Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it is Tuesday, October the fourteenth, And if
Speaker 1: you like government conspiracies, small town heroes, and one of
Speaker 1: the funniest lines you will ever hear in a horror movie,
Speaker 1: have we got a doozy for you? Everybody? Welcome to
Speaker 1: this number eighteen now as we count down our horror
Speaker 1: hit lists of our favorite horror movies that you probably
Speaker 1: don't even know and rose this. This is a favorite.
Speaker 1: And if you like this is apocalyptic, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, right movie. I love apocalyptic horror movies. This is
Speaker 2: one of my favorite ones, all time favorite ones. It's
Speaker 2: The Crazies. Release date twenty ten, runtime an hour forty
Speaker 2: one and rateed R. It's perfect. It is so much fun.
Speaker 2: It's got just the right amount of gore and horror
Speaker 2: and dissipation. You're rooting so hard for the main couple
Speaker 2: in this, and we love the acting. We love the actors.
Speaker 2: It's just an awesome movie. So the synopsis is this
Speaker 2: anarchy reigns when an unknown toxin turns the peaceful citizens
Speaker 2: of Ogden Marsh into blood thirsty lunatics. In an effort
Speaker 2: to contain the spread of the infection, authorities blockade the
Speaker 2: town and use deadly force to keep anyone from getting
Speaker 2: in or out. Now trapped among killers, Sheriff Dutton and
Speaker 2: his wife and two companions must band together to find
Speaker 2: a way out before madness and death overtake them.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good synopsis.
Speaker 2: It's a great concept because not only are you afraid
Speaker 2: of your fellow townspeople who are now monstrous, infected, flesh
Speaker 2: eating crazy people, you're also afraid of the US government
Speaker 2: that's trying to take you out because they're afraid you
Speaker 2: might be infected.
Speaker 1: You have no friends in this and it is it's
Speaker 1: I'll get through the some of the details of it,
Speaker 1: but right it's once it starts. This is another one
Speaker 1: that keeps you on the edge of your seat because
Speaker 1: there's no relief at any point this movie.
Speaker 2: And the opening baseball game, oh yeah, If that doesn't
Speaker 2: reel you in that scene, then nothing will. I mean,
Speaker 2: that is such an iconic start to a movie. Every
Speaker 2: time I've watched this movie, we've watched it together at
Speaker 2: least five times probably, and I have watched it countless times,
Speaker 2: and it never gets old.
Speaker 1: This is one why I would say, if you have
Speaker 1: your doubts about it or doubting us give it ten minutes.
Speaker 1: This is one I just please ask, Give this one
Speaker 1: ten minutes and you'll be in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it did well at the box office. At
Speaker 2: the time twenty ten, it had a reported twenty million
Speaker 2: dollar budget, but it made fifty four point eight million,
Speaker 2: so it did well. So a lot of folks went
Speaker 2: out to the theaters to see this one. And we
Speaker 2: mentioned the stellar cast. We mentioned the stellar acting Timothy Olafant. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, just a remarkable anytime I see him, and
Speaker 2: he's done it all rom comms. He always plays law enforcement,
Speaker 2: I feel like, and this time it's no different. He's
Speaker 2: a sheriff. He's the sheriff of the small town. Perfectly
Speaker 2: plays it so well. Roda Mitchell. I didn't necessarily know
Speaker 2: her name, but man, do I know her face. Every
Speaker 2: time I see her, I'm like, Oh, this is gonna
Speaker 2: be good. And so they're the couple. She's the town doctor,
Speaker 2: I believe, and he is the town sheriff. And together
Speaker 2: they take on the world.
Speaker 1: And there they make a perfect duo. They make a
Speaker 1: perfect loving duo that you're really because I'm usually sometimes
Speaker 1: not a fan of getting so much into some personal
Speaker 1: family story in a horror movie. This is one I
Speaker 1: really appreciate it because you're rooting for him so hard
Speaker 1: because of what he had to go through to get
Speaker 1: to her. It's a really it's a cool love story
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: Middle of this thing there is I do appreciate that
Speaker 2: she does end up alone and abandoned quite often, but
Speaker 2: he does usually get there just in a nicked time,
Speaker 2: which we love. Joe Anderson also plays basically he's his
Speaker 2: deputy correct in this Joe Anderson, he's like the sidekick,
Speaker 2: but he's great.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, you'll know here is another one. You'll
Speaker 1: know the face, but even if you don't know the name.
Speaker 2: So here's something I found out about the movie that
Speaker 2: I did not know having watched it so many times
Speaker 2: feeling like I know this thing backwards and forwards. Did
Speaker 2: you know that this is a remake? I did not
Speaker 2: know that it is, Yes, a remake. So the director,
Speaker 2: Bret Eisner, actually brought in George A. Romero, who wrote
Speaker 2: and directed the original, to have him serve as an
Speaker 2: executive producer on the remake, which is really really cool.
Speaker 2: And so people who were big fans of the original,
Speaker 2: which by the way, was in nineteen seventy three, it
Speaker 2: was listed as an action horror sci fi film. It
Speaker 2: did pretty well. It got sixty eight percent on Rotten
Speaker 2: Tomatoes back in the day in nineteen seventy three. But
Speaker 2: people who loved it, it's pretty cool why they loved
Speaker 2: the remake because there was really a nod to the
Speaker 2: original throughout. People said it didn't have a major departure.
Speaker 2: It was changed for more modern time, but all in
Speaker 2: the right ways. So it was that's very rare where
Speaker 2: you have a beloved original. People who loved it also
Speaker 2: loved the remake, and so actually their Rotten Tomato score
Speaker 2: for the One We Love in twenty ten did really well,
Speaker 2: seventy two percent on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't understand the
Speaker 2: audience score fifty seven percent. Wow, how can you explain that?
Speaker 1: Okay, well you look through some of the reviews. How
Speaker 1: do you explain it? How were they what was their
Speaker 1: problem with the movie?
Speaker 2: I guess I think that they just felt like it
Speaker 2: wasn't scary enough. But I actually disagree. I Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: the tension the pitchfork alone. If you look at the art,
Speaker 2: the cover of this film, The Crazies, anywhere you go
Speaker 2: to stream it, you'll see the pitchfork, and that in
Speaker 2: and of itself is frightening, and then the way it's
Speaker 2: used in the film Hello, the.
Speaker 1: Pitchfork scene might be the most terrifying. Terrifying is the
Speaker 1: word I would use for that scene, because it takes
Speaker 1: so long to build up, and nobody's jumping out at you.
Speaker 1: There's no scare. You see it, you feel it, and you're, oh, well,
Speaker 1: a great scene. So yeah, I don't know. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: in the horror movies expect jump scares they I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe to each his or her own.
Speaker 2: I often, really, I've said this before, rely a lot
Speaker 2: on audience score versus critics score. But sometimes I am
Speaker 2: baffled by what people expect out of a movie, and
Speaker 2: maybe just I think it's I've noticed it in the
Speaker 2: zombie genre or apocalyptic genre, people have very high expectations.
Speaker 2: It just seems like they hold those movies to a
Speaker 2: higher level of They want it to be extra scary,
Speaker 2: they want the graphics to be beyond reproach, they want
Speaker 2: the zombies to be a certain way, and if it's
Speaker 2: not exactly, if there's too much comedy, if there's maybe
Speaker 2: even too much romance in this one, if there's too
Speaker 2: much of another subplot they get upset, So I'm just
Speaker 2: thinking that could possibly be the reason for the lower
Speaker 2: audience score. Don't out. But the critics consensus, I think
Speaker 2: is perfectly put, tense, nicely shot, and uncommonly intelligent. The
Speaker 2: Crazies is a horror remake that unusually works.
Speaker 1: I thought this was smart. Again, I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was a remake, so when I was first seeing it
Speaker 1: and seeing how right. We've seen a lot of zombie
Speaker 1: and apocalypse stuff, and it's usually something in nature. The
Speaker 1: government was behind this one, and there was I guess
Speaker 1: there was something more practical about, you know what. I
Speaker 1: could see them possibly having something in a lab they're
Speaker 1: developing that gets out and causes all kinds of terrors
Speaker 1: of the community.
Speaker 2: Hello wuhan COVID nineteen. I mean this is well before
Speaker 2: any of obviously our common or our present day or
Speaker 2: our recent pandemic, but man, it did kind of sound
Speaker 2: a little bit like that. Some Here are some of
Speaker 2: the critic reviews, and again most of them are good.
Speaker 2: I've got one bad one in here, just to throw
Speaker 2: it in, But The Crazies is a genuinely good film,
Speaker 2: deserving of its namesake, and bolstered by confident, muscular direction
Speaker 2: and some fine performances from the cast.
Speaker 1: Yes, great cast. Once again, it.
Speaker 2: Was so good all right. While this does have many
Speaker 2: beats that are similar to films in this genre, the
Speaker 2: leads were strong and there was some haunting imagery that
Speaker 2: makes this an interesting watch. The opening baseball scene is
Speaker 2: really effective.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to say the least. That is probably one of
Speaker 2: my favorite opening scenes of any movie. It's got to
Speaker 2: be at least in my top ten.
Speaker 1: And terrifying as well, because it was in broad daylight,
Speaker 1: it was in front of a crowd. Was how long
Speaker 1: did that? Okay? It played out for a little bit.
Speaker 2: That tension was great because it was a scene that
Speaker 2: normally would be nothing but fun and light and wholesome
Speaker 2: and family oriented. And then to have it turn on
Speaker 2: its head the way it does, Oh my goodness, all right.
Speaker 2: Another critic review one of those rare cases where the
Speaker 2: remake lives up to the original, if not exceeds it.
Speaker 2: Nice see, And I thought, again, I thought that was
Speaker 2: so cool. Now here's here's one of the bad reviews.
Speaker 2: Without the rotting ickiness of proper zombies, they just seem
Speaker 2: like methed Out Iowans looking for a fix that's scary,
Speaker 2: but not scary enough.
Speaker 1: That's kind of exactly what it is. These are just
Speaker 1: normal people who they do. They get drugged up on
Speaker 1: something and they absolutely go crazy. So I think that's
Speaker 1: maybe accurate, but it scares me.
Speaker 2: Meth Out Islands, if that's what you want to call it.
Speaker 2: They were pretty damn scary to me, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to be anywhere near anything or anyone that looks
Speaker 2: or acts like that. It was creepy, creepy, creepy, all right,
Speaker 2: and we're.
Speaker 1: I just pointing at you Iolands met Out anything scared
Speaker 1: right right.
Speaker 2: Right right. But when I saw that review, I did
Speaker 2: I did laugh. I thought that was pretty funny for
Speaker 2: a bad review. It was. It got a chuckle out
Speaker 2: of me, all right. The audience some of what they said,
Speaker 2: and some of these were recent ones, because again in
Speaker 2: the streaming world now people are discovering movies that they
Speaker 2: had never even heard of before. That's part of the
Speaker 2: reason why we're doing this series, because there are so
Speaker 2: many good horror flicks out there that you might not
Speaker 2: have heard of that didn't necessarily get the big box
Speaker 2: office splash that some others did so this one reads
Speaker 2: fantastically entertaining flick. Timothy Oliphant will forever be one of
Speaker 2: the greatest Hollywood stars that has been greatly overlooked, and
Speaker 2: he brings his a game as usual, and so does
Speaker 2: the rest of the cast YEP, particularly Joe Anderson as
Speaker 2: Olafan's cohort. The movie has an intriguing start, maniacal middle,
Speaker 2: and an awesome ending. Brilliantly directed, edited, and really well written.
Speaker 2: I thought that was so true.
Speaker 1: And you can't say enough about Timothy Olafant. What was
Speaker 1: What was the show he was just on when he
Speaker 1: was a sheriff?
Speaker 2: Deadwood?
Speaker 1: No, that's not him, this one is. I think it
Speaker 1: was on FX. We're gonna have it in two seconds.
Speaker 1: But he has been in several things. Again I say
Speaker 1: the name. You might not know it off the top
Speaker 1: of your head, but he starred as the bad guy
Speaker 1: in one of the die Hard four livet for your
Speaker 1: die Hard he played and gone in sixty seconds.
Speaker 2: As he wasn't Deadwood by the way, this.
Speaker 1: He was in debt he starting Deadwood? Yeah, Oh, what's
Speaker 1: this other sheriff show? I am bugging.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I just I don't know what
Speaker 2: that one is, but I knew he was in Deadwood.
Speaker 1: Oh really, are you doing this now?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know which one you're referring to.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I put justified. Jeez, justified.
Speaker 2: He started in Never Seen It?
Speaker 1: Okay, that was there, it is. That's the one I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about about that break. But my point is this
Speaker 1: guy is a face you know and know well. Even
Speaker 1: goes back to uh scream two.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I loved.
Speaker 1: As well, so you know his face really well. But
Speaker 1: he does everything. He's just such. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say he should be typecast at all. But if you
Speaker 1: need a small town sheriff with heart who's gonna love
Speaker 1: his woman and defend his this is your guy.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, all right this song. I wanted to add
Speaker 2: this little funny review from an audience member because it
Speaker 2: just made me laugh. I remember the name of the movie,
Speaker 2: The Crazies, right. Here's his review, very misleading. When I
Speaker 2: saw the title and watch the movie, I was confused
Speaker 2: that not one of my ex girlfriends were in this
Speaker 2: but an he would ah well, enjoyable movie and definitely
Speaker 2: weren't the watch but it did make me laugh. I
Speaker 2: thought that was very funny. Something else that made me
Speaker 2: laugh was a line from the movie that you anticipated
Speaker 2: right at the exact time it was about to be delivered,
Speaker 2: and I heard it for the first time in a
Speaker 2: way I hadn't before.
Speaker 1: See, I don't know, I should we I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't give that line away. You know what, I'm curious.
Speaker 1: We should have folks right in if you watch this movie,
Speaker 1: please reach out because there is a line in this movie.
Speaker 1: I think it's unmistakable as the because not a lot
Speaker 1: of humor in this movie. No, and even when he
Speaker 1: delivers the line, nobody deadpans, right, But it is the
Speaker 1: funniest thing. But yeah, I don't know how I remember
Speaker 1: so much stuff from movies that I love. I know
Speaker 1: it annoys you, Like any scenario that happens in our day.
Speaker 1: How annoying is that day to day?
Speaker 2: I can get Well, mostly it's annoying when you can
Speaker 2: remember exactly what I said and how I said it
Speaker 2: when I remembered it very differently from the day before.
Speaker 1: But I'm just trying to talk about movies. You turned
Speaker 1: into relationship, is all right?
Speaker 2: When we come back, how about we give you the
Speaker 2: line and then we'll talk about why it made our list,
Speaker 2: who it's for, who it's not for, and what's a
Speaker 2: pair with. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. This
Speaker 2: is our deep Cuts, our Halloween horror hit list, and
Speaker 2: we have made it to number eighteen and the craziest
Speaker 2: one of our all time favorite movies. And TJ pointed
Speaker 2: out one of his all time favorite movie lines, there's.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of humor in this movie. I actually
Speaker 1: cannot remember another moment of humor, any moment of levity.
Speaker 2: I didn't remember that there was a moment at all
Speaker 2: until you pointed out. Truly, it went right past me.
Speaker 1: So all this is going on, it's just a moment
Speaker 1: where there's desperation. The authorities are trying to get people
Speaker 1: out of town, and they're separating people who have a fever.
Speaker 1: They put you over there in another group because they
Speaker 1: think maybe you're infected. So Timothy Oliphant, the lead, gets
Speaker 1: separated from his wife and he's desperate to get to her,
Speaker 1: but he's walking along another townsman who's like, dude, don't
Speaker 1: waste your time. He's like, it's a fool's errand to
Speaker 1: even go back and try to get your wife out,
Speaker 1: they're gonna shoot you. They're gonna kill you. Timothy Oliphant's
Speaker 1: asking him about his wife, like this guy seemed perfectly
Speaker 1: fine leaving his wife behind, at which point Timothy Olaphant
Speaker 1: delivers the funniest line of the movie, and he says,
Speaker 1: to the man, tell you what. You don't ask me
Speaker 1: why I can't leave without my wife, I won't ask
Speaker 1: you why you can leave without yours. It was just wonderful.
Speaker 1: Nobody laughed, no deadban and you would the line if
Speaker 1: you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2: I had up until this. You literally said, here's my
Speaker 2: favorite line, and you pointed to it right before he
Speaker 2: said it, like you knew when he was about to say.
Speaker 1: It was hilarious. But it's again to somebody's point. A.
Speaker 1: Critics said, great writing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, So that is one of the
Speaker 2: many reasons why the Crazies made our list. It's well acted,
Speaker 2: an amazing plot that pitchfork and yes, some excellently delivered
Speaker 2: lines by Timothy Oliphant. Amazing. So who is this for?
Speaker 2: If you love as we all do? And apocalyptic style
Speaker 2: horror film, a classic kind of zombie infection, We're all
Speaker 2: gonna die kind of movie. Yes, this is the movie
Speaker 2: for you. I think that is absolutely who this is for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it does it well. Some could even think
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tire genre. You don't see a
Speaker 1: lot of new stuff. Yeah, there's new stuff in here.
Speaker 1: And even if it does follow a formula, the leads,
Speaker 1: the characters make this such a compelling watch. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but right, I guess we qualify zombies.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, because they have to be they
Speaker 2: have to be killed and like stopped. You have to
Speaker 2: like shoot them in the head. It's not like they're
Speaker 2: going to get better, so yes, they're done. Who is
Speaker 2: this not for? I think if honestly, if you don't
Speaker 2: want to be entertained, if you don't want crazy fun,
Speaker 2: if you don't want NonStop thrills, if you don't want
Speaker 2: to be on the edge of your seat, don't watch
Speaker 2: this movie because you will be all of those things.
Speaker 2: I can't even think of. Who wouldn't like this? Is it?
Speaker 2: It's not that gory. I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: horror anticipation about what might happen, certainly, and obviously there
Speaker 2: are some gruesome deaths, but I don't recall this being
Speaker 2: exceptionally gory.
Speaker 1: No, you're right, I'm trying to think through. No, you're right,
Speaker 1: but look there's blood and guts. Oh, these folks going
Speaker 1: after each other. But nah, again, I wouldn't watch it
Speaker 1: with your middle schooler.
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, no, I would not either. Maybe if
Speaker 2: you're pregnant, you might not want to watch this wow
Speaker 2: because the lead character is.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that's right. Yes, I thought you were saying
Speaker 1: it wasna not gonna be good for the health.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I just think it might just freak you
Speaker 2: out a little bit, like just how extra vulnerable you
Speaker 2: are as a pregnant woman. But that would just be
Speaker 2: the only thing. Now. In terms of food, drink and pairing,
Speaker 2: maybe skip the water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe don't drink water out of the tap. Drink
Speaker 2: anything you want out of a can or a bottle.
Speaker 2: And I would also say, because it's set in Iowa,
Speaker 2: there's corn fields everywhere, pop some corn, have some popcorn, popcorn,
Speaker 2: and anything but tap water.
Speaker 1: You know what, In our we work together hours upon
Speaker 1: hours every day. I don't see you put any more
Speaker 1: creative effort into anything than you do the food pairings
Speaker 1: on this You actually give some real thought, I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You know what if you if you'd like to like
Speaker 2: really go all in and theme this out where you
Speaker 2: feel like, yeah, I am watching this movie and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pair it with this and I'm gonna watch this one.
Speaker 2: You could also watch. There are a lot of daylight
Speaker 2: hours for this. I think the last half it is dark. Yeah,
Speaker 2: probably want to watch it at night, Yeah, definitely. Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't be fooled. The first part of it's in the daytime.
Speaker 2: We're like, oh, I can watch this with the lines
Speaker 2: up and daylight. It starts to get dark and then
Speaker 2: you can't see and it's frustrating. So people are probably
Speaker 2: laughing at us, like, no one has time to watch
Speaker 2: horror movies during the day except for us. Oh, we
Speaker 2: squeeze it in.
Speaker 1: We prioritize Oh, because we usually are done with work
Speaker 1: by the time the sun comes up.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going sleep by seven pm, just when it
Speaker 2: gets dark. So yes, our kids make fun of that constantly.
Speaker 2: Where you can watch this just about anywhere, Stars, Hulu,
Speaker 2: AMC Plus, you stream it. It's there. So this should
Speaker 2: be readily available to anybody who would like to watch this,
Speaker 2: and we highly, highly highly recommend that you do. All right,
Speaker 2: teasing ahead to our next episode, the next movie that
Speaker 2: we'll be making our list tomorrow. If you think marrying
Speaker 2: into the family of your spouse was tough, if you don't,
Speaker 2: if you don't have a great relationship with your in laws,
Speaker 2: this movie is gonna put your experience to shame.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh yes, stop complaining about your in laws. After
Speaker 1: you see this movie, you will for sure that's gonna
Speaker 1: be number seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah on our lists. All right, with that, thank you
Speaker 2: for listening. We hope you enjoyed the Crazies as much
Speaker 2: as we did. I may be Robock alongside TJ. Holmes.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow. A little final insult
Speaker 2: love that have a good day, everybody,