Horror on Sea 2023
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It’s another cheeky bonus episode from Welcome To Horror! Horror-On-Sea Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and we were lucky enough to attend 2 of it’s 6 day run. Here the team talk about what they watched in a (hopefully) spoiler free way that should give you a flavour of these films coming your way soon. FEATURES DISCUSSED: “The Haunting of the Lady Jane”, “End of Term”, “Eating Miss Campbell”, “The Last Twitch” and “Powertool Cheerleaders Vs The Boy Band of the Screeching Dead”. SHORTS DISCUSSED: “Behind You”, “Gone”, “Malevolent”, “Karen’s Room”, “Room 4”, “Toffee Apples” and “Beep Beep”. A massive congratulations to the Horror-On-Sea team for their continued success, and, as always, fantastic atmosphere. Roll on next year!
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LeeGood evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI'm Adam.
JenniferAnd I'm Lee Jennifer, I believe.
LeeYou are.
JenniferIt's been a while since I've been on.
LeeYeah, it's people have commented.
Leeand we're here as always for our yearly round-up of our fantastic day and a bit spent at Horror on Sea this year.
ChrisYeah.
Lee10-year anniversary, congratulations to Horror on Sea.
ChrisExcellent, well done.
AdamThey were on BBC East on the local news.
LeeYeah, I saw I didn't see the I saw them saying they were going to be there, so I'm definitely going to go and find that and watch it because yeah.
AdamWhat was they described them as the the they're sort of becoming the cans of horror.
ChrisNice.
AdamAnd I think it's like, you know, because by by the seaside, although I can't imagine that, you know, being able to grate cheese on your scrotum because it's January.
AdamIt's not as attractive a seaside venue at that point, but yeah.
LeeYeah, true.
ChrisBut it is we we said it's funny how we forget the weather.
ChrisYou you think back to it and you just remember the great films and and.
LeeAnd then every year we get out the car, what has happened?
ChrisAnd then you get nearly blown, you know, halfway across the beach.
Leejust to let everyone know, there will be spoil there will be swearing, there will be mild spoilers, but as most of these films were only premiered or only just been released and aren't out for wide distribution yet.
LeeWe're going to try and keep it pretty spoiler-free because yeah, a lot of them are worth seeing and we wouldn't want to but I think with a lot of these, as a lot of them were comedy horror, again, it's about the journey rather than the story a lot of the time, so.
AdamYeah, very.
LeeDon't panic if we tell you the story, if we say go and see it, go and see it because yeah, it's still going to keep you entertained and amused.
Leeso kicking off on Saturday the 14th at 10:00 AM.
Leewe started the day with The Haunting of Lady Jane.
LeeDoes anyone like to pick up the baton on this one?
ChrisI won't be visiting canals in any time soon.
JenniferYeah, I'm glad I had my canal holiday last year because it was a little bit eerie.
JenniferSo I won't be going back.
ChrisNo wait, so so are we going to mention the shorts afterwards or are we leaving those?
JenniferI've made some notes on the shorts that I particularly liked rather than all of them per se, so I guess.
ChrisYeah.
AdamSo the shorts before this were Gone and Behind You.
JenniferYes.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisSo so it's kind of funny that Gone, and did we we debated this briefly, but and so talking about it without a spoiler, it appeared like there was something dark happened in this which kind of really set, you know, set the scene for what was to come after.
Chrisyeah, I thought both the shorts were were pretty good, they they got to the point quickly.
JenniferThink for a three-minute short, you kind of got to get straight in and yeah.
LeeYeah.
AdamGone was very much a mood piece.
LeeYeah.
ChrisLike a fever dream of from lockdown.
ChrisYeah, I wonder how much of it was based on his experiences that he was going through or or hers.
AdamWell, well, hopefully not.
ChrisYeah, not not not literally, hopefully.
JenniferOr he wasn't singing about it at the start, so he's not arrested at least, he's not in prison.
AdamI mean, it'd be a bold fucking move, wouldn't it?
AdamNot only have I done this, I have made a film on it and presented it at a horror festival.
Chrisyeah, so they were both good fun.
Leeand then The Haunting of Lady Jane.
LeeNow you like this one as well, didn't you, Jen?
JenniferOh, I I think I came out of it absolutely like, oh, you know, first one on the day, I thought it started on on a high, I mean, I think later on actually they got better, but you know, for the first film.
AdamOh, definitely, yeah.
JenniferYeah, I thought, I mean, I I quite liked the kind of slow burn, which I think Lee when we came out, you're a bit like, oh, that took forever to get going.
LeeI I like the thing is, there was a lot of stuff about it I did like, but yeah, I just felt that it could have been like 45 minutes to an hour long.
ChrisAnd you would still get all of the positives.
LeeYeah, and it would have been punchier.
LeeSo yeah, I didn't dislike it, but yeah, it's to be fair, it was 10 o'clock on a Saturday morning as well, so I was still kind of waking up.
ChrisI there were a few like it was dramatic and dark, you know, definitely darker points, but there were a few lighthearted moments throughout which which kept it, you know.
AdamTo give listeners an idea, basically it's a a writer, journalist hooks up with this Instagram or TikTok influ like online influencer.
ChrisShe's becoming sort of a, you know, more prominent influencer, yeah, but still kind of at the early stages it it seemed.
AdamAnd at a loss for anything to do, they see a a notice in Camden about someone who's taking a canal boat to Birmingham and there's two free spaces on the boat.
Adamso they go to the boat, which is the Lady Jane, and meet the captain of the boat or owner of the boat.
AdamAnd yeah, from there it's sort of just a kind of like a a bit like a sort of Heart of Darkness journey up river as you go into the minds of people, but also the thing I quite liked about it is it was basically folk horror for the waterways.
AdamSo rather than being the lore of a particular region or whatever like that, it was all the superstitions and stories and ghost stories associated with like British waterways and stuff like that.
AdamAnd yeah, from that from that perspective, I really enjoyed it.
Adamand yeah, I I liked the slow burn, I think it need it it it sort of required it, but probably could have been a touch shorter, I think it was I mean, it was an hour and 40, so I mean, it wasn't it wasn't a a big, you know, it wasn't a real dragger.
AdamBut yeah, possibly could have been just slightly slightly truncated.
LeeYeah.
LeeI I thought the end was fantastic though, like it it went like when it finally kicked off at the end, it really kicked off and I I did like that.
Leeso yeah, I was definitely pleased I saw it, but yeah, I just felt it would have yeah, possibly done better from some more heavy editing.
LeeBut yeah, I I did enjoy it.
JenniferYeah, but then they'd have had to get the runtime up, lots of slow motion, as we know currently at the moment, just to get a lot of slow-mo in there.
AdamIn fact, any any sequence without dialogue was proposed to have slow motion.
LeeExactly.
Leeso after that, we we then had some lovely lunch and then we returned at 3:00 for End of Term.
Chris
AdamWhich which was preceded by the short film Malevolent, and I, for the life of me, cannot remember what Malevolent was.
JenniferYeah, I didn't write that one down, so I'm guessing when we've just looked at them, that didn't jump out particularly.
ChrisWell, there's a woman who'd finished a day of work, she seemed a bit not necessarily the best place, and a husband sort of follows her a bit through the.
LeeOh, yes!
JenniferScary underpass, isn't it?
LeeScary blanket.
JenniferYes, you're right.
AdamYeah, had a sort of yeah, just a nice sort of spooky touch, but.
ChrisClearly I think it may need a better a different title.
AdamBecause I clearly don't remember you've had to remind me, I couldn't remember just looking at Malevolent, I was like, I don't know what that was.
LeeBut then you said, oh, yeah, no, it's that one.
JenniferMuch better title, I'll just recommend that.
ChrisYeah, one of those where you're not entirely sure how supernatural it is or exactly what's happening. seemed like some twists at the very end you see something, but.
ChrisIt's still perhaps, yeah, left up to the viewer to decide exactly what they think.
AdamWell, it was it was interesting actually, Lee, you did and obviously do go and listen to it, but Lee recently interviewed Tommy Wash for for the podcast of Scotchworthy and bloody disgusting.
AdamAnd it's bloody disgusting, isn't it?
LeeYeah.
LeeIt is bloody disgusting.
ChrisSorry, I was just like.
LeeNot not the interview, the interview was was bloody excellent.
ChrisI just assume.
AdamI didn't mean the interview, the interview was very very nice.
Adambut yeah, and and one of the things he was talking about was when he looks at short films, it was about production design, set design and things like that.
AdamAnd now I think back to it, Malevolent, the one thing was is it was like, this doesn't feel like this is this woman's house.
Chris
AdamBecause it was like, there's a spooky blanket.
AdamYeah.
AdamBut it's a PlayStation.
ChrisThat so that did throw me, like design blanket.
ChrisI didn't quite get that, I mean, she had a daughter, but it still.
AdamOh, she did have a daughter, right, okay.
ChrisYeah, yeah, so her daughter turned up sort of at the end, creepily, but.
JenniferOh, yes.
ChrisYeah, no, I I guess there were a few bits that it's it's hard to be sure if you've if it's deliberate or just a slightly odd choice or.
AdamIt was just what was available.
ChrisYeah, well that it did look like that.
ChrisYeah.
Leeyes, so then the main feature after that was End of Term.
LeeI was I I I think I watched the trailer for this, but I didn't realize the people who were going to be in it.
LeeSo Peter Davison was in it, David Bamber was in it, Julie Graham was in it.
LeeIt was like everybody you came on set, I was like, I know them, I know them, I know.
AdamA lot of picked up it was, yeah, there was quite a few big names involved, definitely.
AdamOr like proper.
AdamYou know, proper acting actors who you've seen in on Telly.
ChrisDefinitely, yeah, they I mean, there was decent acting throughout, yeah.
Leeyeah, I quite enjoyed this, again, it was a bit of a slow burn, you didn't you couldn't quite get a handle on where it was going.
JenniferNo.
Leeyeah, good twist at the end.
LeeYeah, I enjoyed it, it it went quite it moved quite quickly as well considering.
AdamYeah, I do I do remember finding it confusing in places, and I don't know whether that was me or.
ChrisThere was quite a lot happening, and I think we were we were sort of saying potentially some of the actors looking a bit similar and necessarily you haven't necessarily spent enough time with each of them to really get used to them before it starts to kick off, but.
ChrisI I for me, that didn't detract from it, I sort of felt like I was following enough to appreciate sort of the arc and the end.
ChrisSo it's yeah, I guess it could have been done slightly differently, but yeah, overall.
ChrisI still found it really quite clever finish, yeah, it's.
JenniferIt made you want to know what was going on, didn't it?
JenniferBecause of course, the way they're interviewing the girl and you just you know something was a really good way, yeah exactly, and that draws you in, I think, because you're kind of waiting for it.
JenniferAnd maybe because it had lots going on, you weren't exactly sure where it was going to finish up, but as you say, equally, there was a lot going on and you're like, who, what, when?
ChrisThat's got to be really difficult though where you don't you want there to be a twist and so you are trying to throw people off the scent, so it's like how much do you do that you want to confuse people but not so much that they really feel like you've just done it badly, yeah, that is such a hot hard balance to get, I think.
AdamBecause I think there was there were certain points where people were saying, you know, there was a whole group of people together and they were missing, you know, people were missing or they're trying to like, but they weren't necessarily mentioning everyone who was missing.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd it was almost like, you know, from from a from our point of view, we knew that characters had been killed by that point.
ChrisBut they're still piecing things together.
AdamExactly, yeah, so it was sort of there's just little touches like that.
AdamAnd like you say, I think it's the difficulty is trying to lay a breadcrumb trail.
Chris
AdamThat works, but also throws you off, you know, it's the sort of what Agatha Christie excelled at of, you know, you you you build this you build this thing, but you've also got to have the points in there where, oh, so it's this that's going on or or maybe that isn't what I thought.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd.
LeeYeah, and he did that, but as you say, it was quite a large cast, so it was a lot of people to remember, yeah, and some of them did look very similar.
LeeSo you were like, is that actually her or is that the other girl who looks a bit like her and yeah, but yeah.
LeeNot much you can do, I'm sure it's
ChrisOverall I I did really enjoy it.
JenniferYeah, absolutely.
Leethen so the next movie before we get onto the next movie, what were the oh, we haven't written the shorts for this.
AdamThe shorts.
AdamThe shorts were Room 4 and Karen's Room.
LeeYes.
ChrisThey well, Room 4 was very funny.
Jennifer
AdamI loved I loved both of them.
ChrisYeah, both excellent.
JenniferOh, for the
LeeYeah, for the sound.
AdamYeah.
Adamas as the director of both, because it was the same director across both.
Adamand as he said, Room 4 is basically based on a dirty joke he was told as a child.
AdamAnd Karen's Room, a woman wakes up to find a mysterious man sitting at the end of her bed.
AdamAt first she thinks he's robbing the place and then it goes even weirder than that.
AdamAnd I just like, I liked how that played out.
AdamI think that was just a nice little sequence and yeah.
LeeYeah, they were good.
AdamAnd again.
AdamAnd again, Room 4 was the same sort of thing, it had a nice you enjoyed the cast and you enjoyed the journey to the the payoff.
ChrisThe, yeah.
AdamNicely done.
ChrisIt was.
JenniferYeah.
ChrisYeah, it seemed like they they really got the timing just so perfect for those, they told enough story, it didn't drag on at all, it was like, yeah, perfect.
ChrisSo really well done.
Leeand then the main feature for the third one was eating Miss Campbell.
Chris
Leeso this was a this was a true trauma film through and through, but British.
ChrisHave we seen another Troma?
AdamWe haven't.
LeeOh.
AdamWe really need we need to correct this.
LeeOh yeah, oh yeah, we have there.
AdamBecause Lloyd Kaufman is likes the sort of missing link between Roger Corman and John Waters.
Chris
AdamOf like this a a like powerhouse of low-budget independent filmmaking, but with a deliberate trash element rather than just, you know, a budgetary trash element as it were.
LeeAnd to be fair, we have put Class of Nuke 'Em High on our list of stuff about three times and then it's fallen off the bottom of the list.
JenniferI was just going to ask what some classic trauma films for people out there that might not know.
LeeToxic Avenger, Sergeant Kabuki Man.
ChrisI think I've mentioned Toxic Avenger before.
AdamYou've seen Toxic Avenger?
ChrisNo, but I'm I'm sure I remember Lee talking about it.
LeeI know Toxic Avenger.
AdamI mean, that that again, I mean, pretty much any Troma film kind of works on this show.
AdamFrankly.
AdamThey're always in that sort of they're always in that area of intersection to horror, even if it's not quite.
AdamI mean, Toxic Avenger's basically a superhero movie, but yeah, just a very fucking trash one.
LeeYeah.
Adamas is Sergeant Kabuki Man.
AdamAnd Tromio and Juliet.
LeeYes.
AdamThat was the one, wasn't it?
AdamAnd
AdamBut yeah, they've.
AdamBut Lloyd Kaufman actually obviously had to make an appearance in the film.
Adamand in this, again, slight spoiler, but it's literally his only moment, is he appears with a gun shoved up his nostril and shouts Alec Baldwin at the screen, which is kind of the pitch level of taste for this film.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, it's.
ChrisSo I'd I'd love to hear him talk about the film or or perhaps some of the actors even explaining more of it.
ChrisBecause it's it was so hard for me to know if I felt like they'd crossed any lines because they were clearly trying to be edgy about some stuff.
ChrisAnd and like the presentation was fantastic, like the style so good.
Leebut yeah, it's just a beautiful looking film as well.
LeeLike it really was absolutely pristine.
Chrisand the acting I really liked.
ChrisYeah, really good.
ChrisSo so much about it was great, it's just it was hard to know exactly what their target or their aim.
ChrisBecause there was clearly some, I mean, she was a human cannibal vegan.
LeeYeah.
ChrisSo I mean, already it's like, well, what what is their aim there, it's just fascinating to know.
JenniferLike, eating cannibals or vegans, I mean?
ChrisNo, but there's it's not just silliness, is it? There there must they've got some thought to what they're trying to get across.
AdamAbsolutely.
ChrisBut.
AdamThere's distinctly a point.
AdamI mean, it's like you've got in this, the head of the it's like because it's although it's it was a British production and obviously filmed over here, but it had a lot of American actors in it and and followed much more the tropes of a high US high school movie than like a college film here or something like that.
AdamBut the fact that like the main like the big jock heartthrob that all the girls love is basically called the Chief rapist and worships the Weinstein brothers.
LeeYeah.
AdamSort of gives you it's like, yeah, we're going to rub your nose in it, but this is the fucking point.
LeeYeah.
AdamThat these horrible pricks do exist and they just get away with shit.
Adamyou know, when when he when he is murdered and then all the women are mourning the fact that they won't be touched up or date raped again, you know, it's Yeah, it's
ChrisYeah, it's it's it's very distasteful, but the target is aimed at the horrible people in the world.
LeeYes.
JenniferIt's distasteful, shouldn't we, really.
ChrisWell, yeah.
AdamBut strangely enough, and I because the the director Liam Reagan, I was looking up on just looking up online sort of other stuff, I get the impression that this is a semi-sequel to another film he's done because you've got it's some of the same characters follow over, like the headmaster, you know, the ridiculous fucking guy with the beard who's probably my favorite character.
ChrisHe was he was really good.
AdamBecause he was it was that pure sort of it was that rich culture Henry Zabrawski sort of energy of like this fucking shaman loon.
Adambut yeah, so he's done a film before and it also had, you know, the the wrestler who turned up at the end to judge the all you can eat school massacre probably.
ChrisWow.
AdamI mean, there's there's another point as well is that they were having a competition for who gets to have a gun so they can have a high school massacre.
AdamYou know, and again, yes, that would be to most, but you understood where they were coming from with the film.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt was but yeah, this this other film and I can't think what it's called, but if someone IMD B's it, but yeah, it's yeah, it looks like there is a kind of a prequel to it or kind of original film that some of these characters have transferred across from.
AdamI don't think it it wasn't like the main character, I don't think like Miss Campbell was in that or.
ChrisSo he's produced Eating Miss Campbell, Kevin Walters, Troma behind the making of Banjo, My Bloody Banjo, Dan got to The Way of the Union.
LeeMy Bloody Banjo.
AdamOkay.
LeeMy Bloody Banjo, that's the one.
LeeAnd it's got like the rest the guy who turns up at the end, the wrestler, he's in that, and yeah, the headmaster guy and some of the sort of head of the schools and stuff like that.
LeeSo.
LeeI think I'm going to have to look this up.
JenniferI mean five films it's not bad, is it for a, you know?
LeeI think I'm going to have to track it down.
JenniferYeah.
LeeYeah, and I really like the cast as well, I thought it had a really strong a really strong cast.
LeeSo yeah, it it yeah, this is this one was definitely a recommend for me, I really enjoyed it.
AdamEveryone was bang on, everyone knew where where it was pitched.
AdamYou know, it's fucking up to 11.
LeeOh.
AdamBut you know, but you don't get no one was no one was letting the side down or doing a wrong note for it, I think everyone was it was the right energy, the right level, they knew what they were doing.
LeeYeah.
AdamSo.
LeeYeah, absolutely, it was and I was really excited, so oh, I forgot to tell you because you guys weren't there the following weekend, so the couple, so basically, Beth's mum and dad, the two who just kept launching at each other constantly for now pound raise, they were also in the film that Jennifer and I went back for on the Sunday and they were standing outside the door handing people flyers as we were going in.
LeeAnd I was like, I'm sure that was the two from eating his camp.
LeeBut yeah.
LeeSo that was nice to see them.
AdamAnd obviously Daniel Thompson was there who was in Eating Miss Campbell as well.
AdamSo yeah, I think she was there for like the whole like six days.
LeeYeah, and she was in the one the following day as well, so yeah.
LeeThat was good.
LeeSo that was fantastic.
LeeAnd then the last film of the day, which I won't be able to speak about because unfortunately, I didn't make it into this film.
ChrisAnd that this is a treat that you've still got to come.
LeeI am.
LeeI was so gutted that I missed it that I came home on Sunday night and watched The Snarling again.
ChrisOh, that's that's a good call.
AdamI watched The Snarling the next day, to be honest.
LeeI also bought a coffee for Dave because he loved this film and hadn't seen it.
LeeSo I was like, I've got to send him home a copy of that, otherwise he might not get around to it.
LeeSo yes, The Last Twitch.
JenniferYes.
JenniferIt was indeed.
JenniferIt was, yeah.
AdamSo as as you say, Pablo Raible's follow-up to his werewolf movie The Snarling.
AdamThat we I think we saw that the first time we went to Horror on Sea, didn't we?
JenniferI think it was probably years ago now, wasn't it?
AdamI think it was 2018.
JenniferNo, it could have been, yeah.
LeeGod, yeah.
Adamyeah, that was
AdamYeah, so it's the follow-up to that, and you've got basically the trio of guys from the pub come back.
Adamand magnificently, the detective inspector and Haskins come back because they are, one big name star, you did have Mark Williams in this.
ChrisYeah.
AdamFor upwards of 30 seconds.
LeeYeah.
AdamI quite like the idea that if they keep doing sort of follow-ons to The Snarling, is that they could be a bit like police squad and have like, this week, this film's special guest victim, you know, just get just get the biggest name in and kill them off, so, you know.
ChrisBut it is, I mean, they essentially have got a formula that really works well with this.
ChrisYeah.
AdamThey basically just keep doing silly jokes until you crack.
ChrisIt keeps getting almost gets better and better throughout the whole film.
ChrisYou just, yeah, really so good.
AdamI actually have to say, having rewatched The Snarling, I think The Last Twitch actually is probably funnier.
ChrisOh, that's interesting.
JenniferReally?
AdamActually, yeah.
AdamI think I think they've maybe it's just because I'm obviously I'm familiar with the characters.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, when I saw The Last Twitch, so.
AdamYou've already got that established idea of who everyone is.
ChrisThat's why for the first for the first, you know, 10, 20 minutes I was like, oh, is it just going to be a bit too much, just too similar.
ChrisAnd yeah, it's like, no, you're still getting this right, like you are building on it and it's working and it's still so funny.
ChrisEven though you kind of know what to expect.
ChrisEven to yeah, till the end of the film, it really was those characters just worked so well together.
AdamWell, I think I think because they said that they're they said that it was basically they finished editing it like a couple of days before.
LeeWow.
JenniferOh, wow.
AdamAnd I think, I don't know, because it was two hours, now The Snarling was an hour and a half, and I wonder if there's going to be some further editing, I think they've put together like their final sort of with everything in there.
AdamCut and maybe they'll sort of trim that down, I don't know, because that was.
JenniferOh, well, they cut it out, I don't know.
AdamI don't know, I think there's a few bits and pieces where they could maybe shorten things or just, you know, there are a few scenes that were maybe a bit long, but I think it's it's that thing as well that because obviously there's a improvisation element to it.
AdamI'm assuming as well.
AdamI wonder if it's that thing where you're like, right, every every line is fucking funny.
Jennifer
AdamSo we don't want to lose anything.
AdamBut I was reading sort of interviews back with the director from The Snarling, and he was talking about stuff that did get cut out of The Snarling that was sort of like gags or whatever like that.
AdamSo maybe.
AdamMaybe they'll shorten it down just because I think two hours versus an hour and a half is a bit of a.
ChrisI can imagine that could put people off.
LeeI hope they don't.
ChrisBut it didn't feel long at all.
LeeThat'd be terrible.
LeeIf I'd have seen it on the night and then I get to.
JenniferBut we could make the most of that for the next, you know, several years.
LeeOh, yeah, you can see the good version.
JenniferOh, no.
LeeSo you're all referencing back to Joking, and oh, you didn't see it, you're like, that did you.
JenniferNo.
JenniferI liked they did the you know, Maximum Overdrive bit as well.
JenniferAt that where they put the name of the film into the.
LeeOh, of course.
JenniferYes, that always makes me laugh, so that was great.
AdamOn a completely unrelated note, I have now shown Claire Maximum Overdrive.
LeeGreat.
JenniferGreat.
LeeWhat was the
LeeYeah, was she impressed?
AdamWhat did you think?
LeeCrazy what it was.
AdamIt's the one with Emilio Estevez and living trucks.
JenniferBig green faces on trucks.
LeeShe said, it was good.
ChrisShe goes.
AdamFucking mad, it was good.
AdamI liked it.
JenniferIt's great.
AdamIt's also great because the DVD I've got has got the Stephen King trailer where you're like Steve have a sit down.
LeeYeah.
AdamHave a sit down and a drink.
AdamNot that.
LeeNo.
AdamDrink no, water.
AdamThat's what you need.
AdamHe's not a calm man at that point.
AdamSo.
JenniferNice.
Leeyes, and then Lady Jennifer and I and Dave returned on the Sunday, as we said for power tool cheerleaders versus the boy band of the screeching dead.
JenniferPerfect time for the weekend.
ChrisYeah, it's good.
LeeI I've got to say when it first started, so we saw the actors who we'd seen from the previous day's films, and I was like, oh, excellent, they're in it, that's that's a good sign already, I'm definitely down for this.
Leeand then it was like the Troma logo as well, so I was like, yep, right, that's it, I'm dialed in, this is where I want to be.
LeeAnd then I discovered it's a musical.
ChrisOh.
LeeBut I I've got to say, I I yeah, despite the fact I cringe so badly at musicals, I can't be in the same room as them normally, I did stay all the way to the end and thoroughly enjoyed it.
ChrisOh, well done.
LeeYeah, it they were good, they were funny songs.
Leeand it was played up like intentionally over the top.
Leebut yeah, I mean this film would have been a perfect double header with Eating Miss Campbell, I think.
JenniferSee, I preferred this one, I don't know if it's because it was not quite as over the top, I mean obviously it was, but yeah, I don't know, I like this one, I like the story of this one as well, I suppose, it made a bit more sense perhaps to me, a bit more coherent, but still with all the craziness in it.
LeeYes.
LeeYeah, so as we say, so it was the couple from Eating Miss Campbell, so it's James and Malton and Charlie Bond.
Leewere the who were the main characters.
Leeyeah, and I I yeah, I really enjoyed it.
LeeIt was really funny, it was over the top, gory and ludicrous.
JenniferAnd of course, filmed in South End.
LeeOh yeah.
JenniferOh, so on the way home, Dave said, oh, do you want to have a little detour and we'll drive past the sort of American style diner where the the the the film opens.
LeeAnd they do their first singing number.
LeeSo we stopped outside there on the way back and we're definitely going to go back and have a meal in there.
LeeJust to soak up the atmosphere from the film.
ChrisYeah, excellent.
LeeSo yeah.
Leebut yeah, it was again, it was just an absolute laugh riot, it was really good, it was really well paced and hilarious.
Leethere weren't too many songs and as I say, a lot of the time they were kind of in there intentionally hammy and stuff.
JenniferI think they just actually they moved the narrative on as well, which so in a way, it wasn't like they were stuck in and you felt it was slowing it down.
JenniferIt was like, right, this is covered this bit now, yeah, and then.
LeeOkay, yeah.
JenniferWhich I think, you know, worked well, really.
LeeYeah, it was like an exposition tool rather than let's just stick a random song in here for three minutes for no reason whatsoever, which is what pisses me off with musicals.
LeeSo yeah, I think when it works as part of the story.
LeeIt yeah, it it works.
LeeSo yeah, I totally enjoyed this and it was another definite recommend for me.
Chris
ChrisGreat.
LeeDefinitely go.
LeeI actually there was another actor in there as well who was in the first film, oh, Annabella Rich as well, who was in the first one who played the over the top, over excitable American
JenniferTeacher, wasn't she?
LeeNo, she wasn't a teacher.
LeeShe was like the PA or something.
JenniferOh, yes, that's right, they were sleeping with the head.
LeeThat's right, yeah.
LeeAnd ended up in a body bag.
Leeyeah.
LeeSo she was in this as well.
Leeyeah, I just absolutely.
LeeYeah.
JenniferYeah.
JenniferYeah, and of course this was Pat Higgins, who every year at Horror on Sea.
Jenniferthere's always Pat Higgins' masterclass, which we never go to because we don't want to learn how to make horror films, but I feel like, you know, finally seen.
LeeWhat he can do.
JenniferI'd been more tempted to go to the class just because he was hilarious.
LeeAbsolutely.
LeeIn himself.
LeeOh and he the final scene of the show of the movie, he is wearing a horror on C t-shirt as well.
LeeSo I really like that.
ChrisYeah.
LeeYeah.
JenniferYeah.
JenniferYeah, more of that please next year.
JenniferMore free things.
AdamWe are not above bribery.
JenniferAbsolutely, definitely.
LeeAnyway, right, thanks ever so much for listening, everybody, and we'll see you next week.
LeeGood night.
ChrisThank you.
ChrisGood night.
JenniferBye.
AdamBye.
