What is it?
Yeah.
Did you ever think of wearing a hairnet when you made this stew? Why? What's the matter? What's the matter? Are you kidding? I've got hair in my stew. That's what's the matter.
Oh mine's alright, nothing wrong with mine.
Everything is ready.
This sandwich tastes
As dry as hell.
Hello and welcome to Hello This is the Doomed Show. I am Richard, and folks, I am enrolled. I am so enrolled I'm rolling down the street with all my degrees.
All my colleges, my night school degrees, talking with Professor Mark. Hello, Mark.
How are you?
How am I? I'm great, I'm one of the intellectual elite.
I I I'm sure you are. At the school at the school for older women who can only take classes at night. Yes. For some reason.
The you know, I don't know what made me think of this, but like when you're looking at someone's Facebook profile and they list their education as school of hard knocks.
And you're like you didn't you didn't go there. If you did, you didn't get a degree.
No, you didn't graduate. You didn't make it through. You were a dropout.
Oh let me see those hard knockers, everybody.
Right.
We are talking about night school from nineteen eighty one. We're in slasher town population slash.
And Boy Oh Boy, Terror Eyes, it's a UK title, which leads me down so many roads'cause Terror Eyes is another horror movie. And then what was the one? Uh that's the one with Peter Weller where he's trying to kill.
That rat.
Peter Weller trying to kill a rat.
The rat is like living in the walls.
I know what you're talking about. Oh my and his wife and and child go away on vacation or something and come back. Yes, I love that one. Oh my gosh, what is that? That's gonna drive me.
Of unknown origin.
There you go.
But I don't know why I think the I don't know how I went down there. I I thought it was called Something Eyes. Anyway, I mix these movies up because I'm
Well,
I'm off on a tangent already. But yes, spoiler alert. So if you are interested in seeing this film, please to be stopping the show and go watch it'cause it is worth watching and
I'm not sure how you've made it this far in life by not seeing this. I'd like to to know who has not seen night school.
Yeah.
Um and folks, this episode, of course, is brought to you by Giallo Meltdown 2. And you're asking yourself,
Wait a minute, this is a slasher. What's it doing in a Giallo book, dude? And I say, It's okay, it's my book. I'll put whatever I want in it. But also, uh this killer is dressed like the killer from either
Strip nude for your killer or what have they done to your daughters? So there you go. Although this plot is totally totally insane when we find out what's been going on. It could be a Giallo.
Oh totally.
Now I thought for sure you were gonna mention Nightmare B.
Dude, thank you for picking that up. Yes, I j and I just watched that because uh it was spring break very recently, so we watched Nightmare B.
Bring break down.
Yeah. Ooh. We watched a movie that I think you might like, uh Where the Boys Are.
Oh wait, which one? The original or the original?
Oh okay.
Nineteen sixty nineteen sixty?
I can't remember.
And then and there's an eighties remake as well, which is kind of goofy.
Yeah, I need to r I need to watch that. I haven't had the urge to see that since I caught it on cable. Uh we are big fans of the the original
The OG.
Yeah. Giallo Meltdown 2. Um there's a whole slasher chapter where I talk about slashers that remind me of Giallo. And uh yeah, on Amazon.com, make sure you give your money to Papa Bezos.
And if you're in the Netherlands, you can purchase it as well, because I stumbled across it and I thought that was pretty cool that your book is already all the way over here.
Man, representing the n the neither region.
Another.
I like the neither region. Here nor here nor there.
Especially when it's snowing, I'm sure it's n it's the the n the neither. The neither. The neither. The neither. Anyway, here is a wonderful trailer for this movie. This trailer is one of my favorites. This is great. And here it goes.
When darkness descends on the city.
happens to the girls who attend night school. You're not walking home alone tonight, are you?
We'll be alright.
Something
Modern man has only to take a short step to wind up in the primeval jungle of his ancestors.
Yeah.
Forbidding.
But yeah.
Not too many.
Something.
Terrifying.
Who's there?
Prepare for a lesson in terror.
The VHS tape from CBS Fox has uh a very, very long plot description. I ain't reading that shit. But what you need to know is that the tagline is In the dark of night, a killer lurked.
Well,
I know. Wait till you hear the wait till you hear the one sentence of the uh the plot synopsis from IMDB. Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.
I feel like you should also be making like a shrugging thing with your shoulders and throwing your hands up like, oh well.
See, folks, we turned the camera off, partly'cause this is not a video show, but also because we don't want the freaking uh our connection between Tampa and the Netherlands to freeze up. So I was literally shrugging my shoulders like The police are baffled, so Mark knows me too well.
Oh yeah. Well and let's be honest, part of the reason is because I still do my uh end top loop.
Oh that's right. That's right. Yeah. I do mine bottomless.
But that I don't know because you're sitting.
My bad. I will stand up from now. I'm a standing up now. Mm-hmm.
Oh, they I don't know.
So yes, this was directed by uh Ken Hughes. Ken Hughes, if you don't know, is uh the guy who wrote Breakfast Club and Home Alone.
Ha ha
No, it's not the same guy. No, uh Ken Hughes, uh this was his last film, which is crazy that this was the last film he did before he retired. He didn't pass away till two thousand and one. Uh
He saved the best for last.
He did indeed, um, but he directed things.
Like chitty chitty bang bang. So there's your double feature.
Well wait, isn't that also in your Giallo? Yeah, you put that in the yeah.
For shitty shitty bang bang being a GLO as well.
I'm gonna resist the urge to call it shitty shitty gangbang. Yeah, please don't I will not say that out loud, I promise.
We're not gonna go down that route.
He directed the the original Casino Royale, uh, which, you know, that's okay. He did a remake of of human bondage. That's insane. But yeah, his career goes way back to the fifties.
Around for a long time. But the director who was supposed to do this but got replaced at the last minute um is Alfred Sol, who just passed away a couple of years ago. Alfred Sol directed Alice Sweet Alice from nineteen seventy six.
Oh please.
Oh man. And he directed one of my favorite horror comedies of all time, Pandemonium from nineteen eighty two.
Carol King, right? Yes.
Yep, yep, yep.
No Kane, Kane. I knew that wasn't right. It was Carol Kane. Carol King would be singing about
Let's pretend that that Carol King is in frickin' pandemonium with the glowing red eyes. I love it.
But then I want the Carol King documentary as played by Carol King. Being Carol King.
Yeah.
get the uncanny so there's killer cats in the Carol King documentary with Carol King.
Eat meow.
Apparently humor is subjective and people don't like pandemonium, but I'm sure there's some folks out there with senses of humor just as lame as mine who are like totally into that movie.
It's pretty enjoyable.
Yeah.
Yeah, I love it.
There's always more early eighties horror parodies, like slasher parodies than you think there are. There's always another one. It's like roaches.
Or share albums.
But yeah, Alfred Sol, I I I would love to know the story of why he got fired. Maybe that's some trivia we'll unearth here. This was written by a lady named Ruth Avragon, who went on to write um night school.
Wait, what?
That's all. This is all she did apparently
Yeah.
But uh I wonder if I wonder if they tried to like do any like well a woman wrote it so it's not sexist kind of a thing.
Right.
Yes, yes.
I'm still trying to think like the director from Alice Sweet Alice, how sleazy would this movie just feel?
It would be very different. I think it would be we would definitely have more characters with stained shirts.
Uh huh. Lingering lingering in the hallways where little girls live. Like
Yes, yeah.
Dude, Alice Sweet Alice, I gotta get brave to watch that because that movie gives me the fucking creep.
Oh, but I love it so much, Richard. It's like one of my oh it's like a Warm a warm comfort blanket for me.
Yeah. Speaking of Gialla like things.
Yeah, shitty shitty bang bang. So sorry, I keep saying that. This stars I'm gonna go through some of the some of the characters here. Um we've got Leonard Mann, uh, who plays uh Judd Austin, our cop character, our lead guy, detective.
He of the man variety was in a bunch of frickin' Giallo movies. Bunch of he went to Europe and did a bunch of stuff. I thought he worked with Jess Franco, but I was mixing him up with somebody else.
Who is the guy I was mixing with?
Bum. Another American
Like a trumpet. Uh James Darren. I was mixing them up with James Darren, which now that I'm looking at the two of them, I don't know how I got here.
They have eyes.
They they're they're both men that worked with European people, I guess.
Uh but yes, this is a very um wonderful character. This guy, Judd, we'll talk about him. Uh next up we got Rachel Ward as Eleanor. Uh this was Rachel Ward's debut. She was a model, uh, because she's stunning.
She isn't she?
Very
Yeah.
But yes, she was in The Thornbirds and Against All Odds, which is a movie I I to this day cannot stand that movie.
That was one of my parents' movies.
Made me watch when I was a kid and I was so bored and then they had that soundtrack with
All the time. Oh.
Collins. The Phil Collins one?
Yes, sir. That's the one. She's also in a movie I've been wanting to watch for years and I don't remember if I saw it when it was back in the VHS days, Sharky's Machine.
Oh with uh Burke.
Bart. Um I'm getting to it. We watched a bunch of Burt Reynolds stuff recently. I wanted to see his eighties action movies that were like really bad and oh boy, they were wonderful.
Oh yeah, they're yes, they are. They're great.
Rachel Ward, uh just a couple of years later was in the final terror.
Thank you. I was hoping you would mention that because if it's got Daryl Hann in it, we have to talk about
You know what? I was just watching uh Roxanne last night.
There you go. Oh, and also isn't Adrian's Mead in it as well.
Yes.
Yeah. Oh isn't he Greece too?
Fame.
Oh wait. Roxanne You don't have to roxin You don't have to roxin.
It's a remix.
Um I don't think he's in Roxanne.
Wait, what? No, Greece too. What are you saying?
Roxanne?
No I no but
Adrian's meet. Oh, I'm pretty sure he's in Greece too. And now we're singing Roxanne.
I already forgot about I already forgot about the fucking movie.
Like I did not I did not sign up for the Sting slash police podcast with you.
He keeps singing it.
That's the final terror.
Yeah.
I do that stuff to distract other people so they can't finish their thought, but I did it myself. My powers got turned back on me. Yes. The g the the wonderful, wonderful man.
Oh my gosh.
Who sings about bowling is in fucking final terror, which we should add that to our list.
Rucks.
We'll tear up final tear.
Oh yeah. But I don't care if it's culturally appropriate or not, I will be wearing my cornrow wig if we do.
I won't stop you.
Okay, thank you.
You can do anything you want with your beautiful locks of hair.
Right. Yes. I have to velcro so they have flight off.
So yes. Next up is Drew Snyder. He plays Vincent Millet.
I think he's the professor?
Okay, tell me they did not want Kelsey Grammar.
The thing about this guy is that he's lost his hair and then aged like ten years by the time he got to his next few roles, so I didn't even recognize him at all. That's why he will be our Kelsey Grammar for this discussion.
Except he's slightly hornier than anyone else.
But he doesn't deserve to be. Cause like I to me, the actor would get one of those schoolgirls, maybe, but not the entire school.
Yeah, he's working his way through the and and then he's volleying his leftovers to the frickin' headmistress. But we'll get to that when we get to that.
Oh Nora Dunn.
So we got Joseph Sakari who plays Taj, who is our our uh cop's best bud, the other the other detective here. This guy is wonderful in this movie. Oh my god, he's so funny.
Scott he's got some kooky behavior that's going to give us our ending to the movie that is just absolutely baffling.
Now which ending are you talking about?'Cause I think there's like five of them, Richard.
Yes, they they couldn't figure out how to stop
train. The night school train was not going where they wanted.
Oh.
But this guy was in a lot of T V stuff, like tons and tons of T V, like speaking of the love boat, he's in the love boat. We were just talking about that a moment ago.
Um he's in Wonder Woman as a as someone named Leach.
Love it.
Love it. It's perfect. Nightcourt A Gnome Named Norm from nineteen ninety, whatever that is. Oh, this looks horrible. I'm upset. What the fu That is the most irritating makeup I've ever seen.
This has to be Anthony Michael Hall's finest hour.
Oh Anthony.
You've got Anthony Michael Hall, you've got Jerry Orbach from frickin' uh Dirty Dancing, you've got R Robert Zadar.
Holy shit. This is a action adventure comedy family fantasy.
So pretty much everything. It's just all encompassing.
The
The gnome named Norm is one of the weirdest, ugliest character. He looks like they tried to copy somebody from uh Dark Crystal and failed.
Ugh. Wow. I actually I'm sure this is a hot take, but I find those puppets off putting.
Uh that's not a hot take. That is a that is a human reaction to shit being fucked up looking. You're good.
Like I don't want to see a Muppet and then kind of like dry heave in my mouth.
But that's what they do to me.
Oh my god. Um we've got Nick Karras as Gus.
Is he the guy who runs the diner?
Okay.
is the owner and then Gary is the one that I get confused with. Yeah, Gary is the yes. Okay, you're correct.
Okay, we're getting there. Uh Karen McDonald plays Carol the amazing frickin' wig, who's also a uh
Mm.
uh a waitress at this diner. Um apparently she leaves a bunch of her hair in the frickin' chili. I love it. Or in the stew. Yeah. There's a wonderful fake out where you think that uh
You're we're gonna find her head in the frickin' stew, but it's just a bunch of her hair wig. Oh bless her heart.
Mr. Wiggles.
Uh she wasn't in a lot of stuff, but I really like her in this. She's all flirty and ridiculous. I remembered her having like this big throw down fight with the killer, but that is not what happens in this movie.
I think she actually calls him Eucret.
Which I'm like, if someone's stabbing me, you creep is not what's gonna come out of my mouth.
It's like uh hey, what's wrong with you? Tr try to behave yourself.
Cut it out.
You're being you're being antisocial. Um we've got Bill McCann as Gary. Speaking of Gary, boy, boy, oh boy. This is one creepy son of a bitch.
I love this guy. He's he's uh our suspect here.
His only other credit is in Mermaids.
My gosh, I love mermaids so much.
Now next time you watch it, look for that New Year's party or oh. So anyway, we're gonna talk about this plot.
And it's gonna be great. I know it's gonna be great.
I can feel it in my bones.
Me too. Uh this movie's brought to you by Laura Mar Candy Bars.
The eyes of Laura Mark.
Yeah.
The eyes of Lorima. Am I thinking of Malamar's or is Laura?
Probably I don't a Laura Mars. I just like I said, all I could think of is a Laura Mars. I think you're combining s like there's a Mars bar
Yes. Um and uh Malamar is a cookie.
And a mouth mute.
So my joke is already not good. But I would love some frickin' Malamars right now. Holy shit.
Well I want the eyes of the Laura Mars.
You can have it.
I got uh I got Brad that uh soundtrack on vinyl for uh Christmas last year.
So we go to the Jack and Jill daycare center where uh the day's activities are or or winding up. Uh this is Boston by the way. This is the most Boston slasher that ever got slashed in Boston.
It's Boston.
I I went ahead.
Expanded those details on IMDb, and it's like they filmed this year, then they film this day, and then it'll be here, and they had Yeah.
One lady who stays behind to make sure all the kids.
are are out of there. Uh but she stays behind a lockup and she decides to play on the uh Merry Go Round. And she's joined by a a fun pal who wants to play too. And uh what happens when the the killer wants to play with her, Mark?
Now when you say merry go round it's it's it's the kind that you sit on in like a playground and it just
Spins. Yeah.
Yep. So you can exit it at any time you want to.
It's not going that fast.
Not at all. So she's sitting there in this like leather clad with a helmet on. And of course she thinks that that they're to pick up a kid.
you know she's like all the kids have left who are you looking for and then they the killer just starts spinning that merry-go-round apparently at breakneck speed because your only option would be jumping off and i guess killing yourself at the force that you'd be thrown for the merry go around
So she sits there and then just you know, it spins and spins and then she pulls out the was it a ku Kukri? It's like a blade from India, but it's uh it's
Yeah.
Sword, knife or whatever, the weapon.
Does it look like a um?
To me it looked like a boomerang made out of metal with a handle. Yeah, what's it called? Because it's got it's bent. And Richard, like you could duck. Even if you don't feel safe jumping off of it, just get your head out of harm's way.
It is absolutely a Gurkha, aka a kukuri.
Yeah, we're both right.
Oh I was just gonna ask if you kiss your mom with that mm.
Mouth. I do.
Uh but yeah, so uh and I was actually thinking about that as uh as I rewatched this for the fourth time in preparation for this podcast. It's not really the Halloween that did this, but I feel that kills like this.
stemmed from the Friday the thirteenth series. Sure, sure. Of movies. Where it's like, okay, we need to get that weird quirky death. It's gotta be something that everyone's gonna leave and talk about.
But then when you really think about it, it's like, hmm, it may have looked really cool, but like it there's no way.
Any sense. Yeah. That's that one upset.
Yeah, her head would not just lop right off. I mean it would take you like fifty million turns to get that head to come all the way off on that merry-go-round.
See, normal people who watch these movies, they want that like one upsmanship of the gore. But like weirdos like us are like, Fuck that, get to the character style. Like I like the freaking. Oh yeah, what is she?
Wearing again? Yeah.
Two things. One, what if the killer wasn't there to kill her, but was actually picking up like a little tiny motorcycle helmet wearing child?
Oh you mean Becky?
We've never seen what she looks like.
Little leather little leather bound child in a friggin'.
Oh Richard will stop laughing.
And secondly, uh I wrote in my notes, Well, my favorite character's dead. Fuck it, I'm done. I like this character so much. I miss her already.
issues with this. I feel it's a very weird time frame setup because it almost looks like
It was morning that they're picking up'cause like there's like a whole weird sunset, sunrise thing going on. But what I found more disturbing, and I blame the person who's in charge of like uh the onset decoration or whatever.
There's just random toys just set around.
Yeah.
The playground, and I'm like, as a child who lost more than one stuffed animal terrain, you don't leave stuffed animals outside like
Yeah.
And I found that almost as disturbing as her murder.
Yeah, and it's also like one of those things where the school seems wildly open. Like this playground seems like people would just wander off with children.
The kids would walk into traffic or something like it's really weird, weird school in quote.
Yeah, it like it really does feel to me like, oh, we've got an open space with some play things. Let's just like throw'cause the sign that looks like the daycare looks like it was maybe printed in someone's basement. Yes, yes. And they just like really quickly made this a uh
playground by putting up like a what's the thing you blow on the um to make it spin? Oh my god.
You know they were being clever by having that in the movie too,'cause it spun, you know, like the Merry Go Round. What's it called?
I know someone out there's yelling the answer to me right now, but it w just like these weird random toys stuck around where I'm like, this doesn't make it a playground. It just looks like a a a kid that doesn't care about their items. No.
It was gonna take her hours to lock up to get all that shit.
Yeah, she doesn't care. She's Miss she's Miss Barron. She's got things to do.
So she was a a n a night school attendee. She's one of those frickin' uh educated women, bro.
Look what that got her.
Uh so yes, she she was going to the night school. So our our detective has to go and talk to
the faculty there and he he bursts in on the class. We find out about our professor who uh our faux Kelsey Grammar guy who is uh working his way through the student body, one girl at a time.
And yeah, I just like Do that.
Like if you work at if you work at a college, like don't sleep with the students.
It gets messy, do you know what I'm saying?'Cause then it's like, did I earn this grade for like my actual school work or You know, yeah, don't do it.
So um our our pal who works with the professor Eleanor, um, she is is walking home so that night. Someone actually warns her, like, yo, you you
gonna be okay walking home alone at night? She says, Of course I'll be okay. Um but then she gets chased by Gary. We'll we'll learn about Gary later. And his farty synth sound effect, Fart
Now some of it sounds very Italian, like the not the farts.
But the but the music it like it goes into this it almost doesn't seem like it matches the rest of the flow of the film, but it goes to this like a really Italian sounding score.
To me. Yeah. No, this this is other reasons why this pops up in my head as a as a faux American Giallo thingy.
Are we gonna Spoil this now or we're gonna spoil it later?
I want to go back to the scene that you just mentioned then after we spoil it.
Okay, okay. So Brad Fidel is who the composer is on this this wonderful film.
quite prolific up through twenty sixteen. He did movies like uh Blue Steel and Fright Night Part Two.
Ooh, two goodies.
Oh we did the music for the midnight hour. Hello.
Oh great.
Folks, where's the Blu-ray? Again, I ask this every time. Somebody help me. I've got the same frickin' DVD rip that everybody's got. We we need that in HD.
We're looking at you, Vinegar Syndrome.
Yes, please pay for those pay for all those songs on the soundtrack.
What?
So um she jumps in the shower and gets she gets scared by her lover, who is the professor. Um, but he makes everything better, Mark.
Oh he makes all of it better with um I am skipping some stuff. We'll we'll we'll come back around to some of that.
No, you're fine. Yeah. No, it's yeah. I just remember Walt going on about how bad that would be for your pipes.
Oh yes. Okay, so let's explain what's going on. So um her lover, he brings a lot to a relationship and by a lot I mean a jar of raspberry jam.
Into the shower.
Now folks, I'm not here to judge.
Don't don't be bringing food into your sexy times. But yes, for the sake of your plumbing, um, and I don't mean that plumbing, I mean your actual plumbing. Don't be bringing the raspberry jam in the shower to smear on your lever.
I do like the kind of like shitty
sort of not good irony of like the killer just killed somebody and there's blood, but also here's some f very bloody looking jam. Uh-huh. It's a it's a thing.
And it's even running down into the drain, much like Psycho.
Yes.
I'm skipping a few things but I swear it's all gonna make sense. I swear. We're we are gonna talk about that waitress. We're gonna get back.
I don't know what mean to skip. The killer goes after uh the lady who who cleans the aquarium. Um Kim. I think it would have been funnier if she was a mermaid at the aquarium. Yeah.
Yes, I would have loved that.
That would have been amazing.
There's that viral video going around of that poor mermaid lady who the fish is attacking her and biting her head. Have you seen this?
No!
So sad. I feel so bad. Poor lady. That's not a great day at work. That is a terrible day at work.
Yeah.
Is she even credited? Yes, there she is. So this is this is Elizabeth Barnett.
Who dons the uh she was in nothing else. I'm glad I mentioned her. Buzz her heart. Uh she's the one who gets into the wetsuit and goes and looks for the frickin' uh
the the fish turds to clean'em up or she's doing something for school. I don't know. But in her in the locker room and she's getting changed, the killer shows up and this killer's not nice. This is a brutal killing, dude.
It's a brutal killing. It also seems like maybe the killer possesses some of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees' ability to be at many places at one time without explanation to how they got there.
Yes, absolutely.
Okay, this may just be me,'cause in my mind everything can go back to a Jamie Lee Curtis movie. But this particular part, I think it's when they're they're dragging the weapon across the the the the the chain.
It's making that noise, but it reminds me of Terror Train when she's being attacked.
All roads lead back to Terror Train.
I got terror train vibes from that.
I will say.
Three favorite slashers of all time.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
M is not a very good victim.
She's not putting up a whole l bunch of struggle.
No, and she's not very like I'd be screaming bloody murder and you get a couple of ouches and oh leave me alone kind of thing from K.
Ah, but Mark, have you ever tried to stare down a killer?
Like look at them with disbelief until they stop stabbing you.
Play it.
Please stop, I'm asking with my eyes.
And you're just seeing the reflection in that helmet, that's all you're getting.
Yep. And then he decapitates her and throws her frickin' head into the tank for people to find and then A hungry, hungry turtle.
Ha ha.
Tries to frickin' eat her head or eat the chunks of her head neck meat or whatever. It's wonderful.
So now I I do love the setup of this because I don't think it's just arbitrary that Kim works at this place because all the heads have been found in water.
Yep, yep, yep. Yeah. In your notes, um point number seven it's
I'm sulking for two. What is happening?
So this is the part that I've all I can say is Rachel. What uh Elaine? What's her name?
Leonora.
Thank you.
Eleanor. There we go.
Eleanor. Eleanor Eleanor reveals to her um
What would you call him? You kept saying lover, but to me it's like her whatever. Anyway, to the professor, she's at the um restaurant and she reveals that she is pregnant with his child.
Ah dude.
And so she's like, you know, I I just wanted you to know. So that's why she and then I like how he that excuses everything. Then he's like, oh.
That explains that you're pregnant.
Right, right, right. She's going through something. Some changes. No, I
Sloping for two now.
It just reinforces his walking hard on frickin' bullshit. Like, whoa, there's like consequences for my actions.
Fucking hate this guy. Uh yes, and this is one of my favorite moments where uh good old uh Carol's ineffectually trying to help Carol's sort She's sort of a confidant with uh with with Eleanor, but she also is But she's also shamelessly flirting with the professor in front of her.
Yeah. Now, Richard, do you think that Eleanor really is pregnant?
Oh that's a good question. Um I'd go ahead and say probably. I don't think this is a ruse.
I was just wondering. Yeah. We can move on.
Oh we will.
But Richard, do you think she's pregnant with the it's alive baby?
Yeah.
That's what I really want to know. She's got a Xenomore.
That would be amazing.
He's just carrying a xenomorph around.
We're just gonna carry it to term. Just gonna carry it to term. God damn it.
And it would look like a xenomorph but with Kelsey Grammar's face at the very end.
Yeah.
These days everyone's trying to sell you a chicken sandwich. A chicken burger. Ooh, it's just for
Chicken sandwich? Ahoy, my boy!
Do you wanna?
sandwich like the chicken
And only we make it the crazy.
Right. So around this time, good old uh Kathy, one of the lovers of this another student, um, and she has been unceremoniously dumped.
By the professor. This is uh Holly Hardman. Um, and she was in this.
And some other things.
I don't know why I mentioned her.
is, you know, reporting to the dean that some shit has happened and she's gotten dumped. And the dean is very understanding. Very
Very Understanding.
Very understanding.
Is this a Nette Miller?
Yes, I believe.
This is Annette Miller. She plays uh the Dr. Griffin, who's the the head of the school. And she was in some stuff as well. These people were all in some stuff. She played Saleswoman in Next Karate Kid.
Why I'm not
See I feel you're being very gracious with this actress'cause I don't really see much that I would be
She looks familiar to me.
Because she looks like Nora Dunn from Sarnet Live.
Yes, which is why I have a crush on it.
Because I have always had a crush on Nora Dunn.
See I just tore up a picture of the Pope.
That was you?
That was me. See?
You your impression of her impression of uh Skinhate O'Connor.
Right.
picture. And yes, I said skin head.
Because I'm a comedian or a commodion.
Who would I tear Oh, I would tear up a picture of Mrs. Garrett.
That is brutal, dude. That is brutal.
Yeah, that's who I would tear.
That's your your full tootie right now.
I'm in trouble.
Um yes, the way the Dean calms her down is to seduce her. And I wrote in my notes, this movie is fucking nuts.
It's insane. It is insane. I just keep thinking of the poor HR person who's getting phone call after phone call from all these kids.
So what I love about this next part, uh uh sadly, I don't want Carol the waitress to suffer, uh but yes, so the killer goes after um our number one wigged waitress here.
Ha ha.
Tell me about the uh the aftermath well, okay. She actually says you fucking creep to the killer, which is
Pretty awesome. I I wish that she like smashed a chair and then was like stabbing at the killer with like one of the legs, but she she at least gives a little fight.
But what happens that what is the aftermath of of the killer taking her out the next morning at the dining room?
So the next morning or is it because the two men coming in okay, so her boss is it Gus? Yeah, Gus.
He comes in because he had told her to close up the you know close up the restaurant and then it's it's a shambles and by shambles I mean I think there's one turned over chair and the lights are on.
Look at this fucking mess.
Yeah.
And then there are two like regular customers who like basically cat call her all the time. Well, anyway, they show up and they're hungry. They're like bullshit.
They're like they're hangry.
Yeah, but like he offers them stew.
So it what time again this movie has the weirdest thing to me with time. I can't wrap my head around it. But anyway, so they get stew because they want something hot and uh they're eating it and the one guy finds a heron.
This can go on forever, Richard. Cut what you need to.
I Oh my god, please go on.
The owner's, I guess, solution is to go get so it's the biggest pot ever. It's like a sleepaway camp pot.
And he b gets it he pours it into another pot as slowly as he can because we all know the waitress's head's gonna roll out of it'cause it's gotta be put in liquid, but it never does.
Nope.
roll out of it at all. But I don't know what that would do.
There's a hair in my suit, so I'm gonna just pour it into another container. I don't know what that does. And then so he goes to the fridge, doesn't he? And then like a melon falls from the top. So another
Okay.
Yeah, and then in the fridge, well we get no head there. But then this disturbs me. He goes to the giant industrial kitchen sink.
And it's full. And so he reaches in. Yeah. He reaches in, pulls out the the drain thing, and then it goes down just a little bit to reveal hair.
But what the actor does in shock is puts his fingers to his mouth. And I'm like, gross, that was just in that water with that.
Take it.
Dude dude on a stick. I love this part so much. This is his reaction to finding his his
Frickin' employees severed head is one of the most outlandish I've ever seen in a fucking movie before. It is so funny and all of it's great. I love how annoying these customers are.
'Cause they're so fucking hungry that they've lost their minds. Like this is like their hobbits or something. This is second breakfast or like
You want something hot.
Yeah, this is like pre-lunch lunch. I don't know what's happening. And I, folks, you can judge me all you want. I do not like stew once.
Softened carrots hits those those like melting potatoes. I'm out. I cannot. I don't like that. That's it's the
Meal you can drink.
For your for your trivia cards at home, I know fans of this show have been writing down my likes and dislikes for the last uh fourteen years of the show. I do not like stewed carrots. They uh got gag reflex. I don't like that flavor.
Cut to me writing that down under my list of Richard's dislikes.
Cold thank you. Cold Karen.
I'm good with, I'm good. But if I take too long chewing them and they get warm in my mouth, I start to get grossed out.
I love you, Richard.
That's how much I hate carrot.
This is your movie trivia podcast that the podcast hosts.
doesn't like them carrots. And also no peas. Peas are fucking disgusting.
Oh Peace don't even get me started on peas. Please don't get me started on peas.
I wrote like ticks without legs in your mouth.
Oh.
Somebody says, I've got hair in my stoop. That's what's the matter. Or in Boston. Say it in Bostonese.
Well let's see. I got hair in my stew, that's what's the matter.
Was that okay?
That was perfect. Chowda.
I got chowder in my
Um so of course, Gary the loner, uh he's he's the sexiest sex pervert that ever existed.
The uh cops are gonna go and try to muscle him into confessing that he's the decapitationizer. Um in his department, you can actually smell his apartment. It's like uh it's like polyester, you get this scratch and sniff card with it.
But now I love like I love this, I'm being sincere. Outside spray paint on the wall, it says ghetto ghouls, which if that's not a band, it should be.
Dude, oh man, just like just like um a a black and Latino frickin' uh punk rock band. That would be amazing.
Love it.
And then in the apartment just to throw us, you know, a little red herring bone, th he's got a hockey mask, which I thought was kind of a cool little mop.
The reason I said black and Latino is because I I don't want the white band. I don't want the all white band to
No, no, I wanted to
themselves ghetto ghouls because that I feel like that's appropriate someone else's culture.
I I'm feeling I'm feeling very after I I've opened up to the audience about carrots, I I feel the need to
On a you're on a
I've started my journey with you, Mark. Hello. Welcome to the show.
This is the Doomed show.
Welcome to the last episode.
So before we cancel.
What happened to those guys who do not talk about the doom show?
Yeah.
Alright. So um yeah. Gary stalking his prey like a movie collector on the Halfway to Black Friday sale.
Ha ha ha.
Wow.
Wow. Wow.
So yes, I wrote that in my notes.
Fuck, I'm losing it. So yeah, so so apparently Gary was stealing some underwear in a scene. Is that a thing that happens? They're tracking him. They're like watching him.
Yeah. Yeah. So he's got a bit of a r a record.
Well, Gary, why aren't you at work?
Zero law of it says I have to go to work if I if I don't feel good. The man asked you a question. I got sick.
Pretty pretty.
Now, uh, what's this? Uh a hobby of yours? So what if it is? Well, it's kind of a sick hobby, isn't it, Gary? Well.
What you want?
I ain't done nothing. You sure, Gary? Here, have a re- They're trailing him and he ends up at the uh the dean of the s girls' school.
Oh, that's spying on her because she's talked because men are so horrible. Let's go back to my place and you can spend the night there and we'll chit chat about how awful men are because oh, I just want to do the same thing except I'm a woman to you.
I wrote that the Dean Lady not practicing what she preached.
Not at all. No.
Yeah.
Think about poor Holly, like she cannot catch a brain.
Oh my god. So yes. Uh this is one of the infamous head and a toilet slasher movie slashers. Oh yeah. Because it's we get head in a toilet in this and we get head in a toilet in curtains.
Do we also get head in a toilet in happy birthday to me? Where's the other
I know there's another one, but I can't remember what it was because they were actually talking to the actress that did it and they like put her head and they built the toilet kind of around it.
That's so cool.
Yeah. Well, until they forgot to take her out and then it was break and all the crew had to go to the bathroom after a chili.
Oh Mark, that's not what happened. That's not what happened. That's somebody's fetish.
Ooh, okay. Googling happy birthday to me, head in the toilet gets you some results.
What the fuck?
The toilet.
No, I'm I'm just closing that window. I'm scared. I got scared by the internet. Oh, okay.
All right.
So, um, okay, we got one of my favorite things ever after they're killed. The cop is desperately trying to save the people that are already dead.
And he comes running in and the killer attacks him, but dude, it's a dummy. They filled the costume or the killer wears with toilet paper or whatever just.
Speaking of toilets, and then just threw this dummy at our cop. It's all
Yeah.
I absolutely died. I love that so much. We need more dummies in horror movies. Uh so in your notes it says, I would do anything for love, even that. Tell me more, Mark. What's what's the big reveal here?
After the mur after the double homicide Eleanor?
Yeah. I still just want to call her Rachel. Eleanor shows back up to the professor's place and confesses what she's done and why she's done.
So basically any woman who's pretty much ever set eyes on him that she even remotely thinks will do something with him, she just kills him, kills them.
Yeah, Scott's him.
And he's like, you you're crazy. You can't do that. And I'm thinking, well, yeah, we know she's crazy because we've seen everything she does. Um but also real quick, okay, now I'm not implying anything about anyone's sexuality or the way that genitalia works.
Okay. But if Jennifer Tilly could copulate and make a baby with Jennifer Beals, I think it would look a lot like um Rachel Ward.
Ooh, interesting.
Because they're starting to see
That's an experiment worth trying.
Yeah, there's certain scenes where I'm like, ooh, she reminds me of Jennifer Tilly. And then there's certain ones where I'm like, no, she looks more like Jennifer Fields. So anyway, I'm just throwing it out there.
I wanna know how Meg Tilly would feel about all.
I love Meg Tilly, so we won't even go down that road.
Underrated. I like the word underrated because it makes everybody lose their minds, because apparently that's like a a dumb word. But I think Meg Tilly fully underrated is now.
No, I love her too death.
Yeah.
You must be completely insane.
Why? For performing a ritual that's been accepted for thousands of years.
It's this culture that's uncivilized, Vincent. Where a woman isn't allowed to defend herself and the ones that she loves.
Kill them all?
Yes. And if you insist on having affairs with other women, I'm gonna have to kill them too.
Now that's logical, isn't it? Yeah.
Yes, that's very nice.
So I don't know your relationship. I can't, you know, but I do know that if Walt told me what she told him, I would not be anywhere as calm as this professor.
Nope. Nope. He's he's he's taking it rather well. And of course the the cop
Know something about her her reveal about why she's doing this. Oh, I guess we should talk about why she's doing this. Ha ha hey, come on. So they are studying ancient culture.
And like quote unquote primitive cultural.
And she got obsessed with the idea of, you know, the the the
It was Papua New Guinea, wasn't it?
Yeah, the the headhunters protecting their
relationship their professors and killing all of the yeah, so her the the whole reasoning is just insane. It's just totally wacko. They s she spent a little too long in the jungle with him.
I wrote in my notes she's a good woman.
Ha ha ha.
I don't know if that's what she said. But anyway, so cops are breaking down the door, but the motorcycle killer is now on an actual motorcycle and
Zooming away. Now we know that, you know, our our lovely professor, because he's so cool and horny, he loves to drive a motorcycle. So
If you're watching this movie, you know it's not her. And they have this big, uh, expensive looking police chase. It's actually pretty good.
Yeah, yes, I agree.
Chasing th him through the streets of Boston Baston, Boston, uh chowder, whatever.
Boston on a motorbike.
Now I feel like I'm just doing like Barbara Streisand on your show.
That's all that's all I ever asked you to do.
So um of course the chase ends with uh a standoff and our buddy the professor gets shot and they they de uh helmet him and he's taking the fall for his wacky lady. But of course
Uh the cop knows this and uh at the funeral he's like, Yo, are these killings gonna stop now? Please, I beg you and she's like, Of course. But that's not the end.
Will they? And will they though?
If she gets another relationship yeah. If she gets in another relationship, no, they're not gonna stop.
Right, yeah. Or if she just doesn't then yes, she's telling you the truth. I yeah, I'm like, hm, okay.
It's like in uh Love actually when he goes That's enough now
But you're like you're still stalking this woman. You're n it can't be over.
It's not over.
Shout out to all my love actually hom homies out there.
I'm a homo, but I'm not a I saw that once and I was so mad that my
Right.
I'm going to kill you, Stacy.
gets worse. The more you watch it, the more angry you'll get at the people'cause everyone's a shithead in that movie.
Yeah. It's almost like happiness part two, if you've ever seen happiness.
Yikes. That's terrifying. After the funeral the movie's over, but not quite.
So w what is the final stinger with this beautiful film?
So because it just doesn't want to stop. It's it's having so much fun, it can't let go. It can't stop.
So our our police officer is in the front seat of his car and then you get that stinger music and then the a person in the back, leather clad with the helmet, pops up and grabs him and you're like, wait, no, but then it's actually just his buddy cop.
It's Taj. Taj's got a little bit of a prankster.
I
But
Does that mean that Taj did it all?
He's just
He's just a goofy guy. No, I I love this stup. They couldn't leave it alone. But you know what? In this movie's defense, hour and twenty-eight minutes.
This was not like a hundred ten minute thing. Like, I love happy birthday to me. It's a masterpiece. Why the fuck is it two hours long? I don't know.
It's the three hours director.
Oh Jesus.
So can I please go back because this disturbs me.
Yeah, so so now that we've know who the killer is, what what is what do you got?
there's a a a couple of things where the way she behaves, I'm like, this does not make sense to me. So when she's walking home and Gary is stalking her.
She's ba and'cause they're they're they're wanting the audience to think that, hey, this may be a viable character for our killer.
She's like running from him, and she's all upset and she's all distraught. And I'm like, knowing what we know later, I don't feel she would behave that way at all.
So is that just done for the audience?
It's like are we seeing something that really didn't in this like reality really should have taken place? Was that just something the filmmaker did? And then moving on from there, the same way she's reacting to Gary is the way she's reacting inside
uh her bedroom once she gets ready for the shower and everything because she's oh is there's someone out there and she's doing all this nervous stuff and I'm like you're a headhunter. You would not give a darn if someone came in there while you were showering. You'd lop their head off.
Yeah, yeah, no shit. No, this is this is one of those things where they had to hide her it's a it's a it's a opposite red herring.
Yeah.
So like they had to hide her more obvious stuff she would have done.
If that makes sense. But yes, no, it's a cheat. It's a cheat.
Yes, very much so. Okay. Not that I'm mad about it, but I'm just like
It's like...
Like after watching it for not like snap my Blu-ray in half and try to cut my wrist. Um I I was just like, this seems kind of dishonest in a way.
Yeah.
So before we talk about how we like this film or not, we're gonna talk about some of the crew that worked on it and then some trivia. The movie was shot by Mark Irwin, who is a regular for uh David Cronenberg. Sky Shot The Brood.
And fast.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Scanners, etcetera, etcetera. Uh but he also shot funeral home.
I love
I I knew you were gonna say that.
I like I love love funeral home. I'm not exaggerating.
He shot something I've always been curious about, but I've never seen called spat.
Yeah.
Wait, is that the
I believe that is the snake.
Oh, it's it's fun for what it is if you like the animal kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Peter Fonda, uhhuh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll watch that.
Oliver Reed, oh my gosh, she's amazing. I love Oliver Reed so much.
Always amazing.
Have you ever seen Women in Love?
No, I have not.
I I'm gonna I you probably will never do this, but I just want you to watch Women in Love and then
And then we'll talk. Okay. We'll watch spasms and we'll talk about
Right, right.
Right. Um coincidentally he also shot Fright Night Part Two, so maybe he and the uh composer were buddies.
Oh they
Well, worked for the same studio. But yeah, dude, his career is incredible. Robocop two? Holy shit.
This keeps going. Uh well into the twenty twenty three. Yeah, dude. Amazing.
He's working.
Yeah, it's working it. So trivia, there's some fun trivia here.
The writer, uh Ruth Avragon, apparently was inspired by the articles of real life headhunters of Papua New Guinea, and that's what gave her the idea for the screenplay. Uh this was shot over five weeks.
in spring of nineteen eighty.
That kind of makes sense because a lot of the fashions feel almost late seventies more than eighties.
The gorgeous uh Italian poster has the title Il Killer Della Notte, aka the killer of the night. They didn't translate killer to Assassino, which is funny.
Yeah.
I don't know why they did that. It's very cute. Uh so this movie landed itself on the video nasties list.
And I'm not surprised it did, but also if you've read anything about how arbitrary and stupid the video experiences list is, if you look at the VHS tape.
tape the UK VHS tape, you'll see why it was banned. Because much like other films like Unhinged, which are kind of like whatever slashers, it wasn't about the content of the movie. It was about the bloody VHS art.
Right.
But of course the head and the toilet and the other you know. Yeah.
The raspberry sauce.
Oh this is cute. Uh so Rachel Ward said in an interview about b being naked in her older films as she'd wished she'd done it more because it would have helped her career more.
And she advised young starlets to be open to nudity and not be coy if they want to make it. Oh man, that's cynical.
Isn't it?
Wow. I mean it's just true because men suck, but whatever. Jesus. Oh boy. Um the the trivia says on IMDB, the movie draws a lot of influence from an Italy's guilo.
Ha ha ha.
So IMDB IMDB could be open source, this this trivia.
Here's my favorite. Here's my favorite. The film has developed a small cult following among slasher fans, according to the Wikipedia website. Folks at home, I'm sorry I'm reading this to you.
There you go. Now real quick though before we end this w whenever, I forgot to mention, I didn't know if you were gonna bring it up. Did you ever see Fortress with with her and
Dude, I love that.
Fortress is amazing. I I wanna put that out there for for Rachel Ward fans out there. You need to check out Fortress as well.
Yeah, dude. That I don't know if that is that still stuck on DVD or has that finally been frickin' Blu-rayed? Um but yeah, either way, check it out. It's really solid.
Very tense.
And because it's Australian, it's fucking insane'cause all Australian movies are.
Yeah.
That's really good. Here's some trivia. I'm glad I read. Rent a cop, nineteen eighty seven, speaking of uh Burt Reynolds.
Uh we also have a killer dressed in the uh motorcycle uniform. Uh the Renta Cop has an amazing villain in it.
I don't like that movie at all. It was very bad. I mean, not even Liza could save that friggin' movie.
Oh Liza.
But the killer in that is James Remar and folks
If you've ever found James Remar attractive, you will love his turn in this movie. He plays a character named Dancer, who is always sweating and dancing in between him trying to kill Liza Manelli. Gorgeous.
And don't forget Dion Warwick is in it as well.
Yes, Dion Warwick of the Psychic Friends Network fame.
Wow, her career fucking sucked.
Poor woman.
Oh boy. Fuck the trivia. Who cares?
Mark is gonna tell us.
how he feels about night school aka terrorized
Well, okay, so Night School uh there's like a handful of movies that I remember distinctly the T V spots and wanting to see them so badly and not being able to, and Night School was one of them.
And I remember when I did see it, everyone else in the world had figured out that it was Rachel Ward, but I was actually shocked.
Nice.
To find out in the you know, the first viewing of it. So I thought it was pretty cool, pretty clever. Um, you know, throwing us a well, I guess this is a spoiler too, but uh um a Mrs. Voorhe uh Pamela Voorhees uh spin where the killer's actually female.
I believe you just spoiled that.
I'm sorry. Uh but yeah, I th I thought it was like way fun. It uh yes, it's a slasher. It doesn't have a high body count, but I think it's a ton of fun for what it is.
I really do wish that they could have somehow at least maybe like a TV movie of the facts of life mashed with night school.
Ooh, that would have been gorgeous.
And the killer would have been Joe.
Because it's just a little bit more.
Hello.
I w I I just the like just when you put a bunch of women, girls together and and they're in peril and they look really good being in peril.
Um, they have good hair and great clothes and it's a lot of fun. And it's just the weirdest premise ever. Like it's just so strange. I'm I love you so much that I'm gonna kill everyone who kind of looks at you, but I didn't come up with this on my own. I based it on a Papua New Guinea.
You don't get that in every in every slash shirt.
I don't blame her for wanting to kill these women. I mean, they were all potential mates for her stupid ass horny husband, so
Oh yeah, no. Well as long as he well, uh I say, you know, as long as he looks like that. Like I wouldn't do it just for any man, but if he looks like Kelsey Grammar, then yeah, bet you're going down.
Is is Kelsey Grammar another one of your crushes?
Not at all. No.
I was making sure he wasn't in the Rogues gallery with uh Freaking time.
Dan Haggerty. Like if you looked at Dan Haggerty, yeah. Dan Haggerty, I would cut you.
Okay.
Walt, start growing that beard out, son. Oh he died.
I mean it needs to be bigger. It needs
Bigger, it's a really big beard. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. No, I think it's fun. Uh you know, especially if you're like at all uh uh a slasher fan and you somehow have missed this one. Shame on you, you need to rectify that right away.
Damn. I agree.
Now Richard, how do you feel about it?
So one of the things I meant to mention, but I didn't was the editing on this because um because this is a beautiful movie. The cinematography is incredible. That
Soft focus shit, but also the editing is super solid. Uh, this is edited by Robert M. Raitano.
who was an editor up until I guess he retired in twenty seventeen. But he edited the shit out of this, especially in the shower scene. The um sound design
And the music and the way it's cut as the killer, who we think is the killer sneaking up on Rachel Ward in the shower. Unreal. Unreal. They nailed that shit. It's so good. This editor was maybe buddies with Steve Martin.
Okay.
Edited both my blue heaven, which is fucking terrible.
And he edited mixed nuts, which is absolutely awesome.
That's a no.
No, just nuts is Barbara Streisand. Mixed nuts is a different one. Okay.
Yes, this is this is Barbara Streisand's mixed nuts, but she's not in it. No, um America's treasure who was gone way too soon. Madeline Kahn.
Oh my gosh, I love her so much.
Dude, she's amazing and makes nuts. It's perfect.
To me,
One of my favorite roles is uh high anxiety.
Oh, she's in
She's incredible. But yes, the editing is amazing. Uh but yeah, the movie is just way better than it should be for a nineteen eighty one slasher. Um I wonder how much this director really wanted to do this, but either way he brought it.
Um we cannot state enough how Giallo like this feels.
Oh yeah. It's also super dynamic. Um it's like another favorite of mine from the period. It reminds me of this one. He knows you're alone. I think if you paired this with He Knows You're Alone, you'd have a good time.
I okay, now to me I also would throw in when a stranger calls, just for the kind of cop procedural.
Yeah, absolutely. That was a great movie.
Well I like yours. I like yours a lot.
Well thank you. I I hate I and I believe I talked about this with Simon on our uh When a Stranger Calls Back episode. I never liked that oh the movie's only good for the first fifteen minutes and then it's blah. And I I love the whole movie.
But I'll watch Charles Derning do his frickin' laundry. He was awesome.
Did you ever see his John Wayne Gacy?
Oh my, you need to see that.
Charles D.
Yeah.
As John Wayne Gates.
Yeah.
I will watch that. I will seek that out and watch that. Thank you. That's
Mm-hmm.
Really good. Wow. Uh but yeah, this like uh this is a dynamic film. If I didn't s I'll cut all this if I already said this. Uh this movie's very dynamic to me. It keeps moving to different locations.
So it never feels cheap or anything. It's really, really great. Um the dream the dreaminess of the nighttime shots of the streets is wonderful. Uh but yeah, you get a lot of bang for your buck with this one.
Love it. Recommended. Highly recommended.
Highly recommended. I so we say that night school passes.
It's an A plus. It gets a sleeping with the teacher extra credit bonus.
Bonus.
So before I let you ski daddle out of here, Mark, um, what is a recently seen and loved film that you watched? It can be an old favorite or a first time watch. What do you got?
So you keep having me on here, and I have to stress that I'm probably the oldest co-host by like twenty years on everyone else.
You're the you're the youngest at heart. How about that?
But so the one I want to talk about, it's called Terror in the Isles. Oh, yeah. It is 1984.
Hard to say. It's not a documentary. What they really have done is the director has stuck a bunch of like
Clips from horror movies, rapid fire pace. Like the editing on this is amazing to me. Yes. Um, and it's set in a movie theater and you have Donald Pleasant.
Halloween fame and um Nancy oh my gosh, it's gone from my mind. Alan, thank you. Nancy Allen from like Carrie and uh
uh blowout and dress to kill. Um and they're basically just commenting on the films that they're watching and the effect they have on the audience and society and things like that.
I stumbled upon this at like a video rental store as a teen and it was just
uh some of these movies in it I didn't know of. Right. So it became like my Bible to like find all the films in this movie. And as a horror fan, as a is a young budding horror fan,
This movie meant so much to me. Um, and I I know it sounds lame because it's just a bunch of clips of movies struck together.
Yeah.
But I still to this day love this thing. I love it so much. Um, as a matter of fact
I got rid of, you know, my movies from when I moved from the States and I came over here and I found one and I purchased it, not knowing, because they don't tell you anything in the Netherlands, that it's region A. And my husband loves me so much.
that he bought me a region free player just so I could watch uh Terror in the Isles. Yeah. I I love the movie so much. And I know nowadays they're like, well gosh, you
Look it up.
Online or blah blah blah.
Fuck that.
But back then it just meant the world to me. And there's actually two versions. They included the made for uh television version as well, where they cut some things out and added in other
I need to get that.
I love Tear in the Isles so much. I know I'm lame. I'll wear the big giant L, but it's so cool.
Mm.
So, you know, you've got a few you you don't have as many years on me as you do other people.
You are you are not we're closer in age than than I think everybody else who co hosts here. I found that to be utterly essential as a as a kid. So when I was like Eleven or twelve, maybe thirteen ish.
is when I saw Stephen King's World of Horror, aka uh This Is Horror. It aired on MTV and it was a they spread it out over a few weeks.
And it was just
Hey kids, horror is the greatest thing that's ever happened. Go to your rec your your VHS store and rent everything.
And one of the first things I rented was Evil Dead two, and maybe like the second thing I rented was Terror in the Isles. And I also sought out everything in Terror in the Isles.
For instance, having my frickin' brain melted and shocked into submission by Miss 45.
Now if it wasn't for Terror in the Isles, I wouldn't have gotten to Miss Forty Five for years.
Like years and years. It would have taken me years. But because that movie made such a great case for it, I was there having my frickin' brain destroyed and just like'cause it's such a shocking movie.
for sexual violence and then you feel nothing
But pity.
And pathos for the main girl, for Zoe, what was that actress's name?
I can't remember. But um she's incredible and she's it's such a you feel like her plight and you totally are cheering when she's killing these frickin' horrible men. Yeah. But then she starts murdering.
Every one.
And you're like Lady, stop. You got we got it. But it's
Just as a nun on top of that.
Oh my god, that's one of the most iconic things ever. When my band we were stealing uh images from things for our flyers, my old band, uh called Ladies of Death Row swimsuit calendar.
One of our very first flyers was that that lipstick nun with the gun. That was one of our very first flyers.
True story.
But uh yeah, man, no, I love it. You're not lame at all. You're fucking cool as shit. You have to deal with that.
Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. No. I'm just telling you folks. It's out there. It exists. You need to find it.
Do it. Plus Nancy Allen hanging out with frickin' Donald Pleasants. What They should have done a a detective show together.
Like he was a retired detective from Scotland Yard who who moved to uh LA or something for no reason and then she's uh a reporter and they're solving mysteries together. Come on.
And it would be like,
Yeah, like Cagney and Lacey would be like Shanks and Magoo or something like that.
Shanks and Magoo. Oh my okay, folks, I know AI sucks, but use AI to make the trailer for Shanks and Magoo.
Yeah.
No wait, don't use AI, it sucks. But uh my pick in honor of our fallen hero, uh Wings Hauser, who just passed away.
Oh, I know. That was heartbreaking.
Man, sucks.
I love me some wings.
Like totally. Mutant is is the my favorite wings movie. So I picked two that were easily available on Tubi.
Uh one is called No Safe Haven, uh which is I did not care for that one. It's fine.
uh but the one that I watched that I immediately ordered on Blu-ray afterwards is called LA Bounty. It is from nineteen eighty nine and it stars Wings Hauser as the villain, of course.
Sybil Danning as Ruger, the monosyllabic uh badass macho lady um who's getting vengeance.
Ha ha
Folks, check out LA Bounty. It's insane. According to the trivia, Sybil Danning, who co wrote this.
Only wanted to say she wanted to say nothing. She wanted to do the part mute, but they made her so but she only says like thirty words in the entire film.
Weird.
Uh uh it's directed by someone named Wirth Keeter, who did a bunch of uh Mighty Morph and Power Rangers episodes.
That's amazing.
Not a bunch, but oh he did he did their Halloween monster bash special, which sounds fascinating.
Oh he did a lot. Okay folks, I take it back. He did a shitload of Power Rangers stuff. Anyway, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fans will be pleased to know that he did a bunch of their stuff. I can't find anything else that he's done that I've seen.
Bye.
Either way, it's over the top, silly action shit, it's so fun. Do it.
That's great. Now I think my favorite Wingshauser would have been Vice Squad. I love him in Vice Squad.
Absolutely. I just
Yeah.
Um I just sold um my this is very strange. I just sold like last year my only laserdisc. I had one laserdisc and it was a Japanese Laser Disc of Vice Squad.
And I sold it to Gary.
Uh shout out to Gary. Uh he is a fine podcaster. He was just on the show not too long ago. Let me go find it. He was on the Amityville two episode.
Which I found that on Blu-ray over here. I was so excited.
I'm so sorry. I always get Charles Derning and Brian Denih confused.
Of course you do.
And he's the one that played John Wingacy.
Okay, folks.
That's amazing. I still want to watch that.
I always get those two confused.
That was awesome.
Okay.
Charles Derning of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas fame, even though his par his part in the movie is too small. He's a pivotal role in the movie.
There are two movies that had a big effect on Little Gay Mark. That one and American Werewolf in London. Those both of those proved that yes, I prefer men over women. Right.
Uh shout out to Gary who who I uh provided. He he uh happily bought Vice Squad from me, Gary of Cinema Beef Podcast.
AKA The Butcher Shop. Make sure you check out uh Gary's show. It's frickin' incredible. And check out he and I talking about Amityville 2 not too long ago in the doomed show feed.
Do we have to do that? But Mark, we have to stop we have to stop talking eventually. And that now is that time. But would you like to say goodbye to our audience? Would that be something you would do with the understanding that you'll be back?
Okay, with the understanding that I will be coming back, dear audience, I would like to thank you for listening and I will talk to you soon.
And ditto bros, I like talking but
Ha ha.
Bye. And I will stop that recording.
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