Oct. 31, 2025

Chuck Russell - The Blob

Chuck Russell - The Blob
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Season 6 A Film By...

Happy Halloween! We've got one more scary movie oozing it's way to you this month! Our friend Chuck Bryan from The Cinematic Flashback Podcast joins Jeff and David to talk about Chuck Russell's 1988 remake of sci-fi classic, The Blob!

Don't miss out on the episode happening within this episode! We review the original 1958 version of The Blob, starring Steve McQueen, and compare it to the remake. We also discuss the sequel most people don't know about, and debate some of our other favorite creepy creatures from films like Creepshow and Creepshow 2! Head over to our Patreon and get started with a FREE 7-day trial. You can also sign up as a free member! 

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Hi, this is Kat Lester, brought to you by a

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Film by podcast.

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Now how about that for an introduction? The sultry, sexy

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sound of Cat Lester, the lady in lavender from the

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Phantasm films.

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She's so sexy.

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I swear I cannot believe I had never heard her

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voice before last year when I first met you and

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I went and watched Fantasm and then she shows up

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here to introduce this episode.

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I am just myself. That's right, Chuck.

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You you were you were new to the Fantasm By films.

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Ye, I am getting ready to watch the second one.

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That one's a cool one too.

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Each year we want to watch one more.

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Good deal.

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Yeah we we. We had Kat on the show is

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the beginning of this year, wasn't it, Dave?

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It was? Yeah?

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Yeah, wait we you know we we met her last

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year at Skfest. Just a wonderful woman.

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I've just just a knockout, just beautiful, you know, and

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that voice like it's like it's like a siren, you know,

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a siren spell.

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You just you just brought into it, you know, you'll

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do whatever she says. But yeah, she was. She was fantastic.

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Go back check out our our episode with kat Lester,

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the lady in Lavender. That was a very fun conversation

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about all things fantasm and in her music career, which

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is which is, uh, she's got She's got some great

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stuff too.

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Like you do. Her music is awesome.

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So yep.

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Well, this month, we've already talked about gypsy curses, schoolyard ghosts,

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and hatchet wielding maniacs, but we haven't covered any monsters.

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So let's talk about a film by Chuck Russell.

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His nineteen eighty eight underrated sci fi horror film The Blob.

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I am Jeff Johnson, I'm David Burns.

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And it is a film by podcast and Dave sitting

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with us.

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We got Chuck sitting with us, not Chuck Russell, another Chuck.

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But when you can't get Chuck Russell, the director of

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the film, you go and get Chuck Bryan, who is

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the creator and a host of the Cinematic.

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Flashback podcast and a good friend of ours. Chuck. Welcome back, man,

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oh man, I am.

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I am so happy to be here, but I gotta

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be real honest, I am so looking forward to talking

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about The Blob. It is one of those movies that

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you asked if people should watch, I would ask if

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people should own So this is this I'm looking forward

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to this conversation tonight.

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Juck's tipping his hand a little early, like, you know,

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I think we know what he's going to recommend, whether

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or not you should watch it. But but Dave, let's

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all tip our hands early. You've been campaigning for this

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one for about two years now.

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I have, Yeah, tell me tell us why because it's

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a really good film, man, and it's underrated big time.

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You know.

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I sit down with my nephew, I said, have you

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ever seen The Blob from from the eighties? He's like, no,

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what's that? It's like it's a classic from the eighties

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and people forget about it. So, you know, I watched

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it a couple of years ago and I reached out

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to you and said, Jeff, why have we not done

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the Blob yet on this podcast? Because it needs to

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be done?

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And here we are. Yeah, I think I think the one.

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Was it last year?

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You're like, hey, let's let's let's schedule Chuck Russell the Blob.

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I was like, there's like sixteen episodes already locked in.

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There's no room. He's like, and you were like, next year, or.

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I walk that's right, gets locked in for next year?

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Ding it?

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Yeah.

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Oh so, how about a couple of facts about Chuck Russell.

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I'm I'm gonna have to say full names this whole

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episode because people will be like, Chuck Brian did that,

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the guy that did this in the back flashback, he

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knows Frank Gerabot.

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So I'm just going to give you facts about myself,

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which insanely less interesting than Chuck Russell.

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Okay, I'm just gonna.

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Be honest listeners.

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If you need, if you would, if you'd prefer some

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Chuck Brian facts and a quote, please please reach out

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to us. Contact us, email us, and we'll get some

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from Chuck.

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We'll make that happen for you.

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But as far as Chuck Russell goes, this is one

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of those talented guys that is a he's a writer,

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he's a director, he's done a little bit acting, he's

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a producer. His first screenplay was for nineteen eighty four's

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horror thriller Dreamscape. And Dave, I know you know all

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about Dreamscape because you and Scott that covered it last

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year last year, wasn't it.

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Yeah? I love I Love Dreamscape. That was that movie. Scared,

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scared the hell out of me when I was a

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little kid. Yeah, yeah, Tommy, Yeah.

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Chuck Russell has a very long working relationship with Frank Dremont.

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They met during the production of a nineteen eighty one

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cult horror film called hell Night. I don't know if

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you guys have seen that one with Linda Blair.

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I've seen it.

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Yep. It's awesome. It is, yeah, very underrated. It might.

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It might make the cut some October next year. Next year.

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There we go, the schedule rights itself.

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Yeah, these guys are both working their way up in

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the movie business. Back then, I believe Frank Darabont was

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like a PA on Hell Night. Russell was a production manager.

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He was doing some a little bit of an assistant directing.

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And these guys just you know, when you find someone

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you work well with, you stick together. You know, they've

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written together, they've they've worked together.

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Just one of those great.

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Relationships that you see in Hollywood that you don't hear about.

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One of Russell's most recent films, twenty twenty four's Paradise City,

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is actually a reunion of sorts for actors John Travolta

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and Bruce Willis. Nearly thirty years after they appeared together

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in pulp fiction, and sadly it's one of Bruce's you know,

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final films. Yeah, I'm gonna hold off on a quote

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from Chuck because Dave, I would love for you to

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give us a synopsis for this remake.

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Terror has no sheepe. If it had a mind, you

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could reason with it. If it had a body, you

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could shoot it. If it had a heart, you could

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kill it. Now man is no longer the supreme being

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on this planet. A small American town has become ground

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zero for a ruthless attack from a creature that eats

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and absorb all living beings that comes into contact with

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Brian Flagg and Megpenny completely opposites growing up are thrown

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together to try and figure out a way to survive

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and save their town from the ultimate destruction. A remake

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of the classic film of the same name from nineteen

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fifty eight, The Blob.

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The Blob, the one rule that Chuck Russell and Frank

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Dermont had was that the creature was basically an inside

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out stomach, which means acid is burning, melting, devouring anything

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it touches. And I got a quote from Chuck Russell

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about the blob. He says, quote, it's a monster in

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its simplest form. There must be something about this thing

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that can slide under your door or squeeze through an

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air vent or quietly dissolve somebody in the next room.

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That's very elemental. It just makes monstery sense.

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It's a fear of the worst death, being eaten.

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You know, Like I read that quote and I just

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thought that is a terrible that might be the worst,

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like being eaten alive, like knowing that you're being eaten

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and not being able to escape. Because I feel bad

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for a lot of these victims in this movie. Well

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not all, but some of them.

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Most of them were they.

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You know, they like the hand is outstretched and they're

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screaming because they're being devoured, and like what are you

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gonna do?

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Like you grab their hand, and you.

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Know, poor Paul, Yeah, Paul, you know, like it's a

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great misdirect. Paul the all you know, what what is

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he call like quarterback for the team? Yeah, wide receiver, Yeah,

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because he gets he gets his noted, his uh, his

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block knocked off when he asks Shawnie Smith out or

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I should say meg but uh yeah, Paul's like he's

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got the Letterman jacket. You just assumed, like the first

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time you're watching this, or were you guys assuming like, oh,

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here's Stephen, here's Steve McQueen.

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Of course, here's the hero. Yep, yeah, well not the case.

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Sorry, you know that was that was a great mister ract.

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Yeah, and it.

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You know, there was another director who started off a

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film where he invested about good twenty minutes or so

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into a character, only to kill that character brutally in

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a shower scene and a little hotel on the side

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of the road. I mean, they totally pulled a Marion

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crane on it. And once once he died, like all

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the rules started unraveling, you know, for your expectations of

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the film.

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Yeah, well I think it does.

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It does something amazing that that Hitchcock, you know, to

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your point, Chuck kind of introduced back in.

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The sixties, nobody's safe, no so.

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And even when you think someone should be safe, like

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a like a ten year old boy sneaking into a

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horror movie.

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You would think, you know, he's he's you know, we

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could save that kid, except that we don't. He's just

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even little kids are getting consumed by the blob. So

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just a fan. Yeah, this, I'm Dave.

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I'm actually really happy that we finally got to do

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something that we haven't done. You know, we do a

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lot of scary stuff, a lot of horror stuff in October,

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and we've been doing it for six seasons, but we've

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never had a fun monster movie to my recollection, where

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it's something like, you know, the BLOB's not giving us

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clever catchphrases like Freddy Krueger. It's not something you can

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wrestle with or fight with, like like like Jason Voorhees.

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It's it's just like, stay the hell away from it,

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don't touch it at all.

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Right, Yeah, And it's one of those films I absolutely

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love where it's that small town feel and you know,

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you have that threat of a horror existing and forcing

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people to band together to fight it. I love those

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kind of films. I feel like it's a lost art

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form anymore. Stranger Things is doing it, you know, but

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you know you don't see it anymore, which is quite

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a shame unless you're Stephen King. Of course he loved

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doing that kind But yeah, I love these kind of films.

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Well, let's take a quick break and when we get back,

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we'll talk a little bit about the cast.

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Welcome back, Chuck.

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Bryan is with us from the Cinematic Flashback podcast. Chuck,

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we didn't really get a chance to talk about the

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Cinematic Flashback podcast. Can we talk about this for a

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quick minute before we talk about cast?

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Yeah, absolutely, the Cinematic Flashback. We're rounding out the end

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of our very first season and it has been a

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learning time for both Matt and I and we've been

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able to stretch our wings in some places. And I

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think one of them that I was most pleased that

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both of you were involved with was our Jaws episode.

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Thank you for being on that, and if you haven't

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heard it, I invite people to go and listen to it.

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Because the thought of the.

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Show was what have we learn that is new about

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Jaws in the past fifty years? And I would dare

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say that most Jaws of fictionado's are going to know

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all everything about it. So we took it and said,

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let's get some podcast hosts who are quick on their feet,

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Let's turn it into a game show, and let's make

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it creative. Let's come up with questions like recast Jaws,

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but you're only using muppets except for one character, who

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are the muppets, who's the one person who is going

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to stay? And sometimes the answers would absolutely surprise you.

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Sometimes an answer would lead to something very, very funny.

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And I'm very proud of that episode.

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You should be, because that was a ton of fun

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to do. It really was.

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I can't remember when I had that much fun guests,

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you know, as a guest on someone's show. Chuck and

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I remember, months before we recorded that, You're like, Hey,

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we're gonna do Jaws because you know cinematic flashback. You guys,

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it's you are very specifically all about the seventies.

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All seventies, all seventies.

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And I'm thinking, man, you type in Jaws podcast online.

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And you're gonna get the phone book.

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I mean, Dave, we you know, you and Scott did

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it for our film at fifty series, you know, and

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we everyone's talked about Jaws. But Chuck, you had this

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amazing idea to say, we're not gonna just rehash all

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the facts in the trivia. We're gonna have some fun

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with this. And I'm telling you what, man, the questions

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were just hilarious. The responses were more hilarious. Listeners, you

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have got to check out the Jaws episode for the

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Cinematic Flashback Podcast, because it is you'll be laughing, you'll

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be rolling, you will.

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Lots of familiar faces and voices there.

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So yeah, you're gonna absolute we're gonna love it. But otherwise,

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you know, we have tried to swim if it were

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away from the big name, tent pole films and we're

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trying to go and look at other films that are

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maybe lesser known. Sometimes we try to pair a month

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where we have like a really well known film with

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a lesser known film to try to you know, balance

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Exploring films that, you know, for the most part, I

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always end up saying I haven't seen this film or

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Thirty forty years. So it's it's it's it's a good experience.

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I gotta tell you, like I've my Donald Sutherland filmography

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has been widely expanded. I'm like, what we're talking about

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Donald Sutherland again, what's this movie?

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You guys have come up with some movies. I'm like,

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I've never heard of that movie.

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And yeah, after I see it, I'm like, wow, like Sorcerer,

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Like I'm just assuming, like Roy Scheider, I've seen I've

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seen his best and I hadn't.

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A Sorcerer is probably the the best movie from nineteen

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seventy seven that's not named Star Wars, and it's probably

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the one that not many people have seen, very much

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like tonight's episode that we're reviewing on the Blob, you know,

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not many people saw it and.

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It's a shame.

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Yeah, well, you know, Dave, I've noticed something weird and

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maybe it's just me, maybe it's just my brain's tricking me.

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But we'll do a movie, you know, because we typically stick.

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To like underrated films, We'll do something like this and

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then like within a week, it shows up on two B,

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it shows up on you know, HBO.

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Max or something like that. All of a sudden, it's streaming.

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if you guys could have done that before the episode

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came out. But I was like, maybe someone's listening, that's

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making decisions.

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going to that uh are or in movies that we're

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gonna be talking about on podcasts. That's like anybody listening

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in on us, because yeah, what was it?

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we did we did Hatchet Hatchet, and we're talking about

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the lead of the film. And then yesterday Still City

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con announces him. What wasn't it Still City?

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Still City announced it?

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Like what the heck?

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Here you go?

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And we were we were Horror Hunt too, and good

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old Shawnie Smith was there.

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I chuck, gorgeous and nothing but fun. You should have

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seen the just how engaging she was with her fans

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and out of the day. I was like, look, man,

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we can talk to her, but it's probably gonna be

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like at least two hours before we get close because

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she had attracted a huge amount of people at this day. Yeah,

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that kind of like the theme was was sauld like that.

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You know, they got they had Tobin Bell, they had

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Shawnie Smith. Dave and I were you know, happy with

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you know, we were there for for Halloween, you know

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because uh, the lovely PJ Souls was there.

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Nick Castle was there.

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We we got a chance to hang out with them

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a little bit and talk and I know Dave was

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happy about that.

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Oh yeah, I was.

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Oh, I saw the pictures of p J Souls. That

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was that was awesome.

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Thank you.

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You should have seen our very own con one, David.

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He was smooth that day.

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I was enjoyed that moment. I'll tell you.

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Yeah, if you'll know, you look at the pictures like,

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I'm kind of I'm standing next to her, Dave.

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You know, she's like they're like wrapped, you know, his.

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Arms wrapped around her and she's leading into him.

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Yeah, he's a smooth guy. This David Burne.

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Speaking of smooth guys. Let's talk Kevin Dylan. He's our

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He's he's actually.

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The lead, the lead, the lead male.

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Yeah, you know Brian Flagg after poor Paul is dissolved

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at the hospital.

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So I got to ask you guys something. Take it.

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I sent you guys a picture here if you'll take

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a quick look at it. And let's Dave, you and

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I talked about Rushmore of Slashers, you know, on the

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Hashit episode. I want to talk about Mount Rushmore for

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eighties actors with mullets, because I think this is this

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mullet that that Kevin Dillon has.

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It's glorious and if you if you look.

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At the photo that I sent you guys, I mean,

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let's talk a mount Rushmore. It's it's Sevester Stalloone, it's

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Mel Gibson, It's Kurt Russell.

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And my question is, having.

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Watched the Blob from nineteen eighty eight, is it Kevin

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Dylon or.

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Is it Patrick Swayze?

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Like, who you guys putting on this on the on

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the as the fourth face of this mullet monument?

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I mean, doesn't it have to be Patrick Swayze? I mean,

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even though Kevin Dillon has got a heck of a

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mullet in this film, without question, but doesn't it have

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to be Patrick Swayze with the others that are on

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that monument?

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I kind of think it does. Maybe what do you think, Chuck?

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Well, you know I would probably lean more towards Patrick

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swayzey just because I am crazy about Swazey. But you

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make a good argument.

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Yeah, this, this hair that Kevin Dillon has is glorious.

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And the entire time he's filming this movie he hates.

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It because it's it is he did grow his hair

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out a little bit, but.

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It's also it's it's extensions him and Shanny Smith are

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both wearing hair extensions.

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So I had to bring this up because.

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I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute, changed the answer.

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I guess, But yeah, I just when I went back

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and watched the second time, I was like, where's the

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I mean, who's doing the hair on this movie?

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Because you can't. It's a magnificent mullet, you know, perfect.

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Yeah, I mean think about he's on that Triumph motorcycle

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like several times and it's blowing in the wind all majestically.

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He looks fantastic. What do you, Dave? What? What? What?

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What?

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What? How do you feel about Kevin Dyllon in this movie? Oh?

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I thought he was great, man. I mean I remember

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him for the tune of when he beat Bunny, but no,

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I thought he's perfect in this. It was another one

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of those examples where you're getting kind of that kind

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of a misdirect with him because you think he's gonna

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be this punk guy who doesn't care about anything, and

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he does kind of, don't get me wrong, but he

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has a heart and you see that come out throughout

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the film, so you you know, everybody is taking him

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as this bad guy that is always going to get

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in trouble and just is a criminal when in fact

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he's got He's a softye man. He is because he

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helps Meg and cares about her. Man at first, he's like,

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I don't want anything to do with it.

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A cheerleader.

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Come on, man, he says, he's like a cheerleader. Yeah,

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a cheerleader.

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No, but no he he's a softy man and I

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love that aspect how they turn his character around.

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In this, Chuck, Kevin Dylan, is it fair to say

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he's he's a little Han Solo in this?

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And I'm very glad you brought that up because he

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has the most Han Solo white shirt. Yes that flips over. Yeah,

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I mean it's it's such a stylized shirt. The first

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time I watched it, I'm thinking, what is this a

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Is this a puffy shirt? But no, the second time

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I totally thought Harrison Ford Empire strikes back, and you

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know it was it was a glorious shirt. So yes,

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I am getting Han Solo vibes all the time on

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that one.

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Well, and if we could just stick you know you

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brought you brought up Star Wars just a few minutes

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ago talking about movies from nineteen seventy seven. But think

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about this. Did you guys catch the Star Wars reference

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aside from his his Han Solo Empire Strikes back shirt

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that he's wearing. Okay, I'm getting you guys are blank faces.

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I want let me take you to the van escape.

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When they're in the back of the van and he's

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he's he's planning to make a make a bust and

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get out of there, and he's like, come on, you

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jump with me. She says she's and now it's not

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an exact word for word dialogue, but she's basically paraphrasing.

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She says, take care of yourself, that's what you're good at.

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And when she said that to him and then he

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jumps out of the van, I was like, wait a minute,

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where didn't didn't Luke say that to a.

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Han Solo in Star Wars?

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And I looked it up, but yeah, take care of yourself, Han,

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it's what's your best at. And this is right before

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you know, Han Solo leaves and then he comes back

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to save the day, right right, just like Brian Flag

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in the Blob, you know, Shawnee is like struggling, she's

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in the sewer. The BLOB's about to get her and

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then boom, there's Brian Flagg.

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He came back. Brian Flagg is Han solo. I'm saying it.

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I get that, Yeah, I get it, all right, all right,

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Shawnie Smith playing Meg Penny.

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What what a sweetheart? She absolutely is.

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I mean she's a cheerleader and a completely becomes a

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bad ass by the end of this film.

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Well, if Kevin Dylan is is pulling some some uh

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some Han Solo action, I think it's it's fair to

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say that she's definitely pulling some Sarah Connor action.

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Oh. Absolutely, she's the hero.

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Mm hmm right, chuck.

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Yeah, I was gonna say she is pulling some strong

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Ellen Ripley. She starts off as Ellen from Alien and

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by the end of it she's Ellen from Aliens. Yeah,

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and I was trying to paint I was trying to

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paint Brian Flagg as maybe her hicks by the end.

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Don't know what You're gonna follow me there or not?

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He No, listen, I'm listening nineteen eighty six Aliens. Yeah,

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you got my attention, man, So yeah, I didn't even

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think about that.

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Wow.

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Yeah, I'll say this too. It's an it's an eighties

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horror film. So we just are waiting for these two

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to get together.

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It's it.

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They're gonna, they're gonna become a thing, right, are going

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to have their moment?

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Nope, and respect, they don't.

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They just hug.

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It's a hug.

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Yep, it's a it's a hey, we survived it hug now.

476
00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:14.960
To be fair, though, she did spend a chunk of

477
00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:18.400
the movie in the sewers, like swimming through the sewers,

478
00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:23.039
so maybe she's not ready for Like, you know, they

479
00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:23.920
embrace that he's.

480
00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:24.519
He's hoping for.

481
00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:27.359
But I know, I think their chemistry is amazing and

482
00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:29.319
it's definitely one of the things I enjoy most about

483
00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:31.839
this film is their chemistry.

484
00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:35.960
Hey, Dave, you mentioned you mentioned Bunny Platoon.

485
00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:37.720
First of all, thank you.

486
00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.759
I as one of my favorite movies from nineteen eighty six.

487
00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.559
I loved Kevin Dylan in that. And I don't know

488
00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:48.319
if you picked up Meg says something. She says, come on,

489
00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:49.640
you can do better than that.

490
00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:50.400
Did you catch that?

491
00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.079
I did that quote?

492
00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.920
That was line? Yep, Yep, you're.

493
00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.559
Right it is. That's that's Kevin Dylan's line Platoon.

494
00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:01.079
Platoon.

495
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.160
Hats off to Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont for this

496
00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:10.440
script because I mean it's packed with so.

497
00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:12.200
Many little Easter eggs and I'm I'm not even talking.

498
00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:13.759
I'm that we don't we won't even have time to

499
00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:17.279
go into all the the Stephen King references that that

500
00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:20.640
that Frank Darabont packed into this thing. But if you

501
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:23.960
haven't read The Stand or you haven't seen the Stand

502
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:27.000
mini series, either the new or the old one, you're

503
00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:28.839
probably missing out on that. But there's a lot of

504
00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:30.920
Stephen King in there. You guys are both shaking your head,

505
00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:32.160
so I'm yeah, we all saw it.

506
00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:36.720
Then, all right. There's plenty of people we could talk about.

507
00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:42.519
Uh from from uh from American graffiti to RoboCop to

508
00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:46.480
Playboy centerfolds, but uh, we'll be We'll try and be brief.

509
00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:48.599
One, you know.

510
00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:54.759
Joe Senica, Oh yeah, yeah, Dr Chuck. Isn't he supposed

511
00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:54.960
to be?

512
00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.319
Like when I like, the first time I saw this

513
00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:59.359
was like, Oh, this guy, he's here to save the day.

514
00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:00.039
He's gonna help.

515
00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:06.119
Whenever whenever the government shows up fifty minutes in an

516
00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:10.799
eighties film, it's never a good thing.

517
00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:12.359
I Mean, if.

518
00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:16.200
Anything has taught me, it's it's when the government says

519
00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:20.519
we're here to help, I'm a little suspicious. And but

520
00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:24.200
you know, it's so good seeing Joe. Every time you

521
00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.160
see him, I just get taken back to Crossroads.

522
00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.640
Do you remember that film? Y'all covered that in.

523
00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.079
The Yeah, that was that was That was part of

524
00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.839
our nineteen eighty six series Love Crossroads.

525
00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:37.119
Yeah, I love that one.

526
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:40.200
But he's yeah, he is.

527
00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:44.160
He shows up and you know, you leads you down

528
00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:47.000
the road of he's here to help, right, But then

529
00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:49.400
you begin to reveal more and more that there's a

530
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:51.799
little bit of a maybe a little bit of a

531
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:56.880
nefarious reason for why they are there, and and another.

532
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:57.960
Curve ball here to us.

533
00:26:58.039 --> 00:27:00.400
Yeah, yeah, yes, yep, And I want to.

534
00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.960
I do want to talk about that. But to Chuck's point,

535
00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:08.680
I can't remember a single moment where government agents in

536
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.759
hazmat suits showed up to a small town and it

537
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:15.440
was gonna be okay, I'll tell you right now, Dave.

538
00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:20.519
The first time I hear like a an air raid

539
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:24.160
siren or one of those you know, tornado sirens, you know. Yeah,

540
00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:26.720
I go outside and I see I see one hazmat suit.

541
00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:29.200
I'm I got the bug out bag. I'm thought of

542
00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:29.599
my truck.

543
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:31.039
I'm gone.

544
00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:34.559
I am gone. I'm leaving. Yeah, because they're always like, hey,

545
00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:37.799
it's we're quarantined. We're just here, We're here to help.

546
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:38.640
Yeah.

547
00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:43.200
And if anything has taught us, you know from movies,

548
00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:47.000
you know, from et to Outbreak Too, Returning, Living Dead.

549
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:52.160
When you see the hazmat shoot suits show up, don't file,

550
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:56.000
don't don't, don't follow in a single file line, don't

551
00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:57.799
get in the back of the trucks, don't go to

552
00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:59.640
the the shopping.

553
00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:02.480
Mall that's now the meeting area.

554
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.920
Just just just sneak sneak away, get out, get.

555
00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:09.680
Like be like Brian Flag, have your trusty ratchet still

556
00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:14.440
with you, unlock that door and get out of there

557
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:15.079
and go.

558
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.119
I am I am jumping out of the back of

559
00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:21.240
the truck ten times out of ten because y're gonna

560
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:21.519
get me.

561
00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:25.400
Yeah, Oh go ahead.

562
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:27.720
No, I just I just want to throw somebody out there,

563
00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:29.599
just throw a little love to date. In the docum

564
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:32.279
Base seventy seven, I want to mention Art Lafleur as

565
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:39.920
the pharmacist because he played Captain Sears and Cobras.

566
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:38.920
Like, I don't know where you're heading with this, but

567
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:40.079
oh it's a Cobra reference.

568
00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:44.160
All right, well we got that fun you know, it's

569
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.200
that fun little nod like the you know, the jock

570
00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:50.519
goes into the pharmacy and he's buying condoms and talk

571
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:51.799
about the girls gonna score.

572
00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:54.599
With and uh, oh it's actually the pharmacist daughter.

573
00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:58.079
Yeah yeah, Art Lafloor playing mister Penny.

574
00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:02.640
They just so much mileage. This is where the script

575
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:06.079
is smart. Okay, they got so much mileage out of

576
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:11.720
that joke. The first mileage is when, uh, when Scott

577
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:16.720
Jesky is purchasing the condoms and he is offered by

578
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.799
the pharmacists whether he wants regular or ribbed, and he

579
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:23.440
chooses the ribbed, and of course at that point Dell Close,

580
00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:28.240
who plays Reverend Meeker, shows up and so he's embarrassed.

581
00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:31.960
So immediately he's pointing over said, they're not for me,

582
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.160
They're they're for Kevin over there. I'm buying it for

583
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:38.039
him because he's gonna score with this girl. Right, So

584
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.160
that's funny, right, But then the hayoff comes about five

585
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:47.680
minutes later when when Kevin, who is probably doesn't really

586
00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:53.200
realize what Scott was saying, meets Meg's dad and who

587
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:54.079
is it.

588
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:56.880
It's the pharmacist and all he can say is.

589
00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:04.359
They're driving layers seany smish, like, sorry about my dad.

590
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:05.960
I've never seen back like that. I don't know what's

591
00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:07.640
going on anything.

592
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:09.079
I'm gonna kill I'm gonna kill you.

593
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:11.240
Yeah. Oh man.

594
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.680
Uh we mentioned RoboCop Paul mccrane, who was one of

595
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:16.440
those dad guys.

596
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:20.119
He's Deputy Deputy Briggs in this yep.

597
00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:23.160
And if you're wondering, like, well, who's he playing RoboCop listeners,

598
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:24.839
I'm talking about.

599
00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:27.200
Uh, it was it. I think it was a meal.

600
00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:29.640
He was a guy that gets.

601
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:31.400
The toxic waste on his face. He's like the he's

602
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:32.519
known as the melting man.

603
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:34.240
You know, don't touch me.

604
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.920
Yeah, it's kind of funny, like eighty Like you know,

605
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:41.359
in nineteen eighty seven he he's the melting man and

606
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:44.519
then next day eight he's going up against the melting thing.

607
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.799
So I like Paul mccrane. Though I remember him first.

608
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:50.240
I think the first time I ever saw him was

609
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:52.440
Rocky two. You know, he had just had a small

610
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:55.359
role where Rocky signs his cast leaving the hospital.

611
00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:56.240
So I like that guy.

612
00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:59.240
Another actress I'd like to point out real quick because uh,

613
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:00.880
I think, I think think it's a fun character.

614
00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:04.119
Sad to see her dissolved by the Blob.

615
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.079
But Chuck, I know you probably recognize her since you guys,

616
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:10.880
since you guys are the expert on seventies films. Dave,

617
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:14.000
I'm sure you you recognize her because you're a big

618
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:19.359
ron hired guy. Candy Clark playing the diner. Uh, like

619
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:20.759
she owns a diner, Fran.

620
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.880
Yeah, American Graffiti and she was also in I think

621
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:28.319
The Man Who Fell to Earth another.

622
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.000
Okay, yeah, she she is.

623
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.720
I gotta tell you because I went back and watched

624
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:40.440
a clip from American Graffiti and of course in the Blob,

625
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:44.880
she's she's she's older, right, but she's still just as cute.

626
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:46.359
Oh, she's adorable.

627
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:47.839
She she has aged.

628
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:49.400
She she she.

629
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:50.920
Looks great in this film.

630
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.480
And you know you're she's she. If there's any kind

631
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.240
of touch point of safety, you feel safe with her.

632
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.119
She because she she's the waitress and the diner when

633
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:05.680
Brian and Meg come running in. She's the one that all,

634
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:07.799
we're close, but I can make you a sandwich, I

635
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:09.920
can give you a dessert, you know, and you feel

636
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:11.599
really comfortable with her.

637
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.319
She gives off a vibe like like, we know, we

638
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:20.000
know Brian Kevin Dillon's character, he's he's the rebel in town.

639
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:21.640
He's you know, he's always in trouble with the law,

640
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.319
he's in trouble at school. But when he comes in,

641
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:26.960
he's like, oh, come on, and she's like she's she's

642
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.240
almost like motherly to him.

643
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:32.599
I really enjoyed that. I hated her.

644
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:37.680
Her her death scene is awesome, but I hated that

645
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:38.720
it that it was her death.

646
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:39.640
You know, does that fair?

647
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:41.480
You know? Does that make sense? Like I hated seeing

648
00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:43.200
her get eaten up by the blob.

649
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:46.039
But yeah, and the fact how they quickly threw in

650
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:50.359
sheriff getting killed too, right there, right, you know, okay, immediately.

651
00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:54.400
What I'm pretty sure it's in Frank Darabont's contract, like

652
00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:57.119
anything that he's involved with, even if Frank, if Frank

653
00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.920
Gaerabat does craft services for a film, I'm pretty sure

654
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:01.000
Jeffrey Dumont.

655
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:03.319
Is going to be in that movie. Yes, because he's

656
00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:08.000
playing he's playing the sheriff. Yeah. I love the dude. Yeah,

657
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:08.680
it's but.

658
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:11.000
It's funny for me is that Jeffrey was much younger

659
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:13.839
in this In this film, from like what I think

660
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:14.200
of him?

661
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:15.640
Right, and so it took.

662
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.319
Me like a few minutes and I'm sitting here going

663
00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:20.160
if you age him up a little bit, Yeah, he does.

664
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:24.680
He does look like you know everyone from like Walking

665
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.759
Dead in the midst and The Green Mild.

666
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:27.240
You know.

667
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.960
Well, I mean, let's let's be fair. It's nineteen eight

668
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:34.079
so he's I would assume he's probably our age or

669
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:36.720
maybe maybe even a little bit younger than us, sure

670
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:40.400
at this point. So yeah, he's kind of leaning, he's youthful.

671
00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:42.759
He's the sheriff. I buy him as the sheriff, you know.

672
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.519
Yeah, but he's he's he's really good.

673
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:51.559
And what I love the lines where he sees Brian

674
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:56.119
kind of hanging out and he says, hey, Brian, congratulations, Yeah,

675
00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:59.279
you're turning eighteen. You're you're in the big leagues now,

676
00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.279
no more jube for you. Next time you get caught,

677
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:03.559
you're going up the river.

678
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:05.440
You know what.

679
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:07.279
I don't know if it's I don't know if it's

680
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.320
the cowboy hat or the tan police car, but he

681
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:14.800
is he's really pulling some Brian Dennahy first blood action

682
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:17.599
here like yes, and then and when you look at

683
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:19.559
that that beautiful male that Kevin Dyllon has. We were

684
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:21.800
talking about Stone earlier. I was like, man, this is

685
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:23.519
this the first blood that we could have had, you know,

686
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:26.639
in nineteen eighty eight with Jeffrey Dumont and Kevin Dylon.

687
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:28.000
I want to watch that.

688
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:31.519
Yeah, but you can clearly see he's the smart one,

689
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.519
you know, and he plays a smart cop because he

690
00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:37.239
didn't know at first they're they're blaming him, they're blaming

691
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:40.800
flag for all of this, and they have him arrested

692
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:44.000
and he realizes, dude, let him go. He did he

693
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:46.519
didn't do this. You know, he's smart enough to realize

694
00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:48.199
there's no way he did that.

695
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:51.280
Well, Briggs has a he's got a mean on for

696
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:54.840
the guy, for for Kevin Dillon. He wants to cuff

697
00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:58.599
him and stuff, and yeah, you're right, you know. Deman's like,

698
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.480
there's no moti, there's no intent. Just just let the

699
00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:05.639
kid go. So I did, Like, you know, I'm glad,

700
00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.840
and I dig it, like Chuck, you're right. I dig

701
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:11.280
the fact that we don't see him get taken by

702
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:14.039
the blob. It's a it's a it's almost like a

703
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:16.360
Ben Gardner reveal, like joll styles.

704
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:18.679
It is because his.

705
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:21.880
His partially del dissolved head is inside the blob and

706
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:24.800
it smears up against the phone booth once again.

707
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:29.960
It's it's a one two punch. You think that the

708
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:33.519
horror in what you're concerned about is you're concerned about

709
00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:36.239
fran because she's trapped in a phone booth right and

710
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:39.639
the blob is getting in. But then there's the reveal

711
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:45.079
Ben Gardner style that Sheriff Geller has also been consumed

712
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:48.960
by the blob, and then the blob breaks in.

713
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:51.880
Well, move it moving right along.

714
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:57.599
Just because I said Playboy playmates, just for some listeners

715
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:02.199
are that are curious. We do have a a a

716
00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:05.800
quick moment with Julie McCullough. Uh, she's playing an actress

717
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:07.559
in the movie the scary movie that the kids are

718
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.320
watching with the hockey mask Killer, which I thought was

719
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.800
kind of fun. And then Erica Liniac I think she's

720
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:18.119
playing Vicky. She's she's up at like Sweetheart's Hill or

721
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.840
whatever with the other guy who's who's a scumback. He

722
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:24.960
gets he gets what he deserves, you know, he's he's

723
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:27.559
he's loading her up with wine coolers or something and

724
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:29.000
she's ready to pass out.

725
00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:31.159
He's he's getting a little sticky hands.

726
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:34.159
And I'm like, I'll tell you right now, every every

727
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:36.760
kid in that you know before like when you get

728
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:38.800
your driver's license, every every guy should have to watch

729
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:42.159
that scene and just know, like, here's why you respect

730
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:46.079
a woman in a vehicle. Because I mean I was

731
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:48.239
like ah, but I was also like, good, that's what

732
00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:49.719
you get, kid, exactly?

733
00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:53.960
Can can I take a moment though, to admire Scott

734
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:55.320
Jessky's trunk.

735
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:00.719
Liqueur?

736
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:03.079
Yeah, yeah, I listen.

737
00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:05.559
That was If there's one thing that he's doing right,

738
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:06.920
it's the it's the trunk, chuck.

739
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:09.920
Yeah, well he's got he's got the trunk, he's got

740
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:13.239
all of the different class rings, you know. So so

741
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:17.159
you know, poor Vicky wasn't the first young lady he's

742
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:20.159
taken up there and given his high school ring to.

743
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:22.400
Uh so, but he is.

744
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:23.599
He is a total skull.

745
00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:27.079
He's a scumbag. He got he got what he deserved.

746
00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:31.199
One more person I want to bring up specifically because

747
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.519
this is nineteen eighty eight. Sharon Spellman is playing Missus Penny,

748
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:40.519
and you know she's your typical eighties mom, right, She's

749
00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:45.159
married to Art Lafleur. But I was watching like the

750
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.880
the moment where you know poor Paul has been dissolved,

751
00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:51.079
and like, Okay, well, we don't believe Shawnie Smith that

752
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:54.039
this creature exists, so let's just give her, just give

753
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:56.000
her a value, and let's put her to bed and

754
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:59.840
the mom's giving her that generic, pointless advice and every

755
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.599
be fine in the morning, Sweetie. You know you'll be

756
00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:04.639
the You'll still be the head cheerleader and everything's great.

757
00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:08.559
Don't worry about anything. I'm not trying to diss Sharon Spellman,

758
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:13.760
but did we not think to give the ultimate eighties mom,

759
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:16.480
d Wallace a phone call and let her let her

760
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:17.840
be the mom in this movie?

761
00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:20.119
Where's Deve Wallace? It's nineteen eighty eight.

762
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:21.840
Maybe she was busy, I don't know.

763
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:27.039
But de Wallace, Dave, We've we've talked about et We've

764
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.719
covered critters on nineteen eighty six. If there's one mom

765
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:34.199
that knows how to take care of aliens or alien

766
00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:35.320
invaders in the.

767
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:36.960
Eighties, it's Steve Wallace.

768
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:37.880
Yeah.

769
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:39.840
I just I just feel like de Wallace could have

770
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:42.360
been It could have lifted this movie up even more,

771
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.119
Not that it needed lifting, but sure what I would

772
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:46.199
have been okay.

773
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:47.559
With the Wallas, it would have put it over the

774
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:49.039
top if she was in this.

775
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.679
Yeah, for sure, you know now I will.

776
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:54.880
I'll give Sharon Spellman credit though, because I don't know

777
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:56.360
if you guys recognized her.

778
00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:57.639
But she did play.

779
00:38:57.719 --> 00:38:59.840
In addition to this movie, she did play another famous

780
00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:00.920
mon in the eighties.

781
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:05.360
Uh, chuck, she just happens to be. She played.

782
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:10.679
She played the mother of one Johnny Lawrence, the hero

783
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:11.880
of the Karate Kid.

784
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:16.440
Yeah, here we go with that conversation again.

785
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:17.960
I'm not gonna get into it. I'm not gonna get

786
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.480
into it, but just just pointed out. I was like, Hey,

787
00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:21.320
it's missus Lawrence.

788
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.840
That's that's kind of cool, Jeff, I want to play.

789
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:27.000
I want to point out a couple of things, a

790
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:29.159
couple of actors. You know how I love to bring

791
00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:30.440
everything back to Star Trek.

792
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:31.679
Oh, here we go.

793
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:33.760
I wanted to dig just to make sure that I

794
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:35.400
had a couple of people that were in this film.

795
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.440
They were actually in Star Trek projects. And of course

796
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:41.199
there are a couple actually, Frank Collusion is in an

797
00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:43.679
episode of Deep Space nine that we're covering on Fass

798
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:47.360
that we recently covered on Faces Guys plays Yeah. He

799
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:50.639
plays Hobe in this the projectedist in the at the Theater. Uh.

800
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.320
He plays Dolk in Star Trek d Space nine for

801
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:56.320
two episodes, and he played the same character in Star

802
00:39:56.360 --> 00:40:01.079
Trek Next Narration. Also Robert altre plays j He was

803
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:04.960
an episode of Star Trek Voyager. So there's my Star

804
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.119
Trek love because everything comes back to Star Trek. I

805
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.079
do want to point out one more person in this film,

806
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:13.360
and this is one of his earlier films. He's Soldier

807
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:16.880
number two in the Sewer. Oh yeah, Bill moy.

808
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:21.119
Bill Moseley, We love well.

809
00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:25.480
I'm pretty much everything that he's ever done. But you know,

810
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:30.280
great character actor, Return of Living There, Night of Living

811
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:33.360
Dead the remake, and Tom Savini did he played played Johnny.

812
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:36.920
I think a lot of people know him now as

813
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:42.480
Otis from the rob Zombie films, The Trilogy, House, House

814
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:46.960
of a Thousand Corpses and and uh, the Devil's Rejects Man.

815
00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:50.559
We've talked to him once or twice. He's like, he's

816
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.360
a he's a He's a staple at a lot of

817
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:54.880
these horri cons that we've been to, and just the

818
00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:58.719
most he's the nicest guy though, he's so Yeah, when

819
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.239
I I had come pletely forgotten that he was in here.

820
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:04.320
So when that soldier shows up in the sewer, I

821
00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:06.599
was like, that looks like Bill Mosley.

822
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:08.039
I was like, it's not Bill Mosley.

823
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.320
And then he started talking us like that is Bill Mosley.

824
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:13.079
So yeah, thank you, thank you for bringing him up.

825
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:17.000
Another one, Meg her little brother.

826
00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:18.960
I'm talking about Shanny Smith's character.

827
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:21.159
I don't remember his name, but that's the that's the

828
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.159
little kid from a Return of the Living Dead part two.

829
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:28.360
Yep, that was discovers the Michael Kinworthy.

830
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:28.880
Thank you, Chuck.

831
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:30.840
That's why. That's why you.

832
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:32.960
That's why you always if you're gonna have a guest,

833
00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:36.559
you get a guess that comes prepared all the answers.

834
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:39.840
Hey, I have somebody that I mentioned earlier, but I

835
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:42.400
do want to spotlight him a little bit. Would be

836
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:48.760
Dell Close as yeah, yeah, Reverend Meeker. So I first

837
00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:52.480
remember Dale Close from the movie The Untouchables.

838
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:54.039
Mm hm, great line.

839
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:57.639
Hey, yo, thank you guys are intouchables everyone can get.

840
00:41:57.880 --> 00:41:58.119
Yeah.

841
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:02.840
Yeah, but he he also has roles in Ferris Bueller's

842
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:04.880
Day Off as the English teacher.

843
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:09.280
Oh that's right. But what is.

844
00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:11.679
Interesting more about Dell is that.

845
00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:12.360
He is.

846
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:18.239
Very famous in the Chicago world of improv comedy. In fact,

847
00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:23.000
he has been an influence on John Belushi, Bill Murray,

848
00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:28.960
Gilda Radner. He was the Saturday Night Live house metaphysician.

849
00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:29.719
Whatever that means.

850
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.280
Back in the early season, the first season of Saturday

851
00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:38.559
Night Live, so Dell Close when he died, he wanted

852
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:43.159
to have his skull donated to the Chicago Improv Troupe

853
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:45.320
to play in Hamlet.

854
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.800
That is a little bizarre, but also kind of cool.

855
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:53.159
It was cool.

856
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:56.199
It didn't happen, but they still play into it that

857
00:42:56.239 --> 00:42:56.639
it did.

858
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:58.599
So I like that.

859
00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.880
Guys, Let's take a quick break and when we get back,

860
00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:06.159
we'll talk a little bit about the film's background, and

861
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:09.239
we'll talk about some scenes. Maybe we do like a

862
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:11.880
little bit of a best of Blob type action.

863
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:13.000
I like that.

864
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:19.280
That's the plumb, right, we'll be right back. Welcome back.

865
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.239
Let's talk a little bit about the film's background. It's

866
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:27.079
nineteen eighty six. New World Pictures buys the rights to

867
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:31.639
remake The Blob Chuck Russell, Frank Derbant. They get involved

868
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:34.400
with original producer Jack Harris.

869
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:36.679
Who produced You know.

870
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:38.199
He was one of the producers on the original from

871
00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.039
nineteen fifty eight, and they're like, hey, you know they's

872
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:43.719
He's done the assistant directing thing.

873
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:44.199
He's done.

874
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:47.079
They've both been writing, they've both been production managers pas,

875
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:50.440
and now they're starting to think, hey, people don't want

876
00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:53.119
to hear our pitches for our original stuff, but maybe

877
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:55.039
they'll be inclined.

878
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:57.760
To go for something that they know can bring people in.

879
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:01.480
In Philip Movie Theater. So they're they're going around town

880
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:05.400
pitching the Blob. They land at the New Line Cinema,

881
00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:09.280
who aren't exactly convinced, but they listened to Chuck's pitch

882
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:12.199
for a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie that would

883
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:15.880
go deeper into Freddy's world with the idea of dream

884
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:21.440
Warriors battling him. Nightmare Elms Street three Dream Warriors is

885
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:24.519
a financial success, and now Chuck Russell has the clout

886
00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:29.159
to get the Blob greenlit, which he does, and the

887
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:33.800
rest is history. So, Dave, you mentioned this small town

888
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:35.920
vibe that this movie has a lot of us grew

889
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.480
up in these kinds of towns. It's actually a place

890
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:46.000
called Abbeville in Louisiana, and you know, we've we we

891
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:48.000
got our friend down there in Uh.

892
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:50.079
In the Bayou. James Buckley, who.

893
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:53.480
Is one of our he's one of our our biggest

894
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:54.400
Patreon supporters.

895
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:55.960
He's been on the show before.

896
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:01.440
Amazing guy. He gave us some fun details about.

897
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:02.480
The the the.

898
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:05.719
On location information for Hatchet because it's it's down there

899
00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:06.320
in Louisiana.

900
00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:07.960
But I asked him. I reached out. I said, hey, man,

901
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:11.679
what can you tell me about Abbaville? And uh he said, hey.

902
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:14.480
It's a very nice little town and very steeped in

903
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:18.280
the Cajun culture. It's close to Avery Island, home of

904
00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:21.800
Tabasco Hot Sauce, and oh, by the way, Abbeville is

905
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:26.079
also home to the annual Giant Omelet Festival. So I'm

906
00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:28.320
talking about Abbaville with James as.

907
00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:29.719
We're were we were.

908
00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:32.280
Talking about Hatchet, So I was hoping I was trying

909
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:35.639
to pull a little misdirect. Uh So, so James, obviously

910
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.039
we're if you're if you're listening, we're talking about Abbaville

911
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:42.440
because the Blob was filmed in Abbaville. So the next

912
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.119
time you go to the Giant Omelet Festival, or you

913
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:47.719
want to or you want to get some Tabasco Hot sauce,

914
00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:51.239
you might want to do some film locations, like, you know,

915
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.679
check out the the Multiplex and check out the town

916
00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:56.679
square and.

917
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:58.400
Maybe that bridge that he jumped, you know, on his bike.

918
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:01.880
Speaking of that, the the bridge jump, you know, my

919
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:02.760
favorite part about that.

920
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:06.800
Is it's the fist pump. Yeah, you know what I'm

921
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.880
talking about, Chuck. He at the beginning.

922
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:12.719
Okay, so at the beginning of the movie, he's you know, Brian,

923
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.239
He's on his Triumph motorcycle, which, by the way, Steve

924
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:19.239
McQueen was huge with Triph motorcycles.

925
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:20.039
So I like that.

926
00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:21.760
That's a nice little nod to Steve McQueen from the

927
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.719
original Blob. But he doesn't make the jump the first time,

928
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.760
bangs up his bike and that's why he has to

929
00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:29.039
fix it. But the second time, when he's on the

930
00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:33.280
run from the sinister government agents, he makes the bike

931
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:37.480
jump Evil Canevil style and when he lands, it's not

932
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:38.880
for anyone watching, it's just for him.

933
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:41.639
He does the he does the John Bender.

934
00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:45.320
Breakfast Club fist pump. That's a that's a move, man,

935
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:46.599
that's just it's a move.

936
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:48.920
I like it. Speaking of I.

937
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:53.480
Thought he was actually saluting the people that were chasing him.

938
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:55.280
Oh okay, one finger but.

939
00:46:55.519 --> 00:47:00.800
Yeah, yeah, go back. He's just fist pumping. I think

940
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:01.880
it's cool. It's good, it's cool.

941
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:02.320
Move well.

942
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:05.519
I just want to point out that at the beginning, again,

943
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:10.199
this film is very well structured. There is the beginning.

944
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:13.320
It starts off with you see basically a ghost town

945
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:16.360
and it's going through showing all these buildings and there's

946
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:21.199
nobody there in Appleville. But then you see that's because

947
00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:24.760
everyone is at the football game, everybody except for Brian,

948
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:29.840
who is considering blowing off this town making this jump

949
00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:32.840
and who knows where he's going to go after. But

950
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:36.719
from the language of cinema, how they set this up.

951
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:43.159
They start to cut the cheerleaders going go, Go go,

952
00:47:43.599 --> 00:47:46.599
as he's revving up and he's going through and he's

953
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:49.320
making the jump, and of course he hears the engine sputter,

954
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:52.280
and we all realize that we wouldn't have much of

955
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:55.239
a film if he made the jump.

956
00:47:54.679 --> 00:47:56.039
So early in the movie.

957
00:47:56.440 --> 00:47:58.679
But I thought it was just really great how they

958
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:02.920
were able to just put everything from the football game

959
00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:06.760
put him in there, and it was it was just

960
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:07.920
really well done.

961
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:10.400
I think within the first ten minutes of this movie,

962
00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:13.400
they had three different things. They were foreshadowing. That was

963
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:15.760
one of them. The other one was the boy's jacket

964
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:17.960
getting stuck when the mom put it on him, and

965
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:21.400
the other one was the snowmaker. They were throwing four

966
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.360
shodowing like crazy at the beginning of the film.

967
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:25.679
I had to call that check off snowmaker.

968
00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:27.800
I mean the minute that they throw it out there,

969
00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:28.679
it's like, hey, it's.

970
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:30.159
The first act. That's a snowmaker.

971
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:32.679
I know how the film goes, you know, from the

972
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:36.400
first one, and so this probably will show up in

973
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:37.079
the third act.

974
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:37.719
Yep.

975
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:40.719
I want to go back to that bridge scene, Jeff.

976
00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:43.239
You we always talk about here about practical effects that

977
00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.800
nothing cgi and stuff like that. That one shot where

978
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:50.519
you get the helicopter, the truck flying off onto his side,

979
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.000
and the motorcycle jumping at the same time. That was

980
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:56.000
all real. He caught all that in camera and went

981
00:48:56.239 --> 00:48:59.079
all in camera woow. Matter of fact, when the stuntman

982
00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:02.199
went over the bridge in the bike, the tires blue,

983
00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:05.239
but he managed to keep it up and not crash.

984
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:06.039
Holy shit.

985
00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:12.880
Yeah, that's amazing. Hats off to that stunt guy. No kidding, well,

986
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:14.760
you know, and like here's what's cool.

987
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:15.639
It's eighty eight.

988
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:19.559
So we're we still haven't really cracked the whole CGI

989
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:23.880
thing yet with effects. So most of this what you

990
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:27.440
see is practical effects with the I think some of

991
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.239
the like the glistening, you know at the end when

992
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:31.840
the blob is kind of frozen, I think some of

993
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:34.480
the like the glistening, is a little optical effects. But

994
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:39.480
I mean for most part you're looking at I forget

995
00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:41.960
the chemical that they use, but it's the same thickening

996
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:46.119
agent for milkshakes. But you're basically looking at this this

997
00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:52.039
chemical in in silk bags that they they kind of

998
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:54.480
you know, put the camera at like a little bit

999
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:56.719
of an angle to you know, to you know, because

1000
00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:58.480
a lot there's a lot of miniature work here happening.

1001
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:01.480
But the blob creepy as hell. Looking at this thing,

1002
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:04.119
and the fact that the way it pulsates and undulates

1003
00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:06.360
and it's not and you can tell, you can clearly

1004
00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:08.880
tell it's not CGI, because if it did, it just

1005
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:10.480
looked too fake and too clean.

1006
00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:12.519
I love the look at the blob in this.

1007
00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:15.360
I feel like Gary Queen missed out on the marketing here.

1008
00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:18.239
They could they could have marketed a blob of milkshake

1009
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:22.039
to go along with this film they should have.

1010
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.360
I was gonna say that that this film, I believe

1011
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:29.239
was in production. They were shooting like early nineteen eighty eight,

1012
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:33.519
like January, and it's in theaters in August.

1013
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:34.400
That's crazy.

1014
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.280
That's an insane Remember when we talked about Star Trek,

1015
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:39.880
like how it the motion picture, it took like nearly

1016
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:43.639
a forever to get the effects work done, and they

1017
00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:46.840
were working around the clot and I would say that,

1018
00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:49.280
you know, this film may not have had the same

1019
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.880
number of optical effects, but let's be honest, some of

1020
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:54.880
the things that they had to have the Blob do

1021
00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:58.000
was they couldn't all do it practically.

1022
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:00.599
You know, they were doing miniature work. And I think

1023
00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:05.400
you had mentioned that. But even when it gets to

1024
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:06.079
the point.

1025
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:09.320
Where in our four K world we look at it

1026
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:11.199
and we can kind of see the scenes a little

1027
00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:14.960
bit more in eighty eight watching that on the screen,

1028
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:18.920
you're not seeing exactly how you see it today. And

1029
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:21.559
it looked it looked great then. I still think it

1030
00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:22.360
looks good today.

1031
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:26.760
I do too, It absolutely does. And a little fun

1032
00:51:26.760 --> 00:51:32.039
fact about the Blob. This Blob actually not it's only

1033
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:38.679
film credit because there was another production in town, well

1034
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:40.199
not in Louisiana with James Buckley.

1035
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:41.440
But there was another production.

1036
00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:45.599
Going on film that we covered with our very good

1037
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:47.880
friends Jason and Dee at the show that You Can't

1038
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:51.960
Be Serious Podcast effects shots. Finished effects shots from this

1039
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.440
movie ended up in Ghostbusters too.

1040
00:51:55.840 --> 00:51:57.400
Who are you going to call?

1041
00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:00.360
Yeah, we're calling Chuck Russell to see if they have

1042
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:02.159
any extra effects that we can put in.

1043
00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:05.800
Yeah, hey we're a little short. Chuck out that blob

1044
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:09.800
movie turned out. I got some stuff, you know, speaking

1045
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:12.599
of the blob. I know, we you know, Dave, it's

1046
00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:15.679
it's Halloween. We've been having fun with this. We did

1047
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:19.760
this with with Hatchet. Instead of doing like noteworthy scenes

1048
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.119
and pivotal moment, can we how about we do like

1049
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:24.280
best blob moment?

1050
00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:28.280
There's so many at there's so many do you have?

1051
00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:31.719
Do you have one that you're like, man, that shot,

1052
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:33.800
the way it looked, or what happened, you know that

1053
00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:35.199
the attack, whatever it is?

1054
00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:37.800
What's your go to blob moment in this, Dave?

1055
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:41.719
So my go to one is this with George, who

1056
00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:46.000
is the plunging the sink in the restaurant. So that

1057
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:48.719
scene is just for one thing, he's getting sucked into

1058
00:52:48.760 --> 00:52:51.960
this drain in the sink, which just seems impossible and

1059
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.199
crazy to even think about. But how they just hold

1060
00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:57.039
on that leg, you know, first you know the waitress

1061
00:52:57.039 --> 00:52:58.280
is time to do it, and he's here here, let

1062
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.960
me do it. I'll take over it. And how they

1063
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:03.760
just the camera just hangs on it so like the

1064
00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:05.920
water's bubbling up a little bit. You know what's coming,

1065
00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:09.280
you just do And then he like reaches down inside

1066
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:11.800
there and it takes his time trying to figure out,

1067
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:13.880
and then finally it does grabbing a little bit. Then

1068
00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:17.760
he comes bursting out grab team and then yank seem

1069
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:21.639
down into that pipe that just like blew me away,

1070
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:24.159
And the effects of it look incredible.

1071
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:29.559
The effects in that moment specifically, it's almost like Carpenter's

1072
00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:32.639
the thing, yes, because this blob kind of it's a

1073
00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:36.400
little tentacally here and there, which creeps me out. But

1074
00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:40.119
the what makes that moment great is the misdirect because

1075
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:42.760
Chuck Russell is doing all kinds of misdirects. Like you know,

1076
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:44.920
we talked, we were just talking about the beginning of

1077
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:47.800
the movie, like looking like a ghost town. The horror

1078
00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:50.239
movies teach us like, oh we're this is what's.

1079
00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:50.760
Left of the town.

1080
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:53.039
You know, now we're gonna go back and see the story,

1081
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:55.159
but nope, this is this is present time.

1082
00:53:55.199 --> 00:53:56.280
We're just at a football game.

1083
00:53:56.880 --> 00:54:02.039
Anytime you see someone's stick their hand into a drain,

1084
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:07.079
a sinakh drain, if it's a horror movie, someone is like,

1085
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:09.679
someone's gonna pull the switch. The things that the you

1086
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:12.320
know they're gonna they're gonna get their hand all.

1087
00:54:12.679 --> 00:54:14.400
Just mangled, right yep.

1088
00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:17.360
So I'm like, I know something bad about to happen,

1089
00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:19.360
but I'm not even thinking about the blob sneaking up

1090
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:21.880
under the drain. I'm just thinking, oh, he's about to

1091
00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:24.000
you know, the disposal is about to chew his hand

1092
00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:26.360
up because you're an idiot because you stuck your hand

1093
00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:28.360
in the drain. You never do that, you know, grab

1094
00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:30.719
a grab a spoon, grab something and stick it on it.

1095
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:34.400
Don't don't do that people, especially if there's a blob

1096
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:34.599
in there.

1097
00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:34.920
Chuck.

1098
00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:39.880
That is a I didn't realize I thought it was

1099
00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:44.000
just a chuck thing, but it turns out that sinks

1100
00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:48.519
and drains. It's kind of a universal phobia of what

1101
00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:53.639
can be down there. You're reaching down, and in this case,

1102
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:58.599
it's something reached back out and holy cay, he pulls

1103
00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:00.559
out his hand. He looks he's got a little bit

1104
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:02.719
of the blob on there, you know, like what's going on?

1105
00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:04.000
And then boom.

1106
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:07.760
Yeah, his whole face gets grabbed and it gets pulled

1107
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.920
down and it's you're looking at it. Okay, So you're

1108
00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:15.280
thinking about this, that this is physically impossible, right for

1109
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:19.039
to be pulled down a human being to be pulled

1110
00:55:19.119 --> 00:55:22.880
into a into a drain pipe, and you see the

1111
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:27.599
drain pipe expanding, but you realize, well, he's also being

1112
00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:31.159
dissolved at the same time, and that is what's causing

1113
00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:33.280
him to go down the drain Yep.

1114
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:37.000
Wow, that's an excellent scene.

1115
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:40.559
I was I if you did not take that one

1116
00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:43.679
as your great blob expectation, that was gonna be mine.

1117
00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:44.360
Yeah.

1118
00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:46.719
I was watching this with my nephew, had never seen

1119
00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:48.559
it before. He not even heard the blob, as I mentioned,

1120
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.079
So when that scene happened, like I turned to look

1121
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:55.239
at him, his jaw was wide open when that whole

1122
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:58.039
sequence was happening, and he's like, did that just happen?

1123
00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:03.360
Like that just happened? Chuck, give me another best of

1124
00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:04.719
the Blob moment.

1125
00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:11.039
Okay, so I had a not to do a scott

1126
00:56:11.079 --> 00:56:15.480
here and give you two or three, you know. I mean,

1127
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:18.199
I did have the whole sink scene in there, and

1128
00:56:18.199 --> 00:56:20.840
I think we've already talked about the phone booth. But

1129
00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:24.559
for my money, I was a theater rusher back when

1130
00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:27.960
this movie came, so I was working at a general

1131
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:31.400
cinema in Columbia. I was able to able to see

1132
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:34.079
this film for free when it opened up.

1133
00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:38.679
And for me, the best Blob.

1134
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:42.079
Scene in the movie is the throwback and to the

1135
00:56:42.119 --> 00:56:46.320
original Blob, and that is the scene in the theater

1136
00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:51.360
when the Blob starts to pull the obnoxious theatres patron

1137
00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:54.480
up because we all want to do that. Now it's

1138
00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:56.639
just people with their phones on is who we want

1139
00:56:56.679 --> 00:57:00.360
to get pulled up. But then it goes into this

1140
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:08.760
whole strobe light sequence where we see this incredible scene

1141
00:57:09.119 --> 00:57:13.199
of Meg seeing this one of the other cheerleaders I believe,

1142
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:15.440
and she rolls her over in half her face.

1143
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:17.559
It just kind of heels.

1144
00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:20.639
Right off right, but you know, the Blob is starting

1145
00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:23.880
to pull people up left and right, you know, and

1146
00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:28.559
people are running from the theater, just just screaming, trying

1147
00:57:28.559 --> 00:57:32.239
to get out, and it was just such a fabulous

1148
00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:35.800
homage to the original film that it has to be

1149
00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:37.199
one of my favorite seams.

1150
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:39.280
I'm with you on that. Even he gets a little

1151
00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:41.679
bit of a Grimlins feel to it, Like when they're

1152
00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:43.760
trying to escape out of her out the steps into

1153
00:57:43.800 --> 00:57:46.480
the alleyway and the BLOB's right behind them chasing them.

1154
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:48.719
I got total Grimlins vibe right there too.

1155
00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:51.519
Yeah, I think you guys got them.

1156
00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:57.559
You know, the theater attack, the sink drain devouring, and

1157
00:57:57.599 --> 00:57:59.960
then the phone booth for poor Candy Clark.

1158
00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:02.239
But I think my favorite.

1159
00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:06.159
Look of the blob is probably a David's guy Hobb

1160
00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:10.880
from Star Trek when the you know he's he's calling

1161
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:13.599
for like, hey, there's no ac And when the theater

1162
00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:17.039
manager shows up in the production projection booth and does

1163
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:19.760
it seem but then looks up and the blob is

1164
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.159
all over the ceiling and what's left of this guy

1165
00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:25.880
is like kind of peeking out of him. Yeah, I'm like,

1166
00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:26.400
I'm out.

1167
00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:30.400
That's that's that's horrific, absolutely horrific.

1168
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:33.239
And six were so incredible in that scene. I mean

1169
00:58:33.239 --> 00:58:37.360
the whole movie, they're incredible, but that particular scene, and man,

1170
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:38.719
it never once looked fake.

1171
00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:41.039
No, no, not at all.

1172
00:58:41.480 --> 00:58:41.679
Yeah.

1173
00:58:41.719 --> 00:58:45.920
They did another great setup for that reveal because one

1174
00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:48.400
of the characteristics of the projectionists is he has a

1175
00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:52.480
yo yo, right, yeah, yes, and so the theater manager

1176
00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:54.119
comes up and the first thing that makes him look

1177
00:58:54.199 --> 00:58:55.639
up is that the yo yo comes down.

1178
00:58:55.719 --> 00:58:58.599
Yep, yeah, brilliant. It is.

1179
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:02.920
So it's so much joy seeing this film. It's just

1180
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:05.480
so well done. It's so well done. I cannot believe

1181
00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:09.840
that this film like it. I think it had like

1182
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:12.039
what a ten million dollar budget and I think it

1183
00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:15.440
grossed like eight on it, which is which is just

1184
00:59:15.519 --> 00:59:16.119
a crime.

1185
00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:17.199
It is crime.

1186
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:20.199
And I don't know who to blame for that. I

1187
00:59:20.480 --> 00:59:23.320
might be looking at TriStar because not only were they

1188
00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:26.239
the production company, they were also the distribution which is

1189
00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:30.039
responsible for the marketing of a film. And I just

1190
00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:34.239
have to believe that they did not do a great

1191
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.840
marketing campaign for this film because they had a winner.

1192
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:39.199
On this Yeah.

1193
00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:41.960
Well, I know it changes hands a couple of times, right, Dave,

1194
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:44.400
Like from New World to someone Someone went bankrupt though,

1195
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:46.239
and tri Star just kind of picked up the pieces.

1196
00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:48.559
I think you're onto something there where they just were like,

1197
00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:51.119
just just get it out there. Yeah, just get it

1198
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:51.519
out there.

1199
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:54.159
That's a shame when that happens, especially when you have

1200
00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:56.800
such a good film like this. It didn't have enough marketing.

1201
00:59:56.800 --> 00:59:59.440
I'm sure didn't have enough backing for it, and that's

1202
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:02.559
that is just quite the shame, it really is, Jeff,

1203
01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:04.239
I want to talk about one other one. I know

1204
01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:07.599
I'm pulling a Hoffman here, but yes, you are. You

1205
01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:10.440
kind of mentioned it earlier. This is something else my

1206
01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:12.639
nephew picked up on. When they were in the sewer

1207
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:17.639
and the blob grabs Eddie the other yeah, and my

1208
01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:21.039
nephew is like, they don't kill kids. I'm like, yeah,

1209
01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:24.119
they do. And what Another thing what I love if

1210
01:00:24.119 --> 01:00:26.559
they did the filmmaker is the fact, yeah, it grabs

1211
01:00:26.599 --> 01:00:28.519
him and he disappears under the water. They could have

1212
01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:31.400
ended it there. Oh no, oh no, we need to

1213
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:35.199
see the kid coming up out of the water being dissolved. Okay,

1214
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.639
they just took that scene and just took it over

1215
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:38.320
the top with that.

1216
01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:43.480
It's it's the sewer, right, Shawnnie Smith is dragging these

1217
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:46.360
two kids through the sewer trying to escape the blob,

1218
01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:50.000
and when Eddie gets pulled in, that should have been

1219
01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:51.599
the you're right, that should have been in. And then

1220
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:54.519
when Shawnee dives back in and I'm like, please don't

1221
01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:56.119
open your eyes, please don't open your mouth.

1222
01:00:56.239 --> 01:00:57.199
You are in the sewer.

1223
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:02.920
But she comes back up and it's like you just

1224
01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:07.840
I just you just assume that she's gonna have the kid, right, Nope, Nope.

1225
01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:12.840
He pops back up a blobbified and I'm like, I

1226
01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:15.920
can't believe they just they just blobbed a nine year

1227
01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:19.880
old kid, Like what was his crime? You know, annoying

1228
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:23.840
annoying theater guy and like pervert on Mount Lookout or

1229
01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:25.960
make Out Hill, Like I want them to get it,

1230
01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:27.840
but not poor little Eddie.

1231
01:01:28.679 --> 01:01:33.800
But okay, so Eddie's cinema sin, right was he was

1232
01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:37.639
the bad influence. He was, he was the guy he

1233
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:40.719
was like, my brother is a theater. You know, it's

1234
01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:43.920
got people. You know the movie it's it has the

1235
01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:46.320
people getting killed, but there's no sex or anything. Come on,

1236
01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:47.400
it's all good, you know.

1237
01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:48.840
So he's the he's the.

1238
01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:52.960
Bad influence on the Kevin Yeah.

1239
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:56.840
Horror film, Like we we need teenagers to uh, you know,

1240
01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:00.719
to to do drugs or to have sex. You know,

1241
01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:03.039
they have to pay for these these sins. That these

1242
01:02:03.159 --> 01:02:04.960
as you said, and we don't have any of that.

1243
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:07.920
But this kid, I guess he was the he was

1244
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:14.840
the chosen one, so he was the martyr. Sorry, Eddie, guys,

1245
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:19.119
let's uh, let's take let's take one last break before

1246
01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:23.280
we wrap up. Unless you are listening to this episode

1247
01:02:23.599 --> 01:02:29.400
on our Patreon, because uh, if you're listening, we're gonna

1248
01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:34.280
talk all about the original Blob, it's sequel, and maybe

1249
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:35.559
some other creatures that ooze.

1250
01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:39.320
So we'll be right back. And by the way, you

1251
01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:41.159
don't have to you don't have to wait, come over

1252
01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:41.679
join us.

1253
01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:46.239
Go to www dot patreon dot com slash a film

1254
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:49.480
by podcast. You can sign up for a free seven

1255
01:02:49.559 --> 01:02:52.480
day trial and uh, if you like what you hear,

1256
01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:57.400
just let that ooze into a monthly uh subscription. You know,

1257
01:02:57.440 --> 01:02:58.880
you can get it as for as low as three

1258
01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:05.079
dollars a month. We have got tons of exclusive episodes, Dave,

1259
01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:08.800
you've got the a film at fifty series.

1260
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:10.239
It's it's it's.

1261
01:03:10.039 --> 01:03:11.400
Not that's the only place you can get it is

1262
01:03:11.400 --> 01:03:13.400
our Patreon, right, yep, that's correct.

1263
01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:15.960
Yeah, ten for two with Andrew Blakeley.

1264
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:20.039
We've got exclusive episodes, you know, nineteen eighty six the

1265
01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:21.079
bonus stuff.

1266
01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:23.119
It's all there, so check it out, come over and

1267
01:03:23.199 --> 01:03:23.599
join us.

1268
01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:25.400
We'll see you there and if not, we'll see you

1269
01:03:25.400 --> 01:03:26.800
in ninety seconds.

1270
01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:28.679
Welcome back.

1271
01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:34.679
We have been over on Patreon during this break, and

1272
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:36.239
what was ninety seconds for you?

1273
01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:38.800
Was like, well, it wasn't ninety seconds for us.

1274
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:41.119
We had we had a great conversation about the original

1275
01:03:41.159 --> 01:03:41.679
Blob from.

1276
01:03:41.599 --> 01:03:44.559
Nineteen fifty eight. Chuck educated us.

1277
01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:50.360
On the mostly unknown sequel Beware of the Blob from Night.

1278
01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:53.039
What is it? Nineteen seventy nine, Just nineteen seventy two,

1279
01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:57.400
nineteen seventy two. Yeah, and then that just you know,

1280
01:03:57.480 --> 01:04:00.079
when Chuck's when Chuck's in town, you just you just

1281
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.039
can't stop. The ball was rolling. We ended up talking

1282
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:06.039
about the meteor from creep Shire. We talked about the

1283
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:07.400
tar Monster from Creep Show two.

1284
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:08.679
Uh.

1285
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:11.960
We we went off the rails for a minute there,

1286
01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:16.880
but we're back. So let's talk about Chuck Russell and

1287
01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:19.320
what we would suggest. So if someone has just watched

1288
01:04:19.519 --> 01:04:23.519
the nineteen eighty eight Blob and they said this guy's

1289
01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:26.920
movie was awesome, what else has he done? David, I'm

1290
01:04:26.960 --> 01:04:28.639
gonna I'm gonna ask you first.

1291
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:30.360
Give me give me a suggestion.

1292
01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:31.880
I'm gonna give you. I want to I want to

1293
01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:33.519
hear three, but give me give me one to start

1294
01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:33.920
us off.

1295
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:36.599
You've already mentioned You've already mentioned one. That's Nightmare in

1296
01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:38.000
Elm Street three.

1297
01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:40.920
Nightmare on Elm Street three Dream Warriors. Chuck, is this

1298
01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:42.320
on your list? I'm just go and ask.

1299
01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:44.519
It's definitely on my list?

1300
01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:48.199
Okay, my list to you got to watch nineteen eighty

1301
01:04:48.199 --> 01:04:51.559
Seven's a Nightmare on Elm Street Dream Warriors. This is

1302
01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:53.320
Chuck Russell's directorial debut.

1303
01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:54.079
M H.

1304
01:04:55.159 --> 01:04:57.639
Dave you you're a big fan of the Nightmare on

1305
01:04:57.639 --> 01:04:58.320
Elm Street series.

1306
01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:00.679
Where's this rank in your in your world?

1307
01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:01.519
Uh?

1308
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:05.880
Probably the second, my second favorite one, to be honest

1309
01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:08.559
with you, I agree mine too.

1310
01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:10.960
Yep. Real, how many?

1311
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:11.239
I know?

1312
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:13.239
I know we're gonna do. I know we'll we'll do

1313
01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:15.800
like a common episode here soon of course.

1314
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:19.880
But how how awesome was it uh last last week

1315
01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:23.599
when we met most of the cast from Nightmare.

1316
01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:25.039
On the Street three Dream Warriors.

1317
01:05:25.360 --> 01:05:28.119
Wonderful to see all of them again in one building.

1318
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:29.400
It really was.

1319
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:32.079
I was so looking forward to talking to Brooke Bundy,

1320
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:35.239
who you know? She she did, she did the show.

1321
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:37.679
Last year we did we talked Catnip with Tiffany Hilm.

1322
01:05:39.239 --> 01:05:39.920
Yeah, we love Brook.

1323
01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:42.280
It was great to see her in person. It was

1324
01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:45.840
it was just awesome to see all of them. Really, Uh, Chuck,

1325
01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:47.559
are you a are you a nightma Olmes Street guy?

1326
01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:48.639
You're you're recommending this one?

1327
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:53.639
But like, yeah, I uh so, I love Nightmare that

1328
01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:57.760
It's like for me, even even the films that were

1329
01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:00.639
not as strong of an entry, I I'm still going

1330
01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:03.159
to see It's It's just like it's like going to see,

1331
01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:07.079
you know, Friday the thirteenth. I will go see a

1332
01:06:07.199 --> 01:06:09.639
bad Friday the thirteenth.

1333
01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:12.280
Because I just love I love the series. I always

1334
01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:13.119
have fun at it.

1335
01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:18.199
But what I liked about about Dream Warriors was it's

1336
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:22.920
right around the third installment of a film where you

1337
01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:26.280
can kind of see how it's going to go, you know,

1338
01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:27.239
if it's going to have.

1339
01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:28.159
Long legs or not.

1340
01:06:28.760 --> 01:06:32.360
And I think that for my money, I still like

1341
01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:35.119
the first one a lot. I mean that I have

1342
01:06:35.199 --> 01:06:37.159
to I have to come back to that one. But

1343
01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:41.880
you know, second, I have to put Dream Warriors as

1344
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:45.760
number two on there, just because it was a solid film.

1345
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:48.519
Now that I know a lot more about Chuck Russell.

1346
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:51.599
I I definitely am respected a lot more.

1347
01:06:51.800 --> 01:06:53.719
And no, it's it's right up there.

1348
01:06:54.400 --> 01:07:00.960
Dream Warriors was Patricia Arquett's feature film debut. She got

1349
01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:07.119
the role because Chuck Russell told Wyona Writer that she

1350
01:07:07.320 --> 01:07:09.119
was too young to play Kristen.

1351
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:11.400
Wow, think about that.

1352
01:07:11.840 --> 01:07:15.119
This is this is one year after Wynona Writer does

1353
01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:16.800
Lucas from nineteen eighty six.

1354
01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:19.719
Go back and check out our nineteen eighty six limited

1355
01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:23.119
series We talked about Lucas and it's also.

1356
01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:27.880
One year before she becomes a huge star in both

1357
01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:31.800
Beetlejuice and Heathers in nineteen eighty eight. Imagine a nightmare

1358
01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:35.079
on Elm Street that that that we almost had when

1359
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:41.719
on a writer, So David a second recommendation of.

1360
01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:44.920
A show film, I am going with you guys. Remember

1361
01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:46.119
the TV series Fringe.

1362
01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:48.039
Yeah, love Fringe.

1363
01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:53.079
Yes. He directed an episode called the Abducted, which is

1364
01:07:53.119 --> 01:07:56.480
a really good episode. I mean I love the entire Yeah.

1365
01:07:56.599 --> 01:08:00.360
But the episode he called the Abducted was about the

1366
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:03.000
the guy called the candy Man. I believe it was,

1367
01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:06.400
well the kid he ducked the the kid and then

1368
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:09.800
they find him later and like he's blind and other

1369
01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:14.039
physical deficiencies. It's a really good episode if you've never

1370
01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:16.840
seen it, but highly recommend that one for sure.

1371
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:22.159
That series, Joshua Jackson and anatoorv awesome series.

1372
01:08:22.199 --> 01:08:22.760
I love that.

1373
01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:25.800
If you needed, like you're if you were an X

1374
01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:28.319
Files person and you needed to fix like you needed

1375
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:29.800
something new to take the.

1376
01:08:29.880 --> 01:08:32.560
X Files place, that's it. It's French.

1377
01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:38.520
That series is amazing and also featured uh Leonard d mooy.

1378
01:08:39.199 --> 01:08:42.359
It did indeed, yes he did. Ye there's another back

1379
01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:43.079
to star Trekxy.

1380
01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:47.399
Yeah, chuck your second recommendation.

1381
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:53.600
Okay, I'm going to pitch the nineteen ninety four film

1382
01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:58.439
The Mask, based on a comic book that I happened

1383
01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:04.800
to like a lot and starring Jim Carrey in a

1384
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:10.960
opportunity for him to play both the straight man and

1385
01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:15.640
just the guy who is like beyond your imagination in

1386
01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:19.760
terms of what Jim Carrey is going to do. I

1387
01:09:19.800 --> 01:09:23.039
also have to say that it was the debut film

1388
01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:30.000
for Cameron Diaz and her introduction I will put the

1389
01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:41.199
Steam in your stride. Yes, no, So I enjoyed that film.

1390
01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:43.159
I had a lot of fun with it. I I

1391
01:09:43.199 --> 01:09:46.720
can't vouch for the sequel so much, but the first

1392
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:47.960
one is really really good.

1393
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:49.199
I gotta be honest.

1394
01:09:49.319 --> 01:09:52.000
So this is the only comedy that Chuck Russell has

1395
01:09:52.039 --> 01:09:53.039
ever directed.

1396
01:09:53.359 --> 01:09:54.399
And if you think about he's done.

1397
01:09:54.439 --> 01:09:57.760
He he's kind of a horror auteur, like that's his

1398
01:09:57.920 --> 01:09:59.960
that's usually his thing, but he's done. He's also done

1399
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:03.079
some big budget stuff like The Scorpion King with the Rock,

1400
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:04.720
he did a racer with Arnold.

1401
01:10:05.119 --> 01:10:05.920
This is his only.

1402
01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:08.720
Comedy, and it's kind of like, Okay, you just directed

1403
01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:11.840
your first comedy and it's one of the most memorable,

1404
01:10:12.039 --> 01:10:14.680
biggest blockbusters of all time. It's a Jim Carrey movie

1405
01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:17.279
at peak Jim Carrey time. So I guess he was

1406
01:10:17.319 --> 01:10:20.359
just like, ah, I'm good, I did best. I did

1407
01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:21.479
the best comedy I could ever do.

1408
01:10:22.199 --> 01:10:22.760
I'm moving on.

1409
01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:27.079
Chuck stated that they saved a fortune in post production

1410
01:10:27.199 --> 01:10:31.239
on special effects work because Jim Carrey was so flexible

1411
01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:33.840
and his movements were so cartoonish that they didn't feel

1412
01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:36.039
that they needed to alter them digitally, which I think

1413
01:10:36.159 --> 01:10:40.479
is hilarious. Wow, and Chuck, you talked about Cameron Diaz.

1414
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:44.720
Fun fact, New Line Cinema didn't want a young model

1415
01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:49.159
with no acting experience, so they said no, They made

1416
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:55.399
Diaz audition twelve times, and ultimately Chuck threatened to leave

1417
01:10:55.439 --> 01:10:58.920
the film, and they finally were like seven days before

1418
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:01.840
the first day of shooting. They they finally caved and

1419
01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:04.800
we're like, all right, she can have it.

1420
01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:06.399
Any any guesses.

1421
01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:10.840
Who the studio's choice was, Oh, none at all, believe

1422
01:11:10.840 --> 01:11:11.199
it or not.

1423
01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:16.279
In lieu of Cameron Diaz. They wanted Anna Nicole Smith.

1424
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:20.560
Mm hmm, what the hell? What what are we thinking here? What?

1425
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:23.279
What what are we doing? I don't get that.

1426
01:11:23.319 --> 01:11:28.640
Definitely definitely a bombshell up the time. Yeah, but not

1427
01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:33.079
Cameron Diaz. Maybe not as classy Chuck.

1428
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:35.399
You know who else auditioned against Cameron Diaz?

1429
01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:38.079
Yeah, that was we went on a writer.

1430
01:11:38.199 --> 01:11:46.319
Right, she might have, but I was talking about Jerry Ryan. Oh, Dave,

1431
01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:47.960
you know you know why I bring it up, right.

1432
01:11:48.279 --> 01:11:50.000
Jeff, I'm so proud of you to keep bringing up

1433
01:11:50.039 --> 01:11:50.560
Star Trek.

1434
01:11:51.439 --> 01:11:54.199
It all comes back to Star Trek, Yes, it does,

1435
01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:57.880
all right? Yeah, I definitely say the mask as well.

1436
01:11:58.399 --> 01:12:01.720
She was seven of nine actresses who tried out for that.

1437
01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:10.239
Actually was all right, David, one one more one more

1438
01:12:10.279 --> 01:12:12.880
pick that you would recommend someone check out for Chuck

1439
01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:14.880
Russell's filmography.

1440
01:12:14.520 --> 01:12:16.840
So it's not his best film in his career. And

1441
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:19.800
I'm talking about Arnold Swartzenegger, of course, and that's his

1442
01:12:20.119 --> 01:12:24.560
nineteen ninety six eraser. I still enjoyed this film. Actually, Jeff,

1443
01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:26.359
I saw this in the theater. Actually, I might have

1444
01:12:26.359 --> 01:12:27.640
seen this in the theater with you. I don't know,

1445
01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:30.520
I think remember, but I think we did. Where he

1446
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:34.439
is a witness protection specialist, I think he is.

1447
01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:37.840
Yeah, he like erases your identity and makes you, yeah,

1448
01:12:37.880 --> 01:12:39.479
go away so the bad guys can't find you.

1449
01:12:39.680 --> 01:12:42.560
Yeah, yep. And I believe he like there's something high

1450
01:12:42.600 --> 01:12:46.359
tech weapons involved, and he doesn't trust anybody, and and

1451
01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:49.359
then like obviously chaos ensues and he becomes Arnold Schwartzinger.

1452
01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:52.920
But yeah, I really enjoyed this film. I would recommend it.

1453
01:12:53.399 --> 01:12:56.359
Yeah, it's a it's a listen if you like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1454
01:12:56.920 --> 01:12:58.279
I feel like any of his movies. You like all

1455
01:12:58.279 --> 01:12:58.880
of his movies.

1456
01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:03.039
Oh, it's kind of like it's a difference between having

1457
01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:07.600
pizza in a nice restaurant or or ordering it, you know, delivery,

1458
01:13:08.079 --> 01:13:09.319
or buying one from the supermarket.

1459
01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:12.479
Yep, it's all it's all good. It's pizza, pizza exactly.

1460
01:13:12.640 --> 01:13:13.239
You canna like it?

1461
01:13:13.319 --> 01:13:18.720
So, Chuck one final recommendation about well, chuck on, Chuck.

1462
01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:19.760
Here, Chuck here.

1463
01:13:20.319 --> 01:13:24.239
Yeah, you know I was. I was gonna pitch Eraser

1464
01:13:24.760 --> 01:13:25.239
as well.

1465
01:13:25.359 --> 01:13:27.760
Okay, that's fine. I talk about Eraser.

1466
01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:31.560
Remember seeing that in the movie theater. They had a local,

1467
01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:34.920
local theater here in Virginia Beach. They had a general cinema.

1468
01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:40.760
They had two twin tex eleven THCHEX certified auditoriums, and

1469
01:13:40.760 --> 01:13:44.079
and and it was playing Eraser in there. So anytime

1470
01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:45.920
I would get a chance to go see a movie there,

1471
01:13:46.039 --> 01:13:48.760
that's that's the one that I would go to. Now,

1472
01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:54.560
I will say that I don't remember liking it as

1473
01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:58.439
much as the other films as well. But what I

1474
01:13:58.479 --> 01:14:04.199
did like was a trailer that showed prior to the film.

1475
01:14:04.479 --> 01:14:09.119
It was a trailer for Star Trek First Contact.

1476
01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:12.159
Jesus Christ, you guys, check out all this.

1477
01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:16.560
Check out our phaser set for Sun episode of Star

1478
01:14:16.640 --> 01:14:20.199
Trek First Contact with yours truly guest hosting.

1479
01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:23.640
Yeah, I love it, I do.

1480
01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:25.840
Chuck, thank you so much. You just warmed my heart

1481
01:14:25.920 --> 01:14:28.520
just bringing Star Trek you guys.

1482
01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:31.920
Have you guys turned the nineteen eighty eight Blob into

1483
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:34.680
a back Door Star Trek episode, Like, what the hell's

1484
01:14:34.760 --> 01:14:37.560
happening here? I love it?

1485
01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:37.960
All right?

1486
01:14:38.279 --> 01:14:41.239
You put two Trek nerds on on the podcasts, It's

1487
01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:41.960
gonna happen.

1488
01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:43.359
Yes, all right.

1489
01:14:44.079 --> 01:14:48.239
Well I'm gonna do something a little unusual here. It's

1490
01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:50.680
not that I want to recommend this because I haven't

1491
01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:53.039
watched it yet, but I just want to say, like

1492
01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:56.000
I do want to. I want to bring attention to

1493
01:14:56.039 --> 01:15:01.439
this because I'm curious. So Dave, as you know, one

1494
01:15:01.439 --> 01:15:05.439
more time, our popular nineteen eighty six series, we covered

1495
01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:08.319
a film I happen to love called Witchboard.

1496
01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:09.640
I knew where this is going.

1497
01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:11.000
Yep, you knew where this is going.

1498
01:15:12.479 --> 01:15:17.760
So Chuck Russell did a remake of Witchboard in twenty

1499
01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:24.720
twenty four. Now, if Chuck Russell can remake a classic

1500
01:15:25.560 --> 01:15:29.079
that we can enjoy air Goo nineteen eighty eight, it's

1501
01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:29.560
the Blob.

1502
01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:33.279
If I already love nineteen eighty six, is Witchboard? And

1503
01:15:33.319 --> 01:15:35.560
you know I do? Yeah, I know you can iconic.

1504
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:38.720
What's his remake gonna be like?

1505
01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:43.119
Because I watched the trailer before we started recording, and.

1506
01:15:43.079 --> 01:15:44.640
It looks pretty damn good.

1507
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:48.800
And again, listeners, I haven't seen it yet, but it's

1508
01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:51.439
a remake that takes place in the French quarter of

1509
01:15:51.479 --> 01:15:55.479
New Orleans. A young couple planning to open a bistro

1510
01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:59.920
discover an ancient Wiccan artifact, something called a pendulum b

1511
01:16:00.039 --> 01:16:05.600
which is which exposes them to uh devination, spirit summoning,

1512
01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:08.800
and the spirit of the Queen.

1513
01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:09.199
Of the Witches.

1514
01:16:09.960 --> 01:16:12.760
So they seek out the advice of an occult expert,

1515
01:16:13.600 --> 01:16:20.600
played none other Dave than by Jamie Campbell Bauerna from

1516
01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:23.479
Stranger Things, and he called in to kind of help

1517
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:26.439
them stop the evil. I watched this trailer. Oh by

1518
01:16:26.479 --> 01:16:30.640
the way, uh, Jamie Campbell Bauer. He gets the job

1519
01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:35.119
because Chuck Russell loves Stranger Things. Of course I watched

1520
01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:38.039
this trailer and I was like, holy shit, Like that

1521
01:16:38.119 --> 01:16:39.600
actually looks good.

1522
01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:44.079
I mean, is there an it's pronounced I hope, so,

1523
01:16:44.479 --> 01:16:44.800
I hope.

1524
01:16:44.840 --> 01:16:49.399
So like Bauer the he's the occult expert, and he's

1525
01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:53.319
kind of taken place, you know, the the Ouiji board Expert,

1526
01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:54.640
the original.

1527
01:16:55.760 --> 01:16:58.239
It looks cool, it looks creepy. I'm definitely gonna check

1528
01:16:58.239 --> 01:17:02.039
it out. I don't know, I will.

1529
01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:04.760
Now that Chuck Russell directed it, because I really didn't

1530
01:17:04.760 --> 01:17:06.479
know he directed it until I was looking at his

1531
01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:07.840
list of So well, I didn't see the movie, so

1532
01:17:07.880 --> 01:17:10.399
I can't, you know, say anything about it. But I

1533
01:17:10.399 --> 01:17:11.159
don't know. I'm curious.

1534
01:17:11.199 --> 01:17:11.760
I'll check it out.

1535
01:17:11.800 --> 01:17:15.000
When I remember a while back they talked. I read

1536
01:17:15.039 --> 01:17:17.600
that they were remaking Witchboard, and I was like, rubbish. Yeah,

1537
01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:21.079
you can't remake what is too good to be remade?

1538
01:17:21.119 --> 01:17:22.680
You know, Oh boy, don't.

1539
01:17:22.680 --> 01:17:24.079
I don't want to. I don't.

1540
01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:27.960
Well, just listen, don't remake The Godfather, don't remake Wizard

1541
01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:30.439
of Oz, don't remake Witchboard.

1542
01:17:31.239 --> 01:17:32.439
That's all. That's all I'm saying.

1543
01:17:32.520 --> 01:17:35.800
Man Or Scott Huffin, when I need him.

1544
01:17:36.119 --> 01:17:38.399
Go back and check out our Wichboard episode. Scott had

1545
01:17:38.439 --> 01:17:41.000
some uh, he had some thoughts. He did to you, Dave,

1546
01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:44.560
I was a man without a country in that episode.

1547
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:50.000
You guys were a little cruel. But I'll tell you what.

1548
01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:54.439
We cannot be cruel to the nineteen eighty eight remake

1549
01:17:54.479 --> 01:17:57.159
of The Blob. No, I think I feel like a

1550
01:17:57.199 --> 01:17:59.000
remake like this. You know, you have to up the

1551
01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:02.439
Annie and this verse and he's darker, it's gorrier. It

1552
01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:06.279
introduces a sinister government conspiracy about the Blob, which Chuck

1553
01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:09.800
kind of educated us on. You know, so now it's

1554
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:11.279
man made, it's not from out you know, it's not

1555
01:18:11.319 --> 01:18:12.279
an alien from under space.

1556
01:18:12.439 --> 01:18:13.880
I think this movie's awesome. I love it.

1557
01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:17.920
Chuck your thoughts as we close up on the Blob.

1558
01:18:18.720 --> 01:18:24.720
So nineteen eighty eight, me walked into the theater with

1559
01:18:24.760 --> 01:18:29.960
my employee pass with nothing to lose, watching this film,

1560
01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:33.159
and I came out and I just I knew that

1561
01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:35.880
I really liked it. I had a fun time. I

1562
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:38.119
had a fun time, maybe in the same way that

1563
01:18:38.159 --> 01:18:40.760
I had fun watching movies like stand by Me, but

1564
01:18:41.199 --> 01:18:45.159
also there were a lot of other B movies in

1565
01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:47.359
the eighties that are just a lot of fun to watch,

1566
01:18:47.399 --> 01:18:51.279
but this one, being a B film, was a little.

1567
01:18:51.079 --> 01:18:51.960
Bit more elevated.

1568
01:18:52.760 --> 01:18:57.560
And twenty twenty five year old me watching this last Friday,

1569
01:18:57.640 --> 01:19:01.319
remembering how much I enjoyed this. I'm watching the opening credits,

1570
01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:06.600
and as soon as I see not Chuck Russell's name,

1571
01:19:07.039 --> 01:19:11.119
but I see Frank Darabaht because Frank Darabont, his name

1572
01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:16.720
is one I connected with everything from the myst which

1573
01:19:17.239 --> 01:19:20.319
in my opinion, is one of the darkest endings of

1574
01:19:20.359 --> 01:19:23.680
a film that I've ever seen if he had.

1575
01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:25.000
Just waited two more minutes.

1576
01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:29.239
And then I was a fan of the comic book

1577
01:19:29.279 --> 01:19:32.960
The Walking Dead, and I thought Frank Darbahn's direction in

1578
01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:36.760
that series was really good, even though there were disagreements

1579
01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:40.439
with AMC, and I hope they got all that sorted

1580
01:19:40.439 --> 01:19:44.000
out since then. But the direction that the show was

1581
01:19:44.039 --> 01:19:47.039
originally going in, I was very excited because of his

1582
01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:51.439
work with Shawshank, Redemption, the Green Mile. He's a name

1583
01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:54.359
that I could I could trust, and so seeing his

1584
01:19:54.520 --> 01:19:57.840
name show up at the beginning of this, suddenly I'm

1585
01:19:57.840 --> 01:20:01.560
like going, Okay, now I under nderstand why I liked it.

1586
01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:05.920
And then researching and going back and looking at Chuck Russell,

1587
01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:10.199
just if I was to stop at Dreamscape, you know

1588
01:20:11.119 --> 01:20:13.279
that right there as far as writing that that was

1589
01:20:13.319 --> 01:20:17.800
a great flick, but then looking at Dream Warriors that

1590
01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:19.800
that was another one that I wasn't aware of that

1591
01:20:19.840 --> 01:20:20.439
he had done.

1592
01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:21.079
Uh.

1593
01:20:21.159 --> 01:20:23.439
And of course you know I had picked out the mask.

1594
01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:29.159
And he was also a producer, right, so he produced

1595
01:20:29.199 --> 01:20:31.600
one of my one of my silly favorite films of

1596
01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:35.399
nineteen eighty six, which was called Back to School.

1597
01:20:35.600 --> 01:20:39.239
Yes, so yep, the Triple Lindy.

1598
01:20:39.760 --> 01:20:44.520
So another great film which which, Yeah, I have.

1599
01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:46.119
You all covered that? Uh?

1600
01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:48.840
Yes, we had a great time talking about Back to

1601
01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:53.560
School starring William Zabka, who also played John Lawrence and

1602
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:54.239
the crowd of Kid.

1603
01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:54.680
So.

1604
01:20:55.479 --> 01:20:59.680
But that was a setup question because the Back to

1605
01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:03.039
School episode was the very first film by that I

1606
01:21:03.159 --> 01:21:03.560
listened to.

1607
01:21:03.800 --> 01:21:09.359
You're kidding me? Okay, and he stuck around so and

1608
01:21:09.399 --> 01:21:10.439
he stuck around.

1609
01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:15.359
Well, We're glad you guys have stuck around this one.

1610
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:20.279
We Hey, we went long, but you know, you gotta

1611
01:21:20.319 --> 01:21:22.560
you gotta get a little extra, you know. Uh, And

1612
01:21:22.640 --> 01:21:24.600
I'm glad we did it for the Blob listeners, what

1613
01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:26.479
do you think of the Blob?

1614
01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:28.039
Have you seen it?

1615
01:21:28.239 --> 01:21:30.960
Have you seen the original with Steve McQueen. You can

1616
01:21:31.039 --> 01:21:32.279
let us know on social media.

1617
01:21:32.279 --> 01:21:34.520
You'll find us on Facebook, Instagram, and x.

1618
01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:37.800
You can check out a Film by Podcast dot com

1619
01:21:37.840 --> 01:21:40.079
for all of our film and TV articles you Our

1620
01:21:40.279 --> 01:21:42.800
entire library is streaming on the platform of your.

1621
01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:45.159
Choice, and you can also write to us at a.

1622
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:47.760
Film by Podcast at gmail dot com with your questions,

1623
01:21:47.800 --> 01:21:50.800
comments and concerns. We may just read your response on

1624
01:21:50.840 --> 01:21:52.520
the show and send you some of a film by

1625
01:21:52.520 --> 01:21:58.079
swag Chuck always a pleasure to have you show up

1626
01:21:58.079 --> 01:22:00.600
and talk Star Trek when we're talking when we're doing

1627
01:22:00.600 --> 01:22:02.319
a Star Trek episode. Always a pleasure to how you

1628
01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:06.880
talk about Star Trek when we're doing a.

1629
01:22:05.439 --> 01:22:10.119
Episode about the Blobs Chucks. What do you guys got

1630
01:22:10.159 --> 01:22:12.680
cooking over there on cinemat flashback? Oh Man?

1631
01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:17.520
So, like I said, we are now in our final

1632
01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.720
episodes of our first season. Just last week we had

1633
01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:25.920
the Omen come out, and a couple of weeks before

1634
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:29.479
that we had our in drama The Strain episode out.

1635
01:22:30.479 --> 01:22:35.880
Next on November six, we have Apocalypse now. And joining

1636
01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:40.359
me for that is my coworker, Aaron Mullinix and her husband.

1637
01:22:40.439 --> 01:22:44.000
They have been Aaron. She joined me on the Superfly

1638
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:48.720
episode and actually that episode has turned out to be

1639
01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:51.800
my fifth most downloaded episode, which is crazy.

1640
01:22:52.800 --> 01:22:54.760
Does it surprise me that was that? The super Fly

1641
01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:55.800
episode was fantastic.

1642
01:22:56.039 --> 01:22:57.199
I love that episode.

1643
01:22:57.239 --> 01:23:01.439
I again exploring movies of the seventies, films that you

1644
01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:04.159
don't know about people are recommending. If you recommend the

1645
01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:05.840
film to me, I'm going to ask you to come on.

1646
01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:09.720
And so with that, I'm also going to remind you, Jeff,

1647
01:23:09.920 --> 01:23:12.159
that we're going to be talking about the Deep.

1648
01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:17.079
I am ready to talk about Nick Nolty and Lewis

1649
01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:21.199
Gussa Jr. I might even have some comments about Jack

1650
01:23:21.319 --> 01:23:24.920
Lobassett and scuba diving in a white T shirt.

1651
01:23:25.319 --> 01:23:27.720
You never know, yeah, you never, You can never know.

1652
01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:28.680
I'm sure you will.

1653
01:23:29.199 --> 01:23:33.279
This is the show you recommended it, right, I just

1654
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:35.720
like Peter Benchley Man, I'm Jael's.

1655
01:23:36.039 --> 01:23:41.840
It all comes back to Jaws sometimes too. So yeah,

1656
01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:43.680
great great stuff that you guys. I love.

1657
01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:47.239
I love the Cinemat Flashback listeners. One fun thing, if

1658
01:23:47.279 --> 01:23:51.960
you haven't seen their Facebook page, you know, anyone can

1659
01:23:52.159 --> 01:23:54.560
can give you like a little screen grab and tell

1660
01:23:54.600 --> 01:23:58.600
you a little factoid. But Chuck does this awesome thing

1661
01:23:58.960 --> 01:24:02.239
where it's like trading cards. I don't know, I don't

1662
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:03.720
know how you do it, ChIL, but I love I

1663
01:24:03.760 --> 01:24:05.840
love the tops trading cards. I love seeing them show

1664
01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:07.840
up in my in my feet on social media. Those

1665
01:24:07.840 --> 01:24:08.720
things are fantastic.

1666
01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:10.560
Absolutely, thanks, I appreciate that.

1667
01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:13.479
For all of you listening to the show, following us

1668
01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:18.399
on social media, subscribing to our Patreon, and checking out

1669
01:24:18.439 --> 01:24:20.960
the Cinematic Flashback Podcast, well, thank you.