish of Operation Terror. But it also had a number

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Speaker 1: of other release titles, which is pretty standard of the day,

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Speaker 1: including um some releases that promoted it as Dracula Versus Frankenstein. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there is a an off brand Dracula. There is an

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Speaker 1: off brand Frankenstein in this film, but they never fight

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Speaker 1: I think it was also somewhere called Frankenstein versus The

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Speaker 1: blood Sucker Did I read that right? I think probably so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and uh that that also is not accurate. But they

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Speaker 1: there is a monster on monster combat, yes, but it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just not that matchup. It's ultimately were Wolf

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Speaker 1: off Mike to look up whether what I said was correct.

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Speaker 1: It was not correct. This is the third in a

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Speaker 1: series of like a dozen movies that are all Paul

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Speaker 1: Nashy centric, and they're of a very hairy persuasion. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Paul Nashy playing this were wolf character, the doomed Count

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Speaker 1: Valdemar Deninski. It's very much based on the the energy

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Speaker 1: something like Assignment Terror is a film in which aliens

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Speaker 1: But we never get to that point where you have

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Speaker 1: another thing. I wonder what you think about this, Rob

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Speaker 1: I detected a critique in which Assignment Terror is actually

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Speaker 1: a film attacking certain types of meritocracy narratives by ironically

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Speaker 1: like this film might not have been made under ideal conditions,

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Speaker 1: he's still he was able to ride himself a number

425
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: of cool parts. He got his stuff in for sure. Now, Uh,

426
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: the top build actor and that's probably the at the time.

427
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,719
Speaker 1: Certainly the most famous actor in this film is Michael

428
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 1: Renny who lived nineteen o nine through one. He plays

429
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: our chief um antagonist. I guess, uh, dr Odo Vornoff.

430
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: He in this movie is kind of like a cross

431
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: between Grand mof Tarkin and King Charles of England. Yeah,

432
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: except he's also an alien and I wasn't sure on this.

433
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: Is he also an alien that's stolen a dead man's body? Yes,

434
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: that's correct. Yes, The main two aliens in this film

435
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: are somehow like aliens psychic projections that inhabit the resurrected

436
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 1: corpses of Earth scientists, which is you know you're gonna

437
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. That's that's a pretty good way

438
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: to do it, less paperwork that way. So like they

439
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: refer to this character as Dr Vornoff, which a little

440
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: side note at the second possible Edwood connection. So the

441
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 1: plot of this film is in a way a redo

442
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: of Plan nine from outer space. You know, aliens are

443
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: going to resurrect the dead or monsters to it act

444
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: the living, and that's part of their envisioned plan. The

445
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: other thing is the main alien is named Dr Vornoff,

446
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 1: which is Bella Legosi's character's name in Bride of the Monster,

447
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: the other main Uh Edward movie from the fifties. Well

448
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: that can't be a mistake, um, in part because I

449
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: know that Whole Earth points out that there are a

450
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: few other characters in this whose names are clear connections

451
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: to Universal Monster pictures. So um, I mean, I'm not

452
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: entirely sure if Paul Nash she had seen any Edward movies,

453
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: but I mean clearly he was a big fan of

454
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: guys like Lan Jr. And Bella Legosi, So it seems

455
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: probable or they could be taking from a common source.

456
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: I wonder if Edwood got the name Vornoff from some

457
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: other previous monster movie. That's true, great great minds may

458
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: just think alike. Yeah, so, Michael Rennie Uh, a name

459
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: that I imagine a lot of you were familiar with.

460
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: Either you remember him from playing klap To in the

461
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still from

462
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: or if you haven't seen that, you probably know that.

463
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: He has referenced in the lyrics for science fiction Double

464
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: Feature from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Other films of

465
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: note include nineteen sixties The Lost World, nineteen sixty nine

466
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 1: is the Battle of l a Lamine, and nineteen fifty

467
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: two Le Miss Robs, in which he plays Jean Valjean. Uh,

468
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: this is the main character, as I remember, I've it's

469
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: been a while since I sped read uh this novel

470
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: in school, and it's been a while since I've seen

471
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: the musical. Oh yeah, well John val Jean. Yes, he

472
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: is the main character. He is the uh it's all

473
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: you know his it's his redemption arc. He begins as

474
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: a as a as a thief who is imprisoned after

475
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: stealing bread to I think feed his sister's starving child

476
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: or something, and then he's in prison for many years

477
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,719
Speaker 1: but then he escapes prison and then he dedicates his

478
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: life to goodness and he's very strong, and he's pursued

479
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: all the time by the inspector Javert. Oh yeah yeah.

480
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: And then he um, he meets that hun back and

481
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: he has to wear that iron mask for a while

482
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: and he he has his face gets scarred, and he

483
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: starts living in that opera house. Yeah, there are a

484
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: lot of ins and outs. I'm not gonna lie. I'm

485
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: a sucker for the musical. I love him is so.

486
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: Michael Renney was also a Nree is the Robe. Here's

487
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: a lot of war films and thrillers over the course

488
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: of his long career, fair amount of TV as well. Um.

489
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: He pops up in the nineteen sixties Batman series as

490
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: the villain Sandman, who I don't remember this guy, but

491
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: he does not look like whatever you're thinking. If you're

492
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: not familiar with us and you're imagining like a d

493
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,239
Speaker 1: C comic book Sandman, this is not it. He he

494
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: has like a big fur coat on the I just

495
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: looked him up. Okay, Well, to come back to the

496
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: theme of fur coats. Yes, I don't know what else

497
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: to say about him. He's very distinguished looking. Uh. He

498
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: he looks like a like a man of great stature

499
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: and who deserving of respect. And he's wearing a gigantic, thick,

500
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: thick her coat. Yeah. So Assignment Terror was his final picture,

501
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: but it isn't the only European B movie that he did.

502
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: He also appeared in Antonio Margaretti's film The Young, the

503
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: Evil and the Savage, which which was a Jollo film

504
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: that was also released under the title Naked You Die Man.

505
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: They were great with titles, weren't they. Yeah. But so

506
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: before this, I mainly knew him as clot Too. He's

507
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: clat too in the famous as you said, the Day

508
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: the Earth Stood Still. He's great in that role in

509
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: this movie. Uh, you know, Michael Renney, he's got good presence.

510
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be honest, he's kind of phoning it in.

511
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: I get the feeling he's sort of collecting a paycheck

512
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: on this film. Yeah, but still he's Michael Renney, So

513
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's excelling, even if he's if for

514
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,959
Speaker 1: his own ability, he's just kind of keeping it at

515
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: mid level. Yes. Now, a lot of the secondary actors, though,

516
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: give much more impassion to performances, and I would say

517
00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 1: one of them is Karen dor Yeah. She plays Maliva

518
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: or malva Um, who is a science that she's okay,

519
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: she's a scient a dead scientist, right, No, yeah, yes,

520
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: both of them. She's she's just like Michael Renney. She

521
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: plays an alien who is like a psychic projection inhabiting

522
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: the body, the resurrected body of a dead Earth scientist.

523
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: I was really confused about who she played at first,

524
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: because she is probably best remembered as a redheaded actor.

525
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: Uh she has red hair. In nineteen seven's You Only

526
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: Live Twice, the Bond film, she's she's not a Bond girl,

527
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: She's a Bond girl villain, right. She's Um, an underling

528
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: of one of the adversaries in that picture. She works

529
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: for Donald Pleasants as blow Feld, and she there's a

530
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: scene where I think she's supposed to kill James Bond,

531
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 1: but instead she's won over by his charms and somehow

532
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: he gets away, and then as punishment, Donald Pleasants drops

533
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: her into his pit of piranhas and she is stripped

534
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: to the bone by the by the toothy fish. Uh Man,

535
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: we still need to come back and do episodes on Piranhas.

536
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: But anyway, Karen Door was also in nineteen sixty seven

537
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: The Torture Chamber of Doctor Sadism with it's a very

538
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: tasteful sounding film. Yeah, various German films of the fifties

539
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: and sixties, including nineteen sixty two is the Carpet of Horror,

540
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: a title that got me really excited at first, because

541
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: I was imagining some sort of a monster carpet, like

542
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: hopefully some sort of shag carpet that eats people. But

543
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be about that. It seems to

544
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: be about like some sort of like um gas based

545
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: murders or something, some sort of thriller. What okay, then,

546
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,959
Speaker 1: why is it called that? I don't know, I don't know,

547
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm less curious now that it doesn't seem

548
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: like it's a monster carpet, death carpet, the carpet that

549
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: these people. Uh well, so in this one, she yeah,

550
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: she plays an alien and uh she she sort of

551
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: learns to love before the other alien, main alien does her.

552
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: I guess maybe he never does. But she gets a

553
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: lot of stern lecturing by Michael Rennie. Yeah, there's a

554
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: whole lot of lecturing going on in this film about

555
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: passion and about how passion is a human weakness. And

556
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: even though you've taken on the form slash body of

557
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: a dead human, don't you dare have human emotions, because

558
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: they will, They'll mess you up, they'll derail the whole plan.

559
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: And of course that's exactly what seems to happen, right,

560
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: that they're what makes humanity weak and why we are

561
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: the rightful inheritors of this planet. We're They're emotional and

562
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: we're not. They're impulsive and we're not. Now, our hero

563
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: of sorts in this film would be Inspector Toberman played

564
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: by Craig Hill, who lived through Uh. We kept laughing

565
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: at him. I think this detective he's supposed to he's

566
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: very handsome, and he's supposed to you know, woo the

567
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: lady who will get to in a minute. But he

568
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: is just such a dope. Yeah yeah, Now, now Craig

569
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: Hill himself playing the character American actor who had a

570
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: small role in nineteen fifties All About Eve. He also

571
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 1: appears in the Italian horror film The Bloodstained Shadow from

572
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: seventy eight. Uh. He was apparently a twentieth century Fox

573
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: contract player who then moved to Spain mostly to work

574
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:21,879
Speaker 1: in western so if you look him up, you'll see

575
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: a lot of pictures of him in cowboy hats. He

576
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: has just very expressive eyes, you know, eyes that really

577
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: really look good, uh, staring out from under the brim

578
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: of a cowboy hat, that kind of thing. In this

579
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: he's your don't think he does ultimately does a good job,

580
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: but he's playing your standard smoking and drinking detective who

581
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: just might fall in love a few times rather inappropriately,

582
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: um as he investigates the case. Yeah, this film has

583
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: several scenes of like, oh, guess these people are kissing now, Okay, Yeah,

584
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: And the main person he ends up kissing is this character,

585
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: um Ilsa sternberg Elsa, played by Patty Shepherd, who lived nineteen.

586
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: She was an American born actor who appeared in a

587
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: whole host of notable Spanish B movies up through the

588
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 1: late nineteen eighties. I believe her connection with Spain began

589
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: as a child, as she was the daughter of the

590
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: United States Air Force Brigadier General Leland C. Shepherd Jr.

591
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: Uh She's um She's the sister of actor Judith Chapman,

592
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: who is mostly known for her soap opera work, but

593
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 1: also pops up in films like Night of the Running

594
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: Man and is King Richard. But yeah, Patty Shepherd is

595
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: a face you'll recognize if you watch a lot of

596
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 1: Spanish films from the UH from from this time period,

597
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: from the nineteen seventies especially. Her mini credits include seventy

598
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: ones The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman. That's another Paul

599
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: Nashy werewolf picture. And I believe she plays the vampire

600
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: or a vampire in that. Okay, I'd watch that. Yeah,

601
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 1: she's in seventy two, Is My Dear Killer nineteen seventy

602
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: two is a House without Frontiers, which I don't think

603
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: has any connection to Peter Gabriel Um nineteen seventy three,

604
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 1: Crypt of the Living Dead nine seven's rest in Pieces,

605
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: slugs in Night Edge of the Acts. Slugs. Is that

606
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: a Is that a one Piquer Simone movie? It is? Yeah, Yeah,

607
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: it's a It's a pretty it's pretty gross one, pretty

608
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: stupid one that we may have to come back to. Um.

609
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: But oh oh, but she Patty Shephard was also in

610
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: a hole in a string of westerns as well. Her

611
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: westerns include twenty Paces to Death from nineteen seventy, The

612
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 1: Legend of Frenchie King from seventy one. The Man Called

613
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: Noon from seventy three and nineteen seventy four is The

614
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: Stranger and the Gunfighter. I cannot emphasize enough that The

615
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: Stranger and the Gunfighter stars Levan Cliff opposite Hong Kong

616
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: action star low Ley. It was a kung fu spaghetti

617
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: western comedy film directed by Antonio Margaretti and co produced

618
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: the Shaw Brothers, WHOA I've yeah, I've never heard of that.

619
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: I would watch it. I will also say you included

620
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: a picture of of Patti Shephard in her role in

621
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: The Man Called Noon, and she looks awesome. She she

622
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: does cowboy cowboy get up really well. Absolutely yeah. So,

623
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: like I said, she was kind of a standard casting

624
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: of the time period. Alright. So going back to the

625
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: aliens that are inhabiting human form, the other main alien

626
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: crony is Dr Kirian, played by um Agel del Pozo,

627
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: Spanish actor who also pops up in the Star studied

628
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: nine three film The Three Musketeers uh the seventy two

629
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: Spanish film Horror Express. He basically did a lot of

630
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: westerns and in later horror movies. We also have Manuel

631
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: Didlath who plays Count Janos the meal Hoff. This is

632
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: essentially our our our discount Dracula. This is where so

633
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: we're getting into the monsters now. Yeah, we're getting in

634
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: the monsters now. This is our Dracula character and also

635
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: one of two counts. It's kind of confusing that our

636
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: werewolf is account but also our vampire's account. That's true. Okay,

637
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: so as we go, I'm going to rate the Monsters.

638
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: I will say that, uh, this movie is Dracula. I

639
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: enjoyed every time he was on screen because he had

640
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:28,439
Speaker 1: a kind of a pleasurable, amusing appearance. But also Count

641
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: Yanush is just an absolute cretan, just a wretched dweeb

642
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: and uh Rachel and I were getting offended by the

643
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: shots where they tried to do the Bella lego see

644
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: callbacks with him, like the single shaft of light falling

645
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: across his eyes as he leans over you. And yeah,

646
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: he he is no bella. But I did love his

647
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: hilarious acrobatics and the way he walked around with it.

648
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: He never closed his mouth, He's just walking around going

649
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: the whole time. Yeah, Like, like the directors like we

650
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: want to see those teeth of those teeth. Um, Yeah,

651
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: it's it's not a great Dracula. Luckily the film seems

652
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: to realize that, so they kind of like sideline him.

653
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: You would think Dracula would be the ring leader, like

654
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: he is in Monster Squad or something, but instead he's

655
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: kind of he's kind of a second fiddle player to

656
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: like for Frankenstein or excuse me for rank Salon. Yeah,

657
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: he has more non sperato energy than he has Dracula

658
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: energy in this um, despite clearly having the Dracula makeup Anyway,

659
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: that the actor here is Spanish actor pops up in

660
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: quite a few things over the years. He's but he's

661
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: still active apparently, and has been active since sixty one.

662
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: He was in the Armando Diosario nineteen four Blind Dead movie,

663
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 1: The Ghost Gallion. He was in seventy four is the Dead,

664
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: The Devil and the Flesh. He was in some of these.

665
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm just listening because the titles are great. Nineteen seventy

666
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: seven's a dog called Vengeance, and then there's Slugs, which

667
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: we already mentioned n The starring Paul McGann and oh

668
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus. The Discovery Goya's goes from two thousand six

669
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: and two is Uncharted. Just small parts in those last three,

670
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: but still you know, he's still out there, still getting

671
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: his face on camera. I watched Uncharted on a plane.

672
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: Don't remember who this guy was. I think it was

673
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: a very small part, but he's still out there. Don't

674
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: don't particularly recommend that one. Now. The Monster of Froxylon

675
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: is played by Fernando Morolo, Spanish actor active in film

676
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: and TV through two thousand and seven. Um nothing really

677
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 1: stood out to me all that all that much though,

678
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: Um I mean, he plays a Frankenstein in this, so

679
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, uh different review on the Frankenstein. So

680
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: his makeup not good and makeup not good at all.

681
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: He looks kind of somehow, they kind of make him

682
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: look like Phil Hartman, so I kept doing you might

683
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: remember me from such monster films as you know, Frankenstein

684
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: still cruising or I don't remember what I said, but anyway,

685
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: so he looks like Phil Hartman and kind of yellow green,

686
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: almost kind of vomit colored makeup. It's not a great design,

687
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: but he's a really good presence in this movie. He's

688
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,959
Speaker 1: sort of the main muscle for the villain. Yeah, yeah,

689
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: when they initially unslay him or resurrect him. Um the

690
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: evil alien doctors like he was powered by electricity, We're

691
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: gonna make him atomic, so we get essentially an atomic

692
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: Frankenstein in this So we don't really see much that

693
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: seems to indicate that there is truly atomic energy at

694
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: play in his um anatomy and physicality. Now, but uh yeah,

695
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: I agree, strong presence in the film, but also not

696
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: the best Frankenstein makeup I've seen, not the worst, and

697
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: also the makeup I found looks worse in photographs. When

698
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: you see him in action, it looks a little better.

699
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: I think part of it is that they didn't go

700
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: for the smooth forehead. They seem to go ahead and

701
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: incorporate the line between prosthetic four an actual forehead as

702
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: kind of a scar which and depending on what angle

703
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: you're looking at, it can make it look faker. Yes,

704
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 1: I agree, you could clearly see he was wearing a cap. Okay,

705
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: But then there's toot At the Mummy played by Gene

706
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: rayas uh He's only only has like thirteen credits that

707
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: I could find, and no birth or death dates, and

708
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: he seems to have been frequently cast as indigenous Americans

709
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: and Westerns, or as Asian or Egyptian characters in various

710
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: genre pictures. Um Preferencetance. He has an uncredited role in

711
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: Just Franco's nine The Castle of fu Manchoose, starring Christopher

712
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: lee h. He plays an Egyptian character in that. Okay,

713
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: that kind of thing that aside, though, what do you

714
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: think of the Mommy costume? Well, the Mommy costume was

715
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: pretty good. And one strange thing about the okay, I

716
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: have all kinds of questions about the different monsters powers.

717
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: I wonder if we should save that for when we

718
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: talk about the plot. But I was not clear on

719
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: what the mummies powers are, like what can the mummy do? Um? Well, like,

720
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 1: I think this is a common trap of mummy pictures.

721
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: We may have talked about this before you get a

722
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: mummy on screen. The mummy is really convincing, is it's

723
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna shambling around? But then how do you do

724
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: the kills? And a lot of times the best you

725
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: can do is kind of a loose strangle, uh, and

726
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: generally not a very convincing strangle. Um. I think I'm

727
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: sure I've mentioned before that I think one of my

728
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: favorite renditions of a killer Mummy is actually Entails from

729
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: the Dark Side, the movie in which the Mummy uh

730
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: like straightens out a coat hanger and remove somebody's brain

731
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: through their nostril, which I thought was nice and uh

732
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: and fitting like fits in with the whole mummification process

733
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: thematically appropriate murder. Yeah, yeah, but a lot of times, Yeah,

734
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: the mummies can be underwhelming. Once you actually get him

735
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: on screen, you gotta you gotta figure out how to

736
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: use them in a threatening manner. And in this film,

737
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 1: we see the Mummy kill one dude who's already asleep,

738
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: is not a main character, and he just kind of

739
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: loosely hugs him to death in a manner of seconds. Yeah,

740
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 1: that is just sort of a proof of concept. It's

741
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: right after they make the Mummy arise and then he

742
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: just attacks a random dude. I don't think the Mummy

743
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: in this film ever causes harm to any of the

744
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: villain's enemies. No, but there's a cool fight towards the end.

745
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 1: We'll get to it when when when the Mummy actually

746
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: has his final battle. It was a highlight of the

747
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: film for me. Same here, yes, now, just a I

748
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 1: think one final credit here on people involved in making

749
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: the film. Franco Selina is credited with the music composer,

750
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: who scored several films, including nine seventies Churchill's Leopards, a

751
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:55,479
Speaker 1: Spanish war film that starred Richard Harrison, Frank Barna, he's

752
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: the Sam the eagle looking guy that we've we've mentioned before,

753
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: Helga Lena, who has been in a couple of other

754
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: Spanish films that we've watched, and also Uh, klaus Kinsky

755
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: on this film. I can't speak to other films that

756
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: he's worked on, but I don't know. I thought the

757
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: music was pretty solid in here and this one. It's

758
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: spooky in places, groovy and other places, perhaps in a

759
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: jarring fashion, but whatever energy the film is into at

760
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: a given moment, I feel like the music backs up

761
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: the vibe pretty well. I totally agree. And speaking of groovy, Uh,

762
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: the film kicks off with pretty groovy vibes, groovy music,

763
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: kind of a psychedelic screen splash on there as the

764
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: aliens from another galaxy or or whatever are communicating with

765
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: us and or the some of the main characters. They

766
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 1: talked to each other through TVs, much like we would

767
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: see in Robot Monster or other such films. Yeah, and

768
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, for a film of this caliber

769
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: and at this time period, kind of advanced, kind of ambitious,

770
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: and for the most part, they pull it off pretty well.

771
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: It's easy to take for granted today in our our

772
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: screen based world. But what did you make of the

773
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 1: fact that sometimes the aliens talk, even to people who

774
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: are in the same room with them through a TV.

775
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,479
Speaker 1: Do you remember these scenes? Oh? Yeah, I know there's

776
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: one later on where somebody's talking to somebody basically in

777
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: the next room through a television. Well, I think there's

778
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: a scene where the inspector or somebody busts into the

779
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: room where Michael Renny is and he's standing there with

780
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: his back to him and talking to him, facing him

781
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: through a television screen on the opposite wall. Mm hmmm,

782
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? No, that that sounds likely. I think

783
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: that might what happened. Maybe maybe that tangent and nowhere

784
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No, No No, it's deep, deep thinking will be required,

785
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: perhaps something to do with the aliens view, you know,

786
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: our relation to media. I'm not sure. Well, the very

787
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: first thing we see is, yeah, these TV screens that

788
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: are showing a sort of tie dye lava lamp background.

789
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's hippie o'clock, and the Aliens are

790
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: talking about their plan to take over planet Earth, which

791
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: involves resurrecting the bodies of dead Earth scientists and inhabiting them.

792
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: And then I think initially, now, one thing that I

793
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: found confusing, Rob, I wonder if you took it the

794
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: same way I understood it that the aliens initial plan

795
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: was not to resurrect Dracula or store brand Dracula, Frankenstein

796
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: and so forth. Instead, it was initially to uh to

797
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: like psychically possessed like a bunch of beautiful Earth women

798
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: and have them infiltrate the like halls of power and

799
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: like influence powerful statesmen and scientists and stuff. But then

800
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: in doing that they immediately get sidetracked when they accidentally

801
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: resurrect to Dracula. Did you did you take it the

802
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: same way? Yeah, It's established pretty early that the doctor

803
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: warren Off here played by Michael Rennie, is all about

804
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: resurrecting so not only scientists but some utiful scientists to

805
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: go out and control the men of the world and

806
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: manipulate them. But yeah, they almost immediately pivot and and

807
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: use this ability not to influence, say the leader of

808
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: a country, but instead to seduce the owner of a

809
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: like have a carnival side showed Dracula uh um act

810
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: and steal his Dracula skeleton that he's showing off, right,

811
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: So I guess we're going to start off by, like,

812
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 1: let's go to six Flags Frankfurt. Yeah, yeah, we're somewhere,

813
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: You're a German fair somewhere. And there's this guy up there.

814
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: And again this is a scene that's apparently right out

815
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: of the House of Frankenstein. But this guy's like, like,

816
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: see the skeleton of the vampire. Look, behold it as

817
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: a stake through its chest. Uh. It's temporarily immobilizing the

818
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: vampire and preventing it from having life. And so our aliens,

819
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: who just minutes earlier, we're like, the humans of this

820
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: world are so superstitious and they're so emotion enal. But

821
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: then they realized whoa wait, actually monsters do exist. They

822
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: weren't lying about that. Uh here's one here. Um, go

823
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: seduce the guy who owns this thing so we can

824
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: steal it. And that's exactly how it goes down. Malava

825
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: seduces the man, steaks the vampire. Showman with his own

826
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: steak right out of the body of the dead vampire bones,

827
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: and they also go ahead and kidnap his blonde assistant

828
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:33,240
Speaker 1: for good measure. The blonde assistant is a character named

829
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: Ilona played by Gela Geisler, who wasn't in a lot else,

830
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: but she's the beautiful blonde assistant that they decide they

831
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: need her as well, I guess because she's beautiful. And

832
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 1: now it's like plan A just to have beautiful people

833
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: that the aliens control. Um. But there's a great scene here.

834
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: They've barely unstaked the vampire skeleton and it's already beginning

835
00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: to regenerate, reconstituting guts and eyeballs. First, Oh yeah, we

836
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: we loved that scene, Like just playto intestines and throbbing

837
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: livers and lungs and eyeballs popping in. That one was good.

838
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: And it's shortly after this that we meet Craig Hill

839
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: playing Inspector Toberman, who's immediately on the case. This movie

840
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: keeps us abreast of the investigation every chance it gets.

841
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 1: What is Inspector Toberman doing or not doing regarding this case? Oh,

842
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: it will even take a moment to give you a

843
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: scene of Inspector Toberman just reporting that he has gotten

844
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: nowhere with the case, and or or he seems to

845
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: have taken a few minutes to himself and gone to

846
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: a bar to smoke and drink. Um. Not that he

847
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: just smokes and drinks at the bar. He smokes and

848
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 1: drinks pretty much everywhere else he goes. But uh, yeah,

849
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: even if he's not doing anything, the movie is like,

850
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: I wonder what Inspector Toberman is doing. Let's go see.

851
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: But as much as we cut tow Toberman, we also

852
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: cut away from him. So we go back to the

853
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: alien castle and it's mad science time. It's a nice

854
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: laboratory they have going on here, lots of cool will gadgets,

855
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: some gel colors. Uh. They decided to put the blonde

856
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: assistant into the neuroelectric chair they have there. I was

857
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: a little foggy on exactly what they were accomplishing with

858
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: any of those, but a lot of scenes of are

859
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: an electric chair getting shocks. Well is it shocks? I

860
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 1: thought they explained that it was sounds, because there is

861
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: a sound. That's a horrible sound. I'm gonna say a

862
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: note to aspiring filmmakers out there, if your film includes

863
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: a plot element of a device that makes excruciating sounds

864
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: to torture people. You don't actually have to play those

865
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: sounds for the audience. You can like have it take

866
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: place within headphones and we just see their reaction or whatever.

867
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: This film made a really piercing, high pitched squeal that

868
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: I found unbearable, and it went on for way too long. Oh,

869
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: I mean it that reminds me of and Or Have

870
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: you watched and Or yet? No, I haven't. I've heard

871
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: it's very good. Yeah this no, no, this is a

872
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: very mild spoiler. But at one point there's an interior

873
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: gation scene where they explain, we have some sounds on

874
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: what we're about to play for you. It's the like

875
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 1: the extermination cries of a species that the Empire killed off. Um,

876
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: and they talk it up about how awful it's going

877
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: to be, but they never play the sound for you,

878
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: and they don't have to because they've given this this

879
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: wonderful introduction to what it's going to do to your brain. Yeah,

880
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: that's how you could do it. You don't actually have

881
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: to have a piercing, high pitched squeal on the soundtrack

882
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: of the film. We the audience will understand what's happening. Yeah,

883
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: but hindsight this is this is the late sixties when

884
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: they filmed us, so they play it out loud for us. Anyway,

885
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: we also see that they do have a casket, an

886
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: open casket here with the slumbering prints of darkness himself

887
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: count janos Um and there's I think some mild another

888
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: one of the many um Um ideas that are laid

889
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: out and never really expanded up on. They're like, I

890
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: wonder what would happen if we injected his blood into

891
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: new subjects? Oh, yeah, Chekhov's gun number seven, that they've

892
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: got a whole Dracula blood plan that do they do

893
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: anything with that? Or if so, I don't recall now

894
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: I think I think Nashy was just just went ahead

895
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: and sort of made notes in screenplay for possible future projects.

896
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: So Toberman, still on the case, he checks in. He's like,

897
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 1: all right, I need to get ahold of the writings

898
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: of Professor Ulric Vaughan Frankel's Frank Salon Um Frank Salem,

899
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: Frank Salon, Frank Salon, Yes, Salon and uh. And so

900
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: he goes to like the local library to to check

901
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: it out, and they're like Hey, someone else was asking

902
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: about these writings as well. I believe that means that

903
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: it was Dr Voronoff that was there looking into it.

904
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: But he finds a copy. It's the Anthology of Monsters.

905
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: He finds it in the archive. Uh, and almost immediately

906
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: blood starts dripping on it from a dead man overhead.

907
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: I have many questions about this book. First of all,

908
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 1: this was a book written by a reesely living scientist.

909
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: Why does it look like an illuminated manuscript from the

910
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: Middle Ages? Uh? Second, what exactly was this book? This

911
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: isn't so he's the guy who created the Frankenstein Monster,

912
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: the far Salon monster, but he also just wrote an

913
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: encyclopedia of monsters with the illustrations by hand. I guess

914
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: so it's ye, it's part travelogue of creating Francalons monster,

915
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: but also chronicling other monsters created beings that exist. That's

916
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: the way I was led to understand it. So we

917
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: see the count to the Vampire, we see the Wolfman,

918
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 1: we see the Mummy, and then we see the golem.

919
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: So we're sure to get a golem in this film? Right? No? No,

920
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: I think golem was cut for budget or time. Alright,

921
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: so more stuff occurs. We get more time in the

922
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: Alien lads, more electric chair stuff. Um, we go to

923
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: the a nice morgue scene and it's really splendid, more

924
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: environment that I feel like I've seen a more just

925
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 1: like this in many films, so it's always a de light. Um.

926
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: They start talking about this jelatine substance was found on

927
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: on a victim's clothing, that it might be vampire blood.

928
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I was wondering, is this vampire blood? Is

929
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: this alien blood? I'm not sure, but they'd sure to

930
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: talk about it a lot. Oh yeah, I don't remember

931
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: what happened with the gelatine substance. They keep checking in

932
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: on it. Meanwhile, Toberman has been reading the Anthology of Monsters,

933
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: which you know, deals again with created beings. He's reading

934
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 1: more and more about what's out there. Meanwhile, Dr Warnoff

935
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: and his stooges they go out to rob some graves

936
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: it looks like but no, they're digging up uh Francelon's monster.

937
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,959
Speaker 1: And meanwhile I have to point out Earth is still

938
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: somewhat populated by humans, so things are just beginning to

939
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: roll along here. Yeah, they're really not not hopping to it.

940
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: You would think their bosses would be like, now, what

941
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: what exactly is it you're working on? I thought we

942
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: had like super weapons from space. Yeah, like they clearly

943
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: established earlier they want to colonize the planet, so they

944
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: need to really step things up a bit. But okay,

945
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: so they got for wrong salons Monster. When when are

946
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 1: we gonna get away? Actually I need a wolfman. When

947
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: do we get one? I think? I think Actually I

948
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: was incorrect. They haven't got ferronc Salons Monster yet. Instead,

949
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:27,479
Speaker 1: they have found Count Valdemar Danyinsky, the werewolf Nasci's werewolf um,

950
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: who seems to be I guess subdued in a casket

951
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: with wolf spain or something. Oh I thought it was

952
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: with a silver bullet had Yes, yes, yes, we find

953
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 1: that out. That's right, because immediately we cut to surgery,

954
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: which is a nice surgery scene, nice and bloody that

955
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,879
Speaker 1: I think might actually incorporate some stock footage of open

956
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: heart surgeries as well. They're getting in there and they

957
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:55,240
Speaker 1: they have beautiful, colorful equipment, um, beautiful nurses standing around

958
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: as the aliens remove the silver bullet from Paul Nashi's heart.

959
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: Uh and he This is where we learn that the

960
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: only way a werewolf can actually be killed, is to

961
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: be shot in the heart with a silver bullet by

962
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 1: not just anyone, but by a woman who loves him,

963
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: truly loves him so much that she is willing to

964
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: die for him. And I think the problem was he

965
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: has currently been sitting in suspended animation because he was

966
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: shot in the heart with a silver bullet by a woman,

967
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: but maybe she didn't quite love him enough for it

968
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: to fully work, so instead he's just been like an

969
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: incorruptible saint's body, lying there frozen in time and waiting

970
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: for the aliens to come get him. I mean, he's

971
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: got to be more clear about what he wants from

972
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: a relationship. Need to put that right out on the profile.

973
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a woman who loves me enough to

974
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: shoot me with a silver bullet and made me stay dead.

975
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: So in in in resurrecting him, and it's I was

976
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: a little unclear to on what their their main goal

977
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: with him was, because they they basically see him to

978
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: bring him back, to have him serve as kind of

979
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: a stooge, as another bit of hired muscle. But they're

980
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: not going to take advantage of the were wolf aspect

981
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: of him. As much because they're saying, well, we're going

982
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 1: to use a serum on him that's gonna keep him

983
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: in line, keep him from transforming. Clearly, were wolf Dninsky

984
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: is just too much for us to control. But if

985
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: we just have hunky Paul Nashi on hand, like we can,

986
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: we can use that. We need somebody to swing a pickaxe.

987
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: They need a Paul Nashy who's like seventy percent of

988
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: the way to wear a wolf already. So that's just enough.

989
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: Like he's really hunky, really beefy. He can do what

990
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: needs to be done, but he's not going to get

991
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: out of hand like wolf, like wolf mode of Valdemar.

992
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: But he's hunky, he's attractive. Uh. Immediately the alien, the

993
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: main female alien, Malava, starts falling for him. She's she's

994
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 1: already having feelings about him. I think they all do, right,

995
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: doesn't the blonde alien ified lady also fall in love

996
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: with him? She does, She directly falls in love with him.

997
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: And I think the Maleva, the alien she is like

998
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: so inspired by their love for each other that she

999
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,919
Speaker 1: she gets like sympathy love feelings. I guess I don't

1000
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: know how to fully explain that. Yeah, and I guess

1001
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: what the aliens like Malva. There's this feeling that it's like, well,

1002
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm an alien, but I'm occupying a human form. Oh.

1003
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: Human emotions are are welling up and I don't know

1004
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: what to do with them. But our blonde assistant here,

1005
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: she she's just human in love with this man. Right. Anyway,

1006
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: the plans coming together at this point, uh something about

1007
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: using all of these unslayed, undying monsters to create an

1008
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: army of monsters to conquer the earth. I think, Um,

1009
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 1: maybe I'm reading too much into it. We cut to

1010
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: a scene where do Nynski is chained. He's in a dungeon,

1011
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 1: and the transformation begins. Classic wolfman transformation. Seen here. You

1012
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm talking about. Camera cuts away, a

1013
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: little more hair on the hand, Camera cuts back to

1014
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: the face, a little more hair on the face, repeat repeat. Yeah. Yeah,

1015
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: of course chains are not going to hold a fully

1016
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: transformed werewolf. He pulls the chains out of the wall

1017
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: and he escapes. So I guess the serum hasn't been

1018
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: developed yet or hasn't been administered at this point. Yeah.

1019
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: I was also unclear on that. We touched in with

1020
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: the police briefly they're not getting much work done. We

1021
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: go back to do Nynsky. He's prowl in the night.

1022
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: Had no news from them, but d Nynsky's he's about

1023
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: to try and get stuff done. He's in full werewolf mode,

1024
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: prowl in the streets at night. There's a scene where

1025
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: a young lady is in a car and she's about

1026
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: to light up a smoke and he reached and it

1027
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: reaches in through the window, the open window, after her,

1028
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: and it's hard to tell if he's going for her

1029
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: or the pack of smokes in her hand. I found

1030
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: the scene rather funny because I was like, oh, man,

1031
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: he really he really needs a smoke right now. Yeah,

1032
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: I thought he was grabbing at the cigarette, but no,

1033
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: I think he's just trying to slash it people. Because

1034
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: later he he just slashes a random lady in the street,

1035
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: and I thought he was gonna eat her, because isn't

1036
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: that what a werewolf does, don't they eat people? But

1037
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: he didn't eat her. He just kind of like scratch

1038
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: scratch and then runs away. Yeah, he murders her and

1039
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: then then runs off basically, so yeah, the first lady

1040
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: escapes by rolling up her window really fast, which is

1041
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: all you need is the first lady, Patty Shepherd, I

1042
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: think it is. Yeah, I believe so. At the time,

1043
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: I was a little confused about this, but yeah, this

1044
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: because she's going to be a survivor. That factors into

1045
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: the plot. Lighter cool. But now at this point the

1046
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: film hasn't been groovy enough in a little bit, so

1047
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: we cut directly to a like a go go club,

1048
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: a place called the Golden Egg. Yes, I love this place,

1049
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure much is really accomplished in this scene,

1050
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: but there's some groovy music playing. I think the same

1051
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: groovy music from earlier cool kids are dancing in a

1052
01:01:55,520 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: colorful club. Dr Varnoff ventures in, likely on alien business,

1053
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: but all this hippie nonsense seems a little bit too

1054
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 1: much for him. Toberman is there, I guess on the case.

1055
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: Everyone's having a drink though. Toberman orders the Scotch and

1056
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: water and um and then and then Dr Varnov leaves

1057
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: and nothing really happens. Oh, we were on the lookout

1058
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: for Ja and Beeve and I didn't catch any Yeah,

1059
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: they never. We never got to even see the drink served.

1060
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, what was this scene about. Nobody

1061
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: interacted with each other, and we didn't even get to

1062
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 1: see the drink. But somehow the Aliens, I think, they

1063
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: recapture Voldemar, they get the werewolf back. So Paul Nashi

1064
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: is once again and chained. And then they're like, uh,

1065
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: somebody's fault that he got out. Probably it's it's probably

1066
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: this blonde woman's fault. Uh. So we're going to play

1067
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: the high pitch noise at her and at you again.

1068
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 1: H So there's a torture scene for both her and

1069
01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: um and Doninski and uh and you know it's not

1070
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: gonna work. Clearly, they're they're not gonna be able to

1071
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: break this this love bond that is emerging between these two.

1072
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's the aliens whole thing. Dr Varnoff

1073
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: is like, is always harping on the fact that that

1074
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: the passion is a weakness, and uh, we need to

1075
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: to sort of bleed the passion out of these two

1076
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: so they can continue to service. Oh but that's when

1077
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: the Alien TV chimes in with news the money of

1078
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 1: Tao Tad has been found, presumably in Egypt. Thank god,

1079
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: now we'll get to find out what the Mummy's powers are.

1080
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: So there's this some stock footage of a t w

1081
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 1: A flight going to Egypt, presumably, and and then we

1082
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: see um the two main alien underlings and Count Donynsky

1083
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 1: in a muscle shirt with a grave robbing pick axe

1084
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: going into some Egyptian ruins to rob a grave, which

1085
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: also makes me think these three flew together on that

1086
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: t w A flight to Egypt. Well, I wanted to

1087
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 1: see that scene. They got a werewolf on an airplane.

1088
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: You never bring a werewolf on an airplane. You might

1089
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: do the math wrong, cross the international date line. Suddenly

1090
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: it's a full moon. You didn't plan af Oh my god. Yeah.

1091
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 1: But anyway, they get their nice tombs set, even if

1092
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: it basically feels like a redecorated tomb set from any

1093
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 1: given Spanish horror film of this time period. But they

1094
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: bust through one wall with some very modern looking bricks,

1095
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 1: and they bust through another wall, and boy, the tomb

1096
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 1: is just loaded with loot um. They do it like

1097
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: kind of an Indiana Jones ask amult reflection deal to

1098
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 1: to put put some light on the Mummy's tomb, and

1099
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: immediately the mummy starts coming to life, emerging from the tomb.

1100
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: And that's when we get this wonderful death by hug scene,

1101
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: and once again I think this is the only person

1102
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: harmed by the Mummy and the whole film. The Mummy

1103
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: otherwise just kind of menaces people but never does anything until,

1104
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: of course, Paul Nashy destroys him, and Paul Nashy, by

1105
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: the way, destroys everything. Paul Nashi is smashing through walls,

1106
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 1: Paul Nashy and swinging the pickaxe. Paul Nashy is pulling

1107
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: chains and uh and like turning a giant wheel. Paul

1108
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: Nashy is just a mountain and he it'll all make

1109
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: sense if you see him in this performance especially or

1110
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,479
Speaker 1: in any performance. But he's an interesting screen presence because

1111
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: he's not you know, he's jacked. Uh. But he's not

1112
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 1: what you might think of as you're sort of handsome

1113
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 1: leading man character. I mean, he's you know, he's he's

1114
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 1: not a bad looking guy by any stretch, but um,

1115
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that like sort of western leading man look.

1116
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: And there's some sort of kind of you know, awkward

1117
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: elements to the to his energy. There's kind of like

1118
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: a reserved energy to some of his performances, especially in

1119
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: this film. And I would also say he's sort of

1120
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 1: classic round jacked, not like vacuum packed peanuts jacked. Right. So, anyway,

1121
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: they've successfully robbed the tomb, and I don't know how

1122
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:49,920
Speaker 1: they fly back. Do they go? I mean, did they

1123
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: travel back via t w A. Do they have to

1124
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: get an extra seat for the Mummy's flying with them? Um?

1125
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: How's that going to work? I have no idea. But

1126
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 1: they make it back so almost instantly, though, it's clear

1127
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: that well, your alien lab has a lot of monsters

1128
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 1: in it at this point, and there are going to

1129
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: be some problems. The vampire is hypnotizing the ladies. Uh,

1130
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: but still samples are being collected, more warnings against human

1131
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: emotions and human weaknesses. Uh. And there's this great monologue

1132
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 1: from Michael re anywhere. He's like, look, the Mummy's heart

1133
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: is dead. It's empty. Be more like the Mummy. Up next,

1134
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna get this uh, this Frankenstein creature. He he

1135
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 1: doesn't even have a heart. Uh. That's that's how great

1136
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: he is. Be like the Frankenstein. And oh, by the way,

1137
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna make him atomic once we get him. Also,

1138
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 1: these aliens do not realize that the heart, as the

1139
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: seat of emotions is a metaphor, like the emotions in

1140
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: a literal sense come from the brain, and they're talking

1141
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: about literal anatomical features as as limiting of emotions. Yeah,

1142
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: but I mean it's it's all new territory for these aliens.

1143
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: I guess. Now the vampire, our count Pianos, he escapes,

1144
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 1: he starts running around the castle at night. Um, he's

1145
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: um he's he's sneaking into into the main alien minions

1146
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: room and trying to hypnotize her. He's being a wretched creep. Yeah.

1147
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 1: So he's chased off. Oh yeah, and then he just

1148
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:22,400
Speaker 1: he just runs away when the aliens catch him doing that.

1149
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:25,600
Speaker 1: He's so he's a wretched creep. But he's also not

1150
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: a very powerful vampire. Did you get the sense that

1151
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: the vampire in this movie even has like super strength

1152
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: or anything. I did not know. He's just he's just

1153
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: creepy and he just comes out at night. I guess

1154
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: he's really quiet. He's like a rat. Yeah. I think

1155
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 1: his only power I recall is that he can hypnotize

1156
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 1: people with his eyes. Yeah. Now this is when Frank

1157
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: Slan's monster is brought in and they've we don't get

1158
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: to see them dig him up or find him in

1159
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: a warehouse or stitching back together anything like that. But

1160
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: they're like, good news, we found him here he is,

1161
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 1: we got him at a police auction. But then we

1162
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: get a cool scene though, where, um, where where? Michael

1163
01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 1: Renny's like, we gotta test this monster out, so he

1164
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: sends him into the cell to go after d Nynski.

1165
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,000
Speaker 1: That was a tense scene. I was like, oh, no,

1166
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: you are not going to do this to Paul Nashy. Yeah,

1167
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: because he again he's on the serium. Now we've had

1168
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: scenes where he's been injected so he can't turn into

1169
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: a werewolf. In Battle of Franks Salon's Monster, so Frank's

1170
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: Alan's monster like pretty much almost kills him. Um hasn't

1171
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,759
Speaker 1: has him in a death chokehold, and it's the blonde

1172
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: assistant who calls out and says, no, you've got to

1173
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 1: spare him, and so Michael Renny's character does, but also

1174
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: makes it Unleash is another monologue about the uncaring universe

1175
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: and the uh and and the dangers of passion. Speaking

1176
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: of passion, this whole time, there's a developing love story.

1177
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,639
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this b plot with the love story

1178
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:54,840
Speaker 1: with Inspector Toberman, the handsome detective, and uh and Patty

1179
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 1: Shepherd and then like her dad, who's a judge who

1180
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:01,759
Speaker 1: saw a werewolf once? Yeah, and the werewolf in question,

1181
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 1: I think is uh is Paul Nashy. So it's like

1182
01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 1: there's some sort of connection there and it really feels unnecessary,

1183
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: but they they stitch it all together. Well. I mean,

1184
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:17,200
Speaker 1: I think the detective already believes in monsters. And when

1185
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:20,160
Speaker 1: Patty Shepherd is like, I wanted to tell you my

1186
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 1: father knows that where wolves are real because he saw

1187
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: one one time, the inspectors all over it. He's like, oh, finally,

1188
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: you know my my theory of the case is developing.

1189
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:31,920
Speaker 1: I've got to meet this judge dad. Yeah. There there's

1190
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: this great scene. I get. You get the impression Toberman

1191
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: has been reading too much about monsters, and they don't

1192
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 1: really develop this too much. But there is this fun

1193
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: scene where he goes to a local pub for a

1194
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:45,680
Speaker 1: drink and a smoke and he sees a vampire on

1195
01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: a date. But then he like kind of goes ruulu

1196
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 1: and looks again and oh it's just a person. Uh.

1197
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: So he's like, why I better drink more and has

1198
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 1: another shot. I was confused by this scene. I think

1199
01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: it was not actually a vampire. He was just he's

1200
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: just got vampire is in the brain. Yeah, because there's

1201
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:03,839
Speaker 1: a later scene where he comes back to his apartment.

1202
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: He looks in the mirror and he sees himself as

1203
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: a monster, and so clearly the case is getting on

1204
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 1: top of him. He's taken it too personal. Meanwhile, back

1205
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 1: at the alien monastery, the alien assistants um that the

1206
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 1: man and the woman are giving into their emotions and

1207
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: they're doing sex with each other. So Dr Otto h

1208
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:27,440
Speaker 1: vernoff here he watches on via his closed caption television

1209
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: system does not approve, so he sends in Ferranc Salon's

1210
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 1: monster and kill Has it killed Dr Kirian? Yes, so

1211
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: like two of the Remember these are aliens inhabiting the

1212
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: resurrected bodies of dead human scientists that I guess the

1213
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 1: human passion gets too much for them. They fall in love,

1214
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 1: and as punishment, Michael Rennie sends Frankenstein to kill them

1215
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:52,840
Speaker 1: or kills one of them, Yeah, kills Dr Currian. And

1216
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:57,040
Speaker 1: then once Dr Cirian is sufficiently strangled, Ferranc Salon's monster

1217
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,639
Speaker 1: just casually walks out, which I thought was a nice touch.

1218
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 1: It's like out mission accomplished them just a passionalist servant

1219
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 1: at this point, he has no heart, He only has

1220
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,799
Speaker 1: a capacitor. Yeah, so this is what I was talking

1221
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: about earlier with like the scenes of the aliens will

1222
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,920
Speaker 1: not stop talking about how they are superior because they

1223
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,959
Speaker 1: have no emotions. And then it's the movie just becomes

1224
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: all about crushes. It's nothing but crushes. Yeah, but they

1225
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: do kind of deal with it in a in an

1226
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: interesting way in that um, Yeah, clearly the alien underlings

1227
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:32,080
Speaker 1: have beginning of given into their emotions. And then meanwhile

1228
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 1: the work is getting too much for Toban again. He's

1229
01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:36,759
Speaker 1: starting to see monsters in the mirror when they're not there.

1230
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,760
Speaker 1: He gets a call from Patty's character and he's gonna

1231
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 1: check in on her. He's like, all right, I'm coming. Uh.

1232
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:43,720
Speaker 1: You know, it seems like it's an emergency, but it's

1233
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: not an emergency monster emergency. It's a romantic emergency. So

1234
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:50,639
Speaker 1: they spend the night together. Yeah, she I, I love

1235
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: you because we are humans. Yeah. Back in the lab,

1236
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: Dr Varnov decides that Malva needs some some chair time

1237
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 1: for her irrational emotional choice. Says and There is a

1238
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 1: fun scene though, where she she like lashes back and

1239
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: she's like, actually, you have emotions. You're letting emotions getting

1240
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: the better of you because you're jealous, and that's why

1241
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:15,559
Speaker 1: you sent in France Salon's monster to kill Dr Carrion.

1242
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 1: You could tell Renny is like, really threatened to buy this?

1243
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:22,040
Speaker 1: Ah you response he has never heard anything like this,

1244
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:25,640
Speaker 1: So again there, This does seem like an element of

1245
01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:28,559
Speaker 1: the plot where this could have been expanded upon and

1246
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 1: dwelt upon more. This idea of like, um, you know,

1247
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:36,799
Speaker 1: aliens without passions occupying human forms and then being overcome

1248
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,240
Speaker 1: by passions. I imagine this is something that's been explored

1249
01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 1: better in other pictures or books well, and picking up

1250
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 1: one what we just said, the fact that they have

1251
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 1: passions also now gives rise to new patterns of speech,

1252
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: gives rise to rhetorical ploys, and turns like like oh

1253
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:58,920
Speaker 1: you yeah. Now, I'm not sure I didn't accurately represent

1254
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 1: this in my notes. But the other thing that Malva

1255
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: has done at this point that has earned the ire

1256
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: of her master is that she freed the werewolf and

1257
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 1: the blond assistant. She freed um uh Do Nynsky and

1258
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: like she saw the love they have for each other,

1259
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 1: and she's like, no, it's fine, I respect your love.

1260
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 1: You should go and she unlocks their cage and lets

1261
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:23,919
Speaker 1: them go free. It's heartwarming. Yeah, So eventually we returned

1262
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: to d Nynsky and Um and his blonde accomplice here,

1263
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 1: and they're wandering some more of those wonderful ruins that

1264
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: you see throughout the picture, and they have some kind

1265
01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: of like cool doom metal dialogue here where they talk

1266
01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: about how they have no future and they're cursed, but

1267
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: they have this bond between the two of them, and

1268
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: he makes some decision to seek out the judge that

1269
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: we established earlier on uh, that he has some history with,

1270
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: and the blonde character says, okay, well let's do that.

1271
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 1: But also I love you enough to shoot you with

1272
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: a silver bullet and kill you. Um, so just so

1273
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: you know I'm here for you when that time comes.

1274
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:06,759
Speaker 1: Heartwarming once again. Now, meanwhile, the law enforcement is beginning

1275
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 1: to close in on on the operation here, I guess

1276
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 1: I mean Toberman is getting ready to wander into the

1277
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: monastery for some reason. Right, he decides to show up,

1278
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 1: and there's groovy music as he shows up for some reason.

1279
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: But then the gates closed behind him. Uh. Dr Varnoff says,

1280
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 1: is clearly expecting him. He's admitted to the control room

1281
01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:30,799
Speaker 1: and Dr Varnoff chats with him via close circuit television

1282
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 1: for the next room, and um, he just goes ahead

1283
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: and tells him everything. Um. And not only does he

1284
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: tell him everything that has occurred and his plan, he

1285
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:43,919
Speaker 1: also says, hey, I have video footage from the future,

1286
01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:48,600
Speaker 1: and he shows him um Elsa's death. Uh. And he

1287
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: also shows Toberman footage of his own body in chains

1288
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,599
Speaker 1: in a dungeon. And if I understood this correctly, he's

1289
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: also saying, yeah, I'm gonna change you up in the dungeon.

1290
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: Here's footage from the future when it happens, and these

1291
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: other bodies are gonna come to life and claw your

1292
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 1: eyes out. No, not the other bodies, bats, he says.

1293
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 1: Bats will come and claw your eyes out. That's how

1294
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,400
Speaker 1: you will die. That makes more sense. I will chain

1295
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: you up and then there will be bats and they

1296
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: will attack your eyeballs. Well, well, that's that's good because

1297
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:20,240
Speaker 1: that's more in line with what occurs. Yes, but I

1298
01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: was also floored by the execution by bat. What but

1299
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: also footage from the future. The aliens have videos, Like

1300
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: is this actual video footage from the future, like information

1301
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: translated through time, or is this like a simulation of

1302
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:39,640
Speaker 1: what he has in store for him? That was a

1303
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:42,560
Speaker 1: very good question. I I do not know though. It

1304
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:45,680
Speaker 1: just sort of transition, didn't it Like he's looking at

1305
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:48,640
Speaker 1: the footage of himself in the future, chained up in

1306
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 1: the dungeon with the bats, and then suddenly he just

1307
01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:54,799
Speaker 1: is chained up there. It's almost like by looking at

1308
01:15:54,840 --> 01:16:00,240
Speaker 1: that it manifested his reality. Yeah. Meanwhile, back in the

1309
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: human world, Um, news of all this has reached the mayor,

1310
01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 1: so now you know things are pretty serious. Uh. The

1311
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:10,600
Speaker 1: judge is there, he's concerned over his daughter's disappearance. The

1312
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:15,519
Speaker 1: judge reveals the whole Werewolf d Nynsky connection, and everybody's like,

1313
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: all right, let's go investigate this monastery. Let's get all

1314
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: the cops together, let's head up there and see what's happening.

1315
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:24,960
Speaker 1: So we got our pitchfork wielding mob yep, or they're

1316
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: getting the pitchforks together. Uh. And meanwhile back there at

1317
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 1: the monastery, we see the future has come true Toberman

1318
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 1: is in chains. He's harassed by bats. But as he's

1319
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 1: being harassed by bats, who shows up to save the

1320
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 1: day But d Nynsky, the werewolf he arrives with with

1321
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: his blonde uh lover here they free uh Toberman and

1322
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 1: Donisky Warnson though it's like, look, you gotta get out

1323
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 1: of here. You gotta get things moving along because the

1324
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:54,920
Speaker 1: full moon is almost upon us. I'm not injected with serum,

1325
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 1: and there's no way I can stop what is going

1326
01:16:56,920 --> 01:17:00,719
Speaker 1: to happen to me. He's gonna go hulk mode. Yeah,

1327
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: and as two Tiberman escapes, he goes through skeleton and

1328
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 1: cobweb written crypt. He's going to seek out Elsa and

1329
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 1: save her. But for Donninsky, finally the change is coming.

1330
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: The full moon is here, allegedly somewhere, he starts the

1331
01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 1: long emotional transformation sequence. Um is an acting tour to force.

1332
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: As he slowly transforms into full wolfman mode, He's like

1333
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 1: staggering down the hall. You can see the cuts when

1334
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 1: the cuts happened to put the more hair on him,

1335
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: but I don't know. It's it's a pretty good sequence, nonetheless,

1336
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, Okay, we're finally going to see

1337
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 1: him smack down the vampire but nope, nope, nope, somebody

1338
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 1: else smacks down the vampire. It is Toberman encounters the vampire,

1339
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: once again emphasizing the vampire not only doesn't appear to

1340
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: have super strength, it appears to be weaker than the

1341
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 1: average man. Yeah, Tiberman just kind of what breaks a

1342
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: pool queue and owners and like just kind of walks

1343
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: him into a corner and then stabs him through the

1344
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: heart and then the vampire melts. The vampire does sort

1345
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: of do a flying like a turnbuckle jump at Toberman

1346
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: before that, but other than that, he's he's not very impressive. Yeah,

1347
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 1: not much of a fight here, but there is a

1348
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: cool fight coming up. There are a couple of cool fights,

1349
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 1: so you get we're Wolf versus Mummy, and then we're

1350
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: Wolf versus Frank Salon. Yeah, and the Mummy battle was

1351
01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 1: a lot more solid than I was expecting, mainly because

1352
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 1: of the way that d Nynsky deals with the Mummy.

1353
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: There's this big spinning wooden wheel part of the set

1354
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure what function this had in the

1355
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: castle of this had to do with, Like I think

1356
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:43,760
Speaker 1: it's a rack. I think it's a track. Is it

1357
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 1: just pure torture they show because Doberman Doberman Toberman, whatever

1358
01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:49,840
Speaker 1: his name is, the detectives on it earlier, and he's

1359
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 1: like tied to it. They're stretching him out. Oh yeah,

1360
01:18:52,920 --> 01:18:54,720
Speaker 1: But I guess it's multi purpose because you can also

1361
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:58,240
Speaker 1: shove somebody inside it, and so that's what d Nynsky

1362
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: does with the mummy. Shoves the mum inside this wheel,

1363
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:05,719
Speaker 1: starts turning the wheel, and then grabs the torch, shoves

1364
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 1: the torch in there with the mummy, lights the mummy up,

1365
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: and so we get this kind of maccabre scene of

1366
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:16,759
Speaker 1: the flaming mummy thrashing inside of this rotating wooden torture wheel,

1367
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: which I thought was a pretty pretty cool visual. That's right,

1368
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 1: but I would say this is still not the main SmackDown,

1369
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:29,960
Speaker 1: which is Werewolf versus Farron, that's right, and Atomic Farron

1370
01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 1: coming at a full powered Valdamir Doninsky Werewolf. It is

1371
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 1: a big, drawn out battle with lots of pushing and

1372
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 1: shoving and clawing and strangling and slamming. Eventually, though the

1373
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 1: werewolf wins. He pushes the atomic Monster into some electronic

1374
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: machinery and the shock takes the big man down takes

1375
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 1: the big monster down, defeated by electricity, as many monsters

1376
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:58,760
Speaker 1: in films are. Uh. And then, of course, what's going

1377
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:00,640
Speaker 1: to happen to the werewolf and the and is he

1378
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: going to be shot in the heart by his true

1379
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: love with a silver bullet, not just by his true love,

1380
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,120
Speaker 1: by the woman who loves him enough to die with

1381
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 1: him in an exploding monastery slash castle slash alien laboratory. Yes,

1382
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:16,760
Speaker 1: that is exactly what happens, though they really they just met. Thing,

1383
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 1: is this this romance? Really? Um? What was was on

1384
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: speed run? But yeah, she basically after he's defeated France

1385
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:28,519
Speaker 1: Salon's monster, he turns on her. You know, he can't

1386
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 1: control the monster. The werewolf just wants to kill and

1387
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: and slay and all. So she pulls out the gun,

1388
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 1: she shoots him, and then we cut to this scene

1389
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:41,640
Speaker 1: where now we have Dnnski back in human form, with

1390
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 1: a with a gunshot wound in his chest and then

1391
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:48,840
Speaker 1: laying next to him also dead is Um is his

1392
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 1: blonde lover, and she's been slashed by werewolf claws and

1393
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:55,840
Speaker 1: they you know, they're hand in hand. So yeah, they're

1394
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 1: they're the doomed. Uh, they have no future here, and

1395
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:02,360
Speaker 1: we get this kind of uh you know, Gothic into

1396
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: their romance. Though. Of course, Valdimir Doninsky will be back

1397
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:10,080
Speaker 1: in a number of Werewolf films. They'll do a do over.

1398
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:14,480
Speaker 1: Oh and then the of course Michael Renny is chastised.

1399
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,720
Speaker 1: He he gets chewed out by his bosses. Yeah, there's

1400
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:19,680
Speaker 1: the scene where the aliens start talking to him through

1401
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:22,640
Speaker 1: the TV screen. Uh, and you know, he's like, well,

1402
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 1: the labs about to blow up. Um, and they're like, yeah,

1403
01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: you failed, and he's like, well, I failed, but you

1404
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:31,839
Speaker 1: should spare my assistant here. Her failure was my failure.

1405
01:21:32,160 --> 01:21:35,040
Speaker 1: And then the aliens are weirdly well like, well she's

1406
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,800
Speaker 1: not really in any way, and they make her vanish

1407
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: and then the lab blows up, destroying everything. I'm not

1408
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:44,440
Speaker 1: sure what that meant. Yeah, she does, she just disappears.

1409
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 1: Is that a better fate for the aliens? I don't

1410
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: know how they appeared in the first place. Yeah, it

1411
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: feels like maybe they were working up to something else

1412
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: than they ran out of time or energy to finish

1413
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: that particular part of the plot. But the fight, we

1414
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:00,680
Speaker 1: get a speech at the end. It's kind of like

1415
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 1: the speech at the end of it conquered the world,

1416
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 1: which where we learned that man is a feeling creature.

1417
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:10,919
Speaker 1: And this time they talk about how actually the aliens

1418
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 1: thought it was our passion that makes us weak, but

1419
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:16,519
Speaker 1: in fact, it's our passion that makes us strong. The

1420
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 1: whole reason they couldn't beat us is because these human

1421
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 1: bodies they just fall in love on speed run mode,

1422
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:26,280
Speaker 1: and that basically it makes us useless as soldiers in

1423
01:22:26,280 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: our own destruction. And the aliens seem to I guess

1424
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:31,640
Speaker 1: they realized that this is true and decided just to

1425
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 1: not come back. They're like, yeah, Earth unconquerable. I learned

1426
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: too late. That is our passion that makes us strong. Okay,

1427
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:41,639
Speaker 1: I got one last thought about Assignment terror. Uh. It's

1428
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,639
Speaker 1: it's nearly there, it's not quite complete. But I kept

1429
01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:48,000
Speaker 1: thinking about the monsters in this movie as the Breakfast Club, right,

1430
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:52,479
Speaker 1: because you got can't count Yeno, sure, count yanush uh whatever?

1431
01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 1: His name is the Dracula store brand Dracula, He's Anthony

1432
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 1: Michael Hall. He's the nerd uh. And then you've got

1433
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:04,560
Speaker 1: the Mummy is clearly Molly Ringwald because Rich Royalty aloof

1434
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: there you go. Uh for Ron Salon is obviously Amelio Esteveez.

1435
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 1: He is definitely the jock of the group. This Frankenstein

1436
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: would eat a bag of twelve sandwiches for lunch and

1437
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: and so forth. The wolf Man, that's Judd Nelson, because

1438
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,280
Speaker 1: he's the bad boy with a heart of gold who

1439
01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:23,880
Speaker 1: falls in love in the end, like his badness is

1440
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: tamed by love. Uh. It kind of falls apart because

1441
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: I couldn't think there's not really any equivalent for Ali Sheety,

1442
01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 1: who's a very important part of the breakfast Club. Kind

1443
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,520
Speaker 1: of wonder well, maybe if we had known the golem,

1444
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: the golem would have been Alie Sheety, like putting pixie

1445
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 1: sticks on on toast or something. But the last element

1446
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: there that clearly works is that Michael Renny's character is

1447
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: Paul Gleason the principle to a t Yeah, I mean,

1448
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 1: the story arc is there even right you You you

1449
01:23:51,080 --> 01:23:53,679
Speaker 1: start off thinking it's just cold and uncarrying. He doesn't

1450
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 1: understand these kids. But by the end of it, you

1451
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:58,559
Speaker 1: see that there's more to him. You get to know

1452
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:01,679
Speaker 1: him a little bit more, and uh, to a certain extent,

1453
01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 1: the same thing it's true with Michael Renney's character. I

1454
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 1: think this could have legs. I kind of want to

1455
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: see a monster, a true monster remake of The Breakfast Club. Well,

1456
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna go and close it out there, but we'll

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Speaker 1: remind everybody that Stuff to Blow Your Mind and the

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Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow Your Mind channel primarily a science podcast

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Speaker 1: with core episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Monday's we

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Speaker 1: do listener mail, On Wednesday's we do a short form

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Speaker 1: artifact or monster fact, and then on Friday's we cut

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Speaker 1: loose and we focus on less important matters with weird

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Speaker 1: House cinema and which we we set everything else aside

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Speaker 1: and just talk about a weird film. Huge thanks to

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Speaker 1: our audio producer J J. Pauseway. If you would like

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Speaker 1: to get in touch with us with feedback on this

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Speaker 1: episode or any other, to suggest a topic for the future,

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Speaker 1: or just to say hello, you can email us at

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Speaker 1: contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Stuff

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Speaker 1: to Blow Your Mind is production of iHeartRadio. For more

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