- Gretel & Hansel
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Once upon a time, 4 intrepid podcasters sat down to watch a very Grimm Tale - director Oz Perkin’s “Gretel & Hansel”. A film in which Jessica Hyde threatens to kill her kids; the Borg Queen comes down with a severe case of black finger; and a cat is either magical, or a Continuity Supervisor’s worst nightmare. Along the way we discuss “Rawhead Rex”;“The Lighthouse”; “February” aka “The Blackcoat’s Daughter” and choose-your-own folk horror interactive film “T’Was The Devil”. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us. APOLOGIES FOR ANY SOUND QUALITY ISSUES -CURRENT QUARANTINE MEASURES MEANT WE HAD TO RECORD THIS EPISODE REMOTELY.
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Lee Good evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
Chris I'm Chris.
Adam I'm Adam.
Jennifer I'm Jennifer.
Lee She's back!
Chris She's back.
Lee She's back.
Jennifer Woo!
Lee Much against popular demand, we brought her back.
Chris That was that most of our popular demand, the, the three of us here.
Adam That was a ransom demand, I believe.
Adam Lee finally paid up.
Lee Uh, so we are here this evening to cover 2020's Gretel and Hansel.
Lee Um, yeah, a much underrated film in my opinion, but we'll see what the rest of the team think when we get to it.
Lee Um, but before we do that, uh, Chris, have you been watching anything since our last recording?
Chris Well, so halfway through Gretel and Hansel, I'm still getting used to saying it that way around.
Chris Um, I was thinking, I'm having a really jolly week this week what with what I'm watching, but the end of Gretel and Hansel was is relatively uplifting, similar to The Witch.
Chris which it's somewhat reminiscent of, which we will get into.
Chris However, so, based on that, I thought it's, uh, it's important that I try and do things a little bit different occasionally.
Chris So, this film that I watched this week, I thought it was, there's a scene in it that really made me think, I should try and replicate that scene, so I'm going to do that for you now.
Chris And I can see how excited you are.
Chris And put your hands up when you know what film it is.
Chris Ha! Hark Triton! Hark! Bellow did our father, the sea king, rise from the depths, full fouled in his fury, black waves teeming with the assault foam, to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine, and can scream no more!
Chris I'm going to carry on. Only when he crowned in cockle shells with slithering tentacle tail, and teeming beard, take up his fell bifined arm, and caroled shriek and trident, screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through your gullet, bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more, but a bloated, bloody fin, now a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors, to peck and claw, and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the dread Emperor himself.
Chris Forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea.
Chris All right, have it your way, I like your cooking.
Lee Oh, cooking.
Adam Yeah, cooking.
Adam You funded me, lobster.
Chris of my lobster.
Adam I knew it.
Chris I did see your hand go up fairly quickly, and I don't know if Lee's seen it.
Lee Yes.
Adam Yes. Yes.
Chris I couldn't remember if he'd said he had.
Adam Oh, yeah, man.
Chris That was a very entertaining scene.
Lee What film is this then?
Chris Yes.
Lee It is, you are.
Chris Yes.
Lee It was The Lighthouse.
Chris Was it?
