The Day of the Beast
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It’s Christmas! And nothing says Christmas quite like kidnap, Satanic Ritual, setting fire to the homeless and infanticide. Yes, to celebrate we’re watching Spanish Occult Caper “The Day of the Beast” (aka “El Día de la Bestia”). A film in which we learn the correct way to spell “AC/DC”; that you don’t need to actually carve a pentagram (particularly if you have expensive flooring); and that you never, ever, wanna fuck with the landlady. Along the way we discuss “Come To Daddy”, “The Guyver”, “Eating Raoul”, Ghost Stories for Christmas, “Carnival of Souls” and “Zoltan - Hound of Dracula”. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us. APOLOGIES FOR ANY SOUND/SPEECH QUALITY ISSUES - THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED REMOTELY, THE DAY AFTER THE WTH OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY.
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LeeGood evening and welcome to horror.
LeeI'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI'm Adam.
LeeAnd we are here for our special Christmas episode.
LeeWe are all a little bit delicate as last night was the Welcome to Horror Office Christmas party.
Leeand we all got slightly battered.
LeeSo despite the fact it's now 8 o'clock the following evening.
LeeI'm full of pizza, but I'm still having a drink again to make my way through it.
LeeAnd Adam looks like he's pretty much in the same mental boat.
AdamYeah, well, I'm I'm I'm pretty good.
AdamI'm just sort of I'm I'm at the moment I'm trying to be quite gone.
AdamSitting between the red lasery things.
AdamYou know when it's like Darth Maul's pacing up and down, you're just thinking, you won't feel the benefit.
AdamAnd then Kwigon just sits quietly, so I'm sort of doing that to reserve my energy for the task at hand.
AdamHe's fighting a two-bladed demon.
AdamBut sort of.
AdamIt's a metaphor somewhere.
LeeClose enough.
ChrisI'm feeling pretty good after the two films I just watched.
ChrisThat that's a little hint.
LeeTwo films you just watched.
Chrisyes, yeah.
ChrisI thought I'd get another one in, you know, quick today and it was well worth it.
ChrisAnd I'm I'm going to do my guess what film it was again.
ChrisNow it might only be aimed at Adam though, because I don't think Leo seen it.
LeeOkay.
LeeFair enough.
ChrisBut a little memory that he said he hadn't watched it, but we'll find out.
LeeOkay, well.
LeePower on, sir.
ChrisOkay, right, so I will start with now I might completely ruin these, but let's see what you make of it, Adam.
ChrisSo one quote that gets said a few times about the film is, I'm just doing my job.
ChrisAnd it's got one of my favorite actors ever.
LeeThe history of the Third Reich.
Adam
ChrisI don't think I'd be in quite such a
LeeNot a Christmas movie then, no.
ChrisYeah, yeah.
ChrisAnd like so it's got one of my favorite actors ever playing what I have decided is a bit of a Colombo role.
AdamOh.
ChrisAnd when I.
AdamDeath line again, have you?
ChrisNo, no.
AdamNo.
ChrisOh yeah, no.
ChrisThat would be good.
Chris
ChrisAnd when I first watched this, it turns out I was probably 12.
ChrisBecause it turns out I watched it soon after it came out and the the actor who it was.
ChrisI thought looked ancient at the time.
ChrisNow when I see it, it's like, no, he's just got a mustache on and he's just a little bit older than he was.
ChrisIn the film that he was in, I think it was like seven years, no, eight years before.
Chris
AdamK.
ChrisLee had an idea, Go on, Lee.
LeeI was going to ask if it was Kolchak.
ChrisOh, no, I've not seen that, but I do remember you've mentioned that.
ChrisOkay, let's see what.
AdamWell.
ChrisWhat else?
ChrisAll right, here's another big big clue, it's got a producer of a film that we've watched recently.
AdamRight, okay.
Adam
ChrisIt's got it's got some great '80s.
Chris/'90s action sci-fi music.
AdamFuck.
LeeIt's not June.
AdamIt's not June.
ChrisAll right, I'm I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you.
LeeYou presented this.
ChrisNo, now normally Adam Adam comes straight out and gets it, so either I'm doing terrible hints here or I'm going to give you another big one, okay?
ChrisAt some point the phrase crude rude dude is said.
ChrisAnd I was like, is this where it came from or.
AdamI might not have seen this then.
ChrisYou definitely have.
AdamRight.
ChrisYou've mentioned it twice twice not not too long ago.
AdamOh.
ChrisAll right, I'm I'll give you.
AdamIt's from beyond.
ChrisNo.
AdamShit.
ChrisAll right, it's it's directed and effects by screaming Mad George.
AdamThe Guyver.
ChrisYes.
LeeThere you go.
ChrisI was going to next mention Brian Yuzna.
ChrisYuzna.
ChrisSo, yeah.
ChrisAnd.
ChrisSo now Lee, I don't think you've seen it.
LeeI started watching it, I was 20 minutes in and abandoned it.
ChrisSee, right, now, I remember seeing it and probably at the time.
Chrisrealizing now, I didn't totally get the humor in it.
ChrisWhereas watching it again now, especially after what Adam said, like it made much more sense.
ChrisAnd in fact, it reminded me quite a bit of Psycho Goreman kind of silliness.
ChrisLike, and but quite still fairly brutal in parts, but yeah, just, you know, really silly.
AdamWell, it was Psyco Goreman, they talked about the Guyver.
AdamAs one of their sort of touchstones.
AdamIt was like, I hadn't seen it, but I knew of it.
AdamAnd the worst thing was is that the few people I knew who had seen it.
AdamRecommended it, but in that way where people say, I loved it when I watched it as a kid, but you might come to it too late.
Chris
Adamturns out.
AdamNo.
ChrisYeah, no, it's still still well right there.
AdamAnd yeah, it was.
AdamNo, I fucking love that film.
AdamIt is so much like we were saying about the other day we were discussing specifically Tokyo Gore Police at the party.
LeeYes.
AdamThat kind that kind of feeling.
AdamWhere it's like very sort of just mental monster creations and brutality, but somehow quite yeah.
AdamIt's it's very it's very anime, actually.
AdamI mean it's called fucking Guyver and it's directed by Sree Mad George, who's Japanese.
AdamSo it kind of is quite yeah.
AdamI'm just you just don't think that because Mark Hamill's in it.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd now I and now I get what you mean about you thought he looked ancient.
ChrisYeah, and I was like, no, it's not that far past, but to me he just looked so old in it when I saw him.
ChrisIt was like, that's not Luke, really, that's like he's, you know, and clearly he's been around for much longer than than that.
ChrisBut yeah, I was almost like, oh, he's he won't be around much longer, you know, just, I don't know.
ChrisIt's just some really odd.
AdamNo, no.
AdamBut I just remember you just think.
ChrisI think it was also, right, I was so sad when they killed him in it.
ChrisI was like, no, that that doesn't happen.
AdamYeah.
ChrisHe's he's way too important to be killed in a film.
ChrisAnd it just it must have really messed with me.
AdamYeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisHe for him, I was watching the film because of him at the time.
AdamYeah.
AdamHe's like the main character.
ChrisYeah, no, totally.
ChrisAnd and it was like you're you're just this is, I don't know if I can handle this.
ChrisBut I I remembered finding it like fascinating and watching it again now, the effects are almost more impressive now.
ChrisBecause similar to what we said about society, like, yeah, the fact that it's all practical.
ChrisReally great work.
AdamOh, that's the thing is it's one of those.
AdamLike it has that same it's like the thing where there's so much.
AdamSo much thought has gone into such a surrealistic, chaotic looking thing.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBut you know that someone sat there and had to feed that out of their imagination.
ChrisYeah, you don't just get that done in a in a few moments either.
ChrisIt's like, yeah, there's there's a good amount of effort that's gone into this.
ChrisIt it might not have paid off at all, but yeah, it just looked looked fantastic.
ChrisBut so I I think Lee, you should give that another try one day.
LeeI'll I'll still got it, so yeah, I'll dig it out from the shelf and I'll I'll give it another go, definitely.
ChrisYou might have to be in the right mood, but yeah, for me it worked well.
LeeI think that's what I thought at the time was I was like, this is one of those films, if you're not in the right mood, it's not going to work.
AdamYou know.
AdamDo you know and this is something that I was beginning to wonder about.
Adamwith lockdown and sort of not seeing people as often.
AdamThe Guyver is definitely a good communal watch.
Leeyeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisI would say that.
AdamCouple a few beers and like six of you in a room watching it.
ChrisYeah.
AdamIt's like or Prince Charles.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamExperience, that would be the Guyver.
AdamIt's that kind of yeah, it's a party film.
ChrisYeah, cuz it's there's not there's not too much.
ChrisIt's not exactly too complex to follow.
AdamNo, no, it's not.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisCrazy fun, yeah.
LeeIt's not like you've stuck Memento on.
Chris
AdamAs the third film after half half the people have passed out.
ChrisYeah.
LeeNice.
LeeExcellent.
LeeWell done, Chris.
LeeAdam, have you been watching anything?
LeeOh.
Leejust to just because my note has just reminded me, there will be spoilers, there will be swearing.
LeeI keep meaning to say it at the top of the show and forgetting.
LeeSo for any new listeners, there will be spoilers and swearing.
LeeSorry, Adam.
LeeSo what have you been watching?
AdamWell, I was just going to say so apologies for that spoiler about Mark Hamill's character dying in the Guyver.
AdamWhoops.
Adambut still see it.
ChrisI I will be impressed if we upset anyone with that, that will be a niche of a niche that just got upset.
ChrisSomeone who's listening to us who hasn't seen that and is upset.
LeeDon't encourage people, don't encourage people.
ChrisPlease, please flame me, go on, I'm I'm out there.
AdamOh, dear.
AdamI've watched, I've watched quite a good quite a lot of good stuff.
AdamI've finally seen Come to Daddy.
ChrisOh, yeah.
AdamThe Elijah Woods, Stephen McChatty film.
LeeOh.
LeeThat was great.
AdamWhich was Claire rather lovely got me that on DVD.
AdamBecause it was on film four and I fucking forgot.
AdamAnd and I know there's catchup services and everything else, but bless her know she got me the DVD.
AdamSo.
LeeDefinitely one you can rewatch, I think.
AdamYeah.
AdamEspecially because it's one is one that I definitely now now I've seen it with.
AdamKnowing what happens, I would like.
AdamBecause.
AdamI knowing I I went into it knowing Elijah Wood goes and stays with his strange dad, Stephen McChatty, literally it.
Chris
AdamAnd then, yeah, it's.
AdamHave you seen it yet, Chris?
ChrisYes, yeah, I did watch it as as an extra once.
ChrisYeah, and no, yeah.
ChrisI thought it was fantastic but I would definitely like to watch it again for the same reason.
ChrisYeah.
LeeYeah, me too.
ChrisIt is it does evolve in a slightly unexpected sort of way.
AdamYeah.
AdamYeah, which which I didn't quite, which I definitely didn't see coming.
AdamI mean, the only thing I would say is that it is it is unfortunate that you lose Stephen McChatty fairly early in the progress of the film.
AdamBecause that just that where it's just him and what you assume is his dick dad.
AdamIs some of the funniest fucking I've seen.
AdamWhile whilst also being really quite uncomfortable.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd and if someone by now, I'm dibsing this, if no one's done it before at some point I'm doing a I'm doing a piece of music or a song or whatever.
AdamAnd I need to sample the cunt rap and just put that at the start of it.
AdamYou know, go full Blood duster.
AdamAnd, yeah.
AdamBecause that that was just, yeah, fantastic.
AdamAnd,
AdamBut yeah, so that was yeah, that was a that was a really good one.
AdamAnd in fact, maybe we'll bung that on the list because we've all said we'd like a rewatch, so I think that might be one to that that's definitely one to sit there for us.
ChrisI think where I'm for me a bit is I still see Elijah as Frodo.
ChrisAnd it's just it's hard, I think the only other thing I've seen him in aside from this is Dirk Gently.
ChrisWhich I really liked and it's another quirky.
AdamI've not seen his his that version of George Janly, no.
ChrisOkay, but he's it's yeah, it's very odd.
ChrisSo that sort of gave me a little bit of a sense.
ChrisBut yeah, it just seems like he's he wouldn't be in something quite so sort of random, chaotic, weird, funny.
AdamI I cannot help but salute that man.
LeeYeah, me too.
AdamWhere it's like make make an investment when you did Lord of the Rings, because you knew that this was going to be fucking huge.
Chris
AdamAnd then just use the fact that you're comfortably well off.
Adamto make films you actually genuinely want to be in or or see on the screen.
AdamAnd obviously because he's done like he was the producer for Color Out of Space.
ChrisYeah, did you said so he started a production company.
AdamYeah.
AdamYeah, they've they've done loads they've done loads of stuff.
AdamFor some reason in my head.
AdamYeah, I think they did Mandy.
AdamAs well.
LeeYes, I think they have done.
AdamYes, so they're doing quite a lot of.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBasically, all and all sort of stuff that I just I just get the impression that I've probably got a similar taste to Elijah Wood.
ChrisYeah.
AdamIn terms of like the stuff that he seems to want to do and appear in and things like that.
AdamI mean, have you seen the it was on Netflix and it's in a similar sort of vein to come to Daddy.
Adamit's called I just don't want to live in this world anymore.
LeeYes, I did see that.
LeeThat was brilliant.
AdamYeah, where he's in it as like the sort of like frustrated uptight insell sort of guy and but yeah.
AdamAnd it's just yeah, it's just this woman basically decides that she's had enough and so she goes and of people just like being assholes for no reason.
Adamand so she goes off to accuse the man whose dog has been shitting on her lawn, which turns out to be Elijah Woods who's this sort of weird like tiny little kung fu man.
AdamWho like does weight training and but he's clearly like, you know, just a he's Millhouse with abs.
Chris
AdamAnd but he's got like throwing stars that he's been practicing and stuff like that and and he's he's fucking net, he's not you know, he's not an Avenger, but he kind of tags along with her to because he agrees with her calls.
AdamAnd yeah, but that's that's really good and he's got David Yao from the Jesus Lizard in it.
AdamAnd he is fucking brilliant, he is he plays like the the main sort of villain.
AdamAnd yeah, he should be in David Lynch films.
LeeYeah.
AdamHe just is a really horrible sleazy little man in it.
AdamHe's really good he's in that's another one we've got to do at some point is Southbound, you know, the anthology film.
LeeYeah, yeah.
AdamYeah, cuz he's in that as well and I remember him being great in that.
Adambut yeah, that's that's another one.
Adamof the stuff, oh, yeah, my scientific advisor has helped me here.
AdamSo film produced by film produced by Spectravision.
ChrisOh, very good.
AdamWhich is Elijah Wood's company, so yeah, as we said, Color out of Space, Mandy.
AdamDaniel isn't real, Cooties.
AdamThe Greasy Strangler, which is for my mind, one of the finest fucking things ever to appear.
AdamI know Lee doesn't agree.
LeeI'd forgotten all about Cooties though, and I really enjoyed that and he stars in that again as well.
AdamYeah, it's great.
Adam
AdamArch enemy, The Boy.
AdamI don't know what that is, but I can only do it as The Boy.
Adam
AdamGirl walked home alone at night.
AdamOh, LFO.
AdamNow that's a fucking great film that was, I I.
ChrisI can't remember which film that was.
AdamI think.
ChrisI know you said that one.
AdamAnd I can't even go into it now because I can't remember, but I just remember how excited that film left me.
Adamif it is the film I'm thinking of.
AdamI fucking hope it is now and it's just like man ounces himself as nonse on podcast, no, that's the one, yeah, Swedish science fiction film about a man who realizes he can hypnotize with sound.
AdamYeah.
AdamLFO is a fucking great little film.
LeeI remember you covering that in your what you've been watching, yeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah, that's that's definitely another one.
AdamI I would say most of Elijah Wood's films are probably they're probably worth covering because most of them do cross over in horror.Yeah and they So, yeah. but yeah, anyway, so I so I watched that.
AdamI.
AdamI watched I'll hurry it up, I watched Carnival of Souls.
AdamFucking just fantastic film and something we're definitely going to cover at some point for you, Chris.
LeeDo you know what?
LeeI do think we have to, I have tried to watch that film three times.
LeeAnd every time I get about 20 minutes in and go, this is boring the piss out of me.
LeeBut it's such a solid classic that I think I'm missing something.
AdamThe best the best way to think of it.
AdamBecause I think the one thing it does suffer from is it has a it has the sort of stilted, slightly stilted atmosphere.
Adamof acting or type of acting that you get with the Twilight Zone or like early sort of '50s and '60s television.
AdamAnd if you go into it thinking of it as like a special extended episode of the Twilight Zone.
LeeYeah.
Adamand it has and it's I it has that feel and it's very it gets more and more atmospheric as it goes on.
AdamBecause really the start is after the initial sort of car accident.
AdamThen it's just, you know, it's sort of someone going about their ordinary life and then slowly realizing something's up.
LeeYeah.
AdamBut it's very slowly realizing something's up, so.
AdamYeah, I can again, it's one of those ones that I think is I I think we should cover it at some point, definitely, because I think also if you because with the motivation to complete it to the end, Lee, I think you'll love it.
LeeYeah, oh yeah.
AdamBecause it's.
Adam
AdamI also watched Eating Raoul.
AdamWhich is a new one on me, it's not not specifically horror, but it's a black comedy about a couple who want to open a restaurant but but can't get a bank loan, so they start murdering the swingers who party in their in their apartment block and like just stealing their money and stuff.
AdamAnd then the the title of the character from the title Raoul turns up and is played by Mr. Chakote from Star Trek Voyager.
AdamAnd yeah, he sort of he helps them turn this from like a cottage industry murder plot into something a bit more like a business.
AdamSo it's.
AdamBut yeah, and it but it's I think the best way I can describe it is so John Waters, but it's like female trouble.
AdamIt's that sort of absurd sly I was about to say slightly camp, fucking hell.
AdamThat sort of absurd camp black comedy sort of film.
AdamAnd I definitely think, certainly, I think it's one that you and Lee Jennifer should check out, Lee.
LeeOkay.
AdamBecause I think you really enjoy it because it's just and the main and actually the
AdamThe characters in it like the husband and wife, the it's oh Paul.
AdamNo, totally gone.
AdamBut
AdamYeah, the they turn up in Chopping Mall as well.
LeeOh, cool.
AdamRight at the start of Chopping Mall, there's just two there's two people going, oh, that could be quite useful in the restaurant and that's from their characters from Eating Raoul.
AdamSo I'm not entirely sure why.
AdamBut
AdamYes, so the but no, that's definitely one to check out.
Adamand like I said, I think you and Lee Jennifer.
AdamPaul Bartel, that's the name I'm struggling with.
AdamBut Paul Bartel and Mary Waronov, who's in House of House of the Devil.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah.
AdamYeah, it's her and it's her and and Paul Bartel and they're the couple, but Paul Bartel also wrote and directed it and also, I didn't know this is the director of the original Death Race 2000.
AdamWhich just immediately put him like, I mean, I love the film and then afterwards I was like, well, and you directed Death Race 2000.
AdamThat's fucking fantastic.
LeeNice.
Adamespecially because the guy who plays the announcer in Death Race 2000 plays the host of a swingers party in in one scene.
AdamAnd he is fucking unbelievable because he just.
AdamHi, it's a proper uhm Troy and Mcclure sort of feeling.
AdamHe's just constantly on.
AdamHi and come right here and it's.
AdamAnd I could just hear the same voice going, he splatters the scoreboard first.
Adam
AdamAnd then finally I watched Zoltan, Hound of Dracula.
AdamWhich we really need to cover on this show.
AdamBut also, at this point I will say, Chris, it's not meant to be a comedy.
AdamBut.
Adamit's fantastically hilarious in his own sort of.
AdamWell, in the in the only way that a film that is Dracula doesn't appear, well, Dracula does appear in flashback, but it's purely Dracula's dog and his sort of half vampire Egor type servant.
Adamand they go and hunt down the last remaining Dracula, Michael Dracula, who lives in America.
AdamAnd,
AdamYeah, they who who has a family and they have some dogs and slowly Zoltan recruits those dogs into his vampire pack.
Adamall in an attempt to get the blood of the last Dracula and the thing was as well.
AdamImmediately there was a floor because he's got kids, so everyone kept saying, oh, like it's like, oh, well, he's the last Dracula and it's like, well, no, he's got kids.
AdamThey're the last Draculas.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, genetically, certainly, you know, there is no argument about that, if you're going to go bloodline as your as your theory, yeah, there you go.
AdamIt's
AdamBut.
AdamBelieve me, that is not the most absurd thing thing about a film.
AdamWith a undead Doberman pincher.
Adam
LeeI need to see this.
AdamOh, man.
AdamIt's fucking great.
Adamthat is definitely one that I would say.
AdamIt's a communal watch but also a absolutely merry with fuck all to do watch as well.
LeeYeah, we'll have to we'll have to have an evening at mine where you can both stay over and get very drunk and not have to worry.
LeeYeah, at the end of it, I think that's not be the one to do.
LeeOnce all this lockdown nonsense is over, that'll be the next thing on the list.
AdamYeah, I yeah, Zoltan is something else, really is.
LeeFantastic.
Lee
LeeSo I have been starting my Christmas viewing.
Chris
Leeso I've been watching The Ghost Stories for Christmas, been going back through some of those.
LeeAnd I mentioned before I'd rewatched The Stalls at No, I'd rewatched
AdamTreasure of Abbot Thomas.
LeeIt was The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, well done.
LeeI watched that a second time because Lady Jennifer wanted to watch it as well, so we rewatched that and then followed it up with The Stalls at Barchester.
LeeNice.
AdamNice.
LeeYeah, and so it's just I've just checked again because I checked last week and they hadn't put a date up for The Mezzotint.
LeeWhich is this year's one.
LeeIt's.
LeeChristmas Eve.
LeeChristmas Eve at 10:30 at night.
LeeHow perfect is that?
AdamAbsolutely, I was overwhelmed with that.
LeeCannot wait.
AdamYeah.
LeeSo yeah, I shall be.
LeeIt's one of the this is going to be the first time in possibly five years, I'm going to watch something live as it aired.
LeeLast time I watched something live as it aired on TV was Inside number nine's Halloween special, so that goes to show you how often I actually watch TV.
LeeSo.
AdamWell so League of Gentlemen are obviously the people who can get you to turn up for.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, opening night.
LeeIt is, totally.
Leeyeah, so that's about it really.
LeeSo not much.
LeeI mean also been watching loads of Vic and Bob.
LeeAnd also for Christmas watching Black Adder's Christmas Carol.
LeeBut that isn't really horror.
LeeWell.
LeeIt's got ghosts in it.
AdamGood ghost.
AdamIsn't it?
AdamYeah, that.
AdamFuck me, that has been that's been the basis for something that's watched.
LeeThat's true, yeah.
LeeWe have watched a lot less horror relevant stuff than that, I think.
Lee
LeeSo, on to this evening's main event, so a film that Adam introduced me to a long time ago.
Lee1995's The Day of the Beast.
Leejudging by your text, Chris, I think you were probably a fan of this.
LeeBut would you like to tell us what you thought of it on your first watch?
ChrisYeah, absolutely.
ChrisIt was a you know, I didn't know what to expect, it's one of those, right, it's subtitles, punish, okay.
ChrisYou know, might be on for something a bit heavy.
ChrisAnd it it turned out it was a very good balance of pretty brutal.
ChrisAnd very entertaining.
ChrisAnd after having just watched the Guyver, I was set up perfectly for this as a continuation.
Chris
ChrisI yeah.
ChrisLike quite I suppose I would say it was definitely a caper, but yeah, with some pretty dark dark elements to it.
ChrisSo, yeah, really quite surprising.
ChrisAnd I was sort of thinking I couldn't quite remember what you'd said about it.
ChrisHow much you told me.
Chrisbut definitely in my head, I was like, well, I'm sure they've mentioned that we don't have many more decent.
ChrisChristmas-based films to watch.
ChrisSo again, I was sort of expecting it to not be quite as good as it turned out to be.
AdamTo be absolutely honest and I would like to take this point to apologize to our brethren of not for everyone podcast.
AdamWhen we did the welcome to everyone Christmas episode last year and it was like your Christmas films.
AdamThis had utterly slipped my mind.
Chris
AdamDespite the fact that there was a period of time probably up until the sort of I don't know about early 2000s that I did watch this as a Christmas film.
Chris
AdamAnd like it was like a regular I would watch this regularly.
AdamAnd yeah, but specifically it would be like, well, Christmas is coming up and it's always festive to watch, El De Bella Biznia.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, and I and yeah, so I and I pissed I think I pissed everyone off by saying Star Wars because everyone was like, oh.
AdamBasic.
Adambut I now retract Star Wars and I put El De Bella back in and at the Day of the Beast back in as my third Christmas film.
AdamBecause as I say.
AdamIt's going to go back on the Christmas watch list now.
AdamBut it used to be, yeah, it used to be a fairly regular thing.
AdamAnd, yeah, it's.
AdamWe hadn't run out of Christmas films.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYes.
LeeIt is just.
LeeIt's just so much fun.
LeeLike it's right right from the opening, you know, while the credits are still rolling, it's the bit that always sticks with me is him pushing that mind down the subway, like, just.
ChrisIt's watching him starting to do all those act, it's like I can feel it bringing out the sort of naughty boy part of me.
ChrisYou just think you could imagine watching this, you know, quite a bit younger again with mates drinking and it's just like he's just now on this mission to be the naughtiest.
ChrisAnd and again, yeah, it's brutal, but still the way it's done is just so kind of funny.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt's a perfect setup as well for to give you everything it kind of gives you everything you need to know about hit him as a person, Kira as a person because.
AdamIt's like, right, I've got to sell my soul to Satan, so I will commit all the sins.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd it's literally like Nut down ginger, but it's but it's like it's the worst he can think of.
ChrisHe can.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know what I mean, it's not that he's avoiding anything, he's genuinely like that.
AdamFucking hell, yeah, and I really, oh, no, that's terrible.
AdamAnd a bit of him.
AdamHe stole a man's suitcase.
LeeYeah.
AdamThat's beautiful, although although also he does go all in with you're going to rot in hell.
AdamWhen he's to the.
ChrisThe wallet.
AdamAnd.
AdamGive the.
LeeI know we don't normally do this, but just for the listeners because I know this is a more obscure movie, so for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Leea priest who has spent the last 25 years trying to decipher a code that he believes is in an ancient script, discovers that the the Antichrist is going to be born on Christmas Eve in 1995 in Madrid, and in order to get to meet the devil so that he can kill him.
LeeHe decides that he has to be the worst human being possible.
LeeAs well as work out where the Antichrist is going to be born.
LeeSo it's just about this funny little priest going to Madrid and being the biggest brick that he can.
LeeAnd trying to find out about the cult.
ChrisRight, so so just want to check, the reason that he has to be such a big prick is that the devil then won't kill him.
ChrisIs that right?
ChrisBecause his friend.
ChrisWho he tells at the start, says, oh, I'm with you on it, but we better watch out because someone might have heard this.
ChrisWas that.
ChrisAnd then he gets killed.
AdamAs in Satan will have heard this.
ChrisYeah, yeah.
ChrisSo, you know, obviously he would be that powerful.
ChrisThat he would have be aware of what the plan is.
ChrisSo it's, yeah, it's a weird one because it's his plan is meant to be to convince the devil that he's evil.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisSo that he can sell his soul to the devil, so he gets to be with the devil and discover when the Antichrist is going to be born.
ChrisAnd sort of, yeah, go from there essentially.
ChrisLike he's going to be sort of brought in on Satan's plans.
ChrisSo so was he planning to kill him?
AdamHe was planning.
AdamTo kill.
AdamHe's planning to kill the Antichrist.
Chris
AdamOr prevent the birth of the Antichrist.
AdamSo presumably kill the mother.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBut.
AdamBut that level of determination whilst is there.
ChrisYeah.
AdamHe's sort of.
AdamWell, he doesn't really know well, again, he doesn't really know how to summon the devil to sell his soul, but he's pretty convinced he can work it out in a day.
LeeHe just walks into the Black Metal record shop with a record.
AdamWith.
AdamWith with one of the greatest sort of characters in this film.
AdamSo the the director, Alex Della Iglecia, and apologies for how crappily I said that.
Adam
AdamHe's he said that basically it was things like Evil Dead, John Carpenter.
AdamJaws, I think was another one.
AdamHe but basically, yeah, this sort of like you say, an adventure, like a fantasy adventure sort of movie but in that more yeah, Evil Dead, Sam Ray sort of vibe of it will have horror, but it'll also have funny bits.
ChrisYeah.
AdamRather than oh, well, we'll put a joky comedy theme as he's going around pushing mines over and it's just that.
AdamLike.
LeeLike American Werewolf.
AdamYeah, American Werewolf would be another one, I think as well.
AdamAnd yeah, so.
AdamYeah, so he goes and meet goes and meets Jose.
AdamThe guy who runs the record shop who is the absolute perfect like Mela.
AdamAs in.
AdamAnd it's that thing as well that you always find, it's like, I mean, do you do you find this at work, Lee?
AdamSometimes you'll get people like they'll go like, that delivery driver is really nice.
AdamOh.
AdamCovered in tattoos and he's got his hair all over the place.
AdamHe's got like really long.
AdamHe but he's a really nice bloke.
LeeYeah.
LeeExactly.
AdamYeah.
AdamWhy would he not be because most Melers are quite mellow, decent human beings.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, with a good and I think that's the.
LeeI think.
LeeI think that's the thing as a Melar myself in my younger years.
LeeI think you take it, well, we all were, I think you you do take it all with a pinch of you don't take it seriously.
LeeSo it's it's got an element of a good sense of humor, so Metalers have got a good sense of humor.
LeeAnd as you say, generally, that means they're decent human beings.
LeeAnd Yeah, I think he's he's amazing character in this.
LeeI absolutely do.
ChrisIt's essentially it's just being obsessed about the thing you're interested in, isn't it?
ChrisSo, yeah.
ChrisYou want to take that to an extreme, but that doesn't mean that you take necessarily everything in life to an extreme.
AdamPrecisely.
AdamAnd so you've got this guy who is essentially so sweet-natured that he's like, yeah.
AdamOh, yeah.
AdamNo.
AdamThese are.
AdamBasically he connects over the records.
AdamAnd also, did you.
AdamDid you spot on the slip of paper that he spelled ACDC phonetically?
LeeNo.
LeeOh.
AdamBecause it's kind it's kind of like meant to be that he's just heard the names, so he's quickly jotted down like these metal bands because it's like Napalm Death, and yeah, something else and ACDC.
LeeOh yeah.
LeeI made.
LeeA made.
LeeAnd ACDC.
AdamBut yeah.
AdamACDC is like H A Y.
LeeYou know what?I look I didn't even put two and two together.
LeeI read the first I only saw the last one at a glimpse and I went.
LeeYeah, I don't know who that is.
AdamYeah.
AdamBut.
AdamNo, it's because he's because he's never seen it written down, he's just heard someone say ACDC.
AdamSo.
LeeI just love that logic.
LeeHave you wrote it, so it's your fault if I carve on your floor with a knife?
AdamYeah.
LeeYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamYeah, but I mean.
AdamAlso,
AdamThere's I mean, it's a fucking great soundtrack.
LeeYeah.
Adam
AdamWhich again, I forget about the because you've got.
AdamI mean, obviously there's a lot of Spanish bands in there.
AdamLike the stuff that he plays him in the shop because he gives him he says he wants to listen to that album that's called Live Death.
Chris
AdamWhich apparently is a split live album of suffocation, malevolent creation, ex-order and I love this band name, Cancer.
LeeNice.
AdamThey're not.
LeeThey're really trying to get your attention with that one.
AdamYeah.
Adambut yeah, so they that but the album that the music that plays is by a band called Katulu.
LeeNice.
AdamSo, you know, immediately they score points anyway.
AdamBut the main thing music that is the when they go to the club and see the band.
AdamThat's a band called Deathcom Dose.
LeeWho like Deathcon.
AdamTwo, who are like a Spanish rock rap metal like rap rock band, basically.
Adamand but the thing is is I got I was just getting serious dog eat dog vibes.
LeeYou know what I mean, it was that kind of era.
LeeWhere it's like actually I'm not going to complain about rock metal here.
LeeBut you've got.
LeeLike.
