Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is Wednesday, October eighth, and this is
Speaker 1: the latest installment of Deep Cuts Amy and TJ's Halloween
Speaker 1: horror hit list. And today on Wednesday, we are up
Speaker 1: to number twenty four. And I love a recent headline.
Speaker 1: This is an older movie from two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: so almost twenty years ago, but this was a recent headline,
Speaker 1: just from a couple days ago from the website movie
Speaker 1: Web to describe our next movie, the most underrated vampire
Speaker 1: movie of the century, sings its teeth into a new
Speaker 1: streaming home so it is available to everyone now. But yes,
Speaker 1: we are talking about two thousand and seven's Thirty Days
Speaker 1: of Night, number twenty four on our list.
Speaker 2: This is the best, one of the best concepts for
Speaker 2: a vampire movement ever seen, maybe the best.
Speaker 1: Yes, because it's actually fun. This is a vampire movie
Speaker 1: that feels apocalyptic, that feels almost like a zombie movie
Speaker 1: except for its vampires. And we're used to seeing vampires
Speaker 1: be a little bit more romantic, and the genre of
Speaker 1: vampires has always been I feel like, oftentimes coupled with
Speaker 1: some sort of romance, some sort of fascination with humans,
Speaker 1: and bringing humans into the vampire world. This is very different.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's Dracula was sexy exactly. Jackiela could buy you
Speaker 2: a drink and you'd be raided or you know, you
Speaker 2: have to attack me, sir, bite me, baby, take me.
Speaker 2: Uh it is what we're all e been used to.
Speaker 2: And even yes, you go back to I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people remember interview with a vampire. Those are
Speaker 2: I mean Tom Prus and a pretty sexy vampires. This
Speaker 2: ain't that at all. Uh.
Speaker 1: Yes, this movie runs a little bit longer than we're
Speaker 1: used to, but honestly, it goes by so quickly because
Speaker 1: it's so good. We just rewatched this. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how many times I've seen this movie, but I
Speaker 1: am a huge fan. We both are. It's an hour
Speaker 1: fifty three minutes rateed R and the genre is horror,
Speaker 1: mystery thriller. We have a synopsis for you as well.
Speaker 1: It reads. In the far Northern Hemisphere, the small town
Speaker 1: of Barrow, Alaska, experiences a solid month of darkness every year.
Speaker 1: Though most of the residents head south for the winter,
Speaker 1: some townspeople remain behind. However, those that stay regret their
Speaker 1: decision when one year, hungry vampires descend on Barrow to
Speaker 1: feed Sheriff Ebitt and his wife and a dwindling band
Speaker 1: of survivors must try to last until dawn breaks over
Speaker 1: Barrow's month long twilight. What a cool concept, the.
Speaker 2: Concept there being if you caught this, if any horror
Speaker 2: movie you represent, vampire horror movie. If you're scared, scared,
Speaker 2: scared the whole movie, the one time you relax and
Speaker 2: get relief as.
Speaker 1: Win during the daily dail light.
Speaker 2: Soon as you see a daytime see you go, we're
Speaker 2: cool for a minute. There is no daylight for thirty days.
Speaker 2: This movie the concept that vampires can roam free and
Speaker 2: there's no hiding from them day or night for thirty days.
Speaker 2: It's a cool entrapment type of a movie. Kind of
Speaker 2: it sounds crazy compared to you know, I love Diehard,
Speaker 2: but this idea that you're in there with your enemy
Speaker 2: and nobody can go anywhere is what this movie feels like.
Speaker 1: Oh it's so And it did really really well at
Speaker 1: the box office, seventy five point five million. It had
Speaker 1: a budget of thirty million. It did really well, but
Speaker 1: the critics did not give it the love that we
Speaker 1: believe it deserves. However, I have noticed again this was
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, so almost twenty years now. Recent
Speaker 1: reviews have been much more positive because sometimes critics will
Speaker 1: go back and re review it, and certainly audience members
Speaker 1: who see it on streaming services will review it. And
Speaker 1: I've noticed there is a tonal shift from when it
Speaker 1: first came out versus now. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's an appreciation now that we have more perspective or
Speaker 1: they were expecting something different. But it's really interesting to
Speaker 1: see the arc of the critics. This has a stellar cast.
Speaker 1: Josh Hartnett plays the sheriff, his wife Melissa George estranged wife,
Speaker 1: I should say in the movie. And then Danny Huston,
Speaker 1: who got a claim from everyone, even the critics who
Speaker 1: didn't like the movie. He plays the lead vampire. It
Speaker 1: was resoundingly people were so impressed with his performance.
Speaker 2: Okay, and people you might not know his name, you here,
Speaker 2: you see his face, You're going to go, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, you'll probably start being able to name some
Speaker 2: things you've seen him in. You haven't seen him like this, Oh.
Speaker 1: It's so good. And then Ben Foster is really good
Speaker 1: in this as well. But the director David Slade. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was a stellar cast. I thought it an. We
Speaker 1: thought it was an incredible concept and I thought it
Speaker 1: was well executed. Did you do you have anything negative
Speaker 1: to say about the movie?
Speaker 2: Yes, I probably will, but later. But the thing I
Speaker 2: didn't piece this again until we start watching these movies
Speaker 2: like this, and every day we were talking about the cast,
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of horror movies are not
Speaker 2: not necessarily known for great acting, or at least historically.
Speaker 2: So it's to be a screen queen. Long as you
Speaker 2: can run, trip over a branch and scream really loud
Speaker 2: and die really well on TV, that's a good horror movie, actress, sweetheart,
Speaker 2: every have you noticed we've got Oscar winners, We've got
Speaker 2: very accomplished, award winning actors in some of these horror
Speaker 2: movies that are deep cuts. I guess it adds to
Speaker 2: the point that good acting helps the product.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I also think this. It seems as
Speaker 1: if there's been a recent shift in years where I
Speaker 1: think a lot of as you mentioned, well esteemed actors
Speaker 1: might have been afraid bad pun there to do a
Speaker 1: horror movie because they felt like maybe it would lower
Speaker 1: their their artistic how they're considered. You know, it's not Shakespeare, right,
Speaker 1: So it might have felt like a genre that is
Speaker 1: beneath you know, well regarded actors, but we're seeing that
Speaker 1: completely changed.
Speaker 2: Tell me, obviously this year was a big deal with
Speaker 2: weapons and centers, right, and so no, it's been No,
Speaker 2: it's fun to say, I didn't necessarily put it together
Speaker 2: till every movie we're reviewing, Oh she has an oscar,
Speaker 2: Oh he has a golden globe. Oh he was in
Speaker 2: this show. Oh they're great actors.
Speaker 1: All right. So all that said, thirty Days of Night
Speaker 1: only got a Rotten Tomato score of fifty percent, and
Speaker 1: their audience score wasn't much better at fifty six percent.
Speaker 1: We wholeheartedly disagree and urge you not because I think
Speaker 1: sometimes you do see that and you say I'll pass.
Speaker 1: It's probably not good. This is one you should not
Speaker 1: pass on. This made our list for a reason.
Speaker 2: You would have passed on this, I think, I mean,
Speaker 2: given your I mean your rules. Usually if there's a
Speaker 2: low critic score but a high audience score, you like,
Speaker 2: hell yeah, I'm all in. But usually when you see
Speaker 2: both of them, you see a low audience score, you're
Speaker 2: kind of lukewarm.
Speaker 1: I would have looked at this with significant skepticism. Absolutely
Speaker 1: but I so listen to the critic con consensus. While
Speaker 1: Thirty Days of Night offers a few thrills, it ultimately
Speaker 1: succumbs to erratic execution. All right, So that again would
Speaker 1: turn a lot of folks off. But then and we
Speaker 1: have some I actually found a lot of, like I said,
Speaker 1: recent positive critic reviews, and certainly the audience reviews that
Speaker 1: were on Rotten Tomatoes were much better the nearer you
Speaker 1: are to this date, like some of them were written
Speaker 1: a few days ago. Oh okay, right, so a sample
Speaker 1: critic review. Here's one. This is one of the bad ones,
Speaker 1: A sadly missed opportunity, a waste of talent on senseless
Speaker 1: drek that made even the always welcome Danny Huston as
Speaker 1: the Vampire Leader look silly. Wow, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1: I couldn't disagree more. Sorry, I couldn't. He didn't look
Speaker 1: silly at all. He was scary as hell.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the whole time. What was that language they
Speaker 2: were speaking, some language that even added to the.
Speaker 1: Terrors and the noises they would make, like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I can't even do it. All right, So here's some
Speaker 1: of that. There was another bad one about his skin
Speaker 1: is Count Shocula. I saw that one that was mean
Speaker 1: and unnecessary.
Speaker 2: And not accurate in the least bit. Agreed Count Schocula
Speaker 2: wouldn't last thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: In this movie was one of my favorite cereals as
Speaker 1: a kid growing up. No, but here are some of
Speaker 1: the better good ones that critics gave. Here is one
Speaker 1: of those rare movies that penetrates the membrane separating all
Speaker 1: those disposable gotcha scarefests from genuinely engrossing supernatural thrillers. And
Speaker 1: then another one, an entertaining horror and action film that,
Speaker 1: by presenting vampires as truly monstrous and ruthless creatures, manages
Speaker 1: to create an incredibly suspenseful experience.
Speaker 2: We don't do that enough, and there's some that do it.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yes, vampires are sexy right up until
Speaker 2: they kill you, but they're wearing all black. They usually
Speaker 2: have a nice tailored outfit, right, This is not that
Speaker 2: vampires are monsters. Start to finish in this movie, and
Speaker 2: there's not a single one of them you would ever
Speaker 2: want to be close to.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, and the teeth, the makeup, it
Speaker 1: was so good. They did look monstrous from start to finish,
Speaker 1: wanted to read a couple of audience recent audience reviews
Speaker 1: that I really liked and thought summed up part of
Speaker 1: why we put this on our list. I love this movie,
Speaker 1: says KK. Thirty Days of Night is dark, suspenseful, and
Speaker 1: some gross moments, but excellent acting. Even knowing what the
Speaker 1: big bad was to be from the get go didn't
Speaker 1: lose my interest. Rather, the predatory nature of the vampires,
Speaker 1: led by Hustin as Marlowe, made me wonder who was
Speaker 1: next and how they would be killed. Hustin really embodied
Speaker 1: a soulless, evil vampire that didn't just kill humans to
Speaker 1: eat and live, but rather appear to hate and despise
Speaker 1: human existence.
Speaker 2: You can't reason, You cannot reason with them under any circumstance.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then Logan writes an all time great vampire movie.
Speaker 1: Ignore the critics who are just mad that nobody bangs
Speaker 1: a vamp in this one. I started laughing because it
Speaker 1: is true. I think there's that expectation of the sexiness.
Speaker 2: There is nothing at all. They are creatures in the
Speaker 2: night who are here to kill all of you. That
Speaker 2: is the movie, and there is not. Some of the
Speaker 2: fight scenes the dramatic. They're shot in such a way
Speaker 2: like battlefields, just in a small town. This is an
Speaker 2: incredible movie. This is a look. We recommend all of them,
Speaker 2: but this is what I will scream against critics about.
Speaker 1: It stays with you and like you said, like the scenery,
Speaker 1: the imagery, This Alaskan town frozen with snow everywhere, cut
Speaker 1: off from civilization, so to speak, with the roads and
Speaker 1: the weather and the darkness. It's so good. So I
Speaker 1: was trying to come up with a way to write
Speaker 1: why it made our list, and I found a website
Speaker 1: that summed it up better than I could say it.
Speaker 1: So I want to read it because this is exactly
Speaker 1: why we chose this movie for our list. Thirty Days
Speaker 1: of Night helped give birth to a new breed of vampire,
Speaker 1: one that wasn't in interested in holding up in gothic
Speaker 1: castles or spending their nights in hip clubs with techno
Speaker 1: music pumping all around them. The vampires and this one
Speaker 1: were feral, animalistic, and monstrous, yet at the same time,
Speaker 1: there was a method to their madness. There was organization
Speaker 1: among the chaos, which made them feel even more terrifying.
Speaker 1: I couldn't have said it better.
Speaker 2: To add to that, they were we saw victims like
Speaker 2: disappear in a flash, yes, like they were coming out
Speaker 2: of nowhere and their attack like you couldn't see anything
Speaker 2: going on, and that added to I think the fear.
Speaker 2: I think that might have been some of the early
Speaker 2: kills to where now you're wondering in every scene, this
Speaker 2: person's gonna who knows how they're gonna go out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just get like whipped underneath a building or
Speaker 1: whipped underneath the truck, and you're like, where did they
Speaker 1: just go? Oh my god, what's happening to them?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, this was a there were I'm trying to
Speaker 2: I don't want to give this scene away, but there
Speaker 2: are scenes that no no violence takes place that there
Speaker 2: is no thing about the scene on the road when
Speaker 2: they're like, what is that chasing us? Oh? Yes, and
Speaker 2: there would nobody die. Nobody got hurt in that scene,
Speaker 2: even but you're scared as all get out because there's
Speaker 2: just it's cold, it's dark, there's a mystery, and this
Speaker 2: thing is I'm going seventy miles an hour. For some reason,
Speaker 2: something just caught me. The tension in that scene is
Speaker 2: that kind of what goes throughout that you're actually nervous
Speaker 2: and scared of what's around the corner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like super whom human strength coming up at you?
Speaker 1: All right? So who is this for? Obviously anyone who
Speaker 1: loves a vampire movie, anyone who loves like an end
Speaker 1: of day's apocalyptic style movie, because that's what it felt
Speaker 1: like with the town on fire and everything, like the
Speaker 1: fights that were going on, it felt apocalyptic. Lots of
Speaker 1: jump scares, and there is a lot of gore, I
Speaker 1: would say, and I wanted to add this. I think
Speaker 1: this movie is for anyone who's rooting for love in
Speaker 1: tough times. I say this because I had fun while
Speaker 1: being scared hoping that Josh Hartnett and Melissa George's care
Speaker 1: Ara get back together. While they're fighting vampires. I was
Speaker 1: hoping that they were also fighting to save their troubled marriage.
Speaker 2: I'm with you there, and I will admit the first
Speaker 2: time or what, but I got tears in my eyes
Speaker 2: at the end of this movie, and I bet you
Speaker 2: all will too, because they do such a good job
Speaker 2: of building their relationship even though they're no longer in
Speaker 2: one You your heart is in it with him.
Speaker 1: And wasn't it Melissa George.
Speaker 2: Yah, your heart is in it with them, and he
Speaker 2: is as heroic as you will ever see. Josh Hartnett
Speaker 2: in this movie. And I'm telling you the end is
Speaker 2: holy hell, I'm telling you it broke me down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's a badass in this movie too. I
Speaker 1: love it. They're both strong. It's not like one's weak
Speaker 1: and one's helping together. They were both. They were they
Speaker 1: were a team. That's I'm getting choked, Okay.
Speaker 2: So I will say that you talk about who the
Speaker 2: movie is for, it's for anybody who who who likes
Speaker 2: being on the edge of your seat for an entire
Speaker 2: movie like this grabs you very early on, and even
Speaker 2: the moments where there's not violence and you don't see
Speaker 2: a vampire, you're standing by waiting for one to come,
Speaker 2: or what's the next word is gonna come out of
Speaker 2: his mouth? That that's just constant tension, and they build
Speaker 2: a mystery for so long the town doesn't know what's
Speaker 2: going like what is happening to us? It is a
Speaker 2: great build. So yes, if you like edge of your
Speaker 2: seat stuff, this takes you from beginning to end almost.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're gonna tell you who it's
Speaker 1: not for What's a Parrot with where you can watch it?
Speaker 1: And to tease for our next movie on the list.
Speaker 2: All right, we continue now number what is it on
Speaker 2: the list? Twenty four? Twenty four? Now on the list
Speaker 2: thirty Days of Night. Yes, it is a vampire movie
Speaker 2: like you have never seen before. It starts Josh Hartnett.
Speaker 2: Can we give this dude some love? He took a
Speaker 2: break from acting for a little while, but he has
Speaker 2: come back in a few things that I have loved
Speaker 2: seeing him in. I know Trapp didn't get a whole
Speaker 2: lot of great reviews, but he carried that as a
Speaker 2: as a what an OCD serial killer?
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean the first half of the movie was
Speaker 1: amazing and compelling. They just kind of lost their way,
Speaker 1: I think with the writing and the second half. But
Speaker 1: it was nothing. It had nothing to do with his performance.
Speaker 1: He was amazing.
Speaker 2: But he's had several things he's come back, and I
Speaker 2: will add I mean, I just this was before he
Speaker 2: took the so it was twenty two years of movie.
Speaker 1: This was two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: He took the break after what I can't remember when
Speaker 2: he took his break, but man, in the last few years,
Speaker 2: and this just shows The dude's a solid, solid actor
Speaker 2: and has been for a long time, so it was
Speaker 2: it was cool to go back and watch something and
Speaker 2: to remember I guess the younger cat. Now we see
Speaker 2: him as an.
Speaker 1: Older guy movies, but he's likeable.
Speaker 2: He is. Man. I like this guy.
Speaker 1: I really do too. All Right, So who is this
Speaker 1: movie not for? Well? I would say if you're alone,
Speaker 1: you should not watch it. I think it will creep
Speaker 1: you out. I don't know. You may disagree, TJ. But
Speaker 1: and if you obviously, if you don't like blow and gods,
Speaker 1: you know, vampires are eating people. Okay, so this is gory.
Speaker 1: So if that's not your jam, this isn't your movie.
Speaker 1: But man, even if you could just look away during
Speaker 1: those parts and still get the rest of it, I
Speaker 1: still I think most people who like or love horror
Speaker 1: movies are going to love this movie. I really think that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And even if you look away, you got to
Speaker 2: deal with the sound effcts, because you're gonna hear some
Speaker 2: slashing and some chomping and some ove all kinds of stuff. No,
Speaker 2: if you don't like if you're immediately turned off by
Speaker 2: blood and guts and killing, and it's essentially monsters eating people.
Speaker 2: It's not like shots and stabs. This is like some
Speaker 2: pretty mantra. They use their teeth and their sharp claws
Speaker 2: to deal with their victims. So if you don't think
Speaker 2: you can stomach that, then heads.
Speaker 1: Up, or like anyone laughing with blood all over their face,
Speaker 1: like there is there are some sister pretty haunting images
Speaker 1: that stay with you.
Speaker 2: To your point about I guess we're different on this regard.
Speaker 2: If this is one like like you said, I if
Speaker 2: you want to watch it by yourself, because I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about the vampire jumping through the window like you said.
Speaker 2: Sometimes on like the don't watch that alone because the
Speaker 2: next time you hear a creak in your house, you're
Speaker 2: gonna freak out. This is one where the vampires don't
Speaker 2: necessarily scare me.
Speaker 1: I see. I feel like at night when I'm sleeping
Speaker 1: or whatever, like when I'm trying to go to bed
Speaker 1: and I'm alone and I've just watched that movie that's
Speaker 1: not I'm like, damn it, what did I watch that
Speaker 1: movie alone? This might be one of them for me.
Speaker 2: How many nights are you sleeping alone these days?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just rememberring, I'm remembering back to those days
Speaker 1: of traveling alone in a hotel room and then being
Speaker 1: so regretful of a movie I watched. I just I
Speaker 1: have memories of that back in the day when I
Speaker 1: used to sleep alone sometimes. All right, what to pair
Speaker 1: this with? Atmosphere? Food, drinks? All right, so obviously red
Speaker 1: wine and if you're watching a vampire movie, it's fun
Speaker 1: to have a glass of red wine. You disagree, You know.
Speaker 2: Red wine and horror don't go together matter.
Speaker 1: I know they don't normally, but I'm saying, when you're
Speaker 1: watching a vampire movie, it's kind of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing about drinking blood, yeah, you know, most normal
Speaker 2: people would want to do.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why I felt like this, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like this. Have you ever mixed raisinets
Speaker 1: with popcorn?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: It's so good. No, it's amazing. It's like a salty sweet.
Speaker 2: I don't actually I never heard of that.
Speaker 1: I think, Oh my gosh, people do it all the time. Raisinets,
Speaker 1: so the chocolate covered reason with popcorn. I know people
Speaker 1: who put the box of raisinets and put it in
Speaker 1: the popcorn and mix them together so you you get
Speaker 1: a handful of salty sweet.
Speaker 2: This is why I don't hang with your friends.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I feel like this movie would be really,
Speaker 1: really really good to do that with. Why because you
Speaker 1: get salty sweet. There's no you get hitty sweet with
Speaker 1: the salty ever.
Speaker 2: Why would I do? Okay, that's a different episode, stark, Okay.
Speaker 1: All right. I also, obviously, this is one where I
Speaker 1: believe you have to watch at night because it's dark.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about this. We try. We like
Speaker 1: horror movies twenty four to seven, but this one would
Speaker 1: be a hard one to watch during the day because
Speaker 1: it's dark and then you've got the light. So I
Speaker 1: just this mood, the ambiance, and even just the fact
Speaker 1: that all the scenes are.
Speaker 2: Can't do it. Yes, you cannot watch this with sunlight
Speaker 2: coming into the room.
Speaker 1: And I think this one is a fun one to
Speaker 1: watch with a group.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because you react to so many things and
Speaker 2: there'll be some people going ooh, look at this. Other
Speaker 2: than a hiding in the face, that's a very fun
Speaker 2: communal thing. This is one that will cause different people
Speaker 2: to react in different ways, and to have them all
Speaker 2: in one room is fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This is a this is a Halloween party kind
Speaker 1: of a film. I think is really fun to watch,
Speaker 1: all right, And the cool thing is you can watch this.
Speaker 1: Everybody can watch it for free. That was part of
Speaker 1: why I think there was a resurgence of recommendations and
Speaker 1: reviews because it's free on two b it was as
Speaker 1: of October first, so people got excited that they could
Speaker 1: watch it. But if you have a Paramount Plus subscription,
Speaker 1: and I think that's you can get that with Hulu
Speaker 1: or with Prime Video if you've got an add on, which,
Speaker 1: of course watch this one Paramount Plus. I think Hulu
Speaker 1: or Prime Video because.
Speaker 2: I thought there was in our library. This is not.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, I do own this one. I do own
Speaker 1: this one. Actually there. I do have a few horror
Speaker 1: movies that I put into my Apple Music Library, Apple
Speaker 1: Movie Library, and this is among them. But I do
Speaker 1: think that we are Paramount Plus subscribers because so many
Speaker 1: horror movies come through that and Shutter, so we never
Speaker 1: want to miss Shutter.
Speaker 2: We need to tell people about Shutters.
Speaker 1: They don't know what Shutter and Paramount Plus are like
Speaker 1: epic four horror movies. So yes, you can watch it.
Speaker 1: Everyone can watch it, and we're excited and hope you do.
Speaker 1: All right, our next episode I was really excited about
Speaker 1: this tease. Our our next movie on the hit list.
Speaker 1: It would be number twenty three, so it's also underrated.
Speaker 1: It also has some very big names attached to the movie,
Speaker 1: and among them a name you don't often see in
Speaker 1: a horror movie, Betty White.
Speaker 2: And it's my favorite role. I haven't ever seen her it.
Speaker 1: How's that for a tease? All right, and with that,
Speaker 1: thank you everyone for listening. We hope you're enjoying our
Speaker 1: horror hit list. I may Bee Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon.
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