Tales from the Great War
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We turn our attention to a cracking little historical horror from Actor, Director, Writer (and all round top bloke) Andrew Elias. “Tales From The Great War” begins with 4 British soldiers stationed in the trenches of the Western Front being “volunteered” for a mission behind German lines, where, it soon transpires, things more terrible than the enemy are stalking the blasted landscape. The narrative shifts in time at various points to give us the separate back stories of how these individuals ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time; before tying all of them together. This episode is in two stages, at first we attempt to give a flavour of what to expect and then we’ll warn you as we move into spoiler territory. Be under no doubt, we all highly recommend you seek this film out (it is currently available for rent on Amazon) - it’s small budget belies its quality and polish, with a strong script and an excellent cast (including some familiar faces) this is a real gem, that manages to pack more into its 60 minute run time than some movies manage in 3 hours. 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 to cover a new movie out.
LeeAndrew Elias's fantastic. I shouldn't have said that because I've given away how I felt about the film.
AdamWell, there's a spoiler already, but fortunately not for the film.
LeeYes, Tales from the Great War.
ChrisAnd this is his second film, isn't it? I think.
AdamI believe so, yes. And so spoilers and swearing before we get any further. So.
LeeYes, but what we are going to do, so we're going to keep it spoiler-free for the first half, and then what we'll do is, we'll give you a chance if you hadn't seen it, to go and watch it and then return and come back for the spoilers because we definitely need to talk about, the the tie-ups at the end of the film.
AdamYeah.
LeeBut, if we are encouraging people to watch it, I think we're going to encourage people to watch it.
AdamYeah, yeah.
LeeYes, then we don't want to give anything away.
LeeSo, let's start with Chris as it is traditional. Chris, what did you make of this?
ChrisSo, so I think I've been saying this quite a lot lately, but my expectation was set at a certain level and I was trying to work out why.
ChrisRight, so partially it's a war film. Now, as much as I do love war films, I don't rush towards them. It might be because they're so real and that could be a little bit to do with Lee's dislike of nuclear holocaust type scenarios.
AdamOh, no.
LeeIt's not something I've got a lifelong phobia of. I just won't watch Threads.
AdamRight.
ChrisYeah, well, but you know, so that's that's going to come back around until we do either watch it, or maybe even if I watch it.
ChrisBut so I have this sort of idea of I think I don't, I'm not going to like war films, and then obviously I've seen some of the great ones and they are amazing, but I still am slightly averse to it.
ChrisSo then I thought, well, I'm assuming this is a fairly low-budget film, it's independent, and it's a war film, like it's impossible not to think, I don't know how good this is going to be.
ChrisAnd then I was like,
Adamespecially when it's a historical war film.
ChrisWell, yeah.
AdamIt's not just like equipment.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt's not just like if you're doing a war film but it's set today, you've got to have all the necessary equipment there to make that work, but also with this you've got to transpose it back, you know, basically over a hundred years.
LeeYeah, trenches and like it's amazing how much you can take in for a low-budget film, isn't it? It's Yeah.
ChrisLike and so if the cinematography, the music from the start, and then it was like, actually it's it's not like dark and difficult to get through. It was like surprisingly just really well-balanced, I thought, from the start.
ChrisI mean, it turns out it was Andrew Elias playing Old Dice and yeah, fascinating.
ChrisI I I loved the fact that he actually rolled the dice as well and then how keeping spoiler-free.
AdamWell, it was it was to do with he's called Old Dice because he's, obsessed with fate and how the dice roll and things like that.
ChrisWhich he does sort of say that from the off.
ChrisSo, yeah, and and again, yeah, and it's like yeah, fascinating story.
ChrisIt really yeah, was quite a quite impressive.
LeeI think I'm the same as you, Chris. I went in and I was like trying to do a low-budget World War I set horror film and that you're going to come up against so much.
LeeBut as soon as it opened, like literally before the credits had ended, I was like, this is gorgeous.
LeeIt just
ChrisYeah. I thought they must have spent all the budget on that first opening scene.
LeeYeah.
AdamYeah.
LeeAmazing, absolutely incredible.
LeeI mean, I don't know where they managed to find to film it, but it just looked so crisp and clean and the sound was
LeeLike again, we've always said that the other problem with capturing live sound and something like this, it with a budget is that the sound quite often suffers and you end up with one hand on the volume trying to every time somebody speaks, it's too quiet and then the music's too, none of that.
LeeIt absolutely incredibly, really well polished.
AdamYeah.
ChrisAnd then what I loved was the fact that it is this there is supernatural elements, but a lot of it could still be psychological trauma.
ChrisBecause I'm sure World War I was not not the thing you want to do if you want to flourish and grow really.
AdamWell, let's face it, I mean, we are talking about a period of time where it was, you know, post-traumatic stress disorder and so on and sort of, you know, that was basically no, you've got shell shock, so you're being a coward and go back to the front.
AdamOr if you did or if you did the perfectly understandable thing of running away, you got shot as a deserter.
AdamAnd you know, it's I I
ChrisOh, it turns out that doesn't bring out the best in people.
AdamNo, it doesn't.
AdamBut I mean, yeah, I I I think I think all of us because I mean because obviously, so Andrew Elias, who has appeared in some of the,
ChrisOh, yeah.
AdamI mean, actually, I mean, he's in he he is in, he's in The Phantom Menace. He's one of the Naboo Royal Guard in The Phantom Menace.
ChrisOh, really?
LeeOh, no.
AdamYes.
AdamSo, you know, so we covered him in Mos Eisley Happa as well. but yeah, I mean, he's in, he was we spotted him in, the pocket film of Superstitions. he was in the man on the stairs in that and, he was the caretaker in Casting Kill.
AdamAnd at that point he's sort of stood out to us as well, as like an interesting figure.
LeeOh, he's a he's a good figure.
AdamYou know. So and and, you know, so I was aware aware of him as an actor and obviously he's part of that sort of whole conglomerate of conglomerate, that's probably the wrong word, but that whole collection of, local filmmakers and sort of horror, filmmakers.
Adamso he's in so like so he's in in he's in those films, but obviously he, I really want to now I now really want to watch The Numbers, which is his first film, which is apparently a similar sort of a similar sort of thing where it's a a horror but also, kind of kind of an anthology because that's the thing I liked about this is you've got that sort of I was going to say that, it's episodic rather than an anthology, but it's yeah.
Adamsort of everything sort of you've got essentially you've got three stories of the people involved that then wraps up at the end, so it's that kind of thing a bit like Trick 'r Treat or Pulp Fiction where it's, you know, you gradually begin to piece it together of how this all interconnects and then you get your finale and everything and.
ChrisBut what I loved about that is actually it really works well for a second viewing, because that's what I was thinking at the end is like, yeah, this actually would replay fantastically.
AdamOh, absolutely, yeah.
AdamAnd and he did, he did one of the segments of Video Shop Tales of Terror, and I'm really he's got one coming up called The Vampire of Cripple Gate that I'm really I really want to see as well.
AdamThat looks.
AdamAgain, I think that's like a period one, and having seen this, it's like, you know, he can fucking do it.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, to be on the budgetary level that it is and it look as good and as not just technically proficient and everything else like that, but, you know, they managed to do a period war drama, regardless of anything else that goes into it in terms of like the story and the supernatural and things like that.
AdamYou know, just doing that is a fucking achievement on its own.
ChrisAbsolutely.
AdamAnd then actually having an interesting story with, you know, with good actors and action and stuff like that.
AdamIt's a real sort of, yeah.
AdamI think that it's it's definitely it's definitely a recommend from me, that I think people should go and see this.
AdamBecause and it's and one of the other great things, brevity.
AdamIs the fact that it's just over an hour long, isn't it?
AdamIt's like 63 minutes or something like that. So it's just over an hour, and the pace is good and you get a lot of story in there and a lot of incident, you know, in that sort of time frame.
ChrisThe pace is good.
AdamIt's really, yeah.
LeeI think for me again, that was part of why it worked and a lot of filmmakers would have made, fallen into that trap of, oh, it's a feature link, I've got to stretch it to an hour and a half, whereas with this, as you say, because it's condensed, it it it cracks along really well, and it it just it it's really quick-paced. yeah, and it plays out for as long as it needs to play out.
LeeAnd I love that. I I hate, there's nothing I hate more than when filler is put in or stuff is stretched more than it needs to be because you've got this 90 minutes in your head, like if your story takes an hour and five minutes to tell, do it in an hour and five minutes, I would much rather that.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd the other thing I wanted to mention as well.
LeeAnimation.
LeeThat animation in the in the in the in the
ChrisThere was an animation.
LeeThat was fantastic.
AdamYeah.
AdamThat was the bit that creeped Claire out most.
LeeYeah, it was sinister.
AdamThat was just a lovely, yeah, there's there's so many and that's another thing that with it you've got so many styles because obviously there's the the the sort of main filming as it were, but also they have stuff that's done so it's of its time, so you have like silent footage, black and white, that's a bit juddery and a bit sped up and everything else like that.
AdamAnd even to the point where they have, there's because obviously there are parts of it that are, excuse me, parts of it that are genuinely comedic.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd, so one of the sequences that they do in that sort of black and white thing is that is the kind of thing where it's lots of and, you know,
Adamthe caption comes up and, oh, crikey.
AdamAnd stuff like that. And it's just again, it's just very sort of evocative of the period, but also just genuinely funny.
AdamAnd again, it's that sort of there's a lot of bits and pieces going on in here and lots of varying styles.
AdamSo it's sort of, you know, it does keep interest in that sense as well, I think.
ChrisBut and it holds together.
ChrisIt doesn't feel like it's
LeeI was going to say that, it wasn't jarring.
ChrisIt's it's like
LeeThey all melded perfectly well.
Leeagain, possibly because of that sort of anthology feel where you can jump from one thing to another and it just feels yeah, it just feels right because you've moved from one chapter to another rather than you know, to a separate segment or story.
ChrisYeah, definitely.
LeeBut yeah, it it was and the cast as well, I think we should mention.
LeeI know you mentioned obviously saying about local filmmakers and stuff. So Singlal we saw in this.
AdamYes.
Adamand and Tom Lee Rutter was the compare, which was just hilarious.
AdamAnd obviously, obviously, we we these are people that we've spent time with and, you know, Tom's great, Lau is fantastic, you know, there we.
AdamSo it was there was a genuine sense of, ooh.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, and you're spotting people as well and it was just so sort of like just great to see it.
AdamAnd again, it's that lovely thing of this sort of there's this sort of collection of filmmakers who are all sort of appearing in each other's things and they'll do a bit of acting in one.
AdamAnd obviously you've got Kamal Yildirim in there from who did The Haunting of the Lady Jane and The Wastelands.
ChrisYes.
AdamAnd in probably the funniest role in the thing.
AdamWhich is fantastic from someone who produced such.
LeeIncredible.
AdamWell, from someone who gives you such dark.
ChrisYeah.
AdamI mean, particularly The Wastelands, that is not that is not a lighthearted comedy, you know, that is that is some dark, emotional, sort of shit.
ChrisHe's he's got some stuff to get out.
AdamYeah.
AdamBut he's achieved it.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBut he's he's the, you know, he's he's pretty much a comic character and so good for it.
AdamAnd, you've got Annabella Rich from Candlewell.
ChrisAnnabella Rich from Candlewell, yeah, she was quite.
LeeYeah, she was awesome in this, she was one of my favourite characters in that.
LeeShe was it was such a stark contrast to what she did in this.
LeeI have seen.
AdamYeah, and obviously, she was in Pocket Film of Superstitions as well, like Tom Tom Thomas Lee Rutter's, film that he directed and.
Adamyeah, there's, also,
Adamthe guy who played the devil is the sacrificial offering from the, Pocketbook of Superstitions.
AdamSo we've seen the devil's bits.
LeeI was about to say, so we've seen his cock and balls.
AdamHis cock and balls.
LeeYes.
AdamSo, but yeah, and
AdamBut it's just sort of like it was.
AdamSo it was that and also just Captain Sinclair, that's the director Michael Michael Fasty.
AdamWho also did a segment from video shop tales of terror, like the first one.
AdamAnd Burn Flowers as well, which Annabella Rich is in and loads of people are and it's yeah.
LeeYeah, I was going to say, Annabella Rich was I saw again recently in the in the video shop terror as well. So.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo it's all that sort of it's all that sort of like little that sort of collective of everyone who knows each other.
AdamAnd but actually, I mean, sort of I have to say, I mean the the was the just just looking at my notes here.
AdamBut so you had Glynn Bentley Angel as Henry, who was the guy looking for the book.
AdamAnd I I mean, and.
AdamYou know, it's a it's certainly a compliment coming from.
LeeWhat was it called? Strange Growth?
AdamStrange Growth.
ChrisThat's it.
AdamYeah.
ChrisI wondered if that was.
AdamWell, I think but more to the point, I just found him to he was doing a very what I would describe as a Reese Shearsmith role.
ChrisRight, that is exactly what.
ChrisYeah, like I was reminded.
LeeOh, he's going on, yeah.
ChrisAbsolutely a thing.
Adamsort of a fastidious person but also a bit aggressive and sort of, you know, and
LeeIt put me very much in mind of MR James' Ghost Stories for Christmas his performance.
LeeIt was very much Yeah, in that same vein.
LeeAnd yeah.
LeeAnd again, I I thought the performances in this were spectacular.
LeeLike it really it really drew me in.
LeeI was really enjoying it.
Lee
ChrisThey all worked well together as it would make sense.
Leeshall we drop a spoiler warning here?
Unknown[growling]
Leeso we are going to spoil from this point on.
Leeit's available on Amazon, it's not on Prime, but it is available on streaming, so you can go and get it from Amazon and pay for like a rental thing.
Leeyeah.
AdamAnd.
AdamAnd also, obviously, a massive, massive thank you to Andrew Elias, because he reached out to us and said, do you want to watch this?
ChrisYeah.
AdamSo he like he arranged that so we could see it.
AdamAnd he's always like, since we since we covered Casting Kill, he's always like been in contact with us and, you know, he's always supported the show.
AdamSo.
ChrisThank you.
AdamThank you.
ChrisThanks. We appreciate it.
AdamHopefully, hopefully we shall meet one day, because we because we passed like ships at Romford Horror Festival, we didn't we didn't realise he was there until afterwards.
AdamSo, you know, but yeah, so a big, massive shout out to him.
AdamBut yes, from here on in, here be spoilers.
Leeyes, so the I I loved the fact that it came back.
LeeI say, although it's only an hour long, because there's so much story in it, you do feel that it opens up with that where I was, you know, you get the sort of predator vision at the beginning with the
ChrisYeah, the early story with Old Dice.
Leeyeah, and I was like, it's France, it's it's got to be werewolves, it's got to be werewolves.
Leeyeah, and then you kind of and then of course it comes back to it later and I was like, that is what a great way to come back to it as well, you know, once once all those stories start wrapping up, to suddenly then, you know, you think the devil is going to be the end of it and that he's had a hand in it all and then it's like, nope, werewolves, it's all been fucking werewolves, I was like, yeah.
ChrisYes.
AdamI mean, I I must admit my first response when I first saw the werewolf was Panthro.
LeeIt's exactly what I thought, yeah.
AdamYeah.
ChrisWell, it wasn't just me. But, but I mean, I think Chris looks lost cuz he doesn't remember Thundercats. Oh, no, I did. Yeah, I did see Thundercats. Okay.
AdamNo, no, I was doesn't remember Thundercats.
AdamBut, but yeah, I and I think that the so yeah, the fact that they draw everything together.
AdamAnd the one thing I'm really pleased about and again coming back to, the, Kamal Yildirim's character.
AdamI'm so pleased because the first time I saw, Le Chat Noir was here, I thought, well, they fucked up and spelled that wrong.
AdamTurns out no. No, they they they've spelt shat exactly the right way for this.
AdamAnd, yeah, I mean that was just fucking ridiculous, that's hilariously where he just goes around flapping at various points around the trench.
LeeI laughed so loud through the whole of that scene. It was brilliant.
AdamBut I have to say that is one of my favourite things about this is that when Ginger revealed that he was like one of the werewolf sort of creatures, you know.
AdamAnd it's just the he didn't want to attack him, it was just like, well, you can keep my secret, I've been keeping yours.
AdamAnd it's like, I love that, a serial crappier and a werewolf have decided.
LeeYeah, fair play. We're on the same team now, really.
AdamSo.
AdamSo, yeah, I's
AdamYeah, and and effects-wise.
AdamI think that, I mean, okay, there was a I think there was the CG on some of it was for the werewolves wasn't great.
ChrisI I kind of felt like that was forgiven again because of the style.
AdamBut it's
ChrisIt's not
AdamIt wasn't it didn't mess up too much, it's like it wasn't a make or break.
ChrisIt didn't take me out of it because of the work that had been done already.
Adam
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah, exactly.
AdamI was totally with it, you know, there's no way that that was like a deal breaker or anything else like that.
AdamBut also when you compare to, you know, how much has gone into this.
ChrisThat's it.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know, it's sort of like it's it's so sort of like yeah, I'm just so impressed.
AdamI know that sounds ridiculous, well, not ridiculous, but, you know, I'm just so impressed that on this budget, you've got this film.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd it's like.
AdamAgain, we're looking at that sort of thing of it's like, this doesn't tick any of the problems of a small budget film.
ChrisAll the actors are great.
AdamIt looks brilliant, the sound's great, the score was brilliant.
LeeYeah, fantastic score.
AdamAnd especially because I like that where they were sort of again much like the film where it would veer between the absurd and the serious.
Chris
AdamWhich I suppose in many ways is probably the only way you can the the only way that you can sort of look at the situation that they're in.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, is that that sort of combo of the two where it's like, this is either ridiculous or terrifying, you know, is deadly serious or absolutely.
ChrisProbably probably changes between that, yeah.
AdamExactly, it's the only it's the only coping mechanism that you've got is to, you know, sort of out there.
Adam
AdamYeah.
AdamBut yeah, I mean there's so many sort of and the devil stuff, I mean, I love anything where the devil shows up is always great anyway.
AdamBut the devil turning up in the trenches just seems like absolutely perfect.
LeeYeah.
LeeWhere else would he be at that time in history that's right there?
AdamExactly, yeah.
LeeYeah, and you know, the sort of the fact that they'd all been led there to be there together on that one night, it just.
LeeYeah, and and I liked that as well, the fact that you didn't that you saw old Dice saying, right, you're the four volunteers, but you don't see them, so it's not until the second story, when he ends up then you suddenly go, this is going to be who the four people are and how they all ended up being where they were. Yeah, and it just wrapped it up so nicely.
LeeIt's those things that loose ends that you forget and then when it brings them all back, you go, wow, that's really well written, it's really really well put together.
ChrisLike like you said, Chris, I think that's the thing this it's going to bear up to multiple watching, because once you know where the thing's going, you're like, right, okay, now this sort of, you know, you're you're seeing those intricacies and stuff like that.
ChrisYeah, I mean, it's almost reminded me of you know, like yeah, I like an anthology, but it is funny how it is, as each scene plays out, you just think, yeah, where is this going to go and how is it wrapping background, but it's it is amazing when someone gets it right.
LeeYeah.
AdamAbsolutely.
LeeYeah, I can't imagine how many boards you must have with bits of string and pins in order to bring everything back together so tightly.
ChrisYeah.
AdamIt must look like a serious murder investigation on that planning board.
ChrisAnd so, so it came out in 2023, but so yeah, do we know how long he spent making it?
AdamI'm not entirely sure.
AdamI mean, again, this is something where, we, I mean, we can ask him, I suppose.
Adambut certainly, yeah, I I mean, I think because I know that he did, so he did The Numbers.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisSo when was that?
Adamthe numbers was, I haven't got my screen in front of me.
Adambut I think that was, and then then that was followed by the segment that he did for video shop Tales of Terror.
AdamAnd then it's this. So, you know, but and and like I say, I mean, he's been in in terms of his.
ChrisIt looks like 2018, the numbers.
AdamOh, there we go.
Adambut I mean, you know, he's also he's also a a working actor.
AdamSo he was in he's like he was in Red Dwarf, he was in EastEnders and
AdamAnd as I say, he's a he was in Phantom Menace.
AdamAnd and and lots of, you know, he's he's in he's in video shop Tales of Terror and he's in Burnt Flowers, like Michael Fasty's film and obviously we saw him in casting kill.
AdamAnd yeah, so.
AdamYou know, he's he's steeped in film.
ChrisHe's he's busy.
AdamAs it were, you know, so I think it's it's clearly, you know, and clearly all that all that work behind and in front of the screen has really paid off here because, you know.
AdamI I did I did see one thing I I sort of found an an interview with him where they was talking about because obviously he's playing, because he plays Old Dice and as he put it, it was like, well, it was partly practical in terms of it was kind of practical in terms of the fact that there's, you know, that's one member of the cast sorted and I know what performance they're going to give and I know it's going to be the performance that I want for that character.
AdamSo, you know, and and again, it helps, it's not, you know, it helps when someone can act, it's not a Gormangey job, you know, so.
LeeActually, I know we've touched on the CGI, but the practical effects on this and stuff.
LeeLike that, you know, the shots to the neck and stuff, god, that looked so brutal, didn't it?
LeeIt was really.
Leeand I I watched some films.
AdamWell, there's a lot of brutality in it that really works like taking the finger off, you don't see much until the finger comes off.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh, it looks so good, though.
AdamAnd it's just again, it's just grim enough that you're like, oh, no, that's.
ChrisBut yeah, it's so well-balanced throughout. Dark bits, humorous bits, entertaining, like yeah, fantastic.
LeeYeah, fantastic.
LeeSo, definitely a recommend from all of us.
Leeyeah, and just I say, it's available to watch now, so go and get stuck in.
LeeAnd yeah, you will not be I'm definitely going to be looking up more of his stuff.
AdamWell, like I say, I I definitely want to see The Numbers and, and like I say, I think he's got.
AdamSo you've got like The Vampire of Cripple Gate and Terror on the 315.
AdamAre two films that he's got coming up.
AdamSo again, you know, hopefully we won't have to wait too long for those and we get to see some more excellent work, you know.
LeeYeah.
ChrisI've just looked up The Numbers. It says three people in three different time periods find themselves face to face with fate. So he certainly does have this as a thing that that runs through his mind.
Chrisso yeah, I mean,
AdamYeah, I think I think.
ChrisIf that's anything like this then.
AdamYeah, I think I think it'll be excellent as well. I think it's done under similar lines, I think it's basically like the three stories that then coalesce and you know, and and back to what you were saying Lee about that fucking animation sequence, which now we're now we're talking spoilers, yeah, that was genuinely fucking creepy.
Adam
LeeWhen it was just.
LeeWhen it was just like, oh, we saw a man who turned out to be you'll know the devil if you see him.
LeeAnd then it's sort of, yeah, just and really quite simplistic.
AdamLike, you know, but so fucking effective.
ChrisEffective, yeah.
LeeYeah, it's that white on black, it just creates such an atmosphere to it.
Lee
LeeYeah, I'd I'd love to know how they did, you know, how they got that done.
LeeBecause it just looks awesome.
LeeIt's.
ChrisThat's why yeah, the production just seems fantastic throughout.
AdamYeah.
AdamWell, again, I mean, I think sort of like just like sort of reflecting back on sort of, you know, me and Lee obviously we're keeping keeping things under wraps, but we were on set for, some of the stuff that's coming up in Video Shop Tales of Terror 2. And it is just and it is just that thing where everyone is there, sort of yeah, everyone is focused, everyone is there to make the best thing they can and the sort of camaraderie of that and the sort of but, you know, when you.
ChrisThat's everyone is very passionate about these things, yeah, and the whole thing.
LeeOh, but yeah.
LeeSpeaking of which, I've got some good news, I've been speaking with actor from this film that we discussed earlier, Thomas Lee Rutter. so obviously we loved Pocket Film of Superstitions.
ChrisOh, yeah.
Leeand I saw he did a short, like a 30-minute film, called Bella in the Witch Elm.
Adamyes.
LeeOf the mystery.
LeeSo I was discussing this with him and I've seen it and there is a possibility that it's going to be an extra on the Blu-ray for Pocket Film.
LeeSo.
AdamOh, nice.
LeeIf if you weren't already going to buy that.
LeeThe second it comes out.
Leeyeah, and it looks just like Pocket Film, it's got exactly the same shooting to it.
Leeand it's basically it's the mystery of Bella in the Witch Elm, which is a real life mystery for anyone who's unaware of a a woman's skeleton that was found inside a tree just outside Birmingham.
AdamFor more information, go and listen to the episode on As Yet Unexplained.
LeeYeah, what a fantastic episode that one.
LeeI think he did two episodes on that.
LeeHe really.
AdamYeah, I think it might have been a double actually, yeah.
Leebut yeah.
LeeSo hopefully that's going to be coming out as an extra on that.
LeeSo
AdamOh, that's fantastic.
AdamI mean and and again, just such a lovely group of people.
AdamAnd like I say, it was just it was just so.
AdamEspecially with him doing a Brucy.
LeeYeah.
AdamWhere he was just as he was doing the comp in it was just that.
AdamRepeat the same line, flip it, yoga it, and there you go.
LeeAnd.
AdamAnd and the other thing because he did he was when when we were talking to him, he he also talked about he did an Acid Western, like a Yodowski inspired Acid Western.
AdamSo, I'll have to see if I can track that down as well.
AdamHave a watch of that.
Lee
LeeI'd.
LeeYeah.
LeeThat's so much talent locally.
LeeIt's unbelievable.
Lee
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd again, see so I didn't realize that Andrew Elias, yeah, was was part of this scene as well because I thought Casting Kill and stuff was a different group as it were.
LeeBut yeah, to then see Thomas and Sing and Annabella Rich and everyone in these as well, it does go to show you just how much crossover there is in independent British film.
Lee
AdamAnd and he did a segment on video shop Tales Terror, which we know is Singlal's project, you know, project, so, you know, he's in there as well. So it's but yeah, it's no, it's and it's just again, it's just such a go and fucking watch it, you know, if you if you've if you've got this far, having listened to the spoilers and we've made things slightly more meaningless in a weird way for you, but go and fucking see it, go and watch it because.
LeeYeah.
LeeGo and support independent film, go and support Andrew Elias.
AdamYeah, exactly.
AdamSo.
ChrisAnd I think even someone who's not not massively into horror would get a lot out of this.
ChrisYou know, it's.
AdamOh, absolutely, yeah.
ChrisIt's like.
LeeYeah, so
LeeSo go and support independent horror, go and watch Tales from the Great War, you won't regret it.
Leeyeah, and we look forward to seeing what these people are going to be producing in the future.
LeeBecause they seem to have a really quick turnaround, not everyone has a film out every year, but everyone seems to be involved in something.
ChrisIn something, yeah.
LeeSo there's stuff coming out all the time and it's it's yeah, there's so much shit out there.
LeeThat once you get into this, like you say, with films like Numbers and stuff, there's a massive back catalogue of stuff as well.
LeeSo there's so much out there to still to still get through.
Lee
LeeYeah, and it's really exciting.
LeeWhen you've watched all the mainstream shit and all the kind of weird sub-genres that we see in stuff.
LeeYou then realize this whole fountain of stuff is there.
ChrisThat's what I was going to say about expectations as well. I kind of keep having a feeling, we must have covered all of the great films, right? And I have a sense new films also can't be that good compared to everything we've watched.
Chris
AdamWell, I know people often I've seen people often saying about horror that it is like gold prospecting.
Lee
AdamYou have to clear through a lot of you clear through a lot of dirt, but fuck me, when you find the gold.
Chris
AdamYou know.
AdamThat's that's the.
AdamAnd it isn't necessarily it isn't necessarily always going to be from the same places.
AdamYou know, there's there's films with astronomical budgets that are bloody awful, and there are films shot on an iPhone for 20p that are bloody amazing.
AdamAnd it's yeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamThere is no telling, it just happens that way.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh, it's exciting, I think that's one of the things I love about independent horror.
LeeIs when you sit down, especially with films like this where you might have a couple of minute trailer, but other than that, you've got nothing, there's no reviews, there's no you can't trust the IMDB reviews because only six people have rated it or whatever.
LeeSo every time you sit down, you're like, yeah, it could be a piece of shit, or it could be the next one, yeah, where you suddenly just go, oh, I've discovered a new director, writer, actor or something.
LeeAnd and it sends you off on a whole another tangent and you suddenly open up this massive wormhole of all this stuff that you can suddenly just start getting your hands on and yeah.
LeeIt's hugely exciting.
Lee
Leeyeah, and discover how much shit's out there that we didn't even have any idea about, it's incredible.
ChrisYeah.
AdamIndeed, it's a welcome that we all experience.
AdamBecause that's the thing with this, obviously none of us have seen it before.
Chris
AdamSo all of us were being welcomed to this horror.
ChrisIt's it's nice when that happens.
AdamYeah.
AdamEspecially when we're all like.
AdamThat's.
AdamFucking good.
LeeYeah.
LeeRight.
LeeAnd on that note, thanks ever so much for listening, everybody.
LeeWe'll be back in a fortnight.
Leecovering something.
LeeAnd
LeeYou did point out something that we haven't covered.
AdamSo, should we just do Killer Clowns from Outer Space and be done with it?
LeeOh, fuck yes, 100%.
LeeRight, we're going to do Killer Clowns from Outer Space in a Fortnite's time.
AdamOh.
LeeOh, excellent.
LeeThat means I've got a legitimate excuse to watch it three weeks after I watched it the first time.
ChrisExcellent.
LeeRight.
LeeHave a great time, everybody.
LeeGo and check out this film, go and check out your local independent horror.
LeeFollow all the people we've mentioned today and go and watch Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
LeeAnd we'll see you in a fortnight. Good night.
ChrisGood night.
AdamGood night.
