Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Monday, October first, and there
Speaker 1: are two kinds of people in the world, those who
Speaker 1: love horror movies and those who don't. Which one are
Speaker 1: you and what does it say about you? Welcome to
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. This is sometimes
Speaker 1: the only time of year some people even entertain the
Speaker 1: idea of a horror movie. What is the thing they
Speaker 1: say about us most a horror movie fans. They think
Speaker 1: something's wrong with They.
Speaker 2: Think we're sick, we're deviant, we have a fascination with
Speaker 2: the abomination. They question our ethics. I mean, I definitely
Speaker 2: have had people because I have been a horror movie
Speaker 2: fan since I can remember. I believe my first horror movie.
Speaker 2: I don't believe. I know my first horror movie was Poltergeist.
Speaker 2: In second grade. I sneaked to a neighbor's house who
Speaker 2: had HBO to watch it, and I was hooked from
Speaker 2: that moment on. So what does that say about me?
Speaker 2: I've had plenty of people, I'm sure judge me, Rick,
Speaker 2: We're crazy.
Speaker 1: They think something is wrong with us, and some people
Speaker 1: can stomach a horror movie or two. We are I
Speaker 1: give it to it. We're a little on the extreme side.
Speaker 1: We are we wouldn't call ourselves experts. Well, we're something
Speaker 1: of aficionados. We watch more horror movies and we know
Speaker 1: more about them than most people.
Speaker 2: I would talk to you, yes, one hundred percent, and
Speaker 2: I would say ninety eight percent of the time we
Speaker 2: go to the movies, and we go to the movies
Speaker 2: at least once a month, but sometimes more. It is
Speaker 2: to see a horror movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we talk about horror movies quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Anytime we see a new and we see every big
Speaker 1: one that comes out, we talk about it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: But this time, for the month of Oktober, we are
Speaker 1: gonna celebrate horror movies and we're gonna help some of
Speaker 1: you folks out. We're gonna in this episode at least
Speaker 1: explain a little bit of the science, the psychology, your
Speaker 1: personality traits, what is contributing to you liking or not
Speaker 1: liking horror movies. That is absolutely fascinating. You're gonna want
Speaker 1: to hear what kind of person you are. But also
Speaker 1: we are gonna count down this month. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: you a different horror movie every single day of the
Speaker 1: month of October, and these aren't gonna be the obvious ones,
Speaker 1: not the classics that everybody know. It's not gonna throw
Speaker 1: a Halloween or a Friday thirteenth, that's you know. These
Speaker 1: are some of the more deep cuts, if you will.
Speaker 1: These are some of the ones that only a true
Speaker 1: horror movie fan would be aware of. But they're good
Speaker 1: movies that maybe you have never heard of. We're excited
Speaker 1: about this list, and we got thirty movies.
Speaker 3: We could have done fifties.
Speaker 2: Oh, we could have done eighty. I think. Actually we
Speaker 2: had a hard time whittling down the list. We're thinking
Speaker 2: we'll save that for next year because the movies that
Speaker 2: we're going to give you this month will be from
Speaker 2: all different from different decades, different subgenres of horror movies,
Speaker 2: and not all highly reviewed. Some of them have a
Speaker 2: very high Rotten Tomato score and some of them have
Speaker 2: a fifteen percent.
Speaker 1: But we like that and we recommend every single one
Speaker 1: gets absolutely all recommendation. But why in the first place,
Speaker 1: roapes There is a lot of study that has been
Speaker 1: done on this over the years, not all of a consensus,
Speaker 1: but it gives you an idea and some insights into
Speaker 1: why we like horror movies.
Speaker 3: Why would anybody?
Speaker 1: Right, we're talking about fear, anxiety, dread. Those are negative emotions?
Speaker 1: Are they not discussed?
Speaker 2: Sometimes?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the.
Speaker 1: One that you have to throw in there as well.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal. We'll talk about why would you Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll ask you personally, why do you go to the
Speaker 1: movie and put yourself in a position to do things
Speaker 1: that we normally consider awful?
Speaker 2: Because there are a couple of reasons. I had to
Speaker 2: think about it. It just came naturally to me. I'll
Speaker 2: have to say, I didn't have to think about it.
Speaker 2: I didn't have to talk myself into it.
Speaker 1: I just be a reason for that.
Speaker 2: Naturally liked it. And I will have to say both
Speaker 2: of my daughters were the exact same way, where they
Speaker 2: were fascinated with Harry Potter, then they wanted to watch
Speaker 2: Conjuring and they were young. I have a I am
Speaker 2: a thrill seeker. I have always loved the rush of adrenaline.
Speaker 2: It's why I almost certainly probably gravitated towards the news
Speaker 2: and journalism because there was an excitement and a thrill
Speaker 2: and breaking news. So it falls into that same sort
Speaker 2: of personality for me where I'm always rushing to the
Speaker 2: to get the adrenaline, rush to do something daring, to
Speaker 2: feel that thrill. But I love a horror movie because
Speaker 2: I can feel all of those things, fear, adrenaline, But
Speaker 2: I'm perfectly safe sitting in a movie theater or on
Speaker 2: my count.
Speaker 1: I didn't plan on starting with this direction, but you
Speaker 1: directed me exactly to this point. Who are the type
Speaker 1: of people that like horror movie is one of the
Speaker 1: top things. People who have a high sense of sensation seeking. Yes,
Speaker 1: you call it thrill seeking. They use the term sensation seeking.
Speaker 1: Folks who are looking for some type over rush, who
Speaker 1: are looking for a thrill of some kind. Yes, it
Speaker 1: plays into why you ride roller coasters as well. This
Speaker 1: was a great line from one study. Listen to this,
Speaker 1: and I didn't let you in on a lot of this.
Speaker 1: And you saw me almost falling out of my seat, like, baby,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't let me, Like, don't look at any research.
Speaker 2: Let me guide this because you're going to be wowed.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's how one researcher put it, and I'm quoting
Speaker 1: individuals thought to be high sensation seekers would experience much
Speaker 1: more positive emotion when highly aroused and stimulated, and would
Speaker 1: seek negative stimulation to maximize their arousal because this stimulation
Speaker 1: was intense. It's saying that the negative experience is such
Speaker 1: a rush that you will run to that even though
Speaker 1: it's negative.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean you've seen me when things start getting
Speaker 2: really tense in a movie theater, I will partially close
Speaker 2: my like put my hands over my face so that
Speaker 2: I feel safe. But I'm still looking through my hands.
Speaker 2: I'm not in jeopardy of anything, and yet I feel
Speaker 2: that excitement of ooh, well, I don't want to look,
Speaker 2: but I'm looking. I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 1: It goes on robes here. It is a negative stimulus,
Speaker 1: such as a horror film, might therefore be interpreted by
Speaker 1: a person high in sensation seeking such as yourself, as
Speaker 1: being very positive, but a person low in sensation seeking
Speaker 1: would find the stimulus a horror movie unpleasant.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it has a lot to do with your personality
Speaker 1: what you seek out. Even though you might be a
Speaker 1: thrill seeker and looking to have fun and climb a
Speaker 1: mountain or do a roller coaster that's associated with fun,
Speaker 1: you also just the excitement, the energy, and a drilling
Speaker 1: you feel you'll go get it anywhere, even if it's
Speaker 1: watching some horrible stuff on TV.
Speaker 2: Well, because I know it's not real. Look, I will you.
Speaker 2: I have said this, and I and I feel like
Speaker 2: you're the same. I don't like watching torture. I don't
Speaker 2: like things that are drawn out and excruciating that bothers me.
Speaker 2: And if any thing mimics something that is too close
Speaker 2: to real life, I also don't love that either. So
Speaker 2: I gravitate like I think that's why I love Supernatural.
Speaker 2: I love a monster, I love all of that kind
Speaker 2: of thing because I feel safe. I have joked that
Speaker 2: maybe I like the extra thrill of Supernatural because there
Speaker 2: are no locks to keep the devil out, you know,
Speaker 2: so that also, and that has bitten me in the butt.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when I've been alone in a hotel room and
Speaker 2: an old hotel, I'd be like, why do I watch
Speaker 2: horror movies? Why? As I'm sweating at like the age
Speaker 2: of forty five, alone in a hotel room, barely sleeping
Speaker 2: because I watched something the night before that now was
Speaker 2: keeping me up all night long.
Speaker 1: And the things that keep you up are never because
Speaker 1: you saw a movie that had to do with bodygore,
Speaker 1: nuts or that kind of torture. It was all some spirit.
Speaker 2: It's supernatural. Anything supernatural that stays with me. I actually
Speaker 2: was in a hotel a couple months ago and they
Speaker 2: had these old armchairs just sitting towards the bed, and
Speaker 2: it was an old hotel from the eighteen hundreds in Colorado,
Speaker 2: and I had to actually throw my suitcase on it,
Speaker 2: and then I thought, no, it looks like someone's sitting there.
Speaker 2: I've had to take coat hangers off of racks because
Speaker 2: I feel like it's going to look like someone standing
Speaker 2: over my bed. Like this is what I do so
Speaker 2: that I can keep enjoying movies.
Speaker 1: Okay, but stimulation is a big reason why you're sitting
Speaker 1: in there, and you are being stimulated mentally and physically. Yes, physically,
Speaker 1: your heart rate goes up, sometimes you start sweating, you
Speaker 1: have sweaty palms, you have a physical reaction to it,
Speaker 1: and you're breathing hard. That's a stimulation. Now, your mental
Speaker 1: stimulation fear and anxiety. It sounds like a bad thing,
Speaker 1: but you also get from that excitement because the anticipation
Speaker 1: of the moment, you're already enjoying that the moment comes boom.
Speaker 1: That's the climax to it, and then when it's over,
Speaker 1: you come down and enjoy that as well. It's a
Speaker 1: cycle that you and I know well. Anticipation, fear, relief,
Speaker 1: repeat isn't not the same in every horror movie.
Speaker 2: It is. And you know what's cool about that is
Speaker 2: you you mentioned the moment. You are in the moment
Speaker 2: when I am watching something that's that exciting and that thrilling,
Speaker 2: I am not thinking about what I have to do tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking about what I screwed up today. I
Speaker 2: am not doing any of that future casting. I am
Speaker 2: in the moment.
Speaker 1: Okay, you are truly a horror movie Officionado because another
Speaker 1: big part you've guided me to the next thing I
Speaker 1: was going to talk. I swear I didn't look you didn't.
Speaker 1: But this is another part of why folks that love
Speaker 1: horror movies love horror movies, because it is as you
Speaker 1: were explaining, it's immersive. You are in it with anticipation,
Speaker 1: You're in the edge of your seat, You're following on
Speaker 1: with this character, you are experiencing the same terror that
Speaker 1: character is. And yes, you have to be there and
Speaker 1: immersed in the moment. You watch other movies you experience
Speaker 1: horror movies. I don't didn't really think, what is the
Speaker 1: only thing you have to go see with somebody?
Speaker 3: Horror?
Speaker 2: The horror movie I would do.
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I have never. I've watched a horror movie by myself
Speaker 2: at home, and I've done that and regretted it because
Speaker 2: I've been really scary.
Speaker 3: This. You have to because it is an experience.
Speaker 1: It is a I want to share it experience with somebody.
Speaker 2: And honestly, you we've talked about this before, but this
Speaker 2: was a huge connection that you and I had because
Speaker 2: when you find someone else who loves horror movies, it's
Speaker 2: like this immediate kinship. So I have it with a couple.
Speaker 2: I can tell you Sarah Haynes loves horror movies. I
Speaker 2: can tell you that Lester Holt loves horror movies because
Speaker 2: every time we would see something, we go did you
Speaker 2: see this? Did you check this out? And Sarah and
Speaker 2: I would go to some of these movies together and
Speaker 2: if you I've tried to bring along people who don't
Speaker 2: like it, and I'm like, you're gonna love this one,
Speaker 2: and they hate it and they hate it even more
Speaker 2: and they're mad at me for going so I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, fine, never come again.
Speaker 1: The other things reasons people watch. You've talked about this
Speaker 1: privately before plenty escapism, right, it allows you to detach
Speaker 1: from your every day all that's going on in the
Speaker 1: world right now. It's crazy to think, yeah, let me
Speaker 1: go watch somebody get slaughtered on in a movie to
Speaker 1: get away from it. But yes, it is escapism. You
Speaker 1: know it's not real. You can actually detach from it,
Speaker 1: so that's fun. Also, it's an out of this world experience,
Speaker 1: meaning I can watch a zombie apocalypse that's not really
Speaker 1: gonna happen to me, but you can still relate to
Speaker 1: the characters, put yourself in it, and people seem to
Speaker 1: enjoy that.
Speaker 2: It feels I love that because that's so true. It
Speaker 2: feels like you're in an altar universe. I remember I
Speaker 2: was so immersed. This wasn't a movie, but I was
Speaker 2: so immersed into the Walking Dead series that I watched
Speaker 2: so many in a row. I remember I walked outside
Speaker 2: and I thought that I might see a zombie. But
Speaker 2: how fun is that? I mean, obviously, intellectually I knew
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to see one, but there was a
Speaker 2: part of me that I had to catch myself, like, wait, no,
Speaker 2: I'm in the real world now, there isn't going to
Speaker 2: be a zombie coming after me. But I thought that
Speaker 2: was so cool that maybe that was even in my head,
Speaker 2: that I was living in a fantasy for a little while,
Speaker 2: and it felt kind of fun.
Speaker 1: The other people who like horror movies, no surprise, but
Speaker 1: at least the studies and whatnot they've seen, usually younger
Speaker 1: folks and usually more so men than women, and men
Speaker 1: and women seem to sometimes have a different reaction to
Speaker 1: movies horror movie. They might watch the same movie get
Speaker 1: satisfaction out of that movie for different reasons.
Speaker 2: It's funny because a lot of people who I know
Speaker 2: who are couples, either one of them loves them and
Speaker 2: the other one doesn't, and they always have a hard
Speaker 2: time because they can never bring their significant other with
Speaker 2: them too. So I remember always having like this like
Speaker 2: hodge Podge group of people who couldn't bring their spouses
Speaker 2: because no, their spouses didn't want to watch, and like
Speaker 2: ran away from the theater. So we would just kind
Speaker 2: of collect ourselves, those us misfits who love horror movies.
Speaker 2: It's funny. My brother and I don't have a lot
Speaker 2: in comment, but this is the one thing we really
Speaker 2: have in comment.
Speaker 1: Okay, the other thing, the people who like horror movies
Speaker 1: tend to have an openness to experiences. According to some research. Also,
Speaker 1: they're able I just mentioned, is able to achieve psychological detachment.
Speaker 1: Meaning you're watching a movie, you're seeing a guy in
Speaker 1: a mask running towards somebody with clown shoes and a knife.
Speaker 1: There's probably not going to happen to you. You're able
Speaker 1: to separate enough act necessarily fearful at that point, also
Speaker 1: able to manage the dangers we encounter. People who are
Speaker 1: able to do that have a tendency to more so
Speaker 1: like horror movies. The other thing here, and there's some
Speaker 1: opposing research on this. It's a suggestion out there that
Speaker 1: people who like horror movies tend to be less empathetic.
Speaker 2: Well that's a shame, you know what.
Speaker 1: There's some opposing research. Yeah, the jury is still out
Speaker 1: on that, but that's been out there for a little while.
Speaker 2: I mean, and people can say, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: know what other people. You don't ever really have full
Speaker 2: self awareness. I don't know how people would regard me,
Speaker 2: but I do think I have had the ability, and
Speaker 2: I would think you would have too, doing the jobs
Speaker 2: that we do as journalists having to process. I think
Speaker 2: police officers, a lot of first responders. Yes, you have empathy,
Speaker 2: but you have an ability to compartmentalize. So I do
Speaker 2: feel like I have deep empathy when I can, and
Speaker 2: then compassion. But I also have been and had to
Speaker 2: be able to separate myself from some of the trauma
Speaker 2: that has been around me that you have to report on,
Speaker 2: that you have to intimately actually investigate as a journalist.
Speaker 2: So I do think I have the skill to detach,
Speaker 2: but I don't think I'm a detached person. How do
Speaker 2: you feel, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Again, some people will make arguments about this to say
Speaker 1: people are less empathetic, the suggestion that you can look
Speaker 1: up on screen and I guess you, I guess you
Speaker 1: don't feel as much of a not necessarily feel sorry
Speaker 1: for the scenario that you're seeing.
Speaker 2: Well, I can separate art from reality.
Speaker 1: But thats suggestion. That's why some people got bored by
Speaker 1: the ID to call people less empathetic seems wild, but
Speaker 1: no to I like it the way the other put it,
Speaker 1: that you're able to achieve psychological detachment. I know what
Speaker 1: I'm watching, I know where I am, I know what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, and I am enjoying this experience. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned discussed earlier, that's the one part of movies, according
Speaker 1: to research, that people don't ever enjoy. Right, there are
Speaker 1: some part that there's right, there's a terrible killing, and
Speaker 1: there's a terrible scenario, there's a big people get aimed,
Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff. You can still find some
Speaker 1: way in the fear to enjoy the experience when people
Speaker 1: see disgust and stuff that grosses them out. That is
Speaker 1: the one part of horror movie is that people universally take.
Speaker 2: You don't like body horror, which is very much what
Speaker 2: you just described. And I feel like the audio that
Speaker 2: goes along with the body horror really schevs me out.
Speaker 2: Like yes, like the cutting, the slicing, the blood, I
Speaker 2: don't like any of that. That is a little bit
Speaker 2: too much for me as well. I don't like to
Speaker 2: be disgusted, Like I said, I don't like I don't
Speaker 2: like torture, so I think it would go along with that.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't enjoy watching that.
Speaker 1: Well, we told you, folks, we are going to give
Speaker 1: you a movie a day for the entire month of October.
Speaker 1: The list is not going to include all the obvious ones,
Speaker 1: but we when we come back, will point out here
Speaker 1: at least give a nod to the obvious ones. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you all are going to have
Speaker 1: a problem and say we left something out. And also
Speaker 1: one other thing. When we come back, I'm gonna hit
Speaker 1: you with why the adrenaline fueled fight or flight response
Speaker 1: in the movie theater is something we keep going back
Speaker 1: for over and over again. All right, welcome back, folks.
Speaker 1: You can continue to listen to two horror movie nuts here.
Speaker 1: It's almost we like we want to recruit people to
Speaker 1: the cause.
Speaker 2: I do. I do, I have always tried to. I
Speaker 2: want people to enjoy it the way I do. I
Speaker 2: want to bring people along. We're horror evangelists.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the best way as horror evangelists we
Speaker 1: can put it. And again, research I did, I think
Speaker 1: I said this to your baby. I think I did
Speaker 1: too deep of a dot, like I was getting lost
Speaker 1: in all this research and whatnot. But this is the
Speaker 1: best way. I heard put it, heard put it, heard
Speaker 1: it put When you're in a movie, what you are
Speaker 1: experiencing in a horror movie is an adrenaline field, an
Speaker 1: adrenaline fueled fight or flight response to an attack. Your body,
Speaker 1: your brain thinks there is an attack going on you.
Speaker 1: Your whole body reacts in that fight or flight mode
Speaker 1: as if you're out on the street running from a
Speaker 1: mass shooter or a fire scene or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: Your brain is doing that. That's what you're experiencing. But
Speaker 1: at the same time.
Speaker 3: You know you're safe.
Speaker 2: There's not many things in the world where that actually
Speaker 2: could occur simultaneously or physiologically.
Speaker 1: Going through that thing that's like intense. At the same
Speaker 1: time you know you're safe, and that's just a rush.
Speaker 1: It's almost like a roller coaster for us. We love
Speaker 1: roller coasters.
Speaker 2: And so by what you're saying it makes sense. I
Speaker 2: would say, I mean this, I am addicted to horror movies.
Speaker 2: Like if you told me I could never watch another
Speaker 2: horror movie again, I would be despondent. I we watch
Speaker 2: a horror movie almost every day.
Speaker 3: Oh, so you're right.
Speaker 1: We have Rush on and to my left there's oddity
Speaker 1: two horror movies.
Speaker 2: Hush, he said, rush Rush is there a movie. There's
Speaker 2: a thing called rush hour.
Speaker 3: Rush. I think that was a that was a race
Speaker 3: car movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything rush over there. What I'm saying is we
Speaker 1: always have something on. I even complained earlier, like what's
Speaker 1: wrong with us? That we had a horror movie on
Speaker 1: in the front of the house and we hear a
Speaker 1: woman screaming on the TV in the back end the liveary.
Speaker 2: We had to go turn it off because we were
Speaker 2: record an episode, and we probably thought it wasn't good
Speaker 2: to have a woman screaming in the background on the television.
Speaker 3: But that's our.
Speaker 1: White noise almost. It's just we have horror movies on
Speaker 1: in the background. Yes, we love them that much, and
Speaker 1: we love them we want other people to experience it.
Speaker 1: That's why we're talking about it all the time. Here, though,
Speaker 1: are the obvious ones. Again, we're giving you one a
Speaker 1: day starting what tomorrow, starting tomorrow, starting tomorrow, give you
Speaker 1: one a day counting down to Halloween. But these are
Speaker 1: some of the I think obvious classics. How many man
Speaker 1: looks like we got twenty or so here, but we
Speaker 1: get through. You can't stop, ye, I mean you can't
Speaker 1: really start without alien Yes it was nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Sigourney Weaver becomes a megastar they end up with at
Speaker 1: least there was a trilogy. They ended up doing another
Speaker 1: at least one, maybe two. But this is one of
Speaker 1: the most successful horror franchises and most respected ever.
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy nine Alien.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people. I I kind of
Speaker 1: a partial Alien. The second the sequel Aliens.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love the original Alien without a doubt. And
Speaker 2: then of course I feel like one of the original
Speaker 2: most incredible horror movies Psycho nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1: What was the scene. There's history in there with that
Speaker 1: something out of the shower scene, but yeah, that was
Speaker 1: an incredible I could watch that anytime. You see that,
Speaker 1: and we think, like this movie would be over today
Speaker 1: because just if somebody had a cell phone.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Every single horror movie out there now
Speaker 2: has to deal with the fact that technology exists, and
Speaker 2: so they always have to create a scenario in which
Speaker 2: there's no cell phone service, the phone gets broken, they're
Speaker 2: in a remote area. Watch every modern horror movie and
Speaker 2: almost right away they have to establish that there's no
Speaker 2: phone signal. Anybody signal it every time. So we look
Speaker 2: at each other and we laugh because they have to
Speaker 2: do it now.
Speaker 1: They have to do it also Saw that was two
Speaker 1: thousand and four. They've gotten ten movies out of.
Speaker 2: This carry el was and that original Saw. Oh, and
Speaker 2: that is torture. But couldn't stop watching it. But that
Speaker 2: was excruciatingly good. Is the best way, I guess.
Speaker 1: One of the newer classics, if you will, that we
Speaker 1: have on the list.
Speaker 2: Yes, this one, Oh my goodness, the Exorcist the year
Speaker 2: of my birth, nineteen seventy three. That is an oldie,
Speaker 2: but a goodie I can. I mean, have you ever
Speaker 2: taken a picture and you see some sort of a
Speaker 2: shadow or a light going through your neck? And I
Speaker 2: immediately think of the Exorcist? Right? Is that the Exorcist
Speaker 2: when they foreshadow the deaths of folks when they take pictures?
Speaker 2: Or is that the omen? Am I screwing it up?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I think you're am I'm screwing it up.
Speaker 2: That's the omen See, this is what happened. I get
Speaker 2: confused the Exorcist. But obviously that was just the vomiting
Speaker 2: and the head spinning around. So it's actually I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think of it right now.
Speaker 1: You gotta see that one. Children of the Core in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, what's the kid's name?
Speaker 2: Malachi Malack?
Speaker 1: I will always think Malachi, But what the head kid?
Speaker 3: What was his name?
Speaker 2: Malachi scared me more than the red headed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was scary as I'll get out. But this
Speaker 1: is a that was a Stephen King, right, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: how many? I wonder how many on here of steering there.
Speaker 2: Are several of them? Child's nineteen eighty eight. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I had written down we were making this list Chucky,
Speaker 2: and then I realized, wait, it's not called Chucky, it's
Speaker 2: child's play.
Speaker 1: And again that spawned all kinds of spinoffs and all
Speaker 1: kind they had, Bride of Chucky even, yes, was a movie,
Speaker 1: yesing Gangbusters your first, right.
Speaker 2: My first? Nineteen eighty two Poltergeist, I so, yes, I
Speaker 2: was nine years old, so I watched it as soon
Speaker 2: as it came on HBO. So that movie there here.
Speaker 2: I sweated for years, staring at my closet, making sure
Speaker 2: it was shut, making sure I checked my closet. That
Speaker 2: and then clowns. That started my fear of clowns because
Speaker 2: of that little clown that you just heard the footsteps.
Speaker 2: And then thunderstorms one one thousand and two, one thousand
Speaker 2: and three one thousand with the tree and trees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that thing would turn you off to your whole childhood.
Speaker 2: It basically scared me. And yet I wanted more.
Speaker 1: Didn't you want to sit in chairs and watch TV?
Speaker 2: Because after Polter Guys, the next horror movie I watched
Speaker 2: was the next one on our list, Nightmare on Elm Street.
Speaker 2: Then I couldn't go to sleep, I couldn't dream.
Speaker 1: That was That movie was mean. I mean what it
Speaker 1: did to kids, You're scared to go. You literally are
Speaker 1: a wait a minute, is this a real thing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was a good, a perfect horror movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, Nightmare on Elm Street was beyond scary. Nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four, all right.
Speaker 1: I can't remember how many sequels either.
Speaker 2: So many. I know they continue to continue the shining,
Speaker 2: the shining nineteen eighties, and I have seen how many
Speaker 2: times have we seen that movie?
Speaker 1: I mean, what he does and he see him descend
Speaker 1: into match Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was that is Stephen King as well,
Speaker 2: So yes, it's Stephen King. Yes, and then yes, I
Speaker 2: just talked about the omen with the pictures, and yes,
Speaker 2: when Gregor the stairs and the priests and oh my God,
Speaker 2: how about It's All for You, Damien and she jumps
Speaker 2: off of the I guess the fourth floor or whatever,
Speaker 2: hanging herself at his birthday party. But that movie is
Speaker 2: so incredible, and actually we have watched every movie in
Speaker 2: the series, including the most recent one at the First Omen,
Speaker 2: and it was so amazing how they were able to
Speaker 2: pick up They ended with that first scene of Gregory
Speaker 2: Peck going to get the baby.
Speaker 1: And to be clear, the movie is called the First Omen,
Speaker 1: but it's the most recent OMEN picture.
Speaker 2: It's the prequel. It's the prequel to the original of
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy six one. But I would actually, if
Speaker 2: you guys haven't seen it, I would encourage you to
Speaker 2: watch the original OMEN with Gregory Peck and then and
Speaker 2: then go back and watch the First Omen, or do
Speaker 2: it in whatever order you want. But it's so well done.
Speaker 2: It's so well done.
Speaker 1: The next two AVO obvious classics Friday the Thirteenth Halloween
Speaker 1: to the most successful franchises in movie history. Those were
Speaker 1: seventy eight was Halloween of course Jamie Lee, Curtis Michael
Speaker 1: By superstardom, and in nineteen eighty was the First Friday
Speaker 1: the Thirteenth the next one on the list here. I
Speaker 1: guess maybe some would argue, is it a classic or
Speaker 1: a cult classic?
Speaker 2: It's a cult classic. I think I know what you
Speaker 2: did last summer nineteen ninety seven. It's so good. It
Speaker 2: spawned so many careers. It's campy but also a little scary.
Speaker 1: I liked that one. This most recent one it.
Speaker 2: Was not as good, but the most recent scream. I
Speaker 2: loved the original stream nineteen ninety six Drew Barrymore. I
Speaker 2: love that opening scene on the phone. It is so
Speaker 2: so good. So they recreated that with this latest one,
Speaker 2: and it is phenomenal. Jenna Ortega and she's been doing
Speaker 2: a lot of horror movies lately. We love her, but
Speaker 2: maybe the Wednesday character has spawned that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to sound don't think it sounds me.
Speaker 1: She has a good look for it. She does pull
Speaker 1: all like kind of a dark look with the dark hening.
Speaker 2: But she's cute and you're rooting for her. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 2: Obviously we have to talk about the conjuring that has
Speaker 2: become a classic now and the juggernaut that it is.
Speaker 2: If we had included all of the movies we love,
Speaker 2: half of them would be in the Conjuring Family, so
Speaker 2: we just had to put them all in this classics
Speaker 2: and would love to give special love to Conjuring two,
Speaker 2: Annabelle Creation and None too. Those are my probably three
Speaker 2: favorites of the Conjuring Family, which is the.
Speaker 1: Most now successful horror movie franchise in history. Next movie,
Speaker 1: there's a sweet spot for us on those with nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two's candy Man the original Tony Todd. Of course
Speaker 1: we just love who passed pretty recently the last several months.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's just now. That is a classic.
Speaker 2: I can't go into a parking garage without thinking Candy
Speaker 2: Man is going to be there with his hooked hand
Speaker 2: and Cabrini Green Chicago, the whole setting, everything. It's such
Speaker 2: a I didn't really love the remake. I know it
Speaker 2: did well, but to me, the original was just the best,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Of course, everybody knows Jaws fifteenth on the versary just happened.
Speaker 1: That is a classic, dude, I mean that's a horror movie, right, Yes.
Speaker 2: It's oh my Dudham, Dunham.
Speaker 1: It happens to be a fish and not a knife
Speaker 1: wielding mast man.
Speaker 2: It's a monster at least it was. Yes, it was
Speaker 2: a monster. But anytime I watched a movie and it
Speaker 2: made me change behaviors, Jaws one hundred percent is probably
Speaker 2: the reason why I still have a fear of the ocean,
Speaker 2: and I would say a healthy fear of the ocean,
Speaker 2: because there are shark sharks in there, and I know
Speaker 2: they're not all monsters, but I'm just I feel like
Speaker 2: better safe than sorry.
Speaker 3: I would say none of them a monster.
Speaker 1: None of them are monsters, of course. Stephen King again, right,
Speaker 1: it nineteen ninety. I had to be reminded this was
Speaker 1: a television mini series originally, but I saw it for
Speaker 1: the first time on BHS, so I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: But yes, it that original.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't tell me.
Speaker 2: It messed with me because I read the book and
Speaker 2: loved it. Then I watched this, and obviously it reinstilled
Speaker 2: my fear of clowns. Pennywise, they all float down there.
Speaker 2: But John Boy, you probably didn't watch The Waltons growing up,
Speaker 2: but I did. John Boy suddenly is thrust into this
Speaker 2: horror movie. I thought it was such a fun little
Speaker 2: twist to see someone who was normally you know, in
Speaker 2: a non life threatening storyline suddenly is in it and
Speaker 2: was basically the poster child of that movie. So loved
Speaker 2: it right.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight days two thousand and two. They just a
Speaker 1: sequel not too long ago, but well that was this year.
Speaker 2: It was this year twenty eight years later.
Speaker 1: Later, So a heck of a sequel. But that thing,
Speaker 1: it certainly has legs to it. The American Werewolf in London.
Speaker 1: American Werewolf in London, I should say that was in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. But again that got a lot of
Speaker 1: credit for I guess being pretty cool and innovative in
Speaker 1: the way they used makeup, in the way he changed
Speaker 1: into that where well, if that was cool. But nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight, this is maybe Robes the one. I mean,
Speaker 1: some people might have put it in the top five
Speaker 1: some of the maybe one of the greatest horror movies
Speaker 1: of all time.
Speaker 2: Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow so so so good. Loved it,
Speaker 2: you know, I just realized because I always think of
Speaker 2: when I think of Mia Farrow, I always think of
Speaker 2: Sissy SPACEK two, which reminds me of Carrie, which is
Speaker 2: another another Stephen King movie around the same time. That
Speaker 2: one was so scary as well.
Speaker 1: On the list as well. Many people probably haven't seen
Speaker 1: it but you should check it out. It's a silent movie,
Speaker 1: but it is considered one of the greatest horror movies
Speaker 1: of all time, really genre defining, and maybe even the
Speaker 1: best horror movie of all time. Nosferatu from nineteen twenty
Speaker 1: to a silent movie. It's essentially the story of Dracula.
Speaker 1: This was an original and I love, love, love this movie.
Speaker 1: It's different if you just embrace and experience it. It
Speaker 1: is really cool to see what they did with movie
Speaker 1: making and the makeup at that time. Nineteen This wasn't eighty.
Speaker 1: I got that. That must be nineteen ninety Misery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think nineteen ninety Misery again another Stephen King,
Speaker 2: he is the mastermind of horror. But yes, that with
Speaker 2: Kathy Bates and just such such a good film. Could
Speaker 2: watch that. I've watched that so many times. I've seen
Speaker 2: the next one at least ten times. Silence of the
Speaker 2: Lambs nineteen ninety one, Anthony Hopkins and Jody Foster at
Speaker 2: some of their best.
Speaker 3: You know what I might do?
Speaker 1: I have this right, I'm gonna say it out loud
Speaker 1: and I'll converm it later. But I do believe this
Speaker 1: is the only horror movie they ever win an Oscar.
Speaker 2: That makes well, no, because actually the most recent one,
Speaker 2: the South Korean Parasite.
Speaker 3: That's considered hard.
Speaker 2: That's a horror movie I ever saw that. You haven't
Speaker 2: it's so good. That is that horror movie. Absolutely one
Speaker 2: best picture. Yes, oh, I'll watch it with you.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 2: The Ring I loved the Ring. That was Australian actress
Speaker 2: blonde Naomi Watts. I this one scared me to death.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to watch any DVD or any VHS
Speaker 2: tape that was handed to me. I needed to know
Speaker 2: where it came from and needed to be sourced. This
Speaker 2: movie freaked me out. In two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: Then of course you had The Evil Dead. That series
Speaker 1: has been going on since nineteen eighty one. They've had
Speaker 1: several big gaps in between sequels. I think they've only
Speaker 1: done five since nineteen eighty one, but they are all
Speaker 1: worth checking out. But nineteen eighty one was the original
Speaker 1: and the most recent Evil Dead Rise. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: your daughters are adults, and they stopped watching within ten minutes.
Speaker 2: This is a true story, and they love horror movies.
Speaker 2: I had been telling them about how unbelievably scary and gripping.
Speaker 2: I mean, your whole body hurts because you're so intensely watching.
Speaker 2: They were on a plane. They both started watching within
Speaker 2: five minutes like nope, and they turned it off. They're like,
Speaker 2: not gonna watch anymore. It was too scary. And then
Speaker 2: we have to talk about the Insidious series because they were.
Speaker 2: Patrick Wilson is also just getting I want to give
Speaker 2: them a huge nod for the conjuring Insidious. All of
Speaker 2: those films so good, but Insidious number two is my fave.
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, Insidious too.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course it is. It's so good with that
Speaker 2: Red Door. The last one wasn't quite as good, but
Speaker 2: go for Insidious too. If you want to jump in.
Speaker 2: You don't have to watch the first one.
Speaker 1: Those are the classics, if you will, that are not
Speaker 1: going to be included in our daily list. So we
Speaker 1: want to at least give love and give acknowledgement to those.
Speaker 1: So folks try it this month. We're going to give
Speaker 1: you a different one every day, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be a different flavor every day. Some of them aren't
Speaker 1: so gory, some of them are supernatural. Some you better
Speaker 1: have a strong stomach. Others are a little funny. It's
Speaker 1: going to be something in there for everybody. We're going
Speaker 1: to try to give you a description of it. This
Speaker 1: is for a date night, This is one to introduce
Speaker 1: your kids to. This is one maybe your mom might like.
Speaker 1: Whatever it may be, so we are looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Yes, So please join us as we count down to
Speaker 2: Halloween for some of the scariest movies you might not
Speaker 2: have heard of, but we hope you'll check them out
Speaker 2: after checking out our podcast. So with that, thank you
Speaker 2: for listening. Everybody. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes. We
Speaker 2: will talk to you soon.