Wild Zero
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Our Punk Horror double bill concludes with a recommendation from Leadbelt Art - a film that had slipped under the whole team’s radar for 23 years - the magnificently mental “Wild Zero”. A documentary detailing 2 days in the life of your average gun-toting, fire-belching, shuriken-plectrum-wielding, spirit-guiding jet rock ‘n’ roll band. In this film we learn the very worst way to rob a petrol station; the power of a business leotard; and that a grenade launcher livens up any negotiations. A thrilling dose of unapologetic madness, featuring zombies, explosions, nudity and, at its heart, “Love has no borders, nationalities or genders” a very pure message in a film that takes literally nothing else seriously - watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us.
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LeeGood evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI'm Adam.
LeeAnd we are here yet again for another exciting episode. This evening we are going to be discussing 1999's Wild Zero.
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LeeBefore we get stuck in, a few bits of housekeeping. One, there will be spoilers.
LeeI I feel you can still enjoy this film, even if you listen to this and it wets your appetite, as you hadn't been interested before, it's still worth seeing because there's enough going on.
LeeTwo, there will be swearing.
AdamWe won't adequately describe it. Sorry. You know. Yes. Yeah. You know.
LeeI don't think that's possible.
LeeYes, two, there will be swearing and three, I am full of cold and tripping balls right now.
LeeSo, I've had a cold for a week, it has got, it started in my chest and now it has just gone completely to my head and I'm struggling to remember what day it is.
LeeSo, if I start talking nonsense or forgetting where I am or how to put a sentence together, don't call me an ambulance, I'll be fine tomorrow.
AdamWoo.
ChrisTo be fair, we, like, we can hear a little bit coming on, but you do actually sound in pretty good spirits.
LeeIt it's weird, it's like it's making me really like strange in the head, like having trouble concentrating and stuff.
LeeBut yeah, like I don't feel, you know, normally when you've got a cold, you just feel miserable.
ChrisMiserable.
LeeI don't feel that, I just feel like I've had too much to drink without having had anything to drink.
LeeIt's kind of exciting if I'm honest.
ChrisSo so we might have like 20, 30 minutes and then a sudden crash.
LeeYeah, that's kind of how it goes. That's the thing with these calls, like the tireder you get, the more it kicks in and then all of a sudden you go, yeah, no, now I look like I'm full of Valium and I don't know what the fuck's going on.
LeeBut, to be fair, that is the perfect way to watch this movie.
ChrisOh, yeah.
LeeSo, this was given to us for listener recommendation month.
LeeBy listener Leadbelt.
AdamYeah, Leadbelt Art is on Instagram, yeah.
LeeGo and check him out, his stuff on there's awesome.
LeeI had not even heard of this film, so after it came through and it didn't make it in the random selection, I was like, I'm going to go and check this out, I think.
LeeAnd, yeah.
LeeAs soon as I had, I was like, Adam, you definitely need, Chris, you both definitely need to see this movie.
LeeI'm surprised Adam hadn't already.
ChrisWell, I'm surprised you didn't know about it as well.
LeeYeah, I don't know how it went under the radar.
LeeLike it it ticks all the boxes for me.
LeeSo I was just, as I said, when I watched it, I was like, when it's a film you've never even heard of, you're like, well, if it's kind of good, it's it's a win because it's something a bit left field.
LeeBut yeah, when it's like this, you just like, well, this is fucking awesome, like I I'm just pissed off I've not been watching this film for the last 23 years.
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ChrisYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was 1999.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, I mean it it's so ahead of its time.
LeeBut before I get too carried away and make a mess of myself.
LeeChris, we'll let you jump in first, what did you make of it?
ChrisWell, you segued perfectly.
ChrisI mean it's, yeah, I love having my expectations firmly blown out of the water.
ChrisAnd I can safely say that this achieved it.
ChrisI guess that the the general style is enjoyable, it is one of those where I feel like a few few beers, a few friends and that's you're set.
ChrisThis is perfect for that environment, as we said with a couple of others.
ChrisBut this really really had a a gem to the story that I hadn't expected at all.
ChrisAnd then I was trying to think, like, so 1999, I was trying to think back then I was 19.
ChrisHow ahead of its time was it to have a whole transgender
LeeIt's like the central message of the film.
ChrisYeah, yeah.
LeeIt it literally Rock and Roll Has No Boundaries.
LeeYeah and that's that's exactly it and I fucking love that.
AdamI had to write it down because it's love has no borders, nationalities or genders.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisBut what would we have thought watching it in 19, I was trying to think, would it have been just so acceptable and so, you know, well done and just that's fine.
ChrisThat's just that is part of the story.
ChrisGreat.
AdamI think I think I think us watching it even at that time, that's just speaking for you here, I feel.
AdamBut I think we would have just thought, good on you.
AdamYou know what I mean?
ChrisIt's like.
ChrisBut it must have it would have been so different from so many other things to have done something like that.
ChrisI I was trying to think of what other films would have had messages and combined such a contrasting element.
ChrisYou know, you don't necessarily expect that in this type of film.
AdamWell, I think also the the thing I was thinking, though, was is because up until up until the point where that's the the the sort of scene in question where
AdamTobio sort of reveals to Ice, and his his reaction is shock and disappointment.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBut I was really at that point, I was just I've really enjoyed this fucking film, I hope this isn't going to go nasty at this point.
AdamAnd and actually it was like, no, there's there's shock, there's disappointment which you kind of feel are proper reactions.
AdamThere's no revulsion.
AdamLike in what is it, because obviously like there's The Crying Game, which was around about the same sort of time.
AdamWhich has a reveal, basically the same thing, a reveal halfway through.
ChrisOkay.
AdamAnd he like the character immediately throws up.
Chris
AdamAnd it's like and and that was seen as a fairly progressive film.
ChrisAt the time.
ChrisYeah, but that's yeah, I mean that's that's it.
AdamAnd and the message sort of does come through in the same way, but it's like, you know, but also just the fact that it's like the the spirit guide of the film.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBasically, and not only that, this this is a film in which I I hope, you know, I feel that this is
Adamyou know, this is Wild Zero, you know, in in you know, everything about it is Wild Zero the band.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd there are there are bands with a commitment to cheap bones and
Adamyou know, bikes that spew fire and microphones that spew fire and
LeeAnd cars that spew fire.
LeeEverything spews fire for no fucking reason whatsoever and I love the shit out of that.
ChrisThe rock gods, yeah.
AdamBut but someone who kind of is taking themselves kind of seriously in that sense of making yourself like these basically these superheroes.
AdamYou know, that if they didn't think that, I don't think that message would be in there because that would, you know what I mean, it's like.
AdamAnd yeah, just overall I was just I thought well done.
AdamIn the middle of this what and at this point, can I just say?
AdamIn the middle of this absolutely fucking mad film.
AdamWhich is, you know, it's there's a lot going on.
LeeIt's it's a very hard to get hold of movie.
LeeSo what we'll do is we'll give you a quick rundown of it.
LeeI'll go on Adam.
AdamI was going to say, for anyone who's potentially interested, the file that I had of it has corrupted.
AdamBut I found it on fucking YouTube.
ChrisOh, really?
AdamFull on YouTube on a on a reasonable print.
LeeNice.
AdamSo I had to finish I finished watching on YouTube, because yeah, the the file I had just failed basically.
Adamso yeah.
LeeSo just So just to give everyone a quick run, yes, so you can go and check it on YouTube.
LeeThanks for letting us know, Adam, because like this I I think is absolutely a total recommend from all of us.
Lee
LeeBut just to give you a quick run down, I'm about to tell you the story of the film, do not think that if you know the story of the film, you do not have to watch the film.
LeeBecause it's all about the journey.
Lee
LeeUltimately, it's Plan 9 from Outer Space, with a transgender love story.
LeeIf it was a rock and roll musical.
LeeThat's basically what the film is.
AdamBut it's almost in a weird way, that is incidental to the film.
LeeYes.
AdamLike a lot of these films, the plot is incidental.
AdamIt just happens that the plot falls on the side of well done, right, you know.
AdamYou know.
AdamI think it's oh, fucking hell, just.
AdamNow here's the thing, one of the because most of the people in this have only been in like this.
LeeIn IMDB, only two of the people in this whole film have got pictures.
LeeNobody else has even got it.
LeeAnd one of them's Guitar Wolf, obviously.
ChrisYeah.
AdamWell, there's because the guy who plays because this is the interesting bit is that Claire recognized Toshi.
Lee
AdamBecause he's in Kill Bill.
ChrisOh.
AdamHe's the sleazy businessman who Gogo Yubari murders.
AdamAnd Claire spotted this and she and she just went, she suddenly just burst out and went, oh, for fuck's sake.
LeeAnd I was like, what?
AdamBecause she'd been trying to work out who he was and she just she just was annoyed with herself because her train of thought was, oh, he's in Kill Bill, I wonder if Quentin Tarantino has seen this film.
ChrisAnd it's like.
AdamNo, Quentin Tarantino has definitely seen this film.
AdamYou know, this is.
AdamBecause it's it's sort of half 50s B-movie, it's got aliens that cause a zombie outbreak.
AdamIt's got concert footage of Guitar Wolf the band who.
AdamI I discovered because obviously we were sort of putting this down as punk and I still maintain that because they're essentially the the fucking Japanese Ramones.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah.
AdamBut it's that interesting thing because it's punk much more in the thing of where punk took a load of 50s stuff, so it's that so it's more a 50s look and everything else like that.
AdamBut Guitar Wolf apparently they call their music Jet Rock and Roll.
AdamAnd a few people have thought that they mean Joan Jett because obviously.
AdamBut because they've said, we really like Joan Jett.
Adam
AdamBut no, it's jet as in it sounds like a jet engine.
ChrisOh.
AdamAnd it does, because it's like comically distorted like 50s punk like garage sort of sounding stuff.
AdamAnd but it's but the movie's perfect for that.
ChrisYeah.
LeeIt is, it works fantastic.
LeeIt's one of those when Jennifer said I said we were going to be watching it for the episode and she was like, what's it like?
LeeAnd I was like, it's a bit like Help in that it's basically about the band.
AdamYeah.
LeeAnd everything else that happens is kind of incidental.
LeeBut there is so much going on and so and and that's what it like.
LeeThey are, as you say, you know, like the superheroes of the movie.
Leeyeah.
LeeBut but the story is just it's like they've just taken all their favorite stuff.
LeeThey're like, oh, we love zombie movies.
LeeAnd obviously we've got to have all their musical numbers in there.
LeeAnd we like UFOs.
LeeI'd completely forgotten there were UFOs in this film and it had any kind of a UFO element to it.
LeeI remember it being a zombie film.
LeeAnd then when I watched it back, I was like, but it's caused by UFOs.
LeeAnd then let's not forget, he does cut the mothership UFO in half in the end with his sword guitar or guitar sword, depending on which way you want to look at it.
Lee
LeeI had forgotten all of that shit.
LeeI I remembered them being chased by the club owner, who kept changing his wig and wearing hot pants.
LeeI I remembered that.
LeeBut the whole UFO thing had completely.
LeeAnd it's the opening scene is just Earth surrounded by these funny buzzing UFOs.
LeeAnd I was like, oh, fuck, have I got the wrong movie?
LeeAnd I was like, I'm definitely watching the right one.
AdamAnd weird weirdly, in terms of the CGI, because that's obviously CGI at the start, it's it's fair.
ChrisFor its time.
AdamThe kind of fits.
ChrisAnd it kind of fits in a way, it seems almost like it could be deliberate that it.
AdamYeah, it could but I think it fits in that camp style, yeah.
AdamBut it really it really reminded me of Christopher Eccleston's last episode as Doctor Who because they had Daleks or something.
AdamGold Daleks or something.
AdamAnd to be honest, by 2005, they hadn't really got much better.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, so it kind of at that point, I was sold because I was like, well, that's just immediately reminded me of that anyway.
AdamBut.
ChrisAnd I was just going to check, so so what is the deal with the band, like, why why is it so much about them, like, what was their input and to, yeah.
AdamBasically, guitar guitar will it's another way of looking at it is a bit like Kiss movies.
AdamYou know, it's that same sort of thing where they've basically developed a character as a band.
AdamIt's all say, for example, someone like The Cramps, where the band itself develops this sort of persona that isn't necessarily their actual real life.
AdamBecause it fucking couldn't be.
AdamBut, you know, it's sort of.
Adam
AdamI mean, I actually one thing I thought as well is I I did think have this it felt really like a Mighty Boosh.
ChrisSo I definitely had a few thoughts of that.
AdamYeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamEspecially when it was like because yeah, because basically the the sort of B-plot of it that isn't involving them is this hapless guy called Ace who sort of basically turns himself around, realizes he can do shit and gets the girl.
AdamAnd it's like, yeah.
AdamBut when Guitar Wolf like he accidentally helps Guitar Wolf when they're having a face off, a Mexican standoff with the hot pants club owner and his creepy like henchman.
AdamAnd because of that, they give him a whistle and it's you blow this whistle and we will appear whenever you're in trouble.
AdamThat felt so Mighty Boosh.
LeeBecause it's that sort of.
ChrisWell, I think there is, I think that is actually in Mighty Boosh.
ChrisThere is a.
AdamIt probably is.
ChrisA bit of a storyline with that.
LeeAnd he's just out.
LeeSo Ace gets punched out and Guitar Wolf just cuts his hand and makes some blood brothers while he's still unconscious.
LeeAnd then just yeah, as you say, just throws his whistle on top of him and goes, call us if you need us.
LeeAnd then just walks out.
LeeAnd I'm like.
ChrisThat's completely absurd, but somehow it's like yeah, okay.
LeeAnd he does, he you know, he whistles from two towns away and Guitar Wolf stops everything and goes.
ChrisAce needs it.
LeeTo the car, to the Batmobile and off they go.
LeeAnd it's just.
LeeIt's so bat shit.
LeeAnd I.
LeeThat's what I love is just the absolute lunacy.
LeeAnd watching it today because I know how it ends and where it goes.
LeeWhen I started watching it back today, I was like, the first 20 minutes.
Leefeels like a load of random stories that aren't very exciting, that are just kind of going on.
LeeAnd then yeah, once they all marry up together, it just goes absolutely mental.
LeeAnd there's just no going back from that point.
LeeAnd it just, yeah, so many weird sidelines and stories.
LeeI mean, the gold ball, I'd forgotten all about the gold ball.
LeeAnd as soon as he he was waving it around in that girl's face, I was like.
LeeI remember that being important for some reason.
LeeIt might be what stops him.
LeeNo, it's how Guitar Wolf tricks an arms dealer into getting involved in the zombie war instead of running away.
LeeBecause he tells her that the zombies are full of balls of gold.
LeeAnd if if they kill them, they'll make loads of money.
LeeLike it's just insane.
LeeI mean, who would write a story like that.
LeeIt's so completely insane.
LeeBut.
ChrisOh, we might find out.
ChrisYeah.
AdamSo.
ChrisWho are the geniuses?
AdamWell, it was written by.
AdamSatoshi Tagaki, or Tagaki, sorry.
Adamand Tetsuro Tagauchi who is the director.
Adamas well.
AdamAnd he
AdamI think he was I've had a look, he's done loads of music videos, which you kind of.
LeeOh, yeah, you totally see that.
AdamAnd I think he's recorded Guitar Wolf in
AdamHe's recorded.
AdamYeah, so he's done like Guitar Wolf in concert.
AdamAnd and sort of stuff like that.
AdamBut he's done one other film which is called Florella from 2010.
AdamAnd literally, I can't find anything on anywhere that's anything other than this this one sentence summary, the experiences of a woman as she passes through several life stages.
AdamSo I have no idea what the film is about, it clearly doesn't feature anyone from this.
AdamBecause like like you said, there's only about three people that actually got credits outside of.
Leebeing part of this film, really.
AdamYeah, and it's yeah, it's just a very yeah, just a very weird sort of set up with them that I can't like say, letterbox, IMDB and everything.
AdamThey're just got this one sentence thing, so God knows what the film is about.
AdamAnd it's obviously not sort of got out there or anything like that.
AdamWhereas Guitar Wolf were in a film before this.
AdamWhich sounds like it may be in a similar vein.
AdamThey were in a film called.
Adamwhere are we?
AdamThe Saw Losers.
Adamwhich was 97 and it's a homage to trashy exploitation movies and 50s sci-fi horror by a director called John Michael McCarthy.
LeeThat could be someone's given a synopsis to this film as well to be fair.
LeeSo yeah, you're right.
LeeIt sounds exactly the same.
AdamBut but also but this is the rest of it.
AdamIn which an alien sent to Earth to kill hippies and a recently released female serial killer team up to murder their way across the USA.
AdamIt stars a it stars one of the members of a band called The Oblivions who are like a garage, an American garage band.
AdamWho like Guitar Wolf have just called themselves the band like your name and Oblivion.
AdamLike The Ramones and stuff like that.
Adamand Guitar Wolf were in it as the men in black.
AdamSo yeah.
LeeI need to find this at all.
ChrisThat sounds, yeah.
AdamIt's it it does sound like a cracker.
AdamSo yeah, if you if you have any luck, let me know.
AdamBecause I want to see it now as well.
Adam
AdamBut.
Adam
AdamBut yeah, I think the because then you've got the because obviously you've got the story with the club owner.
AdamYou've got the three people who are just sort of driving to driving to see the meteorite that's landed.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBecause that's the yeah, sorry, that's the whole thing that draws it together is there's a meteorite.
ChrisTrying to learn to use a flick knife.
AdamYeah.
AdamOh, that that the most inept robbery.
LeeYeah.
AdamIn history is just beautiful.
AdamThat really is.
AdamAnd and even down to that, where it's like the the couple find each other as zombies.
AdamThat's all they wanted to do to be flesh.
LeeIt's kind of sweet really in a funny sort of way.
AdamFor the film that this is, it's very weird that it is sweet.
ChrisAs yeah, as effectively, like that way.
AdamYou know.
AdamAnd
AdamBut yeah, Guitar Wolf formed in 1987.
Adamobviously they're a three-piece.
Adamthere's the guitarist Say-guy, he was in a band called Far East Punch and then he met Hey-dia-ki Sekiguchi, aka Billy.
AdamWhich I will probably be referring him to as in when they were working together.
AdamAnd they decided to form a band with Billy on bass and another co-worker on drums.
Adamand then they decided, right, so we're going to be Guitar Wolf, Bass Wolf, Drum Wolf.
AdamAnd the band is called Guitar Wolf.
Adamand then yeah, Narita left fairly early, then it was Say-guy's brother.
AdamAnd then the current drummer joined a guy called Toru.
AdamAnd that's the lineup for this film.
Adamand then what was it, yeah.
AdamIn in 2002, Billy died of a heart attack at the age of 38.
LeeOh, God.
AdamAnd they've had two other bass players, three other bass players since then.
AdamSo, but yeah, so whoever comes in, it's like GWAR and everything where you can.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou adopt, you are now, right, so you're Drum Wolf because you're in.
LeeYeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo.
AdamBut yeah, they did I think yeah, total of 17 albums that they've done over the years.
LeeWow.
AdamAnd I've been listening to and it's it's all good stuff.
AdamBecause it is just literally just that.
AdamThe how they sound in the film, so.
LeeI really enjoyed the music in this.
LeeAnd it's funny, I've watched it this afternoon, so it's the second time I'd seen it with Jennifer.
Leeyeah.
LeeAnd she kind of said, I'd be keen to know if it's bad translation or the lyrics are just very strange.
LeeBecause obviously they come up on the subtitles.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd it's just loads of really random nonsense, which I mean.
LeeI'm sure it to be fair, you don't watch many bands with the subtitles on.
LeeSo it might be actually a lot of stuff that we listen to, you just kind of take it in, but if you were sitting there reading it for the first time.
LeeYou would be like, that doesn't make a lot of sense.
LeeLike I've said before, with Rob Zombie's lyrics, you know, like I really like Rob Zombie's music, but it does sound like he's walked into Walmart and he's walking along the Halloween section and just going, black cat, scary witch, cauldron, there's a candy cone.
LeeAnd that's basically all it is.
LeeThere's no story or anything to it.
LeeHe just says words that make you think of Halloween.
LeeAnd and that's kind of what this was, it was all very strange.
LeeYeah, and you do wonder if it's if it's because of the translation.
LeeYeah, or if they're just like.
ChrisAbstract phrases and concepts.
LeeThey sound awesome, I love the shit out of the music in this.
AdamIt it might make more sense because thinking about it when it's translated.
AdamBecause I'd imagine they rhyme.
LeeYeah.
AdamLike, you know, so probably it sort of makes less even less sense because you're like, well, how does that work because you're not used to that rhyming structure.
LeeYeah, yeah, you're probably right, yeah.
AdamYou know, so it's the stuff would come out completely, you know, it doesn't isn't going to rhyme in English.
LeeYeah.
AdamSo yeah, it might even look weird then where you sort of forgive it in a weird way where it's like, I said, absolute cobblers, but yeah, at least.
LeeIt rhymes.
AdamIt rhymes.
LeeBut when it doesn't rhyme, you just go, oh, I don't I don't get that at all.
AdamI also have to ask a question at this point because I I I this is personally where I'm sitting.
Adamgrenade guns.
Lee
AdamWhy did you bother with any other gun?
LeeWell, all the ones that miss nine times out of 10, yeah, why would you not just blow the fuck out of everything instead.
LeeLike the way he does just go along that block, it's like a that block.
LeeAnd he's just going through right, one shot destroys an entire room.
LeeAnd he's just destroying entire rooms in chain until he gets the one he's after.
LeeAnd you're absolutely right.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamI'm just I'm just thinking whenever.
AdamI would like a revolver, I want no, give me a fucking grenade launcher.
AdamThat makes sense.
AdamAnd yes, I am willing to use it at point blank range.
ChrisYeah, I I was going to suggest a slight downside to it.
AdamYou've never played Hogs of War with me, mate.
LeeOh.
LeeHogs of War with Adam is always fun.
LeeHe kills himself as much as everyone else, but.
LeeWe always just have such a fun time.
LeeOh, do you know what, I'd forgotten how much fucking fun that game is.
LeeI might go and play that when we finish recording this.
LeeRick May's voiceover is just.
LeeAbove possible.
Lee
LeeYeah, so we kind of talk about the lunacy of this, but there is just so much going on, you kind of forget, you do, you just forget massive sections of this film.
LeeAnd then when you watch it back, you suddenly go, yeah, I didn't remember any of that.
LeeThey're like.
LeeAs I say, like the woman the the very first scene where it's the woman standing next to effectively an armored car with a pair of binoculars.
LeeI'd forgotten her character entirely.
LeeI still don't quite know what she was.
LeeWas it her house she was in when they came in and ripped all her clothes up, so she decided to wear a business leotard?
AdamYeah.
LeeThat was her house.
AdamYeah, that was her house because she decided, oh, well, I've been waiting for these people to turn up, they haven't turned up.
AdamBecause obviously you've got the three the guys in the car who were going to buy them.
LeeOh, who's killed them all.
LeeYou see, I never put two and two together, I didn't realize that was who was going to buy the guns from her.
LeeYeah.
AdamYeah, they were going to buy.
AdamAnd also, just how quickly did their chauffeur give up?
AdamHe's like.
AdamOh, there's zombies around us, no, there's zombies around us.
AdamOh, blow my fucking brains out.
AdamYou know.
LeeAnd Jennifer said, at that point, you climb through between the front seats.
Leeto get into the driver's seat.
LeeYou don't think, I'll get outside with all those 35 zombies and try and get in the front seat.
LeeYeah.
LeeYou let it go because it's fun lunacy.
Adam
AdamAnd I have to say, I mean, there is there, you know, they they film it in that way.
AdamBut Guitar Wolf have been working on their image this whole time.
AdamSo they can't help but be like shot impeccably throughout the whole thing.
AdamYou know, again, again, it was a Mighty Boosh thing, is I thought, well, I'm waiting for the guy from Cheekbone Magazine to turn up.
LeeYeah.
LeeIf anyone hasn't seen this film and is going to watch it after us discussing it and finding out you can watch it all on YouTube.
Leeyeah, 100% totally do, but I recommend getting yourself just a few beers.
LeePut them next to you and every time somebody shouts Tobio or rock and roll.
LeeJust have a mouthful of beer, you will be wankered by the time this film finishes after an hour and 37 minutes because it is literally just over and over again.
AdamYeah.
AdamI I have to say, and here we go.
AdamI mean, this is, you know, this is Welcome to Horror.
AdamWe're meant to we introduce Chris to horror films.
AdamWe have been introduced all three of us at at at roughly the same period of enjoyment because obviously I've been watching it for this, but you watched it like how couple of months back or whatever it was.
LeeYeah, yeah, two or three months ago.
AdamSo, you know, this is one that we're all discovering together.
AdamAnd it's fucking great.
AdamIt's just so.
LeeIt it's so so much fun.
ChrisAnd I got to say, I was slightly concerned after having watched Return of the Living Dead.
ChrisI was like, oh, is this zombie film going to hold up and of course it's it's zombies, but it's not the same kind of zombie effect.
ChrisAnd so it's like, yeah, that's different enough and there's so much more craziness.
LeeYou're right, I never realized they are both not only we said we were going to do rock and roll horror.
LeeActually it's rock and roll zombies movies.
LeeYeah, they're actually closer than I remember.
ChrisAnd and of course, because they're both comedies as well, it was like, oh, is this just going to be not as good as as Return of the Living Dead?
ChrisBecause I I was so shocked at how good Return of the Living Dead was.
ChrisIt's like, but they had enough difference in here that it's like, yeah, no.
ChrisThat's this is good.
AdamI actually I actually think it inadvertently makes a really fucking cracking double bill.
ChrisYeah.
Lee100%.
AdamAnd yeah.
AdamI don't feel there's.
AdamI don't think you can you don't lose anything to either film.
Chris
ChrisIt's almost like someone was planning this.
LeeYeah.
ChrisWe know that's not true.
AdamI haven't even seen Wild Zero at that point.
AdamSo I was just like, I looked it up and said, oh, Japanese punk band what they Guitar Wolf do rock and roll.
AdamB-movie horror.
AdamNot only that.
AdamIn the weirdest of sense, I don't even count this as a zombie movie.
Chris
AdamBecause there's loads of fucking zombies in it.
ChrisThere is.
AdamBut it's like it's not even that.
AdamNone of the things we're talking about like point like plot points or anything like that.
AdamAre were to the overall whole.
LeeNo.
AdamYou know, as a as a as a combined thing, it's like, what?
LeeAs you say.
LeeThe the story is just there's so many elements to the story, I had entirely forgotten until watching it back today.
LeeAnd then I was like, so I loved this film so much, I was like, we really, really, really need to watch it.
Leeyeah, and then when I watched it back today, I was like, I'd forgotten all about so many elements.
LeeThe the bit at the petrol station when he just starts like making it rain guitar petrums and just murders an entire hold of zombies with electricity.
LeeI'd forgotten that the fucking captain gets electrocuted and turns into a super zombie.
LeeI'd forgotten any of that even happened.
LeeHow?
LeeHow can you it's like we said with ThanksKilling when we watched it the first time and the opening scene literally opening shot is a pair of boobs and I said, I'd forgotten that ever happened.
ChrisAnd then Chris went, I don't believe how could you I just realized that and I was like, what is the opening scene?
LeeYou see.
LeeYeah.
ChrisFair enough, I accept.
LeeAnd this film is exactly the same.
LeeIt's got so much crazy, mental, enjoyable shit that you forget like things that in another film would be key moments and you just let them pass you by and forget that they're kind of an element of it.
LeeBecause it just goes in so many random directions and all of them are thoroughly enjoyable.
LeeYeah.
ChrisNow what else have we seen?
ChrisI was trying to think the the other Japanese films Tokyo Gore Police.
ChrisSo that's another and so I had some expectation that it was going to have.
ChrisYou know, elements of that, which it's.
AdamThere's a high level of craziness, but yeah, yeah.
AdamBut.
AdamBut again, it's comic gore.
ChrisYeah.
LeeIt looks pretty good as well.
LeeAs you say, for 1999, it's CGI.
Leeyeah, a lot of the head explosions and stuff look pretty realistic.
LeeI mean, Yeah.
AdamYeah.
Leecompared to the UFOs at the beginning.
LeeThey definitely look pretty.
AdamOh, yeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisSo so we can definitely say then Ledbelt Art has confirmed himself.
ChrisAs someone who can recommend in the future.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, 100%.
LeeI mean, as I say, I hadn't even heard of this film.
LeeIt was the only one we got for listener recommendation, this time round that I'd never even heard of.
LeeAnd Adam had said, oh yeah, I've heard of it, but I've I've he's been on my radar and I've been meaning to see it, but I haven't got round to it.
LeeSo I thought.
LeeIt was like it was the middle of summer, I think it was in the heatwave and I was like, I just want something to put on because I can't sleep.
LeeI managed to get hold of it and it had arrived and I was like, oh yeah, I'll just chuck that on.
Lee
LeeYeah, and then found myself sitting up way too late and laughing way too loud, yeah.
LeeAnd messaging him in the middle of the night, which I think he's in the US.
LeeSo it was probably more on his time zone.
LeeBut yeah, literally as soon as the film finished, I had my phone out and I was messaging him on Instagram going.
LeeThank you so much for telling me about this, like it's just totally made my day.
LeeIt was such an unexpected.
LeeYeah.
ChrisAnd I'm pleased to say, I I hadn't seen his profile before, but I'm just having a look through it and he does some really great stuff.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah.
ChrisSo like, yeah, slating, yeah, models and.
ChrisYeah.
LeeYeah, so go and check out Ledbelt Art.
Leeand yeah.
LeeI think we should probably wrap it up here.
LeeSo,
LeeThanks ever so much for listening.
Leego and check out Ledbelt Art, as we've just said.
LeeGo and check out the Not For Everyone Podcast.
LeeCheck out Air CS.
LeeI have just been drinking Werewolf beer.
LeeAs it is currently the 30th of October, I went to their brewery last weekend and had a fantastic time.
LeeSo I yeah, I'm going to have some of their Halloween beer now possibly just to make sure that I definitely sleep and don't just continue wigging out because of this cold.
Lee
LeeYeah, I've I've missed anybody.
AdamI don't think so.
AdamThe only other thing I'd say is check out fucking Wild Zero.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
LeeTotally, as I say, it's one of those, like we've said before, with other films, it's kind of about enjoying the journey.
LeeSo although we've given you the rough idea of what the story is about, it it takes nothing away to know that story and still go and watch it because it's just fantastic.
Leeyeah, and the music is exceptional.
LeeSo go and check out Wild Zero and we will see you all in a fortnight's time for what we've been watching.
LeeThanks very much for listening.
LeeGood night.
AdamGood night.
ChrisGood bye.
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