WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Uninvited (1988) 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.040 Hey, you welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind, it is 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.360 time to get on the boat, y'all. This is Rob Lamb. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:12.800 This is going to be an episode that originally published 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.119 eight eight, twenty twenty five. It is the Uninvited or 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.200 I'm sorry it's Uninvited, No. The from nineteen eighty eight. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:26.680 This is another Beast Cinema installment from Graydon Clark. It 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.360 has George Kennedy in it. It has a mutated cat, 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.320 a killer mutated cat in it. What more do you 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.080 need to know? You don't need to know anything else. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.320 You just need to jump into this episode and maybe 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.959 jump out and watch this movie as well. Let's have it. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:50.000 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.920 Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.280 And this is Joe McCormick. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.160 And in this episode our cat. We festivities conclude. We're 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.240 following up core episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:11.640 as well as a midweek Monster Fact that all revolved 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.840 around cats, and so we of course had to choose 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.520 a cat film for Weird House Cinema this week. We 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.520 ultimately had had quite a few to consider, like are 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.199 we going to go with cat as ally, cat as enemy? 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.039 But we ultimately went with a B cinema favorite and 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.759 one that multiple listeners have recommended to us over the years, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.240 the direct to video nineteen eighty eight or eighty seven 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.240 mutant cat sci fi thriller Uninvited. Not to be confused 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.480 with the many other films that are titled the Uninvited. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:42.960 This is just uninvited. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.399 What is it that's uninvited? There are many things uninvited 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.080 in this film. I guess there's a cat that was 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.840 not invited. There are also lots of people who were 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:52.560 not invited. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.360 Yeah, and one of the boyfriends were invited. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.200 Yeah, and there is there's an extra thing inside the 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.120 cat that maybe you could interpret us thing that's uninvited, 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.720 Like one of the people at least wanted to invite 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.080 the cat but didn't realize it had a mutant thing 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:08.959 inside of it. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.520 Yeah, but then again, all cats are uninvited. They invite themselves. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:13.720 They are calling the shots here. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.200 Cats are not like vampires. They will not catch fire 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:18.799 coming into a house uninvited. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.240 You may invite them, but they may not accept it. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.840 It's all up to them. So we selected this film 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.160 before We recorded our core stuff to Blow your Mind 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.960 episodes this week on the folklore Cats of the British 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.880 Isles and the Cats of Cypress, and I have to 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.520 say that I'm pleasantly surprised that this film managed to 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.160 line up at all with anything we talked about in 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.480 our core episodes. But you know, we have the idea 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.000 here of a cat as a kind of vengeful demon, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.080 and we have cats on a boat. We spent the 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.240 Cypress episode talking a good bit about cats on boats. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.880 That's right, trying to imagine stone age farmers getting all 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.000 different kinds of animals on boats to take them across 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.799 the sea to Cypress, and one of those animals would 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.200 have been the cat. I guess maybe you know, despite 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.640 how difficult it is known to be to herd cats, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.040 i'd imagine it's easier to herd cats than to herd foxes. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.120 Now, now, don't be confused, though this is not a 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.440 movie you're going to learn a lot from. Uninvited is 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.240 not a movie with lofty, dramatic or thematic ambitions. It 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.240 is a creature feature, first and foremost, and one that 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.040 subjectively misses the mark in several ways while also succeeding 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.320 in being just an amazingly fun and weird ninety one 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:33.320 minutes of cinema. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.960 I don't know who would say this thing misses the mark. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.840 I think this is this is like what creature features 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.080 were invented for was to become this. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.600 Well, when I say missed the mark, imagine that there's 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:49.560 there's like an archery target setup. Okay, the arrow is 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.680 is fired, and perhaps this arrow we can call this 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.640 arrow effective and horrifying creature design. Oh okay, it misses 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.160 the entire target, but then it's a bull on an 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.839 adjacent target. Okay, okay, and that's where we are, like, Yeah, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.760 the creature in this film is not the xenomorph from 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.960 Ridley Scott's Alien, I understand, but it is amazing in 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.760 its own right. I wouldn't change a thing about it. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.160 It's a total gromblin picture. Like, this creature is on 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.120 the same level as some of the creatures from I 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.320 don't know, Goolies and so forth. It has a triumph 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:33.280 the insult, comic dog energy to it. So every time 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.400 it's on screen, you're going to giggle, You're going to laugh. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.680 And is that what the filmmakers intended? Maybe not, but 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.119 that is why people love One of the reasons people 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.320 love this film. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.919 I think I am starting to get a feeling of 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:51.320 Graydon Clark's sensibilities, and I think this was maybe supposed 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.000 to be funny in the ways that it is. I 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:59.880 think the moist puppet that appears repeatedly is It just 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.880 seems impossible to me that Clark did not recognize that 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.080 he had struck gold here with the potential comedic value. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.800 But that does bring up something I wanted to get 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.479 into at the beginning. Uninvited is often described as a 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.599 killer cat movie, but I have to flag that the 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.760 actual creature that kills people is not the fluffy, cute 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.680 kitty cat that we see in most shots. You know, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.440 so there is a cute kitty cat in the movie, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.039 you know that people pet and hold and it runs 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:31.880 around and stuff. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:33.360 Beautiful tabby cat. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.600 Yes, whenever it is time for the beast to vomit 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:42.200 death upon humankind, what happens is that this cute kitty cat, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.880 the external cat, opens its mouth and then we cut 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:50.919 to an effect shot where a wet, screaming secondary animal 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:56.200 emerges from inside the cat mouth, and this interior beast 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.560 is represented by a puppet that looks like a cross 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.640 between the damp weasel and pumpkinhead. And it is this 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:08.320 creature that leaps out and bites and scratches and kills 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:13.000 and deposits poison on the humans. So what is this 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.599 beast inside the cute cat? Is it also a cat? 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.000 And I was also wondering how does it turn back 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.679 into the cute fluffy cat after each attack is finished? 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.800 Does it climb back into the mouth. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.839 It does. You might have missed it, but there is 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.200 one scene where we see it beginning to crawl back in. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.200 Oh, okay, I've just forgotten that. Yeah, So I was wondering, though, 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.360 are the interior beast and the exterior beast, like, are 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.560 they necessarily attached or can they fully separate? And if 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.360 they separate, can they both be independently alive or can 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:51.440 the exterior cat not live without the interior cat or 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:52.960 the interior whatever it is? 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:58.239 These are questions we cannot fully answer. Yeah, the outer 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:03.120 shell cat of cat thing seems to be dormant while 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.719 it is killing and rampaging, and then it crawled into 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.680 it like it's a cat suit bundy sock just sitting there. Yeah, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.920 but yeah, is that part of the cat. Is it 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.840 a host for this parasite? We don't know. I mean, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.120 the only other major bit of evidence I might turn 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.960 to is the ending to the picture or the ending 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.200 to the main cut of the picture. But we'll have 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:25.120 to come back to that one. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.760 So I want to mention I found online the Dutch 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:32.040 VHS cover which has a couple of good taglines, one 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.400 especially good one. I don't know if these would have 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.200 appeared on other national packaging as well, but at least 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.120 on this box. It has one tagline, which is cats 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.840 have nine lives, you only have one. Nice ends with 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.760 the ellipsis and then exclamation, one of the most cryptic 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.120 punctuation combinations. Then the other tagline, not quite as good, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.880 is they paid for the holiday of a lifetime with 0:07:59.120 --> 0:07:59.920 their live. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.160 Hmmm, that that's rather inaccurate. I don't think anybody's paying 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.480 for a holiday of a lifetime in this No. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.440 No, uh, well, I mean I think that the Yeah, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.920 the spring Breaker characters are initially looking for a good time, 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.360 but they it quickly goes off the rails, like It's 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.680 not like one of these movies where everybody's just they 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.040 still think they're partying until Jason the moment Jason shows 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:24.400 up and wax him with an axe. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.600 Yeah, this is not the cat thing meets love boat, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.920 as we'll get into when we discuss the plot. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.920 Though there is some Jason similarity. Like I was thinking 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:40.000 about how the cat often attacks and punishes people right 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.839 after they have sinned or done wrong. It does sort 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.679 of follow some slasher movie logic there where with the 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:50.520 cat as moral executioner. Not in every single case. Sometimes 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.560 some rather innocent people catch it, but it's mostly you 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.319 do evil and then the cat. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.600 Kills you, right, and the cat is the judge. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.840 Okay, So my elevator, which for uninvited is Garfield meets 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.240 basket Case versus Gordon Gecko all wrapped up in some 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.600 Jason takes Manhattan. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.280 Yep, that sounds accurate. Yeah, all right, well, let's listen 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.920 to just a little bit of one of the trailers 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.040 for this picture, because there's, as you might expect, there's 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.000 gonna be a lot of screaming and cat gowling, and 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:21.520 we can only take so much of that. But just 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:22.760 a little taste here. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:32.040 They say cats have nine lives, You have only one 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:53.600 a poisonous can. Now, how is that possible? Things gonna 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.080 mind us and We're Gonna Die on. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.200 Uninvited, starring George Kennedy and Alex Cord. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.480 You'll never look at a count. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:13.640 In the same way again, all right. So if you 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.800 want to watch Uninvited for yourself again, that's Uninvited from 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.360 nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty eight, depending on who's 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.960 classifying it. Well, you can stream this one in a 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.480 number of places, but the vinegar syndrome blu ray that 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.600 we mentioned already is the ideal physical media choice for 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.319 this picture. The footage is scanned and restored in four 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.080 K from its thirty five millimeters original camera negative, and 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.240 it features a nice smattering of extras, including the ninety 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.280 three minute alternate international edit, which is quite hard to 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.920 find elsewhere. I wasn't able to find it streaming anywhere 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.960 and so forth. It features an alternate intro and outro, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.920 as well as the horrendous Uninvited theme song by Chili 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:53.559 Charles and. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:54.880 Tom gunn oh Man. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.439 That's so funny, absolutely terrible. This is one of those 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.400 cases where it's like, yes, you were right to cut 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.439 this theme song for the American audience. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.079 It sounds like the theme music to a one season 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.160 running sitcom from the eighties. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.480 Yes, it's terrible like kat Thing was going to have 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.000 his own his or her own TV show. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.920 Yeah boo, but doo do do so? 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.839 Yeah, this is a great disc. I like yourself many 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.960 years ago, rented this from Video Drome, the video rental 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.240 store here in Atlanta, and you know, as I was 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.120 returning it just yesterday, I ran into a couple of 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.080 listeners and had a delightful little conversation. They were from 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.440 out of town. I'm not going to name them here 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.480 because I didn't clear that with them when I was 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.559 chatting with them, but it was nice to run into 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.120 a couple of listeners at Video Drome. We've heard from 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.920 a few different listeners from out of town who, while 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.920 visiting Atlanta have made the journey, the pilgrimage to the Drum. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:48.240 That's a beautiful thing. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.200 Yeah, so's There's a non zero chance you'll run into 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.199 me there, but you don't count on it. You might 0:11:53.280 --> 0:12:04.319 catch me. All right. Let's talk about the people behind 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.400 this film, starting with the director, of the writer and 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.520 one of the producers. It's great and Clark. Sometimes I 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.360 have pronounced his name Grayton Clark, and I think that's 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:18.000 because he frequently casts Jodn Baker, and so I kind 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.520 of take the Jodon energy and create the Great On. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.040 So I may refer to him as Great On Clark 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.640 at some point here as well. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.240 I think I hear it with the cadence of Raydon Chong. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.520 Yes, yes, that too is probably influencing it. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:30.880 So. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.040 Grayton Clark was born in nineteen forty three, American director 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.960 and writer that you might remember from past Weird House 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.840 Cinema episodes because we've covered two of his pictures before, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.480 both from nineteen eighty Without Warning, which was our first 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.960 episode of Weird House Cinema, and then we subsequently subsequently 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.240 talked about the Return. So we talked about a Graydon 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.240 Clark proto Predator film as well as a cattle mutilation thriller. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.440 I think both of those movies have some ironic sensibility, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.720 but they were both more straight forward attempts at horror 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.120 than Uninvited. I think Uninvited is he's cutting loose a 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:08.679 little bit more than in the other two. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.960 Yeah, and I think it may be attempting to check 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:16.360 off some extra boxes, especially for international distribution like this 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.520 one has a certain certain amount of I would say, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.920 especially in the US, cut kind of a PG sexploitation 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.760 quality to it, but in a weird way, like it 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.080 was like it was written and conceived for the most 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.120 part by like a twelve year old, a. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.800 Lot of bathing suit antics. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.000 Yeah, bathing suit antics, and like, yeah, well, we'll get 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.679 into it. But it has this kind of weird PG 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.120 quality that I really like. I mean, yeah, it's seen 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:49.120 plenty of exploitation films that are a whole lot sleazier, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.320 and it's nice to encounter one that has pulled back somewhat, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.559 so Graydon's Clark. Other film credits included Let's se a 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.400 pair of black exploitation films, seventy three's Tom and seventy 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.600 six is Black Shampoo, some horror comedy, There's seventy seven 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.440 Satan's Cheerleaders, and not one, but two films featured on 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.320 Mystery Science Theater three thousand, seventy Nine's Angels Brigade and 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.800 the nineteen eighty four Jodn Baker International cop film Final Justice. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.640 I had forgotten that Graydon Clark did Final Justice, especially 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.240 since we just recently rewatched the Mystery Science Theater of 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.560 this one man. Final Justice is so much It is 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.720 not anywhere near as fun of a movie as the 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.960 three Graydon Clark movies we've done on Weird House. It 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:34.880 is a step or two below. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.680 There's no specio development to that one. As I recall, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.560 it's just an international cop film starring Jodan. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.680 It's just Jodn Baker running around Malta in a sheriff 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.080 suit that almost looks like one of those old Nashville 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:52.440 country music kind of outfits and just shooting bad guys. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.600 And he gets into prison like twelve times in the movie. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.200 Yeah, that one, and there's as the main thing I 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.160 remember from Final Justice, of course, is there's this great 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.600 shot like through Jodon's arm, like you're behind him and 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.880 he has his hands on his hips and we're shooting 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.600 through the gap between his arm and his side. It's ridiculous. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:14.760 It's a little thing. Sometimes. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.560 Unfortunately I had to remember it's not from Final Justice. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.480 It's from Mitchell that has that great riff in the 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.720 mst where he's like digging around in the shower in 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.000 his apartment and they go, what does this thing do? 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.280 Ah? Joe Don rest in peace. Yeah, recently passed, but yeah, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.960 he was always a fun screen presence. All right, Let's 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.680 see other films worth noting from Graydon Clark. He did 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.760 a couple of films that were made in post Soviet 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.600 Russia ninety twos Dance Macabre and ninety three's Russian Holiday, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.720 nineteen eighty three video game sex comedy named title Joysticks, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.680 a nineteen eighty nine skinhead movie, ninety four is Dark Future, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.400 and his last film, Star Games. In nineteen eighty eight. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.480 He worked with Jodan bay Are on three pictures, and 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.240 he did tend to gravitate toward using a fair number 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.600 of older, established actors who were working in B cinema 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.520 at the time, something we definitely see in today's film 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.920 and in general worked with a lot of notable B 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.880 movie actors of the seventies and eighties, including Wingshauser, Jack Palance, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.960 Robert England, and John Kerodyine. Not everybody gets to work 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.800 with John Garretty, so most. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.120 Oh weird that John Keridyine wasn't in the movie we 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.320 watched today, since he is in most films. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.160 He was shooting three other films at the same time simultaneously, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.000 I see so great and clark films are generally not 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.600 considered good movies by most people. Virtually none of his 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.120 films cracked five stars were above out of ten on 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.840 Internet Movie Database. Not that that means anything really, but 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.880 these are b movies, often with a certain and exploitive 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.360 air to them in one way or another, but they 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.680 often strike that perfect cheesy movie balance. You know, it's 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.520 a film that's for the most part competently made in 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.960 involving talented professionals, but a film that also makes wild 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.359 swings and doesn't land every punch, or at least not 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.919 in the way they were intended, but still results in 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.960 a very watchable and entertaining ride. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:19.720 If I have a technical critique of Uninvited, the biggest 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.840 one is that too many shots are taking place outside 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.280 on a boat, and it is so windy it is 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:27.680 hard to hear the dialogue. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.679 Yeah, apparently this was a tough shoot because on one hand, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.280 there it's like NonStop cats. So they had a number 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.320 of cats playing the one cat in the picture and cats. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.680 If you've ever if you know anything about animals and film, 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.000 you know that cats are notoriously difficult to shoot. Everyone 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.040 generally is like, yes, bring me a dog. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:48.560 Any day. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.520 A dog will hit its mark and do what you 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:51.160 want it to do. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:51.919 You know. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.879 Horses are also a known commodity. Cats you can try, 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.760 you can see what you can get out of them, 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.840 but a wilder element, you know, like cats with cats, 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.639 it's like working with the you know, I don't know, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.399 one of the more difficult actors and out there. I 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.880 don't even know if there's a proper analogy, like it's cats. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.000 Not only are cat's going to do their own thing, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.040 but cats often look like they are doing their own 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.800 thing in movies, even like a really you can think 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.800 of like really good movies that have cats in them, 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.920 and the scenes in which you see the cats or 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.920 that lean to heavily on cats doing stuff. It almost 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:30.600 kind of throws you out of the picture a little 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.600 bit sometimes because like you can just look at that 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.560 cat and you're like, yeah, that cat is just checked out. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.800 That cat's doing its own thing. It is not in 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.040 the moment, it's not in the scene. It didn't even 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.119 read the script. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.480 I wonder if longtime directors could do a comparison, like 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:48.040 what is more difficult cat versus the most notoriously difficult 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.560 actors like Lawrence Tierney or something like that, You know, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.800 which one is more stressful on set? 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.000 I don't know. There's probably some crossover there in the 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.359 experiences are the other difficult things about the film those courses. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.920 Most of it is shot on a boat, and I 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.760 didn't even think about this, but this is something the 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.560 cinematographer pointed out in one of the Vinegar Syndrome extras, 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.680 Like that meant that when they're out on the boat, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.800 they only have so much power, and that limits how 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:17.560 much lighting they can use. Yeah, and cats don't necessarily 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.959 like being on a boat either, so that also constrains 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:25.199 their performance. But cats, they this was a decision by 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.760 grad And to have cats in this picture. Apparently he 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.919 was thinking about it being rats, which that would have 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.800 been scary, That would have made for a ridiculous puppet 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.399 and rats on a boat, you know. That's that also 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.080 has a lot of a lot to back it up. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.000 But they said, no, it's going to be cats. It's 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.160 going to be a killer mutant cat. Obvious John Carpenter's 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.320 the thing vibes to a certain extent here. Oh yeah, 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:49.800 but yeah, they went with the cat. 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:55.680 Now this makes me wonder what was the thematic seed 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.800 of the film, Like, what is the core element that 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.919 they were trying to get down to? Is it boat? 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.520 Is it? Like this has to be a boat movie 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.840 and everything else was around that or was it. Obviously 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:08.760 you're saying it's not cat, but I guess it would 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:13.760 have been maybe a mutant creature from a lab. Is 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:14.440 that the core? 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.680 Yeah? I think the core was we're going to shoot 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.600 it on a boat, and we need a mutant creature. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.040 We want to hit that sci fi horror zone. Okay, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.960 And yeah, everything else they just kind of figured out 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.200 from there, including you know, first finding the boat, then 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.080 finding people to wrangle the cats, and they did use 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.960 them to understand, like a proficient professional cat wranglers here, 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.879 this is not just getting me a boat, give me 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:38.119 some cats. So you know, supposedly everything here is above board, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.360 but again, even cat pros are going to only get 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:41.960 you so far. 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.840 The exterior killer cat is very cute, and if they 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.960 were switching them out with with lookalikes, I couldn't tell. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.560 It always looked like the same cat to me. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.560 I want to mention really quickly that the individuals involved 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.840 with the puppet cats that we see, oh it's the 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:05.919 it's Jim Bolden born fifty six and Debbie Bolden, and 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:10.280 these two did like animal artificial animal effects on a 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.200 number of other films, including Loaded Weapon one from ninety three, 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.320 Ace Venturro When Nature Calls from ninety five, and a 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.160 ninety one White Fang film. 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.680 So did they do the rhinoceros that gives birth to 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.840 Jim Carrey one hopes? 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.840 Yeah, yeah, they were animal makers inc. I don't know 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.080 if they're still around, but they were active for a 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.080 little bit there in the late eighties and into the 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.359 mid nineties. All right, let's get into the human actors 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:36.439 a bit here. So I want to divide things up 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.080 into factions here, okay, because essentially we have two main 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.560 factions and then an individual suspended between the two. We 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.000 have our corporate creepers, and then we also have our 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:47.840 spring breakers. 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.440 That is pretty much it. You've got your I guess 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.240