Wild Zero

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0:23 Lee Good evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.

0:26 Chris I'm Chris.

0:27 Adam I'm Adam.

0:29 Lee And 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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0:41 Lee Before we get stuck in, a few bits of housekeeping. One, there will be spoilers.

0:48 Lee I 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.

0:58 Lee Two, there will be swearing.

0:59 Adam We won't adequately describe it. Sorry. You know. Yes. Yeah. You know.

1:44 Lee I don't think that's possible.

1:46 Lee Yes, two, there will be swearing and three, I am full of cold and tripping balls right now.

1:53 Lee So, 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.

2:03 Lee So, 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.

2:12 Adam Woo.

2:12 Chris To be fair, we, like, we can hear a little bit coming on, but you do actually sound in pretty good spirits.

2:17 Lee It it's weird, it's like it's making me really like strange in the head, like having trouble concentrating and stuff.

2:26 Lee But yeah, like I don't feel, you know, normally when you've got a cold, you just feel miserable.

2:30 Chris Miserable.

2:31 Lee I don't feel that, I just feel like I've had too much to drink without having had anything to drink.

2:36 Lee It's kind of exciting if I'm honest.

2:38 Chris So so we might have like 20, 30 minutes and then a sudden crash.

2:42 Lee Yeah, 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.

2:52 Lee But, to be fair, that is the perfect way to watch this movie.

2:56 Chris Oh, yeah.

2:57 Lee So, this was given to us for listener recommendation month.

3:02 Lee By listener Leadbelt.

3:05 Adam Yeah, Leadbelt Art is on Instagram, yeah.

3:09 Lee Go and check him out, his stuff on there's awesome.

3:13 Lee I 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.

3:22 Lee And, yeah.

3:24 Lee As soon as I had, I was like, Adam, you definitely need, Chris, you both definitely need to see this movie.

3:29 Lee I'm surprised Adam hadn't already.

3:33 Chris Well, I'm surprised you didn't know about it as well.

3:36 Lee Yeah, I don't know how it went under the radar.

3:40 Lee Like it it ticks all the boxes for me.

3:43 Lee So 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.

3:56 Lee But 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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4:03 Chris Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was 1999.

4:06 Lee Yeah.

4:06 Lee Yeah.

4:07 Lee Yeah, I mean it it's so ahead of its time.

4:08 Lee But before I get too carried away and make a mess of myself.

4:13 Lee Chris, we'll let you jump in first, what did you make of it?

4:18 Chris Well, you segued perfectly.

4:19 Chris I mean it's, yeah, I love having my expectations firmly blown out of the water.

4:26 Chris And I can safely say that this achieved it.

4:30 Chris I 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.

4:41 Chris This is perfect for that environment, as we said with a couple of others.

4:43 Chris But this really really had a a gem to the story that I hadn't expected at all.

4:49 Chris And then I was trying to think, like, so 1999, I was trying to think back then I was 19.

4:55 Chris How ahead of its time was it to have a whole transgender

5:04 Lee It's like the central message of the film.

5:09 Chris Yeah, yeah.

5:10 Lee It it literally Rock and Roll Has No Boundaries.

5:12 Lee Yeah and that's that's exactly it and I fucking love that.

5:15 Adam I had to write it down because it's love has no borders, nationalities or genders.

5:21 Chris Yeah.

5:22 Chris Yeah.

5:22 Chris But 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.

5:32 Chris That's just that is part of the story.

5:33 Chris Great.

5:35 Adam I think I think I think us watching it even at that time, that's just speaking for you here, I feel.

5:43 Adam But I think we would have just thought, good on you.

5:50 Adam You know what I mean?

5:51 Chris It's like.

5:52 Chris But it must have it would have been so different from so many other things to have done something like that.

5:58 Chris I I was trying to think of what other films would have had messages and combined such a contrasting element.

6:05 Chris You know, you don't necessarily expect that in this type of film.

6:11 Adam Well, 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

6:20 Adam Tobio sort of reveals to Ice, and his his reaction is shock and disappointment.

6:31 Chris Yeah.

6:32 Adam But 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.

6:47 Adam And and actually it was like, no, there's there's shock, there's disappointment which you kind of feel are proper reactions.

6:56 Adam There's no revulsion.

7:00 Adam Like in what is it, because obviously like there's The Crying Game, which was around about the same sort of time.

7:11 Adam Which has a reveal, basically the same thing, a reveal halfway through.

7:16 Chris Okay.

7:17 Adam And he like the character immediately throws up.

7:27 Chris

7:28 Adam And it's like and and that was seen as a fairly progressive film.

7:31 Chris At the time.

7:32 Chris Yeah, but that's yeah, I mean that's that's it.

7:33 Adam And 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.

7:43 Chris Yeah.

7:44 Adam Basically, and not only that, this this is a film in which I I hope, you know, I feel that this is

7:53 Adam you know, this is Wild Zero, you know, in in you know, everything about it is Wild Zero the band.

8:00 Lee Yeah.

8:01 Adam And there are there are bands with a commitment to cheap bones and

8:08 Adam you know, bikes that spew fire and microphones that spew fire and

8:14 Lee And cars that spew fire.

8:17 Lee Everything spews fire for no fucking reason whatsoever and I love the shit out of that.

8:23 Chris The rock gods, yeah.

8:26 Adam But but someone who kind of is taking themselves kind of seriously in that sense of making yourself like these basically these superheroes.

8:36 Adam You 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.

8:46 Adam And yeah, just overall I was just I thought well done.

8:52 Adam In the middle of this what and at this point, can I just say?

8:56 Adam In the middle of this absolutely fucking mad film.

9:01 Adam Which is, you know, it's there's a lot going on.

9:05 Lee It's it's a very hard to get hold of movie.

9:05 Lee So what we'll do is we'll give you a quick rundown of it.

9:09 Lee I'll go on Adam.

9:10 Adam I was going to say, for anyone who's potentially interested, the file that I had of it has corrupted.

9:20 Adam But I found it on fucking YouTube.

9:25 Chris Oh, really?

9:26 Adam Full on YouTube on a on a reasonable print.

9:29 Lee Nice.

9:30 Adam So I had to finish I finished watching on YouTube, because yeah, the the file I had just failed basically.

9:35 Adam so yeah.

9:38 Lee So just So just to give everyone a quick run, yes, so you can go and check it on YouTube.

9:43 Lee Thanks for letting us know, Adam, because like this I I think is absolutely a total recommend from all of us.

9:46 Lee

9:47 Lee But 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.

9:53 Lee Because it's all about the journey.

9:56 Lee

9:57 Lee Ultimately, it's Plan 9 from Outer Space, with a transgender love story.

10:06 Lee If it was a rock and roll musical.

10:10 Lee That's basically what the film is.

10:13 Adam But it's almost in a weird way, that is incidental to the film.

10:19 Lee Yes.

10:19 Adam Like a lot of these films, the plot is incidental.

10:22 Adam It just happens that the plot falls on the side of well done, right, you know.

10:29 Adam You know.

10:30 Adam I think it's oh, fucking hell, just.

10:35 Adam Now here's the thing, one of the because most of the people in this have only been in like this.

10:41 Lee In IMDB, only two of the people in this whole film have got pictures.

10:47 Lee Nobody else has even got it.

10:48 Lee And one of them's Guitar Wolf, obviously.

10:50 Chris Yeah.

10:51 Adam Well, there's because the guy who plays because this is the interesting bit is that Claire recognized Toshi.

11:00 Lee

11:01 Adam Because he's in Kill Bill.

11:04 Chris Oh.

11:05 Adam He's the sleazy businessman who Gogo Yubari murders.

11:11 Adam And Claire spotted this and she and she just went, she suddenly just burst out and went, oh, for fuck's sake.

11:20 Lee And I was like, what?

11:21 Adam Because 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.

11:31 Chris And it's like.

11:32 Adam No, Quentin Tarantino has definitely seen this film.

11:37 Adam You know, this is.

11:39 Adam Because it's it's sort of half 50s B-movie, it's got aliens that cause a zombie outbreak.

11:50 Adam It's got concert footage of Guitar Wolf the band who.

11:55 Adam I 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.

12:05 Lee Oh, yeah, yeah.

12:06 Adam But 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.

12:17 Adam But Guitar Wolf apparently they call their music Jet Rock and Roll.

12:25 Adam And a few people have thought that they mean Joan Jett because obviously.

12:31 Adam But because they've said, we really like Joan Jett.

12:33 Adam

12:34 Adam But no, it's jet as in it sounds like a jet engine.

12:39 Chris Oh.

12:40 Adam And it does, because it's like comically distorted like 50s punk like garage sort of sounding stuff.

12:50 Adam And but it's but the movie's perfect for that.

12:55 Chris Yeah.

12:57 Lee It is, it works fantastic.

13:00 Lee It'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?

13:05 Lee And I was like, it's a bit like Help in that it's basically about the band.

13:11 Adam Yeah.

13:11 Lee And everything else that happens is kind of incidental.

13:14 Lee But there is so much going on and so and and that's what it like.

13:19 Lee They are, as you say, you know, like the superheroes of the movie.

13:25 Lee yeah.

13:27 Lee But but the story is just it's like they've just taken all their favorite stuff.

13:32 Lee They're like, oh, we love zombie movies.

13:35 Lee And obviously we've got to have all their musical numbers in there.

13:37 Lee And we like UFOs.

13:38 Lee I'd completely forgotten there were UFOs in this film and it had any kind of a UFO element to it.

13:46 Lee I remember it being a zombie film.

13:47 Lee And then when I watched it back, I was like, but it's caused by UFOs.

13:50 Lee And 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.

14:03 Lee

14:04 Lee I had forgotten all of that shit.

14:06 Lee I I remembered them being chased by the club owner, who kept changing his wig and wearing hot pants.

14:15 Lee I I remembered that.

14:15 Lee But the whole UFO thing had completely.

14:18 Lee And it's the opening scene is just Earth surrounded by these funny buzzing UFOs.

14:23 Lee And I was like, oh, fuck, have I got the wrong movie?

14:25 Lee And I was like, I'm definitely watching the right one.

14:28 Adam And weird weirdly, in terms of the CGI, because that's obviously CGI at the start, it's it's fair.

14:35 Chris For its time.

14:36 Adam The kind of fits.

14:36 Chris And it kind of fits in a way, it seems almost like it could be deliberate that it.

14:40 Adam Yeah, it could but I think it fits in that camp style, yeah.

14:45 Adam But it really it really reminded me of Christopher Eccleston's last episode as Doctor Who because they had Daleks or something.

14:54 Adam Gold Daleks or something.

14:56 Adam And to be honest, by 2005, they hadn't really got much better.

15:00 Lee Yeah.

15:01 Adam You 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.

15:07 Adam But.

15:09 Chris And 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.

15:21 Adam Basically, guitar guitar will it's another way of looking at it is a bit like Kiss movies.

15:31 Adam You know, it's that same sort of thing where they've basically developed a character as a band.

15:42 Adam It'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.

15:51 Adam Because it fucking couldn't be.

15:52 Adam But, you know, it's sort of.

15:58 Adam

15:59 Adam I mean, I actually one thing I thought as well is I I did think have this it felt really like a Mighty Boosh.

16:06 Chris So I definitely had a few thoughts of that.

16:10 Adam Yeah.

16:11 Adam Yeah.

16:11 Adam Especially 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.

16:25 Adam And it's like, yeah.

16:30 Adam But 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.

16:42 Adam And because of that, they give him a whistle and it's you blow this whistle and we will appear whenever you're in trouble.

16:49 Adam That felt so Mighty Boosh.

16:52 Lee Because it's that sort of.

16:54 Chris Well, I think there is, I think that is actually in Mighty Boosh.

16:56 Chris There is a.

16:58 Adam It probably is.

16:58 Chris A bit of a storyline with that.

17:01 Lee And he's just out.

17:01 Lee So Ace gets punched out and Guitar Wolf just cuts his hand and makes some blood brothers while he's still unconscious.

17:09 Lee And then just yeah, as you say, just throws his whistle on top of him and goes, call us if you need us.

17:13 Lee And then just walks out.

17:14 Lee And I'm like.

17:15 Chris That's completely absurd, but somehow it's like yeah, okay.

17:19 Lee And he does, he you know, he whistles from two towns away and Guitar Wolf stops everything and goes.

17:26 Chris Ace needs it.

17:27 Lee To the car, to the Batmobile and off they go.

17:31 Lee And it's just.

17:33 Lee It's so bat shit.

17:34 Lee And I.

17:36 Lee That's what I love is just the absolute lunacy.

17:39 Lee And watching it today because I know how it ends and where it goes.

17:43 Lee When I started watching it back today, I was like, the first 20 minutes.

17:47 Lee feels like a load of random stories that aren't very exciting, that are just kind of going on.

17:54 Lee And then yeah, once they all marry up together, it just goes absolutely mental.

18:00 Lee And there's just no going back from that point.

18:03 Lee And it just, yeah, so many weird sidelines and stories.

18:07 Lee I mean, the gold ball, I'd forgotten all about the gold ball.

18:10 Lee And as soon as he he was waving it around in that girl's face, I was like.

18:15 Lee I remember that being important for some reason.

18:18 Lee It might be what stops him.

18:20 Lee No, it's how Guitar Wolf tricks an arms dealer into getting involved in the zombie war instead of running away.

18:27 Lee Because he tells her that the zombies are full of balls of gold.

18:31 Lee And if if they kill them, they'll make loads of money.

18:34 Lee Like it's just insane.

18:36 Lee I mean, who would write a story like that.

18:40 Lee It's so completely insane.

18:41 Lee But.

18:42 Chris Oh, we might find out.

18:43 Chris Yeah.

18:45 Adam So.

18:45 Chris Who are the geniuses?

18:47 Adam Well, it was written by.

18:49 Adam Satoshi Tagaki, or Tagaki, sorry.

18:54 Adam and Tetsuro Tagauchi who is the director.

19:00 Adam as well.

19:02 Adam And he

19:04 Adam I think he was I've had a look, he's done loads of music videos, which you kind of.

19:11 Lee Oh, yeah, you totally see that.

19:13 Adam And I think he's recorded Guitar Wolf in

19:22 Adam He's recorded.

19:22 Adam Yeah, so he's done like Guitar Wolf in concert.

19:28 Adam And and sort of stuff like that.

19:29 Adam But he's done one other film which is called Florella from 2010.

19:35 Adam And 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.

19:50 Adam So I have no idea what the film is about, it clearly doesn't feature anyone from this.

19:55 Adam Because like like you said, there's only about three people that actually got credits outside of.

20:03 Lee being part of this film, really.

20:05 Adam Yeah, 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.

20:15 Adam They're just got this one sentence thing, so God knows what the film is about.

20:21 Adam And it's obviously not sort of got out there or anything like that.

20:28 Adam Whereas Guitar Wolf were in a film before this.

20:32 Adam Which sounds like it may be in a similar vein.

20:36 Adam They were in a film called.

20:39 Adam where are we?

20:42 Adam The Saw Losers.

20:45 Adam which was 97 and it's a homage to trashy exploitation movies and 50s sci-fi horror by a director called John Michael McCarthy.

20:55 Lee That could be someone's given a synopsis to this film as well to be fair.

20:59 Lee So yeah, you're right.

21:01 Lee It sounds exactly the same.

21:02 Adam But but also but this is the rest of it.

21:04 Adam In 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.

21:14 Adam It stars a it stars one of the members of a band called The Oblivions who are like a garage, an American garage band.

21:23 Adam Who like Guitar Wolf have just called themselves the band like your name and Oblivion.

21:31 Adam Like The Ramones and stuff like that.

21:34 Adam and Guitar Wolf were in it as the men in black.

21:41 Adam So yeah.

21:42 Lee I need to find this at all.

21:44 Chris That sounds, yeah.

21:46 Adam It's it it does sound like a cracker.

21:48 Adam So yeah, if you if you have any luck, let me know.

21:51 Adam Because I want to see it now as well.

21:54 Adam

21:56 Adam But.

21:56 Adam

21:57 Adam But yeah, I think the because then you've got the because obviously you've got the story with the club owner.

22:04 Adam You've got the three people who are just sort of driving to driving to see the meteorite that's landed.

22:12 Chris Yeah.

22:13 Chris Yeah.

22:13 Adam Because that's the yeah, sorry, that's the whole thing that draws it together is there's a meteorite.

22:17 Chris Trying to learn to use a flick knife.

22:20 Adam Yeah.

22:20 Adam Oh, that that the most inept robbery.

22:25 Lee Yeah.

22:25 Adam In history is just beautiful.

22:29 Adam That really is.

22:31 Adam And and even down to that, where it's like the the couple find each other as zombies.

22:39 Adam That's all they wanted to do to be flesh.

22:41 Lee It's kind of sweet really in a funny sort of way.

22:45 Adam For the film that this is, it's very weird that it is sweet.

22:49 Chris As yeah, as effectively, like that way.

22:51 Adam You know.

22:52 Adam And

22:54 Adam But yeah, Guitar Wolf formed in 1987.

22:57 Adam obviously they're a three-piece.

23:00 Adam there's the guitarist Say-guy, he was in a band called Far East Punch and then he met Hey-dia-ki Sekiguchi, aka Billy.

23:11 Adam Which I will probably be referring him to as in when they were working together.

23:16 Adam And they decided to form a band with Billy on bass and another co-worker on drums.

23:25 Adam and then they decided, right, so we're going to be Guitar Wolf, Bass Wolf, Drum Wolf.

23:31 Adam And the band is called Guitar Wolf.

23:34 Adam and then yeah, Narita left fairly early, then it was Say-guy's brother.

23:44 Adam And then the current drummer joined a guy called Toru.

23:49 Adam And that's the lineup for this film.

23:54 Adam and then what was it, yeah.

23:56 Adam In in 2002, Billy died of a heart attack at the age of 38.

24:02 Lee Oh, God.

24:03 Adam And they've had two other bass players, three other bass players since then.

24:11 Adam So, but yeah, so whoever comes in, it's like GWAR and everything where you can.

24:17 Lee Yeah.

24:17 Adam You adopt, you are now, right, so you're Drum Wolf because you're in.

24:21 Lee Yeah.

24:21 Adam Yeah.

24:21 Adam Yeah.

24:22 Adam So.

24:23 Adam But yeah, they did I think yeah, total of 17 albums that they've done over the years.

24:30 Lee Wow.

24:30 Adam And I've been listening to and it's it's all good stuff.

24:32 Adam Because it is just literally just that.

24:36 Adam The how they sound in the film, so.

24:41 Lee I really enjoyed the music in this.

24:43 Lee And it's funny, I've watched it this afternoon, so it's the second time I'd seen it with Jennifer.

24:51 Lee yeah.

24:52 Lee And she kind of said, I'd be keen to know if it's bad translation or the lyrics are just very strange.

24:59 Lee Because obviously they come up on the subtitles.

25:03 Lee Yeah.

25:04 Lee And it's just loads of really random nonsense, which I mean.

25:09 Lee I'm sure it to be fair, you don't watch many bands with the subtitles on.

25:14 Lee So 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.

25:20 Lee You would be like, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

25:23 Lee Like 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.

25:39 Lee And that's basically all it is.

25:41 Lee There's no story or anything to it.

25:43 Lee He just says words that make you think of Halloween.

25:48 Lee And and that's kind of what this was, it was all very strange.

25:53 Lee Yeah, and you do wonder if it's if it's because of the translation.

25:58 Lee Yeah, or if they're just like.

26:01 Chris Abstract phrases and concepts.

26:03 Lee They sound awesome, I love the shit out of the music in this.

26:07 Adam It it might make more sense because thinking about it when it's translated.

26:13 Adam Because I'd imagine they rhyme.

26:14 Lee Yeah.

26:15 Adam Like, 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.

26:24 Lee Yeah, yeah, you're probably right, yeah.

26:27 Adam You know, so it's the stuff would come out completely, you know, it doesn't isn't going to rhyme in English.

26:34 Lee Yeah.

26:34 Adam So 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.

26:40 Lee It rhymes.

26:41 Adam It rhymes.

26:42 Lee But when it doesn't rhyme, you just go, oh, I don't I don't get that at all.

26:48 Adam I also have to ask a question at this point because I I I this is personally where I'm sitting.

26:55 Adam grenade guns.

26:58 Lee

26:59 Adam Why did you bother with any other gun?

27:02 Lee Well, all the ones that miss nine times out of 10, yeah, why would you not just blow the fuck out of everything instead.

27:10 Lee Like the way he does just go along that block, it's like a that block.

27:14 Lee And he's just going through right, one shot destroys an entire room.

27:18 Lee And he's just destroying entire rooms in chain until he gets the one he's after.

27:22 Lee And you're absolutely right.

27:23 Lee Yeah.

27:24 Adam You know.

27:25 Adam I'm just I'm just thinking whenever.

27:31 Adam I would like a revolver, I want no, give me a fucking grenade launcher.

27:34 Adam That makes sense.

27:36 Adam And yes, I am willing to use it at point blank range.

27:39 Chris Yeah, I I was going to suggest a slight downside to it.

27:43 Adam You've never played Hogs of War with me, mate.

27:48 Lee Oh.

27:48 Lee Hogs of War with Adam is always fun.

27:50 Lee He kills himself as much as everyone else, but.

27:54 Lee We always just have such a fun time.

27:56 Lee Oh, do you know what, I'd forgotten how much fucking fun that game is.

28:00 Lee I might go and play that when we finish recording this.

28:08 Lee Rick May's voiceover is just.

28:11 Lee Above possible.

28:13 Lee

28:16 Lee Yeah, 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.

28:29 Lee And then when you watch it back, you suddenly go, yeah, I didn't remember any of that.

28:32 Lee They're like.

28:33 Lee As 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.

28:43 Lee I'd forgotten her character entirely.

28:45 Lee I still don't quite know what she was.

28:47 Lee Was it her house she was in when they came in and ripped all her clothes up, so she decided to wear a business leotard?

28:53 Adam Yeah.

28:54 Lee That was her house.

28:55 Adam Yeah, that was her house because she decided, oh, well, I've been waiting for these people to turn up, they haven't turned up.

29:00 Adam Because obviously you've got the three the guys in the car who were going to buy them.

29:05 Lee Oh, who's killed them all.

29:07 Lee You see, I never put two and two together, I didn't realize that was who was going to buy the guns from her.

29:10 Lee Yeah.

29:11 Adam Yeah, they were going to buy.

29:12 Adam And also, just how quickly did their chauffeur give up?

29:15 Adam He's like.

29:16 Adam Oh, there's zombies around us, no, there's zombies around us.

29:19 Adam Oh, blow my fucking brains out.

29:20 Adam You know.

29:21 Lee And Jennifer said, at that point, you climb through between the front seats.

29:24 Lee to get into the driver's seat.

29:25 Lee You don't think, I'll get outside with all those 35 zombies and try and get in the front seat.

29:32 Lee Yeah.

29:34 Lee You let it go because it's fun lunacy.

29:38 Adam

29:39 Adam And I have to say, I mean, there is there, you know, they they film it in that way.

29:48 Adam But Guitar Wolf have been working on their image this whole time.

29:52 Adam So they can't help but be like shot impeccably throughout the whole thing.

29:57 Adam You 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.

30:05 Lee Yeah.

30:06 Lee If 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.

30:10 Lee yeah, 100% totally do, but I recommend getting yourself just a few beers.

30:17 Lee Put them next to you and every time somebody shouts Tobio or rock and roll.

30:23 Lee Just 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.

30:35 Adam Yeah.

30:36 Adam I I have to say, and here we go.

30:40 Adam I mean, this is, you know, this is Welcome to Horror.

30:43 Adam We're meant to we introduce Chris to horror films.

30:46 Adam We 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.

30:56 Lee Yeah, yeah, two or three months ago.

30:57 Adam So, you know, this is one that we're all discovering together.

31:00 Adam And it's fucking great.

31:01 Adam It's just so.

31:03 Lee It it's so so much fun.

31:07 Chris And I got to say, I was slightly concerned after having watched Return of the Living Dead.

31:16 Chris I 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.

31:23 Chris And so it's like, yeah, that's different enough and there's so much more craziness.

31:29 Lee You're right, I never realized they are both not only we said we were going to do rock and roll horror.

31:34 Lee Actually it's rock and roll zombies movies.

31:37 Lee Yeah, they're actually closer than I remember.

31:39 Chris And 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?

31:44 Chris Because I I was so shocked at how good Return of the Living Dead was.

31:49 Chris It's like, but they had enough difference in here that it's like, yeah, no.

31:53 Chris That's this is good.

31:54 Adam I actually I actually think it inadvertently makes a really fucking cracking double bill.

31:58 Chris Yeah.

31:58 Lee 100%.

31:59 Adam And yeah.

32:00 Adam I don't feel there's.

32:02 Adam I don't think you can you don't lose anything to either film.

32:05 Chris

32:06 Chris It's almost like someone was planning this.

32:07 Lee Yeah.

32:08 Chris We know that's not true.

32:09 Adam I haven't even seen Wild Zero at that point.

32:12 Adam So I was just like, I looked it up and said, oh, Japanese punk band what they Guitar Wolf do rock and roll.

32:17 Adam B-movie horror.

32:23 Adam Not only that.

32:24 Adam In the weirdest of sense, I don't even count this as a zombie movie.

32:29 Chris

32:30 Adam Because there's loads of fucking zombies in it.

32:30 Chris There is.

32:31 Adam But it's like it's not even that.

32:35 Adam None of the things we're talking about like point like plot points or anything like that.

32:39 Adam Are were to the overall whole.

33:20 Lee No.

33:21 Adam You know, as a as a as a combined thing, it's like, what?

33:25 Lee As you say.

33:26 Lee The the story is just there's so many elements to the story, I had entirely forgotten until watching it back today.

33:33 Lee And then I was like, so I loved this film so much, I was like, we really, really, really need to watch it.

33:40 Lee yeah, and then when I watched it back today, I was like, I'd forgotten all about so many elements.

33:46 Lee The 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.

33:57 Lee I'd forgotten that the fucking captain gets electrocuted and turns into a super zombie.

34:02 Lee I'd forgotten any of that even happened.

34:06 Lee How?

34:06 Lee How 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.

34:18 Chris And then Chris went, I don't believe how could you I just realized that and I was like, what is the opening scene?

34:27 Lee You see.

34:28 Lee Yeah.

34:29 Chris Fair enough, I accept.

34:31 Lee And this film is exactly the same.

34:32 Lee It'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.

34:43 Lee Because it just goes in so many random directions and all of them are thoroughly enjoyable.

34:48 Lee Yeah.

34:49 Chris Now what else have we seen?

34:51 Chris I was trying to think the the other Japanese films Tokyo Gore Police.

34:56 Chris So that's another and so I had some expectation that it was going to have.

34:59 Chris You know, elements of that, which it's.

50:01 Adam There's a high level of craziness, but yeah, yeah.

50:05 Adam But.

50:05 Adam But again, it's comic gore.

50:08 Chris Yeah.

50:09 Lee It looks pretty good as well.

50:11 Lee As you say, for 1999, it's CGI.

50:14 Lee yeah, a lot of the head explosions and stuff look pretty realistic.

50:18 Lee I mean, Yeah.

50:20 Adam Yeah.

50:21 Lee compared to the UFOs at the beginning.

50:22 Lee They definitely look pretty.

50:23 Adam Oh, yeah.

50:24 Chris Yeah.

50:24 Chris So so we can definitely say then Ledbelt Art has confirmed himself.

50:29 Chris As someone who can recommend in the future.

50:33 Lee Yeah.

50:34 Lee Yeah, 100%.

50:36 Lee I mean, as I say, I hadn't even heard of this film.

50:38 Lee It was the only one we got for listener recommendation, this time round that I'd never even heard of.

50:46 Lee And 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.

50:54 Lee So I thought.

50:55 Lee It 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.

51:01 Lee I managed to get hold of it and it had arrived and I was like, oh yeah, I'll just chuck that on.

51:05 Lee

51:06 Lee Yeah, and then found myself sitting up way too late and laughing way too loud, yeah.

51:13 Lee And messaging him in the middle of the night, which I think he's in the US.

51:16 Lee So it was probably more on his time zone.

51:18 Lee But yeah, literally as soon as the film finished, I had my phone out and I was messaging him on Instagram going.

51:23 Lee Thank you so much for telling me about this, like it's just totally made my day.

51:27 Lee It was such an unexpected.

51:30 Lee Yeah.

51:31 Chris And 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.

51:34 Lee Oh, yeah, yeah.

51:35 Chris So like, yeah, slating, yeah, models and.

51:38 Chris Yeah.

51:40 Lee Yeah, so go and check out Ledbelt Art.

51:41 Lee and yeah.

51:45 Lee I think we should probably wrap it up here.

51:46 Lee So,

51:48 Lee Thanks ever so much for listening.

51:50 Lee go and check out Ledbelt Art, as we've just said.

51:53 Lee Go and check out the Not For Everyone Podcast.

51:56 Lee Check out Air CS.

51:58 Lee I have just been drinking Werewolf beer.

52:01 Lee As it is currently the 30th of October, I went to their brewery last weekend and had a fantastic time.

52:06 Lee So 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.

52:16 Lee

52:18 Lee Yeah, I've I've missed anybody.

52:21 Adam I don't think so.

52:21 Adam The only other thing I'd say is check out fucking Wild Zero.

52:25 Lee Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

52:27 Lee Totally, as I say, it's one of those, like we've said before, with other films, it's kind of about enjoying the journey.

52:34 Lee So 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.

52:43 Lee yeah, and the music is exceptional.

52:46 Lee So go and check out Wild Zero and we will see you all in a fortnight's time for what we've been watching.

52:51 Lee Thanks very much for listening.

52:53 Lee Good night.

52:54 Adam Good night.

52:55 Chris Good bye.

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