Leprechaun 4 in Sapce

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

0:26 Chris I'm Chris.

0:27 Adam I'm Adam.

0:28 Lee And 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.

0:42 Lee Very quick bit of housekeeping before we do.

0:46 Lee Anybody in the London area, myself and Lady Jennifer yesterday on the information we'd received from previous guest Dani.

0:56 Lee The BFI at the South Bank is holding an exhibit of The Red Shoes.

1:02 Adam

1:03 Lee And 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.

1:11 Lee But oh, it's it's excellent, it's really, really good.

1:16 Lee It's exactly what I want from an exhibition.

1:18 Lee They'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.

1:29 Lee It 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.

1:39 Lee So like, oh and the camera from Peeping Tom.

1:43 Adam Oh, wow.

1:44 Adam Oh, so there was other like Powell and Pressburger stuff.

1:47 Lee Yes.

1:47 Lee Yes, and all the stuff from Kate Bush when she did her music, I don't know if it was a film or.

1:55 Adam She did The Red Shoes.

1:56 Adam I think it was an album of Kate Bush, yeah.

1:56 Lee Yes, so she did like a music video, so there's letters backwards and forwards and loads of stuff and that.

2:02 Adam Oh, that's really good.

2:03 Lee But 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.

2:12 Lee And it's on till the 31st of December, so if anyone is about and wants to go and see it, I heartily recommend it.

2:19 Chris Excellent.

2:19 Adam And and obviously we did an episode on The Red Shoes, so you know, go back and listen to that one.

2:26 Adam And definitely do see The Red Shoes, it's fucking great.

2:29 Chris Well, I did fucking enjoy that.

2:33 Adam So.

2:34 Lee Yes, yes, with the exception of the ballet, I enjoyed it.

2:39 Lee

2:40 Lee Yes, so.

2:42 Lee We are on to a a very tonally different film to our last our last film.

2:50 Adam Is it really?

2:51 Chris Oh.

2:51 Chris Yeah, that's interesting.

2:54 Lee I, 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.

3:11 Chris

3:12 Lee So there we go, so that's my my tuppence worth right out.

3:16 Lee Chris, what did you make of this lunacy?

3:19 Chris Well, I I didn't expect that we would be able to rise above Jason X and create even more insanity.

3:28 Chris I thought I thought we'd finished at that point really, but you know, I should have expected it from you guys.

3:33 Chris So, 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.

3:47 Chris

3:49 Chris I'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.

4:00 Chris yeah, 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.

4:14 Lee That's quite a lot the worst excuse for gratuitous nudity in a film.

4:20 Chris I I'm assuming, I'm assuming they they knew everything they were doing but.

4:26 Lee Oh yeah, I I assume so, but.

4:29 Adam I looked, I looked into it.

4:31 Adam Sorry, that sounds wrong.

4:33 Adam Because this is for both me and Chris, this is our first time viewing Leprechaun 4 in Space.

4:41 Chris Yeah.

4:42 Adam I've because the only other one I've seen is, I've seen the first one Leprechaun on when we did it on here.

4:48 Chris Yeah.

4:49 Chris And me too, I'm assuming there is a two and three.

4:51 Adam And I'm assuming for some reason we we skipped those.

4:55 Adam Because 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.

5:07 Adam It's like sort of not even giving you a reason, it's like, no it's in space now.

5:11 Adam You know, that's got fuck all to do with three.

5:14 Adam There's not even like a.

5:16 Lee I think three was in Las Vegas.

5:18 Adam It is, that's what I saw it was like basically yeah, that and then the one after this is Leprechaun in the Hood.

5:24 Lee I thought you would definitely have seen that one.

5:27 Adam Which I've not seen, no.

5:28 Adam I've got to say, it's it's just.

5:29 Chris You didn't.

5:30 Lee I think he's stayed there, I think they did two in the Hood.

5:34 Adam Yeah, I think there's back I think there's like in the Hood and then back in the Hood or whatever it was.

5:38 Adam Yeah, back in the Hood.

5:40 Lee Yeah, so I I sat and watched these for or maybe three or four years ago now.

5:46 Lee yeah, 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.

5:57 Lee yeah, so this was the film that turned me against the franchise.

6:00 Lee I mean, and they're pretty stupid.

6:03 Lee but yeah, this was the one where I was just like it can't it can't get any worse than this.

6:08 Lee And I I mean that being said, I I still think the scorpion spider scientist looked pretty good, I was genuinely impressed with that.

6:18 Adam That looks fucking amazing and can we just for and particularly for British listeners.

6:25 Adam obviously Lieutenant Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo.

6:30 Chris I I was like I know I know this guy, I just could not place him, I had to look him up.

6:34 Chris And yeah, he he was great actually.

6:36 Adam Guy Gyna.

6:39 Adam Guy Gyna he he's the one person who I felt, yeah, you know exactly what this film is.

6:47 Lee Yes.

6:48 Adam You're you're one of the him and Harold actually are weirdly the two pitched just at the right point.

6:55 Lee I think that's exactly what it is, I think they seem to be the only.

6:58 Lee And Warwick Davis obviously.

7:01 Lee but yeah, it felt like everybody else in it had no idea what they were making was again, was the impression I got from it.

7:07 Lee Like it didn't oh, yeah, I just I just don't.

7:13 Lee It 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.

7:22 Lee And went, fuck it, it's the fourth one, who who cares.

7:24 Lee At this point, who is watching, let's just get it out the door and get on with whatever is going on this afternoon.

7:32 Chris Is it actually the lowest IMDB rating film we've seen?

7:36 Chris It's got to be close, it's it's 3.5.

7:39 Lee I mean that is.

7:40 Adam I bet we've seen worse than that, I bet there's ones we've watched that are rated far deservedly or so or not.

7:46 Adam Do you know what I mean?

7:47 Adam I'm sure there's ones that we've watched that are great that people are like, oh the fucking.

7:53 Lee I did want to mention actually one other person saying about him for the guy from 'Allo 'Allo.

7:58 Lee Also the Rick Peters who plays Mooch, who was one of the one of the Marines.

8:08 Chris Yeah.

8:08 Lee He was like the second one to die.

8:12 Adam Was it Mooch?

8:13 Lee Yes, Mooch, that's it.

8:15 Lee He is also from Night of the Demons 2.

8:20 Chris

8:22 Lee Yeah, very similar character.

8:24 Adam But that's the the director is the director of Night of the Demons 2, Brian Trenchard-Smith.

8:30 Chris

8:31 Lee Oh, Night of the Demons 2 was so good.

8:33 Adam Yeah.

8:34 Adam There's quite when I was looking through it, a lot of the cast were in Night of the Demons 2.

8:38 Adam Or quite a few anyway.

8:40 Adam So it's not yeah, not just him, there was a few others but yeah, Brian Trenchard-Smith who directed this is an Australian director.

8:47 Adam And he's done he's had a wildly prolific and quality uneven career.

8:58 Adam but he did Lee, was it you who was saying about Stunt Rock?

9:04 Lee No.

9:05 Adam Or it might have been Bobby, I think it might have been Bobby actually.

9:08 Adam But 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.

9:25 Lee Oh, BMX Bandits.

9:26 Adam but the film I've seen a film of his called Turkey Shoot which is fucking brilliant.

9:32 Lee Yeah.

9:33 Adam It's so good, it's this, you know the most dangerous game where it's like people hunting people.

9:40 Lee Yeah.

9:41 Adam It'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.

9:55 Adam And 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.

10:10 Adam But there's no explanation for it whatsoever.

10:13 Adam It'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.

10:26 Adam Which is something compared to a Roger Corman film.

10:29 Adam So 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.

10:39 Adam Certainly I don't think he thought the CGI looked any good.

10:43 Lee I've got to say, I think that was one of the turning points for me, yeah, was the CGI looking so ropey.

10:49 Lee I mean.

10:51 Lee Yeah, maybe it's not his fault.

10:52 Lee I mean he did the third one.

10:54 Lee I 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.

10:59 Lee Yeah, so I don't know if basically the fourth one they slashed the budget and that's why it came out quite as.

11:05 Lee Bad as it did, I mean, I don't know.

11:14 Adam It's well, I mean, like I say, I I sort of looked into the background of it.

11:17 Adam The boobs by the way, the death by boobs, Chris.

11:20 Adam apparently the US distributor said right, the film has to have breasts in it, otherwise you can't make it.

11:27 Adam So they wrote it into they no, but they wrote it into the script.

11:32 Adam They were like, right, can we find the most stupid whys of doing that.

11:38 Lee You 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.

11:47 Adam Because that's the thing yeah, it does there's a lot of knowingness about it.

11:51 Adam Well, like you say, I just don't think done with.

11:56 Adam To start saying as much panache as Jason X, I feel like this this podcast has sunk to a new low.

12:03 Lee I think this is it, I think we should call it a day at this point.

12:06 Chris We have to go down to go back up.

12:08 Chris It's it's.

12:09 Adam Yeah, that's true.

12:11 Adam Oh, I'll be looking at the stars.

12:13 Adam But 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?

12:27 Lee It's because like one, it's a ridiculous idea.

12:31 Lee And the second bit is I was discussing it yesterday with Jennifer and I'm trying to tell her about it.

12:35 Lee And I said exactly, so she went, okay, so she shows her boobs and therefore that means these people are going to die.

12:41 Lee If she's been kidnapped and she's in the middle of space, who's going to do the killing cuz it's not.

12:46 Adam It's not.

12:47 Lee And I was like, yeah, no, exactly, none of it makes any sense at all.

12:51 Lee It's just.

12:52 Lee But 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.

12:59 Chris That's now the best scene in the film.

13:02 Adam I think the weird thing is because I, like I say, I've not seen, I've only seen this in the first one.

13:07 Adam But even then, the neplichon, the leprechaun's powers were pretty nebulous.

13:16 Lee Yes.

13:17 Adam You know, you don't know, it's like how much.

13:19 Chris He can pretty much do almost anything.

13:22 Adam But in certain circumstances he can't.

13:25 Chris Yeah.

13:26 Adam And it's sort of.

13:28 Lee I I listened to another podcast where they covered all of the films.

13:33 Lee And they were saying they think they are different leprechauns.

13:38 Adam

13:38 Lee Because he has different powers in every movie and he never references anything that's happened in the previous.

13:46 Lee So it could just be each film is a different leprechaun and some of them have different powers.

13:51 Chris that still doesn't make a lot of sense in that they've just done that without mentioning it or.

14:00 Chris But yeah.

14:02 Adam I quite like that, that's something the James Bond films should embrace.

14:05 Adam They should be no, he's a different bloke.

14:07 Chris Yeah.

14:08 Adam It's not the same fucker who was doing it in the 60s but somehow he's younger.

14:16 Adam But I mean, yeah, so his powers are all over the shop.

14:21 Adam Versus sort of space tech and sci-fi and things like that.

14:25 Adam So you're like, what how much of it is.

14:29 Adam I 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.

14:39 Lee Lukety, yeah.

14:41 Adam Yeah.

14:42 Lee I mean, and again like him bursting out of that bloke's crutch.

14:46 Lee Like I mean, like none of it.

14:50 Lee I I still don't understand why that happened.

14:52 Lee If I'm honest.

14:52 Lee I don't I don't get.

14:54 Chris Just to put an alien's reference in there for fun.

14:57 Lee Yeah.

14:58 Lee Kind of.

14:58 Lee But then make it a bad silly.

15:00 Chris Yeah.

15:04 Adam But yeah, it's

15:07 Adam I also I mean, I'll I'll say one thing, when it's the big leprechaun at the end.

15:15 Chris

15:16 Adam That 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.

15:27 Adam Actually 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.

15:40 Adam And and Claire Claire genuinely thought the best bit of the film was the middle finger at the end.

15:48 Chris That's what I was going to mention that bit.

15:53 Chris It certainly seemed like an appropriate way to finish things.

15:57 Adam It's also weird because we did Alien a few weeks back and then I watched Aliens as well.

16:03 Lee Yeah, me too.

16:04 Adam And 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.

16:16 Adam It's right, Space Marines, right, we're doing it exactly like Aliens.

16:21 Lee Yeah.

16:24 Adam And 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.

16:33 Chris Yeah.

16:33 Adam You 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.

16:41 Adam You know.

16:42 Lee Yeah, this one just.

16:44 Lee As you say and even like the one-liners and stuff from the leprechaun were awful.

16:48 Lee Like I just.

16:50 Adam Yeah.

16:51 Lee Yeah.

16:52 Lee Yeah, I know now as I say, I now know why I haven't had any inclination to go back and rewatch this again.

16:58 Lee Because it's all I might go back and rewatch the third one.

17:02 Lee Now I've done this one, but yeah, this one is just utter shit.

17:07 Chris Surely you got to do the Hoods.

17:10 Lee I am tempted.

17:11 Lee But 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.

17:18 Lee So 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.

17:28 Lee but yeah, not enough for me to actually pull my finger out and go.

17:33 Chris So 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.

17:41 Adam I 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.

17:49 Lee I think I might have seen that, you know.

17:54 Lee And I just said that if it was a terrible dirty little secret and I did.

18:01 Chris Oh yeah, that was 2014.

18:04 Adam Yeah, 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.

18:22 Lee Oh, 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.

18:32 Lee But 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.

18:40 Lee According to the people who have stuck through the franchise for that many films, who are better people than me, it would appear.

18:48 Chris Wait, there's even Vengeance of the Leprechaun 2020 and Amityville Leprechaun 2024.

18:54 Chris They are not giving up.

18:56 Adam No.

18:58 Adam I don't know if I don't know if Warwick Davis is still doing them, I think he is.

19:03 Adam I think he's stuck with the series most of the way through.

19:08 Lee I mean, good on him.

19:10 Lee And yeah.

19:11 Lee And 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.

19:24 Adam It'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.

19:33 Lee Yeah.

19:36 Adam So yeah.

19:38 Lee Oh, I noticed that with the princess as well.

19:41 Lee Did anybody else notice that?

19:42 Lee Half 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.

19:55 Lee And it just kept falling in and out depending on what lines she was delivering.

20:02 Chris Well, she's from another planet, perhaps they also change their accents.

20:09 Adam Well, the also Sticks, the character Sticks is Spider from Return of the Living Dead.

20:18 Lee Oh, I knew he looked familiar, but I couldn't work out who it was.

20:22 Adam Luines.

20:23 Chris

20:24 Lee Yes.

20:25 Lee That's why that's the thing, like that's why I do think it could be down to the writing or whatever.

20:31 Lee Because there are people in this who I've seen in other stuff and really liked.

20:35 Adam Oh, yeah, absolutely.

20:36 Lee Not in this.

20:37 Chris I I think we can definitely tell the writing was was perhaps not taken too seriously.

20:45 Adam I 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.

20:55 Adam It's already kind of funny to then try and send up what's already a kind of a send up.

21:04 Lee Yeah.

21:06 Lee Too many layers.

21:07 Adam Yeah, it is.

21:08 Adam It's too many layers, you're sweating, you know, it's not good.

21:13 Adam I mean, I have to say, I think that when Dr. Mittenhand turned into a giant spider, scorpion thing, that actually looked really fucking good.

21:25 Lee Yeah, it did very.

21:26 Lee I 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.

21:38 Adam Well, 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.

21:56 Adam And 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?

22:06 Lee Yeah.

22:08 Adam but 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.

22:19 Lee Yeah.

22:19 Adam In the sort of, you know, like half robot chair and life support and everything else like that.

22:26 Adam but also really channeling, you know, let's face it, camp German is definitely his forte and he's fucking going for it here.

22:38 Adam You know.

22:39 Chris Yeah, absolutely.

22:44 Adam And 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.

23:16 Chris Yeah.

23:16 Chris Yeah.

23:17 Adam Yeah.

23:17 Adam And 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.

23:19 Chris Yeah.

23:20 Chris Yeah.

23:21 Chris Yeah.

23:21 Adam Yeah.

23:22 Adam and yeah, and the guy who plays the sergeant in this, Brian Trenchard-Smith gave him the role.

23:34 Adam So he got to play a drill sergeant because it was like he missed out.

23:37 Chris He didn't get to.

23:38 Adam Yeah.

23:38 Chris Yeah.

23:38 Adam Yeah.

23:41 Chris Yeah.

23:42 Chris Oh yeah, there's there's some heart in this.

23:45 Adam There is.

23:45 Lee I think that's the thing.

23:47 Lee I think having discussed it with you guys.

23:49 Lee Yeah, I definitely feel there is some redemption.

23:51 Lee Yeah.

23:52 Lee And 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.

24:05 Adam Oh, no mate, there is there is no.

24:08 Adam There 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.

24:18 Chris Yeah.

24:19 Lee Yeah.

24:20 Adam You know.

24:21 Adam And I think that that's that's the thing is I just think it's weirdly enough, probably watching Jason X in close.

24:26 Chris Yeah.

24:27 Adam Close.

24:27 Chris Yeah.

24:28 Chris I think that may have helped.

24:28 Adam I would have equalled it to Jason X if I'd have only remembered Jason X.

24:33 Adam But having watched Jason X and it being like, well, accomplished.

24:40 Lee Yeah.

24:42 Adam It's yeah, it's just a bit sort of

24:46 Chris I think if someone put it on at a party in the background, I wouldn't be too miserable.

24:52 Lee No.

24:52 Lee It 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.

25:02 Lee I mean it definitely has an audience.

25:05 Adam Oh yeah.

25:05 Adam Yeah, yeah.

25:07 Lee But 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.

25:12 Lee We 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.

25:22 Lee Like, I I do quite like that that they very, you know.

25:26 Lee It 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.

25:36 Adam Yeah.

25:39 Lee so yeah.

25:40 Adam See that.

25:41 Adam Is 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.

25:49 Adam You know, as a concept.

25:52 Adam Whereas they'd already had to hit that point by four.

25:57 Adam Is it just an accelerated thing of shit, we're still not we're not quite selling this.

26:43 Lee Yeah, it does feel like they've tried to make them more and more.

26:46 Lee So 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.

26:55 Lee And then the third one is Vegas, so they totally ramped that up.

26:59 Lee yeah, and then just as we say, just send a load of space Marines after him because why not?

27:08 Lee You 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.

27:14 Lee You don't know who had sent them out there looking for anything.

27:20 Lee Nothing is ever explained.

27:24 Lee and I didn't understand what was going at any point during it.

27:28 Adam Or 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.

27:41 Adam And that felt like, well, here's a reference to Alien, did anyone ask for a reference to Alien?

27:49 Chris No.

27:49 Adam No, we've got one.

27:50 Adam Just have it, it's paid for.

27:52 Lee It was never explained either.

27:53 Lee It was just, oh fuck, he was a robot, next thing.

27:57 Lee What?

27:58 Lee It's got.

27:59 Lee What?

28:01 Lee Oh, yeah, it's just absolute lunacy.

28:05 Lee Do you know what I I now I do want to go and watch in the Hood.

28:08 Lee Because I just can't see how it gets more bad shit than this.

28:16 Adam I mean, let's face it, I don't feel the poorer for having seen it.

28:19 Lee No.

28:20 Lee No.

28:21 Lee No, I I wasn't upset that I saw it.

28:23 Adam But I mean I doubt I'll see it again.

28:26 Adam But you know, it was nice while it was passing.

28:28 Adam Nice scenery.

28:30 Lee It did just make me want to go back and rewatch ThanksKilling though.

28:34 Lee Especially since it is Thanksgiving, it's yeah.

28:37 Chris Oh, yeah.

28:38 Lee Yeah.

28:39 Lee It'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.

28:59 Lee Like it's that level of total nut bagerry, but not done as well.

29:04 Adam Yeah.

29:06 Adam It's the it's the trauma thing.

29:08 Adam Is every everyone has to be absolutely on the same page that this nothing is too much and anything fucking goes.

29:21 Lee So.

29:22 Chris Is it is this is this like The Red Shoe Diaries exhibition, you know, we're in and out.

29:27 Lee Exactly.

29:28 Lee We'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?

29:35 Lee In 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.

29:44 Lee so 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.

29:57 Chris Yeah.

29:58 Lee It's because somehow in 225 episodes, we still haven't covered it.

30:02 Chris So 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.

30:10 Chris but it's quite old, isn't it?

30:13 Adam Yeah, this is going to be our so our Christmas season if you like is going to be Silent Nights.

30:21 Adam So we shall be doing two classics from the silent era of film.

30:26 Chris

30:26 Adam And 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.

30:38 Chris Okay.

30:39 Adam

30:40 Adam Yeah, and it's F. W. Murnau directed, it's an extremely I mean, obviously it's fucking visual, it's a silent film.

30:54 Chris But I imagine the the music must be.

30:57 Adam There are weirdly enough, it depends, there is a because you've got.

31:02 Adam No, 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.

31:15 Adam So dependent on whether the you know, the score turned up with the can of film.

31:22 Adam Meant that sometimes they'd just improvise or they'd do something else.

31:25 Adam Or 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.

31:37 Chris Yeah.

31:38 Adam So I believe there was a score to Nosferatu.

31:42 Adam Again, that's something I'll look into.

31:44 Adam But basically yeah, there's lots of different versions of it.

31:50 Adam Because it's one of those ones where because it's such a classic, you've had bands.

31:57 Adam Oh it's like artists who've wanted to do a score to it.

31:58 Adam So you've got like musicians and stuff like that.

32:01 Chris Yeah.

32:02 Chris Oh.

32:02 Chris And.

32:03 Adam And at one point me and former guest Wesley.

32:09 Adam we 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.

32:18 Chris Yeah.

32:20 Adam And we did a score to Nosferatu like our my old VHS of it.

32:26 Adam And 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.

32:36 Chris Yeah, yeah.

32:37 Chris So we might get a little sample of that then.

33:20 Adam Oh, blimey, I don't know.

33:21 Adam I'll have to ask Wesley, he he'll have the recordings if anything.

33:25 Adam But

33:25 Adam Yeah, 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.

33:37 Adam It was just like a keyboards and guitar, so.

33:41 Chris Yeah.

33:41 Chris

33:41 Lee Yeah.

33:41 Lee As 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.

33:57 Lee yeah, 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.

34:07 Lee It definitely added something.

34:09 Chris Yeah.

34:10 Chris Yeah.

34:10 Chris Did you know what score they were playing to?

34:12 Lee No, I think it was his own composition that he was doing.

34:15 Lee but yeah, he had loads of different instruments that he was kind of changing between as he went, so, yeah, so it was very entertaining.

34:23 Lee

34:24 Lee And 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.

34:34 Lee so we are doing this and then we will be doing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as the next installment.

34:41 Lee yeah, and they'll both be up before Christmas, is that what we said, Adam?

34:44 Adam Yeah, I think that will works out, yeah, so.

34:48 Adam And then you say you can enjoy, you know, you can get very festive with with silent German expressionism.

34:56 Adam horror.

35:00 Lee Nice.

35:01 Adam Because I oddly enough, I think that's quite festive.

35:04 Adam But there we go.

35:05 Lee Yeah, no, I do, there is something about old black and white horror films that are very winter day appropriate, so.

35:16 Lee Excellent.

35:17 Lee Right, thanks ever so much for listening everybody, go and check out Nosferatu.

35:23 Lee If 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.

35:30 Lee and 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.

35:40 Lee And we will see you in a fortnite's time for Nosferatu.

35:44 Lee Thanks very much for listening.

35:44 Lee Good night.

35:45 Chris Good night.

35:46 Adam Good night.