Horror on Sea 2025

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

0:26ChrisI'm Chris.

0:27AdamHi, Adam.

0:28LeeAnd we're here this evening to discuss, as we do almost every year, apart from last year, the fantastic Horror on Sea Film Festival.

0:38Chriswhich we went to yesterday. Still, still recovering from staying up late, watching films all day, but yeah, pretty amazing.

0:48AdamYeah, we're making us increasingly aware of our decrepitude.

0:54LeeYeah, I think starting next year I'm just going to have to stay up there, because it's,

0:59ChrisYeah.

0:01AdamCould be a good plan.

0:01Leepoint where it's.

1:42LeeYeah, and we always have to miss the last film as well,

1:45Chrisbecause obviously it's.

1:45Leesuch a, I mean, as we were just discussing off mic, we didn't get home till gone midnight as it was, and we're old, so,

1:51ChrisYeah. That's true.

1:53LeeAnd an early start as well, when you had a film.

1:55Lee

1:57LeeBut yes, so, we saw two films yesterday and two shorts.

2:02Leewe're going to try and keep them fairly spoiler-free as we run through them.

2:08Leeyeah, so, Adam, would you like to kick us off with where we began the day?

2:15AdamI'd like, well, I'd first like to say, fuck, there might be swearing.

2:20Adamso yeah, as you say, we're trying to remain spoiler-free, but the, the language will continue.

2:27AdamSo,

2:28Adamyeah, so, first off, we saw, The Campin' Dead.

2:33Adamwhich was the short film, like supporting the, the feature Hell Hole.

2:40AdamFrench film, which I understand is from 2019.

2:45Adamdirected by Sebastian Blondel and Julie Pincus, and Sebastian is also was also one of the actors in it.

2:55Adamnice funny short, sort of

3:02Adambasically like a sketch set on the roof of the mall from Dawn of the Dead.

3:08LeeYeah.

3:08ChrisYeah.

3:09AdamJust like

3:10AdamJust a little, yeah, just a nice funny little daft. The

3:15Christhe opening sequence when you see the zombies lumbering along, like it doesn't give away what you're going to be getting.

3:26LeeNo.

3:27ChrisAnd like it was, it was just, I thought very funny.

3:30AdamYeah.

3:31LeeYeah.

3:32LeeIt was hilarious, like everybody was it had a really, it got a really good reception, it was really enjoyed, really funny.

3:37ChrisYeah. Yeah.

3:40LeeYeah, just 20 minutes, nice and short and in and out,

3:44AdamWhoa.

3:45AdamWhoa.

3:46LeeWhoa.

3:46LeeYeah, I get what you mean, Chris. I was the same. When it first opened, it looked like it was going to be potentially a quote unquote serious.

3:54ChrisYeah.

3:55ChrisOr even standard. But but I was thinking of Shaun of the Dead and I thought they had some jokes in there that were,

4:00Christhey felt original, maybe presented in an original way, but yeah, it certainly kept my my attention.

4:06AdamI think it also, despite being subtitled, because that doesn't always, you know,

4:11AdamI don't,

4:12ChrisThe jokes may not land.

4:12Adamit's always translate what I mean subtitled may not convey, but I think it was clearly, you know, it was clear how

4:17ChrisA lot of it was the looks on their faces or just their demeanor,

4:21AdamYeah.

4:22Leea lot of physical comedy.

4:22Christhe way they played off each other.

4:24ChrisYeah, you could almost feel like

4:25LeeComedy.

4:26ChrisYeah.

4:26LeeYeah.

4:27ChrisAnd it was just guys who were going a bit mad but in their own ways.

4:33AdamWell, the misfortune of, three guys stuck on a roof during a zombie apocalypse. That's it, you know.

4:39LeeYeah.

4:40AdamYeah.

4:41AdamI did enjoy it. It was only, it was only about 20 minutes as well, so I think it was,

4:49ChrisYeah, felt good, good amount of time.

4:50AdamPerfect. It was like the perfect amount to show what they had.

4:54AdamAnd yeah, I think it was, yeah, people should definitely check that one out.

4:57ChrisAbsolutely, yeah.

4:59LeeYeah, without a doubt, a great fun.

5:01Leeso as we said, that was the prelude to the feature that was Hell Hole.

5:06Leefrom, filmed in Serbia, a Serbian US production, again,

5:13Leeonly an hour and three minutes.

5:16Lee

5:17Leewhich actually

5:18AdamI didn't realize it was that short, to be honest.

5:20ChrisYeah.

5:20LeeI didn't think it was either, but looking at it on the timing here, that's what it's, it's telling me it was.

5:25AdamOh, right, okay.

5:26LeeBut that would explain why it felt so like it moved really nicely.

5:31LeeIt didn't, it was all pretty much

5:34Leenot quite single location, but it was all within one building and the outlines around it.

5:38ChrisYeah.

5:39Leeright up until the end.

5:44Lee

5:45ChrisYeah.

5:46LeeBut yeah.

5:48AdamSorry.

5:50AdamBut I was just I was just going to say, so basically it's, you the opening, like pre-credit sequence is a group of soldiers

5:58Adamduring the Napoleonic wars, going through Serbia.

6:05AdamAnd it's very atmospheric and you're not quite sure what's happening and there's a lot of mistrust.

6:13AdamAnd then a horse explodes, and it goes from there.

6:17ChrisAnd it does give away, essentially, it tells you what you're going to be getting.

6:20AdamIt tells you, I would argue it tells you what you're going to be getting to a certain extent.

6:23AdamBecause I wasn't then expecting people in eggs.

6:29AdamAnd so on and so forth. Again, I'm trying to avoid spoiling it too much.

6:33ChrisWell, that's it, yeah.

6:33AdamThen it cuts to the present day and there's a American company who are,

6:39Adamlike an American managed, drilling site where they're basically trying to

6:43ChrisA fracking company.

6:44Adamfracking. Yeah, they're going to be fracking.

6:47AdamAnd they've got a couple of environmental scientists there who've got to give them the approval to frac that there's not,

6:55Adamyou know, endangered species there or something like that.

6:59AdamAnd it's already quite a tense situation and a, you know, fairly surly, couldn't give a shit workforce.

7:05ChrisYeah, there's clearly three groups, yeah, the management, environmentalists and the workers. Yeah.

7:13ChrisAnd they do they present that really well. It feels realistic. I think they they did get that right, definitely.

7:20AdamAnd then you introduce into that an aggressive extraterrestrial organism.

7:24ChrisAnd how how each of them deal with it. Yeah.

7:30AdamAnd I think this again, I think it's got I think it's got a humor to it.

7:36AdamYou know, it's it's definitely sort of you have it's that sort of situational humor of just like how characters interact and stuff like that, rather than gags.

7:46AdamBut, you know, it's that sort of, you know, it which just added to the

7:53Adamfor my money, just added to the, in a way, added to the realism, because it's not deathly serious, because probably no one has much of a conception how deathly serious it gets.

8:04ChrisThat could be it, yeah.

8:05AdamUntil events sort of stumble on, you know.

8:07ChrisYeah.

8:08ChrisAnd what what I liked was I felt like the quite a few of the cast had decent roles and they played them well.

8:15Chriswhen they had longer speaking parts, it's like, yeah, you you know, you're fitting in well with this.

8:18ChrisYou're believable.

8:22AdamWell, the, the two directors of this, John Adams and Toby Poser, both play characters in this.

8:29AdamIn fact, Toby Poser is Emily, so pretty much

8:32ChrisOh, yeah. Okay.

8:33Adamthe main character, and John Adams played, oddly enough, John.

8:37Lee

8:37AdamAnd,

8:38Adamso, you know, they're fairly, substantial roles that they've both got in it.

8:45Adambut,

8:47AdamI know that sounds weird, that never came across, do you know what I mean? It it doesn't feel at any point that like that was, you know, we've just given ourselves the best roles or whatever like that.

8:57AdamIt was just, yeah, you know, you've given yourself the right roles.

9:00LeeYeah.

9:00ChrisYeah, it definitely seen like it. Definitely.

9:02AdamYeah.

9:03AdamAnd I also have to have a shout out because there's the character in it, Teddy, who sort of is the kind of go-between between all three parties.

9:12Adamwho's like the who's the, the manager of the, the site manager's, nephew.

9:21Adamand, but the actor who plays him is called Maximum Portman.

9:26AdamWhich is just a fucking incredible name.

9:29LeeYes.

9:29AdamYou know.

9:32LeeYou want Portman?

9:33AdamHe brings Maximum Portman. Yeah.

9:37LeeYeah, I really enjoyed it. I mean, I know we, we, we all watch the trailer,

9:43Leeand had discussed it and basically said, oh yeah, it looks like the thing on a building site, which it effectively is.

9:49Leebut yeah, it plays out.

9:52ChrisIt plays out,

9:52Leeyeah, a lot more than that. It's because again, it's it's as you were saying, it's about the interaction between the three groups effectively, is the most entertaining part.

10:04LeeI think the monster's great and it, you know, it is really good and it looked pretty good.

10:08LeeLike the effects and stuff look really good, but it was about the interplay between the three groups and them all

10:13Leehaving each other's back within their unit and how they they were all bashing against each other and had totally different ideas of what should happen at every, you know, effective branch.

10:22AdamAnd also and also just the fact that not everyone's letting on to everyone, you know, how much they know or what they've discovered.

10:34ChrisThat's it, yeah.

10:34AdamAnd even trying to sort of put it into hint and things like that and it's like, yeah, but just tell them, for God's sake, because

10:41ChrisThis is

10:43ChrisWell, I quite like to a couple of points, it's like some of them saw certain things, but not all of them did. So, you could imagine that's that's realistic if something happens quickly, not everyone would necessarily see exactly the same thing.

10:52ChrisAnd and it's also that, you know, like cognitive bias or, you know, do you want to see the thing that

10:59LeeYour others just saw.

11:01ChrisLike, yeah. So that that helped to make it feel real.

11:05AdamAnd I mean, you now you're saying about the runtime though as well is because I thought towards the end, I thought they started getting very, I don't know whether it was to accelerate the pace or whatever like that.

11:17AdamBut there was sort of certain things where there was there's a I know I said about it after we'd seen it, but there's a part in it where a specific character

11:26Adamis referenced as being a problem, suddenly they're not around.

11:32AdamAnd then a scene or so later, you just cover they've locked them up.

11:36LeeYeah.

11:37AdamNow, it's not that's not a fault of the thing. If anything, that's better, because it's just like, no, you're going to get your explanation, you'll see where he is, you know, that's that's tied that up for you.

11:47AdamYou know,

11:47LeeDon't need to see the whole process.

11:47Adamyou're watching this film, yeah.

11:49AdamSo it just creates like a little, you know, it's it's a little jump, but it did mean that things weren't getting, you know, they were sort of escalating and getting to that sort of the,

12:02Adamyou know, as the tension rises, as the situation hots up, they were sort of, not being as ponderous as they could have been.

12:11LeeI've got to say,

12:12LeeI I think I said, as we came out yesterday, I liked that. It was a very specific change in pace, but I really liked that.

12:21LeeBecause it was very slow and building with the atmosphere when you only had part of the.

12:26LeeAnd then once you had all of the facts, and then it suddenly became a race to try and resolve it.

12:31LeeAnd I thought that worked really well because it meant it was nice and slow when it needed to be and it took time to build tension, but then in the end when it was bedlam and chaos, it felt like that.

12:40LeeBecause everything was happening so fast and yeah, it was perfect. didn't didn't feel like it was dragging out at all.

12:45ChrisIt was.

12:45AdamIt wrapped, it wrapped it up.

12:51LeeYeah.

12:52AdamSo is that is that I'm assuming this is a recommend from all three of us?

12:55LeeYeah,

12:56ChrisI'll yeah.

12:56LeeI'll get it.

12:57ChrisYeah, absolutely, I say, that's a good watch, yeah.

12:59AdamAnd I've got also, because the directors also did, a film called Hellbender,

13:03Adamdid you say you've seen it, Lee?

13:05LeeI did see Hellbender, I really enjoyed it.

13:08ChrisOh, yeah.

13:08AdamRight, okay. I might have to check that out.

13:11LeeYes, yes.

13:12AdamVery good. More of what they've done, yeah.

13:14LeeIt's a bit sort of not it is almost folk horror. I think it was Eastern Europe, if I remember correctly. I saw it a little while ago.

13:24Lee

13:26LeeOh no, it wasn't Eastern Europe. I think it was out in the middle of no, like a sort of very rural US type of thing, if I remember correctly.

13:32AdamOh, right, okay.

13:34Leebut yeah, no, it was really nice. I seem to remember the soundtrack being outstanding, so I think you'd particularly like that one, Adam.

13:38LeeSo definitely,

13:40AdamYeah, I did like the soundtrack, which which again was John Adams.

13:43Adamso it's directed, acted and also provided the score. I really did like the score. It had those really sort of chuggy, sort of sludgy doom riffs.

13:55AdamAnd then it just started getting into very chittery electronics and at that point, I'm like, well, I'm happy as a pig in shit.

14:03ChrisYeah.

14:05Leethat's great.

14:06Leeyeah, so, we didn't cover as many films this year as we normally do, because, we haven't seen each other, really, for ages.

14:14LeeSo we went to these films early in the day, and then ourselves, Lady Jennifer and a friend of the show, Dave.

14:21LeeHi, Dave, thank you very much for a lovely day.

14:23ChrisYeah. Yeah.

14:24AdamYeah.

14:25Leeyeah, so we basically spent the rest of the day catching up and eating and drinking and being merry and just spending time together.

14:34ChrisNice little excursion into Southend.

14:36LeeYeah.

14:37LeeYeah, I'd do.

14:38ChrisOut a few bars. Yeah.

14:39LeeAnd now a great fish and chip shop.

14:40AdamAnd Dave knows all the history.

14:42AdamSo he knows you know, it's fascinating.

14:42ChrisHe does.

14:44LeeHe's like a tour guide everywhere you go down there. He tells you every building you go past, he goes, that used to be a hotel.

14:52LeeAnd then yeah, so it is it is like having your own tour guide, he's excellent.

14:56Leeyeah, so we spent the day hanging out.

15:00LeeAnd then we returned back for the evening, for

15:05LeeVideo Shop Tales of Terror II and the short which preceded it.

15:10ChrisWhich was very short.

15:12AdamYep.

15:12ChrisBecause it turned out it was a, what was it? The like film jam?

15:16AdamThat was it, yes. I think that's film jam, it was called, because the director, Simon Dartman,

15:22Adamintroduced it.

15:23ChrisYeah. Yeah, that was always nice.

15:25AdamAnd, because because obviously, like The Campin' Dead, that was a French production. Hell Hole was an American/Eastern European.

15:33ChrisYeah.

15:34AdamBut

15:34ChrisFair enough that they they may not have made it over here.

15:37AdamThey probably wouldn't have made it to sort of introduce or anything like that.

15:40AdamBut yeah, so, and it was, Open Your Eyes.

15:45AdamAnd apparently, this is like a, a film school where basically, or like a film course where you go and split off into groups, just write your thing there and then and then go and film it.

15:59ChrisYeah.

16:00ChrisWas it like, you've got 24 hours or something to to do it?

16:02AdamSorry.

16:03ChrisYou've got 24 hours to to produce to finish.

16:05AdamYeah, it was basically to turn it around and produce a whole short.

16:09ChrisWhich is not not a lot of time to

16:11LeeThat sounds like so much fun though.

16:13ChrisYeah, I imagine it would be, yeah.

16:15ChrisI kind of liked the idea of the constraint and and yeah.

16:17ChrisI thought he did a good job, like it's

16:20AdamIt's nice to see that that was a nice goofy little sketch.

16:23AdamI would, that is something should be, I'm I'm assuming if it

16:27Adamit feels like if this film jam thing, it might be that they've got it like on YouTube or they've got it on their site or something like that.

16:35AdamBecause I think it's just a very, very good sort of icky three minutes or whatever it was, you know, it wasn't it wasn't particularly long at all.

16:44AdamSo, yeah.

16:46LeeYeah, I'd definitely be keen to see other output that they.

16:51ChrisYeah, absolutely.

16:52LeeYeah, that was just, it's such a great concept.

16:54ChrisIt is.

16:56LeeYeah, I'd love to see what else they've made. So I will definitely be looking those up when I get a chance.

17:01ChrisYeah. What can you get across on a micro-film that just captures something, you know,

17:06Chrismeaningful. And yeah, it was, if you think about what was involved in it.

17:12AdamYeah.

17:14AdamIt tugged at the heartstrings.

17:18Lee

17:20LeeYes, and then, we had the main event of the evening, it was the world premiere of Video Shop Tales of Terror II, Southend Revenge.

17:29ChrisAnd a very special event it was.

17:32LeeYes.

17:32LeeSo we've been teasing this for nearly a year now, saying that Adam and I had been had something in the pipeline, but we couldn't talk about it and blah, blah, blah.

17:40Lee

17:41AdamNot without a medic involved. It's.

17:46LeeSo, we Adam and I got an opportunity thanks to friend of the show, Shawn.

17:52LeeThank you, Shawn, who who came to us with this.

17:55Lee

17:56LeeAnd yeah, basically said, oh, I could probably get you, because I was discussing with him about his working behind the scenes on some of the stuff we'd covered from the Romford Horror Film Festival off February.

18:03Leeand I he said, oh, that film you covered,

18:08Leewhich was, the Pocket Film of Superstitions by Bobby Lee Rutter, which we loved.

18:15Leeand he basically said, oh yeah, I did some work on that, and I said, oh, it must be amazing work getting to work behind the scenes and see it all come together.

18:22Leeand he said, I might be able to get you and Adam in as extras if you like.

18:32Leewhich obviously we jumped.

18:33AdamAnd we and we did.

18:35LeeYeah, we did like, yeah, very much so.

18:38Leeyes, so we got to go and spend a day at the studio, for our little few seconds that we're in the film.

18:47Lee

18:48ChrisVery, very good few seconds.

18:51LeeBut oh, it was the experience was fantastic. So I think we'll talk about that after.

18:56Leebut yes, so the film itself.

18:59Leeit's a the same as Video Shop Tales of Terror, the original.

19:04LeeSo it's an anthology, these felt a lot this felt more it was almost like a trailer movie, but with some being slightly longer.

19:14LeeIt wasn't like, like 3, 15, 20 minutes.

19:18LeeThey were all much shorter parts, but it it rocketed along because of that. It was

19:22ChrisYeah, it really did.

19:24LeeYeah.

19:25ChrisBut I found them I did think the length of each of them was good. You definitely was able to get a pretty decent story from them.

19:33LeeYeah.

19:34ChrisYeah, I really enjoyed the the variety and the comedy certainly in some of them.

19:40AdamWell, I think especially because it's obviously they've, certainly this time around they've they've really gone, because, Video Shop Tales of Terror, which we will have to cover,

19:52Adam

19:54Adamat some point.

19:55Adamit's this is the same sort of setup where it's basically it's not only is it it's different directors doing their own sort of parts.

20:04ChrisYes. Yeah.

20:05AdamAnd with a

20:07Adamwrap around story, which is set in the video dungeon, which is the, a video shop in hell where souls are passed through, so you become sort of like a sort of,

20:18Adama VHS River Styx where you go through and your souls are transferred to hell.

20:22Adam

20:24AdamAnd so,

20:25Adamyou've got that as your sort of setup, and then all the shorts are the movies that the shop has to offer or their trailers that are seen on those shops.

20:33AdamOr in this case, there was a training video for new members of staff, which featured two very handsome and good-looking gentlemen.

20:41Adamand,

20:44Adambut there's, you know, and so there was a lot of,

20:51AdamI think yeah, the the first one I think is very is much more sort of blocked in that sort of sense of you've got like, I think it's,

20:58Adamis it four or five, I can't remember, but it's there clearly, right here's the one.

21:02AdamWhereas this had a much more looser sort of mad cap thing to it that I liked, which was like, oh, is this a trailer?

21:09AdamOr are we getting the short and effectively everything was the right length that it had to be, in as much as, that's quite a good joke for two minutes, so that's a good trailer.

21:23AdamOr then, you know, other stuff where it's like, no, we can expand on this.

21:26AdamWe can get, you know, more and more, there's there's more that can be taken out of this idea or there's more to show you or whatever like that.

21:37AdamSo,

21:38Adamyeah, and there were, I mean, a lot of nods back to the original.

21:42AdamThe the wrap around on this one is basically a continuation of the wrap around story from the first one.

21:45LeeYeah.

21:47AdamSo of the, sort of goings on in the actual video shop.

21:54LeeYeah.

21:55LeeIt was great.

21:56LeeAnd again, I like the because it's all different directors.

21:59LeeSo, Alex Churchyard, I believe, was the the director who did the wrap around story.

22:06AdamHe he the wrap around.

22:08AdamAnd he was the director when we he was directing when we, the day we were there.

22:15ChrisOh, yeah.

22:16AdamLike it's

22:16AdamSo it's part of the Yes, when we when we when we bounced our way in.

22:22AdamScreaming, make me a star.

22:25AdamBut

22:26Adamso there was bits so we were involved with video dungeon two, like the wrap around, and also what turned into the trailer called the governor.

22:34AdamWhich was one of, which again, just not not just because both me and Lee can be seen getting smashed in the face in it.

22:43Adambut it's actually just a ludicrous sort of homage to 70s Giallo movies and yeah, it's just like

22:49LeeAnd Paul was fantastic in it. He had the absolute best bit.

22:55ChrisHe was, yeah.

22:57LeeSo Paul who runs, the Horror on Sea Film Festival, he was the star of that trailer.

23:03Leeyeah, and absolutely smashed it.

23:05LeeHe was great.

23:06ChrisHe was perfect for it.

23:09Adamand he also did the Invasion of Studio '69, which was the,

23:15Adampart Twilight Zone, I don't know how far I want to go on spoilers of that.

23:22AdamBut basically, it's a porn shoot that goes wrong, but Lawrence R Harvey turns up as Rod Serling, and it's in black and white and it's sort of, you know, in a sort of,

23:32Adamwell, it couldn't happen here, could it, but it could. Yeah.

23:40Lee

23:41AdamIn Studio '69, and, yeah.

23:46AdamAnd,

23:47LeeHe also.

23:48AdamSorry.

23:48LeeSorry.

23:49AdamNo, you go.

23:51LeeYeah, I just I just thought it like, I like, I didn't know he was going to be in this one.

23:55LeeAnd I always like him when he pops up in these things, because he always it is it's one of those, as soon as he turns up, you're like, yeah, this is going to get really funny, really fast. Yeah, and he just delivered absolutely again on this.

24:05LeeIt's there was I think there was even a roar when he came on.

24:07LeeAs soon as he.

24:08AdamAbsolutely.

24:09AdamI mean, I mean, once again, like, very much like Video Shop Tales of Terror, because there's a lot of the same people are appearing,

24:15Adamwho appear in the first one or appearing in this, so it's all people who are associated with the directors and stuff like that.

24:21AdamSo there were quite a few cheers of recognition where it was like,

24:24Adamoh, they're, I mean, obviously, like Danny Thompson's in it because it's a film it's a horror film made in Essex, so, you know, legally, Danny Thompson has to be in it anyway.

24:35AdamBut,

24:35ChrisBut she she's great.

24:37AdamOh, yeah.

24:37LeeOh, absolutely, always.

24:39AdamBut it's sort of it's just

24:41AdamSo, but you could hear when sort of like, like when Siy Ha appeared, like the producer appeared as the curator and stuff like that.

24:47AdamIt's all just like, yeah, all the, familiar faces, as it were.

24:52AdamAnd,

24:54Adamyeah.

24:55Adambut there was, what was there?

24:59ChrisIs it oh, Lawrence R Harvey, he he had a good bit as well.

25:02AdamOh, that's what we were saying about where he was being Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone.

25:06AdamSo every time it was him, it was him in the suit and the black and white.

25:09AdamAnd,

25:11Adambut, and that I believe that was actually that was directed by Tony Martin.

25:15AdamWho did, which is in the Sants.

25:16LeeYes.

25:17Adamand, so that that was him who did Invasion of Studio '69, actually, and,

25:24ChrisI'm trying to remember them all because there was, there was a lot.

25:30AdamWell, unfortunately, there was a bit of a,

25:32Adam

25:34ChrisOh,

25:35AdamWe didn't get to see, we didn't get to see Andrew Elias's trailer at the start.

25:38AdamThe the Beast of No Man's Land, which is a pity, but,

25:43AdamI, you know, I, let's face it, we know we're going to watch this again.

25:47AdamCertainly me and Lee are if only like tragic failed starlets in our Hollywood homes, asking the butler to change the reels.

25:48ChrisI mean, I'm just yeah, if only like tragic failed starlets in our Hollywood homes asking our butler to change the reels while we plan to murder our doctor husband.

25:55AdamWhile we plan to murder our doctor husband.

25:56AdamYou know, just so that we can have one last shot at fame.

25:58ChrisBut I think there's there's enough in this, like the amount of different references and the amount of different jokes.

26:05ChrisAnd there's even, you know, they even managed to get some serious bits in

26:08Chrisin amongst the comedy and it doesn't feel out of place for me.

26:12ChrisLike I think and and yeah, and I think you could probably enjoy this

26:15Chriswatching it on your own or in a group, like because of those different aspects.

26:19Chris

26:22AdamYou know.

26:22Adam

26:23AdamAll in all, it's 12 directors who did this.

26:27ChrisYeah, okay.

26:27AdamSo, I mean, the the first one is the,

26:30Adamthere was the Glory Hole with Richard Roundtree, which is.

26:35ChrisYes.

26:36ChrisYeah. So that that's a concept I'd never considered.

26:38ChrisI mean, having given a lot of thought to glory holes.

26:40ChrisBut the idea of that happening.

26:44ChrisLike it's like, you know, I was expecting I had a few potential outcomes.

26:47ChrisAnd I was like, it's going to be bad, right? But somehow that was a level further than I had imagined.

26:52ChrisI was like, because you start to think, how's he going to get? No, he cannot, he can't get out of it. That's it.

26:57ChrisHe's stuck like that.

26:58AdamThat is.

26:59Chris

27:02AdamBut it's

27:03AdamSpoiler there.

27:03ChrisHope you know.

27:04AdamYeah, no, I'm trying to,

27:05ChrisYeah, no, I'm trying to

27:06Chrisbut seriously, like I I absolutely.

27:08ChrisEven if you just watched that, that had it all.

27:10AdamI will.

27:11AdamIt was at that point that I was like,

27:12Adamright, so Ted wants to see me in the film that I'm in.

27:17AdamI'm not.

27:18AdamI'm definitely not showing him the whole thing.

27:21ChrisThere is there is more you've got to skip than not I'll say.

27:25AdamThere's a lot that we've got, you know, we've got to make sure that he doesn't see.

27:27AdamSo,

27:28ChrisYeah, that that would be. I mean, that's almost traumatizing for me now, but there you go.

27:33AdamYeah.

27:34AdamAnd there was also,

27:35AdamI I know it was a bit of I think it was a bit divisive with everyone.

27:39AdamBut I thought that, I really liked there was a there's a stop motion bit in it as well.

27:45AdamThe Professor Solomon.

27:47ChrisSo that that was a longer piece.

27:48AdamWhich I enjoyed.

27:48AdamYeah.

27:49ChrisBut yeah, it was really well done.

27:50AdamThat was I think that was possibly the longest one.

27:52AdamI'm not sure.

27:53ChrisYeah. Yeah, could be.

27:55ChrisBut yeah, that was fantastic.

27:56AdamYeah, I really I really, really enjoyed that.

27:58AdamI know Jennifer not so much, but

28:01Adam

28:02LeeI mean,

28:03Leefor me, again, the one that I think I laughed the hardest at, was had to be the the Amityville Pancake.

28:11LeeWhich I just

28:12ChrisYeah, that was the was that the first one?

28:13AdamThat's the very first the first trailer, yeah.

28:16LeeYeah.

28:17AdamSee, that's the great thing as well is is that you've got the trailers for the sketches and then something that's got a bit more legs or got a bit more to it gets gets its sort of like short moment and stuff like that.

28:26Adamit gets it, sorry, it gets its longer moment, in there.

28:34AdamSo,

28:35ChrisAnd what what was it you liked about that, Lee?

28:37LeeIt was just the the ludicrousness of it.

28:40ChrisCrazy. Yeah.

28:40LeeBut done in an almost straight-faced way. It just absolutely hammered.

28:44LeeAnd it's got to be said as well, that was the perfect audience to watch it with, because I think just before, it sorry, it sold out, so I think it's 300 seats or something, and they had a second room showing.

28:55ChrisThat's it, yeah, I'd never heard of that before, but I did hear him saying.

28:58LeeYeah, it's filled up so much.

29:00LeeThey had to put it on two rooms.

29:01ChrisYeah.

29:01Leeyeah, and just before the film started.

29:03LeeThey said, anyone who's involved, raise your hand, and probably a hundred people in there had their hand up.

29:07LeeSo, like, yeah, it but it was just everyone was really laughing.

29:13LeeAs you're saying, cheering every time Sai Hety turned up and so like it was just,

29:17Leebecause because everybody in there, most of people in there were all mates and all knew each other.

29:21LeeSo it was like a bit like watching it in someone's living room.

29:23LeeBut there's hundreds of you.

29:24LeeIt was crazy.

29:25ChrisBut that's why you could imagine it may not have been that good, but actually, it really did turn out fantastically, I thought.

29:29ChrisJust so varied. Yeah, and then like you say with the the pancake one first.

29:33ChrisLike it's just the different sorts of humor throughout as well, it just kept it so interesting.

29:38AdamWell, it's the great thing of you get, you know, because I'm half and half on it. Sometimes I think when people do anthology movies, but it's different directors.

29:45Chris

29:46AdamI'm I'm not always sure they work, whereas I like an anthology movie with one guy doing it and, you know.

29:53AdamBut I think in this circumstance, everyone is so connected and it's basically a team are doing it in a way.

29:59AdamYou know, it's like, right, you you act in that one.

30:01AdamYou direct this one, you know, and sort of it all sort of intermingles and interplays.

30:04AdamSo I think it's

30:05ChrisI suppose the concept of the wrap around does lend itself to your expectations are, okay, if that is different,

30:12Chrisyou know, in a weird way, it seems okay because you're expecting such a wide variety because it's a video shop and anything could happen.

30:16ChrisSo, you know, that does seem like a fantastic concept to just play with and see what you can do.

30:22LeeYeah.

30:22LeeOh, yeah.

30:23LeeDefinitely.

30:23LeeAnd they really do as well, they really do push that boundary of you know, such weird concept.

30:32LeeAgain, that's the thing, you can put a totally mental concept in if you know you've only got to make a trailer, it's only got to be two minutes. You can do something.

30:41LeeBut equally, if you've got an idea that's going to take 15 minutes to tell that story,

30:46Leeyou've got the opportunity to do it. So, yeah, I think that I think this format works brilliantly for them.

30:50Lee

30:51Leeand I know we said no spoilers, but we believe there may be a third one coming. So we will absolutely be here for that.

30:59LeeWithout a doubt.

31:00ChrisAnd what was the name of the proprietor, Sharon? That's the because that's one of the moons, isn't it? Of like, is it Pluto?

31:06AdamYes.

31:06AdamHe's also it's Greek mythology, it's the the ferryman across the river Styx.

31:10ChrisYeah, the the souls, yeah.

31:13ChrisSo it's even got a bit of education in there.

31:16AdamThat's got a lot of education in there. It's got a very, it's got an extensive treatise on pornography.

31:18ChrisAbsolutely. Yeah, that is that was impressive.

31:20AdamThat's an argument.

31:21AdamYeah, who who was that who who did that that monologue?

31:24Leeso it was Charlie Bond who delivered it. okay.

31:27Leeyeah, who we've seen in loads of other stuff.

31:31LeeObviously first movie.

31:33Lee

31:37Chrisyes. Okay.

31:39Leeso yeah, we we've seen and, I believe she was in the power tool cheerleaders.

31:44LeeYou what, she was in power tool cheerleaders as well.

31:46Lee

31:47LeeYeah, she's good. And again, another actor who plays very different roles almost every time you see them, but always always does a really good job.

31:54ChrisYeah, I'd definitely watch more of hers.

31:55LeeYeah. James Hammer Molten as well was in this again who who's quite often in the same films as Charlie Bond. So I think they're in that, you know, that sort of that unit that work together on on projects.

32:08Lee

32:09LeeYeah, he always makes me laugh as well. So that was great to see him.

32:14Leeyeah, and as we said,

32:16LeeDanny Thompson, obviously, we had Sai Henty was in this.

32:20Lee

32:22ChrisRoger Phillips.

32:22LeeRoger Phillips.

32:23AdamYeah, Roger Phillips.

32:25AdamTom Rutter turns up in quite a few roles and it's that's always just fantastic to see, I love that man.

32:33LeeYeah, I do as well.

32:35AdamHe's great.

32:36AdamAnd we actually, I mean, we met him, although he wasn't part of the, he well, he was there while they were filming when we that's where we actually met him.

32:42AdamAfter we'd done our episode talking about, Pocketbook of superstition, Pocket film of superstition.

32:49AdamAnd, yeah, we spent quite a while chatting with him. He's, you know, he's great, great, great fun.

32:55LeeHe was lovely.

32:56LeeHe's one of those guys. You can see how he gets projects off the ground really easily, because he's so excited and so enthusiastic. You know, when someone's so enthusiastic, you immediately get drawn into it and find yourself getting excited just purely out of their excitement.

33:10LeeAnd he's got that energy. Like, he's such a great guy and he's so much fun.

33:13Lee

33:14AdamAnd at least he uses it for good rather than like bank robbery or something like that.

33:16AdamYou know, you feel like you're standing you're standing there next to the getaway car thinking, fat me.

33:21AdamYou know, I think he's talked right into this.

33:24Leeyeah.

33:25Lee

33:26LeeYes, and as we say, Sing was there on the day of filming, and really looked after us.

33:31LeeAnd made us feel really, everybody was so welcoming and so friendly on that set.

33:33Lee

33:42LeeYeah.

33:43Lee

33:44LeeAnd we probably spent an hour of that shooting in the morning and an hour in the evening and the rest of it in between was just hanging out chatting to people. But everyone was great. The the special effects team were fantastic, who were also all in Taless of Terror two as well.

34:03ChrisYes, yes, yes.

34:03AdamSo, yeah, so, yeah, the makeup team, it was Alexandra Jenn, Natasha Kilby, and, Jay Low, Jason, Low. And, yeah, they're all in they're all in various bits.

34:16AdamAlex was the guy who got,

34:19Adamwas the sound man who was killed.

34:23AdamSorry.

34:24AdamAgain, let's leave spoilers out of this. It's it's not a big part. I'm sorry.

34:28AdamBut yeah, he was the sound man in, well, in in an episode.

34:30AdamThere you go.

34:31AdamYou don't yeah.

34:33Adam

34:35AdamShe was the boss bitch of Las Vegas as well.

34:37LeeYeah, she was she was great.

34:39AdamShe was.

34:41LeeOh.

34:42AdamAnd and obviously we

34:43Adamwe spent a lot of time with Tony Weismann, who's Elliot the zombie.

34:48LeeYes.

34:49Adamand, yeah.

34:51AdamBut yeah,

34:52Adamthere was lots of people in and out and as we were there.

34:56AdamAnd just everyone was great.

34:57AdamIt was,

34:58ChrisSo almost as much fun to film it as it is to watch it.

35:00LeeDo you know what? I would it is one of those things. I I mean, I I'd love to do it again and do the, you know, just a little couple of seconds as a little extra somewhere.

35:07Leebut yeah, as much for hanging out on set as for being in the because everybody was just having.

35:13LeeI mean, obviously, it there was a lot, you know, when they were filming, everything was silent even outside of the studio and stuff you had to keep the whole area quiet.

35:23LeeBut yeah, when they were just setting up and changing sets and all the rest of it and everyone was just hanging out and drinking coffee and chatting. It was just a really nice atmosphere and everyone was super friendly and super.

35:33LeeEveryone was talking about all the projects they were working on and stuff they'd worked on before.

35:39AdamAnd everyone was chipping in and doing little bits and stuff, you know, like helping out in certain one and it was just yeah, a lovely thing to see and be a be a part of.

35:45AdamSo thank you, Sean, and thank you to everyone there that was, yeah, it was just a it was a bloody lovely day that was.

35:54LeeIt was.

35:55LeeAnd fantastic.

35:56ChrisAnd as

35:57Chrisas unbiased of you as I can be, I thought both your parts were very good. I won't say what they were, but they're very entertaining.

36:02LeeYeah.

36:03LeeOh.

36:04LeeOh.

36:05LeeOh.

36:06Leebut it is that's the other thing I found fascinating was obviously, so two of the trailers were mashed together. So we shot a like a standalone trailer that ended up being used as part of the governor trailer.

36:16Leeyes, it makes you realize how much extra stuff they film and shoot.

36:23LeeYou know, and there's so much in this film to to know that they left so much out of it as well.

36:27LeeYou're like, they must have had just tons of stuff that they shot.

36:31Leeyeah, so you can see why they'd get to the end and go,

36:33Leeyeah, we've got another film's worth of stuff sitting here quietly.

36:36Leeyeah, so you all that material's out there. So you can see why they'd get to the end and go,

36:40LeeYeah, we've got another film's worth of stuff sitting here quietly.

36:42AdamYeah.

36:42AdamWell, actually, because you you actually appeared in it as well.

36:46AdamLike right at the start.

36:47AdamBecause you went back and filmed, but they only used it as like a just a

36:49LeeYes.

36:50LeeYes.

36:51AdamThey didn't use the dialogue or anything else like that. It was just you appeared on a screen.

36:56LeeYes, very, very good. With myself and Lady Jennifer, both appear as part of the montage part.

37:00Leebut yeah, adding to the atmosphere.

37:02LeeYeah.

37:04Lee

37:04Leebut yeah, no, it's excellent.

37:05LeeSo definitely go and check out,

37:07LeeVideo Shop Tales of Terror two as soon as it becomes available. it will probably be showing at Romford, I would guess.

37:15LeeNot got any internal information, but I'd be very surprised if it isn't showing next month at Romford.

37:19Leeso, yeah.

37:20LeeKeep an eye out for that.

37:20LeeGo Oh, Lumiere.

37:22Leeare taking over the Premier cinema in Romford and are making it members only with ushers. They're having special events and festivals and kind of stuff.

37:24ChrisYeah.

37:31ChrisSounds amazing.

37:31LeeLike go and check out their crowd funder. It's going till the end of February. Go and pledge for it. It's going to be an absolute blast.

37:36LeeI cannot wait to see what they're going to do with that.

37:39Lee

37:41LeeAnd, yes.

37:42LeeRight, and we're running out of time.

37:43LeeSo we'll be back in a Fortnite's time where we'll be covering House of. Yeah, so we will see you for that.

37:49LeeAbsolute fucking chaos in a Fortnite's time.

37:51LeeThanks very much for listening. Good night.

37:54ChrisGood night.