The Woman in Black

0:23LeeGood evening and welcome to an extra special edition of Welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.

0:30ChrisI'm Chris.

0:31AdamI'm Adam.

0:32LeeAnd and we're here on our 100th episode, which is

0:37ChrisAmazing.

0:38AdamMental.

0:40ChrisYeah, how did we get how did we get here? Where did we come from?

0:44LeeIt is funny, somebody said we should probably change the name now 'cause we're no longer introducing Chris to horror, 'cause he's seen more than a lot of other people at this point, so

0:54ChrisYeah, what should we call it now?

0:56AdamWe've built that world-beating brand.

1:41LeeHave millions of followers and

1:43AdamJourney through horror?

1:46AdamJourney to the center of the horror?

1:49Adam50,000 leagues under the horror? No, I'm just doing Jules Verne titles now.

1:57LeeUm, yes, so on this extra special episode, um, as we mentioned last week for our main uh topic this evening, um, we will be watching the original, instead of doing it the other way around, we watched the remake on episode number one, we are going to watch the original, um, Woman in Black this evening.

2:18LeeUm, be interesting to see what Chris makes of it after his, obviously that was his very early introduction.

2:26LeeAnd now he's 100 movies deep, so I'll be.

2:29ChrisThat was my first welcome, here's my second one. Full circle, backwards. Just how we like to do it.

2:35LeeProgressively getting worse.

2:38AdamOh, or not. I think this, I think the fact that it's a Nigel Kneale thing, he haunts the podcast.

0:16LeeOh yeah. Yeah, I say, it's scary how many of his films we have actually covered. Considering he isn't a very well-known, you know, you'd think, oh yeah, there'll be a lot of John Carpenter and there'll be a lot of

0:21LeeUm, yeah, but yeah, it's, it's surprising actually how frequently his name has come up over the last 100 episodes.

0:28LeeUm, and always in stuff that's been solid, I don't think we've done any of his stuff that's been mediocre.

0:34AdamNo.

0:35Adam'Cause the, the only thing we've done really properly is the Stone Tape.

0:40ChrisHmm.

0:41AdamAnd Quatermass. The Hammer of Quatermass and the pin and Halloween 3, which was gonna, which was kind of he wrote it and then it was rewritten and stuff.

0:46AdamSo yeah, he's, he's there a lot.

0:52AdamAnd it's usually, yeah, it's usually pretty good.

0:56ChrisHmm.

0:57LeeIndeed.

0:58LeeSo before we get into that, in the now well-trodden tradition. Chris, now.

1:45ChrisOne point. Sorry.

1:47AdamOne thing we haven't said is why it's such a special edition.

1:52LeeOh yeah.

1:53AdamIt's episode is episode 100.

1:57ChrisYay!

1:58Lee100 episodes.

2:01LeeCrazy, crazy nonsense.

2:04ChrisYou've probably felt like we'd mentioned that leading up to it for the past nine episodes.

2:09LeeYeah.

2:11AdamChris, Chris, you've gotta remember, every episode is someone's first episode.

2:18ChrisAbsolutely.

2:19AdamDon't think about that, you know.

2:22LeeWhich is why we drop the uh, the rating system at one point.

2:28AdamI'm bringing it back for this.

2:30LeeYeah, well I think we should, but yeah, I mean, yeah, it's episode 100, no we're not a finish podcast.

2:39LeeSo Chris, um, have you seen anything in the last few days? I know we because of everything being crammed in, it's only been a few days, but have you managed to uh?

0:11ChrisLike to say yes, but I'd be lying.

0:16ChrisI've seen another half of a Mandalorian.

0:20LeeAh.

0:21ChrisSo, you know, I'm still working my way through that.

0:23LeeWhat episode are you on now?

0:25ChrisUh, I think it was five, it might have been six. I don't know what it goes up to this season.

0:31LeeOh, I think there's, eight episodes, I believe.

0:35ChrisOkay.

0:36ChrisThey're this the one where he's just gone, I think back to join a group, um, but there's a few people he doesn't recognize there.

0:44ChrisSo that's what's just happened, he's just he's had the uh, the Twi'lek go up to him with a knife and so she knows him.

0:52LeeYeah.

0:54LeeUm, but yeah, oh yeah, so you are quite a way through it then.

0:56ChrisHmm.

0:57ChrisYeah, yeah, it's great.

0:59ChrisSo, yeah, I think I'm just about going to do it in time for October the 30th. I think they're bringing out the next season. And have you you, I know that you now have got to the episodes with uh, Gina Carano, if you needed any more reason to continue watching it, uh, she's the reason.

1:45LeeShe's the reason.

1:47LeeShe uh, yeah, she's very good, she's very charismatic and I've seen a lot of films I probably wouldn't have made it all the way to the end of, had she not been in them.

1:54LeeSo.

1:56LeeSelling point.

1:57LeeAnd she's back in season 2 by the looks of it.

2:00ChrisOh, excellent.

2:02LeeUm,

2:03LeeAdam.

2:05AdamYes.

2:06LeeWell, you watched in the last few days if anything?

2:08AdamNothing unfortunately, the only horror that I have seen is we have been potty training Ted.

2:14LeeHmm.

2:16AdamSo, yeah.

2:18AdamThat's, that's been, that's been bleak enough. So, I, apart from this evening's main feature.

2:31ChrisWhat, what resources have you employed to help with that?

2:34AdamWhoa, yeah.

2:36AdamIt's like, you know, it's only fair.

2:39AdamBut he is uh,

2:42AdamI mean, I'm seeing it as an investment.

2:44AdamLet's just put it that way.

2:46Adam'Cause at the moment it's a pain.

2:47ChrisYou do get a bit fed up doing nappies, yeah.

2:50AdamYeah.

2:51AdamWell, not only that, but also I'm not cleaning his nappies when he's 25.

2:56ChrisYeah.

2:57AdamYou know, I'm

2:58AdamI've got a liberal dad, but I don't think I'll.

3:00ChrisYeah, it's, it's when they can talk to you, so they come up to you and say, right, come on, come change my nappy. It's like, yeah, that's time we needed to address this.

3:09AdamSo that's, that's what we're hoping.

3:10AdamHe's, he has identified we.

3:12ChrisHmm.

3:14AdamAnd uh, we have been rewarding him.

3:16AdamBut we, so well, bribing him, essentially.

3:20AdamBut, but and I hasten to add, we haven't gone full dog training with him and we're not rubbing his nose in it.

3:29LeeSo you know where you're going wrong.

3:31AdamI'm not sure 'cause I understand that's kind of where you get Henry Lee Lucas from, essentially.

3:37AdamSo, it's an investment for everyone else in that case, you know.

3:42LeeUm, so I've only caught up with one thing myself, I've got to admit, um, it has been a busy week for all of us.

3:48LeeUm, following uh, Dean, previous guest a couple of times, Dr. Dean, um, he's been doing the 31 Days of Horror.

3:52LeeAnd he

3:53Leeposted recently that he had re-watched Deathgasm.

3:57AdamYes, which I've still got.

4:00LeeYes.

4:01LeeSo I messaged and said, I need to rewatch that, and then within five minutes I was like, I've got the day off work and I'm sitting here trying to work out what to do with my day, I'm going to start it by watching Deathgasm.

4:08LeeUm,

4:09Leeyeah, just as good if not better on the second watch.

4:12LeeReally, really good.

4:13LeeChris is uh, looking bemused, so Deathgasm.

4:17AdamI know nothing of it pretty much either, so what, what, give us the run.

4:21LeeOh, you know.

4:22AdamI've not seen it, I've still not seen it.

4:24LeeAh.

4:25LeeFantastic. So, I'll give away the plot because it's one of those films where the plot all happens in the first half an hour and it's, it's the journey, not, you know. So, it's a, a kid is moved to his, to live with his aunt and uncle, um, after his mum has a bit of a meltdown.

4:37LeeIt is a comedy horror, just to put it out there before you think it's too serious.

4:40AdamIt's called Deathgasm, I really thought it was comedy.

4:45AdamI was going Kubrick with it, she was like.

4:48LeeBut yeah, so he's a full-on black metaler. So it he's moved into this tiny little town with his religious relatives, um, and their jock son, um, and he finds another black metaler to hang out with and they start a band called Deathgasm. And through through various means they find these old pages, um, with music on them and it turns out to be an incantation.

5:04ChrisNo.

5:05LeeSo they turn it into a song for the band to play, and everybody in the entire town gets possessed and they have to try and get the pages back and play the song backwards to change it.

5:14LeeUm,

5:15Leebut yeah, it's just bat shit, it's, is every bit as daft as that sounds and dafter.

5:23AdamThat sounds good.

5:24LeeIt's crap, there is a scene where they are holed up in a room, then there's a bunch of these demon possessed people trying to get in and all they can find to fight them off with are sex toys, so they literally run out of as many sex toys as they can carry to try and attack these demons in the house. It's just bat shit, it's so much fun.

5:46LeeUm, and it is free to watch.

5:48LeeI was trying to find somewhere that I could, um, do like a pay-per-view thing.

5:54LeeUh, and I put it into Google and you know on the right-hand side, it brings up where you can go to see it.

6:00LeeAnd there was a link that said free to watch and I clicked on it and it took me to a, um, like a Daily Motion type website and I just watched the entire film for free.

6:05LeeSo.

6:06AdamNice.

6:07LeeIf you get a chance, go and watch it, it's absolutely demented.

6:12AdamI, I haven't watched anything, but I will make a recommendation for people who like fucking heavy doom.

6:20LeeHmm.

6:21AdamUm,

6:23ChrisThings are already.

6:24AdamDivide and Dissolve.

6:31AdamThey're like, they're a uh female duo and it's fucking incredible.

6:36AdamIt's just so fucking heavy.

6:43AdamBut in that way that is just hypnotic almost.

6:46AdamSo, yeah.

6:47ChrisOh.

6:48LeeThat's one for uh, Lord Owl, I believe, will be, should be his'll already.

6:55AdamCould be.

6:56LeeAnd I shall be listening to that during my workout tomorrow.

7:00AdamYou will get one push-up done.

7:02LeeYeah, very slowly.

7:06ChrisTheir third album, Gas Lit.

7:09AdamThat's, I think that's the one that's coming out soon.

7:11ChrisOh, okay.

7:13LeeYeah, there is a thing we discovered recently, Doom Yoga, which is standard yoga, but you do it with doom music in the background.

7:22LeeUm,

7:22Leeyeah.

7:23AdamFuck.

7:24LeeI love.

7:24AdamI love.

7:24LeeIt's like a hipster thing, there's a woman, she does. There's one on YouTube, like a full hour of it. Um, yeah, and then she does like weekly classes, you can pay a fiver a week or whatever and stream. Yeah, and she just does like an hour of yoga, but with like Sunno playing in the background.

7:34LeeI was like.

7:35LeeI could go for some of that.

7:37LeeBut it's as you would imagine, it's very slow yoga.

7:41AdamYeah.

7:42LeeAnd I've not done yoga before and I didn't realize just how slow it was.

7:47LeeUm,

7:48Leeyeah, and I've, just goes to show, I'm probably the person who needs it more than anything, 'cause about five minutes in, I was like, come on! Come on! Speed it up! Where's the pace?

7:57AdamYeah, I think I think you might have really fundamentally misunderstood the nature of yoga at that point.

8:03LeeCouldn't have got it any more wrong.

8:07AdamSee, for the for very much the same reason it really appeals to me.

8:11LeeHeh.

8:13LeeSee, I like the idea, I was like, you like candles and incense and you put slow relaxing music on.

8:19AdamNone of that crap. I just want to do all the stretches and suddenly feel better and be able to do a crab walk in me '40s.

8:24LeeYeah.

8:26LeeDoesn't work like that.

8:28LeeWhat happens is, you sit in one position for a very long time.

8:30LeeAnd then when you're supposed to get up and move into another position, you immediately regret sitting there for as long as you have before you've even gone into the second bit.

8:35LeeSo, um,

8:36AdamOh yeah.

8:39AdamI don't know why, I just, I think I, that that appeals again.

8:41AdamWeird.

8:42LeeSystematically ruining yourself one muscle at a time over a 50-minute period.

8:48AdamYeah.