Speaker 1: Hey, there're folks. It is Monday, October the thirteenth, and
Speaker 1: the next movie on our horror hit list is all
Speaker 1: the more impressive because the actors had to shoot it
Speaker 1: all themselves without ever leaving their own homes.
Speaker 2: Welcome to this edition of Amy and TJ. As we
Speaker 2: continue on our horror hit list, we are number nineteen.
Speaker 2: This is a pandemic movie, Robes. And even if I
Speaker 2: didn't tell you that ahead of time, probably fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: into this folks will figure that out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's remarkable given all of what was against
Speaker 3: them in terms of production value. It's a brilliant movie.
Speaker 3: It's funny, it's not that scary, but it's creepy and
Speaker 3: mostly it's just super super super entertaining. And well, the title,
Speaker 3: don't let it fool you.
Speaker 1: The title of number nineteen on our horror hit list
Speaker 1: is untitled horror movie. That is the name of the movie,
Speaker 1: Untitled horror movie. And it makes sense as you go throughout.
Speaker 1: But yes, as we are going throughout the month that
Speaker 1: we count down our favorite horror movies that you probably
Speaker 1: don't know, this is number nineteen on our list. And yes,
Speaker 1: this one was released Robes in the Summer of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty run right in the middle of the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it hit right at that sweet spot of
Speaker 3: our twenty seven minutes. So it's eighty seven minutes long.
Speaker 3: It's not rated, and it's genre is horror comedy, and
Speaker 3: I would say that most people who watch this movie
Speaker 3: and love this movie would flip it and say it's
Speaker 3: a comedy with some horror in it, because it really
Speaker 3: is funny. I mean, the writing is clever, the acting
Speaker 3: is wonderful, and especially when you consider the fact that
Speaker 3: these folks were never in a studio together. They didn't
Speaker 3: actually get to interact with interact with one another in
Speaker 3: person to person. So it's pretty cool that they were
Speaker 3: able to pull this off and have it be as
Speaker 3: entertaining and as good as it is.
Speaker 1: Some of these faces you'll recognize in the movie as well.
Speaker 1: But this is one you ask about the box office,
Speaker 1: and there was not one. This one did not have
Speaker 1: a wide release in theaters. Instead, it went directly to streaming.
Speaker 1: You can find it several places streaming still. But the cast,
Speaker 1: some of these names you might not know, even though
Speaker 1: were some faces you might know. Darren Barnett is a
Speaker 1: name what was the show on Netflix. I just had
Speaker 1: it up in my head. Never have I ever he
Speaker 1: was starring in that show. Then there's Katherine McNamara, Emmy Raver, Lampman,
Speaker 1: Luke Baines. But Claire Holt, I think Robes is one
Speaker 1: who's certainly had some television stardom, and she was also
Speaker 1: in forty seven Meters Down, Yes, that horror flick. But
Speaker 1: she's our running buddy.
Speaker 3: Yes, we love Claire Holt. We have actually ended up
Speaker 3: right next to her, although she has taken off way
Speaker 3: ahead of us at two marathons now right, Chicago and
Speaker 3: New York. Didn't we see her at both?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's at every I think she's been ever, maybe
Speaker 1: not the latter. Look we see her in marathon pretty
Speaker 1: much that we have run. But she is an avid,
Speaker 1: avid runner and a damn good one.
Speaker 3: She's she's fast, she's hardcore, she's fierce, and she's fun
Speaker 3: and she's kind and she's just sweet. We've just had
Speaker 3: so much fun getting to know her leading up to
Speaker 3: starting these races. A lot of times they'll put it well,
Speaker 3: they'll put us in a tent at least in New
Speaker 3: York City, and so we get to spend a little
Speaker 3: bit of quality time with folks who are about to
Speaker 3: run and we're all nervous and sharing that excitement together.
Speaker 3: So yeah, she's been awesome. So it's been fun to
Speaker 3: cheer her on the big screen in the small screen
Speaker 3: as well, just to know how what a cool human
Speaker 3: being she is as well.
Speaker 1: But she's the asshole in this movie.
Speaker 3: She's the asshole. But it's fun. Man, She's really good.
Speaker 3: She's such a great actress. She's not just a great runner.
Speaker 3: But here's the synopsis. By the way, I don't we
Speaker 3: haven't given that to you yet. This is the basis
Speaker 3: for the film, a comedy about making a horror movie.
Speaker 3: When six co stars learned their hit TV show is
Speaker 3: about to be canceled, they decide to shoot their own
Speaker 3: film unintentionally. Some a spirit with an affinity for violence.
Speaker 3: So yes, the violence ensues, but SODA's the hilarity.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty perfect write up for what goes on.
Speaker 1: And they all really embrace being some like Hollywood just
Speaker 1: hitted big arrogant kids who they nail. They embrace, and
Speaker 1: they nail that part of it to where you're almost
Speaker 1: not rooting for them in times.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I mean, I forgot the character the Ditsi,
Speaker 3: the super Ditsi blonde. She just leans in fully to
Speaker 3: her role, and it's so fun to watch them. By
Speaker 3: the way, don't just take our word for it this time,
Speaker 3: we actually have the backing of Rotten tomatoes. The movie
Speaker 3: got a really decent score eighty two percent by the critics.
Speaker 3: The audience score, though, was a little lower than I
Speaker 3: would have expected, sixty eight percent. Maybe people did have
Speaker 3: an expectation to see more action or to see something scarier.
Speaker 3: That would be the only criticism I could think of.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to actually watch something that was going
Speaker 3: to scare the heck out of you, this probably isn't
Speaker 3: your movie. But they're There are still some scares. There
Speaker 3: are still some thrills, some deaths, obviously, but it's all
Speaker 3: done almost with your tongue in cheek, like you don't
Speaker 3: even know, like is that real? Is that a part
Speaker 3: of the shtick? Or oh no, wow, I think they
Speaker 3: actually did die. So again, you're not going to be
Speaker 3: on the edge of your seat scared to death, but
Speaker 3: it's so fun and so entertaining.
Speaker 1: Yeah, edge of your seat, even if it's not edge
Speaker 1: of your seat scared to death, the anticipation of so
Speaker 1: many things, and there are a lot of jump scares
Speaker 1: that isn't it's not a monster jumping out. Actually, it's
Speaker 1: just a movement or a moment or a little something.
Speaker 1: And they do this so well. Now, no critic consensus
Speaker 1: on this one, but we had to dig to find
Speaker 1: anything negative. Quite frankly, they were glowing a glare, excuse
Speaker 1: me glowing. Critic reviews one saying untitled horror movie isn't
Speaker 1: a bad film. It's a simple, low budget horror comedy
Speaker 1: that's having a good time, poking fun at the genre,
Speaker 1: and it's young Hollywood characters. Yes, it's having a good time.
Speaker 1: And again, it's so impressive that they pulled this off,
Speaker 1: never having been in the same.
Speaker 3: Room with you. He Yes. Another critic review a finely
Speaker 3: tuned horror comedy exercise that benefits from the chemistry of
Speaker 3: its cast and the managed expectations feel of its storytelling.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Another. If anything, this modest but entirely charming movie
Speaker 1: may deserve a tiny slice of immortality by showing the
Speaker 1: kind of goofy, escapist fund that can be created even
Speaker 1: in a grim time that's perfect for the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Yes, and the last one from the critics that we
Speaker 3: will bring to you untitled horror movie shouldn't really work
Speaker 3: as well as it does, but it's smart, hilarious and
Speaker 3: has a killer cast to make any doubts go away.
Speaker 1: Agreed they have to carry this to think that they were,
Speaker 1: and I wondered how much of this did they have
Speaker 1: to just did they have anybody to play off of
Speaker 1: always when they're reading their lines, because there's so much
Speaker 1: they have to do in a room on their own
Speaker 1: that's over the top. And I didn't realize how funny
Speaker 1: the movie was until I started reading some of the
Speaker 1: reviews and oh, yeah, it is funny.
Speaker 3: And then we re watched it. Easy for me to say,
Speaker 3: and it's still it. It held. I mean, we were
Speaker 3: still laughing. I still enjoyed the movie. It's because it
Speaker 3: is one of those movies that, because there isn't a
Speaker 3: lot of action orienticipations, so to speak, you think, I
Speaker 3: don't know what I want to watch this again. We
Speaker 3: did to review it and it absolutely delivers. To watch
Speaker 3: it again and I loved it even more, maybe the
Speaker 3: second time because I appreciated it in a different way.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. A couple of negative ones coming from the audience.
Speaker 1: Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, one just simply put it no horror,
Speaker 1: no comedy.
Speaker 3: Oh disagree completely, cop. I mean, then that person doesn't
Speaker 3: have a sense of humor because I thought it was
Speaker 3: so funny.
Speaker 1: No horror, no comedy.
Speaker 3: That come on, it had both untitled horror movie is
Speaker 3: a create a create creatively and intelligently meta horror film,
Speaker 3: bringing something fresh despite predecessors like Hosts that set the
Speaker 3: bar high. Oh yes, that's another fan favorite. But yes,
Speaker 3: there are a couple movies like this, and you think
Speaker 3: that they'd each be able to deliver, and yet they do.
Speaker 1: Some don't. There are a few out there because this
Speaker 1: was really this has been It hasn't been done to death,
Speaker 1: but it has been done a bit, and the ones
Speaker 1: that pull it off pull it off really well, and
Speaker 1: this one does do so. One here, not positive or negative,
Speaker 1: said these good looking young actors are not very good actors. Disagree,
Speaker 1: you issue with that one, But it is only funny
Speaker 1: at times, has a few good laughs, but just a few.
Speaker 1: That said. Somehow, it's still not a bad movie, reasonably
Speaker 1: good entertainment, not a waste of time. It was almost
Speaker 1: like he was upset he's debating with himself.
Speaker 3: I feel like it was a waste of time to
Speaker 3: write that review, Like, what's the point of saying they're
Speaker 3: not very good actors but also reasonably good entertainment. See,
Speaker 3: in order for you to be reasonably entertained, usually you
Speaker 3: do have to have some sort of clever acting and scriptwriting.
Speaker 3: And all of those things are true. I mean they
Speaker 3: I think the acting was amazing, I thought, and look,
Speaker 3: some of it was an actor playing an actor, and
Speaker 3: so they were going a little campy on it, which
Speaker 3: I appreciated. I thought that was part of the humor,
Speaker 3: the wink we were in on it. We understood what
Speaker 3: was going on, and so that's part of what made
Speaker 3: it fun.
Speaker 1: And we didn't even mention two cameos, I guess from
Speaker 1: this two pretty big name stars. Cal penn Is at
Speaker 1: the very beginning, he plays an agent, yes, right to
Speaker 1: one of probably the biggest knucklehead actor or a big
Speaker 1: old's knucklehead character. He plays the agent, but at the
Speaker 1: very beginning he has a very funny exchange with his client,
Speaker 1: so it was good to see him. And then Aisha
Speaker 1: Tyler Tyler, excuse me, who's a very familiar face and
Speaker 1: who of course plays Lana Kane on one of my
Speaker 1: favorite shows, Archer, but she's in there at the end.
Speaker 1: She was hilarious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were like, that's the voice, that's the voice
Speaker 3: that's of Lana in Archer, and I never realized that.
Speaker 3: But cal Pen's been popping up. He also was in
Speaker 3: Smile too, So it's funny when you see him as
Speaker 3: a comedian showing up in some horror movies. He must
Speaker 3: have love for the genre like us, and so he
Speaker 3: lends his comedic twist to a an otherwise horrific movie
Speaker 3: in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: We see him do that memorable in both of those roles.
Speaker 1: He was only in minutes in both of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I appreciated that. All right, So coming up,
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about why it made our list,
Speaker 3: who it's for, who it's not for, what to pail with,
Speaker 3: where to watch it, and a preview of the next
Speaker 3: movie on our horror hit list.
Speaker 1: Where did you say, peevo?
Speaker 3: Disorry? Sorry about that?
Speaker 1: What was the one earlier we rewatched? Believe it? Can't
Speaker 1: even believe you up to attempt?
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be right back. We continue our horror hit
Speaker 3: list and coming in at number nineteen. It is called
Speaker 3: untitled horror movie, and we thought it was an absolute
Speaker 3: ball of laughs and entertainment and fun, a few scares.
Speaker 3: It's got something for everybody. So we just thought we
Speaker 3: had to include this one because it did. It is
Speaker 3: a different type of horror movie. And I think that's
Speaker 3: what's been so fun about leaning into this genre is
Speaker 3: there are so many different types of horror movies. This
Speaker 3: is one that needs to at least get a nod.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then while I was talking to you about
Speaker 1: this earlier, we when we put all of our favorites
Speaker 1: like this together, we don't realize theirs acting is key
Speaker 1: to all of these movies. It's not just somebody running
Speaker 1: around yelling and screaming through the forest anymore. This is
Speaker 1: these are well acted films, and we have picked some
Speaker 1: that have Oscar winners in them. Even so, we good
Speaker 1: job by us.
Speaker 3: Got ourselves on the back for including some of these
Speaker 3: amazing horror comedy genres. But yes, I think good acting
Speaker 3: is key unless you're going total campy, and then you
Speaker 3: almost have to hope that the bad acting is deliberate
Speaker 3: bad acting because of the campy nature of a movie.
Speaker 3: But I don't think we don't have any in there
Speaker 3: that we don't have anything like that in this list,
Speaker 3: because I do. Do you think that at least it's
Speaker 3: coming around where you do have bigger names now saying hey,
Speaker 3: I'm going to give a horror genre a try, because
Speaker 3: a lot of times I think before it was considered
Speaker 3: a throwaway or a waste. And look, to die well
Speaker 3: is an art and to wake up scared is an art.
Speaker 1: Don't you talk.
Speaker 3: About this all the time?
Speaker 1: Yes, if any pay attention to movies, folks, with especially
Speaker 1: horror movies, there's gonna be several scenes where somebody has
Speaker 1: to wake up from a nightmare of some kind. There's
Speaker 1: sometimes there's sweating, but usually have to be breathing pretty hard.
Speaker 1: I actually asked your daughter, who just graduated from acting school.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, do they have a class in this? No,
Speaker 1: they don't. We didn't have a day or less it
Speaker 1: should be.
Speaker 3: They need one.
Speaker 1: It's hard to do.
Speaker 3: That's when you can tell a good horror movie from
Speaker 3: a bad one. How someone wakes up from a bad dream. Yes,
Speaker 3: all right, so but this is total fun and the
Speaker 3: acting is stellar. Who is it for anyone who wants
Speaker 3: to be entertained. You don't have to be a fan
Speaker 3: of horror. I actually think if you're trying to introduce
Speaker 3: somebody into a horror movie or have them watch some
Speaker 3: thing that's somewhat scary, this is a really good one
Speaker 3: to bring everybody into because it's not going to keep
Speaker 3: you up at night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a fun ride start to finish. It
Speaker 1: had to be on the list. I think we found
Speaker 1: this one out of kind of nowhere. We didn't I
Speaker 1: don't know if we knew what to think of it,
Speaker 1: but fell in love with this movie. And so to
Speaker 1: your point there this if you're like I would again,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm giving parents advice. This is
Speaker 1: one for your kids. This is kind of It might
Speaker 1: creep the kids out a little a little bit. That's
Speaker 1: some creepy stuff. It's not monstrous, monstrous stuff, a little supernatural,
Speaker 1: but it's some creepy things go on to make you
Speaker 1: sit on the edge of your seat and will have
Speaker 1: you dropping.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true, But who is it not for? Certainly
Speaker 3: anyone who wants to be really scared. This is not
Speaker 3: the movie for you. And you say it's not for
Speaker 3: anyone who can't pay attention you have to pay close
Speaker 3: attention to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are little moments that are subtle things trying
Speaker 1: to recognize a shadow. You need to hear what they're
Speaker 1: saying to kind of follow the story. This reminds me
Speaker 1: of this thing kids doing a sabine does it where
Speaker 1: there's a whole You follow a whole story, a whole mystery,
Speaker 1: a whole horror story just by following text exchanges. You're
Speaker 1: actually witnessing the text exchanges, and that's how you read
Speaker 1: the story. This feels like that to me. It's piece
Speaker 1: by piece. You have to follow line by line, and
Speaker 1: they're giving some type of information that's important throughout the
Speaker 1: story and their personality everything. You do have to pay attention,
Speaker 1: but it's not born.
Speaker 3: That's why watching it the second time I actually caught
Speaker 3: and picked up on things I didn't the first time.
Speaker 3: So it's one of those kind of films which is
Speaker 3: really great.
Speaker 1: But yeah, for you you can't pay attention.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean sometimes it's good for me to
Speaker 3: watch things over and over again because the first time, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because my mind was somewhere else or I had my
Speaker 3: face in my phone and that was a problem. So yes,
Speaker 3: if you can't pay attention, you shouldn't watch. And also, yeah,
Speaker 3: if you want action, this obviously this was shot during
Speaker 3: the pandemic. You're not going to have any cool action scenes. No,
Speaker 3: no special the effects, none of that stuff. So this
Speaker 3: is just this is great. It's almost like watching and
Speaker 3: this might turn people off. But if you ever see
Speaker 3: like a really good play on stage, like it's set
Speaker 3: in one scene and if you have great acting and
Speaker 3: great writing, you're transported even to just one scene, and
Speaker 3: that's kind of what this movie is. Like food drink pairing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The funny thing is I feel like this could be
Speaker 3: because you can watch it any time of day, and
Speaker 3: we have like mourning murders, Like we have different times
Speaker 3: a day where we're like, oh, this is a good
Speaker 3: morning horror movie or murder in the morning. Like that
Speaker 3: sounds crazy, but this is one you could absolutely watch
Speaker 3: at breakfast.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's crazy as that sounds. Yes, you can't put this, no,
Speaker 1: who does?
Speaker 3: I feel like this is a brunch horror movie. So
Speaker 3: that's where my theme is. I say, you have a mimosa,
Speaker 3: you have a wonderful omelet you can eat away because
Speaker 3: it's not that gross, it's not that scary, so you know,
Speaker 3: go ahead with the bubbles and whatever else you want
Speaker 3: to put in that omelet. I think you can have
Speaker 3: some fun with this. I call this, yes, a brunch
Speaker 3: horror movie.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. You can't watch this during the day,
Speaker 1: and it's another key point of that, not just the
Speaker 1: way it feels, but for practical intents and purposes. Because
Speaker 1: they're on zoom, they have to be lit so you
Speaker 1: won't get a glare from the television from nighttime scenes.
Speaker 1: So yes, perfect important note.
Speaker 3: And you can watch it if you have the Prime
Speaker 3: subscription Amazon Prime. It's free with that, but obviously it's
Speaker 3: streaming everywhere. And this is a fun one because some
Speaker 3: of them, you know, you miss not being able to
Speaker 3: see a movie like that on the big screen. That's
Speaker 3: not one of You could watch this on your computer
Speaker 3: at an airport and fully enjoy it, which is kind
Speaker 3: of cool. You can watch it anywhere, whatever size screen,
Speaker 3: and you'll still get an amazing movie.
Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. It might be a better
Speaker 1: experience if you put your AirPods in and have your
Speaker 1: laptop in front of you, because you feel like you're
Speaker 1: a part of what you're seeing. I didn't think about that.
Speaker 3: So anyone who's stuck in an airport with a delay,
Speaker 3: you know there are movies who I that I prefer
Speaker 3: to watch on an airplane, or that I would prefer
Speaker 3: to watch in a you know, a smaller setting, So
Speaker 3: this might be exactly that movie for you.
Speaker 1: All Right, well, enjoy, We hope you enjoy that one.
Speaker 1: But the next one we're going to be at nineteen.
Speaker 3: No, we're going to be at number eight eighteen.
Speaker 1: So this was nineteen, yes, so stay tuned for our
Speaker 1: next one, eighteen will drop tomorrow. Number eighteen on the
Speaker 1: list is Horror with Heart and it contains one of
Speaker 1: the funniest lines in all of the horror movies that
Speaker 1: are on our list. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you pointed it out when we rewatched it, and
Speaker 3: I had missed it shockingly the first time around, but
Speaker 3: you're like, wait for it, wait for it, and when
Speaker 3: it was delivered it was worth the wait. And if
Speaker 3: you want action, this movie is chock full of it.
Speaker 3: So with that, thank you for listening to our horror
Speaker 3: hit List. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll have
Speaker 3: another one for you tomorrow.