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

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

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Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And who I

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Speaker 1: hope you like Oregan music because today we're doing Dr five's.

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Speaker 1: That's right, the Abominable Dr fives from one. Uh. This

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Speaker 1: is a film that is frequently described as a dark

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Speaker 1: comedy horror film, which is a It is kind of

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Speaker 1: a way of saying this movie is weird, and we

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Speaker 1: don't really know how to classify it, you know, because

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Speaker 1: it certainly has Yeah, it has comedic flair in it,

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Speaker 1: it has horror flare um, but it's it's ultimately its

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Speaker 1: own unique weird vision. Uh. And it's it's really difficult

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Speaker 1: to compare it to just about anything else. I would

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Speaker 1: almost say it's a musical, though the characters don't sing songs.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of musical numbers and dancing. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very theatrical. Um Like, in trying to come up

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Speaker 1: it's kind of Phantom of the Opera meets Batman meets

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Speaker 1: a wax museum horror movie and a swanky, unoccupied nightclub

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Speaker 1: for stylish madmen. But but also you have to say

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Speaker 1: the words Vincent Price, because I think that is a

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Speaker 1: key element of establishing the themes. Yeah, I think this

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Speaker 1: is our first Vincent Price film, and um and Fibes

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Speaker 1: has been on our our our list, It's been on

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Speaker 1: our radar for a while, and I know we've heard

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Speaker 1: from at least a couple of listeners suggesting it, and

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Speaker 1: it came up again recently when I was looking at

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Speaker 1: films that had very well regarded movie scores and so yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is, uh, this is our first Vincent Price film.

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Speaker 1: That we did discuss The Tingler from N nine and

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Speaker 1: an old episode of Stuff to Blow your Mind, but

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Speaker 1: that was pretty weird house that was more of a

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Speaker 1: like we used The Tingler as a bringboard to discuss

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Speaker 1: some science or vice versa. You know. I would say

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Speaker 1: The Tingler is somewhat different because The Tingler is a

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Speaker 1: William Castle movie that has Vincent Price in it. But

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Speaker 1: lots of Vincent Price movies, it almost feels as if

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who the director is and it's just

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Speaker 1: it just becomes a Vincent Price movie. I would say

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Speaker 1: this is one of those it is and then on

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Speaker 1: the on the same level, one thing I kept thinking

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Speaker 1: film that that doesn't actually speak with his voice anymore. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You hear Vincent Price's voice, but it's like a it's

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Speaker 1: it's like through a machine. And so it's it's unique

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Speaker 1: to be watching this and you think, oh, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: Vincent Prices is great, like as a visual performer, he

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Speaker 1: has this amazing voice, uh, and yet we have a

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Speaker 1: and it kind of it kind of applies to other

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Speaker 1: a lot of the people in this film are just

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Speaker 1: part of the set piece. It's about about creating this

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Speaker 1: this theatrical vision somehow. Though, even though he doesn't speak

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Speaker 1: with his mouth in the movie, the price ham juice

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Speaker 1: gets on everything, like the Vincent Price campiness comes through

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Speaker 1: in the energy exuded by every other actor in the film.

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Speaker 1: And I was going to compare it to another great

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Speaker 1: because they are so similar. This other movie is called

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Speaker 1: Theater of Blood from nineteen seventy three. So it came

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Speaker 1: out two years after Dr Fibes. But if you can

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Speaker 1: believe this, listen to all the parallels. Both movies star

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Speaker 1: is presumed dead but returns to enact an elaborate plan

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Speaker 1: of revenge on a list of nine specific enemies, targeting

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Speaker 1: each one in a succession of sort of themed murders.

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Speaker 1: And in Dr Fibes the themed murders are based on

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Speaker 1: the plays of Shakespeare. And in both movies, the Price

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Speaker 1: character has a cool, younger female sidekick. In Theater of

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Speaker 1: played by Diana Rigg, who always great. Dia rig one

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Speaker 1: Except this movie is like what if you had something

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Speaker 1: It's going on the list with uh, I think some

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Speaker 1: of the best movies we've watched on here, like uh,

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Speaker 1: extremely watchable. I can easily recommend this one to to

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Speaker 1: film fans of different genres because it does transcend genre.

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Speaker 1: it can suck in just about anybody, like you're just

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Speaker 1: just about any given scene. Even the scenes that don't

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Speaker 1: play take place within dr Fibes, Subterranean, Um Organum fun

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Speaker 1: Totally agree? All right, well, let's go ahead and listen

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Speaker 1: to the trailer. Here, h what lovely music for a murder?

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Speaker 1: Or two or three or nine? Who's this? Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: I want you to meet a dear friend. Nine killed you,

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Speaker 1: what's the guitar? The town cut is visited among the

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Speaker 1: pharoahs before Exodus. Are you ready for Doctor five? All right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the people involved in this

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Speaker 1: motion picture. First of all, let's start at the top

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Speaker 1: with the director, Robert Fust Fust Live through two thousand

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Speaker 1: and twelve, British director noted for his unique genre style. UM.

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Speaker 1: It should come as no surprise to to some fans

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Speaker 1: show before making such features as nineteen seventies and Soon

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Speaker 1: in the Darkness, a thriller nineteen seventy adaptation of Worthering

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Speaker 1: Doctor Five's films. Uh nineteen seventy three is the Final Program,

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Speaker 1: which was based on a Michael moorecock novel starring John Finch,

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Speaker 1: and seventy five satanic melt oh Mania movie The Devil's

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Speaker 1: credited on both fives movies plus nineteen seventies six is

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Speaker 1: Barbara Eden, Fred Astaire, and Billy Bardi. Um. It has

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Speaker 1: an amazing poster. And my wife says that she remembered

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Speaker 1: quite dirty, all right. Uh. The star of this film

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Speaker 1: playing Dr Anton Fives is Vincent Price, who lived nineteen

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Speaker 1: Roger Corman's Mask of the Red Death is a great

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Speaker 1: example of him in pure villain mode, while the in

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Speaker 1: Jaws gets thrown to some sharks, but he defeats the

425
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: sharks by biting them. Yes, okay, see, I mean I

426
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: mostly remember it for Jaws. Yeah, alright, let's talk about

427
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 1: the music on this one. Um. The music for this film,

428
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: though a number of different songs are featured in it,

429
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: the actual scores composed by uh Basil Kirchen, who through

430
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: two thousand and five British composer and musician responsible for

431
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: the scores of such films as sixty seven's The Shuttered Room.

432
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: Starting Oliver read this movie, the four movie The Freakmaster,

433
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: which I've been tempted to watch for this show. It's

434
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: kind of a seventies take on Todd Browning's Freaks and

435
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: has Donald Pleasants, Tom Baker, and Brad Harris in it.

436
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: Oh well, I like that cast list, but something about

437
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: the idea of a vand's take on Freaks does not

438
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: appeal to me. Yeah, I that's probably what's kind of

439
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: helped me back. I know it has I think um

440
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: Tom Baker plays like a giant, like a tall mutant character,

441
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: and there's like a plant man in it. So it's

442
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: got some some attractive elements to it, plus Donald pleasants.

443
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 1: But I haven't actually watched it yet. I've had it,

444
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: like you know in the playlist ready to go Now.

445
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: Kirchen did not return for fivees to UM, but he's

446
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: he's pretty interesting fellows looking into him a bit. Uh

447
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: He came up in big band, but then he also

448
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: got into electronic music and experimental music and tape manipulation

449
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: and uh so you've had a number of individuals have

450
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: pointed to him as an important influence, like Brian eno

451
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: Um broadcast also Nurse with Wound, that's the project from

452
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: Steven Stapleton. If you're not familiar with Nurse with Wound.

453
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: It's a UM kind of early industrial but also kind

454
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: of noise is weird UM musical project that UH like.

455
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: I have to say, I like Nurse with Wound, And

456
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: then there's a lot of Nurse with Wound music that

457
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: I cannot listen to, and and if you played it

458
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: for me, I would say, I hate that, Please don't

459
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: play it. But then there's other stuff that's really solid.

460
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you're if you're gonna check

461
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: something out, I would say check out Thunder, Perfect Mind

462
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: or UM rock and roll station. So I think the

463
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: five score kind of reflects some of these elements. There's

464
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: certainly a lot of big band notes as well, of course,

465
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: and then we have all this organ music and other

466
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: tracks that are featured. It gets a little noisy and

467
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: per percussive in places, especially when things are getting weird

468
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: or or they want to amp up at tension, but

469
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't really get like Nurse with Wound levels of strange.

470
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: But this score is often held up as an as

471
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 1: an excellent genre score, though it's again it's kind of

472
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: a unique beast um. It's widely available in all formats

473
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: though I think most of the vinyl out there is older.

474
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any evidence of any like super cool

475
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: re releases from recent years. Though, I would emphasize that

476
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: the music in this movie is a kind of hybrid product,

477
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: because on one level you've got this weird score, but

478
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: then you also have a lot of uh, directly diegetic

479
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: music taking place on screen that's like uh jazzy big

480
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: band numbers and an old sort of crooner standards. Yeah.

481
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: And finally, since this is such a visually luscious movie,

482
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: we have to mention the set designer Brian eat Well,

483
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: who lived ninety nine through two thousand and seven. Uh. Yeah,

484
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: the sets in this movie are just to die for.

485
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: So props to to eat Well and everyone else involved

486
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: in creating these weird interiors. Um. He was a British

487
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: production designer and art director. He designed the sets for

488
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: both Dr fives movies as well. Uh. He also served

489
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: as production designer on such films as the nineteen seventy

490
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: one Australian movie walk About uh Ye, Godspell, The Three

491
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: Musketeers and the Four Musketeers from seventy three and seventy four. Uh.

492
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventies six is the Man who Fell to Earth

493
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: start David Bowie, Uh, seventy eight, Sergeant Pepper, Lonely Hearts

494
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: Club Band, Uh, The Onion Field and seventy nine and

495
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: the Killer Lion movie Savage Harvest see seventy three. Guys,

496
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: I guess there's only one movie adaptation of God's Spell?

497
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: Is that with Victor Garber? Yeah? I assume this is one.

498
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: This is as far as far as I know, the

499
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: god Spell. This is the one, the one I've seen,

500
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: and it does have I can see the connection here,

501
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: Like there's a between this, this, this Broadway this, you know,

502
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: this weird Broadway musical brought to life and the you know,

503
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: the visual elements that are in play in God's Spell,

504
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: like they compare reasonably well to some of the sensibilities

505
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: we see in Dr fives, the Fibes never wears the

506
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: Superman shirt. No, all right, you want to talk about

507
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: the plot. Hello, let's talk about this plot? Okay. So

508
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: it starts very strong. You know, lights come up on

509
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: rogue organ music and you see a player in a

510
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: hood and cloak. So this black hood, it's kind of shiny.

511
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: The cloak almost looks like it is wet or oily.

512
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just the material. But the the organ player

513
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: is sitting at the instrument and then being like raised

514
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: up on as if on an elevator. Yeah it is this, Yeah,

515
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: this elevator powered um super moody organ of the supervillain

516
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: organ um playing area. It's it's like, you know, it's

517
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: it's a familiar trope. It's very Phantom of the Opera,

518
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: but then just played up tremendously. You know. The the

519
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: visuals of this are just again just just so luscious.

520
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: And then like the movie just starts at maximum WTF,

521
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: like how to describe what comes next? And it's it's

522
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: a recurring theme. But so the organ player plays while

523
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: the credits roll, and then he gets up and he

524
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: descends a staircase, and the camera pulls back to reveal

525
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: what appears to be a musical ensemble made of embodied

526
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: humanoid automata like the rock a fire explosion like Chuck

527
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: E Cheese or Showbiz Pizza, but instead of having banjo

528
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 1: bears and cool rats, they are tuxedo dudes in Michael

529
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: Myer's masks, and they're all playing tubas and drums and

530
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: and stuff, and then he conducts them as if they

531
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: were an orchestra. Yeah, and the drum informs us what

532
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: the name of this group is. It's Dr fivees Clockwork Wizards.

533
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: So it's it's already off to a tremendous start, like

534
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: this is a film that's so bold and it's stylish

535
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: weirdness that we just kick things off with an extended

536
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: horror pipe organ number in this underground nightclub. And then

537
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: we're getting no dialogue. Uh no real you know, human

538
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: faces or human voices or anything, just like pure performative weirdness. Yes,

539
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: and it commits so hard, like it goes on like

540
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: you're saying, without dialogue for a while. So the organist

541
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: in the in the cloak steps back, and then there's

542
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: a whole dance number. Virginia North comes out in this

543
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: amazing I don't know what to call the sugar plum

544
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: fairy costume. Like she's wearing this this weird white dress

545
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: with a strange golden vertical crown on her head, and

546
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: they dance together while the while the robots play. Yeah,

547
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: and it's just it's tremendous, like it just it just

548
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: sucks you absolutely and you're like, just it's and it

549
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: works on so many levels. Um, like it sets the

550
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: tone for a film where it's really hard to have

551
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: expectations about what's going to happen because you're not entirely

552
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: sure what this film's values are. I kept thinking about

553
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: that and ultimately made the the you know, the last

554
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of the film extra terrifying for me because

555
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: it's like, I, I don't know what how a film

556
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: like this ends. I don't know what it considers a

557
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: proper ending because it feels like it's from another dimension.

558
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: Can we stop them and describe the set in this

559
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: room because they will return to it many times throughout

560
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: the throughout the movie. I was calling this the total

561
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: party house because of course you have the ensemble there

562
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: and and it's it's sort of always a party when

563
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: when the when the automatry playing, But it's it's like

564
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: a room with a giant I guess marble floor and

565
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: then uh like balcony levels surrounding it all around. And

566
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: what are some of the things in there? Like there's

567
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: a table on one side of the room that has

568
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: all of these busts or the upper parts of mannekins.

569
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: I think there are nine of them, each one with

570
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: a ceiling lamp hanging over it that I think they're

571
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: supposed to be made of wax or something like we

572
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: see them melting later. And the organ is up on

573
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: the stage at one end of the room. The room

574
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: is decorated with all these satin curtains and these paintings

575
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: on the columns leading up to the balcony with like

576
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: these I don't know what you like, like pharaoh heads

577
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: and uh, weird symbols. Yeah, it's a trip, Yeah it is.

578
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: It is a space that you know, it feels performed,

579
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: but if it feels like a like a nightclub, but

580
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: it also feels like a temple and it is kind

581
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: of like his temple to holy revenge, a temple to

582
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: uh it's to his love for his departed wife. Those

583
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: those heads represent each of the victims that he is

584
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: going to uh kill, the objects of his revenge. Um.

585
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, it's it's It has a real, you know,

586
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: strong ritualistic and performative vibe to it. Well, after the

587
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: dance is over, the guy in the cloak he goes

588
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: to operate a chain Pulley and I guess we can

589
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: refer to these characters because we know who they're going

590
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: to be. This is dr Fibes in Volvania, and so

591
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,919
Speaker 1: he goes to operate a chain pulley in the middle

592
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 1: of the room and it lowers something that looks like

593
00:34:55,320 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: a shrouded bird cage into a sub floor basement, and

594
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: and then Volvania goes down to the subfloor and tends

595
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: to she kind of straps it onto I think a

596
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: trailer on the back of a car. She straps it

597
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: down with a leather belt, and then they get into

598
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: the car and drive away, and we see them driving

599
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: the car and it's the funniest shots of Wolvannia is

600
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: I don't think that's supposed to be her hair. Maybe

601
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: it is. She's got her head is covered in this

602
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: big ball of fur, and I guess it's supposed to

603
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: be a fur cap, I think so. Yeah. Meanwhile, Fibes

604
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: is sitting in the backseat being chauffeured with just like

605
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: wearing the black hood and with the stocking over his face.

606
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: So he's just you know, faceless terror. Yeah, it's it's

607
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: worth noting that both of these characters have so many

608
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: different costume changes. Uh. That revenge, they say revenge is

609
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: a dish Beth served cold, but that doesn't mean you

610
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: can't style it up. That means doesn't mean you can't

611
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: change your your your cloak frequently, that you can't engage

612
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 1: in any number of rituals. Uh. Yeah, they're they're heavy

613
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: and this vengeance game. And so they're headed out somewhere

614
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: and we we cut to a bedroom we assume is

615
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: where they're headed. It's it's this guy in a in

616
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: a lavish bed chamber with I don't know, fancy stuff

617
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: all over the walls, like paintings of horses and markers

618
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: to indicate this is a rich guy. But then in

619
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: the ceiling above this guy's bed, a skylight in the

620
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: ceiling opens up and we see fibes in Volvania lowering

621
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: in that bird cage from earlier and uh, and then

622
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: they retracted. They pull it back up with a trapdoor

623
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the cage hanging open. So it

624
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: seems they've released something into the room. And this is

625
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: the first murder of the movie. That's right, it's gonna

626
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: be death by free bat, just like in the Old Testament. Okay,

627
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: we'll get into the biblical accuracy maybe a little bit,

628
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,439
Speaker 1: and I don't know about that. But so the guy

629
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: in bed, he is attacked by bats. They're like bats

630
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: crawling on him and he's like uh. And then we

631
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: do the intro and reverse the cloaked figure and and Volvani.

632
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: They return home, they turn off the Michael Myers rock

633
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: fire band and then he descends into the floor playing

634
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: his organ. But the next morning, in the in the

635
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: bedroom of the victim, we get to see some Butler action.

636
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: Butler comes in with eggs on toast and like a

637
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: bat lands on the eggs, and there are bats everywhere

638
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: and the guy's face we see him laying in bed.

639
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: It has been fully oatmeal ified. Yeah, death by free bat.

640
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: And then we see the first of a ritual that

641
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: will repeat throughout the movie, which is that Dr fives

642
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: back at his party house. He puts a dependant with

643
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 1: a with a significant looking symbol on it on on

644
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: one of the heads of the mannekins or the busts

645
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: on the edge of the big concert hall room, and

646
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: then he burns the face of the bust with a candle.

647
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: But the next morning we get to see the police investigating,

648
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: and and the police are they're played for comedy in

649
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: this movie. They're all bumbling. One of him says it's

650
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: strange business. Tom a man literally shredded to death right

651
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: in the heart of London. We find out that the

652
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: victim was a medical doctor, and the police noticed something.

653
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: They noticed that this vicious fruit bat shredding is similar

654
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: to the recent death of another doctor in town who

655
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: was killed by a swarm of bees in his library.

656
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: And they say, almost turning to look at the camera,

657
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: they say, his face looked as if it were covered

658
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: in boils, and that will be important shortly. So then

659
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: we go back to the Total party house and we

660
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: see Vincent Price, uh, putting on his face. We will

661
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: We don't know what Dr Fib's real face looks like,

662
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: but once he does a bunch of stuff to it,

663
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: he looks like Vincent Price. And uh and I love this.

664
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: I love everything about it. I love the weird sets.

665
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: I love Vincent Price with shaggy ringo hair, and I

666
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: love how they make Vincent Price's actual face look like

667
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: a sagging rubber mask on his head. They yeah, they

668
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: give him this really waxy um color, and yeah, they

669
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: had some other little elements to it. Uh. And he

670
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: also know, of course it's been some Price, so he

671
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: has a great mustache, but also really nice sideburns, yes,

672
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: but also uh, dark rings under his eyes always yes,

673
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: So he looks very very haunted, um like he even

674
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: though he's not in pure monster mode right now, he

675
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: still looks kind of monstrous and unnatural. But the movie

676
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: wastes no time. It is immediately onto the next Doctor Murder,

677
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: so we we meet doctor Hargraves again. He's uh, he's

678
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: at some swanky party where it's like fancy people are

679
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: all wearing animal masks of some kind, and prices there

680
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: in a mask. He gives a frog mask to doctor Hargraves.

681
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 1: Dr Hargraves uh seems to just accept it. Uh, and

682
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: and Vince Price helps him put it on, and he

683
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: like does the catch on it, and and Hargraves introduces himself.

684
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: He says, I'm a psychiatrist, you know, a head shrinker.

685
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: But oh, this rog mask it's a it's a track

686
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: from Saw. It's like a head crushing action mask where

687
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: it just keeps ratcheting itself tighter. And the doctor staggers around,

688
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: trying to get help from a drunken lizard and some

689
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: oaf in a pig mask, but there's no way of

690
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: saving him. He just his head is crushed and he

691
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: lays there with the frog mask and blood coming out

692
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: of it while people in horsehead masks and and other

693
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: weird costumes look on in amazement. So counting the the

694
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: off screen death, that's like the third death. So three

695
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: down right, And we get a rundown of this by

696
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: the police in the next scene, because there's a scene

697
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: at Scotland Yard with cops are talking about how they

698
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: don't want this story about animal themed doctor murders to

699
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: get out to the press. There there's something that characters

700
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: say multiple times in this movie. They're like medical men

701
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: die all the time. I mean true is and because

702
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: human beings die all the time? Um um that that

703
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: that under a suspicion of circumstances with animal themes. I

704
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: don't know that that's like statistically a thing. Yeah, So

705
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: Inspector trout Is he's tracking now, He's like, wait a minute, bats,

706
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: bees and frogs, so what's going on here? But then

707
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: it's immediately on to the next doctor murder. This is

708
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: just they're coming thick and fast, and the next one

709
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: is dr Longstreet. Is this Terry Thomas? This is Terry Thomas,

710
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: And it is such a Terry Thomas sat So. When

711
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: we first meet him, he's immediately furtively ripping into a

712
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: cylindrical parcel. I think he doesn't want his housekeeper to

713
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: see what he's doing. And he's acting all sweaty and squirrely,

714
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: and he appears to what's going on is that he

715
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: seems to have received a canister of racy film reels

716
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: from the East and he plans to watch them on

717
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,959
Speaker 1: his rattling projector while absolutely chugging red wine tonight, since

718
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: the housekeeper is going to be out for the evening. Yeah,

719
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: and this is the part. So we're watching, you know,

720
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: he puts on his film reel and he's watching. It's

721
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: of like a late dancing with a snake, yes, and

722
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: it's like a belly dancing snake dance kind of a film,

723
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: you know, very but also a very old film. This

724
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: is not something that um, well, you know. It brings

725
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: me back to the question, I'm not sure exactly what

726
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: when when this film is supposed to be taking place.

727
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: It's not supposed to take place in the seventies. No,

728
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to take place in like the twenties.

729
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: Bro Okay, so maybe it is a current film that

730
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: he has acquired here. Okay, but yeah, Terry Thomas, he

731
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 1: is a dirty chap and uh he looks a little bit.

732
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 1: Wings Houser is here. He's watching inappropriate film reels, chugging

733
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: red wine out of a sniff ter and like licking

734
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 1: his lips so that he's just being gross. Yes, it's

735
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: a great scene. But then oh here comes of course.

736
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: Dr Fibes and Volvania show up at his house. You know,

737
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: they walk in and he's just kind of like, hum,

738
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: what's going on? And while they sit him down in

739
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: a chair, strap him in and then drain out all

740
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: of his blood. Ye, put it in bottles up there

741
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: on the about the they're about the fireplace. I believe

742
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: it on a shelf. So that's four doctors down. But

743
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: this one kind of breaks the animal theme. This one

744
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: is is blood, huh, what's going on? But the police

745
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: put together a different pattern. They figure out that all

746
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: four of these doctors worked for another doctor named Dr Vassalius,

747
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 1: and this is Joseph Cotton, and so Inspector Trout goes

748
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: to his house to meet him and see if he

749
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: can make any sense of this. And I like how

750
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: when he gets there Vassalius's teenage son Limb is very

751
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: impressed by the presence of Scotland yard. Yes, and Vassalius's

752
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: house looks like a hair salon. It's so stylish, so stylish.

753
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: There's there's like, you know, African nasts on the wall,

754
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: there's this like Satyr's statue with a light above it,

755
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: shiny surfaces everywhere, potted plants, mirrors on the walls, and

756
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 1: a lot of fancy chairs just lined up along the walls.

757
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: Does his house have a waiting room? I don't know.

758
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: But Dr Vassalius we see, is a model trained guy.

759
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: Rails and train cars are scattered all over the floor.

760
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: When Trout shows up and Trout fills him in, he's like, okay,

761
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: here's what's going on. And he's like, do you know

762
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 1: why someone would want to kill all of your associates?

763
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: And of course with saleus has no idea. He again,

764
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: he says the same thing as the guy earlier. He's like,

765
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: men in my profession die every day of the year.

766
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: I don't know how often. Then like frog related deaths though,

767
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, But anyway, when the police find out about

768
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: the Longstreet murder here, they get a clue, which is

769
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: the pendant left behind at the scene. Dr Fibes actually

770
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: drops the pendant there by accident, and so they find it.

771
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: They take it back to a goldsmith, the person who

772
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: made it, and uh. The goldsmith tells him, Yep, this

773
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: is an ambulance. I made ten of them. It was

774
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: a lady who ordered them. Uh. And Trout is like,

775
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: was she smart? And then he says fashionable. Yeah. It's

776
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: a fun scene because there's a lot of a lot

777
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: of goofy back and forth between these two characters. But

778
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: the jeweler informs Trout that the sign on the ambulance

779
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: is something requested by the person who bought them, and

780
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: it's a symbol in Hebrew. So the inspector then has

781
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: a new clue and takes it to a rabbi to

782
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: get the run down, and here we get a major

783
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: exposition scene. So the rabbi tells him that the symbol

784
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: is Hebrew for blood, and okay, this makes sense because

785
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: Longstreet was drained of all blood. But it's also notable

786
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: for being one of the ten plagues of Egypt, of course,

787
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: turning the Nile into blood. And so here we get

788
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: a speech about the ten plagues of Egypt. So this

789
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,720
Speaker 1: is from the story of the Exodus in in the Torah,

790
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: and the context is that the Jews are in bondage

791
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: in Egypt and God keeps sending plagues against Egypt to

792
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: force the Pharaoh to release them. Here we get a

793
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: list of the plagues which are in order. And I'm

794
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: not saying these are necessarily the correct plagues, but this

795
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: is what the movies as says. They are boils, bats, frogs, blood, rats, hail, beasts, locusts,

796
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: death of the firstborn, and darkness. Alright, we've had the

797
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: first four, so we're almost halfway through. I feel like

798
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: I must flag as kind of a Bible nerdy like

799
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 1: compare that to the actual list in a in a

800
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: good translation of Exodus. I don't think that really matches,

801
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: but anyway, So we get more scenes with Dr Fibes

802
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: back at the party house and he uh, this is

803
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: this is where we first see him speaking to a

804
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: shrine of the image of a woman. We find out

805
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 1: his wife. This is the one played by the photo

806
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: of Caroline Monroe against Stella star Uh, and he's like

807
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: worshiping this this headshot of her. He's got a whole

808
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: table I think of her her belongings laid out. And

809
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,919
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier that Vincent Price never actually speaks out

810
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: of his mouth in this movie, so the only times

811
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: he talks are by plugging a phone of graph into

812
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: a jack in the back of his neck. And this

813
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: connects to another weird scene later where he looks it

814
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: looks like he's drinking a beverage by pouring it into

815
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: the back of his neck. Yes, at one point he

816
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: tastes something he's mixed up on his finger by like

817
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: sticking his finger back there to where they're when we

818
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: never see it, but presumably there's some sort of a

819
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: mouth hole back there that has been I don't know

820
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: if it's surgical or technological, but uh, not knowing for

821
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: sure makes it all the more impressive. When he's tasting something,

822
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: is that the Brussels sprout. Google, Yes, the Brussels sprout.

823
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: We'll get to that. But this also provides some exposition

824
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: because talking through the phonograph, he gives this whole uh

825
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: fiery speech and he says nine killed you, nine shall

826
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: die nine It turn it he's in doom. But we

827
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: also get some exposition on the other side, for with

828
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: dr Vesalius and the police. So he and Trout do

829
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,280
Speaker 1: some research and they figure out that there was actually

830
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: only one case where Visalius worked with all of the

831
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: doctors who are now dead, and that was on one

832
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: patient named Victoria Regina Fibes, and we get the whole backstory.

833
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: So she she had some medical emergency. They were operating

834
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: on her. Her husband was someone named Dr Anton Fibes,

835
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: and as Anton Fibes was racing to the hospital where

836
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: his wife was in surgery, his car went off a

837
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: cliff and exploded and he was incinerated or was he?

838
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: And the reason from this, Okay, so the rest of

839
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,720
Speaker 1: the surgical team that worked on this case of Victoria Fibes,

840
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: they all need to be put under police protection, but

841
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: the police don't really get there fast enough for most

842
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,760
Speaker 1: of them because the next scene is where Vincent Price

843
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 1: uses an air conditioner in a car to kill a guy. Yeah, yeah,

844
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, like this in the carriage there, they

845
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: just kind of like pulled him over, take incapacitate the driver,

846
00:48:58,320 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: and then just hook him up to the a C

847
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: freeze him solid and there's like snow blowing in his

848
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: face from this machine. Yeah, it's pretty good and this

849
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,439
Speaker 1: one was the scene too that's very feels very Avengers

850
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: uh and uh in its weirdness, you know, because we

851
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: got like a little bit of super science that in

852
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,439
Speaker 1: in weirdness. And we're also getting into that territory here

853
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: too with our villain. Where our villain is um. He's

854
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: not incapable of air. We saw him drop the amulet earlier,

855
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: but he's really thought out everything and is a man

856
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 1: of multiple talents, a real villainous poly math. Yes. In fact,

857
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: the very next scene we start to learn about all

858
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: of his different expertise. So first of all, we get

859
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,760
Speaker 1: a clue from for Scotland Yard, which comes from Dr

860
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: Vesalius's son Lim, who says he was in the music

861
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: shop I think, talking to the owner there about the

862
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: great organists, and he just happens to name some of

863
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: the great organists offhand, Bridges, Drew and Fibes. And so

864
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, oh, I see Dr Anton Fibes. He

865
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: was a aid organist and he's apparently been paying the

866
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: local organ shop guy recently, even though he's supposed to

867
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: be dead. So they take a trip out to the

868
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: crypt where Mr and Mrs Fibes were supposedly laid to rest,

869
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: and we get more discussion about his background. They say, okay,

870
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: he's not only a concert organist, he's also a PhD

871
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: in theology. And I thought this was hilarious. Inspector Trout

872
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: is like that would explain his knowledge of the ten

873
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: plagues of Egypt. It seems like rather basic knowledge. I

874
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 1: don't know, it's not really a deep cut. But another

875
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: really weird thing here is that wait a minute, Okay,

876
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: so Fibes is a concert organist and a PhD in theology.

877
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: I started to wonder, that is a really weird coincidence

878
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: if this is not supposed to be a play on

879
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: Albert Schweitzer. But I don't know why else that would be.

880
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: So do you know anything about Schweitzer. I didn't know

881
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 1: a lot about him until you you mentioned the possible connection,

882
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: and I read like just a basic bio on him. Yeah. Yeah.

883
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: He's an interesting figure who was a medical doctor, a

884
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: concert organist, and one of the most important scholars ever

885
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: of the New Testament. He's largely responsible in historical Jesus

886
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: scholarship for putting forward probably the reigning historical understanding of

887
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: of Jesus today, which is that he was an apocalyptic

888
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: Jewish prophet, somebody who was predicting the imminent end of

889
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: the world. But but I was just thinking, like, it

890
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of sense otherwise, But it would

891
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: be that is such a weirdly specific thing. An organist

892
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: and a PhD in theology. I don't know. So yeah,

893
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: I mean it makes sense. It's one way to flesh

894
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: out your villain. Pick a pick an historical figure and

895
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: say what if we made them into a super villain,

896
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: If they were a super villain, what would it be like? Yeah,

897
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: So I don't know, strange choice, but interesting anyway. At

898
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: the crip we've got, you know, so they're like, well,

899
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: let's just pop open these coffins and have us look. Yeah,

900
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: there's no no official process here. They just just rip

901
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: them open, just pop them open. Yeah. So they pop

902
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: open the Doctor fibes to him. It has only ashes

903
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: in it, but whose ashes we don't know. They pop

904
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: open the Mrs fibes to him, nothing, completely empty. One

905
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: of the next scenes I recall is Inspector Trout back

906
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: at the office receiving just a whacking chew out from

907
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: his superiors. So they, you know, he's what what is

908
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 1: do you remember this boss's name, the guy who's yelling

909
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: at him for like a minute straight. I believe this

910
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: is James Grout just playing sergeant. I could be wrong

911
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: on that, but but it's a it's it's a real

912
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: fun role because he's, yeah, he's a real he's a

913
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 1: real hard ass. Yeah he's he's demanding that they solve

914
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: the case immediately. You know, we we can't have these

915
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: weird doctor murders just hanging out there because there was

916
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: public outcry and that's falling on me. And the big

917
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: boss also yells at Trout for not wearing his suit

918
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: jacket inside. It is a real stickler. Uh. And then

919
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 1: we get another doctor murder scene. This one I thought

920
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: was kind of strange, but it was the rat attack

921
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,760
Speaker 1: in the planes. One of the doctors is an amateur pilot.

922
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 1: He takes his plane up and then while in there,

923
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: I guess they guess Dr FIBs and Volvania have put

924
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: rats in the plane. The rats attack him and then

925
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: he crashes the plane. Um. I guess part of it's

926
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: the sequential nature of this and also the britishness of it.

927
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: But I was reminded of psychomania A lot in this

928
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: because it's the whole section in Psychomania where there's you

929
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: have every all the bikers trying to kill themselves in

930
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: unique ways. They can come back as undead bikers, and

931
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 1: there's kind of like each one is more ridiculous than

932
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: the last. That is a great sequence, oh Psychomania. Oh,

933
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: that's also one of the best, I think, speaking of

934
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: the best, oh, the next murder it maybe it's one

935
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: of the cheapest where you're kind of like, I don't know,

936
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: Five's you're kind of really stretching the theme here, but

937
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 1: on the other level, like absolut lutely top marks for

938
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 1: creativity and style. So the so the police have not

939
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: been able to protect any of the doctors yet. So

940
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: they finally get to the next one before five Scan.

941
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: They're at his Gentleman's club in London, I guess, and

942
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, we're gonna take you into protective custody,

943
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: will make sure nothing happens to you. So they're walking

944
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,879
Speaker 1: out of the club and as they opened the door,

945
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 1: you just hear like an arrow hitting the target sound effect,

946
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:30,320
Speaker 1: and he has been pierced through with the horn of

947
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: a brass unicorn. Yes, as oh, when they say it

948
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: was fired from a catapult. Yeah, And this is one

949
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,919
Speaker 1: of those moments in The Villagers reminds you like, don't

950
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: try and think too forensically about this motion picture. If

951
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: you're like, well, how did they get a cataby lay

952
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: a catapult trap there, and and how did they work

953
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:52,919
Speaker 1: out the aerodynamics of launching like this brass unicorn at

954
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 1: this guy. We'll just don't worry about that. Just trust

955
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,760
Speaker 1: us that happened. The unicorn horn has a spiral pattern

956
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: on it, and they have to unscrew the guy from

957
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: the wall. They show like his feet going around. Yes,

958
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: it's such it's such great gallows humor. I love it.

959
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: But then so you've got this extremely silly scene and

960
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: then right after there's kind of a serious scene where

961
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,280
Speaker 1: Fibes is he's again worshiping the headshot of Caroline Monroe,

962
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: but in this one he recites part of a wonderful

963
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: love poem by John Dunn, The Goodmorrow. Do you know

964
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: this one? Rob, I wasn't familiar with this one. You

965
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: might remember lines from it, you know, people might have

966
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 1: read it at school, and sometimes it has the lines

967
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: if ever, any beauty I did see which I desired

968
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: and got twas but a dream of the well. He

969
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: doesn't say those lines in the movie. He instead he

970
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: quotes some lines from the last stands of the poem.

971
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: He quotes them out of order. So the last stanza

972
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: is my face in thine I thine in mine appears

973
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: and true plane hearts do in the faces rest? Where

974
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,800
Speaker 1: can we find two better hemispheres without sharp north, without

975
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: declining west? Whatever dies was not equally if our two

976
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,760
Speaker 1: loves be one or thou and I love so alike

977
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: that none do slacken, none can die. It's a great poem.

978
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: But he so he reads the first four lines of

979
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: that stanza, but he reads lines three and four and

980
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: then one and two, so the ones about the hemispheres

981
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: and then the in the faces rest. Well, Yeah, he's

982
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: put a lot of work into this whole revenged cycle

983
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: and ritual h So you know, he's he's figured out

984
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: how to mix it up a little bit. He's got

985
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: to get it just right. There's been many takes. But

986
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: then it goes straight from that into probably I would say,

987
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:38,479
Speaker 1: the weirdest murder in the entire movie. Would you agree, Yeah, yeah,

988
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: it's and it's also and this is nice that the

989
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: murders all feel a little bit different, and they're presented

990
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: in different ways. Like we get no clue at all

991
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: about the set up for the brass unicorn catapult murder,

992
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:57,320
Speaker 1: but the making the unicorn or everything, no extended scenes

993
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,479
Speaker 1: of that, But this one is all about the prep work.

994
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: In fact, you just set you just sat there watching

995
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,720
Speaker 1: this weirdness take place, and you're like, what are they doing? What? What? What?

996
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: What of the tin plagues of Egypt involved Brussels sprouts.

997
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Brussels sprouts. What is happening. Volvania is

998
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: walking around dressed like Queen Elizabeth and holding trays of

999
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: Brussels sprouts, and Vincent Price is standing over a giant

1000
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: pot of boiling Brussels sprouts, and he's like picking Brussels

1001
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: sprouts from her hands and throwing some of them into

1002
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: the pot and throwing other ones away. He's inspecting them

1003
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: to see if they're just right. I don't know why,

1004
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how this works, but he's like making

1005
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: he's turning the Brussels sprouts into some kind of essence

1006
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: of Brussels sprout. Yeah, and I wasn't sure what was

1007
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: going on. I was like, well, we know that, um,

1008
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: you know, obviously he was. He was heavily disfigured, and

1009
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: we I think by this point we already knew know

1010
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: that he drinks through his neck. So I was thinking, well,

1011
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: maybe this is just what Dr Fibes consumes. Maybe he's

1012
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: on a liqu a diet and he likes Brussels sprouts,

1013
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: and brussels prouts are good for you, and brussel trouts

1014
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: are great. So I mean, maybe not in this form,

1015
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: but no, this is this is the world. I mean,

1016
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: I love brussel sprouts like good, like roasted. The idea

1017
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: of boiling brussels sprouts down to a paste is one

1018
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: of the most disgusting things I can imagine Brussel sprouts

1019
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: and wet heat. No, no, no, yeah, but yeah. Watching this,

1020
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: I was like, I have no idea where this is going.

1021
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm all in, let's see, well where is

1022
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: it going. We've got one last person on the list.

1023
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: It's a nurse who worked on the you know, the

1024
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: Victoria Fives case, and so the police are trying to

1025
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: protect her. They send her into a room in some

1026
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: building where every surface is green. Very nice and fits

1027
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: with the theme of of green good. So they're like, okay,

1028
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: go in this room and sleep, and she's like okay.

1029
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: They tell her to take a sleeping pill, and uh,

1030
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: I guess that would explain why she is slow to wake. Later,

1031
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: Dr five sneaks into the floor above her, drills a

1032
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: hole in the floor, hooks up a machine to pump

1033
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: green goog. I guess this is what he made out

1034
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: of the Brussels sprouts into the room. It dribbles all

1035
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: over some globe lamp and then dribbles all over her face.

1036
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: And then he releases locusts into the room via a

1037
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 1: tube and they marched single file and then they go

1038
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: down and I guess they start eating the green goo

1039
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: off of her because they like plants and I don't know.

1040
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: And then they just strip her flesh down to the bones. Yeah,

1041
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: it just completely de flesh her skeleton. Yeah, pironify her.

1042
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: Is that weird enough for you? It's such a weird scene,

1043
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: and of course you know it's completely unrealistic, but but

1044
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: but kudos he was able to work. It was like,

1045
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: once I saw the bugs, I was like, ah, you're

1046
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: doing the locusts. Okay, now it all makes sense. He

1047
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 1: made Brussels sprout goo. Then he used, okay, well you

1048
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: know he's been working up again. A lot of work

1049
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: went into this. He probably tried different you know, liquefied

1050
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: vegetables and liquefied plants to see what would get the

1051
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: locust excited enough to completely consume the human human bodies flesh.

1052
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Speaker 1: And this is what worked. And she never woke up

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Speaker 1: the whole time. Well, she she'd taken a sleeping tale,

1054
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: so she was she was out. But then finally we

1055
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: get down to the climax, which is when Visalius realizes that, oh,

1056
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: the biblical play falling to him is the death of

1057
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 1: the firstborn, his organist son, his son Limb has been

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01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: kidnapped by Dr Fibes, and uh here here we come

1059
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: to our James Bond trap ending. So Vassalius finds out

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01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: that Fibes has his kid. He knocks out Inspector Trout,

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01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: who tries to stop him, and then he heads over

1062
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: to the party house where all kinds of things are happening.

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01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: U vol Navia is wearing this amazing like red cloak

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01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,440
Speaker 1: with a with a golden son with all these like

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01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: insect legs on it, and this, uh, this hat with

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01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: peacock things shooting off of it. I don't know. She's

1067
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,479
Speaker 1: the high priestess of the Revenge, I think at this point, yes,

1068
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: beauty full and this, uh, the the Automata playing their

1069
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: their big band music, and Doctor Vissalius arrives and and

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01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: oh god, they explained this whole thing to him. His

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01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, you've got six minutes to operate on

1072
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: your son, to get a key out of his body

1073
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: that I've placed in his body that you will have

1074
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: to use to unlock the table, which so you can

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01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: move the table that he's on so that this timer

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01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 1: doesn't release a bunch of acid onto him. Right, It's

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01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: it's it's like, this is very much This is where

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01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 1: I was definitely thinking about, like the Saw movies and

1079
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: and all, but like, really Jigsaw just a rank amateur

1080
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: with no style at all compared to Dr Five's because

1081
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: as grotesque is this sounds, and it does come off

1082
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: as like legitimately kind of at this point, it's still

1083
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: beautifully rendered. You know, this white background. It's it's very

1084
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: stylish and and it also works really well. I feel

1085
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: like the tension really builds in this part of the

1086
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: movie because, like I I referenced earlier, we're at the

1087
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: part where we're past the victims, where we can be like, Okay,

1088
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,919
Speaker 1: that guy seems sleazy. I guess it's okay of our

1089
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: unrealistic movie villain kills them. But now, like we're dealing

1090
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: with with the doctor alone, we haven't really seen anything

1091
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: to any reason to hate him and his son even

1092
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 1: more so, like he is an innocent when it comes

1093
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 1: to the death of fibes wife. You know, no, no

1094
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: matter how you you know, tease apart the details of

1095
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: her demise, right, so Visalius is he's he's setting to it.

1096
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 1: He's trying to get the task done. Meanwhile, of all,

1097
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 1: Navia goes to grab a solid old axe and just

1098
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: starts hacking up the whole place. I guess, you know,

1099
01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: Fibes is like, we're done destroy everything, so she's at it.

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01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: We get a Fibes face reveal, Yes, where what is

1101
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: his real face? It's I don't know how to describe it.

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01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: It's a skull face. Yeah, it's a like very very

1103
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: Phantom of the Opera skeleton face. Uh. You know on

1104
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 1: the posters you see some like mechanical elements um that

1105
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: are part of it, like you know, he's you know,

1106
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: touching on the fact that he's also kind of made

1107
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: up have some clockwork elements to himself, because he has

1108
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: this big showdown right where he's talking about, uh, you know,

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01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: how the doctors can't be trusted. The doctor said he

1110
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't survive, but he used his own ingenuity, to his

1111
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: knowledge of music and acoustics to allow himself to speak again.

1112
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: And and he also has that great line there where

1113
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: he's says, I've killed nine times in my life. How

1114
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 1: many motors may be attributed to you? Speaking to the doctor. Yeah,

1115
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: So he comes down there, he takes the mask off,

1116
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 1: because this whole thing is like soon your son will

1117
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: be disfigured by acid. It will look just like me. Um.

1118
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: And then of course the doctor continues to try and

1119
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: frantically work the surgery, and meanwhile he just kind of

1120
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: like backs up and scapes into the elevator, uh, and

1121
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: leaves them to try and pull it off. Now we

1122
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: Visalia succeeds. The sun is not harmed, but Fibes does

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01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: get away and the police arrive. Oh and there when

1124
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: the police arrived, Volnavia is standing there, I guess, ready

1125
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: to attack with the golden, the solid gold axe. But

1126
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: then she stands under the acid machine and she gets

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01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: she gets acided. Yeah, she gets acids lined. We don't

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01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: actually see her melt or anything, but um, it's it's

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01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's an implied melting. And I guess

1130
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: you know she's not a good character. She's not. She's

1131
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: been doing a lot of murder, a lot of murders,

1132
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: so it feels fair. Oh but then Dr Fibes he

1133
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 1: basically gets away with it because what does he do.

1134
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: He goes down and we find out, oh, there's there's

1135
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: Mrs Fibes in a sort of crypt with a robotic

1136
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: lifting or mechanically lifting lid. He gets into the crypt

1137
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: next to her, I guess, planning to be interred alongside

1138
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: her body, and then hooks up a machine to replace

1139
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: his blood with embalming fluid, and we see it like

1140
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 1: coming out of these yellow, very clearly labeled beakers that

1141
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 1: say embalming fluid. And so he's going down there, I guess,

1142
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: getting embalmed in real time. When the when the police

1143
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: inspectors show up, the we're like, wait a minute, what

1144
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: was the last plague big Stinger? Of course, plague of

1145
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: darkness and the lights go out. Yeah, and we get

1146
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: the credits roll. And this is in the credits where

1147
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: we see both doctor both doctors are listed as the protagonists,

1148
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: which I like. And then when oh, and then what

1149
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 1: song is playing over the end credits just to add

1150
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: to the utter weirdness of this movie. Somewhere over the rainbow. Oh,

1151
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: it's so good. And then at the very end you

1152
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: get a little stinger, you get an evil doctor fives

1153
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: Vincent price laugh. Oh god, I love it. There's just

1154
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 1: in the last twenty minutes there's so many weird touches,

1155
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: like I love how the when he self embalms himself alive.

1156
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 1: The embalming fluid is this bright yellow opposite the bright

1157
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: red of the blood. Um. It made me think. I

1158
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: think phantasm too has bright yellow embalming fluid. I have

1159
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: no idea what color embalming fluid actually is, but I

1160
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: hope it's bright mustard yellow like in these motion pictures.

1161
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: There's the lid to the casket. Oh what about that? Oh,

1162
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: it has like this elaborate sun, moon and earth, this

1163
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: astrological thing going on. Amazing great set design. Uh, this

1164
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: one's a real winner. Dr Fibes is the best. Absolutely, yeah,

1165
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: this one. This one was a lot of fun. Highly

1166
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: recommend it. Just just a weird fun picture. Uh yeah,

1167
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 1: probably not for the week, kids or anything, but unless

1168
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 1: we say otherwise, that applies to any movie we talk

1169
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,600
Speaker 1: about here, right right, But I've got a lot of

1170
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: fun for just about everybody else. Uh. This one is

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01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 1: currently hard to stream anywhere as of this recording, at

1172
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 1: least in the United States. Uh. There's an old DVD

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01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: available in the United States and and that is what

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01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:45,080
Speaker 1: I rented from Video Drome to watch it. There's a

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01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 1: nice arrow video Blu Ray for regions be Slash two

1176
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: out there. But luckily the folks at Video Drume informed

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01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: me that a new Blu Ray edition is about to

1178
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:58,959
Speaker 1: come out from Keno Lorber. It's gonna come out next

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01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 1: month and it's a two pack with both Fibes movies

1180
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: in part one and the sequel. Uh. So if you're

1181
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: excited to check out this film, well, hey, it's about here.

1182
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: And who knows a lot of times when these films

1183
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 1: come out like this, um it opens up streaming options

1184
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: as well, at least in subsequent months. So I feel

1185
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: like Fibes is returning. Uh. In grandiose fashion, which of course,

1186
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 1: uh fits him perfectly. I can't wait. I will probably

1187
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: be trying to grab one of those. Yeah, Kino Lorber.

1188
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: They tend to do a really good job. Alright, anything

1189
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: else you want to say about Dr FIBs, I mean,

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01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: there's so many This is one of those movies are

1191
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:38,919
Speaker 1: just so rich with weirdness that we we didn't even

1192
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 1: have time to touch on everything. There's so many great shots, um,

1193
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: you know, so many nice little details that are either

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01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 1: added to a performance or certainly to the background. For instance,

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01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: I feel like we could have just described his organ

1196
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 1: that he plays, glowing red organ. Oh yeah, it's just

1197
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 1: so beautiful, gothically super villain stylish. Oh, it's just it

1198
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: has to be seen. Don't watch this movie if you're

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01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: making Brussels sprouts for dinner. All right, We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: ahead and close out this episode. But as always so

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01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 1: we'd love to hear from everyone out there. Any five

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01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: stands have any tidbits they want to share with us,

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Speaker 1: right in? Let us know, uh weird, how cinema comes

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