Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is
Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. And I hope you
Speaker 1: like slash wipes because today's movie is full of them.
Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be talking about the nineteen nine one.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what genre to call it movie.
Speaker 1: The Giver geiver spelled g u y v e r.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Everybody I told about
Speaker 1: this movie asked mug iver, and I had to say, no,
Speaker 1: just geiver. I don't know where that word comes from.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna hear it a lot if you watch
Speaker 1: the film. That's right. Yeah, this this film is it
Speaker 1: is kind of hard to classify because they're they're aspects
Speaker 1: of it that are really cranked up to the extreme,
Speaker 1: and there's plenty of other things that are very traditional
Speaker 1: about it. It's a it's a PG thirteen major motion picture.
Speaker 1: It's a manga turned anime turned live action feature. I've
Speaker 1: I've seen some people claim that it might be the
Speaker 1: first Western adaptation of a manga. Uh. It's also I
Speaker 1: guess you would classify this is a Tokusatsu film. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, very much like you know, various power rangers
Speaker 1: and so forth, you know, costumed uh or you know,
Speaker 1: mechanized or otherwise superpowered individuals fighting monsters. Essentially a rubber
Speaker 1: monster costume slapfest. Sure, yeah, it's it's essentially in many
Speaker 1: a large extent, you can make a case for this
Speaker 1: being a kid's film. The effects are are rather extreme
Speaker 1: in some cases, which really push it over the edge
Speaker 1: and make it something that I'm not ready to show
Speaker 1: my my son. Uh. It's definitely a monster movie. It's
Speaker 1: got plenty of monsters, and it is a film that
Speaker 1: I guess you would describe as a comedy. It certainly
Speaker 1: tries to be funny many times and has I think
Speaker 1: one legitimate and intentionally funny line. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was wondering who this is for. I enjoyed The Diver,
Speaker 1: but despite much about it, it's this is one of
Speaker 1: those movies where it's really not fit for adults and
Speaker 1: not fit for children. It's got it's got a very
Speaker 1: kids movie kind of sense of humor, the like silly
Speaker 1: trombone music and everything, but it's also got uh stuff
Speaker 1: that's obviously not fit for it. I mean, there's some
Speaker 1: language in there, and like, the monsters are disgusting, so
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how to feel about this. But
Speaker 1: also it's got, on one hand, Olympian makeup effects just
Speaker 1: like squelching latex, mucous membranes and and kiten. This cod
Speaker 1: pieces that are great they deserve formal apotheosis, but also
Speaker 1: comedy that is so bloop de bloop and and cringe
Speaker 1: that it will make your pets embarrassed. It even has
Speaker 1: silly wraps. The comedy is dreadfully painful. It does have wraps.
Speaker 1: I was delighted when I when I because because I
Speaker 1: don't think I had either I either had not seen
Speaker 1: this in its entirety before or I had forgotten the wraps.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's delightful that we have an
Speaker 1: actual monster rapping on screen. Yes. Now, one thing I
Speaker 1: was wondering is this movie came out in nine. How
Speaker 1: well do you think it fits with my general theory
Speaker 1: that the most culturally eighties year in American media was nine?
Speaker 1: I would I would think it would lines up with
Speaker 1: that pretty well. Yeah, because yet for most of the
Speaker 1: aspects of the film, you could certainly make a case
Speaker 1: that that's the effects are maybe more you know, bleeding edge,
Speaker 1: oozing edge even uh you know, but certainly I think
Speaker 1: match up well with some of the you know, the
Speaker 1: better special effects we saw in the in the nineteen eighties. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the elevator pitch on this? Uh so? Uh, what
Speaker 1: I was thinking of is what if power Rangers were discussed? Thing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's about right. It's like David Cronenberg's Mighty
Speaker 1: morphin Power Rangers. Yeah, this this film was also it's
Speaker 1: It was released as The Giver, based on you know,
Speaker 1: the manga that turned to anime, uh, The Giver, but
Speaker 1: it also was released with the title Neutronics, at least
Speaker 1: in some places, especially I guess in France, because there's
Speaker 1: this wonderful poster um that is perhaps more true to
Speaker 1: the spirit of the film than the more widely seen
Speaker 1: like American poster. But it says Neutronics left film, and
Speaker 1: then it has the various monsters from the picture roughly
Speaker 1: re enacting the Breakfast Club poster poses. Yes, that's what
Speaker 1: I thought. Yeah, yeah, and much in the same way
Speaker 1: that the Texas Change saw Massacre too did the same thing.
Speaker 1: But it lets you know, something about the spirit of
Speaker 1: the film. I think this is making Michael Berryman's monster
Speaker 1: the Judd Nelson Okay, and it's making uh, spy Williams
Speaker 1: Crosby the Anthony Michael Hall. All right, let's hear some
Speaker 1: trailer audio. Yeah, I have. Now. I think one of
Speaker 1: the reasons Rob correct me if I'm wrong, but I
Speaker 1: think one of the reasons that we were zeroing in
Speaker 1: on this is because it was actually directed by someone
Speaker 1: who's special effects we have enjoyed in other weird house
Speaker 1: cinema movies, which is screaming Matt George did. Did he
Speaker 1: do effects on Arena? Yeah? He did. Uh. In particular,
Speaker 1: he did the one monster named Sloth, which is this
Speaker 1: really you know, strange looking creature. It looks like a
Speaker 1: giant mutated grasshopper man that our hero boxes. That was
Speaker 1: a really good one that kind of made the movie.
Speaker 1: And I see some of the same d n A
Speaker 1: if you will in that monster in one of the
Speaker 1: final beasts we come across in the Guiver. Yeah. When
Speaker 1: you think of screaming Mad George's effects, you often think
Speaker 1: of insect mutations. You think of of of dripping, oozing,
Speaker 1: melting and morphing flesh. Uh you know, he's a he's
Speaker 1: a wizard of the synthetic flesh. I would say, I mean,
Speaker 1: there are very few artists out there in the special
Speaker 1: effects field that you might think of as being like
Speaker 1: true all tours. You know that where they there's a
Speaker 1: you can recognize their work, or at least you can
Speaker 1: if you're sort of clued into their style. And I
Speaker 1: would argue that Screaming Mad George born uh Joji Tani
Speaker 1: is one of them. So we spoke a little bit
Speaker 1: about him in that episode we did on Arena, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to go a little deeper this time, since
Speaker 1: he's heading this baby up. So I turned to a
Speaker 1: book titled Monsters, Makeup and Effects, Volume One, Conversations with
Speaker 1: Cinema's Greatest Artist by Heather Wixon, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: available wherever you get your books in different formats, but
Speaker 1: it features a long interview with Screaming Mad George. So
Speaker 1: I was interested to learn a little more here. So
Speaker 1: according to the interview, you know, he grew up in
Speaker 1: Japan inspired by cartoons and manga and anime, and he
Speaker 1: realized early on that while he struggled with story and
Speaker 1: certainly with finishing stories. He had plenty of ideas, and
Speaker 1: he realized he was better as an illustrator. So one
Speaker 1: of the things would seem hard or frustrating, he would
Speaker 1: turn to drawing, and then eventually turned to oil painting,
Speaker 1: and after high school he attended the School of Visual
Speaker 1: Arts in Manhattan and he started getting into music there
Speaker 1: as well, first in the punk era band The Disgusting Uh.
Speaker 1: And when he was part of The Disgusting, he would
Speaker 1: do things like disembowel himself on the on the stage
Speaker 1: with like fake blood and fake uts and so forth.
Speaker 1: Cool so you could think of this as like a
Speaker 1: preguar sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, I guess so, like
Speaker 1: really extreme stuff. It sounded like um. But then The
Speaker 1: Disgusting UH morphed and it became a new band, The Mad,
Speaker 1: in which he switched up his persona to be less
Speaker 1: about the gore and more about the bizarre. And I
Speaker 1: think this is where he becomes screaming Mad George, and
Speaker 1: then the name ends up sticking. I looked up some
Speaker 1: of The Mad's music and you know what, I thought
Speaker 1: it was great. It's so they're a little known punk
Speaker 1: hardcore band, uh, and yeah he is. It had Screaming
Speaker 1: Mad George on lead vocals. I found an album of
Speaker 1: their's called We Love Noise with the noise with a
Speaker 1: Z instead of an S, and uh, if you if
Speaker 1: you want to check out one of the songs on there,
Speaker 1: I recommend the one called I Want to Be a
Speaker 1: Devil and uh it's good stuff. Yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: was impressed by what I heard of it. This is
Speaker 1: a album, but uh, yeah, I I don't know what
Speaker 1: I quite expected. I guess with Screaming Mad George, I
Speaker 1: was kind of thinking it's gonna be just just pure chaos,
Speaker 1: you know, or it's gonna be madness. Um, and there
Speaker 1: is madness there, but it's also pretty well structured and
Speaker 1: uh riffs and stuff. Yeah yeah, And I guess that's
Speaker 1: part of the like the Screaming Mad George thing is
Speaker 1: like there's this persona of madness in this name that
Speaker 1: implies madness. And you'll see interviews where people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: you worked with Screaming Matt Georgia and this what was
Speaker 1: that like? And they're like, well, he was very quiet
Speaker 1: because he was super obsessed with, you know, touching up
Speaker 1: all these details the whole time. But he gets all
Speaker 1: his energy out on stage. I guess yeah, yeah, or
Speaker 1: you know, in the energy, the madness comes out through
Speaker 1: the designs and the effects. So in the interview uh
Speaker 1: in this uh this book by Wicks, and he also
Speaker 1: mentions that he eventually started doing um industrial music. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe this is from the project Screaming Mad
Speaker 1: George and Psychosis. They put out an album called Transmutation
Speaker 1: in Okay. That would make sense historically. Yeah. So anyway,
Speaker 1: he moves uh to the West Coast to study effects
Speaker 1: under under effects legend Rick Baker. UM apparently kind of
Speaker 1: like Pestored Baker. He's like, hey, you know, I need
Speaker 1: to come out there and learn this from you, and
Speaker 1: Baker agrees. Uh. He moves out there just in time
Speaker 1: for Baker to take a year off and Baker has
Speaker 1: handed cocoon duties off to Greg Cannon. So that's where
Speaker 1: George ends up getting his start. He's basically working for free. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's sent out to buy materials for things that the
Speaker 1: effects crew are building. But um. But in the in
Speaker 1: the interview Screaming Matt, George says that this was actually
Speaker 1: pretty great because he learned what all these basic underlying
Speaker 1: materials were and it gave him more insight into what
Speaker 1: was possible from a material standpoint when it came to effects.
Speaker 1: From there, he ended up working for Steve Johnson on
Speaker 1: Poltergeist Too, where George was put in charge of the
Speaker 1: Geeger designed vomit monster. Do you remember the sequence? And yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably one of the most memorable and maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: best moment in the entire picture, and one that's usually
Speaker 1: pretty easy to find on streaming sides. But he has
Speaker 1: some of individual vomits up this humanoid creature that then
Speaker 1: scampers off under a bed or something. It does look horrifying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a great sequence. Uh. Next up he did
Speaker 1: he worked on Big Trouble, Little China, where he was
Speaker 1: assigned the build of the eye creature, the floating beholder
Speaker 1: monster that we have in that movie. Okay, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I knew he worked on Predator at some point, right
Speaker 1: yet Predator, Lost Boys, Spaceballs, Nightmare for the dream Master,
Speaker 1: in which he did the cockroach stuff. Yeah, okay, and
Speaker 1: then you know, and I'm skipping there's sir. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna mention every picture that he was involved with, because
Speaker 1: you know, he's very much part of a crew and
Speaker 1: many of these, but at us at some point in
Speaker 1: all this ends up meeting up with horror director Brian
Speaker 1: yasna Um who was called and so he Hasna called
Speaker 1: him in to do effects on what would become Society,
Speaker 1: a bizarre our body horror film that is essentially about
Speaker 1: classism in Hollywood. Now, if you're familiar with this film,
Speaker 1: you know that it's loaded with fleshy, weirdness and nastiness,
Speaker 1: bodies fusing together and so forth. Um. But much of this,
Speaker 1: according to this interview, according to George here Uh seems
Speaker 1: to have come about because the original script by Woody
Speaker 1: Keith and Rick Fry called for just tons and tons
Speaker 1: of blood. It was just gonna be a real blood fest.
Speaker 1: But yasna didn't want to do a big bloody ending,
Speaker 1: so he asked George. He says, well, what else could
Speaker 1: we do visually to get around just, you know, having
Speaker 1: a really bloody finality to this film. Well, one of
Speaker 1: Screaming Matt George's early influences was the work of Salvador
Speaker 1: Dolly and so he and he instantly thought about that,
Speaker 1: I guess about melting clocks and you know, using forms,
Speaker 1: and he realized that was the way to go, and
Speaker 1: of course this becomes like one of the signature aspects
Speaker 1: of this motion picture. Okay and so yasnah. Then eventually
Speaker 1: goes on to produce the film we're talking about here today,
Speaker 1: The Giver, And originally he just wanted screaming Man George
Speaker 1: to do the special effects, but George talks his way
Speaker 1: into the director's chair and uh and we'll get into
Speaker 1: how that breaks down in a bit um. After Geiver,
Speaker 1: George worked on a number of other pictures such as
Speaker 1: is Freaked, which is excellent, Children of the Corn, Three
Speaker 1: Tales from the Hood, Space Truckers, Beyond Reanimator. He's also
Speaker 1: done some i think uncredited work on various projects, but
Speaker 1: he's turned increasingly towards his own artwork and gallery shows.
Speaker 1: And he apparently also has a long jest dating project
Speaker 1: that he hopes to direct one day, something titled Animus.
Speaker 1: Oh well, my butt will be in the chair for
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah. Um. I was just reminded of Beyond Reanimator,
Speaker 1: which is not the sequel to Reanimator, but I think
Speaker 1: the third Reanimator movie, and that's the one that had
Speaker 1: this great theme song that went along with it. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about the movie er Dead
Speaker 1: Bones Bones Bones song. I don't think I've seen that
Speaker 1: animator film major film. Well, you should at least look
Speaker 1: up the song. It has like a break where the
Speaker 1: guy goes reanimate your feet. Well that's that sounds incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh So, Screaming Matt George did effects on Geiver. He's
Speaker 1: also one of two directors. Uh The other director credit
Speaker 1: goes to Steve Wang Uh Taiwan born American makeup artist
Speaker 1: and filmmaker, who was I believe just connected to Screaming
Speaker 1: Matt George through the effects industry. He'd done makeup on
Speaker 1: Hell Comes to Frogtown. Later on he'd work on stuff
Speaker 1: like hell Boy. He also worked special effects on films
Speaker 1: like Predator, Monster Squad, Nightmare five, Grimlins to uh so
Speaker 1: much more. And apparently he was brought into co direct
Speaker 1: with Screaming Matt George because he had more experience with
Speaker 1: action directing, having previously worked as a second unit director
Speaker 1: on roller Blade Warriors Taken by Force from nine Who Sorry, Rob,
Speaker 1: that reminds me at some point we need to do
Speaker 1: one of the roller Blade movies in order to at
Speaker 1: least discuss why roller Blade movies were their own sub
Speaker 1: genre of science fiction for for a period there. Why
Speaker 1: were there so many? You had the what the Solar Babies,
Speaker 1: the Prayer for the roller boys, this thing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's I mean, what was aanna do? Is that? When
Speaker 1: a roller movie as well? I think that's a different
Speaker 1: kind of thing that has roller skating in it. Okay,
Speaker 1: At any rate that I agree we should definitely explore
Speaker 1: this sub genre later, um, later on. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: as far as Steve Wayne goes, apparently the way they
Speaker 1: split it up is like Steve handle handled anything that
Speaker 1: was like action scene oriented in The Giver, so that
Speaker 1: screaming mad George could just focus on effects and effects
Speaker 1: scenes like anytime somebody's face is splitting apart and somebody's
Speaker 1: transforming into a monster, that sort of thing, and then
Speaker 1: if a monster is slapping another monster, that's Steve went okay, alright.
Speaker 1: On the the writing side of this, uh, the screenwriter
Speaker 1: was one John Purdy. This was his first screenplay. He
Speaker 1: went on to write and direct nine seven Star Portal
Speaker 1: and a handful of other films. But it's based on
Speaker 1: the manga by Yoshiki Takaya, who was born nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: and Uh he well. He also created the manga Hades
Speaker 1: project Or Amer, which was adapted to anime in nine eight.
Speaker 1: He's best known internationally, at least for creating the Geiver
Speaker 1: manga bio booster Armor Geiver, who started in nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: and I believe is still considered it like an active
Speaker 1: title to some extent um. This property was adapted into
Speaker 1: an eighty six anime film and eighty nine anime TV
Speaker 1: series prior to this, and uh, and I think they're
Speaker 1: still uh like anime Geiver projects that are seeing the
Speaker 1: light of day. Okay, I think we've established that the
Speaker 1: monster costumes are the star of the film, but beyond that,
Speaker 1: it actually has a lot of star power in it.
Speaker 1: You would be shocked how many recognizable actors are in
Speaker 1: this thing. Yeah, and I think that's what put me
Speaker 1: over the top for actually covering this, because it's kind
Speaker 1: of this has been on our radar for a while.
Speaker 1: But when you it's one thing to think, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: got cool monsters and it's got cool effects, screaming man
Speaker 1: George is involved. But then yeah, you look at this
Speaker 1: cast and it's just a buffet. It's like the casting
Speaker 1: is really as odd as any effect in this film.
Speaker 1: It truly is. So let's start with the good guys,
Speaker 1: I guess, and uh, we have to start really with
Speaker 1: I believe this was the top billing for the picture,
Speaker 1: that is Mark Hamill playing the character Max Reid. I
Speaker 1: think they're trying to pull a bit of a trick
Speaker 1: on us with the box art, because if you were
Speaker 1: to believe it, it suggests that Mark Hamill is the
Speaker 1: titular Geiver. It shows half of the Geiver armor mask
Speaker 1: and then the other half of the face without the mask,
Speaker 1: and it's Mark Hamill's face. You can tell because he
Speaker 1: has the late eighties Mark Hamill mustache. That's right. They
Speaker 1: have to kind of really look to see the mustache.
Speaker 1: Um At first, I couldn't really tell because one of
Speaker 1: the other's tremendous furry pyramid. Yeah, because the thing is
Speaker 1: the actual Geiver character, who's also named Sean Barker, is
Speaker 1: played by this guy, Jack Armstrong, who for whom this
Speaker 1: was his biggest role. He mostly did TV before Geiver,
Speaker 1: Guiding Light, All My Children, Quantum Lead Alf and then
Speaker 1: after Geiver he did mostly TV as well, The Tick
Speaker 1: Days of Our Lives, West World, Mr Mayor. He even
Speaker 1: popped up on like the parts you know. Uh, but
Speaker 1: but even this Jack Armstrong character kind of looks like
Speaker 1: a young Mark Hamill. So does it leaves you wondering,
Speaker 1: like what how did the casting come together on this?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: they wanted Mark Hamill, but then they got him on
Speaker 1: set and they're like, Okay, now you need to shave
Speaker 1: your mustache and he's like, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: So they're like, okay, so we're gonna have to recast
Speaker 1: you as this other character and get a clean shaven
Speaker 1: guy to play the Geiver. Yeah, like they wanted to
Speaker 1: look skywa Palker and he was just not doing the
Speaker 1: Loke Skywalker thing anymore, which you know, it is understandable.
Speaker 1: It was a huge role. It made everyone, I mean,
Speaker 1: it submitted him, like even today, much much further along
Speaker 1: in Mark Hamill's career. Uh, you can't separate him from
Speaker 1: Lake Skywalker, even though at this point we know that
Speaker 1: he's also a phenomenal voice actor who's brought to life
Speaker 1: so many iconic characters. I mean, instantly, I think of
Speaker 1: the Joker, of course, from various animated projects and video games.
Speaker 1: He also did a wonderful job as skettech Uh, one
Speaker 1: of the villains in the Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. Ye.
Speaker 1: Really good. Yeah, and just just a really robust voice
Speaker 1: acting resume. Mark Hamill around this time, I guess he was.
Speaker 1: He was popping up in plenty of stuff like he
Speaker 1: never I had read somewhere that he had taken a
Speaker 1: few years off after Jedi, But you look at his
Speaker 1: filmography and it still looks pretty solid, like it. You
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of gaps uh during this time. Well,
Speaker 1: a lot of the live action, non Star Wars stuff
Speaker 1: in there is not super great. Yeah, there's well, like
Speaker 1: one that pops up is um the Steven Lisberger film Slipstream.
Speaker 1: I've seen that one. It's I do not remember much
Speaker 1: about it other than that Mark Hamill has a mustache. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's another one he's in. He's in and I don't
Speaker 1: think he has a mustache. And this one, but it's
Speaker 1: a Jess Franco movie, Night of the Eagles, which co
Speaker 1: stars Christopher Lee. Okay, well I need to see that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's a wartime Germany film. So everybody's in
Speaker 1: a Nazi uniform. So I think there's some sort of
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if if Hamil. I think Hamill's character
Speaker 1: maybe plays Um an anti Nazi. That's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Um in disguise or something. Okay. I also have to
Speaker 1: point out that Mark Hamill does show up on one
Speaker 1: episode of the Outer Limit series. It's it's a pretty
Speaker 1: good one. So look for look for that if you're
Speaker 1: a Hammel completest. Okay. Well, so we got Jack Armstrong
Speaker 1: playing our our young dope hero Sean who will become
Speaker 1: the guiver. We have Mark Hamill. He plays a character
Speaker 1: named Max Reid, who is a CIA agent. I have
Speaker 1: some questions about how the CIA works in the universe
Speaker 1: of this movie, but we'll get to that when we
Speaker 1: break down the plot. But then I guess our other
Speaker 1: main good character would be the character um. Is she
Speaker 1: named miss Key or Miszuki? I've seen it both ways. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes there is a disconnect between what's what's
Speaker 1: listed and then what people are actually saying in the movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this character is played by Vivian Wou, Chinese actor
Speaker 1: who made her big screen debut in Ven's The Last
Speaker 1: Emperor Um, playing the consort of the titular last Emperor
Speaker 1: in the film, but she's She was also in playing
Speaker 1: of other films, including Teenage Mutant, Ninja, Turtles three. I
Speaker 1: think this is the Turtles in Time movie. It is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was in The Joy Luck Club that was same
Speaker 1: year as Turtles three. She also shows up in a
Speaker 1: lot of TV appearances, such as Millennium Highlander, the TV
Speaker 1: show Tales from the Crypt and Murder. She wrote, well,
Speaker 1: is it time to talk about the bad guys? Though?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, so many great bad guys in this and
Speaker 1: that's even before they transformed from their human form into monsters.
Speaker 1: So topping it off, we have we have a character
Speaker 1: named Fulton Balchus who is uh he's the head of Zoanoid,
Speaker 1: which I guess we'll get into that later, but think
Speaker 1: like alien monster thing disguised as a human. But he's
Speaker 1: also a CEO of the Chronus Corps. He has a
Speaker 1: he has a pink eyeball that pokes out of his forehead.
Speaker 1: Sometimes played by the always wonderfully reptilian David Gale, who lived.
Speaker 1: He died the same year this film came out due
Speaker 1: to heart surgery complications, so this this was one of
Speaker 1: his final films. But uh, yeah, he was. He was
Speaker 1: an English born actor who worked on the New York
Speaker 1: stage and it's probably best remembered as Dr Hill in
Speaker 1: the first two Reanimator films, But he did a fair
Speaker 1: amount of TV work, a lot of non genre work,
Speaker 1: but he increasingly became known for his horror and sci
Speaker 1: fi appearances. He was Impulse Pounders Tales from the Dark Side. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was in The Brain, which we discussed previously on
Speaker 1: the show. He played the the TV host psychiatrist who
Speaker 1: was like actually brainwashing people to follow the giant alien brain. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he you know what, David Gale. One thing I
Speaker 1: appreciate about him was he understood that a villain is
Speaker 1: supposed to be hated, and he would commit to making
Speaker 1: his villainous performances as absolutely disgusting and loathsome as possible.
Speaker 1: He was like, I want the audience to physically recoil
Speaker 1: when they see me. So he adds in all these
Speaker 1: little notes of just these facial expressions and posture and
Speaker 1: stuff to not just say his lines and make it
Speaker 1: clear that he is the bad guy, but to be
Speaker 1: just like pulsive and unsettling in every possible way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the He was committed for sure. It's just a
Speaker 1: full bodied performance with their debts to his facial expressions
Speaker 1: that most people did not have. Uh so, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is another which is wonderfully reptilian performance in this film. Again,
Speaker 1: even before he turns into a reptile. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he sells it so well. It's like there's a part
Speaker 1: later where the Vivian Wou character like knees him in
Speaker 1: the crotch, and despite mostly not really getting involved in
Speaker 1: the drama of this movie, in that scene, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: get him. Yeah, well, well we'll come back more to
Speaker 1: Gale's performance because it is it is stand out. But
Speaker 1: there there's oh man, he's got such a crew working
Speaker 1: under him, because yeah, Balkus can't do it alone. He
Speaker 1: has these other zoonoids which are again monsters disguised as humans,
Speaker 1: and the I guess the his his second in command
Speaker 1: is number two is the illinoid Lisker, played by Michael Berryman.
Speaker 1: Another legend. Yeah Born. We talked about him briefly on
Speaker 1: beast Master to the beast Master two episode because he
Speaker 1: pops up at the end of that and kind of
Speaker 1: a cameo. You know, well it just you know, shows up.
Speaker 1: He recognize its Berryman, and he he kind of you know,
Speaker 1: acts afraid, I guess and runs away. But in this
Speaker 1: movie he really has the opportunity to flex his acting muscles.
Speaker 1: So horror, action, romance, even uh comedy, Berryman can do
Speaker 1: it all. Berryman was of course born with um with
Speaker 1: hypo hydraulic ectodermal dysplaysia, a rare condition, leaving him with
Speaker 1: no sweat glands, hair, fingernails, or teeth. And this gave him,
Speaker 1: of course a unique look that was you know, utilized
Speaker 1: in such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
Speaker 1: The Hills Have Eyes. Those kind of I guess helped
Speaker 1: put him, um, you know, put put him in the spotlight.
Speaker 1: But he's been in various other films and TV shows
Speaker 1: over the years, a ton of stuff, Uh Star Trek,
Speaker 1: The Voyage Home, Weird Science. He's one of the like
Speaker 1: biker mutants. I think that shows up, Uh Star Trek,
Speaker 1: The Final Frontier, The Devil's Rejects, The Bizarre and Problematic,
Speaker 1: The Evil Within, and and many other films. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's a bona fide legend. All right. Then we
Speaker 1: have another zoo annoyed named Ramsey and this one is
Speaker 1: played by Peter Spellos board N and this is this
Speaker 1: is one of the actors that I did not recognize,
Speaker 1: but as it turns out, you know, he's a pretty
Speaker 1: well known voiceover actor, especially in English dubs of anime.
Speaker 1: So he's done voices in uh, the English dubs of
Speaker 1: such titles as Pandaico Panda that was like an early
Speaker 1: Miyazaki project, Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell,
Speaker 1: two point oh Street Fighter to the animated movie he
Speaker 1: he does the English voice for Sagott and that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And in his physical form, he's popped up in everything
Speaker 1: Freddie's Dead, the Final Nightmare and married with children two
Speaker 1: Men in Black two in this movie, his character I
Speaker 1: think has a Russian accent. Did I hear that right?
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I don't remember him talking so much.
Speaker 1: He doesn't talk as much. Uh. He shares a lot
Speaker 1: of screen time with the Zoelenoid Striker, who is played
Speaker 1: by Jimmy Walker born Jimmy Walker gets a lot of
Speaker 1: screen time, especially in monster form in this movie. Yes,
Speaker 1: and which and when he said, when they were all
Speaker 1: these these characters, when they're in monster form, their voiced
Speaker 1: by the the the actor. But yeah. Jimmy Walker stand
Speaker 1: up comedian and actor, probably best remembered as JJ on
Speaker 1: the sitcom Good Times from through nineteen seventy nine, where
Speaker 1: his catchphrase was oh Dino might Does he say it
Speaker 1: in the movie, Yes, he does. Yeah, this this, This
Speaker 1: is not the sort of movie that's gonna resist giving
Speaker 1: the people what they want. They want that catchphrase. Well,
Speaker 1: it's been like they save it till the very end.
Speaker 1: It's a stinger. It's just all the other action is gone.
Speaker 1: And then it just cuts back to Jimmy Walker's monster
Speaker 1: character there and he just says dynamite. They're like, say,
Speaker 1: you have to say it, this is why we cast you.
Speaker 1: Um I joke, but he's actually I really enjoyed this performance.
Speaker 1: Like he this is he is the one who raps.
Speaker 1: I think he wraps in both human and monster form. Yes,
Speaker 1: but it's like the cuss. It's a very style comedy movie,
Speaker 1: silly rap. Yes. Yeah. I don't think anyone is going
Speaker 1: to go out on a limb and say this is
Speaker 1: a great rap. As far as wraps performed by by
Speaker 1: monsters in horror movies, I don't know, Like that's that's
Speaker 1: a really low bar. I mean you're up against the
Speaker 1: crypt Keeper at that point, the crypt Keeper rap um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's that's one Zoe anoid. Then we also have
Speaker 1: our female Zoe annoyed Webber played by Spice Williams Crosby,
Speaker 1: who I believe is supposed to be like the the
Speaker 1: wife or girlfriend of the Michael berryman Zo Annoyed. This
Speaker 1: movie has Zoo annoyed romance. Yes. Yeah, there's this wonderful
Speaker 1: scene where they're they're in the van and they're just
Speaker 1: talking about their future plans together about possibly what they're
Speaker 1: traveling to Brazil. Yeah, we want to go to Brazil
Speaker 1: one day. It's so sweet. And then they've got to
Speaker 1: go kill the Earthlings. Yeah so. Uh. Spice Williams Crosby
Speaker 1: or or Spice Williams as she was was often credited,
Speaker 1: at least at the time of this film, actor, stunt
Speaker 1: woman and all around just muscle woman. Um. Her biggest
Speaker 1: role was playing the cling On Vixus in Star Trek
Speaker 1: the Final Frontier. She did a lot of TV popping
Speaker 1: up on The Master that is, The Master Ninja TV series, Uh,
Speaker 1: Deep Space Nine, Seinfeld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among many others.
Speaker 1: Uncredited Vampire and from Dust Till Down, and as a
Speaker 1: stunt player, she did a lot of stunts. She did
Speaker 1: stunts in this film, for example, She's worked on tone
Speaker 1: of big movies and as a stunt double for Shirley McClain,
Speaker 1: Denise Crosby, Vicky Lawrence, Kelly Preston and others. Wow, in
Speaker 1: her full monster zoanoid films, she kind of looks like
Speaker 1: a furry owl slot, kind of like an owl bear
Speaker 1: from Dungeons and Dragons. I was gonna say, she looks
Speaker 1: like she's like a giant bat without wings. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: And then this is more of a minor zoe Anoid.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a zoe anoid who stays in the
Speaker 1: lab for the most part and doesn't go out on
Speaker 1: the field assignments. But we have Jeffrey Combs playing Dr East.
Speaker 1: Dr East. He only shows up in the last twenty
Speaker 1: minutes of the movie. Yeah, yeah, Jeffrey comes of course,
Speaker 1: is the reanimator himself. The re animator was, of course
Speaker 1: Herbert West, so in here he's Dr East. Ye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And of course he was in the first two Reanimator
Speaker 1: films alongside David Gayle. But but like Gayl he you know,
Speaker 1: he have essentially built up this career as being kind
Speaker 1: of a horror icon. I would say Jeffrey Combs is
Speaker 1: kind of one of the few you can point and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: twentie late twentieth century horror icon. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess it started with Reanimator, right, but that that sort
Speaker 1: of got him into a bunch of other stuff, Like
Speaker 1: he ended up in The Frighteners, which is a much
Speaker 1: forgotten movie, but that was like a big mainstream horror movie.
Speaker 1: That's one of the interesting things about Combs is he
Speaker 1: kind of bridges the gap between stuff like Reanimator, from
Speaker 1: Beyond Castle, Freak and Necronomicon Book of the Dead. He
Speaker 1: there's that side to his work, but he also shows
Speaker 1: up in some of these these big budget, like late
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties horror features like House on Haunted Hill. He
Speaker 1: has a really frightening role in that as like a
Speaker 1: murderous surgeon ghost. Oh. But also in The Frightenners, he
Speaker 1: played It's been a long time since I've seen that,
Speaker 1: but I recall he plays like an FBI agent who
Speaker 1: turns out to be like a like a cult obsessed
Speaker 1: maniac who's got these like scars and tattoos all over
Speaker 1: his body. Oh cool, I know I never saw the Frighteners.
Speaker 1: I remember he gets some mono long where he's like,
Speaker 1: my body is a roadmap of pain. It comes was great.
Speaker 1: He's great at chewing the scenery. Like He's not in
Speaker 1: this movie much, but he makes the most out of it. Yes,
Speaker 1: he did a lot of TV work as well. He's
Speaker 1: done voiceover work. Um. And, as with his appearances in
Speaker 1: Robot Jocks and Transfers to which we covered previously, this
Speaker 1: is a minor but fun role agreed of. Of note here,
Speaker 1: we do have a movie within a movie that pops
Speaker 1: up as one of our chase sequences ends up moving
Speaker 1: through a movie set and uh and it features uh
Speaker 1: one notable appearance anyway. Uh. Leanna quickly shows up and Lenaea,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Lenea quickly shows up playing a scream queen.
Speaker 1: She's credited as scream Queen. Um, I guess she's sort
Speaker 1: of playing herself. But she's of course best remembered for
Speaker 1: playing I guess, various characters, but especially the punk zombie
Speaker 1: from Return of the Living Dead, along with various other
Speaker 1: films like Silent Night, Dead Night and Night of the demons.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, Return of the Living Dead. What's that
Speaker 1: line she has? She's like, don't you just love death? Um.
Speaker 1: The other fun thing is in this movie within a movie,
Speaker 1: the director of this picture shows up because he basically
Speaker 1: we have one of our monsters wander in there and
Speaker 1: they think he's part of the film, and so the
Speaker 1: director comes up and he's like, no, let me tell
Speaker 1: you how we're shooting this. And the director is played
Speaker 1: by this guy, Michael Dieke, who was another special effects guy,
Speaker 1: sometimes actor and at least one time actual director whose
Speaker 1: work makeup and special effects and a bunch of things.
Speaker 1: But he's also one of these guys that is six
Speaker 1: foot six in height. So you know what happens if
Speaker 1: you're a special effects guy and you're that tall, you're
Speaker 1: wearing a monster costume at some point. So, as it
Speaker 1: turns out, he was the Mummy Entails from the Dark
Speaker 1: Side the movie and the creature in Sellar Dweller the
Speaker 1: Mummy was that the segment that had like Steve Bishemi
Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, maybe a Christian Slater in there. It's
Speaker 1: a pretty terrifying mummy, as I recall, because it's actually
Speaker 1: like it starts removing people's brains through their nostrils. Oh
Speaker 1: and Michael Deeke also played the character Horn in Arena.
Speaker 1: That was all the main boss that are alien that
Speaker 1: our boxing human boxer had to combat. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 1: many fond memories of Arena that just keeps coming up
Speaker 1: and it ages well in my memory. Just a wholesome film. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: As for the music in this film, it is by
Speaker 1: Matthew Morse, very forgettable score, but it was apparently apparently
Speaker 1: released as an album in Japan. It was Huh. It's
Speaker 1: got a lot of that that late eighties studio sound,
Speaker 1: like the really bright bass guitar that might actually be
Speaker 1: just a midi bass that somebody's playing on a keyboard,
Speaker 1: has oceans of reverb on the drums. Uh, and also
Speaker 1: that that horrible musical punctuation of physical comedy, like you know,
Speaker 1: one of the goober Mont Stirs is acting dumb and
Speaker 1: then we get the bloop to bloop trombone music. And
Speaker 1: it also is a movie it has like those doink
Speaker 1: spring sound effects for the slapstick. Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of slapstick in this which I guess
Speaker 1: is unavoidable to a certain extent because it's it's a
Speaker 1: rubber monster movie. It is a rubber monster meet slapfest. Uh.
Speaker 1: Though there are some good gooey stabs and by thrown
Speaker 1: in for good measure, and at least one really awesome
Speaker 1: looking giver clothes line like clotheslines one of the monsters,
Speaker 1: and there's a nice bump in there. All right, shall
Speaker 1: we do? Shall we jump into the plot of the Giver? Sure? Well?
Speaker 1: I have a question to begin with, which is when
Speaker 1: I first started watching, I had to go back and
Speaker 1: turn off the auto Russian dubbing that my DVD started with.
Speaker 1: So was this movie a big hit in Russia or something?
Speaker 1: Why is it that our video, our disc from the
Speaker 1: draw him as a Russian DVD. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did the same thing for me. It started off
Speaker 1: and then it was I didn't realize it was Russian
Speaker 1: in first that well, maybe it's supposed to be like
Speaker 1: an alien language or something, because he was playing over
Speaker 1: the the opening narration, and then I quickly realized, oh no,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a foreign language audio track,
Speaker 1: And sure enough track one was Russian, Track two was
Speaker 1: the original English. Okay, well, anyway, so this movie begins
Speaker 1: with a Star Wars style text crawl over a starfield background,
Speaker 1: which is read aloud for you as it rolls by
Speaker 1: good choice. So it says, at the beginning of time,
Speaker 1: aliens came to Earth to create the ultimate organic weapon.
Speaker 1: They created mankind by planting a special gene into man.
Speaker 1: They created zoe annoid's, humans who can change at will
Speaker 1: into super monster soldiers. You with me so far? Okay.
Speaker 1: Eons later, the zoe annoyed leader called the Zoa Lord
Speaker 1: has a A wakened and formed the Chronos Corporation to
Speaker 1: further develop the zoe anoid technology for world domination. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: how did he get the funding for that? Yeah, he
Speaker 1: awakened from what where was he was asleep? And then
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm a CEO now, yes, And so he
Speaker 1: becomes David Gale and puts on puts on a suit,
Speaker 1: suppresses his zoe annoidiness and says, no, I will I
Speaker 1: will dine on salads for lunch. I will wear a
Speaker 1: tie um and and that's what he does. And then oh,
Speaker 1: but the text goes on. It says among the alien
Speaker 1: remains was found the unit a bio boosted alien armor
Speaker 1: warned by the aliens. It serves as an ordinary shield.
Speaker 1: If the wearer is human, it increases his natural powers
Speaker 1: a hundred fold. He becomes the Giver, but how to
Speaker 1: activate it remains a mystery. By the way, I think
Speaker 1: all of this opening text crawls completely superfluous, because he
Speaker 1: would learn all this stuff throughout the movie eventually anyway.
Speaker 1: But all it really does is create additional plot holes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then it also says Dr Tetsu Segawa, a research
Speaker 1: scientistic chronos since his danger if this unit is activated
Speaker 1: by the Zoo Lord. Now the doctor has stolen it
Speaker 1: and is on the run. So we're in the present
Speaker 1: tense now, and then we see what was just described.
Speaker 1: We We open on a damp, dark, steamy bit of asphalt.
Speaker 1: There's concrete everywhere. We're in the We're in a sort
Speaker 1: of liminal space somewhere in I think future Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and there's a scientist in a lab coat. I guess
Speaker 1: this is doctor Tagawa, and he's running around in the dark,
Speaker 1: and he flips open a metal suitcase and inside we
Speaker 1: see the Geiver. It is disc shaped overall. It's sort
Speaker 1: of like Iron Man's little power pack, but it sort
Speaker 1: of looks like a metal ball surrounded by leather flaps.
Speaker 1: You got anything to add to that? Now that that's
Speaker 1: that's what it looks like. It looks like alien technology,
Speaker 1: so you know, we buy it and it flashes ominously
Speaker 1: and makes sound effects. So uh. We see doctor to
Speaker 1: Go hiding the guiver among a pile of trash. I
Speaker 1: think he crams it in a plastic lunch box and
Speaker 1: then he takes the empty metal suitcase and he runs
Speaker 1: off because he's being pursued by some heckling bad guys
Speaker 1: in a van. They're the kind who are like they're
Speaker 1: they're driving up on the overpass above and looking down
Speaker 1: at him and they're like, hey, there he is. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get him. And then they eventually catch up to
Speaker 1: him in a concrete canal. So again I guess this
Speaker 1: is l ah. But the bad guys in the van
Speaker 1: include Michael Berryman, Spice, Williams Crosby, Jimmy Walker, and Peter
Speaker 1: Spellos and all in human form. All in human form
Speaker 1: at this point, but they're being goofballs. There are antics
Speaker 1: of plenty, and I have to say, Michael Berryman, it
Speaker 1: looks pretty sharp in this when he shows up. When
Speaker 1: he actually gets gets out of the vehicle and starts
Speaker 1: walking around. Oh yeah, he's dressed in all black like
Speaker 1: down to the ankles. He looks like the high priest
Speaker 1: of Zoanoidism, and he says, he says to to Gawa,
Speaker 1: he says, it's not too late. You can still come back.
Speaker 1: But Togawa reacts to this by turning into a fishman,
Speaker 1: like a giant bipedal fish head monster rips up out
Speaker 1: of his skin, and at first Jimmy Walkers like, let
Speaker 1: me have him, but Berryman steps forward. He's like, uh,
Speaker 1: this is a job for the boss, so strap yourself
Speaker 1: in for some morphin sequences because Berryman is going to
Speaker 1: warp spasm and turn into a big creature. I mean well,
Speaker 1: while he's warping, the fish Monster says um. He says,
Speaker 1: these inhuman experiments must stop. So he's still speaking English.
Speaker 1: But Berryman morphs through several stages. He becomes a kind
Speaker 1: of cross eyed half pumpkinhead, and then eventually he becomes
Speaker 1: a big old grimlin beast with giant yellow fangs, but
Speaker 1: they're underbite fangs like the Orcs in the Warcraft games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's an impressive looking monster. Costume, a full body
Speaker 1: costume here and with kind of a cool stance, like
Speaker 1: you really buy this as a big physical threat, right,
Speaker 1: and then they fight. You get the good meat slapping
Speaker 1: sound effects. Somebody somebody was whipping steaks together right next
Speaker 1: to a microphone. And eventually the Berryman Beast grabs the
Speaker 1: fish Monster by the head and crushes his brain. And
Speaker 1: they retrieved the suitcase and roll out, and then we
Speaker 1: cut two credits. Yeah, yeah, that's it. The unit has
Speaker 1: been returned to the zoanoids. So after the credits, we
Speaker 1: meet our our our good guys. We go to an
Speaker 1: i kedo studio where our dope young hero Sean is
Speaker 1: sparring with fellow students. He seems to be not good
Speaker 1: at aikido. He's repeatedly getting thrown But then Vivian Wu
Speaker 1: comes in and apparently there's a romance butting between her
Speaker 1: character miss Key and Uh and Sean, because he's like,
Speaker 1: can I give you a ride home tonight and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it's better than the bus and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh shocks, I think she's supposed to work in the
Speaker 1: office at the aikido studio. Yeah, yeah, that's the cential kid. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So the aikido instructor starts teaching everybody how to do
Speaker 1: a throw. So she's like, Hi, everybody, come watch this,
Speaker 1: and so Sean's distracted. In Meanwhile, Mark Hamill walks in
Speaker 1: behind Vivian wou Or. He kind of skunks in. And
Speaker 1: in this movie, he wears this outfit that is white
Speaker 1: slacks with a belt, a red sweater tucked into his pants,
Speaker 1: and this huge suede coat hanging open. And again it's
Speaker 1: hammil so you better believe he has a mustache. So
Speaker 1: he takes miskey aside into the office. He explains, I'm
Speaker 1: Max Reid c i A. I've been investigating the Chronos
Speaker 1: Corporation where your father worked. Uh. First of all, he
Speaker 1: says worked, like she doesn't know yet that he's been
Speaker 1: had his head crushed, and he just starts off where
Speaker 1: your father worked and uh. And the other thing is yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So in the world of this film, the c i
Speaker 1: A investigates domestic corporate malfeasance. Anyway, so he starts to
Speaker 1: tell a story that all gets re enacted while he's narrating.
Speaker 1: So we're watching this happening, like we we fade to
Speaker 1: Mark Hamill in the dark, smoking a cigarette, sitting on
Speaker 1: a big concrete wall, and he narrates, I've got some
Speaker 1: bad news for you. Your father and I had a
Speaker 1: meeting tonight. He was delivering something he'd gotten out of
Speaker 1: Chronoss Lab. Said it was important and dangerous. He never
Speaker 1: made it. They got to him first. I couldn't quite
Speaker 1: make out what was going on, but it was violent
Speaker 1: and weird. Anyway, your father is dead. I just wanted yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted you to know your your dad died really
Speaker 1: weirdly weird. It couldn't make it all out, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was weird, just so good and uh yeah. So
Speaker 1: he's like, we couldn't get to him in time. Uh.
Speaker 1: But we see in the re enactment that Mark Hamill
Speaker 1: has a couple of suits that he works with who
Speaker 1: were constantly sort of chasing him around in the movie.
Speaker 1: We find up in the end that they're working with
Speaker 1: the Zoo Annoys the whole time. But the suits are
Speaker 1: on the scene with him and they go down to
Speaker 1: where Togawa was, but there's no more sign of the
Speaker 1: Fishhead monster. Now he's just a slimy human skeleton. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Sean out there has been watching through the window at
Speaker 1: this conversation miss Key is having with Reid, and he
Speaker 1: has been ignoring the aikido demonstration, which immediately turns into
Speaker 1: him being made a fool of in front of the
Speaker 1: whole class. They're like, you know, hey, show, let's do
Speaker 1: that throw we just demonstrated, And he doesn't know what's
Speaker 1: going on, so he gets thrown and thrown and uh,
Speaker 1: and I should not his sparring partners wearing a shirt
Speaker 1: that says kill them All, which I don't think is
Speaker 1: a reference to the first Metallica album. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. You could just be booleg right,
Speaker 1: Oh I guess so, yeah, it's not the logo, but
Speaker 1: it does say that, so make your own metallic. Sure.
Speaker 1: After all this, the aikido instructor sits down with Sean
Speaker 1: and and she's like, Sean, you have to learn to
Speaker 1: control your temper or nothing I teach you is ever
Speaker 1: going to help you out there. But you know, she's
Speaker 1: not thinking of the tingency in which he receives some
Speaker 1: alien power armor, right, that is that is activated by
Speaker 1: his temper exactly, so in that case, like she's giving
Speaker 1: him exactly the wrong advice. You should you should learn
Speaker 1: nothing in class, and you should just get mad. But
Speaker 1: now it's time to check in with the bad guys, right,
Speaker 1: So we get our first David Gale. Seeing David Gale
Speaker 1: is in his office, in his corporate office, wearing a
Speaker 1: tie in a suit. He's some kind of business big
Speaker 1: wig sitting at a desk, and Michael Berriman shows up
Speaker 1: with the suitcase and and of course David Gale is
Speaker 1: very pleased. What's his character's name again, Balcus or something? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Balcus is very pleased. He says it's a good thing,
Speaker 1: you got it because and then he's like toying with him.
Speaker 1: He walks around the back of Barryman. He's like touching
Speaker 1: his head. He goes, I wouldn't want a hair on
Speaker 1: your lovely head. Hurt. But oh, there's a problem because
Speaker 1: he opens up the case and remember how to Gawa
Speaker 1: switch the guiver out? Well, of course there is no
Speaker 1: guiver in the case. Instead, it's a toaster and he
Speaker 1: he starts to have a magnificent freak out. He says,
Speaker 1: what is this some sort of masochistic joke? And he
Speaker 1: goes into a full on telekinetic rage. He grows a
Speaker 1: third eye out of his forehead and makes Michael Berryman
Speaker 1: start punching himself. Yeah, we have like slapping himself in
Speaker 1: the face and kind of like clawing at his own face.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful performance by Berryman. And then and then
Speaker 1: Bacha says, uh, just snarling at him. At this point,
Speaker 1: he's like, I'll have you slap yourself into oblivion if
Speaker 1: you don't find it. So, yeah, I guess you assume
Speaker 1: that this is his standard assassination method, is psychically making
Speaker 1: people punch themselves to death or at least zoe annoids.
Speaker 1: I mean he is the Zoa Lord, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it only works on zoe anoids, that's true, not
Speaker 1: that it matters. So in the meantime, Sean drives down
Speaker 1: to where miss Key's father was killed and uh, he's
Speaker 1: he's riding on a scooter and he happens to stumble
Speaker 1: across the actual guy for in its hiding place, and
Speaker 1: he takes it with him, and we we get a
Speaker 1: whole scene at the at the crime scene with Miskey
Speaker 1: there and Max Ree that's Mark Hamill there and they're
Speaker 1: talking about it, and Mark Hamill's suit bosses they're like
Speaker 1: still chasing Ninja turtles and he's like, I'm on my
Speaker 1: own time. So he's going around flashing his CIA credentials.
Speaker 1: But apparently this is just a private investigation he's taken
Speaker 1: up for, you know, out of the goodness of his heart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't sound dangerous at all. And then later Mark
Speaker 1: Hamill takes mis Key home and explains to her that
Speaker 1: her father contacted him because he wanted to pass something off,
Speaker 1: this thing, the Geiver, and he says it's the most
Speaker 1: dangerous technology since the Adam bomb, but he doesn't understand
Speaker 1: what it is, so he's asking her. Uh. She of
Speaker 1: course has no idea what it is either, but she
Speaker 1: hilariously is repeating the words of the scene. Is she's
Speaker 1: there in her house, she's in tears over her father's death.
Speaker 1: And he's like, what do you know about the Giver
Speaker 1: And she's like the guyver and he's right, you know that, yes,
Speaker 1: the diver um And she says, like he was a scientist,
Speaker 1: how could he get involved with something like that? Anyway,
Speaker 1: Sean comes to the door to to check on mis
Speaker 1: Key and he sees Mark Hamill in her apartment. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he like sees him in a mirror
Speaker 1: through the door. He gets very upset. I think the
Speaker 1: implication is he thinks that, like, I don't know that
Speaker 1: miss Key and Mark Hamill are like dating now or something,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't make any sense because like he saw
Speaker 1: them at the crime scene. It's clear he's some sort
Speaker 1: of official. Yeah, this is actually one of them. I
Speaker 1: think this is the only line in the film that
Speaker 1: that made me laugh. This is because after after he
Speaker 1: sees Max Reid in the mirror, storms off, Max Reid
Speaker 1: walks back up and says, that's a lousy place for
Speaker 1: a mirror, And I did laugh at that. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good line. That's pretty good, like so good
Speaker 1: that I have. I have a hard time believing it
Speaker 1: was originally in the script. Yeah. Yeah. But then we
Speaker 1: get to a pivotal scene because on the way home,
Speaker 1: remember Seawan's he's still got the he's still got the
Speaker 1: Giver in his backpack, and his scooter breaks down in
Speaker 1: a in a dark alleyway full of full of steam
Speaker 1: and trash and graffiti, and while he's trying to fix it,
Speaker 1: I guess he has jumped by a gang of bozos
Speaker 1: and yellow bandanas. I think they're supposed to be like
Speaker 1: a dangerous criminal gang, but they're also like all the
Speaker 1: bad guys in this movie, kind of blood bloop Trombone.
Speaker 1: Goober's like just acting silly. Yes, some of them look
Speaker 1: like they're in their mid forties and uh, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's probably the case where the gang consists of whoever
Speaker 1: was in the stunt crew. Yes, yeah, but oh another
Speaker 1: guy in the gang is the guy that Sean was
Speaker 1: sparring with a Nikedo class earlier. Also anyway, the gang
Speaker 1: starts beating him up and as they're attacking him, oops,
Speaker 1: Shawan accidentally face fuses with the Guiver and then we
Speaker 1: get a transformation sequence. Strap yourself in for these morphin sequences.
Speaker 1: It is wet meat and electricity, and the gang guys
Speaker 1: are saying, oh God, get back, it's gross. He's sick
Speaker 1: or something. Rob How would you describe this transformation and
Speaker 1: what he looks like in the Giver suit? Oh, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's pretty great. It's like, um, the suit
Speaker 1: itself is kind of like like somebody's been turned inside out.
Speaker 1: It's like there's certainly a feeling of like of of
Speaker 1: an actual exoskeleton and you see the viscera and their
Speaker 1: steam coming out of the sides of the mast. There's
Speaker 1: a horn. Uh. They're also the ball and extra balls
Speaker 1: of the unit are there, and they're kind of like
Speaker 1: squirming around. Uh. It's it's a really cool looking suit.
Speaker 1: It has like elbow blades that pop out, um, but
Speaker 1: it does. It is also, of course very much a
Speaker 1: rubber monster suit and uh and and has those limitations
Speaker 1: in place. But yeah, it's very much the Cronenberg Ee
Speaker 1: Power Rangers costume that we teased at the beginning. I'll
Speaker 1: also point out that one thing, the thing that yucked
Speaker 1: me out the most about the suit activating and like
Speaker 1: the tendrils going around him and like growing over him,
Speaker 1: is that he's not nude underneath it. I think I
Speaker 1: would have felt better if he was nude. But there's
Speaker 1: like a layer of full clothing between him and the
Speaker 1: new flesh. Like if you're gonna forge with the new flesh,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want like a sweaty T shirt
Speaker 1: there in between, Like just let the flesh touch the flesh, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: may maye the old T shirt die? Yeah yeah, Your
Speaker 1: diuiver suit's just gonna get infected. This way, but so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of insectoid power ranger armor, that hinging heroes
Speaker 1: sort of thing, but with with this this kitaness quality
Speaker 1: and then these gross wet muscles underneath the spitting out
Speaker 1: the steam and this gas mask thing on the face
Speaker 1: with the big eyes and in guiver form. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's he's a monster like. He easily beats up the gang,
Speaker 1: he breaks their bones and at one point he almost
Speaker 1: stabs the dude to death. Um. And then we get
Speaker 1: another slash wipe. But I don't think I've been mentioning
Speaker 1: them every time, but there's slash wipes a plenty. So
Speaker 1: this movie is just like one corner to the other
Speaker 1: loves it. Uh. And we get another scene with Michael
Speaker 1: Berryman going back to David Gale to get yelled at
Speaker 1: and berated again. Uh. And this is the scene where
Speaker 1: they decide, oh, well, you've got to go kidnapped to
Speaker 1: Gawa's daughter, so let's let's kidnap miskey. Obviously, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to point out in this scene, David Gale is
Speaker 1: sitting down I think, to eat, like he's making human
Speaker 1: breakfast or something. But he gets up to walk around
Speaker 1: and he has a napkin dangling out of his soup jacket.
Speaker 1: And then also there like he's using the toaster that
Speaker 1: was brought earlier to make himself toast, which I think
Speaker 1: is supposed to be funny, but like toast pops up
Speaker 1: out of it and it's burned and on fire. So
Speaker 1: I think the joke is that that that David Gale's
Speaker 1: character does not understand how human cuisine works. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: this this moment, I guess I was supposed to laugh,
Speaker 1: but instead I groaned. But then I think I laughed anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh so that the toaster work for me. I guess
Speaker 1: it is a good Gayl's performance is so good here.
Speaker 1: And then when we come back to Sean, we get
Speaker 1: a version of the classic werewolf hangover seen you know
Speaker 1: what scene I'm talking about. It's in a werewolf movie
Speaker 1: or something of that sort of. The protagonist wakes up,
Speaker 1: sometimes in their own beds, sometimes in a strange place,
Speaker 1: but in their regular body, and they feel around on
Speaker 1: their torso with their hands and gaze intently into the mirror,
Speaker 1: wipe their hair back with a size if to check
Speaker 1: it is that really me? What a relief? And then
Speaker 1: they wonder aloud if it was all just a bad dream,
Speaker 1: or maybe they don't remember anything at all except a
Speaker 1: strange feeling that something terrible happened last night. But of course,
Speaker 1: here our protagonist did not become a wild kinnido morph
Speaker 1: but a weird armored insect fighter with elbow knives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he may not remember it, but that that geiver costume
Speaker 1: crawled into series of holes in the back of his neck.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right. Yes. When it goes away, it like
Speaker 1: it sucks into these like fang holes at at the
Speaker 1: base of his skull. And then in the following scene,
Speaker 1: there was some dialogue that was so bewildering to me
Speaker 1: I had to just include it verbatim and recreate it here.
Speaker 1: So we get to a scene with Mark Hamill, you
Speaker 1: know the c I a guy Read. He's arguing with
Speaker 1: the two suits. Uh. I think he was like, y'all
Speaker 1: need to look into the Chronos Corporation. And they come
Speaker 1: back to him and they're like, we checked it out,
Speaker 1: Chronos Corporations, Fine, n b D. Nothing to see here,
Speaker 1: and uh, And so Read is they're walking on the
Speaker 1: sidewalk and Read says to them one thing, what the
Speaker 1: hell is a scientist doing? In the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: walking down a concrete riverbed in his lab coat, fishing,
Speaker 1: and then the suit says back to him, who knows
Speaker 1: some people will do anything to land a fish, even
Speaker 1: tell a fish story. Then Read says, yeah, well it
Speaker 1: ain't fish. I sme, l it's a rat. It's so good.
Speaker 1: That's that's some David Namnett stuff right there. What is
Speaker 1: a fish story a fish? I guess it's like the
Speaker 1: it's an exaggeration, right, like a big fish story like this, Okay,
Speaker 1: And then something smells fishy, but also sometimes you smell
Speaker 1: a rat. It's it's all, it's all. It's perfectly constructed,
Speaker 1: tight tight, yeah, okay. Well this all leads up to
Speaker 1: this big middle section of the movie that is a
Speaker 1: long extended fight sequence, and how we get there is
Speaker 1: uh is that the bad guys, the Zoonoids, go to
Speaker 1: miss Key's apartment to try to kidnap her, but just
Speaker 1: in time, um Sean and Max meet up there and
Speaker 1: they rescue her and the three of them run off
Speaker 1: into a warehouse where they are pursued by the Zoonoids,
Speaker 1: and along the way they stumble across this film set,
Speaker 1: which which is where Jimmy Walker's character accidentally he he
Speaker 1: runs into a woman. She starts screaming, but then there's
Speaker 1: like a director saying cut and it turns out she's
Speaker 1: an actress shooting on location in this alleyway and they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be a monster there, but it was a
Speaker 1: different monster that was supposed to be there, and yuck, yucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely essential, it's in the movie. But they move on
Speaker 1: to the warehouse and then there's just like a long,
Speaker 1: long fight sequence. I gotta be honest, in this scene,
Speaker 1: like I loved the reveal of all the monsters, but
Speaker 1: the the sort of like running around in the warehouse
Speaker 1: and the fighting kind of went on a long time.
Speaker 1: For me, it did. Yeah, there's a lot of meat
Speaker 1: slapping in this uh this sequence, there are some good
Speaker 1: moments of of goo and slicing. But also like the
Speaker 1: more you see these monsters, you know, even though the
Speaker 1: Guiver costume looks amazing, the monsters, the zoonoids look amazing,
Speaker 1: you know that there are scenes where just by virtue
Speaker 1: of them being floppy monster costumes, they're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: get a little bit of flop. You're gonna get a
Speaker 1: little bit of of movement there that betrays the you know,
Speaker 1: the the underlying synthetic nature of the whole thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: But if you like a good monster slap test, they
Speaker 1: they got it here. And I think this may be
Speaker 1: the fight sequence where we get that really strong clothes line.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, they're definitely good things about it.
Speaker 1: I think one thing that made it a little less
Speaker 1: than it could have been was the doink doink music
Speaker 1: that just that kind of sucks some of the soul
Speaker 1: out of it. Oh. But one of the important things
Speaker 1: in this big warehouse fight sequences that the Michael Berriman
Speaker 1: monster discovers the secret the weakness of the Giver suit,
Speaker 1: which is the ball on his forehead and which I
Speaker 1: think is called the control metal. And they defeat the
Speaker 1: Giver by ripping out the ball from his forehead. And oops,
Speaker 1: now our Guiver hero is dead. Yeah, he just deflates
Speaker 1: and melts. Uh, pretty great, great melting thing. So Miskey
Speaker 1: is captured by the monsters. Both I think Miskey and
Speaker 1: and Read are captured by the monsters, and they're brought
Speaker 1: back to the headquarters of the Chronos Corporation where Fulton
Speaker 1: bach Balkas for he he looms over Misskey's unconscious body
Speaker 1: very creepily, and then she wakes up and he launches
Speaker 1: into an expository monologue. So we find out all kinds
Speaker 1: of things. So he takes on a walk through what's
Speaker 1: called the growth corridor, which sounds like a zoning policy
Speaker 1: buzz phrase. Uh, Robert, how would you describe the growth corridor?
Speaker 1: You know, your standard cloning, that mad science laboratory with
Speaker 1: lots of shadowy things and I in tubes that will
Speaker 1: flanch or jump at the glass if you move too
Speaker 1: close to them. Yeah, yellow liquid, that kind of thing. Uh. So,
Speaker 1: David Gale says, these are zoannoids, genetically altered human beings.
Speaker 1: You see, my dear, A long time ago, when the
Speaker 1: planet was barren, the aliens descended upon the Earth and
Speaker 1: created man. And miss Key just says aliens. He goes,
Speaker 1: that's right. Man was created as the ultimate organic weapon.
Speaker 1: And these are the next step in the evolutionary process.
Speaker 1: Warriors developed by the aliens from the human species. In
Speaker 1: past times, they were known as werewolves, minotaurs, vampires. And
Speaker 1: you always got to appreciate when a writer tries to
Speaker 1: co opt all existing Earth history and mythology as actually
Speaker 1: this other new thing I just made up, so you know, like, yeah, Mermaids,
Speaker 1: Jack the Ripper, UFO abductions. Actually that was all just
Speaker 1: Dr robot Nick acting throughout history. Yeah. I remember the
Speaker 1: second Matrix movie did this right where they're like vampires
Speaker 1: and where that was. That was that was part of
Speaker 1: the Matrix. Yeah. I feel like it works better if
Speaker 1: you pick like one thing you're like, oh, this one
Speaker 1: unexplained phenomenon from history was actually this new thing I
Speaker 1: just made up. When you say all of it, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well they don't. Don't throw shade on the
Speaker 1: zoonoid religion here, okay, But anyway, so he goes on
Speaker 1: and he says, can you imagine these lovely creatures in
Speaker 1: the White House, in every seat of power in every
Speaker 1: country around the world. A great part I did laugh at.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, so good. Uh, let's see, and then
Speaker 1: Miskey wants to know what the Giver is, and Gail
Speaker 1: explains that the Giver is an organic weapon that the
Speaker 1: Aliens created. He basically rehashes the same stuff we already
Speaker 1: learned in the opening text crawl. He's like, it becomes
Speaker 1: a protective suit of armor and there's only one of
Speaker 1: them that's ever been found, but he doesn't know how
Speaker 1: to activate it, and that's why he needs her help.
Speaker 1: He says, you saw it work. Tell me how did
Speaker 1: your friend activate it? Of course she refuses to explain,
Speaker 1: and then Gail threatens to turn her into a zoo anoid,
Speaker 1: and we we wander into the laboratory where we meet
Speaker 1: Dr east Jeffrey Combs finally showing up in the in
Speaker 1: the last reel, and he's when we come in. He's
Speaker 1: like shoving some weird critter into a disintegration tank as
Speaker 1: it screams in protest. It's like a scene from the
Speaker 1: Muppet Show. It's pretty cool and there's more exposition. Dr
Speaker 1: Easton his colleague explained that the giver, which is now
Speaker 1: just a ball with some like goop hanging off of it.
Speaker 1: They say that the control metal is alive and it's growing,
Speaker 1: and Balkus, of course is overwhelmed with pleasure and fascination
Speaker 1: and oh and then over on the other end of
Speaker 1: the room we see that Mark Hamill is now in
Speaker 1: the tank being turned into his zownnoy. This recalls the
Speaker 1: tank he's in an empire strikes back and I think
Speaker 1: David Gale is like, you know, turn tell me how
Speaker 1: to activate the the Guiver or I will. I will
Speaker 1: turn him into his ownoid and you too, And she's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll tell you everything. It was like this
Speaker 1: and then oh the old need of the Cross grabbed
Speaker 1: the Giver and run so she she outsmarts him. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then we we get this sequence where she she
Speaker 1: like grabs the Guiver and she's holding it over that
Speaker 1: disintegration tank and she's like, I'll do it, I'll drop
Speaker 1: it in and one of the monsters knocks it out
Speaker 1: of her hand and into the monster version of jeff
Speaker 1: Ricomb's mouth. He swallows it and then it erupts from
Speaker 1: inside him, revealing fully formed Geiver with sewn inside. He says,
Speaker 1: I came back for you, so we learned, uh to
Speaker 1: take it all back. Geiver can not only regenerate itself,
Speaker 1: but regenerate the person it has fused with. So so
Speaker 1: Shan's okay, yeah, And I don't know about his clothes though,
Speaker 1: did it because again I would hope that it's that
Speaker 1: you're just nude under the diver costume, especially in this case.
Speaker 1: Well he definitely is this. Yeah, spoilers, but uh, Oh
Speaker 1: you also forgot a crucial part of this whole sequence
Speaker 1: is when one zoanoid swallows the unit another zoanoid uh
Speaker 1: thrust their arm down that is going to its throat
Speaker 1: to try and pull it back out in a moment
Speaker 1: that it feels like it's pure screaming Matt George. This
Speaker 1: feels like this is very much something that he would
Speaker 1: have fought to include. Yeah, I think he's like old still,
Speaker 1: let me get that and reaching down his throat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then we get the the body burst and then
Speaker 1: it's meat slap in time again. Right, we get another
Speaker 1: big fight scene where it's fight fight, fight, Geiver versus zoanoid's.
Speaker 1: The Geiver beats up a bunch of the zoanoids. He
Speaker 1: kills the Michael Berryman zoannoid with an elbow, knife, jab
Speaker 1: and eventually by ripping his head open with his hands.
Speaker 1: So kind of weird that otherwise this feels like a
Speaker 1: kid's movie because somewhat brutal. And as they're escaping, Oh no,
Speaker 1: Mark camill, I guess they already ZOANOI did him because
Speaker 1: he starts transforming into a disgusting giant insect. So you
Speaker 1: get a whole morphing sequence like American Werewolf in London style,
Speaker 1: except he's turning into a fleshy slime cricket but with
Speaker 1: sad Mark Hamil eyes, Like he's got Mark Hamil faced
Speaker 1: looking up out of the cricket head and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, yeah, this is a horrifying sequence. I remember
Speaker 1: catching this part on TV when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and this is probably this is the number one reason
Speaker 1: I didn't show any of this to my son, uh,
Speaker 1: because yeah, it's very Kafka ask It's just Hammil becoming
Speaker 1: this giant Gregor asked bug. That's it's not only does
Speaker 1: it have sad eyes, but it's like falling over itself.
Speaker 1: It's just this loathsome thing that should not be Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this part was genuinely kind of kind of sad. I
Speaker 1: was like, why are they doing this? He says like
Speaker 1: it's too late for me. You've got to stop them.
Speaker 1: Don't let them get away with this. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: the Hammil zoonoid just dies. And then you get a
Speaker 1: final show down between the Geiver and the zoannoid form
Speaker 1: of David Gale, which we haven't seen up to this point.
Speaker 1: All the other monsters have been transforming, but he had
Speaker 1: stayed in human form except for revealing the little eye
Speaker 1: in his forehead, and then now finally he he revealed,
Speaker 1: Now I reveal my true form, which is a giant
Speaker 1: insects lizard Windigo. It's like a you know, an insectoid
Speaker 1: dinosaur with stag antlers. Yeah, and this is a pretty
Speaker 1: great design. Um. On one hand, it reminds me is
Speaker 1: some final evolutions of some of the pokemons that my
Speaker 1: son has been showing me. But also the antlers are
Speaker 1: kind of reminiscent of some Asian dragon designs. And I
Speaker 1: was impressed, yeah, with the final showdown effects here, because
Speaker 1: it's gotta be tough going from mostly all rubber suit
Speaker 1: combat to suddenly having this giant and I'm I'm guessing
Speaker 1: puppetry powered monster, but I think it looks really good
Speaker 1: stomping around in the basement here. Uh. It ultimately a
Speaker 1: good looking sequence. Oh yeah, agreed, I love this monster. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is defeated in the end of by an inexplicable
Speaker 1: blast from the Giver's chest, but the Guiver's okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this makes no This is one of those like what's
Speaker 1: going on because the last time we saw the chest
Speaker 1: glowing and all that was when the zoonoids deactivated him
Speaker 1: and melted him down and just installed the unit. And
Speaker 1: now he seems to be doing the exact same thing,
Speaker 1: exact this time it utterly destroys his opponent and leaves
Speaker 1: him unscathed. Yeah, and so he but then so the
Speaker 1: guiver's okay. He goes up to miss Key and he's like, uh,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, it's just me, and she says, I
Speaker 1: know it's you, Sean. Of course, why wouldn't she know?
Speaker 1: But then the suit disappears, leaving a nude Shawn standing there,
Speaker 1: and then she kisses him and then fetches him a
Speaker 1: billowy lab coat. Oh god, Now this this is something
Speaker 1: that I've read multiple times leading up to us watching this,
Speaker 1: and that is something from the oh, the always wonderful
Speaker 1: IMDb parent zone, Um so funny, yeah, which on one
Speaker 1: level I've grown to greatly depend upon, because if it's
Speaker 1: actually filled out and has meaningful content in it, which
Speaker 1: isn't always the case with every film, it can be
Speaker 1: very useful. Yeah, for for any viewer if you want
Speaker 1: to know, you know, what sort of content is in
Speaker 1: the film. It can let us know if there's something
Speaker 1: in this film that maybe would disqualify it from something
Speaker 1: we want to cover on the show. But it also
Speaker 1: has stuff like this where under the like the the
Speaker 1: the nudity section Adult content section of the parent Zone,
Speaker 1: it says this is a user submitted thing. Again quote,
Speaker 1: it's imply the guy is completely naked. Nothing is seen, however,
Speaker 1: so implied nudity is um. Oh, I I love. I
Speaker 1: think there should be warnings about all implied nudity. It's
Speaker 1: like nothing, No, there're non actual naked people in this film,
Speaker 1: but their nudity is implied and now you're imagining that nudity,
Speaker 1: so look away. What was the one we were looking
Speaker 1: at recently that had a note like it said something
Speaker 1: like a character is threatened with a chainsaw to the crotch.
Speaker 1: This may be distressing for some viewers. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: in the parent comments for Hell Hell Comes to Frogtown.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so always always insightful but also good for
Speaker 1: a laugh the IMDb parents. Then I think that's same one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that's the same one that mentioned a
Speaker 1: character who who is yelling something about Core's brand beer. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just like somebody mentioned a beer in this film,
Speaker 1: just so you know. Um, but anyway, but back to
Speaker 1: the guy. At this point, all of the the villains
Speaker 1: are defeated, right, all the zoe Annoids have been have
Speaker 1: been killed, and in the world is safe. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then you've got to have a stinger. So the very
Speaker 1: last thing you get is our our heroes walk away,
Speaker 1: well not Mark Hambill, but our other two heroes walk away.
Speaker 1: And then Jimmy Walker, having survived the Guiver showdown, still
Speaker 1: in full zoe Annoid form, he just appears with one
Speaker 1: of the other the c I a suit guys and
Speaker 1: says his catchphrase from TV. He says, Dino might and
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah. The suit guys like, I've got
Speaker 1: a job for you, and he's like, that will be
Speaker 1: Dinom setting up a sequel. Uh. And there is a
Speaker 1: sequel which I looked at and watched part of. I
Speaker 1: don't think it. This movie actually flows directly into that. Um.
Speaker 1: It seems to be some sort of a plot about
Speaker 1: more zoe Annoids and something in a cave and uh
Speaker 1: and I'm not mistaken, screaming mad. George doesn't like officially
Speaker 1: doing anything and do anything on that film, and Stephen
Speaker 1: Steve Wang is the is the primary director on that one.
Speaker 1: They look like the monster suits are pretty good in
Speaker 1: it as well. It looks like it has some fun monsters.
Speaker 1: But I was I did not feel like I needed
Speaker 1: to go any further. So if you were out there
Speaker 1: listening to this, if you're a big fan of the
Speaker 1: The Diver sequel, do right in and let us know
Speaker 1: what what we're missing out on. UM. Likewise, if you
Speaker 1: have familiarity with the the anime adaptations or the original manga,
Speaker 1: I would I'd love to hear how this film stacks
Speaker 1: up to all of that. Oh, but just to get
Speaker 1: back to this film. Yeah, so we watched this on
Speaker 1: a Russian DVD that we rented from Video Drome. UM,
Speaker 1: it's still played for me on an Xbox just fine.
Speaker 1: That's not always the case with some sort of a
Speaker 1: foreign disk, but it does look like. There is a
Speaker 1: nice Blu Ray Plus DVD special edition that came out
Speaker 1: from Arrow Video and UM at first glance, I thought
Speaker 1: it was like a Region two and you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to play it here anyway. But I see reviews
Speaker 1: for this edition saying that it's region free. So it
Speaker 1: looks pretty good. Looks like it has some special features,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's worth picking up. And this is also
Speaker 1: the sort of film that you can watch by maybe
Speaker 1: streaming it here and there. I don't know. Stuff pops
Speaker 1: in and out on streaming availability, and if you have
Speaker 1: a time machine you can go back and watch this
Speaker 1: on Monster Vision. We were talking. I was talking with
Speaker 1: Seth before we came in here, and he's like, I
Speaker 1: think I've seen this before and there was some sort
Speaker 1: of a host talking about it. Maybe it was a
Speaker 1: al Vira, maybe it was Joe Bob, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: looks like it was definitely Joe Bob because this was
Speaker 1: featured on Monster Vision. Okay, all right, that's it for
Speaker 1: this episode of Weird House Cinema, but we will be
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