Now I am the Master

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

0:26 Chris I'm Chris.

0:27 Adam I'm Adam.

0:28 Lee Hey, and we are here this evening as promised for something a bit different.

0:34 Lee Full disclosure, I would like to point out that despite the fact we discussed this as a possibility several months ago, I mentioned it at the end of the last episode. I said what we're doing next week. and where we cut the recording, they both went, "You fucking what?"

0:52 Lee Because they'd both forgotten that we'd had the discussion and decided that it was possibly a wank idea.

0:57 Lee So, if it turns out to be a shit episode, I take full responsibility.

1:02 Lee And the other two are completely passengers in the situation.

1:06 Lee So,

1:07 Adam No,

1:07 Adam I would like to

1:07 Adam I would like to

1:07 Adam I I would like to I I think we should venture it further than it's got to be Chris's fault.

0:11 Adam As it's a Chris-centered episode.

0:14 Adam So, you know, if he's unable to carry the weight that,

0:18 Adam you know, is he going to be is he going to be George Harrison and give us While My Guitar Gently Weeps?

0:24 Adam Or is he going to be Ringo and give us a fucking Yellow Submarine?

0:29 Adam Thomas the Tank Engine.

0:31 Chris That's right.

0:32 Chris As on the worst person I've ever heard interviewed ever.

0:37 Chris That's two evers.

0:39 Chris Then I'll be amazed if we manage to publish this, but let's give it a go.

0:44 Lee Yes, so the idea was obviously when the premise for the podcast when we started was to welcome Chris to horror and slowly introduce him into all the all the great things that horror has.

0:57 Lee People have a very one-dimensional view on horror, we felt.

0:01 Lee And bringing somebody in and introducing them to, you know, to all the different subgenres, all the different decades, all the different flavors of horror, we thought it would be a fun experiment, really.

0:14 Lee And yeah, I

0:16 Chris It's mostly an excuse just to watch some films.

0:19 Lee Yeah.

0:21 Adam Absolutely.

0:23 Lee But yeah, so I just thought it'd be interesting to sit down with Chris and find out how he feels now compared to how he did when we first ventured into this seven long years ago and 200 plus movies previously.

0:38 Lee So Chris, how has this lived up to what you expected?

0:44 Adam This is this is where he offers his letter of resignation.

0:48 Chris Let me go away. I'm just going to go think about it for a bit.

0:50 Chris Yeah, so

0:51 Chris as I mean essentially as you just said, like it's learning that there is a lot more to horror than you tend to see when you're mostly seeing I suppose adverts and trailers and the big hits.

0:08 Chris And we've certainly seen that with some of the amazing independent films we've been seeing recently.

0:13 Chris But yeah, and the fact that it's surprising how how much can be ultimately part of the horror genre.

0:22 Chris And how how it lends itself to certain types of stories that you could tell using a different genre, but there's something that adds say an extra edge to it that perhaps really makes it hit home a lot harder than it otherwise might.

0:42 Adam Absolutely.

0:43 Adam I know I I think it's yeah, there is there is a lot that horror can be it's like there's there's two versions of horror.

0:57 Adam You can have the thing that is obvious horror because it falls into a category like a monster or a demon or whatever like that.

0:04 Adam And then on the other side of it it's like, actually this is this is a this is a film about divorce but they've put ghosts in it, you know, or something.

0:14 Chris But but it really gets you in the state of mind that lets you fully appreciate, you know, the other side of what's going on.

0:21 Lee I think it's it's having that heightened tension when you add other elements in it it can really work.

0:26 Lee But I think that was what we wanted to sort of show you when we went into it is everyone has this idea of horror as like The Exorcist and slashers and stuff.

0:36 Lee I don't I think people outside don't realize just how diverse and multi-layered horror is.

0:43 Lee And it's one of the things Adam and I always love, like, you've got The Exorcist at one end of it, and then at the other end of it, you've got Shaun of the Dead or something, which absolutely is a horror.

0:57 Lee But it's got so much it's got so much great comedy and people who don't who don't watch horror because they hate it as a genre, as we've said so many times before, saw something too much, too young and just blanket, you know, cut it out.

0:13 Lee They're missing out.

0:14 Chris Saw and that was it.

0:14 Lee So much.

0:15 Lee Yeah.

0:15 Lee Yeah, precisely.

0:17 Adam I am going to say at this point that this is something since since we covered Scream I'm growing I'm increasingly out of love with Scream, the film.

0:26 Lee Oh really?

0:27 Adam And there's one of those elements is that it was like the sort of everyone was like, that's how a horror movie works and it's like, no, that's how a slasher film works.

0:36 Adam There is a very fucking distinct difference.

0:40 Adam And and I think like you were saying, there's people you know, have an assumption that horror is one type of thing with one type of story that crosses all those beats.

0:54 Adam And yeah, that is the case, that can be the case, obviously.

0:58 Adam But yeah, but scary movie because it was like, do you like scary movies? That was just like, oh, so do you like horror?

0:06 Adam But it wasn't quite sort of, you know, because it's a slasher film.

0:09 Adam And they tell you the trucks in the slasher film.

0:13 Adam But, you know, much in the same way that I don't know, possession does not have that is not filled with horror tropes.

0:22 Lee No, that is just a head fuck from minute one onwards.

0:28 Adam Maybe maybe that's what it is, it's just my resentment of people that don't think it's that ordinary.

0:35 Adam It's not just some big bugger with a knife, you know, sometimes it's cosmic things coming out of your fucking well and making Al Pacca evil.

0:42 Adam Or, you know, various other things.

0:45 Chris That was the Color Out of Space.

0:47 Adam Yes.

0:47 Adam Weirdly enough, I'm quoting I've quoted I'm talking about two films that we've never covered.

0:52 Adam So there we go.

0:53 Chris Yeah, I did I did I did think, hold on. Did I miss one here?

0:57 Adam No, no.

0:59 Lee No, but I think it's it's funny to see how far you've come on, Chris.

0:04 Lee Like, you know, since we started, like, you've you've really embraced it.

0:08 Lee Because this was my kind of my concern when we first started recording was that you might get a couple in and go, yeah, this is all just shit.

0:16 Lee And it wouldn't work at all.

0:18 Adam Not for me.

0:18 Adam Not for me.

0:19 Adam Not for me this horror, tried it.

0:23 Adam Three strikes out.

0:25 Lee Yeah, and I love how much you embraced it and went off and and did your own, you know, you enjoyed it to the point where you came back and went, oh yeah, as well as the film we're covering next, I also watched this, this and that.

0:37 Lee You know, and going and watching the Eli Roth documentaries and stuff to kind of fill in, you know, the gaps of the bits that we hadn't yet covered.

0:44 Lee So yeah, it was it was heartwarming to see that it it definitely did something for you.

0:50 Chris Yeah, and hopefully some listeners too.

0:53 Chris Who arguably probably had seen more films than me.

0:59 Chris But you know, I think we've still probably shown a few that they may not have.

0:05 Adam Well, I I hope that there is a thing where people will try stuff out because especially when it's we start an episode going, look, just going fucking watch it, please don't worry, just go and watch it and then come back and listen to what we thought about it.

0:18 Adam But there are certain ones where it's really, you know, I I hope that it builds a trust.

0:25 Lee Well, I mean, we've had we've had people bring stuff to us that we hadn't seen before, you know, like listeners coming to us saying, oh, you like Wild Zero, would never have seen Wild Zero if a listener hadn't brought it to us and I was like, holy shit, I've never heard of this.

0:37 Lee It's awesome.

0:41 Lee Like, and it yeah, it it's it is good that despite the fact you feel you have a very a very balanced view of of the genre and you kind of you know what's going on.

0:54 Lee It's always amazing when someone says, but have you ever seen this and I've never even heard of it.

0:58 Lee And you go and watch it and it's absolutely epic.

0:01 Lee You know, there's so much stuff that we don't even know about that's just out there, it's such a yeah, such a diverse and exciting genre.

0:10 Adam So we keep and we're keeping the title because I know people always joke about it that it'd be Chris has been well and truly welcome to horror.

0:17 Adam But I'm now thinking that yeah, it could be we're welcoming the listeners to horror and indeed ourselves.

0:26 Adam Because because I've watched I've definitely watched stuff because of the podcast in the in the sense of I'd have probably never got around to that film or I would have not gone.

0:37 Adam Do you know what I mean?

0:38 Adam And

0:38 Chris There's probably still a few of those left.

0:40 Adam Oh, there's there's loads.

0:41 Adam I've still got I've still got a list, we'll have to what we'll do is as as we go, we'll jot down what any that crop up that we're like, oh, we haven't shown you that, we need to show you that, so, you know.

0:53 Adam But

0:55 Chris So, so I I was going to say I've jotted down a few

0:59 Chris I I've flicked back through to see everything we've watched and it's pretty amazing, really.

0:05 Chris Yeah, and so I've categorized them under some headings that I thought might be interesting to perhaps have a little chat about.

0:13 Lee Yeah, cool.

0:14 Adam Yeah, go for it, man.

0:15 Chris So, all right, so I've put some of my favorites, I've got The Witch, Split, The Thing, Trick 'r Treat, Cabin in the Woods, The Perfect Host.

0:23 Chris And I sort of notice, you know, that

0:25 Adam King Hell, mate.

0:26 Lee That is one hell of a list, man.

0:28 Chris Yeah.

0:29 Adam That is that is executive connoisseur.

0:33 Chris Well, yeah, but but it is funny, right, because, you know, when you're doing this, you think, I could add that, I could add that, I definitely could add that.

0:42 Chris But it's like then I'm just going to end up with loads, but it's like just trying to grab at the ones where they just stand out to me for, you know, for slightly different reasons.

0:49 Chris Yeah, and and so yeah, and and certainly most of these, obviously I'd never seen, so it's like it's great.

0:55 Chris And they are arguably now some of my favorite films, you know, not just horror.

0:01 Adam Oh, that's brilliant.

0:03 Chris And then sort of particularly recently, although it turned out we'd watched a few before, I've got some mad independent ones that stood out: Class of Nuke 'Em High,

0:13 Chris Dude Bro Party Massacre III, ThanksKilling.

0:19 Chris Because, you know, yeah, it's like but again, there's there's a huge list of amazing independent films that I'm sure we're going to carry on watching.

0:29 Chris Yeah, I had a few classics that I always planned to watch.

0:35 Chris I thought, yeah, one day I'll get to these, so I had Seven, which I did

0:38 Chris I did watch, but it turns out I hadn't seen it all, because there's tons that I hadn't seen.

0:43 Chris Elvira.

0:44 Lee Oh, surprisingly.

0:45 Chris Elvira.

0:46 Adam Elvira.

0:46 Chris Elvira, Elvira.

0:47 Chris Okay.

0:48 Chris

0:51 Chris Jaws, which I had seen, but was surprised at how good it was when we rewatched it.

0:57 Chris So I sort of added that I must have clearly forgotten so much of what was in there.

0:01 Adam Jaws is such a weird film because until you do that, you can watch Jaws loads and just enjoy it and it sort of fades into the background or gets familiar.

0:11 Chris Because you remember it's like it's just it's a big film, okay, it was probably good, but it's not that good, you know, but then rewatching it was like, okay, no, totally forgot so much of those details.

0:22 Lee It's exactly the same as Close Encounters of the Third Kind for me, it's one of those that you always think, oh, it's an absolute timeless classic, but you don't sit down and watch it very often, and then when you do, you go, oh fuck, yeah, no, it totally deserves all the love it gets because it's absolutely groundbreaking.

0:41 Chris That is interesting.

0:41 Chris Because I've never seen that.

0:45 Lee What?

0:45 Lee You never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

0:47 Chris No.

0:48 Adam That does surprise me, Chris, because I know you're a sci-fi man and

0:52 Chris But it always seemed like one of those sci-fi films that was not worth watching.

0:56 Chris Like because it was just too big.

0:58 Chris And I was like, you know,

0:59 Lee I have owned that film on

0:01 Lee in multiple versions on every format.

0:04 Lee So I had it on VHS like the original, then I bought the director's cut, and then I bought the special edition, then it came out on DVD and I had to buy all three versions on DVD, then I bought a Blu-ray player and I had to buy all Blu-ray.

0:24 Lee I thought I've spent

0:24 Lee hundreds of pounds only that movie over my lifetime.

0:29 Chris Wow.

0:30 Adam You'll have to have to fat movie, 26 years of Dr. Who.

0:33 Adam Who.

0:33 Adam Those fuckers are rich, man.

0:35 Chris But but it is funny because I've actually heard the sound that the aliens make in some music tracks.

0:41 Chris Because they use the sound.

0:42 Adam All right.

0:43 Chris So I know that, but yet I have no idea how that fits into the film.

0:47 Chris So yeah, I will get to that one day.

0:50 Chris

0:51 Adam Horror horror adjacent, but I have recorded

0:54 Adam No, I was going to say horror adjacent and that I have recorded more on throughout of space.

0:58 Adam Off the TV, which you just reminded me of because there's a bit where they take the piss out of the

0:04 Chris All right.

0:05 Adam But yeah.

0:06 Adam Anyway, sorry.

0:09 Chris The Exorcist, which Lee you mentioned obviously as being the one lots of people would look at and say, oh yeah, that's what horror is.

0:15 Chris And that is true, but

0:18 Chris it is still it does capture something that's a bit different to quite a lot of other horror films.

0:23 Chris And there is still a lot more in there that happens than the obvious, you know, head turn and scaring and and some of the looks.

0:33 Adam I think that is that thing the thing we said at the time where it was like, that's just so embedded in pop culture that people think they've seen it.

0:40 Adam It's like people speak of Bram Stoker's Dracula but no, you've just seen three different Dracula films.

0:45 Lee Yeah, absolutely.

0:48 Chris Yeah.

0:49 Chris Ring as well, again, I'd heard of it so much, you know, it was massive at one point, but I planned to watch it one day.

0:57 Chris and Nosferatu because

0:02 Chris again, it's an iconic look and I thought, yep, definitely one day I'll watch it, whether it's hard to know, isn't it, would you get around to doing it because there's a lot of things you can watch, you know.

0:11 Lee Yeah.

0:12 Lee Or 100 years old and silent.

0:15 Chris Well, right, yeah.

0:16 Chris And you might think, I definitely want to, but

0:18 Lee Yeah.

0:18 Chris Yeah, would you choose it?

0:21 Lee Yeah.

0:21 Chris Yeah, to know that it's definitely worth doing.

0:24 Chris Okay, and I've got a few films that I'll probably never would have watched, but I'm glad I did.

0:28 Chris Tokyo Gore Police.

0:31 Chris Psycho Goreman.

0:35 Chris Pumpkinhead.

0:36 Lee I've seen it.

0:37 Chris Again, because that was that was one where it's like, yeah, I mean it's it's funny, they just almost go in in the other category really, but it's like you see it and it's like, okay, yeah, that that looks kind of interesting, but yeah, you just don't know if you definitely would.

0:51 Chris But one that was really big that did surprise me, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

0:55 Chris So in my head, I thought I'd never want to watch that, I just like, I have no interest.

0:01 Chris The title just says to me, I couldn't care less, right, that is not going to have anything of any interest to me at all.

0:07 Chris And yeah, turns out it's very different to what I was expecting and absolutely definitely should have watched it.

0:13 Chris So, yeah.

0:14 Chris And I mean there are more I could add to these lists, definitely.

0:18 Chris I got a few that I would want to watch again, that just stand out as, you know, definitely.

0:23 Chris So I got John Dies at the End because for some reason, I really cannot remember what happens in that at all.

0:30 Chris And the title is just like

0:33 Adam It is a difficult one because that is quite a narratively fucked film.

0:38 Lee I've seen it I couldn't tell you what happens in it.

0:43 Chris I remember it just being quite quite weird, but I I still want to remember why does he die at the end now, because I I just can't quite remember those details.

0:50 Chris But, you know.

0:51 Chris The Burbs.

0:53 Lee Yes.

0:53 Chris Which was another one that I always wanted to watch.

0:56 Chris And again, I can't really remember what happens in it fully.

0:59 Chris I remember it being pretty weird as well.

0:01 Chris And I remember something about there was crackers with sardines on and that's that's what's stuck in my head is it's a weird film that has stuff like that in.

0:05 Lee Sardines.

0:06 Chris But yeah, forgotten forgotten the details, really, and I know it's got Tom Hanks and but and I remember them in gardens and yeah, but just cannot remember exactly what happened.

0:15 Chris I've got The Wolfman because I think

0:17 Chris I might appreciate that more now that we've covered a lot more since because we watch that second, I think and so it was it was quite a a jump from The Woman in Black, which that was a great film.

0:29 Adam Yeah, that was that was our second one.

0:31 Chris Yeah, and so I don't know that I was quite in the state of mind for watching an older film to fully appreciate it and not get caught up on some of the less interesting aspects.

0:49 Lee I think that was my fault because I love Wolfman so much.

0:52 Chris Right, so you're like.

0:52 Lee I was like, oh let's do that straight away and it was like, yeah, probably too soon to take the way back to the night.

0:59 Chris Might have been.

0:01 Adam I could see your thinking though, Lee, because it was like the first because I didn't realize when we watched The Woman in Black, it wasn't until we were watching it, I realized it was a Hammer film.

0:12 Adam So it was like, right, we've got in quick with a Hammer film, but it's not the older Hammer, it's a much recent movie.

0:18 Chris Oh, that's weird, yeah, what?

0:21 Adam So it's not going to have that thing of having to adjust, you know, it's like, right, this is a movie that came out in whatever it was the last five years at that point, or something like that.

0:30 Chris Yeah.

0:33 Adam And yeah, we, and then it was like, but you did Hammer and it's like, well, next thing do Universal.

0:38 Lee Yeah.

0:39 Adam Yeah.

0:41 Adam But obviously Universal, that was sort of, yeah, so we went back.

0:44 Lee I think again, that's why I went for for Wolfman, I love Wolfman, it is one of my favorite universal, but I think it was because it was a more modern end.

0:52 Lee So I was like, oh yeah, it's newer than Dracula and it's like,

0:56 Lee yeah, but not it's still still a very old film.

0:01 Adam It's it's I mean, it's more it's certainly more dynamic than the Universal Dracula.

0:05 Lee It's so much more.

0:06 Lee Yeah.

0:07 Adam Yeah, because that that is very much a play filmed.

0:11 Lee Yeah.

0:11 Chris Yeah, okay.

0:12 Chris Yeah.

0:13 Adam And you couldn't really and you don't want to necessarily do because you want to do Bride of Frankenstein at some point.

0:18 Adam But you don't want to bring that in second because that's when you've started to appreciate that you can have humor in horror.

0:26 Adam Because if anything, Bride of Frankenstein can be described as witty.

0:31 Lee Yeah.

0:31 Lee I'll give you.

0:32 Adam You know what I mean, more than anything else.

0:33 Adam It's not an outright comedy, but there's enough in it that it's just like this is actually, you know, weird comedy of these macab characters or something.

0:46 Chris Yeah.

0:48 Adam We did have we did have funnily enough on that subject, we did have a question from from a listener, not one who listens to the podcast but someone who listens to us record the podcast.

0:59 Chris A very special listener.

0:01 Adam Yeah, so Clare has asked, do you think what what would you have picked what would you pick to be like the first episode now, Chris?

0:12 Chris Ooh.

0:13 Chris That is a good question.

0:15 Chris the first episode.

0:17 Chris It's going to be hard to to think other than The Woman in Black because that got set in stone as being the first one.

0:27 Chris yeah, like it is very difficult to actually choose a perfect

0:36 Chris I mean, like you could have got away, I think, with say doing something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre because that really would have shown me, yeah, there's probably going to be a lot of films that we're going to be watching that are very different than I think they're going to be.

0:51 Chris And so that might have worked for peeking my interest and making me go, yeah, no, you know, clearly I need to have an open mind towards pretty much everything that we're going to cover.

0:01 Chris

0:02 Adam But that's that said with Texas Chainsaw, I would say, that's a very extreme one to start with.

0:08 Chris Well, it is, so this is where, no, absolutely, but but this where so this for me.

0:12 Adam You don't get that, it's a real off put.

0:15 Lee Shove your kid off a jetty to teach him to swim.

0:17 Chris Yeah, no, it is.

0:18 Chris But but it's it's not like I hadn't seen any horror film.

0:22 Chris So it's like.

0:22 Adam No, of course.

0:22 Adam Yeah.

0:23 Chris So so that's why depends whether it's personal for me, or if it was recommended for someone who hasn't seen anything.

0:29 Chris In which case then yeah, you definitely got to start a a little softer.

0:36 Chris Not seven, probably.

0:38 Adam Poor now, bloody hell.

0:40 Adam Yeah.

0:42 Chris So yeah, I mean I guess in that sense, you know, if it was for for someone who hadn't seen anything, then you probably would want to start with something that has a bit of comedy in.

0:55 Chris But yeah, I mean I'm tempted to say things like The Thing, I think that's that covers quite a lot of it's it's got the action that probably would appeal to lots of people, it's definitely got some comedic parts, it's definitely got some horror parts, like so it does encompass.

0:14 Adam You get you definitely get the sci-fi fans on that one as well.

0:17 Chris Yeah.

0:17 Adam Yeah.

0:18 Chris So it's sort of a broader appeal while still clearly having proper horror parts, so yeah, I mean I'd I'd probably suggest that then.

0:23 Lee Good call.

0:25 Chris Or on my list, I was getting down to Society, I wouldn't recommend that.

0:28 Adam It was very sorry, yeah.

0:32 Adam So sorry, yeah, so so where where have we got to with your list, Chris?

0:39 Adam What's that?

0:40 Adam So that was one.

0:40 Chris Well, so that that was that was the that's the only one under the heading of someone I might never watch again.

0:44 Adam Fair enough.

0:45 Adam Oh, there we go there we go, we've only given you one one almost definite.

0:49 Chris And and arguably.

0:52 Chris I probably would watch it again, it's just I was like, yeah, that can go under there.

0:56 Chris Because in in my head, I just remember being really awful, but yeah, there's definitely some some morbid curiosity to it.

0:06 Chris

0:07 Chris Oh, I did I also included Big Trouble in Little China as some I would want to watch again.

0:12 Chris And again, although that's not full horror, you know, it's it's got some horror elements.

0:17 Chris but it was a great film, so I'd quite like to watch that again.

0:21 Lee Again, entirely my fault, it was my birthday and I was like, I know it's a very difficult one to squeeze into the horror genre, but any chance to talk about Big Trouble in Little China is always going to be grabbed, I'm afraid.

0:36 Adam Because I think it's like episode six.

0:41 Lee It's Big Trouble in Little China.

0:43 Chris Yeah.

0:44 Adam We we'd only done Prince of Darkness for episode three as well.

0:49 Adam So it was like a really but I'll be honest, I quite like looking back through it and seeing the fucking

0:54 Adam eccentricity of how we sort of because you can see we've got to there's there's almost like bits where you can see in the pattern that we got to where it's like, well, we haven't done that yet and that's a classic, so we we we should be doing that by now.

0:13 Adam And but there's also sort of like, I mean,

0:17 Adam there's I mean, ThanksKilling.

0:20 Lee Yeah.

0:20 Adam I don't think that's going to be.

0:22 Adam I don't think that's going to be an immediate one within your first year of like of.

0:28 Adam But equally, why should it not be because it is.

0:33 Chris Well, yeah, that that was was that the first one to introduce

0:35 Chris independent or low budget, like.

0:39 Lee I think I think it was the first, yeah.

0:42 Lee Yeah, it was like we I wanted to show you something really super low budget and I was like, it's so funny and it's so much like it's it's not horror, but.

0:51 Lee It is, it's it's a killer animal, so it it falls into that.

0:56 Chris Does doesn't he wear someone's face?

0:58 Lee Yeah.

0:59 Adam He wears someone's face, he pretends to be the chief of police and.

0:05 Chris That's that's horror elements.

0:06 Lee Absolutely that shit, it's great and it is it's that and that's what I loved about that and the same with Bro Dude Party Massacre.

0:12 Lee It's it's got that like there is no way you would get that past the studio, that wouldn't get past the first, you wouldn't even get a pitch out of that, it's so mental.

0:26 Lee But the fact that it's been made and it's so much fun, you like this is this is the beauty of independent cinema is that you can make a small you can get a small budget together yourself and nobody has to sign off on your mental ideas.

0:36 Lee Band Vampire as well, like obviously that's coming soon, Yeah, it is, it's that beauty of nobody is going to put millions behind this, but crowdfunding and stuff.

0:46 Lee You can do it now because people like us will go, yeah, I'll give you 30 quid to make that, of course I will.

0:51 Lee Why would you not?

0:52 Adam But it's it's kind of also where you get those lovely things, again, a film that we did exceedingly early, Funny Man.

0:58 Lee Oh yeah.

0:59 Adam Which most horror fans haven't seen.

0:01 Adam But.

0:01 Chris I I did put that in my I want to watch again that was coming up last.

0:06 Adam I rewatched that with Clare fairly recently.

0:10 Chris So that was her first viewing.

0:11 Lee Then.

0:12 Adam That was her first viewing of it, yeah, I don't think she was that impressed.

0:15 Adam I mean.

0:16 Lee Yeah.

0:16 Adam It was like, it had thingy from the selector in it, that was enough.

0:20 Adam So, Paulie from the selector in it.

0:21 Lee What about that film, it's got such a fuzzy, lovely feeling about it and I don't.

0:25 Lee It's a bit.

0:26 Adam But again, that's that's just a bunch of like old like sort of dance record producers all decided to chuck their money together and make that over a series of weekends.

0:32 Adam And.

0:33 Adam You know, and but weirdly enough, someone did sign off on that in their own way.

0:36 Adam Someone did, you know.

0:37 Adam Or I bought a Vampire motorcycle.

0:41 Lee Yes.

0:42 Adam Someone signed off on that, admittedly.

0:44 Adam Because it was like, oh, it's the stars of Boon.

0:45 Adam Which, you know, isn't the sort of, I don't think we're going to see the Disney money on that, but, you know.

0:51 Lee You know, you're giving that money and you're not going to see it again, that's the thing, you're like, I am going to pay thousands of pounds of my own money to see this film made.

0:58 Lee That money is never going to come back to me, but it's going to be worth every penny to see what is made out of it.

0:03 Lee If you've got the money, why the fuck not?

0:07 Adam It's an excellent money laundering situation.

0:10 Adam You know, I've I've got a big swadge of cash and I've got to lose it quick, you know, so.

0:15 Adam So I'm I'm I'm assuming that there are some I don't know if it's any of the movies we've ever covered, but I'm always assuming that there's, you know, there's there's some dodgy backer in there and it was like I'll just shifted now.

0:28 Adam So and it's like.

0:29 Adam I'll don't tell me you fucking made the thing, I thought you were going to piss this down the wall and just spunk it away.

0:32 Adam Oh, no, I'm getting a return.

0:35 Lee You were lying, you were just going to buy yourself a Delorean.

0:37 Lee I never genuinely thought.

0:41 Lee Sorry, Chris.

0:41 Lee Yes, so.

0:42 Lee Have you got another list?

0:45 Chris That that is that is everything I've put down, but like I say, I could have easily added double to all of them.

0:50 Chris But I wasn't sure exactly how long it we would spend.

0:53 Lee It's great to see.

0:53 Chris And I didn't know what else I'm going to do.

0:54 Lee It is great to see how much you've enjoyed some of those films and how they've stuck with you.

0:58 Lee Like it's.

0:59 Lee And again, all the ones you've picked as well are so good.

0:02 Lee Yes.

0:03 Lee Yeah.

0:04 Lee Also just a kind of in memoriam as they do in the Oscars, I thought this was probably a good time to bring up the the things that we have dropped since we started recording seven years ago.

0:12 Lee unsung heroes, we've not done in a while.

0:15 Chris Oh yeah.

0:16 Adam Which was which was mainly stump them because you wouldn't be able to recognize the poor bastards.

0:20 Lee Exactly, and I think the thing is the point of the unsung heroes is they're in everything, so once you've mentioned a dozen of them, they're in everything we've covered since, so you can't really start singing them again.

0:29 Chris You're probably just.

0:29 Adam That's that's very true.

0:30 Adam Yeah.

0:31 Lee Yeah.

0:31 Lee They've been sung.

0:33 Lee Ask Welcome to Horror.

0:35 Lee But we did have one of those this evening, so that was a a nice surprise as a bit.

0:39 Adam We had a hashtag.

0:40 Adam It's Welcome to Horror.

0:41 Adam It's still a hashtag I use on Instagram where I could be using that extra one to be very witty in the tag in the tags.

0:49 Lee That that would make me laugh every time I used to put those up, honestly.

0:53 Adam My I think the best one was just included David on the Lost Boys one as a hashtag.

0:01 Adam No, sorry, Michael, hashtag Michael.

0:04 Adam That's right, Michael.

0:04 Adam You know.

0:09 Lee also the Alexa synopsis, we stopped dropping in.

0:13 Lee Do you remember we used to do that?

0:14 Adam I think that was after you had a row with her.

0:16 Adam About how you say Charlottesville.

0:17 Lee I think it was, so I swiped her for for Google.

0:22 Adam She just got the push.

0:25 Lee And the closing incantation, we dropped the closing incantation.

0:26 Lee Because.

0:28 Adam What was the closing incantation?

0:29 Chris I don't I don't remember that.

0:31 Lee I remember to we did The Devil Rides Out and at the end of it Christopher Lee did the incantation to put everything back to the way it had been before anything happened and you used to make me do it at the end of every episode for about 10 episodes I did that.

0:42 Adam Oh, wow.

0:44 Adam We should bring that back.

0:44 Lee Which is fine, but it was when we were still meeting together in person, I think and I was drinking all the way through the film and then all the way through the podcast, and then you would ask me to do it and I'd done it of course that full night and every time I was like, I don't remember the fucking words.

0:54 Lee If I remembered how it started, I was fine.

0:55 Lee But every time it came out of the blue when you went, Lee is now going to reset everything spiritually and I go, oh fuck, I don't remember what I'm supposed to say.

0:59 Adam I'm not I'm just going to ask you now, do you remember those that incantation as we say as we're talking right now?

0:03 Lee No.

0:03 Lee Jennifer suggested earlier.

0:05 Adam I I won't I won't ask you at the end then because I was just I thought I'll be polite, you know.

0:08 Lee Jennifer said, when I said to her, I've written down all the things that we've stopped over, she said, you should do them all this evening then as and I was like, well, no, we won't get a hashtag Welcome to Horror, because I didn't think we would.

0:16 Lee I was like, we can't do unsung heroes because we're not covering an episode, so there's nobody it's relevant to, we can't ask Alexa for a synopsis because we're not covering a film and I can't remember the incantation.

0:25 Lee So none of those in anyway possible.

0:27 Adam Although I would like to I would like to declare this a we Chris is being a sung hero tonight.

0:32 Adam I think, you know.

0:34 Adam Because it has been a fucking marvelous, marvelous journey.

0:39 Lee It has.

0:40 Adam And I'm just really happy that someone's like saying they want to watch like to say to when someone wants to see like is like saying The Witch is one of probably one of their favorite films.

0:47 Adam And they also want to rewatch Funny Man and Dude Bro Party Massacre.

0:50 Adam I think we've we've we've done a good job, Lee.

0:53 Adam I feel a swell of pride there.

0:54 Chris We've succeeded at something.

0:58 Lee And it's been great.

0:58 Lee And we've met some really nice people doing this.

0:01 Lee We obviously the the not for everyone guys who we've met along the way, and we obviously we've got to meet we discuss films with directors and writers, we've had people that when we got an email from the writer of The Host, like that blew my fucking mind, honestly.

0:26 Adam That's that's the Zoom call horror.

0:27 Adam Not the one with the the big thing that comes out the water.

0:32 Lee Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:33 Adam Just just in case people are going back to find, did they?

0:35 Lee Oh, yeah, no, sorry, not the not the host, the oh, fuck Christ, it was a perfect host.

0:42 Adam Oh, the perfect host.

0:42 Adam Sorry.

0:42 Adam Yes, I thought you meant why am I thinking was that called host?

0:44 Adam The one that was on Zoom?

0:46 Lee It was called host.

0:46 Lee Yeah.

0:47 Adam Right, yeah, because yeah, because I know we we did speak to someone who was involved with that.

0:50 Adam Yeah, didn't we?

0:51 Lee We did.

0:52 Lee But yeah, the guy from a perfect host, equally that getting getting involved in the local horror scene as well.

0:56 Lee Adam and I as we mentioned previously, got to go and actually do some extras work on a horror film that is yet to be released.

0:00 Adam Supporting our team, please, darling.

0:03 Lee

0:05 Lee So yeah, I mean, it's it's just been fantastic the people we've got to talk to and and have reached out to us.

0:12 Lee It's been awesome, so yeah, it's been worth.

0:16 Lee It's been worth all the long all the long hours of being forced to watch films and drink beer and chat about it for a while.

0:19 Adam Yeah.

0:20 Adam We said such a torturous, you know.

0:22 Adam It's like Sisyphus pushing old fuck him.

0:26 Adam Him.

0:26 Lee Yeah.

0:27 Adam Chucking a rock up here.

0:30 Adam I can't believe it.

0:32 Adam Sitting here in me pajamas like a pensioner.

0:37 Chris That was another one I could have mentioned, The Triangle.

0:41 Lee Oh, yes.

0:41 Lee Yes.

0:42 Lee What a great film.

0:43 Lee Actually, when Chris and I were at FrightFest this year, the guy who directed Triangle is making a amazing looking TV show.

0:51 Lee And he was on stage talking about it with two of the main actors and it's a film set in the 80s about two young boys who are trying to get copies of the entire video nasty, all 80 whatever it is.

0:59 Lee So they can get them together and sell them as a collection and make a shit ton of money.

0:02 Lee yeah, and they got It's a great idea but it looks like apparently some of the people have to get films from, they end up in supernatural events along the way.

0:10 Lee It sounds so fucking good.

0:11 Lee And it's also set in Ireland.

0:11 Chris That sounds fun.

0:13 Lee Yeah, so I'm all over that shit, I can't wait for that.

0:16 Lee

0:16 Adam Yeah, we've got to do that.

0:17 Adam In fact, but that also means that you've reminded me that you two have failed to deliver your report.

0:22 Adam And we will have to do that on maybe an upcoming we have been watching that you've been doing.

0:29 Chris Well, so one of them turned out not to be horror.

0:32 Lee On your excuse.

0:33 Chris And and the other one was wasn't very good.

0:35 Lee Questionable.

0:36 Chris Questionable.

0:37 Lee That's basically.

0:37 Chris That's basically the report.

0:38 Chris There you go.

0:39 Lee Oh, that's.

0:39 Lee Okay.

0:40 Chris Brilliant, 50% no horror, 50% not worth watching.

0:44 Adam Excellent, excellent debrief, gentlemen.

0:46 Adam Treat yourselves to an extra gravy in the mess.

0:50 Adam Discharged.

0:52 Lee But I'm not going to lie, I had a lovely day out with Chris and friend of the show, Dave.

0:58 Lee

0:59 Chris It was a great day, yeah.

0:59 Lee Yeah, and yeah, we got to see the trailer and hear about these stuff.

0:04 Lee And the film that we saw that wasn't horror was really enjoyable.

0:08 Chris Oh, I really liked it.

0:08 Chris Yeah.

0:09 Lee Yeah.

0:10 Chris And it definitely had it definitely had like eerie parts, it was, you know, it was good, yeah.

0:16 Lee I can't remember what it was called now, off the top of my head.

0:17 Lee But it's the so it was the same people who did come to Daddy.

0:20 Lee And it's the so apparently there's going to be a trilogy and I think it's bad.

0:26 Chris Oh, no, I'm thinking A F X Twin.

0:27 Chris You mean the one with.

0:29 Lee Elijah Wood.

0:30 Chris Yes, yes, yeah.

0:33 Lee So Elijah Wood is great in in this, but yeah, what was it called?

0:38 Lee It was some thing book.

0:39 Lee But yes.

0:42 Chris Bookworm, that's it.

0:43 Lee Bookworm, yeah, well done.

0:44 Lee But yeah, so that's going to be excellent when it comes out, I'm really looking forward to that.

0:49 Lee like the third part, I mean, sorry, because yeah, both those are fantastic films.

0:54 Lee But it's funny, they said it's a trilogy because I was like, well, yeah, apart from apparently, I don't know what the is.

0:00 Lee Not obvious.

0:02 Lee Yeah.

0:06 Lee Right, so, thank you ever so much for listening everybody.

0:08 Lee Thank you very much, Chris, for putting up with this for the last seven years.

0:12 Lee And I'm glad that you've actually really enjoyed it and you haven't just had to sit here and listen to us waffle on about something you couldn't give a shit about, because that would have been very difficult.

0:18 Chris Yeah.

0:18 Chris Yeah.

0:19 Chris It's been amazing, and I love having, you know, both your passionate views on all the different films.

0:26 Chris Not always 100% in agreement, but always fascinating to hear.

0:29 Chris And yeah, very often, yeah.

0:32 Adam A raw beating passion.

0:35 Lee Positive or negative, I'm always passionate one way or the other.

0:40 Lee It's very unusual that I'm just.

0:42 Adam And that's that's what he says on his dating profile.

0:46 Adam Positive or negative, always passion.

0:52 Lee Right, so,

0:54 Lee thanks everyone for listening for the last seven years.

0:58 Lee And thanks very much for listening this evening and we'll see you in a fortnight's time for something else, goodnight.

0:12 Chris Goodnight.

0:13 Adam Goodnight.

0:15 Lee I don't fucking remember.

0:16 Lee I don't know, I should have looked at my notes.