Horror on Sea 2025

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

0:26 Chris I'm Chris.

0:27 Adam Hi, Adam.

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

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

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

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

0:59 Chris Yeah.

0:01 Adam Could be a good plan.

0:01 Lee point where it's.

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

1:45 Chris because obviously it's.

1:45 Lee such 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,

1:51 Chris Yeah. That's true.

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

1:55 Lee

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

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

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

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

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

2:27 Adam So,

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

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

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

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

2:55 Adam nice funny short, sort of

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

3:08 Lee Yeah.

3:08 Chris Yeah.

3:09 Adam Just like

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

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

3:26 Lee No.

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

3:30 Adam Yeah.

3:31 Lee Yeah.

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

3:37 Chris Yeah. Yeah.

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

3:44 Adam Whoa.

3:45 Adam Whoa.

3:46 Lee Whoa.

3:46 Lee Yeah, 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.

3:54 Chris Yeah.

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

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

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

4:11 Adam I don't,

4:12 Chris The jokes may not land.

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

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

4:21 Adam Yeah.

4:22 Lee a lot of physical comedy.

4:22 Chris the way they played off each other.

4:24 Chris Yeah, you could almost feel like

4:25 Lee Comedy.

4:26 Chris Yeah.

4:26 Lee Yeah.

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

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

4:39 Lee Yeah.

4:40 Adam Yeah.

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

4:49 Chris Yeah, felt good, good amount of time.

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

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

4:57 Chris Absolutely, yeah.

4:59 Lee Yeah, without a doubt, a great fun.

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

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

5:13 Lee only an hour and three minutes.

5:16 Lee

5:17 Lee which actually

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

5:20 Chris Yeah.

5:20 Lee I 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.

5:25 Adam Oh, right, okay.

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

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

5:34 Lee not quite single location, but it was all within one building and the outlines around it.

5:38 Chris Yeah.

5:39 Lee right up until the end.

5:44 Lee

5:45 Chris Yeah.

5:46 Lee But yeah.

5:48 Adam Sorry.

5:50 Adam But 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

5:58 Adam during the Napoleonic wars, going through Serbia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

6:33 Chris Well, that's it, yeah.

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

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

6:43 Chris A fracking company.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7:36 Adam You 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.

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

7:53 Adam for 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.

8:04 Chris That could be it, yeah.

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

8:07 Chris Yeah.

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

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

8:18 Chris You're believable.

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

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

8:32 Chris Oh, yeah. Okay.

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

8:37 Lee

8:37 Adam And,

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

8:45 Adam but,

8:47 Adam I 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.

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

9:00 Lee Yeah.

9:00 Chris Yeah, it definitely seen like it. Definitely.

9:02 Adam Yeah.

9:03 Adam And 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.

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

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

9:26 Adam Which is just a fucking incredible name.

9:29 Lee Yes.

9:29 Adam You know.

9:32 Lee You want Portman?

9:33 Adam He brings Maximum Portman. Yeah.

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

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

9:49 Lee but yeah, it plays out.

9:52 Chris It plays out,

9:52 Lee yeah, 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.

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

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

10:13 Lee having 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.

10:22 Adam And 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.

10:34 Chris That's it, yeah.

10:34 Adam And 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

10:41 Chris This is

10:43 Chris Well, 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.

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

10:59 Lee Your others just saw.

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

11:05 Adam And 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.

11:17 Adam But 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

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

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

11:36 Lee Yeah.

11:37 Adam Now, 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.

11:47 Adam You know,

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

11:47 Adam you're watching this film, yeah.

11:49 Adam So 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,

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

12:11 Lee I've got to say,

12:12 Lee I 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.

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

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

12:31 Lee And 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.

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

12:45 Chris It was.

12:45 Adam It wrapped, it wrapped it up.

12:51 Lee Yeah.

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

12:55 Lee Yeah,

12:56 Chris I'll yeah.

12:56 Lee I'll get it.

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

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

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

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

13:08 Chris Oh, yeah.

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

13:11 Lee Yes, yes.

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

13:14 Lee It'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.

13:24 Lee

13:26 Lee Oh 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.

13:32 Adam Oh, right, okay.

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

13:38 Lee So definitely,

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

13:43 Adam so 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.

13:55 Adam And 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.

14:03 Chris Yeah.

14:05 Lee that's great.

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

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

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

14:23 Chris Yeah. Yeah.

14:24 Adam Yeah.

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

14:34 Chris Nice little excursion into Southend.

14:36 Lee Yeah.

14:37 Lee Yeah, I'd do.

14:38 Chris Out a few bars. Yeah.

14:39 Lee And now a great fish and chip shop.

14:40 Adam And Dave knows all the history.

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

14:42 Chris He does.

14:44 Lee He'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.

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

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

15:00 Lee And then we returned back for the evening, for

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

15:10 Chris Which was very short.

15:12 Adam Yep.

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

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

15:22 Adam introduced it.

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

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

15:33 Chris Yeah.

15:34 Adam But

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

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

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

15:45 Adam And 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.

15:59 Chris Yeah.

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

16:02 Adam Sorry.

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

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

16:09 Chris Which is not not a lot of time to

16:11 Lee That sounds like so much fun though.

16:13 Chris Yeah, I imagine it would be, yeah.

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

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

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

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

16:27 Adam it 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.

16:35 Adam Because 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.

16:44 Adam So, yeah.

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

16:51 Chris Yeah, absolutely.

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

16:54 Chris It is.

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

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

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

17:12 Adam Yeah.

17:14 Adam It tugged at the heartstrings.

17:18 Lee

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

17:29 Chris And a very special event it was.

17:32 Lee Yes.

17:32 Lee So 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.

17:40 Lee

17:41 Adam Not without a medic involved. It's.

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

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

17:55 Lee

17:56 Lee And 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.

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

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

18:15 Lee and 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.

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

18:32 Lee which obviously we jumped.

18:33 Adam And we and we did.

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

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

18:47 Lee

18:48 Chris Very, very good few seconds.

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

18:56 Lee but yes, so the film itself.

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

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

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

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

19:22 Chris Yeah, it really did.

19:24 Lee Yeah.

19:25 Chris But 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.

19:33 Lee Yeah.

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

19:40 Adam Well, 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,

19:52 Adam

19:54 Adam at some point.

19:55 Adam it'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.

20:04 Chris Yes. Yeah.

20:05 Adam And with a

20:07 Adam wrap 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,

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

20:22 Adam

20:24 Adam And so,

20:25 Adam you'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.

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

20:41 Adam and,

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

20:51 Adam I 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,

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

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

21:09 Adam Or 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.

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

21:26 Adam We 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.

21:37 Adam So,

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

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

21:45 Lee Yeah.

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

21:54 Lee Yeah.

21:55 Lee It was great.

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

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

22:06 Adam He he the wrap around.

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

22:15 Chris Oh, yeah.

22:16 Adam Like it's

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

22:22 Adam Screaming, make me a star.

22:25 Adam But

22:26 Adam so 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.

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

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

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

22:55 Chris He was, yeah.

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

23:03 Lee yeah, and absolutely smashed it.

23:05 Lee He was great.

23:06 Chris He was perfect for it.

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

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

23:22 Adam But 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,

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

23:40 Lee

23:41 Adam In Studio '69, and, yeah.

23:46 Adam And,

23:47 Lee He also.

23:48 Adam Sorry.

23:48 Lee Sorry.

23:49 Adam No, you go.

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

23:55 Lee And 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.

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

24:07 Lee As soon as he.

24:08 Adam Absolutely.

24:09 Adam I 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,

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

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

24:24 Adam oh, 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.

24:35 Adam But,

24:35 Chris But she she's great.

24:37 Adam Oh, yeah.

24:37 Lee Oh, absolutely, always.

24:39 Adam But it's sort of it's just

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

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

24:52 Adam And,

24:54 Adam yeah.

24:55 Adam but there was, what was there?

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

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

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

25:09 Adam And,

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

25:15 Adam Who did, which is in the Sants.

25:16 Lee Yes.

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

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

25:30 Adam Well, unfortunately, there was a bit of a,

25:32 Adam

25:34 Chris Oh,

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

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

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

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

25:48 Chris I 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.

25:55 Adam While we plan to murder our doctor husband.

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

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

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

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

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

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

26:19 Chris

26:22 Adam You know.

26:22 Adam

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

26:27 Chris Yeah, okay.

26:27 Adam So, I mean, the the first one is the,

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

26:35 Chris Yes.

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

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

26:40 Chris But the idea of that happening.

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

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

26:52 Chris I 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.

26:57 Chris He's stuck like that.

26:58 Adam That is.

26:59 Chris

27:02 Adam But it's

27:03 Adam Spoiler there.

27:03 Chris Hope you know.

27:04 Adam Yeah, no, I'm trying to,

27:05 Chris Yeah, no, I'm trying to

27:06 Chris but seriously, like I I absolutely.

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

27:10 Adam I will.

27:11 Adam It was at that point that I was like,

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

27:17 Adam I'm not.

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

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

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

27:27 Adam So,

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

27:33 Adam Yeah.

27:34 Adam And there was also,

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

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

27:45 Adam The Professor Solomon.

27:47 Chris So that that was a longer piece.

27:48 Adam Which I enjoyed.

27:48 Adam Yeah.

27:49 Chris But yeah, it was really well done.

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

27:52 Adam I'm not sure.

27:53 Chris Yeah. Yeah, could be.

27:55 Chris But yeah, that was fantastic.

27:56 Adam Yeah, I really I really, really enjoyed that.

27:58 Adam I know Jennifer not so much, but

28:01 Adam

28:02 Lee I mean,

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

28:11 Lee Which I just

28:12 Chris Yeah, that was the was that the first one?

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

28:16 Lee Yeah.

28:17 Adam See, 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.

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

28:34 Adam So,

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

28:37 Lee It was just the the ludicrousness of it.

28:40 Chris Crazy. Yeah.

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

28:44 Lee And 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.

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

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

29:00 Lee They had to put it on two rooms.

29:01 Chris Yeah.

29:01 Lee yeah, and just before the film started.

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

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

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

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

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

29:23 Lee But there's hundreds of you.

29:24 Lee It was crazy.

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

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

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

29:38 Adam Well, 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.

29:45 Chris

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

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

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

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

30:04 Adam So I think it's

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

30:12 Chris you 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.

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

30:22 Lee Yeah.

30:22 Lee Oh, yeah.

30:23 Lee Definitely.

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

30:32 Lee Again, 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.

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

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

30:50 Lee

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

30:59 Lee Without a doubt.

31:00 Chris And 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?

31:06 Adam Yes.

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

31:10 Chris Yeah, the the souls, yeah.

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

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

31:18 Chris Absolutely. Yeah, that is that was impressive.

31:20 Adam That's an argument.

31:21 Adam Yeah, who who was that who who did that that monologue?

31:24 Lee so it was Charlie Bond who delivered it. okay.

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

31:31 Lee Obviously first movie.

31:33 Lee

31:37 Chris yes. Okay.

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

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

31:46 Lee

31:47 Lee Yeah, 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.

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

31:55 Lee Yeah. 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.

32:08 Lee

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

32:14 Lee yeah, and as we said,

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

32:20 Lee

32:22 Chris Roger Phillips.

32:22 Lee Roger Phillips.

32:23 Adam Yeah, Roger Phillips.

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

32:33 Lee Yeah, I do as well.

32:35 Adam He's great.

32:36 Adam And 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.

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

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

32:55 Lee He was lovely.

32:56 Lee He'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.

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

33:13 Lee

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

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

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

33:24 Lee yeah.

33:25 Lee

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

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

33:33 Lee

33:42 Lee Yeah.

33:43 Lee

33:44 Lee And 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.

34:03 Chris Yes, yes, yes.

34:03 Adam So, 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.

34:16 Adam Alex was the guy who got,

34:19 Adam was the sound man who was killed.

34:23 Adam Sorry.

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

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

34:30 Adam There you go.

34:31 Adam You don't yeah.

34:33 Adam

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

34:37 Lee Yeah, she was she was great.

34:39 Adam She was.

34:41 Lee Oh.

34:42 Adam And and obviously we

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

34:48 Lee Yes.

34:49 Adam and, yeah.

34:51 Adam But yeah,

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

34:56 Adam And just everyone was great.

34:57 Adam It was,

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

35:00 Lee Do 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.

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

35:13 Lee I 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.

35:23 Lee But 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.

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

35:39 Adam And 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.

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

35:54 Lee It was.

35:55 Lee And fantastic.

35:56 Chris And as

35:57 Chris as 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.

36:02 Lee Yeah.

36:03 Lee Oh.

36:04 Lee Oh.

36:05 Lee Oh.

36:06 Lee but 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36:42 Adam Yeah.

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

36:46 Adam Like right at the start.

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

36:49 Lee Yes.

36:50 Lee Yes.

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

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

37:00 Lee but yeah, adding to the atmosphere.

37:02 Lee Yeah.

37:04 Lee

37:04 Lee but yeah, no, it's excellent.

37:05 Lee So definitely go and check out,

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

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

37:19 Lee so, yeah.

37:20 Lee Keep an eye out for that.

37:20 Lee Go Oh, Lumiere.

37:22 Lee are 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.

37:24 Chris Yeah.

37:31 Chris Sounds amazing.

37:31 Lee Like 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.

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

37:39 Lee

37:41 Lee And, yes.

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

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

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

37:51 Lee Thanks very much for listening. Good night.

37:54 Chris Good night.