Speaker 1: Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for a bevy of classic
Speaker 1: horror films of the nineteen eighties, mainly movies from the
Speaker 1: year nineteen eighty four, but several others, so be warned,
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Speaker 3: Ooh, aren't you lucky? In today's episode, in the previously on,
Speaker 3: we are going to be talking about why people think
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four is the best year for horrors, What
Speaker 3: movies came out, then why do people think this? And
Speaker 3: then in the airlock, we are gonna be arguing what
Speaker 3: year we think is the best year for horror And
Speaker 3: believe us, we spent all weekend just watching eighties horror movies,
Speaker 3: so we are ready. We are ready to make this
Speaker 3: argument and it's the perfect argument for spooky season. Get
Speaker 3: ready to get scored.
Speaker 1: First up previously on nineteen eighty four. Okay, Rosie, Okay,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, tell us about it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So this year in horror is very much seen
Speaker 3: as if you guys remember a few years ago. Now,
Speaker 3: me and Jason did an episode about nineteen eighty two
Speaker 3: and was it the greatest year for like NERD movies,
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four has essentially become that same year for horror.
Speaker 3: We had Children of the Corn March nineteenth, nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3: We had Friday the thirteenth, The Final Chapter April thirteenth,
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four. We had the Drew Barrymore classic Stephen
Speaker 3: King adaptation Firestarter eleven, nineteen eighty four, Gremlins one of
Speaker 3: my favorite movies. June eighth, nineteen eighty four. Ghostbusters a seminole,
Speaker 3: rosy childhood classic June eighth, nineteen eighty four. Company of
Speaker 3: Wolves underrated, underrated gothic fantasy horror classic, very underrated movie.
Speaker 3: This one I think Edges nineteen eighty four up because
Speaker 3: it is so strange and it's like a sexy, erotic
Speaker 3: horror fantasy red riding hood situation. Also, Jason, I know
Speaker 3: this is a seminal movie in your life. Cannibal Humanoid
Speaker 3: underground Dwellers aka Chud by Douglas Cheek.
Speaker 1: And let me just say about Chud quickly. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Chud, A wonderful film about cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers
Speaker 1: that are haunting the city. They live in the sewers.
Speaker 1: They're devouring unhoused people as well as many others. A
Speaker 1: documentary reporter and a unhoused people's advocate go on the
Speaker 1: war path to try and figure out what's going on.
Speaker 1: They discover a cover up by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Course,
Speaker 1: but let me just say great actual acting performances by
Speaker 1: John Hurd, Daniel Stern and Chris Curry and John Goodman,
Speaker 1: really really strong dramatic acting in a wild horror movie.
Speaker 3: An incredible practical affair and incredible practical effects, and really
Speaker 3: one of the underrated classics in.
Speaker 1: My eyes of the eighties. I continue, please continue about
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3: Okay, Terminator, Yeah, October twenty sixth, nineteen eighty four. Now,
Speaker 3: I would say this is horror adjacent in my mind,
Speaker 3: but I do believe sci fi to me that at
Speaker 3: the time, yeah, I could see it being more in
Speaker 3: that horror vean. Okay, Now, I do think that this
Speaker 3: next one is a large reason that people think of
Speaker 3: this and this is stuff. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Speaker 3: November ninth, nineteen eighty four, Wes Craven classic, John Saxon,
Speaker 3: my favor, Robert England, obviously Heathe Langenkamp, Nancy, one of
Speaker 3: the legendary Final Girls. I do love this movie.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 3: I love this franchise. This is actually a very scary movie.
Speaker 3: It's before Robert England's really like hamming it up, so
Speaker 3: it's a little bit more spooky him later on. I
Speaker 3: don't know how it was for you guys, but like,
Speaker 3: so when I was a kid, I was in primary
Speaker 3: school as we call it, so kind of like baby
Speaker 3: school you're like eight or nine. There was a spate
Speaker 3: of sleepovers where their parents allowed the kids to watch
Speaker 3: Nightmare on Elm Street, and then they would have to
Speaker 3: do assemblies at schools being like, do not let your
Speaker 3: kids watch this because then all these like eight and
Speaker 3: nine year old kids are running around London like have.
Speaker 1: You heard of Freddy Krueger.
Speaker 3: He's gonna kill you in your sleep, and then nobody
Speaker 3: was sleeping. So that was a very influential movie on
Speaker 3: my childhood. And also I just I still love it.
Speaker 3: One of the best and most imaginative slashes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was an influential one for me as well,
Speaker 1: as I've spoken about on the show here. I was
Speaker 1: given a membership to a local video rental place because
Speaker 1: I was home alone a lot, so I watched a
Speaker 1: lot of horror movies that I shouldn't watch. Among them
Speaker 1: was A Nightmare on Elm Street. And it was one
Speaker 1: of the first movies where I can remember talking with
Speaker 1: my friends about Easter eggs, Like when when at the
Speaker 1: end when the roof of the car flips up and
Speaker 1: it's Freddy's, Oh my god, sweater colors. I was like,
Speaker 1: did you guys notice that it was like Freddy's sweater colors?
Speaker 3: Like that was your like fuss Easter egg movie I.
Speaker 1: Was getting used to. Truly a pioneering film and still
Speaker 1: has the power to scare it. I mean the scene
Speaker 1: in which I forget the name of the characters, but
Speaker 1: the one friend of Nancy's is hurled like they're having
Speaker 1: the sleepover, and she's hurled up onto the walls and
Speaker 1: across the ceiling and is like getting stabbed like through
Speaker 1: the guts, like as her boyfriend watches is still terrified.
Speaker 3: Also the scene where Johnny Depp's character gets sucked into
Speaker 3: the bed and they spray all the blood up into
Speaker 3: the ceiling also as well. I will say an underrated
Speaker 3: moment in this movie, but I do think has become
Speaker 3: like a very iconic scene is when Nancy sees her
Speaker 3: dead friend and she's in the body bag in the
Speaker 3: school hall way. I think about that a lot. But yeah,
Speaker 3: from a very serious movie to a very un serious movie,
Speaker 3: which I will say, if you live in LA or
Speaker 3: another metropolitan area, or just somewhere with a great rep cinema,
Speaker 3: you will probably be able to see this movie in
Speaker 3: the next coming months at the cinema, and I highly
Speaker 3: recommend it. It is Silent Night, Deadly Night, November ninth,
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four. This is an absolutely deranged movie. And
Speaker 3: in England, I have to say this definitely has a
Speaker 3: bit more of like a exploitation, kind of not serious,
Speaker 3: but it's definitely seen as more of like a It
Speaker 3: was quite shocking when it came out, and it was
Speaker 3: very controversial because it has a killer in a Santa suit.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you if you go and watch
Speaker 3: this movie in an American repfit. I went to see
Speaker 3: it last year at the New BEV comboed with Black Christmas,
Speaker 3: one of the best Christmas movies of all time.
Speaker 1: Black Christmas is truly one of the great great horror movies.
Speaker 3: Of Trailblazing slow and then that was first and everyone,
Speaker 3: but then this movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this movie is whack.
Speaker 3: Comes afterwards and it is like you're in riff tracks
Speaker 3: when you're watching the movie in the cinema, and I
Speaker 3: have to say ten out of ten would recommend was
Speaker 3: absolutely just fantastic to watch with the crowd.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing about the controversy as a child and
Speaker 1: you know, like understanding that there had been this tremendous
Speaker 1: controversy around this film, and then renting it as a
Speaker 1: young person when I got my membership card and being
Speaker 1: a little let down, like I thought it.
Speaker 3: Was going to be it feels like a TV movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I thought that the controversy, you know, not
Speaker 1: really understanding the full controversy. But my perception of it
Speaker 1: was this movie is so fucking violent that it's yeah,
Speaker 1: we had to pull it. It's too much. And then
Speaker 1: I saw it and it was like, Okay.
Speaker 3: The actual reason it was one of those perception controversies. Yes,
Speaker 3: the post that very famously has a guy in a
Speaker 3: Santa suit with an axe arm and I's coming out
Speaker 3: of the chimney and it's kind of like how even
Speaker 3: now into any four, the new Damian Leone movie Terrifier
Speaker 3: three came out where the art the clown is in
Speaker 3: a Santa costume, and there was actually protests outside the cinemas,
Speaker 3: I think in Kansas City, where they were like, we
Speaker 3: say no to this satanic Santa. So I don't know,
Speaker 3: somehow there's like a Christianity connection to Santa. I am
Speaker 3: unsure how, but that was really what it was about.
Speaker 3: I will say though, just honestly, great time watching this
Speaker 3: movie in a cinema with a crowd or if you're
Speaker 3: just interested in weird oddities. This is more of like
Speaker 3: a made for TV drama about the nature of abuse
Speaker 3: and like this weird Gray vite about trauma, and there
Speaker 3: is like violence, there's guns, and but it's not really
Speaker 3: a horror movie in a traditional sense.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about these are surely the headliners.
Speaker 3: Those are the headliners.
Speaker 1: What are your favorite nineteen eighty four horror movies? Top three?
Speaker 3: I would definitely say a Nightmare on Elm Street has
Speaker 3: to be up there for me. Okay, you go, let's
Speaker 3: do one for one. Okay, there's just so many good ones. Okay,
Speaker 3: so mine's not right Elm Street. Yeah, I agree, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: So then I would say I love Friday the Thirteenth
Speaker 3: as a franchise, but that would not be one of
Speaker 3: my favorites.
Speaker 1: That was I mean, the Final Chapter is the movie
Speaker 1: in which you can feel director Zito, amongst many other people,
Speaker 1: really really trying not just to kill Jason, but to
Speaker 1: kill this franchise. No one wanted to make this anymore.
Speaker 1: And so the death of Jason at the end of
Speaker 1: spoil the death of Jason at the end of this
Speaker 1: movie feels very definitive and it's very funny that it's not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. And also as well, this is before
Speaker 3: you just start getting into like the really good weird shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But you know, I will say about Friday thirteenth, the
Speaker 3: Final Chapter, I do enjoy Corey Faubman's performance in this movie.
Speaker 3: I do think it's very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he becomes like the foil in the series,
Speaker 1: which is very funny.
Speaker 3: And then there's an interesting kind of who is Tommy
Speaker 3: Jarvis how does that go on? But probably I would
Speaker 3: say Gremlins, even though again I would say that is
Speaker 3: more of a horror adjacent movie. But I really do
Speaker 3: love that movie, and I watch you every year at Christmas,
Speaker 3: so there's actually a big yif of Christmas horror with
Speaker 3: Gremlins and Silent Night Deadly Night.
Speaker 1: My second one, and this is very difficult. This really
Speaker 1: is a great year. But my next two are what
Speaker 1: I think of as the X Men influence in horror movies. Ooh,
Speaker 1: and so my second pick is the underrated in my
Speaker 1: eyes Dreamscape, Yes, from nineteen eighty four, starring Dennis Quaid,
Speaker 1: Max Foncido, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw soon to be the
Speaker 1: wife of Steven Spielberg, and it's about it's basically inception.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: It's about a guy who has psychic powers, Alex Gardner
Speaker 1: played by Dennis Quaid, who gets caught up in a
Speaker 1: scheme to assassinate the president using dream inception. And it's
Speaker 1: got some wonderful horror trope in there, and some nice
Speaker 1: callbacks to some nightmares we see earlier in the film.
Speaker 1: And it's a movie that I think people have forgotten about.
Speaker 1: But I still love Dream Skip nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. I would also say that I
Speaker 3: just I'm going to do like a kind of broader
Speaker 3: shout out to Like there is a lot of underrated
Speaker 3: horror weird like Slashes that came out this year, The
Speaker 3: Initiation that's a really good weird movie, Splatter University, and
Speaker 3: blood Bath, blood Birth at the House of Death. And
Speaker 3: I will say something that you said, Jason, as we're
Speaker 3: getting ready to prepare this. So many of these movies
Speaker 3: are available on cheubee. Guys, if you don't to if
Speaker 3: you have a smart TV, go to chubee and you
Speaker 3: can watch so many incredible movies that honestly have been
Speaker 3: lost for a long time because of streaming. But if
Speaker 3: I was gonna have to pick, and I would say,
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to go for properly. A movie
Speaker 3: that I truly think is very underrated is a Company
Speaker 3: of Wolves.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I do just think it's like really great
Speaker 3: and it was I watched that a lot when I
Speaker 3: was a teenager, very formative for me.
Speaker 1: Neil Jordan, Yeah, who's truly a quality filmmaker. His work
Speaker 1: here is fantastic. It's got that dreamy, kind of gauzy,
Speaker 1: too much vacoline on the lens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, drastically, Neil Jordan look definitely for me. Like I
Speaker 3: grew up reading, I had this. I still have this book. Actually,
Speaker 3: it's one of the few things I still have from
Speaker 3: when I was a kid. I had this copy of
Speaker 3: Grim's fairy Tales that was a hardcover that I got
Speaker 3: at like a bookshop where my mum worked, and it
Speaker 3: had all the real German Grimm's fairy Tales where like
Speaker 3: Cinderella's stepsisters are like chopping off their heels to fit
Speaker 3: it in the boot, and then they're making Cinderella's stepmom
Speaker 3: dance to death in iron shoes and this kind of
Speaker 3: the horrors of what the real moral fables were. And
Speaker 3: I feel like Company of understood that and was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: so what do we How do we make this into
Speaker 3: like an actual horror movie, but that still has this
Speaker 3: interesting coming of age growing into womanhood and how scary.
Speaker 3: That is just a really cool movie.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then this, Gosh, I think it's up for
Speaker 1: debate whether this is truly a horror movie, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick it anyway. Firestarter, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Was gonna say, if you're doing X Men, Yeah, so that's.
Speaker 1: My X Men again. The X Men influence in horror movies.
Speaker 1: Firestarter about a secret government program to create psychic telepathic warriors.
Speaker 1: It goes sideways and two of the former Chess subjects
Speaker 1: have a kid named Charlie. She is played by Drew Barrymore,
Speaker 1: who is wonderful in this film, like truly like baby,
Speaker 1: an incredible performance by a very very young actor. And
Speaker 1: she has the ability not to just move things around
Speaker 1: with her mind, but she has this exponentially dangerous ability
Speaker 1: to start fires and the whole while there is this
Speaker 1: secretive government program that's trying to control her, they call
Speaker 1: the Shop. You get like a wonderful scene of a
Speaker 1: confrontation between these government agents and Charlie, like in front
Speaker 1: of a farmhouse that calls back to Magneto versus the
Speaker 1: Cops and the first X Men movie. It's a great one.
Speaker 3: And it's very like, you know, WEAPONEX yees, very WEAPONEX tybes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's part of why I really
Speaker 1: love it. Incredible performances, most notably by David Keith as
Speaker 1: Charlie's father, like tons of pathos from him. George C.
Speaker 1: Scott as like this super warmonger, manipulative guy who gets
Speaker 1: Charlie to believe in him. It's really great, and they
Speaker 1: remade it some years ago, I think twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: a film that's really not that good, but this is
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that movie has Zac Efron it. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: would also like to say I don't know how recently
Speaker 3: anybody watched Children of the Corn, but I did do
Speaker 3: a rewatch of the entire franchise recently thanks to the
Speaker 3: blessings of Antenna TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I have to say that first Children of the
Speaker 3: Corn movie completely wild. Absolutely, you would never believe it
Speaker 3: if somebody told you what the movie was about. But
Speaker 3: it does have Linda Hamilton in it, yes, and it
Speaker 3: is actually like very enjoyable. Though I will say as
Speaker 3: a kid, I always got it confused with the John
Speaker 3: Carpenter remake of The Midwich Cuckoos that had Christopher Reeve
Speaker 3: in it, and I have to say I am still
Speaker 3: more of a Village of the Damned fan the Children
Speaker 3: of the Corn. Yeah, but Linda Hamilton is really good
Speaker 3: and I actually think the First Children of the Corn
Speaker 3: is a good movie, and I do want i think
Speaker 3: that one is another reason this gets edged up. But
Speaker 3: we got to step out of the airlock and into
Speaker 3: our debate about which year in the eighties was actually
Speaker 3: the best for horror movies because there are just so many.
Speaker 3: I don't I think this nineteen eighty four one. I
Speaker 3: feel like it's a random pick because right now I'm like,
Speaker 3: we can make the argument for.
Speaker 1: More to your point, it feels overrated, specifically because of
Speaker 1: mister Freddy Krueger.
Speaker 3: Mister fred Old Krugel.
Speaker 1: So let's go onto our debate right back after this. Okay, Rosie,
Speaker 1: we've talked about nineteen eighty four. Now let's talk about
Speaker 1: what our personal favorite year for horror in the eighties is.
Speaker 1: Would you like to start who?
Speaker 3: This is so complex and it's fun, it's fun. There
Speaker 3: is I would just want to say, festival. What a
Speaker 3: blessing to have the eighties, because the eighties is just
Speaker 3: such an unreal decade for horror. Every year there is
Speaker 3: at least one or two bangers, and I think sometimes
Speaker 3: depending on the flavor of what you're feeling, you could argue,
Speaker 3: for example, nineteen eighty two you had cat People very good,
Speaker 3: but obviously that's not going to be that's not going
Speaker 3: to be swinging anyone's vote.
Speaker 1: The original Cat People actually scarier, Yeah, actually scary. Fifties
Speaker 1: cat People actually scared.
Speaker 3: But then Poltergeist and The Thing, which I think arguably
Speaker 3: you could make an argument that that's the best year
Speaker 3: in horror just for those two. But I am going
Speaker 3: to propose nineteen eighty seven. Now, I will say this
Speaker 3: is not this is not like a banner. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna get that list like we just gave you for
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four. But for me, I'm gonna start with
Speaker 3: the horror adjacent release that for me, as a kid
Speaker 3: growing up, I was obsessed with, which is Angel Heart
Speaker 3: starring Mickey raw Oh my god. It's such a good movie.
Speaker 3: It's like a neo noir in the eighties, and it's
Speaker 3: a mystery and it's about a guy who's hunting someone down.
Speaker 3: Don't look it up. Yeah, just go watch it.
Speaker 1: If you have not seen Angel Heart, don't read anything
Speaker 1: about it, and go watch it because the twists in
Speaker 1: this film are fantastic.
Speaker 3: Some of the best twists that you've ever Currently streaming
Speaker 3: on Paramount Plus if you are that way subscribed. Okay,
Speaker 3: that for me, I watched it a lot as a kid.
Speaker 3: I loved it. I would tell people about it. It
Speaker 3: felt like one of those movies i'd discovered. But the
Speaker 3: two big ones here that I think as adults I
Speaker 3: watch every year more than once. I will go and
Speaker 3: see in the movie theater whenever they are on. Clive
Speaker 3: Barker's Hell Raiser one of the best horror movies ever made,
Speaker 3: and Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, that's great, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: one of the best vampire movies ever made. For me.
Speaker 3: That is a fantastic mix of Hell Raiser is this
Speaker 3: vibrantly gory, strange movie about a girl who lives with
Speaker 3: her dad and her stepmom and she kind of discovers
Speaker 3: that her uncle who shows up, Uncle Frank, had some
Speaker 3: weird occult dealings with a magical puzzle box. That's a
Speaker 3: very terrifying movie, unbelievable practical effects, the cenobites, Doug Bradley
Speaker 3: as pin Head, who had gone to become this iconic
Speaker 3: horror character. Very queer movie, very queer movie, very queer franchise,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of the nature of Clive Barker's work.
Speaker 3: I just love this movie. It's still really scary. There's
Speaker 3: still people who don't want to watch it because it
Speaker 3: kind of has this BDSM horror aesthetic that can be
Speaker 3: very unsettling. It also was originally supposed to be a
Speaker 3: horror movie with a woman in her mid forties and
Speaker 3: the lead. The stepmom was originally going to be the lead,
Speaker 3: which I think is really cool and I love that,
Speaker 3: and they managed to keep her in there. But then
Speaker 3: you have Lost Boys, which is queer in a totally
Speaker 3: different way and just totally cool every time I go
Speaker 3: and see Lost Boys. I went to see it recently
Speaker 3: with Nick and my wonderful friend cartoonist be Like Unis,
Speaker 3: and when we were there, I was just like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I want to be a cool vampire living
Speaker 3: in Santa Cruz the fairground. I want to be young,
Speaker 3: far fast. And also like, how can you not love
Speaker 3: a movie where there's just a random saxophone solo. No
Speaker 3: one knows why he's in it, sax guy, but he's
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: I lived in Santa Cruz for a while, and wow,
Speaker 1: that vibe. The kind of beautif full picturesque beach town
Speaker 1: with a dark side really feels like the real place.
Speaker 1: You know. It's a very strange place. It's a place
Speaker 1: where multiple serial killers were plying their deadly craft, specifically
Speaker 1: during the seventies. Edmund Kemper was you know, killed his
Speaker 1: mom killed a bunch of co Ed's was you know
Speaker 1: like he lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and so
Speaker 1: lost Boys feels it manages to capture that contrast between
Speaker 1: beautiful beach lightness and weirdness and old hippies and something
Speaker 1: dangerous going on in the woods.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And also I will say as well, I know
Speaker 3: this is both mine and your favorite nightmare and elm
Speaker 3: Street movie. Dream Warriors incredible, fantastic movie, unbelievable, young costs,
Speaker 3: some of the best deaths, very quippy, very.
Speaker 1: Cool, very quippy cool, like, the effects are amazing. It's
Speaker 1: got a fun song by the hair metal band docn
Speaker 1: as the theme, you.
Speaker 3: Don't want a Dream Noble. Also, Patricia Arquette, you have
Speaker 3: some legends in this movie. Also this year also had
Speaker 3: Evil Dead two, which I do believe many people believe
Speaker 3: is the superior Evil Dead movie. Another one that is
Speaker 3: streaming for free on Pluto TV right now. Obviously love
Speaker 3: Sam Raimi. Also underrated. One that I love from this
Speaker 3: year is John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, starring Donald Pleasance
Speaker 3: and Victim Want. I really like this movie, but that
Speaker 3: I am a John Carpenter superstan so I've seen every
Speaker 3: John Carpenter movie. I will make the argument even for
Speaker 3: you know, Ghosts of Mars, which is at least he
Speaker 3: was still using some cool miniatures. Guys, come on, but
Speaker 3: this one is like a science versus religion combo where
Speaker 3: there's a mysterious green liquid and these academics arrive and
Speaker 3: kind of decipher whether or not, like, will this be
Speaker 3: able to bring Jesus back? Was Jesus an alien? Is Satan?
Speaker 3: It's all this signiens religion, horror, really interesting, smorgas bored.
Speaker 3: It's a spiritual follow up to the thing because it's
Speaker 3: part of the Apocalypse trilogy that ends within the Mouth
Speaker 3: of Madness. Now, the underrated John corp in a movie.
Speaker 1: Super super weird fucking movie that I'm still not sure
Speaker 1: what happened. Yeah exactly, but the vibes, but the vibes
Speaker 1: are incredible. I actually rewatched it recently and still don't
Speaker 1: know what's happening. But very very crazy movie in the
Speaker 1: Mouth of Madness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, also horror adjacent in eighty seven Monster Squad.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love Monster Squad.
Speaker 3: I have to say I actually was not lucky enough
Speaker 3: to discover this as a kid, because I would have
Speaker 3: loved it so good. But I watch it every year
Speaker 3: as an adult. It's on Pluto, it's free, it's so charming,
Speaker 3: it's so fun.
Speaker 1: Here's Monster Squad ready. Did you like the Goonies a
Speaker 1: gang of kids who go and do an adventure? This
Speaker 1: is like the Goonies, a gang of kids that band
Speaker 1: together to do an adventure, but they do an adventure
Speaker 1: teamed up with Frankenstein, Wolfman and like vampires and stuff.
Speaker 3: Exactly very cool fun. Also, Blood Dina came out this year,
Speaker 3: which was directed by Jackie Kong, so it's like a
Speaker 3: rare female horror movie in this era. I think this
Speaker 3: is an underrated year. And also there's like sequels Galow
Speaker 3: Return to Salem's Law. There's also some really weird movies
Speaker 3: that I've only discovered from watching Antenna TV. Here, like Dolls,
Speaker 3: where our family has to just stay in this house
Speaker 3: and it's just full of creepy dolls.
Speaker 1: Rosie. I think this was gonna be my pick as well.
Speaker 1: And I think he's but it's okay because there's plenty
Speaker 1: other years to pick from. Great, And I will say
Speaker 1: I think we've missed out on what I think for me,
Speaker 1: for my money, best horror movie of the entire eighties,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven's Near Dark. Oh my god, what ifaring
Speaker 1: the entire cast of aliens in a film by Catherine Bigelow,
Speaker 1: the hurt Locker, Blue Steel, Zero Dark, thirty incredible director.
Speaker 1: Near Dark is basically neo western about this gang of
Speaker 1: vampires that rides around in our love this movie, cutting
Speaker 1: people's throats and drinking them. It's an incredible film.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Also, I feel like people maybe don't take this
Speaker 3: question seriously if this is not the answer, because if
Speaker 3: you're even looking at those like horror adjacent Predator came
Speaker 3: out this year. Yep, also a movie. I will say, Look,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna recommend that you go and watch this
Speaker 3: movie because it has aged very badly. It's very fucked up.
Speaker 3: Lots of language, et cetera that we would not use nowadays.
Speaker 3: But when I first saw it on a VHS in
Speaker 3: like a squat many moons ago. There's a movie called
Speaker 3: Street Trash and it came out this year. It is
Speaker 3: on Cheuwby right now. I will say it was what
Speaker 3: was known as a melt movie, and the idea was
Speaker 3: it was gonna be this like new version of Troma,
Speaker 3: and basically everyone the effects is like every time somebody
Speaker 3: drinks this kind of a cherry wine that they just
Speaker 3: melt and the effects are very cool. The movie itself
Speaker 3: very corny, badly age movie, but I will say I
Speaker 3: did just learn that somebody just remade this, and I
Speaker 3: believe it's gonna be on Chewby. Also very important movie
Speaker 3: here historically because Peter Jackson's Bad Taste came out in
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty seven, and obviously that was like kind of
Speaker 3: one of his breakthrough If you've seen Lord of the
Speaker 3: Rings and you're like, what was this man doing before
Speaker 3: Lord of the Rings, go and watch Bad Taste, because
Speaker 3: this man was a splatter gore fiend. He really was,
Speaker 3: and he was making some praise stuff. Also both Slumberpaty
Speaker 3: Massa two and Silent Night Deadly Night Part two. So
Speaker 3: I just think like eighty seven is a great year
Speaker 3: when it comes to the explosion of horror and also thrillers. Why, oh,
Speaker 3: you know what we should mention before we move on sure,
Speaker 3: Wicked City the anime, because that is very seminar horror
Speaker 3: anime came out in eighty seven. But yeah, I think
Speaker 3: this is such a good year.
Speaker 1: Okay, I agree with you, But now, for the sake
Speaker 1: of argument, I'm going to pick my other favorite eighties
Speaker 1: year for horror and going with nineteen eighty five. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think top line maybe not as strong as eighty seven,
Speaker 1: but still some incredible bangers that I think are very underrated.
Speaker 1: Let's start with a continuation of a classic series, George
Speaker 1: Romeiro's Day of the Dead. Oh, following up Dawn, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which listen, Dawn not just the best, in my opinion
Speaker 1: of the George Romero zombie movies, but actually a great film.
Speaker 1: Opening twenty minutes of Dawn of the Dead is as
Speaker 1: good as anything that you can think of.
Speaker 3: Great anti capitalist movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Day of the Dead also very good. So
Speaker 1: we've got Day of the Dead, and here's my If
Speaker 1: it's not the best horror movie of eighty five, I
Speaker 1: think it's my favorite. Fright Night.
Speaker 3: Fright Night. This is a joyous watch.
Speaker 1: A joyous movie that's kind of self referential, understands the
Speaker 1: horror genre. You've got this young teenage kid who is
Speaker 1: a big fan of horror, specifically of this like late
Speaker 1: night horror TV program that's hosted by this guy who's
Speaker 1: like a washed up old hammer television star named Peter Vincent.
Speaker 1: And over time, Charlie begins to suspect that his neighbor.
Speaker 3: His cool hot neighbor, his cool.
Speaker 1: Hot neighbor, is up to something weird. Turns out, guess what,
Speaker 1: his neighbor is a vampire, and you get this big
Speaker 1: showdown between Charlie with the help of Peter and his
Speaker 1: girlfriend trying to save his girlfriend really from the clutches
Speaker 1: of this vampire, trying to take this vampire down. It's
Speaker 1: a fantastic movie with some wonderful horror tropes. It's referential
Speaker 1: in the way that Scream would be referential in the nineties,
Speaker 1: and it's just really fun. They did remake it with
Speaker 1: Colin Ferrell. I think Anton Yakovic, Anton Yaalkin, it's pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty fun, it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: You could do a little double bell. Yeah, you know, Jason,
Speaker 3: I think you picked a very strong year here. This
Speaker 3: is another year kind of like eighty seven, where there
Speaker 3: are some big headliners reanime legendary movie that I think
Speaker 3: is still just being rediscovered. I'm always seeing kids sharing
Speaker 3: stuff on ticked. You know. It's kind of barely based
Speaker 3: on an HP Lovecraft Boo story, but it does something
Speaker 3: so much. It's directed by Stuart Gordon, who was, you know,
Speaker 3: a B movie master, and stars Jeffrey Combs, who you
Speaker 3: have probably seen in a million other horror movies simply
Speaker 3: because he was in this movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Basically a retelling of the Doctor Frankenstein's monster kind of
Speaker 1: myth in which this mad scientist starts putting together dead
Speaker 1: bodies and reanimating them. Another film that is highly referential
Speaker 1: and understands like the genre it is in and is
Speaker 1: a super super weird movie. Here's a film you mentioned, Barker.
Speaker 1: I'm a big listen. I love the Pinhead stuff, but
Speaker 1: I think some of his non pin Head stuff is
Speaker 1: also amazing. Let's talk about Underground. Oh, I'm Markers Underground
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty five, in which there's a hidden and
Speaker 1: mysterious group of sub human mind anster species created by
Speaker 1: a mad scientist. They're living under London.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Great, very very fun.
Speaker 3: Early Clive Barker also known as Transmutations and Underworld. There
Speaker 3: are many different names for this, but yes, I love
Speaker 3: this one definitely one of those first ones that I
Speaker 3: kind of saw and didn't know what it was. Also
Speaker 3: just want to bring up I will talk about this
Speaker 3: more extensively on other episodes this holiday season. This is
Speaker 3: when Returned to Oz came out. One of the scariest
Speaker 3: movies I ever saw as a kid, a Disney sequel
Speaker 3: to Wizard of Oz that stars Freeze a Bulk and
Speaker 3: starts with Dorothy getting electric shock treatment before she goes
Speaker 3: to Oz and discovers that everyone's been turned to stone
Speaker 3: and there's a new evil queen who chops off people's
Speaker 3: heads and wears them. This is like a masterful kid's
Speaker 3: horror movie, and I still love it so deeply, and
Speaker 3: it was impossible to find anywhere other than very expensive
Speaker 3: DVDs for a long time, but now you can watch
Speaker 3: it on Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: Next up, nineteen eighty five's Thus Duff by Larry Cohen.
Speaker 1: This is a film that is like environmental and regulatory
Speaker 1: horror was kind of big in the eighties. Chud talked
Speaker 1: about like the misdoings of the you know national They
Speaker 1: dealt with all the nuclear stuff. Nuclear Regulatory Commission excuse me.
Speaker 1: Chud is basically like a failure of oversight of food. Basically,
Speaker 1: this is so creepy, it's so crazy. This company creates
Speaker 1: this extremely sweet yogurt ice cream kind of substance which
Speaker 1: people eat and then become crazy addicted to, and it
Speaker 1: has all sorts of insane effects. Wonderful performances by Michael
Speaker 1: Moriarty and Garrett Morris who and Paul Cervino. Garrett Moose
Speaker 1: apparently hated dealing with Larry Cohne, but he's wonderful in
Speaker 1: this film. Super super underrated movie that people don't talk about.
Speaker 1: It is just a fantastic, weird kind of satirical but
Speaker 1: also very scared film with notes of body horror. The
Speaker 1: stuff check it out, extremely viby, very vibey. And also
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: Always surprised when I realized this movie came out in
Speaker 3: the eighties, because it's got like a seventies vibe to it.
Speaker 3: It's just it's very strange. I'm gonna go for like
Speaker 3: another incredible kid's horror here that was like really important
Speaker 3: to me, which is like more of a fantasy, but
Speaker 3: I think it is horror a jacent which is legend.
Speaker 1: Oh my God Legend.
Speaker 3: Came out this year with Tim Curry in one of
Speaker 3: the scariest practical effects of all time, wearing this giant
Speaker 3: devil costume with these huge horns.
Speaker 1: Truly awesome fantasy film.
Speaker 3: Just fantastic movie. Ye, Ridley Scott, what were you thinking?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm glad because I love this movie.
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise, such a delightful and important movie in my
Speaker 3: life and also with some really scary moments. So this
Speaker 3: is such a good year. There's just so many.
Speaker 1: There's so many. Next up for me, here's a film
Speaker 1: that blends sci fi and horror, nineteen eighty five's Life
Speaker 1: Force by Toby Hooper. I love that is one that
Speaker 1: again is a film that I think people don't talk about.
Speaker 1: Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon, who gave us Alien, who gave
Speaker 1: us so many other horror films, And it's basically what
Speaker 1: if aliens or vampires?
Speaker 3: And it's from this really fun era of post alien
Speaker 3: movies where everyone wanted to do aliens. So it's like
Speaker 3: these walking cloths. Yeah, people, and they're like, well if
Speaker 3: aliens were vampires?
Speaker 1: Young Patrick Stewart.
Speaker 3: Oh baby, yeah, this is that's a good one.
Speaker 1: And then this is a movie that I it's not
Speaker 1: technically good, but I really liked it as a kid.
Speaker 1: And that is the adaptation of yet another Stephen King novella,
Speaker 1: Stephen King was ruling the eighties, not just you know,
Speaker 1: on the bookshelf, but also on the screen. And this
Speaker 1: is Silver Bullet.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love I actually love this one. I have
Speaker 3: this on DVD.
Speaker 1: This is a wonderful film about a small town dealing
Speaker 1: with a werewolf that is killing off various citizenry and
Speaker 1: how a young disabled man takes on this werewolf with
Speaker 1: a wonderful performance by Corey ham Excuse me as that
Speaker 1: young man and Corey ham is. I think people who
Speaker 1: know about Corey Hame they think of the Lost Boys
Speaker 1: and Lucas, then they think of the troubles he had
Speaker 1: later on in his life. But he was a fantastically
Speaker 1: talented actor able to really conjure some like deep emotion.
Speaker 1: And that's true in Silver Bullet, which is a very
Speaker 1: low budget film with some great scares and the chemistry
Speaker 1: between Corey and Gary Busey as his kind of like scamp,
Speaker 1: hard drinking uncle who's lets him have toys that he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have.
Speaker 3: I mean who doesn't love to watch Gary Busey in
Speaker 3: a B movie. Yeah, he's always living it up.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, again it's not my favorite of the Freddy's,
Speaker 1: but oh, Nightmare and Elm Street two legendary is an
Speaker 1: important film for the evolution of Freddy because it's really
Speaker 1: the point in time in which my senses, Robert England
Speaker 1: didn't think he'd be doing these continuously.
Speaker 3: Remember this man was a thespian beforehand. After Nightmare on
Speaker 3: Elm Street one, I once chatted to Robert England at
Speaker 3: an event and I interviewed him about nightmaron Elm Street.
Speaker 3: And after the first movie, he was reviled in the country.
Speaker 3: He was hated in the USA. People felt like he
Speaker 3: was corrupting children, he was not having a good time.
Speaker 3: So I think you were onto something.
Speaker 1: So when he was asked back for the sequel to
Speaker 1: Nightmare and Elk Street, which became a Nightmare on Elk
Speaker 1: Street two, Freddie's Revenge Man, Robert England is putting a
Speaker 1: lot of spice on these Freddy Yes.
Speaker 3: And also this is a very It was a very
Speaker 3: controversial movie directed by Shoulder and it stars Mark Patten,
Speaker 3: who in the very fantastic. I cannot recommend it enough.
Speaker 3: Documentary Scream Queen talks about his struggle as a closeted
Speaker 3: gay kid being cast in this movie that is extremely
Speaker 3: queer and extremely queer coded. I mean there's literally a
Speaker 3: scene where the kid who is possessed by Freddie goes
Speaker 3: to the BDSM club where his teacher is and there's
Speaker 3: like somebody's getting killed by being like butt whipped with
Speaker 3: like a towel in a shower scene, like it's very gay,
Speaker 3: and he was constantly being told no, it's not gay,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it, and then the movie came out
Speaker 3: and it was like he was really gas lit. It
Speaker 3: has since become like a true queer classic.
Speaker 1: It's truly a queer classic, and now.
Speaker 3: Mark Patten feels more comfortable to accept it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: watch Scream Queen. It's such a good documentary about this
Speaker 3: movie and the strange trajectory that it took and the
Speaker 3: way it impacted the characters and the actors within it.
Speaker 3: I will also say something I think is really cool
Speaker 3: about this year that I kind of hadn't really realized
Speaker 3: till we were talking about it. This is an interesting
Speaker 3: year where there's a lot of horror, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of horror that is directed to a more family
Speaker 3: audience because of the success of stuff like Night ron
Speaker 3: elm Street, Black Cauldron Good. That's a great one of
Speaker 3: the most terrifying Disney movies of all time. I love
Speaker 3: that movie. It's probably my favorite Disney movie. Really terrifying stuff.
Speaker 3: And you have a lot more horror comedies. You have
Speaker 3: things like Ghoulies, you have Legend returned to us, re Animator, reanime.
Speaker 3: You have these movies where they're like, oh, horror is
Speaker 3: actually this can make money for us on a very
Speaker 3: low budget. So I think so far we've picked two
Speaker 3: very powerful years.
Speaker 1: Here's my last movie, go for it. Last movie to
Speaker 1: mention from nineteen eighty five before we move on and
Speaker 1: pick our very favorite horror movies of the eighties. I
Speaker 1: did not appreciate this film until recently, but you have
Speaker 1: to mention nineteen eighty five's Vampire Hunter.
Speaker 3: D Oh my gosh, yes, yes, yes, thank you for
Speaker 3: bringing that one.
Speaker 1: Our classic anime of a involving were wolf hunter and vampires,
Speaker 1: and it is just you want to talk about.
Speaker 3: Viby, Oh my god, it's and it's like one of
Speaker 3: the most seminal anime of all time.
Speaker 1: Unreal viby. So that is my pick, love that, that
Speaker 1: is your pick. Nineteen eighty seven for you, nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: five for me. I think there's honestly can't go wrong
Speaker 1: with either year.
Speaker 3: You've even sold me on eighty five. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: think these are equal, because that is a great year.
Speaker 1: Now let's close it out by listing our top hot
Speaker 1: this is really hard, our top five favorite or scariest
Speaker 1: or whatever horror movies of the eighties right back after this. Yeah, okay, Rosie.
Speaker 1: We talked about eighty four, we talked about eighty seven,
Speaker 1: we talked about eighty five. Let's talk about the entire decade,
Speaker 1: and are top five favorite horror movies of the eighties
Speaker 1: do you want to go first?
Speaker 3: Wow, guys, this is like extremely hard. You know, this
Speaker 3: is gonna start big conversations in the discord. I'm sure
Speaker 3: if we've missed anything, that's just all subjective. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's so many movies we haven't even talked about. Movies
Speaker 3: like They Live. I love that movie, Child's Play. We
Speaker 3: didn't even bring up Chucky. But I'm gonna go for faves. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna mention anyones that I've already mentioned because
Speaker 3: those are my favors, and I think I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: out of not filling my stuff up, So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: start with one of my favorite movies from this era.
Speaker 3: It is a B movie Night of the comment.
Speaker 1: Oh agreed.
Speaker 3: This is one of my all time favorite movies from
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four, going back to the original. It stars
Speaker 3: Catherine Mary Stewart as Regina Belmont and Kelly Mourinias Samantha Belmont,
Speaker 3: a pair of sisters, one of whom works in the cinema,
Speaker 3: which I thought was the coolest job you could ever have.
Speaker 3: And one night she's staying overnight hanging out at the
Speaker 3: cinema with her boyfriend who's the projectist, waiting to lender
Speaker 3: real to someone, and she misses meeteor shower or the
Speaker 3: arrival of a comet that basically turns everyone into kind
Speaker 3: of raving zombies. And then her and her sister, who
Speaker 3: also missed it because she was, you know, doing some
Speaker 3: kind of Valley Girl esque thing, have to team up
Speaker 3: to survive this apocalypse with Robert Beltran from Star Trek,
Speaker 3: and they have to kind of team up to survive,
Speaker 3: not only the first half of the movie, which is
Speaker 3: more of your general zombie apocalypse s kind of sci
Speaker 3: fi movie, but then the very interesting and I would
Speaker 3: say slightly slower, but I still love this movie second
Speaker 3: half where they kind of have to survive the government. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and What America. It's kind of like a mashup of
Speaker 3: the tropes from the whole Night of the Living Dead series,
Speaker 3: And I just love this movie. I watch it all
Speaker 3: the time. Very underrated, So I'm going to go for
Speaker 3: underrated faves and B movies that you can stream now.
Speaker 3: And I just watched this the other day. So this
Speaker 3: is on Pluto for free, Roku channel for free, sling
Speaker 3: for free. You can go and enjoy this right now. Baby,
Speaker 3: what about you, Jason?
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm going to do my top five
Speaker 1: horror movies of the eighties that I haven't mentioned yet,
Speaker 1: because my favorites are honestly movies we've before. You talked
Speaker 1: about The Lost Boys, Nightmare, Elm Street, Dream Warriors, Fright Night.
Speaker 1: But let's start with the ones that I haven't talked
Speaker 1: about yet. And first up, so I watch I have
Speaker 1: seen a lot of horror movies. I don't get scared.
Speaker 1: I watched, as I told Rosy and Aaron before we
Speaker 1: started the bike, I watched Hereditary at one am and
Speaker 1: went right to sleep. It didn't bother me at all.
Speaker 1: Like I can watch any horror movie now and it
Speaker 1: doesn't scare me. But the one movie that really bothered
Speaker 1: me and continues to really creep me out is Henry
Speaker 1: Portrait of a serial Killer from nineteen eighty six Legendary.
Speaker 1: Here's how shaken I am by this film. I honestly
Speaker 1: struggle to recommend it. It is harrowing. It's ostensibly a
Speaker 1: dramatization of the serial killing career of Henry Lee Lucas,
Speaker 1: who was an active serial killer who I think, who
Speaker 1: clearly inflated his crimes, yes yes, and told a lot
Speaker 1: of lies about the things he did, but also clearly
Speaker 1: did murder people. And so that gives this film an
Speaker 1: ominous tone. And there are some scenes in this film
Speaker 1: that I that I would not watch this movie again.
Speaker 1: Put it that way. Yeah, the performances are extremely strong.
Speaker 1: There is a scene, there are several murder scenes, but
Speaker 1: there's one of a home invasion that is really scary,
Speaker 1: and so that is I think the scariest film that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen nineteen eighty six is Henry Portrait of
Speaker 1: a serial.
Speaker 3: Killer, only eighty three minutes long and streaming on pretty
Speaker 3: much every free to B Peacock, Pluto. It is really terrifying. Though,
Speaker 3: this is not one to watch with your kid now.
Speaker 3: This is a truth. It has been a very interesting
Speaker 3: precursor to kind of the obsession with true crime that
Speaker 3: we have now. Yes, and these kind of celebrity you know, Dharma,
Speaker 3: et cetera. But it's way more unsettling and subtle and creepy.
Speaker 3: That's a great pick.
Speaker 1: It really is like a watch it with the lights
Speaker 1: on and again, very unsettling.
Speaker 3: Your next pick, I'm going to go for something really
Speaker 3: fun and light after that, which is Little Shop of Horrors.
Speaker 1: Oh great.
Speaker 3: This is one of my all time favorite movies.
Speaker 1: See Moore, miss Seymour.
Speaker 3: I love it. The original is great. I used to
Speaker 3: have the original on VHS, but this remake is so fantastic.
Speaker 3: I adore it. It is Rick moranis in the lead.
Speaker 3: It is a fantastic musical. It has an unbelievable amount
Speaker 3: of star power. The songs are brilliant, the deaths are great.
Speaker 3: You are essentially cheering for a serial killer who is
Speaker 3: feeding people to a alien plant. And I think it's
Speaker 3: a perfect spooky season watch. And I think it's so
Speaker 3: beautifully made. I think we need more movies like this
Speaker 3: now and A Yeah, I think this is definitely one
Speaker 3: of the best movies of the AES.
Speaker 1: My next one is creepy. It is scary, it is
Speaker 1: wonderful practical effects, it is mysterious, it's kind of sexy.
Speaker 1: It is nineteen eighty one's The Howling. Oh great choice,
Speaker 1: directed by Joe Dante, who had gone to do much
Speaker 1: lighter stuff, but also I believe he did Gremlins right.
Speaker 1: And it involves a television journalist from la who goes
Speaker 1: up to the Pacific Northwest to follow up on an
Speaker 1: investigation that had kind of touched her career. That is,
Speaker 1: the investigation into this serial killer named Eddie Quist who
Speaker 1: had attacked her in the course of her trying to
Speaker 1: like uncover his crimes to learn more about him. She
Speaker 1: goes up to this weird kind of hippie retreat up
Speaker 1: into the Pacific Northwest and finds a colony of were wolves.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that stands out to me about
Speaker 1: this movie is the melancholy ending. It has a very
Speaker 1: sad ending, which is kind of unheard of I think
Speaker 1: for American movies, even horror movies of the time. Definitely,
Speaker 1: and a wonderful performance by Dee Wallace. Great movie, The Howling.
Speaker 3: Love that really good pick. I'm gonna go for another
Speaker 3: John Carpenter movie. As I said, I do love him.
Speaker 3: This is controversially one maybe my favorite John Carpenter movie.
Speaker 3: I don't know. The vibes are just so good. The
Speaker 3: Fog Ooh from nineteen eighty co written by John Carpenter
Speaker 3: and Deborah Hill, the legendary producer, also stars AJM Bobo,
Speaker 3: Jamie Lee, Curs, Tom Atkins, Janet Lee. It's such a
Speaker 3: great movie and it's basically about a radio DJ in NorCal.
Speaker 3: I'm still trying to work out how I can become
Speaker 3: a late night radio DJ.
Speaker 4: And you're listening to Rosie Knight at night. The cold
Speaker 4: fogs are rolling in, but I'm here to keep you
Speaker 4: warm with these lounge jazz classics.
Speaker 3: And Adrian Barbo plays the radio DJ and she's in
Speaker 3: a small narcout town. They're about to celebrate their centennial year.
Speaker 3: But when a weird glowing fog appears, people start to
Speaker 3: get murdered, and you eventually learn that these kind of
Speaker 3: ghostly pirates are coming out of the fog and killing people.
Speaker 3: It's so weird, it's so good, so many great practical effects,
Speaker 3: extremely vibe next up.
Speaker 1: Didn't mention it in my rundown out of eighty five,
Speaker 1: so I have to mention it here. I'm not a
Speaker 1: fan of anthologies. Usually I find anthology movies to be
Speaker 1: usually uneven at best and very boring at worst. But
Speaker 1: there are two great horror anthologies of the eighties, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about one of them right now.
Speaker 1: Katsi from nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3: Great pick, what a deep cut.
Speaker 1: I love Katsai. This is all based on Stephen King's stuff. Again,
Speaker 1: Stephen king adaptations were ruling the eighties. There's a through
Speaker 1: line here of this cat that is roaming through all
Speaker 1: the stories and appears in all the stories, and every
Speaker 1: story is in its own way notable and awesome. You
Speaker 1: have Quitters Incorporated, in which a man hires a company
Speaker 1: to quit smoking and the company turns out to be best.
Speaker 1: Not spoil it, but it's great. You have the Ledge,
Speaker 1: which is just like a psycho thriller about a insane
Speaker 1: physical trial that this person has to go through and
Speaker 1: then the general which ties it all together with the
Speaker 1: cat versus this mystical goblin creature. Drew Barrymore again with
Speaker 1: another wonderful performance. James Woods, who has since gone insane
Speaker 1: but is wonderful in this film, appears Katsig in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five. It's great.
Speaker 3: Okay, now, guys, I will warn you if you've been
Speaker 3: watching the rest of my picks, you might be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: these are my little cozy b movie hardpicks. My next
Speaker 3: one is not I have to bring up because we
Speaker 3: haven't talked about it, and I do think it is
Speaker 3: a very important movie from this decade, and that is Possession.
Speaker 3: This is a wild movie. I love this movie, deeply
Speaker 3: important movie to me. It stars Samuel who You also
Speaker 3: are like, wow, that guy's never in weird movies. No,
Speaker 3: this is a very strange movie. He is an international
Speaker 3: spy who returns to Berlin where his wife played by
Speaker 3: Isabelle Ajohnny, one of my favorite actresses. Yeah, this is Pikajanni.
Speaker 3: She is asking for a divorce and throughout the movie
Speaker 3: there becomes this strange push and pull between them about
Speaker 3: why she wants to leave, and it becomes this kind
Speaker 3: of psychosis of romance and betrayal and a strange tent
Speaker 3: called Preachers. It is an incredibly unsettling movie. It's an
Speaker 3: incredibly fucking cool movie, and also right now it is
Speaker 3: maybe the most influential horror movie on twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: because movies like The First Omen and Immacula, there are sequences,
Speaker 3: especially in the First Omen, that are directly taken from
Speaker 3: this very famous scene with Isabella Johnny in a tunnel
Speaker 3: during Possession. So if you want to see something weird,
Speaker 3: if you're like you guys aren't recommending scary stuff, Henry
Speaker 3: of Portrait, Henry Portrait of a serial Killer and Possession
Speaker 3: would be like a absolutely day ruining double bill. So
Speaker 3: if you want that kind of thing, we can deliver
Speaker 3: that too.
Speaker 1: My next up is nineteen eighty three's classic from David Cronenberg, Videodrome.
Speaker 3: Oh oh my god, what a pick.
Speaker 1: If you're familiar with Cronenberg and his body horror stylings,
Speaker 1: this is a film. This is a film that you
Speaker 1: might be familiar with because of the many, many scenes
Speaker 1: which have later become memes. Yeah, and gifts that appear
Speaker 1: on social media, that appeared on The Daily Show, that
Speaker 1: appeared in various other forums. Guys heads exploding things coming
Speaker 1: out of their guts. And it's basically what if TV
Speaker 1: was bringing stuff from another dimension to inside of you.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Another wonderful, brilliant performances by James Woods Debbie
Speaker 1: Harry in an acting term.
Speaker 3: She's so a.
Speaker 1: Gross, thought provoking horror classic by David Cronenberg video drum.
Speaker 3: Oh man, what a great pick. I've already got what
Speaker 3: more space? Oh my gosh, guys, this is so hard.
Speaker 3: I could literally just talk about this all day. I
Speaker 3: am going to go for Oh my god. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go for one. I have to include this
Speaker 3: because it is like a very big part of my personality.
Speaker 3: So even though there are many seminal movies we have
Speaker 3: not touched on yet, movies like The Thing or The Hitcher,
Speaker 3: go and watch that. It's so fucking scary. It's so scary.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick in the line of my movies and
Speaker 3: I haven't talked about yet. There are b movies that
Speaker 3: you can stream now. Nineteen eighty eight. A. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: didn't talk about but another great explosion year for horror
Speaker 3: Killer Clowns from out of Space.
Speaker 1: Oh, Killer Clowns Around.
Speaker 3: I love this movie.
Speaker 1: Another movie filmed in Santa Cruz, The Santa.
Speaker 3: Deeply important movie for me. I love this movie as
Speaker 3: a kid, made by the Chiodo brothers. I actually have
Speaker 3: a Killer Clown's fan comic that I made with my
Speaker 3: brilliantly talented artist friend Daniel Rude Massa that I basically
Speaker 3: am always carrying around in my back pocket, like hege,
Speaker 3: you want to make a Kill a Clown's graphic novel?
Speaker 3: I love this movie. It's so much fun, and it's
Speaker 3: basically about aliens who come from space to Earth and
Speaker 3: they their ships look like giant circuses, and they look
Speaker 3: like scary clowns, and they have these fantastic practical suits
Speaker 3: in case people in cotton candy. I just love this movie.
Speaker 3: It's so silly, it's so weird, and I think it
Speaker 3: has stood the test of time as like an incredibly
Speaker 3: inventive B movie. And they recently made a Killer Clowns
Speaker 3: from out Space video game that was very well received.
Speaker 3: I am just generally a big fan of Killer Clowns,
Speaker 3: so I had to include that one in my list.
Speaker 3: That's a totally fun movie. If you haven't seen it, guys,
Speaker 3: go watch it now.
Speaker 1: Here's my last one. All your B movie vibes, all
Speaker 1: your pulp comic book vibes, all your horror comic vibes.
Speaker 1: This is the other great horror anthology of the eighties,
Speaker 1: again adapting Stephen King's works. It is nineteen eighty two's
Speaker 1: creep Show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: It is funny, it is gross, it is pulpy. There's
Speaker 1: your comic book stuff in there. Each wonderful vignette has
Speaker 1: a great moral like, yeah, very like a moral message.
Speaker 1: It is a very moral movie.
Speaker 3: Also directed by George A. Ramera, written by Stephen King,
Speaker 3: like what can you do? And it's like very easy homage.
Speaker 1: Yes, very easy. Stephen King appears in it in what
Speaker 1: I actually think is a quite surprise risingly good performance
Speaker 1: acting wise from Stephen King's very over the top, but
Speaker 1: I think it works. Nineteen eighty twos creep Show, yea,
Speaker 1: and that is the eighties for horror. I feel like
Speaker 1: you could just keep doing.
Speaker 3: This because this could be its whole own sub show
Speaker 3: for shoal. But this was so good. I'm very excited
Speaker 3: to hopefully do more of these debates about best horror
Speaker 3: in the decades, because this is really fun.
Speaker 1: On the next couple of episodes of X ray Vision,
Speaker 1: we've got episode six of The Penguin. Tuesday, we're diving
Speaker 1: into episode seven of Agatha Along and then in extras
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Aaron and Oboo are back with another recap
Speaker 1: of episode six and seven of season one of Arcane.
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