Speaker 1: Hey, you welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind, it is
Speaker 1: time to get on the boat, y'all. This is Rob Lamb.
Speaker 1: This is going to be an episode that originally published
Speaker 1: eight eight, twenty twenty five. It is the Uninvited or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry it's Uninvited, No. The from nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: This is another Beast Cinema installment from Graydon Clark. It
Speaker 1: has George Kennedy in it. It has a mutated cat,
Speaker 1: a killer mutated cat in it. What more do you
Speaker 1: need to know? You don't need to know anything else.
Speaker 1: You just need to jump into this episode and maybe
Speaker 1: jump out and watch this movie as well. Let's have it.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.
Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick.
Speaker 1: And in this episode our cat. We festivities conclude. We're
Speaker 1: following up core episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Speaker 1: as well as a midweek Monster Fact that all revolved
Speaker 1: around cats, and so we of course had to choose
Speaker 1: a cat film for Weird House Cinema this week. We
Speaker 1: ultimately had had quite a few to consider, like are
Speaker 1: we going to go with cat as ally, cat as enemy?
Speaker 1: But we ultimately went with a B cinema favorite and
Speaker 1: one that multiple listeners have recommended to us over the years,
Speaker 1: the direct to video nineteen eighty eight or eighty seven
Speaker 1: mutant cat sci fi thriller Uninvited. Not to be confused
Speaker 1: with the many other films that are titled the Uninvited.
Speaker 1: This is just uninvited.
Speaker 3: What is it that's uninvited? There are many things uninvited
Speaker 3: in this film. I guess there's a cat that was
Speaker 3: not invited. There are also lots of people who were
Speaker 3: not invited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and one of the boyfriends were invited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there is there's an extra thing inside the
Speaker 3: cat that maybe you could interpret us thing that's uninvited,
Speaker 3: Like one of the people at least wanted to invite
Speaker 3: the cat but didn't realize it had a mutant thing
Speaker 3: inside of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then again, all cats are uninvited. They invite themselves.
Speaker 1: They are calling the shots here.
Speaker 3: Cats are not like vampires. They will not catch fire
Speaker 3: coming into a house uninvited.
Speaker 1: You may invite them, but they may not accept it.
Speaker 1: It's all up to them. So we selected this film
Speaker 1: before We recorded our core stuff to Blow your Mind
Speaker 1: episodes this week on the folklore Cats of the British
Speaker 1: Isles and the Cats of Cypress, and I have to
Speaker 1: say that I'm pleasantly surprised that this film managed to
Speaker 1: line up at all with anything we talked about in
Speaker 1: our core episodes. But you know, we have the idea
Speaker 1: here of a cat as a kind of vengeful demon,
Speaker 1: and we have cats on a boat. We spent the
Speaker 1: Cypress episode talking a good bit about cats on boats.
Speaker 3: That's right, trying to imagine stone age farmers getting all
Speaker 3: different kinds of animals on boats to take them across
Speaker 3: the sea to Cypress, and one of those animals would
Speaker 3: have been the cat. I guess maybe you know, despite
Speaker 3: how difficult it is known to be to herd cats,
Speaker 3: i'd imagine it's easier to herd cats than to herd foxes.
Speaker 1: Now, now, don't be confused, though this is not a
Speaker 1: movie you're going to learn a lot from. Uninvited is
Speaker 1: not a movie with lofty, dramatic or thematic ambitions. It
Speaker 1: is a creature feature, first and foremost, and one that
Speaker 1: subjectively misses the mark in several ways while also succeeding
Speaker 1: in being just an amazingly fun and weird ninety one
Speaker 1: minutes of cinema.
Speaker 3: I don't know who would say this thing misses the mark.
Speaker 3: I think this is this is like what creature features
Speaker 3: were invented for was to become this.
Speaker 1: Well, when I say missed the mark, imagine that there's
Speaker 1: there's like an archery target setup. Okay, the arrow is
Speaker 1: is fired, and perhaps this arrow we can call this
Speaker 1: arrow effective and horrifying creature design. Oh okay, it misses
Speaker 1: the entire target, but then it's a bull on an
Speaker 1: adjacent target. Okay, okay, and that's where we are, like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the creature in this film is not the xenomorph from
Speaker 1: Ridley Scott's Alien, I understand, but it is amazing in
Speaker 1: its own right. I wouldn't change a thing about it.
Speaker 1: It's a total gromblin picture. Like, this creature is on
Speaker 1: the same level as some of the creatures from I
Speaker 1: don't know, Goolies and so forth. It has a triumph
Speaker 1: the insult, comic dog energy to it. So every time
Speaker 1: it's on screen, you're going to giggle, You're going to laugh.
Speaker 1: And is that what the filmmakers intended? Maybe not, but
Speaker 1: that is why people love One of the reasons people
Speaker 1: love this film.
Speaker 3: I think I am starting to get a feeling of
Speaker 3: Graydon Clark's sensibilities, and I think this was maybe supposed
Speaker 3: to be funny in the ways that it is. I
Speaker 3: think the moist puppet that appears repeatedly is It just
Speaker 3: seems impossible to me that Clark did not recognize that
Speaker 3: he had struck gold here with the potential comedic value.
Speaker 3: But that does bring up something I wanted to get
Speaker 3: into at the beginning. Uninvited is often described as a
Speaker 3: killer cat movie, but I have to flag that the
Speaker 3: actual creature that kills people is not the fluffy, cute
Speaker 3: kitty cat that we see in most shots. You know,
Speaker 3: so there is a cute kitty cat in the movie,
Speaker 3: you know that people pet and hold and it runs
Speaker 3: around and stuff.
Speaker 1: Beautiful tabby cat.
Speaker 3: Yes, whenever it is time for the beast to vomit
Speaker 3: death upon humankind, what happens is that this cute kitty cat,
Speaker 3: the external cat, opens its mouth and then we cut
Speaker 3: to an effect shot where a wet, screaming secondary animal
Speaker 3: emerges from inside the cat mouth, and this interior beast
Speaker 3: is represented by a puppet that looks like a cross
Speaker 3: between the damp weasel and pumpkinhead. And it is this
Speaker 3: creature that leaps out and bites and scratches and kills
Speaker 3: and deposits poison on the humans. So what is this
Speaker 3: beast inside the cute cat? Is it also a cat?
Speaker 3: And I was also wondering how does it turn back
Speaker 3: into the cute fluffy cat after each attack is finished?
Speaker 3: Does it climb back into the mouth.
Speaker 1: It does. You might have missed it, but there is
Speaker 1: one scene where we see it beginning to crawl back in.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, I've just forgotten that. Yeah, So I was wondering, though,
Speaker 3: are the interior beast and the exterior beast, like, are
Speaker 3: they necessarily attached or can they fully separate? And if
Speaker 3: they separate, can they both be independently alive or can
Speaker 3: the exterior cat not live without the interior cat or
Speaker 3: the interior whatever it is?
Speaker 1: These are questions we cannot fully answer. Yeah, the outer
Speaker 1: shell cat of cat thing seems to be dormant while
Speaker 1: it is killing and rampaging, and then it crawled into
Speaker 1: it like it's a cat suit bundy sock just sitting there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, is that part of the cat. Is it
Speaker 1: a host for this parasite? We don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: the only other major bit of evidence I might turn
Speaker 1: to is the ending to the picture or the ending
Speaker 1: to the main cut of the picture. But we'll have
Speaker 1: to come back to that one.
Speaker 3: So I want to mention I found online the Dutch
Speaker 3: VHS cover which has a couple of good taglines, one
Speaker 3: especially good one. I don't know if these would have
Speaker 3: appeared on other national packaging as well, but at least
Speaker 3: on this box. It has one tagline, which is cats
Speaker 3: have nine lives, you only have one. Nice ends with
Speaker 3: the ellipsis and then exclamation, one of the most cryptic
Speaker 3: punctuation combinations. Then the other tagline, not quite as good,
Speaker 3: is they paid for the holiday of a lifetime with
Speaker 3: their live.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, that that's rather inaccurate. I don't think anybody's paying
Speaker 1: for a holiday of a lifetime in this No.
Speaker 3: No, uh, well, I mean I think that the Yeah,
Speaker 3: the spring Breaker characters are initially looking for a good time,
Speaker 3: but they it quickly goes off the rails, like It's
Speaker 3: not like one of these movies where everybody's just they
Speaker 3: still think they're partying until Jason the moment Jason shows
Speaker 3: up and wax him with an axe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not the cat thing meets love boat,
Speaker 1: as we'll get into when we discuss the plot.
Speaker 3: Though there is some Jason similarity. Like I was thinking
Speaker 3: about how the cat often attacks and punishes people right
Speaker 3: after they have sinned or done wrong. It does sort
Speaker 3: of follow some slasher movie logic there where with the
Speaker 3: cat as moral executioner. Not in every single case. Sometimes
Speaker 3: some rather innocent people catch it, but it's mostly you
Speaker 3: do evil and then the cat.
Speaker 1: Kills you, right, and the cat is the judge.
Speaker 3: Okay, So my elevator, which for uninvited is Garfield meets
Speaker 3: basket Case versus Gordon Gecko all wrapped up in some
Speaker 3: Jason takes Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Yep, that sounds accurate. Yeah, all right, well, let's listen
Speaker 1: to just a little bit of one of the trailers
Speaker 1: for this picture, because there's, as you might expect, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of screaming and cat gowling, and
Speaker 1: we can only take so much of that. But just
Speaker 1: a little taste here.
Speaker 3: They say cats have nine lives, You have only one
Speaker 3: a poisonous can. Now, how is that possible? Things gonna
Speaker 3: mind us and We're Gonna Die on.
Speaker 2: Uninvited, starring George Kennedy and Alex Cord.
Speaker 3: You'll never look at a count.
Speaker 1: In the same way again, all right. So if you
Speaker 1: want to watch Uninvited for yourself again, that's Uninvited from
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty eight, depending on who's
Speaker 1: classifying it. Well, you can stream this one in a
Speaker 1: number of places, but the vinegar syndrome blu ray that
Speaker 1: we mentioned already is the ideal physical media choice for
Speaker 1: this picture. The footage is scanned and restored in four
Speaker 1: K from its thirty five millimeters original camera negative, and
Speaker 1: it features a nice smattering of extras, including the ninety
Speaker 1: three minute alternate international edit, which is quite hard to
Speaker 1: find elsewhere. I wasn't able to find it streaming anywhere
Speaker 1: and so forth. It features an alternate intro and outro,
Speaker 1: as well as the horrendous Uninvited theme song by Chili
Speaker 1: Charles and.
Speaker 3: Tom gunn oh Man.
Speaker 1: That's so funny, absolutely terrible. This is one of those
Speaker 1: cases where it's like, yes, you were right to cut
Speaker 1: this theme song for the American audience.
Speaker 3: It sounds like the theme music to a one season
Speaker 3: running sitcom from the eighties.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's terrible like kat Thing was going to have
Speaker 1: his own his or her own TV show.
Speaker 3: Yeah boo, but doo do do so?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a great disc. I like yourself many
Speaker 1: years ago, rented this from Video Drome, the video rental
Speaker 1: store here in Atlanta, and you know, as I was
Speaker 1: returning it just yesterday, I ran into a couple of
Speaker 1: listeners and had a delightful little conversation. They were from
Speaker 1: out of town. I'm not going to name them here
Speaker 1: because I didn't clear that with them when I was
Speaker 1: chatting with them, but it was nice to run into
Speaker 1: a couple of listeners at Video Drome. We've heard from
Speaker 1: a few different listeners from out of town who, while
Speaker 1: visiting Atlanta have made the journey, the pilgrimage to the Drum.
Speaker 3: That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so's There's a non zero chance you'll run into
Speaker 1: me there, but you don't count on it. You might
Speaker 1: catch me. All right. Let's talk about the people behind
Speaker 1: this film, starting with the director, of the writer and
Speaker 1: one of the producers. It's great and Clark. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: have pronounced his name Grayton Clark, and I think that's
Speaker 1: because he frequently casts Jodn Baker, and so I kind
Speaker 1: of take the Jodon energy and create the Great On.
Speaker 1: So I may refer to him as Great On Clark
Speaker 1: at some point here as well.
Speaker 3: I think I hear it with the cadence of Raydon Chong.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that too is probably influencing it.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Grayton Clark was born in nineteen forty three, American director
Speaker 1: and writer that you might remember from past Weird House
Speaker 1: Cinema episodes because we've covered two of his pictures before,
Speaker 1: both from nineteen eighty Without Warning, which was our first
Speaker 1: episode of Weird House Cinema, and then we subsequently subsequently
Speaker 1: talked about the Return. So we talked about a Graydon
Speaker 1: Clark proto Predator film as well as a cattle mutilation thriller.
Speaker 3: I think both of those movies have some ironic sensibility,
Speaker 3: but they were both more straight forward attempts at horror
Speaker 3: than Uninvited. I think Uninvited is he's cutting loose a
Speaker 3: little bit more than in the other two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think it may be attempting to check
Speaker 1: off some extra boxes, especially for international distribution like this
Speaker 1: one has a certain certain amount of I would say,
Speaker 1: especially in the US, cut kind of a PG sexploitation
Speaker 1: quality to it, but in a weird way, like it
Speaker 1: was like it was written and conceived for the most
Speaker 1: part by like a twelve year old, a.
Speaker 3: Lot of bathing suit antics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bathing suit antics, and like, yeah, well, we'll get
Speaker 1: into it. But it has this kind of weird PG
Speaker 1: quality that I really like. I mean, yeah, it's seen
Speaker 1: plenty of exploitation films that are a whole lot sleazier,
Speaker 1: and it's nice to encounter one that has pulled back somewhat,
Speaker 1: so Graydon's Clark. Other film credits included Let's se a
Speaker 1: pair of black exploitation films, seventy three's Tom and seventy
Speaker 1: six is Black Shampoo, some horror comedy, There's seventy seven
Speaker 1: Satan's Cheerleaders, and not one, but two films featured on
Speaker 1: Mystery Science Theater three thousand, seventy Nine's Angels Brigade and
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty four Jodn Baker International cop film Final Justice.
Speaker 3: I had forgotten that Graydon Clark did Final Justice, especially
Speaker 3: since we just recently rewatched the Mystery Science Theater of
Speaker 3: this one man. Final Justice is so much It is
Speaker 3: not anywhere near as fun of a movie as the
Speaker 3: three Graydon Clark movies we've done on Weird House. It
Speaker 3: is a step or two below.
Speaker 1: There's no specio development to that one. As I recall,
Speaker 1: it's just an international cop film starring Jodan.
Speaker 3: It's just Jodn Baker running around Malta in a sheriff
Speaker 3: suit that almost looks like one of those old Nashville
Speaker 3: country music kind of outfits and just shooting bad guys.
Speaker 3: And he gets into prison like twelve times in the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one, and there's as the main thing I
Speaker 1: remember from Final Justice, of course, is there's this great
Speaker 1: shot like through Jodon's arm, like you're behind him and
Speaker 1: he has his hands on his hips and we're shooting
Speaker 1: through the gap between his arm and his side. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's a little thing. Sometimes.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately I had to remember it's not from Final Justice.
Speaker 3: It's from Mitchell that has that great riff in the
Speaker 3: mst where he's like digging around in the shower in
Speaker 3: his apartment and they go, what does this thing do?
Speaker 1: Ah? Joe Don rest in peace. Yeah, recently passed, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he was always a fun screen presence. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: see other films worth noting from Graydon Clark. He did
Speaker 1: a couple of films that were made in post Soviet
Speaker 1: Russia ninety twos Dance Macabre and ninety three's Russian Holiday,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three video game sex comedy named title Joysticks,
Speaker 1: a nineteen eighty nine skinhead movie, ninety four is Dark Future,
Speaker 1: and his last film, Star Games. In nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: He worked with Jodan bay Are on three pictures, and
Speaker 1: he did tend to gravitate toward using a fair number
Speaker 1: of older, established actors who were working in B cinema
Speaker 1: at the time, something we definitely see in today's film
Speaker 1: and in general worked with a lot of notable B
Speaker 1: movie actors of the seventies and eighties, including Wingshauser, Jack Palance,
Speaker 1: Robert England, and John Kerodyine. Not everybody gets to work
Speaker 1: with John Garretty, so most.
Speaker 3: Oh weird that John Keridyine wasn't in the movie we
Speaker 3: watched today, since he is in most films.
Speaker 1: He was shooting three other films at the same time simultaneously,
Speaker 1: I see so great and clark films are generally not
Speaker 1: considered good movies by most people. Virtually none of his
Speaker 1: films cracked five stars were above out of ten on
Speaker 1: Internet Movie Database. Not that that means anything really, but
Speaker 1: these are b movies, often with a certain and exploitive
Speaker 1: air to them in one way or another, but they
Speaker 1: often strike that perfect cheesy movie balance. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a film that's for the most part competently made in
Speaker 1: involving talented professionals, but a film that also makes wild
Speaker 1: swings and doesn't land every punch, or at least not
Speaker 1: in the way they were intended, but still results in
Speaker 1: a very watchable and entertaining ride.
Speaker 3: If I have a technical critique of Uninvited, the biggest
Speaker 3: one is that too many shots are taking place outside
Speaker 3: on a boat, and it is so windy it is
Speaker 3: hard to hear the dialogue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently this was a tough shoot because on one hand,
Speaker 1: there it's like NonStop cats. So they had a number
Speaker 1: of cats playing the one cat in the picture and cats.
Speaker 1: If you've ever if you know anything about animals and film,
Speaker 1: you know that cats are notoriously difficult to shoot. Everyone
Speaker 1: generally is like, yes, bring me a dog.
Speaker 3: Any day.
Speaker 1: A dog will hit its mark and do what you
Speaker 1: want it to do.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Horses are also a known commodity. Cats you can try,
Speaker 1: you can see what you can get out of them,
Speaker 1: but a wilder element, you know, like cats with cats,
Speaker 1: it's like working with the you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: one of the more difficult actors and out there. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if there's a proper analogy, like it's cats.
Speaker 1: Not only are cat's going to do their own thing,
Speaker 1: but cats often look like they are doing their own
Speaker 1: thing in movies, even like a really you can think
Speaker 1: of like really good movies that have cats in them,
Speaker 1: and the scenes in which you see the cats or
Speaker 1: that lean to heavily on cats doing stuff. It almost
Speaker 1: kind of throws you out of the picture a little
Speaker 1: bit sometimes because like you can just look at that
Speaker 1: cat and you're like, yeah, that cat is just checked out.
Speaker 1: That cat's doing its own thing. It is not in
Speaker 1: the moment, it's not in the scene. It didn't even
Speaker 1: read the script.
Speaker 3: I wonder if longtime directors could do a comparison, like
Speaker 3: what is more difficult cat versus the most notoriously difficult
Speaker 3: actors like Lawrence Tierney or something like that, You know,
Speaker 3: which one is more stressful on set?
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's probably some crossover there in the
Speaker 1: experiences are the other difficult things about the film those courses.
Speaker 1: Most of it is shot on a boat, and I
Speaker 1: didn't even think about this, but this is something the
Speaker 1: cinematographer pointed out in one of the Vinegar Syndrome extras,
Speaker 1: Like that meant that when they're out on the boat,
Speaker 1: they only have so much power, and that limits how
Speaker 1: much lighting they can use. Yeah, and cats don't necessarily
Speaker 1: like being on a boat either, so that also constrains
Speaker 1: their performance. But cats, they this was a decision by
Speaker 1: grad And to have cats in this picture. Apparently he
Speaker 1: was thinking about it being rats, which that would have
Speaker 1: been scary, That would have made for a ridiculous puppet
Speaker 1: and rats on a boat, you know. That's that also
Speaker 1: has a lot of a lot to back it up.
Speaker 1: But they said, no, it's going to be cats. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a killer mutant cat. Obvious John Carpenter's
Speaker 1: the thing vibes to a certain extent here. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they went with the cat.
Speaker 3: Now this makes me wonder what was the thematic seed
Speaker 3: of the film, Like, what is the core element that
Speaker 3: they were trying to get down to? Is it boat?
Speaker 3: Is it? Like this has to be a boat movie
Speaker 3: and everything else was around that or was it. Obviously
Speaker 3: you're saying it's not cat, but I guess it would
Speaker 3: have been maybe a mutant creature from a lab. Is
Speaker 3: that the core?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think the core was we're going to shoot
Speaker 1: it on a boat, and we need a mutant creature.
Speaker 1: We want to hit that sci fi horror zone. Okay,
Speaker 1: And yeah, everything else they just kind of figured out
Speaker 1: from there, including you know, first finding the boat, then
Speaker 1: finding people to wrangle the cats, and they did use
Speaker 1: them to understand, like a proficient professional cat wranglers here,
Speaker 1: this is not just getting me a boat, give me
Speaker 1: some cats. So you know, supposedly everything here is above board,
Speaker 1: but again, even cat pros are going to only get
Speaker 1: you so far.
Speaker 3: The exterior killer cat is very cute, and if they
Speaker 3: were switching them out with with lookalikes, I couldn't tell.
Speaker 3: It always looked like the same cat to me.
Speaker 1: I want to mention really quickly that the individuals involved
Speaker 1: with the puppet cats that we see, oh it's the
Speaker 1: it's Jim Bolden born fifty six and Debbie Bolden, and
Speaker 1: these two did like animal artificial animal effects on a
Speaker 1: number of other films, including Loaded Weapon one from ninety three,
Speaker 1: Ace Venturro When Nature Calls from ninety five, and a
Speaker 1: ninety one White Fang film.
Speaker 3: So did they do the rhinoceros that gives birth to
Speaker 3: Jim Carrey one hopes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they were animal makers inc. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're still around, but they were active for a
Speaker 1: little bit there in the late eighties and into the
Speaker 1: mid nineties. All right, let's get into the human actors
Speaker 1: a bit here. So I want to divide things up
Speaker 1: into factions here, okay, because essentially we have two main
Speaker 1: factions and then an individual suspended between the two. We
Speaker 1: have our corporate creepers, and then we also have our
Speaker 1: spring breakers.
Speaker 3: That is pretty much it. You've got your I guess
Speaker 3: the spring Burger is supposed to be like early twenties.
Speaker 3: I think a couple of them mentioned being in graduate school,
Speaker 3: so like grad students and adjacent frame who are just
Speaker 3: looking to party, looking to go to the beach and
Speaker 3: have a good time. And then yeah, you've got these
Speaker 3: Gordon Gecko types who are out there just trying to
Speaker 3: run some greasy deals and get away to the Cayman
Speaker 3: Islands with the suitcases full of cash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the leader of this faction is Wall Street
Speaker 1: Walter Graham. This is our sleazy, yacht owning, womanizing, money
Speaker 1: laundering employee, abusing, charismatic millionaire dirt bag. Compare him to
Speaker 1: any contemporary figures you like. And he is played here
Speaker 1: by Alex Cord, who lived nineteen thirty three through twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. Probably best remembered by many for his main
Speaker 1: cast role on TV's Airwolf from eighty four through eighty six,
Speaker 1: but it's credits go back to nineteen sixty one. Did
Speaker 1: a lot of TV, including episodes of Night Gallery, Mission Impossible,
Speaker 1: and Murder. She wrote. His film credits include sixty nine Stiletto,
Speaker 1: seventy twos of the Dead or Alive, eighty one's Goliatha Waits,
Speaker 1: eighty four's Jungle Warriors with John Vernon and Sybil Danning,
Speaker 1: and ninety five Hologram Man.
Speaker 3: I have several thoughts about well, all of the corporate characters,
Speaker 3: but especially at Wall Street. Walter Graham here is the
Speaker 3: big boss of the corporate schemers, and he he has
Speaker 3: a great look. For one thing, he has this just
Speaker 3: really iconic mustache. Yes, But another thing I was thinking
Speaker 3: about Robert I pulled up a picture for you to
Speaker 3: look at here. So this is supposed to be set
Speaker 3: on a yacht in the Caribbean. Yeah right, it's in
Speaker 3: the you know, it's in the Gulf of Mexico and
Speaker 3: the Caribbean, and so you and it's supposed to be
Speaker 3: warm outside. But our corporate characters, this guy dresses in
Speaker 3: like a wool sweater on his yacht. Are you seeing this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yep, he's wearing a sweater on. George gets
Speaker 1: kind of windy at night, I.
Speaker 3: Guess, so George Kennedy, who will get to in a minute.
Speaker 3: He wears a suit jacket like the whole time. Everybody
Speaker 3: else is just wearing bathing suits.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's just it's what he it's what he's
Speaker 1: comfortable in. I don't know, okay, yeah, maybe he's cold blooded.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the hopefully play at Wall Street type.
Speaker 3: Yes, he is Reptilian.
Speaker 1: Well I think Cord Yeah, just completely nails it here.
Speaker 1: He's believably charismatic and sleazy. It's a fun performance. And
Speaker 1: you can't wait for this guy to get killed by
Speaker 1: the cat thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they save that for toward the end. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's good.
Speaker 1: All right now. His right hand man and muscle is
Speaker 1: Mike Harvey, and he is played by the legendary George Kennedy,
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen twenty five through twenty sixteen. George Kennedy,
Speaker 1: of course, won the nineteen sixty eight Best Supporting Actor
Speaker 1: Oscar for his role in Cool Hand Luke memorable performance there.
Speaker 1: His TV credits go back to fifty six and he
Speaker 1: did a lot of it, including seventy five episodes of Dallas.
Speaker 1: Movie Wise, many of you might remember him from nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight's The Naked Gun and its sequel, but he
Speaker 1: appeared in all manner of projects big and small, prestige
Speaker 1: and schlock. So, for instance, you'll find him in sixty
Speaker 1: three Charade, sixty five's The Sons of Katie Elder, sixty
Speaker 1: seven's The Dirty Doesen, seventy five is The Eiger Sanction,
Speaker 1: and eighty one's Modern Romance. But he's also in the
Speaker 1: likes of eighty one's Just Before Dawn, eighty seven's Creep Show,
Speaker 1: two eighty eight's Demon Warp, and just in multiple disaster films.
Speaker 1: You know, especially from like the seventies and maybe the
Speaker 1: early eighties. Always a fun screen presence he tended to
Speaker 1: play like blunt, straightforward characters, but could go like tough
Speaker 1: guy with a heart of gold, like in Cool Hand Luke,
Speaker 1: or like a solid heavy villain role as in this
Speaker 1: film this one.
Speaker 3: I was a little confused about what his power level
Speaker 3: relationship is to Wall Street Walter Graham. There's another guy
Speaker 3: we'll get to in a second who's definitely a henchman
Speaker 3: like Albert, who we're about to talk about, is definitely
Speaker 3: Graham's henchman. Can't quite tell with the Mike character here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because at times he's speaking to Wall Street Walter
Speaker 1: Graham almost like they're equal, like their partners, you know,
Speaker 1: bossing him a little bit and reminding him about what's important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, right hand man or part nor. I think
Speaker 1: you could maybe push it in either direction.
Speaker 3: There's a good scene where he it doesn't quite get
Speaker 3: fully bitten off, but it looks like, for a second
Speaker 3: his leg is getting bitten off by a cat.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, he gets, he gets, he's he gets a
Speaker 1: pretty early attack, all right. And then yeah, Albert, this
Speaker 1: other character, who, as you said, is definitely a hinchman
Speaker 1: of some sort. I thought maybe he was like a
Speaker 1: money man like he's something. Maybe it's the glasses through me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird, strange character. So this is Albert played
Speaker 3: by klu Gooliger who lived nineteen twenty eight to twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. I love klue Gooliger and a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: He's the boss of the warehouse in Return of the
Speaker 3: Living Dead. Yeah you remember that. He's got a funny
Speaker 3: role where he gets called in by his employees because oops,
Speaker 3: they accidentally got a zombie in the warehouse. And you know,
Speaker 3: there's one scene where he's having him open the door.
Speaker 3: He's like, you open the door, I'm gonna go stand
Speaker 3: back over here. But in this movie, it's an unusual
Speaker 3: kind of role because he is a hinchman. That is
Speaker 3: his role in the plot. He's like the button man,
Speaker 3: but he is Wall Street Walter's weird neurotic button man.
Speaker 3: He's like a cross between Gary Busey and Lethal Weapon
Speaker 3: and George Costanza.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, there's some definite comic
Speaker 1: wrinkles to this character. So Klute Gooliger lived nineteen twenty
Speaker 1: eight through twenty twenty two, and his career can essentially
Speaker 1: be divided into two distinct phases. So his initial TV
Speaker 1: heavy career. This included a co starring role on as
Speaker 1: Billy the Kid on The Tall Man from nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: through sixty one opposite Barry Sullivan from Planet to the Vampires.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, one of the Spacemen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did one hundred and four episodes of The
Speaker 1: Virginian plus he did all sorts of other TV shows
Speaker 1: during this time period. But then later in life he
Speaker 1: essentially became a horror movie staple in his own right,
Speaker 1: actually beginning with seventy three's The Mystery in Dracula's Castle,
Speaker 1: but really kicking into high gear in eighty five with
Speaker 1: both a Nightmare on Elm Street Part two and as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, the Return of the Living Dead.
Speaker 3: In Nightmare on Elm Street Part two, he is either
Speaker 3: the main character or the main character's friend's dad. I
Speaker 3: think he's the main character's dad. And there's a funny
Speaker 3: scene if I'm remembering correctly, where he is attacked by
Speaker 3: a possessed parakeet.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I don't often see that in these Nightmare
Speaker 1: on Elm Street highlight videos that people put together online.
Speaker 3: Not a lot of highlights come from part two. That's
Speaker 3: not no, I don't know I think that one has
Speaker 3: been maybe assessed a little bit more favorably in recent years.
Speaker 3: It does have a cool scene where Freddy cuts open
Speaker 3: his own scalp and peels it back to reveal his brain.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, that's why I don't think I ever
Speaker 1: saw that one. Yeah, I think I've mainly seen the
Speaker 1: original from Wes Craven, parts of some of the Dream
Speaker 1: Warrior era films and what New Okay, maybe I've seen
Speaker 1: several I've seen New Nightmare, and then I've seen the
Speaker 1: remake they did several years back.
Speaker 3: Nightmare two is has been notable for a long time
Speaker 3: for having pretty overwhelming homo erotic themes, which for a
Speaker 3: long time I think was sort of treated in the
Speaker 3: fan community as more a source of comedy because they
Speaker 3: were seen as unintentional, kind of unintentional, almost taken as
Speaker 3: like a kind of Freudian slip thing. But I think
Speaker 3: more recently it's been read a different way that maybe like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is just sort of like what the thematic content
Speaker 3: of the movie is, and that's kind of.
Speaker 1: Interesting, interesting, Maybe I should check it out. All right,
Speaker 1: So after a Return of the Living Dead, Guliger appeared
Speaker 1: and let's see eighty six is Hunter's Blood eighty sevens
Speaker 1: From a Whisper to a Scream, as well as The
Speaker 1: Hidden eighty nine's Teen Vamp nineteen nineties, the Willies ninety
Speaker 1: four's puppet Master five. His son, actor and director John Guliger,
Speaker 1: also cast him in his two thousand and five film Feast,
Speaker 1: as well as its two sequels. He also pops up
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve's Piranha three Double D. I did not
Speaker 1: see this one, and then a couple of his final credits.
Speaker 1: We're kind of a return to non genre work. He's
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen's Blue Jay, written by and starring Marked Deplaw,
Speaker 1: as well as a cameo in twenty nineteen's Once Upon
Speaker 1: a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Oh, didn't catch him in the Tarantino movie. I helped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's I think it's just a very small role cameo.
Speaker 1: It was like in a bookstore or something. I do
Speaker 1: not remember spotting him, but he was in there.
Speaker 3: Okay, So those are all the bad guys, all the
Speaker 3: corporate creeps. But we also have a cast of more
Speaker 3: likable characters, the characters of varying likability, the spring Breakers,
Speaker 3: the twenty somethings that were just out looking to have
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'd say out of the spring Breakers, we ultimately
Speaker 1: only have like one really likable character. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: is going to be Martin. Martin is a biology major
Speaker 1: or I forget where he is in his schooling, but
Speaker 1: he is a future biologist.
Speaker 3: They say he's a grad student.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, he's a grad student. Played by Eric Larson
Speaker 1: born in nineteen sixty seven, an American actor who also
Speaker 1: appeared in the nineteen ninety film Demon Wind and pops
Speaker 1: up in one episode of TV's Angel.
Speaker 3: At First, the main characters of this movie are some
Speaker 3: of the last characters introduced. Did you notice that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, because initially we meet Bobby and Suzanne, who
Speaker 1: are a couple of really almost interchangeable spring Breakers who
Speaker 1: are wearing just like what just like basically just their
Speaker 1: swimsuits and parts of an airbrush T shirt like they
Speaker 1: are spring spring spring breaking. They are spring breaking hard here.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're in I think the starts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Speaker 3: They say they're in Florida. Look into party, and they
Speaker 3: are the ones who initially make contact with Wall Street
Speaker 3: Walter Graham and are invited aboard his yacht to party
Speaker 3: some more, and that's how the whole thing gets going.
Speaker 3: But then they also end up meeting some random spring
Speaker 3: breakers grad student dudes on a like in a marine somewhere,
Speaker 3: and then they're like, hey, come on this boat with us.
Speaker 3: And obviously wall Street Walter does not want all these.
Speaker 1: Dudes, right, but he also for plot reasons, is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: all your brand new boyfriends can come aboard my sex
Speaker 1: shot as well. So Bobby and Suzanne here. Bobby is
Speaker 1: the curly blonde spring Breaker and she is played by
Speaker 1: Claire Carey born sixty seven. Her first TV and film
Speaker 1: credit was eighty seven's Zombie High, and in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: eight she appeared in both this and the horror movie Waxwork.
Speaker 1: She pops up as a skater in two thousand and
Speaker 1: one's Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. Remained active in TV
Speaker 1: through at least twenty nineteen, and then Suzanne, the straight
Speaker 1: haired blonde spring Breaker, is played by Sherry Shadow born
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, Atlanta born actress whose other credits include eighty
Speaker 1: eighth Death Spa and Desert Warrior, as well as nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine's arena, which we've previously covered on the show.
Speaker 3: That sort of arena was sort of a creature effects showcase.
Speaker 1: Yeah, creature effects like boxing movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Let's say she's also in
Speaker 1: ninety four, is on Deadly Ground and did one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty six episodes of The Young and the Restless
Speaker 1: from ninety six through ninety nine.
Speaker 3: All Right, so they initially are going to go on
Speaker 3: the ad, but then they also find some some cool
Speaker 3: boys to bring with.
Speaker 1: Them, right, and that includes Martin, who we already mentioned,
Speaker 1: but it also includes Lance. Lance is the wrestler. That's
Speaker 1: his whole thing is he's a little beefier than the
Speaker 1: other two, you know, has like a lower center of
Speaker 1: gravity and is there to grapple. He is played by
Speaker 1: Bo Dremmond born nineteen sixty three. His other credits include
Speaker 1: eighty five's My Science Project and ninety one's Frankenstein The
Speaker 1: College Years, which I don't know much about, but it looks, oh,
Speaker 1: it looks horrendous.
Speaker 3: This is the jock of the group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's the jock. And then we also have
Speaker 1: the preppy. This is the character Corey, played by Rob estes.
Speaker 1: Corey is a huge Walter Graham family. He knows who
Speaker 1: this guy is. He's like, Oh, I can't believe we're
Speaker 1: about to meat wall Street Walter Graham.
Speaker 3: He says he's been on the cover of Forbes magazine
Speaker 3: twice twice. Wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Corey here is one of the least likable
Speaker 1: of the bunch. But the actor who plays in robst
Speaker 1: has appeared on eighty nine episodes of Days of Our
Speaker 1: Lives in eighty six and eighty seven prior to this film.
Speaker 1: He went on to do one hundred episodes of Silk
Speaker 1: Stalkings in the early nineties, ninety six episodes of melrose Place,
Speaker 1: in forty six episodes of nine O two one OHO,
Speaker 1: and has continued to work in TV and film. It
Speaker 1: looks like he was nominated for a twenty ten teen
Speaker 1: Choice Award. They apparently had a Parental Unit Award category
Speaker 1: for like mom and Dad characters. He was nominated alongside
Speaker 1: co star Lori Laughlin, didn't win. I don't know whose
Speaker 1: parents beat beat beat them out that year. I like
Speaker 1: the idea of this award, though, best parents, like the
Speaker 1: parents in movies, don't get enough love. This needs to
Speaker 1: be an Oscar category as well.
Speaker 3: I think they should have an actor categories for best jock,
Speaker 3: best biology major, best best Preppy.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, absolutely, this would be great. If slasher movies
Speaker 1: were more in style, you could have the Slashies. Maybe
Speaker 1: there is? Is there ben award called the Slashies? If not,
Speaker 1: there should be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I see where you could have like best nerd,
Speaker 3: best punk Rocker, best best jock. Yeah all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right. So those are our two main factions.
Speaker 1: And then we have a character that is kind of
Speaker 1: suspended between the two because she's also young and so
Speaker 1: she has a lot in common with the spring Breakers,
Speaker 1: but she works for wall Street Walter Graham because she
Speaker 1: is the captain of the boat. And this is Rachel
Speaker 1: played by Tony Hudson born nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is the other main good character along
Speaker 3: with Martin, the biology guy. She's I would say the
Speaker 3: movie actually does a pretty good job at making her
Speaker 3: a sympathetic protagonist, especially since we meet her so late.
Speaker 3: As I was saying earlier, like the character that we
Speaker 3: end up liking the most and are the survivors at
Speaker 3: the end are the ones we meet last.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the film is like we have one more blonde
Speaker 1: lady to introduce you to, and she's gonna be the
Speaker 1: main one. Yeah, so you can get a little confusing.
Speaker 1: Tony Hudson's credits include supporting roles in nineteen eighty four's
Speaker 1: Places in the Heart, as well as leather Face Texas
Speaker 1: Chainsaw Massacre three. This is the one that featured Vigo
Speaker 1: Mortensen as one of the Sawyer Klan.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, you know, I think I've never seen
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 1: I have, but it has been it's been a long time.
Speaker 1: It was. I think this one was, in many ways
Speaker 1: kind of like a rehash of the first one, kind
Speaker 1: of a sort of sort of a remake of the
Speaker 1: original Texas Chainsaw Massacre with some you know, with some
Speaker 1: updated vibes. And yeah, that about the only thing I
Speaker 1: remember is Vigo popping up as a cannibal redneck.
Speaker 3: This character is another reason Uninvited reminds me of Jason
Speaker 3: Takes Manhattan, because you may recall in Jason Takes Manhattan,
Speaker 3: of course, it's like it's a slasher movie on a boat,
Speaker 3: but one of the main characters is the son of
Speaker 3: a boat captain who is being like prepared to be
Speaker 3: a boat captain. Himself. That's the same thing with Tony
Speaker 3: Hudson's character here. She is the daughter of a boat
Speaker 3: captain who has like inherited the family boat captain ship,
Speaker 3: and she's you know, and like there's a lot of
Speaker 3: drama about the fact that she's a boat captain and
Speaker 3: wanting to be a boat captain on her own terms.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, I would say this character is more
Speaker 1: fleshed out than most of the others, and it's a
Speaker 1: decent performance. I like Rachel in this picture. You're rooting
Speaker 1: for her, Yeah, even though she is forced to make
Speaker 1: some ethical compromises.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Multiple times they're like, yes, somebody did fall overboard,
Speaker 3: but we can't go back and look for them, and
Speaker 3: here are the reasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Two more credits I want to mention.
Speaker 1: These are behind the scenes Nicholas Joseph von Sternberg. It
Speaker 1: was the cinematographer born nineteen fifty one, son of Silent
Speaker 1: and Sound Era Academy Award nominated director Joseph von Sternberg.
Speaker 1: He did thirty one's Morocco in nineteen thirty two Shanghai Express,
Speaker 1: those were the nominated pictures. So the son here Nicholas
Speaker 1: Joseph von Sternberg grew up in the filmmaking business, and
Speaker 1: among his best mainstream films are probably Let's See Texasville
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and Crime and
Speaker 1: Punishment from two thousand and two. This was one was
Speaker 1: directed by Menahem Golan who directed The Apple, but it
Speaker 1: had a great cast. They had like Vanessa Redgraves and
Speaker 1: John Hurt and so forth. But Sternberg von Sternberg, the
Speaker 1: younger here also worked on a load of B movies,
Speaker 1: seventy five's Dolomite, seventy nine's Tourist Trap, Graydon Clark's Wacko
Speaker 1: from eighty two Joysticks, eighty four's Jungle Warriors, Final Justice,
Speaker 1: Dark Future, Star Games, and more. And then finally, the
Speaker 1: score for this picture is by Dan Slider. Dates not
Speaker 1: public record as far as I could tell. He also
Speaker 1: scored eighty eighths Demonwarp, which also starred George Kennedy. This
Speaker 1: was his first grade in Clark picture, but he'd work
Speaker 1: with him several more times and even has a story
Speaker 1: credit on ninety four's Dark Future.
Speaker 3: I think I have not seen Demon Warp, but have
Speaker 3: been been circling it for a while. One night, that'll happen.
Speaker 1: So the score here, I thought it was fun and effective.
Speaker 1: The main thing that really struck me is they keep
Speaker 1: using that Labyrinth style synth cascade effect. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this before, It's popped up in other pictures. Did we
Speaker 1: ever determine what the name for this is?
Speaker 3: Oh? Are you talking about the whole tone scale? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 3: Okay, that did come up, and the listener contributed to
Speaker 3: our trying to find the name for that. But yes,
Speaker 3: where it's like, it's not really any actual key in music,
Speaker 3: so it produces this kind of weird, ambiguous feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I generally associate with any time Jareth is doing
Speaker 1: something in Labyrinth, we get that effect, and anytime the
Speaker 1: cat is doing anything suspicious in this picture, we also
Speaker 1: get that effect.
Speaker 3: All right, you ready to look at the plot.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Well. You always want to begin a movie with a
Speaker 3: strong image at the top to establish themes, you know,
Speaker 3: what should people be thinking about? And here they chose
Speaker 3: an office building. You know, there you go, a cat
Speaker 3: office building?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean this is the last movie
Speaker 1: we discussed in Weird House Cinema also had an evil,
Speaker 1: ominous office building. So you know, it lets us know
Speaker 1: that corporations are up to no good right off the bat.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, I guess that's true. Yeah, we have a
Speaker 3: theme of business malfeasance. Sure. But so after this, we
Speaker 3: go inside and there are a couple of doctors examining
Speaker 3: an X ray. The bones in the image do not
Speaker 3: look human, so maybe this some kind of animal. What
Speaker 3: animal could it be? And one of the doctors says
Speaker 3: there is a mass growing inside the subject, maybe a tumor,
Speaker 3: maybe a teratoma. The other doctor seems perplexed. He says
Speaker 3: he's never seen anything like this, and he's like, well,
Speaker 3: we got to just bring the subject in. We'll cut
Speaker 3: it open and we'll see what's what's growing in there.
Speaker 3: And I was looking at this doctor, I was like,
Speaker 3: is this Gradon Clark.
Speaker 1: It totally is Gradon Clark. Yeah, okay, yeah, he's now
Speaker 1: he's only present in the intro for the US cut
Speaker 1: of the film. The international cut has a shortened intro
Speaker 1: where we don't get this particular scene, but in the
Speaker 1: international version of the film, he does factor into the outro,
Speaker 1: presumably playing a different character.
Speaker 3: So we see a guy in a lab coat, go
Speaker 3: into a room full of cages and retrieve a cat
Speaker 3: from one of the cages and bring it into an
Speaker 3: operating room. Do we need any description for our main
Speaker 3: cat other than I think this is the variety we
Speaker 3: call an orange tabby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just an absolutely adorable orange tabby. I mean, I
Speaker 1: believe multiple orange tabbies playing this one cat character, multiple
Speaker 1: feline actors. Yeah, it is an orange tabby cat, likely male.
Speaker 1: To understand, most tabbies are male, though we used to
Speaker 1: have a female one. Memes would have us know that
Speaker 1: all male orange tabbies share a single brain cell, and
Speaker 1: when it's not their turn to have the brain cell,
Speaker 1: they do dumb things. I see, But beautiful cat, to
Speaker 1: be sure on the outside. On the inside, as we're
Speaker 1: going to see, there's something else going on.
Speaker 3: Right, So the doctors get out the hypodermic needle. Seems
Speaker 3: like they're about to sedate the cat for surgery to
Speaker 3: figure out what is that growing inside it. But suddenly
Speaker 3: it just scampers off the edge of the operating table
Speaker 3: and down the hall. There really were no precautions here,
Speaker 3: and now the guys holding it and then it just
Speaker 3: runs away and they're like, oops.
Speaker 1: They've never done Like, they didn't even have the door shut,
Speaker 1: the door that I usually have the door shut.
Speaker 3: Yes, so one of the doctors. But it then seemingly
Speaker 3: disproportionate to the level of lack of care. We just saw.
Speaker 3: One of the doctors sprints after it. The other one
Speaker 3: gets on the phone. This is a great clark. He's
Speaker 3: on the phone going code red, code red. Uh. He
Speaker 3: calls it by like a serial number has just escaped,
Speaker 3: and he's saying, use extreme caution, radiation, security radiation. What.
Speaker 3: So the cat runs down a bunch of metal stairs
Speaker 3: in what looks like a cinderblock bunker, and we see
Speaker 3: dudes in hazard suits chasing after it, their red lights flashing,
Speaker 3: sirens going off, and Rob, did you what do you
Speaker 3: make of this hazard suit? It looks I don't know,
Speaker 3: it looks like a hood that's silvery, like a hood
Speaker 3: made out of aluminum foil with eye holes and just
Speaker 3: like a big open, frowning mouth hole.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it. We're just kind of like
Speaker 1: saggy el Santo. It's kind of the overall feel that
Speaker 1: I get from this, but it's frightening, and the shot
Speaker 1: we get it feels like it's the cat's point of view,
Speaker 1: like this is a terrifying image this would bring. It
Speaker 1: makes sense that this brings the monster out of the cat.
Speaker 3: Right, So the hazmat guys corner the cat. One of
Speaker 3: them shoots it with a dart gun, and then the
Speaker 3: cat seems at first effectively sedated. It falls down and
Speaker 3: it's like it's going to sleep. But then as the
Speaker 3: handlers approach with a carrying case, the unconscious cat's mouth
Speaker 3: opens and a weird, smaller, much moister cat like puppet
Speaker 3: emerges from the bigger cat's mouth. And then you see
Speaker 3: blood splatter on the walls, splatter across all of the
Speaker 3: safety signs mounted on the cinder blocks. You hear screams,
Speaker 3: and this is our first cat attack.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah again. Kind of looks like a newborn cat,
Speaker 1: kind of like a hairball, kind of like a lion.
Speaker 1: Definitely a gromlin. It's a delightfully hideous looking puppet here.
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe the hairball thing, maybe that's what
Speaker 1: they were working on at this lab. They were trying
Speaker 1: to genetically engineer a hairball free cat, and they created
Speaker 1: a cat that has like a living hairball cat inside.
Speaker 3: It, Right, the hairball becomes its own organism.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can't help but suspect maybe this was
Speaker 1: subconsciously even a part of the monster's genesis and Grayton
Speaker 1: Clark's imagination. Like cats are always grow always puking up
Speaker 1: gross stuff, and so and so's it's a natural step
Speaker 1: to imagine them puking up some sort of a killer cat.
Speaker 3: So anyway, the cat, once again in fluffy mode, once
Speaker 3: again cute, scampers out into the parking garage, and here
Speaker 3: we see the two doctors pursue it, and the security
Speaker 3: guard also they run out there and they proceed with
Speaker 3: a cat hunt among the cars while the cat scampers
Speaker 3: from place to place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's going to be a lot of the
Speaker 1: cat scampering from place to place in this film. One
Speaker 1: of the things that I instantly love about it because
Speaker 1: here's the thing, Like, if you've ever been around cats,
Speaker 1: you know that they have different sorts of movements and
Speaker 1: walks depending on what their aims are. You know, such
Speaker 1: as the way they'll creep while hunting something. You only
Speaker 1: ever see the cat move one way in this picture,
Speaker 1: Like clearly that's the only way that the trainers can
Speaker 1: get the cat to go from point A to point
Speaker 1: B for the shot.
Speaker 3: I think I think all shots are of the cat
Speaker 3: scampering to an out of view food bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: There's also a good exchange where the other doctor says doctor,
Speaker 3: oh well, the Graydon Clark doctor's name is doctor Gray.
Speaker 3: He says, doctor Gray, you saw what just happened in
Speaker 3: that stairwell, and doctor Gray is like, shut up about that,
Speaker 3: just shut up about that. We've got to kill that cat.
Speaker 3: So it's like they're trying to keep something secret here.
Speaker 3: I think maybe they're doing some unethical experiments.
Speaker 1: Who knows. Yeah. By the way, Grad and Clark pretty
Speaker 1: good here in this little director's cameo. Oh yeah, he
Speaker 1: did other acting roles, you know, outside of pictures that
Speaker 1: he directed, so it makes sense. But yeah, I kind
Speaker 1: of liked him here.
Speaker 3: We should sometime on the show do a list or
Speaker 3: a ranking of our favor of our directors who make
Speaker 3: the best director cameos. I, for one, really love when
Speaker 3: David Cronenberg goes goes in front of the camera.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Cronenberg has had some really fun ones, including
Speaker 1: Jason X where he is killed by Jason Boy.
Speaker 3: He's very good, but also is like the creepiest character
Speaker 3: ever in Night Breed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Night Breed. That's when we might come back
Speaker 1: to but but but yeah, occasionally you'll get a you
Speaker 1: know a lot of a lot of directors that have
Speaker 1: fun cameos. We're most recently talking about Scorsese and.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right in Dreams First Always Dreams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a fun little role there.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so, yeah, the doctors and the security guards
Speaker 3: are running around the Graydon Clark doctor yanks the security
Speaker 3: guard's gun out of its whole story. He's like, give
Speaker 3: me that. He's just taken charge. But these these slobs
Speaker 3: are no match for cat thing. It picks them off
Speaker 3: one at a time, and I was truly laughing out
Speaker 3: loud at just the random meow sounds as they're running
Speaker 3: around in the parking garage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to build tension.
Speaker 3: There's one cool shot when when it's attacking one of them,
Speaker 3: where we just see a shadow, a shadow of like
Speaker 3: a cat head opening two wide, the mouth opening too wide,
Speaker 3: and then the wet puppet wriggling out in silhouette. But
Speaker 3: of it kills them all. It kills Gregon Clark as well,
Speaker 3: and eventually the cat gets outside and it runs out
Speaker 3: into the night. All right. So the next thing is
Speaker 3: we're going to meet some of our main characters. This
Speaker 3: time it is Bobby and Suzanne. These are our like
Speaker 3: early twenties spring breakers in Florida looking for where the
Speaker 3: party's at. They're here to have a good time, but
Speaker 3: it seems like the problem is they don't have any
Speaker 3: money and they don't have any hotel reservations. So they're
Speaker 3: in town and they're just flying by the seat of
Speaker 3: their bikinis trying to figure out what to do. So
Speaker 3: they like go into a fancy hotel lobby to hang out,
Speaker 3: and then the main tries to kick them out because
Speaker 3: they're not staying at the hotel. But here in this
Speaker 3: fancy hotel they happened to meet wall Street Walter, the
Speaker 3: rich sleeves bag and I would say, the human antagonist
Speaker 3: of the filmy, who offers to help them out. Why
Speaker 3: don't they just go join him for dinner?
Speaker 1: And yeah, and again they are just dressed in skimpy
Speaker 1: swimwear and shredded air brushed T shirts. At this point
Speaker 1: it's not even clear from the context. No, they do
Speaker 1: have some luggage. They do have some luggage. I would
Speaker 1: have some bags.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but wall Street Walter tells them to leave the
Speaker 3: bags in the lobby while they go go get dinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I love that he invites them in to
Speaker 1: just dine with him at this fancy hotel with them
Speaker 1: just wearing their spring break get up and you know,
Speaker 1: walking past all the other swells. It just kind of
Speaker 1: like give him a little side eye over this. So
Speaker 1: it's like he's a pig. Everyone knows he's a pig,
Speaker 1: and he seems really comfortable in that. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just grabbed a couple of young ladies, just you know, basic,
Speaker 1: off the beach, and I'm going to dine with them here.
Speaker 3: But I also like the kind of mental shortcuts this
Speaker 3: movie is making when it has characters arriving in town
Speaker 3: for spring break and they're wearing bathing suits, like seemingly
Speaker 3: for the travel to get there. It's not like they
Speaker 3: would wear normal clothes to travel and then put on
Speaker 3: the bathing suits when they go down to the beach.
Speaker 1: Well, on the spring break bus just lets you out
Speaker 1: directly onto the beach, So you gotta be good, you
Speaker 1: gotta be ready to go right right when it arrives.
Speaker 3: So let's see the next scene is the part where
Speaker 3: George Kennedy include Gooliger show up in a chauffeured car,
Speaker 3: and then I had to put in a screen shop
Speaker 3: for you to look at here, Rob, what is the
Speaker 3: deal with the guy who opens the car door for
Speaker 3: them at the hotel? I guess this is a footman
Speaker 3: or you know, a hotel worker of some companies, dressed
Speaker 3: like Midwest Dracula.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's got the big top hat. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It definitely looked goofy, though maybe it's accurate. Maybe this
Speaker 1: is exactly what was going on at fancy hotels in
Speaker 1: Florida at the time.
Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale Hotel dorman have like they wear a big
Speaker 3: red k in the top hat. Yeah. Anyway, these characters
Speaker 3: here are Mike and Albert. Mike and Albert head into
Speaker 3: the restaurant to meet with wall Street Walter, and they
Speaker 3: are annoyed that he is he is getting distracted from
Speaker 3: their important crime business by trying to creep on these
Speaker 3: two women. So Walter departs with his associates, but he
Speaker 3: invites Bobby and Suzanne to join him on his yacht
Speaker 3: for a party later on. So what's the business on
Speaker 3: the yacht? Well, our crime fraud exception trio here. They
Speaker 3: they have to meet with some other business guy to
Speaker 3: do some shady deals. It's never really specified exactly what
Speaker 3: they're doing, just general, you know, corrupt illegal business stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some sort of illegal money stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The guy they meet with, he's more or less like, hey,
Speaker 3: I enjoy doing corrupt, illegal things with you, but now
Speaker 3: I'm worried about the SEC. And they don't like the
Speaker 3: other guys don't like that this guy is worried about
Speaker 3: the SEC. He's like, what if they send me to jail?
Speaker 3: And the other guys are like, uh oh. So they
Speaker 3: get suspicious of Frankie the squealer here, and they decide
Speaker 3: that there's only one way to be sure that he
Speaker 3: never squeals. They've got to shut him up for good.
Speaker 3: And so Albert klue Googlger here, he holds the squeally
Speaker 3: guy down and drowns him in the hot tub on
Speaker 3: the yacht. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I mean, the thing that I was thinking is like,
Speaker 1: they've got to use this hot tub later, like having
Speaker 1: a party. I've never owned a hot tub, but it's
Speaker 1: my understanding that they're a little bit sensitive and you
Speaker 1: can set them off by doing normal things that don't
Speaker 1: involve murdering people in them. So I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: they have some they have a really good handle on
Speaker 1: the chemicals. Here.
Speaker 3: Also, after out he makes Albert murder this guy wall Street,
Speaker 3: Walter is like, Albert, the party is in half an hour,
Speaker 3: So after you've cleaned up this mess here, get everything ready,
Speaker 3: will you. It's like, wow, I really hope Albert washes
Speaker 3: his hands before he puts out the crew today. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is.
Speaker 1: Why you really need a larger criminal organization so that
Speaker 1: you don't have goons that are having to to do
Speaker 1: double duty both cleaning up your murders and also putting
Speaker 1: out your food.
Speaker 3: I was only hired to kill Frankie the squealer. I
Speaker 3: it was not in the job description to put out
Speaker 3: party trays. Oh somewhere in here, there's also a random
Speaker 3: scene just where we got a check in with the cat.
Speaker 3: See what the Cat's up to? So a guy robs
Speaker 3: a gas station attendant who the gas station attendant was
Speaker 3: being nice to the cat thing. It was the guy
Speaker 3: was putting out a saucer of milk for cat thing.
Speaker 3: Cat thing was lapping it up. And while he's doing that,
Speaker 3: some dude runs up and like beats him up and
Speaker 3: steals from the gas station register and drives away in
Speaker 3: a pickup truck, and cat Thing jumps into the truck
Speaker 3: after the thief. It's like the vengeful poll of justice.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah. At this point, really we have no
Speaker 1: reason to be against cat Thing. He seems to be
Speaker 1: following his own moral compass.
Speaker 3: So while the thieves are driving away, he's got in
Speaker 3: a pompless too. The thieves are driving away, the cat
Speaker 3: Thing pukes up itself and then attacks the driver through
Speaker 3: the back windscreen, causing the truck to crash. And this
Speaker 3: was a laugh out loud scene for me because of
Speaker 3: the sound effects in the truck scene. They had one
Speaker 3: glass breaking sound effect, you know, like a crash tinkle tinkle,
Speaker 3: which they just played on a loop multiple times as
Speaker 3: the cars the truck is rolling down a hill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because otherwise it's very impressive looking wreck. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: roll this truck.
Speaker 3: So now we're going to have our spring breakers combined.
Speaker 3: We're getting to a scene that has some of the
Speaker 3: funniest dialogue developments I think in the movie. So there's
Speaker 3: like a scene at a restaurant patio overlooking a bunch
Speaker 3: of docks with boats tied up. Where we're going to
Speaker 3: meet our boy spring Breakers. These are Lance and Corey
Speaker 3: and they're hanging out together at a table. Cory is,
Speaker 3: of course reading the Street Journal, and Corey says, Fort
Speaker 3: Lauderdale at spring Break, no place like it? Agree, and
Speaker 3: Lance says, no contest, haha, and they high five. They
Speaker 3: high five for that, and then Lance says, you know,
Speaker 3: let's go down to the beach and check out the action.
Speaker 3: But Corey says, my friend, the beach is for riff raff.
Speaker 3: You want to find a classy chick, you go to
Speaker 3: the marina. That's where the money is. Come on, everybody
Speaker 3: knows that. And meanwhile Bobby and Suzanne are wandering up.
Speaker 3: I guess they already went to the yacht party the
Speaker 3: night before, but we never see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, scene missing on the party. We'll see the aftermath
Speaker 1: of the party later. But it was a big bass.
Speaker 1: It seems like it just consisted of them going out
Speaker 1: drinking and dancing while I guess Walter and maybe his
Speaker 1: men like watch.
Speaker 3: On unclear, yeah, unclear.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the ladies walk up to the boy's table and
Speaker 3: they ask if they can sit down and the spring
Speaker 3: Breaker boys are thrilled, but then uh oh, here comes
Speaker 3: the drag. Their friend Martin comes to join the four
Speaker 3: of them, and Martin is the biology major. He's like, hey, guys, yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't find any place to stay. The whole town's booked.
Speaker 3: And Corey's like, not now Hedgeworth. I guess that's Martin's
Speaker 3: last name, not now Hedgeworth. We're busy. So his friends
Speaker 3: here think this guy is a real loser. But why'd
Speaker 3: they go with him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this isn't one of those classic why are these
Speaker 1: people friends moments?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, the jock, the Wall Street journal guy,
Speaker 3: and the biology major who only two of them seem
Speaker 3: to like each other. Yeah, but anyway, after this, okay,
Speaker 3: so literally I've told you everything that has transpired between
Speaker 3: these people, so I didn't leave anything out yet. So
Speaker 3: the girls they sat down. The boys are like, hey,
Speaker 3: this other guy is sitting with us. They have not
Speaker 3: introduced themselves to each other, they've not traded names or
Speaker 3: anything yet. Just the ladies arrive at the table, they
Speaker 3: ask if they can sit down. They sit down, and
Speaker 3: then Bobby says, last night we met this guy, Walter.
Speaker 3: He's got this great yacht, and then Corey says, wait,
Speaker 3: are you talking about Wall Street Walter. I mean, this
Speaker 3: guy is the best arbitrageur in the world. I mean
Speaker 3: he's made million He's made more millions than anybody. And
Speaker 3: then Suzanne says, must be the same guy. You should
Speaker 3: see his boat. Bobby says, well, anyway, we're supposed to
Speaker 3: set sail this morning on a cruise for the Caribbean,
Speaker 3: be gone a couple of days, maybe more. Why don't
Speaker 3: you guys come with us. They have not traded names yet,
Speaker 3: they said. They just sat down at the table.
Speaker 1: And they're just like, hey, we're going out to sea
Speaker 1: with this guy, who you know up clearly doesn't have
Speaker 1: any ulterior motives, so come along with us. He'll surely
Speaker 1: totally accept just three additional random dudes coming as well.
Speaker 3: Well. Suzanne introduces a logic here though, So clearly Bobby
Speaker 3: and Suzanne are interested in this guy because he's rich,
Speaker 3: he's got a yacht, he can take them on a vacation.
Speaker 3: But they're also not sure about him, so they are
Speaker 3: recruiting some help here from these guys. Susan says, you
Speaker 3: can help us handle this guy if he gets out
Speaker 3: of hand. But then I was like, but why would
Speaker 3: they have any more reason to trust these guys than
Speaker 3: Wall Street? They just met it, They just met them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but Bobby says, besides, I hear the Caribbean's perfect this
Speaker 3: time of year for swimming in the raw, and she's
Speaker 3: grabbing Lance's leg though she does not know his name
Speaker 3: is Lance.
Speaker 1: I guess is that what they call it swimming in
Speaker 1: the raw?
Speaker 3: I think that means skinny dipping. Yeah, so obviously Bobby
Speaker 3: is interested in swimming in the raw with Lance, and
Speaker 3: he's like, oh yo, and Corey dreamily. You know, he's
Speaker 3: got Wall Street journals in his eyes, and he goes,
Speaker 3: I am really going to meet Walter Graham. So our
Speaker 3: spring Breakers make their way out to the yacht. On
Speaker 3: the way, they hear some meowing coming from inside this
Speaker 3: big storage bin on the docks. They go over and
Speaker 3: open it up and there's the cat. Yeah, yeahs in
Speaker 3: this box.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We didn't get every leg of cat thing's incredible journey,
Speaker 1: but it managed to wind up here just as this
Speaker 1: crew is about to board the yacht.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, but there is a thing I forgot to
Speaker 3: mention from earlier when the cat was watching Wall Street
Speaker 3: Walter's limo pull away from the hotel almost like it
Speaker 3: was scoping him out. Hmmm you remember that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, why though?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's well, so we've established that the cat Thing
Speaker 3: not always, but usually attacks people who are sinful, and
Speaker 3: so because Wall Street Walter is a particularly awful and
Speaker 3: odious human being, maybe it's like drawn to him like
Speaker 3: a magnet. So that's why it's watching his car and
Speaker 3: also how it ends up on the dock beside his
Speaker 3: yacht hmmm yeah.
Speaker 1: Or maybe he knows even more, Maybe he knows that
Speaker 1: Wall Street Walter is a majority stakeholder in the pharmaceutical
Speaker 1: corporation that created cat Thing for once to destroy him.
Speaker 3: That's a good theory.
Speaker 1: I'm basing it absolutely nothing, but that's what I'm pulling
Speaker 1: out here.
Speaker 3: Well, wait a minute, this is a time for a
Speaker 3: good sidebar. Actually, what do you think is the intelligence
Speaker 3: level or sentience of the cat Thing? There are many
Speaker 3: things it does throughout the movie that almost feel strategic,
Speaker 3: but the way they're filmed it never makes it really clear.
Speaker 3: Like at one point, the cat Thing sabotages the boat engine,
Speaker 3: but it makes it look like that could be an accident,
Speaker 3: Like the boat just kind of it shakes because somebody
Speaker 3: shakes the wheel, and then it kind of raw like
Speaker 3: jumps out of the cat's mouth and scratches a wire,
Speaker 3: and then the engine is sabotaged, and there's other stuff
Speaker 3: like that, but it's never quite clear.
Speaker 1: Well, my answer, which is also going to be a
Speaker 1: little vague, is that it clearly has Grimlin level intelligence,
Speaker 1: so it can do things that are smart and clever,
Speaker 1: but it will also do things that are sneaky, even
Speaker 1: if they're stupid. It's just it's just straight up Grimlin
Speaker 1: level intelligence, like standard Grimlin, not brainy Grimlin from Grimlin's too,
Speaker 1: but just like standard Grimlin intelligence.
Speaker 3: Maybe this actually comes back to they all share one
Speaker 3: brain cell between them, and then the cat thing is
Speaker 3: in possession of the of the universal orange tabby brain cell.
Speaker 3: Then it quickly becomes syentient and it can strategize like this,
Speaker 3: but then it again disappears.
Speaker 1: There you go again. The memes tell us this, so
Speaker 1: it must be true.
Speaker 3: So our spring breakers they pull the cat out of
Speaker 3: the box. Martin removes a collar from its neck that
Speaker 3: says genetic laboratory, and he reasons from this that it
Speaker 3: may have come from a genetic laboratory. Then Suzanne falls
Speaker 3: in love with the kitty cat. She's hugging it, and
Speaker 3: she insists they've got to bring it with them on
Speaker 3: the boat. But like, what if this is somebody's cat.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, I guess the collar makes
Speaker 3: it look like it's a lab animal, but still, so, yeah,
Speaker 3: they just bring it on the boat. Oh, and there's
Speaker 3: a funny thing here where at first Lance the jock
Speaker 3: is really worried about getting c set seasick, and then
Speaker 3: about four seconds after he steps onto a boat, he
Speaker 3: vomits a bunch of mellow.
Speaker 1: Yellow Yeah, almost immediate barf gag.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's translucent yellow liquid. So oh, next thing is
Speaker 3: we meet are the main last character we haven't met yet,
Speaker 3: Captain Rachel. We're on the yacht and there's a scene
Speaker 3: where Captain Rachel is arguing with wall Street Walter. Walter
Speaker 3: wants them to leave immediately. There's kind of a sense
Speaker 3: that the law could be closing in on him soon,
Speaker 3: but she doesn't know that, and she protests. She's like, well,
Speaker 3: we don't have any crew right now. I'm the only
Speaker 3: one here. And the reason they don't have any crew
Speaker 3: is that Walter harshly insulted and mistreated the previous crew,
Speaker 3: so they all quit and then Walter is like, come on,
Speaker 3: you know, come on, I yeah, just you can do it.
Speaker 1: And so this is why he is cool with these
Speaker 1: guys coming on board, because they're going to serve as
Speaker 1: the crew as they make their escape fleeing the SEC
Speaker 1: on their way to the they went down on their
Speaker 1: way to the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 3: That's right. So Rachel is sort of stuck here in
Speaker 3: the in the boat captaining situation, because do tell me
Speaker 3: if I'm getting some details wrong here. I think the
Speaker 3: way they explain it is it used to be her
Speaker 3: father's boat, but her father got in debt or something
Speaker 3: and lost the boat and then he died and she
Speaker 3: is now working as captain of this boat until she
Speaker 3: can buy the boat back from wall Street. Walter Is
Speaker 3: that basically how I understood it. Yeah, and he like
Speaker 3: wall Street, Walter insults her. She clearly hates Walter, but
Speaker 3: she's kind of being a team player for now so
Speaker 3: that she can achieve her own boat related goals.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so our spring breakers arrive, Walter is like, oh,
Speaker 3: I didn't tell you could bring a bunch of random
Speaker 3: boyfriends you just met at the marina. So he's trying
Speaker 3: to send the boys back to shore. But while they're
Speaker 3: in the middle of this, klue Gooliger arrives with news
Speaker 3: that the SEC is looking for Walter. They want to
Speaker 3: search his boat. So this light's a fire under Walter
Speaker 3: and it's like, we got to go now, and Bobby
Speaker 3: convinces Walter that, yeah, like you mentioned, they can let
Speaker 3: their new boyfriends stay on board so they can serve
Speaker 3: as the boat's crew. Genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fun plot hook, you know. I could
Speaker 1: see this working in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign easily.
Speaker 3: So it's anchors away, and of course the cat is
Speaker 3: coming along. Walter also does not want to take the
Speaker 3: cat with him, but Suzanne is like, but he's so cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're like, it's good luck to have a
Speaker 1: cat on board, which that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So this is basically the end of the first act.
Speaker 3: The pieces are all in place, and for the rest
Speaker 3: of the movie, the cat will begin to gradually pick
Speaker 3: off the characters on the boat while the humans try
Speaker 3: to figure out what's going on and react. So maybe
Speaker 3: we'll now go a little bit less chronological and just
Speaker 3: pick some scenes to focus on. The first night there
Speaker 3: on the boat is kind of party night, where everybody's
Speaker 3: drinking and dancing, and there's a scene where everybody's gathered
Speaker 3: around while wall Street Walter regales the group with wonderful
Speaker 3: stories about times that he was great at doing deals
Speaker 3: and about times that he really showed somebody else whose boss.
Speaker 3: He's eating a banana throughout this, by the way, and
Speaker 3: Corey just adores him. He's like, wow, wall Street Walter
Speaker 3: tell us another Meanwhile, off to the side, Rachel and Martin,
Speaker 3: the two basically good characters, are playing backgammon, and they're
Speaker 3: quietly getting to know each other, and you know, they're
Speaker 3: talking about their backstories, and Suzanne is cuddling the cat, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, we have already seen vomit itself and
Speaker 3: sabotaged the engine earlier than this. That happened at some point,
Speaker 3: and wall Street Walter drunkenly comes over to insult both
Speaker 3: Rachel and Martin, and you know, Rachel just kind of
Speaker 3: tells him off. But there's also a dancing scene here
Speaker 3: that reminds me almost to Friday the Thirteenth, Part four,
Speaker 3: with Crispin Glover dancing. The dancing itself is nowhere near
Speaker 3: as weird as Crispin Glover's dance, but the framing and
Speaker 3: the feel of the scene is quite similar.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, this is completely unbelievable, Like what is dancing?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What do people do when they hang out? Let's try
Speaker 1: and create it here for the camera.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about the death of Albert, the clue
Speaker 3: Goolager character. So Albert is supposed to be steering the boat.
Speaker 3: Rachel gives him instructions and leaves him there. But Albert, well,
Speaker 3: he's steering the boat. I think he gets bored, and
Speaker 3: so he gets a bottle of wine out of a
Speaker 3: cabinet and he's supposed to be driving, but he's getting drunk.
Speaker 3: He's talking to himself a lot. He's like, oh, Albert,
Speaker 3: you're the captain now. Huh, you're the captain now. And
Speaker 3: he's also singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. But
Speaker 3: why why that? Maybe because it was public domain they
Speaker 3: can't think of anything else. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I got the sense that the old clue here is
Speaker 1: just hamming it up as much as possible before his
Speaker 1: inevitable death.
Speaker 3: Scene just having a belt of wine and singing Twinkle Twinkle,
Speaker 3: Little Star. Then Rachel comes in and relieves him after
Speaker 3: realizing that he has steered them far off course, He's like,
Speaker 3: get out of here. So klue Googliger goes out wandering
Speaker 3: around on the ship and he I think he's looking
Speaker 3: for a storage box that has more booze in it.
Speaker 3: He opens one up and the cat's in the box.
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, cat, get out of the way, that's
Speaker 3: my wine. It gets the wine out and then he
Speaker 3: uncorks it and has a bunch and spits it on
Speaker 3: the cat.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that was a mistake.
Speaker 3: Kitty cat doesn't like that. Kitty cat does not like
Speaker 3: that at all. And then we get the vomit self
Speaker 3: up vomit self up reaction and it attacks klue Gooliger
Speaker 3: and what a weird attack. So it goes for the
Speaker 3: throat and there's blood everywhere. But after the attack, we
Speaker 3: see klue Gooliger's neck like his veins throbbing under his
Speaker 3: skin in this makeup effect, and I was like, WHOA,
Speaker 3: what's happening here? We were about to get some kind
Speaker 3: of transformation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same, I was like, he is about to mutate
Speaker 1: into some sort of abomination, and now we're gonna have
Speaker 1: like zombies on board and a killer cat or is
Speaker 1: he going to turn into some sort of like wear
Speaker 1: cat thing or something. But as we'll find out, this
Speaker 1: is just the cat thing, then I'm doing its work.
Speaker 1: It's like a high speed, lethal cat scratch fever that
Speaker 1: drives you mad with pain and then the only solution
Speaker 1: to your pain is to leap into the sea and die.
Speaker 3: That's right. So unfortunately klue Googliger does not turn into
Speaker 3: a cat person. Instead, it's just like his veins explode
Speaker 3: and he falls into the water splash.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: Now, in the aftermath of this, Mike and wall Street
Speaker 3: Walter find the blood everywhere, but they cover up Albert's
Speaker 3: death because Walter just wants to get back to the
Speaker 3: party and he's like, oh, we don't have time for this.
Speaker 3: It will sort this out after we're free. And then
Speaker 3: the next day Mike and Walter act all surprised when
Speaker 3: it's discovered that Albert is missing and there's blood everywhere. Also,
Speaker 3: by this point, the ship's engine is fully malfunctioning due
Speaker 3: to the cat things sabotage, and wall Street Walter convinced
Speaker 3: Rachel to keep sailing ahead instead of turning back to
Speaker 3: look for Albert. I was just trying to remember. How
Speaker 3: does he convince her? I think it's just more boat
Speaker 3: related lever boat ownership.
Speaker 1: He's kind of like, like, you get us to the Caymans,
Speaker 1: I'm going to have so much money, I can just
Speaker 1: basically sign this boat over to you. And you know,
Speaker 1: if she she knows that this isn't right. I mean,
Speaker 1: Albert is missing and they should turn back and look
Speaker 1: for him. But she she she is, you know, seduced
Speaker 1: by money here and by by the boat ownership. So
Speaker 1: Walter is able to sway her to his side, and
Speaker 1: she's like, all right, we'll keep going.
Speaker 3: They also, I just remember this. They also convince her
Speaker 3: by lying and say that saying that Albert couldn't swim,
Speaker 3: so there is zero chance that he's still alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So she she factors that into it and still
Speaker 1: sides with money over over going back and looking for him.
Speaker 3: But Martin and Rachel are more inquisitive about what's going
Speaker 3: on here. So Martin takes a sample of the blood
Speaker 3: they find on the deck and he examines it with
Speaker 3: what equipment A sextant, a sextant, you know, for navigation.
Speaker 3: He uses like a lens on the sextant in combination
Speaker 3: with a magnifying glass to look at the blood and
Speaker 3: he's like, my god, this blood is at least five
Speaker 3: hundred times more bloody than any blood I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: It could only be a mutation. And she's like what,
Speaker 3: but you're a biology major and he's like, no, I know,
Speaker 3: I've never seen any mutated blood as mutated as this.
Speaker 3: So some weird doings are afoot. So next seeing things
Speaker 3: on board start getting more violent between the people on
Speaker 3: the ship. So there's a scene where wall Street Walter
Speaker 3: is creeping on Bobby while she's doing aerobics, and then
Speaker 3: he gets creepier and creepier until it seems that he
Speaker 3: is about to rape her, but then Lance shows up
Speaker 3: and beats him up, but unfortunately, then Mike shows up
Speaker 3: and shoots Lance in the arm. So now things have
Speaker 3: sort of openly turned hostile between the corporate creeps and
Speaker 3: the spring Breakers, and Mike has all the spring Breakers
Speaker 3: at gunpoint, but there is a cat attack while he's
Speaker 3: like standing there with the gun pointed at them. The
Speaker 3: cat bites Mike on the leg. This is George Kennedy
Speaker 3: bites him on the bites dragline on the leg in
Speaker 3: a way that it looks like it nearly bites his
Speaker 3: leg off at first. Yeah, not quite, but it's like
Speaker 3: digging in there, and they're later talking about it like, wow,
Speaker 3: it bit right through his shoe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so set Yes, sever's right through the achilles tendon.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of screaming. Yeah, he's hitting the floor.
Speaker 1: And now, at first what I was watching is I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell if the other characters were supposed to see
Speaker 1: that kat thing did it, because cat thing kind of
Speaker 1: comes out underneath the furniture and attacks, which I have
Speaker 1: to say this is this is very unbrand for.
Speaker 3: A household, reaching out from under furniture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, reaching out from underneath something and attacking the feet.
Speaker 1: My feet are attacked on a near daily basis by
Speaker 1: my own cat, but never gets me quite this hard.
Speaker 1: There's never splurting blood and screaming. And of course my cat,
Speaker 1: not being a mutant, also doesn't have venom that makes
Speaker 1: my veins explode.
Speaker 3: That's right. So what happens here is the bite seems
Speaker 3: a lot worse than a cat bite could normally be
Speaker 3: for some reason. They're I mean, I guess it's just
Speaker 3: duty to treat whoever. But they're trying to help out
Speaker 3: Mike after he was just pointing a gun at them,
Speaker 3: and they're like, what's going on Mike, And he's like, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I've been bitten by a mutated cat. So
Speaker 3: all this venom is coursing through his veins, and his
Speaker 3: veins are sort of popping up under the scan and exploding,
Speaker 3: and Martin is explaining like, wow, the blood was mutating
Speaker 3: like nothing I've ever seen before, and it makes Mike's
Speaker 3: arteries explode and he dies. For a minute, it looks
Speaker 3: like he's gonna go full cane and alien. I think,
Speaker 3: like something pops up out of his gut like a head,
Speaker 3: but then it doesn't. Nothing emerges.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, again, this is gonna be another cat
Speaker 1: thing bursting out of George Kennedy's chest, but it doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: I think that was just another vain explore. Maybe that
Speaker 3: was his heart exploding or something, I guess. So at
Speaker 3: this point, Rachel and Suzanne try to go radio for help,
Speaker 3: but wall Street Walter pulls a quint in Jaws here
Speaker 3: he shoots the communications equipment, and he's like, you won't
Speaker 3: be getting in touch with anybody. But fortunately Rachel and
Speaker 3: Suzanne get the upper hand. They like blast him with
Speaker 3: a fire extinguisher and they get control of the gun
Speaker 3: and subdue Walter. So after this, the spring Breakers take charge.
Speaker 3: Now they are in control of the vessel.
Speaker 1: That's right, Walter is captive and they've just got to
Speaker 1: sceer this ship to safety in justice.
Speaker 3: Now, what other scenes should be mentioned? As things things
Speaker 3: go on, the cat will continue to attack various members
Speaker 3: of the going to say the crew people on board
Speaker 3: the ship. Here, there's one weird subplot where the cat
Speaker 3: infects all of the food on the yacht with cat
Speaker 3: with like vein explosion venom. Yeah, and this kind of
Speaker 3: reminded me of the like the scenes in The Thing
Speaker 3: where like the thing is getting to the blood to
Speaker 3: taint all the blood so they can't test for it.
Speaker 1: Mm yeah yeah. And I think there was a scene
Speaker 1: an Alien where the xenomorph gets into their food. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was a deleted scene, but it's one that I've
Speaker 1: seen mentioned time and time again when when fans are
Speaker 1: debating how quickly a xenomorph grows and what it may
Speaker 1: or may not have to eat to get to that point.
Speaker 3: There's one scene eventually that was an amazing, like laugh
Speaker 3: out loud moment, and it's the it's the Lance make
Speaker 3: out arm scare scene.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh god, this is so good. This is a
Speaker 1: scene that, as we describe it here, it may sound
Speaker 1: grotesque and and and I would say bad taste maybe
Speaker 1: with a with a with a touch of cruelty to it,
Speaker 1: but the way, but that's just not the nature of
Speaker 1: this film, Like it ends up just being laugh out loud,
Speaker 1: funny and just so over the top ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So what happened, Like Lance and Bobby are making Lance.
Speaker 1: Was the one who was shot by Mike. So he's,
Speaker 1: you know, he's still recovering. He's he's maybe recovering from
Speaker 1: that that gunshot wound. He's in bed, he's in bad place.
Speaker 3: They're kissing and he's like, I can't feel anything in my.
Speaker 1: Arms, Like my arm's really numb. And so she moves
Speaker 1: a towel off of the hand of that arm, and
Speaker 1: then we see that cat thing is just munching on
Speaker 1: his fingers, that's like munched all his fingers off, and
Speaker 1: there's just blood everywhere and of course, Lance screams, and
Speaker 1: and from there, I mean again, this is a very
Speaker 1: fast acting mutant cat thing venom. Lance very quickly like
Speaker 1: loses his mind and is convinced that his only hope
Speaker 1: is to jump off the ship to his death.
Speaker 3: And I think Bobby goes with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bobby's like no, and then goes with him. And
Speaker 1: then she's dead too, So.
Speaker 3: That's the end of them. There.
Speaker 1: Should note that, you know, the girls were nice to
Speaker 1: cat thing, and so far cat Thing has not directly
Speaker 1: attacked either of the girls.
Speaker 3: That's right. It has only bitten the boys. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: corporate creeps and the boys. Yeah. Though I will say
Speaker 3: to comment on whether the cat punishes immorality or not,
Speaker 3: Lance has been a little bit mean to the cat.
Speaker 3: But Lance actually hasn't been that bad in terms of
Speaker 3: human behavior. You can imagine a Jock in the spring
Speaker 3: Break movie being a much more terrible and obnoxious character.
Speaker 3: He's just a little bit annoying to the other humans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Now,
Speaker 1: in the in the midst of all of this, what
Speaker 1: we also have Corey, the preppy character he like is
Speaker 1: he's running a side deal with Walter there's like a
Speaker 1: scene where Walter the prisoner now kind of seduces Corey
Speaker 1: back over to his side, let me show you something
Speaker 1: like that, but I don't remember the details of their deal.
Speaker 3: He invites Corey into Corey's in there like, wow, you know,
Speaker 3: I thought you were great Wall Street Walter, but it
Speaker 3: turns out you're You're a real joke. I like you
Speaker 3: at all. And while Street Walter is like, let me
Speaker 3: change your mind. Come look at my wall safe. I've
Speaker 3: got money, and Corey's like, oh, money, but I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think now I've forgotten this detail. Is Corey
Speaker 3: going to go for the deal? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: But doesn't Corey then agree to a plan where they're
Speaker 1: going to put out poison for the cat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to try to kill the cat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that's in his interest too, that's in everybody's interest
Speaker 3: in the boat. I mean, so he's going to put
Speaker 3: out poisoned food around the boat so that the cat
Speaker 3: will eat it and die. That's his plan, though he
Speaker 3: actually Lance is not killed by the cat. Lance is
Speaker 3: killed by his own clumsiness because he's like carrying a
Speaker 3: gun around and he's in the engine room and he
Speaker 3: shoots something that blasts a bunch of steam on it.
Speaker 1: He's trying to shoot the cat. Yeah, it's a steam
Speaker 1: pipe and the steam just blasts them. By the way,
Speaker 1: from the effects, it's clear that this is like like
Speaker 1: fire extinguisher or something and not steam. But then but
Speaker 1: then we cut to this like horrific makeup effect on
Speaker 1: Corey where he's just been completely scalded to death, and
Speaker 1: it's pretty horrific. After seeing all these all these shots
Speaker 1: of the cat thing puppet emerging from the fake cat head,
Speaker 1: this one was kind of a little alarming to see.
Speaker 1: You know, some I don't know how believable they are
Speaker 1: from a, you know, an anatomical level, but horror movie wise,
Speaker 1: it was very effective.
Speaker 3: So eventually the only passengers left alive on the yacht
Speaker 3: are Rachel, the captain, Martin the biologist, and wall Street.
Speaker 1: Walter's right, Oh, we forgot about Suzanne. Suzanne, still on board,
Speaker 1: eats poisoned cat food and then her veins explode.
Speaker 3: She thinks that the cat food is not poisoned. She
Speaker 3: like breaks into the pantry and eats a piece of
Speaker 3: bread and she's like, they were lying to me. It's
Speaker 3: not poisoned. It's fine, but then uh, yeah, her veins.
Speaker 1: Load, but again not directly killed by the cat.
Speaker 3: The cat is watching her when it happens.
Speaker 1: They do like to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there is then there's a storm. There's a storm,
Speaker 3: and the boat basically starts sinking. There was another part
Speaker 3: where it's hard to explain why this was so funny,
Speaker 3: but Rachel is like, there, you know, the hull is damaged.
Speaker 3: We're taking on water, and then it just cuts to
Speaker 3: a wall with like a clean, sort of softball sized
Speaker 3: round hole in the wood and there's like clearly a
Speaker 3: hose on the other side of it, just gushing through.
Speaker 1: Like, how did did the cat do this? How did
Speaker 1: this happen?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's really funny. And so the
Speaker 3: boat's sinking and Rachel and Martin they get away to
Speaker 3: a lifeboat. I guess they're trying. Walter is gonna come
Speaker 3: with them, but he tries to save his money. He's like, no,
Speaker 3: I got to get all my briefcases of.
Speaker 1: Cash, silver briefcases.
Speaker 3: Yeah, loading up these silver briefcases full of wads of cash,
Speaker 3: and he's like, gotta go back for another briefcase of cash,
Speaker 3: and you know what, He's going to be killed by greed.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like Ilsa at the end of the
Speaker 3: Last Crusade. You know, you let it go, but he
Speaker 3: can't let it go. The cat gets him. And then
Speaker 3: Rachel and Martin are in the lifeboat, and since they're
Speaker 3: now drifting away from the sinking yacht, you'd think they'd
Speaker 3: be okay, but no, there is a coda. There is
Speaker 3: one last conflict, and it is magnifico.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is amazing. If you decide to watch Uninvited
Speaker 1: and you find yourself becoming a little bored and you're
Speaker 1: tempted to turn it off, don't turn it off. I
Speaker 1: would recommend just watching it, but if you must, at
Speaker 1: least fast forward to the end and watch this final
Speaker 1: sequence in the lifeboat, because it is it is just
Speaker 1: absolutely inspired B cinema.
Speaker 3: So they're in the lifeboat and then the the killer
Speaker 3: cat thing puppet starts popping up out of the water
Speaker 3: and attacking them on the boat. So like grabs Martin
Speaker 3: and he's like ah ah and wrestling it away, and
Speaker 3: then Rachel's like, oh no, did it by No, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Oh there it is again, and it's back in the
Speaker 1: boat coming at them. It's like, oh, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just troll. Two levels of awestness. And it reminded Actually,
Speaker 1: my wife made this connection first because I had to
Speaker 1: show where this ending. She didn't watch the whole film,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you got to watch the ending, and
Speaker 1: she said, it's just like the moment in the Simpsons
Speaker 1: Treehouse of Horror where Homer gets his hands stuck in
Speaker 1: the toaster.
Speaker 3: Again. Yes, like Dad, it's stuck in there again. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's one of my favorites. It is. It's exactly that energy.
Speaker 3: And then the way that they defeat the cat is
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 1: Well, the whole logic ground. So they're like, the cat
Speaker 1: is only jumping in here after us, because this is
Speaker 1: the only thing floating in the area. We should throw
Speaker 1: the suitcase full of millions of dollars out into the
Speaker 1: water and then the cat will be forced to float
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 3: But first they dump out the millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, let's get the money. Let's get the money out first.
Speaker 1: They did have that that that moment of clarity, I guess.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, they throw the briefcase out and the
Speaker 1: cat puppet cat thing is just setting on the floating briefcase.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he couldn't jump into the boat
Speaker 1: and attack them a third time and a fourth time.
Speaker 1: At this point, they're able to leave it behind again
Speaker 1: in a lifeboat that is not propelled by anything except
Speaker 1: for the storm all around them. So we get this
Speaker 1: shot of there they're going to safety and their lifeboat
Speaker 1: and there is cat thing floating on the silver briefcase
Speaker 1: in the ocean.
Speaker 3: So evil wall Street Walter got his comeuppance and his
Speaker 3: co conspirators. Unfortunately, many innocent people perished along the way
Speaker 3: as well. But our two heroes in the end, they
Speaker 3: drift to the Cayman Islands, I guess, and they get
Speaker 3: to walk away with a duffel bag full of money,
Speaker 3: and there's like a scene of them talking to the authorities,
Speaker 3: like explaining what happened, and the authorities are like, I
Speaker 3: don't know about this cat monster story. But they're both
Speaker 3: just like looking at the duffel bag like can we
Speaker 3: take this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And they're like, yeah, sure, go for it. You
Speaker 1: two need a vacation after all that. So it seems
Speaker 1: like our hero our survivors are are on track for
Speaker 1: a happy ending here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, though, I guess Captain Rachel is not going to
Speaker 3: get the boat she wanted. Maybe she's going to get
Speaker 3: a different boat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she'd want a different boat after all this,
Speaker 1: you know what a blood bath boat. That's I'm probably
Speaker 1: still poisoned by the cat, the mutant cat that was
Speaker 1: running them up and boarded.
Speaker 3: I guess they are competing interests there, Like it has
Speaker 3: sentimental family values, kind of a legacy yacht, but also
Speaker 3: it was where the cat thing killed all those people.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you, even though we have a
Speaker 1: essentially a happy ending here, you need something a little
Speaker 1: more on a sci fi horror movie like this. You
Speaker 1: need a little like bump ump bum action, but you know,
Speaker 1: maybe setting up for a sequel, but at least leaving
Speaker 1: you with an uneasy feeling that things are not going
Speaker 1: to be okay.
Speaker 3: Two twist ending. Now there's the theatrical twist ending. The
Speaker 3: one I know is the one on the beach. Is
Speaker 3: that the same one that was in your version.
Speaker 1: In the theatrical yet?
Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah? So wait, why don't you marry? What happens here?
Speaker 1: Okay? So we get a nice beach scene. I believe
Speaker 1: what is the name of this beach? This is actually
Speaker 1: a California beach that a lot of stuff has been
Speaker 1: shot on. This is not Florida, but on this beach
Speaker 1: we see Oh, here washed up is the silver briefcase
Speaker 1: again that used to have cash in it, that was emptied,
Speaker 1: and it was the last place that we saw cat thing.
Speaker 1: And then here is a little boy walking along on
Speaker 1: the beach. This is actually Graydon Clark's son, by the way,
Speaker 1: and he finds a cat. Now, of note, this is
Speaker 1: not the same cat we've been seeing the whole time.
Speaker 1: This is like a dark cat. This is not an
Speaker 1: orange tabby. But we are to assume I guess that
Speaker 1: this cat is cat thing or has cat thing inside it,
Speaker 1: because the child picks up cat thing is holding him,
Speaker 1: and then we get an ominous freeze frame and then
Speaker 1: a zoom in on the child holding the cat.
Speaker 3: Well, the cat was more mutated than anything Martin the
Speaker 3: biologist had ever seen, so clearly he could mutate its
Speaker 3: coat too, So yeah, that's why it looks different.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, or it is a parasite it found a
Speaker 1: new cat to occupy it. I don't know either. Interpretation
Speaker 1: I guess is valid.
Speaker 3: But what was the deal with the alternate ending. Was
Speaker 3: there like a European cut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's a different twist ending. And remember in
Speaker 1: this version, we don't see gray and Clark at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the film as a doctor. Instead we see
Speaker 1: him here at the end. We're at the marina there
Speaker 1: on the dock, and the child brings this suitcase to
Speaker 1: the father or assuming it's the father played by Graydon Clark,
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, what's this suitcase. Let's open it up.
Speaker 1: Put it up. They put it up there on a table,
Speaker 1: open it up, and then we get a jump scare
Speaker 1: of cat thing, the puppet version, jumping out of the
Speaker 1: briefcase at us the audience, and we get this awesome
Speaker 1: like snarl growl sound that it makes throughout the picture,
Speaker 1: and then freeze frame and then we cut to the
Speaker 1: credits with that horrible theme song playing over it. The
Speaker 1: theatrical version has just you know, the scary score from
Speaker 1: the picture. International version gets that horrible uninvited theme music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's uninvited.
Speaker 1: That is. Yes, it gives us a lot to think
Speaker 1: about about about humanity's relationship with cats. No, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really give for anything to think about it. It is
Speaker 1: a but it is an alarmingly good B movie. This one.
Speaker 1: This one has a well deserved following among B movie
Speaker 1: and schlock fans. So if you like quote unquote bad movies,
Speaker 1: if you like cheesy movies, this one's worth picking up.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's again, it's got some fun performances
Speaker 1: in it. It's competently made. On the whole, It's very watchable.
Speaker 1: I don't think it ever has a dull moment. It's
Speaker 1: just a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I just remembered I think I rented this in the
Speaker 3: same batch where I rented Night Beast. Oh that that
Speaker 3: all comes together as like a really good, really really
Speaker 3: good video drum hole for me.
Speaker 1: Yes, Night Beast is incredible. And by the way, if
Speaker 1: any out there, if you happen to be in the
Speaker 1: Atlanta area and you're going to Monster Rama this weekend,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a showing of Night Beast as
Speaker 1: part of the track there. Yeah, they're also gonna there's
Speaker 1: shown some other films, including some that we've talked about
Speaker 1: on the show here. Queen of Blood is going to
Speaker 1: be be presented. So, yeah, if you like monster movies,
Speaker 1: if you like some of the weird house movies, we've
Speaker 1: talked about that. That's worth checking out if you're in
Speaker 1: the area.
Speaker 3: All right, I guess we got to wrap it up
Speaker 3: for today.
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