Leprechaun 4 in Sapce
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It’s the second film of our “In Space, No One Can Hear You Jump The Shark” double bill, and for those of you who thought “Jason X” was bad; we present “Leprechaun 4: In Space”. A film in which Lieutenant Gruber turns from Davros into a giant spider (no doubt preventing him from fitting into his little tank); Heidi from “Tool Time” literally makes a man’s penis explode; and Warwick Davis finally gets his own Lightsaber. The fourth entry into the “Leprechaun” franchise jets off into outer space but, ironically, mostly fails to land. With an uneven tone, and not all cast and crew apparently in on the joke; this veers from mild amusement to mild bemusement. With primitive CGI disowned by the director, and some surprisingly good make up, this is a movie that will only improve depending on your level of inebriation, and the good company you view it with. 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 this evening for the second of our jump the shark series, where we will be covering 1996's Leprechaun 4 in Space.
LeeVery quick bit of housekeeping before we do.
LeeAnybody in the London area, myself and Lady Jennifer yesterday on the information we'd received from previous guest Dani.
LeeThe BFI at the South Bank is holding an exhibit of The Red Shoes.
Adam
LeeAnd it's free, you have to book a slot to because it's it's very small so, you know, you're in and out.
LeeBut oh, it's it's excellent, it's really, really good.
LeeIt's exactly what I want from an exhibition.
LeeThey've got like 50 pieces, there's no filler, it's in three rooms, you get in, you see what you want to see and then you get out, it was excellent.
LeeIt was great, like it was all the stuff, it was like handwritten letters, and artwork from the show, and they had a dress that she wore and one of her pairs of The Red Shoes and stuff.
LeeSo like, oh and the camera from Peeping Tom.
AdamOh, wow.
AdamOh, so there was other like Powell and Pressburger stuff.
LeeYes.
LeeYes, and all the stuff from Kate Bush when she did her music, I don't know if it was a film or.
AdamShe did The Red Shoes.
AdamI think it was an album of Kate Bush, yeah.
LeeYes, so she did like a music video, so there's letters backwards and forwards and loads of stuff and that.
AdamOh, that's really good.
LeeBut yeah, it was it was yeah, it was great, I say and it was one of those it was perfect, you were in, you saw exactly what you wanted to see and then you were out and it was splendid.
LeeAnd it's on till the 31st of December, so if anyone is about and wants to go and see it, I heartily recommend it.
ChrisExcellent.
AdamAnd and obviously we did an episode on The Red Shoes, so you know, go back and listen to that one.
AdamAnd definitely do see The Red Shoes, it's fucking great.
ChrisWell, I did fucking enjoy that.
AdamSo.
LeeYes, yes, with the exception of the ballet, I enjoyed it.
Lee
LeeYes, so.
LeeWe are on to a a very tonally different film to our last our last film.
AdamIs it really?
ChrisOh.
ChrisYeah, that's interesting.
LeeI, well I personally, I I I, all right, I'm going to come right out and say it, I felt that this film had tried to do exactly what that film did, but fucked every single step of it up and got everything completely wrong and it was an absolute travesty of a film.
Chris
LeeSo there we go, so that's my my tuppence worth right out.
LeeChris, what did you make of this lunacy?
ChrisWell, I I didn't expect that we would be able to rise above Jason X and create even more insanity.
ChrisI thought I thought we'd finished at that point really, but you know, I should have expected it from you guys.
ChrisSo, what I'm going to say, The William Tell Overture has taken on a whole new tone for me, I'll never be able to listen to that the same again, without thinking about exploding penis leprechaun things.
Chris
ChrisI've taken a few few one-liners away from this, I will shoot anyone who says I'm defensive, and I feel a lot better than I look, I think I could use those two in quite a few conversations.
Chrisyeah, I mean what more do you need a film, you've got romance, you've got space Marines, tons of one-liners, you've got some knee-capping with a lightsaber, death by breasts, sort of metaphorically, and a crazy messed up monster.
LeeThat's quite a lot the worst excuse for gratuitous nudity in a film.
ChrisI I'm assuming, I'm assuming they they knew everything they were doing but.
LeeOh yeah, I I assume so, but.
AdamI looked, I looked into it.
AdamSorry, that sounds wrong.
AdamBecause this is for both me and Chris, this is our first time viewing Leprechaun 4 in Space.
ChrisYeah.
AdamI've because the only other one I've seen is, I've seen the first one Leprechaun on when we did it on here.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisAnd me too, I'm assuming there is a two and three.
AdamAnd I'm assuming for some reason we we skipped those.
AdamBecause I I'll give it its due, the one thing this the one thing that this probably edges over Jason X is not even bothering to tie it up.
AdamIt's like sort of not even giving you a reason, it's like, no it's in space now.
AdamYou know, that's got fuck all to do with three.
AdamThere's not even like a.
LeeI think three was in Las Vegas.
AdamIt is, that's what I saw it was like basically yeah, that and then the one after this is Leprechaun in the Hood.
LeeI thought you would definitely have seen that one.
AdamWhich I've not seen, no.
AdamI've got to say, it's it's just.
ChrisYou didn't.
LeeI think he's stayed there, I think they did two in the Hood.
AdamYeah, I think there's back I think there's like in the Hood and then back in the Hood or whatever it was.
AdamYeah, back in the Hood.
LeeYeah, so I I sat and watched these for or maybe three or four years ago now.
Leeyeah, and over the course of a week, I watched them and I got as far as this one and I was like, I'm out, I'm I'm there's two more and I cannot for the life of me do it.
Leeyeah, so this was the film that turned me against the franchise.
LeeI mean, and they're pretty stupid.
Leebut yeah, this was the one where I was just like it can't it can't get any worse than this.
LeeAnd I I mean that being said, I I still think the scorpion spider scientist looked pretty good, I was genuinely impressed with that.
AdamThat looks fucking amazing and can we just for and particularly for British listeners.
Adamobviously Lieutenant Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo.
ChrisI I was like I know I know this guy, I just could not place him, I had to look him up.
ChrisAnd yeah, he he was great actually.
AdamGuy Gyna.
AdamGuy Gyna he he's the one person who I felt, yeah, you know exactly what this film is.
LeeYes.
AdamYou're you're one of the him and Harold actually are weirdly the two pitched just at the right point.
LeeI think that's exactly what it is, I think they seem to be the only.
LeeAnd Warwick Davis obviously.
Leebut yeah, it felt like everybody else in it had no idea what they were making was again, was the impression I got from it.
LeeLike it didn't oh, yeah, I just I just don't.
LeeIt felt like a film that had been knocked up in someone's lunch break for an hour, like they just scribbled down a load of nonsense, not bothered making any sense of it or tying any of it together.
LeeAnd went, fuck it, it's the fourth one, who who cares.
LeeAt this point, who is watching, let's just get it out the door and get on with whatever is going on this afternoon.
ChrisIs it actually the lowest IMDB rating film we've seen?
ChrisIt's got to be close, it's it's 3.5.
LeeI mean that is.
AdamI bet we've seen worse than that, I bet there's ones we've watched that are rated far deservedly or so or not.
AdamDo you know what I mean?
AdamI'm sure there's ones that we've watched that are great that people are like, oh the fucking.
LeeI did want to mention actually one other person saying about him for the guy from 'Allo 'Allo.
LeeAlso the Rick Peters who plays Mooch, who was one of the one of the Marines.
ChrisYeah.
LeeHe was like the second one to die.
AdamWas it Mooch?
LeeYes, Mooch, that's it.
LeeHe is also from Night of the Demons 2.
Chris
LeeYeah, very similar character.
AdamBut that's the the director is the director of Night of the Demons 2, Brian Trenchard-Smith.
Chris
LeeOh, Night of the Demons 2 was so good.
AdamYeah.
AdamThere's quite when I was looking through it, a lot of the cast were in Night of the Demons 2.
AdamOr quite a few anyway.
AdamSo it's not yeah, not just him, there was a few others but yeah, Brian Trenchard-Smith who directed this is an Australian director.
AdamAnd he's done he's had a wildly prolific and quality uneven career.
Adambut he did Lee, was it you who was saying about Stunt Rock?
LeeNo.
AdamOr it might have been Bobby, I think it might have been Bobby actually.
AdamBut he but he directed Night of the Demons 2, a film called Tyrannosaurus Axtes, Stunt Rock, Dead End Drive-In which I've got but still haven't watched, The BMX Bandits, Death Cheaters, he did some episodes of Mission Impossible.
LeeOh, BMX Bandits.
Adambut the film I've seen a film of his called Turkey Shoot which is fucking brilliant.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt's so good, it's this, you know the most dangerous game where it's like people hunting people.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt's basically that but yeah, Turkey Shoot is like three weirdos go off to kill a load of prisoners who are left to run through this jungle area.
AdamAnd but one of them is a really camp bloke with a beard who who drives a bulldozer and his butler is probably a werewolf, he's like some sort of beast man sort of thing.
AdamBut there's no explanation for it whatsoever.
AdamIt's like the perfect double bill for Death Race 2000, but it's Australian, so it's just that just that slightly more violent and slightly more fucking sort of give a fuck.
AdamWhich is something compared to a Roger Corman film.
AdamSo yeah, but yeah he he's yeah, he's the director and but I don't think he was particularly happy with the way it came out.
AdamCertainly I don't think he thought the CGI looked any good.
LeeI've got to say, I think that was one of the turning points for me, yeah, was the CGI looking so ropey.
LeeI mean.
LeeYeah, maybe it's not his fault.
LeeI mean he did the third one.
LeeI think and the third one I remember quite enjoying and it it comes down a lot from so the third one's got a five on IMDB and this has got three and a half.
LeeYeah, so I don't know if basically the fourth one they slashed the budget and that's why it came out quite as.
LeeBad as it did, I mean, I don't know.
AdamIt's well, I mean, like I say, I I sort of looked into the background of it.
AdamThe boobs by the way, the death by boobs, Chris.
Adamapparently the US distributor said right, the film has to have breasts in it, otherwise you can't make it.
AdamSo they wrote it into they no, but they wrote it into the script.
AdamThey were like, right, can we find the most stupid whys of doing that.
LeeYou know, I take back everything I've said to this point, if that's what's if that's the way this film was written for that reason, I am back on board.
AdamBecause that's the thing yeah, it does there's a lot of knowingness about it.
AdamWell, like you say, I just don't think done with.
AdamTo start saying as much panache as Jason X, I feel like this this podcast has sunk to a new low.
LeeI think this is it, I think we should call it a day at this point.
ChrisWe have to go down to go back up.
ChrisIt's it's.
AdamYeah, that's true.
AdamOh, I'll be looking at the stars.
AdamBut yeah, so that's basically the US distributor was like, yeah, put some put some tits in it and they were like, right, we'll put some tits in it, what's the most stupid fucking reason we can think?
LeeIt's because like one, it's a ridiculous idea.
LeeAnd the second bit is I was discussing it yesterday with Jennifer and I'm trying to tell her about it.
LeeAnd I said exactly, so she went, okay, so she shows her boobs and therefore that means these people are going to die.
LeeIf she's been kidnapped and she's in the middle of space, who's going to do the killing cuz it's not.
AdamIt's not.
LeeAnd I was like, yeah, no, exactly, none of it makes any sense at all.
LeeIt's just.
LeeBut yeah, I suppose if that was a fuck you to the studio, then I'll I will definitely give it an extra mark out of 10 for that.
ChrisThat's now the best scene in the film.
AdamI think the weird thing is because I, like I say, I've not seen, I've only seen this in the first one.
AdamBut even then, the neplichon, the leprechaun's powers were pretty nebulous.
LeeYes.
AdamYou know, you don't know, it's like how much.
ChrisHe can pretty much do almost anything.
AdamBut in certain circumstances he can't.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd it's sort of.
LeeI I listened to another podcast where they covered all of the films.
LeeAnd they were saying they think they are different leprechauns.
Adam
LeeBecause he has different powers in every movie and he never references anything that's happened in the previous.
LeeSo it could just be each film is a different leprechaun and some of them have different powers.
Christhat still doesn't make a lot of sense in that they've just done that without mentioning it or.
ChrisBut yeah.
AdamI quite like that, that's something the James Bond films should embrace.
AdamThey should be no, he's a different bloke.
ChrisYeah.
AdamIt's not the same fucker who was doing it in the 60s but somehow he's younger.
AdamBut I mean, yeah, so his powers are all over the shop.
AdamVersus sort of space tech and sci-fi and things like that.
AdamSo you're like, what how much of it is.
AdamI mean, like I mean, correct me if I'm incorrect, I'm not a scientist, but I I feel that some of the science in this, particularly the genetics was a bit lacking.
LeeLukety, yeah.
AdamYeah.
LeeI mean, and again like him bursting out of that bloke's crutch.
LeeLike I mean, like none of it.
LeeI I still don't understand why that happened.
LeeIf I'm honest.
LeeI don't I don't get.
ChrisJust to put an alien's reference in there for fun.
LeeYeah.
LeeKind of.
LeeBut then make it a bad silly.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBut yeah, it's
AdamI also I mean, I'll I'll say one thing, when it's the big leprechaun at the end.
Chris
AdamThat looks okay because they've because they've got we brilliantly, they've got a that sort of docking area which looks really basic, like there's sort of cargo area.
AdamActually it's like, oh no, it it's better like this because they can actually do a half decent sort of giant blue screened in.
AdamAnd and Claire Claire genuinely thought the best bit of the film was the middle finger at the end.
ChrisThat's what I was going to mention that bit.
ChrisIt certainly seemed like an appropriate way to finish things.
AdamIt's also weird because we did Alien a few weeks back and then I watched Aliens as well.
LeeYeah, me too.
AdamAnd it's just that sort of weird thing of you forget what a fucking like imprint that has on anything in this sort of sci-fi thing where it's like.
AdamIt's right, Space Marines, right, we're doing it exactly like Aliens.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd yeah, and sort of and again, it was like you saw Jason X, you now sort of appreciate, oh, that was that was mid-level of what this can be.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know, you're thinking, oh, this is like you've always know of wish and it's like, no, no, actually this was this this lot were giving it a decent go.
AdamYou know.
LeeYeah, this one just.
LeeAs you say and even like the one-liners and stuff from the leprechaun were awful.
LeeLike I just.
AdamYeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, I know now as I say, I now know why I haven't had any inclination to go back and rewatch this again.
LeeBecause it's all I might go back and rewatch the third one.
LeeNow I've done this one, but yeah, this one is just utter shit.
ChrisSurely you got to do the Hoods.
LeeI am tempted.
LeeBut I tell you this is the problem, it sounds like a great concept, but him in space sounded like a great concept and they screwed it up.
LeeSo I mean the fact that they did two of them does imply that maybe they did manage to find some decent ground, yeah, and do something.
Leebut yeah, not enough for me to actually pull my finger out and go.
ChrisSo I've just just looked, so there's Leprechaun 5 in the Hood, Leprechaun 6 Back to the Hood, and then there's Leprechaun Returns 2018.
AdamI think there's also there was also a reboot one that yeah, there was Leprechaun Origins as well, which was like an attempted reboot, I think.
LeeI think I might have seen that, you know.
LeeAnd I just said that if it was a terrible dirty little secret and I did.
ChrisOh yeah, that was 2014.
AdamYeah, and yeah, Leprechaun Returns is a direct sequel to the first film ignoring the others in the series featuring the return of the characters Aussie played by the original actor and Tori not played by Jennifer Aniston strangely enough.
LeeOh, just checking, just so you're all aware on IMDB, yeah, it appears that Leprechaun in the Hood is a 3.7, so pretty much as shit as this one.
LeeBut then it does go up to a 3.9, so, you know, it's not a it's not big steps, but they are steps in the right direction.
LeeAccording to the people who have stuck through the franchise for that many films, who are better people than me, it would appear.
ChrisWait, there's even Vengeance of the Leprechaun 2020 and Amityville Leprechaun 2024.
ChrisThey are not giving up.
AdamNo.
AdamI don't know if I don't know if Warwick Davis is still doing them, I think he is.
AdamI think he's stuck with the series most of the way through.
LeeI mean, good on him.
LeeAnd yeah.
LeeAnd this is the thing, he always gives a good performance, even if the lines he's given are absolute crap, he still sort of you get the impression he's doing his best.
AdamIt's it is also it is also a terrible, I mean, by this point he's clearly not even bothering to try to do an Irish accent.
LeeYeah.
AdamSo yeah.
LeeOh, I noticed that with the princess as well.
LeeDid anybody else notice that?
LeeHalf her lines are given with an American accent and half of them are given with a very English accent, like she was like she is one or the other and couldn't couldn't be bothered or didn't remember that she was supposed to be doing.
LeeAnd it just kept falling in and out depending on what lines she was delivering.
ChrisWell, she's from another planet, perhaps they also change their accents.
AdamWell, the also Sticks, the character Sticks is Spider from Return of the Living Dead.
LeeOh, I knew he looked familiar, but I couldn't work out who it was.
AdamLuines.
Chris
LeeYes.
LeeThat's why that's the thing, like that's why I do think it could be down to the writing or whatever.
LeeBecause there are people in this who I've seen in other stuff and really liked.
AdamOh, yeah, absolutely.
LeeNot in this.
ChrisI I think we can definitely tell the writing was was perhaps not taken too seriously.
AdamI think I think it's just, I think it's just being able to hit the right note, especially if you're doing something where it's already kind of a spoof.
AdamIt's already kind of funny to then try and send up what's already a kind of a send up.
LeeYeah.
LeeToo many layers.
AdamYeah, it is.
AdamIt's too many layers, you're sweating, you know, it's not good.
AdamI mean, I have to say, I think that when Dr. Mittenhand turned into a giant spider, scorpion thing, that actually looked really fucking good.
LeeYeah, it did very.
LeeI was that was what surprised me, I'd got to the point where I was mentally checked out until that appeared and then I was like, oh actually that does look yeah, surprisingly good.
AdamWell, well Guy was as we said, weirdly enough, I I rewatched Lost Highway, the David Lynch film, he's in that, he hasn't even got a line but I'm just like, hang on, isn't that fucking Lieutenant Gruber.
AdamAnd yeah, and I looked it up and then it was like, oh shit, and we were going to be doing Leprechaun 4, and I was like, look, hang on, he's in Leprechaun 4 as well, what the fuck?
LeeYeah.
Adambut he is he was in Genesis of the Daleks, the Doctor Who story was the first one that introduces Davros and I can't help but feel he's giving his Davros here.
LeeYeah.
AdamIn the sort of, you know, like half robot chair and life support and everything else like that.
Adambut also really channeling, you know, let's face it, camp German is definitely his forte and he's fucking going for it here.
AdamYou know.
ChrisYeah, absolutely.
AdamAnd apparently the guy the sergeant, the one with the metal plate in his head, like well a metal head, he is he was the original drill sergeant in oh Full Metal Jacket, the Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd obviously it was Arlie Ermy who ended up being the drill sergeant in that because he was the technical adviser but and did most of his own improvised most of the dialogue and everything and became like this fucking Hollywood fucking legend sort of thing.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah.
Adamand yeah, and the guy who plays the sergeant in this, Brian Trenchard-Smith gave him the role.
AdamSo he got to play a drill sergeant because it was like he missed out.
ChrisHe didn't get to.
AdamYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisOh yeah, there's there's some heart in this.
AdamThere is.
LeeI think that's the thing.
LeeI think having discussed it with you guys.
LeeYeah, I definitely feel there is some redemption.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd like I didn't it wasn't one of those films where I was angry by it, but it was one where I when I first put it on, I was like, oh great, it's only an hour and 35 minutes and then at one point I was like, how is it still 35 minutes going on a bit.
AdamOh, no mate, there is there is no.
AdamThere is no excuse that you know, I think it's it's lovely to hear mitigating circumstances sometimes, but you can still find the defendant guilty.
ChrisYeah.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamAnd I think that that's that's the thing is I just think it's weirdly enough, probably watching Jason X in close.
ChrisYeah.
AdamClose.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisI think that may have helped.
AdamI would have equalled it to Jason X if I'd have only remembered Jason X.
AdamBut having watched Jason X and it being like, well, accomplished.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt's yeah, it's just a bit sort of
ChrisI think if someone put it on at a party in the background, I wouldn't be too miserable.
LeeNo.
LeeIt it is and again, it is one of those like if you had half a dozen mates over and you were just sitting drinking and you just had it on to just riff on, it is great.
LeeI mean it definitely has an audience.
AdamOh yeah.
AdamYeah, yeah.
LeeBut I think and then you can't blame it either because I think, you know, I think we said when we covered the original film.
LeeWe were like, it's such a ludicrous concept for a horror movie, the fact that they managed to get to a fourth one and just went, I'll fuck it, just put him on a spaceship for no reason whatsoever.
LeeLike, I I do quite like that that they very, you know.
LeeIt took 10 films to get Jason in space, whereas with this, they'd only done four hours of content and they just went, oh bollocks, moved on.
AdamYeah.
Leeso yeah.
AdamSee that.
AdamIs that is that the question as well because obviously that there wasn't that attempt with Jason X where it's like, right, we'll try and revitalize this.
AdamYou know, as a concept.
AdamWhereas they'd already had to hit that point by four.
AdamIs it just an accelerated thing of shit, we're still not we're not quite selling this.
LeeYeah, it does feel like they've tried to make them more and more.
LeeSo they did the first so the second one if I remember correctly is in the city, so they've brought him into like more of a metropolitan area.
LeeAnd then the third one is Vegas, so they totally ramped that up.
Leeyeah, and then just as we say, just send a load of space Marines after him because why not?
LeeYou never find out what was going, you never find out who if it was him they were actually looking for or if they just found him by accident.
LeeYou don't know who had sent them out there looking for anything.
LeeNothing is ever explained.
Leeand I didn't understand what was going at any point during it.
AdamOr and like I couldn't help but feel that just at the end of it, like towards the end where it's like, oh, it turns out the sergeant didn't just have like a rebuilt head, he was an android.
AdamAnd that felt like, well, here's a reference to Alien, did anyone ask for a reference to Alien?
ChrisNo.
AdamNo, we've got one.
AdamJust have it, it's paid for.
LeeIt was never explained either.
LeeIt was just, oh fuck, he was a robot, next thing.
LeeWhat?
LeeIt's got.
LeeWhat?
LeeOh, yeah, it's just absolute lunacy.
LeeDo you know what I I now I do want to go and watch in the Hood.
LeeBecause I just can't see how it gets more bad shit than this.
AdamI mean, let's face it, I don't feel the poorer for having seen it.
LeeNo.
LeeNo.
LeeNo, I I wasn't upset that I saw it.
AdamBut I mean I doubt I'll see it again.
AdamBut you know, it was nice while it was passing.
AdamNice scenery.
LeeIt did just make me want to go back and rewatch ThanksKilling though.
LeeEspecially since it is Thanksgiving, it's yeah.
ChrisOh, yeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt's that same but that again that sold the let's make it totally mental, let's let's get a turkey, cut a man's face off and just hang it on the end of his beak and have the daughter not be able to tell that it isn't really her father and it's a giant turkey wearing a man's severed face.
LeeLike it's that level of total nut bagerry, but not done as well.
AdamYeah.
AdamIt's the it's the trauma thing.
AdamIs every everyone has to be absolutely on the same page that this nothing is too much and anything fucking goes.
LeeSo.
ChrisIs it is this is this like The Red Shoe Diaries exhibition, you know, we're in and out.
LeeExactly.
LeeWe're done but that's all right because we do actually have a little bit of housekeeping we wanted to cover as well, didn't we this evening?
LeeIn the run up to Christmas, we're going to do something a bit different to try and get our quota in before the end of the year.
Leeso we are going to be skipping our what we've been watching next week, well, in two weeks time, and we are going to be covering Nosferatu.
ChrisYeah.
LeeIt's because somehow in 225 episodes, we still haven't covered it.
ChrisSo we have mentioned it a few times and I hadn't heard of it really until you'd mentioned it at some point years ago now.
Chrisbut it's quite old, isn't it?
AdamYeah, this is going to be our so our Christmas season if you like is going to be Silent Nights.
AdamSo we shall be doing two classics from the silent era of film.
Chris
AdamAnd so that's why we're doing Nosferatu, it is the first, I mean, I'll look into it again but I believe it's the first adaption of Dracula, but it's.
ChrisOkay.
Adam
AdamYeah, and it's F. W. Murnau directed, it's an extremely I mean, obviously it's fucking visual, it's a silent film.
ChrisBut I imagine the the music must be.
AdamThere are weirdly enough, it depends, there is a because you've got.
AdamNo, I think there is a score for it that basically when silent movies were out, cinemas still had bands or at least an organist usually and they would play along to the films.
AdamSo dependent on whether the you know, the score turned up with the can of film.
AdamMeant that sometimes they'd just improvise or they'd do something else.
AdamOr it might be they'd have like a they'd just go through like a sort of songbook of classical music or something like that just for while the cinema was going, it was just to have something happening.
ChrisYeah.
AdamSo I believe there was a score to Nosferatu.
AdamAgain, that's something I'll look into.
AdamBut basically yeah, there's lots of different versions of it.
AdamBecause it's one of those ones where because it's such a classic, you've had bands.
AdamOh it's like artists who've wanted to do a score to it.
AdamSo you've got like musicians and stuff like that.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisOh.
ChrisAnd.
AdamAnd at one point me and former guest Wesley.
Adamwe did our own score to it because we are a band, I mean we haven't done anything for fucking years but we are a band called The Function.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd we did a score to Nosferatu like our my old VHS of it.
AdamAnd yeah, it's just one of those things where it's like, this is a lovely playground for various music, you know, like for people who want to sort of like score things.
ChrisYeah, yeah.
ChrisSo we might get a little sample of that then.
AdamOh, blimey, I don't know.
AdamI'll have to ask Wesley, he he'll have the recordings if anything.
AdamBut
AdamYeah, it was like basically yeah, we just sat down one day and put it on and recorded us play along to it, just improvising really.
AdamIt was just like a keyboards and guitar, so.
ChrisYeah.
Chris
LeeYeah.
LeeAs I say, I went when was it about two months ago, three months ago now, yeah, my brother and former guest on the show Dr. Dean, yeah, had tickets to see this at the Prince Charles in Leicester Square with a live musician doing the music.
Leeyeah, and it was the first time I'd seen it with like a live accompaniment, I'd seen it on the big screen before, I think, but yeah, it was it was it was nice to see it with live music.
LeeIt definitely added something.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisDid you know what score they were playing to?
LeeNo, I think it was his own composition that he was doing.
Leebut yeah, he had loads of different instruments that he was kind of changing between as he went, so, yeah, so it was very entertaining.
Lee
LeeAnd just so that you're all aware and you've got time, the two films we're doing, they're both silent films and they are both public domains, so nobody should have any trouble tracking them down.
Leeso we are doing this and then we will be doing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as the next installment.
Leeyeah, and they'll both be up before Christmas, is that what we said, Adam?
AdamYeah, I think that will works out, yeah, so.
AdamAnd then you say you can enjoy, you know, you can get very festive with with silent German expressionism.
Adamhorror.
LeeNice.
AdamBecause I oddly enough, I think that's quite festive.
AdamBut there we go.
LeeYeah, no, I do, there is something about old black and white horror films that are very winter day appropriate, so.
LeeExcellent.
LeeRight, thanks ever so much for listening everybody, go and check out Nosferatu.
LeeIf you've got a load of drunken friends, go and check out Leprechaun 4, but other than that, I probably wouldn't bother too much.
Leeand if anyone has seen Leprechaun in the Hood, please let us know whether it is worse or better than number four, so we know whether or not to waste our time and money.
LeeAnd we will see you in a fortnite's time for Nosferatu.
LeeThanks very much for listening.
LeeGood night.
ChrisGood night.
AdamGood night.
