Tokyo Gore Police
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It’s time to break out the pac-a-macs and sou-westers as the blood, mucus and other bodily fluids are spraying everywhere in Japanese Splatter Punk gem “Tokyo Gore Police”. A film in which it’s the stripper’s eyes that are out on stalks, not the audience’s; the kindly, cuddly Commissioner of Police keeps a pet amputee Cyber-gimp on a lead (which may reflect certain aspects of his character development); and even Steve Irwin wouldn’t mess with this crocodile. Along the way we discuss “RoboGeisha”, “It Happened Here”, “Machine Girl”, “What We Do In The Shadows”, “Big Tit Zombie”, “Resolution”, “Black Rain” and “Samurai Champloo”. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us. APOLOGIES FOR ANY SOUND/SPEECH QUALITY ISSUES - THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED REMOTELY, WHILST WE INJECTED OURSELVES WITH MURDEROUS DNA.
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UnknownGood evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI'm Adam.
LeeOoh, and we are here for I've been wanting to cover this film with Chris for so long.
LeeBut I didn't want to scare him off.
ChrisI thought You want to cover me with this film?
AdamJust to obscure you possibly, I don't know.
Leeso I have ended up down a two-week rabbit hole of so much stuff, that I will get into, when it is my turn.
LeeBut before I get all carried away and excited, Chris, what have you been watching?
ChrisWell, thanks to Adam, probably predominantly, I've been watching what we're doing in the Shadows.
LeeYay!
AdamOh, yeah.
ChrisYeah, so the last episode I watched was the Baron Night Out on the Town.
Adamthat's like.
ChrisIt is just just great quality entertainment, isn't it?
AdamOh.
ChrisYou know, and an ancient vampire Baron wanting to eat and he's Baron because he's got no penis, you know.
ChrisAnd and he wants to eat the pizza pie.
LeeYeah.
ChrisYeah, that's what he's going to do and they're all sucking on drug blood, we've had we've had the drug blood, yeah.
ChrisIt's just, yeah, you're not going wrong really.
AdamThe thing is,
LeeIt,
Adamwe drank we drank blood of people who are on drugs. Now we're on drugs.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisBut how, how's, I surely that's happened in another vampire thing before, and yet, I was like, I don't think I've seen anything.
AdamThere's a lot.
AdamThis is this is going to help me a bit, there's a line in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
ChrisWe need more of those sound effects.
AdamYou might get more.
AdamYou're bargained for when she's got a.
LeeOh, sorry.
AdamI'm going to cover for it.
AdamRight.
Adam
AdamBut yeah, yeah there's a line in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Spike says he was at Woodstock and he what was it? I fed off a flower person and then spent the next two days watching my hand move.
LeeYeah.
ChrisNow, now just to get a bit controversial, is Spike he who must not be named?
Adamhey.
ChrisSo, it's when when Spike stands up for himself.
ChrisYeah, he is.
ChrisNo, I think he's in.
ChrisOh okay.
ChrisYeah, Yeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamYeah, he's Danny Trejo.
Chrisokay.
AdamYeah.
ChrisOkay.
AdamYeah.
ChrisNo, no.
AdamBut he's in.
ChrisHe's like,
Adambut he's in quite a few things, isn't he?
ChrisLike yeah.
AdamYeah, but Book of Boba Fett, I think it's almost entirely directed by Robert Rodriguez.
AdamSo technically,
AdamDanny Trejo has to be there.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt's I don't know what blood pack it is.
AdamBut yeah.
AdamIt's a feature.
ChrisBut was he in was he in was it Dusk till Dawn?
AdamYeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisOkay.
AdamHe's in From Dusk till Dawn.
AdamOh, right.
AdamHe's he in From Dusk till Dawn? Yeah, I'm sure he is.
LeeYeah, he is.
AdamYeah.
LeeBut obviously Machete, Machete kills.
LeeSo, yeah, Danny Trejo is fantastic.
AdamHe is.
Leeso Adam, what have you been watching?
Adamso I, I assume you is that all you've been watching, Chris? Anything else or just?
Chriswell, I've also been watching Foundation, but that's that's not it's not really horror, so it's okay we can we can move on.
ChrisBut it's I I would say every episode is getting way better so if anyone does have Apple TV, you like sci-fi, fairly serious sci-fi with some maths thrown in.
ChrisIt's it's it's there, it's pretty good, I'd say.
LeeI have had it recommended to me and it is on my list.
Leeand if it wasn't for all the stuff I've smashed through in the last couple of weeks, I'd have even started it.
LeeBut yeah, I will get to it.
LeeDefinitely.
ChrisThe first few episodes, a bit little bit, wasn't sure but it's some good elements, but yeah, each one now.
ChrisWe we've got I think there's 10 in the first series, we've got one and a half left, and yeah, each one is like, oh, I'm tempted to watch another one, but you know, it's getting a bit late.
LeeSorry to cut you off there, Chris.
ChrisNo, no, no, that's fine, no, I wasn't I wasn't going to mention that, but I thought let's throw it in there, seeing as Adam came back to me.
ChrisBut yeah, carry on, go for it.
Adamwell, after still on a slight hangover of, John Dies at the End.
AdamI went back and watched Resolution which is a film by Benson Moorhead who did The Endless and,
AdamSynchronic and Spring.
AdamAnd lots of.
AdamLots of I know Lee wasn't keen on it.
ChrisYeah, well, I I like the titles if anything.
AdamYeah, well, that well certainly, but the thing is with Resolution is I think that is the one that might convince Lee.
AdamBecause.
AdamIt is a very strongly comedic film and weird shit happens.
AdamIn that basically it's a guy gets a video from his mate of him smoking crack and firing guns in the woods and just yeah, so he leaves his he leaves his pregnant wife and says, look, I've got to go and sort this out.
AdamAnd she's like backing him saying like, go and see him, see if you can get him to go to rehab.
AdamRather than go to rehab, he goes there, handcuffs him to the radiator, and basically says, look, you're going to go cold turkey on crack, and then afterwards tell me if you want to go to rehab or you want to suit your life out.
AdamThis is like the last which by the way, sounds fucking deathly serious.
AdamBut the interaction of the two guys,
Adamparticularly the guy who is the addict,
AdamOh, man, it is so fucking funny.
AdamIt's just, yeah, it's brilliant.
AdamThe best the best way I can recommend it to Lee is certainly is that imagine it's Henry Zabrowski chained to a wall while someone makes him withdraw from crack.
AdamIt's very much that same sort of vibe and energy and yeah.
AdamBut.
AdamThe weird side of it is nicely weird as well.
AdamBecause basically one the one who's sort of like babysitting him while he comes off, starts finding like pictures left around the building and like around the house.
AdamAnd like real to real tapes and old city film and things like that.
AdamAnd then finally at one point, while they're having a conversation, he says to him, yeah, but you sent me that video.
AdamAnd it's like, no, I didn't send you a video.
AdamAnd so suddenly they realize that they're actually observed in some way.
Lee
AdamAnd it's really fucking, yeah.
AdamAnd I would say, I would say give it a go, Lee.
AdamBecause I know and I think actually,
Adambecause the other thing with it is that I watched The Endless first.
AdamAnd Resolution kind of is a prequel to it.
Adamyou don't need to have seen Resolution for The Endless to work.
AdamAlthough at one point in The Endless you do go, oh, fuck, right, now I know what these guys are doing.
LeeI remember actually, when we watched The Endless, I'm sure you said, yeah, those two guys in the shack have got their own side movie.
AdamYeah.
Leeyeah, and you discussed it when we covered The Endless.
LeeSo yeah, I I I might give it a go, remember you recommending it at the time, but I really have got.
AdamWell, I'd say that because also I think I think you'd quite like Spring.
Adamand Synchronic is just very fucking good.
AdamYou know, one of those things where you just put it on.
AdamAnd it's like, this is.
Adaman efficiently told story.
AdamIt feels like John Carpenter or something like that where it's like that's just you ain't fucking around.
AdamHere's the story, here's the high concept, right, you've got it, right, we're going with it.
AdamAnd yeah, it's really, yeah, I really recommend that.
AdamI like I like all their stuff, to be honest.
Adambut yeah, I really I really like that.
AdamBut yeah, that was as I say that was kind of like a hold over where it was like, something a bit John dies at the end.
AdamI don't know.
AdamBut it's got that because it's got that same character interaction of just sort of like, yeah.
Adamanyway.
AdamAlso, and that was obviously.
AdamSee, I've I've I've.
Adamsequel all this.
AdamThis is great.
Adam
AdamAnd obviously that was that was if we watched John Dies at the End as my birthday film.
AdamVery kindly Chris got me, a Blu-ray of It Happened Here, which is from 1968.
AdamAnd it's basically a.
Adamwhat happened if Germany took over England during the Second World War?
AdamSo basically we surrender and then we're an occupied nation.
AdamSame as France or whatever like that.
AdamAnd.
AdamIt was it's fucking good and so and then it just takes such a dark turn at the end.
AdamBecause it's like, well, much like Nazi Germany took a dark turn at the end, shall we politely put it or ridiculously put it.
AdamIt's like, yeah, as and you just follow someone who's quite ordinary.
AdamAnd it's and it's really weird because coming out of the well not coming out of the pandemic, but choosing to ignore the pandemic.
AdamAs it appears to be this the solution now.
Adam
AdamIs there's loads of bits where it's like they're saying, yeah, but.
AdamYou know, they're rounding up people or, you know, they're they're doing this, they're doing that, they're killing people or whatever.
AdamAnd people are all quite, yes, I know it's authoritarian, but it'd be just nice to get back to normal, wouldn't it?
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know, or like, oh, I got an extra potato on me ration, you know, so it's it's proven it is worth it.
AdamYou know.
AdamAnd everyone's kind of like, well if we just work with them, you know, that's the new administration, let's just get on with it.
AdamBecause it's a lot easier than the fucking war was.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamAnd it's so sort of it's horrifying in that manner.
AdamAnd then you follow this woman through who's a nurse and I mean, I'm going to right people can skip a couple of minutes because I think I just want to say.
AdamBasically this nurse ends up working for the only nursing organization, which is a fascist run nursing organization.
Adama couple of friends of hers have taken in.
AdamBecause, oh, there's.
Adampartisans as well.
AdamSo America is funding British partisans.
AdamSo there's still like much like the resistance in France, there's people like out in the woods and stuff like that who are still waging war on the occupying German forces.
AdamSo you've got that in there.
AdamAnd then she she just happens to know some people who get mixed up, well, basically they are partisan sympathizers, they end up having the having an injured partisan at their house.
AdamAnd it gets found out, they get taken away.
AdamAnd yeah, you don't see them again.
AdamAnd that's it and there's no explanation given.
AdamAnd she gets demoted and sent to the country to work in a different hospital.
AdamBut it seems like a much better hospital.
AdamBecause it's all like, no, it's not like the, you know, like London's sort of fascist lead thing.
AdamWe don't believe in that here.
AdamAnd everything.
AdamSo she gets to dress as a nurse rather than a stormtrooper and stuff like that.
AdamWhich it sounds ridiculous, but it's not in the context of thing.
AdamAnd.
AdamYeah, so she goes and works at this place and it's like a sanatorium in the country and they have a group of miners brought in who've got TB.
AdamIncluding a small child.
AdamAnd they give them their sedative at night.
AdamAnd she and like this nurse is helping out, they give them the sedatives, they give them the sedatives at night.
AdamAnd,
AdamYeah, she goes off shift.
AdamComes back the next day, all the beds are empty.
AdamAnd basically they've been administering lethal doses as would have been the same in Germany at the time.
AdamOf for ill and disabled and incurable patients.
AdamAnd it's just so fucking horrific.
AdamAnd this as I say and the film really it's brilliant and so well done.
AdamIt was filmed over eight years.
AdamBecause it's actually directed by when they started, the directors were 18 and 16.
LeeOh.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd yeah.
AdamAnd in the end they were doing this movie and it got so sort of people were putting money in, you know, and everything else like and quite famous directors.
AdamLike I think Kubrick donated film stock that was left over from
AdamDr. Strangelove.
AdamAnd all this, you know, there were people were really sort of chipping in in this sort of thing of it's like, no, this is something worthwhile.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah, and it's yeah, it's just I mean, it's fucking amazing.
AdamSo thank you, Chris.
AdamAnd it is one of those things where I would say, going into it knowing knowing what it is.
AdamBut fuck me, it's so good and so fucking.
ChrisIt still hits hard.
AdamYeah, it really does.
AdamAnd as I say, there's those you do still get those parallels like I said when it's when it's mostly just British people being sort of like, well, I got an extra ounce of backy.
AdamAnd, you know, the buses are running again.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo, you know, what's what's the problem, really?
AdamYou know.
AdamAnd,
ChrisWhat what did the Nazis ever do for us? Well,
Adam
AdamAnd,
Adamapart from that and this I think will probably feed quite into Lee's things.
AdamSo I watched I watched Tokyo Gore Police a couple of nights ago.
AdamAnd then yesterday it was like again, what do you do?
AdamSo I went for a film that features the special effects of the director and special effects guy of Tokyo Gore Police, RoboGeisha.
LeeYes.
AdamWhich.
Adamis.
AdamAnd here's the best bit is.
AdamIt's a film I've been meaning for Claire to see because I thought she'd sort of quite enjoy it.
Adambecause it's fucking mad.
AdamI mean, like Tokyo Gore Police the same.
AdamBut,
Adamyeah, sort of I was like, oh, I don't know, should I watch it? Will I end up getting confused between the two but like within two seconds of the opening Claire was like,
AdamYou're not going to get this confused, are you?
AdamLike,
Adamno, no, really not.
AdamIt's.
Adamyou know, so similar and so not similar.
AdamIt's quite an impressive sort of thing.
AdamBut yeah.
AdamAnd it does actually have a cameo from, the, the director of Tokyo Gore Police as well.
Adamhe's one of the he's one of the Yakuza and bosses who gets killed off in like a montage.
LeeOh, nice.
LeeI didn't realize that.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd,
Adamyeah, which is just the story the well, it's it's what it says on the tin.
AdamIt's Robogager.
ChrisNow, you took you took my slogan away from me.
LeeYeah.
ChrisI was going to use that for Tokyo Gore Police.
LeeYeah.
AdamNow this is an interesting thing I've been thinking about, though.
AdamAnd I shouldn't be.
AdamBut.
AdamThere's like so RoboGeisha, Tokyo Gore Police, you know, there there's others that are a bit more obscure.
AdamBut a lot of the time it always sounds a bit.
AdamBasically.
AdamPorn films used to be sort of puns or, you know, they'd be sort of like,
Adamtits in the trees, I don't know, you know, something a bit more romantic, maybe.
AdamBut.
AdamBut because of because pornography is now driven purely by computers and the internet, all porn titles are now like shopping lists because it works with algorithms.
ChrisFor searching.
AdamYeah, yeah.
AdamSo, you know, it's.
LeeSo we've lost that.
AdamI I don't even want to speculate.
AdamBut you you know what I mean, it would be like.
Adamteen urban gorilla.
Adambig tits.
AdamI don't know.
AdamYou something like that that would then.
LeeWhat are you watching?
AdamWell, I was trying to I was trying to find something wasn't well, basically didn't sound didn't sound like I'd actually looked it up.
AdamBut,
LeeWell, it's funny.
AdamBut yeah and I I I get that sort of same thing with Japanese like translations of like the the English translations of Japanese titles.
AdamHave that same thing to me.
AdamWhere it's like, I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen.
ChrisThey become very literal.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd and I wonder if that would help in these days that people are sort of like,
Adamshould films start going that more, you know, like.
AdamEvil Space Bastard, you know, something like that.
AdamThat gives you.
AdamActually, it's it's very much a low it's a low budget horror thing, definitely.
AdamBecause it goes back it's kind of like exploitation films, I suppose.
AdamYeah.
AdamIt goes back to that, you know, where it's like the.
Adamsort of, you know.
AdamJust the night manglers or something that's quite sort of.
AdamAnd that's yeah.
AdamI'm going to stop now because I feel I'm going to blind alley of a tangent.
LeeYeah.
AdamI've lost it.
LeeAnd and the thing is you've you've led perfectly into one of my films.
LeeSo I wasn't sure where I was going to start with what I've been watching, but that's perfect.
LeeSo, yeah, so I watched RoboGeisha as well.
LeeI also watched The Machine Girl.
AdamOh, yes.
LeeYeah.
Leewhich again, exactly the same vein.
Leeand then also I watched one called Kyonyû Dragon is the Japanese title.
ChrisHow does that translate?
Leebut as Adam said, it was released in the UK as Big Tits Zombie.
AdamYes.
Leewhich it is a lie because there isn't a Big Tits Zombie in it, it's a group of strippers who find a secret door in the green room, that leads to an occultist's lair.
LeeAnd one of them, the goth one reads from a book and brings back zombies.
Leeand they have to fight them in order to stop them from getting out and attacking Japan.
LeeSo yes.
LeeIt's it's one of those.
LeeI heard about it because it was originally it was around this same period all these films were coming out.
LeeAnd it was based on a graphic novel.
LeeSo I was like, oh, yeah, great.
LeeYeah, and then when they announced what the title was going to be, I was like, oh man, that's going to be on my Amazon list for the rest of my life now.
LeeDo I really want to pre-order that?
LeeAnd I was like, fuck it, who's looking at my Amazon list?
LeeSo yeah.
AdamYeah, but that's.
AdamThat's the point as well.
AdamIs yeah, but I think sometimes that the I mean, obviously the problem with algorithms is that it fundamentally means you have to repeat the same mistakes, so you you know, you have to.
AdamRight, so we have to keep refining this by fucking this up every single fucking time.
AdamYou know, like like Groundhog Day.
AdamBut with generations and fucking aons.
Adambut.
AdamI digress.
AdamThis might be just a fundamental opposition that I have.
Adam
LeeSo, yes, so I watched those.
LeeI then realized I was talking to someone recently about Guillermo del Toro.
LeeAnd realized that I I had a period in the in the sort of nineties when I didn't watch a lot of films, I was living in a bedsit and my girlfriend at the time much preferred playing PlayStation to watching stuff.
LeeSo I I didn't really see anything for a while and because of that, I missed Blade 2.
LeeAnd as a result, I therefore never saw Blade 3 either.
LeeSo this week I've gone back and rewatched all of the Blade movies.
LeeWell, I say rewatch.
LeeI rewatched Blade and then the two subsequent movies.
Leethey're so much more fun than I remember the first one being.
LeeIt's so I don't think I'd realized just how sort of nod to literally.
LeeThere's bits when he looks in the camera and delivers the most ridiculous role.
LeeWesley Snipes is phenomenally good in these in those films.
Lee
LeeYeah, and I really, really enjoyed them as a trilogy.
LeeThey still look really good.
LeeExcept for Blade Soul, which looks like he's bought in a pound shop, it's the most plastic shit looking thing I've seen in my life.
LeeAnd the thing is once you've realized how crap looking it is, it's always on his back, you can't not see it, it just looks gash.
LeeBut other than that, it they still hold up and they're, you know, they're great fun.
Lee
AdamWas it worried sometimes when they've put that much money into it?
AdamAnd it's like, well, it it's on his back so we'll have to have it soft so if he falls over or whatever like that.
AdamBut like the BBC can do a convincing frying pan that you can hit someone with.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, and it's like, what what are you spending your money on?
AdamCome on.
LeeYeah.
LeeSo, so we watched the third one just before we started recording tonight.
LeeAs I say, the first time.
LeeSo I knew Ryan Reynolds was in it, I didn't realize he was basically playing Deadpool in it.
LeeWhich was.
AdamOh, okay.
Leeyeah, he plays the exact same smart ass, never knows when to keep his mouth shut, always got a funny line no matter how much he's getting the shit kicked out of him.
Lee
LeeAnd then Natasha Lyonne's in it.
LeePatton Oswalt's in it.
LeeIt's just.
AdamAll right.
LeeIt's fantastic.
LeeSo, yeah, I was totally blown away by that and yeah, it made for a great weekend.
AdamIs the third one Guillermo del Toro?
LeeI don't think so, no.
LeeIt's only played two, isn't it?
LeeYeah.
Lee
LeeBut yeah, as I say, and and Wesley Snipes, I I sort of remember Wesley Snipes overacting in it, which he totally does.
LeeBut it's it's.
AdamYeah.
LeeBut it's when he does the sort of look to camera and does that, you've got to be kidding, right?
LeeThat it just like, oh he's totally in on it and it's and I missed that the first time round.
LeeI think, although I enjoyed the film, I think I missed that it didn't take itself too seriously.
LeeYeah, I think I was.
AdamYeah, I know you mean, yeah.
LeeTo fully take that in.
LeeBut yeah, fantastic.
AdamWell, if I remember rightly, that came out around Blade and that came out around about the same time as the first Underworld film.
LeeYeah.
AdamWhich did take itself far too fucking seriously.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, and I think that's why the Blade films are so much better.
LeeBecause they know they're ridiculous and they just go.
LeeAnd it gets more ludicrous as it goes.
LeeYou know, in the first one he has to have injections to stop him from going full vamp.
LeeAnd by the third one, he's just got this mouthpiece, like a gum shield, and he just puts it in and choose on it and then he's fine again.
LeeIt's like it's just.
Leeludicrous, but awesome.
LeeSo.
AdamThey're probably things that come from the comics, though.
LeeYeah, quite possible.
AdamYou know what I mean, it might have been that they as writers come in, they always up stuff or change it around.
AdamAnd it's like, oh, well, that's a fucking pain in the ass.
AdamLet's write this.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo I wonder if it's because they certainly I know that they do it very well with.
Adamlike Marvel stuff.
AdamOf putting in the sort of comic beats in a way, you know, so you get that.
AdamThey still have the proper backstory or the significant backstory.
LeeYeah.
LeeBut yeah.
LeeOh, so much fun.
Leeso from that, I then went on to a load of Japanese stuff.
LeeBecause I I've always been love Japanese culture and history.
LeeAnd I've been really into that since I was a kid.
LeeSo I do every now and again just go for a wave of watching like Japanese films.
LeeSo I dug all my all my stuff out and then I didn't watch any of it.
LeeAnd I watched loads of like Hollywood versions of Japanese films.
LeeSo I watched 47 Ronin from.
AdamOh, yeah.
Lee2013, Keanu Reeves movie.
Leewith Hiroyuki Sanada as well, who's just one of the greatest actors ever.
Leethis film is a total guilty pleasure of mine, I know it really isn't a great film, but this is probably about the eighth time I've seen it.
LeeSo.
LeeIt's it's well worth it.
LeeIt's a it's a stupid action movie.
LeeBut yeah, set in feudal Japan.
LeeSo.
LeeHow wrong can you go with that?
Leeafter that, I watched Black Rain from 1989.
AdamOoh.
LeeWith Michael Douglas.
AdamYes.
LeeThe Ridley Scott movie.
AdamYeah.
LeeI wasn't going to watch it, but I saw, I've not listened to the latest not for everyone podcast, but I did see on there that they that somebody watched it.
LeeI think it was Adam recently watched it.
AdamI think it was, yeah.
LeeSo it was in.
LeeYeah, so it was in the description and it reminded me last night when I had nothing much on so I decided to give that another go.
Lee
LeeYeah, and fantastic.
LeeReally enjoyed it.
LeeI mean, it's it's so 80s, it's kind of painful.
LeeBut if you like 80s trash.
AdamYeah.
LeeIt.
AdamI.
AdamI always remember the trailer for it look, because it was it was on loads of fucking.
Adamfilms at one point like videos at one point like rent.
AdamAnd.
AdamBut the trailer always it looked like because you've got you've got the set in and everything else like that.
AdamAnd slow mo guns and stuff like that.
AdamIt really looked quite Blade Runner.
LeeIt it's funny, that's what I always got from it.
LeeAnd it's all in the dark and there's lots of neon.
LeeSo yeah, it's totally got that Blade Runner feel.
AdamIsn't John didn't John Carpenter write it or something?
AdamI'm sure there's something connection with John Carpenter with it.
AdamOr am I.
AdamI'm I might be, oh, shit.
AdamI might be thinking of that fucking film with Tommy Lee Jones and a supercar.
LeeOh, I don't know what that is, but I want to see.
ChrisThat sounds like something Lee would want to watch.
LeeYeah.
AdamActually.
AdamI mean, yeah, it's I yeah, it's quite an early film, John Carpenter wrote it but he didn't direct it with Tommy Lee Jones and basically he's got a.
Adama Night Rider, you know, like a sort of government supercar.
AdamAnd that that is literally what I can remember.
Lee
AdamWhich I don't think he's a comment on the film, but I think it might be a comment on what state I watched the film in.
LeeI've written it down, so I'll find out what that is tomorrow.
AdamBlack Moon Rising.
LeeOkay.
LeeI'll I'll look for that.
Leethen after that had finished, it was only midnight and I was still going.
LeeSo I watched for the first time 13 Assassins, the Takeshi Miike film.
AdamOh, yes.
LeeWow, what a movie that is.
AdamYeah, that is pretty fucking.
AdamHis it's it's weird because he's done so much, because I mean I I would imagine by the time, certainly from the time we started this podcast, if I'd written down how many films he'd done, he'd already done two more by now.
AdamSo I'd had to have like shave shave the estimate a bit.
AdamBut.
Adambecause he's done so much, but he does his like crime and Yakuza stuff, he's fucking terrific, you know.
AdamAnd it's weird because you assume because it's because it's him.
AdamYou assume that it's going to be fucking mad because that's the other side of things that you get with him.
AdamAnd it isn't necessarily.
AdamBut they do, he does melt it now and again really fucking well.
LeeWell, this did, like it started off really grim at the beginning because so for anyone who hasn't seen it, the story is that the Shogun's got a half brother.
LeeAnd he's getting on a bit and he's worried the emperor has said he's going to put his half brother in to replace the Shogun at some point soon.
LeeBut the half brother is a fucking head case, who just murders, and mutilates and is just an absolute animal.
Leeso to stop him, the Shogun basically hires an assassin and says, look, can you put a team together and take him out because there's no way he can be running his country.
Leeand this group of assassins go after him.
LeeSo the beginning of it is just all the stories of what this animal has done and it's really horrific.
LeeBut then it's got some really comical moments in it as well once it gets going later on.
LeeLike.
LeeThe guy they picked the 13th member who they picked up in the jungle, when they're crossing the mountain as he starts off as a guide.
LeeAnd then at the end he says, oh, no, I'm going to stick with you guys.
LeeOne of the Samurai sneaks up behind him and clubs him with a great big trunk of a tree to knock him out and he just turns around and goes, what, what do you want?
LeeLike, like as if the guy had tapped him on the shoulder.
LeeAnother one comes up and clubs him again and he turns around and goes, why are you all trying to get my attention?
LeeAnd then nobody's talking to him.
LeeHe doesn't work out that they're trying to knock him unconscious.
LeeAnd then they're like, this guy's really tough, he's an idiot, but he's really tough.
LeeSo they just take him into battle with two boulders wrapped up in ropes rather than swords and he just clubs the living shit out of everyone with them, it's just, oh, it's just, yeah, it's it's it's really.
LeeIt is, it's that thing where tonally it's kind of up and down, but somehow it just makes it work.
LeeAnd it's epic.
LeeFantastic.
Leethe next thing.
LeeI watched after that, Adam, if you have this is what I was saying to you before we started.
LeeAdam, if you haven't seen this, it is a crime, have you seen Samurai Champloo?
AdamNever even fucking heard of it.
LeeRight.
LeeSo it's the same guy who did Cowboy Bebop.
AdamOh, right.
LeeHe's an.
LeeIt's an anime series about two Samurai and a young girl trying to track down a basically she wants to find this samurai, but all she knows is he smells of sunflowers.
LeeShe rescues two Samurai from being executed at the beginning.
LeeSo they've got like a blood pact and have to stay with her until they find this samurai she's looking for.
Leebut it's all hip-hop and stuff in all the cutaways in between.
LeeAnd all the fight sequences have hip-hop music playing over them.
LeeIt's so you.
LeeIt's just fantastic.
AdamCool.
LeeOh.
LeeSo I won't go into too much on that.
LeeAnd finally, just to wrap up very quickly, I also watched the whole of the Netflix series Age of Samurai.
AdamOh, yes.
LeeExcuse me, I'd down a cherry Pepsi Max before we started.
LeeAnd it's trying to.
Leeso it's basically it covers a 30-year span at the end of or not at the end, but a 30-year span of feudal Japan, how they went from all of the areas being controlled by their own clans.
LeeBasically one clan started getting bigger and bigger and kind of took over.
Leeand the guy who started it gets superseded as they go along the way and all the rest of it.
LeeBut.
LeeIt's just incredible, so it's a it's a dramatization of historical events.
LeeSo it cuts between talking heads of historians and, you know, them actually playing it out.
AdamOh.
LeeOh.
LeeIt's just incredible, I watched it.
LeeI watched all six episodes, so that's about five hours long, I watched it in one go.
LeeAnd when it gets got to the end, I was so gutted.
LeeI was tempted to go back and start the whole thing again.
LeeIt's so entertaining.
Leepretty brutal and nasty in places, but I mean, it it's historically accurate as as much as I can tell.
LeeSo it kind of would be.
LeeBut yeah, it's a really,
Leereally good story.
LeeSo if you get the opportunity, make your way through that.
LeeAnd that.
Leefinally is everything I watched in the last two weeks.
ChrisThat's been a busy two weeks.
LeeOr.
Leenot busy two weeks.
LeeI've literally been working,mming and watching stuff and that's literally it.
LeeOh.
LeeExcept for.
LeeI would like to say a massive thank you very quickly.
Lee
LeeAdam, guest on the show previously, when we did what did we do?
LeeIt was a Netflix anime thing, Castlevania.
ChrisCastlevania, yeah.
Leeon with Adam day before yesterday in London and he took me around the Natural History Museum because I'd never been.
ChrisOh, excellent.
LeeIt was a bit of a fleeting visit, we only had like an hour and a half because we were going off to see Book of Mormon.
LeeSo we stopped in on the way.
AdamWhich is great.
LeeOh, I literally had to wipe tears away from my face, I laughed so hard.
LeeThat was fantastic.
LeeBut yeah, so thanks very much again to Adam for that.
LeeWe need to get a Welcome to Horror group together at some point and catch him on a day off again and get into take us down and and show us around.
AdamYeah.
Leedefinitely.
LeeIt was fantastic.
LeeSo anyone who's not been to the Natural History Museum, I like 40 years old, never been to the Natural History Museum.
LeeI was missing out.
LeeI definitely going back and doing like a full half day there at least.
LeeSo.
AdamI I'll tell you what.
AdamIt's the wonderful thing is with it is,
AdamI used to that was something where I used to just go on me up.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamYou know, because you can just because in a weird way it's like.
AdamI don't want someone to have to put up with how long I'm going to stare.
LeeYeah.
LeeAlso, they do sleepovers at the National History Museum as well.
LeeYes, he did mention that.
LeeAnd I did I do like the sound of that, I've got and he said they they do entertainment and like you get a full meal and everything.
LeeSo, yeah, I I could totally see myself doing that, yeah.
LeeThank you, Claire.
LeeBut yeah, I think that's definitely one of the things on my hit list to do at some point once the world goes back to normal.
AdamAlso a big thank you to.
AdamErie Essex.
AdamWho they gave us a lovely shout out.
AdamSo thank you for that, ladies.
AdamAnd,
AdamYeah, go listen to that.
AdamAnd obviously go listen to not for everyone.
LeeAbsolutely.
LeeOh, to the ladies from Eerie Essex who asked when we're covering Rosemary's Baby.
LeeJust for you, we've added it to the end of our current watch list so in the next six weeks or so, it will be coming up.
LeeSo we're going to cover it just for you.
LeeSo there you go.
LeeMark of support for Essex people podcasting.
AdamAnd and we have also some a late dispatch from Joe Watson.
AdamWho's watched the Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah.
Adamand he gave I think he said he gave it seven out of 10.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamSo that's not, yeah.
AdamBecause it's what it's weird, I just keep hearing so many different things.
AdamWhere people are, oh, it's so crap.
AdamAnd then other people that is, oh my God, it's amazing.
AdamAnd, yeah.
AdamI just don't believe him.
LeeI I need to check it out.
LeeAs I said, if it wasn't for the fact I I wanted I had so many things I wanted to hit before we got to this episode.
LeeAlthough none of them will be in any way relevant and be discussed.
LeeI for my own, sanity, yeah, I just sometimes I just like to get into a little niche and just sit in it for a while.
LeeAnd that's where I've been for the last fortnight.
LeeSo I didn't want anything that was going to.
Leeencroach on that, but yeah, that's definitely next, I think.
LeeSo.
AdamJust a quick one, just before we start.
LeeOh.
AdamHave you seen the the stuff for Studio 666?
LeeNo.
AdamFoo Fighters have made a horror film.
LeeOh, I heard talk of this.
LeeI wasn't sure if.
AdamYeah, it's.
AdamIt's been made.
AdamNow, I think it's actually been made.
LeeOh yeah.
LeeI need to see that.
AdamYeah, I was I thought to myself, yeah, no.
LeeI'm not a massive Foo Fighters fan, but their music videos, I don't know if they still are, but they used to be magnificent.
LeeSo I.
AdamNot only that.
AdamAlso, I'm not a big Foo Fighters fan, I'm a massive Dave Grohl fan.
LeeYeah.
ChrisThat's that's that's me.
ChrisAbsolutely.
LeeYeah.
ChrisYeah, definitely.
LeeAlso, Glenn Danzig has got a new one out.
LeeA cowboy zombie, a cowboy vampire movie.
AdamOh, right, I think all of his movies could be described as cowboy.
LeeIt shows.
Leeon IMDb that it came out last year, but I cannot find it to watch or buy anywhere, so I don't know if it's been universally panned and has disappeared or if they're just having distribution issues.
LeeBut.
AdamMaybe maybe it's just Danzig's finally discovered the emotion of shame.
LeeToo late, Glenn, too late.
LeeYeah.
LeeI love the miss fits, but that last film was just, oh, painful.
LeeSo.
LeeYeah.
AdamI one thing I will say just as a closing statement with Tokyo Gore Police.
AdamAnd this is.
Adama terrible thing.
AdamWe haven't had a door in our lounge for about a year.
Adamdue to it being removed and then several lockdowns and so on and so forth.
AdamBut.
AdamYeah, we finally have had a living room door for the first time in a year.
AdamSo Tokyo Gore Police was the first film I've managed to watch for this podcast without well, as loud as I wanted to.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd what.
AdamBut more importantly, the ridiculously thing is.
AdamI usually have to watch stuff with subtitles.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd even though I could have this as fucking loud as I wanted to.
AdamI still was reading subtitles.
LeeYeah.
AdamBut it's fucking worth it.
LeeI am looking forward to being able to go back and watch films now, yeah, without having to have subtitles on.
LeeBecause I I've spent that last two weeks nothing but subtitles.
Lee
LeeSo, yes, so to close out, definitely go and watch this.
LeeIt's amazing and the subsequent films, so for our next episode, we are going to be covering a film that Adam and I saw at the cinema at the Gwarzone weekend, the reason I wanted to cover this was twofold, one, when Chris and I this year went to Horror on Sea, we saw a Danielle Harris movie, yes, yeah, so I wanted to watch this because it's one of my favorite Danielle Harris movies.
LeeI loved this film so much.
LeeI must have seen it loads, and there is.
LeeI don't know if I'm sure I'll tell the story again next week, but there was an actor in it and I'm sure when we left the cinema I said to Adam, I really hope I see him again.
LeeHe was really good and then I just watched him in the latest James Bond film.
LeeSo good to see him out and working.
Leeso we are going to be watching Blood Night, the Legend of Mary Hatchet.
Lee
Leelow budget film which I don't think I've seen since Gore Fest.
AdamSo.
AdamI'm going to be really interested to see it.
LeeYou're in for a treat.
LeeI believe it might be on Netflix, I I double check there's obviously I bought it as soon as it came out after we'd seen it.
Leebecause I loved it so much and I've watched it half a dozen times.
Lee
LeeBut yeah, I think I saw it recently.
LeeI checked and it was on Netflix.
LeeI I definitely found it somewhere to watch online on a subscription.
Leething that we've all got, so something like that.
Lee
LeeYes.
LeeSo go and track down a copy of that.
LeeHopefully you won't regret it.
LeeIt's back to super low budget independent movies, but done really well.
LeeSo.
AdamExcellent.
Leeto look forward to it.
AdamYeah.
LeeOn Bill Mosley.
LeeNever go wrong with Bill Mosley.
LeeRight, so thanks ever so much for listening, everyone.
Leego and check out Tokyo Gore Police.
LeeGo and watch Blood Night.
LeeAlso listen to Eerie Essex.
LeeAlso listen to not for everyone podcast, obviously.
LeeBrothers Across Seas.
LeeAnd we shall see you all in the fortnightly time for Blood Night.
LeeGoodnight.
AdamGoodnight.
ChrisGoodnight.
