May 7, 2025

Spoiler-Free Review: Clown in a Cornfield

Spoiler-Free Review: Clown in a Cornfield

Are you a friend of Friendo? Jeff and Garret offer up a quick, SPOILER-FREE review of Clown in a Cornfield to let you know whether you should see it, stream it, or skip it!

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You get more out of life when you go out

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to a movie.

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And no on with the show.

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Hello everybody for the Film by Podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson.

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And I'm Garret Gibson, and we're.

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Taking you back to the box office for a quick

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spoiler free review of Eli Craig's latest horror film, Clown

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in a Cornfield.

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It's time to sweeten the day with the marvel a

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bake pen brand corn syrup. That's right, A little drop

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of bake pen makes everything better. Just take it from Friendell.

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Hey, check it out.

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It's friend.

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Everyone's favorite clown. Now tell me, folks, are you a

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friend of Brando? I know I am night.

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And remembering kam never fuck with friend. So Quinn and

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her father leave the big city behind for the small

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town of Kettle Springs in Middle America, where the cell

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phone service is scarce, but the town's dark history revolving

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around Friendo, the town's creepy clown mascot is downright scary. Garrett,

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Clown's scary or not not scary?

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I think there's scary.

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Yeah, absolutely, It's one of those things with cinema or

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even their folklore.

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Little film.

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While back, Eli Roth did just simply titled Clown gives

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you a little look and insight of that background of

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clown history, and I gotta tell you it terrified me

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then and films like it Clown and Cornfield or Terrifier,

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and it goes ahead and brings that back to life

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for us.

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Poltergeist, the Clowndall, creepy clouds are scary cornfields. Anything we

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learned from the eighties, cornfields are definitely scary.

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Yeah, there's a few children that made us afraid of

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those cornfields.

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I gotta tell you, I'm friends with one of those

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Children's a good guy. This is a movie that's taking

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two very scary troops and mashing them together in what

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I can only say is ninety plus minutes of just gory, brutal,

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scary fun.

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Would you agree, I would one hundred percent agree with

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you on that. It was something that even from the

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start of the film, I think they get you off

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onto the right.

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Foot there and it never really what's up.

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There's a little story building here and there, but other

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than that, I think we get delivered exactly what we

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got in Tucker and Dale Versus Evil. And it's one

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of those things where it's a lot of the Spider

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House Gore. It's a lot of fun, and I think

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this is I think this hits on just about everything

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it could.

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Yeah, there's some nice nods to some of the all

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time great horror films. I don't want to spoil those.

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But Eli Craig, the director of Tucker and Dale Versus Evil,

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you knew, we knew to expect a little bit of

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comedy with a little bit of absurdity. I think he

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also did was It Little Evil for Netflix with Adam

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Scott Yep, another fun one. Yeah, this guy's great. I

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I you know, it seems like he's taking his good

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sweet time putting out new films. I just wish he'd

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give us a little bit more, a lot of fresh

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faces in this, but we got some familiar faces. Garrett

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tell us about uh Will Sasso.

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Now, Will Sasso's character as done is. He's playing the

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sheriff this small He's a sheriff of this small hick town.

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And I gotta say, from the moment he walks on

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screen until the final time we see him, he just delivers.

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He's so much fun in this film. It's someone that

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I tend to not look at a cast list. I

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don't want a surprise like this, to be spoiled by that,

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and just to see him in this film honestly made

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my day. And uh yeah, now I look forward to

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seeing him in more horror movies like this.

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Yeah, you got. The great thing about Sassa's performance is

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that he just keeps you guessing. You know, is he

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gonna be the typical dipshit sheriff in a horror film.

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Is he gonna be the reluctant hero? Is he gonna

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be something else? You know? We know, Garrett, but we're

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not gonna spoil it. Moving on, let's talk about our

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buddy Kevin Durand.

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Now Kevin Durand playing the role of Arthur Hill in

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this film.

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He plays the.

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Father of the main lead boy in the film, Cole Hill.

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And now it's a sight of Kevin Duran I've never

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seen before, but I gotta say I've enjoyed it. This

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is a guy that's coming off quite a big twenty

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twenty four with Abigail and Kingdom of the Planet of Apes.

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He did an amazing job in both those films, and

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again he goes ahead knocks it out of the park

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again with this one. Met him last apt at Horrehound

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actually did. And I've got to tell you the people

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online were mad at me and my brother.

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I know they were.

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But Kevin Duran is such a nice guy. He stood

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there talked to us for about fifteen minutes. He's chatting

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early work with smoking aces and everything like that, and

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could not have been a nicer guy. So I'm rooting

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for every film that I see with him in it,

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and so far he's not delivering anything bad for me.

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Now he's he's playing the mayor of Kettle Springs and

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I'm really digging his mayor Vaughan Jaws vibe. Yes, just

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once you know the town. Yeah, the town's got a

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dark history, but you know, we're moving forward. We've got

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it back.

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We've got our Corn Serve Festival going on.

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Right day parade right. Kevin Durant is just awesome in

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this film. I wish we could talk more about him,

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but we just we just can't. You know, it's spoiler free,

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but we can't talk about the breakout performance.

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Douglas.

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Yeah, she's played Quinn, our final girl as it were.

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Now for Katie Douglas, this being the first memorable time

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that I've really like, I've seen her in anything, And

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I haven't looked up her filmography yet to see what

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exactly she was in, but she was simply amazing. It's

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one of those characters that as a final girl you're

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rooting for every step of the way, and I think

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she delivers in this performance. And I'm hoping this lands

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her more final girl roles. I'd love to see her

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in you know, an Evil Dead film or something of

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that nature coming up next. I mean, I think this

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guy's the limit after this one.

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You and I are not familiar with her work for

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the simple fact that you and I don't watch a

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lot of Lifetime movies. Oh I kind of dip. I

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kind of dipped into her filmography. She's she's played like

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a kidnap victim several times, and like Time movies, you

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know those great Mother on the Rage, Mother on the

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you know, a mother's revenge of mother's whatever, you know.

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But you know, happy to see her break out in

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a movie like this. I absolutely agree with you. I

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think we're looking at maybe the next gena Ortega, who's

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gonna just take the take the the genre by storm.

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Not your typical damsel distress. She is a strong, independent

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character from the from the opening salvo, right, I mean

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challenging her dad on the on the car ride over,

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She's challenging authority at school. She's kind of taking the

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lead with the popular boy. She's strong. I dig her.

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I absolutely dig her character and love what she's doing

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in this film. Absolutely love it.

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Yeah, it's it's simply amazing.

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Like I said, I I would love to see more

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of her, and I think you honestly hit the nail

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right on the head, maybe like a one of the

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next gen or take it kind of characters where we're

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gonna see her and maybe Scream seven or or whatever

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it may be.

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I would just be absolutely delighted to see it.

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Hollywood, call her up, get her on the screen, Garrett.

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This is some of the most over the top splatter

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we've seen in a while on the big screen. Yes,

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and it's nothing but fun, right.

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Oh, it absolutely is.

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There's several moments where you and I had to look

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over at each other's like, what the hell? Just absolute

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Tucker and Dale style gore, which is what brings me

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back to And it's a bit of the nostalgia factor

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for me, just because it's been so long, like you said,

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since we've gotten a film like that, and it's just

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so much fun because not only is it gory, but

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it's typically an a comical moment is when you get

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this extreme gore, and yeah, I think that just pairs

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so well together. And you know, I'm just very pleased

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with it.

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It's the kind of violence that happens on screen and

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you cheer, like, yes, you're looking at your buddies, you're laughing,

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you're clapping, You're having fun with this one. I kind

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of feel like it's a love letter to slash your

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films of the eighties and nineties.

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It truly is.

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Yes, Well, Clown in a Cornfield will be in theaters

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this weekend, Garrett. Should the audiences go see this? Should

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they wait and stream it? Or should they skip it?

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Now?

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This is one of those films I think you have

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to absolutely go and see. It makes the movie theater

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experience so much fun. You get your popcorn, you get

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your drink, you get your recliner seat, and then you

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just get to sit back for ninety minutes and have

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a good time with your friends and enjoy a bit

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of fun cinema.

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Absolutely, I gotta be honest with you, man, may is

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always been like the kickoff to the summer box office,

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and I know it's coming. You know, at the end

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of the month. We got we got a huge tentpole

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franchise coming back. But I'm happy to see that the

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horror genre, which typically lands in February, maybe you see

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it in September, seems like with This and Megan two

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point zero, and you know, there's like what three four

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other solid horror films that are that are you know,

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we got Final Destinations back Bloodlines.

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Right around the corner. We've got Jordan Peele's new film

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coming out as well.

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Yeah, a lot of fun stuff. It's a good It's

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a great time to be a horror fan. I'll say that.

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And I'll also say I'm right with that. I'm right

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there with you, man, Definitely, if you want to have

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some fun, just just go see this one, because it

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it does not disappoint. H And I think that about Covert. Uh,

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we're gonna take a We're gonna take a week off

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right next week, but you know.

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A couple of us are out of town. Got a

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got a few things going on. But uh, I think

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we're coming back in what, yeah.

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Two weeks here, two weeks Garrett I need you to

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trust me one last time. Your mission, should you choose

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to accept it.

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Is absolutely right.

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We've got the new Mission Impossible film starring, of course,

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the amazing Tom Cruise.

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I'm excited for this one.

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We'll see in a couple of weeks for Tom Cruise

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and the Final Reckoning.