WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Demon Knight 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:10.840 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:14.760 Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.000 This is Rob and I'm Joe, and today we are 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.400 going to unscramble the cable signal and tune into some 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:22.759 Tales from the Crypt. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.840 That's right, Yeah, we have another slice of nineties genre 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.560 cinema for you this week. Except this one's far cheaper 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.080 than Free Jack. I think, ultimately a more enjoyable film, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.000 but it is, of course the initial cinematic spinoff of 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.120 HBO's Tales from the Crypt. It is Taiales from the Crypt, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.440 Demon Knight from what nineteen ninety five? 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.800 That sounds right, Yeah, it looks very mid nineties. So 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.680 I guess this one and last week's are a little 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.200 bit more mainstream than we usually go. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.800 Yeah, yeah, they're more mainstream. But Demon Night is also one. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.400 I mean, Freejack is definitely a film that it did 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.000 not perform to expectation and was kind of just thrown 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.319 out there and died and was forgotten by many. Demon 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.920 Night is a film that I think also is you know, 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.280 we're talking about this before we started recording, you know, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.080 maybe a little underappreciated, though it certainly has its following 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.880 and oh yeah, and you know, continues to be popular 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.000 to this day. But you don't hear it championed that 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.680 often as being like a great piece of horror horror 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:28.880 comedy from the nineties. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.720 I guess it's hard to argue that it's great, but 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.120 it is really fun. This is a really fun, r rated, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.120 frisky piece of horror comedy. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:43.120 Yeah, it's It's essentially a siege movie. So the basic 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.520 structure is pretty pretty nailed down, you know, like you're 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.360 gonna have characters go somewhere, they're gonna hold up there, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.160 and then things are gonna try and get in and 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.000 get them. It's the basic Night of the Living Dead scenario. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.480 Yeah, it's Night of the Living Dead, evil Dead assault 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.640 on Precinct thirteen, that kind of thing. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.600 Yeah, so well, let's just jump right into the elevator 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.360 pitch on this one just now. This is the elevator 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.760 pitch for the basic movie itself. The Unholy Demon Lords 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.120 have six of the seven keys they need to drag 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.480 the universe back into darkness, and the only thing standing 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.639 in their way on Planet Earth for that last key 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.560 is one immortal drifter and a ragtag bunch of losers. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.480 In a rundown hotel in the middle of the desert. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.840 Uh huh, in a place called Wormwood, New Mexico. I 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.600 looked it up. Not a real place. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.839 It sounds nice and biblical, though, which is good because 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.160 there's a lot of biblical nonsense going on in this 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:36.280 particular movie. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.880 Yeah, and this movie is just jammed with drifters. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.040 Yeah, yeah, it's all it's basically all drifters. I mean, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.760 and I've actually seen it discussed in the sense that 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.080 it's like the meek shall inherit the earth, and this 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.960 is the meek. These are all the sorts of losers 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.640 that Jesus Christ himself would have hung out with in life. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:59.079 Maybe not Thomas Hayden Church. He's not that meek, but 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.760 he's a scumbag in this So yeah, that's true. So 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.680 the Pharisees come to Jesus and they say, hey, you 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.239 sit down to eat with the sinners and tax collectors 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:10.640 and even with Thomas Hayden Church. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.399 All right, well, let's go ahead, have just a little 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.519 bit of the trailer audio here, and there's probably gonna 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:18.880 be a little criptkeeper in there. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.200 Universal Pictures is proud to present the Motion picture Directing 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.160 debut of. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.280 One of America's most talented and respected artists. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.600 Hot Cat. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:37.640 Oh hello kitties, So glad you could join me? Your pal. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.680 The Cryptkeeper has gone Hollywood in a big way. I'm 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:48.240 directing my first feature film, Care for a Little Shriek preview. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.200 My Big Scream premiere. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:04:03.360 I wanted lots of suspecse, special effects, sex, the kind 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.960 of thing you could really sink your teeth into, frights, 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:20.039 camera and ladies if you think demon nice gross and yucke. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:27.679 Thank you. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.760 All right? So yeah, basically the idea here, but the 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.760 whole Tales from the Crypt thing is, you know, Tales 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.600 from the Crypt was like the show on HBO back 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.719 in the day, and we've talked about it on the 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.560 show before here on like some of our horror anthology 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.240 specials around Halloween. You know, it's basically it's based on 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.480 the old horror comics, and each little story in the 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.920 horror comic would be about some horrible person getting their 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.280 come uppance, and so each episode of Tales from the 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:59.960 Crypt generally revolves around that as well. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.520 Yeah to me, the opening theme music of Tales from 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.760 the Crypt, I think it's composed by Danny Elfman. It 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.559 just sounds like the nineties, and it sounds like being 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.760 a kid in the nineties trying to watch stuff that 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:13.839 you're not allowed to watch. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.280 Absolutely, it's like it's the. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.960 Sound of I think we may have made this comparison before, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.920 but it's the sound of a scrambled cable channel that 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.440 you don't get that shows are rated depravity all night 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:25.120 and every day. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.880 Yeah, yeah, it really does. And I guess one of 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.080 the interesting things about this is, like you can imagine 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.560 the studios came in there, some folks behind the scenes 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.520 were like, Hey, this show's really successful, we should do 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.560 a movie. The thing is, Tales from the Crypt doesn't 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.520 really lend itself well to that kind of format, unless 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.120 you're going to do an anthology film with just a 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.600 bunch of little stories, much like the original Tales from 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:53.200 the Crypt film, the nineteen seventy two anthology picture from Amicus. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.080 Oh, I don't think I even knew that existed. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.520 Yeah, it has the Cryptkeeper in it, but the Cryptkeeper 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.680 is played by Sir Ralph in like a hood. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.719 That's nice. Yeah, But so, as you mentioned, the standard 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.159 format of a Tales from the Crypt episode, and you know, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.080 there's some variation but the most common format is that 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:19.440 you have basically a sleazy salad of gratuitous gore and 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.960 nudity in which a morally bankrupt person does something evil, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.080 they think they're going to get away with it, and 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.200 then they get their just desserts via the vengeful wrath 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.719 of a monster, demon, ancient curse, haunted scarecrow, chainsaw freak 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:35.320 or whatever. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.440 Yeah, it's in a way, it's it's like horror in 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:42.120 a very simple form, fulfilling a societal need. You know, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.240 we need the villains in our world, in our life 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.920 to suffer, and these little stories provide that suffering along 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.440 with some you know, gratuitous violence, maybe a little nudity 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.039 in maybe a few laughs as well. A lot of 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.000 gallows humor finds its way into these episodes. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.240 And lot of puns. I mean, the crypt Keeper loves 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.360 to make death related puns. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.200 That's right, because, of course, the big thing about the 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.160 HBO series is hosted by the crypt Keeper, this wonderful 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:17.400 puppetry creation of a reanimated corpse that just gleefully takes 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.840 you on this journey to hear all of these tales. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.840 You know who the crypt Keeper is, It's the preserved 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.640 remains of Jeremy Bentham. I couldn't stop thinking about that 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.640 this time. I mean, like God, that rotten looking head. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.760 It's almost perfectly the crypt Keeper. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.679 Well, let's start with the Cryptkeeper. Talking about people involved 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.760 in this one. The Cryptkeeper's voice is, of course John 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.440 Casser born in nineteen fifty seven. He's a longtime actor 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.400 and voice actor, but he's most well known as the 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.920 voice of the Cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt on 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.920 HBO from eighty nine through ninety six, as well as 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.680 the cartoon Tales from the Crypt Keeper nineteen ninety three 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.920 through nineteen ninety nine three Tales from the Crypt movies. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.960 Will get a touch on that in a bit, but basically, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.320 just with the crypt Keeper, we have a great voice 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.600 coming together with an amazing puppet, at least for most appearances, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.480 and all this based on one of the EC comics 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.000 horror hosts. You know. Other hosts included things like the 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.880 Vault Keeper and the Old Witch. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.960 But those were just in the comic right, They were 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.600 not on the TV series. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.280 I don't think so. Though. Occasionally the crypt Keeper has 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.160 a guest that's not a corpse in those little segments, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.080 and we'll touch on some of those examples as we 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.960 go here. But of course in this movie Tales from 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.680 the Crypt Demon Night, the crypt Keeper is just there 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.160 to set things up to say, hey, we can hear 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.559 it is for you a movie. And the movie itself 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.640 is pretty self contained. It has a few nods to 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:48.280 Tails from the Crypt within it, but still you could 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.120 watch it on its own, without the intro or the 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.800 outro and you'd get it. So I guess the first 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.560 person we should talk about is the director. This was 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:01.440 directed by Ernest Dickerson. Dickerson was born in nineteen fifty one, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.960 and he was a classmate of Spike Lee at the 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.480 Tisch School of the Arts, and so he went on 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.120 to work as a frequent collaborator with Spike Lee as 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.200 a cinematographer on various Spike Lee joints including School Days, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.160 Do the Right Thing, Mo Beetter, Blues, Jungle Fever, and 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.720 Malcolm X. He also worked as a cinematographer on films 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.160 from John Salis, the film Brother from Another Planet, and 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.480 Jonathan Demi, and more recently you might have noticed his 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.960 name as a director on a number of TV projects, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:35.440 including multiple episodes of The Walking Dead, Tremay The Wire. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.000 He seems like one of those TV directors that just 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.959 works all the time, and he's also done a lot 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.760 of work in the horror genre. He was a cinematographer 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.480 on the TV series Tales from the Dark Side, an 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.000 anthology series, and while Demon Knight was his first horror 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.320 or sci fi film as a director, he went on 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.800 to direct nineteen ninety eight's Future Sport, which looks interesting, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.280 and the two thousand and one Snoop Dogg ghost movie Bones, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.600 which I haven't seen, but I was reading a little 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.440 about in it. It seems like it has its following, 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.439 so maybe it's worth trying out. Yeah, Okay, I mean 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.800 it's Snoop is always entertaining. Yeah. So Demon Night, though, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.960 follows up on Dickerson's nineteen ninety two film Juice, which 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.640 starred Tupac Shakur, and also the exquisite nineteen ninety four 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.160 film Surviving the Game. Do you remember this one, Joe, Of. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.920 Course I do. Surviving the I don't think Surviving the 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.240 Game is as good as Demon Knight, as comparing Dickerson's 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.000 violent thrillers here Surviving, But one thing that is great 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.440 about Surviving the Game. Basically, it's an adaptation of the 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.120 short story The Most Dangerous Game about a group about 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.640 like a rich guy on an island who hunts human 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.400 beings for sport. This adapts that to the modern world, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.240 and it's a movie about a character named Mason played 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.480 by iced T, who is like homeless and depressed, and 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.280 he gets offered a job by a guy who he 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.880 meets somewhere I think maybe at a like a like 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.120 a place where they're feeding the homeless, and he gets 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.840 recruited for this job to be a wilderness guide for 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.400 a bunch of rich dudes played by people like Rutger Howard, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.360 Charles Stutton, Gary Busey, f Murray Abraham, John C. McGinley. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.439 It is a real powerhouse cast, like every person who 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.200 could have played like, you know, the cocaine king of 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.000 the Week in an eighties crime movie. They're one of these, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.120 one of the party of the hunters in this movie. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:27.960 And then of course the twist is once they get 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.240 out in the woods, they tell iced T Okay, well 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.480 we're gonna hunt you now, but iced T outsmarts them all. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.880 Yeah. So I remember catching this one on cable, I think, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.200 and I remember finding it irresistible, just drawn right. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.760 Int Yeah, And I gotta say Iced Tea has a 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.840 very weird charm in this movie. It's hard to describe 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.240 exactly what it is, but he plays a He plays 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:56.000 a very rude and sympathetic protagonist as he's like chugging 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:00.240 along through the forest while they're chasing him on ATVs. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.360 Yeah. So, so it's some notable films from Dickerson there. Now, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.080 coming back to Demon Night, there's a there's an excellent 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.160 Shout Factory slash Screen Factory Blu ray of this film 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.679 that came out, and that's that's what I watched for this. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.600 But it also includes some some really cool features, including 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.960 interviews with Dickerson among others, and one of the things 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.600 that came out of it, aside from him just being 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.560 really chill and apparently easy to work with and open 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.920 to some of the lunier ideas that the actors brought 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.000 to the table, he was also a major force behind 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.240 having a more diverse cast on this film, including the 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.640 casting of African American actors Jada Pinkett, C. C. H. Pounder, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.240 and Mark David Kinnerley who plays a very small part 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.920 towards the end, but also presumably First Nations actor Gary 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.959 Farmer who will touch on here in a bit. And 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.280 it's worth noticing that even our secondary minority characters in 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.400 this film survive quite far into the picture, right. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.719 The cliche long being that in many horror movies it 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.960 is and for the cast to be all white except 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.600 for one black character, and the black guy dies first. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.400 Right. So yeah, it seems that having a black director 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.240 at at the front of this thing really helped out 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.080 in that regard. For instance, the main character, the character 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.720 the Jada Pinkett plays, you know, Jada Pinkett Smith plays 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.080 in this like that was I think the studio wanted 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.320 I forget which actor, but they wanted a white female 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.720 actor for the role, and he insisted on this, and 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:28.920 I think it's a better film for it. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:29.559 Yeah. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.559 Now, the screenwriters on this were Ethan Rife, Cyrus Voris, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.760 and Mark Bishop, so that this trio. They had written 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.000 a post apocalyptic movie called Escape from Saithe Haven in 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.200 nineteen eighty eight and that was directed by Bishop, and 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.640 Bishop didn't seem to go on to do much else 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.200 in film, but Rife and Voris went on to do 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.480 quite a lot, including two thousand and eight Kung Fu Panda. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.640 They wrote that and you'll find their names attached to 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.720 anything involving Kung Fu Panda. They also twenty ten's Robinhood 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.079 that's the Ridley Scott version starring Russell Crowe. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.200 M I didn't never saw that. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.840 Yeah, No, and Demon Night was apparently a spec script 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.240 that they had out there and people were excited about it, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.160 and it got picked up by this Tales from the 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.080 Crypt trilogy idea, like they were. The basic idea is like, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.040 let's do three Tales from the Crypt films. We'll find 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.120 the screenplays and we'll we'll just you know, put to 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.320 some crypt keeper at the beginning, some crypt Keeper at 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.200 the end, and he got yourself a franchise. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.560 Now, unfortunately, being a feature film instead of being made 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.320 for TV, it does not have commercial breaks for the 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.200 crypt Keeper to come in in the middle of the 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.240 movie and comment about what's currently going on in the story. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.960 He's just at the beginning and the end. But even 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.320 with only the beginning and the end of Brackets, the 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.560 crypt Keeper is a very welcome presence. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.640 Yes. Now, apparently I was watching some of the making 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.240 of and apparently there was some push and pull on 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.000 the idea of like what the movie itself was going 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.480 to be. The screenwriters really thought, this is more of 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.120 a hero movie, This is about a hero's journey, et cetera. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.800 And then everyone else was like, well, but it's a 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.800 monster movie. It needs to be a monster movie. It's 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.720 Tales from the Crypt. And then, you know, ultimately it 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.480 goes back to what we said earlier, like this is 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.320 not a come upance film. It's not a film about 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.760 a horrible person getting their come upance. It ends up 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.240 really being more of a hero's journey kind of a 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.280 story with monsters, but with the Tales from the Crypt branding. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.560 But also, I mean, I think Dickerson handles it exactly 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.320 right in that it is not overly serious in any way, 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.120 Like it is a very loose, fun, frisky movie that 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.520 does not ever stop to take itself too seriously. And 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.360 the scenes that do get kind of serious addressing, like 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.360 the you know, the recurring hero motif or whatever, those 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.000 are brief enough to be kind of welcome, and then 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.400 it quickly gets back to goofy gory jokes. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.200 Yeah. Absolutely, Well, let's start talking about some of these 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:59.080 heroes again. Jada Pinkett, who would become Jada Pinkett Smith 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.760 later on Sheep Hero and this is jerry Lyne Jerry Lynn, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.360 like Jerline Jerrelene. It's one of those where I got 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.880 prepared for it to be pronounced a certain way and 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.520 then it was not in the film. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.840 Well, actually, I think different characters in the movie pronounce 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.800 her name different and you might say, hey, that's not consistent, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.400 But then hey, have you ever known somebody whose name 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.720 as written could be pronounced different ways? People pronounce it 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:24.280 different ways. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:29.440 Yeah, but we're going with Jerline Jerlene. Okay, jery Lene. 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.120 I'm gonna try and be consistent. I may just say 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.160 Jada Pinkett anyway. Yep, she's in this. She had not 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.880 yet married Will Smith, but she was on the rise here. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.160 She was coming off of the Hughes Brothers Minace to 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.600 Society as well as Jason's Lyric, and she would apparently 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.640 go on to like really break out in nineteen ninety 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.360 six is the Nutty Professor. Then she was in Scream two, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.800 the Matrix sequels, just to name a few. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.520 I saw that she's going to be in the upcoming 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.120 new Matrix movie, so I forget who her character is, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.400 but whoever she is, she must survive the third film. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.480 Yeah, Now, let's see this is not a hero. This 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.360 is our main antagonist in the film, but we have 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.600 Billy Zaine as the collector. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.600 Billy Zaine is just wonderful in this movie. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.560 He is he's I mean, Zayin has a very punishable 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.119 face and a lot of roles and oh he's so 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.679 punishable in this he's he he just he hams it 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.560 up so much like he's great playing like a smug, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.959 privileged sob and in so many other films, I mean, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:35.280 especially Titanic comes to mind, but yeah, he's he's like 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.320 a Looney Tunes character in this in all the right ways, 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.000 with the in the appropriate in the appropriate ways. He 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:43.679 is just like a cartoon character. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.360 Oh well, you included a detail that he I think 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.600 revealed in one of the making of features. You said 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.280 you were watching that once. Once I read it, I 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.520 was like, oh my god, that's absolutely right, the one 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:55.240 about Aladdin. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.600 Yes. Yeah, he says that he approached the role like 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:04.040 he was playing the genie from Alatin, except evil, and 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:05.280 then you see it in everything. 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.720 It's exactly what he's doing. He's almost Robin Williams, but 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:14.080 a little bit less manic and more smooth, but smooth 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.560 in a very sinister and silly way. He's perfect in 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:18.120 this role. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.639 Yeah, this is this is apparently one of his favorite 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.399 roles that he did, and yeah, he really shines in it. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.400 You know, no matter what your opinion is of Zain 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.119 in general, you know, he's been in some real some 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.359 real stinkers for sure, but yeah, this says just the 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.879 right amount of Billy Zay. And oh and this was 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.680 fun too. This was revealed on one of the featurettes. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.080 This was apparently Zay's first film without a hair piece. Huh. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.000 So yeah, apparently he came in to meet Dickerson and 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.760 he brought in like a little suitcase and he opened 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.879 it up, uh, and he was completely bald, you know, 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.919 shoes and shaved down, and he showed him the hair pieces. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:54.280 He's like, which one do you want me to wear 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.920 for the film? And Dickerson's like, I don't know, I 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.680 like what you've got going on there, And so that's 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.800 what they which. 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.600 Is bald right? Which yes, yeah, yeah, his bald head 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:08.680 is exquisite. And I wonder if that inspired the scenes 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.159 in the film where he's carrying around a suitcase or 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.520 maybe that was part of the script anyway, I mean, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.480 so we should say that. In the movie, we said 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.320 he's the villain, but he is the titular demon Knight. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:24.240 He is a hell beast who's a kind of smooth 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.720 talking prints of the infernal realms, who wants to do 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:31.440 some kind of apocalyptic magic, and it involves him frequently 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.879 getting out a suitcase and asking people to put a 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:34.800 thing inside it. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.199 Right, Yeah, yeah, So he does have a suitcase around, 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:41.280 so presumably a very similar suitcase that held his many 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:42.200 different hairs. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.719 Now, you've got a lot of films listed as Billy's 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.720 An credits that almost none of which I had any 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:49.080 idea Billy z An was in. 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.359 Oh yeah, he was in nineteen eighty five's Back to 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:51.840 the Future. 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:53.280 I didn't know that. 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.159 He was in nineteen eighty six's Critters. I had no 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:57.000 clue on that one. 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:58.240 Yeah, no idea. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.080 I guess he really stood out. I guess one of 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:02.840 the early roles where he really stood out would be 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.640 the nineteen eighty nine thriller Dead Calm alongside Sam Neil 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.639 and Nicole Kidman. And he's he's quite good in that. 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:09.639 I've never seen it. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:11.720 Oh it's good. It's a really good, solid thriller. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.040 Uh huh? Was that the one where he plays like 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.320 a he's like an evil guy on a boat. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:17.760 Yep, yeah, it's a thriller. 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.320 That's probably oversimplifying it. 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.520 But yeah yeah, I mean I haven't seen it in forever, 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.040 but I remember it as being quite good. 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.280 It's like you take the end of Cape Fear and 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:27.280 make it a whole movie. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.800 Yeah, yeah, I guess so, yeah, Zay And of course 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:32.399 did a lot of TV work as well. He was 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.879 on Twin Peaks, he was in the film Tombstone, and 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.080 of course we can't forget his starring role in nineteen 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.240 ninety six is The Phantom, because there was that whole 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.520 period in the nineties when Hollywood decided that old timey 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.240 characters like Dick Tracy and the Shadow were the next 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:48.680 big thing. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.160 Uh huh, and that was a weird time. I kind 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:57.520 of wait, So was the Phantom an old property that 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.840 was being revived or was it a new property in 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.240 the style of the old adventure serials? 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:04.840 The Phantom was an old character? 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:08.680 Yeah, oh okay, yeah, I know the Shadow was. Didn't 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.240 Alec Baldwin play the Shadow and the Uh. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.879 Yeah, yeah that one. I do not remember that one 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:15.800 as being good, but it had Alec Baldwin and it 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.480 was directed by Russell McKay. So I'm sure if I 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:20.399 were to watch it again, I would I would find 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.720 some some lovable, weird things in it. But I don't know, Uh, 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.520 there are other Maquay films I would rather see. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.000 Now. I know you have unspeakable love for Dick Tracy. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:32.159 Do you want to talk about that? 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.480 Uh? Well, I wouldn't say it's unspeakable love because I 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.680 haven't seen it since I was a kid. But it 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:43.000 it was one that was not as good as anticipated, perhaps, 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.640 But it had such weird mobsters in it, Like all 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.280 the mobsters, you know, in a way they're they're trying 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.000 to create the kind of the like rough charactertures of 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.600 the of the of the Gold comic, and in doing 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:58.760 so they created these monstrous, mutant gangsters that were just, 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.199 you know, you're resistible, and also just so weird, Like 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.000 it's so weird that the movies filled with them. 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:08.720 Wasn't there one called Little Face who had a huge 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:10.560 head with a little face in the middle of it. 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:12.919 Yeah, yeah, there was Flat Top, and. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.359 I think there was one called No Face who didn't 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:16.040 have a face. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.240 There's one called the Brow with just this enormous, grotesque 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.920 brow Like, it's just tons of those type characters, most 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:24.880 of which they did nothing with. Most of them are 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.040 just I think like they have like a good dozen 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:29.480 of them that they kill in one scene just in passing. 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.840 Yeah, they just have like the Star Wars canteena scene 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:34.240 but it's mutant mobsters. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.760 Yeah. So I feel like that kind of ruined me 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.360 for traditional gangster films to a certain extent, because you're like, oh, well, 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:42.520 you know, Godfather's good, but he didn't have any mutants 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:43.960 in it. Oh. 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:45.120 I like the Godfather. 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:48.159 God Godfather is good, but yeah, but I'd like to 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.960 see mutant gangsters come back. I feel like that's the 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:52.800 that's the takeaway from Dick Tracy. 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:55.520 I agree, a little bit more boiling acid version of 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:56.200 The Godfather. 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.320 All Right. We said that there was an immortal drifter 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:03.880 in this, and there is the character breaker played by 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.480 the always excellent William Sadler. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:11.160 Oh Man, William Sadler, he's got one of those faces, right, 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.880 That's just he has an inherently evil looking face, which 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:17.040 makes me assume that in reality he must be a 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:21.960 nice guy, because I recall there being a bit about 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.639 this in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:26.359 which I haven't read since I was a kid, but 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.919 I remember there's a part where a police detective is 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:32.359 talking about how people who have criminal looking faces have 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.480 no choice but to be honest, because you know, everybody 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:38.000 looks at them and suspects they're a criminal. It's only 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:40.720 people who look very trustworthy who can really get away 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:45.200 with great crime. So I don't know for sure, but yeah, Sadler, 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:47.639 he just has that face where he looks like a 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:51.200 devil person. And there are other people like this who 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:53.679 just kind of naturally look like a cartoon devil, like 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:57.520 Malcolm McDowell kind of looks like a cartoon devil. There's 0:23:57.600 --> 0:24:01.800 a Prosperity Gospel TV preacher Mike Murdoch who just looks 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:02.919 like a cartoon demon. 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:07.960 Well, Sadler, Yeah, he definitely has that sort of face. 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:12.560 He's played a fairly fairly diverse amount of roles. I 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.160 don't know, he does tend to sort of play your 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:19.199 rougher characters. He's he's played villains of differing varieties, Like 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.560 he's definitely played the the suit wearing villain, but he's 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:25.639 also played the you know, the sort of you know 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:28.000 dirt kicker kind of a villain as well. 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:28.439 Yeah. 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:33.040 Yeah, for instance, he's he might be best known for 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:36.119 his role as the Seventh Seal inspired death in the 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:37.040 Bill and Ted movie. 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:40.840 Right, yeah, the Reaper. Yeah, they melvin him yep. 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:44.760 And and also, interestingly enough, his rendition of that character 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:47.440 shows up on Tails from the Crypt at one point 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:50.560 in the Crypt Keeper sequence where he's like playing a 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.040 game of chess with the Cripkeeper or something. But he 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:56.800 was in Shashankrediction, he was in the Second Diehard movie. 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:01.040 Yeah, he's the guy. He's like the new martial arts Kernel. 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:03.639 I remember he's in the hotel room doing like naked 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.000 yoga or something, and then he I think at some 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:08.200 point he like punches out a TV screen. 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:12.880 He he was on Tails from the Crypt. He appeared 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:15.560 in in what I believe was the pilot episode The 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.399 Man Who Was Death, And he also played the host 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.520 of a Tale from the Crypt spinoff, the title of 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:25.840 the Two Fisted Tales. This apparently wasn't picked up. They 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.720 ended up just using the three episodes. I think that 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:31.720 they shot using them as Tales from the Crypt episodes. 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:34.480 But he had this whole persona of mister rush a 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.040 crazy old cowboy in a wheelchair and if you look 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:38.840 it up on YouTube you can find clips of it. 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:41.760 It's like he's just completely over the top in the role, 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:42.919 as one should be. 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.479 Oh yeah, Williams. Saddler is always like a high tension cable, 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:49.000 you know, He's like one of those like steel cables 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:50.879 that a tram car rides along. 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:54.240 Yeah yeah, but yeah. Throughout his career he's played very 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.720 serious characters and he's played just yeah, real live wires. 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:00.000 He seemed to have a tremendous amount of range there, 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:01.960 but you don't see him, I guess, playing the hero 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:04.600 as much in this in this one. 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:06.160 Because he's got an evil looking face. 0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:09.199 Yeah yeah, but it works here because he's supposed to be. 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:10.920 He's a I mean, he's a guy on the very 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:14.520 you know, margins of law and society. 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:17.080 M yeah, all right. 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:19.199 Some of the rest of the cast here. C. C. H. 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:21.800 Pounder we already mentioned. She plays a character, Irene. She's 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:24.199 a She's a talented actor, probably best known for her 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:26.760 role on the Shield. She was in Avatar, she was 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:29.480 in RoboCop three, and a lot of TV work. 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:32.520 I think she does one of those big crime TV shows. 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:34.679 Now didn't she like in CIS or something. 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:37.160 I think so, yeah, she That's the sort of show 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:39.480 that she seemed to get a lot of work on. Now, 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:43.760 another character actor in this is somebody who recognized from 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:45.919 previous episodes of a Weird House, and that is Dick Miller, 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:51.840 who plays Uncle Willie. That's right, Yeah, I would say this, 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.800 whatever you expect of a Dick Miller character, you will 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:57.240 get it from this film. He's not really playing against 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:00.760 type or anything, but it's a substantial role. And I 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:03.000 found out on the special features for this one this 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:06.000 was his first time in his entire career in which 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:07.720 he wore a prosthetic makeup. 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:11.000 Oh wow, I assume this is for the part where 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:14.120 he turns into a demon, not for his regular regular appearance, 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:17.320 because here he is, like you say, playing perfectly to type. 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:19.439 He is just a whiskey guzzling drifter. 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:20.440 Yeah. 0:27:20.480 --> 0:27:24.080 And there's some great drifter to drifter relations between him 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:24.960 and William Sadler. 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:28.440 Yeah, yeah, they have. They have some good scenes. Apparently, 0:27:28.880 --> 0:27:30.520 like Dick Miller was, you know, in all these old 0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:33.480 older films, He's Corman films and all. So apparently the 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:36.800 effects guys and Dickerson himself, they were just super thrilled 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:38.919 to have Dick Miller on the picture because you know, 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:40.160 this is a guy who was in all those old 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:44.040 films that they grew up watching. So that's pretty much. 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:46.280 Was you a vacuum salesman in a movie I saw 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.119 when I was a kid. Yeah, and you get taken 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.840 down to the furnace by by the Marlborough man. 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:54.679 It's like, I've seen you die so many times, how 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:59.200 about one more time? Let's see Thomas Aiden Church is 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:03.040 in this plays a character named Roach. Kind of Church 0:28:03.119 --> 0:28:05.840 is kind of like a younger handsomer William Sadler in 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:06.359 some ways. 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:11.520 Yeah, in this movie. So he plays this swaggering creep, 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:16.399 but with a swaggering creep with a luxurious like Jethro 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:20.800 tull Roady hair, and he's also wearing a Trent Reznor 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:22.800 style see through T shirt. 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:26.639 Yeah. Yeah, he's He's absolutely hateable in this role in 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:29.240 all the right ways. Like he really really makes you 0:28:29.280 --> 0:28:32.520 hate this character. This was only his third film role though. 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:33.320 Wow. 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:35.840 Yeah, he'd go on to I mean he was I 0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:37.760 think he'd already been on the show Wings and that's 0:28:37.760 --> 0:28:39.920 what he was mainly known for. But he went on 0:28:40.000 --> 0:28:42.120 of course being Sideways and Spider Man three. 0:28:43.080 --> 0:28:46.040 Now the movie, of course, like any good horror movie, 0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:48.560 especially any good horror movie from the nineties, has its 0:28:48.600 --> 0:28:50.040 share of useless cops. 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:53.479 Yeah, and we have two useless cops in this, one 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:56.200 of which dies pretty soon. The other is the deputy 0:28:56.600 --> 0:29:00.400 deputy Bob Martel, that survives very long into the film. 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:04.360 And this is played by character actor Gary Farmer. And 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:08.479 here is your absolutely solid Overdrawn in the Memory Bank connection, 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:10.800 because he was in over Drawn in the Memory Bank. 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:12.200 Really I didn't know that. 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:16.480 Yeah, yeah, that, of course was a nineteen eighty three 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:20.720 American playhouse rendition of over Drawn in the Memory Bank 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:23.320 that starred Rawle Julia And he just has a small, 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:26.760 ultimately kind of awkward role in it. But he went 0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:28.720 on to be in a ton more stuff. So he 0:29:28.760 --> 0:29:32.040 was born in fifty three. He's a Canadian First Nations actor. 0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:35.280 And let's see something like, for instance, he went on 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:38.560 to be in Dead Man the Western with the Johnny J. 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:40.640 Jarmusch movie, Yeah yeah. 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:42.920 And then also in his film Ghost Dog Way of 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.520 the Samurai. He actually plays the same character in those 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:50.320 two films. He plays his character named Nobody. Okay, Yeah, 0:29:50.360 --> 0:29:53.600 And he was also apparently under consideration for the role 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:56.640 of doctor Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 0:29:56.680 --> 0:29:58.640 but that didn't come together for some reason. 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:03.800 Oh, that ultimately went to what's his name, Benicio del Toro, Yes, 0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:04.840 Benicccio del Toro. 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:05.280 Yes. 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:08.120 Oh you know what, Actually I should go back on 0:30:08.160 --> 0:30:11.160 what I said earlier, because I said that this movie 0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:14.959 has useless cops, and it is a very reliable trope 0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:18.560 of horror movies, especially like horror movies of the nineties. 0:30:18.600 --> 0:30:21.080 But it's it's pretty much always there that you can 0:30:21.160 --> 0:30:24.200 just count on cops to not be useful in them, 0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:26.760 you know, like you run up. You never have the 0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:28.640 scene where you run up to a cop and say 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:31.480 there's a monster chasing us and they whip out their 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:35.600 gun and say where get behind me. No, it's always like, oh, 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:38.360 calm down, missy, and then there's just like a claw 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:42.480 sticking through their face or something. But in this movie, 0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:46.680 Gary Farmer's deputy Bob, he actually he becomes more useful 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:48.720 as the movie goes on than is actually kind of 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:49.680 heroic by the end. 0:30:49.960 --> 0:30:53.200 Yeah. Yeah, even though he you know, as a character actor, 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:56.640 he has this kind of like bumbling quality to him. 0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:59.840 You know, it plays well to comedy, and he does 0:30:59.840 --> 0:31:02.920 some good comedy in this. But yeah, he also they 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.200 do more with the character than just have him fumble 0:31:05.200 --> 0:31:07.480 a gun and get killed by a monster. All right. 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:10.800 Another interesting character we have in this is Charles Fleischer, 0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:14.760 who plays his character Wally. I think this is a character. 0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:17.479 A lot of you may not recognize his name. Some 0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:19.600 of you may not even recognize a picture of him, 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:23.160 but you would recognize his voice, at least one voice 0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:25.200 that he does because he was the voice of Roger Rabbit. 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:26.080 Wow. 0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:30.200 And outside of that, he often plays weirdos. He has 0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:32.600 a real kind of like weirdo look to him. You know, 0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:35.920 he plays that kind of character. Well, he doesn't disappoint 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:37.520 in this film. He plays another weirdo. 0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:40.040 He plays a very awkward guy in yeah movie. 0:31:40.680 --> 0:31:42.800 But I've seen him in a number of things. He 0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:45.840 had a fun role recurring role on Jonathan Ames TV 0:31:45.920 --> 0:31:48.960 series Blunt Talk. So he's always a treat when he 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:51.040 shows up. But it doesn't seem he doesn't show up 0:31:51.040 --> 0:31:52.080 a lot in things I watch. 0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:55.720 Now. We know that Ernest Dickerson was himself cinematographer on 0:31:56.120 --> 0:31:58.640 a bunch of other movies, so he's directing here. Who 0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:00.640 does the cinematography. 0:32:00.600 --> 0:32:06.000 One Rick Boda or Bata Bota, who went on to 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:09.840 direct not one, not two, but three direct to video 0:32:09.920 --> 0:32:13.440 Hell Raiser sequels Ride in a Row, Hell Seeker, Debtor, 0:32:13.720 --> 0:32:14.520 and Hell World. 0:32:14.880 --> 0:32:17.440 I believe that's gonna be your numbers six, seven, and 0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:19.960 eight in the Hell Raiser series. I would say that 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:23.640 is not a high point of the series. But it's 0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:26.760 weird because so those are not very good Hell Raiser movies. 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:30.560 But I like his cinematography style in the movie. It's nothing, 0:32:31.440 --> 0:32:34.120 you know, it's nothing all that artistic, but it's very fluid. 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:36.520 I mean, like it's good in the sense that it's 0:32:36.560 --> 0:32:39.120 the kind of good filmmaking that don't you're not thinking 0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:40.160 about technique. 0:32:40.480 --> 0:32:42.800 Yeah, yeah, And it has some some nice use of 0:32:42.840 --> 0:32:45.600 gels in places that they kind of give it that 0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:50.240 tales from the crypt vibe without like overdoing it right. 0:32:50.600 --> 0:32:52.960 Like you see a similar thing done in what was 0:32:53.040 --> 0:32:58.120 Stephen king Creep Show, where it was also an homage 0:32:58.160 --> 0:33:00.720 to horror comics of old, But there are scenes in 0:33:00.760 --> 0:33:03.200 that where they just go crazy with the gels to 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:05.640 create these kind of comic book colors, and so there's 0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:06.960 a little lot of it in here, but it feels 0:33:06.960 --> 0:33:08.520 a lot a lot more restrained. 0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:13.000 So Hell World is the Evil Dead or not Evil 0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:17.000 Dead the I've totally forgotten what it's called hell Raiser 0:33:17.080 --> 0:33:19.880 hell hell World is the hell Raiser movie where the 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:24.840 tagline is evil goes Online. Oh man, it's the one 0:33:24.880 --> 0:33:28.480 where they go to So I think it's supposed to 0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:31.440 be that the Pinhead is in a computer or something, 0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:33.960 but then nobody ever really goes online in the movie. 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:35.720 I was talking to my friend Chuck about this not 0:33:35.760 --> 0:33:37.880 too long ago. He pointed out that it's really a 0:33:37.960 --> 0:33:41.600 very offline movie. It's about a party. People go to 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:45.840 a big party at somebody's house and Pinhead starts killing him. 0:33:46.080 --> 0:33:48.560 Oh wow. Well, yeah, I never saw any of those, 0:33:48.680 --> 0:33:51.520 those these three hell Raiser films in particular, but they 0:33:51.520 --> 0:33:53.560 all had Doug Bradley and then at least a little bit, 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:54.719 so they have that going for him. 0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:57.280 I guess Hell World also has Lance Hendrickson. 0:33:57.680 --> 0:33:59.640 Oh yeah, yeah, Oh, I think I read about that 0:33:59.680 --> 0:34:01.960 where they were able they were able to get him 0:34:01.960 --> 0:34:03.840 for the role because he happened to be in I 0:34:03.880 --> 0:34:06.000 want to say, these were filmed in Romania, and he 0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:09.440 was in Romania already filming some other role and they're like, hey, 0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:11.920 we can get Lance Henderson. He's got another day or 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:13.239 two on his hotel room. 0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:16.240 And they did it perfect serendipity. 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:17.480 Yeah. 0:34:16.960 --> 0:34:20.680 Now, we mentioned that the cinematography of the movie is 0:34:20.719 --> 0:34:24.279 quite effective. It's nothing too flashy, but it's fun and 0:34:24.320 --> 0:34:27.399 it's loose and it's very fluid and you're just right 0:34:27.440 --> 0:34:29.280 in there in the action. I would say the same 0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:31.839 thing for the makeup effects in the movie, which are 0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:32.359 quite good. 0:34:32.880 --> 0:34:35.840 Yeah. Yeah, the makeup and the monsters in this are great. 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:39.160 And we have the Todd Masters Company to think for this. 0:34:39.200 --> 0:34:41.279 They did all the special makeup on the picture. They 0:34:41.280 --> 0:34:45.319 did the monsters, and Masters was ideal for this because 0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:47.279 he was a Tales from the Crypt veteran already at 0:34:47.280 --> 0:34:49.880 that point, and he's done a lot of film and 0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:53.600 TV work, and he did a great job on the 0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:57.279 monsters in this film as well, from like a just 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:02.120 from like a conceptual standpoint, because apparently in the early 0:35:02.160 --> 0:35:04.680 stages the monsters were going to be more zombie like 0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:08.000 or just kind of like possessed people, and he ended 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:11.000 up pushing for a different design, a design that ultimately 0:35:11.000 --> 0:35:13.239 I think ended up being cheaper, which the studio liked, 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:18.000 but it leaned heavily on body paint and lean actors 0:35:18.040 --> 0:35:22.799 in stilts with just prosthetic heads and some interesting like 0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:25.840 growin and tail features that we'll get to here in 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:29.120 a bit. The monsters are terrific, but Masters has been 0:35:29.160 --> 0:35:31.080 involved in a number of different films that have great 0:35:31.120 --> 0:35:36.759 practical special effects like Necronomicon, Book of the Dead, Hell Raiser, Bloodline, 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:41.480 The Resurrected. The Resurrected is the good Lovecraft movie that 0:35:41.480 --> 0:35:44.680 I was trying to remember in a previous episode. He 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:46.759 was in the fifth Nightmare on m Street movie. He 0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:49.320 was in Return of not In. He did the effects 0:35:49.360 --> 0:35:52.920 for them, Return of Swamp Things, Slither Star Trek, First Contact. 0:35:52.960 --> 0:35:54.920 He did the borg stuff in that with the you know, 0:35:55.080 --> 0:35:59.360 the boorg Queen. He was responsible for that. And apparently 0:35:59.360 --> 0:36:02.520 he's going to do a movie according to IMDb, about 0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:05.640 giant leeches. So bringing the giant leeches back. I think 0:36:05.680 --> 0:36:08.560 they've been absent from cinema for well, what since the 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:09.480 fifties or something. 0:36:09.960 --> 0:36:12.560 Oh, bring them on. But yeah, I agree with everything 0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:15.280 you said. I really love the monster design in this movie. 0:36:15.360 --> 0:36:18.160 It's simple. They look great. They've got green glowing eyes 0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:19.960 and mouths. That's excellent. 0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:30.919 All right, Well let's jump into the film itself. Let's 0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:32.240 let's roll through the plot. 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:36.800 Well, so, first of all, you have a classic Tails 0:36:36.840 --> 0:36:39.080 from the crypt opening, which is, you know, your Dolly 0:36:39.120 --> 0:36:41.560 shot through the Cobweby mansion, and then you go down 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:44.480 a secret passageway into the dungeon and it looks like 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:46.920 it's the layer of Doctor Faustus. And then the crypt 0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:49.719 keeper he pops up out of the coffin and cackles 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:52.760 at you. And as I said before, all the sound 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:55.960 effects here, it's the Tales from the Crypto music is playing, 0:36:56.000 --> 0:36:59.480 and then you get there crypt keeper laugh. That is 0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:04.400 that is such a powerful auditory queue to nineties childhood mindset. 0:37:05.600 --> 0:37:08.040 I showed that, just the opening to my son to 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:10.040 see how he would dig it, and he did not 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.120 dig it. He found it, Oh, he found it. They 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:14.560 found it frightening, and he did not want any part 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:14.799 of it. 0:37:15.280 --> 0:37:17.640 That's probably all for the best. This movie is not 0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:18.480 for kids. 0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:20.239 And I'm not to say he was traumatized by it 0:37:20.320 --> 0:37:22.040 or anything, but I was like, you want to check 0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:24.440 this out for Halloween, and he's like, okay, sure, and 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:27.720 then he saw it and he's like no, thank you. 0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:29.880 Now. I don't know if we even mentioned this before, 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:32.640 but the movie starts with an opening segment that is 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:35.319 not connected to the rest of the plot. I guess 0:37:35.360 --> 0:37:37.960 we did mention that there were brackets, but it starts 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:40.799 you off in media res with stuff going on with 0:37:40.840 --> 0:37:44.160 other characters you like. Pan up and it's on the 0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:48.480 scene of a woman reclining in lingerie talking on the 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:51.640 phone about how she has just murdered her husband, like 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:54.680 his bloody clothes are still all over the place, and 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:57.839 he's and we see he's downstairs dissolving in a tub 0:37:57.880 --> 0:38:00.360 of acid in the basement, and she's tall looking to 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:02.560 her lover on the phone about how much they're going 0:38:02.560 --> 0:38:06.560 to enjoy spending all of the dead guy's money, and then, 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:10.160 of course, pretty much immediately the tub corpse wakes up, 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:12.960 and then it climbs the stairs and it has a 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:15.319 hatchet in its hand and it charges in on her 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:17.960 in a psycho style scene where she's in the bathtub 0:38:18.280 --> 0:38:21.800 and he's like ah, and then we get a cut, cut, cut, 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:24.080 and it turns out it's a movie within a movie. 0:38:24.480 --> 0:38:27.000 The corpse man is being played by John Laura Keett, 0:38:28.120 --> 0:38:30.919 which is just excellent wait, did we already talk about 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:31.719 John Laura Keett. 0:38:32.400 --> 0:38:35.279 We didn't. But of course he's most famous, or at least 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:39.319 for older TV viewers, for being the lawyer what was 0:38:39.320 --> 0:38:41.919 the name Felding on Night Court? 0:38:42.480 --> 0:38:44.279 I never saw Night Court Handfielding. 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:45.080 I'm sorry. 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:47.560 He also plays a lawyer at some point on The 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:48.120 West Wing. 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:50.640 Yeah, he played a lot of characters like that. But 0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:54.000 for horror fans, he of course was the narrator on 0:38:54.040 --> 0:38:57.280 the original Texas Chainsaw Masker, that opening scroll that sets 0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:59.239 the tone for the film, and he did that at 0:38:59.360 --> 0:39:02.120 least in the the follow up in Texas Chanceallmascer two. 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:04.960 I'm not sure if he did any of the sequels 0:39:04.960 --> 0:39:07.960 beyond that. I think he did, but most notably that 0:39:08.000 --> 0:39:10.279 first one though, really the first thing you hear in 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:11.399 that picture. 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:14.960 He's good at playing a kind of like a thundering, conceited, 0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:17.080 pompous wind bag exactly. 0:39:17.200 --> 0:39:20.239 Yeah, that's that's That's everything that he played to a tee. 0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:22.839 But in this movie, it's funny because he's just got 0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:25.640 this bit part where he plays an actor playing a 0:39:26.239 --> 0:39:29.759 tub corpse who's about to hatchet his his scheming ex 0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:33.000 wife to death. And then but it turns out it's 0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:35.000 a movie within a movie. And then we pan up 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:37.719 on the crypt Keeper, who's sitting in the director's chair, 0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:42.480 so imagine Jeremy Bentham's preserved remains and start he starts 0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:45.480 screaming at John Larroquette about how he can't act at all. 0:39:45.560 --> 0:39:48.960 He's like, you're no Gory Cooper, You're not even a 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:50.280 Robert Dadford. 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:53.680 And he was an ambitious bit of special effects here, 0:39:53.760 --> 0:39:58.439 because they clearly had a live actor doing some sort 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:01.680 of like green screen head and then they put the 0:40:01.920 --> 0:40:06.360 puppeteered crypt keeper head over that in post so it 0:40:06.360 --> 0:40:08.400 looks and it looks maybe a tiny bit rough. You 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:12.080 can tell there's some ambitious special effects going on here. 0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:14.319 But it's still amusing, which makes sense. You know, this 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:16.400 is Tales from the Crypt the movie. You should go 0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:17.200 for it right. 0:40:17.320 --> 0:40:20.480 Right, And it's great because so this opening film within 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:24.480 a film thing is perfect. It is a Tales from 0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:26.560 the Crypt episode. You know, it's a c detail in 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:28.920 which a bad person gets what's coming to them. 0:40:29.400 --> 0:40:29.600 Yeah. 0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:31.840 But so then of course we get the crypt Keeper 0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:35.399 introducing the main story. He's you know, I can't remember 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:36.960 exactly what he says, but he makes a bunch of 0:40:36.960 --> 0:40:39.640 puns and then he's like, I call this one demon night, 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:42.400 and then we cut to the opening credits over a 0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:46.480 car cruising on a dark desert highway with the most 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:49.440 perfect nineteen ninety five soundtrack choice. 0:40:49.600 --> 0:40:52.239 That's right, it's filters hey Man, nice shot, which is 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:55.000 also in the trailer I think, which I think is 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:57.239 just mandatory. This was just us law that if you 0:40:57.280 --> 0:40:59.000 had a film that came out in ninety five, you 0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:01.080 had to use hey Man I shot. 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:04.720 Yeah, I was. It was hard to contain the laughter 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:06.759 while that was going on. And then of course we 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:10.600 see William Saddler driving and he's you know, looking over 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:13.319 his shoulder as if pursued by the hounds of hell. 0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:16.239 But no, it's even worse. It's Billy Zane and a 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:21.080 cowboy hat. And it's very funny when it first reveals 0:41:21.120 --> 0:41:23.879 Billy Zayne's smirking face in the in the car that's 0:41:23.960 --> 0:41:27.640 chasing William Saddler, and so William Sadler starts to run 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:30.839 out of gas on this desert highway and there is 0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:34.520 a highway showdown slash shootout, like Billy z Ane's riding 0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:37.520 up on him, and William Sadler gets out a rifle 0:41:37.600 --> 0:41:40.120 it's like a lever action rifle, and starts shooting at 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:43.640 Billy Zanne's car. Eventually the car catches on fire, but 0:41:43.719 --> 0:41:47.720 Billy Zayn, undeterred, just rams straight into Saddler's car. Saddler 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:49.560 gets out of it at the last second, and there's 0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:53.400 this huge fiery ramming explosion. So William Saddler escapes the 0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:55.799 flaming wreckage. And I guess we're supposed to assume, as 0:41:56.200 --> 0:41:58.759 the naive audience, that Billy Zain has been killed in 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:01.920 the explosion, I guess, But why would we actually believe that? 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:03.719 I mean, would it make sense for Billy's aying to 0:42:03.760 --> 0:42:08.040 be killed. No, it doesn't, doesn't. But William Sadler he 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:10.720 looks at his palm and he sees a bunch of dots. 0:42:10.760 --> 0:42:13.280 I think they're a little like star tattoos on his palm, 0:42:13.320 --> 0:42:15.480 and some of them are glowing and others are not. 0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:18.960 And then he just sort of ambles on through the night. 0:42:19.000 --> 0:42:21.120 He's got drifter energy. 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:24.320 He's got places to be apocalypses too for event. 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:27.600 Right, And so he ambles on into Wormwood, New Mexico, 0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:31.440 again not a real place, and goes up to a 0:42:31.560 --> 0:42:35.919 diner called the Halfway House Cafe and immediately starts trying 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:39.000 to jack cars, Like he gets out a butterfly knife 0:42:39.000 --> 0:42:41.720 and is sticking it in the keyhole of a car 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:44.480 outside in the parking lot, and a kid comes out 0:42:44.480 --> 0:42:46.879 and he's like, hey, are you stealing my daddy's car? 0:42:46.960 --> 0:42:49.080 And he's like, no, I'm just testing the lock. 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:53.560 Wormwood, New Mexico seems like a very interesting place because 0:42:53.600 --> 0:42:56.080 not only do they have drifters, it seems to be 0:42:56.480 --> 0:42:59.919 exclusively populated by drifters. Like I want to meet other 0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:03.040 drifters that make up this town, like Mayor Drifter and 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:07.080 the rest of the post office, Like everybody's kind of 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.920 like a suspect, a drifter type character. 0:43:10.120 --> 0:43:14.200 It's a drifter community. Like the characters in the town 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:17.279 who are not drifters, they're written in such a way 0:43:17.320 --> 0:43:20.120 that they're like one decision away from being a drifter. 0:43:20.600 --> 0:43:24.080 Yeah, I mean we all are, really, but especially these characters. 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:26.920 So anyway, a bunch of people run out of the diner. 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:28.520 I think one of the people who runs out is 0:43:28.560 --> 0:43:30.719 Thomas Hayden Church. But a bunch of people run out 0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:33.960 and then they run William Saddler off, so he's chased 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:37.640 off into the night where he runs into Dick Miller 0:43:37.719 --> 0:43:40.880 as an old drunk and they share some whiskey and 0:43:40.880 --> 0:43:44.239 commiserate for a bid and then Dick Miller tells him that, hey, 0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:46.120 I know a place where you can bed down for 0:43:46.200 --> 0:43:49.680 the night, and so they're funneling him toward this old church. 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.400 You can immediately tell the sort of plot mechanics that 0:43:52.440 --> 0:43:56.200 are happening here. We're sivving all of the characters into 0:43:56.239 --> 0:43:58.400 this one fortress location. 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:03.319 Now, fact about this location, it looks really great, it 0:44:03.320 --> 0:44:07.200 lose phenomenal. But when they went to put the film together, 0:44:07.719 --> 0:44:11.600 Dickerson particularly did not want to film at night and 0:44:11.680 --> 0:44:14.520 have like really long nights of shoots for the cast 0:44:14.520 --> 0:44:17.400 and crew. So that was one of the reasons that 0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:21.279 instead they got an airplane hangar, and in it they 0:44:21.400 --> 0:44:25.200 built that building and the immediate surroundings oh nice like 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.359 in its entirety, so that they could just film during 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:29.720 the day at their leisure and have complete control over 0:44:29.840 --> 0:44:35.920 the lighting. But there was one issue. Pigeons were already 0:44:35.920 --> 0:44:39.880 living in there in the airplane hangar, and you know 0:44:39.920 --> 0:44:44.000 how pigeons are, They're constantly making noise, making these pigeon noises. 0:44:44.280 --> 0:44:46.960 So they couldn't get rid of the pigeons. But what 0:44:47.000 --> 0:44:48.959 they ended up doing is every time before they would 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:52.839 the roll the camera, before they'd say action, they would 0:44:52.840 --> 0:44:55.680 fire off a blank They would fire off a gun 0:44:56.280 --> 0:44:58.160 in order to just frighten the pigeons and get them 0:44:58.200 --> 0:44:59.799 to shut up, so they could they could have this 0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:03.000 window of time in which they could film before the 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:04.800 pigeons started to their ruckus. Again. 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:08.120 Oh, that's funny. Somehow I feel like I could kind 0:45:08.120 --> 0:45:10.720 of sense that it was that it was indoor for outdoor, 0:45:10.760 --> 0:45:12.959 even though it's a vast expanse, like you can't see 0:45:13.000 --> 0:45:15.000 the walls of the airplane hangar or anything. 0:45:15.040 --> 0:45:16.680 But that's good. 0:45:16.719 --> 0:45:18.520 And I think I've said this on the show before. 0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:21.200 I for some reason always really enjoy a good indoor 0:45:21.239 --> 0:45:22.680 for outdoor set. Well. 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:26.040 It can make a very surreal environment, you know. And 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:28.800 it makes sense for this film because the only exteriors 0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:31.920 we have were this loathsome former church in the middle 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:34.200 of a desert at the end of the world, and 0:45:34.239 --> 0:45:39.440 then one flashback to the Crucifixion. So yeah, so it 0:45:39.480 --> 0:45:42.600 makes sense that that we have this alien environment created 0:45:42.600 --> 0:45:45.880 by shooting everything inside of an airplane hangar exactly. 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:49.040 But so what is this church? Dick Miller explains to 0:45:49.160 --> 0:45:52.280 us that it's a church that isn't a church anymore. 0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:55.799 He says they decommissioned it in the fifties due to 0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:56.960 lack of interest. 0:45:58.520 --> 0:46:02.680 That's the official monology on the decommissioning. 0:46:02.000 --> 0:46:05.160 Form, right, Yeah, it was like interest on who's part, 0:46:05.239 --> 0:46:06.839 like on the preacher there, or. 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:09.279 I think it was the town. There's just you know, 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:10.440 it's just a bunch of drifters. 0:46:10.800 --> 0:46:15.040 It's just like, I'm not interested in that reverend. But so, yeah, 0:46:15.040 --> 0:46:18.120 it turns into it turns out to be this boarding house. 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:22.160 It's like a desert hotel sort of. And it's it's 0:46:22.200 --> 0:46:24.239 like we said, it's like the evil Dead cabin for 0:46:24.280 --> 0:46:27.000 the movie, the Fortress of Order that will collect the 0:46:27.120 --> 0:46:31.000 characters and then fall under attack. It's the supernatural Alamo. 0:46:31.440 --> 0:46:31.920 Yeah. 0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:34.839 Oh, and then meanwhile we also see that Billy Zain 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:37.520 is hooking up with the police, Like the police are 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:40.359 investigating the crash on the on the highway. The cars 0:46:40.360 --> 0:46:43.000 are on fire. They're like nobody could have survived that. 0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:45.600 Those cars hit each other going one hundred miles per hour, 0:46:45.680 --> 0:46:47.960 which we saw that opening scene. They were not going 0:46:48.000 --> 0:46:52.399 one hundred miles an hour, but whatever. So but then 0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:54.680 Billy Zaine just sort of like walks out from behind 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:56.839 the flaming car and he's like, hey, what's up, and 0:46:56.840 --> 0:46:59.440 they're all like, oh, I didn't think you could have 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:02.440 survived that. But so he explains to them that he 0:47:02.560 --> 0:47:06.919 was chasing a man who stole something, and so they're like, well, 0:47:06.960 --> 0:47:10.680 we'll help you find him, and so Zayan therefore enlists 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:12.000 the police on his team. 0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:15.120 Initially, yeah, he's just so ding dang charming, they just 0:47:15.160 --> 0:47:18.200 can't say no. Yeah. Now, I have to say the 0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:20.560 film does a great job setting all this up, there's 0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:23.800 no wasted motion really, and getting us from here into 0:47:23.840 --> 0:47:27.320 our siege location and beginning to establish the rules for everything. 0:47:28.120 --> 0:47:30.520 And then the characters are mostly there to fulfill basic 0:47:30.560 --> 0:47:34.479 tropes in the story, you know again, like the bumbling cop, 0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:38.759 et cetera. But you know, I feel like it comes 0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:43.000 together rather well and also ultimately surprises you with a 0:47:43.000 --> 0:47:46.120 few choices in terms of like who survives and who doesn't. 0:47:46.480 --> 0:47:47.920 Yeah, totally all. 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:50.080 Right, we got everybody more or less bottled up inside 0:47:50.120 --> 0:47:52.480 this old building. Who are our characters? 0:47:52.920 --> 0:47:56.000 Okay, I'm not gonna remember all of them, but so 0:47:56.080 --> 0:47:58.960 the main ones. I guess. You got William Sadler as 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:01.439 this guy who will find out his named breaker. He's 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:05.239 the drifter. You've got Jada Pinkett playing Jerlene, who is 0:48:06.280 --> 0:48:08.640 she is somebody who I think formerly was in prison 0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:11.800 and now she's working for the boarding house on work release. 0:48:13.160 --> 0:48:16.520 Then you've got c h. Pounder who is playing Irene, 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:20.680 who is the owner proprietor of the boarding house. You've 0:48:20.680 --> 0:48:24.560 got Cordelia who is a prostitute. You've got Wally who 0:48:24.600 --> 0:48:27.880 is a mail carrier. You've got Thomas Hayden Church. I 0:48:27.920 --> 0:48:30.759 don't remember his character's name, but he's the creep. He's 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:34.200 the guy roach right, Yeah, he's like the cook at 0:48:34.239 --> 0:48:38.360 the diner who is just a nasty backstab and woman 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:40.480 Hayten creep. And then a few others. 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:42.080 Well, you got uncle Wally in there. 0:48:42.680 --> 0:48:44.680 Oh did we not already talk about uncle We talked 0:48:44.680 --> 0:48:47.799 about uncle Uncle Willie, Uncle Willy. That's that's that's stick Miller. 0:48:47.880 --> 0:48:48.520 Yeah. 0:48:48.560 --> 0:48:51.279 And then and then we'll have the police and then 0:48:51.320 --> 0:48:53.840 oh and there's a kid who shows up later, I think. 0:48:54.120 --> 0:48:55.560 But that's basically it. That's it. 0:48:55.680 --> 0:48:57.840 Yeah, Oh, okay, I thought I may have forgotten somebody. 0:48:58.120 --> 0:49:00.120 There's a great scene when we're sort of just getting 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:02.240 to know all the characters. There's a scene of Breaker 0:49:02.320 --> 0:49:07.800 eating this food on the table. It's just bright green slop. 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:09.920 It looks like the slime that they used to have 0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:10.799 on Nickelodeon. 0:49:11.320 --> 0:49:11.400 Ye. 0:49:11.800 --> 0:49:15.640 So it's just bright green liquid that he's eating with 0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:17.680 a spoon and he slathers it in ketchup. 0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:20.239 Yeah. Yeah, but he's happy to get it. He's just 0:49:20.360 --> 0:49:21.960 he's clearly famished. 0:49:22.320 --> 0:49:25.560 Yeah. And then eventually the police arrive with Billy Zain 0:49:25.760 --> 0:49:28.440 in response to a report of an attempted car theft. 0:49:28.480 --> 0:49:30.920 I think that was William Sadler trying to jack the 0:49:30.960 --> 0:49:34.040 car with his knife earlier. And as soon as Billy 0:49:34.120 --> 0:49:37.399 Zay arrives and sees William Saddler in the sporting house, 0:49:37.440 --> 0:49:39.360 it's just like this is like the you know, the 0:49:39.440 --> 0:49:42.759 lights go off and he's sick in the cops on him. 0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:46.960 They've got William Saddler in cuffs and Zayne is looking 0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:50.960 for what Breaker stole, which is an antiquity of some kind. 0:49:51.440 --> 0:49:54.520 Yeah, and that's going to be our main plot element 0:49:54.560 --> 0:49:56.040 here that we'll get to do in a bit. This 0:49:56.080 --> 0:49:58.280 is the key. This is the thing that the demons 0:49:58.320 --> 0:50:02.239 want and that the the mortals in the universe absolutely 0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:04.360 cannot let fall into their hands. 0:50:04.640 --> 0:50:07.600 Right, And then Dick Miller sells him out. I felt betrayed. 0:50:08.080 --> 0:50:10.080 They've got him in the cuffs there, they're like, where 0:50:10.120 --> 0:50:12.040 is the thing? They've been looking around for it. I 0:50:12.080 --> 0:50:14.760 think they come across Thomas Hayden Church in the middle 0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:16.959 of some kind of sex act that involves him getting 0:50:17.000 --> 0:50:18.240 hooked up to a car battery. 0:50:18.320 --> 0:50:20.040 Oh. Yeah, he has a great line, didn't He's like, 0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:21.160 my nipples are burning. 0:50:21.600 --> 0:50:25.279 Yeah. I think he says they're smoking. 0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:29.480 Smoking, My nipples are smoking. Yeah, it's good. I hope 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:30.200 it's in his reel. 0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:31.080 Oh, it's got to be. 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:32.080 But yeah. 0:50:32.080 --> 0:50:34.439 Eventually they've looked all over for this thing. They can't 0:50:34.480 --> 0:50:36.760 find it. Then Dick Miller sells him out. He sells 0:50:36.800 --> 0:50:40.120 out breaker. He's like, hey, actually the artifact is just 0:50:40.200 --> 0:50:43.960 here under the table where everybody's standing. Yeah, and it's 0:50:43.960 --> 0:50:47.880 some kind of key, But it's also like a bottle 0:50:48.160 --> 0:50:51.879 filled with some liquid, and Billy Zay won't touch it. 0:50:51.880 --> 0:50:54.880 It's clear something very significant is going on. What he 0:50:54.920 --> 0:50:57.839 wants is for Dick Miller to pour out its contents 0:50:57.880 --> 0:51:00.440 and then put it into a suitcase for him, and 0:51:00.560 --> 0:51:03.480 Breaker tells him not to do it, and they argue 0:51:03.520 --> 0:51:05.640 back and forth, and eventually the cops are like, ah, 0:51:05.719 --> 0:51:08.200 the hell with it. Both of the cars from this 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:10.880 car crash were stolen. You're both going to jail and 0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:12.799 we'll figure it out later. So they try to take 0:51:12.880 --> 0:51:16.759 Sadler and Zaane off to jail. But then Zaye I 0:51:16.800 --> 0:51:19.880 think the a switch flips and he comes off the 0:51:19.960 --> 0:51:23.160 leash with an excellent punch right through the sheriff's head. 0:51:23.239 --> 0:51:26.120 Through the sheriff's head Ricky O style. 0:51:26.200 --> 0:51:30.200 Yeah, except unlike Ricky Oh, he's got this wonderful awkwardness 0:51:30.200 --> 0:51:33.120 of the head being stuck on his fist on his arm. 0:51:33.320 --> 0:51:35.080 Seems like having to try and get that off of 0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:35.640 his hand. 0:51:36.480 --> 0:51:39.200 It's pretty great, yeah, And then all hell breaks loose. 0:51:39.920 --> 0:51:43.799 Billy fights to get the key, Breaker burns him with it, 0:51:43.840 --> 0:51:45.880 so it's like a vampire with a crucifix, you know. 0:51:45.880 --> 0:51:47.880 If you touch the key to his face, it seems 0:51:47.880 --> 0:51:50.920 to burn him. And then Billy Zaying flies out the 0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:54.400 window and then stands there while everybody watches him, and 0:51:54.440 --> 0:51:57.759 he pierces his palm with a fingernail bleeds a bunch 0:51:57.800 --> 0:52:00.880 of green blood all over the place. The drops of 0:52:00.920 --> 0:52:03.640 his green blood on the earth make an army of 0:52:03.680 --> 0:52:05.200 demons to attack the house. 0:52:05.520 --> 0:52:07.680 He throws a nice hissy fit first, though, there's a 0:52:07.760 --> 0:52:11.759 there's a great but yeah. Then he starts summoning the monsters, 0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:14.600 and man, if you if you weren't already on board 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:17.200 with this, once the monsters pop out in this film, 0:52:17.239 --> 0:52:19.799 you're really good to go, because these are some great monsters. Again, 0:52:19.880 --> 0:52:23.839 these are like they're They're unlike most monsters I've seen 0:52:23.840 --> 0:52:27.000 in other films. They're like these ghastly gaunt grave walker 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:30.000 types but with also with the with the glowing green 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:32.920 eyes that we mentioned, but also like piercings in places, 0:52:33.320 --> 0:52:35.560 but but not in like a punk sense, in a 0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:38.600 like a seemingly like antique sense, like they're creatures of 0:52:38.640 --> 0:52:42.400 another time. Yeahn you know, Yeah, so they have I 0:52:42.440 --> 0:52:45.520 feel like they play against expectations in the of the 0:52:45.520 --> 0:52:48.800 typical demon and zombie trope, like. 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:50.920 Like the jewelry you might find in like an ancient 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:54.040 grave or something, you know, like ancient Egypt or something 0:52:54.080 --> 0:52:55.040 who or something. 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:57.600 Yeah, they have kind of a gin quality to them, 0:52:57.960 --> 0:53:00.120 and they have a great silhouette to them. You know, 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:02.759 it's kind of like when you think of like having 0:53:02.760 --> 0:53:04.120 a good logo, they say, well, it has to be 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:05.640 able to work in black and white. I mean you 0:53:05.640 --> 0:53:08.480 think of like a iconic characters like Darth Vader, you 0:53:08.520 --> 0:53:11.600 can recognize him by his silhouette, and these monsters cut 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:14.799 a really signature silhouette, which is key because they're often 0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:17.399 just shot there. You see some great close ups of them, 0:53:17.560 --> 0:53:19.840 but they're often just in the background, in the in 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:22.160 the shadows, kind of creeping about and all. 0:53:22.560 --> 0:53:25.560 Yeah, and that's great also because they provide a sort 0:53:25.600 --> 0:53:29.600 of textural setting that really allows Billy Zaane to shine 0:53:29.640 --> 0:53:32.640 because Billy Zain is the front man doing his uh, 0:53:32.760 --> 0:53:35.319 doing his his funny stick. He's like a you know, 0:53:35.719 --> 0:53:39.040 a burlesque comedian or something. And then he's got the 0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:42.200 green eyed goblins all slinking around behind him to back 0:53:42.280 --> 0:53:44.040 him up. They're his course line. 0:53:44.680 --> 0:53:47.600 Yeah. Absolutely. Now on the feature at one cool thing 0:53:47.680 --> 0:53:50.160 they mentioned, I mentioned how like basically these are these 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:54.960 these outfits depend heavily on just body painting, like slender actors, 0:53:55.840 --> 0:53:58.280 So there's a lot of like skin involved, and there's stilts. 0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:00.759 But then they have an awesome prosth had it looks 0:54:00.840 --> 0:54:04.200 kind of like a you know, demonic pickled pig or something. 0:54:04.920 --> 0:54:07.960 And then they then they have this they're they're groin 0:54:08.040 --> 0:54:11.160 and their their there there that area is covered up, 0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:14.400 and they have these tails, uh, these like stunted tails 0:54:14.400 --> 0:54:17.960 that wag and apparently those were radio controlled and the 0:54:18.000 --> 0:54:20.640 actors had to stow the battery like high up between 0:54:20.680 --> 0:54:23.719 their legs. So it was quite a demanding role a 0:54:23.880 --> 0:54:26.680 you know, stilts battery between your leg big piece of 0:54:26.719 --> 0:54:30.320 prosthetics over your head. But the end result looks tremendous. 0:54:30.480 --> 0:54:33.360 I totally agree. So so once these monsters are in 0:54:33.440 --> 0:54:36.839 play and Billy zines outside trying to cause trouble, we've 0:54:36.880 --> 0:54:39.959 got scenes of William Saddler running around the house trying 0:54:40.000 --> 0:54:43.120 to seal up the openings, like seal up the doors 0:54:43.120 --> 0:54:47.080 and windows with blood from this key. And then we 0:54:47.160 --> 0:54:51.400 get flashbacks of the Crucifixion of Jesus yep, involving green 0:54:51.440 --> 0:54:53.800 eyed demons and lightning strikes. 0:54:54.320 --> 0:54:56.720 Yeah yeah, and again they have a has an excellent 0:54:56.960 --> 0:54:59.600 otherworldly feel to it, like this could be the Crucifixion 0:54:59.640 --> 0:55:03.800 on an a world, which especially since it seems a 0:55:03.840 --> 0:55:06.920 bit different, because I mean, some of you you ever 0:55:06.920 --> 0:55:08.520 went to Sunday School and you know you've ever read 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:11.719 your Bible, You probably don't remember the hooded demons that 0:55:11.760 --> 0:55:15.160 are showing up and chasing people around at the foot 0:55:15.160 --> 0:55:16.759 of the cross, but it happens here. 0:55:17.239 --> 0:55:19.840 History is written by the victors, you know. The demons 0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:21.960 lost that struggle, so they got written out of the story. 0:55:22.960 --> 0:55:24.799 This is funny because it made me think about what 0:55:24.920 --> 0:55:27.840 is the best Golgotha scene ever in a horror movie? 0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:31.880 And another one that occurred to me is Layer of 0:55:31.920 --> 0:55:35.480 the Whiteworm by Kim Russell, which is an awesomely weird 0:55:35.560 --> 0:55:37.680 movie that we may have to cover on here someday. 0:55:38.000 --> 0:55:40.000 Oh yeah, yeah, that one has a good one. I 0:55:40.040 --> 0:55:42.640 feel like maybe there's at least one other Kim Russell 0:55:42.680 --> 0:55:44.440 film that has a crucifixion scene in it. Doesn't it 0:55:44.480 --> 0:55:48.360 show up in His Last Devils? Well maybe in The Devils, 0:55:48.400 --> 0:55:52.680 but also in The Altered States, right. 0:55:52.520 --> 0:55:55.080 Oh, the one where William Hurd is sort of playing R. 0:55:55.120 --> 0:55:59.239 Gordon Wasson or maybe he's playing what's his name the 0:55:59.239 --> 0:56:00.960 guy you did in as about. 0:56:00.680 --> 0:56:03.120 Oh John C. Lilly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that 0:56:03.160 --> 0:56:05.600 one has a weird crucifixion in it. There's also an 0:56:05.600 --> 0:56:10.760 excellent otherworldly crucifixion scene in the Ninth Configuration, the nineteen 0:56:10.840 --> 0:56:14.600 eighty film directed by William Peter Bladdie and written by him, 0:56:14.600 --> 0:56:18.120 based on one of his novels. Yeah, it's that one. 0:56:18.239 --> 0:56:20.239 Who that's a weird film we could discuss, and it's 0:56:20.239 --> 0:56:21.600 got some great performances in it. 0:56:30.600 --> 0:56:33.640 So after this part where the demons are set loose, 0:56:33.840 --> 0:56:37.360 the rest of the movie you could say it becomes 0:56:37.480 --> 0:56:40.080 less structured, I guess, because it's just sort of like 0:56:40.120 --> 0:56:42.719 a you know, you get different sort of vignettes within 0:56:42.760 --> 0:56:46.960 the supernatural demon siege, Like you get Billy Zane issuing 0:56:47.040 --> 0:56:52.080 hallucinatory temptations to various characters in the boarding house, and 0:56:52.120 --> 0:56:55.560 then often this temptation scene will be followed by demon 0:56:55.600 --> 0:56:58.800 possession of the person, and then there will be attacks 0:56:58.840 --> 0:57:03.359 by monsters, human attempting to escape and so forth, and 0:57:03.520 --> 0:57:07.440 more flashbacks about the backstory of the key. We get 0:57:07.440 --> 0:57:10.840 to see Breaker in World War One, it seems, looking 0:57:10.960 --> 0:57:14.200 exactly the same. Age he's in the trenches. A buddy 0:57:14.200 --> 0:57:16.720 of his gets killed somehow and is bleeding all over 0:57:16.760 --> 0:57:19.400 the place, and the guy's like, now you are the 0:57:19.520 --> 0:57:23.440 chosen one, and the I guess the memory of the 0:57:23.440 --> 0:57:27.480 crucifixion of Jesus gets like downloaded into William Sadler's brain. 0:57:27.920 --> 0:57:30.680 Yeah, and he's now part of this lineage of immortals 0:57:30.720 --> 0:57:34.320 that have to protect the key and carry it through time, right. 0:57:34.440 --> 0:57:37.280 And eventually Breaker has to explain this to all the 0:57:37.320 --> 0:57:40.000 other characters and they're like, wow, that's interesting. You're the 0:57:40.080 --> 0:57:42.640 chosen one across time and you've been alive since World 0:57:42.680 --> 0:57:45.960 War One. And Thomas Hayden Church, who I just realized 0:57:45.960 --> 0:57:50.280 earlier his initials are THHC. But anyway, he comes up. 0:57:50.320 --> 0:57:52.400 So he's been a jerk the entire time so far. 0:57:52.480 --> 0:57:55.800 He's been, you know, acting cowardly and cruel to others. 0:57:56.120 --> 0:57:58.560 And after this story he comes up to a Breaker 0:57:58.600 --> 0:58:01.479 and he's like, wow, I really admire what you did. 0:58:02.400 --> 0:58:05.520 I was wrong about you. But then, of course, what 0:58:05.600 --> 0:58:08.680 he's really trying to do is get Breaker to let 0:58:08.680 --> 0:58:10.440 his guard down so he can double cross him, and 0:58:10.480 --> 0:58:12.000 he swipes the key from him. 0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:16.480 Yeah, now he's swiped the key. Meanwhile, the temptations continue 0:58:16.520 --> 0:58:20.280 because even though Billy's ain and his demon minions are 0:58:20.320 --> 0:58:23.760 stuck outside for the most part, he can reach out 0:58:23.760 --> 0:58:27.480 to your mind and tempt you last Temptation of Christ 0:58:27.520 --> 0:58:30.680 style with something you want, And some of the these 0:58:30.720 --> 0:58:34.360 make for some nice, fun little sequences. For instance, when 0:58:34.400 --> 0:58:39.680 he's tempting Jada Pinkett's character, it's it's the this is 0:58:39.680 --> 0:58:41.640 the sequence where it's like in it feels like it's 0:58:41.680 --> 0:58:43.920 in a parking garage and there's this weird scene of 0:58:44.760 --> 0:58:47.520 her face on a screen and they're like demon hands 0:58:47.520 --> 0:58:50.520 on the other side pressing against it. And then when 0:58:50.560 --> 0:58:54.400 that rips open, she's she sees this image of breakers 0:58:54.720 --> 0:58:57.280 Breaker like being torn apart by the creatures of them 0:58:57.280 --> 0:58:58.440 eating his entrails. 0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:01.400 Yeah, well he's I think Billy Zane's tempting her with 0:59:01.480 --> 0:59:04.280 the idea that she that he could make her like 0:59:04.560 --> 0:59:07.360 rich and famous and she'll see the world. Yeah, she'll 0:59:07.360 --> 0:59:09.280 see the world. Oh, it's like it's like the vivid 0:59:09.520 --> 0:59:11.920 you know, which they'll like to see the world. And 0:59:11.960 --> 0:59:14.400 it seems Jada Pinkett really would like to see the world. 0:59:14.480 --> 0:59:17.600 Like she's interested in this temptation, though she doesn't fall 0:59:17.640 --> 0:59:21.520 for it. She's got the heroic constitution to resist the temptation. 0:59:21.600 --> 0:59:23.480 I'm not sure what would that what would that saving 0:59:23.520 --> 0:59:23.880 throw be? 0:59:24.120 --> 0:59:26.240 In D and D h I guess that would be 0:59:26.360 --> 0:59:28.880 they'd be like a wisdom saving throw. Okay, so maybe 0:59:28.960 --> 0:59:30.680 a charisma. I don't know, it depends how you play it. 0:59:30.720 --> 0:59:31.360 Probably wisdom. 0:59:31.600 --> 0:59:34.640 She succeeds on the wisdom saving throw. She resists the temptation, 0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:38.080 but what he's tempting her with is like, it's not 0:59:38.160 --> 0:59:40.440 exactly clear, but it seems to suggest like, yeah, you 0:59:40.480 --> 0:59:43.080 could have your face on the cover of magazines and 0:59:43.120 --> 0:59:45.400 you could travel to all the capitals of the world 0:59:45.480 --> 0:59:48.480 and see Rome and everything. Wouldn't you like that? 0:59:49.480 --> 0:59:51.640 Oh? And the whole time the grave dig is track 0:59:51.960 --> 0:59:54.320 one eight hundred Suicide is playing, which is just a 0:59:54.360 --> 0:59:55.600 great beat in the background. 0:59:55.800 --> 0:59:57.680 Yeah, that's an awesome song. I don't does it ever 0:59:57.680 --> 0:59:59.160 get to the part with lyrics? I don't. 0:59:59.320 --> 1:00:01.080 I don't think they that much of it. Yeah, they 1:00:01.080 --> 1:00:02.680 just use the intro. You got to be looking for 1:00:02.720 --> 1:00:03.480 it to notice it. 1:00:03.920 --> 1:00:06.000 But yeah, that is a great beat. It does not 1:00:06.120 --> 1:00:08.520 get to the part about confront an alligator let it 1:00:08.560 --> 1:00:09.360 eat your raw. 1:00:11.560 --> 1:00:13.960 Ah man. But there are other temptation scenes as well, right. 1:00:14.000 --> 1:00:16.240 Oh, yeah, there's a bunch of them. There's the temptation 1:00:16.320 --> 1:00:18.840 of Dick Miller is great because his is quite different. 1:00:19.000 --> 1:00:22.520 His is a world of beautiful naked women offering him 1:00:22.560 --> 1:00:25.760 bottles of scotch. And then he just sort of like 1:00:26.200 --> 1:00:29.680 wanders through this crowd of ladies being like, try mine 1:00:29.800 --> 1:00:32.720 and holds up but they're all holding identical bottles of scotch, 1:00:32.760 --> 1:00:35.840 I think. And then he goes up maybe maybe Dick 1:00:35.880 --> 1:00:38.200 Miller is just dedicated to one brand. I couldn't tell 1:00:38.200 --> 1:00:40.320 what brand it was. They've got the labels turned away. 1:00:41.360 --> 1:00:43.960 But then he goes up to a bar. And then 1:00:43.960 --> 1:00:46.760 it turns out Billy Zain is the bartender in this 1:00:46.920 --> 1:00:51.480 temptation dream and he so he's a friendly bartender who 1:00:51.480 --> 1:00:54.320 offers him booze, but I think is also supposed to 1:00:54.360 --> 1:00:56.720 be Hunter S. Thompson. Was I mistaken here? 1:00:56.840 --> 1:00:56.880 No? 1:00:57.040 --> 1:00:59.439 I think you're right. It's very very much a Hunter 1:00:59.520 --> 1:01:02.760 S Thompson. Look he has going on behind the bar there. Yeah, 1:01:02.920 --> 1:01:05.320 and again it's it's it is Billy Zayane is an 1:01:05.320 --> 1:01:08.920 evil genie from the Disney movie Aladdin here and in 1:01:08.920 --> 1:01:09.959 it way works really well. 1:01:10.160 --> 1:01:12.800 I can't remember what Billy Zain says, maybe something about 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:16.600 the golf shoes, but it works. Oh but anyway, this 1:01:16.720 --> 1:01:19.160 leads to, you know, as the standard sequence is somebody 1:01:19.160 --> 1:01:22.160 has a temptation, they succumb to the temptation. They're like, yeah, 1:01:22.200 --> 1:01:24.439 I want I want what you are putting down. Billy 1:01:24.480 --> 1:01:29.080 Zain and Dick Miller obviously wants this, and so he 1:01:29.120 --> 1:01:32.080 turns into a demon and attacks some of the characters. 1:01:32.120 --> 1:01:34.720 I don't remember all who, but I think maybe he's 1:01:34.720 --> 1:01:38.760 fighting with Jada Pinkett and with William Sadler, and somehow 1:01:39.200 --> 1:01:43.840 his head gets cut off, and there's a great scene 1:01:43.840 --> 1:01:47.720 where they, oh, the demons are vulnerable in their eyes. 1:01:47.960 --> 1:01:50.080 The way you can put a demon down is to 1:01:50.200 --> 1:01:53.240 like shoot it in the green eyeballs. And so the 1:01:53.240 --> 1:01:57.280 way they stop Dick Miller's severed head from continually commanding 1:01:57.320 --> 1:02:00.000 his body to attack them is one of the characters 1:02:00.200 --> 1:02:02.800 grabs his head and shoves it into the antler of 1:02:02.840 --> 1:02:04.040 a mounted stag. 1:02:04.360 --> 1:02:07.920 Yeah. Yeah, there's some great eye violence to the demons 1:02:07.920 --> 1:02:08.520 in this film. 1:02:08.800 --> 1:02:11.600 Yeah. There's also a great scene where Billy Zain is 1:02:11.640 --> 1:02:14.600 wheeling and dealing with Thomas Hayden Church because I remember 1:02:14.640 --> 1:02:17.160 thhc is. He's been like, hey, I've got the key, 1:02:17.240 --> 1:02:18.760 I stole it. You know, I'll give it to you 1:02:18.760 --> 1:02:22.080 if you let me escape. And so they're they're talking 1:02:22.080 --> 1:02:25.880 about their deal and Billy's ain is just walking on sunshine. 1:02:26.000 --> 1:02:30.120 He is so light on his feet and frisky and exciting. 1:02:30.520 --> 1:02:33.560 Yeah he is. It's another great scene and it's and 1:02:33.560 --> 1:02:35.680 you know exactly what's going to happen, you know, and 1:02:35.760 --> 1:02:39.080 it's it's delightful. This is a scene in which it's 1:02:39.120 --> 1:02:41.880 it's like Tails from the Crypt classic again because you 1:02:41.920 --> 1:02:44.880 have a horrible character that's gonna make making this choice. 1:02:44.920 --> 1:02:46.640 You think he's gonna get away, but no, he's not 1:02:46.640 --> 1:02:48.280 gonna get away with it because he's gonna be double 1:02:48.280 --> 1:02:50.760 crossed by Billy Zaine. Of course, he barely makes it 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:54.760 down the stairs before he says, actually, I lied, You're 1:02:54.800 --> 1:02:57.240 not gonna make it away safe, and all the demons 1:02:57.480 --> 1:02:59.880 turn on Thomas Hayden Church and Terry's character to be. 1:03:00.720 --> 1:03:02.960 The next thing that was really funny was that there 1:03:03.040 --> 1:03:06.560 is a scene of the next Temptation scene is of 1:03:06.600 --> 1:03:10.040 the Kid Billy where he is turned into a violent 1:03:10.120 --> 1:03:12.560 maniac by reading a copy of the Tales from the 1:03:12.560 --> 1:03:13.560 Crypt comic book. 1:03:14.040 --> 1:03:16.000 I like that because on one hand it does it 1:03:16.200 --> 1:03:18.200 is the idea of like the corrupting comic book, but 1:03:18.240 --> 1:03:21.080 it also made me think. You know, with the adults, 1:03:21.400 --> 1:03:23.920 Billy Zain's character, the Collector, he's like, what if I 1:03:24.000 --> 1:03:26.160 offered you travel? What have I offered you all the 1:03:26.200 --> 1:03:28.120 beautiful women and booze in the world. But for a kid, 1:03:28.200 --> 1:03:30.520 he's like, what if I just literally turned you into 1:03:30.520 --> 1:03:32.920 a bloodthirsty monster? Would you be down for that? And 1:03:33.160 --> 1:03:35.680 the kid's like, yes, yes, I vote yes, Let's do 1:03:35.800 --> 1:03:39.800 exactly that then, And that's what happens, pure honesty. 1:03:40.520 --> 1:03:43.600 I love it now. As the characters, it's the kind 1:03:43.600 --> 1:03:46.960 of standard thing where in one of these supernatural fortress 1:03:46.960 --> 1:03:50.760 siege movies where the characters are continually driven further and 1:03:50.800 --> 1:03:53.960 further into retreat, like further back into the bailey or whatever. 1:03:54.680 --> 1:03:57.600 And so at this point they end up retreating to 1:03:57.840 --> 1:04:00.360 the attic, and at each point of retreat there's some 1:04:00.440 --> 1:04:03.440 kind of battle that goes on, and we get some 1:04:03.560 --> 1:04:07.440 chances for characterists to actually be like courageous and be heroes. 1:04:07.880 --> 1:04:11.760 So Deputy Bob and Irene at one point, like the 1:04:11.840 --> 1:04:14.800 suicide bomb, a bunch of the demons with a vestimate 1:04:14.840 --> 1:04:15.680 out of grenades. 1:04:15.880 --> 1:04:17.280 Yeah, they've been watching aliens? 1:04:18.120 --> 1:04:21.520 Where did they? Yes, they pull Aasquez and it's kind 1:04:21.520 --> 1:04:21.960 of sweet. 1:04:22.160 --> 1:04:24.800 Yeah, yeah it is, and of course Breaker bites it 1:04:24.840 --> 1:04:26.360 as well shortly thereafter. 1:04:26.560 --> 1:04:29.920 Yeah, he gets maimed. And then of course he's like, oh, 1:04:29.960 --> 1:04:32.000 oh they got me, They got me. You got to 1:04:32.040 --> 1:04:35.200 become the new Chosen One to Jada Pinkett and she's 1:04:35.240 --> 1:04:39.120 like what but she I guess she like catches his 1:04:39.240 --> 1:04:42.560 blood I think in the key, and it's just understood 1:04:42.600 --> 1:04:44.680 that yep, from now on, she's just going to be 1:04:44.880 --> 1:04:49.240 immortal and carrying this key around. But then then Billy 1:04:49.320 --> 1:04:51.760 z Ain comes in for one final showdown with with 1:04:51.880 --> 1:04:55.080 Jada and so, and I got to say, at the 1:04:55.120 --> 1:04:57.640 beginning of the scene, he's got on sunglasses that make 1:04:57.720 --> 1:04:58.600 him look like Riddick. 1:04:59.000 --> 1:05:01.400 Oh but kind of like ridic. 1:05:01.480 --> 1:05:03.320 Yeah wait what kind of ridic. 1:05:03.200 --> 1:05:06.560 Like pre Ritic? This would the Riddic didn't exist yet, right. 1:05:07.120 --> 1:05:07.800 Oh I guess not. 1:05:08.040 --> 1:05:11.840 Yeah, like maybe Vin Diesel eventually he saw Demon nine. 1:05:11.880 --> 1:05:13.640 He's like that that's the look I'm going. 1:05:13.600 --> 1:05:16.600 To steal exactly. No, I'm not saying they're imitating Ritic. 1:05:16.640 --> 1:05:18.080 I'm just saying he does look like him. 1:05:19.280 --> 1:05:22.280 They look kind of like, yeah, almost like wrap around goggles. 1:05:22.360 --> 1:05:25.680 Yeah. But there's another temptation scene where I guess he's 1:05:25.720 --> 1:05:29.480 trying once again. I think he's trying to convince Jeralene 1:05:29.560 --> 1:05:33.520 to marry him. I didn't exactly follow what was going. 1:05:33.640 --> 1:05:36.280 Yeah, that was basically it's like, well, I've won at 1:05:36.320 --> 1:05:39.040 this point, I'm going to kill you, but if I 1:05:39.080 --> 1:05:41.240 could turn you instead, if I could, you know, if 1:05:41.280 --> 1:05:44.840 you marry me, then I'm even more of a success 1:05:44.880 --> 1:05:48.600 back home in the in the hells. So he's like, 1:05:48.600 --> 1:05:50.840 I'm gonna I'm gonna shoot the moon. I'm going for it, 1:05:51.000 --> 1:05:53.480 you know. He's he's feeling on top of it, and 1:05:53.720 --> 1:05:54.840 he makes the offer. 1:05:54.920 --> 1:05:58.080 Yeah, and Billy's saying he is on broiler mode. In 1:05:58.160 --> 1:06:03.240 this scene. He is like the energy is electric. And 1:06:03.520 --> 1:06:06.840 there's a part where infernal lightning erupts out of his groin. 1:06:06.920 --> 1:06:09.320 I don't know if that's explained why he's just been 1:06:09.400 --> 1:06:12.440 like talking and then like lightning shoots out of his crotch. 1:06:12.880 --> 1:06:15.600 That was in the featurettes. It was mentioned that this 1:06:15.760 --> 1:06:18.600 was Zaane's idea for the character, and Dickerson was like, 1:06:18.680 --> 1:06:20.080 let's do it, let's roll with it, let's give it 1:06:20.120 --> 1:06:20.440 a shot. 1:06:20.720 --> 1:06:24.560 Good choice. Yeah, And then there's a good climax that 1:06:24.600 --> 1:06:27.680 involves Jada Pinkett the whole time that she somehow has 1:06:27.720 --> 1:06:31.959 gotten William Sadler's blood in her mouth, and the whole 1:06:31.960 --> 1:06:34.880 time Billy Zaane's like asking her, well, what do you say? 1:06:34.920 --> 1:06:37.000 He's trying to get her to say something, and she won't. 1:06:37.360 --> 1:06:40.600 And then it's revealed that, oh, she hasn't said anything 1:06:40.640 --> 1:06:42.440 because she still has the blood in her mouth, the 1:06:42.440 --> 1:06:44.200 blood of Christ, I believe somehow. 1:06:44.520 --> 1:06:46.880 Okay, so yeah, we can go ahead and talk about 1:06:46.920 --> 1:06:49.680 this real quick. The idea is that this key with 1:06:49.760 --> 1:06:53.680 the special glass container portion of it here, they it 1:06:53.760 --> 1:06:56.600 was used to collect the blood of Christ at the crucifixion, 1:06:57.160 --> 1:06:59.560 and it's like the rail myth. Yeah, yeah, and there's 1:06:59.600 --> 1:07:01.880 still a little Jesus blood in there, but it's been 1:07:01.880 --> 1:07:04.960 replenished with other people's blood, especially the blood of the 1:07:05.040 --> 1:07:08.520 chosen Ones, over time. And so I'm not sure how 1:07:08.560 --> 1:07:10.720 the genetics of that works out or if that's important 1:07:10.800 --> 1:07:14.800 for holy blood, you know, hurting demons, but that's apparently 1:07:14.840 --> 1:07:15.480 how it's supposed to. 1:07:15.520 --> 1:07:17.800 Work, right, And so she's got this blood in her mouth, 1:07:17.840 --> 1:07:20.360 and what do you know, she spits it all over 1:07:20.480 --> 1:07:23.360 Billy Zane's face and that that defeats him in the end. 1:07:23.520 --> 1:07:26.080 Yeah, great melt. He's a great death scene because he 1:07:26.120 --> 1:07:27.000 melts a little bit. 1:07:27.240 --> 1:07:29.040 Then he turns into a puppet. 1:07:29.320 --> 1:07:32.800 He turns into a giant skeletal demon, and then he explodes. 1:07:32.960 --> 1:07:35.640 They just do all the things, like the FX team 1:07:35.720 --> 1:07:39.960 just they had no chill on this film. They're just yeah, 1:07:39.960 --> 1:07:41.479 one hundred miles an hour the whole time. 1:07:41.720 --> 1:07:43.560 And so I guess we're just going to assume that 1:07:43.680 --> 1:07:46.600 now Jada Pinkett is going to live for eighty years 1:07:46.680 --> 1:07:50.600 or whatever until eventually she has to find the next 1:07:50.680 --> 1:07:53.520 chosen One to put her blood into so they can 1:07:53.600 --> 1:07:56.800 go on preventing Billy Zain from taking over the world. 1:07:56.920 --> 1:07:59.040 Or I guess it's not Billy Zayne. I think he's destroyed. 1:07:59.280 --> 1:08:01.520 There's just going to be a new collector from Hell 1:08:01.680 --> 1:08:02.800 chasing her around. 1:08:02.640 --> 1:08:04.640 Right, and we see him at the end. Yeah, because 1:08:04.640 --> 1:08:06.400 she gets on a bus and when she gets on 1:08:06.480 --> 1:08:08.240 she does the thing with the blood that's done throughout 1:08:08.280 --> 1:08:11.040 the film where you form a seal that the demons 1:08:11.080 --> 1:08:14.040 cannot cross. And then this other guy that has a 1:08:14.040 --> 1:08:18.160 briefcase for the key, he sees it and he's like, no, 1:08:18.280 --> 1:08:20.719 I'll wait on the next bus. And so the chase 1:08:20.760 --> 1:08:24.200 continues and it potentially sets up a sequel that we 1:08:24.280 --> 1:08:27.120 never got. But man, I think it would have been good, 1:08:27.120 --> 1:08:30.280 would have been far preferable to Bordello of Blood, which 1:08:30.360 --> 1:08:32.800 was the actual Tales from the Trip film to follow. 1:08:33.600 --> 1:08:36.120 I never saw Bordello of Blood, but I remember a 1:08:36.439 --> 1:08:38.679 when I was in elementary school, a friend of mine 1:08:38.720 --> 1:08:41.439 telling me about how his mom had a copy of 1:08:41.439 --> 1:08:46.160 that movie on VHS, and I was like, I did 1:08:46.160 --> 1:08:49.960 not know what Bordello meant, and I knew nothing of 1:08:50.360 --> 1:08:51.040 Dennis Miller. 1:08:51.200 --> 1:08:54.880 I mean, yeah, well, yeah, it definitely has Dennis Miller 1:08:54.960 --> 1:08:57.519 in it. I never saw that one. There was even 1:08:57.560 --> 1:09:01.599 a third one that was I think is even less 1:09:01.680 --> 1:09:04.200 worth seeing. I think it may have Tim Curry in it, 1:09:04.240 --> 1:09:07.599 but it's like a New Orleans zombie kind of a thing. 1:09:07.960 --> 1:09:10.639 How could a movie with Tim Curry be not worth seeing. 1:09:11.520 --> 1:09:14.120 I don't know. It just doesn't it. I just don't. 1:09:14.160 --> 1:09:16.080 It doesn't call out to me. Maybe other folks have 1:09:16.720 --> 1:09:18.160 seen it and they can tell us how it is. 1:09:18.200 --> 1:09:21.360 But I also understand that like some releases of it 1:09:21.360 --> 1:09:23.840 didn't even have the Cryptkeeper sequences on it. They released 1:09:23.880 --> 1:09:26.080 it as its own thing, and then other versions they 1:09:26.120 --> 1:09:28.680 put the crypt Keeper back on. But it's also not 1:09:29.040 --> 1:09:32.720 really top shelf Cryptkeeper puppetry going on. So it just 1:09:32.760 --> 1:09:34.840 sounds it sounds like it would be sad to watch. 1:09:34.840 --> 1:09:37.519 I'd rather stick with Demon Night and like the really 1:09:37.560 --> 1:09:42.000 great tales from the Crypt episodes. Okay, now, in turn, 1:09:42.080 --> 1:09:44.160 we've already talked to a good bit here about the 1:09:44.240 --> 1:09:46.599 monsters and so forth. I guess it is worth noting 1:09:46.840 --> 1:09:50.040 that we do have holy relics that are at least 1:09:50.120 --> 1:09:53.200 alleged to contain the blood of Christ. I was looking 1:09:53.240 --> 1:09:55.120 around a little bit. There are a couple of relics 1:09:55.160 --> 1:09:58.479 of the Holy Blood. There's one in the Basilica of 1:09:58.840 --> 1:10:02.439 Saint Andrea. There's one that at least was at some 1:10:02.479 --> 1:10:05.960 point in Westminster in England. There's the relic of the 1:10:05.960 --> 1:10:11.479 Precious Blood in Viegotten Abbey in Germany. So the idea 1:10:11.520 --> 1:10:14.599 of this key containing the blood is it does seem 1:10:14.600 --> 1:10:19.240 to be based on actual holy relics that allegedly contain 1:10:19.400 --> 1:10:20.679 holy blood. Yeah. 1:10:20.680 --> 1:10:24.040 I think also this ties into the grail legend, like 1:10:24.080 --> 1:10:26.960 the idea that at the death of Christ that Joseph 1:10:27.000 --> 1:10:30.200 of Aramathea held a grail that caught the blood of 1:10:30.240 --> 1:10:33.320 Jesus stripping from the cross, and that somehow later he 1:10:33.479 --> 1:10:37.519 brought with him like containers of this blood to other places. 1:10:37.520 --> 1:10:40.840 I think like that's part of the local Glastonbury legend 1:10:40.880 --> 1:10:41.400 in Britain. 1:10:42.439 --> 1:10:43.759 Now. I don't know if any of these have actually 1:10:43.760 --> 1:10:48.240 been used against demons though, but perhaps perhaps, Man, there's 1:10:48.240 --> 1:10:49.599 so much they could have done with the sequel though, 1:10:49.640 --> 1:10:51.519 you know, they could have had a thing where all right, 1:10:51.560 --> 1:10:54.439 she's on the run as always, the demons are after 1:10:54.840 --> 1:10:57.520 but then where does she wind up a genetics laboratory? 1:10:57.600 --> 1:10:59.040 What do they want to do? They want to use 1:10:59.040 --> 1:11:01.479 the precious blood in the key. They want to try 1:11:01.520 --> 1:11:04.160 and clone Jesus or something, and then that becomes a 1:11:04.160 --> 1:11:05.000 whole plot element. 1:11:05.160 --> 1:11:07.120 But then he'd be a mutant because he'd be like 1:11:07.240 --> 1:11:10.200 part Jesus, but then also part William Sadler and part 1:11:10.280 --> 1:11:11.080 Jada Pinkett. 1:11:11.520 --> 1:11:18.080 William Sadler is Jesus Christ in Demon Night two. There's 1:11:18.120 --> 1:11:18.599 still time. 1:11:18.640 --> 1:11:22.240 There's still time, Ernest Dickerson, if you're listening, please make it. 1:11:22.360 --> 1:11:24.880 I will watch it. I will. I will take all 1:11:24.960 --> 1:11:25.880 my friends to see it. 1:11:26.600 --> 1:11:31.120 I will as well. All right, Well, before we close out, 1:11:31.160 --> 1:11:32.960 I just want to I'll mention again that You can 1:11:33.000 --> 1:11:35.400 rent or buy this one digitally most places these days. 1:11:35.479 --> 1:11:38.559 But that twenty fifteen Blu ray release from Shout Factory 1:11:38.640 --> 1:11:42.120 Scream Factory Import is really slick and it's loaded with 1:11:42.160 --> 1:11:45.160 cool content. So if you're a Demon Night fan, that's 1:11:45.160 --> 1:11:45.800 worth picking up. 1:11:46.040 --> 1:11:47.719 If you're a demon Yeah. 1:11:47.560 --> 1:11:50.920 We rented our copy from Video Drum, the last video 1:11:50.960 --> 1:11:54.200 store here in Atlanta, Georgia. So if you live in Atlanta, 1:11:54.760 --> 1:11:56.479 go check out Videodrum. It's great. And if you don't, 1:11:56.479 --> 1:11:58.280 look them up online because you can buy some of 1:11:58.320 --> 1:11:59.000 their cool merch. 1:11:59.360 --> 1:12:01.880 Oh yeah, they got great T shirts and stuff. Oh 1:12:01.920 --> 1:12:03.920 I was gonna say that the T shirt I'm wearing 1:12:03.960 --> 1:12:06.720 right now is one of theirs. It's not, but it 1:12:06.760 --> 1:12:08.360 could be. It's of their style. 1:12:09.040 --> 1:12:12.519 Oh oh oh, I see it. It says her Zog 1:12:12.880 --> 1:12:14.280 and then it has the Danzig logo. 1:12:15.120 --> 1:12:16.720 Nice Rachel got me this one? 1:12:19.120 --> 1:12:21.519 All right? Well, anything else we need to say about 1:12:21.520 --> 1:12:25.200 Demon Night before we close the crypt down this one? 1:12:25.920 --> 1:12:27.880 I think that wraps it up, but I just say again, 1:12:27.960 --> 1:12:28.439 great fun. 1:12:28.800 --> 1:12:31.360 Yeah. Yeah, as always, we'd love to hear from everyone 1:12:31.360 --> 1:12:33.840 out there. Do you have memories of seeing this when 1:12:33.840 --> 1:12:37.040 it came out? We're discovering it later on. Do you 1:12:37.040 --> 1:12:39.760 have particular episodes of Tales from the Crypt that were 1:12:39.760 --> 1:12:42.720 your favorite, We'd love to hear from you about that 1:12:42.840 --> 1:12:45.120 as well, or just any of the other elements in 1:12:45.160 --> 1:12:48.280 this be it Holy Blood or really cool demons. It's 1:12:48.320 --> 1:12:50.400 all on the table. Dick Miller movies that we should 1:12:50.400 --> 1:12:54.320 add to the list. Let us know. In the meantime, 1:12:54.360 --> 1:12:57.000 if you want to check out other episodes of Weird 1:12:57.080 --> 1:12:59.680 House Cinema, it publishes every Friday in the Stuff to 1:12:59.680 --> 1:13:03.400 Blow Your Mind podcast feed. Also, I try to put 1:13:03.439 --> 1:13:06.639 up a blog post about the Weird House series at 1:13:06.800 --> 1:13:11.000 Samouda music dot com. That's sem Uta music dot com. 1:13:11.000 --> 1:13:13.240 It's just my own personal blog. 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